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THE HERMISTON
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HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 7. 1917
VOL XI
56
ARMED
COLD
81
Recognizing the
importance of
guarding against the possible des-
truction of Cold Springs dam by some
fanatic. Project Manager Newell has
received instructions to maintain an
armed guard day and night over that
huge structure. Acting on these in
structions Mr Newell has placed three
shifts of men to watch over the dam.
As yet only temporary arrangements
have been made, but soon suitable
quarter* will be arranged and a regu
lar guard established. It is likely two
men will be on duty at a time. Local
men will be used as long as possible.
Guarding the dam is but in con
formity with like action all over the
country where serious damage might
result from the action of a single per
son letting his feelings get the better
of him. The destruction or partial
wrecking of Cold Springs dam, though
the water could not reach any of the
homes, would lay waste to many homes
and thousands of acres of growing
crops. It would result in a loss that
mould require years from which to re-
cover as all of the country using water
from the reservoir is dependent on
that source for its very life. To shut
off this supply would mean that all
vegetation would die.
Cold Springs reservoir covers 1800
acre* of land. The dam is one of the
largest earthern dams in the world.
It is 90 feet high, ha* a thickness at
the base of over 500 feet and a top
length of 3,300 feet.
TEN YEARS AGO
The services in the chapel car will
continue each evening at 7:30
Work is progressing rapidly on Ross
Newport’s Bouse on Gladys avenue.
Thirty-two coyotes were killed Fri
day within a few miles of Hermiston.
* Born—To Mr. and Mrs. H. L.
Wyckoff of Hermiston, Saturday, April
5, a girl.
The railroad paipters are at work on
the new depot and Agent Jackson ex
pects to move in next week.
On Col. Newport’s homestead ad
joining Hermiston rye on the first day
of April stood 224 inches high. Alfalfa
measured 16 inches.
F. B. Swayze, cashier of the First
Bank of Hermiston, will bring his
family to Hermiston the coming week.
His home has been completed.
C. E. Baker, publisher of The Her
miston Herald, will soon move his
home to Hermiston and become a
permanent resident of the city.
The Hotel Williams will be the
scene of a grand ball next Thursday
night. The dancing will be on the
third story of the building in a room
70 feet long and 30 feet wide.
ANNUAL MEETING
OF WATER USERS
Saturday last the annual meeting of
the stockholders of the Umatilla River
Water Users’ association was held.
The attendance while fair, did net re
semble wny of the old time meetings
when every mao and woman owning a
share of stock was on hand to take a
part in matters coming up. Election
of officer* for the ensuing year was the
principal matter coming up. Secre
tary Warner read bi* annual report,
covering the work of the board dur
ing the time since the last annual
meeting.
The new board of directora elected
ia composed of Thos. Campbell, W. J
Warner, L. B. Pearson, H. J. Ott and
E. L. Jackson. Tuesday evening the
board met and organized by electing
Mr. Campbel) president and Mr
Warner secretary.
NEW STTRE OPENS
UP IN HERMISTON
A. B. Botch kisa, formerly of Arling-
toe, came Thursday to arrange for tbe
opening of his variety store. Mr.
Hotchkiss has been preparing for this
for several weeks but has been delay
ed until thia time. He expects to be
ready for business today.
Mr. Hotchkiss will carry a line of
disbes. enameled ware, crockery,
small kitchen ware, marbles, kite*
and other small Unes. He has secured
a part of tbe Sharrard building on po
lite the telephone building.
PLACED AT
RESERVOIR
DUMA NO LONGER GAZES ON CZAR
COLUMBIA NEWS NOTES
DEMONSTRATION TRAIN TO
BE HERE NEXT SATURDAY
UMATILLA ITEMS
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE
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Miss Hudson spent Sunday at tbe
Blessing borne.
'
Mrs. Beddow spent the day Wednes
day with Mrs. Feltbouse.
Miss Hudsoc took supper Saturday
evening with the Haddox family.
P. S. Tillson drove to Pendleton
Tuesday.
D. C. Brownell of Portland, is spend
ing a few dav* here.
W. A. McLallen and W. T. Seilers
are spraying orchards this spring.
Jennie Simmons, our night telephone
operator, spent Tuesday at Tip Top
ranch.
\
F. H. Hughes and S. N. Kaufman
were guests of tbe Duncan Wednes
day.
Rey. and Mr*. Graham and Esther
took supper Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
E. E. Graham and son.
Mr. and Mrs Bone, who bought the
Stubbs place, have arrived and will
begin work immediately.
E. E. Graham and family have
rented the E. H. Graham bouse while
building their new home.
Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman have arrived
to work on the place they purchased
west of tbe Hoisington place.
Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Sapper cf Her
miston, called at the parental Anna
Sapper ranch Tuesday evening.
Mr. Keri, of Cour d’ Alene, Idaho,
who has been visiting Mr. Sommerer
and Mr. Ott on bis way home from
Honolulu, left Thursday.
Mr. Hills and Mr. Walker, of Stan
field, and Philip Lay are guarding tbe
Cold Springs reservoir under the
recent Ü. S. R. S. orders.
Mr. Simmons received word Monday
that his sister, Mrs. Dr. Furgeson, of
Ft. Wayne, died Sunday evening. Our
sympathy is extended to him.
Mr. and Mr*. Rhodes have arrived
from Washington and will build im
mediately on their new place near
Waugaman's purchased from J. H.
Reid.
Don’t forget the club meeting this
(Saturday) afternoon. Dr. Wainscott
is expected to be present.
The Neighborhood club social Friday
was a great success. Tbe ladies on
tbe refreshment committee made ex
penses and had 15.10 left over from
the sale of the popped corn. It is not
decided who got the rug.
BOXING DECISION
GOES TO CARPENTER
Saturday evening at the Hermiston
auditorium Jack Carpenter of Pendle
ton and Farmer Burns of Echo were
the principals in a ten round boxing
contest in which Carpenter was given
tbe decision. Jack McCarroll of Pen
dleton acted as referee and bis decis
ion was popular with the crowd, ex
cept for a very few who seemed to
think Burns should have had it.
Carpenter weighed about 30 pounds
less than Burns, which made the con
test not what it would have been with
tbe men more evenly matched. Burns
was tbe aggressor throughout, which
be could easily be on account of weight.
However, at that be could not place
his blows, Carpenter usually being
somewhere else. Carpenter seemed
able to reach bis man almost always.
Lacking weight behind them failed to
give much effect. His work showed
the greater science and on this and
tbe number safely planted tbe decision
was based.
Tbe crowd was large and orderly
throughout. Earl Coutts of Pendleton
staged tbe evenu
MAINTENANCE ANO
OPERATION CHARGE
Laurence Compton is confined to his
home with the measles.
T. N. Williamson of Spokane, came
down Tuesday to put in more alfalfa
on his lana near here.
Former Mayor Starcher’s mother is
here from California and will spend
some lime with her son.
The life sized portrait of Czar Nicholas seen placed over the president's
rostrum in tbe duma was one of the first things removed when the dum*
members seized the government for the people.
BOARDMAN NEWS
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE
Carl Voyen was in Hermiston Tues
day.
Chas. Nizer went to Hermiston the
first of the week.
J. C. Ballenger came back from
Hermiston Wednesday.
J. O. Lower went to Wasco Tuesday
to help hi* brother-in-law in the ware-
bouse.
A school meeting will be held in
Castle Rock next Friday afternoon at
one. Anyone interested is invited to
attend.
A road meeting was held in tbe
school bouse Monday afternoon. Quite
a few from this vicinity and Castle
were there.
Monday evening a meeting was held
in the school bouse to organize a farm
ers union. Mr. Brown of Portland,
was the principal speaker of tbe eve
ning.
Sidney Mack went to Richland,
Wash., Tuesday, to visit with relatives
until after Easter. E. W. Mack came
down from Hermiston to look after tbe
mercantile store during the absence of
his son.
RIVERTON-ON-THE
UMATILLA
B. S. Savage called in Riverton on
Wednesday.
Rudolph Schachermeyer’s children
have the measles.
Zona and Earl Bensel spent Saturday
afternoon with Lotys Davis.
E. T. Hancock will have charge of
tbe Miller ranch this summer.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Bensel called at the
Carl Scbacbermeyer home on Sunday.
E. T. Hancock and R. D. Miller
have opened a butcher shop in Uma
tilla.
Robt. Kennedy was a guest of bi*
sister, Mrs. Cooney, at Condon, last
Mr. and Mrs. Olson lef. Sunday for
Stanfield where they expect to remain
while deciding on their future location
Mrs. Matbison is expected to arrive
in Riverton next week. Tbe son and
daughter will not come until school
closes at Everett.
J. N. Olson and E. T. Hancock sold
their respective ranches . to John
Tbe Secretary of the Interior has Mathison, of Everett, Wash. Immedi
announced that the annual operation ate possession was given Mr. Matbison
and maintenance charges for tbe irri and he is busy with his spring work
gation season of 1917 and thereafter
until further notice against the lande
of the Umatilla project under public
notice shall be a* follower
For lands of tbe Weet Extension, a
“Windmills of Holland" the high
minimum charge of $1.50 per irrigable
acre and for all other lands a minimum school operetta, will be given April
charge of $1.40 per irrigable acre, 13th at 8 o. m. in the high school audi-
whether water is used thereon or not. tortura. Tbe characters are as follow*:
The minimum charge in each case will Mynheer Hertogenbosch, rich Hol
land farmer.......George Prindle
entitle the water user to four acre
feet of water per irrigable acre. Vrow Hertogenbosch, hie wile. ..
...................... Margret.. Shotwell
Additional supplice will bo furnished
Wilhelmina, their daughter ..........
at 15 cents per acre foot.
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES
.................................... Althea Smith
Hilda, their daughter.. .Gladys Smith
Bob Yankee, American salesman..
................................Durrell Murchie
Hans, student of music, in love
with Wilhelmina.. Carroll Reeves
Franz, farmers’ son, in love with
Hilda
$....... Louis Garner
Katrina, farmers’ daughter...........
................................. Esther Graham
Chorus of farmers’ daughters.....
Emily Shotwell, Mildred Percey,
Bertha McKeen, Dorothy Ross,
Nellie Davis, Eleanor Casserly,
Frances Hinkle, Viola Crandall,
Janice Brigham.
Pianist
Georgia Skinner
In addition to tbe operetta will be
several other numbers, among these a
concerto by Mrs. Hawthorne and Miss
Walpole, of Irrigon. The entire eve
ning will be musical. Admission 50
and 25 cents.
Tbe oratorical contest of the school
will be given Aril 12 in the high
school auditorium. Admission free.
NOVEL FORETOLD
GREAT WORLD WAR
NO 29
The young men of Umatilla will give
a dance Wednesday evening, April! 11.
Tbe United orchestra of Pendleton
will furnish tbe music.
Mrs. J. H. Cherry, City Recorder,
left for Plattesville, Colo., where her
mother is quite ill. In ber absence
Mrs. Elmore McKenzie will act in ber
place.
BENEFIT PLAY WAS
GREATLY ENJOYED
Thursday evening tbe annual enter
tainment for tbe benefit of the read
ing room was given at tbe high school
auditorium to a well filled house. As
one of the results there was a large
number of people sore after it was
over- from laughing so much. The
entertainment was a grand success in
overv way.
The opening chorus was very pretty
and at once gave some idea of tbe
great amount of time and work given
in preparation of the entire program.
Tbe song by Gladys Smith and dancing
| chorus was one of tbe best seen iu
Hermiston.
Mrs. Strohm sang two
numbers in her usual pleasing style
with banjo accompsniment. The min-
sirel act and comedy skit took tbe
house by storm and there was a con
tinuous uproar throughout.
As a closing number the chorus
“Wake up America" with tbe tableau
touched a patriotic vein in all and
when the singing of America, March
ing Through Georgia, Dixie and Star
Spangled Banner was called for, every
one responded with vim.
A special “preparedness" train will
visit Hermiston on Saturday, April 14,
on an offensive-defensive campaign
against the high cost of living due to
America’s coming participation in the
war. Belter production of family
food* by utilization of back yard* aid
watte places in intensiv* vegetable
and poultrv growing, better use of the
products by canning storing for tbe
rainy dav, and kitchen economy by
rescuing from waste the vast quantities
of human food that leak out through
tbe kitchen sink and tbe garbage can,
are the objectives of the campaign.
The train will consist of a baggage
car and a coach which will be equipped
by tbe extension service of the agri-
cultural college and operated by tbe
O W. R. & N. railway company over
its lines from Portland to. Bend,
Wasco. Milton. Enterprise and Baker,
stopping at the larger towns. Tne aid
of commercial club*, parent teacher
circles, high schools and other civic
improvement bodies, will be sought in
making tbe demonstrations available
to tbs largest possible number of per
sons. M O. Evan* jr. is now making
arrangements for tbe demonstration*.
In addition to lectures explaining
method* of growing vegetable crop*
gathering, caoning and storing them,
an exhibit of garden plans, for lots of
different sizes, tbe best kind of plants
to be grown in tbe district and meth
oris of tillage, will be carried in the
baggage car. Canning demonstrations
will be given, showing simple and in
expensive way* of preserving vege
tables, fruits and meat*.
Food values, their economical uses
and substitution of cheaper for tbe
more expensive foods without loss of
nutrition value, and especially sub
stitution for meats, will be considered
by the home economics specialists.
Among other things, the very latest
wrinkles In cooking will be explained.
Tbe poultry lectures will be supple
mented by exhibits showing model
back yard poultry plants—pens, houses
and equipment such as nests, brooders,
incubator*, etc.—with method* of feed
ing and handling which are practiced
by the college poultry department
with their world champion hen*.
The following people will accompany
the train: Prof. R. D. Hetz I, exten-
■ion director; a representative of the
O. W. R. & N. in charge of tbe train;
Prof. A. G. Bouquet, head of the col
lege vegetable gardening work, first
week R. W. Allen, superintendent
Hermiston experiment station, second
week; Mis* Helen Cowgi I, assistant
state leader of club work, canning;
C. C. Lamb, extension poultry special-
1st, poultry and Miss A. Grace John-
son, instructor of domestic science,
homecooking. Advance arrangements
are in charge of M. O. Evans jr., who
Is now making arrangements for local
cooperation In tbe towns where th*
demonstrations will be held.
The special will arrive in Hermiston
attached to the regular No. 2 Saturday
afternoon and leave Sunday afternoon.
It will be here that Prof. Bouquet will
leave tbe party and Mr. Allen j in it.
Nearly thirty years ago, in 1888, a
novel was published in Leipzig under
the title “Surya.’’ In this book tbe
following prophecies appear:
“Io 1904 tbe first clash between
western and eastern countries will
"That $6,000,000 is a large sum to
take place.
an
take away from tbe taxpayers,
“In 1912 the Balkan* will be drench assertion being made a good deal in
ed with blood and the corpses of hun- commenting upon tbe pending road
dreds of thousands of slain men will bond issue.
cover the battlefields.
From this
Tbe assertion is based upon a preva-
bloody struggle the most fearful
lent misunderstanding of what the act
of all history will develop. Tbe en- involve*.
tire civilized world and even savage
Nothing in tbe act requires any in-
tribes will be drawn into the horrible crease of taxation in order to get tbe
conflagration which will turn all $6,000,000. It is tbe automobile which
Europe into a bowling wilderness in pays the money. Auto license fee*
three years, Tbe war will continue have been doubled and with a normal
until all of tbe beliggerents are ex- increase in the number of machines
bausted and the armies in ths field owned io Oregon, the fee* will more
rebel against the awful slaughter. It than cover the interest and tbe sink- | Among the books received at the
will end with a general uprising of the ing fund payments to retire the entire Hermiston library the following ar*
masses. Tbe revolution will start in bond issue. Should there be no In among those of fiction:
one of tbe largest countries engaged crease al all in the number of auto* I Aplington, Pilgrim* of the plains.
io tbe war and bring horror* which used, it would still be unnecessary to | Atkinson, Gregfriars Bobby.
may make those of tbe French revo raise taxe* for the extra money needed
Bachelier, Eben Holden.
lution appear like child’s play. Within would come from the present quarter | Barrie, Little minister.
a few ----------
month* —
the - revolution
will
_
________
___ mill road tax. Supporter* of the road
Bryant, Dominant passion.
spread over all Europe, and when it | bonding measure will do well tocorrect
Burnett, His grace of Osmonde.
- the —
") will
»... I
rrav) this misunderstanding.
end*
old world
be depopulated
Cooper, Pathfinder.
and *o impoverished that it may never
Corkey, Victory of Allen Rutledge.
be able to recover. ’’
Crawford, In th* palace of the king.
Tbe way in which tbe prophecies
Deland, Rising tide.
are working out make it seem almost
Dickens, Tale of two cities.
unesnny. The war between Russia
Dye, McLoughlin of old Oregon.
and Japan started in 1904. Tbe first
Eliot, Silas Marner.
Balkam war started in 1912 and was
Next Thursday afternoon the regu- | Glas'*, Abe and Mawruss.
followed at once by the second out of
Harrison, Queed.
lar monthly meeting of tbe Parent-
which grew the present world war.
Jacobs, Many cargoes.
Teacher association will be held In tbe
Revolution has already overturned tbe
high school auditorium. After the | Lippmann, Martha and Cupid.
government of Russia.
.
| business session the following pro- | London, John Barleycorn.
Mitchel),
Adventure*
of
Francois.
gram will be given:
Oregon City—Southern Pacific Cc.
Page, Red Rock.
Piano Solo...................Arline Kennedy
intends to proceed with construction
Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis.
' Riley Entertainment........................
of its proposed line through West
Stockton, Casting away of Mrs. Lecks
Mi** Bucher’s Room
Linn.
and
Mrs. Aleshine.
................. Jane Gunn
Piano Solo...
Empire crab cannery running to full
VanDyke, Blue flower.
Rev. T. A. Graham
Civic Pride...
capacity, 70 to 100 dozen daily.
Van Loan. Ten thousand dollar art.
....Mrs. J. Kennedy
Solo................
Lebanon and Roseburg making win- Question Box.
Weed*), Old lady No. 27.
Wiggin, Affair at the inn.
ning tight to establish fruit canneries
Wilson, Somewbere in Redgap
Plans completed for new hospital at
Florence subscribed more than its
Yonge, Dove in the eagle's nest.
Roseburg soldiers’ borne.
share of *10,000 to proposed shipyard
AUTDS WILL PAY
GOOD ROAD BONDS
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