Image provided by: Hermiston Public Library; Hermiston, OR
About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1917)
THE Ik That will serve as a guide to everything we handle 25c No Rub laundry help, pkg Try it for cleaning your cream separator. Use a half package and if not satisfied money refunded Vinegar................... ,9c per quart, 30c per gallon Ground Chocolate, 1 pound can________ ______ _______ 30c Carnation Milk, small size_______________ ________ _..8c Carnation Nilk, large size_____ ________________ ____ 14c Morris Lard, 5 lb. pail ............................... -.......... . Morris Lard, 10 lb. pail ________ ________ __________ $2.40 Fairbanks Dandy soap.............. ............... ..6 for 25c Citrus Powder_________________________________ ...28c We are handling Butter Nut Bread and Cookies from the U. S. Bakery, Portland, Ore. Shoe White Polish, Shinola Polish, Gilt Edge Liquid Polish Phelps Cash Grocery Free Delivery to all Parts of the City PHONE 413 The Hermiston Herald Issued Each Saturday by M. D. O’CONNELL HERMISTON OREGON Entered ■■ second-class matter, December n 1906, al the postoffice at Hermiston, Oregon SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year Six months ................................ -.............. ...$1.50 .75 Subscriptions must be paid In advance. ADVERTISING RATES DUplay—One time, 25 cents per Inch; two inser- î ions, 20 cents per inch per insertion; monthly rates, 16 cents per Inch per issue. Readers First insertion, 10 cents per line; each subsequent insertion without change of copy. 5 cents per line. UMATILLA COUNTY dollars much larger than the initial loans of any of the other nations engaged in the war but it was raised in much less time with much less effort and was subscribed to by a vastly greater number of individuals; this too when danger was far from us and the nation in a calm frame of mind. The coming second issue of Liberty Loan bonds, with the great mass of the people of the country much better educated as to government bond issues and government finances in general, it is reasonable to suppose, will be disposed of with even greater success than the initial issue. The over subscription to the initial issue of over a billion dol lars augurs well for the success of the next loan. There are several million more investors in government bonds in America than there were a month ago. Then there were some three hun dred thousand holders of United States bonds; now there are over four million. And the thrill of the thought of our soldiers in France will rally the people to the nation’s call. HERMISTON HERALD, some rays and an abundance of water the alfalfa and corn grew by leaps and bounds, thereby in creasing the tonnage of the sec ond crop wonderfully. The busi ness men of the city smiled, too —but it was a wan smile, for the excessive heat had well nigh got their goat. We could tell a fishing story a mile long about two local fellows who went angling for trout the first of the week in Blue moun tain streams—but we won’t. This is one time we are going to let them tell their own fish story —if they will. HERMISTON, OREGON. DIRECTORY OF RANCH NAMES AND OWNERS Agnew, J. I Agnew, A. W Lumber ...... Circle A ! .____ ....... - Hazel* Burr . ................... Allendale ----- Hardscrabble Barham. J. C ............ “The Locusts” Bau »chard, W. P Mountain View Ranch . ................. Four Sisters Briggs, Geo. E Beisse, August F ........... ......... Germania ...______ _ Blessing, W. L ______ Terrace Park Bradley. G. W._ . Clover Dale Ranch Campbell, Duncan Canfield, R. C. (Butter Creek) The Ragged Edge Canfield, Mrs. R. C ............... ...Glen Ellen ................ Sunny Slope Casserly. J. J ......... Buckeye Ranch Chamberlain. C. C ... ...............Herma Vista Clarke. Mn. C. S...... ......... Pleasant View ............ Beth-arabah ...................... Roselawn Davis, Geo . Shady Nook Farm Davis, H. C .......... Aliai ula Ranch Dyer, J. S.... Building Material of All Kinds Flume Stock Suitable for All Flume Construction Embry. JohnT.The Red Feathered Chicken Ranch . Summerdale Eriksen. E. T... THE PRESIDENT’S FLAG. It Now Indicates When Mr. Wilson Is at the White House. Fowler. F. F Giese. W.J..__ Gelse. H. B..... Electric Dairy Ranch ................... Ridgeview South Hili Farm Alfadale The Knoll .Hallhunt For the last quarter of a century Gunn. H. .. ................... at least the American flag has been Hall, C. G. and H. E W. F............. raised above the White House when Hannan. Hobbs. E. A.............................. »...................... Nob Hill the president was there, and if the Hoisington & Hoisington .................... Morningside president went out for three or four Hood. C. A.............................................Fairview Ranch hours the flag was pulled down, so that Hooker. H. A........... Tarryawhile it would look as though the White Horning, Mrs. D. W ........... Wabasso The Happy Home House was only protected by the flag Hurlburt, H. G.......- .............. ............ Orlo Intlekofer, John when the president was in residence. ...................... Tawa The Woman's Relief Corps and the Johnson. A. S............ ... Four O’Clock Ranch Grand Army of the Republic have pro Jensen, C. 11 . ......:............................High Gate Kellogg, c. w tested against this for many years, but ............ The Lay Ranch it seemed without making any impres Leathers. W. A ... . .................. Buena Vista sion. President Wilson, however, de Leek, John............ ..................... South View Blue Ribbon Orchard cided that the flag of the United States Longley. H. J ................... Loomisville should fly over the White House from Loomis, Geo....... ............... Breezy Hill sunrise to sunset every day in the year, Macdonald, Chas it seems to be necessary, however, that McCully, R. A.......... ................ .... The Three Pines in parvo there be some emblem to indicate that McLailen, W. A___________ ... Muiturn Ridgeway Farm McNaught, c. s.................. the president is in the city. Highland Farm McNaught, J. F........................ President Wilson solved this problem Monkman, B. G :............ — ........................Webak by deciding that the president's flag Newport, H. G..................... .. The Old Homestead should be raised over the White House Pearson, L. H ........................... ....... Fairview Farm whenever he was in residence and Pennock. F. B........ -...... ......... ............... Wood bine taken down whenever be was outside Percey, C. B.............................. ...... - Meadow Lark Purdy. A. W............................. ......... Coeur d’ Alene of the White House grounds. The flag of the president of the Unit Raley Ranch (G. C. Ransier) ............... Rainbow Roberts, W. T . ................... ............... Tir Glwys ed States is the president's naval Hag. Root. W. T. 4 Son ................ ....... Orchard Home i but it is little known to the public. As Reihl. John F............................ .............. Silver Maple | it flies above the White House, it rep Savage, B. 3.......... ..................... .............. Beacon Hill I resents the great seal of the United Schachermeyer, Carl............ — ............. Vindobonna Minnehaha School States—namely, an eagle displayed in School District 115........... proper colors, with the olive branch Sellers, W. T............................. ....... Sweet Briar Farm । -..........The Six Sisters : in one talon, the arrows in the other, Shaw, C. H. (Butler Creek) ................. High Valley | and above Its head a glory in which Shutt. T. E ......... -.................. Shutter. C. L .......... -............. ..... North View Home appear thirteen stars. This is display Simmons, W. H....................... ................... Tip Top I ed on a ground of red, the flag itself Stewart. R. A........................... . ............ Sunset. | being blue. The seal is inclosed in one Stanyan, C. P..... ....... ........................ Riverside large five pointed white star, encircled Stubbe. H. E.............. .... Pleasant Ridge Home .... Sweet Spring Ranch ; by a row of forty-eight stars represent Sullivan. P. P......... ...... Lakeview : ing the states in the Union. It floats Theriault. W. J....... Liberal View ! over the porte-cochere of the White Voelker. Alfred E House, and is in a straight line with Watson, J. D ............ the staff of the United States flag, which flies from the peak of the White House proper,—Washington National Tribune. In the actual needs of life, if iron and salt be disregarded, the county of Umatilla could live within herself. She would of course miss many luxuries, many of the things which modern man believes essential to his exist ence, but she would have no suffering within her borders were she cut off from exterior assistance. Wheat, fruit, sheep, FLASH AND ROAR OF GUNS. vegetables, corn, nuts, beets for sugar, timber, streams stocked Na Device to Muffle Them Has Proved a Practical Success. with fish, wool for clothing, Both the French and the German hides for shoes, all the actual armies have been trying for years to necessities of existence are here. discover how to make a gun that shall Dairy products could be multi With Hermiston becoming such be not merely noiseless, but shall emit flash. For, as Nicolas Flamel says plied many fold by ensilage. a large and busy town, and the no in La Nature, after dark two observers Oils can be produced from pea railway running almost through by Watching the time can with accu nuts easily grown. Abundant the center, someone has suggest rate chronometers having luminous dials discover precisely the position of grapes will assure wine if that ed that it is about time an agita an enemy battery, or three observers, be needed. We have no coal, tion for grade separation was regardless of time, can do the same by but there are plentiful forests started with the O.-W. R. & N. grouping their observations. And this by the flash of the guns. for fuel purposes. We possess But The Herald does not think merely German inventors succeeded by add no mines, but their productions this an opportune moment to ask ing a minute quantity of alkaline salts are not among the fundamental the company for such a large and to their powder in diminishing the flash, but they found that in proportion needs of men, says the Pendle expensive improvement for the as they suppressed the flash they in- ton Tribune. Almost any cli railroad people are taking pre creased the smoke. Other substances mate desired is available, from caution to avoid accidents while added to the powder for this purpose have been vaseline, alkaline soaps, the mountain tops to the near coming in and going out of the oxalates and résinâtes of soda, barium sea level upon the Columbia. city. However, as a comprom and aluminum. None was successful. There is a variety of soil which ise. why not ask the company to The French tackled the problem as a rather than a chemical one. ordinarily would be found only run a car of cinders up from its A mechanical gun Is really only au explosion motor, through degrees of latitude, roundhouse at Umatilla and and It seemed that there ought to be a Every taste and every need of spread them around the depot way of muffling its sounds and its flash aa those of other such motors are health can be met and satisfied, and between the tracks adjacent muffled. It was not until 1909, when Winter visits the county with thereto and thereby cover up a Maxim invented his. silencer, that the regularity, yet in its western sandblow or two near the station. problem seemed on the way to solution. Many other silencers, most of which precincts there are more days of Were this done now it would be quench much of the light as well as the sunshine during the year’s course of vast benefit to the local trav sound, have been invented since then, than are found in Southern Cali eling public and other patrons of but none is a practical success in war fare, either from the point of view of fornia. Ranging north and south the O.-W. railroad. sound or of light. a hundred miles, and east and Figure Skating. west near eighty miles, the There is some talk among To learn figure skating one must de county offers abundant room for members of the city council of vote himself to figure skating. There homes, and abundant opportunity shortly forming an improvement la a special figure skate, curved on the for enterprise and experiment. district, to include several blocks bottom so as to make curves and cir entirely possible. It is round toed, Some day it will support a mil of Main and side streets, for the elea and on this forward curl are deep cor lion people. purpose of doing away with the rugations for toe spins. old and badly worn plank side “One of the principal features of fig skating.'' said an expert, "is the OUR FINANCIAL STRENGTH walks in front of abutting prop ure curve. To be able to control the cir- Hermiston Two billion dollars is a tre erty, and their replacement by elea means that one has gained the mendous sum of money. Yet concrete walks. We believe the power to maintain the body in grace the American people have loan- town has advanced to a stage ful attitudes. Every one should skate ed their government that much where this improvement is abso large figures first." and have barely touched their lutely necessary, and no one, es AUSEON’S resources. The money was pecially property holders, should raised so easily it only seemed to enter a protest on the formation show the tremendous financial of such an improvement district, strength of the country. for with continuous concrete It is not one-tenth of our bank walks the appearance of the city SSTABUSMIO MX YEARS deposits. It is less than one will be ‘enhanced tenfold and eighth of our bank loans for one property along such thorough Our Aim la year. It was less than one-half fares advance in value in like To Please the Public of our national savings for 1916 manner. and only five per cent of our BATHS IN CONNECTION national income for that year ac The local ranchers smiled cording to estimates. broadly while Old Sol beat a hot Not only is this first Liberty tattoo in this valley last and most Frank J. Auseon, Proprietor Loan bond issue of two billion of this week, for under its fear- See Us First Before Starting Construction Work and You Will Find We Have Just What You Need Inland Empire Lumber Company Phone Main 33 " The Yard of Best Quality " H. M. STRAW. MGR. First Class Tailoring Done by JACK WHITE Hermiston’s Up-to-Date TAILOR Cleaning and Pressing PROMPTLY AND NEATLY DONE WE SELL REAL ESTATE The only firm devoted EXCLUSIVELY to the sale of ALFALFA LANDS in the State of Oregon We Handle the Umatilla Farm Lands Co. Lands at Hermiston UNDER THE UMATILLA GOVERNMENT PROJECT We Handle the Oregon Land & Water Co.’s Lands OF THE GOVERNMENT WEST EXTENSION J. C. Ballenger, Boardman Agent We Handle Any Other Class of Improved or Unimproved Lands in the Alfalfa Territory of the Umatilla Columbia Valley WRITE ÜS FOR LITERATURE AND OTHER INFORMATION DODD & KNAPP Hermiston Barber Shop Printing and Stationery 11 —_ 1 . E-SS--9.9N OF THE RIGHT KIND AT THE RIGHT PRICE AT THE HERALD OFFICE
