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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (July 28, 1917)
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON When the history of this war I is written an entire volume should I be devoted to the monumental lies and fakery that are sent out from neutral countries seven | days in the week. They should | be preserved for the edification Allen, F - of antiquity. Barham. J. C DIRECTORY OF RANCH NAMES AND OWNERS 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 9c per quart, 30c per gallon Vinegar____ _____ .............. 6 boxes 35c Matches__________ . ............. 25c and 50c O’Cedar Polish......... ........ 15c, two for 25c Snowflake Crackers ____ 30c, two for 55c Snowflake Crackers. Try our 99 and 300 Crescent Coffee -- ..25c and 30c per lb. 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 OREGON man to put it in concrete form and bring it before the public. THE WIZARD SCORES AGAIN ........ South Hill Ranch Barnes, E. W I Bau sc hard. W. P Mountain V iew Ranch For the reason that we do not | Briggs, Geo. E ................ Four Sisters ............ -..... Germania believe it is within the province Beisse, August F Blessing. W. L ........ ......... . .....Tamalpias of a newspaper to compete with Bradley. G. W...... . Clover Dale Ranch home merchants in any line of Campbell, Duncan .... Canfield, R. C. (Butter Creek).. The Ragged Edge business, we this week disposed Canfield, Mrs. R. C. .......... Glen Ellen ....... Sunny Slope of the stock of stationery carried Can ser ly. J. J......... C. C . Buckeye Ranch for some time by The Herald to Chamberlain. . .. Herma Vista Clarke. Mrs. C. S. Pleasant View E. W. Mack, druggist of this .... . . Beth-arabah Davis. E. E. city. With the disposal of this Davit. Geo .................. Roselawn Shady Nook Farm side line the editor will now have Davis. H. C.. Dyer, J. S.... ....... Alfalula Ranch opportunity to devote all his time Embry, John T.The Red Feathered Chicken Ranch Summerdale to the paper, and hope in time Eriksen, E. T... Electric Dairy Ranch F. F to build it up to a point wherein Fowler, ..... :____ Ridgeview Giese. WJ. it will be a credit to the town Craham, Ed. H.................. ... ...................... The Knoll and country and in keeping with Gunn. H. M...................... ................... Hallhurst Hall, C. G. and H. E......... . ....... the steady progression of the Hannan. W. F.................. _ ...... .......... Green Acres valley. _______ Nob Hill Hobbs. E. A............-........ .. ........ Hoisington & Hoisington ................. Morningside Applet and perches 2 cents per Hood. C. A. -............ -...... . ......... Fairview Ranch Hooker, H. A................ . .............. Tarryawhile bound in E. T. Eriksen’s orchard. -adv45-48c Horning. Mrs. D. W....... ..................... ..Wabasso The Happy Home Hurlburt. H. G. . ............. ........................ Orto Intlekofer, John............... ..................... Tawa Johnson. A. S................... ...Four O’Clock Ranch Jensen. C. M...... -..... . THREE WORDS. .................High Gate Kellogg. C. W ............. .......... The Lay Ranch There are three words, the sweetest Leathers. W. A.... ................ Buena Visto words ................ South View Leek, John.......... In all of human speech, . Blue Ribbon Orchard Longley, H. J....... More sweet than are all songs of birds ................... ... Loomis. Geo......... Or pages poets preach. ...Breezy Hill Macdonald, Chas ....... The Throe Pines McCully, R. A...... This life may be a vale of tears, ........ Multum in parvo McLallen, W. A ... A sad and dreary thing; ......... Ridgeway Farm McNaught, C. S ... Three words and trouble disappears McNaught, J. F. ............ Highland Farm And birds begin to sing — Monkman, B. G . .......................... Webak ... The Oid Homestead Newport, H. G.... Three words and all ths roses bloom. Pearson, L. H...... ............ Fairview Farm Ths sun begins to shine; Pennock. F. B-..... ......... Woodbine Three words will dissipate the gloom And water turn to wine. Meadow Lark Percey. C. B....... ...... ................ Coeur d’ Alene Purdy. A. W ......... -................. Three words will cheer the saddest Raley Ranch (G. C. Rantier) . _____ Rainbow days, ___ Tir Glwys I Roberts. W. T.................. ...... "I love you?" Wrong, by heck! Root, W, T. & Son................... Orchard Home It Is another sweeter phrase, .... Silver Maple | Reihl, John F........................... "Inclosed find check!" .... Beacon Hill Savage, B. S................. ........... I Sehachermeyer, Cari............. . ........... School District 115................... Minnehaha School W. T............................ Sweet Briar Farm | WALL STREET AND STOCKS. Sellers, Shaw, C. H. (Butter Creek) ....... The Six Sisters | Shutt, T. E .......................... — ............ High Valley Haw “Short Sellers" May Win by Buy Shuttor. C. L . ................... ...... North View Home ing on a Falling Markat. Simmons, W. H........................ ................. Tip Top ...................... Sunset There are two kinds of stock specula Stewart. R. A..... - ................. Riverside | tors. One buys in the hope that be Stanyan, C. P........ Pleasant Ridge Home may later sell at a profit If a man Stubbs, H. E........ . Sweet Spring Ranch | buys a share of Steel at 100 and later Sullivan. P. P ....... ... . ........ Lakeview | Theriault. W. J ... sells It at 115 be has made $15, lesa the Voelker. Alfred E .............. Liberal View : broker’s small commission. It is clear Watson, J. D.......... ................. West Lawn Luther Burbank, the horticul tural wizard, after creating many Entered as second-class matter. December I. 1906, at the postoffice al Hermiston, Oregon changes for the benefit of the fruit industry by his inventive SUBSCRIPTION RATES $1.50 One year........................................................ genius, has turned his attention .76 Six months .................................................. to the wheat raiser. As a result Subscriptions must be paid in advance. of his experiments along the line ADVERTISING RATES of finding some means of increas Display— One time, 26 cents per inch; two inser- tien«, 20 cents per Inch per insertion; monthly ing the yield he has successfully, rates, 15 cents per Inch per issue. Reader«—Flrat insertion, 10 cents per line; each so it is announced, produced a subsequent insertion without change of copy, super-wheat that will increase 6 cents per line. the yield of this commodity five times as great as at the present SOAK ’EM, LOUIE! Members of congress are com time. This will go far towards solv plaining because Washington hotels and cafes are robbing ing the world grain shortage. them. They charge that they Where the yield per acre has are required to pay $5.00 for a formerly been 15 bushels, Mr. meal that can be purchased in Burbank promises that the new London for $1.60. It hits them variety will produce from forty bow money is made in a rising market hardest where it counts the most to seventy bushels. How money is made in a falling mar Luther Burbank has spent ten ket requires explanation. The process - in the pocketbook. capitalising disaster is known as Bully! Soak ’em, Louie! Pile years in extensive and very ex of “selling short” it on and pick ’em to the bone! pensive experimenting to pro A speculator who is sure, either be It gives us poor devils who are duce this wonderful new grain. cause of some inside knowledge or be of his own reasoning, that stocks writhing in the strangling grasp The best food qualities, hardi cause will tumble, gives an order to his of food speculators an opportun hood and fecundity of many broker to sell a block of stock for him. ity to laugh, to howl, to literally strains of wheat selected from Let us use Central Leather as an ex He has none of the stock. The double up and shriek in unre all parts of the world, are includ ample. broker sends word to his representa ed in this “super-wheat.” It tive on the floor of the exchange, and strained glee. The fact that the food pirates has been carefully tested in com the sale Is made. Central Leather is at the market price, say, 93. In are robbing the people blind does pany with 68 of the world’s best sold the course of a few hours the stock not bother the average gentle producers and excels every one. which the seller did not have is deliv man in Washington, but when The promise of this achievement ered to the purchaser. The broker has borrowed it from som owner of the the pirate creeps into Washing for a food drained world can stock. A small fee Is paid to the owner ton and picks the congressional scarcely be overestimated. of the loaned shares The man who Thus has the world’s greatest has sold short then watches for the in pocket Mr. Congressman roars agriculturist again perpetuated fluences which be expects will drive like a stuck pig. the stock down. One or two days later It’s great sport to see senators his name and added new laurels be reads that some great international and congressmen gulping down to his already world famous figure baa made a move for peace. The stock drops on the news. No one their own medicine once in a inventions. is willing to pay $93 a share for it. A while. few are willing to pay $90. Our hero who has sold short directs bis broker Go to it! Soak 'em again, and EDITORIAL NOTES to buy enough shares to pay him in soak ’em hard! kind for the shares borrowed. The Whatever you do, don’t cast broker buys at $90. After the broker's your bread upon the waters, — A A fee is paid and the charge for the bor MIGHT PROVE SUCCESSFUL rowed stock Is settled the speculator A Clatskanie man has invent sub might get it. receives a little less than $3 a share as a result of his short selling. He mere ed a brand-new drainage and ly sold at 93 what be later bought for irrigation system, declared to be Liberty bonds of any denom 90. He has no stock. He never bad practical for the small rancher. ination will be accepted at par any stock. He sold It before he The Oregonian, editorially com on subscription to this paper. bought it. The “short" seller is never an in menting thereon, says the plan Pay up! vestor. He never buys to keep. He is feasible, and all that is needed never buys except to enable him to re is ‘‘a big bank account, a big Uncle Sam, it is intimated, turn what he has borrowed.—Uncle engine and pump, a big well and may pay his soldiers in French Dudley, in the Boston Globe. big faith. Most men with the coin. Our delinquent subscrib Sunday Spurned the Offer. ten acres in the valley will de ers may continue to amble our George Sunday, eldest ton of Billy pend upon rainfall, and east of way with the good old American Sunday, said in New York a short time ago: the mountains upon a ditch, plunks. “My father's finances are always while the man with money talked about when he cornea to a city. I handle bis accounts. He gets only enough to buy the ten acres and what la offered him for his services on Lord, but this town must be install all that plant will prefer the last day of his campaign, and this to buy a cigar store, hire a boy getting good. It has been an Isn’t as big as It looks, for much of It to ’tend, and enjoy his ease, now entire week since anyone came goes to charity and to the maintenance Hermiston organisation. and then taking stock by way of in to request us to omit some of “ his This very day I declined on my exercise.” If the plan is feasi juicy item of news from the father’s behalf an offer of 31,000,000 from a moving picture concern; he re ble, as the Oregonian says it is, paper. fused $350,000 for five days' work In what’s the use of throwing cold the movies; he has refused countless water on the proposition in the The German government is offers from firms who make talking above manner. Anyway, until making desperate efforts to throw records. My father has always and refused to commercialize it is tried out, it will he hard to dust in the eyes of the American sincerely Christ.’ tell whether it will be much more people and thereby lull them to of an expensive affair than the fancied security and consequent Why Stones Cannot Burn Like Coal Stones cannot burn for the simple present system of irrigation now inactivity. Nine-tenths of the reason that they are dead matter which in vogue. Like many more, lurid stories about peace. that baa burned out. When anything burns we’re always ready and willing come from Berlin are nothing It takes Into Ita system aU the oxygen of the ali that It can combine with to try anything once. This but diplomatic dust. But it is When it baa done this it cannot ba scheme of irrigation is nothing dustless dust, for it will not burned any more In burning any new, for a similar system of slacken our prosecution of the substance changea Ita character. The original element of most of the irrigation has been in the minds war in the slightest degree. The rocks and stones we see was silicon, of many a rancher operating in war will be fought to a finish, and when that combines with oxygen the eastern part of the state, but and that day will also see the end the result is a form of rock, a concrete substance, but unburnable it remained for the Clatskanie of kaiserdom and autocracy. KERMISTON .....Circle A Hazel- Burr ... Allendale Hardscrabble Lumber Building Material of All Kinds Flume Stock Suitable for All Flume Construction 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. 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