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
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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.
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