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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1917)
TBE There are Many Advantages in De- positing Your Money in a Strong Bank Where Government Supervision, Integrity of Manage, ment, and ample assets guarantee safety and legitimate returns. The First National Bank of Hermiston Capital & Surplus $30,000 LODGE DIRECTORY ueen ESTHER chapter No. 101. o. e . s ., second Tuesday evening of each month Q at meets 8.00 sharp in Skinner hall. Visiting members welcome. Frances Phelps, W. M.E Dello O. Bushnell, Seo. HERMISTON LODGE NO. 138, A. F. A A. M.. n meets in Masonic Hall on First Tuesday evening of each month. Visiting brethren wel- “Ec. Walber, Secy. C. H. Skinner. W. M. VINEYARD LODGE NO. 206, I. O. O. F.. V meets each Saturday evening in Odd Fellows hall Visiting members cordially invited. W. R Longhorn, Sec. Geo. Strohm, Noble Grand PROFESSIONAL CARDS W. J. WARNER Attorney-at-Law KAMSTON,OREGON J. T. HINKLE Attorney at Law OREGON HERMISTON, HITT Can fit you out in what ever you may need in the == -way of-— HUNTING or FISHING EQUIPMENT Complete line of Base Ball and other Sport ing Goods Confectionery Ice Cream and Soft Drinks First Class F. V. PRIME DENTIST Billiard and Pool Tables Hermiston. Oregon Office, Bank Bldg. Office Phone, 93 Residence Phone 32 Office Hours: 8 to 5; Sundays & eve- nings by appointment. ALEXANDER REID Physician and Surgeon Hours: 10 to 12 A. M., 2 to 5 P. M. Office, Main 2 Office in Bank Bldg. DAL.S ROTHWELL QPICAL SPECIALIST Glasses ground and fitted. Lenses duplicated. American National Bank Buildin* Pendleton. Oregon OSTEOPATHS Adjusts Spine, Ribs, Hips or Whatever is Wrong. Farm Loans NO Commission NO Bonus NO Delay NO Red Tape LOW Interest Rates LIBERAL Repay ment Privileges HARTMAN ABSTRACT CO. Cor. Main and Cobert Sts. PENDLETON, ORE. NATURE THEN CURES AUSEON’S DOCTORS HOISINGTON Main and Court Streets Barber Shop ESTABLISHED aix YEARS 14 YEARS IN PENDLETON Our Aim I« To Please the Public Do not confuse Osteopathy with Chiropractic or Magnetic Healing. BATHS IN CONNECTION TYPHOIDS Smallpox, Army Frank J. Auteon, Proprietor Hermiston The Herald for job printing. Send your washing to the Mode) laundry at The Dalles. Oregon, through P. B. Siscel, local agent. Bas- ket leave* Tuesday morning and re turn* Friday of each week. -adv49tfc An Editorial from the Oregonian of September 6, 1917 IS LUMBER REALLY DEAR? It is generally understood that the lumbermen of the Northwest bave had a tough time for quite a number of years, but there are few people, aside from those in terested in some branch of the business, who understand fully, or even partially, the great slump several year* ago and the prevailing unfavorable conditions at present. It is estimated by government officials that in norms! times about 1,000,000 people are employed in the lumber industries in the United States, snd one quarter of these, or 250,000, are employed in the Northwest— Oregon, Washington and Idaho. But during aererai years, up, say, to the first of July, 1916, 25 per cent of these men were idle. With the loss of wsges to over 60,000 people and the low price of lumber, it can be seen that the lumbermen have had tbeir worries. But many think that once more the lumbermen are profiting. Is that true? I* it Dot a fact that lumber comparatively ia today one of the cheap est commodities on the market? An advertisement of the Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co. makes ihe tollowiog statements: In 1914 a Tum-A Lum barn cost 40 bogs; in 1917 same barn cost 24 bog*. In 1914 a Tum-A-Lum house cost 480 bushels of wheat; in 1917 same house coat 225 busbel* of wheat. In 1914 a Tum-A-Lim silo cost 220 bushels of corn; in 1917 same silo costs 110 bushels of corn. In 1914 a Tum-A Lum machine shed cost 20 ton* of alfalfa; in 1917 same shed costs 10 tons of alfalfa. Nowhere have we seen the facts ae to the present com paratie prices of lumber so tersely staled. I HERMISTON HERALD, DAIRY AND DOG SHOW OCTODER 26 ANO 27 The Herald will pay one dollar to the farmer who shall produce at this office the largest and most perfect potato of this year’s growth. We have made a wager that thia valley will produce tubers with more weight and more perfect shape ihan any ocher irrigated section in this state, and to back up our judgment that this is The Ed. V. Price Line is in and we are surprised at the moderate price for strictly all wool suits in view of the price of raw material at this time. We would advise those contemplating having a winter suit made, to do so now as prices are certain to be higher and the good patterns closed out early. A Gordon hat in the new blocks and colors is in order now for early fall wear at $3.50. We have to arrive this week our new fall Gordon caps, 75c to $1.50, New Cretones in very pretty patterns for cushions and fancy work at 25c to 35c. We are showing some pretty colors in Messalines and Fancy Silks suitable for waists at $1.50 per yard. Outings will be in order now and white prints will be high quality and good price at 15 to 18c We are Prepared for Your Wants in Fruit Jars And tne extra covers and rubbers, covering almost all the different makes. son will be on in a few days now. Parowax at the old price, 15c per pound. COMMUNICATION I personally prefer to favor the local dealer« with our trade, and I be lieve most people do, and only real or imagined ill treatment forcea us to send away for things that rightly ought to be bought from the local dealer. Neither do I believe that the local dealers are wholly to blame; the con sumers often forces the circumstances onto the dealers, which in turn causes conditions unsatisfactory for both con sumers and dealers. While city people insist on good service, small quantities and credit, the farmers as a rule prefer low prices and are willing to take larger quanti ties and pay cash In order to cut the price. The service which the city people get usually does not apply to the farmers, but they have to pay their share of the expense just the same. There is where the mail order bouses get 10 per cent of tbeir business. The farmers have to go to town a couple of times a week, and it is just as easy for him to get his week’s supply at the depot as at the store, while the city people are up against it if they cannot have their goods delivered at least twice a day. I also believe that competition often causes the stores to raise prices in order to exist, but why should the con sumers pay for that? A 40 acre alfalfa tract is supposed to support a family in good shape, but would anybody ex pect it to support 8 families if it were cut up fn five acre tracts? As a rule there is twice aa many stores in a small town as there ought Io be, and all of the storekeepers expects to take a profit. Where one good store would prosper and compete with any mail order house, often six to eight stores try to exist. There is where the mall order houses get 10 per cent more. When a farmer starte in cultivating new land be knows that for a year or twe he must expect only expenses and no profit. The dealers do not seem to get that idea; they usually figure on getting a living and if possible a profit from the start, and in order to do this they bave to raise the price. Most well-to-do farmers do not care so much for high prices but poor farmers do. If the stores keep down the prices while the farmers make tbeir hard fight and gradually raised the prices according to the income of the farmers, these would not so easily get the habit of favoring the mail order bouses. But giving them the butt-end first they get the habit and keep on long after the local prices come down to normal. When a novice starts sending to the mail order houses he usually loses, be cause he does not know the tricks of the houses. As ho gains experience he learns to pick out things where he knows he will make a proli ; often things where the dealer expects to make good profita, too, he loeee his beet trade and has to handle the goods on which be makes little or no profit. Often we send away for things ws could buy just as good and as cheap of the local dealers. Ws are making out an order to a mail order house and as we have to pay the freight anyway, Canning sea All local vegetables and fruits will be in abundance and at reasonable prices. we offer the above premium. To the Editor of The Herald: In the second last edition of The Herald I read a very interesting and probably also correct article regarding the mall order bouses vs. the local dealer*. As I am one of the farmers you roasted I would like to say a few words in favor of the mail order bouse as seen from the farmers point of OREGON. Our New Fall and Winter Book of Samples The dates for Hermiston's annual fall festival was set for the above time at a meeting held Wednesday in thia city, and now Manager Stillings wants everyone to do their bit toward mak ing the show a well-merited success. WILL PAY UNE DOLLAR FOR LARGEST POTATO HERMISTON, Exclusive Selling Agents in Hermiston For Ed. V. Prices suits for men, Gordon hats and caps, Cluett shirts, Arrow collars, Palmer suits and coats for the ladies, Queen Quality shoes for ladies, Home patterns, J. A. Folger teas, coffees and spices. Chase & Sanborn teas and coffees, Preferred stock canned goods. These are the best in their classes. » Hermiston Produce & Supply Company “Best of Good Service town when visiting there. Now I may be wrong, but I really cannot see why one dealer should charge 20 per cent more for an article than others, unless be expects to make more profit, and it seems as if the prices are highest In the new districts where we need the low prices the worst. The store rent and expenses are highest in the bigger towns and the competition is keener, and yet a dealer in a little one horse town will raise the prices fn spite of lower store rent, poorer service, etc He gets all the local trade but forces the farmer to study the catalog and send away for 75 per cent of his supply. Now about the high prices at local dealers: I know from experience that shoes, clothes and a lot of other things often cost the most in the long run when bought from the mail order houses, and I rarely get these articles from them, but on staple articles like breakfast foods, flour, enamelware, a lot of other hardware and machinery, mostly advertised goods, etc , they can not fool us. That is where we make a smaller but surer profit by sending to the mail order bouses. Still the profit is not always small. For instance, I Inquired about a mattock at a local store that sold them at 11 65, I believe. 1 sent for one and got is for SI 00, and it was a good one, too. This is only a very common case, often it is still worse. I heard of a case where a far mer sent to the neighboring town for a sack of flour, paid local freight, hired the drayman to haul it out to the farm and got it cheaper than be could buy it of the local dealers In s neighboring town we bad to pay 30 cents a gallon for kerosene, while bere they charged 20 cents. In both cases we brought our own containers. We sent for a barrel of 50 gallons and bad it laid at the depot for 144 centa and free uae of the barrel while we used the oil. Of all the mules the farmer is the easiest to handle if you know how. If you handle him right you can coax him anywhere, but if you try to drive him be is stubborn as a pig. If you try to use force he has a powerful kick—and he always hita the soft A SUBSCRIBER spots. Dr. R. O. Gale, office in Hotel Ore- -adv52ifc Phone 61. Phone Main 34 Notice of School Meeting Election will be held Saturday, Sept ember 22, at 10:00 a. m., to fill unex- pired term of office of clerk R. C. Wal ber, J. D. Watson, (ad5l 2tc) Clerk Cbm. of Board “The Movie" is now at Hermiston Auditorium Steamer J. N. Teal LEAVES UMATILLA FOR PORTLAND Sept. 4, 9, IS, 21, 27 and Oct. 3 Stock Trips Sept. 4 and 21 TWO GOOD SHOWS EACH WEEK Wednesday and Saturday Evenings Phone Your Orden SHAAR’S Tonsorial Parlors Shower and Plain for al) kinda of BATHS Transfer Work Scientific Phone 2852 Tonsorial Treatment We are ready at any time to go any where or haul anything. The City Transfer WE ENDEAVOR TO PLEASE W. B. BEASLEY Wm. Shaar, Prop. ====-== Real Estate Market * Grocery INSURANCE Our Prices Always Right and Give as s trial order BONDS Just received a shipment of FRUIT JARS Liability Quarts and Half Gallons Surety Bonds goo. For Sale—Harrow, plow, 2 horse gas engine, buggy, hay rack. E. Maber. -adv51-tfc For Sall—A good saddle, regulation man’s size. See F. H. Bone, -adv 49. fc For Sale—Bartlett pears, clean and wholesome. H. E. Hanby, Phone 186. ■adv 49tfe For Sale—A few nice fresh Jersey adv.-52 tie cows. Leathers. Wait for Dr. Freeze, the eys specialist, if you any other eye troubles i beadache*. Regular visits to Hermis- too, Stanfield and Echo each month -advtfc anything or not. Often we do not Watch for dates. Know for suro wbat they charge at the stores, sod I believe the dealer* could get more irado if they sent out price lists, any once a month or so, covering the moot common articles; then we could compare the prices. While the farmers often co operate by sending away for large quantities of Plate Glass Fire Automobile Insurance Try a loaf of Crean of Wheat Bread it is the If you get one you will get the second If you give us a chance Groceries, Meat and Lard Dodd & Knapp HERMISTON, ORF. Pure Bred Percheron Stallion | ize the value of co-operation, not even amongst themselves. Each of the dealers pay local height where they could buy in carload lots, buy in 100 pound lote where by co-operation they could buy by the too. Often the dealer* la one town charge much more than dealers in the neigh- The Registered Pure Bred Percheron Stallion “Yourg Milton,” State License Certificate No. 2310, will be AT THE RANCH OF JAS. SCOTT, IN HERMISTON, THE BALANCE OF THE YEAR FOR SERVICE. Young Milton is dark brown and weighs 1920 pounds. Hermiston Horse Company |
