THE
There are Many Advantages in De
positing Your Money in
a Strong Bank
Manage,
Where Government Supervision, Integrity of
ment, and ample assets guarantee safety and legitimate returns.
The First National Bank
of Hermiston
FIRST
Capital & Surplus $30,000
LODGE DIRECTORY
ANEEN ESTHER CHAPTER No. 101, O. E. 8..
0- meats second Tuesday evening of each month
Sharp in Skinner hall. Visiting members
Frances Phelps, W. M.
"Deo 0. Bushnell, See.
JERMISTON LODGE NO. 138. A F 4 A M.,
1 “meets in Masonic Hall on First Tuesday
rening of each month. Visiting brethren wel-
Ec. Walber, Secy.
C- H. Skinner. W. M.
EYARD LODGE NO. 206, L O. O. F..
f “meets each Saturday evening in Odd Fellows
.n "Visiting members cordially invited.
( R Longhorn, Sec. Geo. Strohm. Noble Grand
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
W. J. WARNER
Attorney
HUNTING or FISHING
EQUIPMENT
OREGON
OREGON
Confectionery
Ice Cream and
Soft Drinks
T. HINKLE
at Law
IM1STON,
Can fit you out in what
ever you may need in the
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way of—
Complete line of Base
Ball and other Sport
ing Goods
Attorney-at-Law
■MOSTON.
HITT
First Class
Billiard and Pool
DENTIST
Tables
Hermiston. Oregon
Bark Bldg.
e Phone, 93
lence Phone 32
Office Hours:
8 to 5; Sundays & eve-
nings by appointment.
EXANDER REID
Physician and Surgeon
Hours:
10 to 12 A. M., 2 to 6 P. M.
Office Phone: Main 92
Office in Bank Bldg.
DALE ROTHWELL
OPTICAL SPECIALIST
M ground and fitted. Lenses duplicated.
American National Bank Building
Pendleton. Oregon
Quite a number from here attended
the Horse Show at Pendleton last Sat
urday, among them being H J. Stil
lings, A. N. Raymond, W. J. Downer,
L. D. and Phillip Lay, the latter win
ning second money on the best exhibit
of adriving team.
District Game Warden George Ton
kin was here Sunday giving the hunt
ers the once over. One fellow got it
twice over, for the warden discovered
him down the river toward Umatilla
hunting on a fishing license and took
his gun from him. Besides this the
law violator bad to pay a fine for try-
ing to switch the cut on Mr. Tonkin
HERMISTON HER ALD
HERMISTON?
LOCALS -
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„Mrs
11. T in ' Pendleton
Fraser enjoyed
a visit
with triends
Wednesday.
A- P Ayers, homesteader of Board,
man and school director, was in Her.
miston Thursday on business.
A daughter was born to Mr. and
Mrs. S. M McMillin in this city on
Thursday evening, Oct. 4, 1917, and
e proud parents have announced that
the young lady’s name will be Dana
Jean McMillin.
The Misses Elizabeth and Rachel
Leek passed last Saturday pleasantly
in Pendleton in company with their
sister Marion, who is teaching school
in one of the rural districts near the
county seat.
A. W. Agnew, a well known young
rancher of this neighborhood, went to
Pendleton Monday and accompanied
Mrs. Agnew and their new born
daughter borne that evening.
A. Wright has returned from Helix,
where be has been harvesting during
the summer. Mrs. Wright and their
two daughters came with him from
Heppner, where they were visiting I
relatives for some time.
Miss Maud Minnick, niece ot Mrs. F.
M. Bryant, is in the city from Apple-
ton City, Mo., on a week’s visit, At
the conclusion of her stay here Miss
Minnick will go to Portland and Ore
gon City to call on brothers residing
in those places.
Mrs Harry Reese, a music teacher of
Stanfield who is instructing a class
here, was in the city Tuesday attend
ing to her duties in this connection
She was accompanied by Mrs. A.
Walker,chief telephone operator in tbe
neighboring town, who visited between
trains with tbe local hello girls.
HERMISTON, OREGON
Now is the Time to Get Your Mackinaw Coats
We are showing a good line of all-wool kind from $9 to $12.50, the Blizzard
coat and Gordon & Ferguson’s Field and Stream coats. These are the kind that
will last you five years with ordinary care. No shoddy stuff carried here.
Boys' Mackinaws, $6.00 to $10.00. All-wool coats, good styles.
Mens’ Sweaters and Coats
$1.50 to $3.50. Children’s Sweaters $1.00 to $2.50, all wool.
We have a few Ladies’ Sweaters, out of style, that we will close out at
much less than the yarn is worth. They are warm and fine all wool garments,
$1.50 to $3.50, were sold at $3.50 to $8.
Our Stock of Ladies’ and Children’s Underwear
Is quite complete in last year’s stock which will be sold at old prices while
they last; could not be bought for less than 50 per cent advance this season.
We are Showing a Good Line of Stationery
At popular prices 5 and 10 cent tablets, linen paper in tablets at 15c in note
and letter widths. Just the thing to write to the boys at the front and in the
army camps. •
Hermiston Produce & Supply Company
“Best of Good Service’
The ladies aid of the Methodist
I church will bold a silver tea at the
parsonage next Wednesday afternoon.
The entertaining committee consists of
Mesdames Jones, Prime, Locke and
Graham.
There was a fairly large attendance
at the annual experiment farm demon
stration Monday, and under Superin
tendent Allen’s guidance all learned
interesting things regarding the grow
ing and taking care of root and other
crops.
Mr. and Mrs. H Hansen returned to
their home in Dayton, Wash., the lat.
ter part of last week after a short visit
in this city to A. S. Anderson, butter
maker at the local creamery. Mr.
Hansen is proprietor of the creamery
at Dayton, and himself and Mr. Ander
Quite a lot of interest centered in
son have been friends of longstanding. the stove drawing contest advertised
Real estate taxes became delinquent by the Oregon Hardware Co., and as a
Friday last, and now interest at tbe result there were many bids put in on
rate of one per cent a month is char tbe Cole’s Hot Blast.heater before tbe
ged againist all unpaid 1916 taxes. If contest closed Saturday. When the
payment is not made by November 4, numbers were all drawn it was found
a further penalty of five per cent is that L Al Stone was the highest
assessed in addition to the interest bidder, securing the $26 50 elegant
charge.
stove for 822.22.
Phone Main 34
Toright at The Movie Ella Hall will
be screened in “Polly Redhead” and
on Wednesday evening of next week
"Pearls of Paradise" will be shown,
Margurita Fischer assuming the lead
ing role. On the evening of tbe open
ing day of the Dairy and Hog Show
Marguerite Clark will star in “Miss
George Washington."
School statistics show that In Uma
tilla county there is $8,617 in taxable
property for each child of school age.
This county ranks seventh In that re
spect, Sherman county being highest
with $12,926 for each child. Umatilla
county spends 836 50 for each school
child within its limits, while Morrow
county spends $66 70 Of the Umatilla
county pupils who enroll in the
elementary school only 2.6 per cent
An exchange gives an Incident that
illustrates the impossibility of telling
where the trouble resulting from a
mortgage will end. A man mortgaged
his farm to buy bis wife a pair of ear
rings. Tbe wife took in washing to
pay the interest on the mortgage, and
the first day lost one of tbe diamonds
In the suds and tried to hang herself
in the barn, but the rope broke and
she fell on a $150 Jersey cow, breaking
its back.
Many good positions Can be had bv
any ambitious young man or young
woman in tbe field of railway or com
mercial telegraphy. We want a num
ber of young men and young women to
prepare for tbe telegraph aervice to
fill vacancies caused by unusual draft
ing of young men for the Signal Corps.
graduate from the eighth grade. Uma- Prepare to help jour country. Write
tilla county ranks very low in this re- today for full particulars. The Rail-
spect, only three counties having a way Telegraph Institute, Portland, Ore.
—adv2 4p
poorer record.
240 Acres Adjoining
Hermiston
NOW FOR SALE
SIX FORTY ACRE TRACTS
Price Right. Terms Right. Water Right Charges Paid to Date
$35.00 to $50.00 Per Acre
We have just listed 240 acres of excellent alfalfa land adjoining Hermiston, for sale in tracts of
20, 40 or more acres and on good business terms to the man who will and knows how to improve the
same, are going to sell this land quick.
We will give the home people the first chance.
Next
week we will advertise elsewhere. If you are interested let us know at once.
This is the last unimproved land to be sold near town. All the balance has been improved or is
being improved and will be high pi iced.
.
wTwill specialize exclusively on these tracts until they are in the hands of farmers.
Dodd & Knapp
Hermiston, Oregon