THE HERMISTON HERALD, MAKING HIGH EXPLOSIVES. A FEW ITEMS Dangers of Poisoning to Which the Workers Are Exposed. HERMI STON, OREGON. DOCTORS HOISINGTON Main and Court Streets Adjusts SPINE, MM, HIM or • The making of modern munitions of Whatever is Wrong • war has brought into prominence sev- That will serve as a guide to everything we handle NATURE THEN CUKES , eral types of industrial diseases hith Fourteen years in Pendleton erto almost unknown. No Rub laundry help, package----------- - - --------------- 25c One of the most-troublesome of these Do not contuse OSTtOMTHY with Chiro- is that commonly known as “T. N. T. Money refunded if , not satisfactory ____ -------------------------- - ■ poisoning,” due to exposure to the practic or Maguetic Healing. fumes of tri-nitro-toluol or to the in- Armour’s Pork and Beans, 1 lb can------- ------------------ halation of dust generated in mixing certain high explosives of which it Corn Starch, 3 packages for-------------------------------------- 35c forms a constituent. Unusual drowsiness, frontal head- Gloss Starch, 3 packages for____________________ _ ache-and eczema are the first symp - ------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- * *..................- toms of T. N. T. poisoning, and work Bob White Soap, 5 bars........ .. .............................. -.......... -....25c ers so affected are promptly given some other occupation, when the symp toms quickly disappear. New Crop Seeded Raisins 13c per package, 2 for---------- 25c Less dangerous, but very trouble- some, is tetryl poisoning. Manipula- New Crop Black Figs, 5 pounds......... ................................. 68c Hon of this explosive produces a light season is now here in ear dust, which gets into the mouth, nose nest and we are ready to New Crop White Figs, 5 pounds..................... — 68c and eyes and sets up a painful sore serve you in ‘any quan ness, accompanied by headache, nau tity. Try us for your sea and an almost intolerable itching. ROYAL BREAD next party. Curiously enough, individuals vary very considerably In their susceptibil Shoe White Polish, Shinola Polish. Gilt Edge Liquid Polish ity to tetryl poisoning. Some workers are not ail affected by it or only In a are al ways fresh and nice. very slight degree, while others can Our ime of box candies hardly enter a room in which it is be is unexcelled. Bulk can ing bandied without suffering severely. Luckily tetryl poisoning does not en dies handled by us are danger life, nor are the symptoms in Free Delivery to all Parta of the City of tbe same high grade any case so severe as those due to T. aod purity as tbe box. PHONE 413 N. T. poisoning. Tetryl possesses the For Good Service Always See annoying property, however, of stain ing the skin and hair yellow, but means have been found of largely counteracting this if the workers care ________________________ COME TO------------------------------------ to avail themselves of them. Other industrial diseases of a similar nature more or less prevalent in muni tion works are due to handling fulmi Phone Your Orders nate of mercury, to exposure to the fumes of a substance known as tetra- for all kinds of chloretbane, to inhalation of various For the latest style Hats and Materials, kinds of trork giaen other noxious fumes and dust gene our prompt attention. rated In the workshops by the differ ent processes carried on there and also Fancy vork told on commission. Stand at Siscel’s. Phone 262 from lead poisoning. We are ready at any time to go any Yet another danger the munition worker is exposed to is acute poison where or haul anything. Ing due to the accidental escape of 1 nitrous fumes Into the work places Columbia school was not caught napping Many of these cases are apt to termi when the prizes were awarded last Saturday. nate fatally, for the gas is extremely W. B. BEASLEY lesued Each Saturday by The school took first on best display of vege deadly.—Pearson's Weekly. Ice Cream Our Candies Phelps Cash Grocery P. B. SISCEL BUY YOUR FUEL NOW 2 in -r 7 . we are in the midst of the worst coal famine that the west has ever seen. The car shortage and the labor problem has limited the output of the Utah and Wyoming mines to such an extent that they cannot begin to fill their orders. - Conditions are not quite as bad on the coast and ' we are still able to get a limited quantity of bre- quettes which we are selling for $9.50 out of the bins and from the cars. We expect to have a Car of Briquettes ON TRACK SATURDAY OR MONDAY So take advantage of it and stock up. When in town come in and give our Cedar Stock the once over and see what you need. Inland Empire Lumber Company I Phone Main 33 "The Yard of Best Quality” H. M. STRAW. MGR. The Millinery Store of Quality- Transfer Work First Class Tailoring PERCEY SISTERS The City Transfer The Hermiston Herald The pupils" were awarded domestic work. OREGON as follows: squash; Leonard Napoleon Donaldson, Nedeau, SUBSCRIPTION RATES one ver ............................... $1.50 ....................................................... — "76 subscriptions must be paid in advance. ADVERTISING RATES Display— One time. 25 cents per inch; two inser- tions, 20 cents per inch per insertion; monthly rates, 16 cents per Inch per issue. Kodera—First insertion, 10 cents per line; each subsequent insertion without change of copy • cents per line. COLUMBIA NEWS NOTES SPECIAL connEBFONDENCE Mra Simmons spent the week end at Her- miston with her daughters Jennie and During ruda. that time they Gert motored to Umatilla and were dinner guests ut Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Brownell. Mrs. S. Albaugh and small child arrived Saturday from Fraser, Idaho, to spend the week with her brother and family, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Waugaman. Ethel'Graham Is spending a few Hermiston days In at the home of her uncle, Rev Graham and family. Rhodes Wi. from McKay spent a few days on his ranch In this section. Mr. and Mrs. Hein! and son Laurence are expected home'Monday from Terre Haute, Ind. Downer Bill spent Wednesday at the county seat. Mr. and Mrs H Sommerer arrived home Sunday from Portland Ned- The new school building is progress Felthouse are having their ing s owly. Mr and Mrs remodeled and a cement basement added Mrs M B. Morchie enjoyed a visit with Slyvester, of Portland, this week . Whe ladies of the Neighborhood club will hold a meeting Nov. 3; everybody urged t The postoffice, which was opened or i ctoher 12, is doing nicely. Frank Fowi-r, ou Batter creek, I- shipping baled bay to Tillamook, Or The teachers, Mrs. Schroeder an Miss Connely, gsve their pupils a Hal oween surprise w.-dn sday. The« come played games, and refreshments wer Mr and Mrs Geo Briggs are havlrg terved, which were furnished by th their house remodeled and w ill occupy it this teachers.________________ whiter Tilton and daughter have moved Into Mr the Bai l am house. Mrs Tilton is expected to arrive very soon. Har y M drehte came up from Wasco to at tend the Dairy show and visited his ranch. The ladies of the Neighborhood club gave a fare well reception Friday night at Coluu- Ma school in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Sellers. I is community regret very much to lose Mr and Mrs Sellers from their smart wish them much set and success In their new home. Tt»e Classmates gave a farewell party to the Seilers boys Monday night at the school house, Mrs and • very enjoyable evening spent. J. C. Barham. Emma ( mid* left Tuesday for a tew at tei former nome, Several Erie, Barham months' and visit Pa from this section enjoyed the Red Cross ball Mr. Akers left Friday fur Wasco where he expects to work. The Word “Rubaiyat.” Tbe word “Rubaiyat” is the plural of “ruba’l," meaning quatrain, and the plural is used to denote a collection of quatrains. The form has a verse scheme of its own and Is the distinc tive and moot ancient Persian meter. It is said to have been invented by Rudagi. the earliest of the great Per sian poets. Nearly all the Persian poets Include Rubaiyat among their works. Edward FitzGerald made it an English form. Money Panic. “What was tbe worst money panic you ever saw? asked one financier of another. “The woet money panic I ever saw,” VETERINARY SURGEONI was the reply, “was when a fifty cent Omee Phone Mi Hotel Phone St piece rolled under the seat of a street car and seven different women claim ed If—Exchange. J. A. PEED Cut the High Cost of Living ani combat the scarcity of milk and butter by buying a cow or two. Thirty head of dairy cows, mostly high grade Jerseys; 23 yearlings, com ing two, most of them will be fresh In the suring; a two-year old registered Guernsey bull, guaranteed a sure calf getter. Hia sire was cl ampien and I and champion Guernsey hull at the Jregon State Fair two y are. Also an 18-horsepower Almo gaso- line engine on truck. Mr and Mrs L H Pearson and son wi- • a a < ore dinner guests at the F A Brun- son some Sunday Hermiston’s Up-to-Date J. M. Bea • TAILOR EXERCISING AT HOME. squash: Mary WESTLAND home from the East next week her tether, Mr or BOARDMAN NEWS Mrs. Henry Ott and children are expected house 2nd 1st How One Wise Man Utilizes His Open Air Sporting Outfit. eau, 2nd canned fruit; Claud Haddox, 1st “I didn't know your business allow cake and vegetables, 2nd chickens; Johi ed you much time for sports," said the Haddox, 1st potatoes and corn, 2nd beet: visitor as lie glanced around at the and general display; Gladys Whitsett, 2nd athletic paraphernalia displayed on the walls of his friend’s den. canned vegetables; Clarence Shaw, 1st or "It doesn't—much,” replied the mid hog and best show hog. dle aged business man. “When 1 get a chance I sneak off to a gymnasium or to the country club, but moat of my exercising I do right here in this room." SPECIAL ConESPONDENCE "Surely you don’t use the basket ball or tbe ice skates or that rifle here." Thus. Hendrick of Alderdale, Wash, said his friend,, with a amile. filed on a 40 in Setion 24 this week art “You’re wrong; I do,” said the busy expects to move bis family here soon man briskly. "See that hook in the J. T Healey is moving his family t ceiling? I string tbe basket ball up. the new house built on bls homestead put on that pair of old kid gloves and bang it around for ten minutes every A. P. Ayers took his baby, which is other morning or so. Best punching sick, to Hermiston to be nearer thi bag I ever tried. doctor. “Those Ice skates are just the right weight to use as dumbbells in some B rn, to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Cramei very quick exercise. Any one of those on Sunday, a son. golf sticks makes a wand such as they Mr. and Mrs. s C. Mack have re use in gymnasiums to take the quirks turned from a ten dav visit in Teko out of the muscles of the arms, chest with the gentle man’s mother. and back. “Those tennis balls are invaluable The dedication services wore we' attend d at the Community churci for strengthening tbe grip of tbe bauds and tbe cords of tbe forearm. Take Sunday, and the morning and eveniu, one in each band and squeeze it about sermons were very interesting. atty times as hard as you can every The Gibbons family have moved it day. “With that bunting rifle I haven't town and are iving in the Billengei used in four years I go through tbe bouse. same stunts, including the manual of Mr. and Mra. Ouy Corey came down arms that Uncle Sam bas worked out from Irrigon for the dedication. to keep his soldiers in good trim. 1 H. C Harrison baa returned hom must admit that that tennis racket has puzzled me. I can't think of a thing from Pori land, where he has been se «iug on the jury. Mr. Wood, aa ok to do with it except practice strokes iequaintance, accompanied him home withoneof tbe balls against that clear part of tbe wall.”—New York Sun. Entered as second-class matter, December Ruth Akers, 1st canned fruit; ». Ivo, at the postoffice at Hermiston, oregop Six months JACK WHITE tables, second on homo economy and first or M. D. O’CONNELL ÄERMISTON Done by Farm Loans Cleaning and Pressing PROMPTLY AND NEATLY DONE NO Commission NO Bonus NO Delay NO Red Tape LOW Interest Rates LIBERAL Repay ment Privileges (HERMISTON Pays the highest price for SECOND HAND HARTMAN ABSTRACT CO. FURNITURE Car. Main and Cobert Sts. PENDLETON, OKE. of all kinds. Is made under the moot sanitary conditions. It is pure, wholesome and . high in food value Made in all popular flavors Special orders given prompt attention Let us know what household goods vou have to sell ========== We have Nearly Every Known Article in Market & Grocery CALL AND INSPECT OUR STOCK The Place to Trade and Save Hermiston Ice Cream SECOND HAND STORE the Second Hand Line for Sale HERMISTON CREAMERY 1 COMPANY M. DUTY, PROPRIETOR Money Try a pound of Oleomargarine, it is fine, 40c per pound. A FEW ITEMS SHAAR’S Shoe Repairing Tonsorial Parlors Better than ever now that the machine is installed. To out of town’customers sending work "I will return it by next mail, paying postage one way, is our line and prices Light House Cieanser, just as good as Old Dutch cleaner, same size can, per can........... .. Hills Bros. o< fee, tbe finest in town and cheapest Blue can brand,..................... ...35c Red can brand........................... .. 3 lb. blue can brand................. 90c We now have two makes of bread —Butternut bread made In Port land, and Cream of Wheat bread made In Echo. We will sell bread tickets from now on at 11 tickets for $1. which is good for 11 10 ceni loaves. Give as a Chance and we Will Do the Rest In saving you money. We wi I tike bui tor, eggs, chickens, veal, hogs and beef stuff in trade aod al low you m< re fur your ati ff that we Can pay in cash, so why not trade with the man who buys your pro duce, and keep tbe money at borne Shower and Plain STOCK MENS’ WORK AND DRESS SHOES JUST ADDED BATHS Try our “Neolin" soles, „ . Full Soles and Half Soles. Better than Mat Scientific Sam Rodgers Tonsorial Oregon Hermiston Treatment WE ENDEAVOR TO PLEASE AUSEON’S Wm. Shaar, Prop. Barber Shop ‘The Movie” is now at Hermiston Auditorium Our Aim Is To Please the Public TWO GOOD SHOWS EACH WEEK Wednesday and Saturday Evenings BATHS IN CONNECTION Frank J. Auseon, Proprisi« Hermiston Shrewd Woman. "I am encouraging my husband to buy an automobile.” “They cost an awful lot." “That’s just It. If he pays $2,500 for the kind he wants be won't be able to preach economy to me for quite awhile."— Boston Transport. "I hear old Smudges doctors have given him up." “Yes; he is getting well In tbe aat oral wey "- Baltimore American. ‘Do you hellere In heredity?" "1 certainly do. All my children got HARRISON all their bad traits from their father’s . BsB, Ore. side. - Detroit Free Press. Pure Bred Percheron Stallion state tscensslscerenEareRoedaTsrcheron Stellen. “Yours Milton, SCOTTIN HERMISTON, THE BALANCE SEE ICE. OF THE Young Milton is dark brown and weighs 1 Hermiston Horse C OF 99