The Hermiston herald., January 12, 1918, Image 1

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HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12. 1918
ANOTHER UNIT LIKELY LO
BE ADDED TO PROJECT
Public spirited citizens to the num­
ber of fifty were present at the Com­
mercial club meeting last Monday
night to listen to and take part in the
discussion of various important mat­
ters intended for the betterment and
advancement of Hermiston and the
surrounding country, and to place in
nomination and elect officers of the
organization for the current term.
The holding of the Dairy and Hog
Show was the subject of quite a little
speech making on the part of those
who have each year faithfully worked
to make it a success. Tbe discussion
started when someone made tbe re-
mark that the war would interfere
with the holding of tbe fair another
year, but the fear of this was soon dis­
pelled by other speakers, who con­
tended that our obligations to govern­
ment support would not or should not
deter us from striving even moreso
now than heretofore to maintain the
annual fall fair, the idea being that
should we lay down now it would be
almost impossible to resurrect the
dairy show after the close of the war.
With this view taken by a majority of
those present it was decided to con­
tinue tbe Dairy and Hog Show, and
the committee appointed at the last
meeting was retained to look up suit­
able grounds for its holding.
Probably the most important out­
come of the meeting will be notice­
able soon, for the proposition of mak­
ing a united effort to have another
unit added to the project wae taken up
by tbe club. The land contained in
this unit is situated south and east of
Hermiston, and is between the A line
and the feed canal. It has been con­
tended right along that the land is too
valuable to let lay idle, and it is tbe
purpose of the club to strive to have
the reclamation people see it that way
and open it up to settlement.
After leaving it with the president
to select his aides to further the above
matter as quickly as possible, a recess
was taken and all enjoyed a delicious
luncheon. After the meal business
was resumed and the club proceeded
to the selection of the annual officers,
the following being elected:
President—E. P. Dodd.
Vice-President—F. B. Swayze.
Secretary—Dr. F. V. Prime.
A motion prevailed that tbe presi­
dent be given tbe privilege of select­
ing the board of directors of five mem-
bers, after which the meeting ad
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There will be high jinks held in the
Fraternal Order of Odd Fellows ball
tonight, for Pendleton’s fine degree
team of the Odd Fellows will be bere
lu toto to give tbe members of the
local organization an exhibition of
how it puts on the degree work. At
7:30 tonight the fun will begin for the
candidates in waiting for tbe initiatory,
first, second and third degrees.
This being quite an event in the his-
torv of the Hermiston lodge, in that
it has candidates for all four degrees
to be taken in one evening, it has in-
vited Stanfield Odd Fellows to be in
attendance—and with the latter, Pen­
dleton and the Hermiston Odd Fellows
affiliating on this occasion, the town
should present an exceptionally lively
appearance this afternoon and evening.
To make this a gala and long-to-br-
remembered fraternal
affair,
tbe
Rebekah ladies are going to prepare a
banquet, which from all accounts will
be one of tbe most sumptuous ever
spread in this city. 'This will be held
in the basement of the Baptist church
in order that the large attendance ex­
pected can be accommodated with
comfort.
Last Saturday evening tbe Hermis­
ton Odd Fellows Installed the follow­
ing elective and appointive officers:
A letter to his parents here from
Frank Stone, who was recently trans­
ferred from Camp Lewis to San
Antonio, Texas, is given below. It
is interesting to note that the young
man says that rumors of ill treatment
in the camp life of tbe soldier are
groundless. All of us, no doubt, would
give a good deal to have been with
Frank when he was writing that letter
and witness the exercises of the air-
ship "squadron.” After seeing them
in operation it is more than likely we
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could tell with some degree of accuracy
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whether the mysterious air visitor
that has been agitating us for some
sensdPhclo fromboe
time past is really an airship or just
western Newspaper Unioni
plain evening star. Here's the letter:
Emperor Charles of Austria-Hungary is here seen reviewing some of the
“Kelley Field No. 1, Texas.
troops that took part in the drive into Italy and praising the officers for their
"We have arrived here all safe and
work. This is the first photograph of the emperor to reach America In many sound. The air is full of flying mach­
months.
ines all of the time.
"I just received your letter last
night and your package a couple of
was rendered and light refreshments days before. I want to thank you
served. The next meeting will be Esther and pa for the box. You can.
held January 19. Every member is not imagine how good everything
tasted; in fact I think it the most eu-
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urged to attend.
N. G.—Frank Varnum.
joyable Xmas package I ever received.
J. McCoy, who operates a rented
Otto Sapper was a dinner guest at
V.
G.—J. S. West.
It brightened everybody up in my tent
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Sommerer and
ranch of eighty acres about throe miles
the Briggs home last Sunday.
Secretary—W. R. Longhorn.
to taste some real home cooking like
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Ott
motored
to
Butter
west of town across the Umatilla river,
Treasuer—L. W. Furnas.
mother used to. cook The box may
is certainly a booster for this valley. Creek Sunday and were callers at tbe
Warden—R. W. Sprague.
have seemed small to you but it sure
Lewis
home.
If you can strike up a conversation
Conductor
—J. F. Bilderback.
looked big to me, and the boys all
Paul Miller is among those leveling
with the gentleman It won’t be bard
R. S. N. G.—W. A. Mikesell.
said,
gee!
look
at
tbe
big
box
he
got
to loosen him up to give you the real and getting ready for spring seeding.
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L. S. N. G.—W. S. Casady.
through the mail. One friend got one
optimistic brand of talk about the
Mr. and Mrs. Mathews left Thurs­
R. S. V. G. — Bert Nation.
of
the
swellest
belts
from
a
lady
friend
Mrs. C. C. Paine andchildren Gladys
possibilities of this country.
day for Spokane, after spending tbe
L. S. V. G.—Roy G. Atterbury.
He looked at the belt and then at me
And while doing this be will go holidays on their ranch in this section. and Elden were dinner guests of Mrs.
Chaplain—L. S. Chapman.
and
said,
what
a
swell
belt,
but
what
Cumins Sunday.
further and tell you that last spring
R. S. S.—Geo. Strohm.
Little Wilma Waugaman is reported
good
will
It
do
me.
If
she
had
only
Walter Cohoon of Pasco, Wash.,
he came here from near Salem and, on the sick list.
L. S. S.—Geo. Myers.
known
and
sent
me
something
I
could
brother-in-law of Ernest Brown,filed on
after working oat awhile, sent for his
I. G—S. D. L. Ross.
Mr. and Mrs. Orville Dawson and
have eaten it would have been so
a homestead Wednesday.
family, and after their arrival rented
O. G.—F. B. Knapton.
baby Jack from Irrigon spent Tuesday
much better, for they will not let me
the ranch he is now on. Adversity in
E. Allen Bennett, of Portland, was wear this and I do not know what to
with her sister, Mrs. H. M. Sommerer.
bis former borne left him very short of
looking over the schools Tuesday.
do with it. So you can see how much
At the Rhodes home Monday even­
cash when he shied bls caster into the
The Mack store is busy taking an better that good box of eats were in
ing
was
the
scene
of
a
very
merry
old-
farming game here, but through bard
invoice of the stock
stead of some article that we cannot
work and good management be has al­ fashioned house warming, several
A party of young people gave an use, and all the boys think the same.
friends
and
neighbors
gathering
to
ready paid off the little and big debts
old fashioned charivari on the newly- One of the boys got a couple of boxes
incurred in getting started, and is be­ help initiate their new home.
Miss Jones and her uncle, Mr. Cut­ weds, Mr. and Mrs. I. Skoubo, Friday. before Christmas and I helped him eat
ginning the new year with practically
The unveiling of the service flag
J. R. Johnson went to Hermiston his and he is helping eat mine, so we
a clean slate and with horses and ler, spent the week end at Heppner.
donated to the city by the Girls Honor
have
bad
some
real
cake
and
cookies
on
hand to
Mrs. Bessie Spencer is reported as and Umatilla this week.
machinery enough
Guard of Hermiston will take place
for over a week now.
The school house is progressing very
handle the eighty acres the com- very ill and is confined to her bed.
"When I got your letter, mother, it next Monday afternoon at 2:30 at the
ing season. And if things go right
Mrs. Mary Hoisington returned last fast.
post office, at which time Rev. Gra­
was
the first I had received since 1
along for him as they have been, Thursday from Pendleton where she
Sam Boardman went to Heppner
came down here. I am now in a per ham w.ll deliver an address and "The
you’ll see Mr. McCoy laying by a nice spent the holidays with her daughter. Tuesday.
manent squadron, so after this you Star Spangled Banner” will be sung
little nest egg next fall after the clean
Mrs. Alf Hiatt and two children, of can just keep mailing my mail to my by the audience. The flag is the
Miss Blanche Diether, one of the
up.
journed: _________________
teachers in the Hermiston school, Echo, sister-in-law of Mrs. Rands, re­ last address until I change it, for mail handiwork of the young ladies of the
But every man cannot accomplish
to her home Sunday.
spent the week end with Mrs. F. A. turned
1
follows a permanent squadron without Honor Guard, and the 25 stars which
what this gentleman has since coming
it contains represent the boys who
Brunson.
any
trouble.
to this valley. It requires energy,
have enlisted in the service direct
Mrs. Franz spent several days last
“You may bear all kinds of stories
push and vim along with the ideal soil
from Hermiston. It was to give honor
week
with
her
daughter
in
Pendleton.
about the way we are treated in the
and climate to become successful in
to their patriotism that tbe Guard
Mr. and Mrs. Turney and daughter
army, but you do not want to believe
the farm business, and while there are
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ladies conceived tbe idea of per­
anything you hear unless some one
One seldom hears much about our some ranchers here somewhat lax in from Pendleton spent the week end
petuating the names of the following
Mrs. Ashun spent a few days at Cells it to you and they know it for a by making the service flag:
Red Cross, unless in connection with these requisites, it is certain that Mr. with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Beddow.
Mrs. Beddow accompanied them on Sunnyside, visiting her daughter fact, because there is so much said
tbe raising of money in big drives, McCoy oombines all of them.
George Prindle, Logan Todd, Herb­
their return and expects to speed a whose husband is enlisting In the that is nowhere near true. We have ert Sullivan, Bert Hiatt, Ed. Hitt,
but an inside view into the workings of
latrines in most cantonments to take
week in the Roundup city.
military service.
the local Red Cross organization re­
James Todd, C. O. Wainscott, J. A.
Mr. and Mrs. Ouy Corey are leaving a bath in but down here we have Campbell, Earl Boynton, Ed. McKeen,
Prof. Vonholderbeke from Spokane,
veals the fact that the ladies of this
scientific advisor for the Bohn, Brun this week for Seattle to visit bls par­ small bouses with two shower baths Harry Todd, Walter Beasley, Robert
community are extending every effort
son, Beddow and Heinl fruit compan­ ents before enlisting in the aerial in each. We have no hot water here, West, Vane Boynton, Tom Campbell,
to make the soldiers and sailors now
but do not need it for the water
ies, spent Monday and Tuesday visit­ corps at Vancouver.
fighting our battles on land and sea as
Robt. Hobbs, Fioyd Ames, Arnold
A very interesting program was ing the orchards. Mr. Hammer, one of
Mrs. McCoy was on the sick list the is awful warm—In fact it is so warm Shotwell. Floyd Hoisington, A. E.
comfortable as possible by making
that it Is not fit to drink until it has
sweaters, mufflers and other garments given at the regular meeting of the the professor’s expert pruners, accom­ fore part of the week.
Winslow, Clarence Carson, Clarence
set around and cooled off. It is just
Hermiston
Parent-Teacher
Associa
­
panied
him
and
is
now
busy
cutting
of
for them to wear.
Johnson, Dick Thom, Ross Shaw, Rob­
Old Sol really called during two
like drinking dish water.
That they have been doing yeoman tion Thursday afternoon. A piano se­ twigs on the Heinl tract.
ert Bunch.
days of the new year so far.
“I was not surprised to hear that
lection
by
John
D.
Watson,
Jr.,
a
song
service in this direction is shown in
Frances Hinkle is a guest at the
gar-
L. N. Davis has completed his
tbe packages leaving here »1 intervals by the primary grade, a reading by McKeen home during the absence of age and Is busy leveling his land east Muryel had a bad casa of la grippe for
be was pretty sick when I left Camp
containing these supplies, the records
her mother.
of town.
Lewis. I am glad to hear that it is
recording that in the past two months by A. E. Hensel on “The Conservation
The executive committee of the
Mr Ashburn has been engaged to nothing worse than la grippe, for 1
the Hermiston Red Cross has forward­ of the Child,” were well received by a Neignborhood club met at the Brun­
plow 20 acres of land for Mr. Warr­ was afraid that it would be.
ed ne lese than 27 sweaters and two large audience. After the program son home Thursday night.
ington south of town.
were
“We are waiting here for our equip­
mufflers, and that there are 15 more officers for tbe ensuing year
Mrs. Simmons and Jennie left Thurs­
The carpenters that built tbe new ment, and I guess as soon as we get it
sweaters so near completion that they elected as follows:
The annual stockholders meeting of
day for a brief visit in Pendleton.
depot at this place, failed to make it we will leave, as we are a supply
President—Mrs. J. T. Hinkle.
will be shipped within the next 15 days.
the First National Bank of Hermiston
Jim Catron has finished leveling bis satisfattorv and will return at once squadron for foreign service. They
Vice-President — Mrs. C. S Me
That’s the kind of work that counts.
was held last Tuesday morning, at
20 acre tract and is having twenty-two and complete it.
say that they send a fellow in a hurry,
Naught.
which lime election of officers for the
hundred bead of sheep fed on bis place.
Treasurer—Mrs. J. H. Young.
Lyle Seaman, Mae Davis and Doris as it takes very little training, these present year took place as follows:
Mr. Hall has completed leveling the Lane are now wearing their state club sqadrons being made up mostly of men
Secretary—Mrs. Hood.
President—F. B. Swayze.
Program Committee—H. M. Gunn, 40 acre tract belonging to Jene Skovbo pins which they received for complet­ who know what they are doing. Have
Vice-President—R. Alexander,
you got my pictures yet? 1 must close
Mrs H M. Sommerer and Mrs. E. P. that be is located on in the canyon. ing last year’s club work.
Cashier -A. L. Larson.
Twenty-five acres is seeded to alfalfa
Dodd.
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Mrs. N. Seaman is spending a few for this time, hoping to hear from all
Assistant Cashier—C. E. Ope).
With love to all,
and the remaining fifteen acres he ex­ days with friends in Portland.
of you soon.
Tbe prizes put up during the holi­ 0. E. S. APPOINTIVE
The above officers, together with
Frank
pects to seed this spring. Mr. Hall
day season for the persons coming clos-
Attorney J. R. Raley, constitute the
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Samson were
did this in one year's time and we all
est to guessing how many seeds there
board of directors.
Hermiston visitors Monday.
admire his progressiveness.
were in a squash on exhibition at tbe
The huge task of leveling, fluming
The annual report of the president
Fred Caldwell drove to Hermiston
City Market and Grocery was in a
Mr. Mathews has signed a contract
and seeding the 160 acres of land a was read, and It showed that the bank
last Saturday.
way valuable from an educational
with Wallace Spencer to level and
short distance northwest of Hermiston was io a thriving condition, and also
At the meeting Tuesday evening of seed to alfalfa his 15-acre tract near
The road men are hauling dirt to
standpoint as well as tbe means of
that Tillamook dairymen purchased that the business of the institution had
Queen
Esther
Chapter
No.
101,
Order
keep
tbe
wind
from
blowing
the
sand
creating much amusement.
Many
the school house.
from W. H. Skinner last summer has male a most satisfactory increase dur­
A
Eastern Star, the following appointive
away from in front of the school house.
been completed. A representative of ing the year 1917.
A correction of last week's issue in
officers
were
installed,
the
ceremony
Mrs. L. M. Davis and son were Her­ tbe owners was here and looked over
table, and they were of such wide
regard
to
the
exchanges
and
present
variance that they ranged anywhere being performed under direction of location of the thorough bred animals miston visitors Saturday last, when tbe the work, and went back to bis home
WEATHER REPORT
Kathryn Garner, the installing officer:
from 100 up to 800.
near Tillamook to report that under
belonging to the Jersey Breeders asso- former went for dental work.
Ada
—
Ruth
Skinner
The throe prize winners struck a
Tbe weather has been cloudy most
We understand that Ross ILauden- normal conditions all will have ample
elation are as follows: The animal
Ruth— Euphenia Jackson.
happy medium half way between the
slager will go into tbe dairy business. bay for their stock from the land for of the week, and culminated in giving
that
was
located
at
the
Waugaman
Esther—Mable M Jensen.
above figures, with the result that
The crop, the valley its first skiff of snow this
ranch is now at the Scott ranch,Scott's We wish him success in the enter- next winter's feeding.
Miss Mary Anderson of the Oregon
prise.
after being cut next summer, will be winter on Thursday, which remained
Elects—Laura S. Crandall.
hotel won the case of Crystal White
Waugaman's.
Among the soring crops Irrigon bas baled here and shipped by rail to Till» only a short time. Tue maximum tem­
Marshal — Essie Scrogge.
peas
growing that are 3 to 4 inches amook for distribution among the perature for the week ending January
The Neighborhood club met Satur­
Chaplain—Rena Waterman.
high;
also carrots, lettuce and rad- dairymen of that place that have in- I 10 was 58 degre sand the minimum 15.
day
at
the
Columbia
school
and
a
good
Warder—Georgiana Illsley.
I Tbe rainfall was .24 of an inch.
with a guess of 413, and Earl Carson
terests in the big tract.
attendance reported. A short program ishes seem to be thriving.
Sentinel —Geo. A. Cressy.
Work on tbe Columbia highway
which runs through Hermiston will
toon be under way, according to Oscar
Cutler, of tbe state highway depart­
ment, who was in the city Wednesday.
The gentleman is now ove. seeing the
surveying of the road from the Mor
row county line to Pendleton. He ex
pects to reach here early next week
with his crew of engineers. He is
also making an estimate of the cost of
hard surfacing, and in a short time he
will send in his report to the state
highway commission, after which a
call for bids will be issued and the
contract let. In tbe meantime the
county court will grade and fill, and
with the continuance of fair weather
it is the belief of Mr. Cutler that state
operations on the road should be
under way in a month or six weeks
from now.
otri”
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