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THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. SPECIAL NOTICE On account of our increased amount of work, we find it necessary to change our closing hour from 4 p. m. to 3 p. m. • The First National Bank I of Hermiston • Capital & Surplus $30,000 PROFESSIONAL CARDS W. J. WARNER OREGON HERMISTON, J. T. HINKLE OREGON HERMISTON, HITT Can fit you out in what ever you may need in the - ■■■ —way of . — = — HUNTING or FISHING V. PRIME DENTIST Hermiston. Oregon Office, Bank Bldg. Office Phone, 93 Residence Phone 32 Office Hours: 8 to 5; Sundays & eve- ninas by appointment. ALEXANDER REID Physician and Surgeon 10 to 12 A. M.. 2 to 5 P. M. * Office Phone: Main 92 Residence Phone: 191 Office in Bank Bldg. Hours: DR. R. G. GALE EQUIPMENT Complete line of Base Ball and other Sport ing Goods Confectionery Ice Cream and Soft Drinks First Class Billiard and Pool Tablea Physician and Surgeon Rooms 1 and 2 Bank Bldg. Office Heurs: 10 to 12; 2 to 4; 7 to 8. Phone 551 T Auto Truck ALWAYS ON THE JOB VETERINARY SURGEON Office Phone 482 Hotel Phone 61 DALE ROTHWELL LONG AND SHORT HAULS Give Us A Trial OPTICAL SPECIALIST Hermiston Transfer Company Office, Cor. Main and Second Sts. Res., 29F2 Phone 152 Classes ground and fitted. Lenses duplicated. American National Bank Building Pendleton. Oregon Subscribe for The Herald. Echo Flour Mills Echo, Oregon MANUFACTURERS OF High Grade Patent Blue Stem Flour The Superior Product of Scientific Milling Makes Better Bread Try a Sack DEALERS IN GRAIN AND FEED FUEL CASH ON DELIVERY We are required to pay for coal and the freight on it before unloading. The government regu lates the selling price, and it is therefore forcing us to ask CASH FOR ALL SALES OF FUEL Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co LOCAL BRIEFS Water Superintendent C. C. Salser has been away most of the week look ing after a ranch that he owns near Allendale, Wash. During his absence C. H. Crandall ably looked after his duties. William E. Kennedy, whose parents operate a ranch in tbe Fourth unit, enlisted at Pendleton Tuesday as third class fireman in the navy, and left the following day for Portland to report for duty. Principal R. B. Spencer of Columbia school informs us that in giving an es timate of the enrollment last week we should have made it read 54 during 1917, explaining that the 38, as we gave it, was the approximate daily at tendance during the year. There are quite a number of young sportsmen in this valley that hunt jackrabbits for pleasure who can now turn tbe pastime to profit by carefully skinning the animals and shipping the hides to a New York dealer whose advertisement appears elsewhere in this issue. The young friends and schoolmates of Misses Gladys and Althae Smith and Miss Carol Rice gave a delightful fare- well party at the Auditorium in their honor Thursday night. The former are going with their parents to Cali fornia and tbe latter to Idaho. In the Ladies Department We are showing new Cotton Poplins for spring wear at 35c per yard. New patterns of Cretons, very pretty for interior decoration or for the popular knitting bags,*at 35c per yard. Remember we carry Warner’s Rust Proof Corsets as well as the famous Nemo, $1.50 to $5.00. Queen Quality Shoes in the standard shapes and leathers, the very best in their class, $3.50 to $7.20. Just a few all-wool sweaters left, small sizes, at 50 per cent less than present cost, not new styles but very serviceable for school wear--sizes 32-36. In Men’s Apparel We are Offering Cluett Shirts in a wide range of patterns at old prices. All these goods have advanced more than 25 per cent. Gordon hats at $3.50. Lee’s Unionalls, the very best garment in their class, at $3.50 per suit. And by the way we have the Unionall garments for the ladies at $2.50. Just the thing for spring garden work in khaki color. In Groceries, the Best of Everything at Reasonable Prices Hermiston Produce & Supply Company “Best of Good Service” Phone Main 34 In celebration of its first anniversary members and friends of Hermiston So cialist Local to tbe number of 50 gath ered in Mack’s hall Thursday evening HERMISTON and listened to well chosen addresses HIS LOVE FOR HI3 DEAD, by Dr. De Quer and Dr. Barnes, after SECOND HAND STORE which a very appetizing luncheon was He Mads It a Power to Gladden Some CONTRACTORS and BUILDERS of the Needy Living. served fo all present. Pays tbe highest price for A little old man came into the office Estimates furnished on A dispatch from Washington, D C., of the Chicago Charities the other day SECOND HAND says that parcels for American troops and laid down $150, “to help out some in France, not exceeding seven pounds needy families.” Then be told them a FURNITURE in weight, may hereafter be addressed story: directly to the soldier, and will no long “Years ago, when all of my folks of all kinds. er be received for forwarding by the were living, I couldn’t afford to give presents. Things are different now, Let us know what household commanding general at the port of em goods vou have to sell barkation, as previously announced by but most of my folks have gone. I Accurate information given on went shopping, Just as If my folks the postoffice department. We have Nearly Every Known Article in FLUME AND BRIDGE WORK were alive. I picked out a shawl for the Second Hand Line for Sale an aunt of mine. She's dead and so There seems to be systematic thiev I didn't buy it, but I put down the Headquarters at Hermiston, Oregon CALL AND INSPECT OUR STOCK ery going on in this neighborhood, and amount of money I would have spent a watch should be kept in an endeavor Then I went and got some things for to catch the culprit or culprits. The my dead brother and for my father BUTTER WRAPPERS M. DUTY, PROPRIETOR victims of these depredations are F. and mother and for a few old friends of mine. I didn ’ t really get them, you For Sale at Herald Office Auseon, Mr. McLane, B. F. Knapton know, but I priced the things I thought and Mr. Fisher, all of whom had their they would like. When I added up all homes entered recently and pilfered of the money I would have spent it came vegetables and canned fruit during to almost $150, so I added a little to it, absence from the premises. and here it is.” THE Has any one beard of a finer, more The last five per cent of the ques- beautiful way of showing a man's tionnaries were mailed from Pendleton love for his dead? The things he had Wednesday by the Umatillacounty ex wanted to do it was too late to do now. emption board. All must be returned He might, it is true, have spent money Makes Clubbing Arrangement With a by Thursday of next week. Delin on stone to make more artificial and melancholy the quiet hillside where quents who have failed to secure an ex "his folks” rest He found a better tension after that time will be reported way to spend his affection, to remem- to the adjutant genera), who will have ber in fancy those he could no longer them sought out and punished accord reach and then to see that his loving memory of them went to make others ing to the provisions of the law. happier. He made his love for bis Quite a number of Hermistonians dead a power to gladden the living. went over to Stanfield Thursday, to be Ue laid tribute on grief and made it a MONG our large circle of readers in attendance at the Community Day blessing, it is not a sad story. We there are a great many who are in need not pity him. But we cannot help exercises held in that city. They re loving him.—Milwaukee Journal. terested directly or indirectly in port that it was a big affair, the speech fruit growing, dairying and other es, especially the one delivered by Ro branches of farming. All of these SHELL SHOCK IN BATTLE, bert N Stanfield, candidate for U. S. naturally wish to keep in close touch with ag senator, being interesting, and that ricultural activities throughout the state; A Curious Fact That Only Unwounded tbe chicken pie dinner was exceeding and to know about any fight which is being Men Suffer From It. ly fine. waged for the measures Oregon farmers By tbe methods of modern war no inconsiderable proportion of battlefield want and against all sorts of schemes that Bert Nation, who for a good many casualties are due to shell shock—a are detrimental to the people and agricultural years has been superintendent of irri new terror of battle and one that was interests of this state. gation for tbe Western Land & Irriga unknown before the advent of later We have, therefore, made a special clubbing tion Co., has been busy the past while day high explosives. It is a curious fact that only un- arrangement with THE OREGON FAR back looking after the work of clean MER whereby any farmer or fruitgrower, ing the sixty miles of canal, ditches wounded men suffer from shell shock. Eminent surgeons say that a wound who is one of our regular subscribers and who and laterals owned by the concerc. neutralizes the psychic sense—in plain is not now a subscriber to THE OREGON He will finish the work this week and English that nerves do not affect ■ FARMER, will be entitled to receive THE lay off the force. The nice weather wounded man in the same way as an OREGON FARMER in combination with has made it possible to complete tl e unwounded one. this paper at the same rate as for this paper work this early in tbe year, and as a For shell shock is nothing more or alone. result there will be no delay when the less than a nervous breakdown—a ter time comes to turn the water in from ribly intensive breakdown that physi This offer applies to all those who renew or cians find most difficult to cure. It is the headgates. extend their subscriptions as well as to all entirely a mental cause, and though it new subscribers. If you are interested di is called shell shock it has very little to do with shells. rectly or indirectly in Oregon agriculture, For Sale or Trade—A good yearling There are men, brave men, too, Who do not miss this unusual opportunity, but G. C. Akers. 17-ltp mule colt. find the strain of war too great for send your order in now. their mental stamina. They see terri ble sights and hear terrible things, and THE OREGON FARMER is the one farm these react upon them temperamentally paper which is devoting itself exclusively and physically. Gradually, perhaps un to the farming activities and interests of consciously, their ability to resist is Oregon. It has a big organization gath overborne. Their mental power is ex ering the news of importance to farmers, hausted. They become afraid—dread- dairymen, fruitgrowers, stockraisers and From the far east comes a dispatch fully, terribly afraid—and the end is poultrymen: and it has the backbone to at stating that "Baby Jim” Simons, only a matter of time. tack wrongful methods and combinations and A certain cure has yet to be found, colored, said to be the heaviest man bad legislation, and support honest leaders in tbe world, died io Philadelphia al though Revere electrical treatment has and beneficial measures. We are confident the close of tbe old year. He weighed had some effect.— London Answers. that our readers will congratulate us on our 800 pounds, and for years bad been one being able to make this splendid and at Where the Laborer Ie King. of tbe sights of circus side shows. He The day laborer, as opposed to the tractive clubbing offer. was 37 years old. employer and to other workers, is king And about the same time dispatches in Australia. The unions, through the from so close» place in the far west as labor party, practically control the ex Cascade Locks states that if Professor ecutive, legislative and judicial ma 208 PAPERS FOR $1.50-2 FOR PRICE OF ONE John Ashton’s statement is to be be chinery of the cities, the states and lieved by an exemption board that the commonwealth. Forty-eight hours worthy registrant, who is a school is the recognized maximum for a Oregon Former every week for THREE YEARS, teacher at the above place, should week's work, but in certain occupations all for only. .................................... qualify very easily as the human flag forty-four, forty-two, forty, and even thirty-six hours are considered full pole. In his questionnarie Mr. Ash time. Home of the larger building ton makes the statement that he is trades have a forty-four hour week, nine feet and six inches tail and weighs and it Is probable that this figure will 123 pounds. The statement gave tbe become the recognized standard for all board tbe surprise of their lives, labor. Of the “four sacred eights” in coupled with a little disbelief, but It the original slogan—“eight hours' work, was there in black and white, bow- eight hours' play, eight hours’ rest and ever, "114 inches,” according to tbe eight bob a day”—only the portion re lating to rest has been retained. ' physical statistics section. Reeder & Correll All Classes of Buildings Hermiston Herald The Oregon Farmer 1 Offers Unusual Opportunity to Its Readers A HEAVIEST MAN DEAO TALLEST STILL ALIVE Butter Wrappers K.Sofiet
