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
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—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
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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.
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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.
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