The Hermiston Herald
Hoover Prices on Seeds
$1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
2 lbs. 25c
Compare this with Portland Seed Co. * catalog
ALL KINDS OF PACKET SEEDS
These Seeds are all Fresh and are New Stock
Phelps Cash Grocery
Free Delivery to all Parts of the City
PHONE 413
LUCKY STRIKE
CIGARETTE
N a year it has become
famous; the man’s cig
arette for the men who are
working over here, and
fighting over there.
The reason? Because
it’s made of Burley pipe
tobacco and because—
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IT’S TOASTED
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M. D. O’CONNELL
HERMISTON
OREGON
Entered as second-class matter, December
1906, at the postoffice at Hermiston, Oregon
NO PROFITEERING
Carrots
Beets
Parsnips
Turnips .
Beans
Peas
Onion Sets
Jesued Each Saturday by
carry them, send $1.20
for a carton of 12 pack-
ages to The American
Tobacco Co., N. Y.City
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subsequent insertion without change of copy.
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Wards Which Hava
Strayed: •
Hardly any words in the English lan
guage have strayed farther from their
original meaning than tbe terms of for
estry. Thus a forest was originally a
great tract of country, which might in
clude woods, cultivated lands, pastures
and even towns and villages, all the
hunting rights over which were reserv
ed to the monarch. A chase differed
from a forest mainly in the fact that
the hunting rights were vested in a
subject instead of a king. A park was
a fenced preserve, either in or out of a
forest, while a warren was a piece of
waste ground over which tbe right to
bunt the bare, the rabbit and tbe fox.
the pheasant, the partridge and the
woodcock bad been granted by the
SPECIAL
Sales made by the land compan,
during the week are: 10 acres to 1rs
Hoffman In the Irrigon district and 40
acres each to Royal Rands and James
Nelson in tbe Boardman district. Al
these parties will improve their lau
Pyron Powell, who recently pur
chased 40 acres south of Irrigoo, has
also purchased the W. A. Jeppe acre
age west of town. Mr. Powell has
gone to Kendric .
is former home,
and will return in a few weeks with
teams and his household goods.
Col. and Mrs. Newport are staying
at Irrigon for a few days while the
Colonel is overseeing the shipping of a
c
e of thon-
d feet of cement pipe
for use at Hermiston.
A. J. Abernathy returned from Her
miston a few days ago with a fine
team of horses that he purchased for
use on his ranch.
Mrs. W. B. Beasley was down from
Hermistou on a visit over Saturday
and Sunday.
The school is having fine success in
the war savings stamps drive. Mat
Davis, Lyle Seaman, Batie Rand ant
Ralph Walpole have already sold $50
worth or more and are now proud ol
the fact that they are members of tbe
Rainbow club.
There will be choir practice at Mr.
Suddartb’a home Wednesday evening
at 7:30. This is for the purpose o'
practicing a few Easter hymns, A 1
interested are invited to help out with
the singing.
The indications are that the tota]
sales of war stamps will be over $400.
L. J. Blayden and wife received a
telegram Saturday calling them home,
as Mrs. Blayden's mother was very
sick. They left Sunday morning.
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES
Preparations for this year’s oratori
cal and declamatory contest have beer
begun.
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist
Room 9-10-11 Schmidt Building
PENDLETON, OREGON
Are you coming to the High Schoo)
play? As Lord Cracke nthorpe says:
“Why not? why not? why not?”
The Hermiston school children bav
joined the Junior Red Cross League
Ruth Bensel was the first Junior Red
Cross worker to finish her 100 gun
wipers in the iirst grade.
The first grade room collected 114 75
this week on Thrift Stamp sales. The
sixth grade collected during the week
$152.30, making a total of $286.75 for
that room.
The average attendance of pupils
for March was 210.3, as against an
average attendance during the sam*
month last year of 208 3 The schoo
census shows a decrease this year, but
since the compilation of the report
many new pupils bave come here with
their parents, thus more than making
up the deficiency.
The total amount of War Savings
and Thrift Stamps sold by the pupils of
Hermiston School during the week
March 18 23 was $796 74. Following
are the names sent Infor enrollment Ir
Riinbow Regiment: Fred irvin, Janice
Brigham, Martha Winslow, Lawrence
Winslow, Mah I Brown, Dorthy Ross
and Gladys West.
As.
co so
ASK FOR SAMPLES AND
When that husky brute, man, goes
PRINTED MATTER
into the big woods for the good time
of the year no longer does he leave a
bundle of frills and laces at home or
the shore, with nothing to assuage her
grief st parting with her lord but a
stack of the latest fiction, a fond kiss
and, perhaps, a hypocritical “Wish you
could go with me." No, indeed! Now
she goes with him, and he is finding
out that he is very glad she does.
Whether either he er she is glad,
however, depends, in a measure—in
Hermiston, Oregon
fact, rather largely—upon her clothing.
She must be warm in cold weather,
not too warm in hot weather, not be
bedraggled to helplessness when it
LODGE DIRECTORY
rains, nor snagged every few minutes
in rough going by stepping on her
ueen ESTHER chapter No. 101, o. e . s .,
meets second Tuesday evening of each month
skirt or getting caught on a stub. It
at
8:00
sharp in Mack’s hall. Visiting member,
she is to be a real companion to a man welcome.
Frances G. Phelps, W. M.
she must not hold him back by add
Kathryn L. Garner. Sec.
Ing to her natural handicap, lack of
strength, the unnecessary and exasper HERMISTON LODGE NO. 138, A. F. & A. M.,
meets in Masonic Hall on First Tuesday
ating unsuitable costume.—Outing.
Inland Empire Lumber Co
What We Do
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Delightful.
evening of each month. Visiting brethren wel-
come.
M. D. Scroggs, W. M.
Ed. Jackson. Secy.
A certain young person had attained
her twenty-fifth year so many times VINEYARD LODGE NO. 206, I. O. O. F„
that her ingenuity was about to crack Y meets each Saturday evening in Odd Fellows
hall. Visiting members cordially invited.
under the strain of getting away with W. R. Longhorn. Sec. Frank Vernum. Noble Grand
it In other words, she would soon be
an old maid If something wasn't done.
But what?
In her perplexity she consulted the
SHAAR’S
seventh daughter of a seventh daugh
ter. "I feel.” declared the young per
son tragically, “as if I were drowning."
The seventh daughter of a seventh
Shower and Plain
daughter was not lacking to herself.
“Precisely,” she replied. "Drowning is
described by all who have given it seri
ous trial as a delightful sensation, pro
Scientific
vided you don’t struggle against it”
Tonsorial
Whereupon the young person saw a
great light and went home and lived
happily ever after.—New York Post.
WE ENDEAVOR TO PLEASE
Tonsorial Parlors
We pasteurize our
products
We use most sani
tary methods
We will test your
cows free
We will treat you
square.
HERMISTON CREAMERY
COMPANY
BATHS
Treatment
rather nice.
Wife—Do you know, I
was wondering while making it why
we call it plum pudding when there
isn't a plum in it. Hub (hrring eaten
a little)—I fancy, my dear, the word
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Ballenger drove should be spelled “plumb," which, you
to Hermiston
Monday.
Mrs. Me will find by the dictionary, means “a
Millen returned with them lo spend a little mass or weight of lead.”—Boston
Transcript.
few days visiting.
D N. REBER, M. D
It is made of Trinidad Lake Asphalt—
\ Nature’s one perfect waterproofer; made
A by The Barber Asphalt Paving Company
4 —the largest producers of asphalt and
% largest manufacturers of ready roof-
4 ing in the world.
The Outdoor Woman.
A contract has been let for th<
digging of a deep well for the school
house. The men and machine have
arrived.
Kryptok, Toric and Dr.
Crook’s Lenses. Zylonite
frame and mountings.
stops both. It stays waterproof
and does away with needless ex
pense-bills.
Several weights ; in mineral and smooth surface
CORRESPONDENCE
As a foundation for health there is
nothing better than four miles a day in
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE
the'open air, taking the weather as it
comes. Your family, your work and
Lyle Blaydeo was down from Her- your life insurance company will all
appreciate the benefits derived, and
miston Tuesday betw. en trains.
C. H. Aylesworth and family wei t your face will show the difference in a
few months.—Collier's Weekly.
to Hermiston Saturday on a shopping
And if you cannot make It four miles
trip.
a day better than nothing is two miles
County Agent Brown was here Wed or a mile or even a half a mile if it is
nesday and gave a talk on dairying. done briskly with chin up, shoulders
back and to the accompaniment of
A club was organized.
deep breathing.—Hartford Post.
A full house greeted the Colored
Suffragettes Saturday evening and a
Why She Went Home.
number of the young people took it
Wife—Tom, dear, this my first plum
pudding.
Hub (dubiously)—It looks
the dance after.
,
Repair work done. Lenses
ground any size or shape
Ready Roofing
IRRIGON NEWS ITEMS
BOARDMAN NEWS
I have installed an optical
department.
Genasco
king.
In the same way the term afforesta
tion had nothing to do with the plant
The publishers of weekly newspapers
ing of trees, it meant the subjection
of Umatilla county have agreed not to of any tract of country to tbe forest
publish any political matter of an adver laws—in other words, it was the set
tising nature except at regular advertis- ting aside of this tract as a forest. A
forest might and commonly did include
vast estates of landowners and large
towns whose rights remained untouch
ed except as to game.—London Mail.
Walking and Health.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Every Roof-leak makes a Pocket-leak
Defined.
A number of scholars were asked to
explain the meaning of the term
“righteous indignation," and one little
chap wrote, “Being angry without
cussing."
Wm. Shaar, Prop.
For the
Sweet Tooth
No matter how big the cavity
or how badly it hurts, we can
relieve it if you will just step in
and make a careful selection from
our magnificent line of
Candies and
Confections
Our box candies are' a dream
Of beauty and lusciousness. Not
only pure and healthful, but a
real tonic and tissue builder.
When tired and out of sorts,
nothing rests you like some of
our fresh chocolates.
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If it’s candy, we have it. Get
it here.
P. B. SISCEL
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AUSEON’S
Barber Shop
ESTABLISHED SIX YEARS
PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT.
Prevent Illness.
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The laws of health hare, every
one, a penalty attached, and ig
norance is never accepted by na
ture as an excuse.
Prevent illness. Build up the
natural defensive resources of
the body.
Use the automatic
scavenger system with which
you are supplied, but do not
make the mistake of thinking
that you can neglect It at pleas
ure and Men escape by whipping
It np with irritating drugs. Drink
freely of clear water. Eat to sat
isfaction rather than repletion
and let the diet be of good bal
ance Never let the drudgery of
daily routine obscure the end for
which you live. A rush of work
Is not legitimate excuse for pro-
gressive suicide.
As Pythagoras baa wisely said,
"Have thou moderation In all
things, keep thyseif from wild
joy and from walling sorrow,
strive to bold thy soul In hanno
ny and concord, like tbe strings
of • well tuned harp.”
CONTRACTORS and BUILDERS
Estimates furnished on
All Classes of
Buildings
Accurate information given on
FLUME AND BRIDGE WORK
Headquarters at Hermiston, Oregon
“-t-t-f-f-00-3-3-3-3D
HERMISTON
SECOND HAND STORE
Pays the highest price for
SECOND HAND
Our Aim Is
To Please the Public
BATHS IN CONNECTION
of all kinds
Let ua know what household goods you •
have to sell )
I have the SINGER SEWING MACHINES 3
for salt and handle second hand
We have Nearly Every Known Article in
the Second Hand Line for Sale
M. DUTY, PROPRIETOR
SHOES
We have a full Une of Shoes for
Ladies, Gents
and Children
Frank J. Auseon, Proprietor
Hermiston
Safety First
Call and inspect them
Prices right
w. M. HAHN
THE SHOE MAN"
Shoe Repairing
MILK and CREAM
from tuberculin tested
cows delivered to all
parts of the city. Any
special order given
prompt attention.
PHONE 188
P.P.SULLIVAN
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FURNITURE
CALL AND INSPECT OUR STOCK
No Paving.
Bill—And her father would not pave
the way for her wedding? Jill—Sure!
He refused to furnish the rocks.—Yon-
kers Statesman.
Reeder & Correll
Better than ever now that the
machine is installed. To out of
town customers sending work we
will return it by next mall, paying
postage one way.
STOCK MENS' WORK AND DRESS
SHOES JUST ADDED
Sam Rodgers
Hermiston