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8 T he H ermiston H erald VOL. XII 9064 HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 11. 1918 . SHOW VALUE OF IRRIGATED LANDS bailleul , center of fierce fighting No ~ RAISE IN MAINTENANCE 8533364966603 [0 1918 the 29,000 farmers on 1,000,- 000 acres of land reclaimed by the Re- iod of engineering work the Service climatica Service, Department of the has established 11 townsites, several of I'terior, went over the top with a crop which are today thriving bu-iness valued at $50,000,000, according to the centers. report of the bureau recently made to Secretary of the Interior Lane. The production capacity of the American desert after irrigation is emphas’zed when the results of the farmers are compared with those of F W Stevens, who with his family the humid states. The 1917 crop from reclaimed lands exceeds in total value arrived here last week from Ivyland, by $11,000,000 all the crops of Maine, Pa., did not linger long over the mat as shown by the census reports of 1909. ter of reaching a decision as to wheth It is greater by $7,000,000 than the er he would become a rancher of this combined crops of New Hampshire valley, for no sooner had he become and Vermont, and only $4,436 000 less comfortably settled in a rented house than the total crop values of Massa than be closed a deal with C S. Mc Naught for the thirty acres owned by chusetts and Connecticut. The gross average of 850 per acre that gentleman lying across the road for crops grown on the government’s at his home place west of town. Twenty acres of the thirty is in alfal- irrigated farms is remarkable when compared with similar statistics for all fa, and it suits Mr. Stevens to a do'. farms io the United States, the aver When he gets squared away a little he ili $ I : age yields of which in 1909 were only will begin outlining plans for the build ing of a neat farm house and out build 816.30 per acre. Such returns should alleasi allay the apprehension, if any ings thereon, his intention being to now exists, that these farmers will not make of the place a permanent home be able to return the investment of for himself and family. money which has been made by the government in constructing the irriga- Bailleul, one of the important strategic points on the Flanders front, was ion systems. On several of these pro- taken by the Germans after a bloody, fight and thereafter was the center of ects a single crop will suffice to re desperate struggle. The principal street and the church are here shown. urn the entire investment. The summation of the activities of i fr ■ ‘ - =— be service to date shows that work is From the quartermaster’s camp of I inder way on 30 projects, in 15 states. These projects embrace approximately the national army located “somewhere | 1,112,655 acres, or 60,311 farms. Water in France” comes a letter from Corp SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE s now available for 1,750,000 acres in oral C. B. Johnson to his parents Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Johnson, ranchers | 7,103 farms, and the construction of M. K. Flickinger, one of oursubstan he necessary works to reclaim the northeast of this city. After telling | Born—Wednesday, May 8, a baby alance is proceeding as rapidly as them that he felt just as though he daughter weighing 7 pounds, to Mr. tial homesteaders who is located near Messner, was at Irrigon a few daysago. be limited funds will permit. As fast was at home again after reading The | and Mrs. Howard Held. Mrs. W. L. Blessing was hostess to While here he purchased a car load of 8 water can be made available for the Heralds they sent him, be continues his letter as follows: a dinner parly Thursday given in honor 'cement pipe for use on bis ranch. lublic lands in these projects, the "We have had some very change of Alfred Groom. Covers were laid Dr. Ingram and family of Pendleton ettlers flock to them and the demands re usually in excess of the supply, able weather lately—one day it is rain- for eleven, guests besides tbe hostess motered down last Sunday. This was ard hunger is increasing with the Ing and the next day nice and warm. and family including Mrs. Barham, hie first visit to Irrigon in a number of spidly rising price of farm lands, and For the last three days I have bad Mr. and Mrs. Brunson, Dorothy Brun years and he likes the country very ie belter prices for farm products, forty German prisoners working stack son, Childs Barham and Alfred Groom. much. i view of this condition and consider- ing, or rather piling, sugar and flour, | Mrs. F. A. Brunson was hostess to a Irrigon is now organizing two squads g the imperative need of an enor- and as there is some 60,000 sacks to | delightful little dancing party given of eight men each for a Home National pile will be at the job for some time to ous increase in food products, the im- Wednesday evening in the auditorium Guard. These squads will be a part ortance of quickly extending the come. I wish 1 knew more of the Ger in honor of Alfred Groom who enlist- of the Heppner, Morrow County, Com man language so I could make myself | eld of reclamation is obvious. ed in the navy and left Thursday pany and will be used for home defen A brief resume of the engineering understood. for examination in Portland. A most se of any nature that is required. "There is lots of action on the bat orks to date is illuminating. Since Paul Jones, who has had considerable enjoyable evening was spent by all. ie organization of the Service in 1902 tle front, and it looks as if Germany is | training in military tactics, will be Mr. Stillings shipped a mixed car of has to its credit many notable and making her supreme effort for a de- | the drill master. Our sympathies are orthwbile achievements. Several of cisión. The French and British are livestock last week. with you Paul in attempting to handle Mrs. Joe Udey had as guests last this bunch of hay makers. w structures are monumental in holding well, and the U. S. troops are laracter and rank with the greatest doing their share. One can't say that Sunday Messrs, and Mesdames Steve Ross Laudenslager and Editor O’Con gineering works of the world. Thé peace is in sight yet, however. I hope i McMillan, Pat Siscel, W. L. Blessing nell of Hermistonwere at Irrigon last I won ’ t have to spend next Easter | and Miss Ruth Akers. gineers of the service have success- Saturday, where they bad business to Uy completed the highest masonry Sunday in France, and working at that ” Mr. Leathers now has a new Oak attend to. im, the longest tunnel and the most land six. Mr. Oldaker of Hermiston, with W. pacious reservoir for irrigation ever Durrell Murchie entertained his R and W. A. Walpole, motored to dit. Across the desert they have graduation class Thursday evening at Boardman on Tuesday, where they tended a canal system 10,313 miles dinner. Covers were laid for seven, spent the day inspecting the lower end DE, in which whole riversare carried including their instructor, Miss Kale of the project. They report the coun d turned upon the thirsty land, try well advanced in its farming oper Barton. ie huge reservoirs in the fastnesses The London Economist for February •he mountains, with a combined Mrs. Frank Beddos spent several ations, and al) settlers feeling fine over future prospects. pacity of 9,000,000 acre-feet, hold places the total gross debt of Great days in Pendleton this week. ek the destructive floods of many Britain at 5,678,600,000 pounds (»27,- | Much improving is going on around Julia Franz returned to Pendleton Irrigon. Among others ranches, al «am«. Twenty-six miles of tunnels 636,000,000). The French minister of Finance in Saturday. falfa has been put in on the Hoffman, oetrate the mountains, and through presenting the budget for 1918 esti-1 oof these, two rivers are carried Currin and Hamilton places and all is looking good. Prospects .are good •side of their own drainage basins, mated the public debt of France on with tbe apples and some other fruits, ie surplus and waste waters are dis- December 31, 1918, at 115,166.058,000 and the bay is well advanced. sed of by means of drains and ditches francs (122,527,000,000). The public debt of Italy at the end YiOE a length of 1,247 miles. The volume of the dams is 13,258,729 of 1917 is estimated at about 35,000,- A special election is called for Tues ic yards, and the excavations of 000 lire (#6,676,000,000). day, May 14, at 2:30 p. m., for the elec The debts of the Central Powers are * and earth for canals and founds* tion of a chairmin, secretary and M reach the enormous total of 154,- estimated as follows: Germany, 825,- treasurer. All members are urged to "49 cubic yards, or about 60 per 408,000,000; Austria, 113,314,000,000: be present. it of the total yardage of the Pan- and Hungary, #5,704,000,000. TO BRING THEM HOME Our own public debt is now around * canal. Friday of next week will witness the #8,000,000,000, but more than half of Over in France where the death shells close of the 1917-1918 school term. The “/be construction of the several scream, "asion systems it was necessary, to this amount has been loaned to our beginning of the end of the term will 1 wells having a total depth of Allies and will be repaid us. It is es The boys are fighting as in a dream— start with the delivery of the baccalau that of tbe total net expendí- | A glorious dream of blood and bell- reate address by Rev. Graham at tbe re than six and one-half miles. timated Baptist church Sunday evening. Then re " an 13,000 bridges and culverts turea of the United States for tbe fle- | While I stay home and prosper well. Over in France they are dying now, will follow class night at tbe high “eel concrete and wood were con- cal year of 1918, exclusive of our ad Like red earth turned by a giant plow, shool auditorium Wednesday evening, . ’ *bich end to end would ex- vanees to our Allie", more than one- half will be defrayed by taxation They are going across with a smile and the following night commence- "4 miles. Canal structures of for me— ment exercises will be held at ths same oan concrete number more than While I slay at home io security. Completed Fourth Voyage place, the address prior, to tbe pre • ipe lines and flumes long sentation of diplomas to be given by uh to reach from New York to Mr. and Mrs. M F. Call beck rec ived Over in France the gas clouds roll, "gton and back again are now a letter the other day from their daugh- And tbe shower of steel is taking its Mr. Dyer. Pace. There are to be seven graduations 1er, Mrs. W. Whipple, Spokane, in toll; service has built and operated which was conveyed the information The flag drives on, but the boys lie this year, as follows: Nellie Davis, Laura Carson, Gladys West, Durrell 1 “8 of standard guage railway, that ber husband, who is in service on still— Murchie, Russel Weinheimer, Louis ‘ Jies of telephone and 442 miles a man-of-war vessel engaged in trans While I live on and eat my fl J. Garner, and Herbert Sullivan. Dear God in heaven, Io whom we | porting troops to France, had just ar emission lines. In order to be- Exercises will be beid In the grade trust, ruction on many of the im- I rived in New York after having com school also during the closing week. Turn tbe food in mv throat to dust pleted his fourth voyage across the o« works it was necessary to ocean Only once in all the journeys | If I miss one chance which may . miles of wagon roads. come to me • WEATHER REPORT power plants of the service was a submarine encountered, and To briog them home with victory! developed 48,003 horsepower that U-boat was quickly put to rout by There was a fairly good shower of ted milised in construction and a few well directed shots from the I . Tbe Parent-Teacher association will rain in the valley this week, the first irta ° many municipalities and S warship. On one voyage a terrible make the refugee garments every Fri- tn quite a while. Tbe maximum lem a 92 • More than 1200 buildings storm was encountered, that threaten day afternoon in the Red Cross work perture for the week ending Thursday omi" have been erected for the ed for a time to tend all hands to Davy room. Everyone is invited to join in night" was 86 degrees, minimum 34, and sib» * "ion of the employes and Jone's locker, but luck was with tbe this work. I rainfall three-tenths oí an inch. purposes. During the per- i ship and she reached port safely. PENNSYLVANIA MAN BUYS TWENTY ACRES 144 SOLDIERINFRANCE WRITES TO PARENTS COLUMBIA NEWS NOTES I IRRIGON NEWS ITEMS THE DEBTS OF THE | WARRING NATIONS SCHOOL TERM ENDS FRIDAY NEXT WEEK LOCAL AVIATION SITE IS AGAIN INSPECTED Tuesday witnessed the second inspec- tion of the proposed aviation training camp site west of this city by»a party of five men commissioned by tbe war department to further investigate the feasibility of such a site for the estab lishment of an aviation station. Without flare of trumphet or any other demonstration they arrived In Hermiston on he morning of the above day, and in company with Chairman F. B. Swayze and tbe balance of bis committee quietly and quickly went over the ground. Atter the inspection was over they as silently departed for other parts of the state to carry on in vestigations of a couple of more pro posed sites. The party was made up of a major of artillery, a medicalofficer, a major and captain in the aviation branch and a civilian. None of them bad much to say regarding what they thought of the Hermiston site, and no one will know for a certainty whether they are for or against us until they file their report with the proper department at Washington, D. C. ORDERED TAKEN BACK TO WALLACE, IDAHO Saturday of last week Chief of Police Laudenslager received an order from the Shoshone county draft board to look up one Alvin J. Strader and de liver him to tbe sheriff at Wallace, Idaho, as quickly as possible. The letter accompanying the order con veyed the information that Strader had been drafted April 26. and that in stead of appearing wrote a letter to the board explaining that he was averse to going to war and taking human life, and rather than d > so would face a firing squad. Evidently he had no intention of evading the outcome, for on leaving Shoshone county he came to his home in Irrigon on a visit to his parents and happened to be in Hermiston on the day the order for his apprehension came to the chief of police. He took it quite as a matter of fact on being informed that the draft board wanted him In Wallace, and to gether with the police officer left that night for the Idaho mining town, where he was delivered into the hands of the sheriff Sunday afternoon by Mr. Laudenslager. What disposition will be made of bis case is not known as yet, but it is probable the young man will be sent across the big pond to the battle front or interned until the war is over. MAKES FINE SHOWING AT KELLY FIELD, TEXAS HERE Commercial Club members inter- mingled with those of the local Water Users’ association at the regular monthly meeting of the former organ ization held in the lecture room of the Hermiston public library last Monday night. This meeting was slated as a get-together one between the water users and the Commercial Club, and it proved to be all the name implied. It soon became noticeable after the gathering was called to order by Pre sident E. P. Dodd that there was an undercurrent of dissatisfaction over something, and it was only a matter of a short time until the opening gun was fired that gave one the Idea that this was caused from the raise in the wau r maintenance for this season by the gov ernment. Many deplored the action of the government in making this raise this year, and in addition strong sentiment was shown against an add- ed charge of 50 cents per acre for any èxira water used over the standardia d allowance, it being held then this was a misdirected application of justice, inasmuch as it would retard the culti- vation of much new land under con templation of improvement, the whys and wherefores of which were logi cally explained by different perso s present. This led on to the reopening of the discussion of the district plan, and tbe formation of an irrigation dis. triot for Ibis valley was talked upon at some length and then referred back to the water users for further conside a- tion. The matter of G. L. Dunning’s can didacy for county commissioner was touched on, and indication* ar that the people of the west end of the county will especially be a solid phalanx fur him at the primaries. Someone suggested that as we have a nice little town here now, let us get in line to make it metropolitan by hav ing automobiles parked on the street in a proper manner. This gentleman quickly subsided, however, when he was informed that the marshal was now doing that very thing. Discussion of an eresorethat has ex isted the past couple of years on the road leading west out of Hermiston near tbe secund crossing of the railroad going toward Bu 1er Creek, wherein it was shown that at tim s It was al most impassable on account of over flow and seepage water, had the effect of getting the road committee of the Club busy, and they now hope, with the aid of the county court, to ha e this fixed shortly. FARM RESIDENCE NEARS COMPLETION On North Ridge about 1+ miles north of town a handsome farm residence Is nearing completion under the guiding hand af John Leek, which when fin ished will be occup'ed by himself and family. The structure Is being built on tbe homestead of his daughter Elizabeth, and occupies one of the most sightly building spots on the pro ject, overlooking, al II do s, the wh ile city of Hermiston. It Is the two slot y type of building, and all the rooms are commodious in dimensions. Carl M. Voyen, a Boardman business man before his enlistment who Is well Its Great Virtue known to the residents of this com One of tbe great virtues ot War munity, made a good showing at the track meet held recently at Kelly Saving Slamo*, which places them in Field, South San Antonio, Texas, a unique position of advantage as an where he made second place In the investment, Is that they can be re hop, step and jump and was awarded a deemed any time between now and handsome prize. His ability as an January 1, 1923, for the original pur athlete is considered unusually good, chase plus 1 cent fur each month which inasmuch as he was pitted against has elapsed, which equals In erert to some of tbe old st and best track men I tbe amount of three per cent. The small amount of redemptions to date in the country. Mr. Voven enlisted last December indicates to the War Savings commit- at Vancouver Barrack-, and was sent tee that practically all of the stamps bought have been fur Investment pur fr< m there to the big flying s'alion at poses and out with the view to trading Kelly Field for training in the avia- them Io the near future. lion sect ton of the signal corps He soon made his way tothe front and was Par. Will Y is Id Good promoted to the grade of drill sergeant H E. Hao by was saying one day the and received his warrant for that pos ition the latter part of March. Since first of the week that be expects to being on the field be has taken an clean up in the vicinity of $1500 this active part In all games and contests year from five acres that he has In of an athletic nature and Is very popu pears, as he figures be should take 700 boxes therefrom. Frost nipped all his lar among tbe soldier bovs. peaches, and also made inroads on h s Voyen is well known as an all round apples.______ ________ athlete. In 1916 and 1917 he was Mrs. Intlekofer and two children ar* coach for the Hermiston high school basket ball team. He played In the | rived Tuesday from Vancouver, Wash , Blue Mountain base ball league and | to remain a couple of weeks as guests has a very good record with that lea of Mr. aod Mro. H. M Biraw. T • gue. At present be Is located on Line lady is a cousin of the above gentlemar , C., Trades Division, First Training sod is well known among the older r- Brigade Kelly Field, Texas, awaiting sidents ol the valley, herself and bus* an assignment to tbe service squadron. | band having formerly resided bere.
