----------- THE HERMISTON HERALD, HIERMISTON, OREG ON. LODGE DIRECTORY LOCAL BRIEFS WE HAVE INSTALLED SOME Additional Safety Box Equipment IN OUR FIRE PROOF VAULT AND HAVE A FEW For Rent at $1.25 Per Year Just The Place to Keep Your Liberty Loan Bonds The First National Bank of Hermiston Capital & Surplus $30,000 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 ESTHER chapter No. 101, o. e . s .. meets second Tuesday evening of each month at 8:00 sharp in Mack's hall. Visiting members welcome. Frances G. Phelps, W. M. Kathryn L. Garner. Sec. PROFESSIONAL CARDS ueen Q Miss V Iola Crandall is now manager of The Movie theatre. Miss Gladys West having resigned. Workmen put a new roof on Hitt’s confectionery store this week, the old one having become leaky in places. Jack Gorham, rancher at Boardman who formerly lived here, returned to his Lome Monday after visit of several days with friends in and around Hermiston. Harry McMillan and Henry Notz arrived home Sunday after doing Pen­ dleton by daylight, electric light and moonlightduring a short visit the latter part of last week. There will be a special meeting of the ladies of the Altar society at the home of Mrs. F. A. Chezik ou Wed- nesday afternoon of next week. Vineyard Lodge No 206, I. O. O. F. will attend special memorial service at the Baptist church Sunday, June 2. Stanfield lodge has been invited, and soldiers and sailors ot all wars are ex- tended an invitation to attend. F. W. Kehrli and County Agricul­ tural Agent Sb rock have been circul- aling among ranchers here this week making a survey of the blooded dairy stock, and later we hope to be able to give a statement of their findings. Another Hermiston boy has shown bis patriotism by joining the radio branch of the navy. 1 be young man is Louis Garner, who went to Fend €- ton Wednesday morning, passed the examination and left the same day for Portland. HERMISTON LODGE NO. 138, A. F. & A. M . meets in Masonic Hall on First Tuesday evening of each month. Visiting brethren wel- come Ed. Jackson, Secy. M. D. Seroggs, W. H. VINEYARD LODGE NO. 206, 1. O. O. F., u » meets each Saturday evening in Odd Fellows hall. Visiting members cordially invited W. K. Longhorn. Sec. Frank Vernum. Noble Grand Taken Up Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has taken up and holds at Benedict ranch 112 miles northwest of Hermiston, the following described stock. Jacob L. Stork HERMISTON, Blacksmith ------------------ AND ' No. 9281. Reserve Diat. No. 12 REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK at Hermiston, in the State of Oregon, at the close of business. May 10. 1918. RESOURCES Loans and discounts $125,215.19 Overdrafts, secured Unsecured ....... 598.84 598.84 U. S. bonds to secure circulation (par value) ..6,250.00 U. S. bonds and certificates of indebted­ ness owned and unpledged 13,000.00 Premium on U. S. bonds ................. 19,250.00 Liberty Loan bonds, unpledged, 3% per cent and 4 per cent .... 1,838.00 Payments actually made on Liberty 4% per cent bonds 3,662.50 5.500.50 Securities other than U. S. bonds (not in­ cluding stock) owned unpledged 28,540.87 Stock of Federal Reserve bank (50 per cent of subscription) 900.00 Furniture and fixtures....... 1,516.42 Real estate owned other than banking house............................................... 294.88 Lawful reserve with Federal Reserve bank............................................ 14,840.63 Items with Federal Reserve bank in pro­ cess of collection (not available as re­ serve .............................................. 91.50 Cash in vault and net amounts due from national banks....................... 28,053.54 Total item 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 28,148.04 Checks on banks located outside of city or town of repo, ting bank and other cash items ..................................... 1.60 Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer and due from U. S. Treasurer.......... 312.50 War Saving Certificates and Thrift Stamps actually owned ............... 10.00 Horseshoer Simpson Tire Service Co SHAAR’S Tonsorial Parlors Shower and Plain BATHS WE ENDEAVOR TO PLEASE HITT — FOR— Ice Cream Confectionery Cigars Tobacco Soft Drinks notice of intention Warner. United Oregon . NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Department of the Interior, U. S. Land La Grande. Oregon. May 3rd. 1918. PAPERS FOR $1.50-2 FOR PRICE OF ONE far sse year and The Farmer every wed far THREE TEARS. The Herald every week ANF. O • 1 I • VU E m fl at "omswd Fw’sw; notice of claim in- to, establish gw1. Section 3, Township 4 North, Range East, Willamette Meridian, has filed tention to make five year proof to the land above described before w. J. wa^er. at of his Jure office 1Î1»” miston. Oregon, Commissioner, on the 29th day 191"_ Claimant names as witnesses: .Burt “Sm"‘p United States Charles R Myers. NOTICE Harry M FOR Straw. Elmer • PUBLICATION. Department of the Interior. U. 208 Office, S. Land ofee at cardine. % Ego.Orezor ghosson AS“"ous ! 1914 wPNE. SEW NEW, and NEM NW, [or..X 4 township 8 north, range. » east I wilmette Merviman."has " fled, notice of Rooms 1 and 2 Bank Bldg. Office Hours: 10 to 12; 2 to 4; 7 to 8. Phone 551 DALE ROTHWELL OPTICAL SPECIALIST Glasses around and fitted. Lenses duplicated. American National Bank Building Pendleton. Oregon Telephone 464 Office in old Reading Room Bowman’s Studio PHOTOGRAPHS We guarantee our work. dleton come and see us. When in Pen­ Studio located Opposite Hotel Pendleton (Ngorache) PURE BRED Percheron Stallion The registered pure bred Percheron Stallion “Young Milton,” State License Certificate No, 2310, will be at Hermiston Stables for the season of 1918 for service. Young Milton is dark brown and weighs 1920 pounds. HERMISTON Horse Company AUTO AUSEON’S OLD SOL TO BE TOTALLY ECLIPSED This offer applies to all those who renew or extend their subscriptions as well as to all new subscribers. If you are interested di­ rectly or indirectly in Oregon agriculture, do not miss this unusual opportunity, but send your order in now. THE OREGON FARMER is the one farm paper which is devoting itself exclusively to the farming activities and interests of Oregon. It has a big organization gath­ ering the news of importance to farmers, dairymen, fruitgrowers, stockraisers and Poultrymen; and it has the backbone to at­ tack wrongful methods and combinations and bad legislation, and support honest leaders and beneficial measures. We are confident that our readers will congratulate us on our being able to make*this splendid and at­ tractive clubbing offer. DR. R. G. GALE FOR HIRE Offers Unusual Opportunity to Its Readers Notice is hereby given that Rudolf Schacher- meyer. of Hermiston. Oregon, who, on June 24th, 1911 made Reclamation Homestead Entry No. 09525, for Farm Unit "B" In NEW, being NW « NF1, section 28, township 5 north, range 28 east, Willamette Meridian, has filed + make five-year proof, to establish claim to the land above described before W. J. States Commissioner, at his office at Hermiston. Oregon, on the 28th day of June, 1918 Claimant names as witnesses: Schedrach C; Nichols. Thomas Mackay, William S. Mitchell and James Eddie, all of Hermiston. Not coal land C. S. Dunn, Register Hermiston. Oregon Office Hours: 8 to 5; Sundays & ev nings by appointmen Office, Bark Bidg. Office Phone, 93 Residence Phone 32 VETERINARY SURGEON The Oregon Farmer OREGON FARMER in combination with this paper at the same rate as for this paper alone. OREGON Wm. Shaar, Prop, Hermiston Herald A HERMISTON, Scientific Tonsorial Treatment Billiard and Pool VULCANIZING J. T. HINKLE on Short Notice. Shop located on Hurlburt Avenue between First and Second Sts. At the regular meeting of the loca Masonic order Tuesday evening Thos. Hurlburt of near Stanfield was ini­ tiated into the mysteries of the first degree and Chief of Police Ross Laud- IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1IIIIIIIIIÍIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIÍIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII enslager of Hermiston passed through the second. R. A. Brownson, manager of the Hunting, Fishing and Base Cum-a-Lum Lumber Co., is fast be­ Ball Goods coming proficient in the art of driving Total .$225,129.47 an auto that his company has suppled Umatilla County Distributors for Firestone Tires Firat Class him with, and says he finds it very LIABILITIES efficient in the work connected with Capital stock paid in Our long suit is 25,000.00 5,000.00 calling on ranchers and giving esti Surplus fund ................................... Undivided profits . 6,532.48 mat+ s on lumber. Less current expenses, interest Tablea and taxes paid .... 3,153.89 3,378.59 Flower beads of many different col notes outstanding............. 6,250.00 ors, which are made from the petals of Circulating Demand deposits: Our service car will be in Hermiston once a flowers by old and young in mission Individual deposita subject to check . 138,965.80 schools of California, are on display Certificates of deposit due in less than 30 week to collect all tires that need repairing. daysfother than formoney borrowed) 14,935.02 this week in the window of the Her Certified checks.............................................. 27.00 miston Drug Co. It is said that the Cashier’s checks outstanding.................. 2,673.03 223 East Court St., Pendleton, Oregon beads always retain the sweet odor ol Total demand deposita 156.590.85 llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll the flower from which they are made. Time deposita (payable after 30 days, or subject to 30 days or more notice) Eli Winesett and P. F Ward return­ Certificates of deposita (other than for money borrowed) ................ 28,910.03 ed the middle of the week from Hep­ pner, where they went Monday last in Total of time deposits aubject to reserve. THE ANYWHERE items 42, 43, 44 and 45 . 28.910.03 the former’s auto to look at a ranch Total .............................. $225,129.47 r I MH owned by Mr. Winesett in that neigh­ State of Oregon I borhood that he secured in trade quite County of Umatilla I " • L. Larson, cashier of the above named a while ago, and which he had never bank, I, A. do solemnly swear that the above statement ta true to the beat of my knowledge and belief. seen until his visit to it this week. TELEPHONE NO. 46 A. L. LARSON. Cashier. The unsight and unseen swap proved all Makes Clubbing Arrangement With Subacribed and sworn to before me this 16th day right, according to the gentleman. of May, 1918. E. P. DODD. Notary Public. My commission expiree June 10, 1921 After an absence of two years visit­ JAMES I. W atson ing with her grown up children in the Correct—Attest: CHAS. E. OPEL, Owner and Driver middle states, where she went to seek F. B. SWAYZE. relief from asthma, Mrs. Hay, wife of J. R. RALEY. Directors. C. B. Hay, an employe of the Newport Construction Co , arrived in Hermiston MONG our large circle of readers from New Salem, N D., Monday even­ there are a great many who are in­ ing to agaio take up her residence terested directly or indirectly in here, her health having been much fruit growing, dairying and other improved. branches of farming. All of these Mrs. W. A. Mikesell is the champion naturally wish to keep in close touch with ag­ woman fisherman in this n-ighbor- ricultural activities throughout the state; hood, having landed a big salmon On June 8th Next a Path of Darkness Will Extend En and to know about any fight which is being trout while angling Wednesday at tirely Across the United States About Midday waged for the measures Oregon farmers Cold Springs reservoir. Mr. Mike want and against all sorts of schemes that sell, who was also indulging in pisca are detrimental to the people and agricultural torial pastime, got nothing but a few Headlights burning at midday in order trains are to glide Into the canyons and interests of this state. good sized mosquito bites, all of which to light up the darkness that will come out again with their usual and time- safety - - added to his chagrin over his wife out- with a total eclipse of the sun. This is honored We have, therefore, made a special clubbing Someone ut this point is no doubt what is to happen on the Union Pacific doing him by catching the big fish. wondering V. hat the soldiers in the arrangement with THE OREGON FAR­ System on June 8th next. The Union trenches will think of the eclipse Well, MER whereby any farmer or fruitgrower, Pacific will have practically a monopoly they aren't In on It. This is an Ameri­ who is one of our regular subscribers and who n the eclipse, the path of totality fol­ can eclipse. In fact a Union Pacific NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. lowing Ita lines across Colorado. Wyo­ eclipse, which Is something worth think­ is not now a subscriber to THE OREGON Department of the Interior, U. S. Land Office at ming, Utah, Idaho, Oregon and Wash- ing about when we remember that we will not have another total eclipse in FARMER, wUl be entitled to receive THE La Grande, Oregon, May 3rd. 1918. DEALERS IN GRAIN AND FEED OREGON - - ' One bay mare, weight about 700 pounds, brand­ ed DD on left hip; white stripe in face. The above described property will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash in hand Monday. June 10, 1918, at 10:00 o’clock a. m., at the above mentioned ranch, unless re- deemed by owner. H. Bottger. W. J. WARNER Barber Shop ESTABLISHED SIX YEARS Our Aim Is To Please the Public BATHS IN CONNECTION Frank J. Auseon, Proprietor Hermiston near its base are making plans to sup­ ply their guests with smoked glass and other things through which they can observe the appearance of the sun dur­ ing the time he Is put in the shade by the moon. Other well known points on the Union Pacific System are getting ready loo. Among them are: Pocatello, Idaho; Raker, Oregon; The Dalles, Oregon, Heppner, Oregon; Chehalis and Ho- quiam, Washington. Sulphur Springs and Central City, Colorado, which are a little off the line of the Union Pacific, are also getting ready. Portland, Ore- and Seattle, Washington, 98 per cent. It Is up In the mountains and on the high plateaus, however, where the eclipse will be beet observed because of the cloudless skies, the rarified air and the absence of dust and smoke, which Interfere In the lower altitudes For this reason, It seems certain that more scientists will travel over the lines of the Union Pacific System early next June than have visited the western ington. these good old United States for twen- country for many years. The need for turning on the head- While the Union Pacific System and lights is no Joke The moon is the Result: Denver Is right there, as she the cities and towns through which it cause of It all. On that date Luna be- always Is Dean Herbert A. Howe of runs In the states named above will comes looney and steps directly in front Denver University has polished up his have a monopoly on the total eclipse of old Sol, shutting out the light almost big telescope, fixed up a lot of extra there will be a partial eclipse over al- is completely as If an incandescent things to go with It and has sent letters most the entire area of the United all over the country with the legend. States and a considerable portion of globe had had Its current switched off. . . . , .DENVER WELCOMES YOU, printed Canada, ranging from 68 per cent of Among the peaks that tower around in big type The folks at Yerkes Ob- total at New York City to 74 per cent Denver and in Rocky Mountain National i servatory at Green Bay, Wisconsin, are nt Los Angeles, and from 99 per cent In Park; In the canyons near Ogden and going to be at Denver. Other observa- Tallahassee, Florida, to 98 per cent at Salt Lake City, where you see the tories will send their best scientists. In Heattie, Washington Devil's Slide; through the dense forests I order to make sure, however, that they Other cities and the degree of totality and mountain defiles on the way to will not miss anything that may be re- are as follows: Yellowstone Park, and down the Colum- vealed behind the skirts of the moon, Minneapolis, 78 per cent; Chicago, 80 bla River gorge, where you see Multno-I delegations arc also getting ready to per cent; Galveston, Texas, 88 per cent; mah Falls, Mount Hood, and the famous I visit Green River, Wyoming On the Philadelphia, Pa., 71 percent. Ht Louis, Columbia River Highway, the darkness cliffs near this little mountain town Mo , 88 per cent. Cheyenne, Wyo , 07 per will be more real than out on the plains j they will set up their instruments and cent; Helena, Mont , 92 per cent; Oma­ Never before In the history of the get things all ready to take a look. ha, Neb., 88 per cent; New Orleans, La., world has a single railroad system had The thing they will be looking for 95 per cent; Lincoln, Neb., 90 per cent; a monopoly on such an Important event most Intently is what the astronomers Jacksonville, Fla., 96 per cent: Halt as an eclipse of the sun. and for that call the corona The corona is a ring of Lake City, Utah, 97 per cent; Toi reason the Union Pacific System Is get- light that completely surrounds the sun Kin., 93 per cent; Albuquerque, N M ting everything In readiness to be host | and by some is called a halo, the aun 89 per cent; Atlanta, Ga, 92 per cent; Io the rest of the country, who may I being the only thing In all the universe Des Moines, Iowa, 85 per cent; Pierre, want to Journey out to the mountains to I that has a real honest-to-goodness halo. H D., 86 per cent; Detroit, Mich . 74 per take a look at their private eclipse | Many men have been reputed to wear cent; Phoenix, Aria, 79 per cent; Madi* which they have all ready to pull off In ■ haloa and many others think they do. son, Wis , 76 per cent; Spokane, Wash., but the sun is the only thing that can their own front yard. 93 per rent; Bismarck, N. D.. 11 per Scientists, near-scientists and Just prove It, and oddly enough It is his cent; Pittsburg, Pa., 74 percent; Louis- curious will make the trip and they will better half, the moon, that comes along ville, Ky., 84 per cent; Nashville, Tenn., be given a regular little eclipse, too about every . quarter . entury and pulls The West always does these things bet­ off a total eclipse In order to make the Sacramento, Cal., 82 per cent; Raleigh, old world sit up and take notice of this N. C., 82 per cent; Mount Hamilton ter than other folks Quite some time will be consumed In halo which old Sol ears Usually a (Lick Observatory), Cal, 78 per cent; getting the moon directly In front of the seen only In the Mount Wilson (Carnegie Solar Obser- “boss” and It will take a little while to far-away places of the world, the South vatory). Cal, 74 per cent; Portland, get her away again, but she will “hesi- Bea Islands or China, and never before, Me., 60 per cent; Portland, Ore, 99 per tate,” thst Is. she will demonstrate once at least so say the folks at Denver ob- cent; Colorado Springs, Colo., 89 per more, to old Sol, that he la not the servatory, has the path of totality been cent, and Boston, Mass , 63 per cent. out over a course that taken In a whole thing and shut him out totally" laid ., — - All who ran get ready for a trip to for nearly two minutes That la the big telescope like that at the Colorado the mountains over the Union Pacific time the lights will have to be turned capital and see a real eclipse of the aun If on. If during those two minutes the busy Lons's Peak. In Rocky Mountain Na- you can't come, get your smoked glass hands of the mothers, sisters and sweet- tional Park, will be one of the highest ready and on June 8th—about noon-- hearts are to continue with sweaters points In the path of totality and all the go out Into the back yard and take a and mufliera, and the Union Pacific big summer resort hotels thst cluster. look.