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HERMISTON
HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 15. 1918 g. -
VOL. XII
AGRICULTURAL AGENT
TELLS OF OBSERVATIONS
I During the month of May it was mX
pleasure to spend three days on the
Hermiston project in company with
Fw Kehrli making a survey of the
Til herds that are owned by member*
“Tie Jersey Breeders Association,
“county Agricultural Agent M. S.
“frockThe purpose of this survey is
Ito study th® conditions as they are
Lo« *od to get as nearly as possible
the records of the herds. It is our in-
l^lon to make another survey in a
Ifew years when the herdswill be most
is made up of daughters out of the
cows in the present herd and by the
Live splendid bulls now owned by the
association.
H erald
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We are all progressive enough to
believe that good blood pays, but if
Lewere asked how much it pays, we
could not answer with any degree of
accuracy. Here is an opportunity to
tell ina few years how much dividend
good blood pays on the investment. I
have no fear that the showing will not
be good. I believe it will be far above
the owners expectations. There will
be disappointments at first because
usually too much is expected of the
I heifers’ first trial.
[ bave spent years in dairy work, and
nowhere have I seen such an outstand
ing contrast between mothers and
daughters as there is on this project,
Tue daughters of the association bulls
can be recognized almost at sight.
I have some splendid photographs
showing the contrast between heifers
sired by scub bulls formerly in these
herds and those sired by the association
bulls. The association members should
feel proud of the selection they made,
for they have some of the best blood in
the world in these herds.
If I may be allowed to make sugges
tions for the future of the dairy indus
try in your part of the county I would
name 4 important points that your
dairymen should keep before them.
First: Provide ample provision for
exercise of the bulls in the association
These bulls are so valuable that their
services should not be dispensed with
for 12 or 15 years. This is utterly im-
possibe without exercise.
Second: A system ofdaily weighing
of each cow’s milk should be installed
on every farm and monthly test should
be made. Tbe testing can, in this case,
best bedone through the schools. The
children will gladly do this if proper
supervision can be provided. There
is do better ex perlence for the children.
Third: Green feed should be sup
plied the dairy cows. Tbe one dis
appointment to me on the whole pro
ject was the sight of dairy cows being
led on dry hay worth 815 a ton
and green feed growing on ail sides,
but none being fed. In no other dairy
country is this to be found. Succulent
feed is essential to profitable dairying.
Fourth: More silos are needed.
No cow will do her best on one feed
alone, not even on alfalfa. Corn and
alfalfa make the best possible combin-
ation. The are both cheap. If any of
thedairymen doubt the value of A silo,
let me supply them with the state-
ment» of those who have tried them.
If tbe dairymen of the Hermiston
Project will keep these four facts in
mind at all times they will prosper.
HERMISTON YOUNG MAN
WILL JOIN BENEDICTS
Announcement is made of the en-
Eagement and marriage of George L.
Challis of this city and Miss Irene
dartin of Stanfield. Tbe news was
spread Thursday afternoon of last week
1 » party given at the Stanfield home
“Mrs. W. X. Reeves by Miss Audrey
"Allace and Miss Beth Martin.
The date of the tying of the nuptial
wot ha* been set for July lOtb. As
ere it to be no Fourth of July cele-
lion in either Hermiston or Stan-
‘ • as far as we know, it is currently
®ored that the boys and girlsof both
«»M will celebrate on the night of
as above date, not with firecrackers
such like, but with cowbell*, trum-
ta and other things too numerous
asmention, the idea being to give the
ve young people a glorious sendof
8 beginning of their married life
HORSE AND SIDE-CHAIRS FOR THE WOUNDED
NEWLYWEDS WILL RE
SIDE IN PORTLAND
On Monday occured the marriage of
Miss Gladys West, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. S West, to Mr. Verlin Gra
ham, son of Rev. and Mrs. T. A. Gra
ham, the ceremony being performed in
Pendleton by the groom’s father in
the presence of a few relatives and
friends. Shortly after the wedding
the happy young couple lefl for Port
land, there to make their home, Mr.
Graham being in the employ of the
government in the shipbuilding yards
At the home of Mr. and Mrs. Correll
in honor of the bride a shower was
held last Saturday, tbe hostesses being
Mrs. Correll and Mrs. Brown. The in
vited guests were Misses Esther and
Hattie Graham, Ruth Scott, Doris Per-
cey, Alice Prann, Goldie Mumma, Emily
Shotwell, Genice Brigham, Pearl Sul
livan, Viola Crandall, Everette Kings-
slev, Ruth Chamberlain, Frances Hin
kle, Florence Bryant, Ruth and Geor
gia Skinner, Lena Ward, Dorothy
Ross, Enid Waterman, Lila McMillan,
Nellie Davis, Laura Carson, Gladys
and Mrs. West, Verlin and Mrs. Gra
ham. Smoked glasses were provided
the guests through which to observe
the eclipse of the sun. Then kodak
pictures were taken, after which a two
course luncheon was served, consisting
of shrimp salad sandwiches, ice cream,
strawberries, cake, kisses, mints and
punch. The place cards were dainty
affairs, being hand painted and depict
ed a kupie holding an umbrella in a
“shower.” After lunch the honor
guest was given a shower of roses by
all present. The gifts were many and
beautiful and were most highly appre
ciated by the recipient.
HEADING OFF THE
LABOR FAMINE NOW
The government realizes the necess
ity of relaxing the labor laws to allow
farm labor to come into the country
from Mexico and Canada. The anti con
tract laws, literacy lest and $8 head
tax laws have been suspended for the
duration of the war, but immigration
is restricted to farm purpos is.
The government is demanding that
farmers pay the prevailing wages to
all such labor and retain 25 cents a day
for a fund to ensure deportation. The
idea is that all such labor shall be re
turned to the country whence it came
as soon as the war is over and not ac
quire permanent residence.
State governments are asked to pro
vide for the distribution of such labor to
sections of the state where it is most
urgently needed to harvest crops.
SUN’S ECLIPSE WAS
GRAND SPECTACLE
The long heralded eclipse of Old Sol
by his night-riding sister Miss Luna
came on schedule time last Saturday,
and for a very short space of time on
that afternoon a creepy feeling came
over all who gazed at the marvel of
the sky through smoked glasses as the
moon gradually shut out the light of
the aun and darkness settled over the
community.
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The eclipse was almost total here,
and proved to be a grand, though awe-
inspiring, spectacle that will not oc
I cur again for many, many years.
Clouds interfered somewhat with obser-
valions, but a break In them occasion
ally gave all » fairly good view of this
grand transformation in the heaven*
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An artillery horse and side-chairs are impressed Into the service of trans
porting wounded Tommies to the rear.
THE WAR, THE FARM
AND THE FARMER
By Herbert Quick
Member Federal Farm Loan Board
The farmer everywhere loves I own land, haul grain or drive stock
peace. The American farmer espe i to town, It would have done only a
daily loves peace. Since the dawn of little more than it accomplished by
history, the farmer has been the man Its interdict against the freedom of
who suffered most from war. • All that the sea What was the order against
he possesses lies out of doors in plain
nlain which we rebelled when we went in-
sight and is spoil of war—his house, to this war? Look at the condition of
his grain, his livestock. The flames the American farmer In the latter
that light the skies in the rear of part of 1914 and the first half of 1915
every invading army are consuming and see.
the things that yesterday represented
When the war broke out, through
his life work, and the life labors of surprise and panic we partially gave
past generations of farmers.
up for a while the use of the sea as
Everywhere the farmer is a warrior a highway. And the farmers of
when war is the only thing which will America faced ruin. I know an Iowa
make and keep him free. He cannot farmer who sol his 1914 crop of »6z
rally to the colors as quickly as can 000 bushels of wheat for seventy cents
the dwellers In the cities, because it a bushel. Farmers In the south sold
takes longer to send to the farms the their ootton for half the cost of pro-
call to arms. It takes longer to call ducing it. All this time those por
the farmers from the fields than the tions of the world whose ports wore
city dwellers from the shops. Many open were ready to pay almost any
do not hear the first blast of the | price for our products. When finally
trumpet. Others do not at first under we set our ships in motion ones more,
stand its meaning because they have prosperity returned to the farms. But
not' had the time to talk the matter ft never returned for the farmers of
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over with their acquaintances.
of reading half a dozen extras a day,
the farmer may read weekly papers
only. He must have more time in a
sudden emergency to make up hi*
mind.
It is impossible to set the farmers
of the United States on fire by means
pt any sudden spark of rumor. But
when they do ignite, they burn with
a slow, hot fire which nothing can put
out. They are sometimes the last to
heat up: but they stay hot. In a long
fight they are always found sturdily
carrying th* battle across No-Man's
Land In the last grim struggle. The
American farmer will give all that he
has and all that he is to win this
great war against war.
This war was at first hard to under
stand. No armed foe had invaded the
United States. The night skies were
not reddened by burning ricks and
farm houses. No raiding parties
robbed us of our cattle or horses. No
saber rattler* insulted our women. It
seemed to many of us that we were
not at war—the thing was so far off
We did not realize what a giant war
had become—a monster with A thou
sand arms that could reach across th*
seas and take from us three-fourth* of
everything we grew. But finally we
Take the case of Australia. There
three crope have remained unsold on
the farms. No ships could bs spared
to make the long voyage to Australia.
8o in spite of the efforts of the Gov
ernment to save the farmers from
ruin, grain has rotted tn the open.
Millions of tons have been loot for
lack of a market.
Such conditions spell Irretrievable
disaster. Such conditions would have
prevailed tn this country from the out
break of the war until now If onr
Government had not first resisted with
every diplomatic weapon, and finally
drawn the sword.
Why did we draw the sword? To
keep up the price of wheat and cot-
ton. and to protect trade only? If
someone should order you to remain
on your farm, and not to use the pub
lic highways, would your resistance
be based only on the fear of loss in
profits from failure to market your
crops? By no means! You would
fight to the last gasp! Not to make
money, but to be free!
When a man is enslaved, all he
loses in money I* his wages. But the
white man has never been able to ac
cept slavery. He has never yet been
. . « . ho
successfully enslaved. There rises up
saw .he imoerlal German government In him against servitude a resentment
na
no American farmer should leave his erable
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Given New Number
Damascus Chapter, R A. M., of Her
miston, which has been working under
special dispensation, will hereafter be
designated as No. 40, conferred on it
by the Grand Chapter, the sessions of
which were attended by S. R- Oldaker
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in
Portland tbe first three dav. of the
Making Honey Fast
—, week, be having been selected as a del-
Bee
men vu
on the project
now . predict
from the local Chapter. The
DUE men
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a bumper crop of honey, for within the »rand
___ high priest of the state and the
past ten days the bees have got i
grand secretary will come here in •
down to business and are rapidly filling I few day. and institute the Chapter un-
up the combs. This comes from ideal der its name and number.
conditions, the vegetation that supplies
Mr Oldaker reported having witness-
the
nectar to these busy little workers ed most excellent degree work while
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those nations which remained cut off
from ocean traffic.
•May Be Reclassified
Twentv-ooe rancher* and business
men of tbe project were subpoenaed and
went to Pendleton Wednesday to give
evidence before tbe county draft board,
which will endeavor to have tbe dis
trict board at La Grande determine
tbe possibility of a reclassification of
Phillip Lay, William Pearson, Wil
liam E. Bell and William Kik.
Should tbe classification of these
young men be moved up by the dis-
trice board It is likly they will be call
ed for service in tbe forthcoming
draft.
Latest report* from the warzone are
| now being in its zenith.
. , . at the Grand Chapter sessi De, and to the effect that tbe allies are holding
Tbe local Beekeeper. A m elation 18 hugely enjoyed the festivities atten- ibe Huns on the western front. It Is
looking forward to good price, for the dant on
annual banquet of the
also said that a big naval battle is
DrOduct,and this will mean the distribu- order.
looked for soon between the warring
WEATHER REPORT
tion of much money among .plari.t* The ice cream and cake social held nations.
The weather man sent us an electri that will come from the enormous ship- I io the old Civic Center rooms last |
A picture of "The Three Prophets"
««orm one day this week which ments from this Project this season Saturday by the ladies of the Altar
pined just a little sprinkle of rain.
-diete was well patronized, and prov- has been placed on the walls of tbe
Mr* r. L. Kelly came home Thurs
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both a social and financial public library. It is the gift of Mrs
is.Ds the week the thermometer reg
ed to
R Alexander of Pendleton.
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as high as 102, the minimum day from a lengthy visit with relatives , success.
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< 50 and the rainfall 03 of an inch in Western Oregon.
NO. 39
CORPORAL IN FRANCE
WRITES TO FRIEND HERE
FIRE DEPARTMENT TO
SERVE REFRESHMENTS
The seventeen members that attend
ed the regular monthly meeting of the
Hermiston Volunteer Eire Department
last Monday night were a unit when
the proposition of giving a little ban
quet was put forward, with the result
that a motion prevailed that on the
evening of Monday, July 8, a spread
consisting of ice cream ard cake be
served to all members of the depart
ment.
It was further ordered that J. S.
West and R. L. Barnard, as feast com
mittee, see to it that there is plenty of
the above delicacies on band that even
ing so that every member of thedepart-
ment may get bis fill, the desire being
to have every fire laddie attend.
Other business transacted was an
order issued to Secretary Brownson to
secure from the reclamation service a
blue print of the city with the location
of all hydrants marked plainly thereon.
This will be posted in the fire hall so
that all members mav familiarize
themselves therewith, so that in case
of fire they will know the exact spot
to go to and connect ontoa hydrant
In the absence of B. S. Kingsley the
ippointment of captain of hose cart No
2 was passed to J. S. West until hi-
return.
Secretary Brownson reported that
he department has the sum of 885 in
the treasury.
CULVER EDITOR FROTHS
AT LITTLE FISH STORY
Corporal Floyd Hoisington of Com
pany E, 116th Engineers, now In
France, has written a letter to bia
friend William Shear, excerpts from
which will no doubt be of interest to
our readers From tbe letter we take
the following paragraphs:
"Well, Bill, I suppose you are plug
ging along pretty regular nowdays?
In fact, I suppose every one around
the country isdiggiug in to work ow-
ing to such a shortage in help. Well,
we are not idle by no means over here.
We have done no heavy fighting as
yet but Uncle Samuel isn't going to
make a fool of himself. We are get
ting whipped into such condition that
all perdition can't stop us when we do
start, let alone the Kaiser. Just at
present I’m on special duty as an in
sti uctor In the Provi-ional Recruit
Batt, of the 116th Eng I am en
deavoring to teach some of the men
that war is just what sherman said It
was and no kids play. The hardest
task 1 have is getting them to hit tbe
ball and bold a cadence of 130 steps
per minute. It is hard on a man to
begin with but only a few days are
required to harden up so he never
notices it.
“The engineering end of our work
is very interesting. I’>1 bet 1 can
build a pig pen which no hog that ever
lived can go through. Won't use any
fence posts and staples to do it, either.
Could dispense with a hammer as far
as that goes. The regular army drill
we are getting is old stuff to most of
us and therefore we get rather tired
of it at times. But if anyoue thinks a
soldiers' life over here is a soft snap
they have my Invitation to take a
whack al it and settle the question for
themselves. We have no kick though.
We have an unlimited amount of pleas-
ure, pleuty to eat and it’s the kind of
grub that sticks to the ribs, fine quar
ters to live in, belter than I ever had
in the Stales, and lime for plenty of
sleep.
“Just received a letter from Hermis-
ton today which was mailed in Janu
ary. Talk „bout addresses, it sure had
its share. It has been over quite a
good portion of France. Had been up
where the main rumpus is.
“Well Bill, we have discovered the
missing link between man and monkey.
Il is in the form of a gas mask. If we
only had a tail we certainly would
look like a monkey when using a
mask. Who cares for looks though
when it protects you from death. 1
have seen the effects of gas several
times. Don’t care about being in an
attack if I can keep out of It.
“Say, Bill, you ought to watch a
French barber work. Why you would
be so disgusted with them you’d be
ashamed to claim you were In the
same business. I guess they think
when they shave a man they have to
toughen up his face so it will stand
the bayonet whacking which he may
get on the front. They call shaving
barbe. The proper name for it accord
ing to the way they do it would be
barbecue. Believe me they cut one
whisker off and pull out six. They
use a razor which looks more like a
butcher knife.
“Well, suppose I better quit or the
censor will think I'm going to make a
complete novel of this Instead of a
short story I could write on and on
for several pages yet by giving you
some of our tr Ip across the pond. But
let it be sufficient for me to say I lost
my Thanksgiving dinner, and you
know I wouldn't do such a trick just
for fun.” _______________
Evidently B 8. Kingsley, who is now
rusticating in Culver, didn't take kind
ly to the embellishments added by us
to a fish story he told while here from
that town recently. But Kingsley is a
good sport, nevertheless, and he went
us one better by giving the editorof the
Tribune at Culve r a V, presumably to
give us a good scoring in his paper—
and he is the fellow we now have to
deal with.
Space won’t permit us to go Into a
lengthy article to set that editor right
in order that he may hereafter know
how to elucidate through the columns
of bis paper on matters piscatorial.
We don’t know this fellow from
Adam’s off ox, but we do know that he
nas got awful familiar with us all of a
sudden on the strenth of our friend
Kingsley’s "tip” to him—all of which
leads us to believe that he Is either
one of those “sweet sixteen” editors or
else one of the ossified sort that don’t
know a trout from a bullbead or perch
We would like to imagine him, as one of
the fraternity, otberwise, but this we
cannot do until he has "read up” on
fish and fish stories more thoroughly.
He takes us to task for having men
tioned speckled besuties as having in
habited the waters of Crooked river,
and says that we should b ive said Red-
sides or Rainbow trout. We admit
now we stretched the truth a little
there, but since reading his arraign
ment we doubt not that we should
have omitted all three of the above
species of fish and substituted "suck
ers” therefor.
This editor lias invited us to come
over, and himself and Mr. Kingsley
will dispel our Missouri idea of having
to be shown. Yes, no doubt they
would, but it wouldn’t be in the fishing
line. So for the present we’il have lo
declinethekind Invitation, as we are not
hankering to get any ribs broken, until
we have to go to war, at least. Maybe
after we get better acquainted with the
Tribune editor we'll ‘ make up" with
Western ship yards are going to
him and go fiahing in Crooked river.
break all records io ship launchines
July 4 when every yard possible will
Patriotic Drama Coming
send ships into the waler. Western
On the evening of June 20th, next yards are making themselves known
Wednesday, The Movie will stage in tbe world over for quality of product
flim a grand patriotic drama entitled and speed io production.
"For the Freedom of the World.”
With equitable laws governing the
Press accounts give the drama much American merchant marine, giving it
prominence, and no doubt it will be an even break with the rest of the
greeted with crowded bouses at the world In coot of operation, we should
two shows to be given during tbe be able to hold our supremacy as a
above evening.
shipbuilding aod ship operating nation
after tbe war.
The Honor Guard girls are mightily
Let’s all pull together to make tie
pleased over tbe proceeds from tbe Kaiser's spine creep when he sees the
dance they gave this week, for tbe number of boats we will send loto tbe
money derived therefrom was badly water next month
needed to replenish their treasury.
Merle Phelps returned W dnesday
Nearly everyone bought a ticket,
which made tbe affair a decided success from a visit to Portland and Vancou
ver, Wash.
in every way.
SHIP LAUNCHINGS
WILL SWAMP KAISER