HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 6. 1918
VOL. XII
STATES COAL SUPPLY
MAY BE
I Fuel coal particularly, that now
looks to Oregon and Washington for
markets will undoubtedly be diverted
east in an effort to overcome toa
degree the estimated national 85,000,*
000 ton deficiency.,
This is the opinion of Fuel Adminis-
trator Holmes of Oregon based on in-
formation from Washington and his
knowledge of local conditions.
The recent visit of national fuel ad-
ministration officials to the Pacific
Northwest presages the enforcement
of a “fuel ration” order. This is in
dicated by the fact that Holmes al-
ready is making a survey of the state
to ascertain the needs of the various
districts. In this regard Holmes
states that he plans to allow house
holders to order fuel, both wood and
coal, In unlimited quantities just so
long as possible. When necessity de-
mands, however, he will curtail sup
plies, holding that national needs are
superior to those of individuals or of
industry not essential to winning the
war.
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HAD FUNNY FEELING
AFTER BEE STUNG HIM
KAISER ON A VISIT TO BRUGGE, FLANDERS
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FOURTH OF JULY WAS
SANELY CELEBRATED
An account of bow soldiers are fed
at sea is given thusly io the daily
newspaper published on one of Uncle
Sam’s transports:
“Outside of providing 210,000 meals
at sea, the mess officer of the ship has
very little to do—very little. He is
called upon to provide, by the regula-
lations, 180 different varieties of food.
That’s all. Ever try to order 180 things
to eat? Yet this is the authentic list.
“The food needed to feed several
thousand men at sea ranges beyond th •
glutton’s dream. You get the answer
in the ship down below the water line,
where 7290 loaves of bread have been
baked in one day, and where you stum
ble over every variety, from 60,000
pounds of beef to 133,000 eggs, or a
compartment of brick ice cream in a
ten degrees above zero vault. And if
this doesn’t suit, you can bump along
into 49,324 pounds of potatoes, 7100
pounds of bam and bacon, 7800 pounds
of butter, 9200 pounds of sugar and 61,-
500 pounds of flour.
“If you can’t get a meal out of that
you can still fall back on 4600 pounds
of sausage, 3400 pounds of sauerkraut,
26,000 pounds of apples, 19,800 pounds
of oranges and 4200 pounds of onions.
And this leaves out 1600 pounds of jam
and 9400 pounds of lima and navy
beans.”
Picnics, reunions and family gather
ings marked the celebration of Inde,
pendence Day locally this year, and
the noisy firecracker was for once
>
noticeable by its absence. Early
Thursday morning a large caravan
composed of people from town and
country with well tilled baskets began
moving toward the picnic ground on
the Umatilla river west of this city,
where all who participated had a most
excellent time.
Pioneers of Jefferson county resid
ing on the project went to Stanfield,
where Jefferson county people from
all over this county assembled for the
holding of a grand reunion while cele
International Film Service
brating the Fourth.
Some there were that went to Hid
Photograph showing he German kaiser walking through the streets of
Brugge, Flanders, on his way to the museum, followed by his staff.
away and Lehman Springs for a day’s
outing, while others gathered with
relatives and friends in little parties,
and still others went to distant places
RECORD OF ENLISTMENT
to make vacational visits.
Most of the business houses, though
Name
Age
closed, were nicely decorated with
Home Address
flags and buntings and these decora
(City)
tions and the air breathed patriotism
and fealty on all sides to our govern
Occupation Before War
Married...
ment.
Entered Service When .
Where
The sting of a bee is not looked upon
as being of any serious consequence
outside of a little swelling and pain for
the time being, but it sure acted
different on H. T. Hart, who operates
8 small apiary on his ranch in the
western part of town. Mr. Hart is
put yet as well up on the bee culture
game as some, although he does not
take a back seat when it comes to rais
ing alfalfa or spuds. Therefore be
sought the advice of William Brown,
who is an expert bee man, and to
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
gether they went to Mr. Hart’s apiary
Blake, Graded poetry, 6 vols.
Sunday in order that the latter might
Brown, Little Miss Phoebe Gay.
take a lesson in the proper handling
Coe, First book of stories for the
of the honey makers.
story teller.
He got his lesson alright, for just as
Cole, First aid for boys.
he was approaching the hives a seem
Curtis, Indian days of long ago,
ingly maddened bee that did not re
Dewey, Lessons on morals.
cognize its owner planted his stinger
Dix, Betty Bide at home.
in the flesh just under the left eye of
Fletcher, Old settler stories.
the gentleman. In this case of a bee
Foster, Something to do, girls.
sting, unlike others, there was no
Grover. Overall boys in Switzerland.
apparent swelling, but shortly after
Holland, Historic events of colonial
being stung the “funny feeling” be
days.
gan and Mr. Hart’s flesh began to itch
Johnson, Our little Viking cousin.
and burn all over, and he became very
Low, How girls can help their
ill. This feeling lasted for several
country.
hours, and for a time his condition was
Macaulay, Camp Jolly.
serious.
Macaulay, Lays of ancient Rome.
But he pulled through in good shape,
Meigs, Master Simon’s garden.
and is now pondering over whether he
Peattie, Sarah Brewster’s relatives.
wants to let Mr. Brown give him a
Richards, Pig brother.
second lesson in bee culture or let the
Rix, Assembly song book.
gentleman look after the apiary for
Sabin,
Boy settler.
him.
St. Nicholas, Civil war stories.
Scott, Ivanhoe.
Scoville, Brave deeds of Union sold
NEW DOOKS AT THE
HERMISTON LIBRARY
RABBITS BECOMING
NUMEROUS AGAIN
WATER USERS ASSOCIATION
CLEARING INDEBTEDNESS
IMMENSE STORES ARE
NEEDED TO FEED MEN
iers.
Seaver, American boys' book of
electricity.
Smith, Common school book of vocal
music.
Smith, Under the cactus flag.
Sneatb, Golden deed book.
Sneatb, Golden door book.
Sneatb, Golden key book.
Sneatb, Golden ladder book.
Sneath, Golden path book.
Sneatb, Golden word book.
Snyder, Rhymes for kiodly children.
Starrett, Charm of fire manners.
Reports have been coming in of
damage being done crops by rabbits,
•hich are again becoming quite
numerous in this part of the county.
3. F. Strasser, out in Columbia dis
trict, it one farmer that is successfully
combating the pest with a little mix
ture that he puts up and sets out
around his place occasionally.
He
MJs it ia a sure destroyer of the jack-
rabbit, and he bands it along to us to
Stein, Rosechen and the wicked
Print in The Herald so that others
magpie.
’ho are bothered by the rabbits may
Tomslinson, Trail of Tecumseh.
have the benefit of this rec.pe. Here
Van Sickle, Readers.
it is:
Verrill, Harper's gasoline engine
Mix together two ounces of strych-
nine, cup of salt and cup of sugar book.
Warren, Little pioneers.
b.-own sugar, syrup or other sweeten-
Wbitham, Shepherd of the ocean.
18 will do), then bore inch hole or
Wilkins, In colonial times.
"0 in a 2x4, making about an inch
Williams, Choice literature.
deep, and fill with the mixture. Take
Wiltse, Stories of kindergarten.
is and place it in runway or on ditch
Yonge, Book of golden deeds.
ink, or other places.
Young, Literary readers.
ADULT BOOKS
Bailey, Mistress Anne.
Won't Allow Profiteering
Burnett, T. Tembarom.
Acting on instructions issued by
Butler, Dominie Dean. .
national Fuel Administrator Garfield,
Canfield, Understood Betsey.
Fred J. Holmes, fuel administrator
Marshall, Watermeades.
tor Oregon, has notified all coal deal-
Rives, Long lane’s turning.
sr that they cannot add the extra
Rosher.'wiüi'tbe Aying squadron.
right charge, effective June 25, to
heir retail price unless they have
actually paid the charge themselves
Yesterday the food
° other words Uncle Sam is deter- again put four back 00 the 50-50 bas ’
mined that the new freight rate eleva- Merchants of this city are now
"00 shall not be made the excuse for vori ng to secure this commodity for
profiteering. Violators of- the order their patrons.
"Il be i unished.
Miss Margret Snotwell is
as librarian. Mrs. Benedict havingr:
• W. Messner and Miss Margaret
hite ac ompanied the Strohm auto signed to go to Portland
hours now are 1to530P •
"it t Hida way Springs to enjoy a
"eek's outing.
a nd 6:30 to 9:30 P m.
aCL. "a.
Transfers
Rank
(include promotions and dates)
library
CALLED TO REPORT FOR
DUTY ON JULY 22ND
Nearest relative
The regu'ar monthly meeting of the
board of water users was held Tuesday
night. The few bills were audited
and a warrant issued for $150 on the
association indebtedness to the First
National bank of Hermiston, thereby
reducing the indebtedness to $704.
With the notes of water users a’-
ready given to the association and .he
collections coming in right along the
board feels well satisfied with the out
look for cleaning the slate of all asso
ciation debts.
The matter of securing early irriga
tion was talked over and left with the
president for adjudication with the
project manager. The board also can
vassed the matter of having a range
in the forest, reserve set aside for the
use of the settler*. The board decide d
to secure the grazing land if possible,
and then let the ranchers here get to
gether and make their own arrange
ments for use of it the coming season.
DO YOUR SHARE IN
PURCHASE OF W.S.S
The chairman of the War Savings
Stamps committee hopes to avoid the
necessity of making a house to house
drive to get our quota of war savings
certificates subscribed, but the people
here must not assume that we havu
reached our share in this allotment.
We are far short of our per capita
subscription and it will be necessiry
for those who have not purchased the ir
quota to plan on doing so during the
next six months. It should not be
necessary to urge the people that this
full amount of $20.00 per capita must
be taken care of here
Unless we
have provided for this pat.iotic par-
ticipation in our government war
needs we should early see to it that
we are duly registered now. No one
should presume that some one els >
will do their part.
L. H Pearson and his son William
returned from Tacoma Sunday after
having been there most of last week
Present Address..........
attending the marriage of Mr. and
Mrs. Pearson's daughter Lucile, and
Signature of Informant
renewing acquaintances with former
Friends and relatives of boys in servi • a are asked to lili out above and mail friends
to M. R. Chessman, secretary, Pendle ton, Ore. Phone 123.
While there William Pearson called
on the draft board, be having regis
tered in that city before coming here
a year ago when the conscription law
became effective. After looking over
his classification the board ordered
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE
him to report on July 22 for physical
Mrs. C. G. Brownell and nieces, the
examination. Should he pass at that
When the change is made from gas I time be will immediately go to Camp
Misses Duncan, are spending a few
p
wer to electricity at the city pump Lewis and begin active training for
days in Portland.
The first man In Umatilla county Io
ing station the reservoir on Hermiston | the army.
Miss Neva Spinning of Prosser is butte will be flushed and cleaned.
begin harvesting was Farmer Wells of
visiting at the W. B. Spinning home. At that time the council plans to do a
Nolin, who began Monday of this w.ek
cutting on his 600 acres of wheat. Be
Roy Surran left Sunday for Me dford. little road improvement by flushing |
sides the wheat he has 80 acres of bar
Ore., to be gone until after the Fourth. the city streets with water that will
ley. He expects to have a fair crop.
come
from
the
hydrants
in
the
flush
Lee Carroll was an over Sunday
The unexpected happened at Free-
ing
process
and
then
put
on
the
road
guest at the S. T. Cartoll home.
water the other day, when T. F Ken
drag and smooth up the chuck holes in
Mr. Yerxa and son Roger were in the main thoroughfares.
So far more than 3,000,000,000 gov dall, chairman of the Freewater
Hermiston Friday.
A motion prevailed that L. W. Fur ernment checks have been sent out by Patriotic League, received a flogging
A. G. Ford and family ai visiting nas be requested to pay for the use of the bureau of war risk insurance, most at the hands of a man named Beckiu ,
the city's pipe line to convey water to of which were for allotments and a) who would not stand for being called
relatives io Portland.
34 aeres of his land in section 10 on lowances to the families and depend a pro-German bv the league chairman.
A beach party was given Sunday the west side at the rate of $20 per ents of the enlisted men in the army
Tlie cherry harvest in the Milton-
evening in honor of Ed. Pounds, who year for the past five years.
and navy. The total disbursements of Freewater district seems to have b en
has enlisted.
Owners of shade trees on thorough the bureau up to June 10 were more nearly up to the standard at the close
Mrs. Edwards was calling on Mt
fares that obstruct the vision of oppo than $98,000,000, of which *97,000,000 « f shipments the latter part of last
week, 35 carloadshaving been shipped,
Wellman Sunday.
site going vehicles will be ssked to was for allotments and allowances.
More than 850,000 checks a month
A four year contract has been let by
Lou Brownell and family spent Sun trim them in order to avoid accidents.
The city clerk's report was passed are sent out, approximately 35,000 be the government to David Pearson t
day with friends in Hermiston.
ing mailed out every day The first carry the mail between Echo and Lena
Dan Clark who has been working on and ordered published.
checks for the June allotments were on a three days a week schedule at a
the steam shovel is now employed at
sent out July 1, Just as the first May salary of $1400 a year.
The Dalles.
payments began on June 1. Relatives
Pendleton weather bureau records
Mrs. H. T. Duncan is spending a few
and dependents of the insured men
the driest spring and summer this
weeks with friends in Portland.
should remember that the payments
year that has occured since the es ab-
for any month can not be mailed out
Clyde Smith and family have moved
lishment of the bureau 28 years ago
sooner than the first day of th e sue
to The Dalles.
Auto tourists and others complain of
ceeding month.
R. C. Challis on Tuesday of this
the awful condition of the highway
week sold a half interest in bis meat
below Echo on the river road to Pen-
market and grocery store to W. U.
dietoo. The place most kicked ab ut
Hoffman, who for some time past bas
is where the oounty authorities had
held a clerical position in the dry
grading done, which has rirce turned
goods and grocery store of B 8. Kings
into a veritable sand blow.
Floating majestically to the bre ze ley.
Dog days seem to hive struck Pilot
M Duty's second hand store was
Mr. Hoffman is experienced in the
along with the city flag at the mast-
Rock,
a dog havit g creeled quite a
head of the flag pole at the head of meat as well as the grocery business, entered by a burglar the latter part of little excitement there one day la t
last
week
and
a
watch
and
a
number
having
formerly
operated
like
estab
Maio street on the Fourth of July was
week, when it went mad and bit
a civil war flag that was band-made by lishments in another part of this state of pocket knives were taken Evi several of i s kind.
dently
the
one
who
entered
had
a
pa-s
Mrs. G. Durkee in Chautauqua county, and in the neighboring state of Wash-
key and went io by way of the front
N. Y., in 1863. The treasured < m- in zton.
Navy Boy Home on Visit
With the beginning of thia co- door and after looting the place made
blem of emancipation days is now
Waller B. Beasley, electrician on
owned by N. B. Whitford, a rancher partnership Mr. Challis will forego his exit by the back door, both being
residing one mile north of Hermist n. inside work in future, and will attend found opeo when the proprietor came the battleship North Dakota, now sta
henceforth to all outside business for to the store the morning after. The tioned In New York harbor, arrived
who became its possessor at
I th
the new firm, while Mr. Hoffman will watch and one knife bave been re- here on the morning of th Fourth, and
of the death of its maker in S
handle
the inside work. The change covered. they having been found by will remain until the 14th of July vis-
io 1911.
to
the
outside
became necessary on ac- some small boys where the thief bad iting relatives and friends anti ane d-
tic
pr
Being imbued with patr
count
of
Mr.
Challis
’ health, which he evidently dropped them io his burry ing to business matters. Bring a mei-
the
ti
pits,i. Mr.Whitford brought
ber of the local fire department, the
him
ot
believe
a
will
soon
Improve
with open
with
ured flag to town
fire laddies will give a banquet Io his
I morning of the Fourth, ar
honor after the regular meeting of the
be swung to th
organization next Monday night Ice
| I that all celebrators of I
Liberty war map of the western cream aed cake will be served, and all
Day might view the vi,
George Corse, William Mikesell and front—Gives battle lines, towns, roads, 1 members ere requested to attend
of days long gone by th
> harles Perce y returned Sunday wall the twelve military sectors, etc,
more
troublesome
laden with trout that they lured from clearly marked. There Is a separate
principles of democrac
The maximum temp rature during
the waters of Ray creek on one of the index accompanying this of all towns, |
now.
Stanfield ranches some distance be rivers, military districts, etc, so that the past week was 9 d
The flag containe"
yond Heppner. They intend making any desired location may be quickly zero and the minimum 38
number of states in 1
I found.
was record d.
another trip soon to the same place.
Address
UMATILLA ITEMS
Relationship
COUNCIL TALKED ON
ROAD IMPROVEMENT
WHAT IS HAPPENING
IN UMATILLA COUNTY
SOLDIER AND SAILOR
INSURANCE LARGE
TAKES HALF INTEREST
IN CITY MARKET
CIVIL WAR EMBLEM
WAVEB HERE ON FOURTH
administration that it
ended,
now acting
to live. The
a
Branch of Service......
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