THE
H ermiston H erald
HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 13. 1918
VOL. XII
TALKED OF NAVY LIFE TO
AN INTERESTED AUDIENCE
A. an honor guest at the regular
montbly meeting of Hermiston a Vol:
mone Fire Department last Monday
^Walter B. Beasley, electrician
D"“The battleship North Dakota now
Lalonea lo New York harbor, certain-
1 did his share toward making the
meeting a very interesting one, for
.(ter the transaction of routine busi
-ss be g»’e the fire laddies a vivid
description of life and actions on board
one of Uncle Sam’s fleet of war ves-
WHERE THE BRITISH CROSSED THE JORDAN
WWW Sooxoe
Sm eis.
NO. 43
WHEN PEACE COMES BILL,
THE KAISER, MUST CRAWL
(SAYS FELIX SHAY IN ROYCROFT)
WEDDED WEDNESDAY-
HONEYMOONING NOW
WIND STORM CAUSES
A-LINE CANAL BREAK
The old idea of "conversion" is not
vet dead. The provincialism that per­
ennially sends grim visaged, hook-
nosed, hard beaded, fat minded Ameri­
can missionaries to Asia to convert
The high wind of Tuesday afternoon their philosophic betters, props up the
The wedding of Miss Irene Pearl
and evening worked a hardship on the hope that Kaiser Bill yet may be con­
Martin, third youngest daughter of
ranchers of this project, inasmuch as verted into thinking and acting like a
Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Martin of Stan
it was the cause of one of the worst sane and civilized man. Stuff, stuff
field to George L Challis of this city
breaks io the irrigation system that and nonsense. When the sins are as
was solemnized Wednesday in Pendle­
has occurred for some time, thereby scarlet there's no instant immunity.
ton in the presence oi a tew relative s
completely closing off the water sup No verbal bath will remove them. No
and friends.
sels.
ply on them for several days this formal promises, no scraps of paper,
Immediately after the ceremony the
He began by telling of how he work-
no diplomatic flub-dub will cleanse and
week.
happy
young
couple
left
for
Walla
ed his way up to the position he now
The
break
occurred
just
where
the
purify. Forty long years were needed
Walla,
Dayton
and
Toppenish,
Wash.,
holds in the navy after enlistment, and
A-line
leaves
the
reservoir
by
the
to
get Germany thoroughly well
cited that most any young man, going on their honeymoon trip, which will
heavy wind backing the water over spotted with blood lust. Il will take
extend
orer
a
period
of
a
wee«.
Then
into either army or navy, can gain
the concrete lined ditch and cut away another forty for those stains to ear
promotion bv diligent study and pay- they will return and be at home to
the dirt Io such an extent that the away. Give us sense to realize and to
friends
here
on
and
after
July
17
in
ing strict attention to the rules and
walla became weakened and at last act on the realization. Words were
regulations that have been laid down the residence on East Gladys avenue
broke, washing out about 200 feet of never more useless, more impotent, or
Soocss
which
was
occupied
until
recently
by
for them to follow. Since his assign­
British troopers are resting on the pontoon bridge which the British the canal before the water could be more fraught with danger to practical­
ment to the North Dakota he has Rev. and Mrs. L. S. Chapman.
ity than are those addressed to Ger­
forces
campaigning tn the Holy Land used to cross the River Jordan at El -hut off at the headgate.
George
says
that
the
boy
and
girl
heaved coal, stood watch and worked
Superintendent
of
Irrigation
M.
P.
many in the year 1918. We want no
io other capacities until promoted to friends of himself and wife need not go Ghoraniyeh. In the foreground at this historic spot a Tommy outside his Scroggs immediately after the break discussions, no negotiations. There is
dog tent is enjoying his rations.
to
the
trouble
of
collecting
cow
bells
bis present position.
rushed a force of men and teams to brutal work to be done. “He who
Speaking of life in the navy, he said and tin cans for the night of the 17th,
the
scene, and has been diligently on lives by the sword must die by the
it vas not really a hard one, for as a but that they can come and enjoy the
weeks, will return to her home in the job ever since. By pushing the sword." Germany selected the instru­
general rule all work was regulated so hospitality of the new home of the
Portland today.
work night and day he succeeded in ment and placed it in our hands. Our
as to give the men active duty for four bride and groom on that evening, as
Mr. and Mrs. Warner and daughter finishing the dirt till necessary Thurs- duty is to wield it well. There are no
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE
hours, with eight hours off during the he made preparation for the “eats”
motored to Hidaway Sunday. Mrs. day evening, and Friday began on the niceties to the situation. To shilly-
24. This varied a little, of course, for all who come on that occasion.
Warner and Jane will remain in­ concrete lining. With the quick work shally or temporize is to betray trust.
Mr. and Mrs. Murchie and Mr. and
when on one occasion the whole fleet
definitely while Mr. Warner returned done by the reclamation service in Make way for the avengers.
Mrs. Udey spent the Fourth picnicing
of battleships in the squadron practic­
When we have finished there will be
Wednesday.
taking care of the break it is possible
at the reservoir.
ally crossed the Atlantic, returning
Carroll Akers who is working in water will again be flowing in the no German throne. The Germans will
Dorothy Briggs left Monday for Day­
later to the harbor of New York with­
be down on their knees a penitent
Wasco, spent Saturday and Sunday canal today or tomorrow.
ton, Wash., to visit her friend, Nida
out having encountered anything but
people, prepared to re-educate them­
visiting his mother. He was accom-
Patrick.
some squally weather.
selves
for service and not for slaugh­
panied by Donald Clodfelder.
For over an hour the young man
Mr. and Mrs. L. Brownell and
ter.
Board-
Harry Morchie is up from
The largest American Hag ever made
kept his hearers interested by recital
Peace terms? There is only one
daughter from Umatilla, Miss Gert­ man looking after his ranch interests
on the above theme, and then all as­ W as displayed recently on the front of rude Simmons and Mr. Sanders were
sort of peace terms for Wilhelm
in this section.
sembled around the banquet board and the Willys-Overland administration dinner guests at Tip Top ranch the
Hohenzollern. "Get on your belly and
building,
Toledo,
Ohio,
signalizing
Mr. and Mrs. W. Felthouse and fam­
crawl.” No promulgateli phantasies
Fourth. Mrs. Brownell remained and
partook of ice cream and cake to their
With the call of 92 men to report at
that the office employes of the big spent the week end with her mother. ily and Mrs. Newcomer motored to
can make a lark of a snake No
heart's content.
the office of the county draft board In sanctimonious or wordy conversations
automobile
company
bad
registered
Hidaway
Wednesday.
Mrs.
Felthouse
The fire department members took
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Oil
had
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Pendleton at 3 p. m. on July 22 for as­
occasion to make Mr. Beasley an 100 per cent in the campaign to till Williams and Mr. and Mrs. Blessing and family and her mother will remain signment to the national army, all the can change a skunk into a calla lily.
for
the
summer
while
Mr.
Felthouse
the
city
of
Toledo
’
s
war
chest
fund.
There’s a shape and smell to the
honorary member of the organization
class one men of last year’s registrants
This flag, which measures 75x50 feet and family for dinner Thursday.
will enjoy a few days outing.
Hohenzollern breed that must not be
during the continuance of the war.
Mr. and Mrs. Haddox invited about
While at play Monday little Wesley have been clean'd up in this county, propogated. We’ll finish them here
They also donated $15 to the fund be­ and weighs in the neighborhood of twenty-six neighbors to picnic dinner
Blessing was unfortunate in getting and then fore the next call will include and now. Are the words inelegant?
ing raised exclusively by firemen of 350 pounds, is owned by the empi yes on their spacious lawn the Fourth.
of
the
B.
F.
Goodrich
Rubber
Co.,
his
foot caught in a pump jack that class two and three It may possibly The situation Is inelegant. Are we as
four western states, including this, for
Mr. and Mrs. Leathers and daugh­ meant the severing of bis fourth toe to reach Into class four, as there are not terrible as the Germans? Have wo
Akron,
Ohio,
and
has
figured
recently
the equipping and purchasing of three
many left in two and three on ac­ lost the capacity for mercy, for for
ter and Miss Peters spent the Fourth the first joint.
ambulances to be donated to the Red in numerous patriotic exercises.
count
of recent reclassifica ions.
at
Hidaway
springs.
The flag cost $600 and was purchased
giveness? Well, the world has been
Tuesday afternoon following the
Cross for service “over there.”
Those who will report from here on
by the rubber company’s employes,
Mrs. George Beddow is home again storm the A line ditch broke at the
brutalized far beyond the practices of
who raised the money by general con­ after spending several weeks with foot of Leo Clark farm. Several the above date are Philip L. Lay, the ancient barbarians. Al least we
William C. Kik and Simmie McFalls.
tribution, to which no one was allowed friends in Pendleton.
teams were put to work immediately Jonn H. Canti Id, son of Mr. and Mrs. have not lost the de-ire for justice.
to give more than ten cents.
Peace terms? Only what the Ger­
Mrs. Anna Sapper received a tele­ but it will be several days before the R. C. Canfield, ranchers east of this
During the Liberty Day parade in gram last Monday telling of the death water can be turned in.
man Kaiser and the German military
city, will also report from Echo.
New York the same flag was carried of a brother-in-law,Mr. Witter, of Erie,
caste deserve. The Kaiser shall be
Wm. Cassady is the proud possessor
along Broadway. Over $1200 was Pa. Several in this district will re- of a new Chevrolet, purchased from
flung naked Into a quick lime pit that
H. M. Wool man, in charge of smut thrown into its folds alone the line of member Mrs. Witter as she visited
he invented for the dead bodies of so d-
the
Echo
Auto
Co.
control work for the Oregon Agri­ march. This same "Old Glory,’ with with Mrs. Sapper and Miss Albrecht
iers, or decapitated and his head sent
Everybody join in the big rabbit
cultural college, is in Umatilla county the assistance of Sousa's naval band, several years ago.
to that German chemical laboratory
drive in this district Sunday. See par­
this week arranging for several smut was the means of raising over $7,000
that tries out human offal for fat. His
Mr. and Mrs Frank Beddow motor­ ticulars in another column.
traps to be placed on farms in different for the Cleveland war chest.
vaunted military leaders, Von Hinden-
ed
to
Bingham
springs
the
Fourth.
Little Henrietta Akers celebrated
sections of the county. The object of
The erection of the first silo to make berg & Co., shall be shot against the
Tom Haddox was a Pendleton visitor her 7th birth anniversary by inviting
these traps is to gather data as to the
Its appearance in the neighborhood of wall, unless, of course, they anticipate
last
Tuesday.
a few of her little girl friends io Tues- Echo will be superintended by W. 8. their deserts.
amount of soil infection with smut
Mrs F. A Brunson entertained Mrs day. An enjoyable afternoon was Boynton, well known contractor of this
•pores throughout the threshing sea-
Peace terms? To do, square mile
son.
Barham and Childs at dinner the spent by the kiddies.
city. This silo will be of concrete, for square mile to Germany, what Ger­
Fourth.
No matter how thorough the seed
Rev. Faucett from Stanfield was a and will be built on the farm of H. J. many did to France. To make a bar-
treatment, there Is always danger of
Mrs. Tom Lloyd left Monday for her project visitor Wednesday.
Bean near the above town. Mr. Boyn­ ren and bloody path 100 miles wide
L. D Lay, president of the local home in Pomeroy, Wash., after spend-
reinfection from the soil in the summer
Miss Marion Briggs is expected ton will do the frame work himself, from the French line to Berlin. Des
fallow fields onto whichsmutspo.es Water Users’ Association, while on a ing several days at the home of her home next Friday from Erie, Pa., and the concrete will be put on by 'ruction? That is construction. That
is a message to future Kaisers, a mes­
have been carried by the wind from business trip to Pendleton Wednesday son, Walter Lloyd.
where she has been attending school Henry Nota, also of this city.
threshing machines. The extent of met Captain Williams, head of the Geo. Briggs has accepted the posi­ this past semester.
Besides securing the contract to build sage to future murderers and bluster­
ing braggarts who visi n world power.
this infection, the distance carried by state police force with headquarters at tion as clerk at the Kingsley store and
Mrs. B. F. Knapton and son Robert the silo, Contractor Boynton has been
the wind and many other things are Portland, and together they discussed is now on tbe job.
assigned to the work of constructing a
left for Portland Wednesday where
the feasibility of having elate police
jet to be definitely ascertained.
Mrs.
Henry
Sommerer
was
on
the
the
young man will undergo an opera- large barn for Mr. Bean, and is now
One of these traps will be placed on take the place of the present guardians sick list several days last week.
busy on the j <b
lion.
the farm of A. R. Coppeck of Athena, of the Cold Springs reservoir east of
Mr.
and
Mrs.
T.
W.
Sapper
were
Misses Lela and Genevieve Thomas
one on the farm of T. P. Tilliland of this city from which Ibis project de­
callers in this district Monday even- returned this week from a month's
Pilot Rock and one in Cold Springs rives its irrigation water.
As the captain has most of his men ing.
canyon.
visit at Enterprise.
Mrs. Hannan and little daughter
placed at present over tbe wheat area
Col. H. G. Newport la busy these
Mr. Rogers Sr. was taken very ill
days superintending work on a large
of Eastern Oregon, he was of the be­ Marda were Pendleton visitors one Wednesday while working io bls gar-
lief that he could police the reservoir day last week.
contract he has secured for the New­
den.
after harvest, so the matter was let
Mr. and Mrs. Apple and daughter
News came from Camp Lewis the port Construction Co. on the west alile
Rebecca from tbe coast are atthe home
rest for tbe present.
first of the week that rejections among of the Umatilla river several miles
I of her sister, Mrs. E E. Graham, and
the laal draft men will total 12 per south of thia city. The contract is a
A streak of bad luck seems to be fol-
cent, shortness and ear diseases being big one, and when completed will
| family.
reclaim much land th st haa heretofore
owing the city of Heppner, county
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Niemeyer left
the chief causes.
Mr
The minimum height under the new been classified as a "slough of despond"
seat of Morrow county, for on Thurs-
last Sat urday for Portland where
regulations is five feet three inches. on account of the flow of a large
Niemeyer will be employed at the
A of list week it bad another visita-
In order to exterminate a few of the Meo were drafted under the five feel spring, the waters of which have been
tion of fire, the second within a few
| shipyards.
numerous jackrabbits that are begin­ one regulations. Fourteen hundred allowed to run wild for years.
weeks, in which the property loss will
The rain and wind storm of Tuesday ning to do considerable damage, a
The work of the construction com­
Two director, of the school district
and thirty-three are rejected.
rn well towards $200,000.
caught
several ranchers with their
pany to to bulkhead this spring and
The fire started in the rear of a bar- at Gibbon ran counter of the a" J second crop of hay down A good drive has been arranged for Sunday
dig a ditch some length to connect
out in Columbia district.
r shop in that city, and fanned by a being charged with having been P
Installing Milking Machine
yield is reported.
with what is known asthe Dillon canal
cuniarly
interested
in
the
repairing
and
The
hunters
will
meet
st
the
Sellers
wind took everything before it
In that neighborhood, and thus con­
and
Joe
Craik
ranches
at
1:30
p.
m
To
facilitate
the
labor
incident
to
refurnishing
of
school
premises
ora
Phillio Lay and Wm. Pearson were
four and a half blocks, resulting in
serve this excellent flow of water and
and
begin
the
drive
from
those
places.
milklog
his
many
bead
of
dairy
cattle
called
by
the
draft
board
to
report
district
of
which
they
were
directors
•
making homeless 25 families. Lack of
Only shotguns will be used. Many are Charles Baker is this week having a with It irrigate the lands adjacent.
The Stanfield Standard has a new July 21. This takes all of class one.
“equate fire protection seems to have
The harnessing of the flow from the
been the reason for such a heavy pro- editor in the personof W. T. Bray: ’ 9
Mrs. Olio Sapper spent Monday with planning on participating in the sport. machine for doing the work ins-alled spring has been uppermost In the
on his ranch in the esalerò part of the
came from Cornelius, Oregon, recently Mrs. C. A. Kellar.
perty loss.
city. He has also had built a 12x12 minds of the ranchers In that vicinity
Nobody is Exempt
Nr. Wilkins, who was in charge of to take charge of the paper
Mrs. Hornby, mother of Mis. Math-
milk house, and now has everything for a long time, but as the undertak­
‘ e Palace hotel at the time of the
With Liberty Bonds coming October
on
one
farm
on
the
Umatilla
reser,
ews,
celebrated
her
75th
birth
apnl
modern and convenient for the hand­ ing would run Into several thousand
conflagration, proved a heroine. She vation wheat is averaging •• high •
1st, and our quota two and one-half ling of bis ever growing dairy busi dollars they kept putting it off until
versary
July
7
save the alarm to guests on the second 25 bushel, to the .ere
times as large as the last drive was,
forced to make the improvement on
and third floors of the hostelry, and
Mr. and Mrs. . Wm. Roberts and fam- everybody should provide right now
account of the exceptional dry season
Thorn Hollow springs are about,
this
district
Sun-
ily were callers in
fames cutting her off forced her
for the purchase of their quota of War
be
utilized
to
supply
Pendleto
Home of the local merchants have
, take to the fire escape, dropping 15
Stamps. It will be necessary
domestic water.
. day. w Cassady had Mrs Kennyson Savings
Teet to the ground.
to be able to show the committee that received small shipments of flour from
WEATHER REPORT
sparks from * passing
: *
* ■* as her will call on you the amount of your the Echo Flour Mills this week, with
The
maximum
temperature for the
mother
from
Stanfield
The high wind of Tuesday caused ====== guests Thursday.
subscriptions to each of these funds. the result that Inhabitants of this com week was 96 degrees, minimum 43 and
Nobody is exempted, and none should munity are again indulging In the de­
uch trouble to telephone lines in this
the precipitation 05.
Mis Peters, who has been * guest
lights of white bread occasionally.
Co- at —eace—,
inity, with the result that Wire I Milling
need urging.
which completely destroyed the Plan"
the
Leathers
home
the
pat
six
ilelJ Pelumder has been kept busy
I valued at 85,000.
ere and there since making repairs.
*
COLUMBIA NEWS NOTES
AUTO FACTORY DIS­
PLAYS LARGEST FLAG
LEANS UP CLASS 1-
CLASS 2-3 COMES NEXT
PLACE SMUT TRAP IN
COLD SPRINGS CANYON
LOCAL MAN LANDS BIG
CONTRACT NEAR ECHO
STATE POLICE SOON
TO GUARD RESERVOIR
REJECTIONS OF LAST
DRAFT MEN LARGE
TOWN OF HEPPNER
IS AGAIN FIRE-SWEPT
RABBIT DRIVE TO DE
STAGED TOMORROW
WHAT IS HAPPENING
IN UMATILLA COUNTY
and her
HARNESSING WILD
WATERS OF SPRING