The Hermiston herald., July 20, 1918, Image 1

T he H ermiston H erald
VOL. XII
HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 20. 1918
LFALFA SEED RAISERS
EXPECT GOOD RETURNS
I Ao industry that is in the making
his project is the raising of alfalfa
l L| and present indications are that
grow and thrive and become a
Led industry from now on. There
I e quite a number of ranchers in the
Warnings are being sent out to
[ ¡„it, of Hermiston that are this
vici taking a whirl at growing alfalfa towns in Oregon and Washington
Led crops, and when the harvest is against a number of fake "war heroes”
Ler this
it will be demonstrated who are speaking at war rallies and
L their satisfaction whether it pays taking up collections afterwards. Sev
better to let the perennial plant go eral of these men appear in Canadian
Lr seed or cut it for hay. Among uniforms, and there seems to be no law
those who will harvest alfalfa for seed to prevent their so doing. The prin-
Lis season are Herb Strohm, J. K. cipal damage these men do is not the
shotwell, Joe Craik and Mr. Fisher, money they secure but the fact thaï
and they have explicit confidence in they spread sedition and disloyalty and
are in reality German propagandists
the succe-s °f their venture.
I Indications are that the seed crop Posing as heroes, martyrs and patri­
oo the respective ranches of the above ots, they drop little remarks in their
gentlemen will be large. Ordinarily speeches that are intended to sink in.
L heavy alfalfa seed field runs about Five of these fraudulent war heroes
400 pounds to the acre, and with the have already been apprehended, but
price holding around 24 cents per others keep bobbing up to take their
Lund they figure that they ought to places.
All towns before permitting self-
clean up considerable more money
styled
heroes to address public gather­
than if they cut it for hay.
The first to begin harvesting opera­ ings should first chick up on their re
tions on the new seed crop was Mr. liability, regardless of whether they
Strohm, who began cutting Wednes are called Canadian, British or Amer­
day on the 100 acres he has in on his ican patrio’s. Before permitting them
place across tbe Umatilla river in the to speak it should be seen to that they
Western Land & Irrigation Co. pro­ have proper credentials from their
ject. Close by on the Rinaker ranch county council of defense or from the
J. K. Shotwell has about 100 acres, state council of defense, or both.
and out in Columbia district Joe Craik
and Mr. Fisher have quite an acreage
to harvest soon.
The outcome of the alfalfa seed rais­
ing experiment on the part of those
ranchers above mentioned will be
watched with much interest by the
Last week an artesian well was
balance of the farmers on the project.
struck on the old Webber ranch six
miles north of Nolin. The flow is six
gallons a minute and is capable of
raising water six feet in the pipe.
Harvesting is getting well under
way in the vicinity of Echo. It is said
the wheat will grade better than last
Dale Hinkle, who has been a student year, though tbe kernels are smaller
at Reed college for the past three and the crop will be only about one-
years, has been chosen by the Uma­ half.
tilla county draft board as leader of
A little six year old boy named
the contingent of ninety-two men from James Michaels, while playing Sunday
this county to be inducted into mili­ in the orchard on the ranch of his par­
tary service on July 22 on account of ents near Bridge creek, was struck in
his experience in military training.
the back of one of his legs by a rattle­
Mr. Hinkle entered the first officer’s snake. He was taken to St. Anthony's
training camp at San Francisco and hospital in Pendleton and is now out
after two unsuccessful attempts to pass of danger.
the aviation examination he chose the
The postmaster at Pilot Rock has
infantry and graduated from the camp
resigned his position to go into the
and received a commission as second
military service. There is also a
lieutenant of infantry, O. R. C.
vacancy in the postoftice at Stanfield,
On account of his youthful appear­
the postmistress, Mrs. Ward, throw­
ance he was placed upon the inactive
ing up the i >b to leave there with her
list and advised by his company com­
husband, who has entered the engineer­
mander to return to college until ing corps of the army. The vacancies
called. At the close of the school
will be filled through examinations
year in June he wrote to the war de­
under the civil service.
partment expressing a wish for active
There were about fifty patients re-
service, but receiving no reply, on
July 8 he reported to the local board ceived this week at the Eastern Ore-
with a request to be placed in class 1-a gon state hospital, they having been
to help fill the county’s quota for this transferred in a special car from tbe
call. During the summer be has been state insane asylum at Salem.
working in the shipyards in Portland
From reports coming from the grain
and left a good position to enter the harvest fields it is becoming evident
army. Dale was born and raised in that barley will be a »hort crop in this
Umatilla countv and is the son of Mr. county this season. The yield of this
and Mrs. J. T. Hinkle, pioneer resi- cereal is very light and the quality be-
dents of this community.
low the usual graie.
BARRICADED STREET IN FRENCH VILLAGE
HUNTERS WERE SCARCE
AND JACKRABBITS PLENTY
FAKE WAR HEROES
HAVE NOW APPEARED
KEEP UP YOUR END-
WE’RE FALLING BEHIND
The chairman of the War Savings
and Thrift Stamp campaign in Her­
miston in cheeking up finds a slackness
in the purchase of the little war sav­
ers, and be says if the present apathy
continues much longer we will fall
short of our quota for July of $1000 It
must be understood by all that to
reach the present proportion a number
of large purchasers have taken their
full limit. These cannot be expected
to do more, therefore it will be neces­
sary for those who have done nothing
to get busy now. You know full well
what you have done, and the records
let us know, all of which makes it
obvious that there is no reasonable ex
cuse for further delay on the part of
those who are not holding uptheir end
in the purchase of War Stamps.
It is not the desire to use a yellow
card, but unless a better spirit is
shown on the part of some of the
people it will be found necessary to
do so.
This interesting picture shows British troops who have barricaded a
street somewhere on the western front In order to stem the onrush of the
enemy.
WHAT IS HAPPENING
COLUMBIA NEWS NOTES
IN UMATILLA COUNTY
TO LEAD UMATILLA’S
NEXT CONTINGENT
IRRIGATION SYSTEM
TO UNDERGO REPAIRS
RED CROSS
and
present quota we have made,
shipped 3000. Even at this rate it “ill
reali re special efforts to complete this
quota of 10,000 by Aug. I.
1 we will receive the material to make
750 more celler couon pads and 10,00°
more force p sponges.
on August
a 30 here
day
- X” work
X
and regulations of the city charter.
The case will be conducted by City
Attorney Warner and Mr. Hinkle.
“PSCEMMNonaIly he secs some of his, 83
honed
Mary Pickford
is
coming to
The Roads,
on
bataleshir
having
in. Hapeton
recently" MNa
Dunr-
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE
Mr. and Mrs. McCune left Tuesday
for Long Beach, Wash., where they
expect to be gone about four weeks.
Roy Surran returned Thursday from
a week’s visit with relatives at Med-
ford, Ore.
P. F. Fallen was io Portland Sun-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Chapman and son
Ervin spent Wednesday and Thursday
in Pendleton.
Lee Carroll was an Irrigon visitor
Sunday.
Mr. Nugent and family were shopp­
ing in Hermiston Monday.
Mr. and Mrs Wellman were Her­
miston visitors Tuesday.
William Kik and Walter Caldwell
are called for the draft of July 22.
Ed Pounds who enlisted a couple of
weeks ago is stationed at Camp Law-
son. He is in the medical corps.
D. C. Brownell of Portland is spend­
ing a few days with his sons.
S. T. Carroll was a grave) pit caller
Saturday.
Wm. Pearson left Tuesday for
Tacoma, Wash., where he will visit
with bis mother before he is called.
Miss Peters, niece of Mrs. Leathers,
who has been visiting at tbe Leathers
home for several week®, left last
Saturday for her home in Portland.
W. A. Leathers now has a Ford
runabout.
Mr. Rueter, from the Page ranch
near Stanfield, was in this section Mon­
day and while at the L. H. Pearson
ranch purchased $200 worth of thor­
oughbred hogs
Harry Murchie returned to Board-
man a few days ago after looking
after his property interests in this
section.
Glen Akers, who holds a clerical
position in Wasco, spent the week end
here with bis family.
Mr. and Mrs. Apple and little daugh
ter, sister of E. E. Graham, is visiting
in Hermiston with her sister, Miss
Hattie Graham.
Mr. Rodgers, who took suddenly ill
while working in his garden last
Thursday, is much improved,
Mr. Thomas arrived Wednesday
morning from Montana to visit with
his father and mother in this district.
Mr. Lay was a Pendleton visitor
Wednesday.
Mrs. F. A. Brunson and daughter
Dorothy were Pendleton visitors Wed­
nesday and Thursday.
Several in this section are baling
their second crop of hay.
Nearly all of the wheat farmers
about Echo that own combines now
have their machines in operation har­
Umatilla county ’s quota of surgical
vesting the golden grain
Around dressings has been doubled Milton,
Athena harvest is also in full blast.
the other auxiliary helping Pendleton
on this quota, has bad to discontinue
A fire of unknown origin complete-
ly destroyed a machine shed Sunday work temporarily owing to an
epidemic of smallpox. It is up to Her-
night on the farm of H. G. Castiel
near Pilot Rock. In the shed was a miston to double it. efforts ¡n turning
binder, two backs, other material and out this work. Every woman who can
a new Ford auto, all of which were is urgently requested to help. On the
Realizing that the city irrigation
system must be put in better condition
in order that efficiency in delivering
water to residents may be kept up,
the council at its meeting Wednesday
evening ordered that all syphons,
fumes and ditches be repaired wher- burned.
ever needed.
Home on Furlough
The parking of automobiles and also
H. V. Sullivan, who is in the war
the speed limit was again taken up,
and the outlook is that strict regula- risk insurance office at the naval base
tions will be laid down soon for the at Hampton Roads, Va., arrived,
city marshal to enforce.
the first of the week to pass
Attorney Hinkle was present, and with
‘he council went into a general resume
of the incidents leading up to the case
to be tried before the recorder next enlisted as apprentice sesma -
Monday, in which the city figure» as „ after he was trapst fer redfa "row
Plaintiff against L. W. Furnas, who is Francisco to
V
wh.re
here be
he was
was
charged with having broken a lock on j there to Norfolk,
lo the war insur-
‘city waterway gate against the ruler given an i assignment
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UMATILLA ITEMS
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE
We
must
Rattlesnake In Pump
have
ed most urgently.
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Mrs.
more help. It
is
Novle Saturday, July 27, in a patriotic Earl Boynton, LoEAI.AI. Work but
drama entitled "The Little American.” ing. He says he enjoys his
On that occasion there “Wilbe"speciai I would like to cross the big POP
I vited.
music by Mies Ruth Akers.
I get into real action-
The rabbit drive that took place
Sunday afternoon out In Columbia ola
trict was participated in by two score
farmers and a little over half as many
townspeople Even with this small
number a goodly portion of the popu-
lation of rabbitdom out in the neigh­
borhood of the Henry Ott, Joe Craik
and Henry Sommerer ranches were
forever put to sleep by the shot gun
route.
That the drive, even with so email a
body of hunters, was ably managed by
those in charge is shown by the fact
that a close estimate of the demise of
the pest was around 500. The lines
remained intact throughout, and the
slaughter was greatest when the b int­
ers had driven the jacks in a rabbit
tight enclosure a short distance w st
of the Craik place.
There were no accidents throughout
the drive, although E P. Illsley, who
was driving the water wagon, and
Mayor McKenzie now know a little of
the sensation the soldier- feel when on
the firing line "over there,” for they
had the unpleasant exoerience of be-
ing hit with spent pellets from the
guns of some of the more over zealous
marksmen. Never mind where they
were hit—we’ll vouch that it wasn't
in any part of the back.
At the wind-up all were invited to
the home of Henry Sommerer, where
tited and dust-begrimed they assem-
bled on the spacious lawn and indulg­
ed in an invigorating ice cream social,
the delicious cream being purchased
by Messrs. Ott, Craik, Sommerer,
Fisher and others, and it sure proved
a fitting climax to the drive.
TIME OF CUTTING HAY
IMPORTANT IN DAIRYING
The time of cutting hay is of much
importance to dairymen. The com­
mon rule is to cut in the early bloom,
points out K. B Fitts, associate pro-
feasor of dairy and animal husbandry
in the Oregon Agricultural college.
At this stave the protten content is
high and the palatability near its
maximum. Some variation from this
rule, however, must be made with
different crops. Alfaifa should be cut
when the new sprouts near the ground
are well started, clover when in full
blossom, and vetch when Ilie first pods
are about half formed.
Some hay plants rapld'y lose palata-
bility when nearing maturity—rye
grass, Johnson grass and mesquite be-
ing examples. These should be cut
when or soon after the heads or blos­
soms appear. Cutting hay crops when
nearlug maturity, which means when
seeds are nearly ripe, results In a loss
of digestible protein, of palatability
and of the finer and more valu ible
parts of the plant.
WENATCHEE PEOPLE
TOURING IN OREGON
W. B. Estes, a well todo rancher of
the Wenatchbe district In the slate of
Washington, accompanied by his wife
and three daughters, visited in this
city a couple of days the first of the
week with Mrs. 8. A. White and
Owen White, mother and brother re
spectively of Mrs. Estes. They are
making a tour of Oregon In their big
Chandler Six, having left Wenatchee
June 25, going to Seattle end down the
coast to Portland. On the way here
they came through McKenzie Pass in
the Cascades. On the trip a diary
was kept of their travels and also of
events as they occurred, all of which
makes very interesting reading.
After a most pleasant visit at the
White home the party departed Wed-
Honor Guard Meeting
neaday for Pilot Rock to visit a elater
There will be a meeting of the Her­
of Mrs. Estes. From there the jour,
Rabbit
hides
are
worth
8
cents
each,
miston Honor Guard In the lecture
and those from poisoned rabbits are nay through Oregon will be continued.
meet
im-
Naught, will also
with the Honor
Guard girl» on that occasion,
j
WEATHER REPORT
evening, July 21, Rev.
Stanfield will address the
Epworth League at their meeting in I to 106 on that day. The
was 42 and the
Mack’s hall- Services commence A‘
§ p. m.. and everyone is cordially io-j
On Sunday
Strychnine for use In combatting
rabbits and other destructive rodents
can be bad from the U. S. Biological
survey at cost by cooperation of inter­
ested farmers To accomplish this it
will be necessary for all who are inter­
ested to leave the necessary money at
the bank to be sent by R. W. Allen
for the amount of poison required.
The cost is $1.75 per ounce. If suffic­
ient persons are interested an order
will be sent early next week aid
others as often as enough requests are
filed to justify reordering.
At this time of veer the most
economical and successful way of oom
batting rabbits by poisoning is to mix
one ounce of strychnine with 12 to 16
ounces of aalt. Grind to a fine pow­
der by stirring io a porcelain container
with a round headed bolt. Other in­
grediente auch as sugar, orange juice,
etc., can be added If desired.
Place small quartities of this mix-
lure in small boles bored In pieces of
lumber. These should be placed in
the runways of the rabbits. Holes }
to I inches in diameter and about 4
inch deep bored in pieces of 2x6 lum­
ber 10 to 12 inches long make very
good baits. When out of use they can
be readily stacked to keep domestic
animals from the p ison.
• criticism
turned out of our
are
Our boys have just begun
and surgical supplies are need-
Fawcett of
STRYCHNINE AT COST
FOR RABBIT POISON
J. H. Harris, of Harris Canyon, bad
an experience with a rattlesnake at
his ranch the other day that makes him
extremely cautious about approaching
a pump, says tbe Echo News. He
went to a pitcher pump near the bouse
to get a drink, and as was his custom,
stopped to drink from tbe »pout. As
he leaned toward tbe pump after start
ing the handle in motion, a big rattle­
snake shot its bead from tbe opening
above the valve, and struck at him,
narrowly missing Mr. Harris' face
with its fangs. The rattler was killed
and found to be an extremely large
one with ten rattles and a button. It
is supposed that the reptile crawled
into tbe opening of the pump and
coil'd around tbe piston above the
valve while seeking a cool place or
looking for water. Snakea are not
numerous on this ranch, only five hav
ing been found there in ten years.
-perative.
to fight
In a letter received by The Herald
this wee« from Mrs. Paul S. Jones
notifying us of her change of address
and enclosing a year’s advance sub­
scription, the lady states that her hu -
band, well known and universally
liked former government employee
here, had enlisted in the army. We
herewith give the letter, including
Mrs. Jones' new address, o that friends
desiring to wr.te to her can do so:
“Editor Herald: Hereafter will you
please send the paper to me at my
new address, Windsor, Colo., care G.
E. Luce. Mr. Jones is attending the
Fourth Officers’ training camp of field
artillery at Camp Taylor, Louisville,
Ky., having left bis position as an
engineer for the California Debris
Commission at San Francisco two
months ago. After enlistment he was
stationed at Camp Fremont, Calif.,
but recently was transferred to the
Kentucky camp.
room lo the basement of the public
library next Monday evening at 8 preferred by hat manufacturers as
o’clock. The advisory board of the they have less holes in them than
organization, the members of which when the rabbits are shot.
work are Mrs.
Mrs. Hinkle,
Hinkle, Mrs. O.
O. O.
G. Sapper,
Sapper,
Mrs. Hitt, J. D Watson and C. 8 Mo
Pbom.
,
PAUL JONES ENLISTS
IN ARTILLERY CORPS
Gus Tonas and wife of Sandspur
were callers on friends Friday. They
were on their way to Portland to
spend a week or ten days with friends.
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NO. 44
Wednesday proved to be the hottest
day of the week and also thus far this
summer, the mercury having ascended
hundredth of an inch.
minimum for
rainfall one-
Visiting Old Home
S, R. Oldaker, the ever pleasant
manager of tbe Hermiston Creamery
Co., left the middle of this week fur
Teach Soldiers Games
Men over draft age, of good moral his boyhood home in Lynchburg, Ohio,
character and who know bow to teach where for tbe next two months be will
soldiers recreational games, can serve enjoy a visit with relatives and friends.
their country through enlistment for
service overseas in the Y. MC. A. Oldaker baa been to Lynchburg, hav­
They can be sent to France almost ing been accompanied on that trip by
During the absence
immediately from San Francisco. The Col. McNaught
call for recreational directors, men of the gentleman the business of the
| who understand athletics. Is greater creamery will be looked after by E.
J. Roberts, Jr.
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