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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1918)
THE HERMISTON H ERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON The Oregon Association for the Pre vention of Tuberculosis has secured the appointment of a public hea 1 Issued Each Saturday by __ nurse for Coos county, which counts M. D. O’CONNELL OREGON I, the second one in Oregon te take HERMISTON this step Jackson county already has Entered as second class matter. December the services of a public health nurse >. 1906, at the postoffice at Hermiston, Oregon Supervisor Cryder of the Umatilla national forest has returned from a SUBSCRIPTION RATES $1.50 tour of two weeks over the forest and One year .................................................... .75 Six months tu reports the summer range in the west- Subscriptions must be paid in advance. ern part of the forest is so dry that ADVERTISING RATES Display— One time, 25 cents per inch; two inser- already several bands of sheep have tions, 20 cents per inch per insertion; monthly | been driven off the forest to the win- rates, 15 cents per Inch per issue. Readers First insertion, 10 cents per line; each | ter pasture. subsequent insertion without change of copy. A “board of instruction," whose bus 5 cents per line. iness it is to see that conscripted men leave for cantonments in proper men tal and physical condition, fully ad vised as to their duties toward the government and their families, has been appointed by the Oregon City draft board. Principal Events of the Week District Attorney Gale S. Hill, of Linn county, submitted to the public Briefly Sketched for Infor service commission an application on behalf of the Linn county court for mation of Our Readers. permission of the commission to con struct a grade crossing over the track Forest fires are causing great dam of the Southern Pacific company in age in logging sections of Coos county. road district No. 3. Douglas county has about 700 mem Out of a total of 572 accidents re bers of the boys' and girls' industrial ported to the state industrial commis clubs. sion for the week ending August 29, The first public market to be estab- there were four fatalities. They were. lished at Marshfield will be built and John Ryder, Portland, shipbuilding; opened this month. William Bishop, near Scappoose, log The state military police is costing ging; N. C. Nelson, Columbia City, Phone Main 33 the taxpayers of the state $21,000 per shipbuilding; Fred W. Bradshaw, “ The Yard of Best Quality ” month for salaries. Gooch, lumbering. H. M. STRAW. MGR. With a hot sun and dry wind pre Big Butte creek as the source of sup vailing in western Oregon, danger of ply and a $1,500,000 bond issue, to be forest fires returned last week. voted upon September 28, are the rec I Mrs. Joe Cado killed a ferocious ommendations of the directors of the wildcat with her bare hands on the Medford irrigation district, after 11 I Cado ranch, six miles east of Crane. months' study of the entire water situ The third annual field trials of the ation of the Rogue river valley. The Oregon State Sportsmen's league will Medford irrigation district was formed be held In Lebanon on September 15 September 15, 1917. I and 16. To be used in improvements on Echo, Oregon The northwest Methodist Episcopal Camp Custer, near Battle Creek. Mich., conference, uniting the Columbia, east 17.000,000 feet of Douglas fir has just Columbia and Montana conferences, been ordered by the war department. was held at Milton. The orders are to be distributed, as MANUFACTURERS OF War activities at the University of usual, through the fir production i Oregon are not to be confined to men board, which maintains headquarters An emergency nurses' training course in Portland. They go to mills of Ore has been announced. gon and Washington. The 23d annual Astoria regatta J. M. Cook, of Junction City, is out which was held under the auspices of more than $800 and Linn county ahead the Soldiers', Sailors’ and Shipbuilders almost that sum as the result of the club, was formally opened Thursday. Importation of six suitcases full of Printers employed in the state print whisky into Harrisburg. Cook paid a The Superior Product of Scientific Milling fng office at Salem were granted a fine of $500 and costs, and O. E. Trout, Makes Better Bread general Increase of 60 cents a day by of Corvallis, paid a fine of $250 and the state printing board, as a “war costs. In addition to the fine Cook is Try a Sack bonus.” out $307.50 which he paid for the The net income of the O-W. R. & N booze. for the year 1917 was $1.141.337, ac Chrome and manganese mining in cording to the annual report the com eastern and southern Oregon is one pany filed with the public service com of the newest industries of the state mission. arising out of wartime needs. Second The Brownsville public library, re In output of chrome of any state, and juvenated and increased by the addi with a production of more than one tlon of many new volumes, was for third the output of the entire country, mally dedicated and opened to the pub Oregon in the last few months has Fuliy equipped liberili culture and scientific departments. Special lie last week. been making still bigger preparations training in Commerce, Journalism, Architecture, Law. Medicine The plant of the Everfresh Fruit to meet the wartime emergency. I aching. Library Work Music, Household Arts, Physical Training and Fine Arts, company at Sutherlin, engaged it a Alitary Science in charge of Aw arican and British officers. Drill, lectures and field work i Sale of 433,000,000 feet of timber, io work upon government contracts, was caled on territory covering an area of destroyed hy fire. The loss is estin approximately 5860 acres in Alsea and ated at $30,000. Lake creek valleys in Lane, Lincoln Wild pigeons are more plentiful ir and western Benton counties, to Alfred Clatsop county than any season foi Thomas and E B. Kingman of Colum- the past 10 years. Better protection bus, Mont., was completed by D. S. R. for this species of wild fowl has re Walker and J. Darling of Eugene. The suited in the increase. consideration is reported to be in the Twenty-four forest fires, caused by neighborhood of $600,000. The timber lightning, are raging in the Cascade runs almost clear fir. national forest, according to a report The Buchner Lumber company, of received at the district forest office North Bend, has made application from Forest Supervisor Seitz. through Colonel Disque, of the spruce The North Bend city council has sei production division, and Colonel Zinn, October 15 as the date for the holding government engineer, to have the chan of a special election to submit to the nel of South Inlet, 12 miles west of Summons all the forces and resources of the Republic to voters of the city a number of import S. the defense of Freedom North Bend, dredged and improved in ant amendments to the city charter. order that a large tract of fine quality THE OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE There were between 600 and 700 spruce and fir timber owned by the which the United States authorities have ranked a« one of the hunters out in Umatilla county Sep company may be opened up and util- fifteen distinguished institutions of the country for excellence in tember 1, for China pheasant shooting, ized for airplane and ship material. military training, has responded to the call. The College is which Is permitted during the week 8 dstinguished not only for its military instruction, but The maximum price for the fall under special permit from State Game D istinguished also FOR— catch of salmon on the Columbia river Warden Shoemaker. Its strong industrial courses for men and for women: has been fixed by the national food B In Agriculture, Commerce, Engineering, Forestry In response to a call issued by the administration, according to an an B dome Economics, Mining, Pharmacy, and Hl vocational Education. state librarian. Miss Cornelia Marvin, nouncement received by W. B Ayer, Its wholesome, purposeful student life. a meeting was held in Albany to con state food administrator, as follows: • Its democratic college spirit. aider the matter of bringing before Chinook salmon, from date to Septem Its successful graduates. the people the importance of estab ber 15. inclusive, 312 cents per pound; enrolled last year, 3453; stars on its service flags, 1258, lishing a county library. over forty percent representing officers. chinook salmon after September IS. Appointments of postmasters have ! 61 cents per pound; steelhead salm- College opens September 23, 1918 been made In Oregon as follows We on. from date, 912 cents per pound, «. new Illustrated Booklet, and other information write to the Registrar, Corvallis, Oregon naha, Wallowa county. Miss Ruby Bul chum salmon, from date. 312 cents lard; Alberson, Harney county. Nick per pound 11. Vegtley; Ashwood. Jefferson coun According to an opinion of Attorney ty. Mrs. Nenna B Finnell. I General Rrown written for State The public service commission was WE ARE OFFERING A NEW LINE OF School Superintendent Churchill, notified hy H. Hirschberg, of Independ school districts shall continue to make cnee, that the Independence * Mon up and post their budgets. The law month road would cease operation Sep- . an providing, the attorney general tember 1, the company disposing of its holds, was not affected by an opinion equipment and rolling stock of the supreme court In the ease of Clyde Rhodes, a well-to-do farmer. VARIETY OF COLORS Martin vs. Gilliam county, which held was found dead at the gate of his farm invalid chapt 7 n held 12, law» of 1915, ap- In Sams valley, six miles north of Gold “ E ALSO HAVE AN EXCELLENT ASSORTMENT OF plying the county budget law to all Hill. He is believed to have committed districts and corporate bodies having suicide. Coffee was found by his side power to levy taxes except cities of containing crystals of cyanide. 150,000 population or more A maximum of 400 men will be giv for cotton, silk or light wool dresses Oregon commercial organizations en intensive training at the Oregon requested. In a letter sent out by the Agricultural college to fit them for publie service commission, f0 compile United States army bands. They will all data applicable to their respective I be selected by the government because communities for presentation in clas | of musical ability and previous train sified form at hearings to be conducted | Ing by Clyde B. Aitchison, of the Interstate While plans are being made to carry commerce commission. In Portland on I nut the Polk county fair the same as September 20 and 23. On those dates | usual thia year, the dates being Sep complaints will be heard against the tember 17, 18 and 1*. It has been de 35 per cent freight rate increase --- ----. - uoe on | A A elded not to have a fair In this county fresh fruit and vegetables, and the 10 — ---------------_______________ next year nor again until after the 2) - increase in express rateg on T . I fresh fruit and fresh fish. The Hermiston Herald Have You a Coal Bin? WE WILL HAVE A Car of the Best Utah Lump Coal The last of August or first of September. See us at once and place your order and we will see that it is filled from this car. Please notice the county lumber and fuel dealers add in this issue. OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co. R. A. BROWNSON, MANAGER We will quote you price on the material only, or on the com pleted bin. THE MOVIE Inland Empire Lumber Company HERMISTON AUDITORIUM Saturday, 1 September 7 Echo Flour Mills ONE SHOW 12 REELS High Grade Patent Blue Stem Flour Geraldine FARRAR as “Joan of Arc” in “Joan the Woman” DEALERS IN GRAIN AND FEED UNIVERSITY of OREGON Based on the life of “Joan of Arc” the girl patriot, who fought with men, was loved by men, yet withal retained the heart of a woman. At 17 she was commander-in-chief of the French armies at 19 she was burned to the stake by the people she loved. THE BUGLE (ALL 19 Show Starts at 8 P. M. DP % Admission: Examine this one if you have not, and get our figures on same immediately. Adults, 35c; Children, 25c f l S tea Bag BA Your Suit Renewed a Dr Just at this time of year, "between seasons," the question of clothing is a puzzle. You don’t feel like investing in a new suit, and yet you need a change. We can help you out. Just get out some of those suits you have hung back in the closet, and bring them to us. WE MAKE OLD CLOTHES LOOK LIKE NEW We not only press vour suit, but clean it, taking out all grease and dirt, and a iving it really the appearance of new. Angorian Knitting and Crochet Cotton We help you to practice economy with neatness. JACK WHITE, THE TAILOR PATENTS Students IN A FANCY BUTTONS a in Li ,50000V Y 7 OREGON ' SALVATION o ri 4 ARMY 7, (94 BUTTER WRAPPERS FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE suitable \ RI ETY STORE Butter Wrappers eases. This Offi<* Deeds, Mortgages, Etc., Etc.
