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
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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
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.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
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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
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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
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In Agriculture, Commerce, Engineering, Forestry
In response to a call issued by the administration, according to an an
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dome Economics, Mining, Pharmacy, and
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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:
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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,
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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
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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
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elded not to have a fair In this county
fresh fruit and vegetables, and the 10 —
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next year nor again until after the
2) - increase in express rateg
on
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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.
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Adults, 35c; Children, 25c
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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
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