THE
THE FIRST PAYMENT ON
FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN
HERMISTON
HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON
DAIRY PROBLEMS
ARE COMPLEX
Consumers Are Counselled Not
To Decrease Use of Milk Nor
Complain of Prices.
We have several ot these tools coming in a carload of implements
The First National Bank
“Unless means are quickly found to
remedy conditions existing in the dairy
ind otry as well as in other classes
of Hermiston
of livestock, serious menace to both
Industries—which are allied—may be
forecast.”
This is the statement of Assistant
Federal Food Administrator, W. K.
Newell.
“With the dairymen selling their
businesses as fast as they are able to
find purchasers.” said
Newell,
"with an increasing volume of sales of
heavy calves, both male and female,
and with already a world's shortage
AT STANFIELD
If you have anew drill in mind for your fall or spring seeding you better inspect this
of beef, the outlook for future supplies
is not as rosy as one might wish.
line and also learn from us the names of satisfied users of this make drill now using
has been charged
some
it in the Hermiston district. This drill sows any of the following seeds in the most
quarters that the price of milk and
other products of the dairy have been
satisfactory manner: Alfalfa, grass, clover, vetch, oats, corn. peas, beans, wheat,
""— DELIVERED AT THE FACTORY
-
elevated to such an extent at all
barley or flax without bunching, and the price is right too.
Pacific northwest points that the dairy
interests should be making a profit and
well satisfied with their lot.
PHONE 83
SEE US FOR TIME PAYMENTS WE ARE ABLE TO MAKE ON THESE TOOLS
"Taking only the retail price as a
basis—that which most vitally affects
the consumer—the price of milk today
In Portland is 15c per quart.
LODGE DIRECTORY
“Even with normal prices milk is
For Anything
For Anything
ueen ESTHER chapter No. 101, o. e . s .,
In Farm Tools
In Farm Tools
second Tuesday evening of each month generally sold retail at 10 cents a
Q at meets
or
Implements.
8:00 sharp in Mack's hall. Visiting members quart here, therefore the advance is
or ImplemeniS.
welcome.
Frances G. Phelps, W. M.
not nearly as marked
many
Kathryn L. Garner. Sec.
other lines of foodstuffs.
"The dairyman today is paying more
HERMISTON LODGE NO. 138. A. F. & A. M.
Recorder’s Financial Report
" meets in Masonic Hall on First Tuesday than double the wages of normal years
Warding Off Cancer.
evening of each month. Visiting brethren wel for his hired help. He is paying more
or THE city or HERMISTON
come.
Nurses, particularly those engaged iu
Statement of the fund balances of the l City of Will do your work under engineer's instructions
Ed. Jackson, Secy.
M. D. Seroggs, W. M. than double for his requirements of
as of October 31st, 1918.
Is made under the most
hay and a very considerable advance public health work, can do much to Hermiston
You’ll Be Satisned
Name of Fund
Debit Credit
over the normal for his bran and prevent unnecessary deaths from can General fund
sanitary conditions. It
$ 540.37
See me
cer, according to a bulletin of the Water fund
• meets each Saturday evening in Odd Fellows shorts.
192.26
Irrigation
fund
pure, wholesome and
hall. Visiting members cordially Invited.
"The cost of milk cans and other American Society For the Control of Library fund ..........
296.26
W. R. Longhorn. Sec.
J. S. West, Noble Grand.
fund
high in food value.
803.31
dairy utentils is practically double the Cancer. Many patients, especially wo Street
Irrigation Diat. No. 2.
120.43
men,
it
la
pointed
out.
speak
to
a
nurse
Treasurer's cash
normal. The cost of bottles has soared
1209.58
Made in all the popular
to such heights as to make one dizzy about the danger signals of this dis
$1832.20 $1832.20
flavors. Special orders
PROFESSIONAL CARDS to
think of it. The cost of producing ease, such as lumps, persistent sores,
ulcerations
and
other
irregularities,
Statement of General Fund from July 1 toOct. 31,
given prompt attention.
milk today is therefore more than
1918
double that of normal periods even when they would hesitate to call a doc-
RECKO TS
DR.
R.
G.
GALE
Attention
HERMISTON CREAMERY
these
apparently
without considering the fact that this
Balance in fund July 1
$ 647.57
Physician and Surgeon
Licenses
1.00
has been a very abnormal season and trivial conditions, says the bulletin, Sidewalk
Rooms 1 and 2 Bank Bldg.
COMPANY
repairs
1.43
often
means
the
actual
prevention
of
Office Hours:
From city lots
the production of milk and cream per
83.63
cancer, or at least Its discovery In the From County Treas
337.07
10 to 12; 2 to 4; 7 to 8.
Phone 551 cow is far below the normal.
"Laws enacted during the last few early stages, when a cure Is possible.
Salaries, Recorder, City
AUSEON’S
years force the dairyman to add to his
Atty., Police.
220.00
Deserved to Get It.
Street lights and lamps
228.00
costs as a matter of cleanliness. The
Labor,
drayage
3.00
"I want to ask you for a bit of
public is no longer willing to tolerate vice,"
DENTIST
Mdse., printing
29.33
said
the
insinuating
man.
Hermiston. Oregon
the quality of milk generally marketed
480.33
“What is it?"
Office, Bank Bldg.
a few years ago. All of this costs
Oct. 31 balance in fund
540.37
Office
Phone,
93
Office
Hours:
“I want you to put yourself in
ESTABLISHED BIX YEARS 1
money and the dairyman has been
Residence Phone 32
8 a. m. to 5 p. 1
$1020.70
$1020.70
place and me in yours and tell me
paying it while the full charges have how you
would go about it If you Statement of Water Fund from July 1 to Oct. 31,
not been passed back to the consumer.
wanted to borrow $10 from me.”—
1918
"It has oftimes been said that a man change.
DALE ROTHWELL
Our Aim Is
RECEIPTS
OPTICAL SPECIALIST
very seldom quits a business where
$ 528.14
July 1 bal. in fund
.....
To Please the Public
liberal profits are available. The fact
Receipts
640.55
Not In the Inventory.
From County Treas
1130.10
that so many dairymen are quitting
“Did Jobson's purchase include also
DISBURSEMENTS
that they are not making adequate the good will of the business ?"
$ 351.00
Supt. salary
that
they
are
not
making
adequate
468.86
Distillate
(Daklanng
BATHS IN CONNECTION
“There wasn't any good will. It was Labor and Drayage
231.15
profits
—
if
any
at
all.
a coal dealer that Jobson bought out" Merchandise
505.52
Glasses ground and fitted. Lenses duplicated.
"The killing of dairy calves during -Boston Transcript.
750.00
Water works coupons
American National Bank Building
Pendleton. Oregon
the present season has broken all
2106.53
records simply because the country
102.26
Oct. 31 bal. in fund
To De Accurate.
producer could not afford to feed them
Cholly
—
Do
you
think
it
would
be
$2298.79
D. N. REBER, M. D
to maturity. Suggestion has been foolish for me to marry a girl who
Fund from
made in some quarters that the kill was my Intellectual inferior? Dolly— Statement of Irrigation
Eye, Ear Nose and Throat
Oct. 31, 1918.
ing
of
female
calves
be
prohibited
by
Optical Department
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More than foolish--impossible. —Cleve
Glasses Ground Any Size or Shape
law. This would indeed solve the prob and Leader.
Oct. 31 deficit
$ 502 19
Receipts
..........
156.30
lem providing some means were found
Pendleton
Rooms 9-11 Schmidt Bld
DISBURSEMENTS
to feed and keep the animals.
Men who are so afraid of doing fool Labor
$ 237.65
15.50
years ish things that they lack the courage t( Mdse
Dairy experts have
ALWAYS ON THE JOB
Printing
6.50
preached
the
gospel
of
‘
getting
rid
of
attempt
wise
ones
will
never
do
much
Chiropractic Cures Where Other Methods Fail
LONG AND SHORT
259.65
the
star
boarder'
—
the
cow
that
does
I use the Latest Painless Methods
398.84
not pay her expense. That Is the
Dr.
LORETTA
H.
STARBA
$658.49
$658.49
HAULS
situation just now. Few are paying
CHIROPRACTOR
their
board
and
there
is
no
improve
Give Us A Trial
Not Drug's. Not Surgery. Not Osteopathy
1918
ment of the situation In prospect.
Residence 103 Willow St.
RECEIPTS
Hermiston Transfer Company
"Similar conditions may be spoken
Office 103 W. Webb St. Phone 583 Pendleton, Ore.
$319.71
July I bal. In fund
of in regard to the future of the beef
Office. Cor. Main and Second Sta.
168.55
From County Treas
Phone 152
Res., 29F2
supply. Owing to the shortage and ex
DISBURSEMENTS
Salary
Librarian
115.00
season Is now here In ear
treme price of feed more light weight
57 06
Coal
Post Office Hours
nest and we are ready to
and unfinished cattle have been
19.95
Miscl
General delivery window open week days 8 a m
marketed in the stockyards of the to 8. p. m. Sundays and holidays from 9 to 10 a. m
serve you In any quantity.
192.00
country during the last two seasons Mail closes for No. 1, west.
296 26
Try us lor your next order.
Telephone 464
than ever before known. The country Mail closes for No. 6, eaat
Mail closes for No. 2. eaat
Office in old Reading Room
cannot afford to feed its cattle even at Mail closes for No. 17. was
Statement of Street Fund from July
the present price of beef and the
Library Hours
1918
journey to market Is therefore a neces
RECEIPTS
J. T. HINKLE
1 to 5:30 p. m. and 6:30 to 9:30 p. m. week days.
sity. In fact the government has re
WE SELL IN
$660.83
July 1 bal. In fund
cently requested that the public pur
From County Treas
224.71
CAR LOTS
Attorney at Law
School District Official:
DISBURSEMENTS
chase beef from light weight animals
are always fresh and nice.
. J D. Watson. Cbm
$ 63.78
OREGON because the stock must be marketed Directors
HERMISTON,
Our line of box candies is
..........................
F. R. Swayze
18.45
............................. C. S. McNaught
This means that many thousands of
unexcelled.
Bulk
candles
........................................ R. C Todd
Clerk.
animals that are today coming to
handled by us are of same
Baled or Chopped
City Officials
market weighing around 800 to 1.000
W. J. WARNER
high grade.
and
............ . . ........... F.C. McKenzie
pounds, would have showed a weight Mayor
C. M. Jensen Statement of Irrigation Dist No 2 from July I to
Recorder
Attorney-at-Law
of at least a third more if allowed to Chief of Police
C. H. Grandall
For Good Service See
Ort. 31. 1918
F. A. Phelps
This means an Treasurer
RECEIPTS
HERMISTON,
OREGON fatten properly.
....
A. L. Larson Oct 31 deficit
Fire Chief....... ..................
enormous loss in the meat supply for City Physician ........................................... R. G. Gale
le are always in the market for
W. J. Warner Receipts
the future—a loas that the country City Attorney ..............................
R. Oldaker
City Surveyor
loose hay delivered at the mill
can ill afford to contemplate."
J D Watson
Councilmen......
I ’
wirst )
: 7 I
Capital & Surplus $30,000
Pays $2.75 per 100 for Fresh Milk
HERMISTON
ICE
CREAM
Stanfield
Auto Co
V. PRIME
Barber Shop
Auto Truck
DIRECTORY
Alfalfa Hay
Our Candies
Alfalfa Hay
Alfalfa Meal
GET OUR PRICES
C.S.McN AUGHT C
P. B. SiSCEL
French Restaurant
_______
HOHBACH’S
IF YOUR AUTO NEEDS
OVERHAULING
AUTOMOBILE
GAS ENGINE
J.L. VAUGHAN
Phone Your Orders
for all kinds of
Transfer Work
Stand
at
Siscel’s.
Phone
262
We are ready at any lime to go any
where or haul anything.
The City Transfer
Located in yellow house back of
Baptist church
____ __ _
E P. Dodd
H. M Straw
Printing
“Why not have milkmaids now •
A. L. Larson
$21 I
. .....................
C. 8. McNaught
days?" someone asks. There Is a cry
24 70
............................ Frank Woughter
Most up to date restaurant in Easter» Oregon
that the labor conditions are in a bad
Try our 35 cent dinner
way as far as the dairies are concern-
ed
The men have gone to war or
... G. W. Phelps ments are true and correct to the best of my
Bakery, Confectionery. Restaurant
Pendleton Into other work and the cows are being Circuit Judge —..
Roscoe 1. K eat or knowledge and belief
District Attorney
C. H. Marsh
Judge
...................
C. M Jensen. City Recorder
killed off because there Is no one to
B. E Anderson
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 6th day
milk them. "What is going to become
H M. Cockburn of November, 1918.
.. R T. Brown
E P. Dodd,
of the children of this country If that
.... T. D. Taylor
Notary Publie for Oregon
Grace Gilliam
goes on
My commission expires June 10, 1921.
C. P. Strain
not exactly
ELECTRIC FIXTURES
Willard Bradley
W
W
Green
fascinated by the thought of washing
AND APPLIANCES
J. T. Brown
Phone 139
windows, running elevators and carry
Ben Burroughs
203 E. Court St.
Pendleton, Ore.
ing mail are looking toward the dairies
They won't wear the costumes seen
In light opera but they'll be quite sen
sible In heavy boots and coveralls
and they'll save the day. Here's to
the milkmaid of modern days.
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
w. a BEASLEY
HITT
FOR
Ice Cream
Confectionery
Cigars
Tobacco
Soft Drinks
The 1918 food reserve Is the only
safe insurance for 1919 food supplies
Conservation is the All-American job
an army of four million soldiers
ust be fed from this year’s crop
“There is no substitute for milk as
a food for growth. Portland mothers
should make a drive on father’s purse
to the extent of one quart of milk per
day for every child.”—Oregon League
First Class
Billiard and Pool
307 Seventh
Tables
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