THE H ermiston H erald
VOL. XIII
HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 16. 1918
ESEARCH FOR RESERVOIR
SITES GIVE GOOD RESULTS
OLD GLORY1 FLIES ON GERMAN SOIL
INFLUENZA QUARANTINE
TO BE LIFTED TO
TONIGHT
For some years past investiga- stored flow of the Umatilla river.
ons and surveys have been
This preliminary survey work
has
been done under general in
e in the hope of finding a
structions
from the Interior De
¡table location for the storage
partment
to obtain advance in
f water to supply the irrigable
formation
as a basis for new
ds in the west end of Umatilla
The excellent sample of broom
work,
or
enlargement
of exist
nty not capable of being, irri-
corn grown by Sam L. Carson on
ted from the government Cold ing irrigation and drainage pro
his ranch near this city which is now
prings reservoir. Ten or more jects throughout the country.
on display at the Oregon Hardware &
tes have been considered, but that may be carried on after the
Implement Co. store may be the in
ey all lacked merit to such an termination of the war. It has
centive for some of our farmers to
tent that their construction been reported that the govern
diversify a little more next spring by
not been undertaken. There ment may adopt a policy of con
planting on their respective places a
numerous sites of ample structing reservoirs for irriga
goodly acreage of this cereal. That
pacity in the Umatilla river tion purposes at the expense of
its wonderful productivity in this soil
nyon, but the expense of re- the nation at large, instead of at
has been absolutely proven is well
oving the railroad out of the the expense of each individual
known, and this coupled with the
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE
nyon would make the cost of project; although all canals and
fact that at the present time it com
rvoir construction prohibit- ditches from the reservoirs to Mr. and Mrs. Ben Spinning returned
mands a good price on the market
the land to be watered would be the latter part of last week from Cali- Did Hermiston celebrate the real for the manufacture of carpet brooms
e.
news of the signing of the armistice?
During the past two . months, charged against the land bene- foruia.
Why
of course she did, and in a man goes a long way toward making of it
wever, the reclamation service fited. This policy of reservoir Mrs. McCune is spending the week ner that left no doubt but wbat the one of the staple crops of the project
with her daughter in Portland.
war was over. It was no small cale at no distant date.
as been making preliminary construction, however, is only in
Mrs. William Switzler is still quite bration like the one when the fake
prospect,
so
there
is
as
yet
no
This cereal, if grown in quantity,
rveys in the McKay creek can
certainty of its ultimate adopt sick with influenza, but Mr. Switzler news came, for the real grand parade should prove one of the best money
on, some thirty-three miles
is much improved and is able to be Mondav, with real band music, was
ion.
about. Mr. Compton and several of something to conjure with for years to makers on the farm, for recent quo-
m Hermiston, where two
Now that the war has practic- [ ’he Greek boys are recent victims.
uable reservoir sites have been
come. Echo and Stanfield hove to ir tations from one of the manufactur
ound. McKay creek flows into ally come to an end, it has been Miss Ray, who has been staying at like manner, and when the three towns ing concerns on the coast show that
Dyxtra home, left last week for joined forces the procession that wend at the present time broom corn is
e Umatilla river about two suggested that construction work the
her
home at Dallas, Ore.
ed its way back and forth between the
iles west of Pendleton, and the on the McKay creek reservoir Ted Carroll was in Hermiston Satur above places was over six miles long. commanding the very enticing price
nyon extends south from that might possibly be started during day last, bringing home with him a It will take a long time to finally of from $200 to $450 per ton.
int. The McKay creek valley the summer of 1919. If this load of potatoes from the Farmers’ adjust peace proper, for Germany_is_
a very fertile one, and is now should occur, then it may hap Exchange for himself and D. C. Chap- now in the throes of internal turmoil,
but the signing of the armistice means
cupied by many farms. There pen that enough water will be man.
a
beginning of the end, fur which
wheat fields on the uplands stored during the following win Miss Lillian Busch, our lady opera everyone is thankful.
ter for one or two irrigations in tor, has returned from a two weeks’
rdering the valley.
the summer of 1920 on land sojourn in Portland.
Henry Shaffer, who has been
One of the possible reservoir
where the natural flow of the Lee Carroll spent Saturday and Sun
a
resident
of the project the past
ites is at the month of the Mc-
Umatilla
is
now depended on. day with his parents at Irrigon.
six
years,
during which time he
SPECIAL
CORRESPONDENCE
ay canyon, two miles this side
The full benefit of the new re Mr. and Mrs. James were Pendleton
has
worked
and been a constant
f Pendleton. The other site,
servoir would not be available visitors the latter part of last week. Dr. Dorn made several trips into this companion of J. H. Tabor, who
er south, is five miles from
for a year or two thereafter. D. C. Brownell of Portland was vis community this and last week and operates the Tabor ranch seven
endleton. Approximately the
iting at the Robert and Lou Brownell vaccinated several families, including
Some arrangements would, of homes last week.
Stillings, Hannan, Haddox and Wau- miles east of Hermiston, died
e amount of water may be '
course, have to be worked out Clint Harvey, who was reported as gaman’s.
Sunday forenoon. The body was
red in each location, but the
whereby the private projects being seriously ill at The Dalles, is Waugamans took their daughter embalmed by Undertaker Prann
tter of the two sites is regard
could purchase this stored water much better at this writing.
Jessie to Pendleton last week. She and after a short impressive ser
as the more desirable because
from the government.
Mrs. Searls of The Dalles is a guest had fallen from the chicken house and vice Tuesday was brought to this
f less material being required
severely injured one of her arcus.
The prospect of the McKay at the Reynolds home.
city and accompanied to the old
construct the dam and the
Miss Hattie Graham visited with her home in Pennsylvania for inter
creek reservoir is the brightest
d to be taken for the reservoir
brother, E. E. Graham, and family one
ment by his daughter, Mrs.
ing less developed than the J hope that has made its appear
day last week.
ance for some time for the de
Caston,
of Seattle, who with her
Columbia district was well repre
er location. At the south :
velopment of the irrigable land
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE
husband
came here on tele
sented Monday in the peace parade at
tion test pits are now being
west of the Umatilla river to the
graphic advice from Mr. Tabor
Hermiston and also at the bonfire.
ug at the proposed dam site.
no one on the creek has report
full extent of its productivity, ed As
Miss Albrecht is still ill but much of her parent’s death.
any cases of the flu and if none are
h of these reservoir sites has
Deceased had attained the ad
for that land is regarded by reported this week school will open, improved over a week ago, not being
estimated storage capacity of
confined to her bed so closely.
vanced age of 72 years, and al
many
people
as
being
among
the
,
and
perhaps
tbe
Butter
creek
dance
m 50,000 to 70,000 acre feet of 1
A new house is being erected on the ways enjoyed good health right
desirable in this section of hall also.
ater.
If the government most
1
ranch of Rev. Jones. When complet
upto the last. On Sunday about
the county.
Mr. and Mrs B. J. Nation motored ed it will be occupied by W. Spencer.
ould conclude to utilize the
to Pendleton Monday to help the Per-
10:30
he came in from the yard
Miss Gertrude Simmons spent Wed
cKay canyon, only one reser-
dletonians celebrate peace. They de
after
a
short walk around, and
nesday and Thursday with her parent-
ir would probably be built
clared they yelled until they couldn’t
after a few remarks on general
at Tip-Top ranch.
bear themselves think, and after that
A reservoir at McKay creek
Mrs. W. N. Wheeler received her matters with Mr. Tabor lay down
they thought the other people were
ill have an unusual advantage
first
letter from her husband, Lieut on a couch for a little repose.
making too much noise.
Wheeler, now in England, since he Inside of ten minutes after he
ver many other locations, for it
A jolly party indeed was tbe party sailed six weeks ago. He wrote that
ill not be necessary to construct
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Reeder that motored out to I. D. Basey’» last the trip was fine, only not exciting had stretched himself on the bed
y canals to convey the and daughter have returned to Sunday and partook of a fine chicken enough as not a "sub” was sighted.
he had passed away, the only
r to the reservoir or to Hermiston from Florida after an dinner. The party consisted of Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Beddow and sign of his departure to the land
y it away. The flow of the absence of eight years. The and Mrs. Harold Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Simmons took a motor trip Mon beyond being a little heavier
k will be used to fill the gentleman is a carpenter and Wishart, daughter Elsie, and two son*. day to Heppner. Eo route they slop breathing than was his wont.
ervoir, and then as the water plasterer, and in the early days Hav hauling is not progressing as ped for lunch at a small grove and Death thus came quietly and
y be needed for irrigation, plied his trade here, and has re- rapidly as it should on account of car cooked in true campers' style.
peacefully, as he had asked in
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Neimeyer, now
ter the spring and early snm- entered the business in partner shortage at Westland.
his prayers that it should. Old
at Portland, are tbe proud parents of
er flow of the Umatilla river is ship with his brother, Levi Reed- Mrs. I. D. Basey «as in Hermiston a baby girl. Mra. Reid just received age caused his death.
Tuesday for the first time in two |
er, it will be allowed to flow
word from tbe happy grandfather.
er, The journey from Florida months.
Sentenced to Eighteen Month*
wn the bed of the Umatilla to was made all the way in a Ford Mrs. B J. Nation is the United War
Wilford
K. McFaul was Mon
e present intake canals of the touring car with but very little Worker» representative on the creek
Contains • Joker
day
sentenced
to 18 months im
ious projects near Echo. The trouble being encountered.
and was out Wednesday getting sub- I When a person get» something for
prisonment
on
McNeil's island
scriptions
for
tbe
fund.
nothing,
»aid
something
usually
con-
inter and spring flow of Mc-
P
’
—
ind
— - - tains a joke« or has * string attached for having robbed the mails dur
y creek is known to be ample
Geo.
ureter who a . .
toit. For instance, a certain preacher
In Their New Home
fill one reservoir, and it is
and broke his arm and one rib, is gett received from the patent medicine ing operation by him of a rural
ght it would be sufficient to J. McCoy, proprietor of the Her ing along fine and able to enjoy riding company an Offer to provide hischurch route out of Echo. His trial
wi ith song book, free of charge. - It took place in the federal court at
Pply another, if a second one miston Second Hand Store, has in an auto.
Work on tbe high line ditch will was explained that there would be a Pendleton, and during the pro-
moved
his
family
from
the
ranch
uld ever be built; but if the
soon be completed for this year.
few adds in the front end beck of the
w of the McKay should prove he formerly operated on the west There is talk of there being a sec- books, but that these ads wou'd not be reedings, among other evidence
that went to show
that he had a
t to be enough for two reser- side of the Umatilla river to the tion house at Westland some time
in offensive to the membersof his congre
astatine valuable
irs, then the water from Birch residence house on the acre of tbe near future. If there is a section gation, since the books were being se- penchant for extracting, ? J J
k could be diverted to the ground on Fifth street in New house and tbe school teacher and ber cured for nothing. Tbe preacher gave | letters was the fact that ne had
McKay. These two creeks are port addition that he recently husband and family move into tbe the order and the books arrived. He purloined one containing a check
school houee Westland will
have ite found the lines to be mildly worded for $80 drawn by a local firm and
less than three miles apart where purchased from Col. Newport. start in tbe way of a town; then the and decided to use the books. He ex iac 1 dressed to a gentleman on the
The acre is well improved with a next thing that we will expect is for plained from the pulpit bow the book*
they could be connected.
route. This check was cashed
This stored water would not family orchard, and the interior some one to improve one of the lots had been secured, and announced that
in
Pendleton by the mail robber
only be supplemental to the of the four room house has been and have some water on the townsite, they would sing No 274. Imagine the
people's surprise when on reaching and the money spent.
Present Cold Springs reservoir semi-modernized, so that now A. I. Basey has at last got his car to the second verse, they found themsel
running again and we naturally sap-
it
makes
a
very
comfortable
for the government project, but
With the lifting of quarantine the
pose that he is getting reedy for tbe ves singiog: "Hark, the Heavenly an-
local Red Cro-s has resumed work
gels
sing.
Johnson's
pills
are
just
the
could also be used for the Fur- home.
wedding procession which Mr Marks
again, and it is requested that all who
thing; Angelic voices meek and mild
nish Ditch Company and the
intend* to spring on us.
can possible do so attend. The room
City Clerk C. M. Jensen is having •
KO for man and one for child "
Western Land A Irrigation Com new kitchen and bedroom added to his
pany projects, as well as for the home in the southwestern part of Another carload of dry land potatoes Ob, you cidsget ready tor school and the Wednesday evening class will
Whitman county
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Frank was received from
“
begin again as heretofore.
Cantractors Levi and
several smaller projects which
this week by the Farmers’ Exchange, next Monday morning
Reeder
are
doing
the
work.
now obtain water from the un
BROOM CORN QUOTED
AT $200 TO $450 TON
UMATILLA ITEMS
CELEDRATION WAS
TDE REAL ARTICLE
DEATH PEACEFULLY
COMES TH AGED MAN
COLUMBIA NEWS NOTES
BUTTER CREEK ITEMS
RETURNED HERE AFTER
EIGHT YEARS ABSENCE
NO. 9
After a battle of three weeks in an
endeavor to stamp out Spanish influ
enza in this neighborhood, Mayor
McKenzie this Saturday evening will
proclaim the lilting ofthe quarantine,
which will admit of church going peo
ple to attend worship Sunday and
everything resume normal condition
Monday. Simultaneously Chairman
J. D. Watson of the local school
board will serve notice of the re-open
ing of the Hermiston school on Mon
day morning of the coming week.
Mr. Watson also desires to notify
teachers and pupils that school will
take up fifteen minutes earlier each
morning and the lunch hour shorten
ed that much at noon. This will
add nne-half hour to normal school
time, and is being done to make up
for lost time on account of the en
forced vacation.
The careful following of the quar-
antine regulations as laid down has
completely stamped out the flu here
it is thought, for only one new case
has appeared in Hermiston within
the past week, that being W. F. Smith
on the Dishon place in the western
part of town, and at this writing he
has almost fully recovered.
Out in Columbia district, however,
there are several cases yet, and on
this account quarantine on school
and gatherings may remain in force
therefor a week or ten days to come.
NEW DUTCHER SHOP
ABOUT TO BE OPENED
Within a few days another
butcher shop will he established
and in operation in this city, H.
W. Hoffman and Soren Jensen
having entered into pardnership
for this purpose. The new en
terprise will begin business in
the Kern frame building on Main
street which was formerly occu
pied by the Hermiston Second
Hand Store.
GRAVELING NORTH
RIDGE ROAD A DOON
Under the supervision of Road
Supervisor Leathers a streach of the
county road leading from this city
toward Umatilla is being graveled by
a force of ten men ami eight teams.
The work is bring done on a sandy
part of the thoroughfare on North
Ridge leading west along the south
side of the Leek ranch.
He’s Making a Record
The many friends of Philip L Lay
will be pleased to learn of hit making
a good record in the army. Last week
the divisional adjutant called Philip
and two other sergeants up from the
With regiment and told them that of
the 99 sergeants in their regiment
they had the highest rating, and said
there were plans under way to send
one or two non-commissioned officers
to different cities on a "camp welfare
mission,” and if it came up Sergeant
Lay and his two companions would
have a choice of accepting or rejet ting
the detached work. At a formal re
view Oct. 20, the inspector general
from Washington, D. C., stated that
Battery A. 38th regiment, F. A., was
the best trained battery now in train
ing in any of the camps in the U. S.
Auto Application Blanks
retary of State Ben W. Olcott a
quantity oí 1919 application blanks
for the registration oí motor vehicles
and chauffeurs, also a number of cop-
ies of the moter vehicle lew. These
will be distributed to any
application to this office.
who
one
may require such blanks or law
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