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THE H ermiston H erald VOL. XIII HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30. 1918 VER $12,000 WORTH OF ALFALFA SEED HARVESTED One of the staple products of I__ his government project here- ifter will no doubt be alfalfa Heed, for the handsome returns “from this crop this year to those Hho have raised the seed demon- | H. L. Payne, who recently moved "strates its paying qualifications, onto the ranch that he purchased Kerb Strohm and C. F, Ames, from Isaac Jay east of town, last week “who have operated the only lost three fine hogs from his herd of "alfalfa huiler in Eastern Oregon, 35. The manner in which they died "pulled in the latter part of last indicated that they were infected “week from a most successful | with desease of some kind, and being season’s run of six weeks on the afraid that it might spread and that Kermiston project. The tonnage he would lose more of the swine he Killed totaled 25, and the yield telegraphed to the state veterinary Bon the various ranches on which board at Salem. In response W. H. they operated varied from 250 to Lyle, a member of the board, came to 700 pounds per acre. The qual- Hermiston Monday and in company ty of the seed is the finest, and with Dr. Peed made an examination, he price holds steadily around pronouncing swine plague as being the cause of the demise of the anim 25 cents per pound. While there were many indi- als. This is a mild form of cholera, ridual ranchers that raised and would have spread among them alfalfa seed on their places this if precautions were not taken to pre tear, we will only give the vent. The veterinary therefore vac names of those having the larg- cinated the remaining 32, and Mr. est acreage, no record having Payne now believes that the disease been kept of the product of small has been nipped in its incipient stage. It is the advice of the veterinary to tacts or the various loads haul- all hog raisers hereabouts to keep a Id from different places to the machine, these having been careful watch, and at the first sign of bunched in making the estimate any form of the disease appearing to of 25 tons. L. W. Furnas leads telegraph him, so that he can come with the largest acreage and and investigate. likewise the most pounds of seed paving secured 22,000 pounds from 65 acres. N. B. Whitford secured 2,275 pounds from five peres, Eli Winesett 1,800 pounds from five acres, R. C. Canfield Many ranchers are becoming keen 1,200 pounds from two and one- to the possibilities of good and large half acres, and Ray Fisher 2,000 crops being harvested off properly fertilized land, and therefore the pounds from nine acres. The market price of. alfalfa more progressive are acquiring the seed is quoted at 25 cents, and latest improved machines in order to thus it will be readily seen that | do the work of fertilization in a pro- ill the growers will derive a per manner. Among these are J. H. handsome profit this year from Reid and Henry Sommerer of Colum the product. And this is in bia district and Wildon Mitchell of addition to what the ground pro- Stanfield, who within the past ten duced in hay to some before lett days have each purchased of Sappers’ Inc. a Litchfield manure spreader. ing the second crop go to seed. 43 BRITISH WOUNDED PASS THROUGH FRENCH LINE PLANS FOR............. SOLDIERS WAIT TOO LONG 485863.280888-, HOG RAISER LOSES THREE FINE PORKERS LOUD DARKENED THEIR THANKSGIVING DAY rt - sr.: ero. f itommy During the fiercest of the fighting in a buttle In France British wounded on the way to hospitals were carried past the lines of the French. As he passes the trenches filled with machine gunners in action this woinded Tommy, interested, has raised his head to watch his French cousins help hold the Hun Away at the rear In the woods cavalry horses ctn be seen corraled while their ridera wait the command to advance. a grin from ear to ear. I’d sure like to see the kid. 1 haven’t seen him DOYNTON BOYS WRITE since he left here and we're only 127 miles apart. Well, I guess I’ll go out TO THEIR PARENTS and celebrate some more. Lovingly, New York U. S. S. C. 59 Earl Boynton November 7, 1918 Dear Dad: Got your letter Monday and was darn glad to get it. Well 1 guess the war is just about over. There was an extra out in New York last night saying that peace could be expected in forty eight hours, so by the time you get this it may be all London.—The chaotic political con over. We just got in last night from the ditions In Germany are emphasised in roughest trip we ever had. We had to reports from Amsterdam and Copen- go to the galley for what we could get hagen. to eat. Couldn’t think of setting the There Is a general lack of harmony table. We almost lost our mast and tn different parts of the country and if it had gone the wireless aerial • tendency toward separatism. Bol would have gone too. One of the for shevik ideas are declared to be grow ward guys broke and we bad to use ing in the west, where a Rhenish re b’oek and tackle to hold it up. We public is said to be planned. lost a depth bomb overboard but the The Bremen soldier’ and workers' fork wasn’t out so it didn’t go off. council has declared itself in complete We don’t think anything of the boat accord with Bolshevism and resolved listing from 45 to 60 degrees any more. to call on the Bolshevik in Russia to Go over the top of one wave and plow help introduce communism. through the next one and two or three The Spartacua group at Dusseldorf feet of water runs over the deck. I Is reported to have proclaimed a pro thank my lucky stars that I am on the letarlan dictatorship and arrested the burgomaster of the city. bridge. I got a letter from Earl last night Dr. Karl Liebknecht, the radical so He’s well but broke. I am going to cialist, was acclaimed at a Spartacus try to send him five bucks next Sun- meeting in Berlin which Issued an ap Besides the above they have sold to day. I get a little more than he does. peal to the workers to emulate the Say dad, get the October Post and Russian Bolshevik!. The meeting re ranchers several other items running read “The Sea Terriers.” It is cer fused to listen to moderate socialist into heavy weights, this meaning tainly true to life. Well I have to call speaker*. more than anything else that the Her my relief as it is 4:20 and I want to miston section is improving fast in get a couple of hours’ sleep before Thirteen Can Wrecked breakfast, Tell mom that she will the way of better equipment. One of the worst freight Large shipments of sulphur for fer prepared to make lots of Since having embarked in the im have to be tilizer use are being brought into Ore hot cakes and biscuits when I get wrecks to occur on the O. W. R. plement business as an additional Love to all, & N. for a long time was that home. gon. It is only recently that soil in line last spring Sappers' Inc. have Vane Boynton which took place on the Coyote CHAOTIC CONDITIONS PREVAIL IN GERMANY LOCAL RANCHERS PRE PARE FOR SPRING CROPS All the cheer of Thanksgiving was taken from the home of Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Hayden of this city after receipt of a telegram Tuesday inform ing them of the death of their sou ohn, who was 32 years old and a lieutenant in Co. G, 163rd Infantry. This company gained fame at the battlefront in France, and it was while leading his batallion “over the top” on the 14th day of October that a shell burst, pieces of which struck him on the arm, thigh, head and back. He was immediately taken in an ambulance and conveyed 26 miles to the base hospital, where he was operated on and all pieces of the shell but one in his spine removed at that time, according to a letter he wrote his parents on October 21st, in which he described how he was wounded. He also said in the letter hat he expected to rejoin his com pany in a short time. It seems, however, that the piece of shell in his spine was what killed him following the last operation for its removal, the dispatch saying that he died on the 28th day of October. Sulphur increases crop production with certain crops and soils for a value far in excess of the costs. Since it may be a plant stimulant its continued use is best safeguarded by feeding the crops on the farm and re turning the manure to the land. “In some cases a gain of two or three tons of alfalfa were obtained by the use of 80 pounds flowers of sul phur,” says W. L Powers, head of Making improvements U. S. Submarine Base Nov. 10, 1918 Dearest Mom: You wouldn’t believe it of me but I’ve been the busiest per son you ever saw—tending to my social affairs. I went down to Montville to a dance last night and stayed just long enough to miss the last car home. I didn’t have my usual luck in catch ing a ride. It was something like twelve when we started from Mont- ville and just three when we finally pulled into New London. I never, never was so tired and every time we stepped on a rock or in a bole we reeled and staggered like we were drunk. We didn’t even have time to take our clothes off and bad to work till lare tonight. I bave to do my washing now, so I'll finish ibis tomor- Col. J. F. McNaught has added some necessary improvements to his magnificent alfalfa ranch near this city in the way of a concrete black smith shop, concrete water trough row. November 11,1918 The sudden and unexpected close of the war has probably put an end to movements for providing lami homes for soldiers. The soldiers will be home before any progress could be made on reclamation of land for their benefit. Secretary Lane estimated it would require a million or two even to make the preliminary study necess ary to work out a plan and determine location of suitable lands. He had in mind irrigation of arid lands, drain age of swamp lands and clearing ol cut-over lands. Any project would require a year in preparation and at least another year before the land would be ready for cultivation. Be fore this could be accomplished the men will practically all be discharged from the Army, says an Oregonian News Bureau dispatch from Wash ington, D. C. Both Oregon Senators introduced bills designed to start work along this line, but neither bill was acted on. Chamberlain’s hill provided for con struction by the United States of irri gation and drainage projects through contracts with districts organized un derstate laws. The bill assumed that the land would be in private owner ship and that owners would vote bonds, which, deposited with the Se cretary of the Interior, would be the Deceased enlisted at Lewiston, Government’s security against loss in daho, where he was professor ol the construction of the reclamation agriculture in the schools there. system. It was the plan of the Chamberlian News of the death of their son was a sorrowful blow to the parents and his bill to provide employment for re sister here and three brothers and a turned soldiers on the reclamation sister at Lewiston. The bereaved projects and to afford them a special family have the sympathy of their opportunity to acquire homes within the projects on which they worked. many friends in this community. The McNary hill had a similar pur ULPHUR IS PROFIT ABLE FERTILIZER vestigators have found how important made so many sales from their 1918 sulphur is as a food, liberator of stock that they have found it necess other mineral plant food, and aid to ary to order their needs in carload lots. bacterial activity. The shipments At the present time they have a car- are a result of several years of invest load on the way from Portland, hav igation conducted by the state agri ing been shipped this week, consist cultural college at the central and ing of Litchfield manure spreaders, several branch experiment stations. farm trucks, disc harrows, spring The experimental findings have been supply of mowers, rakes and side de verified by numerous field trials livery rakes, disc drills, spring tooth through county agents and farm own- harrows and several other items, adv ers. NO. 11 cutoff near Messner Friday of last week, when thirteen cars were smashed out of all shape and semblance and their con tents scattered along the right o way. As luck would have it no one was injured when the crash came as a result of a broken jour nal caused from a hot box. It took the wrecking crew a couple of days to clear away the debris. during which all trains wert' routed through Hermiston. COUNTY COURT TRIMS VARIOUS BUDGET ITEMS In the published statistical budget of the County Court it is noticeable that retrenchment has been the watch- word, and that wherever possible sums have been lopped off of items all through. The road fund is just a shade higher than last year, but at best it is low enough at $135,450, the amount scheduled to be expended by the budget. The reason for it not being higher is that the 6 per cent in- crease allowed by law is taken up by increased salaries and increased opera ting expenses in other departments of the county administration, accord Vandal on North Ridge While in town Wednesday Judge J. T. Embry said that something would soon have to be done in order to curb vandalism among a few North Ridge youths, who for some time past have had a penchant to destroy windows and doors id vacant houses in that neighborhood by pecking the ing to the announcement of the Coun ty Court in submitting its budget for pose hut provided that the reclama- tion work be under control of the Se cretary of war—the main purpose be ing to provide homes for returned soldiers. The reclamai ion work was to I be treated largely as an institute for a pension system. A bonding I provision is part of the McNary plan, । with repayments to cover a period of 50 years, with a low rate of interest Since cessation of hostilities and the certaintv that the soldiers will soon be returing there has been less evidence of concern as to employ- ment. Almost every kind of indus- try is clamoring for help. Farmers are told they must raise greater crops next year than ever and they want to know where they are going to get the labor. Shipyards are still calling for labor and recruits for the merchant marine are needed. Almost every kind of nonessential work, from painting a house Io building a sky , scraper, has been deferred because of the high cost of labor and materials. the coming year. The work of ie county agric ultur ist and the county demonstrator of home economics this year will be With labor and materials plentiful lumped together in the budget with this deferred work will he taken up. a fund of $2500, and they, with the It is doubtful, therefore, whether there aid of the County School Superin- will he any abnormal amount of idle- tendent, will have charge of the coun ness after the soldiers return home, ty industrial club work. unless foreign manufacturers succeed The County Library, the fund for which was increased $2000 this vear. , in selling their products in our mar- will undertake to work out and oper kets, thus limiting American produc ate this year a system of circulating ! tion. books among the schools of the coun Steel in His Eye ty under the direction of the County and a large concrete manure pit. Well, at last the armistice is signed Superintendent ■ While it took some money to make and no fooling about it. The whole these improvements at this time on bunch from here went to town and Gunner’s Mate Writes Everybody went crazy account of high price of material, the celebrated. ana the crowds were noisier than a in .7 I. P A letter from Alfred W inslow, who Colonel feels that the outlay is amply Round-Up*. as soon •• the building* with 22 calibre the soils department at the college. enlisted for four years in the navy justified by the convenience and value armistice was signed the law against Judge was in the best of humor JuUs. "I—P % — — ---- "Grain crops have shown 20 per cent they will be to the form. Contractor uniformed men buying booze was can: he had been greasing hi* palate with from here twelve months ago, lohi» Ulerease from sulphur fertilization. August F. Beisse done the work. celled because it was only a war law ■ 283 pound porker that he butcher parents. Mr. and Mrs. James " in Increase yields with some crops slow, says that he now ranks as third and nearly every place you looked ed Mondav. have run as high as 500 per cent in there would be drunken soldiers or -------------- - --------- class gunner s mate on the U. 7 Southern Oregon trails’ conducted by sailors scrapping. Richmond, — and Artistic Display ------ , . J. I tlus — that ----- his head cruiser ----4277 It was a most glorious Thanksgiv- There was a yoemanette killed In An excellent Thanksgiving display quarters are at Camp Perry, Norfolk F. C. Reimer, superintendent of the ing by _ the . that - - - was fittingly - observed . _ ' town today when * big truck hit the artistically arranged attracted much Va., where he expects . to . be .o branch station at Talent. all the people of this project, thankfulness car she and five others were in and attention and was • source of real rest of the winter. For eight mon The effects of one application of "omino from the bottom of their turned it over. She was crushed to I— — ---------- I flowers of sulphur lasts at least three hearts^ that the war had come to a death and the others were badly hurt, delight to pedestrians passing ° ths he was on the battleship Kansas, rifles. aod.n he tor years. Since the cost of application $3 an acre the yearly cost, Cone no rzazoude “". producing a gain of one ton of alfalfa ~ "L is $2 to an acre, is but one dollar. the churches, and little dinner parties s. Y. than he is. took place here and there. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE HERALD dezoas.". Eso-CCerxsem.sr.adaz: sel from V ane He won’be ? the ' chaser much longer and 1 " bet he has fully decorated the window. 7 1 ceding well. i- the - " J. 8. West, engineer in the big alfalfa meal mill of the J. 8. McNaught Co. in this city, had one of his eyes severely injured one day last week while grind ing chopper knives on an emery wheel. In the operation of the wheel particles of steel from the knife flew beneath the goggles he had on and five of them lodg- ed in and around the eye ball. He immediately ceased work, the pain being severe, and seeking the aid of a physian the little bits of steel were soon extracted. The eye is still weak from the effects of the injury, but the sight has not been impaired.