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.
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BRITISH WOUNDED PASS THROUGH FRENCH LINE
PLANS FOR.............
SOLDIERS WAIT TOO LONG
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HOG RAISER LOSES
THREE FINE PORKERS
LOUD DARKENED THEIR
THANKSGIVING DAY
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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,
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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
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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
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"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
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class gunner s mate on the U. 7
Southern Oregon trails’ conducted by
sailors scrapping.
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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—
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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.
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He won’be ? the
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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.