THE H ermiston H erald
• VOL. XIII
HERMISTON. UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY. MAY 3. 1919
NO. 33
865
PROPERTY
i TO
CHANGE HANDS RAPIDLY
THE PRICE OF VICTORY
By FRANKLIN K. LANE, Secretary of the Interior
What is Victory worth? What would we have given this time last vear
to have been assured of Victory’ What pledge would we have not made? And
now that our men have won will we hesitate to pay the bill? They paid, those
os of the Argonne, In blood and life. They will pay, many of them, through
a their long lives in suffering and In weakness, "very soldier that we see Is
a challenge to our hearts and to our pockets. They will not be a reproof. Their
eyes will never say that we are, what they never were, quitters. We, too. can
carry on. Generous they were and generous we will be Our pride we will
prove by thanksgiving, not in words but In dollars loaned to Uncle Sam to pay
or bringing the boys back, for the guns that were never used, for the ships
that were not sunk, for the care of the men who did not die, or the rebuilding
of the men who almost “went West."
All the wise men said it will be the fall of '19 before the Kaiser will be
driven into his own country. Our money would have gone throughout the year
to make that hope good. But the Hun was driven hack. He lost heart and
cried Kamerad!" a year before the promised time. And the Kaiser fled, a
fugitive from a beaten nation—and so short a time since he had been in part
nership with Gott"! How many Victory Bonds was It worth to hear th t
news? Victory is not ours until we have earned It, paid for it and got the
receipt in the peace treaty, with a guarantee that we shall hold what we have
won the right to live In peace. Your Liberty Bond paid for the gun that
drove him into exile. And your Victory Bond will make sure that he will not
come back.
GOOD ROADS WILL UNITE
EAST AND WEST OREGON
During the month of April Her-
Two sections of Oregon that
Liston property has changed hands North hill for $2500 to S. J. Gould,
Club Will Meet
separated by a great distance ge
I, ore rapidly than at any time since and W. Primer purchased the Par-
Monday night is the regular meet graphically on account of two bar
the palmy days of the beginning of lee Bishop place of 20 acres on the
ing time of the Commercial Club, rier mountain ranges are figurative-
the town two years ago. It is appar north side of the project.
and every member and their friends ly joininghands for n united drive
have got to be there, for the reason on the ballot boxes at the speci: I
ient on every hand that Hermiston
that now is the time and opportun state election In June. That great
has come back. When the first
Ordered to Retrench
building boom struck the towi 12
ity for all of us to pull for a great- stretch of empire known as Eastern
Notification from headquarters
er Hermiston and surrounding coun Oregon Is enthusiastically working
rears ago last fall, hundreds of lots was received at the local reclama
try. There are things to he done Io give the coast counties of Oregon
were sold and nearly one-half mil- tion offices recently by Project
light away, and the initiatory for the Roosevelt highway; the seven
Ilion dollars were invested within Manager H. M. Schilling to cut ex
accomplishing them will be taken at great coast counties comprising
less than two years time. During penses for the months of May and
the meeting. Besides there is go one-seventh of the area of the state
that period not an acre of ground June 35 per cent. This will cutout
ing to be eats—and eats in plenty
was developed throughout the irri- all supplemental construction on
are just as enthusiastically working
after the meeting, so be there.
gated district tributary to the town, both the east and west extension for
Io develop the irrigation projects of
lit was soon found that the town the time being, but the operation
the East Oregonians.
could not thrive without agricul- and maintenance part is taken care
Adds Music Room
An apt illistration of the friend
E. W. Mack, proprietor of the Her- ly spirit that is animating the coast
turai development nearby.
Proper- of by an agreement reached at a
miston Drug Co., not content with counties is a rally held at Gardiner
tv values within the city limits came meeting of the officers of the Water
the installation of a handsome mar- on the Umpqua river recently when
to a standstill. Scarcely a sale was Users’ association and the project
ble soda fountain recently, went a settlers came by the hundreds Io
made for years, in fact, few sales manager. Money comes to the re
step further this week by having boost for the Roosevelt highway
were made by the sheriff. But the clamation service from two sources,
Contractor J. W. McDermed build bond issue. Some of those in i at-
country for miles around has been namely, the sale of public lands and
a very much needed music room in tendance came from points miles
developed into prosperous farms and repayments. Within two months of
the rear part of the store. This is distant in boats. More than a I t hou
has finally grown beyond the town the end of the fiscal year the service
TO THE WOUNDED SOLDIERS OF THE AMERICAN ARMY
filling a long felt want, and will nc sand gathered at Gardiner to li ea r
as far perhaps as the mushroom finds itself without funds, thus the
The White House..
doubt
be well patronized by music President S. C. Pier of the Roosevelt
period grew beyond the country. call for retrenchment.
I could tell you what the sacrifices you have made have meant to the
lovers
of the community.
Highway Association explain f he
Conditions in Hermiston have been
In view of there beng no use for world. I could tell you what history for all time to come will say of you and
wonderful possibilities that will be
improving greatly for two or three the government pipe yards for the of the sufferings you have experienced on your great crusade. But these
the greatest iconic boulevard In the
years, but this spring has witness present, they have been leased to things other men will tell you.
I prefer to remind you that the wounds you bear are tne noblest badges ot
world.
ed the most positive devolopments the Newport Construction Co., which
honor any man has ever worn; that they exalt you to a supreme place in the
The assemblage not only endors-
toward the future building of the firm will operate them in connection
SPECIAL
CORRESPONDENCE
minds and hearts of your countrymen and of all the world. I refer to assure
od the highway project, but it wont
city, which was hoped for years ago with state highway work and also you that America realizes that she has no more sol >mn obligation, no more
Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Sink of Was- on record with a unanimous resolu-
Not only has farm development add for commercial purposes.
patriotic duty than to express In practical terms the gratitude that every co. Orc., were visiting their dough
Hon favoring the passage of the Gal
ed to the resources of the town but
American—man, woman and child—feels for every one of you. America will ter Mrs. Joo Udey and family last
lagher bill whereby the Stale is giv
not
forget.
the building of the Columbia High-
In Hyman's Bonds
week. Mr. and Mis. Udey and en authority to lend its credit to Ir
—Woodrow Wilson.
way, on which work is now being
An interesting and beautiful wed
Florence returned home with them rigation projects approved by a spo
done on both sides of Hermiston, ding ceremony took place at the lo
td spend a few days.
etai commission consisting of Iho
Back
up
that
statement.
By
practical
terms
the
President
meant
money.
has added materially to the confi- cal Catholic church last Wednesday
The Rev. W. E. Armfield of state superintendent of banks, the
The Victory Liberty Loan will supply it. The President was counting on every
dence of the city’s future.
morning, when Mr. Ebner Mossie American, rich and poor, when he made that promise. Subscribe.
Spokane. Wash., will preach at Col state engineer and
attorney
Dr. M. S. Kern broke ground and Mrs. Edith Brown we’re united
umbia school house this Sunday al general.
Wednesday for his new $10,000. in holy wedlock, the Rev. Father
went home in that plight. The fires 3 P. M.
Letters and telegrams endorsing
garage on the corner of First St. and Butler officiating, assisted by Rev. MEMORIAL PAY COMES ON
were
dead in the forge, the farms
II. J. Stillings took a carload of the Gallagher bill arc pouring into
THE
30TH
OF
THIS
MONTH
Gladys Avenue. He is just complet Father Killean. The church was
had grown to weeds, the carpenter's cattle and hogs to the Portland the headquarters of the Roosevelt
The following is from the pen of
ing a $5000 addition to the Oregon profusely decorated with flowers for
tools were rusty, and the boys were markets last Saturday, returning Highway Association at the Imper
Isabel
Worrell
Ball
and
appeared
Fardware store building and has the occasion. The wedding march,
too old to take up the dog-eared home Tuesday morning.
ial Hotel from the chambers of com
bought the Russell Brownell lot ad- "I love You Truly," was played by recently in the National Tribune. It school books they had left in the
Thos. Sink and Joe Udey went to merce and other public-spirited or-
in
joining, on which he will erect Mrs. F. A. Chezik, and “The Rose of is most interesting, and is given
knife-scarred desks. There were nc Walla Walla to take In the Tractor ganizations all over the const. Simi
another building at an approximate the Cross,” was rendered by Miss full herewith:
"vocational” schools, no schools for demonstrations held these recently
lar endorsements for the coast high
Every newspaper you pick up
cost of $6000. The Masonic Order Marguerite Watson. After the cere
blinded soldiers. The shell-shocked
The following telegram was re way are reaching the association by
of
these
days
advertises
some
kind
has bought the Kingsley store build mony a wedding breakfast was ser
went on in that condition or died ceived by E. E. Graham from Puy- the score from the irrigation bells
sport that “will start May 30.” Why
ing including 75 feet of Main street ved at the Hotel Hermiston.
in insane asylums.
"I ar- of eastern,
allup. Wash., on Monday:
and centrili
May 30? What on earth makes all
fronting and is making plans for an
Yet out of all this riot of ruin the rived on April 26 at 6 p. ni. Moth Oregon.
The groom is a Portland police-
elaborate building in the near fu man who owns property here and the ball players, fist fighters, tennis men who made the Union rose su er and I are doing fine. Signed
The two hills are of kindred im-
ture. C. B. Hay has bought the the bride the mother of Mrs. Eli champions and golf fiends want to preme. and for more than 40 years Evangeline Alma Utterback." Con portance. The Roosevelt Highway
start
on
May
30.
Newport homestead, including H. G. Winesett. Here the romance that
after the war were the guilding ele- gratulations are in order for Mr. if built will bring millions of tour
Some fool women in New York ment in the Nation. They opened
Newport's home and 12 acres of has culminated in the marriage be-
and Mrs. E. E. Graham upon the ar ists to Oregon. These tourists will
ground in alfalfa, for $5000. Omer gan while Mr. Mossie visited occa have a new fad. They want to have the great West and followed I the sun rival of their first grandchild. Mrs. not only view the unparalled scen-
D. Burgess purchased a part of the sionally to look after his ranch. The a parade of broken-down work hor to its setting out over the Pacific Utterback was formally Miss Ruth ery offered by the highway, but they
original Newport holding with t happy couple, after a short honey ses on May 30. A lot of these They penetrated the forests of the Graham.
Invent
will seek opportunities
large residence on Fourth street, for noon i trip, will go to Portland to re sporty, gnat-brains come right out North into the gold fields of ’ the Yu-
Mesdames Phipps and Waugaman their money and make their homes
and
say
"on
Memorial
Day.
”
We
$3200.
Reeder
brothers
have side permanently.
kon. They builded great factorles
I
spent last Thursday evening at the In Oregon.
The great stretches of
I
will be glad and don glad rags and in the East, and made the Middle home of Mrs. Voelker in Hermiston
bought three lots from B. F. Knapr
land In the Irrigation sections offer
root for our favorite fad in sports.
near the railway station on which
West the granary of the world and while Messrs. Voelker, Phipps and the best kind of chance for invest-
Better Mail Service
All this is deplorable. Not the gridironed it with railroads, with Waugaman went to Umatilla and
they have commenced construction
ments. People of Eastern Oregon
Once again a change for the bet- sports themselves, but the tendency
of a shop for the building of hay
telegraph and telephone wires.
made
five
minute
speeches.
and
other sections that arc looking
ter has been made in the mail ser- to fasten in the minds of the Ameri
There were two and a half million
stackers, irrigation gates, drops and
Chas. Belchee went to St. An to their future development through
vice out of Hermiston, and. as of can people the idea that Memorial
men in the Union Army, and only a thony's hospital at Pendleton on Irrigation are only ton well aware
flumes. August Beisse has bought
yore, motor car No. 15 carries mail Day, May 30, which is a legal holi
little over half of these came back. Monday, where he will take osteo that anything they do to Insure the
two lots in the rear of the First Na
out of here to Umatilla, where it day in 40 States in the Union, is es
For these men, dead and living. pathic treatments.
tional Bank on which he will_erect
construction of the coast highway
will be distributed east and west. tablished for a joyous holiday, much
Memorial Day was established. It’s
Miss Wilma Waugaman took first will be therefore to
a concrete office for his contract
This makes of the service a good play and more eating.
We have the very least that any of us can do place in the 3rd. 4th. and 5th gradi est. For this reason they have been
business, and probably a shop. Frank
one, and means that those wishing about 20 joy days; I guess more
to let the world slip out of sight for declamatory contest held nt Stan glad to get behind the highway
Reeder has bought a home on the
their mail to depart from this point
west side of the track and two ad 12 to 24 hours earlier than hereto- when you sum them all up, so why a little while—Just a day—and re field last Saturday, and went tr movement.
seize upon the most sacred of all our member for that one day all the Pendleton on Friday to compete ii
ditional lots w’hich he will improve
Ing in mind that they must have holidays to start the sporting sea- honors, all the material wealth. If the county contest.
Llewellyn Brownell has sold his
A Grand Affair
their letters in the local postoffice son.
you will, that these two million and
Miss Danner of Pendleton Is vis
home on the vest side of town to a
The Eastern Star Dance which
on or before 5 p. m. each day ex-
May 30 has come to be recogniz- a half have brought to us and ours? Iting at the home of her sister. Mrs
man from John Day, who will soon cept Sunday.
was held last Friday night In the
ed in every State but the eight
The Spanish-American War laid W. S. Cassidy.
occupy the place. J. S. Mattoon
Auditorium was a grand success,
the
Na-
really Southern States as
tribute at the feet of a reunited
Mrs. Newcomber spent the : day About one hundred couples enjoyed
sold his home on Main street to J.
tional Sabbath of Patriotism. A country. Over in Arlington I saw Tuesday
Eighth
Grade
Exams
visiting nt the Heinl
F. Elliott for $1700. Peere Bokish
the fine music furnished by
Mrs. Walter Loyd has been sel- day when men. women and children one day 200 flag-draped coffins, be home.
has bought two lots from H. G. New-
er’s Orchestra from Pendleton. Sup
in
social
eighth
grade
Leonid
pause
and
gather
the
side 200 open graves. They were
Mrs. A. F. Warriner and children
port on Main and Fifth and will ected to conduct
Hermiston centers to tell tales of heroism of the dead of the Maine, and I had of Ft. Wayne. Ind . arrived here per was served at midnight and Io
build a home thereon. L. D. Lay examinations in the
These w ill be held the men who wore the blue and to the honor to be one of five who hold Wednesday morning to make this ward 2 o’clock the illuminated Eas
has made several purchases of town school district.
in
the
school
house
in this city some reflect on what that heroism means the first commemoration exercises their home. Mr. Warriner having ter Star commenced to wane and
lots, both residence and business
the strains of "Home Sweet Home"
to us who are living today.
over the Maine dead.
come some time ago to lake charge
lots. Bert Haneline has sold his time this month, the exact date of
brought one of the most enjoyable
The day was established by the
which
has
not
as
yet
been
given
out
And the dead of this war: They of the Ft Wayne Fruit Co. orchard
home and bought another home. In
evenings of the season to a close.
county school superintend- Grand Army of the Republic, May are as blades of grass for number,
1
Prof. Van Holderbeck of Spokane.
the old Bland addition, which was by the
com-
30,
1868,
for
the
purpose
of
over 9.000.000 sleeping here and Wash., was nere on Tuesday Inspect
sold by F. B. Swayze, were the fol- ent.
memorating the ideals of the dead of overseas and 'neath the ocean's Ing the orchards of the Ft. Wayne
Deserving of Praise
•owing lots: One lot to B. F. Par-
the Union Army, a day that has been waves. Fully 100,000 of them sleep Fruit Co., Erie Oregon orchard and
II.
M
Schilling Is one man that
He
Will
Remain
son, three lots to Minnie Reeder.
has proved himself capable of taking
rumor that had gained much held in such tender respect that 40 because America bado them do or Heinl tract.
four lots to William Brown and two
of the greatest States of the Union die.
Mrs. Jene Skoubo went to Port pride, both In and outside the limits
lots to G. a . Cressy. James Wishart credence the past ten days, which
have gravely incorporated It into
And
In
spite
of
all
these
millions
land
Wednesday for a week’s visit of the city, In the appearance of the
was
in
effect
that
Rev.
Casimir
But
has bought nine of Newports lots
their laws, not for “sports," but that of dead, whose names the people of
property of
ler
would
soon
be
removed
from
this
Mr.
and Mrs. Otto Sapper
adjoining his own on Fourth street
the people of the state might pause the country will honor In their Sunday guests of his mother, Mrs for as project manager he has made
to
another
missionary
district,
re
and Newport Avenue. Many other
for a day and think of their mighty hearts on Memorial Day. the miser- Anna Sapper.
a decided improvement in the »
sales were made the past month sulted in voluminous petition being dead.
peci of the surroundings of the
unpatriotic,
-------
.able,
short-sighted.
sent
to
the
head
of
the
mission
in
which have already been named in
But for the four years of awflsport-drunk men and women will
head offices of the government In
Altar Society Dance
the columns of The Herald. Plans this state by his admirers here and
town by having
fighting, when the Nations ‘ite “open the sport season ” on Memor-
A grand ball will be held at Audi the eastern part of
for three or four homes are now be- elsewhere in the county which has was in balance, there would be no
buildings that
had
all
dilapidated
effect
lal Day.
evidently had the desired
torium hall In this city Friday even-
ing made.
nation today, We would be in con-1 ' I remember one President of the Ing of next week under the auspice have been eyesores for years re-
and
it
is
almost
certain
that
he
will
Among the farm sales recently
dition of the waspish little nations United States who declined to visit of the ladles of the Altar Society of moved from that loc
made are the following: P. P. Suli- remain here.
Let the good work proceed until
controlled
hy banditti overseas The Arlington on Memorial Day. and the Catholic church. Good music
Father
For nearly ten years past
van has bought Dr. Cole's 40 acre
and
.
Butler has labored among the Cath-right won at a cost in lives
fishing Instead. Ills fine waxed floor adn delicious all other sharks and tumble dow n
.
who
tract southwest of town, which is all
buildings In that and other portions
money that staggered the Nation I ame was held up to scorn and obli-
refreshment are the things In store
in alfalfa, for $7500. J. H. Strohm olic communities of Echo. Stanfield.
The United States Government did quy
The country never forgot t or ! for those who will attend. Already of the project have been razed, and
Hermiston
and
Umatilla,
during
and Geo. C. Howard bought 46 acres
mightly little for the returning ve- i
thus make both city and country
many tickets have been sold for this
from H S Paddock two miles north which time he has been instrumen- terän» compared with what is being | forgave.
more beautiful.
way
to
build
the
Isn't
there
enough
real
honest-to-
I town near Lake Lane for $4000. tai in paving the denomination in done today. There were no trium goodness patriotism In this country social function, which insures its
success.
P 0. Noble of Vancouver bought churches of the
phal arches In enduring marble, no to call off these dogs of sport and
the E
I
Red Cross honor roll for May lati
from the Umatilla Farm Lands Co. these towns and from attached
pensions commensurate with the permit the country to get back to
Mrs. Taylor, Mrs. Parrish. Mrs. Me-
Are You a Member
acres near the Brunson orchard. number of signatures
perils endured, no waiting Jobs, no the spirit of the elder days.
No club has advantages larger I Keen. Mrs. Campbell. There i
he old W. f Sellers place was sold the petition sent in it ran readily be
soft
berths for returning soldiers.
understood
that
during
that
time
he
been
than
your Public Library. Interest- quite a little work on hand, and we
the
by Mr. Williams to a man tn
Mrs. J. J. Casserly, who has
The returning armies passed In re-
has
endeared
himself
to
all-
—
of
all
quite ill the past ten days. Is reporting books are there free for old or would like very much if more ladies
Lestern part of the state, who ha
| would conic and help.
already taken charge. S. IL Chris- religious faiths—with whom he has view in "ragged regimentals." an
young.
army of tramps, in appearance, and ed to be slowly recovering.
Hanson has sold his place on the . come in contact.
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