Hermiston Dairy and Hog Show, Oct. 22, 23, 24
State Dairy Convention, October 24 and 25
T he H ermiston H erald
VOL. XIII
HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 31. 1919
EC. LANE WILL YET REACH
M LAND RECLAMATION GOAL
•Through the kindness of Project
ganager Schilling we are this week
tabled to give the contents of a bill
■st introduced in congress which
has for its purpose the providing of
ployment and rural homes for
those who have sewed with the mil-
try and naval forces through the
eclamation of lands. This bill is to
L known as the “National Soldier
settlement Act.” and is almost iden-
leal in its aims to the one passed by
he last legislative assembly in the
late of Oregon, known as the "Ore-
Ln Land Settlement Act,” and
which is now ready for operation
Inder direction of the Land Settle-
lent Commission.
I The national bill provides for the
stablishment of a fund in the trea-
ury to be known as the "National
oldier Settlement Fund,” and the
kcretary of the interior is author-
zed to use the fund for the acquir-
ng by gift, purchase, deed in trust,
r otherwise, the necessary lands for
oldier Settlement Projects, and may
rithdraw, utilize, and dispose of by
ontract and deed public lands suit-
ible for such purposes. No lands
hall be acquired, however, unless
he price to be paid, and the condi-
ions under which they áre to be ac-
juired shall be approved by a repre-
tentative of the Governor of the
hate in which the lands are located;
in appraiser designated by the Fed
irai Farm Loan Board; and the Sec-
etary. Projects shall be selected
with a view to the development of
ne or more projects in each of the
everal States in which feasible pro
sects may be found.
I The Secretary is authorized through
such agencies as he may provide to
engage in such undertakings and do
F nd perform such work as in his
pinion is necessary for the perman-
■nt reclamation or development of
the lands of projects, and when he
deems essential to place them in con-
dition for use and cultivation, in-
eluding the building of essential
public roads. The Secretary shall,
so far as possible, utilize the ser-
vices of soldiers for such purposes.
I The Secretary may also, through
agreement with soldiers, make pro-
vision for necessary improvements,
but the contribution from the fund
shall in no single case exceed $1,-
200, nor in excess of three quarters
of the cost or value of the improve-
ments.
ments made under the contract for
failure to comply therewith.
Patents or deeds to pioject lands
issued within ten years from the date
of contract of sale shall contain the
condition that no transfer, assign
ment, mortgage, or lease made dur
ing that period shall be valid with
out the approval of the Secretary,
and no transfer, assignment, mort
gage, or lease of any right, title, or
interest held under a contract of sale
shall be valid at any time without
the approval of the Secretary. The
Secretary shall make all necesary
regulations for the carrying out of
the provisions and purposes of this
act and for safeguarding the inter
ests of the settler and of the United
States, and is authorized to issue
patents or deeds for the public and
private lands embraced in farms.
tracts, and lots within projects.
The Secretary is also authorized
to make short-time loans from the
fund, not to exceed $800 at any one
time, to a soldier settler for the pur
chase of necessary live stock and
equiqment, and provision shall be
made for the repayment of such
loans during a period not to exceed
five years with interest on deferred
payments at 4 per centum per an
num, payable annually, computed
from date of contract: Provided,
That no such loans shall exceed 60
per centum of the cost of the live
stock and equipment purchased.
Whenever any State shall provide
funds to be expended in cooperation
with the United States to provide
rural homes for soldiers, the Secre
tary shall have authority to enter
into contracts for such cooperation,
and when the State shall furnish
25 per centum of the necessary funds
the Secretary may authorize the
State, subject to his general super
vision, to carry on the subdivision
of the land, improvement of farms,
and the aid and direction of develop
ment after settlement. The Secre
tary is authorized to provide for re
imbursements of funds so advanced
by the State. He may also cooper
ate with other agencies to the ex
tent he may deem advisable and like-
wise provide for reimbursement to
them of funds advanced.
For the purpose of carrying into
effect the provisions of this act the
sum of $500,000,000 is hereby auth-
orized to be appropriated.
And in the Meantime
NO. 37
BUILDING OF MCKAY CREEK
RESERVOIR IS OBJECTIVE
Cooperative Creamery
Tomorrow the Hermiston Cream
ery will change ownership, and here
after it will be operated by the Coo
perative Creamery Co., the stock
holders of which new corporation is
composed mostly of dairy farmers of
the project. Something over a week
ago an agreement was reached with
the members of the
Hermiston
Creamery Co. and the above corpora
tion which terminated in its pur
chase by the local dairymen. It is
understood there will be no change
in the working force of the creamery
for the present, and that the new
owners have in mind the enlarge-
ment of the plant within
short
time.
COMMERCIAL CLUB DIN
NER ONCE EACH WEEK
A new ovation has been inaugur-
ated by the Hermiston Commercial
Club, and it bids fair to be both suc
cessful and a great drawing card for
town and country welfare. It is the
holding of a dinner Tuesday of each
week in one or other of the hotels
where matters of importance that
may come up from time to time can
be brought up and quick action ta
ken, thereby obviating the necessity
of waiting to transact such business
at the meeting of the Commercial
Culb once in each month.
The new idea was conceived by C.
S. McNaught after attendance at a
meeting and dinner of the Portland
Ad Club in Portland recently. The
initial meeting here has taken well.
I twenty persons sitting around the
banquet board at the Hermiston Ho
tel Tuesday noon when time was
' called to eat. After dinner such live
topics as the Union High School,
Butter Creek road, Dairy and Hog
I Show grounds, camping place for
tourists and Boy Scouts Day wore
discussed and committees appointed
to look after the details in connect-
ion with them.
The next dinner will be held
next Tuesday at the Hotel Oregon
Cafe at 12:30 p. m. AR who arc
members of the Commercial Club
arc eligible to attend, and they can
also bring an interested friend if
they wish. At that time the com
mittee reports will be received and
new topics will no doubt come up.
In His New Home
Sam Rodgers moved early
this
week bls shoe store and repair shop
from its old location on Hermiston
avenue to a building on Main street
that he recently purchased. In his
new location he has a fine plate
glass window, surounding which on
the inside are three mirrors, thus
making an up-to-date alcove for dis
playing his goods to the public, who
at the same time may glance in the
mirrors from time to time and view
themselves while taking observations
of the goods in the display window
The interior of the building is also
nicely fitted up.
Will Resume Operations
The alfalfa meal mill of the C. s.
McNaught Co. will resume opera
tions again next week on the new
bay crop after a shut down of nearly
a month, during which time the
machinery therein was given a thor
ough overhauling.
COLUMBIA NEWS NOTES
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE
FARMERS' EXCHANGE
HAS DISINCORPORATED
From forty to fifty stockholders
of the Farmers’ Exchange were in
...
attendance at the meeting in the li-
brary building last Saturday evening
to discuss the affairs of the institu
tion. which has been in a bad way
for some time owing to lack of money
to finance the business properly.
Last week the Exchange went in-
to the hands of a receiver, F. B.
Swayze having been appointed to ad-
minister its affairs and close it up.
Thus the meeting was called to de-
termine wether to make an effort
to liquidate its obligations or disin-
corporate and dissolve. After Presi
dent Auseon had called the meeting
to order John F. Reihl, attorney for
the Exchange, read a voluminous rc-
| port showing the conditions of the
Institution financially prior to and at
the time it went into the hands of
the receiver. This report was not a
very rosy one, and had much to do
with the after event of a motion be-
Ing made and a vote taken on the
proposition of dissolution, which
carried almost unanimously.
As a result of the carrying of this
motion the Farmers' Exchange of
Hermiston is no more, but it is to be
resurrected again under a new name
if plans formulated at the meeting
bear fruit. The new business enter
prise will most likely be launched
under a new name, and a committee
of five appointed at the meeting is
now busy on organization plans for
the new store.
Mrs. B. A. Newcomer left for Den-
ver, Colo. Sunday, where she will
spend the summer visiting her niece
and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Banks and Mr. and
Mrs. Lou Rogers motored to Yakima
last Wednesday and returned home
on Sunday.
Mrs. Danner, who has been visit
ing at the home of her sister, Mrs.
W. Cassady left Monday for Bend,
Ore.
Mrs. Frank Beddow left Tuesday
evening for Ingomar and Forsythe.
Mont., where she will spend a cou
ple of months visiting her sisters and
brother whom she has not seen for
six years.
Charley Williams of Portland, Ore.,
spent the past week visiting at the
home of his niece, Mrs. Tom Haddox,
and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Winter left Wednes
day for their home at Fresno, Calif.,
after spending several weeks here
visiting at the home of their Aunt.
Mrs. Belscamper.
II. A. McKeen made a busines:
trip to Ukiah on Wednesday.
The Neighborhood Club will meet
next Wednesday afternoon, June 3,
with Mrs. Reeves at the Hooker
home. Everybody come early and
bring your thimble. The last meet-
Ing of the Club was held at the
Bloom home, Mrs. Bloom having ar
ranged a very enjoyable program for
the afternoon, consisting of question
box, guessing contest, a few songs
given by the newly organized Colum
bia Quartette and readings by Mrs.
Sommerer and Mrs. Bloom on cur
rent topics. Everyone went home
feeling that they enjoyed the after-
noon immensely.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo Waller of Ya
klma came overland Wednesday to
visit at the Phipps and Waller home
Mr. Waller is a cousin of Mrs. Phipps
and Jack Waller.
Miss Bertha McKeen spent Wed
nesday visiting the Umatilla school
Mis. C. Joerndt and Mrs. Willard
Cochran, sister and sister-in-law of
Mrs. Jack Waller, came from Seat-
tie. Wash. Monday to visit at I he
Waller home.
Miss Laura Phipps and Miss
Elnora Briggs played at I he Recital
which Mrs. Reeves gave at the Her-
miston High School auditorium the
first of this week.
Mrs. Turner of Pasco, Wash , re
The lands of projects shall be sub-
Blood Poison Set In
divided into farms suitable for the
Marshall Newport is well again
support of a family and in the dis- after having suffered from blood
cretion of the Secretary into smaller poison, which he contracted in his
farm workers’ tracts, dedication left foot, and which was caused from
may be made for schools, churches, a small cut. The wound did not
community centers, and other public cause any trouble until after the
Purposes. Town sites suitable for
youth had bathed in the Umatilla
the purposes of the project may be
river, Shortly thereafter the foot
established, developed, and sold as
began to swell, and a physician's ex-
Provided herein.
amination disclosed that blood poison
Soldiers who are not the owners had set in. Mrs. H. R. Newport,
or proprietors of farms or rural his mother, hastened with him to
I tomes shall be eligible as purchas- Pendleton, where the poison was
hrs of a farm or farm workers' tract. checked under treatment of a spec-
Preference shall be given to those ialist.
Who have been employed in the de-
Grand Parade
Purchased Warehouse
velopment of such projects, and as
The
Decoration
Day parade yes
A.
Leathers
has
purchased
the
Has Secured the Cage
W.
between applicants with a view of
terday was stupenduously grand. It
warehouse
on
the
railway
Henry Notz, concrete and stucco | large
safeguarding the settler and the
was with pride that the few remain
worker of this city, is now a real es- right of way on the
United States, so far as practicable,
ing civil war veterans here took
tate owner, having purchased one of O. W. R. & N. tracks,
against loss or failure. The Secre-
used under lease since entering the their place at the head of the pro
lary shall make regulations general the McNaught cottages on the West hay and grain business several cession. The boys’ band under di
in character, or applicable to specific Side the latter part of last week. On months ago. The structure
was rection of Supt. Voelker was a pleas
learning of his purchase of a home,
projects, as to residence and cultiva-
built quite a number of years ago ing feature; then came the Spanish-
the friends of the young man are
American war-veterans, followed by
tion with a view of carrying out the
wondering if something is not going and operated by a corporation known a procession of school girls. Last
purpose of making the soldier settle-
as the Umatilla Storage & Commis
to happen to him soon. No doubt,
ments the permanent home of the
sion Co. When the company ceased came 30 autoes decorated with bunt
for when a bachelor secures a cage
soldier purchaser.
business a couple of years ago the ing. flags and flowers, after which
it is almost a sure shot the bird—or
warehouse was purchased by Judge came patriotic, speaking in the Aud-
The sale prices shall be fixed with
bride—will soon inhabit it.
Phelps, one of the stockholders in itorium.
a view of repaying the total cost of
All stores and other places of bus-
the concern, who came from Pendle-
each project, and the price fixed for
To
Hot
Lake
iness
closed during the day Friday,
ton Tuesday and closed the details
each farm, tract, or lot shall repre-
time connected with its sale to Mr Path- land services were held In the church-
Henry
Hitt,
who
for
some
sent as nearly as practicable its re-
es, with picnics here and there, and
lative and comparative selling value. has been suffering with rheumatism,
a ball game In the afternoon be-
Approved applicants shall at the departed the first of the week for
Auto Man Poisoned
tween the married and single men.
time of entering into contract of Hot Lake. Oregon, to remain there
Ptomaine poisoning seems to have During the day many went to the , turned to her home Sunday «
for
a
time
taking
the
baths
and
un-
Purchase make a first payment of 5
spending several days visiting Mrs.
been making the rounds of Hermis- j cemetery and decorated the graves Newcomer and Mrs. Felthouse.
per centum of the sale price. The dergoing treatment for the ailment.
The Executive Committee of
balance shall be paid in amortizing Ed. Hitt, recently honorably dis- ton this week, for on Tuesday and f departed loved ones.
Neighborhood Club consisting
payments extending over a period to charged from oversea service in the Wednesday John Schimke was for-
. Mesdames OH, Bloom, Phipps, Keller
be fixed by the Secretary, not to ex-army, came from Portland the first
John Day Project
and Felthouse held a meeting Wed-
ad
|
care,
his
illness
coming
aiter
he
h
seed forty years.
Sums advanced of the week and has taken a position
At last the John Day I irrigation nesday afternoon at the Sommerer
I home
They have planned to give a
for improvements shall be paid in in his brother's confectionery store, partaken of preserved fruit.
district Is to be formed. It embrac
picnic at the school house
until
his
return
amortizing payments extending over and will remain
es thousands of acres of valuable grove on the 4th of July
Club Leaders Meeting
a period to be fixed by the Secretary. i from Hot Lake.
arid land that will be reclaimed by | rangements will be published at a
A meeting of the Boys’ and Girls’,
not to exceed
years. The
diverting the waters of the John Day later date.
Th* Grange and school picnic held
The hen’s greatest profit-produc Industrial Club leaders of the west liver over It. The formation of this
amortizing payments shall bear in-
at Columbia i chool last Saturday
terest at the rate of 4 per centum ing period is the first and second end of Umatilla county will be held district will add many more new
afternoon was well attended and a
annum, payable annually, com- ‘ years, and unless a hen is an espec- at the library building in Hermiston Here to Umatilla. Morrow and Gil good time was had. both from a re-
it
1:30
p.
m.
June
2.
All
club
lead-
freshment standpoint and entertain-
puted from date of contract. The •ally good breeder she should be dis
liam counties.
ment as well, several speakers from
contracts for the sale of the farms. posed of at the end of her second era are expected to attend. H. C
different parts of the county being
provide
for
laying
season
and
before
starting
to
Seymour,
state
club
leade
.
will
be
and lota shall
present.
Subscribe for The Herald.
cancellations and forfeitures'of pay- molt.
west side of the
which he has
That the Pendleton Commercial
Association will lend united effort
to bring about federal recognition of
the proposed McKay creek reservoir
site and work with this end of the
county In securing from congress an
appropriation for Its construction Is
evidenced in a letter received by E.
P. Dodd the first of the week from
C. K. Cranston, secretary of the spec-
ial
committee appointed
look
after the matter. This committee ii
composed of such well known Pendle-
ton men as J. N. Burgess, G. M. Rice,
E. P. Marshall, Dan P. Smythe and
J. R. Raley, and their report filed
with the above secretary and trans-
mitted in the letter received here is
as follows:
“Wo the committee appointed to
investigate the proposed
McKay
creek government reservoir for stor
ing water to be lined in irrigating
lands In the vicinity of Echo, Stan-
Held, Hermiston and Umatilla report
that we have conferred with repre
sentatives of the Umatilla River Wa
ter Users League and have investi-
gated the project from the different
reports and official Investigations so
far as these were available. We re-
commend that the project have the
unqualified and enthusiastic endor
sement of the Pendleton Association
and that this association Immediate
ly lend every posible support and as-
sietänee to secure the adoption of the
project by the government and the
early construction of the contemplat
ed works.”
It is estimated that the building
of the McKay creek reservoir would
cost In the neighborhood of $2,500,-
000. It would be located a short dis
tance beyond Pendleton, and the
storage water from It would be avail-
able for the reclamation of much
valuable arid land In this part of the
county.
By Its construction many
homekeepers would settle hereabouts
on lands that Is now hold in private
ownership waiting such a develop-
ment to place It on the market and
ilso government land that would
then be thrown open to settlement.
With practically the whole of the
county from Pendleton west united
on I he furtherance of this proposi-
tion. It would seem that the govern-
nient should lend a willing car to
petitions and recommenda-
I ions.
New Mown Hav
The first cutting of alfalfa Is In
East
full swing all over
West Extension of this project
n nd
and
on the Western Land A Irrigation
Co. project, also In the Butter Creek
district. Reports from the above
sections are that the crop is a good
one Baling will soon begin and new
hay will be rolling into Hermiston.
Did He Win or Lose?
Geo. Strobili is a man who will
always try anything once even If he
does gel beat at it. The other even
ing he came down town with a sack
of potatoes, from the sale of which
he was to purchase a few small ar-
Heles for Mrs. Strohm. A store-
keeper bartered him for a trade for
bananas, and George took him up
He claims he came out even on the
deal, but Mrs. Strohm does not think
so, for her better half forgot all
about what she told him to get for
her.
American Flier Across
The NG 4 Is the first flying mach-
Ine
have ever crossed the Atlan-
tic. It completed its journey from
the Stall's to Lisbon. Portugal, early
this week, and is now on the last le
tn England.
Harry Hawker and his navigator,
who had been given up as lost nt
has been saved, but their air-
vhip sunk at sea.
Boat Service Again
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Tipple
Umatilla visitors to Hermiston Wed-
nesday, and they brought good
with them that the steamer
mona, operated by the Oregon
Transportation Co., would arrive In
the Seaport City of Umatilla about
June 8th, on her maiden trip up th
Columbia From
bably go on up the Snake river to
Lewiston. Mr lippie, who is man:
ger of the Tum-a-Lum Lumber Co.
at Umatilla, has ordered a carload of
Gramona’s bunkers on
Itila for th above steamship cor 1-
pany, and ays that the boat will
make regular runs after she
back from her maiden trip