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A Summer
Journey
As usual, the farmer
will spend his summer
vacation in the har
vest field—crops
won’t let him get
away until fall or winter. But he can
travel — in hi ; mind — every evening
when the day s work is done, if he’s a
subscriber for
‘The COUNTRY
GENTI,EMAN
Just pull up a rocking-chair on the
front porch and take a trip with me.,
Partisan League. Wash-
ington, D. C., next stop—
to watch Congress in ses
sion. Then to old Colo
rado; back to Pennsyl
vania; clear across the
sea to Europe, and home
again!
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one issue of THE COUN
TRY GENTLEMAN —
the one you’ll get next
week if you subscribe to-
day. And you will travel
We’ll start in South Car
olina— see ’em picking
cotton I Then we’ll stop
off at the Virginia and
Maryland lime quarries.
Next let’s tun past the
cattle-covered hills of
' Tennessee. In New Jer-
sey wc get some new
ideas about feeding hens.
And then, with a big
jump, California-
Mother’ll just love those
bungalows! While we’re
West we’ll glance at the
big fort sts, and then fly
back to North Dal ota,
where Old Man Crai tree
is writing of the lion
Come on —it costs only
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such journeys. Let me
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ED. H. GRAHAM
Phone 581
Hermitton, Oregon
The Country Gentleman
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LONG AND SHORT
Alfalfa Hay
HAULS
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We are also in a
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Hunt Bros
At Hermiston Hotel
Hermiston
Oregon
By JACK LAWTON.
Stanton, riding village-ward for his
day’s supplies, saw the automobile
coming toward him at a clipping pace
CLEAN UP THAT BACK YARD down the country road. He had just
time to discern a girl’s white-clad 16
Matter of Importance That Does Not ure at the wheel before the machine
was upon him. pushing with a grating
Always Seem to Be Given
Jar his own little car into the ditch.
Consideration.
When Stanton arose, as he supposed
At various seasons we women faith unhurt, the girl, who impatiently
fully scour our homes from attic to awaited proceedings, bent again to the
cellar, and then stop at the back door wheel and disappeared amid a cloud
leading to the yard, which, after all, of dust. He had been too confused to
is a kind of outdoor room not always note either number or make of the fly
ing auto and his fleeting view of the
fully appreciated.
Many a woman most fastidious girl’s face, shaded by her low-brimmed
where the house proper is concerned hat, was too indistinct to remember.
tolerates a surprising degree of untidi But of what use?
His sturdy runabout was uninjured
ness in the back garden. Accumula
tions of house and garden trash are as be forced it out of the ditch, ‘and
not only eyesores, but positive men his own bones were intact and in their
aces to health. If you have been lax right places. Indignation was at first
in the past, get busy with broom and his overwhelming sensation.
“This autocrat of the roadway
bucket before the rubbish collectors
should be locked up like any other com
make their next round.
Dig into the corners, particularly the mon lawbreaker,” he fumed inwardly,
dark, damp angles under porch or and then a sickening realization of
shed. Let in the sunlight! Sunlight pain came over him—pain which shot
is the greatest purifier known. Get rid, from his right shoulder down his arm,
if possible, of the tall wooden fences making steering an impossibility.
Helplessly he leaned back In the car
which often surround even tiny yards
scarcely big enough to stretch a sheet seat, signaling help from a passing
across. Gruss and flowers refuse to teamster.
“I guess I've been hurt,” said Stan
grow In the rank shade, but snails and
microbes flourish amazingly. Let in ton. “A young woman drove her car in
the health-giving sunshine; keep the to mine a few minutes ago. Can you
yard neat and you should worry about find some one to drive me back to my
shack in the woods?”
the public gaze !
"Young woman in a big gray car?”
Let the children help in the work.
Bld them round up stray clothespins, the man queried. “That’s Lawton the
Thinks she
tin cans, old brooms and milk bottles. millionaire's daughter.
Don't make a clothes-prop rack of the owns the town in general. No mother,
lilac bush, nor a dishcloth drier of your and spoiled by her dad. His girl can
shrubs. Dig up plantain and dandelion do as she likes an’ he’ll pay. That’s
weeds from the grass while digging is the idea ! I’ll send a fellow right on
good. It will be doubly hard later in from the village to drive you home."
the hot sun when the roots are And he did.
The “fellow” left Stanton’s runabout
stronger.
Don’t let tradesmen take short cuts at the opening of the wood in its rough-
across your little grass plot, even if built shed, while painfully he made his
you have to set up wire guards, which way through the screened boughs to
are less unsightly than bald patches In his log cabin home. When Stanton had
the grass. Don't let the withered flow with difficulty prepared his own eve
er stalks of the iris now blooming hang ning meal he sank exhausted upon a
around all summer. Keep the borders bed by the window. It was here that
neat by cutting all withered leaves he watched the sun rise after a sleep
and flowers. Set a trash barrel in an less night, sinking later, breakfastless,
unobtrusive corner. Teach the chil into a sleep until noonday. Then, as
dren to throw into it all refuse not he lay upon his pillow, he reflected on
suitable for the garbage pail. Tell the the different types of womanhood—
kiddies you take pride in your tidy, the fortune-favored daughters and
pretty garden and they will take pleas- those working for a livelihood.
As Stanton reflected he endeavored
ure in helping the good work along.—•,
to rise—he would make a cup of cof
Philadelphia Record.
fee and get to his typewriter; but the
effort was unavailing. A step sounded,
NOW GOOD TIME TO BUILD muffled by the pine needles before the
cabin door, then a girl’s figure ap
Many Reasons Why Those Who Are peared in the opening.
Thinking of Construction Should
"Good-morning," she said, hesitating
Get It Started.
at the man's appearance of invalidism.
"I have wandered farther Into the
Building done these days Is quite wood than I realized, and Just when I
certain to be good building; better was becoming too thirsty I saw your
than the average quality in times home. May I, please, have a drink of
when real estate Improvements are water?”
more actively carried on. This Is a
“Certainly,” Stanton responded, “If
point worth considering as an offset.
in part, to high prices for material and you will help yourself. I find that I
am unable to help even myself.”
high wages In the building trades.
“Indeed?” asked the girl. She came
Contractors are sure to take unusual
pains to please those who give thein into the room, gazing curiously at the
business. They are not obliged, as prostrate figure. “You are 111, and
they have been, at times, to put up alone?”
"I live alone,” Stanton answered. "1
with almost any labor, however Incom
petent, that can be found, even among was hit by an automobile yesterday—
trumps and idlers. There have been how seriously, I did not know until J
periods, such as the last year of the returned here.”
Quickly the girl camelforward, toss
war, when the standards were so low
ered that almost anyone who could ing her hat upon a chain. "First, I will
and would work nt all was eagerly get something for you to eat.” she
hired for service which needed pains said. "Where do you keep your food?"
As she searched the wall cupboard,
taking intelligence.
All the wny through the various Stanton furtively admired the girl's
charming
face.
"You
trades that contribute to the building piquantly
of u dwelling or a business block there knew—” she asked presently, “the per
Is a strong desire to make the work son who ran into you?"
Stanton frowned. “I learned," he re
done so satisfactory that it will lead
to more employment. All who have plied. “that she was one of that irre
anything to do with real estate im sponsible class of women who consider
provements are anxious to promote a only the gratification of their own
revival of construction, on the largest reckless whims.”
possible scale.
"You talk like a book,’” the girl said,
These facts are important. They are smiling.
worthy of consideration by ail who are
“I write books,” he answered grim-
dealing with building problems.—Ex- ly; “that’s what I’m out here for.”
! change.
“Cooking your own meals?”
“Even that,” he told her, "is prefer-
able to being disturbed In my work.”
Proper Homes Important.
“And now—you will write up that
To provide proper homes for the
people Is one of the worthiest objects ‘poor rich girl,’ I suppose, as a horrible
•
of human endeavor. Proper housing example.”
conditions have been regarded as the
"She is a horrible example,” Stanton
basis upon which all other reforms Insisted. "She should be disciplined
and betterments must rest. Without What punishment Is the payment of a
decent home surroundings, light and speeding fine to her? Unless, indeed,
air, proper sanitation, we do not have she might be made to work out her
good citizens. All of this has been said own fine."
"You think that would help?” asked
many times before. The surprising
thing is that In this country, at least, the girl. She was bending over the
there has been comparatively little in- dead store. "Just how?” she asked,
terest in It among well-to-do who de- irrelevantly, "does one build a fire to
sire to aid with their wealth the well- make coffee? I know what I’ll do.”
being of their fellow men. Money ex- she added brightly, “it won’t take a
pended now in building serves a dou minute ; my car Is at the opening. Im
ble purpose, meets a coincident need, going home to get my chafing dish.”
Glowing and smiling the girl soon
the need for employment and housing.
reappeared, bearing In her arms a huge
bundle. When she had deposited it
City Manager Plan In Kansas.
Kansas Is said to have more cities upon the table she came demurely to
with a commission form of govern- stand beside the author's couch.
"About that discipline," «he said,
ment than any other state, and it also
Wili
has three cities where the city man "I’m going to try your advice.
ager plan of government Is In success. you let me work out my fine—for the
ful ope ration.
One of the latter Is speeding, you know? I'll take the
McCrack ken, a little city in the western housekeeper's place and cook for you
edge of Rush county, with a popula- every day until you are well. I can
tion of only 371 persons. It adopted make lota of good things in a -chafing
the commission-manager form of city dish.”
“It wouldn't be fair to let you,"
government and on May T the commis-
sioners took over the city affairs. The Stanton protested, but his eyes were
first act was to elect Leonard L Ryan eager.
of McCracken as city manager, lie
"Necessary
dire pline,”
Lawton's
will have complete charge of all the spoiled daughter answered, severely.
business affairs of the elty.—Chris-
across the chafing dish.
tian Science Monitor.
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MILK AND CREAM DEFINITION
Standards to Be Used for Enforcement
of Food and Drugs Act Published
In Circular.
(Prepared by the United States Depart
meat of Agriculture.)
H. K. Dean. Secy.
WINEYARD LODGE NO 206, i 0
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meets each Saturday evening in oa •
hall. Visiting members cordially invi, ‘e
W. R Longhorn. Sec.
R, w Sprague ,
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
Definitions and standards for milk
DR. R. G. GALE
and cream adopted by the joint com
mittee on definitions and standards
Rooms 1 and 2 Bank Bldg.)
and approved by both the Association Office Hours:
UI to 12; 2 to 4; 7 to 8.
of American Dairy, Food and Drug
Officials and the Association of Offi
cial Agricultural Chemists, to be used
DR. FRANCIS P. ADAMS
Physician and Surgeon
as a guide for the enforcement of the
OFFICE PHONE, 92
food anti drugs act, have been published
RESIDENCE PHONE. 182
by the United States department of ag
Office Hour.: 9 to 12 a. m.; 2 to 5:80 p. m.
riculture in a circular, “Food Inspec-
Day or night calls answered promp.l,
tion Decision 178.”
Milk Is defined as the whole, fresh,
DR. W. W. ILLSLEY
"
clean, lacteal secretion obtained by
Osteopathic
Physician
the complete milking of one or more
and Surgeon
healthy cows, properly fed and kept,
excluding that obtained within 15 days
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before and five after calving, or such
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longer period as may be necessary to
render the milk practically colustrum,
r
free.
Pasturized milk is milk that has
DENTISTRY
been subjected to a temperature not
Hermiston. Oregon
lower than 145 degrees Fahrenheit for Office. Bank Bldg.
Office Phone, 93
not less than 30 minutes. Unless it
Office Hours:
Residence Phone 32
8 a. m. to I p.,
is bottled hot, It is promptly cooled
to 50 degrees Fahrenheit or lower.
Chiropractic Relieves Where Other Methods Fai
Skimmed milk is milk from which
I use the Latest Painless Methods
substantially all of the milk fat has
Dr. LORETTA H. STARBA
been removed.
CHIROPRACTOR
Buttermilk is the product that re-
Not Drugs. Not Surgery. Not Osteopathy
mains when fat is removed from milk
House Address 703 E. Webb St."
or cream, sweet or sour, in the proc
Office 103 W. Webb St. Phone 583 Pendleton, Or
ess of churning.
Cream, sweet cream, is that portion
DALE ROTHWELL
of milk, rich In milk fat, which risei
OPTICAI. SPECIALIST
to the surface of milk on standing, or
is separated from it by centrifugal
force. It is fresh and clean It con
tains not less than 18 per cent of milk
fat and not more than 2-10 per cent
of acid-reacting substances calculated Glasses ground and fitted. Lenses duplicated.
in terms of lactic acid.
Peebler Building
Pendieton. Oregon
Whipping cream is cream which con
tains not less than 30 per cent of
milk fat.
Homogenized milk or homogenized
cream is milk or cream that has been
mechanically treated In such a manner VETERINARY SURGEON
as to alter Its physical properties with
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House Phone 283
particular reference to the condition
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and appearance of the fat globules.
The composition of the milk pro
duced by different breeds of dairy cows
varies so greatly, say the food officials,
that it Is not practicable to fix a stand
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
ard which is applicable in all locali
ties In the United States and ita ter
Most up to date restaurant in Eastern Oregon
Try our 35 cent dinner
ritories. It is therefore, left to the
state and municipal authorities to
HOHBACH’S
adopt such standards as their local
Bakery.
Confectionery,
Restaurant
Pendleton
production conditions may warrant.
D . H
PRIME
French Restaurant
COW TESTING IS PROFITABLE
Tennessee Dairyman Expresses Appre
ciation of Benefits of Cow-Test-
Ing Association.
HITT
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
"I would nnt take four times what
my testing work has cost me for what
it has been worth to me,” Is the way a
Tennessee dairyman expresses his ap
preciation of the benefits he gained as
a member of a cow-testing association
which was organized by the United
States department of agriculture 'n
his community. “The cow which has
proved to be the best one in my herd
was the one that I considered poorest
—FOR—
Confectionery
Cigars
Tobacco
Soft Drinks
Hunting, Fishing and Base
Ball Goods
First Class
Billiard and Pool
Tables
Ue
ELECTRIC FIXTURES
AND APPLIANCE
Phone 139
203 V. Court St.
.
Pendleton, °"
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Good
Start for a Cow-Testing
Association.
before the tests were made. I priced
one of my cows at $125 before she was
tested, but now I price her at $350.”
The test showed that the nineteen-
year-old cow which this dairyman had
used for the foundation cow of his
herd made 68 pounds of butterfat In
November.
The average production
for the herd during this month was
over 40 pounds of butterfat.
CONVENIENT ROOM FOR MILK
Separate A partment Should Be Pro
vided to Relieve Oftentimes
Overcrowded Kitchen.
Prepared by the
Unitei States
You’ll like it for
cahtiWmtandiaint
direct which
from the jar and spread
has been allo"".
ml Less expensive than home
made
filling, d and
more, delicio".
Nuts, choppe
or erushed
‘uit or
molted chocolate may be added.
U m
mi cake
Depart-
Agriculture >
few cows are kept a
for handling milk
separate room
should be provied to relieve the often-
times overcrow ded
kitchen.
Well
houses frejuentl,” have a room which,
wih the addition ef ■ concrete floor,
makes a very
convenient milk
It ‘is better to be insured
than