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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. SEPTEMBER 6. 1919 PERMANENT FAIR ASSOCIA- TION-STOCK $10 PER SHARE The End of a Perfect Day . NO. 51 31858940 SHIPPED DURING AUGUST 8 For a long time there has been a lootion among many people on the "project that the annual Dairy and I Hog Show should have more per- I manency by making of it an organ- ization that in future years would I compare favorably with what big I fairs in other parts of the state that started like our dairy show now is. I. Realizing that such a desire ex- isted among the farmers and towns- I people, the Commercial Club at its I noonday luncheon at the Hermiston I Hotel Tuesday took a step in the I right direction by thoroughly dis- I cussing every phase of this proposi- [tion, and afterwards passing a mo- I tion that the Hermiston Dairy & I Hog Show be merged into a perma- ■ nent association. This found ready ratification at a meeting of the I board of directors of the Show at a meeting held Thursday night, when it was decided to organize as an educational and scientific associa tion, and place the shares at $10 per. It' is likely a drive will be put on I in the near future to raise the above amount. This means that it will be conducted in the same manner as the government loan drives, each person being rated for one or more shares of the stock, according to his or her income. The hospital committee reported having had a preliminary meeting, and would hold another soon to lay definite plans for the establishment of a permanent hospital in this city. Col. Emmett Callahan of Board- man, J. G. Camp of Irrigon and A. E. McFarland of Umatilla were in vited guests of the Commercial Club at the luncheon. On being called on for talks Col. Callahan said that while he deemed it an honor to be present on that occasion, he felt con strained to reserve his speechmaking until the day of the experimental farm field meet, inasmuch as he was billed to speak at that time, when he promised to give something interesting. Mr. McFarland called attention to the fact that the state highway board evidently intended to sidestep building the wagon bridge over the Umatilla river just at this time, which would be a great inconven ience to the people of the Umatilla Project when the highway is com pleted. The Club has interested it- self in this matter. Mr. Camp spoke of the organiza tion of the West Extension Irriga tion District. He showed the bene- fits to be derived therefrom in a I very clear way, and held out the hope that Hermiston i would soon join the irrigation district ranks. which, like the West Extension Dis- trict, would give it access to one of the most forceful objects—that of borrowing money from the govern- ment by the farmers under the Fed- eral Loan Act. ALLEN WILL REMAIN TWO MONTHS LONGER R. W. Allen has accepted a tem- porary reappointment from the gov- demon ernment to continue the «ration work on the project for the next two months. He will give all the time he can spare from his farm to this work during Septem ber and October, by which time it is anticipated someone will be ap pointed to take up the work. Requests for assistance should be directed to the Reclamation Service in order that Mr. Allen can get them promptly. Resumes Practice Here Dr. c. O. Wainscott, well known Physician and surgeon who was located here prior to entering the service of Uncle Sam when the United States entered the great world war, has again resumed his practice in Hermiston. He is occu- Dying the same offices over the First National Bank that he had when he enlisted. Takes Clerical Position Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Morfitt re turned to Hermiston the latter part of last week from Portland to make their future home in this city. Mr. Morfitt having accepted a clerical Position in the store of the Oregon Hardware & Implement Co. SEVENTY TONS ELBERTAS TAKEN OFF TEN ACRES FIFTEEN CARLOADS OF ALFALFA OFF BIG RANCH F. A. Phelps has taken 70 tons of Elberta peaches off his ten acre fruit orchard situated in the south-I ern part of the city. The fruit was sold to The Dalles King Products Co. of The Dalles at $40 per ton. Imagine for yourself how the trees in a ten acre orchard would look with 70 tons of peaches hang ing from the limbs, and you will have a fair idea of how large and numerous they must have been in the Phelps orchard. Twelve tons have been shipped from two acres in the E. P. Dodd or- chard, close by that of Phelps’, and from the Robb Bros, commercial or chard in the western portion of the city 15 tons have been taken off two and one-half acres. Other peach orchards are produc ing heavily, and altogether it is es timated there will be 150 tons ship School begins Monday, September ped from here, which at $40 a ton is bringing to the orchard men of 8, at 9 o’clock. Another teacher has this valley $6000 for peaches alone. been added to the force and a room fitted up to take care of the new pupils that have moved to this vic- Creamery Has Buttermaker inity. New apparatus and books Clark Mansfield is the new but- have been purchased to keep the termaker at the Hermiston Cooper school up to the standard, The atlve Creamery. He arrived the lat- board of education has spared no 1er part of last week from The pains in endeavoring to secure the Dalles, where he was employed. He test teachers possible, and the indi was formerly of Independence, Ore., cations are that the year will be where he made butter for the cream pleasant as well as profitable. ery there two years. The gentle The line-up of teachers is as fol- man is of genial disposition, and lows: comes to Hermiston with good rec High School-—Miss Clara Hall, 1 ommendations as a creamery man. Miss Madge Wire. He expects to be joined soon by his Grades—Miss Nina Riggs, Miss wife and two young daughters. Esther Sholin, Miss Frances Gardi- nier, Miss Mary Condon. Mrs. Miller. Miss Dorothy Hill. Miss Bessie Scott. A. C. Voelker, superintendent. SCHOOL OPENS MONDAY- CORPS TEACHERS COMPLETE ARE WE TB HAVE AN- DTHER POLITICAL PARTY? There seems to be a movement on foot to form a new political party, which, while being unique in a way, may prove successful in the end. It begins with a committee of 48. em bodying representation from the 48 states of the Union, and is evidently making progress among the inde pendent voters of the country by a system of questionnaries. The re plies to these from each of the 48 states would seem to indicate that the people are lukewarm at least to a proposition of this nature. It is the idea, when the complete returns from the questionnaries have been recorded, to have them form the basis for a program which will be submitted to a conference of liberal voters called by the committee of 48 for some, time late this fall. The headquarters of this commit- tee has been established in New York, and the committee seems to be doing all in its power to thoroughly arouse the people so that a new political organization can slip into power next year. Whether it will succeed time alone will tell. Building New Home Geo. L. Challis has let a contract to J. W. McDermed for the construc tion of a residence house on his lot on the corner of Gladys avenue and Fourth street. It will be built on the bungalow style, contain two rooms and be 16x24 feet in dimen sions. , । . । ■ Fine Beef Cattle Ray Challis, proprietor of the City . Meat Market and Grocery, hove into town last Saturday evening on a freight train with 25 head of fine । fat steers that he had purchased on the range and shipped from Athena. Oregon. This is said to be the first carload of beef cattle ever shipped into Hermiston for home consump tion, and was brought about by a । shortness of the commodity in this । neighborhood. MINNEHAHA BISTRICT Mr. and Mrs. Hamer were Pendle ton visitors last Saturday. Mrs. Pere Bokish and daughter Edna were Minnehaha visitors from Hermiston Monday. Several Minnehaha ranchers were in Pendleton last Tuesday, among them being Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Luce, Mr. and Mrs R E. McFalls. Edward Johnston. John. Elmer and Charles McElroy. The board of directors of the local Water Users’ Association met Thursday night and decided to or ganize the project into an irrigation district. The board employed At torney J. T. Hinkle to look after the organisation details. Mrs. O. P. Brigham and daughter I It is better to be insured than to Miss Janice returned this week from | be sorrv. their two months visit in Spokane. WEST EXTENSION IRRIGA TION BDARB MEETING An organisation meeting of the board of directors of the West Ex tension Irrigation District was held at the offices of the reclamation ser vice in this city on Tuesday, all of I he three members, Col. E. Callahan, J. G. Camp and A. E. McFarland, being present, together with the at torney for the district, J. T. Hinkle. The officers elected for the ensuing term were Col. Callahan president and J. G. Camp secretary. The business transacted consisted of approving a contract with the government that will remove the prior lien it holds on lands within the district. which at present pre- vents the land owners from taking advantage of the Federal Farm Act. A tentative assessment for the amount of money necessary to run the district the coming year was made. This will be published. and on the first Tuesday in October the board will meet as an equalization board to consider any complaints from land owners in the district. “A FAIR PROPOSITION, BUT NOTHING DOING” Under the above heading the Santa Ana, (Cal. ) Register tells of an experience of another publication in its section of the state. The facts furnish their own commentary: The wind bloweth where it listeth: And no answer cometh: Neither cometh the wood or the corn or the ‘taters or the eggs or the bacon: Some days ago a good, liberal, loyal, generous, broad- minded citizens of one of the “cow counties” wrote the local weekly paper that he wanted to subscribe for it during 1919 and get the county news, and would send in his subscription if the paper would be sent to him at the OLD PRICE (the price had of necessity been ad vanced from $1.00 a year to $1.50.) “We immediately wrote him,” says the editor, we would accept his proposition—provided he would bring us a cord of wood, a barrel of corn, a bushel of sweet potatoes, a basket of eggs, or a side of bacon AT THE PRICE HE GOT FOR THESE COMMODITIES FIVE OR SIX YEARS AGO, when there was some profit in publishing a newspaper at $1.00 a year. “Seven long days have passed—and no wood, no corn, no ‘taters, no eggs, no bacon. “He couldn't afford to do it. Yet, he was generous enough to ask us to send him the paper for $1.00 and make him a present of 50 cents: Of all the 33.285 people in the county this kindly disposed individual is the only one with gall enough to ask us to send t e paper at the old price and we do not believe there is another in the whole county.” Every user of a telephone who stops to think knows that he would be paying an inadequate rate now if he was not paying substantially more than he was before the war. The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company C. W. Tilden, who is manager and part owner of the big 300 acre ranch adjoining Hermiston on the north that had been bought by a syndicate of Tillamook dairymen, reports 15 carloads ns having been shipped from the first cutting off the 200 acres that is in alfalfa. Most of this hay was shipped to Tillamook, where It is fed by dairy- men of that section to their excel lent strain of dairy cattle, the milk from which goes to help make the cheese that has made that section famous. They make money from this product, too, if the following, taken from statistics given out at a recent meeting of Tillamookers with a delegation of Astoria business men. is any criterion: “One hundred and ninety-four of our farmers received over $500 for June milk: 41 received $1000 or more; 2 4 from $900 to $10 0 0; 25 from $800 to $900; 18 from $700 to $800; 36 from $600 to $700; 50 from $500 to $600. “The total cheese production for the year 1918 was $1.328,000, and the prospects are that the $2,000,- 000 mark will be passed this year. “One hundred and fifty carloads of feed were shipped into Tillamook county last year and 450 cars of hay were also shipped in during that time.” IMPROVEMENTS BY TELE- PHONE CO. TOTAL J50,000 The total number of carloads of produce shipped from the Hermiston district over the O.-W. R. & N. for the month of August was 160, the total weight of which was 4,373.370 pounds. These shipments were made by the following corporations and individuals; C. 8. McNaught Co. 3 4 carloads of hay. 2 carloads of alfalfa meal. O'Bryant. Grain Co. 1 carload of hay. R. F. Kirkpatrick— 5 carloads of hay. C. E. Mason— 9 carloads of hay. A. L. Mapes— 6 carloads of hay. C. W. Tilden— 7 carloads of bay. W. W. Felthouse 4 9 carloads of hay. F. Humfield— 3 carloads of hay 11. J. Stillings- 2 carloads of cattle. F. C. Hunt— 33 carloads of hay. George Strohm— 2 carloads of hogs. “he Dalles Klug Products Co.— 4 carloads of peaches. U. S. Reclamation Service 1 carload of concrete pipe. W. A. Leathers— 1 carload of hay. Tum-a-Lum Lumber Co.- 1 car of lumber. There were 21 carloads contain- Ing staple commodities received here during the month of August, con- signed to the following persons and corporal Ions: The Pacific Telephone & Tele graph Co. will shortly begin the im provement of the plants In Hermis ton, Stanfield and Echo by the stringing of additional wires, re- building and rerouting pole lines on correct roads, and altogether bring ing it to a state of perfect modern efficiency. The approximate cost of this Important work will be around $50,000. September Strawberries F. A. Chezik 2 carloads of feed. R. S. Kingsley—, 1 carload of feed. Tum-a-Lum Lumber Co. 1 carload of plaster, 1 ca (load of coal. The Dalles King Products Co.— 3 carloads of lug boxes. Inland Empire Lumber Co. 4 carloads of lumber. 2 carloads of coal. 1 carload of gravel. Hermiston Produce & Supply Co.— 1 carload of feed. Sappers' Incorporated 1 carload of implements. 1 carload of auto trucks. C. W. La Barre 1 carload of farm tractor IT. S. Reclamation Service 1 carload of cement. R. C. Challis 1 cat load of cattle. A full crate of strawberries were brought into Hermiston Monday by a Minnehaha rancher and distribut- ed among Hermiston people. The crate was filled from two and one- half rows, each 90 feet long. They were of the Ever-bearing variety, were largo and In fine condition, Meet After Thirteen Years and came from the patch of Mr. and Water Superintendent C. H. Cran- Mrs. F. B. Pennock. dall enjoyed the company a few days In New Quarters The Hermiston Light & Power Co. has moved its offices from the eld National location near the First Bank to the building on the corner of Main and Second street, opposite the City Meat Market and Grocery store. After the second hand store had vacated the building it was remodeled and made Into two store rooms, one of which was leased by the owner to the Light A power Co. and the other to Jack White for his tailor shop. this week of his brother Thomas, a well to do farmer of Wheatland, Indiana, who is on a sightseeing tour of the west. Thirteen years had elapsed since the brothers were together last. COLUMBIA NEWS NOTES SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE Mr. and Mrs. Geo. L. Blessing of Fort Wayne, Ind., arrived Monday to visit their son, Walter L. Bless Ing, and family. Mrs. Strech and children have re turned to their home In Portland New Baptist Pastor after spending the past two weeks Rev. and Mrs. Ira D Hall arrived at the Phipps home. the latter part of last week from Mesdames Lloyd, Me Keen. Frank Colorado and have taken tip their Beddow, Blessing. Ott and Felt- appointed on a residence in the dwelling house one ! house have, been at the dinner to door east of the Tum-a-Lum Lumber be given on Field Day, Sept. 27. Co. office. Rev. Hall Is the new frank Keller returned tn his home pastor of the local Baptist church. in Arkansas this week after being a ! guest of his brother, C. A. Keller, Held Rousing Meeting The meeting of the local post of the Ameresti Legion last Tuesday night was well attended, there be- Ing about 30 ex-service men present The local boys were pleased to have Stanfield cooperate In the organiza- tion, and now they are going after • he Umatilla men for the next I the past three weeks. Frank Waugaman and sons Wil liam and James went to Pendleton Thursday. Dr. Stillings and family left for Yakima, Wash.. Thursday. , the doctor re- — they p ii. expect la having yg —e , 5 to an purchased ya reside 1 I If.ll ’1 cently land there There Will be Sunday school an usual but no church services this Sunday owing to the absence of the meeting. Nominations for all offi- pastor at conference Mr and Mrs C F. Willhite re rea were made at the meeting, and ceived word last week that Mr. and the election will be held September I Mrs. C. Wright arrived safely home It Is hoped to make all ex-ser- in Portland, with the exception ef vice men on the e project and about the top oft their car, which they lost Stanfield members of the organiza 1 In C. an W accident. . LaBarre has had a phone tion. and these are now being soli- Installed In his ranch home. cited to join. The Hermiston fruit growers will ... munication of Queen hold a meeting next Tuesday even- e.Stat“cnaprer"‘e S. newt rues ine "« oeloekin the nbrars bund day evening. By order W. M. g- Be there.
