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
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NO. 51
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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,
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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.
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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
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Queen hold a meeting next
Tuesday even-
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day evening.
By order W. M.
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Be there.