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THE KERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON The Hermiston Herald WE ARE BUILDING OUR BUSINESS ON SERVICE Tanned Each Saturday by M. D. O’CONNELL HERMISTON DICK’S DIPLOMACY OREGON By ADELAIDE R. KEMP. Entered as second-class matter. December 1906, at the postoffice at Hermiston, Oregon Mollie stood by the little white gate gazing down the road, grass-grown and There’s no place like home. That is a great song, but a greater tree-shaded. She was Just about to return to the We ask You Frankly for Your Business truth. There is a great difference house when the figure of a small boy | between a home owner and a renter. coming up the road, holding a small The difference is as great as between flag and whistling “Yankee Doodle.” at “Service” here means more than merely wait upon our cus ' a land owner and a tenant farmer. tracted her attention. As he came tomers promptly and courteously. It means that we have | The home owner pays taxes and in nearer she saw that he belonged to the staked our reputation on a business that is being built upon surance, but he pays no rents. The new family only recently moved Into improvements he makes and the in- the big house on the hill. The strong service. Service is the foundation of this business. It is ♦crease In value of property are all feeling of loneliness and her desire for tiie reason back of our steady growth. It is the basis on human companionship caused her to bis. Build a home and own a home which all future relations with the public is placed. It is smile and say: are as vital now as get a wife and “Hello, laddie! What’s your name?” the most vital factor in the conduct of this business. raise a family. "Richard Winthrop Hetherington, Hermiston must have more homes Jr.," was the response. Our service means more still. It means that in addition to to house the ever increasing influx “Where have you been, Richard, with courteous and prompt attention, that the budder can depend of residents, and those Tenters who your flag?” unconditionally upon the quality of any article bought from i can see their way clear to build 1 The boy’s face brightened as he an us, and upon any service rendered. He can depend upon | should buy a lot and commence i now swered: "Oh! down to the station to getting what he wants—a part of the service includes Blue i to own their own home, else they see some of the soldier boys coming : will find themselves homeless like home. My uncle will be coming home Printed Plans, Photos and hundreds of different designs of ethers lately who neglected to i buy any day now." He paused a moment varioos yinds of buildings, Homes, Barns, Silos, Grain Bins, or build when opportunity was for breath, and then continued: Elevators, Garages, Hog and Poultry Houses and other “Why didn't you go down? Haven’t before them. You may be comfort you got any sweetheart?” buildings that are free to customers. Upon the basis of ably settled in a rented house today "No. I haven't. Richard. I guess SERVICE, we ask you frankly for your business. and tomorrow it may be sold—so you will have to find me one.” , build now and be happy and con “All right. I’ll try,” answered the tented in your own home for ever lad promptly, and then saluting, he afterwards. , shouldered his flag and continued up the road whistling a martial air. Mol lie watched him out of sight. She Weather Report Nice cool nights and warm days knew he considered himself a whole band leading a company of returning F. A. BROWNSON, MGR. | is the order of things in the weather heroes. line in the Hermiston valley at the Phone No. Ill Two days later with all the fever | present time. During the past week of spring cleaning in her blood. Mol the maximum temperature was 89 lie donned her biggest apron and with degrees and the minimum 32, with scrubbing brush and broom made an Bring Your Building Problems to Us—We are no attack on the past winter's germs and no rainfall. Further Away Than Your Telephone dust. Up on the step-ladder in her bright little kitchen she was scour Done Likewise ing paint with her usual vigor when a “Go thou and do likewise.” That’s voice from the open doorway startled I the way Ed. Parrish construed the her so that she nearly fell from her iiillllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllilllllllllillllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllll ’proposition of having the house he perch. I had rented sold to a party who had "Excuse me ! I hope I haven’t fright j to buy to get a place to live, so ened you, but I knocked and couldn’t I scare have houses for rent become in seem to make anyone hear.” Mollie, clambering down as quickly Hermiston. After pondering over I his plight for some time Ed. finally as possible, saw a young officer in olive-drab uniform, overseas cap in one aid go and do likewise, for on Wed hand and battered suitcase in the nesday he purchased a cottage on other. He was bronzed from exposure the West Side from Mrs. J. F. Mc- and rather careworn, but even at that Naught. Mollie decided he was very good to look at. There was a moment’s pause and then he continued: Let us take care of your piano for you. We Pays Hermiston Visit “Could you direct me to the Heth Frederick Page, the commission erington's? I seem to have lost my guarantee perfect, finished work at the lowest firm of Page & Son of Portland, way.” charge consistent with the best workmanship. owners of considerable property here “Oh !" Mollie exclaimed, "You must and at Stanfield, among which is the be Richard Winthrop Hetherington, We carry parts for all makes of pianos and building housing the Hermiston Jr.’s uncle." Then she stopped and Produce & Supply Co. store and the blushed scarlet. parts for most all talking machines. “That sure is my number,” laughed Hermiston Drug Co., was here the the young fellow. “My home is in first of the week on business con Our repairing is worth your consideration. Michigan, but I thought I would stay nected with the making of proposed here for a short time before going on. improvements on the building. You must be acquainted with my WE ARE MEMBERS OF THE young nephew.” Our alfalfa seed tests 9712 per “I just met him the other evening,” National Association of Piano Tuners cent pure. Any quantity at 32c. said Mollie, and she smiled reminis- cently. “They live in that big white Kingsley’s. therefore guaranteeing you house on the hill.” first-class work Still John Hetherington lingered. “I Oregon Hen Best could come down some evening while The director of the All-Norhwest I am here and tell you some great sto egg-laying contest reports that up ries about the war if you would like to the end of August a White Leg to hear them,” he said finally. Mollie clasped her hands. “Oh. I horn owned by C. M. Hays, Junction City, Oregon, took highest honors wish you would ! I don’t know anyone • 820 Main St. Pendleton, Oregon Phone 524 with 241 eggs. Second is a White who hns been over there, and I have wanted so much to hear it directly Leghorn owned by J. L. Craib of Se from some one who was in the big lllllllllllllllllllllllllllflltlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllii attle, with 239 eggs; a third White I battles.” After this, John, finding no Leghorn belonging to D. Tancred of new excuse to linger, picked up his Administratrix's Sale of Kent. Wash., laying 229 eggs. The suitcase and departed. The weeks flew rapidly by. As-John Rhode Island Whites distinguished Real Property themselves, as no bird in the flock Hetherington explained to his relatives, the peace and beauty of the New Eng- In the County Court of the State of laid an egg during August. land hills were far better for his Oregon for Umatilla County. health than the rush and bustle of I In the Mutter of the Estate of Han Rubber Advance Expected the busy West. It apparently took him ley A. Waterman, Deceased. We are advising our customers a good many evenings to tell all his Notice Is hereby given that the undersigned Rena Waterman as ad- that a sharp advance in the price of adventures “over there” to Mollie. It ministratrix of the estate of Hanley tires is looked for in a very short also quite often occupied his Sundays. A. Waterman, deceased, under and time. This will probably be from One evening late In August the two I by virtue of an order of the Honor 20 to 26 per cent, and will be effec- | I sat rather silently In the rose-covered I porch of Mollie's little cottage. But able Chas. H. Marsh. Judge of the above entitled court, made on the tive immediately upon announce- ' ■ It was a silence that contained all 23rd day of August, 1919, will from ment. Even stock in transit will be ' | speech. The moon had risen in all and after the 29th day of Septem- affected and will be rebilled at new her glory over the distant purple hills. Maho, at not to exceed $10.00 per I ber, 1919, offer for sale and sell at prices. As John looked up the road he saw Lays' Garage. bbl. net cash. Purchasers will be private sale upon the terms herein- his young nephew approaching, whis-- supplied from nearest available mill, . after desribed, at the First National which may result in slight saving for 97% per cent government test tling as usual. When he reached the | Bank of Hermiston, In the city buyers' account. of Hermiston. Umatilla County, alfalfa seed for sale at Kingsley's. white gate he stopped and hung over Wholesale and jobbing profits It to gaze st the pair on the porch. Oregon, and subject to confirma 32c. on such flour mint not exceed 75c "Well, little scout, where are you tion by the above entitled court, to per bbl. and retailer’s profits must going?" asked John as a general open the person making the best or not exceed J 1.25 per bbl. STALLION SERVICE I highest offer therefor all of the es- ing to the conversation. Address all communication« to tate, right, title and Interest of the The boy looked gravely at his uncle. estate of Hanley A. Waterman, de- “I'm going down to the store to get Young Milton. registered Per- ceased. in the following described United States Grain some nails for dad. He said he asked heron Stallion, at Jas. Scott farm I real property situated In Umatilla you to get them, but the place would Corporation county, state of Oregon, to-wit: one mile south of Hermiston. Fail be closed before you ever reached Lot Seventeen. Block Four- season Sept. 15 to Oct. 15. Fee $10 there, because you wouldn’t ever be i teen, Newport’s Addition to Hermiston, Umatilla County. ■ for fall season service. Single ser- able to get past Mollie's house.” » vice $5. l-2tc Oregon; Lots Four and Five in There was a moment of embarrassed Block Eight of the Original silence, and then John, to relieve the town of Hermiston, according tension, asked: ■Luminous Paint. to the plat thereof known as Luminous or phosphorescent paint “And what did you say to that, the Newport plat. for clock dials and other surfaces : Dickie F , The terms on which said property Heat strontium throsulphate for 15 min- | “ Oh. ” answered the lad. slowly look will be sold by the said administra utes over a good Bunsen gas lamp, ing from one to the other. “I told him trix is as follows: I For cash upon the confirmation of and then for five minutes over a blast that I guessed It was all right, ’cause WE SELL IN the sale of said real property by ! I: mp. Or. heat equal parts of stron Moilie asked me to get her a sweet- CAR LOTS the above entitled court and upon nnor I tium carbonate and lac sulphuris heart, and I thought you'd do.” Hav- । the execution and delivery of | gently for five minutes, then strongly Ing delivered himself of this piece of I rood and sufficient deed. for 25 minutes over a Bunsen lamp: eloquence. Richard Winthrop Heth- Dated this 23rd day of August, 1919 then, finally, over a blast lamp five erington, Jr., resumed his journey Baled or Chopped RENA WATERMAN. minutes. Or, precipitate strong aque- storeward. The moon very kindly Administratrix of the Estate of | ous solution of strontium chloride by went behind a cloud at this Juncture and Hanley A. Waterman, Deceased means of sulphuric acid; dry the pre and John turned Mollie's scarlet face Raley, Raley A Steiwer. h . J. War- cipitate, and heat it to redness for toward him. ner. Attorney* for Administratrix, some time In a current of hydrogen ; "Will I do, little sweetheart ? he Pendleton, Oregon. then over a Bunsen lamp for ten min- asked In a low voice. First Publication Aug. 30, 1919 I utes. and for 20 minutes over a blast And Mollie looked In Last Publication Sept 27, 1919 j lamp. Mix any of these with pure had learned to love so dearly, wbis I "sited paraffin for use aa a paint, and l>*rina • low “yes," as Fire Insurance in three strong com. expose for a time to sunlight. The blushing face on John's she hid her C.S. MCNAUGHT Co panies. broad sroul- See Edlie M. Johnson at twa former yield a greenish phosphor escence in the dark, the latter a bluish Dodd's office. tfe (Copyright, 1919, McClure Newspaper Syr. light. Be It Ever So Humble Add 40" To Your Profits We are the exclusive agents for the most prac tical silo on the market today. THE BALLARD SILO This silo will not blow over, shrink up or fall down. 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