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. . I elder). hi - re - s '. (? ■ ■ : -.................. 0 4 1 ■ ■ ei echt . -ro T he H ermiston H erald HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1920 VOL. XIV COL H. 0. NEWPORT, EARLY PIONEER, PASSES TO REWARD This community was shocked Tuesday morning upon learning of the sudden death of their esteemed townsman. Col. H. G. "Newport. Death came to him in the early hours of the morning the discovery of his death not being made until about 6 a. m., when physicians were called and pronounced that death had occurred some hours previous. The cause of death is believed to have been acute indigestion. Mr. Newport was apparently in good versity, when perhaps every other man among us yielded to its pangs. He boosted wherever he went and demonstrated his faith in the future of the Umatilla project, by develop ing much land and constructing many buildings. His liberality to early settlers was unrestrained and his help and good cheer carried many a failing man on toward success. We extend our sympathy to his wife and his son and other relatives and assure them of our great respect health previously and was about for the splendid qualities of the town last week looking after his Colonel, and, our admiration for the fallen pioneer. various interests. Mr. Newport was one of the earliest settlers and a large owner of farm lands under the project until recently when he disposed of his ranch property but retained consider- able city holdings. Col. Newport was born in Gallipolis, Ohio, 70 years ago. In ’78 he went to North Dakota and engaged in railroad con- struction work, building 1100 miles of the Northern Pacific. In 1902 Colonel Newport came to Umatilla county and built the railroad in the old Maxwell Sta tion region and also rebuilt the Pendleton-Echo railroad. A few years ago he built the Furnish ditch. He was the senior mem ber of the Newport Construction Co. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Rose Newport, a son, H. R. Newport, and a daughter, Mrs. Harwood, of Omaha. . Funeral services were held at the Baptist church Wednesday afternoon conducted by Rev. M. R. Gallaher of the M. E. church who in a very fitting and able sermon spoke of the high quali ties of the man as a pioneer leav ing his home in Ohio to combat the hardships and privations of the early days in the west and how it made possible for future generations to enjoy the benefits these sturdy, sterling, deter mined men established. Miss Kathryn Short sang “No Night There” and “Nearer My God to Thee” and the funeral cortege wended its way to the Hermis ton cemetery where interment was made. s GONE TO PORTLAND FOR MOVIE EQUIPMENT The End of a Perfect Day te e (’s m SPRING STYLES COMMITTEE DOES NOT FAVOR GOLD SPRINGS-UMATHLAROAD LOOK OVER DIAGONAL ROAD Lesson of Air Race: “Flying Pastor Fore- runner of Flying Disaster.” • The county court looked over the Diagonal road the fore part of the week. The Diagonal road is get- tlng into bad shape with the spring rains. The gravel put in some years ago is giving out and with the heavy hauling that is continually traveling this much used highway it is steadily going from bad to worse. Automobiles cannot travel it at more than fifteen miles per hour, and loaded trucks have a hard time getting through. Between $600 and (700 were spent on repairs on three miles ofthis road last summer, which did no material good. How ever itt now looks as though the court would take this matter up and give the thickly populated east side a road to town as funds are said to be available. George H. Adams, of New York, left hre Tuesday morning for Port land, where he will select his equip By BRIG. -GEN. WILLIAM MITCHELL, Army Air Service ment for a new moving picture bouse which he contemplates open ing here at a later date, which will be as soon as a building can be The recent transcontinental air derby plainly demonstrates that the erected for that purpose. Mr. Adams isolation of the United States with respect to Asia and Europe is com After confessing to Sheriff Til is an expert moving picture man and Taylor of Umatilla county and pletely broken down. thoroughly understands all the ins State Fire Warden H. Pomeroy The airline distance covered is 5,402 miles, in less than 50 hours of and outs of the business. BOAROMAN MERCHANT • PEACH TREE IN BLOOM. actual flying time. It is as far as from Constantinople to New York; from Berlin to Denver: from Tokyo to San Francisco, and twice the dis tance from Europe to America., From a military aspect there is no longer any doubt that a complete control of the air by any nation means military control of the world. * From the standpoint of distances, Asia is only divided from America by 21 miles of water across the Bering strait, while the greatest distance that has to be covered over water between the American continent and Europe is scarcely over 300 miles, if the route through Canada, Greenland, Peach trees in bloom are a rare thing in Hermiston this spring, but out on the Willard Felthouse ranch is one In full bloom, at least part of the tree. Last winter during the cold weather some of the lower branches were covered with deep snow and consequently the buds were not frozen, and this spring are thickly Iceland, the islands north of Great Britain, to Great Britain, itself, is fol lowed. set with blossoms. MAKING IMPROVEMENTS. Contractor August Beisse has com pleted the work of putting In re taining walls along the street front- age of the Ira D. Hall and G. Pat terson property on Gladys avenue. A septic concrete tank was also en- stalled at the Hall residence. Later it is planned to lay concrete walks in front of both of these properties. COMMITTED TO PRISON. Monday at Pendleton Judge G. W. Phelps, considered the application for parole in the case of Ole A. Jacobson under sentence of eight years for a statutory crime. The application was denied and he was ordered committed to the state prison. WHEREAS, Colonel Horace Gree ly Newport, pioneer of the Great W. A. Ford of Umatilla was here West and one, of the founders of last Saturday on business. Hermiston has crossed the Great Divide we the members of the Her- Mrs. H. R. Wessel was last week- miston Commercial club thia 13th end guest of the C. B. Percey family. uay of April, 1970, nrevy suo- Mrs. George Briggs ani daughter Suribe to tue rollowing tribute to Dorothey were Pendleton visitors, mis memory. BE IT RESOLVED: That Horace Saturday. treery Newport was a part of that Mrs. Geo. E. Briggs and daughter great pioneer race that opened the region west of the Mississippi to hu Doratby, pased Saturday last in Pen man habitation. He was born on dleton shopping. the borders of early Ohio and young Miss Ruth Hart of Walla Walla manhood found him in the wilds of passed last week-end with her the Dakotas i constructing ¡railways parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Hart. to the Pacifie.' For over forty years --------- • ■' ~1 - he lived on the frontier and builded E. I. Davis <s constructing a con and left behind the easy ways of life for the generations to eome. He crete retaining wall around his was possessed of the spirt of pro residence propedty on East Gladys phecy, and, an abounding optomism avenue. supported him to the last day of his Alvin Barnes was in the city the life. Tremendous energy was his early part of the week from Mc- fortune even to the last few falling Comas island, which place he is now months. While the tide of fortune farming. ebbed and flowed, his heart failed only when it ceased to beat. He Work has been commenced on a knew men, and, in all the vigor of new bank building at Echo, The his prime, organised and controlled structure to be erected will cost the types and characters that sought $60,000. the western world, many of whom came only in answer to the call of Mr. and Mrs. J. S Crimmins are the bandit wild, and, not like him, the proud parents of an eight to the high call of civilization. Men pound baby girl at their home feared him. and swore by him, and he successfully segregated the loyal Saturday last. The rapidity with which the airdromes were established in this test shows that they can be established with equal rapidity for long stretches by any other nation. A rigid dirigible airship can carry ten tons of cargo, besides its crew, fuel for a long trip, and armament for its defense—ten tons of material will keep a thousand airplanes working for one day. , If an Asiatic or European country desires to attack America, a system of airdromes could be established, successively, a defense organised against land or sea elements, and the airplanes concentrated on them successfully, while their supply could be insured by the great rigid dirigibles working with their own countries. This is not only possible, but almost a sure accompaniment of the next war and will be resorted to by the nation gaining control of the air. This manner of procedure will practically negative navies, so far as their ability to deal the first blow is concerned. All the great nations of the world are now applying themselves strenu ously to the development of an air service. America, which has the best natural advantages in the world, is probably the last of the great nations at the present time in her actual development of air power—military or commercial. RECLAMATION WORK IS PROGRESSING NICELY that he had set fire to his groc ery store at Boardman, W. M. Haskins was taken to Heppner Tuesday evening. Mr. Haskins was bound over to the grand jury and released after putting up 11000 bail. 24 hours. IT HAS BEEN SAID About all there will be in plum pudding this year will be the plums. We doubt that any man ever got rich enough to measure his gifts completely up to what other folks expect. Before marriage a girl lets a man think he is wise; after mar riage she proceeds calmly about the business of putting him wise. We've yet to meet with any man— union or nonunion, poor man or capitalist-who wouldn’t get while the getting was good. SENTENCE SERMONS The report of the committee on the Umatilla Cold Springs road was to the cgect that Hermiston is ready to boost for a road connecting the Columbia district with the endleton Cold Springs road but because that part of the proposed highway which extends from Columbia to Umatilla is very expensive in construction and because It is unnecessary they have no interest in it. The report was adopted unanimously by the club. Findings of the committee ap pointed to investigate the proposed laundry, tendered an incompleto rate and were instructed to con tinue their efforts. HERMISTON, UMATILLA WIN OPENING GAMES LEAGUE STANDING WON LOST Hermiston Umatilla Echo ... Irrigon . . . . . 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCT 1000 1000 000 000 The league base I ball season opened last Sunday on i tne home grounds with Echo as the visit ing team. The attendance, var iously estimated al from 300 to 350, with a good percentage of Echo fans, witnessed a good showing of the national game. The game was hard fought all Louis urebbid or Walia Walia the way, Echo maintaining a was an over Saturday visitor in Her- lead at all times until the ninth miston as the gueaet of Mr. and inning, when with the score of 9 Mrs. Pat Mooney. to 8 in favor of the Echo team, August Beisse with a force of men, have completed laying the con crete floor in the Mack building just off Main street on Second street. Messrs. Boyle and Murray, offi cials of the telephone company, were in Hermiston and surrounding country the fore part of the week, on an inspection. • Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Kelley left Saturday last for Vancouver, Wash. Harry and Yudith Kelley will re- main here, Harry having leased the Hoisington ranch. Miss Ethel Eppperson left Wed nesday morning for Shipard Springs, Wash, where she will spend the summer. Miss Epperson has been paging three months visiting her sister, Mrs? P. B. Slacci. Mrs. M. R. Gallaher is associated with Miss Jenet Pendergast this week at Stanfield and Echo in the interest of Brick Baby home In Portland. A successful campaign Work being done by the Re feet and at present it is going in was conducted in Umatilla and Her clamation Service in preparation at approximately 450 feet every miston last week. for the turning of water into the laterals is progressing nicely. A crew of between 24 and 36 men with half a dozen teams is composing the working force. A small crew have finished cleaning the Hermiston drainage ditch and this week there is a crew at work on the A line. One more drainage ditch is yet to be cleaned, that of the Cold Springs district It is expected that water will be turned into the'main laterals not later than May 1 and per haps a few days before that time. Some time ago there was some uneasiness felt over the small amount of water being diverted to the reservoir, but since that time snow in the mountains and heavy rains have made the situ ation very promising and on the morning of April 11 there were from the disloyal. Generosity was stored in the reservoir 41,000 his to a fault and life on a bread Leon1 Cohen. R. Alexander and acre feet of water. As the seals was his enjoyment. As a Her- Mr. Mathews of Pendleton. here Wednesady attending the H. G. capacity is 50,000 acre feet they Newport fumerai. are now on the last 10,000 acre NO. 31 Henry Gunn placed a hit into right field that scored the neces sary two runs to win. Several brilliant stops were made by both sides, Markham for Echo pitched the entire game for the visitors and while passing a number had fairly good control. Morris of Hermiston was reliev ed by Phelps in the 6th inning and pitched good ball. Umpire Campbell wishes it stated that he did not change his decision on the play which caused a little wrangle in the latter part of the game, but that the managers mutually agreed going back and playing the questionable play over again. This Sunday Her- miston plays at Umatilla and Echo at Irrigon. Irrigon and Umatilla opened the season at Irrigon and Uma tilla won the game by a score of 7 to 6. Earl Phelps of Hermis ton umpired. The Herald’s typesetting ma chine is out of commission this James E. Watson Is again about week which necessitates most of after being laid up with a lame foot this issue being hand set. for the past week or more, he had the misfortune of stepping on a rusty nail, and It was found neces sary to cut the wound open, which took It longer to heal. Mr. M. J. MacMillen, formerly head mechanic of the Hermison Auto Co., just returned to Hermis ton Thursday after a three months vacation. Mr. MacMillen will head the mechanical department of the Hermiston Auto Co. as before. Mrs, C. H. Skinner was taken to Saint Anthony's Hospital, Pendleton Thursday of this week to be oper ated on for an acute attack of ap- pendicitus. She was operated on immediately upon arrival there and is reported as doing nicely. Sharp wits, like sharp knives. do Hermiston, Umatilla, Echo and often cut their owner's Angers.—Ar rowsmith. Stanfield will comprise in the local High school auditorium tonight for under the magnetism of friendship oratorial honors. The winners will represent the West end la the county contest at Pendleton at a Thackeray. later date. - : 4 < FLASHLIGHTS This always has been a rough world for the man who tries to beat all the roles. The best way to avoid the conse- quenees of shame Is never to take a shance. Most of the repair shops exist be- cause somebody didn't do his work Well enough in the first place. A Washington man voluntarily re- turned to jail. Evidently wanted to be sure of a place to eat and sleep. The average married.man talks a lot, but as a matter of fact If It weren’t for his wife he'd be helpless most of the time. Ever notice the racket those high- priced cars make when your neighbors are backing them Into their garages after midnight ? One of the reasons • woman likes fine clothes is because she knows her husband would soon lose his love fur a shabby wife.
