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HERALD,
HERMISTON,
HERMISTON
OREGON.
HERALD
COAL SITUATION IS
ALARMING!
Published every Saturday at Hermiston, Umatilla County, Oregon, in the heart of Eastern
The coal situation in the United States to
day is rapidly becoming alarming. It is im-
possible to secure mine labor. The car situa
tion is becoming acute and of nation wide scope
with no immediate relief in sight. Due to the
long, hard winter, coal stocks of both commer
cial consumers and industrial users are depleted.
The situation is most unusual.
Forecast of Supremacy of Chicago as
Financial Metropolis of Nation
Are You Going to Order
Oregon’s great irrigated alfalfa fields, by the Herald Publishing Company.
M. C. Athey, Editor __________________
Entered as second-class matter,
December 1 1906, at the postomee at Hermiston, Oregon
COAL
Subscription Rates: One Year, $1.50; Six Months, 75c
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Or wish you had next Winter
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By J. C. WOODHULL, Formerly of War Trade Board
Chicago has tributary to it the domain of an empire. The area
drained by the Mississippi river and its tributaries, with its navigable lakes
and rivers, unlimited water .power, fertile soil, inexhaustible mineral de
posits and forest growth, coupled with the enterprise and energy of its
people, has developed this region into the largest productive area of raw
materials in the world.
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A summary shows that more than half of the population of the
United States lives in this great valley. It contains 70 per cent of the
farm acreage of the nation, 75 per cent of its manufacturing industries,
and the combined railroad systems in mileage and value represent 70 per
cent of all its similar property. It produces 75 per cent of the wheat, 80
per cent of the hogs, 75 per cent of the cattle, 50 per cent of the sheep, 50
per cent’of the wool, 7Ó per cent of the cotton, 70 per cent of the oil, 90
per cent of the iron ore, 50 per cent of the lumber, and 60 per cent of the
bituminous coal.
The commanding position of Chicago, the financial center of this
aggregation of potential wealth and boundless possibilities, determines its
destiny as the future headquarters of the export business of the United
States. As a result of the war a famine of raw materials and manufac
tured products prevails'the world over, and the supply available for
export in any considerable quantity is to be found only in the main pro
ducing territory of the United States, the basin of the Mississippi valley.
There exists no other equal area whose production exceeds this, and
with such a constant inflow of wealth, can there be any question as to the
supremacy of Chicago as the future financial metropolis of the United
States ?
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Freight rates advance soon.
Mine rates are advancing.
Only 190 coaling days before
Christmas
Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co.
Phone 111
R. A. BROWNSCN, MANAGER
Proposed freight advance means
$1.25 additional cost. This ad
vance liable to come before
September.
Telephone or Call
Letting us know your favorite
coal. We will get it for you for
July and August delivery.
How many tons?
Let us know
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Inland Empire Lumber Company
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GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY
While‘this age demands greater
efficiency of men and women as time
goes on, government grows more in-
efficient.
For instance, it takes two days
ordinarily to send a letter the same
distance that a person travels In one
day.
The person travels under private
corporation rule, while the mails are
under what we call public service.
It is well known Chat telephone
and telegraph service deteriorated
under so-called government opera
tion.
Government employes move slow
er, are bound by impractical rules
and regulations not subject to com
petition.
Municipal street car lines do not
secure the greatest politeness and
efficiency from employes.
It seems human beings need the
stimulating influence, of having to
hustle to hold their jobs upon merit.
Holeproof
Silk Hosiery
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WHILE our present stock
lasts at $1.50 and $2.50.
This is from 50 cents to $1.00 .
under present values.
We are showing a nice line of
Coopers
Underwear
WATER POWER SURPRISE
After It had been reported that
President Wilson failed to sign the
water power bill recently passed by
congress, after 10 years delay over
the matter, it now comes as a wel
come surprise to the west to read
that the president signed the meas
ure before June 11 but for some un
known reason the public was not
advised. This action will open the
way for great development in the
west. It will open Che way for elec
trification of railroads, irrigation
projects, pulp and paper mills, etc.
This bill will unlock great natural
resources which for years have been
withheld from public use through
lack of workable legislation. The
west has won one victory In its fight
for industrial development.
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for Men and Boys. The sum-
mer' weights at reasonable
prices. ‘These are especially
good values.
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Hermiston Produce
& Supply Co.
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If Sims is all that Daniels says,
why is he still an admiral? And if
Daniels is all that Sims says, why
is he still secretary of the navy?
It is in the air that this is a Re
publican year. The party is solidly
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victory in November is certain.
Phone 331
COLUMBIA NEWS NOTES
“The Yard of Best Quality”
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE
The warm weather of the past
week, the thermoneter about the 90
mark is making quite a showing with
the second crop of alfalfa. Many
are irrigating while a number of
farmers are on the road hauling
their winter supply of coal, while
some who are looking to the social
side of life have accompanied their
wives to the county seat shopping
and making ready for Independence
Day.
The buzz of the hay bailer Is
heard from ^different ' sides .many
having bailed from the shocks, there
by saving the expense of stacking
and being prepared to sell when
ever the opportunity offers.
On account of the picnic on the
school grounds the 7th, the Neigh
borhood club will meet the 9th at
the home of Mrs. Lloyds.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Finley and
children from Winnebago, Minn.,
stopped off Sunday on their way to
Portland and points of California,
visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Keller. Two of the Finley children
were former pupils of Mrs. Keller
and a pleasant time was enjoyed by
all, recalling past times.
Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Watson and
baby boy made a pleasure and shop
ping trip to Pendleton Wednesday.
Ed. Beddow and Mrs. Frank Bed-
dow motored to the county seat
Tuesday.
A very good record was made by
the eighth grade in the state exami
nation, every one passing, speaking
well of both teacher and pupils.
A Farm Bureau picnic will be held
at the school house grove on July
7th. Representatives from the Bu
reau of Markets, the Oregon Cooper
ative Dairyman’s League, the county
Farm Agent and the Home Demon
stration Agent will be here and mat
ters of vital interest to the dairymen
will be discussed. Everybody come,
bring your lunch and take a day off
from your regular work, meet your
neighbor and friend and learn what
the men from the college have to tell
us.
H. M. STRAW. MGR.
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HIGH SCHOOL MOVIE
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CHURCH NOTICES
Work buys more dollars now than
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EVERY SUNDAY
E lars buy less of the products of .work
10 a. m. Bible School classes for
Full Line of Girls’ and Boys’ = than ever before, therefore save.
all grades and ages. A. E. Bensel,
Superintendent.
and Small Children’s Sh es. =
11 a. m. Sermon. Pastor.
The White House is yawning for
7:15 p m. Young Peoples’ meeting
The Oak Tan Shoe Store repairing is sufficiently
= a practical business man like Hard
8 p. m. Preaching and song service
wall known and proven to need no comment.
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It is no place for an imprac
Mid-week.
Prayer.
conference
Send your orders by mall or express and we will
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and Bible study on Thursday even
prepay them back to you on short notice.
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Cordial welcome extended to all.
Presidential terms in the United
IRA DAVID HALL. Pastor.
States are ended by constitution and
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75 PER CENT ALFALFA MEAL— SS PER CENT MOLASSES
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Chigago drivers of bakery wagons
threaten to loaf if not given more
dough.
The Democracy may find a dark
donkey more easily than a dark
horse.
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The motto of the sugar gougers Is.
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MACK’S HALL
Sunday School. 10 a. m.
Preaching. 11 a. m.
Epworth League. 7 p. m.
Preaching. 8 p. m.
COLUMBIA SCHOOL
Sunday School. 2 p. m.
Preaching. 3 p. m.
UMATILLA
Sunday School, 10 a. m.
Preaching Thursday. 8 p. m.
Catholic Church
Hermiston, 8:30 a. m
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