THE
HERMISTON
THE
HERALD,
HERMISTON,
HERMISTON
OREGON.
HERALD
Published every Friday at Hermiston, Umatilla County, Oregon, in the heart of Eastern
COAL SITUATION IS
ALARMING!
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.
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
This is Panama Hat
Weather
We have some new styles $3.50 to $6.
The better grades are genuine panama.
THE NEWEST THING
Medium Priced Parasols
$2.25 to $3.50
SEASONABLE
MERCHANDISE
We have about 100 sacks of
Shell Corn at 4c per pound
M. C. Athey, Editor’
Entered ass second class matter, December 9, 1906, at the postomce at Hermiston,
Oregon
WHAT
DO YOU KNOW
YOUR TOWN!
ABOUT WORTHY
OF CAREFUL
SIDERATION
CON
Few cities of the west are given
What do you know about your
the
oppoi tunity to secure such splen
town and the project of which it is
did structures as that which Rev.
a part?
When you are away from home Gallagher proposes to erect In Her
can you answer intelligently and miston, providing the people take
with assurance the questions that kindly to the proposition. It might
may be put to you by the would-be be well to mention, briefly, some- of
or possible buyer of real estate or the benefits to be derived from the
home products, the reporter, or the proposed building. In the first place
the Methodist church of this town is
merely curious?
Can you back up your statements ready to construct a small chapel
of the staple products with figures, with no assistance from outside
not in a statistical, dry way, but sources, if our understanding is cor
putting punch and conviction into rect. There is a church extension
them, and meeting comparison with society which promises to assist In
building a much larger structure
other towns?
Can you come down good and hard providing the people here raise
(with facts, nbt malice) on mislead enough to make it worth while. All
ing statements that have been made citizens would benefit by the larger
elsewhere about your town, your pro building, as it could be used by any
organization, lodge or church, for
ject, your rank in producing?
In locating your town to the in events which cannot now be held,
quisitive do you allow it to lean ownig to lack of facilities. The con
weakly against some other town templated larger building would con
from five to forty miles away or do tain a basement in which two large
you make it stand out by itself?
rooms would be fitted up, one 38x48,
Do you know what industries are one 31x39; shower baths would also
sorely needed, and what support they be located here, one for the boys and
would get if they came here?
one for the girls.
The basement
The booster and the boaster pro could be used for a banquet hall, and
duce widely differing effects on the would seat between two and three
critical listener. The boaster often hundred people; also kitchen facil
emphasizes his talk by volume of ities would be located here; the
sound, punctuates it with superla- auditorium proper would seat 350,
tives and weakens its force by vague and with wings thrown open 250 ad
statements in a large way as to the ditional could be accommodated. The
advantages of ‘his town over every congregation now owns the lot, and
other place in the world, without is ready to build the smaller church;
conveying the impression of convic but what a fine addition the larger
tion, and leaves a wonder as to what
structure would be to our rapidly
he has to sell.
growing city. It is, at least, some-
The booster /knows that gain to thing
deserving careful considera-
the community is gain to the indiv
tion.
idual, and his statements carry with
them a feeling that what he says is
GOOD ADVERTISING
absolutely true, that he can back it
all up, and that if you investigate
The Oregon Dairymens’ League is
you will find that the words of his
fellow-citizens and the records of his coming into considerable advertising
community bear him out. The im lately in the Portland paper. The
pression he leaves is surety, salted big dailies are crying about the raise
with facts and peppered with optim- in the cost of milk to the consumer,
caused, they say, by the advance
ism.
The Herald proposes to gather price the farmer is asking for his pro-
facts carefully as to the industries luet.
If the big papers would spend the
that contribute to the growth and
same amount of thought and energy
gain of Hermiston, Umatilla, Irri-
gon, Boardman, and the Umatilla in writing about the immense profit
project, and present them concisely the big creameries of Portland and
to its readers. Read them, remember big condenseries are making, they
them, and then do not quarantine might give some interesting data to
your knowledge within your own the people.
brain, but take them out and give
CHURCH NOTICES
them an airing on every possible oc
casion.
Baptist Church
You owe it to your town, your
EVERY SUNDAY
project, your commercial club and
10 a. m. Bible School classes for
your own interests to get up and all grades and ages. A. E. Bensel,
boost, get out and boost, boost in Superintendent.
11 a. m. Sermon. Pastor.
your talk, boost in your letters, re-
7:15 p m. Young Peoples’ meeting
membering always that what you
8 p. m. Preaching and song service
sow you inevitably reap.
Mid-week. Prayer,
conference
and Bible study on Thursday even
ing.
BIG IRRIGATION BENEFIT
Cordial welcome extended to all.
SEEN IN OIL LEASING BILL
IRA DAVID HALL, Pastor.
Phone 207
One Great Piece of Constructive Law
Which Democrats in 8 Years
Failed to Relieve
Christian Science
Services, 11 a. m.
Tens of millions of dollars àn-
M. E. CHURCH
nually will be provided for irriga
M. R. Gallaher, Pastor
tion purposes through the instru
MACK’S HALL
mentality of the oil leasing bill en
Sunday School, 10 a. m.
Preaching, 11 a. m.
acted by the present Republican Con
Epworth League, 7 p. m.
gress, according to a statement by
Preaching, 8 p. m.
Representative Frank W. Mondell, of
COLUMBIA SCHOOL
Wyoming, majority leader of the
Sunday School, 2 p. m.
Preaching, 3 p. m.
House. He says:
UMATILLA
“The oil and coal land leasing act
Sunday School, 10 a. m.
not only safeguards the general pub
Preaching Thursday, S p. m.
lic interest in these fuel and power
Catholic Church
resources. It not only promises a
large increase, with a consequent re Hermiston 10:30 a. m.
duction of prices, in the supply of
gasoline, but is of particular inter
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MICKIE SAYS
IF PEOPLE'O JEST STOP
.
Full Line of Ladies’ Shoes = al reclamation fund will be greatly
T‘ THINK THAT ADERTSIN'
enriched and enlarged by the income
IS THE NEWSPAPER MAN's
from the rents and royalties. More
STOCK IN TRADE , THEO
than|5,000,000 of royalties collected
NEVER TRN TO GIr It FER
's Full Line of Girla’* and Boys’
in anticipation of this legislation is
NOTHIN' LKE THE to
now on hand and will be available
and Small Children’s Sh es.
SOMETes , NO MORE
within the next few months for ex
THAN THEO ASK The
penditure under the national recla-
GROCER FER A FREE
The Oak Tan Shoe Store repairing la sufficiently
mation act for the irrigation and de
SACK OF FLOUR !
/
velopment of arid and semiarid lands.
Send your orders by mail or express and we will
prepay them back to you on short notice.
While it is impossible at this time
to accurately estimate the annual in
come from these sources for irriga
tion development through and under
the national reclamation law, it may
Sam Rodgers, Proprietor
Hermiston. Oregon
be safely and conservatively stated
that It will amount to several mil
lion of dollars annually, and even
tually to tons of millions.**
Hermiston Produce
& Supply Co.
The Oak Tan Shoe Store
"SHADY BROOK”
75 PER CENT ALFALFA MEAL— 25 PER CENT MOLASSES
C. S. MCNAUGHT CO.. HERMISTON. ORE.
COAL
Subscription Rates: One Year, $2.00; Six Months, 81.00
The cheapest feed on the
market now
PURE HAWAIIAN CANE MOLASSES
Are You Going to Order
Oregon’s great irrigated alfalfa fields, by the Herald Publishing Company. ,
Can You Build a Bird House?
The most talented singer in the
I world. not even excepting the night-
Ingale, says the American Forestry
Magazine of Washington, I* the her
mit thrush.
A bird house building
contest Is arousing
great interest
among school children and the maga-
zine Is giving bine ribbons tn the prize
winners In schools throughout the
country.
Or wish you had next Winter
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
Inland Empire Lumber Company
y
Phone 331
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“ The Yard of Best Quality ”
H. M. STRAW. MGR.
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