T he H ermiston H erald
VOL. XIV
HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1920
PROGRAM ABOUT COMPLETE
EOR BIG “FIELB BAY” MEET
With the acceptance of Hon. N. J.
Sinnott as speaker of the day the NEW PLAY HOUSE WILL BE
program arranged for Field Day has
FINISHED SATURDAY NIGHT
been completed. Mr. Sinnott is a
The exterior of The Play House is
'forceful talker and a man who Is ex
tremely interested in irrigation and beginning to take on a most metro
the problems of irrigation farmers. politan appearance, and the Hermis
Professor Geo. R. Hyslop of the ton people are beginning to feel as
Agricultural college who is a widely though they had a little of Broad
known educational speaker, will be way dropped down on Main street.
Contractors Smith and Rogers
present to give, one of his valuable
have this 'week finished the rubble
talks.
Director J. T. Jardine of the Ore work on the front of the building,
gon Experiment Station will speak partitioned off the lobby, and put
on the value of experimental work to up the ticket booth and a marquee.
| They have also done the carpenter
the state.
Cash Wood, the Umatilla county work around the stage and finished
director of Y. M. C. A. work, will up the projection room. The cement
be on hand with a wonderous assort floor is already in and things are
ment of games and stunts to amuse moving along smoothly to an eagerly
the young and make the old young awaited end.
again.
Professor Voelker is making plans
for a big community sing and will
make every possible effort to have
the boys band in shape to play.
The ladies, on the basket lunch
August F. Beisse and family re
committee are making unheard-of
turned Tuesday from an automobile
preparations to supply the wants of
trip to Portland.
They left here
the inner man at noon.
Field Day at the Experimental Friday morning and went to Port
Farm is going to be the biggest day land and to Newberg, Oregon, also
about 100 miles up into Washing
in the county. Don’t miss it.
ton.
The board of directors of the Pen
Mr. Beisse reports that 600 miles
dleton Commercial club met Thurs were covered on the trip, all the
day afternoon and voted to send a roads were very good with the ex
delegation headed by J. R. Raley, ception of a short stretch near
president, to the Field Day and to Wasco, and that he had no tire
bring the Round-Up quartette to trouble at all until near Arlington
contribute to the program. The on the return trip. At that point
quartette is composed of Bert Gerard, someone had inadvertently left a car-
Ole Oleson, Clyde Phillips and Jack
pet tack lying in the middle of the
Dolph.
country road.
ROADS TO PORTLAND
IN EXCELLENT SHAPE
WHAT DO YOU KNOW
ABOUT YOUR PROJECT
The raising of hogs on the project
is an industry that has brought in
a large amount of outside money
and considerable publicity.
Hermiston hogs have been recog
nized by expert judges as second to
none in Oregon. . They have won
prizes and honorable mention at
shows in Lewiston, Idaho, Salem and
at the Stock Show in Portland.
They always bring top prices in
the Portland markets and several
times have been sold at a premium.
Several car loads are shipped out
each year.
Duroc Reds and Poland Chinas are
the breeds most favored by growers
and there are many pure-bred boars
and sows on the project.
One of the largest shippers on the
project says that this country is ideal
for hog raising, and calls attention
to the long period of time when hogs
can get green food. He says that
shelter, bedding and clean water
mean much ih the successful raising
of good hogs and lays emphasis on
the importance of regular diet. Much
trouble is caused, he says, by chang
ing from one kind of feed to another,
which is not only bad for the stock,
but not economical for the producer.
Pigs are weaned at about ten
weeks and a 200 pound hog is ma
tured at from six and a half tb eight
months. It takes between 500 to
600 pounds of grain to produce a
200 pound hog, 300 to 350 for fat
tening and the remainder for growth.
Request for Information
Polk's Oregon-Washington Gazet
teer and Business Directory has writ
ten Poetmaster Skinner asking for
information regarding Hermiston,
its manufactures, recent improve-
menta, inducements to capitalists,
ete.
They want the names of all man
ufacturers. store-keepers, profession
al men, physicians, dentists, lawyers,
clergymen, justices of the peace, con-
stables, hotel proprietors, black-
smiths, wagon makers, dressmakers,
shoemakers.
carpenters,
masons,
butchers, grain and cattle dealers,
garages, barbers, teachers, agents,
etc.. In fact all people engaged la
business in Hermiston.
Any publicity that ean be given
Hermiston eannot fail to benefit
each member of the community, and
you are asked to cooperate all you
can in collecting this information
Please leave all data with Mr. Skin-
ner in the postoffice.
PARENT-TEACHERS TO MINERAL PROPERTIES AT
HOLD RECEPTION COLD SPRINGS UNDING
The Parent-Teachers Association
will give a reception Thursday, Sep
tember 9th, at 8 o’clock p. m., in
honor of the teachers who will be in
the Hermiston school during the
year. The reception will be held in
the auditorium of the high school
and a program has been arranged.
Parents and friends interested in
the progress of the school are urged
to attend and join in welcoming the
teachers to Hermiston.
Following is a list of the teachers
and the grades they will teach this
year:
Grades—
Miss Graves, first grade.
Miss Scott, second grade.
Miss Smith, third grade.
Mrs. Miller, fourth grade.
Mrs. Lieuallen, fifth grade.
Mrs. Lloyd, sixth grade.
Miss McCoy, seventh grade.
Mr. Bensel, eighth grade.
High school—
Miss Breirely, Miss Hall and Mr.
Voelker, Principal. Science teacher
yet to be supplied.
FORMER TOUCHET MAN
WILL BUILD RESIDENCE
J. T. Dowell of Touchet, Washing
ton, has bought 10 acres north-west
of Shotwell’s corner on Main street
from the Newport estate and will
locate here.
Albert Smith will build a modern
residence for Mr. Dowell on the prop
erty. The building will be of hollow
tile construction, stucco finish, and
will be of bungalow design.
DOARDMAN NEWS
SPECIAL CRRESFONDENCE
Mrs. Olive Paine is assisting in the
office
of the Ballenger Lumber Co.’
Hermiston Best of All
After driving through Central and for a short time.
Western Oregon and into Northern
Mrs. Alice Signs, who is conva
California, with an eye always out lescing from a severe operation in
for values in real estate, T. F. Gaith the Portland Surgical Hospital is ex
er and wife have made the decision pected to be, well enough tq return
that Hermiston is the best place to home the first of the week.
live and buy in.
Mr. Gaither proved this on his re
D. E. Harper has about finished
turn from the trip by buying the A. the remodeling of the Teachers’ cot
W. Prann home on the west side and tage and will have it ready for oc
expects to have possession about the cupancy by September 4th, in plenty
15th of September.
He will also of time for the teachers to get set
keep his farm north of town and tled before school commences.
put a rente: on it. He says that no
where in Oregon did he find land
Archie Cummins has traded for a
prices so low as in Hermiston.
new Masters truck. Its a peach and
A. W. Prann recently bought the “we will tell the world so.”
Brigham place and will move there
when the Brigham’s leave Hermis
Mrs. S. H. Boardman and daughter
ton.
Helen went to Hermiston Monday to
have another X-ray taken of Helen's
elbow which was broken by falling
Warning to Violators of Law
Speed Marshall W. H. Lyday of from a horse.
Pendleton was in Hermiston Wed
D. E. Harper commenced Monday
nesday in company with Deputy
Sheriff Joe Blakely. Mr. Lyday was the erection of a cottage for Ed
looking for violators of the age law Miles. It is small, but compact, hav
1
for drivers of motor vehicles and is ing many built in features.
sues warning to all under 16 years
Mrs. De Weese is slowly recover
of age who are driving to stop.
He says the first fine is around ing from an attack of walking ty
$10 and a repetition of the offense phoid fever.
• *
lays them liable to a larger fine,
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Mack of Her
the limit to which is $400.
One local boy was caught driving miston are the guests of Carl Voyen
who was under the age limit and and family for a few days.
fined |10.
The community Fair will be held
about October 1. We want everyone
West Side Property Sold
Mrs. M. A. Homing this week sold to take an interest and bring some
her five acre tract west of town to thing to exhibit. The premium list
will be ready in plenty of time for
M. F. White of this city. Mrs. Horn
all to compete.
ing will go to Salt Lake City to visit
with relatives.
Miss Kathleen Marshall was severe
ly burned last Sunday while building
Party Honors Pilot Rock Guest
a fire with kerosene. After starting
Mrs. Bert Haneline was hostess to the fire she set the can on the back
a large party of young folks Monday of the stove, where it caught on fire
night, when she entertained at her and spread to her thin dress She
home for her eousin, Mise Velma ran out and rolled in the sand put
Royer of Pilot Rock.
ting the tire out but severely burned
During the early part of the even her arms and back. Miss Marshall
ing games were played on the lawn was taken to St. Anthony’s hospital
and later the young people adjourn In Pendleton Tuesday and at last ac
ed to the house where dancing was counts was resting easier. Mrs. C.
enjoyed until a late hour, when re- E. Hines accompanied her to Pendle-
freshments were served.
ton, returning the next day.
Miss Royer left Tuesday morning
for her home, after a visit here of
O. H Warner of the Highway Inn
about a week.
is kept very busy these days showing
prospective buyers, over the project.
Hew Warehouse in Boardman
Work was started Wednesday in
The J. C. Ballenger Hardware com
Boardman on a new warehouse for | pany have moved into their new store
the storage of hay. The contract | in the Murchie building. They have
was let by R F. Kirkpatrick of Pen- | added several new lines to their nJ
dleton and others.
ready large stock.
, The warehouse is being built along !
the railroad right of way end will be .
Mrs. Grace Stewart, third and
16x60 with 18 foot walls.
fourth grade teacher, has rented the
Out-of-town parties have been in
vestigating a white chalk bank at
Cold Springs Landing, on land owned
by E. E. Shaw. '
Test pits have been dug and it has
been found that there are present on
the land large quantities of a white
mineral, which has properties that
make it rapable of being commerci
ally exploited as a cleaning prepara
tion similar to Dutch Cleanser. There
is talk of establishing a factory on
the land.
Mr. Shaw has been shipping two
or three tons of the substance each
year to a firm in Spokane for man
ufacturing purposes.
NO. 51
HERMISTON SCHOOLS WILL
OPEN ON SEPTEMBER 6
• The ding-dong of the old school
EIGHTEEN EMPTY FREIGHT
bell will be heard again next Mon
CARS FOR HERMISTON HAY day. September 6, with ita message
of "come-back, come-back” to teach
Dealers In hay were made happy ers and pupils. We have missed the
Tuesday by the arrival of 18 empty glad sound of the old bell and the
freight cars, and the freight yard companionship of the boys and girls
has been the scene of unusual ac during the summer vacation months.
tivity for the past 4 8 hours. On To a number of last year's graduates
Tuesday night several truckmen the boll is a reminder that college
hauled all night.
days will soon begin; but two of the
About 60 tons of baled hay had class and two of last year's teachers
been plied up west of the station have listened to the siren strains of
during the week. In readiness for the wedding bells and the old school bell
cars as soon as they arrived, and ceases to have any attraction for
PORTLAND BUSINESS MEN
them.
ON GET ACQUAINTED TRIP while It was a wordless advertise^
The “come-back" of the bell calls
ment for the Hermiston country, it
all
the boys and girls that have not
had
been
the
source
of
worry
to
the
More than 300 business men of
completed their high school course.
Portland will visit cities and towns shippers.
Many have been employed during
all over Eastern Oregon about the
the
vacation months and the ability
middle of October, on a trip that has
to earn high wages may be a tempta
as its basis a desire for better ac
tion to some to ‘quituate’ and not re
quaintance and stronger trade rela
sume their studies. The cull is also
tions.
for those who have dropped out of
They will travel In a special train,
school for a year or more to come
and look the ground over thoroughly.
The September term of the cir
The Portland Chamber of Com cuit court panel of jurors was drawn back and put on the finishing touch
es. In this period of reconstruction
merce is sponsoring the jaunt.
Wednesday. Men drawn from this there is more need for education than
district were Frank Waugatuan, Pat ever before to meet the material loss
Builds Modern Home
rick P. Sullivan and S. R. Oldaker. es of the war. Dour great indus-
Harry McMillan has completed his
H. B. Rees of Stanfield and Ralph
work of installing an electric light Stanfield and Manuel Pedro of Echo tries are calling for trained men and
women at high salaries. Our school
plant in the home of T. E. Broyles, were also drawn.
can
not give the technical training
four miles out of Boardman.
required to fill the various callings
Mr. Broyles Is a wheat rancher of
BOARDMAN SCHOOL FACULTY
In life, but it can give the foundation
Colfax, Washington, and has built
IS NOW ENTIRELY COMPLETE upon which to build this training
one of the finest residences in the
and prepare the student for college
county.
In a small high
The faculty of the Boardman or trade school.
school is at last complete. Mr. A. J. school the courses are necessarily
Goodwin cottage for the winter.
Hedger, the last member to be chosen limited In number but In addition to
the regular school work we hope to
Mrs. George Mefford and little will have charge of science, manual
have the following student activ
training
and
athletics.
Ho
taught
daughter returned Sunday from a
ities: debate, athletics, declamation
last
year
in
Idaho
and
for
two
years
visit with her sister in Troy, Idaho.
previous in Lane County, Oregon. drama, motion pictures, orchestra,
band and glee clubs.
There will b: a meeting of the The other teachers aro Daisy Lee,
Milton,
grades
I
and
II;
Mrs.
W.
H.
Education is a financial Invest
Farm Bureau on Friday evening,
September 10. There will be a good Stewart, Boardman, grades HI and ment that yields the highest divi
program and plenty to eat. Come IV; Myrtle McNeill, Portland, grades dends. A few years ago, before the
one and all.
Join and have your V and VI; Blanch Scharman, Port high prices went into effect, labor
friends join so as to have lively meet land, grades VII and VIII. In the statistics showed that an uneducat-
high school department. Miss Naomi ed laborer earns on the average $500
ings this winter.
Runner of Salem will have Latin, per year for 40 years, a total of
history,
and English; Miss Frances 820.000. A high school graduato
Carl Voyen has sold his feed
store to B. S .Kingsley and will soon Beebe, homo economics and girla' earn on the ay erage of $1000 per
physical training, und M. B. Signs, year for 40 years, a total of $40,000.
move his family to Hermiston.
principal, teacher training.
The difference is »20,000 the value
of a high school education. Divide
Mrs. Odessa Eubank arrived Fri
this sum by 2160, the number of days
Bear Hunters Left Sunday
day from Los Angeles, California, to
A hopeful band of bear hunters in 12 years spent In the elementary
make ‘a short visit with her step-
left Hermiston Sunday for the Blue and high schools, and it gives $9.25.
father, Robert Mitchell.
mountains with full equipment for the average value In increased earn
Frank Cramer sold his 40 acre an eventful trip. The men making ing power for every day In school.
ranch last week to T. E. Broyles for up the party were as follows; Wil Education not only Increases one’s
$8,300. Will Gilbreth will move on liam Mikesell, Earl Phelps, Henry earning capacity, but It also makes
to the ranch and farm it for Mr. Hitt, Levi Reeder, B. 8. Kingsley. better citizens, increases the desire
J. 8. West and George Corse. They and ability to serve others, adds to
Broyles.
expect to be gone all week and show the appreciation and happiness of
life, and multiplies the chances of
There will be a grange picnic at great results on their return.
success.
Coyote on Labor Day, September 6.
The program of the schools of sev
The married people will donate a Charge Prejudice Against Jail Birds
basket dinner and the single ones
Attorneys for Kerby, Stoop, Rathie eral decades ago was to teach the
may give cash. There will be sports and Henderson have filed affidavits three It's, readin’, ‘ritin and ‘rith-
of all descriptions, including a base of prejudice In suppprt of their re metlc, but the scope of endeavor of
ball game between the married and quest for a change of venue for tho the present day schools has broad
single men. There will be ice cream, prisoners held for the murder of T. ened considerably. Besides the reg
ular school work throughout the 12
lemonade and peanuts and other D. Taylor.
things too numerous to mention.
The state will prepare a motion years of tho course, our program In
Come and have a good time.
To promote
objecting to this motion. Judge cludes the following:
Phelps has taken no action on the the health of the pupils; to encour-
W. W. Bechdolt has improved his motions and it is not yet known age our youth to complote their edu
ranch home with a couple of coats of when the state will file its objection. cation; to teach the benefits and wis
white paint.
dom of thrift; to teach Americanism;
to get the greatest possible return
Little Billy Felthouse Very Ill
Contractor Allen has finished the
The little son of W. W. Felthouse from our investment in education In
fine new $4000 residence of T. E. was taken to Pendleton Monday ser the form of a constantly Improving
Broyles, and Mr. Broyles has moved iously ill with a ruptured appendix. type of manhood and womanhood;
into it.
Drs. Gale and Parker operated, and to do away with the use of tobacco
while the little fellow Is not entirely by school boys; to bring the home
The Parent-Teachers Association out of danger he Is doing better than and school Unto a closer and more
will give a reception to the new teach was expected at the time the opera helpful relationship.
ers In the Auditorium at 7 o’clock tion was performed.
We would urge parents to have
Monday evening, September <th. All
their children attend school regular
patrons of the school should be pres
ly and to be punctual
A student
Corvallis Man May Locate Here
ent and make their acquaintance,
O. C. Young, of Corvallis, former who Is obliged to be absent from
get Into closer touch with the teach
ly a lumber contractor In that city, class, gets behind In his work, be
ers, and have better feeling and bet
is in Hormlston looking over things comes discouraged and dislikes school
ter schools.
our board of education has spared
with a view to locating here.
Mr. Young was a pioneer of Cen no time or pains to secure competent
The celebrated De Moss family will
tral Oregon and a former newspaper Instructors In every department, and
give a concert Monday evening, Sep
we expect the teachers to do their
tember 6th, at 8 o’clock In the man in Culver. Oregon.
work well. Let us all work together
school auditorium. The proceeds go
to have this not only a pleasant year
School At Colombia
to the Ladies' Aid.
but also a very profitable one for
School opens Monday. September
our
boys and girls.
Mrs Harter has rented the south < Ted Hall, who will drive the
Respectfully,
annex of the Cramer store and is bus this year will leave his home at
A E. Voelker.
having It remodeled into living 7:30 In the morning and will cover
Principal
rooms. The north annex of the same the same route as last year, picking
building has been 'rented and will be up the children on the way. Mon
Truckload of Local Mail
occupied as soon as Mr. Miles vacates day there will be but half days
It took a three-ton truck to de
school
The
children
will
be
taken
it.
home at the noon hour und there liver local mall addressed to people
on the project from the train to the
Mr Ed Miles has rented the hard will be no need of taking lunches.
post office Tuesday. The occasion
The
teachers
for
the
year
are
Mr.
ware store building and moved the
was the delivery of the semi-annual
Pastime into It. Mr. Miles has also MeQueen, Miss Ciara Kersting and
mall order catalogues.
Miss
Ethel
Graham.
put In a stock of stationery.
LOCAL MEN DRAWN
FOR CIRCUIT COURT