T he H ermiston H erald
i VOL. XV
HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15. 1920
EIGHTH ANNUAL DAIRY AND
I HOG SHOW GREAT SUCCESS
r
Saturday night marked the closing J. Kingsley and Mrs. George Root,
i of the eighth annual Dairy and Hog with Mrs. C. E. Baker assisting. Mrs.
Show. In all its different interests Earl Mitchell and Mrs. B. S. Kingsley
the show was a great success. Per also helped and Doris Swayze, Eldora
fect weather on Friday brought out Kingsley and Laura Phipps served
-the crowds in large numbers, and as waitresses.
the coming of the Pendleton delega-
The judges in the hot lunch con
t tion added to the general good cheer test say that on the whole the lunch
[ visible all over town. The hotels, es were far above those shown five
restaurants and church dinners and years ago.
suppers took care of the appetites of
Columbia school won first, $25 in
residents and visitors and the Her the hot lunch contest, Umatilla sec-
miston High School band, in charge ond, $10 and Stanfield, third. $5.
of Mr. Voelker, gave the needed The judges say that competition was
touch of music.
close and that on the whole the
Great credit is due the board of lunches were far above those of five
managers who have given their time years ago. They commented on the
and efforts to making a success of excellent way in which all lunches
the show and to those who assisted were packed, the good sandwiches
them with the buildings and stock. and the cleanliness of the children.
While the number of entries in the
Suggestions were made to the ef-
cattle division were not so numerous feet that the children be sure to
as In former years, fine animals were have plenty of water to drink, urg-
shown and competition was keen. ing the use of more fruit and vege-
The showing of hogs attracted much tables and to avoid pie and store
attention and also the animals en cookies.
The children should be
tered in the boys’ and girls’ club taught the value of deportment, ser
contest. The new hog shed is a finé vice and the correct usage of spoons;
thing and it has already been said etc.
that it will have to be enlarged for
Parents are beginning to realize
next year’s show.
the value of a hot lunch for their
One of the most interesting parts children and this department of
of the program on Friday was the school work is receiving much atten
school parade in the afternoon. The tion all over the country.
primary children, under the direction
A delightful feature of the parades
of Miss Graves, marched, the tiny Friday and Saturday was the work
girls in long dresses and the boys of the mounted quartette, who sang
carrying guns.
All the children popular songs on Main street in cos
wore paper caps. The second grade tume.
Doris Swayze and Laura
portrayed Mother Goose’s children, Phipps in cowgirl costume, and Dew-
third grade Overall Boys and Sun ’ey Payne and Herbert Hall in chaps
bonnet Girls, fourth and fifth, sang and all the fixin’s made a decidedly’
patriotic songs and the sixth grade favorable impression on all who
enacted the parts of the characters heard and saw them.
in the “funny sheets’’ of the news
(Continued on page six)
papers. Members of other grades
took the parts of Indians, cow boys, Maurice Scroggs on Inspection Tour
different ads, etc. One group showed
M. D. Scroggs of the Reclamation
the progress in methods of traveling, Service .returned Saturday from a
from pioneer days to the present, trip over some of the nearby irriga
while another burlesqued the faculty. tion* projects, viewing irrigation
One little chap represented a two works and studying irrigation prac
headed man, who walked equally tices.
He visited while away, the Milton
well on his feet or hands, and all
through the course of the parade a and Freewater irrigation district,
character representing Hermiston be Walla Walla, "Burbank project in
layed a dummy labeled Irrigon with Washington, the lower Snake coun
a rolling pin, as a forerunner of the try, Pasco and Kennewick, Sunny
side and Yakima.
foot ball game in the afternoon.
Mr. Scroggs says that he went out
Too much credit cannot be given
the wome nof the project who so to see what troubles the other fel
cheerfully and competently handled lows had in handling water, and
or exhibited the work at the Audi found they had just as many as he
torium. The building, which housed had, In spite of the fact that all the
the displays of cookery, domestic art country visited was of longer estab
and the children’s work, was beaut- . lishment than the Umatilla project,
ifully decorated with flowers, vines which compares very favorably with
and autumn leaves, and the little tea the country gone over.
room ip one corner, maintained for
the benefit of the Library, was charm
ing, and well patronized. The exhib-
its of women’s work were on tables
and walls near the front of the build-
Ing, and the school and club work of
the children at the rear. The hot
lunch demonstrations took place on
the stage, and Mr. Green, county
school superintendent, gave a talk.
Emphasis is given to the creditable
work of the children, which showed
Painstaking effort. The artistic dis
play of Florence Hannan attracted
notice, as did the vegetable exhibit
from the garden of Earl Carson. Mar-
garet Hineline of the Minnehaha
school got a credit on her club work,
and to the shame of the girls be it
said, a boy, Arthur Rubner, got the
first prize for embroidery. An aero-
Wane constructed by Arthur Bubner
and a sailing boat by Joe McNaught
were both excellent. AU the chil-
fs deserve praise and encourage-
The women having charge of the
women’s exhibits at the hall were: I
Nr. J. T Hinkle, Mrs. H. A. McKeen,
Business Changes Hands
W. H. Ogden has purchased the
jewelry and watch repairing’ business
of the late C. M. Jensen and will take
possession in a few days. .Howard
Illsley, who has been taking charge
of the store for the past two months
for Mrs. Jensen, will leave soon for
his home in Portland.
DAVID WON A PRIZE
Morios had • Baby
called him
im
"J She put iithel
ball lub do leach
him how.to, s win
"certainly halnolhing
w on him," hen il
ycameloealing Soap.
A C. Voelker, and Mrs. O. D.
all of Hermiston, Mrs. Wm.
of Columbia and Mrs. Edith
Yen Duesen of Pendleton. Mrs. B.
Kingsley, as president of the Par-
" Teachers Association, also had an
ive part.
Mr. C. H. Marsh and Miss Kate
»rhees of Pendleton, judged the hot
neh contest. Miss Vorhees is do-
“stie science teacher in the schools
"Pendleton, and Mrs. Marsh at one
"me held that position.
udzes in the domestic art and
10d departments for women were:
David Akley Allen, eleven months
"8 Rix, Umatilla, M rs. Bean, Uma old, won a prize In the annual baby
and
Daniel Kirk of Uma- parade and carnival at Asbury park.
N. J. David's costume was a smile.
The tea room in charge of Mrs. E.and his vehicle his tin bathtub.
Mn.
UNUSUAL ACCIDENT INJURES
PROJECT WOMAN SERIOUSLY
Residents
of
Hermiston wer»
shocked to hear Thursday morning
of the narrow escape from death of
Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Illsley, Howard
Illsley and Miss Betty Beasley, at
Umatilla, Wednesday night.
' According to reports, the party
Dr. Illsley driving, were approaching
the railroad tracks Just before
reaching Umatilla, and watching for
approaching trains, heard and saw
an engine several hundred feet fron
the crossing. As the engine was tor
tar away for any possibility of dan
ger they decided to cross, and whet
too close to avoid it, a short trait
of freight cars, without engine, lights
or brakeman, making a flying switch
was directly upon them.
Dr. Illsley attempted to turn the
car and run parallel with the train,
but it struck the front of the car
turning and pushing the automobile
With the first crash, Mrs. Illsley was
thrown out between the boxcars and
the machine. It is supposed that she
was stunned by the impact as the
space between the cars and machine
was so small that the slightest move
must have been fatal, each car In
passing striking the open swinging
door of the automobile.
Earl Caldwell, who was directly
behind the wrecked car, helped to
extricate Mrs. Illsley, and she was
taken in his car to the Brownell res-
idence in Umatilla, before being
brought to Hermiston, where she is
at present at her home under the
care of a nurse, suffering from the
shock. It has not been ascertained
as yet the extent of her injuries, if
any. None of the other members of
the party were injured.
Mrs. J. E. Younce, living three and
one-half miles southeast of Stanfield
on the Government ditch, was badly
injured Sunday evening at her home
by the accidental discharge of a
shot-gun.
Mrs. Younce’s son, aged about 12,
had come in from shooting and was
unloading his shot-gun in the kitchen
In some way the gun was discharged,
and the shot went through a parti
tion. tore the lock off a door, tore
through the boards underneath the
dining table in another room and
lodged in the leg of Mrs. Younce, who
was sitting on the farther side of the
table.
Four pieces of the shot penetrated
Mrs. Younce’s leg almost to the bone,
and there is danger of infection from
possible splinters that may have been
carried into the wounds. One piece
of shot also entered her jaw and ap
parently passed out through her
mouth, for no trace of It has yet been
found.
THE POSSIBILITIES OF HAY
GROWERS' ; : :
479093
By L. A. Hunt
In ess as an Association for two years
Morrow County Agent
but found It advisable to Incorporate
Since many of the farmers on the in order to secure a better finan
West Extension take your valuable cial standing. They loan some money
paper more, probably than any other on potatoes and sometimes intercede
Morrow county publication, I trust between the bank and the borrower,
that it will not appear out of place in such a way that the Organization
for you to publish from me some of agrees to turn over to the bank the
the possibilities of a Hay Growers' proceeds of a sale or such portions
Organization.
as may be mutually agreed upon. In
It has been demonstrated in var this way the bank is absolutely pro
ious counties of Washington, as well tected as far as the crop goes as the
as in Oregon that farmers will hold Association can guarantee to sell tho
together upon a question of wages to crop and turn the proceeds over to
a degree that justifies every effort the bank.
The Association has not yet deter-
to standardization.
In considering
the production of hay, however, it is minded to what extent It will at
advisable to remember that hay is tempt to market hay and can cer
not a finished commodity, and that tainly be a success without attempt-
there are at least three parties to Ing more than a few of the possibil
its final manufacture, first the land; ities outlined above.
Its ultimate success will depend
second the labor; third the feeder;
and all must be considered.
primarily upon the personnel of its
The Board of Directors of the As- management and then upon the fi
sociation can do much to standardize delity and patience of its members.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE
the kind of seed sown and fertilizer No new machine but requires some
The Ladies’ Aid Bureau will hold
used and by buying both coopera- adjusting to get started.
a meeting on Friday, October 15th.
Yours for stability
lively can save considerable money.
Mrs. Edith Van Duesen will be pres
L. A. Hunt.
Whether they will ultimately decide
ent and introduce new. winter pro to incorporate for a small capital
jects. A delegation of women from stock or not is yet to be determined, BOARDMAN FARM BUREAU
Hermiston will be the guests of the
HOLDS A LIVELY MEETING
but In either case a lot of cooperative
Bureau and look over the work done
purchasing may be carried on in a
by the Umatilla women.
rousing Farm Bureau Meeting
few lines if found advisable.
Mrs. W. R. Nugent has returned
In the marketing of hay the aver was held last week. Reports from
from Portland where she went with' age farmer is severely handicapped. the organization meeting of the Col
Mrs. S. A. Nugent, who has been her First, he is by training and occupa umbia Basin Hay Growers Associa
guest for some time. The latter will tion primarily a producer and is not tion was by A. L. Larsen, the newly
visit in Tacoma and Vancouver, B. every day whetting his wits against elected president. The report showed
C. before returning to her home in those of his neighbor as a bargainer, that Stanfield and Echo districts
Sacramento, California.
but primarily he is handicapped by were not yet represented owing chief
HERMISTON BUSINESS MAN
■ The Ladies’ Home Bureau gave a the fear that he may not sell his hay ly to the fact that those districts
LEAVES FOR PORTLAND chicken dinner at the Umatilla hotel soon enough to meet his just obliga feed out of the stack and have not
last week, to help defray the expen tions and in that event will have no made an extensive practice of baling
George A. Cressy, former rancher ses of the Chautauqua to he held this intercessor between him and his cred for shipment. S. H. Boardman re
here, and u pto a few months past, winter. After paying all expenses itors. The fact that hay has actually ported for the drainage committee.
manager of the Hermiston creamery, they cleared between $50 and $60.
sold during the same week, within It was also shown by À. W. Cobb that
The newly finished Community ten miles of Hermiston at prices F. work would begin as soon as men and
has accepted a position as field man
with the Oregon Dairymen’s League House will be opened to the people O.. B. shipping point varying as much tennis could be had. The first work
and will leave for Portland soon t( of Umatilla and their social interests as $3.00 per ton is evidence enough will be temporary to take care of the
this week.
take up his new duties.
of some concerted effort to stabilize surplus winter water, but will be
He is at present doing work foi
the market price. The average hay made to conform with permanent
BROWN AND GOLD LEAVES
the League in thi spart of the state
producer is seriously damaged by the work to be done next season. The
Umatilla
High
School
but later his headquarters will be in
sale of Inferior hay upon the regular organization of the North Morrow
By Lotys Davis
markets by one of his neighbors. An County Fair Association of Boardman
Portland. Mrs. Cressy will remali
in Hermiston for the present. -Mr. . The past week has been a very organization that would obtain $2.00 was completed by the adoption of the
Creasy's friends wishing him evers eventful and busy one for the high more per ton would be worth while. report oLtlie committee on constitu
tion and by-laws. A petition was ,
success in his new line of work.
school students, it being the occasion The Yakima Association sold 50,000 drawn up and signed by all present
tons
at
.$23.00
F.
O.
B.
of the regular six weeks examina
Every ton of hay sold by the As asking O. A. C. for an extension
tion.
Good Windows
school some time in January. The
Our school was well represented at sociation should be labeled as to business session was followed by a
Window displays during the days
grade
.with
the
name
of
the
Asse
«cia-,
of the Dairy and Hog Show were ex the Dairy and Hog Show this year. tion. Feeders will soon learn that musical and literary program and
ceptionally fine. Perhaps the most Our stock judging team, composed
they can depend upon graded product supper.
striking was that of Mrs. S. L. Car of Dan Dobler, Herbert Thompson
and call for It.
son, in the west window of the Ore and Milo McFarland, carried off first
MRS. H. J. STILLINGS
. It is generally conceded that the
honors.
.
They
will
represent
the
gon Hardware and implement Co's,
(Contributed)
local
buyer
should
receive
at
least
store, because of the diversity of pro county at the International Stock
Mrs.
II.
J. Stillings of the Col-
one dollar per ton for handling the
duce shown, all raised on one ranch. Show at Portland next month, mak
umbia
District
died at the State Hoe
hay. The Association territory will
Messrs. Jay and Winslow had an in ing the trip with all expenses paid.
pltal
in
Pendleton.
Monday, October
market this season about 30,000 tons
teresting display in the east window Our entrants in the hot lunch con
One man could market this 11, 1920, after an Illness of several
of
hay.
of the same store. Sappers’ Inc. dec test received the second prize of $10.
months. Funeral services were held
Little Margaret Ford was accident to much better advantage than six In that city Wednesday, October 13,
orated their two central windows
men
and
a
good
man
can
certainly
be
with a well chosen display of farm ally struck by a swing Monday and secured for much less than $30,000. at Folsom’s undertaking parlors, and
produce and autumn leaves. One sustained a painful cut under her
Most of the Dairy Associations of interment was made in Olney Cem
window of the Hermiston Produce chin.
the Willamette Valley purchase their etery. Reverend F. R. Jackson, pas
Our first fire drill occured Mon
& Supply Company was beautifully
hay and feed cooperatively and if it tor of the Hermiston Methodist
dressed with rustic baskets of flow day, the building being emptied in a pays them to buy why will It not pay church, delivered the sermon, and
very short time.
ers, exquisite roses predominating.
several friends of the family drove
to sell the same way?
The organization of Hay Market up from Hermiston for the services.
Clara Belle Laurence was born
ing organizations are by no means
at Garfield. Washington, May 20th.
new, Yakima, Kennewick have them,
the farm bureaus of Klamath. Jack- 1883, was married to Hiram J. Stil-
son, and Josephine counties have In lings on March 14. 1907. and died
corporations that do this and they on October 11. 1920, aged 37 years,
all have realized better hay, prices four months and 21 days. The de
ceased leaves behind her father, twy
than non-members.
This.Association will probably find sisters, husband and three sons, Wil
to its advantage to cooperate with liam Tilford, aged 9; Presley Comb",
Judge Wallace McCamant, eminent Informed that Umatilla county will these organizations for a mutual car aged 20 months and Hiram Jasper,
jurist and statesman of Portland, go Republican three to one this year, ry over of hay when this Is necessary, aged 4 months.
She was converted In a meeting at
will be the central figure in the firstand the Central Committee looks for and to have an understanding as to
Elberton, Washington, some 20 years
grades
and
prob;
ibly
as
to
prices
as
political campaign rally of the year .the entire ticket to
ago and at the time of her death
here tomorrow afternoon. Judge Me- Ing down. The hardest fights are well.
was a member of the Columbia M. B.
camant will devote himself to an an-1 likely to be between Mrs. Stone and
Every farmer should know what
church. She was of a quiet, retiring
his hay costs to raise per ton. but
alytical discussion of leading cam-lW. W. Green, for county
disposition, caring little for faire
paten issues and candidates for pub-1 erintendent; 229 Houser, Jinks.Ta%
what is more important, the Associa
lor and Jake Martin, for sheriff; I tion should know what It costs to show or the flimsier things of life,
lie offices.
N. Schannep and J. E. Saylor for raise the average ton it ofiters for but was intensely devoted to the in
He speaks at the Play House at
county
judge; and the central fight sale. It is alright for farners to terests of her family. She was most
2:30 o’clock p. m.. Saturday. Novem- |
of all—Stanfield vs. Chamberlain, sell below cost If they want to. but careful of how she spoke of others
ber 16 th. under the auspices of the
and never made an enemy, in her
for the United States Senate.
It would—to say the least, be poor
Republican County Central Commit
home she often spoke of her conver
Campaign
plans
have
been
perfect
business for the Association bo sell sion and the joy It brought t her
tee and Chairman Nelson Is being
ed and Republican machinery under hay at a loss and not know it. The
congratulated upon securing such a
life.
Many things in her Mfe are
noted speaker to address the people of the direction of Chairman Nelson. individual farmer is the better able worthy of emulation by others. -
to adjust himself to the average of
Hermiston. Judge McCamant will be Secretary Chloupek and Publicity
Director
Kuck
is
running
smoothly.
all by knowing what It costs the 8 Y
remembered for the firm stand he
Monster Canteloupe Grown Hern
took upon the Oregon delegations The committee announces that the erage man. Experience has provi"
C. E Schilling of Hermiston raise
vote at the Republican National Con precinct committeemen here and in the wisdom, and necessity of iroi the branddaddy of all cantaloupe*
every other locality tn the county are clad agreement which will both pro
this season, when he found one in his
vention at Chicago.
teet the Association and the indiv
confident of success.
garden that weighed just 14 pounds
Interest in politics la increasing
idual producer. Of course there are
A
large
crowd
heard
Hon.
Monta-
The big melon was gtvea to A. •
daily and with the realization that
several types. Marketing
of any Davis, director of the Reclamation
the American people are confronted villa Flowers speak at
commodity without this has generally
mean proportions eently and left the Arcade theatre
Service, on his recent visit to Her-
with a crisis of no
feeling that anything
short of a clean proven very unsatisfactory.
miston. and he says that it lost no
the average citizen la preparing him ---------
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The Deschutes Valley Po tato Orow-
flavor by reason of its sue.
er»' Association conducted its bua- 1 thing n
seif for an intelligent vote, Novem- sweep for
ber 2nd. Local people have been a catastrophe, November tho
UMATILLA ITEMS
JUDGE WALLACE M’CAMANT
WILL SPEAK IN HERMISTON
win from Hard,
Burgess,
Lathers
ane
HERMISTON RESIDENTS IN
CAR ACCIDENT AT UMATILLA
NO. 5
school sup-
Pendleton, re
the Republicans would
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