THE
HERMISTON
THE
HERALD,
HERMISTON,
HERMISTON
OREGON.
HERALD
Published every Friday at Hermiston, Umatilla County, Oregon, in the heart of Eastern
Oregon’s great irrigated alfalfa fields, by the Herald Publishing Company.
PREPARE for WINTER
PROTECTION
M. C. Athey, Editor
Entered as second-class matter, December >. 1906, at the postoffice at Hermiston, Oregon
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Make your house comfortable
before cold weather sets in
considerably praise. However, it was
only another example of the Hermis
boy
Have you ever noticed a small
ton progressive spirit to have the best
go whistling down the street? He
and give and work always toward
was happy.
Some day, though, he may not be that end.
be so happy. He may be president
Now that the election is over, and
of the United States instead.
no hard feelings left, except the de
It’s too bad we can’t carry our ex-
feated candidates, who may have
uberance of happiness through life
some grudge for a "while, we can set
and into the grave. Instead of leav
tle down to the even tenor of our
ing it at the threshold of manhood,
ways.
as most of us do.
When we reach manhood’s estate
A reader wants to know the differ
we plunge into the business of piling
ence between a politician and states
pile
is
never
sat
up money, and the
man. Well, we don’t exactly know,
isfactory until It is larger than our
but we imagine that the present day
needs require, Even then we yearn
politician is a descendant of the old
for more.
time statesman, now extinct. We
Some people never really enjoy
their money because they never stop might go a little further and eluci-
accumulating it long enough to take date a little more clearly, and state
a rest. They forget the days when that the slimy green worm that de
they were whistling kids and joy was vours our • cabbage is the offspring
of one of the most beautiful of all
their portion in life.
Finally they die and leave their winged creatures—the multi-color
money for their relatives to scrap ed butterfly.
over and squander.
There’s a very charming lady in
Perhaps they find in the hereafter
this
community who once, when
the happiness they denied themselves
in this life. But we doubt it. Even slightly peeved, declared that there
if they squeeze into heaven they is never anything in this sheet worth
reading. Some of these days we are
won’t remember how to whistle.
going
to run a nice, genteel, compli
Whistling kids who disregard their
mentary
notice about herself. And
happiness in their prime will become
then—but it’s woman’s prerogative
morose in old age.
You can change a leopard's spots to change her mind without notice.
by daubing on a little paint. But in
The public doesn’t seem to be able
time the paint will wear off and the
to
work up any tearful sympathy for
spots will still be there.
So It is with man. He can money the gamblers who got stung in the
grub through the years of his prime baseball scandal, but at the same
and in the winter of life he can fool time it would like to see crooked
the people by assuming a happiness players placed where they belong—
he does not feel. But under the sur behind the bars. The national game
face the canker still works. It will is in a fair way to be regarded with
suspicion by every honest person.
never heal.
Encourage your boy 1 to whistle. In-
Paris, they tell us. Is full of Ameri
duce him to whistle a i stirring tune
can men and women who are blow-
every day of his life.
Then he will carry his whistling ng money to the winds in wild orgy
to the grave, and the harps of the of fashionable debauchery. If they
angles will be in harmony with his would only blow themselves along
with their money the rest of us
soul.
would feel cleaner and less contam
inated by their absence.
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REMEMBER
WHISTLING KIDS
HITTING THE LONG TRAIL
There comes a time when each of
us must hit the long trail to a world
that is hidden from mortal eyeS, a
world of which we hear much, but of
which we never see while life lasts.
The trail is plainly blazed by many
I markings, but it is only traveled by
those who prepare themselves for the
I journey in advance. The guiding of
our steps may rest in other hands,
but the taking of them rests wholly
I with us.
,
As we aid in removing the ob-
stacles from the path of our neighb
ors and friends in this life, so will the
obstructions be lessened or removed
from our own paths when we take
the long trail.
No good act of ours is so small, no
kind word so Insignificant, but what
it has its reward when our earthly
accounts are balanced.
It Is not necessary to look afar for
an opportunity to do good. Every
day, every hour it is before us, in our
community, in our own town, even in
our own families.
By our acts we are judged by God
and man. Man may not see them all,
but God misses nothing.
There are many little acts of kind
ness we might perform for those a-
round us, or the unfortunate in our
midst, many little words of cheer or
sympathy we might extend.
It is a long trail we must take some
day, and our degree of comfort or dis
comfort will be decided before we
start.
For man may not reap the pleasure
of the next world without earning
it while in the land of mortality.
We keep our goods on the basis
of present market values, what-
ever that may be, and you can
be assured that quality con
sidered, our prices will be
right. All this bunk about
their great desire to reduce
high cost of living prices by
city stores is pure buncombe.
Keep your money as near
home as possible--you may
see it Again.
Hermiston Produce &
Supply Co
WHICH DO YOU PREFER
If a family works in amity in its
aims and Its purposes in life it suc
ceeds. If It disagrees, and Is divided,
it degenerates into a number of sep-
erate units, without cohesion, and
eventually falls.
This town is one big family, with
many members, or unita.
A loyal spirit of fraternity will
weld us together and enable us to
work intelligently, energetically and
cohesively for our common good, with
ultimate success as our assured re-
You Will Rest Easier
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for in case you are suddenly taken away. Provide
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The absence of auch a spirit will
reduce us to the status of a collection
of units, without organization, with-
lout defined purpose, and each ex-
haustlng his energy and his resources
in a mire of suspicion and cross pur
poses.
The issue ean not be evaded—It is
one or the other.
Which do you prefer for this town?
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UcTîTtÎstOîX hotd
SUNDAY DINNER
Cream Celery Soup
Combination Salad
Frie dChicken Cream Gravy
T-Bone Steak French Frys
Lamb Chops Green Peas
Baked Chicken With Dressing
Baked Potatoes
Buttered Beets
Hot Rolls
Pumpkin Pie Whipped Cream
Fruit Jello With Cake
Coffee
Milk
Time was when most any kind of
a foreign nobleman could pick up an
American heiress merely by indicat
ing his wilingness to accept her a-
long with her “dough.” Now, how-
ever. handsome chauffeurs are much
more popular than ordinary dukes,
princes and counts.
Washington dispatches tell us
that the coal situation is becoming
serious. Our own common sense tells
us that the lack of coal is becoming
more than serious—It will soon be a
freezing calamity.*
With the advent of suffrage the
henpecked husband should breath a
profound sigh of relief. Women will
be too busy settling the intricate
problems of state to waste time on
the minor affairs of life.
No matter how the election goes
in November there will still be a hun
dred million people left who are will
ing to work or be worked. We’ll get
along.
One of our excellent citizens is
sorely puzzled these days. He wants
to scare up laugh and has forgotten
how to go about it.
Our latest operatic stars are a
twinkling success. You| can’t tell
whether they are singing or having
a fit of hysterics.
The old time leg show is rapidly
becoming a thing of the past. It
doesn’t stop there.
Prices, we are told, are coming
down every day. Probably go up a-
gain during the night.
KEEP ON KEEPING. OH
Keep on keeping on, there is
plenty to try for;
Don’t wring your hands and lie
down in despair.
Things that you want you have
no time to sigh for.
While you are moaning another
gets there.
Things worth the having make
effort more pleasing.
For the best fruits you have
always to elimb.
Never give in, though good
Fortune be teasing;
Keep on keeping on, snd keep
on all the time.
There Is no sense in forever
complaining.
Grumbling and growling are
bad for the soul.
The athletic field of the Hermiston Strugle and climb, to all good
school grounds is now in wonderful
things attaining.
condition. The work accomplished Noble endeavor will get to the
by the men in chsrge of the repair-
goal.
Ing of the field recently, la worthy of " Life will be fuller and cleaner.
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Every farmer is in business for profit, He
is interested in anything that will increase his
profit. He knows the importance of good seed
and well bred stock. He has been talking
about it for years.
Thought and a little investment pay big
dividends in buildings as in stock and seed.
When good farm buildings will pay for
themselves in the saving of grain, stock, feed
and machinery in one season—surely they can
be called a good investment.
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HERMISTON; OREGON