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HERMISTON,
HERMISTON
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PREPARE for WINTER
HERALD,
OREGON:
HERA L D
Oregon, in ‘ hehearkot Ee
Published every Friday at Hermiston, Umatilla County,
Oregon’s great irrigated alfalfa fields, by the Herald Publishing Company._____
PROTECTION
M. C. Athey. Editor
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FOR WOIVIIN
We are showing many new patterns of fancy Turkish towels, very
suitable holiday gifts.
A few good numbers in Ladies’ all wool Heather Hose, just the
thing for the cold weather, in the good shades.
Handkerchiefs.We always try to anticipate your wants, as this
is handkerchief season.
All staple cotton goods such as Percales, Muslin, Gingham,
lies, and Cretones are priced on new values.
$
Chal-
Silk Hose, you can always rely on the Hole Proof Hosiery for qual
ity and at reasonable prices, $1.50 to $2.50.
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Fleischer’s Woorsted Yarn in the best shades.
FOR MEN
The season is now on for heavy underwear and our stock is com
plete in Men’s and Boy’s Union Suits. Prices down to present values
from $1.50 to $8.50 and all worth price asked.
Our stock comprises Cooper's Kenosha, Klosed Krotch, Wright
Spring Needle and the P. Q. A. line all of the very best quality.
Wool socks, we can fit you out in just the weight you want at right
prices, 75c to $1.50.
Men's Over Shirts, Pendleton made and this is a guarantee of qual
ity, in Navy Blue, Olive Drab and Gray.
Carhartt’s Overalls, nothing better at $3.00. Rip proof, good qual
ity Overalls, $2.50.
In gloves and Mittens our stock is well balanced and we can, no
doubt, please you.
Hermiston Produce &
Supply Co
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when you know that your family will be provided
for in case you are suddenly taken away. Provide
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C. H. SKINNER, Resident Agent
Harman & Muelker
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Horse Shoeing, Wagon Work,
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We Make Automobile Springs
SUCCESSOR TO J. L STORK
The difference between people is
not so great after all. It’s merely a
matter of understanding one another
that makes harmony. The first fel
low who uses just a little diplomacy,
thinks twice before he deliberately
steps on the second fellows corns,
and the second fellow, using the
same fair reasoning, stops and counts
a few numbers, not necessarily ten,
before he pulls back and lets go a
haymaker.
They are the kind of fellows who
build up cities, make good neighbors,
make a good living for themselves
and do a world of good for the com
munity in which they live. They
are just regular chaps, that’s all. A
community blessed with just a few
men who are always willing to give
and take, and sometimes give a little
more than they take, seems to us is
a rattling good place to live.
Pick on Hermiston, good people.
You’ll find an over abundance of
those good community builders here.
SEEING BOTH WAYS
Some of us are content to go thru
life noting the mistakes of others,
blissfully indifferent to the fact that
they see us as we see them.
People think of us only as our own
conduct and actions deserve that we
be thought of.
If we spend our time in petty and
obnoxious criticisms of others, we
must expect that they at least will be
able to detect the beam in our own
eyes.
A few may be short sighted and
unobserving, but the majority of peo
ple are wise and quick to note the
idiosyncrasies of human nature.
Why is it that some people are uni
versally admired and respected thru
life, although they have their faults,
as do the rest of us?
It is not because those faults are
hidden from the world—far from it.
It is because such people have hearts
endowed with more than the average
of humar compassion—hearts that
prompt the mind to recognize the
good qualities of others rather than
to be continually seeking out the
weaker points.
It is because they see the better
side of others that the world thinks
so well of them.
AU people have their faults, but
some, unfortunately, are only able
to distinguish those which exist in
the other fellow.
Speed maniacs are becoming toe
great and promiscuous a nuisance in
this country.
It is quite time to put an effectual
curb on their speeding, for sooner
or later someone is going to get
hurt, and that someone is always
an innocent party, while the guilty
NOT MONEY ALONE
culprits get off with a few scratches
It isn’t big wages in the city alone
A stiff fine, or a good Jail sentence
would soon put a stop to speeding, that takes young men away from the
The unending routine of
not only up and down Main street, farms.
work and the absence of any form
but on the highway as well.
of healthy recreation and amusement
have more to do with it than any
WHY WE PAY
thing else.
The indictment and prosecution of
One of these days farmers will see
profiteers and gougers in various the wisdom of maintaining a com
sections of the country comes as a munity social center, where young
ray of hope to a people groaning un men and women can hold frequent
der the burden of exorbitant prices gatherings and enjoy the clean
for everything we eat, wear or use. forms of amusement which today are
It is not the retailer who is feeling too seldom found in the country dis
the weight of the law, as his prices tricts.
are quite within the bounds of reas
A club house in a farming district
on—at least in the country towns for such a purpose would not cost
and rural districts.
a fortune, but its practical value to
The gougers who are being hit are the community would be beyond es
generally middlemen or wholesalers, timate.
who have been juggling the products
back and forth, with a price boost at
This life Is full of supprised, but
every angle.
one of the greatest of all is when a
Normally, the law of supply and fellow first learns that to accomplish
demand regulates the price of a com the supposedly impossible is a com
modity. But it has not been so since paratively easy matter when he goes
the beginning of the war, because at it with determination and in the
right maner.
times have not been normal.
Too many of us are prone to con
One of the principal reasons for
existing high prices is the fact that a sider a thing impossible without
commodity passes through too many first giving It a proper thought and
hands before it reaches the consumer, investigation.
To us It looks an insurmountable
and most of those hands are experts
at the pleasing and lucrative occupa mountain simply because it is great
er than the problems with which we
tion of gouging.
If public officials had taken a firm have been accustomed to deal.
The man of strong force and char-
stand as soon as the gouging com
acter
finds it easy to overcome great
menced—if they had filled the Jails
when the evil was in its infancy— obstacles because he likes his work
profiteering would never have reach and has confidence in his ability to
preform it.
ed the gigantic proportions which
The average man may become
now stagger the country.
forceful of character through culti
But they didn’t, and because of
vation of habit. And the cultiva
their laxity we are paying the pen
tion of habit is more simple and easy
alty today.
than that of the crops in the field.
Even at this late day, If our pub-
Obstacles are only obstacles to
lie officials can be brought as a body those who consider them such. To
to a realization of their duty—if they the man of will power and determina
can be prodded into an energetic per tion they are as pebbles in the path
formance of that duty—we may way of a giant.
same day expect the law of supply
You can, if you will.
and demand to again regulate the
price of the food we eat and the other
What a blessing it is that we have
necessities we require in our daily
Christmas
at least once in a year.
life.
We men notice a wonderful improve
We begrudge no man a dollar or ment about this time of year in the
a million that is made honestly, but manner in which our buttons are
that which is accumulated by dis sewed on, and our sox darned, and
honest or unfair practices should all of the other little attentions we
land its possessor in prison.
like so well. It works.
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Farmers see me about insur
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and get my time proposition
on premiums.
J. D. WATSON
CITY
PLEASING PROFITS
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.
Practical working plans, specifications and
bills of material free to customers.
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Phone 331
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