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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1920)
TRE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, K 5====== = OREGON:---------- - ====================================*=! STANDARD OIL CO.’S, Products For Sale Ey Hermiston and Umatilla Nierchants For Your Heater FOR THE PEARL OIL HOME GARAGE (KEROSENE) A 15 - gallon black steel barrel of Zerolene affords the greatest economy and conveni ence in the use of cor rect lubrication. Takes up little room. HEAT AND LIGHT Clean, convenient, economical de A rl T oil Wor Oil Heaters cPearl Oil is the Standard Oil Com pany’s high-grade kerosene. Refined and re-refined to be clean burning. No smoke—no odor—no dirt. Save money by buying in bulk. Bring your can today. Cookstoves Lamps - anditlessens your housework Hermiston Produce & Supply Co. Lane Bros., Props. With Calol on your mop or cloth it’s easy to keep the corners clean and bright ; around and under heavy pieces it completes the task of cleaning quickly. In the kitchen or bath- room, Calol gives the lino leum a glossy surface and makes future cleaning easier. A can bought today as sures you a clean house for many days to come. ForYour Oil Heater "LUBRICANT UMATILLA GARAGE Furniture, pianos,* floors and woodwork— all are quickly cleaned, dusted and polished with Calol Liquid Gloss. After your house has been “Calol Cleaned” your future housework is less ened. Price per gallon G ZEROLENE CALOL LIQUID GLOSS Heat With Oil Sappers9 Inc. HITTS SAPPERS’ INC. • ,08) Gv^rydrop a polish = Use ^earl Oil, the Standard Oil Company’s high-grade kerosene. Refined and re refined to be clean burning. It gives no smoke, no odo:, no dirt. Save your money by buying in bulk. Bring your can today. Price per gallon Phelps Cash Grocery — 1 ‘Pearl Oil is the Standard Oil Company’s high-grade kerosene. It is refined and re refined to be clean burning. No smoke, no odor, no dirt Bring your can today and save money by buying in bulk. 1 HOUSEHOLD LUBRICANT STANDARD OIL Oregon Hdw. & Implement Co. Price per gallon By actual tests KINGSLEY MERCANTILE CO. CO. Hermiston Auto Co. By exhaustive study and engine tests, our Board of Lubrication Engineers has determined the correct consistency of Zerolene for your make of automobile. Its recommendations are available for you in the Zerolene Correct Lubrication Charts. Get one for your car at your dealer’s or our nearest station. Use Zerolene for the Correct Lubrication of your auto mobile, truck or tractor. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (California) "AAYZAYZAFPALW"PA \Aÿnadefor ZEROLENE I each type I ofei^ne HERMISTON AUTO CO. MILLIONS OF CHRISTMAS TREES springy branches, and deep-geen, flcult to get. firs and spruces to New York and I those who furnish the material. mas-tree custom. Trees are for u*’ New York and the New England Philadelphia Red cedar is not de ; These are mostly farmers and owners they argue, and there is no other"X REQUIRED IN U. S. ANNUALLY fragrant foliage which persists long Variety of Tree Used Varies With the Locality in Which it is Found The United States uses annually between four and five million Christ- mas trees, according to the ostiniate of the Forest Service, United States equals approximately the combined consumption of England. Schotland, and Wales and Is about 25 per cent greater than that of Germany. The Christmas tree bears practically the same fruit the country over, but the variety of the tree itself varies cording to the locality. The fir is undoubtedly the Christmas tree par excellence, especially In the North- astern and Lake States, on account of its long, horizontal, bpreading er than that of any other evergreen The Christmas-Tree Ship On the Great Lakes “the Christ mas-tree ship" bringing greenery from the upper peninsula of Michi gan to Chicago or Detroit is usually one of the latest events In navigation each winter. In the Northeastern and Lake States Balsam fir furnishes the bulk of the Christmas-tree trade. In the South the Fraser fir is the fav orite. In Colorado and other Rocky Mountain States, fir, though abund ant, is difficult of access, and the Lodge Pole pine and occasionally the Douglas fir and Engiemann spruce are used On the Pacific coast the Christmas-tree Is often the white fir. Spruces vie with firs in popularity as Christmas-trees, but as a rule in the South and Went they occur at high altitudes which make them dir- States consume 1,500,000 trees. spised where better trees cannot be ¡of woodlots who look upon the trees Black and red spruce are very com had. as in the treeless States and of | as a gift of nature, and in selling monly seen in New England Christ ten in Tennessee and Pennsylvania. j them consider only the labor of cut- mas celebrations and in New York In California red cedar and incense | ting and hauling and not the labor and Philadelphia. Throughout Il cedar are not uncommon. | and expense required to grow the linois and Ohio nurserymen partly Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, !trees. supply the local demand with nurs the Berkshire Hills in Massachusetts, An Age-Old Custom ery-grown Norway spruce. Pines and the Adirondacks and Catskills Very commonly the question is are in great demand for Christmas in New York are the source of supply raised as to whether the cutting and trees when fir and spruce are not for New York. Philadelphia, and Bos use of these trees for Christmas pur available. Throughout Maryland. ton. and even for Baltimore and poses is not a great waste and wheth Virginia, and in Washington. D. C.. Washington. The swamps of Mich er steps should not be taken to dis the scrub pine finds a way into many igan. Wisconsin, and Minnesota fur courage or prohibit it. In the opin homes, while in southern Wyoming nish the markets of Chicago. St. the Lodge Pole pine is almost the Paul, Minneapolis, and the cities of ion of department officials the cus tom is so old. so well grounded and so only species available. the plains States. venerated that even if it were eco Hemlock is often used but only in Christmas trees vary in size from the absence of other varilles. Its 5 to 35 feet In height, and trees with nomically somewhat indefensible, these aspects will and should contin slender, springy branches are better ' perfect whorls of branches are most ue to outweight economic considera adapted to the manufacture of so- sought for. Prices vary from 25 to called fancy greens. Occasionally a 50 cents up to $35 or $50. There Is tions. It is denied, however, that few arbor vitae are shipped among very little profit In the business for pure economic considerations would lead to the abandonment of Christ- to which they could be put would contribute so much to the of mankind as their use by childre, on this one great holiday of the Xea. Further, particularly in the N eastern States, a large proportion,, the Christmas trees are cut from Pan. ture lands on which they a"oula croaching or from land which “I be cleared up in the ordinary cou" of farm improvement, m hp tr^ would be cut in any event. A 7 et for them gives the owners somer turns for their labor if nothing. It is true that in the vicinity , cities the Christmas-tree S"PP, F sometimes secured In such a %, to be destructive of young Sr",, This, of course, should be discour" ed. 1 (Continued on page 13)
