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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
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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
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‘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.
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