THE
IDLE DOLLARS
In every community there
are thousands of idle and
unproductive dollars. Idle
dollars may represent value
but they have no value to
their owners nor the com
munity until they are put
in motion.
Today there is a pleasant and profitable
job for every dollar in the land. Homes
are needed—homes which will make
better citizens, better neighborhoods, a
better town - homes which will con
tribute indirectly to the welfare of
every man, woman and child in this
community.
Loans for home-building
are good investments. You
can select your loan and
. keep in close touch with it.
We shall be glad to furnish further in
formation.
Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co
R. A. Brownson, Mgr
phone 111
HERMISTON
Published every Friday st Hermiston, Umatilla County, Oregon, in the heart of Eastern
Oregon’s great irrigated aitalla fields, by the Herald Publishing Company.
M. C. Athey, Editor
Entered M second clans matter, December 1900, at tne postomee at Hermiston, Oregon
Subscription Rates: One Year, $2.00; Six Months, 31 00
YULETIDE THORN TREE SAVED
MERRY CHRISTMAS
In
keeping
with
the
All a
MERRY
CHRISTMAS
Hermiston Produce &
Supply Co
Christmas tide, we wish to express
our appreciation
and
gratitude
to
those who are our friends and pa
trons.
For it has been your friend
ship and good will that has made
possible for us the success of this
year; and so, at this time we cordial
ly extend to you our most sincere
wish that health, happiness and pros
perity may attend you throughout
the coming year.
The Herald Publishing Co.
STIFLING COOPERATIVES
The Oregon Voter, D. C. Chapman,
editor, in a recent issue, devoted
over seven columns of its pages to an
article entitled “Grief of Cooper
atives.”
Mr. Chapman is a mighty fine fel
low, personally, and we are glad that
we have the honor of being an ac
quaintance. He is capable, ener
getic, and prints a splendid maga
zine; has a wonderful personality,
and injects oodles of it into his
articles, but, we are more than sorry
to say that his publication favors the
capalists, some class them as the
“select few,” to the disadvantage of
the farmers and laborers. •
It seems a pity that a man like
Chapman, with his talents, could not
be on the other side. He would
wield a wonderful power for the ad
vancement of the toilers; his publi
cation would almost be their Bible,
but as it is, the very things the com
mon multitudes fight for, Chapman
drags down, if it steps on the toes of
those whose cause he has cham-
pioned.
His publication of the above men-
tioned article consisted of several
tetters of the Oregon Dairymen’s Co
operative League, and was printed
merely to belittle the organization in
the eyes of the public, because it af
fects “big interests.”
Chapman, The Oregon Voter, “big
interests,” are all synonymous.
Would you like to know about my
garden, which takes so much of my
.me and care?
Through the center runs a path
vith flowers on either side, a bed
f Patience and a beautiful bed of
ope, a fine climbing Courage and a
ittle vine called Cheerfulness, that
■ uns in and out all over my garden.
Around the garden is a fence made
of Determination, with posts of Per-
serverance. This is to keep out the
Gumble Vine that grows all about
outside and tries to get in. The
path in my garden is made of Grit
and leads down to a fountain which
I sometimes plays tears, with which I
water my garden.
Outside the garden a tree like the
weeping willow grows and sometimes
casts a shadow over my flowers, and
once in awhile a black bird comes at
twilight and sings In the barnchee.
it is called the Complaining Bird—it
loes not come often.
In one corner of my garden is a
hot-bed where I raise Smiles because
they have to be forced! My gardner’s
lame is B. A. Goodman.
Later—The Grumble Vine broke
ny fence! I have cut it down, but
the root is still there. I have mend
ed the break in the fence with as
much Pluck as I could find, and have
been gathering the flowers and ty-
‘ng them together with Good Reso-
iutions.
Christian Science Monitor
Christmas Trees by Million
Working
Your EST working capital is your health.
Health is often
gh nsufficient nour-
ishment.
You will always be well nourished if you eat
They are rich, wholesome, pure and nourish-
ing.
mrc” PVSTFPS FOR THE HOLIDAYS
City Meat Market
Blooming Glastonbury, Subject of
Beautiful Legends of Christmas,
Wss Doomed to Destruction.
spirit ot
My Garden
We Wish You
HER ALP
NE of the most beautiful legends
of Christmas Is that of the Glas
tonbury thorn. The thorn tree grew
at Glastonbury Abbey, In Somerset
shire, and was supposed to have de
veloped from the staff of Joseph of
Arimathea. According to the legend,
Joseph came to Glastoubury and while
he was resting on a hill, afterward
known as Weary All hill, he stuck his
staff In the earth. The staff Immedi
ately grew green and budded, and at
Christmas time It blossomed into
beautiful flowers.
One chronicler states that during
Queen Elizabeth's reign the thorn had
a double trunk, but that a somewhat
bigoted Puritan, who disliked the tree
because to his mind It smacked of
popery, started to cut It down, and
succeeded In demolishing one of the
trunks. A miracle rescued the re
maining trunk of thé tree by causing
a chip of wood to fly up and hit the
Puritan tn the eye, while at the same
time he slipped and cut his leg.
Later the tree was grubbed up, but
a number of smaller trees raised from
slips of the original are said to be
owned by persons In the neighbor
hood.
BOXES, OLD CHRISTMAS FAD
Ancient Custom st One Time Devel
oped Into Demand as Right and
Became Nuisance.
HE bestowal of Christmas
boxes Is of great antiquity,
and was formerly the bounty
of well disposed persons
who were willing to contrib
ute something toward the industrious.
Later the gift came to be demanded
as a right and became somewhat of
a nuisance. Long ago the Roman Cath
olic priests had masses for every
thing, and if a ship went to the West
Indies they had a box in her under
the protection of some patron saint.
Into which the sailors put money or
other valuables in order to secure the
prayers of the church. At Christ
mas these boxes were opened and were
thence called Christmas boxes. In
England the day after Christmas is
known as "Boxing day,” from the
Christmas boxes which used to be in
circulation, and in the British mu
seum can be seen boxes covered with
green glaze with a slit in the side for
money and presents.
ID’S AND DONT’S AT THE P. 0.
Christmas Greetings
TO THE FOLKS OF HERMISTON
No time During the Year is Home Happiness as
Apparent as at "Yule Tide1
Spend your Christmas in a home--any home where
you are welcome.
It is the wish of this company that every family
in this community may have a HOME of its own by
Christmas Day, 1921.
Our Gift to All Customers
Complete plans of any design you may select from
the greatest collection in existence.
A MERRY XMAS TO ALL
Inland Empire Lumber Company
Phone 331
The Yard of Best Quality
h m STRAW. MGR.
Exclusive Representatives of National Builders- Bureau
SEE
HITT
CONFECTIONERY
STATIONERY
-FOR-
A Complete Line
of
GUNS
Thoughtfulness on Part of Patrons of
Uncle Sam Will Assist Clerks
snd Carriers.
ONT put off mailing that
package until Christmas
eve.
Don’t neglect to tie It
properly. It Is handled at
east five times before it reaches Its
destination.
Don’t forget to write your own re
turn address on all parcel post matter.
Don’t guess at the postage and give
your friends the pleasure of paying
“postage due.”
Don’t plaster Red Cross stamps on
the face of packages or letters; take
care not to “seal” parcel post packages
with them. It raises the rate.
Don’t forget that a little thoughtful
ness on your part can help to make
Christmas happier for Uncle Sam’s
men, his horses and his automobiles.
Do mall early, preferably before De-
cember 20th, writing on your pack-
Hges : "Not to be opened until Christ-
mas.”
Do your best to use the post offices
In the forenoon, the earlier the better.
Do write legibly, both the address
to which you are sending the gift and
your own return address.
Do be courteous and “Christmassy”
to the post office men who serve you.
They are handling thousands of pieces
of mall matter.
Do be brief at the counter. You
keep someone else waiting If you are
loaded like an expresa truck, with
packages and foolish questions.
Plante for Christmas.
Other things be g equal. It Is bet-
ter to buy planta ne r one’s home than
to travel afar. Do tot be tempted,
quantities
of
Norway
spruce for Christmas uses— even by cheap oft s, to go miles
away, for counting
: fares, packing.
rather more tn the middle West,
expressage aad lost
ie. the ultimate
where conifers are not common
cost Is very likely t be more than If
In the woods, than on the east
you paid a good dei higher price et
ern snd western coasts, where
home. Of course it
' happen that
they fringe every hillside. But
one grower or florist .
a large stock
the tree most commonly used Is
of some one thing si
a abort-needle pine found In the
an sell st s
low rate, but dealers
ally hsve un
woods of Northern Michigan and
understanding with one another es
Wisconsin. Early In September
pecially regarding holida prices, and
the Indians about the lumber
for weeks before the bo lay season
camps of this region are set to
they have been balancing itock with
work cutting these trees for the
each other, so that the better quality
market, and by early November i
plants are of an almost fixed value.
a little fleet of vessels makes Ita j
way down Lake Michigan, a i
Christmas tree hauled to the }
There are many old and stately cere
foremast of each one, that by J
this sign all may know that In 3 monies snd many historical events
their hoida la a cargo which I i connected with Christmas that are
might not tempt a Captain Kidd. 9 well worth perusing, and that give un
glimpses of ye ancient times when
hut is far more precious thsn J
our fathers and our fathers’ forefath-
many a one for which good ships 8
have been scuttled.
y
AMMUNITION
Cnrrespnnence
Statinern
in
white and beautiful
tints
A # anosome Xmas Gift
A FULL LINE
News stand
Cigars and Tobacco
Get Your Sissors, Knives and
Tools Ground at
Knerr’s Repair Shop
First Door North of Hermiston Hotel
INSURANCE
Protect your home, business and your property
by securing a policy in a reliable company.
C. H. SKINNER, Resident Agent
LIFE
AUTOMOBILE
FIRE
urserymen grow large
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nothing was prepared.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
AH business establishments handl
ing auto accessories, tires, tubes, gas,
and repairs, will, after January 1st
.1921, be on a strictly cash basis.
The hardware stores that handle
the above named automobile acces
sories. will be on a cash basis also,
but this does not include their hard
ware stock.
This policy is merely in line with
that adopted throughout Eastern Or
egon and Washington, some time ago.
It Is not the desire of the dealers
to work a hardship on anyone, but
this move has become universal ov
er the eastern part of the state, and
all of Washington, and Hermiston is
the last town to fall In line with this
movement.
The policy will be strictly adhered
to all the Hermiston dealers.
BUTTER WRAPPERS
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8:00 a m Lv. Hermiston Ar. 5:40 pm
8:20 a m
Stanfield
5:20P
8:40 am
Echo
5:00P‘
9:40 a m Ar Pendleton LV 4:00P‘
Buss leaves Allen A Knight
Pendleton; Cari’s Cigar Store a.
Echo; Stanfield Hotel at Stanfiei"’
Lay’s Garage at Hermiston.
Buss Line will resume operate
Monday, December 6th.
ED VOLZ.