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VOL XV
HERMISTON,
COMMERCIAL
CLUB ELECT
- OFFICERS
At the regular Tuesday luncheon
the Commercial club held a good
meeting and the annual election of
officers took place. This did not
cause much commotion, and very lit
tle time, as M. D. Scroggs made a
motion that all the present incum
bents be retained and asked the sec
retary to cast a unanimous ballot for
all. The motion was quickly second
ed, and as Mr. Dodd rose to protest,
Mr. Scroggs put the motion to the
members, and before anyone knew
what was happening, the old of
ficers were re-elected.
The work accomplished during the
last year has been so well handled
that th a old officers were drafted in
to service for another year, and were
not allowed to protest. The members
of the club realize that a great deal
of work and time needs be given to
the management of the club, and all
are grateful for the services perfor
med by the officers, and are confi
dent that the new year will bring
forth new and added assets to our
town and country through the activ
ities of the club. The officers are:
E. P. Dodd, president; F. B. Swayze,
vice-president; F. V. Prime, secre-
tary-treasurer.
C. W. Kellogg, chairman of the
railroad committee reported that the
O. W. R. & N. have made arrange-
menta with the city to have the
night watchman open the depot at
night and see that there is a fire in
the stove for the midnight train.
A committee was appointed to ar
range for an entertainment for the
visiting ladies who will be here while
the Farm Bureau meets the latter
part of this month. The committee
is, O. G. Sapper, H. E. Hitt, and Joe
Ralph.
Baptist Church
REALESTATE TRANSACTION *
EXCHANGES 20 ACRES *
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A. L. Benefiel. of Odel, Oregon
′ arrived in Hermiston last week
’ and looked over the project for
a place to buy. After carefully
going over the territory, he pur-
' chased 20 acres from Mrs. Ross
' Lawson, just outside the city
1 limits.
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Mr. Benefiel returned to his
' home Tuesday after the deal had
. been closed and will return in
the near future to cultivate the
′ farm.
The transaction was handled
by the E. P. Dodd Agency.
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A Robertson-Cole feature, starring
H. B. Warner in “The Gray Wolfs
Ghost” will be the attraction at the
Play House Sunday night. Also a
Fox Sunshine comedy.
PENDLETON FIRM BUYS LAY’S
GARAGE—WILL MOVE HERE
Messrs. Neil and Barker of Pen
dleton, who operate a garage east of
that city's limits, have purchased the
Lay’s Garage from Maxfieled and
Rhodes Bros, The new owners took
possession the first of January and
will move all their machinery now
located in their shop near Pendleton
to the Hermiston shop.
Col. Emmett Callahan from Board
man was in Hermiston Tuesday.
The motor license law has been
extended till the 16th of January.
However, you must have your re
ceipt on your person when driving
to show that you have made applica
tion for a license, or you may get in
to trouble.
Demonstration
Agent Coming
Mrs. Edith Van Duesen, county
home demonstration agent, will be
in Hermiston to hold a sewing school
on January 18th, 19th, and 20th, in
the Library, both morning and after
noon of each day.
All the ladies know what good
work was accomplished at the mil-
linery school last year, The results
of these schools save considerable
money to the ladies, and all are
anxious to take advantage of them.
We are informed that this class
will be limited, and those wishing to
take advantage of it, should enroll
at once with Mrs. F. C. McKenzie.
For further particulars, watch for
announcement in next weeks paper.
Last Sunday was a red letter day
to the Baptists of Hermiston. Rev.
J. S. Reid, Baptist State Evangelist,
and Rev. J. C. Austin, State Director
of Educational Promotion work, held
an all day Kingdom Conference,
11 a. m„ 3 p. m. and 7:30 p. m., and
also the breaking of bread at the
communion service. The fellowship
lunch prepared by the ladies of the
church, the inspiring talk by Dr.
Reid to the young people at 6:45, all
contributed their full quota to make
It a day long to be remembered as SOCIETY EVENTS OF THE WEEK
fraught with good things.
The little folks of Mrs. F. P. Adams
Bury Baby Son
and Mrs. C. E. Schilling’s Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. Mead of Heppner, School classes enjoyed a happy party
Oregon, accompanied the body of given at the home of Mrs. Schilling
their infant eon, Lee Irvin Mead, to last Thursday afternoon from two to
Hermiston Monday. The baby was five o’clock. After a round of live
born December 19, and died Decem ly games the hostesses treated the lit
ber 31. Funeral services were held tle folks to dainty refreshments.
at Heppner, January 1st by the Rev. Twenty-seven youngsters were pres
Livingstone, assisted by his wile and ent.
they left the following day for Her-
Last week’s social calender Includ
miston where interment was made in
ed
a number of informal gatherings
the local cemetery. Mrs. Mead is a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. McCoy for the college students who were
home for the holidays, concluding
or this city.
Episcopal
Services
Rev. Paddock, Episcopal bishop
of Eastern Oregon, will hold services
Sunday morning. January 9th, at
11:00 o’clock in the Library. Every
body welcome to these services.
Cheap Building Material.
The making of houses chiefly from
alate waste, as proposed by north
Wales builders, is an experiment of
much interest.
The waste has been
accumulating in quarries for three
centuries, and Is adapted for use in
paints, putty, bricks, blocks, slabs,
tiles, flooring, mortar, rubber and
molded products, but hitherto the cost
of manufacture seems to have kept it
Tried
n
for roads, the slate has proven
with a dancing party given in their
honor by Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Leath
ers at their pleasaant country home
on Thursday evening. A refreshing
luncheon was served by the hostess
before the young people departed
greatfully appreciative of a delight
ful evening with a hearty ‘So long’
till we meet again. Most of the stud
ents left Saturday evening for their
respective schools.
Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Fraser delight
fully entertained at a progressive
bridge party on Saturday evening.
The rooms were prettily decorated,
twenty-four guests enjoying the
evening's entertainment, concluding
with an appetising luncheon before
the wee sms' hours of the next day.
UMATILLA COUNTY,
OREGON, FRIDAY,
California Alfalfa Growers
Give Pointers on Association
NO. 17
WEST END
INVADES
NEW COURT
EARLY MORNING FIRE
BURNS OFFICE ROOF
Last Monday morning at
about 7:30, fire was discovered
in the roof of the Inland Empire
Lumber company's office near
the depot,
The alarm was
sounded and the fire company
responded in qiuck time. Not-
withstanding the fact that a
high wind was blowing, the fire *
was put out In a hurry, and ♦
good work done by the fire lad- *
dies.
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Had the blaze got a good start *
with the high wind to fan it •
along, there might have been a *
blase that would have caused *
considerable trouble.
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The loss to the lumber com- *
pany is between *400 and $500, *
all covered with insurance. The •
cause of the fire was declared ♦
to have been an overheated •
stove.
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Two years ago there was a number
of alfalfa growers' associations, op
erating as Independent, separate or
ganizations in different parts of Cal
ifornia. While there was a certain
bond of sympathy betwen thm in that
an older association was always glad
to extend advice and information to
a group of growers in some other sec
tion who were trying to organize, yet
there was no systematic working
agreement between them as a whole.
Since that time, however, this con
dition has been changed and eight
associations, representing as many
different districts, throughout the
state of California, and now federat
ed under the material wing of one
central organization, known as the
“Alfalfa Growers of California, Inc."
whose present headquarters are lo
cated at 408-10 Pacific Electric
building in Los Angeles.
The method of organization is as
follows:
In an alfalfa neighborhood or sec
tion the association growers elect
three to five trustees. These trust
ees elect a chairman from among
themselves. These various chairmen
of a district elect a director to rep
resent the local organization In tho
central organization. The directors
of the central association elect an
executive committee. The executive
committee employs a manager and
his staff consisting of a salesman-
ager, field man, accounting depart
ment, etc. The manager and the ex
ecutive committee look after the af
fairs of the central association and
this latter organization is the vehicle
which consolidates the activities of
the various local associations throu
out the state. It keeps them in
formed of market conditions and acts
as a channel of distribution.
Here is an example of the econm-
ic waste that it prevents. At Fresno,
two hundred and fifty miles north of
Los Angeles, it was found that for
merly during the heighth of the al
falfa producing season there had
been instances where some of the
growers in order to get ready money
had sold to Los Angeles dealers at a
time when the price was at its low
est ebb in summer. This hay was
taken to Los Ángeles, then later
when a shortage developed at Fresno,
was shipped from Loe Angeles back
to that point, sold to and consumed
by dairymen within a short distance
of where it was originally grown.
You can be sure there was a wide
difference between the low summer
time price received for his hay by
the hard-up farmer and the fancy
figure that the dairyman was finally
compelled to pay the following win
ter. Into whose pockets did the dif
ference go?
In this case, the railroads were
paid for hauling the alfalfa 500 need
less miles and there was an expense
of loading and unloading twice on
board cars. In addition to this was
the profit tacked on by the Los An
geles dealer to cover his enterprise.
The Central Growers’ association,
being a state-wide organization, pre
vents this economic inefficiency by
informing themselves of the probable
total production and consumption of
alfalfa within the state for a year in
advance. If they learn that the pro
duction in one certain locality is like
ly to be greater than the year's con
sumption within that section, then
they arrange to ship enough hay out
of the district to ease the situation
and place It in some section of the
state where the estimates furnished
by the field men of the staff show
that local production is going to be
insufficient. If necessary ths cen-
trai association takes care of the tem
porary financial needs of the grow-
er and holds his hay for a time
when it is more than probable that
the demand right at home will con-
sume the temporary surplus.
ln this manner the central organi
zation, with its wider scope of ac
tion, performs a service of crop dis
tribution for the collective associa
tions that no one of them individual
ly and alone would be able to accom
plish. for itself.
During the comparatively short
time that the central association of
alfalfa growers has been handling
the marketing affairs of the feder
ated district associations it has suc
ceeded in stabilising the market so
that tho growers have not had to
part with their hay at less than the
cost of production as have some of
the farmers raising other products.
During the present season of 1920, it
has distributed 100,000 tons of al
falfa for its members at an average
pi ice of *26 per ton.
There are approximately 1,600
growers within the California assoc
iation at the present time, repre
senting a little less than 50 per cent
of those engaged in the alfalfa indus
try within the state. The great good
accomplished by the federated assoc
iation is now being realized by the
farmers and it is expected that when
the season opens next spring that at
least 75 per cent of the growers
throuout the state will be members
of the organization.
The method of financing is as fol
lows:
A new member pays *2.00 per acre
as an entrance fee, the amount to be
deducted from his first sale of al
falfa. A general fund Is provided by
each farmer signing a note for a cer
tain agreed amount, say *5.00 per
acre. These notes for the general
fund are made to run for five years
and, although of course each farmer
stands behind his individual note, it
is understood that it shall run a suf
ficient length of time to permit the
note being paid off by a sinking fund
that is created by a tax of fifty cents
on each ton of alfalfa sold. The
notes are used as collateral and local
banks will usually advance nearly
one hundred per cent ou them. In
this manner the association finances
Itself with the least possible incon
venience to its members.
With the aid of this general fund
it is possible for the organization to
advance money to some of its mem
bers at a period of the year when per
haps a few hundred dollars would
enable a grower to tide himself over
without sacrificing his crop at a
time when the supply is possibly
greater than the immediate demand.
This is the season of the year when
the speculator usually gets in his
work and reaps a middleman’s profit
that should belong both to the pro
ducer and the actual consumer. Nor
does the said speculator confine hts
activities to alfalfa alone, as all of
us who hare ever engaged in the
fanning business can truthfully tes-
tify.
There is a marketing charge of
*2.00 per ton if the central associa
tion has to ship the alfalfa out of a
district. If a market is found local
ly, a charge of *1.00 per ton is made
to cover the expense of general ac-
tivities.
These amounts are saved to the
farmer many times over by the ad
vantage gained through having a
state-wide guiding intelligence con
trolled by himself that is always
alert to protect his Interests.
got.’ The guests then lined up for
the grand march passing the refresh
ment booth where a cafeteria lunch
eon was served after which dancing
was resumed until the notes of ‘Home
Sweet Home' bade the merry makers
a Happy New Year and Good Night.
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Mathews of
ped with a lighted birthday candle
made an appetising celebration for West 714 Spoffard Avenue, Spokane.
Washington, at one time ranchers
the birthday of the new year.
of the Umatilla project have just re-
tur. ned to their home after spend-
BUTTER CREEK NOTES
Friends and relatives of Mr. and ing the Christmas holidays at the
Mrs. C. H. Garnet gave them a sur hotel Sherman. Chicago, with their
prise party last Tuesday evening. eon, C. M. Mathews, who Is on his
Dancing and games were ien joyed Christmas furlough from the Great
Practice Prayer.
until a late hour after which ret- Lakes Naval Training Station. Af
The mother was a bit puzzled by her
ter
the
holidyas
he
will
return
to
reshments were served.
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hopeful’s insistence that the
5b."orexent when she said her
Miss Vivian Nation and Lucile Great Lake, where he will resume
Richards returned home Bunday af his studies ih the Naval Aviation | S2
"Why, Violet, are you tired of moth-
ter spending the holidays with Miss Mechanical school there. He is now
Richard's parenets at Condon. Ore half way through the school and re ers was her reproachful query.
-No. mums,” answered her daugh-
gon. Miss Richards is a student of ports the greateet possibilities for
young mon In the aviation branch of ter loyally, "but I want Annie to be
the Stanfield high school.
around while I’m sayin’ ’em, cause
the Naval Service.
■ last night I prayed for Ice cream for
Christmas with Mrs. Shaw's mother,
business I dessert and we had bread pudding.
Thoma s Campbell mede a
Mrs. Letha King at Weston.
Mr.
American Legion Weekly.
and Mrs. C. J. Voliva accompanied trip to F’endleton last Monday. ,
The afternoon bridge club held its
first meeting in new year at the home
of Mrs. Harry Straw on Tuesday af
ternoon with Mrs. H. M. Gunn and
Mrs. Charles Baker as assistant host-
esses An abundance of evergreen
trees. Christmas bells and the Yule
log burning in the big fire place fill-
cheery room. About seventy-five
couples enjoyed the dancing to good
music by Fletcher's orchestra from holiday cheer. Auction bridge was
Pendleton. The dawning new year played at six tables which were pret
was heartily welcomed by the singing tily arranged for tea at five o'colck.
of 'Should auld acquaintance be for- Ye old fashioned plum pudding top-
The Library Ball given at the Bun
galow Auditorium on New Year's eve
ite macadam; and bricks made from it was more of a success socially than
financially. The stage was banked
sistant to water absorption as other with evergreens and holiday greenery
bricks. Good drain pipes have been
waa tastefully arranged about the
JANUARY, 7, 1921.
About 26 citizens from the west
end of Umatilla county, invaded the
new county court last Wednesday
in the Interests of the Butter Creek
road.
At a big meeting held recently at
Pine City when all the west end com
mercial clubs sent delegates, it was
decided that all the clubs should
send representatives (o wait on the
county court and ask fur money to
build the road from the Morrow
county line down through Butter
creek to Umatilla. Delegates also
THE TOLL GATE” IS FIRST
RELEASE OF HART
COMPANY
were asked to Interview the Morrow
I county court.
The southwestern frontier in the
The west end cities including
olden, golden days is the scene of Echo, Stanfield, Hermiston and Uma-
William S. Hart's new picture. “The tilla, and the Butter creek road dis-
Toll Gate.
It Is the first of the big I trict, all sent delegates to meet with
productions made by Mr. Hart’s own the Umatilla county court Wednes-
company under his own supervision day.
Thomas Campbell, F. B.
to be released by Paramount Art- Swayze, E P. Dodd, and M D.
craft. The Play House will show the Seroggs were the delegates repre-
picture Saturday, January 8th.
senting the Hermiston Commercial
“The Toll Gate” is an impressive club; from the Umatilla club, W. J.
drama of self-sacrifice and red-blood- Dobler w T. Roberts, Carl Brow-
ed manhood as well as a glowing plc- nen and I O. Thompson were sent ;
ture of the west that has passed the Butter creek road district was
away. Mr. Hart is supported by n represented by Allen Thompson. Bob
capable company headed by beautiful Lewis and R R Lewis.
Anna Nilsson. His remarkably in-The county court was very con-
telligent Pinto pony figures prom-1 siderate, and desirous of meeting the
inently in the big scenes.
| requests of the delegates from our
sections, and promised results as soon
as finances would permit.
The census of opinion from the del
egates is very encouraging, all be
lieving that good work was accom
plished, and that the ney county
The Shotwell Contracting company court will do all in its power to meet
this week started work on the grad-1 with their requests.
Grading Streets
In City Limits
Ing and improvment of two city
streets. The first project is Main
street extending east from Fourth
where the Columbia Highway turns
south and will consist of grading and
graveling the full width of the street
for one block, then the hard sur
facing will narrow down to a 16
foot roadway continuing on east to
the city limits about one-half mile.
The other road will join the High
way on the west side of the railroad
track and extend from this point on
west to the city limits. This road
will be full width from the Highway
inter-section and continue as such on
Hermiston Avenue as far as the Cath
olic church, when it will narrow to
a 16 foot road until the western city
limits are reached.
The improvement costs are divided
between the city an dthe property
owners.
The west road would be a probable
link between the Butter Creek High
way now under consideration, and
the Columbia Highway.
The east raod joins the Dingoni al
road, the improvement of which will
probably be undertaken this spring.
them. Mrs. Shaw’s sister. Miss Mil
dred returned home with them
also to finish the remainder of the
school term at the Westland school.
Six new pupils have been register
ed at the Wesetland school since the
holidays.
Miss Gladys Ware has been quite
ill with la grippe the last few days.
Miss M. E. Warren of Pendleton Is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. D. H.
Shaw.
ONE TOUCH OF COLOR
It is said that the only touch of col
or at the first meeting of the first as-
sembly of the League of Nations In
Geneva was furnished by this courier
for the Indian delegation. His pie-
tureeque attire attracted much atten
Bon.
A Piscatorial Hypothesis.
“Any fish In this river?" asked the
city man.
“The government stocked It with
trout once.” replied the native.
"Well, they won't come near a
hook.”
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“They do seem smarter than other
fish ” returned the old fellow. “I reck-
on, maybe, they had to pass a civil
service examination before the «ov
ernment could employ 'em.”—Boston
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