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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1921)
IT HERMisTON HERALD, TERMISTÖN, OREGON THE i IDLE DOLLARS ■ Published every HERMISTON HERALD Friday at Hermiston, Umatilla County, Oregon, in the heart of Eastern Oregon’s great irrigated alfalfa fields, by the Herald Publishing Company. M. C. Athey, Editor _________ ■ Entered as second-class matter, December .. 1906, at the postomce at Hermiston, Oregon 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 We Have Finished Our Inventory and are now pricing our Merchandise upon the basis of replacements—which we believe is the true policy of conducting a business. We do not believe you would be interested in the Subscription Rates: One Year, $2.00; Six Months, $1 00 NOT NEEDED HERE It has been frequently said that old dogs can not be taught new tricks, but a Chicago newspaper apparently thinks otherwise. A reporter for the paper spends each day in traveling about the city, accosting all sorts of people, and test ing their politeness. ' He finds means of coming in con tact with the clerks In the stores, busines men in their offices, public officials on duty, judges, ministers, housewives, and the public in gener ally. Sometimes he is dressed In fine raiment, and others he is in rags, but always he is unknown. To the person who makes the most courteous reply to his inquries he presents a check entitling the person to fifty dollars. The check is paid by the paper and the polite one gets a writeup in Its colums. Its effect has become marked, even in a city the size of Chicago. Does any one in this town want to contribute fifty dollars a day to a campaign of courtesy? If so, come across. This paper will furnish the publicity. But, then, perhaps it is not neded here. What think you? AND WE LAUGH Mr. Harding is holding many con ferences with statesmen of a national reputation, presumably with a view to selecting the members of his cab inet. That is nothing new. All new ly elected presidents do the same. Ditto the governors. But there is an amusing side to this interesting pastime. If John Smith, Tom Jones, Bill Du gan or any other fellow who has ever been heard of politically drops in to call on the future president the daily press correspondents immediately convert him into cabinet timber and herald his possible selection to the world. It is pleasing to the vanity of those small bore politicians, supplies the big dailies with necessary bunk, is probably more or less irritating to the president-elect, and is intensely amusing to the average person of common sense who read the stuff. But, then, it’s all in the daily grind and the reporter who dosen’t turn out his grist is soon separated from the payroll. purchase of parasols at this season of the year, no • matter at what prioe named. We are offering you Seasonable goods at present values in all our lines. And the quality we have always tried to maintain knowing full well that the discriminating purchasers appreciate this service. We do not pretend to meet any and all prices named and only promise to give you full value for your money in everything we deal in, feeling that this is the legitimate function of the retail mer chants. WE SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS ON THIS BASIS. Hermiston Produce & Supply Co. Working Capital Your BEST working capital is your health. Health is often lost through insufficient nour ishment. • • You will always be well nourished if you eat our MEATS They are rich, wholesome, pure and nourish ing. ■ City Meat Market MOONEY A SIKEY. Prop.. THERE AND HERE You who live in comfort, with well stocked larders and warm fires in homes, should be thankful that you live in this land of the free. Millions of people in China are hurfgry for lack of food. Before another season’s crops mature they will be dead. They are so far in the interior that relief can not reach them In time to save life. Germany, Austria, Hungary, Po land, Russia, Cxecho-Slovakia and other sections of the old world are facing the pinch of hunger and are without proper clothing to protect them from the severity of the winter months. Before summer is with us again wholesale starvation will stalk abroad unless relief reaches them from the outside world. Relief agencies are at work, and America is supplying most of the funds, but even under the moet fav- orable conditions many of these des- titute people will not live t see the sunshine of another spring. Two years ago we were all speak ing of the horrors of the war. Today we are witnessing the ap palling conditions that follow a re sort to arms. - Sherman was right. War is hell. We are in receipt of the Arlington Bulletin, Volume I, No. 2, W. E. Bur ton, editor. We wish the new ed itor every success and if advertising speaks for it, he is assured of much prosperity, for his columns are well represented by the Arlington bus iness houses. We refer to Job as the most pati ent of men, but the old boy wasn’t a newspaper publisher with a bunch of delinquents on his list. When we all make a practice of studying local conditions instead of complaining we'll soon find them more to our liking. Why not? If the nations of the earth ever dis card their armaments they will have a devil of a lot of thrills in collect ing them again. ELIMINATE THE GUESSWORK Correct Construction Demands That You Build From ‘ Properly Prepared Plans Men who talk in their sleep should marry women who are hard of hear ing. They can’t read lips in the dark. Guessing at the total cost is expensive. Select a plan designed by architects of national reputa tion. Receive information in regard to definite , cost of construction before you let the contract. Prices may be tumbling as is claim- ed.but we fail to note any decrease in the size of the hole in the doughnut. PLANS AND MODERN BUILDING HELPS ARE Family jars are' not like those man ufactured in a pottery. It is too dif ficult to keep the lid on. Get what you want. FREE TO CUSTOMERS Pay for what you get. Secure your money’s worth. China is said to be taking up American jazz. Gogd! We hope they take It all. Inland Empire Lumber Company No man can sit on the fence where patriotism is concerned. He either is, or he isn’t. " The Yard of Best Quality " Not all people are "bags of wind.” Some are howling tornadoes, instead. Succès to you in 1921—but you’ll have to hustle for it. The need of the hour is to get busy and stay busy. Don’t court trouble. wife instead. A big head often ideas. Court your shelters small SETTLED AT LAST We’ve built us a palace to hold our claim; ♦ It’s ten feet ten by seven; And the rain comes in through the cracks in the roof Where we scan the leaky heaven. Oh, this palace of ours is a castle fine It’s "bungled” and "low” to boot; The lizards and mice play hide and seek With owls too busy to hoot. The coyote sings his mournful tune To the moon o’er the sage-brush flat; Our town bred dog’s too scared to bark— Now, what do you think of that! We’ve two scrawny horses, an old brindi» cow. Six hens and a one-eyed rooster; (We get an egg most every day— They lay more than they "uster.”) Phone 331 H. M. STRAW. MGR. Exclusive Representatives of National Builders Bureau SEE 1. B. Hirel HITT CONFECTIONERY STATIONERY -FOR- GUNS —and— AMMUNITION A FULL LINE — Pian es. D-g- t • g v. .3 e... Currespunhence Statinnerg in white and beautiful tints News stand Cigars and Tabacco YOU KONW GOOD BREAP WHEN YOU EAT IT HAVE YOU TRIED OUR BREAD’ Made from the Best of Flour Put your orders In early for your Christmas cakes. We make a spec ialty of all kinds of cakes, cookies, pies, and all kinds of Christmas novelties in the baking line. FRUIT CAKES THAT SATISFY SHOP EARLY We must sell some eggs to buy clothes pins, Meanwhile the barbed wire fence Flaunts shirts and skirts, dish towels And the wind helps "rents.” * • " A Complete Line of CITY BAKERY Hermiston, Oregon. make the Our "old oaken bucket" is « coal oil can, The well sweep a picket rope; Just wait tiU we raise a c rop next year! We’ll have a pump, we h ope. And maybe a windmill, pian 0, too. And a new straw hat and sweater. Our city friends take a peculiar de This year the John Rabb, dts ate light in cracking jokes at the expense everything. of country people, but when they But next year we’ll do be tter. want to spend a week or two in com plete safety from banditry they in The assessor hasn’t troubled us yet. variably hike for the tall grass. We’re worried lest he may call: We have about ten thou sand dolían Some men will spend hours read- worth. ths sport pages of the daily papers. But perhaps he won’t count It all. But if they had to spend thirty min utes in reading the Bible they'd eith And now I must rak, up some more sage brush er go to sleep or want to charge over time for their services. To burn in the o’ ad cook stove; And milk the cov s and hunt the eggs Thank good. Foreigeners come to this country with the popular idea that Amerien Author unknown is a land flowing with milk and hon —"Sapper’s Ink." ey. It is, but they soon learn that It requires something besides m. and • Fi‘ sished Installing Scales h. to fill an empty stomach. W’ W. Rogers of Hermiston, has lust finished installing one of the Some men strive pitifully to covar ar jest scales In the weset end of the up the fact that they are in deadly * unty at Echo for the Tum-A-Lum fear of their wives. But they should umber company. The new scales not worry. Even an elephant will I have a weighing capacity of 35,00° tremble In the presence of a mouse. pounds. Bring in Your Broken Parts and have them welded - ‘so you will be ready for work when spring comes. * ‘ 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 • Butter Wrappers Printed Neatly at This Office
