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Uhe Hermiston Heraln VOL XV HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY, 14, 1921. Club Luncheon Well Attended 9 CLUB AFTER POWER SITE At a meeting of the Umatilla Com mercial club held last Friday night, it was decided to call a meeting of all those interested In the development of the Umatilla rapids as an electric power site. This meeting will be held at Umatilla, January 26th, at one o’clock p. m. Its purpose will be to effect an organization to get behind this project and push it to a successful completion. This is a period when the whole country is looking towards the sourc es of potential hydro-electric power as a solution of irrigation and tran sportation problems. It is only a matter of time until the Umatilla rapids will be harnessed and furnish ing abundant and cheap power for all irrigation, manufacturing, rail road and household purposes in a vast section of this upper Columbia valley. We feel that this great problem. If put across, will be the biggest thing that ever happened to Umatilla county. MARRIED FOLKS WILL DANCE SATURDAY IN AUDITORIUM At the regular weekly meeting last Tuesday, the Commercial club had a record attendance. A committee of five was appoint ed to attend the meeting of the Uma tilla Commercial club, Wednesday, January 26th, and a request was made that all other members who could do so, attend this meeting. President Dodd appointed a num ber of committees to hold office for the ensuing year. They are as fol lows: Roads—E. J. Kingsley, F. C. Mc Kenzie, C. S. McNaught. Thomas Campbell was appointed to take care of the Butter Creek highway, and F. B. Swayze the Hinkle siding. W. J. Warner is also on the roads commit tee. Railroads—C. W. Kellogg and J. W. Campbell. Cemetery—A. W. Prann, Father Butler and F. A. Phelps. Camp Ground and Tourist Travel —H. E. Hitt, Earl Mitchell and E. W. Mack. Tree Planting on Highways and Beautifying Home Grounds—M. D. Scroggs, Thos. Fraser, W. T. Roberts, Geo. Root, Harold Dean. Finance and Membership—R. A. Brownson, Pat Siscel, W. L. Blessing. New Things for Hermiston— J. F. McNaught, H. M. Schilling, H. M. Straw. Relation of Town to Country— Otto Sapper, F. A. Chezik, August Beisse, F. R. Jackson. Newspaper Correspondence—J. D. Watson, A. C. Voelker. Business Development—M. C. Athey, Joe Ralph, John Shlmke, A. W. Adamson. Literature and Advertising—O. C. Young, F. V. Prime, W. W. Illsley. A committee of ladies is arranging a Married Folks dancing party to be given at the Bungalow Auditorium on Saturday evening January, 15th, at 8:30 o’clock. The proceeds are to be donated as a library benefit to help pay the coal bill for the winter. Many tickets have been sold and the event promises to be a great success both financially and socially. A “2312 Hours Leave” Saturday, January 15th the Play Stanfield orchastra has been en House will run "23 % Hours Leave” gaged to furnish music. starring Douglas MacLean and Doris May. This picture has had more Lyceum Course Next Winter Mr. Taylor, special representative than the ordinary run infall the fore of the Ellison-White Lyceum Bureau most picture theatres in the country was in town Saturday straightening and is pronounced the best picture up the financial affairs of the Chau of the year. There will be a matinee tauqua, and arranging for a five in the afternoon at 2:30 and two number Lyceum course to be held at shows at night 7 and 9 o'clock. Al intervals during next winter. Twen though this picture is a super-spec ty-two responsible men are behind ial, the management of the Play the venture which promises to be House will not raise the price of ad popular, as the sentiment of the peo mission, as he feels sure that the ple is in favor of a Lyceum course. patrons of the theatre will turn out well enough to make the program pay at the regular prices, 15 and 35c. THE BOOSTER NOTICES That this is mighty fine winter In addition to this feature, there will be a feature comedy by the DeHavens weather. That cattle have been in pasture entitled “Hoodooed.” all winter. Pruning School That some splendid road work is Prof. Long of the O. A. C. Exten being done on east Main street. That many new cement walks add sion Service, will be in Hermiston much to the improvement of our city. Friday, February 11th, to hold a That many property owners are pruning school. Prof Long has been going over the entire state giving also adding fine curbs. That two graveled highways lead practical demonstrations on pruning, and all orchardists on the project into Hermiston. • That several newcomers like it should be present when he comes to Hermiston. well enough here to buy homes. He will be in Stanfield February That we give them a hearty wel 10th, and here February 11th. come. That the fire laddies are always Citizenship Papers Received on the Job. Last week Wm. Shaar went to That some merchants are helping Pendleton and completed his citizen to oust the H. C. L. That a crowded school house indi ship papers and is now a full fledged citizen of Uncle Sam. Mr. Shaar was cates a growing population. That the demand for houses is as born at Mt. Lebanon, Syria, and he has been In this country about 10 brisk as ever. That we are going to have another years. If all foreigners were like Billy, up-to-date church house in Hermis- we would be mighty glad to have ton. them here, for he has proved a good That we are glad we are here. citizen, not only for the country, but for the town as well. HIGH SCHOOL BASKET BALL Mr. Sharr is proprietor of a barber TEAMS PLAYED PILOT ROCK shop here, and all his friends are Last Friday night, the boys and congratulating him. girls basket ball teams of the Her Purchases Bungalow ■ miston High School motored to Pilot Mr. 8. Lochrie, who recently ar Rock and played two games. The girls winning their game 23 to 4, rived from McIntosh, South Dakota, while the boys lost by a narrow mar to assume the duties of cashier of the First National Bank of Hermiston, gin of 40 to 46. There will be a return game be which position was made vacant by tween the teams in Hermiston, Fri the resignation of Al Larson, has day January 28th at the Auditorium. purchased the bungalow one half block north of the Hermiston hotel. Thia property was owned and until Spreaders Help Sprays Improving the physical properties recently occupied by O. Stanley and of spray solution by addition of family, who have moved to their suitable spreaders improves the ef ranch west of town. The house la ficiency of the sprays by Increasing being remodeled and decorated and the covering and wetting power and Mr. and Mrs. Lochrie expect to oc the adhesiveness. The spray solu cupy it by the first of next week. tion without spreader finally settles W. B. Barrett of Heppner, has been on a waxy surface in irrigular blotch es. over-thick in some places and thin appointed by Gov. Olcott as a mem or lacking in other. A good spreader ber of the State Highway Commis- makes It settle evenly over the whole sion to fill the vacancy occassioned by the death of E. E. Kiddle. surface. John Day Project Is Recommended By Engineers John J. Lewis, engineer, cooper ating with D. C. Henny, consulting engineer of the Reclamation Service and soil expert of the O. A. C., are now prepared to say that the John Day irrigation project is entirely feasible and practical. They state that there are fully 300,000 acres of choice lands coming under the sur vey that are extremely desirable at any per acre cost up to >200. The Reclamation Service and soil experts have now passed on and approved the project, says the Heppner Gazette- Times. Speaking directly from a photo graph and map, Mr. Lewis stated that the irrigation canal will be built out of the John Day at an elevation of 1340 feet and will require a dam 343 feet high, diversion point to be 240 feet above the present low water mark in the John Day river. A storage reservoir will be provid ed at the dam site sufficient to con tain 900,000 acre feet of water, which will almost accomodate the water duty required for 300,000 acres. W. L. Powers, irrigation ex pert of O. A. C., in his certification of lands has shown the water duty re quired to range from 2 % acre feet per acre on the high elevation to 5 acre feet per acre on the extremely sandy land on the northern part of the project, giving an average water duty of 2.85 acre feet per acre. Additional storage will be provid ed at the Carty reservoir site where an 85 foot dam will hold back 175,- 000 acre feet, while another dam in Eight Mile canyon of 365 feet would store 275.000 acre feet. This extra storage is believed to be necessary in order to provide for seepage and al so to be prepared for extreme low water that occurs in the John Day river occasionally. The water study of this project is one of the best that has ever been made of any project in the state, hav ing complete records which have been obtained by the U. S. Geological Survey for the last 15 consecutive years, and which show beyond ques tion of doubt that more than a suf ficient amount of water is available for this magnificent project accord- I ing to the proposed plans. In selecting the dam site, the en gineers have taken into consideration the best geologists obtainable, and have three feasible sites in contem plation. The probable site to be se lected will call for only 50 miles of canal from dam to the nearest irri gable acre, with another 100 miles lying along the southern boundary of the project. The first 50 miles will include 20 miles of tunnel, the longest of which is 14 miles and part of it over 2000 feet under ground. Mr. Lewis was not able to give any definite per acre cost on this project and could not say as to Just what time In the future he could furnish this information. He believed, how ever, that it will be considerably un der $200 per acre, which is the esti mate given out by the soil experts, and said that the project would pay for itself in three years. The land at present valuation would average about $8 per acre. When the project is completed and water turned in the valuation would be around $200 or more. Mr. Lewis stated that of the 23 projects now in successful operation in the northwest, each of them have paid for themselves In from two to three years of operation, and that the land valuation Increased to a point that any man would not hesitate to take up the land at the present price and realize his fortune as soon as the project is in operation. However, it will take considerable work and continual hammering away to get this project under construc tion. Nothing great was ever done over night, and a lot of conscientious hard labor will have to be done to put this project over. The engin eer’s report is, briefly, that the water is there and the prospects for getting it over the 300,000 acres leave no doubts whatever. The soil to be re deemed is comparable with that of Sicily, which has been cropped for 2000 consecutive years. The en gineer’s report also includes several good power possibilities, chief among them being the Umatilla rapids. Barn Burns With Eastern Star Four Head Horses Installs Officers Last Monday night, at about 11 o’clock, the barn belonging to W. O. Sutherland, on his ranch about 6 miles east of Hermiston on the Diag onal road, was burned to the ground and four head of draft horses belong ing to Mr. Lock were also destroyed. Mr. Lock was doing some leveling for Mr. Sutherland, and had 8 head of horses on the place, but only four, his best four, were in the barn. Late in the evening, Mr. Lock had been out to the barn and struck a match to light his lantern. This is the only excuse he can think of that caused the fire, as he does not smoke. Mr. Lock places the value of the horses at $7 00. Mr. Sutherland's loss will amount to about $400, which includes the barn, some farm implements and hay. There was no insurance. At the regular meeting Tuesday night of Queen Esther Chapter, Or- der of Eastern Star, the following of ficers were installed for the ensuing year. W. M., Sue D. Dobler. W. P., W. J. Dobler. A. M., Galtry M. La Barre. Secretary, Kathryn L. Garner. Treasurer, Augusta R. Cressy. Conductress, Estella A. Hitt. A. C., Elizabeth T. Adams. Chaplain, Emma F. Johnson. Adah, Hazel C. Agnew. Ruth, Edith M. Prann. * Esther, Ethel Haugeberg. Martha. Frances G. Illsley. Electa. Mrs. W. C. Beisse. Warden, Laura S. Crandall. Sentinel, August F. Beisse. United States Postal • Savings System Improves The United States Postal Savings System is today marking its tenth anniversary by issuing a new postal savings card which will displace the 10-cent postal savings card which has been in use since the establish ment of the system on January 1, 1911. The new card will be furnished free of cost and when ten 10-cent postal savings stamps have been af fixed to it, it will be accepted at any depository office as a deposit of $1 or it may be redeemed in cash. The outstanding feature of the new card is the translation into 24 foreign languages of the statement that the faith of the United States is solemnly pledged to the payment of deposits made with the System. As predicted by Its proponents in the days before the passage of the original Postal Savings A et, our for eign born citizens have been the prin cipal patrons of the System. Taught in their native land to look to the Government to safeguard their sav- Ings, they naturally expect this gov ernment to do likewise. In the pres ent flood tide of immigration, each, newcomer as he leaves the port of en try, receives a leaflet in his own lan guage outlining the method of op eration of the United States Postal Savings System and urging upon him the desirability of continuing in this country the practice of thrift which has been so necessary in the country he has Just left. The service is, therefore, one of the most potent fac tors in furthering the Americaniza tion movement. The original set of Congress re stricted the total amount to be placed on deposit at $500 and the deposit of this amount was limited to not more than $100 per month. Later the monthly limitation was entirely re moved and the maximum amount in creased first to $1,000 and then to the present amount, $2,500. A rec ommendation has been made to Increase the rate of interest to be paid depositors and action by Con gress will, no doubt, be talien along these lines within the near future. NO. 18 County Agent Sends Warning Umatilla county cherry growers have been troubled with gummosis so much that they are quite ready to adopt any measure recommended to control this disease. In view of the fact that an aggressive advertis ing campaign is being carried on, on the Pacific Coast by the distributing agents of certain brands of Coal-tar products the County Agent takes this opportunity to pass along the Infor mation which he has Just received from the plant pathologist of the Ore gon Agricultural College, One of these products known as Arrow Corbolineum is getting a great deal of publicity by one commercial concern. This company claims that the product contains no poisonous substances such as are contained in other antiseptics but rather has the effect of healing wounds on trees. They also claim that from the trials that have been made it seems evi dently a cure for cherry gummosis. In this connection they gibe a testi monial from one man in Portland who claims to have used this material effectively. The Portland grower and the com pany may be perfectly honest in their belief that they have a wonderful cure but the chances are that nature has been doing some work in this ase to check the progress of the di sease or overcome Its evidence. Coal- tar products may evidently show merit for the treatment of cankers like those produced by gummosis but the probable value of such materials and their safety in contact with liv ing tissues are now open to serious question and before the grower ven tures to place his trust in any brand he should be certain that it has been thoroughly tested experimentally un der conditions similar to his own for the particular use he has in mind. It is common knowledge that many brands of Carbolineum are very in jurious to the living tissues of bark and newly formed wood when used as a wound dressing. Fostering the best interests of the orchardists of Oregon the experiment station feels that it would be unwise and unsafe to do anything less than discourage the use of Carbolineum as a wound or gummosis dressing on the grounds above mentioned until op portunity has been given to test out the material with more satisfactory results. SEWING SCHOOL 4 Mrs. Edith Van Duesen will be here next week to start a sewing school, which will he largely attend ed by the ladies of the project. The school will last three days, and those wishing to take advantage of it, should enroll with Mrs. F. C. McKenzie at once as the class is limited. Following is the program outlined by Mrs. Van Duesen: January 18—10:30 a. m.—Alter ation of commercial patterns. Demonstration sponging and shrinking woolen cloth. Plaited skirts demonstrated, 1:15 p. m.—Directions for laying on pattern and cutting. Tailor basting. How to baste in a sleeve. Seam finishing, cotton; plain; fel led; (2 ways); bound with bias for heavy cloth; and whipped. Wool bound; whipped; flat; felled. Plackets, cotton; piece; piece cut; wool, bound; two piece. January 19—9 a. m.—Plain but tonholes. Bound buttonholes. Arrow heads. Piping; binding (use machine binder); cording; sewing buttons; hooks and eyes; snap fasteners; eye lets. 1:15—-Repair of clothing; darn ing; patching; pressing: method of testing materials and cleaning ma chine attachments. January 20—9:00 a. m.—Selection of lines and fabric to suit individual; hems; facings; belting; linings; slashed pocket. 1:15—Remodeling suggestions; sleeve; neck; and armhole finishes. Suggestions for childrens clothes. Questions answered. Each member of the class who en rolls for the three day course should bring the following materials: First Day Six pieces cotton ma terial, 8x8 inches. Six pieces wool material. 8x8 in. Scissors; thimble; 60 white cot ton thread; needle, No. 8; bias bind ing. Second Day—One spool button- hole twist; scissors; thimble; No. 50 te---------------- - white cotton thread; No. 60 white cotton thread; needles 7 and 8; crewel needle 7: four holed button; SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE one hook and eye; one snap fastener; piece of cotton cloth 12x12; piece of Mrs. Edith Van Duesen, county wool 6x6; small piece silk to bind demonstration agent, will meet the buttonhole; piece of stocking; darn ladies of Columbia district, Monday, ing cotton. January 17, at the Phipps home. COLUMBIA NEWS NOTES Mrs. J. C. Barham and son Childs, left Thursday of last week for San Francisco, where they expect to re main the rest of the winter visiting with friends. American Legion Beats High School The basket ball games last night at the Auditorium were well at tended and proved very entertaining to the fans. The Legion boys were The hay balers are again at work too much for the High School boys, in the Columbia district with hay winning 22 to 18. The High School girls team defeated the city girls which is being shipped. Mrs. Evans and two children, of team 17 to 0. Youngstown, Ohio, are visiting at Uncle Sam’s Tallest Eastern Mountain. the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Han Many people believe that Mount nan. Washington, in New Hampshire, Is the The farm Bureau will hold a meet highest mountain In the eastern part ing next Tuesday evening at the of the United States. Mount Wash school house. County Agent Bennion Ington stands 6,293 feet above sea level, according to the United Slates will be present and all are invited. geological survey, but many peaks In Mrs. Lou Brownell, of Umatilla, the southern Appalachians are several is spending a few days at the home hundred feet higher than New Hamp- of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. shire’s famous mountain. The highest mountain In the Ap- Simmons. palachian system the highest point Twenty six school friends of in the United Slates east of the Claude and John Haddox were guests Rockies—is Mount Mitchell, In North at a party at the Haddox home Wed Carolina, which stands at an elevation nesday evening. Games were played of 6,711 feet. The highest mountain In Tennessee, and a general good time had. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Fisher returned Mount Guyot, stands 6,636 feet above sea level.—Geological Survey Bulletin. from Portland and Seattle where they have been for the past several Porcelain of Great Value. months. Remarkable properties are claimed for a new porcelain. A special glaze Irrigation Election Returns expands and contracts In exactly the The results of the elections held same degree as the mass of porcelain, Tuesday, January 11th for the dif and chemical and other vessels made ferent irrigation districts, for the from the material not only endure election of directors for the new year, great heat but are not fractured by sudden changes of temperature. It I« are as follows: even possible to fuse holes In the new John Day Irrigation district: C. porcelain, using an oxyhydrogen blow A’. Minor of Heppner and A. W pipe, without causing cracking. The Wheelhouse of Arlington. material, moreover, can be worked Hermiston Irrigation district: E. like glass, and different pieces can be fused together, or a porcelain tube or L. Jackson. Westland Irrigation district: J. handle can be fused to a dish. The blow-pipe softened masa can be blown W. Messner. West Extension Irrigation district: like glass Into bulbs or other forms C. E Glasgow of Irrigon and Col Em not hitherto produced with material of this kind. mett Callahan of Boardman.
