Uhe Hermiston Heraln
VOL XV
HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY, 14, 1921.
Club Luncheon
Well Attended
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.