THE RRMISTON
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
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We Have Finishe
Our Inventory
and are now pricing onr 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
purchase of parasols at this season of the year, no
matter at what price 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.
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SATISFACTION
There is a satisfying pleasure every housewife
feels in preparing a meal from good wholesome
materials.
Makeshift foods are unsatisfactory as well as
unwholesome.
Our Meats Satisfy
They give the necessary buoyancy and vigor to
the system. And they cost no more than the other
kind.
City Meat Market
MOONEY & SIKEY, Prop.
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NEED OF THE HOUB
SQUALID
PORTO
RICAN
TOWN
If you are inclined to be pessimis
Ponce, a city on the south coast o:
tic as to the future, forget it. The Porto Rico, gives the false impression
i country is in need of something bet of being a larger city than the capital
ter than pessimism at this time—and loosely strewn as It Is over a dusty,
this community is a part of this flat plain and overflowing in hovels of
decreasing size into the low foothills
country.
behind. It is tbe most extensive town,
of
readjustment
This is a period
in Porto Rico, and, like many of those
and reconstruction. and no country around tbe coast, lies back, a few miles
can survive such a time without ser from the sea. for fear of pirates In
ious disagreements, dissention and the olden days, with a street-car serv
Ice to its shipping suburb of Ponce
confusion.
We are undergoing our share of Playa,
Airplants festoon Ita telephone
It now, and there will be more to fol
wires, and its mosquitoes are so ag
low before we can hope to become
gressive that to dine in its principal
our normal selves again.
.hotel is to wage a constant battle,
We of this town are but an atom while to disrobe and enter a bath-
as compared to the whole country, room Is a perilous undertaking, ac
but the welfare of the nation is as cording to Harry A. Franck In the
sacred to us as it is to the residents Century.
Puerta de Tierra, once nothing
of the* greatest metropolis in the
more than the “land gate” Its name
land.
Implies, is almost a city of itself, a
We should each strive to do our pathetic town of many shacks built of
utmost toward stableizing conditions tin and dry goods boxes, spreading
and restoring commerce to a level down and across rhe railroad ro rhe
where it can be maintained with jus swampy bay. Naked babies play In
tbe mud. and mothers with pitifully
tice and safety.
small cups scurry to milk shops In an
Those are the three paramount re effort to get the precious food for their
infants.
quirements of the day. They rep
resent the only manner in which it is LET THEM START IN EARLY
possible to continue prosperity with
out first undergoing a disastrous per- Here’s a Writer Who Advocates Hav
ing the Children Select Their
iod of financial and commercial de-
Vocations When Young.
pression.
It is apparent that with a few ex-
We heard the other day of a child
ceptions the country as a whole un-
who had begun to write poetry at the
derstands and appreciates the situ
age of five. It must be quite a shock
ation fairly well, and is disposed to to the parents to realize so soon that
take such action as necessity re their hope and pride will never have
quires.
to worry over an income tax blank.
Let it be said that we of this com
On the other hand, finding out the
munity are among those who are pa truth early in life will save them many
triotically endeavoring to bring or disappointments and considerable ex
der out of confusion—that we have pense. They can begin at once to save
money by sending the child to the
a clear perception of the duty of the
barber’s.
hour and a determination to perform
The child ought to be very easy to
that duty.
amuse. Give it a piece of paper and
It is not necessary that we become a pencil, and let it rave. For If a
niggardly in our expenditures, or child begins to be a poet at the age
that we deprive ourselves of any of of five. It stanza reason that the child
the necessities or reasonable luxu will go, from bad to verse. There is
ries of life. The situation does not nothing that parents can do with a
born poet but admit it.
call for such an extreme.
In some respects It would be an ad
But produce—economise—save.
vantage to the human race if all
That means not only the return children indicated their future career
to a sane commercial standard in the at the age of five. There would be
immediate future, but a far greater fewer plumbers trying to play the pi
and better country in the years to ano, and fewer ribbon clerks trying to
win lawsuits.
come.
A child who. at five, smashes every
thing In sight ought to be trained for
WHAT OF TOMORROW!
Wall street, and one that seemed in
Just how great is the patriotism clined to swallow everything should
of this country, and how strong a make a good congressman.—Chicago
pressure can it successfully with Herald and Examiner.
stand?
With the gates to our shores wide
BLACK AND TAN
open, and fifteen millions of Euro
peans clamoring for admission, we
may have that patriotism put to a
test sooner than most people believe
possible.
Our social fabric is undermined
with trouble makers now—people
whose greatest aim in life is the de
struction of government.
When this avalanche of foreigners
descends upon us who will be the
first to reach them?
Not the disciple of law and order.
He will pursue his beaten path in the
accumulation of riches, as has al
ways been his custom.
But the foreigner will not be ne-
lected.
The Persistent Society of Trouble-
makers will be after him en masse.
He will be buttonholed, and coddled,
and filled with the imaginary evils
of our system of government, and
made to believe that by its destruc
tion wealth will flow into bis hands
It is not the honest laboring man
we have to fear in this matter. He
is a good American, believes in his
country, and is willing to fight for
it If occasion requires.
But there is a class of professional
agitators, who fatten upon the cre
dulity of others, who will be the
A typical soldier of the Royal Irish
brains and the ringleaders In this
campaign of vilification and destruc- Constabulary auxiliary corps In bis
picturesque uniform and full equip
ti venes«.
i
ment.
He is one of the so-called
Fifteen millions of foreigners!
black and tans.
How many of them, a year from
the day they land, will be ready to
His Trouble.
smite the hand that feeds them?
Young Tommy Tiddlesome timidly
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phosphorus and potassium.” says tbe
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administrating the laws for sale of
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The report |
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, for the following year.
approached the sturdy policeman on
traffic duty not far from Tommy's
school.
“Please, Mr. Perliceman," he said,
“do you lock up men who knock little
boys aboutF
He was a kind-hearted constable,
and. pitying tbe youngster, placed his
band on the boy's shoulder as he re-
piled:
“Yes, sonny.
-wasn’t It a kind at comic opera
government you were trying to run F
"No," answered the ex-king. “That
government never produced either the
genuine profit nor the popular appre-
ciation attaching to a regular comic
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receives the careful attention of an
expert cook when you eat at our Res
taurant.
We cater to the wants of
the most particular people.
No mat
ter what you pay, you can be sure of
getting pure, wholesome, unadulter
ated foods at
CITY BAKERY
Hermiston, Oregon.
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
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What's your trouble?"
“Well," answered Tommy, “will you
come to school with me? I'm late
again and teacher said the next timo
I was late be would break his heaviest
cane over my back."—Houston Post
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