Che Hermistun Heraln
VOL XV
BIG FARM
MEETING
FEB. 5
The County Farm Bureau and Co
lumbia Basin Alfalfa Growers Assn,
have combined forces to put on one of
the most interesting meetings for
farmers that has been attempted in
Hermiston. On Saturday Feb. 5th,
an "Alfalfa Feeding and Marketing
Meeting” will be held under the aus
pices of these two organizations. The
meeting will be an all day affair with
a big basket lunch at noon. Farmers
and their wives from all the alfalfa
producing sections of Morrow and
Umatilla counties are invited to at
tend. The Hermiston Commercial
Club aided by a committee of women
of the Civic club have planned an in
teresting afternoon of entertainment
for the ladies who come to the meet
ing, The club has chartered the
Play House for the matinee and Man
ager Adamson promises to put on a
Super Special screen preformance to
which the club will invite all the
ladies of the county who with their
husbands, brothers or sweethearts
are interested in the feeding and
marketing of alfalfa.
For the meeting of the alfalfa
growers themselves the committee in
charge has arranged a splendid pro
gram and a very large attendance
will no doubt greet the speakers for
this important gathering. James N.
Price of the Washington Hay Grow
ers Assn, has been invited to present
the problem of alfalfa marketing.
Two or three years experience with
the only large Cooperative hay
marketing organization in the North
west gives'him pecular fitness to deal
with this subject. Following Mr.
Price’s speech there will be a discus
sion. Robert Withycombe of the East
ern Oregon Experimental Station at
Union, Oregon will speak upon, “Cat
tle and Sheep Feeding, Experiments
in Eastern Oregon” Discussion will
be led by H. P. Whitman of Pendle
ton.
The Eastern Oregon Experiment
Farm exhibited the grand champion
car load of fat hogs at the Pacific
International this year and last and
this year also had the champion load
of fat sheep. Last year a Cattle and
Sheep Feeders Convention was held
at Union which was attended by
stockman from all over Oregon. So
popular and profitable did this con
vention prove that it was voted to
make it an annual affair. Mr.
Withycombe himself is one of the
recognized western authorities in
this line and supports his arguments
with data and charts which are
indisputable.
Fred Bennion, Umatilla County
Agent will speak upon Silo Types and
Costs and of the campaign that will
be put on for thirty new silos In the
Columbia Basin of Oregon this year.
The question of whether or not the
growers of this section want to or
ganize a big cooperative alfalfa
marketing organization will be pre
sented by the directors if the crowd
present should prove large and rep
resentative. The California plan of
organization and the contract with
their growers will be presented. The
directors of the alfalfa growers or
ganization here have been conduct
ing meetings of educational nature
all fall and winter and it felt now
that the producers should have some
pretty clear ideas of the purpose and
possibility of such an organization.
ASKED THAT DIFFERENT
ROUTES BE SURVEYED
Request that all possible routes for
the porposed Pendleton Cold Springs
highway be carefully considered be
fore a contract is let for its construc
tion was made by the Pendleton Com
mercial Association late Monday In a
letter drafted by the board of mana
gers addressed to the new county
commissioners. A second request was
that when construction is begun on
the road, it be started from Pendle
ton and be continued north.
Preliminary estimates of cost made
by the highway engineers who locat
ed the routes, fixed the cost of the
south Cold Springs route as 150,000
less than that following middle Cold
Spring, the local men say. This, with
the fact that the south route is some
what shorter, are matters that are
asked to be considered.
In support of their request that
work start from the Pendleton end.
the managers state that during the
wheat shipping season as much ton
nage will follow the road into Pend
leton as will seek an outlet to the
railroad or boat landing at Cold
Springs, on the Columbia. During
the rest of the year, the supporters
say. there will be far more tonnage
and travel to Pendleton.
An effort will be made, the mana
gers indicated, to obtain a route that
will serve the most people and at the
same time make the money go farth
est. The middle Cold Springs route
had been tenatively picked by the
county court when retired Dec. 31. It
serves the town of Holdman. Were
the south route chosen. Holdman
would be mised by three miles.
HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28. 1921.
SOCIETY EVENTS OF THE WEEK
A wedding of interest to Pendleton
people was that of Miss Josephine
Creasey and M. G. Westcott, which
occurred on Saturday at Walla Walla.
1 he wedding was a quiet one and oc
curred at the rectory of St. Patrick’s
church, with Father Buckley officiat
ing. Miss Creasey, who formerly
was of Hermiston has made her home
in this city while taking nurse’s
training at St. Anthony’s hospital.
She is a charming girl and popular.
Mr. Westcott formerly attended Ore
gon Agricultural College and is a
member of Sigma Chi fraternity.
They will make their home in Pen
dleton where Mr. -Westcott is associ
ated with the Standard Oil Co.—E. O.
The Study club met at the home
of Mrs. Gaither Tuesday afternoon.
Alter the usual response to roll call
consisting of pertinent current top
ics, Mrs. H. M. Schilling led in the
discussion of Mr. Klemme’s lecture
which was participated in by most
of the members present. Mrs. A. C.
Voelker then presented the regular
lesson on Mexico which dealt with
"Social and Moral Inheritances.” Af
ter the program the members enjoy
ed a pleasant social half hour over
their tea cups.
Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Fraser de
lightfully entertained five tables at
progressive auction bridge Saturday
evening in their pleasant roomy home
in the west end of town. Dainty re-
ireshments were served by the host
ess at the close of the party.
Mrs. E. P. Illsley and Mrs. Fred
Chezik pleasantly entertained a large
company of ladies at the home of the
former orr Thursday afternoon. The
time was happily spent in games,
visiting and fancy work after which
a dainty luncheon was served by the
hostesses. The affair was given in
honor of Miss Josie Creasy who was
married to H. Westcott Saturday
morning in the Catholic church at
Walla Walla. Mr. and Mrs. Westcott
left immediately for Portland where
they will spend a short honeymoon,
after which they will make their
home in Pendleton, where Mr. West
cott is assistant manager of the
Standard Oil company’s offices. Miss
Creasy, who is the daughter of Mrs.
Botkin of this city, has been in train
ing in the St. Anthony’s hospital In
Pendleton for the last two years.
The Baptist Ladies Aid society
held their social tea party at the
home of Mrs. George Elliott on Wed
nesday afternoon. About 40 ladies
pleasantly passed the time over their
fancy work and visiting and dainty
refreshments were served by the
hostess who was assisted by Mrs.
Mikesell and Mrs. Longhorn.
One of the pleasant social affairs
of the week was held at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. F. C. McKenzie Tues
day evening when they together with
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Purdy entertain
ed a large company of friends at a
bridge supper party.
At seven
o’clock supper was served at eight
daintily appointed tables.
After
the delightful meal the tables
were rearranged for cards. Mr. F.
N. Gutwits proved the champion of
the evening at auction bridge, while
Mrs. S. Lochrie was consoled with the
booby prize.
Pilot Rock
Has Big Fire
Last Sunday morning the citizens
of Pilot Rock woke up at the sound
of the fire bell and found the Pilot
Rock Elevator Company’s warehouse
in a mass of flames.
The loss will be about $140,000,
most all insured, but the actual loss
to the farmers will be big.
The warehouse was a cooperative
organization, farmers owning most of
the stock.
Fire apparatus was sent from Pen-
ileton to help the Pilot Rock depart-
ment with the big blaze, and with
it’s help saved two other ware
houses near by.
New Hich School for Stanfield
Stanfield will have a new $60,000
high school as a result of the vote
last week when 86 votes were cast in
favor and only 46 against it. The
large number of new settlers in the
vicinity of Stanfield have crowded
the school rooms so that it waa nec-
assary to add two new teachers since
ast September and every available
bit of space was pressed into service.
Several sites are under consideration
and as soon as a site is selected and
plans accepted work will begin with
the purpose of having the building
eady for occupancy in September.
The edifice will be modern in every
respect with manual training and
lomestic science rooms, well equipped
science laboratories, commercial de
partment, gymnasium, a good stage
ind auditorium seating 350. A new
high school is also needed in Hermis
ton and some day in the not distant
future the voters in this district
must face this question.
George Joerndt is here from Seat-
le. visiting his brother-in-law, J. L.
Waller.
Miss Laura Phipps is substituting
it teacher In the Columbia school the
latter part o fthis week.
Basket ball game tonight at the
Auditorium. Double header.
UMATILLA RAPIDS POWER
SITE ASSOCIATION HOLD
MEETING AT UMATILLA
The meeting at Umatilla Wednes
day afternoon called by the Umatilla
Commercial club to discuss the har
nessing of the power at the Umatilla
rapids in the Columbia river, devel
oped into a lively interesting session
which lasted until nearly evening.
Hermiston’s interests in the project
was shown by the presence of about
15 members of our Commercial club
and all the towns along the line from
Pendleton to Boardman had good
representations.
. A number of Washington towns,
as Pasco, Kennewick and Prosser,
had been invited to send delegates
but none were present, though the
development of the hydro-electric
power at the rapids would mean as
much to the state of Washington as
to Oregon.
D. C. Brownell of Umatilla was
chosen temporary chairman who ap
pointed a committee on organization
consisting of S. B. Boardman of
Boardman, J. D. Zurcher of Stan-
field, and Geo. Hartman of Pendle
ton. E. B. Aldrich of Pendleton was
elected temporary secretary.
.
A. H. Rands, an engineer from
Portland was present and gave com
parisons showing that the Umatilla
site for a plant had a number of ad
vantages over the Celilo and Bonne
ville sites. He stated that 120,000
horse power could be delivered thru-
out the year and 200,000 extra dur
ing the irrigation season for pump-
ng water.
The committee on organization
brought in their report, which was
adopted. It suggested the name of
Umatilla Rapids Power Site Assoc
NO. 20
THE KICKER NOTICES
That there was lots of mud on
Main Street;
That there are no crossings;
That everybody wishes there were;
That a down town cement walk al-
o has lots of mud on it;
That the fire bell dosen't make
?nuf noise;
That taxes are about due;
That they are too high to suit
him ;
That the city water rates have
gone up;
That we still have the same old de
pot;
That some store windows don’t
look very inviting;
That some merchants get peeved
when customers remind them that
prices are dropping;
That some folks don't care what
neighbors think of their front yard;
That the school house is too full
for comfort;
That there is a little old last year’s
crack in one of the big plate glass
windows down town;
That our undertaking parlors an
nounce ‘Interest paid on time
deposits'
That leaking city water mains
make expensive mud puddles;
That it takes too many churches
with too many routes to land you in
the same place;
That one good one would be better
than 57 varities;
That blue Monday came on Sunday
last year;
That Hermiston needs a park;
That it is time to kick out or boost
iation with president, vice-president,
secretary and treasurer, as officers.
The committee recommended for ap
pointment at this meeting were:
Resolutions, statistics and Legisla-
tien, also an executive committee
of 15 members was recommended
from various towns in Washington
and Oregon that are interested in this
undertaking, to be named at a later
date. The committee on resolution,
consists of Fred Bennion, M. C. Athey
and Harry L. Kuck; the statistic
committee of S. B. Boardman. E. B
Aldrich and H. M. Schilling; the leg
islative committee of J. F. McNaught.
J. E. Steiwer and Mr. George. Col.
McNaught suggested that Judge
Lowell be added to this committee,
which suggestion was unamiously
adopted and Judge Lowell was added
to the legislative committee. A prop
aganda committee was appointed to
spread the news all over that the
Umatilla Rapids Power Site Associa
tion was organized and what it is
going to fight for. This committee
consists of Harry L. Kuck, M. A
Cleveland and E. B. Aldrich.
The next meeting was set for Sat
urday, February 5th to be held at
Pendleton to which every commercial
club in this section will receive in-
viatlons as well as the officials of
the O. W. R. & N. Co. and the Port
land Spokane and Seattle R. R. Co.
The railroads should be interested In
this development for after the plant
BESSIE LILLIAN GILLIAM
is in operation all the trains In this
Bessie Lillian Gilliam, daughter of
region will be run by electricity.
D. C. Brownell was appointed to Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Gilliam, of Her-
visit the towns in Washington and miston, was born August 30, 1909 at
impress on them the necessity of
sending delegations to this meeting. Stevensville, Montana, and lived
most of her life in Oregon, and had
attended the Hermiston public school
for almost two years. She died Jan
uary 20,1921. She will be greatly
nissed by her teacher and school
nates, for she was loved by all who
knew her.
A precious one from us is gone,
A rousing good meeting was held A voice we loved is still;
“Behind The Door” Cominer
last Tuesday at the Commercial clubs \ place is vacant in our homes.
Hobart Bosworth, who is the star | weekly dinner, when a large delega Which never can be filled,
of business men were in attend lod, in his wisdom, has recalled,
n "Behind The Door, which comes ' tion
ance.
The boon his love had given
to the Play House Saturday, January
J. F. McNaught, while recently in And though the body slumbers here
29, is a forceful illustration that tu- Portland, interviewed M. S. Shrock, The soul is safe In Heaven.
berculosis can be cured.
of the Oregon Dairymen’s Cooperative
—Contributed.
Nineteen years ao, while playing League, relative to that body estab-
n the stage, his health broke and lishing a cheese factory in Hermis
Basket ball game tonight at the
he was sent to the West Coast with ton. Col. McNaught said Mr. Shrock
the medical warning that he had but was interested in the matter, and Auditorium. Double header.
a few months to live. Mr. Bosworth would consider establishing a factory
wasn’t ready to die, so he slept out in Hermiston if enough milk could
doors, secured a tent and became an be furnished to insure the factory be
Indian. Se he came back to health ing a success. The Colonel asked Mr.
and if there be any doubt that he is Shrock how many cows it would take,
not hearty and rugged all that will and the reply was 300.
be necessary as proof is the Ince pic
There are over 200 good milch
ture, "Behind the Door.”
cows on the project now, and it
Pendleton’s Hay and Grain Show,
In the making of this production, would be an easy matter for our
Mr. Bosworth had to leap from a bat farmers to get the balance needed to to be held In connection with the an
tleship 30 feet into the ocean; he furnish the factory with enough milk nual, Round-Up, advanced a step to
wards reality when articles of incor
had to cling to the periscope of a sub to make it a success.
marine while it submerged; he was
The citizens attending the lunch poration were filed with the Umatilla
required to fight a mob of men, and were enthusiastic Over Col. Mc county clerk, and documents sent to
had to rescue a sailor and swim a Naught’s remarks, and will lend Salem.
The articles of incorporation call
quarter of a mile in a heavy sea. Mr. every encouragement to get the fac
Bosworth scorned a double, perform tory established and make it a suc for 500 non-profit shares valued at
HO per share. Five prominent
ing all these feats himself as the cess.
camera will show.
The Interest in the cheese factory Pendleton business men are named
consumed nearly the entire meeting as incorporators: Fred Bennion, D.
Basket ball game tonight at the and when discussion was over it was H. Nelson, L. L. Rogers, J. H. Sturgis
and L. C. Scharpf.
Auditorium. Double header.
time to adjourn.
The purpose of the organization as
explained In the incorporation pap
ers is "to disseminate knowledge con
cerning, and to encourage growth
and prosperity of agricultural pur
suits in the states of Oregon. Wash
ington, Idaho and Montana, and gen
erally throughout the northwest; to
stimulate the Interest in better and
Last Wednesday morning construc
more profitable hay and grain pro
Women Choose Projects
tion started on the new Methodist
duction."
The list of the projects that the
The Hay and Grain Show will on
Episcopal church which will be erect
women choose at the Farm Bureau
ed directly across the street from the meeting In the Columbia school on ly have one rival In the United States
that is in Chicago where the Inter
Library.
the night of January 19 are as fol national Hay and Grain Show is
The movement to build a new lows:
held annually, and it is fitting that
Methodist church has long been con-
Girls Club Work, bread making. the west should have a show where
templated but for the lack of funds Mrs. F. P. Phipps, project leader. exhibits of its principal products
has been postponed from time to
Girls Club Work, sewing, Madame could be exhibited nearer at home.
time. Now, however, through the Bellscamper, project leader.
Methodist Home Bureau’s gift of
Dressmaking class, Mrs. Wm.
Boosting Hermiston
15,000.00, the church became a Leathers, project leader.
reality. Subscriptions from the cit
E. P. Dodd of Hermiston Is spend
Pressure Cooker Demonstration,
izens of Hermiston are fast making Mrs. Howard Reid.
ing a few days in Portland. He has
up the rest, and as soon as material
Fly trap construction, Mrs Frank just been re-elected for the seventh
can be had, the new edifice will be Beddow.
time president of the Hermiston
pushed to completion.
Health Campaign, Mrs. Henry Commercial club. "We in Hermis-
The building, which will be mod Sommerer.
ton are feeling pretty good,”’ said Mr.
ern in every particular, will be
Millinery class in March with the Dodd. "I don’t think there will be
68x54 feet with a full concrete base Hermiston community project leader iny question of the passage of the
ment, built on two lots making the to be announced later.
$460,000 appropriation for réclama
site 120x138 feet, and will be one of
The girls who wish may enroll at tion in Oregon. It has passed the
the finest buildings tn Hermiston.
once with Mrs. Phipps for the cloth lower house and we confidently look
A large crew of workmen started ing club, age limit 18.
for the senate to pass It. This will
excavating for the basement last
Mrs. Edith Van Duesen. mean a great deal In the development
Wednesday morning, the plans of |
of the Greater Umatilla project. It
which are now here, but the plans,
will mean the building of the dam on
Basket Ball Tonight
for the rest of the building are still | Tonight at the Auditorium the McKay creek, near Pendleton, which
in the hands of the architect, but will local high school boys basket ball will Impond 75,000 acre feet of wat
be forwarded on immediately.
team and the girls team will meet er. This dam will be 160 feet high,
Some of the features of the new the two teams from Pilot Rock at which will make It the highest earth
church are the men's club rooms, 8:00 o'clock. The local teams met dam in the world. This additional
shower baths, and a modern kitchen the Polit Rock teams at Pilot two water will mean that the 15.000
which will all be located in the weeks ago and the boys lost their acres of the West Land Irrigation
spacious basement. The main audi game, while the girls won. Tonight company, which tract has been tak
torium will represent the very latest will be a big game and a very large en over by bondholders, will receive
in church construction and will seat crowd is expected.
plenty of water for the lands under
300.
Last Friday night the local girls the Furnish project as well as the
F. R. Jackson, pastor of the church team played the Pendleton high lands under the old Oregon Land and
does not know exactly when the girls team and lost. Our girls put Water Power project near Irrigon. In
building will be completed, stating up a good game but the Pendleton fact the whole West extention of the
that getting the material will depend team were too fast for us. The boys Umatilla Project will be greatly ben
largely on just how fast the build team played Boardmans high school efited by additional water."—Oregon
ing will be finished.
Journal.
team and won by a large score.
Cheese Factory May Locate in
Hermiston in the Near Fatare
Hay and Grain
Show Incorporated
Construction Commences on
New $12,000 Methodist Church
REVIEW OF
LEGISLATURE
Salem.—The legislature began the
third week of the session with all the
big constructive legislation yet to re-
clave attention. While a number of
Important measures have been intro
duced no bill of statewide importance
has received the sanction of bo h
houses.
At the conclusion of the second week
of the session only seven bills had
passed both houses. Four of the bills
hava been signed by the governor,
the first bill introduced by the ways
and means committee appropriating
$40,000 for expenses of the session.
The governor also signed senate bills
repealing the law creating the state
board of automobile mechanics exam
iners, the act authorizing county in
debtedness up to not exceeding 2 per
cent of the assessed valuation for
road purposes and a house bill ap
propriating 8237,766 to cover deficien
cy appropriations authorized by the
state emergency board during the past
year.
During the first two weeks of the
session a total of 256 bills were in
troduced as against 271 bills during
the same period of the 1919 session.
The senate bills introduced numbered
135 and the house bills 121.
Salary Increases for State Officers.
Increases in the salaries of the state
superintendent of schools from $3000
to 84000 per year, the attorney gen-
arai from 83600 to 84000 per year,
the corporation commissioner from
83000 to 83600 per year, and the clerk
of the state land board from 82500 to
83000 per year, are recommended In
the report of the special legislative
committee on salaries of state and
county officials.
General increases are also recom
mended for county superintendents of
schools. Although making no direct
recommendations for increases In
salaries of county judges, assessors
and county commissioners, who, the
report states, were found in most cases
to be capable men serving at inade
quate pay, a warning is sounded to the
effect that “the good citizens of the
state should look well Into the con
duct and management of public af
fairs if they desire to protect them
selves from waste and inefficiency and
consequent higher taxes.”
One of the most important pieces of
legislation proposed so far this session
is a joint resolution by Senator Bruce
Dennis of Union county which would
create a home owners' fund. This pro
posal, If approved by the legislature,
will require an amendment to the state
constitution which will necessitate
submitting it to the people.
The resolution provides that the
credit of the state may be lent and
indebtedness incurred to an amount
not exceeding 2 per cent of the assess
ed vaulation of the property of the
state.
Under this grant the state land board
which is to administer the "home own
ers’ ” fund, has power to Issue $50,
000,000 "Oregon owners' credit bond,”
these bonds to run 36 years and bear
4 per cent interest.
From the proceeds of these bonds
the state land board can make loans
on real estate from 8200 to 85000, the
loan not to exceed 50 per cent of the
valuation of the property on which the
loan Is made.
Anti.Alien Land Law Appears.
An anti Asiatic land law has been
introduced, sponsored by representa-
tlves who are ex service men. which
would prohibit holding real property
by any person not eligible to citizen
ship.
• The bill prohibits the holding of
real property by any company, asso
ciation or corporation In which the
majority stock Is owned by aliens not
entitled to citizenship, excepting such
rights as are obtained through treat
les existing between the United States
and the nations of which the major
ity stockholders are citizens.
The bill provides drastic penalties
for violations of the law, and further
provides penalties for conspiracy,
which Is construed to be an act of two
or more persons to transfer real prop
erty or an interest therein to aliens af
fected by the bill.
Would Repeal Picketin Law.
A bill which is likely to precipitate
a lively contest during this session is
one introduced by Representative Ho»
ford repealing the anti injunction law
passed after a bitter fight In 1919. The
law sought to be repealed legalizes
picketing and organized labor la lined
up to put up a strenuous fight to re
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