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HERMISTON
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Published every 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 postomice at Hermiston, Oregon
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WE QUOTE YOU
Shorts, 80 pound sack ................................. $1.75
Mill Run, 80 pound sack.............................. 1.65
Bran, 60 pound sack
... ....................... 1.25
Middlings, 100 pound sack . .......
3.50
Rolled Barley, 70 pound sack....................- 1.75
Rolled Oats, 60 pound sack ....................... 1.75
Corn, per hundred . ........................................ 2.25
All feed at special price in ton lots.
Olympia Scratch Food, per hundred ........ 4.00
Olympia Egg Mash, per hundred ............. 4.00
Dorit forget Devonsnire Cloth at
40 cents per yard
is very good value at this time.
Dress Ginghams at 30c
per yard—good values.
Hermiston Produce &
Supply Co.
Why Eat Meat
BECAUSE^
healthy and full of vitality and
pep, and enables you to keep
up the strenuous red blooded
pace at which the world is now
moving.
Meat of quality does
it; iCs the kind we sell
City Meat Market
MOONEY & SIKEY. Prop.
Subscription Rates: One Year, 12.00; Six Months, $1 00
TO SENATOR HARDING
On March 4, Mr. Harding, you will
be inaugurated president of the
United States. You will then be
come the world’s foremost citizen,
and the power at your command will
be unlimited, far greater than that
of any other civilized ruler on this
earth.
We believe that you have the wel
fare of all of our people at heart, and
that it is your earnest desire to do
that which is best for them.
In this belief we beseech you, Mr.
Harding, to use your great influence
and power in an effort to devise a
more satisfactory means of marketing
farm product.
The horde of middlemen and spec
ulators who are fattening upon the
life blood of a hundred million peo
ple will oppose your efforts in this
direction. They do not want a more
direct route from producer to ulti
mate consumer, because it would cur
tail their ill gotten gains.
But we believe the welfare of the
great mass of people is dearer to
your heart than is that of the men
who are nullifying the law of supply
and demand.
We believe that It is within your
power to place the law upon the
statute books of our country that
wil give the farmer a fair price for
his products,-and yet afford the con
sumer an opportunity to buy them
without paying extortionate prices.
The elimination by federal law of
all speculation in foodstufs, and the
reduction of the number of hands
through which the food must pass,
will, we believe, solve this difficult
problem. No reasonable person
could object to a price that is regu
lated solely by the law of supply and
demand.
If you accomplish this one re-
form only during your four years of
office the American people will be
thrice blessed that you were elected
their president.
WHAT’S YOUR IDEA?
Everyone has an idea of some kind
or other which he simply can’t lose—
that is, if he has a mind capable of
formulating one.
It is usually a fixed idea, and is
comes to him in his business hours, in
his moments of relaxation, in his
dreams and sometimes it will intrude
itself Into the Sunday worship.
Even the most sublime flights of
oratory from the lips of the minister
can’t keep that idea in subjection.
Why?
Because the human mind is always
groping In search of an opportunity
for improvement.
The hen could deposit her egg on
the ground if she would. But she
dosen't. She must have a better
place, and if man does not provide for
her with nests she goes out and
makes one for herself. Often she
dosen't like the nest man provides for
her. Then she hunts until she finds
one to her liking.
It is her dominant idea, and she
can’t lose it.
Man is the same.
He may have myriads of ideas flit
ting In and out of his brain, but
there is always one which overshad
ows all others.
Sometimes fortune is kind to him
and he is able to realize on his idea—
to capitalize it to the benefit of him
self and mankind.
Capitalizing ideas has made
America a great country, and its in
habitants a people noted throughout
the world for their progressiveness.
Ideas have done much for our own
town, and for its people, and for our
countryside.
Perhaps some of those were devel
oped in your own fertile brain, and
were passed on to others, and im
proved. and put into execution for
our common good.
Everywhere we look, werything we
see, is the result of someone’s idea
for developing ideas has made this
town what it is.
But we have not reached the limit,
in fact, we have only scratched the
surface.
Every normal brain in our midst
contains some Idea that would be of
benefit to the community if it were
only given the light of publicity.
What is yours?
Possibly It has been revolving
around under your hat for years
waiting for an opportunity to break
out. and expand, and produce some
thing worth while.
Why cage it up longer?
This is your home. The Herald is
your paper.
Our people are your
people, and you are ours, and that
which benefits one will benefit all.
Make it public. Others may be
able to add a finishing touch here,
and there, until it is dressed up Into
a monument of community enterprise
and progressiveness.
Given time and nourishment, the
tiniest of roots will grow into giant
trees.
It may be so with that Idea you are
secreting in your brain.
Let It out. Others are waiting to
hear It. and we are waiting to give
It publicity.
TREE PLANTING ON PROJECT
The Herald is keenly Interested in
the efforts to encourage tree-planting
n the Project. We are especially
anxious to receive and publish letters
and articles from the project resi-
lents. Give of your experience. Boost
the game.
When we first visited Hermiston
we were attracted by the trees. They
gave the city an appearance of com
fort and livableness. The ordinary
small city in the desert has about
one wind-broken, famished, starved
tree in front of the post-office. That
it survives the punishment handed
't as a hitching-post and feed-stable
is proof that trees properly cared for
would flourish.
Tree-planting is an indication of a
high state of civilization. Only a
people of culture and ideals regard
the future. He who plants a tree
serves the future.
No finer monument can any man,
woman or child erect than to plant
a tree. In the early days of the pro
tect our most enthusiastic planter of
trees was Col. Newport. He lived to
enjoy many of them. But the writer
would rather have just one of the
many graceful, living monuments
the Colonel left us than some day lie
under a great column of cold, dead
granite.
Everybody!
Young and Old!
Plant Trees!
Now!
Plant for pleasure!
Plant for profit!
But plant ’em!
ELIMINATE THE GUESSWORK
Correct Construction
Demands That You Build From
Properly Prepared Plans
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.
PLANS AND MODERN BUILDING HELPS ARE
FREE TO CUSTOMERS
Get what you want.
Pay for what you get.
Secure your money’s worth.
IS BEND LIKE PORTLAND?
The city of Bend, In central Ore
gon, one of the best advertised cities
In the state, and one of the most pro
gressive cities, has shown by her late
actions that she is absolutely oppos
ed to the Greater Deschutes Irriga
tion project, which will irrigate
thousands of acres of central Oregon
land, including the great North Unit
which comprises 100,000 acres of
some of the best land In the country
and an ideal section to irrigate.
Bend has protested. She says that
the saw mills need the water in the
river for logging operations, so that
her two large mills can always have
enough water to float the logs; also
that she depends upon the water for
her electric power. She has made
other objections from time to time.
Every-onee-in-a-while, Bend slips in
1 knock against this great irrigation
project. Is Bend, this great adver
tised city, this great progressive little
city, getting like Portland who’s
slogan is: “If we can’t get it,
KNOCK.”
The objections that Bend has made
are the most ridiculous we have ever
heard. But, the truth is slowly
coming out. Bend wants the water
for irrigation purposes near her city,
and does not want the water to go
to the North Unit. Bend is getting
big enough to try to grab everything,
and starve the little cities near her.
In fact. Bend dominates Central Ore
gon, and she will be able to kill the
North Unit If she keeps up the splen
did KNOCKING system already em-
ployed. But while Bend is doing
this, people who know the situation,
will put Bend back 50 years as sure
as God Almighty grows little apples.
Bend will be able to kill the North
Unit. There is no doubt about that.
But when she does, she will put up
on her soul the stain of robbing one
f the best sections of Oregon from a
I veil hood that nothing but the water
Bend refuses to let them have will
uve them.
Does Bend want this course?
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STAY AT HOME
Don t go to the big cities in
search of fortune. The rent hogs will
at you up.
Owners of large city houses and
apartment buildings have developed
mto the greediest blood suckers the
world has ever known. Apartment
that rented for $40 and $45 a month
1 year ago are now $75 and 1100. By
noving time (Mayl) they will prob
able be given another boost.
If you go from the country to the
big city you must rent a room and
lake your meals at restaurants, or
nay a small fortune for hotel accom
modations. If you rent a room the
rent will be in porportion to the
amount the people pay for the apart
ment. Your meals will be equally
high, and by the time you have
coughed up to these two tunes you
will not have much left, regardless
of the high wages offered.
The rent hogs are not satisfied
with their pound of flesh. They
want the whole carcass, and at the
rate they are going they will soon
have It devoured.
This is a good town In which to
live, and there are no whole carcass
es exacted. The same applies to our
farms.
Stay at home and prosper.
Baseball players are becoming
quite and eminently respectable since
Judge Landis undertook the job of
teaching them the A-B-C’c of honesty
and decency. In time they may even
If you want to change your wife’s learn to respect themselves.
opinion, just tell her that her dear
est friend thinks excatly as she does.
If you want to see a first-class
bout without paying admission just
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT
hang out a British flag In an Irish
Whereas: The all wise Father of neighborhood.
the Universe has seen fit to take
from our midst the beloved daughter
With the advent of longer dresses
of our brother Chas. G. Gilliam and our city friends ought to be able to
Wife
recognize their own wives when they
Therefore be it Resolved: That meet them.
Vineyard Lodge No. 206 I. O. O. F
extend them their heart felt sym
Don’t try to tell the other fellow
pathy and be it further Resolved: his business. He may ask you if you
That a copy of this resolution be sent have any of your own.
to the parents, one copy to be pub
lished in the Hermiston Herald and a
The price of gasoline however, con-
copy to be spread upon the minutes tinues lighter than air. It won’t
of the Lodge.
come down.
J. A. Reeves.
W. A. Botkins
It’s no use growling at the weather
T. H. Gaither
man. He can always hand us back
Committee worse than we send.
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Phone 331
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CASHand CARRY
Yellow and white cornmeal, sack........... ..... ....... 50c
Hominy... —......
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Rolled Oats______ ______ __________ _______ 78c
Pure N. Y. Buckwheat___________ ____
- 48c
Skookum pancake flour................. _ 48c and 90c
Mazóla and Wesson Oil, quart........ .........
80c
Crepe toilet paper, per roll..
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Hershey cocoa
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Rovai Club coffee, pound___________
Hill Bros, coffee, per lb
“99” bulk coffee, 3 pounds- . . .
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FO, 60.
2$1.00
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