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VOL. XV
HERMISTON. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY. AUGUST 4. 1921
Hundreds Visit
Umatilla Beach
BATHING
RESORT
GROWS
IN
POPULARITY
53 Autos Counted at One Time Sun
day; Some Claim
500
People
Were in the Water
Umatilla. Oregon. August 4.—
Umatilla's bathing beach enjoyed
perhaps the biggest day of the sea
son Sunday. How many were in
bathing at any time during the day
is of course impossible to tell. Con
servative ones placed the nuipber at
300, but some insisted that it should
be 500.
53 Cars Counted
DO YOU USE HERALD
WANT ADS I
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O. A. C. Regents
Here Tuesday
Herald want ads serve two ❖
❖ purposes, to help you get some- ♦
❖ thing that you want and to help « COLLEGE HEADS INSPECT THE
••• you get rid of some things you -5-
EXPERIMENT STATION
❖ don't want. You put one in
❖ yourself (some times and you «
❖ read them all the time or should «
H. K. Dean Explains Work Being
•> Several Inquiries have come ♦
Done H ere; All Stations in State
•> in to us during the past week ❖
❖ which show that our want ads «
Have Been Visited
❖ are getting results for, those ❖
who use them. They are one -J-
❖ of the most interesting parts of <>
A committee of the board of re
■> the paper. Every week there ❖ gents of the Oregon Agricultural
•> are bargains offered which may <• college arrived in Hermiston on the
❖ be Just what you want. Every <• midnight train from the cast and
•> one who reads the want ads ❖ spent yesterday inspecting the exper
❖ makes that section more valu- ♦ iment station here.
❖ able to the community. It is a ♦
Four Regents Come
'•* sort of miniature stock market ❖
The party included J. K. Weather
•> and all who use it add to its
ford of Albany1, president of the
’> community value.
<- board, Jefferson Myers. Portland, C.
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When you want something ❖ b. Hawley, Portland, state dairy
••• you can’t find offered use a •> and food commissioner, Walter
•> want ad. When you wart to dis- ♦ Pierce, La Grande, regents and
pose of something bj sale or ❖ lames T. Jardine, director of the. ex
» trade use a want ad. When « perimental stations and C. J. McIu
you want work or help try a <• tosh of the College department of in-
> want ad. In what other way ❖ lustrial journalism.
can you tell every oody In thé «
Most of the forenoon was spent at
community your wants with 4> the Hermiston experimental station.
so little trouble or expense? <• 'I. K. Dean, superintendent conduct-
Herald want ads cost 10 « d the party over the farm and ex
> cents a line for first insertion ❖ plained the work. Fred Bennion
and 5 cents after that. Use <• Umatilla county agent and the editor
them.
.j.
of The Herald accompanied the party.
Fifty-three cars were counted at
the beach at one time and this is not
nearly all that were there for they
were com lag and going all day. Peo
ple again came from miles In all di
rections. It looked like most every
body from Hermiston was there and
there were many from Stanfield.
Echo and Pendleton. Some camet
from up in the state of Washington.
The beach is now equipped with
dressing rooms for both men and
women. A big scow, the usd of
which has been donated by the Uma
tilla Dock and Transfer company has
been moored with cables and is used
to dive from. The scow was brought
from the dock warehouse a mile up
the river. It took about 50 men two
days to bring it down. It is equipp^l
with two good spring boardB and has
a trapeze.
PROFIT IMPOSSIBLE
Dean Explains Work
Portlanders Praise Beach
The bank is covered with small
trees and there are tables among
them for picnic parties. Visitors
from Portland say the beach has as
many swimmers as many of the ocean
resort can boadt. Its fame seems
to extend every week and each week
brings a bigger crowd to swim.
Two new life belts for the beach
have just arrived. They were bought
from the proceeds of popular sub
scriptions.
TREE PLANTING CONTEST
TO CLOSE NEXT WEDNESDAY
Six Prizes W ill Be Awarded for
Home Improvement; See Scroggs
Fraser or Captains
Those intending to enter the tree
planting contest should bear in mind
that entries must be in by August
10. which comes next week.
Announcement of the prizes was
made early in the spring. They will
be awarded by the commercial club
There will be six prizes in all. three
for the town and three for the coun
try. They will be awarded to the
people who have done the most to
beautify their premises.
Entries should be made at once
Sec M. D. Scroggs at the project of
fice or Tom Fraser at the Oregon
hardware. If it is inconvenient to
get in touuch with either of these
men see your captain.
The paper next week will have ad
ditional details of the entries and
prizes, but get your entry in Im-
mediately.
EMPLOYMENT OFFICE TO BE
ESTABLISHED AT PENDLETON
G. A. Hurley of the Pioneer Em
ployment company of Portland was
In town Saturday looking over the
country. The pioneer expects to ex
tend its work into eastern Oregon
by putting in one branch office in
Pendleton and another In The Dalles
Mr. Hurley is a former newspaper
man and edited a paper at Bend sev
eral years ago.
Umatilla News Items
Smith-Powell
Two of Umatilla’s most popula
young people were united in marrl
age when Milton H. Smith and Edith
Powell were married at the home of
the bride’s parents, Mr. and ’Mrs
John Powell at 11 a. m. Wednesday
August 3. Reverend F. E. Faucett
of Stanfield conducted the ceremony
Only the immediate members of the
two families were present.
Edith Powell has lived here for
nearly 10 years and is well known
to everyone in the community. She
attended high Bchool here and form
erly worked in the O. W. R. & N. of
fice. It was while there that the
two became acquainted. Milton H
Smith came hero a few years ago
from California and filed on a home
stead near Umatilla. He proved up
last week. He is now employed by
the railroad. Mr. Smith was in the
United States army two years and
served with the artillery overseas.
His father and mother, Mr. and Mrs.
Eugene Smith live on the project.
The bride and groom plan to go to
Portland and then to Wallowa lake
after which they will make their
home here. The entire community
wish them all the good fortune life
lias to offer.
Production Costs Given
has. Conners of The Dalles Visits
Just compare the following fig
Hermiston Saturday; Heppner
ires with your personal cost of hay
Line May Come Here
poduction. These figures are ’not
bsolutely accurate but in a rough
A new auto stage from Pendleton
way set out fairly correctly the aver
s e actual cost of putting a ton of o Portland may be put in some time
bay on the car. figuring an average his month, according to Chas. Con-
zleld of 4 tons per acre which Is icre of The Dalles who was in llcr-
liston last Saturday.
urcly high.
Mr. Conners is at present manager
band investment. »200 per acre,
f
the C. & M. unto stage from Th<-
’Merest 6 per cent. »12; Cost per ton
lalles to Portland and from Hood
53.00
liver to Portland. Mr. Conners
Taxes per acre »2.00; Cost per tates that his empany uses Packard
•on 50c; Water charge per acre »5.- win six cars and if the Pendleton
b0. cost per ton »1.26; Watering
3ne is put in it will use this type of
'and seven times per acre »3.00, cost are, figuring on as fast a service
ler ton 75c; Spring toothing land 3 .8 the speed law will allow. They
'imes per acre »1.60, eoat per ton xpect to carry no baggage bigger
10e; Cutting, raking and stacking 3 han suit cases.
cuttings per acre »10.00, cost per
Mr. Conner has in mind two feed-
on »2.50; Baling charge cost per ng lines, one from Arlington to Con
ton »3.00; Average hauling charge lon and the other from Heppner.
-ost per ton »1.50; Total actual cost The line would probably join the
ver ton »12.90.
main line at Hermiston and Mr.
If you can produce It cheaper let 'onners said he would try to get a
is hear about It.
lermlston man to operate It. The
dans are not yet a certainty, but
Cost Too High
The Oregon Hay Growers are not hould develope one way or the
rledged to get coat of production foi ther within the next few weeks.
’he hay of members but, it would cer-
ainly be doing very poor busines.*
not to give thia point consideration
best year the hay market was
raced with a large crop, and a gen
eral cry for liquidation. The farm-
srs received a price of about »13.50
per ton last year for hay that coat
not less than »16.00.
How long can the farmers or bus
B racing Party Enjoyed
iness men of the hay producing sec
Eight couples enjoyed a dancing tions stand this price?
party which waa given at the Hermis
No Market Yet
ton hotel Tuesday evening, in honor
of Janice Brigham who left for Port
There Is yet no legitimate market
land yesterday forenoon.
for hay. bocal production la still
Those present were Mr. and Mm. caring for immediate demands of the
Frank Ralph, the Misses Janice Brig Willamette Valley. It is not likely
ham. beta Thomas. Nele Morrison. that a real market will open before
Doris Percey, Myrtle Sllvey and Ber September 1st, yet the report for
tha McKeen. and the Messrs. Arthur August estimates a shortage of 5,-
Brtghani. Arthur Ralph, Harold Me- 000.000 for the U. 8. and In addition
Keen, Andrew Kern. Earl Boynton all western Canada is short of bay
and David Mlttelsdorf.
this year.
J. F. Corbett assistant superlntend-
nt of the O. W. R. & N. was In
own Monday. Rumors are abroad
bat Umatilla is to be placed under
he Walla Walla division headquart
ers, but how much there Is to them
emains to be seen.
Local railroad yards have been so
«locked and congested with cars the
last week that It has been necessary
o put on the fourth switch engine.
Ml men formerly layed off by the
ompany here have been put back
o work and four new men have been
aken on.
A gang is here to make some rc-
«airs on the high tank and to put In
lew platforms around the depot.
Mr. and Mrs. Mock have been on
trip which has taken them to
-tpokane. Seattle and Portland. Mr.
Mock returned Sunday evening, but
Mrs. Mock remained In Portland.
Melons are now ripe and on the
market here. Cantaloupes will be
ipe by next week.
Fruit Express Pliint Opens
BEE KEEPERS ASSOCIATION
O. L. Edwards, agent for the Paclf
FIXES WHITE HONEY PRICE Ic Fruit Express has opened the lo
Party Friday Evening
cal plant of that company which has
been idle. Employment will be giv
en to four or five men. The plant
puts ice in the refrigerator care In
the summer and puts stoves In the
fruit ears in the. winter. Mr. and
Mrs. Edwards have Just returned
from California. They expect to
make this their permanent home.
Hazel Sutherland entertained IF
friends at a party Friday evening in
the dining room of the City Bakery.
The evening waa spent in dancing
nd playing cards. Refreshments
were served. All report having a
good time.
Mrs. Jean Talbert returned the lat
ter part of last week from Portland
where she has been staying about
three weeks. Mr. Talbert made a
trip to Portland and came back with
her.
The Umatilla County Bee Keepers
uwociation met again Saturday
evening and considered honey prices.
For white honey in 60 pound cans
to dealers in any quanity the price
will be 10 cents a pound.
CATHOLIC CHURCH SERVICES
Hermiston 8:30 a. m
Umatilla 10:30.
store windows.
Mr. and
moved into
living out
Jones-Scott
E. C. Bunte, nephew of the well
known actor nt that name was In
town the first of thU week putting
in Chesterfield cigarette displays In
Adventist to
Hold Services
Mrs. Mark Grabell have
TENT ON GLADYS AVENUE
town. They have been
SCENE OF MEETING
in the vicinity of the
gravel pit.
IS
M. Jewett who came here about Services Are Every Evening Except
two years ago from Alaska is now
Monday and May Continue
completing his fine new home on the
For Several Weeks
hill about two miles east of town.
Robert Tipple has started work on
a new seven room bungalow.
Carl Ozana started work this week
on his new house three miles east of
Umatilla.
L. W. Compton, wife and party
expect to leave Friday for Wallowa
lake where they will enjoy a vaca
tion.
C. G. Dopkins, a real estate man
of Oregon City who is well known
here was In town this week.
The O. W. R. R. & N. paint outfit
has left for Arlington after painting
the town red.
Mrs. Frank Sharpatein of Walla
Walla is visiting her father J. B.
Switzler.
Dance Here Saturday
There will be a dance at Pound's
hall Saturday evening. It is being
put on by Chas. Powell and Tom
Jones.
Knight's orchestra of Stanfield
will furnish the music. Dancing
will begin at 9:00 p. m. An invita
tion has been extended to people of
lie nearby towns to come early and
swim till dark, then go to the dance.
Posters have been distributed in
Umatilla, Irrigon, Hermiston and
Stanfield. It is expected that a large
crowd will be out.
Mr. Dean explained what this sta
tion is trying to do and showed the
visitors some of the experiments he
*s making. They went all over the
farm. All were particularly impres-
ed with a small field of corn, whose
talks are more than 10 feet in
AT PRES heighth. Some of the ^stalks had
ENT VALUE SAYS HUNT
are which towered above the heads
f the tallest men in the party.
The regents were very favorably
7ost of Production is Greater Than mpressed with the work being done
>ere, but they feel that the future
What Farmer Gets; Ass’n to
if this project lies in dairying and
Tom Bristow, foreman of the O.
Consider Crop Costs
liversified farming rather than in W. R. & N. "B & B” outfit is here to
dherence to alfalfa as at present.
make some extensive improvements in
All Stations Seen
he railroad equipment.
The party is making an inspection
L. A. Hunt
About 30 cars of gravel are going
Many farmers are wondering why f all the stations in the state. They
•he association, which is primarily ave been at Moro, Talent. Burns, hrough here a day. It comes from
•n organization to market hay, to nd Union and are now on their way he Walker pit cast of here and I f
ce that the consummer feeds i.t and lome again. They came here from ’icing transfered to send to points
he grower gets his money is not a Grande and left yesterday afte - between Baker and La Grande where
it is being put on the tracks.
ushing a lot of »10 hay to market. loon from Stanfield.
first let us ask who can set out
Some of the 32,000 tons of coal
s a business proposition to produce PENDLETON-PORTLAND AUTO
bay at such a price?
STAGE LINE IS POSSIBILITY which were deposited here last sum
mer are being picked up now.
Alfalfa Price
Held Too Low
No. 47
Harry Rodenbough retrned from
Portland Tuesday morning.
Ralph Stanfield of Echo, Mark
Cleveland of Stanfield and F. B.
Swayze, E. J. Kingsley, Carl Voyen
and Earl Mitchell of Hermiston were
a few of the many out of town visit
ors Sunday.
Mr. Sanford of Stanfield was here
recently taking pictures for the coun
ty booklet.
Adventist camp meeting services
»re being held at a tent tabernacle
on Gladys avenue between fifth and
ixth streets. The meetings began
Sunday evening and will continue In- ■
definitely, perhaps for several weeks.
Three persons are conducting the
work, Elder G. F. Watson, H. L. Rudy
ind Mrs. Rudy. They came here
from Boardman where they have been
holding meetings. Mr. and Mrs.
Rudy live at College Place, Wash., a
suburban town near Walla Walla.
Mr. Watson's home is at Bozeman.
Mont.
College Place has one of the
strongest Adventist churches in the
northwest as there arc 1100 In the
congregation there.
One service a day is the rule here,
at 8 p. m. Mr. Watson and Mr. Rudy
alternate as speakers. Meetings are
held every day except Monday. Mr.
Watson leads In the singing, which
*an be heard any wh»re in the aat
end of town in the evenings. Mrs.
Rudy plays the piano.
Biblical prophecies are being em
phasized in the sermons here and an
attempt Is being made to show the
relation of the book of Daniel to pres
ent day happenings. The subject for
tonight (Thursday) Is, "Four Uni
versal Kingdoms of Daniel VII."
For Friday the topic is. “The Fifth
or God's Kingdom of Daniel VII.”,
The controversey between Umattl- BUTTER CREEK GIRL WEDS
la telephone users and the company
IN PENDLETON YESTERDAY
has not yet been settled. The de
mand for better service has been
general here and some have threaten- Miss Mary Madeline Nelson Becomes
Bride of Francis Smith of
d to take their phones out unless
St. Paul, Oregon
here is an Improvement. It Is
laimed that a great many more
East Oregonian
phones would go in here if a good
service were provided.
At half past ten thto morning at
St. Mary's church, Mists Mary Made-
F. M. Klgcr who has a dairy In lien Nelson of Butter Creek, became
Portland and a ranch near here is In he bride of Francis Claude Smith of
town this week.
't. Paul, Oregon. Preceding the
ceremony Miss Lillian McCully sung
Gust Frasolas spent Sunday after the "Ave Marie” and "I Ix>vc You
noon and evening in Hermiston.
Truly.” To the strains of the Lohen
grin wedding march, played by Miss
A. W. Perley, special representa tella Roden, the bridal party enter
tive of the general manager of the ed the church and were met at the
O. W. R. & N. was here Monday and alter by Father Casinlr Butler of
Tuesday. Mr. Perley is an old tim Hermiston, who said the nuptial
er in this country and drove a lo nass. The altar was beautiful dec-
comotive through here In 1884.
rated in roses and greens. Following
’he ceremony Miss Roden played
Joe Harvey of the East Oregonian Mendelsson’s wedding march.
and Claude Barr of the Pendleton
The bride, who Is the charming
commercial association were here 'laughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Nel-
last week getting material for the lon, wore a brown taffeta and old
icw county booklet.
gold lace gown with panne velvet
hat In henna shades to match her
J. W. Connell and family, form costume. She carried a boquet of
erly of The Dalles are now Umatilla mairgold, sweet peas and yellow
eat dent*.
nannies. Miss Blanche Moens, hoi
bridesmaid, was attractively gown
Mrs. Ted Dixon has Juat returned ed In gray canton crepe with blue
from a trip to Portland.
•mbroldery and wore a picture hat of
»lack lace. Miss Moens carried a
Gus Tonies and Lew Brownell boquet of deep red dahlias and scarlet
made a trip to Hermiston Monday.
iweet peas. The groom who Is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Smith wus
Mr. and Mrs. Cliff caldwell left attended by his brother, Carl Smith.
here Wednesday on a trip which will
Mrs. Smith graduated ,from St.
take them to Ottawa, Canada.
Mary's academy In Portland and wan
president of the class of 1919. I^uter
ihe attended the University of Ori
PAINTING “COMES TO LIFE”
IN PLAY HOUSE FILM son and is a member of Delta Della
Delta, a woman's fraternity. Mr.
One of the most Impressive scenes Smith is a former student of Colum
in "The Third Woman,” the Robert- bia University. Both young peope
«on-Cole Superior picture, which is have a wide circle of friends and
to be seen at the Play House next Mrs. Smith is very popular In Pendle
Saturday Is that in which the large ton.
picture on the wall of a wealthy
Following the ceremony Mr. and
man's library "comes to life.” The Mrs. Smith left for Yellowstone
man's son, Luke Halliday, has just Park where they will remain for
learned a vital secret regarding his several weeks. They will then go
own birth.
Io St. Paul, Oregon, and make their
Standing In his father's home In an |jnm« nn a farm which Is operated
exclusive section of in Eastern city. by Mr. Sml’h.
In the very midst of a great party
being given to announce his engage
Irrigon Man Visit*
ment to a society girl, the son wit
Hugh Grim the Irrigon wafer mel
nesses a strange transformation.
on man was In town Wednesday aft
An Indian figure which In looking ernoon. Mr. Grim brought a load
out over the desert In the picture of melons up this way. He expect
turns and beckons to him. The fire ed to have to go to Pendleton to sell
In the picture smokes, and the dress some of them but the demand was
of the Indian flaps In the wind. Then brtr.ker than he expected and he
of a sudden all Is »till, and It to only sold them In Stanftald and Echo.- Ir
a picture again.
rigon has a big melon crop thts year