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Umatilla School
to Open Sept. 5
HAROLD
BENJAMIN
BE
TO AGAIN
PRINCIPAL
Six Teachers W ill Be Required With
Only One Vacancy Unfilled; Sal
aries Are Increased
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y
Umatilla, Ore., August 18.—
The Umatilla public schools will
open the first Monday In September
with a force of six teachers, four in
the grades and two in the high
school.
Harold R. Benjamin will again be
principal, declining an attractive of
fer from Pendleton in order to stay
with the local schdol anther year.
The other high school teacher will
be Mirs Pirle, a University of Oregon
girl who conies here for the first
time.
The grade teachers will be as fol
lows; Marian Dunlop, first and sec
ond grades: Jessie Jenks, third and
fourth grades and Hilda Larsen,
lifth and sixth grades. Miss Cook
who was engaged to teach the seven
th and eighth grades has resigned
to enter another line of work and so
far the place has not been filled.
Umatilla has a standard four year
high school which is on a par with
the best. Graduates from here can
enter college or university in the
state without examination. W. A.
Ford, clerk of the district Informs
The Herald that in laboratory equip
ment the high school is probably
ahead of any school of similar size
in the state Nearly *3,000 has been
spent n equipment.
The high school room and the do
mestic science room are being cover
ed with battleship linoleum. The
full width of the inclines are being
covered with rubber matting to in
sure safety. Mr. Benjamin has
been at the University of Oregon
summer school and Is expected back
in about two weeks.
» All the old teachers are coming
back-at belter salaries than they
had last year. Umatilla pays bet
ter than most towns of its size and
thereby gets the best teachers avail
able. All grade teachers must be
normal graduates and the high school
teachers are university graduates.
UMATILLA "SLACKER” LIST
GIVEN OUT BY WAR DEP’T.
Readers Are Cautioned That List is
Not Necessarily Accurate;
Mistakes Often Made
The so called "slacker list,” for
Umatilla county arrived front the
ninth corps area headquarters at
San Francisco the first of this week
and is published herewith.
Names Are Given
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No. 49
HERxMISTON. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1921
VOL. XV
The list follows; order number,
name and address being given:
637 Stanley Burrows, Reith, Ore.
1763 Henry Cornelison, Pendleton,
Ore.
419 Wm. D. F. Dally,
William C. F. Dally, Adams,
Ore.
2359 Henry Davis. Pendleton, Ore.
1311 Robt. Fisher.
Robert,
Pendleton. Ore.
1376 Manuel Furtado, Pendleton,
Ore.
286 AI Grubb,
Helix, Ore.
589 Albert A. Gum.
Albert Alan Gum, Haldman,
Ore.
2947 Arthur Johnson, Pendleton,
Ore.
2222 Will R Jones.
W. Richard Jones,
Will Richard Jones. Reith, Ore.
171 l.ynn Van Landingham, Pen
dleton. Ore.. Canton. 111.
859 Sam Lim.
Pendleton, Ore.
910 John A. Neland.
John Annie Neland, Langdon,
No. Dak.
151 Carl John Nyquist. Graceville,
Minn. Umatilla. Oregon
841 Thorel Peterson,
Helix, Ore.
960 Willie M Reed.
Willie Mansfield Reed, Athena.
Ore.
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HERE’S GOOD NEWS FOR
THE HOOSIERS
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Wanted— all foimer residents ❖
❖ of the state of Indiana to leave <•
<• their names at the Sapper hard- <•
❖ ware store. The plan is to ❖
❖ have a Hoosier picnic and get- <■
❖ to-gether some time in Septem- ❖
❖ ber and the committee promot- ❖
❖ ing the affair wants to get the ♦
❖ names of all former Indiana 4
•> people so as to see how many to <•
❖ plan on.
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State picnics are annual fea- <•
•> tures in many Oregon towns, <•
<> the former Hoosiers. Badgers, ♦
•> Wolverines, Corn Crackers, Go- ♦
❖ phers. Buck Eyes, etc., making 4
> the affair a festivity every year. <•
■> It Is to be hoped that the Ho- <•
❖ osiers will be able to lead the <•
❖ way to something of this kind <9
❖ for easterners living around <f
❖ Hermiston.
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Indiana people should leave 4
•> their names at Sappers’ as 4
❖ soon as possible. The ladies 4-
❖ who are working on the picnic <■
4’ idea arc Mrs. James Winslow, 4
❖ Mrs. J. A. Peed and Mrs. W. L. 4
4> Blessing.
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HAY GROWERS MAKE FIGHT
FOR MORE EQUITABLE RATI
Fanners Cannot S ta id Present High
Charges is Contention; Hear
ing W ill be Held
The national farm bureau has ar
ranged for a hearing on hay and
grain tariffs to be held in Washing
ton this week on these two commod
ities east of the Rocky Mountains.
The Oregon Hay Growers, uniting
with Washington Hay Grow ers, and
interested dairymen in the Willamet
te Valley are arranging to present
the northwestern situation at this
hearing.
Better Rates Sought
Accordingly the first of the week
semi-formal briefs were prepared by
the Oregon state farm bureau and the
two hay growers organizations show
ing the urgent need of freight revi
sion, in connection with the hay
Industry. This will be submitted t(
the Interstate commerce commission
by Mr. Gray Silver, special repre
tentative of the national farm bureau
at this interesting hearing.
The real cause of the Oregon Hay
Growers will be st'tled In Portland
The following table graphically Il
lustrates the general butter, hay an<
freight situation, and while these
figures are not absolutely complete
ind correct they are sufficient to sel
forth the essential parts of th<
idea;
Price butterfat, prior 1917, 22 tr
26c; Average price hay. *17 per ton;
shipping price per 100 pounds .156:
Per ton farm to Portland *3.136.
Price butterfat Prior 1918, 50c
Average price hay *21 per ton
Shipping price per 100 poundR .196
Per ton farm to Portland *3.92.
Price butterfat Prior 1919, 77c
Average price hay *13 per ton
Shipping price per 100 pounds .245;
Per ton farm to Portland *4.90.
Price butterfat Prior 1920, Presen'
32c; Average price hay *10 per ton:
3hipplng price per 100 pounds .235;
Per ton farm to Portland *4.70.
Cannot Stand Rates
Hay prices are given for averag«
price for season crop of the year In
dicated. A little study
these fig
ures will show that while up to anr'
preceeding the taking over of thi
railroad by the government butter
fat maintained a price around 26 t<
30c during the strenous activities of
the war this increased until the prict
if 77c per pound was finally reached
During this time we had the sc
vere winter known as the woftit ii
the northwest in ten years, while wb
had an advance in freight rates ol
25 per cent the severe winter and th<
price of butterfat carried hay to *27
with an average price of *21, In th*
hay districts. During the present
-eason the price of butterfat. In spit«
of the fact that the United States It
now an importing country for dairy
products, slumped to as low as 25«
per pound.
In the face of this last August wi
had a 25 per cent Increase In frelgh
rates, with the result that cows an
being shifted off to the butcher a-
rapidly as possible, many herds turn
George Corse was fishing up In the ed out to pasture and not milked, anr
Ukiah vicinity this week.
hay selling the lowest on record any
time in ten years. To meet this»
Charles Webber spent the week-end conditions we have had only 4 pet
cent reduction of freight rates.
io Portland.
Boardman Found
Very Busy Place
Umatilla News Items
Mrs. W. P. Llewellyn has a little
garden back of the hotel In which
she has among other things a sun
COMMUNITY PROUD OF NEW
flower 12 feet high and a pepper
$50,000 SCHOOL
11 3-4 inches around. These are all
the more remarkable .because the
soil in which they were grown is not
New Buildings Are Being Erected; good.
Umatilla Monday and Tuesday on
business.
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Shaw returned
from Bandon at the end of last week.
Mrs. Shaw had been there more than
a month.
Dairy and Hog
to be Best Ever
PRESIDENT
TELLS
GEORGE
OF
H.
ROOT
PLANS
Big Days Are Oct. 7 and 8; Prixes
Miss Ruby Powell and Mrs. Frank
Are Up For Cattle, Horses,
Cheese Factory W ill Go in
Sunday was not as big a day at Gast returned Saturday from an auto
Hogs and Produce
W ithin Two Months
the beaches as usual.
Many were trip which took them to Walla Wal
there early, but In the afternoon an la.
electrical storm drove many to cover.
That the Hermiston Dairy and Hog
Last Saturday the editor of The There were many dry land bathers.
Mrs. S. E. Dingey and Mrs. J
Herald left the cares of the office be It is expected that the usual big Arenson have had a visit with a -how will be the biggest and best ev
hind and set out to sec Boardman, crowd will be back next time.
brother who came here from Tacoma er was the declaration of President
Geo. H. Root at the commercial club
Oregon’s newest town.
We rode down with Mr. Conner
Rudolf Scbachermeyer has a badly <unch Wednesday.
Mrs, A ina Sprague of Portland
vho is putting in the new Portland- has been visiting at the home of injured foot which was hurt whil«
$1100 in Premiums
Pendleton bus line. The old Pack- Mr. and Mrs. Harry Crammer. The he was working for the railroad.
The total cost of putting on the
ird ate up the road in great style and Grammers left with her for Seaside
ihow will be about *1500 of which
n considerably less than an hour Tuesday evening. They formerly
Clint Harvey bought the Umatilla U100 will go info premiums. Of
vere at our destination. The first lived there.
he premiums *250 will he spent for
laundry from Harry Mosby last Sal
ihing you notice on the way down
features that arc entertaining rather
urday. He took charge Monday.
8 that from Umatilla through Ir-
than Instructing. It is the opinion
S. A. Saylor who left here recently
igon to Boardman, most everybody on account of his health is at Oregon
"Dad” Harvey returned Monday if the board of directors that the
ilong the way has watermelons for City. He writes that he Is much im night from Pendleton. He has been people ought to have a little amuse
sale. This is the premier wa^er- proved. but will not be back for some away on a two weeks vacation.
ment mixed In with their serious
uelon country of Oregon.
pursuits and this year’s Dairy and
lime to come.
W. H. Swltzler returned from a Hog Show will not have a dull
School is a Wonder
Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Cramer and business trip to Pendleton and moment.
Upon entering Boardman horn this
The big days are October 7 and 8
ay every visitor pauses to admire J. W. Duncan drove up from Hood Walla Walla Saturday.
which come on Friday and Saturday.
lie fine new public school building River Sunday. Mr. Cramer, who lives
Arthur Hammond returned thr The premium list will be out early
vhich cost more than *50,000 and is at Hood River is here on his vacation.
first of the week from a two weeks in September so contsetanta will
irobably the finest school building
have plenty of time to get ready.
Herbert Lane is remodeling his vacation in Portland.
n the northwest in a place of Board-
Prize» will of course be awarded on
nan's size. It is a great monument house. A new room will be added,
N. N. Smith went to Walla Walla cattle and hogs and there will be
to the public spirit of the citizens there will be a screen porch and
ind shows how confident the peo some other inside work will be done. the first of the week. Mrs. Smith prizes for fruit, horses, farm pro
duce, and women’s handiwork. Boys’
1 b visiting there.
ple are in the future of their town.
and girls’ clubs will participate.
Boardman has several modern bus
Earnest Crocket, secretary of the
Mr. and Mrs. Duncan and Mr. and
iness places. We visited the High- Eastern Oregon Auto club was here
All Kinds of Races
vay inn, but Mr. O. II. Warner the Monday seeing about getting some Mrs. Cramer were in Hermiston Iasi
Among the amusements will be
Tuesday.
iroprietor was in Hermiston. There road signs put up.
horse races, foot races, greased pig
ire two general stores, the largest
and greased pole stunts and many
J. A. Berry and D. W. Jackson ar other old reliables thut always pro
>eing the Boardman Trading comp-
Miss Ruby Powell left Saturday
iny run by B. S. Kingsley. The evening for a visit with her sister rived here from Portland Saturday vide amusements at such gatherings.
ther store, the Columbia was in Ida in Portland. She will be gone evening.
There will be shows In the evening
the charge of Mrs. Claire Harter about Two weeks.
and probably a dance at least one
Saturday. There is a fine fireproof
Mrs. Frank James retnrned from evening.
arage, a lumber yard, a soft drink
her California trip Monday evening.
All parts of the show except pos-
Harry Crammer, Will Shepppard
•.nd pool room conducted by C.
dbly the horse races will be kept on
and
S.
E.
Dingey
have
each
bought
'.nively, among the other business
Mrs. George Butterwood returned the gnunds. A few sections of can
a bird dbg pup which they will train from Salt Lake Monday evening.
places.
vas will probably be borrowed to
The garage building contains of- for hunting.
house some of the exhibits. A small
ices for a bank which the people
Prospects are good for the fifth admission charge will be made as the
R.
&
N.
will
put
on
a
The O. W
tope will be established in the near
switch engine here.
llrectors feel that If the show Is
uture. A fine cement building is new freight crew between Umatilla
worth seeing at all and it certainly
will
Reith.
The
men
probably
leing erected on the main street by ind
W. A. Ford was a Hermiston visit will be it Is worth paying a small
VIr. Root the postmaster and there live here.
or Monday.
,um to see. Putting on a good show
re other buildings going up. It is
will cost money but It I h felt that It
eported that there will be another
J. D. Leonard and Ben F. Young
Lew Brownell was In Hermiston will be money well spent. The busi
>f the Leonard oil leases were In Monduy.
garage soon.
ness men of Hermiston will be ask
Stores Are Visited
ed to donate *250.
After a talk with Mrs. Ilarter the B. Signs, principal of the Boardman C0LUMBIA CHILDREN HIVE
Fred Bennlon, county ngent was
vriter dropped into the Boardman chools. Mr. Signs took us all
SWARM OF BEES TUESDAY present at the lunch and spoke after
'rading company’s store to see what hrough the school building and It Is
Mr. Root had finished. He congrat
vas doing there. Jack Gorham wai 'ust as good on the inside as it is on
No One at Home When Bees Settle ulated the board and the town on the
n charge but it was some time before 'he outside, and that's going some.
vay it was going nliead and said that
So Aloha Hammer and Bobbie
.c saw him for he was very busy. A. They have manual training and do
’his was a time when we needed par
Knapton Get Them
V. Cobb, Sam Boardman and Claude mestic science rooms and class rooms,
ticularly to emphasize dairy and hog
Vhlte were waiting and we had not only for present work but to
B. Hummer was away from home production. He Is helping the di-
uitc a talk with them.
illow for the growth of the town Tuesday when a swarm of bees set
ectors of the show in shaping th)
It developed that Boardman feeb
School W ell Equipped
tied on a tree in the orchard. HI" plans and holds the position of as
bout the same way Hermiston doe;
The building was planned on the daughter Aloha could find no helf
bout the need of diversified farming unit basis so new wings can he ad- except a small neighbor boy, Bobbi« sistant secretary of the board.
The directors of the show are: Geo.
■lit with this apparent difference led whenever necessary. There is Knapton. They had never had ex
H.
Root, president; C. M. Jackson,
hat Boardman expects to do ¡ » n i c in engine room In the basement and pericnce with bees but decided the
ecretary; J. W. Campbell, H. T.
hing about It right away. We wert i splendid auditorium on the upper only way to save the bees was to gel
■'’raser and George Btrohm. They
old that Nick Faler will start a Ioor at which moving pictures are busy and hive them.
have held one meeting and will hold
hecse factory within from one to riven. The only thing we could
They did their work very success
wo months. lie lives just out ol 'hlnk of that was missing was a fully with the aid of a hand saw tr another sometime next week, at
own and says he will start just as ymnastum and that we were told cut the limb from the tree. They which time the premium list pro
oon as he can get ready. The idea was not necessary since the climate laid the limb across Ibe bee hive and bably will be drawn up
s to start small and build up as permitted outdoor play practically raked the bees in with their hands
HARRY MOSBY’S FINE HOME
ast as the farmers will get the cows. the year round.
No one was stung and the work
IN UMATILLA IS DESTROYED
The high school teachers for the was pronounced well done.
Why Not Make Cheese?
As one local man said, 'Why oming year arc as follows: M. B
Fire Starts About 9 Monday : N eigh
hould we ship hay to Tillamook and Signs, principal; H. H. Crawford, PAT MOONEY’S INTEREST IN
hen ship I he cheese back. Why not annual training; Miss Naomi Run-
bors all Helped But Furni
CITY MEAT MARKET SOLD
lake it here.’’ and that is Just whal icr and Gladys Price. Miss Runner
ture is Not Saved
hey intend to do. The new factory 'aught there last year while Miss C. M. Henderson of Vermont to Lo
vill specialize in Swiss cheese. Mr. ’'rice has just graduated from O. A.
cate in H erm iston; Motored
Umatilla, Ore., Aug 18. A very
"aler Is an ev „.Genced cheese maker C.
Here From the East
disastrous
fire occured here Monday
nd the cor munlty should help him
School« Open in September
'Horning when the fine borne of Har
In the grades Guy L. Lee handles
put It over.
C. M. Henderson bought the In
The writer found a very friendly he seventh and eighth grades and terest of Pai Mooney in the City ry Mosby in the south east part of
pirit existing toward Hermiston supervises the ninth, Miss Myrtle •Meat Market Tuesday and will tak' town was burned to the ground.
Just how the blaze started Is not
he Boardman people feel that the McNeil leaches the fifth and sixth Mr. Mooney’s place as partner of
nterest of the alfalfa county are trades. Miss Crescentia Glatt, third Louis Slkey in the local meat busi known, but waa perhaps due to bad
wiring. No one was In the house
dentlcal and they feel that the inter- tnd fourth and Mra. Blanch Watkins, ness.
when It started to burn. Mrs. Mos
st of Heppner and most of Morrow first and second. School starts the
Mr. Henderson Is an easterner,
by had Just gone down town. It was
ounty are different and to a large 'Irst Monday in September.
coming here from Burlington, Ver
discovered at nine and everyone win
extent opposed to their own. As
mont. It is not his first experlcnc«
could gave assistance. The fire d e
everal said. “The stockmen are in- HAY ASSOCIATION WANTS
in the west however as he was In
partment got water on the fire, but
nterested in cheap hay and we want
GROWERS TO SEND EXHIBITS Tacoma ten years ago.
It was too late to do any good and
dear hay.”
Mr. and Mrs. Henderson have
The Oregon Cooperative Hay Grow motored across the country with an the house was a total loss.
Mr. Hunt Complimented
The Mosby home was one of the
People will look toward Hermiston ers will do everything possible to Idea of locating at some place which
very
best houses In Umatilla The
anslst
their
members
in
making
dis
-specially now that this town is the
looked good to them. They found It
headquarters of the hay association plays ¡q the northwestern hay and In Hermiston. They hive been here value of the house was estimated
very conservatlcely at *4.000 and
Many compliments for L. A. Hunt gialn sh )* at Pendleton.
about ten days.
was probably worth more than this.
At this show the first prize for a
ho was formerly county agent of
Hr. and Mrs. Mooney have not yet
Morrow county were heard and The hale of hay Is equal to the present decided where to locate. Both have The furniture was of course burned
lerald was asked to print everything value of four tons, the seeond prlxe made many friends during their stay also and It was without Insurance.
The house was partly covered by
Mr. Hunt wanted us to about the hay to three tons, and the third to two here, who will wish that they locate
isociatlon, a thing we shall certain tons, besides numerous other valu somewhere in this part of the coun Insurance but there will be a heavy
loss. The Mosby’s have as yet made
able prizes.
ly do.
try.
no plans for rebuilding. The house
If any bay grower has first class
About the time we should have cat
’ll but didn't for lack of tin»« we hay that he wants to exhibit for aist him and furnish him with details had only been built about eight
1 months.
,
vere piloted up to the home of M these prises the aesoclstiop will as- upon application.
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