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VOL. XV
Oil Well May
Go Down Soon
J. E. LEONARD HOPES TO HAVE
MONEY BY SEPT. 30
Driller to be Here About Sept,
to Select Site; More Than H alf
of Money Subscribed
J. E. Leonard hopes to complete
the selling of oil lease shares by
September 30, but the people have
got to come through better than they
have been doing or he cannot do this
he says.
He Is trying to sell 300 shares. A
little more than half this number
have been sold. Business slumped a
little during the harvest period, but
he has the promise of many who say
they will Invest when harvest is
over. He will push sales harder next
month.
Driller Here Soon
No. 50
HERMISTON. UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON. THURSDAY. AUGUST 25. 1921
* DAIRYING WILL BE TAKEN *
UP TUESDAY
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Everybody
interested
In
❖ dairying and this should mean
❖ everybody interested in the
❖ future of this country, should
❖ be out to the commercial club
❖ lunch at the Oregon hotel next
❖ Tuesday. This subject will be
❖ made a special order of business
❖ and a big representation of both
❖ town and country people is
❖ wanted.
& Farmers are especially want-
❖ ed to attend, whether they are
❖ members of the club or not. •>
❖ The need of dairying will be <•
❖ considered and also the means ❖
❖ of financing it at the (Start. ❖
❖ Possibilities of a cheese fact- <•
❖ ory and creamery here will be ❖
<• considered. A number of farm- <•
•> ers want to buy cows and It Is ❖
•> felt that this is Just the time ❖
❖ to get started for there is an ❖
•> abundance ot cheap feed here <•
❖ and dairy cattle can be bought <•
❖ at a low figure.
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•> So be sure to be out next ❖
❖ Tuesday at 12:30.
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The driller Is to be here about
September 1. At that time the drill­
ing site will be selected and the cas­
ing ordered, but they do not intend
to start putting the hole down until
all the money is subscribed so they
can be sure of going ahead without
any interruptions.
Mr. Archibald, an oil man 31 years DAVIS SAYS WORK HERE WILL
experience, looked the field over a
BE CONTINUED
few weeks ago and said this country
looked more like an oil country than
any he had ever seen before drilling
commenced. Mr. Archibald,* who is Secretary Fall is Now in Oregon
now' in Casper, Wyoming, is known
But Probably W ill Not Come
to some of the old timers in Pendle­
to Umatilla Project
ton, who Mr. Leonard says, will
vouch for his integrity. N. D. Swear­
ingen of the Pendleton hotel has
Just how this project will fare at
known him 30 years.
the hands of the government contin­
Hope to Drill in October
ues to be a matter of uncertainty
The prospects for beginning to despite the presence of the two big­
drill very early in October are good, gest men in the work, Secretary of
Mr. Leonard says, but it all depends the Interior Albert B. Fall and A. P.
on getting the money subscribed. Nt Davis of the reclamation service in
effort has been made to convince peo­ the west at this time.
ple that the oil leases are a "sure
Indications are that Secretary Fall
thing,” but people who can afford to will not visit the Umatilla project,
do so have been asked to subscribe though plans may be changed. He
the money to put down a hole and has been at Klamath and is expected
find out if there is oil In the ground to go back by way of Ranier park
here.
While in Portland he will be Inter­
viewed on the Umatilla rapids de­
C. M. Henderson has bought the velopment by Whitney L. Bosie and
George Mathay residence property In an effort will be made to enlist hi)
the west part of town. Mr. Hender­ support for the movement.
son bought Pat Mooney's Interest in
Davis Pessim istic
the city meat market. The Dodd
Arthur Powell Davis spoke in a
agency handled the deal.
rather pessimistic way of the future
of reclamation In Portland yesterday.
GIRL'S CLUB WILL COMPETE
He said the country would have to
AT PENDLETON FOR PRIZES wait until returned prosperity made
more money available. He said
Winners of Contest W ill Get Trips however that work would be continu­
ed on the Klamath and Umatilla
to State Fair; Teams and
projects, which probably means that
Individuals to Enter
this section Is to be favored over
some of the others when It comes to
During the Grain and Hay show divide the money. It seems to be
at Pendleton, the final contests in the policy of the government to go
the girl’s club work will take place. ahead with the established projects
While there will be a demonstra­ rather than to go ahead with new
tion given at the grain and hay show ones at this time.
tent the contest will take place at the
“One of the best things that pos­
high school on Thursday morning, sibly could be done for the west
September 22 at 9 o'clock. The would be the chartering of a special
judges of the bread baking will be train and bringing congress out here
Mrs. E. O. Matherson, and the judges to see for itself the needs of the
for the canning is Mrs. I. M. Schan- country so far as irrigation is con­
nepp.
cerned,'’ said Mr. Davis. "Thanks
This is the basis of awards: 50 to the representative from the north­
points on the exhibit of two jars of west we are able to obtain some
fruit and two Jars of vegetables; 50 things for the west.
points on the report of the work
Work Here to Go On
done. The local contest must be held
“To speak truthfully, the present
befre the county contest and a team status of the treasury department
chore® to otn p cte :at Pendleton. is not one that will justify Immedi­
The prize for the team having the ate work on proposed projects in
best score Is a trip to the state fair Oregon. The servlee Itself 1 b badly
at Salem.
embarrassed as regards finances and
For the cooking contest the basit we are In much the name position
of awards will be 50 points on the that many business men now find
exhibit of a loaf of bread and 60 themselves in.”
a
points on the report of the amount of
Work will be continued on the
work due. The prize is a trip to Umatilla and Klamatn projects, ac­
I be state fair for the team.
cording to Mr. Davis, bat there Isex-
There will be also a prize for the treme doubt whether work will ba
best individual member of the boys done any further than investigation
and girls club and that will be a trip on the Powder river, Deschutes and
to the state fair. The individual Owyhee projects.
prise for the best loaf of bread
baked by a Umatilla county girl be­
Methodist Episcopal Church
tween the ages of 9 and IS, whether
Next Sunday morning. August 28.
a member of a cookery club or not. will be our last service before our
will be for the first prize 110; for annual conference.
Everyone ia
the second prize. $7.50; tor the third cordially Invited to be present.
prize. $5; and for the fourth. $2.50.
Subject for morning service will
The home demonstration agent is be. "Mysticism.”
in charge of the contest.
R. S. Policy is
Yet Uncertain
Hay Price to
Rise, is Hope
Umatilla News Items
Milton H. Smith, who saw service
with the 166th field artillery brigade
In France, took up a homestead near
PRODUCT CAN BE SOLD IN EAST
Umatilla, Or., after his discharge and
FOR $30
returned to civil life. Two weeks ago
he proved up on that claim and de­
cided he had led the single life long
Freight Less Than $17, So Price of enough. He took Miss Edith Powell
of Umatilla by the hand and visited
$13 to $15 Here is Present
the courthouse, and then called on
Indication
the preacher. The couple will reside
in Umatilla, where Smith Is employed
by the railroad.— Portland Oregon­
Prospects for a better hay market ian.
may be seen in a telegram received
at the hay office here from J. N.
Harold Benjamin, principal of the
Price, selling agent for the associa Umatilla schools, returned here Mon­
tion. The text of the telegram fol day to take up his work for another
low:,:
year. Mrs. Benjamin is at Jennings
“Sold sample car shipment to Lodge near Oregon City, and will
Scholl Co., Seattle, basis under state come here a little later. Mr. Ben­
weights and grades big order in jamin has bought a lot from J. B.
sight if shipment satisfactory quot­ Switzler and plans to build a house
ing number one thirty dollars and this fall.
choice thirty-two at Atlantic coast
points. J. N. Price.”
The teachers are having some dif­
It will be seen that hay may be
sold in the east for from $30 to $32 ficulty about finding boarding places.
per ton. This of course means that Most of them were to stay at the
Harry Mosby home, but now that
the grower must stand the freighl
it
has been burned it is not known
(here. Fre'ght per ton to the Al-
antic coast from Portland via the where they will find places.
Panama cunal is about $12 per ton.
Mr. and Mrs. Milton H. Smith,
Freight fiom here to Portland is
$4.70 at present. This means a whose marriage was an event of a
freight charge of a little less than few weeks ago returned to Umatilla
$17 from here to the eastern coast and are living In the new home on
If the price there were $30 the price Mr. Smith’s farm near here.
here would be a little better than
O. Stangeby left last Saturday for
$13. If the hay command top prices
there it would realize about $15 here. Seattle in his car. He will bring his
It will be seen that indications are family back here, They are expect-
good for something at least a little ed about Sunday. Kenneth Merrick
better in the way of hay prices. High went with him to Seattle.
freight rates will be the hardest dif­
ficulty to overcome.
Mrs. Earl Brownell and her broth­
er Frank IvcrBon were expected to
return home this morning. Mrs.
Brownell has been at Beaver, Califor­
nia.
COLUMBIA NEWS NOTES
8PB C 1A L C O BRESFO ND BNC B
Miss Lela Addleman who Is here
visiting at the home of her parents
met with a rather serious accident"
the first part of the week when the
horse she was riding stumbled and
fell throwing her to the ground and
breaking her collar bone. Dr. 111»-
ley was called and set the fractured
member and Miss Addleman is rest­
ing quite comfortabbly since.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Challis return-
id this week from a fishing trip of
a week in the mountains.
Mrs. W. E. Robertson of Eddyville,
Iowa, sister of Frank Waugaman,
visited here at the home of her
brother and after spending a few
days they left by auto for Seattle
and Bellingham, Washington where
they are visiting other
relatives.
They are expected home in a few
days.
Sixteen ladies, members of the
Neighborhood club had a lawn meet­
ing at the home of Mrs. Geo. Beddow
Wednesday afternoon. A contest
arranged by the executive committee
proved very entertaining.
Mrs.
Henry Ott and Mrs. Henry Sommerer
winning high honors. Miss Laura
Carson gave a few readings that
were greatly enjoyed. Mrs. J. II.
DeMoss and Miss Minnie Thompson
were elected new members. Re­
freshments were served at the close.
The next meeting will be at the
home of Mrs. N. W. Bloom and each
member is requested to take a trim­
med hat from which there will be
some amusement provided from the
millinery collection. The date will
be September 14.
Mlsa Laura Carson, sister of Mrs.
Henry Sommerer will leave next
week for Cataldo, Idaho where she
is engaged to teach school this year.
Fred Stevens and family left last
$|r. and Mrs. F. X. Keller left
E. P. Doddd and J. F. McNaught night for Los Angekn where they
last week for their home in Jonee-
plan to make their borne
motored to Pendleton today.
Charles Dexter and daughter Lulu
are here from Seattle visiting his
mother Mrs. Mary Dexter and two
brothers Eugene and Henry Dexter. “SEPTEMBER 10 IS
THE
DAY”
APPEARS ON CAR
D. C. Brownell, Carl Brownell and
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gast made a
motor trip up throgh the Biftter Several Big Speakers Are Coming;
Creek country Sunday.
Need
Last Sunday was another big day
at the Umatilla beach. There were
about 70 cars and too many swim­
mers to count.
Miss Edith Pirie who will teach
in the high school here was graduat­
ed from the University of Oregon
this year.
There is still one vacancy on the
school teaching force on account of
Miss Cook’s resignation.
Agnes Kendler gave a party Sun
day. Ten girs were present. /
good time is reported.
Mrs. Frank James had the mis­
fortune to break her glasses Saturday
and could hardly see.
Geraldine Gast returned home
Sunday. She had been In Tacoma
about two months.
Earl Cherry was expected back
from southern Oregon on the night
train Wednesday.
Mrs. J. H. Cherry returned last
Thursday fiom her visit at Platte­
ville,Colorado .
Mrs. Blakely’s sister who has been
visiting her left Monday night for
Canada.
Frank Gast and Harold Benjamin
were Irrigon visitors Tuesday.
of
Dairying
W ill
Be
Special Feature
A rather mysterious sign has ap­
peared on the rear of one of those
small automobiles. It reads, “Sep­
tember 10 is the day.” Of course
it is Field Day at the experiment
station, the big annual get-together
of all the organizations and activit­
ies of the project met during the
week and completed plans for an
event to exceed that of last year
which was attended by a thousand
people.
The Speaking Program
The speakers will be Hon. Walter
M. Pierce of La Grande, P. M.
Brandt, chief in dairy husbandry of
the Oregon experiment station and
C. L. Hawley, Oregon dairy commis­
sioner. Mr. Brandt’s subject is,
"Dairying advantages of the Umatll-
•a project.” Mr. Brandt has visited
the project a number of times and Is
thoroughly conversant with local
conditions.
Mr. Hawley, as dairy commission­
er, Is in exceptionally close touch
with the dairy situation and his suh-
iect will cover his analysis of it. Mr.
Pierce Is known throughout the
)tate as a genial and versatile speak­
er who always entertains.
Boys Stock Judging
During the morning 75 boys of
(he county who are members of the
boys stock club will compete for tho
county toam to go to the state fair
at 8alem. Their tryout will lie
lodging sheep, hogs and dairy cows.
Barrie Parks and Harry Kays
Mrs. Carl Brownell and baby left
Sports
spent Sunday over on the Washing­ for Portland Tuesday.
The sub-committee to handle the
ton side of the Columbia and found
entertainment of the children and
14 arrowheads, some of them fine
Mrs. Earl Shaw an& children have the competitive sports is a live one.
specimens.
returned home.
They plan games and races which
will probably tempt the older per­
borough, Arkansas after having vis­ weavll and the heavy crop In Klam­ sons as well as the children.
ited relatives here and spending some ath county has made prices In thes<
time at different places in Californ­ sections very attractive to feeders
BAPTISTS ARE ENTERTAINED
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and will undoubtedly reduce th<
AT CALLAHAN'S WEDNESDAY
amount of feeding done in the Butter
Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock at Creek, Stanfield districts. This with
Columbia school house there will be the present Willamette valley haj Games and Guessing Contest Follow
a discussion of the advisability of crop, creates a surplus that can onl}
Dinner; Decorations Prove
continuing Sunday school and church be relieved by shipment outside thi
Very Attractive
services by the Methodists. All in­ northwest.
terested are asked to be present.
The local market seems to be con
One of the pleasant social affairs
sidcrubly stablized by the quotation) if the week was the dinner party
by many local dealers of association Wednesday evening at the home of
HAY ASS’N WILL SHIP
PRODUCT TO EASTERN STATES prices.
Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Callahan when
Mr. and Mrs. Willard Felthouse
and family enjoyed a two weekil
outing at O'Dell and East Lake
fishing and enjoying the scenery In
that locality. While there they pick­
et and canned several quarts of
huckleberries.
Shortage on Eastern Seaboard to
Ed Beddow, George Bcddow and
,on returned yesterday from Meach­
am and the mountains near that
place where they camped for 10 days.
They brought home some blue
spruce trees which they are setting
out on their respective farms.
Field Day Plans
Make Progress
Make for Better Prices; Price
to Manage Sales
The trustees of the northwest hay
growers, asociatcd, met In the office
of the Oregon Cooperative Hay Grow­
ers at. Hermiston, August 17 to take
care of the hay-selling campaign for
the present season.
The development of a heavy short­
age of hay upon the eastern seaboard
makes it possible for northwestern
hay to be shipped to that market at
a very material advance over present
local prices. There Is felt to be a
urplus of liay in the northwest, al­
though this surplus Is by no means
considerable.
The association plans to ship hay
Io the eastern seaboard In the im­
mediate future. In making this
movement It is necessary to have a
largo supply of first class hay avail­
able. It must be held In a particular
manner and dellvererles must be
made in large quantities. These
factors are all combined under the
marketing plan of the northwestern
hay growers, associated.
The trustees decided to employ as
manager for this selling campaign J.
N. Price, who for the last year has
had charge of the Washington hay
growers. During last season they
marketed $300.000.00 worth of hay
with a loss of only $500.00. It Is
doubted If eny merchant can show a
belter sales sheet. Present quota­
tions on alfalfa are. choice hay $14.
and standard, $12. f. o. b. shipping
point.
Three thousand tons have already
been sold on this basis. A large
amount of this will go to British Co­
lumbia.
The quarantine on hay la Malhuer
county and in Idaho due to the alfalfa
Baptist Notices
R. V. Ashmun Minister. Sundat
school 10:00. Now is the time to
pep up In Sunday school attendance
A brunt, new class Btarted last Sun
day helps the looks ot things. II
you are not attending elsewhere wt
have a place for you. This class In­
cludes ages from 20 to 45. Do not
wait for an invitation. The clast
will elect a teacher Sunday and elect
officers. Get In on this election.
The Junior B. Y. P. U. began Iti
meetings In the basement during
the church hour. The ages are fron
6 years and Including the 7th grade
The senior B. Y. P. U. meets al
7 o’clock. The nominating commit­
tee will report and we are to elect
officers for the next term. Thr
members are urged to be present
Others are cordially Invited. Bring
a friend.
Prayermeeting Thursday evening
at 8 o’clock.
Morning services at 11 o’clock
Special music. Sermon theme, "Po­
licing the Jerlco Road.”
Evening services at 8 o’clock
Theme, "Casting the First Stone.’’
A Chrlstaln welcome Is extended
to all.
Exam« Next Week
A. C. Voelker asks that we an­
nounce that the state eighth grade
examinations for those who failed
In June will be held at the school
building Thursday and Friday of
next week. September 1 and 2. Mr.
Voelker will be here to conduct
them.
Catholic Services
Umatilla $:$•.
Hermiston 10:80,
’he members of the Baptist Ladles
Aid and their husbands were the
;uests. Thirty-six were present.
The large rooms were abloom with
flowers, and the dining tables very
attractive.
After dinner games and a guess­
ing contest were much enjoyed, the
,»rize winners being Mrs. W. A.
Correll, Chas. Skinner and Dr. Illsley.
Punch wns served dtiring the
evening, Mre. W. W. Illsley presiding
at the punch bowl.
The Odd Fellows have bought a
new piano for their lodge room.
> NO WATER CHARGES IF YOU ♦
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PROVE UP NOW
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Homesteaders and desert land •>
♦ entrymen on this project have ❖
> an opportunity to obtain patents ❖
♦ at this time without having to ❖
♦ pay the government any water •>
♦ right charges.
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•> Under the land office regula- ♦
♦ tlons all water right charges ♦
■> due at the time of submitting *
■> proof for patent must be paid.
♦ Many have hesitated to make ♦
♦ patent proof on this account.. •>
♦ However under the recent con-
♦ tract between the United States ♦
♦ and the Hermiston Irrigation ♦
♦ district there are no water right ♦
♦ ehargea due on any of this land ❖
♦ so that settlers may get title ■>
♦ without this expense.
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Since the homesteader and ❖
♦ desert land entryman Is now <-
♦ required Io pay taxes on his ♦
♦ land regardless of whether or •>
♦ not patent la Issued there Is no ♦
♦ longer any reason to put off ♦
♦ making proof for patent.
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