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Oregon’s great irrigated alfalfa fields, by the Herald Publishing Company.
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W e have received this week
BERNARD MA1NWARING, EDITOR
E n te r e d »« w o u n d c h u m m a t te r .
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Fruit Jars
are now In Reason, and we can supply your needs in Econom y
Kerr S elf S ealin g, w ide mouth and the ordinary Mason Jars.
And
we keep a special com plete stock of covers for the various makes
of Jars, Schram Golden S tate, Kerr, both wide mouth and regular
type. Economy and the old sty le MaBon.
to be able to g et these when w anted.
It 1 b a big advantage
We carry the Btock.
We have to arrive In a few days a
Car of Mill Feed including
Olympia Flour
T his rill Include, Shorts, M iddlings, Mtllrun, Bran, Rolled Barley
and W heat at very reasonable prices.
Based on car load delivery
If there is one th in g th is end of
the county is more Interested In than
any other It is the McKay Creek dam
to bo built w henever funds are avail­
able for the work.
There ure thousands of acres of
land w aitin g for w ater, w hich only
the big storage dam can furnish.
W hile the cry is, "back to the so il”
we have plenty o f money for alm ost
everyth in g else but the one th in g
th at w ill not be an expense but an
investm ent, the developm ent of our
arid lands.
On th is subject the Pendleton East
Oregonian printed an editorial last
Friday en titled , "Keep the H arness
W arm .” Many of our readers have
probably seen it, but for those who
did not we ir e quoting from It.
“There is belief in officia l circles
that by the first o f the year there
w ill be su fficien t money in the re­
clam ation fund to provide for going
ahead w ith purchase" o f the righ t of
w ay for the McKay reservoir. A. P.
Davis, director of the reclam ation
service, intim ated as much w hen he
was at H erm iston a few w eeks ago.
“ T his Is good new s and perhaps
there is nothing to do but w ait. But
the situ ation is such that the early
construction of th is project is o t ex­
treme Importance ns shown by sentí
menta expressed at Stan field and in
th at v icin ity. Therefore w h ile we
w ait It may be w ell to keep on tin
job w ith a view to seein g th at the
delay is not unduly prolonged. There
are other projects In the sam e cate­
gory as the McKay reservoir. W e may
safely assume that people Interested
in those projects w ill use influenci
to g et the earliest action possible. I:
they do that and we relax in the mat
ter of pressing our case we migh
lose out. Some tim es those who plead
the hardest get the first service.
“ L et's keep on the tra il.”
There Is an old sayin g th at tin
Lord helps those who help them
selves. Other section s of the county
have been helping them selves to lib­
eral portions of the governm ent Ir­
rigation funds for m any years and
old Oregon has been too often left
holding the sack. Nobody can expect
other sections to bo more Interested
in McKay creek than we are our­
selves.
Secretary F all Is now In the west
and w h ile It seem s nt this w ritin g
that he w ill not v isit the Um atilla
project it is to be hoped that he wi<!
see enough on other projects to con­
vince him of the v ita l need of de­
velopm ent In all w estern lands that
can be Irrigated.
W e do not know ju st w hat can b<
done now to speed the McKay creel
developm ent, but we must keep in ter­
ested in It. W e m ust kCep It before
the people of other localities and wi
must be prepared to fig h t for i'
when the tim e comes.
MISDIRECTED MAIL
here.
Gordon Hats and Caps
Fall Styles should arrive this week.
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" T h e Ural o f Good Service“
There is meat
—and meat.
Just the looks
of some meat is
enough to take
Our meats meet the approval of
O U R M EATS
MEE! f A VOR
away the appetite.
all buyers.
Our animals are properly slaughtered and from
the pen to the customer the meat is handled with a
view to keeping it perfectly clean and sanitary.
We specialize in the finest
Beef, Perk, Mutton, Fish and Cured Meats
fo r the best in meat, come to the house that sells
the best.
City M ea t M ark et
3IKCY A HENDERSON, Pre»..
Grand Rapids (M ich .) Herald
It seem s alm ost lnconceiveable, but
it Is reported as an official fact,
that 350,000 pieces o f m isdirected
mail are handled d ally at the New
York o ffice, w h ich includes Man­
hattan only. T his m eans th at 127,-
500,000
m isdirected
pieces
are
handled every year In th is one metro-
politian center. It requires no Im­
agin ation <to appreciate w h at this
m eans by way of ham pering and
slo w in g down th e P ostal Service.
Great arm ies of postal clerks, who
m ight oth erw ise be engaged in fa­
c ilita tin g the service, are th u s tied
down to the problem o f rectifyin g
the m istakes and supplying the om is­
sion s th at are chargeable to care­
less correspondents. We Americans
s o r t , o f take our Postal Service for
granted. We kick lik e steers when
one letter from the m illion s handled
d ally goes astray or Is delayed a few
hours: yet we are so n eglectfu l of
our ow n resp on sib ilities In th is con­
nection that we pile thousands of
pieces o f m isdirected m all Into the
post office and expect th at the post­
al m achinery can and m ust in some
w ay surm ount our negligcnc.
Some o f the more common m istakes
locally observed. In addressing mall
re noted as follow s: Addresses are
I w ritten hnstlly and Illegibly, often
jin lead pencil: pencil addresses be-
j conic obliterated in th e course of
h andling: A bbreviations In th e name
of firm s, post office, and sta tes are
con fu sin g and Invite trouble; for In­
stance. contem plate th e elm llarlty in
the abbreviations of Pa. for P en n ­
sylvania, I ju for L ouisiana, and la.
for Io « a ; also Col, for Colorado and
Cat. for C alifornia. U nless all the
letters In these abbreviations are
w ritten very p lain ly, th ere la danger
rection— NE.. SE.. NW ., gW ., on city
m a il;) and obsolete m ailing lists are
the bane of postal existence.
A ll th in gs considered. It is really
a w onder that the post office m akes
as few m istakes as ft does. W hen
one th in k s of the 5,000 m isdirected
pieces of mail in Grand Rapids daily
and 350,000 pieces in New York,
and when one m ultiplies an average
figure by the number of post offices
in the country, it is necessary to
confess th at the people do not do
their w hole part in the m atter of
postal efficien cy. It w e are going
to throw stones, we m ustn’t live In
glass houses. W e are all demand­
ing of the Post Office Department
that it “turn over a new leaf” under
its peppy new W ashington chief.
Let us “turn over a new leaf,” too.
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Homes, Churches, Schools, Gar­
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The superior building service ren­
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This makes it possible for you to step
into this office and inspect hundreds of
designs of modem homes and other
buildings before you build. AH the
guesswork has been eliminated because
the designs have actually been built and
many of them are hand colored photo­
graphs. A complete set of blue prints,
specifications and an accurate and com­
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with any design. All this is free to
customers. For your individual satis­
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tion.
0H, OH! SEE WHAT WE OWE!
W eston Leader
In terestin g tables com piled and
published by Oregon Vbter show that
'.h iity-slx Oregon cities have a per
:apita city debt of over >100 per
nan, woman and child of the popula­
tion. Of these, six have a debt of
>vcr >200, o t w hich three are over
>300. W arrenton heads the list w ith
i per capita debt of >734.25. T w en-
y-six Oregon c itie s have bonded
hem selvcs for more than 30 per cent
f their assessed valuation. Prine-
ille leads w ith 67 per cent, and little
Id Scio has 56 per cent, w h ile Cen
tral P oint com es to bat w ith 42
\th< na and W eston do not ow e so
much as a good m any of their neigh
>ons. A thena’s total debt is >87,500
>r >140 90 per capita. How ever
this debt is only 16.08 per cent of her
issessed valuation. W eston ow es
otal of >44,000, w hich is only >73.85
>er capita hilt is 19.73 per cen t of
'ier valuation. Adams m akes the
iost econom ical sh ow in g in U m atilla
ounty, w ith a total debt of only
’ 450. Herm istn ranks next w ith
’ 2500. P en d leton ’s d eb t Is >679,300
There are a lot of weeds grow ing
a vacant lots In Herm iston that
■light not to be. A little elbow
grease plus a scythe or sick le w ill Im
■rove the appearance o f m any va
■ant lots. There are even w eeds on
ualn street alon g the side w alks. It
<nly takes a little work to cut them
nd it w ill make a much better im
irersion on visitors not to have
hem. It w ill even make us feel
etter ourselves.
Inland Empire Lumber Company
P h o n e 331
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Don't forget about the home
b eau tifyin g contest, i t closes Sept
I and your entry should be in right
iw ay if you don’t w ant to be left
cut.
Most of the road maps we men
Uoqed last week are gone but we
till have a few . If you w ant one
,et It at The Herald office.
AMMUNITION
A FULL LINE
Are you practicing for the greas­
’d p ig even t at the D airy and Hog
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AN SCO K O D A K S
Films developed--
Enlargements made
Oregon Press
Comment
The fire in the Pioneer district
should prove an im pressive lesson as
Make our store your headquarters when in Pendleton
to the care that should be used w ith
fire th is dry w eather. Tho fire,
w hich probably started from a d is­
carded match or cigarette stub, in
less than three hours had spread over
P e n d le to n , O re g o n
T h e Leading D ru g g is t*
a m ile o f farm and wood land, cau s­
ing th e loss of one home and con­
siderable other property. T hat the
"Therefore, as governor of the
loss w as not greater is due to the for­ GET READY FOR 1925 IS
tunate nature of the land burned o v ­
0LC0TTS MESSAGE TO OREGON sta te of Oregon. I ask the people to
lay th eir cares aside for the h o u i and
er and the valian t work of the fin
figh ters.— Polk County Itemixcr.
Passage by Congress of Furtlard's join as one in bow ing th eir ac­
TALLMAN & CO.
Exposition
Rill
Insures
Suc­
T hat party at Hubbard who w ants
cess of Great Fair
» young man to teach school and
coach baseball, basketball and fo o t­
F ollow in g the announcem ent that
ball as w ell as bring 30 pupils nine
m iles to school and deliver them President H arding had signed P o l ­
safely home again every (evening, and's exposition bill Governor Ol­
doesn’t w ant m uch for a nlckle.— cott made public a proclaim ation in
which he tells the people of Oregon
Banks Herald.
to get ready to make th e big fair tho
W hen It comes to a show dow n. best ever. The text of liis announce­
Forest Grove has a host of men and ment follow s:
women th at are right on the job
'The sig n in g of the Joint resolu­
when it com es to p u ttin g over som e tion by President Harding that w as
valuable piece o f work for the com­ recently passed by C ongress, givin g
m unity and city .— Forest Grove N ew s the state of Oregon national reco g n i­
Times.
tion to hold a world s expoeition in
The Oregon E ditorial association 1925 should be the sign al for a sta te­
w ill m eet next year in Corvallis. wide dem onstration in recognition
The college tow n is a good conven­ of th e opportunity afforded to pre­
tion city and the editors there are sent th e resources, scen ic advantage«
not the on ly good people In that city, and the civilisation w est of the
R ockies to all the world.
by a ju g fu l.— Aurora Observer.
Oregon has occasion to rejoice to
President H arding says the task its fu llest for the opportunity to
ahead for th e U nited S tates is to stage the first great peace loving and
reform the w orld.Our tax system industrial expoeition sin ce th e close
Street addresses are m ight turn th e trick.— B lue Moun­ o f th e war. w herein the n ation s of
of mistake«.
* often omitted (also tb« dcglonal dl- tain Eagle.
the world win be our guests.
V.
know ledgem ents to th is w onderful
opportunity by p articip atin g wf>h
the great m etropolis of the sta te In
their varlovs com m unities in hold ­
ing a celebration in k eep in g w ith the
sign ifican ce of the occasion.
"W ednesday even in g, A ugust 17.
1921. at the hour of 7 :3 0 o ’clock is
the tim e set by the E xposition D irect­
orate for the state to proclaim in
unison that the spirit of progress
m ay continue to follow “W estw ard,
where the course of Em pire takes its
s a y .”
Cause of Appendicitis
W hen the bow els are constipated,
the low er bow els or large Intestine«
become packed w ith refuge m atter,
that is made up largely of germa.
These germs enter the vermiform ap­
pendix and set up inflam m ation,
w hich is comm only known as ap­
pendicitis.
Take
C ham berlain’s
T ablets when needed and keep your
bow els regular and you have little to
fear from appendicitis.