The Hermiston herald., December 22, 1921, Image 3

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COMMERCIAL CLUB
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MS. AND MSS. F. G. PALMER
FREE METHODIST PASTORS
Hero Next Week
SENIORS PLAY TO
LARGE AUDIENCE
CHRISTMAS GREETINGS
We wish to thank you for your friendship and
support during the past year. We wish you a Merry
Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
THE HERMISTON HERALD
Reverends Mr. and Mrs. F. G. “THE TIME OP HIS LIFE” IS
Palmer
of St. John, Wash, have been
PRESENTED
TUESDAY LUNCH HOUS
given charge of the Free Methodist
Mission in Hermiston, opposite Her­
miston
hotel. They are living In Crowd F ills High School Auditorium;
“We Are Accomplishing Things for
the Ted Hall house on Gladys Ave.
A cting is Good and Play
Hermiston,’’ Says E. P. Dodd,
between 6th and 7 th.
Jhey will conduct gospel services
Full of Pep
President
oach Sunday in the Mission hall as
follows: Sunday school 10:00 a. m.
By Alice R. Nugent
Preaching, 11:00 a. m. Preaching,
The big audience that crowded the
With the close of the year 1921
By K. P. Dodd
high school auditorium last Friday we should all take a few momentB to
7:30 p. m.
A Commercial club Is an establish­
Cottage prayer meetings will be evening surely had the time of its life reflect on the good tbat ba8 b<jpn
ed Institution In every progressive
held each Wednesday evening.
for the play was well acted and full done ,n our commun,ty> and the
community the country over, Just as
District Elder, F. E. Pond of Wal. of pep from beginning to end.
! tb,ng8 accOmplIshed by the city and
churches, schools and city boards are
la Walla. Wash, will be here over
“The Time of His Life,” was the j lbe various civic organizations,
necessary factors in well organized
the New Year to hold a quarterly name of the play too and It was ap-
society.
We, In our humble way, in our
Towns and cities are often judged meetln,g’ There J 111 be ’ r®ach’nf Propriate. The plot opened with an busy little city, feel that we do have
by
size and activity u,
of m
their
com- Thursday and J ? * ? " ,gh?,8' „„a a I embarrassing
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~ situation In the "Bob” much to be thankful for, as great
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the negro servant Uncle Tom at the 8,npe January j 1921
one without life and enthusiasm so
moment when stylish visitors are ex-
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is the town’s degree of progressive­ on Sunday.
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Numbers of houses, which should
All are cordially Invited to attend pected.
Tom carter alias Harold
ness measured. If there Is a strong,
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be a credit to cities many times our
these meetings.
Waterman, brother of the lady of the
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active club of progressive, public
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v was m Miss
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size have been built, ’ and several are
house
who
Doris
Swayze
spirited citizens anybody knows it Is
still
under
construction.
The names
volunteered to save the situation by
a town worth watching.
of the owners of the new houses
taking the negro’s part himself. His
Live Wire Necessary
services were reluctantly accepted follow and all of these are occupied:
You never know of a town that
! and he proceeded to make a comical Mrs. Gibson, Harold Benjamin, Frank
Cast, O. Stangeby, R. L. Tipple, H. II.
got anywhere without an organiza­
situation as soon as the guests ar­
Edwards (one finished and one un­
tion of live wires and you never
rived.
der construction), H. L. Duncan,
saw live wires In a dead town. They
Fred Hesser’s Part Tunny
Earnest Goodlin and Harry Mosby,
don’t stay there any longer than it
The guests were Mr. and Mrs. Pet- ¡whoge fJne concrete block hoU8e btta
takes to unshackls themselves from NEW ENTERPRISES OPEN DUR­
er Wycombe, Frederic Hesser and t been destroyed by fire.
the fogies of of pessimison and the
ING PAST YEAR
Miss Aloha Hammer and Dorothy
muck of selfishness. Commerlcal
New property owners who have
Landon
whose part was taken by Miss
clubs and progressive business men’s
recently purchased houses and re­
May Rogers. Peter Wycombe was an
leagues are composed of men of op- Several Fire Proof Buildings Are
modeled them Into modern dwellings
excentrlc old man who thought he
tomlsm and pep tom ism who are un­
are Frank James, Ed Renick, Fred
was going to die every minute. Fred­
B u ilt; $50,000 School Bond
selfish and broad enough to know
Knudsen, J. W. Cornell, Dick Lane,
eric Hesser played this to perfection.
that if they help others they help
Ed
Issue is Voted
and had the audience ir laughter j
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themselves and that the public wel­
Withle, C. A. Smith, Earl Brownell,
most of the time as he developed
fare Is their own welfare.
Lester Smith, Frank Gast, Glint
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symptons of one unheard of disease
The old style of mental perversity
By M. B. Signs
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Harvey, Harry G rammer, Elmorv
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after another.
was
.. . to do nothing that did not
. i help »i Boardman, Ore., Dec. 22 Your , Tom carter did not want to go on McKenzie and Clifford Caldwell.
}ih# dOe.r dlrect,y- Th® ne™ ®ly,e ° correspondent arrived In Boardman wUh the negrQ part when h<j found
New farm owners west of the city
brotherly care Is to do everything in Septeniber 1919. At that time that wUh thfl
tg wa8 bt8 gweet- are John Wurster, N. C. Stewart, E.
that helps anybody anywhere with ,be proJect wa8 about three years old hpart Dorotby Landon, but he could R. Ash, W. Agee, Ted Carroll and
the supreme thought that when any- The town had a lumber yard, a feed ^ot back out and had to make the Henry Dexter. These farms are all
body Is benefited everybody Is bene- busjne8S> a couple of garages, three begt
tbp part.
¡on the highway and west of Umar
grocery stores, a confectionery and
Finally
Tom
In
desperation
to
get
tllla to the Morrow county line,
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hotel. Since then there have been yld of the negro part telephoned the
Third street has been graded,,
many changes.
police to start searching for Uncle graveled and put In first class shape
None of the people who were in Tom and when they failed went out by the city and taxpayers from A
himself. ____
Being disguised
street to F street at a cost of »3200
business in 1919 are still In the same to search
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line except O. H. Warner of the High- a8 uncle’ Tom he Was immediately The entrances and exits to town have
way Inn. In March 1920 a disastrous captured by Officer Hogan who was also been graded and ruts filled In
fire destroyed the lumber yard and Gwyn Hughes and returned to the and all other necessary street work
done.
: stock and store. The lumber yard Grey home under guard.
The community building and the
¡was rebuilt more conveniently but
Dewey Payne Taken for Burglar
grounds formerly the old school
7000 ACRES OF ALFALFA ® the other building was not rebuilt.
When James Landon, brother In
bun t’
and
Threo Cement Building«
ORGANIZATION
law of Peter Wycombe enters the wa8
, t>H 8chool boUj„
In the business section there have house he Is mistaken for a burglar county hag been enUre,y rpnovated
been added three cement buildings. by. that nervous gentleman who has and beaut,f,ed by tbp Rchool board
Problem« of G etting Started Told One houses the P°Bt offlce ,aad
the negro Tom, who has Just return- and Home Bureau the yard> fence
third is at present unoccupied. Tho ed, bind him. The rage of James an(,
Qf the ,awn wag done by
by L- A. H unt; Better Price«
other buildings have been remodel­ Landon, portrayed by Dewey Payne
wompn Co, Ra,py of Pendleton
led and painted and the hotel has was very great when ho found what Qf pducated ,n h,„ youth
Secured for Growers
tbla
been enlarged and finished Into a his none too friendly brother in law
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commodious / hostelry. During this
done.
FORMER RESIDENT HAS
period several neat cottages hav*e had
By L. A. Hunt
Finally all was patched up and ev-
$7,000 FIRE AT TUMALO
During the fall of 1920 there arose been added to the residence setions en Landon and Wycombe became j
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a deflnlto demand by hay growers to and more are contemplated. It is friends on condition that Wycombe
erect some kind of marketing agency expected too, that the town will Should never mention his health J-M. G nffen s Store j s Destroyed;
Was Employed Here for
to stabilize hay prices, and to pro- soon havo electric lights.
igain. The two negro parts, the
The
religious
interests
of
the
com­
Several Years
tect the quality of the hay shipped
real negro by Hollis Gordon and the
munity are taken care of by the com­ imitation negro by Harold Waterman
out of eastern Oregon.
J. M. Grlffen, a former-Hermiston
munity church organization and the
Following a preliminary organi- Adventists. The latter have a local were remarkably well acted.
resident and now of Tumalo, Oregon
Perhaps the longest and most ex­
zation campaign an office was open-
t
{he former u
had the misfortune recently to have
ed August 1st In Hermiston with an p
o„i»Qhin acting parts of any was that of Mrs. his store building destroyed by fire.
„„ „r »hnnt 400ft Planning to call as soon as a suitable Bob Grey, which was very ably tak­
acreage signed up of about
Mr. Grlffen was employed by the
candidate is available.
en care of by Miss Doris Swayze. Miss
acres.
The amount now under con­
reclamation office here and at the
Schools Among Best
Hammer acted the rather snobbish
tract is almost an even 7000 acres
time he left was superintendent of
Progress in cchool matters Is evi- society woman in a life like manner
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owned by 225 growers, located "in
irrigation. An article in the Bend
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compact bodies in Morrow. Umatilla denced by the fact that a 950,000 while May Rogers was the laughing Bulletin
about the fire follows:
and Deschutes counties. The aim of bond Issue made possible the addition young woman.
"Fire which Btarted from a stove­
the board was to restrict the en- of two 85 foot wlng% to the central
Mr«. Gunn Directs Play
pipe which pulled out of the chimney
largement of the organization this portion of the school building, and
The play which lasted about two de8froyed the Tumalo pogtoffice and
year, while the details of selling, as- the addition of several teachers to hours, went off smoothly and with- gtore bulldlng tbl8 morning. The
8embltng. baling, accounting, ship- take charge of the new school out confusion. It was directed by b|aze wag dpgtroypd at 8:46i a,most
png. financing and grading, weigh- courses. The census of school child- Mr Roberta Gunn and did credit to
'a’s ' u started, but the towns
ing and Inspecting were being work- ren has Increased at the rate of 33 ber efforts. The high school orchee- ppop]p wprp ,lnab)e
8ave the bulld-
ed out. In none of the departments per cent and the present capacity of tra pjayed between the acts and stu-
on apount oi jack of f |re fighting
have the association had safe prece- the busses used to transport tbe pu- dents sold candy and pop corn balls, equipment. The first class mall was
dent for guide, and have been com- pils Is taxed to the utmost.
Tbe >j-be affair was a financial success saved. The loss Is esÇmated by De­
pelled to charter a course all their school Is one of the most modern In the receipts totaling 9100.75. The puty Fire Marshall Tom Carlon at
own.
! tho state, offering the full four year crowd Friday evening was somewhere 94,800,with 33.000 insurance. The
high school course in addition to the between 200 and 250.
building belonged to the store pro­
Inspector’: Are Secured
The setting up of a system of as- ^ » dBB “nd thoroughly equ pped.
prietor, J. M. Griffin, who estimates
counting was completed with the os-
m»'n business of the com-
New Books at Library
the loee at approximately 37,000.
elstance of the first accountants of «"«"•* * [arm'n’'
tha acrea*’
Several nearby wooden buildings
To make your holiday brighter, the
Hermiston, and is a radical departure developed has doubled wt bln the Hermiston Library Board has pur- 1 were threatened, but the wor|j of the
from that used In ordinary business. Per|od- Roads have been im prov
cba8ed a nUD,ber of the newest books fighters, who used buckets and wet
Until the farmers’ organization be- and * 10-mill special tax recent y
f,ct,on These are to be found on sacks, together with the fact that
gan to function few farmers had any ▼‘»••’’I wlH continue the Improvemen L p>y
|ikrBry and w||l there was little wind, prevented the
accurate conception of hay grades. I" connection with the raising of
rpady for circu|at¡on Saturday. fire from spreading to them. Chief
Until that time there was only one alfalfa, the dairy Interests have he- l)ecelnbef, 24
Carlon and George Stokes of the
deputy hay Inspector
the S ta te-- at.n
On the payment of f,ve cents, a Bend fire department answered th<
located In Portland. Now. through
cattle have been imported.
dayR call for assistance which came to the
the co-operation of the Public Service
Cheese Factory Open»
w|th a charge of two cents per day fire station here, but found that no
Commission there are eight Inspect- I Records are being kept and a milk ior p#cb add|tiona| day the book Is «Id could be given.”
brs shipping from eleven loading testing station Is to be equipped In
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stations.
j the school. A cheese factory 'has
Tb(g ,g fn no w>y connected with
The cold wave struck Hermiston
The cost of this servlce was fixed been organized and is putting out a (be Read<>n,- elab. which has been the first of this week. There was
by the state at 12.06 per car, and in very satlefactory product. 8everel d|acOntinued.
some snow but the disagreeable fee-
certifying of weights alone, the ear- farms have recently been appraised
jf Sants forgets to bring the par- lure was the cold weather eoup’ed
lng so made has more than paid Its for federal farm loans and If these ,jCular hook you want, come and
with a strong wind. Th government
way. In addition to this tbe assocl- are available material progress will wbat wa have for you.
j office here records 13 above as the
atlon pays 11.00 per car for the sup- be noted in the immediate future.
w „ h bonday greetings;
coldest point.
This was Bunday
ervlsion of the hauling, loading and
The spirit of optimism Is fostered
Tb# Hermiston Library night. Monday night the thermomet­
billing of the hay. This eliminates throughout the district by numerous
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er reached 1914.
all other field expense In aeeembl- community gatherings and In spite
ing the hay and seems to he as eeo- of adverse conditions which have af- , A sacred concert will be held at
Jasper Templeton was ln Pendle
the Baptist church nest Sunday
ton
Saturday.
night
at
7:99.
Everyone
Is
Invited.
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MEETINGS A SE
HELD
DURING
“WATCH US GO— WE MEAN BUSINESS”
IS SLOGAN OF UMATILLA BOOSTERS
BUSINESS BUILDS
UP AT BOARDMAN
OREGON HAY MEN
FORM ASSOCIATION
building, as was Senator R. N. Stan
field. Until about 10 years ago this
was the school for the children of
Umattilla.
Several new enterprises havo been
started here recently, namely. Drug
store, hospital, laundry, shoe shop,
real estate office, whlto restaurant,
bank, co-operative store, garage.
Pacific Fruit Growers’ Express (with
a 32000 pay roll In busy season.)
Western Union Telegraph Co. (with
a 950,000 outfit,) new public scales
put In by L. W. Compton and a new
O. W. R. & N. round house, a news­
paper and an auto camp grounds. A
Doctor, lawyer and a graduate nurse
are permanently located at this place.
These are things that are, and two
enterprises of vital Interest which
we are working hard for are the Wal­
lula cut-off and the hydro electric
plant. We are certain that they too,
will be realized very soon, and then
Umatilla’s future-ls assured.
The city cemetery In which there are
graves marked as far back as I860,
and many unmarked ones which are
probably older, has been undergoing
a change, the work being done by the
women of the Home Bureau. All the
old posts have been removed and new
ones put In. Two new double gates
built and hung, the wire was taken
down, stretched and put back into
place, the leaky water pipes all re­
placed by new ones, the weeds burn­
ed, the debris hauled away and over
100 locust trees planted. The posts
will be white washed by the club
women. This cemetery has been In a
pitiable condition and the work Is n
great Improvement. The beautifying
will be continued.
Flowers have been sent to the sick
and help, where poverty and misfor­
tune has stepped in.
Umatilla has a good mayor who is
progressive and for the upbuilding of
the community, a good council, 0
good commercial club and a good live
women's organization, and when they
all have one common cause, and get
together on It, they put It over.
Great things have been accomplish­
ed In Umatilla in 1921. and greater
ones are In store for 1922. We warn
our neighbors to keep their eyes on
us, and “watch us go— for we mean
business.”
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No. 15
HERMISTON. UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1921
VOL. XVI
H
UMATILLAJNEEDS
GOOD COUNTY FAIR
DAISY AND HOG SHOW READY
FOR PROMOTION
! Big Show Held Here This Year Suc­
cessful But Must Have More
Money Says Geo. Soot
By Geo. Root
The ninth annual Dairy and Hog
show, held in Hermiston October 7
und 8, was both a success and a fail­
ure.
Judged by the big crowd of peoplo
that attended the show on both days,
it was a success. Judged by the
splendid type of animals shown In
the cattle division, In tho hog divi­
sion, and in the horse division, it was
a success. Judged by tho exhibits
of farm produce, fruits, honey, boy’s
and girl’s club work, school Industri­
al work, and by the woman’s exhibit
of home economics and domestic art,
tho show was a splendid success.
No* Enough Premiums
But, Judged by the amount of pre­
mium money distributed among tho
exhibitors, the Hhow was a miserable
failure. Tho fact is, the Dairy and
Hog Show has outgrown itself. In
other words. It has passed the knee
breeches period and Is now wearing
long pants. There was a time when
a few hundred dollars would take
care very nicely of tho premium list.
It can no longer bo done.
The state of Oregon very wisely
provides for Just such educational
enterprises as the Hermiston Dairy
and Hog show. In most of the coun­
ties they are known as county fairs.
About 14 yearn ago Umatilla county
was the possessor of a county fair.
It was held at Pendleton. Most of
the essentials of a county fair wore
produced either in tho east side, or
the west end, forty miles from Pen­
dleton. The expense of assembling
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EXPERIMENT WORK
OUTLINED BY DEAN
GOVERNMENT
STATION
HAS
BEEN HERE 12 YEARS
Duty of Water, Soil FertUity and
Crop Testing Continued Dur­
ing Past Year
Methodist Church Notes
Sunday school at 10 o’clock, morn­
ing worship 11 and Epworth league
at 6:30 p. m. Harry A. Wann pastor.
Phone 205.
There will be no services at Colum­
bia school house next Sunday after­
noon, those present last Sunday hav­
ing voted to Join with Hermiston
in a special Christmas service next
Sunday morning, Dec. 25.
In spite of the inclemency of tho
weather last Sunday there were 91
present at Sunday school. The Sun­
day school is now organized accord-
ng to tho departmental plan and be­
ginning with the new year the class
for the younger marled folks will
meet in the south room of the main
floor. Geo. Patterson Is the superin­
tendent. Mrs. Spencer superintend­
ent of the Junior and intermediates,
and Mrs. Adams In charge of the be­
ginners and primary.
The Christmas program committee
Is preparing a splendid musical can­
tata entitled “Santa Claus’ Dream”
all anticipate a good time. Tho
children are looking for Santa. Pro­
gram begtn at 7:30.
The collection and gifts will bo
for tho benevolent work of the
church.
A program nnd social Is being ar­
ranged for “Watch night” a week
from Saturday night.
The Umatilla Project Experiment
station which is Jointly maintained
by the Oregon Experiment station
and the U. S. department of agricul­
ture was established 12 years ago
for the purpose of investigating the
best method of establishing perman­
ent and profitable agriculture on the
sandy irrigated soils in Oregon and
Washington. The experiments have
chiefly embraced crop testing, irriga­
tion methods and the improvement of
the fertility of the soil.
Type of Agricultue Changes
During the period the station hns
been operated the type of agrlclture
ion the project has changed greatly.
I At first the Interest was chiefly In
i horticultural crops but It changed
i rather rapidly to general field crops.
During some recent years as much
as 80 per cent ot the crop Income
has been derived from alfalfa.
At
the present time the tendency toward
a more diversified system of agricul­
ture with most of the crops fed on
the land Is very pronounced. As
these changes In llie agriculture of
the project have come the work of
the Experiment station hus been al­
tered Io a certain extent to Hupply
¡Information on these subjects of gen­
eral Interest.
Soil Tests Are Made
During the past year duty of wat­
er. soli fertility and crop testing
The B. Y. P. U. will hold a Basket work have continued. A new phase
Social on the 27th of Dec. In the of the duty of water work was In­
»asement of the church. Every augurated when water requirement
hlng Is being done to Insure the tests on 6 soil types were conducted
test time possible. A turkey will he In cooperation with furmers nnd the
given by the City Meat Market »0 the U. H. reclamation service. Borne ex­
girl bringing the box that sella for ceedingly Inlereetlng results were
the most. The girl that brings the secured.
box that sells for the next to the | For instance In one of these tesis
1 ighest price will be awarded a the relative amount of water requir­
goose and a chicken will bo given an ed for checks and borders was com­
the third prize. The lsf«er gift»» pared. The checks which averaged
being furnished by the Challis Mar­ slightly under half an acre required
an average of 7.81 acre-feet per acre
ket
while the average requirement on th*
Christmas programs will be giv­ border was only 3.19 acre-feet per
en at both the Methodist and Bap­
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tist churches Saturday evening.