-TOB H E B M IST O K HKRALD, HERM ISTON, OREGON.
THE
H E R M IS T O N
H ER>LD
Mrs. Barham and Florence Hammon.
P A JD B IG
A. R. Flaher and son Ray have
traded the|r holdings In this section
for an Improved farm of 110 acres
BERNARD MAINWARINO, EDITOR
near Lebanon. Henry Nelson, the
new owner of the Fisher places, was
here Tuesday when the deal was
Subscription Hates: One Year, Í2.OO; SI« Months, »1 00
made Both families expect to move
as soon as possible.
comewhat
commensurate
with
the
In
THE TAX REDUCTION FIGHT
The campaign In Oregon for a re telligence and the years of training,
Becauae of so much mines* In the
duction of at least 25 per cent in the required to become proficient In the
community there w ill not be a meet
trade.
pverhead expense of state and county
The only Item entering Into the i n t ° '
N‘ ,«hborhood club
government is making gains.
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nesoay, March 8.
At least two candidates for Oover. cost of producing a newspaper that (
no are out for the reduction program has shown a material reduction since
M r' and Mra- Joe Udey and Flor-
— Stephens A. Lowell of Umatilla the war Is paper, and In the ease of a
country weekly of the standard of the ,enCe and M r and M r* Marvin W at-
county and Chas. Hall of Coos.
Tax Reduction clubs are organis News this Item represents l-2 7 th o f i 8*”1 and Earl wer® Sunday dinnei
guests at the 0. O. Felthouse home
ing in all parts of the state and the the total cost.
development of public sentiment is
Farmers and merchants may have
The Girls' Sewing club met last
going forward by leaps and bounds. their problems but the publishers of
The tdeajpf a small and undevelop newspapers have
few to worry i Friday at the home of Mrs. Henry
Sommerer, local leader, and the first
ed county like Tillamook digging up about also.
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lesson was begun.
Those present
over a million dollars for the tax ben
were Gertrude H all, president. Ina
eficiaries is quite startling.
A MOUTHFUL
Lenhart, vice president. Kathryn
The growth of¡tax burdens in T ill
In the golden days of the Miselsnlp- _
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amook county, (and the same is true pi,
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of all Oregon counties,) Is shown by a six-foot
boiler and an eight-foot i . . .
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sett. The girls are showing much
a comparison of valuations and taxes whistle.
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Interest in this work and w ith a litt'e
levied for the last 10 years as follows, blew, the boat stopped.
encouragement are going to mnke
1912 valuation 915,123,473, tax
In the golden days of post-war
»41«,704.80; 1913 valuation 916.- prosperity, there was a businesa w ith much progress. A fter the meeting
refreshments were served.
343,680, tax 9445,725.84; 1914 valu
a six-foot Stiller and an eight-foot
ation 920,851.847, tax 9417,729.10; advertising whistle. And the busi
1915 valuation
921,119,264,
tax ness stopped.
The Pig and Poultry clubs held
9412.729 69; 1916 valuation 920.-
their organization meeting on tlie
But neither example proves that a
644,224, tax 9427,574.36; 1917 valu
Sommerer lawn Tuesday noon. Tho
steamboat Idoesn't ( need a whistle,
ation 921.276,967, tax 9458,300.77;
boys and girls In these clubs are ex
nor that a business doesn't need ad
1918 valuation
921,683.925, tax
tremely interested and beginning
vertising.
9485.284.29; 1919 valuation 922,-
their work w ith more enthusiasm
057,680, tax 9617.484.84; 1920 val
than ever before. One boy was heard
READ THE ADS
uation 922,808.615, tax 9805,304.08;
to remark, "W e have the best org
1921 valuation
923.644.725. tax I f there’s anything you wish.
anised pig club In the state of Ore
Read the ads.
9920,825.43. Port district levies put
gon ’’ W ith this feeling of Interest
the total beyond a million dollars or From a hobby horse to fish.
the boys and girls should continue
Read the ads;
over one lmndred dollars p* r capita
the previous records made by Col
Or a rocking chair or dish.
umbia club members. Following are
the names of those enrolled; Leroy
PUBLISHERS HAVE PROBLEMS Motor car or L illie Gish,
If there's anything you wish,
Gulslnger, president, W illiam W aug
Northfield (Minn.) News
Read the ads!
aman. vice president, Gladys W h it
Receipt from advertising and sub
sett. secretary. Pearl Gulslnger, Gen
scriptions during 1921 fell short of
eva Gulslnger, James Waugaman,
meeting the cost of producing the I f you want a railroad ride.
Read the ads.
Donald De Moss, Larvell Stockard,
Northfield News by 81,663.20.
Or a raincoat or a bride.
W lllla rd Felthouse.
The cost— Including mechanical
Read the ads.
Pig club:
Francis Donaldson
and editorial expense—-of producing
Or a coat of camel'H hide,
presrdent, Carl Haddox, vice presi-
an average Issue of the News during
Or a fattened porker’s side.
der t, Larvell Stockard, secretary,
1921, was 9275.
W illiam Waugaman, James W aug
The total receipts from subscrip Or the ebbing of the tide.
Read the ads!
aman, W alter Ott, Tllford Stillings,
tions at two dollars a year would pay
I f you want some place to go.
Charley Matts, Lester Carson, Owen
the cost of producing nine issues of
Read the ads.
Hunt, Harvey DeMoss, Thomas Len
the News.
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hart.
Advertising receipts must make up
Published every Thursday at Hermlstun. I matiUa C ouaty, Oregon, tn th m h e a rt of
White Men In South Africa Hardly
Recompensed by Appellation of
Oregon's great Irrigated aBalfa Balds, by Uw Herald Publishing
B ra v e a n d N o b le
INCREASING EGG PRODUCTION
Poultry Keepers W ill Do Woll to Keep
In Touch W ith What Leadore
A r t Doing.
(P rep ared by th e U alted Btatee D epartm ent
o f A gricu ltu re.)
The methods favored by large poul-
trymen for Increasing the productivity
of their flocks are often applicable on
the general farm or In the back-yard
poultry plant. Every poultry keeper
will, therefore, do well to keep In
toach with what the leaders are doing
to Increase their profits, says the
United States Department of Agricul
ture. Certain localities In California,
for Instance, have become famous for
their poultry and egg production, and
the study that Is given to these prob-
Obtaining
High-Class Breading 8tock
Is Easier for the Small Poultryman
Whan Sales Are Held.
COLUMNA NEWS NOTES
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Their adventure In Swaziland Is
told by a doctor who Just returned
from a ten years’ sojourn there and
who, with two other white men. was
made sub-chief In the Hwazl Irllie of
South Africa negroes. The white men
were not eager for the experience,
and the Initiation was fur from an
Inducement, the rule requiring that
they should spend ten days of puri
ficatory exile from human society. In
native dress, with only native neap
ons, depending upon their skill in the
use of these for fisid. The doctor told
with considerable feeling how they
were stripped hy the lending medi
cine man of every shred of clothing,
given Swazi warrior costumes and
conducted Into Die hills. They were
bitten hy Insects, scratched hy thorns,
frozen at night, scorched hy day, their
hare feet bruised and abraded until
they were In agony, kept In constant
fear of the many poisonous snakes—
but, most of all. hungry. In spite of
L'Tunga’s tutorii g in native methods
of taking game, the white men, used
to depending upon the rifle for such
purposes, nearly starved. However,
wheu the chief medicine man and hls
assistants came to conduct them hack
te the kraal of the queen, the fam
ished, dirty, desperate looking white
men, with ten days' growth of beard,
were acclaimed bruve and noble tn-
dunas.
Didn’t Flay the Game.
She Is a young woman of artistic
tai cuts and makes a snug bit of
change manufacturing dainty hits of
embroidery and fancy work. She was
displaying samples of her handicraft
In her borne, the purpose being to sell
tier wares for Christmas gifts.
The other day an interested caller
looked over the various displays.
“Here ore some bridge table covers
that many of my patrons admire,”
said the young woman of artistic tal
ents.
“Not for me," the prospective cub
turner replied. “I only play euchre.”
—Indianapolis News.
GIRLS ORGANIZE
The officers and some of the mem
bers ot the G irl's Purity Protective
and Patriotic Assembly were down
Pendleton Saturday afternoon and
organized a chapter here, whleh la
Assembly No 4. Eleven girls ware
present making the charter members
of the chapter. The following o t-
fleers were elected: Dorothy l)0ea,
president; Irva Buchner,‘ Vice-presi
dent; Edythe Reeves, Treasurer; V i
ola Crandall, secretary; Stella Payne
protector of property. AH girls bo-
tween the ages of 13 and 29 married
or single are eligible to Join and are
urged to come and bring thalr moth
Seek Cheap Power Alcohol.
Gasoline users will he Interested to ers. The next meeting w ill he hold o t
know that the search for cheat' the home of Miss Dorothy
sources of power alcohol still con Thursday. March 9.
tinues. A recent writer In Nature
suggests that foodstuffs are too valu Excellent Remedy for Constipation
able at present for such uses, but
It would be hard to find a better
thinks that waste land In Ireland
might be used to produce crops to be remedy for constipation than Cham
utilized In this way.
Arrowroot, berlain's Tablets They are easy to
cassava and corn are possibilities In ake and mild and gentle tn effect
tropical countries; and a number of Give them a tria l when you have need
cellulose materials, such as straw and
sawdust, offer possibilities In Indus
Mrs. M. A. Brown spent Bunday In
trial regions.
Pendleton.
Hibernating Fishes.
Cold weather lias a marked effect
lems by furniers, and the owners of
big plants, has resulted In a great Im
provement In their practices.
The county extension organization
in Alameda county, California, has
taken steps through its poultry divi
sion to raise the standard of all poul
try In the county by Improving the
quality of fowls used In breeding
flocks. Owners of hatcheries In the
county have entered Into an agree
ment with the county extension or
ganization to use eggs for Incubation
the balance— and in 1921 the reve
from selected breeding stock, exclud
Mr. and Mrs. O. Heinl and Mr. and ing the Incubation of eggs from the
nue from this source fell considerably
Mrs. O. O Felthouse were guests at general run of fowls In the locality,
short of meeting the total cost of pro-
tho W . W . Felthouse home Tuesday with the understanding that the coun
ductln.
ty extension organization shall fur
Ray Fisher left for Salem laat Thu evening.
I f subscribers were to pay an
nish Judges to pass on the desirability
»molin’ needed to meet the cost of rsday on • combined business and
of birds selected for breeding.
Mr. and Mrs. Myern and daughter
production, the subscription rate In pleasure trip.
This method of controlling the
1921 would have been 87.65.
Marie have returned from an extend
quality of the poultry In a county Is
Mrs. W . O. Fritts and Mra. W .8 . ed visit In Portland.
Confronted by this situation, which
expected to result in a rapid general
Is typical In the country newspaper Canady were Pendleton visitors Sat
improvement in the productivity of
field, publishers cannot reduce sub urday,
Mrs. E. Van Deusen, homo demon the flocks. I t should also give the
scription rates, no matter how keenly
stration agent, announces that she county a good reputation wherever
they might wish to do so, without
Miss H attie Graham has been un w ill be in Columbia April 3 and 6 io hatching eggs or birds are sold.
Promising development that Is being
courting financial disaster. Neither able to be at school this week because hold a mlllnery school. Mrs. Van
can a cut In advertising rates be ln- b f Illness. During her absence Glad Deusen w ill bring frames, trimming encouraged In the famous Petaluma
tioduced u ntil production costs de ys W hitsett and Vidis Fox have been and some material and requests that poultry district Is the consignment
-tale of cockerels. In this the poultry
cline. This cannot be brought about teaching In tho primary room.
those who wish to Join the school
breeders have been following the lead
quickly as trained printers are not a
have their silk cleaned and pressed of other groweoa of .high-class live
drug on the market; In fact for years
There has been quite an epidemic ready for use.
stock. Cattle breeders have been
this has been an underpaid profession W flu and la grippe In Columbia dur
A similar school w ill be held in holding bull sales for a number of
to such an extent that new recruits ing the past week. Among those 111 Hermiston March 14 to 16 and in years; sheep breeders have ram sales;
were not attracted to it During the are: Mrs. W. 8 Casady. Mrs. H. J U m atilla March 13 and 15. Anyone hog breeders have sales of boars and
war printers’ wages reached a level Ott, Mrs. N. W . Bloom, Robert Hobbs, who wishes an earlier date than of bred sows. In the esse o f cockerels
thoee assigned to Columbia Is wel no pedigree papers are supplied, ns
come to Join either the Hermiston or they are with other kinds of purebred
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live stock, but sworn affidavits as to
Um atilla class.
breeding go with each bird.
A White Leghorn cockerel sale was
In the contest offered last spring held In Sonoma county (the Petaluma
by the Commercial club for the yard district) October IS. The 14 Pacific
which showed the most Improvement coast breeders who consigned birds
for the season, the Marvin Watson gave sworn statements as to their
yard was awarded first prllze while breeding. According to the county
the O. O. Felthouse yard was given agent, who was Instrumental In put
second. The first prize was 815.00 ting on this sale, most of the 52
worth of shrubbery while the second cockerels consigned represented un
usually high breeding, many of them
prize was 810.00 in shrubbery, the
having pedigrees extending back eight
winners to make their own selection. or nine generations with trap-nest rec
Both of these places showed remark ords. Most of them had Inheritance
able Improvement for land Just one records of more than 275 eggs In a
year from the sage brush; In fact year and some more than 300. The
they are already more improved than fact that 1,000 catalogues were Issued
shows the Importance given to the
many older places.
first sale of this kind.
These two methods of flock Improve
SHARKS TAKEN OFF NEW YORK ment ought to he popular among poul
try raisers In all parts of the country
Their Capture Said to Hava
They are practical, aay the poultry,
Regular Thing Prior to and
men of the United States Department
During Year 1S15.
of Agriculture, and they help to make
good stock available to the average
A shark nowadays even on the moat poultry raiser who tn the past has had
exposed beaches of New York and the no assurance, other than the breeder's
■ R. A. Brownien, Manager
PE om 111
metropolitan area Is a rarity and a word, that he was getting birds of
curiosity, but there was a time when superior performance merit.
Few
these flah used to be caught off Cath dairymen, hog growers or beef-cattle
arine slip, says the New York Sun. raisers are also good live-stock breed-
This was about 1815, when the Ashing era, but methods have been developed
smacks snd flah cars used to unload that make It possible for any good
and load off this wharf In the East farmer to build up an excellent herd.
river and the dead fish thrown out Into It Should be Just as easy for a poultry
the water need to attract the sharks.
raiser to Improve hls flock.
An old man, Sam Way, a porter In
S3,
the old Catharine market, earned a
reputation as a master shark catcher. PREVENT SPREAD OF DISEASE
"Shark around the slip," was the
cry that was raised wlien a shark was Reup and Other Contagious Ailments
sighted off the pier and then Sam
Are Difficult te Control— Sep
would drop his broom and put out his
arate Blok Birds.
chain hook and soou would have the
giant flsh struggling on the dork. He
Cold, damp, poorly lighted and
la said to have hauled In as many as ventilated poultry quarters favor the
seven In one day, some of them four spread of such diseases as roup.
teen feet long.
Such contagious dlteBtes as these are
Devoe, the historian, tells an Inci difficult and sometimes Impossible to
dent which Is passed on her«« Ith with control unless given attention In the
out rondrmatlon;
early stages.
Wherever preventive
"One day Sam hooked a big one and measures fall, separate sick birds from
ha climbed Into a skiff which lay tied (he flock as soon at there la evidence
to the end of the slip; the shark took of disease and then obtain expert sd
to pulling and broke loom the skiff vice to effect a cure.
with Sain In, and sway be went down
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’ Found a Cure for Indigestion
the river at reee-horse speed, nearly
“ I use Chamberlain's Stomach and
a t far as Red Hook before he tired
out, or Sam could hold him up. He, Liver Tablets for indigestion and find
We L ik e to T a lk Q u a lit y R a th e r T h a n C h eap o eM
however, mastered him and brought they suit my case better than any
him back, and Sam after that eon- dyspepsia remedy I have ever tried
Haded not to be run away with again. and j haTe UBed many dlMeren, medl
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PRICE FOR TITLES
on some of the fresh water flsh at
the uquarlum of the New York Zoologi
cal society.
When the temperature
of the fresh water flowing through the
tanks of the aquarium fulls below 40
degrees, certain flsh become very
sluggish. The young yellow perch lie
quietly at the bottom of the tank,
as evenly spuced us if put there hy
their keeper, and hike little food. A
low teniperuture uffeets young black
bass In quite a different way. They
stay poised somewhere above the bot
tom, hut crowded close together. Fifty
or more will often gather in a com
pact mass, ail facing in the same di
rection.
The aquarium lias several
tanks of young black buss, all groups
of which show tlie same curious habit.
L iv e E lectric Plants.
T h e re ure In a ll about 50 species
a f ele ctrica l flsh, but the electrical
prop erties o f only five or six have
been studied In
d e tail.
The
best
known are various giieeles o f torpedo,
belonging to tlie skate fa m ily found In
the M e d ite rra n e a n and A d ria tic seas:
the gyiunolusti. an eel found In the
region o f the Orinoco In South Atneri
c a ; the m slsp teru riis, the raash or
tb nn derer flsh of the Arabs, a native
nf the N ile, the N lqer. Senegal and olh
er A fric a n rivers, and various species
of skate found in the seas around
Great B rita in .
DON’T FORGET
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Plan This Winter
BUILD IN THE SPr lN
All indications show t W
lumber prices havereav -
ed rock bottom. Th
are so many new homos
needed that it is only rea
sonable to expect build
ing costs to increase with
spring demand.
Select a design for your new home. Place the con
tract for the material now. Build as soon
as the weather will permit.
Inland Empire Lumber
Phene 331
W hen you need any
thing in the line of
n e a t and attractive
Printing.
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NUT COAL
The best and most economical
for range and cook stove at
$1.00 per ton less than the lump
and egg coal. We have plenty
of coal now, a new stock of the
best and it is the best.
: TUM-A-LUM LUMBER COMPANY
W e are Showing Spring Styles of
Gordon Caps
for men and boys a t popular prices; $1.50 to
Gordon Hats in New Spring Blocks
and colors in Gordon quality, $5.00.
Cluett Shirts
Standard anywhere in thia country. No guess
about this class of merchandise. Cluett collars at
20e. We are sole agents for these in this district
Just look over our exclusive lines of merchan
dise and you will find the best merchandise obtain-
abl - and at reasonable prices.
H e r m is t o n P ro d u ce &
S u p p ly C o.
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Not
from Indigestion. I can eat almost
Jud Tank In. n o there
he*. anJ’ hln* 1 want «"• now.’’ writes
(MBS specimen. e f p- r ngarrts Omt Geor» e W Emory. Rock Mills. AU.
ran coaldn’t attack any
more Im- T1lesa tnblets contain no pepsin but
partaaca to than you cuwtd te a rat- strengthen the stomach and enable It
¡to digest the food naturally.
And That is
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hotel rites, railroad (zres. through car service, the famous Circle Tour ihroueh t e
Francisco and Salt Like Gty or a peri of the -ay by nceantnofto
equal interest m Amt n c a
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Call on or address F. C. Woughter, Agent, Hermiston, Oregon
Wm. McMurray, General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon