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VOL. XVI
HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUN E 29, 1922
PORTLAND TOLD OF
UMATILLA RAPIDS
BIO
PROJECT
WOULD
CREATE
$20C IN PRIZE MONEY FOR
DUROC FUTURITY CONTESTS
W ill Be Special Feature of Annual
Dairy and Hog Show to be Held
October 6 and 7
STAN H ELD CHAUTAUQUA IS ON;
5 DAYS PROGRAM ENDS JULY 2
DODGE COLLIDES
W
ITH FIRF TRHPi
n i I n T in t I n u u l\
A special feature of the Dairy and PUTMAN'S
St'a5o n T itk e u G o o d for All lO N um
bers S e|, fo, | 2 .00; Good En­
tertainment is Promised
CAR
MEETS
FIRE
No. 42
OIL DRILL MAY CBMMENLHOPERATIONS I
IN AUGUST IF LEASES ARE SECURED
The Stanfield Chautauqua is on
Hog show to be held October 6 and 7
this week and a number from here
FIGHTER AT 1ST & MAIN
will be a Duroc futurity contest in
¡ire going over to tho performances
❖ ♦ « « ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ " i
| which special prizes of *200 will bo
The program opened yesterday after­
0. BACHELOR OF PORTLAND
<•
' awarded.
«
ECHO PLAYS UMATILLA
Both Were Answering Call at 12 p. noon and runs to Sunday evening.
WILL SINK A WELL
Um atilla County Delegation Appears
Three organizations will co-operate
Two programs are presented each
•0-
HERE SUNDAY
m .Monday N igh t; Reith Man
j in the awarding of the prizes, the
Betöre Portland Chamber of
day one in the afternoon and one in
♦
show association, the local hog rais­
tho evening
Badly H u rt; Was on Truck
Hermiston has forfeited its ♦ Land Owners Asked to Lease 10,000
Commerce Monday
e r s ’ association and the national I)ti-
For this (Thursday) evening the MOONSHINE AROUSES FIGHTING ❖ last game to Echo, leaving that <•
, roc Record association. The awards
Acres; Takes Over the J. E.
play "Happiness” will be presented
❖ team tied with Umatilla for the <•
INSTINCT OF THREE
■ will be for Bpring pigs ouiy.
J. L. Pullian an O. W. R. £ N. by the Elias Day players of Chicago.
championship of the Irrigation
Pendleton East Oregonian
Leonard Oil Company
Local hog raisers who are oontrib- breakman whose home is at Reith This is a noted company which is
<• league.
Portland, Ore., June 26—Some
: uting toward the prizes are C. P.
The tie will be played off here
of the possibilities for gain to Oregon Adams, C. C. Mason, Geo. Strohni, P. was seriously injured here at mid­ appearing in the west for the first Seattle Man Makes Loud Tirade After ❖
<• Sunday afternoon at 3 p. m.
C. 0. Bachelor of Portland and
and Portland when the Umatilla pro­ L. Jewett, Walter Botkins, Frances night Monday when the Dodge car time. Friday afternoon there will ba
Being
Lodged
in
City
J
a
il:
Moon­
a musical program and a dramatic
❖ Echo wanted to play the game
an operator in the oil fields of Texas,
ject is developed * 7 ’ *xp,a^ etd.
j 7auisen?A. w"Agnew. P?P. SuHiv7n of I. E, Putman collided with the
shine Raid Made Here
(City fire truck on which he was rid­ reader and impersonator. Friday eve­
❖ in Pendleton but Umatilla In-
Oklahoma and Montana of years ex­
day to members o
e
or ”
& eon, Mrs. H. J. Belscamper and C. ing.
ning
Judge
Alden
of
Boston,
the
not­
<■ sisted on playing here or at
perience has been looking over the
Chamber of Commerce when a dele-
Ja(,kson
❖ Stanfield so it will be played
The alarm was sounded for a fire ed lecturer will appear in his lec­
Hermiston territory with the view of
cation from
Pendleton
spoke
in
be-
.
Business
was
lively
in
Judge
Kel­
n„iu
Preliminary plans are already un­
ture, "The Powder and the Match.”
drilling for oil here.
logg's court during the past week. ❖ here.
half of the huge
' ln° n
* der way to make the show the best In a small building to the rear of the
The Biltmore orchestra will be the No less than three cases were heard, •> This game will bring the Irri-
Kingsley
store.
The
Hermiston
Auto
He believes that the structure of
speakers were h l e e r i . « iw e i,.
ever The direetorH will go beforo
torney, Judge Gilbert W. Phelps of the county court with their budge company garage was immediately a;traction for both of the Saturday all on the same charge, drunk and ❖ gation league season to a close.
this district oil surface indications
It will be a bitterly fought
opened and the fire truck started for programs. In addition V. I. Shepherd disorderly included fighting.
Pendleton, at present occupying the i
warrant an effort to make a test and
within a few days.
game between two fast and
! the fire. Mr. Pullian was with the will lecture on "The House We Live
bench in one of the circuit courts
has had a New York geologist make
On Friday L. D. Conkle and Thom­
evenly matched teams. By far
freight train which was waiting in In,” in the afternoon.
in Multnomah, and President Steph- j
investigations here that confirm the
as Grant were arrested by City Mar­
the largest crowd of the season
I the yards for the midnight west
On Sunday the Garner jubilee sing­ shall Crandall for fighting. Both
belief that oil may be found.
en R. Penrose of Whitman college.
05260995
is expected from all over the
i bound train to pass it. He was handy ers (colored) will entertain r.t both were lodged in the city pail until the
Steiwer made the chief address of
Rents Office Here
west end of the «ounty.
when the alarm was sounded so programs. This is one of the greatest effects of the wet stuff they had tak­
the meeting and his efforts were cen- I
Both
teams
have
won
nine
He
has
rented the old Jensen
jumped
on
the
truck
to
help
put
out
colored
troops
in
existence.
They
will
en worked off. They were then taken
tered in showing the results attained |
and lost I hi re games. Hermis-
Jewelry store for an office and la
i the blaze.
render I he old time melodies of tho beforo the aforesaid city recorder
In districts where irrigation and rcc. i
ton has won six and lost six <• endeavoring to secure oil leases on
who taxed them *7.50 and *5 respect­
The truck in rounding the corner south.
tarnation have been put into effect.
V hile Stanfield haE lost 12 and
lands throughout and adjacent to the
ively.
of First and Main cut in close and
The text of Steiwcr's speech in part
❖ V on none.
project. Mr. Bachelor has also purch­
VISITORS TAKE SLOW CONTEST. I. E. Putman who was hurrying MRS. S. R. SHELLEDAY DIES
A
Lively
Case
was as follows:
♦
ased from Mrs. J. E. Leonard all the
down
town
in
response
to
tho
alarm
The liveliest case by far was that
14 TO 4
“For the purpose of this argument
FRIDAY; BODY TAKEN EAST
❖
rights of the company organized last
J
Struck
it
with
his
car.
The
front
of
of
Frank
Steel
of
Seattle
who
will
it is sufficient to say that the Uma­
----- fall by the late J. E. Leonard and
Putman's car struck the right side Husband and Son Leave Monday for be remembered here for many a day.
tilla Rapids Project is a proposal to
will treat all the stock holders the
He
was
about
the
drunkest
Individ­
span the Columbia River at the Uma- i Stanfield Forfeits to U m atilla and of the city truck. Some Injury was
Sturgis, S. D .; Had Lived Here
some as prepaired by Mr. Leonard.
|
done
to
both
machines.
Neither
driv.
ual
seen
in
these
parts
since
long
be.
tilla Rapids which are located just
for Past Five Years
Tie Still Remains; Game Next
He needs to carry out this arrange­
er is said Io have been to blame as
fore the Volstead era. He was very
above the confluence of the Umatilla
ment leases on 10.000 acres of new
both were hurrying to a fire and
loud and violent at the ball game
Sunday to Decide..............
River and about 180 miles East of
Mrs. Iona Shelleday, wife of Sam­
land as some of leases on land
neither expected to meet another car.
Portland. Possibly the development
uel Shelleday died Friday evening at Sunday afternoon but nobody molest­
-
near Erho and Stanfield have ezptr-
Mr. Pullan was standing on the six o’clock at the St. Anthony's hos­ ed him.
should be at the Devils Bend Rapids J
jed. Also this acreage is necessary to
On the streets afterwards ho got
running board of the truck at tho
which are just below Umatilla. Nat- j
11th Hour Standings
pital in Pendleton. The baby died the
RUTH SCOTT AND LETA GOULD make the expenditure of *30,000 or
W.
L.
into
an
altercation
and
was
going
to
point
where
the
Putman
car
struck
urally no detailed plans have yet
following morning.
*40.000 on a test well feasibln from
"beat up" Fred Sharrard. Frank
....................... 8 3 4 Z 4 it. He was badly jarred, but upon
ARE JUNE BRIDES
been formulated for the installation Umatilla
Mrs. Shelleday was taken to the Woughter interefered. Mr. Crandall
a financial point of view. Much of
........................8 3 727 examination at the Umatilla hospital
___
of the plant. It probably, however, Echo
hospital early Friday afternoon and was on tho ground and grabbed the
the land In an nil district will he
will carry with It the construction Hermiston ............................6 5 546 a little later It was found that no
died
shortly after arriving there. Dr.
drunk man who was a rather large Fisher-Gould Wedding is at Noon To- found not productive And several
bf an inter-state bridge and will havo Stanfield ..............................0 11 000 bones were broken or fractured, lie
wells must be drilled to try out the
was able to sit up Tuesday morning. Vose a brother of the deceased ar­ and husky individual. Two raps on
for itB main purpose the development
day; Prann-Scott Marriage is
rived
in
Pcndlt
ton
from
North
Bend,
territory.
the
head
from
the
marshall's
“billy"
|
Mr.
Pulliun
is
the
man
who
was
of the hydro-electric power which
Sunday’s Results
at 5 This Afternoon
¡cut up when the negroes attacked a Sunday. Mr. Shelleday and son Henry restored his senses partly and he
No Oil F°und Yet
may be developed by impounding the Echo 14, Hermiston 4.
freight train crew a few weeks ago left Monday evening, for Sturgis, went to the city "cold storage" with­
Umatilla
9,
Stanfield
0
(forfeited.)
waters of the river at the rapids.
No
oil
has yet been found In Ore­
¡so he has been having more than his South Dakota, where burial will take out opposition.
“The dam will be something like
gon. Washington or Idaho though
place.
Two tno-e J-ine marri-ges arc oc- many holes have been drilled to 3,-
Once there he kept up a continued
Sunday’s game is hard to classify. share of hard luck recently.
30 feet in heighth and the dam and
Mrs. Shellcday was 37 years of age tlrade at the top of his voice until curing here today, the brides being 000 feet or more. The Basset cover­
The fire was put out without dif­
plant will cost in accordance with All agree that it was not baseball; it
and had been married eight years. late In the evening. The racket was Miss Le:a Gould who was wedded to ing in this region is difficult to
tho preliminary estimate, somewhere wasn't sport and it certainly wasn't ficulty.
Shelledays have lived here for the heard for several blocks. Monday Mr. Ray Fisher, a young farmer iiv- pci|ptr*to and Mr. Bachelor has ne­
from *25.000,900 to *30,000,000. amusement. So what was it?
past five years and were members of morning he appeared before Mr. Kei- Ing in the Columbia district at noon gotiated for a diamond drill for this
The United States engineers have col- j Anyway’ti was something whereby “CALL OF THE NORTH’’ TO BE
the Baptist church.
legg on charges of being drunk and today, and M‘ s Ruth Scott who will work pending the successful comple­
lected complete data concerning the Echo emerged with decidedly the
AT PLAY HOUSE FRIDAY
. Mrs. Shellcday leaves to mourn her disorderly and resisting an officer. J be married to Mr. George Prann of tion of leases.
river flow- at all stages of water. ‘ long end in scoring. To have seen it
There is to excess 40.000 ciihjc t o t was really worse than the final Many Indians Appear in Paramount untimely death a husband and son Ho was fined *10 on each offense but | Daniel. Wyoming at 5 p. m. this atl­
iris agreement is to place oil leas­
as he had but *7 only *5 was collect- ernoon.
and a large circle of friends.
of water per second at the very low- score looks, at least for the first six
of the Far N °rth; Picture A l­
es in the First National Bank of
ed.
The Fishcr-Goutd wedding was at
est stage and the power development ¡or seven innings.
so Here Saturday N ight
HerniiBtnn for 6 months or until he
Late last week a moonshine raid the home of the bride's parents Mr.
at low water stage is 125,000 con- [ A big crowd was out to see what
METHODIST CHURCH NOTES
commences drilling with a regular oil
was conducted by the county sheriff's nd Mrs. George - uld at noon Itev.
tinuous horse power. At main high was to be one of the deciding games
There are many real Indians in
then under the escrow ha
July 2-—Sunday school at 10 a. m. office nnd one local man was arrest­ Wann officiated. Fifteen persons w it. .machine,
| (o
water
it is around 400,000 continu- of the irrigation league, that 1® ; Jack Holt’s first Paramount star pic-
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Dr.
Leach,
district
superintendent
ed
on
this
charge.
nessed
the
ceremony.
The
guests
in­
eus horse power and intimes of flood whether Umatilla would take the ture, "The Call of the North,” which
promise that he must “continue drll-
cluded Mrs. Marker and two daught­
it is estimated that approximately ¡pennant without a fight from now on comes to the Play House Friday and will give the sermon for tho church
ling operations with due diligence."
service:-,
at
11
a.
m.
and
there
will
ers
and
Mrs.
Bennett,
all
of
Baker.
NO
COMMUNITY
PICNIC
WILL
pne-half million horse power may be or whether Echo would stay In the Saturday, but most of them are Pi-
that if any time without reasonable
BE HELD HERE JULY 4TH The ring ceremony was used, after excuse he discontinues drilling be­
developed by the installation which running and whether Echo or Herm- utes, gathered on location at Mam- a’so bo special music.
Columbia services are at 2 and 3
which a dellgTiitUl wedding dinner yond a reasonable period the leases
i laton would take second place. Echo moth Mountain in Northern Califor-
has been contemplated.
•’Hydro-electric development on I settled both questions in her own nia. There are in the cast two real p. m. Dr. Leech of Portland will Holiday Frolic Cancelled on Account was served. The couple left for Buker become null and void.
of H igh W ater at Reservoir;
and La Grande. They will return
this great scale means cheap pow- ' favor, that is if she has to fall back Redskins, however, of special Interest preach. Evening services Is at 7:30.
May Drill in August
Last Sunday was Children’s day.
No Celebrati°n Here
next week.
—Chief Light heart and Big Tree.
er. The estimated cost varying in in- . to second place.
Ho says that he does not want to
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The bride has been employed at
The latter is a full blooded Seneca and following is the program which
verse ratio with the amount of power 1
Echo Begins Scoring
There will be no community pic- the dental office of Dr. F. V. Prime. speculate but Is nfter oil and If the
produced. To give you some idea of
The game sfarlcd nicely, neither descendant of a chief of the famous was well rendered.
what is meant by cheap power, I scoring in the first. It began to hap- TroquoiR Confederacy, the five na- Voluntary ..........Margaret Waterman nic on the fourth of July as was at The groom is a rancher In the Co­ people will poln with him in the ef­
nhould add that it is estimattd that pen In the second, though, when Echo Hons, of pre-revolutionary fame. He Prayer ............. .................. Rev. Wann first planned. This was decided at lumbia district. They will make their fort and give hint a fair chance he
will commence operations at once.
the primary power may be develop- made two. She kept right on making posed for the famous statue of the Song ...................Primary Department Commercial club meeting Tuesday. homo here.
The reason for abandoning the pic­
The Prann-8cott wedding will take possibly early in August. J. F. Mc-
ed at a cost of something like *9 or them until the seventh when she j Panama Pacific Exposition in San. Solo ....................... Mr. A. C. Voelker
Rtcilation .......................Iziulse Root nic Is (hat there is no good place to placc at 6 p. m. The bride Is the Naught. C. W. Tilden, C. E. Baker. R.
*10 per horse power per year. Tho ¡made a five run rally and quit. The Francisco, “The End of the Trail.”
secondary power, that is extra pow- ¡visitors made two runs in four of the
Big Tree is a talented actor, with Duet Mrs. Lochric and Mrs. Correll hold It. The original plan was Io have daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Scott Boswell. E. P. Dodd and a number of
........................... Rev. Wann It at tho reservoir but the water Is an(j has been employed in the tele- smaller land owners have leased to
er developed during high water sea- innings and one in one inning besides a commanding presence and stately 1 alk
demeanor. He has the lore of the old Recitation ................ Gladys Swarner still high and will be high enough to phone office here. The groom Is a him hut tho total hae not yet reached
son. can be developed for something | the lucky seventh.
*5 per horse power a year. Compare ! Hermiston was held at the merej confederacy at his finger tips and Duet ........Maurice and Harcy Adams over the graRs where the gathering Wyoming man. They will make their 4000 acres. Others have promleed
and it is believed that there will be
these figures to retail prices which ! of Echo’s Jewish pitcher who was in he is greatly interested in motion Recital ion "Flowers” ........Genevieve would have been. Under tho circum­ home at Daniel, Wyoming.
no delay in gellilg this movement
and Bernice Wann and Louise Root stances it was thought best to call
run all the way from *60 to *70 to ! mighty fine form. The hits were few pictures.
started. It will mean much to Her­
Joseph Henabery directed “The Solo ..................... Margaret Watermnn it off
*600 and *800 per horse power a and far between and until the seven-
NUTRITION CLASS TO MEET
miston.
This means that there will be no
I th Hermiston never had a chance In Call of the North” which was adapt- Recital ion ............ Shirley Brownson
year.
AT CITY LIBRARY JULY 7
-
Possibilities of Project
the lucky frame the tide turned for e(] by Jack Cunningham from the Song "Swing Blossoms" ..Junior Girls organized observance of the national
Elizabeth Straw birthday here. There will no doubt
“The primary and immediate pur-
a moment.
novel “Conjurer’s House” by Stewart Offcratory ...........
The Hermiston Nutrition class will BEE DEMONSTRATION IS AT
pose of this development is to afford
Longhorn and Phelps got. walks Edward White. Madge Bellamy is Duet ............Deris Swayzc and Laura be many family and group picnics meet at the library Friday, July 7,
SK0VB0 YARD SATURDAY A. M.
and many will attend the celebra-
Phipps.
power for (he reclamation of the arid and Esseltyn let llarry
Todd's leading woman and heads a strong
at
9
a.
m.
lions elsewhere.
Benediction
•
lands of the Columbia basin. The grounder roll through his legs bring, supporting cast,
Fred Benn'on will talk on corerc- Auto Trip Around the Project Will
ultimate possibilities however, are Ing in both runs. Hits by Voyen and
tlve ezerelses for children. He will
Leave Hermiston Hotel at 1 p.
fo.v: first, reclamation, that is tr- Durfey brought in two more. Dave □
use eight boys and girls to demon­
m. Prof. Scullen to be Here
rigatTon of arid lands; second, elec- Mittelsdorf was called out on a line
strate his exercises.
trification of the railroads, two of drive to right which was caught, but
Besides Mr. Bennlcn’s talk there
Professor Scullen the noted bee
the transcontinental roads running on the bound as it looked to the
will be a general discussion of nu­ man from O. A. C. will be here Sat­
along side of the power plant; third, spectators. This doubtful out helped
trition problems, conducted by Mrs. urday, July 1 for a demonstration
the development of industries of to check our rally.
Van Dense n.
at the yard of Jens Skovbo on the
major importance by the employment i
Swartz Taken Out
All mothers are Invited to attend. Umatilla river three miles north of
of cheap power in electric furnaces ; Echo made the mistake in this in-
-------------------------- town. The demonstration will be at
and in other ways; and fourth, tho.ning of jerking 8chwartz out aftpr
A. C. VOELKER FAMILY LEAVES » »• m-
improvement of the Columbia River the first two runs. King half io go
A C. Voelker and family leave to-
It Is expected that a number of
for navigation. Each of these prop- in without a warm up and was hit
day by auto for Eugene, where they other outside bee specialists will be
osltions will be discussed.
with ease in this inning. After that
will spend tho summer, while Mr. here. Including two or three from
V is ib ilitie s of Reclamation
he haM Hermiston scoreless. Phelps
Voelker attends summer school at the east. After noon an auto trip will
"Something like 270,000 acres of replaced Culver who had been hard
the University of Oregon. In the fall be made around the project for ln-
tillable arid land Ilea adjacent to the hit and for the last two innings held
they will take up their future home spectlon purposes. This will Include
power site. Other extensive areas of Echo runless. Culver who is a good
In Helix where Mr. Voelker will be a drive up Butter Creek All Inter-
similar land are located further pitcher was off form and was hit
superintendent of the Helix schools. ested persons are Invited to the dem-
away It Is not possible to Irrigate very hard Had Phelps gone in early
The Voelkers have resided In Hermls. onslratlon and all can go In the aft-
these lands by a gravity system. They in the game Hermiston should have
ton for the past four years. Mr Voei- ernoon for whom there Is room. The
must be Irrigated by pumping sys- made it a close game.
ker having been principal of the Her- auto parly will leave the Hermlaton
terns which are possible only with
Echo had her 14 runs before the
mlston high school. They have made hotel at 1 P. m.
«•hi-gf power. Substantially alt of locals got any. bo when we comttienc-
many friends here nnd will be great-
On July 12 the beekeepers will
ih e lands are now desert producing ed io hit there was little danger of
ly missed by everyone.
hold a meeting to set the prices of
sage brush and very little else. They a blowup. The Echo fielders showed
_________________ _
honey for I his year. They will order
are almost without value and produce little speed, but It may be said for
a ear load of cans within the next
WILT
HOLD
SOCIAL
no commerce, no taxes for support of them that Schwartz made It unneces­
few days.
Th"
Epworth
league
and
hoy
government and no livlihood for man. sary for them to do much. The Herm­
scouts will hold a lawn social at the
The soil of these lands is wonderful­ iston team played fair in the field
parsonage Saturday evening. July 1,
UMATTLL VOTES BONDS
ly rich and when water Is applied the hut could not hit Schwartz. That’s
from 4 to 9:30 p. m. Come out and
S>hool bonds to the amount of
transformation is almost a miracle. the size of It.
patronize the yoeng folks who are *16.000 were authorized yesterday
Echo is mid to have marie 21 hits.
Improvement of Columbia
endeavoring Io pay for one of the In a special election at Umatilla, ae-
"The works necessary in the devel­ The scribe couldn't spare the time to
beautlful church windows. A dish of 'cording to word brought to Pendleton
opment of the Umatilla' Rapids will count them so is passing the Infor­
Ice cream and cake for 10 cents. today by W. A Ford The bonds are
drown out what is at this time an mation on for what it is worth. Her-
There will also he music and games for the pu-poee of constructing a
obetarle to navlgatioa on the middle mietnn made seven hits of which only
four-room school house for the use
Columbia River transportation can be two were made In any one Inning,
Mr and Mrs. E P. Dodd. Mr. and of the grade school. Mr. Ford Is one
developed. Everyone who knows the
Last Sunday's summary la ommlt-
Mrs. C. S. McNanght, and Mr. and of the most stieceosful White Leghorn
Columbia concedes that the Columbia »«<• Can you guess why?
Mrs.
A. B. Robb are gnests at a sup­ breeders In the county and now has
will never bring cheap transporta-
-— — —-— ——— *
per party at the home of Mr. and Bout »ha 'peclmens of the breed In
—
—— —— ———
— ——
— — , A baby daughter was born to Mrs.
his yart,—East Oregonian
Mrs, J H. Reid, this evening
(Continued on page three)
Della Ted*r on June 2«.
HEW WILLAMETTE VALLEY
POLICE JUDGE HAS
3 "DfiCNK" CASES
HERMISTON TEAM
TWO MORE JUNE
WEDDINGS TODAY
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