THE
HER M ISTO N H E R A LD , H ERM ISTO N, OREGON,
be divided Into three different mem
berships— active members, social
Published every Thursday at Her. members and Junior members.— Uma
mlston. Umatilla County, Oregon by tilla Spokesman.
the Herald Publishing company, Inc.
M. L. O’Neal, of Fort Shaw, Mont
Entered as second class matter, ana, road engineer, and MesarB. Bal-
December 1906 at the postoffice at dock and Kelly engineers of the slate
Hermiston, Oregon.
highway were experimenting on one
mile of road west of town with Mr.
Subscription Sates
O'Neal’s method, working the road
For One Year ......................... ....62.00
from a mass of loose rock on top to
For Six Months .............— ___ 6100
a smooth surface, the large rocks be
Payable In Advance.
ing worked to the bottom and the
fine gravel to he top which gives a
Advertising Rates
Display ...................20 Cents per Inch emooth hard surface road. Mr. O’Neal
Classified or Local 10 Cents per Line appliance seemed to do the work,
for First Insertion, 5 Cents for Sub and with his method of mixing a
filler of gumbo or clay would give
MAKE them up
sequent Insertions.
a loose rock surface of the other part
to y o u r o r d e r .
of the road, and merits a thorough
MORE FARM LOANS BEING PAID
test by the county and state offici
THAN BEING RENEWED
Any size. Any color
als.— Umatilla Spokeseman.
WASHINGTON—From January
and any reading you
to August 31 Inclusive, the War Fi
nance Corporation received >118.-
may choose.
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es. During the last two weeks, of Au
gust the Corporation made new loans
Wheeler— Bank of Wheeler gets
for agricultural and live stock pur-
poseH of 6808.000. During the same charter. Has >15,000 capital stock.
two weeks It received from finan
Portland— Nine-story,
>350,000
WE CAN MAKE
cial institutions, live stock loan apartment house to be constructed.
companies and cooperative farming
PROMPT DELIVERY
Clatskanie— Clatsop Crest park to
associations the sum of >6,445,000 be built.
to repay loans which were made some
Gates— High School completed.
time during the last year.
Bend has prospects of another big
mill.
SOME MORE OLD ONES
Highway started between Island
I have heard of the local lumber City and Cove.
dealer who dictated a terse and tell
Hood River— >50,000 being spent
ing message in which he acknowledg improving curves on Columbia high
ed the receipt of a carload of knot way.
holes, and instructed the shipped to WInans City— Bridgo to be built
please send the knots I have heard over Hood River here.
of the man who visited the insanu
Klamath Falls— >30,000,000 tim
asylum, and, noticing that the clock ber land deal closed.
in the hall was several minutes fast,
Veneta— Eugene and Western mill
said to an attendant, “That clock operating.
isn’t right;” and the attendant re
Construction of Grants Pass Irri
plied: "Of course it isn't, hat’s why gation district completed. Comprises
it's here.” I have also heard of the 17,000 acres.
love of praise Is generally con
tramp who asked the lady for a
Portland—Active building opera nected with all the finer sensibilities
pieco of cake. "Cake!” echoed the tions start on Shrine hospital for of human nature. To be entirely des
titute of all this puRsion betokens an
woman, in surprise. "Isn't bread good crippled children.
CorvalllB— Cannery uses 60,000 Ignoble mind, on which no moral im
enough for you?” And the tramp re
pression Is easily made; for where
plied; "Ordlnurily, yes, ma’am, but cans a week and has weekly payroll there Is no desire of praise, there will
this is my birthduy.” I recall the of >1,000.
be no sense of reproach. But while it
Amity— New electric light and is admitted to be a natural and, in
story of the woman who told the
new servant to put the clohes in soak power system installed.
many respects, a useful principle of
and of he servant returning two
Eugene— New garage to be built. action, it is entitled to no more than
Roseburg to get >5000 clubhouse. our secondary regard. It has Its boun
hours later from a pawnbroker’s of
fice with two dollars. But the best
Canby—City to take over lighting | dary set, by transgressing which it Is
at once transformed from an Innocent
one I have heard Is on the severe- plant.
Into a most dangerous passion. When
Pendleton— Construction to start
looklng spinster, who was standing
passing its natural line. It becomes the
oi, the station platform, inspecting on new hospital.
ruling spirit of conduct; when the re
Portland— Boberts Motor Co. to gard we pay to the opinions of men
with undisguised curiosity the In
genious net arrangement which is erect >28,000 garage.
eneronehes on that reverence which
Bandon— New hotel nssured.
we owe to the voice of conscience nnd
able to sweep In mail bags while the
Eugene—Willamette Valley high the sense of duty, the love of praise,
train Is in swift motion. "Is she work
ing all right?” asked one of the of way to be surveyed from Crescent to having then gone out of Its proper
place, Insteud of elevating, debuses.—
ficials of the clerk. "Aye, Bill,” re Oakridge.
Doctor Smith.
plied the clerk. "Why do you call it
‘she’? inquired the usual athirst-for- NOT MUCH OF A SENSATION
Foiling the Check Forger.
Informatlon lady. "Because, madam,
A branch of crime that causes great
It'H a mall catcher," replied the Romantic Young Man, Looking for
loss to business men Is check forgery.
courteous official.
Something to Happen, Received
By the use of bleaching acids, ink
Something of a Jolt.
eradlcators and "penning,” check«
IRISH EUGENICS
made out for, say, >16, have been al
The romantic young man had innde tered to >1,600, and cashed for this
An Irishman, living In New York
friends
with
the
hotel
detective
early
Started what promises to be a large
amount. When such a swindle occurs,
family. A baby came regularly every in his stay nt the hotel, and he the hank concerned 1« not responsible
watched lilm most of the time, waiting
year for four years and then there to see something happen.
were no more. A friend said to him
He was Just crossing the lobby on
one day: "Pat, why Is It your wlfo his way to breakfast one morning
piesentn you with no more kiddlea?” when a woman entered the door, nnd
"I do not want any more, because” lie saw the detective prick up his ears
said Pat, "they say every flflh baby and follow after her.
born in New York Is a Jew.”—Au
The romantic young man turned In
Ills steps and followed, too. The wom
thor Unknown.
an was of middle age, well dressed, re
Flip, flipper, flapper— the three spectable looking, and In the moment
tlint she crossed, unconscious of her
degrees.
followers, all sorts of thoughts flushed
through the youth's head.
Women may get a permanent wavd;
Perhaps she was a famous burglar!
but no one gives men a permanent Perhaps she was some sort of secret
■have.
agent! Perhaps—
As she started to step Into the ele-
vntor the detective touched her shoul
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“Sir?” she demanded.
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Tlie detective opened his coat to
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allow her tils badge, nnd the romantic
C. E. Glasgow Is exhibiting n large young man watted breathlessly.
“I beg your pardon, madam,” said
cucumber this week measuring 16
inches from tip to tip and twelve the detective, "hut It’s against the
rules to have a dog In your rooms.”
and one-half inches around. It
The woman started, and there, peek
weighs 3 pounds and 14 ocunes. This ing out from beneath her fur coat, was
beats anything in line of a large cu the pink nose of u tiny poodle.
cumber the gentleman from the val
The romantic young man walked
ley advertised recently in the Ore hack toward the dining room disgust
gonian.— Boardman Mirror.
edly.—New York Globe.
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Hermiston
Herald
A club has been formed by the
younger set of Umnitlla under the
name of the Umatilla Athletic Club.
J D. Lee is president, Hugh Coulson,
treasurer, and Ruby Powell, secre
tary. The club has 22 charier mem
bers.
It Is planned to build a club house
In the near future with dance floor,
gym, and club rooms. The club will
The next war may have Its Invisible
airplanes, flying noiselessly above
cities and dropping bombs and disease
genus on unsuspecting Inhabitants,
according to a report of the executive
committee of the British parllamea-
tary air committee.
Recent discoveries are ssld to have
made an airplane Invisible at 20,000
feet nnd mufflers hnve been devised to
(nake the motors silent.
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Proper planning pays—financially—but
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Oregon City Woolen Mills
We have a few in stock arid can
get more in 3 days
Reliable Cleaners
for the loss unless the nctiiai signature
has been forged. The only method of
preventing these crimes is the use of
the patent check-writer, of which there
ure about fifty thousand In use. The
machine “shreds" the words and fig
ures Into the check. Acid-proof ink in
two colors is used and a check would
have to be destroyed before any alter
ation could oe made.
The Morrls-Oaneers.
In England, in medieval times, the
Christian feast of Penttcost absorbed
one of the summer festivals of the
pagan Inhabitants of western Euro|>e.
It was commonly celebrated In all
parts of the country by whut was
termed the Whltsun-ale, and it was a
great time for the Morris-dancers,
Antiquaries seem agreed that the old
English Morris-dance, so great a favor
ite in theMBIxteenth century, and still
used, wus derived through Spain from
the Moors, nnd thnt Its name in Span
ish, “Morisco,” a Moor, was takeu from
this circumstance.
Read the Wand Ads.
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Consider Troubles Philosophically.
Brood over troubles, and the mole- I
hills are soon turned into mountains; j
put them out of the mind—firmly—and ,
they soon are relegated to the limbo J
of the forgotten, where the truly wise |
store all those painful memories of 1
slights, unklndnesses, of friction, of '
loss, of mistaken Judgments—bitterest i
memory of all perhaps! Bury them!
too deep ever to be disturbed, and you
will have solved not only one great se- j
cret of happiness, but the almost
equally valuable one of perpetual '
youth of the body and mind, for with
the destruction of the weeds of mem
ory grow up fresh flowers In (lie gul
den of hone.—Exchange.
His Simple Plan.
“How did you contrive to live so
long?” asked the interviewer.
“I didn't make any particular plans,”
said the brisk centenarian.
“No?”
“I Just kept hopping out of beC
every morning until lae first thing X
knew I had been doing It a hundred
years.”—Birmingham Age-Herald.
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