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ÖHw Ibrmtöinn Ita tlà W urtali you A Äarry dtyrtetmaa VOL. XVII HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1922 PERDICT BIG FUTURE FOR DAIRYING HERE SPECIALISTS FROM BREEDERS’ SCHOOL ADDRESS MEETING B etter Quality Cihrary lettrftt Sail Nrtu fear a Niyljt Rather Than crease in Number of Cows is Aim, Federal Man Says In •isiwas Times 5/lontf Ago JERSEY BREEDERS HEREJEORGANIZED -K M a u p in CHRISTMAS Eve! Torn low the figfib; let Athwart the curtained windows there, and play along is time for rest; 'tis tine to prt awa; i that beset the weary boon of day. i Christmas Eve! Quick, stir the And m its ruddy glow U five again those happy Of Christinas times of long PLAN FOR YOUNGER No. 15 D R O PPED FR O m SARTA’S PACK HEAVY STORMS MAY CAUSE HAY FAMINE STOCK MANY TURNING TO DAIRYING THROUGHOUT PROJECT AS SAFER MARKET State, County and Government Speci Short Crop and Early W inter Caus alists Convene W ith Dairy, ing Unusual E mand From men Here This Section “Prosperity follows the dairy The Hermiston Jersey Breeders' cow.” association was reorganised at tha paths; the old-time friends we’ll med; This Is a slogan that has been breeders* school here Tuesday and adopted by certain dairy organiza old-time homes i f yooth w e l trip with merry feel Wednesday. Thls reorganization will tions and it very well fits the coun younger and better dairy stock hand, and heart to heart, w e l tread youth sgold{ ways, mean try as a whole, according to H. A. throughout the project, according to Mathiesen of Salt Lake City, field County Agent Fred Bennion, who die joyous hopes we fired ■ man for the dairy division of the was here conducting the school. The dock this United States department of agri More than a dozen breeders from culture, who is here addressing the the project were in attendance at Breeders' School and who addressed the school which convened Tuesday _ tide a the Commercial <ilub at their regular In the Methodist church and Wednes weekly meeting Tuesday noon at the day made a “junketing” trip to var i^ f lf f lr is t a a s times of lu g Oregon Cafe. ious ranches in the community. It is not necessarily the aim of N. C. Jamison, dairy specialist of And so another Christinas comes. We finger in the gloom the department to increase the num O. A. C., was the speaker at the ber of dairy cows in the various sec Tuesday morning session. He urged While ghostly forms of childhood’s friends troop in and fil the room? tions of the United States, Mr. Math the breeding of better stock and told ieson told the club members, but of the economical value of dairying eak To memory’s view come visions thick and rather the effort is to better the in this section. Dr. B. T. Simms of we five again the dear days of the past quality. the agricultural college explained to the breeders at the afternoon meet Time the tide of fife tarns back, He quoted figures that showed ing the dangers of infection by con the relative prosperity of the dairy And on its ebbing flow tinued in-breeding. He pointed out countries and the wheat Countries, the need of new stock on the project. We tide api W g e U n lm _ with the dairy sections well in the a result of the reorganization, lead. He declared that practically Of Gristmas floes r f I s * g e l ' e ’ S * the As association will get one or more everywhere banks showed larger de young bulls into' this dairy section posits from dairymen In a dairy sec. this season, it l8 said by the various tion than from farmers in sections members of the organization. JOY AND MERRIMENT WILL PRE where other products are foremost. H. A. Mathieson of Salt Lake City, Dr. B. T. Simms of the Oregon VAIL IN HERMISTON connected with dairy division of the Agricultural College and N. C. «Jam department of agriculture, took an ison, dairy specialist from the state active part in the meetings. college, spoke encouragingly of the Family Gatherings W ill Hold Spot- Weir of Hermiston* by Robert Louis By A. C. Voelker prospects in this section: Dr. Simms L ight; Weather Promises # SHOTWELL HOME SCENE "The wilderness and the solitary Stevenson. pointed out the great work that was OF DELIGHTFUL PARTY being done in combating diseases places shall be glad for them and the to he Favorable McNaught F irst Postm aster among dairy cattle and urged great desert shall rejoice and blossom as The postoffice was established in One of the pleasant parties of last er support and co-operation from the rose.” Isaiah 35, 1. March 1905 In the office of the Max week was the one Wednesday even Christmas, (hat day that every those Interested in the livestock in The fulfillment of this prophecy well company with J. F. McNaught ing) at the Shotwell home in honor dustry. made about 3500 years ago, has been as postmaster, but later in the year of the birthday anniversary of Ir child In the land looks forward to Mr. Jamison said that indications brought about by various agencies. was transfered to the store of the win Shotwell. A delightful evening with anticipation, will be here Mon were that dairying could be carried Men who beheld the barren waste of Hermiston Mercantile Co. where It wa9 spent in dancing and card play day. For the big majority It will be a on here with greater economy than desert land, had the vision to see the remained for several years. Messrs. ing. Delicious refreshments were in many other places where condi cactus and sage brush supplanted by Bland and Donovan organized the served including a big birthday cake day of Joy and merriment, for a very alfalfa and the rose, the jack rabbit Hermiston Mercantile Co., erected a (decorated with candles. The guestn small ^minority it will perhaps mean tions are not as favorable. and coyote giving way to cattle and store in 1905 and began a general were: Phyllis Dyer, Arloulne Robin sorrow. In Hermiston a cheery Mer Fred Bennion, county agent, told the gathering of what the Breeders’ hogs, the modern Rhode Island Red mercantile business. A freight cat son, Mabel Brown, Mary Currie, Mar ry Christmas will prevail. Family gatherings will hold the School was attempting to do in the poultry usurping the place of the served as depot until 1907 when the garet Neary, Lucille Sullivan, Ida spotlight with sons and daughters, railroad company erected the build sage hen, and great green stacks of way of bettering the quality of dairy Rhodes, Melba Callahan, Harold alfalfa standing where once stood ing which is still In use but which Waterman, Gwyn Hughes, Arthur whq have taken up their abode In stock in this community. other places, home with the folks hag become inadequate to the pres Following the various addresses, only deep dunes of shining sand. Rubner, Chester Rhodes, Lawrence for ChriBtmas. ent needs. The Bank of Hermiston resolutions were adopted by the It is only through years of bone Winslow and Dan Winesett. If the buying at the stores is any Commercial club promising their sup breaking toil that the checker board waB established in 1906 by F. B. indication, there will be many pres port to the plan to ask the legisla of canals and ditches have been Swayze and was nationalized in 1908 SCHOOLS WILL HAVE ents exchanged. They report a vol ture to pass an appropriation for the built that turned the living waters of as the First National Bank of Herm TWO-WEEKS VACATION ume of business. work of carrying on the fight against the Umatilla and made the desert of iston. This institution has weather Weather conditions promise to be cattle diseases in the state. the Hermiston project blossom not as ed the financial storing of the years • A two-weeks vacation is here for a rose, but a» acre upon acre of sun and has tided many a hard pressed teachers and pupils of the Hermis favorable. The snow is melting fast caressed orchards and verdant alfal. rancher and business man over a crls. ton schools. Classes will be dismiss and tunshine Is the forecast. MASONS ELECT AND ed Friday afternoon and will not With school closed there are is. INSTALL OFFICERS fa fields. And this desert, which is no In 190^ Congress passed the Recla take up again until January 8, 1923. plans for several entertainments longer a desert, is dear to those who Many of the Instructors are plan during the holiday period. Probably Election and installation of of had the vision to see beneath the mation Act appropriating all mon ficers of Hermiston lodge No. 138, A. crust of shifting sands, its great and eys received from the sale of public ning trips out of town during the the most consptclous of these will lands In certain states, excepting the holiday. Parties and entertainments be the Library Ball New Years night F. & A. M. was held on Tuesday generous heart. will be In order among the students. at the Auditorium. Among the evening, December 5. The fortunes of Hermiston are 5 per cent set aside for educational special numbers on the program The following officers were install closely interwoven with, and cannot purposes, to be used In the examin that has been arranged is the ap Announces Ad Omissions ation and survey, for the construc ed: be separated from those of the sur- The editorial staff of the High pearance of Miss Melba Calahan in Frank C. Woughter, W. M.: H. M. ' rounding country, for the prosperity tion and maintenance of Irrigation Schilling. R. W.: O. G. Sapper, J. W.; | of the town depends on the success works, for storage, diversion and de School Mirror wishes to announce the “Bluebird” dance. At the churches special services A. W. Agnew, secretary; F. B. I of the ranchers who are developing velopment of waters for the reclama that through, an error the ads of . Swayze, treasurer; W. A. Leathers, the country and making the region tion of arid and semi-arld lands. W. J. Warner and Dr. R. G. Gale will be held Christmas Eve. Hermiston is going to have a S. D. ; W. W. Felthouse, J. D.; O. O. inhabitable. Oregon Is one of the states affected were omitted from the Christmas “ Merry Christmas.” Edition of the Mirror. by this act. Felthouse, S. S.; I. E. Putman. J. S.; Sprague First Settler J. N. Smith, tylêr; F. P. Adams, The Umatilla project, one of the In 1900, two years before Congress ❖ ♦♦❖ ♦♦♦♦❖ ♦♦<9<9<9«9<94>4- Methodist Church N otes Chaplin. ■ passed the Reclamation Act, an Eng- two government projects in Oregon, Sunday school at 10 o’clock. ♦ ♦ lies In the basin of the Columbia _ . , .. . . , , lishman. L. S. J. Spargur, filled on Morning worship at 11 o’clock. ♦ IRRIGON SCHOOL AND TOWN Royal Arch Chapter No. 40 elect- . . , i_ .u ' „ . i water rights in the Umatilla river rlver?_190 miles east of Portland in Christmas sermon by the pastor. ♦ NEWS ♦ ed the following officers Wednesday, . . . under state laws with the intention latitude 46, longitude 119. The na Special music. Epworth League at ♦ -9 ture of the soil and the evidences of December • of irrigating the Hermiston valley 6:45. Christmas program at 8 August F. Beisse, High Priest: L. . s ... • _ _ ... ... and creating a stock ranch. He ac- sea life show that the region was Each Sunday school teacher is re Brownell, King: F. C. Woughter, Only three more days to Christ qulred title to about 1100 acres, but submerged until the Columbia river sponsible for the class on Sunday Scribe; S. C. Lochrle, Capt. of Host; on acount of his wife’s poor health cut through the Cascades and drain evening, Christinas Eve, and a good mas and Christmas morning will Carl Voyen, Principal Sojourner; P. abandoned the project. D. C. Brown ed tho area. The annual rainfall is program is being arranged with plen find many little heads busy over Norquist, Royal Arch Capt.; A. L. ell, now of Umatilla, secured an op only 9 Inches. Insufficient to produce ty of good music. It Is expected that many toys; pretty colored toys Pran, secretary: T. D. Worster, tion to buy Mr. Spargur’s Interests crops for human sustenance and the the church will be well filled with play an important part but only treas.; Christ Seitz, Master 1st rail; a short time. Christmas trees, can with water right, and later sold his barren waste wad of no value to man good cheer all around. Jack Smith, Master "2nd rail; E. J. dy and playthings— and a Santa option to W. H. Skinner, L. W. Furn except that In the early spring sheep Kingsley, Master 3rd rail; A. G. as and others. Claus, too—that’s Christmas to the were pastured on the bunch grass B u lletin for Dairymen Johnson, sentinal. children. The Joy they get front it which flourished as a result of the In the spring of 1904, J. F. Mc- The Oregon Agricultural College deepens the spirit of the day, adds wmter moisture. Naught and G. L. Rankin bought all has Just issued a Bulletin on Con realism to the fact that It is more Surveys Made tagious Abortion prepared by Dr. blessed to give than receive. The ♦ ♦ the original Spargur holdings with Under director of the Reclamation ♦ ANNUAL LIBRARY BALL * a view of building an irrigation Service, F. H. Newell and Engineer Simms and Prof. Miller ot the col community will have a real oppor ANNOUNCED; “ MIDNIGHT ♦ system and furnishing flood water J. T. Whistler, eurveys were made In lege staff and is perhaps ths only tunity to have the spirit of Christ MATINEE" SURPRISE * from the Umatilla river to future set 1903-4 In Oregon, which showed that like bulletin issued either by fed mas reflected In the two programs ---------- « tlers Later. Mr. McNaught secured eral or state authority. Copies of which they will have the good for it was impracticable to reclaim this Topping the social calendar <• the interests of Mr. Rankin and or land by the waters of the Snake or he Bulletin may be obtained by In tune to henr this year. The parents ♦ for the season will be the Libra- •> ganized the Maxwell Land and Irri the Columbia rivers, but that some of terested dairymen by addressing will have the pleasure on Friday eve ♦ ry Ball New Years night at the ♦ gation Co. wlilch purchased from the the area could be watered by divert County Agent Fred Bennion at Pen- ning to see the children in dialogues ♦ Auditorium. This annual affair ♦ Merchant’s National Bank of Port ing and storing water from the Uma 1 die ton, Oregon. pantomines, songs and drills. In the ♦ that is sponsored each year by ❖ land about 8000 acres of what was tilla river. A reservoir site was locat program which the school will put ♦ the Library Board, promises ♦ known aa Northern Pacific lands. W ill Serve New Year’i Dinner on in the school auditorium at that ed In a natural depression In T2 N The M. E. Ladies Aid will serve time. The church Is also preparing ♦ to surpass any achievement of ❖ The first ground was broken or Rs24 and 25 E. In September 1904 ♦ past seasons. ♦ 'eage brush grubbed' In August 1904, the United States government notifl- , a big New Year's dinner at the for a <Aod entertainment and Christ- ♦ Elaborate plans have been ♦ when Mr. McNaught came with his ed the Oregon state engineer that the church parlors on Monday, Janu ma, tree on Saturday evening. ♦ made for the affair and the ❖ engineers and crew. The first build United States Intended to utilize all ary 1st. 1923. ♦ headlight of the evening, ac- «■ ing was an office of the company. unappropriated waters of the Umatil Everybody comet Dinner will Miss Carrie Skells was called to ♦ cording to the present arrange- ♦ which was followed by a warehouse la. December 27, 1904 the board of start promptly at 1 p. m. Portland Friday night upon receiv ♦ meats, will be the “Midnight ♦ and several entail residents. Owing engineers recommended In their an ing word that her grandfather had ♦ Matinee.” You perhaps will ♦ to the .fact that the railroad had a nual report that authority be given Baptist Church Notes passed away afer a brief illness. ♦ get many a surprise at Christ* Sunday school 10 a. m. pasetng track here, called Maxwell's for the construction of the reservoirs She remained with her parents over ♦ mas, but they will be aa nothing aiding an official of the railroad and canals. In 1905 Congress appro Morning worship 11 a. m. the week-end and returned home on ♦ in comparison with the stir- ♦ company, the new organization was Theme ’The Nativity of Christ.” priated *1.000.000 for the construc Monday. j ♦ prise that is In store for you at ♦ given the name Maxwell Land and tion of what was to be known as the Christmas program 7:30 p. m. ♦ the "Midnight Matinee." «■ Irrigation Co. and It was the inten Come and bring your friends. Umatilla Irrigation Project. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Beavert of ♦ Aa Invitation Is extended to ♦ tion <n name the town Maxwell, hot Rev. W. W Davis, pastor. In 1905 the government purchased Stanfield visited at ths home of J. ♦ everyone by the Library Board ❖ the application was refused by the from the Maxwell Co. Its canal sys ♦ which consists of Mrs. J. T. Hin- ♦ Poet off ire department for there was tem and all its water rights for *15,. Don’t forget the gift meeting of D. Beavert, Saturday and Sunday. ♦ hie, Mrs. Erva Kingsley. George ♦ , Maxwell poet office in another part 000 In cash and paid up water rights the Neighborhood club at the Co ♦ Paterson. F. C. Woughter and ♦ ot the state. Tha name Hermiston on 300 acres of land, and assumed lumbia school house Wednesday, Ralph and Ouy Beneflel are visit ing at their homes this week before ♦ H. M. Schilling. ♦ was suggested by Mrs. McNamee, the obligations of the Maxwell Co. to December 27. ♦ ♦ wife of one of the members of ths ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ company who had just rand 'The Merry Christmas (Continued on page four) (Continued on Page two) By L. A. Hunt Manager Hay Growers Ass’n. The heavy losses suffered by hay growers during the last two year» have caused many to plow up large areas of their fields and a large number of others to turn to dairying in an endeavor to provide a safer marketing for their product. The re- Isult is a very heavy shrinkage in the hay production available tor ex port. During the last few months the greater part of the hay has been bought by feeders and dealers, and at the present time only a compara tively small amount is in the hands of the grower. The very short crop of hay. combined with the early winter In western Oregon and Wash ington is creating an unusually heavy demand from this section. The result is that prices are jump ing in a manner that will certainly compel stock men to turn to corn or some other substitute for hay. It Is ¡clear to anyone familiar with the general situation that there is not sufficient hay to take care of the de. -9 ♦ , mand, and other forage must be sub- ♦ POST OFFICE OPEN ♦ i stituted. ♦ PART TIME SUNDAY ♦ Hay is now selling at *20 per ton <■ AND CHRISTMAS DAY ♦ f. o. b. cors in nearly all Oregon hay ■9 --------- « ¡production districts, with little avali- <• Postmaster C. H. Skinner an- «9 j able supply. Prices in the Yakima ♦ nounces that the post office will «9 valley are rapidly approaching this ♦ be open until 11 o’clock Sun- ❖ figure, and If the present severe <• day morning and until noon on ❖ weather should continue, it is likely <• Christmas day to accomodate ❖ to work some hardship upon live ♦ those who wish to get their ❖ stock owners. The only apparent so <9 mall or to send packages. <9 lution is tho substitution of other <• <9 feeds. ALL NATIONS TO OBSERVE CHRISTMAS NEXT MONDATI PIONEER HISTORY OF • HERMISTON IS COLORFUL I t * * RITNER GRANTS AMANN CONDITIONAL PARDON NEWS GLEANED ABOUT THE TOWN ♦ * Roy W. RItner, governor in ths * absence ot Governor Olcott, has 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4« Mrs. A. S. Johnson will spend the holidays with relatives in Portland and Eugene. Mrs. A. A. "White was a visitor In Pendleton over the week-end. A. W. Agnew was one of the in terested dairymen attending the Breeders' School. About 15 of the dairymen went out to C. M. Jackson's and Roy Sullvan's Wednesday morning on a tour. More than 20 made up the party on the afternoon trip out in- o the Columbia district. granted -a conditional pardon to K. C. Amann on the strength of a pe tition freely signed by Umatilla county citizens. He says that a con dition in the pardon is that Amann reimburse the couty for its loss by paying at least *26 a month. Un less theso payments are made he may be returned to the penitentiary. Amann thinks he can pay off a con siderable part of the sum at once and make larger payments than *25 a month. Amann was sentenced to serve five years In the state penitentiary in the Umatilla county circuit court on October 19, 1921, just 14 months ago yesterday. The charge on which he was sentenced was forgery of an endorsement. The Sunbeam Rebekah Lodge No. 180 of Hermiston put on the de COUNTY TAXES TO BE gree work at Echo Tuesday night. SMALLER NEXT YEAR Forty-one from here attended the Umatilla county will have to raise gathering. less taxes for the state of Oregon In Dr. M. S. Kern of Pendleton was 1923 by almost *34,000 under what s business visitor in Hermiston was paid this year, according to the apportionment made by the state Wednesday. tax commissioner to the county. The portion Umatilla will have to E. P. Dodd and E. E. Brown went raise for state purposes thlB coming to Portland Wednesday night on a year is *414,817.12, according; to business trip. the commissioner. During 1922 the county paid the state *448,817.1*. Carpenters are, at work erecting This decrease will be of considerable the derrick at the well of the North eastern Oregon Oil Exploration benefit to the purses of taxpayers. Company on the George Root place. County Clerk Brown believes. Work is expected to be completed Not the least of the deposed sul today. Drilling will be resumed as soon as the derrick Is finished. The tan's troubles, one surmises, are the impending suits for non-suport.— well is down now about 7 5 feet. Norfolk Virginia-Pilot. Miss Lillian LIttler, former Herm Merry Christmas iston resident, will be a visitor In the city over the holidays. Miss LIt tler Is teaching at Astoria. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 ♦ ♦ George Bancroft, local apalrist, ♦ FIRE DESTROYES BARN ♦ shipped a ease of honey to California ♦ AND OTHER PROPERTY ♦ last Thursday. More and more Is ♦ AT SMITH PALMER'S ♦ Oregon honey coming to the fore. 4 ---------- ♦ Especially Is this evinced by the fact ❖ Fire Tuesday night destroy- ♦ thnt California Is one of the greatest 4 ed the barn and other holdings 4 honey producing states In the union ♦ of Smith Palmer five miles ♦ and Hermiston honey Is being sent 4 north of Hermiston resulting 4 4 In a loss estimated at several ♦ there. 4 thousand dollars. ♦ The E. H. Mackley house on Gladys ♦ Some 30 or 40 tons of hay, ♦ avenue, formerly the Burkendlne ♦ his silo, barn, some machinery ♦ place, was sold ibis week to Jens ♦ and other small buildings were ♦ Skovbo. J. M. Biggs, local realtor, ♦ burned. All the livestock, which ♦ handled the deal. Mr. Skovbo Is plan ♦ Included several head of cat- ♦ ning to remodel the house. ♦ tin and horses that were la the ♦ ♦ barn, were lost In the confla- ♦ Others at the Round-Up city from ♦ gratlnn. Origin of the fire la ♦ here were Mrs. J. F. Bllderbsck and ♦ not known. It ie reported that ♦ Mis« Ada Soneson. ♦ ♦ there was no Insurance. ■9 Mr. Palmer is a well known ♦ A 10(4 pound baby was born last ♦ rancher of this community, ♦ Thursday to Mr. and Mrs. E. R. ♦ having been here many years. ♦ Crocker. Both Mrs. Crocker and the ♦ He had one of the best equip- ♦ boy are doing nicely. Mr. Crocker ♦ ped places on the project. ♦ Is connected with the reclamation ♦ ♦ service here. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
