ÛHw Hermtfíínn Wralh
VOL. XVII
HERMISTON. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY. APRIL 12. 1928
No. 31
The lambs were purchased for >10
CHINESE OPERETTA,
per hundred and sold for >14.00 per
“CRIMSON EYEBROWS”
hundred in Portland, which was
equivalent to >13.28 on the farm.
Hermiston Commercial Club and Col
Hermiston Hifch School Students in
A profit of from >3.02 to >3.85 per
umbia Farm Bureau Draft Set
Cast of Delightful Offering
hundred
was
secured
on
the
gains.
of Resolutions
Including the first cost of the
The people of Hermiston will be
The Columbia Farm Bureau held IAMBS PAY GOOD RETURNS FOR lambs, hay and grain at the prices HAY GROWERS WILL STUDY THE given a real treat of home talent pro
CLARENCE ROBINETT HAS ACCI
Voting for the May Queen is pro
a meeting last Saturday evening the
given above with charges for labor,
DENT
HAY FED
duction Friday, April 13, when the gressing satisfactorily. Judging by
PROBLEMS PRESENTED
purpose of which was to fight the
lumber, dip and salt and shipping
Chinese operetta, “Crimson Eye- the posfFT ballot list In headquarters
proposed “oleo” referendum which
expenses the total outlay was
brows." will be given at the high window, there seemg to be a slight
Taken to Hospital in Pendleton Mon the Associated Industries of Port Umatilla Experiment Station Feeds >2114.80, and the selling price was Interest Rate Charged by Federal school auditorium. The cast of char stagnation In comparison with the
land are trying to bring before the
>2417.80, leaving a balance of >303-
day. Believed that No Perma
acters was picked from members of Interest shown in the voting, but
Lambs During Winter to Deter
Government Will be Five and One
people for a vote.
62.
Or, from another point of view,
nent Injury Will Result
the high school student body and ac let no one be deceived, for it Is mere
mine Feasibility
half Per Cent
The Bureau appointed J. II. Reid
to determine the value of lambs as a
cording to reports each one Is doing ly the calm before the storm. No
to come before the Hermiston Com
means of marketing hay, the costs
one has been able to forecast the
excellent In the rehearsals.
other than hay were >1784.33, which
Clarence RIblnett, who Is employ mercial Club and ask them for their
The plot of the play centers about number of votes that will come in
The advocates of the rural credit
The
Umatilla
Experiment
Station
ed by the C. S. McNaught Co., of support in an endeavor to kill the at Hermiston during the winter fed deducted from the selling price leaves legislation which has just been ap the early history of China, when the the last two days, but there is a
this city, caught his right hand In referendum. Mr. Reid put the mat lambs to determine primarily the >633.47 for 32.98 tons of hay which proved by the president have said throne was seized by a usurper, Wang grave shaking of heads and a predic
the hay chopper last Monday after ter before this body last Tuesday. feasibility of marketing alfalfa hay is at the rate of >19.23 per ton for great things for it. This was true Many. In order to get rid of the tion that some tali voting is going
noon. tearing the flesh and badly Dr. Prime, president of the club. ap. by using it to fatten lambs and sec hay. No small part of the returns of the War Finance Corporation, rightful heir. Princess Ting Ling to be done.
People that you
pointed a committee of two to onfer
not included above was 46 tong of
mangling this member.
the court astrologer, told the prin- wouldn’t think would care a fig who
which
gave
little
if
any
relief
to
the
ondarily
to
determine
the
relative
The accident happened a few min with Mr. Reid in the matter. The value of the various grains as sup- manure which was left on the farm small farmers. The new bill, how cesg that she was Venus In another was May Queen of the Pageant have
men appointed were 0. C. Young and
It is believed that the manure and
utes before quittng time.
ever, was framed with the idea of existence and belonged to Neptune. gald they had a ten spot tucked away
pliments to alfalfa for feeding.
refuse hay would about pay for the
Robinett was working around the L. A. Hunt. These three men have
providing
cheaper money for agricul The purpose of this was to lure her for the eleventh hour and were go
Two hundred and fourteen head of feed consumed before the regular
chopper and In some unexplainable drafted a resolution which will be
tural
production
expense, cheaper to the sea to drown her. In the ing to use it. And remember, not
Hampshire and Cotswold lambs used fedlng started.
manner his hand came in contact sent to the Portland Chamber of
money
to
finance
livestock
operations meantime Ting Ling meets Fan one, but sevearl have said this!
for the experiments were divided
with the sharp knives of the machine. Commerce, the State Chamber of
In order to avoid any discussion as
Chong, leader of the “Crimson Eye
and
to
offer
marketing
organizations
into
4
lots
of
50
head
each
and
14
L. W. Furnas Dies
He was carried to Dr. Illsley's office Commerce, the State Dairy Assocla
brows," a band of young insurgents to the correct hour of closing it has
certain
finances
at
reasonable
in
and the doctor administered first tion and the Oregon State Grange, as f head ot cuIls were Placed in a lot
Word has just been received an terest. rates. The farmers of the and she falls In love with him, think been decided to sound one tap of the
by themselves. Grain was fed at the
uM. Later he was taken to Pendle well as to different newspapers
nouncing
the death of L. W. Furnas, Irrigated districts have been giving ing him to be Neptune. A series of fire bell at 6 o’clock Monday night,
rate of 1 pound per day per head
ton and placed in a hospital in that throughout the state.
an ex-resident of this city, who died this hill considerable study and have complicatloi^s arise In which the and at that time the three ballot
when
on
full
feed.
One
lot
each
re
The
following
is
the
resolution
city.
built a certain amount of hope there army under the leadership of the boxes will be positively and finally
ceived corn, wheat, oats and barley recently in California.
adopted.
young insurgent, enters the conflict closed and voting will stop. Votes
Mr.
Furnas
moved
to
California
on.
It is believed that there are no per
WHEREAS, The dairy industry and the cull lot received barley. All some time ago.
and restores the princess to her will be posted every two hours Mon
manent injuries to the ligaments of
The
Hay
Growers
Association
have
lots
received
all
the
hay
they
would
throne.
day afternoon so that you may know
the hand and that the accident will of Oregon is one of major importance eat. The lambs were started on feed
also been studying the problem pre
not only from the standpoint of the
The cast of characters is as fol where your candidate stands all the
In no way deprive him of its use.
sented
by
thls
bill,
with
the
hope
of
December
1
and
fed
until
March
10,
volume of business, but as the basis
time, and after the boxes are closed
securing better finances for their lows:
of fertility for much of the state, and a period of 99 days. Half the grain
an
auxiliary committee of three busi
Princess
Ting
Ling...Mabel
Brown
members than they at present enjoy.
WHEREAS, The importance of was fed in the morning and half in
ness men will go over the votes again
Ah Me, cousin of Ting Ling......
Business
men
feel
that
if
it
is
possi
the
evening
and
hay
was
kept
before
dairy products lies not alone in their
...................................Melba Callahan as a check on the counting.
ble to obtain cheaper money for the
economic value, but in the fact that them at all times. Thei test9 were
special coasssroNDCNca
Star Eye, Court Astrologer..........
small
farmer,
that
every
reasonable
conducted
In
open
lots
without
shel
they are essential to the health and
................................ Michael McKern
effort should be put forth to forward
Miss Florence Hannan is absent welfare of the general public and es ter. The hay was fed through pan
The standing Thursday A. M.:
Fan Chong, leader of the “Crlm
front school this week on account of pecially the proper development of els and the grain in troughs. The WILL VIEW THE UMATILA IRRI the movement.
son
Eyebrows"......Embry
Warrlner
GATION PROJECT
ELEANOR BRIGGS ................... 752
illness.
Just how desirable and just how Hlng Lee, an officer In the army
the child; and where the dairy indus lambs had continuous access to fresh
water
and
salt.
accessible
is
this
federal
money,
and
try of the Northwest is seriously
.................................Ralph Longhorn MELBA CALLAHAN.................. 830
Misses Verna and Alice Locke of menaced by the use of milk and but
what must be done to secure It? Neptune............................. _.Roy Sllvey
The average weight per lamb at
Walla Walla, took dinner at the ter substitutes; and
the beginning of the test was 51.2 D. W. Davis, Assistant Secretary at And is this within the reach of the Buddha........................... Anita Paulsen GERTRUDE BEISSE..................... 600
the Interior, and A. P. Davis, Di
home of Charles Williams Sunday.
irrigation farmer?
WHEREAS, The act pased by the pounds except the culls which weigh
Wang, usurper emperor..Earl Bensel
rector Reclamation, Here May 5
........ 557
last legislature relating to the adul ed 40.7. The avrage gain per head
In answer to these questions it
The chorus is composed of fifty NANCY McNAUGHT
was
33.9
pounds
which
was
at
the
The vaudeville act at the Farm Bu teration of milk products and the sale
seems possible to state with reason high school pupils.
ARLOUINE ROBINSON ............. 319
reau meeting Saturday night was thereof is well designated to protect late of .343 pounds per head per day.
able accuracy that the interest rates
D. W. Davis, former governor of which will be charged by the federal
pronounced very good. The pig club the interests of both producer and The corn fed lambs gained the most
LETA THOMAS ............................ 314
by 2.3 pounds per head above the Idaho and at present acting In the government will be 514 per cent.
held a meeting with 15 members consumer; and
present. Important phases of club-
LUCILLE SULLIVAN
.......... 270
WHEREAS. The Associated In average and the oats least by 1 capacity of special secretary of the
This money must either be hand
special ooaaasroNDBNca
work were discussed, so the club is dustries of Portland have invoked the pound less than the average. The Interior, accompanied by A. P. Davis, led by a local bank or by a credit
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Howard and
well under way.
referendum
upon this act; and gains of the wheat and barley fed director of the Reclamation service, organization formed for this partic.
Ed. Williams, who has one of the
P. C. Bishop were in Hermiston Fri
will
visit
Hermiston
Saturday,
May
5,
lambs
were
practically
equal
to
the
whereas this referendum is by no
ular purpose, and Inasmuch as the day.
largest henneries in the west end of
according
to
reports
received
from
allowance of
per cent is not
Jack Downing is slowly recovering means in accord with the proposition average, with the wheat slightly
the. county, brought in a shipment of
Washington, D. C.
sufficient to Justify banks in taking
from an operation for appendicitis often stated by the Portland Cham- higher than the barley.
eggs from Hermiston to Pendleton
The
men
are
coming
to
the
North
Misg
Carrie
Skeils
returned
to
her
care of the matter, it seems almost
The average amount of hay of
in the hospital at Walla Walla. He j ber of Commerce that the agricultu
yesterday.— Sunday Morning Pendle
ral interests of this state are suffer- fered was 3.1 pounds per day per west on a tour of inspection of re certain that if any cheap money is school Tuesday. She was called to ton Tribune.
is attended by his mother.
I ing especially at this time; and head. The corn lot ate the largest clamation projects. They will ar to be secured for the small farmer her home in Portland to attend the
rive In Klamath Falls May 1, spend in this district a credit association funeral, of her grandmother, Mrs.
A delightful surprise party was where as the Portland Chamber of amount with wheat, barley and oats
Don't fall to see Jane Warner,
ing a day investigating conditions
Carrie Selleck. Her mother, Mrs,
staged by a group of Columbians last Commerce are now professing them- j following in the order mentioned, there. They will leave Klamath must be established.
Margaret Watermnn and Dorothy
T.
H.
Skeils,
accompanied
her
home
Such an agricultural credit corpo
Wednesday night on Mr. and Mrs. selves to be the friends of the agri- ; The average amount of hay refused Falls for Portland arriving In that
and will spend some time visiting In Straw Interpret “Valse Gracleuse" at
Donaldson and son Francis Games cultural lnterestg of this state; now , was 26.7 per cent. It lg believed city on May 4. The following day ration must have a minimum capital Irrigon.
Melba Callahan’s show, April 19—
i that the refuse was cleaned up too
stock of >10,000. The subscribers
were In order after which refresh therefore be it,
Adv,
they
will
reach
Hermiston.
Umatil
RESOLVED, By the Columbia close and that the amount refused
to this stock could be assured only
ments were served. Mr. and Mrs.
James Warner and son Harvey
la will also receive a visit from the nominal interest upon same In the
Donaldson are soon to leave for Hood Farm Bureau and the Hermiston was larger than necessary.
were Hermiston visitors Friday.
officials while in this territory.
Since the first primordial savage
Commercial
club,
both
of
Hermiston,
The
average
amount
of
hay
requir
early
years
of
the
corportlon,
as
It
River.
From here they will go to Spokane. would seem advisable for their pro
whirled round his fire in the night,
Oregon, that we go on record as en ed to make 100 pounds of gain wqs
Mrs. W. T. Eggleston spent the humanity has danced its way through
dorsing the bill as passed and de 905 pounds and of grain 276 pounds. Three days will be given for an in tection that the full 1% per cent be
A. E. Meyer, who recently moved
nounce the referendum as a move The corn lot required the same as the spection of the Columbia Basin irrl charged and that any earnings from week-end vlBlting her husband in the ages. Since then the dance has
from here to Portland, has taken up
Pasco, Wash.
told what speech has failed to utter.
ment unfriendly to the agricultural average amount of hay per 100 gation project.
this source be thrown into a reserve
contracting In that city.
Conceptions of beauty, unrevealed
interests of the whole state, and be pounds of gain while the wheat lot
fund.
This
corporation
would
have
Mr. B. T. Locke returned from St.
Prof. C. F. Grover and family ac mysteries of nature, murmurings of
Bee Men to Hear Lecture
It further
. required more and the oats and bar
a rediscount privilege with the fed
Anthony’s hospital In Pendleton last
Bee men of Umatilla county will eral Intermediate credit banks of companied by Miss Corrigan, spent inspirations, and all the dormant
RESOLVED,
That
we
call
upon
ley
lot
less.
The
corn
lot
required
Sunday evening.
Saturday shopping in Peudleton.
dreams, have been narrated through
the Portland Chamber of Commerce the lowest amount of grain per 100 on Wednesday and Thursday of this ten times its capital stock.
the rhythmic poetry of art. The
week
see
demonstration
work
by
to announce to the general public pounds gain while the requirement
Farmers desiring loams through
Batle Rand was In Hermiston on perfection of the dance lies in the
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Nelmeyer were the names of those who compose the Increased directly from the wheat, Professor H. A. Scullen of O. A. C. this association would be entitled to
home Sunday from the Sheridan so-called Associated Industries of barley and oats fed lots. The total Professor Scullen will also lecture to three years time upon paper proper busines Saturday.
graceful whole, the “tout ensemble,"
ranch where Mr. Nelmeyer Is work Portland, that the whole state may amount of hay fed was 32.98 tons the honey producers. On Wednes ly secured for the purchase of live
he turn of the head, the soft finish
Mrs. Jay Berry Is seriously 111 at of the arm work, the bend of the
ing.
day a visit will be made to the de stock for winter feeding. There also
Judge to what extent the Portland and the grain9.55 tons
monstration apiary conducted by L. seems to be no question but that It the home of her parents, Mr. and body, and other features of the dance
Chamber of Commerce is back of this
The costs of gains have been com
Mr. and Mrs. Stokes and son Ed. referendum, and be it further
Imple, yet absolutely esentlal to
D. Buchmann, county Inspector. All would provide money for farm oper Mrs. J. E. McCoy. The latest report
puted valuing hay at >10 per ton,
from California, are visiting at the
its graceful exposition. Miss Melba
bee
men are invited to attend. Thurs ations within reasonable amounts, is that she is Improving.
RESOLVED,
That
copies
of
theBe
corn
hnd
oats
>37.50,
wheat>40.00
Harr home this week. They expect
Callahan, who gives a vaudeville
resolutions be sent to the Associated and barley >35.00 per ton. The day will be spent In visiting apiarle3 and funds for cooperative marketing
Mrs. Jesse White, who was sudden
to remain here permanently.
Industries of Portland, the Portland cheapest gains, >9.43 per hundred, at Hermiston, Stanfield and on But associations. The saving would be ly taken Til last week, was moved to show at the Play House Thursday,
A number of Hermiston high
April 19. will do some beautiful In-
ter creek.
found in the difference between 7
the Pendleton hospital where she will |erprettye rtnnr,* g Besides these
school juniors gathered at the home Chamber of Commerce, the State were made by the corn fed lambs and
per cent and the rates now paid.
Chamber
of
Commerce,
the
State
the
next
higher
>9.45,
by
the
barley
receive medical attention.
Mrs. numbers there will be a splendid pro-
of Claude Haddox Tuesday night to
Don't forget the parade on Main
This subject should have consider
Dairy Association, the Oregon State lot. The wheat lot gains cost >10.26
Smith wil care for the baby during gram and a first-class two reel pic
make candy for the operetta.
street
Saturday
afternoon
at
2:30!
able further study by every Interest, her absence.
Grange, the various business organ and the oats gains >9.73. The cull
ture comedy. Remember the date,
ed farmer, and if it shall prove to be
izations ot the state, and to repre lambg gained less, required more hay
Mrs. Ed. Hobart and small son are sentatives of the press of the state.
April 19. Admission 50 cents, child,
Jay
Pelmulder
returned
the
first
as
desirable
as
it
now
appears,
there
and grain per hundred pounds of
Mss Inez Beneficd returned Sun ren 25 cents.Adv.
visiting at the Fox ranch this week.
—
Columbia Farm Bureau.
gain so the gains cost more than the of the week from the Willamette should be no real difficulty in finan day from a several weeks’ visit at
Mrs. Hobart is a sister of Mr. Fox.
Valley
where
business
had
taken
him.
cing
such
a
corporation.
By J. H. Reid other lambs.
Walla Walla.
Mr. C. Williams is visiting at the Hermiston Commercial Club.
Rev. J. K. .Mumma, pastor of the
home of Charlie Williams. Mr. Wil
Free
Methodist church, will finish
By F. V. Prime
Marshall Markham and Wesley
liams Is planning on an extended
his conference year next Sunday and
Chaney spent the week-end visiting
ylsit through the summer.
will leave next Wednesday morning
Younger Set Entertains
|
at Irrigon.
for Walla Walla where he will attend
The Misses Gertrude Beisse and
thn annual conference of that de
Pauline Morris entertained a num
Meeting for May Day Parade
Mr. and Mrs. H. Walpole and son
nomination.
Parents wishing to enter their ber of the younger set at a card and
Robert were in Umatilla Sunday and
children in the May Day Pageant dancing party last Saturday night
while there attended the show.
Mr. Tabor, who resides in the Co
parade are requested to meet with at the home of Miss Beisse.
Honors
in
500
went
to
Miss
Lenore
the committee in charge Saturday
Beecher Lewis was visiting friends lumbia district, was brought Into
Hermiston Wednesday for medical
afternoon In the library at 3 P. M. Dyer and Earl Bensel.
and relatives in Irrigon Sunday.
At the onclusion of the card play
_____
treatment. While using a knife Mr.
All children under school age are
The Farm Bureau held Ito regular rab°r In some manner let It slip and
asked to enter with some sort of ing dainty refreshments were serv
ed.
i meeting Saturday evening, April 7. cut a rteeP *a"h ln his ,e« Dr>
vehicle, both boys and girls.
The guests included the Misses
Considerable business was tranacted Adams attended the man.
Mrs. F. V. Prime, Mrs. W. J. War
^nita Paulsen. Zona Bensel. Bernice
ner, Com.
In spite of the fact that there was i
'
_________________
Jackson, Arlouine Robinson, Elea-
I a small turnout. A carload of corn
John Young, ex-resident and post-
Ordinaace M o t be Otaerved
I "°r Br£ gs’
Br* « 8’
! was listed and will be ordered a t ' master of Hermiston, but now resld-
l nore Dyer, Mabel Brown, Mary
once. The corn will be >36.50 f. e. Ing In Hod River, was in town Wed-
The ordinance governing the keep-, Super j ^ g j aekson> Helen Upham.
h. Irlgon. They also designated Fri- nesday.
Ing of livestock within the city llm- Elyn Eiy Nancy McNaught, Edna
day, April 13, as clean-up day for
—— —
Ito must be observed. There la a Bough, Ethel OriKgB. Irma Buchner?
tlM park.
Roy Sprague, of Maupin, Oregon,
tendency among some people to com- Marjorie Pelmulder and Pauline Voel
_____
arrived In Hermiston Wednesday to
pletely ignore thia ordinance. Fur- ker The Messrs Donald 8hotwell.
Mr. Price, the new county agent, be with his mother who recently suf-
ther details of the ordinance will be Norman Rubner, Arthur Rubner.
and Prof. Scullen of the Oregon Agri- fered a stroke of paralysis,
published in the next issue of The Frank SwayI, Embry Warrlner. Earl
cultural College, demonstrated th<-
______
Herald.
. Bensel, Lawrence Winslow, Ralph
i handling of bees at the Glasgow
Julian Morfltt and Napolean
' Longhorn, Howard Reid, Karl Lo-
ranchTueeday afternoon. A number! Neadeau were Pendleton visitors on
E. R. Crocker Appointed Chief Engi- max, David Ely, Leo Smith, Herbert
of bee culluristo took advantage o f ! Tuesday.
neer
. Haneltne, Craig Percey, Dan Wine-
this opportunity to get new pointers j
_____
Word has been received of the ap- sett. Vernon Waterman, Wallace
on the business.
B S. Kingsley Is here from Port-
polntment of E. R. Crocker, resident Reid and Ralph Williams,
-
land this week visiting his son, B.
engineer of the Umatilla project, as
___________
George Hendrick and son Ishmad J. Kingsley for a few days. He re-
chief engineer ot the Umatilla Rap-
Professor A. C. Voelker, principal
have rented the McGill and Pat ports the prospects for a bumper fruit
Ida Investigation. The appointment of the Hermiston schools last year,
places for the season.
crop In the valley are godd.
comes from Washington. D. C. Mr. and at present occupying a like
Crocker has been with the Reclame- position with the Helix school, pre-
Miss Margaret Smith of the O. A.
Harry Connor made a busine i strip
iton service for the last fifteen years sided over the high school division ’
C. will give nutrition lectures and ’to Boardman Tuesday,
The enviable record that Mr. Crocher of the county declamatory contest
demonstrations at th e auditorium on |
,
holds in thin line nt work la responsl- held last Friday night at Pendle
April 17 and 1). Don't forget the
Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Harr motor-
bin tor bis eppointn
ton.
date.
ed to Pendleton Saturday.
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