TH E ILEBMISTON
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
■ BREVITIES ■
For the Hot
Weather—
Occnreaees of laterest Gleaned Hero
sad T h e r e About the Cltr and
Neighborhood
Tin. Sheet metal work and Plural
ing. Call 7 (3 . I. E. Putman, l l - t l
Ford Touring car, motor
175.00. K ellogg & Schlmke
PALM
BEACH
TROUSERS
$5.00
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10c a button, $1.00 a rip
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Echo Flour Mills
Echo, Oregon
M A N U F A C T U R E R S O F-
H igh Grade P atent
B lu e S t e m F lo u r
T h e S u p e rio r P ro d u c t o f S cientific M illing
M akes B e tte r B re a d
T ry a S ack
D EA LE R S IN G R A IN A N D FEED
good,
4-ltfc
The Rev. Lockwood, of Pendleton,
w ill hold Episcopal service» at the
Hermiston hotel Sunday at 5 P. M.
Bert Shaw returned Sunday from
Umatilla where he has been working
for the Shotwell Construction Co.,
i who have contracts for graveling the
J streets of that city. Bert had hired
out a string of horses to the con-
; struction company but brought them
| home with him as they are going to
[ pur on their own horses for the rest
I of the job.
Among the recent realty transfer,,
there appeared the follow ing: J. H.
Strohm to Anna Strohm, >10, lot 4,
block 6, Newport Add. Hermiston.
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F. A. Chezlk returned Monday
from Portland. Mr. Chezlk made
the trip down and back by car.
Chris and Katherine Mooney, dau
ghter and son of Pat Mooney, who at
one time was proprietor of a butcher ■
Bhop in ths city, returned to their i
home in Arlington last Saturday
after a visit with friends in Hermis
ton.
Jack Biggs in company with B. J.
Nation left for Valley points Satur-
day. Mr. Nation is contem plating
trading his holdings in this section
for land in the valley.
We have a good asortment of
Screen Doors and Malerlal for
Window Screens and Screen
Pinches.
GET THE HOUSE IN SHAPE FOR
COMFORT: — DON'T HAVE TO
K EEP YOUR HOUSE SHUT THIS
HOT WEATHER
M aterially Yours,
TUM-A-LUM LUMBER CO.
Goodyear Tires and The
Final Cost Price
YOU have always wanted a Good
year but maybe you thought the
Goodyear name meant a high priced
tire
The initial cost of Goodyear Tires is
not high. However the final cost
— the cost per mile— is the only real
basis on which to figure.
Goodyear Tires will reduce yonr tire
cost per mile.
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SAPPERS’ INC.
IMPLEMENTS
RADIO OUTFITS
ELECTRICAL CONTRACTING
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ai c iiu wicks or wick
substitutes. It produces two rings of clean, intensely hot, blue gas
fire—the ideal cooking and baking heat as every good cook knows.
And the results cannot be improved by any gas range. Saves one-
guarter of your fuel, too.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Ballenger, of
Boardman, were transacting busi
ness in Hermiston Monday.
■ Ire you entirety. satisfied with your cookingt
• I e are now showing the new, improved Red
htor models, at prices within the reach of all.
l i ’e are glad at all times to fully demonstrate
the slave. W hy not drop i s today?
Mrs. Stella Ferris and daughter,
Miss Ruth Knapp of Columbus, Ohio,
were guests at the Mumma home last
week. The ladies are on on exten
sive tour of the west.
F. S. W oughter and family have
| gone to New York on an extended
vacation. Ezra Hayes, of Stanfield,
Is in charge at the depot.
Detroit
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Chas. Hogard, of Stanfield, was a
visitor here on Tuesday.
Mrs. Wm. Hageman and daughter
Jennie, of Stanfield, were city visl-
l tors Tuesday.
OREGON HARDWARE & IMPLEMENT CO.
— SPECIAL SALE ON—
Ladies, M isses’ and C hildren’s
Straw H ats
Saturday, Ju ly 2 1 , O ne D ay O nly
Tom Marxen has leased his rostau-
| rant and gone to the vicinity of
Portland on an extended vacation.
50° OFF
The second cutting of alfalfa la
now well under way over the project
with ideal haying weather. The
yield is reported as good.
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DON'T MISS THIS IE YOU ARE IN NEED OF THIS CLASS OF
MERCHANDISE.
TO UNITE TWO CONTINENTS
Pan-American Railroad la a Stupen
dous Project Which I t Apparent
ly Near Realization.
u U O D /tE A R
HE position ofleadership universally accorded the beautiful
Red Star Oil Stove, by both users and merchants, is but the
natural appreciation of a great success.
It is the modern-day oil stove. The unmistakable superiority
of its work is due to the improved, scientific way the oil is used.
I B. S. Kingsley is a Hermiston visi-
I tor thia week.
B. J. Shaw and fam ily visited his
■ sister, Mrs. Gus Tonies, at Sand.
, Oregon, on Sunday. They also vlslt-
t ed Mr. Shaw’s parents, who reside
I near Cold Springs.
THIS IS THE TIME OF YEAR
WHEN FLIES AND MOSQUITOES
GET INTO THE HOUSE.
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Marjorie Watson, of Pendleton, is
visitin g at the home of J. W. Mc-
Dermed.
Mrs. C. H. Skinner went to Port
land Sunday In order to be at the
bedside of her husband who was
operated upon last Saturday.
HARDWARE
FURNITURE
H ER A LD , H ER M ISTO N , OREGON.
The time Is approaching, and will
come sooner than most people expect,
when it will be possible to travel in
comfort by rail from New»York, Chi
cago or San Francisco to Brazil. Santi
ago or Buenos Aires, l>y the Pan-
b American railroad. This great north
and south line is a stupendous project,
observes the Scientific American
Magazine.
The scheme In Its entirety involve»
large figures and heavy costs, the total
length of the line being 10.118 miles,
which Is not so very far short of the
combined length of the three shortest
»f our transcontinental systems. It
should be understood that the enter
prise does not. *nd never did. conienv
plate the building of an entirely new
system of that length; for much of the
route ia made up of already existing
stretches of national railroads. Tak
ing New York as a starting point, the
line runs to the Mexican frontier, and
from thence through Mexico, Guate
mala, Honduras, Nicaragua. Costa
Rico, Panama. Odombia, Ecuador,
Peru. Bolivia and Argentina, to Buenos
Aires.
Even today It Is possible to travel by
railroad from New York to the fron
tier of Guatemala; hut from Guate
mala to the Canal zone over half of
the line has yet to he built. The long-
est stretch of uncompleted line Is
from the Canal zone to the boundary
line between Peru and Bolivia, where,
out of a total of 3.382 miles, only MJ
miles have heen completed. Also thers
Is a stretch of 127 miles In Rotlvls on
which work has recently heen com
menced. The line from Bolivia to
Rueños Airea, a distance of l.lWkt miles,
hat heen completed
To dale 8 ..W
miles out of a total of 10,116 miles
hava heen hnttt.
Hermiston Produce & Supply Co.
'•THE BEST OF COOD SERVICE”
British Museum Readers.
Charge for admission to the British
museum In Bloomsbury, London, does
not at present Include the famous rend
ing room, which is alleged to possess
the largest dome In the world. Many
professional searchers earn precarious
livelihoods In this splendidly appointed
| library. According to the Manchester
Guardian, an expert reader was recent
ly offered £40 to summarize a I-atln
life of one of the popes. He demanded
fSO, but some one else did the work
for five guineas (about >2.*<).
One man copied all the old prise
fights for about 35 cents per 1,000
words, and It recently came out In evi
dence that a retired clergyman trans
lated Italian stories for ahont 25 cents
per 1,000 words. Innumerable readers !
search guides to horse racing, a West- I
minister city councilor used to work j
there with regularity, and several re
tired generals from the arnjy are
among regular attendants at the Brit
ish museum reading room. It Is stated
that recently a Klengle of the Kn Klux ,
Kian asketl for English law, with chap- j
ter and verse, as to right aad left hand
flogging.
Vienna Police Camera.
Bring in Four
Films
Legal Blanks at The Herald Office
You are Invited to Visit
PARKER’S STORE
— and especially those who like good
things to eat— that w ill Include
everybody.
If you don’t think we are sellin g
goods cheap, come and get prices be
fore buying.
EVERY DAY IS BARGAIN DAY!
T H E STO R E W ITH T H E B L U E FR O N T
=“Thc West Side Eat Shop” =
J. L m Parker, Proprietor
O t’R fi nishing d e p a rt
ment, through up-to-date
methods and equipment
and
1 rt handling, can
help you get the kind o f
pictures you want.
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JOHN EL b ES, PROP.
CHOICE MEATS
s io n :
Some months ago. ‘In Vienna. I saw
“ W e ’re th e r e
th e
a very Ingenious photographic camera.
fin is h .”
Invented by the official photographer
to the police of that city. When tak
MITCHELL DRUG CO.
ing the pi.olograph of the scene of a
crime the camera superimposed a Phone 101
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scale upon the plate In such a way
that a scale plan waa no longer neces
sary, since the scale showed the exact
distance in centimeters of every ob
ject In the field from the camera and
Coma bt am.
from every other object. The Inven
renew H nex
tion had heen in use in Vienna for
acme time, but It waa unknown to any
time you an
other force —Sir Basil Thomson la the
in town.
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