TUE HEEMISTON HERALD, HEEMISTON, OREGOIT.
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Published every Thursday at Her-
mtstqn, Umatilla County, Oregon by
Raymond Crowder, Editor and Man
ager.
Entered aa second class matter,
December 1906 at the postofftce at
Hermiston, Oregon.
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Billy Sunday sa y , th at a good
many people will put a thin dime in
the church collection box and then go
across the street and give Bill H art
or Mary Plckford two bits. On the
other hand there are quite a few who
will elip th eir own pastor a lead
nickle and think nothing of putting
a dollar in Billy's hat.
Those who are intimately ac-
quaiutd with President Coolidge say
lhat he is u very quiet man and talks
ut little. One or two term s in Con
gress would have broken him of this
habit.
It might be n good idea if someone
vould procure a search w arrant to
ascertain if there Is really any con.
ricts left In th Oregon penitentiary.
PARKING PARALLEL TO THE
There lias not been a break for some
CURB
The new traffic ordinance of park time.
ing cars parallel to the curb Is one I
-
that has been muph needed for some J Don’t forget the picnic at the Ex.
time. It eliminates that element o f , 'perlmenal station next Thursday,
danger that was ever present under; August 30. Those who are in charge
the old method of parking.
i of arrangem ents promise you a time
The highway follows the main I w< rth while. Don’t cheat yourself,
thoroughfare of our town and when Be present,
cars was parked on either side of the |
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The next bfg event on the calendar
street head in to the curb there was
not sufficient room to allow traffic after the Experimental Station picnic
to travel over the highway In safety. Is the Hermiston Dairy and Hog
The first Saturday night after the Show. Are you ready.
new ordinance went Into effect a
About the biggest pest we know of
large number of cars were parked on
Main street and the owners made is a strong spring on a screen door
the mistake of parking too dose to when you are carrying In an arm
gether. For this reason it wus Im ioad of wood.
possible In some Instances to get
Many a man has become great sim
away from the curb until adjacent
ply by keeping his mouth shut.
cars were moved.
The city has marked off parking
A number of towns outgrow the
spaces for your convenience and one
car only should he parked wlihfn tnan but it takes a real man to out
these marks. Adhere to this and grow the town.
there will be no Inconvenience for
If everyone would attend strictly
those who w ant to get out on the
io their own busines there would be
highway.
The new parking law Is a necessity no such thing as scandal.
nnd was passed for your convenience LESSENING RISKS TO LIFE
and safely. Lend your aid and co
operation to the cly council by obey Automatic Illumination of Lifeboats
ing the traffic ordinances. It will
When They Are Launched From
Ship Is Tested.
avoid accidents.
AMAZED AT YANKEE TEETH
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French Farmers Marveled at the Sight
of Doughboys Seemingly En
joying Cow Fodder.
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STUDY MAN-MADE LIGHTNING
Engineers Confident That Experiments
Going On Will Prove to Be
Succeesful.
Two-mllilon-volt artificial lightning
Is being created In the research
laboratories of tlie General Electric
company, Pittsfield, Mass., In order
that buildings and high power electrical
transmission lines may be protected
against the powerful “electrical dyna
mite" that nature discharges during
storms, reports tbs Kansas City Star.
F. W. Peer, Jr., engineer in charge
of the spectacular experiments now in
progress, explains that In addition to
the trouble that engineers have tn
keeping power current from escaping
from the conductors there is the very
Important problem of lightning pro
tection. A few million horsepower are
released In a fraction of a millionth of
a second when lightning crashes. Elec
trical engineers must know how to
prevent this destructive force from
reaching the conductors of power
lines or they must arrange so that it
will discharge harmlessly to the ground
when It does get to the line.
The highest voltage actually used at
the present time for the commercial
transmission of power Is 220,000 volts
on a line in California, but the General
Electric company has an experimental
miUlon-voit line. Mr. Peek declared
that it Is too early to say whether such
An invention for lessening risks to high voltages will ever be acquired In
life ot sea by the automatic Illumina practice.
COOPERATING WITH THE
tion
of lifeboats when they are
FARMER
If a town would prosper and grow, launched from a ship's side has Just RETORT WAS RATHER GOOD
been tested l»y British board of trade
If It would realize It’s ambition to be
officials.
Evidently There Were Humorists In
a little better than the neighboring
The Inventors are two partners In
the Missouri Legislature of the
town then it must take Into p art the firm of Messrs. T. Illalr & Co.,
Year 1887.
nership the furmers of the adjacent ship's store merchants, In East London.
country.
Ily their device two small electric
W. O. I,. Jewett of the Shelbina
If you are a business man you lamps are switched on by eontaet es Democrat tells nn incident in the legis
should aid and assist him In every tablished from a float contained In a lature of 1887, in widch Murk Twain
way possible for by his achievements tube fixed to the sternpost of the life- figured:
‘Henry Newman, representing Ran
you succeed. If he has a problem bout
The float Is forced up the tube by dolph county, was the wit of the
and needs your help, get hack ot water when the boat is launched.
house, nnd was trying to secure the
him. Let him realize that you con-
Storage batteries capable of giving passage of a bill to amend the stock
elder him your partnei nnd are will twenty-four hours’ continuous light to law. This, Robert Bodine, represent
tng to treat him as such. If you the lamps are carried on board.
ing Monroe county, was opposing. Mr.
Under present board of trade regu Newman said in ids humorous style:
succeed as a business man; if your
* ‘I was in tlie gentleman's county
town gains the reputation that It lations every ship's lifeboat has to
should have among the farmers who carry an oil lamp and a dozen boxes once. I made a speech nt a big picnic
of matches In a sealed watertight tin. In Florida, and I thought I made a
come In to trade, you must do this.
The Inventors of the new device good one. In it I referred to the fact
Attend the meetings of the organ claim that it will eliminate much of that we were close to the plnce where
izations through which he strives to the risk of liitliouis being run down.
Mark Twain was born. After I was
better his condition. Let him know
through, one of the gentleman’s con-
A Genius.
stitutents, n tall, raw-boned long
that he will at all times find a ready
A crusty banker who had risen to af haired, unkempt individual, came up,
welcome ut your commercial club.
In this way you are belter able to fluence from an humble start on n and shaking his finger in my face said:
farm had half promised a boyhood
mutually understand each others friend to give the letter’s son a plnce “What liars you politicians are. I have
lived here nigh onto fifty years and
w ants and needs.
In Ids office. The old fanner came In there was nary a man named Twnln
Meet the farm er on n fifty-fifty to talk the matter over nnd was rather about here."’
basis. It means prosperity for both timorous about the boy's qualifications,
“The gentleman front Monroe county
explaining that he was Just a country Immediately was on hts feet to reply:
of you.
lad who knew how to plow, take cere
" ‘Mr. Speaker, I want it distinctly
of pigs and milk. He wound up by understood that when tlie gentleman
STOP THE LEAKS
stating: "The boy knows enough to
If you know of a leak In the city keep Ills mouth shut. That's nbout all front Randolph was in Monroe county
It was before the enactment of any
w ater main report It al once to the I can say.”
stock law .'"—Kansas City Star.
w ater superintendent. There have
The listener for the first time dis
been teaks found lately through played Interest.
Not Prepared.
"That's enough,** declared the bank
which hundreds of gallons of water
The old deacon was the kindest of
has been lost. This means a loss In er. “That's education enough for any men, deeply religious and always ready
man."
with a good word. One day while he
dollars and cent» to (he city.
wits driving to town he overtook nn
In some lustanees people livlnR
Origin of Word "Brandy.**
Italian peddler with a large pack on
near by where these leaks have been
Tho orlglnnl name of the liquor ills back. Stopping his horse, the dea
discovered knew of thin but through known ns brandy was brundywlne, con suggested ihat the man ride. The
neglect failed to report the fart to from the fact that (In the countries Itnllnn carefully stored his pnek In the
the proper authorities concerning whero It Is not prohibited by law) it hack of tlie spring wagon nnd then
was, and still Is produced by the dis- climbed to the sent beside the good
them.
You can greatly nld nnd assist the dilution of wines. The word lost Its } deacon.
For some time the two talked pleas
wator superintendent by reporting "wine" part becnise ttie English lan
guage has the happy faculty of drop
to him any and all leaks in the water ping unessential parts of words to antly. Then there was a rather long
pause, and. thinking to Improve the
mains of which you are aware.
save time.
occasion In n religions sense, the dea
“Brandy" traces Its origin to the con turned snd asked, "My friend, are
word "brand," as In "brand from the
Since we published the Item com burning," for die simple reason that you prepared to die?"
With a shriek the Italian sprang to
plaining of the fellow who called on the product known ns “brandy" or the ground nnd disappeared Into the
a girl in our neighborhood waking us “cognnc" was produced by the process nearby woods. The calls of the deacon
tip nt t V. M. by the backfire of hie i of burning, which hi nil the Germanic only hastened the fellow's flight, nnd
Ford while trying to ta rt it, three j languages Is designated by some form neither the deacon nor any one else
young ladies have accused us of ; of the word ‘brand." To the word ever saw him again In that neighbor
"baw ling” them out. Wo never “brand" as In "brandy," the word hood. It seems thnt the peddler was
"hum" Is also related.
not prepared.
realized h fore how many girls thete
are with follows who own back fir
Allowing Days of Grace.
Sentiment and Sense.
ing Fords.
In the reign of Henry II the day
It was evening by the sen and the
first mentioned in each term of court poetess walked with the professor
Recently a car passed through was called “essolgn day,” because tlie along tlie margin of the ocean. "Don't
Ferniiston upon which was paln'ed court then took the essolgns or ex ’ you love to see the phosphorescence
this Slrn: " v os V.'e Have No cuses of those who did not appear I on the waves?” she said. “What can
according to the summons of the
Cadillac." When you heard the old writs. Rut aa—by a custom traced It be, I wonder? Is It the mermaids
fam iliar rattle and observed the by Blnckstone to the Germans of the lighting up their lamps, or the glow
I from the sea fairies’ ballroom? Or
steam ing radiator along with the fact days of Tacitus—three days of grace can It be the reflection of golden
that the driver got out to tw ist her were allowed every defendant In , treasure stored tn the vasty caverns
tell before resuming tho Journey, no which to appear, the courts did not of the deep?"
"I think not. madam," said the pro- '
one accused the owner of mlsrepro sit for the dispatch of business until
eentatlon or stopped Io argue with the fourth day after that time. On ; fesaor. "It Is only quite recently that (
the other hand, they continued to sit i the discovery of luminous bacilli has
him concerning the sign.
until the fourth day after the last rendered possible any general explana
return. The rule allowing days of tion of the phenomenon, amt even yet
If we are not out of order we grace In the United States was adopt ' Its wide applicability remains to be
would like to nominate a certain pro ed from the English law.
{ proved. It Is. however, generally at- j
J«et farmer for membership in the
tribute»! to the decaying orgnnlc sub-
Relative Importance.
1 stances of diseased fish.”—Boston
order of the Royal Red Raspberry
lie came into town the other night, i It takes an older child to explain to Herald.
parkd his car < n the street, did hl:-’ the tittle fellows the Intricacies of
school management.
She Had It Right.
trading, and begin to look around
"My teacher’s sick, will I git to go
Two Irishmen had visited 9t. Pant’s
for a t ide home. Someone recognlz- : home?" asked little Joe.
cetherirel. One was from the eonntry
ed hts ear and asked him why he did
“Not on yer I1f>," answered Mike, and had been taken to the famous
not drive II home. He had forgottn aged ten. "Then yer principal tele- building by hts friend, who wished
about driving It In. The man asked phones tn an* gits a sustltoot teacher." him to be duly Impressed by Its gran
“Oh-o-o-o. An' If the principal Is deur.
ua not to publish his name lie Is a
Aa they rame out, tbs resident of
big strapping felnw nnd under the.e sick," naked Joe, “does a teacher tele
conditions we are able to kr P a phone In an' git a sustltoot principal P* the city said!
"Nah." Mike Informed him. '"That
"Well. Mike, and phwat do you
secret when requr led to do s
ain't necessary. The principal ain't think of It? Isn't tt grand?”
got nothin’ to do. He Jest sits tn the
“Pat.'* said the one from the coun
It Is more blessed to give tbau to office. If he’d git sick, the Janitor ‘if try. “tt hates the dlrll !*•
"That." said his friend, "was the
receive If you happen to be mixed «'* ln I*1*"* «»’
hts piece.' l'tilla-
up ln a fight.
I ikh'hls Ledger.
The French lockkeeper Is sometimes
an old soldier, but oftener Is some
black-clad woman who took up her hus
band's duties when be was called to the
front, and who (for be never came
back) will continue them until her
'Ittle Francois la grown up—or, as site
sometimes sadly puts it, "Until he
comes back safe, as I hope, from the
aext war, m'sleu."
For five more days we paddled along
the lOO-kllometer stretch of stream
that unfurls itself rtbbonllke among
rolling, windmill-topped slopes be
tween Redon and Nantes, writes Mel
ville Chafer in the National Geographic
Magazine.
We found that the countryside still
fondly recalled the passage of Ameri
can troops ln 1918—how they had
swum tn the canal and hud given the
children little packets of chewing guin
and bad strangely delighted ln con
suming cow fodder.
This last detail was related to 'us
by a farmer, who ndded: “Most vig
orous young men those, m’sleu. Won
derful teeth, wonderful stomachs. How
they could even digest that stuff wus
the wonder of the countryside." And
he pointed to one of those fine fields
of Indian corn which ln France are
cultivated exclusively as cattle food.
"Why, that’s easy,” we confided; "all
Americans eat th a t" And we de
scribed the manner of preparing nnd
dispatching an car of corn. Suddenly
a light broke on the listener’s face:
“Ah,” he exclaimed, "I understand.
Then one doesn’t eat It, cob and all,
like the cow; one Just picks nt IL as if
It were an artichoke, n’est-ce pas?"
FREEZE OUT INSECT PESTS
Method Is More Economical Than Gat,
Saya an Expert on the
Subject.
The usual procedure, when flour
mills become Infested with the Mediter
ranean moth, the larvae of which get
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me nonr, is to close me mm ngnt-
ly and “gas" the Insects. Last winter
a mill at Williston. N. D„ however, re
quested the local weather bureau office
to notify the company whenever a tem
perature of 20 degrees or lower for at
least several hours could be antici
pated. As soon as weather sufficiently
cold was forecast, the company put out
all (1res and opened doors and win
dows. That night the temperature
reached 30 degrees Fahrenheit, and did
not go above 17 degrees Fahrenheit the
next day. According to the report of
the company to tlie United States De
partment of Agriculture, through the
weather bureau, al! moths and most of
tlie eggs were frozen, and the process
will not have to he repeated for at
least two years. Many dollars’ worth
of Chemical Insecticides which would
have been necessary for “gassing"
were saved.
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Once More Extended.
It Is certain thnt the limits of Lake
Erie and Lake Michigan were once
more extended than now. It is reason
ably probable, sn.v students of the
subject, that some of the territory now
drained by the Wabash and Illinois
rivers was once covered hy the wnters
of Lake Michigan. The cisco of Lake
Tippecanoe, Lake Geneva, nnd the
lakes of the Oconomowoc chain Is
evidently a modified descendant of the
so-called lake herring. Its origin most
likely dates from the time when these
small deep lakes of Indiana and Wis
consin were connected with Lake Mich
igan. Several of the larger fishes,
properly characteristic of the Great
Lakes region, are occasionally taken
ln the Ohio river.
Nature made a hen to lay eggs.. She
will lay in winter and summer, if
you’ll only give her a chance.
A new, well-lighted, warm, sanitary
chicken house is a real investment.
It means two things that make big
poultry profits—early hatches and
more eggs.
Call at this office and inspect plans
of poultry houses which have been
designed with the “more eggs” idea.
Eskimos Have Strongest Teeth.
Less than two Eskimos out of 100
have any signs of tooth decay. Chew
ing course frozen food keeps their
glands active and their teeth safe. One
of the domestic duties of the women
Is tlie chewing of thick walrus hide to
make it pliable enough for the men to
work It into shoe soles.
Today the soft-cooked foods of the
civiliaed nations have allowed the
glands to slow down. As a consequence
98 people out of 100 have decayed
teeth.
Inland Empire Lumber Company
Phone 331
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I have Equipped my Shop with a
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and Electric driven Drill Press, mak
ing It the best equipped shop ln the
west end of this county.
HARMAN’S
Blacksmith Shop
--If you want to sell
--If you want to trade
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