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VOL. XVIII
HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. 1923
• $20,000 WILL BE
SPENT FOR DRAINAGE ♦
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U. o fO. Librar*
No. 1
HERMISTON LOCALS
«
“HIGH SCHOOL MIRROR” ♦
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LOCAL CLUB TO
DAIRY AND HOG SHOW I COLUMBIA NEWS NOTES LOCAL OIL CO LET
Mr. Scheffner, of Peoria, 111.,
end guest at the home
AID RED CROSS of was Mr. a week
and Mrs. James Gent.
OCTOBER 5-6 Ralph Apel, of Jefferson City, Mo., DRILLING CONTRACT
,
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor
Marie Pelmulder
NEW DRAINAGE DITCH IS PRO
WILL RAISE QUOTA FOR JAPAN
Grade Reporter Irma Buchner
POSED
ESE BENEFIT
Boys Athletics
And Jokes I
Claude Haddox
Work W ill Start Some Tim'* During
Girl’s Athletic’s Vivian Nation Umatilla County Asked to ConVib-
Coming W inter
ute $3000 as Thei' Share to
Freshman News
The Fund
Oscar Mikesell
Sophomore
News
Af last the unsightly and mos
Anita Paulsen
quito Infested pondg east of Hermis- ■
A letter was read last Tuesday at
Junior News
ton will be drained.
Elaine Hunt the Commercial club luncheon from
The government will spend >20,- ! Senior News Gladys Whitsett the secretary of the Pendleton Com
The M. E. Ladles Aid Will hold
their regular social and business THREE NEW DEPARTMENTS ARE
meeting at the home of Mrs. Rena
ADDED
Waterman on Wednesday, Septem
ber 19. All members are urged to
be present as the annual election of
Th<* Board of Directors st * Laboring
officers will be held. Refreshments
To Make The Show This Year
of cider and gingerbread |wlll be
The Bes' E v'r
served.
S O C IA L CO RM SeON DCNCB
Is a guest at the Henry Ott home.
Mrs. Henry Sommerer and daugh
ter Ann left for Pendleton Monday.
While there Ann had her tonsils
and adnoida removed.
WORK WILL BEGIN WITHIN NEXT
THIRTY DAYS
Rumored that Acme Oil Company
W ill Set uP R fg October 1 on
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Waugaman !
Leases Near Hermiston
returned Saturday from Portland
where they have been on a business i
Harry McMillan returned Sunday
The Hermiston Dairy and Hog trip for several days.
morning from a trip to the Willam show will be held during the first
1 A contract for 2000 feet has been
ette valley.
: let by the Northeastern Oregon Oil
week in October. The plans are well
Fred Bennion was down in this ! Exploration Company to A. A. Dur-
000 In deepening the Hermiston
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mercial association in which they
laid and interest is being manifested vicinity Tuesday picking the winn- | and, of Wallq Walla.
D. C. Bowneil of Umailla, was a
drain ditch so as to take care of the
asked the local organization to lend
throughout the west end and other Ing livestock Judging team from the
Under , he new dr|lllng agreement
water that has been allowed to back
School has opened this year their aid and support to the Red visitor in Hermiston Tuesday.
parts of the county.
six that won at the field day. The a weU for 2000 feet Qr unt„ gag Qp
up and stand. Machinery to carry with a larger attendance than Cross in raising Hermiston's quota
County Agent Bennion is taking winning team consisting of Gladys
,a dlBCOvered
E. B. Aldrich, editor of the East
on this work will be moved in hy ever before.
There are 239 for the Japanese benefit. They
must be drilled by
a deep interest,in the exhibits and Whitsett. Carl Haddox and Gilbert the
Oregonian,
wa8
in
Hermiston
on
a
contractor. Work will com-
the government.
students in the grades and 126 stated that they as a Commercial
the
Pendleton
Commercial
club
has
Whltsett
will
represent
the
calf
club
mence
wlthln
thlrty
day8 or M
The new proposed ditch will start
body of Pendleton had voted to business mission last Sunday.
raised a sum of money for premiums a the State fair.
, a8
Durand can move in addition.
on the highway at the E. P. Dodd in the high school. This makes a carry out a similar program in that
August Belsse left Tuesday after and entertainment features of the
home and connect with the Hermis total of 365.
city.
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[ al machinery and all necessary ar-
noon
for Chicago where he was call show.
ton ditch. The ditch will cost
The third cutting of hay is under rangements for such an undertaking
Monday morning, one week
The amount that Umatilla county
The Dairy and Hog Show is as way, reports being of a fair crop. j completed.
»«,000, »1500 of this amount being after the opening of school, the wiH be asked t0 contribute is »3000. ed by the death of his father.
suming more importance with thc de.
Mr. Durand is a driller of much
8Ub8P1r,ib?,d » v°rk.^ y th06e whom enrollment of the high school was This means that ,he dlfferent towas
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wann and velopment of the dairy and hog in
It will dlrctly benefit.
fnllnw«- C V o o R ac w111 have to ralse H 500 to »200.
Bee Hen To Hold Meeting
experience. He owns six large drill
Both the deepening of the Hertnls-
’ ^ reS^’Pan C aS®
j A vote was taken Tuesday at the Frank Waugaman left Thursday dustries. The local board of direct
There will be a meeting of tho ing machines. He has drilled in the
ton ditch and the yew one have been ^°P ‘10rn°re 30, Junior 27, Senior meeting of the local club and unani- morning for Portland where they ors realize that the chief basis of Umatilla county beekeepers next oil regions and Is familiar with the
apparent needs for some time, and 23. Although the Freshman class j mously carried that Hermiston will attend the Methodist confer prosperity of this project is the cow. Monday evening at 7:30 in the pub different formations and stratas.
The development of good herds,
the news of their actuality will be has the largest attendance Of should raise »150 as their share to ence to be held in that city.
lic library.
The directors of the local oil com.
they claim, not only means more milk
well received by the residents of any class in school they are not the fund.
This meeting is called to consider pany has been considering this deal
Mrs.
Clara
Cox
and
children
of
but
high
valuer
for
the
stock
grown
*his city.
It was not deemed advisable to Heppner, were guests at the home of
honey prices.
for some months but wer unable un
exempt from the tradition that
here. This project has a number of
The work will start some time
make a drive at this time for this Harvey Payne Wednsday.
til lately to procure the services of
all Freshman are “ green” .
animals akin to the gold medal win
during the winter.
amount in the sense that campaigns
Mason? Attention
Mr. Durand, as he has spent most of
ners of the world and tho oppor
of this nature have been put on in
Work in E. A. at next stated com the summer ln Texas and Oklahoma
Oscar Payne and family motored tunity to advertise this fact should
Hermiston High Graduates Ho>d
WHO’S WHO AMONG THE ?he past. Instead each business man here from Fossil to visit relatives
munication. A. W. Agnew, Secy, lt looking over opportunities and the
not be neglected. The project has
■v
Party
FACULTY
i w i,l be asked to contribute amounts Friday and Saturday.
method^ ot drilling In these locali
also
gained
an
enviable
reputation
A delightful party was given at
ties. Tho directors feel highly
Miss Cowman, a graduate of ‘he 8Ums °f wh,ch are t0 be lef* ‘°
W ill Go To Arrange For Trip
for hog raising. Hog raisers of this
he Callahan home Friday evening, e n -a t r •
• •
. 1 the,r own inclinations. Subscript-
O. C. Young and F. C. Brown ar section ship to all parts of the
Harry Straw, Tom Fraser and J pleased with having closed the eon-
»rhen thirty young people surprised Of Pacific University is teaching ion lists will be placed in the differ. rived in town Tuesday morning from
United StateB. Along with these County Agent Bennion will leuv'fe tract, it giving' the assurance of a
There ent places of business and you will La GTande.
Miss Melba Callahan. Nearly all 40 first grade students.
features the board will introduce Thursday for Kennewick where they thorough test of the local structure.
the guests were graduates of the are 28 in both the 2nd and 3rd bo requested to make a donation of
Heavier tools will be used and a
other products that are new feat will arrange and make plans for the
Hermiston high school who wished to grades Miss Sawyer, a graduate any snm you are aI)le t0 K,ve
Ben Neil and Jack Biggs left Sun. ures of the show. The new addi caravan of farmers from the Uma double shift put on which will make
enjoy an evening together again be Of Washington state normal is
Remember this is not Hermiston’s day for Mayville where Ben will look tions are honey, poultry and a de tilla project who will leave in the drilling more rapid.
fore separating to attend different A-„„k:„™
O J
J
-
J Quota alone, but takes in the sur- at a piece of wheat land for which he
near future for a tour of inspection
partment for women.
During the past summer diffi
.
n<^ iff^de again and rOunding country as well. This
colleges. Melba Callahan goes to
is contemplating trading his garage
of that section.
cult roek3 filled with crevices were
The
board
is
especially
anxious
MlSS
h
e
r
n
s
,
o
u
r
n
e
w
th
ird
g
r
a
d
e
means
the
country
tributary
to
our
Whitman college, Walla Walla,
in this city.
The trip will be made so that the encountered but these hav been qjic-
for exhibitors this year to prepare
comes from Oregon city.
Doris Swayze returns to Stanford teacher,
farmers may acquaint themselves cessfully passed.
their
animals
for
showing.
They
university, Phyllis Dyer, Jane Gunn, normal. Mrs. Miller is again
Each state within the United
Mr. and Mrs. John Olson, of En
attention given to with farming conditions of the Ken
According to the officials of the
Dorothy Briggs and Enid Waterman teaching the 4th grade whose statea and 6ach county within their deavor, Wis., are visiting at the want more
newick country fend esepcially In
company the well has a steady artes
to Monmouth, Lucile Sullivan to enrollment is 24. Mrs. Miller has borders w111 be asfiessed quotos tbat home of Mrs. Olsen’s brother, E. R. breaking them to the bottle and to
regard
to
their
diversification
of
currying the animals and polishing
ian flow with occasional heavy over
University of Oregon, Zona Bensel i_______
j.
.
they are to raise for this fund.
Ash. They have disposed of their
farming.
—
flows which they claim indicates
to Cheney normal., Irwin Shotwell been attending Washington nor-¡ lt wa3 thought beat by the Com- ranch in the above named state and horns. They want more pride cul
tivated ln showing animals. Now
gas action. They also claim that
to Whitman and Hugh Fraser to the mal this summer. Miss King, merclal club to handle the matter in expect to make their home here.
HERMIS'TOW LOCAIS
is the opportune time to begin pre
the water carries a persistent show
Our new fith grade teacher, from this way for the convenience of all
University of Oregon.
paring the animals for the show,
ing of oil. The company is much
"The evening was spent In games, Albion normal has 37 students in concerned. If a ready response is
Ranchers of tbe east end have
The Dairy and Hog show is an
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Snider, of Port encouraged by these showlngB, also
j received the »150 will be raised and been uneasy for the past few days
ednteBt card playing and dancing. her class.
insltutlon that the people of the land, were visitors at the E. R. AHh by the favorable comment of visi
! forwarded to the Red Cross. If not
<1--
¡la
contest Enid Waterman won the
on account of a report that the west end of the county should be
'•fiX >
The 6th grade students num ! then a drive will be necessary.
home. They were returning from a tors familiar with oil rcjjloua,
prize and Eleanor Briggs the
water would be turned out of the
^ooby.- In cards Jane Gunn carried ber 29. Miss Mayhen, the 6th ; None can deny but what it is a ditches September 10. According to proud of and lend to it their loyal trip to Canada and other points.
It is rumored tt« t the Acme Oil
off the honors and Phyllis Dyer the grade teachfer, has attended worthy cause. Hundreds of thous- the local office no orders to this support. It is also a sort of harvest
Company will iilsAaet up a rig about ,
festival or fall celebration and en
booby. Delicious refreshments were Reed college and Bellingham anda are homeless and starving in effect have been received.
There will be a meeting of the October 1 on its leases south of
tertainment and pleasure, and the
served. The guests were: Dorothy normal. Miss Circle, of Wash- the quake zone- They need help aud
The Logan company
stockholders and those who have giv Hermiston.
renewal of social acquaintances are
Briggs, Doris Swayze, Phyllis Dyer, ¡ng state normal is teaching the nepd “ bad' D?es. ,t “ot beho°ve “8
Mrs. R. B. Spencer and daughter a part of its program as well as the en leases to the Northeastern Oregon will alsc resume operations in a few
Jane Gunn, Margart Neary, Lucile
Oil Exploration Co. Friday evening, days.
have returned to Hermiston after a business of tire days.
Sullivan, Bernice Jackson, Enid Wat 25 7th grade students. Mr. Ben- assl8t tho9e who are 8uffering by visit in Vancouver, Wash.
at 8 o’clock In the Auditorium.
The board of directors have spent Fight returns and other news from
erman, Arloulne Robinson, Eleanor 8el, Hermiston S Old haithful” , reason of this terrible disaster,
ADDITIONAL LOCALS
BriggB, Zona Bensel, Mr. and Mrs. is again at his post teaching 23
if each and evryone of us follow
W. J. Logan is a firm believer in much time to make the show this the raldo. A luncheon will be serv
Cbezik, Irwin
Shotwell,
Frank 8th grade students. Mr. Bensel *he dictates of our hearts and con- diversification of crops and stock. year the best ever produced. They ed.
Swayze, Hugh Fraser, Everett Par received his teacher’s training 3clenne and contribut our mite it may According to his statement he real should have the loyal support of all.
Last Friday while practicing
ker, Arthur Rubner,, Lawrence Wins a t Freemont normal. Three mem- b®Jbe ??a"s °! “ v,ng? ! le8_an-d ,le8; ized more money from seven head of The premium list is now In Jhe
football on the local high school
Mr.
and
Mrs.
C.
A.
Hood,
soli
Wil
low. Dave Mlttlesdorf, Harold Water
sening the hardships of the populace sheep than he did off of seventy printers hands and will be off the
bur and wife of Portland, will be grounds Dan Winesett had the
man, Marshall Newport, John Had bers of our last year’s high of the stricken cities.
tons of alfalfa raised on his ranch. press some time in the near future. the guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. misfortune of having his collar
school faculty are teaching here
dox, Craig Percey.
You as citizens of Hermiston and The sheep sheared 108 pounds and
Johnson and wife over Sunday. They bone broken. He was taken on
again. Mr. Day, our principal, vicinity have a duty to perform. the wool sold In Portland for 44
TAKEN UP NOTICE
are motoring to the Pendleton Round Monday to the hospital in Pen
received
his
degree
at
Rudolph-
Romember
this
when
the
list
is
Apple Picking Starts
cents a pound. The Dairy and Hog
Notice Is hereby given that I have Up.
dleton. The doctor expressed an
Mr. Gralapp, presented to you.
Apple picking on the Umatilla Macon college.
Show management will have Mr. taken up and kept for about five
opinon to the effect that Dan
project started Friday. There is a boy’s athletic coach and science
Logan display the sheep at the show days at my ranch, sventeen miles
Mrs. George Strohm Invited In a would be able to be on the squad
good prospect for a bumper crop this teacher has a degree from Will- Red amation Men to Pay Visit To with a placard telling of his achieve, southeast of Hermiston the following
number of friends Saturday night,
year.
ment.
described
animals:
On
gray
geld
amette university. Miss Brierly, i „ „„ „ Project
the occasion being her 20th? birth for the big game with Pendleton.
In all probability a car of Grimes
ing about 15 years old, brand W,
mathematics
and
latin
instructor
of
the
Reclamatfon
Servlce,
F
B.
Golden will be shipped Monday.
The George Elliot filling station one brown mare about 12 or 14 yrs., day. Through her modesty she did
Mr. Shutter is reported as be
Winter Banana, King David and graduated With a B. A. degree Weymouth, chief engineer, and in this city has been sold. Accord brand WL, one bay mare, about 10 not mention the fact that It was
her birthday, but the guests know ing seriously ill with a fever a t
Jonathans will follow in the order from Hamlin college. This 18 Miss Miles 'Cannon, field commissioner, ing to reports the pump was sold years old, no brand.
ing that it was, went prepared wlh
named.
Brierley’s fourth year in the have ,e,t Washington for a trip that to F. A. Chezik.
Said animals will be sold, unless
his ranch home in the Columbia
birthday cake and a lovely gift.
A car of Winter Banana and King Hermiston high school. We have wl11 take ,hem to a" reclamation
redeemed, at public auction to the
district.
David are contemplated, while Jona three teachers who
Mrs. Carell and daughter Helen, highest bidder for csah in hand on After refreshments were served the
received fProJect8
tbe Yn,ltod S‘ates' ™ey
thans are expected to pack in the D . ,
,
.
are on a tour of inspection. Some of Portland, spent the week end the 29th day of September, 1923, at guess pronounced the affair a ban
Mrs. F. L. Sampson and little
quet rather than a party.
neighborhood of three cars. It Is B. A. degrees a t the university time ln thc near future the officials visiting Mr, and Mrs. E. R. Ash.
the above dcecribd ranch, at 10
son underwent a minor operation
Miss Cash, who win visit Hermiston.
believed by the management of the of Oregon.
o’cock a. m.
fruit growers that the crop has been teaches English and history and
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Portland— Ellison-White Lyceum
Mrs. Lulu B. Rhodes of Hermiston last Wednesday.
Dated at Hermiston on this 12th
underestimated In this section.
again finished tn the highest 20
is the girl’s athletic coach. Mr. ' Portland to have »2,000,000 sca- and Chautauqua assclation to have day of September, 1923.
A new grader has been added io Guilfoil, who teaches English wal1 and water front improvement. modern new home.
flocks In the stae for July, her 315
Signed: Jesse Goff
H. J. Stillings believes that
the packing house equipment. Dur
hens laid 5288 eggs or an average!
and
debate
and
Miss
McKenzie,
he
raised the prize watermelon
ing the past month four cars of boxes
of about 17 eggs a hen. The htgh-
l « t ‘ ^ivl*dL ?noCV 7 ^ r d '? o r “iu?yi<>n the project this year. The
were received by the local growers. teacher of history and type
According to A. W. Prann, man writing.
I made by a flock of single comb white melon in question weighed 51
ager for the growers, there has been
) leghorns owned by C. H. Waymire pounds We can vouch fortheir
This year, after an absence of __
difficulty encountered in procuring
j of Coos county. The flock of 112 exceptionally fine flavor as Mr.
music in the regular course for
cars for shipping.
hens laid a total of 2585 eggs, an Stillings left three of them at
about ten years, it has been in
average production per hen o t about
the Herald office Thursday.
23 eggs.
ih e Portland Oregonian has great, clude! in the curriculum. Miss
Compton,
our
music
teacher,
is
ly assisted us in our campaing
against the fellow who calls on a a graduate of Whitman college.
What might have been a ser-' I he president of the M. E.
girl in our neighborhood and wakes | T b e whole school will be benefit
ions accident occurred Friday a''* wishes to call a special meet
us up in the wee small hours of the L j
th e
&
morning when S L. Kelley driv-1
the members next Sun-
morning while endeavorwg to start:
,
.
his car. Since they copied o„r, teacher to our tacuhty, as Miss
ing a Ford sedan came into a day morning for the pur-
collision with Paul Walker riding
of receivin*
re*°rt ° f
‘■squib” in which we voiced our com- Compton spends a half hour each
plaint, thereby giving him additional day with every gr^de. She ex-
a bicycle a t the corner of Main the
comm.tte and act-
notorlety, the young gentleman pas- pects to organize a high School
and Third street. The auto was inii u,K)n 1 ’
tures "lizzie” a long way„ off on the gie e club and a orchestra soon,
going
slowly, and a slight dam-
“
'
top of a hill. When he starts for \
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„ to the bicycle, was u,«
Mrs.
W.
A.
Swarthout return-
age
the
,
,
,
.
,
home he throws her in high, gives
Community Club W ill Meet
¡ed Monday from a visit to Port-
only resulting damage.
It * shove and be ie gone without in
The Community club will meet at
S land.
terrupting our peaceful slumbers.
1 the library Tuesday afternoon, Sept, !
W ill Put Up Bulletin Board
.
„
.
...
Stanley ' Chnstansen, brother
Milton has plans for large power ■ 18, from 3 until 5. The program i
For the conrenlenee of Ils mem-
project.
i committee has arranged an Interest,
bers and the public the Hermiston
Mrs. Raymond Crowder, stop-
i Ing entertainment which includes a
! commercial club will put a bulletin ed in Hermiston Sunday on his
Stanfield — Concrete feed and paper by Mr». F. P. Phipps, a read-
board up in the postoffice.
way deer hunting. Mr. Christen-
grain warehouse going up.
I dance by Dorothy Straw, Jane War-
Heretofore when anyhing of ee- g en ’8 home ¡8 in McMinnville,
I ner and Margaret Waterman. The
peclal Interest was scheduled and
Mr
B easley and son Walt,
Eugene may get sprinkler factory. social íeatnre of the tension will be
there was not time to give It the ac
anje(1 b f{a Challis and
an Informal reception honoring I
proper publicly It necwutltated mem-
r
*
* .
Estacada— »20.000 sawmill to be i teachers and new members. Mrs.
bers of Ih club pacing it on by word
motored to Yakima wed-
erected at River mill.
H. T. Fraser Is the chairman In
I of mouth to each other. This prov- nesday.
charge of tbe reception and will be
' ed unsatisfactory and at tlmea notl-
■■ 1..
Marshfield may get new hotel.
ase isted by Meedames J. W. Camp
flcatlon of these events were not re- :
Jack Reeves, of Davenport,
bell, W. W. Felt house, P. E
I eeived by the members. The board
Salem letting many building per den. f . 1. Prana, C. W. Tilden, and
will be placed In this public build- Wash., is visiting at the John
alta.
Jamen Winslow. A special invita
Ing so that all may aee the things E llis home in this
City. Mr.
tion Is extended teachers and new
¡of special interest that win com be- Reeves wili take in the Round-up
Bandon propones new high school
residents of the community.
for« the elub.
while here.
The Tide Is Coming in
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