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VOL. XVIII
9 M M U N ITY CLUB TO
PLAN CLUB HOUSE
HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 3. 1924
CUP WILL BE AWABDED
BEST HIGH SCHOOL YEAB BOOK
THE WISHING WELL
HI SCHOOL OPERETTA
STATE SUPT. OF SCHOOLS
TO ADDRESS F. T. A. APRIL 9
BREAKDOWN PREVENTS
BAKER FROM SPEAKING
Nb. 30
SHRUBS
CONFERENCE AT
COLUMBIA SCHOOL
(A paper read by Mrs Jay Pelmulder
The annual staff of the Hermiston
at the Community Club Meeting)
On Wednesday evening, April 9. at
hlhg school Is asked to enter Its an
Mayor Baker, of Portland,
How unfortunate that our Interest
8 o’clock Mr. Churchill .superintend
nual In the Beaver annual contest
for the beet high school year book
ent of state schools, will speak at the was scheduled to speak at the in growing things so often develops
PLATO DBUSSED AT LUNCHEON In the state. Members of the Sigma BEING A ROMANCE OF OLD IRE high school auditorium. This speak' playhouse in this city last Tues long after the purchase of our home.
HELD TUESDAY
Delta Chi. professional journalistic
er should be heard by all the parents day afternoon. The Mayor is Few even of our present day housee H. K. DEAN AND OTHERS WILL
LAND
on the project and It Is hoped he wjll campaigning through
fraternity at the Oregon Agricultural
SPEAK
eastern are planned with due consideration
be given a hearty welcome.
college, staged the contest last
Oregon by car and on account of for an intimate development ot their
surroundings, and yet fundamentally
On Thursday afternoon, April 10
of Such a Building is Apparent. spring and so much Interest was Presented by the High School Sntur-
a breakdown somewhere between the problem is one and indivisible. The Second Session of the Conference
will be the regular meeting of the P
Bennion Addresses Meeting on i shown that It was decided to make
day, April 5, at 8:15 P.M . The
and , Umatilla
was un- . Every garden presents a new prob
i the contest an annual affair.
T. A. A large attendance Is expect Arlington
To be Given Ov®r to the General
Planting of Ornamental
,.
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Story of th® Play
Last year a sliver loving cup was
ed as the contest, as announced last able to keep his appointment lem and a new possibility and here-
Trees and Shrubbery
Proposition of How to Make
week, is becoming well advertised here. Quite a crowd had gath- in lies all the Jly of creation and ex-
awarded the Clarion of Salem high
MONEY
and people are enthusiastic over the ered to hear Mayor Baker speak, pressing individual taste, through
' school, winner of first place, and five
Lady Mary Donnell Is the last of
plan.
.* Sid. Bowman who had gone to 8Uch a beaut,ful medium as flowers.
Fifty women from far and near i honorable mentions were named.
Any who wish to get In their dues
The executive committee of tho
•over the project gathered for the 1hlB year’ *° *lre the 8mall«r high an old but Impoverished family of
The new gardener should study
Umatilla to meet the party tele
Columbia Farm Bureau met Monday
T nm m n.h,, „i..K i.. v
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schools a better chance in the com- old Ireland. She lives with her ser can do so by coming a little early
his
garden
space
as
he
does
his
room
Communlty club luncheon at the pttltion tw(j cupa w m be
vants and small niece at Falls Park to this meeting and thus their mem phoned from th at city the cause before furnishing. The natural pos. I n,8bt «t which time plans were made
Hctsel Oregon last Monday. The one to the annual Judged to be the Manor. She has been forced to place bership may he counted In sending of the delay. The news was con- sibilltles will fall under certain and a program outlined for the sec
'community service committee of the best published in a high school of a mortgage upon her estate. Such delegates to the council to be held veyed to those who were w aiting.! heads, according to location and ond economic conference at the Col
in Pendleton on Saturday.
•club took the center of the stage I*8® than 350 registration and the
The Mayor and his party arrived promise of sunshine or shade; these umbia school house.
la the situation when Noreen, Lady
The following is the program for in town at 4:30. He expressed are ,n Keneral the shrubbery back-
with its announcement that the time otber ^or tbe winner in the larger
Subjects that are of Interest to
Mary’s niece, finds a gentleman vag Thursday afternoon:
division.
his regret for not bjing able to *ro},nd> th* perennial border, the old project residents will be discussed
seems opportune for undertaking the
abond asleep in tue
T
Parents’ and Teachers’ Problems....
keep his appointment here and 07von'hlvKa«rrttn
.m.any at the meeting Frday night.
stranger who gives ms name us i,
erection of a community club house, j
HYSTERIA
................- ..................... Mrs. Miller
H. K. Dean, superintendent of tho
Great interest was aroused by this
The investigation at Washington ence O'More, is In reality Sir Ter The Teacher Age................................
Stated that if. possible he would spoiled by an ugly frame, or with no Hermiston experiment station and
ence
O’Grady
of
Hitchcock
Court,
a
......................Mrs. Nugent, Umatlla stop on the return journey. On frame at all. As our gardens are i Fred Bennion, county agent, will
report and an animated discussion seems to have reached the hysterical
friend of Lady Mary’s childhood.
participated in by many of the *aee-
’’W Lady Mary fails to recognize him— The County Unit............ Mr. Warner his way to Pendleton he Stop- really pictures and the shrubbery the talk on the following questions;
Now parents It Is up to you to ed at the home of James Gent frame- bow easily we can spoil the
If a man has an alfalfa ranch that
club ladies followed. A sketch and
The ent,re object of that Invest! they fall In love— and Terence, un
come and show your Interest In the at which place the M. E. ladies p,cture by mi8PIaced shrubbery, and does not pay how can It be made
floor plan of such a building as the ration— which Is the punishment of
known to Lady Mary, saves her es rejuvenation of an almost dead or
more profitable.
committee has in mind was care, the guilty persons and the restora tate by placing money In the old
”
It is certainly a mistake to set
How can dairying be made to pay
fully inspected by the club members. tion of government oil lands to the wishing well at the crucial moment. ganization.
gave a talk to those present. the shrubbery out in straight lines larger returns?
Instructions were given the commit nation— Is likely to be defeated If A friend of Mary’s, Molly O’Toole,
Succeeds With Sheep
as we so often see, for example per
On what basis will hog production
tee to proceed with the work look the flood of Immaterial witnesses with her friend, Maureen McGibney,
Ed. Jackson, one of the west end MRS. SARAH BEASLEY DIES haps both sides of the walk and pay on the project?
ing especially into suitable sites, continues to engulf the Capitol.
visit Mary and Molly tells Mary that farmers who has fed lambs this win.
drive bordered by shrubbery— rather
Much of the testimony that Is be
Poultry (»roductlon? Fruit pro
■«other building plans and the possibil
WEDNESDAY
Terence came to Falls Park Manor ter as a means of marketing alfalfa
let our walks and drives be wlnd- duction?
ing brought out this week has been
ities of financing the club house.
to purchase the estate for Maureen
| ing or curved and the shrubs planted
t
A comunity club building has been of the buzzing backyard-fence var McGibney to whom he is engaged. hay, was a business visitor In Pendle
Can honey production be Increased
ton yesterday. In addition to his
Mis. Sarah Beasley, wife of in groups along its way— the effect without overcrowding the territory?
iety,
full
of
sound
and
foam,
signi
tthe principle objective of the women
Mary Is heartbroken and to make ,amb feedlng work_ Mr. Jackson ran iichard Beasley, died last Wed- Will be a pleasant surprise and dt
What place has cooperation In the
•of the Community club since its or. fying little If anything.
matters worse she learns of the du- I 100 ..gummy" ewe8 this winter and
ganlation three years ago and a tidy
The average citizen Is puzzled in
nesday at her home in this city. away with that stiff formal appear- economic success of the project far
plicity of Squire Boxby, an old friend ; haa Ju8t compieted lambing opera-
mer?
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bis effort to comprehend the con
isum has been saved to that end.
whom she has trusted and who has tions. He hag a total ot 90 ,anibs She was 67 years 11 months and ance-
Mr. Fred Bennion, county agricul nection between some of the infor
At
the
first session of the confer
lf yo“r p,nntngB ar8 placed in
schemed to raise money on a sec- from the aged ewe8 He plang to 21 days of age at the time of her
, .,
.
groups to form a background for the ence the discussions were on how
turist, spoke to the club after the mation and the Teapot Dome lease.
ond mortgage which she had un market the lambs' when fat in the ea '
.
,
! smaller and lower growing flowers to save the dollar The second ses
luncheon upon the planting of orna
If a cabinet member telegraphs a wittingly signed.
middle of the summer and will then
Funeral services Will be held it ts much.rnore effective. Often we sion Is to be given over to the gen
mental trees. Mr. Bennion strongly senator that he expects to make a
Believing that Terence Is amus
recommended evergreen trees which trip to Kennebunk, the sleuths ing himself at her expense, Mary sell the ewes as soon as he can get Friday at the home of the de- j have an unsightly spot or building eral proposition of how to make
them into condition. Mr. Jackson
If planted in groups and given rea pounce upon the clue with gusto.
plans to leave. However all ends thinks dairying is a mighty good ceased at 2 o'clock, Rev. Davis which can be hidden by the proper money and some of the questions
planting of shrubs.
sonable care will do well here. Plant Everything from the price of beans
assigned for discussion are as fol
happily when Terence Is allowed to business. “This talk about dairy in charge of the services.
Shrubs may be divided Into three lows:
the Russian olive and Japaenese pea to thq best method of catching cod
explain and Mary learns the falsity ing being such hard work and « u s
tree among your wind break after fish Is considered significant.
groups, the tall growing seven feet
What economies do you consider
of Mollly O'Toole’s story.
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4» ❖ «> or over in height, the medium grow. most practical?
ing a farmer to lead a dog’s life •> ❖ ❖ ❖
thinning them out somewhat and
When the dust clears away the
makes me tired,” he said yesterday
thus relieve the monotony of straight people hope that something of real
Ing four to seven feet and the low
Is the project farmer entitled to
EXPERIMENT STATION
lines and artificial appearance, said value will bo uncovered, but the Ladies of M. E. Church Hold Meeting during a visit to the office of ¿’red *
growing from three to four feet. a greater return for his investment
NOTES
On Wednesday, April 2, the M. E. Bennion, county agent. “I milk ♦
Mr. Bennion.
These may be massed together form and time than necessary food and
presence of so much dust Is a pro
(By H. K. Dean)
ladies met for an all day social and cows and consider that taking Care ❖
A generous offer of Mrs. Herbert tection to the real rascals.
ing a compact wall of foliage. So clothing?
business meeting at the home of Mrs. of them is really the lightest part of
hesley to secure for the club a num
in choosing our shrubs we should
F. P. Phipps, president of the
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James Gent. About thirty-five lad my farm work. As for the work be
ber of evergreen trees from a brother
choose them according! to height, Farm Bureau, will preside at the ses
Orchard Plant Lice Hatching
ies
were
present
and
two
men.
An
FEED
MORE
HAY—
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ing confining. It’s my Idea that a
living on the coast was accepted by
also as to flowering period and color. sion Friday night. Those who will
Apple aphids threaten to be pres
Last week the financial phases of ‘ As to the flowering period we lead in the discussions are A. W. Ag
Ihe club and the donor was thanked. ent In large numbers this coming enjoyable day was spent In visiting tarmer with a home Is better off If
Mrs. H. M. Schilling discussed the year, acprdlng to surveys made In and eating. A short business meet he stays home nearly all of the time feeding hay were discused. Now j have the early spring, late spring, new. Henry Sommerer, Frank Wau-
"county unit school law and Mrs. J. several orchards. Early spring days ing was held In the afternoon. Mayor than if he Is chasing around.”— E. O. come the fertility features. The law early and late summer and autumn gaman, H. . Stillings, Otto Helnl and
of compensation again applies. No ■ flowering shrubs. Too often we W. L. Rhodes
K. Shotwell read an interesting following an open winter have devel Baker was scheduled to speak In the
A swimming pool for Hermiston soil, much less our light arid soils chooge those whlch Woom only in
paper upon music prepared by Mrs. oped these pests early. The young afternoon hut he did not arrive un
, F. A. Chezik, who was unable to be generation is coming out with great til five o’clock and most of the lad has been proposed. It has been sug which are low in organic matter, the spring.
LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION
present. Mrs. Gordon Shotwell. Mrs. uniformity, so a single application les had gone home. About ten were gested that some arrangements’ b'> will permanently produce crops
Some of our shrubs may also be
IS SUBJECT OF REPORT
R. G. Gale and Mrs. A. B. Gralapp of nicotine sulfate should be effect there to greet - him and he shook made with the owners of the artes which are continually removed with considered for their wood and foli
sang a pleasing trio. Mrs. F. V. ive, says A. L. Lovett, experiment hands all around and gave a little ian well to build the tank in the out the return of the refuse. We age during the winter months as
Eer nomic Aspects Studied by Animal
Prime as chairman of the finjance station entomologist. In connection talk telling his reasons for traveling vicinity of the well and use the must go even further than main for Instance the Japanese Barberry
Husbandry Specialists for Use
committee, announced a rummage with the scab spray, three-fourths about now and asked for support In water for swimming purposes. It is taining the fertility of our soils— with Its small beautiful foliage,
of Western Growers
his
campaign.
The
ladles
will
hold
they
must
be
built
up.
The
defi
stated
that
a
certain
gentleman
who
and cooked food sale for Saturday, nint of nicotine sulfate is used with
on all winter, and the snowberry
April 12. A cordial invitation Is ex three and three-fourths gallons of their next meeting, a silver tea, at owns property in town has offered to ciency of organic matter and nitro- jt8 bright red berries which remain
A progress report on the econom
tended to the Hermiston club mem comercial concentrated lime sulfur the home of Mrs. Harvey Schilling on donate >100 towards building the gen is best remedied by the return changing its color In the fall and ic study of livestock In Oregon, con
Wednesday
afternoon,
April
16.
of
manure
to
the
land.
Eight
years
wlth
,t8
beauttful
green
leaveg
and
tank. It is proposed to sell season
bers by Mrs. Alee Nugent in behalf and water enough to make 100 gal
ducted by the extension and ex
tickets which will entitle the holder results show that manure applied to pink flower() ln the RUmmer and with
of the Umatilla club women to at lons of spray. It should he applied
periment station specialists of the
Dr.
and
Mrs.
Prime
and
children
to
the
privileges
of
the
tank
and
in
alfalfa
at
the
rate
of
8
tons
per
|t8
greatest
charm
ln
the
masses
of
tend the Arbor day program and tree early now, before the aphids curl
college, hns bcon prepared by H.
planting Friday afternoon, April 11 the foliage and hide within the folds returned from Portland Friday. Dr. this way help defray the expenses acre gives a return of 463 pounds waxy whlte berrle8 wh)ch remaln A. Llngren of the extension ser
Prime’s mother accompanied them. of building.
of hay per ton of manure applied.
; on the bu8b until midwinter. In r vice for the western states’ exten
at the Umatilla club house grounda. from the spray.
! coJntry where the leaves are off sion conference to be held ln Tua-
' our trees four and five months of con, Arlz., next fall.
Rev. Davis Resigns Pastorat®
Rev. W. W. Davis, pastor of the
, the year It Is not well to consider
The report Is based on a survey
Irrigation League Base Ball Schedule Season of 1921
Baptist church in this city, has re
some of the shrubs which hold thelr conducted by the college men on
FARM REMINDERS
charm the year around.
signed his pastorate to take affect
the cost of range cattle production
There are several varieties of In the state. The survey covered
May 1. Rev. Davis has not as yet ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
At Echo
At Stanfield
At Hermiston At Umatilla
evergreen shrubs which do not lose 10 counties and considered 50,000
decided on his plans for the future
Weevil Infested beans and peas
their beauty all through the year. head of cattle. The results have
but from here he will go to Klam can be treated with carbon-hleulfld
APRIL 13
MAY 26
MAY 4
ECHO
These are very desirable for plant been widely published ln Oregon
ath Falls where he owns a ranch In to destroy the weevils before plant
MAY 11
JUNE
8
JUNE
15
ing. A few of them are the Azella, through the press and are consider
the irrigated section of that district. ing. The seed to ba treated is us
MAY 18
APRIL 27
While here Rev. Davis has made ually placed in a tight receptacle of
APRIL 20
rei, Oregon grape, and finest of all 'd the most reliable Information
STANFIELD
JUNE 22
JUNE 15
I holly, juniper, barberry, boxwod, lau- available. Publication has extend
a host of friends and the church has some kind and the liquid either is
MAY 25
i rei. Oregon grape, and finest of all, 'd beyond the state, and the facte
enjoyed a steady growth under his poured over them or placed in a
MAY 4
APRIL 20
MAY 11
HERMISTON
leadership
j the Rhododendron.
saucer on top of the seed. The con
JUNE 29
have been used by the rangers and
JUNE 1
JUNE 22
For a eucesslon of bloom from upervisorrt of national forests In
tainer is covered and left for 24
APRIL
27
JUNE
8
APRIL
13
j early spring to late fall we might various district meetings.
UMATi iXA
Local Girl’s Picture in Magazine hours. The dosage is 1 1-2 ounces
JUNE 1
JUNE 29
MAY 18
I take the following for example;
In the April Issetie of the Union for 10 cubic feet of space. Dipp
Oregon range cattlemen have glv.
j Forsytlila, Japanese Qunce, Splrea en support to the project which will
Pacific Magazine published In Omaha ing the seed In boiling water and
Von Houttel. Splrea Anthony Wat- be extended to Include entire ranch
Nebraska, Miss Gladys W hitsett’s immediately cooling will destroy
I erer, Mock Orange, Welgela, Honeyl uirvoys ns well as the cost of run
picture appeared on a page under the most of the weevils. The new crop
| suckle. Viburnum, Butterfly Bush, ning cattle. More definite mater
is usually Infested by planting in
head ot unusual People.
Róse of Sharon or Althea and Hy ial In regard to the' production cost
The picture was run In connection fested seed.
drangea Panlculata.
with an article In regards to her
s expected from the enlarged pro
A light application of land plas
winning the Union Pacific scholar
It might be well to say a word tect.
ter on the clover crop will stimu
ship recently.
about the rose as a shrub. So many
Other subjects reported by Mr.
With the scholarship of >75 plus late the growth of this crop.
! persist ln thinking of the rose as ap Llngren for the Conference Com
the profits of her apiary of 30 colon. The amount used is 40 to 80 pounds
! ever blooming one. So many people mittee are range management, wool
Ies of bees. Miss Whitsett plans to to the acre.
| feel they do not care to give space Improvement and livesock feeding.
put herself through college.
■ to thp old fashioned rose, but used These projects a s well as product-
All seed potatoes while still dor
The award was given her by the
j as a shrub with Its graceful and 'on costs are In harmony with the
railroad company for her showing in mant and before they are sprouted
' beautiful foliage, is it not much more range livestock program worked out
the boys’ and girls’ club work. She should be given the corroelve sub-
l beautiful as a shrub than the teas by the western extension conference
plans on entering Oregon Agricultu- j llmate treatment.
and hlbred teas? It Is true It blooms I at Ft. Collina. Colo., last November.
The presence of flies is an Indi
ral college In the fall of 1924.
perhaps but one week In fifty-two.
To handle the matter effectively
Miss Whitsett Is a senior in the cation of uncleanllness. unsanitary
but does tho lilac, splrea and mock and economically the Oregon range
conditions and Improper disposal of
Hermiston high school.
I orange bloom much longer and Is council has been organized with Mr.
She is the sort of girl who Is substances in which they breed.
I their foliage any more beautiful? Llngren as chairman. Other mem
bound to make a mark in the world. Screening the food as well as the
It not why not k '. yo the rose a place bers are James T. Jardine, director
While In an interview with her a windows and doors is an import-
In the shrubbery planting?
of the experiment station and for-
Vew days ago she confided her am b l.! ant precaution to take against the
Using It as such the modern mdVly in the federal forest service;
tlon was to be a school ma'am and fly disturbance,
climber may be trained ns pillars Paul V. Maris, director of extension;
we’ll bet eh u will make a good one. f
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four or five feet high. The pillars E. L. Potter, chief of anlnal hus
' A grafting wax which has been
are more pleasing than the Iliac bandry: F. I., Ballard, county agent
found the best for all purposes may
Work On Factory to Start
, after Its flowers are gone. The pro- leader: O. R. Hyslop, chief of farm
The Pacifle Straw Paper and be made at home as follows;
, cess of training is simple. A cen- plant specialist.
Board Company, 8(00.000 enterprise, Resin, 5 pounds; beeswax. 1 pound:
■ tral support Is desirable such as a
pulverized ehareoal,
1.8
will start construction of Its plant finely
Dad West got tired of turning
I Ifnghth of discarded galvanized pipe
on the recently purchased 15 acre pounds; raw linseed oil. 1 gill.
planted at the same time as the rose. out for so many of these big high
site in Longview’s industrial center Melt beeswax over a slow fire, add
I The shoots are tied up to this and way trucks on his way to Echo the
about May 1. according to Charles F. charcoal, stirring, then the oil.
are either headed off at It» top or other night and declared he’d shove
Schaub, president of the company, Moulded bricks should he put In
twined around It for for fuller effect, the next one that got In hla way
who Is now in this city. August F. greased pans. The wax may be
in early spring prune the side shoots right off the road. He tried It.
Beisse. prominent contractor, will broken in lumps for use and melted.
_
Nobody hurt,, but Dad will have A
to Ies« then a foot _ and _ thin leaves
have rapernmn of the onnzti action. Should be applied I nliquid form.
plenty of wood to clothe the pillar | garage hill for the two front wheeln
Three units of the plant are to b e .
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In white, flame or roey tlnta of were left going different ways when
built at this time at v « » t ud » * •.-,
Farmers wishing to 'market
the truck pushed the ear oft th»
dawn.
too for the buildings, and machinery ____
* B)
grade.
May
I
also
mention
the
climber
coetirg 8100.000 la to bn Installed.
P°t»toe9 through the asso
n» a hedge, »nd the following vnrle-
ciation are requested to list their
-Or ri* "'
Mr. and Mr». BUI Warner
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acreage with otto Heioei at once.
(Cwottuiied from Page Two)
Pendleton visiterà Monday.
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