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VOL. XVIII
HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY. JULY 31. 1924
ing all warehousing charges. Inter pliance with all of the terms h ere-; this form of, contract and cannot go
ARNOLD BUHMAN
est, taxes. Insurance and other costs, of by any such transferee and such out into the open markets and buy
DEFENDS THE HEN
resulting from the ultimate resale compliance Is a conttnu'ng obliga eggs or poultry to replace any which
of such eggs by tke buyer, shall be tion to the seller.
the seller may fall to deliver, and
Has Always Realised a Profit From
divided proportionately, on the bas
7. The seller shall have the right that th's contract will be the pro
The Raising of Poultry
is of the value of the respective de to dispose of his poultry at his own per subject for the remedy of spe
liveries, among the sellers dellver- discretion until the buyer, by ten,'«Me performance in the event of a
Dear Fr end Crowder: We hear peo
Market'd* agreement of Umatilla ng eggs to the buyer during the
days' notice m aled to him at h is ' breach hereof.
A. AND THOMAS COBB, OF ple say there is nothing In raising WAS HUNTING RATS AT TIME OF
Project Cooperative Poultry Produe- period In which eggs were stored, all
Iasi known address. Instructs the ' 12- If the buyer brings any ac
poultry
MARSHFIELD, PURCHASERS
D
O"lt,v
ACCIDENT
as determined conclusively by the seller to deliver all of the poultry tlon to enforce any provisions here
There is something wrong 'f the
This agreement made between the buyer.
that they intend to sell or market of or to secure specific performance
I feed bill can not be got out of them.
Umatilla Project Cooperative P ou l-1 Any losses, after paying all w a r e .______
„w «> Shipped Friday ta
in any event, as, when and where hereof, or to collect damages of any Poker’s Store Will he Run as a Mar I have been taking care of poultry
I^®dUcer*’ “ association orgn- housing charges, interest, taxes. In- and for as long a period only as the
Moro, Oregon, snd Buried in
kind for breah thereof, the seller
j
more
or
less
for
the
last
30
years,
ket
While
Chezik's
Will
Be
lied for coopart ve marketing of surance and other costs,
resulting buyer may direct. In the event of
The Cemetery at That Place
agrees to pay to the buyer all costs
| and alwayg had some money com
Fitted Up as a Depart
poultry products
with Its principal from the ultimate resale of such eggs such notice, all of the provisions of court, costs for bonds and other
| Ing from that source. J have started
ment Store
Charle8 Belshee, a rancher of thia
**
°?' Or* f°n' here" by the buyer. 8bal> b« chargeable hereof shall be appl’ed to poultry wise, expense of travel and all ex
______
something this year in the line of
tnafter
called
the
buyer,
first
party
against
a
n
d
.......................................
ry
country ror a number of years, ac
and th« ondarat^ned
I ’
bp P# d by th# 8e,Ier »» well as to eggs, excepting that on ' Penses arising out of or caused by
{ trap nest ng; started with about 200
and the undersigned poultry pro- proportionately on the value of the the resale of poultry each seller's'
the l'tigation and any reasonable at.
One of the largest business deals hens, have found the ones that are cidentally shot himself through the
ducnr hereinafter called the seller, respective deliveries of the sellers deliveries shall be handled separate. ' torney’s fees fees expended or in
that has been pulled in this city for eating up the profit the others made heart Wednesday night about eight
’X « - .k . T
„
. dellTerlni: eKgs to the buyer during ly and the returns shall be made to curred by it In any such proceedings
some
time was consummated the first and sold them regardless of the mar. o'clock. Mr. Belshee had taken a
Witneeseth. In x. consideration
stor- h,m individualy, less all the deduct-
. . .
. of the period in which eggs
— are
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and ej( such costs and exepenses part of the week when J. A. and ket price.
shotgun and gone out to the barn
the mutual obligations herein and of ed. all as determined conclus'vely ! tons herein provided
shall be Included ln the Judgment Thomas Cobb, brothers, of Marsh,
I have trappel for 192 days to shoot rats. A short time after
the agreements by each of the par- : by the buyer.
I Both partles agree tbat tbe buyer
and shall be entitled to the benefit field, Oregon, purchased the Chezik Out of 20 hens I have one with
ties hereto to be performed and in
(d) Tbe buyer ln , t8 dlBcretlon ; need not market pouUly heunder
wards he was found shot through
of any lien securing any payment and Parker stores.
record of 156 eggs.
the heart, the load entering his left
compliance with the by-laws of the may gb|p any of tbe eggs denrered unless and until the buyer In its hereunder.
In
the
deal
made
with
Chezik
the
The
hens
have
laid
2669
eggs
side under the arm.
association which the seller agrees | hereunder to any market where, In discretion deems It necessary, for
14. If any poultry producers
to observe
and
in
pursuance lt8 judgment, .fair (prices may be ! the protection of the public against sign this agreement as partnership new owners also bought the build At 20 cents a dozen figure that out
Jim Brown, the coroner, was not
ing In which the store is located. I ain keeping a strict account of the
of the express alms of the association ;
obtained therefor.
, manlpulatlon of pricg8
8peculative
ified of the accident and arr'ved in
upon
d'ssolutlon
of
the
partnership
The
deal
has
been
on
tap
for
some
expense and at the end of the year Hermiston Thursday morning. After
for coopéra v . marketing and for
Any egga „
8h.pped 8ba„ be , dealerg_ to bandle andymarket tbe
if any of the individual members time but not until the first of this I will g v e you more dope
the elimination of speculation and I deemed to have been resold at the ! poultry
hearing the fact, of the case, he
on the cooperative bas's thereof continue to own poultry, they week was terms agreed upon that
I feel corfident that I can make
waste ln marketing poultry pro current market value on the
dates herein set forth for as long a per shall be bound by ail terms of this were acceptable to all parties con good with them. But, believe me, concluded that an inquest was un-
ducts, and ln consideration of simi of shipment as conclusively deter
necessary.
iod as the buyer may deem proper.
agreement, in the same manner as cerned. It is understood that a fair it takes about aa much care as any
lar obligations undertaken by many mined by the buyer, and the sale
The body was shipped Friday to
8. The seller may, at any time, if each member of the partnership price was received for both places.
other part of farming, and may be. Moro, Oregon, and burial was made
other producers:
price, so calculated, shall be added subject to the provisions of Para- had signed a separate marketing
One of the brothers stated that it a little more.
1. The buyer agrees to purchase to the receipts from the eggs act
in the local cemetery at that place
graph 6 (6) b, make bonafide sale, ! agreement.
was their intention to put a market
I do not agree with the Hogan
and he seller agrees to sell and de ually sold during that week and
mortgage or lease of his land and; 15. The parties expressly agree n the store purchased from Parker, people, at least when they think they where other members of the family
liver to the buyer all the eggs and shall be distributed as part of the
are bur’ed. He is survived by a
will be stocked with meats and can p ck them out. It is fine as far
the poultry subject to par. 7 here weekly receipts as above provided. poultry or either land or poultry, ‘ that there is no oral or other agree-
or may discontinue the egg produc-, ment, understand ng or conditions vegetables. The stock from Par as it goes, but the trap nest la the widow and a number of children.
of, produced or acquired by or for
Any prof ts resulting from any ing business; but so long as he pro- between them in addition to those
Relatives of the dead man ar
ker’s store will bo moved to the only system which tells how many
him after Sept. 1, 1924 and during of the said operations shall be plac
rived in Hermiston Thursday.
duces
eggs
or
poultry
dur'ng
the
herein
set
forth
and
that
this
con-
building
bought
from
Chezik.
Also the small egg layer, the large
the years 1924, 1925, 1926 and 1927 ed ln the general corpodate funds,
Mr. Belshee was about 75 years
term of this agreement, he is bound , tract represents the intent of both
(Chezik’s store will be fitted up as egger, and the nice large ones.
that he intends to sell or market ln subject to distributios ln accordance
of age.
by the term of this agreement.
j parties clearly, thoroughly and com-
department
store,
carrying
a
stock
Respectfully,
any event, for the price to be as with the by-laws of the buyer.
9. This contract is one of a ser- pletely.
of groceries, dry goods, shoes, etc.
Arnold Buhmann.
sured by tke buyer as hereinafter
Any losses resulting from any of ies generally similar in terms, com
Read, considered and sgned by
The stores, under their manage
mentioned. Afted y927 the contract the operations in 4 (d) shall be
shall be in operation continuously charged ag'nst general corporate prising, with all such agreements, the seller this............day of........ 19.... ment, opened for busness Wednes
Schools on Wheels
signed by individual sellers, one sin at.................Number of hens................. day.
Unversity of Oregon, Eugene, July
provided that the undersigned poul act'vltles of the buyer as a neces
gle contract between the buyer and Address.................Seller ........................
The Cobb brothers have extensive 31— (Special.) School children at
try producer may withdraw from the sary commercial overhead expense
By authority of a resolution of the holdings In Marshfield.
the big logging camps near Bend
association after 1927 by notifying and the buyer may, in its discretion the said sellers, mutually and indiv.
expect rapid changes and think noth
the secretary of the associat'on In create re ewes against such con ually obligated under all of the board of directors of the Umatilla
terms hereof. The buyer shall Project Cooperative Poultry Produc.
ing of seeing their school house, 30 FARMERS ATTEND OATH T .p .
writing between December 15 and tingencies.
be deemed to be acting in its own ers, adopted on..................... 19.... this
ING AT LOCAL RANCHES
contain'ng desks, books, stove and
December 31. The seller shall have
(e) The buyer may ln its dis name and in the interest of all such agreement is approved, accepted and
everything but the teachers and
the right without charge to use or cretion sell or cons'gn any of the
sellers in any action or legal pro executed.
themselves, hoisted twenty feet Into A Tremendous Amount of Damage is
sell eggs for hatching, and hens and eggs to hotels, resturants, retail
ceeding
on or ar'sing out of this UMATILLA PROJECT COOPERAT
Being Done by the Pests and Un
the air by a huge crane and settled
pullets, for increasing or renewing stores or other large users of eggs
IVE POULTRY PRODUCERS.
less Action is Taken Farm-
on a railway fiat-car, to be moved
the flocks, and the cockerels and and the costs of any such business contract.
10. Inasmuch as it is now and Hermiston Ore............................19........
with the rest of the camp to fresh
ers of the West End W ill
cocks for breeding.
as determined conluslvely by the ever will be impracticable and ex
President.
2. The seller expressly warrants buyer shall be charged against the
Suffer Loss
JACK WHITE PURCHASES BUSI timber, according to Miss Althea
Stoneman, Bend school nurse, who
that he has not heretofore contracted proceeds therefrom1 In addition to tremely difficult to determine the EARLY POTATOES WIL HOT BE
NESS FROM J. G. KNIGHT
100 ounces of strychnine, enough
's taking courses in the Portland
to sell, market, consign or deliver the deduction povided in paragaph actual damage resulting to the buy
MARKETED IN CARLOAD LOTS
summer session of the University. to kill 20.000 rabbits, waa d'strlbut-
any of his poultry products to any 3 hereof, before the rece'pts are er should the seller fail to deliver
Moves are made on SaturdayH or (1 among 30 farmers who attended
person, f'rm or corporation, except mingled with the total weekly re to the buyer all of the eggB and poul D;r«ctors of the Local Potato Grow Mr. Knight Has Left For Twin Falls,
ers Send Out Letters to the
Sundays
so tht students need mto ho poison mixing demonstration at
as noted at the end of this agree ceip ts for distribution among Mhe try herein agreed to be del'vered,
Idaho, Where He Wil Engage in
Members
the seller hereby agrees to pay to the
K. Pearson'« farm hear the re
r.o
working
days. The schoolg are
ment. Any poultry products cover sellers hereunder.
a Similar Enterprise
buyer seven cents for each dozen
The directors of the local potato
surprisingly well equipped and have servoir last Friday. An additional
ed by such existing contracts shall
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(f. The seller agrees that the
trained teachers and high standards nppiy of slychnlno and sacchar no
be exempted from the terms here buyer may handle and market the eggs and one dollar for each dozen growers organization have decided
says M ss Stoneman. Under her in an be socurod through Sidney Barn
of, so long as such existing contract eggs, some in one way and some in commercial poultry sold, consigned not to market the early potatoes ln
A
business
deal
was
made
the
first
delivered or marketed by or for him carload lots this year. A letter sent
of the Farm ■■-
continues in effect.
part of th’s week whereby Jack spection are approximately l i t er* tyid.Hemj
another, all in its sole and exclu and so undelivered to the buyer, as
to each member of the association White became the propr’etor of the children In logging camps, divided renu, or through A. E. McFarland,
v. (a) The buyer agrees to re sive discret'on.
liquidated damages for the breach of explain3 the situation. The letter
at Umatilla.
sell said eggs and poultry, together
cleaning establishment In this city, Into five schools.
(g) The seller agrees that the
Five pounds of chopped alfalfa
with similar products from other buyer, as the actual owner of the this contract ln that regard, all par s as ollows;
Water
Is
often
scarce
and
fre
known as the Imperial Cleaners. J.
Hermiston, Ore., July 24, 1924
quently has to be hauled, but tho containing one-quarter ounce of
sellers, at the beet prices obtainable eggs hereunder, may borrow money ties agreeing that this contract 's
G.
Knight,
who
with
a
partner
es
'n the buyer’s Judgment under mar thereon and exercise any and every one of a series dependent for Its Dear Sir: At a meeting last night tablished the business about a year little people are clean and t’dy a* strychnine was put In the sage brush
true value upon the adherance of the directors of the growers associa
possible and respond readily to tooth beyond P. E. Hall’s farm and a sim
ket conditions and to pay over the right of ownership thereof.
each and all of the contracting par tion decided to abandon the plans and a half ago, left Immdately after brushing and throt gargling, states ilar amount in a badly damaged al-
amounts received thereby, as pay
his
sale
to
White,
for
Twin
Falls,
The buyer shall have power to
n-jent in full, to the sellers named ln Join any cooperative agency or ex ties to each and all of the said con for marketing car load early potatoes Idaho, where he will later on be en the nurse. Many of them were born Tala f eld owned by A. B. Pearson.
here this year for the following rea
In the woods and know mainly thr Although It was impossible to find
contracts generally simiar to this change, whlh has for Its purpose the tracts.
gaged in a similar enterprise.
11. The seller agrees that In thq sons:
:
peaceful
life they lead beneath the all the dead rabbits in the brush 53
contract, according to quantities of cooperative marketing of eggs of the
During the fm e that Mr. Knight
First, we are advised by the Three
were picked up on the Hall ranch
great Deschutes white pine trees.
eggs and poutry delivered by the re. Pad Pc coast, In markets outside of event of a breach by him of any
has
owned
the
business
here
Mr.
and 36 nt Pearson’s. Other demon-
spective sellers, subject to paragraph California, Washington and Oregon material provision hereof, part’eu- Rivers organization that they are White has been employed by him in
trntlonB have been held at Stan
7 thereof, afted deducting therefrom and under such conditions as will larly as to the delivery or marketing offered only $25 per ton for early the capacity of tailor. He is a tnl
field and Butter Creek. The aver
♦he cost of transportation, Jhp cost serve the joint interests of the sell of any eggs or poultry other than potatoes at this time, and they have lor of considerable experence.
age, not only of the demonstrations,
of cases and fillers, which shall be ers and the public; and any pro to or through the buyer, the buyer therefor withdrawn from the market
Mr. Knight returned about a week
but of the extensive work done In
furnished the seller by the buyer portionate expenses connected there, shall, upon proper action instituted for the time being, holding for 30 ago from Twin Falls where he had
Morrow county where 75,000 rab
and an amount for selling costs and with shall be deemed market’ng by it, be entitled to an Injunction to 35 dollars per ton.
been vslting. While there he re
to prevent further breach hereof,
bits have been killed. Is about 200
Second, the short crop thiH year ceived an attractive offer to work
expenses not to exceed two cents per costs under paragraph 3.
and a decree for specif c performance ln connecton with the fact that
' abhlts for each ounce of strychnine
dozen for eggs and eight (8) pen
for a cleaning establishment 'n thal
5. (a) The buyer shall be the
cent of groan' selling price for poul sole Judge of the standard, quality hereof, according to the terms of some grower have already disposed city. He has gone back to accept ESTIMATED COST WILL BE IK used.
At the Pearson farm the farmers
NEIGHBORHOOD OF >48,000
try, all as determined by the buyer, and grade of the eggs and poultry this agreement; and the buyer and of their crops, makes It very doubt the proposition until fall when he
seller expressly agree that this ful that enough potatoes could be
watched
Roy Fugate of the B ologi-
in its sole and exclusive discret'on.
go in business for himself.
and shifll adopt' such methods of
cal Survey and County Agent Ben-
(b) If, at the end of the fiscal standardization as will be the most agreement Is not a contract for per asembled to make carload shipments.
sonal Bewice or demanding except
Realizing that these conditions
year, a surplus is available from the advantageous ln general.
County is Willing to Pay Forty P u nion chop up 20 pohnds of tender
ional capacity or talents and that might cause growers to flocd the HAY BURNS ON HAMMER RANCH
treen alfalfa and mix it thoroughly
said deduction tor selling costs, the
Cent Out of Next Year’s Tax
(<b) The buyer may make rules
with one ounce of powdered strych
buyer shall refund such surplus to and regulations and provide in this is a contract for the purchase local market, the directors suggest
Money. An Item to This
A fire that broke out on the Ham
nine Alkaloid and one-tenth of an
the sellers. In proporaion to the spectors to standardize the quality, and sale of personal property under that a m'nimum price of 2 cents per mer ranch, in the Columbia dlstrct,
Effect W ill he Made in
ounce of saccharine. The two pow-
value of their respective deliveries, method and manner of handling, special condit’ons and circumstances, pound be maintained for early pota last Saturday, consumed fifteen tons
The Bndget.
ters were mixed in a big salt shaker
after m aking; appropriate reserves pack ng and shipping of eggs and and that the buyer limits his pur toes °n the local market.
of hay.
and dusted Into the alfalfa as it waa
Umatilla Project Growers’ Assn.
for advertising and other commercial poultry for any purpose; and tke chase of eggs and poultry to pro
The origin of the fire Is unknown
J. Skovbo, Secy There was no insurance.
purposes, all in the dscretion of the seller agrees to observe and perform ducers cooperating with it under
For some time past the people of added layer by layer in a big tub.
buyer.
,
Umatilla and vicinity have been try'^ At the same time that tho powder
any such rules and regulations pre
4. (a) The eggs del'vered by the scribed by the buyer.
ing to interest the county court an was put In the alfalfa was turned
J
seller hereunder shall become the
highway
commission in the proposi over many times. Mr. Fugate stat
(c) All eggs and poultry dellv-
absolute property of the buyer and eded to or at the order of the settl
tion of constructing a highway ed that this amount was sufficient
shall be pooled and sold with other er hereunder shall be of the stand
bridge over the Umatilla river at for more than 200 halts the size of
eggs of like grade and like quality ard and conform to the regulations
Umatilla. Citizens from that local. a small hand full; he emphasized the
from the same districts purchased as to quality and otherwise that may
Ity, at. different t mes, have ap importance of putting it out In well
by the buyer under contracts gen be prescribed by the state and the
peared before both the commission defined Irakis preferably at inter
erally similar to this contract and federal authorities or the buyer.
and court and pointed out to them sections back from the feeding
the amount to be paid the Beller
the existing conditions that made grounds from 100 to 300 yards. The
(d) Any deductions or allowance
weekly shall be based on the propor. or loss or expense that the buyer
(he bridge a necessity. They Btated best results have been obtained'
tonal value In eggs deivered by him 'n his discretion may make or suf
that when the river was high thr where the pohion wa8 put out be
to the buyer out of the total week fer or incur on account of eggs or
bridge was under water and a ferry tween 1 and 4 o'clck In the after-
ly rece'pts of moneys from the sale poultry of inferior quality or stand
had to be put In use In order to take non, before the rabbits had com
or other disposition of the eggs and ard or undesirable conditions aa de
care of the traffic. They contended menced to move in.
County Agent Bennicn called at
Inventory value of unsold eggs, ac- termined by the buyer, shall be
the bridge was unsafe and should
tention to the tremendus amount of
be
replaced
by
a
highway
bridge,
the
cording to quality and grade, less chnrg„d againgt the seller and be
one in use now belonging to the 'tumage being done and predicted
the deductions hereinabove mention- ; deduc(ed from b|8 net returns here-
hat unless concerted action is se
rounty.
ed. all as determined by tbe buyer: I under_
provided, however, that the board of | (#) Tb#
expraaaly agrees
Their labors have not been In va n, ll red on the part of »11 the farmers
directors or the buyer shall estab- tbat
eggg #nd pouRry deHyered
for last Tuesday the Commission or that the entire west end of the
dried a new bridge to replace the county l8 going to suffer. Conditions
l,8h <*skr
pools to take care o bereUDdar gbau be free from damage
have been extremely favorable tor a
local retail trade, where In their
M y k-nd M(|
m>jrketable
old structure.
rapid increase. Where the average
Heretofore
Umat|lla
'county
has
discretion they deem It advisable.
and merchantable «„.gHion and
(h) The buyer shall ln Its dis- sha)J be delivered to the buyer M.
felt It was in no position to assist sized rabbit fnm ly Is only about 10
oration store or warehouse eggs to j when, and where It shall direct.
In financing the project hut on Tues each year, tho 1924 family contains
be held for the season of m'nimum ( # („
agrp(nnent
w
day tho Umat'lla county court ap an average of 20.
Any of the furmers who attended
production or for better market or binding upon the seller during the
peared before the Commission and
the
demonstration lust Frday will
raid that as the estimated cost oi
otherwise. Any eggs so sold or term hereof as long as he le a poul-
he able to tell others how to mix
warehoused shall be deemed to have » (ry producer or
the
new
bridge
is
<48.000
the
county
ssea any legal
Is willing to pay 40 per cent out of the poison and put It out. Roy Fu
been resold at the current market
ponitry products aed
next year's tax money and make an gate of the Biological Survey ts
▼Blue on the date» of storage ar shall he obligated by all the terms
Item to that effect in the budget. *P'>nrtln* th " week w,,h the county
conclusively determined by the buy hereof for any eggs or poultry pro
The highway commission ImmadlaU-|
on
Cr? *
er; and the sale price, so calculated duced or acquired by or for him.
sections helping the farmers to
iy
accepted
the
proposition.
shall be added to tbe receipts from
(b) Any transfer of poultry or of
start their kills.
the eggs actually sold during this
farmg
{he Mn<f to
Mrs.
Char
lei
Pengh
waa
called
to
___________
week and shall he distributed as a re,at,Te of any degree or to any p«r
H"5rt River Tuesday night by the
According to Fridays Oregon Ian
pert of tbe weekly receipts as above .
trust dur,ng fbe term hereof
idea»« of her d i‘er Mrs, Chrrlos De | oil was struck in the Attalla wall
provided.
shall be deemed to have been made
i Hart, that occurred Ip that city on the first of the week at a depth of
,(e> A»y net- profit a, after pay- TObjw t
and condition«! upon eom-
Tu»»d«y morning, w
|
j 3806 feet.
,
POULTRY PRODUCERS
ASSN. AGREEMENT
CHEZIK ANO PARKER
SELL THEIR STORES
¡CHARLES OELSHEE
SHOOTS SELF
RABBIT POISONING
DEMONSTRATION HELD
MPERIAL CLEANERS
ESTABLISHMENT SOLD
BRIDGE IS TO BE
BUILT AT UMATILLA
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