The Hermiston herald., August 07, 1924, Image 1

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XVIII
TWO NEW SCHOOL
WILDINGS TO BE BUILT
HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7. 1924
LADIES AID TO HAVE FICNIC
OH UMATILLA RIVER
•sties.
Because of the growth of business
connected with the state fair, the fair
board has found it advisable to create
the office of manager and bag ap­
pointed J. E. McClintock of Roseburg
to fill the position. Mr. McClintock
has served tor nine years as auditor
at the state fair.
A new world's record for harvest­
ing flax has been established at the
ranch of A. E. Bradley, south of Salem,
who with the assistance of a patented
puller purchased a year ago has pull­
ed more than 120 acres of the product
since July 7. This is an average of
more than six acres a day.
Klamath county farmers will receive
100 per cent more for their hay crop
this year than last, according to re­
ports of early sales in the district.
In 1923 the new crop moved at from
86 to 83 a ton. The first sales this
year were made at 812.50 and 815
is considered the present market
price.
It Is doubtful if there is sufficient
water in Big Butte creek to supply
both the city of Medford and the
Eagle Point irrigation district, accord­
ing to Rhea Luper, state engineer.
The city of Medford is seeking to
divert approximately 30 second feet
of this water for municipal purposes
at a cost of 8600,000. The present
supply of water Is from Little Butte
creek, but this flow is not of a
quality demanded by the municipality
No. 48
ary higher outside prices and des­ CHECK IS MADE OF HIGH­
ert their union, so long as they let
WAY TRAVEL IN ARLINGTON
the interests that prey on them
Thursday, A ugust 14, is Date When
break them up and keep them blind­
50 Fer Cent Increase Over a Year
Sunday School and Church W ill
ly competing w th each other, just
Ago. 849 Cars Pass in 16 Hours
Join in Basget Dinner
so long will cooperation fail.
Brief Resume of Happenings of
The Northwest Wheat Growers’
LOCATION IS ACROSS STREET
On Thursday, August 14, the M.
Eight hundred and twenty-one German Representatives Invit­
association has recently suspended
the Week Collected for -
FROM PRESENT SCHOOL
E. Ladles Aid will hold a picnic at
operations in Oregon and Washing­ cars were checked in and out of the
ed to Come to London
the Quick grove on the Umatilla
Our Readers.
ton. The growers would not stand west sids section of the Columbia
and Hear Plan.
river. All members and friends of
by. not enough of them. One hun­ R'ver highway junction with the
W in Take C an of Claue« Held in the aid. church and Sunday school
John Day highway in the official j
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dred
per
cent
benefit
cannot
be
had
The annual Bend flower show will
are invited to come. Bring a well
Haaaaent of M. E Church Dur­
wth 10 per cent support. So the traffic count taken Thursday, July ! London.—A complete program for
be held Wednesday, August 20.
filled basket and have a "reglar 4th
â t the Past School Year
organzatioa lets go, while the same 17, as against only 5 50 count of July launching the Dawes reparations set-
Value of exports from Astoria to
of July." All plan for Thursday,
kind of organization in Oklahoma 18, 1923. This is approximately 50 I tlement plan was agreed upon by the
foreign ports during July was 8340,-
August 14.
Intertilled conference during a half
goes
ahead. Oklahoma started with per cent increase over last year.
S04. '
Two new school buildings for
The reports made by Jack Fisk, t“>ur plenary session at the foreign
three and a quarter million bushels
which funds were voted at a Bchool OREGON LEGION CONDUCTING
The cost per capita for educating
signed up. The second year this the check taken by John Roberts. ■ office.
election held July 14, will be erect­ STATEWIDE MEMBERSHIP DRIVE high-school students in Albany for
was doubled and this year the as­ shows 246 cars on and off the Junct- I w,th tlui arrival of German repre-
the year 1923-1924 was 184.15.
ed at once according to R. A. Brown-
sociation will control ten million lon. (On a total of 849 cars pass- j ««“tallves in response to the invita-
eon, school clerk.
The first irrigation project in Lane
bushels. Th s is cooperative pro­ ing the junction point between the “ on di8P»tched by Premier Mac-
In an effort to secure the coveted
Donald, the inter-allied formula for
The location for the new build­ Hanford MacNider membership tro­ county has been completed by L. C.
gress.
Three Kansas associations hours of 6 A. M. and 10 P. M.
424 car« from outside of Oregon launch‘n8 ‘he new scheme to obtain
in g is across the street from the phy for Oregon, the Legion's state Ables of Eugene for his 285-acre farm
have combined and they will be a
present school building, Just west executive board, at their meet ng in north ot Springfield.
big factor in the marketing of the I were counted. The heaviest travel War com‘,en8atlon i™“ Germany will
ranged from 9 to 11 In the forenoon ’ b” re'rlewed and the
o f th e Sapper residence. The build­ Portland last Saturday, decided to
Construction of a ferry for use in
state's wheat crop.
and from 4 to 6 in the afternoon.
' be ask*d tO agree to
ings will be one room each and inaugurate a state-wide membership crossing the Umpqua river at Scotts­
Approximately 80 cars per hour d u r -L ™ ® confere“ca * “*> ’“ “ lm° ua
their dimensions will be 30x36 feet. drive from August 1 to August 10. burg will be started at once by the
Labor is becoming a very strong
the .. recommendations submitted to it
Work w ill be rushel in order to have During these ten days the 118 Leg­ Douglas county court.
| .
co-operative organization in the na­ ing these periods. . .v
«
ques-
the rooms ready for the fall term.
I ne count made at the Oregon- *»y the committee studying , the
. .7
ion posts in the state will have their
July was one of the driest months
tion, because laborers are thinking
., .
,
,
B . tion of Germany s possible default un-
During the past term of school committees read,’ to sign up ellg- ever experienced in Bend. There was
Washlngton
highway
Junction
with
1
together and acting as they think.
der the Dawes plan and the sanctions
classes were held in the basement Ibles, veterans of tue world war who not a single cloudy day, and only .2
They are able to a very large extent I the Old Oregon Trail at W'llows to be applied.
o f the Methodist church, there not have received an honorable discharge of an inch of rain fell.
In the application of sanctions it la
to set the scale for days’ work and made by Berry Brewer showed a
being sufficient room in the school for war service.
j total of 592 cars passing of which stipulated that "if a default by Ger­
get
it.
Building
activities
in
Salem
during
building to accomodate the pupils.
371 were passenger cars from other many is established the reparations
Oregon has already increased its
This in a number of ways proved membership to a much greater the month of July were approximate­
states.
commission will forthwith give notice
Manufalturers and other big deal­
ly
29
per
cent
greater
than
during
the
inconvenient.
This check indicates a much of such default to each of the in­
strength than during the whole of corresponding month a year ago.
ers own and control their own sell
The realization that additional last year and now stands fourth from
ing agences and handle their goods ,arKer ‘<’"r,8t ‘r4fflc tban ever be' terested powers and may make such
While using a shotgun to shoot
room wag needed was proven by the top among the states In the
all the way through to the retailer. I fore. Although the June check recommendations as to the action to
rats on his ranch home in the Colum­
the fact that no votes were cast Unon.
,
,. middle
,
! inter. I totaled
They no longer
permit
, 953 . vehicles v past the John be taken in the consequence of such
bia district near Hermiston, Charles
aga'nst the proposition.
County
membership
chairmen Belcho, 76, accidentally killed himself.
ests to make two dollars off of one Day Junction, 170 were highway default as it may think necessary.”
construct on trucks.
Premier MacDonald, presiding at
have been appo'nted for each county
that they get. They leap the mid­
The state supreme court has re­
STATE MARKET AGENT
With a total check at the John plenary session of the inter-allied con­
PIVE YEARS AGO
to assist Legion Post officials in
dle
profits
themselves.
They
are
or­
*
cessed until September 1. Most ot *
DEPARTMENT
Day junction of 849 vehicles in 16 ference Tuesday formally handed to
making arrangements for the drive.
4 ganized and they stick, almost to | hours It is estimated the total the German delegation the protocol
Items Cliped Prom Herm iston Herald Fred E. Kiddle, of Island City, who the Justices will spend their vacations ♦
at beach resorts and mountain re­ 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 « the last man. The last man does j traffic throughl Arlington for the embodying the program of the con­
A ugust 9, 1919
was retired as State Commander at treats.
August 1 the new cooperative not last long unless he does stick.
day to be increased to close to 1200 ference of putting the Dawes repara­
the Portland state convention last
While July was a quiet month in prune exchange commences opera­
cars, the difference being due to tion report into effect.
Two carloads of porkers went out June, has been made chairman of the
In all industries except farm'ng cars cross'ng the ferry, cars coming
The first meeting of the Germans
of Herm'ston the latter part of last drive. He w ill be assisted by Harry the lumber trade of the Columbia river tion in Oregon and southern Wash-
the owners of the commodity have a to Arlington front the west and with the delegates of the interallied
week. They were prime hogs and N. Nelson, retiring state adjutant of district, more than 61,000,000 feet of lnSton w'th ten local organizations.
lumber was shipped from the river by Other units will be and are being hand in the selling end and the stopping here and the night traffic conference was strictly formal, held
brought a good price on Portland the American Legion.
water.
organized, and the expectations are price. When the farmer sells a on the highway from 10 P. M t0 in an utmosphere of restrained cor­
market. George Strohm was the
commodity the buyer names the I 6 A. M.—Arlington Bulletin.
diality. Chancellor Marx and his col­
largest Individual shipper, and for
A parlor car attached to the north­ that a large majority of the orch­
Tomato Blight
price. The farmer is not a party (
leagues were seated at the foot of
ards
of
the
two
states
will
soon
be
bound limited passenger train on the
one straight car ot his hogs he re­
The Idaho exper'ment station has
the horseshoe tablo, with Prime Min-
Oregon Electric line caught fire be­ signed up. Over twenty million to the deal. He produces and takes j
ceived 622.50 per hundred. Those
Budget Committee Appointed
been working on the problem of
| ister MacDonald at its head, the
tween Salem and Donald and was de­ pounds are already under contract. what i8 offered as the price, and the i
who contributed to the other car
The budget committee of taxpay­ French delegation to his right, and
tomato blight for a number of years, stroyed.
buyers are strongly organ zed. They
The
organization
is
well
planned,
ahd also received a good price were
according to C. C. Vincent, pro­
can to a large extent regulate both ers to serve with the members of Frank B. Kellogg, the American am­
C. E. Baker, Henry Ott, Joe Cramer,
Work on the North Umpqua section has able officer8 and leaders and
the county court was appointed bassador, and James A. Logan, Amer­
fessor of horticulture, in an aAis-
demand
and supply.
if
the
growers
will
stand
by
solidly
R. C. Challis, Joe Dyer and Walter
of the Umpqua highway is to be start­
Wednesday
by the court to serve for ican representative with reparation
wer to an injury from Boise. Thus
ed at once, according to J. M. Meyers, and loyally the organization should
Bbtkin.
making up the county budget for commission, at the left.
far, howeper, they are unable to
4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
United States engineer with the be a power for the producer.
The Americans did not participate
ths fall. Pendleton and Echo are
make any definite recommendations bureau of public roads.
Mayor F. C. McKenzie "hopped
the
communities
represented
by
the
j
actively
in the proceeding«. After the
relative to the control of blight.
EXPERIMENT STATION
And therein liea the success or the
off" to Seaside Tuesday night to join
The rainfall at Baker for the first
appointments, anil the men who conference Ambassador Kellogg and
Other stations have also been
NOTES
failure
of
most
cooperative
move­
his family at that well known sum­
seven months this year amounted to
have haem asked to serve are 9. R. Mr. Logan both said the Oaf mans had
working on the problem and have
(By H. K. Dean)
mer resort. Others In this city who
8.2 inches, which is 6.27 inches below ments------ backing and loyalty ot
Thompson,
J. F. Slover and Joseph expressed the greatest desire to get
found It a very difficult fungus to
have since and are about to emulate
the average of 34 years in which the giowers. Without It, organiza­
the Dawes plan working as soon as
Cunha.
1
oom bat. There i8 no spraqr mater­ records have been kept.
tions
will
contimi«
to
tail—
as
too
the action of the worthy mayor and
possible.
The
committee
of
six
will
meet
ial that will hold blight in check.
many have failed. There may be
whose famll'es are at Seaside are C.
GRAIN
FOR
CALVES
The
state
highway
commission
and
as
a
budget
committee
to
formulate
There are, however, a few preven­
the ablest leaders, organizers and of.
S. MeNaught, F. B. Swayze and Dr.
How about fixing up that calf the budget for the county for its
tive measures such as planting the Tillamook county court have filed peti­ fleers, but. the success of the move­
F. V. Prime. ,
tions with the public service commis­
you are so proud of for the Dairy business of 1925. This report made
tomatoes in partial shade. Some
sion asking for the elimination ot a ment get8 back to the producers, to Show this fall as well as growing
by the committee will then be pass­
what extent they will act and think
Miss Ruth Skinner, who for the able to produce a crop by setting grade crossing in Bay City.
her to make an outstanding cow? ed on to the county court for its
the plants closer together in the
cooperatively,
to
what
extent
they
past four and a half years has been
Building construction was 30 per
It will pay you to give the best final* approval or disapproval.
rows. Under such a system, if 50
with the reclamation service in thi8
. ,
, . .
. . . cent larger In Portland In July than will get behind the organization and calveB gra n under nny circumstance.
Mr. Thompson of Pendleton Is a
Mexico City.—Mrs. Rosalie Evans,
stick.
city as stenographer and
.° n
i f . .2
Any one of the following three mlx- big wheat operator. Mr. Slover is formerly of Brownsville, Tex., and
ed one still has a chance to secure la the same period of 1923, bank clear­
clerk, departed Saturday of last
a fair yield. Some Lewiston grow- ings showed a substantial increase
It is going to resuire mass-charac­ tures are good supplements for skim | heavily interested in fruit product widow of an ex-president ot the Bank
week for Berkley, Cal’fornla. Miss
over the same month last year, and
milk:
ion and Mr. Cunha is a b g sheep of London in Mexico, an English­
ess have also found that the blight
Skinner intends to take a course In
postal receipts were 4.9 per cent ter and mass-intelligence behind any
Com three parts, oats three operator.
may be prevented to a certain ex­
man, was shot dead in the vicinity of
(1)
organization
to
maks
it
powerful
greater.
Music and domestic science in the
parts, wheat bran one part.
Texmelucan, state of Puebla, Satur­
tent by placing a little manure in
enough
to
influence
markets
and
get
University of California.
Emma Mina Hockenberry, 19,
day night when on the road to her
(2) Equal parts corn or ground
each aomato hole at the time of of Miss
Fresno,^TalT w o ” kiUed~and ’ he’r
Producers what is theirs. An or
Feeding Alfalfa Leaves
hacienda. The slayers were not Iden­
barley, oats and bran.
setting the plants in the field.
“The difficulty experienced by
Mrs. A. Buhman and daughter
father, M. B. Hockenberry, suffered ganization of producers which has
(3) Oats five parts, corn one poultrymen in getting alfalfa leaveH tified, but were believed to be agrar­
Of the various method followed
no
further
interest
In
the
movement
Elda returned last Saturday even­
minor injuries, when an automobile in
part, bran 3 parts, linseed meal one Is practically due to the fact that ians who have been spurred on by
ing from a vis't to Pendleton, and Professor Vincent favorg the shade which they were riding plunged off than what each individual gets out
anti-foreign agitators in the region.
method as being the best.
part.
poultrymen do not make a strong
Sunday Miss Elda departed for
the Pacific highway three miles south pf it in dollars and cents, doesn't
The shooting of Mrs. Evans con­
A
mixture
of
concentrates
is
more
usually
last
long
or
get
very
far.
enough
demand
for
this
product,"
of Salem and turned over.
Wasco, her former home, to pass a
tributes further fuel of the bitter
Resident
of
Columbia
Disa
palatable
than
one
alone.
At
six
accord’ng to Geo. R. Shoup, poul- protests of London against the seizure
couple of weeks visiting with rela­
There was a total of 1232 arrests It needs coopert've religion to put
J. R. Royse, a resident of the resulting from the activities of op­ them over, needs members who read weeks a calf will usually eat one- tryman at the Western Washington 1 Br'ltishlownVd’ property Fn’
tives and friends.
Columbia district, died at the Leba­ eratives of the state traffic depart­ and study, who attend meetings, who half pound of concentrates a day; experiment station. "If fore of the j
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non hospital Tuesday according to a ment during the six months ending will get outside and hustle, who sup­ at two months a pound; and at three poultrymen would call for this pro-
Washington, D. C. — American
LIKE A PHOENIX
message rece'ved by his son. Mr. July 1, 1924, according to a report by port the organizaton every week in months, two pounds. Unless it is duct and pay the price that would charge Schoenfeld at Mexico City re­
FROM THE FLAMES
Royse wsb a man in his seventies. T. A. Raffety, chief inspector for the the year with ((rade, (capital and des'red to push the animal rapidly, make it profitable for the hay pro- ported Monday to the state depart*
Two weeks previous he had gone to state motor vehicle division.
good will and who everlastingly urge not over 2 or 3 pounds need be fed ducer there would be more alfalfa men that he had taken up with the
The people of the Northwest were Lebanon, hs former home. fThe
others to do likewise. When enough the skimmilk calf up to 6 months.
leaves sold on the market.
Mexican government the case of Mrs.
J.
R.
Nunamaker,
known
as
the
dismayed Wednesday atarnoon, July cause of his death was due to a fall
"We should not expect the hay Rosalie Evans, a British subject, who
cherry king of Hood River, although of these kind of farmers bunch up
23, when they heard of the disaster . from a cherry tree, resulting In a
Mrs. P. B. Stscel returned the mid grower to go to the extra expense was shot and killed, and that the
he has less than four acres of the then cooperat'on will get the same
which had overtaken the great ' broken neck.
fruit, received a check from the Hood kind of results business combina­ die part of last week from a vaca of separating the leaves from the Mexican authorities had given assur­
Pacific International Livestock Ex- j Mr Royee with his son and fam-
River Apple Growers' association for tions get, but so long as they play tion spent at Forest Grove and other j rest of the hay, or to put it in sep ances that every effort would be made
posltion. Its magnificent build ng . 1Jy
to the project last spring 812,701.83, the returns from his har­ the entirely selfish game, so long points In that vicinity visiting rela­ arate packages when, he gets no to apprubend and punish the murder­
in! Norb Portland, Oregon, caught, j from The 0 ane8> purchas'ng the vest of 6072 boxes of assorted var as the fall for the bait of tempor- tives and friends.
! more than regular hay prlceB for It. ers.
fire from a burning shingle mill, Klock place east of town. He was
Personally, I would be wili ng to pay
and In a half hour was reduced to buried in the Rose City cemetery in
310 more a ton for alfalfa leaves,
c innville loss $50,000
ashes.
Portland.
and even more If I could get a high
• This spend'd ittant, the largest
grade product. I believe that it Seven Fire Departments Aid in Con­
and moet conveniently arranged and "BRIGHT SHAWL” PRESENTS
would be worth more than kale, and
trolling Night Blaze.
equipped structure of Its kind in the i
SCREEN S MEANEST VLLIIÀN
it wo,iid he cheaper than baled hay
McMinnville, Or.—Fire originating
world, ooverlng over 10 acres of i
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since there would be practically no at 2:30 a. tn. Tuesday in the heart of
land. It rost appeoxlmately 8500.-1 ^he meanest of motion picture
j waste In feeding. If I could get the business section of McMinnville
000. However, it was Insured for TunaM ¡s portrayed by Anders Ran.
1 something of this k'nd and depend swept over a square block, wiping out
about 8350,000, and Genreal Man" ; dolf, famous "heavy” in hig role of
on It, I would not hother with rals- Or damaging the headquarters of
ager O. M. Plummer states positive-, 3antacilla, a Spanish army capta'n,
Ing kale for commercial layers, seventeen firms for a 850,000 loss be­
ly that the expos tion will be held ; )n Richard Barthelmess' new etarr-
but would plan on feeding soaked fore the combined efforts of seven
November 1 to 8. inclusive, w ith ou t, |ng veWctat "The Bright Shawl," a
alfalfa leaves as a part of the regu­ fire departments brought it under con­
fall, and that already assurances a r e . nr>t National feature, to be shown
lar diet when fresh greens are not trol two houre later.
coming from every quarter of the at
Playhouse Saturday and 8un-
The flames, starting in the rear of
available.”
compase of aid and entries of liv e -, day. August 8 and 10.
the City Transfer company's barn
stock. He says:
The story Is laid in Cuba In the
from an undetermined cause, quickly
Telephone Cable Break«
"The exposition will be bigger and day8 when tb, , ron hegi of Spanish
A break in the telephone cable consumed the structure and spread
better than ever. .Naturally, all our oppre88loB had not yet been cast off
that serves the farmer linos of the diagonally across the block, so that
plans have not been completed but by that
prgssed country,
Columbia and outlying districts was by 4:80 o'clock the United States
we expect to rebuild and work will
gantacilla Is not the ordinary
foi nd Tuesday. For some time C. National tank building was the only
be c oim n en—* •* »•«*
The Pacli,c type of viillan. Such commonplace
One
A. Paul, manager of the local office, one remaining undamaged.
International Liveetok Exposition is p|eagure8 M e f f in g , k'cking and
has endeavored to find the trouble horse was burned with tbe stable.
Equipment or men, and in some In­
■o solidly founded and so Import- heating whomsoever might come in
but only after persistent effort was
stances
both, were sent by six out­
ant an institution that even a great .
way are not up to the standards
he able to locate It. It was
side points when iho call for nelp
blow such aa thia cannot halt Its
gantac||ia. He is a human fiend
found in the vicinity of the W. B.
was broadcast shortly after the tiro
growth and pi ogreae.”
who prefers such clever little Jokes
Beasley house In ihla city. The
started. Sheridan, Newberg, Carlton,
The new building which will take gg pressing the burning end of a
break was caused by the eontlnual
Salem. Willamina and Amity all
the place of the one H>»t destroyed c|(tar ggajnat the band of a wa'ter
rubbing of the cable against the rushed assistance to McMinavtiiart
w ill follow the same plan, so ad- gnd mak,ng the waiter like it; or
trees through which it run. A com­
department.
m'rable did that plan prove to be. r)eloua|y kicking under the table
pany cable men will arrive in a f«w
The amplthaater probably will be .
h|> atee, Rpur8 abt knees of h's
days and make the necessary re. U. 8. to Provide Half of German Lean.
made somewhat larger, but the fgmlnlne companion and making
pairs.
New York. — Bankers Intimately
general construction will be the
mulls despite the tears In her
Identified with the proposed $200.000.-
same • • before. It seew **»*1 B
^gyee.
<.
Rev. O. E. Edwards, of Walla 000 loan to Germany provided by the
no be bettered.
A nice sociable sort of a chap *e
Walls, will deliver the sermon at Dawes plan elate that one half the
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Santarllla. who laughs aa he eitpsf
the Free Methodist mission In this amount will be offered in the United
Mr. end Mrs. B. A. Brownson a id p ka,fe ,ato tk< alde o{ tbg beuutl-
elty next Sunday. Mr. Edward lx Statee.
Mr. and Mm. O. C. Imrle and child- fu, SpanJak Banner who has deeeiv-
well known to the people o f this
ren U ft Bur day lor Bingham Springs — k,m
community havng filled the pulp't
wfctrp thPy a9«rt the week emd.
Bnl k< too dlaa.
_
here on several eceaelone.
.
OREGON NEWS ITEMS
OF SPECIAUNTEREST
ALLIED PREMIERS
AGREE ON P U N
ENGLISH WOMAN IS
KILLED IN MEXICO
Betwixt an d Between
M M