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VOL. XIX
F. T. A. WILL HAVE
ELECTION OFFICERS
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HERMISTON. UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON. THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1925
BIO HAUL OE BABBITS MADE
IB DRIVES BEAR ECHO SUNDAY
8,000 Estimated Killed By Big Crowd
That Worked in Harris Canyon.
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UMATILLA PIONEER
0RE60N NEWS
MARRIED IN CALIF. $ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ $ OF SPECIALINTEREST
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OREGON WEEKLY
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW
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No. 17
Mountain Stales Power company tc
keep the Albany water ditch open and
to prevent any water shortage in the
city. Abont 70 pounds of dynamite
was nsed every day to blast Ice from
the surface of the ditch.
Brief Resume of Happenings of
Fourth Installments payments of the Ambassadors Agree Nat to
state Income tax which was repealed
the Week Collected for
Evacuate as Germans Are
at the recent election have totaled
approximately 3200,000, according tc
Our Readers.
Believed Re-Arming.
Earl Fisher, state tax commissioner
There ls yet to be collected from thle
T. M. Hicks was elected president source more than 3250,000.
Paris.—Germany's alleged violations
of the Salem chamber of commerce at
of
the treaty of Versailles in respect
Commander Fred Milton Perkins
the annual election.
gunnery officer of the American battle to armaments were registered here
The continued cold weather haa fleet, who was Injured In an airplane by the allied council of ambassadors.
been extremely hard on game birds In crash at Loa Angeles harbor Monday The council Instructed Its secretary
the Willamette valley.
December 15, died at San Diego, ac to draft a note notifying the Germany
The combined levy for state and cording to word received by his father government that the Cologne bride-
head will not be evacuated as stipulat
county purposes In Umatilla count, William T. Perkins, of Portland.
ed in the treaty January 10.
for 1926 wUl be 14.40 mills.
William Basl, twice convicted of vio The allied ambassadors were unani
For the first time In many years the lating the prohibition laws, has re mously agreed In recognizing that
South Santlam river was frozen ovei ceived a conditional pardon from Gov Cermany is rearming and that pro
at Lebanon and ice skating was enjoy ernor Pierce, according to the records gressive withdrawal from the Rhine
at Salem. Baal's conditional pardon land must await further Investigation
ed.
Nearly $12,000 In Christmas bonuses commuted the unserved portion of his of the Interested governments. There
was distributed by the Brooks-Scanlon sentence and remitted 9260 of a 9500 was a difference of opinion, however,
f» e.
as to the Importance of the treaty
and Shelvln-Hlxon lumber mills at
The movement by the cattle men ol violations and the consequent menace
Bend.
the state as a result of a plan adopted to the security of the allies.
The Willamette river, for the first
by the Oregon Cattle and Horse Grow
Great Britain seemed inclined ta
time in the memory of the oldest rest
era’ association toward orderly market minimize specific cases of violation
dents, was completely froxen over at
ing of cattle In the state soon will be reported by the military control mis
Salem.
launched in Umatilla county, accord sion. although agreeing that further
An armed, masked man held up the ing to information received by Fred light must be had on this mattar be
pool hall of F. E. Waller at Boring, ob Bennlon, county agent. The plan is fore a final decision is reached. The
talned J150 from Mr. Waller and made to have a representative of the grow French and Belgians, on the other
his escape.
ers in the stockyards at Portland at hand, regarded the alleged discoveries
Asparagus acreage will be doubled all times.
of newly prepared parts for 40.009
In the spring by members of the Uma NOVELTY REVUE MAKES
machine guns, camouflaged in various
tllla Project Growers’ association at
ways, as alarming.
BIG HIT AT THE ARCADE
HermlBton.
TROOPS TO STAY
IN COLOGNE AREA
Eugene— City will build a new
Approximately five thousand Jack-
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MFFTÏNG WILL BE HELD NEXT rabbits hade farewell to sagebrush |
U* RBOWNELL ANl! BBS. ROAD- bridge across mill race on Ninth
street. McMillan street paving and
and plain Bunday aa a result of the
THURSDAY, JANUARY 8
RUCK WED IB LOS ANGELES
four sewer Jobs now under way.
drives held In Harris canyon when
farmers and sportsmen from two
Medford— Owen Oregon Lumber
Besides The Election of Officer. Bor ™untl* Wned in herding the pests
at of M ilt Mtüheron, Uma plant here will coet >1,000,000.
The Ensuing Tenr T h e« Will
* fenced anc,0' ur* where
•
were summarily dispatched.
tilla County Health Nurse ia
Be Interesting Program
The first drive, that held In the
Homedale— Contract let for build
Tfci» Week
ing road to connect with Nysea- Jor
By Students.
morning, was the moat successful
don valley highway.
according to Fred Bennlon who was
one of the 50 Pendletonlang partici
Word has been received of the
Bend— Deschutes county dairying
The next regular meeting of the pating In the day's sport. Between
marriage In Los Ange'es of Mrs. Elo has increased 20 per cent during the
P. T. A. will be held Thursday, Jan. ,20 and 26 Hermiston residents took
ise Roadruck and D. O. Brownell, on past year.
8. 1925. In the high school auditor 'part In the drive. About 3000 rab December 11.
ium at 3 P. M.
bits were driven Into the corral In
D. C. Brownell Is a pioneer of Uma.
Klamath Falls—Shevlin Hixon
This will be a very Important meet his one venture, and It Is estimated
tllla. Mrs. Roadruck (Mrs. Brown, Company will begin April to log its
ing with the election of officers. that 1500 were killed In the sage
ell), was formerly nt Ir-lgon and
Every member is urged to attend.
brush. Two other drives were made Is the mother of Mrs F. M. Outwits 1.000,000.000 feet of timber In
Klamsth county.
Start the new year right by at In the afternoon but only about 500 of this city.
tending this meeting and all follow additional rabbits were rounded up
After several months In Los An
Bnton county will hold economic
ing meetings. The local P. T. Clr In the latter drives.
geles they will return to Umatilla. conference January 13-14.
’.c has heen having splendid pro-
The big drive started from the
ir-e.ms, and the meetings have been old Echo-Butter creek road and pro
••
jt ,g jjopgd that the ceeded up the draw for about three
Eugene — Another combination
Announcement la made of the en
«”♦ shown to date will con miles. Wings of fence had been gagement of Miss Margery T. Mul- pumper fire engine arrives for city
tinue.
built out and lhto the V-shaped en heron to Mr. Rowan Whealdon of fire protection.
Miss Larson's room, the first grade closure the rabbits were driven, Portland. Miss Mulheron has for
Oakridge— 3,000 men employed on
■ m wsve something Interesting on then through a chute Into the real the last sixteen months been public
— tve program. Elizabeth Straw coral. So thick were the rabbits on health nurse In this county, putting Natron Cut-off railroad. Forty-three
will play a piano solo and Lenofe the first drive that they were pack on a demonstration of the work un miles completed between Kirk and
Dyer will give a reading.
ed into the chute to a depth of two der the Oregon Tuberculosis asso Oakridge and 31 out of 51 remain
The P. T. A. wishes everybody a feet at times.
ciation. Mr. Whealdon is also on lng miles graded.
very happy and prosperous New
A couple of motion picture ;om- the staff of the tubercllosig associa
Klamath Falls— President Rudd of
Tear.
panleg had camera men on the tion, and Is known to many In Pen.
grounds, and close views of the day’s dleton and In the county for his vis Great Northern railroad announces
activities were secured by both the its as field executive and seal sale Klamath as goal for which his com
Just enough melody to make It
The body of an unidentified laborer
pany built Oregon Trunk road to
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International and Ftrx representa director for the state.
was taken from behind an engine tuneful; Just enough Jazz to make It
Bend.
The
marriage,
which
was
to
have
♦
FARM REMINDERS
tives. Twice one of the operators
tender of a westbound passenger train enappy; Just enough dancing to add
had his camera knocked over by been in January, has been post
syncopation; Just enogti comedy to
Springfield....Citizens give 31500 at Arlington.
rushing rabbits when he was busy poned until early February on ac
make
It funny; and Just enough of
Mrs.
Sarah
J.
Helmick,
101
years
for
children’s
farm
home
at
Cor
i •« ■ n-c.
iay getting exposures on the snow In count of the lack of a qualified pub
old, died at her home In Albany. Mrs everything to make the Novelty re
vallis.
lic
health
nurse
ag
Miss
Mulheron’s
side
the
corral.
Paris.—France’s war debts to Amer
£••• -ksd «a - •
; .y he sed
Helmick came to Oregon with her hus vue, which opened a two-day engage,
About 800 people were present for successor. Mrs. David B. HUI,
ica and Great Britain, amounting close
' .nsof su eu-
ment
at
the
Arcade
theater
last
night
band
In
1845.
Oakland— Oil showing reported
to 31,000,000,000 gold francs, are not
NOtk the drives, an unusually large crowd, prsldent of the Umatilla County Pub
Thomas Earl, 43, committed suicide probably the best all-around musical listed as liabilities of the French treas
off and those who promoted the affair lic Health association. Is communic from Leeper dome, west of Oakland.
n»
at his home In Eugene by hanging show that has been featured at the ury as shown in a balance sheet is
l.k<-
ç ab. were delighted with the resultg they ating with the state bureau of nurses
Cascade national forest patrols himself with a piece of clothes line local show house this winter.
■ o . i ¿ secured. Rabbits In this high sage of the state hoard of health which
sued by the French ministry of fi
The songs, the dance numbers, the
nance.
district are hard to poison, due to acts In a supervisory capacity, and coet 339.000 and 50 fires cost $1294 from a beam in the woodshed.
dir
comedy skits, and the Instrumental
Dr. Sandford Whiting, a prominent
Nor are the amounts due France
the fact that they are not accus nurses from New York, San Fran during 1924.
selections follow each other so close
Portland physician and surgeon, drop
from other countries (or war and post
dte.
wer tomed to the taste of alfalfa, and ef cisco and Canada are being consid
During 1924 the 36 counties of ped dead In his office In the Selling ly. and In such delightful sequence war advances, amounting to about 16,-
be¡
des forts to poison them have not result ered for the position.
Miss Mulderon Is the sister of Oregon received 91,139.936.18 for building. Heart disease was given at that there Is not a dull moment In 000,000,000 gold francs, Included In ths
ed
In
any
very
great
success
In
the
»me
the entire 45 minutes of the revue. assets. The Inventory was Issued “for
the cause.
Miss Anne M. Mulheron, librarian of motor licenses.
Jne Harris canyon.
Featured on the program is the non-party purposes" with ths view of
Multnomah
county
and
Portland
li
Stacy.
12,
and
Clark,
10,
sons
ol
Farmers
op
Butter
Creek
have
eld
Girls’ Jazz orchestra, consisting of creating confidence by a clean breast
Mt.
Angel—
Electric
service
to
be
Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Swanson, living
!<• ned been carrying on 'poison work, but braries. Mr. Whealdon ls president given
six pretty girls, each a talented solo of the facts, aa the document said.
to Lake Labish section.
five miles north of Eugene, were
t e r . they have temporarily been held up of the Rsed college nlumnl associa
sed
ist on the Instrument she plays.
On the other hand, 193,000,000,000
tion
of
Portland.—
East
Oregonian
drowned
while
skating
oS
h
a
small
lake
her by a lack of strychnine. A new sup
lïd
Helen Lewis probably wine the paper francs, as the capitalisation of
near their home.
Grand
Ronde—
Oregon
Coast
Range
ply
Is
expected
to
be
on
hand
by
the
;.b tra-
. _
_
,.
— r- — t apalauae honora In the pro- the French share In the Dawes plan
Lumbar Co- will heeriw IngMW « a .O uo c
la*ter,gert q? £►» -.owsr ■»« « -
COMFTa
.
**|gram. Miss LewM Ts knoyrn to »11
acres
timber.
ahanltles a{e hMindod!« the assets 1
Horace
Knapp,
water
superintendent
secured at the county agent’s office.
e e rJ L r
radio fang In this district who have
Although the figures ware omitted,
of La Grande, died as the result
i<j use to
Taken from eerjFangle the picture
ever tuned In on the KGW “Hoot Interallied debts were freely discuss
One Is Born Every Minute
burns suffered the night of Deoembei
Reedsport—
Citizens
pledge
load
America’* which ls scheduled to play
Owls.” Possessed of a remarkably ed. Finance Minister Clementel re
d for
1«. She was a pioneer of the valley
The estimate that 3500,000.000
at the Playhouse In I’crmlcton Wed ing track if Umpqua Mills will build
clear voice, it Is easy to understand newed the French thesis that these
th" a . ate
v-as extracted last year alone from
850,000 addition.
Cold weather haa handicapped why Miss Lewis’ singing registered
iay small investors by obvious swindlers nesday, Thursday and Friday Is one
debts form part of the general allied
enumerators
of the federal farm so well in a radio microphone.
in-
of the best of the season’s product
resources pooled In war time. He
gives point to the recent declaration
census
to
such
an
extent
that
only
Silverton—
Tribune
office
Installs
The novelty trio, Clare Heath, figured that a strict equity would seem
aot
ions. It Is unlqtfe from a historical
of Federal Judge Anderson that in
about
20
per
cent
of
the
schedules
on
Duke Wilkison and Earl Bonner, fur
standpoint, depicting the early strug new linotype and other valuable
his opinion there are large numbers
northwestern Oregon farms have been nish most of the comedy of the show, to demand a general addition of war
gles of our forefathrrs for freedom equipment.
expenses and their distribution amnwg
filled out.
of lndlvlduafs who will never learn
but also "put across” several har the allies In proportion to the wealth,
i<e to guard the'r s»vi .g«. The swind and independence. There are so
For further Investigation of the Des mony numbers In a style that ls all without taking Into account special
;on ler is but the product of eoidlttour many thrills, heartbreaks and tri COMMUNITY CLUB WILL
chutes Irrigation project In centra) their own.
umphs
that
it
18
ridiculous
to
praise
undertakings Imposed by monetary
V t to created by his victims. The latter
MEET ON JANUARY 6 Oregon, Elwood Mead, commlssionet
Gladys Thomas Is a piano soloist necessities.
y öi?P V,* ln a « mulcted not because they are un any one thing. It makes you a lit
of reclamation, has set aside 95000 whose tuneful numbers are one of
familiar with the complexities of tle bigger, a little better, a little
The regular meeting of the Com Announcement to this effect was made
the hits of the bill. Katherine
finance but because they disregard more American than you ever were munity will be held In the library to Representative Sinnott,
FRENCH DENY REPUDIATION
Smith
ls a clever dancer. The Nov
before.
D.
W.
Griffith,
one
of
the
6 c:orer 3ed the simplest principles of investment.
basement Tuesday, January 5, 1825.
Some 50 youthful trappers are on elty Revue closes ltg engagement at
greatoet
directors
of
the
world
to
;
lr«
at 3 P. M.
UM
Secretary Mellon has taken the
duty In Pine Valley during the holi the Arcade with tonight’s perform Embassy Officials Reassure U. 8. and
re
■;« ns, trouble to set down a few rules which day, personally directed America.
Reiterate Intention te Pay.
After the regular business meet days and considerable rivalry ls pres
ance.— Astoria Budget.
> . i
.r t pta- If they wers universally observed Adults will ba charged 50 cents to ing Mrs. H. M. Schilling will present
Washington,
D. C.—Unequivocal as
ent to obtain the greatest number ol
The Novelty Revue will ba seen
-00 would save most of the half billion see the picture and it Is the first the Child Labor Law. Everyone hides. Nearly all boys In the Halfway
arre y ’wld
surance from the French embassy that
p
Im rts hard earned dollars that small In time that a Griffith production was knows how Interestingly Mrs. Schil high school earn their spare money In at the Playhouse, Hermiston, Tues France had no thought of disavowing
day and Wednesday, Jan 6 and 7.
no vestors have lost. The fact is. how ever shown at this price.
her war debt to the United 8tatee
ling presents political Issues, so it this enterprise.
rprod” on. ever, that the result could be accom
has served largely to mollify the wave
will be -well worth while to attend
Two hundred silver foxes, the larg
To Produce Better Milk
Pendleton— Twenty-five year fran this meeting and learn about the
,
' n ley plished by faithfully following a sin
of apprehension enveloping the Amer
est shipment ever made to Oregon
To eliminate the foreign flavor so ican capital on the heels of what waa
iin ;.«<r tre >ut gls one of them. This, in substance. chise granted to Pacific Power A child labor law. Come prepared to were received from the breeding farm
often found In market milk, Oregon construed us. a hint from Paris of the
• i or ?.. er. Is the rule:
Llgh't Company.
ask questions. This meeting prom of W. K. Rogers, Charlottetown, Prlnc«
dairymen arc studying the correct possibility of such a course.
v
■
Special inducements should always
ises to be an unusually good one.
Edward island, Canada, and went tc care of cows and milking tools.
In reiterating the Intention of their
McMinnville — Portland Electric
r
r ire Inspire caution. Such offers may be
The Community Club extends New the ranches of D. M. Haskin at New
Clean, well flavored milk and cream government to meet Its obligations,
M X traps.
Take time to sleep over In Power Company establishes a dis Tears greetings to all members and berg and Hood River.
means money in the producers' pock embassy officials took occasion to ex
■ ,
. Jre vestments.
The swindler wants trict office here.
friends on the project.
Blasting was resorted to by tht et. according to the dairymen at the plain the legal exactions concerning
irnp n:»c! » ive quick action, for he fears Inveetlga
O. A. C. experiment station.
the new balance sheet recently given
;ht tion. The buyer seldom has any
The successful producers first of out by the French ministry of finance
iys thing to lose by delay.
all consider the cow. They make which, by omitting all reference to
>n.
Something for nothing Is always
sure that their feed and water are the American debt, appears to have
an incitement to reflection, or ought
the best, as weeds or any feed with given rlBe to the ooncern here.
to be. It ought not to require pro
a
strong obnoxious odor taints the
Because it comes under the class of
. er og found understanding of the laws of
milk A number of these dairymen contemplated expenditures which are
Investment to make it plain that
find that digestive disorders among Indefinite as to time and for whloh
schemes promising enormous and
their cows are frequently trouble there has been no offsetting appropria
speedy
returns
do
not
require
pedd
Isti
some. This 1H caused by poor feed tions, the American debt, the embassy
ich ling among buyers of small means,
during the winter and then sudden declared, under a provision of law pre
r ,f
- -C » t " ' I ?<•
V- let that if they were genuine they would
venting inclusion of such Items In the
change to fresh rank pasture.
be
snapped
up
at
once.
This
Is
the
. i,-- 7.*nd f tt’'” 'J Oep'.'
mt
budget, could not be carried In It.
Milk
Is
easily
spoiled
after
It
Is
leson which seems impossible to
f
L itr i
lm
drawn If not handled properly. The The omission, the embassy officials
teach
thoroughly
and
the
fact
that
te V
:c -t tr
re _
best dairymen use dry hand milking. emphasized, had no significance what
r j. ,
-,
» i na blue sky laws largely fall of their
They
also strain their milk and cool ever, as to the lntontion of their gov
»
i
1
or purpose is due, not to failure to ad
It
to
60 degrees F. or under. The ernment.
..
g . -,i4. r , .t ,«a les minister them so much as to the cu
mixing
of morning’s and night's milk
pidity of the buyer in the first In
having detiflsf ¡»n>
'
*
has
been
found to Injure the keeping Changes In Oregon School Laws Urged
io
Iht stance. The person who frankly
qualities.
Portland, Or. -The 1925 legislature
, tr,.
Ú'
fr« -
bis speculates and makes no pretense
All utensils used In the handling will be called to pass upon eight ques
that
he
la
“Investing”
is
In
a
differ
Iss
of their milk are thoroughly wash- tions Involving changes in the present
-
OB ent category. But It Is not on this
td and sterilized In boiling hot school luws, Including the long-dle-
kind
that
the
get-rlch-qulck
genry
.
tir L*. ■' ’’ett) » !Bt
water. The "unclean flavor” often eussed free textbook proposal, teach
fatten. The half billion dollars 1 b
found In cream Is caused by wash ers’ retirement fund and a request for
question
cams
chiefly
from
the
pock
j
Of
new normal school facilities, as the
ing
the separator once a day.
»rd ets of Individuals who could not af
Dairymen throughout the state result of resolutions adopted by the
ford
to
speculate
because
It
wers
al.
hare found that If proper care Is Oregon Stale Teachers' association at
. end rl . , r riou
ow tragedy for them to lose.— Oregon-
taken with the production of milk, the opening session of the annual con
larga.'
"■
»■»
there Is no lose because of reject vention here.
. 3 lì
, ,»-
he
ion of poorly flavored milk.
m* m M
l ’IV tr*ta0FV^ ' »TL’X’lBöh. T ?>. AZC
RADIO INSTALLED OT
California Orange Crop Hard Hit.
serving tue
hermutom auditorium
Los Angeles — Horticultural com
FARMERS ATTENTIONd!
See Henry Ott in regard to a rab missioners of Los Angeles, San Bern
Liquid, « Right
Workmen have been baay during
bit poisoning campaign which ls eon. ardino. Riverside, Orange and Ven
A Mississippi ba jee asked a man the past week Installing a radio la
template«! while the snow Is on the tura counties, at s conference here
money : the Hermiston auditorium. Two
who wee trying
ground. Quick action should be had estlmatiMl the recent froat damage 1»
la the way of loud speakers bare been placed la
••How much have
in this matter.
tho orange groves ol southern Calh
taMsedlata liquid
ferula at 25 per cent of the er»p.
the building. Tom Marxen, pro
To which the rummer cautiously prietor. exepectg to use the outfit for
81. H tlsne- Contract let for water
"AhO»‘ » Os sad a h a lf/’ J
works reservoir and settling basin, : Albany— Plans being made for
for 932,000.
large oooperaive cheese factory.
FRANCE WOULD LIKE
TO POOL ALL DEBTS
z