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HERMISTON. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. THURSDAY. JANUARY 8. 1925
H. A. PANKOW RESIGNS
AS CITY MARSHAL
POULTRY RAISING
No, 18
UMATILLA TO PLAY
PAPER READ BY PRES SKOVBO
When it comes to marketing, we
HERE FRIDAY NIGHT AT STATE BEEKEEPERS MEET beekeepers are still In the ’’stone
Will Leave Hermiston to Accept a
age»,” and are relying on a system
Basket Ball Game Scheduled With
Position In the East.
Subject of Address Was Proeres« of that was old be,ore ,ht? dawn of our
Helix Canceled
civilization.
system. which
Beekeeping and Marketing
At the meeting of the city council
(
perhaps
wa8 adeqate a century ago,
Of Honey.
Both Umatilla’s boys and girls bas
REPORTS FROM DELEGATES TO last Wednesday night H. A. Pan
'can we trust It to handle the
CHICKENS should be given ket ball teama are scheduled to play
STATE CONVENTION HEARD
handed In his resignation as
Beekeeping
is
one
of
the
youngest
greatly ‘"creased production creat WATER USERS DIFFICULTIES ARZ
MORE CONSIDERATION
here Friday, January 9. The teams
water superintendent and city mar-
or agricultural Industries, and at the I ed ln recent years? A pipeline may
EXPECTED TO BE REMEDIED
from
Umatilla
are
reported
to
be
i shal. Mr. Pankow has performed
unusually strong this year and a real game time one of the oldest. While handle perfectly a certain head of
Rk-vb" F'e»-t»d President, John the dutl*s of hto ofHc® *" ■ J»lgh- Condensed Statement is Subm its
battle may be expected when Hermis bees have been domesticated by men water, but if we continue to Increase
Thom Vice-President and W. 0.
17
manner and the counoll
ton’s
tossers meet thm on th floor as far back as history has been the head of water beyond the cap- Reclamation, Service Not a Credit
With Request That Others Give
expressed their regret when the re
Podda. Secretary.
traced, modern bee keeping had its aclty of the pipeline it will over
Agency Declares Elwood Mead.
of
the
local auditorium.
Personal Experiences
signation was tendered. He Inform
birth within the memeory of men flow and cause trouble. We have ■
Blanket Relief Plan Held a
On
Saturday
January
10
a
game
ed the council he would stay, on the
Increased production by every means
The Umatilla Connty Beekeepers’ Job until the first of March.
Thing of the Past.
had been scheduled with Helix but still living. Therefore our Industry
Is still In a transitory stage— the old we know, and we are attempting to I
Association held a meeting In the
the game has been canceled.
(BY J. H. REID)
Mr. Pankow will go east after this
pour
thl9
Increasing
flow
of
honey
|
is still mingled with the new, and
nnbHc library In thi, city last Satur-
In the general scheme for diver
date where he will buy an lnte^tst in
the new is constantly changing and through the same old "pipeline"
No further blanket relief meas
sttemoon. The reports read con- a large contracting company.^
sification on the farms of the Uma
developing.
Aristotle discovered the that served our fathers who kept a ures for the benefit of 25 federal
the association clearly dem
tilla project, it Is the opinion of the
three castes of bees more than two dozen "gums” in the back yard; and reclamation projects, embracing 1,-
onstrated they ahve made rapid
writer that cows and chickens should
thousand
years ago. but we still have then we wonder why the market is 692,000 acres in western states, can
"regress during the past year and
! have more serious consideration. In
people
talking
about “king bees," congested and the market contin be expected from the reclamation bu
the enthusiasm of Its members as
j fact these two seem to form about
and
in
nearly
every
locality may still ues low; and we bend all our ef reau.
Reclamation
Commissioner
sured even greater things to be done
the best combination— along with
forts to produce still more honey
be
found
bees
kept
and
managed on
dclared In a communication read at
in the future.
asparagus or berries or hay— for
to make up for the low prices! many
W. O. Rod da and Jens Skovbo who
this locality. Hogs, gentrally, have DEAL MAKES HIM SOLE OWNER just as primitive a scale aa the bees of the most primitive tribes on the the opening of a conference of re
that
supplied
honey
to
the
Pharaohs
presentative,) of farmers and water
was sent as delegates from the county
proven unprofitable while the good
earth are better organized to mar
OF HERMISTON AUTO CO.
4000
years
ago.
users
of all western states and gov
organisation to the state convention
ket their products than we bee
CARL MTÏAUGHT VICE-PRES., W. old hen If given Intelligent care, will
ernment offtcialg of the reclama
I shall not tire you with relating
at Portland gave detail reports con
more
than
pay
her
way
at
all
times
keepers
are.
The
man
who
keeps
a
W. FELTHOUSE, SEC.
tion bureau. The conference la the
the history of modern beekeeping,
cerning the convention. Mr. Rodda
and commands a ready cash market
Schirake Will Continue to Work As a , you are all familiar therewith; I box-hive of bees la a criminal under first step toward carrying out tha
and Mr. Skovbo stressed the fact
after her age of best production has
our state law; what about us when
provisions of the new reclamation
Just wish to emphasize that It came
that Umatilla county was the larg
Mechanic in Shop Until Future
passed.
we persist in using a marketing sys act.
Into
existence
during
the
past
cen
est honey producing center In the Various Committees to Serve for the
Believing, too, that an exchange
tem that was old before the first
Plans are Made.
Coming Year Will be Ap
tury, and. as far as the Important
“This meeting,”
Commissioner
•tete and In view of this fact the
of personal experiences, combined
box-hive was nailed?
pointed
Later.
mechanical
inventions
are
concerned
Mead
explained
In
hia
message,
“was
beekeeper® of this section were look-
with the more scientific Information
We compare our production with
prompted by a desire to secure the
during half a century, and we may
re „ leaders tn marketing and
coming from our agricultural col
In a deal made recently C. W.
that of other Industries; let us com
well consider this progress with
advice and recommendations of
other matter® that pertained to the
Harry Straw waa elected to head lege, will prove h eefic ta l to the Kellogg, partner of John Schlmke in 1
pare our marketing with that of
many of those who will either par-
pride— we have achieved resulta that
»■-e1*nre of the bee man.
other branches. Most of us still re
the Commercial Club another year at diversified farmer, the following con the business known as the Hermiston
Th» main topic up for discussion their luncheon last Tuesday. Mr. densed statement Is submitted, to Auto Company ln this city, purchased our fathers never dreamed of. With member when the farmer’s wife made ‘Iclpate actively In the surveys to
before the Portland convention was Straw has handled the business of gether with the request that others the interest of the latter. Mr. Kel our modern methods a beekeeer takes a few pounds of butter which was be made or whose Interests will be
vitally affected.
care of twice the number of colonies
n —lore satisfactory wav of market the club in a capable and successful give their personal expe-tences.
taken to town and sold to the grocer,
logg la now sole owner and manager
that our ancestors did, and produce®
“I wish to call attention to tbs
ing A committee of three was ap manner and this fact In a large Jan. 1, 1924, hens on hand 122
or disposed of directly to consumers
of the garage.
three times as much honey per col
unmistakable intenion of congress
pointed to study the question and manner was responsible for his re-
@*1.60 each ..................... *183.00
in competition with dozens of other
John Schlmke, the retiring part
•hat operation and maintenance
Present plana that would be for the election.
Feed on hand (estimated) .... 30.00 ner, will continue with the firm em ony.
producers. Today the cream Is sold
This Is a wonderful progress, but, to creameries— private or coopera ■harges hereafter accruing must be
►etterment of conditions along this
ployed as head mechanic by Mr.
Carl McNaught was named vice- Feed and seed bought and other
line. Two men from Hermiston were president and W. W. Felthouse sec
current expenses ‘n 1924.. 184.58 Kellogg. Mr. Schlmke so far has no after all, we have only done our tive, as the case may be; the cream oald without delay or extension.
share when we compare ourselves ery makes the butter and sells it. Under the new law such charges
anpolnted on this committee, Mr. retary.
Depreciation on buildings and
plans formulated for the future.
must be paid ln advance in all case,
with other Industries. Let us not !o
«lrovbo and Mr. Rodda.
other
equipment
at
10
per
The results are a better finished pro
Otto Pierce who has served as sec
where adjustments are made on old
our
pride
forget
that
rapid
progress
Governor Pierce was Invited to ad retary for the past year was again
cent (est.) ............................ 30.00
duct; a better developed market; and
is being made ln every line of In the producer being relieved of mar orojects, or where new projects are
dress the convention and accepted named for he office but declined. Balance Dec. 31, 1924 (profit 567.89
'nltlated."
dustry ; and where Is the factory to
the Invitation. He spoke at some Mr. Pierce baa made good as secre-
keting can give a“ his attention to
After pointing out that the re-
day that is not using machines un production. What relation is there
lenehth concerning cooperation in ary, discharging the duties of the
*975.47
-lamatlon bureau waa not created aa
dreamed of a geneartlon ago or
marketing. He also assured the office in an efficient and competent Total sales, not Including eggs
between the progress of the dairy
whose men are not doing the work industry and this modern market a credit agency, Mr. Mead tn his
delegates that everything In his manner.
family .................................. *563.97
•ommunicatlon said:
formerly
requiring
four
times
their
power would be done to aid the state
ing system? Can we imagine a suc
The work of the Commercial club Feed on hand Dec. 31 (est.).. 87.50
"I do not believe that we should
number?
beekeepers at the coming session of during the past year has been very
cessful dairy today driving from
Hens on hand, 216 at *1.50.. 324.00
ontemplate any further measures
Along producing lines .we have
this legislature at which time an gratifying and even greater things
house to house and from store to
or blanket relief to the projects.
done well, but we have only done store trying to peddle Its product?
appropriation of *10,000 will be are planned for the future.
*975.47
Whatever relief Is extended should
what the world has a right to ex
asked in order that the work of In
There was a time when the farmer
Against this profit must be charg
pect of us; and as the world Is still brought a few boxen and barrels of >e individual in character and adjust-
spection will be taken over by the
ed the crop from four acres of land
COMMUNITY
CL
HOLD
d tn meet the neeeds of each case.”
progressing It expects us to do like
state instead of the counties as is
fruit to town to sell for whatever
REGI
MEETING and an abundance of skir.i milk.
Surveys will be made of the for-
wise; and If any of us believe he
the present system. This Is the
price
he
might
be
offered
for
them;
Eggs and chickens consumed by
rnment projects with a view to re
has achieved the ultimate, he will
first time In the history of he or
today the berries and fruit are as
The regular meeting of the Com the family Is estimated sufficient to
td justing construction costs owed to
soon find himself behind the rear
ganisation that the governor haa at munity club was held in the base
sembled ln car lots, and after being
pay for the work In caring for the
he government by settlers or water
ranks. The next generation may
tended.
ment of the Library January 6 at flock.
accomplish things that few of us properly graded and prepared they isers. Mr. Mead gave It as his
According to the report of the 3 P. M.
It Is possible that some may give
shipped to the market that ap leslre and that of Secretary Work
have Imagination enough *o dream .are
’
delegates there were twenty-two en
Although the attendance waa small too much attention to balanced rat
pears
to offer the best prospect, even het aH adpsstments necessary to '
of. The honey Industry Is closely
tries made in the honey display con the meeting was unusually good. Mrs.
ion for the flock at a sacrifice to
related with Irrigation, and as Ir though- that may mean shipping It ender It possible for payments to be
test sponsored by the convention
Frances Illsley was nominated and profits. For example: If your hens
rigation Is still In Us infancy, the across the continent or half around made by the water users will be made
and one-half of them was from Uma
unanimously elected secretary of th« produce 18 dozen per year at an aver
same may be said of honey product I he world. Ia there any relation be inder these surveys and thus mark
tilla county and three of the first club /or the rest of the term.
age cost per dozen of 25c and the
ion. Who will dare to predict what tween this changed system and the the end of adjustments.
prize, were awarded Umatilla county
Mrs. Geo. C. Imrie read the report avrage sale price Is 30c your profit
Miss Julia S. Groo, an 18-year old will be the total of the honey crop development of the fruit and berry
exhibitors. It seems that the offic_ □f the scholarship loan fund by Miss
is only 90 cents per fowl. Where Portland, Oregon, high school girl, 25 or 50 years from now? And with Industry? Can we Imagine any of
lals of a good many counties through Jessie McGregor, chairman of the
POULTRY PRODUCTION
as. if they produce only 15 dozen and is the winner of the *15,000 mod new and Improved mechanical de these Industries attempting to pour
the state had been lax In assessing board of trustees. Mrs. H. M
SHOULD BE INCREASED
the cost has been reduced to 20c per ern electrically equipped home ln vices at their command; with pro their present production through
heos and keeping a record of the Schilling’s paper on the Child Labor
doxen your profit Is *1.50 per fowl. the National Lighting contest ln gress made ln plant selection, and the old pipe line?
assessments and licenses Issued.
Poultry production ln the west end
Law was especially worth while. Careful Judgment must be exercised which over 1.000,000 school children
But we beekeepers are an lnde
ln the breeding of bees; with the
The delegates from UmatlUa county
Mrs. Schilling covered the ground ln this connection.
pendent bunch, and we do not like it the oounty must be Increased at
participated.
Miss
Groo
also
won
technical
training
they
will
receive,
were among the few who were able well, presenting both sides of the
In the care of hens It might be the *200 cash grand prize ln the what may be the maximum product to relinquish some of our persona) east one hundred per cent In 19X5
to procure these figures. At' the
n order to get an economical mar
question.
Everyone profited by stated there are 4 essentials:
Portland lighting! contest. Her es ion of the coming generation? If rights, as we must do If we market
meeting Saturday the association ex
hearing thla paper and the elub vot
1. Your stock must be from a say of 600 words was worth over we have produced honey by the car cooperatively. No producer of any keting system. Many of the farmera
tended a rote of thanks to the assess ed to indorse the bill.
who now have good sized flocks are
high producing strain.
*26 a word to her.
load, our children may produce It line of commodity anywhere ever planning on making increases and
or and county clerk of Umatilla
2. Warm and sanitary housing
liked
to,
but
it
Is
the
system
dictated
by the train load.
county for the complete records they
nany othera are expecting to make
during bad weather.
Fear Hay Shortage at Antelope
Earl Kingsley Improving
But production Is only half of by our times, and if we fall to de poultry raising a regular part of
have concerning the apiaries of the
Antelope stockmen are said to fear
3. A variety of good feed and
velop
our
marketing
system
along
Earl
Kingsley,
an
ex-buslnesa
man
beekeeping as we know It; the other
county. According to figures ob-> a shortage of hay ln that section,
regular cars.
of this city and who Is well known half Is marketing the honey. Have modern lines, along with production heir farm business this year. It la
talned from the county clerk by Mr.
the center of a great sheep coun
4. Make them work— scratch, to the people of Hermiston and sur beekeepers, then, developed the mar the Industry will become unbalanced ibsolutely essential that plana for
Rodda there were 4413 hives assess try. Antlope sheep men have been
ecratch, scratch.
rounding country, is reported to be keting end along with production, as, in fact, It already Is. Coopéra hesc increases be made at once,
ed last year and 129 licenses issued. feeding their flocks for nearly *
If you have a small spot of heavy improving In a Portland hospital. and may we regard It with equal tlve marketing Is to producers what he most Important factor ln the
These were Issued for 4186 leaving month owing to the depleted condi
•oil or sub-llrrigated ground that Mr. Kingsley was stricken with a pride? Have we Improved that which collective bargaining Is to organized uccesa or failure of the poultry bus-
227 without licenses. In apprecia tion of the home ranges. This early
ness Is the time of hatching or so
will grow good wheat this will not malady some time ago pronounced was left ua by former generations, labor. Can we tmlglne labor main
tion of the delegates attendance and feeding has made heavy Inroads into
only cut down your feed bill but sleeping sickness and since has been and built It up to a heritage which talntng Its present position ln the uring chicks. The man who gets
report the meeting alao gave them a the stacks of hay.
will furnish plenty of litter for your confined to a hospital ln the above we with pride may pass to our economic arena without collective his chicks after the first of May is
vote of thanks.
As the sheepmen feel that they hens and keep them at work during named city. This news was brought
bargaining? T.ahor had to fight pretty apt to be doomed to failure.
children, to assure their prosperity
Inspector Buhman read a report
are crtaln of a good price for their the winter montha when they are to Hermiston by his father, B. S.
long years to gain sanction for the \s everyone wants to start as near
and the continuation of our voca-
in regards to his Inspection. 391 1925 wool and lambs, they are tak
apt to grow sluggish
system under which they market the 10th of April aa possible most
Kingsley,
who
is
here
on
business.
tlon?
colonies were inspected by him and ing every precaution to provide
their commodity; producers of agri {-putable hntcherleg are pretty well
twenty were found diseased. These
against a winter disaster by buying
cultural products are today being looked tor months ahead for chicks
were pormptly burned.
additional supplies of hay.— Condon
encouraged by our government to rom the 15th of March to the 1st
The next order of business that
Globe-Times.
avail themselves of the name sys if May. The poultryman wh0 puts
occupied the attention of the meet
tem. Are the beekeepers who made iff ordering his chicks until the 1st
ing was the election of officers.
more progress in learning and pro >t March will find It Impossible to
Dance at Hermiston Auditorium
Jens Skovbo was elected president,
duction ln one century than was -?et them from any hatchery where
January 16
John Thom vice-president and W. O.
Bills will soon be out announc
made throughout the entire history iroductlon Is emphasized.
Rodda secretary. Rodda was also re ing a dance to be given at the Her
II. E. Cosby, Extension Specialist
unable also to develop marketing?
commended by he association for bee miston auditorium Friday evening,
The Chinese were a great people has made up a list of hatcheries
Inspector.
January 16.
for producing Ideas, and they In where chicks can be depended up-
Don Campbell addressed the meet
Music for the occasion will be fur
vented most of things that today in. Some of the local people are
ing concerning a proposed marketing
nished by Pyant’s five piece orches
are the foundation nt our clvlllza iilannlng on filling orders for lim
plan. He asked beekeepers to fur tra. This orchestra has been play
tlon, centuries before they occurred ited numbers. Get your chickg from
nish him samples of honey and
ing In Union hall ln Pendleton and
io the white» people; but. the Chin the local people and if these are not
with these samples a house to house
has earned the reputation of being
ese were unable to market their ivailablo ask for information from
canvas would be made In defferent
one of the best ln this locality. A
Ideas;
they failed to benefit by the he county agent's office concerning
communities
After orders for
«upper will be served In connection
great Inventions they had brought he list of recommended hatcheries.
honey had been taken he would pur.
with the dance.
forth, and they became a subject for Make sure that the eggs from which
chase the product from the local as
pity and scorn, a problem and a les your chicks are hatched have been
sociation and ship It In carload lots
non for those who will heed It. Shall laid by mature hens that have not
Mission At The Catholic Church
to points of distribution. The mat
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Jan.
the same be the lesson of beekeep been forced for production but have
ter was laid on the table until the
9, 16 and 11. Morning services at
ing? Will we allow ourselve, to he been selected because of natural high
next meeting at which time the pro
* A. M. Evening services at 7:45
wiped out by the flow of honey we laying qualities.
position will either be accepted or
P. M. The mission will be conduct
, ourselves have produced. Just he-
rejected.
ed by the Rev. Father Dnrgan from
I cause we fall to develop and Increase Local Masons Entertain Neighboring
The next meeting of the associa
Boston, Mass. Everybody welcome.
I the "pipelines’’ through which the
Lodges
tion will be held Saturday In the
honey must move a , It passes from
The Masonic lodge of this city met
library.
the producer to the consumer?
Methodist Episcopal Church
in a joint gesslon with the lodges of
Sunday, Jaa. 11. Sunday school
Umatilla, Stanfield and Echo last
ASPARAGUS GROWERS
Odd
Fellows
Initiate
Class
From
at 10 A. M. Morning worship at
Tuesday night. There was work In
TO HOLD MEETING 11. Epworth League, 6:45 P. M.
Boardman
Vineyard Lodge No. 206 I. O. O the first degree after which a sup
Weekly
The Umatilla Project Growers Evening worship, 7:J0.
F.
of this city Initiated a large class per was served.
lation will hold a meeting In prayer and Bible study Thursday at
o
f
candidates
In the mysteries of the
the library Monday. January 12. at ¡7:*0. Henry Young, minister.
! order last Monday night. The can New City Recorder Assumes Duties
Charley Skinner, the newly sleet
didates who crawled aboard the hur-
AU “, 7
< W Will I « t Ja. 14
of asparagus this spring. All In -, The Ne,Khbftrhood elnb wJJ, mae,
. rlcsne deck of the wild and wooly ed clly recorder, assumed his duties
eluded la the growing of this crop w|tb MnL Myerg on Wednea<,ay Jan
goat, were from Boardman. A large the first of the year. Merle Phelps
should be present. Election of i t , at 2 P. M. Don’t-forget the time
number of member, from the above has taken his place as assistant post
officers of tha association will also Bt 2 o’clock. There will be •
named city were also In attendance. master. Mr. Skinner has his office
ho fcpld st (his time.
After the degree work a feed pre In the Hermiston Auto company
I program.
pared by the lodge was eervd.
building.
RECLAMATION MEET
ON IN DENVER
IS PROFITABLE
STRAW AGAIN HEADS
COMMERCIAL BODY
KELLOGG BUYS
PARTNER’S INTEREST
B lo w in g B u b b le s