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VOL. XIX
P U N S FOR RABBIT
ORIVE ARRANGED
HER|iISTON. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 5. 1925
POULTRY BUSINESS HURT
PARENT-TEACHER
MEETING FEB. 12
PANKOW TO STAY ON JOB
AS WATER SUPERINTENDENT
N4. 22
buying. The
return
has
been
shown here by a strong demand for
- -
»VU
«l-O on
U irrigated tracts and a few
leases
Assurance Sent Growers That State
An Increase of Salary Is Offered As
18226400
¡«alcs
at
low figures. The national
Regulations Do Hot Affect Move
Inducement.
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est
real estate
association has started
ment of Day Old Chicks
movement to stabilize land values
The city council at their meet
STABT TO BE MADE FROM WAU-
throughout the country. Specula,
That the shipping of day-old LINCOLN DAY PROGRAM BEING ing last Wednesday night agreed to
GAMAH-GRAHAM CORNER, 9:30 chicks ucroes state lines I, not af
lation will be eliminated ag far as WILD RIDE AND PARTY ENDS IN
raise the saary of Water Superin
PREPARED
'possible and actual returns from the
fected by the quarantine and em-
tendent Pankow if he would recon
COUNTY JAIL
! bargo regulation» against the fowl
eider hlg resignation and stay on OUTLOOK BRIGHTER THAN EVER <Wi* 56 *nadBithu bastB of ’ »>«*•• The
association
claimg
that
this
is
nec-
Lnnch W ill Be Served to Those W ho' plague i8 the assurance to Oregon
the job.
BEFORE IN THE HISTORY
essary to the welfare of all other
Participate.—A Large Number
poultry breeders given by the state Eight Grade Pupils Under Direction
Some time ago Mr. Pankow sign!,
of
Mr.
Bengel
W
ill
Provide
the
business, loaning companies, banks, Men. One of Thera 40 Y ean Old,
Prom Hermiston to Attend
««liege experiment station.
fled his intentions of resigning and
OF THE PROJECT
Program. Teachers to Be
Held After Party With T&reo
mercantile establishments, public
I The fowl pest hag caused conster
going east. In recognition of his
Hostesses to Parents.
utilities, etc., ag all values must fin
Young Girls
nation and actual loss in midd|le
valuable service in the past the city
ally be fixed on the land. Thus the
Plans for the big rabbit drive that western states and some states fur
council made the offer. Mr. Pan ReHef To The Settlers From Water nee'era„y V the ralura of the pros
will be staged next Sunday in the ther east,, sayB Dr. B. T. Simms,
The regular meeting of the Par-| kow has accepted the position for
Chargeg and Soil Classification
perous farmer can be seen to have
Columbia district have been perfect head of the veterinary medicine de
Three men, ranging In age from
a year at the new salary.
Are Outstanding Factors For
ed. Those who participate are asked partment, but has not appeared in ent Teacher Association will be held
become Interwoven in the thought 16 to 40, are in the county jail fac
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of the people of all walks of life.
to meet at 9:30 at the Waugaman any state as far west a8 the Rocky February 12. Instead of holding
Future Progress. Diversi
ing charges of contributing to the
and Graham corners. The start will mountains so far as known. Un the meeting in the high school au
First Steps
fication
of
Crops
Is
Also
delinquency of minors, as a result
ditorium it will be held in the music
be made from this point.
founded reports tend to throw a
The most Important fact to us of an alleged wild ride and a liquor
Stressed With Dairying
A lunch will be served by those panic into some poultry growers and room downstairs.
Is the relief from water charges party that took them and three
A
Lincoln
program
is
being
plan
Foremost.
who are sponsoring, the drive. Her damage the breeders correspondingly.
Most everyone Is now familiar with young girls over the south and west
ned by the eighth grade under the
miston ammunition dealers will sell
Dr. L. F. Pelton, state veterinar direction of Mr. Bensel
the dxtsnt of that relief. The bill end of Umatilla county Sunday night
shells at a reduced cost to those who ian of Washington, hag wired Dr.
now bfore the legislature provides and Monday.
Arrangements have been made
(BY E. P. DODD)
expect to attend the drive.
Simms that the regulations made with the Campfire girls to take HAS FLOW OF 225 GALLONS PER
for the removal of all arrearage8 and
The arrest of the three men was
The editor has asked me to pre the payments due this year. When
If you have any questions to ask by that state do not apply to day-old
MINUTE
effected Monday night In Pendleton
pare something for his readers on
in connection with the affair see chicks. The same may be said of charge of the small children during
the ’ends are classified and the eco through the cooperation of members
the rising prospects of the Umatilla
Henry Hitt, who will captain the the California regulations, and, as the meeting. It is hoped by doing
nomic surveys ls made the basis of
this
more
parents
will
be
able
to
Project. He has felt it in the air a new contract will be provided. of the sheriff’s office and the city
Hermiston aggregation.
far as known, of those of Idaho and attend.
Depth of 150 Feet is Reached. and with the urge of spring, and
police after Deputy Sheriff Bennett
other states.
The productivity of the soil will be had chased the sextette from Uma
A social half hour will follow the
Will Be Ready for Use in
will try to stir the hope that springs
MOTHERING THE SETTLER
fundamental, a feature never before
meeting when the teachers will be
eternal. Young men's fancies and emphasized. Great care will be tilla Into Pendleton. The names of
About Ninety Days.
Settlers hae suffered through hav $2,180 Prizes Open to Corn Farmers hostesses to the parents and light re
love of the soil express their emo exercised In placing the different the girls were not divulged at the
ing placed too much faith in glitter
In Oregon Counties
freshments will be served.
tions
about the same time of the character of soils on this project sheriff’s office.
ing advertising and glib promoters,
Prizes totaling $2,180 are offer
The
men
arrested
Included
Several
days
was
spent
last
w
eek1
year.
and have sunk their all in acquir ed to corn farmers in Oregon coun
In the proper class, as future pay "Shorty” Fields, of Irrigon, about
Spokane is credited with one of the testing out the new city well that
After
a
two
or
three
year
winter
ing an interest in Oregon farms that ties who make entries in the Nat lowest infantile mortality rates in
ments, and therefore better relief 40 years old; Bishop Wisdom, 24,
could not yield a living to their in ional Seed Corn Show to be held in the United States for cities between is being dug near the butte. The of discontent a revival of the hopes for each quality of land, will be of Irrigon, and Jake Helmick. 1«,
well has been sunk to a depth of of the farmer seems to be near. I
permanently established.
experienced cultivation. Homeeeek- Chicago March 2 to 7 under the aus 100,000 and 250,000 in the prelim
who gave his home as Pendleton.
ers are led to expect too much Nom pices of the Sears-Roebuck Agricul inary estimate by the census bui 150 feet and a flow obtained of 225 have always been classed as a boos
The days of wonderment at engin
A party marked by the con
gallons
a
minute.
This
does
not
ter, and still am, but the depression eering feats and the romantic ac
raw land, the conquering of which tural Foundation, an announcement eau. The table is based on the
sumption of liquor began here Sun
equal
the
flow
of
the
present
well
of
the
last
few
years
In
lands
and
involves practical knowledge as well received here states. The show, number of deaths of children un
hievem ent of spreading the water day evening according to Deputy
?» privation and hardship. To help which is to be held during “Seed der the age of 1 year and the rate but is enough to amply supply the agricultural conditions has altered on the desert wastes are for a time Sheriff Bennett, and at 9 o’clock all
needs of the city.
my point of view. Nevertheless set aside ag blase. Stupendous dams
ruard against these abuses it is pro Corn Test Week,” is intended to these deaths per 1000 births.
According to Water Superintend there are good reasons to believe and long canals and "making the six of the celebrants got Into a
posed by Senator Dennis to establish drive home the need of a high ger Seventy-six citieg are tabulated in
small car and went to Pilot Rock.
ent Pankow the water from the new that better days are coming to the
a State Colonization Commission and mination seed corn policy to insure the census bureau's figures. In 65
desert bloom as the rose” are not The party Included the three men
well
Is
softer
and
better
in
every
re
Umatilla
Project.
equip it with an appropriation that the country a normal 1925 corn crop. of these having 44,8894 deaths un
In our minds now. We no longer and three girls, one of them sixteen
spect and the citizeng of Hermiston
Five years ago when deflation was feel the thrill of oratory In uttering years old and two fifteen years old.
wii, enable it to supervise state ef
In addition to the five-dollar der the age of one thei infantile are assuered purer and more whole
set in operation even the most pes Bootn Tucker’s matchless phrase.
fort at land settlement.
prize to be awarded to the farmer mortality rate, as compared to birtjis,
They left Pilot Rock Sunday
aquatic liquid for drinking pur simistic could not predict the col ‘The manless land for the landless
"The commission shall have gen in the county showing the best ear Is 71. In Spokane it is 51 as com some
morning about 1 o’clock and drove
poses.
lapse that came. Since then scores man," nor the old slogan, "no man
eral supervision of state efforts to of corn, a thousand dollars in gold pared with 48 in 1923. Total
The well is being cased and new of reasons have been proclaimed why dares to estimate the possibilities to Umatilla where they arrived at
bring and locate in the State of Ore is offered to the farmer in Oregon deaths under the age of one in Spo
between 3 and 4 o’clock In the morn
gon desirable persons who wish to or the United States who exhibits kane last year were 120, an in equipment ig ordered and it is be the farmer wag down and everybody of the Umatilla project." . In the In ing. Here one of the men arranged
acquire lands and follow agricultu the nation's champion ear. An crease of six over the year before. lieved will be ready for use in else was up. Politics and big busi spiration of the great reclamation for rooms In a rooming house, and
about ninety days.
ness and little businesg trted out movement and the ecstacy of pioneer the girls were taken In at the back
ral and other pursuits," says S. B. other prize of a thousand dollars to
all sorts of explanations. Finally in ing we pushed on until other condi door. The sextette remained In
06, the Dennis bill. "It shall es the agricultural agent, farm bureau,
their hopelessness to place the cause tions arrived that brought the Fact Umatilla until Monday afternoon
pecially study the conditions in the agricultural or community organiza
and make It stick they laid It on the Finders and finally the estimate of and then started back to Pendleton.
several irrigation districts w ith a tion of the county displaying the
farmer. Then the farmer began to the dirt itself on which we had
view to determining the uses for largest number of entries is also
Deputy Shertff Bennett accom
kick back and formed the farm bloc buiided. The old reglne did its al panied by a relattvo of one of the
which the lands are best adapted, announced.
and politics warmed up over his lotted work. The new reglne has girls, started for Umatilla and met
and shall use its best efforts to ob
The show is open to the entire
Devoted to the Interest and Development of the Hermiston School«
plight and investigations followed. its work to do. The king is dead,, the car on the road, but the rela
tain setflers who are equipped by United States. Any person— boy
asrsssEs
The whole country began to talk long live the king. Construction of tive did not recognize the girl, eo
experience to carry on the kind of and girl, man and woman— may en
Vol. 4.
about the farmer and even the great irrigation work will mark an the sheriff's car was driven on to
agricultural pursuits to which the ter an ear of oom. Parcel poet en-
funny papers made jokes on. his epoch in American history. Ex
district is best adapted."
tries will be received any time up
Last Thursday night the snappy and talent was shown in this suc "prosperity." Markets for manu ploitation of lands w i, a part of Umatilla. The six person,, were ar-,
This measure springs from the to the night of March 7, and each
rested In Pendleton by the police
sense of moral responsibility that is ear must have the name, address, quintet of the local high school lost cessful piece of art. The Junior factured goods began to fall off and the great Westward Ho movement. when their aid was dnllstod by the
felt by many people of Oregon tow county and state o t its owner on a itg first game of the season out of class cleared about $95 above ex big Industry began to feel the We were all a part of these events. sheriff’s offtfce.
pinch. The first public expression We enjoyed the glow of the excite
ards those who are invited to come paper which should be wrapped se seven games played to the speedy penses.
The man named Fields furnished
Dalles five. The following night
that seemed to go home to the nat ment of the time, but finally after he liquor for the party, according
here and make their home. We curely around the ear with the writ
have witnessed so often in the last ing on the outside. No ear will be The Dalles won a decided victory
The regular meeting of the For ion was whert President Coolidge, a great war, found ourselves and a to Information secured by member»
twenty years that horaeseekers have awarded a prize until tested for vit over the Pendleton Buckaroos by k um will be held Wednesday, Febru In his first speech after succession parcel of land we had taken title of the sheriff’s force.pEast Oregon
scqre of 22 to 12.
to the presidency, said that this nat to the end of It all. So here after ian.
lost their lifetime savings through ality and disease resistance, the
Coach Oralapp’s hoop throwers ary 4, the program of which will be ion could not continue to be pros 18 years of experience we are recog
having been inveigled into buying judges to be selected by the Amer
didn’t find their stride until the last the practice debate of the Hermis perous with forty million of Its popu nizing first principles and taking
land that could not pay for itself in ican Society of Agronomy.
half In which they scored one point ton Hi debating team, Hugh Wal
adddition to yielding a living— un
Entries should be addressed to the more than The Dalles. The line ker and Dorothy Shotwell, affirm lation on farmg and in farming com a new start in life. So, I say the
♦
less the settler had the hardy dis National Seed Corn Show, Sears-
FARM REMINDERS
ative, and Earl Bensel and Frank munities In distress. Little has been old king Is gone and long live the ■>
up follows:
position and practical experience Roebuck Agricultural Foundation,
Swayze, negative, on the question. done by the government and there new ruler of our destiny—ourselves ♦
♦
(IT)
(13) Resolved, That the convention sys is much to do before the adminis and our estates.
that would enable him to survive Chicago.
Alldermat
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7
Parrish
tration
has
contributed
to
the
re
and conquer.
tem formerly in use is preferable to
Marquis is a good variety to re
A New Background
Cook 8 ..................... F......2 Waterman
A service would be performed by
the present direct primary law of storation of agriculture permanent
With relief from water charges seed thin stands of turkey red or
Hog Shortage Looms
Staddleman 2 ......C............2 Smith
ly.
a state commission if it would keep
Oregon.
comes a new background for the fu other rod wheats In the localities
Farmers in Umatilla county who
The national real estate associa ture In the general attitude toward where reseeding is necessary, sayg
home seekers from settling on any are in the hog business stand a good Fergeson .................G............ J Rhodeg
All mer.'be-s of the high school
tion reports that the sale of farm the problems of reclamation. It Is the experiment station. Federation
land in Oregon unlesg they knew chance to substitute recent losses Carlson ....... «..... G............... Shotwell are invited.
3.. .............. Ucnrcl
lands throughout the United States the helping hand.
how to farm it the way It should be or lack of profits In the near future
and Hnrd Federation are the two
In 1924 was 23 per cent greater
farmed. But can a state commis if the heavy decrease In the number
best varieties for thlckoning thin,
An
effort
is
being
made
to
secure
See the grade operetta, "The Toy than In 1923 and at prlceg ranging
Bill King’s Grizzly Bears from
sion do this? Would a state com of hogs in the country is spread over
the services of a farm adviser, which stands of white wheat. Hard Fed
Shop,”
and
various
other
musical
Helix
will
play
the
home
teamR
her®
from 10 to 20 per cent higher. is so strongly urged by Dr. Elwood eration is particularly good because
mission dare divert one settler from the Pacific coast sectidn, ccordlng to
one Irrigation project? Would not an opinion by Fred Bennlon, county Friday. February 13. The dope all numbers by the lower grades and Hl Investment In the most deflated dis Mend. This man will not only aid it Is such an early variety.
the people Interested in the project agent. The recent report by the points at two of the closest games school glee club which Is to be giv tricts by big capital has been goln)? in prparatlon of land producing
en February 7, at 8:15 P. M.
on for over a year. Wise financiers crops but also In marketing and the
raise sqch an outcry against such department of agriculture on the ever played on the home floor.
Brooding chicks on the same
have found the best landg at lowest development of cooperative associa
a state commission that the next number of hogs in the hands of
The members of the Junior play
ground two or more years in suc
Bandit to Wallace— "Hands up! prices and are buying again. The
legislature would abolish the com farmers in January, 1925, ig 12,-
tions. He ls supposed to be a real
cast and their coach, Mr. Guilfoil, Your money or your life."
movement Is reported to have reach leader who will have knowledge of cession is considered poor practice
mission?
000,000 less than for the same time deserve marked credit for their pro
Wallace—
"Take'my
life.
I’m
sav
ed as far west as Twin Falls where and sympathy with the farmers by the Oregon experiment station.
And if the commission did not last year. The high price of feed
duction
of
"Sunshine."
Much
work
ing
my
money
for
my
old
age.
there has recently been considerable work, and of such a personality as The colony system of brooding
have courage to keep inexperienced and the low price that has prevail
makes it possible to alternate two
settlers from trying to convert sage ed for hogs Is held responsible for
to Inspire confidence. At this time or three plots of ground, thereby
brush Into alfalfa and pay $100 or the very sharp reduction In the
such men will fill a growing need. decreasing ground contamination.
more an acre from the profits of herds. Ordinarily in Umatilla coun
It ls gnerally conceded that we must
the venture, what good would the ty only enough hogs are kept to
do so and are turning from alfalfa
Federation wheat planted on the
commission be?
alone to other products. Alfalfa
clean up waste around a ranch, but
Irrigated
lands and on dry land
For the state to attempt to be a some farmers have followed hog
will long remain the staple because
father and mother to the homeseek- growing as a commercial proposi
of Its effect on the soli and the uses sections where good rainfall Is pres
er may be attempting too much. tion.
to which It can be put. Next to al ent in Eastern Oregon, will ouf-
»
But there Is no question as to the
falfa Is of course the dairy herd, yield all other varieties reports the
Its milling
worthy purpose behind the move
which will be enlarged, and the experiment station.
Memebrg of the University of Idaho
ment. The only question is as to
close relation of the cow and alfalfa qualities is fairly good.
faculty have »pledged $4179 to the
its practicability,—Oregon Voter,
will be the baslg of our future opera-
memorial armory end gymnasium to
Sour milk an the only drink for
.
Itlons. Futher diversification will
be built on the campus in memory
the
first six or eight weeks of ths
Methodist Episcopal Church
i
follow.
Poultry
seems
destined
to
of Idaho war dead, according to word
Sunday. February th8—Sunday- received at Spokane. This Is a con
(become a big factor and may rival chick’s Ufa Is recommended by ths
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school at 10 A. M. This will be Par tribution to the $250,000 fund be
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the cow in total production. Hogs Oregon experiment station as an aid
ents day. All parent Invited to visit ing raised over the state by thp
in small numbers on each place will in preventing bacillary white diarr
the school while in session; morning Idaho memorial association, and
remain strong and sheep are proving hoea and coccidlosls.
worship at 11 A. M. Subject, "The i grew out of Joint action by the
j very profitable. That the bee has
&
Mariout and Hannehen barley
here a natural habitat Is well known
Deity of Jesus Christ." Epworth ldaho American Legion and the
and honey production is assured of planted liberally on dry 1andg and
League at 6:45 P. M. All the young univerg|ty alumni association. The
foIkB especially Invited. Song ser- number of faculty members con-
! profit. The growing attention to Hannehen and Trebl on irrigated
and increase of asparagus is founded lands of Eastern Oregon will help
vlee for evening meeting begins a ttr ib u tin g is 102. With Moscow
on sound experience, and there Is flit the much needed Increase of
7:30. Mr. Lynden F. Barnett, musi- cltllens ralgln(r between $15,000 and
( much promise to Its production. feed producllon In Oregon, the ex1-
eal director, will be in charge of the |1 6 000 for the fund the contrtbtI.
music at all meetings. Special evan -it)on o( the facu„ y brlnig thg toU ,
Grapes have been successful and ai- perlment station says.
gelistle meetings every evening a t )rataed
the town to BwrOTta,ate^ !
! ho strawberries and these should be
7:30 o’clock. Everybody is Invited $20.000. The quota for Latah I
greatly dnereased. The growing of , Successful pouilrymen have found
early potatoes commands Interest it unprofitable to brood chicks of
to any or all of theee services. Henry POllnty wag pIaced at , J0>000 which
and has proven successfull. A few | different ages in the same lot. This
Young, minister.
| it
gaJd bag been in ,|y subscribed.
other products as small side lines, practice results In many poorly de-
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llke pop corn, hroom corn, small velopcd pullets, which mature too
Libfaly Has Record Breaking Circn- quarters for the drive are maln-
vegetables for home use. wheat and late tn |>s profitable egg producers,
lation in January
talned. is that more then $200,000
corn for poultry and home livestock j say Oregon station reports,
The circulation of books from the has been pledged. Thio virtually
are In the minds of many of our
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Hermiston library was greater in assures the memorial, aa many coun.
; farmers, hut diversification along a Archdeacon Goldie Holds Servicer
January than any other month since ties did not start their campaign un-
j few definite lines In large quantities
Archdeacon Goldie was ln HermW-
tbe library was founded. 1100 til January 1.
sufficient to develop marketing agelt- i ton Tuesday and held Episcopal Ber
volumes were circulated. A number
ries will be the aim of our new ef vices at the Hermiston hotel In the
of pleasing posters on children’s read-
Garabaldi— Whitney mill builds
I. W H O .)
! fort to restore prosperity to our own evening. The visit of Bishop Rem-
Ing have been received from the <0x90 foot addition for lumber ater-
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— Ington which was announced for
county library and are on display.
(Continued on Page two)
thin d»te has been postponed.
BY FOUL PLAQUE PANIC
FUTURE PROSPECTS
Ilf
SEEN BY LOCAL MAN tl
NEW CITY WELL
TESTED THIS WEEK
High School Mirror
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