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Stye Wmttfltott Wralh
VOL. XIX
HERMISTON. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. THURSDAY. MARCH 26, 1925
LAMB FEEDING
IS PROFITABLE
No. 29
held over a period of years, the price we do not confine them to a corral.
may Increase, and the speculative That Is bad business. They should
element In value will mean chances get all the exercise possible, and they
¡of lose than Is true on the feeding should have plenty of water and salt
end of the game, he said.
at all times. Otherwise they may
Good management Is absolutely be expected to have more or less i
sickness. It is necessary to give
MEETING AT EPERIMENTAL STA necessary with sheep.
"I think, it may safely be said the flock the best of care during the PIPE IS BEING LAID AND PUMP
TION FRIDAY WELL ATTENDED
AWARDED 6 OF TEN FIRSTS IB
that 85 per cent of Oregon farmers lambing season."
HOUSE ERECTED ON BUTTE
DECLAMATORY CONTEST
can be depended on to manage hogs
Docking should be done at an
properly,’"
Prof.
Potter
declared,
early age and ewes and lambs kept
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According to Superintendent Dean
"but I am confident that only about X d fildfty C° nd“ ,On ”y the U8e ot Test of New Well Shows That T h e, Umatilla, Echo and Stanfield
the Lambs Have Made the Hay
15 per cent will take the proper care
They Were Fed Worth a Little
Water is Pure and Free
Win Firsts in Contest Held Here
of sheep. With the proper manage
Mr. Bean told of several tests that
More Than $20 a Ton.
From Seepage.
Friday Last For District.
ment under Oregon conditions sheep have been made on different rations
will give as good returns over a per- at the Prosser station.
A large number of farmers atten lod of years as any other livestock Interesting Community Club Meet
Workmen are busy laying pipe and
Hermiston was fortunate enough
ded the meeting at the experimental with the possible exception of good
The Community club held au u n -¡building a pump house on the butte to be awarded six out of ten places
dairy
cows.”
station last Friday when the results
usually Interesting meeting in th e ! getting ready for the Installation of j •« the district declamatory contest
If the beginner buys old ewes for
of the lamb feeding experiment wag
. he state Is preparing a big pro
library 1 uesday afternoon, March the new engines that will be used held here Friday evening last. First
made known by Superintendent his foundation stock he may expect 24. After the usual routine of in connection with the well recently ! Place was won by Eugene Pierce la
g r a m of road building and there Is NEW POSTAL KATES
a smaller crop of lambs, higher death
renewed talk about the Wallula Cut
business Mrs. A. E. McFarland of dug by the city.
| the humorous section of Division F;
EFFECTIVE APRIL 15 Dean.
Acecordlng to Mr. Dean the feed- loss and will have to feed more grain. tm atllla spoke on Muscle Shoals.
off. It has been peacefully sleeping
At a recent meeting of the city Eddie Bensel dramatic section of
He
also
stands
to
lose
on
his
ewes
Letters, government postals and ,nK of lambs on the project Is a
for two years but suddenly has come
If sheep decline In price, because old Her talk was both interesting and in. council a pump was purchased, it j Division F; Mary Brownson, d e
o life with a bigger demand than other first class mall, same as at profitable means of marketing alfalfa
ewes
cannot be held over a derlod of structive, making clear to formerly ! is a deep well pump with a guaran- matlc section of Division E; Ruth
hay. The lambs have not as yet
r-er for Its construction. Many present.
years. Prof. Potter advocated as a befuddled minds the transactions of teed capacity of 275 gallons per Bensel, patriotic section of Division
Private mailing cards, 2 cents, old been 8old> but 8 ▼»luatton of 15 cents
thor roads have been completed and
the government and the legislation minute, driven by a 25 horse-power E; Anta Paulsen, dramatic section of
safe practice the purchase of good
now new roads are being proposed. rate 1 cent. Single newspapers and P*1- P°und- which was one cent less
pending In regard to this important electric motor.
the high schools and Earl Bensel.
sound ewes even If they cost more at
possession. Mrs. McFarland was
The Federal government has desig magazines, sent by other than pub : tban tbe Portland pries at that The start.
Some time ago a sample of the without competition In the extempo.
nated the Wallula Cut-off as part of Ushers or news agents shall be 2 t,me W8B tentatively given on the
thoroughly conversant with her sub water was sent to be tested. The raneous section of the high schools.
Supt. Wlthyeom, of Union station,
Its future program and the time for cents for each 2 ounces for weight lot an<J on this basis the hay that
ject and presented It in a most inter test showed the water pure and These were all Hermiston pupils.
dealt with practical problems of the esting manner.
not exceeding 8 ounces. Present tbey were ,ed was w®rth a little
more than this has arrived.
Edna Caldwell of Umatilla won '
wholesome for drinking purposes
flock management. The farm flock
During the past twc years other rate is 1 cent for each four ounces .more than *20 Per ton. This value
Mrs. E. S. Severance of Stanfield, According to Water Superintendent first In the patriotic section of di
on the station farm was built up
Money order fees have been raised o ,- hay «» 8 feed »Hows for the bar-
roads have been built Into the Walla
then read a paper on "Flowers of Pankow the new well will be ready vision F; Irene Bell of Echo, first
from a start that was selected with
Walla. Wallula, Pasco and Kenne from 3 cents to 5 from 5 to 7, etc. | l8y> ,ntereet on the investment for
Field and Stream,” which made a for use by May 1.
in the humorous section of Divis
carload of aged ewes, he said.
wick section all of which land at al The 18 cent fee remains the same, flTa months at eight per cent, labor
strong appeal to all who heard her.
ion E, and Imogene Stine of Echo,
.The best quality of bucks have been
most a common point without an out the 20 cent fee is reduced to 18. the co9,s’ depreciation on equipment,
After telling of the many wild flow
first In the high school humorous.
used
and
today
the
flock
has
won
ROADS AND SETTLEMENT
salt, etc.
let Into Oregon or any of the towns 25 to 20 and the 30 to 22.
ers of Oregon, California and Colo
Frank Swayze of Hermiston was also
The lambs were fed for a period much favorable comment on account rado. she spoke of the great need
The Greater Umatlla Project needs first in the high school oratorical
along the great Columbia highway.
The insurance rates are raised as
of
the
quality.
The traffic is routed northward to follows: From 3 to 5 cents, from 5 .of 150 days and during the
of protection of these lovely gifts of 1000 settlers. It has now and with contest.
The ewes should be thriving and
Seattle and Puget sound and the to 8 cents. The 10 and 25 cent ent,re Perlod was fed a” the alfalfa
nature, many of which, notably the additions under the McKay creek
The contest wa~ marked this year
state of Washington Is building up rates remain the same and there is they would eat’ Each ,ot of lambs on the best feed available at breed wild currant and dog wood in Ore lands 1000 forty acre tracts that will by an unusually large number of
ing
time
if
a
good
lamb
crop
Is
ex
raoldiv from Its first contact with a charge of 3 cents for a return re- were £ed 8 total of , 5 pounds of
gon are in danger of complete ex make good farms and homes
participants. There were 35 en
' whole barley per lamb. The amount pected. he said. At the station the termination through the thoughtless
The nood of western immigration trants In the grade school division,
♦ravel from Eastern points. Thous celpt.
percentage
of
increase
usually
runs
was
gra,n ,ed to the Tar,0UR lots were
and,. of people go Into the Yakima
The old C. O. D. charge
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acts of many so-called "flower lov Is on and most of It will flow along and twelve in the high school div
around 150 per cent.
Irrle-ation project and are impress .cents for collections up “to 850.00 ! dlfferent> some h®1"« £ed ct the rate
ers.” Mrs. Severeance followed her automobile courses. One thousand ision. The grade contestants spoke
"In the fall we permit the ewes to talk by showing slides of many of cars a day passed- through the Uma in the school auditorium and the
ed with Its grandeur who would see and the new rate is 12 cents up to oi one ba» Pound daily, three-quar-
the Umatilla project If they could 810.00, 15 up to 850.00 and 25 ters of a P°und. one pound and one- run on pasture Just as long as it is the wild flowers which added great tilla project last year, or at least high school students at the Metho
¡half pound. The cheapest gains possible without permitting them to ly to the enjoyment of the audience. 3000 people a day for 100 days.
pass through the gap, and would cents up to 8100.00.
dist church. The folowlng schools
Through millions of dollars of ad were represented: Stanfield, Echo,
locate here to the benefit of this
Registered mall rates for 850.00 were made by feeding no grain for go hungry,” he told his audience. Earl Carson donated his services In
vertising the traffic will be greatly Nolln, Umatilla, Columbia, Minne
locality, county and state. Hermis indemnity will be 15 cents minimum, jth® flr8t 78 daya and tben feedln» "Then when we do put them on feed | operating the machine.
Increased. Why let a similar route haha and Hermiston.
ton has laid off an.d made no effort 20 cents maximum, with 3 cents one pound dally for the last halt
of the period. The cost per hun
with a similar flood of seekers for
to secure some of these settlers but charge for return receipt.
The winners In this district will
western life pass by our door be be eligible to compete In the county
was not blinded to what It was los
Parcel post carries a service dred weight of gain In the lot so fed
cause of lack of a few miles of road? contest at Pendleton on Friday,
ing. One of the great purposes, of charge of 2 cents on each parcel, was 811.44. The highest cost per
The Umatilla Project should have April 3, In which gold and silver
the people of these Irrigated com except those originating on rural hundred weight of gain, 815.49, was
on the lot fed one-half pound of
five times the people and wealth It medals wll be awarded to winners
munitles In their early efforts to routes.
Devoted to the Interest and Deve! opment of the Hermiston Schools
now has. This would nearly all be of first and second place,, respect
route the Old Oregon Trail through
Special handling charge on par grain daily.
In addition to the Inspection of
In Uniatila county. Let a large ively.
the Irrigated sections was to adver cels will be 25 cents each.
Voi. 4.
part of this travel pass up through
tise the territory and now It wants
No. 1
Special delivery fees will be 10 the lambs by farmers and the repoff
by
the
superintendent,
talk-,
on
prac-
the Yakima valley and to Puget AMERICAN LEGION TO
all the people to come this way that cents for each 2 pounds and under;
The declamatory contest held last
“Green Stockings” has been chos Sound, and Umatilla county will be
all possible road connections can se 2 pounds to 10 pounds, 15 cents; tlcal feeding was made by R. P
GIVE DANCE FRIDAY
Friday
night was an immense suc en for the senior play this year. longer In settling and the state
I
Bean
of
Proseer,
Washington,
sta
cure. We need 1000 farmers more over 10 pounds, 20 cents.
cess
from
the
local
view
point
since
tion;
by
Prof.
B.
L.
Potter,
head
of
The cast will be chosen and work slower In building up.
on the Irrigated lands that are soon
Posters are out announcing a dance
the livestock department of Oregon seven of the ten first honors were begun immediately. Watch for fur
New money is being spent for
ao be opened for settlement.
ASPARAGUS GRADE
to be given by the Hermiston poet of
carried
away
by
Hermiston
contest
Agricultural
college
and
Robert
ther
particulars.
scenic
routes
and
long
distance
con
The Wallula Cutoff connects at
RULES ARE GIVEN Witbecombe. superintendent for more ants. Hermiston’s showing In the
the American Legion Friday night,
nections of business points. Why
small cost two great highway sys
March 27. An orchestra of merit
contest
Is
a
great
credit
to
Coach
¡than
twenty
years
of
the
experiment
not
spend
some
to
pottle
up
Orogou?
tems over either of which hundreds By United States Department of Ag
The high school regrets to hear
front P en dleton has bees weenred
Gullfoil,
who
has
Bpent
much
time
station
at
Union
of thousands of people travel each
that Waugamans will leave for Bel And since we have built scenic for the occasion.
riculture. Some to he Shipped
Prof. Potter stated that Iamb feed working with the contestants.
year. The northern railroads are
lingham, Washington, about the routes why not make It easier to
This Season.
The Ladies Auxiliary will serve
ing had an element of speculation In
advertising! extensively throughout
middle of April. We regret to lose get to the roads that lead to them? the supper.
The candy sale conducted by the three such very fine students as The railroads in March advertised
the east. One thousand cars a day
U. S. No. 1 shall consist of clean, it and the feeder should be conserva
passed over the Columbia highway fresh stalks of asparagus which are tive and ready for a possible loss In P. T. A. at the declamatory contest James, William and Wilma Wauga to 20,000,000 readers In the east the
Henry Hitt left Thursday after
agricultural, climatic, industrial op noon for Hot Lake. Henry has not
through here last year and more will not wilted or crooked; which do not any single season. Over a period of netted a sum of 816, which will be man.
portunities and scenic wonders of keen feeling well of late and believ
come this way this year and the year^ show broken or spreading tips, and years feeding returns a reasonable used for the furtherance of the next
The flu has been playing havoc Oregon. We believe we should open ed that a few days at th lake would
to come. As many more will take which are free from damage caused profit and some years the returns high school party. Many thanks
the northern routes and a large num by disease, insects or mechanical or are exceptionally good. The Invest are extended to those parents who with the school attendance recently. wide all gateways.
help hint.
ment Is comparatively higher, how aided In the candy sale.
From twenty to twenty-seven mem
ber of them will take the short cut other means.
bers have been absent from the high
to the Columbia highway through
In order to allow for variations ever, he pointed out, the feeding Is
Dud West has moved into hie new
♦ home recently purchased from Dave
The "Purple and Gold” Is nearing school dally during the past week, ♦
these Irrigated districts and on to incident to proper grading and hand over a short period, as compared to
FARM REMINDERS
♦ Cook Tony Soneson le now occupy
the scenic views of the Columbia ling, not more than 10 per cent by the sheep breeding business proper, completion under the competent dir and around seventy-five from the ♦
gorge and Mt. Hood.
count, of any lot may be below the and when Iambs are prime they have ection of Anita Paulsen, acting edi entire school.
♦
♦ ing the house Dad moved from.
We believe that this road should requirements of this grade hut not to be sold whether the market has tor. Nearly all of the pictures have
The high school was well repre ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
he built at once and while new to exceed one-half of this tolerance Increased and made possible a profit been taken and the copies of the sented in the Mikado, Hugh Walker
Jap Templeton Is again making
That gentral purpose Oregon hen8
roads are In the making that this shall be allowed for any one defect. or whether It has slumped and left various departments have been hand and Wallace Reid taking leading Bhould be mated one male to flfeen the rounds as assessor for thia dis
ed In. The business men have kind parts, and Emery Cox, Bert Quick, hens and leghorns or egg types mat trict.
one be taken out of Its mere designa
The Three Rivers Growers Asso the feeder a loser.
Running breeding ewes and pro ly given us their support In the ad Nell Reeves, Caryl and John Newell, ed one male to 20 hens is recom
tion on the map and made an act ciation rules require 12 pounds of
ual fact.
grass in the box. All stock must be ducing lambs and mutton Is on a vertising department. We expect and Margaret and Vernon Waterman mended by the experiment station.
at least % of an Inch In diameter different basis In thaC it is less this annual to come off the press the working in the chorus. Members of These figures are aboit right for In •
•
FREE WATER FOR IRRIGATION. at the butt; showing not more than speculative according to the speaker. best yet published by the Hermis the faculty, Miss Larson, Miss Gray, dividual matings, but If a larger '
OREGON WEEKLY
♦
Directors of the Hermiston Irri 1 U inches of white. A tollerance To get Into the breeding game nec- ton high school.
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW
♦
Miss Ferris and Miss Compton also flock is to be mated, the number of ’>
gation district, in order to stimu iiot exceeding 10 per cent by count, esltates good pasture, and this pas
helped In the production, Miss Comp hens to one male bird may be In
late early Irrigation, passed a resolu below these requirements Is allow ture must be asured before It Is
The cast for the high school oper ton taking the part of tbe heroine. creased to 20 per cent.
possible to get Into the business, and etta "The Bandit” has been chosen
tion that there be no charge for ed.
Monmouth—School gymnasium to
Helen Upham, Wilma Waugaman,
water this year used up to and In
be erected at cost of 810000.
The horticultural law requires the the pasture must he something beside and work is weU under way. The Orrell Campbell, Edna Gould, Lois
The
black
gooseberry
borer,
oc
cluding April 30.
growers' name, address and the net alfaUa The ewes may be bought and date has been set as April 18. Watch ! Jackson and "oertrude’ B e i Z repre- curring as a large white grub In the
ths market decline, yet If they are for further particulars.
Isented us as ushers
weight of grass in the box.
Roseburg— Douglas National bank
roots and crown of the plants, ap
Note:
Spreading
tips
PICKLED SMELTS
means
pears to be rather widely distributed building being remodeled.
seedy grass.
pregón) aod l»j seriously Injurious
In view of the fact that smelt are
Astoria— 8250,000 Hawkins build.
on many of the plantings, the ex
now plentiful and cheap, the follow- RECEIVES CONGRATULATIONS
periment station has learned. Grow Ing now under construction; plans
In recipe, may prove of interest to
ON PRODUCTION “MIKADO”
ers about to plant gooseberries should | ,inder way for 825000 hotel
many:
examine carefully their stock and
T E IL VOÜ SHE'S THE
Clean and wash the fish in three
Mr. Linden Barnett, who directed
Medford—Oregon Granite Com.
take every precaution to avoid in
gEST U VE
OL'OH
or four waters. Soak, over night In the comic opera "Mikado,” that was
I
pany
to build new home.
fested bushes.
< HIGHWAY-TRAV£Li>
strong salt water, wipe dry with a put on at Hermiston the 17th and
eloth and pack In Jars.
I Rainier— 8125,000 union
18th of this month, has received the
along wit « the
or
high
For early Oregon potatoes, while I hoo, bu|ldtng lo be erected
To one gallon of vinegar add eight following letter from the Whitman
L(i. XOUR maojine anp
the ground is still cold, the planting J
______
heaping table spoons of ground mus conservatory of music:
much io poor
of vhole seed is the best practice, re
tard; three fourths tablespoon of
Glendale—
Overland
hotel changea
Walla Walla, March 20, 1925 j
FöR ,r ’ '
ports the experiment farm. Such I Ownership, extensive Improvements
eayene pepper; one tablespoon whole Dear Mr. Barnett:
seed does not rot If the germination to be made.
cloves; three tablespoons allspice.
Mr. Pratt wants me to send you
is slow.
Put the spices m the vinegar and let congratulations on the success of the I
Newberg— Newberg Box Company
boll for three minutes, then pour Mikado. He says it is indeed splen
Berry bushes are much less dam to build new factory.
over the fish. Put on the covers did for a small community to put
aged If all pruning and trelllsing is
and rubbers loosely and cook In the on such, and that It should certain
complete before young buds are large
Corvallis- 827.000 Sigma Phi Ep
boiler for three hours. Remove and ly foster a fine community spirit.
enough to be broken off In the work silon fraternity house to be built.
tighten covers, turn upside down to
Tours truly.
It will soon be too late In Oregon to
test.
Rosella Woodward.
prevent such breaking, so all In-
St. Helens— 8316.922 appropriated
completed trellsing should be rush for road work in Columbia county
Salam— 8130.000 appropriated for
Newport— Newport Journal, semi-
ed, thinks the experiment station. during 1925.
development of tírater Lake park weekly newspaper, starts publica
roads.
~ tion.
I I J ! »
Sweet corn may be had through
Portland — Contracta totaling
out the Oregon season by planting 8205.000 let for widening aectlon of
varieties which mature at different Pacific highway.
times, the experiment station reports;
Good gardners In many sections are
Oregon City—Baptists plan erect
At Stanfield At Hermiston A t Umatilla At Boardman
using Portland Market and Golden ion of 8100.000 church.
Bantam, and very often a variety for
April 12
April 26
May 17
Stanfield
Corvallis— New w ater mains to be
all use called Howling Mob. Much
Jane 23
May 24
June 14
better yields are to be had by having installed.
May 10
April 19
M ay3
Hermiiton
Ihe sweet corn plot as nearly aquare
May 31
Jane 14
Jnae 21
1
Columbia Valley Power Company
as possible. This provides better
to
develop 20,000 horse power hydro
Hay
3
May
17
pollination
and
conaequent
better
April I t
Umatilla
Jane 21
Jane 7
yields.
| *’ * | iftt electric plant on the Deschutes river
May 31
at cost of approximately 820.00,000.
April IS
April 23
May 10
Klamath Falls— Pelican Bay Lum
- * ifta- .
Jane 7
May M
Jane 28
ber company rneumed operations on
Hood River— Erection of 8175,000
March 15, employing 280 men.
union high school building planned.
NORTHERN TRAFFIC SHOULD
NEW CITY WELL
IS HIGN
READY MAY 1 IN DISTRICT CONTEST
IRRIEÂTED LANDS
Build Wallula Cut-off To Help Settle
Farms on Umatilla Project
High School Mirror
¡fan
Irrigation B aseball League Schedule