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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1925)
FIGHT THE Have learned that The Herald prints the 100 200 300 500 for for for for $1.25 $2.00 $2.60 $3.75 Many are buying them in the larger quan tities, but we are here to serve you all. If you want only a few we have them with out the name. These we sell as follows— 12 30 62 100 for for for for 10 25 50 80 cents cents cents cents fest lg 3 a THE HERMISTON HERALD i a : a i a : a ; a i a a i a WE ARE TROUBLE a Í a I: a a a a “ The Home of Good Printing » ST AND AR D OIL COMPANY (Canforata) EXPERTS der to Tia Juana, driving Into Yose mite and to the Big Trees. Wtth the appronch of the rainy I Published every Thursday at Her- season they find that traveling has ! in In ton, Umatilla County, Oregon by lost its flavor, and they return to i Raymond Crowder, Editor and Man the apartment. "Father” becomes ager. restless. He has spent active year« , Entered as second clans matter, directing his own business or follow December 190« at the poetoffice at ing a trade, and the placid sameness 1 Hermiston, Oregon. of the days bring a restlessness. He wanders about the streets seeking Subscription Bate* companionship and some diversion | Por One Veer ___;.___________ *1.00 for the hours. He finds a court of Por Six Months ____________ «1.00 picturesque bungalows under con Payable In A dvance. struction, and becoming Interested offers to help with the painting. "TIN CAN TOURISTS" TERRIFYING He explains that the money "doesn’t CALIFORNIA mtnn much to him,” but he hates being Idle and will be willing to The following from the Literary work at a reasonable figure, which Digest, given an Idea of the grent In usually means about half scale flux of tourists Into CnUfornla: Naturally this single offer wouldn't With ‘‘their household goods piled high on the little enr, their children flood the labor market, but there tucked In unbelievably r.,aal places, are thousands of "fathers” In every and the dog riding Joyously on the profession who are doing the same running board,” Innumerable penni thing. The flivver tourist finds that less Invader« are swarming Into the his expected place has been usurp Golden State. Their capital, we are ed, that the man to whom "money told, "consists of a dirty dollar bill doesn’t mean much," but who "has and a dirty Hhlrt, and they have no to keep busy,” is given the prefer Intention of changing either.” To ence. As the writer points ont, "these California's dismay, “the light two Bre not the only typee of visi conquest shines In their eyes." Margorte L. Poole Informs us In the tors California has," for multitudes New York World, they "expect to "come from all parts of the world He miaton, pick golden oranges from convenient with well filled pockete, who revel Oregon groves and to find the acquisition of In the sunshine during the winter months, enjoy the sports In the gold as easy." Indeed—■ These successors to the covered mountains, the beautiful Inns, the wagon pioneers are responding to a golf courses, the excellent roads and call directed to their more prosperous the happy holiday spirit that per brothers. The California of Bret vades— for those with money.” But Harte Is ever before them, nnd they these, naturally, "have little In com see shining pictures of their triumph mon with the Invaders,” who "face out where even the "persecuted nearly as many difficulties as the LEGION THFATER Chinamen became wealthy In a few pioneers of the covered wagon days." The writer continues: years ” SUNDAY Felling their property In their How rude the awakening. How M onday quickly the light of anticipation Is home town, they take the proceeds , B O N N fR S replaced by that of desperation. They which they feel sure "will be more find that orange» aren’t given for thnn enough until Harry can get the asking, that they are "four bits work In California," and hllthely a doxen,” that work Is scarce, the begin the long trek. They have a Influx of skilled men having caused "good" aecond hand car, four new the supply to far exceed the demand, tires and an extra that "hasn’t been and that men In nearly every trade used much.” The machine Is bulg are working for half the scale, and ing with clothes, provisions, camp ing equipment and bits of brlc-a brae glad to get that. (AU White) Of tourRe the ndvertlsempnts aren't with which Elisabeth Just couldn’t false. There are opportunities in part. From a brace on the ton California, and fortunes are being swings the canary cage, a constant Band, O rcheit a made every day, but not by these menace to the heads of the passen- Music, Songs, Laughs "Flivver Magellans." Oranges are ers and the dog la provided for be- I given awry, hut, In the expensive cause "the children would miss him Featuring Inns where great baskets of them io much." stand ready for the tourists who are Amid the cheers of the neighbors glad to pay for these courtesies who In their Innermost hearts envy ’"Hard H errted Hannah” Gold Is still being taken from the the adventure, the start is made, j and her Radio Girls mountains a» In the days of Bret But soon unexiferted ^expenditures Harte, hut the operations are dir arise. The gasoline supply must be : ected by million dolar corporations replenished at stations to which the There la land to be had for a few fuel Is hauled over miles of desert 1 eenls an acre, but who can carry road, and It Is appalling to find that j 7:30 P. M. water In a barrel thirty miles and the prices range from 50 centa to > atlll find time lo "dry farm." «1.00 a ga-llon. Perhaps an axle ’ It Is true that "not all of the aiito- crystallite« and then the family must j Ists are penniless." but— camp In the beat of the desert, I the real like rent. Those with capital really add to where It often reaches 118 degree". 0 c°° ' r n * To buy seems the only sensible the hardships of that class. Th< while a passing motorist carries Surmounting these difficulties wealthier arrive In larger care, with word to the nearest garage thirty ,h*Jr eventually arrive In the "prom, thing, and most of the precious capi neatly parked suitcase» on the run mile, awey. The towing charges ,M'd land " T*>e Hny fortune has tal goes toward the first payment cn nlng boards and large trunks strap are beyond belief, and the automobile dwindled rapidly en route but It "their own little home." ped on the rear. They stop at the parts are much higher than In the seems to be sufficient until work Is By this time search for employ auto camps along the way, hut rail home town. procured. There is a frantic hunt ment has heroine serious, the situa at a hotel occasionally for a "real One family limped across the ,nr «ring quarters while the family tion assuming Its true proportions. rest " Mojave desert on two bare rims af- resides In an auto camp at 25 cents The lack of factories where skilled Arriving In Southern California, er seven tires had blown out. John a day. labor I, needed Is sudd.-nly discover they take a small apartment “not hadn't learned that on the desert ' Then a animoth tongued realtor ed. A week’s work here and there nearly a* nice, you know, as our one carries a minimum amount of ¡Informs them that a little bungalow keeps the pantry partially stocked, place back home" They drive to air, because of the heat expansion | ’’out where property values are hut the Instalment, on the house are the various places of Inn rest, seeing and that drivers of experience reet bound to rise within the next year” piling up. The flivver Is sacrificed the missions, venturing over the bor during the f i ., and travf| durjng | rat, >e bought for "»200 down and to ««ve the home. Inadequate trana- ty riu U itu u i r r a l i i When anything goes wrong with your Igni tion, Starting or Light ing System, bring it to us. We have modern testing equipment and expert mechanics enab ling us to render When you have a iob in our line give it to the home prin ter. The salesman from an out-of- town concern may In waging your battle with the give you an oily house fly start early and make line of “bunk” but it successful by using the screen the home printer is doors and window screens of entitled to your job work. The dollar Inland Empire Lumber Co. you spend here will some day re- We have just received our new turn to you. The stock in and would be pleased dollar you send to show them to you. 3 away is gone for- " ever. Our prices are standard. If it ■ is to be printed we Inland Empire Lumber Company ■ can do it. Let us ■ j Phon. 331 ■ I figure with you. “ The Yard of Best Qaality” II lì J H. M. STRAW. MGR. Exclusive Representatives of National Builders Bureau HERALD "hi Special To Close Out!! IM PLEM ENTS Johnston Mowers Was $105.00, Now $65.00 Cash John Deere Mowers Was $105.00, Now $90.00 Cash John Deere Hay Rakes Efficient Service at Low Cost Was $65.00, Now $52.50 Cash JOHN SCHIMKE Side Delivery Rake Was 135.00, Now $60.00 One Ford Delivery Car Cheap LEGION THEATRE EXTRA SPECIAL M a av m y 2 4 -2 5 Dixieland Minstrels Helen Lewis Free Band Concert ’ HERMISTON Two One-Horse Cultivators * • At less than wholesale Jumbo Dain Buck Ra e Second hand, $45.00 Cash One Dain Senior Stacker . Used One Year, $125.00 Cash M A N Y O T H E R IT E M S The Farm Bureau will handle repair parts for Johnston Mowers when we leave here SAPPERS INC. portation fccilltleg from the tract where he little house Is situated be come a factor In the problem of Job hunting. When things seem blackest there is an attempt to sell the home toob- tnin the equity and promised profit, hut the “bottom has dropped out of the boom"—temporarily of course. The payments must be met or their shelter will automatically return to the real estate company. In deapera. tton the man turns to the employ ment agencies, known as "slave mar kets," where he find, long llnee ahead of him. With a stifling of pride he determines to go to work with a pick and shovel. He finds that there are thousands of Mexicans who fill this need and that the Japanese and Hindoos are hired ex clusively, In. many sections, to pl«k H ER M ISTO N OREGON oranges. Eventually his name more school facilities for the child goes to swell the flies of the social worker, or his family is the subject ren of the floating population who of one of the dally appeals in the share in no way the burden of the California’s standard of local papers for help for "a deserv taxes. education |8 exceptionally high and ing family, stranded by unusual cir It coats an astonishing amount to cumstances." maintain the standard. How does the incursion of "tin The boosters who are backing tho can tourists" affect the native Cali advertising campaign are appalled at fornian? Thus, we are told: Because of the man who Is w ill the results of their labors. Their ing to work for half scale, the nat arguments have been successful. ive laborer faces the same discourag Their pictures have been painted In ing fact» that confront the flivver living colors. They have attracted tourist. He must work for what he thousands of people. But with the can get or go Into the northern part thousands who have come to lnveat, of the state where the invasion to make fortunes In the new country, seems not to have reached such pro- J to take advantage of the openings which are offered, there has rolled portions To the property owner the situs- j Into the State, on flat tlrea and tlou la lamentable, for he Is called nicked rims, the flivver tourist horde upon eoch year to provide more and 1 and California la facing the problem of uttltiinf it, newest acquisition,
