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YOL. XIX
HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY. JULY 9, 1925
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NOTICE
[ECHO ROD AMD GUM CLUB
BY FEDERATION WHEAT |
0. 0. FELTHOUSE GETS GOV
UMATILLA STAGE
ERNMENT SAND CONTRACT
BURNS TUESDAY
COMMUNITY PICNIC JULY 12
FARM REMINDERS
No, 44
ONE CROP IDEA TIRES
PROJECT FARMERS
Federation wheat has made such I At ameeting held by the members
O. O. Felt house has been awarded
One of the stages of the Umatilla
a favorable showing on irrigated of the Echo Rod and Gun Club Sun,-
contract by tht» government to Rapids Transit company on the run
land In Baker county that 7500 acres day evening, June 7, It was decided
The best treatment for poultry furnish from 10,060 to 20,000 yards between Pendleton and Umatilla,
of that variety were harvested In '24 to hold their annual picnic on July disease« In Oregon is prevention, of sand for the McKay dam. The caught fire last Tuesday night about
by 283 growers, reports Paul Car 12. After a considerable amount Provide comfortable, sanitary sur sand will be taken from a pit loc- half a mile beow the Diversion dam
M. ANGELL WRITES ARTICLE
penter, county agent. It in expect of discussion it was voted to have roundings, keep the house free from ated on the C. E. Baker ranch just and burned. It Is believed that a
FOR OREGON FARMER
ed that in 1S25 Federation will make the picnic In the grove on the An- drafts, give the birds clean, whole- east of the government pipe yards, short circuit was responsible for the
up 90 per cent of theirrlgatedsprlng tone Cunha place about one mile son^ feed, and you have reduced The 0ontrac^ specifies that <*eltv- fire. The stage was a total loss,
wheat acreage in the eounty. As above Echo on the river,
the disease problem to a minimum, ery shall be made at the rate of j
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Cows, Hens, Asparagus and Other
recently as 1922 Federation was
This place has been Inspected by the experiment station hag found.
eight cars per week. A loading a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a
“Su’/ lin e s ’' Makz? Success
practically unknown In Baker county several of the club members and a.'l
platform 75 feet long and 12 feet *
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Please Bear Thia in Mind
More Certain.
Range and exercise for the breed
and was grown In a small way by have agreed that It Is the most de-
high will be built west of the stock- , ♦
OREGON WEEKLY
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three farmers from seed brought' sirable place to be found close. There ing stock In Oregon are especially yards. It will take about one year' ♦
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW
■■■■■■■■■■■■■ from the Moro branch experiment. Is plenty of shade and places for important factors in the production to complete the contract.
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The following Is taken from Mr.
of
eggs
of
high
fertility
and
hatch-
station which developed the variety * swimming in the river, which makes
Angell’s
write-up in the Oregon
ability,
reports
the
experiment
sta
and built up a small supply of seed. It ideal for picnlclng.
INCREASING CALF CROP
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Spokane
capitalists plan to Invest Farmer, _______
concerning conditions on
tion.
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Federation outyielded other spring
The Gun club Is making arrange
WOULD CUT BEEF COST *2,000,000 In Baker county copper the Umatilla project:
varieties about five bushelg per acre ments to have a table 200 feetlong
belt-
' Perhaps it is of the progress made
Red
spiders,
which
are
likely
to
on the average, says Carpenter. erected for the lunch to be served
Industry Could be Made Still More
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( by the growers on the Hermiston
An early maturing habit and short, on. Evrybody will bring their own strike at almost any plant In Ore
Profitable By Cutting Down
Myrtle Creek Broccoli plantings project that Bennion Ig particularly
stiff straw are other qualities that lunch, plates, cups, knives, forks and gon from low-growing annuals to
Losses on the Range.
here aggregate 700 acres.
proud. A year ago last winter—
tall
trees,
develop
most
rapidy
and
: have contributed to its popularity. spoons. The lunch will be spread
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I nearly two years before they ex-
CHAUNCEY, WOODARD MEETS At the current price of *1.20 per on the table and everyone will eat become most harmful In dry weather.
By increasing the beef calf crop In
The Dalles— New city water sup- pected to have anything to sell— 125
The best protection so far reported Oregon, some 10 pr cent and reduc
bushel this variety brought an ln-
DEATH IN RESERVOIR WATERS j crease of *45.000 In the county’s together. Ice cream and lemonade by the experiment station Is spray ing losses on the range even 1 per ply decreases insurance rates.
farmers of that district In 27 au.
will be furnished by the club free, ing with lime sulfur. Most sulfur
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tomobiles motored over to Kenne-
cent,
cost
of
beef
production
would
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(wheat income In 1924.
a program of sports and speaking
Marlon county adds 108 miles to wick an dtoured the farms served
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C W Kelly in the Pocahontas sec- will start at 10 A. M. and last containing Insecticides are effective be materially cut down and the in
If applied thoroughly and some gar dustry made correspondingly more old market road improvement pro- by the Three Rivers Growers’ As-
Abont Five Hundred Attended Com. tJon ral8ed g59 bushelg on 21 acres
through the day. Something doing
sociatlon, with an eye to providing
an *v®rage of 41 bushels to the acre. every minute for the young and old. deners use superfine dusting sulfur. profitable, says H. A. Lindgren, ani gram.
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an outlet for similar crops that
Butler Makes Address of
An average of 57 bushels per acre While this affair Is put on by the
mal husbandry extension specialist
The Day.
Growers
of
newly
planted
orchards
Bend—Shevlin-Hixon
mill
will
in-
woul<1 do we" at Hermiston. This
at
the
state
college.
from a 71 acre field was reported Echo Rod and Gun Club, it is open
Beet cattle prodotcion In Oregon stall plant to extract turpentine and Pr° redure, a" contrary to the usual
by Leo Adams who lives in the for anyone wishing to attend. It may save themselves much later
trouble from the flat head borer by represents a. *29,000,000 industry, oils from pine sawdust and mill lone wberel" farmers grow what
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, Muddy creek community.
Is for no other purpose than to have
A damper was put on the festlvi-
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they please, regardless of the out
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Experience of Baker eounty the people get together and make shading the trunk of the newly set rhi^e-fourths o | the state's aiVa, waste.
ties of the community picnic held
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let, and dump it when grown on
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growers with this variety tallies new acquaintances and enjoy thm- tree, since the female revels In sun or about 45,000,000 acres, is grazing
last Saturday at the reservoir when
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the station platform, completely
shine
and
seeks
the
direct
light
for
land, most of which ig unsulted to
Umatilla county wheat crop
ChaUneey Woodard, 30, met death witp reports from other irrigated selves. It doesn’t matter whether depositing her eggs. Boards set up
dumfounded Manager Lee Lampson
, districts in eastern Oregon, says E. you are acquainted In Echo or not
any other purpose. Much of this tlmated at 5,000,000 bushels.
by drowning.
1 of the Three Rivers Growers, but
R. Jackson, farm crop specialist for you are sincerely invited to attend on the south side of the tree so as area Is cattle range, the economical
MS. Woodard had Just eaten a . . . . .
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he recovered in ttme to hook them
to
lean
against
it
offer
good
and
use of which depends upon careful
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, .. the state college extension service. thiB picnic and get acquainted.
Salem— Unexpectedly good crop of up wlth hig agsociatton and now hg
big meal when he put on his bath-
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IOf the 197,000 acres of spring wheat Every effort Is being made by the adequate shade, the experiment sta production, believes Mr. Lindgren. loganberries, b-e4ng harvested and polnts to them wlth prlde „ exain_
ing suit and started to wade out to-
tion reports. If the boards are not
Average beef cattle crops in the
wards the raft He got into a ' ^ ow n in that part of the state last club members to make the day en
plea of how t0 g0 about growing
handy a very good substitute as re state are about 65 per cent. On canned.
depth over his bead and not being T V s
acr“ were B*eded joyable for everyone whe attends.
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a new crop. Bennion, too, likes to
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i to Federation, he estimates.,.About Anyone wishing co re Information commended by the station is news many ranches it runs as low as 40
able to swim soon sank. T here!
Hood River— Call made for orch- talk about their progress,
35000 acres were devoted to hard in regard to this may inquire at C. paper wrapped about the trunk to per cent. In some instances range
were two or three little girls on the j
1 “Some of their farms are planned
shade the tree.
I Federation, a twin of Federation A. Gilbert’s or Dr. Buchholz.
losses run as high as 10 pe rcent. ard helpers to thin apples.
raft at the time who was aware of
the direct outgrowth of the
¡as
Methods
of
Increasing
the
calf
crop
and adapted to dry land conditions.
the unfortunate man’B plight. They |
The following Is the program for
Astoria— Steamer Virginian loads tour and look very much like the
Alfalfa which yields as much as percentage and calling attention to
This year will see a tremendous
shouted a warning to shore but in
the day: 10 A. M . base ball game
six tons or more per season, uses the causes of heavy losses are be 16.000 cases of salmon for New | Kennewick farms.” he said. Take
the commotion it was some time be increase In these two varieties for boys 12 years and under; It A
j for instance, that of J, W. McMul-
nearly 500 pounds of limestone per ing sought, to cut dtwn beef produc York.
fore those on the beach were aware Jackson believes because every M., speaking; 12 lunch, 1:30 P. M.
j len, president of the ossociation.
season. That is this legume uses tion cost.
available
bushel
of
seed
was
bought
of his disappearance. By this time
races; 50 yeard dash for boys, 1st nearly as much lime as nitrogen.
Arlington— Rapid work on new He has an acre of asparagus put out
up for reseeding areas where fall
Cost of producing a weaner calf is
he had drowned.
2nd and 3rd grades of any school; The nitrogen comes from the air and
McFadden hotel and on Vendome in the spring of 1924 and this year
around
*35
according
to
figures
wheat
was
frozen
out.
,
More than an hour was required
50 yard dash for girls, 1st, 2nd and
; he set an acre more with plants he
when there lg no inoculation to gathered from beef cattle men In 10 hotel annex.
before grappling hooks caught and
3rd grade of any school; 7 5 yard
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himself grew. He has three acres
make this possible, the crop falls.
counties. By increasing the average
Eastern Oregon wheat growers !1" Ear,7 Ohio and Irish Cobbler
brought up the body of the man.
Settlers Coming to Oregon
dash for boys. 4th and 5th grades
beef
calf
crop
to
7i>
ppr
cent
the
Mi*. Woodard was unmarried and
From all points of the compass of any school; 75 yard dash for
adopt as classified scale for harvest Potatoes from a ear of Minnesota
lived with his father and step homeseekers come pouring Into Ore girls, 4th and 5th gt*ados of any New Ruling for Students at U. of 0. average coat of the weaner calf wages from *2 to »5 a day.
certified seed shipped in this spring
would
be
reduced
by
*4.50,
Mr.
Students
from
places
outside
of
mother east of town on the Diagonal gon. A total of 189 families desir school; 100 yard dash for boys. 6th,
through the extension service, and
Lindgren
points
out.
A
further
re
road.
ing to locate on Oregon farms have 7th and 8th grades of any school; Oregon must hereafter be> eligible
Oakland—Sheep
men
will
ship
a blU» acrtl "trawbwry patch is
duction of 60 cents could be made by
The sports program and other ene i been reported
by the gateway offices 100 yard dash for girls, 6th, 7th for admission to the university of
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15.000 Iambs to San Francisco mar- »caring this year. The rest of the
reducing
losses
Just
1
per
cent.
the
state
In
which
they
completed
tsrtainments that had been planned at Ashjgnd. Ontario, Ore., Green and 8th grades of any school; men’s
1 farm Is in alfalfa and there are a
for the day was called off after the ( River, Wyo., Portland municipal auto tug of war; sack race, free for all; high school work before they will
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half dozen cows and 800 baby chicks
The
number
of
pigs
raised
in
earli
be
alowed
to
enter
the
University
accident. Judge R. R. Butler, of eamp and the Los Angeles branch pillow fight for boy» 14 and un
Harrisburg—
Two
carloads
of
wool
on the place, the latter a month old
The Dalles, delivered the address | office of the Portland chamber of der; championship horseshoe pitch •of Oi'egon, according to a ruling litter Is regarded by the experiment bring growers nearly *76,000.
and In open-range brooder houses.
station
as
the
big
factor
In
the
cost
just
passed
by
the
faculty.
during the afternoon. He is an I commerce, since Jone 1. Forty-one ing contest' open to all. Anyone
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Next to McMullen are Arnold Buh-
of
producing
weanling
pigs
In
Ore
This
action
was
taken
as
tht.
re
eloquent speaker and his talk was of these prospective Stettlers' have contestant will be limited to one
sre | man & Sons. One of the sons, Law-
Burns—Crain
load
of
horsee
sult of an investigation showing gon. The feed necessary to produce
pronounced one of the beet ever de called personally at the office of first or second prize.
' rence, rims a model apiary where
that the scholarship of most of the a Utter is about the same whether shipped to Denvefl market.
livered in this district.
the land sottement department,
j hrough proper wintering and the
the
litter
is
large
or
small,
and
no
non-resident students was below the
Portland, and have been given in
Falls City— City votes to sell the maintenance of large colonies he
Young chicks from four to six
BEEKEEPERS SELL HONEY
formation and assistance in locat- weeks are often attacked by a germ student body average. In order to good evidence appears that the light plant to Mountain States Com- has built up a production 40 per
weanling
pigs
In
the
large
litters
stop
an
influx
of
poor
students,
the
THROUGH PARCELS POST ¡ing.
! cent above the project average,
that lives in the soil over several faculty passed this ruling In addi are less thrifty than pigs from small pany.
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They have a flock of 400 or 500
A few bee-keepers have tried the i For tbe montb °» June 24 famil- years, says A. G. Lunn, head of the tion to requiring that outside stu litters, or inferior in any way.
Oakrlde, on Natron Cut-off, has hens, a good dairy herd of 12 or 16
echeme of advertising extracted , iea have been located on the land poultry husbandry at the O. A. C. dents comply with University (en
honey In newspapers and magazines | ln vartous parts of the state, repre- experiment station. The effected
500 Inhabitants and will incorpor-1cows, and asmall acreage In straw-
trance requirements.
New Store Opens In Hermiston
pte.
berries.
and delivering it by parcel post, eenting a capital Investment of over cfcickg show droopy wings, ruffled
Mr.
Morlan
of
Walla
Walla
has
The
new
ruling,
It
is
expected,
"Across the road llvefl A. W. Ag
thus working up a mail order busi *150,000. W. D. Ide, manager, feathers and general weakness. The will probably cost the university ap opened a 5 cent to *1 store In the
Bridge—-Contract Is let for build new, with an acre of asparagus, a
ness. This method of selling is On states that complete reports for the strong as well as the weak chicks proximately 100 students from other building formerly occupied by Chas.
good purebred dairy herd, some hogs
the Increase. The main factor In month have not yet been received are attacked. Experimental work states next fall, but will tend to Hahn’s shoe store. The Interior of ing new school to cost *12,0000.
and a flock of poultry. Agnew has
mail order selling Is to have a pack from the various counties and that indicates that they are then not able save university expenses.
the building has been kalsomlned
Astoria— Contracts let to close all a small acreage and must keep down
age that will not leak. The best no doubt this number will be great to- digest hard grain and should be
Forty-six of the 70 students who and the outside treated to a coat
ly
Increased.
package is the screw top caii'in the
fed moist mash three times a day. entered the university from one of paint. The store will open for gaps in Nehalen highway pavement, the size of his herd, hut he did the
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(first official testing In the west end
quart and two quart sizes, packed In , Thirteen settlers have been report Treatment also Includes moving the neighboring state failed to meet business next Saturday, July 11.
Oregon factories produced * 383,-'of Umatilla county and has prob-
an inexpensive corrugated mating 1 ed for Josephine county, one for chicks to clean ground and disinfect the entrance requirements of their
Klamath, one for Deschutes, and ten the brooders with a ten per cent
carton.
Orin Felthous® returned Thursday 912,000 in 1923, a gain of 62.7 per j ably the first register of merit made
state university but met the uni
at Hermiston. He is dairy project
One bee-keeper In the northwest by the Cfecho-Slovak cham lw bf solution of crude carbolic acid. Ep versity of Oregon eligibility rules. morning from m business trl|> to cent over 1921
leader on the project, an da good
started advertising his honey In commerce of Chicago, who have lo som saltg at the rate of one-fourth Entrance requirments of the various Portland. Orin states that he went
Contract let for surfacing Immi one. He has organized tuberculin
two ladies’ magazines of national cated In vartous parts of the Wil pound to the mash for 100 chicks, coast colleges are not the same. to Portland as a delegate to the
circulation, with the result that to lamette valley. A few of the new and hydrochloric acid at the rate The average grade of the non-resi Christian Endeavor convention be grant Hill, Old Oregon Trail, Uma and contagious abortion testing
work there on as solid a basig as
day he ig doing a big business and settlers are: John Tlusty, of Minn., Of one teaspoonful to a gallon of dents who have -not qualified to en ing held In that city. When we tilla county.
anywhere in the county. The farm,
buys, honey by the car lot to take ISO acres at Molalla; Jos. Distal, water, are also recommended.
ter the universities of their home asked to see his credentials he stat
Hillsboro— Locril telephone com ers who a year ago toured the Ken
care of his mail order business. OnP °» s - Dak> 33 acres at McMinnville;
state was 4.22, which Is lower than ed that they were lost while on the
bee-keeper last year made 100 mall
Hronza, S. Dak., 62 acreg at
pany will spend *25,000 on build newick country are now about
that
of
the
student
body.
Only
24
Willard
Felthouse
and
family
re
trip.
ready for a tour of self-inspection.
order salee by advertising once In Butteville Frank Klima, N. Dak.,
ing and line work.
turned the first part of the week of the outside students had grades
"We expect to parallel the work
a, weekly newspaper having state 31 acres at Woodburn; Jas. Krijol, from Wallowa lake where they have above the general average of tbe
Mrs.
J.
B.
Moll
is
visiting
with
Grades and curves being reduced in poultry at Hermiston with the
wide circulation. This mode of 111., and John Benes, Wls., 121 been spending a vacation.
Telatyrea
'at
Kanyela.
studnt body.
on Pendleton-I^ Grande section of Increase in asparagus acreage in or
selling, undertaken in a limited way acres at Whiteson; E. E. Stump, of
Calif.,
5
acres
at
Bear
Creek;
Sher
der to use cold storage economi
■X Old Oregon Trail.
at first, will grow with experience.
man Ware, Calif., 50 acres Joseph
cally. The demand for eggs Is so
Dirty milk Is expensive as a gift ine county; Harvey O. Hoffmaster,
McMinnville— Contract Is let for strong, howevor, that the poultry
and clean milk is cheap at any price. Ai'iz., 10 acres Josephine county;
association has been induced to
paving three blocks with asphalt.
Dirty milk results in complaints, Thoe. Gaffey, Calif., 80 acres Jos
handle them direct by express from
loss of confidence in the milk man ephine county; and Emma L. Gar-
Hillsboro— Work begun on paving Individual producers of the project.
who putg It on the market, and dlr- ret, 3 acres near Grants Pass.
nine blocks city streets.
Poultrymen are well pleased, with
ect loss through replacement o f :
the returns, hut the expense will
milk due to souring.
\
Lebanon— City contracts for pav he considerably reduced when the
HOMEMADE FLY SPRAY GOOD
Cleanliness In the barn largely (
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ing North Main street.
volume Is sufficient to Justify grad
determines the amount of dirt In
ing and packing at Hermiston.
milk. Care on the part of keepers
A good bon>e «*»«• fl7 "Pra7 »or
Vernonia— New Johnson-McGraw
“At Freewater enough chicks
in currying and grooming animals, fliea on dairy cattle has been rt-
shingle mill will employ 30 men.
were sold this year practically to
washing the udder Just before milk- I Quested so frequently from the col-
assure reaching the 30,000 mark In
ing and general cleanllnesg around le *? dairy department by Oregon
Medford — Four new business ’aylng hens this fall, and that will
the stalls, with clean habits on the dairymen that Roy C. Jones offers
buildings ready for occupancy.
justify hiring a man for grading.”
part of milkers are the determining ,be following:
factors in obtaining clean milk.
Kre"° dip. 1 «»»on; neutral oil.
There wa« a picnic and welner
St. Helens— Columbia rounty fair
Smooth, durable, non-absorbing 3 galons; kerosene, 1 gallon; car-
will build four new exhibit build roast at the Swarner place Tuesday
utensils of such a nature thtt they bon disulphide, 1 pound; and horse
evening. Those who composed tha
ings.
can be easily washed and sterilized "1,D(- 3 ounces. Mix thoroughly In
party were the families of Harvey
are Ideal for the milk house and 7 lye »«lion container and us* In fly
Payne, Stanley Campbell, Merle
Albany—
Cihwford
road
to
Leb-
barn. Milking with small top milk aPra7 twlce dally or as often as is
Phelps. O. C. Pierce, Ben Spencer,
anon opened for use.
palls keeps most of the dtrt out of necessary.
J. A. Reeves, John Schimke, W. L.
4b« milk
Tbe »ormua- •’•7» Mr. Jones, was
Portland— I. O O. F hall at Al Blessing. J. B. Moll, Harry McMil
A well -ventilated and screened submlttjed by a leading dairyman,
berta
and Nineteenth to cost *50,- lin and Lena Ward.
milk house with proper washing »“»7 tried out at the college, and
000.
facllitlsn and an abundant supply foon4 quids effective.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Knerr and
of clean water and hot water, and
■
-Increase |n telephone ser- family returned Tuesday night from
of such a nature that it can be wash-
Schimke Movet Battery Station
past five years Is 43 per an extended auto trip that took
ed thoroughly and frequently. Is i John Schimke, proprietor of tbs
»hem through California, New Mex
essential to the production of clean schimke battery service station, ha«
ico. Colorado and Nebraska. They
milk.
moved his macklnery and equipment
Astoria—«Contract« let for paving epent some time visiting at the old
Health of the animals Is another from the Kellogg Motor Co. to the
W illismspnrt road and grading Can home of Mr. KnerFs in Stromburg,
factor in clean milk production. Mack building on Main street. Mr.
Nebraska. On the return trip they
non Beach road.
Removal of animals having Inflama- Schimke Is now ready for bust]
visited Yellowstone National park.
tlon of the udder or any other ser- | D hie new location.
Glendale— New grade and high Floyd states that all had a won
loos ailment to a private stall until
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.school building will coat (50,000. derful time but are glad to get back
the ailment disappears will prevent j I*oseburg—Orchards make
to Hermiston. |
Infection from being carried from markable
Hood River—Vinegar factory, re
one animal to another on the hand« frees«, so that 1*2* prospecU are
Baker—Contract let for Basche-
cently burned, to rebuild a better
Of the milkers.
exceptionally
Bage building to cost ftO.OAO.
plant.
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