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HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, JU L Y 23. 1925
No. 46
proprtation is *500,000. The Baker Armond, Pat Gallagher, Peroey Pur. FARM SCENES IN TOTS
POPULAR YOUNG
HERMISTON LOCALS
project for which a previous appro vis and Engineer Ivan E. Oakes seem
COUNTY TO BE FILMED
FOLKS ARE WED
priation. was made will coat about to live, move and have their being
Goldie and Sylvia Shutter left
*3.000,000.
)n the terms of water for Irrigation. Results Obtained by Boys and Girls Dsve Mittleadorf and Luoile Sullivan Saturday for Portland where they
Water for the Vale project is to be These Eastern Oregon men, their re
Married in Vancouver
wl11 8Pend tiome H®« visiting with
Clubs to be Filmed at H em iston
Advertising copy and all
purchased from the Warm Springs latives, and, little by little, their
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’ their grandparents.
• items intended for publi
project. Some *309,000, a total guests plan water, argue water and
Motion pictures of farm life scenes
Dave Mittlesdorf and Mis., Luille
cation in the current is
purchase price of MOO,000 for this plead for help to take water from and activities in Umatilla county Sulivan, two of Hermiston’s popular
Andy Kern, who is employed by PUGET SOUND CITY HAS EYES
purpose is to be used in draining the streams and put it on the land will be taken this week, according ycung peopte wet > united in mar- j the Hermiston Light & Power Co.,
sue of The Herald should
TURNED HERE
some of the Warm Springs lands because in so doing they become to Information that hjaa been re Iriage July 14 at Vancouver, Wash- left Sunday for Lewiston, Idaho, on
reach this office not later
that
with
drainage
will
be
among
magicians.
vacation.
ceived
by
(County
Agent
4SJ?,nnlon.
inglon.
Rev,
Charles
H.
Powell,
of
1
a
than 4 P. M. Wednesday
the moat produetlve in the country, j Irrigation In Malheur along the W. L. Cadderly, in charge of exhibi St. Luke's church, performed the {
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afternoon.
j The west side of the porch of the Tacoma Also Wants to Buy Power la
The water supply for Vale thus Snake or across the Snake in Idaho tion and Information work with the ceremony.
Event Big Dam is Constructed.
The wedding came as a surprise j Hermiston hotel has been screened
comes from the Malheur river. The Is no longer experimental. The Wil- Oregon Agricultural ocllegf exten
Please Bear This in M ind ■ ■ | ¡The
Current Could Be Put in
supply for the Owyhee project low creek settlement was made in sion service. will be here Tuesday to their many friends here. Mr. j and is now a desirable place for an
Seattle Cheaply
contee from the Owyhee river. There 1*72 and some of the original homes and Wednsday with a motion picture Mittleedorf left a few dsyB before afternoon siesta for those who are
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the wedding fo.- his annual vnca-ilucky enough to be able to indulge
is no doubt of the abundance of the still stand. The McLoughlin ditch photographer.
supply.
wag dug, | n ig g j and the lands It
The county agent will meet the tlon and while away met his brida In such luxuries.
That the city of Seatle has an
There is no doubt of the abund- waters have undiminished productlv- two men at HermUtcn and film and were married. The honeymoon
eye open to seccrtng power from the
The Kellogg Motor Company un
ance of production from the lrri- lty. The Shoestring ditch which Is scenes of the results secured by the was spent in Seattle.
Umatilla rnpldp if the project Is
Mr. Mittlesdorf Is an employee of loaded a carload of Fords last Sun
i gated land. You can grow corn fed by water pumped from the members of boys and girls In club
developed by the government Is
over in that comparatively low al- Snake irrigates some 6000 acres but work. The new cropping system the First National bank In this [day.
shown’ by the annual report of their
j tltude of MaltJ-ur county. Iti is when the Owyhee projct is develop- that Is being evolved there will also city. MiSg Sullivan Is the daughter
Eari
Mitchell
and
wife
and
W.
J.
1
df,Paitment of lighting, a copy of
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icorn which In size and quality and , ed these landg will be watered by be the subject of some scenes and of Mr. and Mrs. P. P. Sullivan, prom
yield per acre distances that of the gravity. The Wa.-m Springs pro. pictures will be taken of the qual inent project ranchers, and has been Warner and family left Monday , which has been recelved In Pendle-
ton. The report suggests that
IS KEY TO SUCCESS ON GREAT m,ddle WMt- You can feed hogs Ject has 31,000 acres under ditch ity dairy stock of that region.
teaching school in the Pilot Rock mornlng by auto for Seaside where
Seattle
tak*. 200,000 horse po
with that corn. You can feed dairy but only 14,000 acres are cultivated,
In the wheat district harvesting 1 district during the past year. Mr, they will spend their vacation.
j and that) Tacoma may easily ab-
EASTERN OREGON PROJECTS
cows and horsee and other live partially because of colonization scenes will be taken as well as pic Mittlesdorf returned home Monday.
W. J. Warner and family return- sorb 100'00,> horse power from the
stock. You can produce chickens problem but chiefly because drain- tures of homesteads of the modern Mrs. Mittlesdorf will remain in
and eggs and butter. You can pro age was not provided for In the be kind. On Weston mountain the Portland for a few days and then ed the latter part of last week from rapids project.
a trip to Spokane. Mrs. Joe Ralph
Thc r"P°rt deals
deta|l w“ h
In the Settlement of Homes on One- duce fruit, not common fruit, but ginning. The 100,000 acres of the potato growing Industry and var join her husband here.
and children accompanied them on ,be subject of heating by electricity
the kind that sells at a premium. Owyhee project yet to be reclaimed ious operations connected with the
Fa’nily Farms. Marshall N.
the trip and remained in Sopkane and te"a ot difficulty in supplying
You can take a sagebrush plain and lie slightly above that part of the growing of tubers for seed will be DRILLING FOR OIL
for a visit
this demand because of lack or
convert it by magic of water Into valley floor which is now watered. caught on the film. In the Milton-
Ib na Writes Interestingly.
RESUMED AT WELL
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1 power. There are now 200 homes
green fields, neat homes, tree frtng- The growing season is long and the Freewater district thinning, prun
Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Kelly and electrically heated In Battle and
el roads and peaceful agrarian out water can be abundantly supplied. ing and other operations having to
C. E. Lewis and Jim Beebe have
(By Marshall N Dana in Oregon looks.
Memory draws a contrast between do with fruit growing will be the resumed the drilling for oil at the daughter Mrs. Groom, of Portland. Ibe heating load Is classed as doubl-
every few months. One com-
Vale and Owyhee have had and the land reclaimed and that which subjects for tfc'e ¡Photographer’s art well near this city. The well has were Hermiston visitors Monday.
Business)
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pany has commenced building 300
Thig Is Oregon’s year. More is ¡still have their problems. But they Jnay He Just across a fence, but Is not — East Oregonian.
reached a depth of over 500 feet.
R. Beasley is confined to hig bed homes to be electrically heated,
under way now that will contribute are the problems of pioneering. They yet blessed with water. "Above
The drilling at present Is through
substantially to the advancement I are the problems that once caused the ditch” the wind when It blows
solid rock but from all indications this week with a spell of sickness. The demand for power for this pur.
.
pose Is rated as almost unlimited.
nf the whole state than in any other 'Charles Dickens as he toured across lifts high spirals of choking dust.
it is believed the drill Is about to
Miss
Hazel
Hardie
of
Condon,
is
To fully supply the demand In
year In Oregon's history.
( America Io doubti that the gfreat When the breeze blows below, it ❖
break
through
this
strata.
FARM REMINDERS
visiting at the home of her sister, Seattle would require 2,000,000
The great westward shift of men j Ohio valley could ever be reclalm- stirs the hangings at the windows ♦
Specimens
of
rock
taken
from
the
«
horsepower.
and the machinery of development | ed. They are the problems that o f shaded homes and whispers shy
well contain gold according to some Mrs. V. C. Smith, in this city.
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I The report sets forth an estimate
made
some
of
the
people
of
Wash
Losses
in
barnyard
manure
may
be
who
have
made
an
examination.
h s’ e at last reached the Beaver
secrets beneath the bnding boughs
Jim Pearson spent Sunday with ,n the cost of a transmission line
ington's and Jefferson’s day oppose of apple trees.
cut down by protecting It from They claim it will stand the acid
state.
leaching In the rainy season, keep test and resemble3 gold in every his family at Bingham Springs. .... i from Umatilla rapids to the Wash
A little more than ten years ago any extension of American boundar
ington coast. The estimate is from
ing it moist In the dry season and way.
we memorialized Congress with pro ies westward, holding that the Gen
Water Beasing and family were | *3.000,000 to *6,500,000 accortlng
mixing with land nlarer or super
test against discrimination in re esee and Hudson valleys in New York ♦
CITY HEALTH OFFICER
* phosphate to prevent the escape of
among those from Hermiston who | to the class of construction. On
clamation approprttlons. We had coud forever feed the nation.
ASKS CO-OPERATION
* nitrogen in the form of arntnonia, ad
They arc the problems of experi
«
« snent Sunday at Bingham Springs, j the higher estimate the cost of
received about ten per cent of the
IN KEEPING DOWN DISEASE ❖ vises the Oregon experiment station.
...
transmitting power would be .413
amount which should have been our ence and mistake, and failure cap
*
CHURCH NOTICES
♦
John
Schlmke
and
family
motor-
mills or less than half a mill per
❖
•}
share for reclamation from the sale italized Into success, which have be
We wish to ask the co-operation
ed to Bingham Springs for over kllowat hour. The cost of the
Comparatively few growers in
of public lands within the stale. set every pioneer enterprise on the
I power at the generating plant is
Rev. D. Loree of Athena, will |Sunday,
At Its last session Congress ap land, whether that land might be of everyone in keeping down dis Oregon produce certified potato
listed at one and one-tenth mills.
proved three great Oregon projects irrigated or supplied with Its water ease. Clean up your garbage, bury sfed. Three trips must be made by preach in the Baptist church Sun
the government 'estimate. This Is
everything
you
cannot
burn,
then
Merle
Phelps
and
wife
were
vtsi
by
the
less
certain
rain
from
the
extension
service
specialist^
to
day
morning
at
11
A.
M.
The
pul
— Vale, Owyhee and Baker— involv
classed as equal to a cost of two
if the neighbor does not. please re the farms of those who attempt it. pit committee, Is asking that as large tors Sunday at Bingham Springs.
ing ultimately *22,000,000 of gov heaven.
mills on a 60 per cent load factor.
The growers usually receive a prem an attendance as possible be present
Sometimes we have had to wait port the case.
ernment appropriation.
Flies
carry
disease
germs,
clean
Carl
Voyen,
W.
L.
Hamm
and
S.
j
Therefore
the price of power at
ium
for
their
seed
and
a
small
foe
until
the
fourth
crop
of
settlers,
to meet Mr. Loree.
Senator McNary and Congressman
M. Campbell were enjoying the cool Seattle would total 2.413 mills per
is asked to help pay the expenses.
Sinnott hold the most powerful po even in the Willamette valey, for up their breeding places.
Be careful with your bableg food,
Methodist Episcopal church.— breezes of Bingham Springs Sun- kllowat hour.
sitions In Congress in reclamation the est&blshment of a real foothold
The following from the report
summer months are most serious for
Succession vegetable crops for Sabbath school at 10 A. M. Morn-¡day.
on the land,
matters.
shows the piles at which the current
fall and winter use, such as cabbage, ing worship at 11 A. M. Evening
We long appealed to the railroads. - We have Just now come to learn them.
The barn and . chicken yards cauliflower, brussels sprouts, kale, services will be held in the basement
J. T. Embry and Mr. and Mrs. would be sold for heating.
The railroad construction program as big Jim Kyle, president of the
"With heating loads on a 25 per
In Oregon at the present time con Oregon Irrigation congress says, should be clean. By so doing you broccoli and celery, can be set out where It is pleasant and cool. Ep Bert Bridges and son, who are guestB
cent load factor and 10 per cent
make
it
hard
for
flies
to
live,
and
at
the
Embry
home,
left
Friday
on
ground
cleared
of
the
early
ma
that
the
day
of
big
farms
on
Irriga
worth
Leagu
at
7
o
’clock.
The
templates some *22,000,000 in line
turing crops. By making suitable loplc for this meeting Is, "Jonah the morning for a short trip to Lewis for profit as above making a cost
extensions which will serve por tion tracts Is gome. The day of rais easier for the babies.
of *13.95 per K. W. year the cost
Will YOU please help.
plans and carrying them out prompt Fourth Pathfinder,” leader Miss ton and Clarkston, Idaho.
tions of the state long starved for ing stuff to be sold at wholesale and
per K. H. W. would be 6.36 mills.
DR.
W.
W.
ILLSLEY,
ly
the
Oregon
garden
or
farm
or
at
wholesae
prices
Is
gone.
The
one
Bessie Hammer- Evening service
transportation.
Health Officer. country lot may be made to per at 8; Illustrated lecture. Weekly
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Warren and Much of the current ig again sold
The last congress also approved family farm, where every member
form double duty. Provisions may prayer and Bible study every Thurs Claude Ballenger, of Boardman, were i during other hours for other uses
a project which calls for a channel helps, where they feed the family
also be made for successive seedings day evening at 8, Saturday, July in Hermiston on business last Mon and there Is also a diversity factor
500 feet wide and 35 feet deep from first and sell only their surplus is CONTRACT TO BE LET FOR
to consider. One building may have
Portland to the sea. The last sur the key to success. And it is when MEACHAM OVERHEAD CROSSING of radish and lettuce, designated by 25, the Ladies Aid will sell sherbet, day.
all Its heaters turned on while the
the
experiment
station
as
important
that
surpus—
the
hay,
the
grain,
or
ice cream, cake and choice cooked
vey of the United States engineer
Tit's A. D. Crosland family who ¡next building may be useing half of
Th© state highway commission all year vegetables.
food at Sappers’ store.
corps shows a depth of 46 feet at whatever It may be— Is transformed
left two months ago for an extended Its allowance or less. Apartment
Henry Young, Minister.
lower low water at the mouth of into the values of meat, dairy and will let the contract for approach
trip by car to Minnesota and other houses, stores, factories and homes
Bee hives well placed under Ore
the Columbia ovr a width of 2000 poultry products that we realize the es to the overhead crossing at
pastern points returned home Satur each require maximum heat at some
feet— thus forming a harbor en farm is likewise a factory and the Meacham at its meeting July 28, ac gon conditions drf noCrest directly C0NNECTICUT FAMILY
what dtferent hours bo that the to
day
night.
on
the
ground.
Timbers
2
by
6
cording
to
County
Judge
Schannep.
worth
added
by
manufacture
be
ARE TOURING COAST
trance which is not excelled by any
tal power required is less than the
in the world. These aids will re longs to It, as well as the by-pro The viaduct proper is under con inches, brick© or special stands are
Lindon Barnett, who for some total of tho Individual reqquire-
Mr. and Mrs. Will Haven and two
sult In the addition of *100,000.000 ducts and the fertilizer that will re struction now, but the contract for used for supports, a stand 6 Inches
a year to the commerce of the ports ^lore the land and maintain its fer the approaches on either side of the high being the best. A sloping daughters, of (lew Haven, Conn., tlme past has been bookkeeper for menls.
"Finally there is an unlimited
crossing has not yet been let. At board Is placed from the ground to are visiting at the home of Mr, and the local plant of the Standard Oil
tility.
of the Columbia.
Dr. Elwood Mlead, director of re the same meeting it is also expect the entrance to permit heavily laden MrR. Peter Norquist in Columbia dis Company, has been transferred to : market for the excess during Idle
We have recently begun to swing
more into Industrial lines. We are clamation, has been discussing In ed that the contract for a building b^es that drop near the hive to trict. The Havens are m aking a ; La Grande where he will assume hours In the making of nitrates and
tour of the coast and came In a similar duties there. Mr. Barnett other chemicals.
taking up the manufacture of tex his last western trip with Secretary on the state owned ground at Emi reach the entrance.
"The delivery of current within
Cadillac sedan. Mr. Haven has been departed Monday for La Grande.
tiles— linen» silk, wool, and u lti of the Interior Work, some of the grant springs will be let. Plans
the
city at 7.5 mills for heating Is
It
Is
economy
on
the
part
of
Ore
were
considered
earlier
In
the
year
in
the
bakery
business
In
New
wayg by which settlers may be fin
mately, cotton.
M. L. Watson 1« driving a new ■aslly possible for these reasons and
The land settlement program has anced and carried through the lean for the building In the park, but gon farmers who raise stock to pas Haven for the past eighteen years.
Star ear purchased) recently frtitn there need be no extra charge for
a momentum beyond all anticipa- years until their suicess Is assured, the plans called for an expenditure ture the stubble fields with hogs or
John Schlmke Is building an Jim Pearson. proprietor of the this to the consumer. His contract
tlons. The last report compiled by With this proposition that the states of more money than the commiss sheep, the experiment stations find.
would call for a flat charge of *15.67
Whitney L, Boise, chairman, and should assume the financial obllga- ion was willing to spend, so the The gralTi shattered or lodged will auto light adjusting station In his I Black and White garage.
rer K. W. year plus the kllowat
The
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architect
was
authorized
to
(make
be
readily
gathered
up
by
them
and
battery
shop
on
Main
street,
Wllllam G. Ide, manager of the tlon of advances to the settlers
Janice Brigham, well known to hours used at 7.5 mills above a 25
land settlement committee, showed I there has been quite a dlffernoe of another report. Some work on the converted into a marketable form. law requiring the change of light
per rent load factor. The market
that 739 families have settled on Opinion. The states, most of them. grounds at the park haa already Where considerable grain has lodg on automobiles goes into effect on the neople o f this project, having
lived here for a number of years, 1 ror this power at this rate is prac-
ed, hogs are used. Sheep are a good September 1.
the land In response to the Oregon lack the machinery, their governors been done.
was married In Portland July 15 tlcally unlimited. The riBlng price
Invitation and their purchases ag the authority, to advance money.
to Arthur Apperson.
’ of fuel and low cost of operation
There has been too. a fear of what «
gregate *2,307,050.
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| makes electric beating more eagerly
You may ask why Include all would result from division of author
Joe Neary, George Currie, Forest .sought each year.”
them Items when this article Is writ ity. But with one proposition made
Campbell and Oscar Mlkesell left
In discussing possible nouroes of
ten primarily to tell about the pro by Dr. Mead there will be no dis
Wednesday
for
an
outing
at
Wal
nower
to supply the heating demand
gress on the great eastern Oregon agreement. We have got to give
the report points out the necessity
lowa Lake.
te government a new deal In recla
clamatlon projects?
of looking to Columbia river develop-
r
It Is because everything we do in mation. Contracts must Ns as
Mason Thompson, ot Pendleton, a ; ment as the projects near Seattle
a development sense is tied with , binding with the government aa
layman in the Baptist church,, even when enlarged will be unable
everything Jelse. When you note, | notes at the bank. Projects need
preached last Sunday in the Baptist to supply the amount of power that
for Instance, that the wheat exports settlers choslen with special refer-
church In thig city. Mr. Thomp- is needed.
of the port of Portland have grown ence to their aptitude for the land
son spoke on evolution and his ad- I J, l>. Ross, superintendent of
tremendously and that thia port will and their capacity for success on it.
dress was well received. Next Sun lighting at Seattle and an associate
be first In the nation in the expor- Settling of projects la to be first of
day morning at 11 A. M. the pulpit engineer were here a month or so
tatlon of grain tht„ year, you go all the establishment of homes and
will he filled by D. Loree, pastor of . ggo and visited the damslte at Uni»-
hack not only to the harvest but to not a mere land speculation,
the Baptist church In Athena. S u n -|tin a rapids.
the Columbia basin rate differentia] J If you are to nee the Vale and
day
school at 10.
Reports from Portlanders who
won from the Interstate commerce Owyheel prtojectg, you first of >Ii
were with Director Mead during his
commission after a long, hard fight vision the Snake river and the val-
SHUNKA PASSES ON
tour of the state are that the direc
which gave us the benefit in rail- ley through which It flows. Tike
For a number of years Shunka.
tor spoke very favorably of the rap
road rates of our valley routs and north side of the valley belongs to
a bull dog owned by A. S. Johnson ids project after leaving the metro
turned a flood of commerce in this Idaho the south to Oregon. You
has ben the mascot at the Hermis polis. It Is also reported that dur
direction.
must see, in addition to the Snakb.
ton depot. He went on duty with ing hU stay In Portland he was told
Unlem~aea and rail lines give a a group of tributaries like the Owy-
Mr. Johnson about five o'clock In by the head of the Portland Electric
complete service, unlees Industry hee and Malheur rivers, and Willow
the morning and remained faithfully
Power Co. that his concern would
and agriculture balance, unless creek on the Oregon side, and the
by the side of his master until qultt. purchase surplus power from Uma
there is population growth to furnish Boise. Payette and Weiser rivers
ing time. Day In and day out tilla rapids— Bast Oregonian.
man power and brain po’wer, no bal- which have their rim In Idaho,
Shunka wa„ always on the Job when
•need development can go forward Thus watered, there spreads before
the five-ten train pulled in. He
In any community.
you a body of a million and a quar-
had a countless number of frinda SUPERINTENDENT DAY
The port, therefore. Is a definite'ter acres, several hundred thousand
RESIGNS POSITION
and very near every morning the
service reason for anticipating sue- acres of which have alredy been re
dog would welcome soma one home
cess for the settler on the reclame- claimed by irrigation. This area
According to reports George W.
from a trip by an energetic wag of
tlon projects of Malheur and Baker that belongs more naturally hy
Day. superintendent of Hermiston
his tail.
The three reclamation projects— water grade transportation In the
Shunka died at the Portland hos- schools for the past two years, has
Baker. Owyhee and Vale—cover a trade territory of Portland than any
pltal July 12. lie was fifteen years sent In his resignation. Mr. Day
total of some 239.000 scree. The other city. No part of the north-
old, coming to the project In 1911. had been retained for the coming
Owyhee project of 139.5(0 acres will west 1« better salted te diversified
There are a number of children also year. He will tcaeh at Eureka.
coot ultimately H” * !? ,404.000 for production.
who will miss th faithful old dog Montana.
which the Initial approprition Is
When yon make a trip to Mal-
ifor he seemed to take a keen delight
*315.000. The Vale project will hear you begin to realise why men
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Moll spent
'in ramping with them whenever the
poet *3,000,000 and tha first a » -,tik e F. C, V>& Fatten, Wei* ®o-
Bunday at Bingham Springs.
oppost unity presented Itself.
SEATTLE SEEKS
RAPIOS POWER
NOTICE
THE MAGIC OF
RECLAMATION
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P u ttin g o n a N e w E d g e
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