The Herald Keep* Clore to the Heart and Mind of theUmatilla Project. Stye Bermtetmt iieraln X. NO. SO HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1926 YOL. XX FARMERS COMBINE TO SHIP LIVESTOCK Celebration Over Finishing McKay Dam May be h eld IRRIGATORS TAKE INITIAL CONTEST ORGANIZATION HERE HAS BEEN Commercial Clnb Authorises Study PENDLETON TIGERS TASTE OF To be Made of Matter By ALIVE FOURTEEN YEARS DEFEAT IN SUNDAY GAME Committee. N ecessity Caused Start of Movement The desirability of a celebration Rally in E ighth on Part o f Locals Fourteen Y ea n A go and beng staged to mark the completion Means of Turning Defeat Work is Continued. of the construction of McKay dam Into Victory. THREE SPEAKERS FROM H ERE D I DECLAMATORY Hermiston's schools will have three representatives In the county declamatory contest which will be held In Pendleton on Friday and Saturday evening of this week. The contest for pupils in the grade« will be held Friday evening In the Meth­ odist Episcopal church. and the high school contest will be held Saturday evening. In the grades Eddie Bensel will represent Hermiston in the patriotic division, and Jane Warner will com­ pete in the dramatic division. Anita Paulsen will represent the Hermis­ ton high school in the high school contest Saturday evening. Pasco Plans Big MAY 1 DATE FOR TRI-COUNTY BALL Celebration to HOLDINGfiELECTIOM LEAGUE IS FORMED Be Held April 6 TO Opening of Air Mail Service For the NEW CONTRACT ARRIVES FROM WASHINGTON Northwest is Cause of Gala Event. Changes Provided Calling For The Six Team Body Formed In Action Operation of Works by Pasco is making arrangements for Taken Here in M eeting On District. a big celebration to be held there M°nday Evening. ARLINGTON AND IONE BE INCLUDED ' Tuesday, Apr. 6, to commemorate the After having once organized a establishing of airplane mall service The proposed new contract be- base ball league to serve four clubs !flom pasc0 to Elko, Nevada. T he; tween the United State» and ; tQ ¡„terest local people in the big The contract has been in course shipping of stock to market was r t X d V y Z ’ ago and’ has bZe"n to furnish supplemental water for welcome to local fans by reason: of Ione, werie admtted, which brings j eV€nt | of negotiation for several months, Dr. W W. Illsley who has been continued ever since, according to old projects and water for undevel-ithe fact that it came in the latter the membership up to six teams A A go]( tournament and a free base j it is based on the act of congress of H. J Stillings, one of the leaders oped projects was launched by the part of the game a ter seeme a resident of Hermiston since 1914 rew schedule was arranged which bal, game will be on the morning Decemeber S, 1924. known as the the movement Commercial club nine years ago, ac-.that the Irrigators were hopelessly left Sunday for California where rails for 10 games for each team. prOgram. In the afternon the big fact Finders’ act. "Y e had to get together under cording to E. P. Dodd, who intro- under the steam roller of McGarrl- he expects to establish himself in five at home and five away from , enlertalnment will be given with) The contract provides for changes - m . sort of plan In order t0 get our duced the subject, and he gave it gle's delivery and could not hope to practice. He went from here to home. The season will open AprH Seattle, Spokane, Ellenaberg, Y a k -in the plan of payments of the con- to Bakersfield and may visit other Cal­ hogs and other stock out back In as his opinion that some celebration win. It took them 10 innings 11 and close June 13. ima, Pendleton, Walla Walla, Wena- itruction charge from a definite ifornia cities before definitely de­ the and afforded the earlier days," Mr. Stillings said, i to mark completion of the big j turn the trick Local fans have expressed the tehee and other cities represented yearly amount to the plan of five ciding Vhere he will locate. "so we put our heads together and! structure should be held. Publicity, crowd a lot of fun. opinion that enlarging the league j cn tbe program. At 5 o'clock a ¡per cent of the gross average acre For Dr. and Mrs. Illsley a group -a d e up shipments in carlots. W eve for the west end of Umatilla county, It was In the eighth the hectic to include Arlington and Ione will parade wiU be held, and at 6 o'clock' income of the land In cultivation on - -t It ever since and during all and for the north end of Morrow chapter of the game, that the Irri- of their friends gave a party Fri have the result of lncreasng inter-j crowd will go to the flying field ihe protect over the preceding 10 gators cut loose and upset the dope day evening at the Illsley home. The eet in the game and adding to the welcome the machine and flier year period. f t'n t time there has never been county would rt-sult' «which would bucket. They had been unable to party was a surprise and much en­ attendance. The proposition of t^at wju be due to return from Its! According to the provisions ln the • ny trouble or misunderstanding ccmp;n3ate for the expense of n solve McGarrigle’s puzzlers up until joyed. Both Dll. and Mrs. Illsley forming a six team league met w lth ,i ilght to Elko at 6:25. celebration, he declared. ¡contract the district will take over about shipments. We were the that session, and the Tigers had a have made many friends in the Her­ the approval of all the towns ln the The airplane carrying mail will operation and maintenance work on first such body in the northwest fat lead of six runs. One was ac­ miston district who regret their de­ old league. leave Pasco each morning at 6| December 31, 1926, and at that that I know of, though commission COUNTY COUNCIL OF P. T. A. quired in the fourth, two more were parture. They came here in 1914. TO MEET IN ECHO SATURDAY Officers elected a week ago to o'clock. Boise will be reached at ( time all due and unpaid construction men tell me now that more than added in the fifth and three in the Dr Illsley returned to California for serve the Irrigation Baseball league J-35 and Elko at 11:06. The plane; an(i operation and maintenance half of the stock received at Port­ one year for practice and spent 18 eevaath. The county council of the Parent- were retained for the new Tri- will arrive back In Pasco at 6:25 charges will be added to the con-^ land Is by community associations Under such a handicap the locals months in the service during the County organization. They include Teacher association for Umatilla in the afternoon. The establishing ^ruction charge. Payments on of one sort or another." took a brace in the eighth and by war. Hary Hull, Umatilla, president; Jack of this service will place the north-; these charges will be required semi­ During two of the 14 years of county will hold an all day session He sold his practice here to Dr. the aid of three errors on the part Gorham, Boardman, vice-president; west on a parity with San Francisco annually. There will a!3o be added organization's life when hogs» at Echo in the high school building J. L. Sears who has been in Her­ j to the construction charge the ere more plentiful than they are Saturday, and an invitation has ’ of the Tigers batted around once miston for more than a month. Mrs. George Mitchell, Echo, secretary; on fast mail service. Hermiston residents will be able i operation and maintenaice costs for now, the volume moved amounted been received by Hermiston mem-¡and three men were at bat twice Illsley will remain in Hermiston Henry Hitt, Hermiston, treasurer. to 30 carb annually. Now ¿haft bers of the Parent-Teacher assocla-! in the same session. They scored tor some time until plans are com­ The old by-laws were largely re­ to cut the time required for mall 1926 and the price of all equipment from here to Elko, Nevada, and Bnd supplies which the district will ♦hf re are fewer hogs, about 12 car. tion urging Hermiston to have a re- seven runs in the one Inning. The pleted as to their location in Cali tained by the new body. Hermiston’s five home games will points east, materially by using the take over from the government 'nads are sent to market during a presentative delegation in attend- ¡Tigers added another in their part I of the ninth and shut out the Irri- fornia. be as follows: Umatilla here April service. Rates for airplane mall may when it assumes control of the year. Hogs, sheep, cattle and calv­ ance. The state president will atten d ! gators 80 the game went into the 18; Arlington here May 2 ; Board- be secured by applying to the local operations. es are handled, and a farmer can Parent Teacher Association man here. May 9; Ione here on office. A number of Umatilla; The contract provides that all get service on the car if he has the session, and one of the subjects,extra Inning. The regular monthly meeting of Decoration Day, May 30; and Echo county people have planned to send penalties for charges not paid when scheduled for discussion will be the i n the tenth Shipley got on only one hog or sheep to sell. The cost of freight and other ser­ proposed free state owned text through Duncan’s error and scored P. T. A. will be held April 8. This here June 6. Hermiston will play letters to friends in the east on the due will be one-half of one per cent first rtlp. Per month. Instead of the one per vices runs from one-half to three- books for school children. Mrs. A. following safety bingles on the part Is the last meeting of the year and its opener at Echo, April 11. officers for the coming year will be -------------------------- cent per month. quarters of a cent a pound, Mr. C. Voelker of Helix is county presi- ;Of both Phelps and Voyen. Celebrate Golden W edding I Included In the construe: ion charge Stillings said, depending on the dent. The members of the Her-j Captain Shesely shifted his lineup elected. A large attendance is de IRRIGON NOTES team j repeatedly during the progress of sired. The following program will The school will give anentertaln- Mr and Mrs. N B. Whitford who will be »780,000 for betterment weight of the shipment. The check miston high school debate of each individual shipper Is sent which will debate the free text the game to get as good an idea as be given: SnOw Drop and the Seven ment on April 17, the special feat­ live about a mile north of Hermls-: and supplemental construction pro­ back to him by the commission book subject with Hood River in a possible of the ability of his mater- Dwarfs, First Grade; Songs, Once a ure being the play "The Old Maids ton were surprised by their neigh- vlded for In the 1921 contract, and houses, and the man who accompan­ couple of weeks w ill attend the ial. Newell started the game in Little Daisy and Bobolink, First Convention.” A small admission bors Sunday when a big group walk- the government agrees to expend the box and later gave way to Bob Grade; Little Sunbeam, Bonnie Jean ies the shipment deceives his ex­ session to secure information on the will be charged for the creation o ed into the house with baskets of j the balance of that sum in complet- Woodard. The Tigers garnered 10 Follett; vocal solo. Morning Wind, subject. a fund with which t0 defray the ex­ food. The surprise party was given ing the project. penses. hits off of the two men to seven Miss Seyler; To Fool the Parents, pense of the school picnic at the to remind Mr. and Mrs. Whitford of When the district operates the Stock for shipment Is listed at acquired by the Irrigators. Both Mr. Reid; One Hundred Per Cent, Dishon Acreage Sold their golden wedding anniversary! project the contract provides that the Farm Bureau Co-operative. The end of the school term. deal in real estate has Jusrt teams got marked for seven errors, Mr. E. L. Jackson: Opportunity for J At the Grange Boclal last Saturday which fell on Monday, March 29. announcement of the operation and shipments made from Hermiston are, The Hermiston line-up was as Service of the P. T. A., Mrs. C. S. W. drawn from Stanfield, Butter Creek been completed whereby J evening everyone seemed to say, They were married 60 years ago at maintenance charges must be made Umatllta, Irrigon and Boardman. Clarke of Thompson Falls. Montana, follows: Smith, 3rd; Mathis and McNaught. After which a gentral “Trip it as we go, on the light fan­ Jamestown, N. Y. They have two b-fore the opening of each Irriga­ has become the owner of the M. Phelps, r. f : Shook, e. f.; Mittlee- discussion will follow led by Mr. tastic toe" and "Let Joy be uncon- sons, Lawrence B. *and George N., tion season, and payment must be GARDEN PROGRAM TO FEATURE Dishon place of 10 acres on Hermis­ dorf, 1. f .: Wyner and Shesely, c.; Reid. flned." What grand and glorious both of Pasadena, California. The made in advance. The district manager or superin­ COMMUNITY CLUB MEETING ton avenue. He bought the place Newell and Woodard, p.: Hyatt, c times we do have! surprise was doubly unexpected on from the M. Dishon heirs, and Chas. and 1st b.; and Phelps and Shipley New Barn Completed tendent must be satisfactory to the Among the Pendleton visitors over the part of the principals because The Community club will meet Dishon of Prosser, 'Washington, was 2nd. W. A. Hlnellne who farms in the the week end were: Gertrude they had not mentioned to any of secretary of the Interior. The dis­ Tuesday afternoon April 8, at the here this week to close the deal Minnehaha district has Just recent­ Graybeal, the Rands, Mrs. Retta their friends the fact that their gol­ trict must keep books and record« library. The afternoon will be giv­ which was made through E. P. ly completed a new barn which is Allen and MI bs Bradford. In a manner satisfactory to the den anniversary had arrived. en over to an Interesting garden Dodd. Mr. Clarke is said to have IN THE COUNTY COURT OF THE s erttary atd mix' furnish him with one of the best on the project. The Mrs Thomas S. Jones and Freda STATE OF OREGON FOR program. A large attendance Is paid »3500 in cash for the acreage. structure provides room for 12 head Z. Beaman were Portland visitors such reports as he may require. hoped for. It1 has been suggested He plans to move here w ith hie UMATILLA COUNTY Scouts to Attend Rally The secretary will also have the of dairy cattle, horses and calves. Saturday. that members bring paper and pen­ family in the neap future. The Boy Scout troop of Columbia! contract, t<> char<# In the Matter of the Estate made The mangers were constructed out A reconciliation has been district under the «Erection of J of CITATION. cil to enable them to take notes. of cement. The barn has capacity between two local Freshman girls The following program will be WINDS ALMOST UNKNOWN Uon8 an(J genera, expenM ,n Susan A. White, Deceased. to handle some 50 tons of hay. It bad been at sword points for Scoutmaster R B Hough Is Plann-; given: To Elmer White, Will White. Fred has been well painted and finished, j some t|me. It is figured that the ing on attending; the Scout rally In ronnect)on w)th tbe proJeot. Any DURING MONTH OF MARCH Gardening is Good Citizenship. .. Pendleton Saturday; April <. This, owner who doe8 not wt. h ht. White, Gladys Ward Boss, Eva Ward The cost is said to have been approx- c,ass had quite a hand In ..................................... Harold Dean troop cons sts of 12 member, and The weather man has had un­ Corse, Grace White, Leiis White, imately »1,500. acting as a board of arbitration. Planting for the Birds................ ) keer his old contract If notification usually good weather to offer re­ Mary White, Clarence Getchell, Bon --------------------- --- The Co-opejrtlve Producers asso- was organized under the .............................. Mrs. H. M. Straw sidents of this section during the eta Getchell, Millard F. White, L. ship of the Farm Bureau about tw o, district In the manner Rabbit Drives Successful elation met at the school house on months ago. The boys are very crJbe(J Shrubbery and Ferns........................ month of March. Some unwelcome Owen White, Lizzie Estes, Rosie The rabbit drive held Sunday In: Wednesday afternoon this week, ............................Mrs. H. E. Shesely weather has been mixed in with Hammer and Nannie Means, and all nthuslastic and have all passed the contract also provides that A Perennial Border..Mrs. J. H. Reid the good when heavy fosts occurred other persons Interested ln said es­ the Columbia district proved to be Thars nothing. The Consumers lea- tenderfoot tests and now have their water rights cancelled on any un- about three drives before the dayjBlla meetB three times every day in - “”"w ---— -------- -------- ---- --- ! gue Hieeia — -------- - hedges last week, but the weather has been tate: i productive land shall belong to the was over, and quite a number of tbe ¿nn| ng room of every home in WESTON TEAM TO MEET Whereas application has been mild and seasonable for the most _ , „ . V.J I rest of the project without added the long eared parasites were dis­ this community. , IRRIGATORS HERE SUNDAY made In due form to the above en Closing Dates Established part. The school band has been invited . patched. Quite a number of shoot­ Holiday dates on which business! Usually March is a windy, blustery titled Court by F. B. Swayze, admin­ ers were present, and their efforts to play at Heppner f°5 the estabii’"hmen?s"'of"' Hermiston have The Hermiston Irrigators will tan­ month In this part of Oregon, but istrator with the will annexed of were aided by men and boys with Men are Sentenced gle with the fast town team from Grange parade, led by Govern j aKrpc() cl0Be tbe)r placeB during Two men who gave the names of Weston Sunday, April 4, according «luring the month that has just said estate, for an order authorizing clubs. The club brigade accounted Pierce and other prominent 1 ‘ - July 5. Sep- _«___ closed, the total amount of wlnfl and empowering him to sell the real for quite a number of the Pests, and ¡Tbe band also Is to play play for the | JpT^b(," ' , Lal^r'day; November 11, G' W. Jones and Fred Smith were I to announcement made today by has been confined to a few hours. estate belonging to said decedent and the rabbits they missed were killed arrested Saturday by Deputy Sheriff Quite a num- Manager J. M. Biggs. The game will afternoon program, program, quue yuue » » "““H Arm,s,ice day: November 25. and described as follows, to-wit: be played on the local grounds and: Several showers have fallen I — u ok rhrut - l’ankow near Sand Spur on a charge here will attend the meet _ ïh e ^ a s T Haif '(E U ) oi the W e s tb y the khotgun moppers up. ber from Thanksgiving; December 25, ( hrlst j bav|ng gt0,en automobile parts will be called at 2:38. The usual usually winds follow showers that and New Year's day. . " A com- '" i-h . revival meetings held this mM: ana 1 ''-iub ln the,r Possession. Before Justice Half (W t4) of Section 30; the East hour for games this season will be, fail ln March. w e I k \ r 7 X ^ . i t e well a,tended, = from J h e «Commercial ¿ lu b _ and shipping Half ( E ’A) Northwest Quarter COLUMBIA PIG CLUB WINS 3 o'clock, but the Weston players Asparagus t CERTIFICATE FROM STATE The crop was (N W U ) Section 31: and a strip of 1 Iihnnl eveent-’ entenced to 60 days in Jail. Dep- Is an will have a long drive on their re-jbave been Tei , i««* Rev. Rice, who has charge ’ business men almost without P hc iff took th(jm t„ given a setback by the frosts of last land containing 7% acres off the eloquent and forceful speaker turn home and asked that the game lion in favor of observing Rb° Ve i,cn(1,,.,„n Saturday evening, week, but the tips have been going north end of the east half of the R ecognition Given Body of Boys be called at 2:30. I , . named holidays. The scnedule for That W on North-west Honors Southwest Quarter (SW14) Section The locals have been practicing out aga.n this week. NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROP wU| not apply to ,.ream sta TKRIGA«n o N DISTRICT BONDS Last Year. 31, described as commencing at the this week in an effort to iron out ERTY. tlons ,f closing would work a hard-; y 0R center stake of said Section 31, NOTICE OF HEARING UPON some of their weak spots. The Wes-j Notice Is herby given that by v _ farmers In the delivery of No((rp )s ber r t’to Notice 1« herby given that Court House at Pendleton, Oregon. Wadsworth halt in Irrigon, Morrow 1926, Notice is hereby given that a(irnlniRtrator of the atlnnd Irrt- id of of this Court, at the court room of of having every enrolled member Election will be held at the 0 « ce of Alexander Cra|K Thom .lthl. Court ln the County Court complete all of the work required offer for sale all tracts of teal P™-1 County, Oregon for Irrigon Precinct of the Sttt' ■ t t - ptl*r party heretofore acquired by the and at tbe school house ln Board-|gatlon .>■ the Hermiston Irrigation District on haR f,]ed flnai report House In Pendleton, Umatilla County, for the whole season. oniî atlon of r-«d County of Umatilla, Oregon,, nt reg. man, Morrow County, Oregon for va at - n at Members included Tilford gtillngs, Main St. In the City o ermis o . Clerk of the above entitled Oregon as the time and place for <2*1 Cc—• cf tha CIrr >y tb- Umatilla County, Oregon w thin the of #nd a„ obJe(,t,ong to Tbom, g i^ nhart. Lowell Stockard. ular sales for delinquent taxes, said i, Boardman Precinct within the West bond« on I - Um ' " r'-"tnty, tracts being located at various parts ExtenB|on irrigation District, on sta te o f r Hermiston Irrigation District o . designated Saturday, the MW petition and the granting of Walter Norquist. Martin Lenz, Le- by Chapter 330. Gene- roy Gulsinger, Oscar Mlkesell, Fred of said county, a more specific dee-,gatttrday, the 10th day of April, as ■ prov" ---- — • p ; .>n i -c 1919, sa I Saturday, the 1st day |, day AprII. 1926 at the said order and license of sale. crlption of which may be secured at 192« for the purpose of determining; ral La directors of ¡bonds to be dated • ’’ ary I® '*’• for the purpose o elhour of 2 o'clock in the afternoon! Therefore, In the Name fof the Lenz and Alonza Lenhart. whether the and the rooms of theiatate of Oregon you. and each of said | whether the board of Three of the boys, Oscar Mikesell, the office of the Tax Collator of Court (he w»et Eateaslon Irrigation Dis- to bear Intel, U nt th. for X .bail be authorized to enter cent, payable semi-annual. n the ,b” « T to enter Into a above entitled Court ln the County you are hereby instructed, directed Lowell Stockard and I^roy Gulsinger County. The said County with the United first days of January ani July eacn .hall be l° d"gtrate, u„. court House at Pendleton. Umatilla!.nd required to be and appear at were mebers of the livestock Judg­ has fixed the minimum price which of Than said tracts shall he contract the provisions of the year. Th* a t ’ each nm less [he amount ot | nto a under m*‘Ur’ contract w County. Oregon as the place when said time and place and there show ing team that won the northwest X der the provision,, of the Aet 0« j a u n t y , g ^ ^ * championship at the Pacific Inter­ taxes together with all penalties and Act of Congress r, ,„rv„s the right to Congress approve cem r , . -. . ereon All persons interested are exisU. why an order of sale should national. sale for which j. 1924, known as the Fact Finders V 7 “ W X conTract th l L e X noHf.ed^to then and there not be made as in ..id petition pray- costs of The members also won a number Interest and property was acquired by Act, by the terms of which contract reject any and all bid. or proposal« the terms _ ,„ h ie annear and show cause, if any they ed for. and why said petition should of prizes and considerable cash on th» said amount of money received. T X a Un‘ ” W,’ t»t°es^^or'construet- have, why said report should not be „ot be granted and said order and the stock that they raised. Thataald County, all sale« to be for tbe maximum for, By order of the Board of Directora certificate contained the slgn atu-n cash to the highest and best bidder payable to the United States of Westland Irrigation District, dat- i trnnoes »hall be »1 750 080 00. approved, the administrator die- license should not Issue. construction purposes shall be »1, X Z l ^ l l t X f r o m . o ' e l o c k charged, his bondsmen exhonerateds W.tneto the „ o n .J . M H c h ^ of nine men. Including those of the | at such sale. Dated at Pendleton. Oregon, this i 00,060.00. The polls will be open ed March 1 , - MESSNER. ------- » nn»n u n -i Judge of said Court and the seal of governor. President Kerr of Ort"-' in the forenoon until 5 o'clock of and _ ________________ the eatate closed. Agricultural college. Director M'.ri qth day of Mar 1926. from 8 o'clock In the to rt > q,,rr»tarv of the Board oi Director! Dated this 18th day of March, • this County affixed this 23rd day of of th . extension wu-vlcc of th . start K. T. CGOKINOHAM. , til 5 . o'clock clock In the afternoon of said ’, rrl