THB HTOMlSTOy HBBALD, HJB3OTOK, OBBtiOM.
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
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BURK’S FOR BARGAINS!
O e M N M « 0/ [s u r w t ClMMd Her.
•ad Tk.ra About th . Cits sad
N.i<hb<vbmd
Tailor Made Caps, very Classy
Strand Broadcloth Dress Shirts
Plain, Checks, Stripes
Men’s and Ladies’ Silk Hose
FIBRE ATTB REAL SILK
Mr. and Mra. William Roberta were
Pendleton vlaitora laet Friday.
Dr. and Mrs. J. L. Sear» were Pen
dleton visitors Wednesday.
The Neighborhood club will meet
with Mrs. Tom Wilson on Wednesday,
July 14.
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Nifftiest Men’s Balloon Toe
Oxfords
Genuine Palm Beach Pants
R. Alexander of Pendleton was a
tuest at the home of his daughter
Mrs. E. P. Dodd over the holiday
period.
Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Swayze left
last Saturday for their summer home
at Camp Sherman to spend a week
or more.
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MEN S LATEST DRESS STRAW HATS
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MEN'S TEN GALLON
* COWBOY HATS
THE FAMOUS P. Q. A. BATHING SUITS
ALL WOOL, REG. $6 50, NOW $4.05
Mrs. L. D. Drake and son James
of Astoria were guests on Wednes
day of last week of Mrs. F. C. Mc
Kenzie.
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BATHING CAPS. 25 PER CENT OFF
$1.00 BROOMS.......... 80c 80c BROOMS.................................. 49c
80c BROOMS ............ 65c 10 LBS. NAILS (one kind
49c
Mrs. M. R. Ling of Stanfield is a
patient in . Hermiston hospital for
medical treatment. She was admitt
ed Tuesday, July 6.
Laura Phipps arrived Wednesday
from Portland, for a visit at the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. P.
Phipps, in Columbia district.
WE GRIND ANYTHING
Bring in Your
Mower Sickles
Mr. and Mrs. Orval Dawson and
children of Kooskia, Idaho, arrived
here Saturday to be guests at the
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
-lam Carson.
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K nerr’s Repair Shop
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Mr. and Mrs. George B. Wallace
and sons, Billy and George Elmer,
spent Sunday and Monday here as
guests of friends. They formerly liv
id in Pendleton but went to Spokane
last February where they are agents
md distributors for Studebaker.
Buy Box Wood for Summer Fuel. She won't have to use the ax
on thle. Plane your order» ttow Wi" thin fuel and It will be de
livered out of the next car—a saving to you of the drayage.
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Waller, of
Los Angeles were here Monday as
guests at the home of. Mr. and Mrs.
A. H. Norton. They were en route
home after a trip through the mid
dle west. They came hack by way
of Vancouver, B. C.
THE FLIES ARE COMING
Are yotir screen doors In
reuaJrT At ttye price of our
screen doors, It does not pay to bother with old doors.
MATERIALLY YOURS
TUM-A-LUM LUMBER CO.
R, A. Brownson, Mgr.
R F. Wilbur, assistant county
agent, attended the meetings of the
Northwest Horticultural society at
Tacoma, June 28, 29 and 30. He
plang to move to Hermiston about
August 1 from Milton.
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to Hsppnsr to see Hermiston and
Heppner play ball. They made the Belief That Vthing»
trip and returned that evening. Tom
Cave Name to London
Campbell and C. A. Paul were an
The origin of the name of London
other pair of golf enthuelaata who has pazzled many historian».
Londinium is first mentioned by
braved the July sun and played a
couple of rounds during the morn Tacitus, a Roman author, in A. D. 61
ing.
ixi A iu » ., -.'! •< He says it Is “a place greatly cele
brated for the nuiobor of Its merchant»
and the abundance of It» »applies.''
Mr. and Mrs. Waites Patrick and
There are many proofs In English
son Dale of Elma. Washington, were and Swedish museums of the intimate
here THueeday and Wednesday as Intercourse between England and Scan
guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. dinavia In early times, an intercourse
J. S. Harvey. Mr. Patrick Is an un that has probably gone on uninterrupt
cle of Mra. Harvey. Elma la In a edly for about 6,000 year». It may be
conjectured that early Vikings from
big section of timber wher® a num the south of Sweden ventured across
ber of mil's are located. The mills the water and sailed up the mouth of
are all running a shift or two, Mr. the Thames and found a grove, which
Patrick said. A great deal of build In Swedish Is “lund," on the banks of
ing is now being done in Elma, Aber. the rtver, where later on the Roman
deen and other towns in that area. Londinium arose.
The Invaders called the place
In the surrounding country poultry
••Lund.” from the Scandinavian “offen-
production on a large scale Is carried lund,” or sacred grove, says a writer
on, and the land is naturally adapt In Notes ami Queries. The name was
ed to berry growing. Mr. and Mrs. later corrupted Into "Lond.”
Patrick left Wednesday afternoon
for Twin Falls. Idaho where they
G ossam er G own»
will visit relatives for two weeks.
The weaving of gowns from gossa
mer. which is now so much in evi
dence, was suggested In the Eighteenth
Want Dealers Licensed
Farmers in Jackson county want century. Le Bon of Languedoc pre
the incoming legislature to pass a pared a “silk” from spiders, which was
law licensing and bonding commis afterwards woven Into gloves and
stockings. Louis XIV of France, pos
sion dealers and others who buy farm sessed a coat made of cobweb, and In
products.
During the past there 1877 the Empress of Brazil presented
years many complaints of unfair Queen Victoria with a dress composed
dealings have been made to the state entirely of cobwebs which, for fineness
market agent, many of which were of texture and beauty of fabric, sur
justified upon Investigation. There passed the most valuable silk. Never
are many reliable commission houses theless, cobweb “silk" Is not likely to
become a commercial proposition, for
in Portland, but many farmers are the voracious spider eats every day 27
not familiar with them and have times its own weight of Insect food,
shipped products to concerns that which Is. of course, expensive, and
simply closed up and went out of produces In return only half a grain
business. Lldensed flrjms, under of “silk."
bonds, would weed out these shyster
T h e rm o m e te r fo r F isherm en
concerns.
Tlic wise fisherman of the future
will test the temperature of the water
A Going Co-op«rative
.In which he casts his lines. The bio
From the annual report of the 'ogival board of Canada, after an ex
manager, R A. Ward, the Pacific tensive survey, has found that had
Co-operative Wool Growers Is a going dock and cod especially are very par-
co-operative and a big asset to the Icular about temperature, says Pop
wool growers of the northwest. The ular Science Monthly. The cod will
average price of the large volume not stay where the water is freezing
of business in 1926, f. o. b. ware and for him 50 degrees is unbearably
hot. Between 40 and 45 degrees Is
houses In Portland and San Francisco about right, and If fishermen will fish
ranged from 32 to 46.|64 cents per where stieh temperature prevails It Is
pound. The average price of mohair claimed they can ^coop cod up whole
was 6 8.26 cents and the net price sale. Haddock prefer water about five
to growers 54.51 cents. The associa degrees warmer.
The board urges fishermen to use
tion now has contracts of 1,477 grow
ers owning 501,366 sheep. Of these deep-sea thermometers and not waste
time where there are no fish.
Oregon hag 942 members and 263,-
154 sheep; California 142 members
A large Chicago department store
with 120,278 sheep; Nevada 42 I has 163 telephone booths located at
memoers with 61,774 sheep. The
various points throughout
the
association als0 has memebrs In Ida
building.
ho, Alaska, Minnesota, Montana,
Nebraska, Utah, Arizona, and Colo-
T 00 LATE TO CLASSIFY
rado.
LOST—Young fox terrier dog; white
J- L- Go,f’ secretary of the North
and tan, tan head. Tail two-
Willamette Merchants association,J thlrds length, white tip. Anyone
whlch ha3 a membership of fifty
seeing him please notify me or
merchants, sends the state market
telephone Herald office. N. B.
a*ent resolutions adopted by the as-
Whitford.
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soclation, and urges that merchants,
producers and consumers urge the
next legislature to have the present
Mr and Mrs O C. Pierce enjoyed, law amended or repealed and a sale-
a motor trip over the double holl- by-weight law be enacted. The re
IS OUR SPECIALTY
day. They went from Hermiston to solution states that the present law
HOME
MADE PASTRY
is
too
complicated
and
works
In
to Arlington, went down below Fos
sil and then drove east to Baker on Justice on both producers and con WE SERVE 40c LUNCH FROM
the John Day highway and thence sumers; that buying and selling by
1 1 :3 0 TILL 3 :0 0 P. M.
back home via the Old Oregon Trail. weight pays the producer for what
Fried Chicken, home style, 50c
he produces,, the consumer gets what
On Monday, July 5, many local peo hP has paid for; the merchant saves SHORT ORDERS AT ALL HOUR!
ple enjoyed the holiday by going to much time and customers are better
Open 5 :3 0 to 9:30.
otcnlc grounds and spending the day. satisfied. Mr. Fitts of the Fitts
Cold Spring« landing on the Colum Market in Salem, who has adopted
bia was one of the most popular spots the weight plan of weight selling,
choeen for picnics. Bathing, horse says his egg business has Increased
shoe pitching and other diversions 75 per cent since he adopted the
system.
were enjoyed during the day.
W H O ’S W H O T O D A Y
E. P. Dodd has been walking with
a decided limp this week as a result!
of a fall he took Monday. He fell
on the rocks at Cold Springs while
walking and sprained his toe. He
was In his bathing suit and barefoot
when the accident occurred.
Home Cooking
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Mrs. James Pearson is convalescent
at Hot Lake sanitarium where she
submitted to an operation a week ago
Wednesday. Mr. Pearson was at Hot
Lake at the ttme of the operation and
returned there Sunday. It Is prob
able that Mrs. Pearson will be there
for at least two more weeks.
Spaniard! Put Oliva
Traa to Many Ute»
Centuries of experimentation have
laught Spaniards how to utilise to the
full that wonderful plant, the olive
tree. Its cultivatlou Is among th»
most remunerative branches of agri
culture In the peninsula. It would be
a mistake to think that only oil comes
Miss Evelyn Mortlmore, music from the olive tree. Indeed nothing
la wasted. A small percentage of the
supervisor of the Oregon Normal fruit Is pickled In brine; the greater
school at Monmouth arrived Tues part Is crushed for oil. The coarser
day to spend the vacation period ,>n serves for soap making and as cake
with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. E. food for cattle. Pulverized olive stones
M. Mortlmore. Stnce the conclusion make the best fuel for the braziers In
of the school year she has driven every Spanish household. The top
through Central and southern Ore-1 hran<'h<*". cut when the trees are
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gon and j western
Idaho.
She —in
will Penned, are eaten green by sheep and v
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.. _ , goats. The limbs and roots furnish
resum, her duties at Monmouth July „rewood. Most “grandfather chairs"
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In country homesteads are made from
THEODORE ROOSEVELT JR.
olive wood, which has a rich yellow
Hermiston had quite a delegation color, a beautiful dark grain and takes
“The City takes what the fanner
In attendance at the Heppner celebra- 4 Idgb polish. It Is calculated that the
including the farm h elp ”
tlon Sunday and Monday. Among u”" of hydraulic presses Increased the
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the local people who made the trip >?e,d. o f.°“
1 P " rent’ wh‘ch'
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THERE IS NOTHING SO
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. the total value of the Spanish crop,
EXASPERATING
were Mr. nd Mrs. J. M. Biggs and
manJ
Bu, £
sons. Jack Thyberg, Gwyn Hughes, Roine districts olive crushing Is still To the busy housewife as to have to
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Shesely. Mr. done by the primitive method of sus wait and wait for the Meat to be de
and Mrs. James Todd, Mr. and Mrs. pending by a leather belt attached to a livered. then whehn It does come
Urscl Hiatt. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph staple in the wall a "peon," whose find It so tough that you can’t cook
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Richards. Mr and Mrs. George Har- f**t, slipping on the greasy surface of It. We pride ourselves on the Choice
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kenrider and Tom Campbell.
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i and crush evll-sineillng oil out of evll- Meats we sell, prompt delivery and
orders carefully filled.
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- looking, brown, half rotten fruit.
J. A. Reeves, W. L. Hamm and J. \
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M. Thom spent the double vacation
W a lh in e
out In the mountain. In the Ukiah
Wa|Mn< |r >n
men
country In search of fish. They are wonM,„ #re gbl<> to , cqolrg or recover,
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reported to have found quite a nun- gn„ without serious trespass upon the
her but had to throw them hack, due vocations of Ufe, If only they do not
to the fact that those they caught yield to the softness of modern com
were nearly all less than six inches forts and convenience of wheels. The
WE MAKE A SPECIALTY
J In length. Mr. Hannn had generous- women who In certain parts of the
world still carry their burdens for
| ly promised messes to a number of miles on their heads have kept a car
OF CREAM BUSINESS
’ friends but was unable to make de- riage which queens mast envy. The
Whipping
Cream
30c Pint
® ! livery. The fishing wa. done on men who walked or ran In the prlmt
Coffee Cream ......... 30c Pint
J [ tributaries of the John Day river.
live chase had a physical development
Night and Morning Deliveries
which 10,1X10 years of civilisation have
You can't get better food than
Carl Mr Naught and William Rob- not Improved upon. Walking Is the
u H « Yard of Boat Quality ”
milk and cream. The quality
| erts forgot all about the heat on Mon- one universal art to save the race
H. M. STRAW. MGR.
from physical degeneracy. 4 Million»
of our products Is excellent. We
day. July 6. They started the day
are dally yielding to temptation of
solicit your business.
■ by playing a couple of rounds of golf wheels when they would be better off
Exclusive Representatives of National Builders
J ! on the local course. With that much physically, not to any financially. If
JERSEY DAISY
g dons they at III felt the need of fur- they accepted the transportation of
Jenkins Bros., Prop«.
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Hermiston
Umatilla
A new stock on Jhand for your |
flumes and repairs
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No. 2 Common
Ask us to show you our stock of
No. 2 Common
Good serviceable material for cheap
construction. May be used in a
surprising number places in your
building operations, at a substant- S
ial saving.
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HERMISTON
MARKET
FUEL
Slab Wood for summer use. The
best range fuel for the warmer I
days.
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Nut Coal in stock at all times.
Inland Empire Lumber Company
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Hermiston Hospital
We can care for you cheaper and give you better service than you
can receive at home.
Minor Operations Can Be Performed Hem.
Maternity Cases Especially Solicited
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