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Hermiston Clubs STATION PROGRAM
Win in Livestock
BE STARTED HERE Judging Contest ■ IS WELLATTENDED
COW TESTING WILL
HUNDREDS
HEAR
SPEAKERS
AND WATCH SPORTS
COMMITTEES TO MEET FRI Dairy Herd Record Keeping
and Pig Clubs Lead in
DAY MORNING
Competition
Dairying and Taxation SuSjects Dis
cussed By Brandt and
Decision Taken at Meeting Held
The dairy herd record keeping
in Hermiston Saturday
club of Hermiston won first hon
ors. and the Hermiston pig club
Evening
was second in the tryouts for live
stock judging which were con
A decision to conduct a drive ducted Saturday morning as a
for form ing a cow testing associ part of the program at the annu
ation among dairy men in t h e 'aj field day exercises at the ex-
west end of Umatilla and the periment station. Clubs from Pi-
east end of Morrow counties was jQt
an(j Hermiston had en-
made at ajneeting of dairyjnen ^r je3 ¡n t be competitions.
held here Saturday night. P. M.
By mutual consent the winners
Brandt, dairy husbandman of of first place will represent the
th e Oregon experiment station, county a t the Pacific Internation
was the chief speaker a t the al Livestock exposition in Port
m eeting. H. K. Dean and R. F. land this fall, and the other club
Wilbur, assistant county agent, will represent the county in the
w ere also present and lent their judging contest a t Salem.
aid in planning the association.
Members of the dairy herd re
The signing up of between cord keeping club were Loren
800 and 1000 cows will make i t ; an(j f)onald Jackson and Donald
possible to secure the services of DeMoss. Members of the pig club
an expert tester for one year at t eam were Lowell Stockard, Wal-
an annual cost of $2.25, P ro f.' ^ er
and Oscar Mikesell.
Brandt said.
Nine clubs were represented in
“ The name of cow testing for the tryouts.
such an organization is a mis- j H c Seymour, state club lea-
nomer, ’ Prof. Brandt stated, der> superintended the tryouts
“ because the actual testing is a- Saturday, and the placings were
bout the least important work | made by Prof< p M Brandt.
done Seeming weight records o f }
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milk and so g ;tting a record of.
Coyote Poisoning Time
Governor Pierce.
Several hundred men, v.'omen and
children from all over this section oi
the country were present last Satur
day for one of the H ost successful
annual field day programs ever given
at the Hermiston experiment station.
Addresses were made by Governor
Pierce, Prof. P. M . Brardt, dairy
husband man at the Oregon experi
ment station, A. C. Cooley of the U.
S. Department of Agriculture in
charge of demonstration work on re
clamation projects, and Chris John
sen, field instructor for the North
Pacific Co-operative Creameries.
H. K. Dean, superintendent of the
station, presided duri ig the after
noon’s formal program and introduc
ed the speakers. He w.ts compli
mented by the governor for the re
sults secured on the fa-m. Plans for
moving the station to land on the
Stanfield extension wherever water
for that area is availab e were referr
ed to by Governor Pierce.
Progress in dairy ir g on this pro
ject has not been as ra nJ is it should
have been. Prof. Brandi toid his audi
ence, and he outlined some changes
hat s hould be made in an effort to
make the industry take the place it
th e q u an tity o f production is m ore
Now is an excellent time to put-
should. A cow testing anociation to
im p >rtant than to k now th e but- ¡ouj dl0 pO;aon mixture, strychnine
put dairying on a business like basis
ie r fa t content- A n oth er im port- and saccharine and green alfalfa for
he said waa one of the f rst essen
a n t resu lt o f th e work done in th e rabbits, according to H. J. Ott, leader
tials.
association is to ascertain c o s t s , of rodent control for the Farm Bur-
The basic principle in dairying is
fee d c o s ts.”
eau. He recently applied 9ome with
j the cost of produciion. the speaker
The work can be done to best excellent results. Information as to ¡said. Three factors enter into costs
advantage by districts, or routes, how to apply the poison can be se o f producing milk, or butterfat, feed,
Prof. Brandt said and the area cured from either Mr. Ott, or from labor and geneial overhead which in
contained in the ptoposed associ R. F. Wilbur, assistant county agent. cludes buildings, fences, machinery,
ation was tentatively divided in
etc. Eeed costs are between 60 and
to six districts and committee
RECOVERS FROM BURNS
70 per cent of the total cost, labor 20
men to represent each district in
Betty Ralph, daughter of Mrs. per cent or more, with the remaining
in securing a signup of members Mabel Ralph, ia recovering from cost represented by overhead ex
was made. The appointments as burns she suffered Monday morn penses.
made were as follows:
¡ng- For some time it was thought The size o f the herd kept by the
Boardman-Irrigon-Umatilla dis her injuries were serious, but she dairyman is one of the big factors
trict, R. W. Morseand Paul Smith is able to be up and is making a determining production costs, Prof.
Stanfield-Echo: G. L. Dunning rapid recovery.
Brandt said. Usually the cost is
and Stanley Cooper.
greater where small herds are hand
Umatilla Meadows-Butter creek
BRIEF GENERAL NEWS
led and decrease as more cows are
Claude Hampton, Hawley Bean
added. The trend in dairying is to
A
War was declared on roadside hot
dog stands by the American Auto ward sections where ar. abundance of
Ff gnd Jesse Richards.
cheap roughage is protuetd, and he
The west Hermiston district; mobile association.
TV
Three
Chicago
men
who
robbed
characterized the UmaliTa project as
Ed Jackson and Roy Sullivan.
C entral Hermiston district: F. three diamond merchants of $500,000 a district ideally fitted for profitable
worth of Jewelry on an Illinois Cen
tral train near Champaign, 111, were
captured In a cornfield near Buckley,
IlL
Heavy rainfall In eastern Kansas
sent swollen rivers out of their hanks
and flooded several towns with a toll
of at least two lives and property
damage estimated at more than $1,-
000,000.
The constitutionality of Pennsyl
vania’s Sunday blue laws, passed In
1794, was attacked in the Dauphin
county court in Harrisburg, by the
American League Baseball club of
Philadelphia.
It has cost*ldaho $4.085,578.7« to
operate its-sta te government for the
biennium for which the last legisla
ture appropriated $5,299,811.89, accord
ing to the figures compiled by George
Washington, D. C.—A command to Lewis, budget officer.
’’»hoot to kill" waa sent out by the
Mains Strang for Republicans.
postoffice department to its army or
22,500 railway mail clerks to protect
Portland, Me. — Maine went solidly
from bandits, even at the cost of their republican in the. biennial state elec
own Ures, the millions of dollars tion. Governor Ralph O. Brewster was
worth of treasure handled daily in the re-elected by a majority of 20,004 or
Vnlted States mails.
more over his democratic opponent,
The command, which applies to the Ernest L. McLean, mayor ot Augusta.
thousands of other postal employes The state’s tour congressmen, all re
also constitutes a warning to the un publicans, were re-elected. Two years
derworld that the postal service ago Brewster beat W. R. Pattangall,
means war and anyone found attempt democrat, by 36.855. The total vote
ing to rob the mails may expect a at thia election waa 67,000 less than
cold lead reception and no mercy.
that cast two years ago.
In Issuing the command It also was
indicated that, it this means of pro
French to Taka No Fart.
tection should fail, the United States
Paris. — The French government
marines again might be called to doas not Intend at present to be a
guard the mails as they did late in party to any conference of the powers
1921 when banditry was prevalent.
regarding the Chinese civil war, It la
Thi* drastic move was determined stated in authoritative quarter*. Ru-
wpoa by Poetmaster-General New at a raorg that Great Britain. France and
c o rn el of war with his lieutenants as japan would hold a diplomatic or
• result of the recent holdup near Chi- . other conference to consider action
cage. In which bandits stole $135,000 ■ |n rtew of the Chinese sltaation are
•* currency.
scouted owing Io Japan reluctance -lor
Postmaster-General New has consid
western powers to become active
•red calling the marines, bat the “aol- m the far eaat at thi* time.
dtara" of his own forces—the postal
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employes, who have been fully arm-
«cattle Enter* Phon* Rat* Fight,
ed—will be able to cope, he believes, j s e t t l e . Wash — The Beattie city
with the present epidemic of banditry , eoMcU „an lm o u sly voted to join with
> other cities In galling upon the inter-
The local stage is making an ”tate commerce commission to grant
RAH. CLERKS TO .
SHOOT TO KILL
Adoption of the income tax bill
will have the effect of equalizing
stale taxes by removing some o f the
burden from visible property and
giving those who otherwise pay little
a chance at bearing a part o f the ex
pense of state government, the gov
ernor said.
Following the program o f speeches
a sports program for boys and girls
was held in which races and other
athletic events were featured under
the auspices of the commercial club.
The Irrigon school band played
during the afternoon under the lead
ership of O. B. Kraus.
EGGS FROM CARSON FLOCK GO
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51 CENTS A DOZEN
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dairying.
Scrub sires should be replaced
with good sires so that the average
cow production may be increased.
He quoted figures to show that the
average production on the project
now is 170 pounds annually as
against a state average of 178 pounds.
These figures were questioned later
at the Saturday night meeting by
breeders. Prof. Brandt said the fig
ures were taken from the federal
census report for 1925,
The condition of settlers on all re
clamation projects is better than it
BEE KEEPERS TO MEET
Recommendations of proposed
changes in legislation affecting
the bee business will be discussed
by the Umatilla County Bee Keep
era association a t a meeting Wed
nesday night. The meeting will
be held in the Methodist church.
Refreshm ents will be served All
those interested in the bee busi
ness are invited to be present.
An outside speaker will be on the
program.
and'
SETTLEM ENT COMMITTEE!
SPAIN RESIGNS FROM Sweet Cream may OREGON NEWS ITEMS
OF SPECIAL INTEREST
LEAGUE OF NATIONS Be Delivered by
Farmers Locally Brief of Resume of Happenings
Germany Is Warmly Welcomed
by Assembly as a Mem
ber Friday.
Discussion Heard in Meeting of
Dairymen Held Here
Friday Evening
Geneva. — Spain Saturday resigned |
from the League of Nations.
The official communique reads:
the Week Collected for
Our Renders.
The state convention of building and
loan and savings and loan associations
of Oregon was held at Baker.
The use of sweet cream in the
1 manufacture ef butter on the low-, The annual Clatsop county fair will
League o f T a X n . fhUmornilg ~ er Columbia and in some partso f b* held September 31, 23 33 ^aud >4
ceived through the Spanish consul the Willamette valley has result-
1 r °
’ or a er
at Geneva a note from the Spanish ed ¡n an export market b e in g
rred Steusloff, meat packer and
government, giving formal notice, ac- f nllnf| tnr q,IPh butter that Der- capltaUst- who dled at Salem recent-
cording to Article I of the League f °.U"d
8UCh
a° «a‘a‘« valued a‘ »15O’MO’
Covenant, that Spain will withdraw i m ttS producers. O
When a safety valve failed to func-
froro the league on the expiration of receive a premium of from two t)on the (housand-gallon water tank
two years from date of receipt of the to three cents per pound, accord- of the Boardman water works blew
note by the secretary general. The ¡ng to a statem ent made by Chris up.
document has been circulated to all J o h n 9 en i fie ld instructor of the
Mrs. Lucile Barr, 25, proprietor of
members Of the league.”
North Pacific Co-operative Urea- • waterfront lodging house at Astoria,
Germany was received into th
.
.
j _ j rvrnen drowned In the Columbia river at that
League of Nations, Friday, amid menes, at a meeting oi dairymen j
place.
scenes of European reconciliation held Friday evening under the
Four were killed In automobile ao-
which in their fire of enthusiasm has auspices of the Farm Bureau,
cidents, nnd six died as the result of
been unexampled since the armistice. I Thg average score of Oregon
industrial accidents in MuPeomatt
Germany and France, through1
Foreign Minister Stresemann and butter is 87.5 per cent, Mr. John- county during August.
Briand, committed themselves to per- Sen Said, and the Score of blitter
p j. Burge of Albany received sen-
petuai peace and solemnly engaged made with sweet Cream, where lor and grand championship prizes for
the honor cf their nations henceforth producers are CO-Operating to get Percnv- horses at the interstate
never to draw the sword but to settle th g crea m to the creameries in ,a,r at Spokane, Wash.
disputes by arbitration or compromise.
.
.
'■ Work conb’ructlng a new power di*-
Two things stood out dramatically, g o o d condition, IS running Irom tr,butlon aygteiB in Bend to cost $26.-
The first was Dr. Stresemaun’s pic- 92 94 per cent. The better butter goo has 5eCn sta ted by the Deschutes
ture of present day Germany as grip- fin d s a ready market in San Fran Power & Light company,
ped only by lofty Ideals, determined cigco
, o ,e Hen(Jrick9on> 60, Astoria fisher-
to dedicate her energies henceforth
y r Johnsen Warned dairymen mBn. died in an Astoria hospital from
t0
co^*w*tlon based on not to freeze out their local crea- injuries received when he was struck
a high intellectual and moral plane.
,
, ,
by a Spokane, Portland & Seattle |
This spirit, he Baid, had entered into i mery and quoted figures to how
senger train.
the very conscience of the Go-man th at in, the middle west where
Dr. Catherine M. McNeil of Rose
people.
9uch action was taken by farm- burg was appointed a member of the
The second feature was the remark- ers t he prices received are much state board of chiropractic examiner*
able oration of M. Briand whose ,ow eJ. thftn jn district8 where but-
to succeed Dr. Charles H. Johns, who
declaration that Germany and France
.
, .
_
have had enough glory in the past and Ler 19 ma^e by CO-Operative
ar has resigned.
James A. Kane, 172 Lenox road,
need no further demonstration of ' m ers’ organizations.
Committees were appointed by Brooklyn, N. Y„ purchased from the
heroism, and whose proclamation that
the roar of guns had now been silenc President Phipps to confer with Ralnbow s“ver7°* f"rn,H
s * 8“
ed, evoked tumultuous applause.
A. N. Sunstrup relative to the mateIy |25 OOo.
following: Co-operative cream
Total vaiue of exports from the Ore-
deliveries by farm ers from dif- gon customs house district for the fis-
. . . if a kin a n r i n n n n ' ferent neighborhoods, ways and cal year ending June so was $67,006,-
1 means of having deliveries made ¡777 while for the preceding year it
early in the morning so the sweet iwas ><8,012,254.
Kansas City, Mo. — Rivers and cream can be churned without ' The Hood River school board has
streams in Eastern Kansas were delay, and to get an estimate £8 awarded to the Anderson Construc-
spreading for miles over lowlands, in tO the probable volume of sweet tlon company, of Portland, a contract
undating farms, highways and rail cream required before a suffici- for a new high school banding. Th*
roads and causing enormous property ent m arket output can be realiz bid.w as $132,000.
ed to make it possible lor produ- Conn Peterson, 15, a junior in th*
damage.
Flood v-aters swept Buriington cers to recatve a premium for Roscbyrg high sohool, was killed whds
his gun was accidentally discharged
Neosho Falls, Madison and other their fat.
a « THREE ARE DEAD
A price of 51 cents per dozen net,
for the eggs from her flock of Bari-
ed Plymouth Rocks has been reced -
ed by Mrs. S. L. Caraon for so. e
t'me. Shipment of the eggs is
made by Mr». Carson to a Petaluma
hatchery where they are used for
hatching purposes by a concern that
at this time of year specializes in
broilers.
*
“The hatchery would take 50 caaes
a week if I ha that amount to sell
them .’’ Mrs. Carson told friends the
ether day. “I got in touch with the
concern through Mr. Coeby of ha
bi ate college.**
The Carson flock of Barred Rocks
Is one of the best in the state. Dur
in g the past season Mrs. Carson did
quite a lot of hatching and shipped
many hicks from the local plant.
« 2
this : r k
extra tnp it leaves Umatilla at Te|ephoae a Telegraph company
7 p. m. and leaves Pendleton on roo<:eni, gub.idU ry to i t
return at 2 a. » .
hes been for six or seven ytarw, ac
cording to A. C. Cooley.
“This does not mean that settlers
are in as good condition as they
should be yet,” Mr. Cooley stated,
“hut it is encouraging and shows
‘hat progress has been made.”
He praised the work done in the
economic conference held here last
spring aud said that the studies made
here have caused interest all over
the United States and will be used
as a model by other districts. He
urged that the start made in diagnos
ing conditions be followed up faith
fully.
Governor Pierce in his address
dealt with problems of taxation and
state government.
Real progress
has been made toward making the
state penitentiary self snpporting, he
said, and he urged that the present
program be followed until the goal is
reached.
He asked for support of the Grange
income tax bill.
He also urged
voters to turn down the Dennis reso
lution and the “property offset” in
come tax bill.
TOO
.„JBELF AMEMBEX
OF THE PEOJECT LAUD
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HERMISTON, OMATULA COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEM BER 16, 1926
VOL. ZZI
Guiwits and Logan Todd.
East Hermiston district: Tom
Haddox and R- L- Addleman.
N. C. Jamison, extension spec
ialist in dairying from O. A. C.
will be in Hermiston Friday and
Saturday, September 17 and 18,
and the members of these com
m ittees will meet Friday morn
ing to launch the drive for mem
bership.
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IN KANSAS FLOODS
while he was hunting in the vicinity
towns in the Neosho and Verdigris
of Mount Scott, near Glide.
river valleys, following torrential
downpours of rain totaling from eight
More than 6000 lambs, bought by
to 11 inches.
Tom Boylan of Pendleton from Con
Three tyves were lost in the flooded
nolly brothers of Maupin, were ship
area of approximately 150 square
ped out of Bend to winter feeding
miles. Property damage will total
grounds in Idaho and eastern Oregon.
more than $2,000,000, it is estimated, Eight Bystanders Hurt When
Farmers of Lane county have again
and the loss of livestock is reported
begun to order pyrotoi explosive with
Bomb Hits Automobile But
great.
which to clear their lands, and more
Little fear is felt for residents of
than 6500 pounds have been signed
Premier
Escapes.
lowlands along the rivers, as ample
for toward the first carload thia fall.
warning was received of the iizing
Directors of the Spaulding Pulp A
waters.
Rome.—Benito Mussolini, Italy's pic
Paper company, meeting in Newberg,
Scores of farm houses were dam turesque premier and Fascist leader,
made final plans for construction of
aged by the overflow while families escaped the third attempt made upon
the first unit of the big $1,200,000 pulp
sought refuge in the uplands.
his life within a year Saturday.
an<l paper mill to be erected there by
The third attempt to murder the
Washington State Chairman Resigns. fascist dictator was a dramatic af that company.
Patrol of the national forests of
Seattle, Wash.—C. B. Fitzgerald of fair of but a few seconds. As the
Seattle, chairman of the republican premier was riding in his closed lim Oregon and Washington by airplane
state central committee, announced ousine from his home to the govern will he closed September 16, with the
his resignation. Fitzgerald said his ment Offices, Ermete Giovannini, 26- danger of forest fires nearly over.
business interests will not allow him year-old marble cutter, stepped from Planes and pilots will return to March
field, California.
time to manage the state general elec a recess and hurled the bomb.
R. L. Harris, 62, mayor of Dayton,
tion campaign November 2. Fitzger
The bomb crashed the glass at Mus-
ald's withdrawal waa declared by po aoiinl’s side and fell not In the car was shot in the right cheek while he
litical observers to presage a fight but back on the running board and and his wife were scuffling for pos
between supporters and opponents ot then rolled to the ground. The chauf- I session of a shotgun with which, it
Governor Hartley for selection of the four, scenting danger, although he had was said, he had announced the lnten-
not seen the assailant, Increased his tion of ending his life.
hew chairman.
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ipeed. Whan the bomb exploded with
The body of a man abont 46, with
a terrific detonation the car was 20 a bullet hole in his chest, was found
yards away and was barely scratched on the floor of a deserted mountain
by the flying pieces of the explosive. cabin by three men who were look
Mussolini escaped without a wound ing for horses in the Salisbury vicin
but eight people In the street lay ity. 14 miles from Baker.
bleeding from superficial wounds.
Grain nursery work In Umatilla
Glovadnlnl was captured immediately. county will be continued, despite the
fact the county is at present without
a county agent, It is announced by D.
E. Stephens, superintendent of the
Moro experiment station.
Attendance at the Oregon caves has
reached 18,000 for the summer, ex
8t. Margaret’s Bay, Eng. — George ceeding by more than 1000 the great
est attendance in any previous season
Michel. 40-year-old French swimmer,
broke the world's record for swimming The traffic is still fairly heavy, al
the English channel here when he though the peak of the tourist season
completed the crossing in 11 hour» is over.
The state of Oregon, at a meeting
and 6 minutes.
Michel left Cape Orix Nez. France, of the emergency board to be held
at 8:32 p. m. and splashed ashore here shortly after the November election,
at 7:33 a. m„ thus lowering the record ( will be requested to appropriate $1000
of 12 hours, 42 minutes set by Ernest for the purpose of waging war against
Vierkotter. Oerman swimmer, August : cattle rustlers in Lake and Klamath
30.
I counties.
It was Michel's 11th attempt to
a western Lane county Jersey cow
swim the channel.
! has been declared state champion in
Michel's feat was the fourth time the 2yearold class for 1925 by the
the channel had been crossed this American Jersey Cattle club of New
York, according to word received at
year. It was the 32nd attempt.
Other swimmers to make the cross- Eugene. The championship certificate
Ing this year were Oertrnde Ederle of has Just been awarded to "Violet’s St.
New York, who established the wo- Mawcg Oypsey.” owned by Walter L.
men's record of 14 hours and 31 min and M. K. Baker of Canary. The
ntee; Mrs. Clemington Corson, only | animal has 653 pounda of butter fat
mother to swim the channel, who ar- to her credit, which is cla
rived Nkck in New York recently, and
Vierkotter, whose record of 12 hours
and 42 m in u tes w as b ea ten by Michel
Many local people have Rone
by one hour and 36 minutes.
or will attend the Round-Up,
ATTEMPT TO RILL
MUSSOLINI FAILS
T h e C a r Is W a it in g
FRENCHMAN BREAKS
CHANNEL RECORD