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VOL XXI
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No. 7
HEBMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1926
I
Kennswick Will
COLLAR DISCLOSES
CITY TO VOTE ON
MAN’S DOUBLE LIFE
Play Football in
OFFICIALS NOV. 2 Hermiston Friday
W ife No. 1 See« Neckwear
COMPLETE TICKET WILL BE
Irrigator* Hop* to Even Up
NAMED AT ELECTION
Defeat o f Last Season
No Filing* Mad* in Required Time
With a Victory
And Petition Circulated
The Hermiston high school foot
ball team will play its fourth game
of the season here Friday afternoon
at 2:30 o’clock when the Kennewick
aggregation makes an inbasion of the
local gridiron.
The Washington
outfit always puts up fast football,
and local followers of the game are
expecting to see a battle when the
two elevens clash on the local field.
Kennewick handed the Irrigators
a defeat last year in the annual tus
sle, but the locals are expecting the
more experienced team to even up
honors by sending the visitors home
with a defeated mark against them.
Last Friday the Irrigators lost to
McLoughlin high school at Milton.
The score was 24 to 0.
McLoughlin
scored a touchdown in the first quar
ter, another in he second and two in
he final period.
Straight football
was used by both teams.
In Town
A complete list of city officials to
serve Hermiston, the municipality,
for another two years will have to
be included at the general elecion
on Tuesday, November 2.
The elective offices to be filled in
clude that of mayor, city recorder,
treasurer and six council members.
The incumbents are as follows:
Mayor, F. V. Prime; city recorder,
C. W. Kellogg; treasurer, Georgia
Henderson; members of council, A.
W. Pfann, J. M. Biygs, H. E. Hitt,
C. S. McNaught, J. N. Smith, and
K. A. Brownson.
Mr. Smith has disposed of his
home here and he and Mrs. Smith
will leave soon for California, so a
successor to succeed him will have
to be elected.
Mayor Prime has indicated that
CHECKS AW AIT W INNERS
he is not a candidate to succeed him
self as mayor.
No one has filed as ! Checks for those who won prizes
a candidate for any city office, and at the 14th annual Hermiston Dairy
the ticket is expected o made out and Hog show are awaiting the win
by petition which was circulated ear ners at the office of the Inland Em
ly this week.
pire Lumber Company, according to
In addition to the elective offices a statement by H. M. Straw.
He
there are appointive offices which in- , requested that those entitled to the
elude city attorney, city health offi checks call for them without delay
cer and city marshall.
so the books can be balanced for
his year’s operations of the show
association.
LOCAL HUNTERS GET
BUCKS IN MOUNTAINS!
—— •
THE STORK
HermiBton has had a supply of I
Babies born recntly a t the
venison lately as a result of the
activity of local hunters. Last Hermiston hospital include the
Saturday a party of hunters con following:
Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Blakney,
sisting of B. S. Kingsley, J. S.
Echo,
8 pound girl Monday night.
West, S. M. Campbell, D. F.
October
6, Mr. and Mrs. Thom
Mittlesdorf, H. E. H itt, W. A.
as
Moore,
8
pound girl; Mr. and
Mikesell and O. C. Pierce return
Mrs.
Lyle
Bolin,
Stanfield, 6 1-2
ed from the mountains with a
two point buck shot by one of the pound boy.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Parker are
party.
the
parents of a 9 pound boy born
Early this week J. A. Reeves
a
t
their
home Tuesday afternoon.
and Ralph Evans returned from
Ditch creek with a three point
specimen.
JUDGE ORVILLE CHATT
WASHINGTON COURT
FAVORSJGHOOL TAX
W rit of Mandamus Orders
Levy According to 1925
[Figures.]
Olympia, W ash.— A w rit of manda
mus compelling the state tax commis
sion and board of equalization to fix
the millage for state institutions of
higher learning at the figures named
In the 1925 millage hill, as passed over
the veto of Governor H a rtle y at the
special session of the legislature, was
issued by the supreme court on the
petition of Attorney-General Dunbar.
T he commission previously fixed the
m illages under the law passed In
1921.
Replying to the contention of a tto r
neys for the tax commission that the
b ill was not legal because the presid
ing officers of he house and i.enatg
had not affixed th eir signatures to il
a fte r its repassage over the governor's
▼•to, the court held that the constitu
tion stated that if a b ill is approved
hy two-thirds of . the members of the
house and senate over the governor’s
veto it shall become a law.
County Judge O rv ille Chatt of Ta-
kama, Neb., who has come into na
tional prominence by Imposing bread
and w ater eentencee on bootleggers.
Shipping Commisaloner Résigna
W ashington, D. C.— Commissioner
W alsh of the shipping board has sub
m itted his resignation.
M.
SHORTRIDGE
H igh
in No. 2’» W indow .
Omaha, Neb.— Henry A. Barnts of
Omaha maintained a wife and home
In Council Bluffs and another one in
Omaha and got away with it until
one day recently when wife No. 1
happened to see one of her husband’s
collars swinging in an apartment
house window. Now he’s in jail.
"T h a t’s Henry’s collar," Mrs. Barnts
No. 1 said to ber friend as she pointed
to the window on tbe third floor.
"Nonsense,“ said the friend.
“It Is too,” answered No. 1.
“I
know Henry’s collars. He likes col
ored and checked collars and he
bought that one last week. I'm going
to see what it means."
And she did. She found the col
la r belonged to M r. Barnts all right.
But she found another woman who
not only claimed the collar but
claimed M r. Barnts as well.
Mrs.
Barnts No. 2 had washed the collar
and pat It In tbe window to dry.
B arnt’a Council Bluffs home Is at
No. 621 First avenue. His w ife there
Is Mrs. M ary Barnts. His Omaha home
Is In Apartm ent 47, No. 816 South
Twenty-second street
Ills Omaha
wife. No. 2, is Mrs. Em ily Barnts.
“ Extra Run” His Plan.
Barnts is a railroad engineer, and
It was because of his “runs" that hs
was able to keep up two establish
ments. “Have to take out an extra
tonight," he would tell one of the
wives. But Instead of taking out an
“extra," Barnts would go over to the
other boms for the night.
Six years ago Barnts married w ife
No. 1 and took her to live In Council
Bluffs.
Nearly a year ago he m ar
ried No. 2, a fter several months of
courtship, and established their home
In Apartment 47, No. 816 South Twen
ty-second street.
Both women did their shopping In
Omaha, but each of them now recalls
ber husband never would go shopping
with her.
“H e was a perfect husband and In
our six years of married life never
said a cross word to me,” says No. L
“H e was the best husband that ever
lived and I ’m going to keep him,"
says No. 2.
Investigations show that a year ago
when Barnts married No. 2 and went
on a two-weeks wedding trip, he told
No. 1 he was taking out an extra
train all the w ay to the coast and
would be gone two weeks. When hs
got back from the “extra," he told
No. 1 be had been given two weeks
off because o f the long “extra" and
then told No. 2 be bad to take out an
“extra” to pay for the time he was
on thé wedding trip.
Collar Proves Undoing.
But the colored collar proved his
undoing.
Barnts had a penchant for flaming
neckwear— ties as well as collars. Two
weeks ago ha bought a new collar
of peculiar design.
H e was living
with No. 1 In Connell Bluffs at th*
time. When tbe collar became soiled,
No. 1 washed It for him.
8cme days later when Barnts started
on a “run," be took the new collar
along. When he completed, his "run,"
be went to bis Omaha home.
And
the collar was soiled again.
This tim e No. 2 washed that collar.
The day was warm and she hung It
In the window to dry. Then along
came No. L saw the collar, recognized
it. Investigated, and had Barnta a r
rested on a charge of bigamy.
No. 2 baa applied to have her m ar
riage w ith Barnts annulled.
Shi
wants No. 1 to secure a divorce and
then she and Barnts can marry. That
Is No. 2's plan.
But No. 1 has a different plan.
U. S. SET TO FIGHT
Asparagus Shows ( testino work is
MATERNAL MORTALITY 10 Fold Gain In
United States Senator S. M. Short-
ridge, who was renominated by the
Republicans of California.
TRADE SURVEY SHOWS
NATIONPROSPEROÜS
New York.— A continuation of the
nation’s present commercial activity
into tbe beginning of next year la in
dicated in a trade survey by the Na
tional Association of M anufacturers
presented to the association at its
convention here.
The survey was made by a ques
tionnaire covering 16 basic groups of
manufacturers.
A sum mary of the
answers showed a favorable view of
current and w inter trade prospects,
a higher level of employment and of
wage conditions, an Increase in pro
duction, sales quantities and values,
and a prevailing Industrial peace.
The consensus of present trade was
19 per cent excellent, 73 per cent good
to fair, and only 8 per cent poor. On
w inter prospects 16 per cent reported
excellent, 83 per cent good to fa ir and
1 per cent poor. F ifty per cent pre
dict better business than In 1925, 25
per cent unchanged and 25 per cent
poorer.
BRIEF GENERAL NEWS
The annual convention of the real
estate brokers of Idaho w ill be held
at Pocatello Novem ber 8 and 9.
Forest research experts in India
have discovered how to use bamboo
as pulpwood in the manufacture of
white paper.
Chinese estimates say that 10,000
persons have perished, most of them
of starvation, In Wuchang since the
siege of that city by red Cantonese
arm y began some weeks ago.
Of the 58,860 pupils enrolled In the
public schools of H aw aii at the close
of the spring term last June 30,295
were of Japanese descent, according
to the annual report of the superin
tendent of public Instruction.
T rotzky, Zinoviev and Pyatlkoff,
three of the best known leaders of
the ea rly days of the Russian soviet
regime, face expulsion from th e ir par
ty on charges of "vicious violation of
party discipline."’
Simon Bamberger, 79, U tah’s w ar
governor, whose term of office began
In 1917 and was completed In 1921,
died tn Salt Lake City. Governor Bam
berger enjoyed the unique distinction
of being U tah ’s first democratic gov
ernor.
“ I'm going to send him to the
penitentiary for the lim it," she says. Corn Under W a ter in Illinois Flood
“And I'm not going to get a divorça 1 Chicago 111. - Approximately 100,000
from him and ha can't get one from acres of corn are under w ater in six
«ne. Ha waa a perfect husband, hut counties flooded by recent levee
F a net going ta stand for this.”
breaks uad rivers and creeks out. of
“If I Just hadn’t bought that col
their banks, th e Illinois Agricultural
lar,” says Barnts, from his cell la the
* —«e» * .n
| association was aevised.
Fam o u t G u ten berg Bible
Gutenberg produced his first book
A B utterfly H oldup
at M alnts between the years 1462 and
A year or two ago an especially dry
1466— while the, T u rk * were storming
w in te r In southern California caused
Constantinople, and tbe W ars of the
R om « were beginning In England— many o f tbe mountain plants to w ith
er and die. So the butterflies o f the
nearly 40 y e a n before Columbus had
hills had not enough fowl supply and
sighted America.
T he book itself 1« a splendid folio, came down In clouds to the valleys.
without title page or date, and con They were beautiful, principally o f a
splendid red variety. They fluttered
tains 641 printed leaves. So that Gold-
ston paid for his copy at the rate of In glowing swarms along the roads
and filled the radiators o f passing
near 6360 for each leaf.
motor care, causing overheating of
Ten complete copies on vellum are
the engines. When drivers went ahead
known to exist, and 22 complete copies
on paper. I t is often called the “G ut w ithout brushing off the butterflies,
enberg Bible.“ or the ’’Masarln Bible” | the motors were often badly damaged.
T be only thing to do was to stop and
—because tbe copy of It which first
sweep them out and off. I t was a reg-1
attracted the notice of scholars was
a la r butterfly holdup.— Girls" W o rld .;
ta the library o f the famous Cardinal ;
M asarln.
Volume In Year
Death Rate Speeds
Bureau’s Plans.
1200 Boxes Sold In
Washington.—A national program
for the prevention of maternal mor
tality and morbidity throughout the
United State« la outlined by the chil
dren's bureau of the United “ tales Ike
psrtrnent of Labor In a report on ma
ternal mortality.
This report, the work of Dr. Rob
ert Morse Woodbury, formerly di
rector of statistical research for the
children's bureau, brings together and
analyzes all available material, both
American and foreign, on deutbs of
mothers during childbirth, and Is con
sidered one of the most Important
pieces of recent research In the Held
of tbe bureau’s work. Children’s bu
reau officials feel that It Indicates the
necessary emphasis during the com
ing decade in the effort to reduce
deaths among both babies and moth
ers.
M ortality Rate High.
M aternal m ortality rates In the
United States are today among tbe
highest In the civilized world, and but
a slight decrease In these rates has
occurred since the begtim'ng of the
present century. Doctor Woodbury's
report states.
Tbe significance of
these facts from a national point of
view la found not only In the loss
which this means of the lives of wom
en presumably at their prime, but
also In the far-reaching effect of ma
ternal m ortality on tbe Infant death
rate.
“A very considerable proportion of
all deaths of Infants under one year
of age,” Doctor Woodbury points out,
"occurs during the first month of life
from causes which have their origin
tn the care and condition o f mothers
during pregnancy and confinement. In
the United States as a whole it may
bo
estimated
that
approximately
100,000 deaths pf Infants under one
month of age occur every year. Re
duction In the m ortality from these
causes depends upon Improvement and
extension of facilities for prenatal,
confinement and postnatal care.
It
may also be estimated that nt least
100,000 stillbirths occur each year. The
same measures which w ill safeguard
the lives and health of mothers dur
ing pregnancy and labor w ill also tend
to reduce the stillbirth and neonatal
m ortality rates."
Doctor Woodbury estimates the to
tal annual number of maternal deaths
tn the United States on the basis of
1921 blrth-reglstratlon area statistics
to be 18,281.
However, a careful
survey o f sources of error In certifi
cates of death thronghout the area
leads him to the conclusion that the
tru e number of maternal deaths Is
probably as much ns 12 per cent In
excess of those reported, milking an
estimated yearly death toll of more
than 20,000 women. The maternal
m ortality rate In 1021 was 0.8 per
1,000 live births. The provisional 1924
rate was 0.6.
Poverty Proves Obstacle.
As w ith Infant m ortality also, pov
erty Is found to he an Important fac
tor In maternal death rates, these In
creasing as tho husband’s earnings
fall, probably because c i lack «.f prop
er facilities and adequate care for
the poor mother. Color and national
ity are also important factors In ma
ternal m ortality.
In the blrlli-regls-
tratlon area for 1921 the negro ma
ternal death rate was 07 per cent
higher than the white rate.
On Iho
other hand, the rate for foreign-born
white mothers was slightly lower lliun
for native white mothers.
Among the nationalities Included In
the foreign-horn white group the rate
was lowest for mothers born In Rus
sia, and next to lowest for mothers
born In Italy. At the other extreme
were the rates for mothers horn In
Ireland, Great Britain, Omada, Hun
gary mid Germany. The racial stocks
represented In the nationalities for
which the rates were highest are. It
Is pointed out, those which principally
compose ‘ he native white population.
Eskimo Snow Hut»
Although there are no windows In
tbe snow-hut homes o f the Eskimos,
tbe ventilation is not as bad as might
be expected, fo r not only Is the snow
T he 1925 law provides a levy of 1.47 Itself full of air, but, being porous. It
m ills for the U niversity of .W a s h in g -' permits
fresh
a ir
to
penetrate
ton. .8156 for the state college, .26 for through It, so that, when one liolCg ’
Bellingham normal, .22 for Cheney his hand near the w all, he can tell
normal and .16 for Ellensburg normal. against which side the wind Is blow
ing. This circulation of air, w ith
T he 1921 millages were 1.1 for the
out seriously diminishing the tem
university, .67 for the state college,
perature w ithin, serves the purpose
.20 for the Bellingham normal. .159' of preventing the hut from melting '
for Cheney normal and .12 for Ellens away. The Eskimos live In warm th
burg normal.
in these snow huts even If the homes
T he decision means that the levies are not particularly convenient One
for the educational institutions shall of the unhand}' features Is the mode
be made on 61.168 026,676, fixed as the . of entrance, W hich Is through a long,
low tunnel at one side. I t Is through
assessed valuation of property in the
this tunnel also that the smoke from
state.
the fire in the center o f the but finds
egress.— Londou Tit-B its.
.«•.MJaUrta <
SEN. S.
T h e M e la n c h o ly D a y s H a v e C o m e
1926 As
Against 127 In 1925,
Report Indicates
STILL IN BALANCE
INSUFFICIENT COWS
SIGNED
AT PRESENT
Work Still Being Don* in Effort
TO Securo 800 Animal*
Asparagus sales by farmers
For Association
in the Hermiston district this
spring amounted to approximate
ly 1200 boxes, according to fig Whether the big dairying district
in Western Umatilla and Northern
ures furnished J. W, McMullen, Morrow counties shall have a cow
local secretary and manager for i testing association is still a matter
growers. The figures have been i of doubt with the securing of the
secured following the final sett | work hanging in the balance because
lement on the crop as made by of failure to sign up the number of
the Three Rivers Growers associ cows necessary to permit of te most
economical handling of the testing.
ation.
Information to this effect was secured
Of the 1200 boxes, 827 were from local men who have been doing
shipped and handled through the the preliminary work in signing up
association, and the remainder cows.
Efforts to get a minimum of 800
was sold in local m arkets direct cows
is still going on, however, and
by growers. The average price workers believe that it will be possi
turned back to growers by the ble to secure enough animals so that
association was about $1.30 per an association will be assured.
box without cost of the box being • Latest reports are to the effect
deducted. The total value of the that between 500 and 600 animals
have been signed up with the owners
crop this year is estimated to have of several herds yetundecided as to
been about $1,400. with most of wheter they will sign.
Workers have reported that several
the beds too young to stand any
owners of large herds have displayed
heavy cutting.
lack of interest in the proposed
The 1926 crop was about 10 a testing
work.
A better percentage
times as heavy as the 1925 crop of signups has been secured from
when 127 boxes were sold. N ext among owners of small herds than
year at least another 10 fold in from owners of larger herds.
Workers report that in many cases
crease is expected in volume
which will bring asparagus to they have found that herd owners
have had an erroneous iden of the
the front as one of the cash work actually to be done in testing,
crops of real value on the pro and that after a detailed explanation
ject.
is made about the functions of he
M. W. Martin, loegi farmer, is in
St. Anthony’s hospital in Pendleton
in a serious condition as a result of a
fall last week when he sustained a
fracture of the skull at its base. He
fall from the hayloft in his barn on
the concrete floor, striking on his
head.
’
Mr. and Mrs Ernest W ater
man and daughter Phyllis retu rn
ed to Portland Tuesday a fter a
visit here with his mother, Mrs.
Rena W aterman. On Monday
evening Mrs. Waterman enter
tained witn a party for her
guests -o which members of th e
American Legion and their wives
who were acquainted with Mr.
and Mrs. Waterman during the
time they resided here were in
vited. Cards were enjoyed dur
ing the evening, five tables being
in play. Mr. Waterman is a t
tending dental college. Mrs.
Waterman formerly taught in
the Hermiston schools a.<d hss
many friends here.
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Harvey en
tertained a t a second evening
bridge party Tuesday evening.
Four tables were in play, and
prizes were won by Mr. and Mrs.
H. T. Fraser and Mrs. Mabel
Ralph.
a8sociaion signups in many cases have
been made readily.
Actual testing for butter fat con
tent is one of he least of the details
covered by the tester. He also keeps
feed records, ascertains costs, sug
gests changes in amount of feed and
rations where he thinks benefits may
result from such action and serves
in other ways to eliminate the ele
ment of guessing about costs and pro
fits and replacing guesses with actual
figures.
The records required are to be
kept by the official tester, not by the
dairy men, it was explained.
MANY HUNTERS HERE FOR
OPENING OF BIRD SEASON
Sportsmen From All Over Oregea
And From W ashington Com*
To Shoot
Hermiston was Mecca for a host
of hunters from all over the state
and some places in Washington Sun
day when the season opened for
shooting Chinese pheasants and Hun
garian partridges.
Many hunters from Portland and
other points in thé Williamette valley
were here for the opening.
The
feilds were full of men and their
dogs, and reports rae that very sat
isfactory results attended the sports
men.
No serious accidents were
reported as a result of the first day’s
hunting, though men in orchards
were occasionally sprinkled with shot.
The supply of birds was plentiful
this season, but they soon became shy
after guns started popping Sunday
morning.
Stated communication Queeu Es
ther chapter O. E. S., next Tuesday
Tom Campbell is the owner of •
night. Social. By order W. M.
new Willys-Knight coupe which he
purchased early this week. Local
R. T. Cookingham, sheriff, will drivers of motor cats have evinced a
occupy the pulpit of the M. E. church lively interest in the machine.
here Sunday morning at 11 o’clock
and at Echo in the evening. Rev. Carton Dioxide Used
Hamrick is confined to his horn” by
to Stimulate Plante
quarantine on account of chicken
I t tome one should tell you that yon
pox in the family.
might run n pipe from your chimney
Rev. W. S. Coder, of Akron, Ohio,
brother of Mrs. Mumma, is her guest.
The M. E. Ladies Aid met with
Mrs. Harvey Shillings Wednesday in
an all day session with 35 present.
Four comtorters were knitted for
Mrs. Schillings and other sewing
done.
Next meeting Wednesday,
October 27, all day at the church.
Preparations to be completed for an
nual bazaar Saturday, Dec. 4.
San
Francisco
B andit*
Run
Amuck
San Francisco.— W ith three men
killed and five others wounded by a
callous bandit pair who have terrified
tbe city. Ran Francisco’s entire police
force was engaged In a gigantic man
hunt Friday In an effort to h alt the
crime flood. T he record of five c iti
zens shot to death and a dozen or
more Injured by the phantom slayers
ss they dashed through the city tn
stolen autqBtobilea end taxicabs, rob
bing and plundering tn th e ir foray,
has left San Francisco terrified, wop-
de; Ing a here the crim inals w ill strike
next
to the back-yard garden and use the
coal gus from yotir furnace to fertilise
vegetables and flowers you probably
wonld laugh at the Idea. Yet virtual
ly that some thing Is being done to
day.
In remarkable experiments, con
ducted In plant laboratories near New
York city, plants are being made to
grow and flourish us never before ou
a simple diet of carbon dioxide— the
gas of combustion given off by the
very furnaces used Io warm the green
houses In which the plants are grown I
That such things have proved pos
sible Is due to comparatively recent
scientific discoveries concerning the
manner in which plants breathe and
draw nourishment frotn the atmos
phere, the sunshine and the earth.
For one thing, plants breathe like ani
mals. A plant takes In oxygen through
tiny openings In Its leaves, much as
we breathe through our uoses, and It
gives off carbon dioxide.
Under the Influence of sunlight,
however, the plant, while breathing
oxygen, also draws In carbon dioxide
and ueee this gas to manufacture the
starch on which Its growth depends.
Now, by supplying this gas In the
greenhouse nt certain times of the day,
we can make the plants grow from tw o
to three times ss fast as they would
ordinarily, and more luxuriantly.—•
Popular Science Monthly.
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