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HERMISTON, OREGON,
At the Baptist church January 3.
Bible school, 10 A. M. Morning wor
ship 11 A. M. Theme, Passing but
Once. Evening service, 7:30 P. M.
Theme, The Golden Gate of Oppor
tunity. The Lord’s Supper at the
morning service. Start the new year
right, give the church a place In
your
program. A cordial welcome to
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Campbell
ipent Christman and this week In Eu all. A. J. Ware pastor.
mene visiting.
Why not buy mileage Instead or
Dr. and Mrs. G. E. Holt and daugh tires. I sell you guaranteed mileage
ter were Christmas guests of Mrs. in Melllnger tires. V. S. Keikkala,
Hermiston.
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Holt's relatives here.
W e C a rry a S tock o f
Pistons, Rings and Pins
KNERR’S REPAIR SHOP
A Christmas party that proved de
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Challis of Pen
dleton were Christmas visitors at the lightful was given Monday afternoon
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■ i home of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Downing. by Mrs. Mabel Ralph for her daugh
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ters, Charlotte and Helen. Twelve
Miss Golda Mamma of Portland, is| girls were the guests, and games
spendings the holidays with the home wene played and recitations given.
Favors were little snow covered
folks.
houses, and Santa Claus napkins were
Mr. and Mrs. Burnham and two used.
daughters
of Stanfield, were guests
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To Your Order and at Reasonable Price,
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Melllnger regular tires guaranteed
of Mrs. Mumma Sunday.
for 12.000 miles, and Melllnger De
The heartiest laugh you’ve had for Luxe cord guaranteed for 15,000
DeLuxe Balloon, 15,000
ages— “Up in Mabel's Room” at the j miles.
miles. Our prices can’t be beat. 1
Playhouse, Saturday and Sunday.
S. Keikkala, Hermiston.
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Mrs. Rev. Trumbel and Misa Stellai
"I believe you are having milder
! ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ « ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ » i Kenn lasiin of Stanfield, were guests
weather
here than we are having in
I of Mrs. Mumma Monday evening.
Pendleton,” was the comment made
Margaret Nelson of Pendleton Is by C. L. “Buck” Lieuallen, Btate
! here this week as a guest at the home traffic officer, when he was here
Tuesday. “The streets up there are
of Marian Henderson.
still covered with snow and Ice and
i Miss Peggy Neary who tenches are slick so tljat driving Is more or
i school at Pilot Rock, Is spending the less risky. It Is a pleasure to drive
along the highway down here.” Tht
holidays at her home In this city.
traffic man had his biggest Christ
Forget your troublées at “Up In mas present this year the day before
Mabel’s Room” at the matinee Sat Christmas when he became the
urday afternoon at 2:15 at thfe Play father of a baby boy.
house.
‘ The home of Mr. and Mrs. W. B
Dr. and Mrs. M. S. Kern and his Beasley was the gathering place for
father, Fred Kern, were here as a merry crowd on Christmas day for
guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. a big dinner and a good time. The
guests included Mr. and Mrs. C. E.
H. E. Hitt on Christmas.
Hensly and family of Pendleton, Mr.
WHAT IS ADVERTISING!
Frank Swayze Jr is here from Wil and Mrs. W. H. Bensel and family of
lamette university as the guest of Hermiston, Richard Beasley of Her
his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. B. miston and W. J. Wilson of Ellens
“Advertising is the education of
burg, Washington.
Swayze,
during the holidays.
the public as to what you are, where
you are, and w hat you have to offer
Acceptable Christmas gifts were
Mr. and Mrs. R. Alexander, accom
in the way of skill, talent or com
panied by their son Roy, were Christ not hard for Ralph Gilbreath to find
modity. The only man who should
mas guests at the home of Mr. and when he decided to come from Wil
not advertise is the man who has
sonville to Hermiston to spend the
Mrs. E. P. Dodd.
nothing to offer the world in the
holiday season with former friends
way of commodity or service.”
Miss Clara Bryant Is here from and acquaintances. He Is working
—Elbert Hubbard.
Great Falls, Montana where she Is in a greenhouse so he brought flow
teaching, as a holiday guest at the ers. He was guests at the W. W.
home of Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Fraser. Felthouse and O. O. Felthouse homes.
He formerly lived here.
Miss Bessie Hammer of Portland,
is spending the holidays with her LEAF HOPPER IS CAUSE
parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. Hammer, of
OF YELLOW TOMATO BLIGHT
Columbia dlst.-irt.
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Mrs. J. W. Witherell, eon Bob and Tiny Hopper Found by Oregon Men
liOle daughter Phyllis of Pendleton,
To Carry Virus T hat Causes
Wert w.sltors at the home of Mr. and
Serious Disease.
Mrs. J, S. Harvey Monday.
H. K. Dean, superintendent of the
The cause of western yellow to
experiment station, was a visitor in mato blight, which has puzzled scien
Corvallis Monday on business con tists for 28 years, has been found by
nected with hlh work.
M. B. McKay and T. P. Dykstra o‘
the Oregon experiment station. The
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hiatt of blight ravages squash, bean, canta-
Heppner were here for Christmas as toupe and other crops as well a
guests at the home of their son, Ur- tomatoes.
The disease comes from a vlruf
sel Hiatt.
that resides In curly-top of sugai
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Lance recent beets and is carried only by a very
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ly moved to the Pat Doherty resi little leafhopper with a very hart
dence which formerly wa occupied name— Eutcttlx tenella, A close re
lation was noticed by the investiga
by Rev. J. A. Ware.
tors between the unusually severe at
tacks of beet curly-top last year and
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Waterman and
unusual prevalence of western yellow
baby have been here during the
blight of other crops. They found
holidays as guests at the home of
the virus carrying hoppers and put
hie mother, Mrs. Rena Waterman.
them to work upon plants under con
trolled conditions.
One of the big dances of the year
The blight appeared on plants vis
will be given Saturday night, New Ited by a single disease-carrying hop
Year’s Night, by the American Leg per, thus proving the identity of the
ion. Plans are being made for a big two diseases and also the culpability
attendance.
of the little leaf hopper. Squash was
also infected In this way, and it le
Dr. and Mrs. G. E. Prime and two thought that potato, cucumber, can
children of Salem were here over taloupes and pepper are also sus
Christmas as guests at the home of ceptible.
FARM POULTRY
The guilty hopper Is so elusive that
his brother, Dr. F. V. Prime. They
came up last Friday and left,Tuesday. no means of control have as yet been
PROVIDES GOOD FOOD FOR THE FAMILY
devised. So heavy have been sugar
GIVIS SOMETHING TO SELL EACH WEEK.
beet losses through his depredations
A
«-Ib-tiekllng
tempest
of
giggles,
FITS WITH DIVERSIFIED FARMING.
laughs and roars, all over a perfectly that several million dollar factories
Innocent, filmy chemise— “Up In have been moved or abandoned. He
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■ Mabel's Room,” Saturday and Sun- is only an eighth of an Inch long
and quite slender, of reddish straw
■ d»y at the Playhouse.
color when grown. He files or hop
The poultry census is taken only every 10 years. The last cen
readily and has been known to Join
Deo Smith, a student at Whitman
sus showed theirs were in the United States 360,000.000 chickens.
whole masses of his fellows In lonr
college,
and
his
brother
Jewel
who
They produ id 1,G"6 000.C00 dozen eggs. The year's production
flights, though such migrations art
Is attending high school at Pilot
of chick ns and eggs brought $1.048,tCO,000.
rare as far as known.
Rock, ar? here thia week to spend
The blight and curly-top dlseases-
Ninety per cent of this billion dol’ars goes to fanners or rather
the holidays with their parents, Mr. have been chiefly In dry to arid ell
to farmers' wives. These good wives spend it for grooeries, cloth
and Mrs. Mark Smith In the Colum
mates until last year, when the at
ing, lights, wa hin” machines, rugs, pictures, books, phonographs.
bia district.
tacks were widespread In the Willam
If we should t a k : the poultry money out of a farm community, the
ette
valley. Whether the hopper can
country town merchants would wondsr what had happened to their
Mr. and Mrs. II. T. Fraser enter winter over In the wet climates Is
business.
tained Informally at their homo Tues not yet known.
Higher labor and feed prices, our new r knowledge of the fac
day even I leg In honor of Miss Clara
The best hope for control lies In
tors making- for economical and successful egg production, and an
Bryant, sister of Mrs. Fraser’s, who development of Immunity plants, Pro
increasing demand lor a standardized product on the part of the
is here during the holidays from fessor McKay believes. Knowing
consumer ate factors which are forcing many farm folks to make
Great Falls, Montana, where she j the nature and cause of blight will
adjustments in th it flocks. Farm poultry is fast getting down to
teaches.
enable investigators to speed up the
a more bnsin ss-likc basis.
control work already under way.
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Belscamper I
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have just received a number of booklets giving the results
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entertained
a number of friends and
FARM REMINDERS
several experiment stations and s ccessful poultry men, of
■ Hatching,
neighbors at a Christmas dinner for
Brooding.
Culling
and
F
eding.
as
well
as
labor
saving
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which a big turkey proved the center
devices in the care of Chickens, Ducks, Geese and Turkeys. Cop
The cabbage maggot Is classed by
of attraction. Seven guests were the experiment station as the worst
ies may be obtained at the office.
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present. Mrs. Belscamper was the pest of cabbage, turnip, rape, kale
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recipient of a purse which was sent and radish In Oregon. The best pro
from Germany 41 years ago.
tection from Its ravage« la screens
over the seed beds to protect the
A family reunion waa held at the young plants from the fly that lays
home of Mr. and Mra. W. T. Bolves- the maggot eggs and treatment of in-
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ter at Christmas. They had aa their f«Rted older plants with a corrosive
guests Mr. and Mra. S. F. Walters of sublimate solution.
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“ The Yard of Best Qaality”
Blalock and Mr. and .Mrs. Rolla “Bus-
M. M. STRAW, MGR.
tor'’ SolVeStrr of Arlington. Mrs, ' Pollination of Ettorsberg strawber
Walters Is their daughter and Rolla ries 121 by Interplanting of other
Exclusive Representatives of National Builders Bureau
Bolvoatcr Is th«lr son. Mr. and Mrs. varieties had no more effect on the
Rolla Solveater will remain here un crop than self-pollination. In tests
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conducted by Oregon growers and the
Poultry is an Important Part •
of the Grow-Your-Own-
Living Farm Program
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h 18 a Billion Dollar Cash Crop
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5 Inland Empire Lumber Company
experiment station. Barrenness of
some of the terminal blossoms was
ascribed to defective structure of the
pistils.
L ife ’s Span G row s
Washington.—f>r, Harvey W. Wiley
thinks that science within a quarter
century will add three to four years
to the average span , of life In this
country. The doctor ieems to’have a
recipe of tits own. -however. On his
eighty-second birthday he walked to
work, as usual, and took no time for
lunch.
New Year
Greetings
For Comfort
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To our Patrons and Friends
and Economy j
Oregon Hardware & Impl. Co.
H. T. Fraser
F. C . M c K e n z ie
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GET THE BEST COAL
AND DRY WOOD.
WE INSIST ON GETTING THE
BEST COAL POSSIBLE, AND
HAVE IT READY
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FOB DELIVERY
WE ARE NOW BUSY WITH OUR
AT ALL TIMES.
BY PLACING Y0UB ORDER A
INVENTORY
WEEK OR TEN D A ft AHEAD
IT CAN BE
AND AS USUAL ARE FINDING SOME SHORT LINES OF VERY
DELIVERED FROM THE CAR
SAVING YOU
OUT AT SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTIONS FROM REGULAR PRICES.
TUTS
50 CENTS
MERCHANDISE WHICH WE PROPOSE TO CLOSE
B T T.T A BLE
COVERS A LINE OVER THE RANGE
OF
THE
ENTIRE
STOCK AND AS WE COME TO THEM WE WILL SORT THEM
FOR THIS—
PER TON.
Materially Yours,
TUM-A-LUM
LUMBER
COMPANY
REDUCTION
A SAVING CAN BE MADE SHOULD
YOU
NEED
AITY
OF
THESE ITEMS.
IN A FEW DAYS WE WILL DISPLAY THE MERCHANDISE IN
OUR,WINDOWS PLAINLY MARKED.
R. A. BROWflsON, Mgr,
ATTENTION
Hermiston Produce and Supply
Dairym en
Company
WE PAY HIGHEST CASH MARKET
PRICE FOR CREAM
Also guarantee correct weights and
jests.
At the Playhouse Sat. and Sun.
We would appreciate a share of
your patronage.
January 1 and 2
Matinee Saturday 2:15
SW IFT & CO.
HERMISTON OREGON
MARIE PREVOST
J. D. WAGH0RN, Agent
Next door to Leo H nrly’s Grocery
In A1 Christie** Laugh Special
CRISP
MORNINGS
“ UP IN MABEL'S ROOM '
A Screaming Farce and Riot of Laughs
7:45 P. M.
25-50c
CALL FOR GOOD WHOLESOME
FOOD TO START OUT THE DAY IN
THE RIGHT MOOD TO GET THINGS
DONE.
What is more sensible and econom
ical than—
MEAT
Maybe you want Cured Meats. If
do our line of Bacon and Hams
will suit you. If you want Fresh
Meats you can hava a ehoiea of a
wide range of offerings.
you
City Meat Market
PHONE 1S1
A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS
NEW YEAR
Is our sincere wish for you
Hermiston Market
Phone Four-O ne-One
F re e D e liv e ry
We Want Yon
to keep in mind the
fact that in addition to
printing this news
paper we do job work
of any kind. When
in need of anything
in this line be sure
To See Us
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