THE HEBMISTOH H B SA U fc aS B X S M W '
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amendment prohibiting salary In Fish’s Odd Method
Will Keep Hands off Evolution
cresset for both state and county offi
Memphis, Tenn.—Opposition to any
of Attracting Pray legislation that would interfere with
Published «very Thursday at Her cers during the terms for which they
For a long time It was considered the proper teaching of evolution or
were
elected,
under
a
resolution
Intro
miston, Umatilla County, Oregon by
that the nenrest allies of the angler
Joseph S. Harvey, editor and man duced by Senator Brown and approved Bsh, well known In British waters, scientific knowledge generally in the
by 22 of the 30 senators.
schools and colleges was expressed
were fish living on or near the bottom
ager.
By 31 votes, the bouse pasted Rep of the sea. But recent Investigations by the educational association of the
entered as second class matter resentative Graham’s bill, which does show thut there is another group that Methodist Episcopal church, South.
Deeember, 190«, at the postottlce at away with the personal liability of au live In mldwater at depths of from This sentiment was embodied in a res
Hermiston. Umatilla County, Oregon. tomobile owners or drivers for Injur 1,000 to 5,000 feet from the surface. olution adopted.
ies to their guests. The bill carries
This region presents conditions In
TAKEN UP NOTICE
Subscription Rates
an emergency clause. It was opposed hospitable to life, and as conditions
One Year ...................................... »2 0« by most of the lawyers of the house, must be almost uniform from season
Notice Is hereby given that I have
Six M onths................................... >1.00 who urged It was throwing down the to season, by day and by night, pe- taken up and have kept for about
bars for negligence and that It would cul,nr modifications are to be expected 100 days at the W. C. Kik ranch
In creatures capable of adaptation to
be declared unconstitutional.
four miles north of Hermiston, the
STEAMING UP
such a strange environment
A bill introduced in the house by
Perhaps one of the oddest concerns following described animal: Sorrel
The sun Is with us a little longer Cramer, to prohibit livestock from run the primary need for the maintenance gelding, weight about 1200 pounds,
during these present days than he ning at large in precincts through of the species. How can a Bsh find about 12 years old, wineglass brand
was during December, and his rays which a state highway runs came in Its mate in these vast, trackless, on right shoulder. Said animal will
work more effectively than when for a sever« roasting in the senate, gloomy spaces, where they are pre be sold, unless redeemed, at public
vented from living in shoals by the auction to the highest bidder for cash
winter's influence was stronger. and failed to pass.
The senate reconsidered and ap poverty of the food supply? It has in hand on the 5th day of March.
As a matter of fact. It beg’ns to be
been found thut in some of the spe
more apparent, even to those cau proved a bill repealing the present law cies the males are minute dwarfs liv 1927, at the above described ranch
making
It
incumbent
on
men
desiring
at 10 o’clock A. M.
tions folks who know the, weather
ing as parasites attached to the fe
Dated at Hermiston on this 17th
man for a fickle sort of character, to obtain a marriage license to first males.
that spring is flirting with us. submit to a medical examination.
Most of I he flsli live wholly on other day of February, 1927.
The senate Indefinitely postponed a flsh. and. like the angler flsh, obtain
(Signed)
W. C. KIK.
Some of us have even gone so Tar
resolution providing for a constltu their prey by attracting it and then 24-2tc
as to express the unqualified opin
i tional amendment creating the office engulfing It In capacious mouths
ion that spring is here to stay.
of lieutenant governor.
armed with sharp and flexible teeth
Spring's virus Is in the air, even
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
that bend Inwards towards tlie gullet.
Governor May Be Budget Officer
though winter should come back for
The Ashing apparatus is developed
Notice
is hereby given that the
The
senate
approved
a
measure
a short visit. The tulips are peep- i
from one of the spines of the dorsal
ing through the ground. The grass! sponsored by Governor Patterson pro- fin, and consists of a stiff but movable undersigned has been appointed ad
Is painting the landscape with greeu. viding that he shall be the state bud basal part, tlie rod; a long flexible ministrator of the estate of George
Marble games have been In pro get officer. Twenty-one senators voted I purt, the line; and n tip with barbs. Anderson, deceased, in the County
gress these many weeks. Dead leaves for the bill and nine opposed. It pre- j representing the hook. The bait is Court in the State of Oregon, for
« ...i.. was - passed
.u u-
n iun,|nong
the outer skin being Umatilla County. All persons hav
by .>.«
the >.«...«
house.
from last year on the lawn fill viously
The budget bill gives the governor nearly transparent and containing a ing claims against the Bald estate
father with apprehension as to the
labor that will be necessary to re 1 power to appoint a budget master, and glandular sac which sheds a secretion are hereby required to present such
claims duly verified, and with proper
I appropriates 325,000 for the admlnis- by a pore.—Vancouver Province.
move them.
vouchers attached, to the undersigned
Change Is with us. Farmers who ' tration of the budget department.
at the office of Raley, Raley & War
come to town these days are not so
» waa on« of the Principles set out M any Luminous Plants
ner, in the First National Bank
deliberate and casual as they were 'n
Patterson platform when he
Known to Naturalists Building, in Pendleton, Oregon, with
only a month since. They move BOUEht nomination and election to of-
Glow worms ure not the only living in six months from date of this not
wlth speed and directness. Their nos- flce’ and the senate vote grants to him
tilings that ure luminous. Several ice, the same being dated and pub
tills trained through many seasons the power which he told the voters
he would seek of the legislators and ' P,ant8 01ld P«rts ° f Plallts have the lished the first time this 17th day of
to catch the first whiff of spring's
power of shining In the dark.
February, 1927.
odors, have told them that It won’t [ would
lf *lven to hlm- t0 reduce
There Is, for example, a luminous
M. H. HOBSON,
be long now until the plow should 8tat* expenditures,
moss.
It can be seen in crevices
be busy turning over dirt. Ditches' The 8cnate- by a Tote ° f 19 to ’ • among rocks and large groves by the As administrator of the estate of
George Anderson, deceased.
must be cleaned before many days with tw° members absent, approved a roadside, sometimes in patches meas
There are a thousand and one things house bill introduced by the Tillamook uring six or seven inches across. The Raley,- Raley & Warner & John F.
Kilkenny,
that presently will be crying to be and Washington county delegations cpmmou tormentil gives off a light,
done, and because forehanded farm authorizing construction by the state too—Just close near the roots. If the Attorneys for Administrator.
I i I
er* want to keep away from a rush highway department of what will be rtmts are dug up and cleaned of soil, 24-5tc
they will be clearly outlined In the
of work as long as possible, they known as the Wilson river toll road. darkness by a pale green phosphores
are starting early so they can boss Senate Opposes Phone Investigation cence.
In the Matter of the Application of
Twenty-four members of the senate
the job, instead of being bossed by
The light given off by decaying
0. D. Teel, to Include Certain
recorded their votes as opposed to wood Is common enough, but few peo
the pressure of the Job.
Lands in the Westland Ir
How Invigorating is this season. adoption of a memorial introduced by pie perhaps have noticed the light
rigation District.
Senator
Dunne
requesting
a
federal
given off by leaves during the fall of
The sluggish near stagnation that
Notice is hereby given that on the
marks the few weeks after Christ Investigation of the telephone rates the year. When beech and oak leaves 18th day of January. 1927, the peti
mas is ail but forgotten. The now effective in the state. The me start decaying they glow with much tion of O D. Teel, holder of the title
the SHme kind of light that comes from
goods and wares of the merchant, morial was Indefinitely postponed.
or evidence of title to land adjacent
f?esh fish.
suddenly come to be in demand, i Senator Upton has introduced a bill
This light Is caused hy tiny threads to the Boundaries of the Westiane
There is work for them to do, and abolishing the state flsli coinmlnelon
that are Interwoven Into the plants Irrigation District, was filed with th>
they are purchased hy men and nn,l placing the duties of the depart- and are essential to their health al
directors of said district, praying
women bent on accomplishment.
I ment under the state board of control. though often they do not start g'ow-
that the land of said petitioner b<
The Hermiston country is prepar-
Creating of the <»flce of superintend ing until tlie plants are either dying
included in the Westland Irrigatior
ing to launch Into another season’s ent of the Oregon state penitentiary or dead. If the underside of a glow District. The name of the petitione,
was
provided
in
a
bill
Introduced
by
ing
beech
leaf
Is
examined
under
a
work. Slueves will soon be rolled
and description of land mentioned Ir
up, shirts will open at the collar, Senator Moser. The superintendent magnifying glass, small yellow spots said petition is as follows:
and coats of tan will be the proper would have authority to appoint a will be seen. These are the centers
O. D. Teel. The South Half of the
of the fibers, and if one is disturbed
sliade on the Iaens Of father and warden and deputy warden.
Southwest
Quarter of the Southwest
with
the
point
of
a
pin
It
will
glow
This bill is part of the administra
the boys.
W ere steaming up.
Quarter and the South Half of the
more
brightly
for
a
few
minutes.
tion program to place the various pris
Farin' to go.
Southeast Quarter of the Southwest
on industries on a profitable basis.
Quarter, of Section Twelve, Township
Finishing Sealskin
The north section road between Members of the board of control said
Three north of range twenty-eighi
the
superintendent
would
act
as
ex
Natural
sealskin
Is
so
heavy
and
the Tilden and Jewett ranches has
east of W illamette Meridian. All per
ecutive
officer
of
the
institution
and
salt-impregnated,
so
thick,
greasy
and
been reported as being impassible in
sons Interested in the matter of said
places. The mail carrier has not would bo held responsible for the coarse-haired, thut no woman would petition or who may be interested or
care
to
wear
the
fur
until
it
had*
been
management
of
the
penitentiary
indus
tried to get over the bad places for
properly dressed. It requires a hunt affected by such change in #the boun
some time, and i*c«Idonts out there tries. He also would have general ber of operations to finish the raw daries of said District, are herebj
stated that tho road was torn up by supervision over the entlrfe prison skins.
They nre wnshed, dried notified to appear at the office of th<
the county too late in the fall and plant.
cleaned with oli-soaked sawdust anil board of directors of the Westiane
Salesmen Exempt as Peddlers
did not have a chance to si<ttle prop
skived to oue-third of their original Irrigation District at Hermiston, Ore
The sennte passed a road and high- thickness. The skiving requires tlie
erly before winter rains and snows
gon, on the 1st day of March, 192’.
bill
eliminating
com-
most sensitive touch, as the knives at eight o’clock P. M. of said day, be
came. In the meantime the ranchers "'aY committee
inost vitally affected are welcoming mercial salesmen from the operation must go deep enough to loosen the ing the next regular meeting of the
the spring sunshine and thei effect o’ ,be so-called peddlers motor vehi- roots of the stiff hairs but must nol board after the expiration of the time
it Is having |n slowly drying the mud. clo license tax. Under this law com- touch tlie roots of the fur Itself. When of publication of this notice, then anei
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mercial travelers were compelled to the bristles are loosened the skins are
turned over and the bristles are there to show cause, if any they have,
Just as if farmers lack in free ad pay a motor vehicle license fee 50 per rubbed out. The skins then go to the why said petition should not be
vice, along comes Henry Ford and cent in excess of the license fee as hot rooms, where the fur side Is ex granted.
says machinery and science are more sessed against other vehicles.
posed to blasts of hot air. The Iasi
Dated this 18th day of January,
The new bill In addition to repeal operation Is the dyeing that gives the
needed by agriculture than live
1927.
stock and the lowly hen. Henry ing the peddlers' license tax, fixes the fur Its characteristic color. Unlike
J. W. MESSNER,
knows how to make cars, but a few Inst half of the year for securing mo ordinary things, sealskin is colored b) Secretary of the Board of Directors
yearn ago he demonstrated his lack tor vehicle licenses as of June 1. Un being painted with coat after coat of
of Westland Irrigation District.
of knowledge of history. Now he der tho present law the last half of dye, put on with a brush.
20-4 tc
the
year
begins
July
1.
The
last
half
hns gone und done the some thing
license fee under the new act would
over aguln.
A n A libi for Ed
1 1)0 based on 60 per cent of the total
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATOR'S
Two backwoodsmen
In Maine
I license tee.
SALE
knocked
at
the
door
of
a
bouse
at
REVIEW OF LEGISLATURE
Senator Bailey has introduced a the edge of the forest. “Hello, Ed1“
In
the
County
Court
of the State of
| joint resolution referring to the voters said one of them to the farmer who
(Continued From Pnge One)
Oregon
For
Umatilla
County.
I of the state a constitutional amend came to the door. “Say, we come in the Matter of the Estate
,
ment
making
the
provisions
of
the
across
the
dead
body
of
a
man
over
slon administration.
of
Tho senate postponed Indefinitely a i workmen's compensation act compul there in the hollow an’ we kindu William C White, deceased.
thought
'twas
you.”
bill authorizing an appropriation of lory as affecting all hazardous occu
Notice is hereby given that the un
“That so? What’d he look like?’
>50,000 for a woman's building at the ; nations. Under provisions of the pro asked the farmer.
dersigned as administrator with will
old soldiers home. This bill was spon i posed amendment, all employers and
“Well, he wns about your build—” annexed of the estate of William C.
sored by the Women's Relief corps. | employes engaged in hazardous occu
“Have on a gray flannel shirt?"
White, deceased, and pursuant to an
nations would be brought under th<
"Yep.”
order of the above entitled Court
Motor Regulations Opposed
i ict without any opportunity for elec
“Boots?”
made and entered on the 8th day of
Strenuous opposition to additional ' lion or rejection.
“Yep.”
January 1927, will sell for cash In
regulations affecting motor vehicle
“Was they knee boots or hip boots?' hand In one parcel at private sale
owners was voiced in the senate when
“Let's see. Witch wns they. Char
a bill providing for Inspection of tour Beautiful Bird, but
Icy, knee boots or hip boots? Oh. yes. upon sealed bids at the First National
Bank in Hermiston, Oregon, subject
ist camp grounds was defeated.
Has Bad Reputation they was hip boots."
Sixteen senators voted against a
"Nope,” said the fnrmer. "Twnsn’t to confirmation by the above entitled
Mexico has contributed n number
Court, all of the following described
bill to provide for distribution of au of striking species of birds to the me.”—Boston Transcript,
lands located in Umatilla County,
tomobile license plates by the sheriffs lower Rio Grnnde valley of Texas, hnt
Oregon, and all belonging to said es
of the various counties instead of none more handsome, more nilschlev
He K new Better
tate, as follows: Beginning 345 feet
through a centralized office us now oils or more provocative of Interest
Two negro boys were engaged to west and 30 feet south from the cen- _
than the large green, yellow, blue and
handled.
change one of the large, heavy tire.- ter of the southeast Quarter of Bee- ■
The legislature of Washington has black member of the crow Jay family,
says Nature Magaslne. He Is nearly uaed on the present-day type of niotoi Hon 10, Tp. 4 N. R. 28 E. W. M„ ■
refused to appoint a committee to con a foot In length, his upper parts are a coaches, The bulk und weight of the
fer with a committee from tho Oregon lovely blue green; tlie crown of the tire was giving them quite a little thence west 157.6 feet; thence south =
legls'ature with relation to fishing head und bind neck, a deep, rich blue. trouble and a bystander, noticing this 300 feet; thence 9ast 167.5 feet; £
legislation on the Columbia river, ac The forehead Is almost white and the made an offer of a quarter to the one thence north 300 feet to the place of ■
eord'ng to a letter received by th< cliln, throat, chest and eye region making the nearest correct guess nl beginning in Umatilla County. Ore-
black. The shoulders, rump snd upper the actual weight of tbe tire.
gon, and that aald administrator will
chief clerk of the sennte.
The very first hoy to proffer hl- receive bids for said land from and
A bill extending tho time for obtain tall are yellowish green, the four
Ing tho state soldiers’ bonus or loan middle tall feather* being a darker, gueas very confidently said, "Dis here after Monday, the 21st day of Febru-lB
brighter green, while the outer ones tire weighs 35 pounds, boas,"
ary, 1927. and will sell said land to ■
was passed without opposition by the are
yellow.
Whereupon the other hoy htlnriousl.v the highest bidder for rash, provided _
house It provides that one may ap
He la sn Inveterate robber of the drolled his reply: “Boss, dat show«
ply for cash benefits up to June 39 nests of wild birds as well a* thos- how Ignorant some niggers la. Ah said bid Is satisfactory to the Judge
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1931), and for the loan to June 39,1945 of domestic fowls.
Jeet pnt 70 pounds of sir In dat tlr*.” of the above entitled Court.
This notice Is published four c o n - ij
Representative Pierce’s bill permit
—Forbes Magaslne.
secutive weeks in the Hermiston Her-
ting dancing after midnight and until
Slitting Parrot's Tongue
aid. a newspaper of general circu la -'g
8 A. M. In counties of the state ol
”?t Is a wide-spread superstition that
tion published weekly In Herm iston.,■
lesser population, failed to pass.
to enable n parrot to talk (In imita
A "Show Me” Boy
Umatilla County, Oregon nnd by post-
Repeal of (ho motor vehicle rertlfl tion of human spoech) It Is necessary
Bobby had his mother’s best h-ead
cate of title law which wns sought in to split the tongue," says Alexander knife ont In the yard, where he bud Ing the same notice In three public
a bill Introduced by Senator Upton Wetmore In the Scientific Magazine. been trying to cut bricks. His moth places la said County and State, all B
was defeated In the senate after s “This, however, hue no foundation in er found him at the Job aud asked tn the manner and form as by law ■
provided.
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lengthy and snmowhat heated debate. fact, nnd when practiced only Inflicts him:
Dated this 20th day of January, B
“How in the world do you expect
Twelve senators voted for the repeal an unnecessary cruelty. Birds make
soundi In a little organ known aa the
of the certificate of title law. while syrinx at the lower end of the trachea mother to cut h.-ead with that knife ¡1927.
F, B. SWAYZB.
15 senators voted against the repeal or windpipe, and as tlie tongne has I when you get through?”
Voters to Pess on Salaries
little to do with the process, splitting I “I don't know, mother. Show me Administrator with w |ll annexed of
hew •• eeme heck Bohhv, who handed
the estate of William C. White, de-
Voters at the next general electlos It has no connection whatever with tbe knife back to thu loud partt-i —
ceased
ths
ablljty
to
Imltste
sounds"
will |n ss oo a proposed constitutional
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South, East, North, West lived differently, dressed
differently, thought differently. When a traveling
American could feel like a stranger in his own land.
Before advertising—
But now Mrs. Green of Boston and Mrs. Brown
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der, soap; Adams of Boston and Sims of Seattle are
alike' in the cut of their clothes. And where an
American hangs his hat within the borders of these
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