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HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, ÔEEÔCÎ?, I B C S S S ^ THURSDAY,
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FARM BUREAU HOLD
MONTHLY MEETING
A. JOHNSTON
An Editorial
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CITY LIMITS. EXSCHOOL TEACHER
POLITICAL CROSS CURRENTS
BELIEVES
IN
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IRA E. ROBINSON
ROTATION
NO. 35
UMATILLA WINS
THIRD BALL DAME
What funny situations we find ♦
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ourselves in sometimes as the politic
To describe the cmmerclal garden
HEPPNER DEFEATED IN EXCIT
ians buzz!
of Mrs. Eva Vest on her place w/thln^
LARGE CROWD IN ATTENDANCE
ING CONTEST
A short time since, when the pres the city limits is to tear a. few page«
W ITH GOOD PROGRAM
ent primary campaign was getting from a seed catalog, and to tell of
Large Crowd W itnesses Third Home
under way the word was passed her work on that place is to describe
Game of League Schedule. Uma
around that the wets were supporting perpetual motion.
Interesting Program Prepared by the
tilla Leads League.
Tom Gurdane for sheriff and that if
A resident of Umatilla county for
Farm Bureau A uxiliary Follow s
heads of families, lovers of decency 44 years, a graduate of the old W
Umatilla won the third consecutive
and good government, believers in ton Normal, and an ex-schoolteacher
B usiness Session.
game in the Wheatland league by de
progress and members of churches Mrs. Vest came to Hermiston front.
feating Heppner In a well played and
righteousness and the dry cause to be Ukiah less than three years ago, pur-,
The regular monthly meeting of
exciting
game at Umatilla Sunday 3
upheld,
they
must
support
and
vote
chased the A. D. Crosland 20 acr«,
the Umatilla Project Farm Bureau
to 0.
for R. T. Cookingham fr sheriff.
place half a mile from town an
i held Friday night in the Colum-
In the third Inning Berry and
That report made the writer half started market gardening. She ha
, i i school house. In the absence of
Woodward each singled and v
sick. He is dry, the father of a fam had no preious experience with this
'. L. ackson, G. H. Jenkins spoke on
brought home by a beautiful tv -
ily of growing children, a lover of, work except in a small farm garden.
’ e activities of various club work-
bagger by Mittlesdorf through sec
and
fighter
for,
decency
and
pro
“I do all my own work,” says Mrs»
s A discussion of the marketing
ond base and the latter went to
press, and In addition was and is Vest. ‘‘I did have a man twelve daya
rly potatoes was held and Mr
third on Schroeder’s error.
Mittles
mighty hearty in his support of Tom this spring to plow and level for me
i InB gave a talk on the work with
dorf then came home on Kendler’s
Gurdane for sheriff, and just as and help with my onions, but now i(;
abortion control that is being done
sacrifice fly to left. In the eighth
wholehearted in his opposition to R is where I can do it alone.”
here.
Mittlesdorf attempted a steal home
T.
Cookingham.
For
the
first
time
Finding that Bermuda onions gave
Dean told of thc value of
ana many thought him safe but the
in his life it appeared that he was her prety good returns last year, Mrs.
gated pastures on the project and
Ira E. Robinson of Grafton, W . Va.,
finding himself forced into a political Vest has put in more this season and who has been confirmed us a member umpire called him out.
aw Madden's subject was along the
Umatilla leadg the league.
classification wholly repugnant to has 24,000 plants in, all growing well of the federal radio commission.
D ies of community cooperation.
The score:
A. Johnston of Cleveland, who la his tastes.
After a talk by R. T. Cookingham
and already contracted for sale.
Umatilla—
The writer believed then, and be Seed onions also occupy part of the
of Pendleton, an interesting program head of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
B
R H o A E
lieves more firmly now than ever, tract.
Cabbages proved a good
w'as presented by the Farm Bureau Engineer»
..
.4
Woodward,
r
.........4
1 2 i 1 0
that
Tom
Gurdane
is
honest,
clean
crop
last
year
so
thl
syear
3000
cab
Auxiliary who later served lunch to
Mittlesdorf, m ... ...4
4
1 2 0 0 0
competent, dependable and worthy bage plants will grow tn the garden.
those present.
Blakely, ss .........4
...4 0 0 3 2 1
to be intrusted with the exacting an Last year corn and cabbage planted
Kendler, 1 .............
...3 3 0 0 1 0 0
onerous duties of Sheiff of this In August matured before frost. One
HERMISTON CHILD
Peck, 2 .....
...4 0 0 2 7 0
county.
acre
will
be
given
to
corn.
Some
con
IN SHRINE HOSPITAI
Washington, D. C.—The mounting
...3 0 1 14 1 0
As a newspaper man, the writer for sideratlon was given to the possi death rate among civil war veterans Fetzer, 1 ...
...3 0 0 1 2 1
15 months, daily visited the office bility of succcees with bruasels reduced the number in March to only Mauske, 3 .
The little daughter of Mr. and
Bernard, c ............
. ...3
3 0 0 4 1 0
of
the
present
sheriff
in
pursuit
of
sprouts,
but
beause
of
the
long
care
Mrs. William Schabel, who live east
Spokane, Wash.—Majo- John T.
79,300 pensioners. A total of 1283 died Berry, p ..............
3
1 1 1 6 0
....3
news
and
come
to
know
that
offic
necessary It was not considered teas last month, the pension bureau an
of Hermiston, is a patient in the Fancher, 37, commander of the 41st
'b rin e hospital in Portland.
Her division air service unit, Washington ial, his point of view, his mental re hl« to plant this crop.
nounced.
31 3 4 27 19 2
Peas and beans find their place In
tission was secured through th< national guard, died In Wenatchee actions, his personal idlosyncracies
Once, in 1898, the pensioners total
Heppner—
B
R H O A E
'!
's of th» locnl lodge. A fev Sunday from Injuries received when as only a trained newsgatherer may. the straight rows, table beets, stock ed 745,822, which was the peak, but it
...4 4 0 0 0 0 0
The writer has also known ana beets and carrots, too. Later on remained for increases in appropria Thorne, r .............
weeks ago a difficult operation wa: an aerial bomb he was holding in his
...4 4 0 0 9 0 0
performed on the little girl.
Dr hand exploded, said Information re studied Tom Gurdane. As between squash will be well along between tions to bring the highest in the Lamear, c .............
the two men the writer unhesitating the rows of corn when tte stalks are amount of pensions in 1923, when Van Master, 2 ....3 0 1 0 3 2
Richard Dillehunt performed the ceived here.
Drake, p ................3
...3 0 0 0 2 0
operation which took over threi
Major Fancher had gone to Wenat ly chooses Tom Gurdane, feeling that, ready to come out, tomatoes will have 3141,377,615 was disbursed.
Solvester, s ...........3
...3 0 0 0 2 0
h rs.
The little patient, who wll chee with other officers of his unit whilg Gurdane does not loom and taken the place of the peag and pep-
Every civil war pensioner is now Aiken, 1 ..................3
...3 0 0 3 0 0
b« ip a plaster cast for two months to participate in the annual apple boom and effuse on a first meeting pers will fill the spaces once occpled more than 80 years old, but It was
Schroeder,
m
____
...1
1 0 e 0 0 1
neither
does
he
disclose
on
longer
hy cabbages. "I try to get two crops estimated at the bureau that a few of
rites home that the Shrine hospitai blossom festival and In the dedication
Mathews, m .........2
...2 0 0 0 0 0
is a beautiful place.
of an aviation Held there. He had acquaintance an insufferable ego off as much of the ground as possi the civil war beneficiaries will live
. .1 1 0 i 3 2 1
Erwin, 1 ...............
landed after a night bombing maneu tism, a habit of strutting, a love of ble,” said this energetic gardener. 25 more years. This estimate is based
....2 2 0 i 6 0 0
to ‘Last year I found a small place vac on the fact that five Mexican war pen Hoskins, 1 .............
ver and was examining some of the cheap dramatics, a disposition
IRTJGON SCHOOL BAND
Cason, 3 ...
....3 0 0 3 2 1
TO GIVE CONCERT HERI bombs that had failed to explode, subjeot all else to wlvat he considers ant in September and put in some sioners «re still on the roli, although
the
political
course
or
any
other
of
radish seed. I got 37 from that lit it has been 80 years since that war.
when one of them was detonated un
29 0 3 24 11 5
The Irrigon school band will play expectedly, injuring him so badly that thg qualifications of less than a prac tle patch for some really excellent
The last survivor of the revolution
Struck
out,
by
Drake 8, by Berry
tical
politician.
radishes."
at the Hermiston school house Wed he died in a hospital there.
ary war, Daniel F. Bakerman. died
Shortly before he assumed the
The garden, by careful planting April 5, 1869, at the age of 109 years, 4. Two base hits, Mittlesdorf. Dou
Major Fancher was the republican
nesday evening. May 9, under th<
ble plays, Berry to Fetzer, Blakely
auspices of the student body. ThiF candiate for representative in con office of sheriff, Mr. Cookingham is and unceasing cultivation, always and 90 years after the war of 1812
to
Peck to Fetzer. Umpires, Lleu-
credited
w
ith
having
gushed
forth
has
a
thrifty
appearance
and
never
band was organized last Octobei gress from the fifth district in 1926
Hiram Cronk, the last survivor of
allen and Stone.
from entirely new material with thc having been defeated by Representa in chtid-llke faith and egotism the looks patchy. The attractive house that war, died.
exception of three boys who had tive Hill, democrat, the incumbent. statement that under his administra is set in a large lawn that is flanked
LOVE PIRATES OF HAWAII
Major Fancher was educated in the tion all the bootleggers and rum with berry bushes, blackcaps, red
soe previous experience. The players
GERMANS FAVOR PACT
There
range in age from tn yars up to high schools of this city and in the runners would be out of business raspberries and dewberries.
is a strawberry patch and a few trees Proposal to Ban War Deemed One of
university of Washington, where he within 60 days.
seventeen.
The following is the plot of the
Just what is the situation in the provide fruit for home use.
South
The director Mr. R. J. Maaske, is was a basketball star.
operetta, soon to be presented by the
Greatest Sines 1919.
race for sheriff today?
of the house is a bluegrass pastur«
a graduate of Nebraska university
Berlin.—Foreign Minister Strese- rnebers of the glee clubg of the
From a survey secured from which brings in additional inconn
and formerly captain of the reserve
BRIEF
GENERAL
NEWS
mann
has lost no time in lstting the high schol:
enough sources to be truly indicative, to the owner.
officers training corps band of that
Dorothy, an American girl, has
United
States know that Germany ful
Two hundred baby chicks occupj
institution.
The supreme court of Canada de the writer has found that:
been left In a seminary at Honolulu
ly
approves
of
Secretary
Kellogg’s
pro
A number of Pendleton "wets” some of Mrs. Vest’s spare time ant
cided that women are not entitled to
in charge of Miss Primer (she Is
are quietly lining up their political next year she wants to start a small posed outlawry of war pact. With the prim.) Lieutenant! Bob, Dorothy's
appointments
to
the
Canadian
senate.
MRS. THOMAS CAMPBELL LEAVES
approval of President von Hlndenburg
support
for
R.
T.
(Jookingham,
not,
herd of dairy cows. When asked
Twenty-one coast guard ships have
and the cabinet, the foreign minister friend, Is on the cruiser Tennessee,
FOR N EPH EW ’S FUNERAL
been ordered to Detroit to reinforce presumably, on account of any per what bred interested her she gald handed a four-page reply to Jacob which hag just come In. As it Is
I couldn’t
the rnm patrol against a threatened sonal friendship, but for the reason "I prefer the Guernseys.
Gould Schurman, the American am difficult to visit the seminary, Bob
The funeral of Major John T Fan-
that they have done very well under handle
very big herd, but I can bassador.
flood of Canadian liquor.
Intends coming as a professor, and so
cher of Spokane, nephew of Mrs.
A reduction of rates on binder twine his present administration, and like take care of fifteen cows all right
writes Dorothy. Later, changing
It
is
understood
the
German
note
Thomas Campbell of this city, was
• ally like dairying better than
from Portland. Or., to points in Idaho, Wall street financiers, hate to see
not only welcomes the American pro his mind, he sends a second letter
held in the Masonic temple auditor
gardening.”
Montana and Washington as far east a change.
This
posal, but considers it one of the great that he will come as a pirate.
ium of his home town Tuesday. The
Some
men
in
Pendleton
whose
Mrs. Vest does all of the irrigating
as Miles City and Glasgow, Mont., was
letter falls into the hands of Miss
est
practical
steps
toward
peace
un
tragic death of Major Fancher at
ordered by the interstate commerce early business training caused them cultivating and other work on her dertaken by any government since the Primer. And along comes a band of
Wenatchee on Sunday by the explo commission.
to believe that a deal should not be place herself, studies and tries fo:
war. It also emphasizes that the proj real pirates. Undaunted, thinking
sion of a defective bomb, after land
By pressing a button in the White consummated until after a certain new and better methods of garden ect Is in accord with Germany's dis them the confederates of Bob, she
ing and at the close of one of the
House, President Coolidge fired the quantity of liquor has been drunk ing. alwayg had a ready smile and a armament proposal as championed by bluffs them Into being captured by
most daring exhibition flights he had
shot that "holed through” the pioneer are satisfied with the present ad philosophic word and counts that Count von Bernstorff In behalf of the her single handed.
”Nw they’re
ever given, has been a severe shock tunnel of the Great Northern railway ministration of law enforcement. day loet when sun-up finds her nap
cooks.”
Bob
comes
along
later. Is
German
government
In
Geneva.
to aviation circis of the northwest
under the Cascade range in the state In effect Mr. Cookingham is con ping.
discovered and captured by the
and to all who knew him.
sidered by church folk and the cotton
of Washington.
"cooks.” Dorothy contrives to free
Shipbuilding Less Arouses Experts.
The dallies of the Northwest have
J. S, Harvey, editor of the Hermis
Eastern Mason-Dixon line states dries as the glowing torch of right
Washingtno, D. C.—Testimony was him and he goes for assistance.
given much space this week to the Sunday dug out from a belated winter eousness and law enforcement, his ton Herald, is making slow but satis
given to the senate naval committee Dorothy .........................Ruth Hamrick
life and activities of Major Fancher.
blizzard which descended upon fruit presence in office is very acceptable factory strides toward Improvement
The Spokesman Review quotes one trees in full bloom, drove plowmen to men who use liquor as an aid in in St. Anthony’s hospital in Pendle by high naval officials that If the pres Miss Primer ................. Elba Hamrick
ent downward trend in private ship Billy ................................. John Newell
of his fellow officers as saying:
from their fields, blocked railways and their business dealings, and these ton where he has been for three
building continues, the nation may Pirate Chief ..............Vernon Harrah
"Jack was a great flyer, • born lead
highways and tore down telephone and men in quiet and effective measure, weeks. While Mr. Harvey is not
find
itself without facilities to replace Scary ................................... Jack Smith
er and a lovable character. He had
strong enough yet for a thorough ex
telegraph wires. Damage by frost to some of them, are for Cookingham.
its battle fleet and auxiliaries after ’ May 11, high school, 8 o’clock, 26
■ personal interest in very man. in
An attorney, who very frequently amination, he is progresning well un
fruit trees. It was feared, would mount
the naval building holiday ends in and 50 cents.
his squadron and they all looked up Into the millions.
and successfully defends alleged boot der the course of treatment that has 1932.
Presented by the high school glee
to him and loved him.”
leggers, is reported as supporting been mapped out for him. He was
clubs,
directed by Ruth Seyler.
Mrs. Campbell left Monday after
allowed to sit up for a short time Irrigon Band Concert, Wednesday,
noon for Spokane.
"Tommy’s Brid
Friday, May 4.
Continued on page two)
Wednesday afternoon.
May 9.
'‘Tommy's Bride«." Friday, May 4.
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AVIATOR IS KILLED
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