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HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1928
COMMENCEMENT
WEEK ACTIVITIES
MAJOR FITZMAURICE
RESULT OF HALL
GAME IN DISPUTE
BACCALAUREATE SERMON GIVEN
UMATILLA AND CONDON BATTLE
SUNDAY EVENING
FOURTEEN INNINGS
Wednesday Night Senior Class Night.
Game is Exciting to Fans Through­
out.
D. C. Livingstone W ill Deliver
Final activities for the Seniors
commenced Sunday evening with the
baccalaureate sermon delivered by
Rev. Hamrick at the Baptist church.
The subject of the address was Ear-
nestneas of Purpose. A vocal solo
was rendered by Miss Sanstad and a
chorus by the Glee club.
Wednesday at eight o’clock Senior
class night was observed In the high
school auditorium.
Final exams were given Wednes­
day and Thursday. Reports cards
will be given out Friday.
The commencement add*ess will
be delivered Friday. May 18, at 8.
.Dr, D. C. Llvington head of the geol
ogy department of Oregon Agricultu­
ral College Is to be the speaker. The
subject for the gventng i8 "Folk
Lore, Paet, Present and Scientific.'1
Music w ill be furnished by Miss Sey-
ler, Mr. Payne and the high school
glee club. On this evening diplomas
;jlll be presented to the fourteen
^pnmbers of the graduating class.
They are:
^George Davis,
larvey DeMoss,
Dyer,
ETBS Hamrick,
Vernon Harrah,
George McKenzie,
Gerald McKenzie,
John Newell,
Donald Parsons,
Nell Reeves,
Sumner Robinson,
William Rodda,
Frances Sales,
Jack Smith.
Major Fitzmaurlce of the Irish Free
State air forcea who flew across the
Atlantic with Baron Von Hueneman
and Capt. Koehl In the plane Bremen.
METHODISTS INDORSE
CHURCH UNIFICATION
Kansas City, Mo. — The Methodist-
Episcopal church, in Its quadrennial
general conference, ratified the Idea of
church unification and announced it­
self ready to receive and extend over­
tures for closer co-operatton and union
with like-minded denominations.
A single commission of 37 members
was approved to represent the church
in all unification discussions. The
personnel of 7 bishops, 15 ministers
and 15 laymen is to be announced by
the board of bishops by May 21. Ex­
penses of the commission were order­
ed paid by the general conference.
The action was taken by vote of
852 to 3.
Prime significance was attached to
the church’s declaration because like
proposais will be made before the
general assembly of the Presbyterian
PENDLETON WINS COUNTY
church in the United States of Amer­
TENNIS TOURNAMENT ica at Tulsa, Okla., May 24 to 30.
Fourteen Inch Silver Cup is Awarded
To Winners.
ORDER CAB SHIELDS
Northern Railroads M utt Protect In -
Qin« Crews in W inter.
Pendleton carried away the honors
Washington, D. C.—Railroad* oper­
In the first annual high school tennis
ating in northern and some western
tournament held In this city last Fri­
states were ordered In the Interstate
day and Saturday. They were aw­
commerce commission to install cur­
arded a Id In ch silver loving cup
tains on locomotive cabs for the pro­
presented by the Hermiston high
tection of firemen and engineers from
school. This cup must be won three
November to April In each year. Rail­
consecutive years before it becomes
roads operating In the following states
the permanent property of any high
are among those affected: Colorado,
school.
Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, Ore­
Perhape the most spectacular event
gon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming and
of the tournament was the match be­
California north of Oroville and Trini­
tween Jeanne Bell, Pendleon and
dad.
Mary Brownson Hermiston.
These
In addition railroads operating In
two girls as well as Shorty Tucker,
the more northerly sector of the terri­
Helix and Harold Cook, Pendleton,
tory described must install a hood cnr-
proved to be the outstanding players
i tain closing the opening between the
during the two days’ meet.
’ locomotive and tender. Railroads In
All superintendents and coaches of i California were excluded from the
the schools playing acted as officials
terms of the order as to the hood cur­
at the tournament.
tains.
The scores:
Girls’ singles, Hermiston 7-1, Pen­
Mrs. Wilson is Granted Pension.
dleton 9-6; boys' doubles. Echo 4-2,
Washington,
D. C.—A bill granting
Pendleton 6-6; girls’ doubles, Pendle­
ton 6-6, Hermiston 2-3; boys’ sin ­ a pension of 25000 a year to Mrs.
gle«, Pendleton 6-6, Helix 1-1; mix­ Edith Bolling Wilson, widow of the
ed doubles. Pendleton 6-6; Helix 2-3. wartime president, was passed by the
Arrangements for the tournament senate by a unanimous vote.
were made by Supt. E. L. Cherry
Mrs. Jplius Gimble left the Her­
who was instrumental in bringing
miston hospital Tuesday morning.
the event to Hermiston.
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HERMISTON HIGH SCHOOL
May 18, 1928— 8:00 F. M.
Invocation ______________________ _______ ___ Rev. A. J. Ware
Commencement Song ........ - ________ - ........- ............H. S. Glee Club
"Folk Lore, Paat, Present and Scientific’’ ---------- D- C. Llrlngton
Morning Invitation ———........— —
0. W, Payne, Ruth Seyl«r
PTstSPtatlon of Diploma»-,......................... .......»•»...... ...............
BE HERE NEXT WEEK
H. E. Cosby, extension specialist
In poultry, will be In Hermiston dis­
trict on May 22 and 23. Due to 111
health Mr. Cosby has not been able
to be In the field an much a8 of other
year« and It s hoped that poultry-
men her« wll take advantage of this
visit.
Tuesday, May 22. at 8 P. M. a
meeting will be held in the Hermis­
ton library at whioh time poultry
problems will be discussed by Mr.
Cosby. On Wednesday afternoon at
2 P. M.. May 23, a similar meeting
will be held In the American Legion
hall at Stanfield. The remainder of
this time will be Bpent in the field
at the different poultry farms. If
you have special problems In regard
to your poultry call the assistant
county agent who will accompany
Mr. Cosby to your farm ou request,
If time permits.
Probably W ill he Decid­
ed by Directors of League.
Address at School Friday.
COLUMBIA PIONEER
PASSES MONDAY
POULTRY SPECIALIST TO
FRANCIS E. BUSH
C. E. SPENCER LONG RESIDENT
OF COLUMBIA DISTRICT
Heart Trouble Cause of Death Mon­
day.
Was Native of Illinois,
Resident Here 15 Years,
One of the moat exciting games of
The many friends of Charles Ed­
baseball ever played In this locality
ward Spencer will regret to learn of
was that between Umatilla and Con­
his death at his home ln the Colum­
don at Umatilla last Sunday. The
bia district Monday night, the cause
score was undecided at all times and
being heart trouble.
is now.
He had suffered with 111 health for
Condon secured a four run lead in
a year or more but his death came
the first Innings by misplays by Uma­
as a shock to the community.
tilla but that was soon evened up and
Mr. Spencer was born In Illinois
at the end of the ninth the score was
66 years ago and came to th« pro­
tied at 9and 9. In the last half of
HERMISTON TEACHERS
ject 15 years ago from Washington.
the twelfth with a Umatilla runner
MAKE
VACATION
PLANS
The children who survive him are
Francis E. Bush, in his ninety-sixth
on third and two out Tefft hit a
Mrs. Vera Wood of Seattle, Charles
year,
postmaster
at
Standing
Rock,
beautiful hit just inside third base
Plan« for vacation of the Hermis­ Spencer of Umatilla and Wallace of
which allowed Kendler on third to Fa., claims to ba the oldest active
ton teachers are manji’and varied.
Lostine.
score with the winning run, and the postmaster in the United States, hav­
Mr. Cherry as et s undecided. Mr.
Funeral services were held Thurs­
ing
been
first
commissioned
in
1875.
crowd and several of the players left
Walenta will drive to South Dakota. day at 2 P. M. at the Baptist church
the field. It Is reported that Tefft,
Miss Brierley will probably spend the with Rev. A. J. Ware officiating.
the batter, failed to run and his hit
summer In Hermiston. Miss Ran­ Burial was made at the local ceme­
to first and that the timoires called
dall Is to go to Newport and later tery.
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him ut, and If this decision *■>. —
plans to take a trip through the
rect, the run did not count.
Canadian Rockle. Miss McCollum, HIGH SCHOOL OPERETTA
Under protest, the game was con­
is ho has accepted a position at Bon­
SUCCESSFULLY PRESENTED
tinued two more innings, until Con­
ners Ferry, Idaho, for next year,
W
ashington,
D.
C.
—
The
senate
don secured another run. It is prob- |
teaching English and dramatics, will
"Love Pirates of Hawaii” was suc-
able that the result of the game will adopted an amendment to the tax re­ tour the northwest. Miss Donovan
i
cessfully
presented by the high
daction
bill
providing
a
graduated
5
have to be decided by the league dir­
is to be at her home in Hope, Idaho. 1 school glee clubs to a capacity house
ectors. As far a« the spectators to 12 per cent tax on the first 615,000
Miss Atkinson will spend a few days ¡on Friday, >lay 11. The amusing
of corporation income.
could tell Umatilla won.
in Portland and then go to Bend for complications of the plot carried out
Senator
Simmons,
North
Carolina,
Features of the game were the
a visit with friends. Mr. Bensel in­ by Hawaiian maids and pirates bold
home runs of Kendler and Mittles- minority tax leader, proposed the
tends to be on his farm the greater In their colorful costumes made the
amendment,
which
was
adopted
40
to
dorf, and spectacular catches made
part of the summer, taking a trip in­ operetta entertaining and pictures­
38.
by Woodward and Kendler.
Instead of the flat rate of 12$4 per to Washington near the close of vac­ que. A company of forty members
cent in the place of 13H, as proposed ation. Mr. Warner will go to Boys made up the entire cast. Thè work
PROFUSION OF GLADIOLI BEING
Scout comp at Wahtum lake in the of the boys’ chorus was particularly
GROWN BY H. K. DEAN by the senate finance committee, the cascades where he will be Scoutmas­
good. Special commendation should
amendment provides for a rate of 5
ter in charge of camp program activ­ be given to Vernon Harrah in his
Over Hundred Varieties Cover Wide per cent od the first 65000, 7 per cent ities. Later he will take poBt gradu­
interpretation of the pirate chief.
on the second 65000 and 12 per cent on
Range of Varieties and Colon.
the third. tX>06, after which a flat rate ate work at Monmouth normal and Elba Hamrick gaving a pleasing por­
will be volunteer nsistant Instruct­ trayal of the prim Mrs. Primer. Jack
Over a hundred varieties of gladioli will be charged.
or for a course In scout leadership. Smith pleyed the comic part ln hie
Democrats
argued
the
plan,
adopted
are being grown in the flower garden
Miss Broston expects to visit various
of H. K. Dean this summer.
These by the house, but rejected by the sen­ places on the Pacific coast. Miss usual splendid way.
Friends will be glad to learn of the
varieties cover a wide range of col­ ate committee, would relieve small cor­
Thompson is to spend some time at financial success of th« operetta.
porations.
ors of both lain and ruffled or Pri-
The senate adopted 40 to 24, the The Dalle« prior to attending sum­ The profit realized has been turned
mullnus strains. Ten of the varieties
finance
committee proposal for a 12 H mer school in Seattle. Miss Crock­ Tnto the student body fund, and will
In this collection have been judge*
per
cent
tax on corporation Income ett expects to be In various parts of be used for music In the high school.
by the American Gladiolus Society as
the northwest. Miss Gallagher will
Th« cast of characters:
among the hundred best gladioli ever over 615,000.
visit friends and relatives ip St. Dorothy ........................ Ruth Hamrick
The
house
b(W
provide*
an
11
M
t
produced and a number of the other*
Marys, Spokane, and Seattle and later Miss Primer .............. Elba Hamrtek
are very highly rated by expert grow­ per cent rate, and the present rate 1*
go to Los Angeles to attend school at Pirate Chief .............. Vernon Harrah
13
per
cent.
ers.
the southern branch of the univer­ Billy Wood ...................... John Newell
Mr. Dean states that none of the
sity of California. Miss Petri is to Scary ................................. Jcek Smith
varieties are of th« expensive sorts
BRIEF GENERAL NEWS
spend the summer at her home In
Miss Seyler a* director la to he
for th« obvious reason that such fre­
Fulton,
Missouri. Miss
Sanstad congratulated.
Judge Walter H. Sanborn of the
quently cost from 625 to 6100 a bulb.
plans to be ln Portland, Bremerton
Many of the commoner gladioli now United States circuit court of appeals,
and San Francisco, nd later attend STUDENT BODY ELECT OFFICERS
grown were Just as costly when they died suddenly In his apartment in S t
summer school at the southern
were first Introduced and only a Paul.
branch of University of California.
Monday, May 14, George McKen­
The
senate
approved
the
new
arbi­
small supply of the bulbs wag avail­
Miss Seyler has made no definite zie, president of the high school stu­
able and a demand was created by tration treaties with Germany and plans.
dent body administered the oath of
Italy and the supplemental conciliation
fancier«.
officers to the newly elected officers.
Gladioli are remarkably free from treaty with Germany.
Those taking the oath of office were:
Married at Pendleton
Walter Hagen succeeded Bobby
insects and disease«, about the only
Miss Alice Morlan and Roy Had­ Dorothy Hitt, president; Ruth Ben-
pest being the cutworms just as the Jones as British open golf champion,
Ott,
winning the title for the third time dox were married by the minister of sei, vice-president; Walther
shoots come through the ground.
the Baptinfft church ln Pendleton treasurer; Marda Hannan, secretary;
with a splendid aggregate of 292.
Mrs. W. T. Hobart, American Meth­ Tuesday. After spending two days Rodne yDavls, pep leader; Ruth
HOLSTEIN CALF CLUB
odist
missionary at Tsinan, has been at Walla Walla they returned Wed­ Kaiser, sergeant at arms; Harolld
HOLDS MEETING
murdered by Chinese troops, the nesday evening and are al horn on Pace, Morris Plersoik Mary Brown-
son, auditing committee.
The second regular meeting of the American legation at Pekin was ad­ the Hoisington ranch ln Columbia.
vised.
Holstein calf club took lace Sunday
John D. Rockefeller Jr. made public
at the Tom Haddox ranch. Mr. Had-
dox spent some time showing his correspondence revealing that he had
herd to the boys. -Later a few games asked Colonel Robert W. Stewart to
of horseshoe were played, the mem­ resign as chairman of the board of
U M A T IL L A H IG H S C H O O L
bers giving the leaders a big run for the Standard Oil company of Indiana.
Complete but unofficial figures on
their money. Bight of the nine
M A Y 17. 1 9 2 8
members were present. J. W. Mc­ results of the Indiana primary fixed
Senator
Watson’s
majority
over
Her­
Mullen Is clu leader.
bert Hoover at 24,057, in the race for
the republican presidential preference.
WALTHER OTT IS AWARDED
GRADUATED TAX ON
CORPORATION INCOME
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U. F. SCHOLARSHIP, CLUB WORK
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Walther Ott, son of the president
of the Umatilla Project Farm Bureau,
has recently been declared winner of
the Union Pacific scholarship for
boys’ and girls’ club work In Uma­
tilla county. This means that this
boy has done outstanding work In
boys’ and girls' club work for which
he Is awarded 6100 to he used In at­
tending the Oregon State Agricultu­
ral college.
This boy Is 16 years old and this
will make his fifth year In club work.
He has been a member of calf, pig,
potato and dairy herd record keeping
clubs during this time and has been
an officer in all of these clubs. This
year h« is leading the Jersey calf
club at Hermiston. He has repre­
sented Umatilla county on stock judg­
ing teams at th« Pacific Internation­
al and at the Oregon state fair.
Floyd McMullen of Hermiston was
chosen as alternate by the Union
Pacific system. He has been In calf,
sheep and potato clubs, doing out-
standing work In
project,
President Signs Flood-Curb Bill.
Washington, D. C.—President Cool­
idge signed the 6326,000,000 Jones-
Reid Mississippi flood control bill, de­
signed to curb thp mighty river which
broke Into its most disastrous flood
a little over a year ago. Signature
of the measure released Immediately
610.000,000 made available under its
terms, which will enable the new
special flood board and the Mississippi
river commission to begin plans for
the gigantic project, the largest en­
gineering feat since construction of
the Panama canal.
U. 8. Becomes Foremost Lender.
Washington. D. C-—American inves­
tors in the last seven years have ef­
fectively displaced Great Britain from
its standing as the world’s greatest
leeding nation. The commerce de­
partment. taking British compilations
of that 'Gantry's foreign Investments
fretn 1920 to 1927, Inclusive, has set
the total at 24,121,000,000. Foreign cap- i
Ital Iw trs financed In the United |
States during th« same period had »
to»nl value of |6A36.OOO,O0d,
Proceeslonnl .......................
Miss Lorina Peterson
Invocation ...........................
Rev. A. D. Swagger
Salutatory .....................,.....
.................... John Bray
S o n g .......................................
...................... Glee Club
Valedictory .........................
......... ........ Nellie Allen
Address ................................
Mr. D. E. Nourse
Song .......................... - .........
...................... Glee Club
Announcement of Honors
............. Mr. Roy Skeen
Presentation of Diplomas
............. J. B. Springer
Benediction .........................
Rev. A. D. Swagger
Recessional ........................
Miss Lorlne Peterson
Senior Honors;
N ellie Allen, Valedictorian
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John Bray, Salufpiorlan and Honor Student.
William Harvey
Wallace Mahanay