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HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1928
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IMPRESSIVE SERVICE
HELD AT THEATRE
P H IL WOOD
ASSOCIATION COWS
IONE WINS FROM
UMATILLA BY 2-0 MAKE GOOD RECORDS
M R S. M ARY A. TAYLOR
JOHN HARVEY POUND LONG RE­
GAME IS DUEL BETWEEN OPPOS­ REPORT FOR APRIL SHOWS COWS
FATHER O’CONNOR IS SPEAKER
SIDENT OF COUNTY
CONTINUE HIGH PRODUCTION
ING PITCHERS
OF THE DAY
Funeral Services Held Held Saturday
Grounds At Umatilla Were Under laical Dairymen Show Well in Latest
Large Audience Attends Exercises of
UMATILLA PIONEER
DIES AT PENDLETON
Hermiston Legion Post
Water and Games is Played on
Report of the Umatilla Dairy
Morning and Interment Made
Hermiston Grounds.
Improvement Association.
At Olfley Cemetery.
Wednesday Morning.
A very im pressive M em orial Day
service w as held W ednesday m o rn ­
in g a t 10 o’clock.
Music ap ro p ria te for th e occasion
w as fu rn ish ed by Mrs» Oscar P ayne In
a piano solo and Mrs. C happell and
Mrs. P a u lu in a d uet, accom panied
by Mrs. Skeen.
Rev. F th e r O’C onnor, him self a
v e te ra n of th e w orld w ar, proved a
m ost able speaker.
Due to th e absence of th e post
com m ander, Mr. Biggs, Mr. Shesely
conducted th e service.
T he audience join ed in sin g in g th e
S ta r Spangled B ann er a fte r w hich A
J . W are pronounced th e benediction.
Th A uxiliary women acted as
u sh ers and should be given c red it for
decoration of th e stage.
A fter th e service a t th e th e a tre the
v e te ra n s m arched to th e cem etery
w here an invocation by th e post
c h ap la in , salu te to th e dead and the
so u n d in g of tap s com pleted th e p ro­
gram .
On acco u n t of th e d iam ond being
flooded a t U m atilla th e gam e betw een
U m atilla an d Ione w as played a t H er­
m iston Sunday before a good crowd.
Ione w on th e gam e 2-0 in a duel
betw een opposing p itch ers, n eith er
team b eing able to h it co n sisten tly .
B erry of U m atilla s tru c k ou t 11
m en and only allow ed 6 h its, w hile
F ord stru c k o u t 12 an d allow ed only
5 h its.
Ione—
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BIBLE SCHOOL WILL START
MONDAY, JUNE 4
Methodist and Baptist-Christians Are
Completing Arrangements.
Will Continue Two Weeks.
T he M ethodist an d B ap tist-C h rist-
ia n ch u rch es a re ju s t now com pleting
a rra n g e m e n ts for a firs t class Bible
school to be conducted in th e tw o
ch u rch es by a corps of te a c h e rs w ith
tr a in in g and experiene such as can
n o t be secured in o u r com m unity from
e ith e r church alone.
T he school w ill begin M onday
m o rn in g , Ju n e 4, an d w ill continue
of ages fo u r to fo u rteen w ho w ish to
fo r tw o weeks. I t is open to ch ild ren
a tte n d , reg ard less of ch u rch a ff ilia ­
tions. C hildren below school age w il
be given w ork in lin e w ith beg in n ers
w ork in th e Sunday school or th e
k in d e rg a rte n of th e public schools.
P rim a ry ch ild ren w ill be given re g u ­
la r class w ork in B ible sto ries, ch ild ­
ren of th e m iddle g rad es w ill study
B ible c h a ra c te rs an d o th e r o u ts ta n d ­
in g men and women who have in f lu ­
enced w orld a ffa irs and th e u p p er
g rad e stu d e n ts w ill stu d y th e book of
th e A cts of th e A postles.
In com m enting upon th is 1st study
we can do no b e tte r th a n to quote
R ich ard G. M oulton of C hicago u n i­
v e rsity in his in tro d u ctio n to the
book of th e Bok of th e A cts w hen he
says. " I t m ust be rem em bered th a t In
th e In terv al betw een th e Old an d th e
New T estam en ts th ere had tak en
place an ev en t of la s tin g im p o rtan ce,
th e infusion of G reek an d H ebrew
civ ilizatio n , from th e union o f w hich
m odern civilization h as arisen .
A
sign of h is is seen in th e fellw ship
of th e apostles.” W ho can follow
th e references in th e speeches and
w ritin g s of L incoln, G ladstone, B urns
an d S hakespeare w ith o u t a know ledge
of th e Bible.
It is an essen tial p a rt
of m odern cu ltu re.
T he teach ers th a t a re to m ake up
th e fa c u lty a re as well tra in e d ed u ca­
to rs «■ can be found in th is co u n ty
o r perh ap s any o th e r co u n ty of the
sta te . A m ong them a re Mrs. H ine-
llne, Mrs. A. E. B ensei. Mrs. C herry,
Mrs. O. W. P ayne and th e p asto rs of
th e tw o churches as well as a n u m ­
ber of high school g irls w ho w ill
teac h u n d er supervision.
S u p e rin ­
te n d e n t C h erty of th e p ublic schools
w ill have gen eral supervision of th e
w ork, Rev. A. J. W are is assista n t
s u p e rin te n d e n t and Mrs. H in elin e is
su p erv iso r of th e p rim ary an d b eg in ­
n ers work.
It Is hoped th a t th e people of the
com m unity w ill ta k e a d v an ta g e of
th is school and th a t a larg e nu m b er
of ch ild ren from a ll ch u rch es and
from no ch u rch a t a ll m ay be in a t­
ten d an ce for th e fu ll tw o weeks.
T he m eeting of th e ladies A u x il­
ia ry of th e F arm B u reau ha« been
postponed u n til J u n e 16. Mrs. Je s­
sie D. McComb of th a A. S. C. e x te n ­
sion department w ill be w ith us.
Phil Wood, who with Duke Schiller,
first man to fly a relief plane to the
Junkers plane Bremen, is planning to
attempt an east-west transatlantic
flight, 'starting from Ireland In an
English-built seaplane with Old Or­
chard, Maine, as their destination.
NANKING GOVERNMENT
LOOKS TOILS. IN CRISIS
W ashington, D. C.—A form al request
th at the U nited S tates convoke rep re­
sen tativ es of th e European powers to
curb Ja p a n ’s occupation of M anchuria
will be presen ted to S ecretary of State
Kellogg by Dr. C. C. Wu, special en­
voy of th e N anking governm ent.
Aside from th e declaration th a t he
will attem p t to p resen t th e plea for
all China, the C hinese statesm an de­
clined to discuss for publication in
advance of his reception a t th e state
d epartm ent the detailed outline of his
aim s H e talked freely, how ever, con­
cerning public opinion in China as re­
lated to th e Jap an ese ultim atum th at
no C hinese troops will be perm itted
to invade M anchuria.
China feels strongly th a t Jap an has
flagrantly violated th e nine-power
W ashington tre a ty of 1922 g u arantee­
ing th e political and te rrito rial integ­
rity of China.
Kellogg has stated officially since
the publication of the Jap an ese ulti­
matum th a t the U alted S tates recog­
nizes no special rig h ts of any power
in M anchuria, beyond th e Japanese
ights under th e Jap an ese lease of the
M anchurian railroad.
U nder th e W ashington treaty , the
powers a re obligated to consider
jointly w hat action shall be taken
when any signatory violates Chinese
sovereignty.
B R IE F G ENER AL N E W S
P resid en t Coolidge has signed a bill
authorizing the appropriation of $7,-
000,000 for eradication of th e Euro­
pean corn borer.
The sen ate h as sustained P resident
Coolidge’s veto of the M cNary Haugen
farm relief bill. T his kills the m eas­
ure for th is session.
The sen ate agreed to th e conference
report on th e W alsh bill raising sal­
aries of 135,000 federal employes by
an estim ated $20,000,000.
P resid en t Coolidge h as signed the
bill authorizing an appropriation of
$15,000,000 for additional hospital fa­
cilities for th e care of m entally af­
flicted world w ar veterans.
E ngland received som ething of a
shock on learning th a t th e late Lord
Oxford and Asquith, one-time prem ier,
who devoted his life to politics, left
an esta te of only about £9000 ($45,-
000) and th a t he was relieved of fi­
nancial w orry during his la st days by
the beneficence of friends.
Seven Killed as Bomb Explodes.
Buenos A ires.—One bomb o utrage
w hich took a t least seven lives and
injured n early h alf a hundred others,
and discovery of a second bomb, ex­
plosion of which was narrow ly a v e rt­
ed, m arked w hat police considered
the m ost violent anti-fascist dem on­
stratio n s staged in th is country in
two y ears or more.
Tax BUI Report Wins Senate O. K.
W ashington, D C.—The senate has
adopted th e conference report of the
tax reduction bill, calling for a $223,-
495.000 tax cut. Thia action followed
th e sen ate's decision to kill an am end­
m ent which would have given publi­
city to tax retu rn s.
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Double play, D rake u n assisted . -
Two base h its, B lakely, Fetzer,
B erry, D avidson, R an k in .
Base o n balls— Off B erry 1.
S tru ck o u t— By B erry 11, by Ford
U.
IMPROVEMENTS BEING
MADE IN BARBER SHOP
Complete Set of New Fixtures Being
Installed in Wm. Shaar’s Shop.
Im provem ents a re b ein g m ade by
W illiam S h aar to h is b a rb e r shop.
A com plete se t of new fix tu re s a re
b ein g in stalled . A pple g reen an<l
cream is th e color schem e, and th e
ch airs, w hich a re m ade to o rd er, are
of apple g reen enam el w ith brass
trim m in g s an d au to m a tic
m irro rs.
The new bow ls are of th e sam e shade
as well as th e lig h tin g fix tu res.
A lig h t m arb le lin o leu m w ill be
on th e floor.
The fix tu re salesm en say it w ill
be th e best equipped shop in e a stern
Oregon.
Young People Entertain
M ary B row nson, R u th C h erry and
B m ogene P a u l are e n te r ta in in g th is
ev en in g a t th e P a u l hom e in honor
of Irm a C lark w ho Is to leave H er-’
m lston in th e n e a r fu tu re .
U m atilla county d a iry cows are
c o n tin u in g th e ir h ig h record of pro­
duction of th e p ast few m o n th s as
indicated by th e follow ing re p o rt:
T he T. H. H addox herd of 17 cows
produced an averag e of 1309 ounds
of m ilk, c o n ta in in g 44.4 pounds of
fat, th e m ilk p ro d u ctio n being sec­
ond highest of any of th e associations
of thq state.
T he average pounds of m ilk pro­
duced in U m atilla co u n ty for th e
m onth w as 643.3, w ith 28.1 pounds '
of b u tte r fat. In th e 48 herd s tested
103 cows produced over 40 pounds of
fa t d u rin g th e m onth.
H. C. Gee had th e h ig h prod u cin g
h erd of 20 cows or over, the average
pounds of m ilk being 795 w ith 27.2
pounds of fat, for th e h erd of 23
cows.
T he herd of 17 cows belo n g in g to
T. H . H addox ws second h ig h produc­
ing herd in th e U m atilla county asso­
ciation.
P au l S m ith had th e th ird h ig h pro­
d ucing herd in th e association, his
n in e Cows p roducing 1085 pounds of
m ilk , co n ta in in g 40.2 pounds of fat.
A. R. Coppock h ad th e h ig h p ro ­
d u cin g cow of the ssociation. Snow ­
ball, a p u reb red H olstein, produced
2115 pounds m ilk, co n ta in in g 76.1
pounds fat.
G. E llis M inor had th e second
h ig h est roducing cow of th e associa­
tion. Spot, a g rade Jersey , produced
1215 pounds of m ilk, co n ta in in g 66.8
pounds of fat.
In the group of cows m ak in g over
60 pounds of fa t w ere cows belong­
ing to A. R. Coppock, G. E llis Minor,
S. R. Cooper, L. R in g el and P au l
Sm ith.
The 4 y ear olds m ak in g 45 pounds
of fa t w ere cowe ow ned by A. T.
H aun, A. C hristley, R. V. Jones and
P aul Sm ith.
T hree y e a r old w hich m ade over
40 pounds of f a t w ere found on the
farm s of P au l S m ith, T. H. Haddox,
A. T. H au n , Ace W ag n er, H . C. Gee,
C. R. S m ith. C. E. W aldron, R. V.
Jones, V irg il W ag n er an d A. T. H aun.
Two y ear old cows w hich m ade 35
ounds of fa t or over belonged
to
Ace W agner, A. T. H aun, W. G. G ra­
ham , C. E. W aldron, H. E. Coll, Joe
Dyer and R. V. Jones.
It is in te re s tin g to note th a t ten
u n p ro fitab le cows w ere disposed of
by m em bers of th e association d u r­
ing A pril, in o rd er to rem ove from
th e ir h erd s cows w hich w ere found
to be producing less th a n it costs to
keep them . "M em bership in th e a s­
so ciatio n ," says C ounty A gent W a lte r
A. H olt, “ gives the dairym en a chance
to discover in h is h e rd th e cows
w hich a re k eeping down h is average
production, th ereb y allow ing him to
dspose of an y u n p ro fita b le sto ck .”
Mrs. Mary Atwater Taylor, winner
of the nation-wide contest for the best
poem on “ Monticello,” the home of
Thomas Jefferson. The poem is to
be framed and hung in the hall of the
famous old Virginia mansion.
PRESBYTERIANS
VETO UNIFICATION
Tulsa, Okla.—A proposal for negoti­
ation of unification of the P resb y ter­
ian church in the U nited S tates with
the C ongregationalist, C hristian and
U niversallst churches was rejected,
and an overture of the general confer­
ence of the M ethodist Episcopal
church for sim ilar negotiations refer­
red to the com m ittee on unity and co­
operation by the P resb y terian general
assem bly here.
The assem bly, ruffled only by a
quickly sm othered flureup of an old
debate on m odernism -fundam entalism ,
adopted resolutions petitioning politi­
cal parties to nom inate candidates who
a re "positively and openly com m itted
to effective prohibition enforcem ent
by th e ir acts, u tteran ces and records” :
expressing th e church’s approval of
international efforts to outlay/ war,
and reaffirm ing the P resb y terian be­
lief in the sanctity and perm anency
of m arriage.
A lliance w ith threo other denom in­
ations was sw ept aside by the adop­
tion of th e report of th e P resbyterian
d epartm ent of co-operation and union,
which was presented by its chairm an.
Dr. J. Ross Stevenson. The report
recom m ended th a t the general assem ­
bly reject a proposal for participation
in a conference planned for June with
represen tativ es of th e three churches
for discussion of am algam ation.
ADO PT N E W P E N S IO N PLAN
Reserve Fund to Be Used for Retire­
ment of Ministers.
On T h u rsd ay aftern o o n Jo h n H a r­
vey P ound, pioneer re sid e n t of U m a­
tilla , passed aw ay a t St. A n th o n y 's
h ospital. F u n e ra l services conduct­
ed by Rev. F a th e r O’C onnor assisted
by Rev. F a th e r N esdal a t th e ch u rch
of h is fa ith in U m atilla w ere held
S a tu rd ay m orning, May 2 6. In te r­
m ent w as m ade In Olney cem etery.
P endleton.
Jo h n H arvey Pound w as born A ug­
u st 13, 1855, In T e rre H au te, Ind.,
the fam ily m oving to M issouri w hen
he w as e ig h t years old, h is fa th e r
o p e ra tin g a flo u r m ill n e a r N orborne,
M issouri.
W hen he w as 21 y ears old he w as
u n ited in m arria g e w ith N anny May-
field and moved to K ansas w here he
hom esteaded fo r tw o y ears u n til
d riv en out by th e d ro u g h t. W ith b u t
five d o llars in his pocket he w e n t to
Colorado an d sta rte d fre ig h tin g be­
tw een C olorado S p rin g s and L ead­
ville, w here th e fam ily follow ed him .
T hen w ith h is h ro th er-in -law he
w ent Into th e c a ttle business and also
w as in te re ste d In m ining.
W hile th e ir c a ttle w ere in th e
m o u n tain s a blizzard cam e up la s t­
in g 21 days and ail th e c a ttle per-
dshed.
He th e n s trte d a d airy a t Silver-
ton. Colo. In th e second y e a r of th e
business a n o th e r blizzard sw ept th e
co u n try and th e county a u th o ritie s
tool; h is c a ttle to feed th e people of
S ilverton.
In th e sp rin g he moved to n e a r
P ueblo on th e St. C harles riv er and
sta rte d ra n c h in g . H is w ife becam a
11 and a fte r one and o n e-h alf years
1 leav in g fo u r boys, Jam es A.,
tessd P., W illiam E and Thom as, th e
youngest, w ho died a b o u t six weeks
a fte r th e m other.
A fter w o rk in g fo r some five years
a t v ario u s p o in ts he se ttle d a t S il­
verton, Colorado, w here he w as u n it­
ed In m a rria g e w ith M ary L u tte r­
m an, th e p resen t w ife, and e n g ag ­
ed In th e d a iry business for th e sec­
ond tim e. H ere th e d a u g h te r Sop-
h ro n ia G e rtru d e w as b o rn . A t th is
tim e he w as forced to seek a low er
a ltitu d e , going to Mound, Ind. T e rri­
tory, w here h is son T heodore O tto
was born. As th is clim ate also prov­
ed u n sa tisfa c to ry , he w ith six o th e r
fam ilies got up a w agon tr a in to go
Overland to Mexico, g e ttin g as far
as B row nsville, T exas on C hristm as
day 1899, w hen th ey decided to tu r n
hack, th e Pound fam ily going
to
Colorado, r. Pound going to w ork for
the D. & It. G. as c ar forem an on
top of the C o n tin e n ta l divide.
A
sh o rt tim e la te r th e son Jesse P. dc-
veloed in flam m ato ry rh eu m atism , the
'Io d o ra d v lsln g a move to th e P acific
coast and he located a t P o rtla n d In
March, 1902. He th e n s ta rte d w ork
for the ra ilro a d com pany and w as
tra n sfe rre d to U m atilla.
In th e sp rin g of 1904 he w ent to
E lgin, O regon, w here he ranched for
tw o years. In 1906 he engaged in
the m ercan tile business in U m tallla
and In 1907 th e son, Jesse P., w as
killed w hile w ork in g in th e yardg a t
U m atilla.
Iu 1909 he w ent to C anada and
took up a hom estead and a fte r prov-
ng up he re tu rn e d to U m atilla, w here
he resided u n til th e tim e of his
K ansas City, Mo.—W orking under
p ressure to clear the way for adjourn­
m ent, the quadrennial general confer­
ence of the M ethoolst Episcopal
church approved a new pension plan
for m inisters and voted to give lay­
men a voice in the affairs of annual
conferences.
It was decided to su b stitu te a re­
serve pension fund for th e retirem en t
of m inisters In place of the present
yearly assessm ent plan under which
M rs.H arry Todd an d tw o ch ild ren aged m inisters are paid.
U nder the new plan the church
are v isitin g a t th e R. C. Todd home.
would pay annually Into the m inister’s
retire m en t fund 8 per cent of the ac­
tive pastor’s salary. The pastor would
contribute 2^i per cent of his annual
salary, which would accrue to his heirs
in case of his death before retirem ent.
The date for putting the plan into
effect was not set by the conference,
as a reserve fund of approxim ately
$20.000,000 is needed to m ake it oper­
ative. A commission was mimed to death .’
investigate the possibility of obtain­ He is su rv iv ed by h is w ife, th ree
ons, a d a u g h te r an d e ig h t g ra n d ­
ing thia reserve.
ch ild ren .
Besides his fam ily he w ill be
KREUTZER AND PARTY
missed by a hogt of frien d s and n eig h ­
ARRIVE FOR CONFERENCE bors.
A five day conference for stu d y ­
in g th e conditions of th e S tan field
and W estland p ro jects Is u n d er w ay
today.
G eorge K reu tzer d ire c to r of eco­
nom ics in re clam atio n d ep artm en t,
P. W. D ent, a ss ista n t com m issioner
of reclam ation and G eorge S to u t-
m eyer. a tto rn e y for reclam atio n de­
p a rtm e n ts a re ail in a tte n d a n c e from
W ash in g to n . W. G. Ide from
th e
s ta te ch am b e r of com m erce is here,
also. T hey w ill be over d iffe re n t
p a rts of the project d u rin g th e ir
stay,
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Lamb« Go To Chicago Market
Spokane. Wash., May 31-J. T.
D runiheller. W a lla W alla, well k now n
stockm an of th e In lad E m pire, v ho
made a n a tio n a l re p u ta tio n la’'* y<**r
for ft lam bs from W sh ln g to n . being
th e ea rlie st on th e C hicago m ark et,
la s t week hipped 2000 head. T his
sh ip m en t v as a week e a rlie r th a n last
year. T he b u lk o f th e lam bs w ere
loaded a t Y /heeler a n d a few at Con­
nell. At hpokane a special stock
tra in w as m ade w ith five ad d itio n al
cars of India shpped by G eorge H a r­
d e r of Kahlotus, fqr a fa s t run east,