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The Herald Keeps Close to the Heart aqd Mind of the Umatilla Proiect * * Œlte Wrmwfcm Borali vol . xxm POULTRY RPODUGERS FORM ORGANIZATION f . C. TODD NAMED CHAIRMAN OF r BOARD OF DIRECTORS A ll P oultry Growers of Project to be R equested to Join the New Organization. LOCAL REBEKAHS ATTEND PRANN PURCHASES NEW MEETING AT LEXINGTON FUNERAL CAR RECENTLY EXPLODING OIL HEATER CAUSES DAMAGE TO HOME An explosion from an oil heater re sulted In a fire at the Floyd Kneer residence on Gladys avenue Friday night about 10 o’clock. The bath room uptsairs, where the heater had been left burning, was considerably damaged by the flames but quick work on the part of neighbors who responded to the call for help pre vented the fire from spreading to other parts of the house. The blaze was extinguished by the time the fire department arrived on the scene. The explosion, It Is thought, came as a result of the oxygen having been burned from the air, since the room was tightly closed, allowing no fresh air to enter. The loss was covered by Insurance. HERMISTON GRID TEAM DEFEATED BY PENDLETON Hermiston high school’s grid team met a 58 to 6 defeat in the fourth game of the season for the locals v hen they played the Pendleton Buckaroos at Round-Up park Satur day, October 20. Hermiston’s one touchdown came in the last few minutes of play of the 1; st quarter, bringing their end of t ie score up to six. Most of Pendle ton's yardage was made by a straight line bucks and deceptive plays, but the Hermiston eleven fought hard to stop the attack of the Bucks.. The game which was played before a crowd of several hundred people » as the first played ln Pendleton this season. A large delegation from the local high school made up the Her miston rooting section. Mrs. Gerald White was a recent Lexington visitor. SINCLAIR CONTRACT HELD TO BE INVALID ERIC ENGLAND Remodeling and Furnishing of E s Degree Team Put« on Work of Lodge at Morrow County M eeting tablishm ent is N earing on Saturday. Completion. With the delivery of a splendidly equipped funeral car direct from an Ohio factory, the undertaking estab lishment of A. W. Prann which has been in the process of renovation, Is now almost completed. The car, a 0- cylinder Meteor, ig gray in color with upholstering throughout in blue vel our, and is equipped for use as an am bulance as well as a funeral car. It represents the latest in funeral cars, having been manufactured by a corn- dealing only in cars of this type. Delivery was made in Portland where Mr. Prann received ft and drove it to Hermiston, | j ¡flP Remodeling and re-decorating of the building on the Prann place on the west side of town has been going on for some time. The interior has been made Into an attractive, well-lighted chapel, easily accomodating 75 people. The chapel, finished in light tan, will have har- monizing'drapes at the windows and at the door leading into the room for family use which is situated Just off from the main chapel. The floor has a heavy canvas covering, which makes it practically sound proof. Folding chairs and a piano will com plete the furnishings of the room. Concrete walks around the exterior of the building and a private family entrance has been added to the im- porvements. When all plans have been completed, this will undoubt edly compare favorably with funeral homes in larger towns and will be decidedly better equipped ana more attractive than establishments usual ly found in towns of this size. Poultry producers of the Hermiston project met Thursday evening, Octo ber 18 at the library where a first i move was made toward organization. A board of directors was chosen con sisting of R. C. Todd, chairman, F. L. ‘ u\.eit, Harry Spinning and Arnold B ihmann. The directors were auth- oi Ized to prepare a set of by-laws and a name for the organization will be chosen later. All poultry growers on the project, regardless of the size of their flocks, will be asked to loin the association, and, according to the chairman, no fees will be required. Meetings will be field only on call, and when some thing transpires of interest to them as an association. Heretofore the * only affiliations held by local poul try nen was membership of »ome with the Pacific poultry producers of Port land, an egg selling organization. r'he matter of offering a reward for the conviction of poultry thieves wa . discussed thoroughly at the meet ing and a decision reached to offer a reward of $100, which is in addition to a similar sum offered previously by the Farm Bureau. A subscription list has been placed at the co-opera tive office and those wishing to sign may do so with the understanding that should the sum subscribed fall below >100 their subscription will be FORMER RESIDENT DIES returned. The money If collected Is AT ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS to be placed in escrow at the bank. + NO.8 HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OKKOON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1928 Twenty-two members of the local Rebekah lodge. Including the degree team, attended the Morrow county convention of the organization Sat urday, October 20. Delegations from the chapters of the lodge at Pendleton, Freewater, Ione and Heppner were also ln at tendance at the all day session. The president and past-president of the organization were ln Lexington for the meeting. A banquet was served at six o'clock for the local lodge mem bers and visitors, and the evening was given over to the Initiation ser vices conducted by the Hermiston degree team. A part of the Hermiston delegation attended all of the meetings during the day, while the remainder motor ed over for the evening session. VANCOUVER PEOPLE ARE GUESTS AT SWARNER HOME Sergeant C. E. Behrings of Van couver Barracks, Vancouver, Wash ington, accompanied by his wife and daughter Byrl, spent a few days vis iting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred C. Swarher. Sergeant Beh rings who has been on a four months furlough in the east was returning by motor to hl8 home in Vancouver. He is a cousin of Mrs. Swarner. An unfortunate experience with poor roads and bad weather was en countered in Wyoming where the Behrings were caught ln snow storm. As the snow began to melt the dirt road became almost impassable, the mud at times reaching the running board of the car. Cars all along the way were stalled and some were bad ly damaged by slipping off the banks. It took the Behrings seven hours to travel 32 miles through that part of Word has been received by friends Wyoming. in Hermiston of the death of Mrs. Margaret Steiner, formerly Mrs. Fred COMMUNICATION J. Brunson, which occurred October 8 To the Editor of the Hermiston Her at a Rockford, Illinois, hospital. Mrs. ald; Steiner suffered an attack of pneu- In a recent visit to your city I was mnia and was ill but two days before surprised to find a small but beauti she died. ful Carnegie library. The building is Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Brunson were architecturally pleasing but the residents of the Hermiston project grounds surrounding It are a mass of until about eight years ago, when he weeds and dead shrubs. was manager of the Fort Wayne Fruit It seems to me that with only a company. Mr. Brunson died here and little effort the city could have a Mrs. Brunson returned to their old lawn laid out and shrubs placed in home in Fort Wayne, Ind. Besides proper spots about the building. Such her husband, she is survived by one greenery would greatly enhance the daughter, Dorothy Brunson. whole building and make it a beauty place of Hermiston. HOSPITAL NOTES Very truly yours, R. C. M. Mrs. Joe M. Mueller and Infant son of Boardman left Saturday for their STATE POTATO GROWERS home. SCHEDULE MEET NOV. 7 Mrs. William Lay and infant son W. H. Zivney, president of the left the hospital for their home in Oregon Potato Growers association, Stanfield Monday of this week. Born to Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Smith has called a meeting of that organiza of Irrigon a lo 1-2 pound baby girl tion for Wednesday, November 7, at the Pacific International Exposition Thursday morning. at Portland. O. M. Plummer, gen Mr. and Mrs. Frank Otto of Board eral manager of the Pacific Inter man are the parents of a 7 1-2 pound national has made arrangements for boy born recently at the Hermiston an auditorium ln which to hold the hospital. meeting. The program is being pre pared by G. R. Hyalop, secretary of Doctor Sells Ranch Dr. D. J. Gilliland of the Colum the association and head of the farm bia district has sold his farm consist crops department at the state col ing o f20 acres to W. P. Luttrell of lege. The Oregon Potato Growers asso Newberg, Oregon. M r Luttrell took possession of the place this week, and ciation was organized at Prineville in Dr. Gilliland and wife left for the July of this year and is strictly a Willamette Valley where the doctor growers organization. The meeting Is open to all potato growers of Ore will again practice dentistry. gon whether members or not. J. Perry Conder of Heppner, Re Misa Eva Randall was a week end publican candidate for Joint repre sentative from Morrow and Umatilla visitor at her home in Pendleton. counties, was a business visitor in She returned to Hermiston on Sun day. Hermiston last week. THE FEATHERHEADS Erie England, recently appointed ehlef of the division of agricultural fl- nanoe In the bureau of agricultural economics of the Department of Agri culture. BRIEF GENERAL NEWS FORD PLANT MOVED Fordeon Tractor Branch Cork, Ireland. Going Washington, D. C.—Secretary West ordered delivery of government royal ty oil to the Sinclair Crude Oil Pur chasing company from the Salt Creek field ln Wyoming stopped after a ruling by Attorney-General Sargent that the contracts negotiated by two ex-secretaries for the sale of the oil were invalid. The order was issued within 24 hours after the attorney-general had delivered his opinion that the con tracts made by ex-Secretary Fall In December, 1922, and renewed for five additional years last February by ex- Secretary Work, were not binding on the government because they were illegally executed. The action Is preliminary to working out a plan for the sale of the royalty oil to the highest and beet bidders after it is reqdvertised for sale, Secre tary West said. The geological survey announced that during the current year ending August 31 the production from the Salt Creek field totaled 1,281,000 bar rels, for which the Sinclair company paid the government 01,638,000. to Detroit, Mich—The principal seat of the manufacture of Fordson tractors by the Ford Motor company will be transferred from Fordson, Mich., to the company’s plant at Cork, Ireland, by next January I, it was learned here. Manufacture of the tractor at Ford son was discontinued about a year ago to allow more space for the manufac ture of the new model "A" Ford car. The principal reason for the trans fer, as explained by officials, Is that Increased demands for tractors in Eu rope has made increased production oversees advisable. Approximately 80 per cent of the tractor-making ma chinery and equipment is being re moved to Cork in Ford vessels. Stanley “Bucky” Harris has been appointed manager of the Detroit Ti gers for the season of 1929. Benjamin Strong, governor of the federal reserve bank of New York, died in a New York hospital. President Coolidge has issued a pro clamation Increasing the duty on fluor spar from 05.60 to 08.40 a long ton. It is used principally as a flux in mak ing steel. C. T. Wang, nationalist foreign min ister, has addressed a note to the treaty powers, in which he demands their immediate relinquishment of ex tra-territoriality rights. A dividend of 5 per cent on the cap ital stock of the Panama railroad com pany was declared by the board of directors, according to announcement at the war department. Collection of China Fossils Released. Peking.—The Chinese authorities have released the 85 crates of fossils which Roy Chapman Andrews, the American explorer, brought back from the Gobi desert The fossils were seized and held temporarily and It was feared their shipment out of China would be prohibited. California May Llcenaa Airplanes. San Francisco, Cal.—Proposed state laws to govern the licensing of air planes and pilots were discussed at a meeting held here under the auspices of the state railroad commission, and probably will be presented to the leg islature next January, conferees said. EMILIO PORTES GIL Emilio Portes Gil, who was sleeted provisional President of Mexloo by the congress, to take office on December 1. POSSE CAPTURES SLAYER OF DEPUTY Dayton, Wash.—Emile Pfaff, 25, charged by police with killing James Smith, a deputy sheriff, when he es caped from the Starbuck, Wash., Jail, was captured in the Snake river hills about 40 miles from here. Sheriff Moody of Columbia county and a posse of six men found the fugi tive hiding in an old well on a farm. Alonzo Hayden, who is alleged by police to have supplied Pfaff with the death pistol, Is ln Jail here, said he had confessed. A charge of first degree murder will be filed against Pfaff. Ail Investiga tion of the Starbuck Jail revealed evi dences of a struggle bet^ben the offi cer and his prisoner, and It was thought that each had fired one shot. Police have not yet learned exactly how Hayden smuggled a second gun ln to Pfaff. Pfaff lives at Odessa, Wash., police said. Nationalist China Wants Advisers. Shanghai.—The newly organized na tionalist government state council, headed by General Chiang Kai-Shek, which Is seeking to bolster the nation alist government’s China-wide recon struction program, has decided to ask five prominent Americans to act as "honorary economic advisers to the nationalist government.” The Ameri cans selected for the Invitation were Henry Ford, Owen D. Young, Robert Harper, Washington banker; Edwin Seligman and Jeremiah Jenks, econo mists. U. 8. Infantry to Have New Rifles. D elegates Chosen The executive board of the recently organized poultry association con sisting of ,R. C. Todd, F. L. Jewett. Harry Spinning and Arnold Buhmann will go as delegates with James Todd to a meeting to be held in Pendleton some time ln November. Card of Thanks I wish to express my alncere appre ciation to the many friends ln ths community for their kindness and beautiful floral offerings at the fun eral of Mrs. W. A. Leathers. W. A. LEATHERS. Washington, D. C.—Paving the way for ultimate arming of Uncle Sam's Fire Does S ligh t Damage New York.—A seat on the New York Infantry with semi-automatic rifles The roof of the Harry McMillan curb market was sold for 0103,000. and spelling the end of the historic This is a new record figure, and a .30 calibre Sprlngflelds, the war de home on the west side of town caught 03000 advance over the previous sale. partment has approved the recom fire from a defective flue at 9 Mon day morning, October 22, causing mendation of a Joint army, navy and slight damage. The fire waa extln- Mrs. Thomas Fraser entertained at marine corps board to cut the bore guilied with a garen hose before the tea at her home on Hermiston avenue of the automatics from .30 to .276. local fire department arrived. Wednesday afternoon honoring Mrs. Elizabeth Tipton of Portland,, associ Malkin Mayor of Greater Vancouver. Harry B. Rees, of Stanfield, Re ate grand matron of the Eastern Star Vancouver, B. C.—With a majority publican nominee for recorder of lodge. Mrs. Tipton was ln Hermiston of 1666, W. H. Malkin, pioneer mer Umatilla county, was a Hermiston on an official visit to the local chap chant, was elected first mayor of visitor Wednesday. ter. Greater Vancouver, comprising Van couver, Point Grey and South Vancou The regular services will be held ver. Malkin polled 18,733 votes, nos at the Methodist church Sunday. Eastern Star Has M eeting A special meeting of the local chap ing out Louis D. Taylor, Incumbent, You will find a friendly welcome at each service. Young people are es- ter of the Eastern Star lodge was who polled 17,067 votes. pelally urged to meet us at Epworth held Wednesday evening, October 24, Lindy to Hunt Bears In Mexico. League. Join the crowd Sunday at when Mrs. Elizabeth Tipton, associ ate grand matron, conducted the Mexico City. — Colonel Charles A. 6:45 and see for yourself. No eve school of instruction. Additional Lindbergh has accepted an Invitation ning preaching service. O. W. Payne, guests at the meeting were Mrs. Fay to bunt bears In the state of Coahuila pastor. LaDow, worthy matron of Bushee and to seek cliff dwellings ln the Si Ex-Govaraar W a lte r M. Pierce will chapter, Pendlet >n and other mem erra Madre mountains of Chihuahua. • peak in H e rm itlo n , W ed., O ct. 31. bers of that chapter. New York Curb Seat Sells High.
