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POULTRY RPODUGERS
FORM ORGANIZATION
f . C. TODD NAMED CHAIRMAN OF
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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,
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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.
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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.