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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1929)
« (The Hrrmiutütt W raii DIVERSIFIED FARMS FAY — OPPORTUNITIES ARE HERE VOL x x m -N U M B E R 18 TURKEY GROWERS FORM ASSOCIATE NEW ORGANIZATION NOT HAS GAMES OVER WEEK END Locals Journey to Adams for Game Friday; Play Stanfield Saturday. FOR The local high school basketball team will Journey to Adams Friday, January 4, for a game which w as’to have been played before the Christ New MadiSen of Hermiston Heads, mas holidays. Illness of some of the players necessitated a postponement Group of Umatilla, Morrow of the game at that time. On the fol lowing evening, January 5, the locals Turkey Growers. will meet the Stanfield team on their floor, in the second game of the sea With the acceptance of a constitu son. The only opportunity of the locals tion and by-laws drafted by a com to meet an opposing team so far this mittee appointed for that purpose and the election of officers and a board of year came before the holidays wheno directors, an association composed of a practice game was held with the turkey growers in the west end of town team. The high school quintet Umatilla and the north end of Mor succeeded in defeating the older men Intensive row counties was formed at a meet by a satisfying margin. ing held in Hermiston Saturday after practices are being held daily and the noon, December 29. The newly or squad has been presented with a nice ganized association has as its prime little set of training rules which purpose, an intention to work for the promises to help develop a team of improvement of conditions for the great strength and scoring ability. turkey growers in this locality. The The locals are particularly fortunate organization as it now stands is decld in having six lettermen back on the floor this season with a promising ar edly not a marketing association. New Madden of Hermiston, who ray of reserve material. = S = w m - SUBSCRIPTION, >2.00 PER YEAR HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1929 HIGH SCHOOL QUINTET BLUE GRASS SUNSHINE IDEAL FOR COWS PLAN FARM ACCOUNTS' LOCAL LEGION SHOW CITY COUNCIL PASSES SCHOOL IN JANUARY PROVES SUCCESSFUL NEW TRAFFIC ORDINANCE BOARDMAN AND HERMISTON TO APPROXIMATELY 3100 MARKETING PURPOSES Violators Will be Prosecuted Without Fear or Favor. An ordinance requiring all drivers of motor vehicles to stop before en tering or crossing the Old Oregon Trail in the city of Hermiston and providing a penalty of a fine amount ing to not less than two dollars and not more than $100 or Imprisonment In the city jail one day for each two dollars of any fine that may be im posed was passed by the city coun cil and approved by the mayor Janu ary 2. The ordinance became opera tive immediately. Stop signs were placed at all Inter sections along the highway last fall by the state highway department. The negligence of motoristg in obey ing the signals brought about the necessity for action by the city coun cil. The ordinance will be strictly and rigidly enforced. HAVE MEETINGS CLEARED FOR CONVENTION FUND Work of Last Year to be Continued Big Crowd Attends Gambling Hall, Again in February Under Country Store, To Celebrate Competent Direction. New Year. Two farm account schools will be Approximately one hundred dol held early this month, the first on lars was cleared by the American January 9 In the Root hall at Board- Legion country store and gambling man and the other January 11 in the hall operated under the auspices of Hermiston library, according to an the local post on New Year’s day at announcement sent out to various the Hermiston auditorium. Thia farmers on the project by George H. money will be used by the local po-i Jenkins, assistant county agent. to defray the expenses of the dlstrh About this time last year a series Legion convention which has bee., MORE JAIL FACILITIES of similar schools were held In Her scheduled to be held in Her mis to IS CRYING NEED OF CITY ♦ ♦ miston, Stanfield and Boardman with some time in the near future. ♦ ' FARM REMINDERS ♦ some forty farmers In the three dis A particularly large crowd was in The local bastlle Is in such a de- tricts attending. R. B. Beese, of the attendance at the auditorium thruou lapidated condition that it Is unsafe state extension service, assisted with the afternoon and evening hours, par to trust It with a prisoner, desperate On January 1 both the weekly the program. At this time most of tlcipating in the gambling and pur or otherwise. A short time ago an Farm Market Review and the Daily the farmers started keeping records chasing at the country store. automobile thief was captured here, Market News and Economic Infor of their farm accounts and in accord The roulette wheel proved the served as chairman of the local grow but due to the utter lack of suitable mation radio broadcasts were dis- ance with present plans, these rec best money maker in tha hall al GEM CITY SCHEMER TO TRAIN ers last year, was elected to the pres jail facilities it was necessary to take continuued. ords will be collected and checked by though the card and dtce games got idency of the new organization. P. Mr. Beese so that he can take them their share of patroons as well. MONKEYS AS PRUNE PICKERS him to a neighboring town to hold L. Jewett was chosen secretary-treas him for the Portland police. Poison oak not adjacent to valu to his office at the college and make Poker chips, with the American urer, Walter Botkin and W. J. Log Hermiston has no ambition to claim able plants may be destroyed by the a summary of the record. After this Legion seal stamped on both sides, Los Gatos, Dec, 10— Aha! Monkey an directors of the Hermiston dis business! prominence as a crime center, but | application of 1 1-2 to 2 pounds of summary is made the books will be were sold at the rate of twenty for trict, J. S. Richards director for the Monkeys for business and business since Its police force insists upon salt on each square foot of soil returned to the owners. On January one dollar and these formed the only Stanfield-Echo district, and A. B. tor monkeys, believe It or not! bringing law offenders to justice with about the plants to a distance of two 8, the account books In the Board- medium of exchange in use. The Chaney director of the Boardman And some tough opposition for persltent regularity the least the city feet. A strong solution of arsenate man district will be checked and on chips were made redeemable at the Irrigon section. can do is provide facilities for taking may also be used, says the Oregon January 10 those In the Hermiston country store where all kinds of gro "cheap foreign labor.’’ Thé newly elected board of direct All this being contingent upon care of them. Since the passing of state college experiment station, but and Stanfield sections will be col ceries were purchasable. ; ¿' ors will meet Saturday afternoon plans being announced here today by the recent traffic ordinance by the either of these materials may kill lected at the reclamation building. Dr. Boyd Jenkins was the holder January 5, at 2 o’clock in the office Carl Lanzer Jr., Los Gatos schemer city council, the need for Increased other plants if drainage from the Both account schools, at Boardman of the lucky number which won tor of George Jenkins, assistant county extraordinary, for the Importation of jail facilities is doubly Important. and Hermiston, will start promptly at him the big free prize offered by th£ treated area flows near them. agent, where they will discuss the a flock of monkeys to handle next at 10 o’clock on the mornings desig Legion. The prize proved W W next turkey shipment from Hermis year’s prune picking problems. PARENT-TEACHER MEET I Caponizing of chickens is a very nated and will probably last until sack of flour. ton and make plane for the handling ?***/// Carl’s got an idea that all the mon ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON °I<1 practice and has been used for 3:30 in the afternoon with one hour of problems which arise in connection key business in the prune industry ---------- centuries by the people of Europe. off for lunch. All those who are at :o: ♦ :o: ♦ :o: ♦ :o: ♦ tor ♦ with it. •• ♦ has been to figurative, that it should Interesting Program to be Presented 11 was Introduced from Europe Into all interested are urged to attend the The meeting last Saturday which be actual monkey business. meeting, being prepared to sit down By High School Students tl!® United States In recent times. CHURCH NOTES ♦ was: called by Mr. Jenkins, was the And with this in mind he announc at tables and open a farm record. At Meeting. I --------- . ♦ culmination of efforts recently made ed Jo day that he will place an order ---------- DaMlae and cannas are store,] un- The records which are being advo ♦ : m ♦ :o: ♦ :o: ♦ in: ♦ to develop such an organization. The with the Los Angeles Monkey Farm The Parent-Teacher association of der the same conditions that keep cated are simple and do not require previous Saturday a similar meeting Inc., within the next few weeks for the local school will meet on Thurs- potatoes satisfactorily. They are a great deal of time, yet they are be The M. E. church Sunday, January was held, where a committee, headed 75 monkeys— 50 males and 25 fem day afternoon, January 10, In the thoroughly dried before storing. This lieved to be wholly adequate for the 6. We wish you all a happy and by Walter Botkin, was appointed to ales, which should cause a lot of high school auditorium. The last Is done by spreading them out to average farm. Those farmers who prosperous New Year, and we ex drpft a proposed constitution and to Jealousy in the ranks of the former. meeting scheduled for December 21, dry In an airy place after digging, begin the system will receive assist tend to you, with this good wish, an serve es a nominating body. The This layout of monkeys, Lanzer an was postponed on account of the In- The danger of losing cannas Is les- ance with the records throughout the Invitation to help uus In the program cmmlttee turned in at the following nounces, he will train as the first fluenza epidemic. sened If they are stored In boxes of year from Mr. Beese, Mr. Jenkins of spiritual growth in your commun meeting a report which was duly monkey prune pickers In the world, The meeting Thursday will begin dry sand, and. Chas. W. Smith, county agent In ity. Resolve to begin the new year accepted by the association. At the by attending one of the churches in Each will be equipped with a at 2:50 sharp and those who contem- — ■ Morrow county. suggestion of the committee the local "belly basket,” he says without blush plate attending are asked to be there HermlBton next Sunday. We thank Egg eating is a bad habit of hens district was divided into 3 sections ing, and will be taught the finer arts at that time to hear the program and Is hard to cure. When they each of you for your cooperation and HERMISTON YOUNG PEOPLE Umatilla-Hermiston, Stanfield-Echo, of prune picking. support in the year that has Just clos which is being presented by high have once obtained the taste they do and Boardman-Irrigon with two dis- ATTEND PARTY AT ECHO ed, and hope that your blessings will Monkeys, Lanzer contends, can be school students. The first number do not only destroy and eat their own rectors to be chosen from the first dis fed for 10 cents a day, which really will be a cantata, The Song of the eggs, but often all other eggs they he amply Increased during the new trict and one from each of thc other would be quite a saving you know. year, over the old year. We espec A large representation of Hermis Star, sung by the boys and girls’ glee find. The habit Is easily spread and two divisions. The Idea Is not altogether new with clubs. Three members of Miss Frost’s one hen might be the result of a loss ton young people from the Epworth ially invite you next Sunday to each Lanzer. He decided upon it several public speaking class will present an of considerable eggs each week. Eggs League of the Methodist church en and every service of the day. We are LOCAL SCHOOLS RESUME years ago. But before the prunes interesting little playlet as a part of filled with mustard or other bad joyed a watch party at Echo New endeavoring to be a "friendly church" WORK AFTER VACATION got ripe the flu set In— and the mon the program. tasting material are somdbimes used Year’s eve. A short program was and ask our cooperation in this Im keys all took to that, and died. to check this vice with more or less given and the remainder of the eve portant enterprise. O. W. Payne, pas The local school opened on Wed good results. In many cases the ning was spent in playing games. At tor. MODEL ARSON LAW nesday, January 2, after having been hatchet method (that Is to kill these midnight refreshments were served. GEORGE ALLEN JONES Several years ago the Fire Mar hens) is the only method that will Those who attended from Hermiston HOT LUNCHES SERVED TO closed for the regular Christmas The death of George Allen Jones, shals association of North America stop this expensive habit. Nests were Mary Brownson, Harvey De- vacation since December 21, Most of PUPILS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS months old son of Mr. and Mrs. prepared a model arson law which which are not secluded and dark Moss, Francis and Mabie Sales, Theta the teachers left Hermiston for the Burnside, Walther and Edna Ott, E. holiday season, to spend it at their Dick Jones of Stanfield, occurred Sat has been adopted by fifteen states. might be a starting point. L. Cherry, Ruth an<] Howard Cherry respective homes or In various cities urday, December 29 about noon. Fun It has three essential features, says Beginning Wednesday, January 2, Apples fed to swine will not, Dr. B. and Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Payne, eral services were held Sunday, Dec F. R. Morgaridge, of the arson de in the northwest. the Parent-Teacher assciation of T. Simms of the Oregon experiment The basketball season which was ember 30 at 2:30 o’clock at the fam partment of the National Board of Hermiston started serving hot lunches station believes, cause a breaking out Just beginning at the close of school ily reoldence with Rev. Gibson of Fire Underwriters. “First, under It HERMISTON HAS FIRST SNOW to the children in the Hermiston on the skin, as a correspondent met a serious handicap in the recent Stanfield in charge. Burial was In man can commit arson who burns public schools. Mrs. F. L. Kelley seems to think. The eruptions ask influenza epidemic, which necessitat the Hermiston cemetery. Hermiston's first snow fall of the is In charge of the work. This ac building which he owns or which ed about looks like hives, and appear ed the postponing of two schheduled season came the latter part of last tivity Is the culmination of efforts he occupies; ownership or occupancy ed on a sow that had been fed rather BORROUGHS-GRGMTEV games, the first with Richland, Is not at all material. week when enough fell Thursday made by members of the association heavily on apples. The trouble des night to cover the ground and trees during the past fall months. Accord Washington high school and the sec Second, it Includes not only those cribed seeme more like mange. Dr. Robert Borroughs of Alberta, Can who set fire to or burn, but in addi ond, a conference game with Adams. with a thick coating of white. A ing to the present plans, the lunches Simms thinks. Basketball practice will now be re ada and Martha Mildred Cromley of tion, those who cause to be burned, warm chinook wind on Friday and will be served during the cold weath sumed In preparation for the season’s Umatilla county, were united In mar or who aid. counsel or procure the NIGHT STAGES DISCONTINUED Saturday, however, made quick work er, probably for two months or mpre. riage Wednesday, January 2, at the burning of certain buildings or pro schedule. The night stage running between of what snow had fallen, and the home of Rev. and Mrs. J. T. Dowell perty. Portland and Pendleton and operated weather has been dark, cloudy and EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE TO MEET Miss Elba Hamrick has returned with Rev. Dowell performing the Third, it covers the attempt to by Columbia Gorge Stage company, rainy since that time. to Hermiston after spending the ceremony. Mr. Borroughs Is a burn buildings or property.” — was discontinued early in the week The Umatilla Project Farm Bur Christmas holidays with her parents brother of Mrs. Gordon, who resldess If every state would pass and en on account of unfavorable weather Enthusiastic football fans of Her eau executive coommlttee will bold a la Salem, Oregon. north of Hermiston. Mr. and Mrs. force this model arson law. It would conditions. The other stages on the miston stayed around the fireside for meeting In the office of George Jen- Borroughs will return to Canada In be a great progressive step in curb- run are operating as usual. The the most part on New Year’s day und kins, assistant county agent, In tbs Mrs. Wm. Shaar has been 111 with the near future where they will make J ing one of the least excusable and night service will probably be started listened to the radio accounts of the reclamation building in Hermiston °n f’venza during the past week. their home. most vicious of crimes. again in he spring. California-Georgia Tech. game. | Friday afternoon, January 4. THE FEATHERHEADS An Emergency Meazipe
