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Qtyr ifrrtntßtün Çrralù
Published every Thursday at Hermiston, U m gtllla County, Oregon, by
M. Biggs, E d ito r And Manager.
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Entered «a Second Claes M atter December, 1906, at the poavndfice at Her-
miston, U m atilla County, Oregon.
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lea. the aanie’ being dated and publish
ed the first time thia ( t h day of
Word» in Common U te December, 1928.
THOS. J. K E A T IN G ,
It Is not considered complimentary
to say of a woman that she is “no Adm inlatrator of the eatate of Ernest
lady," hut how many women are en
Stricker, deceased.
titled to the name In Its real sense 1 Raley. Raley & W arner. A. S. Cooley
I do not know one, for the true mean
and John F. K ilkenny, Attorneys
lng of “ludy" is a loaf-kneader—a
for Administrator.
14-,6tc
noble art that la practically defunct
today.
ANNOUNCEMENT
There are about 2,000,006 spinsters
The Freewater Hatchery at Free
In Great Britain, but how many or
them can spin! And although every water, Oregon, announces that the
man 1» Mr. So-and-so, very few are new Improvements are now completed
entitled to the Mr. In Its true mean a n j the ,iew Mammoth Electric mac
hines are now installed. Thia la the
or master
largest incubator and brooder estab
lishment In eastern Oregon or W ash
its abbreviated form; my chemist
ington. Seacon capacity of Incuba
tors 250.000; brooder capacity, 7000.
Now ts the time to order your Col
uo longer sen costard apple«, lins Baby Chicks. 10 per cent dis-
cunt on all orders received before
January 1, 1929.
long since censed to make navigation
S. C. W hite Leghors, 15c; Rocks,
canals. The constable Is not the count 18c; Reds. 18c; Orpingtons, 18c;
of the stable, the publican Is not tlte
Black Mlnorcas, 18c
tux collector, and the galTer of a mill
C. F. COLLINS,
often behaves in a way very unlike hl*
Freewater, Oregon.
□ante, which Is a shortened form of
Feut Know Meaning of
- S J iJ L X I
YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE
Since the law, contained in Chapter 342 Oregon Laws mg
was passed at the 1927 sessions of the Oregon legislature,' groXr'7hLrgb\rrXikf ti?« oiunnnm
the average motorist has believed that he could invite a in
guest to ride with him without assuming any responsibil^ k"t>w» ,i,tle or “"t*'10« <* alchemy,
ity for the guest’s safety. This, too, was the opinion of|
'
the judges, lawyers and insurance companies that many costers
iust claims were refused and suits dismissed because of *ome » ,,w»hove “8ver bwn on * •hlr'
this legislate enactment.
wlth 8a"8’and “,e hnmb,e “n“vv,'‘ ,,n8
The supreme court of Oregon does not take this view
and has held this bit of legislation unconstitutional, and
the guest has the same right as he did before 1927.
The law held unconstitutioonal by the supreme court
O f the thousands of clerks
provided that “any person who as a guest accepts a ride godfather.
working todHy not one Is a clergyman
in any vehicle, moving upon any of the public highways or cleric; the old name has come down |
of the state of Oregon, and while riding as such guest re from the time when the only people
ceives or sustains an injury shall have no right of recovery who could write were the clerics.— j
against the owner or driver of such motor vehicle,” The London Evening News,
act also provides that no right of action should arise by
reason of the death of such guest against the owner or Find M any Uses for
driver and that even a child was barred from recovering
Tree Bark in Africa
Tree bark Is used In tropical Africa
damages from an injury sustained under such circum
make cloth. In days gone by tills
stances. The act concluded “acceptance of a free ride as to
material wag solely used to provide
a guest in a motor vehicle shall be presumed to be a waiv what little covering human bodies
er of said guest of liability for accidental injury caused by ueeded. in the making of the cloth
the tree Is stripped to a height ot
the owner or driver of such motor vehicle.”
ten feet. This bark stripping !
The Supreme court, in an opinion written by Judge about
can be done at twelve-month Intervals
Rossman, over-ruled the lower courts on November 27, the third or fourth hark making the
finest cloth. The Inner bark is used I
1928. Judge Rossman, in his opinion, held that the con for
cloth, aud strips from four 'to
stitution of the state of Oregon would be contravened if eight the feet
In length are beaten with
a mallet to the thickness of heavy
this law was enforced.
Article 1, section 10 of the Oregon constitution pro brown paper. It ia then sun-dried
It takes on a terra-cotta shade
vides “ . . . and every man shall have remedy by due course when
Holes and flows are patched and the
of law for injury done him in his person, property or repu cloth la made up Into abeets about
eight feet square. Strips of fiber from
tation.”
dry stem are used ns thread and
The purpose of this enactment was to save the public the
the work of stitching Is always under
and make secure from legislative charge of enactment taken by men. In addition, the bark
those fundamental rights which were well established Is used for door hinges, drinking ve«
sels, grain drums, cradles, beehives,
prior to the enactment of the constitution.
nets, game traps, blankets, fishing
Guests in vehicles, at the common law as it stood at the Ihies, rope, cord und thread.
time of the adoption of our state constitution, had a right
to demand of their host an exercise of due care for the
Did Not Like “A ida”
safety of the guest. If he acted negligently he was re As an example of genuine Impudence
sponsible to the guest for any damages that the g ’est a letter written to Giuseppe Verdi
the cake. The letter, which ts
might suffer. The
of the legislature of 1927 would tabes
Included In the Verdi collection recent
completely wipe CLt th ’s right.
ly published In Italy, Includes one re
The effect«' of tl.:3 d c irio n will, no doubt, be far reach plying to a young rnnn who demanded
of the expensea he Incurred
ing, re a ff •n:r.p; as it doe s, a constitutional limitation on repayment
in going to see “Alda" when It was
the power of 1*3 legislati ve to enact laws depriving the produced In 1872. He abused the
p- biic of
'o’ rights preserved to the public by the con opera roundly, prophesying Unit It
would “rot away In the library,” and
stitution. it w:U si-o i.iea-i the revival of many claims for asked
for a sum covering his train
damages that have k in dormant because of the legislative fare, Ills seat, and Ills supper I And
enactment and will force the payment of many claims Verdi actually paid It, exacting a
promise, however, that the young man
heretofore turned down. A guest still has rights and the would
never attend another opera of
motorist who desires to be generous does so at his own his. *
peril.
•
Science nearing secrets of prolonging life.—Headline.
Imagine living long enough to er. joy the day when all of
our subscribers are paid in advance.
Just right—no New Year’s rest lutiom to keep; none to
b reak ; nine holes of golf in this January sunushine, who
said it was necessary to take a trip to Sunny Califojronia.
New Kind of Disease
It was at one of those Sunday din
tiers that only Hoosier mothers can
prepure. Every one proceeded to eat
t«o much, ns Is usually the cn-»e on
such occasions. At last Uncle Otto, re
fused the sixth—or mnybe It was the
ninth—helping.
When urged to partake of cake and
dessert, he declined with the tactful
rem ark:
“I t looks mighty tempting, but I
have limitations.”
Hearing this, William, his nephe
age seven, asked:
“What kind of disease ts that, Unci«
O tto)”—Indianapolis News.
Famous Italian Caeee
Italy claims to have the two deep
est subterranean caverns In the world.
The deepest Is the famous Abisso del
Frets, near Verona, and the second
deepest is the cave of Vereo, near the
Itiver Isouio. Hitherto both have re
mained practically unexplored, but the
Alpine society of Jnllan Venetla re
cently led an expedition to the bottom
of the cave of Verca. The mouth ql
the cave la 1,900 feet above sea level
and the depth from the mouth to the
lowest pit Is about l.TOOfeet. The cave
contains severs! lakes and streams.
Tide, W ithin B a ith f
Edmund Halley was (he first to note
the decrease In the spinning rate of
the earth, aud Sir George Darwin, sec
ond eon of Charles Darwin, ascribed
this phenomenon to the friction pro
duced by the tides piling tip on shore
and dragging across the bottom of shal
low seas. That, however, would se-
roust for only two-thlrds of the ag
gregate loss of s|x>s<l, and Frdfesaot
Boss believes that the difference can
he ascribed to the existence of Mmllar
tides within the earth as well aa Ip th«
ocean.
Zones in Space Where
Silenee Is Absolute
When rising from the earth's sur
face, the ah- becomes lighter mid more
rarefied. AC of Its components de
crease in amonnt; at .'¡0 miles up there
la Hltte or no •oxygen Hnd the density
of the ulr atriliut altitude ia about one
one-hundredth that at tlffe sea level;
nt 00 miles, the nitrogen cease«, and
there Is practically no water vapor
above five miles. Above Jo nlllea the
air Is loo nice to transmit sound and
uhsolutu silenee tlturs prevails. As
the a ir Is very rare at that altitude,
aud as no motes or 'dust are there,
the light waves pails almost nneb-
structed, and there Is nearly total
darkness and absence of nil color; the
temperature, too, Is very low, prob
ably approaching that of outward
space, thia region Is then one of dark
cold silence. The fc-t. however, that
meteors somcilno-s liemtne luminous
at the h. igltt of ltxi uille.i nnd more,
shows that there ts nn atmosphere of
some sort at that height, probably
hydrogeu, helloni or kindred unknown
gasea.
R ival Lovers Submit
to Cruel Punishment
S tr a w
Through Board
The energy with which a body
strikes on object determines the plerc
lng effect nnd damaging effect of the
body. Energy Is measured by the prod
uct ot the ma)s of tlie body and the
squnre of th<? velocity. Thus a very
small body moving with a high velocity
can possess Just ns much kinetic en
ergy ns a large body moving slowly
The straw driven by a cyclone Is hurled
through the air nt an enormous veloc
Ity and expends Its energy In going
through the wood. This happens so
quickly that the Inertia of the straw
keeps It from crumpling np before
piercing.
— ROAD THE WANT ADS—
IN THE COUNTY COURT OF THE
STATE OF OREGON FOR
UMATILLA COUNTY
In the m atter of the Estate of
J acob L. Stork, deceased.
Notice to creditors.
Notice ts hereby given th at the
undersigned has been appointed by
the above entitled court adm inistra
tor of the above entitled estate, and
that he has qualified aa the law dir-
AM P8™0” « having claims
agt-lust the estate are directed
to,
present the same to ms at the office 1
of my attorney S. A. Lowell. Despaln ;
Block, Pendleton, Oregon, w ith in six
months from the date hereof, w ith
proper vouchers.
Dated this 1$ day of December,
1928.
ROBERT F. THOMPSON.
Adm inlatrator
15-Stc
A «nnlnily wild custom for the cap-
turs of young maids’ hearts has sur
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
vived In the Sndnn down to Ike pres
Notice Is hereby given that the
ent day. Where It 1« a ense of two
young men enamored of the same girl undersigned has been appointed ad-
Ibey snhjeet themselves to the "mellh-; m lnlstrator of the eatate of Ernest
trnah." a love test of a savagely .-rue) s tr ic te r , deceased. In
Has County
’“’ ’ ’J'*'
. . „ ,
Court In the State of Oregon,
for
•n iertvata h«ll down Maws on one , , ma|1)la Cou#t
A„
„„ haTl„ ,
another
a bucks
either
with
a whip
, ,
. . . . ‘ . h* _.
. ” “ . t*
.
stick, the
weapon
having
been
«« tU «r
d 1 cto,m*
“ ld
upon by them In advance. The o nal“ « " ” * required to present suck,
who hears up the longest under the <•>•'"’• duly verfled, and
PT«>er
pnnlahment takes home the bride and vouchers attached, to the undersign
receive« the title of ”Achu el Baaat” ed a t the office of Raley, Raley t ,
llk-nther of tty» Daughters). AltImngh W arner, In the F irst National Bank,
these contests have been prohibited Building. In Pendleton, Oregon, w it h - ,
by the police, they continue to ba
months from date of this n o t-1
held la secret.
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For greater convenience
and comfort in your
home during the year
1929, use more electric
ity.
WE CARRY MAZDA LAMPS
Hermiston Power & Light Co.
The Paying Hen
Is the LAYING Hen
Dr. Hess Poultry Panacea
Keeps Them on The Job
Ask any poultry raiser who has used it consistently
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