fg g
(Tiie ifirrmiflinn ijrralh
Published every T hu rsday a t H erm isto n. U n ia H lla C ounty, Oregon, by J.
M. Biggs, E d ito r and M anager.
E n tered ag Second Class M a tte r Decem ber, 1906, a t the postotfice a t H e r
m iston, U m a tilla County, Oregon.
H EBM lSTO a
UERXLiM HEKtfZSTOJT/ ORBGOOf,\
Prosperity does not explain the arrival of the three-car
family. The three cars simply mean that the old man
plays golf, the wife plays bridge and the kids play thun
der.
October 4-5 are the dates of the Bigger and Better
Umatilla Project Fair.
Subscription Rates
One Y e a r .......................................................................................................................... > ;.e o
Six M onths ........................ . ........................................................................................... >1.00
TROY L A U N D R Y
WHAT ABOUT A PARK?
Driving along the Old Oregon Trail through the towns
in this section of the country one is struck by the appear
ance of occasional small, shady plots of grass attractive
ly kept. Inquiry reveals that these are parks maintained *
by the towns. Both Stanfield and Echo, our neighbors
to the south, can boast of such parks and the impression
they make on the motorist is surely one not easily erased.
It seems that Hermiston, too, once had a park owned
by the city and maintained partially by civic organiza
tions. But the city finally decided that it couldn’t sup
port such an enterprise.
“Too much money, have to save the taxpayers all un
necessary expense.” Such was the verdict, so Hermiston’s
park was allowed to grow up to weeds and another civic
enterprise fell by the wayside.
The past few months have seen some decided improve
ments in Hermiston. After several years of more or less
half-hearted effort, the grounds of the library were clear
ed, planted to grass and now form a real beauty spot in
the town. The expense of the undertaking was not ter
rific nor did it work any great hardship on the people.
Community efforts need not necessarily be a burden
of great proportions. When the expense is shared joint
ly each individual’s share becomes trifling.
The city of Hermiston owns practically all of the land
at the west end of Main street, the original site of the
park. Would it be wholly preposterous to presume that
the city council in making up the yearly budget might in
clude a thousand or fifteen hundred dollars for the main
tenance of a park? A car taker at a small monthlv wage
could keep it up in splendid shape and the condition of
the plot now is such that the initial expense would not
be a weighty burden on anyone’s pocketbook. The Com
munity club of Hermiston at one time spent quite a lit
tle bit of money putting cinder paths through the park
and in other ways improving it. Fuurther development
now would not call for any impressive outlav of money.
Shade trees are needed. Black locusts or other quick
growing, hardy trees planted there would within a re
markably short time furnish sufficient shade. The loca
tion is an ideal one—In the center of town conveniently * 6
accessible and on the main traveled highway where it ‘ ‘ H
might be enjoyed not only by the home towners but by ❖
tourists as well.
Would it be worth a dollar or so a year to you taxpay
ers? If it wouldn’t, then this really isn’t the place for
you at all. You belong some three or four miles out
south of town in a cactus and sagebrush patch. If the
municipal taxpayers of Hermiston are too poor to support
a little plot of grass and some shade trees, they might a.
well give up the ghost. They’re too d-------- poor to live.
PHONE
1 9 - W
KECK BARBER SHOP
U m a t i l l a C o . , U.
S. A .H e r m is to n , O re g o n
W EBBER’S CLEANERS
THE
D A LLES,
OREGON
WE CALL FOR AND DELIVER
July 2 and 3
M A IL
ORDERS
PROM PTLY
F IL L E D
H A S A L W A Y S LED IN
-
-
-
-
$ 5 .8 0
$ 8 .9 0
$ 9 .9 0
$17.80
Time was when a water pail was a present for mother
Today the department of commerce estimates the aver
age American family has a third more purchasing powei
than it had in 1911. Yet it is a question whether the
load around the middle-class wage earners neck has beei
appreciably lightened. For during the interval he ha,;
come to live in a world filled with new things for th-
family to buy. The utmost luxuries of 1914 are in many
cases necessities today.
Take the up-to-date family’s expenditure for machine
purchase alone and contrast it with their parents: Sched
u e .1929: 1 aut?m°bile $700; 1 radio $75; 1 phono
graph $50; 1 washing machine, $150; 1 vacuum cleaner.
$o0; 1 electric sewing machine, $60; other electrica
equipment, $25; telephone year, $35; total $1145.00.
^ O : 2 bicycles, $70; wringer and wash
board $5.00; brushes and brooms, $5.00; sewing machine
$25.00; total $105.
Another item of expense that is far higher today if
the price of health. Not only have the dentist, doctor,
nuise and hospital, in many cases doubled their pre-wai
fees, but there are the legion of new methods of disease
pievention; cutting out the children’s tonsils, straighten
i n g teeth, immunizing them from diphtheria and small-
P°x- i ien
are other almost universal luxuries that
the elder generation regarded with a cautious eye, such
as silk stockings, fur coats, cigarettes, cosmetics and the
countless forms of recreation and travel that have be
come habitual since 1924.
And yet, somehow, some have saved money. Whatever
our personal experience, the natural income has risen in
terms of what it will buy. When some of us bewail the
higher cost of living we may be talking about the higher
f 0SL?f .Vever
Let us hoPe that in
end it may
truthfully be said of us that besiaes “was borne and died’’
between we lived.
And now the Native Sons of California claim that j
their state was the original Garden of Eden, and as proof
they claim the immense deposits of prehistoric bones
ound in the La Brea Pits were the animals Noah left at
Lne pier when he sailed away.
If the present matrimonial tendency keeps up it won’t
bs
each marriage license issued will contain
cr
„ *°ng until
-----------
a blank divorce application attached, just like one of those
reply postal cards.
❖ 4- •> 4- 4> 4- 4- ❖ ❖
❖ 4- 4- <• 4- ❖ 4- « •> 4- « 4> « 4- •>
E R M IS T O N ’ S V O IC E OF F I R E S T O N E ’ ’
<. <• 4. 4. •>
4> 4» « 4. 4. .> 4. *
THE NEW
FORD ROADSTER
of Hermiston
C a p ita l, S urplu s an d U n d iv id e d P ro fits O v e r > 5 0 ,0 0 0
F. B. Swayze, Pre«.
!■■■■■■■■ ■■■■■■■■■■■■■
W ays
• racism*«
in P re h is to ric
Ruins
l ! : i l win
11 Milley culled the Que
brada n| i l 'i t u a h i i i i c n on the border-
hud of r.ullvu ore the prehistoric
ruins o f nil-urn. standing on a high,
sleep inoiintalii. overlooking the river
far below
Strange and fascinating
tegends i-lina Io tills ancient town of
the dead, O ffen treasure hunters have
disliirlied its sluisbers In their nrdu-
' ous qtie- ts. I ong ago, when the peo-
1 pie of T ilcarn buried a chief, they cov
ered Ills face w ith a golden mask.
I wished if possible to obtain a me
mento of my visit, so I tank a guide,
climbed fa r up the steep tra il to the
imcleni m ins, and looked for graves.
Most of the natives hereabouts ore
very supersiitlous. They w ill not go
nenr the “(lend towns,” as they coll
tlie ruins; they say that disaster or
death may overtake anyone who med
dles with ancient grnVes. W ith them
the fear o f such misfortune« Is usu
ally above Ate lure of lost treasures.
Bin my guide was an exception. He
located the graces by stamping on the
ground. I f It sounded hollow, he would
bore Into flip sandy soli w ith a thin
steel rod about five feet long. In t i l l s
way we found several graves, shaped
lik e old-fashioned Straw beehives. The
dead were burled doubled up. In a
sitting position.
T he graves usually contained a few
pots probably filled w ith food and coca
leaves when placed there. We also
found tools nisi drinking cups with
the dead men.— A. F. Tschlffely lu the
National Geographic Magazine.
.
; Hermiston Bread is “Pep” Bread 5
J
Hermiston Bread is ‘‘Pep” Bread because it is made from pure
M food ingredients in our sanitary bakery. Each step in its making
■ is carefully guarded, each ingredient Is abaolutely pure.
T H E Ford Roadster is a car (or Y o u th and the
Country C lub. N ew and m odem , yet sturdy and
substantial. A t home in any company because o f
its quiet air o f good taste. I t belongs!
— FOR SALE AT ALL GROCERS —
■
:
HERMISTON BAKERY
j
O W FABLES
SSSS?-
::R1S
K ANSAS C IT Y .... M .M
S T . LO U IS______ 80.M
CH IC A GO
8S.0C
c K ct NMA'TL:
Bielman Motors
R educed fares a ll parts o f east; lib e ra l stop
o v e rs . F ih e trains; m odern equipm ent;
splendid service; scenic ro u te. S h o rt side
trip s enables yo u to v is it—
D O N NATIONAL PARK
GRAND CANTON NATIONAL PARK
BRTCR CANTON NATIONAL PARK
TELLOWSTONB NATIONAL PA RK
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NAT’L PARK
Hermiston, Oregon
Kills
'em
dead
anise
Y SPRAY
flies,mosquitoes,
rM¿hes&nu>fhs,lice
anâmarnjgoÿieri insects
STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CAI JjEQP.NJA
DEAR CUSTOMER:
«.«¿»fcr, >45(1
(AO p r im /.• ■ > . Detroit, pin, charge foe freight and deSeary.
dam pen and tpare tire e x tre j
BPFECTIVB MAT XX TO l » T . M
RKTURN UMJT OCT. »X,
F. C. WOUGHTER, Agent
READ T H E PO M E PAPER
A great car— this new Ford Roadster. A car
that thrills you by its performance. Y e t moderately
priced for all o f that.
Phaeton. >460
Tudor Sedan, >525
Cosine, >525
Cowpe, >550
S port Coupe, with rttmbie MSI, >550
For d o r Sedan. >625
. Îît'.ÎÎ
NEW ORLEANS. 1CT.1S
CLEVELAND........ JOT.S1
TO R O N T O ............l l l . M
ATLANTA............. 11S.M
PIT T SB U R G H
118.81
W ASH ING TO N 1M.S1
PHILADELPH IA 14S.S7
MEW Y O R K ......... 14« .4«
BO STO N
--------
When In I(tt3 Count W llllm n or
Nassau whs »1 w ar ngainst the Spau
lards mid had won the Philippine line
lu Flanders, he Soon saw that the
Spaniards would do everything to gel
It hack again. As he could not get
any reinforcements soon enough to
help him. lie tried tu receive them
H e therefore sent for sixty empty
Ships mid on each of them, besides the
necessary crews, one musician. When
evening came these ships sailed out
nnd. arriving near the threatened line
the musicians started playing different
marches, some In Scottish, others the
French, mid again, others the aerm an
march. This made a trememlons noise
which caused the Spaniards lo think
that the I Hitch had received reinforce
ments. They therefore went quickly
n it M ie rtm. and Count W illia m saved
the Philippine line from the enemy
w ithout shedding a single drop of
blood.
Brings you the features o f all the new F ord cars.
35 to 65 miles an hour . . . quick acceleration . . .
vibration-absorbing engine support . . . fully en
closed, silent six-brake system . . . four HoudaiHe
hydraulic shock absorbers . . . T rip le x shatter
proof glass windshield and windshield wings . . .
typical Ford economy, reliability and long life.
1.
We are at Your Service.
2.
We will deliver clean, dear ice when you want it,
3.
We will net track up your floors.
4.
We will M t “mete” in front of your refrigerator.
3.
We will give full weight.
3.
We guarantee courteous and considerate employes.
7.
We request that yon phone ns promptly if onr service faila to
O ffice Phone 741
Residence Phone 901
■
5
5
E xp en d itu re o f Lives
This smart new
roadster is as speedy
as it looks
R. Alexander, Vice-President
A. H. Norton, Cashier
Comedian— Now, I don’t suppose
you’re ever called before th ’ .curtain,
boy?
Tragedian— W ell,
I should say.
Why, nearly every night they dure
me to come out.
S trateg y T h a t Saved
HERMISTON. OREGON
The biggest industry in the world—bellyaching. <P>.
First N ational Bank
A Laudable Ambition
I-
Cearch
30x3, -
2 9 x 4 .4 0
3 0 x 4 .5 0
3 3 x 6 .0 0
LIBERTY
P la n fo r y o u r fin a n c ia l Independence by s ta rtin g a savings ac
cou nt In this s tron g bank.
Y o u r balance draw s In te re s t a t 4 per
cent yet you m ay w ith d ra w it at any tim e you should-need It. I t
Is you r safeguard in tim e o f trouble / . ' . . an Insurance of you r In
dependence.
The Sire -Son, your school report
shows a lot of very low marks. How
about it }
T he Son— Well, you see, dad, every
thing's so high nowadnys I thought It
was tim e some Items were marked
down.
Tw o
BLACK & W H IT E GARAGE
WHAT OUR PARENTS DIDN’T PAY FOR
A number of negroes were taken
daily to the cotton fields on a motor
truck. One day the owner asked one
o f the men to drive the truck to and
from the farm . At a short curve on
the highway (here wag a great spill
ing of the occupants, and one of them
explained to a friend la te r:
I "De boss done ast him if he could
drive a kar and he lay, yes— hut dat
nigger never tole him he cuden atop
no kar.”
Meadowbrook Ice
ICE HOUSE OPEN SUNDAYS UNTIL 12 O’CLOCI.