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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1929)
fP California must have been practic ally deserted by her native sons and daughters this summer. Judging PubUahM .very Thursday at Her. by automobile license plates most of mlston, Umatilla County, Oregon by them are vacationing In Oregon. J. M. Biggs, editor and manager. Yes, It has been a little warm but Entered as second class matter December, 190«, at the poatotflce at what can one expect of a normal cli Kern'.lston, Umatilla County. Oregon. mate in the so-called temperate zone long about July and August. Subscription Rates One Tear J2.09 Arthur Brlsba.se says that any Six Months 91.00 thing men can Imagine they can do. '■hen pity the fellow that inadvertly says he can’t imagine his wife keep THE PROJECT FAIR ing her mouth shut. Sip Wr J*wîon ty rali Prospects are looking bright for the Umatilla Project Fair October 4 and 5 Last year saw a decided Improve ment over the shows of former years and the board of directors for the present undertaking Is going about the work of providing for a fair of unusual merits. Capable and enthu siastic workers have been appointed as heads of.the various divisions and with the proper amount of coopera tion from the people of the project, there is no reason why the 1929 fair shouldn’t develop Into an enterprise more extensive and wider In Its scope than ever before. The show Is over two months off! There remains plenty of time for everyone to plan on taking some part in It. When enough of us find ourselves Indi vidually Interested, that Interest will communicate Itself to the community, thereby solving one of the secrets of real success in such an enterprise. •> Mrs. M. T. Matett, Correspondent <• HBBMÏS.TO1 H I ^ la lJ p y iC f t M I f lT O y / O B B n O X Mrs. Jessie Ileseer and her broth ers, Clare and John Lemon, who are visiting here from Pittsburg, Kas., left August 2 for the upper John Day country where the visitors hope to catch some of the famous Oregon trout. Visitors at the F. B. Penonck home during the past week were Mr. and Mrs. Swarner and their sons Law rence and Monroe, Prof. A. C. Voel ker and Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Wag- horn. Prof. Voelker was superln tendent of Hermiston Hi a few years ago and Norman Pennock was a stu dent in the high at that time. Dick Thom threshed his barley the first of this week. He bad about 25 acres planted to this crop. Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Matott and daughter Rosella, motored to Pendle Minnehaha’s watermelon crop has ton on business July 31. been lat5 In coming on but is getting F. B. Pennock has been trying out into full swing now. Walter Garner has picked about forty already, and Sudan grass for pasture this season C. M. Jackson has also marketed som.- and while his stand wasn’t all that and there are other patches coming he hoped for, he believes that It Is Into bearing. There has been a case a good pasture crop for this project. or two of watermelon swiping dur It maintains a good growth while be ing the past week and while the patch ing foraged off and he has found owners make no fuss about the loss plants with as high as 75 stalks. At of a melon or so to the cause of the present he is pasturing six cows on hungry, they plan on using stern the two acres he has, but hasn’t suf measures against those who needless ficient data as yet to state how many ly tear up the patches and destroy cows can be pastured per acre. Sud many of the future melons. To many an grass is an annual. of the farmers who make a large part Miss Georgia Thom returned from of their living In melons, the ruth less destruction of their patches Is Pendleton last week and reported a equal to having several pay checks most enjoyable vacation spent In the THIEVERY OF A SORT Wallowa country where she was suc stolen. cessful at fishing and also enjoyed There are various kinds of des The U-Go-I-Go club held a picnic swimming in Wallowa lake. picable 'people In this old world. at the home Of Mrs. R. E. McFalls on Witness for example the proverbial August 1. This Is an ideal place for' Miss Rosella Matott left for La mean fellow who stole the pennies Rllch a jpltherlng because of the love Grande August 3 to go on a camping from the baby’s bank. It seems that ly lawn banked with shade trees and trip on upper Catherine creek with he might have been one of the claim the wondsrful spring which everyone her prandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. ants to the title of "the meanest fel enjoys both scenlcally and thirstily. B. ®ral and her sister Janice, who has low In the world." After the picnic lunch topped off with been in La Grande for about a month. However, If the choice were left two kinds of Ice cream, the ladies to the melon growers uround over decided It was tt>o warm a day to Mr. W. V. Garner displays a broad the project, their vote would undoubt work and so spent the remainder of smile these days all because of four edly be cast with one accord for the the afternoon visiting. Seventeen acres he has planted to potatoes, fellow who sneaks nround stealing ladies were present. which are not only bearing well but melons and trampling down the vines are of excellent quality and the paper until the entire season’s crop Is Mrs. W. E. Putnam and daugh quotations indicate that potatoes will practically ruined. A melon stealer He dug ter. Nona Miriam, left for their home I be a good price this year. Intent upon getting one big Juicy In Portland last Thursday evening one hill of 25 potatoes, 24 of them of melon can wrought more destruction niter visiting at the W. A. Hinellne marketable size. than a band of cattle roaming nround home. Mrs. Putnam and Mrs. Hine the patch. Just why melon stealing Uncle Johnny Thom, who lives in llne are sisters. In the minds of some peculiar person Columbia district at present, but 1« alities stands oufiVde tho pale of well known to most everybody and Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Jackson and thievery Is a question for a psychol his dog on the whole project, left for sons Billy and Bobby motored to Mc- ogist and his corps of assistants, but Desolation creek and Olive lake for such evidently Is the css« and thh Kay dam Ju,y 31 to vU,t with Mr’ an extended fishing trip and to re warned turn nr mind causes a lot of IIrw,n T’ S" aln who ,B here fron’ cuperate from his long illness of last grief, worry and expense to the man I ?.olor“<1i’ *teU’“5 T'V*. .her Par "ts winter. He seems to stand ace high who is trying to enrn an honest liv Mr. and Mrs. W. f \ Elder, who live In the estimation of the fish for thev ing by producing the melons. The at the tliirn. Mrs. .'arkson and Mrs. always flock to his hook. He ex average melon grower Isn’t s t h v Swain have been friends for many pects to be gone about a month. and crabbed about sharing his mel years. ons, although he Is, after all raising Roe McFalls has been doing some Mrs. W. G, Rodda was hostess to active experimenting with his alfal them for a market, and not usually for the fun of It. But. he does ob- the girls 1-H club August 2 and fa and from his data. It would seem Ject to having a bunch of vandals »»rved fresh strawberry Ice cream his experiments have been all to the sneak In nnd destroy a large propor- U,e next meeting will be held Aug- good. Three years ago he had about tlon of the crop merely because in '**1 nt the home of Mrs. M. T. a half crop of alfalfa and a dandy their feeble minds, such action con- Matott. crop of cheat. This year he had a stitutes a “lark.” j --------- first cutting so good that much of if — 1 Miss Bessie Calkins of Gresham la lodged and had to he cut one way The real pleasure of talking over j visiting at the home of her slster.|and the chert was Just nil His sec the battles of the World War will be; Mrs. Wiley Ptarson. Miss Bessie at-'ond cutting Is stacked so high that in the Legion convention of forty or tended school at tho Junior Academy some of the neighbors had to help fifty yenrs hence._________________ j of Portland Inst year. him down from the stack with the Jaskson fork when he got through. Mrs. W. A Hinellne has been ap Some of his ideas follow. "Don't pointed to teach home economics In pasture alfalfa, but particularly not the Hermiston high school for the coming year. in the fall when the protecting leavss are eaten away from the grown wl^:h cassth freezing out. In the spring don't water the crop until you are afrabl to let it go any Iqnger, then let It go awhile longer, rescent and it will have killed the cheat's ¿ 4 MAKING best intentions. The cheat not only £ PO W DER, saps the ground but eventually kills g - fall pounds out the alfalfa." He found that where the ground was burned over the crop was noticeably better, but very little of his land was so burned. His crops for the last two years as Pure anA well as his previous poor crops Indi '•olesome., a cate that his theories are making good. V ABSOLUTELY the Beat News paper published in Hermiston, at the remarkably low price PER YEAR............. ...... C V < •« ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ H A S A L W A Y S LE D IN 30x31 - 29x4.40 30x4.50 33x6.00 You will find the balance shown by vo’ r h n’ ’ o. k :Lt 1 iod of systematic savingB, the most Intercstln r sto i It will open to you the way to greater happiness and plea- ec t you have ever dreamed possible. Let us start your book today. First National Bank of Hermiston Capital, S'irplua and Undivided P ro fit. O ver $50,000 F. B. Swayze,'Pres. A. R. Alexander, Vice-President A. H. Horton, Cashier BLACK & WHITE GARAGE Implements AfowAlemite-equipped like motor-can Special food and preparations may be all right for the boys as a fill in, but the real food to build them strong and healthy Is good bread and plenty of it. Our Hermiston broad contains Just the right ingredients. More than 40 leading makes of farm implements now come equipped with Alemite high pressure lubrication in place o f grease cups. The same system used on most makes of cars. The handy Alemite Com. pressor makes lubrication easy and sure. Saves repairs. You can also equip old machines with Alemite. It costs only a few cent3 to replace a grease cup with an Alemite fitting. Let us sh ow you how it w ill save time, labor and money. HERMISTON BAKERY for Farm Implements OVERSTOCKED —WITH— High P riced B oys Shoes Oregon Hdwe. & Implement Co WNCHCSTCK a ro n a Star Brand, Reg. $4.50 QC and $5 v a l u e ..........tp O e i/O F. C. WOUGHTER, Agent Hermiston, Oregon B oys’ D ress Shirts Regular $1.35 value . . . . W E B B E R ’S C L E A N E R S $1.15 $1.15 Values . . . 90c $ 1 .0 0 Values . . . 80c 90c Values . . . 70c Also complete School Outfits at Right Prices 33 days until the school bell rings. Take advantage of these savings and equip your children now. CHAS. G. BURK, INC. THE D A L L E S, 0 R E 0 0 H WE «ALL FOR AND DELIVER August 1 4 1 5 M A IL ORDERS PROM PTLY F IL L E D Between You and Loss One of O ur Fire Insurance Policies J. M. BIGGS Phone 51 -d Kills 'em d e a d " ,m osquitoes, roaches.rnoth S-
