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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.”
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first cutting so good that much of if
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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.
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