The Hermiston DIVERSIFIED FARMS NAY — OPPORTUNITIES ART. HEUE. VOL. XXIV — NUMBER 13— HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OKEGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1929 LAST FOOTBALL GAME OF SEASON VICTORY FOR HERMISTAN SQUAD AT MILTON FRIDAY SCORE 32 TO 0 IN CONTEST WITH ♦ ♦ M’LOUGHLIN HIGH SCHOOL ♦ FOURTH, SIXTH GRADES RIVALS ♦ ♦ SIX BOYS ATTEMPT TO GET THANKSGIIVING TURKEY; FAIL Two Birds Taken From Walter Dyer Farm Sunday Afternoon; Are HIGH AVERAGE WON BY MANY STUDENTS Found Later. SUBSCRIPTION, $2.00 PER TEAS BENEFIT CARD PARTY NETS • APPROXIMATELY $30 PROFIT Mrs. W. J. Warner Wins First Prize For Women; F. C. McKenzie Gets Prize for Men. Local Farmers and Eastern Corporation May Contract For Growing Of Artichokes HONOR ROLL LISTED AT END QF Approximately |30 were made at Six boys from Pendleton last Sun SIX WEEKS the benefit card party given Monday ♦ Spirit has been running high ♦ day undertook to prepare for the night In the library building by the lo c a l Team Wins Three of Seven Con ♦ between the fourth grade and ♦ Thanksgiving festivities by shooting Pupils Required to Have High Marks library board for the purpose of PROPOSITION DISCUSSED FRIDAY ♦ the sixth grade during the past ❖ one turkey and taking another front tests Played; 12 Men Earn raising money to buy new books. In Order to Gain Special AT MEETING ♦ week in the Parent-Teachers’ ♦ the Walter Dyer farm. However, at There were thirteen tables at the Letters. Mention. < Association membership contest. ♦ a hearing Monday morning in the party. Although it had been an New Crop Pointed Out as Profitable; With a 32 to nothing victory over ♦ Each grade in ..the ..grammar ♦ office of Justice of the Peace J. 8 nounced that there would be tables Quota of 600 Acres Now Mac Hl's super varsity team In Mil- ♦ school has been trying to bring ♦ West,, they found out that prepara With the end of another six weeks for five hundred as well as for The past, present and future of Reached. tion In this case was not better than ♦ in more new members for the ♦ ton Friday, the Hermiston high of school, the honor roll, including bridge, nothing but bridge was play the Jerusalem artichoke were held up school football squad concluded its ♦ organization than any ..other. ♦ reparation, for they were required to the names of all those who have an ed. before the public at the meeting Fri Hermiston’s soil, climate and ir <4 The fourth and sixth grades ♦ repair the damage they had done. football season this year. average of two or better, with no ex There were first and second prizes day night. One of the principal dis rigation facilities are the reasons <• were the most successful in the ♦ Mac Hi’s super varsity is a flashy Neighbors of the Dyer farm heard cused absences or tardiness, has been for both men and women. Mrs. W. closures made was that the artichoke little team made up of the Eastern «• undertaking and at the end of ♦ the shooting Sunday and notified H. compiled. Those who have reached J. Warner won the first prize and is a plant about which comparatively that brought Lou D. Sweet to this Oregon champion's first string sub ♦ last week they both had approx- ♦ W. Kelley, local police officer, who this standard during the past six Mrs. George Briggs won the second little Is known. It Is a native of community last week to try to con tract for 500 acres to be devoted to ♦ imately forty members signed ♦ started out to find the persons who weeks are: stitutes. prize for women. Mr. F. C. Mc America, but a Frenchman was the the cultivation of artichokes next Hermiston displayed a fast aerial ♦ up apiece. The pupils in the ❖ had done the shooting. He found First Grade: David Hamm, Mary Kenzie and Mr. Ralph Brownson won first person to take any particular attack that netted a touchdown in ♦ sixth grade have won the con- ❖ them later In Hermiston. They had Harris, Bobby Smith, Mary Hemp the first and second prizes for the Interest In it. He took the plant to year for the Pabst company in Wis consin, according to a statement made test for the past two years. ♦ hidden the two turkeys out by aa hill, Irene Little, Betty Henrlksen men. the first few minutes of play. Mac France, where it has been extensively by Mr. Sweet, agriculturist for the Hl outclassed the locals on line ♦ The winners will be determined ❖ oil station. The guns were taken and Gilbert Dyer. company, at a meeting Friday night Since the refreshments, served at cultivated since. bucks, but was unable to break up ♦ at the end of this school week ♦ from the boys and their bond was Second Grade: Kenneth Bense', Al 11:15, were donated, the expense of in the Hermiston library. With •N and will be announced next ♦ set at |5 0 a piece. their passes. lan Clarke, Marian Pierce, Joyce Mc- the party ran about one dollar. The reason given for the recent all the necessary 600 acres signed ♦ week. Hermiston scored early 'in the first Judge West at the Monday hearing Cully, Glen Warner and La Verne Therefore, most of the money taken interest In the artichoke Is because up for by local farmers, the pros quarter when Bills received a pretty required that they pay for the tur Williams. some doctors have discovered that pects of making Hermiston an arti in was profit. pass from Smith and trotted twenty Third Grade: Maxine Blinston, Vir keys and all the costs of the case. the levulose contained in the plant choke center seems likely. At the benefit party held this time yards for the counter. After the He also remanded the case to I. M. ginia Dyer, Alma Laird, Gladys is not harmful to diabetic patienes. Artichokes in this community last year, about |10 more were made, next few plays, Hermiston again gain Schannep, county judge In Pendle Pierson, Geraldine Mullins, Jessie Levulose is thought to be almost should prove to be a money crop for there being sixteen tables at that ed possession of the ball and started ton. since most of the boys are under Moore Rnd Ralph Marble. twice as sweet as sucrose, cane and the district, according to Mr. Sweet. a goalward march that resulted in Fourth Grade: .. Edward Hall, Es party. The library board, composed beet sugar. The crop itself will mean a profit of Patrol Memliers Promoted Tuesday eighteen. of Mrs. C. S. McNaught, chairman, another touchdown, the result of a The names of the boys are Blaine ther Mullins, Ruth Pierson, Ruth Mrs. Rena Waterman, Mif3. H. T. at least 875.00 an acre, estimating pass from Felthouse to Martin. At Meeting; Overnight Hike The encyclopedia says that tho ten tons to an acre, at $15’ a ton. Du Puls, Louis Pinson, G. M. Som- Shaw and Mary Skovbo. Fraser, Mrs. Walter Hamm and Mr. Fifth Grade: Charles De Haven, Mac Hi Almost Scores artichoke belongs to the same family In addition, the tops of the plants merville, James Ferguson and Carl Planned. After Hermiston had scored her Helen Dunning, Bonnie Jean Follett, B S. Kingsley, plans to have only tho as the sunflower. It sometimes grows provide a valuable food for cattle and MacGlnnls. one benefit this year. Instead of the first touchdown, Mac Hl tightened up Frank Furrer, Irene Kennings, Rob from eight to ten feet high and has the picking up of the crop after the Starting this week, there will be and began a goalward march of her erta Mullins, George Newell, Clifford two that were given last year. a yellow flower. digging will supply work during the own. By power plays and end runs a contest between the three patrols Roberts and Aretha Williams. slack time of the year. the locals were pushed back to their of the scout troop for the best write Sixth Grade: Jack Bennett, John Mr. Sweet said that he used to be Valley Too Wet •own five yard line and Mac Hi surely up on the scout news of the week. Biggs, Barbara Reid, and Dora June known as the "potato man," after he The Pabst company uses the arti would have scored had not the whis The articles will be published in the Richards. hod experimented with Irish potatoes choke in the manufacture of food After Wednesday, Thursday and tle ended the first half. This was Hermiston Herald. Seventh Grade: Beverly Blelman, in Colorado. The similarities be products. In looking around for Last week Mr. Payne, scoutmaster, Friday of this week, when "Uncle Ruth Davis, Bruce Follett, Neva Mac Hl’s only threat as Hermiston The second turkey pool will be sold tween potatoes and artichokes, also places to raise the product, the com had little trouble in checking the and Howard Cherry attended a first Tom's Cabin" will be shown at the Richards, George Sale. Charles Shaw, November 30, Saturday, according to a tubular plant, was one reason he pany found that many places were Columbia theatre, there will be no aid course held in Pendleton every attack after that. Miriam Swarner and Edna Turn- is engaged in his present work. not suited to the production of the word just received by George Jen In the second half, Hermiston Wednesday night. All the patrol mid-week shows at the theatre, ac blad. Jerusalem artichoke. The middle cording to the announcement made Tho scored three more touchdowns and leaders plan to attend these meet Eighth Grade: Edith Clarke, Anna kins, assistant county agent. Cows and sheep eat the tops of west was found to have rain too by Don Olsen, manager. There will •converted twice for two more extra ings in the future. Rae Martin, Vivian Kane, Iris Schaf bbirds w ill, be received here about artichokes readily, it was brought early and late In the season to per points, making the score 32 to 0. ' ; m . r . Deckor and Norman Lara- be shows on Saturday and Sunday er and Marjorie Schafer. one week later. The notices of the cut at the meeting. The food value mit work In the Boll. The same was the same as usual. In the past there The Hermiston line functioned de, scoutmaster at Pendleton, were For the high school the honor roll prices and receiving days will he sent of the plant has not yet been deter true In the Willamette valley. In have also been shows on Wednesday is: w ell and the defensive work proved here Tuesday night to conduct mined, but facts about the Influence northern California, where the grow court of honor. Many badges were and Thursday. to be too much for Mac Hl. Freshmen: Howard Cherry, Mar out to each turkey grower and Mrs. on butter fat will soon be available, ing of artichokes has been tried, the This was the final game for the awarded at the court. Eugene Pierce garet Felthouse, Dfrk Martin and Brink, manager of the Oregon-odaho Mr. Sweet says. land Is low and when rain does Hermiston squad. The basketball received a second class badge. Fred BAPTIST-CHRISTIAN CHURCH Frank Sbatv, turkey pool, has promised two days come, the deluge covers the fields. Hensel and Jim Neary received first season begins Monday. Sophomores: Dorothy Addleman, and two crews for receiving them. . SELECTS DONNER AS PASTOR Twelve inches deep Is about tho i making it impossible to get the crop class badges. Jim Neary and How Bill Hurly, James Neary, Edna Ott The Hermiston Commercial club j deepest Mr. Sweet has ever seen ar- out of thc groUnd. The sandy soil Wins Three Games Hermiston finished the season with ard Cherry were awarded three merit W. H. Donner, who has been fill and Agnes Roberts. has apointed a committee to keep a tlchokcs grow. They will probably here permitting the artichoke to a rating of .500. A total of seven badges apiece. Bob Henderson two ing the place left by A. J. Ware, for Juniors: Mary Brownson Ruth room warm for those who are wait average around eight and nine come out of the ground clean, the games were played, of which three and Billy Hurly one. Bob Hender mer paator of the Baptlst-Christlan 'Cherry and Leona Dyer. ing in line and also to furnish hot Inches deep in this part of the coun scarcity of rain early and late in the were won, three were lost, and one son and Howard Cherry also receiv church, for the past two weeks, was Seniors: Shirley Brownson, Mer- coffee. All those bringing turkeys try. season combined with the irrigation was tied. The season’s results are: ed star scout badges. officially called by the church here lin Earnhart, Bill Felthouse, Morris are requested to fall In line when they facilltcs that provde the plants with Hermiston ........ 6 Athena............ 0 Several promotions were made. Wal Sunday afternoon to become its per Pierson and Jane Warner. come. Mr. Ed JackBon says the artichoke the necessary water, caused Mr. Hermiston ____ 0 Kennewick .. 12 ther Ott was elected assistant scout manent pastor. Is a weed and grows like a weed, but gWget to point out this section aa a Hermiston ____ 8 Athena ............ 3 master, Morris Pierson junior assist Mr. Donner has been living in New he doubtM if it is advisable to put good place for artichokes several TWO HOSTESSES ENTERTAIN Hermiston ........ 0 Heppner .......... 0 ant scoutmaster, Billy Hurly senior berg for the past few months, al tke plants 42 Inches apart, as the years ago. Hermiston ........ 0 Pendleton ........24 patrol leader, Bob Henderson, assist though he has not been preaching Pabst company advises. There was Mrs. C. J. Blelman and Mrs. Alfred Company Does Digging Hermiston ........ 8 Heppner .„ ...1 1 ant senior patrol leader, Buddy there. For six years he preached in quite a discussion on this point, sev According to the agreement now Walter Warner of Irrigon was one Christopherson entertained at a Prime patrol leader of the Owl pat Colorado. Hermiston ........ 32 Mac Hl......... 0 .of the delegates frfim Witlantette bridge party at Mrs. Christopherson’s eral feeling that 4 2 inches presented being made between the farmers Hermiston scored a total of 50 rol with Gordon Blessing as his as Mr. and Mrs. Donner left for New University in Salem to attend the home Saturday. Twenty guests were ah Irrigation problem. However, Mr. and the company, the Pabst com -points while her opponents scored 69. sistant, and Howard Cherry master berg Monday morning. They will convention of the Epworth League in present. Mrs. B. Haneline won the Sweet seemed to think the farmers pany agrees to furnish the seed, the The scoring honors are divided be of ceremonies. pack up their belongings and expect Portland recently. Nine students first prize, Mrs. Ralph Richards the ceuld use their Judgment in the mat digger and a man to do the digging. All three patrols have entered the to be back here by the last of the tween Smith, who scored two touch The farmer must do the planting, from Willamette were at the state second prize, and Mrs. W. W. Felt ter. downs and converted twice for a Blue Mountain Patrol Efficiency con week. the cultivation and the Irrigating. meeting. house the consolation prize. ‘ 1 total of 14 points; Bills, who scored test. H. J. Stillings first started grow- He must board the man who runs The scouts sts going to have an three touchdowns for a total of 18 tng artichokes in 1911, when he the dgger, pick up and sack the crop points; and Martin who scored three overnight hike to Cold Springs this bought ten pounds at two and one- and take U to the depot, where he week end. times for a total of 18 points. half cents a pound. He grew 19 will receive $15 a ton for the cron Written by the Wolf Patrol. 12 Men Earn-Letters sacks from the ten pounds. Estimating tho probable yield at a Those men who finished the sea conservative figure of 10 tons to an son with the squad and earned their TRAPPING SEASON OPENS SOON The artichoke does not mature un acre, this would mean $150 an acre. letters are Nation, right end; Addle- til the tops are dead brown and dry. Counting the expenses at $7 5 an The trapping season opens Decem man, left tackle; Bennett, center; O. The amount of levulose in the tuber acre, thia would make the profit $75 Cox, tackle; E. Cox, tackle; Whit ber 1, a month later than last year, depends on the time It is dug. an acre. sett, guard; Martin, left end; Felt- by reason of a change in the law According to George Jenkins, the house, quarter; Smith, full; Bills, made by the state legislature. The The artichokes at the experiment average for seven farms in this half; Barnhart, half; Haddox, end; season will close February J8. Al ranch have been grown on old al community where artichokes are ready several hundred men have re and Throop, tackle. falfa land, the kind of land that will now being grown is about 12 tons Of this group. Smith, Felthouse, ceived licenses from the state game probably be used by the farmers who to an acre or 5.1 pounds to a hill. Bills, Nation, Barnhart and Bennett commission. This cold weather will plant artichokes. The results of artichoke growing on will be lost by graduation. This improve the fur of the animals and the Umatilla Experimental Farm also leaves only seven lettermen for a bring to the trappers an increase in "Pabst made Milwaukee famous.” showed the yield to an acre to be 12 prices, according to the commission. nucleus for next year’s squad. Mr. Dean said, "and I hope it will tons, according to Harold Dean. make Hermiston famous." He also Plant Not New Here Methodist Church raid that artichokes will not stand The Jerusalem artichoke has been alkali land and that the land chosen grown by various farmers here for a The Methodist churches through should be easily Irrigated, hold number of years. Ed. Jackson and out the state will observe Sunday, water well, and that the Irrigation II. J. Stillings have been two of the The members of the Hermiston December 1, as White Cross Sunday, should be stow and thorough. largest producers of the crop. Mr. Baptist church held the annual meet which means that they will give Jackson now has three and one- lag and dinner of the church at the special attention to the work of hos half acres in the crop. home of the Reverend and Mrs. J. pitals and the church in that regard. Farmc s interested in the crop were T. Dowell last Thursday evening. Ia keeping with that idea the local advised by Mr Sweet to visit some of Although the cold weather prevented church invites you to help to make the farms where artichokes are be- some from coming, there was a good It a fitting service. May I say, as attendance. After the dinner, served pastor of the church, that we ear- ” S'#» 'IW at I o’clock, the business meeting for neatly seek your aid In the services */4 '///»Of/* k « the election of officers was held. A of the day and every Sabbath, as far call was given to the Rev. Dowell to as that goes. We hope to have a continue as pastor for the coming place for every member who comes year. The report of the treasurer to the church and It Is impossible to showed all Mils paid to date and a render the service that we earneetly balance In the treasury. A radio desire to render without a 100 per program was listened to after the cent cooperation. The service will business meeting. be nt 11 o’clock next Sunday and yon have a cordial Invitation to att cbokes by the United States govern- HUNDRERS OF FISH PLANTED end. At 10 o'clock you will be wel come to the Sunday ehool and the « tha M , 587,811 fish Uhsrated worship hoar Just following that. dnriag the year, <89,420 wert plaat- tea nt 8:30 you will mins something ad la Vmatllla eounty .accördfng to It yon fall to get In on that discuss Word reeefved from Harold Cltfford, ion la the B. L. service U. R. wel- --------- ♦ Artichoke's Past Revealed Friday Scouts Active Schedule Changes Turkey Pool Soon College Delegate Dowell to Remain Jenkins a t School mq. Oecar Fayas,