The Hermiston herald., December 26, 1929, Image 1

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HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1929
FRENGHY LEAVITTE ♦
TAKES TWO FALLSi:
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TAW.T. CARSON AND CUTIE NAT- ♦
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ION WINNERS.
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REPORT OF COUNTY AGENT DESCRIBES PAST YEAR’S WORK
A SLEEPER
Many question* are asked of a
newspaper, and recently a lady
asked, what Is a sleeper? That
Is easy, here It is: A sleeper
18 one who 8,eeP8-
8*®®P«r
,8 the name „( a carriage on the
railway in which a sleeper
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Research in Agriculture Undertaken; Partial Digest of Annual Statement
Given Here; Rest Available to Readers.
DIVERSIFIED FARMS
FAT — OPPORTUNITIES
ARE HERE.
SUBSCRIPTION, $2.00 PER TEAR
; . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . . : LEGION PLANS SHOW
ON NEW YEAR’S DAY
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS
Guests at Prime Home.
Dr. and Mrs T. M. Birkbeck, of
♦
Milton,
were hrtstmas day guests at PIANS CALL FOR A GAMBLING
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To provide readers of the Hermis­ were also Indoor meetings to dis­ work has been conducted on a basis the Dr. F. V. Prime home.
HALL DE LUXE
♦ ton Herald with pxderpts from a cuss dairy feeding and disease con­ substantially the same as that of
la c k K enedy Put« on Interesting K
A B,eeper ,8 B block * statement of the activities of the trol.
other recent years. The work In At Hughes Home.
The poultry program dealt most Umatilla county jointly by the repre­
Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Campbell of Country Store and Gambling Hall to
Match W ith Baker Grappler
+ which holds the rails on which ♦ county agent's office the following
isport is submitted. The review is of largely with turkey production and sentatives of the extension service Mlton, pent the Christmas holiday at
Furnish Amusement for
Here.
I ♦ the sleeper runs while the sleep-
♦ er sleeps. Therefore, while the ♦ necessity brief, with the full annual marketing with extension activities and the county school superintend­ the Gwynn Huges home. Mrs. Hughes
The Public.
Frenchy Leavitte, 175 pound ♦ 8*8®I>cr 8*«<-P8 in the 8leePer- the ♦ report of activities available at the in this field covering Indoor meet­ ent. In this activity the extension is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Camp­
■wrestler of Baker, defeated Jack ♦ 8leeP*r carrle8 the 8leeP«r over ♦ county agent’s offices at Pendleton ings, field tours, disease control re service organized fourteen clubs in bell, who formerly resided In Her­
At the Country Store January 1,
commendations and miscellaneous eluding 114 boys and girls, 91 of miston.
Kennedy of Hermiston, by taking ♦ the 8l««Per « “« • the 8leeP«r ln ♦ and Hermiston.
1930, at the Legion hall, the people
It is generally understood that the farm visits. For chicken producers which completed the year's work
first two tall* in the main event of ♦ lhe 8‘ee'>er by »‘rlking the *
of this community will have the op­
which showed a profit of $1,768.55 Home From Medford.
an excellent wrestling card at the ♦ "leePer under tbe 8leePer- and ♦ office of the county agent and his the extension service conducted
portunity of securing merchandise at
field
tour
to
study
production
prac­
These clubs were located at Pilot
Miss Marian Briggs, teacher in the prices known to the prospector of the
Legion ball Friday night.
♦ tbere 18 no lonKer any 8le«P for ♦ assistant— the former at Pendleton
Leavitte took the first fall in 27 * the 8<®®Per who was asleep in ♦ and the latter at Hrmlston— repre­ tices, arranged for the vaccination of Rock, Fruitvale, Umapine, Stanfield Medford, Oregon, schools, is spending early days.
Roulette, blackjack,
minutes with a leg split, after one of ♦
8l«*Per °ver «*> 8*>eP®»’- ♦ sents the extension service of the 1050 birds for chlckenpox, the pur­ and Hermiston and Included the fol­ the holidays with her patents, Mr. chap, poker, faro, or anything else
state agricultural college which co­ chase of tattoo machines and oil t . lowing kinds of clubs: calf, sheep, and Mrs. George Briggs.
the speediest and most colorful ♦ Now ask us another one
but bridge for men, will be In evi­
matches that local fans ever witness- ! ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ operates with the United States the number of 66 of the former for poultry and pigs.
dence when the local post of the
both
chickens
and'turkeys,
and
far
The county agent and his assist­
Department of Agriculture. Practic­
American Legion opens up for busi­
ed. Jack Kennedy came back with
Guests at Boynton Home.
ally all phases of the county’s agri­ llary white diarrhoea of 300 hens ant arranged and conducted three
plenty of grief for the Baker grapp­
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Boynton of ness shortly after 1 o’clock In the
farm tours in the county, one In the Helix, and Vane Boynton of Pendle­ afternoon. A supply of poker chips,
culture are included In the activi­ was arranged.
ler in the second fall, coming out of
ties of this program, aimed at increas
Tits extension program in agricul­ wheat belt and the others In the ton, were Christmas guests at the sufficient to supply the crowd, will
several bad places and breaking
lng the income and otherwise im­ tural economics was divided between Stanfteld-Hermlston area. The for W. S. Boynton home.
holds that appeared Impossible, des
be ready for distribution at one dol­
marketing and farm management mer permitted farmers to observe
Otho Eckersley, 90, one of the best proving agricultural conditions.
plte his handicap in weight of 18
lar per stack of 20. No other money
schools and investigations.
Four work at the new experiment station Visiting at Molalla.
pounds. After 20 minutes of fast I known of the old settlers of the Cove
will be In use at the various games
Artichokes Studied
Development of the Jerusalem arti­ years of farm management Investi­ to see a new weed which has become
wrestling Leavitte took the second section, died recently at Hot Lake.
Audrey Henriken of the Hermiston of the country store which will be
widespread, anth to observe alkali Herald force, is spending the holidays conducted In connection with the
fall with a double Japanese step-
Splendid progress is being made in choke as a commercial crop in the gations and schools have been com­
over. Both wrestlers deserve a great the half-mile cut-off In the Dayton- Irrigated districts has been under­ pleted in the Hermiston district, grass growing under extremely ad with her parents at Molalla.
gambling hall.
with the work having produced very verse conditions. Grain fertilizer de­
deal of CTedit for the clean and Salem market road near the south taken.
A prize will be given during the
monstrations were shown as wa.s.
speedy aaatch. W inning the Friday city limits of Dayton.
evening. Tickets will be distributed
In 1927 the county agent’s office definite improvement In the agricul­
Here From Brownsville.
night match over Kennedy, Leav-I The Menifee Lumber company build­ organized the Umatilla Dairy Im­ ture of the area Involved, according sweet clover on a diversified farm,
A. R. Roberts, at present employed with the sale of chips during the
itte now has to his credit thirteen ing on the Old Oregon Trail, about provement association which has to bankers and farmers. Twenty- the clover providing excellent pas­ near Brownsville, Oregon, is spend afternoon and evening, the holder of
ture for a larjje herd of dairy cattle. ing the holidays with hts family at the lucky number winning the prize.
straight wins, losing but one fall to flTe m„eg eBgt of
QrBnde WBg
completed its second and started on six farmers kept records during the
The other tours showed work at the their ranch In Columbia dstret.
Fete Stecher at St. Anthony, Idaho. | ulIy degtroyed by flre.
Groceries of all sorts, enough to keep
its third year. For 1929 there were year and two farm account schools
Umatilla experiment station, while
were
held.
The
cost
of
production
Earl Carson and Don Harrah put
the family supplied until the pay
730
cows
tested
in
50
herds,
while
Five Inches of snow blanketed the
of turkeys was determined by two at the nine farms visited in two days
on an Interesting preliminary. Car-
check arrives, will be found at the
Wala Walla.
McKenzie Pass district but the pass during the previous year 491 cows farm recordB and the yearly average farmers were shown various success From
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Kuhn of Walla «tore and can be secured In exchange
son taking the first two falls. Babe
is not closed, according to stage driv­ were tested in 43 herds. In con­ returns for eggB sold to the Pacific ful farm practices dealing with Walla, are spending the holidays at
/Nation and Brice Robinson also fur­
for chips.
nection
with
the
annual
tuberculos­
ers who came across last week.
dairying, poultry, weed control, par the II. A. Hooker home In Columblr
nished amusement for the fans, Nat­
This will be an opportunity for the
is eradication campaign 3,553 cattle Cooperative association were deter­
ture crops and other Important sub district. They will look this coutry ladies of the family to prove that an
The United National bank of Astor­ were tested, with no reactors having mined from two shippers.
ion pinning Robinson to the mat in
ia, capital $180,000, has applied to the
This completes the second year's jects.
over with a view to locating here.
aptitude for gambling Isn’t necess-
>one minute and nine seconds.
been found. With contagious abor­
In handling the above program the
The local Poet of the American comptroller of the currency for per­ tion becoming the most Important operations of the Idaho Turkey
irlly confined strictly to the mascu­
Legion is planning a series of amok mission to. organize as a national bank. problem now facing dairymen this Growers association in this county. county agent and his assistant mad«> At James Scott Horae.
line element. Bridge, 500 and tiddle-
Mr. a id Mrs. H. A. McMillan, of 1e-wlnks are placed on the tabooed
The independence corn show was office arranged for the testing of During 1929 the extension service 1530 farm visits and handled 2619
ers during the winter months, and
the next event w ill be some time in I well attended, and was the most suo- 1622 cows. Breeders were given as­ assisted pool members In shipping personal office callB, 2286 Individual Goldtndale, Washington, were Xmas st, and the roulette wheel promises
Jbnuary at which time it is expected cessful In point of Interest and dis­ sistance in buying and selling cat­ 22,184 turkeys for which there was letters were written and 2025 bulle guests at the James A. Scott home. ’o be a real drawing card for the
tins distributed. There were held
that A1 KaTaslck of Portland, and plays In the history of the organiza­ tle and two particularly high class received $76,228.57.
ladies.
133 meetings with an attendance Former Residents Here.
Frenchy Leavitte will headline the| tion.
Club Work Handled
The local Pest Is gtvli g this ent-
J-ersey bulls were purchased by one
Mr. and Mrs. Charley Sanderson tertainment after many requests
Thruout 1929 hoys’ and girls’ club slightly under 5000 persons.
card.
Fire destroyed the top floor and of the breeding associations. There
and family of Brush Prairie, Wash., from satisfied patrons of a year ago.
roof of the four-story Commodore
wero visiting at the H. A. Hooker and promise that entertainment for
MASONS
ELECT
OFFICERS
apartment
house
at
The
Dalles
and
UXILIARY
FARM
BU
SALE-THOMAB
MANY COLLEGE STUDENTS
home last week on their way to La all will be provided.
JANUARY 3
caused damage estimated at nearly
TO SERVE FOR NEXT YEAE Grande to spend the holidays. The
COME HOME FOB HOUDAYSl $30,000.
Miss Edith Sale, daughter of Mr.
indorsons were former residents of
The ladles of the Farm Bureau
From 14 acres of Willamette river and Mrs. George Sale of this city,
Lodge No. 138 A. F. & A . M Hermiston.
With Christmas vacations and the bottom land In the Edward Winger and a graduate of the local high Auxiliary will hold their next meet­
TANDA RY 2 LAST DATE VET­
ending of the fall term of school in | farm In the Pleasantdale Vicinity, 910 school, became the bride of Mr. Don­ ing at the club house in Columbia elected officers for the ensuing yea-
ERANS CAN APPLY FOR BONDS
at
a
meeting
of
that
organization
on
m ost of the colleges and universities, bushels of Golden Dent corn was pro­ ald Thomas, also of this city, at a park, Friday, January 3.
\ t Foton Home.
Ab Spinning was a guest at the
college studetns have been coming I duced this season.
There will be gift exchange, no Tuesday.
quelt ceremony performed at the
The following were elected end ap Toe Norton home Monday night. Mr Men Who Served 80 Days Between
borne to spend the holidays with
gift to be valued at more than 25
home
of
the
bride’s
parents
Christ­
Nine hundred thousand bushel* of
April, 1917, and July, 1919,
pointed to serve for the next year: Spinning lives at The Dalles, Ore
-their families. College students who
mas day, In the presence of the Imme­ cents.
Are Eligible.
'have returned to Hermiston during | wheat were shipped from Jefferson diate family. The Rev. O. W. Payne
on.
Members are asked to bring thim­ V. V. Lewis, W. M.; R. A. Brownson
county recently. Many Deschutes and
th e past week were:
ble and thread. Also each member S. W.; H. E. Shesely, J. W .; F. B
officiated.
The
young
couple
left
for
World War veterans are again re-
Swayze, treasurer; H. T. Fraser, sec Philomath Resident Here.
Vernon Harrah, who returned I Jefferson county wheat ranchers re­
ortland where they expect to spen l Is asked to bring a do or do not for
ninded that January 2. 193o Is the
retary;
George
Bancroft,
S.
D
.;
E.
L.
Thursday from the University of Ore-| ceived $1.1$% a bushel.
Ralph
Galbraith,
of
Philomath,
li
next Christmas, from their past ex­
the remainder of the year.
Cherry, S. D.; Dave Mittlesdorf, S. a guest at the O. O. Felthouse home final date on which they may make
The government Is making a pre­
gon, where he is a freshman; Flor-
periences.
ippllcatlon for adjusted compensa-
S .; Thomas Campbell, J. S .; O. O
ence Woughter, who is a junior in liminary survey for a forest road to
Portland.
ion, commonly known as the Fed-
Felthouse, marshall; F. C. Woughter,
mathematic* this year at the Unlver-1 018 t0P of Mount Emily, and Union To Mr.
Here From Montana.
and Mrs. George H. Jenkins Returns From Kentucky.
slty; Nancy McNaught, senior in i
m8y cooperate by bonding a and son Bobby left Hermiston Mon­
I>eo Smith, of Sidney. Montana iral Bonus. Every man and woman,
I^ee Savely, Butter Creek rancher, chaplain; A. W. Prann, Tyler.
oach in the schools of that city, If vltli certain exceptions, who served
home economics at Oregon State Ag­ road from La Grande to connect.
day for Portland where they will returned Monday from Franklin,
R. C. Spink, for 17 years a resident spend Christmas with Mrs. Jenkins’ Kentucky, where he was called by Here From Umatilla.
pending the holidays with his par nore than sixty days In the World
ricultural college; Dick ITphkm
Mrs.
Ursel
Hiatt,
of
Umatilla,
was
freshman in forestry at Oregon State; of Chiloquin and for four year* a Jus­ mother. Mrs. J. A. Peaper.
ents,
Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Smith, o' ’.Var between April 5, 1917 and July
the death of his father, L. G. Savely.
I, 1919, who enlisted prior to Nov-
tice
of
the
peace,
has
been
fined
$400
in
Hermiston
Tuesday.
Columbia
district.
Vernon Waterman, graduate student
imber 12, 1918 and who was not dls-
In chemistry at the University of and sentenced to 100 day* In jail on
íonorably discharged Is entitled to
Washington; Margaret Waterman, a a charge of driving while Intoxicated.
irom Spray.
i
twenty year paid up certificate
Miss Helen Upham, teacher o
student at Oregon Normal school;
The Northwestern Turkey show,
'8«ed on the number of days of »er­
Ruth Bensel, a student at Eastern sponsored by the newly formed turkey
pray, Oregon, is at the home of he
ice. $1.00 per (lay for each day of
Oregon Normal school; Gerald and breeders' association, is to be held at
parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Upham
tame service and $1.25 for each day
George McKenzie, sophomores In en Oakland, December 14. Hundreds of
o f the holidays.
if overseas service. To this is added
gineerlng at Columbia University; dollars’ worth of prises are being of­
n amount equal to 4 per cent for
Joe McNaught, Junior in commerce fered.
Home for the Holidays.
'wenty years and the toal Is the
at Oregon State; Herbert Swarner,
Miss
Marguerite
Neary
Is
in
Her
The Lorane highway between Eu­
Junior, electrical engineering, Oregon gene and Lorane Is being worked over
•nlston during the school holiday at alue of the certificate awarded the
tteran. Dependents of deceased
State; Oscar Mikesell, freshman In extensively by the Lane county court.
the J. J. Neary home.
•eterans who failed to make applica­
agriculture at Oregon State; Francis The surface has been badly rutted
ble must also do so by the above
Sale, school of Interior decoration. by heavy trucks hauling sawlogs and
En Route to Utah.
University of Oregon; Edith Mike­ cordwood.
Mrs. E. G. Wilson and son Jack late, except that should a veteran
f Vancouver, Washington, wer« ,vho failed to make application, die
sell, graduate of Monmouh Normal
Angelina Romero, 5, daughter of Mr.
meets
at the George Wagner horn« Aithin six months prior to that date
and Mrs. Joe Romero, was burned to
Thursday.
Mrs. Wilson Is a sister or Is dependants are allowed six
JOSEPH CURREN
death when her tent home caught fire
Mrs. Wagner and Is en route to Utah rnonhs from date of death to apply.
at Klamath Falls. The child had been
Jviery certificate has a loan value
Joseph Curren, resident of Board-
left at home asleep, while her parent*
pprnxlmtely 9 per cent a yoar after
man, died at the Hermiston hospital
»hew Visits.
»ph
Ve:
went visiting.
the second year. Application blanks
Saturday night of pneumonia brought
I ugh
n Willys of Spokane. Washlng-
The dedication of the new highway
nd full instructions may be obtained
on by severe burns received last
ion ls spending a few days at the A.
bridge
across the Willamette river at
week. The funeral was held in Hepp­
Little home. Mr. Willys Is a (rom W. L. Iiamm. or by communl-
A.
atlng with D p t. Headquarters,
ner Tuesday. Mr. Curran, 47 years Springfield has been postponed until
nephew of «Mr. Little.
American I eglon, 678 Plttock Blk.,
of age, was born In Ireland. He Is December 7, to suit the convenience
Portland, Oregon.
Do not confuse
survived by a brother living in Hepp­ of Governor Patterson, who win be
I t McKenzie Home.
ner. A. W. Prann. funeral director, the principal speaker.
$fr. and Mrs. O. R. O’Danlel of the above with disability compensa­
The new gymnasium of the Amity
was in charge of the funeral;
endleton are guests at the F. C. tion or Insurance. It is separate and
high school was dedicated recently.
McKenzie home for the holiday sea­ apart from them. If there is any
This I* approximately a $14,000 struc­
son. Mrs. N. H. Gates of Seattle, Is doubt in the mind of a veteran he
At the H itt Heme.
Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Kern of Pen­ ture, built of hollow tile and stucco,
ilso a guest at the McKenzie home. should not hesitate to m ike Inquiry.
dleton were Xmas guests at the home and equipped with stage and seating
C. C. ORDER TO BE
of Mr. Kern's daughter, Mrs. H. E. capacity for about 700.
From California.
With a balance of $979,556 more
Mis* Eldora Kingsley srrlved in
TESTED IN COURTS
Mitt.
than a month ago the financial con­
Ilennlston Sunday t'fspend a two
Portland. Oregon, Peeeniber 20—
dition of Jackson county is good.
jrstka* — vacation with her parent*.
Mn. Hutchinson Sick.
Mrs. Roy Hutehtnson has been County Treasurer predict* that with­
Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Kingsley. Miss The validity of the Interstate Com­
confined to her home w ith Illness j in six year* the entire warrant In­
Kingsley Is an Instructor at the merce Commission’s order requiring
debtedness of the county will be denn­
for the past few days.
-amona State school at Eldrlge, Cali­ the Union Pacific to build a cross
state line from Crane to Crescent.
ed up.
fornia.
Oregon, will be tested In th* courts
Reforestation of a trod of land 1400
ataa*.
was officially announced tor the
Miss Clara Bryant of Great Falls. acre* In area on Young* river In Clat­
Ur. Garner Home.
Montana, is a guest at the H. T. sop county will be started la Decem-
Dr. bout* “Pete" Garner of North first time today by A. C. Spencer,
Fraser home for Christmas. Miss
Bend, Oregon, is at the home of his general solicitor of the O. W. R. &
by the Crown-Willamette Paper
northwestern unit of the Union
Bryant le a slater af Mrs. Fraser.
parents. Mr. and Mr A. P. Garner,
ipany, it has been announced. The
for the Christmas p rtt> >• 'The doctor Pacific system.
ipany has already reforested about
is enjoying the daily trips over the
la that county and a policy
Working at
Wrather bright and fair. No rain.
W. if. Loudermilk Is building a| of planting land as tad as It in logged
nsilk totr$p
Yitw fnther, and
New Ytar. comes on January 1st.
pew house In the HoWman district.
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