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VOL. XXIV
— NUMBER 19—
HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1930
JANUARY 13 DATE
OF NEXT SHIPMENT
OF LOCAL TURKEYS
’T'AHO-OREGON POOL SOLD YES
TERDAY IN BOISE
Number One Toms Sell for 32 Cents;
Prices Received Higher
Than Formerly.
Turkeys will be received In Her-
niston Monday, January 13, tor the
anuary pool of the Oregon-Idaho
• rk y growers association, according
to word received yesterday by New
Madden. They will be received at
the same place that they were be
fore— the warehouse in what was for
merly Hurly’s store on the west side
of town.
The prices growers will receive at
this pool are considerably better
than those received last time.
The
pool was sold yesterday in Boise for
the following prices:
Number one toms, 32 cents; num
ber one hens, 28 cents; medium toms,
27 cents; old hens, 24 cents; old
toms, 25 cents; number two toms. 23
cents; and number two hens, 21
cents.
OREGON POULTRY PRODUCERS
ADVISED TO KEEP MORE HENS
Writer Optomistic About Egg Prices
- iu 1930; Says They W ill be
as High as in 1929.
WORD RECEIVED OF DEATH
OF FORMER HERMISTON MANI
Fred J. Praan Dies Tuesday Evening I
Mr. Herald Here.
Mr. W. H. Herald of the Herald
Electric company of Walla Walla was
la Hermiston Wed need ay.
t
Mrs. L. Hammer Leads Discussion;
Art to be Subject at Next
Session January 17.
“Sewing” was the subject dis
cussed at the last meeting of tire
Women's Auxilary of the Farm Bur
eau at its regular session January
3. Mrs. Wells talked on cutting and
fitting dresses and Mrs. New Mad
den gave an instruction talk on new
print materials. Mrs. L. Hammer was
the leader.
A button hole contest was one of
the features of the afternoon’s en
tertainment. Mrs. H. J. Ott won
the first prize and Mrs. Henry Hook
er won second prize. Gifts were ex
changed among those present and
refreshments were served.
At the next meeting, January 17,
Mrs. S. Barnard will be the leader
and the subject will be “Art.”
The Auxiliary solicits new mem
bers and welcome visitors at ail of
the meetings.
League to Meet
Program Changes
Prominent Agriculturists to Speak |
Before Eastern Oregon Grain
Growers in Pendleton.
The Eastern Oregon Wheat League
Senator Charles L. McNary and Congressman R. R. Butler of regon have introduced Bills In the Senate
an organization comprising the grain and the House authorizing the construction of a dam at Umatilla Rapids on the Columbia rievr as an aid
growers of 11 wheat producing coun to navigation and reclamation, the development of hydro electric power and »n inter-state bridge. A survey
ties of Eastern Oregon, will hold its has been completed by the Bureau of Reclamation declaring it feasible from an engineering standpoint. It
annual meeting in Pendleton, Janu will materially aid ln the canalization of the Columbia and Snake rivers. The power plant will gener
ary 13, 14 and 15, in the rooms of ate 420,000 H. P. at an aunusually low cost of 1.2 mills per killowatt hour. The sale of power at the dam,
the Pendleton chamber of commerce. for two mills per kilowatt hour will retlrs the cost of the entire development in a period of 42 years.
The Bill presented In Congress is framed along the lines of the Boulder Canyon measure.
All farmers and business men inter
It will also be possible to Irrigate some 100,000 acres of arid land in the states of logon anj Washington
ested in the wheat growing industry
are cordially invited to attend, ac when economic conditions Justify. The cose of the Project is estimated by the engineers at $45,000,000.
cording to Roy W. Ritner, president. The Bill also requires that no work be started until contracts have first been made to assure amortization
Among those prominent in agri of all costs, including interest. Thhe congressional delegations of Oregon, Washington and Idaho are giv
culture in the Pacific Northwest who ing support to the measure, feeling that the development of the Colubla and Snake rivers is of paramount
will be on the program are Dr. A. M. importance to the Pacific Northwest. The recent power emergency in the Northwest lends Importance to
Schoenfeld, northwest representative this partlclar project.
of the Federal Farm Board; George
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_ co-operative c marketing
A. Gatlin,
.specialist of the Oregon state college; GOVERNMENT BUYS TRACT
HUNTERS BAG TOTAL OF 37
B. W. Whitlock of the Federal Grain
♦
OF LAND, DISPATCH SAYS *
COUGARS DURING DECFMBEB
Grading Bureau of the Department of
* WHOLE STORY NOW OUT *
Agriculture; Dr. Clark Black, presi-|
♦
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«
Cougar hunters of Oregon had
According to a dispatch received in ❖
dent of the CotinoMa Valley
A story wl, 4 begun last week ♦ their bee month in years when in
Kendleton
from
Portland
the
govern
elation; George C. Baer, secretary of|
❖ that wasn’t finished, according <• December they bagged a total of 3
the Umatilla Rapids association; and ment has secured a large track of ❖ to Clara Hall, whose chickens ❖
of the ‘‘big cats.” The majority ol
H. E. Goldsworthy, secretary of the land on the Oregon side of the Col ❖ got tipsy after drinking some ♦
the kills were made In those sec
North Pacific GTafn Growers, In umbia river, south of Umatilla rap ❖ peach Juice that had fermented ❖
tions of the state that are the favor
ids,
and
is
planning
a
large
airport
corporated. Besides these, several
a few weeks ago. The rest of ❖ ite haunts of deer. Charles H. Ei
professors from the Oregon State col or landing field there for the use of ❖ the story is that soon after the <•
win of Hoaglin led the list for the
mall
planes.
lege and D. E. Stephens, superintend
❖ story got out about the chick- •>
month with the slaughter of six and
The
present
air
mall
schedule
❖ ens, Miss Hall's business in- <•
ent of the experiment station at
was pressed for honora by John
makes it necessary for mail planes
Moro, will be present.
creased rapidly. Her first new ♦
Oblack of Molalla with a total of
flying
east
from
Portland
to
go
to
The federal marketing act and the
❖ customer was J. S. West, local ❖
give.
Gard Saunders of Elkton and
plan for the wheat growers’ co-opera-1 Pa8C0 an<i the new air field is plann- ❖ Justice of the peace, who said ❖
tlve organization will be discussed ed w,th a view of shortening the ❖ he wanted the eggs for egg nog. ❖ Bud Kintzley of Fall Creek each kill
ed four cougars while Clay Ulnm of
thoroughly. The matters of freight I <H»taace
Milo and Dale Bonney of Drew each
rates and river transportation will | The dispatch has not Jeen verl-
accounted for three of the cats. Er
aiso be taken up. There will be allied locally and full information con-
win, in addition to killing six cougar
E. F. Dodd Here.
banquet Tuesday evening in the din-1 cerning the project is not available
E. P. Dodd, real estate dealer of bagged a wolf.
ing room of the Elks building.
Walla Walla, was ln Hermiston this
1 Sees Show
Pendleton.
Mrs.
Henry
Hitt
saw
the
show
week-end
In the interests of pros In Mr.
HARVEY DE MOSS TAKES UP
and Mrs. O. .O Felthouso were
WORK AS FIRST PRESIDENT ‘Rio Rita,” in Pendleton Monday. pective land buyers.
in Pendleton the first of the week.
Although officers for the Commer
cial club for the coming year were
supposed to have been elected at the
last meeting of the club Tuesday
noon, it was decided to postpone the
election until the meeting next Tues
day. In the meantime a committee
has been apoolnted to nominate can I
didates for the offices. Members of
this committee are F. C. McKenzie, |
H. E. Hitt, and A. W. Turnhlad
nt Work.
Mrs. Lein Phelps 1« again at work)
Herbert Hedwall was la the Her- la the Hermiston postoffice. She has
ileton hospital the first part of this been oat for several weeks because!
Wk With aa infected band.
BUREAU AUXILIARY MEETING
SIX MILES NORTH OF HERMISTON
Fred J. Prann, of Cresco, Iowa, I
was burned to death Tuesday even
ing. January 7, according to a tele
phone call received here by bis
brother, A. W. Prann. So far. no
particulars regarding the death have |
been received.
Fred J. Prann was one of the early |
settlers of the Hermiston project,
having bought an orchard tract on I
Hermiston avenue in 1908. He set
this tract out in trees In 1909. Ini
the fall of 1909 he returned east. |
coming back to Hermiston in the fall
of 1911. He remained here until
1927. That year be sold his place
and returned to Cresco, Iowa, where |
he was engaged ln the mercantile |
business until bis death.
TO BE CHOSEN NEXT TUESDAY I
The U. P. bus schedule has changed
and the bus that did come in at 2:32
now comes In at 1:21. It le this bus
that carries the mail to Boardman
SEWING TOPIC AT LAST FARM
Where White Horses will be Harnessed.
of Burns at his Home in
Cresco, Iowa.
Oregon as an egg producing state
was compared with California and
?ya>i l >
ngftOn ln **** ,ast number of
the Eggsaminer” and came out even
with them from the point of view
of possibilities and behind them when
It came to aetuai production. The
author of this article says,"For the
first ten months of the present year,
California, after feeding a popula
tion of 5,600,000 shipped out of that
state 1683 cars of eggs; Washington
With a population of 1,587,000.
shipped out 1662 cars, while Oregon
with a population t l 1,065.000 shlp-
ped out only 371 cars.”
Totaling up the different advant
ages of the three states the author
comes to the following summary:
Oregon and Washington has the ad
vantage over California from the
standpoint of original Investment.
The states are all even when it comes
to social conditions and physical fac
tors favorable to profitable, product
Ion. California has a slight advant
age when the marketing conditions
are conidered, while Oregon with its
climate has the advantage from the
Eastern Oregon Normal School, La|
standpoint of feed costs.. Balancing Grande, Oregon, January 7— Perma
the advantages and disadvantages of nent organization of the Associated |
the three states as egg producers, the Students of the Eastern Oregon Nor
author finds they all rank the same mal school has been completed, and I
His conclusion Is “The whole thing the honor of being the first presl-1
1* a nutshell Is that most Oregon dent bestowed on Harvey DeMoss of
poultry men do not keep enough hens Hermiston. Mr. DeMoss, who holds I
per farm. . . .Far too many people the most important position of the I
try to run a poultry plant with four eight officers elected by the student!
or five hundred hens when they are body, has assumed his duties with |
capable of operating plants with five the opening of the winter quarter.
or ten times as many. The overhead
per hen is too much.”
Mrs. Harrah Leaves.
In another article in this issue,
Mrs. J. D. Harrah, who has been I
the author gives the following rea managing the Hermiston hospital, is
sons why egg prices should be Just getting ready to leave Saturday eve-1
as high as In 1930 as they were In ning for Walia Walla. After stay
1929: The price of eggs during the ing there for a while she plans to I
past year has shown no undue In go on to Los Angeles, California. Mrs. I
flation. There will be no increase Harrah sold out her Interests In the I
in production. People who bought hospital last Friday. She sold all
eggs and stored them last year made her furniture and is taking only her I
money on them. Thia will be an im personal belongings with her. She I
portant factor in determining the at saye that she Intends to take a de-1
titude of the people this spring. Co served vacation for a while.
operative marketing societies will aid
la securing good prees or la the stor- COMMERCIAL CLUB OFFICERS
Ipg of eggs.
RUB SCEHDULE CHARGED
SUBSCRIPTION. $2.00 PER YEAR
of sickness.
A New Tune—— —
Meeting Arranged Especially
Men; Head of Echo Group
To be Here.
for
Some changes have been made In
the program for the next meeting ol
the P. T. A. January 16, according
to Mrs. H. O. McCulley, president.
Dr. F. V. Prime will sing a solo and
Mr. D. W. Davis, president of the
Echo P. T. A., will be at the meeting
He will bring some of the members
of his organization with him.
The rest of the program will be at
announced last week. F. B. Swayzc
will talk on the school budget and
the pupils In the sixth grade will
give a dialogue. Floyd Pierce wil'
recite a piece called “Bald-headed
Man.”
The program has been arranged to
he of particular interest to men
Men have been asked to serve the re
freshments. Frank Shaw, Fred Gib
son. A. E. Rensel, W. J. Warner and
W. W. Fclthouse are on the commit
tee. Mrs. Howard Reid Is the general
chairman.
MBS. HESTER A REEVES, 87,
DIES TUESDAY IN HERMISTON
One of the oldest Inhabitants ol
Hermiston, Mrs. Hester Ann Reeves
87, a pioneer of the state of Oregon
died at the home of her son, H. A
Hooker, of Hermiston, Tuesday, Jan
uary 7. Mrs. ReeveB had been bed
fast for the past two years.
She was born in Indiana, July 30
1842 and after her marriage came
west to Kansas. In 1888 the family
moved to Washington and settled lr,
Walla Walla for a number of years
Mrs. Hooker later moved to Oregon
where she lived for about 25 years
in the vicinity of Baker and at Her
mlston. Mrs. Reeves was a pcnsionei
of the Indian war.
She was the mother of seven child
ren, five of whom are living. They
are Henry A. Hooker, of Hermiston;
Ira B. Hooker, of Milwood, Washing
ton; G. L. Hooker, of Everett, Wash
ngton; Mrs. J. F. Hartley, Walla
Walla; and Mrs. J. L. Boardwhy,
Yakima, Washington. Two brothers
and one sister survive her: Georg,
Kelsey, Walla Walla; Charles Kelsey,
who lives in Illinois; and Mrs. Anna
Wicklser, Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Funeral services were today at 1C
’clock. They were conducted by O
W. Payne of the Methodist church
of which Mrs. Hooker had been e
membor for 70 years. Burial will be
in Walla Walla.
BARKER-BENSEL
Coming as surprise to many of
their friends was the recent announ
cement of the marriage of Beatric,
Bensel aad Fred B. Barker, both of
Hermiston, New Year’s eve. The
wedding was in Pasco, Washington
at the Methodist parsonage.
The
Rev. Hill performed the ceremony.
Friends of the couple were present.
Mr. Barker has been here for the
past two years as the local manager
rtf the Swift ft Company cream sta
tion. Mrs Barker is a graduate of
Hermiston high school and lived
here for a number of years. She is
the daughter of Mr. and .Mrs. A. E.
Rensel.
Mr. and Mrs. f!a .Sr ure now liv
ing at the home of .Mrs. Ptarle Pace.
They expert to move Into a home of
their own toon.
$1 0 ,0 00 TOURIST
PARK TO BE BUILT
IN THIS LOCALITY
CONSTRUCTION BEGUN ON SITE
SOUTH OF TOWN
Store, House, Garage, 10 Cabins to
be B u ilt; T. L. and H. G.
Stewart Owners.
Construction started Friday on a
new $10.000 tourist park to be loc
ated on a portion of the C. C. Mason
ranch on the highway south of town.
The owners of the park, to be named
“f,tewa$t Service ft iSupp3y Com
pany”, will be H. G. Stewart and his
father, T. L. Stewart.
The cabin that is now being built
will be used as a home for a while.
By April or a little later, Mr. Stew
art plans to open the grounds with
a total of 10 cabins, a store, and a
complete garage equipped to do all
kinds of repairing on farm imple
ments as well as automobiles. H. B.
Dickinson, of Seattle, will be the
mechanic.
The style of the cabins will vary
somewhat. The price will range
from 31 a day to about $2.50. All
the cabins will be equipped with
running water, modern conveniences
and a stove. Some will have in addi
tion showers, hot water, and will be
equipped to accommodate more per
sons. A garage will be attached to
each cabin.
The store and garage will be situ
ated in the fore part of the camp
ground an^ will be surrounded bya
lawn. The cabins will be back far
ther and will be shaded by trees.
The new camp ground will be the
only ones between The Dalles and
Pendleton to have all modern con
veniences In the cabins, Mr. Stewart
says. He believes his location is
ideal not only because Hermiston
Is about a day«’ drive from larger
centers but also because tbe camp
ground will be located at a turn ln
the road.
Mr. H. G. Stewart Is now here and
is going ahead with the plans. T.
L. Stewart is still In Bremerton,
Washington, and will not be here for
several months.
PORTLAND MEN BUY LOCAL
HOSPITAL; NAME TO CHANGE
New Owners W ill Take Possession
This Friday; Dr. Marble to
Be Manager.
“Kiawanda Health Center Nitmber
8” will be the name of the Hermis
ton Hospital when it is taken over
by its new owners, Dr. L. C. Hornehu
and Dr. W. L. Holloway of Portland
this Friday. The hospital was bought
fro m M rs. J . D. H a r r a h
last Friday and the new owners will
take possession this Friday. How
ever, It may be a few 0ays before tbe
hospital will be open since some new
apparatus is being added and redec
orating will be done.
“ T)r A. E. Marble of Hermiston will
be the manager of tho hospital and
Mrs. W. B. Beasley will be the mat-
ron. Thc new owners will not live
here. There will also be a trained
nurse on the staff.
This center is a part of a chain of
hospitals that Is being established In
the northwest. Other centers are at
Bend, Cornell, Condon, Portland and
the principal sanitarium is at Pacific
City.
The name Kiawanda is taken from
Cape Kiawnnda In Tillamook county.
This cape is a solid deposit of min
eral salts. Mineral baths will be put
fn the hospital.
W EATHER REPORT
According to Charles Taylor of the
weather bureau, the temperatures for
the past week have been:
High Low
31
January 2 ...~...... .............. 51
34
January 3 ........... .............. 47
28
January 4
..................59
34
January 5 ............ .... ....... .... 38
31
January 6 ............ „................ 33
15
lanuary 7 .... ....... ..................37
10
January 8 ............ .............. 35
The rat of» II was .91 of an inch.