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TWÜMDAT. AUGUST 3t. l i s o
LOCAL MEMBERS TO RXHTRTT
re .
STILTS OF SOMMER’S WORE
available for placing. It lg planned make their home. Miss Kern was a
to hold at least two more competi teacher in the local schools last year.
tive m eets before the state fair on
Sepember 22, before the final select Have Variety Store «at Port Oroh»rd
ion o f the team to represent this
Of Interest to people around Her
icu n ty is made.
miston was the word received this
week that Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Mor-
lan are running a variety store at
Port Orehar, W ashington.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS
Each County to Send Judging Team
From one of 4-H Clubs to b« Re
presented at Salem.
Visits From Walla Walla.
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PAGE THREE
Mrs. George Story Is employed at
the Hermiston Transfer office this
week.
Motor to Walla Walla.
Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Payne and
children and Mrs. Payne's mother.
Mrs. Dinwiddle, motored to W alla
W alla Tuesday of th is week.
ipi .'y. 1‘vwrr I h h :: cs wifi be biolt.
piu,Kirribi> o i elderly (icupir to
i-.ing w ill tw larger, »ml o lJ age
c: -Hill!, and retirement funds w ill
• » cine m atters o l prim e importance.
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I hose are not considerations for tilt
distant future. They are based upon
i acts winch are here, now. and may
affect economic conditions very scon.
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Arrive From Portland.
Evelyn Ferrlans of W alla W alla
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Vreeland. of
arrived In Hermiston W ednesday to Portland, arrived In Herm iston on
Charlotte Kern and her visit her sister, Margaret Ferrlans of
Mrs. Kern, formerly of Her this city .
moved to Bremerton, W ash
this week where they w ill Employed at Transfer Office.
Moves to Bremerton.
Miss
mother,
A« the date for the State Fair m iston.
draws near, activities among the l-H ington,
clubs reaches the heights, as this wll
be the first opportunity for the local
members to exhibit the results of
» Minnie and Lena
their summer's work. The Umatilla
Project fair w ill be the zenith of
local club activities, as all members
of livestock clubs w ill exhibit their
anim als to complete their year’s re
quirement.
Each county In the state la eligible
to send a judging team to the State
Fair, and com petition is keen among
the local clubs as to which club w ill
be the one to be represented at Salem
thia year. The selection Is made on
a com petitive basis, the three mem
bers of any one club whose total
scoie is the highest, being the team
that Is awarded the trip to he fair.
One com petitive m eeting was re
cently held at the Eastern Oregon
State hospial where R. A. Tillman,
herdsman for the in stitu tion , had
classes of Holstein and Jersey cattle,
' Watching the elephants go in swimming is one of
classes of hogs and a class of sheen
——U early in the morning. They like it and bate to
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It w ill urprise you how much
we can save you du rin g the year
on your shoe bill. A ll we ask is
that you bring your shoes to us
for repairing in ample time so ws
can do a good job.
New York's newest skyscraper, to
Travellers returning from the little- ojxupy an entire city block on the
known country of Portugal report East River waterfront at the foot of
that it is the most honest country in Wall Street, will be 105 stories high.
the world. In the hotels the kev to There is no economic limit to height
your room is hung on a hook outside except the congestion of traffic which
o f your door and nobody ever steals
comes from crowding so many people
anything. You can leave yettr suit- into a small area.
ease. your camera or yciur overcoat
Cincinnati has a new solution for
on a railroad train or a station plat the skyscraper problem. A new build-
form or in a parked car on the street, ing going up there will be 46 stories
and nobody bothers them. The people high and. will be a combination of of
are polite and hospitable as well as fice buildings hotel and parking gar
honest. If a sudden shower comes lip, age, with two large department stores
house doors open and the occupants and numerous specialty shops on the
ask passersby to step in for shelter lower floors.
until the rain stops.
In the old days business men and
That sounds like an earthly para their employees used to five “over the
dise. It would be perhaps, if Portugal shop." We may he coming back to
had a stable government. In the last that in the big cifies, with apartment
twenty-six years there have been houses in the upper floors to house
twenty-six revolutions. Under the the people who work in the stores
present President, General Carmona, and offices below.
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the little nation is getting along nicely.
INSECTS
POPULATION
SHOES DYES
ALL COLORS
BOWMAN
SHOE SHOP
H.
SKYSCRAPERS
PORTUGAL
Early reports from the Census of
fice indicate that the decline in the
birthrate in the past ten years is
greater than ever. It begins to look
as if, in another ten years we will
have come to an annual increase of
only 500.000 or less than one half of
one percent, in population. And that
The other day at my farm home
we started to replace a worn door sill
When we took the old board off we
found that black ants had eaten away
tlw heavy timber which forms the sill
of the house itself, for a distance of
several feet. We took out more than
two quarts of ants and about a pint
of ant eggs, and then had the expen
PRESSURE
Miss Christine Veit, teacher of the Hoover school, is proud of tht
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Notice is hereby given that the
hoard of Directors of the Hermiston
Irrigation D istrict, acting as a board
of equalization, w ill meet at the of
fice of the secretary In Herm iston,
Oregon, on the first Tuesday in Octo
ber, 1930, at 8 P. M., for the pur-
liosu of review ing and correcting the
assessm ent and apportionment of
taxes for the year 193o to be levied
on or before the first Tuesday In
September, 1930.
W. J. W ARNER.
52-6tc
Secretary.
Goodyear means minimum road
trouble, maximum mileage.
Kingsley’s September Sale!
30x3z High Pressure -
32x6 (10 ply) - - . |
29x4.40 Balloons -
30x4.50 Balloons
Others in proportion
STARTING TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, we will
offer Anything in Our Store at Greatly Reduced
DRY GOODS
ROHRMAN MOTOR CO
OUR SHOP IS MODERN
OUR SERVICE GUARANTEED
AUTHORIZED SALES AND SERVICE
HERMISTON, OREGON
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T H E R E 'S A N N
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I WANT TO R E A C H
ITHE HOU5B AND ÓTT SOME
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J u ng les
Peter Pans .
P rin ts...........
Indian Head
C repe................................
Sateen, Black and White
Soisette.............................
Lingette............................
Blossom Silk
,
Laundry Soap, 5 bars........... 1
Purex, large quart bottle..... 1
Tomato Soup, 3 f o r ............... 2
Milk, 3 for........... ....................2
Chip Beef, 2 1-2 oz. glass..... 1
Sardines, Smacks and Lunch
eon Spreads, 3 for...............2
10
Lbs. Sugar, fine granulated
34c
__ ...............- ...........................5
49c Nalleys Mayonaise, pint glass
49c
Many Other Bargain* in the
37c
Grocery Line.
49c
38c
LAST CALL FOR STRAW
15c
HATS!
Curtain Scrims........19c, 25c, 35c Your choice in this lot for ... 35c
Ginghams .................15c, 21c, 35c
Men’s, Boys’ and Youth’*
Outing F la n n el...... 119c and 21c
Underwear— Fall and W inter
Hosiery and Underwear.
Polo Shirt*, Vest* and Shorties
Going at Very Low Price*.
Tow els................................
15c
T ick in g.................................... 39C Everything in the Store i* a bar
B u rlap .....................................24 c gain, and now is the time to get
yeur supply for Winter. Bring
Unbleached Sheeting, 9|4 .... 49c the family and fit them out.
MEN’S FURNISHINGS
Headlight S h irts....................
Uncle Sam S h irts.................. 87c
Commander S h irts................83c
Dress Shirts, collars attached
- ......... 99c, $1.29, $1.59, $1.99
Without collars, your choice.. $1
(Some as high as $4 reg.)
OVERALLS AND JACKETS
Black H o rse ............................99c
Headlight or Oshkosh....... $1.69
Levy Straus ........................ $1.49
Boys’ ........... 75c, 89c, 97c, $1.13
MEN’S SHOES
Black or Tan Oxfords.. $3.60 up
Work Shoes.......... $2.50 and up
Boys’ and Youth’s Oxfords ...
............................ $2.50 and ud
School Shoes.......... $2.00 and up
Keds, White—
Men’s ................................$1.19
Boys’ .................................... 97c
Youth’s .............................. 79c
Some Odd Pairs Shoes in Men’s
Women’s and Children’s.....
.............................. 50c to $2.00
THIS STORE WILL BE OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL NINE O’CLOCK.
be a Genuine Sale--Nothing Reserved—So come early and
stay all day.
COMMENCING TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2
j SLEY’S
NI6HT
GROCERIES
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Ice which will not melt at a tem
perature of ISO degrees is the latest
scientific curiosity. It has been pro
duced by Professor P. W. Bridgman
of Harvard University. AU that la
necessary to keep ice from melting
under a flame is to subject it to a
pressure of 290,000 pounds to the
square inch.
Professor Bridgman's experiments
with high pressures have given many
surprising results. Many familiar sub
stances change their characters under
pressure, much as human beings d a
Thirty-nine different metals become
better conductors of electricity. Some
of the changes persist after the pres
sure is removed.
What is the good of such experi
ments? Science doesn't know nor care.
Science is content to discover new
facts, leaving it to inventors to apply
them to human uses.
Hermiston Irrigation District
Notice
Hoover V isiti Her Mountain School in the Blue Ridge
OPTERÀ blFF ritmila tva»» bn»«!* atm**
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job of fitting a new timber in
place.
Tiic war between man and insects
is relent!«*» and unceasing. Along the
country roads near my home 1 fre
quently meet this Summer the U. S.
i department of Agriculture “bug
men” who are spraying trees in the
tffort to get rid of the Japanese
ncetle. our newest insect pest I found
i great colony of tent moths in an old
lusture beyond my woodlot A new
pest is beginning to eat up oak and
maple trees up our way; another is
lestroying the willows along the brook
and river.
Most of these pests, like the gypsy
moth which is killing the New Eng
land elms, and the chestnut blight,
which has destroyed every chestnut
tree in the East, are imported. The
Government maintains a plant quaran
tine, but every now and then «oma
new pest slips across the border.
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: : Hermiston, Oregon