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I OREGON STATE NEWS
Published every Thursday at Hermis
OF 6ENERAL INTEREST
ton. Umatilla County, Oregon, by
$tfr $ rt uiiaiun ty ra lft
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1930
THE WAY OF LIFE
Elizabeth, for she had been told that basement, at approximately 1:30.
she too, though advanced in years,
Last Sunday morning 42 new mem
v otild bear a aon. The unborn John bers were taken into the church as a
•'That's My Father’’
gave signs of life when Mary came
A young professional man took ine in and It was Just then that Mary result of the evangelistic efforts of
Pauline M. Stoop and Alfred Quiring,
to a country town to call on hi« par uttered the Magnificat in thanks the Meade Brothers.
Principal Events of the Week ents.
Publishers
Epworth League at 6:30.
The old couple had raised giving.
Evening worship, 7:30.
eight children, of whom six arc liv
Assembled fpr Information
Entered as Second Class Matter
When they came to circumcise the
ing and doing well. The father runs
December, 1906, Umatilla County,
baby
John all would call him after
of
Our
Readers.
BAPTIST-CH RISTIAN CHURCH
a small store.
Oregon,
the father-Zacharias. Elizabeth said
W. E. Jones, Minister.
“I want you to meet my people,”
he should be called John, and when
Subscription Hates:
10:00 a. m. Bible school. The con
A 19-pound turnip from the C. W. my friend said later. "They are poor, the father was asked they handed
test ends this Sunday and neither
One Year ........................................ $2.00 Cutstorth ranch near Eddyville la on but I m proud of them. When any
him a writing tablet but his speech side knows as yet which is the
one talks pes-'lmistlrally about mar
Six Mouths ................................... $1.00 display at Gervais.
came back Just then and he said winner.
riage or human life In general, I like
Three Months ...................................... 60
Here’s one for the family breakfast j to renu mber the record of those two * John." The nature and work of
11:00 a. m , preaching service,
John were described In the Bene "Forgetting the Things that are Be
A pullet, owned by Otto Lebeck, of old folks.”
dictos, a song that Zacharias gave hind.”
Astoria, laid an egg 9% by 7H Inches.
On my way from a summer hotel
THE TUEN OF THE YEAE
‘i ™ "J?
‘he PrOpbecy of
Douglas county's assessed valuation to a near-by golf course I picked u p 1“
6:30 p. m.. Junior and Young peo
’ he“ tbC b‘rtb Wa8 ° unou“c- ples Christian Endeavor. Also tho
including public utilities, ig $33,494.- a caddyr a bright-eyed youngster of ' S
What will 1931 bring?
173. This is an increase of $40,083 thirteen.
adult study class. The book of James
The year just ended will go down over last year,
is to be studied.
Are you staying at the Inn?" he
In history as one of the hard year,
asked.
7:30 p. m„ preaching service, "Let
Gertrude
Geer,
six-year-old
daughter
economically speaking. Everybody
♦
« us Work While it is Day.”
I nodded.
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Geer of near
in the United States has felt the
CHURCH NOTES
*
“Have you met the night engin *
pinch, not of poverty but of ‘‘hard Cottage Grove, was burned to death. eer?”
*
*
BAPTIST CHURCH
A stump fire ignited her dress.
times.” Business has been slack,
I said that unfortunately my con
C. W. Cutler, pastor.
Deschutes county’s valuation for tax tacts had been entirely with the day
money hard to collect, credits have
Sunday school 10:00 a. m
METHODIST CHURCH
been curtailed, spending has been purposes has passed the ten million start.
Morning worship, 11:00.
mark
for
the
first
time.
Including
O. W. Payne, Pastor.
less, more people have been out of
Evening
service at 7:30.
’You
should
meet
him,"
the
young
work, than at any time since the last public utilities the total is $10,341,224.
Friday evening, December 26,
ster said proudly.
"That’s my
great
depression
which
lasted
Marshfield will have a municipal father.”
prayer meeting in the church.
Railroad trains running to some
through the year 1921.
Christmas tree again this year. Mer-
Dr . D. Yarnes, district superin of the English pleasure resorts are
It is assumed by those who view
Yet there was little actual suffer chants are arranging for placing of the social structure with disfavor tendent, will preach Sunday morning. now equipped with windows of
ing in 1930, and the great majority smaller trees along the principal that men work for only two mot Immediately following the services a "health glass” which transmits ultra
church dinner wil' e held in the violet rays.
of people continued to drive their streets.
ives— money or reputation.
automobiles, to enjoy themselves in
La Grande and the Union Pacific
I venture to say that after one has
much the same way as they were in system are making plans for a grand laid by a few extra dollars and has
the habit of doing. Most of us didn't opening of the new union station there seen his name in print a dozen times
buy as many clothes, but nearly all December 27. The depot is of two hese two motives fapidly lose their
of us had just as much of the game stories and cost $150,000.
power.
sort of things to eat.
According
School taxes amounting to $493,087
Samuel Butler thought It was a
to those who study those things, more have been voted by 112 Lane county great mistake that the generations
of us went to the movies in 1930 school districts. This amount will be over-lap. He pointed with approval
than in 1929. And when the calls raised by taxpayers and will be sup to the example of the moths and
caine for help for the unemployed, plemented with other funds.
beetles which spin their cocoons,
we gave more money, In hard, cash,
Elimination of the health unit and surround the new life with enough
for charitable purposes, than we had
cuts In other departments, making a food to start it successfully in the
given In any year since the war,
total roductlon of $7616, have been world, and then quietly die and get
when everybody was "giving till it
recommended
to the county court by out of the way.
hurt.”
It would be much better, he said,
the Douglas County Taxpayers league.
In short, "hard times" as we have
if each one of us could come into the
Santa fe here with goodies galore,
Astoria had an oil gusher recently
experienced then, I* 1930, would
world wrapped in twenty thousand
on
one
of
its
main
business
inter
have seemed like very good times in
If you doubt it, come over and see;
dollars, which would see us through
deed to the great majority of Ameri sections. A truck delivering fuel oil to maturity, unencumbered by any
W
e’ve
pies on the shelf and cakes in the stove,
cans, if we have not had six years of lost Its tank and traffic was halted acquaintanceship with parents or re
by
oil
which
sprayed
the
streets
and
And
bread just as good, you’ll agree.
such riotous prosperity just before as
lations.
sidewalks.
to distort our sense of values.
Such a world would make Just
The fine texture and sweet freshness of our
Thirty-five road districts of Lane about as much progress as the beetles
Nobody can foretell the future, but
county
have
voted
to
raise
a
total
of
we doubt very much whether 1931
products is a Christinas offering to
have made in the past ton thousand
will come any closer to the old-fash $86,689 to improve district roads. The years.
delighted patrons.
ioned sort of "hard times" with great amount raised last year was $93,328
We keep going, not so much for
Ten
districts
voted
down
special
tax
masses of people everywhere reduced
money or fame, but in the hope that
to beggary and starvation. All of proposals.
our kids can say with pride, “That's
the signs visible today point the oth
.The Pacific Co-operative Poultry my father."
er way. We know that In many lines Producers announced the purchase of
business is getting better; we are the Stancllffe property in Roseburg as
SUNDAY SO HO CI. LESSON
told that it is Improving in almost the site for an egg packing station.
every direction. The principal thing Construction will start soon after the International Sunday School Lessot:
the matter with our economic situa first of the year
for January 4
tion today is the habit of thinking
JOHN THE BAPTIST
Ben F. Keeney, Lane county as
lr terms of hard times, which may sessor, won two third prizes and a
Luke 1:68-79
take tho better part of 1931 to over tenth award on his exhibits of Barred
Rev. Samuel D. Price, D. D.
come.
During the coming six months the
Rock chickens nt the Chicago coliseum
In the long run, however, one poultry show, according to word re es’ona will be on the life of Chrlsi
thing is certain. The United States ceived at Eugene,
md the Scripture will be from
of America will go ahead toward
An organisation has been formed at Luke’s gospel. From July to Decern
better and brighter times than we
Pendleton to combat unemployment her we will study about the Early
have ever known, To believe other
by some 84 representatives of 17 dif hurch as recorded In Acts and the
wise is to believe that the human
ferent service clubs, labor organlaa Epistles.
race Is going backward, and that ie
John the Baptist was six months
tlons, churches, welfare societies,
definitely not true.
older than Jesus. Announcement of
lodges end other groups.
his coming was made to aged Zach
The olty council of Salem has adopt aries, the priest, when he was of
ed a resolution providing for a four- fering the incense in the Holy Place
GROW LESS—GET MORE
May these good wishes
hour day for workers on city construc In the temple of Jerusalem. That
tion
projects
end
to
use
men
Instead
Warm and true;
That Is the title of a little pam
».
....
---- .privilege was determined by lot and
phlet which has Just been got out der to relisT * *" pract,cab,a’ *“ or" many priests nevor had that distinct-
,on for thcre wprp 8Q many q{ them
Bring cheer on Christmas Day
for free distribution by the Federal der to relieve unemployment.
Lane county received from the state | The 90 year old man could not be-
Farm Board. It is worth every far
To you.
treasurer a check for $37,103.12, which lleve what the angel Gabriel said
mer'« whllo to read it.
And may the coming year
If any proof were needed that the Is the county’s share of the second and was made speechless as a sign
l»ss of any crop were produced, the payment of the state market road until after the baby whs born. When
Be gay;
more actual money (he growers fund. The money will be used by the Zacharias came forth to pronounce
With some new joy
would get, It Is furnished In the fig county to pay market road warrants. | the benediction on the people who
ures which the Farm Board cites.
One of the largest eggs to be exhib had been waiting in the court his
For each new day.
Every farmer realises that when ited In Albany Is from the flock of lips moved but no sound was heard.
potatoes are scarce In the market he Mra. E. O. Truax of Dever. The egg, | They “perceived that he had seen a
gets a higher price per bushel. What which was laid by a 7H-months-old vision in the Temple." That should
many do not realise Is that the price White Leghorn pullet, weighed alx be the objective each tlnio we go to
per bushel is so much higher. In ounces and was 8 7-8 by 7 7-8 Inches in I worship In God's house. After the
lime of scant supply, that he actually else.
annunciation came to the Virgin
makes more money on his small erop
Chocks aggregating $9821.28, repre- Mary she went to visit her relative
than when he grows a large crop.
aentlng a dividend of 10 per cent.,
The potato figures are the ones the wore mailed by A. A. Schramm, super
Farm Board uses. In 1928 the United intendent of banks, to the 381 de
1 tates had the largest potato crop positors of the defunct First Bank
on record 163 million bushels. The of Joseph. The bank was closed May
average farm price for potatoes that 13, 1917.
year w?s 66 cents a bushel, and the
THS MARKETS
total received by (he farmers was 186
Portland
million dollars. In 1926 the potato
Wheat — Big Bend blnestem, 79c;
crop was small—only 321 million
bushels. As s result, the average aoft white, western white, 69c; hard
price was a full dollar higher than winter, northern spring, western red
In the yotr of the big crop, or $1.60 67c.
Il-ty—Buying price, f. o. b. Portland:
a bushel. The farmers received 337
Alfalfa, $17.50@lS; valley timothy,
million dollars for less work and I
expense than when they got only $17.50; eastern Oregon timothy, $190
$20; clover, 14; oat hay, $14; oats and
five-eights as much.
Of course, crop reduction won't vetch. $13.60014.
Butterfat—30®33e.
work to Increase farm prices unless
Eggs—Ranch. 18 0 26c.
all. or most of the farmers in a given
Cattle—Steers, good. $8.25® 9.
district, growing the same commod
Hogs—Good to choice, $9.2509.50.
ity, agree to cut down their acreage
Lambs—Good (o choice, $6.5007.00.
One of the result« of the cooperative
system which the Farm Board is
Seattle
Wheat—8oft while, western white,
charged by law to Inaugurate. Is a
wider
exchange of
information northern spring, hard winter, western
among farmers, and a better mutual red. 08c; blnestem. 76c;
Eggs—Ranch. 22 0 31c.
understanding, ao that It should be
Butterfat—34?.
easier In the future than It has been
Cattle—Choice steers, $7.750 8.50.
In the past, for farmers to agree to
Hogs—Gocd to choice, 19 50 0 9 . SO.
reduce their acreage In wheat, corn,
Lambs—Choice, $6.5006 50,
cotton, potatoes or the other staple
Spokans
crops, to the advantage of all.
Fewer acres under cultivation J
Cattle— Steers, good, $7.3537.75.
larger yields per acre, are th» only i Hogs—Good to- choice,
HERMISTON, OREGON
Lanibt—Medium to h»o4,;;gi,
•ecrets of real farm prosperity.
(BY BRUCE BARTON)
For your Courtesy, Good Will and Loyalty,
Contributing much to our progress,
We gratefully thank you this season—
A season demanding expression
Of joy in the pleasant relation
• > Existing between us ar.d you.
First National Bank
>f Her m t«i<
Uapftel, S a rp liu and Undivided »Profit» O .e t $50,000
R. Alexander, Vice-President
F. B. Swayxe, Pres.
A. H. Norton, Cashier
If you want something satisfying,
Truly good,
Just drop in our place and eat
Our home cooked food.
Wholesome, hearty, energizing,
Well served too;
Makes you feel a different fellow
When you’re through.
Hermiston Hotel
Hermiston Bakery
Knerr’s Repair Shop
“T h e Place o f G ood Eats’’
Remembering, ’Tis Christmas!
We find ourselves wishing for a few words that
convey, in the true spirit of Christmas, the
thoughts that are uppermost in our mind and ex-
Friendship' Cleariy our deep aPPreciation
your
w ill
Let us be thankful for the Christmas spirit that
helps us to lay aside all business cares and turn
our thoughts to those finer things of life.
To you and yours we wish a most glorious old-
fashioned Christmas and a New Year filled with
Happiness.
KINGSLEY’S
H Z W M IS T O N 'S H O U 8 Z O F Q U A L IT Y A N D S C N V IC C
To Our Patrons And Friends
We wish you a Merry Christmas,
And a Happy New Year too.
Our aim is to be of serv ice
To the community and you.
Hermiston Light & Power Co.
WE GREET YOU FROM OUR NEW
LOCATION NEXT TO THE MACMARR
STORE ON MAIN STREET
and wish you
A MERRY CHRISTMAS
and
.........
A HAPPY NEW Y E \R
CHAS. G. BURK’S, Inc.
Where you can supply your needs at sale prices.
We will continue to operate both stores until
further notice.