PAGE FOUR
Local Happenings
Mrs. Leila Phelps was in Pendle-
ton Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. w. J. Warner were
business visitors in Pendleton Mon
day.
Walther Ott and
Dick
Upham,
students at O.S.C. arrived lióme Sat
urday to spend the holidays.
Mrs. James Clayton left Sunday
for Palouse, Wn„ where she will
visit until Friday with her parents.
George McKenzie who is employed
in Pendleton spent the first two
days of the week with his parents.
Miss Catherine McMullen left
Friday morning for Portland where
she spent a few days before going
on to Seattle to visit her sister, Mar
garet, who has been there for sev
eral months. Catherine plans to re
main until the first of the year.
Oasis Cheatre
Hermiston, Oregon.
The Best in Talking Pictures
— : ADMISSIONS —
35c and 15c Evenings
25c and 10c Matinees
TWO SHOWS: 7:15—9:00 P.M
FRIDAY, SATURDAY
and SUNDAY
Christina» Matinee 2:30 Sunday
The story of a great lawyer . .
a great lover . . In coourt he was
a trickster . . also with women!
Juries and women were his rack
et!
EDMUND LOWE
as the
‘Attorney
I Defense?
with
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1982
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON,
............ .......... 79959999 9
Sommerer WA+C
EVELYN BRENT
and
Constance Cummings
PLUS: Two Keel Comedy filled
with laughs and a Krazy
Kat Cartoon,
Mr and Mrs Henry
were business visitors in Pendleton
Thursday.
Miss Marian Henderson, who is a
student at the Eastern Oregon Nor
mal School in La Grande, arrived
home Friday to spend the holidays.
H. E. Hitt is confined to his home
this week due to a severe case of
Influenza. Frank Bilderback is work
ing In the confectionery.
Miss Gladys Swarner, who
student at O.S.C., arrived home the
first of the week and will spend the
holidays with her parents, , Mr. and
Mrs. Alfred Swarner.
Mrs. Chas. Hudson and her sis-
ter, Miss Louise Wahl, plan to leave
Friday for Astella, Or., where they
will visit their parents. Mrs. Hudson
plans to visit over the holidays and
Miss Wahl will remain with her par
ents.
Harvey DeMoss, principal .of the
schools at Reith. was in town Tues-
day following the closing of the
schools there due to sickness. Mr.
DeMoss is a delegate to the state
teacher's association meeting in Port
land during the holidays.
The Misses Georgianna and Elean
or Briggs who teach at the Moun
tain View school near Salem, plan
to spend the holidays with their par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Brigg». Miss
Marion Brigg» who teaches at Med
ford, will also be with her parents
during the holidays. They are ex-
pected to arrive Saturday.
Miss Meredith Daily, who has been
the house guest of her sister. Mrs.
lames Clayton for the past month,
left Sunday morning for her home
in Palouse, Wn. She accompanied
Mr. and Mrs. N. Mueller, who wore
enroute to Hope, Idaho, where they
will spend the holidays with Mrs.
Mueller’s parents.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Biggs of La
Grande were business visitors in
town today.
Clarence Henning, Elwin Knapp,
and Alfred Quiring were Pendleton
visitors Saturday.
The Misses Florence Pearson and
Barbara Wessell were Pendleton vis
itors Monday.
Win. Shaver has been confined to
his bed for the past few days, quite
ill.
Miss Helen Woughter and Frank
Swayze are two University of Oregon
students who are »pending the holi
days with their rparents.
Miss Francis Sale, student at the
U. of O., arrived home Tuesday to
spend the holidays with her parents
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Sale.
Mrs. M. Miller, who has been vis
iting her son, Paul Miller, in Colum
bia district for the past several
weeks, left Sunday for her home in
Oakland, Calif.
Mrs. Ida Gordon and two daugh
ters, Ardath and Doris Jane, are ex
pected to arrive from Elgin, Or.,
aturday to spend the holidays with
Miss Pauline Stoop.
Rev. O. W. Payne motored to
Spray, Or., Monday where he officia
ted at the funeral of Carl Wagner,
a friend of the family. Mr: Payne
experienced difficulty in getting
over the ice-covered roads.
Mr. and Mrs. O. O. Felthouse en
tertained at a turkey dinner last Fri
day night. Covers were laid for Miss
Nell Reeves, Miss Margaret Felt
house, Miss Pauline Stoop, Clarence
Henning, Alfred Quiring, and the
host and hostess.
Mrs. Joe Garouttee end two chil
dren of Astoria, Or., were the house
guests of her sister,
Mrs. Gladys
Imlth, from Saturday until Tuesday,
when she left for Walla Walla, Wn.,
to spend the holidays with relatives.
(Continued from Page 1)
Mrs. Smith plans to join them in whistle stood 12-8.
that city Saturday to spend the holi
The return of Eugene Pierce and
days.
on Moore, now absent because of
lines», to the squad for the Pendle
ton game in January will strength
en the locals offense.
HIGHEST CASH PRICES
The Hermiston line-up in the first
PAID FOR
string game was: Bowman, center;
CRFAM AND EGGS
Martin end Hunt, forwards; and
Columbia Creamery Co., Inc.
Zensel and Reeves, guards; Harris
129 N. 21st St. — Portland, Or,
and Pierson, substituted.
Basketball Squad
Plays Echo Teems
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.& V C
Trip Described
(Continued from page One)
Merry Christmas!
Above you is a solid rock—at least
YOU’RE STILL IN TIME. MANY NICE GIFTS AT A GREAT SAVING.
you hope it’s solid—and below you
Is more solid rock. Crawling through
this crack you go, just room enough
above you to give you a bump on
STEW MEAT
ALL STEAKS
PORK SAUSAGE
HAMBURGER
the head once in a while. The pas-
sage is quite wide for some distance.
6c per pound
2 lbs. for 25c
10c per pound
3 lbs. for 25c
Then we come to an almost solid
wall, and, still crawling, turn a
ORANGES
right-angle corner. There is room
Quality Coffee
CORN
Nuts and Candies
here for a person not too large, but
Nice and Juicy.
Going like hot cakes.
one too close to two hundred will
6 cans 54c
10c per lb. and up
1c each to 30c doz.
3 lbs. for 57c
puff before getting himself through,
Past this corner we ascend a gentle
FRESH
slope, still of solid rock and still
Carrots, Turnips,
MJ.B. COFFEE P. A. TOBACCO GINGER SNAPS
with a low ceiling. By this time
Rutabagoes
your hands and knees are tired, and
IN BULK
1 lb. Xmas box 89c
you wonder if your wrists will bear
3 lbs. for 98c
3 lbs. for 29c
the strain longer. You may as well
3 lbs. for 10c
go ahead—It’s nearer to the Temple
than it is out! Of course you have
All Toys Reduced
WOOL SOX
Men’s Overshoes
WOOL SHIRTS
to return this same way, but the
sights in tils almost inaccessible
4-Buckle — $1.98 25c - 35c - 50c pair 12 Regular Price
room will repay you. Here are found
$1.19 each
the snowy sheets of limestone on the
wall, in undulating waves resemb
ling falling water—and which are
Men’s Silk Neckties Men’s Work Shoes Men’s Silk Sox Children’s Heavy
named Niagara Falls. Near them,
STOCKINGS
25c - 49c per pair
hanging from the ceiling, are those
$1.98
$1.00 ties for 49c
9c pair
3 pairs for $1.25
stalactites which, when struck, emit
musical tones. The simple scale is
here, and those of us who have guid
ed in here have found just which
ones to strike to play, quite credit
ably, "America”. Overshadowing all
in your mind, the dark shadow be- I
hind all this beauty, is the presence
full of the smell of whisky. Temp-a cheap hotel room for the ni' ht
in this room of the Pit. The Bot-
at ion doesn’t solicit on every street land got drunk. Three days later we
tomless Pit, it is called, and comes ♦ All Items Appearing in this
orner. The weeds near the hospital ¡received the child that was left
as near deserving its name as any-
Column
are
Contributed
by
the
ire not full of drunks. The wards alive.
thing, You may lie on its edge—
"My nurses can walk down the
are not full of miserable, abused
Hermiston W. C. T. U.
careful. now, not too close—and ♦
1 remembe
children. The hospitals don’t have street at night now.
drop into Its depths. No matter how
lelirium-tremens wards. The Salva- when they couldn’t. Beasts slept or
still the rest of the party keep, you
ion Army doesn’t send around ottered or watched on vacant lot
wait in vain to hear it hit the bot Dr. Richardson Answers Mrs. Sabin. trucks to pick up Saturday-night
ran tell you stories of horro, a
tom.
No sound ever comes back
One of the eloquent “speak-ups." Irunks. In Philadelphia they used ny nurses.
from the inky well, and you slip
o
pick
up
4.000
drunks
on
Saturday
"I remember when virtually all
carefully back from the edge with who never neglects an opportunity lights. They don t have trucks now
ur cases were the cases of children
to tell of the tracedies of pre-prohi-
an eerie feeling.
ecause
they
don
’
t
need
them.
nistreated by drunken fathers and
day», is Dr. Katherine B
"Back through the same tortuous bltion
“Mrs. Sabin doesn’t know what nothers. frozen, starving, abused
Richardson of Mercy Hospital, Kan
passage of Worm Alley, and through sas City, Mo. The telling way she she’s talking about. She didn’t see unspeakably, not by bad men, but
many more room's and corridors un- replied to Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, the the children I saw. In the winter by good men—good men drunk.
til 1 stop in a room and ask it you ophisticated head of the Women's the children of drunkards froze. The
“I know little rich girls who com
w ish to cut across, thereby saving a Organization for National Prohibi parents weren’t low and depraved. placently inform me that I’m wrong.
very considerable retracing of steps.
They
were
drunk
and
they
forgot
They
say they want liquor back.
By thia time you’re tired enough to tion Reform, before an audience of their children. I remember an Okla Children, my friends, will play with
one
thousand
people
in
the
Linwood
be anxious to get out for your din
homa laborer who brought his three poison. They don’t know any better.
ner, so you'll agree. Possibly you Presbyterian Church of Kansas City, children to Kansas City, put them in I do."
look around for another passage is told in a recent issue of the Kan
than the one which I tell you is the as City Star. We quote from that
long way around, but you’ll have to paper:
"In the words of one of my small
trust me. Having agreed to the
atients,” said Dr. Richardson, "I’m
"cut-off”, I tell you that I go first:
that the passage is solid reck above iot making a speech. I’m telling
but soft, dry sand below, easy to dig rou. My memory is good. I’m here
ut to any size. Even the heaviest o tell you about the saloon. I’ve
may plan to go safely through the ust read an article in the Sunday
cut-off. So I drop to my knees, lie dition of the Star that made me
I
DEPENDABLE GROCERS
|
down on my stomach, and slowly ingry. Let’s see—"
disappear through a reasonably
She fumbled with her notes, her
small crack in the wall, which you aw set.
hadn’t noticed. In a short time you
“I just marked down some of the
hear my voice, encouraging you to
follow.
The crack is not high— things that made me particularly
nad. Well. Mrs. Charles H. Sabin
something like creeping under a bed
One by one you follow me, with nay be just misinformed.
"She says the settlement workers,
more or less difficulty. Somehow it
appears harder than when I told you vho visit the poor, want liquor back.
about it, and the space not so large 3he doesn’t know my poor. She says
as at first. Especially is this true he housewives want liquor back,
If the crowd is a Jolly one, and I 'he doesn’t know my housewives,
have been able to get some of the he doesn't know my excellent work
They’re not the same settle-
leading spirits to help me. For truly ers.
there is an art in even so simple a ment workers that run around town
thing as crawling through here. in their little cars, checking up on
Those who know how, may cause an the homes of the little children who
almost unlimited amount of diffi- come to Mercy Hospital.
-ulty to the ones coming later if
"I am not talking Idly. Last year
they use just the right twist of the we received and treated 21,000 little
clbows to push the send behind children. The families from which
EFFECTIVE TILL CHRISTMAS EVE
thorn—the hole just fills up, and those children came would make a
some weighty person in frantic haste city. I know that city. Five to a
to get through, doesn’t think of push family—a city of 100,000. If drink
ins it to one side.
is good for that poor city. It should
best Quality nuts a Lbs.
"'did ro kt above and below, or be returned. It those poor people
old rock above and shifting sand want it, we will have It back. They
bel >sr both ef them tight places to don’t want it. Understand? They
get out of. rut if you keep your don’t want it. They remember the
Wrapped
Pound Package
head, and don’t get excited, they saloon, and so do I.
"When, out of our yearning for
may bo passed safely.
In closing, may I wish for you children, we built that hospital, wc
sat down and almost cried.
We
that you’ll keep -your head in tight found we had built a receiving-sta
MADE IN OUR OWN CANDY FACTORY—ONE OF THE LARG-
places, whether in the cave or out.” tion for the children of the saloon—
the spawn of drunkards.
EST AND FINEST IN THE WEST.
“Listen to me. friends. I remem
NOTEBOOKS ON FAVORITE VO-
ber. clearly, vividly, tremblingly, I
BROKEN
PEANUT
CHOCOLATES
FRENCH
CATION CLIMAX COURSE.
remember how It was before prohibi-
Maybe
the
rich
drink.
Let
'ion.
MIXED
BRITTLE
MIXED
Centers
them drink; there are not many of
(From the "Bulldog”)
Maybe
the
poor
make
home
them,
filled in
The theme of notebooks being
Satin Finish
Lbs.
Lbs.
brew. Let them make It. The re-
three flavors.
made by students of the Occupations suits
have
not
been
the
same.
And
lasses is "The Occupation of My
Choice." These note books will cli- when Mrs. Sabin says there are more
Lbs
speakeasies than saloons it is not
max the study of vocations made by true. You men about town know it
the students during the year.
During the past four weeks, the isn’t true.
Gold
"She wants to know whether pro
classes have heard vocational talks
Medal
Pint
given by F. B. Swayze, on hanking; hibition reformed any drunkards.
Dr. W. L. Morgan, on dentistry; No. I agree with her. But it hasn’t 1
Pauline Stoop, on journalism: and made new ones. Stick around awhile |
Mr. Clausen of the United States under prohibition and the old bums |
Mskeesd » Size Can
Forestry department, of Pendleton, will die off. Anybody who wants a
on forestry.
irink can get it. But the air isn't !
EDWARDS
POWDERED
Lbs.
pair
Burnham's General Merchandise
• • • • • • • • • • • • $
MACMARR STORES
Our Wish for You
is a
th
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Our store will be
closed all day Monday
Fi
XMAS SPECIALS
29c
Mixed Nuts
allo s y
DATES
2
19c
CHRISTMAS CANDIES
There's a Red & ITIiitc Food for Every Christmas Need
Specials for Friday & Saturday, Dec. 23rd &
19c
33c
25c
59c
2%
98c
25c
8
25c
43c
PINEAPPIE
2
33c
45c
25c
35c
SWEET POTATOES
5 lbs.
CRANBERRIES
2 lbs.
MARMALADE. Orange
Red & White
FLAKEWHITE
COFFEE
4 lbs.
3 lb. tin
Red & White
COFFEE
1 lb. bags
Blue & White
PUMPKIN, 2 1s
Red & White
2 cans
FINEAPPIE, 2 He
Red & While
HOLIDAY CHOCOLATES
21, lbs.
PEANUTS
Fancy Roasted
3 lbs.
MAYONNAISE
Red & White
Quart
SNOWRIFT
G 1b. tin
CAKE FLOUR
Red & White
Canada Dry GINGER ALE
Large
lbs.
o
N for
OLIVES. Stuffed
Red & White
OK.
2 cans
OLIVES QUEEN
Red & White
10 oz.
cans
OLIVES. Ripe
Blue & White
pints
Blue « White
APRICOTS. 2‛s
Red & White
2 cans
SHRIMP, medium
Blue * White
2 cans
GRAPE FRUIT. 2s
Red & White
2 cans
SWEET PICKLES
Yolo
Quarts
MARSHMAI LOWS
Red & White
1 lb.
OYSTERS
Blue * White
24th
65c
29c
43c
79c
27c
49c
21c
25c
16c
35c
23c
10c
2
& WHITE
STORES
I
2 Lbs 25c
15c
Salad Dressing
PINEAPPLE
12c
Sugar 3 19c
DEPENDABLE
Marshmallows
19c Coffee
Package
PRE-INVENTORY SALE
Real Depression Prices
This Sale Includes All Electric
Appliances In Stock
SAY
the red
29c
2
39c
2
29c
Merry Christmas Electrically”
HERMISTON LIGHT & POWER CO.
H
. ‘
Vacuum Packed
HAM
Light Weight
Half or whole
s in 63c
Fruits and Vegetables
Florida Grape Fruit.".’,. , toe 29c
Cranberries Berries
29c
Very Fine
Lettuce Large
Heads
Sweet Potatoes 10
29c
Oranges nzzlzeté"
2 D. 29c
Phone 241 Hermiston, Ore