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PAGE EIGHT THURSDAY. JANUARY 21, 1937. THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON | the First National Bank of Hermis lands. Any land that goes back in- ton since its organization. to the state under any form of mort Local Happenings Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Hedwall are George Wurster, alfalfa grower of confined to their home with mild Butter Creek, spent Saturday in cases of pneumonia. Hermiston on business. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Morgan of A. R. Price of Boardman spent Pendleton spent the week end with Saturday in Hermiston. her father, Joe Reeves. Ed. Coffman and son Gerald of Mr. and Mrs. Nate Macomber of Stanfield were in Hermiston on bus Boa rd man. pioneer residents of that iness Monday. locality, were business visitors here Saturday. Dr. J. P. Stewart, eye-sight spe cialist of Pendleton, will be at the Sam Nye of Echo was transacting Hermiston Hotel on Wednesday, business in Hermiston Saturday, January 27th. Hours: 1:00 to 5:00 p. m. adv. W. T. Reeves and E. V. Gabriel of the Umatilla Meadows were in Her Craig Percy, who was transferred miston on business Monday. from the local Safeway store to Walla Walla, is back on the job here K. A. Fisher of Irrigon was in pending the illness of Herbert Hed town on business Saturday. wall, manager. L. D. Neill of Butter Creek has Mrs. Frank Helm and two daugh returned from Salem where he spent ters were in town Saturday from a few days. their ranch home on Big Butter Mrs. F. A. Baker of Stanfield was Creek. called to Spokane last week by the death of her sister, Catherine Mc- William Kilkenney of Butter Croskey. Creek was in Hermiston Saturday. He is feeding his 4000 sheep at his New Madden has received a fine ranch 18 miles south of here. photograph of his mother who is Del Christley, who suffered an at- 81 years old and lives at Lone Rock tack of scarlet fever along with where she raised 400 turkeys last year. It was taken while all her blood poisoning in his knee, covering and will soon be out again. sons and daughters were at home recently. Miss Betty Carlin, who has been Henry Bushman has returned visiting her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Dyer, for the past from Portland where he was called few months. left Sunday for her by the death of his mother, Mrs. Louisa Bushman, a pioneer of the home in Denver, Colo. lower Columbia river region, She Ralph J. Shafer and family are was 80 years old. now at Yachats on the coast where Mr. and Mrs. E. Jelkins are i dis- Mr. Shafer is employed in the posing of their business on 1 Main timber. Ralph Shafer, Jr., and Mrs. street, known as Cochran's Lunch, Shafer expect to move there soon. and will move to Portland. It is ex pected other parties will take over the location soon. OASIS THEATRE HERMISTON, OREGON Friday - Saturday JAN. 22 - 23 DOUBLE FEATURE! AS THEY KISSED — They matched wits ... for the biggest diamond in the world! 15 MAIDEN NAME The oldest daughter of Geo. Har- rls, Mrs. Manuel Santos, arrived in Hermiston Sunday to spend three weeks with her mother who has been a patient in the Hermiston Medical hospital. Her home is at John Day. Mr. and Mrs. V. R. Van Patten of Haltway, Ore., arrived Thursday of last week to be with their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Van Patten. Paul has been quite ill with the flu but is reported im- proved. with CLAIRE TREVOR Miss Marjorie Burnham is spend gage is said to be affected. ing the week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Burnham, here be cause of the necessity of closing her school known as the Bird School, Red Cross Potential Life seven miles south of Pilot Rock on Savers Number Nearly Birch Creek. The snow tell to a 2,000,000 depth of over two feet, and some of the children had to walk from two First aid and life saving certifi- to six miles to school. Miss Burn cates issued by the American Red Cross since the start of the service ham is a graduate of the Ellensburg 26 years ago now number 1,888,702. Normal school. During the past year the Red Crosa qualified 222.693 persona In first aid Mr. and Mrs. Emil Zivney made a and taught water safety and rescue hurried trip to Portland last Thurs methode to 80.961 day, upon receiving word of the This army of First Aiders and serious illness of Mrs. Zivney’s moth- Life Savers is one of the great safe ty factors in the nation. They are er. The Zivney's returned Sunday trained to give Immediate first aid evening, reporting that Mrs. Clute at the scene of accident, thus saving but steadily improving is slowly many lives and preventing perma from a near pneumonia attack. nent injury. Red Cross training In While in Portland Mr. Zivney visi- cludes skill In treating for shock, ted with his parents who live near splinting fractures, checking arte Oswego. rial bleeding, applying artificial res piration. towing drowning persons to safety and in the safe handling of Tobogganing at Echo. boat and canoe. A party of local young people went tobogganing last Sunday on a steep hillside near Echo. The tobog- ! gan was built last year by Oliver 1 Knerr and Ralph Krause, and con- | sisted of a two inch plank, 14 inch es in width and eight feet long, and | the running surface was made with I corrugated iron. The young people | reported it as a great sport. They | were Oliver Knerr, Albert Skovbo, I Charles Knerr, Dorothy Knerr and । Marie Skovbo. SNOWS BRING MUCH MOISTURE (Continued from page 1) late heavy snow, and it is reported that over two feet covers that wa tershed which provides the best pros pects for irrigation Butter Creek has sur- had for ----------- several «-------- years. On ---- — — the — — rounding plains and low foot hills for a radius of 25 miles, and includ- ing much light wheat land areas, the snow fall has been something over a foot. Both the wheat men and sheep and cattle men are great ly encouraged with the prospects of wheat and grass on both winter and spring ranges. LaGrande experienced the heavi- est snow storm, with 34 inches in 36 hours, and a total to date of about six feet. This storm also spread a heavy supply in the Blue Mountains. Eight feet of snow 's reported on the east slope of Mt. Hood at Government Camp. Farth er north in the Cascades the deer and elk have been driven out of the high mountains to lower slopes, anti are traveling along the mountain highways of Naches and Snoqual mie passes. In the counties between Walla Walla and Pomeroy the high ways are very difficult to keep open because of heavy drifts, which con- Edition is also reported around Tou chet and toward Spokane from Pas- i co. Heavy snows are also reported in the Ochoco mountains and south of Heppner. The first death due to storm was that of Mrs. Ambrose Parks near Al- bee last week, who went with her 'daughter for a walk to a neighbor several miles distance. They were overtaken by a storm after dark, and Mrs. Parks was frozen to death. The second death was that of Oliver Young at Lehman Springs, who was killed by a fallen pine in his bunk house. His companion, Victor Me- Cormach, suffered a crushed skull. Mrs. Sancho Stubblefield, wife of the proprietor, whose husband was then in a Pendleton hospital, gave the information to the outside world by telephone and a rescue party with ten horses and sleds furrowed its way through three feet of snow for 20 miles. They brought the dead man and companion, and Mrs. Stub blefield to safety. Safeway PINE CITY By Mrs. Bernice Wattenburger Roy Neill spent the week end in Salem with his daughter, Mrs. El- don Kinton. Pendleton callers Friday were Marion Finch and Bert Barnes. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Wattenburger and children were Hermiston cal- lers Friday night. H. E. Young spent Tuesday in Hermiston. The Young family have been ill with the flu lately. Lon Wattenburger returned to Pendleton Monday, He is serving on the jury there. Mrs. Roy Neill was a caller one day last week at the E. B. Watten burger home. A dance was given at the Julian Rauch home Saturday night. Due to the snow only a few from Butter Creek attended. Word was received from Earl Wattenburger that he likes his work fine in the mill at Toppenish, Wn. Linda May Neary has received a pleasant letter from Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt acknowledging receipt of SUPREME COURT a poem on the Roosevelt administra- MAKES DECISION LAWRENCE TIBBETT in tion. The author is the daughter of Mr. i and Mrs. J. J. Neary of Hermis- The supreme court decision on ton and will soon be 11 years old. She is in the sixth grade. lands under the Westland district in Plus Shorts the case of Umatilla county vs. O. P. George Briggs, who has been an Bowman may affect other lands invalid for several years, has been SUN. . MON. - TUES. throughout the surrounding irriga- taken to the hospital in Hermiston tlon districts, The county adver- for treatment. Mrs. Briggs is there JAN. 24 - 25 - 26 with him. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin tised and sold the land for taxes MATINEE 2:30 SUNDAY Briggs are also here visiting his par- which included Westland Irrigation charges. The State Land Board in ents. tervened and the case was dismissed. Mrs. Wayne E. Whiff in, 2t year and the county and district forever TUE B/G old niece of E. P. Dodd, was killed disbarred from any interest in the BBOBDCAiT Saturday at Caldwell, Idaho. Her land, or ability to collect taxes OF 19V ) car stuck on a snow covered railroad thereon. The land Iles two and a crossing and was struck by the half miles west of Echo under the Portland Rose. With her was Grace Westland canal. The court also or dered that the county or irrigation Evans, 17, who was also killed. Flash Gordon Chapter No. 5 district pay to the county clerk the Plus Shorts D. H. Prindle of California, for sum of 12500 for the benefit of the merly of Hermiston, will leave in astate land board, otherwise the pro- few days for his home after complet perty must remain in the state and WED. - THURS. ing a deal with Carson and Troy not subject to taxation, The tract Linder, whereby the latter become consists of 80 acres. JAN. 27 - 28 the owners of the Prindle 40 acre The decision was made under Special Wednesday Night tract in the Westland district. It is state law dealing with priority. If one of the best improved places on the state lien is prior to the forma son’s the west side. tion of the irrigation district, the claim for irrigation claims is not Dr. W. G. Cole, well known here valid. In this case the mortgage and in Umatilla county, is seriously which was foreclosed by the state, III at his home in Forest Grove. He was made prior to the formation of " BURGESS practiced medicine in Pendleton the Westland Irrigation district. 410. MEREDITH for many years, and was state sena- ■ « MARGO In another case affecting the old tor from this district eight years. Dr. Bert Nation place west of Butter Cole invested in lands and city pro Plus Shorts. Creek, the state loan was made sub perty in Hermiston which he has sequent to the formation of the dis sold, and has been a stockholder in trict. and right to collect such taxes Is valid. In the first case mentioned the district has still the right to re- fuse water to the land before pay ment Is made for the ensuing year. A number of state lands through- out these districts may fall in one or the other of these classes. The HERMISTON, OREGON decision is also considered far reach- Ing enough to affect the reclama tion of new lands belonging to the state. In a recent decision by the late Federal Judge McNary It was held that the federal gomernment under its moratorium acts had no right to interfere with the rights of state or county in the collection of Yet In the above cases It is (48 • gauunqs Trices for Fri., Sat. & Sun., 22-23-25 HOT SAUCE 3 TASTE TELLS TASTE SUGAR 25 LB. Cloth Bag PURE CANE FLOUR Lb. Bag (9 HARVEST BLOSSOM CRYSTAL WHITE 20 REG. BARS LAUNDRY SOAP UNDER YOUR SPELL Burnham & Burnham Dry Goods $12.00 HORSE LEATHER COAT $0.00 $11.50 MOLESKIN SFEREF" COAT $8.50 BOYS' LEATHERETTE COAT $2.85 held that the state may prevent the county from collecting ita legal tax- es. Both decisions are said to be new and. It la Mid, If upheld In oth er ata tea, will affect large bodies of No. 303 Tins SHORTENING Purely Vegetable Lb. Can 39c 21 No. 1 Tall Tins PUREX 29c BLEACH ARIZ-SWEET SWANSDOWN $1.19 «1 Cream Style GRAPEFRUIT JUICE $1.49 $1.59 (RISCO Pkgs, 15c lee Double Thick Corn Flakes DEL MAIZE CORN U W 59c CESAR ROMERO POST TOASTIES in. — Package 25c Quart Bottle 12c CAKE FLOUR PEANUT BUTTER LB. SUGAR 11 JAR 25c POWDERED BEVERLY TOMATOES Large No. 2Y Cans 33c 29c Lbs. SILVERDALE — Extra Standard Quality SANDWICH SPREAD Quart AIRWAY COFFEE SYRUP 39c SLEEPY HOLLOW Rich in the Real Maple ARISTOCRAT — Solves the Luneh Question Lbs. 53c Lb. Box 29c 65c Lb. Tin Full Bodied — Rich Brasilian SNOWFLAKES or HONEYMAID GRAHAMS PEANUTS Fresh Roasted SCOTCH SOAP Large Pkgs 47c 25c Lbs. Granulated — Quick Dissolving K. C. BAKING POWDER OX. 50 Can 35c DOUBLE ACTING PEACHES LIBBY'S HALVES FANCY LEMONS SUNKIST — Fight Colds with Lemons. DOZEN 29c No. 212 Cans ... 55c
