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THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON. OREGON.
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Venice, Visited by Black
Plague, M ade Sacred Vows
PAYS!
Venice, during the Middle ages,
was much exposed to the ravages
of the black plague, owing to its
commercial relationships w ith the
crowded and pestilence-stricken
towns of the Levant. Then, disease
was regarded as a divine visitation
and punishment; men met the dis
aster by vows and built churches
to some influential saint.
As the result of this practice, the
Adriatic coast is dotted w ith such
churches, recalls a w rite r in the Los
Angeles Times.
The famous Church of the Salute
celebrates the plague which came
to the city in 1630. One year after
Quebec was taken by the English
and while Winthrop was founding
the city of Boston, Venice was just
ending its light w ith the black plague
which first invaded the city in 1575.
The people vowed that if God would
deliver the city the church would be
built and it later witnessed the end
of the plague and the fulfillm ent of
the vow.
The church was designed in the
Palladian style by Longhena, a pu
pil of Palladio, and is not ungraceful
in its proportions.
Almost every object of a rt that it
contains bears reference to the pes
tilence. Everywhere are pictures,
some showing Venice at the feet of
Our Lady imploring protection, oth
ers showing angels dispatching the
dark demons of disease.
To buy cooperatively. Cooperatives are set up and operated by
tbe people themselvee. Free yourself from the profit system
which operates for the benefit of the few at the expense of the
great m ajority of us.
FLOUR
BIG Y SPECIAL - 49 lb. bag
A high patent blended hard w heat flour. Gives fine
bread and all baking.
$1.39
results
for
Jell-o Ice Cream P ow d er 9c
Waxed Paper
COFFEE
BIO VALUE!
Fresh Roasted
Fresh Ground
lb.
fa d e s
' 15c
BIG can
20c
Reliance Fancy
15*
I
BRANS Cut Stringless - No. 2 cans For S$C
1000 Sheet T issue 4 Rolls
FRESH HAMBURGER Lb.
HERMISTON
MERCANTILE
We’re Here
COOPERATIVE PHONE
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GARDEN CLUB
CHATS
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Would you like to s ta rt an a rg u
m ent am ong your friends? Tell
them th a t th e fam ily name of the
good oldfashioned lilac is SYRINGA,
and th a t the name of the shrub we
knew as children as syringa is real
ly PHILADELPHUS. You will s ta rt
som ething th a t will not only create
surprise but bring out all the obsti
nacy of which an old tim er is capa
ble. Catalogues and W ebster’s Un
abridged are of no avail, and your
party of the second p art may have
no proof whatsoever, but w ith his
last feeble gasp he’ll sw ear you and
the botanists are wrong.
seat. It is a beautiful display and
w orthy of a stop for closer inspec
tion. Ju st before reaching th e rock
garden you will note a clim bing
rose over a garage doorway a t the
home of one of the hospital doctors.
Many garden magazines show ways
of beautifying a garage and it is a
w orthy cause.
Surely Portland can not excel the
roses grown in H erm iston in any
way except in numbers. Rose g a r
dens seen this week th a t seemingly
prove this are the Thos. F raser and
Thos. Campbell homes. Also a t the
Campbell house is a w isteria in
bloom. A linden tree in Mrs. Alice
Stone’s yard is one of the most beau
tiful trees on the project. It is a
large, shapely tree and will be in
full bloom w ithin the next few days,
a sight well w orth seeing.
The rock garden at the sta te hos
pital, en terin g Pendleton, is a t
Be on the watch d u rin g the sum
trac tin g a g reat deal of attention
from m otorists going to the county mer for containers for your blooms
for the fall flower show. B etter
Homes and Gardens have the follow
ing to say: “ Containers th a t are not
tran sp aren t usually give b etter ef
fect if they are darker th an the
flowers they contain. This will not
hold tru e for tran sp aren t ones where
to remember about
the stems form p art of the picture.
Gray, gray-green and medium brown
are generally the most satisfactory
colors for flower containers. The
container may repeat the color of
| A 100% petroleum fuel— ideal
the flower or foliage w ith almost
for furnace, fireplace or stove.
invariable success.”
(No special equipment needed)
5 Points
Gasco Briquets
2 H ighest
heat content
solid fuel.
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of any
No banking or shaking.
fire all day or night.
Hold
No ashes or clinkers to carry
out.
J One
ton of Gasco Briquets is
equal to two cords of the best
grade first-grow th cord wood.
Gasco B riquets cost less per
season th an the best grade b it
uminous coal.
Inland
C ooperative
Inquire
Herald Office
When you stake your tall plants,
make the first tie around th e stake
itself, then around the plant, loose
ly. This will prevent the strin g from
slipping and hold the p lan t more
gracefully.
Next meeting, Ju n e 5th. Besides
the report of the delegates we ex
pect to hear details of a zinnia con
test.
COOKINGCLUB
COMPLETES WORK
Many Soldiers Lost When
‘Sultana’s’ Boiler Burst
Quick’s “ Mississippi Steamboat-
in ’ ’ ’ gives an account of the disas
ter to the steamboat Sultana on
A p ril 27, 1865. This boat, b uilt in
Cincinnati in 1863, had been com
mandeered by the federal authori
ties. She left New Orleans on A p ril
21 and arrived at Vicksburg three
days later, to take on board, 1,965
Union soldiers and 35 federal of
ficers from the Confederate prisons
at Andersonville, Macon and Caha-
ba; in addition she carried two com
panies of infantry, bringing her pas
senger load up to 2,200 or more.
Most of these soldiers were from
Tennessee and Kentucky; some
were from Indiana, Michigan, Ohio,
Wisconsin, Illinois, Nebraska, Kan
sas and West Virginia. The boat
waas greatly overcrowded.
On
A p ril 26 she lay at Memphis, unload
ing sugar. Next day as she was
passing a group of islands, called
Paddy’s Hen and Chickens, one of
her four boilers burst and she
caught fire. About 1,700 men lost
their lives, as the only way to reach
safety was by swimming or holding
on to floating wreckage.
The wreck drifted down the river
and finally sank. The boilers had
been reported to be in bad condition,
but orders were to patch them up as
best they could.
Get ‘Nose Fatigue’
Women sometimes complain that
the perfume they bought is inferior
because it has "lost its strength.”
It isn’t as sharply fragrant as it was
when they first bought it. They
blame the manufacturer. They’re
wrong. No one’s to blame but na
ture. I t ’s a case of nose fatigue.
Your nose gets too accustomed to a
certain scent, and your sense of
smell doesn’t react as sharply as it
did at first. The same thing hap
pens in the case of unpleasant odors.
A man working in an oil refinery
after awhile gets so used to the odor
that he is unconscious of it. This
“ nose fatigue” is a headache to
the chemist-artist who evolves per
fumes, for his sense of smell must
be kept keen. When it isn’t he blun
ders. When that happens, the only
thing to do is knock off work for a
few days, or even weeks.
Uses of Non-Ferrous Metals
Seven of the twelve principal non-
lerrous metals used in steel are
derived chiefly from foreign coun
tries according to the American Iron
and Steel institute. The three prin
cipal uses of non-ferrous metals in
the manufacture of steel are: (1)
to assist in the chemical process of
steel m anufacturing; (2) to give
special properties to alloy steels,
and (3) to serve as a corrosion-
resistant coating. The principal non-
ferrous metals used are aluminum,
chromium, cobalt, copper, lead,
manganese, molybdenum, nickel^
tin, tungsten, vanadium, and zinc.
Fourteen of tne 17 members of
the Happy Hour Cooking club of
U m atilla have completed th e ir work
for this year. The club has been ac
tive since it was organized last fall
and has completed several projects.
These include: two parties for small
children about town, two food sales,
donation of five dollars for the com
m unity kitchen, kitchen shower,
helped with two programs at Garden
club parties and a program present
ed at a Garden club meeting.
Three members will atten d sum
mer school at Corvallis June 5 to 16.
Canada’s Only Walled City
Members are planning to meet at
High up on Cape Diamond, over
various times throughout the sum looking the St. Lawrence seaway,
mer for beach and swimm ing p ar stand the time mellowed ramparts
of Canada’s only walled city. Tun
ties.
nels, secret passages and walls 20
feet thick and 30 feet high testify to
the early struggles of kings for the
city that cradled the civilization of
North America. The citadel, main
link in these strongholds, is entered
by a narrow roadway just inside the
walls near the St. Louis gate. In
side the grim walls is a series of 25
buildings and an expanse of 40 roll
ing acres.
How Alloys Are Produced
Alloys are produced by combining
two or more metals, usually by
melting them together. The combi
nation of different metals may be
made to increase specific chemical
or mechanical properties or to cre
ate properties not possessed by any
of the constituents. Steel is an alloy
of iron and carbon. Copper and
zinc are alloyed to make brass.
Nickel silver is a combination of
copper, nickal, and zinc, and bronze
Is an alloy of copper, zjnc. and tin.
RETAIL M ILK TESTS
SATISFACTORY
Salem— Recent bacterial testa of
reta il milk for sale to consumers in
U m atilla county reveal th a t the m ilk
supply, for the most part, was pro
duced under satisfactory sa n ita ry
conditions, the sta te departm ent of
ag ricu ltu re has announced.
Laboratory tests of 15 samples col
lected in the county show th a t 11
samples were well w ithin the legal
lim its for bacterial count, aays A.
W. Metzger, chief of th e d ep a rt
m ent’s foods and dairies division.
The rem aining four sample« con
tained too m any b acteria to come
w ithin the sta te requirem ents and
were therefore illegal.
Under sta te law, pasteurized or
raw “grade A” m ilk m ust not con
tain more th an a 30,000 bacterial
THURSDAY. JUNE 1, 1939.
count per cubic centim eter. Other
raw milk sold a t reta il is required
to keep w ithin a somewhat higher
lim it.
"For the most p art, dairym en in
the county are supplying consumers
w ith a wholesome, san itary pro
du ct,” Metzger said th is week.
“T here is room for improvement in
some cases, however, and the sta te
d ep artm en t of ag ric u ltu re is an x i
ous to help th e tn tu stry where pos
sible to m aintain consistently high
q u ality .”
The milk supplied by dairies in
Freew ater, M ilton, W eston, A thena,
Adams, Helix, Echo, S tanfield, H er
miston and W alla W alla, W ashing
ton, was sampled by M. J, Belton,
departm ent d istrict representative
at Pendleton, a week ago last Tues
day. It was im m ediately placed in
refrig eratio n and shipped to th e de
p artm en t’s bacteriology laboratory
a t Salem where the tests were made.
“The b acterial counts of milk
show th e relative sa n ita ry condi
tions in the p la n t,” Belton says. "A
certain num ber of bacteria Is nor
mal in all milk, and some bacteria
are even good. Most b acteria found
in milk are harmless. W hen the
bacterial count is high, however, it
indicates th a t the milk has been
handled under Insanitary conditions
and is therefore more likely to con
tain harm ful organism s.”
CALL FOR WARRANTS.
School D istrict 6, U m atilla, Ore
gon, hereby calls all w arran ts be
tween No. 8636 to No. 8922 inclu
sive. In terest thereon ceases on
this date, T hursday, May 25.
K ath ry n Sherlock, Clerk.
(May 25-June 1)
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PRICES LIK E
MAY SOON BE
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Sensational Savings! Stock Up!
FLASH
H ere is the y ear's most sensational news in grocer
ies. Every item marked down to th e lim it to give your bud
get the g reatest saving on record. B ut you’ll have to hurry!
Such values cannot last long! Read over these trem endous
bargains and you’ll agree when we say “Prices L ike These
May Soon Be H isto ry !”
5 DAYS
June 2*7
R eal Roast P -N u t B u tte r 2“s- 25c
Made from Selected P eanuts
P alm o live T o ile t Soap
■»« 5c
For B etter Complections!
L ib b y ’s Tom ato Juice
»»™ 17c
DeLuxe H ealth Beverage - 46 oz.
L ib b y ’s Corned Beef
REG. 12 OZ. TIN
For Quick Lunches
Ivory S o a p
Large Bar
W h e a tie s
P er Pkg.
8c
10c
2 Lb*- 1 9 c
C lab b er Girl
5 Lbs. 2 5 c
B row n S u gar
LB. 6 9 c
L ip ton ’s T e a
* l & 39c
No. 2 Tin 1 0 c
L ib b y’s C orn
49c
S p ry S h orten in g
10c
P araw ax
Silk T issu e
G rape Fruit J u ice
R ea d y to E at Shrim p
H ig h w a y P ea c h e s
K aro S yru p
BROOKDALE
Salm on
POPULAR DESSERT
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Assorted Flavors
Pkgs.....................
CRACKERS
Lb. Pkg
L ig h t or Dark
K err R eg. Lids
Inland V a lle y P ea s
AIRWAY
Coffee
3
E n glish W a ln u ts
2
Lbs.
35c
E d w ard s C o ffe e
2
Lbs.
45c
2 lbs. 25c
C ascad e S alad D ressin g
H a rv est B lossom Flour
M axim u m P a n ca k e Flour
L ib b y’s P in ea p p le T id b its
E l C a m p o T u n a F la k es
F ra n co -A m erica n S p a g h etti
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