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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (July 27, 1939)
COOPERATION— Contributes more to hum an welfare— serves hum an needs better. The old private profit system is rapidly becoming obsolete in the modern economies of better living. A new Balad Dressing LEMON WHIP SHRIMP TOMATO JUICE Q uart 5 oz. can Fancy BACON 20^ BIG VALUE COFFEE Medium W eight Lb. A B argain CRACKERS 2 lt5- tx>x 3 2 Lb. Can COCOA 4 Lb. Pkg. PU R E L A R D Can FLASH DOG FOOD Sc 15* Fresh HERM ISTON M ER CANTILE PHONE We’re Here C O O PE R A TIV E 401 to Serve! <• <♦ ❖ ••• •> ••• * ♦ ••• •»• 4* GARDEN CLUB CHATS * * A broadcast from Loudon the eith er day contained the following gem, delivered in a rich Cockney accent by a singer as he started his song: ‘‘If you have aphis on the plants, han g them on the aerial now, for I am about to poison the ether.” There seems to be a subject for research here! ❖ ❖ ❖ In a few places about town resi dents have planted the corners of th e ir parking and the resu ltan t bloom is a pleasure to the passer-by. It Is so obviously a gesture of good fellow ship to the world a t large, th a t it adds to yard p lan tin g out of all proportion to th e labor involved. ‘ 5 Points to remember about fiasco Briquets A 100% petroleum fuel— Ideal for furnace, fireplace or stove. (No special equipm ent needed) H ighest h eat content of any solid fuel. No banking or shaking. Hold fire all day or night. No ashes or clinkers to carry out. One ton of Gasco B riquets is equal to two cords of th e best grade first-grow th cord wood. Gasco B riquets cost less per season than the best grade b it um inous coal. (a) Gasco Briquets are an all carbon fuel. (b) They contain practically no ash (about ’ 4 of 1% ). In lan d C ooperative The Garden Club encyclopedia has a t last arrived and is in the lib rary for all who wish to take advantage of the g reat wisdom packed w ithin its covers. It seems to cover every possible subject, and not the least of its joys is th a t it gives the correct pronunciation of all term s th e am a te u r gardener w ishes to use but in variably stum bles over. F or this alone we welcome itjs presence in our midst. com fortable warm afternoon. Mrs. F. B. Belt and Mrs. Gerald White were at the tea table from three to four o’clock, and Mrs. W. L. Hamm and Mrs. F ran k Bilderback presid ed d u rin g the following hour. ❖ ❖ The beautiful apricot violas ex h i bited by Mrs. J. R. C henault a t the spring flower show are still bloom ing, proving the advisability of p lan tin g violas in th is section. Mrs. C henault also has an extenlve p la n t ing of tuberous begonias, both in flower beds and window boxes. These beautiful flowers are grown to some ex ten t by other H erm iston g ard en ers, Mrs. W. J. K ennings and Mrs. F rank Bilderback, am ong those dis playing these rich blooms. Rose of Sharon, or shrub A lthea, is in bloom on the project now in varying col ors. This shrub is most satisfactory, having ap parently no insect enemies, req u irin g no p ru n in g and being cov ered from now u n til late fall w ith flowers th a t are fine in the garden or bouquet. ❖ ❖ ❖ j £-ibtervanean A partm ent* U n d erlie O ld E dinburgh “Look beneath the surface” is an old word to the wise, and it seems to apply to travel, too. At any rate, the traveler who fails to look be neath the surface of Edinburgh will miss half the fascination of this an cient city, declares an authority on Old World scenery. Beneath the pavements and tall buildings of the modern Edinburgh an historic underworld is buried. Remnants of Roman roads, buried lakes and rivers and a honeycomb of subterranean apartments built centuries ago lie hidden under the city's surface. Recurrent legend also tells a mysterious tale of an underground passage which runs be neath the famous Royal Mile and connects the castle with Holyrood palace. Fragments of old Roman pave ments have been unearthed from time to time. One stretch was ex cavated in 1845-48, when Trinity hos pital and church were demolished to make way for Waverly station. Another had earlier been unearthed along the North Back of the Can- ongate, and yet a third may be found near Portobello. The streams which run an underground course beneath the city are the Broughton Burn and River Tumble. Paved over in 1850, Broughton Burn ran through Broughton to the head of the Kirkgate at Leith. The Tumble’s course lay between St. Cuthbert’s church and King’s park. A ctivities "com ing up” under Garden club auspices are as follows: a perform ance at th e high school on A ugust 2 by tihe Pendleton L ittle T heatre group of Oscar W ilde’s “The Im portance of Being E arn est.” This will be presented by a group of Most astounding, how ever, a re the am ateurs in the county seat who are su b terran ean a p a rtm en ts. Built in banded together in th e atric al work the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and and should be well attended. Those E ighteenth centuries, they are p rac who received pleasure from hearin g tically inverted sk y scrap ers. The the Pendleton Men’s chorus, p resen t a p a rtm e n ts w ere constructed for o r ed by the Garden Club and Commer din ary living purposes only, and w ere equipped with the usual fur cial Club, should give th eir support nishings of living room s and bed to th is show. Admission charge will rooms. be 25c. ❖ ♦ Owing to inability of the club to obtain Mrs. Rousch for a ta lk and class, owing to h er previous com m it ments. an attem p t is being made to secure Mrs. D aniel H effner, an ac credited lectu rer of th e sta te feder ation, for A ugust 15. Notice of th e m eeting will be given la ter, as a r rangem ents w ill be made w ith s u r rounding cities to sponsor a num ber of talk s by th is well know n expert. ❖ ❖ ❖ At last the secretary has received and turned over to the lib ra ry a co py of th e B etter Homes and Gardens handbook. This little book has been recommended by all who have had it as co n tain in g the most in tlhe sm allest space of all the garden booklets. Ask to see th is book when you are in the library, and see how sim ply and fully the au th o r of this W hile members of th e garden club publication has fulfilled the needs of are bending every effort to m ake a the am ateu r gardener. fine Showing a t the. county fa ir in H erm iston, they are also m aking am ❖ ❖ ❖ bitious plans for th e ir own show, The Garden Club tea honoring the date of w hich is ten tativ ely set Mrs. Alice W agner was atten d ed by for September 8, th e location not members of th e club and other defin itely fixed as yet. It is planned friends of Mrs. W agner, who is leav to hold the show in th e afternoon, ing Hermiston soon. Punch and continuing in the evening w ith the wafers were served to guests on the addition of a card p arty w ith a nom lawn of the J. J. Gimble home, where inal charge ❖ ❖ ❖ shade trees and many flowers in se rt ed com fort Into an otherw ise un- N ext G arden Club date, Ju ly 31. T w o-D ollar B ills R ated A s U n lu ck y; N ot P opular The two-dollar bill is considered unlucky and for that reason is un popular. Such bills were first is sued as legal tender notes in 1862. Several theories have been ad vanced to explain the superstition regarding them. It is said that they are considered unlucky because they are often confused with dollar bills. For this reason, relates a writer in the Indianapolis News, many people tear off one corner of all two-dollar bills which come into their posses sion. A banker believes the supersti tion had its origin in the fact that counterfeiters often split the two- dollar bills in order to make two twenty-dollar bills out of one twenty and a two. It is also said that two dollars was usually the price for merly paid for a vote by corrupt pol iticians and that it was paid with a two-dollar bill. The possession of such a bill after election was fa cetiously said to be prima facie evi dence that one had sold his vote. Gamblers especially regard the two-dollar bill as unlucky. In 1925 the government made an unsuccessful attempt to popularize the two-dollar bill by inserting one of them in each pay envelope given to federal employees. Several news papers offered to aid in the cam paign by giving prizes for two-dollar bills containing certain serial num bers. The post office department, however, pronounced this practice a lottery and therefore a violation of postal laws. Quarterly Conference Held Tuesday T he first q u arterly conference of HELD AT COLUMBIA PARK th e M ethodist church was held last Tuesday evening with Dr. S. W. H all SUNDAY WITH LARGE CROWD presiding. Several m atters of change resu ltin g from the recent union were (C ontinued from page 1) presented. Among these were the or at the head of the table for Mrs. new lay activ ities com m ittee and th e Conrad. The feast was ap p ro p riate change of name of the local church. ly ended w ith th e serv in g of ten Columbia Grange Has Picnic. gallons of ice cream. B ottles of so- A good atten d an ce of members of day pop were served d u rin g the th e Columbia grange was present m orning and afternoon. Sunday at a picnic held on th e Vern As soon as the elaborate picnic D unham lawn in the Columbia dis d in n er was over, the business meet tric t. Only one business m eeting is ing and an n u a l election of officers held each m onth w hilq th e oth er was held. T he follow ing are the m eeting is In th e form of a picnic. officers for next year: president, Or- nian Fox of F reew ater, vice-presi By ro tary d rilling, a hole In Tex dent, Grace K inney of R ichland, W n.; secretary -treasu rer, Gloria as was dug 12,260 feet deep. Shaver of H erm iston; Sports, H arry Simpson of P o rtlan d ; T able a rra n g e ments, Alice Hammer, H erm iston; R efreshm ents, Glen F o llett, W alla W alla; E n tertain m en t, B ertha H am mer, H erm iston; H istorians, Dorothy Simpson, P o rtland, and Bessie H am mer, Salem; Ice cream, A rth u r W l- nan, Umapine. Follow ing the business m eeting, as a gesture of love and affection for th e ir m other, the twelve child ren presented Mrs. Conrad w ith a lovely purse. Then all th e grand- and g reat-g ran d ch ild ren m arched by and am ply filled the purse w ith presents. N ext year th e an n u al re-union will be held at M ilton, Oregon. Any members of th e original Jefferson Conrad clan who are not registered, BERT QUICK are asked to get in touch w ith the ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR secretary, Georgia Shaver of H erm is MOTOR SERVICE ton. Oregon. All persons registered Phone 22-R H erm iston will be notified of the d ate of next ANNUAL CONRAD REUNION y ear’s m eeting. SAFEWAY Your M o n e y -S a v in g Cash Grocer YOU’RE INVITEU TO SAVE JULY 28 to JULY 31 H erm iston D a iry H. L. PAYNE, Owner Phone 8 9 1 ................................Hermiston, Ore. The more leisurely a fish is, the longer he lives. Most sluggish of Michigan fishes is the sturgeon, known to live as long as 63 years, and believed often to live 100 years. The female sturgeon does not spawn until she is 20 to 25 years old, re lates a writer in the Detroit Free Press. Brook trout often do not live more than four years, although rec ords show them to live a decade. Rainbow and brown trout are be lieved to live somewhat longer than brook trout. Smelt is another short lived fish, with records showing only six years. Lake trout may live to be 20 years or mare. Large-mouth bass have about a 17-year life span. Small-mouth bass generally do not live as long as the large-mouth spe cies. Pike are believed to average slightly less than small-mouth bass. Rock bass are recorded at 13 years, bluegills at 11 and perch at 8 years. The age of fish is recorded by marks on their scales. Almost Forgotten Islands Among the most romantic islands in North America are the almost forgotten Magdalen islands, situat ed in the center of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and once owned by a ta- mous Boston family. These islands are the last stronghold of the true Acadian spirit which flowered in the Canadian Maritimes during the Eighteenth century. Many quaint customs are retained by the inhabi tants of these fertile, lonely isles, | and the old Acadian tongue is j spoken. Old Wedding Custom oi t lx iw o a c re Boy Scoot itm p «t the N ew Y o rk W orld'« Fair, to be u«ed by 1900 different Sconti and tender« iron* *11 «actions o f the U nited State« during the Fair wason The custom of tossing shoes at weddings may have started from ; several ancient practices. In early I days, one person gave a shoe to another to sym bolize transfer of pos session. Some authorities believe the practice dates back to the days of the savage, when the bridegroom seized his mate by force, and was pelted with m issiles as he carried her away. We w ant EVERYBODY to know about Safeway Values . . . so we’re in v itin g you to try I hem and see w hat YOU th in k ! This week end Shop at SAFEWAY and SAVE! E d w a r d ’s Coffee 2 45c Lb. 22c G uaranteed D ill Pickles Qt. J a r 17c Fancy Q uality 21c Lb. Bacon A rm our’s E xcellent Cure C & H Cane SUGAR (Limit 10 lbs.) 1« Lb«...... 49< Federal M IL K Sturgeon Lives Longest Boy Scouts Building World’s Fair Camp I THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1939 THE HERMISTON HERALD. HERMISTON. OREGON. PAGE SIX Top Quality Tall t i n ......... Read these low prices! DelMonte Grapefruit................ 3 - 300 tins 25 £ B & M Brown Beans or Bread.......... Large 1 5< Canterbury Black Tea, % lb. 2 9 c ........ Lb. 55< Ice Pak Crab M eat...................... No. i/2 tin 20< Snowdrift Shortening, 3 lbs. 54c .... 6 lbs. $1.07 P & G Laundry S o a p ............10 giant bars 39< Cream Cheese ......................................... Lb. 15< Supurb Soap Powder................2 lge. pkgs. 35< Armour’s Pure Lard ...........................4 lbs. 33< Piedmont Mayonnaise ...................... Quart 33 < Fly Ribbons.......................................... Doz. 19^ Del Monte Prunes........................ 1 lb. pkg. 1 5< Airway C offee.................... Lb. 14c - 3 lbs. 39^ W e’re Proud of our Produce Friday and Saturday Tom atoes Lb. 5c Ripe - Firm Lemons Doz. 19c Ju icy Sunkiat - large Lettuce Each 5c S eattle Melons Lb. 2Jc Local Grown Bananas Save Money Lb. 5c
