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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1939
THE HERMISTON HERALD. HERMISTON. OREGON.
PAGE SIX
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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