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3G 1S24 THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1941. THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON. OREGON. FAOa UMATILLA NEWS son Merrill spent New Year’s eve in Mrs. John Nye of Hermiston visit-1 . ed Thursday at the home of her p ar-' M illiners Digging Into Pendleton with friends. Mrs. Annie Edwards returned home ents, Mr. and Mrs. John Mustard. ‘Seems to me there’s a real spirit o f helpful Cause fo r Hatlesa Trend By Mr*. Glenn Ootrono New Year’s after spending Christmas Harriet Ford returned to her dut Do you always wear a hat on the in Portland with friends. ies as teacher at Hillsboro after ness in the people behind this telephone.” Mr. and Mrs. Fred Knudson re spending the holidays with her moth street? The members of the Pocahontas It you don’t, you’re part of the hat and Redmen lodge and their families turned last week for Portland where er, Mrs. Jennie Blakely. Mrs. George Copper and infant son less trend, and the cause of sleep enjoyed a pot luck supper and watch they spent Christmas with friends. party at the Masonic hall New Year’s Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Johnson and returned home Friday from La- less nights for milliners. This trend eve. children were guests at a New Year’s Grande. Mr. Copper motored after has cut into millinery sales. In the New York area, where 70 per cent Mrs. Hugh Van Schoiack is in The dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. them. Mrs. Jack Kester returned to her of the women’s hats are manufac Dalles with her sister, Mrs. Nora Mac Graybeal, in honor of Mrs. John Cramer, who is recovering from an son’s birthday. Several friends called home last week after a month’s visit tured, milliners say 750,000 fewer hatswere sold from January through in the evening and cards and Chinese with her parents in Medford. appendicitis operation. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Brown have April than in the same period last Eugene Hiatt, Charles Kik and checkers were enjoyed. Guests were Delbert Van Schoiack returned to Mr. and Mrs. Gus Fransolous, Mr. moved from the Connell house on the year. They’re taking steps. The Mil their studies at O. S. C. last week. and Mrs. Harry Grammar and Mr. highway to the Connell house on Main street. linery Stabilization committee, to Qeorge Peterson returned to hie and Mrs. Joe Stockard. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Kendler, who home in Timber, Oregon, after spend Betty McKenzie and Katrina Pot which most of them belong, has set ing some time at the Hugh Van Scho have spent since Thursday in Nyssa ter, nurses in the Pendleton hospital, up a bureau to find the cause of the Idaho, with her relatives, returned spent Saturday visiting at the E. Me hatless trend and to combat it. iack home. • Mrs. “Grandma” McMartin left Sunday and spent a few hours visit Kenzie home. Why don’t you wear a hat when Saturday for a visit with relatives in ing his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George M rs. Jeff Stephens and Alva, who you should, they’d like to know? Is Richland and Spokane for a month. Kendler, before going on to their were to arrive home Saturday from it because a hat would spoil your Mr. and Mrs. James Byrnes and home in Mason City. Arizona where they have been visit front curls? Because hats are un daughter Joan spent New Year’s day Mrs. Joe Springer was host to the ing since before Christmas, was un Does the back elastic in Pendleton. bridge club at her home Friday af able to make the trip because of the comfortable? bind? The thing won’t stay on in Mr. and Mrs. Gene McFarland and ternoon. illness of Alva. the wind? Or are most hats too Margie Mustard returned last E. A. McMilliai of Rieth was a vis hard to wear? Unbecoming? Too Tuesday night from a couple of days itor here Sunday. full of flowers? Too silly? visit with her sister and family, Mr. Jane Jackson and Peggy Smith of The milliners are doing something • P. A . and Mrs. A1 Lavendar in Longview. Hermiston were visitors here Sunday about every one of these queries. Miss Mustard has started to work as afternoon. •V E L V E T Also they’ve enlisted the support of secretary in the Gurdane Garage. • HALF & HALF movie producers and college boys. Mrs. Hanson returned Wednesday They say the movie people promise from a week’s visit in Portland with THOMPSON'S DRUG her to make film stars wear hats more son. often. College boys are writing pro By Mrs. Bernice Wattenburger hat editorials in campus newspa A trained army o f telephone men and women are ready pers, saying, “Men don’t like hat less women. We are starting a girl- at all times to serve you skillfully, courteously. Mr. and Mrs. Marian Finch and cott against girls who boycott hats.” family, and Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Nobody knows how the hatless M ay we help you today to reach someone quickly Ayers and daughter, and Mr. and trend started. But the college girl Mrs. E. B. Wattenburger and family is a prime who is far away ? offender. When she does were dinner guests Saturday evening at Pilot Rock with Mr. and Mrs. Bert wear a hat, she chooses inexpensive T H E P A C IF IC T E L E P H O N E A N D T E L E G R A P H C O M PA NY Barnes. The occasion was in honor little stuck-on-the-back-of-the-head of Mrs. Barnes’ birthday, and the numbers, calots or beanies, or, for dressup, Juliet caps. evening was spent in playing cards. as dinner guests Sunday Mr. and Miss Patty Finch is recovering TABLE Mrs. George Strohm and Mr. and from the flu. School started Monday Mrs. A. H. Cable and daughter Dor 3 - L IT E F LO O R L A M P with full attendance. Miss Marie L a w of Averages Tells STUDY LAM P By A/rs. Rose Hedrick een. Klages returned from her home at Throws plenty of soft, glareless light P ro te cts g r o w in g eyes Odds of Inheriting W e a lth Dinner guests at the Christley Joseph. Mrs. Kingo and Mrs. Stra- so that you can relax and read in (Continued from page 1) against strain, makes home home Sunday were Miss Marian Cas- What are your chances of inherit ver spent the vacation in Portland. comfort. Bronze or ivory and gold work easier. Bronze or sil Harold Wilkins made a business ing a fortune? of finding a pearl in a few days visit at .>e home of his ady and Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Seeley finish. Attractive parchment shade. ver finish, complete with trip to UUkiah Sunday. an oyster? of making a hole in one? daughter, Mrs. Lloyd Bucholz in of Stanfield. Mrs. H. M. Sommerer 100-200-300 iO q i: Portland. parchment shade, translu was an afternoon guest. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Rice and or of having triplets? watt bulb............................... Wayne Coe of Portland is here on cent bowl, and $445 Mr. and Mrs. R. E. McGreer left Mr. and Mrs. Howard Strohm of Regardless of who you are, where 100-watt bulb ** Monday for Redmond and a trip on you live, or how humdrum your life a business trip. Pendleton were recent visitors at the Miss Virginia Gabriel spent last to California. George Strohm home. M e d a w n ...S O c p e r may seem, Dame Fortune may be m o n th fe e 4 m o n th s Mrs. Dunn of Seattle is staying all set right now to spring a sur week in Portland, returning to her Mrs. Duane Lathrop has been ex home here last Saturday. with her son Bobby Groundvold while prise on you. a siege of the flu but is Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Rice and daugh periencing the McGreers are gone. If you are 25, single and employed, ter returned Monday night from a two much better, is is reported. August, Ina and Doris Rauch Lucile Melton’s birthday was chances are 95 out of 100 you weeks visit with many relatives at called Saturday at the E. B. Watten the Christmas evening and she went to will marry before you are 36. It is Tacoma. burger home. a 51 to 50 chance that you will have The Stanfield library iss pleased to Pendleton to celebrate it with her a boy rather than a girl; one chance announce their circulation of books grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A1 Moody in 87 of getting twins and one chance and magazines totaled 6,059 which and to spend her Christmas vacation in 7,569 of getting triplets. is an increase in adult reading of there. y o u CAN GF.T Carl Hammer was here last week If you are a golfer, there is one 570 above last year’s report but a de chance in 7,267 that you will make crease in children’s reading of 413 for a short visit with his family. A LO N G WITHOUT Mrs. Claude L. Upham left for a hole in one; if you are a bridge pieces. The question most often ans ELECTRICITY player, you may pick up a hand of wered was, “What is a good book for Chicago at 2 a. m. Sunday morning 13 cards, all in one suit—the chances me to read?” Of almost equal impor after receiving a telegram that her A N D W ITHO UT Charles Hendricks, had PACIFIC POWER are one in 635,013,559,600 times. You tance to some was the question, “Any brother, passed away suddenly at his home ADVERTISING— have one chance in 336,000 of rolling new western?” The Life magazine there. & LIGHT COMPANY a perfect bowling score. One per had the largest circulation. , BUT WHY TRY? Mr. and Mrs. Tom Moore and Miss Elvin McGarin and family arrived son in every 1,782 inherits a for Nellie visited Mr. and Mrs. Monday evening from Grand Island, tune, so don’t be too sure it won’t Christian in Baker over the week Neb. Mr. McGarin is a daughter of be you. end. Mrs. Moore was greeted there Mrs. J. B. Bradshaw. If all this sounds pretty fanciful by a new grandson, named Melvin C laude Wilcox le ft T uesday m orn- to you, it's not any more so than Leroy Christian. 1 ing for the B oeing a irp la n e p la n t the multiplication table. The law of George McDermott of Portland near Seattle. He received a telegram probabilities is basically very sim visited his father here Tuesday. call Monday evening to report for ple. The one thing wrong about it Carl Wood, student at Pendleton work. Mr. Wilcox had attended the is that nobody—no scientist, or aviation classes, has been ill for a airplane school at Pendleton and had mathematician, or fortune teller can few days, threatened with pneumo- finished a preparatory course, Miss Ann Sommerer left for O.S.C. tell us where or when the probable nia. Mrs. M. Williams, aged 84, who J N< w Year’s day. events will actually occur. also has been ill for several weeks, is 1 The Christinas operetta prepared improving. by Columbia students and postponed Joe H. Meyers and M. E. J from before the holidays, was pre- Price of Advancement Since unemployment is often- the Knickerbocker will attend the region-I sented Friday evening with a large al Grange conference at Baker this attendance of parents and friends of price which society pays for tech week. the school. The program is report- nological advancement, society Miss Kathleen Moore, the new sev- ed to have been well rendered with should meet the cost of caring for enth grade teacher, will be at home excellent costuming, victims of technology, asserts Dr. of Mrs. Don Childs. — Isador Lubin, U. S. commissioner Arlie Ann Parry, bride of Henry of labor statistics. He points out Rueber on December 25, will be hon that industry pays compensation to ored with a shower at the Presbyter workers disabled by industrial in ian church January 10. juries. But “ no provision is made for the skilled worker . . . who sud denly finds himself ’disabled’ be East tääb cause a new machine has made it By Mrs. Baxter Hutchison impossible for him to earn full wages at his former employment.” The cost should not be put on the (Continued from Page 1) individual employer, Lubin said, be Part of the front porch is being cause “he too may be the victim glassed in and a bedroom enlarged. of changes in technology.” He Calsomining will also be done. Frank points out that some employers have Null is doing the work. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Mikesell had assumed partial responsibility for such job losses through payment of dismissal wages. 10= May we help you? PINE CITY NEWS 2 BEAUTIFUU.AMP BARGMNS l ZZ — STANFIELD NEWS T COLUMBIA NEWS LOW RAIL FARES SMART MONEY WONDER WHY THIS ROOM LOOKS MESSY?* Q • Have you become so accustomed to ture as often as you like . . . and still trailing extension cords that you don’t be able to plug in a lamp or radio by realize how ugly they look . . . how any chair . . . without stringing exten unsafe they are. . . and how they waste sion cords or overcrowding sockets? electricity that has passed through The modern home has convenience your meter? outlets not more than six feet apart. Why not check up right now? Do you have enough convenience outlets so that you can rearrange the furni- IN STALL ENOUGH OUTLETS ...f o r convenience, safety, economy and beauty. T h e cost now is small! SEE YOUR ELECTRICAL CONTRACTS* J T hit adterlitem en l it publiihed in the in teretit of your greater enjoyment of the (heap electricity made available by P A C IF IC P O W E R A L IG H T C O M P A N Y One Building Saved In the War of 1812 the British burned all public buildings in Wash ington but one. When the British burned the Capitol, the White House and other public buildings in Wash ington, they did a systematic job of it, sending squads of soldiers to each building with orders to burn it. How ever, when a detail of troops under an officer marched up to the struc ture housing the patent office with I its thousands of nondescript mod els, Dr. William Thornton, the first commissioner of patents, appealed to the officer in charge to spare the building lest the British go down in ' history as the world’s worst bar barians. Impressed by Dr. Thorn ton’s appeal, the officer marched his detail off without firing the patent office. Girls Bareheaded Until Married In Hungary, girls go bareheaded until they are married, and from that day on, they are never again seen with uncovered heads, accord ing to Averil Mackenzie-Grieve, in the Hungarian Quarterly, published by the Columbia University Press. There is a strange popular belief in that country, which attributes a secret power to a woman’s hair to cast an evil spell on herself and on her surroundings. Headgear is the most important indication of a wom an's status, with women in one Hun garian district wearing eight differ ent hood* from the day of their wed ding, onwards, each with its partic ular significance. KNOWS WHERE TO /n GO AFTER \ Pc4D /N G W THIS A /rrvvSP A P FA muunomnHi F O R T I. A N D . O R I G O N DELICIOUS LOW COST MEALS B reakfast . . . Luncheon . . . D in ner . . . . . 2 5 c e n t* 3 0 cento 3 5 cents TOTAL PER DAY 9 0 cents served to those traveling by Coach and Pullman-Touriot cars on T h e P o r t la n d R o s e Daily from Portland 9 .3 3 p m. 2 O ther fam ous trains from P o rtlan d P a c if ic L im it e d d a ily 8 a m S tre a m « l in e r - 3 aaihnqa m onthly on 1, 7. 13, 19, 2 3 . P o r t e r S e r v ic e e n d F r e e P / f / o w i in C e e c h e * o n a ll Train» A /a tio n a l l y 7am oul • • • • • Coaranient location Colto* Shop Bu u n Tarare OtaMR ta d Banquet Roosia F osmso I t Fisa Food Madam Appointment« • luiurwu« OutoM* Rooms • Barato Oppotit* CN JO Y W IH T IR IP O R U -1 [ Visit Sun Volley, Idaho, where winter oporto, b rillian t sun- sh in * and s p le n d id accom modationo await you. F a r a ll tr a r a t in fo rm a tio n F. tnyulra a t— C / W 0D G H T E R P h on e 2531 UNION PACIFIC R A11 R 0 A 0 I I I
