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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (April 15, 1943)
THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1943 ECHO NEWS ITEMS Du Mrt. w. H. Crary Final check-up on the sale of bonds and stamps at the war bond rally Sat urday evening showed purchase of 211:650 in bonds and approximately $250 in stamps to start the local sec ond war bond drive. Most of the bonds sold were of series E, including three »1000 bonds, three $500 and 42 $100 bonds, the remainder being $25 and $50 demnominations. Five hund red dollars of Series G bonds were or- dered. The rally entertainment. staged by local civic organizations with Mrs. Hawley Bean as chairman, presented excellent songs, readings and skits, including several numbers by soldiers from Pendleton Field. The Pendleton Field dance orchestra played after the program. Committees appointed by Mayor Ebert for intensive solici tation in the second bond drive are: THF HERMISTON HERALD HERMISTON OREGON Echo city: Marian George, chairman, Mrs. William Helmick, Mrs. Harold Frederick. Miss Gertrude Tichenor; Butter Creek district, Mrs. Sloan Thompson, chairman, Mrs. Gaylord Madison, Mrs. Neil Robertson and Mrs. Jesse Arnold; Meadows district, Mrs. Hawley Bean, chairman, Mrs. Frank Correa. Jr., Mrs. Fred An drews, Jr.. Miss Clara Correa: Wheat district, Mrs. Carl Weltzin, chairman, Mrs, Homer Coppinger, Mrs. Claude Meyers, Mrs. Ilene Rohde, Mrs. Joe Ramos. Jr. A Masonic supper and card party is to be held at the lodge room next Monday evening. Committee in charge is N. D. Bard, Hawley J. Bean and A. C. Ebert. i Echo Masonic lodge conferred a Master Mason degree at the meeting Tuesday evening and on Thursday evening will put on the same degree for another candidate. Refreshments will be served after the degree work Thursday. Visiting Masons are in vited. Residents who contemplate using city water for irrigating Victory gar dens this summer will have to arrange with the water superintendent and the water committee for a monthly charge for such service. The amount charged will be based on the size of the garden and must be paid monthly in advance. This action was taken by the city council at the meeting Wednesday. Hours for use of water for sprinkling lawns or on gardens have been set from 6:00 to 9:00 a.m. and from 5:00 to 8:00 p. m. Water may not be used for this purpose at any other time, day or night. C. H. Esselstyn, J. Frank Spinning and Steve Spike have been named by the council as members of a budget committee to assist in preparing the city budget for the fiscal year start ing July 1. Election of officers for the ensuing we . — " rt. g $ , ’ wye* -t , • I — tea rit " °€ UNION PACIFIC ■ I * o sr KEEP EA RMUm" THE RAILROADS ARE THE BACKBONE OF OFFENSE 1- $ : • MNest-o/Net-=ARettow/Ne PAGE FIVE year for Echo Garden club was held at a regular meeting and pot luck dinner at the home of Mrs. C. H. Es selstyn Wednesday evening. Officers elected are Mrs. W. J. Helmick, presi- Has dent; Mrs. Fred Andrews Jr., vice president; Mrs. Carl Weltzin, secre tary, and Mrs. Harold Liesegang, treasurer. Miss Emma Geiszler and Mrs. Nona McFaul were appointed to meet with a city council committee to make plans for the spring clean-up day in the city. Ray Tolar had an agreeable sur prise Monday when his brother. Capi. J. M. Tolar of North Carolina arrived for a two day visit. Capt. Tolar is overseer of a large prison farm in passed away. He returned Monday. that state and stopped off here while Mrs. Bertha Cherry returned home on a business trip to Colville, Wash. Saturday from California where she Mrs. Fred Andrews Jr. and Miss By Mrs. Glenn Ostrom had spent most of the winter with her Emma Geiszler were elected delegates to the State Rebekah convention in Funeral services were held at the sister. Mr. and Mrs. Don McBride and Portland at the local lodge meeting Masonic hall March the 30th for J. Tuesday. Alternates named are Mrs. W. Duncan, who passed away at his sons. Darrell and Wayne, motored to Myrtle Oliver and Mrs. Margaret home March 27. Mr. Duncan, an old The Dalles Monday where they took Jordan. pioneer of Umatilla county and city, the baby for medical attention. Mrs. Glenn O’Neil and Mrs. John O’ Charles Griffin, son of Mr. and was born at Waitford, Ontario, Can., Mrs. Jack Griffin, former Echo resi November 26, 1853. He came from Gorman »pent Monday in Pendleton. Mr. and Mrs. G us Fransolus have dents, is home from the south seas on Canada and settled in the state of a furlough. Charles has seen six Washington in 1884. Moved to Uma moved into one of the Connell houses years of naval service in China and tilla, Ore., in 1886 with his wife and on third street. The M. M. Ellers are other oriental waters and was on the family, and has been a resident since moving into the Boulware house va Arizona which was lost at Pearl Har that time. The Duncans erected the cated by the Fransolus. Mr. and Mrs. Dean Newgard spent bor. He is chief storekeeper on a old Duncan hotel in 1904 which he Sunday in Pasco visiting friends. navy warship. managed until he retired a few years Albert Vieg, who was taken to the Because of the increasing demand ago. He is survived by his only for service on the city water system daughter. Mrs. Glaydce Baymiller of Pendleton hospital Thursday, was the city council has decided to require Umatilla. He was a member of Lodge able to return home Mondav. Although payment of the annual maintenance A. F. & A. M. No. 136 Umatilla. Mr. he is unable to go to work yet, he is charge on cemetery lots before water Duncan’s body was sent to Portland much improved. Mrs. Vieg spent the week end in Pendleton with him. will be used on the lawns. The lots he was buried beside his wife The Pocahontas and Redmen lodge on which payments are, delinquent where who passed away several years before are making plans for a Spring Festi will be given care or watering by the at the Riverview cemetery. val dance May 1st. sexton. Payments may be made at Funeral services were held Wednes The Firemen are having their an the city recorder’s office. day, April 14, at the Masonic hall for ball April 17. Sergeant and Mrs. Billy Jordan left | Elmore McKenzie, who died Saturday nual Word was received here of the birth Friday for San Francisco after spend April the 10th. Mr. McKenzie is an of a son Daniel McFarlin to Mr. and ing the week here with his parents. old time of Umatilla having Mrs. Daniel Gehn of Portland, for Mr. and Mrs. John R. Jordan. Jordan worked in resident the railroad yards for mer residents of Umatilla. has been in the service for about five years. He held the city recorder’s po Mrs. John Nye was hostess to the years and has a rating of sergeant in for over 20 years. He was a pinochle club at her home in Hermis the ordnance department. He wears sition member of the Masonic and Redmen ton Wednesday night. Those going up a badge as an expert marksman ac lodges of Umatilla. He leaves his from here were Mrs. Oliver McNabb, quired while in service in Hawaii. At | wife, two daughters, Mrs. Mrs. Dean Newgard. Mrs. Dale Mont present he is stationed in San Fran- | Betty Merian, of Walla Walla. Jean gomery and Mrs, Glenn Ostrom. cisco. He reports that his brother who is Rankin in nurses training in Pendle Bud who has been in active service and one son Robert who is in the Allied troops fighting in North Af in the south Pacific for some time, ton, army. rica are familiar with rationing of expects a furlough soon and will then John Liedloff left Friday night for visit relatives in Echo. Spkoane where he joined Mrs. Lied the scarcest commodity there—water. Mrs. Fred Andrews Jr., leader of loff was called there by the ser From private to general, water ra the Stanfield extension unit, announ ious who illness of her grandmother, who tions are identical. ces a meeting of interest to women of the community at the Presbyterian I church in Stanfield April 23, starting at 10:30 a. m. Mrs. Myrtle Carter OLD TIME will give a demonstration of freezing and drying methods of preserving | fruits and vegetables. Soup, salad | and a drink will be furnished by the unit and those attending are asked to bring sandwiches, dessert, etc., for their own lunch. The meeting will be , open to al Iwomen whether members ' of the unit or not. Mrs. C. C. Steinbart of Portland — UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT — and Mrs. Martha Smith of Garrison, New Sound System N. Dakota, spent the week end here with their cousin. Miss Emma Geisz- Good Music Regular Prices 1er, at the Spinning home. 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