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THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1945. THE HERMISTON HERALD. HERMISTON. OREGON. PAGE FOUR was a guest of Miss Beverly Woodward Thursday night and Friday. Mrs. Edward Foster and daugh ter of Gardenia, Cal., are visiting Published Every Thursday at Mrs. Grace Foster this week. Hermiston, Umatilla County, Oregon. Mrs. Claude Upham visited Mrs. Alfred Quiring and Leander Quiring, Publishers. Grace Foster Monday afternoon. Mrs. L. Hammer went Tuesday Entered at the post office at Hermiston as Second to Freewater to visit her mother, Mrs. Conrad. Class Matter, Dec. 1906, Umatilla County, Oregon. Mrs. Will Fry and daughter Ruth, who reside on the Stanfield Subscription Rates project, visited Monday at the One Year.......................................... $2.00 home of Mr. and Mrs. Weir Casse Six Months ...................................... 1.00 day. Miss Sharon Hooker, daughter Payable in Advance of Mr. and Mrs. Bud Hooker, was a guest at an Easter party given by Office Telephone ............................ 2051 Miss Patty Emert of Hermiston. Residence Telephone ....................... 2333 Mr. and Mrs. Glen Cherry of Ordnance visited at the B. E. Getchell home Sunday. Let’s Have No Armistice Day Celebration Miss Rosalie Hammer was hos tess at a Slumber Party given at Shall we “celebrate” when Germany collapses? her home Wednesday night. There This day seems imminent at times and then again were several guests both from this not so imminent. But it will be here one of these community and Hermiston. Mrs. Bud Hooker and children days. Numerous people are preparing for a day called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. off for excitement of the “hurrah” type. Most peo Bill Linder Sunday. ple are, rather, preparing for a day of prayer and Visitors and speakers at the Co lumbia school last week were: Dr. re-dedication toward the finish of the war in the Stevenson, science instructor of Pacific. When our boys are freed in Europe, we Oregon State College; Miss Le shall be very happy, but we must not forget that Blonde, county librarian of Pen dleton; and Mrs. Mac Carten, ru thousands of our other boys will still be fighting ral librarian, also of Pendleton. and dying on the far eastern fronts and that our The Grey farm was recently joys cannot be unconfined. purchased by the Fred Berry fam ily who moved there last week. It is far better that we keep sober and serious and Mrs. A. H. Cable, principle of that we continue to make the day a regular work Columbia school, has returned to day, toward securing a fina peace, and the settle her work after being ill a few days this week. Her position was ment of the tremendous problems that are still to filled by Mrs. Putnam of Hermis follow. There should be no feeling that the war is ton during her absence. over when German soldiers lay down their arms, nor Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Rhodda and Mrs. Andrew Harvey and daugh let down in our serious efforts to accomplish the ter Sylvia Ann were visitors of peace of the world and restoration of our people to Mrs. Dell Christley Monday. normal walks of life. Mrs. Lee Dyer and brother, E. E. Lowry were called to Boise. Ida ho. last week at the death of their While there was a goodly attendance Monday mother. They arrived home last evening at the Chamber of Commerce, not less than Monday. Willard Hutsell arrived Friday forty good business men and property owners were from La Grande to visit his moth conspicuous by their absence. A number of ques er, Mrs. Lon Dixon. Sunday the tions were discussed which were of vital interest to two returned to La Grande. Mrs. W. H. Instone and Mrs. every citizen and these and others will be of still Constance Hatfield and son Stev greater interest in the near future. These problems en of Lena. Ore., visited Sunday of growth, adjustment, planning, building, and tak at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Woodward. ing advantage of the opportunities cannot be hand Miss Martha Jones is spending led without the full cooperation of the people of the the week with Miss Irene Brown city. of Ordnance. We cannot lay back and let “George” and a few Childs Barham spent Sunday in Irrigon. others do the work. We know that everyone is busy Mrs. Nellie Tucker was called and that always it is impossible for someone to at last week to Townsend. Montana tend—and we know that all are interested. Never due to death of her brother, Art Hurbert. While in Montana Mrs. theless, the problems of general welfare are so vital Tucker expects to visit her daugh that time and work must be set aside to enhance the ter in Troy, Montana. success of each individual and the growth of the Theodore Panages writes home to his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Ted community, and to meet the responsibilities that Panages, that he has crossed the confront us, particularly at this time. cquater. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Phillip were visiting at the Floyd Patton home which filled the ditch with sand. in Pendleton Sunday. This time straw is being scattered around the bank and the surround ing area to anchor the .and Miss Joyce McCulley arrived Keith Peverly and Albert French Saturday evening from Spokane are now employed at the Hermis The ninetieth birthday of Miss for an indefinite visit with her ton Dairy owned by Olyn Hodge. parents. Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Mc Mrs. Golda Myrick has com | Anna Mendenhall was observed Culley. pletely recovered from an illness | Easter Sunday by a dinner at her The Stanfield ditch near the causing her to be bedfast for a | home on the Houser ranch, attend- . ed by members of the Mendenhall Paul Conrad place is in the pro week. I and Houser families. Miss Men cess of being cleaned the second Mrs. Felix Baty and Mrs. Fleta denhall was born April 6, 1855, in time this spring. Earlier in the Halliburton motored to Pendleton ; Lane county, and came to Uma year it was cleaned but the work last week on business. tilla county in 1869 with her par was ruined by a strong wind Mr. and Mrs. B E Getchell ents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. have received notice from their Mendenhall. Her parents came son James, who serves in the ar through here with a wagon train my, that he has recently been over the Oregon trail in 1852 on QUAUTT promoted to the sargeant rating. their way to the Willamette val Mr. and Mrs. Herman Jones and ley. Upon their return, 17 years SHOE REPAIRING daughter Patty of Tacoma, Wash., later, they took up homesteads in called on Mr. and Mrs. Henry the Umatilla Meadows district on Will Pay Prompt Sommerer and fami’v Tuesday. what is now known as the Men ilr. and Mrs J M. McCutchen denhall place. Miss Mendenhall Attention To of Pendleton visited at the Bob recalls that she rode horseback Mail Orders Woodwarl home Friday evening. from Lane county to the Meadows. Mr. and Mrs. L. Hammer and When she came here the Baum LEE'S SHOE SHOP family spent Easter Sunday after- gardner and Oliver families had noon at the Hugh Neill home near already settled in this neighbor 123 S. E. Court — Pendleton Echo. hood As a young woman she Miss Leia Quick of Hermiston taught school in the county for a while after taking a normal course at Huntsville, Wash., but most of her life has been spent in the Mea- i dows district. She has three sis- I ters still living. Misses Minerva and Emily Mendenhall, who still reside on the old home place, and Mrs. Velota Dorn, now a resident I of Seattle. A letter from Storekeeper 3rd Class Harold Liesegang, says that | since leaving San Francisco March 1 he has visited Pearl Harbor and Honolulu, but he gives no infor mation as to his ultimate destina- | tion. Louis Penney, who went over- | seas last fall, writes his parents that he is in New Guinea, working ‘ > in a motion picture sub-exchange. His duties consist of recondition FAST, DEPENDABLE SERVICE BETWEEN ing motion picture projectors, in which he receiver! training at a 1 Portland — Hermiston — Pendleton navy school after entering the ser- | vice En route to New Guinea ho : ; LaGrande and Baker was in Australia for six weeks. < • Mr and Mrs. William N. Bohms : — BRICK BUILDING WEST OF CREAMERY — received a telegram from the war department Tuesday stating that their son. Max Erwyn Bohms, is missing in action in Germany. S Sgt. Elden Smith returned Friday from a visit with relatives in Oklahoma His sister, Mrs. Harold Schiel of Pasco, spent the Telephone 2391 Hermiston, Ore. The Hermiston Herald week end here visiting Elden and their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Smith. March was a stormy month, there being only five entirely clear days and a total precipitation of 1.18 inches. Maximum tempera ture was 70 on the 30th and the lowest was 12 above on the 5th. Easter Day was observed here by a special musical program and sermon at the Methodist church followed by a pot luck dinner, which has been an annual event for many years. A large audience attended the service notwith standing the cold wind, and snow flurries interspersed with rain. Mr. and Mrs. Kester Oehler of Corvallis arrived Saturday for a few days visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Weltzin. Herman Martin Ebsen, former Echo schoolboy and son of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Ebsen of the Meadows, has enlisted in the navy and is awaiting a call into training. Joseph Middleton, local mer chant, has been ill for several days and went to the Pendleton hospi tal Wednesday for treatment. William T. Bracken, who pur chased the George & Miller gro cery store several years ago con ducted the business in the Dorn building until he sold to Joe Mid F. B. SWAYZE, President dleton, died at Walla Walla Sun day after two years illness. Mr. Bracken, age 68, was a native of Minnesota but lived in the Walla S/Sgt. Claude L. Stamper Jr. Walla neighborhood since he was cows and calves has already been trailed to summer range on Mc arrived home Wednesday for a eight years old. Miss Marian George, Echo city Kay Creek, and the remainder of visit with his parents, Mr. and treasurer, returned Wednesday the cattle which have been feed Mrs. Claude Stamper of Echo. Sgt. from a two weeks visit with her ing here will go to the mountains Stamper saw 12 months of service in the China-Burma-India area as sister, Mrs. Don Parker, at Port about April 15. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wigles- an engineer-gunner on a B-24. He land. A high school track meet will be worth returned Wednesday from has been awarded the air medal held at the local athletic field Hood River where they have been and one oak leaf cluster and has Thursday afternoon. April 5. Par residing for several months. They flown on 30 combat missions of ticipants in the meet will be teams have repurchased their former 270 hours. On his trip home he from Helix, Athena. Arlington, home at Westlawn from Thomas crossed the ocean in an ATC plane Ione, Irrigon, Umatilla, Lexington, Loyd. Mr. Loyd has purchased landing at Miami, Florida, but Boardman and Echo. The meet the N. D. Bard home at the corner came the rest of the way by train. will start at 1:15 p. m. Mrs. Josephine Berglin, who of Prescott and East Main streets He has a 21 day furlough and will spent the summer here two years and will move in some time in then report at Santa Ana, Calif., ago with her daughter, Mrs. Leon April. for assignment. E. Wadsworth, was married Mon day at Hermiston to William E. Sisson. 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