THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1945.
THE HERMISTON HERALD. HERMISTON. OREGON.
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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
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home of Mr. and Mrs. Weir Casse
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day.
Miss Sharon Hooker, daughter
Payable in Advance
of Mr. and Mrs. Bud Hooker, was
a guest at an Easter party given by
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Miss Patty Emert of Hermiston.
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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
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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
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LaGrande and Baker
was in Australia for six weeks.
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Mr and Mrs. William N. Bohms
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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
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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. Mrs. Sisson was formerly
a resident of Minneapolis and has
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been employed recently at the
Hermiston hospital.
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The next monthly meeting of
the Echo Garden club has been set
— Gas — Oil — Stove Oil — Diesel Oil —
for Monday evening. April 23, at
the home of Mrs. Marjorie Liese- |
-— Bulk Sales Gas and Oil —
gang. Mrs. Alberding and Mrs.
Schmidt will assist in serving.
Lambing was completed at the
Cunha ranch April 3 and sheep !
shearing is scheduled to start
about the middle of April, weath
er permitting. A herd of 333 dry |
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Bank
of Hermiston
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