East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-05-27
BALL PLAYERS TO
HAVE A FIELD MEET
HERSnSTON TEAM PREPARES
MEMORIAL DAY PROGRAM
Races. Base Ball Games. Wrestling
Boxing and Dance are Features OF
Program Public School Fair
Prizes Announced.
Especial Correspondence

Especial COrrespondence-)
Hermiston. Ore. May 27.-On Me-
mortal day the HermistOn baseball
team Of the Irrigation League win
hold its first annual field meet The
entire day will be devoted TO various
games and sports. starting at 9
O'Clock in the morning and ending
with a big dance in the HermistOn
Mercantile hall in the evening. The
day will start with field events. From
3 O'Clock until 1890 the boy scouts
will have the field. From 1880 un-
til noon races. etc. Prizes will be
gwen for all events. At las Jim
MOrrisey OF Portland Will meet Ed
Williams Of PendletOn in a boxing
bout. This viii be staged at the ball
grounds. A baseball game between
Stanfield and HermistOn teams Of the
Irrigation League will follow. 4
wrestling match will be pulled off at
: O'Clock between VIM. Kennedy and
Ed Seahorn. These boys have both
worked together before in prelimi-
nary matches. They are evenly
matched and will wrestle 10 a finish.
Surprise Party.
Saturday evening a number of young
people gave a surprise birthday party
on Miss Hazel Cressy- Those present
were Misses Lena BOyntOn. Ethel
wied. Jerrie Neymeyer, S. Ash, Mote
Crandall. Ada Prann. Leah Persy.
Goldie Muma and Mrs Ralph Play
Messers. Ross LOudenslager. Otis Sap
per, Henry Neymeyer. George Blaks-
lee. Ralph Play. T. A Clifton, VIM
Crandall, W Cerritt. Ben Spinning,
Chas. Henning. A good time was re-
ported by all those present
Eighteen Pass Exams
The following is a complete list Of
those passing the eighth grade ex-
aminations: Edward McKeen, l.
Mcready. Pearl Sullivan. Ernest Wa
terman, Vera Purdy. Deskin Armitage
Gordon SChOtweIl. Vennesse Bene-
dict. wilber Hood. Henry Gum. cy-
ril Blakslee. Blanche Chamberlain.
Florence LOnghorn. Earl Boynton,
Norma Iriksen. Josie Greasy, Myrtle
Adams. and James Todd Those
graduating from Columbia school were
Elsie Carson and Chas. Spencer.
Maurice d. Scroggs. Herbert Strohm
and Gerald Bond spent Saturday and
Sunday in Pendleton attending to
business matters
strawberry Festival.
All the arrangements are now COM
plete for the strawberry festival Tues
day evening. 1t is now expected to
hold the festival on the open space
across from the Oregon hotel Music
for the evening will be furnished by
the Hermiston band OF twenty pieces.
The entertainment starts at 1880 p.
m. Small tables will be set out and
strawberries and cream will be served
all who attend. Orders have been
placed with the farmers for berries
so that there will be plenty for all.
Interested i'm Fair.
Great interest is being shown in
the public school fair which will be
held here September 1s to 20 and the
list of forty-nine prizes have been
announced by the committee and are
to be donated mostly by Hermiston
business men, TO encourage the boys
and girls
The entries asked for are: Water
melons. onions. potatoes, tomatoes,
muskmelons. squash. pumpkins. cab
bage. peanuts. celery. cantaloups
three varieties of flowers. comb honey
canned fruit. jelly. bread, cake. ma
chine apron. hemstitched handker-
chiefs. embroidery. sweet potatoes,
poultry and sunflowers.