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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-02-19
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ADAMS, Feb. 19.-William Hold
man spent a few days visiting in Pen
dleton last week.
A large crowd attended the skating
rink Friday evening.
A meeting was held in the Adams
school building Friday evening for
the purpose of discussing the new
memorial postoffice which Adams
hopes to have. Speeches and talks
were made by various men and Ray
mond Hatch. architect of Pendleton,
was present at the meeting. The
Misses Bessie Earsley and Jessie
Chestnut sang a duet during the even,
irg.
Miss Beulah Spencer left Saturday
morning for Pullman. Wash, where
she will be the guest of her brother
and wife, Mr.. ana Mrs. Chester Spen'
Ger.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-02-19

L. C. Mathews The following mem
hers were present: NJ. D. Orange, l..
C, Scharpf, f, II. Noes, ]. e, Pollock.
C. A. Michael, Alex Shafer and T. X.
Mathews. Hunting stories were told
and the club presented a complete set
of community silver to Mr.. and Mrs,
NJ. ID. Orange. A real feed was par
taken of. fJsf
f. T. Byrd and Henry Lazinka were
in to attend the stock meeting Fri
day. ttGUffrFl.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-02-19
EAST OREGONIAN SPECIAL
NEWS OF UMATHLA co.

Tuesday to look after things at his
ranch.
Bert Martin came In Wednesday
night with 40 hundred for the Ukiah
Mercantile Co. He says the roads
are good over the yellow Jacket road
for this time of year.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-02-19

Mrs. Clara whitley went to Pendle-
ton last week.
Teddie Parr returned last week from
the Chemawa school.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-10-31

had found no sale for my apples and
had shipped them to an adjoining town
90 miles away, where they were sold
at price, which, after deducting two
commissions and the additional freight,
left me So cents bushel
Naturally this took all the fight out
of me and the rest of our crop was
marketed through the jobbers. The
total sales for the 5000 bushels were
$4,000. But these apples cost the
consumer more than $4,000
! had n new scheme for the ensuing
year. l advertised in the papers OF
several towns that we would deliver
fancy No. 1 apples to the homes of the
people, with the privilege Of inspection
before paying, express prepaid, for 50
bushel At that same time the usual
retail market price was more than S4
We also sent circulars to the people
whose names appeared In the tele-
phone books. AS a result of this cam
which did not pay for the cost Of the
advertising. Evidently the housewife
is not anxious to save money, or else
she has little faith.
Since then we are going on raising
the best apples we know how to pro-
duce. We prune and pillow and fer
tilize. We spray carefully. We pick
by hand with the utmost solicitude.
Our apples are large and free from
bitter rot and other bemishes.
But we sell them through the job
bers, and we receive an average OF
50 bushel even now with the prevail
ing high prices, and these same apples
cost the retail dealers twice that sum.
The difference goes into the rapacious
and never-satiated nav of the men
who do nothing to raise fruit or to
sell it or to put any real value into 1t {;
but who live on the efforts of the other
two real laborers. / think that they
ought to spell their names with an ini-
tial r instead of j.
But they have on their side antiquity
and religious prestige. For even way
back in the time of the Garden of
Eden there was there an apple tree
Eve tended this tree and watched its
fruit. When 1t was ripe she presented
, 1t to Adam. Thus Eve was the pro-
Queer and Adam the consumer. But
that was not all. Even there was to
he found the middleman; the Bible
calls him by more characteristic
name.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-10-31

CATTAIlS HAVE FOOD VALUE
Investigation Has Shown Them to Con-
tain Satisfactory Amount Of
Needed Protein.

Flour from the cattails Of the
swamps has heen found by the plant
chemical laboratory at Washington to
contain about the same amount of pro-
tein as rice and corn flours, with some
what less fat than wheat flour, and 1t
was regarded as promising substi-
tute with wheat -four to the extent of
10 to 20 per cent. In the investigation,
of which he has given an account in
the Scientific Monthly Prof. z. w.
Claassen tried the -four in several
ways, both as part substitute with
wheat flour In baking and as corn
starch substitute for buildings. Bis
cults containing so and even 100 per
cent of this -four proved to be palat-
able, not very different from those of
wheat flour alone, while the buildings
had an agreeable flavor and were sat
isfactory. The flour material Is OBJ
tanned from the large underground
roOtstalks or rhizomes, Of which 1t
forms starch core three-eighths to
one-half inch in diameter. The dried
rh.zomes from an acre of cattails were
shown to equal 1922 pounds, and the
/ core substance, passed through q
meat grinder and sifted, yielded fine
flour at the rate of $500 pounds per
acre. Many thousand acres of cattall
marshes are included In the 139, S5s
square miles of swamp land of the
United States.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-10-31

colored man driving mule at
tached to junk wagon meandered
along the Mission road. Suddenly the
mules feet took root. He "posolutely
and Absolutely" refused to bulge. The
darby. with a sigh. dismounted and
tried all the arts of his race, from per-
suasion with a shovel handle to down
right cruelty. For half an hour he
worked, but the mule only remained
glued fast to the road.
"Why don't you sell him and buy an
auto, uncle?" called a cop who had
been enjoying the fun.
Huh !" growled the colored man.
'That mule'd take that as pussonal
victory. He's been tryin' to shake me
for week. No. sir. All reckon Ah'll
ytick 1t out"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-10-31

us and upheld by aftidavits. For this
carload we got $3.50.
During the winter | formed a new
campaign. / moved to the city, leav-
ing the farm in charge of my tried
and true assistant. The week before
the Jonathans We're to ripen I visited
every grocery store In the city, large
and small, and offered to deliver to
them such apples as l showed as sam
pies, for S1.9O bushel box, prepaid
AS that grade Of apple was then SELL
ing to the retailer by the jobber for
$3.50 at the least, they were pleased
by my offer, and within three days
had sold three carloads-1,SOO boxes.
l wired to the farm to ship them, and
gave the express company the names
and addresses Of the consignees.
About ten o'clock In the morning of
the second day the express company
telephoned me to come down at once.
l did so, and there found all my ap-
pies but 100 boxes. piled In the hot
depot. Every shipment except one had
been refused by the dealers. They
had not even opened them for inspec-
ton, and in most cases had refused to
let them be unloaded from the delivery
wagons.
started out to learn the cause of
this extraordinary behavior. My first
inquiries were unsuccessful, the deal
ers evading answer. But after while
found an old German who was will
ing to talk. and he told me that the
| jobbers of the city had sent an agent
to see them the day before and told
them that If they took my apples as
agreed, the jobbers would refuse them
| further "courteSies"-which meant
they could buy no more fruit from
the regular wholesale dealers In self
protection, therefore, the retailers had
to decline my shipments. The one who
had dared to disobey this drastic or
der from the overlords was the
largest retail firm in the city, which
also conducted a wholesale depart
ment, and had taken the apples In that
side of their business.
Still unconquered, but feeling mighty
weakened, l went to the jobbers direct.
The first man who learned my name
/ turned on his heels from me and
slammed the door of his office in my
face. The next one told me with an
oath that he couldn't do business with
me. SO it went along the row till at
last by giving fictitious name and
even denying that l was myself,
| found two jobbers who would take the
apples, to be sold on the morrow on
commission.
The next morning | attended the
sale of my own apples on the sidewalk
in front of the wholesale house
saw the apples sold at prices ranging
from $3.50 to $3.50, and | felt quite
reconciled to my tiasco. But when
came in for settlement their books
showed that no box had sold for more
! than $3.50, and their clerks all de-
clared that to be the case. l was Of
fered and had to accept that sum. less
their commission of % per cent.
The other dealer reported that he
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-10-31

post from his office. And. furthermore.
he must learn how it happened that
the little oriole had not been duly in
sured as directed by the owner and
consignor.
Indeed" said Mrs. NJ. (said owner
and consignor), IL surely told that
man TO insure the oriole. and now |
ought to be paid"
81 certainly am sorry the poor thing
got hurt" humbly replied the post
master.
You know what an oriole is. don't
you. Mr. Springsteen 2"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-10-31

1t is said that philosophy is the liver
pill of life. Others say that 1t is the
blue mass of resignation.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-10-31
American interests in China.

The Foochow branch of the Ameri-
can Association of China was recently
formed. The new organization will
largely care for American commercial
interests, which are rapidly expand
ing In the Fonchow consular district.
and will take the place of an Ameri-
can shamber OF commerce, the num-
20 support a chamber of commerce.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-10-31
Educated Clerks.

Two Terre Haute school teachers,
both college graduates, spent week
recently clerking in Chicago bakery.
One day they sold several articles to
two customers. The bill came to ex-
actly 93 cents and both were elated, be-
cause of the size OF the sale. They
were further elated when they heard
one of the women remark to the other
one as they left the store They
must have educated clerks here now.
Did you notice that they counted up
the bill in their heads instead of u.s.
ing piece of paper as the old ones
did?"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-10-31
'Twasn't a Bird

Something had gone sadly wrong in
the postoffice. and various employees
hustled hither and thither and knitted
their brows in attempts to ascertain
what was what and why.
Mr.. Springsteen. postmaster. lost
just a trife of his customary calm as
he queried among messengers. car
riers. clerks and others to learn how
II might be that a poor little oriole
was injured while In transit by parcel
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-10-31
Wasn't It a PITY?

Little Anne was very fond of ripe
olives, and her mother had to watch
her to see that she did not indulge too
freely. One day there was company,
and Anne managed to have the olive
dish stopped near her plate.
After the dinner her mother pointed
to the pile of pits on Anne's plate and
asked:
How could you make such a pig
of yourself? / should think you would
be ashamed to see so many pits, and
ashamed to have others see them"
Anne hung her head and replied:
II was. That's the reason l threw
all the rest of them on the floor"
II Is said that philOSOnlY Is The liver
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-10-31
BY JAMES p. RICHARDS
Dess, of the Prose- Preparatory
School, Houston, Tex)

ENERAL years ago. In re-
Spouse to the urge then
prevalent of Back to the
Farm" | traded my large
city property for an SO-acre
apple farm in the Ozark
mountains. This farm had
once been exceedingly val
liable, but under n non-res-
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-10-31

ident owner and very shiftless tenant
1t had been allowed to degenerate till
It was almost valueless. | took pos
session in July and the gross receipts
for sales that fall from the entire
far were less than SS0-less than
doi.ar an acre in income.
had moved to the farm with my
family and | devoted that winter to
studying apple culture. l procured
and read all the pamphlets issued by
the national government and the state
on this subject and correspondent with
successful apple growers. BY spring
j felt myself competent to assume con-
troll Under my direction we pruned
and plowed the orchard and sprayed
at what we thought the proper time.
We had large crop-or what seemed
~, me large one--picking more than
1000 bushels Of apples. They were,
however of poor grade and affected
with bitter rot and San Jose scale,
while the curculiO moth made heavy
ravages. My net Income was $500.
l realized now that 1t was neces-
sary to appeal for help. l did so.
Upon the suggestion Of the state
board of agriculture l secured the serv-
Ices of a young man just graduated
from the college of agriculture, where
he had spent four years in studying
fruit raising, particularly apples. He
came to the farm In January and
at once put him in complete charge.
He knew his business. / believed In
him from the start To watch him
prune the trees was an inspiration. He
one tree from another, using aseptic
solutions with his tools. He cut the
trees till l feared there would be lit
tie left But most Of all to be adj
mired was his method of determining
when and how to spray. From the
various trees he cut cultures which he
forced to grow In fruit jars, and
watched them for the development of
the various kinds of diseases. With
this knowledge he set his time for
spraying, and mixed his ingredients to
fit the special cases.
The result was astounding; that very
year we harvested more than 5000
bushels of apples, and more than three
fourths of them We're of first grade.
My old farmer neighbors who had
laughed at the college feller' who
ran my orchard, now came and admit
ted that he was right and asked him
TO give them suggestions with their
own fruit.
But not yet had l succeeded; for
learned that 1t was not enough to
know how to raise superior apples.
must also learn how to market them.
We sold them through the usual chan
nels of the jobbers In the large cities,
and our income for the whole season
was but slightly more than $1,000
just 20 cents bushel on the average
for first-class fruit.
The jobbers reported TO us that our
shipments came at a time of glutted
markets. or were so badly damaged on
the way that they had to be sacri-
feed. One carload of Jonathans
which I had carefully selected and
packed myself. knowing that not a
poor apple went into the boxes, was
turned into vinegar as being too small
and too poor TO be sold for eating
at any rate that was the report sent
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-10-31
Stranqers Prepared For.

Does this dog growl?" asked tn,
lady of the dog dealer. "Oh. yes.
ma'am." was the answer. We'll. I
want Dig that doesn't growl." Don't
you want something that win grow
when strangers come nround?" "So
My husband will attend 10 that."
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-10-31

"Oh. yes. | know. it's bird" came
the proud reply.
NO II isn't either" said Mrs. NJ.
1T is one of those baby carts that
fold up"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-10-31
Strict Business.

would you throw a tomato at that
speaker" asked rough auditor
"No." replied the grocer; mot unless
he paid for Il in advance"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-10-31
Nonprofessional Talk.

Doctor, may l speak to you In ,
nonprofessional capacity?"
''Um-m. l guess So"
"Your coat tails are on fire."
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-07-10

conscience wouldn't let him keep 1t.
He said that he had not seen Peabody
Raynes On that road the day the
money was lost but had only heard
that he was there. He knew now that
he couldn't have been there. Gosh
t'almighty! as your uncle used to
say when there was nothing else to be
said.'
1t touched me to the soul-this long
delayed v%indication Of my beloved
Uncle Peabody.
The senator ate supper with US and
sent his hired mar out for his horse
and buggy. When he had put on his
overcoat and was about to 20 he
turned to my uncle and said:
Peabody Baynes, if 1 have had any
success in the world it is because I
have had the exalted honor and con-
seriousness that I represented men like
you"
He left us and we sat down by the
glowing candles. Soon 1 told them what
Ramsey had done. There was a mo-
ment of silence. Uncle Peabody rose
n went to the water pail for a drink.
"Bart, I believe I'll plant corn on
that ten-arce lot next spring-darned
If l DON'T" he said as he returned to
his chair.
None of us yer spoke of the matter
again, to my knowledge.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-07-10

ence ought to be useful to a young mani
future conventions"
l took the stage to Baltimore next
day-the twenty-sixth of May. The
convention thrilled me-the flags, the
great crowd, the bands, the songs, the,
speeches, the cheering-I see and hear
it all in my talk. The uproar lasted
for twenty minutes when Van Buren's
name was put in nomination.
Then the undercurrent! The South
was against him as Wright had fore
e The deep current Of it's power
had undermined certain Of the north
ern and western delegations. Osten-
sibly for Van Buren, and stubborn1y
casting their ballots for him, they had
voted for the two-thirds rule, which
had accomplished his defeat before the
halloting began. 1t continued for two
days without a choice. The enemy
stood firm. After adjournment that
evening many of the Van Buren, dele
gates were summoned to a conference.
l attended it with Judge Fine.
The ex-president had Withdrawn and
requested his friends in the conven-
ton to vote for Silas Wright. My emo
tons can be more readily imagined
than described when I heard the
shouts of enthusiasm which greeted
my friends name. Tears began to roll
down my cheeks. Judge Fine lifted
his hand. When order was at last re-
stored he began:
Gentlemen, as a friend Of ther
learned senator and as a resident Of
the county which is the proud pos
SCISSOR of his home, your enthusiasmt
has a welcome sound to me; but 1 hap
pen to know that Senator Wright VILE
not allow his name to go before the
cOnvention."
He read the letter of which I knews
Mr.. Benjamin F. Butler then said:
when that letter was written Sena-r
tor Wright was not aware that Mr.
Van Buren's nomination could not be-
accomplished, nor was he aware that
bis own nomination would be the al
most unanimous wish Of this conven-
ton. / have, talked with the. Leading
Continued To Page .Sit .
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-07-10

the senator received an intimation that
he would be put in nomination if Van
Puren failed. Immediately he wrote
to Judge Fine Of Ogdensburg, chair
man of the delegation from the north
ern district of New York, forbidding
such use of his name on the ground
that his acquieseence would involve dis.
loyalty to his friend the ex-president.
BE gave me leave to go to the cor.
vention on my way home to meet Sally.
l had contided to Mrs. Wright the de-
tails of my little love affair." had to
and she had shown a tender, sympa-
thetic interest in the story.
The senator had said to me one day,
with q gentle smile:
Bart, YOU have business in Canton,
| believe, With which trifing matters
like the choice of a president and the
Mexican question cannot be permitted
to interfere. You must take time to
spend n day on two at the convention
IN Baltimore on your way. . . Re-
port to friend Fine, who will look
after your comfort there. The expert
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-07-10

timent. Subtly, quietly and naturally
they were feeling for the means to de-
fend and increase their power. Straws
were coming to the surface in that
session which betrayed this deep un-
%dercurrent of purpose. We felt it and
the senator was worried, I knew, but
held his peace. He knew how to keep
his opinions until the hour had struck
that summoned them to service. The
senator never played with his lance.
By and by Spencer openly sounded the
note of conflict.
The most welcome year of my life
dawned on the first of January, 1914.
I remember that I arose before day
light that morning and dressed and
went out on the street to welcome it.
I had less than six months to wait
for that day appointed by Sally. I had
l had had my days of fear and depres-
sion, but always my sublime faith in
her came back in good time.
Oh, yes, indeed, Washington was a
fair Of beauty and gallantry those
days. I saw it all. I have spent many
years in the capital, and I tell you the
girls of that time had manners and
knew how to wear their clothes, but
again the magic of old memories kept
my lady on her throne. There was
n Of them-just one of those others
who, I sometimes thought, was almost
as graceful and charming and noble
hearted as Sally, and she liked me, I
know, but the ideal of my youth
glowed in the light of the early morn
ing, so to speak, and was brighter than
all others. Above all, I had given my
word to Sally, and-well, you know,
the old-time Yankee of good stock was
fairly steadfast, whatever else may
be said of him-often a little too
| steadfast, as We're Ben Grimshaw and
Squire Fullerton.
The senator and I went calling that
New Years day. We saw all the
! great people and some of them were
more cheerful than they had a right
to be. 1t was a weakness of the time.
I shall not go into details for fear Of
wandering too far from my main road.
Let me step aside a moment to say,
however, that there were two clouds
in the sky of the Washington society
of those days. One was strong drink
and the other was the crude, rough
coated, aggressive democrat from the
frontiers Of the West. These latter
were often seer in the holiday regalia
of farm or village at fashionable func-
lions. Some Of them changed slowly,
and by and by reached the stage of
white linen and diamond breastpins
and waistcoats Of figured silk. 1t
must be said, however, that their mo-
tives were always above their taste.
The winter wore away slowly in
hard work. Mr.. Van Buren, came down
to see the senator one day from his
country seat on the Hudson. The ex-
president had been solicited to accept
the nomination again. / know that
Senator Wright strongly favored the
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-07-10

plan but reared that the South would
defeat him in convention, it being we'll
known that Van Buren, was opposed to
the annexation of Texas. However,
he advised his friend to make a fight
for the nomination and this the latter
resolved to do. Thenceforward until
middle May I gave my time largely to
the inditing of letters for the senator
in Van Buren's behalf.
The time appointed for the conven-
ton in Baltimore drew near. One day