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About The Boardman mirror. (Boardman, Or.) 1921-1925 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1921)
Local na f Miss Helen Fleck of The Dal les is visiting her sister Mrs. Lee Mead. 4 Mr. King is the latest citizen in the east end to install a tele phone. . Joe Campbell has returned to Arlington after a visit with his cousin, R. Wasmer. Just about one half the prim ary pupils are out of school this week mostly measles. The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. has a gang of men at repair work in this vicin ity. Orrin H. Warner now has his private water system in yood working order and serving his hotels in a modern and up to date way. -4 L. V. Root, our postmaster, i-i starting construction on his lot on Main street and when com pleted will be occupied by the post office. -f We note from ;i Portland pa per that Flon. Emmet Callahan, Boardinan's silver tongued ora tor and rancher, delivered an eloquent eulogy on Lincoln be fore the Spanish-American war veterans on Feb. 12th. Miss Bertha Burns, who is well known in BoardtDkb where her father was the first superin tendent of schools, recently underwent an operation for ap pendicitis in Portland and has now returned to her home in Estacada, much improved in health. A series of mental and physi cal tests have been begun in the Boardman schools. Along with examination of eye, ear and ade noid conditions, logical and rote memory tests for the grades a bove the second have about been completed. The Curtis arith metic tests are carried on regu larly and the Kansas Silent read ing test, the Gregory language test and the Douglas algebra tests will be given during the next month. ppemn .1. L. Jenkins and Mr. MefTord motored to II ppner Wednesday. L. V. Woodard, wife and daughter made a trip to Port land recently. Prof. George Hendrix, piano turner, was busy in Boardman the first of the week. Mr. DeWeese has recovered sufficiently to resume drayinn and is kept quite busy. J. C. Ballenger made a busi ness trip to Pendleton and Port land fore part of the week. Mohava Kutzner and Sadie Larson are the new measles pa tients on the east end this week. Since learning the mechanism ot a sewing machine Hob Smith has decided to branch out and purchase a Ford Bug. W. A. Goodwin returned yes' terday from Portland and re ports plenty snow and rain in the lower regions meaning Portland, we presume The Lidies Clean Up commit tee is making ready for a great drive. When they fall in on you the only safe plan is to sub mit with the satisfaction of knowing that your neighbor is getting the same dose. A hobo's delight is a depot at nig-lit. Where the warm tire and klick offers rest ful respile, Bui a hobo's surprise Is to awake at sunrise, In a lean-to pretense about twice bis own size And wonder at progress and events. Shakes Spur. We are informed that the Pros ser Commercial club will meet with our commercial body in the near future in the interest of a ferry at this point connecting the two counties. Such an enter prise will be far reaching in that it will provide a vast territory with direct transportation facili" ties to Seattle, Tacoma and Spokane as well as unite us with the Seattle-Spokane Highway leading to the metroplis of the Northwest. Chas, Weech is driving a fine new team of three-year-olds ob tained at Henniston. Earl Cramer's bus has been ailing more or less of late. We wonder if it has caught the measlss. Leon Kutzner purchased a team from Glenn Brown this week. Now watch the dirt fly in his direction. t A number of buildings are go ing up in our city which gives one a feeling of prosperity for the coming season. f Lee Mead, our genial and ac commodating agent at Messner, is now a full fledged farmer on his homestead. -t- f Mr. Wagner, representing a Portland music house, has been transacting business in Board man the past few days. -f The Western Union construc tion crew is doing repair work along the O.-W. R. & N , work ing east and west out of Board -man. The Ladies Aid of Boardman met with the ladies of Irrigon Wednesday. They took their lunches and spent the whole day very pleasantly. Some of our citizens have been making trips to Irrigon for trees I to plant this spring. Hermiston will have to hump some if she wins that bet on tree planting. W. W. Felthouse of Hermiston has been doing some good work in our community the past week with his new baler, turning out fifteen to twenty tons per day. Old J. P. presented us with a scant blanket of snow Saturday morning. He evidently got his wires ciossed. This is sweot pea time and not Christmas. Hal Stewart and his force have just finished graveling the ap proaches to the highway bridge over the O.-W. It. & N. tracks east of Messner. Adolph Skoubo says the prop er thing for anyone who con tracts an unquenchable desire to own a car to do is to get a second hand Ford. When it breaks down you save enough on gas and oil to pay for the re pairs so tin; upkeep amounts to nothing. California Plan of Marketing Appeals to Farmers i ZZZZ ZZZZZ I Commodity marketing as suc cessfully launched in California, bids fair to spread into national practice, as shown by recent ac tion of the American Farm Bu reau Federation. The plan can and does apply to all farm com modities. It Is a state or national pooling of all products to be sold by expert marketing men ap pointed by the farmers themelv? Wheat rower3, corn grower. wool growers, cotton growers, live stock men. farm produce men etc.. are to he so organized, under the Farm Bureau present plans, furnishing the as-urance of the highest possible market to all of its members, no muter what tbeir crop may be Photos show up per left. Crowds in western Kan ras at mass meeting on oommod Illy organization during one of Rf ill cent Farm Uuieau drives: ritfhl, C H Gu:tafson. chairman of the grain marketing committee of the Farm Bureau Federation, who re ports Feb 1 4 at a Kansas City i;ietlng on the "California plan to his grain growers Lower Iff t Activities in the southwest where the winter onion growers are al ready highly organized and are getting highest price for their borniuda and pearl onions. Spring is coming. How about that coat of paint Better still, Whitewash, will look just as well from Portland, and they will never know the difference. Lambert, Thommes who has been engaged in carpenter and mason work in this vicinity the past few months, left Monday for his home in Uniontown', Wash. Four and rive cars of hay have been leaving Boardman daily for the past ten days shipped by I. Skoubo, J. C. Ballenger, W. P. Tucker H. H. Crawford and others. IKltlUON IT ISMS Washington's birthday cele bration by the school was at tended by a full bouse. The program consisted of numbers from all rooms in the school, ach room having a section to itself on the program. The pro gram was planned to occupy one and a half hours but exceeded that limit considerably. Lee Graybeal and Grandpa Gray heal are making some im provement to their property in Irrigon The elder niemter has constructed concrete walks on his lot from Kates to doors, and the younger has planted a row of trees around three sides of his lots and is now grading the yard. Members of the Farmers Un ion have bought a lot of pota toes for spring planting. tity of present organizations will J not be sacrificed but will retain their individuality as bureaus of this larger organization. Thr federation plan should eliminate much overlapping of activities and so cor-relate the community work that it will become much more efficient. Community 8ervtoe The community service idea, is growing and a committee, has been appointed consisting of S. j H. Board man, A. L. Larson, and M. B. Signs, to work up the federation of the various local organizations. The plan includes the election of a community sec retary and the appointment of a board of directors which will be chosen from the officers of the existing organizations. Theiden- Refteutlous. Little drops of water Little grains of sand Make the West Extension The finest kind of land. Little coins of silver Trifling tho they be Can make the Boardman Mirror Shine for you and me. Say, neighbors, let's get busy and make this paper the Com munity spokesman for all our activities Don't wait for George to do it. Send in that sub. it all helps. By tho way did you knjw that the subscription price of the average news paper rarely if ever pays the actual cost of the paper on which it is printed ? The advertiser pays the deficit And the advertiser will refuse to advertise unless the paper has readers Starlight isn't in the employ of the Mirror, but is actuated by a sincere desire to help make this community the most desir able spot in the Northwest. Suppose you help too. Don't forget that soon you will be called upon to pledge your support to the community fair, your fair, and if you do. your part we will put the North Morrow County Fair on the map to stay. Did you see the Worm story, orignated with Sam Notson, as published in the Heppner Herald. Bore's hoping that Geo. Mitch ell takes heed and continues to improve the strain he has de veloped. We cannot afford to let any one in our country that depends upon .airplanes for its supply of moisture get ahead of us in such a necessity even tho backod by the states attorney. Starlight Crop production In the Willamette valley could be doubled by the use of Irrigation, according to C. L. Smith, agriculturist for the Union Pacific system. Mr. Smith estimates that the average cost of putting water on the land of the Willamette valley would range from $10 to $I5 an acre. This cost. h declares, could be takpn cars Of by a single crop. A reduction In rates on the part ol railroads of the northwest In order that the 1920 crop now in the ware houses and shipping yards may be moved and thereby avoid congestion and demoralization of shipping con dil ions when the 1921 orop is ready for delivery to the markets was urged in a letter issued by the members ol the state public service commission following a conference In Portland with the commissions of Idaho and Washington. The state land board, at a meeting in Salem, rejected the bid of K. L DevereaUZ & Co. for the purchase ol $500,000 of 4 per cent Oregon farm credit bonds. The bidder submitted a proposal of $405,800, which the land board declared too heavy a discount tc be considered in connection with dis posing of the securities. The sale ol these bonds was authorized by the siate land board some time ago In uiiler to meet the Increasing demand for loans on the purl or Oregon runners. A resolution providing for an In crease in the py of members of the state legislature to $5 a day, and not in excess of $300 for one session, was laid on the table by the house. The legislature haB adopted a joint resolution calling for the display of the American flag on school houses, churches and other public pluceB on Mothers' Day. The legislature enacted a bill mak ing It a misdemeanor to fail to support an Indigent parent and providing a fine to be used tor such support. After considerable discussion the bOUSe approved a bill giving women of the stale of Oregon the right to serve on juries, subject to the approval of l he bill bj the voters st the next special or general election. All motion pictures shown in the siate must be approved by a stnte board of three motion picture censors under the terms of a Substitute cen sorship bill introduced by the house committee on health and public morals anil passed by the house. A bill introduced by the committee on agriculture ami forestry, providing for the organization ol cooperative associations, passed the senate by a vote of 26 to 4. Have It Printed The best possible advertisement for your farm or your business, is neatly printed stationery. ttle Can Print Tl Tor You The Mirror office is equipped to print Any Thing and in as ood manner as the best-Not Country Printing. THE BOA 12 DM A IN MIRROR Job Office f f fi
