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Hot S0"fl S THE BOARDMAN MIRROR Vol. i BOARDMAN, M OK HOW COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY, A PHIL 15, 1921 No. 10 OREGON NEWS NOTES OF PRINCIPAL EVENTS HAPPENING DURING WEEK The Marion county Sunday school sonventlon held a three-day session at Salem. The total enrollment in the Univer sity of Oregon since June 16, 1920, is 4108. Curry county is a district without any litigation (or the court term which commenced Monday. This week was officially designated by Mayor Baker as Red Cross cleanup week in the city of Portland. Reports of the librarian of the St. Helens public library shows that dur ing March 1149 books were loaned. The new dormitory for women at Oregon Agricultural college is now in use, accommodating 70 young women. Hood River county will this year have $41,508.18 available for hard sur facing the roads in the orchards dis tricts. Francis Franklin Osborn, who came to Oregon in 1852 and had lived in Polk county ever since, is dead at Dallas. The Reedsport planing mill has re ceived an order tor doors that will keep the mill busy for more than two months. During March 20 permits were is sued in Eugene for new residences and improvements, estimated cost of which is $46,776. An epidemic of smallpox is sweeping Brogan, in Malheur county. Schools are closed and a ban placed on public gatherings. Of the many persons who settled in Baker county prior to 1862, the Baker Democrat finds that there are only 13 now living. There was a 26 per cent increase in the Medford postoffice gross receipts from January 1 to March 31 over the same period last year. The semi-annual district convention of the Oddfellows of Linn and Benton counties will be held next Saturday afternoon and evening at Shedd. John Bader, who died at Cottage Grove a few days ago, was one of the wealthiest men in Lane county, his property being valued at $108,247.75- Baker county has the largest amount of land under irrigation of any county in the state. The amount of arid land in the county is placed at 284,000 acres. The annual session of the Central Baptist association, which includes the Baptist churches of the central Wil lamette valley was held at Brownsville Tuesday. The body of Frank Sheldon Ulrich, Umatilla county boy who lost his life in France during the world war, was , buried in Pendleton last week with military honors. Thomas R. Marshall, ex-vice-presi- : dent of the United States, is coming I to Corvallis to speak Wednesday April 20. He comes under the auspices of the high school. The Albany cannery has passed un der the control of the Oregon-Washington Canning and Preserving company, the $10,000,000 corporation recently launched at Portland. Part of the Umatilla county road building program for the year consists of over 35 miles of designated market roads in all parts of the county which will cost over $90,000. Wives of rehabilitation men at O. A. C. will be given the opportunity to at the voters of the city of Eugene at the June election. One is for $60, 000 to build bridges, the other for $15, 000 for a street intersection fund. Thrips, which caused considerable damage to the prune crop of Oregon a few years ago, has reappeared, accord ing to a bulletin sent out by the Ore gon Growers' Cooperative association. All state institutions, with the excep tion of the industrial school for girls and the blind school, reached their peak populations last month, accord ing to reports to the state board of control. Charles H. Whitmore, member of the state highway department, announces that the state will have a sufficient amount of money this year to match the counties dollar for dollar on mar ket roads. There have been registered in Ore gon for 1921 approximately 1948 real estate operators, according to a report prepared by G. B. Johnson, in charge of the real estate department of the state insurance commission. Belief is expressed in Marslifield that a revival of the lumber industry will cause the reopening of mills so that employes will escape low wage levels. The Four L scale of $3.60 for unskilled labor is generally in effect. Chief Forester Greeley has advised Senator McNary that the forest serv ice has set aside $6000 to match a similar amount to be supplied by Lane county, to begin work on the Willam ette highway from Eugene to Klamath Falls. The secretary of State has certified bonds in the amount of $500,000 for the Medford irrigation district. These bonds were authorized by the district some time ago, and the money derived from their sale will be used in con struction work. A 10 per cent wage reduction, be gfnning May 1, 1921, affecting prac tically all the building trades of Port land, was recommended by an arbi tration committee representing the builders, workers and the public, after ten days of deliberation. On the Ochoco irrigation project of Prineville Friday was a banner day, as it marked the first day that the water began to pour over the spillway of the giant Ochoco dam, wjtere the combined volume of stored up water totals more than half a million cubic yards. Committees representing telephone users of Marion, Linn, Polk and Ben ton counties met in Albany and de veloped plans for unity of action in co operating with other counties and of ficers of cities in bringing about a rehearing of the telephone rate case before the public service commission. Any doubt as to what action will be taken by the Oregon public service com mission in reconsideration of the Pa cific Telephone & Telegraph company ; rate case, was removed when H. P. I Corey, member of the commission, said he would join with the other two com missioners in granting the petition of ; Portland for a rehearing. Because the Guarantee Security cor poration, with headquarters in Port land, failed to list with the state cor- poratlon department United Cigar ' Stores, Limited, stock which it had offered for sale in Oregon, without tend t special course in child care and qualifying the same under the blue household management given especial- J T B- Handley, corporation ly for them this spring. commissioner, has revoked the license The property of the United States of the concern to transact business in spruce production corporation in Ore- tnls state. eon is not subject to taxation by the Despite the fact that electric rail- state, according to an opinion given by the attorney general. The Hood River Clark Seedling strawberry crop, with approximately 600 acres set, if weather conditions are favorable, will reach nearly 100, 60 crates the coming season. roads In Oregon are not on a paying basis, it was officially announced at Portland that the Southern Pacific has ordered and will receive In May, 12 thoroughly modern, fully equipped red electric cars for use on its Portland Corvallis system. They probably will The city of Pendleton, at a cost of be in operation about July 15, accord- $10,000, Is extending a pipeline 1660 feet to in additional spring in the mountains that will connect with the headworks of its water system. ing to J. A. Ormandy, assistant general passenger agent. To rush road work and get as much as possible under contract early so Lane county will issue $35,000 of that the jobs can he in progress this its $2,000,000 road bonds for the con struction of a six-mile stretch of high way to provide a shorter and better route between Eugene and Crow. summer, the state highway commis sion has ordered 125.5 miles of grad ing, surfacing and paving advertised for April 22. Such jobs as the state Owing to the collapse of the old tim- engineering department cannot have ber work of the spillway at the Eugene ready for the April meeting will be power plant at Walterville, the flow advertised for May letting. This work of water has been entirely diverted, will aggregate in the neighborhood of causing a shutdown of the plant $1,500,000. Two bond issues will come before Here's an old our but ;i good one If you want to live in the kind of a town Like the kind of a town you like You needn't to slip Your clothes in agrip And start on a long-, long hike For you'll only find What you've left behind For there's nothing thats really new. A knock at your town Is a knock at yourself It isn't your town it's YOU, Great towns are not made By men afraid that someone else get ahead And if everybody works And nobody shirks You can raise a town from the dead And while you make Your personal stake Your neighbors can make one too. The town wih be what you want to see It isn't the town it's YOU. LAND SETTLEMENT PLAN STATE CHAMBER COMMERCE Dell ite steps toward carrying out the land settlement plan announced by the Oregon State Chamber of Com merce whereby prospective immi grants from the middle western states would be grouped together and brot to Oi eton in a body, were taken at meeting of the Executive Committee April 8th thru the appointment of Wil liam "Bill" Hanley, of Hums, a direc tor of the Slate Chamber, and J. R Heuriog, formerly wi ll the Eastern Oregon Land Company, to represent Oregon and the State Chamber in the middle west this summer. The twi. men will leave for Omaha within the next ten day, it was announced. "Hill" Hanley is probably one of the besi known men in the state of Oregon in agricultural and stock-raising cir eles. Coming toOregon in the pioneer das when the state was prac ically an untouched wilderness, he has "grown up with the west" and has b come a powerful figure in all movrments bav ing to do with the development of the state. As a director of the Stale Chamber, and thru his belief in the future of Oregon, he has become en thusiastic over the plans for brinifinif settlers to the state, and offered bis services without remuneration for th' campaign iu the Mi. idle West this summer. "I'm t'oing to tell those people In the middle west what we've got in Oregon" said Bill Hanley. "We don't have to exaggerate or tell any big stories but just tell them the truth a bout the state. What Oregon needs is more farmers to seitle up the slate and develop our idle land, and that is the kind of men we're going to bring here from the middle west." J R. Heui ioi?, who will do the field work in .he middle west this summer, .as been active in colonization work in the northwest for a number of years. He is familiar with the ag ieultural possibilities and resources of every section of the slate, and as a represen tative of the Eastern Oregon L:ind Co., Red the Warm Springs Prej-ot, has personally located more than 25U fam ilies in Oregon during the past five years. Great interest in the plan for land settkment as announced bv the Slate Chamber ha- been manifested, not on1' in Oregon, but as far east as Owass , Oklahoma and Duluth, Min nesota. Almost every mail brings in inquiries as to whom the party will leave t e middle west for Oregon, ac cording to Secretary Quavle. A num ber of these have declared themselves ready to join the party when it starts for the west. The plan for land settlement as an nounced by the State Chamber recent ly, includes the grouping together of a large party of prospective settlers to be brot to Oregon from the middle west, in a body, taking advantage of the h meseekers' rates over the lims serving Oregon. Arriving in this state, the party will be conducted over the various communities by automo bile for a personal inspection of the attractions that the slate has to offer The cooperation of the railroads has beeu assured and it. is believed thxt, a large number of substantial citizens will be added to Ihe slate thru this means. A I Hunt i ons Pire Robert Sicamore Smith Rave his speed wagon a dolling up one day last week and in the. operation placed a sack over the coils to protect them from the water. The task finished Mr. Smith decided to drive to Board man for a parade on Main street and invited the deputy sheriff to ride with him When about a mile out of town sister Lizzie opened up her ventilators and proceeded to emit a cloud of smoke equal to any three fun neled freighter; whereupon Mr. Deputy took to the sage brush in search of moon shiners Smith at once removed the cause of the camouflage but after the smoke cleared away no deputy wja in sight. We expect him back in time for next Sunday's game. LECTION CALL ISSUED FOR BOARDMAN CITY INCORPORATION i Notices have been posted and vailing sentiment is unanimous published announcing an elec for the incorporation as it will tion on May 20, 1921, in the of- make possible many civic im- tice of 0. J Blavden to deter mine whether Boardman shall hrovements not granted an unin become a city or not. The pre- corporated town. that can tell your farmer wha he shall have for -his product and how mush he must pay foi the finished product, so long as big business cau hold tin whip hand in politics and main tain the open door to foreign immigration, just so long will present conditions exist. Or ganization of the farmer is the apparent solution. Put your sel I in line with the organization Mr Farmer and stay put. A Reader. Commitment ion One wonders how deep the average citizen expects to be nuried before the procession is assured that the job is complete and it is time to return to a more democratic financial and indus trial condition. And yet when we endeavor to arrive at the cause of all present depression we find that the fault lies in the unconcerned attitude ninety percent of the voting public takes of national affairs. The producer and coneuiner register the big end of the tally stick of our country but they are vet asleep to the shrewd tactics which make foi a winning side. Capitalistic enterprises abhor the idea of organizations and yet they have developed an indus i trial organization covering every line of products necessary to the i li vleihood of man. So long as organization exists Hygienic Lectures The lectures given Tuesday morning to the pupils and teach ers of the upper grades and high school by E. S. Boskins and Mrs. E. E. Kelley, lecturers from the Oregon Society of So cial Bygiene, were received with great interest and en thusiasm. There is much need of the sort of instruction fur nished by these educators Some means should be worked out to finance the work of the or ganization in a more satisfactory manner so the good work might bo carried to all parts of the state. After the lectures the visitors were served lunch iu the school cafeteria. Standing of Tennis in I r r Ign lion League. Won i.iwt petv't'fa llermlsUin 3 0 1.000 St nn lie Id !! J (187 Kcho 1 I 500 Irrlgou 1 2 :134 iTlllSlHtl 1 2 334 lioanliiian 0 2 000 The schedule of future games as adopted is as follows: April n Irrigon at St an Held. Kcho tit Herraiston. Umatilla at Boardman, STATE MOWS IT KMX. THE BEST SPRING TONIC Polled Pink or ( hum Salad Place a can of pink or ohum salmon (ti a saucepan, cover with boiling wa ler and cook fifteen minutes Take ' lie fish from can. and separate skin and bones. Serve hot with Uollan daise sauce. i teacup butter Yolks L' eggs h oil pf nl boiling water lu ice J lemon Dash of cayenne i teaspoon salt Beat butter to a cream, add the yolks one bv one, then t he lemon juice, pepper and salt. Plaoe the bowl iu a saucepan of boiling water. Heat with an egg-beater unl il the sauce be gins to thicken (about a minute) and add the boiling water, boating all the Jime. Wheo it is like a soft custard, it is done. FARMERS APPRECIATE VALUE OF PRINTING Department of agriculture figures made public rank Oregon third among the principal wheat producing states of the country to the average yield per acre in 1924. Oregon averaged 20.7 bushels an acre. The Heaver Btate's production was bettered only by Idaho, with 22.5 bushels, and New York with 22 bushels. The figures Included the combined production of both winter and spring crops. The Oregon total product inn for the three years jumped from 15.228,000 butihels In 1918, to 20, 800,000 bushels in 1919, and 22,900,000 in 1920. The largest real estate transfer to be made In Malheur county in a mini ber of years. Involving approximately $300,000, was completed In Vale when the deed conveying part of the hold ings of the Mollne Farms company to the Commerce Mortgage Securities company of Portland was recorded iu the office of the county recorder. The instrument transferred 7676 acres of Irrigable and MM Irrigable land, con siderable property in both llrogan and Jamison and the equities of 37 In dividual contracts of Bale of tracts of land made by the Moline Farms com pany. Leonard Goodrich, 65, was killed in stantly at La Urandt; by the accidental discharge of a revolver which car penters had discovered beneath the floor of an old building used as an auto repair shop. Gordon Bransi m picked up the weapon, which was wrap ped In paper. The revolver was dis charged while he was unrolling the i paper to see what was inside. "The increasing use of the letter head in the farmer" says I'rof. J. J, Falconer of t be deparment of rural economics of Ohio state University, is a significant Indication of his pro gressiveness and of his recognition of the value of advertising. Aside from the pure business advantages to be de rived, its use gives a certain dignity which is Immediately recognized by both himself and the man with whom lie deals. A neatly typewrit ten let ter on stal lonery bea ring t he name of the farm and the products in which the proprietor specializes marks the farm er as nothing else oan as a progress ive business man who lakes pride in his occupation and who merits patronage." Fish From Pad lie Ocean The life history of t lie salmon and the me hods by which enormous iian lilies of this lish are caught and pre pared or distribution are l ull of In terest, in Ihe clear, Icy si roams that tlow from the show-clad mountains of Alaska and Ihe PaolflO North west, small orange-colored globules, lying along the shallow riffles, hatch Into tish. These live for a time In the fresh water but as Ihoy grow larger they follow the current downward to the ocean. For from two to four years these salmon swim the briny deep and then. Impelled by some strange instiiicl, the seek to return to the, st ream f roinjwlionee they came. It is on this return journey, as tin y come from Ihe ocean to the mouth of their native river, that this "sliver horde" is taken In great, numbers in various kinds of nets and traps. IF YOU HAVE A GOOD FACC , 5.AY NOTHING OT THEY'LL TAX IT. J l v y ' SeW I