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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
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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.
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