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Notion & 1 it feb Li HEPPNEK THE BOARDMAN MIRRO Vol. i ,4 BOARDMAN, MOKROW COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 11)21 No. 12 SPRING AGAIN OKEGON NEWS NOTES OF PRINCIPAL I EVENTS HAPPENING DURING WEEK GRJE ATESt HORSE NOW MUNCHtc UMATILLA WINS FROM BOARDMAN Umatilla's husky ball tossers led the Boardman team to slaughter last Sunday to the tune of 15 to. 7. The game was on the Umatilla grounds and witnessed by an en thusiastic crowd of fans. A stiff breeze from the west made judg ment of Jies very difficult for the outfielders from Uoardman, but did not seem to bother Pound, Llewel lyn or Compton appreciably. Umatilla opened the first inning by landing on Boardman's pitcher, Keys, for five runs. The Boardman stick artists failed to locate Milt Smith, who pitched for Umatilla. In the second inning Boardman annexed three runs and held the Umatilla team to one. In the third and fourth cantos Umatilla made two more runs. The fifth inning brought four runs to the railroaders making the score twelve to three. In the sixth frame our boys took a brace and brought in one run, holding Umatilla from scoring. The Umatilla added three runs in the seventh, while Uoardman scored once in the eighth and twice in the ninth. Milt Smith pitched his usual stel lar game for Umatilla, allowing only scattered hits for the most part. Umatilla's veteran catcher, Ford, was able to be back in the game. For Board man Chayme and Wag ner did good work. Keys pitched for Boardman until the eighth inning, when he was replaced by Rand. The latter held the opponents down in the last two innings. The game was ably umpired by J. D. Zurcher of Stanfield. The line-up: Uinntilla Compton, r. f. Caldwell, 1 .b. Parker, 2 b. Llewellyn, c. f. Pound, I t. M. Smith, p. Hutchenson, 3 b. Corelle, s. s. Ford, c. Iloarriiiinn A. Macomber, c. f. Lower, 2 b. Andrews, c. N. Macomber, r. f. Chayme, 1. f. Rands, 3 b. Rose, 1 b. Wagner, s. . Keys, p. Irrigon 1 4 Boardman 0 4 Next Sunday's Guinea. May t, Umatilla at Stanfield. Echo at Boardman. Irrigon at Hermiston. Future (iames. May 8. Stanfield at Boardman. Hermiston at Echo. Irrigon at Umatilla. May 15. Boardman at Stanfield. Umatilla at Hermiston. Echo at Irrigon. May 22. Stanfield at Umatilla. Irrigon at Echo. Hermiston at Boardman. May 2 9. Hermiston at Stanfield. Echo at Umatilla. Boardman at Irrigon. May 30. Boardman at Echo. 200 000 Shoe repair men in Bend have an nounced a 20 per cent cut in prices. Fall grain in Linn county appear to be in excellent condition, with pros, pects now for a good yield. Goat shearing is practically complet ed in western Oregon and still the mohair market has not opened, at least there are as yet no eastern orders of consequence on hand. Good mohair The Hood River Apple Growers' as- s held to be worth about IS cents, sociatlon now holds unshipped but 30 A number of clips have been taken by cars of the 1920 apple crop. : country merchants at 18 to 20 cents. Preliminary plans are being formu- but most 01 'nse were taken in trade, lated for the creation of a union high Reparation has been granted by the school district to center in Bend. j interstate commerce commission to The 21st annual convention of tha ,he 'uman-Poulsen Lumber company Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs of Portland, in a case brought against will be held iu Pendleton May 31, June Ule Southern Pacific railroad. The 1 to 3. Pre-war cafeteria prices now pre vail in Roseburg, according to an nouncement by a prominent restaur ateur in that city. Owing to the low prices of wheat, wool and livestock, only about 70 per cent of the first half taxes for Gilliam county have been paid. The committee on cltj parks of North Bend has set aside April 29 for the purpose of clearing, cleaning up and beautifying the park. Many of the rural schools of Lane commission held that the rates charg ed on fir and hemlock lumber and lath in straight and mixed carloads from Portland to California points were un duly prejudicial. Spring plowing preparation for sowing potatoes t JffBiil under way on the ranches et Central Oregon. Planting will begin in about three weeks. Winter grains were reported in excellent condition, the unusually heavy precipitation during the winter providing sufficient moisture even for unlrrigted lands to curry the crop mm Uppp Man o' War. the greatest horse ever bred, has stepped h's last mile in competition The other day at Lexington (Ky ) track, before thousands of admiring eyes, he plowed his way through mud in long easy strides, his last exhibition Now his owner, S N Riddle of Philadelphia, has retired him for breeding purposes on a Kentucky stock farm Man 0 War, In beating the 1920 champion. Sir Barton, by more than seven lengths In a matched race at Windsor last fall. a record for winning never attained by a horse before nearly a quarter million dollars His record of 1 35 3-5 for the mile was made when "held up" for a sixteenth of the wav bv his iockey He ban never yet been "let out " county are handicaped by epidemics we" int0 ,he s"m"ier. linn nut mill M l' mil of contagious diseases, according to At meeting held in Baker for the UUlLUUu DlUUlll lUll UMATILLA POWER SITE A bill will be placed before con gress eliminating umpires and all other undesirables from a ball game, and reducing the number of innings from nine to six. If Boardman didn't expect to win the pennant they wouldn't be in the league. STANDING OF TEAMS IX auuMAnoN 1 1 . i . t 1 Won Lost P. C. Hermiston 5 0 1000 Stanfield 3 2 600 Umatilla 3 2 600 Echo 2 2 600 After the ten games scheduled to end May 29th five more games will be played on a schedule arranged as follows: The standing of the clubs will be computed and the two highest in Hie percentage column will play two games, the team with the high est average to get the first game on their home grounds. The two next highest will play two games on the same dates and as above, and the two lowest teams will also play two games on the same dates and as above. After the two games have been played, the percentages will again be added and two more games played on the same kind of arrange ments. After these last two games are played, the percentages will i again be ascertained and one game will be played on a similar plan as before with this exception that the game will be played on the grounds agreed upon by the contenders and the gate receipts will be split 50-50. E. J. Moore, county school superin- development of the Thief river pro tendent. Ject- ln lower Powder Irrigation dis- Beavers in the Deschutes river are trlct and the Balm creek Irrigation becoming so numerous that household- Priect. more than 200 Baker county ers on the river banks have complain- cltlzen voted to lobby for the McNary Don't miss the Hard Times Jollifi cation tonight at Umatilla. There will be May Day exercises at the Boardman school at 8:00 p. m. Monday. May 2nd. Mildred Paisley has been chosen queen of the May and Lauren Cumins master of ceremonies. A special feature of the day will be a visit from Miss Helen Cowgill of O. A. C, who will address a meeting of the Parent Teachers following the exercises. Miss Cowgill is one of the state offi cials in industrial club work and will meet the clubs on Tuesday morning. Senator McNary and Representative Slonott have been appointed the Ore gon members of the executive com mittee of the western states delega tion who have associated themselv-.s together to work for tighter restric tions of Japanese Immigration. Lumber business in western Ore gon and western Washington contln ued 36 per cent below normal dur ing the week Just closed, according to the weekly lumber review issued by the West Coast Lumbermen's as sociation. The review announced that production of 116 mills amounted te ed of fruit trees killed by the in dustrious rodents. The Irrigon melon and potato grow ers have organized a selling and buy ing agency known as the Irrigon Co operative Melon and Potato Growers, which will be operated on a co-operative, non-profit basis. June 16 to June 30, Inclusive, bas been tentatively set as the time Co, holding the annual encampment of tbe Oregon national guard, according to a telegram received at the offices of Adjutant-General White. Tbe tax of two cents a gallon on gas oline and one and one-half cents a gallon on distillate, as approved at the recent session of the legislature, returned to the state for the month of March, 1921, a total of $64,377.64. Forest officials and range users in the grazing section tributary to Port Rock have gone on record as intend ing to rid the district of unbranded stock as well as of cattle whose own ers have received no grazing permits. The case brought by Colonel E. Hofer of Salem against Marion county officials to test the constitutionality of the dog license law enacted by the 1919 legislature will be carried to the supreme court of the state for final determination. A mass meeting of fishermen and others interested in the salmon indus try will be held at Astoria during the coining week to discuss the general fishing situation and particularly some of the recently enacted legislation re lating to the fisheries. Veterans of foreign wars from many sections of Oregon met in Salem Sat urday, when action was taken toward organizing a state department of the organization. The first regular de partment encampment will be held in Portland on May 9 and 10. A three cornered valley golf tour nament between teams of the clubs in Eugene, Salem and Corvallls Is be ing planned for next month. Accord Ing to the tentative schedule, teams of the three clubs wlil meet In Eu gene May g, in Salem May 15 and in Corvallls May 22 Leading business men of La Grande, as well as the Central Labor council has joined in a demand that Governor Olcott ana tbe state highway com mission use their Influence to the end that American labor, and as far as possible, local men, be employed on the highway work in Union county. The Linn county farm bureau, under the direction of County Ageut Heyman, has taken up the wool marketing pro ject with the view of having at least 60 per cent of the wool growers of the country signed up as members of the Oregon Wool and Mohair assocla tlon by the end of the present drive. The 102d anniversary of Oddfellow ship In the United States was celebrat ed in Roseburg Tuesday by the Odd fellows' association of Douglas county Members of the order from Gardiner Drain, Elkton, Yoncalla. Oakland. Sutfcerlin, Myrtle Creek. Riddle. Canyonville and Qlendale attended the celebration. reclamation bill, now before congress aad to utilise every effort to place these local projects favorably before the reclamation service. A conference is being held In Portland today relative to securing data dealing with the proposed de velopment of the Umatilla Rapids Piiwur Stile I'liis 1 1 1 1 1 t 1 ! 1 1 1 1 , I.: at. L. H. McMahon, Salem attorney, has , v. '' V (ended by a committee ot Oregon filed with Percy A. Cupper, state en gineer, application for permission to appropriate 300-second feet of water from Mill creek and the Santiam river for power development purposes near Turner. The water will have a drop of 45 feet and will develop 1535 theoretical horsepower. The proposed development will cost 360,000. A walkout of the union longshore men In the lower Columbia river dis trict took place Friday and about 255 men belonging to the Astoria and Rainier locals are idle. The men re fused to accept the new rule of the waterfront employers' union eliminat ing traveling time and board and lodg ing for longshoremen in loading ves sels at points along the river. Two hundred and twenty-five thou sand black speckled trout, hatched at the state hatchery on the Mcftenxie river above Eugene, were shipped to a point on Gales creek eight miles west of Forest Grove by the stste game department. These fingcrltngs will be placed in a pond until they are large enough to liberate. Then they will be distributed in Washington county. A dispute between the settlers of the upper Burnt river valley, In Baker county, and the Kastern Oregon Land company, in Malheur county, was set tled by the state water board recent ly when it completed an adjudication of water rights affecting 509 individual rights and 30,000 acres of land In volved in the controversy were the Don't tniss the Hard Times Jollifl rights of El Dorado ditch, the oldest cation tonight at Umatilla and longest ditch In Oregon, having been built by Billy Packwood, a plo neer miner, many years ago. It is infl miles long. Mr an(1 Mr Arthur L. Larscn Tbe dedication of the Eugene mu- entertained the Herelmi last Sun nlcipal aviation field will take the form ,uv of a state wide lylepaUion of the in- 1 figuration of the MpK patrol la ore- Mr, and Mrs. Euhanks of Golden foa and Washlngfiffa with 14 plants dale, Wash., are visiting Mrs. En I a personnel of ft Ben The board banks' father, Robert Mitchell. trustees of the Eugene Chamber of Commerce has decided to Invite the people of the state to attend the cele- Our Christian Endeavor Socletj is growing and some Interesting meet iocs are held. Don't forget that C. E. starts promptly at 7:30 Sunday evening and we aim to begin on time. A "weenie" roast is the next good lime planned for some time in May. Was it not "Starlight" who made the Query, "Why Not More Lawns?" Perhaps in response to this there are three new beginnings made at bast, which will eventually make a green grassy sward around the homes of J. C. Ballenger, Wm. F. Klnnell and A T. Hereim. business men and engineers. A government hydraulic engineer Is also in attendance to secure infor mation which will be placed before the federal power commission. This shows us that the series of meetings held in this part of the country last winter are now getting results for us. The first meeting boosting the development of hydro electric power from the Umatilla Rapids was helil in Umatilla Jnn uary 2(ith. Other meetings were held In Pendleton and Walla Walla, The organization perfected at I hose meetings is working hard to gel our case properly presented to the fed eral power commission. The value to Boardman of this power site lies in the tact that II will furnish abundant, cheap power lor irrigation, transportation ami manufacturing. Everywhere imliis trial engineers are turning toward hydro-electric plants as a solution of their power difficulties. Just as a line of great manufacturing towns have appeared In New England where there is u fall line in all the riverB, there is bound to be a great industrial center at Lmatila, one of rlii 1 . 1 1 . . I ti'atui'. hnU'nr u i I tin nil , 1 . 1 rm ..... r,.,r, mi una. v nenooi teacher the greatest river of lhiwest. C. A. Greer, of Spokane, repre sentative of the Public School Methods CO., of Chicago, spent Sunday in Boardman. He was entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Wm, Fiunell. On Sunday he addressed the Sunday School along the line Of one's dut to contribute to the hap piness of the world. Prof. Brumbaugh, of o. A. c, has hern secured for the commencement add real on the evening of May 18th. Hit subject will be, "Panaceas." The baccalaureate sermon will be deliv ered in the local church on tin? morning of the r.rlli by I he Key. . W. Hood. There will be two graduates, Paul Hatch and Cram Messenger. LOCAL NEWS W, f, Tucker was a Hcppncr vis itor Wednesday. t The High School Athletic Asso ciation plans a dancing party on the ; night of April 30th to raise money to defray expenses of the associa tion. Rev. W. H Amos, of Portland, was a Hoard man visitor Friday and Saturday in the Interests of the lo cal community church. He went on to Pilot Rock for Sunday services. f, !' Kliiz went to Pendleton bratlou which will be held soon aftei May 10. which Is the date set as the arrival ot the 14 planes from Mather field at Sacramento, to make Eugene the headquarters for the patrol In Ore gon and Washington. At a meeting held In Salem at the call of Governor Olcott, Marion coun ty flax growers who some time ago contracted acreage to the state were given to understand that if they went Sunday and brought his wife home ahead and sowed ehelr fields for 1921 from the hospital While still quit low, Mrs. Klitz seems to be Im proving, which is good news for Boardman friends. they would do so on their own respon slblllty. This warning was necessary, it was said, because of the fai t that the state will not hav- sufficient funds to pay for the flax upon its delivery at the prison plant It was stated. however, that In case the flax grow en would be made to liquidate the flnan 'al obligation dollar for dollaa. Mrs. C. P Harter has Contributed two maples and two cedars for dec oration of the school grounds. They deliver their crop every effort wi" Prove a valuable addition and 11 is nopeu iney will do well In tins section. Mrs. W. F. Pinnell was pleasantly surprised Sunday to meei Mr. Greer of Spokane (who Is representing a book company), whom she formerly knew In Couer d'Lane, Idaho, as her He was a dinner guest of the Finnell's on Sunday and Sunday morning and evening ho gave short but extremely Interesting talks to the Sunday School Christian Endeavor. Mrs. J W. Hood of Irrigon vis ited a lew days last week at tho A T, Hereim home and with other friends. She was enleriaincd at lunch on Thursday at the Kinnell's and dinner Thursday evening by Mrs. Uoardman. Friday she was a guest of Hie Warner's for lunch. Thursda a n 1 11 rum Mis Hereim asked Mrs. Illayden, Mrs. Talbot, Mrs. Flnnell, Mrs. C.orham, Mrs. Ballenger for the afternoon to meet Mrs. Hood Mrs Hood conducted prayer meeting at the church Thurs day evening. The high school play, "Safety First," presented last Saturday, was a real success thoroughly enjoyed by all present. Without doubt It was (he best evening's entertain ment offered the Uoardman com munity this year. Every member of the cast carried their part well, and the dialogue was Dill of fun and the sit nations developed to be very amusing Difficulty In gelling wigs and other theatrical needs rendered the makeup? somewhat difficult, but the omission was scarcely notice able The play was so much en Joyed that there has been some talk of repetition, but that Is hardly advisable considering that the end of the school year Is so near.