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E I 11 r w BOARDMAN MIRROR Vol. i BOARDMAN, MOKROW COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1921 No. 13 0REU8N NEWS NOTES uF PRINCIPAL EVENTS HAPPENING DURING WEEK Considerable street paving work is In prospect in Albany this summer. Snow is yet six feet in depth on the Long Creek Prairie wagon road in Grant county. The Creswell city council has decid ed to purchase the present local water plant at a price of $2000. John B. Yeon has resigned as super intendent of the Columbia river high way tn Multnomah county. The Cottage Grove Electric company will double the caapcity of its plant, which now is 900 horsepower. McMinnville college debaters will meet the College of Puget Sound in a dual deDate May 27 at McMinnville and Tacoma. H. O. McClaren, aged 60, a farmer living near Wallowa, fell from a load of hay, the wason running over hlni and killing him instantly. While picking wild flowers with a playmate, Virgil Kohler, aged 3, son of Percy Kohler of Dufur. was drowned In upper Fifteen Mile creek. The coming week is set for the drive for the Methodist church campaign to raise $50,000 for the erection of a new 1100,000 church as Corvallis. Governor Olcott, acting at the re quest of President Harding, has desig nated the week, May 22 to 28, inclu sive, as forest protection week. Lane county pure-bred Poland-China hogs are now going to the Hawaiian Islands, and their quality is so high that the demand cannot be met. Community organization work has been carried on in 17 different com munities in Lane county by Ira P. Whitney, county agricultural agent. There apparently wlU be no lack of j teachers available for the schools in Clatsop county the coming school year, according to County Superintendent ! Byland. Twenty-five additional indictments : and civil suits arising out of the fail ure of the Bank of Jacksonville will be returned by the May term of the grand jury. J. R. Hardwick, a nightwatchman on the O.-W. R. & N. line at Arlington, was instantly killed when he was run over by a train while he was on his hand speeder. June 3 and 4 have been decided upon as the date for the 29th annual pioneer picnic held each year at Weston under the auspices of the Umatilla County Pioneers' association. The Smythe-I.onegan ice and storage plant at Pendleton, which suffered a 75,000 fire two months ago, is being rebuilt on an extensive scale, and will be completed by May 10.. At a recent meeting of The Dalles city council bids for construction of 20 blocks of concrete streets were open ed and the lowest bid received was for $2.74 per square yard. The strike of the longshoremen in the lower Columbia river district Is still in progress and as a result the loading of vessels at the lumber mills is much slower than usual. Retrial of Henry Albers "immediate ly" was demanded by the executive committee of Portland post of the American Legion in a telegram sent Attorney-General Daugherty. Bids on $52,000 of Lane county's road bond$ were accepted by the coun ty court. The bids for the bonds were at par and the money will be used for immediate road construction. The directors of the Oregon Inter state Fair association met at Prine ville to lay the preliminary plans for the annual fair, which will be held there October 5 to 8, inclusive. Pendleton expects to be host to more than 500 visitors June 14, 15 and 16. when members of the Grand Army of the Republic and Daughters of Veter ans will hold their annual conventions there. Helen Crawford, 4-year old daughter of Frank Craw ford of Rock Creek, Gil liam county, while endeavoring to as sist her cousin, who had fallen into the creek, was dragged in and drowned. Major Clarence R. Hotchkiss of Port land has been appointed by Governor Olcott a member of the soldiers' and sailors' relief commission of Oregon to succeed Dr. Robert C. Yenney, who died recently. The Dalles-California highway and the so-called Sherman county connec tion are now tn fine condition as far as construction work ha proceeded. according to Herbert Nunn, state high way engineer. The United States government Is now negotiating with Japan over a treaty concerning the subject of Jap anese immigration, according to a tel egram received at the executive of fices in Salem from Senator McNary. Mrs. Lou Reader of Ashland Is the owner of a hen which recently laid an egg that measured nine Inches the long way and seven inches around. The egg, though perfect in appearance, consist ed of two eggs, one within the other. The Oregon Growers' Co-operative association, with headquarters in Sa lem, has announced that the organiza tion would handle the crop from ap proximately 500 acres of broeeoli dur ing the next season. This estimate in cluded the acreage at Roseburg. There will be 250 acres of broccoli in the Willamette valley as well as smaller acreage In Polk county. The Union county court has author ized immediate sale of $400,000 worth of the $1, 4U0.000 of road bonds voted by Union county. Sale of the tionds probably will mean that the road from Cove to La Grande will be paved this year. After being struck on the forehead by a golf club in the hands of Frt der ick Basche, 14, a chum, Lyle Mcln tyre, 10, died following an operation at Baker. The actident look place when the boys were playing on the lawn. Because it was feared that the pro posed strawberry festival planned for Hood River for June might interfere with harvest help of the upper valley, where picking would be at its he light, plans for the valley event have been canceled. The 15th annual convention of the United Metal Trades association of the Pacific coasi was held in Portland with nearly 100 delegates, representing the districts of Washington, British Colum ! bia, Oregon and the Inland Empire, in attendance. Both the Hawley Pulp & Paper com pany and the Crown Willamette com pany, each operating big paper mills in Oregon City, have announced a 20 per cent cut in wages, effective May 1. Both skilled and unskilled labor will be affected. The state highway commission, at a meeting to be held in Portland May 26 and 27, will open bids for the im provement and construction of roads at an estimated cost of $600,000, and bridges involving aggregate expendi- i tures of $270,000. Orders for lumber In western Ore- gon and western Washington have fallen off 52 per cent in the first 16 weeks of the present year, according to reports presented at a meeting of the West Coast Lumbermen's associa tion In Portland. Lane county farmerB offer to take 30,000 of Lane county road bonds at, par, bids having been opened by the county court last week. The farmers interested in the new road from Eu gene to Crow and Hadleyville oft. red the only bid on this issue. A conference in Portland or at some other convenient point in Oregon to consider freight rates on fruits con signed to. the eastern markets was urged In a telegram prepared by the J Oregon public service commission and sent to the Interstate commerce com mission at Washington. That the summer regional confer ence of representatives of fedi ral and state boards for vocational education will be held in Portland during the summer of 1922 was the opinion ex pressed at Salem by E. E. Elliott, di rector for the Oregon state beard of vocational training at Salem. Plans for the Portland exposition to be he'd in 1925, being carried on In Washington, D. C, by Colonel D. M. i Dunne of Portland and W. P. Hawley of Oregon City, encountered a snag with the discovery that arrangements are still under way In Boston to hold an exposition there the same year. Twenty-five or more alleged victims of Carlos L. Byron, who is now serv ing a term in federal penitentiary for fraudulent locations on timber lands, wers summoned to appear in Portland Monday to testify before the federal grand jury. Byron wrote contracts with more than 125 people of Marion county, It is said. Commencement Week Program Wednesday, May 90th, In t he Auditorium. Invocation Rev. J. W. Hood Piano Solo Schubert's Serenade Belle Packard Oration Immigration Uram Messenger Oration Where Shall We Anchor Paul Hatch Vocal Solo Spring Song Mrs. W. L. Finnell Address "Panaceas" Jesse Franklin Brumbaugh. A. M LI.. 11, Professor of Psychology. O. A. C. Piano Duet The Jolly Blacksmith Mrs. Edith Crawford, Miss Naomi Runner PROGRAM OK THE WEEK Baccalaureate Sermon Sunday, May Eleven thirty A. M., at the church. Commencement Exercises Wednesday, May Bight P. M., Auditorium Eighth Grade Promotion" Exorcises, Friday, May Eight P. M., Auditorium ftlghth Grade Promotion Exercises. Friday, May 90th, in the Auditorium. Song Dairy Maids Primary Dialogue Waiting for the Train Junior Recitation Trading Hoss's. Edward McClellan Piano Duet Misses Runner and McNeill Song- O, Tell tls Merry Birds J. H. S. Girls Piano Solo Con Amore Mildred Paisley Dialogue Father's Convention J. II. S. Hons Song Shoemaker's Song Primary Recitation -The Teacher's Dream.... Marie Messenger Vocal Solo Wahnona Keyes Duet Jas Weech, Earl Olson, Raymond Hango Piano Duet Ethel Broyles, Belle Packard 15th 18tlt 20th Girls High MAY DAY OBSERVED BY BOARDMAN SCHOOL-MAY POLE AND QUEEN STANDING OF TEAMS IN IRRIGATION LEAGUE Won. Lost P. C. Ilermiston 6 0 1.000 Stanfield 4 2 .666 Echo 3 2 .600 Umatilla 3 3 .500 irrigon 1 5 .166 iioardman 0 5 .000 Carl Ayers Ray De rap Bey Frances C.ilbreth Raymond Hango James Howeil Odessa Leonard Eighth Grade Class Edward Roll McClellan Ida. Mefford karl Olson James Weech Howard Packard Robert Partlow Cathleen Marshall WIND STOPS OA ME Owing to high wind the Hoard-man- Echo game was called off Sun day alter the seventh inning with i lie score standing IS to 3 or words to that effect, J. I) Zurcher, the able umpire of Stanfield, officiated. Rounds pitched the first four in nings for Boardman in good form, and was relieved by Hal Stewart for the remainder of the game. We are sorry to learn that Um pire Zureher will not be with us next Sunday. " INSPECT SCHOOLS. E. H. Kuntz of Boardman has joined) the Wattenburger shearing crew of Echo. W. M. Smith assistant superin tendent of public instruction, and Mrs. Lena Snell Shurto, county su perintendent of Morrow are on an inspection trip covering the big high schools of the county. Pine City, Irrigon and Boardman were favored with calls on Thursday and lone and Lexington on Friday. Mr. Smith will address a school board convention at Heppner on Satur day iu the interests of teachers' salaries. The Parent-Teachers association met May 2 with Mrs. Bellenger, pies ident, In the chair. The purchase of a "movie" machine was discuss ed, and insurance, etc., investigated. Report of committees and delegates elected to attend the state conven tion held in Pendleton May 1 1 id 13. PfBW PHONE OWNER. J. Walter Meade of Nehalem, who built the Iioardman telephone system was in Hoard man on Fri day in company with G. G. Mc Pherson who lias purchased Mr. Meade's interests and will locate In Boardman to manage the same. Im provements contemplated are an extension to Irrigon and another long distance line out of Board man. Mr. Mcpherson has pur chased two lots and will build him a home here, and perhaps engage in other business, as he is much pleased with this country after bavin;; lived in Texas many years. MORROW COUNT? PAIR The dates for the eighth annual Morrow County Fair have been sei for September 15, Hi and 17, 1921. and the premium list has been made public by Secretary-Manager W. W. Smead. .The premium list is comprehen sive and seems to cover about every line of endeavor in the county and cash prizes are offered in all de part ments. In addition to the regular depart ment awards special awards will be made as follows: Bach community scoring 60 points $20.00. Each individual scoring 66 points on farm display, 110.00, Best display of wheat, three or more varieties, $7.00, $5.00, $2.50. Best displays of wool in the fleece $7.00, $5.00, $2.50. Best fat hog $7.00, $5 00, $2.50. Beat exhibit of soda and baking powder biscuit (all material sup plied and you make and bake I hem In the presence of the judges), $5.00, $3.00, $2.00. Most artistically decorated school booth, open to all schools in the county, must score 66 points, $10.0(1 $7.50, $5.00. May 2nd was a very busy day at the Boardman public school. Starting at 2 o'clock was the crowning of the Queen of May, by master of ceremony and her accept ance of the throne, which with her trailing robe of white, and small flower girls and pagea, was very picturesque. The w inding of two May poles, by fairies in gold and purple, and a wand drill by the boys, concluded the program. Those present immediately re turned to the high school room Where Miss Helen Cowgill, club worker from O. A. C. gave a very Interesting talk on club work and tlie summer school, which lasts for two weeks, after arriving the ex pense of which is only $15 and the boys and girls are taught the prac tical side of homeraaklng, or the agricultural course. Of course there is some play, such as the swimming tanks, picnics, etc., which have capable instructors, or chaperons, as the case may be. EliKY MEETING. The county athletic meet sched uled for May 14 has been called off for this year and only Hie declama tion contest on the evening of the 13th will be held The Boardman SChoOl baseball team will go to Hermision Friday the 6th for a game with Ilermiston school team. Ladies Aid met Wednesday .af ternoon in the church. Mrs. Board man 0!ng absent the business meeting was conducted by the vice president Mrs. Halter. To the few ladies of the project who do not attend and indeed they are few, If you knew what interesting limes were had you'd not fail to attend, You know the old time-worn joke about ladles aid being a place to learn all the new gossip; in our town that doesn't hold good be cause perhaps p.:: one of the mem bers once expressed It, "We can't talk about our neighbors, for a very gooil reason, they are always there." ON MOTHER'S DAY Si Hil l Ti LB -lu"iU c Nx 1 r ill A community meeting in the in terests of the proposed ferry at Iioardman is called for Saturday night. The athletic association of the school plan to give a dance that same night to raise money to de fray the expenses of the a relation. W. II. Stewart accom inied Di vision Engineer R, H. idock on an inspection tour i Umatilla county Friday. Edgar Smith has irCU. d the little red bug of J C. Ualleuger, much against the wishes of Mrs. Ballenger who had become so great ly attach to Lizzie. H. A. Miller of the Miller Lum ber Co. of llend, was a business sailer in Boardman Tuesday. J. W. Downing is on the sick list this week. Mrs. S. II. Iioardman attended a onventicn of the ladles aid in l'en- dleion Tuesday and Wednesday. Mrs. ('. P. Hurler, vice president of the Ladies Aid. called a special meeting Sunday morning after DUrcl services for all Aid mem- icrs present to discuss the matter of sending a delegate to the Pres byterian Missionary meeting at Pendletorl. Mrs. S. II. Iioardman was unanimously elected to repre- MBl this society and she left Tues day afternoon to be present at the young peoples session that evening md for the opining meeting Wed nesday morning. Mrs. Boardman has been such a sincere, devoted worker for the Ladies Aid of the ommunity Church and has had so much to do with the upbuilding of both it and the church Dial the members thol her more than de serving Of the honor bestowed. Owing to a colli wind it was neeesary to stage the May Day exercises in the school audi- torlutn. Queen Mildred was si oiled to her throne by the mau ler of ceremonies and attendants. Whereupon two maypole dances were given by groups of girls and a wand drill by the hoys and a song by the primary pupils. Then Mr. H. R. Carpenter of Arlington took a photograph of the crowd. About fifty visitors were present. The P. T. A. met immediately after and iirianged for delegates to the state convention at Pendleton May li lt, Mrs. S. II Iioardman, Mrs. C. 0. Illaydon, Mrs. Earl Harper and Mrs. Lulu Wlcklander were chosen. The association had the pleasure of a talk on Club Work by Miss Helen Cowgill of O. A. C. Miss Cowgill In ni Tuesday with the Boardman school club members leaving in the afternoon for Pendleton and later she will go to Malheur County. The high school dance Saturday night was well attended and enjoy able. The boys cleared about $15 for the athletic fund.