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About The Boardman mirror. (Boardman, Or.) 1921-1925 | View Entire Issue (June 10, 1921)
THE BOARDMAN MIRROR VOLUME 1. BOARDMAN, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1921 NUMBER 18. OREGON NEWS NOTES OF PRINCIPAL EVENTS HAPPENING DURING WEEK May was a rainy month m the Rogue river valley, during which 2.47 inches fell. Marion county this year will pro duce more than 1200 tons of straw bei rles. The annual reunion of the ex-students of the old Wilbur academy was held at Wilbur. Brownsville is raising funds by popu lar subscription for the building of a community house. Corvallis is to have a new $50,000 hospital, the building to be started within a few weeks. A co-operative canning company has been organized at Dallas with a capi tal stock of $100,000. Following 64 years' residence In Baker county, O. C. Koontz, 67, died at his home in Baker last week. A big crowd greeted the opening day of the 14th annual strawberry festival and rose show in Lebanon. Warren P. Reed has resigned as mayor of Reedsport, giving as a reason stress of personal business matters. With an attendance of more than 120, the 16th annual convention of the Oregon Bankers association was held at Seaside. Walter Post, well known pioneer, is dead at Oakville, aged 77. He ha 1 been a resident of Linn county practi cally all his life. Membership in the Bend post, Amer ican Legion, was boosted to 164 in the course of a membership campaign car ried OH last week. There were 954 traffic accidents on Portland streets during May, which caused the death of two persons aui Injuries to 95 others. Civil service examination will soon be held to select postmasters for Pen dleton and Dayton, the postoffice de partment h,.- announced. There are now 33 claimants to the reward offered for the apprehension Of the murderers of Til Taylor, late sheriff of Umatilla county. Organization of the Oregon Co-operative Grain Growers' association in Marion county was launched at a mass meeting held near Silverton. More than 100 persons attended the fourteenth annual convention of the Oregon Retail Jewelers' association, held at Astoria Monday and Tuesday. Umpq.ua post, American Legion, has taken a lease on the Hanna farm, a mile south of Roseburg, and will place the field in condition for an aviation base. The strawberry crop in Lane county is heavy and the cannery of the Ku gene Fruit Growers' association is working on the surplus oversales made. Fishermen at the mouth of Rogue river have had a very poor season. The run was light and the price has dropped from 14 cents to 7 cents a pound. H. Hammond, 45, of Portland, was decapitated when a bight on a high line at the logging camp at Keigr, Nan & Flora near St. Helens broke and caught him. It is said that fruit growers in thr Salem district will cooperate with packers in a financial way to make the season a successful one for the plants located there. Ready to handle all the products of its members, the Co-operative Canning and Packing company at Salem open ed its doors last week to commence packing strawberries. A petition signed by 300 legal voters calls for the recall of M. H. Harlow, county commissioner of Lane county, and L. H. Roney of Eugene is a candi date to succeed him. J. D. Farrell of Portland has resign ed as a member of the state fair board and H. C. Browne, manager of the Western Breeders' Gazette, has been appointed in his place. The Oregon public service commis sion, in an .order has increased the rates of the Mosier water service suf ficiently to care for the operating ex penses of the corporation. There are a total of 342 industrial plants in Oregon a; the present time that use more than lOo-horse power, according to a report prepared by C. H. Gram, state labor commissioner. W. E. Johnstone, postmaster at Antelope, shot and killed himself, fol lowing an investigation into the ac counts of the postoffice by G. O. Brun ner of The Dalies, postoffice inspector. Pankratins J. Marugg, 7S, who lived in a cabin on a 30 acre tract about three miles from Brightwood on the Mount Hood road, was found dead by a neighbor. The man had committed suicide with a 30-30 rifle. The state board of contiol at n spe cial meeting awarded the feneral con tract for the new cement dormitory on the site of the state home for the feeble-minded to Carl Engstrom of Salem. His bid was $28,599. Reconsideration of the recent order reducing the rates of the Portland Gas & Coke company approximately 15 cents per thousand cubic feet was denied in an order issued by the Ore gon public service commission. Seventeen towns and cities in Mar ion county have joined in a plan where by literature and advertising matter will be exchanged for distribution in the various tourist campgrounds lo cated in this section of the state. Mrs. Fred Julian, who stablied and fatally wounded her ex-husband when he attempted to enter her home on the night of May 25, was exonera'oi by a coroner's jury at St. He' 'as, which found that she acted in self -defense. The Oregon public service commis sion, in an order issued, has granted the request of the city of Portland for a continuance of the rehearing of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph com pany rate case from June 27 to July 18. Increased fares on the traction lines of the corporation, together with slightly advanced charges for gas, was set out in n new tariff filed w.th . the Oregon public service commission by the Pacific Power & Light company of Astoria. Between 600 and 700 members of Knights of Pythias lodges from ail sec tions of Oregon belonging to the Dra matic Order Knights of Khorassan, a branch of the Pythian organization, were guests of the Salem branch of the lodge Saturday. A boulder, loosened by heavy rains, crashed down the slope of the Des chutes canyon south of Bend, break ing out tne tooting ot the main flume of the Central Oregon Irrigation com pany and resulting in the washing out of 54 feet of flume. Mr. and Mrs. William Chiiders, an eldery couple from Gold Hill, lost their lives when an automobile which they were driving plunged from the Pacific highway near the town of Rogue River and went down the steep embankment into the river. Both were drowned. Thousands of giant rats, driven from the wharves and Front street base ments by the high water, are swarm ing through the business section of Portland seeking new habitation. Com plaints have begun pouring in to the authorities from store owners and shop keepers. The state game commission must start action to have judicial deter mination and an order of the court awarding to it property seized by an officer from a person arrested for vio lating the state fish laws, before such property can legally be confiscated by the commission, according to a legal opinion given out by the attorney general. There were three fatalities In Ore gon due to industrial accidents during the week ended June 2, according to a report prepared by the state in dustrial accident commission. The victims were: Tom Flannery, chaser, V'alsctz; W. G. Earl, hooker, Knappa, and Harry J. Foster, section-man. Salem A total of 295 accidents were reported. Clyde B. Attcheson, commissioner on the interstate commerce commission and exresident of Oregon, is soon to visit the Pacific coast on business for the commission which will include a hearing at Portland July 29 in the case of the Empress Coal company against the Oregon-Washington Rail road & Navigation company and the Northern Pacific railroad. Mount Hood loop road will be clear ed and graded this season for the 23 miles between Multnomah couuty line and Zigzag. It is possible that part of it may even be macadamized this year. This announcement was made by Robert A. Booth, chairman of the state highway commission, following information received from the Mult nomah county commission that Mult nomah county had pledged $170,000 toward the road. New businti&s and lumber shipment RESTORATION OF PROSPERITY DEPENDS ON NATION'S THRIFT Chicago, June 9. W e are advised Che impression that such things as- daily by the economists that by potroast, leg of mutton, side meat, thrift we must restore the capital spare ribs and hens are as much destroyed by the war. out of style as cabbage and kings, If thrifty, we are assured, we can make good, in twelve years, the to tal destruction of the great Euro pean conflict. Only by thrift, we are warned, can we get the abundant capital which means permanently easy money anu. cieuu, pe! malleoli, cell(,y "standards" .which one must prosperous business and national sp,,ml $2 C0() or $3 000 a pear tQ welfare. &re llp t0 and wn0i, wouid con. The opportunity for thrift is here. , dfemn four.flrihg of the head and The cost of living has gone down naild work(,rs in ,he TInited Sta(PS 30 to third The man who lived through war j and not distant dt,ath But there are plenty of signs In daily life to the same effect. One does not have to read books, or He may buy the same things circulars, (o flnd theMK bought a year ago, and at the end A young woman ,,arning $25 a of the month have a surplus to put week pavs ?l8 for a pair of suede la , 1. . 1 1 . I 1 I I" mo i. am. ui, ua may uuj niui o i !,,, Tho.-n 1 l,nu,. n.l u 111m .o- o such shoes still stand at $18 and that: only sliced ham at K0 cents a pound, porterhouse steak, rib chops, rib roasts and broilers are fit food for any American family. Even Government statisticians seem to hold this point of view. They still figure out health and de- 1U Kr ceni ceriainiy one- ; ministers, doctors and teachers, in the year just passed. anion nthur tn .n inH-t Mfo tunes, and still is in business, may now save a part of his income if he wishes. things than he bought a year ago, nd at the end of the month have nothing but receipted bills. It is his choice. How is he choosing? Often sen sibly; that is one reason why there are some signs of business improvement; sometimes foolishly; that is one reason why the improve ment is not more general. The lesson of thrift is still to be learned in many cases. For example: Tabulations of household budgets, family expendi tures, come to hand every week. From reading them, one often gets last week still were in excess of pro duction in the lumber industry ot the districts of western Oregon and Wash ington, according to the weekly lum ber review of the West Coast Lutn bermen's association. New business totaled 61,328,838 feet, shipments 67. 800,639 feet and production 5C. 591. 246 feet. Reports were received from 112 mills. Production was declared to be 30 per cent below normal. The procedure for levying special taxes by many school districts in Ore gon at their annual meetings in June this year, was upset by the passage of the socalled budget law at the last session of the legislature. Under the new budget law, as interpreted by J. A. Churchill, state superintendent of schools, school districts of any class, when levying special tax, must first call together as many taxpayers as there are school directors in the dis trict, and prepare the budget, together with the amount of tax it is proposed to levy. ami in the shops. A man pays $16 for a pair of shoes, although by walking a few blocks he can get equally good ones for $9. And so, with the raw ma terials for shoes costing less than ten years ago, the $16 shoe is still priced, and sold as readily to some men, as in 1918. A few miles from Chicago, the proprietor of a drug store drives a medlutt) priced motor car; he owns the business. His delivery "boy" also drives a car which, new, cost only a few hundred dollars less than the proprietor's. The other evening a seven-passenger motor car drove up to a house where the writer was to dine. A young woman got out, who after ward appeared in the dining room as a waitress. Her father, who was not overpaid as a small town em ploye, had brought her in his ma chine to do her bit of work and he called for her later when the bit was done. Very good, lucky father and fortu nate daughter; perhaps it is capti ous to mention it only, if motor cars, cord (ires and gasoline are to continue to be necessary to the "health and decency" of standard living, the readjustment is certainly complicated, and the reconstruction will have to be notably revised and prolonged. How many persons have heard the expression from unemployed men of late: "I'd starve before I'd work for $5 a day"? Plenty of them, if they have kept SOLDIERS' BONUS MEASURE CARRIES-WOMEN JURORS IN ANOTHER EARLY SUMMER BATTLE Complete or partial returns from every county in the state except Curry and Lake yesterday rolled up the majority in favor of the soldiers' bonus amendment to more than 45, 000. The amendment carried by a favorable vote of two and one-half to one. The bonus amendment car ried all but two counties. In Linn and Morrow counties small majori ties were registered against it. The amendment lengthening the legislative session and increasing the pay of members was decisively beat en. The amendment giving the gov ernor power to veto an emergency clause attached to a legislative en actment without affecting the re mainder of the bill carried by a strong majority. The voters have defeated the hygienic marriage bill. The measure in doubt is the bill providing for optional jury duty by women. The special election passed very quietly In the Boardman precinct, about 60 per cent vote being cast. All the measures were favored. WHAT GRADED HAY REALLY SIGNIFIES is EXPLAINED All of the hay fanners of the West Extension Irrigation) Project who are contemplating silling hay through the Oregon Hay Growers association are keenely Interested In knowing what graded hay neally Signifies. The following is a copy of the State Regulations regarding the grades of alfalfa: "Choice alfalfa hay shall be alfal fa hay 95 per cent pure, good, clean, and of natural color, sound, sweet and well baled. No. 1 alfalfa hay shall be alfalfa hay with a mixture of not to exceed ten per cent combined of bright bleached or other tame grasses, and may contain not more than a slight trace of foxtail. It shall be leafy, reasonably line, of good green na tural color, sound, sweet and well baled. No. 2 alfalfa shall be alfalfa with a mixture of not to exceed twenty per cent of other lame grasses. It shall be of fnlr color, leafy, rea sonably tine, sound, sweet and well baled. No. 1 mixed alfalfa hay shall be hay carrying a mixture of 15 to 50 per cent of clover, or 20 to 50 per cent of timothy or other tame grasses, exclusive of redtop, or it may contain 20 per cent of redtop or 15 per cent wild hay In lieu of ejther clover or timothy or other tame grasses. It shall contain not more than a trace of foxtail and shall be bright, sound, sweet and well baled No. 2 mixed alfalfa hay shall car ry the same percentage of mixture, but is not of good color for No. 1. their ears open. But why multiply cases? Now, if it were possible, most of us would be gratified to see all de livery boys ride in touring cars, waitresses motor to their appoint ments, all the men and women walk down th' boulevard in $18 suedes and $16 calfskins, and everybody employed at wages that would make $5 a day look like starvation. Only it is not possible; there Isn't mone y enough In the United States; even In the flush times of war, there was not money enough. If all the incomes above $25,000 a year had been taken away from their posses sors and had been distributed among the rest of us, we should have re ceived an increase of lesB than a dol lar a week each. What is the lesson? Simply that a lot more of us should sober up, reckon with things as they are rather than with things as they were or, perhaps, should be and do our part In accumulating by thrift the savings, Hih rurplus, the capital, Dial Is to replace the losses of war and float business again into the deep and smooth waters of general wellare and permanent prosperity. By Heorge Wheeler Illnnian, not ed financial authority. The savings division of the Treas ury department has been preaching the gospel of thrift and saving constantly since the signing of the Armistice. The Government Is seek ing to Induce everyone to save and invest their savings in Government Savings Securities, such as the 25 cent Thrirt Stamp, the $1 Treasury Savings Stamp, the $5 War Savings Stamp, and the $25, $100 and $1000 Treasury Savings Certificates. This would release banking resources for commercial enterprises These se curities are on sale continuously at post offices and banks. It shall be of fair color, sound, sweet and well baled. We believe that a careful study of these grades will convince every hay grower that we have very little to gain by asking for State Inspection, as this must be paid for by the peo ple requesting the inspection. It seems to me to be far preferable If the association would undertake to provide its own Inspection and its own interpretation of what, these gardes really . mean and back up their own interpretation with their own inspection. This is of course a matter which must be worked out later. L. A. HUNT, Co. Agent. HAVING OK DAIRY LOSS is PURPOSE ok COURSE How to Increase your dairy re ceipts by proper management and care of the dairy herd will be cover ed by lectures ami demonstrations at O. A. C. Farmers' week, June 13th to 18th. Dairying U one of Oregon's lead ing Industries and Is also one that probably suffers a larger loss thru poor management than any other in dustry of the state. The loss from disease, which can largely be eli minated, is 20 per cent of the value of the dairy products sold yearly; and the loss thru poor management is probably as great or greater. A study of breeds and types of dairy cattle and a discussion on why your cream test varies from test to lest are for Monday. Dairy cattle judging demonstra tions, the principles of feedlng dairy cattle, raising the dairy calf, selection, care and management of the bull, and an easy way to increase your cream check, Tuesday. Wednesday program will begin with what official testing does for the breeder, followed by making up the dairy ration, the causes and treat ment of udder disease, progress of experimental work of the dairy de partment, cooling of milk on the dairy farm, making your own Ice cream, sterility in cattle, the great est need of Oregon's dairy Industry. Many subjects of vital Importance to the dairymen will be given In 'Ihuisday's program The value of bard record -keeping and cow test ing assoclal Ion, feeding and care of fi wi on Official test, does it pay to Ned in In to cows on pasture, how tin experiment station can help the dairyman, how to bottle and sell milk, and sale of dairy bulls bred by the college, follow. NOTH'K OK ANNUAL K4IIOOL MKKTING Notice is hereby given to the legal voters of School District No. 25, of Morrow county. State 00 Oregon, that the ANNI'AL SCHOOL MKKT ING of said district will be held at the school house to beln at the hour of 2:00 p. m. on the third Monday of June, being the 20th day of June. A. D . 1921. This meeting Is called for the pur pose of electing one director, one clrk, and to vote on the 1922 1923 budget and the transaction of busi ness usual at such meeting. Dated this 2 1st day of May, 1921. Attest: Mrs. Claire P. Harter, Kugeue Cumins, Clerk. Chairman. The ladles' Aid realized a neat sum from the lunch served Tuesday at the school house. Not as many came as were anticipated, but those who had lunch at the Cafeteria pro nounced it excellent, and what food remained was quickly sold.