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About The Boardman mirror. (Boardman, Or.) 1921-1925 | View Entire Issue (June 24, 1921)
WHO SAID PRICES NAD NOT COME DOWN? One Year Ago You Paid $28.00 for One Sack of X Sugar. Today we Will Sell You for $28.00: 1 Sai k Sugar io us. ItetuM i ll)s. Macaroni 1 H. Tea i Btol. Plow io lbs. Bacon 0 lbs. Colic C lbs. Jennies i sni. Syrup 5 ans Jain 8 cans Peaches : cans Apricots 12 cans Tomatoes i- cans Coin SitK, Pepper, Koda, and several oilier articles. WE ARE HERE TO SERVE YOU Boardman Trading Co. "The West Extension Supply Store" WONDERS OF AMERICA By TTMAXtY I 1 a I I Oor Gift Shop Offers many attractive gift sugges tions for the June bride. Trays, bas kets, potteries, book ends, vases, sug gest only a few of the possibilities. Little gifts of excellence that add a touch of refinement to the home. Sawtclle 's, c. O R E con flfll PENDLETON JEWELERS The barves! lian l I) alers In Raatern Oregon DIAMOND and Tubes Mighty Easy Riding m G A S OILS A C C E S S 0 R 1 E S Expert Guaranteed Repair Work at Reasonable Prices, Service Car Any Time Any Where If Your FORD L sick. We Cm Cure It. No ( uro. No Pay. Boardman Garage , Western Newspaper Union. CZAR OF SMOKESTACK WORLD THERE are some smokes lacks that are unbelievably big too big to be true but the one recently com pleted for the reduction works of the Anaconda Copper Mining company at Anaconda, Montana, sets up a new world record. The concrete base on which this gigantic structure stands required 118 cars of crushed rock, 50 cars of sand and 2U,S!HJ sacks of cement to com plete and weighs approximately 9,250 tons. The slack proper Is constructed of specially shaped blocks or bricks i about two and one-half times the size of the ordinary brick and It took 2, 464,672 of these larger units to com plete the job. To make the mortar necessary to lay these brick required 77 cars of sand. 37 cars of tire clay and 41.350 sacks of cement. The estimated weight of the brick work is 23,810 tons. The exterior diameter of this smoke-and-gas elevator is 8d feet at the base, while the Interior diameter at the top tapers down to 60 feet. The wail is 22 inches thick at the top. The max imum height of tlie stack and its base Is 585 feet 1M, Indies. Smokestacks of extreme size are desirable and in fact necessary, in con nection with certain classes of mining operations, to prevent the destruction of vegetation by the extensive qtian tities of strong and poisonous fumes and gases which result from the re ducing operations. MOST TALK NOT CONFESSIVE Assertion Made That Anecdotes Com pose by Far the Greatest Part of Conversations of Americans. For hours a group of men will talk, and all problems fall like ducks on a rllle range before their well-aimed epigrams. It may he a brilliant ses sion, hut we cannot forbear thinking lhat not many serious thoughts are expressed with fervor, that tew hon est emotions have adequate utterance. A gathering often is devoted to anec dotes, quips and the cracking of jokes, like"! lie biblical thorns, under the conversational pot. Of course, much conversation is nec essarily anecdotal, but twV travelers who meet In the smoker of a train Crossing our American plains do not tell anecdotes merely, says the New York Sun. There the anecdotes take on more meat and grow in length they become tales. Again, however learned we are, we forget our pedan try when we talk In a smoker. Yet over a meal among those we know and will meet again we slough off our impulse to modesty and sincere self-expression and launch forth In all our drab erudition or else we sparkle in anecdote and say nothing to the point ; forgetting that the best Jests, aside the point, seem Isiint less. In short, there la not always enough confessive conversation between Americans, In franco and in Latin America the mrt of conversation DOS become an art of confession of the confession, Indeed, of one's faiths, foi bles ami fancies. As for us, we feel that no one is so Sympathetic per haps, as to merit listening to our personal histories, or, what Is more to the point, the emotional accom paniment of these histories. ORIGIN OF POPULAR SAYINGS Many That Have in Time Become Household Words Can Be Traced to First User. "A red letter day" is an expression Which arose out of the old eccleshis i Ileal calendar. In which festivals and high holidays were printed in red Ink. These Important days consequently he came known as "Ked Letter Days" hence the term today. "Murder will J out" is a phrase which Geoffrey Chau cer originated, although In the tirst in stance It was spelt "Mordre wol out." "Truth Is stranger than fiction" Is a i well-used saying, and perhaps It Is not I generally known that It was originally employed by Hyron In his "Don Juan." j "Escaped with the skin of his teeth." , It Is Interesting to observe, originates I In the Hlble .lob. chapter HI, verse 20, I "Held" originally meant iand on Which trees had DOM "felled or "field." : "Necessity Is the mother of Invention" I Is well over two and a half centuries old. These well-known words wore first found In Ir'rauek's "Northern j Memoirs,", written in MM, "Katen her out of DOQ SS and home," a phrase, in view of the present price of food, un doubtedly repeated by worried house wives, wns originated hy Shakespeare In his "Henry IV." "Anything for a quiet life" Is an expression which arose from n play by Middleton, bearing that title. "Turn over a new leaf," hy the way, was first used in the same play. In the Whirl. Hlohsoo The girl Is very keen to get lu the whirl. Taylor Then tell her to come down to our office and come In by the re viving door when a crowd of BMOSOSJ ger boys are going through. -ttouatoa Pratt I VULTURES ON THE GANGES ' Scavenger Birds Perform Function That Is in High Degree Repul. sive to Westerners. I On December 2. 1920, writes a correspondent, I was In the vicinity of the Massacre Ghat, of evil repute in the Mutiny of 1857, and saw a vulture over the Ganges. Tills scav enger bird was apparently on the surface of the water, and was flap ping Its huge wings, for all the world as if a small crocodile had gripped Its talons and was trying to drag it under. Then I observed a white ob ject come to the surface momentarily and bob under egnin. My Interest was aroused at the strange proceed ings which followed. The vulture flapped its wings as the weight of the flotsam told on its strength. Again the white broke the surface and as j It did so the huge bird, with fully opened wing, appeared to be using itself in the manner of a sail, and, with the help of the breeze, which was blowing, stirred Its prey out of the mid-stream, flopping every now and then, till at last It ran the white object right up on a gently sloping shelf of sand on the near bank. By this time the air was thick with birds, and no sooner had the vulture In question beached Its cap ture than a cluster of like birds swooped flown, and the whole com menced an orgy of feasting and fltrht Ing. The next day a human skeleton remained. HABIT WAS STRONG ON HIM Even Smith's Words of Wisdom Failed to Keep Jones' Attention From Wandering. Smith and .lones were personal friends, so one day Smith took a per sonal friend's liberty aud said to Jones : "You mustn't take offense If I speak lo you aboul something I have had on my mini tor some time just a little habit of yours." "Nobody has ever had the nerve to lell you before," Smith continued In a hesitating sort of voice, "and you are such a splendid, noble fellow." "Yes, yes," answered Jones. Smith cleared Ills throat ; then, with great determination, launched out: "Y'ou're one of those fellows who never really know what is being said to them; you're always pursuing some train of thought. Any one can tell half Ihe time you ure not listening by the faraway look lu your eyes. You've offended a lot of people. Of course. It's terribly rude, only you don't know It. Y'ou mustn't any more, old ( hap" putting his hands on Jones' shoulders. "Promise me you'll not." Jones was then obliged to face his friend. "Just what were you saying?" he inquired In a faraway voice. Is Your Hair Long? The fact thai a person was wrongly certitied as insane led to a discussion the other day as to whether long hair uus a sign of insanity, London Answers states. It was said that, although this was no evidence of insanity, it might prob ably be proof of eccentricity. Many of our greatest geniuses huve pos sessed remarkable crops of hair. It was once said that the love of music, or the possession of musical tulents, tended to increase the growth of hair, and. Indeed, when one looks round there are many instances to make this seem feasible. A great man once made a statement to the effect that there was only a thin dividing line between genius and lunacy. So If long hair Is a sign of Insanity and genius aud there Is only a thin dividing line between the two. It behooves us to he very careful how we treat long-haired, e eentne looking individuals, for fear they prove to be some one too great to risk offending. Talping nrbellio 1850-1865. What is known in history us the Taiping rebellion was an insurrection of a section of the Chinese which orig inated in 1800 and was not suppressed until 18tl5. The rebels were under the leadership 01 u KMUs who declared that lie was divinely commissi. mod by heaven lo establish a universal peace, though hts real object was to over throw the Mnnehuriati dynasty at Po king. This rebel chief, the Detroit News recalls, was named Hung Kiuts MB, who began life as a village schoolmaster, launching out, he styled himself "the heavenly king" and his dynasty "Talping" or 'Great Peace" For a time the Insurrection was one of formidable dimensions, but the reb els were finally defeated, largely through the assistance of British troops, led by Gen. ('buries G. Gordon (18JsV1898), thereafter popularly known as "Chinese" Gordon. Health and Wealth. "Dr. PtMors seems to be a fashion Hide physician." "1 should say so: He has patients at some of the most expensive health resorts In America and a waiting -list of people whose health will give way as soon as they get money enough to consult him."- -Birmingham Age-Her aid. The Family Luxury. Guest It's curious to me that your other (laughters have married Into large mercantile houses and paw youngest daughter is engaged to n loet. Host Yes. 1 allowed It. The family uetvis htm as au adorumeuu Columbia Trading Co. GENERAL MERCHANDISE Boardman, Oregon CONFECTIONS LUNCH GOODS FRUITS AND VEGETABLES Gasoline Oils Hay FLOUR and FEED T Drop in at the I PASTIME Candies Tobacco Pool Room Barber Shop ICE CREAM C. SNIVELY Boardman, Oregon IS T t The Highway Inn O. H. WARNER, Proprietor Boardman, Oregon In Connection BOARDMAN AUTO LIVERY 'We go anywhere night or day" WE SELL LAND or show you a homestead. We Haw it first. Let us show you. i HOUSE WILL BE OPEN UP UNTIL 9 A. M. ALL MORN INGS, AND AFTER 5 P. M. ON SATURDAYS. x $5.00 BOOK FOR $4.75 ;I!HMIIIIIWIM WW INSURE YOUR AUTOMOBILE. We will do it for you. W. A. MURCHIE Successor to J. C. Ballenger Lumber Company BOARDMAN, OREGON :