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About The Boardman mirror. (Boardman, Or.) 1921-1925 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 7, 1921)
1$. Rt e ji s jm mm m DUAIUS & 4 mi A Ml IRROR VOLUME 1. BOARDMAN, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCT. 7, 1921 NUMBER 35. OREGON NEWS NOTES OF PRINCIPAL EVENTS HAPPENING DURING WEEK The trolling launch Red Eagle was totally destroyed by fire off the mouth of the Columbia river. Enrollment in the university of Ore Bon at Eugene this year is 1884, an increase of 384 over last year. Third and fourth assistant postmas ters, to the number of more than 75, held their annual convention at Salem The state will expend $20,000 this fall and winter in the construction of a fish hatchery on the Necanicum river. Approximately 20,000,000 feet of lum ber will be loaded at Columbia river mills for ports in the Orient by Octo ber 20. Walter S. Gore, a hale and hearty resident of Medford, UJ years old, was the first white boy born in Jackson county. Production at the Redmond juniper products mill, rebuilt since the fire which destroyed the first factory, be gan last week. During the last three months Coos county has paid $276.67 in coyote boun ties. The coijnty pays $8 for males and $9 for females. Crews are now engaged in complet ing the six miles of new grade of the Mount Hood Loop highway on the northeast base of Mount Hood. More than 21,720 tourists stopped in Roseburg during the last live months, according to figures compiled by the chamber of commerce. Providing shipments of wheat come in fast enough, the Astoria Flouring Mills company will operate its plant 24 hours a day during October. Wesley Butler, a farmer of the Eagle Point district in Jackson county, was killed when a car he was driving over turned at a curve on the Browusboro road. The mint distillery on the Caledonia marsh, near Klamath Falls, is in op eration. The best of the mint crop is producing about 40 pounds of oil to the acre. The Newberg city council has passed an ordinance abolishing all unlimited franchises granted by the city, making it necessary for concerns to apply for new charters. Ashland will hold its annual winter fair from November 29 to December 2 this year. Elaborate preparations are being made for livestock, agricultural and fruit exhibitB. Crook county dairymen who recent ly purchased two carloads of Jersey cattle in Linn county were go well pleased that they are seeking four additional carloads. As the result of what is believed to be the accidental discharge of a rifle, Warren Garrett, 16 years old, was kill ed instantly at La Grande, the bullet going through his heart. Andrew West, a Finlander, at work In the Eel lake camp of the Buehner Lumber company near Marshfield. was killed instantly when a dead limb from a tree fell and ontshed his skull. The Oregon public service commis sion has suspended the application for increased rates on the Btreet-car lines of Salem, Eugene, West Linn and As toria, until January 1 of next year. The growers in Rogue river valley will receive more than $2,000,000 from their pears and apples this year, ac cording to Mark Montgomery, agent for the Southern Pacific at Medford. Up to date, 2831 ex-service men en titled to benefits under the so-called bonus law have filed applications for cash contributions, while 2682 appli cants have expressed a preference for loans. As the result of a tuition fee of $84 levied by the directors, farmers in the vicinity of Bend will make no effort to send their children to the Bend schools, claiming that the fee is exorbitant. Prunes in the hands of growers in The Dalles district ave been cleaned up for the first time in 18 months. All of the 1920 crop has been sold and the entire 1921 product has either been contracted for or delivered to pur chasers. Registration figures reveal the fact that in point of numbers the women at the Oregon normal school at Mon mouth lead the men with ratio of 19 to L There are just 19 men in school of a total of 361 students who have registered to date. Estimates on the Douglas county prune crop show that the county will produce half of the prunes raised in the Pacific northwest this year. The Douglas county crop is exceeding early estimates and the predicted ton nage now stands at approximately 10, 000,000 pounds. The state irrigation securities com mission, at a meeting held in Salem, voted to guarantee interest for the next six months on $500,000 for bonds issued by the Medford irrigation dis trict; also the interest on $275, 000 of bonds issued by the Payette S! ipe ir rigation district. Lumber shipments by water from the Columbia river during September were the largest in several months. Statistics compiled by Deputy Col lector of Customs Karinen at Astoria, showed that in trie 30 days, 65 vessels loaded at the mills in the Columbia river district, and their combined car goes ampunted to 59,092,371 feet of lumber. Charles Park, president of the state board of horticulture has announced that it will be necessary to quarantine Malheur count on account of weevil found in alfalfa in that county, and that action will be taken at once to prevent the shipping of alfalfa into other counties. A proclamation In line with Mr. Park's suggestion probably will be issued by Governor Olcott. The Bear Creek orchard, on the out skirts of Medford, last week received the highest price ever paid in America for a carload of pears, sold In New York and bringing a gross of $4249. This car contained 1000 half-boxes of D' Anjou pears which sold for an aver age of $4.25. This means that these pears were sold at wholesale averag ing 10 cents apiece for the entire car load. Constitutionality of the Oregon bonus law will be passed upon by the supreme court of Oregon in a friendly suit which is to be instituted in the lower courts immediately. This ac tion was decided upon by the state bonus commission after it had been found that sale of the initial bonds waited upon such action in view of the recent New York decision against the bond issue in that state. There were five fatalities in Oregon due to industrial accidents during the week ended September 28, according to a report prepared by the state in dustrial accident, commission. The victims were Arthur Anderson, car penter, Portland; James Fielder, log ger, Brookings; C. Atterbury. airbrake man, Gresham; Robert Watt, logger, Tillamook, and John H. Palmehn. team ster, Portland. A total of 376 acci dents were reported. Jackson county, with a score of 96.4 out of a possible 100, walked off with first prize in the county exhibits at his gear's state fair at Salem. Jack son county's exhibits specialized in fine pears, although there were in cluded in the exhibit some choice ipples, small fruits and grains and grasses typical of that section of the state. Coos county, which featured cheese and dairy products, obtained second prize with a score of 93.3, while Douglas county was awarded third prize, with a score of 89.7. Only Photo Ever Taken of a itiation m I ul 1 1 01- vff W t ' III Copyrighted photograph by the Autorastcr Service shows the rerc mmy of initiation into the Klu Klux Klan, the recent order which is be it 3 investigated by the U. S. Government. The K. K. K. now has lodges in every state except New Hampshire, Utah and Montana. The scene above was in a woods in Texas, and the ring of white-clad mem bers included a great number of candidates. U. S. PAIS TRIBUTE TO FRtftlii LEAD Paris. The Unih d States Sunday paid its highest tribute to the dead soldiers of France when General John J. Pershing, in the presence of an im mense throng, Including President Mil lerand and oilier high officials, laid the congressional medal of honor upon the tomb of the unknown French sol dier under the arch of triumph, A military review, second In size only to the Motoric vietmv P i K fol lowed the ceremony. A pick, il battal ion of American troops from the forci I of the Rhine led the parade, which was reviewed by President Millerund, Gen eral Pershing, Ambassador Derrick and all the marshals Of Chinee. Before placing th( decoration on the unknown soldier's tomb, Qeni ral P( r Bhins stood before it at salute for sev eral minutes. Thf r hi a voice shaking with emotion, he d'ciaivd: "In the name of the president and the people of the United Stales, as a token of our perpetual belief In the right eousness of the cause for which you died, and as a mark of respect and admiration to you and to your country men, I place this OOngT ssio nal medal of honor upon your tomb." The American headquarters band from Coblenz then played the afarsel laise and the 8tnr-Spuir.;lcd Banner. General Pershing's speech nude a profound impression and brought tear;: to many eves. P& DISCOVER THEATRE CLEW I Gold Dust and Nuggets Hid By Miners 45 VeSr Ago. Wenatchee, Wash. If Mrs. Elitt Turtle, formerly of Salem, Or., can be found, Information is at hand which, I rt'ls believed,- wilt- l-iid to 'the' dis- jcovery of $85,000 worth of nuggets and gold dust bidden along Ihe Co lumbia river near Quincy, Wash., 45 'years ago by miners on their way jhome from British Colombia mines. ' The gold was hastily hidden during the Indian depredation! in the 70s. All members of the party died after ward except Mrs. Eliza Turtle, then a little girl. She has made diligent search for years for the cache of sad dles and oilier aecuut remenls which was the key to the place where the gold was hidden. The cache has been found by two men who were trapping coyotes and Ihe story of the find brought to Wenatchee. Found a pair of spectacles on a wo.il ; ide road. Call at the school office, M Oncle John NUDGIN' ELBOWS BOARDMAN RANCHERS EXPECT TO MARKET II AY THRO DAIRY CATTLE Boardnian ranchers will market ;tne of their hay thru good dairy' tittle. A committee consisting of Arthur Wheelhouse of Arlington, A. 1 P. Ayers, Holatein breeder, and C. C. ; Calkins, Morvow county agent, are now purchasing the cattle, and will begin shipping them in within a fowl days. The cows will be of the Hols teln breed almost entirely, THIEVES BREAK INTO STORES Thieves broke Into Ihe Brownell store, and the H. H, Edward's store Wednesday night of last week. They alto broke a window in the roar of the post office store, and gathered up what loose change was left In the drawer, which amounted to something like $12. The tame en trance was made Into the Eldward's Store, where a box of receipts was gone through, but no mony wan found, No trace of the thieves has as yet been found. Umatilla Hpokes- , mil. HUGE LOS i. v.;i:s LAST YEAR is sil;v Washington, Losses In earnings of workers throughout the country dur ing tln last fiscal year due to invol untary idleness, were put at more than 16,606,000,000, in an estimate pre pared by economic experts of the na tional conference on unemployment. This estimate, It was explained, cov ered the loss in wages because of un employment of all the jobless in the country from July, 1112(1, to August 15, 1921, and was based on tin approxi mation of normal' pay levels, rather than on the scales at the peak of high wages. Efforts of the conference, li was said, would be turned toward a remedy for the economic loss to the country from such reductions of the earning power of its workers in the future by a more Stabilised industrial plan. President rJardiBgiin I statement Called upon governors and mayors throughout the country to organize In their communities machinery for the correct. on of economic conditions along the lines already developed by the conference. ; When a feller nudged elbows, as you know a feller will, that's a-doin' his very durndest to scramble up life's hill, I never stop to jaw him, or to envy him his speed, or disturb a feller-feelin' that we both are sure to need so we keep a-nudgin' elbows, as in friendliness we trudge, each one a-feelin' better'n if the other didn't nudge. . . It never hurts my feelin's, nor affects my mortal pride to have a feller-traveller sorter nudge me in the side; when my corns has got rebellious, or my breath's a-gettin' short, the little nudge reminds me that I've got to be a sport . . . I'll leave it to a court house full of solemn circuit judfi it don't Improve a fell (v CT nerve, to spur it up with Jr -nudges. " Mrs. Soutli'nrd Placed on Trial. Twin Palls, Idaho. Poison said to have been found by stale chemists In the bodies of Hit! four husbands and one brother-in-law of Mrs. Lyda Meyer S nitb ird led to Ihe filing against her Of the Charge of murdering her fourth husband, Edward v. hfeyer, Mrs. Southard's trial opened Monday morn ing. According to Prosecuting At torney Frank u Stephen, of Twin fails Bounty, Mrs. Southard collected 19606 insurance on the deaths of three of the rive men. aii were Insured, with Mrs. Southard as beneficiary. Assassination of President Attempted. Lemberg, General Joseph Pilsud skl, president of the Polish republic, narrowly escaped death by assassina tion here last night. He was entering an automobile In City Hall square on his way to a theater after attending a banquet In his honor when three shuts wen; fir. d at him. Olympia to Briny Unknown Hero. Washington, The historic cruiser Olympia, under command of Capt K, L, Wyman, will sail from Newport, H. 1., Oct 3 to bring home the body of the unknown soldier for burial ul Ar lington on AnnlsticeiTsy, The making of cheese at Board -man is already under way, and will ululate the milk market and take care of considerable of the milk. Supplement the purchase of cows and the establishment of a cheese factory, with the success of the Hay Growers association, Boardnian ranchers Stand to get a fairly good price for their hay. school OIIOANIZA. MOM COMPLETED The high school student body of the Boardman schools completed its organisation work Wednesday: Pres., Wilms Cilbreth; vice-Pres., Kdna BroyleS; see - treas., Dorothy Board mail ; editor, Frances Blayden; boys' athletic manager, Lauren Cumins; girls' athletic manager, Edna Broy les. As provided by the now law the budget committee of the Board mag school district met Tuesday night to prepare estimates for the year 1922- 23, The special committee selected by the board was w. H, Stafford, L. V. Kutzner, and C. 0. Blayden. The original estimate sheet prepared by the clerk was discussed and adopted for presentation to the county board after Which it will be advertised and presented to the voters. When it was discovered that the estimate was some $7,0110 less than last year It was decided to include an item of $6000 for a muoh needed gymnasium for the consideration of the voters. PltKI.IMINAKY I'WIlt I ; I l'( il; I The secretary of the North Morrow Community Pair is prepared to make this preliminary report: Receipts! rrlgon subscriptions $24. oo Boardman subscriptions .... 65.50 County 200.00 $279.50 Expense! rrigou $14.00 Boardninn (i.45 Printing ribbons . 21.75 $42.20 $42 20 To be distributed as prizes $23'' WW There are Ki!) flrsls and X2 seconds besides the special prizes for dis plays so It Is easy lo see that no one will gel much The committee will decide on a plan of distribution during the coming week. BOARDMAN LEGION Itov's EFFECT ORGANIZATION Let DM print those butler wrappers. American Legion, Boardman Post No. 1U4, met Monday night and ef fected a permanent organisation, Of- dcers elected are: Post Commander, Stanley Hatch; vice-PoHt Command er, Al Pine; Post Finance Olllcor, Wm. Pinnell ; Bergt, at Arms, M. L. Morgan. The appointing of an ex ecutive committee was postponed until a future meeting. The social committee decided to give a dance in the Auditorium on Saturday evening, October 1 f t ti to raise funds tO Pro cure speaker for the Armistice Day celebration. The boys would like lo have every one come who can so as to make it a success. DAIKV AND Mot; SHOW 11' rmlstofl is all set for the an nual Dairy and Hog show, October 7 and S. Several new features have been added this year, and indications an that It will be the best show ever given. HOME SWEET HOME Eari Hunt VTill W'ANTA MARRY KV DAUGHTER, EH ? HAVE YOU SAVED AMV MONEY ? ! r1 YOU WANTA MAR.RX KY I JB DADGKTFR,tH ? HAVE OH YOU SAVED ANY MONEY ? WHY ONLY lVj'f ' i saved aoo ; r n "gsS 952k . smr. V" I WAS SLLiN' I'si Mv CAH AND T I" jufr.L JAlD"Thil(TY DAYS j, or tioo f r.V-y v r ya AN' I TOOK THE 'l I HIM TY DAY5 !