THE BOARDMAN
MIRROR
VOLUME 1.
BOARDMAN, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOV. 11, 1921
NUMBER 40.
OREGON NEWS NOTES OF PRINCIPAL
EVENTS HAPPENING DURING WEEK
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The Eugene Rifle and Revolver club
has been organized with 18 members.
Black diphtheria of the most viru
lent type has closed e Tualatin
schools.
There were 1040 cows tested by the
Tillamook Cow Testing association
during October.
A freight train on too Valley Siletl
railroad was wrecked near Hosklns
when a bridge collapsed.
A score or more of sheap and goats
have been killed by bi.;r in Lincoln
county during the past week.
A total of $153,753.14 was turned
over to the state treasurer by G. G.
Brown, clerk of the state land board,
during October.
Oeese are thick this year in eastern
Oregon, according to George Tonkin
of Baker, United States game warden
for that district.
Cow testing work in Union count?
has resulted in finding that 98 per
cent of the cows are free from all
traces of tuberculosis.
By a vote of 233 to 208. the pro
posed bond issue of $18,000 placed be
fore Ashland voters for approval the
second time this year, was defeated.
Oregon had 87 deaths from automo
bile accidents in 1920, which was at
the rate of 11 to each 100,000 popula
tion, according to the census bureau.
Oeorge W. Humphrey, identified
with newspaper work in the Willam
ette valley for almost half a century,
died at his home at Jefferson, aged
64 years.
W. L. K user of Des Moines, la., has
accepted the superintendency of the
Oregon state training school for boys
and will enter upon his duties there
January 1.
The Hood River Apple Growers' as
sociation Is utilizing Idle funds of its
members and other citizens of the
valley in financing the movement of
the apple crop.
L. Mathews, 74, for the past 69 years
a resident of Roseburg, is dead as the
result of a fractured skull, suffered in
a fall from an auto truck In which
he was riding.
At a special election held at La
Grande, the proposed bond issue for
reconstructing the present waterworks
system of the city was defeated by a
vote of 380 to 448.
Graduates of Oregon Agricultural
college since the college was founded
in 1870, now number 3116, according
to the figures compiled by Zelta Feike,
secretary of the Alumni association.
Ralph S. Hamilton of Bend was ap
pointed by Governor Olcott a member
of the Oregon state tourist informa
tion bureau. He will succeed Wal
lace Blrdsall, who died recently in
Portland.
The big sawmill of the Booth-Kelly
Lumber company at Springfield will
resume operations December 1 after
having been idle since last February,
according to A. C. Dixon, manager of
the company.
The Sherwood cannery In the sea
son recently ended canned 180 tons of
fruit 19 tons of strawberries, 17 of
loganberries, 18 of cherries, 8 of rasp
berries, 6 of pears, 40 of prunes and
64 of blackberries.
A report now being prepared by A.
H. Lea, secretary of the Oregon state
fair board, will show that the revenue
from this year's state fair exceeded
the expenses by approximately $25,000.
This money goes into the general fund
of the state.
The cranberry crop of Coos bay has
turned out a paying proposition. On
a tract on North slough the produc
tion has been about 100 to 150 bushels
per acre. There are at the present
time about 18 acres planted In cran
berries in this district.
A paper mill worth $10,000 is now in
the possession of the forestry school
at Oregon Agricultural college. This
machine is a miniature, and is com
plete in every detail and capable of
turning out paper of any quality of
size desired from wood pulp.
Carson D. (Pete) Beebe has been
bound over to await the action of the
Linn county grand jury on two charges
of first-degree murder, in connection
with the deaths of John Paint-r and
his 19-year-old son, William Painter,
with whose murder Beebe is charged.
An option has been taken by the
Hill interests on the Gales Creek &
Wilson River railroad, and officials of
the Northern Pacific and Great North
ern companies are making prepara
tions for the purchase of the line and
its extension down the Wilson river
to Tillamook.
James A. Stevenson of Halsey, Linn
county, drew license plate No. 1 in
the drawing for motor vehicle mr i?
bers for 1922 held in the office of
the secretary of state at Salem. License
plate No. 13 went to R. R. Lewis ol
Echo, Vhile John Baker, d:3tric at
torney of Hood River county drew
plate No. 'i'i.
The city of McMinnvllle has filed
an application in the offices of thr
state engineer for permission to ex
propriate 35 feet of water and con
struct a reservotr at the headwaters
of the Nestucca river for the storngt
of approvimately 6000 acre feet ol
water. This development contemplate:
the construction of a 50-foot earth fill
dam, a tunnel approximately half a
mile in length, about five miles of 46
inch pipeline and a powerhouse at an
estimated cost of $350,000. The power
will be used for municipal purposes by
McMinnville.
M. J. Deweese spent Sunday in
Arlington, visiting his folks.
ILLINOIS LIMITED
LOOTED BY BANDITS
Paxton, 111. A dozen bandits armed
with pistols, shotguns and bombs,
which they used freely, wounding sev
eral trainmen and mall clerks, held up
the New Orleans limited train on the
Illinois Central railroad and with true
wild west tactics looted the mall car
of all the registered mail and the val
uables in the safe and then escaped
in waiting automobiles, which were
stationed two miles south of Paxton.
The train was first stopped on a
bridge over a small stream by three
bandits on the train, who crept to the
engine cub over the tender and held
up the engineer and fireman, made the
fireman disconnect the mail car and
the baggage car and drive further
south, where the rest of the despera
does helped in the bombing, dynamit
ing and firing the mail car before it
could be entered and looted.
A mall pouch containing $100,000 in
cash was believed to have been the
object of the bandits Ironically
enough, the bandits had the sack with
the cash, but for some reason dropped
it beside the tracks.
E. A. Germer, chief postal inspector,
announced that the toot obtained by
the robbers will total approximately
$400.
INVESTIGATING GET-OFF
it was i moored around town Tues
day that a government agent was
here in the interests of the Umatilla
Wallula cut-off, and that he started
out looking over the field between
here and Wallula. Spokesman
CALLED TO THE COLORS
About twenty-five years ago or twenty or thirty, it makes
but little difference a son was given unto a man and a woman
in America or Germany or France or Russia or Austria or
England, for the place of his birth was no more important than
the time. Except for the visible presence of the angels, all the
sacredness and love of another birth attended here. He fed at
his mother's breast until he was old enough to grasp his father's
finger and take his first uncertain steps. Through childhood and
boyhood and youth they guided him, loving, hoping, planning;
he was their son. When sickness came, long nights were not
too long for them to linger wakeful at the bedside, praying that
God in His goodness might let him live. Why birth, then futile
death? It was the age-old question.
Yesterday the great heart of humanity prayed for him as
he wont about his work- In shop or harvest field, or at building
a home where the. mystery of love and life should be repeated.
The world hoped tor the word that should assure peace. It did
not come; instead there was the "call to colors" meaning for
him the call to lie out under the stars in agony or merciful
death; meaning, for those who gave him years of care and
training, othej years of empty sorrow. For that is what war
means, that and worse, for only the lesser stories of its horrors
ever get into print. Every battle means wounds indescribable,
anguish unspeakable, agony unendurable. Could the mothers of
the world look down upon the first battlefield the second battle
would not be fought. Their tears would wash out the hate of
men; their prayers would stand in guch array before tue throne
of God that somehow the marching armies would be halted.
Why is war, anyway? What does it settle? Does martial
glory ever pay? Is any ton of woman of so little worth that he
should be fed to the dogs of war senseless brutes that they are?
These questions will never be answered so long as we think or
armies in the mass and forget that each soldier 1b the son of a
mother who braved death for him, who watched at his cradle,
dried his tears, and taught him to be a man. Put all the broken
hearts together, and they make an army, too. We hope that in
all the world those who bear the sons of men shall somehow
so clutch the reigns of power as to make the spilling of blood
of men for evermore impossible. Is It too much to hope?
NEK EM CONFERENCE CUMM1TTEE
PAIS BOARDMAN FRIENDLY VISIT
SIGNS WRITES ARTICLE ON
MORROW COUNTY NEEDS
Mr. and Mrs Guy L. Lee furnished
special music at the meeting of the
Christian Endeavor on Sunday night,
clarinet and piano.
M. B. Signs has published the fol
lowing comprehensive article on the
needs of this county in the Tele
gram's prize contest between Com
mercial Club secretaries:
The needs of Morrow county are
probably not much dilferenc from
those of several other sections of the
state, but 1 will mention three things
that especially appeal to me. They
are transportation, federal farm
loans, and more irrigation.
Regarding the first we have the
great Columbia River highway, a
good gravel macadam road across
the north end of the county and the
highway from Heppner Junction to
Heppner is being improved as are
some other roads on the south side,
but if Morrow counly is Cj fully
function as a unit county, a road
from Boardman to Heppner is a nec
essity. Such a road would cut the
distance to the county seat in half
and afford an outlet for farm crops
raised along the ridge.
I arm IjOuiih Needed
In the matter of farm loans Board
man organized about two years ago,
but no funds were available. This
last year it was rumored that funds
would be available, and a reorganiza
tion of the farm loan association was
effected, but up to date there has
been no money brought into this
section from government funds. The
local secretary H. H. Crawford, re
ports that he is in communication
with the authorities and hopes to
have something definite before long.
More Irrigation
By far the most Important, how
ever, hi the need of more irrigation.
An attempt was made August 23,
1919, and this attempt was success
ful, to organize some 330,000 acres
in the John Day irrigation district.
Twenty thousand of these acres were
subject to homestead entry, tb bal-
ance being privately owned. The
! private interests, becoming dissatis
fied with the irrigation board's rul
ings, set in motion legal proceed
ings to offset the rulings and at pre
sent it is stated that there is some
kind of suit in every possible court
except the United States supreme
court, and more than likely the dis
cussion wil reach that body for final
decision.
Lately, however, there has grown
up a movement that will take care
of some 50,000 acres of this land
In North Morrow county as well as
assist In the development of vast
acreage in other counties of Oregon
and Washington together with the
development of commercial electric
liower on a large scale.
Power Project Important
This enterprise Is known as the
Umatilla rapids power project, and it
originated with the citizens of North
Morrow and West I'matilla count ies,
and is being fostered by both states
benefited, Washington and Oregon,
and most vigorously by the eastern
sections of those states.
Surveys have been made and an
engineering report completed by
John H. Lewis in co-operation with
government and state engineers lot
the Umatilla Kapids Power Site as
sociation, an organization of the peo
ple of Eastern Oregon and Washing
ton Interested In the possibilities for
lining the1 natural power resources
of the rapids above the town of
CI mat ilia. Through this association
financial aid was secured in the iwo
slates for the Investigation work.
The report of the engineers shows
that dam could be constructed which
would afford a constant head of
water of from twenty-seven to ihlr-ty-tWO
feet the year around and a
total of 125,000 continuous lioiso
power may be developed and 300,000
electrical horse power eleven months
of the year through the period of
low water, and a grand total of
500,060 horse power during tin- ir
r I gat ion season. The plant would la
built in units expanding as neces
sary until full capacity was reached.
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The New Era conference commit
tee of the Presbyterian church, which
is conducting a tour of friendly visi
tation to the churches of eastern
Oregon, spent Friday last in Hoard
man. A large delegation from lrrl
gou joined in the conference, and a
basket dinner was served between
the afternoon and evening .sessions.
At Che noon hour the committee was
entertained at the school cafeteria for
luncheon, and the work of the sea
sons were in charge ol Dr. Seeley of
Portland, Dr. Speer ol San Francisco,
and Rev. Willis, local pastor. The
visitors were greatly impressed with
"he spirit of Co-operation and pro
gress evident in the district, and the
do of Crlendly visitation was strictly
carried out. The progrgni of (the
New Era movement this year is one
of inspiration and encouragement
and not for the solicitation of funds.
Kettor church work is what is want
ed, and the goals set are for more
new members, more new Sunday
school pupils, more yoUngj people
enrolled in the various young peo-
1TKELESS FORDS
We have heard of various kinds of
Fords, but the latest is a "tireless
one", but the DCCUpantt had to come
back on the rim. This was the Idle
of four of Che invited guests who
missed the party Monday evening.
ANOTHER FAR LOAD OF COWS
Another carload of Holslein cows
were distributed among the farmers
at Boardman on Friday, This now
makes over 100 during the pits!
month.
JAPAN CABINET QUITS
AFTER ASSASSINATION
Toklo. - The Japanese cabinet re
signed office as I direct result of the
assassination of Premier Hara. This
will not cause any immediate change
in the government. There will be no
change In the policy, either diplomatic
or domestic, especially with the Wash
ington conference on limitation of
armament! and far-eastern problems,
acting Premier tlchlda stated.
Premier Hara, It develops from de
tails of the tragic event, never spoke
after the first onset of the assassin.
The premier arrived at the station,
where he was to take a train for Kioto,
ten minutes before the train was due
to leave, and the BtiClon master In
vited the premier and his party to
rest In the station office for n moment
Between 'bis OfflCS and the gate
through which passengers reach the
platforms is the station blackboard,
and it was behind this blackboard that
the assassin was lurking as the pre
mier emerged from the office and ap
proached the gate
Darting out from behind his shelter,
the youth came Immediately Into con
tact with his victim and thrust his
knife into the premier's breast, close
to the heart.
pie's societies, more members for the
missionary societies, more homes to
establish family worship, better at
tendance at all services, more study,
proportionate giving, and tho budget
system of financing. The motto for
the year is "Christ for every life
and all of life." It was also brought
out that the movement is fast spread
ing for religious instruction to be
undertaken by the churches during
week days in school time, and that
trained teachers must be developed
by the churches to lake care of the
Situation, Reno, Nevada, gives an t
hour a day when the children who
will go to I he churches for such In
struction, others remaining lu school.
Transportation was another problem
discussed, the conclusion being that
If it is reasonable ihal children
should be hauled in busses to the
public school, why not to Sunday
school. Another important sugges
tion was in regard to the group sys
tem whereby two leaders would look
after the development of the spirit
ual welfare of a group of ten or a
dozen families of the community
SMOl I II FMItODY HIKKi.A-
T10N IN lOiift EXPOSITION
Owing to the fact Chat tho words
Irrigation and Reclamation have
never been officially Incorporated In
any National Exposition, whereby
the attention ol' the world might be
i
called to the wonderful developments,
lasting benefits and increased pro
duction of Wealth caused by irriga
tion and reclamation of the land of
the Western part of the United
States,
Be It Resolved, that the Executive
Committee Of the 1925 Exposition
be requested t0 SO alter or change
the name of said Exposition in such
a manner that the words Irrigation
and Reclamation will proclaim the
magnitude of such works to the at
tentlon of the entire world, and
Be ll Further liesolved, that a
copy Of ibis resolution be sent to tho
Honorable .InliUH L Meier, president
of the 1 ! 2 0 Exposition, at 1'orCtand,
I Iregon,
DIEEMSAI (.11 RANCH SCENE OF
HIGH JINKS MONDAY NIGHT
DAIRY CLUB WORK IN school
J. L. Calava:;, Industrial Club
leader from Che office of the slate
superintendent of public Instruction,
visited the Boardman schools Mon
day and Tuesday inspecting the club
work already started and outlining
the work for it diary herd record
club which will be organized under
I the leadership of Mr. Lee, of the
Junior high school department.
High Jinks were held at Che Chas.
Dillabaugb ranch last Monday even
ing, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Wlcklander
being the host and hostess. All the
guests were masked, mostly in the
Ku Klu Kian garb, although olhers
were represented The evening was
paused In playing games, Chas.
Barnes winning both prizes, one for
guessing I lie identity of the guests,
and the other for finding the most
DeanUtl After a delicious lunch the
guests departed for home well repaid
for Chelr four mile ride.
ARMISTICE DAY PHOGRAM
The program for Armistice Day
has been completed by the American
Legion. Col. Em met t Calahan will
deliver the address and there will
be music and skits protraying life
at the front Guard mount will be
called at 11 a. m., and the main
program will be in the evening. The
schools will observe the day as a
holiday. A woman's auxiliary to the
American Legion Is to be organized,
Mrs W. II. Stewart having been ap
pointed a committee of one to work
out the plan.
Joe Webster, the barber, has rent
ed the room next to Merger's Cash
Store, and Is moving in. His family
will occupy the rooms at the rear.
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