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About The Boardman mirror. (Boardman, Or.) 1921-1925 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1921)
4 4 THE BOARDMAN MIRROR VOLUME 1. BOARDMAN, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOV. 25, 1921 NUMBER 42. BIGGEST STORM IN YEARS SHEEP AND CATTLE MEN SUFFER ORGANIZE SKATING PARTY Herder and 1800 Sheep Lost Board Closes School for Week Roads Most All Open Now. A party of young people organized a skating party Tuesday evening and went to Faler's lake. They found the ice rough and covered with snow but had a good time just the same. Mr. and Mrs. Hal Stewart chaperoned the party. The sixteen Inches of snow in Boardman in places seems to be the leading topic of the day just now. A heavy fall of snow started Satur day with a wind and a lowering thermometer. By nightfall an old fashioned blizzard was raging. Four trains were stalled, one a , rotary snow plow is still reported buried in the snowslide which is blocking traffic. West of The Dalles the river has been used as a means of exodus for passengers. Some of the trains are stationed at The Dalles, others at Bonneville. The passengers are being detoured over the S. P. & S. going by way of Tacoma. The storm coming so early caught everyone unawares. One disasrous effect of the storm In this section falls upon the sheep and cattle men. Monday it was re ported that one of Carty'6 sheep herders with a band of 1800 sheep had left Carty's Saturday and had not been heard of since. A posse was organized and scoured the coun try. He was found Tuesday morn ing about nine miles south of Board man, worn out but alive, almost fa mished and one foot badly frozen may have to be amputated, but had his sheep with him, losing only one out of the band. He was down in a slight gully and had kept from freez ing by walking around in a space about six foot across. The storm also caught the dairy men of the Boardman section, who only recently purchased about 100 milch cows, and who had not yet had time to prepare sufficient shelter for them. However, a Chinook struck here Tuesday evening and it is ex pected that there will not be much further damage in this line. Boardman was overrun Wednes day night with marooned tourists. Every bed in town was full, and then some three men slept on the restaurant floor without bed or cover ing of any sort other than their coats. Among those marooned were Miss Etta Egan and Irving Hedeen of Moscow, Idaho, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hacklewood and two children, and Bert Vaughn of Dayton, Washing ton. The snowslldes and rock- LADIES' AID HAVE SET DATE FOR BAZAAR The Ladies' Aid have decided to give their Christmas bazaar on Tues day, December 13th at the school house. First there will be an oyster supper given by the male members of the church in the cafeteria at 6 o'clock, a program will be given in the Auditorium at 8 o'clock, and in between times you may viisit the booths that 'Will ('be scattered all over the halls and purchase Christ mas presents, good things to eat, etc. Be sure and come with your acketa lined with money. DANCE SATURDAY NIGHT There will be a dance given in 'ound's Hall after the entertain ment Saturday night. The music ivlll be furnished by the Old Fashion ed Girls company of the Ellison White -Chautauqua. This orchestra las the very latest danro mu.ic hich they have been ptayiag at lances all over the country. A large rowd is expected to be on hand for both the program and the dance. Umatilla Spokesman. slides between The Dalles and Portland are going to make train service inipojaihle for about two weeks, officials say. An unusually heavy slide of snow from the mountains has completely tied .up traffic near Bonneville. This is no common occurence, but with snow in Boardman falling fast for two days we can imagine what The Dalles would have to contend with. Owing to the storm and consider ing that there would be two holidays this week Thanksgiving and Friday it was thought best by the school board not to have school this week. The busses were unable to run and over 80 per cent of the pupils are from the country. The road gang dragged most all the roads Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. They dragged the high way as far as Messner so the rural delivery is once more in operation. Bernard and Caryl Signs have re covered from the chicken pox and are once more able to be out. GOVERNOR JOINS FARM BUREAU BY ROBERT PULLER. Special Cotrtipotidcnc CHICAGO. Reports to the American Farm Bureau Federation headquarters from the coast are that the farm bureau drive in California is meeting with great success. Gov. Wm. D. Stephens was the first to jofa nttd BW rtlHrt psWiiraph, w iglgpod just after he signed. The Governor is in the middle with Dr. W. H. Walker, president of the California Farm bureau federation on his right and Fred Harvey, farm I an dairy commissioner, on his left. "he governor said: "Realizing that agriculture is the basic industry o. California and that every constructive movement for its betterment is a step toward the development of the entire state. I note with wel come relief the constructive and conservative force of rural awaken ing reaching from the school house cer-.er to the county, state and nation, through such organizations as the California Farm Bureau Fed eration and the American Farm Bureau Peder; Ham," OREGON NEWS NOTES OF PRINCIPAL EVENTS HAPPENING DURING WEEK HUNTERS AFTER RABBITS An unidentified man of about 26 was struck by an auto on the Pendleton-Walla Walla highway near Milton and killed. Twenty Ashland men donated their work Monday on the new community clubhouse being built by the Civic Im provement club. E. J. Hansett of Turner hat been appointed by Warden Compton of the Oregon penitentiary as superintend ent of the state flax plant. Construction of a bridge across the Columbia river near The Dalles would be authorized under a bill introduced in congress by Representative Sin nott. Coburg citizens held a big meet ing Monday to take steps to form a drainage area to improve 10,000 acres of wet land in northern Lane county and southern Linn county. The town of Sherwood in Washing ton county is preparing to spend $40, 000 for a municipal water supply, the water to be taken from Baker creek, a tributary of the Tualatin river. The Lebanon members of the Elks' lodge have made arrangements with the owner of the local moving picture '.)juae to give all the children of the '.own a free show Christinas day. Fire which broke out in the flax plant at the Oregon state penitentiary at Salem resulted in damage to the building and contents estimated by prison officials at approximately $18. 000. Automobile tourists continue to stop In Roseburg In if " o' (ha lateness of the acasr-n. Between ; and B0 cars containing an average of four per sons each, stop each night, it is esti mated. Jack Latta, forme.- employe of the Pacific car shops of Portland, was ac cidently shot at Tule lake near Man., while goose hunting and died two two hours later from loss of blood and shock. Statistics recently compiled by The Dalles-Wasco county Chamber of Com merce show that the Mill creek dis trict produced and shipped more than 12,000 tons of fruit and vegetables this year. The Union Oil company of Cali fornia has sent to the secretary of state a check for $22,248.68, covering the tax on the corporation's sale of gasolene and distillate in Oregon In October. W. F. Wright reports the uncover ing of a valuable gold-producing quartz vein on his farm, less than two miles south of Applegate. The vein has a width of four feet and pans well In free milling ore. With but 21.1 per cent of the city's 1460 registered voters at the polls, the proposition for the city of Grants Pass to pave that section of the Pa cific highway within the corporate limits was defeated. The state corporation department, under the supervision of T. B. Hand ley, corporation commission, paid in to the general fund of the state a total of $288,173 during the period June 30, 1920, to June 30. 1921. Up to the present time more than 3,000,000 pounds of the 1921 crop of prunes have been shipped to various markets of the world by the Oregon Growers' Co-operative association, with headquarters in Salem. With an enrollment of 456 children, the boys' and girls' clubs sponsored by the government and the state agricul tural college produced In Clackamas county products valued at $12,283.68 during the year just ended. Chester flirt. 18, son of Mrs. Mag gie Girt, a widow who lives five miles southwest of Rainier, was shot through the right lung by Riley Girt, his uncle, who mistook him for a bear. The pair werehuntlng together. The announced itinerary of Mar shal Ferdinand Foch and his party of distinguished French military men on their visit to the northwest specified December 10 as the date on which the generalissimo will arrive in Portland. The assessed valuations of all pub lic utilities in Oregon for the year 1981 aggregate $185,504,795.29 as against $181,057,000.63 for the year 1920, according to figures made pub lic by Frank Lovell, state tax com missioner. The immediate results of the visit to Klamath Falls of the caravan of boosters for The Dalles Klamath high way, was that a bond Issue may be floated to cover the cost of construc tion of the Klamath county end of the proposed highway. The sum of $150,000 has been In cluded In the federal house appropria tions bill with which to wage war on the beetle insect in the national forests of Oregon and California, according to a telegram received at the offices of F. A. Elliott, state forester. The pool of 112,000 pounds of this year's crop of raspberries handled for the growers of Lane county by the Eu gene Krult Growers' association has been closed. The price received by the growers for red raspberries is 8V4 cents and for blackcaps 10 M cents. Several reports reaching Tillamook were to the effects that the Hill in terests, which have an option on the Gales Creek & Wilson River rallroud, will start work on the road before the option expires next June, and that the motive power will be electricity. Because Hugh Johnson was sick abed and could not put in his fall grain, a crowd of his neighbors and several farmers of the Gaston locality went out to his farm with their teams lad plows and harrows and worked all day In his fields. There were 18 teams. Plans for creating a special taxing district to raise funds to 00 operate with the highway commission on t. 50-60 basis In constructing a paved road between Albany and Lebanon were developed at a meeting In Al bany of committees representing the two cities. The 2-year-old Jersey cows owned by O. A. Thompson of Dlachly, Lane county, scored higher than any other Jerseys in their class in the entire United States In the production of butter fat in August this year, ac cording to the Jersey Bulletin and Dairy World. With the figures from one small dis trict not yet In, County School Super intendent Moore announces that the number of pesons of school age counted in the recent school census of Lane county totals 11,405, which Is approximately 250 more than were counted last year. Four squads of state traffic officers working out of Salem arrested more than 25 motor vehicle drivers on charges of violating the traffic regu lations with relation to lights. Similar drives will be conducted by the state officers In various sections of Oregon in the near future. Percy Cupper, state engineer, will leave for Salt Lake City late this month, where he will attend a meet ing of the Western States Reclama tion association. Other Oregon repre sentatives at the session will include a number of prominent men appointed recently by Oovernor Olcott. Charles E. Strickland, special In vestigator for the state engineers' de partment, has returned to Salem from the Summer Lake and Silver Lake Ir--igatlon districts, where he made an inspection of the development work under way. Work on both of the ir rigation districts It progressing batls factorily, the Investigator said Hunters are turning their atten tion from ducks to rabbits which are becoming a pest. The snow is bringing them oul in large numbers and all who can are rjruying 22s. A better way would be to poison them you would have better results. FARMERS WEEK HAS BEEN SLATED FOR DECEMBER 26 TO 31 HARDEST LABOR THEY DO IN WASHINGTON As in all political activities the hardest labor done is to find ways to spend money, and more money and more and more. The Department of Labor works hardest of all on these lines, and is making a wonderful record of ef ficiency In spending. The Department of Labor, bureau of labor statistics, has just sent out "Union Scale of Wages and Hours of Labor," 280 pages. It Is mostly tabulated columns of figures which no one who has not time to burn at public expense will ever spend a minute on. It is all dated back to May 15, 1919, and May 15. 1920. and has about as much value as the foam on 1917 bone-dry beer. A few dried-up old statistical sharps in colleges, wearing horn rimmed dimmers will pour over them and they will clutter up libraries. The volume and the people em ployed to get it up and the cost of printing and sending It out to fill waste baskets runs Into hundreds of thousands. Scores of such government, de partments employ hundreds of thou sands of people and are wasting mil lions on similar belated information. Then talk about government tak ing over industries and banking and insurance and utilities and railroads and shipping etc? Winter Short Courses in Many Lines Have Been Scheduled to Meet Needs of Farmer. PARTLOW'8 BUTCHER SHOP Prince merchants of today started with a pack tilled with plus and needles. Our genial butcher, Am brose Partlow, recently started a odf l shop. Today Its books and walls i re filled with eholsest cuts and birds. lit, I'artlow feels that his talents should not be submerged by rendered tallow and ox-tail roup bones, so he has accepted the agency for three and one oil. It has been generally understood that this oil was for sewing machines only, but a short talk with Mr. Partlow will oon convince you of Its many uses We wish Mr. Partlow success In his new venture. Farmers who waqt to mix more science with, their farm work; in production of the most profitable crops in the most economical way. will be offered the latest and best proved information at O. A. C. Farm ers week this year- -Dec. 26-31. Getting idle lands to work, and working lands into larger and more profitable production through choice of crops, soil management and wise use at produce, la the man-sized problem many Oregon farmers are wrestling with. Labor and science are the two solutions- and the mora the science the less the labor need ed, say the Farmers week announce ments. Short courses will be run In some special phases of farming and relat ed subjects as follows: Two weeks course In fruit and ve getable growing, Dec. 3-17. Four weeks course in beekeeping, Jan. 30-Feb. 26. Four weeks course In grain grad ing, Jan. 9-21. Eleven weekB course In tractor mechanics, Jan. 2-March 18. Eleven weeks course In dairy man ufacture, Jan. 2. -March 18. Eleven weeks course in general agriculture, Jan. 2. -March 18. Five months dairy herdsman course, Jan. 2-June 10. Five days homemakers conference, March 20-25. The Oregon grower who has Just won second place In the nation wide celery production contest, half acre lots, has never missed an O. A. C. Farmers week or short course In farming. DON'T FORGET OUR LIBRARY To the snow hound and wrinkled browed don't forget you have a library. A good book helps to ease many a bump. Don't set within your tfPO and CUM the world. It has been reported from a reli able source that the Blate engineers had made a survey of the Wallula cut-off and reported the advisability of completing the highway. Uma tilla Spokesman. "WILL THEY DO IT! DARE THEY DO IT! C ff e lar- Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, where the Armament Conferen. ; il being held. Will this lie a new "f.iberty Hall" ior ail the peoples of the earth liberty in universal world peace? HOME SWEET HOME fflRBBQBWt YtS3i KAdtL r 1 " 5n 1 vAdtL VOL GET VfVT3 WHO. i m. , x .1 W-.t' II AM fjww.u.o.1 j r mm