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About The Boardman mirror. (Boardman, Or.) 1921-1925 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 2, 1921)
LOCAL n NOTESJJ Andrew Andrese, the cheesemaker, made a trip to Stanfield Monday. - Mr. and Mra. Guy Lee have been entertaining Mr. Lee's brother from l lie Kast this week. Young Chaffee and sister. Miss Esther, went to Pendleton to attend the Thanksgiving dance. Dick Johnson and family enter tained al a dinner party Thanksgiv ing. There were 18 present. Miss Ethel Broyles, who Is attend ing school at College Place, spent Thanksgiving week with the home folks. Earl Cramer made a business trip to The Dalles last week, and pur chased a new truck tire for the bus white there. Max Deweese and family left for Arlington iMl Saturday, where Mr. I woese has employment with the highway service. . Don't forget to attend the Ladies' Aid itazaar on- December t3th. Come whether you have any money or not and sec the fun. Harry Hands, second tenor of the O .A. C. Glee club, has been the guest the past week of Miss Gladys Price, at Dew Drop Inn. The Red Cross enrollment cam paign will be continued through the present week as It was impossible to complete the work last week. At at llvelyt roa4 meeting yheld last Saturday a special tax of ten mills was voted for permanent roads in District 2, Morrow county. Wo understand that Frank Miles of Ilermlston, has (lied a contest on his brother, Hill MUcb' homestead south of town. It is a very desirable ranch. Mrs. It. S. Wilson returned home on Thanksgiving day from I short stay In Condon, where she had been called on November 18th by the illness of a sister. During the past week 100 oz. of rabbit poison lias been distributed in the vicinity of Hoardinan and ex cellent results are being obtained In the destruction of the pests. . The Misses Glatt, I'rire and Hun ner assisted by H. II. Crawford M tertained a few friends at dinner on Thanksgiving day. The invited were Mrs. Edith Crawford, and Messrs. ('illinium, Weston, Lower, Haines, and Allen. The Morrow County Kami ISureau membership campaign will begin next week according to notices sent out by 0, C. Calkins. OOUttt) agent. There will be a series of ten meet ings thruout the county beginning with Board nUUI On Monday, Dec. 5. Mr and Mrs. Sam Shell returned Tuesday from an extended visit in Portland. They report no biiow in the valley, but lots of rain. Hut around Troutdale and on this side thi' tine fruit trees are split In two. leaving nothing but the stumps e posed . RAILROAD RATE INQUIRY ORDERED Waahlnitton, D. C A general Wives fixation to determine Whether any fur ther reduction in railroad rates could be required was ordered by the inter state commerce commission. The commission announced that the Investigation would be begun at a hearing December 14. The Investiga tion is Instituted, the commission said, to determine whether ami te what ex tent. If any, further general riductlons In the rates, fan's and charges of car riers by railroads applicable in inter state or foreign commerce can law fully be renulrod by order of the com mission under section 1 or other pro visions of the lutarstate commerce commission act, upon any commodt ties or descriptions of traffic. OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. No Dealings With Russian Reds. Washington. D C. The policy of the American government toward so viet Russia, which involves BOB fee ognttlou of and no dealings with the present regime, rem. mis unchanged. Secretary Hoover stated The com merce SKTotary mude the statement In commenting on reports from Mos cow that the soviet authorities were expecting the consummation of a trade agreement between the l ulled States Md 11 u vt la. The new Corvallis city hospital I nearlng completion. Delinquencies In the 1920 Linn coun ty tax total about 5 per cent of the tax of $1,185,601. The Willamette and McKenzle rivers are nearly back to normal again after the recent flood. Frank Atwood, 16, was killed by a tree which crushed through the roof of the family home near Huxton. Estimated damage to Lincoln coun ty roads and bridges on account of the recent storm is estimated at $250,000. The seventh annual meeting of the Western Walnut association was held In Portland Tuesday and Wednesday. In all 1162 carloads of pears and ap ples have been shipped to the Eastern market from Medford so far this sea son. Ashland residents have subscribed more than half the bonus of $30,000 required for the new $150,000 hotel at that place. At the bchool election held in Mon mouth the taxpayers of district No. 13 turned down the proposal to build a gymnasium by a vote of 46 to 30. I'lans of the Linn county farm bureau to have a farmers' week cele brated in Albany from December 13 to December 16, inclusive, have been abandoned. The Angora club of Astoria com plains to the state forester that a mile of trail leading to Saddle mountain has been completely destroyed by log ging operations. Slipping in the snow and fulling In front of an automobile while on his way to school, Edwin, 7-year-old son of L. p. Peterson ot Wallowa, was run over and killed. The second tost well sunk by the state to tap the artesian How under lying the Fort Hock vulley has been completed and demonstration Is to be held in the near future. a The Lane county budget committee has completed the estimate of county expenditures for 1922. The sum of $606,159 will be required next year, according to the estimate. Dr. Rverett Mlngus, Coos county health officer, announces that scarlet fever, which for a time threatened to become generally prevalent through out the county, has been brought un der control. The first dairy herd record club In Linn county and the second organiza tion of the kind among the boys' and girls' industrial clubs of the state, will be formed soon among students of the Bhedd school. There were 290 accidents in Ore gon Industries In the week ending November 24, according to a report Is sued by the state Industrial accident commission. None of the accidents resulted fatally. Notwithstanding a 15 per cent In crease In motor vehicle registrations for the year 1921 when compared with the year 1H20, the applications for 1922 licenses are less than 70 per cent of the number filed a year ago. There are 8,419,954.88 acres of land In the 33.917 farms in Oregon, of which 3,081,338.99 acres are devoted to agriculture and horticulture, ac cording to a report Issued by Frunk Lovell, state tax commissioner. A dinner for Oregon newspaper men In honor of E. K. Hrodle, president of the National Editorial association and minister to 81am under appoint ment by President Harding, will be K i v . ii In Salem early in December. The Interstate commerce commis sion has held that rates charged on chrome ore by the Sumpter Valley railroad and connecting lines from Prairie by way of Baker to South Chicago. 111., were not unreasonable. After what is declared to have been one of the moat constructive gather ings in the history of the grange the 55lh national grange convention pass ed into history at Portland with the Instal'atlon of the incoming officers. Several deer killed by sportsmen in Grant county showed symptoms of "lumpy jaw.' an ailment peculiar to cattle, KOOOrding tO Stanley G Jewett 1 of the Dnited States biological survey. : who states that the meat is unfit for food. A number of cattle and sheep In the l.orane neighborhood have died recently from some mysterious cause, which the owners suspect to be the eating of poisonous toadstools, that have been numerous in the woods of ' that section. OttO K Hartwlg was re-elected president of the Oregon State Feder ation of l-abor as a result of the vote by mall taken throughout the etate membership of the orgnntiatton This will be Mr llartwlgs sixth term as president. William K. Kimaey, secretary-treasurer of the organisation for the last year, was chosen vice presi dent, E J Stack was elected secretary- j treasurer. Boardman Utellem Vol. 2. Boardman High School, Boardman, Ore., Dec. 2, 1921 No. 8. BOARDMAN UTELLEM Editor-in-Chief. .Frances Blayden '24 News Editor. ...Dorothy Boardman '23 Literary Delia Olson '23 Joke Editor W'ilma Gilbreth '22 esting little slips Monday which are to be filled out with title of their chosen Commencement orations. Caryl Signs has returned to school after a week's illness of chicken pox. It has been decided to shorten the school noon intermission 30 minutes until after the Christmas holidays as the days are so short many pupils are unable to get home before dark. Wahnona Keys has returned from Portland. , She expects to take up her school work next semester. Miss Price is working out a plan whereby I He ' Jun ior-Seniofl sewing class may take cooking next semester School began again Monday after a week, Thanksgiving holiday, due ! to the fact that the school busses were unable (o run on account of the storm. There is about 90 per ' cent attendance. The Seniors received some inter- "We are coming slow but sure, Julian A. Hurley of Vale hag been appointed assistant United States at torney of the third district of Alaska. He will take office January 1, with hie official residence at Anchorage. Just before the heavy snow of last week the last remaining section of the old Oregon trail between La Grande and Baker was completed, and a paved and graveled highway that can be used the year round now con nects these cities. Hearing on the application of the Southern Pacific company to advance the fare on the Eugene street rail way lines from 5 cents to 8 cents will be held at the courthouse In Eu gene December 15, according to an nouncement of the public service com mission. D. J, Rice and other ranchers of the Daniels creek and other localities have opened a meat and produce market in Marshfield in protest to a lack of suitable market conditions. These ranchers claim the highest offer they can obtain for dressed beef Is 6 and 7 cents a pound. They are undersell ing other dealers. Percy Cupper, state engineer, to gether with a number of prominent Oregon men selected by Governor 01 cott recently, left for Salt Lake City, Utah, to attend a meeting of the West ern States Reclamation association, November 29 and 30. Mr. Cupper is a member of the executive committee of the association. A total of 12,874 ex-service men en titled to benefits under the so-called bonus and loan law enacted at the 1921 session of the legislature have filed applications with the world war veter ans' state aid commission. Of the total number of applicants 7173 seek cash bonuses, while 5701 have ex pressed preference for the loan. Approximately $8000 damage was done to the dam at the North Umpqua hatchery and to the Tillamook hatch ery, to say nothing of the loss of prac tically the entire hatch of 500,000 Chi nook salmon and eggs at the latter es tablishment as the result of the recent storm, according to advices received by Carl D. Shoemaker, master fish Wl rden. Portland made a gain of 179 per cent in value of building permits for Octo ber, 1921, compared with the same month last year, according to a re sume of building conditions from the Miierican controller. The figures showed that Salt Lake City was the only city west of the Rockiei to ex ceed Portland. The valuation of per mits last month in Portland aggre gated $1,942,510. Most of the 6.000.000 snltnon fry at the Bonneville hatchery were lost as i result of the recent storm, aceord itfg to advices received by Carl D. Shoemaker, master fish warden. Mr. Shoemaker said that It was probable 'hat they would be able to Bave only some of the older fish. The storm broke down the flume which furnish ed Watf to the hatchery and put a top to the operation of the power plant. Fourteen more names of Oregon men were added to the honor roll of Oregon's dead in the world war as the result of Inquiry by George A. White, adjutant-general of the state, into uses of omissions from official rec rds and crediting of men erroneously to other states. The war department ulvlsed Colonel White that the 14 names have been officially recorded it Washington as Oregon men. Thi addition brought Oregon's honor roil up to 948. Petitions signed by more than R00 residents of the Yakima valley in Washington, asking executive clem ency for Elvie Kirby, alias James Owens, who is awaiting execution for the part he played in the murder of Sheriff Taylor of Umatilla county, has been filed with Governor Olcott. The executive also has received letters from prominent attorneys of North Yakima and other Washington cities, asking that Kirby's sentence be com muted to life imprisonment. Paving operations north of Grants Pass have been discontinued for the season, with the exception of 786 feet of base to be covered with top mater ial, which will be completed as soon as the weather is settled. Three jobs are In sight for next spring. Sexton mountain, Galesville-Canyonville and the Canyonville-Myrtle Creek road, when these sections, totaling 29 miles, will be paved. With these completed, the Pacific highway In southern Ore gon will be completely paved, with the exception of the half-mile strip lying within the city limits of Grants Pass. Submission to the voters of Ore 1 gon of the question of levying a tax jof $3,000,000 for the support of the j world's exposition to be held in Port land in 1925, and enactment of legis lation tending toward conservation of .the state highways, are two pura ! mount issues that should be consider ed by the legislature which has been called to convene in special session at Salem Monday, December 19. This was announced by Governor Olcott when he issued his formal call for the ipecial legislative assembly. To assist the legislature and to cause no un necessary delays, Governor Olcott se lected a committee to prepare the bills dealing with highway problems. RHINE FORCES REDUCED Six Hundred Enlisted Men Leave Coblenz to Sail For Home. Coblenz. Reduction in the Ameri can expeditionary force along the Rhine began when 11 officers and 600 enlisted men left here on a special train to sail for home on the transport Cantigny. They are due to reach Ho boken about December 7. In addition to the soldiers there were three nurses, 15 ex-Bervice men and 82 wives of soldiers who were married in Germany. Most of the men come from the 6th and 15th infantry regiments. Let us print those butter wrappers. MIRROR WANT ADS iiMiisWiwnimiiiniinMaWMiiirii' r nr r thi 1 FOR SALE reasonable--5 acre tract well located near Irrigon; for par ticulars address: 18 Barnum Apts. Medford, Ore. 19-tf AUSTRALIAN SHEPARD DOG A good worker. Do you want him for $100? S. D. Pierce, at the Standard office, Stanfield. APPLES I now have apples for lc a pound. Jonathan, Rome Beauty, and mixed varieties. Also winter pears at lc without boxes. N. W. Jacobsen. Paterson, Wash. FOR SALE 2 Dnroc Jersey Boars. 8 months old; 2 Bucks. 1 Febru ary lamb, 1 Shropshire buck. 6 years old. F. M. Whitney. 1 ml So. of Heruiiston UHS-45-tf INDIAN ARROW HEADS WANTED Will pay from 5 to 10c each ac cording to condition and shape. Mail what you have to S. D. Pierce. Stanfield. Ore., and remittance will be sent to cover. and we'll bo there with bells on," says Mr. Leo in regard to orchestra work. There will be eight violinists, four clarinets, drums, as well as other instruments. The members are securing the necessary articles as fast as possible. They have a few games In Bight, but no deflnate schedule has been made as yet. The boys of the Boardman high school got together on Monday and organized a basket ball team. Roy Gilbreth was elected captain. The team will begin their practice as .soon as things can be arranged. Utt us do that next printing for you MMMIMIIIIMIMMMM I CLEANING z ana DYEING Z Work Called For Every Wed- nesduy and Saturday T Delivered WedliestUV nil Satur day ' I Farmers' Week rT.fffi WINTER SHORT COURSES Put Science Into Farm Practice Fruit and Vegetable Course Dec 3-17. '21 Tractor Mechanics Course Jan. 2-Mar 18. '2K Dairy Manufacture Course Jan. 2-Mar. 18, '22 Agriculture Course Jan. 2-Mar. 18, '22 Dairy Herdsmen's Course Jan. 2-June 18. '22 Grain Grading Course Jan 9-21, '22 Heekeeping Course Jan 30-Feb. 25. '22 Homemakers' Conference Mar. 20-25, '21 OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FuU Information on tin Course by writing THE REGISTER. O A. C, CORVALLIS. OREGON. XWM. H. OGDEN Jeweler in Hermiston, whose place of business was burned, is now located in the lobby of the postofflce. None of the re- Z pair work in the shop at the time of the fire was damaged. 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