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About The Boardman mirror. (Boardman, Or.) 1921-1925 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1921)
"rrCHARLES DILLABOUGH EXPLAINS AWAY LOCAL H SOME ERRONEOUS THEORIES ON BEES J NOTES I L ; In a recent issue of the Heppner aniount of work done there is reason A. W. Cobb was a recent visitor in the Yakima country. The Latourelles of Heppner, were Board man visitors this week. ' Richard Dingman of Goldendale, Wash., is vltlsing his wife here. Mrs. Guy Lee is at the store morn ings as well as afternoons during the absence of Jack Gorham. t Mrs. Ada Morrison and Chas Goodwin left Monday for Portland. We understand that they were mar ried in Portland on Dec. 15th. A number of the Boardman busi ness men are at Heppner this week: A. C. Partlow, Karl Harper, Sam Boardman and Jack Gorham. The. ferry which was purchased by Alderdale has not been able to rjn due to (he fact that the O.-W. will not grant a crossing at Boulder. W. H. Stewart and S. H. Board man will represent Boardman at the meeting1 dt the Oregon irrigation Society at Pendleton beginning the 16th. I Skoubo, O. H. Warner, Mr. and "drs. J. EL Johnson were Heppner visitors on Monday. Mr. Skoubo was applying for his final naturalization papers. Civil service examiner Heldon of Pendleton held a test for rural mail carrier for Boardman last week. Three candidates appeared, Victor Mango. Stanley Hatch, and Albert Meftord. Farm loan appraisals for the fed eral farm loans are being made in the Boardman and lrrigon districts the hoard of appraisers being E K. Mulkey and Hobt. Wilson of Board man and Kay Slocum of lrrigon. Most of the male population of Boardman attended the session of the county court at Heppner ibis week as Jurors and witnesses, the number including M. C. Marshall i.nd sons, C. G. illayden, T. E. Broyles, C. H. Weston, Tom Jenkins, Frank Partlow, A. C. Partlow, W. H. Gll breth and J. P. Gorham. Boardman has boasted two prison ers this week. They were not eon lined in the city bastlle since the city owns none but were held in custody, we understand. It seems that there were two Phillippinos travelling thru In a car which had a temporary lic ense on It. They stopped in Board man for gas it seems and were ar rested by one of our local officers, haled before another and lined $20 which they could not pay so were de tained with no money or food. They were permitted to pass thru other towns but Boardman is more law abiding than others or else authority rests more heavily on our officers perhaps. Herald these statements appeared: "Worker bees live six month, drones to believe that the drone might live much longer if given an opportunity four months and females tour years." to do so as his only care is to see While there may be wras truth in these statements they all need .some explanation as to the sCUltllttons und er which they live for rhe len:,ti of time stated. Females live four yean, by tnls the writer probably meai '. the iaen, yet the queen is not '.he only female In a colony. All worker le-s are li .1 les though not fu'ly developed oi not quite normal, as one has never been known to ilirt with, i rece.ve the slightest attention fro"i i niaie bee, the drone, lief c fur the statement that all worsen' are foiiuies: 1st. Any egg or larva which vv Kb. the usual nursing won! I pro due; a worker bee can be transfon, -el or converted Into a perfect t'. mala "a queen" by a lilt!.? change in del for only two and one-lull' ua; a v heu h Is supplied with an abund ance oi food then sealei up and left in its fate. This pert'e.r. fei.u.le en dowed with the Instinct to mate cuts lt way out of Its cell in ttVe lo fiv Mid one-half days less time t'"tn would have done without n s etra are lor two and one-lialf 'a. . pel. cel. female or quee i ei.ifrrtflng fr.ui. its cell In 15 ft :o 16 lays a worl er bee requiring 2. days ami tt i tiione 24 days. 2i d. When a colony bee mjs hope loss' queenless, that :s having no Ian" young enough io be nvtrtd into a perfect female, (Ia'va jho.tid not be over three days old or six days from the time the egg was laid ) from a few to a considerate number of workers begin to lay. It used to be supposed that but one well rr took this task u.v-n iuelf but bv closer observation it HM been ptoven that more likely a dozen ai d so'.iv times several do.er. perform this task. Their eggs hatch as readi ly as those of MM queen but unfortu nately their offsprings are drones, therefore the colony is doomed as the workers soon wear out an. I these half orphans never work. It is gen erally believed that the worker is not a female and that we ha-'e three genders In a colony of bees, male, female and neuter, a he, she and it. 1 have often wondered if it would not be possible from a close study of this peculiar faculty of the bees to perfect their female program to determine why we have so many spinsters in the human (amity, who never marry. Are they its? If a worker Is born a few weeks before the beginning of a Low of honey or properly nectar so as to be old enough to do Held wor' at its beginning it will usually vea'- it;elf out In from forty to fifty days, but if born near the close of 'he fall honey flow it will live through t'e winter and be able to do some woi k In the spring therefore may live to the age of six months and in some caseB it is possible a month or two longer. I use the word born as all bees or bee's eggs hatch in three days hut the bee does not emerge from Its cell until I .'. S. . 81 and 24 days. The drone usually lives just as long as the workers will let them live. They are usually killed off at the close of each flow of nectar. In some localities that may be 2 or 3 times a season. In this locality where the flow is more or less con tinuous they may be allowed to live for four or five months As the life of the worker depends upon the THE LAST WEEK to do your Xmas Shopping COME STOCK BEFORE THE IS DEPLETED We have tried to carry a large enough and varied enough stock of holiday goods to fill all your wants hut unless you come early we are bound to be out of some lines. 1 Umatilla Pharmacy J CLAY KIN EH ART, Proprietor Edwards Building that no virgin queen has to make a second flight in search of a mate. If the drone becomes weary while a considerable distance from home h drops down and is welcome in any colony or hive he decides to enter. The queen or worker bee is not wel come in any excepting their owi home. The reason that the dr'oix is so treated is probably because h is a half orphan. All drones may have a grand father but no drone yet has eve been known to have a father. Th queen, a perfect female endowed wit! the mating instinct at the tnatur age of from six to eight days, after the bees have groomed, annointed and prepared her for a honeymoon ex cursion goes out in search of a mate. If she succeeds in meeting her af Unity she returns to the hive and never leaves it again of her own ac cord unless to go out with a swarm or after having been superseded by a young queen sometimes goes out to commit suicide or to be destroyed !y the elements. Queens sometimes live to the agi of two to five years and in souk rare instances longer yet they often fail to satisfy the colony in less thar. one year. During the spring when a grea' number of workers are needed Hit queen is expected to lay from two t four thousand eggs a day, to do thi she is kept so busy that she has n time to stop to sleep or eat. Hei food is prepared by being partly pre digested and then fed to her while on the nest. When she fails to lay eggs enoug' to keep the colony strong they raisr a young one in her place. Occasion ally we find the old queen and ; young queen in the hive at the earn time but this usually does not last long. It Is rather uncertain what be comes of the old queen though some have been known to crawl out o: the hive and disappear'. Very few bees die in the hive excepting iv winter. When sick or crippled thej leave the hive to perish in varum ways. While the queen may live longe it is customary with the up to dat beeman to requeen his colonies every fall and in California where the sea son is longer twice a season. The bee family are not Mormons or biga mists as the workers never mate, the queen mates but once and the dron Invariably perishes in the act of hi: first mating. C. H. DILLABOUGH, Boardman, Oregon I It It ICON NEWS ITEMS Messrs. S. H. Slocum, Cyril Brown ell and Christenson of Portland, mo tored to lrrigon with Don C. Brow ell of Umatilla Friday In interests oi the Bank for Umatilla. They called upon some of the business men and farmers and solicited our aid and business. It Is expected several ac counts from lrrigon will be .opeped with the New Bank when ready for business and the people generally speaking, favor the idea from the standpoint of convenience to us Messrs. Wilson and Mulkey of Boardman with H. G. Slocum, federal farm loan appraisers covered the dis trict Friday and appraised number of tracts of land in connection JJTtth applications for farm loans. It is hoped loans will be made in the spring. D. K. Ixjfgren of Portland come up Priday morning and returned Satur day. He says they have everything ready to ship up the larger pump ing plant and expect to have it work ing in time to irrigate all the land they can get under cultivation by that time. Mr W. H. Pierce has been very sick during past week but is improv ing at this writing. His sickness has rather upset his plans for early open ing of the service station. The Seven Day advent 1st have been holding services In the Wadsworth hall several evenings during the past wee i. Boardman serves the lrrigon pulpit. Mrs. N. Seaman and daughter Fredia arrived on No 1 Sunday from Cheboygan, Michigan where she was called account death of her step mother recently. The ladies aid were again compell ed to change the date of their musi cal and bazaar from 16 th to 15 th owing to some of the parties in the musical could not be here on the 16th. The play entitled HANS VON SMASH was given by the highschool tudents Tuesday evening together itli short mixed program consist ng of singing and speaking, was a omplete success financially for the lighschool and each played their larts well. The caste of characters ,'ere: Lyle D Seaman, Harve Warn, r, Walter Warner, Dilbert Knight, argaret Seaman, Ouida Hendricks, 'lara Moore. The play was given in he highschool auditorium and basket tall game played between the high chool boys and others known as the rwn boys, in the old school recently lxed up for these occasions. The score was 6 to 4 favor of the town boys. The Commercial Club meeting held Wednesday evening account of Hall not obtainable on the second Friday, passed resolutions favoring the Wal-lula-Umatilla cut-off and sent copies of the resolution to the State high way commission and the Portland Chamber of Commerce. We are not for high taxes but be "eve making a roof to all buildings with four walls already taxed upon us. Mr. Frank Otto of Heppner who ecently purchased the Merrill E. Doble River tract, was in town sev ral days this week making prelim nary arrangements and expects to iove over after the first of the year :nd build on his tract and make it her improvements. Boardman Utellem Vol. 2 Boardman High School, Bo ardman, Ore., Dec. 16, 1921 No. 10. Editor-in-Chief.. Frances Blayden '24 News Editor.. ..Dorothy Boardman '23 Literary Delia Olson '23 Joke Editor Wilma Gilbreth '22 EVERY COUNTY IN OREGON NEEDS A PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE The Oregon Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis will help your county get one. Its speakers, exhibit material, and literature are available for active campaigns to interest the people and officials of your county and to show them what a public health nurse can do for them. On the staff of the Visiting Nurse Association of Portland them are two tuberculosis nurses. The salary of one is paid by the little Red Cross Seals and the other by the City of Portland. Aside from a few school nurses supported by public funds, Oregon has no other visiting nurses. Shall we continue to disregard our obligation, especially in preventable diseases? Have not the smaller towns and rural districts an equal right to the services of Public Health Nurses? This and many other lines of health service are made possible the year 'round by the annual sale of Ited Cross Christmas Seals. Every seal you buy helps extend the service. In counties where there is reason to expect that the public authorities will continue the work, the Associa tion will make practical demonstra tions of the value of Public Health Nursing. The good work must go oh. The Ited Cross Christmas Seal points the way. It finances the or ganized movement that is securing sanatoria, visiting nurses, niedical in spection otj schools, in short intelli gent personal and public resistance to the ravages of consumption. Oregon Drug Probe Is Asked. Su Uj in . Or. A complete investiga tion with relation to the distribution of narcotic drugs in Oregon and the attending results of the illicit traffic is sought in a letter by Governor 01 COtt addressed to Dr. Frederick Striek er, secretary of the state board of health, and Frank S. Ward, -secretary ef the state board of pharmacy, who are urged to co-operate in making the Investigation. Tariff on Canadian Shingles Urged. Seattle A tariff on Canadian shin gles that are brought into the United States In competition with American shingles was recommended by dele gates to the fifth annual Red Cedar Shingle congress here. Let the Mirror print your butter The regular minister from wrappers and help your home paper ORE.. 92 1 17 TVT CORVALLIS, C rarmers Week Dec. 26.31,1 WINTER SHORT COURSES Put Science Into Farm Practice Fruit and Vegetal)! Course Pec. 3-17. Tractor Mechanics Course Jn 2 Mar 18. Dairy Manufacture Course Jan. 2 Mar. 18. Agriculture Course Jan. 2 -Mar. 18. Dairy Herdsmen's Course Jan. -2-June 18. Grain Grading Course Jan 9-2 1, HekeeoiiiK Course Jan 30-Feb. 25. I CAN'T I never will be able to forgive Poe because now we have to write an "impression" story. "Why blame Poe?" you ask! Didn't he write "The Cast of Amontillado" and didn't we have to study it? Then just because he was able to write an "impression" story, Miss Runner imagined we could write one. Oh, dear! Why are people so cruel anyway. How on earth can I write such a story? Let me think. Now what "impres sion" shall I give I could write "honor" yet what do I know about "honor." That would never do! Then there's "joy", sorrow", "dread" and there are lots of them but I just can't write a story about them. Thank goodness I wasn't the only one. There sat Edna gazing off in space; Roy savagely chewing; the eraser off his pencil; Mac scratching his head; and a low desperate "I can't" was heard from Delia. It all looked so funny that I started to laugh when suddenly I remembered that I had to write one too. Oh my! What on earth shall I do! I finally decided to ask Miss Run ner for help, so I walked bravely into the room and said. "Miss Runner, I just can't write that story." She looked thotful for a moment then said, "Now just where was it that I heard that expression "I can't" before?" Then she smiled. Smiled! When I was desperate. Oh, what won't they do! "I guess I won't write any" I said. Then before me rose a picture of my report card for next month and there was a B in English instead of the much desired A. "I guess I will have to write one," I said, "because if I don't get A in English next month I will have to take the exams." "Why don't you write a story on "despair?" she asked. "You could write a good one and let the title be "Writing an "Impression Story." I told her I would try but I had to give up because "I just can't." Ted Partlow is absent from school with a broken arm. Charles Junmtunen has entered the Junior Hi rbom. Carl Ayers has returned to school after an absence of about a week. Mr. Lee has been giving the mem bers of the Shorthand Class dictation this week. The grades including the Junior Hi are practicing Christmas exercises to be given Friday afternoon, Dec. 23rd. Mr. Signs has given the Senior Hi the privilege of visiting any of the rooms at that time. The basket ball game which was scheduled to be played December 16th between lrrigon and Boardman has been canceled in accordance with Irrigon's wishes. However, the hoys expect to play some games in the near future with the Condon and Arlington teams. The Junior-Senior sewing class is progressing nicely. Two of the girls expect to have their wool dresses completed by the Christmas Holidays. These are certainly going to be very good looking and if the duplicates were to be bought the expense would be a decided advance over what they will cost the girls. THE H. & H. 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