THE
IRROR
VOLUME 1.
BOARDMAN, OREGON, FRIDAY, JAN. 6, 1922.
NUMBER 48.
OREGON NEWS NOTES OF PRINCIPAL
EVENTS HAPPENING DURING WEEK
Industries on Coos Bay reopened
after a suspension of but two days for
the ChrisLmas festivities.
The DalU; Clay Products company's
plant at Warrenton has begun opera
tions on a commercial basis.
Five house bills and two senate bills
passed at the recent special session of
the legislature were vetoed by Gover
nor Olcott.
The Southern Pacific company will
expend $47,000 or more in bettirm nt
of its tracks within the city limits of
Marshfield.
Plans for erection of a community
hall are being developed in the vicin
ity of Oakville, about ten miles south
west of Albany.
Approximately one out of every four
marriages in Deschutes county is an
unsuccessful one, according to official I
county records.
Reports at Washington, D. C, are
that Jonathan Dourne, Jr., former sen
ator from Oregon, Is in a serious phy
sical condition.
Salem will witness a building pro
gram involving the expenditure of
more than $1,000,000 in the year i22,
according to C. P. Bishop.
Oscar Hoffman, 16, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Hoffman, of Needy, in
Clackamas county, accidentally killed
himself while out hunting.
The Christmas business of the Med
ford postoffice was greater by 20 per
cent this Christmas than the Christ
mas business of any year in its history.
Gaston has started work on a drain
age system along Front street and is
rushing the work through and giving
employment to a large number of men.
There were 222 industrial accidents
in Oregon during the week ending De
cember 20, according to a report pre
pared by the state industrial accident
commission.
Robert J. Burkhardt, Albany dairy
man and dairy breeder, was elected
president of the Oregon Dairymen's
association at Its 20th annual session
at Corvallis.
A conference of representatives of
various western Oregon cities will be
held at Roseburg, Eebiuary 21, to con
sider the regulation of free automobile
camp grounds.
So much shipping is coming to the
port of Coos bay's new dock that the
port commissioners are discussing the
nxed for a turning basin opposite the
"MY FATHER r
wai I lit k niT-RKF flFSIfiNATPn daiuvmen's league votes at last
id rrnrnn nirnunv ! MEEfING TO DISBAND -990 TO 291
y
When 'Tennessee's Pardn'er," one
f the great Bret Harte's most bril
liant stories, was filmed in the in
sane asylum at Ogdensburg, N'. Y..
a patient shrieked "My I'ather' My
Father!" It was Bret Ham's
daughter, Mrs. Jessamy" Bret Harte
Steele, who disappeared years ago.
Friends of the great American au
thor are moving to take ;rc of his
daughter, who was sent to the insti
tution from New York, many years
ago.
800-foot frontage.
Thirty-one persons were killed in
traffic accidents on the streets of
Portland In the past fiscal year, ac
cording to the annual i t port of th
police traffic bureau. '
Beavers that have been destroying
fruit trees on several farms in the
river bottom north of Eugene will be
trapped) according to Ed S. Hawker,
district deputy game warden.
In spite of the low price of quick
silver and the total suspension of the
Industry in the United States, there
is considerable activity In the quick
silver mines in the Gold Hill district
No further steps have been taken
with reference to the second murder
indictment pending against Carson D
Beebe, acquitted at Albany on the
ground of insanity, of the murder of
John Painter.
In order to be sure that every child
in La Grande of toy age was not
forgotten Christmas, two of the largest
stores of the "city turned over to the
Red Cross all toys left on hands
Christmas eve.
The state hoard of control has ac
copied from the contractor the new
dormitory recently completed at the
state home for the feeble minded at
Salem. The structure cost approxi
mately $50,000.
Dr. W. Carlton Smith, physician at
the state penitentiary, filed a report
with Governor Olcott In which the doc
tor expressed the opinion that Abra
ham Evans, under death sentence for
murder, is Insane.
Extremely heavy loads will be kept
off certain roads in Lane county, ae
cording to an order made by the coun
ty court. The roads included lu the
order arc said to have been cut up
badly this winter.
The Oregon public service commis
sion has denied the application of the
Southern Pacific company, for an in
crease In fares on the lines of the Sa
lem Street Car company and the Eu
gene Street Car company.
First appraisals of properly to be
used as security for loans under t lie
so-called Oregon bonus bill probably
will be made this week. It is expected
that funds on these loans will be forth
coming about February 1.
In response to a telegram announc
ing the plan for breakitig.grouiul for
the new $1,000,000 Elks' temple in
Portland, President Harding telegraph
ed the Portland lodge or Llks, con
gratulating them on the coming even)
William A. Douglas of Gold Hill,
who acquired the Bina ftanielson gold
quartz mine, three miles southwest
of Gold Hill two years ago, has com
pleted a 125-foot drift into the main
ledge of the mine, uncovering a large
body of ore. The new works are un
der the old works, where many thous
ands of dollars of rich ore was re
covered some 20 years ago.
Unless the proponents of the pro
posed 1025 exposition are able to de-
tnrmlne by Thursday whether the fair
legislation considered at the recent
special session of the legislature was
legally approved. It Is probable that
Governor Olcott will veto the bill
passed during the closing hours of the
assembly authorizing a special el"C
lion to be held May 1!) in conjunction
with the regular primary contests.
The county court has called lor bids
for the final cruise of the Douglas
county timber lands. For the past
three years Douglas county has be n
having cruises made of its staneMn?
timber for the purpose of obtaining
definite Information and data upon
which to base a cash assessment. N'-xt
year will mark the completion of the
task and the 1922 assessment rolls are
exp'-cV d to carry the timber lands on
a basis of their cash value.
Is the Wallula cut-off dead? We
gue s not. The government has
designated a highway from Missoula,
Montana, west and along the Clear
water io Lewiston, Idaho, down the
Snake to Pasco, from Pasco down
the Columbia to the sea.
The petty, peanut politicians of
Pendleton can lake their dolls and
l;o home now.
her
And this
man made
legislat ure
against thi
ould i e
' 'lid le' oil's
ere with bet
ilghw&ye to th
ft er her glorious
some members
eatspaw to i
piece of road
trad
road
itales
f the
i it ion
which
a single cent from
money nor inter-
program of pav
vast number (4
ranches which she thinks
whole support -this end of
being lit only to serve on
eucl pay taxes.
! and dined the conquering
and being palled on the
nnounces his candidacy for
e and mildly intimates
could be coerced lo run for
! i no ugh peanut poli'icians
li gton now. When an other
lad minded and sane man so
1 1 his balance as to make a
in nut of a molehill as Kilnci
li on the Wallula road he ha
u rlbed his political atabition
own little dung hill.
e CEMENT BLOCK AND PRESSED
BRICK FACTORY FOR UMATILLA 501
Mnchiuery for a new style cement;
dock and pressed brick factory has
eeu ordered, and is on the way here
now.
P. H. Folle'ii, Wm, Kennedy and
Henry Notz of Hermiston, are the
iwnero and organizers of this new
enterprise for our thriving little
room
i $22i
plut o a four
Boniel hing lil
Tli is is a need
has a bright future
Their plant will
of t lie' Umatilla dei
way.
house will cosi
d industry, an:i
in slore for il.
be located south
it, near the high
Tin' Oregon Dairymen's Co-operative
league, composed of more than
ilOoO dairymen in different sections
of liu' stale, will disband and its as
sets be liquidated as the result of a
vote of the membership, says the
Oregonian of Wednesday.
However, on the ruins of the old
organization a new one for the mar
keting of dairy products will rise
Which will carry forward the pro
lamine laid down by the old league,
on a new and more businesslike
basis.
Tliis was indicated when 200 dairy
men I mm various se ctions ot me'
State who had gathered at Library
hall to learn the results of the elec
ieen took Immediate steps for the
formation of a ni'W organization.
The volt' lei disband Hie league
was you tor ami -lit against. Tins
.as a good majority over the two
liinls vote required to disband.
F. A. Baker, S. A. Sales and I.
Coniliiin we're' chosi'ii trustees to
take charge of liquidation. These
i lu'e i' immediately will w ind up the
league's business.
I iie' plan for the new organization
Mas the result of a resolution intro
LUCed ly George A. Mansfield, presi
dent of the Oregon Slate Farm Hu
man federation, who was present at
Mr. Follen state's
locks will cost from
i piece,
We venture lo predict many nev
bungalows of cement block. Cm
that cement uient blocks have an air space be
2i) to 22 cents i tween, and are cool in summer ami
and block! enough lo com- , warm in winter.
Spokesma n.
COUNTY SURMK I1VNOB
makes : ' : . . . , i . .. . ISi i
The community health program
has received added impetus the last
week of school, With the second visit
of the county nurse.
On Wednesday visits were made
to homes in the eommunit y, and em
Thursday all the pupils of the school
were weighed and measured and no
tices sent to the homes of the re
sults. The percentage on under normal
children in weight compared to
height is between ten and r
which is a good showing. In Ihe
evening of Thursday there was an
enthusiastic health meeting In the
school auditorium with community
singing, a. short program by the
school children, and an add re b
the county nurse, and the showinl
of the Red Cross film, "A Fair l;iy."
The community interest i" the
health work is shown by the number
o finvitalions the nurse has h i l iv
ed to visit homes and the number of
MOIiltOW
COl'NTY
AN
OH, SECTION
parents who have come to the
for cousullat ion.
i .ii
AUMEIts- PHONE LINES
The' November storm played have,
with every farmers' telephone line
that lay In Its path. Many of them
were utterly prostrated. A few of
them, though four weeks have pass
ed, have not ye t be en restored,
Any high wind will damage any
country telephone line. When ac
companied by rain which turns to ice
as it falls, destruction is almost com
plete. To restore ilie'Se line:; reqUilH
labor and material. Both meafl so
much cash.
Even if no provision had
made to repair storm damage
should be provided for upke
common with all other mec
apparatus a telephone natim
toriorates therefore a chaise
be made to the users of the
for the purpose of keeping
That there are possibilities of Mm
row county becoming a great oil pro
tttCing section is shown by the faci
, hat a company composed of M. A
tin . . ('. H, Gr en and E. V. Lit 1 1 i
have incorporated the Ion
oiupany" with a capital in
). The company has taken live
leases on hum' bodies of land
vicinity of wells Springs, anil
zone 2, comprising the Coos-Curry
district on the committee for reor
ganizat ion.
Inasmuch as there were only nieni
bers of the board of directors from
the Clatsop district present at the
gathering, it was decided to send
an imitation to the dairymen in that
section of the state to appoint a com
mittee' of three to meet with the rep
resentatives of the other districts for
working out the organization plan.
A meeting of the new committee
was held Immediately and a tempo
rary organization made, consisting of
P. K. Sitton, chairman, and William
Blackmors, secretary.
It was decided to hold another
meeting of the committee at the of
fice Of 0, L. Hawley in the Worcester
building on January 17. when it was
hoped to make more progress In the
formal ion of the new organization.
We hoped to be able to take advan
tage of previous mistakes and form
an organization which will be able to
market the dirymen's product in a
businesslike manner, committee
members announced.
It is considered likoly that (he new
organisation Will be able to take over
the plants and similar assets of the
old league, The new organization
committee announced the intention
the gathering, The' resolution pro- of keeping In touch with the liquida-
vided for a committee composed of lion trustees of the old league with
three members from each of the such a plan in view if it could be
three districts in which the league worked out to the advantage of the
has been ope rating be Damed to work dairymen.
ileld
Oil
101
ear
in the
il is said their intention is to begin
boring for oil within one year. Quite
a wave of excitement has been creat
ed by the fact that experts think
prospects for oil are good in this
locality and ure willing lo risk nioni-y
on their Judgment. The headquert
ers of the company Will be at lone,
lone Inele pendent.
in be
a l und
ip In
lanlcaj
II) de-
viuld
utility
he- BVS
tern up lo normal elliciency.
Very few of the farmers' lines in
Oregon have made sin h provision.
As a consequence the rehabilitation
of the destroyed lines called lor flesh
capital, and at a time when farim i
hail little or no money lo spare.
They should profit by the lesson of
the November storm by creating an
Upkeep fund.
Experience has proved that I In
least onerous way of creating a re
serve is by monthly Installments- a
regular overhead charge to be paid
.it the same time as monthly rentals.
Authority to do this will, of course,
be granted by Ihe Public Service
commission.
Whether ii be one independent
farmers' line or a group of lines con
nected by an exchange, tin- principle
is the same. As it is now, nearly all
the- farmers' lines are Inadequately
line. need, and it is far better that a
reasonable reserve should be sys
tematically created than ihat. the
owners of tin' line .l.niilil remain In
a position where they may be ral I -'l
upon alter any violent storm to put
up cash to rebuild destroyed property.-
Portland Telegram.
out the plan.
The resolution provided that C. L.
Hawley, Oregon slate dairy and food
Commissioner and a member of the
national farm bureau's committee, be
appointed to funciloo in an ailvi.eory
Capacity, and thai Dr. Hector Mc
pherson of the agricultural college;
aiehal N. Dana and representatives
Of Hie' farm bureau and banking In
terests meet with this committee.
Mr, Mansfield was chosen to rep
resent the farm bureau and George
. Jewell of the local CO-operatiVC
wheal growers' organization and
formerly connected with the federal
farm loan system to represent the
hanking interests.
The gathering chose P, K. Sitton
of Amity, J, S. Albel of Boring and
Thomas Uoe of Gaston as representa
tives, from zone I of the league,
OOmpriSing Portland and the sur
rounding territory, anil II. tluslaf
sou of North flendi William Blaek
more of North Bend and William
Goshen of Marshfisld to represent
A. APOLOGY
He-port reaches us from Heppnei
that County Nurse, Miss Bunge, upon
bet return from Board man, resigned
her position anil returned East.
Having no particulars as to Miss
Itimge's lie-lion, and being a bit thin
skinned, we are wont to query, Miss
llunge was adve rtised lei address the
Hon I'd m an people' em health. At the
last moment there was attached lo
her agenda a notice' that at this
same meeting a cemetery association
would be formed. Such proceodure
in Hie effete East would be likened
unto quailing the linger bowl. In the
West when all is In ihe making, and
the moments are fleeting, health and
ileal h are pi'slle'el in the same mor
tar. If this mingling of life and
death by the uncouth caused inward
anguish to Miss liunge and a sick
i mint y,
in pen it
In an address at the time the
votes were be ing counted Mr. Mans
field declared that the league could
be financed with proper organiza
tion of its credit. He declared that
no effort had ever been made to
finance the old organization on a
businesslike basis.
lie- declared thai the troubles of
the league- bad been the result of
underfinancing, mistakes of manage-
i il and attacks of enemies from
Without and within. He said that
thousands of dollars had been spent
to defeat the dairymen's organization
At the meeting Cheater Bridges of
Hlllsboro presided and E J. Brocks
of Cornelius acted as secretary.
The count of the voIcb was super
vise h A E WestCOtt of Banks,
president of the league.
SOLDIER'S SACRIFICE
WINS RANCH HOME
humbly bend our knees
Rev. Hillis will conduct services
at the church Sunday morning.
Everyone invited.
Happy in the performance of a,
sreat sacrice for bis A. li. F. buddy,
Harry W. Haley, recently released
from ihe Federal prison at Leaven
worth, is at home on the ranch oi
t ol R. P. Dicker SOS near Spring
field. Mei Haley served a prison term
feir his buddy who saved his life in
France. Penniless and without a job
after release from prison, he was
"adopted" by Dirkerson.
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