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About The Boardman mirror. (Boardman, Or.) 1921-1925 | View Entire Issue (June 2, 1922)
NEW INDUSTRY FOR BOARD MAN RIVALS MITCHELL'S WORM RANCH My Dear Editor: The writer received the enclosed "bright light" lengihener and bark ache waver from an Honorable New York promoter The pre.r. Poeetttl: ri ported how gullible public bad Inhaled Id million of extinct ltoclr Inland bonds from Wall Street brb kers. 1 am lully aware that WO 01 the went must be alert Dial we art not roped by the slicker of Wall St. but when it cornel to fur we can dra our cards with the east and be a1 home. With "Milady" hankering lor fur tinder the July sun, and in slating that it be a part of her make up when holly berries are ripe, the market for our product will be unlim ltfd. The plan now Is to form a local company of production, the New Vork home companj to be the Clearing bouse for Ihe fur. . W. Cobb has consented to act as presi dent; Claude White and "Ohio" Hauffman to act as chief skinners. Ho far we have not met with sueeeas In getting a farm for the million cat -One man said, if lie took on those crtg It night n i DO with hi i ' I' There is a merit of truth In the statement. We found one man will ing but hlg wife objected She din not mind the cats, but when it caun to the four million rats, she Mid th length of skirts of Ihe present day were too long Another mar. tti I roached on it t I iQ jecl th a co.i rerlod cat yowi n would inUrtMP his radio waves. We are now plan ning on buying lllalock Island for th industry, but at present are meeting strong Opposition from a ring Of moonshiners, tliey wisln to work In silence anil fear that the cats will he a disturbing factor, Mr. 0. H Warner has kindly offered to Htock the ranch with a million eats, as he can spare that many and not Incon venlence him. To any one interested or desiring to buy slock, I letter to the president will bring fW prompt reply. Yours truly, Jack Qorham Treasurer. 8KVEJI WQItUBIf DKAWJI ON Jl'KV 'ANEI; Mr. Jack (lorhatn, Itoardman, Oregon. Dear Sir: Knowing that you are Interested In making money and are a keen ob server of industrial propositions, 1 take the liberty of drawing your at tention to what seems to me a most uonderlul Opportunity for prollt in a fur business, I have no doubt that you will taks a lively niter. -i. and, perhaps, telegraph the amount of Htock you wish to subscribe to wards the foundation of ihe company. The object of the company is to operate a large cat farm in Board man, Oregon where land Is cheap and police protection elltcient for cats To Blurt with, we will collect ab out, say 1.00(1,(1(1(1 cats. Kach cat will average 12 kittens a year. The skins will run from Id cents tor whiti ones and Tl each cents lor pure black ones This will give us I :! lull lion skins a year to sell, at an aver age of 3(1 cents apiece, making our rev. inie ftbOUi Id. Odd a day gross. A man can skin (0 cats a da lor 12.00. It will take 100 men to run the arm; therefore the net profit will tie 9t,Mff, per day. We will Teed the cats en rats and will start a rat farm next door The rats will multiply tour times as fast as the cats. If we start with 1,000 ooo rats, we will have, therefore, 4 ruts per day for each cat, which isi plenty Now then, we will feed the rats on the carcasHcs of the cats, from A panel of 13 juroru has been drawn for the coming term of cir cuit court which will convene on Monday, June 12, at Heppner, or' which 7 are women. Following is the list: Hiatl, Elma, Heppner, housekeeper Tingle. Joseph, Lexington farm r. j-4nn, P. J , tone da'r' trian . Garamell, Robert, Heppner farroet Moore, A. M , lone, mechanic I Whight, Raymond, Hardman, farmer I uurnslde, Qeorge, Hardinan farmer A Kern, l' red, Kightmilo, farmer. Cork, Marion, Hardman, farmer Johnson, Nols M lone farmer Anderson, L. Gooseberry farmer. Parkert Frank 8, , Heppner farmer liager, Lula, Heppner, housekeepe. Minor, W. O., Heppner, retired . ibley, Jos . Lexington farmer, Carmicbael, Park 0, Lexington far Roblson, Harriot J.. KighlMile, far. Johnson, .1 it. Boardman farmer I'omeroy, JDlraer Lexington farmer Davis, Clark T., Lexington farmer Forbes, Oliver I)., lone, merchant Fiuhl, Otto, Lexington, farmer, icincaid, cinra, lone, housekeeper Cllppee, T. W., Lena, farmer, inn. Nellie, Lexington housekeeper Whites, Anna, Heppner housekeeper Renge, EJlla, Heppner, bousekeep r E3 earner, w. J. Heppner drayman Kirl.. Merl, Lexington, farmer The teachers have "flew the coop" Miss Price left on Wednesday even ing for Portland where she was mar rled, Thursday to Harry Rands, a law itudenl of o. A. C. She will teach at Dallas this winter. Miss. Kunner left Thursday for her home in Salem where she will spend Ihe summer. Miss Clal I left Friday for Ihe farm near VVooiiburn, where she will lie uiilil fall when she is to teach at Baker. Mrs. Watkina has returned to her farm at Irrignn, and Mr Signs will remain lu re for several weeks Until lie has made final proof on his homestead. What is ill' matter with a com munity picnic for July lilt? Lei nil the organisations of the projeet, in cluding the churches, Ladies Aid, M. W. of A., American Legion and Auxiliary, Grange, and the v. t. a. appoint representatives to meet to gether ami outline a program and picnic so that all the people on the project will be represcntated. Now is the time to Let such a move mule: way and not wait until the last min ute and thin do everything In a tush. Las! Saturday evening the Orange held a utv enjoyable social meeting in Hie Auditorium. A short prog ram had been prepared, ice cream ..ml take wire served and lifter the two candidates were initiated, the guests gnjori d dancing. Maeaes flpresfls in wet If potatoes and beans are hariowed and cultivated when the vines ur wet may spread disease. Mom el the serious potato dim uses ate earned by fungi w hich spread rapnlh under moist conditions. which the skins have been removed, giving each rat a fourth of I cut. It will thus be seen that the business will be sell supporting and automatic all Hie wa through. The cats will eat the ruts and the rats will eat the cats, and we will get the skins. Awaiting your prompt reply and trusting that you will appreciate the unusual opportunlt) that I give you and wlih h will geUyOU rich quick so thai yOU may retire from otlr con- genlal occupation, I remain, v. ours lie p ettully, New York Fur & PUSS Co. Unlimited. Fordson Tractor, Now only $484.29 im ii' n wini noDMRiOK i t ts MOWUI V9 $122.50 ESl Terms on New ami 2nd Hatul Cars Also Many Other Bargains. Echo Auto Go. KCHO. OKKAiON VVOKLD'S (i NEATEST FINANCIER SAILS TAXI FLAPPtETTE MAKES HER B0 V I - ' -I Otto II. Kalin, expert on taxation and leader in the world of national anil intcrnationsl finance, waved a cheery good bye to a tew friends when he sailed lor the. otber side last week. His mis-ion? Mr. K.ibii makes it a practice never to talk 'before the fact." lie discusses aCjJOropHihmcntC Duties of Queen Ant. When Ihe QUeeU nut lajTS her eggs ihe workers gather about and pick up hucIi egg as It is hilil and carry It gwoy to the underground purseries, where It is wntcheil and cured for by other worUiTs. Soiuetbues the queen win escape her attenUnnta A a ay she hurries, evidently bent mi playing a bit, init the moroeui her disuppear mice Is noted the workers scurry oul In every direction to tlnd her. mid once she Is located she Is dragged buck to the borne by force and gets nuuiy n sharp nip on the wny as punlslun. nt. ihe queen is three or four time- as large RS the worker suit . Her first brond tlnds her busy Cleaning up her house, digging a new room for n nurx ery. washing and cleaning her babies with Ii; r tongue, and feeding them from her store. After the first broM, however. Ibis work Is done by Ihe working BUtS, and the queen 1ms noth ing to do but attend to the functions of motherhood. Rsading M.in's Mind. I'y watching a man's hcUoOS one Clin tell us plainly wiial is i(olng on in his mind OS a person nin n ail a page of piim. according to lr. Hem., Cullies Huwn, who is conducting a course of lectures at the L'hiiniber oi ominerce on the Kansas side. "Tell me the boyhood ambition of a mail mill I can tell you much of his char Si ler ii lid desires," he said. "He may never tmve r ul iz I that ambition, nut) bars ieni bis life in a far differ cut business mid met with success, tlieie. hut his boytiood ainbltlon tellf the vuy his uislos run .mil lie slill likes ihe same things he admired then i io lute a courtroom imd watch tin wo lawyers opposing ench other and you inn soon tell by the way they an que (inning which fears b r the safety of the case and which thinks himself on solid ground." Kansas City Stur. Roaer Asc'irim. linger Aschaui was n Inuious Bllg II Ii scholar and author, bom at KlriiJ Wlske, near Northallerlun, In WIS. He graduated at Oniubrldge, ami strug gled will, poverty until patrons cann to bis relief, lie wus famous for hi general knowledge mul acqotreiucntf in flreek and Liitln, and Is rlaeitrtl among eider literary lUt'O. with Kil BiUnd Speiisi r. Sir TbouiHg More nin) Sir I'hllip Sydney, His death, in l.o.i don. mi December HO, l.sifj, is suid to have been occasioned In his too clesi Mtipl it-lit lull to tin composition of H poem, which he intended to prueeui to the queen ou uie annjsgreatl of her accession. Filipinos Protest Shi; plno Laws. Manila. The Phlllppii a i-b:tuibet o ci tnr res by cablcg . .ii iustruclei M . .. Queson and S. rgrlo Osin M .- ! neads of the .cilepsndencs mis a en i to Washington, to pro test r . .net the extension of tin Ac call c astv. isc s'.i pping laws ti l'llllippines -s Do -n Over 10c. beat ics made a sou lay, 11 May deliv iwnv 10K cents i Whest Chh HUIOU. , sty pluug bli-hcl us .. nps- with miotatioil: eailler in the -ion ..lay went i far dewn ss 1.18 . t for the firs time this year t . dt j lower p.ici tliau July Germany Gives in to Allies. I'at .s The Qerman reply to thi ; iutest gemands of the inter-allied rep j tcaMons commission, which is undei I stood to be virtual act eplance of al I of tli in. wus handed to the commls j i nn It hsd been brought from Berlh b) Kpeeml courier. Miss Kathcriue Gilgove who is she? No matter, site startled even Atlantic City, N. J., w! en she ap peared in her black and white knick crbockcr costume and tvas fmracdi ately dubbed "The T?.:i fta tt . -ctie," a she slroiied the cms boardwalk. ' ORESON P3EWS NOTES M. l.iIEHEST gf or: Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Cur Readers. Tin- annual chautamiua season of Medford began Fr'tv-.y. KUiiti iili Palis now has but onediflly paper, as I In- result of suspension of the Bvenihg Reoarsj, Oregon's fire pntrol tax law was de clared unconstl 'onal by Circuit Judge Bamiltoa Rcseburg, A heavy i-iu i-fall closfd the P.-ndle-ton-l.a Orandti Section of the old Ore gon trail to traffic temporarily. A Dumber of farmers in the vicin ity of North Powder are planning to form a Potato Growers' association. Koss & Shoemaker have taken over the state limestone plant at c.nid Hill and w ill opt rate it on a tonnage basis. The Intern: ban Telephone company Is having plane drawn. for a modern ooncn to exchange building to be built in SilvertOBt The recent primary election in Lane county tost about a dollar a vote, ac coiding to estimates made by County Clerk liiyson. June 6 has been selected as the date for the S;ilem Y. M. C. A. youths to leave for their annual encampment on Salmon river. Farmers on Deschutes valley irri gated land will get a goo.l average crop of alfalfa this year despite the lateness, of the season. WONDERS 07 AMERICA By T.T.MAXEY Little Miss Francine King enjoyed Mr. and Mrs. Earl Cramer were a birthday party of ice cream and t'nner guests ui Mis. Fran UlVtnt cake, out In her father's new barn, er's on Monday. They report a deli Other guests present were the Kut- cious dinner, topped off with atraw- sner' berries and cream. Lev. Benson will till the pulpit of the Community church every Sunday morning, unti a pastor Las been secured. June 19 is school election day. that d 1 .v'f if 1-. T. A. .'ill . for installation of otnoers and further plans for fourth of Jdly. On ,3 it to Tito Ladies Aid Is to mset with John Jenkins returned from the Mre, M. i. Morgan, on Wednesday, hospital at The Dalies on Sunday. Juno 7. He is much improved in health. A 1 1 w, lJ!r DA 25 LOWER THAN EVER THIS SUMMER Round trip tickets routed over the UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM returning same or any direct line. Yellowstone Park $3.'i.(i5 St. Louis 77.90 Salt Lake City 49.54 Cincinnati 102.70 Henver 65.40 Philadelphia 141.35 Kansas City 68.40 New York 143.80 Omaha 8.40 Loston 154.75 Chicago 82.40 To olber cities in proportion .... Ticket sales daily until August 31st Return limit Oct. 31st Through service also on Couinental Limited. The Union Pacific operates the only Through Solid Train between Portland and Chicago "OREGON -VV ASiILN CTON LIMITED" Leaves Portland 9:00 a. m. Arrives Chicaga at 11.00 a. m. (third day) Every foot of the track : best in the transportation world maximum of human skill and represents the supreme effort an 1 ?r ti-' i atrons. Dili on our fgetit when you are rest. protected by Automatic Safe'.y Dining car service the very art. The service as a whole of tha management to pleas i -eady to 'to and he will do me Wm. McMurray, General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon Wi-btern Newnpaj or Unn-n. VALLEY FORGE JN THK picturesque valley of th Schuylkill river, twenty miles north uest of PtliladeipUiu, -i ei t is n sacre. spot at whiek every American sliouit aie biuiself the privilege of worship hi sometime during his or her life time. It is the then unattractive site, lined Willi barren, frosen hillside where General aeorge Washington mul Ills iiitle aiiny itf rI out Ht.Dil-' half sun veil, poorijr-eted patriots luv ouatt'ti, sufferlug oHthljUiabls bard ship, from December, 1777. to June I77S. followmi; ttia tragic Wiitie of the Rrandyv'!ue aud ihe occupancy of Philadelphia by the British. Thle circtHnstaace of history ha- ipieit tbed to tills hallowed place tt Ulory ami 11 fame Which will nitiich to It throughout the uses to come as will the more retent Stmggle to Hie region of the ArgOime! In France. A tract 01' al. nut ."dKl acres bus been purchased I j the s .lie of I'eunsylvnu- ! in ami the government, with MtSsW determlnatloa ami sdmirabls com pietei less, is reetpitng ane'eni land tn.irks ami trmisformiuK I his hlstoi it camp site of the Coin ine dal army into an eer.iistlii'; Niit'o'ial Sbrrie. The lau .hters of tie Ainericiiii RerolatkW) have ire ted a noble shaft to the mriUMWU be Mecf) lu re and the Valley Ferae llnaeam "f Amerii'an HNiory cotiiriiiu) many relics of the ittty. Olio tills will, eniol.oll us b ell ters the little cott.ice where tJeneral Washington hml his Mmpio be.-idquur-ters and fe'ls the tnlor of sanctity as he stops into the Wiishlnctoii M uorial Chapel. sMnetiliies called "Tin- Wm minster of America." s 1 O 1 e " i - i a 1 1 I For I i e a m m m Lumber, Building Materia! and anything usually carried in a Vlcdern Uptodate Lumber Yard See W. A. Murchie Hoardman, Oregon.