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Notson E 3 11 Feb 21 V OLUME II BOAKDMAN, OREGON FIJI ).Y, JUNE 16, 1922 NUMBER 19 BONUS LEGISLATION DEFERRED BY SENATE LOCAL f McNary Suggects Reclamation Measure as Land Settlement Feature of Bill. Washington, D. C. Efforts to obtain seiuite consideration of the soldiers' bonus bill will be deferred for at 1 ast ten days, it was stated authoritatively. Chairman Met'umber of the finance committee, who will present the legis lation on the floor, has informed sen ators that in fixing a time to call the bill up, he will try to suit the con venience of most of them. Another amendment to the bonus measure was offered by Senator Mc Nary, republican, Oregon, proposing the Smith-McNary $350,000, 000 reclam ation measure as a land settlement feature. This bill already has bean re ported to both the house and senate but as a part of the bonus measure it would be changed, Senator McNary said, so the veterans would be given preference In the purchase of land in excess of the farm unit, and in the preference to homestead public lands lying within a reclamation district. Under another change, the service of veterans would be Utilized as practicable in the construction of each reclamation project. Senator McNary said it was Ills pur pose to press his amendment provided a majority of the senate show a de sire to incorporate land settlement provisions In the bonus bill. NEW YORK STORM mi TO MOT New York. A violent storm accom panied by shifting winds that reached a velocity of 88 miles an hour tooli the lives of more than 50 persons, in jured more than 100 and caused enor mous property loss in the metropolitan section. Forty persons were reported to have lost their lives while boating in Long island sound- and many others were killed by falling trees and lightning 'and accidents caused by the wind. The storm came at the close of one of the most torrid days of the season. The wind, coming gently from the south and southwest, shifted suddenly into the northwest and increased in velocity to 88 miles, Bd sweeping through New Jeisey, West Ohes'ti r county, across City island, the ltronx and Manhattan, left death and de st ruction in its wake. BREAD DELIVERY HIGH Out of Each Dollar Only 29.6 Cents Go to Farmer. Washington, I). C. A lo if of bread, the joint commission on agricultural inquiry, said In a report, offers a strik ing example of what happens to the farmers' product in the way of Cost and profits betore it reaches the fam ily table. About 50 cents out of each dollar the consumer pays lor bread, the re port said, is absorbed in cost of dis tribution The farmer gets only 29 6 cents in the local maiket for the wheat needed to produce it A survey show ed that the average cost of getting the wheat ready for the baking stage was 8.4, while the average cost of manufacturing it into bread was lt.lt cents. "A considerable factor in the bak er's (aft of distribution which av erages 15 78 cents of the consumer's dollar is the service element," said the report. Z t tL 4 Parties desiring second and third crops of alfalfa standing see H. li. Signs, Iioardman, Oregon. ID-Iitc Messrs. Warner, Skou! o, Johnson and Morgan wore Heppner- visitors Monday in connection with the June session of the circuit court. A. W. Cobb returned from Yakima on Monday where he was entertained by a newly born grandclu d. He will now be able to do some excellent work in his crop of alfalfa. Mrs. W. A. Price left Saturdav 1'rr While Salmon where she will visit with her sister. Mr. Stewart is enjoying a visit With his father and moiher who are hero uoni Corvallis, Oregon. Mr. A. W. Cobb returned from his Visit to Yakina Valley, Sunday. He reports haying is in full swing there. Mrs. A. 13. Strait was in town Tues day looking for her saddle pony. Mrs. Chaffee and daughter, Esther made a business trip lo Herinislon Monday. On account of the rain, the C. E. party was held in the church instead of the lawn at Mr. Healey's. There were forty- seven present and all re port a good time. Ice cream and cake were served as refresh men ts. The C. E. is to hold a contest; losing side having to treat the win ners. It look-; as if the live wives will have to treat unless they wake up. Mrs. J. . Heck and two little child ren, of Redding, California is visit ing with Mrs. Heck's parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Warner. Miss Grace Super, of Portland, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Hirsh' 1 Hinns. The youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. King has been ill with bronchial phenemonia this pa.-i week. N. A. Macomber is I pending the 3u:amer at Pilot Roc whet e iip I a a position with the telephone ci.ni pany. Mr. and .rs. H Hinns an 1 Mis? (I'ace Super are in attendance at t'i Pioneers p'rnic at Mtckelton i . week. M. I.atour 1 ip here ': i TIeppner, managing the service sta tion during Mr. Iiinns' abs( nee. Miss Maude Dillon, sister of Chas. Dillon spent the last week here. Dick Johnson is a juror lor this term of court at Hcppner. Ingvard Skoubo filed his natural ization papers at Heppner Monday. The Goodrich Tire sign painters showed their usual speed on Thurs day when they decorated the Morgan Garage with two of their familiar were Interested in the rapidity with the signs took shape and the paint spread. OREGON NEWS NOTES OF PRINCIPAL EVENTS HAPPENS! OOiiiNO WEEK Railroads operating in Oregon !:ava been requested by the chai.man of the public service commission, to de clare their intentions regarding freight rate reductions in conformity with the; FJ During recent reductions ordered by the inter- Itu'en! j;n:d h twiu uu uvn ice jiharles Hreck. torn: Heat of that city, an the street in Fr $1: it!! 1 state commerce commission. William Cunning Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. William Cunning of Baker and graduate of Oregon Agricultural col lege, has been appointed by the Mis souri department of agriculture as of ficial head of the new grain grading campaign begun in that state. At the last meeting of the Scio city council the control of public dances was discussed and steps are being taken to prevent any disturbance In the future. There have been many complaints that wholesale bootlegging has been carried on outside the dance halls. Qood progress is reported in poi soning squirrels in various districts of the slate with a view to protec tion of crops, according to advices sent out by the government biological survey and agricultural college ex tension service, which are co-op crat ing in the work. In Lane county alone it is reported that 00C0 pounds ol poi son were distributed. Following announcement of the of ficial vote on governor in the repub lican primaries, Charles Hall of Marsh field said that his friends believe and claim that the legal votes cast have made him the republican nominee. The deduction drawn from Senator Hall's statement Is that he will in stitute a contest and demand a re count in various precincts in several different counties. What is declari d to be the largest order ever given on the Pacific Coast f rap and new decorative lamp poles for logging engines and equipment has just been placed with the Wil lamette Iron & Steel Works of Port land by the Sugar Pine Lumber corn pany of Fresno, Calif., a concern which is putting in a .55,000,000 plant in the Vicinity of that city. The order ii for twenty electric donkey engines, skidding machines and cars for an age :egate of approximately 3SO,000 It will require the Portland plant eight months to build the engines and othei equipment called for In the order. According to Sum Kozer, secretarj of state, g scline sales In Oregon dar lng April exceeded those of May by 790.601 gallons. Distillate sales in creased 237.64:5.5 gallons. Ab compar ed with the corresponding month ol last year the gasoline distribution dur ing April represents an increase of 5oV 416 gallons and distillate sales In creased 147.577.5 gallons. The total taxes remitted to the secretary ol state by dealers for the month ol April aggregated $85,451.68. Of thil amount, $41,755.65 was produced undei the provisions of the original motof vehicle fue's tax law enacted in 1911 and $43,0960; resulted from the ad 11 tloual tax imposed by the law of 1.1 Oregon grangers in convention at Mclf innviUa took extreme measu: H for reli&f Irom the tax burden lij adopting a resolution that propose! a cut of $1,355,000 from the state! rd has ben recrived in linker that former well known res- bad dropped dead ;sno, Cai. May the state land depart over to the state treasurer U.4S, nearly all of which went la common school fund. otorg of the Laplne school dis trict have authorised the drafting of pinrrs for a new building to replace .t$)e $25,000 structure burned recently, n The si ite highway commission open ed the n.'W grade between Hilgrade nd Kamrla, on t'ie Blue mountain Section of the Old Oregon trail, June 15. The appointment of Dr. W. G. Hoff man of McMittnville as a member of the state board of chiropractic exam iners wan announced by Governor Oi cott. : A modern three-story hotel to cost $100,000 will be built at Prinevllle to replace the one burned in the fire which swept that city's principal busi ness block. Representative Sinnrtt has announc ed that he will recommend the ap pointment of Wallace Smr ad as post paster at Heppner, Or. Snicad is form er postmaster, Ten thousand dollars worth of new machinery is being installed in thi plant of the Salem Fruit Union, pre paratory to the opening of this year's canning season. The appointment of Charles 10 Miller of La Grande as a member of the state beard of architect examine! I to succeed Lee Thomas was announc ed by Governor oicott. Roseburg's present system of clust- lights will be given to the scrap Installed in the main business district the cou.icil has decided. A dividend of 10 per cent for com mercial depositors and 20 per cent for safety depositors has been declared by the Nehnlem Valley bank of Wheeler which closed last October 25. The recent decision of Judge Kelly at S?.lem enjoining Polk county from placing market read money on state highways is final, according to Her bert Nunn, state highway engineer. Clayton N. Ingle I' ba Grande, a senior in the engineering department of the University Ot Oregon, will leave soon for S.arth Africa, where he will work locating a railroad in Upper i 'are Town. Five hundred coyctes and bobcats were the catch ol 34 government bant ers in Oregon during May. according to Stanley G. Jew It, head of the pred Story animal division of the U. S. bi ological survey. The Meadows drainage district, which lies north of Upper Klamath lake and which Include! an area of ap proximately 27.362 acrrs, is beinr: de veloped In three units, and two oi these are completed. To develop a basaltic rook quarry, A. C. Mathews of Bugene has pur chased for $20.o0i. a lnoo-aere moun tain near Coburg. Mathews has an order from 'he Southern 1'aclfic for biennial budget. Following a heated 200.000 tons of crushed rock. REAL M BAT MAIiKFT At last Boardnian has a real meat market. It was opened Wednesday in Harry Murchie's building with Harry himself behind the counter. debate, the g angers adopted a resolu tion calling for the lepeal of the mill age tax. The vote was 58 to 56. Thl convention indorsed the grange bill for a graduated income tax, urged all grangers to vote for it in Novsml opposed the single tax measure I went on record .n favor of deny -ag Orientals the right to lease or own land in the state, and denying tin m privileges of citize.-ship. For the ): ib time in as many ears C. E. Spen- e Bend has incuts wire flooded and no less than 35 telephone lines put out ot commission as the result of a violent electrical storm accompanied by hail and rain which recorded a precipitation of of an inch in three minutes. Fred G. Buchtsl, member of the pub lic service commission who was de fated In the recall election May lit by Newton McCoy of Portland, expects to abide by the result of the official ( APT. WM, WARltKN isrrs OLD HAUNTS The Heppner Qasette-Ttmee of Tune 8, has the following about our leading merchant: Harry K al i en and son were in the city on Saturday from Boardman, where Mr. Warren is now engaged m the general mercantile business. They Were accompanied by Mr. War ren's father, Capt, Win. Warren, who lefi Heppner some twenty years ago and has not been in (he old from town since. He was busy looking up old friends while here and also took note of the great change that come over Heppner in stating that he would known toe town. II. who has been engaged for a good many yean land has become a resident of Mor row county again and is enjoying i good tr ade in his mercantile Ini 'ine a at Boardman. CONVENTION UPHOLDS that time, noi have K Warren, in tanning near Poit- PKARSON COTTAGE 111 its W.AKHMXS COSE KVERYTHING Considerable excitement prevailed in Boardman just at noon on Friday June 9th when the Pearson cottage suddenly burst Into flames and burn ed to the ground, destroying all the personal effects of the occupants, Mr. II. E. Warren of the Boardnian Trad ing Company, his lather and son. The elder Warren was cooking the noon meal when food boiling over caused the tlame, AH the surround ing homies were in danger for u time and if there had beet much Wind they could not have been saved by tho bucket brigades who rushed to their protection. Th! Warrens are now occupying the Ilereim cottage on Heppner street. SECOND EXAMS HELD A few of the pupils who failed on the eighth grade examination in May tried again on June 8 and 9. The Questions were harder than in Ma) so it Is likely some will have to try again in September. ANNUAL school MEETING ON MONDAY, .11 XE liith The school board held the final meeting Ol the year on Saturday, June I7lh lo prepare the necessary reports for the annual meeting on the 19th. . The chief features of Interest it the annual meeting will be the BiS elion of a director and a clerk as the present incumbents have unhealed that they do not wish reelection. Tile district also faces Hie problem Ot securing a grade teacher In place of Miss Stella Cunter of Shelby, Monl., whose board raised her salary to hold tier, and the election of all the high school teachers except the prin cipal. There are several good appli cations on file and the difficulty lies in making a choice and in g 'It ing ac ceptance after the choice is made. .NEW (JARAOK Lorn May 7th, at Pendleton, Mr and Mrs. Al May, a daughter was elected worthy master of the SUU canvass of the vote without recourse Grange. . to the courts. Boardman is now moving forward. In addition to the depot now under onal met ion, contracts have been let , lor i be erection of a modern garage building of bungalow type adjoining the Latourelle service station Just ! completed. Mr. Latourelle is the Ford representative for Morrow county and will make Iioardman his headquarters. He formerly operated al Heppner. He expects to install an Ice cream and soft drink depnri ment In the service station and has ordered a modern soda fountain for W. A. Goodwin will baev charge of the garage const i net Ion Washington Republicans Favor Poll Tax Repeal and Indorse Administrative Code. Chehalis. Wash. Although the de bates over proposals to repeal the poll tax and direct primary laws were rather lively, the Republican state con vention held here Saturday was gen erally harmonious. The platform committee recommend ed thai the poll tax be continued as a good law, lot that It be left In the hands of the people because of the referendum now against it. On a minority ri port calling for Its repeal, the vote was 574 for repeal and 233 for the majority report. The majority report on tho direct primary plank In the platform indorsed the law and urged support of the referendum act on the amendments made by the last legislature. Tom Fiske of Cowlitz county and otherB urged n substitute asking for the repeal of the law and Jay Thomas proposed, as a substitute to both, that the whole matter be referred direct to Hie people this fall. Both substitutes Were voted down by a vote of 627 to 156. Planks in the platform included strong Indorsement of the national and State administration) including the ad ministrative code of this state. following the election of Greenwood of Kitsap as temporary chairman, he g. ire a ringing keynote speech extoll ing the party and predicting success this fall. Major Jeffries of Benton county was made permanent chair man, and Victor Zednick of Seattle secretary. WASHINGTON LOGGED AREA 4,603,450 ACRES Olympia, Wash. The total area of logged off laud In this state approxi mates 4.1)03,450 acres, of which 3,974, 2511 acres are in western Washington, the completed survey started by Harry Thompson, agricultural engineer, shows. Grays Harbor county has the greatest acreage of logged oft land, nearly one-half of which could be Utilised as agricultural land when cleared, according to the report. The percentage of the total area of the western Washington counties which Is logged off land varies from 30 per cent In Pacific county to S3 per cent In Island county. The percentage of cul tivated lands In these counties is said to be small, running from 2 per cent In Pacific county to 19 per cent In Clarke county. '"I he most of the valley lands have been improved and any future develop ment must be on the bench and hill lands," the report stated WORLD'S WHEAT SHORT Lower Stocks Expected to Be on Hand July 1 Than for Years Washington, I). O. World wheat stocks by July 1 will be lower than for several years, according to an analysis of the situation Issued by the Commerce department. Both Argentine and Australia, the department explained, have consider ably less wheat than last year, the United States carry over will be light, and only Canada has considerable stocks on hand A larger demand than last year, It wiih declared, was Indicat ed by the upward trund of Kuropcmi consumption, while the prospects are for a smaller crop. HOAtE SWEET HOME ffcHNV TOOH THE SCCOxO LOOK! a-' -AUTO -reO.-I VjELL FAMMV ( HEAB YOU 1 eGA(.o ro a i J 1 o a V ilii, WW ,4 "v! n No,(,,D)I,,r-r 1 HI " I L I oJ " '- ,-. j . 1 O . lw e '-' o oicm I . -