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About The Boardman mirror. (Boardman, Or.) 1921-1925 | View Entire Issue (July 14, 1922)
il V. ,V'1 feL B SET!' 4, -a i VOLUME II BOARDMAN, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1922 OREGON NEWS NOTES OF PRINCIPAL EVENTS HAPPENING DURING WEEK Although the highways' of the state were crowded with motor vehicles July 4, less than a dozen arrests were made by state traffic officers. Forest fires along the line of tfce Tillamook branch of the Southern Pa cific have handicapped passenger and freight service to some extent H. J. Overtnrf of Hem), whose ap pointment as an appraiser for the sw Kane farm loan bank was recently suspended, has been reinstated. Shipment of lumber from Bend dur ing the month of June was at the rate of 30.7 cars a day, a new ship ping record for the industry there The biggest three-day celebration ever held in Union county was held at Elgin. Eighty horses participated in the races before 5000 spectators The Roseburg city council has put into effect an emergency ordinance limiting the loads of trucks operating through the city to 400 pounds to each inch of tire width Valuation of imports in the Oregon district for five months ending with "May, according to official tabulations, were $3.1'J4,:i47, as compared with $1, 40fi.S4G for the first five months of 1921. The average grade for all milk dis tributed within the city of Portland Is as high as that specified by las for certified milk, according to Dl D. V. Mack, chief dairy and milt inspector. Men above the age of IB years out number women in Portland above t!t same age by 5841, according to figures which have just been released by tin department of commerce at Washing ton, I). C. D. L. Hamilton, aged forty-two, died at Klamath Falls from injuries roceiv ed when a logging truck upset, crush ing his body and planing him be neath a stream of boiling water from a hurst radiator. A statewide association of poultry men probably will be organized at the national convention of Instructors and investigators in poultry hus bandry at the Oregon Agricultural college this month. Because of the increasing distance between mills of the Brooks-Sea nlon Lumber company of Bend ami the log ging camps, a new 50-ton Baldwin locomotive hns been added to the com pany's transportation facilities. Lack of cherry and berry picker, is hindering operations at the can nery of the Eugene Fruit Growers' as sociation, and ma cause a loss of a great deal of (fUtt on account of allowing it to become too ripe. The big sawmill of the Booth-Kelly Lumber company nt WYndliug was totally destroyed by fire 4ast week and it was with difficulty that the planer and other units of the plant, as well as the whole town, wen saved. A total of 164 teachers were re quired to instruct the 3921 children enrolled in the Union county schools during the year ending last June, ac cording to the annual report prepared by Mrs. A. N. Ivanuoe, county school superintendent. Because of the damage resulting to macadam ronds from the open cutout on automobiles, Herbert Nunn, state highway engineer, will go before the legislature at its next session and ask that the traffic laws be amended so as to curb this evil' Elvie Kirby. alias Jamet Owens, and John Rathie. slayers of Sheriff Til Taylor of Umatilla county in 1920 paid the penalty for their crime on the gallows in the state penitentiary at Salem. Rathie was the first of the two Bit n to mount the gaiiuws. public service commission of Oregon on the ground that it lacks jurisdic tion, was sought by defendant rail roads In the rate case brought by eastern Oregon farm interests In an attempt to obtain a lower rat.- on al falfa 'tay shipments to western Ore gon dairymen. Commissioners Me coy, Corey and Kerrigan denied the motion for dismissal. The voters of Oregon, when (hoy go to the polis at the general election next November, will be confronted bj seven proposed Constitutions! am n I me tits and two initiative measures Th!s was announced by Sam A Kosef secretary of state, when the time tQi t l!ns completed petitions for the fal election expired. All of the petition! presented were accepted subject t rerhecking by the state department Umatilla entity's wheat crop v.il he approximately five bushels short on the 2oo.nnn acres Is grain thu ear, on account of the recent heat wave, according to the best authorities who have checked the enure county. This is a loss of a million bushels and will make the crop about 1,500,1 bushels short of the bumper crop Bl Inst season. Conservative estimate: place the crop in Umatilla county this year at 4,500,000 bushels Because the officers of Jackson county have failed to prosecute al leged "night mobs" for outrages com niitted there a few months ago, Gov rnor Olcott addressed a letter to I. H Van Winkle, attorney-general. In struct ing him to take charge of tb cases In question, present any i v: dence that may be assembled 'to the grand jury, and in case of indictments proceed with the prosecution of the persons charged with the offenses. Some winter wheat has been cut in Oregon, but although the hoi weather is hastening maturity, har vest has not yet become general, say I the weekly crop report of the weather bureau. Conditions are Uttfavorabl for filling of wheat, but in some of tic principal wheat-growing counties th( rop has escaped serious injury. Spring Wheat and oats, especial!) where sown late, tire being materiall injured by drouth. Corn hac respond ed well to the hot weather, but where not irrigated will need rain sojii. That a fleet of 80 pur&e Seining ?raft. the majority of then) from l uget sqnnd, is pluming to start fish ing off the Oregon and Washington -oasts about July 15 was the inform . tion received at Astoria by Deputy State Fish Warden Larson, Tb be prepared to cuiiibat the operations of this fleet, the cruiser launch Phoenix, which has been chartered by the fish eries department to patrol the coast, will have a one-pound gun mounted on her bow and will be equipped with range finders, so that the exact bear ings of any fishing craft which en croaches on the three-mile limit can be taken. Proposed legislation looking to the refutation of the slow driver as well as the pei son wno would drive his automobile at an excessive rate of speed probably will be sought at the nrxt session of the legislature, his was announced by T. A. Ratfety. chief inspector for the law enforcement bureau of the state motor veh.cie de part n.ent Mr. Raffety said that the person who drives his automobile too llow on the state highway is a menace to traffic, in that he retards the speed of machines that may be following md cause the latter drivers to lake chances that they otherwise would uot attempt. NEW DKVTIST IX .YKLINOTON - ""tk Dr W. T. Tiller, a graduate 6 fit he North Pacitic Dental College at Tp ft -land-has decided to locate an! ;on duct a business at Arlington. He is a specialist in plate work and is a'lic. ensed dentist both In Washington and Oregon, Dr. Tiller comc-s highy recom mended to Arlington ns a first cja s dentist. He is now ready for busi ness and can be found at his tempor ary oilice in the brick building oVor Biggs' store. His office and eqijlp tent will only be temporary as til the new bakery building Ls complet ed, when he will have a modern of fice there, using all the late methods and instruments which help to make a dentist's work satisfactory, )Ir. Tiller's home has been in Portland for the pa.st seven years, and he 1$ a world war veteran, serving in ho army overseas for sixteen months, Mr and Mrs. Glen Mitchell and Mrs. Rav Brown motored to Irrlgpn I Wednesdav lor fruit. Earl Cramer is the proud post sor of a brood sow which brought a litter of fifteen pigs. Mrs. Hereim and Mrs. Earl CramW spent a very pleasant day with Mrs. Mulkey last Saturday. Mr and Mrs. Ktttr.ner were Sundh;. j gueats at Mrs. Mul key's A, Anderegg, our efficient ohetfce maker, is taking a mild vacation a' Stanfield pitching hay for tin qj! friend of his to get rested up for n arduoud season; after next month when the cheese factory gets going full blast. !r " fi . I' Ii "W- Vk. The new water tank lor the Oa:-J C. H. Latourcil's new servic? is about completed'. r the ( ! 1 ,1c tatleS I Ted I n n low, son of A. C. Partlow, broke his rkht arm Saturday. His horse stepped on it. He had his left I taken In a similar manner last v inter. Mrs. Dodge and -o i. My or, ,vbo visited at the Oouoi.iia for several weeks returned home 'ast Week, Haying has star'od in full Mvlng Again. The second i . ip is apparn t- ly about as heavy .- the Mrs! a- tmg. Some one remarked the other dy that "The Mirror was the rottenest tittle paper"- Wo h,Ojpe there are not very many who feel that way about It and lot us suggest that if everyone who felt thai way would rustle around a bit and send in a few pages of items each week it would help make a better pap.-r. Try it. and see. Quit knocking until ou've h lp d f ome. The Healy'a have returned from Portland al'tir a weeks visit. Mrs. Royal Hands is gradually Im proving. She has been in .Portland for some lime under the doctor's care. She fell one day and bruised the bone in her ankle and ha-' been unable to walk without aid since. We understand I hat the credit lor repairing the flag pole in time for the 4th belongs to M L. Morgan, who climbed the slender staff and put the rope through the pulley. It's :i task we wouldn't have cared about performing and all credit to the one who could and did do il. D. E. Harper has sold two lot ; to l-l. E. Warren The. Packard' panned a iojl; "weenie roast" last Tuesday evenin down on the river. Most of the young people of the project were there and repori a jolly good time. The Ladies Aid is contemplating a play next month. People alway enjoy these home lalcnt plays. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Cooper, wlio hae been visiting at the ( G. Illay- den home, have started Pack to their home in San Diego. They will stop in Portland a while on their Way back. Mrs Francis Born, who has been teaching in 1 1 a lola , Hawaii, is here for a visit with her sister, Mrs Alice Dingman. Richard Dingman has returned to fj-oldendsle after spending the 4th in noardman. We wish to OOrreci an error pub lished last week. It was slated thai Mrs. Weech bad returned from Port land accompanied by her daughter. The tacts in I lie case are these; Mrs. Weech wenl to Portland to attend the Kose Festival. Mrs. Weerh's a ghier came and was here during her mother's absence. Mrs. Weech returned, bringing her step-grand daughter with her for a visit. .Ray and Ernest Brown are begin ning their second harvest of hay. i Ley say (bis h&y business is one continual round id' pleasure. Dale Watklns, of Irrigon is work ing with Mr. Dompsey'l bay crew. Mrs B. Watl-.ins of I rhgnn called at Frank Cramer's on Monday evening. The Mourning After NUMBER 23 OOPS ON GUARD IN STRIKE ZONE Half a Dozen States Assemble Soldiers: Courts Intervene to Stop Picketing. Chicago. The calling out of troops In Illinois, the assembling of soldiers In half a dozen states and the Inter vention of the federal courts in the nation-wide strike of railway shop men marked the opening of the sec ond week of the struggle The Chicago. Partington & Quincy railroad obtained a federal injunction here restraining picketing at the An rors shops, while an injunction was issued at New Orleans restraining strikers from interfering with trains on the Southern Pacific and at Coun cil Bluffs, Iowa, the Iturlinglon ob tained a temporary restraining order directed agalnsl striking shopmen in southern Iowa. With increasing numbers of state troops and emergency forces of United States deputy marshals on guard wherever outbreaks have been threat c d. the government announced that life and property would be protected, the mails continued and interstate commerce not Interrupted despite the strike of railway shopmen After a conference in Washington villi President Harding, Attorney General Daugherty said that addition al depuly marshals had been author ised anil that they would be sent whor ls or strike disorders justified. Some curtailment of train service was reported from St. Louis, Hanni bal. Mo., Louisiana, Illinois, New York anil several Other stales. Interference by ruilway strikers in Texas with a mail train was reported to the post office department. J ' WL--F fl .OM'BODV SAIP (It WAS TRyiNO To PFlT THE KAILRQAV TRAIN -v..-- ..... : P2 t'i CROP CONDITIONS REPORTED BETTER Washington, d. C, OenersJ im provement in Drop conditions along the Atlantic and gulf coasts and in the northwest, east of the llocky mountains, was noted by the agrlcul i :te department In It! crop summary for the last hall of June, made publlo Saturday. Throughout the- corn bell." the de I irlmeiil's observers found, "small grains were more or less injured by i he unusual hot anil dry weather, as v ere also some crops in parts of the mountain ami Psoitis must regions. Irrigated crops were mil so much af fected." The COrn crop generally made prog ress, except In the southwest, where il was neglected for cotton. Wheat is being harvested in New York, Michigan, Wisconsin, northern Iowa, eastern Colorado and California, while threshing Is going on in the southwest and some of the southeastern states, oats are reported generally poor to fair and cotton had fairly good growth. 'THKKE were oSSO similar scrldents during the year 1020 In the Cnfted States, killing i,":t end Injuring 8.877 per-ons. and an Increased number during 1921. When statistics are available for November 1!rJl It will mJkjvv that in. mill as being one of the worsl In history. Isn't it about time SUtomoblltsts were coining to a reallSBtlM of the necessity f a stopping before proceeiijij over railroad grade crossings, not only for the safety of themselves, bill no Ocetrpantt of their cars whose lives t!iey have In their hands, as well us persons on trains. The greni number of ar ddeiltl occurring would Indicate 'bat travelers on public highways misjudge the speed of trains and do not look for tbeiii in both directions Many accidents occur by reason of the fscl that automobiles proceed over "-luKi aliuf S train passe without knowing whether or no another train Is coming In the opposite dire. nn, STOP, LOOK AND Li.sTL.N for trains oo tracks before stteiuptlng to tmw There was one fMtality In Oi'gon due to Industrial accidents during the week ending July . accordion to 3 report prepared by the Industrial ac cident commission The victim was A It i Clarrolt, suleHinan, of Portland. A total of 44H accidents were reported. Warning was issued to smokers at Mend by Fire Chief Carlon against throwing away lighted cigarette stubs near any Inflammable material 'the warning was given after six small fires In sawdust and dry grass hud been Mttngnlshed In tug south end of town mar the big pine milling plants HOME SWEET HOME oao is twe yoKR op -rue MMitft , 8v ir'-ou MAtZV hese'S Lfc-rrE-i 1 '"'- a c 1 r J t Ml , T'I I ' 1 I f TrO-y Zhcle 0 who's on mluio-s of- PEoue J i we always ) - -rwEf Mn.nr hi , a- CCy Ii I u,c VACATION 1 T SSA9MOC& S ? l EXi ..CERATES So f ) ? ) q 9 lOU KNOW AT BATH,, ! ' W-w. r S. -THIS YSAR. J V TVSR,! COULDN'T q 17 . l',P. .HtS FIGOfcES" JJ ' s V i AILLUSj ' U j 7,9 , n