otoaE s JJ Feb, Verdict in McKay Condemnation Suits Given This Morning. This Means That Work Will Proceed at Once MIRROR VOLUME 8. BOARDMAN, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1923. NUMBER 21 GOOD PRAGRESS ON ROADS DURING SEASON ASSURED The 1923 road-construction sea son opens with the prospect that there will be about the same amount of road construction as last year, which was a very satisfactory one, according to the Bureau of Public Roads, United States Department of Agriculture. Returns from 21 scattered States show that in these States there will be available $288,000,000 for road work as compared with $273,000, 000 spent in the same States last year. On Federal-aid work, which constitutes something like half of the total construction, there was un der construction on Mareh 31 work estimated to cost $258,000,000 as compared with $233,000,000 12 months previous. Wages of l,abor are generally slightly higher than a year ago, ex cept on the Pacific coast, where the same rate prevails. The greatest Increase is in New England, where the present level is approximately 30 per cent higher than the level of a year ago. The gereral outlook is consider ably better than a year ago, when the railroad and coal strike loomed as distributing factors. Added to this is the fact that the designation of the system of federal-aid high ways is now completed in 33 States and practically complete In most of the others. With a definite pro gram for accomplishment laid out road work can proceed much more smoothly. From latest reports it appears that 30 States now tax gasoline as compared with 4 States at the begin ning of 1921. Most of the revenue derived goes for road purposes, and bureau officials regard this as a step In the right direction. With road users paying a more equitable share of the cost, highway finance is placed upon a firmer foundation. RRIGON NEWS ITEMS Mr. Morse, our county agent, spent a few hours in Irrigon last Satur day discussing various questions, in cluding the holding of a fair at this point this fall. He promises to give us all the assistance in his power to make it a big success. Now that we have a man on the job who will line things up, why not get busy? Let us have it a little earlier than has been the custom while our pro ducts, are still in .the ring. We have the old school house which is fixed up for just such occasions, and ihe new buildings together with the sight acres of school grounds, will give us all sorts of space. Mr. Morse will be with us again in a few days when the question will e further handled with Messrs. Glas gow, Grimm, Seaman and others. Set our minds that we are going to have i fair this year, and get busy. J J. Sturgill, the principal engag ed for tile Irrigon school for the coni ng term, arrived Wednesday even ing and has moved into t lie Bleck iey house recently vacated by Prof, .trover. Other teachers hired for he coming year have not been an nounced but we understand that Miss lllanche Powell and Mrs. L. D. Ruling are included. OREGON NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST BRIEFLY COMPILED FOR OUR REAPERS No more plank roads will be laid In Warrenton, by decree of the city council. Thirty delegates attended the an nual conference of the regional cham ber of the Red Cross at Salem. George N. Frazer, pioneer foundry man of Eugene, died at his home in that city at the age of 73 years. With more than 100 members pres ent the Oregon Deaf association held its annual convention at Salem. Organization of the Oregon Logan berry Growers' Co-operative exchange was completed at Salem and officers and directors elected. Crook county municipal improve- W, F. Wadsworth received word Saturday from his brother In San Francisco, that his father was not j expected to live long and he left for that city on No. 1 Sunday morning. .Mrs. Wadsworth is handling the tcue and postoffice with Miss Snow McCoy assisting. Hugh Grim went to Heppner Tues lay to attend to some business mai lers and talk on the Irrigon Associa ,ion guaranteed products. It looks like melons and cantalopes will come along in good shape after all, and that before July is over melons will begin moving. Teachers Attend Summer peaeion. Teachers from practically every county of Oregon are planing to at tend the summer sessions at O. A. C. : beginning June 18. A good many College and high school students are1 sending in credentials to enter for special credits. A brilliant array of lecturers as well as teaching tal ent has been signed up for evening and day sessions. Charles I'pson Clark, formerly director of the American school for classical studies In Rome, will discuss the near east and Balkans, Italy of today, and Home of the Ceasars Courses in diet in disease, and principles of nu trition will be given by Mrs. Jessa mine C. Williams, head of house hold science at the University of Arizona. Some 300 boys and girls club members are now at the college for special short courses. PAPERS sY ROAD WILL BU COMF1 J4TED IN TIME FOB 8RD The past week a number of trav elers who have come over the Blue Mountains report the roads absolut ely impassable without help. Cars are stalled every few rods and must be towed sometimes for more than a mile. Not one has expressed the belief that the highway will be com pleted for traffic by July 3rd. Later It was announced in the Portland papers yesterday that the road will be fixed and will be passable. The Irrigon commercial club is distributing the Oregon Magazine issue for June, this week with an irrigon District write-up, and has also ordered a large supply for fu ture use. The club is planning on quite an extensive advertising cam paign. Who says it is not growing weather now? However, on account of the cool weather up to recently, the apricots have not progressed as fast as might have been the case in n ordinary seasons, with the start they had at blooming time this sea son. George Hendricks and Harry Les ter were on the sick list a couple of days this week. Probably eating too much fruit. Get your mix in right proportions, boys. Anything! may work the same way. W fresn M from the LX factory 4VTOBACCO J Mrs. Seaman, son.Lyle, and daugh ter, Margaret, with others motored o Prosser, Wash., Sunday and had a picnic dinner In Jacobson's orchard at Paterson. They report a very nice trip. Chas. Markhani, who was hurt In a fall from a hay derrick pole last week, returned from Echo Monday and is home doing as well as could be expected from the jolt occasion ed by falling nearly forty feet. Glasgow, Grim and Hesscock have C. B. Smith manufacturing them a partnership hay der rifk this week. We believe it is going to have five wheels and eaisly movable. Mr. Jenkins of Umatilla ha hired out on the L. A. Doble fruit farm for the season and has moved his fam ily into Mr. Doble's house. Mr Stoddard was an Irrigon vis itor Sunday. He says everything is lovely with them on the ranch near Hermiston. now 1 Ray Lamoreaux and C. W. Powell were Stanfleld visitors Wednesday on a trade for some farm implements. ROLL YOUR OWN WITH Ri L. Croix Papers AtacKJ Harold Mumau made a trip to Pendleton on business matters Tuesday. A number of Irrigonites are fig uring on going to Meacham the 3rd. i meni oonns in tne amount ot ssm.uuu were certified at a maeting of the state irrigation securities commission. Due to the many late spring rains the cherry harvest in the Silverton communitv will be small this season. ' 1 ! says the manager of the Silvertou can- I nery. Annual movement of sheep from the home ranges in Wasco, Jefferson an northern Deschutes counties to sui mer pastures in the national forest is on. The cherry fruit fly which cause considerable damage in the Willam ette valley a few years ago again ha. invaded the orchards in the vicinit; of Salem. More than 75 teacher students ar registered for the six weeks' cours offered by the eastern Oregon brand of the state normal school being hel at Pendleton. A special session of the Wasco conn ty grand jury may be called to attemp some solution of the mystery sin rounding the death of J. P. Agidius Ortley rancher. Farmers of Deschutes county wlli oppose the $90,000 bond issue propose;' for completion of highways, is th declaration of John Marsh, president of the county farm bureau. According to a statement of Ton Moore, a pioneer resident of Bakei county and owner' of a big farm a. Pleasant Valley, the alflafa wtevi' has made its appearance there. Six hundred and seventy-three stu dents were granted eighth-grade diplo mas in (T.ickamas county during Mu and June, according to llrenton Ved der, county school superintendent. Portland is to have the receiving and distributing offices for the depart ment of agriculture new daily market service for Oregon, Washington and Idaho, which is to start soon after July 1. J. Finley Mast was killed and Mrs Mast is in a hospital at Myrtle I'oint with serious Injuries sustained when their touring car plunged over a precf pice along the middle fork of the Co quille river. Fruit crop prospects of the Mosier district are more promising this year than for the last several seasons. The apple crop is now estimated at 150, 000 boxes, a 50 per cent increase over that of last year. Entries for the big horse show tourney to be staged at the Top o Blue Mountains pageant, limited to 25 contestants each from the Pendleton, Baker and La Grande districts, are be ing received dally. Fully 1000 realtors from all parts of' the Pacific: Northwest and British Columbia will be in attendance at the annual convention of the Northwest Real Kstate association at Portland July 18, 19 and 20. W. L. Kuser, until a few weeks age superintendent of the state training school for boys at Salem, has accept ed a position as manager for the Nilee Sand & Gravel company, with head quarters in San Francisco. Supplies for the various state in gtitutions during the six months start ing July 1 will cost a trifle less than for the present six months' period, ac ccrdlng to bids which were opened b the state board of control. Withdrawal of the oleomargarim and milk substitute referendum petl tion was demanded of the Associate Industries by the Oregon Holsteir. Breeders' association ln resolution unanimously adopted at its annua meeting at Ccrvallis. Governor Pierce has announced the personnel of the commission which will investigate the Oregon automo biie license law and report to the leg islature at its next regular session it 1925. Members of the commission art W. B. Dennis, of Carlton, and JameE S. Stewart, of Corvallis, selected b the governor, and James H. Cassel John H. Hall and C. L. Boss, of Port laud, selected by the dealers' assc ciation. Special guest of honor at the an nual Linn county pioneers' picnic was Mrs. Maria Campbell Smith, 82 years old, whose parents came to Oregon on board the ship Laussanne in 1840. She was ihe first child born in the ter ritory of pioneer parents. Starting July 1, all operators of motor vehicles which are subject to the provisions of the automotive trans portatloD act of 1C21 will be required to keep a detailed account of their activities and file a report of the same with the public service commission. The Oregon supreme court has is iied an order restraining the directors f the Union high school district at lermiston, Umatilla county, from pending any of the district funds nu ll the court determines whether the onsolidation was brought about in oiupliance with the laws. The flist of four ocean-going log afts to be dispatched this summer by he Benson Lumber company to its ail at San Diego left the Columbia iier in tow of the Puget sound tug li'rnaconna, assisted by the Oneorta. ;'lie raft contains 009,000 feet or logs nd a deckload .of telephone poles. The third and final survey of cost f wheat production In Sherman coun y has been begun by the United Slates l.'partnient of agriculture and the tate college experiment station and xtension service. Reports will be pub shed as soon as analysed and tabula, id, to enable growers to profit by the formation obtained. Work of securing the trout ess sup ily for Oregon is now at Its height n many parts of the state and the out ook is that Oregon will have the ar&est blood this year of any state in he union, according to a report of A. 5. Burghduff. state game warden. Ap iioximately 39 million eggs will be .laced in hatcheries of the state, A certificate of award lias been scut by J. A. Churchill) s'.ate superlntend nt of schools, to every boy and girl n Oregon outside of Portland who 'ias not been absent or tardy dur.ng 'he past school year. Reports show i hat 5201 public school pupitS have arned these certificates. Marion unity leads with 398, while Jackson county Is second With a total of 253. Tile bureau of public roads has '.?t the contract to the Warren Con struction coin, any for the building of the Roosevelt highway between Devil's ake and Slletz buy In Lincoln county, the contract price being more than $200,000. This will complete the Roosevelt h ghway from Tillumook ounty to Siletz bay and there Is a ction of but u few miles to he built to reach Newport. The Southern pacific company has reported to the public hi rvice com mission that it has a surplus of 939 ars. A similar condition exists on ihe lines of the Oregon-Washington tailroad & Navigation company. Suit to restrain the secretary of .itate from pla ing on the ballot at the November election the referendum measure initiated :igaimt the satte In ome tax law by tin- Oregon State ln l ome Tax league, may be filed with iu the next few days. The Oregon experiment station work on poultry breeding is not only the nest in the United States, but also in the world, was the judgment express ed by T. R. Robinson, honorary sec retary of National Utility Poultry so ciety of England, and Percy A. Francis, commissioner of poultry for the British ministry of agriculture, after a visit to the Oregon Agricultural college at Corvallis. Spend your money at home. KITTITAS APPROVES NORTH. WEST HAY GROWERS' PLAN A repre entative meeting of the hay growers and business men of Kit titas county, Washington, met and formulated the plans of the proposed Northwest Hay Growers Association were presented by Mr. Boyd Oliver, of San Francisco, and L. A. Hunt, manager of Oregon Hay Growers Association, of Hermi ton, Oregon. The farmers engaged In considerable discussion and consid ered the proposed program and were much pleased with the prospects of the association's being able to take care of surplus hay and to stabilize the hay market. The plan wan tin animousiy approved ami an organ ization committee, consisting of: U. O. Rorenson, H. H. Adams. A. W. Gregory, and J. C. Wil on, were ap pointed to tak. care of the organi zation work in this county. The electing was presided OVOr by Mr. Sorensbn, president of the Washing ton State Farm Bureau, Growers Will be permitted to study this plan before definite sign-up work is un dertaken. FALL OF YEAH IS HAD TIME SOH TYPHOID BAYS DOCTOR Typhoid fever Is sometimes called autumnal fever because of tho fact that the greatest Dumber of cases of the disease are reported In the fall. The disease may become epidemic at any season of the year where there Is gross neglect of the water and milk supplies that have a large num ber of common users as In cities. Epidemics of this character, how ever, have heroine rare within the last decade. The most recent one occured al out three ye ars ago in Saleiu. Ohio. The type of tjpiiold that is always a source of worry dur ing the summer and fall is usually called sporadic or endemic, thai is llu occurence of one or I wo eases in localities over a large area and most of them being derived from different sources of infection. In Oregon this type of typhoid begins to Increase with the advent of May, gradually increases and reaches the maximum during the month of Oct ober. Tin' typhoid bacillus is distinctly of human origin. The organi in dO03 not live and multiply in any Other animal. There are always a :ong our population people who art typhoid carriers. About one per eenl ol all people who have typhoid fever and recover remain typhoid ' ir.i'ls lor Indefinite periods of time. Cases of forty years duration are on record. Such people are cup-O-ble of causing typhoid In others If I hey are careless in their personal habits; and more especially If they are food handlers in any capacity. on never know when you are going 10 shake hands with a typhoid car rier; eat food prepared by one; or drink vafr that has been polluted with the discharge from some carrier guilty of gross carelessness. All these dangers are very greatly In creased during the warm Weather When we eat raw foods, are out of doom hunting, fishing, and camp ing. Then, too, the typhoid bacillus is Very much more prevalent during the warm season because they mul tiply much more rapidly in warm weal her. Much of the typhoid fever is con tracted during vacation outings and picnics, The season for outdoor va cations Is over with the month of October and then the number of cases of typhoid reported takes a gradually decline until the next Muy. grocerymaa ought to be able to select a good date. NOKHWEST HAY GROWERS HAVE ia ' ion rlt in to r. ! flSi- The approval of the Director of Agriculture, E L. French, to the contract of the proposed Northwest Hay Growers' A: social ion, has been received, according to director of or ganisation, l!od Oliver, this morn ing. As the contract, as drawn by tho organisation committee had al ready been passed upon by Aaron Sapiro, and as soon as the contract can be printed, other meetings will be held, at which the details of (he operation of the proposed Organisa tion will be submitted to the bay growers. The Committee Is well pleased with the reception the plan has re ceived and have yet lo find a hav man who does not favor the pi.... The provision requiring a minim i "f . ,"i per cent ol' tlie marketable a;.... fa being parlicullary attractive. I he etlecl ot the organi campaign has already been f the hay market as where up I few weeks ago all buyers v.r 1 histlO and were prop'i a Ing u ' prices, now the prices hav.' adv.' no d I from $1.50 lo $250. P' .1 Ion. Buyori nil realize that organisation mefttM a j stabilized market. The plan of tie BCW organisation ifi lt i relation to the r, owcr may be j briefly staled as follows: The management of Ihe o anima tion will be In the hands of eleven I directors, elected at large, who will have general control of ihe activ ities of the organization. The grower will pool his hay by grade; and districts so (hat shippers ; i similar freights will be pool, d together. i The local affairs Concerning each i district pool will be in the hands of Is local committee who will arrange for all feeder sales, attend to baling j and a senibling of hay and supervi sion of making advances to grow,: i. I under rules of the board. It Is expected lhal all hay will be handled upon stale grade, determin ed at loading point, Mr. Oliver slates that the general experience of such associations ap- , pear to warrant advances for har vesting of approximately $2.50 p r ! ton and that where the hav is pro; ; eriy stacked and measured up thai after the general letior of the hay market has been determined a fur ther advance may be safely made. ; This second advance will probably be given only to those realy In need or it ami win approximate 50 to oo per lent of the estimated stack value of the hav. In addition the SSSO Lclation will pay baling expenses. All the growers in Ihe same pool will be I paiil at Ihe same time and final set tlement will in no case be delayed later than July 1st of any year. In I this wav every grower In the same ' pool will stand upon the same basis. "Growers should not sell hay for i less than $15 00 f. o. b. cars," said i Mr Ollv. r. It Is the Intention to H nance the opi rations of Ihe organi sation as much as possible through local banks I. til the plan of finance is (i sound thai H is felt thai easy money may be secured In out: Ide banks If necessary. PROM STATE MARKET DEPART MBNT, Ht '. R. BPBNOB, M. V The meeting held last week In Yakima under the direction of the Slate farm Bureau was the able t presentation of Ihe principles and details of co-operative marketing ever held In the Nor. hwest It was clearly shown by the speakers of this conference thai we are entering a new day in agriculture, that lip old system of the rural buyers and competitive dumping of agricultural products Is doomed, and lhal we MS In the perold of evolution at Ihe end of which the farmer will lake his rightful stand as an organized mer chandiser of his own products. The wave of co-op. rat ivc market ing has spread from Denmark to New Zealand, and Is now a recogniz ed principle all over the world In the United .Stales lis fundamental principles have bi ei devoloped In tie- laboratory of California, and are now being broadcasted lo all agri cultural commodities throughout the entire United States. In Ibis i ovement the American Farm Bur eau Federation is assuming a lead ing role "Man Is like a tack, good If he has a good head on him and Is pointed In the right direction, but even tho. he Is driven, he can only go ho far as his head will let him.'