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PAGE 4 THE BOARDMAN MIRROR FRIDAY NOVEMBER , 1924 BIG TURK WeaotW., OREGON NEWS ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST Brief Resume of Happenings of the Week Collected for Our Readers. Trap SSiooting Rifle Shooting Revolver Shooting Dice & Card Games For Turkeys & Ducks Sunday Nov. Hot Lunch At Noon Held Under the Auspices of the Boardman Gun Club Boardman, Oregon Everybody Welcome -:- Sunday Nov. 16 'm:m:m:u!;:::mt:tt::::m:i!tKj?:::::;:;;v.!;t:t: PEOAln SN1 n NOV. 8 tO 15 In Cooperation With NOV. 8 tO 15 National Canned Goods Week We are offering some exceptional values in Canned Goods and invite you to come in and look over the many lines of Seasonable Merchandise that we will offer Saturday and all next week at tremendous sacri fice prices. Men's Wool SOX Medium Heavy Kt'K. 48c Sox for 3 pair - $1.00 Men's Wool FLANNEL SHIRTS Only $1.69 Other Equal Bargaini Until Nov. 15 Onb li zZ Broken Line of BOYS SHOES Values to $4.50 to close out Only 98c pair Many Extra Specials In the Grocery Dept. Ladies' & Children's UNION SUITS (Some 2 Piece) 9Ge Suit 36 and 10 Inch All Silk Taffetta (K pe de C hine and Georgette Crepe N fclues to $2.50 special $1.29 yd. Big Reduction on Corsets Stows & KllllH'' I'tir H ('liruoMM All (.rules A KeiiMiiiaUlc I'rlres Geo. W. Biggs QUA LIT Y M ERC HAN D 1 S K Arlington, Oregon i-it Our H KM n n nn 1 run save iikmii ami are Assured of Oualit litttttttttttumtttttsssmmsmi ?K;5ss:!::;u;jj::uaasiMju;uj.'Hj;i Salem's city budget, as approved by : the council, provides $249,500 for next year's expenses. Leonard Gilkey, a Linn county farm er, has been elected secretary of the Albany chamber of commerce. John Wesley Goodman, 73, native ( of Oregon, was burned to death when l his residence in Coburg was destroy- ed. John B. Hedlund, 50, connected with the Blue Lake Logging company, was j found (lead in the woods, pinned un- ; der a heavy timber. During May, June and July 42 resi dents died in Jackson county and 75 Iiildren were born, of whom 41 were hoys and 34 were girls. All rain records were broken for Medford and at the southern Oregon experiment station in Talent by the heavy rainfall in Jackson county. Budgets filed by the various school districts of Tillamook county show that $79,294.62 will be needed to run ' the schools during the coming year. The eastern Oregon Older Boys' conference was held in Baker with 85 delegates present from cities and com munities of the eastern part of the state. The city budget for La Grande has been adopted by the budget committee, and now awaits final approval. The total amount of the budget is $ltt,- 814.50. Robert L. Winnifred, for many years one of the leading residents of Rose- burg, committed suicide by shooting himself at the home of E. S. AddisoB, near Lorane. Dr. J. A. Best has resigned as Uma- ; tilla county physician because the Red Cross incurred bills and the county court paid them without his knowl edge or sanction. Both the Osborne and the Gibbs driers at Amity are operating at full capacity, drying apples and walnuts for the Oregon and California Fruit Growers' association. A half dozen of Lane's largest bridges, just Inspected by state and county engineers together, have been deemed unsafe in a formal report just made to the county court. The Haines Telephone company fil ed with the public service commis sion application to increase its rates on party lines from $1.50 to $2 and on private lines from $2.50 to $3. Oregon has been asked to send a demonstration team for the making of prune bread to the National Boye' and Girls' club congress in Chicago, November 28 to December 5. Jonathan apples, sent from Hood River to England by Dan Wuille A Co., have returned growers a not of C little over $2 a box, according to Wal ter R. Woolpert, sales manager. Judge Lawrence T. Harris of Eu gene has been Invited to be the first speaker at a series of Americanization meetings planned by the women's club at Corrallia November 17. Lloyd Lyons, 30, was killed Instant ly at Walton, 30 miles west of Eugene on the Coos bay line of the Southern Pacific when a donkey engine in slid ing down a mountain passed over him. John L Etherldgo, former head of forr i Broth era, Incorporated, defunct Portland b -nd house, was re-indicted In Portl ' by the federal grand jury on ohargi . i f using the mails to de fraud. Coyotes 1 bobcats had several days' freed : i from persecution this week, owing to the elections. Fifty six goveninvi.t hunters received per mission to return to their residences to vote. October's ex-orts from Portland represented a value of $7.2:13.106 and for 10 months of the year the total Is $38,587,737, whereas for the corre spending 10 months In 1923 values ag regaled $32,574,039. Three armed robbers entered the Aurora State bank, held up Miss Mil dred Benoist. assistant cashier, and robbed the Institution of approximate ly $400 in cash, a few money orders and a number of checks. A report on the forest fires in the Sluslaw national forest this year, made at the office of the forest In Eugene shows a total of 61. The total number of acres burned over in the national forest was 1167. The steam schooner Acme, loaded with 100 tons of steel, went ashore on the beach near Whisky run. four miles north of Bandon. Her crew was rescued, but the vessel, valued at $75. 000, was declared a total wreck. Two feet of snow blocked The Dalles California highway 50 miles north of Klamath Falls at the Fort Klamath hill, for a short time last week, but heavy automobiles broke through the drifts and the road was opened to Bend. An Increase In gas rates, amounting to about 60 cents per month for each customer, is asked by the Southern Oregon Gas company and will go into effect in Roseburg November 15 un less suspended by the commission. About 400 feet of temporary false work installed by the Pacific Bridge company for the construction of tho Pacific highway bridge over the Wil lamette river at Harrisburg went out 1 with a loss of $7000 to $10,000, as a result of a sudden rise in the river. Alexanders, Inc., the oldest depart ment store in Pendleton, one of the landmarks of the city and of the east ern part of the state as far as mer chandising history is concerned, will suspend business, according to a statement by Carl Cooley, manager. Byron K. Wheeler of Eugene, who was arrested as a California bank rob ber suspect and held in the Lane county jail for a week, filed suit In circuit court against Sheriff Taylor and his bondsmen for $50,000 dam ages for alleged false imprisonment. Damages in the amount of $1584 were awarded Ruby Dodsou against the city of Bebd by a circuit court jury after hearing tho suit in which Miss Dodson alleged that she had been permanently injured in a fall caused by a faulty sidewalk in Decem ber, 1922. Tunnel work on the Eugene Klamath Falls line of the Southern Pacific will be well under way with in 30 days, according to John G. Mc Fee of the firm of Henry & McFee, which has the contract for the build ing of 17 tunnels in the Cascade moun tains southeast of Eugene. The Southern Pacific company has filed with the public service commis sion a tariff authorizing reduced rates on canned fruits and vegetables in carload lots between Sutherlin, Doug las county, and Corvallis. The rate under the new tariff Is 27 Vis cents for 100 pounds as against 36 cents un der the present schedule. Members of the state emergency board held a brief meeting in Salem and approved deficiency appropria tions aggregating $13,876.76. Of this amount $10,395 was to care for claims resulting from the activities of the state veterinarian and state livestock sanitary board in the campaign against the foot and mouth disease. The Mountain States Power com pany, with headquarters in Albany, has filed with the public service com mission a tariff providing for a gen eral reduction in rates. The new tariff, if authorized by the public service commission, will affect 11,740 consum ers and will reduce the annual rev enues of the company approximately $18,000 annually. Thirty miles of The Dalles-California highway in Wasco county were ordered surfaced by the state high way commission at a meeting in Port land. When surfaced this will com plete the highway in that county. The section is from White River to Cow canyon. The work was awarded to Joslin & McAllister of Spokane for $138,400. Twenty bidders competed for the award. In an effort to secure commodity rates for binder twine from Portland into the distributive territory of the Portland Cordage company, complaint has been filed with the interstate com merce commission by the Portland Traffic & Transportation association. It is maintained that the lack of such rates places Portland at a disadvan tage as compared with eastern com petitors in eastern Oregon, Idaho and Montana. In case Governor Pierce approves an option requested by B. C. Miles, a Salem capitalist, covering the pur chase from the state of 45 tons of flax fiber between July 1 and Decem ber 31, 1925, and 180 tons of flax fiber to be delivered during 1926, Mr. Miles and his associates have propos ed to erect a modern flax spinning mill near Salem. It is said that the plant would cost approximately $175. 000, of which amount more than $75, 000 already has been subscribed. Four men were drowned near Pow ers, in the southern district of Coos county, when a logging train went down on a bridge on the railroad on Salmon creek, and another man was crushed to death under a ten-ton boulder which fell from cliffs as he was passing in Camas Valley. All were the result of the recent severe storm which swept Coos county. The dead In the logging accident are: Charles Lumbert. engineer, of Pow ers; Floyd Rice, fireman, of Powers; Archie Boone, conductor; W. C. Wood ring, mechanic. Professor El wood Mead, recently ap pointed commissioner for reclamation of the interior department, has of ficially proclaimed the lower Klamath lake drainage district reclamation pro ject a failure, and informed Game Warden Burghduff and W. L. Finley of the National Association of Audu bon Societies that dikes would be opened and the water turned back in to the lake. Lower Klamath lake was at one time the principal breeding ground for migratory birds on th Pa cific coast and one of the most im portant bird reservations in the country. Artesian Wells Prove Successful Seven Artesian Wells on Boardman Project Furnish Stead- Flow One Man Drills All With the coming in last week of a (iC foot artesian well on the Ray Brown farm, Boardman Project now has 7 artesian wells. Six of these hare been drilled within the past year and are within an area of 5000 acres. Four of these wells are on a straight line with one another and the outer two are four miles south of this line and one is a quarter of a mile north. The first tvell of this nature in this locality was drilled on the faun of ,1 .Tohrson in March 191" and a good steady 1 .w of watvt ' t ov talned lit a ieptli of 95 eet. 1' M ell has I ten flowing for Hv4 years im v and shows nr. sign of tilling, ' e v,tr IWi . sulphuric taste. The Ayres well is only 65 feet, the shallowest the seven in I em 's II i heaviest and most steady flow of wat er and is centrally located between the others. Almost all of these seven wells show some sign of either mineral or oil compositions. Sulphur Is quite pronounced in the water of the John son and Broyles wells, while oil ap pears in the Jenkins well. The wells all have a continuous, steady and n heavy flow, altho they are in close proximnity to each other. They have all been drilled by the same man, S. L, Beck, who is now located on the project. Since the good luck of these farm ers In obtaining artesian wells, others are contemplating to drill soon. Those having artesian water and the depths of the seven wells are as follows : J. R. Johnson, 95 feet. ("has. E. Dillon, 95 feet. T. E. Broyles, 87 feet. Walter Knuff, 75 feet. John Jenkins, 70 feet. Ray Brown, M feet. A. P. Ayres, 05 feet. Protect yourself against the uncer tainties of winter. 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