FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1925
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TheBoardmanMirror
BOARDMAN, OREGON
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WILLOWS NEWS
Ilardesty on the morning of Decimber
26, Mr. Gorton and his wife and
J three children came from Michigan In
the Eighties and lived in Arlington be
fore settling on a farm 3 miles from
Morgan on Four Mile. Mrs. Gorton
! passed away about o' years ago. Mr.
i Gorton, who was bedfast for three
months before his death, would have
reached his 81st year in February.
He leaves a son Joseph, who resides
in Washington and two daughters,
.Mrs. .John Harbke of Portland and
Mis. Jitines Hardest- of Morgan to
mourn his loss besides a large circle
of friends. He was buried in lone on
Saturday.
OREGON NEWS ITEMS
OF SPECIAL INTEREST
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Brief Resume of Happenings of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
Chiistinas Program and Tree at the
Rhea School En joyed by Many
Meets Death in Fire
CECIL NEWS
Loses Sheep with Pneumonia -
treme Weather P.lamcd Xr
Tree Enjoyed at School.
Ex
Christmas day passed quietly along
the creek. The thermometer stood at
'S.- below the day before and nearly
as low that day with about (i inches
f snow. Everyone preferred the stove
t I the frigid atmosphere, but Santy
found us (ine and all and il is a
rood thing he does not mind cold.
On Monday a chinook started but
ivhlently took cold, for Wednesday
found a freeze again and some snow
still remaining. Old timers say it
is just like the winter of 70 so and
so, but as we were not there we shall
not dispute it and will have to take
Use weather as it comes.
" Mrs. Oral Henricksen and daughters
Of Heppner, spent several days with
their aunt. Mrs. O. Lundell before BO
lng on to Portland this week, to visit
Mrs. Henricksen's mother Mrs. Jose
phine Huff. They will remain din
ing the cold weather.
A Christmas tree and program was
given December 24 at the Rhea Siding
school, directed and planned by the
teacher Miss Lowe. Altho the weather
prohibited a large attendance the pro
gram was greatly enjoyed by those;
yioscnt and would have done credit
to a much larger school.
Rert Settlemier of Willows was!
Been along the Creek Sunday, coming
out to see how ninny of us weathered
tie cold and storm, but found us all;
alive.
M. V. Logan made a trip to Goa-
drn on Monday returning Tuesday. He
reports the snow gone at Condon.
A party of Japs from Hood River
put in several days hunting rabbits
just before the storm, having all they
f ould carry away in a couple of days.
They deemed it great sport.
Mrs. Frank Farusworth of Cheney
Washington met a tragic death there
last Tuesday December 23. Their resi
dence having burned and in some
mr.nner she became entrapped in the
burning structure. Her husband, a
i i other of Karl Farusworth of Rhea
escaped without clothing, as he wa
sleeping on a sleeping porch. Particu
lars are lacking, but the sympathy of
this community is extended to the
sorrowing relatives and friends. Mis
Farnsworth before her marriage was
Ethel Stewart of Butter Creek.
State Veterinarian Lytic, called at
the Jack Hynd place on last Tuesday
Mr. Hynd hi s been losing a few sheep
since the cold siell and Mr. Lytic says
it is due to pneumonia caused by the
extreme cold.
Mr. and Mrs. Knrl Farnsworth.
were In Hoppiier this week attending
the funeral of Ufa. Frank Farnsworth
Ebenezer B. Gorton of Morgan died
at the home of his daughter Mrs. .1.
A happy and prosperous New Year
to all the readers of Cecil Items.
W. V. Pedro and niece Miss Josiej
Pedro, of Ewing spent their Xmas
vacation with friends in Pendleton.
R. W. Morse the county agent, was
doing business in Cecil district on
Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. T. W. May left Cecil
on Sunday for Hood River where they
will spend several days visiting with
their daughters.
Miss Mildred Duncan a student at
the Board man high school arrived in
Cecil on Saturday and will visit with
her parents at Busy Bee ranch dur
ing the school vacation.
Henry and John Krehs of "The
Last Camp" left on the local on Sun
day for Portland where they will
spend their annual vacation with their
parents.
Clinton Harper of Ewing was a
county seat visitor on Tuesday.
Jack Hynd and nephew, T. H. Lowe
of Cecil were in Heppner during the
week trying to locate a warmer spot,
than Cecil has been for ten days.
Mr. and Mrs. Dell Ward of lone
arrived at Rhea Siding on Wednes
day in time to accompany Mr. and Mrs
Farnsworth to Rhea school where a
iplendid program was given by Miss
Lowe and her pupils. A beautifully
decorated Xmtis tree was a surprise
for the pupils from their teacher,
Who also treated all the guests with
candy, nuts etc. Santa was unable to
! present on account of its being 24
below, but manlike he sent Mrs. San
ta to distribute the gifts to the child
ren while he got thawed out.
Robert Lowe arrived home on Sat
urday for his vacation.
George Chandler, win has been
spending several months at Lebanon)
''tmnod to his home at Willowcreek
ranch.
J. W. Osborn of the Fairview
ranch left on the local for Portland
on Tuesday. He was to visit his
-ister while in the city and also at
lend to business matters.
Mr. and Mrs. Karl Farnsworth, of
Rhea, Mr. and Mds. J. J. MoEntiro
Walter Pop-, and H. .1. SI rooter of
'ceil were doing business in Arling
ton during the week.
Cecil Luieallen speed officer of
Pendleton, was (he guest of Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Hynd at Butterfly Flats,
luring the holidays.
Mrs. Weliha I'ombcst of Fairview,
as moved down to her cottage for
the rest of the winter months.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Dttfur and children
of "The Cot", visited with Mr. and
Ii. and Mrs. H. V. Tyler near Rhea
on Tuesday.
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PublMiers of The Boardnian Mirror
T. M. Hicks was elected president
of the Salem chamber of commerce at
the annual election.
The continued cold weather has
been extremely hard on game birds in
the Willamette valley.
The combined levy for state and
county purposes In Umatilla county
for 1925 will be 14.40 mil,8.
For the first time in many years the
South Santiam river was frozen over
at Lebanon and ice skating was enjoy
ed. Nearly $12,000 in Christmas bonuses
was distributed by the Brooks-Seanlon
and Shelvin-Hlxon lumber mills at
Bend.
The Willamette river, for the first
time in the memory of the oldest resi
dents, was completely frozen over at
Salem.
An armed, masked man held up the
pool hall of F. E. Waller at Boring, ob
tained $150 from Mr. Waller and made
his escape.
Asparagus acreage will be doubled
in the spring by members of the lima--tilla
Project Growers' association at
Hermiston.
The body of an unidentified laborer
was taken from behind an engine
tender of a westbound passenger train
at Arlington.
Mrs. Sarah J. Helmlck, 101 years
old, died at her home In Albany., Mrs.
Helmick came to Oregon with her hus
band in 1845.
Thomas Earl, 43, committed suicide
at his home in Eugene by hanging
himself with a piece of clothes line
from a beam in the woodshed.
Dr. Sandford Whiting, a prominent
Portland physician and surgeon, drop
ped dead In his office In the Setling
building. Heart disease was given as
the cause.
Stacy, 12, and Clark, 10, sons of
Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Swanson, living
five miles north of Eugene, were
drowned while skating on a small lake
near their home.
Mrs. Mary Knapp, 67, mother cf
Horace Knapp, water superintendent
of La Grande, died as the result of
burns suffered the night of December
16. She was a pioneer of the valley.
Cold weather has handicapped
enumerators of the federal farm
census to such an extent that only
about 20 per cent of the schedules on
northwestern Oregon farms have been
filled out.
For further Investigation of the Des
chutes irrigation project In central
Oregon, Elwood Mead, commissioner
of reclamation, has set aside $5000.
Announcement to this effect was made
to Representative Sinnott.
Some 50 youthful trappers are on
duty in Pine Valley during the holt
days and considerable rivalry Is pres
ent to obtain the greatest number of
hides. Nearly all boys In the Halfway
high school earn their spare money In
this enterprise.
Two hundred sliver foxes, the larg
est shipment ever made to Oregon,
were received from the breeding farm
of W. K. Rogers, Charlottetown, Prince
Edward Island, Canada, and went to
the ranches of D. M. Haskln at New
berg and Hood River.
Blasting was resorted to by the
Mountain States Power company to
keep the Albany water ditch open and
to prevent any water shortage In the
city. About 70 pounds of dynamite
was used every day to blast Ice from
the surface of the ditch.
Fourth Installments payments of the
state income tax which was repealed
at the recent election have totaled
approximately $200,000, according tc
Earl Fisher, state tax commissioner.
There Is yet to be collected from this
source more than $260,000,
Commander Fred Milton Perkins
gunnery officer of the American battle
fleet, who was Injured In an airplane
crash at Los Angeles harbor Monday,
December 15, died at Han Diego, ac
cording to word received by his father,
William T. Perkins, of Portland.
William Basl, twice convicted of vio
lating the prohibition laws, has re
ceived a conditional pardon from Gov
ernor Pierce, according to the records
at Salem. Basl's conditional pardon
commuted the unserved portion of his
sentence and remitted $250 of a $500
fine.
The movement by the cattle men ol
the state as a result of a plan adopted
by the Oregon Cattle and Horse Grow
ers' association toward orderly market
lng of cattle In the state soon will be
launched bkj Uanatilla county, ac H
lng to information received by Fred
Benrrton, county agent. Th plan Ii
to have a representative of the grow
ers in the stockyards at Portland at
all times.
Public employment bureau place
ments in Oregon during the current
blennium numbered 80.235, according
to the biennial report of C. H. Gram,
state labor commissioner.
The contract for completion of cruis
ing timber in Tillamook county by M.
G. Nease was signed by Nease and the
county court last week. The contract
specifies not less than 100,000 acres to
be cruised at 25 cents an acre, the
cruise to be completed before March
31, 1926.
Figures just released by the forest
service showed that in 1923 Oregon
was second in lumber production with
a total of 3,966,083,000 feet. The only
other state ahead was Washington,
with 6,677,656,000 feet. Production in
Oregon Increased 31 per cent over the
previous year.
The Oregon supreme court, in an
opinion handed down has reversed
Judge Campbell of. the Clackamas j
county circuit court in the cas? in
TOlVing Samuel Director, accused of i
larceny in connection with the alleged
burning of his store at Oregon City.
A retrial will be held.
How to dodge automobiles will be j
a new course of instruction at the
r'arrisn Jr. high school in Salem, ac
cording to announcement made by
school officials. The Parrish school
Is located on the route of the Pacific
highway and has been the scene Of
several near accidents.
Restaurants, hotels and mnnufactur
lng concerns of Rosoburg dependent
upon gas for conducting their business
were sadly crippled when the gas
plant froze Friday morning. The gas
niain were completely filled with ice,
shutting off the entire supply to the
city for several hours.
Any further action that may be
taken by Governor Pierce with rela-
tlon to the ousting of Dr. Thomas Ross i
of Portland as a member of the stute
fish commission probably will depend
upon a recommendation to be solicit- j
ed from the attorney-general. This was
announced by the governor.
Fines aggregating $69,286.85 were
imposed by the courts In Oregon as
the result of activities of the state
traffic officers during the current
blennium, according to the biennial re- '
port of T. A. Raffety, chief Inspector
for the state motor vehicle depart
ment. Arrests numbered 3968.
Four boyB who escaped from the
state training school were captured by
the police while hiding In a dwelling
on Front street In Salem. The boys
Involved In the break were John
Moore, Archie Evans, E. Kline and J.
Rlchter. They spent one night In the
OPM and two of them suffered from
frozen feet.
One hundred and eleven mills re-'
porting to West Coast Lumbermen's
association for the week ending.
December 20, manufactured 79,154.963
feet of lumber; sold 89,230,993 feet,
and shipped 72,226.612 feet. New busi
ness was 13 per cent above proline
tion. Shipments were 19 per cent be-
low new business.
The Oregon-California Railroad com-'
pany and ths Southern Pacific com
pany filed suit In the Marlon county
circuit court to reapportion the rail- j
roads' share of the expense of con
structing two overhead crossings loc.at
ed at Wilbur and Sutherlln, Douglas
county. The total cost of the two over
head crossings was $103,500.
Sale of approximately 1,300,000 feet j
of pine, fir and larch on Tepee creak,
in the Wallowa national forest, was
announced at the district office of the
forest service in Portland. The t im
ber was bought by the Oregon Lumber
company at Enterprise. The price was
$3 a thousand feet for the pine and
60 cents a thousand for the other
species.
It is reported at Salem that Oov
ernor Pierce has under advisement a
proposal to include In his message to
the legislature a recommendation that
the state printing office be operated
Id connection with the state pcnlton
Gary. Under the governor's plan DOB
vlcts would be Instructed In the print
lng profession, and only such tree
labor as Is necessary would be em
ployed.
Steve Edwards, a Springfield youth,
who nearly a year ago pleaded guilty
to the charge of larceny In a store
at Springfield and who was sentenced
to serve two years in the state pen!
tentlary and later paroled by the court
I received a Christmas gift In the form
I of an order from judge Skipworth pi
the circuit court discharging him from
his sentence and clearing his record
so far as the court Is concerned.
A census of game and predator
animals In the Gas ida national forest
has been completed at the request ol
the forest service, and figures have
just been submitted. The report stat
ed that there were rno black or brown
bear in the forest, 3000 bbi it tailed
deer. 10 mule deer and 29i elk. In th,'
predatory animal class the eslimat
gave the number of coyotes as W.,
lynx, bobcats or wildcats 1730, cougars
0, wolves 120. Of the fur bearing
animals U was estimated that there
are 600 beaver along the streamn
, eight badgers, 20 fox. 900 marten.
i mink and 1620 weasels.
Notice For Publication
Department of The Interior, D. 8.
Land Office at The Dalles. Oregon.
Dec. 16, 1924.
Notice is hereby, given that Ray S.
Lemoreaux, of Errigon, Oregon, who,
on Nov. 25. 1919, made Homestead
Entry, No. 021140, for BNEV4, being
Unit "A" Umatilla Project, Section
26, Township 5 North, Range 26 East.
Willamette Meridian, has filed notice
of intention to make final three year
Proof, to establish claim to the land
above described, before C. G. Blayden,
United States Commissioner, at Board
man, Oregon, on the 28th day of
January, 1925.
Claimant names as witnesses
Frank Fredericksen, Chas. Benefiel,
Hugh Grim and Arthur Gergins all of
Irrigon, Oregon,
J. W. Donnelly.
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