PAGE 2 THE BOARDMAN MIRROR FEBRUARY 6, 1925 II I sldent organ OREGON NEWS ITEM OF SPECIAL INTEREST Brief Resume of Happenings of the Week Collected for Our Readers. Registration in Portland scho pasbod beyond Hie 47,000 mark. An educational confer) nee v held at the Oregon Cily high building Saturday. Seth French was elected DW of the new Retell Merchants' Ization at Alliany. HoRgars will be compelled ti wort on the streets of Eugene, ;ieeiirdiii- to an edict of the police department, Emery J. Newton was elected shi rlfl of Benton county to succeed the late Sheriff S. N. VVarfield by the board of county commissioners. Practically all the unm&cadamlzed roads in Klamath county were Imps -able because of a thaw which follow ed snow and cold wt ather. Probably the oldest married coup I In Oregon, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Still well of Bandon, last week ci Ii lirati I the 69th anniversary of their wedding, Slate officials with a big snow plo began wort last week In an attempt to clear the McKenzle peel of snow, The snow is estimated to be 18 feet deep. S The SUverton Health officer baa Is sued an order thai all school children be vaccinated or remain home from school during the present smallpox epidemic. Miss Agnes Johnson, who for many years was a I earlier in rural schools of Douglas county, has been tempor- for ii of ariiy appointed school supervisor the count y. Packing has been started by i.ano County Co-Operatlve Pr (i rowers' assoeialion, a branch Of StatS organization, at the Bcarbrc plant at OrSSWell, Jetty construction on the north e of the entrance to CpQS bay now tends almost one mile to sea, wl trestle work in more than one n from the receiving plant. During the season oi itiL'i there a '78 forest fires in the Umatilla tionul foroHt, burning 27 '" nor it vuluable Umber. The total I suppressing the fires was I8M4, There will be DO inc real a i'i charges for grazing ottttle and on national forests during IK", c.-.i! 1926, Secretary Core of the dl niont of n gricul I tiro has annottte ed. As an Indication that deer plentiful in the Cascade mountains IE were seen at one lime in QeOrge N McLean's meadow on what is 1 nown us the Kigilon ranch above Oakndg". William Lovelace, who osenn-d irom the state penitentiary at Kahiii Octo ber 7, 1922, has been apiirehendi d in Los Angeles and will hi' returned tO the prison to serve out his unexpired term. The projected expenditure Of 18000 In beautifying the upper Columbia river, Sherman and John Day high ways by planting trees was announc ed, at The Dalles by the state highway office. ' John R. Chezem. farmer living on the Lorane highway five miles south- west of Eugene, was found guilty in justice court of cruelty to animal ; in allowing 11 head of cattle to Starve to death. Herbert B, .Mien of Bend, assistant general manager of the llrooks Si an Ion company, has been elected presl dent Of the recently orgaulzed Central Oregon Council of the Hoy Scouts of America. The Independence branch of lie nojrmitl training school system lias been closed as n precaution nealnsl the spread of diphtheria, several cases of which have been reported In a !( pundence. Deputy sheriffs made a raid upon the Japanese colony at Mabel, a saw mill town 20 miles up the Mohawk valley from Eugene, and arrested three men on a charge of possessing Intoxl- i i ating llOjUOr. One hundred million feet of fine timber, mostly white, cedar, will be opened by a projected logging road which the stout Lumber com nan win construct this spring ou Smith slough In Coos county. The city of La llrando has sold $73,160 worth f municipal bonds to the First National bank of linker at $103 42 on the busts of $100 par value the highest price ever received for Improvement bonds. After having pcnt several months and hundreds of dollars trying to find ; him, relative of August Stadt of Km tnett, Idaho, hu incompetent, found i htm last week, working on the ranch of J. M. Morgan in Jordan valley Figures showing a 40 pi r , Mil In crease In suicides last year ,-v t In Multnomah county were announced i In the annual report of Dr. Earl Smith j coroner. There were "7 In 1924, au I lucreuue of 22 over the previous year Two candidates for the United States district attorneyship for Ore gon are still under consideration by Senators Stanfleld and McNary. They are George Neuner of Roseburg and llobert Kuykendall of Klamath Falls With the turning of a 60-inch valve by Mayor linker at the Hull Run head works, Portland's new $2,600,000 pipe line, the third, was placed in commis sion and the city now has available 06,000,000 additional gallons of water J R day. Approximately ?29, 294,000 had been 1 xpended In constructing Irrigation works in this state at the close of IA24, with 1,343,00 acres of land involv ed, according to the biennial report of the stale engineer, filed with the leg i Islature. C. O. Hawkins, cashier of the West ern Stale bank at Newport, pleaded guilty to three charges in the circuit court a 1 Toledo and was sentenced to serve three years in the penitentiary. He was charged with misappropriation of funds. Announcement was made at Port thai the Oregon Trunk railroad would build its own line from Bend to Klamath Kails if it does not receive common user privilege over the Odell Junction-Klamath Falls link of the. in Klamath Falls line. Moderation of eastern Oregon her lias practically terminated ir to game birds, according to Otto M. Jones, educational director of the state game commission. Snow! ill on the ground, but food is pleantiful for pheasants, quail and Portland's long fight for a perman veterans' hospital has been won appropriations of $1,350,000 for an 1 Institution of .'',00 beds have been ap d by Director Hlnes, according to a ti legram received by Mayor Haker 1 Elton Watklns, representative in congress. Company C of the national guard .I Eugene was first in Oregon in 1924 in qualifying men for the national rifle shoot, according to Adjutant-, Gem ral George White, and has receiv-! ed a silver trophy from the United government in recognition of its record. The taking of salmon, shad or stur fei 11 in Seines or drag seines in coast ins of Oregon emptying into the 11 south of the Columbia river within the district now known as No. "M N in' prohibited by the bill of Representative Wlnslow introduced In theiiouse. Ii wUl require approximately 11,- 00 to res I the frozen-out wheat land; in easlern Oregon instead of $300,000 as originally estimated, ac c rdlng to a committee of tanners ahd bankers who appeared before the joint ways and means committee of 1 hi' house and senate. Dr. K. 10. Lee Steiner, superintend ent of the Oregon Btate hospital, has returned from the Philippine islands, where he delivered a number of Insane, patients formerly in the Oregon insti tutlon. Mrs. Steiner accompanied her hUSband on the trip which required more than two months. Representatives from cherry grow ers' associations of all parts of the Pacific coast met In Portland Monday to consider plans for appeal to the tariff Commission of the recent cut it the import duty on cherries import - d in brine from 40 per cent ad va lorem to I cents a pound. I Section of a penitentiary for east ern Oregon, Increase of the facilities of tht state prison at Salem, and 111 the system of sentences of 1 : will be recommended to the n, 1 nor and the state legislature by I Committee named by the Portland 1 Olty and Multnomah county commis sioners. One hundred and seventeen mills reporting to the West Coast Lumber lien's association for the week end l.inu.irv 24 manufactured 102,517. I ! test el lumber; sold 91,196,654 feet and Shipped 104,062,792 feet. New bust . as 11 per cent below production. Shipments were 14 per cent above new business. Stone implements, ornaments and 11s valued at $1000 were includ 1 I in a gift t0 Albany college by D. Case of Albany. The collection was gathered from an adobe bed 70 miles tn rth of Sacramento and the articles w.-re sirtd to have been used by I of peep) antedating the Amer nan Indian. There were two fatalities In Ore D due to industrial accidents dur ing the week ending January 29. ac i erding to I report prepared by the slate Industrial accident commission The victims were Oliver Train. Myrtle Point, rigger, and Humphrey Ander son. laborer, Ashland. A tott.1 of 5"! accidents was reported. liovernor Pierce has Issued a proc tarnation prohibiting the importation Into Oregon Of poultry from the fowl disease districts of the east and middle west, unless certified by the Cvgon slat.' livestock sanitary board Baby chicks and eggs are not affected by the proclamation, and a few state vun exempted from its operations. Ruler of Hearts Relaxes After Valentine Campaign .J y ) 111 8 Valentine's Day j Customs in Days of Pagan Origin of King Charles Came to Us From "Love Lottery" of the Ancient Romans. How and where did St. Valentine's day originate? II Is said to have had Its beginning In the farmyard, where the ganders choose their males on the fourteenth day of February, a preliminary of iheir courtship being a remarkable fancy dance. Nor, Indeed, does this theory of Its origin reflect upon lovers n painful ridicule, Inasmuch as ganders, once mated, make excellent and faithful husbands. So domestical ly are they inclined that they even sit on the eggs when the female bird Is off the nest. In ancient Home 11 sort of love lot tery was annually held at the time of the festival called the Supercalia, be cause It was believed that at that sea son of the year birds chose their mutes. It was a festivnl celebrated In February, in honor of Pan and Juno, and tablets bearing young wom en's names were drawn out of n box by the young men. Knch youth avail ing himself of this privilege was ex pected to be until the next Supercalia the faithful attendant of her whose name he had drawn. It was n pretty custom, and worth preserving. So Christianity, when I' "took over" the pagan festivals and adapted them to Its own uses, kept the anniversary of the Snperenlla as St. Valentine's day, renaming It In honor of 11 holy martyr, who bad been done to death nt Koine In the Third century. A. D. There was no special reason why St. Valentine should bf chosen In pref erence to any other saint. It does net appear that he took any particular Interest In lovers nnd lovc-uinlting. Hut, having tlrst been clubbed to death and then beheaded, he deserved to l e Immortalised in some fashion, and In this way the object was attained. The early fathers of the church SO modified the Supercalia as to trive ti the celebration a religious character and ut llrst the names of saints wen drawn ss valentines, Instead of thOSi of living young women. Kven at tht present day in some Catholic ohQMhei the custom is observed of selecting on St. Valentino's day for the ensuing year a patron saint who Is called a valentine. Put outbs and 014 Idem finding little amusement In drawing out the nines of dead and none boh men, soon reverted to the practice nl drawing each other. Sing a song of hearts Pink and red and blue, Speeding here and there To friends good and true! e When nasi one arrives Some out a HI exclaim, "It 'hat a pretty thing! But where, O, where's the name?" I Famous Chronicler Has Left Records of Valentine Observances. tild Samuel Pepys, famous chron icler of domestic life in Kngland in j the reign of Uharl s H, makes entry j in his diary numerous times of various Vu lent (no customs. ' Thus on Valen tine's day nearly 250 years ago we tind him making this record: "This morn ing cafUe up t" my wife's bedside (I being up dressed myself) little Will Mercei to be her Valentine, and brought her name written upon blue I paper In gold letters done by himself very pretty; and v.e both were well pleased with It. Put I am also this year my wife's Valentine, and it will cost me five pounds; but I must have laid that out if we had not been Valentin!':-." Prudent man. A bit Inter Pepys added: "I find that Mrs. Pierce's Iktle girl Is my Valentine, she having ; drawn me; which I was not sorry for. It easing me of something more than I must have given to others. But here I do first observe the fashion of drawing mottoes as well as names, so that Pierce, who drew my wife, did draw also a motto, and this girl drew another tot Die. What mine was I. for get; but my wife's was 'most cour teous and most fair' which, as It may bo used, on an anagram upon each name; might be very pretty." What would not the collector of old valentines give for Master Will Mer cer's valentine written to Mistress Pepys "upon blue, paper In gold let ters!" That would be u treasure, In deed, for any collector. Old valentines are less 1 moo than one might think. Perhaps this is so because there huve been so few collectors of them, and the supply has not outlived the demand. Antique and curio dealers one meets with every day who will Say ; "Old val entines ' Vhj I never heard of anyone collecting them I We always throw them away, or we used to when they came our way, though lately we haven't had any." Ah, the coupling of "lately" Kith the dearth of tilings. That is the collector's stumbling block, but If he be a true collector he will pick himself up and hurry onward to make tii for lost time. Old-Time Valentines A tender missive of the last century shows a rosy cheeked girl with a big valentine under her arm and on um-' brelln that changes Its position, says: "I'm keeping my valentine safe for you." Another maiden moves her eyes se ductively as her moving hand writes on n tablet an affectionate sen times)) appropriate to the season. In like manner, a boy's eyes alter their expression while he manipulates the bow of a fiddle. A dude carrying a liirce bouquet lifts his hat and tmnvs one leg simul taneously as H walking, the two inove juents being accomplished by a single pivoted paper attachment nt the back. He sas. "I want you for my vnlen line, don't-cber-knovv." Your Conversation "COQUETTE" Even the most man-hating ' spinster Is at heart something J of a "coquette." Coquette is 1 1 derived from the French word ', ', "coq," which means a cock. The J tendency of that bird to strut up . ! and down the parade grounds of j J the barnyard, attracting atten- . , tlon to himself. Is widely known. The word was coined to denote the girl, who, Conscious of her J Charms, is something or a nlrt. The pronunciation Is "ko-ket," with the accent on the second syllable. . mr 1 1 1 1 ' BREEZY CHAP Her Mistake. Usher Lady, I think you have 1 j A-rong seats. May I see your stubs? Lady (somewhat deaf) Young man, i I want you to understand I do not 1 ; smoke. "Tom blew into town last night teen 1dm yet?" "No ; only got wind of his visit Jusl tow." A Mistaken Connection. The sun was hot upon the beach. Her suit was little sister's, rhey thought she was having a won derful time, hut All Is not bliss that blisters. 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Don I you know, my dear, It's 4 VALENTINE? -Dm W Uw m -71, 6Vi JUWr.' Costly Valentines Whon quaint old Pepys wrote his di.iry st. sieattne wits stm "faikloa , hlo." and ninny genuine love affairs ffttm out of the Jesting beginning, while the ' favors'' frequently were a splendid extravagance thut would be frowned upon by the tastes and innn- i ners of our day. The duke of York, we nre told by the dear old gossip. I gave ring worth $4,000 to his for tunate valentine The same woman fell the following year to the lot of Lord Mandevllle. vh,e tokeu es diamond valued ut $1,300. The design of the ox team and covered wagon symbolizes the spirit of the old west. It typifies vision, endurance, hope, suffering and final ac complishment. Over the Old Oregon Trail from the Missouri river the cov ered wagons came and won an empire for the United States 1 The design is the work of Avard Fairbanks of the University of Oregon '