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About The Boardman mirror. (Boardman, Or.) 1921-1925 | View Entire Issue (June 26, 1925)
r 3 THE BOARDMAN MIRROR VOLUME V BOARDMAN, MORROW COl'NTY. OREGON 'KIOYY JUNE i. W85 NUMBER id County Fair Is Assured Boardman Locals County Court Promises state Approp riation Fair Board' is Named MNs Mildred Lowrey, n registered nurae of Colfax, Wn., ran a visitor at the Sain Shell home on Friday. She was en her way to Portland and Seattle! and will stop here en her way back home. Morrow Count Fair is i county court lias prom, ite appropriation for fair The North assured, lis th ise:' nil the sft premiums, whieh amounts to about Bis huudrctj dollars. Premium list will soon be prepared and published. As the premium money is ii state Appropriation, competition must be op en to all. Unless we make a special t'fort, some sister town or county may come nnd carry away most of the priz es. Let's hustle so as to make it Inter ( sting 1" r them at least. The exacl date for the staging of the foil" has nol yet been decided hut will be in the vicintiy of October 1st. '1 he fair board consists of the follow ing: ''has. Wioklandi r. V. T. Wright. if. B. Knight, Mrs. C. E. Glasgp, Lee Mead, 8am H. Boardman, and C. H. 1 rtllabough. Mrs. Clarence Berger has recovered sufficiently from her recent operation to return home. Her many friends are glad to hear of her speedy recovery. t'hns. Wieklander sent a truck load of fin!' new potatoes to Willow Creek on Saturday. Brlce Dillabongh making the trip for him. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Price also motored to lone Friday with Several sacks in their car. There are some splendid garileus growing on the project Frank Partlow has had fine large cueumhers for gome I time, heits ai'ci large enough to use, Com is tosselig out, watermelons are in bloom and some small ones have al reatly set on. IRRIGON ITEMS Mr. and Mrs. J. c. Ballenger left on 'Thursday for IVndlctfn and Walla Walla, where they visilod until Sunday when thoy returned home. On the re t in it Irin they stopped and. visited at ; the home of Prof. Burn: at Hilton and Evveryhody busy. Not only hoeing Miss Irene Jensen near Walla Walla. melons, hut shipping potatoes is on In earnest. Car loads are moving this! Mr. and Mrs. N. W. Usher and child, week. New buildings arc going up a- ren of Walla Walla visited at the long the highway, garages and gas Frank Partlow home Thursday and Frl pmnps, so there is not much time to day. write up the news. The tourist travel! oUht to he well taken care of from now Miss Kat'oerine MoN'imo. id' Pendle- ton spent a few days with her brother Miss Ada Brown ll and Brviu Chap- Johnny M N'aince las! Week, man were married at the home of Mr. and Mrs. .1. A. Crayheal, Sunday,! Mr. and Mrs. John Jenkins and I'd .lime 7lb. The big spread, with fifty virs and M. Mulligan drove to Portland in attendance, was pul on by Mrs. Thursday to see the hist of the Rose Oraybeki, nnd all spent a pleasant day show. (ongraf&latiug and wishing the happy couple a happy and prosperous married , s. Attebury sold his fine herd of jjfi, I dairy cows some time ago to Mr. Archer It semms that .someone is trying to of Stanfield. Attehurys plan to go into run one over on the poor farmers of the chicken business, (he north end. A movement is on toot -r. to bond the county for $150,000 for eer- tibf tain roads. The people of this district Itor are nol taking to il very well and ex-! Up tr.'et to put out every effort to defeat it. ,ors We do not need more taxes al present. ' were Declaration of llnfrcpenbence 3m f U IS4 frxm .JSav-aa T&mm i vkjs i ?n m tKc eouwc of luiman event, it hctews urctssarp ft one people tfli6U$oltxetW 'jh' 1 poUlicjal katicte wVmJi come imt i cmotWt, and Social Activities The Irrlgon Orange has Invited the members of Greenfield Orange to ir rigon on .inly 4th, That, with the cel ebration at Arlington, will take most of the people away. It has been suggested that those remaining at home all get; together and hold a picnic dinner at Warner's Camp Ground. There is good shade, water, etc. The Irrlgon and Moaj'dinan Granges ore to have a dance mi the ''.atfovm atj Geo. Mitchc'l's ('rove the evening of July 4th. Mr. J. M Bay ami Mr A. D. Messen ger of Goldendale arrived Monday for a visit at the Sam Shell home. Mr Hay is Master of the Pomona Grange there. Mr. Kay was an old friend of Bleluml Dinginan's, they having winked togeth er for 12 years in threshing. Tuesday evening Mr. an 1 Mrs. Dtngman enter tained at a sumptions dinner at which ,Mr. Hay and Mr. Messenger wore aftiestS. They were also nvei'-nighl vis iters at the Dlngman home. Mrs. W. II. Mefford, her mother, Mrs. KnoWlton, and Mrs. 1.. V. Root were all guests a! the Garrett home Tuesday. LA FOLLETTE HONORED BY HIS HOME STATE Late Wisconsin Senator Laid to Rest Beside His Parents, Winfield Scott Mterste) tea t n fca ns a i Ka ti. ru te I5s.fcs la rn fc Arlington Preparing To Greet Many Visitors For uly Fourth Cele oration camp grounds are having more vi.--1 each evening simc the warming if the weather. Some of the visit at Warner's Auto Camp recently . I,. Tlngell of 'Men's Kerry, Miss Kern Covey, per mother, and Mrs. Potnpell and others are visitors at Oscar Corey's and Mr. and Mrs. II T. Waipole this week. Mr. ami Mrs. A. M. Wolfe from Vtik Ima, on their way to Hurley, Idaho, to make their future home, spent several! Tavs with Mr. ami Mrs II. '. WolfeX. leaving for Hurley Tuesday. lira. Pocket! and daghter left for Wasio the first of th oweelc. Idaho. John Bath of Mlgher, ti. D., W. I. McCardy from Steamboat springs. Colo., C. Ij. Hubbell from Saginaw, Mich Igan, Andrew Hill from Concord, Mass , a le' W. T. Anderfon from IMgnr. Nebr, Mr. Chaffee is putting in a new cut vert at the corn-r lv Hallinger's. This Is a linn needed improvemi nt. Mrs. Olady Norma return lit i ni trip to Ml ; Gibh d last uis and week Ir r v Isib d Kel audi daughter iii a deli. ogg. Ida., where (hey Mr . Ted Deaendor Kicked bj Horses John Pruter bad an ex iting exper ience last Wednesctjy while cleaning an ffcr. irrigation canal. One of his horses be- came tangled in a wire and fell into the Mr. ami Mrs. Hover and family de canal dragging the other horse in. purled last week for Hood Hirer. The When Mr. Pruter tried tO reinovve (belli Hovers have conducted h restaurant he was kicked, and as a result, be is here for the past few months. bruised pretty hadly. Mr and Mrs. J. (' Ballenger and II Car Kuns Over tirade II. McPherson motored to Wasco Sal While Fete Slavin was taking H I'tiM'-i, urday night. Mrs. Hallcngcr remained of young people in bis tvw Otdsmohile and will go on Is the coast for the sum to Willow Creek- last Wednesday night ner, in attend i party giv e, there by Mar- gai' t Farley, he stepped OB the aoooliT. Mrs J. It. Johnson and Moihi rl nnd ator a little too firmly and the ear Rachel left Sunday with Mrs. John went over the grade while going 4" sen. Sr.. for Wasco where they visited miles an hour, The ear ran Into a for a few days. fence which prevented it from tipping over, but ('has. Marshall was I brown Mrs. Bck Warren has gone to Tie" Info the fence and pretty hadly cut and fiallcs to visit her mother and attend bruised. The front axle and ope of the front wheels were broken, The other uiiuuauls; chas. Marshall of Castle Pock, Pete Slavin. and Kathleen Mar shall, were uninjured. Wednesday morn'ug the hig open air dance pavilion began to take form on the lots next to Hie new MiT'ieiden Hotel, the OiKldess of Liberty contest wtrhcb will come to close novt 'in; i.-nirsned day evening is beginning to take on life and keen competition between Ms friends of tin- various candidates t expected during the remaining days. With the defeat of Arlington las! Sunday by the unexpected comeback pul led by the Condon players, there is eon Islderablc speculation over the outcomi of the two game series to he played here on the third ami fourth. George Clark of Boosevell has taken over the staging of the wild west feat Hies on the program and is rounding up a choice assortment of ornery horse flesh from the reservation. He expects to bring one famous outlaw and "ill offer a special purse to some one fof kse 15.00. i or it e h"st decorated Arlington ar, 3ul prize $10; 2nd prise $".IM. Specially decorated cars will be for nil veterans of the !'i il War and special divisions of ln in rode will he provided for the Spin ish war veteran Wor'fl War vet rails, the Boy Scouts, etc. Visiting vol rans of any war are invited to join vlth their comrades and tale part in lie parade. ' the pa I' ll the in tin' i Iding this critter. I'rizes for Parade The prize committee and aile coniniiltcc have deter prizes to he offered for entrii parade, For the ls-st floats (open to any or ganisation, business firm, community or individual l First prize 30; 2nd prize 10i and third priz,. $."JKI. Floats will he jiicgeil on tic basis of fiO per cent for appearance and 40 per cent for signification. Oul of (own entries are invited for the float classification. For the best decorated eer from out side of Arlington, j si prize HO; 2nd Soon- boxing i aril, kid! Don't over look the fastest, tlghtlngesi program vcu have had a chance to witness In n i long lime when on the evening of July lib .lie Marcus will mix it with Crack-; r Warren In the main event of the eve ling. Both 1311 pounders, each luivlna von one decision over (he other in lor incr goes, both contending for high oast lienors in their class. It will iure be a reni mutch. In the preliminaries, such fistic art ists us Kn'gl.t of IrMgon. Hiirtlemtii of Rock Creek, Aholl of Heppner, and some worthy Portlund talent luchullng I'ejten, Re?e. nnd Jose srs s-eklm.' places-on ti e evening's card. Definite : latches will be arraaged in the nett . a or two and all boxing turn will l ,. assured f one of the stellar ev; n'.s it he anmmer. innein cott o i iklahomn Hie ne omrolsaloner of pensions, photo graphed at his desk. Mr. Scoll lias en a practicing attorney lii Enid, ikla, lie is a Spanish uar veteran ml held the rank of colonel In the tklahomo National Guard and in the eserve eoi'iis. Momentous Meeting The Oral session of the Continental congress was held In Carpenter's hall, Philadelphia. September S, 1774, with 44 members present ; all the colonies were represented except Georgia and North Carolina. Peyton Randolph of Virginia was prosid nt, and Charles Thomson was secretary. Madison, Wis. Robert M. La Fol lette came back to his own people Sat urday to receive from them a last sorrowful tribute before going to hie final resting place beneath the elms of Forest Hill cemetery, beside his pai cuts. His body reposed in the slate capl tol, where it was taken immediately after its arrival here from Washing ton, then to lie in state in the rotunda, beneath the mammoth dome of the si alehouse, while crowds who knew and loved him gazed upon his coun tenance for the last time. The funeral services Monday were simple. They were conducted In the capital rotunda by the Rev. A. K. Hay den of Chicago. The honorary pallbearers included u committee from the United States senate, all the Wisconsin representa tives, Governor Blaine and other state officers, members of the state su preme court, federal judges of this dis trict, officials of the University of Wisconsin and the state normal schools, members of the various statu departments, former state officials and a large number of citizens from this anil adjacent states. The Wisconsin senator, last year an : Independent candidate for president, died at Ids homo in Washington, l. C , a victim of heart attacks, ' " HONOR PATRIOTS OF TICONDEROGA Monument Records Glori ous Deed of Revolution. Where lake Oeorge enters Lake Champlain, In New Vork state, the I' rem Ii in 175(! set up a post which 'toy named Fort Carillon. This lie c.iiiie ii concentration point for French expeditions under Montcalm and oili ers. In 17."iH the fort was attacked by 10,000 British under Abercrombie. Though the French had hut 4.1MM) men they heat off the enemy, causing the latter a loss of 2,000 men. A year Inter Amherst with 11,000 men took the fort after the French had retired. By the time of the Revolution the fort wns generally known by Its Indian name "Ticonderoga," n corruption of the iroqUOiS word "eheonderogn." meaning "sounding" water, (in May 10. 1770, Ethan Allen and s:i Green Mountain Boys captured the fort Tening, t .he final period to dug. The standing it the beginning of wps : Hail ne W; i'.ains Agnes Aldrich Myrtle Sailing three highest qualified for ml Tuesday eve if the candidates the find period 0.10 00.1 4.11 At tile c ml of the rty, with we i f Hie in cutest for Goddi the count t a ki u I! miliary pel ddess of 1.11 lursdu Tl EtpM The following cheilnled liy tl the prizes to In adopted bj the minor changes is Program i i a list of fool race e sports i mil ti- and offered, as tentatively prize commltee. Some and addition-; may be the celebration given in honor of her parent's wedding anniversary. S I.. Bs k has moved his drilling out fit to the John Brlce place where he "ill drill for artesian water. At the Bghmj Inn Ii. Beer, an M. I. of North Bow registered at Hie Highway Inn rec- Tbose who met Miss F.llen Boye of Graadview, Wn.. last sumnsri when: 'she visited at the Heniin home will be ontly. as did 11. Pine nnd Fred Parker interested to hear of h'T marriage last of Spokane.. Mrs. S. A. Beiui 'tl, Mrs. week at Ynkiuia to John Van Horn of I. ft. Craven, and Mrs Sadie Craven BtrktetOfl, Wash. were on their way from Seaside to their boms in Baker, B w. WUs HcrmMmi Wins Again County Agent at Ileppiier, also was a guest at the Inn. Hoy Conklin of I n- Ti c strong Ileriniston nine again d lm. J. A. Smith of Salt Iike City, an I fested the bx-als last Sunday. The np a group coinposoil of Mnrv Hafferly. posing ten m hit every hall that Mn Cttm Burg. Caroline Wells., all of Mis. tsgue threw over the plate. Itnardmiin s'itila. Mont., were other names noted sccmc! to h.ni after the first ' on th.' register, A bX social and dance will lie given Saturday by the OreenlMd grange (;, orge's open iir pavilion. few hits and the gSUM WBS a reidicn of pieflOUS games witli llermislon The memory is too painful. We will n t ataVS mention tbe score. We know it is dangerous to both life, limb and property, but the spirit of Liberty still makes us want to shoot n fire racker n the Foiirlh of July, nnd in the words of Pntric Rear "Give me Lil'crly or give me iti-ath". Killed King' Favorite Piers Gaveslon, earl of Cornwall, the favorite of Fwsrd II of England, scted so srrogantly toward the haronn that they twice drove him out of Eng land and finally captured blm and put him to death. Arlington, Oregon Will FJe the Meeting Place of the Columbia Basin Country on the 4th of July Something doing every minute from 10:00 a. m. to midnight Patriotic Parade & Exercises Hall Game - Races - Rucking Contest Condorf Concert Rand Boxing Card - Stunts - Amusements Open Air Dancing Come & Celebrate at Arlington Ms" li.ill (,ame HikIuiic - nlc .1 and Oanrillf on Jnlv 9r4 made ber program. Tug of war, for 10.00 prize told that the would he able I would hi I Boy s Rat-i .".() yds., Cirl's Haoi oil yds.. Boy's fttiet ."(I vds . Qifl'i Han ."ill yds , Boj 's Kaci J m m M i publication i f th ifflclnl i I hingloii vs. (ii"g'iii d the commit ti e WHS Washington visitors pick out a team that hard to heal. Fool Bares yd. dash, men 1st $7. ."in, 2nd W , 11! to HI years, 1st -ml l..ri0, ,'iril $1 , 13 lo Hi vm rM, Isi .o.-,n, 2mI 11,40, ilrd $1 1 , H to Vi years, 1st :!n i mi.'ib, Dr i 1 , H to 12 yestv. lsl a.,Tll, o. sj.K), ;: , under S yers, 1st $l.M, :. I ."ri . l , under 8 yeniv. 1st l.r,o. ; 1 1 , :;rd .."si ita e, in yds . I t - SB, '-'ad HAS leelborron Race, mm, (i .vds , Kt isi, 2nd 00 lie Legged Haeo, men, V) yds , I t $ mi, 'Jnd .' 3(1 fof a to Haie, ladles, -" yds , 1st 12.30, 2nd $1.30. 3rd $1 Kgg Etace, girls. I'd yds., 1st $1.30, 2nd $1.00, .'lid. M Sack Baca, Ixiys, 20 ,viIk., 1st $1.30, 2nd. $1 (Hi. ilrd .50 l ug of War, Washington vs. Oregon $3(s In Memory of Frontier Fighters. nnd valuable stores. Captain Pels place was in charge of tbe gar rison of 4H men. Up was asleep when Allen nipped on bis door with n sword. "Your errand?" demanded the sleepy commander. "I order you to surren der," said Allen. "By what author ity?" Inquired the astonished officer. "By the authority of the (treat Je hovah and the Continental congress," 'lien Is said to have replied. Bene d'.Ct Arnold was n tnenihw of the . inerlcsn expedition, St. Clulr and 11,000 Continentals 'aiidonerl the fort In 1777 on the np- I ranch of Burgoyne with a superior r ne Colonel Brown with BOO saen n led lo retake the place, but after .ptiirlng 300 prisoners and many I Cfctn, hoKldes releasing 200 Americans, be had to retire After the Ilerolu tlon Kort Ticonderoga became s pic turesque ruin, but was restored to SQWSthini like Its original state nt the expense nf Mrs. Stephen fell of New York In 1MB. A monument to the Continentals, shown sbove, who fought In and around Ticonderoga was recently unveiled at that historic place. It Is the gift of Horses A. Moses. Ths work, executed by Charles Keek, shows Liberty triumphant - I'athllnder Magazine.