North Morrow Volume XX Number 5 December 7, 2012
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Oregon Trail Library District celebrates 20 years of progress In 1992, the Oregon Trail Library District was formed to serve the communities of Boardman and Heppner. At that time, there were no computers and no internet at the libraries. Now the District has a web site, online databases, wi-fi as well as many computers for the public to use. The District belongs to the Sage Library System with a shared catalog of more than one million items from more than 75 libraries including community colleges and Eastern Oregon University. The District
has an early literacy outreach program with a storyteller that visits daycares and Headstart classes in Boardman, Heppner and Irrigon. The community of Irrigon joined the Library District in 2000 and on November 29, 2012 the District broke ground for the new 6000 square foot library facility there. Come join us in celebrating the District’s 20 years of progress, have some refreshments, and see the plans for the new Irrigon branch on Monday, Dec. 10th in Boardman at 200 South Main Street and in Heppner at 444 North Main Street on Wednesday, Dec. 12th, 4-8 pm.
Chamber lunch to feature USPS services Looking for an easy and inexpensive way to reach new customers? You need to check out the new simplified service from the US Postal Service called “Every Door Direct Mail”. Attend the Boardman Chamber membership lunch on Wednesday, December 19 to get all the information you need to start growing your business through Every Door Direct Mail. Brought to you by your local Postmaster, Deborah Coffman and the Portland Sales Team.
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The lunch will be catered by Pudding on the Ritz and the cost is $10.00 per person. RSVP is required by Monday, December 17, call the Chamber at 481-3014.
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100 years ago Oregon women given right to vote by governor On November 5, 1912, Oregon men voted 52% in favor of granting women the right to vote. Governor Oswald West asked Abigail Scott Duniway, the 79-year-old “Mother of Oregon suffrage,” to author Oregon’s Equal Suffrage Proclamation. On November 30, 1912, Governor Oswald West signed the proclamation.The proclamation cleared a path in Oregon for further addressing women’s social, political and economic equality and also allowed Oregon suffragists to turn their attention toward the national woman suffrage movement and the ratification of the 19th Amendment. View Century of Action’s “Votes for Women! The Oregon Story” exhibit, the original proclamation and Duniway’s 1913 voter registration card through December 30th at the State Capital Archives Building in Salem. Proclamation State of Oregon--Executive Department, Salem, Oregon, November 30, 1912 Whereas: The women of Oregon, after long and patient effort, have persuaded the men of the State to place them upon a footing of political equality by granting to them the right of suffrage through an amendment to Section 2 of Article 11 of the Constitution of the State; and, Whereas: Pursuant to the provisions of law, the Secretary of State of the State of Oregon in the presence of the Governor of the State of Oregon, did on the 29th day of November 1912 canvass the official election returns for the general election held in the State of Oregon on Tuesday, the fifth day of November, 1912; and, Whereas: It appears from the said official canvass that the following measure has been approved by a majority
of the electors of the State of Or- me vested, and in obedience to the egon who voted therein: "Section provisions of Section 9 of Chapter 2 of Article 11" of the Constitution 226 of the General Laws of Oregon of the State of Oregon shall be and for the year 1907, do hereby make hereby is amended to read as fol- and issue this proclamation to the lows: "Section 2. In all elections not otherwise provided for by this Constitution, every citizen of the United States, of the age of twentyone years and upwards, who shall have resided in the State during the six months immediately preceding such election, and every person of foreign birth of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, who shall have resided in the State during Abigail Scott Duniway signs Oregon's Equal the six months Suffrage Proclamation on Nov. 30, 1912 as immediately pre- Governor Oswald West and Viola M. Coe ceding such watch. (Image courtesy Library of Congress) election, and shall have declared his or her in- people of the State of Oregon, and tention to become a citizen of the vowing that the said amendment United States one year preceding to "Section 2" of Article 11 of the such election, conformably to the Constitution of Oregon, is now, laws of the United States on the and hereafter shall be, in full force subject of naturalization, shall be and effect as a part and portion of entitled to vote at all elections au- the Organic Law of the State of Oregon. thorized by law." In witness whereof, I have hereAnd Whereas: The above quoted amendment, at the men- unto set my hand, and caused the tioned election received 61,265 af- Seal of the State of Oregon to be firmative and 57,104 negative hereunto affixed this 30th day of votes. Now, therefore, I, Oswald November 1912. OSWALD WEST, Governor West, Governor of the State of Oregon, by virtue of the authority, in