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Thursday, June 19, 1930
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, ORE.
PaeeSeven'
CRAWS MOISTURE
FROM THE SOIL
at this time. He commenced
stacking: the first of the week.
Winter wheat will not be reudy
for hay in this community for
tniee or. four weeks yet.
Giles plass finished plowing nnd
working summer fallow at the
O'Hrien place on Dry creek th
last of the week. JHe ha moveu
his teams and maehinery lo hie
honif in the Leap coin m unity
where he has more .summer fal
low to work,
Sam and G. f. Meek nnd Karl
eather in Wallowa
.Cpunty During Week-not
avorable to r armers.
t I By O. t Meek
V (Observer Correspondent)
tWAUiOWA. Ore. (Special)
! Weather conditions in this county
Jl&e IlOl HPru. 11M unuuimc iui
yidp.: during Ihc past . weeli. A
Stains northwest wind has been
blowing the greater part of the
rt)e for the past week or ten days
much moisture has been
ariwn from tlie soil. WMiile the
1 has reeently been well .soaked
heavy raliu; in this section,
irdwing vegetation and drying
jltBds hitve made tilings uitc dry
SHtbin u short time. Some of the
pirn wheut crops-have been show
Jlitf signs of burn:ng to some ex-
on the thin land and should
dry conditions .continue for
length of time it is highly
irUbable that the yield possiblii-
of all crops on dry laiul will
.lowered to., a considerable ex-
Kprliiff' sown grain In the
fa rin I ntc .areas are reaching
stage where a good supply of
(dure , lias a great bearing on
prospects for good yields.. The
ulier' lias "been most too- cool
good, growth of. grain , crops
f-ing the greater part of the past
if wi-ciks and iiK a -result iiiiich
iftlie spring grain is' still (iiite
Bnfiill yet.' .Some - frost has oe
Iiifired In niany. parts, of the com-
fiuity on a , nunibeivof. nights
jkfllng tho' past ; week: Gardens
iujye ,been nipped, quite severely
lla number of far ins in the. low
a'ts:of- I he county The freezing
: Q-e ported to have-been, .quite se-
f( at. some places oir Diamond
rjiirie and farmers In the upper
i-KitesK of a window pane dur-
Uk thw latter part of the week,
i'lfne- fears were felt -that .some
juage may Imvo been (lone to
p winter wheat crops in sonic
fithe low spots where the freezes
Ipjienred to havo been the hnrd-
MueliMJf tin early sowings ol
Ltie.il Is heading out and Is con-
Hitlered to be in the greatest daiir
iftr of heimr damaged bv freezing.
But the opinion ot ;a number ol
Kilmers It would he Impossible to
PB wnether any damage has oc
u red for several days yet. Home
jjjjr ine frulL was kit led in variiius
Br hards a few weekf ago by hard
j2ri si. : J lowevji-r, a(Jf-ortiing lo' re
u i s from some of' the farmers
(I'lo have small orchards 'on iJir
Kiiiis, present, indications n ro that
(chp're. will ,bo a fair crop of the
harily varieties of fruit in
community this year. Pot:1
es and olner lalr garden trucK
w)(ch has been planted during the
li4st Ihree weeks are. beginning to
ge'tj up -ttilrly well. Cut worm
Autve done some damage In some
Qftthe gardens during the past two
itt-KK while- tho weather, tins been: mistake when he traded Georgo
Chilly and, backward. (Kelly to Cincinnati three years ago
S-jfhe past two weeks has seen" n! named 1S11I Terry as tho No. 1
ohshl entitle movement of sheep
ihgmgh this section on their way
to-fi.su miner ranges in the moun-
C:ifcs and timbered areas. Several
T-SR-e sheep owners from various
ion:: f tho.. state who own
hi fee tracts of range lands In the
Aih woods area have been busy
illg their shee) to these ranges
ntly. The sheep which are
Uttiered in some of the distant
pulls of the country are shipped
le by railroad and driven to the(anrt "ain m t19 UKKd ff -3
ra
res, while tho bands which are
wiUertMl In. the Snake river and
6t
closer places are driven
iiiigh. Kugene . Johnson, of
Br
ke river, arrived here recently
unv has been helping In getting
umber of handH on their way
tqi range in the nutmtains. A
UiUubur of small flock owners of
th coin m unity havo placed sev
tftm small bunches together and
oived.lhem to summer range dur
ing the past week or two.! Gastin
fcJi'UKsiiis and L. W. Minor moved
tT&anil of between five-and six
(lOlidreti . ewes amL- Jambs .. to
K&'kleberry mountain the latter
ftvet of last week, where they have
thermit on forest land. . Getfe
isins Is lierding tho sheep there
qcordlng to a number of sheep
JwCner nf thia community much
(fit he- season's wool clip has been
1 (bid. Many who own .flocks of.
fdrse wool sheep-recei'd around
loo per pound for tltelr clip, while
flue wool sold at J 7 and IS
feritK. No large amount of lamb
fntitracting has been done hero as
fvit. Some offers have been made
jiijently lo contract lambs at IVj
!iits per pound. Hiw'ever, no re-
Mjt j) are heard of where owners
lyjft decided to sell at this figure. 1
jjnjhe ground siiulrrel situation ,
tpjears to be lesn tr(Hibleso;n i
un was the case.' a few week
.Match poi.mii Ing has been
no at many of th farms in both
valley and bin1 sections during
ecynt weeks, ah4l good success
(ai been attained' in getting large
juinbors of the.' squirrels, Some
uajing has been done nitnfnd the
Mtaces of some 'of the fall wheat
JoTds in the .& farming sections
lere tho squirrels have been ex-
lionally Plentiful. Thous.-inds of
Sem havegloved into the grain
ins rrom Adjoining range lands.
me fall gr;nn has reached a iage
mere ttJias . become tough and
ey nniiot doini- much damage.
ITonsinrahte cutting of hay of
arfouA faituix hn.s been going on
his romtnunity during the past
hJ r two. A. few small plots
alfalfa have been put into
rns and mack, while tji"'
er; part of the first crop of
fa is hardly readv for cutting
Sonm-of the farmers in the
lie valley and Lost ine com-
filinlticft s.'iy th.it their hay will
jready for cutting around the
h of this month. L. W. Minor
Lftbpcn bupy th past week cut
lW a large acreage of June grass'
tlrhiB farm in the hills east of
n. H reports the grass excep
ially heavy on much of the
nurehfield were visiting at Mrs.
Hen hu-i ay tor's at Im Grande Sun
day. Klmer Osborn. who is farming
a large tract of land for J. H.
Haun in the Leap section, finlshet)
plowing his summer fallow during
the past week. J-le reports that
! he has plowed around 4H acres
this spring and lus the greater
j part ef it worked down Inv good
shape at this time.
I h'. H. Whipple and family, who
have been living at the If. C.
Hearing farm in the valley north
of Lost Ine, hnve moved to the
rormer Fred Hanes farm In the
Leap section where they expect
to live this summer.
Dim no Lathrop. of Parsnip
creek, .commenced work on the
Leap market road the last of the-
week. Good proijress Is being
mnile with grading operations on
tho Leap road and a few weeks
moro will see the grading of the
entiro stretch completed.
.Mr. Marshall, of Maxvllle. was
a La Grande business visitor the
last of tho week.
Sam Mj'ek was cutting some hay
for Giles l'lnss the latter part of
tho' week.
Mrs. Kva Parker, of La Grande,
in.: staying; at the homo of .her
nephews. Sam and G. ('. Meek,
keeping Iioupp for them for awhile.
... Oscar ; Maxwell moved a part p?
his horses to his ranch In the
vaihyi the first of the .week for
use in working his summer fallow
there. He is about through plow-ing-at
tho l. G. Couch farm In the
Leap section. . .- - --"
(Slants
bv
Alan J.Gould
"Aipong a flock of other boys
from the Old South who have made
good, mention should be made of
William Harold Terry, first-baseman,
e.vtraordlnnrv. native of At-
llanta, Georgia, and resident of
.Memphis, Tennessee.
Sometimes one hears it said that
John . M cG r a w, tho )a vl d J J nru m
of major league baseball dealing,
outsmarts himself. The boys point
to ex-Giants who have made good.
But grey-haired John made no
. If there. Is a better first base
man now in either league now than
Hill Terry, It Is difficult to locate
him. Only Jimmy Koxx of the
world's Champion A's seems a
rival and Jimmy, though a lusty
sticker, t does not compare with
Terry defensively.
Terry is 32 now, no Ion ger n
kid, bu,t he has improved at a
rapid pace. He hit .320 in 3027
last year and has been traveling at
a .4 hu clip most of this season.
For a slant on ithe kind of a
fellow Terry is, read this oxtra-
I ordinary dispatch from the ball
!park wire:
'At Terry's own request the
j error charged to Ltlndstrnm in the
first half of the first inning was
transferred ti JUII's own account.
Terry came to the press box and
jsaid it was unfair to give Lind
strom the error. "Freddie's throw
j on Flagstead's grounder was good
but 1 juggled it and deserved tho
! error,' said Terry."
There should be a special niche
tin the record books for this, some
thing like this: "Most limes player
j claimed error charged to team-
matt- 1, liill Terry, Giants, June
II, J930."
TO JCICTAIV AM'Ot'K
CHICAGO Juno 18 (AP) Mayor
William Hale Thompson announced
today that John II. AJcoek, the
"iron man" of the force, would re
main at-tho helm of the police de
partment indefinitely.
Judge J. It. Robinson of Marys
vilfc Kjim., was called out of bed
four times during May to perform
marriagcF.
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