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german County Journal
SHERMAN COUNTY OBSERVER, Eatabliahed Nov 2, 1888
GRASS VALLEY JOURNAL, Established Oct. 14, 1897
CONSOLIDATED. MARCH 6. 1981
Grass Valley
The Granges of Sherman coun
ty
will hold their Annual Wor
Published Every Friday at Moro, Oregon, By
ship
Day at Grass Valley park
Managing Editor
GILES L. FRENCH
May 17tb, meeting at 12 o’clock
Entered M Mcond-cl&sa matter st the ‘ostothoe, at Moro, Oregon, under Act of for Basket Dinner. Services to
be in the afternoon. Rev. Chas.
Congress of March 8, 1879.
C. Hulet, State Master, will be
SUBSCRIPTION RATES—PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.
with us. All ministers of the
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county cordially invited to join
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ion service. C. P. Adams.
FRIDAY. MAY 8, 1881.
Mrs. Elmer Whitlock has been
on the sick list for the past week,
WHAT COST WHEAT
but is recovering.
The figures printed in last week's issue of this paper regard Mrs. Lucy Ruggles entertained
ing the coat of producing wheat have caused no little comment a party of her old school friends
from men who have a lifelong acquaintance with wheat growing. last Tuesday at her home. Mr.
and Mrs. W. W. Knighten ot
Almost unanimously they state that wheat cannot be raised for Kent, Mr. and Mrs. Theo. John
twice the 28.1 cents per bushel claimed by the implement manu ston, of Moro, and Mr, and Mrs.
Florin Coon were present.
facturers.
Analysis of the figures shows that there was nothing included
Mrs. James Blagg was under
for interest on a section of $50 00 land, nothing for taxes and no the weather the first of the week,
provision made for the farmer’s living. When these items are in and required the ministration ot
cluded the cost of this wheat is raised to about 50 conts per bushel. Dr. Poley. She is much better
The farmer has many organizations working for his interests now.
Dr. I’oley, son Robert and
in different ways. It should be the duty of one of them to assist
fishing along
the farmer to find out how much it does cost to produce wheat in Henry Tetz were
the Deschutes last Saturday and
each county of every wheat producing state. No other business brought home a few nice speci
is able to continue without a knowledge of its cost of goods or ser mens.
vices which it sells and we doubt if the individual farmer will be
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Snider
able to make any lasting progress without some sort a bookkeeping and small son, of Battle Ground,
Wash., were here over the week
that tells him the cost of his product.
The Eastern Oregon Wheat League has the membership and end visiting with Mrs. Snider’s
could easily make the investigations necessary to determine this parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Ea
kin.
cost It would not be an expensive program to have at least a
hundred farmers, with different types of farming operations, in The county road crew are build
ing a new concrete bridge over
each county fill out questionairres on their costs and it would be a Cottoriwood below the W. B.
great help to the industry as a whole.
Wilcox place on what is known
We have heard the story that an eastern senator stated in the as the back Finnegan road.
senate that wheat could be produced for twenty five or thirty
Grover Young, Florin Coon
cents per bushel and that future relief measures were unneces- and Herman Peters left Wednes
lary. Senators from wheat producing states should be furnished day morning for Crooked River
with complete data on this subject so that they could combat such with the intention of bringing
home a few trout from that
statements with authorative figures.
stream.
We realize that there is a great difference in the cost of rais
Sam Davis was in The Dalles
ing wheat or doing anything else. There is a great difference in
Tuesday
looking after a few bu
the overhead of operating a grocery sto^e or a bank; but merch
siness
matters.
ants and bankers must know their own figures and study their
business in order to keep their costs near the average or fail The Sam Holmes accompanied by
very same business rules govern farming and the quicker these his daughters, Cassie and Mabel
average costa are compiled the sooner a farmer will be able to rate was visiting in Sisters with his
brotheY last week end. They
his ability in his chosen line.
stopped in Camp Sherman to vi
ew the wreckage there on the re
SMALLTOWN FOLKS
turn trip.
Small towns nowadays are much criticized by those who have
left them to go the larger centers. Probably part of it is caused
by the fact that these amateur critics feel the need of vindicating
themselves in their own opinion for leaving the little town where
they were born.
There are many attractions in a small town, many customs
that are impossible in a city, many sights that city folks never
see. In early spring smoke curls up over the scattered houses and
through the leafless trees from innumerable bonfires where ambi
tious citizens are making their places presentable. Every Monday
morning, winter and summer, the spacious backwards are filled
with lines of clothes, long rows of white sheets in summer and
brightly hued blankets when frosty nights are in season. Women
potter about in gardens that the lordly male planted and left to
natures own designs and the care of friend wife.
The Lutcher is Bill, the mayor is John and is far from being
distant and unapproachable as we think of the mayor of the met
ropolis. We do not elect men to office and look up to them in fear
and awe for the length of their term. Not in a small town. We
are democratic about it, each one gives his opinion about munici
pal questions, everybody’s voice is heard and the town forum and
debating hall is under that big tree on the corner.
People are friendly in a small town, and intimate. Your
neighbors are not Mr. and Mrs. So-and so. They are Tom and
Mary. They look after your cow when you go to the mountains
and you care for their garden when ¿hey are visiting out of town.
The personal adjustment is entirely different from the aloofness
of the city. We have the time, and desire, to be human.
The salmon fishing at Sherar’s
has begun with some ardent fol
lowers of the sport getting some
big ones either out of the water
or from the hand of a bargain,
ing Indian.
Gus Smith and Matt Simon
were in Tygh Valley Wednesday
to bring home some live stock.
Joe Almond, former oil man at
this station, was here Sunday
from his new location at Hermis
ton.
Herfnan Peters and wife, and
Hans Koepke and daughter were
in The Dalles Monday.
I Grass Valley High School
B arbara W alpolr , Editqr
Editor Sherman County Journal,
Moro, Oregon,
Dear Sir:
As an officer in the Eastern Oregon
Wheat League, an organization striv
ing for the bettannent of agricultural
conditions in general and among
wheat growers in particular, I do not
feel that the cost of wheat production
figures as published in the Shennan
County Journal of May Mst, 1931,
should be allowed to go unchallenged^
I do hot doubt the veracity of Mr.
Thompson’s statements, as far as they
go, nor do I question his intentions I m
formulating such a report, but I do
take exception to the policy of the
concerns which solicit such a report.
A short time ago a representative
of an implement company called me
by phone to state that their staff
photographer was in the territory,
and asked if I had any old buildings
that I might pull ab >ut, or any other
interesting scenes that they might
picture in their magazine. I assured
him that I did not but thus they ac
quire the unusual in freak pictures
which evolve into high presure adver
tising. And I believe their cost
analysis to be equally misleading for
many essential items of expense—
depreciation, interest on investment,
repairs, taxes, living—are purposely
omitted.
Wheat raisers ar< experiencing a
bitter struggle, at the best, to survive
the present economic condition and
publicity such as is in question is lit
tle less than malicious. The machin
ery companys are biting the hand that
feeds them.
We hear much of the mass produc
tion efficiency that is being attained
in Soviet Russia, yet, in the Portland
Oregonian for May 3, 1931 appeared
an account, written by Prof. W. L.
Powers of the O. S. A. C., now study
ing in Russia, to the effect that pro
duction cost there was a cent per
pound or 60 cents pei bushel. Farm
ing conditions and im thods in Russia,
too are practically the same as in
Umatilla or Sherman counties. Tho
it is admittedly diffi< ult to arrive at
an exact figure of co t over a county
or state with many farmers and var
ious yields, the Russian figures was
computed from the operations où a so
called wheat factory and must be
reasonably authentic And it is my
opinion, based on observations over
ths county together with figures of
my own operations for the past two
years that 60 cents p< r bushel will be
nearer to the cost of producing wheat
in Sherman county than is the figure
of 23.1 cents, as submitted in Mr.
Thompson’s report.
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Sincerely Yours,
Harry B. Pinkerton,
President Eastern Oregon Wheat
League.
Notice is hereby given that the
directors of School District No. 13,
De Moss, will receive sealed bids to
furnish transportation for tho child
ren of that district to the Moro School
District. Daily on suhool days, a trip
of about 20 miles for the year of
1931-32. The driver to furnish a
satisfactory and legal means of trans
portation. All bids to be in by 12
p. m. Friday, May 15th, 1931.
The school board reserves the right
to reject any or all bids.
Address all bids to DeMoss School
Board, care of R. C. Byers.
By order of the board.
R. C. Byers, Clerk.
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O.I.C bred gilts. Freeh Cows. Pay
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Trucking cheaper.
Drop card or
phone TOM FRASRR, Moro, Ore.
Phone 23F12.
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Now is the best time of the year
to come to mill. Better bring over a
few sacks of wheat and get your year«
supply of flour. Tygh Valley Flour
Mill.
Having contracted with the Union
Pacific Stages Pick-Up and Deliv
er Freight, I am In Position to Han
dle All of your Freight Problems.
REMEMBER WE HAVE
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GOOD HORSE PASTURE at reason
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Kent, Ore.
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WASHINGTON
PHILADELPHIA
NEW YORK
BOSTON .............
FOR SALE. Three-year-old Shorthorn
bull, eligible to register. Will trade
for other cattle. E. Amidon, Moro.
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cellent program giveh for our pleas
ure and edification at the public
meeting.
And again we would not be un
mindful of the courtesies extended by
the American Legion and the local
school board. Therefore be it reaolv
ed that the members of this conven
tion assembled, express our thanks to
these various agencies.
Respectfully submitted.
H. S. Caughey
F. M. Sexton
H. J. Wolfe,
Committee.
Best of Quality at Best Prices
ZIEGLER’S
Quality Store
GRASS VALLEY, OREGON
EYE STRAIN
Can only be corrected under the
proper conditions and by the use
Last Friday afternoon the big
of the very best of equipment.
gym was the scene of of the cor-
Twenty first annual I. O. O. F. con We have the Best Equipped Optical
office in Eastern Oregon.
onauon of Queen Zela I. by May vention consisting of the lodges of
or Shepard. The program, which Hood River, Wasco, and Sherman
OPTICS EXCLUSIVELY
was the result of much training counties.
Whereas the members of this con- Newhouse Optical Co.
on the part of those directing vention have enjoyed the unselfish
and participating, was education and wholehearted hospitality of all Dr. Geo. F. Newhouse, Proprietor
Odd-Fellows, Rebekahs, and citizens
320 East Second Street
al as well as entertaining.
in general of Kent, Oregon, on this
THE DALLES. OREGON
Orville Ruggles has quit wor- occasion.
worrying
over his freedom, since
Especially do we refer to the ex-
There are more statements about the publicity that will follow
Judge Eakin read the jury’s ver
the coming of General Butler than there are about the quality of dict. ’’not guilty.” on the Stu-
organization he may give to the state police. It will be good ad- dent Body versus Orville Rug
gles, at the mock trial last Fri-
vertiaing — for Butler.
nay morning.
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The winhers al the local de-
Reno expects candidates for divorce to spend a thousand dol-
SATURDAY MAY 9 AND MONDAY May 1 1
lars apiece in getting a decree. It is worth money these days to clamatory contest held Friday
evening were as follows- A.
love not, honor not, obey not.
23c I
Division, Florence Young 1st.
Crystal White Laundry Soap, 6 bars
Robert Poley 2d. B. Division:
43c Í
Broken Slice Pineapple No. 2K tins
Whether this administration is efficient or not, it is appointing Rachel Poley 1st; Wanda Tiller
23c ;
* a number of persons to office who could not succeed in getting el 2d; Greta Russell, 3d. C. Divis
Corn Flakes, 3 Pkgs.................................
28c J
ion, LaVonde Alsup, 1st; Bobby
Clorax, 2 quart bottles....................
ected by the people.
Eaton 2d, France^ Lee James 3d.
25c :
New Potatoes, 3 lbs ..........................
Consider this, pessimists. This month and next thousands of The Senior class is anxiously
lOc ;
New Peas, per pound ................................
"graduates will be ready and willing to settle the problems of this looking forward to Baccalaureate
O5c
Grapefruit, still...............................................
which will be Sunday, May 24,
old world.
2Oc
Bananas, 3 lbs.............................................
and Commencement which will
be May 29
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25c
Tillamook Cheese, per pound .......
Deer are eating the gardens in the city of Ashland, we hear.
Some of the students are in
27c
Mazola Oil pint tin .................................
And we have been trying to pretend that this is a settled atate all
dustriously working on the High
these long years,
School play, ‘‘Fresh From Cali
fornia” which will be given May
A few months ago we dreamed about such days as we have had 15.
Moro, Oregon
Phone 92
this week-now we dream through them.
SPECIAL SAVINGS
I'UM-A-LUM TICKLER
Published in the Interest of the People of Grass Valley and
Vicinity by The TUM-A-LUM LUMBER COMPANY
Vol. 31
GRASS VALLEY. OREGON. MAY 7,1931
EDITORIAL.
No. 18
bugs wont be far behind.
If the baby fall« on his head, don’t
A garden fence and trellis painted
iVbrry. The country will always need white or green will add much to your
orchestra leaders and congressional garden.
We have many attractive
investigating committees.—K. E. Ger styles and very moderate prices.
vais, Yard Mgr. and Editor.
Save
by painting your home.
With the approach of summer, insula A five year job with guarantee of sat
tion comes to the front again. It is isfaction.
just as Important to keep the heat out
in summer as it is to keep it in during
OUR FISH STORY.
the winter. Insulation will pay for
itself and it is always on the job.
An inland visitor to the city had vis
ited all’places of interest. Crammed full
Get an estimate. It costs nothing of the wonders he had seen, he was on
the point of leaving when he observed
and obligates you in no way.
a sign.’
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R. J. Baker is haring the interior of
A OMISSION 25c.
his apartments renovated in Grass
He
bought
a ticket, entered and gated
Valle/. Henry Roth is the artist.
in awed wonder at the monster
Sud
We have a car of slabs in trunsit. denly he turned to the man beside him.
“Stranger,” he said, ”the fellow that
Order your wood now.
caught that fiah is a blamed liar.”
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You can’t grow rock garden« by
planting pebble«.
Now that we have caught up with re
pair work caused by the recent wind,
Jessie Barnett is painting pieces of let’a keep the good work going, and do
fancy fencing, using Tum-A-Lum s some real improving
coni'
beat paint
plete «tock and the prices will never be
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If the birds and bee* are here, the lower than right sow.