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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (June 19, 1931)
german County Immuti Published Every Friday at Mero, Orogen, By GILES L. FRENCH Managing Editor Entered sa erooDd-cla* matter at the ’oetoffioe, at Moro, Oregon, under Aet of Congreso of March 8, 1879. 8VBSCRIFTION RATES—PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. - One Year.................................................................................................................... >150 Sis Month»... ....................... 1.00 FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1931. A NEW PANACEA The conferenee of governora back in Indiana in this year be fore the presidential campaign gets under full power shows the tendency of the times snd points the wsy the political winds will blow in 1932. Governor Pinchot, ofPennsylvania, offers the gov ernment ownership of public utilities*plsn snd Governor Roosevelt, of New York seemsto fsvor it as well. So, in the nation aa in Oregon we are to have a great campaign to put the government into business and we suppose that it will be promised to do so without cost to the taxpsyers, and it is also safe to predict that many thousands of people will believe it possible for a government to purchase millions of dollars worth of utilities and operate them by elected officers without investment or oper ative costs. It is the duty of the government to protect its citizens from the rspacity of corporations just as it protects them from individ uals and this should certainly be easier for the government to do ” than it would for it to endeavor to actually own and operate the corporations themselves. If we sre to continue to be free acting individuals we have long boasted of being we should resent this step toward socialism. Government operation of public utilities might easily come to include operation of all business, as any business house is ins sense a public cohcern. ' The course of our present depression can not be laid at the door of independent business; rather should it be blamed to a too " much governmental interference with business. Of the reasons listed as possible cause we have the high tariff which was certain . ly made by the government. Some blame the single monetary standard that makes it difficult for India and China to buy our goods with their silver. Others believe that war, debts hsve made it impossible for other countries to buy from us as all their surplus goes for war materials already bought. Government ownership is no panacea for our economic ills. It will not bring us a retain ^jg^oaperity unless our faults are cor rected. Our democracy swings from fatuous belief in one idea un til it is worn out or until some popular idol develops something else to catch the popular fancy and ia elevated to high position. . Gov- 4 ernmeftt ownership catches the present fancy and is elevated to position. Government ownership catches the present fancy like Crust bustiqg of twenty-five year« ago with' ita huge uncollected and upcollectable fines - JUPITER GOES ON A SPREE • We think too little hat been said and written about rain. Snow geta most of the praise and bouquet«. It may be called the beautiful blanket of ermine and alluded to as white and pure but for the practical usea of the farmer the rain muat be depended up- on to put the profit on the crop. Sometime«, in this county, we are unfortunate in our rains. It seems that Jupiter Pluvius is endeavoring to atop the habit of sending rain as an old toper tries to stop the habit of strong liquors. So it was the past week. When Friday nighta little show wet the fields it was like a drink to one long dry and Sunday with a roar of hail Jupiter went on a rainy spree that was like a sot falling off the wagon with a drunk that aroused the natives. Of course nothing can be done about it. • The weather is one thing we must take as it comes, but just the same it is unfortune that rains are delayed until their most advantages time is over and then must come in torrents that destroy some crops while making others. < 1 , • ,> THE GRANGE RENIGS Now isn’t this most peculiar. Last December the Pomona Grange in their meeting at Grass Valley paaaed a resolution strong ly favoring the continuance of the county fair and cent a deleg»-, tion to the budget meeting in Moro to petition the budget com mittee to allow funds for the fair. At the June meeting of the Pomona Grange another resolution ' noon, The board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. P auline W ilcox , Clerk. E. E. Gervais msde a business Grass Valley, Oregon. trip to Shaniko Tueaday. Mac Alsup left Wednesday for Portland to be gone for a week or so. Mr. and Mrs. Don Clodfelter drove to Portland Sunday with a load of sheep. Principal Events of the Week Mrs. Robt. Johnsoft and son Assembled for Information and Barbara Walpole, returned from Portland Sunday.1 of Our Readers. Jim Dennis ia able to be around town jigain after a bad sick spell. THK MARKETS Portland Mrs. E. M. Alley has been op Wheat — Big Bend bluestem, soft erator of the telephone switch white and western white, 58c; hard board for the past w^ek • while winter, northern spring and Western Mrs. Burns is on a vacation. red, 55c. . Hay—Buying price, L o. b. Portland: Dell Olds and Mrs. W. J. Davi? Alfalfa, 114015; valley timothy >15.50 left Tuesday for Warm Springe 016; eastern Oregon timothy, 9180 to bring Mrs. Olds and Sam 18.50; clover, >11; oat hay, >11; oats Davis and wife home. and vetch, >10010.50. Mrs. R. B Jackson and son Butterfat—18021c. Eggs—Ranch, 13@15c. are visiting the Poiev family this Cattle—Steers, good, 17.5007-75. week. Hogs—Good to choice, >6.6006.85. Mrs. Tommy Barnett is in the Lambs—Good to choice, >5.^005 00. hospital in The Dalles where she Seattle Wheat—Soft white, western white, is expected to remain for a few bluestem, 58ci^ western red, north days. ern spring, hard Minter, 57c. C. P. Adams waa chairman of Eggs—Ranch, 13@20c. the committee on education at Cattle—Choice steers, >6.7507.50. Hog|kTrGood to choice, >6.5007. the convention of the State Lambs—Choice, $6@6.75. Grange in Medford last w^ek. Spokane J. W, Shepard and-Jr- E.-Davis Cattle—Steers, pood, >6.50 0 7. • were the representatives of the Hogs—Good to choice,‘“>6.2506.35. Lambs—Medium to good, >5.50@6. Grass Valley Grain Growers at the Spokane meeting of the re gional of that organization., The 39th annual reunion of Umatil la county pioneen was held recently They returned Tuesday. In Weston. i Mias Margaret Morrison and Approximately 30 miles of the Mc Mrs. WalterXane visited at the Kenzie highway will Be oiled thia sum George Wilco^ feomeiast Monday mer by the stat« highway department, evening. Mrs. Lane is the wife beginning June 26. of a former station agent here - A state crew bus started oiling of and ia now located at Cascade the Old Oregon trail from Haines to, the city limits of Baker. Work is ex Locks. pected to be completed soon. Miss Helen Engstrom ia help The non-skid surfacing will be ing in the Zeigler store for a few placed on 59 mlks of the blacktop days. pavement between Eugene and Wilbur Mrs. Dick Patjens was here at dhce, It has been announced. The haying season at Sweet Home for a short time Tuesday from has opened, with several fields In the her home in Vancouver. She is shock. The hay this year is not so an old time resident of this dis heavy as in prevoius years, and much trict. earlier. Grass Valley SHERMAN COUNTY OBSERVES, K»tablUwd Nov. 2. isas GRASS VALLEY JOURNAL, Established Oct. 14, 1897 CONSOLIDATED, MARCH 8, 1981 was passed -asking the county court to kill the fair for this year and stop any and all preparations toward that end. The court ordered that the bidding of the grange be followed OREGON STATE NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST Fishing at Sherar's Bridge will occasion a much longer trip than formerly since the grade was so completely washed out in the cloudburst. It is reported thaL J there are holes almost 20 feet deep whe^e the road was former ly located. Harold Hughes is here after finishing a year as instructor and student at the University of Ore gon. Mrs. Hughes arrived sev eral days ago. Tuesday they left for Camp Sherman /or a short vacation accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tetz. Mrs. Tom Garrett and daught er and Mrs. C. W. Fields and sons are spending a few days at Camp Sherman this week. After Sunday school was over at the Baptist church last Sun day the primary class gave a short Children’s Day program, Fred Cox and wife were visit ing in Hood River last week with relatives and friends, re turning Saturday. The Baker family held their annual reunion picnic at Eagle Creek last Sunday when mem bers of the family from here met valley residents at that camping place. Four brothers and their families were there, Sam of Jrants Pass, Everett of Portland, Bert of Gresham, and Roy of Grass Valley, with their wives and families. Resolutions. so the county fair is out until the grange changes its in each case We, the members of Pomona mind again. Grange, express our deep re Thus we have the spectacle of an agricultural society, formed grets and sorrow for the loss by fof the express purpose of aiding agriculture, voting against an death of our dear Sister and Co exhibit that was instituted primarily for its benefit worker, Mrs. Rachel Howell, who The ways of this world are atrange. was ever a help and inspiration in all our work. ' We will miss her here and she will always hold a Al Capone, according to the papers it caught, tried, condem- place in our hearts med and sentenced already with the newt that five thousand in We know that she did not live dictments are out against him This certainly sounds like count in vain: ing your chickens before they sre hstched. No one doubts that May our lives be true until we . we meet again. many undesirable things should be meted out to the scarfsced one, Signed: but we have heard before that the reign of Chitago gansters was Mrs. Florence Adams over. We shall see what we shall tee. Mrs. Louise Eaton Mrs. Kate Andrews Mrs. Ethel Belshe. Oue cheering thought for better times is that now one can occasionLy hear some one say “they can’t afford it.” A few years ago they never admitted It but went and bought ’ Call For Bids Pilot Rock has substituted poison for the fabled Pied Piper. The town, overrun by rodents, staged “rat killing week” June 8 to 13. Polson was placed in meat bait. Through arrangements with the county court. Gold HUI will have its streets on the thoroughfare of the Gold Hill-Trail cut-off highway to Cra ter Lake park oiled. H. Quetschke, 30, of Philomath, was killed when a box of dynamite caps exploded in his hands as he was work ing in the woods at Pacific Spruce camp No. 1, at Waldport. The feasibility of shipping perish able fruit to middl«-w«stern markets in less than carload lots by airplane Is to be tested by Salem fruit growers the latter part of this month. The state road oiling trucks, tanks and other equipment to oil.the Coast highway from the Waldport ferry to Yachats, about 20 cars in all, have ar rived in Waldport and began work. O. W. Russell appeared at the coun ty clerk’s office at Salem recently with 543 gopher scalps, on which he claims the statutory bounty. The gophers were killed in the Mission bottom vi cinity. The board of directors for the Low er Umpqua fair at Reedsport has set September 11 and 12 as the dates for the exposition. Committees have been appointed and are busy making ar rangements. Lane county is busy at preliminary work toward a new bridge across Fid dle creek, at the foot of the hill on the Five Mlle side on the Olenada- Gardiner road. The bridge will par- ‘allel the old site. Nine thousand five hundred acres of land in the Klamath basin will be de- votwf to potatoes this season. Plant ing is now 90 per cent complete. Th« increase in acreage over last year Is about.J5 per* cent. The summer session at the South ern Oregon State Normal school be gan Monday, June 15. A number of new courses are being offered for the benefit of the teachers in the state who are attending. Approximately 1200, including many sportsmen from every section of the state, participated in the annual sal mon bake sponsored by th« Douglas County Sportsmen’s association near Roseburg recently. sawmill, idle since December, lias re> ■limed operations. It» owners said Indications point to a continuous ran for a long time. It Is one of the larg est pine mills in eastern Oregon. Two men were killed, one of them literally blown to bits, and a third waa Injured seriously when a powder charge they were planting on the Har mon A Tuttle McKenzie highway con struction job near Walterville was pre maturely discharged. More than >100 has been contributed by the people of Silverton towards the breeding pen for Chinese pheasants, construction of an Izaak .Walton The pen will be built ou thu Ed Over- lund farm in th§ Bethany district un der the direction of the league. Definite steps toward organising a cherry growers' co-operative associa tion were taken at a meeting of 100 growers held in Salem. Sentiment at the meeting was strong for a co-oper ative unit, which would tend to stabil ise the market and increase prices. Upwards of 20 tons of rasor cla.ns have been taken from the Seaside beach during the past three months, according to long-experienced com mercial diggers. Many clam diggers have come from Washington coast town», attracted by the plentiful sup ply there. The state prohibition department participated In 129 arrests for viola tion of the liquor laws during May, according to a report prepared by George Alexander, state prohibition director. Fines were Imposed in tho amount of 312,755, with jail sentences aggregating 2475 days. Kern & Klbbe have started delivery of rock for the north Umpqua river jetty, which will require 60,000 tons for the projects scheduled for comple tion by October L The rock Is being quarried near the banks of the river about eight miles east of Reedsport and towed to the jetty on scows. Fire unquestionably started by an incendiary practically wiped out the plant of the Oregon Canning company at Newberg, with a loss estimated to be in excess of >200,000. . The large frame buildings housing the cannery proper, with all its machinery, a large amount of stock and the offices were- destroyed. A vast bonfire, covering several . hundred acres of water-killed timber twisted into a dangerous tinder heap by recent high wind», will be started in the Crane Prairie country late this fall. A contract for the construction. of a 10-mile fire-break has been let and the prairie basin has been closed by forest officials. Fair price» to visitor» at the Pen dleton Round-Up Is the pledge to be asked of local business establishments by stockholders of ths Round-Up this 'year. A forfeiture of >100 will be made In case a breach of the pledge Is discovered. Directors feel that crit icism of unfairness from ‘visitors hurts the ahow and the city. Between 3000 and 5000 acres of grass and wheat burned recently near Alpine in the north end of Morrow county. E. McDaid was smoking his pipe on the edge of hl» field when he »tumbled and fell, dropping his pipe, ■parks from which Immediately took fire. Both Heppner and Lexington were telephoned for aid, which was sent. Hood River cherry growers have been offered 3ft cents a pound for . their Royal Ann» and have refused — to contract for this low price. It is stated that on account of the poor ji[ crop it will probably cost two cent» j|[ a pound for picking. , J Wasco Warehouse Milling Co. Portland Barry Growers association General Warehouse Business Flour Feed Grain Wood Coal If you wantrto get a new supply of Groceries, See Ziegler If you want the Freshest Vegetables, See Ziegler If you need a New Dress, or hubby needs a New Shirt, See Ziegler ZIEGLER'S Quality Store GRASS VALLEY, OREGON Ask for vacation telephone ratea Going on Vacation? If no’one 'will be left in your home let us give you the benefit of our vacation rates.... This is done by having’ service suspended for a. period of one to eight months, with no delay for resuming service. For details please call “business office”. T he P acific T elephone A nd T elegraph C ompany A valuable knowledge of the reliability and integrity of business is the reward of the steady reader of advertisements. MAY 22 TO OCT. 15 . RETURN LIMIT OCT. 31 . LIBERAL STOPOVERS Summer excursion forsi east • dally on UiMon Pacific's wonderful Portland Ro«« and othor fine train«. Scenic routo. Short side trip« enablo you to visit... a Grand Canyon, Zion, Iryco Canyon, Rocky Mountain, Grand Talon and Yallowttona National Bark«. Informa lion and vacation booklot« on roquotl. “talking disease,” a queer malady which makes farm horoes walk them-” selves to death during the spring of the year, is being studied in Umatilla county by an expert In animal diseases, according to Walter Holt, county agent ' . « ' C. H. Waymir«, rancher of Kontaok inlet, has found that deer have taken possession of hia fields, and ar« «ab ing his hay. H« chM«« th« animal« away In th« «v«ning, but has to b« up . at daylight to k««p th«m from spoiling School District No. 83 will ac at Bank», eight miles north of Forest Now you see it, now you don’t see it is to be part of the exam cept sealed bids for school bus Grove, started barreling strawberriea, ination for automobile drivers. Sounds like the croon of the black driver for school year 1931-1932, with a dally* output of 120 barrels. T>e Mount ICmnyJAimbor comyaay (nustached man behind the sh^llf. until July 1,1981, at 12 o'clock, Moro, Oregon Guaranteed Safety As the capitol is the symbol of strength of our country, so is the Moro State Bank a symbol of security for your money in this immunity. Moro State Bank is * safe place to save, a friendly place to bank, and a convenient place to come. Make it your habit to save At Moro State Bank each week. We cordially invite you« PACIF t A. ROBB Agent. * Moro, Oregon nORO STATE BANK
