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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1931)
german (ßmxntg inumai Grau Valley SHERMAN COUNTY OBSERVER, Established Nov. 2, 1888 GRASS VALLEY JOURNAL. Established Oct 14, 1897 CONSOLIDATED. MARCH 6. 1981 GILES L. An Uncle Tom’a Cabin show was here last Friday night. Publialud Every Friday at Moro. Oregon, By M iB vWtÍDg at the I. Managing Editor ¿ike hom<)_ port|and FRENCH Entered an Ms ond-clan. melter at the 'oatoffice, at Moro, Oregon, under Act of ’ Mr. and Mra. J. W. Shepard Congress of March 8, 1879. * #ere in Portland over the week One Year SUBSCRIPTION RATES—PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. * ............. ?............................................................ /..... 81 60 Six Months ............................................. - «■................. 1.00 t -5 FRIDAY, JULY U, 1931. THE GOVERNOR’S PROPOSAL. ■ The Jaw proposed by Governor Meier before the newly formed state tax committee provides that the state tax commiMion, com* .* posed in this state of three men, be empowered to judge the acts of any tax levying body witbin [the atate if ten tax payers of that distriet petition for its help. It is also proposed to make 60 -i- percent of the voters favor a bond issue before it can be passed. . It is quite likely that it would be advisable to have the sanction , Qf our present state tax commission on any questionable tax meas ure, for they are a ver$ creditable body of office holders. Probably we will not always be as fortunate in our tax commissions which • would weaken the proposed law. As for the suggestion that a 60 percent vote should be record- „ ed for a bond issue^efore it be passed, it is our observation that • * most of the bond issues that are now causing large taxes were passed with a more favorable vote than this figure. - It is true, as the Governor says, that something must be done to lower the taxes levied by the smaller divisions of tbe state. We, “ in bhernfin county, know the pleasurable feeling of opening a tax statement and finding it is6 20 percent less than the previous year. The other divisions of the state, we have no doubt, would appreci end. R. J. Baker has been on the verge of a sick spell with chills and fever. "Grace (Gervais is visiting in Goldendale.witb the Spickerman family for a few days. Mrs. Lillian Coon returned home last week from a visit with ner parents near Colton. Millard Eakin was here the first of the week on his rounds as auditor for private firms. Fred Cox and family returned Monday from a few days spent visiting in and near Hood River. Jim Syr on drove in Tuesday night from a trip to the valley. He will remain until „after har- vest. Don Clodfelter and wife drove to Portland Saturday with s truck load of stock, returning Monday. The Reckmann combine was moved to their ranch near Kion- dike where they will begin to harvest. . J , c t Gladys Perry is still in the hos pital but is now recovering and will be able to come home within ate it just as much. , * > • We believe that even without the state wide committee the tax a reasonable time. \ payers of the state would have demanded a tax cut this fall and The front of the Hays gar age would have gotten relief. It is within their power to vote what has been decorated with a pew ever taxes they choose and they should be allowed that privilege coat of paint this week by the crew of the oil company. aa long as they can exercise it. The voters can lower taxes under Hubert Hutchcroft and family our present system whenever they want to. - returned from Forest Grove this Some doubts will arise in the mind of one who has been taught week and, states they expect to v (hat the people in this state are supreme in all things when he con move to that city in a short time. siders this measure. It is a step toward bureaucracy. In this tax Lumber for a new house on question though, it may be safely stated that the voters have been the J. Harvey Smith place is be derelict in their duty toward their city and county. They would ing hauled and work will begin not attend budget meetings, they would not ponder over bond is- on construction as soon ar pos i sues if some part of the funds so raised were to be spent to their sible. Chester Zumwalt, Mrs. Annul» advantage and they have been generally very careless of their and Miss Annuls, all pt Hood rights and duties of citizenship. River, visited at the Arne Annu- If, through the governor’s committee, the taxpayers can be la home here the first of the brought to a greater interest in their duty and a greater knowledge week. . of the workings of their government, the movement will be an Mrs. W. I. Westerfield accom excellent stepH'ffit merely provides another bureau to make for panied Vern McGowan as far as additional red tape and take the government out of the hands of Portland laat Monday when he the people, where it must rest in a democracy, it will not be ad returned to his home nesr Inde pendence. vantageous__ "2___ • Clsrence Nelson sr rived Mon- dsy morning to resume his plsce f /These summer Sundays when the front porch is strewn with on the section ss his relief fore- man job on the Deschutes branch the remnants of the daily papers and the family stretches out in was finished. solid comfort under the lilac bush or about the lawn trying to get Mrs. Bessie Daugherty Mulkey out of the rays of the Eastern Oregon sun, seem to be designed and children are visiting at the ,.for the exercise of human laziness. So in the towns and cities. A. L. Russell home for a few In the country, on the wheat ranches, there isn’t really any days. Mrs. Mulkey lives in Sil Sundays in summer. That is in the harvest part of summer. The verton snd is s sister of Mrs, farmer may be maligned for leading an easy existence during the Russell. Mr. snd Mrs. Harold Snyder, winter months but no one could accuse him ofJthat during the har of Battleground, Wash., are at vest and pre harvest days. the L. D. Eakin home. Mrs: • -. . He goes busily about from the time the sun peeps over the hill Marion VanMetre and children until long after it has dropped to rest at night. He patches this, are also visting Mrs. VanMetre’s and gets that ready for the strenuous week ahead. The horses, parents. the harness, the tractor, the combine, rigging for one thing and an Uarry French and wife from SUMMER SUNDAYS ON THE FARM. other, for Sunday is the make ready day. Duluth, Minn., arrived Tuesday Mr. He knows it is Sunday, surely, but he also knows that it is to visit relatives here. harvest an 1 that if the year’s work is to be graced with income it French is a cousin ■ to L. R. and C. F. French and expects to must be gathered now* Harvest is the day of hurry. ”We the people of the state of Oregon” may come to mean to the office holders, »nd the declaration “all power ip inherent in the people,” won’t apply to taxation if we do not attend to our own tax levying and give that power over to the state. th« two companies. Charles M. Thomas, public utilities commissioner, made the order. The companies oper ate* In Molalla, Aurora, Barlow, Hub bard, Donald, Wilsonville, Stafford and adjacent territory. Word baa been received at Lake view that on July 30 the highway commls- alon will let contracta for the com pletion of the grade of the Lakeview- Burna highway from the Lake-Harney county lino to Riley on the Central Oregon highway. The stretch to be contracted for is approximately 40 miles long. Construction is in progress on the south 52 miles of the highway. Twenty-seven thousand dollars of the city’s bonded indebtedness was permanently retired July 1, Mayor Harvey of Baker has announced. At the same time the mayor stated that the new city financing plan was 100 per cent effective. The reduction of the city’s indebtedness and the lesser rate of interest on the existing indebt edness has resulted, in a material sav ing in interest. Gold ore that assays to the t >n with 56 cents additional values in silver, has been found within four feet of the surface on the old William Arnold homestead on the Ochoco proj Principal Events of the Week ect, by G. C. Larkin, renter from Crook county which bid the place in Assembled for Information for delinquent taxes two years agd. There is an abundance of ore which of Our Readers. • Is free milling and carries its value in flake gold. Four white bass, the first ever re Emma Fowler, 50. ex La Grande city treasurer, was sentenced to a maxi ported caught in the Willamette river, mum term of ten years in state prison according to local anglers, were land as a result of her conviction on a ed near Corvallis by L. T. Chellis of charge of misappropriating more than Corvallis. They were identified by Professor Nathan Fasten, head of the -<108,000 of city funds. zoofogy department a^t OnegOn" State" Lincoln county people, particularly shipping interests of the Yaquina bay, college. As near as could be learned are gratified with a decision of the from any records there this variety commlsskH er of customs to retain probably originated from those put in the office of deputy collector of cus the river following the world’s fair in Portland In 1905, when the fair did toms at Newport. not want to go to the expense of re With the thermometer hovering turning the fish to their native coun around the lOA-mark, apples in a nujs> try. • .-L ber of the orchards were sunburned Harold Clark of Creswell was re in the Hood River valley. It is esti mated that the loss will not exceed covering at a Eugene hospital recent 5 per cent Prospects point to 50 per ly from injuries received when a bull cent ofA normal crop of apples and trampled him. Clark was leading the animal when it started butting him. 85~ber cent of a pear crop. Construction has again been re He clung to the ring in its nose and sumed on tlje telephone line which is thus prevented more serious injury. Construction was started at the to connect Prineville and Mitchell. Permit for this construction was ob Oregon ^¡aves on a >50,000 hotel of tained from the forest service, and S. Swiss chalet architecture, according C. Johnson, president of the Blue to Sam H. Baker, member of the board Mountain Telephone company, has a of directors, which, met recently. The crew of men at work setting poles and foundation for the chalet is being laid in the ravine below the present hotel. stringing wires. • locate in the west. Mrs. I. N. Lemon and E. B. Lemon were here Sunday to look over the prospects of a crop from their ranch farmed by S. L Stark. Mra. Lemon ia return* ing from a trip east. , __ Charles Olds came home laat week from hia sheep shearing trip into Montana. He reporta that Montana ia in a very bad way aa there ia neither crops or feed for stock there this vear. The whereabouts of our one time blacksmith has held the at tention of several business men since Ray Blake saw him work* Ing near Klamath Falls. When Luke Bibby and Dick Huhman tried to find him however, he had taken a vacation. OREGON STATE NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST One of the largest runs of Cali fornia smell ever to come up the coast is opposite Pacific City. People around there are taking buckets, kettles and other utennils and filling them with sardines. As the waves wash them in on the beach, they pile up to a height of several inches and it is a simple matter to scoop them up. Rev, Elon G. O. Groat, -97, Baptist minister and’organizer cf the Baptist church of Cottage Grove, died recently at his home at Cottage Grove. Mr. Groat was for more than 72 years, a licensed preacher and for more than 17 yearj preached in the Oregon coun try. During his years in the ministry he organized 35 Baptist churches. At 2 p. July 27, in the Owyhee irrigation diatrlct office at Nyssa, Engineer F. A. Banks will receive bids for construation of the Thief valley dam on Power river, about eight miles south of Telocaset. Work will begin this fail under the direction of Engineer Banks and it Is expected the dam will bo completed within a year. A White Leghorn hen owned by August Rakel of Canemah is so proud she won’t associate with other hens in the flock, and perhaps she is Justi fied. She crows every morning, mak ing a noise exactly like that of a rooster, and every day she lays an egg which ia- the shape and size of a golf ball. This unusual hen is 7 years old. Rural electric rales of the Molalla Electric and Yeung Electric com panies of Oregon were ordered re duced to parity with urban rates of TUM-A-LUM TICKLER Published in the Interest of the People of Grass Valley and Vicinity by The TUM-A-LUM LUMBER CO PAN Y If American bankers were as excited about the welfare of Vol. 31 American agriculture as they are about German business, the GRASS VALLEY, OREGON, JULYK, 1981 EDITORIAL. wheat farmers would not have to sell their wheat for 35 cents per Dear Editor; What is meant by being diplomatic? bushel. Well, my friend, if you tell your wife The question arises, did the Germans close the banks because that time stands still when you kok in they didn’t get a loan, or so they could shock the world into giving to her eyes, that is diplnmacy. * Put if you tell her that her face would stop a clock, that’s foolishness. E. E. Ger them a loan? vais, editor. No. 27 Oh, Boy,-won’t business boom then. Call us up hh soon as it happens and we’ll be right out to build that new home: In the meantime, it might be a good ide» to kcep.it in repair with Tum- A-Lum Lumber and Paint. George and Bari says Portland is one truly wonderful village for its size. Portland’s George seems to be as popular at home as in France If it is possible for yot to build and Don’t foretti otir handi Man service. you do not buy now, . , - — ;_____ • - Zgi . you will find you have missed a great J The new home on ths Schilling place v Maybe Albert B. Fall has one of those headacboMusi for opportunity. . Says I will soon be under way. The direct to school that we used to declaim about. our Handi Man. the job service. _____________ —. Take ¡advantage Of our direct to the job 1 Hot weather's here. Heck! I dunno as it is worth while getting ter be famous if all aervice. We wiil.be 2* Itcomeeeach year. the neighbor women are going to tell what ttrey really thought *’a<* * i1^ yw *” 8 But this yssr it seems hotter. the information necs- Mywifosays about you How at^ut it Herbert?_______________________ . , aary on request. 6 Instead of shirts ^***“w‘ ■■•SSI»«MMV.-T+ »U*- We have a few 6 I should wear a blotter. even if he didn’t get to kiss the queen. If Harding had made Fall i^-etary of state he’d have sold the th0»*“«1 whole darn country to somebody. Maybe we are lucky, at that of rou ** Approximately 1000 kiddies of the lower Columbia district and their pets were in the lower Columbia pet par ade held in Astoria recently. The Fourth of July will be celebrat ed at Parkdale this year and the peo ple of the entire Hood river valley will unite in the celebration. Free ferries wa8 provided by the highway commission on Alsea and Ya quina bays, beginning May 29, to pro vide service,for Memorial week end. Reports ^received in Salem from Washingion, D. CT indicate that there are 18,332 widows in the state of Ore gon. More than half of this number are in Portland. Rebber's „ Tailors Cleaners IH* olii» // OUiOON SUITS Cleaned & Pressed —$1.00— Driver Ie in Sherman County Towne Every Monday & Thursday San Quentin Grain Bag» Sc To Members 8 l-4c to Non-members These are High Grade Bags, Come * in and Look them over. Arrow Twine At Less Than You Have Paid in Years. MORO GRAIN GROWERS ASSOCN. To Be In Touch With Your Bank ■ Means Safety Paying Monthly Bills • ~ ~~~ V ■ A Checking Ac count Prevents Errors. In Investment Your Banker is Able to Give Valu able Advice. - MORO STATE BANK ____________________________________________ ______________________________________ Your Harvest Needs . ; Let us give you a price^on a harvest bill of grocer ies. We have good prices ZIEGLER’S Quality Store GRASS VALLEY. OREGON What is it Worth TTOW much is it worth to you to have a , customer come into your store? It is hard to téli, but it is worth while to have people to look over your stock, meet you and see what you have to-sell. It is also worth while to have readers see your name in the weekly paper where it is identified ith the goods you sell. It is worth a lot to be able to tell you? customers every week what you are selling, that your goods are responsible merchandise and that your prices are reasonable or cheap. It is the man who doesn’t advertise who * pays advertising bills. : Let us help you with your advertising. ' It-isacrimo to aak only 18.50 per thousand for No. 1 Red Coder Shingles. But that is the price so take advantage of it and put on a now roof that will in Wheat is worth 35 cents when put into the warehouse and The idea of debt moratorium ielread* sure you against leska. - $1 00 when put into a hog. The rawer the product, the rawer the ing. Pretty aoon all of us will be put- Pay Uxes and boost your community. ting in for our abaro. price, / very reasonable. Bet ter build that hog house now ■■ IX SHERHAN COUNTY JOURNAL > . \ ♦
