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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (July 24, 1931)
jNjerman downtg Journal Grass Valley SHERMAN COUNTY OBSERVER, Established Nov. 2, 1888 GRASS VALLEY JOURNAL, Established Oct. 14, 1897 CONSOLIDATED, MARCH 6, 1981 Published Every Friday at Moro, Oregon, By Managing Editor GILES L. FRENCH Entered at secend-cle*» matter at the JoetotBoe, at Moro, Oregon, under Act of Congress of March 8, 187$. - SUBSCRIPTION RATES—PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. One Year......................... Six Month*........................................................................................... 60 1 00 FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1931. YOU CAN’T EAT YOUR CAKE — It costs, says the governor, 1&3 percent of the income of the people of Oregon for taxes. It costs 108,000,000 dollars out of a total Income of 560,000*000, Why? Why do’we have to pay one Mrs. Betsy Melonis spent Sun day herewith Mrs. C. B. Duyle. Home cured bacon 15 cents per pound at Grass Valley Meat Market Jess heardsley and his family spent the week end in The Dalles. L. R. French and B. J. Clark of Eugene, drove to Pendleton Sunday on a business trip. Young Gordon Cochran ib here tp spend the summer with his wife. his uncle, Eben K®®. Nadine King came up from Portland last week to spend several weeks with relatives here. Mrs. Lucy Ruggles spent a part of the week in Moro where sfie visited her children who live dollar out of every five? • Because we hsve the government do so many things for us. We have one type of government build school houses and educate the young with all the attendant details. ———----- r there. Because we declare war and keep armies ready to fight our bat Agnea Simon was injured sli- tles whenever we are persuaded that we have something to gain — ghtly ihe first of the week when or lose. she fell from her bicycle into Through another branch of g6vernment we make laws and loose gravel. Viggo Häufelt ia here from support courts with judges and juries and courthouses and jails Portland to remain until after to make those laws effective. harvest. He has been attending We tax automobiles and gasoline to build our roads all through dental college. government agencies. Gladys Perry returned from We hire clerks and sheriffs and assessors to keep our records the hospital and it is hoped that Straight, to try to catch our criminals and to see that everyone is she will convalesce quickly now that she is home. taxed properly. * We tax nearly every business in the state and nation and the Rev. W. J. Boise of Prineville, people pay the ultimate bill. The tobacco we smoke, the mechan was here last ‘ Sunday zand ics,'machinery, oleomargerine, banks, insurance companies, ware preached to the congregation of houses, fishermen, realestate men all pay their quota to some the Baptist church. Bob Hayes came up from Aber branch of government. 4 \ ” A - deen, Wash., last Monday and is Electricians, plumbers, dentists, doctors, lawyers and nearly helping with the harvest at the every profession deviced by man pay their tax to the state or na Hans Koepke ranch. tion. B. B. Gervais, father of Jack Why does it cost so much? Rather, how does it cost so little? Qervaj8 Jack’s children Every year we are making more laws, adding more men to the pay- with him to Elgin last week, re roll to oversee some detail of existence. ' turning them Tuesday. Our civilization is so intricate; the honesty of our citizens is so Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Mel- q,e.tk».ble that .11 the.. I.w. .re or h.ve been deemed neee^.y 2L .S Holme" t) protect one man from the avarice of another; communities vote home Qra98 Valley. for so many improvements that taxes have grown by leaps and Ed A||ey traded race horae bounds. , < Thèse are parlous times. People arise in wrath against taxes and declare that they should be reduced. During these times we will reduce them. We will make some effort at better governmen- mental management. We will fire the old and hire the new. Change here and oust there. But when this is ail over we will go back to the old system of asking anything and everything of the government. We_will never cut down the tax bill for any long period of time until we expect less from governments; until we are honorable enough to live with each other honorably; until we do not cooperate together to build and buy the things we want. The reason we have contracted to pay one fifth of our income to government is because we expect to get the equivalent of that much service from from government. It is stated that we are the most socialistic government in the world which is probably true. And we are continually becoming more so, That is why taxes are high. Our effort to reduce them will be of minor effect unless we overcome this tendency. “I HAVEN’T BORROWED A DOLLAR.” An increasing number of farmers are saying to us, I haven t borrowed a dollar from the bank since last fall.’’ and some include^ t vo years instead of one in their self-supporting history. Pride in independence from the bank, is something new in Sherman county. Rather, farmers have been wont to boast of the fact that^the bank would loan them sums of money that in these days sound preposterous Such was the effect of bonanza farming. It took times like these to show the country how dangerous it was to borrow money year after year without ever'reducing gross indebtedness. These farmers who are not borrowing money this year are holding their own in what has been called the worst times in a generation. When times improve-and they will —these men will know the first lesson in financial success which is to keep the expenses within the income. Which is all more or Jess introductory to the statement that the meeting of last Friday night was held in the interest of jusk the ■art of farmer who does want to make his expenses in some other way outside of the wheat crop. If the proposed organization is formed it will be possible for farmers to borrow government money to purchase livestock if they are prepared to care for them. If this district had two hundred thousand additional dollars in vested in livestock divided among the farmers all of them could then say %ith the same pride that characterizes the independent man, “I haven’t borrowed a dollar from ths bank.” This county, like many other agricultural .districts, is in the process of a change. Our old system of great credits to wheat producers has been broken up because our price structure is not ■ufficiently stable to make such loans safe Farmers are not the sort of people who will quit when such conditions come upon th^m; they will just finance themselves. Just now we are in the process of learning how to do that very thing. It isn’t hard to visualize a time when the farmers, with plenty of livestock on their farms, will work as hard to keep from, bor rowing money as they worked to borrow money in the past. Then we will have achieved a greater independence than this country has ever possessed heretofore. _____ . . ^lr. President: I move you that Captain Exon be commis gioned to haul the Farm Board’« surpWTtb Europe. OREGON STATE NEWS DEGENERAI INTEREST Principal. Events of the Week Assembled for Information of Our Beaders. THE MARKETS Portland Wheat — Big Bend bluestem, hard wheat, 53c; soft white and western white, 48c; - hard winter, northern spring and western red, 45c. Hay—Buying price, t o. b. Portland: Alfalfa, $15.50; valley timothy $15.50 @16; eastern Oregon timothy, $18@ 18.50; clover, $11; out hay. $11: oats and vetch, $10@10 50. Butterfat—21 @23c. Eggs—Ranch, life 19c. Cattle—Steers, good, $7.75^8. Hogs—Good to ^h(Jce, $8.25@8.85. Lambs—Good to choice, $5.75i?G. Seattle Wheat — Soft white and western white, 48c; hard winter, western red and northern sprln . 46c; bluestem. 50c. Eggs—Ranch, 14 (j 22c. Cattle—Choice steers,$6.75Q7.5u> Hogs—Good to choice, $8.90®9. Lambs—Choice, $3@5.75. 8pok«ne Cattle—Steers, good, $7@8. Hogs—Good to ^choice, $8.50@8.75. Lambs—Medium to good, $1.50^5 2: Earwlgs. 'liome and garden peJts, cut the electricity off in a, home near Silverton recently. - An electrician found 60 had mad? a nest in one sock et, thus preventing” a contact. The pie cherry crop now being pick ed on the Keenwood ranch near Silver- ton will be about 20 tons, or one-third of the 1930 total, a< cording to L. G. McDonald, superitftendent. Damage of approximately -£4^,000 was caused by a tire which destroyed ' the Springfield planii)^. mill r.nd an adjacent electric sawmill recently. Origin of the fire was In doubt. James Caldwell, a farmer^ in the Riverside district, Linn county, has on display some freak oats. The heads are on long stems or vines leading from the main stalk several inches. A strong flow of artesian water is issuing from the well drilled on the old Brooks place two miles southeast of Mosier on the old Seven Mlle Hill road. The well is oiHy 85 feet deep. While sinking a Well for The Dalles water “department, workmen have brought to- the «urtace fragment* ot pine bark that came from a depth of 295 feet. The bark is well preserved.* Approximately 10.000 bushels of wheat burned on the Barnet, Mar quardt and Shriever places near Lex- combine, belonging to ington. Charles Marquardt also was burned. Members and friend* of the First Christian Church of Monmouth gath । ered there Sunday, July 19, to com memorato the 75th anniversary ot its founding with an old-time reunion and home-coming service. • Salem’s campaign for a municipal water system has been checked by -the decision of the state supreme court that the special election held last May that authorized the issuance of $1,200,- 000 in bonds was invalid. Medford and Klamath Falls will be invited to cooperate with Ashland In an effort to interest the state highway commission in the improvement of the Grecnspring Mountain highway from the summit to Klamath Junction. L. L. Starr, Portland cleaner, ar- ‘hved In Newport at 11 o’clock at night and chartered a seagoing fishing boat at 4 o’clock in the morning, returned at 9 with 22 salmon, and departed for Portland In his automobile with the fish. Oiling of the Gaks Creek road fiom Forest Grove through Timber to the Columbia county lim has been started under the direction th® Washington county engineer, J. W. Barney. 7 ho project calls for oiling of 23 miles of road. • A petition is being circulated lu Washington county to have the state game commission build a fish hatch ery on Scoggins Oreek to replace the Clear Creek hatchcry, which is to be discontinued on account of lack of water. Dedication ceYeim nies for the N. J. Sinnott memorial, an observation sta tion and museum constructed last year in Crater Lake national park, will be dedicated this month during the visit of the congressional appropria tions committee. to Sam Ohlds who lives near Ter- rebonB€ one day last week for a bunch of young heifers. A k L. Russell came home with his combine the first of the week from Moro where he has been harvesting for Howard Conlee. Mrs. Bessie Mulkey and child ren, who have been visiting Mrs. A. L. Russell, returned to their home near Silverton last week. Mrs. L. C. Dickson was in The Dalles the first of the week with Mrs. Addi6 Borthwick who is at the hospital suffering from a nervous breakdown. Parent Eslinger and Adeline Sharp were married in Vancouv er last Friday and spent a part of their honeymoon visiting here with Mr. and Mrs. James Blagg. Ray Blake will do the sampl ing of wheat for the Moro and Grass Valley local grain growers. On alternate days he will go to Hay Canyon and Kent gathering samples of all the wheat brought to those warehouses. A very pleasant party was held at the Grange hall last Sat urday night when friends of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Ragsdale gathered to wish them good luck and God speed on their journey to La- Grande where they will make their home after August first. Lvle Hogue suffered a queer illness last * Monday morning while working on the Jim Wilson combine. About seven o’clock when it was very hot he took a drink of water and climbed on the machine. He doesn’t re member anything for three hours, but he probably fainted and fell off the combine. He walked to Haynes’ garage with Prizes offered by the merchants of out knowing anything about it Myrtle Point at the annual flower and was sent home. show of the Myrtle Point Flower club recently aroused kt n competition in seen Diamond peak, which can be from Lake Odell, now Is bare, This every department, as well as bringing mountain has nearly always been out the finest display of blooming fol ..... snow-capped the year round. Its bare iage ever exhibited there. C. F. McDonald of Cannon Beach has ness so early In the summer is'lald to the fact that there was a light enow- received a silver medal from the United States tree* ny,department for fall In the mountains Inst winter. The Eugene school board has low bravery in saving the Ufa of Mrs. Alice ered the amount to be ralspd for next Shelmler, 80 years old, in October,* year for taxation from $231,549.20 to 1929. She wag caught by a big wav* $225,252.75. The total of the budget while walking on the beach. will be slightly higher than this year, The red spider now preying on the but receipts wlH ba greater and this pear trees in the Hood River valley accounts for the Idworcd taxation. Is causing some damage to the trees Burros will ba assigned the lack of by denuding the tree of its foliage, carrying two lookout houses to the which In turn produce* inferioi* fruit top of Cascade national forest: prom Grower* are busy with an oil spray, ontories. Ready-cut materials for the fighting'the spider P*4t.- Road work Underlay throughout lookout stations have been trucked to Jackson county wiiT be stopped within Elk lake, and Dee Wright and Ed Woods, veteran packers, will load the the next few days, members of the | houses on muleback and carry them county rourt have announced. Lassi to the summits of Olallie butte and tude of Taxpayers in making payments for the/first half of the year is five« Horse mountain. .1. ns the reason for stopping .construc tion work. There are 4303 pupils In the schools of Union county, according to a re port made by E. A. Sayre, the county superintendent. Of this number 3231 were elementary and 1072 in high school. The school census shows that there aro 5353 persons of school age in the county. ' Five-year contracts for transporta tion of Grants Pass district No. 7 high and grade school pupils and pupils of outside districts to the Grants Pass schools have been signed. The new contract price is $4 per month per pupil in the district and $38 per year for outside pupils. t .The Dalles Growers* Cooperative association, which has packed in sul phurous brine solution 3450 barrels of cherries, will start a crew of 75 wo men pitting and atemming lb* fruit preparatory to marketing it in east ern seaboard centers where maraschi no factories are located. The Southern Pacific railroad h i announced a reduction from 63H 50 cents per hundred tn freight rate., on fruit wrappers between Portlami and Medford. The new rate will mean a substantial saving to fruit growers, who consume between 600 and 700 tons annually in the Rogue River val ley. Visitors to Rockaway over a recent week-end were thrilled by the arrival of millions of anchovies. Out between the third and fourth breaker the water was blue with the fish and as they were driven into shallow water they wore caught in every conceivable way, in buckets, kitchen utensils, hats and even by hands. High on the glaciers of the Three Sisters, only 300 feet below the wind swept summits, millions of large gold en brown buJerflle^’ aro fluttering over the packed snow and lava rocks. Great swarms vf the winged insfects also have been reported from Mount Washington. On "the Three Sisters there were to many butterflies that at times they formed clouds and fJu.t-_ tered around alpinists like gigantic moauultoes. To Be In Touch With T Your Bank Means Safety In Paying Monthly Bills A Checking Ac count Prevents Errors. - In Investment Your Banker is Able to Give Valu able Advice. MORO STATE BANK Your Harvest Needs Bebbers■ ( leaners ’ 14 (XUS Let us give you a price on . a harvest bill of grocer ies. We have good'prices Tailors WJUW * • - / OWOON SUITS. Cleaned & Pressed ZIEGLER’S Driver is in Sherman County Towns Every Quality Store ' GRASS VALLEY, OREGON Monday & Thursday h___———— When truck ing Liv«- ( stock call 1 E. H. FULLER Y' Our Experience Our Service Your Satisfaction Albright Commission CO. YOUNGEST C»MMISSION FIRM AT TJNIÖN STOCK YARDS NORTH PORTLAND. ESTABLISHED IN 1926 We have over 3000 Satisfied Customers. There's a reason. Consign Your Livestock to Us “It’s the Price that Counts.” What is it Worth OW much is it worth to you to have a customer come into your store? It is hard to tell, 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 with the goods you sell. It is worth a lot to be able to tell your 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. SHERHAN COUNTY JOURNAL
