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german Couirig Journal Grass Valley SHERMAN COUNTY OBSERVER, Established Nov. 2, 1888 GRASS VALLEY JOURNAL, Established Oct. 14, 1897 CONSOLIDATED, MARCH fi, 1931 Miss Jessie Pike returirtM home the last of the week. ? Published Every Friday at Moro, Oregon, By Mr. and Mrs. * Harry Beezly Managing Editor GILES L. FRENCH are here visit with Mrs. A. J. Entered M Mcood-clue matter at the ?oetoffice, at Moro, Oregon, under Act of Bibby. Mrs. Beezy’s mother. Congress of March 8, 1879. . Mr. and Mrs. L. R. French drove to Portland Wednesday of SUBSCRIPTION RATES—PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. last week and returned Sunday. One Year......... ........................................................ ............;.......... ............. Six Months............................................................... .*............ ...................... $1 60 1.00 valley last Saturday to work for out of kilter and had not own HIM for months, which seemed to make It J. H. Wilson during harvest. all the better subject for experimenta Hazel Decker suffered a frac tion. Moreover, so far as a detective a diploma could discover, it was tured collar bone a few days age with ths only thing te all Peekskill which on account of her horse stumbl smacked of illegality. i. James Homer Wood pinned his ing. badge beneath the lapeL . Mias Edna Lyons returned nickel-plated of his coat and went after that slot home Sunday from Jefferson, machine at an hour at which all where she has been for some Peekskill should have been asleep. He had no difficulty in breaking into the time. filling station and decided that he Mrs;* Ethel Howell who hap would writs a thesis on that subject been visiting relatives here,, re in case the correspondence school gave post-graduate degrees, but the disposal turned to her home in Vancouver of the slot machine was a different Friday. matter. returned It Vvas much bulkier than the grad Gene Hoskinson uate detective had thought it would home Monday from Portlanc bo but eventually he got It through the where he had visited with hit window. As he had brought no conveyance son Guy. with him, he had to carry the slot ma- Mr. and Mrs. J C. Wilson anc chine on his back down the road to a daughter Nellie, motored b dump. Several times during the labo Journey he had to set the ma Mitchell Sunday, returning wit I rious chine down and rest Several times Mrs. Ida Davis and daughte motorists passed and, though he wan engaged in detective work of a highly Pauline. > , * moral nature, James Homer Wood did Mrs. Volna Guyton, Miscet^ Clarice Wilson and Marguerit« ing prajadhi pok of Slam, ac Howell accompanied Glenn How companied by Queen ell and his aunt to Vancouve Rambai Barnl - and Friday returning Monday. her parents, made his official visit to Wash Glenn Howell, accompanied b ington during the Mrs. Volna Guyton, Marguerit- week. They arrived in the capital city Mitchell, Maudie McKay au from New York on Rosie Howell left Thursday fo- Tuesday, being met at Lost Lake where they spent 'a the station by Vice President Curtis and few days. . . King of Siam Harold Todd will drivé the Buckley school buss during the school year beginning in Septem FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1931 ber. Mrs. Ella Oide entertained last ECONOMIC VITALITY. Tuesday afternoon in honor of The famed Literary Digest quotes some one as saying that if Mrs. Kenneth Mulkey, who is wheat is sold for 35 to 40 cents per bushel it will represent a loss visiting here. of 10 or 15 cents to the farmer. Now that’s smart. For the past Bob Johnson spent the week ten years wheat has been selling at a price that was ten or fifteen end at Ocean Side where his wife is living for a few weeks cents too low when all costs were figured. Now with wheat at 35 cents the price is still called 10 or 15 this summer. Jack Kelly, of Shaniko, is in cents below cost of production. What it should have made clear charge of the barber shop while was that 35 cents was that much less than the labor expense of Florin Coon helps Dell Olds har putting the wheat on the market. Farmers that receive 35 cents vest the wheat crop. per bushel for tbeir wheat are not going to pay taxes, interest, or J. C. Hartley, a former resi debts unless they have other resources. dent of Kent, Was here the first They will be able to pay for what labor they must have; for of the week from his home near what gasoline they actually need; for sacks if they can’t get along: Jefferson. His wife accompan* without them, and for a few other essentials. It is like asking ied him. Miss Della Helyer, . of Kent, other high officials. Henry Ford to put out cars at a price that allowed him pay for the were duly photographed, and escorted received her diploma from Ore- paint, the labor of marketing the car and enough on the power bill tn state to the Lars Anderson man gon State Normal School at Mon- sion on Massachusetts avenue. Next to pay upkeep. mounth at the graduating exer day the royal couple made their-for Wheat farmers have done their job too well. They have become cises held this week. mal fall at the White House. Just within the front door President and too efficient and have raised too much of their chosen product. The Woman’s Bridge Club met Mrs. Hoover met them and led them to the Blue Room where, after brief They have become temporarily poor But. who has profited? Who at the home of Mrs. Herman conversation, the king requested the Schilling last Wednesday and gains when the farmer is not prosperous? ' honor of presenting his suits. - Mr. Absolutely no one. The farmer is one-third of the buying spent the afternoon at what is Got Star and Diploma, but Hoover giving consent, the royal re rapidly becoming the national tinue entered and was Introduced by No Definition of What power of the nation and when that one-third reducts its purchases the Siamese minister. game. Forms a Felony;» The' ktnfr and queen -soon after the manufacturer and the laborer are hurt. Let them lend their A bunch,of cattle were driven hustled back to their temporary home White- Plains, N. Y —James Homer and the return call by Mr. and Mrs. support to the farmer and see how soon conditions become better. through town last Tuesday on Wood still has his nickel plated badge, ; Hoover quickly followed. The farmer is the backbone of the nation and he is in bad the way to Judge Krussau but he has lost a good deal of his as Queen Rombai Barni has been hav- shape. • Doses of physic, trimming of the toe nails, or application ranch at Moro, where they- will surance as a detective since Judge Ing a great time shopping In New Close suspended sentence on him In of linatnent will not help the condition until the primary cause of turn 30 cent wheat into $60 00 Westchester county court, where the . York, purchasing quantities of femin ine gear, especially hosiery and foot beef steers young man had pleaded guilty of un wear. She has the reputation of be- illness, the backbone, is put in health. R. D a Baldwin of Los Angeles, lawful entry. Ing the prettiest woman of all the “You ought,” Judge Close advised Far East’s royalty. „ is at the Peters ranch this him, “to tell your professor of detec- HOW TO REDUCE. visiting his wife who has been tology—or whatever the science Is JR HUBERT WILKINS and his One of the first requisites to intelligent tax : educiiop is a thor employed there for over a year. called—that he might include In the weary crew managed to get the course a few definitions of whqt con submarine Nautilus into the harbor of Mrs. Mrs. Baldwin is a sister of ough knowledge of the costs, government and what- is purchased stitutes a felony.” Cork, Ireland, after its stormy voyage Grover Young. James Homer Wood is twenty-one across the Atlantic. The commander with the money expended. This was shown last fail when the P. N. Lemmon was a Sherman years old. He lives in Peekskill and said that after the batteries were re Sherman County Tax Reduction League began its operations. works as a printer In Ossining. He county visitor again this week also sings baritone In a church choir charged he would proceed to Englatflf Several times at the budget meeting spokesmen for the'league from his home near Albany. in Peekskill, but James Homer Wood for other repairs, and that he hoped to reach the North pole, by the sub-Ice - arose to inquire what certain appropriations were used for only to He looked ove5* his place near demands more of life than a place route, in two months. either at a linotype machine or in a The mishaps and delay suffered by^ quietly sit down when their question was explained by the mem Klondike Monday and was here church choir. the Wlllrins expedition led Dr. Hugo to see his ranch south of town bers of the court. Tax reduction without complete information He Craves Mystery. Eckener to abandon his plan for a Tuesday. He sees no satlb factory career In meeting between .the Graf Zeppelin can not be long satisfactory. either vocation. He craves mystery, and the Nautilus at the pole. The The chart printed on another page of this issue of the Sherman - S. Smith, a shoe cobbler from excitement, peril, the joy of living dirigible will make a six-day cruise California, stopped here last which comes to the man hunter who into Arctic regions In July on a scl- County Journal gives a very complete picture of the school receipts week and unpacked his last and mingles In his being the cold faculty en’tlflc mission. and expenses of the county for the pastyear. With.this chart it awl in the house owned by H. A, of reason, the ardent, thrill of the wight davis , chase, and the supreme courage of the is possible for every one interested ip schools, either as a director Sommer back of the Fields gar capture. governor general In other words, James Ho - or parent, to see what use is made of the tax money spent by the age. He expects to remain in mer Wood felt in his soul that he had of the Philippines, has had enough of the makings of a remarkable detec- definitely. schools of the county. . * that difficult and tive^ C. M. Plyler, who one time cut thankless Job and has About six months ago he enrolled Even the casual reader will observe that the larger schools are for a correspondency course In de notified the adminis able to educate their children with a much lower cost per child the hair of this town in the day tecting. Every week a questionnaire tration in Washington time and showed it pictures than is possible where only two or three children of school age are that seemed to move at night, was mailed to him, which he answered that he would like to quit as soon as Presi with painstaking thoroughness which in the district. was here one day this week from won commendation from the Institu dent Hoover can con fill the post. Mt. Pleasant, Utah, where he tion of learning In which he was a veniently He says merely that student. He also carefully omitted to Dwight Davis ' BOYS. conducts a picture house. he desires to take up strove his upper lip and attended all motion picture shows which gave again his residence in the United The word goes around town these days, I he boys are bother * Cliff Gilpin, of the Gilpin the him an opportunity of studying the States. The knowledge spreading through ing things again,” and house holders lock up their homes carefully Truck Line, dropped his truck stage detective In action. through the planking back of the Most encouraging reports came from ^official circles that Mr. Davis has of whenever they leave for fear their possessions will be molested be Dillinger building Monday night hls Instructor, who said that James fered his resignation has already pro fore they return. Business houses may be pillaged of the objects and partly into the basement. Homer Wood was displaying an as duced booms for two men ss candi They are tounding aptitude for the profession I dates for his position. dear to childish hearts unless carefully locked against the youthful Some extra power and a few and would make a name for himself j Theodore Roosevelt, governor of Porto plank put him on the level again. and for the school. This pleased the Rico, and Maj. Gen. Frank R. McCoy. marauders " young man almost ns much as did the The official expectation is that one of Some allowances are always made for the predatory spirit of The Buckley school district Indutlable mustache which was bud the two will get the pori and at pres ent Mr. Roosevelt appears to be In boys, but when it comes to actual theft or destruction of property purchased a new school buss the ding beneath his nose^ the lead. Ambition Surges Up. these generous allowances on the part of men who remember their first of the week from the Inter ITe devoted a lot of time to the mus own youth stop and the youths are condemned. It is quite likely national Harvester Co. This is tache, and by the time he got his a larger one than they had for diploma and badge last month there that when boys are young there is little difference between the the past three years and will be were few bona fide detectives who good and the one who seems destined to become bad. Both classes used to transport the children of could boast a more vigorous or more somber growth. do things that are frowned upon by the elders with good cause. The head of the detective school Michigan district as well as those himself signed the diploma sent to Boys in the predatory stage of-existence may easily get into of Buckley. James Homer Wood and wrote him a SUITS the habit of petty theft if they, are not restrained by parental con Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Taylor left personal letter In which he pointed out that while James Homer Wood trol and advice. Boys that run loose and unwatched at night and on the Portland Rose Monday was now thoroughly grounded tech boys that wander aimlessly about buildings ‘^at are temporarily evening to attend two Holiness nically as a detective. It would be ad camp meetings in Ohio after visable to undertake field work In an unoccupied quite often turn out wrong and break parent s hearts Driver is in Sherman County which they will meet their phy experimental way before attempting Towns Every A little more care on the part of parents, even though they sician Dr. Keeney-Ferris in New anything really dan*, rous. A badge came with the diploma and Monday & Thursday may have plenty already, will many times keep boys on the straight York or Boston where she is now in spite of the veiled restraint which and narrow path to respectable manhood while carelessness for the for examination and consultation the head of the college evidently strove to Impose upon his promising pnpll, by specialists there. They ex James Homer Wool felt capable of few dangerous years lead to disgrace. pect to also visit Washington D. tackling any baffling crime that came C., Chicago, and in Iowa, return along. Now that the Satus road is nearing complelion across the Col* Baffling crimes were somewhat umbia in Washington and more cars will be crossing the river to ing in September. ecarce In Peekskill Just at that time, Bank’s Word On Investments Spells Safety When in doubt about the advis ability of making an investment They have Consult your bank. means of gathering information about investments that are or dinarily denied the average man. Insist on the seal of the bank’s approval. K GRADUATE‘DICK’ LANDS IN JAIL MORO STATE BANK PRICES— Quality— Everybody Looks at Them These Days. Is Always Necessary to Satisfaction. We Have Both S D Bebbers Cleaned & Pressed —$1.00— travel on south through Oregon it is an opportune time lor the ¿ounty to erecta sign at the junction of the Highway 97, the Sher man Highway, and the Columbia River Highway to inform tour ists that the shortest, fastest, and easiest way south in Eastern Warren Norton left for Harris Oregon is through Sherman county. * burg to help with the harvest. Nurval Martin delivered a new So even the legislators do not want to meet to discuss the tax Delux Oldsmobile coupe to L. V. situation. The prospects of long hours at small pay talking heat Walton Sunday. edly in hot weather about a subject full of dynamite is not so hot, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Guyton we presume. ' and grandsons were visiting in The Dalles Monday. The only way a horse can get in the news nowadays is to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wilson are throw an actress or a prince. The days when such accidents were the parents of a baby girl born in The Dalles, July 29 as a matter of course are gone. Harvest is in full blast at Kent *’ Somehow shooting children doesn’tseem so out of charncter and wheat is making from 4 to 8 for gangster. They have done nearly everything else against pub sacks, quality good. lic decency. Ed Sanborn came up from the Kent News J however, and after a few minor In- vestlgatlons which nine to untimely ends, the graduate detective decided he had better take the advice of the college president until something turned up. It had i ncome exasperat ing to make Inquiries In a casual way about deaths which Invariably proved to be the result of nephritis, pneu monia or something equally uninterest ing and James Homer Wood gave him self seriously to thought on the sub ject of harmless field work. He recalled that there was a slot machine In a filling station not far from his home. As a detective, he knew that slot machines were illegal and as a choir singer, ho knew that they were Immoral. The slot machine, he decided, hod as few influential friends as the man-eating shark and was the logical subject for «perl- mental field work of a harmless nature such as had been suggested in the let ter he had received. Pins on Badgs, Takeo Field. t This particular «lot machine W ZIEGLER’S Quality Store GRASS VALLEY, OREGON TUM-A-LUM TICKLER Published in the Interest of the People of Grass Valley and Vicinity by The TUM-A-LUM LUMBER COPANY GRASS VALLEY, OREGON, JULY31, 1931 Vol. 31 EDITORIAL phy but he created a kt of it. The Great Lakes were first constructed to A husband may find that a «afety pin provide a water hole for Babe, the Big is okay as a substitute for a button, Blue Ox. He also dug Puget Sound but it is not so good for closing the hole and the Rocky Mountains are the dirt in the toe of (he sock.—E. 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