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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1931)
german (County Sminuii 8HERMAN COUNTY UBS14RYER* Established Nov. 2, 1888 GRASS VALLEY JOURNAL, Established Oct. 14, 1897 , tions on th« Dayton-Salem market road aro progroesing and the work la almost complete from Dayton to the Untonvale store. * Grass V alley CONSOLIDATED, MARCH 6, 1931 mailed Immediately to depositors of the defunct French & Co. bank. This was announced at The Dalles by A. A. Schramm, state superintendent of hank» as he concluded the liquidation । of th« pioneer banting inatltutlqn which closed its doors eight years ago. JY Bank’s Word Charles Potter was killed when a Mr's. Soren Hansen of Moro, grain elevator on the Alex McIntyre spent a few days here last week place near Athena collapsed, crushing A record for swift justice was made Published Every Friday at Moro, Oregon, By with friends. him to death. The wooden elevator at Condon, when Mrs. Reaths Graham Managing Editor GILES L. FRENCH and Mrs. Elisabeth Horsey were ar F. L. Stradley and family re was filled with wheat rested on a charge of manufacture The Llbbr McNeill 4k Libby can - Entere«I as second-clas» matter at Ute oaloifn-v^at Muro, Oregon, under Act of turned the first of the week fron nery at The Dalles has announced it and aale of intoxicating liqquor, pled Congress of March 8, 1879. • a trip to Portland. would start the packing of Bartlett guilty, were sentenced in justice court Mr. and Mrs. A. Conklin Buck pears about August 15. Fruit deliv to six months in the county jail and «UBSCRIPTION KATES-PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. ley from Tygh Valley, were via eries will be made from Hood River were paroled within ten minutes’ time. One Year............................. /....................................... $1 50 and Yakima. Th« Traffic association, composed itors here last Sunday. Six Mon thè...................... 1 00 of private and cooperative fruit ship The logging camp of the Western Dr. F. Chick of Hood River. Lumber company at Westfir will re pers of th« Hood River valley, have [ was here Sunday to visit will sume August 13, it was announced by set the wage scale to be paid in the FRIDAY, AUGUST ’ 7. 1931. the J. H. Wilt family. . valley during the present fruit season W. N. Ferrin, manager. The camp has been closed down since a few days as follows: General orchard work, 25 Mrs Mrs. Morse, mother of COOPERATORS MUST COOPERATE. cents an hour; picking apples and before July 4. Arne Annala, is here for a few pears, 25 cents an hour; packing, 4 Members of the state fair board Ever since the war the farmers have clammored for govern days with her daughter.- cents a box; warehouse labor, 25 to have decided that this yen's fair will ment relief from the lowered prices of farm products which fol- Mrs. J. S. Newcomb spent the be kept open eight days including two SO cents an hour. This is the lowest wag« scale fixed in the valley since - lowed the international conflict. Th* federal government prepared week end in Wasco with het Sundsys. It Is hoped that an eight-day the fruit industry became a factor fair will wipe out the financial deficit .• such a law and passed it whereby the Farm Board came into being. daughter, Mrs. Wayland Weld. there. ' * created last year Rachael Poley is leaving Fri Deposits in the 215 state and nation Of course the plan didn’t suit all the farmers. No plan would The first carload of pears to be day for Portland where the will shipped from the Rogue valley this al banks of Oregon totaling 9278,269. visit friends and relatives for a season left M«dford recently en route 405.61 st the time of the last call on Two years ago the government agenoiee atarted by- the Farm June 30 hady practically recovered to the Chicago markets. The car was week or so. from the slump recorded during the of Bartletts. Th« pears .were of good , Q9Qney an wheat at a high eupugh price to hold the Miss Nadine King returned to six« and quality. first few months of 1930 and were ap Jt would have droppérf Tó 'bt from fifteen to Portland Tuesday after spending proximately the same aa those report An interesting experiment is being . • thirty cents: ‘-They did it to save banks and fatmerr^from going a few weeks with relatives in carried on at the E. H. Hall ranch in ed at the time of the December 31 tell, according to A. A. Schramm, state Powell butt« diatrict. On a three-acre flat broke in one-fell smash. As a result wheat farmers have had Grass Valley. superintendent of banking. An In Dr. Poley removed the tonsils plot of ground 47 varieties of alfalfa crease of more than 97,000,000 is ‘"'• •'two year« preparation for the thirty-five and forty cent price they has been planted and the outcome is shown in deposits over the figures from Donald Olds last Monday being watched closely. * are forced to take at present. for the March 25 call. and from Betty Lou Olds Wed Lower by one foot than it was a Bankers freely admit that had the price dropped to forty cents nesday morning. year-ago, the Columbia river stood - In 1929 they would have been unable to stand the shock. 1 he Roy Harbin, a former resident at the 9.5-foot mark at The DaUes. Farm Board was criticised for buying the wheat at the time. They of Kent but now making hia Last year a record low stage was are criticised now that they want to sell it. It was said that the home in Eugene, was seen on reached, and sandbars were revealed that never before were seen. Farm Board by holding wheat, was depressing the market as the the streets here Tuesday. , The Mount Angel Co-operative WOOD FOR SALE OR TRADE— wheat was Hot used up. Now it is said that they are depressing " M. 'C. Davis end family of creamery, in its semi annual report for body fir wood., delivered at* your the first six months in 1931, Show an Good ’ ranch. Will take grain, livestock, wool, .. the market by selling wheat. Like the old saying they are Portland, drove through town Increase of 60 per cent in number of or pelts in exchange C. E. Tuesday on his way to his ranch pounds of butter manufactured by the hides, ‘‘damned if they do and damned if they don’t.” - — * phone ihone 172. Corn, White Salmon, Wash, < to When the Fsrm’Board was holding up the price of American now farmed by D. L. Reynolds. creamery, over the same period last Or leave orders at Journal office. year. F. A. Marlin was here the first IF YOU have anything for sale or if -wheat they were criticised for meddling with the market and it was One man was killed outright, two you want to buy something, say it of the week to adjust the loss on intimated that they were actually holding the price of wheat the W. F. Schilling house east of severely burned and four others suf- , through the Sherman County Journal’s Everybody Looks at Them’These Days. down. When they stopped this practice a month ago the wheat town that was burned last week. fered great shook near Freewater, classified column. when* the arm of a hay derrick they [ ' market dropped down-to the world level they were criticised for Mrs. Mat Simon and two girls. were moving* collided with a high ten Agnes and Delores, left Tuesday sion wire. Leo Lawson, 55, a widower ** letting the price drop. morning for Portland where they with two grown daughters, was killed In the first place the whole structure of Farm Board and at when he took hold of the arm of the Is Always Necessary to Satisfaction. tending organizations was.set up by the ‘government to provide a. will visit relatives for a few derrick in an endeavor to free it from the wire. means whereby the farmers could cooperatively1 market their crops days. The L D. Pike and the C. W? In pursuance further of Its campaign . and make whatever savings that practice would bestow. As soon SUITS Fields families were swimming of economy, the Coos county court has as the different organizations of farmers4earn to handle these prob at the mouth of the John Day made an order allowing but 1200 as ex- 1 lems themselves they will not need the Farm Board and it may be river last Sunday during the hot? penses for making the county’s Exhibit at the state fair next fall, whereas the withdrawn. If it happens thaf the farmers do not wish to cooper weather. - ' sum of |400 has heretofore* been al— f Driver is in Sherman County R J. Brannon is taking the lowed. ate and lend no assistance to the pian soil fails, they wHI then go Towns Every GRASS VALLEY. OREGON place of J. S. Taylor at the O. Officials of the Pendleton Round-up back to the old competitive system that they have been cursing Monday & Thursday W. R. R. & N. depot while Mr. are planning a new feature for this - linee “thè memory of modern man begins. , Taylor and wife are on their va year. A group of from 50 to 60 girl Whether the Farm Board continues or not there will always be cation in the east. riders will be employed to act as greeters for trains and auto caravans a surplus wheat as long as more is grown than is consumed. It Mrs. Estelle Hartley left Sat and to ride in the paradc-r to give Whan truck - will be easier for the farmer iqbavusome of our surplus sold to urday night for a short trip to them color. Complete organisation of the Colum Germany or China through the central selling agency of the board Jefferson where she will visit. E. H. FULLER bia county chamber of commerce was Mr. Hartley returned Sunday Our Experience than by individua Is who are interested more in the profits of the made, when representative» from Our Service after driving down with his Your Satisfaction Scappoose, Rainier, Vernonia, Clats transaction than in the welfare of the persons who are raising family. kanie and St. Helens met at St. Hel wheat. Mrs. George Wilcox and child ens recently. Farmers, if co iperati H k be successful at all, must stop ren, Misses Martha Hodgkins About 450 cars of celery, of which this practice of begging for so n • sort of .an organization for years and Marjorie Blake attended the 200 will be graded and inspected by YOUNGEST COMMISSION FIRM AT UNION STOCK YARDS, ' until it is given them and then tearing itup until it disbands in dis swimming lessons at Stiles on an expert, will be ahipped out of the NORTH PORTLAND. ESTABLISHED IN 1926 Lake Labish district this year, the grace. ' Cooperation must work both ways. . - , the Deschutes last Tuesday state department of agriculture has morning. announced. Don Kelly, 17.. drowned in Notwithstanding that the Umpqua THAT HARD WINTER. Portland, was a son of Mr. and ▼alley cantaloupe acreage is only We have over 3000 Satisfied Customers. - ' “Il’s going to be a hard winter,” we hear on every hand. The Mrs. Claris Kelly. Claris at about half as large as last year the There's a reason. philosopher on the »Vest corner, the traveling salesman on hia tended school here many years crop will be as heavy. Wesley Wil Consign Your Livestock to Us. liams has 200 acres this year which round, the farmer preparing against that very possibility, all make Ugo, during the reign of Profes- is the bulk of the acreage. The acre ‘Vs the Price that Counts. -- the same prophesy. ‘ So it may be stated with most absolute cer sor White- age last year was 400 acres. A gas well has been struck on the tainty that a hard winter is looked for in all^Quartera. Rev J. N. Boise and family Jack Moffitt ranch about eight miles But the very fact that it is looked for with such surety may be have moved into the Baker house south of Lakeview. The gas was r very good reason why it will not be so bad as prophesied. The from Prineville and will remain struck at a depth of 100 feet while extra men who were needed to harvest the wheat crop this during the winter. Rev Boise s the crew was drilling for water. TheM> family consists of a wife and well has thrown mud and water at year have a different outlook toward their wages than is common three children of high school age. intervals to a height of 20 feet. with the floating laborer* In more halcyon days they were wont He wifi preach in the Baptist Eugene Daud ell, 11. of Roseburg, was Injured critically when struck by OREGON S to spend their pay in what, in retrospect, seem to have been rioP church. a flying buxx saw. The boy was on CONTINUED PROGRESS^ ou« conduct whereas now they are most circumspect in their handl his grandfather's farm on South Deer creek watching woodcutters when the • • Ing hard earned cash. Gaines of poker and dice are not spoken of 1$ DEPE N DENT UPON circular saw flew off the mandrel. He in their conversation and inquiries as to where Ihey could get pur- was cut on the face, arms and legs. ITS RAILROADS chase fire water have been conspicious by their absence. They are Gold Beach citizens will hold a three celebration on the Labor day hol saving their money and they meekly work the long hours of Mrs. A. A. Dunlap left Tues day idays as a prelude to the big celebra harvest time without complaints that might lose them their jobs. day for Corvallis to attend the tion which will be held there next May This Serious situation toward lifn on the part of what is usual American Legion convention. or June marking the formal dedlca ly prafbhopper element must come from the repeated remarks Mi*. Dunlap left immediately tlon of the 1600,000 bridge spanning the Rogue, which Is now under con about’the hardness of the coming snow season and shows that after the county court session struction. Wednesday. Harvesting of heed peas, one of the preparation Is being made for it newer crops in tli® Silverton vicinity, These are not the only people who are preparing. Farmers Is under way. The SO-acre area of are getting ready also for a period of smaller incomes. Soon the Henry, Silas and Samuel Torvend in the Central Howell district has been fall will come and we have no Hesitancy in predicting, that it wilt harvested and «old. Fifteen acres of be the greatest flour storing, hog butchering, calf slaughtei ing, peas of Victor Madsen have been cut ¿■IL............. ; - 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. VMM« MORO STATE BANK PRICES“ ^ebberS Quality— We Have Both Cleaned & Pressed —$1.00— ZIEGLER’S Quality Store Albright Commission CO. Kent News I Union Pacific | Employees Market for OREGON STATE NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST OREGON fruit canning time for many years The farmer has a great advantage of his city brother when il Principal Events of the Week Assembled for Information comes to supplying his physiral>ai.M and he knows it. He will With • of Our Readers. make u«,of his stock at hand to «« r his midwinter table. and are drying. As a possible icult of depression in other lines, The Dalles residents who are Interested in mining in the Ochoco mountains between Mitchell and Prineville, report an unusual activity nd Lutter and the brindle cow ’ s the brindle cow to furnish milk a in prospecting there for quicksilver? Three hundred and fifty Chinese calf U> tarnish meat aqd Jhe pen fu I of shote® to make into eaus- Several mines have been established pheasants from the state game farm » on a paying basis. age an I lard and Kami. fie figures himself «nd family as setting have been liberated between Eugene AU hitching rings in The Dalles city and Coburg. Father p’ el ty. sidewalks will be removed at once by Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Barnum of Eu j the winter may not be so hard »alter ad with everybody ex order of the city council. These relics gene celebrated their 60th wedding of an age when horses were tied while Cepting the worst and ready. . dWIversary recently, when they en farmers did th^ir shopping were con tertained 25 relatives and friends. demned when a woman tourist caught Governor Meier raised State purchasing .agent Eif.zigVaalary Taxpayers from all over Curry coun her heel in one of the rings and barely from $1000 m $7000 pef year because he had reduced expenses ty met in the courtroom at Gold Beach averted a bad fall. »recently tor the purpose of organising With the Increased toll that is be r btU—how. 7' ä^^ur^tounty Taxpayers’ league. / With everything dropping Eipzig cc ing taken by the red spider in Hood A larga forco of workmeù,"àre en River valley fruit, the estimates sre about thf taxpayer? - • gaged In painting and repkiring the now reduced to 40 per cent of last Portland is in the mils» of a Ian I ibwinjf with milk and we building of the Tillamook County Fair year's crop. Thu red spider so dam association. The fair will b^*eld on ages the leave» that no plant food suppose some honey. Aho has «umeof the other qualifications of August 26-29. can be stored. The leaves turn yellow and tease to function. - The Yamhill county oiling opera- th? original land about which this was said. ‘ S a«»» M U nion PACIFIC employees in Oregon were paid $9,147,094 in «alaries and waf.« dnr- [„<, 1930. More than three thoneand four hun dred familiee, a total of 20,719 people, received their support from Union Pacific. Think what that mean, to Oregon', home market - to the development of her growing Industrie»—to the consumption of her agricui- tural products. The preservation of thi. va.t home market among Union Pacific employee. *» upon the continuing pro.perity of t Xd Every .hipment made by ruck we^w. the Railroad structure and affects railroa^ employment.
