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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1931)
.■ J / german Cnimfy inumai Sharma a Caunty Observer Kat., !•••, Grau Valley journal, E«»M 169 7, Consolidated March 6, 1931. Moro, Oregon, August 21, 1931 Forty Third Year YIELD OF NURSERY PLOTS ENCOURMIHG I Funeral of Edgar Justesen ! Board of Equalization Held in Moro Sunday Meeting Announced j EQUALIZATIM BOARD MEETING DATED Grass Valley Folks Find Huckleberries BOARD OF EQUALIZATION MEETING NOTICE; r There will -be a meeting of the County Board of Equalization for; Sherman County, Oregon, at the Court House on the second Monday in September, that b^ing the 14th day of September, 1931, at Moro, Oregon, to publicly ’ examine the Assessment Rolls, correct all errors in Valuation, description of lands or other property assessed by me, and it «hall be the duty of person« inter ested to appear at thb time and place appointed. All petitions must be made in writing and verified by oath of the applicant and filed with the Board within fifteen*days from the time it is by law required to meet. . Margaret W. Peetz. * — ' —Gaunt y Assessor. 4t PETITIONS MOST BE WRITTEN »«». j r foreign countries next week. 'Texas longhorn steers have been running across the arena learning the dif ference between entrance and exit. Gayly decorated streets are meet ing places for top hands whose names are known where folks couldn’t tell the difference between a longhorn and a Holstein cow. Group at Grass Valley In Search of By Saturday night everything will be in readiness for the Pendleton Strong Air Currents Round-Up. Almost all of the con testants will be here; there will be a- bout 1050 head of horses and cattle in the barns; all equipment will be in top condition; Happy Canyon pageant will be so ready it could be presented that night instead of waiting qntil next Wednesday, and ail parade feature« will be worked out. * Other Members WjH Arrive Later To Westward Hu parade this year will Soar Above Wheatfields be at 10 a: m. the closing day of the show. The management has declared that^ it considers the lineup of contestants Since man first watclu i the birds for the show one of the greatest in navigating the air he has wished to years. And its contest horses are the emulate them we are told. Now that finest. Not since the days of No Name the aeroplane has been perfected to has the program boasted a here with the stage where'men cun circumnav as clean a record of thrown ridefs as igate the world in a few d:t>s there that of Midnight who heads the buck are some who hold that a simpler and lighter craft is more birdlike. Some • ing list. e First of the Indian tepees will rise of these people are in^herniun coun on the Round-Up grounds the latter ty this week practicing with their part of the week. By Monday the strange wid<5 wings. Ten members of the Portland' villiage will have a population of up Glider.Club in search of lifting winds wards of 2000. All this activity is working.Pendle and wide,landing spaces came here ton up to a high pitch of excitement. last Monday and camped at, Grass The town can hardly wait until 1:30 < Vplh y. There are six men and four p. m. next Thursday when a bomb I women in the party that take wing explodes, the La Grande, Ore., band and glide for varying distances. There is a nationaL glidar a^cia- plays the Star Spangled Banner and the 22d annual ftouhd-Un has started. tion, of which the Portland dui» is a 1 branch. The members are striving for first, second or third, degree Children Contract I licences which show their hours in the . Tuberculosis, in Homes 'lii/bo"a ‘heir motort™ craft, it • is for this purpose_that the Portland gliders are here.. Gliders are small compared to the Further indications of the need for ordinary' aeroplane. There are two the protection of young children wings covered much like those of the «gainst infection with tuberculosis by- powered machines and a fuselage their parents and others is given in with the controls in the cockpit. figures released today by the Oregon They are launched into >the air by Tuberculosis Association which shaw means of a stout rubber cord called that during the past three ln^Ytn in I a shock cord.- The machine is held periods, 335 housewives and house until thg cord is tight then allowed to keepers have been treated for the fly into the wind until the hook loos disease at the state tuberculosis hos ens and it is free to soar on the air pitals. School teachers numbered 1?T currents or glide to the ground de- . “These figures are taken from the pending on the strength of the wind last three biennial reports of the or the ability of tho operator. state board of control, and show that Some rather long flights have been in addition to the above, 93 farmers made with gliders. Qne that ac|iiev- ' and 145 laborers received treatment ed sonic fame Sias in Hawaii where a at these institutions. glider stayed in the air for over “But the 188 patients classified as sixteen luiur^ Portland gliders have" students, most of them in their ‘teens not been able to remain aloft for any arid under, have not been in all the such., length of time but they have highways and byways of life. They stayed up for several minutes. live chiefly at home, spending many The theory of gliding is different hours at school as well. Their, in than Hying for tljtfre is no power to fection was, therefore, most likely make'progress* and to insure staying received from active cases at home.” in the air. The operator of a glider must depend en his knowledge of air i currents and his ability to judge each little gust of air and take advantage of its lifting power to maintain his balance an<l akitud*>. It is said to be very exciting and interesting and it must be said for the gliders in Sher Hugh Chrisman was in Wasco on man county at present that they un business Thursday, doubtedly get quite a kick out of iL Frank Peddicord of Albany is at As many of them as possible ob- the A. B^ Potter home visiting and re- ; tained vacations at the same time and I are spending it here. Others will ar- newing old timq acquaintances. A. R. McCall was a Portland visi I rive’ within ihe next few days to try ■ their luck and test their ability. tor Tuesday and Wednesday. The club is led by George Howe, Mrs. Emil Herriman of The Dalles who is president, Phil Zellar is sec is visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. retary. Others beside the officers in H. Beardsley. th group who are trying Sherman County air currents are: Mrs. Howe Miss Edna Shepardson and Miss and three children, Mrs. Zellar, Fred Gladys McIntyre of Baker were week end visitors at the W. C. Harper Howard, and Mrs. Howard, James Yokell, Cecil Lenox, and John Peter home. son and Mrs. Peterson. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Harper and son Continued on Page t’our. GLIDER CLUB COMES HERE FOR PRACTICE The funeral of Edgar Justesen, Tales of a huckleberry patch who was killed in a truck wreck near thirty five miles Jong and of berries Hood River, was held in the Presby ; terian crurch last Sunday afternoon Cumty Judge, Chrk aid Assessor half inch in diameter are floating a- Hybrids Bred On Station Lead All round Grass Valley this week since at two o’clock with Rev. W. B. Knox, the return of those families that went Check Atttssments Wheats of the Methodist church in The Dalles after that delicacy in the mountains preaching the sermon. back of White Salmon. The deceased was born in Nebras According to information given to ka and came to Oregon when a young them by the ranger in charge of boy when his parents decided to move registration there were 2000 white west. After a few years in the -people in the reserve as well as 1700 Willamette valley they moved to not so white, although it may be as Sherman county and settled near Petitioner« Have Fifteen Days Time To sumed when the heat of berry patches Plots at Condon, Cnher, Moro, Ken^ Kent where the family home has been in general is taken into consideration, and Waten County Combined since that time. that there was more difficulty in tell After finishing school in Kent Ed ing the whites from the Indians when gar went to California and had been According to mi announcement they came out than when they went How much would it be worth to working for the Asbury company for published in this week’s issue of the in. . * Sherman couhty to have developed several yean in that state before Sherman County -Journal by Mrs. * Those taking the trip from Grass for it« farmers a wheat that would coming to Portland this spring. It Margaret Paets, county assessor, the Valley were: Mr. and Mrs. J. W. yield two bushel« more per acre thin was while driving a truck for that board of equalization will begin its Hays, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Feely and do tj»e wheats grown at present? If company that he met his death in an sessions on the 14th day of Septem children; Mr. and Mrs. Gus Smith our average production/ is twenty accident. ber which is the second Monday in and Mrs. Arch Zehner; Mr. and Mrs. bushels a two bushel increase would Pull bearers were old friends of that month. Gus Engstrom and Mr., and Mrs. be ten per cent. Quité little raise Wasco’s Fall Library Kent; I. E. Wilson, J. L. Davis, C. B. * It is the duty of that board to in Herman Schilling and family. They in income, that. * Andrews, C. B. Gregg, Amandus von spect the assessor”« books for the brought home a goodly supply' of ■ Which is all apropos to the report Festival Suspended Bontel and Frank Haynes. Inter year and equalise all assessments be huckleberries. of the average wheat yields of the ment was made in the Odd Fellows tween holders of property in the various nursery plots maintained by cemetery at Moro. county. The board consists of the the experiment station in this county The conservative trend of the day Surviving member« of the family county judge, the county clerk and Water Bills Must Be and the nearby counties. Turkey red was again manifest, when the mem are: four brothen; Arthur who farms the assessor, which makes the per made about 9 bushels in fields inrthis bers of the Wasco Library Board the home ranch east of Kent; Theo , Paid Says Council sonnel in this county George Potter, county and about 10 in the nursery met last Tuesday and voted to sus dore, a garage owner ‘of Portland; of Klondike, George .Vintin, of Moro plots. Several hybrid varieties that pend for this year, their Annual Harry, of Milton; and Roy, also a and Mrs. Margaret Peetz, of Moro. have been developed on the station Library Festival. driver for the Asbury company lo The city council met , Tuesday Petitions to the board must be in have made better than 17 bushels and Altho the action taken by the board cated in Portland. The parents, Mr. writing and must be signed by the night in regular session and discussed this is not an accidental yield for they needs no explanation, it is announced and Mrs. Fred Justesen still living on attorney. the city’s problems. The bills which — /i owner of the property or * his avbvinuj, have been doing it since 1924 or since with regret, for the Festival is unique the farm near Kent, Mrs. Soren Han- These petitions must be in the the city had contracted during the the nursery plots have been estab in its being our one community gath sen of Moro, an aunt, and Ove and hands of the board within 15 ^ays past month were ordered paid and it lished. ering and for the last eight years has Elmer Hansen and Mrs. R. P. Bris from the date set for the beginning was decided to have the fire hydrants •A wheat, which a horse breeder met gratifying success ,and loyal bane pf Moro and George Hansen of of the session. This year the end of tested within the following week might describe as sired by Arcadian support. Vancouver, Wh., and Dr. Viggo the period of filing complaints will and have them painted a bright red by Hard Federation and bearing the However the efficiency of the li Häufelt, a cousin of Portland. to conform to the color scheme of be September 29th. prosaic title of No. 979, has led the brary will not »be impared and new The board conducts their hearings other fire fighting apparatus. field in the production derby for the books will be added from time to Due to the need of the city to cok for thirty days from the second Mon Game Laws A Little past several years. This year with - ------------------- —j- day in September or for fifteen days lect its water accounts promptly the the ' same disadvantages as other The Board wishes to thank the com- was ordered to collect such Different This Year after the time for complaints to be marshall wheats it made an average of 18.7 munity for their generous support of bills within a reasonable tim^ or to filed which gives them plenty of time bushels per acre on the plots at Moro, pagt festivals and hold forth the hope i in case many objections*are made to discontinue service to water users. Kent,. Culver, - Condon and one in that these times may pass and be re-’ Some change has been made in the as*eMm®nta. Wasco county.. | placed by a more secure feeling when game lAws in the past year that make 1 The board has the power to correct i Of the Turkey wheat in the plots play times are mòre appropriate. hunting for deer and pheasants a an^ *to®»sinent and -may raise or Unemployment Group Blackhull, a good drouth resistant little different than formerly. Where- lower them »» seem« equitable. In variety, made the best average with Named For County as the usual date for the opening of case raise a tax payer s valua- 14.1 bushels per acre. the deer season has been September t*00. they must give him notice of There is one objection to this :--------- county. Through knowledge gained 15th it is now moved up five days 8UC^ action. They pet that all prop- ■ wheat from the farmer’s point of; The governor has appointed the in this way Mr. Stephens is attempt to. the 20th. The season deer will ^7 °n the rolls and that none of view and this- is the fact that it is not , unemployment committe for Sher ing. to find a wheat that will be sat close on October 25th. One hunter । ** taxed twice. resistant to smut and must be care isfactory to gowers in the entire can kill two Columbian blacktail deer i Any taxpayer who feels that he has man county ‘ as announced several fully treated before seeding. There wheat district in which he is testing. or ofie mule or'one white tailed- deer been unjustly treated by the equali days ago. -On this committee he has are several of these hybrid wheats To a great extent the same problems during any one season which is the zation board may appeal to the cir placed three men in each county, the made by crossing Hard Federation confront wheat growers in the time honored regulation, but now the cuit court of that county and his pe- county judge, a merchant and a bank with Arcadian and Forty Fold and counties near the home station. A rules expressly state that “both deer tition will be judged at the next term er. while they . all * yield better than the wheat .... » n ohi„ In this county George Potter, J. C. to be successfull must be able tags must be attached to mule deer of court. average wheats No. 979 has been the Freeman and Earl Jones were chosen. to grow with a small amount of mois- or white tailed deer” which takes care ( best in the tests so far. They have been provided, with blanks ture, must stand the cold of hard of some deer tags not heretofore Another cross that is smut resist which must be filled out by men wish winters and the heat of hot summers accounted for. Businas« on Credit ' ant and yet gives good yields is'No. ing to work this winter at the work ’■De best use you kin make of and should be more or less resistant Pheasant hunting has been' scatter- 1003, a hybrid of Hard Federation the state expects to provide. to smut,,as that is the wheat djsease ed over several weeks of two or three ' 8pfl7 TWe/ «ahi t noie Bben, "Is and White Odessa. This year it made workin on de house au in de garden most prevalent in this territory. hunting days each but this year the 13.8 which was enough tp place it No variety is distributed to farmers, season will be from October 15th to foli yohae’f regardless of de fact dat in the first twenty of wheats tested. maybe you hasn't much money and until it has shown .to be better than October 31st except in those counties «in' got de name of bein’ very good Pendleton All Ready It usually is higher.» in the ranking the ordinary wheats in some essential where the season is closed for the en pay. It'« yob only chance of doin’ than this figure would indicate, how For Round-Up Crowds characteristic. Sometime«' they do tire year. Four birds can be taken businer.s on credit."—Washington Star. ever. The nurseries where these tests are not do so well under field conditions, in any one day or eight in any seven but usually they maintain their rep consecutive days and it is unlawful made are average tracts of land PENDLETON, Ore., August 21. loaned to the experlnirtn^‘¡Stations by utation .and provide another means to take more than one female Chinese (Special.)—Things are happening this for farmers to increase their incomes pheasant during any seven consecu farmers for the purpose of just such week at the Pendleton Round-Up by producing more for the same ex- tive days. ’ ‘ A experiments as the ^b°ve. grounds that are anticipatory of the pense. * * • 4- * > There is one in each wheat growing DATE M \X. MIN. 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Total for week 0.00 (of the states of the Union and several From the Moro Observer of August The melancholy days have come, 19th, 1892. the saddest of the year, when one Grass Valley folks have about fin must take hia whiskey straight and ished heading. Crops are averaging leave off Lager beer—Miles Bigger from 7 to 10 bushels per acre in that staff. y neighborhood. This harvest more than any for The Peoples party met at Moro "yearg pfoves that summerfallowing is with A. C. Huff in the chair and J. A. the surest way to raise a wheat crop.. Armstrong as secretary. Precinct Hon. W; H. Moore came within an chairman were appointed as ¡follow«: inch of death Tuesday from the bullet Grass Valley, O. P. King-/Bigelow, H^ E. Everett; Moro, J.' A. Armstrong; of a shot fii^d in thé Blue Barn loft Monkland, W. V. Johnson; Kent, A. C. to scare pigeops. In glancing it cross Bennet; Wasco, Henry Sexton. W. J. ed the Main street passing close to Peddicord delivered a lengthy and Mr. Moore’s head and silivered the A study of the census figures._of farm just about the same number as glass in the bank front. interesting address. several counties of the state shows most of the wheat growing coun les. From the Sherman County Obser that tho pdfiulation« per farm of Yamhill county, one of t o an"Cr Frank Sayrs had some English ver of August 23rd, 1912. • Mole wheat that averaged 22 bushel« counties having different types of' agricultural counties of the state has . agriculture ............... does not* vary so much in a population of 22,036 and has 2690 A. W. Woods sold 2000 bushels of per acre. It is a winter wheat, the spite of the difference in density of farms for an average of 8.« berry is good and plump,and Mr. his wheat crop to W. W. M. Co., at Sayrs has been offered |1.50 per 71 cents per bushel. population. Per Yarm when the total population is bushel for it. The seed was furnished Sherman county has 369 farms 1 considered. Farms there average 107 A lot of old farmers just happened that average in size 1179 »creatami each. Josephine county has a diff by R. J. Ginn. in at the office of W. H. Moore, R. J. has a total population of 2978 or erent sort of agriculture and^yet its Prbf. Tr C. i^Iefeee organized a Ginn and Mr. Coleman, Friday and it about 8 persons per farm when the population per farm does not vary singing class in Moro la«t Tuesday looked good to us to see them. There entire population of the' county is much from the general average. With evening. We hope the citizens will were: N. W. Thompson, Jack Thomp taken, into consideration. Morrow 1164 farms of an average size of 91 take a lively interest in -it as good son, H. S. McDaniel, Henry Myers all with 628 farms averaging 1928 acres acresand a population of 11,498 vocal music is a,, necessity Jn every tillicums of the days when Good Old and a population of 4941 has 7.8 per-^ they have 9.9 persons per farm. Sherman county was considered the civilized community. This compilation does not take sons per farmN Gilliam has 353 Into consideration any cities th%t A crop resume say« that many best place in the world for the t in- farms, 3467 people for an average of dustrous poor man to get a start; and farmers will have 12 to 15 bushels 9.8 person« per farm‘of 1965 acres. may be within the counties but as all here each got a good one, but they and some who expected nothing will Jefferson county has 335 farms of an of these counties are agricultural it thought to; do better elsewhere; we have from 5 to 10 bushels. average size of 1-852 acres. With a may be assumed that the' income of are here to welcome them back. population of 2291 and she has 6.8 the county is to. a lage extent derived From the Moro Observer of August Business firms in Moro are on the persona on each farm ns an average. from the farm land. 22nd, 1902. ■ ■ \ move. B. F. Peetz moves across the ■ Now to conaid.r other countie.. The m™, of the four whent pro- N. Hansen, Monkland’« popular hall to his former office; Attorney where nn entirely different »rt of duoin» eountle. h.ve ne.rly 1800 merchant, waa j^ .busiheM in Mot? Saunders to4»«»-the office vacated by farmin» ia pnetieed. Polk county acre, in them are wpport.n» juM a. . saMaMA — »«fa w /aT nAAniA as Mr. Peetz formerly occupied by W, C. last week. s has 1882 farm« containing an nver- bout ----- the same number of people as »ge of 130 .erf. each an,I a total do the farms of th. weaUrn O««on Half a ton of neat castings were Bryant and I. W. Ross will open a turned out at the Moro Foundry, jewelry store in the place vacated by I population of 16,858 or 9 persons per counties that average about 110 aerea I apiece. Mr. Saunders, Monday.,, FIVE NURSERIES MAINTH A No. 41 WEATHER REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING AUGUST 19 Old Time News For Old Time Readers Recalls Many Events Right About i ace at the Fair MEN ANO WOMEN BOTH GLIDE Wasco Farms Support About Same Number One Place As Another _ — a À 5 <
