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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.
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PETITIONS MOST BE WRITTEN
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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There is one in each wheat growing
DATE
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urday of next week.
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looking for one subject and get Inter
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fall in trying out the bucking horses
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Star.
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
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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
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