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cling about them and giving all Indica |
Residents of the Bachelor Flat com
taunlty near St. Helens -have set an
♦glia the figures on the dial and
tiona of a desire to chew off a limb. example as to hpw to save money on
\ ^Ijerman Coimtg Journal1
open the cooker before all the The fish was described a» a “man-eat
school expense. Instead of hiring
SHERMAN CoUNTY OBSERVER, Futa bl is hod Nov. 2, 1888
steam had esesped. The burns ing sturgeon,” but since this fish has someone to clean and repair the school
GRASS VALLEY JOURNAL, Established Oct 14, 1897
are below her knees as the cook- a sucker mouth, it la doubtful it U house before the opening of school,
CONSOLIDATED, MARCH 6, 1931
as has been dona previously, 18 wo
L, R. French left Sunday for er was setting on the floor when could do much chewinx
A feature of the St. Helens day at men of the district went to the school
Portland on a short business trip. the lid was loosened.
the Columbia county fair, September and put in a full day' cleaning win
Published Every Friday at Moro, Oregon, By
19, will be the wedding of some couple, dows, scrubbing tloSrs and doing other
Rodell Schassen left the first
Managing Editor of the week for his home in Port
it they can be found, to marry in pub work. Some of the men came to make
GILES L. FRENCH
lic and receive 1500 in merchandise repairs and haul away the accumulat
MARRIED
offered by the St. Helens chamber of ed rubbish.
Entered as second-class matter at the 'ostoffice, al Moro, Oregon, under Act of land.
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Mr. and Mra. Arch Zehner and
commerce. Included in the merchan
Coogreee of March 8, 1879.
dise is a complete bedroom suite and
S chilling -C oon
Don Smith and Bruce Alley are
the services of the parson.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES—PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.
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in Idaho thia week.
Last Saturday morning at nine
There’s a real gold stampede up the
One Year...................
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George Ellard waa here Tues o’clock, Mias Theresa Fern Coon,
eaat
fork of Mule creek, Curry county.
Six Months ;........... '............................................................................... .....v- 1 00 day looking after some of his
daughter of Mr, and Mrs. J. B. Prospectors are arriving daily, digging
property intesesta.
Coon, waa married to Mr. Roy for piles up „the creek and along the
FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1931.
The ^ilt and Blake families Schilling, aon of Mr. and Mrs. gulches ' and mountain sides. It la
thought there will be a bonanxa if the
enjoyed a visit from friend» jof W. F. Schilling, both of Grass vein from which the rich ore on
TRUCKS,.
Valley.
Araatra creek that yielded a fortune
Ibne over Sunday.
The ceremony was performed in the old days is rediscovered.
'Years ago too forward children were told the story of a camel.
Mrs. Josephine Parkhurst is
by Rev. S. L. Boyce of the Bap
The crop of tire weed honey In the
It went something like this: Once upon a time a sheik of the des here from Roseburg, visiting
tist
church at his home here. Timber vicinity, usually amounting to
with
her
father.
Sam
Stark,
and
ert owned a camel which he prized very highly for it was a valu
After the ceremony the young many tons, Mill be very short this
family.
able camel and carried his master many miles over the desert.
couple left for a few days camp season. Many fire weed blossoms were
Mike Bibby moved his combine ing honeymoon in the mountains Injured by an inject that pierced the
But the cornel was not always appreciative of the little kind
to the Lot Rust ranch last Satur south of Sherman county, They floral stem, and those that escaped
nesses accorded it by its master. One night as the sheik and his
Injury failed to yield nectar in a sat
day and is cutting the crop there will return and make their resi- isfactory way. It is estimated that
mount were camped in the desert a storm came up and blew the
this week.
dence on the Coon, farm a mile less than half a normal crop will be
Band about till it was most uncomfortable for the beast and un
harvested.
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,
Bernard and Russel Brace of south of Grass Valley.
The Dalles, were here Tuesday
bearable for the man. *
As a result of the Coos county cran
berry growers’ meeting In Coquille re
The man, duly eolitious for the welfare of his favorite, opened with a truck load of fruit and
cently nearly every grower of cran
Card of Thanks.
the tent and called to the camel to put his head into the tent and vegetables.
berries in that district has signed up
Helen Engstrom left the first
We wish to thank the people for membership in the Pacific Cran
keep the wind and sand from his eyes. The camel kept begging
for permission to bring a little more of his bulk into the little tent of the week for The Dalles who assisted us when our house berry exchange. Some 5000 boxes of
where she will be the guest of burned and those who have been cranberries will be raised in the bogs
until he was alii in whereupon he repaid the kindness of his master
of Coos and Curry counties this year
so kind since that time io pro
Miss Helen Hall.
and picking will start about the mid
by kicking the man out into the storm.
Dr. and Mra. Poley and Rob viding us with other equipment. dle of September.
The trucks on our highways seem to be following the lead of ert drove to Portland the last of
.* Mr. and Mrs. Claus
Misfortune followed stubbornly the
the camel in the story. The highways of Oregon were built in the week to bring Rachael home Bardenhagen.
movements of Doll Germer, 8 years
old, of Homestead recently. He suf
,
the first place by monejjraised by the sale of bonds that are se from a visit there.
fered a fractured right arm when the
R. L. Sutherland and wife,
cured by the property of the taxpayers of the state, Later ad
horse he was riding scrambled down
ditions and maintenance is now provided by gasoline and license parents of Mrs. Erma Old?, are
a mountain side, thYew him and kick
here this week visiting their'
ed him. On the way tQ-a Baker hos
tax,, paid in small proportion by the trucks,...
daughter ani.family.
J
------- pital the automobile In which he was
One truck line is reported to pay $100,0U0 per year in taxes for
riding was wrecked when It struck a
Mrs. H. H. White of Klondike,
the use of the highway system in Oregon. They will in that time came up for a short visit with . A. A. Dunlap was a visitor in bull on the highway. ., x
Moro Wednesday morning.
One word too many cost’ Ed Oxford
travel between four and five million miles on roads that cost from her daughter, Mrs.
Walter
of Brownsville the price of an auto
Frank
Sias
left
.Thursday
$5000 per mile and up to build. We do not know how many mile» Bruckerklast Saturday.
mobile license and a |10 fine at Al
morning for Forest Grove.
bany recently. Oxford had repainted
this truck line travels or what route, but it is easy to see that this
Postmaster Pike is having
Miss
Clarice
Wilson
visited
W.
his 1930 Plates so expertly that they
1100,000 will not pay a very large part of the interest, maintain- some repair work done on his
looked Just like 1931-52 plates, except
L.
Wilson
’
s
in
Rufus
over
the
house, caused by a nearly di»
ing that they bore the word “expires.”
ance or taxes on.this road bed.
asterous fire of a few days ago. week end.
The
redundance attracted the atten
The railroads, competing with the trucks for freight business,
“ Mrs. Frank Wilcox is here vis
Mrs. Henry Hampton of Van tion of a state police officer, who
have to pay taxes that make the puny sums paid by the truck
iting with relatives and friends couver, Washington, is visiting .brought Oxford to justice court.
lines look slim indeed. In this small county of Sherman they paid for a week or two. Dr. Frank relatives in Kent.
Cull pears from Medford packing
houses will be distributed free to
nearly $59,000 this year more than one half of the amount paid by and wife'are now living in New
Mr. and Mrs. J. C Wilson and needy Rogue valley families this fall
this truck line in the entire state.
berg.
•
daughter Nellie, spent the week under a plan being sponsored by the
Mail Tribune, Medford newspaper.
’ The highways of this state were ostensibly built to provide | Harold Dohys, assistant leader end in Hood Riv^r.
Under ordinary circumstances the
I
of
the
predatory
annimal
survey,
the citizens thereof a ready means of getting about and do attract
The Rebekahs of Wheatland
was in town the last of the week Lodge, No. 183, are giving a thousands of boxes of pears are
tourists to come and see our wonderland. Ariyone who travels the
thrown away. Distribution will prob
, .
j
_ checking up with trapper Alva card party the first Thursday in ably be under direction of the Red
main highways now knows that they are being used to a g*"eat ex'lg^one
tent by trucks that are presumably making plenty of money from 1 Jacob vFaaaenmiller left Mon September and will continue giv Cross and other welfare organisations.
Sweet Spanish onions, valued at ap
ing card parties on that night
th« state’s investment. It is not as it was intended to be in the Ry for ^j|ton wjth his son,
during the winter in thel. 0. 0. F. proximately 132,000, will be harvested
this fall on the East Bully Creek
beginning.
Rinhart, where he will visit and
hall.
bench, 12 miles from Vale, by M. Mat-
Now we are warned by the truck operators that if the touris recover from the worries of a
sumure and Hysaya Morinaga. They
and traveler do not like the trucks on the common highways they tropical harvest.
NCE mighty hut expect their 130 acres to average 250
can vote more taxes and build a series of fine straight roads for
Mrs. Roy Baker and son (Pate,
now fallen like sacks to the acre. This is one’of the
many another, Prof. best pieces of advertising that the
them to use.
Like the camel they are kicking their benefactors
^rtha Hodgkius
Grass Valley
Historia
The Alamo in San Antonio, Taxas,
was a FranchcMi mission bona* built
about 1722, and called Ban Antonio de
Valerio, After 17» It was sometimes
used as a fort and was renamed Fort
Alamo.
Tell T ïmb So
We all love our families, but we
don’t tell them so often enough.—
American Magazine..
Kent News
O
out into the cold and appropriating the tent.
and Mrs. Westerfield drove tv
It seems to us to be reasonable to expect the truck lines to pay byhe Dalles Monday.
enough in taxes to repair the roads they destroy and enough more
to equalize them with the touring cars. At the present time many
of the trucks pay less per mile to the state than do touring cars
owned by some farmers who travel comparatively । few miles per
^ear and that mostly on market roads that have been paid for out
their own taxes.
HIGHWAY 97
In writing of the new Status road the automobile editor of the
Oregonian makes note of the very apparent fact that this connect
ing link completes the fastest road between California pointe and
Washington. From the Yakima valley, over the mountain to Gold-
endale, across the river on the Maryhill-Biggs ferry and over the
wheat covered hills of Sherman county on through Highway 97 is
not only the fastest but the shortest and smoothest road.-
The virtues of this road are readily noted by everyone who
has occasion to travel across the state of Oregon.
It is • feenie
route. The fertile Yakima valley offers the traveler a panorama of
orchards and truck garden plots; Klickitat county has timber land
Dorothy Olds returned home
Monday with her mother and
Mrs. Pauline Wilcox.
She has
been At Oceanside with Mrs.
Johnson for the past six weeks.
Dick Huhman and wife are
gone this week on a short vaca
tion. leaving Mrs. Huhman’s sis
ter, Mary Eaton, in charge of
the hotel with James Woods as
chef.
Luke Bibby couldn’t stand the
strain in Grass Valley when Jack
Dempsey was in Portland and he
went down to see the big battle
Monday
night, leaving
Ray
Beezley to run his business,
Mrs. Lets Vawter and son, of
Medford, came up Monday to
visit, with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. James Garrett. The fruit
around Medford turned out much
as did the wheat in this section,
she saye.
Augustinas W a Id e-
maras, former dicta
tor of Lithuania, was
put on trial before a
court
martial k at
Kaunas on charges
of plotting a revolt
a year ago to over
throw the present
Joint dictatorship of
M.Waldamaras (’resident
Anthony
Smetona and Premier Jonas Tubelius.
Twenty-four of his followers were his
fellow defendants. The plot was be
trayed to the authorities by several of
Waldemaras’ adherents, all members
of the Iron Wolf organisation, and it
was expected their testimony would
result In severe sentences for those
accused. Professor Waldemaras, who
returned to Kaunas from his place of
exile near Memel to attend the trial,
said the charges were exaggerated,
which sounds like a weak defense.
There won’t be any sympathy for him
In Poland, for when he wabjn power
he was the bitter foe of th^jcountry
and of Its dictator, Marshal Pilsudski.
and diversified farms and some ^f the most picturesque scenery
out of doors may be seen as the road drops into the Columbia river
Miss Margaret Morrison, Har
gorge from the Goodnue hills; Sherman county has wheat stretch
old
Christensen, Mrs. Lane and
ing for miles on either side of the road and a view of distant
Mr.
Miller were guests at the
mountains seldom excelled; the road south goes through more orj
George Wilcox home last Sun
less open country that’.is still associated io the minds of many
day after which they left for a
travelers as the old west and is interesting for that reason.
vacation trip to Crater Lake and
The celebration for the opening of the Status road next Labor coast points.
day should be a celebration for Sherman countyjolks as well as for
Last Saturday a marriage li
cense
was issued in Portland to
those across the river. Some should, and will, attend the cere
monies fur now that the connecting roads are finished it will not Millard Eakin of Grass Valley,
be so long until a bridge is built between Biggs and Maryhill to and Miss Oma L. Davisson of
Portland. Millard is the son of
facilitate the travel that will undoubtedly take advantage of this
Mr. and Mrs. V. B Eakin and is
employed in Portland by a firm
road.
of auditors.
COOPERATE.
The fliers who have, been at-
Senator McNary says that no farm relief bill can pass the trading considerable notice from
Utfiied States congress this winter unless it has the endorment of local people for the past week or
so, left Sunday morning for
a majority of the farm organizations interested. That is sensible
their homes in Portland. They
and as it should be, for if the farmers cannot agree on a policy, spent most of their time here at
how do they expect to have one formulated for them by a legisla the Finnegin ranch where they
floated from the hills down into
tive body?
This is a warning to farm organizations to get together before the meadow.
Mrs. Mat Simon was severely
congressmens, and the time id short, and agree on a program
burned Tuesday while canning
Then if they want success they must stick together.
with a pressure cooker. She was
helping
. _ Mrs. Dean Olds and was
' If the Diedy was only^alled on to help those who help them-
using a cooker different than
islvea He would have a snap.
her own, which caused her to mis-,
evelopments in the New York
legislative Investigation of the
administration of New York city may
bring about a political feud between
Governor Roosevelt and Tammany
Hall that would have a decided effect
on the governor’s chances for the Dem-'
ocratic Presidential nomlrfhtlon. Some
of his friends believe a break with
Tammany might help rather than hin
der his cause in I hat matter and would
bring him support from other states
where the leading Democrats have
been holding aloof from the Roosevelt
boom because of fear that he was too
closely allied with Tammany. These
friends think that even If Tammnny
should turn hostile, Roosevelt could*
carry New York state against Mr.
Hoover unless there should be n great
Improvement In the economic situation
within a year.
Lending members _ of Tammany
would not discuss for publication their
attitude toward Roosevelt because
the Tammnny policy apparently Is to
avoid an open break with the gov
ernor so long as he has the state
patronage
at his disposal and remains
r__ _
a gaeMed Presidential possibility.
D
OREGON NOTES OF
GENERAL INTEREST
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Bathers in the Columbia river at a
pomt some two miles east of The
Dalles are being chased out of the
water by some kind of a vicious fish
Two cold-sober h wimmer« will teat!
fy under oath that after wading out
Jnt0 four fMt oi water, the huge fish
came bounding over thy waves, dr-
Vale project has in the estimation of
reclamation officials and merchants
of Vale._______
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RAIL ‘’PÄRES
ILE
PER
OVER
LABOR DAY
Pares apply botwoon polaM In
Oragan, Washington, l*aho,U»ah
(except east of Ogden), Neva*a,
California, Montana (west of an*
Including Butte and Havre), Wyo
ming (west of and Including
Granger), and somo points In
British Columbia. Minimum adult
fore SO cents. Children half fare.
GOING: SEPT. 3, 4, 5
RETURNING: SEPT. 14
TUM-A-LUM TICKLER
Published in the Intere.t of the People
Vicinity by The TUM-A-LUM LUMBER COM! AN'
Vol. 31
GRASS VALLEY, OREGON, AUGUST 28. 1931
Approximate
ROUND TRIP FARES
EDITORIAL.
TO DESTINATIONS
Business has turned the corner and
hs soon as we find the name of the
corner it turned we’re going down and
see it.—E. E. Gervais, editor and yard
managed.
too
MIUS
AWAY
2.16
200
MIUS
AWAY
800
1OOO
MIUS
AWAY
MIUS
AWAY
4.32 10.80 21.60
Baggage checke*.
■II cer>. In Stander* en* TourlM
Ask local agent ,
for details
UNION MCI
No. 31
FUBI.
16 in. I’ine slabs
16-in. Fir blabs
16-in. Pine Block
16 in. Fir Block
Nut med Lump and Utah Lump
Coal. Prices right. Terms Gash,
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For Sale: One No. 45 Htoner grind
For winter we think of keeping the'
er. Grind your wheat and feed it.
cold away with plenty fuel, Why not
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a
Insulate the building and cut your fuel
bill 50 per cent, which will mean an in
PAINT UP NOW,
vestment you can realise on each year.-
Fall is a good time to paint. It gets
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your house ready to with
A
little
fellow
of five years fell and
stand the winter weather,
cut his upper lip so bad that a doctor
but remenber that no paint
had to be aummoned to sew up the
ii better than it’s guaran
wound. The mother in diatresa could
tee. We absolutely guar
not refrain from aaying: “Oh, doctor,
an tee every drop of paint
we sell. Give your home
1 feel it will leave a disfiguring sear.
it’s overcoat now.
Tommy looked up into her tearful face
91 .88 gal. up. 8Oc quart up.
and said; “Never mind, mammy, my
Kalsomine 83c 5-lb package
mustache will cover U.”
Did you ever hear about the Sea U h-
W* find that many farm* ars much
man w^P waa looking for a daschound a need of storage capacity for whaat.
He wanted to get it for hi« children so Let us gtvs you a figure on wood or
they could have a dog that all could pet
«teal »torage bins or granary,
at the same tfme
will find that for small investment ysu
an save money.
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Luthgr Davi* at Wilcox ia doing
some improving with Turn-A-Lum
Have you ordered your coal?
lumber and ihinglea