BHERMAN COUNTY OBSERVER, Established Nov. i, 1888
GRASS VALLEY JOURNAL, Established Oct. 14, 1887
CONSOLIDATED, MARCH A 1881
Roy Hull and Art Justesen
were In Portland the first of the
Managing Editor
SOBaCRlnlON RATES—PAYABLE IN ADVANCB.
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School Days
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
Published Every Friday at Moro, Orofoo, By
..
Travel Prints Are Talk of Town
Grass Valley
•
When the Children Slant to School
and put on Shoes and Stockings
after summer’s barefoot days
week.
'Miss Laura Poley has been
here this week recuperating from
an operation at the home of her
brother. Dr. C. L. Poley.
SHOES, STOCKINGS,
SCHOOL CLOTHES
Herman Schilling and family
M will take Barbara Walpole to Cor-1
vailis the last of the week to en-!
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, IMI.
THE DAYTON PLAN.
- Thia week the farmers of this county have had the opportunity
of hearing about another plan of relieving the wheat surplus and
The plan would not be operative
of the wheat of the United State®
hail ayr—d to the proviaioni of the contract
These aignars would be given “marketingrights to sell a part
of their wheat each year and this part would be set each year. It
ZIEGLER’S
ter 0. S. C,
Bob Poley leaves Friday for
the University of Oregon at Eu­
gene where he will continue his
education.
Mrs. Anna Buckley, of Tygh
Valley, has been here for a few
days convalesing with Mrs. Matt
Simon.
1 Phyllis Smith will attend the
I University of Oregon again this
winter instead of teaching.
GRASS VALLEY, OREGON
IIICT TUIMIA
JUu I IBIWK »
A 7 TUBE SUPER
hetrodyne
SCREEN GRID PHILCORADIO
It tsthnaled that three-quarters of the wheat raised at present
Fred Cox and family returned
cpu|d bd Bold fordomvtic use. The remainder, according to con­ from a trip to Eugene last Sun-
tract, moat be kept on the farm for “seed, feed or fuel’’ or other
usee not related to the marketing thereof. Minor detail« are • Mrs. C. W. Fields is confined
worked out in the contract but have little Wring on the main ob- to her home by an attack of
neuritis that is very troublesome.
>
This method of meeting the depreMioo conditions Bounds like
Bob and Mrs. Bob and little
it might h,v. originated with the fsrm bosrd membsrs who sdvo- Bob
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Johnson came home Monday
cate the plowing up ot every third row of cotton end curtailing the | from Oceanside where all have
flrat brought to light in Columbinl.pent * vacation. Mra Johnson
production of wheat, but it wa.
..
county. Wwhington, where the f.rmere did notchoow to join th. I has been away for over two mo-
ITH the back-to-the-clty move­
nths.
ment, which soon will be bring­
cooperative movement at all.
Robert Ragsdale is on his way to ing wandering vacationists Into an en­
1
It to pointed out by the'sponiora th.t thta it the rame tactic,
vironment of schoolroom, oilice and
La Grande where he will stay campus, cornea the urge for something
that American m.nufecturera h.ve u»ed to make their tariff oper- with hia parents this winter and stunning and thoroughly practical to
.live end that the farmer cannot receive any advantage from the I attend the Eastern Oregon Nor wear during the busy autumn days.
There is, no doubt about the answer
tariff unlera he flrat put. himself on a domestic basis or on y
era , mal School.
to this call for a chic and serviceable
tor Mie enough wheat to supply the domestic demand.
After October 1st the Grass “first” fall costume. All fashlondom
Is proclaiming the good news about
Valley
Meat Market will be on a| the dress or jacket suit made of the
It meets the approval of those fsrmera who h.ve h.d expen-
travel prints (some cull them
jnce with stock feeding «nd know th.t it is; more profitable tl.an , strictly cash basis. ( ash prices “ new
Beefsteak 22 and 25c per 4b; city prints”) which do not wrinkle or
crush and which are patterned In the
railing wheat a. a raw product. Il will be praised by thora econo-
Roast 18c; Boil Beef 12^c; Ham- most fetching colors one may ever hope
hiiata who believe that supply and demand eetabliehes the price of
berger 2 lbs. for 35c; Fork cuts to see. And are they trig looking?
They are just that. So much so that
« commodity which mean, that a great majority of the people wi 15 to 25c. Butter 36c.
to fall to yield to their Lure Is to lost
be in f.vor of the plan a. a theory. The que.tion confron mg
opportunity to 10«>k dressed at one's
The reception to the teachers an
thio plan now, aa we aee it. i. in making it popular enough .o that of the Grass Valley schools will smartest during the daytime hours.
W
The colors,of these handsome travel
farmera will immediately rally to ita aupport.
I be held in the Grange hall Fri­ prints ace planned for service at the
If time, continue along the .ame pathway they have followed day evening at 8 o’clock. Every same time that th« y reflect the rich
autumnal tone« and -tints which fas­
for the paat two year, there will be
twenty-five per cent Ie., one interested in the school is cinate The eye. They are expressed
wheat rai.ed in a few year.. Thi. ve.r the government bra and asked to attend and meet -the In terms of gay plaids, checks, novelty
strips and tweedllke effects which are
typical of the fall mode.
iounced a 12 per cent cut in acreage. Another year oL36^cent teaching force.
Almost without exception every one-
Gus
Engstrom
and
J.
W.
Shep
wheat and the cut will be greater for many farmera will be .brok ]
piece dreas has Its own jacket. Then,
find that lard were in The Dalles on busi too. they are tailored in a town way
and not producing at all. It would be encouraging to
and this adds to their swank. Cun­
ness Tuesday.
farmera were able to organise into a coheseive organu.non be-
ning details mark their styling, such
C. H. Freeman of the industri­ as a trl-color scarf collar or a bolero
fora wholerale diaaster overtook them, for our ent.ra
al -Accident Commission is at the
must remain something of a farce a. long M raonom.c taw. ew elevator office checking up with
fiestroy any large body of property, or make homeleae a third or the farmers of the district on
how much labor they used this
inore of wheat growers.
year.
Alton Olds had his tonsils remov­
WE RISE TO INQUIRE
ed Tuesday at Dr. Poley’s office
Somehow we are strangely di.treraed this monitag
here.
ptancing at the headline. Ye.terd.y th. meet accurate gentle­
Jacob Wassenmiller left Wed­
man of the pre.» announced with their u.ual acurance that nesday for Nevada where he will
Aimee’a new ,equation in the hu.band market weighed 236 pound,. try his sorcery of witching on
JZ. and th^i. Why we are worried, tbora ..me £ to be d..- the silver and other ore of that
and Paul Schilling.
The 7th and 8th grades are en­
joying their new Civics and Lit­
erature books which the district
furnished.
COMPLETE
FOR
Other models also reasonably priced.
TERMS to Responsible Parties.
Every family, injustice to themselves,
should have a Radio in the house.
jacket which ties nt the front in a
soft bow In a manner as Illustrated
to the left In the picture. The clever
little pockets which pose abreast of
this bolero are swagger, too, as is also
the skirt witli its carefully stitched
pleats and its pointed yoke. Any maid
or matron will enjoy wearing thia cool
sleeveless dress (the sleeves are mere
caps) right now, „and with its jacket
for months fo come.
The companion costume shown In
the picture is likewise Intriguing. It
Is blue, that Is its predominating color
1« blue, although a medley of hues are
subtly Introduced In its patterulng.
The mode- of wearing white acces­
sories is followed in the pleated white
mousseline' collar and frills, also the
white kid and [luütlet gloves.
It Is possible to get these prints in
as modest tones as one maydesire, the
checks and plaids and Intermingled
effects being worked out to a nicety
in prevailing tones of red, brown,
green, rust, navy or black.
Of course, these nifty costumes of
travel silk prints will be topped off
with chapeaux which announce a rovo
lutionary change in the millinery pro­
gram, In that the new hats are small
and are worn with a roguish tip-tilt
over-the-eye manner which Is proving
most Interesting and becoming.
(©. 1931. Western Newspaper Union.)
cussed further next week when the
smut resistant varieties developed for
eastern Oregon by the station will bo
considered
and
recommendations
made for the correction of the smut
trouble.
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SMUT CONTROL
Continued from page one.
sure against smut dockage in the crop
when susceptable varieties like Hy­
state.
put«! dailea atata that the^nttam^weigh, a meral230^
brid
128 or Federation are grown.
Mr. and Mra. Ralph Eakin re-
At the Pendleton Field Station this
when seed containing consider-
trip last Monday They were at able smut was sown, the resulting
Crater Lake and valley points. ' crop contained 6.3% smut, based on
This time of year the sports­ head counts, wh« n treated with cop­
Indeed—have reduced his poundsge. The thoughts of the po» men are to be seen raising their per carbonate containing 50% copper
L ramoval of $200 000 worth of balm from hie poeketa if po. arms to a horizontal position, si­ and 6.7% smut when treated with
copper carbonate containing 18%
•ibie might be the cause of this startling loss of weight, but whs ghting along a finger and mak­ copper. When treated with formal­
evMit is anyone must «Wit whether he be doctor or stock eeder. ing plans. As a consumation of dehyde, one pint to forty gallons of
these plans the town is expected water, the crop curtained 8.2% smut;
that the lo.e of five pounds per d.y from one of even so ample pro-
to be very quiet for a week after and when treated with bluestone, one
pound to 5 gallon;- of water, the crop
which, it is hoped, the town will
portioned cannot long be continued»
contained 12.9% sm»t. Without any
successful Portland revival
have venison on every table and seed treatment the crop contained
We do hope that
one will drop noisy money in the contribution stories on every lip.
more than 40 Si smut. Twelve diff­
damage and that no
Mrs. C. S Strange of Portland erent seed treatments were used, and
is here visiting for a few days the best control was obtained from a
double treatment, formaldehyde, 1
with her daughter Mrs C. L. pint to 50 gallons of water, the seed
PLANS.
Chamberlain. She returned the dried, and then treated with copper
' : Uow the Wall. Walla plan ha. been .maehed on the wrist, by Chamberlain children home after
carbonate. Notwithstanding the dou­
th. Ual farm board and it grow, more apparent all the time having them with her during the ble treatment, the crop contained
2.6% smut. This double treatment
summer.
that no plan for agricultural relief i. going to have the -upper
injured the seed considerably, reduc-
that body until it ha. the endoraement of a large part of the f.rm-
W. B. Wilcox started off on his ments that did not control the smut
80th year last Tuesday and the so well.
From this experiment and another
U^nTaeem atr.nge that the farm board ahould rafuraHo children and grandchildren liv­
ing here gathered at the fanch one in which chan, smut-free seed
unction an, mor. plan, when nearly every one they have fol owed
Iwas sown without treatment, and
to help him celebrate the oc­
•o far ha. been called bad by tho.e who must follow them If th
practically no smut obtained in th«
casion.
,
crop, it seems that the failure to con-
trol smut this sc
n become, incroingly more cie.fth.t the farmer, will nev
to the ineffectiv« ness of seed treat­
ment rather than to soil infestation.
h.„ ,,uccM,ful org.nix.tion until they build it themwlv..; until
$en t School Notes
Further experinu nt a are being carried
e.ch and every one in it ha. .pent .omeof hi. time .nd money and
on to get more definite information
of so mnch
enough of hi. peraonal intere.t to know about the *"*■*■*"
School opened Monday morn as to the cause or causes
smut
being
produced
In
the winter
.nd really wiah it to .ucceed, Thera ha. been too much of a mak ing with an enrollmentof 66 pu
crop in eastern On gon even when the
nils. There are 12 in ttje Pri seed has been tr ated by approved
ing of plan, .nd too little of following them.
mary room, 18 in the Intermedi methods. Using set d that is compara­
«
i
nM/iiamavéd bv fear of hard ate room, 15 in the 7th and 8th tively free from smut doubtless would
The Oregon Legionnaires an undi.m y
(>rl to have f*de roo™ »nd 21 in Hi(lh go a long way towards reducing the
tlme. or other trouble, e.u.ed by depreraion n that.^effort to^.v.
amount of smut in the crop. This
point by farmers is frequently over­
the next national convention brought to Portland. That »the
y
The following puoils are en­ looked. Smutty wheat never should
tho war wa. won and perhap« thia fear of bad time, will be curad rolled In the 7th and^th grades: be used for seed, ' Even with low
Berths, Myrtle and Robert Hei- wheat prices, it will pay farmers to
by that sort of ipirit.
yer, Millard Hcwell. Harley and go to considerable trouble or expense
to secure seed as free from smut as
AnyW„ «few g«ng»ter. .re getlfog killed «long with police Maudie McKay. Clarice and Rob­ possible, because smut in the crop
ert Mitchell, Joseph Morrow, means a yield reduction of several
men «nd children »nd citlxen.
Cecil Norton and Jack Sather; bushels per acre as well as a lower
7th grade:
Melvin Barnett, price per bushel.
Jn mi.forliine never lose lb. b«l«nce of mind.
Quality Store
Phyllis Haynea, Phoebe Lyons,
The problem of smut will be dis-
GRASS VALLEY PHARMACY
TUM-A-LUM TICKLER
P.,bli.hea In the Interra« of the People of Grara Valley and
VteÌX by The TUM-A-LUM LUMBER COMPANY
ORASS VALU Y. OREGON. SEfTEMRER 18. »31
Vol. 31
editorial .
No. 34
place,
While all this euassin' ia goin’ on
Reth is doing a very nice job of
about the price of farm produce, lip
painting
on the Mat Simon residence,
sticks, and female cigarettes, the
etc.,
we
might
do
a
little
weather,
Census Taker What is your hus
oustin' about how cheap we are sellin.1
lumber with no buyers—dog gone it. band’s name?
Lumber's lower today than in many
Mrs, Murphys Pat.
■wish somebody would make me
Census Taker: -1 want his full name.
out,
maybe
I
can
Mrs. Murphy: Well, when he’a full
prove it—try me
he thinks he's Gene Tunney.
When the cold starts creeping in a-
round the windows and doors and your
knees knock together when you arise
WRATH«»
in the morning; when you shake so it
Cold and Stormy òext Christinaa
becomes difficult to stand on one foot
to stick the other in your trousers, You
buy 'fum-A-Lump,
Fair and Warmer for building.
may know by these signs that it
Buy Tum-A-Lumber.
Coaling up time CeM 93, we will furn
ish the answer.
classified ad section .
When you think of any of the follow­
NOTICE^ I will not be responsible for ing, Call Main 93, Grass Valley.
Taint
«
Stripes Rival Plaid in
any debts contracted on your coal
Varnish
bill
this
winter
.
Let
me
show
you
Esteem of Designers
Kalsomine
how to cut it down. - Signed: E. E.
Whether one’s taste calls for stripes
Paint Brushes
Gervais, Yard Manager.
or plaids makes no difference this sea­
Cello Glass.
son. Both systems are working well
Make out your order on a Mail Order
In fashion, for It Is n patterned year.
Gus Schilling has completed the
Stripes run arourid or up and down or foundation and has commenced the con­ blank and we will fill it here at a sav­
both ways on the same garment. And struction of a new house on the Baker ing to you.
plaids—well, they are biased or
straight with no deep regard for any
one set way. If one don't want to be
striped plaid
patterned all over try
coat with a plain dress.
Hand-Made Frock*
This summer will witness a marked
vogue of French handmade frocks,
very simply made with tiny tucks or
hemstitching and at their prettiest In
white or pastel crepe.
A valuable knowledge of the reliability
the reward
and integrity of business
OREGONS CONTINUED PROGRESS
DEPENDENT UPON ITS RAILROADS
OREGON
I N
$1,361,196.49
IN TAXES
CONTRIBUTED IN
TO THE
1930
PROSPERITY
AND
PROGRESS
OREGON
ADDITION to this large sum, paid
out from its earnings for taxes in Oregon,
the Union Pacific distributes an immense
sum for salaries and wages. During 1930
alone over nine million dollars paid to
4,965 Union Pacific employees found its
way into circulation through the avenues
of Trade and Commerce within the State.
Over 20,000 Oregon people derive their
support from Union Pacific.
Oregon’s progress began with the coming
of the railroads. Her future growth is
dependent upon adequate railroad trans­
portation. The kind of transportation
service that Oregon needs can be pro­
vided only if Oregon people support the
railroads.