german (County Journal
|\ Grass Valley
SHERMAN COUNTY OBSERVER, Established Nov. 2, 1888
GRASS VALLEY JOURNAL, Established Oct. 14, 1897
CONSOLIDATED, MARCH 6, 1981
and the ladies made $9.00 on
the candy and cake sale which
was held.
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Dpnlap
and daughters Margaret and
Anita, and Dick Abell, visited the
Clarno oil well last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Helyer
and daughter Rua, left Wednes
day to spend a few days in Mad-
Competition in Fat Stock To Be Keen
Mrs. W. I, Westerfield left for
Portland last week.
Published Every Friday at Moro, Oregon, By
Mrs. Amelia Peterson and son
Managing Editor Ted, have moved back to Grass
GILES L. FRENCH
Valley.
Entered aa ancond-claae matter at the 'ootoffico, at Moro, Oregon, under Act of
Jim Woods left.for Klamath
Congreso of March 8, 1879.
Falls Monday, going with John
fiüBSCRIETlON RATES—PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.
VanMetre.
There was 41 people at Sun
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Mrs. E. Olds moved to Moro day school Sunday with a collec
FARE AND
8UM0OÜM ..
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last week to spend the winter tion of $1.75.
ONE-THIRD
with her daughter. Mrs. Na-
Mrs. Frank Haynes was con
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931.
house.
fined to her bed Sunday because
ROUND TRIP
Clyde and Lester Smith were of the shaking she received Sat
out after the heretofore elusive urday when she fell down the
FARMER vs.'EUROPE..
OMAHA
deer again this week with very stairs lea ling to the basement.
KANSAS CITY
We hear on all sides, and it is probably true, that great effort» good success.
MINNEAPOLIS
Mrs. J. N. Maclnnes and dau
Beautifully fitted Aberdeen Angus heifer “Queen of All", Grand Cham
ST. LOUIS
< will be made during the next session of congress to repeal the Jacob Wassenmiller has re ghter and Mrs. C. B. Doyle of
pion In Fat Stock Division of 1930 Pacific international. Owned and
MILWAUKK
fitted by Montana State Agricultural College. Bozeman.
ttm marketing act because the government is loaning the farmers turned from Nevada where he Grass Valley, were over week
SIOUX CITY
cornerstone — livestock. Here each
The "Grand Championship" »i
DES MOINES
too much money to no avail. So far Uncle Sam has put up a has been for the past few weeks end visitors at Wishram, Wash.
year
are
exhibited
millions
of
dol
the most «agerly sought award by
DULUTH
lars worth of America’s outstand
llveatock breeders everywhere. Par
Art Justesen went to Portland
revolving fund of $500.000,000.00 for the farm board. The board prospecting for pay ore.
CHICAGO
ing examples In the better breed
ticularly
do
our
agricultural
col
ST. PAUL
kaa wheat and cotton to show for a part of the money invented Herman Schilling has about Sunday with Charles Belshee to leges treasure purple ribbons se
ing and better feeding of Beef and
COUNCIL BLUFFS
build
have
another
X
’
ra
y
picture
tak
Dairy Cattle, Heavy Draft Horses.
completed
the
hoube
he
is
cured
in
competition.
No
wonder,
and they are also reasonably sure that their use of the money in
MEMPHIS
Sheep. Hogs. Goats. Poultry, Rab
therefore, that the entire popula
place, en of his finger,
NEW ORLEANS
bits and Pet Stock. Prized ribbons
’ the purchase of this wheat and cotton kept many small country ing on the Harvey Smith
tlon of Montana was jubilant when,
occupied by Charles Baker.
Mrs. W. W. Knighten spent
and cash awards totaling >100,00U
last year, "Queen of All” secured
DEPARTURE DATES.
> banks from going broke in the fall of 1929. Yet $500,000,000.00 is Tom Garrett and wife were in the week end in Grass Valley.
Insure the keenest competition In
the premier award in its class the
' Quite a sum of money and the opponents of the farm board can the Willamette valley where Mr. and Mrs. Art Decker and first time the State College partici all classes
Here also are to be found Dairy
pated In this particular event. Will
make plenty of noise about it.
they formerly lived, for a few daughter Hazel, drove to Hood-
and Land Products Shows; Wool
Montana repeat? Other breeders
Stopovor privilogoa
and Mohrlr Shew; Industrial Ex
and colleges of the Pacific slopu
The Department of Commerce says that in November of last days this week hunting birds. * River Friday morning, returning
— LEAVE —
hibits; Boys’ and Girls’ Club Work
country are serving notice right
year the European countries owed the United States $11.640,000,- Grover Young is moving his home Saturday.
now that "Montana” will have to
Exhibits; Wild Life Exhibit by Ore
"go some” If it expects to retain
W. H. Helyer was a visitor in
gon Fish and Game Commission;
000.00. This represents money that the government itself had family back to the Louis Schad-
If
Its laurels at the forthcoming 21.»1
"Truth
In-Meats". Exhibit; and one
Kent
last
Monday..
phon
loaned to foreign countries, Also it is reliably stated that private witz farm south of town and ex
Annual Pacific International Live
of America’» most spectacular
stock Exposition, Portland. Orec.m,
Horse Shows — feat^ring this year,
Capital of the'United States to the amount of over $13,000,000.000- pects to remain there this winter Saturday evening the young
A. ROSE. A««nt
October 24 31.
instead of in the city.
people of Kent gave Mr.' and
for the first time, matinee perform
Moro. Orwon
Pacific International, with its
.00 has been loaned to Europe. These sums together make a total
ances every afternoon
A number of the ladies of the Mrs. Dick Reckmann a charivari
complete shows housed un
of nearly $25.000,000,000.00 loaned to our allies and foes across the Woman’s Club drove to Arling- and shower. - The young people twelve
I Reduced round trip fares are an
der one Immense roof eleven acres
K
-s* M
a
nounced
by all leading transporta,
tn extent, is in reality a great edu
pond.
lington Thursday to attend a received many useful presents.
tlon lines to the Pacific Interna
cational Institution devoted to the
Now the simplest arithmetic will show that what has been district gathering of representa At midnight lunch consisting of
tlonal at Portland. October 24-31.
upbuilding of agriculture and Its
cake, sandwiches and coffee
loaned to the farm board for the American farmer is but 2 percent tives of Woman’s Clubs.
Sherman County Jouanal Read the ads every week.
of the amount that has been loaned to European countries. Furth- Last Sunday Dell Olds achiev were served,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wilson,
* rm ore financiers are still loaning to Europe and are drawing in ed a fishing season’s ambition
Mrs. Sidney Wisner, and Mrs. S.
loans in this country wherever that is possible. Also our banifici- when he returped from a fishing A. Wilson of Rufus, were visit
trip with Jack Gervais, carrying
•nt government will permit foreign countries to put off paying
ors at the J. C. Wilson home
more fish than Jack had.
Principal Events of the Week
Chair interest and payments to us although it was not stated wheth
The old liR^t plant is being Tuesday.
Assembled for Information
er the interest payments were made on what was privately loaned torn down this week by Henry
Jack Kelly who has been visit
of Our Readers.
Howell and another glaring bill ing in The Dalles, returned home
or not.
Monday
evening.
Business men have about convinced the American farmer that board of a structure will be re
he does not wknt to borrow any more money until he has paid back moved from the sight of passers W. G. Helyer and son Jesse, Many alfalfa growers in central Ore
For Fall Work
returned home from their hunt gon have cut a third crop and all have
tome that he has already borrowed. It is, however, rather pecul- by.
had two fairly good crops. Out in the
John Hays and wife and Bob ing .trip Sunday evening.
ar that European countries are not told the same thing.
Lone Pine, Powell Butte, Terrebonne
J.
C.
Wilson
motored
to
Hood
Burns and wife are at the hot
For Winter
Anyone acquainted with farming conditions knows that there springs on the Warm Springs River Tuesday morning
and Cloverdale districts there will be
hundreds
of
tons
of
hay
over
the
needs
are many farms mortgaged for more than can be paid with prices Indian reservation for a short Mr. and Mrs. Roy Martin of
Of Course These Goods are at
of the districts. Hay in the Lone Pine
M they are at present. Also anyone reading the daily dispatches fall trip to allow John to recover The Dalles, were visitors in Kent section is selling at >9 to >10 per ton.
realizes that Europe is in debt for sums that they cannot pay the from the fall he had recently.
Monday evening.
Richard Beasley, 86, pioneer Uma
interest on. If anything Europe is worse off than the United Elva Baker underwent another Jeorge Wilf on who has been tilla county resident, took his first air
major operation at The Dalles attending the university at Eu plane ride at Hermiston last week.
State«, but they are getting the loans.
GRASS VALLEY. OREGON
Mr. Beasley crossed the plains with
W This being the case, it seems reasonable to suppose that if hospital last Monday. Another gene, returned home Monday.
ox teams in 1865 from Missouri, reach
piece of diseased bone was re
American money is invested in Europe instead of at home, the fin- moved from his hip and tests A number of Kent people at ing Pilot Rock within six months after
start.
nanciert will be more interested in European recovery than in made for tuberculosis, from tended the dance which was giv the The
stork arrived last week with the
en in Shaniko last Saturday
American recovery and will lend their greatest strength toward which disease he has suffered for night.
first colored baby ever known to be
Published in the Interest of the People of Grass Valley and
born in Lane county. The parents,
making European countries prosperous before the United States. several years
Vicinity by The TUM-A-LUM LUMBER COMPANY
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gregg and Mr. and Mrs. B. Weston, have named
They will have more financial interest in promoting, new trade The Woman’s Community Club family spent Sunday with Mr. the baby Eugene Lane Weston. He
No. 3»
GRASS VALLEY. OREGON, OCTOBER 23. 1931
Vol. 31
was the first negro baby registered
channels for Germany, for instance, than for the domestic pro library was moved into the new and Mrs. Alfred Lyons.
yeant, good building material and fuel.
EDITORIAL.
ducts; they will hunt harder for markets for European wheat than Legion hall last week from the
J. C. Wilson and son, Charles in county records at Eugene.
Baker building.
The Legion
Noreen Leary, 8, daughter of Mr.
Mr. Norton at Kent is securing or
for wheat grown in the United States in which they have less fi boys finished cleaning and wash and Charlie Bill Wilson were vi and Mrs. Dan Leary, went hunting ders
W hen you feel tha cold creeping
for a car of Utah Lump Coal.
through and your fuel bill runs high—
sitors
at
Rufus
Sunday.
autumn leaves near her home In Rain Phone your orders now.
nancial interest. Money boasts that it is international and patriot ing their new quarters Monday
think of Insulation instead of how to
ier last week. Suddenly two bears
raise money to buy more fuel; then
ism is too weak a sentiment to even moderate self-interest.
and the old newspaper office is Laurence Gott, Jimmie Rees, reared
Grass Valley has a car very fine Oak come to the office and we will show the
up from behind a log. She ran
and
Millard
Holt
were
visitors
in
Anyway, when the sums that we have loaned to foreign already asuming a new role.
16-in Wood at minimum low price.
new way to get permanent winter com
one way. They ran the other.
Kent
Sunday.
fort at less cost.
The Ray-Brown cannery at Wood
Countries for the benefit of their people are redeemed, the loans to Johnnie VanMetre was in town
W.
W.
Knighten
went
to
Sal
•
’
I
hear
you
had
hot
words
with
your
our home co-operatives seem to be .small. They are, indeed, a a few minutes last Monday while em last Thursday where he at burn brought the busiest period in it» wife last night.”
If its Paint or Kalsomine, we hava it.
history to a close when the last of this
on his way to Reno, Nevada,
“
Yeah,
I
had
some
but
I
didn
’
t
get
a
•mall part of the financial worries of the government.
’s pear pack waa completed last
where he is in charge of a filling tended the principal’s meeting. year
This is ideal weather to paint.
week. Some 5000 tons of pears have chance to use them.”
He
returned
home
Sunday.
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station for the Standard Oil Co.
been put Into cans this season, as com
to Red- pared with 4000 tons a year ago, which
Carl
Gregg
motored
S’ALL See.you neat week.—E. E.
He
has
been
working
for
the
FOR
Sale:
—
Thia
week
and
every
THAT SINKING FUND.
other week, at special lowest prices in Gervais, Yard Manager.
company in Portland and was mond Friday evening, returning wys a record up to that time.
home Saturday.
One of the items often mentioned when the approaching county transferred.
Warren Norton left for the
budget is under discussion is the $18.000 sinking fund for the pay George Wilcox, Dr. C. L. Pol-
ment of road bonds of the county. Two sides argue with equal ey. E E. Gervais, Earl Olds and Willamette valley Sunday.
facility about whether or not this amount should be levied this Ray Blake were at the Moro J, L. Davis and children, Eve-
lyn and Luther, were visitors in
year or whether this sum should be taken from the budget and al hotel Wednesday as represents
tives of Grass Valley at the The Dalles Sunday.
lowed to wait until more fortunate times.
county wide meeting off the
Lloyd Johnson of Moro was a
The argument may as well be halted or restricted to thp theory county chambers of commerce visitor in Kent over the week
of the matter, for the state law expressly states that “the county with the state manager, W. G. end.
court shall—until maturity of the bonds, set aside as a special fund Ide.
Mr. and Mrs W. L. Wilson of
for the payment of the bonds such percentage of the face value of
Rufus
were visitors at the J. C.
Henry Tetz and Wily Knight
the bonds as at the date of their maturity shall aggregate the full en, principals of Grass Valley Wilson home.
and Kent schools, were in Salem
Mrs. Susie Davis of Hood River
face value thereof ”
over
the
week
end
to
attend
the
is
staying at the J. C. Wilson
The eighteen I housand dollars that must be annually levied for
meeting
of
the
high
school
prin
home
while Mrs Wilson is con
the retirement of these bonds is over seven percent of the total
cipals of the state. Mrs. Tetz fined to her bed with pneumonia.
taxes. If this amount was to be delayed for several years and was visited in Forest Grove with her
Load agents of Stock Fire Insurance companies
Mr. and Mrs. J. H Wilson
are numbered among your home town people—
then added later it would in all likelihood raise the levy to more sister, Mrs. H. Hutchcroft, while spent Sunday at the home of Mr.
than 6 percent above that of the previous year. The taxes of this the men were at the meeting.
your neighbors.
and Mrs. W. 0. Smith.
These agents live here —own property and
eoenty have been reduced very drastically and some eare must be
Four carloads of livestock left John Reckmann of Grass Val
pay
rexee here—are part of the business and civic
Grass
Valley
for
Portland
last
taken to keep within reasonable limits for when conditions become
ley was in Kent Saturday even
Saturday
night.
Lester
Smith
interest of the community. Every property owner
more favorable there will be a strong demand for more generous
shipped a carload of steers;- Les ing.
should frequently consult his insurance agent.
allotments for schools and perhaps roads.
Mrs. Rita Harpe made a busi
ter Barnum shipped a double
The companies have large investments in this
Sherman cOunty has already made a larg r proportionate cut deck car of sheep Chas, Belshee ness trip to Portland Friday
state.
A very personal relationship exists between
in taxes than any other county in the state. Other counties are shipped cattle: and T. M. Rolfe evening.
you and
. '
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this year reducing their levies whereas ours were slashed last year •hipped horses for the Pacific The ladies of the Kent Ameri
STOCK FIRE INSURANCE
and taxpayers are already reaping the benefit. It will, perhaps, be International Livestock show for can Legion Auxiliary went to
Antelope last Wednesday even
himself
and
C.
J.
Thompson.
regretted by some that this $18 000 cannot be taken from the bud
.— which not only provide» the indemnity for
ing, Oct. 14, for joint installa
get this year, but to do do so would seem to be directly contrary
tion with tife Antelope Auxil
which you pay, but works constantly in many
iary.
•,
For
the
George
Bell
unit
ways to insure the safety of your frmdy, your
to law.
the following officers were in
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home, your business and community.
stalled:
President, Floy von
As a pacifier of criminal» the mountain air around Mecham is
Borstel; vice president. Emma
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Dellinger Pleumke; secretary, Dorothy
as good as a posse.
-
*
and son Arnold, visited in The Dunlap;
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Chaplain,
Donalda
THE NATIONAL BOARD OF FIRE UNDERWRITERS
Dalles
last
Saturday.
Knighten;
historian,
Rita
Harpe;
Now Seattle wants Tusko. Perhaps to counteract the drawing
89
NEW YORK
Everyone who was present en treasurer, Mildred Norton. After
attributes of the famed Ethelbert.
CHIÇAGO.222
•
SAN FRANCISCO.
&
joyed the card party which the installation the evening was
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American Legion Auxiliary la ■pent In playing cards after
The annual fall sport of predicting a hard winter Is on In full dies gave last Saturday evening which dainty refreshments were
There were nine tables of cards •erved.
b|aat again and it is as monotonus as ever.
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