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german (County Journal SHERMAN COUNTY OBSERVER, Established Nov. 2, 1888 GRASS VALLEY JOURNAL. Established Oct. 14, 1897 CONSOLIDATED, MARCH 6, 1981 £ „ P.bO.h.d E„r, Friday at Moro. Oregon. By • G1LE8 L. FRENCH : ' : : : estate in that vicinity. Grass Valley NOW H*llow«’«n party Friday afternoon. “Tiin«” • weekly n«wa-m*g*xin« .Mr. and lira. Ed Hebert of Con ha* been added to the high achool don are receiving congratula library. tions on the birth of an eight Mn and Mr*. Charles Wilson of Arch Rusnell has moved his pound eon, born last Thursday | ‘‘““"J" Oct.,22. Mrs. Hebert will be re Rufus visited th« junior English class the north end of town for the membered here as Tessie Allen. Managing Editor wjn(er Th« high school boy* ar« going to ball practice next Last Wednesday night Mm. । begin basket Bntared aa second-class matter at the Joetofflce, st Moro, Oregon, under Act of George Wilcox was in Portland Knighten, Mrs. Dorothy Dunlap. ] Monday. Congrooa of March 8, J879. ‘the first of the week on a short Mr. and Mrs. Frank von Borstel, ----- business trip. • > and Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Walton SUBSCRIPTION RATES—PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. On« Year.......... ........................................................... .................................... Six Months........... .................................................... .............. ;............ .r The two tíbrtbwick girls from 50 Antelope are staying with the 1 00 Dickson family for a few days after the advent of another sis FRIDAY. OCTOBER 30, 1931. ter at their house. M/s. Erma Olds entertained 9 MORE STOCK, MORE INCOME. tables of 500 players at her home First In his talk before the combined Chambers of Commerce last last Saturday evening. prizes were won by Mrs. Grace week, W. G. Ide, manager of the state chamber, enumerated some Hughes and E. M. Alley. of the things that this country imports in the way of agricultural C. W. Fields and family re products. It included such common commodities as eggs and to turned from Bend again after a matoes. He stated that it was possible for Oregon to produce six few weeks in that city. The ty percent of these items. garage he rented was sold and Why should Sherman county farmers worry about means of he had to return. He is looking diversification when the state is bringing hogs and pork from the for another location. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Messinger middle west to feed Oregon’s city population? Should there not and daughter, Myrtes Madaps, be a market for Sherman county eggs and poultry when the coun* were here^the first of the week try it 'importing thousands of pounds of egg albumen and dried . visiting with relatives. Asa Eslinger and wife and The hog market is not very encouraging just now because pro- parent Eslinger and wife were ducers rushed into the hog business in a body as wheat fell faster here this week visiting with rela- than pork. Now hogs are at the bottom and wheat is climbing; tives and old friends of the days as the easily discouraged farmer sells out and ceases to produce when Asa was a Sherman county pigs for the future market the price will rise again. It always has. farmer. It has been a source of wonder to many visitors to this county 'rd l1 V‘ster Angell, o t e • „ . Odd Fellows lodge, was here why we raise so little poultry. Those who are conversant with Tue8(jay night, and members of the poultry business note oür dry climate, our almost constant sun- the orde^ from Moró, Kent and shine, our abundant feed and state that we are overlooking one of other nearby towns were here to the surest sources of income available to us. Eggs and chickens hear him speak. , were deplorably cheap all of last winter, but now the'y have climb- Johnson, George Wilcox, ed until they nre as profitable aa other farm crop.. 1) . ' SCHOOL BUDGET attended the eard party at Antel ope which waa given by the lad- . Continued from page one. ies of the Eastern Star. forfeited. The coot per pupil in the John Wilson drove up from । high school last year waa |194.77 as Hood River Saturday for a short < compared with the county average of visit with hie parents, returning 1212.40 per capita. The Wasco dis trict special millage levy is this year Sunday. 8.4 in comparison to 10.1 levy Mr. I. E. Wilson, Mrs. Essie < of 1930. Wilson and son, Charlie Bill, visited in Madras last Saturday. i CO-OP MARKETS Mias Loraine Darby spent the week end in McMinnville, while Continued from page one. Mrs. Rita Harpe and Miss Della National operation* “have definitely Helyer visited in Portland. interferred with certain customs and Mr. and Mrs. AaronNoyes and plans of certain buyers,” Mr. Adams sons, Wa'lace and Earnest, of said existence of Farmers National Grass Valley, |nd Mrs. Susie was putting a stop to private trade Davis were visitors at the home । practices designed to depress prices of Mr. and Mre. J. H. Wilson artificially. The sale of wheat to China is ofTer- Sunday. I ed the cooperative* a* another in- Maudie McKay. Lorena Young, dicauon of the value of one large Anna Sather, Harry and Dale । sales agency working for the farmers. Howard, were among those from Because all of this wheat was in the handa of one organisation capable of Kent who were visitors in Shani giving credit to Chin* ti« sale was ko Sunday. made and the nothwest put on a bet Rua, Virginia, Bertha, and ter basis for this crop than any other Myrtle Helyer„ visited at the part of the country. Prices in the home of Mr. and Mrs. John northwest are higher than in either Chicago or Liverpool, due to this one Adams of Shaniko last week end. Mr. and Mrs. W alter Adams of Antelope, were visitors in Kent over the week end. A. J. Decker and J. N. Mac- Innes drove to Odell Monday, re turning home the same day. Pruno growers of the Hood River Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Wilson and valley have been advised by the Apple and Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Wilson Growers' association, a co-operative, and son, Sthcy, of Rufus, were that their 1929 crop, which was can visitors st the J. C. Wilson home ned, will be • total loss, snd no re turns will be made io the growers for Tuesday. - Warren Norton returned home that season. However, growers sr« assured that this season's crop ha* Monday from the Willamette val been sold at satisfactory prices. Thè ley where he has been visiting« 1928 canning pool of strawberries ha* with relatives. Alta Nortion just been dosed, and only returned helped with the work in the J. 5 cents a pound. • E. Norton store while Warren The annual Hood River county ,’I guest, of the'Wasco Legion post A statement that these can be produced in Sherman county is |wt Saturj¿y night at a j0¡nt jn. not based on theory; it is b#in£ done. More and more farmers’ sta||ation of new officers for the credit is determined by what he does with his time when not work- county. J. W. Shepard and Eu- gene Vintin were others attend ing for a wheat crop. ing from Grass Valley. W --------- Vern McGowan and wife spent SHERMAN S TURN ! the week end cn a hunting trip According to an announcement in the papers J. P. Yates, at jn the Blue mountains near Pilot present Sherman county’s representative in'the state house, will Rock. bs a candidate for the state senate at the next election. It is cer-' Mrs. Leona Rooney returned to tainly right and proper that a Sherman county man should succeed Grass Valley after several weeks to this office for of the three counties in the eighteenth district it *n the Yakima va y. hu AV • L. D. May with his wife and has been longest since this county elected a senator. Gilliam Tuesday evening a group of son, Wallace, moved up from The Kent Odd Fellows attended the • ’ county with 0. B. Robertson and Wheeler county with R J. ( art* ^a||e8 an(j possession of the joint meeting of the Wasco, ner, have had their districts . epresented in the upper body of the Buckley place below town Moro, Antelope, Kent, and Grass lagislature. In the course of fair division of offices between these the first of the week Valley lodges which was held in ‘ • counties it is now Sherman county’s turn. ' It really rained in this strip of Grass Valley by Grand Master Mr. Yates has more recent legislative experience than any the country last Monday night, Angell. other citizen of the county; his work in connection with the re-1 ^hile it did not «pack into all The Home Economics club of w the surrounding farming country the Kent Grange is giving a Hal duction of freight rate. ha. made him popular with wheat growers jt of lowe’en card part Saturday night and his support of the bill to procure an additional cent of refund A. C. Buckley and wife of Tygh Oct., 31. Everyone is invited to on gasoline was for the best interest of the county. Valley, were here last Sunday attend. Phil Yates will be Sherman county’s candidate and will have for a visit with old friends. Wilbur Haggerty and J. N. the support of the entwe district as he has had in his races for the It is reliably reported that Maclnnes drove to Hood River lower house and his election will assure citizens of a represeota- Manuel Eslinger will move onto and Odell last Saturday, return tive who will not be stampeeded by the many fanciful ideas that the Taylor place sometime with ing home Sunday. in the week. will be floating around the state house next term. A, J. Decker and J. N. Mac- Bob Johnson, J. W. Shepard Ines journeyed to Redmond and ---------- O---------- and Henry Peters drove to The Bend the last of the week. i SHAKE. Dalles Wednesday evening. J. L. Davis and family mot Bob attended a meeting of the Announcement of the prize winners at the I acific Intt rnation- ored to The Dalles last Saturday. Standard Oil Co., while Henry al Livestock Show brings Sherman county again to the front as a and J. W. attended the Legion Country in which premium stock can be bred and fitted. Not many i meeting. Kent School Notes years ago when 1. N. Lemon was taking his horses to the county and state fairs and A. H. Barnum was listed among the winners of No one wants to miss seeing Ar- noldDellinger as Count de Lunatic Herford prizes, we were rated as a good stock country. in “Ill Treated Travntore,” which is Now it is T. M. Rolfe and C. J. Thompson whose stock brings to be one of the skit* given by the - home the coveted ribbons denoting excellence and success in the A number of Kent people en high school Friday night. Other world of livestock. Few students of farm economics doubt that joyed a surprise birthday pftrtv members of the cast are Karl Pluem- ke, as Maurico, the imprisoned lover; horses will increase in price in the coming years’ as conditions given for Mr. J. C. Adams at his Alt* Norton a* Leonora, and Ch*rles make them a practical farm power again. It costs -no more to home in Shaniko last Friday ev- Dunlap as Miasma, th« servant. At the teachers institute the teach raise good horses than poor ones and it is very possible that this ening. The evening was spent in card playing, after which re ers obtained new copiea of the Ore county will once more become famous for its fine horse flesh. gon Blue Book and new course of freshments were served. We extend to Mr. Rolfe and Mr. Thompson our congratula Richard Barnes from Moro, vi study for geography and social tions on their success in bringing prizes home to this county in sited friends in Kent last Thurs sciences. Donald Maclnne* suffered a sprain competition with the best in the land and are sure that in congrat day. ed foot Tuesday evenipg when hie ulating them We are joined by every other citizen in the county. Art Justensen and Carl Thomp horse fell with him while running son made a trip to Tygh Valley across the railroad) track. Tuesday. Mr. Lyona has completed making CAPONE. the aand table for the pupila of the Richard Sather spent last week intermediate room. Nearly everyone has at some rtnie in their lives had experience end with Jesse Helyer. The Kent high school boys hr« With rats; has suffered from their thieving depredations; their The regular joint meeting of giving an entertainment and party noisy contempt of human desire for rest. And nearly veryone the Auxiliary and Legion mem for the community Friday night. has caught them in a trap after weeks or months of \conscientious bers was held at the Frank von Everyone is invited to come and , endeavor and ha-» been subject to the stare of beady eyes that Borstel home last Thursday even bring a pie. ing. After the business meeting Some of th« pupila of th« achool ■till threatened reprhal if opportunity offered. the evening was spent in playing are happy over thei^ report card«, And normal people with a natural repugnance against putting cadrs. while othera are not so elated. Thea« •qualing and pleading beings -however small-out of the way haw Mr. and Mrs. Homer Sibley vi ar th« first reports of this year’s work and mark the clo*« of the first hesitated before getting the pail of water or letting fall the ham sited in Kent Sunday. six weeks of school. mer. But memory of past suffering seldom lets the culprit get Mr. and Mrs. Jim Dellinger Helen von Borstel, who with her «way. 'Let it b? so with Capone, whose characteristics resemble spent Sunday at the home of Mrs parents attended the Stock Show Sat Dellinger’s brother at Miller, Ore. urday, gave a report of her trip to the rat more than they do the human. The Kent Sunday school had a the pupila of the primaiy room last The rat that has stolen the silver teaspoons, built his nest in Monday. the baby’s bed, chewed the-best table cloth and eaten the piano good attendance Sunday, 56 be The pupil* of th« ««v«nth and ing present. The offering was pads msy be caught by a trick that has nothing to do with his pre and eighth grade room have been $2.98. very much interest in the story of vious offences but that is no reason for lightening the sentence J. C. Wilson and daughter, Eliaon’s life, especially th« on« which Clarice, and Pauline Davis were Myrtl« Helyer has contributed and a Jot o»* tittle. , visitors in Moro Sunday evoning. which contains a most axc«ll«nt pic *------ 0-------- ture of th« great inventor. Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Wilson left ‘"Let us have one of those good old fashioned rains and Sher A* the boya succeeded in winning man county will demonstrate again that it can raise more wheat early Monday morning for Jos the health contest in th« primary eph, Oregon, to look at some rea (pj less money than any other county. Kent News Sufferhtterodiine PHILCORADIO « dyne to give you new and astounding performance. Don’t even think of buying a radio until you’ve beard the*« bmacb> Quilted Maple decorado** and real head rubbed áanah. Ti«aÀ y *1 ic • •front to ^tn upi to y nt gmnna & GRASS VALLEY PHARMACY OREGON STATE NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST Gras« Valley, Oregon . 98 Cent Overalls Heavy Clothes . school and Four-H dub fair was held recently with increase of exhibits snd attendance over former years. Each of the school district* competed with floral, agricultural, handicraft and classroom exhibits. The fifth dividend to depositors of the liquidated First Bank of Pilot Rocb was authorised in an order sign ed recently by Circuit Judge Calvin Sweek. This dividend of 913,694.41 will increase to 60 per cent the total sums paid depositors. For Fall Work . For Winter Of Course These Goods are at ZIEGLER'S Quality Store GRASS VALLEY, OREGON . Published in the Interest of the People of Grana Vadloy and Vicinity by The TUM-A-LUM LUMBER COMPANY A Vol. 31 GRASS VALLEY. OREGON. OCTOBER 23. 1981 Na » EDITORIAL. Trying to find * plac« to Park. -T-A-L- For Covering openings to keep out Cold weather will soon be her«. Pro the cold, your chicken nouse and other nuildings, use Celloglass at IS^c per tect yourself by insulating your boose. It will not only be a safeguard against ■iqusre foot. the winter weather, but will protect —T-A-L— your pocket book and your winter* fu And, if you think there is no chanc« >f World Peace, consider the Chicago el bill. —T-A-L— firm of O’Coner & Goldberg. COAL UP. Tum-A-Lum has 1 ear —T-A-L— Paint and Kalsomine brightens the lump coal and 1 car nut coal in transit, home. See Tum-A-Lum for complete buy off car and pay Iss«. Phone your orden now, we will book you for off line. car delivery. _T-A-T— Back when Noah *ail«d th« wat«r* S’All Se« you next w««k. blue. Gorvai*. He had trouble* *»m« aa you. OVER 2000 ms In Sherman County Will Read This Paper WOULD You like to have this 2000 come into your store and listen while you told them of . your goods and your prices? DON’T hide your light under a bushel. Let this 2000 know about the bargain you ” TUM-A-LUM TICKLER I . VAST flnanclal organisation ^Iti million* of capital to relh'vv ih cotton producer* of the South from ih< distress caused by low prices of Ihel. commodity. I* declared to he in pn» vs of formation by Chicago capliuUxl>> headed by William Wrigley, Jr. Details of the scheme have nut lu«ei revealed, hut the main Ide« Is under stood to be to accumulate large qtmn titles of baled cotton and hold it fot higher prices. Cotton I* now selling at price* ruinous to the planters and 1* a drug on the world market. The plan la also aald to embrace ■ system of trading credits by which the vust surplus of cotton will be ex changed for commodities, of which the cotton grower* stand in dire need These Include farm equipment of all kinda, groceries aryl clothing. v l have on that oet of tires, that bill of groceries, that new cream up- . . orator.' SHERMAN COUNTY JOURNAL E. B
