- ‘ J. german (County Snurna!
State Normal at Mon-
bara Walpole left Saturday and mouthjVj^ited school on their re
SHERMAN COUNTY OBSERVER, Established Nov. 2, 1888 ,
Phy Ilia Smith and Harold Blagg turn h5me for vacation. They
GRASS VALLEY JOURNAL, Established Oct. 14, 1807
It was once announced that left sunday.
graduated from Moro high school
CONSOLIDATED, MARCH 4 1981
the Devil was going out of busi Fred Zimmerman and Hazel in 1931.
ness and would offer his tools Zimmerman were married in the Faye Thompson, who is a sen
Published Every Friday at Moro, Oregon, By
for sale to anyone who would Dalles last week, she was a res ior this year at Aldiny College,
GILES L. FRENCH
Managing Editor pay the price. On the night of ident of the Yakima valley and visited school with her father, on
the sale they were attractively Fred is foreman at the Patjen Wednesday, Dec. 23rd.
Entered M tecond-claee matter at the ?oetoffioe, at Moro, Oregon, under Act of
displayed,
and a bad looking lot ranch west of town. Haopy The basket ball bug has at
Congress of March 8, 1879.
tached itself to the smaller folks
they were.
Days.
well as fhe high'school people.
Malice,
hatred,
envy,
jealousy,
SUBSCRIPTION RATES—PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.
The bridge club was enter as
The
third and fourth grades
One Year.............. ....................... .............. ....................................... .............. ;....$1 60 sensuality, deceit and all other tained last Wednesday at the have organized two teams cap
Six Months......................................................................... v...................................... 1.00 implements of evil were attrac home of Mre. Tetz, Pauline wil tained by Wyman French and
tively spread out, each one mar eox won first prize and Helene Max Barzee. Perhaps the lead
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1932.
ership will change occasionally
ked with its price. Apart from Lemley won tne guest prize.
the rest lay a harmless looking ^Bob Johnson's mother return to give all practice in leadership.
wedge-shaped tool—muchwjoni— ed to Bond Fridsy. She visited To date the teems are a tie.
THE GRAIN RATE CASE.
The girls’ and boys’ basket ball
and priced much higher than any a week with her son.
f
teams
have their first game on
The supreme court of this land has just declared the lowered of the others.
Friday the 9th., with Kent.
It
is
reported
tnat
Jack
Rags
Someone asked the Devil what
grain rates of last August ineffective because the Interstate Com
dale bad his feet frozen while Both teams have been working
it
was.
very hard under the supervision
merce Commission did not reopen the hearing in 1931 when’asked
of their coaches, Miss_ Kutch
‘That’s Discouragement,” was herding sheep near Lagrande.
to do so by the railroads. The original examination of the grain the reply.
Elmer Hall and family, of The and Mr. Walker.
rates was started in 1928 and was delayed by the railroads as long
“Why have you priced it so Dalles, visited here over the Initiation for thestudedtn who
New Year holiday with the Dell. are eligable foy tee Torch Honor
as was possible. The order did not go into effect until after Aug high?”
Society will be held Friday af
Olds
family-
“Because,” replied the Devil,
ust and now it is killed because the I.C.C. didn’t let the railroads
ternoon
“it is more useful to me than Joho Perry and wife and Dick
delay it longer with further investigations.
Had the supreme court considered a little longer on the matter any of the others. I can pry o- Huhman and wife returned
pen and get inside a man’s con Tuesday night from Cornelius
itself it might have reached the very sensible conclusion that sciousness with that when I where relatives live. Engineer |
the reason the commission did not open the case again last June could not get near him with any Scheffer took the engine while
was that they considered the ruling just, even in the light of nearly of the others—and when once
At
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inside I can use him whatever A Mr. McNab, of Albina, has
three years delay. A
-
Less Cost
Papers in commenting on the decision remark that the court way suits me best It is much been appointed to the position
Net saving of 25 °|o
did not hold to the strietly legal aspects of the case but branched worn because I’ve used it on of railroad agent here and will
nearly everyone and very few take charge in a few daye.
out into the field of economic policy in reaching this conclusion. know it belongs to me.”
Lillian Coon returned Sunday
This must mean that the supreme court reipgnized that there are
It hardly need be added that from a visit with her parents at
many persons in the United States who are holders of railroad the Devil’s price for discourage Colton.
Let us Explain
stocks and bonds and that there are many insurance companies ment was so high it was never Art Bibbv and wife were here
sold.
.
.
...
with large sums tied up in railroad stocks and that the welfare of
from Heppner the first of the
He still owns it-and is still week. Fire recently rszed the
the country would be better served by protection of this class of
using it. Let’s forget this tool building Art was occupying
and
investors.
and get to work. The business
ha
is
in
doubt
as
to
what
he
will
It might be a fair question to ask what sort of economic theory is here if we work for it Will
do in the future.
allows the supreme court of the land to ignore the fact that there you get yours or will you let the
Celebrating the nineteenth
are some six million farmers whose prosperity depends to no little people of some other city get all anniversary of thier marriage,
extent on the freight rates charged for moving the products of the trade. If you are wise you Dell and Ella Olds invited a Moro Grain Growers
will trade at home and you will
their farms to market. The court, in branching out into economic prosper. Trade away from home house full of friends on New
Association
theory, has decided in favor of the investor instead of the producer, and you will gQ down. When, a Year’s Eve. After-an evening
the money lender instead of the money maker, for no new wealth businessman shops out of town spent with cards/a mock mar
can be created except by the production or discovery or develope- it makes people afraid of his riage ceremony was performed
merchandise; The first thing | with George Wilcox officiating
ment of something useful. -
land reuniting the couple for
Are we at last to come to believe the radical assertion that no your customer will think of is another nineteen seasons. Mrs.
that your merchandise is not
man can rise to a position of high office in this country without what it should be or you would Poley won first prize for women
having contracted friendships, interests, and derhaps material trade at home. When you show and George Wilcox for men.
- stocks and bonds that unfit him to judge impartially between people you have confidence in W. F. Simpson and daughter
your line, you can make other of Seattle, relatives of Mrs.
capital and labor?
W. E. Garrett, visited here dur-
’ It may be that we are asking too much of frail humanity people interested. Trade at
ing the vacation.
when we ask them to decide between farmers in a part of the land home if you want prosperity for
Vern McGowan and wife
your own town.
that is distant and remote and whose troubles are merely head
Exchange spent the vacation with his peo
lines and hearsay, and friends who have money invested in stocks
ple near Independence,
$1000.00 in cub prizes and one thou
and perhaps personal interest brought about through ownership
Miss Thompson was in Ash
sand other prize« are offered for ex
amples of sluD with a Jackknife. Entries
land and Mies Edmonds was in
of railroad securities themselves. If all of our officials, legislative,
may be any kind of model, figure or
Grass
Valley
4
The
Dalles
during
the
vacation.
special carving, requiring skill and in
executive, and judicial must come from the class of people who
genuity, made entirely of wood, and
Both are teachers in the Grass
loan money instead of from the class of people who earn money,
with no other tools than a jackknife.
Valley schools.
siso
Flnt Mx«.
Mrs. A, W. Me Leod is stay
the earners may expect many such decisions.
1 too
Second Mi
Verna
Burna
was
operated
on
S75
Some day we may look back at the supreme court decision on ing with Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Tuesday at the Mid Calumbia
TlUrd Mt«
J5O
Fourth Mu
Sommers
while
recovering
suffi
the grain rate case as the beginning of a sad and disastrous period
SIS
FIN» Mt«.
hospital
in
The
Dalles.
ciently from her injuries in a re
in our national existence.
cent wreck, before returning to Agnes Simon, daughter of Mr.
>ckknive» will be dietnbuttd to all winner« </
cub award* and to tho*» receivtn, bonocabla
and Mrs. Matt Simon, was taken
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her home east of Moro. L
mention. In cam of tie* duplicate priam will be
to Portland the last of the week
given.
Helen Me Leod is still in The
YOUTH GOING TO SCHOOL
AH rule* and detail« </ thia conteat are in tne
and operated on for appendicitis
teeue of Popular Mechanic« Magazine now on «ale.
Dalles hospital and expects to
Buy a copy at any newaatand or con»ult one at
Last week with Christmas over and the new year properly in remain there as long as her leg there.
your library. You do not have to be a regular
reader.
ducted into service, the young folks went away to school again. continues to drain, to avoid any
POPULAR MECHANICS
And as they stood in the group of parents and other well wishers chance of infection.
Moro School Notes
MAGAZINE
who came to wish them goodspeed, the contrast between the eld •Dale Baker, who underwent an
Lois Bryamt and Josephine 100 Eart Ontario
S»wa<
CHICAGO, ILL
ers and the youths and maidens was very distinct.
operation on his nose recently ohnson, students attending the
Youth with fresh, eager faces were prattling about nothing was returned to the hospital in
and everything at once. Their troubles, if they had any, rested The Dalles this week. Dale was
running some temperature and
lightly on their shoulders and were not serious enough to darken
Published in the Interest of the People of Grass Valley and
it was feared there might be
the brightness of their expressions. To them life is still a pleas some infection,
Vicinity by The TUM-A-LUM-LUMBER COMPANY
ant adventure to be encountered with gaiety and wit and noncha-
GRASS VALLEY. OREGON, DEOEMBER 25. 1981
No. 42
George Wilcox left Monday Vol. 81
lantly as one fends the teeth of a playful terrier.
afternoon for Portland to attend
EDITORIAL.
For Paint, Kalsotpine, Glass, Sash,
To the elders, most of whom were old enough to be sending a meeting of insurance men that
Veneer, Wallboard, Wall Paper, Roof
their offspring away to school, life presented a very different pic is to be held therethis week.
In 1982 there will be 5 double holi ing and Shingles. Phone 91 Grass Val
days.
Thia will let “Old Man Depres ley, for quality goods.
Miss Anna Schwartz visited
ture - still judging from appearances. For them it was no longer
sion“ take lots of vacations. Lets
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in Moro Monday.
a gay adventure just to be alive. They had found that life “stacks relatives
kick him out right now.
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Believe it.or not, we will sell you
Chris Taylor was in Moro
the cards to catch your weakness and not to match your strengh,”
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anything you can buy ¡from the mail
and they have been sobered and, in contrast to the younger folks, Tuesday from his ranch on the J H Wilson at Kent is doing a nice order house, in our line, and save you
river and reports spending the job repairing his home. Now Wilson time as well as in many instances
saddened by the knowledge.
/
winter feeding sheep over in believes in taking advantage of the money.
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But it wouldn’t do so to have it otherwise. Confidence is nec Gilliam county.
new low prices in holiday building ma
Car of hard Lump Coal in tnMbit.
essary for all who must engage in stern conflicts, as all football
Sherars Grange will give a terial.
coaches know, although too much is also disastrous. The old man dance in their hall Saturday eve
sitting in the chimney corner or in theeeasy chair c annot tell youth ning. This will be another of
A DOLLAR’S WORTH
of the burdens that cpme with age and responsibility. Youth those jolly get togethers of
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th»«
eoepon
and
mail it with 11 for a six week«’ trial tubtcription io <
must battle the dragon, life, himseW and wrest what he can from neighbors who like to dance to
the old and new tunes.
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR • ■
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the fray Each generation is getting more from that engagement
Little Jerry Wilson, • son of
and perhaps someday w<s may develop a civilization that will make
Jerry Sr. of Rent, was burned
it possible for youth to win the things it wants from life and still
quite aeverly Saturday when he
keep that happy outlook and never-be-serious philosophy.
backed into the fireplace. Dr.
Poley
dressed his burns and he
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Is getting along very well.
One snow storm doesn’t break a dry cycle and it is possible
studehts from the colleges
that we will have another dry year, but it is almost certain that have departed for the seats of
this year will not be as dry as 1931 and that’s something.
I learning again after the Christ-
DISCOURAGEMENT
mas Mason; Bob Poley and Bar Oregon
Dr. J. A. Butler
Will be at the
Hotel Moro
the week beginning
January 11
for the
Practice of Dentistry
Fire Insurance
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MILL RUN per sack............
.90
SHORTS per sack................
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ROLLED WHEAT per sack.
1.00
ROLLED BARLEY per sack
2.10
LAYMORE MASH per sack
2.00
CRACKED CORN per sack.
1.20
OYSTER SHELL per sack.
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BLOCK, PLAIN, 50 lb. ...............
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BLOCK, SULPHURIZED, 50 lb......................... 70c
SULPHURIZED BLOCK 5 lb 15 cents, 2 for 25c
Prices Subject to Change •
Sherman Cooperative Grain Growers
WASCO. OREGON
J
To Get the Best Goods
at the Best Prices
during the year 1932, and we’ll
see you often.
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