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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1932)
firman C^mtntu journal Sberman Ccaaty Observer Eat, ISM, Grass Valley Joaraal, Eat., 1897, Coaaolidated March «. 1831. SHERMAN COUNTT OFFICIAL PAPER Fortyiourth Year —» ^fr a , ____ Mdro, Oregon, January 15, 1932 w-o -u . nDrnnkl -CTATC urwe ' UnttrtW NEtlV OF GENERAL INTEREST Principal Ivents of the Week Assembled for Information of Our Readers. THE MARKETS Portland V^heat—Big Bend bluestem. hard white, 73ftc; soft white, western white, hard winter, northern spring and western red, 58^c. Hay—Buying price, tab. Portland: Alfalfa, >14Q)15; valley timothy, >15^15.50; eastern Oregon timothy, >18^18.50; clover, >12; oat, >12.50; oats and vetch, >12.50013. Butterfat—19 O 21 c. Eggs—Ranch, 10 ©23c. Cattle—Steers, good, <5.7506.25. Hogs—Good to choice, >4.6505.45. Lambs—Good to choice, >4.50@5. Sesttle Wheat—Soft white, western white, 59c; hard winter, northern spring, 61c; western red, 60c; bluestem, 72c. Butterfat—23c. Eggs—Ranch, 19 ©24c. Cattle—Steers, good, >5.75®6 25. Hogs—Good to choice, >5.50©5.60. Lambs—Choice, >4©4.50. Spoksne Cattle—Steers, good, >5.50@6 Hogs—Good to choice, >5©5.25. Lambs—Medium to good, >3.50©4.50 Î spring Is beifig planned by the Rbie- bur< Chamber of Commerce. Dedication of a marker on the Jack New Offim»Named iq.1- of O. Old Timers To Dance at Grass Valley .FHdayNîÿRI And supper it is to be pot-luck with I ,. the . . committee ' I. furnishing th* , coffee A , k I) L- end fixin’s. And be not afraid, states I the committee, that it will be ’inadu-l^ quate to the requirement« of the dan cers for even in these so-called hard times each woman sees to it that her I contribution is of the very best and I able to compete with anyones There I will be plenty and s< me to spare when the major dome of the kitchen calls I his "Come an’ get it" along about mid-1 night. And when, in the wee small hours ofl the night after ( the dancers, many I unaccustomed to the exercise, are tired I and the fiddler raises his bow to strike I the first notes uf that benediction to all properly conducted old time dances, I Home, Sweet Home, may every oue be as xyell satisfied and happy as they I have been at the end of the other Old I Timers Mid-Wmter Balla. I SNOW ALL GOES INTO SUL ik. PIan;Jor an «c;»ve year made gt th* ««1^ <* th« “Oregon Dads” at the University of Oregon. A lunch was served in the basement of Ilie church by the ladies of the con- after the service. Short talkr were made by the Dew Eagle sc. uts, by E. R. Westlake, of Bend, K D. McKee, chairman of the Wasco Above are the new officers, and members of the executive Committee. Left to right, Sam H. Baker Grants Pasi! Allsn F. Hunt, Burlingame, Cal.; Carl Haberlach, Tillamook; Dr. George A. Massey, Klamath Fall’s- Dr Arnold tenn«tt Hall, president of the University; Charlee Hall, Portland; Mrs. Marisn Phy Ager, executive secretary - C C Hall, Portland; O. Laurgaard, Portland, retiring president;,J. C. Stevens, Portland; W. Lair Thompson Portland president; Wilson fl. Jewett, Eugene, secretary; Paul T. Sh^r, Portland, and W. C. Reuguitz, Portland announced by Major General George A, White include almost all types of equipment. The material will be paid for by the federal government. One of Cooe bay's main resources, dairy products, shows a fine record The Northwestern Smelting com for the past year. Ono creamery, that pany of Seattle has secured an option of the Mutual association, located in on the quicksilver mining claims of Marshfield, had an output of 800,Q00 W. W. Smith, A. G. Ames and Grover pounds of cheese and 300,000 pounds Riggings, near Squaw mountain above of butter, drawing from points on Coos' Estacada, and has commenced opera river and inlets. Other factories have good records in the same area. tions. Farmers and farm laborers far out That they are making better than wages is the claim of a number of number all other classes of workers people in Curry county who are work in gainful occupations in Oregon as ing the black sand beds along the announced by the census bureau in coast, which were left exposed to view detailed statistics of the 1930 census.„ by the recent high tides and heavy Farm owners and tenants number 47,- 700 men and 2273 women; farm la seas.. Saving of (150,236.61 In county ex borers 26,170 men, 597 women, and penses was revealed at McMinnville unpaid family farm workers, 3978 men when the Yamhill county court made and 240 women. public the budget for 1932. The bud The state highway commission will get calls for a tax levy of >376,041.55 rebuild the South beach ferry slip on against a total of >523,288.16 for last the south side of Yaquina bay, on the year. The decrease is approximately coast highway, and an application has 28 per cent. been made to the district engineer of The fanners of Lowell and vicinity the war department for a permit« a have banded themselves together and hearing on which will be held soon. signed up between 400 and 500 cows The former slip was constructed too in order to influence someone to start I near the shore, and the new plans call a cheese factory, and they now have I for an extension 75 feet out into the scouts out looking for a suitable party. I channel. This is one of the very best dairy sec- ----------------------- tions in the upper Willamette valley. . . , Th.n.hln«troU.rCom.tl..wr.ck John C- Lyhch Bur,ed j. I CHOP HM5PEC15 BEBERED 8T MN ^agle Scout badges are one of the rarest things in scouting for only one scout in about 900 receives this honor. Two boys from Wasco. Leon Smith and M«re Moisture fa Grond Baa Aay Francis Watkins, of tro< p 36. were made Eagle scouta last Sunday at an Tine Sect 1928 impressive service in the Methodist E- piscopal church. The scoutmaster N Sherman Hawk Kava ■ sermon aud the troop acted out a pantomine. -The Seven Ages of a Scout" which wri read by the Scout Executive W. W. Belcher, of The Dal les. The parents of the boys to be R*i" AM. Mm AvaHkMt (Milan; honored were called to the platform and the mothers were privileged to pin the badges of highest scouting honor «Jpon their sons. Godfrey Seymour, for 70 years a resident of Gardiner, Celebrated his 100th birthday on New Year's day. Mr. Seymour went to the Umpqua region before there was a town of Oardiner and was engaged as a captain of river boats In that section. The eastern pear market is holding strong, with favorable future pros pects, according to advices received by Medford fruit distributors. Good Anjous have been selling at >2.75 per box and as high as 14. This Is about double the price of last year. Due to increased demand for bat tery stock three mills are operating In Port Orford cedar in Curry county. They are the Tremblay mill at Wed- derburn, the Marsh-Ponting mill on the Rogue river, and the West Coast Separator company plant at Ophir. January 25 to 29, inclusive, is Lane county fair week, it has been an nounced by O. S. Fletcher, county agent. Monday will be poultry day, Tuesday horticultural day, Wednesday farm crops day, Thursday a special day for the discussion of problems in economics and Friday is dairy day. Farm week Is an annual event and is sponsored by the Lane county agricul tural council. Na N / Eagle Scouts Honored At Sunday Service ‘Oregon Dade’ sonville Methodist church, the oldest church building in the Rogue River valley took place recently at Jackson ville. Members of the Crater Lake chapter D. A. R. were In charge. Building construction In Klamath Falls during 1931 totaled approximate ly >600,000, the lowest year since 1926. Fifty ye ars of wedded life in Baker and Malheur counties was celebrated by Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Elms, pioneers of Ironside, recently. The postal receipts for the Grants Pass postoffice for 1931 were 2.25 per cent more than for 1930, amounting to >34,094.93, as compared to >33,351 in 1930. ---- Three prospectors In the Mule Creek district near Gold Beach stumbled on to an outcropping of a large ledge which assays >90 in gold and >1.15 in sliver. Building permits issued during the year In St. Helens amounted to >61,- 450, according to records In the office of the city clerk. Permits In 1930 to- taled >149,430. ; All of the merchants of Dallas have decided to discontinue the handling of bread shipped in by outside bakers and to support the local product, thus encouraging home industry. The state land department turned over to the state treasury >58,437.77 , near th. north Coo. ba. Jetty and her Jn CatnaS, Washington during December, according to a re owner and two other men who rode port prepared by George G. Brown, . when she was hit by a heavy breaker - ---------- clerk of the state land board. | were drowned. Nearby rests the re- Mr. John C. Lynch, who passed awav Night school for adults was opened mains of the coast guard lifeboat from I at the home of his daughUr, Mrs. under auspices of tbs Pendletpn kxjltout s UU m 1» which Captain 4 Blanch' Robertson of Portland, last school board beginning January i, It Holts and War* guardsmen tried to Thursday after an illnest of five days has been announced by Austin Lan I rescue the imperiled men. I dreth, city school superintendent. Military equipment worth >53,166.02 ------ -------------------- .------ - tv L A campaign to interest property will will enter enterfQre^ jinring to* owners of Roseburg and Douglas county in building and improving prop- »et. iXT.ittó-n* Ac'nita ¿«dJ erty now instead of waiting until next ed by the Oregon National Guard as For those whose feet tingle at the dulcet strains of "Over the waves’* and for those who long to whirl around the floor to the stirring notes of "Whis- lin’.J^i'fiis" the second recurrence of the Old Timers Mid Winter Ball at Grass ' alley to-night will be as manna in the wilderness • f modern dance tunes which have no appeal to one born in the nineties or before. The ball will be a charity affair, as all of them are, for the local commun ity chest wiJJ profit from the returns of the dance. An orchestra from The Dalles, who have won repute as purvey ors of old time music will furnish the * . 1 tunes. Callers will he there to instruct the bowing and jigging dancers of quadril les when to "alls man left” and "sal ute your i ar’nera ’ ns well as when to undeit.ike the more intricate steps and UI >vrn e|iiH of that ,/Hgeapt of yester year’s folk dancing. « VW Q of pneumonis, will be remembered by many of the older reridents of Wasco and vicinity. He was born in Saffi|mon county, 1)1., where his early life Was spent He married Anna, youngest sister of the late J. H, Johnson of'¡Vasco, Oregon He came to Oregon In (Jie year 1882 and in the spring of 1884 moved fom A|bany, to Eastern Oregon in company with J. H. and Lee A, Johnson to what was then Wasco county, and they all settled on homesteads in the Big elow neighborhood, 8)^ mjles northeast of Wasco In the year 1904 he moved to Fredonia, Kansas, where he resided a couple of years, then returned to Wasco Where he lived several years in the house now owned by Chas. Golliher. On account of his wife’s ill health he moved to Camas, Wash. Forseveral years he has lived in Port land, where his daughter, Mrs, Blanche Bobertson, and his son, Warren D. Lynch, reside. His remains were laid beside his wife at Camas, Wash WEATHER REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING JAN. 13 DATE Jan. max . ^ ìin . PRECIP 7_.. ...41......... 00 T.... ... 45 ..Zig...’. .00 9...... ... 48 ... 87 ... .02 10....... ... .45 ... 86.........00 11....... ....62 ....85 ... 35 12....... ... 37....... 27.... .00 13....... ... 30 .. .17........ 03 Total for week.. 0 40 Northwest Wheat Diminishing Rapidly « Crop prospects for Sherman county wore again elevated during the week when rain in copious quantities fell Monday. The woek also eaw the Atei £ bit of the wet snow seep Into the ground with little or no run off. After troop committee and by Theodore John- a night of wind Monday’s rain fell on »ton. chairman of the Moro scout com the unfrozen ground and it, too, was mittee. absorbed by the soil. 4 ♦ * Mrs B. E. Hailey presented the two «•ports from different sections of boys with Esgle scout rings. the county confirm the belief that the Portland, Ore , Jan 13 - Predicting ground is wet down about a foot and a half. In some hard places farmers the Pacific northwest wheat surplus at state that the moisture has not pene the end of the present crop year will be Legion Boys Recall trated this far, but the general belief the smallest in hiatory of the area, Songs of Army Days is that it is wet down for this distance Henry W, Collins, vice president in in moet places. charge of the Pacific Coast division of Since the winter of 1927 and 1928 thia Farmers National Grain corporation, to. Householders living near the Legion is the deepest moisture that has been day made public a tabulated wheat hall might have thought Wednesday in the ground at this time of the year stock in the three northwest states night that ths ex-service men had re and farmers ars much encouraged. which set the surplus on January 1 at verted to the practice of M rhe iafnatsy, 10,750,121 bushels. The carryover on July 1, 1981, the the infanrry, that laps up al) the beer" beginningof the crop year, was 20.O00,- if they had judged from the sounds Légionnaires Invited To 000 bushels, Mr. Collins reveals, indi that came from the Legion meeting cating a wiping out of nearly one half Such was not the case, however, but Hood River Conference of the surplus to date. the attempts at close harmony were "The report shows but 10.754,121 bushels to work on during the next caused by the request of Commander Legionnaires and Auxiliaries of Dis seven months for export and for all Theodore Johnson’s that every member trict 5 which includes Mherman county rail shipments east,’’ said Mr. Collins. bring his army songbook and have a will meet in Hood River on January 21 This year’s supply, including crop and little group singing. for a district conference. State Com- carryover at the beginning of the seas From an artistic point of view the on. totaled 83 150,000 bushels, the re tnander Alex Parry and Jerry Owen, result was probably up to army stand port reveals. editor of the Oregon Legionnaire, wiP "In normal years, the carryover at ard where the only requirement was to be present as well u some Portlanders the end of the season in this area is open your mouth and make a noise. wbeare working with the convention about 10,000,000 bushels, continued Mr. Of a more serious nature was the ac committee . Colline. "Therefore, we feel that by tion of the legionnaires in voting to the time the next crop ie available for This meeting will inaugurate plana movement, our surplus will be the buy trees for the local boy scout troop for the next year's national convention smallest ever known on the Pacific in in sndeavor to help beautify the to be held in Portland and will map out Coast./ city and surrounding farmsteads The the part of the fifth district in those The tabulation gives production figur trees will be put out early this spring. plans. es for Oregon, Washington and North ern Idaho, setting this year’s crop at 60,700,000 bushels. One normal crop for this territory runs around 80,000,- 000 bushels I News of Another Day For Those 0D Who Remember Olden Time* _________ _________ Unofficial Observers of Congress D January 12, 1893 R. D Burleigh had published a long article on Single Tax. Messrs George, Adlore, and Henry Perrault made proof on their land be Teacher's Asa's meeting included talks by Sup’t Ragsdale, Prof. White and o- thers. Dr. Logan extracted g bullet from the foot of Hugh Chrisman's 12 year fore county clerk Hays this week. old son, accidently shot while handling R. J. Ginn, just horns from Umatilla »rifle. county reports the wheat crop there W. D. Holman sold four porkers for about the same as in Sherman county John Johnson this week that averaged with 12 bushels being considered a 280 each at 5c per pound. pretty fsircrop. J. Harvey Smith has decided to re County court met with John Fulton tire from active business for a time, on judge, and John A. Moore and • D. H. account of ill health His successor in Leech, commissioners present. the business will be Jon McDonald who John Medler made proof on his tim- wifi be associated with W. F. Weigand ber claim last Monday. His and G- B. Boarhill. were N. P. Johnson and R. H» Asms- < January 1« 1912 worthy. A rare bird hus boon captured at The Grass Valley Comedy Company Riggd Uy A. ■; Wolfbrd. ItWBSHea- will give an entertainmeot In Antebpo tiffed m • ptliean and measures right in th* sosf future ^Jaanary- 1«, 1908 The White Cellar Lihe la putting a tourist steamer on the PerUaml-na Dalles route capable of making a toted The O. T. Barnett pletore abo^ ' will Thursday. firing j MV trip dal'y. J. H. Bettermiller, of Kent, hue rented hie house and barn to O.' Ea kin who intends to open a hotel and and relativen in Portland and valley livery stable- | The Program for the Mhermaa oounty 9 I r
