In'rman
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FARMERS HEAR FOUR
SPEAKERS FOR COOPS
Wasco and Crut Välky Scenes
Meetings
SHUMWAT REVIEWS HEW BOOK
, Sherman Cennty
.
Judge Potter Taiki
At Engineens Meet
For School Lunches
Simple Food Best
Simple and inexpensive garden and
dairy products form the foundation ’ of
the best school lunch, says Miss Lucy
A. Cas«, nutrition specialist al Oregon
State College.
Whole grain bread and butter sand-
wiches, a raw tomato in season and a
bottle of milk will go a long way to
ward satisfying the body needs of th«
growing child, Miss Case explains.
She suggests whole grsin bread and
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Unemployment Men g
Pick Laborers
i CHI la III HI g
cheese, meat, fish or nut butter; a raw I
Members of the unemployment com
vegetable, a bottle of milk and a frui t
mittee met in Moro Wednesday morn
or custard desert.
ing and afterwards made a trip to the
It
"Make the school lunch ss complete eounty work on Sherar's gride.
a meal as possible," says Miss Case I has been noceseary to change many of
ssys, "and have the foe d appetising. I the men working on thia road to other
work in order to ^ive employment to
Wrap it in waxed paper to prevent
as many as possible. It to expected
mixing of flavors snd drying out, and that the work on Sherar's road will bo
pack it compactly in a washable, ven finished by the middle of February.
tilated container. Put the heavy foods The road is now passable down to the
in the bottom, snd those to be esten second point and there is not a great
deal of work left on the north side hill
first on top.? Tim • and effort may be across from the old road.
saved /or mother by teaching children
to pack their own lunches ss soon as
they are old enough."
Wasco High School
A rmple, balanced school lunch, with
To Give Student Play
adequate time for consuming it," she
■ays, "is an important factor in the
economy of health, and it is dsily re
Next Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock
ceiving more sttention from both psr- in the high school auditorium, the
ents and teachers."
'« | Masque and Dagger Club will present
Sherman county farmers had the
choice of two meetings Saturday af
ternoon when A. R. Shumway, pres
ident of the North Pacific Grain
Growers and George Davis of the
Farm Board, spoke at the Wasco
high school auditorium and Orris
Dorman and Roy Bitner, prominent
farmer of Umatilla county spoke
in the civic auditorium in
Valley.
These men are engaged in
paign to spread information about
the workings of the National Cooper
ative movement that is headed by
the federal farm board and the
speeches made in this county were
similar to those that being are be
ing made throughout the northwest.
a throe act comedy entitled, "The
»At Wasco the meeting was called
Whoofonproof." The admission will
to order by Dr. Leah Richelderfer. Legionnaires Attend
I be twenty five and thirty five cents
president of the womans auxiliary of
The story is laid in the office of a
the Sherman Cooperative Grain
District Conference sm 41 town newspaper which is on the
Growers under whose auspices the
verge of bsnkruptcy. The character
meeting was called. She introduced
of Mona Lary, who is crowding the
George E- Davis, field representative
Floyd Flatt, Fred Pickett, Theo I Condenser to the wall by vamping the
of the farm board who outlined the dore Johnston and Vernon Flatt I trade to her paper. The Clarion, is por-
growth of the cooperative movement drove to Hood River last Thursday I trayed by Belle Clothier.
and explained the work of each unit night to attnd a district conference
Old Roaring Riley, ths county sheriff
of the plan and compared it with of the American Legion. This meet and the Widow Winters are acted by
the old system of marketing farm ing was made especially interesting Malcolm Guy and Ruth Schwendel.
crops.
by the presence of many of the state These two characters are good for a
He stated that the Fanners Nation officers who are using these confer-, Laugh every time they appear on the
al Grain Corporation has made and encesto acquaint the posts through scene.
The east is as follows; Dad Keteh-
returned profits tho the grower of two out the state wih the p[ans being
I
ell
and John Liebeck, who are partners
and a half million dollars within the made for the entertainment of the
two years since it has been in opera legiohnaires of the whoje Uni teed in the paper are taken by Nyai and
Mrs.
tion..
States who will convene in Portland Edward Grady respectively;
Ketcheil,
Orion
Wattenburg;
Wheeler
Mr. Shumway discussed and re next September.
Ketchell, a young college graduate.
viewed the book. “Wheat and Poli
Max Williams; Deep Liebeck, Winifred
tics.” that hae caused so * much * in
terest among the grain trade. He fanner,” Mr. Dorman said. “Thia is Fortner; Rparing Riley,' the county
showed the falsity of the accusations decidedjy too small. There are more sheriff, Malcolm Guy; Widow Winters,
Ruth Schwende, and Mona Lary Belle
made by the author, Brinton, and than 30.000.000 Americans engaged
Clothier.
showed his reasons for attacking the in agricultural pursuits, and prosper
farm board
ity cannot return until their buying
He stated that the farmers na- ‘ power is increased.
Sticking Doers
.
If doors tend to stick, especially the
tional had handled 390,000,000 bush- I “Mortgage loan« aganst farm
•Is of grain at a cost of less than one lands have been doubling with each swinging door Into the dining room,
cent per bushel. Salaries, and wages each succeeding generation. Today, first try soaping all the outer edgon
If this doesn't work, look the tdoor
amounted to less than a fifth of a 25 per cent of them are delinquint. over, discover just Where It sticks
cent a bushelon this amount of wheat This means that agriculture is headed and shsve off n little of the surface.
he said.
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tomards ruin unless the farmer can
The womens auxiliary expect to receive sufficient returns to meet
hold meetings of this nature once his obligations.”
Mr. Dorman declared statesmen I
each month during the spring.
At Grass Valley, Orris Dorman and others advocating the abolition
was the prncipal speaker. He said of the federal farm board and the I
that the farm problem coujd only be i agricultural marketing act, claiming I
settled by finding markets for the the board is dissipating the people’s I
farmer so that he could get more for money, sre talking without first
hisproducts.
*. Borrowing additional hand knowledge.
money is no cure for the preelent
Roy Ritner also addressed the
conditions, he stated.
i group of farmers who gathered to
Only 30 per oent of the sale price learn
;
more of coperation. Very good
farm products is returned to the < crowds attended both meetings.
Contestants Coy As Maids
“Now don’t it beat the can,” said
the old timer, “the way these poli
ticians ace. Roosvelt has admitted
that he is a candidate for the demo
cratic nomination for the presidency
after three years of working for the
doing that *very
opportunity
thing.
“If a man is running for sheriff
or constable he goes out on the
street corner or the oad coner and
talks to every one he meets about
the office and his qualifications for
same; but if he is going to run for
president he backs off squirms around
says he to a plain cl then- sayr| he is
interest merely in performing his
duty as a common man. say» we
have a great nation, says he love*
his family, has his picture takenwith
a dog, goes fishing, talks abiut every
thing else but what he is. thinking
about.”
,
“Does anyone suppose that any
of a dozen other nationally knowtn
men will not announce them selves
if they can Une up enough support
amoung the different groups that
carry lots of votes? A man kinda
gets the notion that presidential
candidates are feminine in nature
and candidates
sheriff are
masculine. One is coy and hesitant
and does his ]eve| bast to be dis-;
creet while the other is bold and
bravely' asks for what he wants and
hopes to get."
School Out
County Judge Georg« A. Potter and
> Roadmaster Homer S. Wan attended
the annual meeting of th« engineers of
the state in Portland last Saturday
night. ' Thia meeting and banquet
marked th« close of Mr. Walt's term
ar president of this organisation. Mr.
Potter wm one of th« speakers.
/mntaiMimv
Presidential Politics Makes
Wasco
1 recorded, we
er of students
I has increased
of the last six
OREGON STATE NEWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Assembled for Information
of Our Readers.
THE MARKETS 1
Come on girls!
girla whose ns
honor list this
Paulen Käseberg
Delmer. SMth
Orion Wattenburg
» last time there
Portland
mior class leads
Wheat — Big Bend bluestem, hard
sber of honor white, 77 He; soft white, western
thirdof of them. white, hard winter, northern spring
I are 9 boy* to 6 and western rod, 62He.
appear on th«
Hay—Buying price, f. o. b. Portland;
Alftdfis, >14015
valley timothy.
eastern Oregon timothy.
918018.50; clover, 912; oat, 912.80;
oats and vetch, 912.50© 12.
Butterfat—18 ©20c.
Eggs—Ranch, 14018«.
Cattle—Steers, good, 95.5005,75.
Hogs—Good to choice, 94.65 0 5 25.
Lambs—Good to choice, f4.50@5. ...
Seattle
Arthur Spencer
Aguata Bucking
Sophoasona Cass
Winifred Fortner .
Wheat—Soft white, western white,
western red, 62c; hard winter, north
ern spring, 63c; bluestem, 75c.
. Butterfat—23c.
Eggs—Ranch, 14 O18c.
Cattle—Steers, good, 95.25©5.75.
Hogs—Good to choice, 95.15©5.25.
Lambs—Choice, 94 @4.50.
Spokane
Robert Ferrell
Geraldh*« Funk
Leon Smith
Marvin Thomas
In order to be <
student must hai
Cattle—Steers, good, 35.50 @6.
Hogs—Good to choice, 95.00.
Lambs—Medium to good, 93.50©4.50
honor roll *
least one
Automobile Driver
Examiaer Coming
There were 966 births and 643 dbaths
In Marion county in 1931, according
to a report‘completed by ths Salem
health unit.
Having decided that It is impossible
to sell notes of 9500 denomination to
Astoria people, the city school board
is planning to issue notes in 950 de
nominations.
Early lambs are thriving tn the Day
ton section, growors report, but there Turner.
are fewer twins than la past a co errs»
Members of the state g
On the Asa Nichols farm in tho Plaaa- ehm will be advised that
sntdalo section there are 45 Iambi Seaside to vor an open mi
from 55 owes to date. ' .
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Aa order reducing coyote bounties only thooo holding cortiflcatoa hrona
from 910 s pelt to 98 has boon adopted tho commission showing that they
by tho Douglas county court. Tho have killed a cougar bo granted per-
change becomes effective January 15. miseion to kill elk.
The bounty on «oyote pnps will re
The United States land cilice at
main at 93.50 a head.
Roseburg is la third place among all
A census of wild lit* In tho Umpqua the land office* of tho gae3rn*aint
national foreat shows 3250 blacktail from the standpoint of reedpta test
deer and 450 black or brown boars. 1 year. The receipts of tho office W«n
Of predatory animals tho census Is: 9285,246. The two OffiCM heWfi^r
Coyotes 386, wildcats 510, cougars 105, more business were Sacramento
wolves 70 and porcupine» 215
and Cheyenne, Wyp. ;_
Growers in the Re inter drainage
Tho volume of building permits is-
sued In Portland. Eugene and Cor* district will plant appro tfrnataly go
valila in December shoved healthy acres of peas next spring, the crop
gains over November and as a result from which was contracted for re
lifted the total for the entire state cently at a meeting of the growers
well above the November marks,
hold in Rainier. A price of IB eente
, City Mansger Reiter of Bend has per pound was accepted from a ean-
announced a drastic economy program aery near Portland.
involving the reduction of th« »umber
While digging out a stump on the
cf city employes and consolidation of MascaU reach near Dayville recently,
departments. It is estimated that a James Harper, sheepman, excavated
raving of about 95000 a month can a fine gold chain which apparently
ta mad«.
had been burled for a long then bid
t „ .
Th« California-Oregon Powor com was in good state of preservation.
pany will complete soon the fencing Several years ago a ring was dug up
of 15 mil«s of canals la th« southern on the same ranch.
Oregon section, to pretont d««r from
Here's a depression trick all police
tailing into the canal and drowning. departments might employ: Oqrlss
Earlier this fall about 40 deer wore Lemons, Pendleton, police chief, has
drownod.
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paid with empty liquor bottles collect
A locomotive - automobile crash ed durfag raids for redecorating the
claimed Chsrlos Ellers, well-known interior of the police station. Lemons
peach orchard owner ot Aurora, as a traded the bottles to a teral paint
victim when Ellers drove hi* automo firm for a kalsomine job.
bile over th« Aurora crossing Imme
Polk county Is proud ot her Jerseys
diately la th« path of a Southern Pa and is planning to ten the world about
cific passoager train.
them. D es fahu was reached at the
annual mooting of the Polk Conty
Th« Baak of Southwestern Oregon Jersey club just hold, to hold a spring
at Marshfield, capitalized at 9100,000 Jersey jubilee and also to seo that
and with deposits of 9878,422, was
suitable signa wore placed along the
closed and placed la th« hands of A. ' highways «siting attention to the qual
A. Schram, state sup«rintead«at of ity of Jerseys la that eounty-
El Campo Ruglente, the annual Vai«
firemen’« winter festival, will be held
C M. Bentley, ex a miner of operators this year February 26 and 27. Robert Bible, the directors said.
and chauffeurs will be in Moro, Wed Barney Is general chairman in charge ■ Approximately 9250,000 was placed H<den, „superintendent of tho United
in the state highway fund recently, Ststee reclamation bureau In Klam
nesday, February 3d, 1382, at the ot this year's event.
as the result of the monthly transfer ath Falls, of the awardink of 67 home-
Court House, between the hours tf 9
Mrs.
Bertha
Langworthy,
city
librar
of collections from the gasoline tax, atsads on the Tulo lake project. The
a. m and 12 m, for the purpose of re
ian
of
North
Bend,
reports
that
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made by the secretary of state. The homesteads go to ex-service men se
ceiving applications and conducting ex
lected from 163 applicants. The
aminations foroperators and chauffeurs' per cent of the city's population Is month's gasoline revenue for the high
awards are made on tho basla of capi
patronising
th«
library
and
the
book
licenses
way fund was «2e4.524.78.
tal, farming experience, character and
loans for 1931 numbered 52,738.
Reports that
Shevlin-Hixon . Industry.
Circulars propared by th« United Lumber mill and the Brooks-Scanlon
Salvaging crippled ducks and g««M
States department bf labor are being mill may be running full shifts within
on
tho United Stet«« wild life refuge
sent out to all hop growers in the another month are current in Bend.
at
Tulo
lake has netted 1173 docks
Willamette valley asking them to em- | Some of the workmen from both mine
and <32 goose, according to tho Meter
ploy only white labor this year.
have been called In to give all mar leal survey. Tho salvaging eampnfgn
The Yamhill County Dairy Hord Im* I dhlnery an overhauling.
wa« begin November 25 and continnod
provement association recently met at
The possibility of erecting a new through December. Tho salvaged
DATS
McMinnville. Honor roll certificates stat« capitol building with funds to b« birds were donated to charlteblo er-
for
herds making 300-pound averages obtained from federal lands in Ore ganixstions of Tulo Lake townrite,
Jan. 2
of butterfat during 1981 were pre gon is one of th« Important quostions Merrill and Klamath lHlo
sented.
that will b« discussed by Governor
Tho Hobl Airway* airplane from Ed-
The Polk county court has reduced Maier when he arrivea in Washington, ----------
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the licence fees on dogs 50 per cent D. C. th« first of th« month.
to tho Evoafng Star mla« la th« Bo*
if paid before March 1. The new rate
Thres persons worn killed and two homlaa district aad a larg« aawunt
is >1 for males and 91.50 for females. Injured seriously when their automo i of food sappllo* was drapped ior tho
If not paid by March 1 the fee will be bile crashed h«ad-oa into a truck ■ix pereons maroonod there by th«
doubled.
driven by Irving Hedges on the Turn- d««p saow last wo«k. Th« mlaero
er-Msrion highway last week. Th« ac had bullt a hugs flre aad thoy daacod
cident occurred on a straight stretch around tt Uk« ladlans aa th« plano
of road about four mllra north of eamo swooping throegh th« feg.
WEATHER REPORT FOR
. WEEK ENDING JAN. 27
I
Old Time News Items For Early
Sherman County Settlers
-©Set Hi
January 26, 1893
’ Senator Btewier has iatroducted a
bid in the state legislature providing
for a new county to be bounded on the
l west by the Deschutes River and on
I east by the John Day river and to be
called Stockmans county. Antelope is
I the prospective county seat.
A teachers meeting was hold in Moro
I last Saturday there being present Supt.
I H. Tyree and the following teachers;
Miss Bolle Cobman, W. J. Poddicord,
Mbs Julia Woods, Clark Brown and
Miss Maggio Merril.
Moore and Karlen, Grass Valley, sa
nounces their retirement from business.
, Moro prepared for the baseball sea
son by naming a committee of W. *.
McCoy, B. M. Meach and E. H. Meera
to incorporate.
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January 30 18
J. F. B«lsh«« has sold hi* farm prop
arty at Jefferson, Orogon, and to to
the coiMty seeking a location for to-
turning. M
I
O. B. Botoh«« to having hi* moat
market
renovated and repainted; tho
James McLeod, the jowebr and spr
way the work to b«fag don« will help
inter. who formerly engaged in busi
hoop the «hop warmer in winter and
ness in Moro, has returned to the dty
cooler in summer.
after a protracted trip.
January M, 19(4
Th« dty council Monday «wnteff
voted
a permit to Arthur PMUNp* I«
N. W. Tbempoon has sold the team
of horses advertised tn the Old Reliable
I Observer last wook for |S00.
G. A. Meloy baa boon confined to his
Tax roll for German eounty thb
bod with rhoumatiam the peat week.
yw «arrian
divided eounty
Apparently Stockman eounty was and «tate M7.1M8E; special m M
rad tens NWE; to-j
still a matter of discussion ten yean
eorporaled
citine
H*.«.
I
after It was trot mentioned.