Mrs. O. L. Belshe, ¿¡rector for the
affair made a short excursion into
the private life of the Stephens fam
ily after which Janet sang “Mother
| Machree,” and a cigver new song
• “My Mom.”
The dinner was spread on tables ar-
(Lmtnfy Unurnal
Sherman County Observer Eat, 1888, Grass Valley Journal, Eat^ 1897,. Consolidated March 6, 1931. Wasco NeSro-Eatorprise, Eat., IBM,-
Consolidated March 4, 1932
SHERMAN COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER
Moro, Oregon,
Forty Fourth Year
VOTERS SHOW LintE
INTEREST IN ELECTION
Jury Lilt For May
Term of Court
Mothers and Daughters
Banquet Together
Dell Wright, Moro; C. J. Thomp-
son Moro;
Eugene Vintin, Grass
J Frgwk von Borstel, Kent;
8eareg. Moro; J, M- Wilson,!
C. P-. Adams, Grass Valley;
The 1932 Mother and Daughter
banquet, sponsored by the Moro
Womans Club, was .held Wednesday
terian church.
evening at the
The church proper, wfcere music was
enjoyed before **
was tastefully
decorated with huge H»kets of poach
irif. Miss
blood, hydrangea,
|by, and then
Thomas sang a
si^with a happy
graciously
choice as encore,“ ¡Coming Home
From School-”
... RAH BRINGS NEW
HOPE TO FARMERS
aB^f ’
B T. M. gali». &MI
W. Drinkard, Klondike
o
JOTM. RE8ISflUfflBH B tWí.
HWjgrj
. F t
AiMByRain .
ikCUVj
."¡Äiti W MMK lì DOSO
Brackett, Rufus; Ctap Belshe, Moro;
W. B. * Bruckart,- Klondike; R. H-
W. H. Burres, Waaco; IX L» Psete,
Report from county clerk shows Moro; .Herman Schilling, Grass Val-
that registrations in this county have
.......
fallen off considerably since 1980
when the last election was held. 1^118
condition may be accounted for by the Grass Valley School
lack of local interest in the present
Has Long Honor Roll
campaign. There is little interest in
county offices compared to that in
neighboring counties and it is the
For the second successive six-weeks
local fights that bring out the voters-
penbd
Vivian Reynolds heads the
Of the other counties in this legis
Honor
Roll,
receiving I’s in all her
lative -district Gilliam county has
studies."She
is closely followed by
1727 registered an increase of 266
Dorothy
Fairchild,
Lawrence Todd,
over 1930. Morrow county, where
registration is also low has only 1312. Mildred Alley, Earle Shipley, Willard
Wheeler county’s registration has not Barnet and Cinthy Bell who received
yet been announced but is usually a- three I’s.
Those on the honor roll with their
bout equal to that of Gillaim county
class
and averages listed are: Vivian
Gilliam, Wheeler and Sherman are
Reynolds sophomore, 1. Dorothy
the
senatorial
the only counties in
Fairchild, freshman, 1.25. Mildred
district.
Alley, freshman, 1-25. Earle Ship-
The following table shows the reg-
istratinn in Sherman countv in ,1980^^7* sophennore, 1 4.0. Cinthy Bell,
in .he f>r,t column, the number who -en.or £25. Uunrehee Todd, fresh-
men, 1.25. Lila Faye Boyce, sopho-
voted in the second column and the
number r^^stcred in 1932 in the more, 1.5. Willard Barnet, senior,
1.5- Pearl Bell, senior, U. Genevieve
t third column.
.
Beardsley, junior, 1.75.x Taylor Bak
Following is the numbers of Re
publicans and Democrats and others er, freshman, 1-75. Marietta Perry,
,
registered voters in each precinct in senior, 2.
Florence
Schilling
taae
Sylvia Coyle
Shnrmnn county according to the poll
with
three
subjects
each
are also on
books at the office of the county
♦he honor roll.
clerk:
The excellent showing of the fresh
Reg.
Voted
Reg.
Precinct
man class bids fair to a larger mem
129
52
' 96
Rufus
bership in-the Torch Honor society
82
42
Locust. Grove 90
for which they will be eligible at the
82
38
87
Kuondike
end of the year-
97
56
106
Monkland
68
35
76
Erskine
40
42
34 Klondike
11
47
Michigan
1
20
.
76
h
.
Monkland
50
' 19
55
Rutledge
™ 44 a - 23
1
Erskine
>
136
TL
150
Kent
8
1
25
Michigan
105
55 ,
Grass Valley 115
4
46
Rutledge
207
116
204
Moro
18 '
148
217 Kent
118
229
Wasco
3
21 •
81
Grass Valley
1207 Moro
621
1255 '
2
48
157
64
158
Wasco /
12
335
860
Total
Mis.
Rep.
Precinct
8
87
89
Rufus
Raad tbs ads in the Journal
52
29
Locust Grove
Political Candidacies Begin
To Take On Speed At Last
The general apathy toward» thing»'eaee ha .hould ba d«f«tad thb «on-
political »» far thie »print to 4-
»F
•>. ’*»’*•«» r»pr^Utloi<
—
..
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X ------ -------- ,
-
T x.a
wraat
ha
a bump as the day tor
the
primaries
fa the next
session.
Last
ws«k
he
closes.
Candidates
who
hare
eo
far
made
a
trip
to
Gilliam
and
Wheeler
closes.
waited for their opponents to start the counties where he was assured of the
ball
rolling
have
gotten out in the support of those men who have fol _
UM 11
*
■ *K
sw w
9
field to meet the powers that ba in lowed his career in the state house of
wielding the all powerful vote and representatives during the last two
____ «v^onKint
some
excitement mav
may be be forthcoming
forthcoming . terms.
, terms. His work for lower freight
after all.
• rate8’ for the increa8ed repayment of
Friends of Senator Steiwer have gasoline taxes, and for general con-
nr<r«nizpd
to help
organized clubs
clubs to
help him
him over
over tile
the servative legislation have made^im
first hurdle toward re-election. While well known in the district-
E- W. Snell, of Arlington, a three
he has three opponents in the race
termer
in the house is opposed by
it is thought that his services for the
people of the state durlng^s first P. N. Shown, of Fossil, a garage man
term in t-he senate will be remember and good roads booster with a favor
ed by the voters and that he will be able reputation In his home county,
returned. Wheat farmers, especially, J. O. Turner, a fanner and lawyer, i
have good reason to wish for his con and E- E. Rugg, a service station
tinuance as senator for tie has insti operator from the same town- Mr.
tuted many bills for their v benefit Snell, if reelected, has an excellent
during the six trying years of his chance to become the next speaker of
the house which would increase the
senatorship.
'
TM» race for nomination for the prestige and and power of the dis-
lower house of congress is rather one trict to a great degree.
sided as R. R. Butler is opposed by
The campaign for J. W. McCulloch
but one-man whose acquaintance for position No. 2 on the supreme
through out the district is not great * b^nch hks been active in this county
ehough to hinkchim appear as 4 formas it is being conducted by Paul Mc-
midable candidate- The Democrat*} Culloch,. principal of the Wasco
carry the interest iq this race-
schools, a son of the judicial aspirant.
Local and county politics are very
The contest for district representa
tives to the Oregon senate and house quiet compared to the condition in
is fairly warm. J. P. Yates, of Was- other counties where more candidates
co, is SheYman county’s only candi- are in the field foY Mil of the offices,
date for either of tfie houses and in I
’
No. 25
Aprii 29,' 1932 .
SALLOWAY TO SPEAK
TUESDAY EVENING
Candidate Far Caagrra 'hnibd Ta
Min MS nt IWITHI
Department
k
ranged in a hollow pquare, in the
Rain has reached every part of the church basement, an presented an I A Meeting of the Ifpro Commercial
I. Well might Club will be held Tuesday
evening,
county foil during the week end and »®Pect
bounty,
. __
.
rai^I hop« of . wh«t crop of m.g-
-r «>ee,tor. h.ve Mrhed for th. M.y Srd.t th. Hot.1 Moro and m.m-
bers of th.
the club,
clubs act
Grase Vall.y
Valley and
niftcient proportion, in thi. county
l»«ry of »uch hard Umes a> we ar. ben
«t Or»»
Wasco
have
been
invited
to attend.
thia y«r. Some parta of the county
enjoy»«-
L-T”, "T ' ' T
had nem-ly an inch of mature in the ! The commrtt« on <tocorat>on ar. to [ Thi. invitation to ateo .Mt»nd«i to
„venal .hower. while other place, did be heartily con«ratulated, for wrth , other, who ar.
in th. w^rk
not have quite so much
i the U8e of loveIy
blossoms and , of the club or the speaker
speeker who will be
For those farmer, id the »outh end rainbow tteud "»reamer, they had a preeent F V, Galloway.-
of th. county who have ju.t .ceded veritable garden of b-uty in th. din-
Mr. Galloway i. at pm«nt h. dta-
.pring lrr.in-.nd thi. include. mo.t W »oom.
.
trict attom.y of Wa.co county and,
of ihem-the rain Us the very best
After everyone had done full ,us- „ . promment Democrat » a candi-
tice to the meal, Mrs. Belshe contin* date for representative in the nation-
thing that could have happened for it
ued Uior program, a reading a poem al congress. He is an Oregon pro-
packed'The ground around the seeds
\vrit.cn for the occasion by Lotus duct having lived in this state all his
and soaked up the soil dried out by
Kenn v.
| life and received his education in Ore-
the necessary working.
Thc address of weldbme was given gon schools. For the past two or three
In the other pprts of the county
by Mrs. Poley, and Louise Barzee re- weeks he has been over the second
where the wheat is already up, rain
sponded with a message of apprécia- district speaking before bodies of in-
was also welcome although its immed
l terested voters as part of his cam
1
iate need was not so great as it was inn from the daughter*.
Dorothy Fraser presented Joyce paign to win the nomination from
in the spring wheat area. ’ Wheat is
Killmers poem “The House With No- Walter Pierce, of LaGrande. ;
growing rapidly since the change to
Mr. Galloway is an able speaker
Mrs. McGowan òf Grass
body
Tn It.
warmer weather from the chilly days
black board and whether he talks about politics
Valley,
with
her
dev
of.,last week and although it is still
¿nc song guess or another subject less pertinent to
short for this time of year and un drawings, put on a uni
the times he is well worth hearing.
ing
contest,
the
prize
even aa to stand in some fields it has
The business meeting of the com
Mius
Althea
Powell.
J
an excellent chance to produce more
To add to variety to the occasion mercial club will be concerned with
wheat than has been the case for the
the lights went off in the middle of some matters of general public inter
past three years.
this contest, but candles were soon est one of which will be the formation
found, and in the soft candle glow of a fire fighting unit to control fires
Mrs. Kyllo gave a reading “The Or- in this district and another will be >
Serrcy Leads Batters
. chard Man’s Wife” by Anthony Ewer. clean-up program for the city.
On MOTO Ball Club This was very effectively done.
Linnie Belshe then read another of
Mrs. Kenny’s poems, and light being Masons to Hold Picnic
At Dufur May 15th.
Batting averages for the Moro restored the guessinir contest was
team as compiled after the game with
The Masonic lodges of this district
Continued to page two.
Grass Valley show that Stub Searcy
comprising the lodges of Sherman.
is the king pin so far with the over- s
Wasco and Hood River counties will
age of .667 due to the fact that in one
hold
a district picnic at DufuY on May
of the games he drew several walks
15. There will be a regular literary
because of his short stature.
program besides sports, etc
The pic
.667
. S. Searcy
nic includes Masons and their famili
.426
Guinan
es and Eastern Stars and iheir famili
MIN PRBC1P
4
.357
max
DATC
L. Rice
es The program is scheduled to begin
.333
Moore
83... .00
55
Apr/21.
at 10 a. m. and to end about 4 o'clock.
J .333
' Osborn
.88.... .00
.57
- 22
Prominent Masonic speaker« are being
.286
.83 ... .00
Bucholtz
..63
arranged to take parta on the program.
278
.88 ... .14
.62
24
Balsiger
Basket lunch at noon, member« taking
.250
.64 ,
.44 ... .58
25.
Walker
their own baskets, but the Dufqr lodge
.250
.89 .. 00
.66
26
Barzee
will furnish the coffee, cream, «ugar
.00
.65 . .88
.181
27.
and ice cream. It ia planned to make
Miller
.167
•uch a meettag an annual ovo^t.
Total for week......... 0.17
C- Searcy
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WEATHER REPORT FOR
WEEK ENDING APR. 27
hr'
Clean-Up Time
Wasco High Seniors
Producing Play
Saturday evening the Senior class
of the Wasco high school will present
their annual play In the• high school
auditorium. The class of ’32 are put-
ting the final touches to the three act
mystery comedy“Tiger House.” This
play has only recently been re
leased for amateur use and -it
was selected and is being directed by
Mr. McCulloch. It is an ideal high
school play and the seniors by con
centrated effort are able to stage it
after three weeks practice.
_ The action of this play revolves
around an isolated country estate
oalled “Mystery Manor,” because of
its alleged hauntings. Errfa Lawrie,
a young shop girl, has inherited the
estate from her spiritualist aunt, and
according to the terms of the will she
must occupy the house for a period
-of one year. Soon after the rise of
the curtain things begin to happen-
There are plenty of thrills and wierd
sounds yet there are no dead bodies,
no shots fired and nothing really
gruesome, but near killings will be so
frequent that one will shudder every
few minutes. Truly it is as adver
tised, “A Senior Play That is Differ
ent.” The curtain rises promptly at
8.15 and no one will be seated during
the first act
The cast follows:
Erma Lowrie, the girl, Elna Houston;
Yami, a Hindo, Nyal Grady;
Sarah Broderick, spinster aunt, Belle
Clothier.
Mrs. Murdoek,/an "old housekeeper,
Georgia Harper.
McIntosh, Kenneth Walker.
Arthur Hale, Edward Grady.
Oswald Kerins, Max Williams.
Peggy Van Ess, Orion Wettenberg.
Thompson, Delmer Smith-
“The Mystery Woman”, Belle Cloth
ier.
The Tiger Man, ?????? ?c
GRASS VALLEY KENT
AND RUFUS WIN
Moro Defeated 5to 3 hi Best Cine
oi Season
RUFUSJEFEIÎS WISCO ITO!
Grw Yaltey-Kcnt Lead* Team* With
Three Wins, No Defeats
Oh! My, and was it a ball game.
For weeks the boys from Grass Val
ley-Kent have been saying, “Those
birds from Moro won’t find it so easy
to hit Young,” and the Moro team has
been heard to remark, “Wait ’till you
see the ball Walker pitches,” until
everybody was looking for something
out of the ordinary when the two
teams met. They were not disap
pointed
For the first time this season the
game was close enough and exciting
enough that rooters and players
crabbed at some of the umpirea’ de
cisions, hooted at boots, and
ecstatically and joyfully in the air**
at some especially pleasing play of a
home team man.
Moro made a run in the first be
cause the southerners threw the ball
around too carelessly; they made an
other in the third on a hit a steal
and an error and the score was at 2
to 0 for several innings before Grass
Valley-Kent could • score. In the
seventh on a walk, an error hit and
some erratic ball playing they put
three runs over the plate to bring the
old ball game to life with a bang that
ruined thirty rdoter’s voices.
Wallace
Jones
Buried
In their part of the eighth Moro
I
'
'
,
'
At Wasco Tuesday tied the score with a nicely executed
squeeze play and there she was tied
up tight at the middle of the eighth
inning.
In- their part of the eighth
The funeral of Wallace Jones, well
Grass
Valley-Kent
scored two runs
known business man of Rufus was
by
some
alchemy
of
baseballdom. An
held in that town Tuesday afternoon,
error
put
Vintin
on
and
a hit advanc
at 2 o’clock and internment in the
ed
him
to
third,
Perry
ebbing
on sec
Wasco cemetery followed. Services
ond. While Walker was waiting for
were conducted by Rev. N. Sherman
Hawk and were under the direction Young to come to the bat and the
। fielders were lolling at ease in the
of Zell’s.
luxuriance of the first spring sun
Mr. Jones had been a resident of
shine Vintin sprinted home and made
Sherman county for many years hav
it standing up. A few minutes later
ing been interested in the Hulery
before the excitement had cooled
store in his home town. Last fall he
down Perry also scored to make the
suffered a nervous breakdown that
final one of the pme, Moro going out
took him to the hospital and while he
has been home some of the time since easily in their last attempt.
Coon pulled the comedy stunt of
he gradually grew weaker until his
the day when he ran back of third
death Sunday in Pendleton.
base for a high foul. As he reached
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
far behind his head for the descend
Pearl Jones, two daughters, Ina and
ing ball it’s velocity upset him and he
Ada, and three sisters, Mrs. Nellie
did a perfect back flop to land on the
Hays of Los Angeles, Mrs. Grace
back of his neck with a jar that
Melvin, of Alamo, Ind., and Mrs. Ada
Dunn, of Spencer, Wis.
Continued to page four.
Old Time Column, For The
Pioneers of Sherman County
in the same block as Moore & Karlan's
notify store with G- B. Bourhill in charge.
recent He calls it a tin bank because it is
is im covered with corrugated iron.
travel
Charles Board man, John Fine and
Andrew Willis each made final proof
Sheriff Leslie informs us that con on their homesteads Saturday before
siderable damage was done by the county clerk MeDanel.
Chrfs Andersen now rides in a No.
waterspout last Friday
1 surrey purchased from the Hay
One night last John Coyle’s team, Canyon Commercial Co^ at Monk
with wagon attached, ran through
land.
Moore Bros, fence surrounding their
Observer May 2, 1913.
residence in town.
Observer April 27, 1898.
We have been instructed to
the public that owing to the
washout the Free Bridge Road
passable and prill not be fit for
for several days.
On Saturday night a cloud burst on
Gordon Ridge caused the highest
water In Fulton, Neece and Price
canyons ever khown to the present
settlers.
r
Observer May 1st, 1903.
Judge John Fulton was a visitor
Friday at Moro with his new little six
Franklin.
L. K. Moore of Portland has sold
ths Cooper place of 720 acres near
Hay Canyon to Hugh Shull, the con
sideration being >21,600.
Moro with Saunders and Shea as a
When called out of town on com
battery defeated Wasco 5 to 1. Calif
pany business T. C. Lee now travels
and Martin were Wasco’s battery.
in an electric lighted R. C. H- fur
Grass Valley— .
nished by the W. W. M. Co.
L. W. Shanks and Son have a new
Forrest, son of Judge E. V- Little
harness shop open for business.
field, is quite ill at the family home
The W. A. Gordon bank is located in Portland with typhoid fever.