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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1932)
Moro, Oregon, ¿May 6, 1932 Forty Fourth Year Jamsr DénhtrDies < Ù C r a s a VaU ey ! : » :» Farmer Brown Coming T o County in June Taxes Coming In T o I. O. O. F. Members Sheriff Rapidly N ow Meet Here This Week •’ < «. Jatafch ’ Dennis, retired, a well kfcewn* inhabitant of Grass Valley died at Ms home there Saturday a lf f e 'A «C T M i 78 yeete. For e e ttr il m W *™ he has bee A failing saMdly andfer t £ past two er three Taxes collected by the sheriff up Odd-Fellows from all over the dis- were quite en- trict comprised of Sherman, Wasco >.04 had rolled' <pd Hood River counties were in applied to taxes Moro last Mopds^ fogv the annual This i» almost convention e £ the order. In the gf- Road M a Go Through Coaly Oo - ■ ■ —-? * — ‘ 932 taxes t||a t ternoon some of them visited the ex- ._ ♦ - Inspection Trip and others are periment farm t where they found out about farming, others drove to Gor- >11 a r , of delin— don ridge to view the expanse of > been collected wheat land observable from that , mount. In the evening after a boun- teous supper a program concerned G iv e s principally with the duties and priv ileges of Odd-Fellowship was given G5. V . w^th M D. Shanks, of Hood River as . the principal speaker. Commission Fiver Resurfacing South B aad C D irim a Oil? Grap» C a lo t W Year Five Sections Seid Chfldrea Te Annual Alvira McFarland - Laid To Rest Friday i The 335 Democrats , o f , Sherman county had their timing at-the Com mercial Club last Tuesday evening when Francis V- Galloway, candidate for nomination to the national house of representatives, spoke before that body. ' Galloway, whose voice has been heard on several occasions in this county previously, discussed sbme of the inequalities that must be o v er/ come before this county will be a satisfactory place to leave to the next generation - Reading from a current news story about the success of Oregon congress men in getting six dollars in federal expenditures fofr each doltar paid in taxes he criticised the attitude of the eastern states who disagree with the justice of this condition. In Oregon the government still own half of the Will Entertain land area, according to the speaker, and it is only fair that they take care of their own property. .. .. He said that expenditures for ports Bethlehem Chapter’ O- Eh” S. will and waterways were of national ben- entertain the other chapter? of the efit more than for local purposes as district Friday night, May 20th, at goods come into and go out from the Masonic hall. ' ports and harbors that are raised in ‘ At this time Minnie W- White, the interior states or are shipped into Worthy Grand Matron of Oregon will them through the port. It is unfair pay an official visit and inspect the to charge all the money invested in a work of the various chapters, after harbor to the state in which it lies, which a social time wfll be enjoyed, he said. All members are cordtslly invited. That equalization of taxes is one Delegations from Wasco, Grass of the most pressing needs of the VsJley, Antelope end The Dalles are country was another premise of the gtanected. • «• speaker. “We "have ” people raising ,______ '....... Mrs. Alvira McFarland, a former resident of Sherman county and well known to many of the pioneer set- tiers, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. Lt French in Grants Pass last Thursday morning at the age of 85 years, nine months Mrs. McFarland lived in Sherman county from the early nineties un|il 1911, rearing her own family and that of L. R French after the death of her daughter, his wife. She is survived by one brother, Oliver Huff, of Oakland, six children, H. E. Maricle, and A. Wayne McFar land, of Alberta, Can-, Mrs. Ida Hunt ing, Silver Creek, Wash., A. E. Mc Farland, Umatilla, V. L. McFarlanJ, Miama, Florida and Mts. A. L. French, Grants P a s s ;,23 grand chil dren and 17 great grand children. Contest contest which w ill be held In Wasco at the high school auditorium. There was a day when thid contest drew a crowd that could not We accomodated in the largest hall ta the county but for the last few years attendance has been much smaller,, > ' Speakers from the live divisions which which includes /me high school town and the adjoiafeg country dis- trict. arc U follow .- Vivian' Fritts, “An Inspiring Dish- washer.,'* Kent » v irio n . . L.Vonne Al.up “H«y-fever" Cm»» Yplley Bivirion, i Reath. Sayre, “ B untle Bee” Moro ' Division. Donna Knox, “SjfcileACMldaen" Was- co Division. Leota Cross, “Kentucky .Philosophy" Rufus Division. Grass Valley-Kent defeated the Ru fus nine at Rufus last Sunday after* Sherman Cauntians noon by the ecore of 9 te 1 while See T ractor W ork April showers that run over into May dampened the players, the hall and the spectators. Young for the south Quite a number of Sherman coun- erners struck out 15 Rufus men and tians were in Morrow county last Fri Macnab whiffed 8 ’ day observing the new Deisal motored tractor perform on the Mark Wea t Rufu(, . i i therford ranch near Cecil. Agents of Grass Valley-Kent 9 6 the tractor company, the plow com Sunday the Grass Vallsy-Kent boys panies, the oil companies, professors wjn meet Moro on the Moro diamond ln a return game that should be a from three agricultural schools, poli hum dinner considering the interest ticians mingled with bona-fide farm ers watching the 68 horsepower • generated in the last encounter. behemoth cough around the - field . ... dragging II sixteen inch plows to' • . _ plow six acres per hour. W a S C O J U R * 1 2>ChOOI A record has been established by P resent» G o o d P la y this machine. Since March 4th it has plowed 6,880 acres or nearly 150 per day with a cost for fuel and oil of • . ~ T1>« hi» h P>»X «*™> s»t“r- less than 8 cents per day. nl«ht by the Senior d a n of the w »"c0 H1« h S'*100* WM bUI* 1 “ • pl»7 that wa. dUferant and while probably few people believed it on the bilte they were iB V teiiil before the find curtain was drawn. It is a much heavier play than is usually given by high school students Red Cross flour is available to the and it gave the players with histronic needy in this county since last Friday “B” Division ability a chance to display their when a truck load was brought in Florence Thompson. “Miss Maloney talents. for distribution by the local heads of Goes to the Dentist" Rufus Di- I Miss Belle Clothier, taking the part the Red Cross organization in the Leonard Maurus. “Busted Leg” Was- of a spinster aunt, gave an excellent different communities. S. A. Wisener, co Division. rendition of the character in both the Rufus; Mrs. R. B. Hailey, Wasco; vision. comic and the tragic parte and also George B- Bourhill, Moro; Mrs. C. L. Doris Thompson, “At the Milliner's" doubled as the mystery woman in a Poley, Grass Valley; and A. A. Dun Moto Division very creditable manner. lap, Kent are the local directors who mast pass on the needs of the appli- Continued to four. Red C ross Flour Available in C ounty G r a n V a lle y T o C lée o U p F c * W b o le |W e e k «EPORTFOR Average Sipce Fall the aw |17. Io Stetes. tt a x e s are'property. tM United This w » MM MAY. 4 Since the first of September 1931, J 8 inches of rain has fallen on M M p comity fields as compared Odd tnkhes on the average since i station has been established at wo- This accounts for the ground Ing wet| dhe fields being luxurantly eon and the farmers happy. ... Hoy- Hoy! ' We note that ladies are wearing longer dresses. Gentlemen are also wearing their old suits longer.—Clipped. M o th e r ’s D a y Mrs. R. E. Sutherland Paaaaa Away in Portland Mrs. Carry A. Sutherland, a former resident of Sherman county, and mother of Mrs. Earl Olds, of Grass Valley, died at her home in Portland last Monday. With her husband and family she came from Maine and lived on a farm north of Klondike and east of Wasco for several years before moving to Hillsboro about 15- years ago. She is survived by her husband, R. E. Suth erland, a daughter, Mrs. Irma Olds, and two sons, Edison, of Long View and R. E. Jr. of Portland and three brothers and a sister who still remain in Maine. The funeral was held Wednesday in Portland with interment in the Hills boro cemetery. < Swimming Pool Planned . By Local Citizens Plans for the ¡. construction of a swimming pool in the Moro city park are absorbing the attention of many of the citizens this week and prelim inary arrangements are being made. It is proposed to use one of the city wells not now needed for city water as a suppljrfbr the water and to con- Fart of Sherman Highway The county court meeting scheduled for Wednesday was sort of an inter county affair due to the visit of two members of the highway commission who called late Tuesday evening to announce that they would be through Sherman county early in the morning and would look over the southern end of the Sherman highway. Consequently members of the court and other interested citizens were . posted on the street corners shiver ing in the chill wind at an hour in tbfc »»inin g that usually found them just ¿getting .to work. About eight o'clock Chairman Les lie M- Scott. Commissioner Ed. Aid- rich, State Engineer Baldock, Main tenance Engineer Bishop and a Mr. Marsh a representative of the Pen dleton Chamber of Commerce on his way to attend a highway meeting in Reno, Nevada, arrived in town and X after the members of the commission had looked over the plans of the court about secondary highways and re- J jected an invitation to inspect them because of lack of time, a cavalcade started for Shaniko to ride over and examine the south end of the Sher man highway. It is the intention of the highway commission to repair that part of the Sherman highway that has insuffic ient base rock under it as soon as they can get around to it which will probably be next year, but no definate promises were made about the time set for the work. In the afternoon the court drove to Gilliam county where they met with Gilliam's commissioners to perfect plans for a meeting to be- held in Arlington later in the month. At this session the secondary highway sys tem of the counties will be discussed and the roads will be laid out in a manner that will meet with the co operation of all o f the counties con cerned. J . U duct the pool according to state regu lations governing such places of amusement. The financing plan proposed is to sell season tickets to those interested in swimming or having their children learn to swim In order to construct the pool and to make a small charge to others for enough to maintain i t Items That Were News When sil lake bed. • “This,” said my host, Carl Hend I There aye red hills, blue hills ricks handing me a piece of ordinary •‘streaked with red.pyrple hills and looking rock, “is ten million years grey hills with streaks of color across them fjjpd any place among them one . m ight dig up fossil remains of pre historic animals th at man has never rcen and can only imagine from the reconstructed skeletons p u t together t by scientists. Ten million years these skeletons huve been embedded in this formation pressed down with the weight of tons upon tons of lava, shut out from light snd air and natu rally treated to pre vent final decay. Layer upon layer of different formations of earth have lake covered the land in those parts, heen placed upon them and the old of days when the sabre tooth tiger earth has been shaken and raised and roamed tropic jungles, - when huge lowered n o' one knows how many turtles disported along the shores and times. Ten million years—and hu when the three toed horse, forerunner man history goes back a mere four of the modem draft animal, ran over thousand- the hills in droves. If one is fond of speculating on Later we visited the fossil beds, not what has gone on in this world before to inspect them with the eye of a man came to record these changes, scientist, but merely to drive along if you care to see undisputable evi the John Day highway through them dence of animal life eons ago travel and observe the hills of fossil forma up the John Day highway and stand tion uncovered by the erosion the riv in wonder at the comparative youth er has brought on by cutting through of all mankind and their impotence in $he volcanic structure above the fos- I handling the forces of nature. Sherman County. Was Young John Kaseberg, was in Monday pro curing supplies for an addition being j The banks at Moro and Wasco were built to his farm residence. re-incorporated by L. Barnum, E. O. One of the attractions of the north McCoy and R. C- Atwood to comply end of the county is Thomas Sink's with a new law. 2-year old alfalfa patch. Grass Valley defeated Moro 7 to 6 Wasco Baseball company has been in the first game of the season. Batteries were VanNuys, F. Olds, E. incorporated for $2000 with J. E- Me-' Olds, Stillwell and Knighten; Jackson Pherson. F. H. Meader, Frank Hul- ery incorporators. Rutledge and Hardin. Observer May 9th, 1913. Everybody wds buying new auto Observer May 4th, 1893- mobiles. R. C. H-, E. M. F., Ford and Dick McDonald of Biggs last week Cadillac. purchased the entire stock of mer F. R. Messenger has sold his 600 chandise formerly owned by Webber acre farm to John Denison and C. G- and Armsworthy of Wasco. Huntley. The Farmers Hotel conducted by J. A. West advertised board and Observer May 8th, 1908. . lodging at $18. per month. Meals J 5 ? John Reckman of Kent has got and beds from .25 to 50. plenty of water and la going te drill ■ Last week Mrs. Hansen, wife of another hole for coal. J. M. Hansen purchased H. H. Peter E. H. Moore, I> V. Moor« and son’s pre-emption In the Rutledge Frank Sayrs returned Wednesday neighborhood for $1550. The proper from a. 3 day fishing trip te Buckhol- ty is ve/y valuable having a fin« or low bringing with them, 410 large chard thereon. trout. 1
