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EaL, 18H, Coaeetidated March 4, 1>3J
Forty Fourth Year
No. 27
County Celebration to be
Held In Grass Valley
SOIL WEHER THAN
USUAL UN MAY RUST
PRIMARY afGTIOM
ONLY WEEK W
ate on the
, year, which
■ this county
■ Waaeo coun-
ty win rather under B trees of the
•rar a total of 857^58-08 to U m «ran- ,
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fashioned picnic and^ »ntertainment
and family visiting b«^L'
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Just what the tateffiainment wUl
consist of ha* not Balm decided, but
it to almost? certain .that a feame at
baseball will be played, the boy* and
girl* will run a few me*« and people
will stand around In f&ups and talk
with old friends, whtoh I* really what
holidays are for anyway-
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UIMHES HE WEIHS‘•“»«■»s»»'"»'
Chan-vp May 20th
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Friday, May 20th, which is also
Election Day, ha* been designated by
. Serre Voter*
the Commercial Club .Committee as
Clean-up Day for Moro this yçar. Mr.
L. L. Peeta has been lippohited Major
Friday, May 20th, will be ju*t an General of the day and he will an
other day to the majority of the citi nounce his Captains and the assign
ment of territory and the Buck Pri
zens of this state, the sun will come
vates at their command, in due time-
up in he morning and go down at
The Commitlee respectfully requests
, night to arise again, but for the flock that all home and business place own
of candidates who are awaiting to
ers will clean up their premises and
hear the voice of the people it will be will dispose of thy refuse before
a day of days. Thè sun will come up Clcan-up Day, so that the workers
in the morning, but it may go down may be free to dévote their time on
at night never to rise again on per- ' that day to thé Streets, Allays, and
sona) political ambitions.
vacant properties. - A pot luck lunch
Voters will have an opportunity to will be served in the City Park at
vote for f ur contestants for the Re noon by the good ladies of the city.
publican nomination for United Sta- , All places of business agreed to re
tea senator, Ffed Steiwer. Kenneth1 main closed until noon. To the end
Harlan A. E. Clark and <R- N Stan that we shall maintain the best kept
field having filed for that office- For j and most attractive City in the Coun-
Democratic^ nomination for the same ty, the Committee requests the full
office Marshall Dana, Walter Gleason co-operation of everyone.
"and Elton Watkins «re contestants-
In the second district voters will
have a chance to nominate R R But- C unty Court Actions
ler or J. M. Richards, Republicans
' For May- Term
and F. V- Galloway or Walter Pierce
Democrats as candidates for the
house of representatives.
State officers to be nominated are CLAIMS ALLOWED AT
MAY TERM OF COURT
secretary of state for which office
Stamps
E. Hoes and George Palmiter are Geo. B Bourhill
71.02
for Clerk
competing for the Republican nomi
Dis-
Geo.
G.
Updegraff
nation and Ray H. Wisecarver for the
trict Attorney Expenses ' 8-87
Democratic and state treasurer has
Fern
Rakes
Work in Su
Milt Scherping and Rufus Holman
8383
perintendents office
competing for the Republican nomi
Mrs. S. L. Coate
County ’ “
nation and J. W- Maloney asking for
20.00
Charge
the Democratic award. An attorney Wm. Shiel
80.00
County Charge
general will also be elected this year Alva Stone
Pred. .ani
and I. H Vanwinkle and Earl C.
1250
mal control
Superin
Bronaugh are the only contestanta A. E. Simmons
tM
tendents supplies
for the office, both being 'Republicans. *
All of the candidates for state sen Wert C. Print A B. Co-,
737
Clerks supplies
ator or representative in this district
18.75
Supt. supplies
are Republicans. For the senatorship
138-40
1224 171.02
A W. Specialty Co.
2.50
Clerk's supplies
D. Antrim
Earl Snell, at ArHngte»} f. N. Shewn
’ Weights and Measures
, C. L. Poley
Vital
of Foaail; J. O. Turner and MiK.
2-50
Statistics
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• W. E. Tate Vital 'Statistics
Mouture For Summer
assist in the celebration inchiding the
city itself and the nUBey made, if
any, will go to tin
- and paint-
■ Moisture conditions remain good in ing of the city pa^
Sherman tounty due largely to the
rains that have fallen during the last Grass Valley
six weeks. While there was not as
Declamatory Contest
much moisture as usual at the begin-,
ning of the crop year, in March, these
rains have kept the wneat growing
Grasa Valley with a 5*st and7 soc^
and so far it has used very little of
t held in
the soil moisture stored during the nual declamatory
in Wasco last Friday night as one of
winter.
the activities of the final week* of
The following chart shows the per- the school year- Moro won a first,
centage of soil moisture in the soil Rufus a second and WaAo^nd Rufus
on different dates in the past years a third place.
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compared with the amount this year
Little La Vonno Anup with her
on the tillage plots at the experiment piece, “Hay Fever” to which her voice
station.
was particularly adapted, was win
Year Good plots “Poor plots Date ner in the C division comprising the
M*y 2 first four grades of the grammar
11.3
10.5
J9°8
9.6j
May 10 school. Leota Cross, at Rufus was
9.0
4928
M*y 20 given second place with “Kentucky
7.7
7.0
1929
m w ■ « _
Philosophy" and Vieton Fritta, of
19.8
1930 Ki
10.1
May 15 Kent, placed third with *An Inspiring ।
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1950
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May 5 Dishwasher.”
11.3
1932
Th^ yeaf on the 21st of March
there was an average of 12.5 percent
moisture in the soil on these plots.
This has been decreased to a little
over 11 percent during April. How-
ever it is higher than it was in the
year of 1928 when we had a lit-
tie less than eleven on the 2nd of
May. It is considerable higher than
the moisture content of the bad year
of 1929 ond 1930.
It will be noted that there is usual
ly more moisture in the poor tillage
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Wasco Fire Department Saves
Many Times Its Cost In Two Years
A little over a year ago the city of
Wasco was informed that unless
something was done to reduce fire
hazards in that municipality there-'
would be ap increase of ten per cent
in .heir fire insurance rates. The
Mayor busied himself and within
twenty font hours a «fire department
v as organized and held its first prac-
i*A The rates were not raised.
That’s how it started- Now there
is a modern fire truck, between a
thousand and 'reive hrijdred feet of
first class hose, chemical tanks, a
siren, and a fire fighting organization
that practice every week and is proud
to do it. That's municipal pride and
concerted effort that is successful.
The total cost to the city has been
about 81000-00 and the saving has
been many times that amount. First
they bought a truck, or rather a truck
• chassis, and mounted their chemical
" tanks on it. built a place for the hose
and learned to take care of it. bought
a siren and mounted it in a public
place where it can be sounded by the
telephone central office girl at any
. time a fire is reported. Then by prac
ticing week after week they develop-
ed team work and group morale until
they feel that they can rush to a ^re,
couple two or three hoses to hydrants
and begin playing water on the blaze
in time enough to save any building
in town. Anyway there has not been
a toial loss since the department was
organized.
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They have the same pride in their
ability that* city fire departments
have. During the first warm days of
this spring when business was slack
the members of the department drove
the truck containing their equipment
out on the street in front of their
places of business and spent hours
polishing the brass, repainting the
equipment and repairing ladder* and
other things that needed to be done-
Tliac shows the interest that is taken
an(j ¡t ¡s not for selfish reasons fornot
one of ’ the members of the organisa-
tin is paid.
Elwood McPhitfson is the chief and
there are less than twenty men and
boy* in the department. They have
certainly added a world of interest
to life in Wasco as well as saving
money for every property owner
FAVOR GROWERS
Oreg « Crop Called 85 Per Cent oí
, Normal
METEO SUIES CHOP suoni
Country May Haya Bat Little More
Than Requirements
Winter wheat prospect« in Oregon
and elsewhere in the Pacific North
west «how an appreciable drop during
April. The acreage remaining for
harvest in Oregon on May 1st, is
estimated at 800.000 aerea according
to the report of the Division of Crop
and Livestock Estimate«. The esti
mated acreage sown last fall was
825,000 acre*. The difference i* 25,
000 acre« whiçh representa the aban
donment previous to May 1 of 3-0
per cent of the fall sown acreage.
This is about an average abandon
ment and is a result of unfavorable
fall conditions, some winter kill and
an unfavorable spring. The condi
tion of the crop iq estimated at 85
per cent of normal, a. figure consid
erably below the average for this
season.
The estimated production
forecast from the May 1st condition
i» 16,400,000 bushels compared to 17,
908,000 bushels forecast last May 1
and the final 1981 figure of 15.262,
Jurors whose names were announc
ed to try cases coming before the
May term of court drew a bye appar
ently for it is extremely improbable
that there will be a session of the
circuit court this term. \ ’
Judge Parker was here Wednesday
and when informed that there would
likely be no case* to come before him
ordered the jurors excused from ap
pearing next Monday. In case some
thing should arise before that time
that demanded a jury trial they may
be called to serve.
Tuesday Is Clean-up
Day In Wasco
Next Tuesday has been designated
as clean-up day in Wasco by the
American Legion post that is spon
soring the municipal activity.
On
this day trucks will be chartered to
haul the accumulations of the win
ter months away to the dump yard
if householders will box or sack said
junk and put it on the streets. Much
of it has been done already.
At noon a pot lufk dinrtf r will be
served on the Legion dance pavilion
and free coffee will be served by the
service men or the Auxiliary. There
will be a childrens pet parade at noon
an.d in the afternoon there will be
sports including a ball game between
the Wasco Firemen and the high
school. Either a movie or a program
by the Girl Scouts will be given ip
the evening.
Captains pre as follows: Elwood
McPherson, Paul R. McCulloch, L- P.
Haven, Phil Bishop, Dick Schunke,
Wes Wilde, Bill Nesbit, H S. Wall,
Bob Evans.
In the paint crew are E. T Jones,
E. F. Feldman and Chas Everett.
Thdse who have promised to lend
trucks for the occasion are: O- G.
Hilderbrand, L. P. Haven, Union Oil
Co.. Standard Oil Co-, Lee Dehler,
Wasco Market and Roy Atwood
production figure is 19,577,000 bu.
The United States wheat crop is
forecast on May 1st at 440,781,000
bushels or a drop of 17,189,000 bu-
shels from the April 1st esiimate-
The short winter wheat crop is a
heavy acreage abandonment gener
ally and drought damage and soil
blowing in the Great Plains of the
Southwest. A larger Spring Wheat Change In Banking
planted acreage is estimated but
Arrangements
even with average yield of spring
wheat the total wheat production will
not much more than equal domestic
The banking arrangements at the
requirements and the wheat position Farmer’s Elevator office have been
of this country will be greatly al changed somewhat in the last week.
tered-
Due to certain regulations it was im
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possible for the First National of The
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... You will find it les* easy to uproot Dalles to continue with the previous
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fault* than to gain virtues. Do not arrangement and connections were
. datu
min . frbcip
think of your faults; still less of made with the Bank of Commerce in
May ' I 5„
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it..», others’ fault*. In every person who Wasco.
The local office will handle cash for
7.»
jo , come* near you, look for what is good
and strong; honor that; rejoice in it; merchants and the general public and
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and M y°u
try to imitate it, and will accept deposits for the Bank of
your fault* will drop off like dead Commerce by those who do not care
....74,
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.85.... ,OQL I leaves when their time come«.—John to drive to Wasco for that purpose.
........ 9.00 iBoAtn.
This again placés Sherman county
Total for week«
banking on a county basis.
WEATHER REPORT FIR
WEEK ENDINQ BAY. II
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plants
do u not
draw
as “ much
moisture
from the soil during the growing
season. Wheat will use the moisture
stored forth*.«oil vary rapidly from
now on until ripening begins.
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a check for my own brother.”
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Furthur Notice
of Moro, won with her declamation
“At the Milliners." Ferdinand Stark
one <rf the two boys in thrttompeti-
tion placed second with "Kentucky
Philosophy” and Leonard Mauras, I
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Wasco, whs adjudged third with
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“Busted Leg.”
The students of Wasco High gave a
one act play “Sham” that was well
received being a play upon some of
the weaknesses of human kind-
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Boyd Homewood, public speaking
instructor of The Dalles, was the
judge
of the declamatory
contest.
ceived good tillage. This is because
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the Republican nomination for sheriff
>yland O. Scott would both like to bo
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BALLGAME
EXCITES ARDENT FANS
Moro Defeats Grass Valley-Kent by
5 to 4 Score
GAME GLOSE SI «LL IINES
Count Even Between Team* With One
Win Apiece ’
And now it’s even Stephen,’ but it
took a lot of moaning and groaning
to make it so- Moro tied .the count
in baseball games with the Grass Val
ley-Kent outfit last Sunday at the
grounds by an eighth inning rally
that brought them from behind to win
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5 to 4.
Grass Valley-Kent scored first in
the fourth on a three bagger by
Fritts, who by the way laced out three
hits in four times up, and- a passed
ball that let him lope home- They
scored twice in tlje fifth when Young
got on by a passed ball and scored on
Dunlap’s two base hit. Then Dunlap
was passed in when Walker threw
another one away.
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In the sixth the Moro boy* squeezed •
one in by the aid of two errors a sac-.,
riflee. a hit batter and a walk, ending
a tense moment then when Moro had
a good shance to even it up.
In lb»ir >rt of the eighth Gras*
Valley-Kent added another one and it
looked like the old ball gome was on
ice for the boys from the south end,
but not so. The old timer who says,
“It ain’t over until the last man’s
out” is right again Osborn singled,
Moore advanced him with an out,
Guinan fouled twice, and with the
count three and two laid a fat pitch
into the left field garden for a home
run. Score 4 to 3. Balsiger got on
by an error, Walker did the same and
while they were playing for Walker.
230 pounds of behemoth first beseman
hit for home and slid In with a cloud
of dust only to be called out. The
boys argued about it and while some
one had his finger under the umpire's
nose Walker took third' and then
was safe at home when the third
baseman lost the ball. Score even.
Rice, who was looking for a chance
to redeem himself after striking out
with three men on, laced out a liner
over first base that was good for three
bags and came home with the win
ning run when Bareze tapped one out
to the infield '
There was plenty of arguing with
Continued to page four.
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MotherEarthGets SpnngFacial
Items That Were News When
Sherman County Was Young
Observer Mqy 11, 1893.
The Condon Globe recounts that *11
the two year old steers in the country
are being bought up for $14 per head
and that buyers will leave 820,000 in
the county.
byterian church consideration 8800
later sold it to county treasurer
Stanley-
Thompson Bros. Moro built harves
ter left the iron works yesterday for
N. W. Thompson’s farm where it will
Rufus A- Moore died Sunday. May 7,. be fitted for business. It was cor
dially greeted as it passed along.
and was buried at Moro.
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Lost week the woo) clip of Kerr Observer May 16, 1913.
ond Buckley's sheep arrived' at The
The law firm of Bright. Bryant and
Dalles from their Grass Valley ranch ¿Ilia was formed this week.
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there being forty sacks.
. Robert El cock is an assistant with
Sheriff Leslie went to Grant Tues O. A, tRamsey in the conatruetion of
day to" arrest George Crosfield for the new barn on the R C. Bennett
putting a head on the constable of the farm south of Grass Valley.
precinct. George gave bonds.
The record time for a car load of
Observer May 15th, 1903.
logs from Moro to Porltand was
Judge R. E. French, one of the made by L. L. Peetz he arriving in
pioneers of this county, died at his Portland by 5.30 p. m. the samel day
he left Moro. He received the tip top
home at Grass Valley on the 8th.
price of |8.90.
Tom Callaghan was in Monday ar
ranging for delivering 30 to 40 hogs - Mrs- Rose Kunsman received a
sold for 6 and a quarter cents per sprained wrist and several bruises
Sunday afternoon when thrown from
pound.
County Clerk^icDanel is giving his their carriage in front of the T- C.
Lee residence.
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vaccinated arm a re*t by taking * trip
Miss Marjorie Rose will graduate
। to Spokane- Deputy G. M. Frost will
from the high school thia year a* the
1 drive the quill during his absence.
pioneer of the regular four year
R. J. Ginn purchased th* residence
course.
of M. Fitsmaurice opposite the Pres-