german
Sherman County Obeerver B*A. 1H»8. Gruau Vgllcy JoongL^t.,
SJmtrnal
CoawoUdated ¿arch 6, 1981. Wasco N*wa-Eater prise. Eat., 1899,
Consolidated March 4, 1932
SHERMAN COUHFt OFFICIAL PÄ1>ER
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Forty Fourth Year
THURSDAY WILL BE ‘
FIELD DAY HI Mil
No. 32
Sand Blows Frequent
Wednesday Afternoon
Th* weat wind that followed the
warm day* of the first of the week
was so violent that it started blow*
CELEBRATICI PROGRAM
NEARING COMi™
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Exponats ■ Crap* Mitate Ta
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FOWL CROP IS OEBLIPEI
Eastern Stars To
Picnic At DeMoss
jion Head# Tell
\Of Convention Plana
What the Legion National Conven­
tion will mean to Oregon was the aub-
joet of the talk* before the servie*
men and interented business men of
the district Mondag Bight when mem­
ber* of the exoenti^e committee of
the convention in Bbrtland came to
The Dalle* to tell Ast they are do­
ing to make the eMention one to be
Äitor*.
After a dinner tal ' the Hotel Dalles
Ijourned to the
iVhere the mem-
Ugesses th assem-
bled Legionnaire* e M Auxiliäres.
Ader of the state
department, presided at the meeting
HAIL STORM DAMAGES.
CHOPS NEAR KEN
Postage Rates Increase
To Three Cents July 6
According to an announcement by
Postmaster George Bourhill three
cents will be the charge for sending
a letter after July 6th Drop letters
those that are not moved out of the
receiveing postoffice will continue at
the old rate of one cent each. An
ample supply of stamps will be on
hand before the new rate goes into
effect.
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Bariett and von Borstel Fields Hnr
In Monday’s Storm
Mt HEMS ME STRIPPED
Boat Service Stopped
I WASCO JAKES MORO
IN n GAME
Errors Most Prominent Feature of
17 • 16 Game
SCORECLOSE DESPITE ERRORS
On Columbia River
Acceapaayiag Rain D*e< Gc*d b The
W mco Topples Both of League Leader*
of the interest that M being generated
The
river
boat
service
between
The
Neighhribg Field*
Lead
In Last Games
in the convention j throughout the
Dalles and Portland has been discon­
United States and th* hosts of people
tinued and the low rate of freight has
who are expected to" come to Oregon
been changed also until further ar­
Sherman Chapter, O. E. S. of
f
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Retails of the Fourth of Julycele- for the affair. Mr. ^rank said that
Farmers of Sherman county and ad­ Grass Valley have invited all Eastern
A hail and rain storm that brought rangements have been made-
W
they hope to hava • 000 strangers
The high water in the river at this Grass
bration
at
Gras*
Valley
are
being
re-
Stars
and
families,
and
Mason*
and
Valley-Kent
*
jacent counties have an invitation
both
joy
and
sorrow
fell
in
parts
of
2
667
within our . state
bet peen September
time of year made it difficult for the Moro
leased
as
the
various
committees
ob-
.
their
families
to
join
with
them
in
a
4
2
.667
Sherman
county
last
Monday
eve
­
next Thursday» June 23rd. to view
pwill
spend
four
type
of
steanier
used
to
make
regu
­
tain information from their activities
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Wasco
4
3
573
or five million
¡-with merchants ning between six and seven o’clock. lar trips and, pending reorganization Rufus
the Experiment station at Moro as picnic at DeMoss Park. Sunday June during the past month.
The
com
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be
pot
luck
dinner
will
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19th. A
In places it was very desctructive to of the company, there will be no boat
guests of the staff there and inspect served.
mittee
on speaking
for
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In» has
DM arranged m
Well. mates, it was a great ball
it soaked plying the Columbia.
4 bnd who gave growing
- crops
- and in others
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the work that has been done during
the appearance of Walter
ulkrabout .orna pl ha*« ofconvention the ,Q11
in«ure a good yield,
game,
If the cash customers are
the twenty years of the station’s ex­
•x-governor of Oregon, candidate for
pi
jmie Hamm. Arch
The hail streak came across Buck
pleased with quantity they went
istence in the way of increasing
the house of representative on the activities wi
mtt, e . L. Moser, HoIiow from Wasco county where it
yields of wheat and producing new
Democratic ticket and for many years Van Cleve, A
home satisfied for there was plenty of
OfilFge, Phil Jack- .left the ground white a* an Alaskan
Vic
McKenai
varieties of wheat adaptable to this
a leader in the political activities of
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J4r»/ UDocis Cobb 1 Christmas and hit this county near
scores,
errors, hits and t^e time of
son,
Chas.
£
area-
the state, as speaker of the day. Mr. Mra Wayne HIJI. C*H Moser, and Dr. the Peter p«tars ranch. It advanced
the
game
was 2 hours and 50 minute*
Speakers who will be present to
Pierce will need no introduction to - _____ -
I acroaa ChM. Chamberlin* land doing
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F.
Willing.
or
nearly
a whole afternoon. Wasco
present to address the farmers will
the people of the county as he has
‘ wme damage and it beat down a field
include Dean W. A. Shoenfeld, direc­
been in Sherman county many times
won 17 to 16 by batting in four runs
। on th* old von Borstel ranch now
tor of extension work, and George Jake Ra¿er Kea Dea: h in Hospital in his many campaigns and a* execu­ Crop Report
lows
farmed
by
Theodore
von
Borstel-
This
in
their half of the ninth and as there
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hüt Makes Driving Hazardous Aloag
Hyslop; who is known to every farm­
tive of th* grange ta well known to
. A
M
nr»
*
h
WM
l»te
spring
grain,
however,
was
only one man out at the time
With
Fractured
Skull
er in this section as an indefatiga­
Decrease
members of that farmer* society.
on ill anj
not Mrjouaiy injured.
Part of Highway
For
the
sport
program
two
baseball
there
is no telling when it would have
ble worker with field crops of all
It crossed the road into the Frank
games have been arranged between
ended
if the players hadn’t quit toss­
kinds.
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von Borstel place and destroyed th*
Probably ope of the most interest- j Jake Rader, 27, who has been an teams representing Moro and Grass
ing the ball away.
The June let crop report of the garden and ruined a field of volunteer
ing experiments from the point of employee on the Charles Harper Valley-Kent who are at present tied United States
Mrs. Wendell Balsiger was severe­
Bishop pitched the entire time for
ofAgricul- wheat and some barley. The Roy
view of the wheat farmer who is con- ranch for the past eight months was for the county championship. These ture indicated a
ly
cut and bruised Wednesday eve­ Wasco although Moro made 15 blows
iction of 16.- Barnett field of early spring wheat
rerned " with producing wheat as seriously injured last Friday while games will be played Sunday after- 400,000 bushels in
on 800.000 on the home place, comprising 300 ning when she drove her light car in­ off him Nothing worried him, how­
non. thet bird, and Monday afternoon,
cbeânîy is possible wilt be the oneT riuing after horses.
acres for 1932. Tbta compare* with •crMi was injured by having the new- to a Standard Oil truck driven by ever, for after one bad inning he
having to do with summer fallowing
Rader left the Harper house in the the fourth.
There was a dust would come out and pitch a good one.
15,262,000 bushels in 1931 and a five
heads stripped of meshes, Jack Chapman
Other sporting events are being ar­ year average of 16.191000-
methods- There are plots that ha\e mornjng after a team of horses to
How «eri°u» the damage will be to blow on the summerfallow field about Barzee started for Moro and instead
not bwn plowed ,ince the «talion was : rake hay with ln a short tim6 the ranged and race* and contests for
For the United State* it ta ®*ti- thia whaat J* n.ot kn°wn a* hail ha* a mile south of Wasco between the of lasting his usual five or six in­
b* u put wf the
»Urted. They have been dtaçcd event Uanl wauled
w
bol ;.*ii4 a nd * H
nover struck wheat so* young in this first culvert and the first house and p
he called for relief when he’
dally program. There will probably mated that there will be a crop of county previously. It is the concen- as'Mrs- Balsiger was returning from | nings
ye« instead «T bein. plowed
;n
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a man after 3 and a third
be a horse shoe tournament under the winter wheat of 410.689,000 bushels. su* of opinion, however, that the her work with the Farmer’s National walked
in the accustomed fashion and they
.
inninga ’ Osiom" finished' toe'foiih
tree* of the Gra** Valley park for The five year average is 548.632.000
.’»re producing good crops by this
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the hail *r*a ar* damaged by in Wasco she slowed down in order to and the fifth and gave up in favor of
me hod of tillage. Another expert- : brulsed and Wlth the 8addle br®ke®‘ follower* of that oldaet of rural bushels
and the erop last ypar w*a a
* be safe while passing through the
Rutledge who finished.
went will show the results of the Neighbors had been searching all af- sport*.
buaheta,.
As the storm continued In the man­ dust.
The celebration ta being sponsored
In the seventh the old veteran was
deép tillage tool on the production of ternoon and in the evening residents
While spring wheat production is ner of hail storms it struck in several
The dust was so thick that it was
grain. This tool, known as the Kill- of Wasco and the entire neighborhood by every organisation of the Grass not estimated the condition of spring places along its course but was not of impossible to see any distance and be­ scored on five times due to errori* on
Valley community including the wheat is given as 84 5 which is much even strength. Several farms had a fore she had slowed down enough she the part of his team mates. He al-
ifer, loosens the ground to a depth of . took up the search-
two or three feet.
। A party from Wasco found th* in- Grange the 'Legion, the Woman’s bettor than the condition last year on good rain and some a short distance had hit the rear end of the truck that lowed only one hit, walked three men
There are many new varieties of jured man lying in a canyon and he Club the Commercial Club and the June 1. It was then 67-9. The five away had very little moisture.
was f*e)i*g its way ‘ through the and pitched to ten batters all in one
wheat being tested out at the station was taken to the house and later was city itself- Proceeds are to be used average is 86.8.
I inning- In the seventh and eighth
In the northern end of the county storm.
all of th time and undoubtedly some removed to The Dalles hospital by to repair and repaint the city audi­
She
was!
thrown
into
the
windshield
he held the Wasco boys in good shape
the
rain
was
of
little
value
as
it
did
This is a reduction of 10,112,000
of them will some day be grown on William Walker. It was found there torium where the program will be in estimate since May 1st.
not rain enough to do much good and cut about the face and was bruis- but in the ninth after Moro had in-
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many of the fields of the county- Only that he has a fractured skull and given-
I north of Gordon ridge- It did result ed by the impact with the steering creased their score until it stood 16
There ta ample shade and water in
a few years ago the Federation varie­
to 12 he wavered, the team erred and
New
Train
in lowering th* temperature and a column and the dash.
many other bruises and cut*.
the city park for almost any number
ties that are now so popular were
four runs crossed the plate to end the
W
I
rain
.
sr
Vice
|
westerly
wind
has
broken
the
spell
of
The
right
fender,
the
radiator
and
As near a* the accident can bo ex­ of people to picnic and hold their
found among the varieties test* plot*
the lamps of her car were badly bent afternoon’s mess
plained from .the marks on the hill basket dinner and for those who care
To Begin Sunday hot
weathw th,t WM dryini the
at the local station.
While memory is not perfect it
wheat crop to rapidly and has un­ and the engine was shoved back
„ Since the war when acre* and acres side and the 'condition of the horse to,*it about in the shade and visit
doubtedly done some damage to wheat against the dash. The bumper ran seems that there was one fly ball
of what is called marginal land was and saddle, the horse, a half broken with'.their neighbors seat* will be
caught in the afternoon- The boys
in the heavier producing sections of under the truck
plowed up to raise wheat for a hun­ broncho, either *Hd off the trail or be­
Mrs- Balsiger was taken back to were plenty bad on both sides, no one
Beginning Sunday, June 19, there the county
gry Europe there ha< been an effort gan to buck while on a steep hill side.
will be daily train service **i the Sher-
-
Wasco by Mr. Chapman and was had a corner on the errors.
on the part of wheat men to fin i Horse and rider fell and slid down the
This revival of playing after the
brought home by Mr. Balsiger later
man county branch of th* Union
some sort of ph.nt that e ■mid be used hill about 600 foot landing in the Tri-County Council
in the evening. Her wounds were season had apparently ended change*
Pacific according to announcement Hearing To Rp Hpld /
to rested these »'re* to a permanent bottom.
dressed by Dr- Poley and it will be the percentages of th* teams some
n ti u i
u.k made
maae by
oy A.
A. Rose.
Ko*e. Last
tast fall
xau the
tne Sun-
sun- "car,nK lODeneia
To
Be
Helds
June
Jdtn
day
discontinotd
and
the
days before she is able to re­ what. Grass Valley-Kent are tied for
Rader was from Tennessee
Here On Train Service several
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¡mail and express was handled by Gus
sume her work with the grain com- the county champioship with -667
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se
r
n
apiece and Wasco having defeated
Smith, of Grass Valley, who made the
pany-
tR. C. Byers hada minor wreck Rufus and Moro lately have 500 and
I A communication from the office of while in one of the dust clouds that Rufus has .167.
te be
Nesbit and McPherson were um­
Auxiliaiu* fori ‘ This movement comes a* a aUrpria* th* Public Utilities Commissioner at crossed the highway Wednesday,
pires.
— •- ta w going
j
ehe Tri-County council
to (to nearly *v*ryon* who ha* been Salem announces that the “commis— which resulted in some damage to
watching the railroad’s action* in «ion has assigned for hearing at the
meet in Moro oa that night and the this county for a few week* ago they Sherman county court house. ' Tue*- car. one of the fenders being smashed
Read the ads in the Journal
Chri* Schult* post will have the priv­ were attempting to reduce train serv- day, June 28. 1932 at 10 a. m. the in a collision.
matter involving petitions received
hta name could be put before his par­ ilege of entertaining comrades from ice to thrice a week-
As the street corner
from individuals and firms of Grass
on the curb or leaned comfortably Jr convention in proper styte Char- the adjoining counties of Wasco and
Valley, Moro and 'Kent protesting re­
against the trees discussing the pre*- 1*7 Dawe« quit one good job, handlin’ Hood River.
Grass
Valley-Kent
Wins
Vernon Flatt, local adjutant, Is ar­
duction of train service on the Shan­
idential nominations Uncle Emmett a lot of money, fer the chances of
branch of the Oregon-Washington
lounged in the only chair silently antin’ Charley Curtis or Herb him- ranging for speakers for the occasion
Over Antelope 10-4 iko
Railroad and Navigation Company.”
and. more important ta making con­
smoking his pipe if one could silently,
out ° their meal ticket.
This is the result of the petition
smoke a pipe that whitled and boiled
“An the Democrats. Say, no lead nections for some sort of food to
preparatory to every puff, of smoke niule in that outfit is goin to open his stock the post’s commisary depart­
Grass Valley-Kent defeated the that was circulated here last month
A horse was discovered in a bog
Antelope baseball team on the Grass
that ««rvice on this branch Observer June 20th, 1913-
mouth to bray for feaf some one will ment for the event
from his mouth-
hole
in Grass Valley canyon last Sun­
out
noise
him.
A
bunch
of
'em
start-
Valley
diamond
last
Sunday
by
a
,ine
not
’
*®
d
«
ced
to
three
times
P
er
“Whatever’s the matter with yu.
Sheriff McKKean has Willis Law­ day by J. O- Thompcon and was pull­
•core of 10 to 4, Although beaten the week An? interested citizens may at-
Uncle Emmett,” asked one of the dis- «d out to «top Roosevelt and another
Antelope boys have a lively team of tend this hearing and present evi- rence in custody charged with steal­ ed out by Mr. Thompson and the
cuspees ” “Yu most always got some- bunch started out to stop the stop
Hearinp Postponed
ing a colt from John Thompson last Moro baseball team on its way to
thin’ to say about everything an’ now 'Roosevelters and some others are try-
young boys who may make it plenty dence
year.
Monkland.
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yu’re settin’ back like yu didn’t care in’ to stop the man that stops Roose­
tough in case another engagement is
velt till its moren’ likely
Ernest McClure has returned from
The hearing that was to be held at played.
Judge Fulton and Commissioners
who was president.1
. it’ll take ’em
O. A. C for his summer vacation on Krusow and Wright and Assessor
“W r I. son. I’m wai in’’’ fa” thet a11 summer to find who is for who and Salem June 14 on the question of rail
Young and Fritts were the battery Wages Set For
the farm.
rates on wheat was postponed until for the winner* and Troth and Mc-
fi^htin* to get out in the open.” re- why. *
Campbell were at the court house on
plied the sage. "I never was much of
“Yu can’t tell what a man i* drivin’ later an application of the carriers.
Greer for Antelope. Next Sunday
Coming Harvest Grass Valley business men have Monday on official business-
It is probable that the hearing will the Grass Valley team meets the
an Tnjun mvself an I ain’t interested »t when he says somethin' ier the
organized a commercial club as a Observer June 15, 1893.
in bnish
in’ and snipin’ from be-1 papers. Wait till all .the boys get not be held until after the Interstate Warm Spring Indians at Grass Val­
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means toward the promotion of gen­
».jd
,
* I settled ‘an’ the parties have got their Commerce Commission hearing in ley
J- H. Fraser, the Hay Canyon
A scale of wages for the coming eral municipal welfare.
“Yu think »he big bora are tryin’ runnin’ horses picked out- Then yu Seattle early in July when evidence
sheep
man, is reported to have sold
harvest made by a committee of
School election resulted in L. Bar­ 1000 head of sheep at The Dalles this
to rot one another some do yu?”
| can tell what a man is talkin’ about. will be presented by shippers and the
Notice of Annual School Meeting " fannara from Wasco and Sherman
num being re-elected director and J. week. At 83-00 per head they would
“Sliore do ” answered Uncle Em- If he's a Democrat he’ll be dilatin’ on railroads about the rates on wheat
Notice is hereby given te the legal counties was agreed upon la*t week M. Parry beifig elected clerk.
mett. “There’s been a flock of move- the depression an’ exaggeratin’ the and other farm products-
realize a tidy sum.
voters of School District No- 17 It provides for lower wages than have
.JJLJIBea*——>tel M L. .-11 ...~z
ments for this and that, that wouldn’t times an fearin’ fer the country; if
anerman county,
county, State
stat* of or Oregon,
ur*gon. ' been
. Deen the
tn* custom
custom for
xor many
many years
ywr» and
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Grain in the Erskinville section ta
Sherman
never got mentioned the second time he's r Republican he’ll be pointin’ to
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—LlrnL«. IhsM ear AM WAFA whnn
that
the annual
school meeing.of said
y*t ta higher than wages wer* when Will Mowry, he has a good speaking looking splendid. So far the weather
if they hadn’t been started for the the fact that some guy in Oskosh
district will be held at the school wheat wa* its present price years and part with the Raker Stock Company. has been propitious and Sherman
ultimate pumos? ' of gettin’ some made $5.00 per month more than he
countys wheat crop promises to be far
house to begin at the hour of 2 o’­
B?°’ j
in
i
*i no
Observer June 19, 1903
one’s goat an makin’ ’em look bad. did hack in Wilson’s administration
Hay hands will receive $1.00 per(
clock p. m. on the third Monday in day. combine drivers, |2 50, "cat’’ I The Observer told of the Heppner ahead of any that has ever been
Mr- Garner’s bill is fmd because ahd that France is finally goin’ to pay
raised here. If this county does not
Jdhnnie belongs to the Democrats an us some of the interest on the debt,
MAX. ‘ MÍN PUBCIP June, being June 20th. 1932.
DATB
men |3.00; separator men. |3 00. 'flood that had occured the previous raise a million bushels of grain this
besides he has ambiJons himself. Mr. that times ain’t so bad as they was June 9... ............. 88... ...48 .
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This meeting is called for the pur­ sack jig, $1.50; sack sewers. $2.50; Sunday killing hundreds If people­
year we will be surprised.
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Hoover’s plans are all askcxv muse in Cleveland’s time an that if yu’ll
tenders, $1-50;
straw haulers,
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pose of elecing one director for a header
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header
tenders,
*1.50;
straw
haulers,
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t
orm
j
ag
f
week
Thursday
R.
If-
Orr
and
O.
C.
Eakin
finished
K wants to set in the White House be good yu’ll be happy. If yu meet
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term of three years and one clerk for *1.00.
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For * heading
work A a*d
station- Hfted the Bourbon warehouse 50x80 work on the county vault last week
till 1936. An that ain’t the worst of a man with a long solemn face an a
jtg noor ftn(j get jt ¿own g0
00
a term of one year and the transac­ ary machine work header punchers c]ear
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it- Boys in the same parties are tired and worn ou| expression he’ll be
Su^rintendont Tyree completed a
will get 12 00; loaders, |2.50; box gently across the C. S. Ry tracks that
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tion
of
such
other
business
usual
to
knifin’ their own brothers just ; as bein’ a Democrat, but if he’s got a
term
of school in the Harmony dis­
|l-50;
sack
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drivers, |1.25; hoe downs,
,
__ to
-- be
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such meetings. *
not
a board was split. • --
It had
Pollyanna
look on him even though
redder”
.
trict
last
Friday and started out this
sewer,
$2-50;
sack
jig.
|1
50
and
remove<
j
however,
*and
was
tom
to
,.60
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M. E. McKee, clerk.
“Everÿ m*n of senatorial grade hi* ribs are stickin' out he’ll be a
week to visit the other schools of he
separator
men
$8
00.
pieces
to
clear
the
tracks.
1
piece*
dear
Total for w**k. • ••**•• .. .16
Attst: James B. Adams, Chairman-
think^ he could be president if only Republican.’’
county now in session.
FARM HAND INDEED
IN FALL WITH RDRSE
MRS. WENDELL BJLSIGLR
HDRI IN MID COLLISION
Uncle Emmett Hat A Few
Remarks on the Political Scene
News For Old Timers, About
Old Timers of Olden Days
WEATHER REPORT FOR
WEEK EROIRG JURE IB