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Mf- and Mrs. Frank Hurner and
son, Frank Wilson, who spent the
past week visiting with friends and
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Ed Sutherland is vacating in Grass
relatives in Kent returned to their
I Valley for a few days from Portland home in Portland last Saturday.
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Grass Valley
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8HBRMAM CUÜNTY OBSERVER, BataMtohed Nev. A IM
GRASS VALLEY JOURNAL, Established (Mt M. 1667
CONSOLIDATED, MARCH < Itti
WASCO NEWS-ENTERPRISE, 'BataMiabod Itti
CONSOLIDATED MARCH 4, IMS.
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FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1W2.
Th« school election will bo held
July 11 when a director for three
years and a clerk for one year will
be elected- This will be necessary be
cause the former school meeting was
protested- ‘
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Mrs. Sadie Rasmussen, daughter
of Mrs. Lucy Ruggles, to visiting here
this week from Pendleton. She used
to teach some of the younger fo|ka
. An editorial in The Oregon’ Journal of June 27th, “The Salary their lessons back in the good old
Scandal," states that one of the causes for the new taxes that are dav«
“THE PROPAGANDA SCANDAL
being laid on the people is the large salaries paid to officers of the
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Farmers National Oram Corporation
This is not the cast.
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The officers of the grain corporation are
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paid by tba fanners belonging to that organization and by them
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Furthermore they are leading a farmers organization that
is saving millions of dollars for the farmers every year.
Does the Journal know what was the cost to the fanner of
marketing wheat when it waa sold to private grain concerns?
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might surprise it to learn that grain companies charged from five
to seven cents per bushel for the handling and profit charges.
Now the coat to the farmer cannot hie over two cents and figuring
dividends returned to the grower this cost is often lowered to leas
than a cent a bushel.
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When wheat was handled by private concerns there waa no
criticism of Salaries because they were a matter of private busi
ness and were not known.
Harold Hughes had an operation
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«»»•t *“ Los GatoS. weeks, returned to their respective
' California and is getting along very homes last Saturday evening-
wdL T*1“ to expected to remove the • Kent Grange No. 688 held its regu-
tot meeting last Wednesday evening,
I trouble he had last winter*
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June 22, with about thirty members
George Nesbi€ a mechanic who has
’ visited
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- hero every summer for several present- Urena Young was obligated
in the first and second degrees. Dur-
years, was in town briefly Tuesday. -
ing the lecture hour Mrs. Charly
Mrs- Henry Tets has moved to the Guytofi gave an interesting talk
ranch with her mother for the sum about (he state grange and its work-
mer while the Tets residence in town The ndxt meeting will be held Wed-
la being redecorated.
nesday evening. July 13.
Mrs. Estel Hartley and baby have
. Mrs. W. 0. Smith who has been
the measles this week and are not visiting at Walla Walla for the past
enjoying it a bit
two weeks returned home Sunday
The wheat that was hailed on in
the Dutch settlement is recovering
its straight up appearance again ex
cept that part of it was too far along.
The damage does not seem so heavy
as was at first thought
It might be assumed, however, from
Donald, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dean
Olds, broke his arm and was taken to
fits likewise, to judge from the independent fortunes that have The Dalles for an x-ray examination
this week. The same arm has been
been accumulated by grain operators during their halcyon day broken before-
Ellen Cox returned home from
when farmers had no organization.
Portland where she has been visiting
This attempt to make people believe that the recent increase with relatives for the past week.
exterior appearances that salaries were very substantial, and pro
in taxes was caused by salaries paid to employees of the Farmers'
The hard boiled captain had just
Read the ads In the Journtfi
knocked one of his sailors overboard
“Help! Help!” yelled the seaman.
CALL FOR BIDS
“I can’t swim. Drop me a line ”
Bids for bus driver, furnishing his
The captain leaned over the rail
and smiled sweetly:
I own conveyance and upkeep of same,
“Oh, yes. dear, and you write me for Wilcox School District No. 29 for
sometimes, too.”
the coming school year, will be re
ceived by the clerk up to 12 o’clock
The dis
“What’s the idea of the Greens Thursday, July 21, 1932.
tance
of
route
starting
and
returning
having French lessons?”
Mrs I. N- Maclnnes who spent the
“They have adopted a French baby, to Kent is 27 miles- Anyone wishing
past week visiting in the Willamette and want to understand what she further information can see clerk-
valley returned home last Saturday - says when she begins to talk.”
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Mrs. Cora1 B. Guyton, clerk
Evelyn Davis left last Wednesday
for The Dalles where she will stay
CALL FOR BIDS
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“Everybody is playing hockey up
for a few days with her grandmother
our
way
this
winter
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Bids
for
buss
driver
for
Michigan
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Mrs. Schassen who is convalescing
“Yeah, we did here, too. till we District, No. 33 Bids ’closed at 12 8
from • long illness.
didn’t have anything more to hock!”
o’clock July 15,:
Cari Gregg, Walter Wilson and
Darrow Kelly ware visitors in The
Pauline Wilcox, clerk- ’
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Dalles one day last week.
Woman (in subway)—"I wish that
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good looking young man would get
give me his
sat. a threatening
I up A and
blackmailer
wrote
WndAd
school at Corvallis for the past two - Six men got up.
Mr. and Mrs- Carl Sthadewits and
Henry Patjens to walking with a
son John Henry motored to Wamic
limp due to a sore ankle that nearly
caused blood poisoning.
Mr* and Mrs. B* M. Sias and fam
Earl Olds and family were in Port
ily of Antelope were visitors in Kent
land the last of the week for medical Sunday
attention for Mrs. Olds who to gain-
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Davis and son
Ing strength rapidly.
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• <A .Jh weth Visiting in The Dalles last Sun
Neil Cameron, the smiling Inter- day- w-
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES—PAYABLE IN ADVANCR.
Joe Ritner and wife returned from
National is deliberate propaganda against the farmers and their, the Willow Springs ranch where they
organization and is especially regrettable in that it comes from the
Journal, a paper that often boasts of its allegiance to the cause of ' ter a trip to Portland. She was ac
companied by Don Smith.
the common people.
The same editorial states that the Farm Board and the corpo , . Miss Barbara Fisk, who has been
by facts.
For instance:
The average price of wheat at Liverpool
was from 23 1-2 cents to 14 1-2 cents above the Chicago pric
es from 1921 to 1928, inclusive.
In 1929 it was 7 cents above Chic
ago; in 1930 it was 5 1-2 cents higher and in 1931 the Chicago
prices averaged 11-2 cents above the Liverpool market How can
anyone figure that the Farm Board has depressed the price of
market for the first time in many years? * Furthermore last Satur
er of a cent above the Liverpool price, something that did not hap
pen when wheat was handled by the private companies
One of the criticisms made against* the Farmers' National by
the grain trade when the farmers' organization was getting start
ed was thaUhe Parmers' National was not charging enough for
handling wheat
The grain companies said that wheat could not
be handled for two cento—a tacit admission that they charged
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more. Yet during some of the poorest years for wheat production
this country has known the farmers marketing agency 'has
handled wheat for two cents and has returned a dividend to mem
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HAILEY, Asst. Mgr.
GRAIN. FEED, FLOUR, FARM IMPLE
MENTS, IN URANCE.
Sperry
Crown Mills
FLOUR
visiting st th« ¿»m« of Mar jorto
U^rZLXd to her home
facts and may
the farmer to become dissatisfied with his
marketing set-up through suspicions aroused by such migtate
Charles Dunlap who helped to trgO
sheep to the mountains returned
I home last Tuesday.
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Mr. and
^‘ck
were business visitors in The Dalles
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The Columbia Southern railway,
built by donated labor, second band rails, hope and a Kttle money
for seasoning ia now rated as being worth (1^01,000.
M last
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Friday.
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Some one page E. E. Lytle
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Wheat baa
Prank Humer
were visitors at
Thursday.
. been pretty good meat upon which to feed a railroad.
With many econ mists believing that the partial payment
and J- C. Wilson
Tygh Valley last
Mrs. W- W* Knighten and Mra,
Harold Howell were on th« akk Hat
plan has caused a Is rye share of the present distress, it seems pe
Mm J- N* McInnes and daughter
Marjoria w«r« risitors in Grass Val
ley last Friday afternoon.
then we must have our cars
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France seems to be able to draw gold out of this country every
Farm Implements
Or<
Wasco
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The Democrats should nominate someone to take the press
yt of the depression.
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SPEAKER OF THE DAY JULY 4TH
EX-GOV. WALTER M. PIERCE
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Foot Races, Horse Shoe Tournament, En
tertainment, Concessions, Shows, Music
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Admission Charge to Sport Field Reason-
onable. No Charge to Celebration Ground
EVERYBODY COME. BIG TIME
When planning for Harvest
Meals consult us. We have
the
you realize that time slips by? The
time is approaching when many sub
scriptions are due to the Journal ■
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Economic conditions haveing remained un
Food For Working Men
satisfactory for another twelve month, we
' will accept edible produce
in payment of
at prices farmers can afford
to pay.
subscriptions, as we did last year.
Weeat will be taken at 50 cents per bushel.
We like to meet you half way.
H. Ziegler’s »SS?
Sunday
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Extremely Good Deals and Terms on
evening the Kent
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”ht'?d«k
New Harvesters
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By the way, I Am Selling
Amunition At Coat
R. J. Baker
4 rpvvunty OWCU Which
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waa h»ld at Mam
Mero last
last Saturday
Saturday
evening.
Anita Dunlap is visiting for a few
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Quito a number of Kent people at
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for choir practico*
instead of having some organization do it for them?
The swimming hole at Buck Hollow
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has been repaired and quite a number
Ambition groweth not less in the aged heart of Milt Miller.
| of people are enjoying themselves by
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Sine« state pfficera have agreed on a moratorium for autotno-
on Sunday ^fi^oo^
il e owners the next thing will be to quarrel about who is to get
ft <wnUr
g«at people eV
t ha nraHU Mr It ' ’
t nr credit for it.
THE RADIO MELODIANS GIRLS
of Portland Will Furnish the Music for the
Dances and During the Day
Base Ball Sunday and Monday
MORO vs. GRASS VALLEY
day whether they pay any interest or principal or not. .If the tended the dance which was given in
Shaniko last Saturday evening.
moratorium is continued it should not include that country.
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BIG DANCE
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culiar for the state to be recommending it for auto licenaes^but
Why not let the unemployed put up their own supply of fruit
REPAIRING
The Harvester L a Hungry Bird
The most deplorable thing about the publication of such edi
torials ia that they tend to mislead those not ponversynt with the
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When Your Shoes need
Kepair, send them to
CELEBRATION
MITCHELL, LEWIS & STAVER CO.
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menu.
In Moro th« First Week
in Each Month
Kent News
bers that has made the net charge less than a cent per bushel in
many cases.
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WERNAIARK’S
Pauline
Prices of meats at Olds butcher
shop in Grass Valley have been dras
tically reduced lately. Look over these
prices, buy, and get SOME good out
of this depression, anyway. Beef
Steak 16 to 20 cents per pound. Beef
Roast 16c, Beef Boil, 10c to 12c; Bam
berger 15c, Sausage 10. Pork Roast
¡5« to 30c, Pork Chops 15c to S0«i
Veal Chops 20c. Veal Roasts 16c to
20c. Veal 8teak 20c, Bide Pork lOe,
Spare
Ribs Be. Butter 23c to 25c,
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Bacon 18c-
day, June 25th. the Portland price for December wheat was a quart
HOME OFFICE, WASCO
letter to a motion picture star, stat-
ing that his recently wedded wife
LOST, STRAYED or STOLEN: 1
would
kidnaped unless a substan- yearling -shorthorn steer with 2|
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GOOD SHOE
tial
forthcoming. By error notches in a full crop in right ear I
Mm letter was delivered at the house JL M. Wilson. Kent, Ore.
24-l-pd 204 Second St
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o,a working man of the same name.
He
replied: “Sir, I have
no “>on®y» b«t I m interested in your
P«>P««ition.”
Barbara Walpole entertained
Thursday afternoon in honor of Miss
play, high score going to
Newcomb.
wheat when the Chicago price climbed above that in the world •
DENTIST
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week.
Jack Gervais had an engagement
with a rattle snake last Sunday along
the Deschutes The snake got in the
first licks, but Jack had the finalword
and brought the rattlers decorations
home with him.
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Dr. J. A. BUTLER^
JULY 3=4
Grass
Valley
IR. H. McKEAN I
visiting with Biss Barbara Walpole
We believe that this cannot be proven
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'Fiance—“I haven’t the courage to
tell your father of my debts.”
Fiancee—“What cowards you men
are!
Father hasn’t the courage tu
morning- She was accompanied by
tell you of his.”
Mr* and Mrs- Hart and son and Mrs.
Taylor who returned home Monday
morning
Two Scotchmen went Ashing with
the understanding that the first one
one catch a fish would buy the other
Britiah Guide (showing place* of a soda. Both finished without bait.
rations formed under the marketing act have probably depressed, sines th« dote of school at O. S. C.
the price of wheat below what it would have been had they never returned to her homo in Portland thio
been called into existance *
interest)—“It was in this room that
thXp:b
I. LOST—1 Canvas back Roll contain-
Urd Wellington received his first
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Butcher—“Round steak Madam«“ tween J Gr*M Valley and Gordon
American Touriat (suddenly inter-
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Ridge.
E E Gervais
tadl—-How murh wa.
Bride—.“-The shape doesn’t interest
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; me so-long as its tender.”
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