herman Sauntal PAPER 1 = W Mòro, Oregon, ' July 22, 1932 Forty Fourth Year RateH HARVEST BRINGS VARYING RETURN Continues MTN CLERI» WEEK The hearing f strong. The battled hard g the condi- Trmtan Wil Be TeU Abatates ei Herttani Eta ta Hutany 97 ' of the 'if'- 4 ' W fmh stata mil MEUSE lESmEIGHISH M IM n. M> AkMw» T«t Local Man Given New , r Duties and Promotion la so badly shriveled that ft will only rector. H ; Sehonfald. Dr. yield as much as ton to twelve seeks tendent of the Moro and Pendleton but it is the ease in this county this From information derived from authentic sources the average test weight of wheat so far delivered in the north end of the county is about 55 pounds. There are some fields that are very fair ranging up to 59 or 60 pounds in weight and there are patches where the test weight goes down so low as to make the wheat valueless from a milling point of view. Fifty five pound wheat take» a dis­ count of 7 cents per bushel and it is considered doubtful if the gluten, test is high enough to counteract this dis­ count although some wheat already tested for gluten showed nearly 12 per cent- Some farmers are still undecided as to whether they will harvest their crop or not- At the present prices it will not pay to cut low teat wheats but there is some chance that the price will raise sufficiently to make it valuable before another year has ended. Cutting it now is merely another gamble attached to the final end of what is largely a gamble all the year around. duties of scientific crop research ad­ viser to the branch station superin­ tendents at the following stations: Moro, Hermiston, Pendleton, Union and Bums. Another action recently taken by the board of higher education reduces the salaries of all employees of the experiment stations in Oregon on a Stephens will continue to Hve in Moro but will be required to super- necessitate considerable traveling Mdro Church Elects Officers end Directors Bose “* Mr. Maud. Comtoltto. on Turk., Red that is making about ten sacks nearly 58 pound whtot. «aM of _^„‘XXd Mr.^2^ town several machines are running Mb r • Httie was factory being a in-ue more moix than w-»™ M ' and J R Ginn expected earlier in the season Eight Moore, Ramsey and i , expec e. Boy Scouts: Dewey Thompson, probable yield in the district east of Melvin Sclmdewitx, Wiley Knighton. Camp Fire Girls: Mrs- Lois Bar- Hay Canyon except some of that on the point Some of this wheat Is pinched but not all of it. ' - BreySnt Harvesting south of Grass Valley ; F srata = MEHCHÍNTS ARRANGE 1^ Jr.°“ c“ Owned By A. M. Young SMUT PROBLEM HARD TO ODILO ROAD SIGN ONE FOR FARMERS United Nearly Al fid* Bw W W No. 37 as that sho w- muti w« heep the railroads It is posoiMa that flpaie sort of re- . lief in freight rates r Will bo forth J coming from this hearing, but it is delayed so long Sign at Junction af Highway >7 and pr this crop sea- Palles Road Assured Commission- ling without V- * A signboard directing travelers from points south how to find the Boy Scouts AvCamp shortest and smoothest road to Wash­ Ringwsak This Week ington cities will be erectod at the junction of The Dalles-Criteyion High­ way and Federal Highway 97. This has been made possible through the ned Sunday --- - Mrmn. .ho wid. to 1 »»««Mk j “X tatertotod per.cn. who vM to M nee. a much I cooPer*tion of nearly every business was antici- untici- man *n w^° Dii» week was contributed ■ to a fund that will oounty activity in 1931 o be erection and maintenance kg to this audit, which was w, eand for of ,u<:h ‘ •i“lred bX tbe com- mittee. The E. M. Shutt who was in the sums that were allowed by the budget and iRoss Coppock. Bobbie Ring, news last week when he shot and Stanley Jones and Douglas Tuoi- killed his blind son and then himself For the first time in many years was at one time a resident of Sher­ Qrass Valley-Kent the county has an audit that «hows man county living at Moro. He was practically all of the operations of Wins Another Game editor of The Moro Observer in 1892- the county in comprehensive form Later he moved to Antelope and to There is a report from all of the Heppner where he" was elected county officers, including the prohi­ Grass Valley-Kent are not satisfied sheriff- MAg. MIN. PRECIP DATS ' bition fund of the sheriff, the other to end their baseball playing with the Lack of money and the care of the minor funds provided by law, the July 14........... ..73’.. . 45 .. . .00' Fourth of July games as has been the son were presumed to be the causes Í Me 11 ............. ..8b. . 52 .. . .00 rule in this county for years- Last of his final act- He was living in 4<. 16........ ..78.. ..U... . .00’ Sunday they met and defeated the Los Angeles - •I .00 ..73 . 51 duct of county busineea. 17 .. Tygh Valley team on the local dia­ 1«............. .73. ...... . .00 ------------- ^1- mond, the score being 5 to 4. Young r /ff * .50 ., . .00 1»............. 75 and Fritts were the battery for For those whe wiab |o kmip. taf«»’ . 60 20 ........... . 86 Grass Valley-Kent and Qaymeier. and ed abqut county the Sherman TOtsl for week. . - .t. /. . .00 ’ Claymeier for the visitors. le. County Jouma! b ta WEATHER REPORT FOR WEEK ENDIR6 JULY 20 Of Wheat f. Smut, the wheat parasite that proves so costly in many wheat rais- ing countries, seems to be of so hardy a nature that it defeats all of man’s endeavors to eradicate it or to produce a variety of wheat that is immune to its depredations. Some time ago wlieat experimen­ ters thought that thc;y had produced a variety of wheat that did not smut. In the country in which it was pro­ duced there was no smut that would attack it- It was sent to the middle western states and to every station in the west and within a few yars it began to have some smut in it. It seems that the smut parasite will adapt jtself to any variety of wheat in time- There are two main divisions of the smut plant, the smooth balled, Tillicia Levis and the netted surfaced Tillicia Triticia and these apparently have an unlimited number of varieties. Smut spores settle on the wheat kernel in threshing and attacks the young plant as it emerges from the kernel. It can be discerned by the aid of a microscope in the growing end of apparently healthy plant. Un­ less especially severe the plant is not effected until it prepares to form a head then the' smut parisite takes possession of the plant and it pro­ duces nothing but smut* In some cases smut spores are in the soil and wheat is infected in that manner. This is not usual in spring wheat as practically all of the smut is germinated and killed by an ordi­ nary winter. Fall seeding in damp ground at temperatures of 60 degrees is likely to produce smut if it is prev­ alent in the soil or the seed. There is no cure for a plant that has once become smutted. The only means of eradicating the disease is prevention, according to C- S- Holton, Continued to page four. * News of Olden Days Retold ' For Readers Who Remember &£ Common Sports For Common Folks Popular Again Now Day« Unde Emmett sat cross leggod in pony into the next county.” “Haws-sh^s Is poplar agin. It Ie the dust under the trees where the village horseshoe game was In prog- the game of the common folks, the | what ye call ’em. the proletarians. J “Haws-shoes is a right popular suppose yu wonder why such a sim- sport, I hear,” he confided to Wabash pie game ef skill is found on every who sat alongside. ‘Folks in the vacant lot, don’t yu, Wabash ? “Yu wonder why. folks that has cities used to write long pieces for wore out their trick golfin’ togs and the Sunday supplements about the de­ has used their red ndln’' clothes to cadence of rural sports. They told about the game that went on day scrae the wolf from the door is con­ after day behind Jud Yunkin’s black­ tent to meet with the masses and smith shop and how excited the poor spend their time throwin’ discarded footwear at a peg.” farmers got over it. “Wal, that’s easy, Wabash, the “Now they tell the poor folks in the city who ain’t got nothin’ to do has reason so many folks engage in this tore up the Keep Off the Grass signs proletarin sport is eouse there's so to make pegs and are pitchin’ haws- darn many proletarians these days. shoes oh the very' »put where the Folks who thought they was capita­ queen of the May was crowned- It lists and folks who thought they was always was plumb foolish fer city middle class have had ondeniable in­ folks to presume any superiority on formation from their banker thae account of the games they played they are just folks agin. They play haws-shoes instead of golf and nights when time hung heavy on ’em. “There’s that golf game. It got them an their neighbors got together into society and had a flock of trick fer a sociable game of pedro with the clothes an a lot of funny words hung kings wild instead of gamblin’ at onto it an people thought they had bridge at so much I a point- Why, to play it to t>e up with the Joneses Wabash, even chewin’ tobacca may Ridin’ haws back can’t be done in the come back before this is over folks big towns without a red eoat an a get has got so common.” up that scare a self respectin’ cow We Still Have Our Appetites I “* • * ’ ' “■ • ‘ □D Observer July 20, 1893- C- A. Buckley will erect a handsome residence on his newly acquired piece of property near Grass Valley.. have two covered hacks and an extra wagon driven by Omer Sayrs and are prepared to be at home no matter where night overtakes them. They will join the Mazamas at Three Sis­ ters, fish in the Mackenzie, paddle in the Pacific at Yaquina and come home via Portland and The Dalles Perry Watkins is this week build­ ing a large corral close by the Red Barn Livery and Feed Stable- This will prove a great convenience to horse men wanting to corral horses Barnum Brothers have purchased here, as there is no other of any size the Martin Holman interests in the long known Holman Brothers thresh­ in town. Only 250,000 pounds of the wool in ing outfit. the Pendleton warehouse has been Crops around Wilcox are being sold, the remainder being consigned, harvested mostly for hay. securing advances of from 4 to 7 Henry Schadewitz of Kent has sold cents ? his store to Bennet Brothers. The W. J- Peddicord house in the Observer July 25, 1913- south end of town will soon be com­ Dr. C. L- Poley was called to Kent pleted. The carpenter work is being Tuesday to attend Mrs. H- A. Som­ done by Slater Brothers. mers. The trip was made with the T. B. Searcy, who has been in Chi­ aid of E- W Lewis and his Ford cago for some time taking in the auto. sights at the World’s Fair passed Married: At the Presbyterian through Moro last Thursday enroute Manse, July 19th, Jonathan N. Mac- to his home near Rutledge. Innes and Miss Betsy Boyer. iRev. Observer July 24, 1903. A- J- Adams officiating. N. P- Hansen has charge of the I4ist week's Shaniko Star reports W. A. Gordon bank in Moro during the natives as having a picnic finding the temporary absence of S- 8- Hays rattlesnakes, several being found who left for Collins with his family about the city, two with nine rattles Tuesday. each- L. L. Peeta began some harvesting C. W. Moore has been appointed ‘his week- chief of police at The Dalle«. Mr. L V. and E- H. Moore left with Moore has been registrar of the local their families last week for a tour of government land office and has ex­ a considerable part of Oregon- They tensive interests at Graas Valley«