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Mòro, Oregon, ' July 22, 1932
Forty Fourth Year
RateH
HARVEST BRINGS
VARYING RETURN
Continues
MTN CLERI» WEEK
The hearing
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Duties and Promotion
la so badly shriveled that ft will only
rector.
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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
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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
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• Httie
was
factory being a
in-ue more
moix than
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and J R Ginn
expected earlier in the season Eight Moore,
Ramsey and
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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.
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Harvesting south of Grass Valley
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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
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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
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nee. a much I cooPer*tion of nearly every business
was antici-
untici- man *n
w^° Dii» week
was
contributed
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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<n
hurriedly so that
The Moro Commercial entered in*
are. All camp
Dalles, pr^tineBy all of the county with ample room i
to
a contract with Foster and Kleiser
funds have decreased during the officers wore on hand to greet the boys to build the sign, whiehHrih' be done
and everything In fodiness for a
year. ' 8 th sol district balances have
within the next two weeks- This week
dropped from 18.06045 to 18,02017.
a- m. till Fred Pickett, secretary of the club
The county balance has dropped from from the bi
: and Walter May, ex-president, visited
W 5*6,755-52.
i UP" »ound*!
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Total tax receipt! received by the I Thh Sunday more flouts and boys ■ the towns along the route of the Sher
man Highway and gathered the
sheriff during the calender year of from 9 U 12 Y*" of ige wfll go to
I younfCT " boy, »•««•'•X tata; .
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19|1 ware 1175.190-53 and «263.840-39 “«P»
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* They received almost unanimous
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différant
pro-
ma dfebosood which accounta for
support for the project as it was felt
that the county would benefit from
755.52.
increased highway travel and those
Over nineteen years ago a yellow
cat came to the A- M. Young home
and as he liked the place he just
stayed- »At that «time he was full
grown and was judged, by the Youngs
to be more than a year olu. Every
sipce he has been a member c* the
household and is now thought to be
considerably over twenty years of age
which is doing pretty well for a
cat-
Prevention Only Means of Control
Known So Far
EXPERIMENTS SNOW METT
Goods Cheap Now
In Sherman County
Different Smuts Attack Different Kinds
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Observation of the grocers * signs
that are in the present style posted
plainly on the windows in a recent
trip to- th» city showed that prices in
Pordand are not cheaper than they
are in Sherman county towns. .
On a few items a cent was lopped
off the Sherman county prices and in
others several cents were added on-
The recent activity among merchants
of this county in changing to cash
prices instead of the credit system so
long followed has certainly had its
effect in getting prices to a low level-
Orville Smith Killed
On Okanogan Ranch
Orville Smith, son of a pioneer
Sherman county family, was killed
on his ranch in the Okanagon country
in northern Washington last Thurs
day. The team with which he was
hauling hay ran aWay throwing him
off the wagon and breaking his back.
mg three brothers Clyde and Arthur
of Grass Valley and Lloyd of Kings
Far strictly county expenem there,
co, Moro, Grass Valley. Kent and ley attended the funeral there last
was* appropriated «27,64600 which . <*«P *l»o.
Shaniko as well as stations along the Sunday-
was not all spent as the county court
A truck plans to leavj The Dalles
Columbia river contributed.
were able to make some savings. early Sunday morning from 510
The sign will be twelve and one Los Angles Suicide
Court street for camp for all boys
They only spent «21.470-46
half feet high and thirty two feet
One optimistic thing noticable
I long and will be painted twice a year
Former Moro Man
throughout the entire audit is that
applications alrtody «catead “d
when
the court has spent amounts that from Mm and Wasco inai ode: Jack
P»’"««* « <>“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-
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MIN. PRECIP
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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
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rule in this county for years- Last of his final act- He was living in
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16........ ..78.. ..U... . .00’ Sunday they met and defeated the Los Angeles -
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duct of county busineea.
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Tygh Valley team on the local dia
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mond, the score being 5 to 4. Young
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.50 ., . .00
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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.
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WEATHER REPORT FOR
WEEK ENDIR6 JULY 20
Of Wheat
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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.
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News of Olden Days Retold '
For Readers Who Remember
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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
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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
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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«