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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1932)
A limitan Countu Saurnal * PAPER No. 39 CROPS REITER IHM, EÏPECTEB II tm Visited By Grass Valley RAKES REWIOI Miller .. . * y ATcum J1? i V Oregoalaa- Truck For .1 county was MCEFIED W COURT it will bo mounted th* about bout th* pM^aetioa of wheat in th* QUAUn »M ISKU ders belonging to be placed thereon class Are Aghting town. ' i F m . m is immuni ums. • n gnu ng ~ Preservation Of Food Harvest is getting along in the country north of Nigger ridge and several men are through. Wheat is being hauled into the elevators and „ warehouses rapidly and the amount tors ar** among th* latest creations of many Oregon homemakers judging from the demand fbr directions for making these inexpensive cabinets, trays and boxes. Hundreds of copies of the illustrated leaflet. “Home Drying of Fruits and Vegetables,” which is a reprint of a portion of Exten- Bui- 450, “Home Food Preser vation,” have boon distributed free from the home economic office of the extension service. It give* directions State Fair Offers fore it begins to slacken when the ■ ■ ¿rLir'ot rea'h >«“<“»« b ~ ““ for th. pwt —k but will not re«h frem the peak of the season for several How- j mt I should pay for the buuding. now- days yet. wfinter wheat is being u । , , a*., *■>- ’ I- mxL .nd i. vleldinir a better’ F*” ap^ rTt. return than harvesting began- W«« Most fields are____ M .U th. fem«« Mtta« , per acre. ..... Those who are cutting spring grain are getting lower yields and the to quality is not quite as good as is the winter wheat In most cases it to thought that the wheat will average up to milling grade when the entire departure for State Fairs* but is . field has been cut- deemed very timely for this year. New Members On Relief Committee trelle Hailey have been appointed as memben of the Sherman county re lief committee for the coming winter. They will assist the other members of thé committee. Judge George Potter, J. C- Freeman and Eart Jonea* * it i* ré east of plant win not ! Fire ROM REPAIRS BEING Hines _____ Efficiently Handled THRESHING OF WHEAT NAOE II COUNTY i AI STATION PECULIAR to have a evening a city.' On I tanks J lad- will also a Arat a small Highway Crew Hare Finished Work approxi- 1 that Jetad fire over |400 REOILUIG NONE NEAR MONO South of Keat .Oro Wheat Grown By A. C. Thompson By Evaporation Popular Optimistic reports continue to come in about the harvest- Those who have been cutting in the north end of the county for two week* are getting quite a bit more wheat to the acre than they expected when harvest first begun and the quality, that was a bugaboo several days ago* has increased until a large percent of the wheat harvest is expected to be milling grade. Wheat around Moro it also doing better than was expected in both quality and quantity- Several fields in the Erskine territery are making M) bushels of very good quality wheat testing over 60 pounds in several Grass Valley Mr. Mflier or hases Control ------ Oro Wreat developed *t the Moro The road repair crew under the Th* morgiag sossidn ci th* county experiment station, has been found direction of I. J. W- VanSchoick have court was broken into by a trip to very satisfactory by A. C Thomp made excellent progress in the oiling a Dart of the Shearers road which the who grow it oft hl* place east court mada with Dr- M B. TaytorJ farmed by Wrtin Melxer and resurfacing of the road south of The men visited this section of pmd This variety of wheat to very Kent^ Nearly five miles of road was to discuss a matter of payment for ,mut resistant and it was sown with resurfaced from Wednesday evening right of way- The road was built . ordinary smut treatment The when the crew arrived from Maupin while I. E. Wilson was owner, in ; yield was two bushels the yield to Tuesday night when the work was finished- 1 . ’ - . name at least, of the property and other types of wheat on the This work consisted of scarifing the the line to said to be unsatisfactory 8ort 1Bnd te8t to Mr- Taylor since he has reacquired higher than other wheats, surface of the road as deep as the possession of the land through which being above 62 pounds. There was old oil had penetrated and working it mna^. • no 8mut in the I ! it over and over until it was thorough- wing two car ly broken up, mixing in the new oil The final payment of the county’s * Morrow county is «year from a , and then smoothing and rolling it share of state secondary highway ■ loads of Oro wheat money was received from the etute- Jaffer*00 - rounty f rAat who has ' again- Thia stretch of road had be- Thi. to th. remailer o< th. »0«, b«» it for .ml year, af-j come very badiy p.tud and wa. ex- to rapay th. .om. uaed for the build- tar ^ttin« hto «rat .Urt from the tremely unpleasant dnve over. w t -— , „ — I This resurfacing will make it satis- Ing of Sharers road last winter. The Moro station, . factory for travel again. court instructed that this money be ---- | Wednesday morning after the work used to purchase county bonds if any w . . p* & was finished at Kent the oil tanks are available at a satisfactory price. Wheat ADO rig Ufop _ , . • . i * • i _, . __ n w and heater were moved uiv.vu to w Moro «.viv Lawrence W- Bahaa banded in his. Reported TO Be Less where the job of putting the seal rMirmUon « eounty .chocl .up«- ______ I ' c0.t on . p.rt of the road between intendant to taka affeet September, ’Cfete* Valley and Moro was begun. 1st aad U m resignation wea accepted World whaat supplies «urteg the sum- job consists of spreading a thin coat of oil and screenings over the Rufus next term. He did not file to be considerably smaller than a surface of approximately six miles of in the primary and his term would year ago, says a market report of the road. Beginning just north , of the normally expire January 1st 1933. O- S. C- extension service. The car crest of Nigger ridge to Moro the Wiley W. Knighten, Republican ryover is smaller and the new crop road was oiled and for a distance of nominee, and the only candidate for less than last year in the Northern 1-3 miles north of Moro the same the office made application to be ap- Hemisphere. treatment was applied. This opera* pointed as superintendent and his Production is expected to be small- tion will seal the road against any application was acted on favorably er in Europe as well as In North possible chance of water leakage by the court to take effect when Mr- America, according to the report, ^us preserving the road from dam- [ age caused by percolation. The work Continued to page three. The court has begun to arrange for was expected to last about two days- ■re— and are gathering inforination from the state committee handling the Sherri funds as to how the state’s share of the »300.000,000 relief'fund WEATHER REPORT FOR ; WEEK EN0IN6 AUS. 3 Wages For Labor Lowest In Years MIN. PREOIP The quarterly farm labor report of the U. S Bureau of Agricultural Economics, which was released July 12. indicated that the available supply of farm labor in the United States is twice as largo as the effective de mand. Demand is 62 per cent nor mal, and supply 124 per cent. Farm wages are reported the lowest in 30 DAT* Homer Wall, county engineer, is Wheti one admission ticket admits to 28 . July both th* grounds and the grandstand. county whore he is engineering a 29.. In spite of times, people crave some road from the top of the hill between 30.. 81.. Fossil aad Clarno toward the latter point. His check from Sherman Aug. county this* month * amounted to »11740, which is lower than the can be had for the money aa at the Total for Stato Fair. services for some time. , The operating oost of the State Fair haa been reduced drastically and this reduction should either be pass« on to the patrons of the Fair in th . .00 82 ....52 .71 ... 46. . .00 .72 ... 48. . .00 . .00 .7» .. 49 .79 ... 49 . .00 93 .. .50 *. .00 ..97 ... 57. .. 00 .-.00 week.. I < Moro Man Remember»; Early Ice-Crearh Cohe For one citizen in Moro the story in last week’s paper about the dis* covery or invention of the ice cream cone was particularly interesting. He remembered that years ago when he was a barker on the "Pike” in San Francisco the cones were cooked in a little waffle iron, rolled quickly into the well known cone shape and when cooled were filled with ice cream. And so, the world is not so distant after all-- With Toy Machine lOUCI NEEDED IN WDM Nursery Wheat Weighed and Yield Is ‘ Carefully Computed You fellows who think you are threshing when you turn out five or six hundred sacks per day, listen! This week it was the privilege of the writer to watch a threshing rig that turned out wheat at the rate of 150 sacks per ■ hour and each sack was labeled, and checked for variety place grown, row and number. No. Don’t rush with the lie de tector. It’s the truth- The thresh ing machine is operating at the ex periment farm at Moro and may be watched by anyone with curiousity and a little carelessness about straw and dirt down the neck- ' True, the sacks are somewhat smaller than those usually filled with Wheat—the kind that make a man weary after the first five hundred or so. They are little paper bags- They are threshing the nursery wheats at the station and they are all in separate bundles each a pro duct of a row of wheat a rod long. Each bundle is cut separately, bound and the heads are covered with a wrapping of newspaper to keep the wheat from being lost through shat- ' taring- Each variety of wheat in each nursery is threshed separately and when one variety is done the machine is cleaned and brushed and flowed out until not a kernal of the proceeding variety is left to mix with the incoming bland of wheat. Altogether it is quite a process. The bundles are laid on a table each kind of wheat by itself. The strings are cut and the wheat is unwrapped and the tag is placed where the sack sewer can get it. Then the wheat is put into the cylinder, almost the only part of the little machine that resem bles the ordinary thresher. It drops from the cylinder into a chute where a blast of air separates Continued to page two. News of»Olden Days Retold Observer August 8th. 1913. per acre- R. C. Belshee has purchased the business and residence property con sisting of the Moro Meat Market building, several lots, residence and garage. Thompson Bros- Harvester will need a few unimportant changes made in its construction before it will do effective work. The plan is alright. The Grass Valley Cornet Band is Eugene Amidon was the owner of now receiving instructions from the first wheat to be hauled into competent teacher of music. Moro this searfbn. It was from a 75 acre field of turkey ¡red that pro One day sales of the Kent Com duced 1370 sacks, better than 42 mercial Co- this week ran over »400 bushel to the acre. « R- Fowler lost his header over the Mrs- M. 'A. Bull is the chauffer in bluff while heading on the Shelby charge of the A- B. Mathews combine farm. harvester. This is the second season Obserher August 3rd. 1893. that Mrs- Bull has driven and she is Tom Farra made final proof on the only woman of our knowledge that has ever sat on the drivers seat his homestead last Friday. of a combine harvester in operation. Gene Cushman met with a serious Hon- C. W. Moore has bought the accident recently. He stuck a pitch brick building now occupied by the fork through his foot and says the big enuogh for Moro Hardware and Implement Co-, header box was from L- Barnum. Part of the con both feet sideration was stock in the Citisens Weigand and Morrisey have Commercial Co. of Grass Valley giv bought a threshing outfit. They ing Mr. Barnum the controling inter have four or five hundred acres of est in that concern- ’ fine grain- More Important As Uncle Emmett was enjoying his body figures it out just as easy ai after dinner smoke under the shade that Ain’t that simple, though.” “No bond interest or bond payin' U of the locust tree« along the main street he was accosted by • dapper worry about, no mismanagement or gentleman with the affable appear anybody’s part, no graftin’ among friends. Nothin’, Just Wages- O ance of a salesman- course, young feller, I recon salariei "Ah, Mister, I have • petition here I am sure you would like to sign. has kihda stayed on the top aftei It has to do with the governmental other things got bucked off- But say salaries- Do you know that one of don’t it look to you once in a while II the principal cauee« of t»s troubles your saner times, if any, that th< we are now undergoing to caused by feller that figured out that bill wai too high a «alary »cale among our tryin’ to find a terrible simple solu tion for a darn difficult problem.” officers- “I suppose If the janitor up at th “I do not,” replied Uncle Emmett, statehouse didn’t sweep under th “but proceed with the languwidge you sound like a spoiler I used to governor’s chair you’d lower hii wages and if the rtwul boss boughl know who traveled with a circus. ’ two cars of culverts instead of th “This bill If enacted into law will one ho needod yob’d lower his salary reduce all «alaries of state officers by forty per cent with a resuting «»ring Eh? ^o. son, it ain’t the salariei to the tax payer« of million« ” re- that« hurtin* half as much as it to thi boobs that’s drawin’ ’*»•” sumed ned the talker. ‘ Well, now ain’t nature wonderful, r “If you want to do something rea an ain’t tax reducin’ easy?” remarked good yu go to work and find out whai the old man- “Folks a been worryin' the big money is spent for an’ why about what made taxes so high for, It ain’t gonna bo so easy to figure ou1 Jo, these many years, and here some- but It’ll be worth more ” The Grass Valley-Kent ball club will meet the Bend team on the Grass Valley grounds next Sunday. This is a game that has been prom ised local fans for the past several weeks and it has finally been ar ranged. The Sherman county team has made a good record in its games this season and has earned the chance to play the boys from the larger city to the south. A good con test may be expected for the local team will be strengthened so to put a good game against the invaders from the south. Small Handfuls ’ hreshed Separately For Readers Who Remember OH VBA# I JUST HATE IRE Grass Valley-Kent To Play Bend Sunday V years. Bead the ads in the Journal Unde Emmett Believes Management A fire that threatened to destroy the Hines house in Wasco last Tues day just before noon was effectually put out by the Wasco fire department in Jig time- The Arc siren blew at 11:26 and the streets of the city immediately be came populated with running firemen coming from all directions to the fire house. In three minutes there was a stream of water playing on the fire and in seven minutes from the sound ing of the siren spectators were re turning to their, homes, robbed of another thrill. Mrs. Howard Hines was at home with her childfen. She was in the yard hanging out clothes when she saw smoke çoming from the kitchen She notified the men at the ware houses nearby with the above result- Little damage was done to the house- The paper and some of the wood work was burned from the kitchen walls and some of the furnishings were soaked with f water • hut a few dol- lars will repair what looked like a totally destroyed house. Observer t August 7th. 1903- I -------- X. W_ c. Gfiyton and Ada Bell were rrantkd a license to wed on the \hird. Kaseberg Bros, finished threshing 1050 sacks, Mondays run, three head- m and thresher working together- So far it runs about 10 to 15 sacks Miss Mollie Nichols who disap- peered from Grants about throe weeks ago is still missing. She started out on horseback to round up some horses and had very little money with her so cannot have traveled far, unless sho rode to Crook county where horses. i I
