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SHERMAN CO
Moro
Forty Fourth Year
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A large part of the farmers are
far enough along with their harvest-
ing this year to give them a very
good idea about the total amount of
sacks or bushels they will have when
it is all over and the last straw has
gone flicking into the cylinder, but
for the county a a whole the total
crop has yet to be determined- - /
Wheat has been hauled slower this
year than usual because many farm
ers are leaving their sacked grain in
the field until after hanrest so that
they can haul it themselves instead of
hiring it done as in the past. The
part of the crop that is hauled in bulk
is largely in the elevators in the
Moro district and is probably half in
from Grass Valley south-
The figures showing the amount of
wheat that has been received by the
warehouses north of Hay Canyon
have not been gathered to date but
for Moro and Grass Valley districts
they show that there b considerably
more wheat than last year- Just how
much can not be determined until it
is all hauled.
There is the following quantities
of wheat in the warehouses and
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elevators below: >■
67,688
Hay Canyon
6 289
Nish
17,552
DeMoss
100,446
Moro
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67.367
Grass Valley
14,767
Bourbon
30.467
Kent f
18,667
Wilcox
393
Total
p 690
Moro
district
is
The total for the
which
156,865
262,521 bushels of
bushels is bulk wheat- This is ap
proximately three fifths of the
amount hauled to date. In> the Gry
ralley district it is probable «hat p
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warehouse
wife of Peter
hospital Wed-
from the effects of
opmento caused her death-
is June of thA /tor- Since that
time sho has Uved on the Peters
farm south <rf Grass Valley. Her
mother. Mrs. Leulla Leesley, who was
Mere and Gram VaRay District» Rarart
districts
Mrs Irena
Mrs. Peters fit me UI Friday and
was taken to the hospital Sunday
afternoon whom she was immodiatefiy
operated upon. It was thought that
spw mai much behei
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X±» TRUCKS TO REPLACE
TRAIN ON THIS BRANCH
Water Wheat Sheet ci last Yean’ an operation
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August 19, 1932
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WAREHOUSES FULLER Her« Until After Harvert _ (nop repor SHOWS
SMALLER Nti YIELD
NOW THAN IN 1331
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Contributor From Moro
ni-wEmr mms probable
Those who petitioned the public
The August first crop report of
service commissioner to not allow the
the dspartmcpt pf Agriculture gives
railroad company to institute thrice
the eatimated production of wheat in
a
week service on this branch line
the United States as 671,592.000
received word that the petition has
bushrts- This is estimating the win-
tor wheat crop at 441,788,000 bushels !
been denied and that the service
and the spring wheat crop at 229.-
would be cut to the days specified.
8O4JA00 bushels.
The carriers asked that the follow
This is a reduction from 789 462.-
ing schedule of service be allowed:
> 000 which was the winter wheat pro Young Demrcratic Group *a mixed train departing from Biggs
By E. R. BARZEE.
duction of 1931 although the spring
Box 25, Moro, Oregon.
on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri
Cail
On
Party
Men
Here
wheat
crop
is
much
heavier
than
days
running through to Shaniko,
Second Prize Story,
last years production, which was only
then
departing from5 Shaniko on
On May 27 this year my friend 86,347,000 bushels-
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays
and I went fishing on the Deschutes
Three young men, members of the running through to Biggs.”
river near Frieda- I was standing be a decline of 204 307,000 bushels in newly organised Young Democratic
They (the railroads) “further pro
at the water’s edge under a two-foot, the United States wheat crop this League of Oregon, were visitors in pose to provide supplemental mail
bank when I hooked a nine inch trout
the county last Sunday for a few express and less than car load service
and threw it out behind me near a 1981« When compared to the five hours. They wore on the last leg of by means of motor trucks over the
bush. Not 'wanting to climb the year average there is a decline of a 2100 mile trip through the south- highway between Grass Valley and
bank to take the fish off the hook, IMLJM.0M biuheh.
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and eastern part of the state for Biggs on Mondays, Wednesdays and
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I attempted to raise the fish from the
of aiding the —
formation
in Oregon
uregvu the
m« estimate is that we the
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grass, but was unable to do so. Then will
raise ---- 20 bushels
to the acre o __ f county
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_ units of the league. Will- ’ ( According to the report of the
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I stepped up the bank and to my which
is greater than
was raised last iam L. As Gosslin,
president, .T>
R. WmnmA
Wayne commiMiOner received the testimony
amazement saw a three-foot bull year when our average was 18-5 Stevens, treas
and John J. BhOws that the principal objection to
snake with the trout in its mouth, bushel to the acre of winter wheat Greden, puHh
director of the
proposed service on the part of
trying to crawl backward into the There are fewer acres in this crop organisation we
io party.
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plaintiffs was the possibility that
brush-
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*^noeratic League BWftching service would be inadquate
however, 'and the tote! production of
* I did not kill the snake, as I thot winter wheat is expected to be II.- hopes to create Jsn interest in pohti- during the season of heaviest wheat
020,000 bushels whereas it was 15,- cal affairs in the minds of young movement. This objection would
men and women between the ages of effect the elevators in greatest degree
262,000 bushels in 1981.
Acre yields are not given for 18 and 36 and especially to further according to the testir^ny-
trout in my basket-
spring wheat as yet but the estimated the aims of the Democratic party.
The commissioner has found that
total production is 4,680,000 bushels The Oregon league is affiliated with a the proposed service will be adequate
compared to 2,400.000 bushels raised natinal organization with the same if combined with the motor truck
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Car. Owners Getting
service and has so ordered- The date
last year.
of the order was August 12-
Licenses st Court House . This will give Oregon a total wheat
production of 19,700,000 bushels
Read the ads in the Journal
which
jk ¿ranter than has been esti
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Industrial Accident
mated by private observers. There
this month the sheriff’s office han was undoubtedly some damage done
Auditor in County
.tei spykg wheat in this section, at
tovt, Alpce the August .. ■epo
were sent in by the field reporters
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C- H. Freeman, auditor for the
apd jt «probable that for, this reason
PATS,
State Industrial Accident commission
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is in the county again interviewing
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those
who are carrying this form of
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* The sheriff has taken in $2618.46
insurance.
He will be in Wasco the
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remainder of this week, in Moro next
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67.
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week and the following week he will
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Mr and Mrs- W. D. Wallan ar-
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truck is bought The county receives
spend in the south end of the county
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working out of Grass Valley.
a little visit with friends here.
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Total for week
WEATHER REPORT FOR
WEEK EHDIH6 MO. 17
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Unusual Bam Burnt At <• Grass
Valley Saturday Night
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Saturday night a fire destroyed a
building in Grass Valley- It was a
bam, but such a bam as has seidom
been seen in this county where barns
are normally of prosaic appearance
and of strictly utilitarian design- v
This barn was in a class by itsel .
It had a chandelier in the stable,
and a matched tongue and groovj
floor for her riibs. the cow, to stand
upon- There was a bay window for
the cow to gaze out of when she
felt the urge to watch her neighbors-
There was a front door finished in
the ornate design oj another
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; when fancy wood carving was con
sidered a mark of distinction.
The cow ate her fodder from a
bath tub under an electric light bulb
in the chandelier that ehone upon
the neatly papered watl with a. much
splendor as it did when ‘he house was
occupied by human kind- In milking
the cow, one aat in the parlor where
hundreda of peraoas had Mt before,
women playing at bridge or whiat as
the stylish, card game happened to
be in the days when th<T house, or
barn was in its heydey, youths mak
ing their first call on the girl of their
choice had sat there, men on busi
ness bent and all different ages and
■tations of people had sat under that
chand^iev where pow Uie cow was
milked. Really it was quite a barn.
Originally ¿he building was eon-
stue ted to house the barber shop
and family of J>rl Williams wfco had
come to thè growing settlement of
Grass Valley V set' up business in
his trade. Later as times grew more
prosperous in the Williams menage
he moved the house to the place
where it had stood for years- Ho
decorated his yard with rose bushes,
with trees and planted a lawn. His
wife entertained, his children grew
up around the house and it looked
prosperous.
As time went on the house grew
old, as does everything else, and
a year ago it was sold by the Walker
heirs to Matt Simon who transformed
it into a barn leaving the bay win
dow, the chandelier, the paper on the
Last Saturday night it was burned,
probably because some itinerant
went to sleep with a cigarette in his
mouth while on the hay- The fire
department hurried to the scene but
couldn’t do anything about it by the
time they arrived- There was no in
surance and Sherman county has lost
its most peculiar barn and the
Simons cow will have to be milked
by lantern light.
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NURSERY PLOT YIELDS
GIVE HYBRID LEID
The sign board that the merchants
and commercial dubs of the county
have contracted for to be erected at
the junction pf the Federal Highway
PetitiMef Buine» Mei Net Allowed No. 97 and The Dallet-California Turkey Wheats Not So Good This
road is in the process of construction
By Commissioner
Year As Usual
and will be on the job directing
travellers over the shortest highway
to Washington points shortly-
The design that was first shown to
the local club has been changed some
what in the wording and the wheat
field scene has been given a more
prominent place in ,the picture to
better inform the hurrying tourist
Supplemental Switching Provided Fer what is in store for him when he Wheats That Get Up In Fall Ripen A
chooses to travel through this wheat
Week Earlier Than Others
In Ruling
belt
E. S. Leesley, of Eddyville, Neb., a
sister, Mra. Floyd Porter, of Omaha,
Neb., and a soif <arl Ingalls survive
her beside her widower.
The funeral will be held Sunday
at 8 , o’clock from the
Bapti9t ch<In.h W Grass Valley un-
der the direction of Zell’s funeral
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Last Sunday’s Oregonian carried a
story by
Moro mam It had to do
with a fishing experience and was to
be found on the Wild Life Line page
sponsored by James McCool- E. R.
Barzee drew the second prize of
three dollars on the story which io
reprinted below.
Sign Board In Process
Of Construction
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No Let-Up in Production Here
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Messinger Family Held
Reunion At Goldendale
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A reunion of the Messinger family
most of whom were former residents
of Sherman county, wks held at Gol-
dendale. Washingeon, in Brooks
Monument park on Sunday, Au
gust 14th-
Thirty seven members of the clan
from Oregon, Washington and Cali
fornia were present and enjoyed the
picnic luncheon served at noon and
a pleasant afternoon reminiscing,,
while the young people participated
in a game of baseball.
Families represented were Edgar E.
Messinger of Wapito, Washington,
Fred R. Messinger of Blalock. Ore
gon, J- Ira Messinger and Albert L.
Messinger of The Dalles and Mrs-
Sarah A. Messinger of St. Helens,
Oregon-
Mail Carriera Plan
. 1933 State Meeting
Organisation was perfected and
committees named to handle the June
1933 meeting of the National Rural
Letter Carriers Association in The
Dalles last Saturday night.
This
meeting will be under the auspices
of the Mid^Columbia council of the
state and will be held in The Dalles-
Mathias Simon, of Grass Valley,
and J- McCafferty and Blake Gallag
her of Wasco county are the com
mittee in charge of general arrange
ments and W- H- McNeil, of The
Dalles, is secretary of the convention
committee.
While yields of the entire lot of
nurseries have not been compiled up
to this date the result of the ex- *
periments in the Moro vicinity have
been obtained. The two nursery
plots are at the station and on the
Powell place west of town.
The results from these plots show
that Hybrid 128 is the best yielding
wheat for the year in the nurseries
with an average of 17.7 bushels per
acre- This is determined by averag
ing the results of six rows, three in
each nursery. Hybrid also showed
a very fair test for station wheats
this year. It showea a test of 66-
It is quite likely that station wheats
test lower on the average than field -
run wheats because their method* of «
threshing does not blow any of the
smaller kernels out with the straw
as might easily happen with com
mercial threshing machines.
Forty foldeand Federation, a cross,
was next with 17 bushels, a selection
of fc/ty fold called Golden yielded
the next best return and another
cross, forty fold and Hybrid 128 was
fourth. In the first six there was
only one turkey wheat, a rather un
usual occurance for this county.
Yields in nursery plots are usually
lower than they are in the field as
the wheats are planted in single rows
twelve inches apart and it is not
conductive to good yields according
to the results ordinarily, obtained.
It is rather peculiar that winter
wheats that were sown on October
6th and emerged from the ground on ,
the 20th were almost exactly one
week ahead of the same varieties of
wheats that were planted October
26th and came up in the first week
of March.
The Hybrid and forty fold cross-
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News of Olden Days Retold
For Readers Who Remember
Observer. August 24, 1893.
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John L. Ayer, chief factotum in
the New England Building and Loan
association, and who visited this
county several months ago in the
interest (?) of the company, has
suddenly disappeared from Portland.
And his whereabouts are very much
unknown. He is badly wanted by
the company-
Mr. and Mrs- Erskine have left
with us a variety of 1902 apples,
well kept, and also a few samples of
very choice upland apples of this
years production-
Editor Shutt, of the Antelope
Herald, has moved his plant etc., into
his new office. The building is said
to be a handsome one with a large
hall on the second story for public
gatherings.
In Portland whan one visits a bank
on business instead of asking “Is the
cashier in?” the inquiry is “Is the
assignee around-’’
Most of the letters asking the
governor to call an extra session of
the legislature are from Umatilla
county, where it is alleged, the farm
ers are five million dollars in debt and
wheat is now quoted at 38 cents a
bushel.
Phil Ruggles’ John Day melon
patch contributed an even 100 mol-
ons to Moro appetites Tuesday-
Walter Moorhouse saved 12 sacks
of wheat per acre off from a field of
China lettuce, which no other ma
chine in the world dare tackle.
Chris Anderson steps high.
girl at his house August 12th.
Its a
Observer August 22. 1913.
Married Wednesday at the home
of the bride at the E- E. Lyon farm
near McDonald station Miss Nettie
M- Lindsey, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. E. M Lindsey, to D. C. Brock.
Judge G. B. Bourhill returned Fri
day from an auto trip in the Fossil
country in the interest of the E. 0-
L- Co., for whom he is general
agent.
Alex Hunter has purchased the
A. E- Cousins residence rtroperty.
Don Ragan left on Wednesday’s facing the railroad’wye.
train for his old home in Iowa,
F- W. Matthias was caught and *
where he will spend the winter. dragged by his team of horsea Thurs
Spring of 1904 will find him here day evening, while he was unhitching
again, where he has become quite them from the hack. They became
a favorite.
frightened by a piece of paper blow
W. A. Norcross isn’t enjoying this ing under them- Mr- Matthias died
harvest quite as well as he would if the following Sunday as a result ef
he hadn't stepped so hard on a rusty the accident-
Observer August 21, 1903.
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