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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 9, 1932)
■ it m IttMMAN COUNT* IOUBNAL, MORO, OMMON, FRIDAY, timMMR », IHt. £ PAGI I german Œaïutty Journal ■Ma “(Uh‘t »ay yet, but it Cost me 25 moved fr&m Black Sea port! during cents to leave It standing today.” August, wherwas last year August shipments amounted id 16,444,000 Concerned bushels including 17,136,000 bushels “Do yau know Mrs- Jones, that of Russian wheat. your former cook is with us?” “Are you suref* COUNTY COURT “Yes, but don’t be alarmed. I’m sure it would be hard to believe all (Continued from page one) she tells us.” purposes and the spring was ordered posted so that no one would unwit The Give Away tingly drink the water. “How did you discover he was dis guised as a woman?” He passed a milliner’s window without stopping.’’ Swap Market Flourishes in New York Grass Valley UNTY «»SERVER, Evtablulwd Nor. 2. 1888 GRASS \ ALLEY JOURNAL, Established Oct. 14, 1887 t CONSOLIDATED, MARCH 6, 1931 WASCO NEW&-ENTEKP k ISE, Established 1891 ÜON8OL1 DATED MARCH 4, 1932. One of the real old timer» has been visiting here for a few days. Mrs-' Jennie Hand Whittier, of Roseville, f <I*ublished Every Friday at Moro, Oregon California, is looking after her prpp- ' By GILES L FRENCH 1 : • . . Managing Editor erty in the Rutledge section and visiting at the Ben Payne home. Glenn Morgan, now a doctor, but formerly a fellow student with George Wilcox, was here for several hours this week. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Sit Months .................................................................. ............................................................................................. ...81 60 1 00 FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 9, 19»i The Grass Valley Fire Department are giving the big dance next Satur day night at the Auditorium. The Indians are hired for the music- harvesting Dr- and Mrs. Taylor of Portland, were here ov<£ the holidays to see friends of other days and to see how things were going on the ranch.. P. N. Lemon was here this week from Albany looking as hale and . With the closing of the Bank of Commerce Monday night the hearty as when he dispensed groc eries, dry goods and general mer last bank in Sherman county followed the path that has been chandise to farmers of this district marked out by so many financial institutions since the beginning His farms hereabouts were the cause of his visit of the deflation of farm property and bonds ' AT TflE BOTTOM LOOKING UP George Barnett, of The Dalles was Our bank failures have been the direct result of lowered here this week He has several county wide income and a natural dissipation of reserves that have ranches between here and Kent that built up in more prosperous years. Where there is r.o money to need his supervision at least once a deposit there can be no bank and that is the condition this county Art and Velma Bibby are sojour finds itself in at this time. I'.niuM«! oh in. duubi, current ’ hurd times,” a new kind of market has sprung Intu Ulng 1» \ew York, and Is probably doing more “business” than iny oflw nmrkH U. the world It Is known as an “exchange market.” but is more fittingly ci II. m I the "swap market.” It started In a tiny s^.t beneath the . eel structure of ihe WilHamsburgh bridge, at Delancey and Ridge streets tn .r 7,ns,',e™bl* whh th® Increasing demand for trade (n |» h »I m |»U «IneiendK of the business done beneath the bridge, monev take« ^‘7 A? trader can be exchanged for some T . . Z ......... H‘ course, Its value does not ex * ' 'rilHe desired hy the customer. Sunday morning. ning here a day or so from Heppner this week * Mrs- J. 'Ross and daughter Crystal Kent News Through a general lack of confidence rpany have kept their of Tangent, Ore-, are spending the money out of the banks, that is proven by the fact that the Bank ■ week at the home of the former’s Bob Johnson took advantage of the of Commerce had only 600 depositors whereas a year ago there double holiday to drive to the coast Mr- and Mrs- C. M Taylor and , daughter, Mrs. J. E. Norton. were twice that number in the county and in the halcyon days of where Mrs. Johnson has been vaca Mrs. Zell Hart of Walla Walla spent1 Mr and Mrs Harry Aj^rg and tioning for several weeks He was last Sunday and Monday at the home of Wamic moved into the Elnor 1928 there were over two thousand. Many have not had bank dc- accompanied by his mother, Mrs. R. of Mr. and Mrs W. O. Smith. । Helyer house in Kent Sunday. Mr. posits b cause they have spent their money as it was received or Eslinger and Mrs. Jake Esuinger. J C. Wilson. W. O. Smith, Arthur . Ayers is principal of the Kent High Mrs. Johnson Sr- remained at the carried it or kept it in safe deposits. Justensen and Jack Kelly were busi school for the coming school year- coast, when Bob returned Monday ness visitors in Grass Valley Tues It seems that Sherman county must be at the very bottom of night. George Howell was a business visi day afternoon tor in Shaniko Monday- the well of depression and any change will be a movement toward It might be a little difficult to Bob Wallman, Luther Davis and Mr. Ida Davis and daughter Paul the light of a better day. Dependence on financial institutions has transact business with the Grass Otto Wallman were v^itors in Moro ine who spent the past two weeks c ased as far as >he county is concerned. Hereafter cur farmers I Valley Grain Growers next week visiting with relatives in Mitchell re the first of the week. must depend on themselves; must work out th* ir own salvatior. week from Monday afternoon to turned home Tuesday afternoon, ac George Howell and family spent I Thursday morning for manager It is our belief that a majority of them can and will do so. Already I Shepard will be at the big city companied by Herbert Smith who Sunday as guests at the home of Mr. spent the latter part of the week Howell’s daughter, Mrs. w' E- Byers there is an increase in income from farm by-products. This must I I watching the display of flags and visiting at the home of his broher, of Shaniko. I listening to the tramp of the march W. O. Smith. He left for his home ¿be fostered until the farmer looks to his cows, his hogs, his ing legionnaires Mrs. Belle Hogue and Son Lyle in Mitchell on Friday accompanied by I sheep and his chickens to support him between wheat cr. ps in* i and grand son Charles Swett were Rev. S. L. Boyce has been suffering his son John CL who had spent the । visitors in The Dalles Monday. stead of his banker. from stomach trouble for several summer in Kent. Pauline Davis and Clarice Wilson This is not a pessimistic statement. Probably a majority of weeks and is still incapicated- Miss Velma Matthes left for Enter- spent Monday at the home of Bernice the people of this county realize that financial independence will Mrs. L. M. Fischer,- daughter of I prise Tuesday morning where she1 Howell- । Mr. and Mrs- Boyce, remained here will teach this school year > not com« in any other way than through economy so strict as to A- J. Decker suffered a severe after the Baptist assembly to visit Herbert Smith, and son John C- have seemed impossible a few years ago. M e are fortunate in with her parents. paralytic ’stroke Wednesday ^horn and W O. Smith were visitors in ing. He is slowly improving that we can still produce. Our land has not lost one iota of its pro Rev. and Mrs. Johnson are visit-1 Grass Valley Thursday afternoon. Eugene Norton spent last week at ductiveness; our cows will continue to give milk; hogs will grow; ing with Fred Cox and family. Mr. I Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Walton were the home of Robert Helyer- Johnson is from Lyle and was for-1 visitors in Portland over the week and ths hens will cackle just of happily over the manufacture of an meriy a minister in Grass Valley. Albert Pluemke returned to Forest end- egg. Grove this week where he will again The change in the railroad sche-1 Dr. C. L Poley of Grass Valley be a student at Pacific University Sherman county is one of the best counties in the entire nation dule is also making some changes in | was business caller in Kent Friday for the production of wheat. The most important cereal can be the personnel of the men living here-1 morning. grown here as cheaply as any place and in much higher than aver The Perry family and the Beardslyl Mr. and Mrs- Wren Hogue and Ho-Hum! age quantities. Crops will not always be poor and prices will not I family are expected to move to Con-1 family moved their household goods Tallyrand was driving one day don this week. the first of the week to the Buckley with a very boresome young diplo always, be low and when conditions change, as they must,1 this Florin Coon and wife and Mrs-1 school house where they will live dur county will take its place in the economic t-un that it has heretofore I Roy Schilling drove across the Wapi- ing the winter and Mr. Hogue will mat who insisted on talking too much. In another carriage Talley enjoyed. | nitia cut off over the holiday to drive the Buckley schoil bus to rand saw someone indulging in a big --------- O---------- Colton, Mrs. Coon's former home. Grass Valley. Dick Kinney. John Reeder and Luther Davis visited at the Simon LEGIONNAIRES. Eugene Werner of Shaniko were home Tuesday evening from Kent “Are you going to the Legion convention?4’ is a question that Ths approaching opening of school business visitors in ’ Kent Friday afternoon has been asked eve^y Legionnaire in the county many times dur- is interesting the small boys here this week. I Mr- and Mrs. W,^,R. Adams and ng the past two or three months and every one would have ans* I Mrs. Roy Harbin of Antelope were George Wilcox is out on his ranch I guests at the J. C. Wilson home Sun wered with the same “Yea” with which he answered roll call if hs these days some actual farming and day afternoon. Mrs. Harbin remain spirit was all that need be considered. increasing this mu|scles by hauling ed in Kent where she will visit for a For those who have not lived for a time among great bodies of hay and straw- few days. men and have not been subject to the discipline enforced there the sight of massed bodies of ex-soldiers would not give the thrill it wodld to those who have undergone this experience. For those who drilled on the dusty parade grounds of an army c imp when war was in the air and the Hun was at the gate, for those who saw men by the thousands prepare for a supreme struggle and was one of them, there will be no experience in the wjrld to compare with a short reliving of these scenes. H$ will m^et with the men he marched with—those who have not gone on the last march—he will sing the songs that enlivened the soldiers b’eak existence; he will once again feel that sense of physical well being combined with a mental unquietness about what the future might hold in store. He will have about him once more, «nd per- 'haps for the last time for those in this section of the country, that f ¿eling of the immensity of his country, its power, its ability to do things, to organize Underneath the rattle of the drum corps, the songs about the n v?r dying Ma hmoiselle, ihe march of thousands of feet, there will be that sense of taking p >rt or having taken part in an import- a it £c: of the world’s history and the very rememberance will mike shoulders straighten and swing, th it have lately been bowed d)wa wi h care, it will mike voices shout that have been whisper*! ing because of a feeling of inferiority; it will bring again to a group now nearing middle age a knowledge that they < nee were in the the public eye and had their county’s applause. Several men from the county were in night to attend the positors of the Bank Straw Mattress ? “I dreamed last night that I had invented a new type of breakfast food and was sampling it when— “Yes yes, go on.” “I woke up and found a corner if the mattress gone ” this section of Among those who visited in The Wasco Tuesday Dalles last week were: Mr. and Mrs. Expensive Stop meeting of de- Frank Haynes and daughter Annie of Commerce- ‘‘How much does it cost to run Laurie, Shirley Haynea, Mr. and Mrs- LeRoy Stradley is a patient in the J. M. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. your new car?” hospital in The Otiles. Maclnnes, Mrs. J M. Dellliger and Arnold and Mrs. Amandus von Borstel and family. Mr. and Mrs Patronise Journal Advertisers. J. E. Norton and family, Mr. and Mrs- W- E. Buyers and George DENTIST 3 Howell. Dr. J. A. BUTLER HIS DREAM COMES TRUE ■ ■ . ■ Claude A. Wells of Chicago, who nt one time was treasurer of Marshall Let us h' pe tha’ Dr Kerr will be able to get the warring ele Field A Co., and of late has been fnan- ager of the huge Merchandise Mart, ments together and establish once more the friendly rivalry of a always wanted to mine gold. Recent few years ago. It might have looked like war then, but beside ly he gave up his position and Went to Libby, Mont., where he is digging this it was absolute peoc \ np the precious metaL ------- o------- yawn- He immediately caught the bore by the arm “Hush!” he cautioned, “you are overheard.” HOME OFFICE, WASCO Mr and Mrs. J M. Wilson and I sons Lester, Jerry Jr. and Dick; Mrs. I Essie Wilson and son Charlie Bill left for Pullman, Wash , Saturday morning where they spent a few days visiting at the I. E. Wilson home. Lester remained in Pullman to attend the high school at that place. In Moro the First Week In Each Month Mrs Ida Davis and Pauline Davis spent Sunday at the home of J. L- Davis. FUNERAL HOME : ZELLS — and — Miss Evelyn Davis who spent the past two weeks at the home of her grand mother in The Dalles returned horrte Friday evening. She was ac companied home by Mrs. Schassen and Hilda who will visit a week with Mrs. Davis and Mrs Clark who are her daughters. AMBULANCE SERVICE Mr. and Mrs- Dick Beckmann spent Sunday at the home of Mrs. Reck- mann’s parents, Mr. and Mrw. J. C Wilson. When Your Shoes need Repair, send them to Paul Weller of RiKimond was a visitor in Kent Sunday morning. GOOD SHOE REPAIRING Jimmie Rees was a Kent visitor Phone 345 The Dalles, Ore. URA SS VALLEY PHARMACY ----- or------ Phone 222 WERNMARK’S 204 Second St THE DALLES Continued from page one. Harvesting in Canada was interupted by rain. Most of the wheat has been cut in Manitoba and Saskatchewan but a considerable portion of tho crop remains to be harvested in Al- 1 berta Harvesting and threshing is * reported to he progressing slowly in Russia. An outstanding feature in the gen- ( eral wheat market situation this sea- । son is the slack European import inquiry for wheat, reflecting the supplies in importing areas. World shipments during August were usually small and totaled only a * Tittle over 29,000.000 bushels, the 1 smallest August world clearance 1 1915. North American shipments during August comprised about 64 per cent of the world movement as i against 40 3 per cent last year, but , amounted to only 18 874,000 bushels ^°?Pared with 23.650,000 bushels in 1931. The southern hemisphere supplied 27.2 per cent of the world'» shipments compared with 22 per cent last season. Argentine shipments diiring August amounted to 3,085,000 bushels compared with 5^27,000 bu. a year earlier, while Auatrailian clearances totaled only 4 870,000 bu against 7,567,000 bushels a year ago. Only a veiy small quantity of wheat Strawberry Roan Rodeo.. .n,. 'Olympic Cowboy Conta,h~ A dollo. al gronditond doily, •leapt r«Mrvad Mat, Night Stampede... Vaqvaro,. Fka- don. Mafe do.,. Tor «odor,. Co, hk I i ,. BvIMghtw,. th« coati Admovoo reduced to 50c, reserved Orenoude seal, 75c to $1 00 Panorama of Progress... tk > u tend» al «.h.b.t, ol land, dairy and industrial product,, egg, and talking hen. draft hor,e>. •f|. bulb*. 4 H Club and Future Farm« <oat«*t* and «ih<b,t*. Carnival, Amvtamanh, nd«», «how*, done« Special Days tor Grange, Form Union, fraternal organ,roton, — covntet. cine« 12 Pande ... Man, choruses and orchestra,. 15 mu,.col program, by Ma,.c federaban. Monday... - family bargain day - tn. tire family and car admitted for $1 & boy, and girl, hijh Khool age or under admitted FREE Reduced fares...by bu, ond „1 S fat - e -F air The Best Prices on Dependable Merchandise Are to be had at ZIEGLER’S. We have a reputation of years for QUALITY GOODS and with our new cash method we are SELLING MERCHANDISE CHEAP ER THAN IT CAN BE BOUGHT elsewhere . r H. Ziegler’s Qsut:’“y Newspaper Advertising, is accepted as the most effec tive and cheapest means of putting merchandise before the public. The advertisers In the Sherman County Journal are the firms which realize the value of having their names ever before the buying pub lic. They know the worth of a newspaper to the county and they appreciate its bene fits to themselves. Advertising space in the Journal can now be bought for one-third what it cost be fore the papers were com bined. It is worth more. It is useless to say that dol lars cannot be attracted to your place of business for they are being attracted to some one’s till. Not in the profusion of more prosper- « ous days, perhaps, but never theless they are circulating faster than in those days. Get your share through
