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SHERMAN COUNTY
Waaee Newa-EvUrpriae, Eat., ISM, CoaaoHdaUd March 4, 1932
CIAL PAPER
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ber 14, 1932
Mono,* Prsgon,
Forty Fourth Year
No. 49
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TAX LEAGUES DISCUSS
COUNTY, STATE IMIS
HabHoM Visits Scene
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CHINI SÎILL PENUINB
Thirty tome yaam
HUM
Hoag’s, ban» in Wasco and watci
IHàab Crane NeetmAtmMtr
they
were
Refrtseatatrnt «| Far fiwlÍM 'n
from Ms homestead north of town to
PROMKNT KN SKMEIS
new OotanMa forti mr nHbartL Ito
B. Ü. MeCoy's Warehouse and Ml
Comparita« of Cavity Taxes Skew» By who still remained here.
He found
membered him-
He is Hal E- ’ Hoss, secreUry of
sUU for Oregon, and the trip to
Sherman county was made while re
turning to Salem after addressing the
irrigation congress at Bend. He re
mained in Wasco Friday
night
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HU *11 NEWS SUN
Taxes, tax reduction, tax equaliza
tion, tax methods and more taxes
were the oratorical bill of fare at the
meeting of the Mikkalo grange at
Rock Creek station over in Gilliam
county last Saturday. The meeting
was called by the Pamona grange of Moro And Dufur
Gilliam and Wheeler counties at the
Tie Friday 6 To 6
request of the- tax leagues of these
counties and that of Sherman county.
They were there to discuss taxes and
Scoring a touchdown in the first
they did just that.
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five minutes of play Dufur High
As a sort of entree on the program School, played the Moro team to a
there was a short explanation of the 6to 6 tie.
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proportionate amounts of tax money
However after scoring their touch
expended by the counties for different down the Dufur team never threat
phases of county and district work. ened the Moro goal line again. In
It was sho^rn by charts that Sherman fact they scored only two first downs
county is expending in 1932 49-37 per
in the last three quarters.
j * cent of its taxes for schoo^ 12.11
Moro scored its touchdown in the
percent for roads 14-04 percent for
fourth quarter after being inside the
bond and interest, 9.5 percent for
thirty yard line a large part of the
cities and the remainder for county
time. Donald Burnet punched the ball
activities including elections, courts
over after several trys. —
and care of the needy.
“Tiny” Ted Thompson, Moro’s
Gilliam county has an almost iden diminutive fullback played safety for
tical tax spending record, but Wheel Moro and due to his long returns of
er county having about one half the punts kept Moro in scoring territiry
valuation and one half the property during the larger part of the second
tax spends a much smaller percentage half.
of its tab dollar for cities- Other
Donald Burnet and Richard Barnes
-A . items are much the same although made a long run apiece- Burnet ran
owing to the conformation of that about forty yards through a broken
county schools require a greater field before he was finally stopped.
proportionate expenditure.
. Barnes raced down the side Unes for
In both Gilliam and Sherman coun- forty-five yards before he was
ties the city tax is Higher than any brought down by the fleet Dufur
other. In Sherman county there is backs- Morgan, Moro’s 190 pound
6-3 percent of the total valuation in 1 tackle played a good defensive game.
the cities and this small percenUge
Moro's line-up: Miller and Woods,
>« paying 9-57 percent of the total ends; Rice and Ncson, tackles; Tho*
I bank. Thirty holders of Bank
tax in addition to the regular levies. «arson and Ragadale, guards; Tho-
stock are listed practi-
In Gilliam county the percentage ia garaon, center; Barnet and Barnas,
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hem beings residents of
much the same.
halfbacks; Thompson, fullback; G.
Sformaa county orthose who have OCT.
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After this explanation was over* Fraser, quarter back. Substitutes
recently moved to other parts of the
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Hans Koqpkt i» this woyk moving
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hold effects bo the Chris Koepke farm
Total for
now owned by John Patjens-
WEATHER REPORT FOR
WEEK ENDING OCT. 12
Woman’s Club Adds New Books
To Library For Winter Reading
received from the State Library, one
set of fifty books which may be kept
for six months, and one set of twenty
five books which may be kept for
three months. The larger set is de
signed to serve both adults and chil
dren and is accompanied by a letter
to teachers which will be tacked on
the shelf showing the numbers of the
books which will, best serve their"
purposes. The smaller set is entirely
supplementary reading for • school
children and contains in addition a
pamphlet to aid the librarians and
teachers called “Bookshelf for boys
and girs’.’
A list of the two sets
follows:
Traveling Library No. 6.
Bachelier
In the days of poor
Richard
The value of good
2 Bailey
manners
Dusty sur
3 Baker
When the West was
4. Bechdolt
Young
The Burgess flower
6 Burgess
book for children
Alaska, our north
fl. Carpenter
ern wonderland
The girl’s book of verse
7 Davis
8- Della Chiesa
The Three of
Salu
9. Eliot
Birds of the Pacific Coast
10. Evarts The settling of the Sage
11. Field
The Field first reader
12. Foster
Housekeeping, cookery,
and sewing for little girls
18. Fraser
Work-a-day heroes - -
14. Gilman
Alaska, the American
Northland
15« Gregor Three Souix scouts
1C Harris
A daughter of Adam
17. Herben Jack O,Health and Peg
O’Joy
18. Hodgdon
The enchanted past
19- Hooker
Star, the story of an
• Indian pony
20. Hugo
Les miserables
21. Hume Judy of York Hill
22. Hutchins & Hutchins
SWord of
Liberty
We and our
23. Jenks and others
government
24. Johnston
1492
26. Lankester
Great and
small
things
26. Lawson The worlds best humor-
ous anecdotes
27. Marshall
The heart of little
Shikara
28. Miller
Adrift on the Amazon
29. Mitchell
Corduroy
30. Orton Bobby of Cloverfield farm
31. Peabody^ Outside the house
beautiful
32. Pendexter Pay gravel
33. Pollock
The woods-rider
34. Powell
By camel and car to the
peacock throne
36. Price The fortune of the Indies
36. 'Ross
The book of noble dogs
37. Sabatini
Captain Blood, his
Odyssey
38. Schultz
Trail , of the Spanish
horse ' ,
Continued to page two7
»WK GROWS
IH SHERMAN COUNTY
ention of
federated «lab» .wag fold .at Fonil,
iyr Octo
Wheoiar county, on. St
well at-
ber 8th.. The meeting
of 177 Since May Presages
tended and thoroughly enjoyed by
Heavier Vote
be there,
those who were privileged
by Mrs.
After a sparkling
down to
Oliver Crowther we set
ess ’ and
the alternation of
present,
plcqsuro for which we
ite Presi-
the day.
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reporting on the General Federation
meeting at Seattle, the progress of
Marg|(n6rewipf Slight As Market Falb department work in OrogoA and also Democrats aid Republicans Not Seg-
Te Low Levels
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[ gave helpful suggestions for the work
of the local clubs.
A bountiful
। luncheon was served With “Hambur
ger Loaf’’ as a novelty feature sup-
Election time is drawing near and
The sale of wheat to China is still pHe^ by the Ladies Auxiliary of the
those
who are eligable to partictate
hanging fire and farm leaders and wool growers Association.' The hold
officials *of the gram growers
units 1 ( over and newly elected officers of the in that biennial event are already
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in this county are at this time still Fourth Dstrict are as follows: Mrs. chosen for the time for registration
in the dark as to the probablity of • W. C. Bryant, President; Mrs. Roy closed Saturday night, October 8uh-
Kunsman, Vice President; Mrs. Joe 1 While the poll books have not been
the deal being mane.
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_ Hilderbrand, 2nd Vice President; 1 completed for Sherman county »nd as
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prevailed- that the sale would not be Mrfc Oliver Crowther. Recording Sec-. the reports from the regristrars in
made and several farmers whose retary; Mrs- Chas- R. Logan. Treas- ' Precincts away from the court house
margin had been cut down by falling urer; Directors. Mrs. Oliver Crowther, were not received Immediately the
off of the market sold their wheat. Mrs. P. L. Jones and Mrs. - Teun is number of Democratic and Republi-
Since that time reports coming from Wyers; two appointive officers, Mrs cans are not known. Preliminary re
headquarters are more hopeful and as D- E. Stephens, Corresponding Secre- PorU> However, show that there has
the market is holding a little more Ury and Mrs C. L. Polev, Press teen a 8Hiht increase in .the number
steady than it was there has been lit- Correspondent.
i ?f Democrats in the county.
ToUl registration is greater than
tie selling. Farmers in general are
holding wheat until the outcome of '
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it was for the primary electioq in
the sale is decided-
W- H. R.a.d.WRvort.
There has been a tendency among
Conditions In Idaho clerk George C. Vintin Thursday. The
fanners to sign up a quarter of their
voters are segregated accordng to
wheat to insure the China sale
precincts in the following manner:
Officials of the grain growers in all
Primary General
of the county have been active in get
W- H. Ragsdale, accompanied by
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ting signatures and there is esti Mrs- Ragsdale, has spent a large part Rufus
mated to be over 200 000 bushels of of the last month touring this state Locust Grpve
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98
wheat already pledged in this coun-I and parts of Idaho Interviewing Klondike
82
Monkland
97
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ty alone.
directors of the local land loan asso
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83
Erskine
ciation.
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62
He returned Tuesday night after a Michigan
Assessments Levied On
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ten day trip to Idaho and was glad to Rutledge
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Kent
Bank Stockholdets be able to come back Ao Sherman Grass
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Valley
county as he found conditions in many
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places infinitely worse than they are Moro
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1384
ToUls
A.»e.«m«nt. have been levied ’lere- Town« of 25.000 people without
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areinat the. property of the .tock-i
Produce rotting in the field, Wasco
These figures may be„ changed
holder, la
™«"t nf Conuaeree byifor w*nt of eTen * low m"*«‘ ,nd
the alate SnHne department aa ia P«ople innumerable without joba or slightly when the clerk removes some
voters from the rolls who have Since
registered in other precincts or coun
of banka by > that department.
ties, but this change will effect the
munta vary from 1100
totals in a slight degree at the most.
. am U- on a;
■M*« « eins souHew
Last Friday the HttU boy returned
to Sharman county on .hia fortieth
Series ef Coarti
Metro ClflU Reprinted
eeting
At F
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MAX.
MIN. PRECIP
...75 ...53 ... .00
. 64 ...35........ 00
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. 69 .. 39 ........ 00
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...70 .. 48.,.. .00
.. 66 ...43 ... 80
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week
A. M. Wright Resigns
After Years Of Service
A. M. Wright, a veteran of city
government in* Moro, tendered his
resignation to the council at the
Tuesday night meeting and on his
plea of ill health made to his fellow
members the resignation was ac
cepted. Mr. Wright has served fif
teen years as a law maker of Moro,
was at one time a commissioner of
the county and for three terms was
a member of the state legislature
from this district.
Mayor Freeman. »peaking for the
entire council, thanked the retiring
member for his long and faithful ser
vice and expressed his appreciation
of the reliable and consistent judg
ment shown during a service of a
decade and a half.
In addition to accepting the resig
nation of Mr. Wright the council
moved forward in the leasing of the
hotel to C- W Templeton. This
matter is not entirely settled and it
may take several conferences between
the council and the lessee before it
is finally.jione to the satisfaction of
both par.ies. The council is desirous
of* evading a repetition of last win
ter when the hotel was costly to the
city- It was the general opinion of
council memberS' however, that some
defínate agreement should be reached
and a lease signed before winter be-
gms..
The resignation of Mr. Wright
makes it necessary for the city to
elect five’ councihnen at the November
election. Three of these must be
elected for a period of four yars, a
regular term, a nd. two will be elected
for a two year period to fill out un
expired terms of A. M. Wright and
Joe Truitt. R. J. Ginn is now filling
the Truitt position on the council.
Pickett Motor Company
In New Hands
Avery Martin progressed into the
classification of business man last
Saturday afternoon when the Moro
State Bank took over the tools and
equipmeht of the Pickett Garage and
placed Mr- Martin in charge as mana
ger,, temporarily at least. Avery,
himself, is selling, the gasoline for the
place.
Fred Pickett is still in the business
Auxiliary Meets Again of selling Fords and parts for them,
but will not be connected with the
The American Legion Auxiliary garage . What the future will bring
met at ’the home of Hazel Woods in the way of other changes has not
been stated by those connected with
Wednesday afternoon.
The following officers were elected: the deal.
Florence Martin, president; Mrs.
Hasel Woods, 1st vice president;
Lila Bull, 2nd vice president; Lillian
Flatt, secretary-treasurer; Bessie
Thompson, historian.
A Lot of Decoys
SCHOOLS LOSE 44
PUPILS IN LAST YEAR
Town Schools Lose While Country
Districts Gain
563 PUPILS ENROLLED NOW
Moro Has Largest High School; Glass
Valley Largest Grade School
Attendance records for the first
month of school in Sherman county
show that pupils are gradually be-
coming fewer although the loss this
year is smaller than it has been for
several years.
There is one bright spot in the
first month's records and that is the
showing made by the rural schools-
Heretofore they have consistently de-
dined in attendance but this yéar
there are three more pupils in school
in the country than there were at
this time last year. Not a large in-
crease, blit perhaps, it shows a trend
toward larger schools.
The following compilation shows
the number of students in the schools
of the county last year and this year
in both the high ano elemenUry de-
partments.
ElemenUry
High
Town
1931 1932
1931 1932
66
69
26 . 26
Rufus
73
90
54
48'
Wasco
76
74
45
37
G. Valley
64
53
53
. 75
Moro
39
45
23
25
Kent
353 318
201 189
Totols
1932
1931
Rural Schools
10
4
Fairview
8
7
Klondike
7
11
Harmony
9
6
Erskine
7
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4 K9
10
ijlDCriy
14
20
Rutledge
4
4
Gorman
62
59
Totals
The high schools of the county have
12 fewer pupils than last year at this
time, the town grade schools have 35
less and the country schools have
three more pupils making a total re
duction in numbers of 44 in 1932-
Read the ads in the Journal
News of Nineteen, Twentynine
and Thirtynine Years Ago
Observer October 17, 1918.
The two burros advertised as es
tray to be sold by Chas. L. Powell,
were bid in by L. L. Peetz who
bought them for his children to make
pets of them at his farm home-
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Will Coe. at
the private sanitarium of Dr- C. L.
Poley, Sunday afternoon, October 12,
a daughter.
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heavy losses this winter should it be
a hard one, as feed was never so
scarce before, and even now sheep
are selling at Bend for 65 cents and
at John Day for $1.00 per head.
C. B Webb, former patriarch at
De Moss springs, later mine host at
The New Moro, was in the county
last week gathering the woof.
Observer October 12, 1893-
All women must register on or be
O. S. Boardman and wife, of Mitch
fore Saturday, October 18th, in order ell, Crook county, were visitors to our
to vote at the coming election.
burg last week, as witnesses in the
Mrs. Eva Rudolph was a visitor in Hembree case-
the county fair time week from her
C. W. Thompson, the erstwhile
home at White Salmon. Mr>. Rudolph Monkland merchant, made us a call
brought a magnificient bouquet of Tuesday. He contemplates removing
dahlias with her as a special „gift to his family to California next month.
her relatives.
W. H. Biggs, M. A. Murchie, Edi
J. F- Beishee and wife were Sher tor Armsworthy, Jas- Marsh, Dr.
man county visitors last week from Beers. Judge Walker C. E- Jones,
their home at Jefferson.
W A. Wallis, Assessor Henrichs,
N. H. Goetjen and wife were visi- W. M Barnett, Andrew Barnett,
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a- a from ru..A
— j during
—i—, Clark Dunlap and many other citizens
tors
in au
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county
Dpfur
from the other side of the ridge were
fair week.
in town last week participating in
Observer October 16, 1903.
the pleasures incidental to courting.
J. B. Mowry went to Portland Wed
The recent heavy rains have dam
nesday to meet his father and mother
aged grain to a considerable extent
here on a visit from California.
in various parts of Oregon, not
Born to thewife of Orie Elliott a omitting Sherman county. Grain that
seven and one-half pound boy, Mohday has been cut and Stacked has been
6 p. m,.
seriously damaged' and in cases
R. W. Pinkerton will not return to where it was threshed and in the
sacks, the eacks next the ground have
Seattle until after the fall seeding
rotted and broken open.
Stockman up south expect to suffer