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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1933)
SW . ■ - «wr* ■ ... r - T »;C3 ■ ' » « Ijerman (Cnunty 3Jnurnal Sherman County Ob^rrer Eat, 1888, OMM Valley Journal Eat.. 1887.. Conooiidated March <, 1931. SHERMAN CO' . ...... Stub of Budget Lead* To Belief la Sherman Countians Attend Dalles Banquet Veteran, Diè» in Wasco LESS FAVORABLE „ „ —. I Mr. John Sheets, 45, who lived in I Wasco for 9 numb«g of years died at . his home after a long filnêss at 10:10 Last week quite a number of Sher man county citizens promised to arise in the chill dark part of the ! APPfllNTMEIiTS MADE 8Ï COUNTY COURT ______ ■ New Year Brêp Mod DetaiiWork Op»»» More PesjÍB»fc OFFERS BONDS ACCEPTED TURKEY NOW THOUGHT HURT WEATHER REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING JAN. 4 , No. » ' Oregon August 21st, 1887 and for centage of those wiur promised to To Officers Every Day many years worked as a blacksmith Possibility of Balance preform so Herculean a feat did not was a World ; I in this do so for one reason or bnother- m a patient I j t War veteran and has been Nine adventuerous souls made the _ in the in Portland night trip* to represent the county. P । a number of times* John Sheets en- They heard a program designed to 1,1 listed at Fort George Wright, Wash- ______ show the possibility, or even prob ington December 11, 1917. He was ability, of ocean gomg vessels dock with the American?-expeditionary _ _____ _ _ _ ____ ing at the wharves at The Dalles and, force» *8 • private N»t class from C"’«T »UI »' 0» Warraat Basis U»IU Legislator» Is Asked T» Make Severa* in fact, captains and admirals and Taxes Paid commodores were in evidence to was attached to thè 837th Areo । To Observers prove that boats were already after BiÄ Cuts squadran in thè Aviation corp- He the inland empire wheat crop- Nor was discharged •t Camp Lewis. [ There is a surprising lot of detail val Martin, president of the Lion’s Washington on December 28, 1918- work necessaty to the running of a Club, was chairman Ind Francis Whether it is due to a reaction He is survived by Ms wife, two county knd this is never more ap The tax leagues of the mid-Colum- ' Galloway, acted as toastmaster- Shel from. the cheer of the holidays or daughters, and a small son, his parent than at the first meeting of by Wiggin gave the address of the W counties in their second session | whether caused by a more thorough mother of Joseph. Oregon, one broth the county court in each year. This at Arlington to' discuss , the state occasion- , examination the general opinion a- is erpecialiy true in those years aftei Eight were in attendance from bout the condition of ¿he winter er and three sistersK> budget and make recommendatons to The funeral was Weld Wednesday a general election * • the state legislature regarding the Grass VaHey, J. W. Shepard, W- Ray wheat crop in this county >8 under JanUftry 4th, at 1th the Was7 There is the matter of the appoint tax situation formulated a set of Blake. A- R Fortner. Estel Hartley, gone a change fcr the worse within co with the Wasco Äerican Legion ment of a stock inspector, a health resolutions that cover the parts of Fred Krusow, Joe Newcomb, E. E- the last week. * in charge of the sawiees officer, a county physician, a truant Moro state expense that have been debated Gervais and Dell Olds; from » Observers who have been hesitant officer, and there ts the detail of most heavily up to this time. Ac G- L- French- about seating their views on the sub accepting the bonds of the county cording to those who attended the ject now declare that the wheat is Saloman Coats Buried officers who hai/e been newly elected meeting from this county the follow Legion County gone. Federation,- Forty Fold,\ early cr re-elected to office- * It all takes ing recommendations do not repre In Wasco fcemeti ry time and no small degree of patience- Turkey and late Turkey. In wthe Conference Postponed sent the complete program of the tax counties lying near Sherman county Work of this kind took up the time leagues for the present session of there is agreement that a large pa ft of the court members Wednesday of the law makers and other resolutions The American Legion county con of the wheat has been killed and in Solomon L. (Bud) Coats was born this week when they hailed the glad will be sent in later as occasions ference that was to have been held the southern end of Gilliam county it in Yell county, ArkjMisas, April 27. some new year for the first time in in Moro Saturday night January 7th is reported that some farmers have 1860 and passed awi at his home in their official capacities. James Stew-, Those who have represented Sher has been postponed until a later date. already reseeded their fields to win Rufus December 26, 132. at the age art received the appointment as man county at the meetings are: Thia action was necessary because it ter wheat- x of 72 years and 8 mi K» stock inspector again- He has been W- H- Ragsdale, who, was chosen was inconvenient for the state lead There are still those who believe early life was •ent in Arkan- in that capacity so long he is almost chairman of th« permanent organi ers to appear in eastern Oregon at that the winter wheat will come out as anj Missouri- In*i903 he moved a permanent fixture- Hugh Chrisman sation, W F Jackson. J. B. «Adams, this time as they are holding confer »11 right. These men maintain that wjth hjs family to Oregon where ha was named as truant officer and small W 8- Powell. L. L. Peetz and G- L* ences in the Willamette valley and the wheat is starting to grow again has made his home at Rufus with boys vagrantly inclined had better because almost every family in the and that although a part of it might French. • ' cw?<pe Ms glance when playing community has one or more cases of be killed and all of It ret back to the Gilliam county.' hooky. C- L. Poley will be the health To the Members of the Oregon flu- This prevalent illness makes it beginning stage i. will come out in May 20, 1883, he was married to officer and county physician for 1933- Legislature. nearly impossible for the Auxiliary the spring- Margaret E- Fox. Four children were ,Tload viewers Roy Powell, D- E. The following recommendations to hold an installation at this time- The pessimijts- or- realists recall 1 rn to them- He is survived by his Vintin and Homer S. Wall were re- were made by committees of the Tax While a date cannot be promised that in 1924 when the wheat was wife and two daughters, Mrs- H- H. Leagues of Wasco. Sherman, Gilliam, appointed- * for the meeting later in the year it frozen out it- was first reported that Bracket and Mrs. J- G- Addington The bonds of A M. Young for >20, Morrow and Wheeler counties, meet is thought that the state officers can the soft wheat was gone and that all of Rufus, five grand children and 000, of G- C. Vintin for >10 000, of ing at Arlington, December 30th.- arrange to attend a meeting here Gradually everyone came to admit one great grand child Hugh Chrisman for >20.000. Mrs- 1932, represent, we believe, the i when they make their trip to Spokane that all of the wheat was dead much Mr- Coats was the last member of Peetz for >10,000, and of L. H- Na- ideas and opinions of the wheat and sometime next month- as they are doing, now- a family of ten brotiters and sisters- house for >10,000 were accepted by stock men of the Mid-Columbia river While no survey has bteen made in Funeral services were he’d at the the court- counties- > ¿V " ’ I Scoutmaster Belcher this county it is thought that there ^ u fus church with burial at Wasco, The Sherman Co ’Sty Journal was Whereas, the salaries paid to state is enough wheat in the county to re- named the official newspaper of the officials and employees during the Visits in County Mrf. It i. probable that there i. in- the ads in the Journal county for the coming year. war and post-war period became ap sufficient spring wheat to reseed and r । . The report of Sheriff Chrisman proximately fifty percent higher than Scout Executive W W. Belcher showing a turnover of >4.418-67 at those paid in normal times, and, was a Sherman county visitor Wed wheat in January and February ’ to the end of the year was accepted. It Whereas, the occasion for such nesday. calling upon Scoutmaster prevent shipping in spring wheat at was explained by the court that there salaries has now passed, and, Melvin Schadewitz and other Scouters additional cost. would be no funds available for the Whereas, the percapita cost of of Moro- Principal Paul R- McCul MIN PRECIP elementary school fund as this fund There is a strong possibility that a ’ DATE M AX. state government has increased from loch of Wasco school has accepted part of the county will not be re was depleted after paying off the .47 83.. .. 00 85-90 in 1917 to >15.06 in 1931, and. the post of Scoutmaster there and is seeded if the wheat Is frozen out- DEC. ‘ 29 .. warrants that had been written a- 29.. .90 . ..43 “ 30 Whereas, the incomes and earningri looking forward to a successful year With the wheat market at approxi gainst it However all of the back .07 81 . 42 '• 31... . . of tax payers generally have depre mately 25 cents per bushel there is JAN of Scouting in Wasco warrants are paid- - 00 . 30 ____ 42 1 .. ciated to the extent of forty to Plans are being made for a troop not much incentive to grow wheat on In fact there were no funds of any 44 28 ........... 41 - 2. . eighty percent, with many of them of Boy Scouts in both Grass Valley land that is not certain of returning consequence in the county’s hands •• 3... ........... 39 . 29 . . .00 even suffering heavy losses, thus and Rufus, as people realise that the a good crop- If moisture is lacking 36 . • 00 and warrants will be the method of “ 4 .. .............. 53 rendering it impossible for them to character building work of the com payment until taxes can be collected. . .51 Total for week .. Continued on Pago "V»nr meet the expenses of government as munity must not be neglected, regard at present constituted, and. less of the kind of a year. Whereas, a thorough investigation of the salaries and wages now paid in business and industrial establish Mens Club PUn ments and by agriculture reveals Meeting Saturday that the rates of pay during the past three years has been reduce^ twenty- The men’s club of the Community five to fifty percent, be it resolved: 1. That the salaries to be paid by church expect to hold their second the state henceforth be at once read meeting Saturday night at the justed downwards to conform to the church- This club was formed for the schedules of salaries paid during the purpose of bringing together the men of the community in discussions of pre-war period 1909-16- 2- That the extravagant manner questions of general concern. The of employing clerks and stenogra first speaker before t?ie club was Rev. phers in the legislature that has been R. A- Huschinson who told of his customary in certain sessions thereof trip to Europe- Sidney S- George, national com in the past be corrected and replaced at the coming session by a program mitteeman of the American Legion of economy and efficient management. of Oregon and former state comman- 3. That the cost of the governor’s der of the ex-service mens organi - office, which has been raised approx zation, will speak at this second imately forty percent in recent years meeting of the men’s club. , A pot luck dinner will be served at 6:30 be reduced to the previous level- 4. That the making of the state sharp at the church- All men inter budget be henceforth accomplished as ested in the discussion of public af formerly it was, up to 1929. thus dis fairs, especially ex-service men, are continuing the present budget divi invited sion and office of budget director- r K —— - No longer are the reporters and 5. That th« expenditures in con nection with maintaining the Oregon desk men of the Waterbury, Conn-. National Guard be reduced by fifty American .negligent about answer percent or more as an emergency re ing the other fellow’« telephone- A caustic bulletin, by City Editor Ray lief measure- 6- That the cost of maintaining mond J. Fanning, turned the trick. the capitol buildings and grounds be It read: “To the Subjects. Anyone reduced materially, more than has who can sit still and listen to a been sugffistod in the budget, by pay telephone ring has the nervous «ys- ing the ordinary labor required no tem of a mud turtle and a helluva (CepyHitt. W. more than is paid for such by indi- nerve to be about" a newspaper office. ” * Continued to page f'»ur. 8EC0MMEW0AT10NS ME HIDE ’ CIAL PAPER l-J____ TIT LEAGUES ASK FOR LOWER STATE COSTS Consolidated March 4. 1932 Moro, OregoOtJl January 6, 1933 Forty Fifth Year », Wasco Now»- Enter prise. Eat., 18H, A New Horse Gin COUNCILS NEH IN ANNUAL SESSIONS Valuations of the cides of the coun- ty. have been completed by the as- sessor «nd they have been shanged somewhat since the report of last ApFo'ntirent of City Officers Order year- Wasco is valued at >272,497 This sum Is divided >220,470 local of Meetings valuation and >52.027 public service giving Wasco much che larger slice of railroad property of any pity in the county* Moro is valued at $197,356, divided. >164,720 in local valuation and >32, 636 in public service corporations- The tax rate in Moro wll be 19 7 mills* Wage Questiun'Compromised By Con»- * Grass Valley has a total valuation of >147,795 of which Fl 12-250 is local cil and Laborers valuation and >35,545 represents public service companies- The tax rate in Grass Valley will be 11-7 The new council of the city met mills designed to raise >1720- Tuesday night for their first taste of civic responsibility in their elected office and ’in a three hour session Mews of Earlier Days transacted regular city business, For Old Time Readen cleaned up the docket left from the old year and began a study of the city’s condition preparatory to ad Taken from the Observer January vocating changes in the management 6f municipal affairs- 4, 1894. ♦ Four men were sworn in as coun Miss Jennie Belshee and J B. Mor rison were married on New Year’s cilmen by retiring mayor J. C. Free day at the residence of the bride’s man. They were Harry Kunsman, parents, Rev-. Morrison preforming O- A. Ramsey, Frank Burnet and -* E. E- Barzee. Max Bull elected at the ceremony- vhe general election, did not put in Col Thompson mustered “A Co” an appearance and until the time of into the 3rd regiment, O. N. G; at the meeting haxi not accepted his Wasco last week- There were 54 certificate of election. Giles L. French ^members, and as fine appearing men was sworn in as mayor. the colonel says, as there are in The election of a recorded and a Eastern Oregon- The mustering was marshall, usually a part of the busi done in the K- of P hall, and every ness of the first council of the year, courtesy was extended' to the muster was postponed until th« second meet- ing officers by the citizens of Wasco i*j» n^ra JIWLI TuBSuBJr Following are the commissioned logr ” The report of city treasurer C. V- officers elected- V- C. Brock, captain; Belknap was accepted by the coun W- H- Henrichs, first lieutenant; Jas- cil. It showed that the city has Marsh, second lieutenant- money in four banks, three of which Another young man residing in arc closed and that for this reason Washington was mistaken for a bear the. financial affairs of the city are and killed a few days ago- A young' not in an enviable state. man has no business to look like a The disagreement about the rate of bear, especially when there. Is a fool pay for the city work of digging out in the wöods with a gun. the pipes during the freeze was set tled by a compromise- The retiring Observer January 9, 1914. Emerson People», writing from council had recommended that the Pasadena, says that he attended the men be paid at the rate of >2 25 per recent 'Rose Tournament* in that city, day of eight hours and the men had but of the roses on display it would asked for pay at tne rate of .40 per take a half a dozen to make one of hour a's the city had been in the habit of paying- The work had required an Oregon beauty- 422 hours of labor and the bills were Mrs- J O- Powell, son. and Lloyd settled by agreement with the work Powell and wife, who were visiting men present at the council meeting relatives in Moro during the holidays to accept payment at -35 per hour. left for their home at Prineville Sat A resolution was made by the coun urday- cil setting the future rate of pay for Miss Leah Cushman returned Sat ordinary city work at -28 per hour- Standing committees were appoint urday to Portland to continue her ed by the mayor as follows: Public studies at school in that city. % property and buildings; Councilmen Miss Inez Hansen who has been Ramsey, Pickett and Burnet; Finance „ , spending the holidays at home re Councijmen. Pickett, Barzee and turned to Albany college Monday to Kunsman! Water Councilmen Kuns- resume her studies. mcn, Ramsey and Burnet- Invitations were issued for 430 Annual council meetings were held people to join with Moro in a Made in Wasco and Grass Valley and like in Oregon banquet at which the Moro the one in Moro they did not produce Unity Club will be assisted in enter the fire works expected of th«m- taining their friends by the Oregon Grass Valley appointed Tom Garrett Manufacturer’s Association. A spec as marshall for another term, and ial rate has been mad« by the rail made E. E- Gervais recorder for the way for the occasion and a party of year 1933- Mr- Gervais usually ap twenty will attend from Portland. points I- D- Pike as his deputy. As Hood River and The Dalles by means Ray Blake, re-elected councilman was of a special Pullman. The affair is not present and failedMK qualify for under direct charge of L- Barnum, the position. C W FWds was ap chairman, W H- Ragsdale and R. D. pointed to fill his term until the next Jackson as an executive directing, general election- . , * committee with other committees to Wasco* council men were officially inducted into office and th« usual ap pointments were made. Charles Observer January 8. 1904- Everett was renamed as marshall Uncle Tom Williams’ carpet loom and water superintendent- is again ready ifor business at his Mayor Tuel appointed Councilman farm west of Wasco- Yates O’Meara and Nesbit as his No better flour is made on the Pa finance committee; Councilmen Mc cific coast, than the Superlative, Kee, Scott and O’Meara as the street twisted out in Moro mills. Try the committee and named R- O* Scott as home product. the library adviser. Officers reports Mrs. S- S- Hayes gave an evening were accepted. to the young folks during holiday “Haunted Gold” is the tide of the week in honor of Master Dean, who was at home during the Hill Military show coming to th« L«gion Th«atr« next Wednesday evening under the Academy vacation- management of J- M. Yoe« who has N- P. Hansen has just bought an been bringing pictures to towns of other of th« best farms in Sherman the county during the winter* county. The Buckey«, or Robert This is a four star western featur Newton farm, now occupied by G- E ing John Wayne who is developing Moore- - Consideration >25 per acre- into a western actor in the manner George Mowry Is at home on va of the famous men who have taken cation from Forest Grove University. like parts sine» pictur»» b*gan- NEW OFFICERS TAKE OATHS
