Consolidated March 4, 1932
Jaaoary 14, 2003. Just a few lines
frani lip Otf a California. Mot a
drop of rafa sinee I came here. Very
warm today, Mg umbrellas aU over
ths beech- Maybe the folks fa 8her-
A 5H> fa Rufus, Wasco, Moro and
Grass Valley was made by Scout
Exeeutivaand Mrs. W. W. Belcher
Wednesday with meetings held in fae
Rufus and Gruss Valley schools.
L. W. Rakes wig be the scratmaster
ef the new troop nt Rufus, Afth a
committee of local men to assist in
the program of the tfaop. Belcher
talked to the older Students and
showed the pictures if the 1«2 scout
camp.
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SCHOOL BODOEIS TOTAL
$101,735.14 FOR 1933
England Receiving Wheat
From Argentina
NEW BULLETIN GIVES
DATA OH WHEAT-RAISING
Washington, D.
1933. There were 5,239.000 head of
sheep and lambs on feed for market
in the principal feeding states Jan
uary 1, 1933, according to the esti Three Western Wheat Stations Hdp
mate of the Bureau of Agricultural
wind and duet storms. To see the
.. Compile Experiments
Economics- This was a decrease of
one wo had Monday you would not
900,000 head, or 15 percent, from the
think os. Sand camo fa the buildlag
revised estimate of January 1, 1932.
There was an increase of about five
percent in the number of cattle on
feed for market in the eleven Com
Belt states on January 1, 1933. over
the number on January 1^ 1932
cording to the cattle feeding esti
mate of the Bureau of Agricultural Experiments Dealing With AU Phases
Economics.
Of Wheat Growing Charted
In the western states there wa-
the American Legion has 1
a decrease of about 7 percent in the
After a couple of weeks of spring sponsor the troop and Cod
number on feed Januarv
It was Mark Hopkins that is
now yon too dry, dead grass. The like weather with occasional rains Shepard as the Legion repres
itive
from the number a year earlier- This
Thcre is one thing that does not
Sherars grade last rammar and pro
Mg Virginia Hotel here to dosed the being in charge of the dispense- upon the committee- Others
11 bo credited with the remark that 'the decrease was due to the sharp de- suffer from over production. There
nounced it comparable to the rocky
a bign up Tor Sale.” Their tion of warmth or cold to these parts *e^ured from other civic interests. best school was one in which the in
is never a surplus of accurate in
road to Dublin wffl be
structor sat on one end of a log and the largest cattle feeding state'in
dowers |nd lawn *rp dM- The new
a prem-
surprised to make the same trip agafa
the pupil on the other. Such an in the western group.
Navy landing heipe this plnee. T
Most of the ium, always
demand - always
and see for them oeivoo what lm-
¡obert stitution would expend, if there other western states either had in- needed.
proremejMa have been made tUs IM
With an east wind blowing snqw ’rhnson, J. W- Shenard, Jake Ekling- were any salaries concerned, exact creases or liiUe change thia year
And winter..
Because of this persistent deficien
fell to a depth of four or re Inches - and V. B. McGowan. Thd Boy ly one hundred percent for instruc from last.
cy
in the information mart, the new
... The upper part of the grgd* Nb*
the first days of the week to give c ~nt ramp movies were also shown tion. Since the day of Mark Hop
Information furnished by a large bulletin on wheat growing in the dry
kins we have added a lot to the number of feeders as to the weight
the county an appearance of winter. ** this meeting.
lands of the west will be sought af
At no time was the snow falling
Mr«. Belcher attended a faceting log and perhaps not so much to the of cattle on feed and probable months
ter
by those who wish to learn some
foot loses his breath to ths MM*
very fast and the thermometer did M the Grass Valley Woman’A Club instruction except the inclusion of of marketing shows that the pro
thing
more about the wheat in
rut ha* practically all hsencMIlMt
not drop as low as it often does In •M'e Mr. Belcher was conducting ths more pupils __
portion of heavy feeders, weighing dustry. It is called Technical Bulle
and smoothsd until ft to ildnjftngMt
January. One below was the lowest
scout meeting, telling of the
Fir years it was presumed that over 1,000 pounds, was smaller this tin 329 although any farmer could
road to drive over. Thera raw stfD
registered at the station during the work of the Red Cross and the Amer instruction costs of all schools would year than last and that the propor qualify
tons of rode that have bran lessened
technocrat if read
cold spell that being on Monday and ican Legion Auxiliary in community be between sixty and seventy five tion of both medium weights and
the script intelligently were the test.
by powder lying along 2hs rand bud
Tuesday nights.
welfare and emergency relief.
percent of. the total- Now it is only light weights, including calves, Was
The conclusions in the bulletin
The snow to dry and does not con
the small country school thht is able larger than last year. The propor after experiments
the station
tain a great deal of moisture there
io reach that goal- Those schools tion to be marketed before April 1 farms at Moro, Oregon, Lind, Wash.,
Next
Sh^w
Thriller
being the equal of .31 of an inch of
that have gone into debt for was reported as about the same as and Nephi, Utah. The bulletin dis
rainfall measured at the* station.
new houses, busses or equipment are was reported a year agp, but con cusses wheat only but it tells of ¿he
The snowfall has succeeded fa do-
In the next show that pomes to the how paying as much for other,things siderably smaller than was reported different methods of handling lan^
ing one thing and that is to stop Legion Theatre Barbara Stanwick as for the instruction.
two years ago.
for wheat with a completeness that
some of the discussion about the con
According to the budgets of the
is assuring.
,
dition of the fall sown wheat. Ai
school districts in Sherman county R. A. C. Is Only Aid
Perhaps residents of Sherman co- n-
there will be spent $101,735.14 for
have been so long acquainted with
with snow farmers and other» are nicture is “Purchase Price” and the schools. Of this amount $35,797.50
Available To Farmers ty
the
results of the local station that
not digging with quite the alacrity story has to do with the experiences
35.19 percent will
The new grade looks steep. One
the
great
mass of information fourtd
they displayed last week. This is of a night club hostess and singer
teachers, $23,349.08
22.96
standing below it, looking up to a
It has been learned here that there does not surprise them, but in*
perhaps just as well as the pessi who refused to marry men who percent will be paid for transpor
point where the road and the horizon
farmers who will find it necessary this booklet is found the answer to
mists were gradually winning the sought her and then paid another tation of pupils, and $14,892-35 will
moot io sure to think that the grade
to reseed their acres will be forced questions of farming practice Thu»
makes a smooth solid
argument from the optimists any woman for her husband to be.
be paid for debts and interest there to finance themselves or to borrow every resident of a wheat gm whig
to more than seven and a half per
Workmen ara new
way. It may be better if wu have
There is a Warner Bros, show on. These items make up 72.78 per the money from the Regional Agricul
cent, but to one standing above
road of blasted rack al
area has heard discussed since child
a few weeks rest before coming defi- brought to Moro by J. M. Yoes who cent of the total costs of thq schools.
watching a ear chug easily along on
tural Credit Corporation- Heretofore hood.
nitely to the conclusion that the eontools the Columbia Basin circuit
high up the road it seems like
In making this compilation the it has been possible to get some funds
Why not plow summerfallow fa the
wheat is frozen out
of[ show houses and whose show;? total expenses of the districts trans
a country lane.
Now that the
through banking connections, but fall ? Why disk ? Why not burn the
There is still a majority of the have been pleasing picture lovers for
porting pupils to another school was this will not be possible this spring stubble? Why plow deep? Why
roughness has been taken from the
farmers who state their unqualified the past two months.
grade it will be used by many more
figured as tranapirtation costs. As according to the latest information- plow early? What is the best rate
opinion that the wheat Js all dead.
people than last year.
this act of transporting pupils is the ... 1^ *8 known that the seeding opera to seed? How much cultivation is
- It to always going to be worth the I The minority who seem to think that
only thing accomplished by the dis tions of last fall were financed after advisable? There are hundreds of
there is a chance for some of the
trict it seems fair to charge it to Considerable diacusaioq among the questions every one has asked about
hardier varieties sown early, waver
this item. Debts owed were often poivers , that be in the banking how to raise wheat the cheapest, the
fa ihetr assurance and .apparently
incurred by purchase of transporta headquarters of the state and it will cahiest and most productive way.
are clinging to a straw of hope.
tion
facilities.
surprise no one that the expense And all can be answered authoritivs-
PRBCir
There has been some reseeding in
will not be duplicated this spring.
Two
districts
in
the
county
spend
ly in this bulletin.
almost every section of the county
After the first of February the but one. If that grade was in the
less for teaching than is spent by
but a vry small percentage of the
One difficulty is that nearly every
■SMI will be, put to work on the turn rastern states city folks would flock
I. E. Wilson dropped into town
other districts in getting children to
total acreage has been sown to win
one growing wheat has already set
at the bridge. The north bank will to U m bolts to a magnet Here,
the school houses. These are Wasco* Tuesday afternoon on his way back tled all the questions regarding the
ter wheat since the freeze If the
be cut down to permit widening the Mf of the todies will not stop the
to his hot.» neu* Pullman Washing
and Klondike.,
production of that crop for himself
Turkey Bed to frosen out; there will
turn and the steep pitch just below dbrasston of their bridge hands.
Without taking into account the ton. Nig is well pleased with his Usually these decisions are the cor
be an active demand for seed of that
expenses of the districts transpor. move to the Palouse country for it rect ones but not always. For in
variety next fall, as little will bo
is a great place to raise crops, he
Continued on Pag» rânr. ■
raised. #
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stance, within the last ten years
says.s At one time he was farming
enough gasoline and hone power
more acres than any other man in
have been expended plowing deep iq
Sherman county if not the entire dis
Continued to page foul*.
trict.
MKIIUim
TMNSPBRTXTtON CASTS M
MUE INFORMATION GIVEN
WEATHER REPORT FOR
WEEK ENDING JAN. 18
CLAIMS ALLOWED AT JAN- ;
Geo- G- Updegraff, agent,
UABT TERM OF COURT
Premium*
bonds
Harland Vieto Grange Rent
Goo. H. Wilcox Premium on
for hall for May and No-
Co. Treasurer's Bond
5100.00
¡ vember election*
William Shid County charge
MAO
P. D. Antrim, Sealer of Wei
Mrs. S. L Coats County
ght» and Measures
charge
1540 Alva Stone, Mileage for
T. D. Hathaway County
Prod, animal control
’ charge
15.00 i W. Cat Print A Bind. Co.,
Mr-. Peter Fleek County
Supplies for all eAces
15-00
charge
Charle» R. Logan, Auditor,
MAO
S. F FnHn Special relief
Partial payment for au-
3^
relief
20 A0
Mrs. M. F. Chile Special to -
Sfato Ind. $oc. Cemm Con-
10.00
tribwtionz'for Dooember
Fmil Andccsnp care of W. J.
Wasco C*. Indus Farm ears
Underhill, Snedal relief
•f Charly Patterson .
John H. Wilt A C^9 S«p-
Eradrisk Dmdap. Work fa
Short Items From Old Files
For Oldtimers Of Years Ago
10.00
1250
125.00
40.00
32.00
. for D. McKelvey
Oretfon State Board of Coa-
trol Care of I noa-vfalrat
patienta, October
Oregon Sfato Board of Cap«
trol Care of 3 noa-vietent
patients, November
Pae. Power A L. Cb^ 0em4-
house light» and supped»»
W F Finzer A Co.. Sopafla-
tondent’s supplif»
Geo. G. Updegraff, Dfat At
torney's expea»»»
Mennan County Jeraral Go.
printing $10; Sup^ MAO ,
One-half WratooM bills
far Oct to Jaa. t, MAO
A. Potter. County
M
ia:oo
5.50
County Journal,
Wremrer*» office supplice
Ora B Bourhill, P M. Poet- ,
é$Bee box rente
R. J. Gian, Premium on A*-
15.00
^eaorii brad
MW«1*«
Ceatiaaed to page two,
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4$
From the Observer January 23, 1914 from the Columbia river at Biggs be
fore high water fa May. .
A. C. Black, of the Union Meat Co.,
Joseph Saunders Jr., brother of Mrs.
speaking before the Unity Club said
P.
W. McDonald, who was so sick in
that it was a disgrace for Oregon to
Arlington
as to call his sister there
be known as a great wheat produc
to
care
for
him did not recover.
ing state when if that same wheat
is kept here and fed to Stock would
Last Friday many teams were
bring many times the return to the turning up the black soil in various
producers. „
portions of Sherman dounty.
Wascoj; voted bonds for the installa
Thu work on the fair grounds has tion of a water system«
been discontinued for the remainder
From thq Observer January 18, 1894.
of the winter.
i
County icript taken al Moore Broc-
James Mitchell, brother in law of
John Foss and a former resident of store at .90 cents on the dollar fa
Moro, to visiting here from his home trade“ WiH pay -80 to .85 cents for
cash/ ’
*'* ,
at Terebonne. Mr- Mitchell was once
«$» h . ’
* : r . '-
Dance next Friday night at the
a blacksmith here with Mr- Fossw
home of E. C, Davis. Bring your
From the Observer Janutry 22, 1904.
grub and* have a good time.
| Hon- R. J. Ginn has so many things
We are in receipt of a package of
on hand of a business nature that it
seeds
from Senator J. H. Mitchell
is’t surprising that he appears dazed
Come
island get b filmpie of them
and is sometimes puzzled to know
before
they ara aH gone-
which door to turn into, his own, the
The
protracted
meetings will close
bank's or the Implement company.
in Moro this-week, we are hrformod-
If nothing happens to Doug Brad We hope that those who exproaeod
ley be will dean up a thousand dol a desire to do better will adhere 10
lars worth of gold dust and nuggets their determination.