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Ijrrman । Minimal Sherman County Observer EeL, 1888, Grau Valley Journal, Eat., 1897,. Consolidated March 6, 1931. Wasco Newo-Eaterprise, Est„ 189«, "r W, Consolidsted March 4, 1982 SHERMAN COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER , '■ .......... ...................— Forty Fifth Year Moro, Oregon, January 27, 1933 — :—------ — TAX LEVIES OF EACH TAXING UNIT EIXE8 Miss Jeanette Medler Married^Sunday Miss Jeanette Medler daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Medler and Robert McDonald, son of W. G. Me- Don^d of Rufo., Son- Schul Districa hartase Tues By day. Miss Murdina Mekler of Kent attended tho bride and Mr. Williams * Sight Amnl of Ariln^on was bo«t man. Only members of the families were pres- en. After the wedding a dinner was served. Mr. and Mrs- McDonald will make their home in Umatilla wher« Mr. McDonald runa the Texaco SerY- ice Station. Rev. A. A. McRea of the Presbyterian church of Moro read, the service- tin SCHOOLS NOBE COSILT High School Tuitioa Fuad Doesn’t Eq ualize Tax Bordea It will al win upi. not be oe long iung noyr iww until uulu the me , _______ day when everyone in the county will' If there be any men, or women find a letter in his or her mail box containing very distressing informa either for that matter, who have tion to the party addressed. Tax been letting their hair grow unhamp ered about their ears and face for statements will soon be mailed. It is possible that several changes lack of ability to save the necessary will be made in the tax levy before fifty cents to have it shortened they this event can happen. The state now may have the operation per legislature still has a chance to take formed at a considerably smaller off the property tax and to replace it figure. Beginning Tuesday haircuts wkh some other means of raising dropped to .35 cents fn Moro and money. That would effect the rate Wasco by an agreement between the of taxation all over the state of barbersof those cities. Shaves, baths, etc-, dropped in proportion and there course- The total amount levied for state is no reason—and anyway less rea son—for one looking like the prover- U ---- ----— coun- — —— purposes is 3-7431 mills — in - this ty which includes the elementary 'bial shepherder- ' school tax- ’ The tax millage for the ‘ ------- county, bridge, market roads and — S’ is XX. tZi Ruggles-Searcy Nuptials to be levied for the gen Held In Goldendale if 10.1 mills eral fund. The high school tuition fund will ( ■ be levied in all districts except those Announcement was made here maintaining high schools. This year Wednesday of a wedding that united it will be 1.7 mills. The five dis- two of the young people of the Moro tricts having a high school within coromunity. Miss Helen Searcy, them will have an averager tax of 7.7 , daughter of Mr. and Mrs. mills to pay. Those without high q, R Searcy was married to Charles schools will have an average tax of Ruggleg gon of Mr. and Mrs- Walter nearly 3.8 mills. Adding the 17 mills RuR<?le8 jast Monday in Goldendale, high school tuition tax this 3.8 ( Washington, according to cards re makes the country districts pay a tax ceived by relatives of the young of 5 5 mills or five-sevenths as much couple. millage as is paid by the districts Miss Searcy is 18 a senior in high that maintain high schools- school, and is well known for her The general road fund is arbitra- musical ability Mr< Ruggles now 22, rily set. This year it will be one a of Moro High School mill. The cities have made great re-l^ gpent a year gt the Univeraity ( ductions in taxes for this year and of Oregon instead of demanding over $18,000 from their citizens will be glad to get a little over $10,000. Millages Granges Ask Continuance have been reduced rrom 26.1 to 18.4 Of Experiment Station in Wasco; from 30.7 to 19 7 in Moro and from 13 6 to 11.7 in Grass Valley making a welcome errop in taxes to The granges of the county in their residents of those districts- meetings of last week passed reso The millage of the several school lutions favoring the retention of the districts is given below and with the above information any taxpayer can Experimental farm here at Moro- figure his own tax bill when he These were sent to the legislators in Salem. knows his valuation: The grangers of this county, being School District: largely farmers, are aware of the No. 1 8.8 benefits they derive from the station No. 3 and are particularly desirous tiat the 5.8 No. 12 5 work be continued according to the No. .8 resolutions. 5 No. 5-7 No- 7 Read the ads in the Journal Continued to page four. - Old Timers Ball Helpful To Charity and Community Enjoyment Americans, they say, are fond of naming their activities with long ex planatory titles. That may account for thé fact that the annual dance given by the Grass valley Cummunity Chest Club is given the name of the Annual Old-Timers Mid-W*nter Char ity Ball. Like the famous Alexander it tells all. But this thought aside, the 1933 edition of the A. O- T. M. W. C- B. was as much a success as any of those that have proceeded it. Both from the angle of enjoyment given to a large number of persons who are old fashioned enough to like the easy time and natural grace of the old dânées and from the practical angle of money laid by for charitable purposes the dance was successful. The committee advertised that k would accept seventy five cents ad- mission to the entertainment or in Moro Woman’s Club Planning Card Party OF I5‘ FRERES « — Prof. George R. Hyslop. known to nearly everyone in the county, will «peak at Wasco at the Fraternity hall SIS to th. ^“rnoon of Friday February 3rd- That evening he will ®P«ak at th« Presbyterian church un- <•« th. aiMpicM of the M«>’» Club. There supper and There win Will be be a a pot pot luck luck supper and j ' everyone is invited Saturday af- ( ternoon at 2:» Mr- Hyslop will ap- pw before the granges at Grass Valley. AU granges of the county ar« especially invited to attend this; meeting and klF others are asked to M hl Mr. Hyslop has spent considerable Barbers Inaugurate 35 cent Hair Cuts lieu of cash they would be glad to take a sack "of wheat- They took some of both, $79.00 In money and 11 sacks of wheat were in the hands of the pursers when the last strains of music waf.ed their way over the snow covered landscape. The wheat was more bulky than the silver or they might have gotten more of it. It seems that everv dance where quadrills are featured must have one man whose feet refuse to stick to the floor and who unceremoniously sits on the;, floor to the enjoyment of the spectators. This act was not omitted as George Wilcox obliged to keep up what is apparently an old quadrilling custom. Ex-Judge Fred Crusow was the _ oldest dancer on the floor. He is still able to slide through the maze of square dance steps despite his al- most 77 years. No. 12 S-————-- time in th« wheat counties of eastern Oregon «inis the freeze and is now advising farmers as to the best way to treat their land to raise a crop in 1933. What wheat to sow, when to saw them and how io till the land for winter and spring sowing'are sub jects he is discussing. He will also speak of possible changes that will be brought about through the pas sage of the domestic allotment plan in case that bill survives the con- "Tessional session. In the years that Mr. Hyslop has worked with and for the farmers of Oregon he has garneû a knowledge of the state greater, in all probability than held by any other man. He knows the country roads and cross Yoads in every county of the state and the residence of many of the people living along them- Farm crops is the subject with which he is generally associated and in a state as diversified as is Oregon the title preeUmtri considerable acquaintance with agriculture. Former Resident Dies In Sacramento, Cal. Mrs. Tom VanLandingham, for years a resident of the south end of Sherman county, passed away Jan uary 14 at the home of her daughter, Mrs- Cyril VanMetre Jn Sacramento, Cal. She had been ill for several months. Mrs. VanLandingham will be remembered as a kindly woman who spoke softly and, kindly at all times. She had many friends in Grass Valley. Grass Valley Library Used ' During the year 1932 the library at Grass Valley sponsored and cared for by th« Woman’« Club of that city loaned a total of 2270 books to resi dents of that community. Of this number 257 or a little over 11 percent were children’s books. Hxh L»wer TeBperitlre Thai • ■ Earth Bink Tk*i 'T; M0ISW C6HBITION HCTOR „. -^4 UwrTemperature On ' h - Than W«t- ? 4, ■ One of the prerogatives of the American people is tho chance to ask “Why?” about everything that inter ests them. Because of the habit of asking about the why of everything under the sun they have made no litde part of their advancement. ’ Everyone, or nearly everyone, has concluded that the wheat is severely damaged if not completely killed since the freezing wind of last month. It is only natural that there should be some discussion of the conditions that made wheat freeze out at a tem perature of five below zero. Government scientists testing wheat in all its conditions have found that the temperature of the air has little to do with freezing of wheat or other plants. It is tho tempera- ture of the ground and it is stated by some experimenters that wheat will not stand a soil temperature of less than 15 degrees above zero at any time. If the earth is moist Jh thst ice forms in it the temperature will not drop much below freezing and the pHnts will not be injured severely- If the ground is dry the cold pene trates it to a depth of several inches and the plants are killed- This pene tration of cold is much greater if there is wind with the cold as was the case last December- At the Moro station when the soil was dry during the December freeze it registered a temperature of 9 de- The meetng of the Moro Woman’s ■ Club at the home of our secretary, Mrs- Robert Hoskinson, January 29, was among one of the outstanding meetings of interest of the year. Mrs- E. H. Moore gave a paper on “Astoria” and Mrs. Carroll Sayrs gave on« on “The Life of Dr. Condon” both papers proving to be of unusual interest. The program was interspersed by . peppy singing of Oregon songs led by Mrs- Akers with Mrs. H. B. Pink erton at the piano. Twenty four members wqre present and two visitors. A short business session was held, at which time plans were made for a benefit card party, to be held in the Masonic hall, on February 8th. Admission will be ¿5 cents and the public cordially invited. .The next club meeting will be held February 3rd at the home. of Mrs. W. H. Ragsdale. Short Wave Set Fad Of Young Folks Several young men of this commun ity have been experimenting with short wave receivers this winter and have developed t em far enough so that they hear r 'ports, news items, and other signals with. , They report a great deal of infor mation of an interesting nature is breadcast daily by means of the »bort waves and it is possible to pick up news itels before they are put on the regular w ve lengths. Lamer Sayrs and Lloyd 1 ohnson have one of the sets and Clarence Huis and Charles Ruggles are owners of another. Winter Still Lingers With Snow and Cold A little snow, and a little wind made a few drifts in the roads of Sherman county the first of the week. In some places east of summerfallow '’nntlnued on Pass ^our fields the drifts were of sufficient height to preclude the passage of cars but there was not enough snow to make very large piles of the chilly stuff. Tuesday afternoon the atmos phere was warmer than it had been MIN.. PKEC1P DATE for several days and the snow melted .00 .21 07. < 19 down to stop the drifting in most 00 ...31 . 05. 20 places. 00 ...38... 20 21 While the snow came from the west 00 ■' ...37... 28. 22 and was comparatively damp snow 00 '. .. 38....24.( 23. it did not lay on the wheat fields but 06 .42 80., 24 was practically all blown off into the 00 ...87 .. 22 25 draws or the roads. 06 Total for week WEATHER REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING JAN. 25 SYSTEM DISCUSSED The committee appointed to ar range a new street lighting schedule for the city of Moro is working to reduce the size or number of lights' on the streets to enable the city to Savir^» Made By Consolidation oí cut. the lighting costs to the amount School Management allowed by. the budget parsed by the budget committee last December- Lights at present are costing the city $67.58 per month which is, a D-D reduction from $100 called for in the original contract The drop to 67. 58 was made two years ago when the city officials felt that they were pay ing more for lighting than conditions School Consolidation Not Necessarily Justified. The budget for 1933 allows but $50 Fait of Plan for street lighting and it will be necessary to reduce both the number and the size of the lights to come There appears to be a general ten within the budget. Whatever reduc dency to discuss the county unit Jon is made will have to meet with system of school supervision through the approval of the power company. out the state- The first manifesta At the beginning of the year the city tion of this tendency was shown at street lighting fund' has unpaid the Condon meeting of the wheat warrants for over $1100 in the hands league and the directors of that pro of the company and some measures gram were persuaded to have state will have to be taken to meet the bud get estimates or the total of unpaid superintendent of public instruction, C. A. Howard on the program to dis warrants will grow larger during the cuss that system. Mr- Howard did year. discuss it Jbut -without committing The committee in charge of this himself to the support of the measure. adjustment is composed of Fred As he stated at that time, he was not Pickett, O. A. Ramsey and Giles L. advocating it or attempting to have French. . it adopted- He left that to the wis dom of the voters. Simply stated the county unit Grange Working On system would place the supervision Power Measures of all of the schools of the country under a body of five chosen from five different districts of the county. ^tatehouse, Salem, Ore., Jan. 26.M This board would have the same pow Not one cent of money is being ers as the school board now exercises. . asked in any of the bills being spon- The board would hire a school super- sored by the state Grange for the intendent who would have active regulation of telephone and power charge of the entire school system of districts. Any expenditures will be the county. referred to a voter of the people, Ray The board would have the right to Gill. State Grange Master, said to discontinue schools if it was shown day. that the patrons of a school could be Some regulatory bills on power and more economically served by trans utility measures have asked for op- porting thb pupils to another school propriations but none of these bills house, in a district or a county are coming from the Grange, he where transportation of pupils was added practiced the board would have the Mr. Gill explained that the tele power to realign the routes of the phone and power bills being intro busses to care for as large a part of duced and in which the Grange is in the population in the district as pos terested are merely measures setting sible. Taxes wotild be levied equally up the “machinery” by which public all over the county and the money ownership can be realized. He ridi that comes from the state and county culed the idea that the Grange has funds would be divided by the board any intention of urging $65,000,000 in much the same manner as it is under the present system. in bonds on the legislature. Those who favor the plan point to Mr- Gill added that H. B 99 giving a board authority to issue bonds and the fact that it would make consider- , incur debts at will, will be opposed. Continued to page four. ONE BOARD co«im Short Items * From Old Files For Oldtimers Of Years Ago Marking the Social Calendar 0|i?W/ AHP 50ES A WÉEKIA^ IH SAM ftwum A plßWAM W WHEVEinWPy M$ SO 00S^^j 1SARAH, 5 flUE SKiMP OelfilRD WAV IN J AOÓDSÍ TOH picnic ? Itu mark IT- fill PRÖ0A0LV rain - 'TQWfiw cves,1w Wjg From the Observer January 25, 1894 a rabbit and caught Miss Lois riding loose rein. The horse waited The state levy has been fixed at 4 3 with a rider to recover from the for its mills instead of 7.3 mills as given in remount and ride home for shock, the dispatches. This is three mills treatment. arnica lower than last year. Sherman County will pay $10,657. A school meeting was held in this 50 state texes on the last apportion district last Saturday Tor the purpose ment. of taking a vote on the question of Land that is selling in Sherman tax, but shortly after the this district had convened county for $20 is worth $60- Figure to adjourn prevailed and it out for yourself. was taken. The musical notes of the now fami Last Saturday C. J. Deikmann ex liar whistle of Moro Flouring Mills ecutcj a bond for deed to a 320 acre again charmed the ears of th« popu tract of land including*fhe town site lation Tuesday- Long may it con- on which DeMoss Springs stands, the . Jinue. purchaser being Henry Wright. From the Observer January 30, 1914- levying a voters of a motion no action Neil McDonald has taken charge of the Central Hotel in Goldendale. Neil will make the business go if anyone can as he is courteous and accom odating to all- At the last meeting of the local Farmers Union held last Tuesday officers were installed for the year and a pool for the purchase of sacks was started» , From the Observer January 29, 1904. The Moro Unity Club had agreed on dues of twenty five c«nte per year for all members and has paid th« club dues to th« Oregon Development League for the year. The tax roll for Sherman county for this ysar carries $126,690.72; divided into state and county fund of $67 134.82; special schools, $28.488. 38; road texes. $26,081^2; eitios, M, 960. of this amount the railroad company $36,272.18- From Kent: Mr- Gates, formerly of Arlington has taken the manage ment of the Kent Commercial store. Mr- Montgomery will run the ware house and put in his spare time in the store- From Triangle-Bar. Miss Ruggles met with quite an accident a short time before leaving home having been thrown from her favorite saddle horse. Th« animal was frightened by
