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Sherman County Observer EeL, 1888, Grau Valley Journal, Eat., 1897,. Consolidated March 6, 1931.
Wasco Newo-Eaterprise, Est„ 189«,
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Consolidsted March 4, 1982
SHERMAN COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER ,
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Forty Fifth Year
Moro, Oregon, January 27, 1933
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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
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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-
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purposes
is 3-7431 mills —
in - this
ty which includes the elementary 'bial shepherder-
' school tax- ’ The tax millage for the
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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
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benefits they derive from the station
No. 3
and are particularly desirous tiat the
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work
be continued according to the
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resolutions.
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No- 7
Read the ads in the Journal
Continued to page four.
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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
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oldest dancer on the floor. He is
still able to slide through the maze
of square dance steps despite his al-
most 77 years.
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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 •
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Bink
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M0ISW C6HBITION HCTOR
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UwrTemperature
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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
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for several days and the snow melted
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down to stop the drifting in most
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places.
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While the snow came from the west
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and
was comparatively damp snow
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it
did
not lay on the wheat fields but
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80.,
24
was practically all blown off into the
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draws or the roads.
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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.
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For Oldtimers Of Years Ago
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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