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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1933)
’W 14 •M ^rrman Œnimty Jlmtmal ’Sherman County Observer Eat., 1888, Grass Valley Journal, Eat.. 1897,. Consolidated SHERMAN COUNTY Moro, Oregon Forty Fifth Year Belcher COUNTY ACCREOITEO Scoutmaster Visits County Troops BOVINE T.B?TFRRITOfiY 6, 1931. Wasco News-Eater prise, Eat., 1890,. Consolidated March 4, 1932 FFICIAL PAPER bruary 3, 1933 FOLLOWS CUSTOM No. 13 Applications For Loans Mrs. Minnie Thompson • Coming In Fast Buried Here Wednesday •ai \A/ zi/i n rxr/Ti vv COUNTY UNIT WOULD EQULIZE SCHOOL TAXES If the gr und hog arises early on A largo number of farmers in this Scout Executive W. W. Belcher was the day scheduled for the end of his Mrs. Minnie Thompson, mother of county have been applying for loans ' — a Sherman county visitor Wednesday, winters hibernation he had a short Mrs. Hans Thompson, died at her from the Regional Agricultural Cor making calls in Wasco, Moro and breath of fresh air on this February daughter ’s home east of Moro Mon poration in order to have cash with Dr. EDerffinger and James Stewart Grass Valley. second- Early—that is, early for Healy of Argument Fer little Done which to reseed-this Spring and to do day morning, January 301 h after an D^taidution of High School tests Principal McCulloch, who is now townspeople—the sun shone brightly • • ' i the summerfallowing later in the illness of but a few days. / Features Meeting the Wasco scoutmaster reports that after mounting the fringe of clouds The deceased was born in Denmark,' Complete Test V oid Help Rural Schools year, The conditions on which these their troop will register this month that rimmed the sky. Later on in the 1 Docember 80, 1839, 93 years and one loans can be obtained are rather and is planning an impressive Lin day clouds hid the sun for a part of strict because of the waivers that month from the date of her death- coln Day assembly in connection with the day, but the damage was done. «... j must be obtained from every person Sho was married in her home coun URGES! MEI IS INCLUDED the observance of Boy Scout'Week. The prophesying marmot was already PAYROLL TO JIE PUBLISHED or corporation having anything to do try to Mr. Thompson and continued COSIS ME LOWEHEO IN UTAH The 23rd birthday of Scouting in the digging down into his winters »•a nest noat ' .'4 with either the land or the equipment to live there until his death in 1902. United States occurs on the Sth day and pulling the covers up over his' when she came to. America- After to be used in producing the crop. of February and is to be observed for head (or do the females of the ground There has been an attempt to make living in Portland "or a couple of the. week following. hog family get up first) for a six Ccu.i Recoftuzes Public I terest lu AI! the tape as short as possible Jin years she came to Sherman county M- R. Schadewitz, scoutmaster of weeks c beauty in 1905 and has since made her home Oregon Cointies Like the County Unit Bevine T.B. Is Dangerou;To Humans * nap- getting these loans but it still takes troop 6 in Moro reports considerable here with her daughter. Public Affairs A robin is usually honsidered a har at least three weeks for the average Method Says Inspector progress of his scouts in spite of bad binger of spring and the fact that the She is survived by two daughters loan to be approved and returned to weather. aforementioned ground hog observed the farmer. In many cases there are nnd one ron. Mrs. Hans Thompson, ’ Organization of the new troop in ' Mrs. Sadie Larson and Anton Thomp- a|»adOw early on.bia waking day The legislative body of the county, complications in getting the waivers Sherman county has been recom Grass Valley is about completed with u con,i()erod a sirn that winter will son, ¡even grand ch’dren and 14 । ' Last week in a preliminary discus viz- the county <?ourt, met in solemn and several months may be consumed rreat grandchldren She was a mem sion of the county plan of school for „other six weeks. So. mended for inclusion in what will be Henry Tetx appointed as scoutmaster before the loan is approved. Those session Wednesday, the first of the who plan on applying for a share of ber of the Danish Lutheran Church. management it was explained that the larges; area in tlie United States and a troop committee consisting of qqiese things being admitted, how will The funeral wan conducted from the average millage levied on prop J. W. Shepard, Dr. C. L. Poley and t^e weather man be »able to explain month, and somewhat in emulation this money should do so immediately that is free from bovine tuberculosis E. E. Gervais assuming the job of of the legislative body of the state the Presbyterian church in Moro erty in the high school districts was if it will be needed early in the the fact that a robin was seen skip v;hen the test now in progress is com- directing the troop policies- they talked steadily until lar into the under tho direction of Zells Funeral 7.7 and that levied in the country spring ping cheerfully over the uncovered afternoon without transacting any t will include all of Idaho, Home- Pall bearers were the grand districts was 3.8 for the special patches of earth just previous to business of an important nature. sons and the grand sons-in-law of the school tax and 1.7 for the high school all of Washington, the north- Thrmpson Brothers ground hog day?.... „ deceased, James Phillips, Edward tuition fund making a total of 5 5 There was considerable discussion Domestic Allotment Really it looks like the dispensor of m t of California and all of Ore- Ward, Royf Powell, Roy Kunsman, mills payable in the rural districts. After Arabian Horse as to the method of payment of weather has gotten his signs mixed The work has not been carried An examination of the receipts of Opposed By John Hardin and Harvey Thompson. Millers up or has turned politician and is_ laborers at the camp pn {Sherars i ’for long in this state but already the county schools shows that if the Rev. A. A MeRea officiated. bent on giving some sign to substanti- grade. The_county -is., not al l owed to. ' ¡unties west of the Cascade very smallest saving were made Claud and Dewey Thompson are on ate the predictions of both sides of Fay each man a Very large sum be- rah; e except Multnomah, Marion and The opposition to the domestic through the operation of the county a trip to California this week. Owen the eternal weather controversy- cause of the regulations, which makes Jackson and Hood River, Deschutes. Old Time News allotment bill now before the Con- Thompson, uncle of the visitors, ar unit plan the tax millage of the • it necessary' for the foreman, the Union, Umatilla. Baker, Morrow, gress assumes rather definite shape. county would be about the same as. ranged a trade between Claud and a powder man and one or two others Jefferson and Sherman in Eastern . From Observer Files is now assessed It is the sort of opposition that prob in the rural schools, horse farm in southern California to accept county warrants for a part Hyslop Spèaking Oregon are recognized as modified --------- j -------- ably will convince the average farmer 5.5 mills. This is possible because whereby Claud receives a full blooded of thjir labor- These warrants may free from this cattle disease. Arabian hnrse in exchange for a In County To-day not be so satisfactory g* real hard that the bill must have considerable From the Observer Fedrlary 1. 1894 approximately half of the valuation Inclusion in this area means that Percheon filly. To meet the owners of the county is in the high school dollars with the pdofile of the most merit, (assuming that a legislative le«rs than one half of oni per cen^ of of the Arabian someplace in the Born, at Fossil, on SundayrJanuary districts which pay nothing toward beautiful lady in the world, on them. measure may be juoged by the char the cattle therein are reactors to the central part of the southern state is Today, Friday, February 3, Prof. F ’t seme dav they may be valuable acter of the campaign waged against 14th, 1894, to the wife of Attorney the high school tuition fund. If this tuberculin test- Dr. E. R. Derflinger, the reason for the trip. H. H. Hendricks, a ten and one-half money was raised , over the entire George Hyslop will speak in Wasco and worthy of being ?rade<l for beans. it. who made the test here further county the taxes could be equalized Owen Thompson wil 1 return to at Fraternity hall. Everyone inter bread, bacon, babies, l oots or bran- *sn On „ the one hand, as sponsors of pound boy. stated “Cattle from modified accre Camp 3erman with them having been ested in the best method of seeding at the lower figure now enjoyed by dy as the then owner pleaseth. | the bill, we find, the majdV farm dr- Last Sunday evening the Moro dited aareas may be moved anywhere in the sunsine of California long wheat after a freezeout is asked to the^ rural schools- . Then, too, the court passed on a" Kanizations, including the American brass band turned out and played without immediate tuberculosis test enough for his liking. attend. Mr. Hyslop is known over number of bills. Not a large number Farm Bureau Federation, the Nation-1 several pretty selections at the resi The county unit system of school but all cattle from non tested areas, the northwest as an authority on l c- ause the meeting being held on the al Grange, the Farmers Union and dence of Mr- and Mrs. Henry Smith, operation is-now tn use in three except those for immediate slaughter, field crops and his opinion on reseed first day of the month not every cred the Equity,as well as the important in honor of their daughter’s marriage. counties in Oregon, namely: Crook, must be tested after July. 1, 1934 to Gasoline Cheap ing will be valuable to all who hear itor had a bill filed so earljb in the commodity co-operative associations, The boys were invited in. and refresh Klamath and Lincoln. These coun ■ be moved into this area.” ties have shown a reduction in school l/i Portland it. Friday night he will address a month. It requires less time to pay such as the Farmers National Grain ments were served. Mr- and Mrs. costs Dr. Derflinger is the assistant of while maintaining good schools. the bills now because there is no Corporation and the American Cotton Wells started for their home in Polk the department of animal industry in । Crook county’s cost per pupil in group in Moro at the Presbyterian need to argue over the cash in dif Co-operative. Aligned against the county on Tuesday- | 1931-32 was $24.30 less than in 1920- this state. With the help of James, _ . - , , . , Proceeding this meeting church. ferent funds. There isn’t any cash measure are the packers, the grain - . . . , , x , For those who have tractors and no I see by the Chronicle that a tax Stewart, county stock inspector, he1 ... .. । 21, when the district system was there will be a pot luck supper to in any fund, except, of course, the re dealers, the 'millers, the cotton tra . . , ... ... x . ’ gas, there is an opportunity to pur- of $10 a year on old bachelors is tested 665 cattle in the county in the . . . used. Klamath county showed a re- which everyone is invited. Saturday lief fund, so worry about the cash ders and others who handle the com ._ . . . _ , 4 , chase the gasoline at what seems a proposed. Delinquents would be sold two weeks he was here,. Each test1 ,, _ duction of .$24.34 per pupil since afternoon, under the auspices of the account is off the commissioner's modities from the farms as a matter , . .__ . . k reasonable figure even in thes times at public sale. That would give a , I adopting the county unity system., required two examinations of each " - , . granges Prof. Hyslop will talk at of profit making- , Wilbur Haggerty, farmer, dairyman, poor old maid one more chance to be- • . .. . . Continued to page four. One of the arguments often ad- animal tested. Hereafter, in order! . . . „ x i « Grass Valley at 2:30 in the after Proponents of domestic allotment come somebody s darling- - ' x. 6nd hog raiser of Kent, is hauling ' • - - - ■ - । vanced for the adoption of the county for the county to remain on the ac- L x > » t noon- support it on the ground that it will »* x u . - i tractor fuel from Portland where he J. J. Schaeffer has rented his fine credited list it will be necessary for . , —------ r------------------------ unit system of school supervision is restore to the producers of major has bought some at a price of seven farm south of town to J- W. Savage that it will equalize taxation and a test to be made every three years- 1 crops the relationship between the cents per gallon. It is third structure for a term of years- The tract em school opportunity throughout a L. L. Peetz Honored Bovine tuberculosis, especially in but it bums and makes the wheels price thy pay for the things they buy braces about 400 acres of good farm county. In 1930-31 there were 287 dairy cattle is one of the serious go ’round. and the price they receive for A group of friends dropped in on MIN. PRECI DATE land We bespeak for Mr. Savage districts in Oregon that did not levy diseases humans need to control the things they sell as it existed dur L. L- Peetz Saturday evening in hon ÏAN 39 20... 03 success in his undertaking as he 26.... . a tax at all while ono district in Mal carefully in order to protect the pur ing the period 1909-14, which would or of his birthday anniversary. There •4 30... .00 27 ... . 41 is an industrious young man. heur county was forced to levy 51-6 ity of their supply of dairy foods ex Oregon Price Index mean wheat at about 90 cents, hogs was n houseful largely composed of « 1 28 ... .... 38 . 33... .00 plained Dr. Derflinger. It is esti around $7.00 and other farm values From the Observer February 5. 1904. mills to continue its school. In this « 4 old residents of the community and .......... 38 25... 00 29 .... county there are several examples of Raised By Hops there was enough of them to require mated that 25 per cent of the tuber in proportion. Compared with pres 30....... .. ..38.. .27... .03 Dr- Hugh Ixigan, of The Dalles, widely divergent tax millages. For culosis in the human race is caused ent day values these prices would • 4 14 tables to allow them to play 500. 46 29 .. .00 31....... was. the guest of his son. Dr. R. W. 1932 taxes collected this year one by bovine T B., a figure large enough mean to the farmer the difference 1....... ...w 46 . 80 ... op Mrs- Margaret Peetz and Mrs. Marie FEB. Logan, Sunday. district will require 12<5 mills on all An advance in the Oregon farm to engender caution in those having Continued to page three. Peters were hostesses. .06 Total for week... property in the district while other price index from mid-November to Robert Urquhart, and his brother the physical welfare of men, women mid-December despite lower average and children at heart. Peter, from Wisconsin, and brother- districts will need but 4 mills from in-law. F- M. Smith, from Ontario taxpayers. This maY.es taxpayers in During the course of the test Dr- prices in the country as a whole, is shown by »data in a report by the paid Rohr Villa a visit Sunday, go one part of the county pay 31 times Derflinger and Mr. Stewart examined Oregon agricultural extension. ing via the Harris grade and return as much for the same class of school every cow that is owned in the cities The circular gives the Oregon in ing via the Rattlesnake. The visitofk facilities as do those in another part of the county and also those cows dex at 49 per cent of the 1926-1930 never before saw so much productive of the county. whose mi k is being sold in the towns. ' This condition, of course, is brought average, a gain of 4 points compared territory, and so much grand and There is no T. B. found in any of about because of the size of the dis with the index in November. The picturesque scenery of America, in them. In Wasco 23 cows were tested, tricts. Number of pupils and efficien gain is attributed to the sham ad- so short a drive. in Moro 23, in Grass Valley 28 and cy of operation make some difference, «»n- ’ p in hop prices around the first in Kent 10 making a total of 84 cows Leslie Coon and Miss Ida May. but tho major millage is caused by of December. Prices for dairy pro ovmed in the towns of the county. Jones and H. F. Barnett and Miss' tho valuation of the district. Pupils ducts also advanced during this In the entire coun.y 98 different Amanda Andrews, have recently en period. who happifh^to be born in school dis herds were tested averaging between tered upon voyages upon the holy sea The Oregon farm price index at tricts having a low valuation are d seven cows per herd. ' Only of matrimony- 49 in December 1933 compares with handicapped in competition with those - meters were found and these The Beautiful Snow and George P. born in districts having high valued 6h in December 1931, 70 in December ' one place. 1030 and 109 in December 1929. The Sink both came down yesterday. taxable property, railroad trackage for the 1926-1930 period of Neither tarried long or other heavily taxed property. ion v.«a one third higher than for Of the states of the west Utah has' From tho Observer February 6, 1914. 1910-1914 pre-war period, for which the lowest cost per pupil- It has Sam Brisbane is building a com adopted the county unit plan of index is 75. •eat i ofitab’e Tn Oregon modious barn on his city property school operation- Costs per capita terms of the 1926-1930 period, fronting Hood Street - the level of farm prices in there is $76.92; Oregon» cost is $100. the United States in mid-December 08; Washington’s $102.64; Montana's J. N. Stevenson, of Klondike, ac- 'Heppner—Cleve Van Schoaick. a was 39 per cent, down two points romnanied by his daughter Audrey, $115.53 and California’s $130 97. local grain and |ivesto«ck farmer, db- While Oregon’s percapita cost is from November. This downward has arrived home from Fresno, Cal tained 52 per cent more net return lower than many of the states of the trend of farm prices was accompanied ifornia, where he was called to at per acre last season from 15 acres by further declines in the general, tend the funeral of his brother who west it is apparent that when com of grain pastured in the green state wholesale price Jevel and in the in- died from ptomaine poisoning from pared with the unit system it could by lambs than from parts off the same still make further reductions. It is d^x of factory payrolls. The general ice cream. field harvested normally- The lambs * * • V wholesale price level in December was understood that the Utah schools are and ewes were turned on green wheat While in Portland last week the 66 per cent of the 1926-1930 average- equal to those of Oregon although early in June and kept on until all editor met J. C. Gari, formerly sec Payrolls are down around 41 per cent the cost is considerably leas. the lambs were sold. The 116. lambs tion foreman at Moro, he was the of 1926-1930. gained 2356 pounds and the 81 ewes nicture of good health and wished »to M Hudson White, son of Mr. and Mrs. For some of the leading commodi 624 5 pounds on the 15 acres pastured. be remembered to Moro friends. *♦ H H. White of Klondike, ended a ties. the Oregon price index showed Advisability depends entirely on the Harry Pinkerton entertained the weeks visit in this county Friday. He eggs at 61 per cent of 1926-1980, with relative market price of wheat and members ef the high school student returned to the Hay Creek ranch butterfat 55, hogs 36, wool 38, beef lambs, says County Agent Charles body an evening last week at their where he has been working for the cattle 42, wheat 34, hay 67, pctatoes gmith. ' farm home, west of Moro. past two year». 45, and hops leading a* 157. . 1 WEATHER REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING FEB. I : 01 Six More Weeks of Winter? D
