THF SHKRMAN
(Uuunty
SHERMAN C‘ UNTY OBSERVER, Established Nov. 2, 1888
GRASS VALLEY JOURNAL, Established Oct. 14, 1897
CONSOLIDATED, MARCH 6, 1931
WASCO NEWS-ENTERPRISE, Established 1891
CONSOLIDATED MARCH 4, 1982.
Grass Valley
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Eptercd an Becond-claei* matter
Congress of March 3, 1879.
Managing Editor
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at Moro, Oregon, ûçder Act of
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Mrs. V. A. Baker returned home
Sunday after a stay of several week»
at Condon with the J S. Taylor fam
Published Every Friday at Moro, Oregon, By
GILES L FRENCH
COUNTY
ily.
Tom Garrett and daughter Norma
returned from Portland Sunday leav-
ing Mrs. Garrett there to recuperate
from an operation she had performed
last week for tumor.
J O UMNAL,
MORO,
’ which was to have been held Wednes-
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February 8th was postponed on
account of the blizzard and will be
held Wednesday p- m March 8th at
| the home of the President, Mrs Nor-
ton.
I The Auxiliary will have a small part
in the Washington’s Birthday Pro
gram which the teachers and pupils
of the Kent school are very kindly .
spending their time and energy in i
preparing and which will be given
I at the school house In the afternoon J
The Wasco basketball teams will
The Wapinitia basketball town of February 21. The winners of the
____ | essay contest will be announced and
play the Grass Valey teams Friday. team met the the Kent town teanf
February 17, at Grass Valey
last Saturday evening on the Kent rewarded at this program.
floor. The Kent team was victorious
The Auxiliary served the supper at .
by a score of 33 to 15.
! ^e dance given in the Legion hall
A. A. Dunlap was a visitor in Grass Saturday night February 11. There '
entine idea. Ping Pong, Jig Saw parmr
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Puzzles, Anagrams. and other games
Kent Grange No. 688' held its reg-
furnished th« amusement iRefresh- । ular meeting last Saturday evening
inents were serve< in t e atter part
thirty five members pres-
ent. A Lincoln program waa given
The Student Body will present two during the leeture hour. Mr. Stephens
1-act plays, Saturday, February 25, of Moro gave an interesting report to
at the auditorium The titles of the the farmers about thé kind of wheat
’ plays are “Bargains in Cathay” and that should be seeded. The next
“The Dumb Waiter.’* Musical nnm- meeting will be held Saturday evening
ber8 will fl)] put the program. Ad- February 25th. The initiatory work
mission charge wil be 10 and 20 cents. will be put on.
Mrs. Verna Burns and Henry Roth
drove to Ione Saturday- to visit at
thé Roy Feely home over the week
end. Mrs. Feely is reported to be ill.
Kent News
The Masonic order held a meeting .
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Six Month®.......................................................................................... a ...................... 1 w here Tuesday night with the Deputy
Estell Hartley of Grass Valley was
Master Homer S Wall M gue®t of
the evening Several brother® were a visitor in Kent Friday evening.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 14^3
here from Wasco and Moro.
1 The Legion dance which was given
The Rebekahs celebrated Wedncs-1 ’««t Saturday evening was fairly
day night with a Valentine party that wel1 attended.
DON’T PASS THE BUCK
• Walter Wilson was an over night
Governor Meier advocates that the state salary cuts should be was enjoyable to members present.
u guest at the Carl Schadewitx home
The Baptist Young Peoples Club gatunUy
passed on to county officials and in his argument brings to the fore
gave
a party at the Fred Cox home
again hie old contention that inasmuch as the counties, citieé and
Miss Murdina Medler spent the
Tuesday evening.
week end in Vasco.
other districts spend a large part of the tax money they should
A Urge number ot men frem here
rebruary „ there we„
reduce expenditures.
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were in Moro Mon ay a rnoon
thirty two praaent at Sunday school
off<rin< #f
M
jpe(>
This is undoubtedly true, but the governor is surely not so un see whatt th. n.w orgamsaUon of
wer< Bung „Growing Up
acquainted with the recent history of the state that he doesnt fanners were prepanng to do about
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Jesua” by Geraldine Norton ana
know that county taxes have been reduced heavily * ithin the past mortgage foreclosurea.
two or three years. Sherman county has brought its taxes down I Mrs. C. L. Poley entertained the neuie Wuson and Helen Wilson and
bridge club at her home here Wed- Phyllis Haynes sang “Dear to the
nearly one half and would have done so had not the state reim nesday afternoon.
i.eMxb oi .nt bhepherd- There were
posed the property tax for state purposes.
The pinochle club that has been re 513 Bible chapters read during the
The state tax without the elementary school tax is still 12 per viving the old card gamee this winter week
cent of the total taxes in this county and it should be reduced.
There is nothing to be gained by an attempt to pass the buck to
other taxing bodies It is especially inopportune now when tl e
appropriations for the state are being held up becaute the execu.
tive office insists that it shall receive a larger sum than other
governors have enjoyed; and when the other state bureaus that
have been instituted by the governor are protected from lessened
appropriations by his influence. . * " •
It is true that thé state demands but $3,000,000 from direct
taxation while other taxing units take ten times as much. The
other units perform at least ten times the service to the people.
’ Ordinarily the smaller taxing bodies return more for each dollar
spent than do the large ones »nd this is true in this state -
It b also true that when the total sums taken from the ceople
through all the many indirect taxes are counted the state is sail a
very materia tax spender The $9,3.39,616 dollars in the budget
approved by the governor and the $43,110,291 approved for the
so called self sustaining activities will undou tedly come from the
people in s ine manner It is a tax just as much as if it was on
the tax statement and came from the sheriff.
There is nothing to be giamd by qui bling over responsibly
for taxes City gove nments will have to stand the responsibility
for cdy, taxes, county governments for county taxes and state
administration wi 1 have to be responsible for state takes Our
government is built to livide this accountability and the individual
heads of the different branches will rise and fall by their own
"efficiency and not by theii.ability to shift responsibility to other
shoulders.
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met with the R J. Bakers Saturday
evening.
The local coal yard was most pop-
ular this week with trucks from all
over the county here after fuel due
to shortage elsewhere.
Mr. and Mrs, Arne Annulla enter-
tained the Seth Parker club Sunday
night with discussions of news and
ideas.
GRASS VALLEY SCHOOL NOTES
Genevieve Beardsley. Editor.
Valley Saturday.
The Eastern Star is giving a bene
fit dance at Grass Valley on Friday
night. Everybody invited.
The student body program last Fri-
day proved as_ successful as the first
one. However, there wilt be no prog
ram this Friday because of the work
on the student body plays which will
be presented in the near future. The
main feature of the program was a
pantomime, "The Shooting of Danger
ous Dan McGrew.”
The rapid grow th oi t he practice of using some sort of money
other than the official kind may be valuable in these times. It has
been proposed that some such an arrangement be started for
Sherman County- There are warrants scattered al) over the
county hat are out of circulation because they are not generally
Dr. J. A. BUTLER
DENTIST
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HOME OFFICE, WASCo
were about 80 people present at th>
dance who enjoyed the musk by th«
Kent Melody Makers, directed by Mn.
Flora Ayres
Community Servic«
chairman.
*av next regular evening ------
The
meeting
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heId at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred J us tesen. Thursday Feb
ruary 23
UPDEGRAFF & PEPPER
Attorney» At Law
Oregon
Morp'
When Your Shoesneed
“ Repair, send them to
W ERN MARK’S
good shoe repairing
THE DALLES
204 Second St.
The Kent basketball teams added
another double victory to their list
last Friday evening when they de
feated the Grass Valley teams on the
home floor.
In the first half the Grass Valley
boys were unable to score more than
2 points against the Kent defense
making the score 7 to 2. At the end
of the game the score was 11 to 6 in
our favor. *•
The girls game was exciting and
fairly close throughout the first half
and the score was 11 to 6 in favor of
Kendrick Dunlap was a visitor in
Grass Valley. In the second half the
Moro Saturday evening.
I Kent girls went back in the game
Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Walton ana with the determination to win, and
Garth Crowe were visitors inThe due to the
work of the guards
Dalles last Monday
the Grass Valley girls scored only
J. H- Wilson was a visitor at school three points during the second half
an day Tuesday-
and the game ended with a score of
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Roy Justesen of Bend is visiting at I 23 to 14. -
the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Friday evening, February 17. the
Fred Justesen/1 -
t- I Kent teams will meet the Rufus
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Stout and son teams on the home floor, which will
Kenneth and Chas. McCutcheon of be the last, county game Kent will
Shaniko attended the dance here Sat participate in this year.
- The various grade rooms had a
urday evening»
Valentine
party Tuesday.
Eileen Hogue of Grass Valley spent
Patronixe
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the week end at the home of her
grandmother, Mrs. Belle Hogue
The Grass Valley basketball teams
were defeated last Friday at Kent
although they put up a good fight.
The girls were in the lead in the
1 Chris
Thompson and dau^iter
whistle blew the girls were quite
Helen of Antelope spent Saturday and
overwhelmed. The boys scored only
Sunday visiting at the Fred Justesen
2 points in the first half to Kent’s 8
home.
points.-The final score was 11 to 8
H Geo. McKay is seriously ill with
in Kent’s favor.
Earle Shipley is back to school af- pneumonia.
ter another long seige of illness.
| The Rebekah Lodge are going to
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arive an interesting program next
Kenneth To<M is also back nfte
evenini> February 18th. at
being ill for a long period of time.
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wh|(;h dancing
WHY NOT
PACI f
OREGON, FRIDAY. FEBEO ARY 17, IMA
Kent Auxiliary Notes
In Moro th« Firat Week
in Each Month
FUNERALHOME
»r your convenience I have ar-
ra ued for j'ou to leave your
hue Work at Walter A. May &
Son
Pick up and d< Every twice
a week at no cost to you.
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The Wasco Shoe Man
ambulance service
Phone 345 The Dalle®, Or®.
GRASS VALLEY PHARMACY
Phone 222
A Business built on dependable
Merchandise so|d Reasonably to Satis
fied Customers.
Resolve to start the year Right
by trading at :
H. Ziegler’s «
Oregon
Grass Valley
The members of the Auxiliary of
George Bell Post No. 49 have com-1
pleted several new gingham bloomer
dresses and have mended a child's
wool coat for the Child Welfare De-
narLment.
The last regular sewing meeting
New Perkins Hotel
Bth and Waahin«ton Streets
Portland. Ore.
M. NELSON, Owner
4RT RUDEEN, Manager
RATES:
Room with Bath, $2.00 and |1.60
Without Bath, 11.50 and 11.00
Permanent rates as low as 112.50 per
month.
Dr. F. A. Perkins
301>t E
Second St.
The Daiku, Oregon
A A A— Fireproof—Insured
FREE GARAGE
PHONE 211 W
OPTOMETRIST-OPTICIAN
The Upperclassmen gave a party
Durward Helyer of Wapinitia spent
for the Student Body last Saturday
night. It was carried out in the Vai- the week end at Kent with his
accepted in trade
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b some meansol ¡suing a sort of acceptable currency based
on these warrants could be furmulated it would add greatly to the
ease of doing business in this county. With the warrants as colla-
tteral for the currency there need be no losses in the final settle-
men unless the county, the school districts and the cities repudiate
their wairants-a possibility that is not likely.
Die main help that such a proposed scheme would give would I
b. in reducing the size of the warrants. If currency was- Issued,
based on them, very small units could be made and use! w.tb.httle
Ay^ADAR^MAYN E
ctóoOH
n UNCIL
There is no other meal during the
entire week that is as pleasant as the
Sunday supper. We think of it as a
leisurely meal which should be made
as easy as possible for the housewife,
as well as for the family and guests,
if any. There is no need for an
elaborate menu or for much food, be-
chance of loss.
As it is now the first person or firm who finds it necessary to I cause, as a rule. Sunday dinner is a
take a warrant from laborer, teacher or county official has to keep] hearty one and often served late. The
I more informal and simple the Sun-
it in his safe where it is completely out of circulation All of the I day supper is kept, with everyone
cash of the county is sent outside for payment of bills and the helping in the preparation, the more
county w hammered because of the lack of a medium of exchange. I pleasant and cheerful the occasion be-
A form of currency, if it could be made generally acceptable, I comes- .
The Sunday suppet menu should
would relieve the sit .ation and if backed by warrants deposited as be made up of food which we are apt
a surety fund would icsult in no loss, as the warrants were I to have on hand most of the time-
I One simple hot dish during winter
'paid the money would be drawn from circulation.
I evenings tastes good. A delicious
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one easy to prepare is Shrimp La
1 , ks like the income tax in Oregon is about to come to the Newburg. It needs no before hand
front a ai । after being completely buried during the session. It I preparation, in fact, can be put to
gether at the last minute and is
is a log cal step to increase income rates and broaden the base. , I served on toast or small baking pow-
der biscuits.
So Huey I-onrt dW”’1 make a11 his money sellinB b°°ks ‘°
the country folks. And he apparently learned something about
political cro Redness from experience, also
They have taken b to the domestic and thealfbt'ment features
f om the domestic allotment l.il'.
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Oregon is 74 years old and apparently feels every day of it.
One tablespoon cooking sherry or
lemon juice
Melt butter, add flour, salt and
cayenne and mix well. Add milk
gradually and bring to boiling point-
stirring constantly. Add shrimps.
Just before serving add the beaten
egg yolks and flavoring. Garnish
with parsley and thin strips of pimen
to. and serve over hot biscuits or
toast. Amount: 6 or 8 servings.
Another easily made hot dish is
Blushing Bunny, •ocalled because of
its similarity to the Welch Rarebit.
One half pound American cheese
One tablespoon butter
One can tomato soup
One third teaspoon mustard
One third teaspoon pepper -
Cut the cheese in »mall pieces and
place in the uppe» part of a double
“boiler with the butter to melt Add
the tomato soup «nd seasoning, and
cook until smooth. Serve on crackers
or on buttered toast. Amount: 6
servings.
. The sandwich typo of supper to al
ways popular. Cold meat left from
dinner or cheese mixtures, between
Four tablespoons butter
thin slices of buttered bread and
flour
Four tablespoons all-purpose
served with a crisp salad always
One teaspoon salt 5
works out nicely. The material may
Few grains cayenne
all be placed on the tablo letting each
Two cups rich milk
Two cups fresh cooked or canned person make his own according to his
taste. This informal method of serv
shrimps
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ing pleases everyone.
Two egg yolks
Shrimp a La Newburg
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JOSEPH A. MEE
wm be tbe entertainment for the rest
of
evening.
Carl Schadewita and family spent
Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
J.G Wilson.
Mrs. J. N. Maclnnes and Mrs. Al*
fred Lyons went to The Dalles on
| bsuiness last Saturday. Marjoris
and Edna went with them.
ZELLS
NOTHING
Can Take The Place of The News
paper As A Successful Advertising
Medium.
Those Who Want Sherman County
Business Are Fortunate Because The
Entire County Is Covered by One Pa-
Advertise in
Sherman County Journal