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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 1933)
THE SHERMAN COUNTY JOURNAL, —. g«r*k* Lodge No. 131 A. F. & A. M- MORO, OREGON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1933« .ïMWnb... mer sheep pasture It also makes excellent poultry feed The proso millets are apparently more satisfac tory than the fox-tain types because they produce more aeavily for both forage and seed and mature earlier. Forage yields have averaged more than three tons to the acre in Ore gon with seed yields from 25 to 30 bushels- Early Fortune, White French, Yellow Manitoba and Hegira are satisfactory varieties. Eastern Oregon farmers are going in strong for Crested Wheat Grass as a hardy drouth resistant pasture grass. Growers bought 3500 pounds of seed for fall planting and have ordered nearly as much more for spring seeding- Success of this grass in expermental trials carried on by county agents has been nearly uni versal. nesday for a few hours from Kent. eMoro, Oregon The Woman’s Club Card party that Meets the 1st and 3rd Thursday evenings of was called off on account of the Feb each month. Visiting ruary blizzard will be given Friday Gle^i King. W- members M. cordially in C. V. vited to Belknap, meet with Secy- us night February 24 at the Masonic Hall Bethleham Chapter No. 78 O. E. S. — . Moro, Oregon H Regular comuiunica- tions each 2nd and 4 th Thursday evening« of month. Mrs Ola Ru^les, Worthy Matron Nana Baraev. Secretary. M* ets evening in the L< 1 ransient hp B. brothers 8N cordially in\i meet with u> William McKinney Joe Truitt, tk A City water pipe was frozen on the hill by the experiment station but it thawed out this week to cause a lot of digging on the part of the repair men. The play, “Two Days to Marry” presented by the Harlandview Grage will be given in the Legion Hall Saturday. March 4th. Mrs. Perry Axtell has been ill for several days with the Hu and the Aessinger family are just recovering from the effects of the illness. Keot Auxiliary Notes An interesting and instructive pro gram was held at the Kent school honor of house February 21stl Washington’s birthday- The program and essay contest were sponsored by the Community Service Chairman of the American Legion Auxiliary, Floye von Borstel with splendid cooperation from the teachers and pupils. The winners of the essay contests, in the upper grades who had as their subject “Why We Should Keep Up National Defense” were Phyllis Haynes, first; Helen Sather, 2nd; and in the Intermediate grades were An ita Dunlap, first; Annie Laurie Haynes, second, their subject being “How We Can Be Patriotic.” Read the ads in the Journal Rebecca Lodge No. Il- Moro, Oregon Meets 2d and 4th Tues- -lays of each month. Visiting members wel- come. / Havie Briabine, N G. ila Bull, Secretary. 7 । „ Meets at. Legion hall on 2nd and 4th Wednesday evenings of each month, Vernon Flatt, Commander. Giles L. French, Adjutant Talk . Mr. and Mrs. Otis Baker entertain ed the Clyde Gillmor family at din ner last Sunday in celebration of the birthdays of the sons of the families Melyin Baker and Robert Gillmor NOTHING DOES SO MUCH FOR SO LITTLE AS YOUR TELEPHO Patroni?« Journal Advertisers ary. Cl I CT ES Sher • Schultz l*o»t No American Legion two at Iowa State College. While * this work is incomplete, results thus ' far indicate pretty dearly that it is ‘ entirely practicable to use alcohol in a gasoline mixture for motor fuel, that alcohol can be produced at low cost from cereal grains and that with a little legislative help a new market may shortly be opened which may require as much as «00.000,000 bush els of grain annually.* Tests made at Ames are reported to show that the addition of alcohol produced improved engine perform ance. The 10 per cent bWnd is said to have anti-knock properties equal to present premium fuels, to produce much less carbon, equal ease of start ing and what is described by the auto mechanic as a “sweeter’’ running motor. Community Presbyterian Church 10 am Sunday School 11 a orning Worship 7:45 p Evening Service Subject “ Foundations Rock Sand?” the community is cor- Everybody dially invited to all of the services of the Community church. Anybody is invited whether they can help sup port the church or not- We know that everybody is making sacrifices as they never did before just in order to live, but anybody who tries to live Christ and without the Church faith in him is missing the greatest friend in time of need. Allan A- McRea, minister- The Women of Woodcraft enter- tained their husbands and invited guests Tuesday night with a pot luck lunch and 500. Mrs. Woods and Jay Freeman captured the little prizes that were tied with a string and Mrs. Pauline Baker and C- V. Belknap re ceived the gifts that were beribboned. The play “Two Days to Marry” presented by the Harlandview Grange the Legion Hall ill be given Saturday, March 4th- Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Nahouse were hosts to a group of neighbors last Saturday night. Five hundred was played with five tables in play. In designing this airplane for the Italian nlr ministry the builder applied a new principle In construction. It Is a tubular monoplane, and already has been successfully tested. has a nose for news, an itch for writing and an inclination to work fifteen hours a day, then we’d advise him to get into the game. ■Pathfinder Read the ads In the Journal AS TO NECKLINES By CHKR1K NICHOLAS FOR SALE OR TRADE—A 640 egg incubator, One distellate burn- Smith or ing brooder. 5F12 Moro. C. R. Morrison and wife and Collis Moore and wife drove to Portland Monday for a few days recreation and business H. W. Dalby was here from Port land the last of the week visiting at the week visiting at the R J. Ginn home. W. F. Pigg, deputy collector of in ternal revenue, was at the court house Tuesday interviewing possible income tax payers George Vintin, county clerk, visited at Sherars grade Tuesday with Hom er Wall. George likes to get out on the hills when the chinook begins to blow. FOR SALE—8head of good young Perchón and Belgian horses- Al broke And 1000 sacks of soft Fed W. C. Helyer. eration seed wheat. Kent, Ore Mrs. Marius Douma, Viola Hansen and G Douma spent Sunday at the wood cutters camp back of Friend and report a lot of snow there yet. W. J. Martin and wife have moved to their property south of town and expect to make their home there in definitely. Ben Hawley and wife, long ago residents of Sherman county, were here the first of the week from their home in Melba, Idaho, They came to attend the funeral of irr Hawley’s uncle, John Daugherty Homer DeMoss and ife returned Wednesday from Silver Lake on hearing of the death of Homer s father in California Mrs. Ralph Briabine returned home from Portland Friday, She hail been in attendance on her mother, Mrs. Horen Hansen who is in a hospital in Portland. * Bill Helyer. formerly a regular res- kknt of Moro, was here again We<i 10;00 a, Sunday School 11:00 a Fellowship Meeting Every body welcome It la Inevitable that we accept the Idea of high necklines. Even if the (Grass Valley) neckline of a dinner gown or evening 10 a.m- dress contrives to be somewhat low at Church School 11 a. m. the back, it needs must yield to the Preaching new order of things and go high in 6:30 p m front The stately sable-trimmed B Y. P. U. 7:30 p. m golden yellow velvet gown shown to Preaching S. L. Boyce, •, Minister the left In these sketches «of French gowns Illustrates this point to a nicety. In this model, Lelong whose stamp it bears, draws a fur banding straight across the throat in latest approved What One Editor fashion. The sleeves are also a reve Thinks About It lation as to new trends. The after noon dress of black velvet, a Bruyere creation, also features one of tjie newer necklines. It Is outlined with A young man asked us our opinion a narrow ermine collar. The cravat about entering the newspaper field; Is of red gros grain ribbon. we answered this wise says the Min- I eral Wells Index: If he can listen with a smile to tire-1 FASHION TAKES UP some things he’s heard ofttimes be THE COLLEGE GIRL fore; if he can refuse to do what three or four people ask him to do without making them mad;, if he can write in Corduroy Favored Fabr cause of Durability a way to make people laugh when he feels like cussin’, or in a way to make Corduroy, especially waterproofed, them weep when he feels like cracking Is a grand uniform for workers In the his heels together and laughing out educational mill. It's warm enough loud; if he can remain silent when he and durable enough for diversified feels like he’ll burst wide open if he wear. It comes In a wide range of does not talk; if he can argue without cheerfql colora. Chanel haa made cor tailored In getting mad or making the other fel duroy suits and topcoats, i, country sort the carelessly informal, < low mad; if he can refuse a woman’s of way which mnkes them Just right desire for free publicity without mak for the young girl. A feature of many ing all the members of her set mad at of her suits Is her new belt. This Is the paper; if he can react to the loss leather, studded with bright “Jewels" (varicolored bits of glass and metal), of a good news story and catch a bet like a cowpuncher’s twit. Tia vre ter one on the rebound; if he can ex very Jaunty. Worth likes a water plain a typographical error without proof cotton velvet for the young col using up more than thirty minutes* legion In a mannish,, raglan type, with time; if he can concentrate and write a turnover collar and rounded revers. intelligent copy while three different The skirt is straight with an Inverted plait I d the side to allow for the last conversations are going on around minute dash to class, and rather long. him several typewriters clicking away It has a built up belt and the blouse the telephone ringing and the sub- Is worn tucked Into It. This Is loosely Cved hum of the presses in the next knitted, tobacco brown, with a round neck buttoning up high. The scarf is room drumming on his ears; if he can worn pulled through brown, poem on October Fylvan Depth did not appear in the paper without her husband stopping his ad vertising; if he can take a four-line story and spread it to a column, or take a two column story and con dense it to two paragraphs; if he can read proofs without overlooking an What of the new crops, and what error and write headlines without murdering the king’s English; if he of possibilities for some little used Baptist Church Reports from various parts of the country, and particularly the corn belt, indicate the growing interest on the part of farmers and farmers’ or ganizations in the farm relief possibi lities offered by the mixing of alcohol extracted from corn with gasoline, for use as a motor fuel- Apparently looking to this possibility the lower branch of the Iowa legislature al ready has passed a bill permitting the manufacture of alcohol in the state- In both Indiana and Illinois sugges tions have been made that laws be enacted requiring the dilution of a fixed percentage of alcohol in gaso line sold for motor fuel. While the consumption of its corn surpluses may be regarded as largely CHOOSE NECKLINE a corn belt problem, the proposal to THAT IS BECOMING । mix alcohol and gasolinebin motor The best advice on the subject of tanks of course, and not in auto what sort of neckline to have Is to drivers—-is of national interest. The choose the one most flattering to you. development of a new market for an Those that are high in the front, and estimated 600,000 000 bushels of corn nothing much of anything behind, are annually could be expected to have chic, but since no few of us entertain or are entertained formally, something a salutary effect on corn prices and thus on agricultural buying power. better. nmusing fashion Is to b:ive a high back The comparatively slight difference with an opening clour t > the waistline. I in cost between' just gasoline and Another seasonhble suggestion is the I gasoline containing alcohol quite like- dinner hat. Il is the thing to wear I ly would be more than offset by the some sort of headeovpiing, so-called by ccnirtesy. since these tiny pnnenkee I improved business conditions brought I about by the greatly increased ability do not cover -the lies id nt ail. I of farmers to buy the products of in- Detachabl mmg I dusary. Men who have made a careful Practical Style Device I study of the situation say that with The Paris designers have learned, I corn at 60 cents a bushel, the addition within the hist few months, at least I of 10 per cent corn alcohol to gasoline one good American di essmaklng trick. I would increase the price of the fuel It 1^ the detachable trimming trick— itiat thrifty device b\ which onq dress I approximately 3 to 4 cents a gallon may be tnade to wear a dozen di» I above the current price of gasoline guises, a dozen color schemes, or a I alone. dozen necklines with Just a few ges I It is obvious, however, that the ap- turcs. American onion have long known I proach to the problem can not logic- the rne'lhod A now kind of collar, a I ally be found in single state action. scarf tl<‘d a new way—and they I Some force might be given to the have made ■lain dress Into a fash- I proposal if corn state legislatures lonable frock; and ; above all, a frock I were to act in concert, but it is the which looks dill Terent from the way It I general opinion of corn belt farm or- looked before. It is a bit o-f cleverness which, nowaday ys. Is not bene:»th the I ganization leaders that national leg- most lofty of the Paris couturiers. I jslation, requiring the mixing of a those designers । who mnke clothes for I fixed or graduated amount of alcohol I in gasoline with the further limitation that domestically produced farm I crops be used to produce the alcohol, I I would be the way to turn the trick- SHIRT-WAIST FROCK Probably the most advanced studies B y CHERIE NICHOLAS I I of the use of alcohol in gasoline as I a motor fuel have been made in this I country at the Iowa State College lege Ames A recent bulletin of the Millers National Federation has the following to say regarding these studies: For more than twenty years we I have heard talk about using surplus I grain in . the manufacture of alcohol I for motor fuel. The first compre- I hensive research into this subject ' is that conducted the past year or older .ones? That farmers are al ways keenly interested in these mat ters is shown by the high proportion of inquiries dealing with new varie ties and species that find their way to the Oregon Experiment station office at Corvallis. In the farm crops field there are several of considerable interest thia year- Some are not actually new but the crops not heretofore widely used. One such is the proso type of millet which affords another reseeding pos sibility for western Oregon farmers. Millet is a good feed for cattle and sheep and is especially good for sum- Subject: Christ Jesus. Golden Text: Hebrews 1.1,2 God I who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son. whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds. Responsive Reading: Hebrews 8: , 1-6, 12-14. All are cordially invited to attend the church services and to make use if the reading room m the rear of the church building, which is open daily where all authorized Christian Science literatwred may be read, borrowed or purchased Morris Searcy, son of Mr- and Mrs. T. B. Searcy, was married Sunday in Portland to Miss Kathryn Tonsing They will make their home in Yakima, Wash., where Morris is working on a newspaper. Corn Useful Otherwise ’ Than In Cooking New Crops May Be Substituted $1.00 PAYS FOR $1,000 LIFE PROTEC (ION present styling the In fluence of shirt-waist modes Is easily traceable. This attractive spnrts dress demonstrates bow cleverly the Iden Is being developed this season. This youthful 1I college or ofllcp wear. It Is of rust- colored crepe. Bright nlckle buttons and buckle answer the call for metal trimmings. Up /*» 55 The El Dorado Mutual Life Insur ance Association- Pershing Square Building, Ix>s Angeles, is offering to men, women and children between the ages of 10 and 55 a new $1,000 Life Protection Certificate without a medi cal examination for $1-00, which pays $1.000 at death from any cause. SEND NO MONEY— just your name, age name of beneficiary, stating you are in good health, and a $1,000 Life Certificate, fully made out in your name, will be sent to you for twenty days for your inspec tion- No agent will call. If you de cide to keep it, send only $1.00 to put your protection in force for about forty-five days—then about four cents a day. The El Dorado is under the super vision and examination of the Cali fornia State Insurance Department for your protection. 1, It makes her day more effective SHE consults the markets and shops. She keeps in t eh with family members. Her life goes more smoothly- her days are more complete—her time is more profitably spent — because of the telephone. T he P acific T elephone and T elegraph C os . p Abstract of Taxes Payable 1933 on the Assessment Rolls for the year 1932 Sherman County, Oregon This is to certify that I, Margaret W. Peetz, Assessor for Sherman County, Oregon, have extended the taxes on the assessments made by me and as equalized by the County Board of Equalization, also the assessments made and certified by the State Tax Commission; and do certify that the several amounts apportioned to be assessed upon the taxable property in Sherman County for the State, County, High School, Special Schools, Roads, Bridges, City and other purposes for which a tax has heretofore been legally levied by the County Court and the levying bodies of the various municipalities and tax districts are as follows : Special School Value 210.099 13,302 49 1,511,646 1,761 25 303 663 866.81 12.5 69,345 165 51 551.709 6.652.01 1,167,019 6,387.58 10 1 «32,434 611 52 197.266 808 37 141,819 1,017 84 850,978 480 74 437,083 1,123 68 591,410 6.042.15 929.561 999 18 285,479 1,108.33 410,494 958.43 212.985 398-90 234 645 4,787.78 646,997 674.43 321,156 1,042.70 182,930 827.7J 394,146 1,038-93 221,048 1 035 95 493,309 1,398 65 297.585 468 28 97 558 72.48 181.212 13 85 34,617 33 B 377 30 10 0 37,730 $55,347 29 Total $11.145,873 1.7 mills High School Tuition Fund a- d applies to nil school districts ex rept Noe 3. 3A, 7, 9, 17 and 23 valuation $5,954,553; produces $10, 122.74. Dist Tax Value Levy City $5,013 94 $272,497 18 4 Wasco 3,887 91 ‘ 197,356 19 7 Moro 1,729 20 147,795 11 7 Grass V Total City Tax...... ^.^$10,631 05 Total levy in Wasco ..............35 2 mills Total levy in Moro ................37.3 mill« Total levy in Gras» Valley.. 30 2 mills General Road District Tax Tax $-1.877 53 2.552.98 1,840 77 1.256 94 Value $4.877,531 2.552.978 1,840,772 1,256,944 272.497 197,356 147.795 $11,145^73 fli. 145.87 General Fund Levy Department . State Tax................................... 3 7431 i State........ 2 2051 ] ( Ele Sch...l 5380 i Market Road............................. 2692 Bridges .................................... .3141 Sinking Funds for Road Bonds 1 6150 School Per Capita.................... .6559 County....................................... _3.5027 10.1000 Average consolidated levy for county Total valuation of taxable property of Sherman County The levy for the General Fund is 10 1 mills, producing Which is divided as follows: State Tax ............ -................................................. Market Roads Bridges ..................................................... ..................... Sinking Funds for retirement of Road Bonds............. Interest on Rosd Bonds................................................... County and Childrens’ Industrial Fair........................... Per Capita School Tax ...................................... .......... Elections Circuit Court and Justice Court.................... Care of Insane, State Board of Control.................... Care of Poor. County Physician and Burial Expense.... Pensions, Relief, Charity............ ’.................................... Balance for running expenses of County........................ $11,145,873 00 112,573 32 41,719 74 3,000 00 3,500 00 18,000.00 11,000 00 775.00 7.310.00 670 00 1,000 00 3,550.00 750.0® 21,298 58 Recapitulation General Fund.............................................................................. • • • Special School Tax ............................................................ ............ High School Tuition Fund ............................................... S............ General Road Fund............................................ Speeial City Tax................................................................................ Overplus fractional extensions............................ ’........................ Grand Total Tax.................................... 1 Amount of advance tax collected by Assessor.............................. Amount to be collected by the Sheriff.........'.................................. DateiJ st Moro, Oregon, this 6th day of February, 1933. MARGARET W. PEETZ, County $112,573 55,347 10,122 11,145 10,631 32 29 74 87 05 _____ 2.04 199,822 31 27 21 199,795.10
