Sherman County journal., March 10, 1933, Image 1

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Sherman Coanty Observer Kst.. 1888, Grass Valley Journal. Eat., 1897,. Consolidated Mai
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6, 1931. Wasco News-Ente
Consolidated March 4, 1932
SHERMAN COUNTY I FFICIAL PAPER
Moro, Oregon
Forty Fifth Year
SHERMIN GOUNH SCRIP
HALTED RY EMERGENCY
UpM Basis of State Depends Issae-
Mrs. Emma Elliott
Buried Here Wednesday
Mrs. Emma Elliott, wife of the
late Joshua Elliott who died in 1926,
passed away at the home ofherdaugh-
morning.
Ma
Elliott the eldest J
RIVER HEN PROPOSE
CAMPAIGN FOR FUNDS
iRWfcll Dana Has Belief In Pledge
Woman’s Club
With Mrs. A.
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arch M, 1933
eats
Wright
Twenty-nine menu
of tho Moro
Woman’s Club, with
guests, met
at the home of Mrs.
>M Wright on
March 3rd, for an
program.
The subjects of
for the after*
noon were
and
¡Statuary anti
Oregon Markers and on u ment«, and
ant
the story of Ezra
Jr. Mr«. M E
McKee, the diree
her pro-
gram by reading
from the
Reader’s Digest.
1rs. Oaborn.
In the absence of
Mrs- Cope read a sph lid paper on
Historical statuary, 0 fon Markers
and Monuments, yolk ing this, Mrs.
Eugene Amidon gave an especially
interesting biographical sketch of the
life of Ezra Meeker. Mildred Adams
pleased the club with a piano solo.
Lois Melzer read a poem and Mrs.
Lucy Ruggles read one of ’ A M. Zeve-
ly’s poems, “Up on w* le Old John
Day.”
After the Club sang Several songs,
the President, Mrs. Strfng. announc­
ed that the next meeting would be
Guest Day and urged each member
to bring a guest This meeting will
be held ¡n the basement of the Pres-
t prim church. The OWnp fire girls
under the direction of Signa Woods,
lhe
ir Guardian, will aane tea. A
.heir
sman fee of ten centg
person will
be charged for the rtfrti-hments. the
fund going to the camp fire girls.
There will also be a display of old
relics in the possession of Club mem­
bers. <
the well known Thompson family of
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this county was born in Iowa, March
25, 1854. On November It, 1873, she
was married to Mr. Elliott tn Tama
county of her native state and in 1875
moved to Oregon settling first in
Benton countg. In 1886 they moved
to Sherman county and Mrs. Elliott
has made her home here every since.
Surviving children of the deceased
Wheat Motif Will Be Used For Scrip are:.. Mrs. George Meloy, Corvallis, Speakers Advise ha mediate Steps Te
Ora Eliott, Ridgefield, Wash., Mn.
Mack Bull, Moro, Milo Elliott, Sheri­
dan, Mn- Ernest Everett, Holton,
Mrs. Charles Adlard. Moro; fifteen
In an inspirational address, Mar­
The plan for the issuance of scrip grandchildren and four great grand
in this county is being held in abey­ children. Mn. Elliott has been a shall N. Dana, associate editor of
ance until further developments by member of the Evangelical church the Oregon Journal, told members of
the Columbia iRiver Association Mon­
the national and state governments for a number of yean.
day that they must immediately be­
clear up the situation.
The funeral was held in the Pres­
gin
work to interest the new admin­
It is felt by a majority of the com­ byterian church in Moro Wednesday
istration
in the development of the
mittee in charge of the scrip issue afternoon with the Rev- A. A. Mc­
Columbia
here that if scrip is based on bank Rae oDYcia ing. Mn. Martha Cope
He reminded his hearers of the
clearings it will not be of material snn? with Mn. Martin Melzer at the
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io ihis county due to the ab- inno. At the graveside Mr- and Mrs. pledge given by President Roosevelt
c^ce of banks or clearing houses
Pinkerton santr a duet. Zell’s ! when
here that the canalize-
c cotin y. If the national or Funeral Home of The Dalles was in tion of the Columbia should be the ,
next large development undertaken
. lip is based on real good*, char?e.
v heat, lumber and canned goods : yrfi Elliot- was the eldest of a by the federal government. Mr. Dana
it was in 1907 for if it is based family of ten children nearly all of expressed confidence that this pledge
cn delinquent taxes his county’s v
’’ ■ the
here. They are: would be kept.
- • rej resented ^therein
As chairman of the Umatilla rap­
Thompson ^asaden», Cal-I Ezra
•j .1 .t would be unnecessary to issue T’ mpron. Fnrvallist I, Owen Thomp- ids organization, the speaker said
i .'rip here. ‘
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ch8rman; J. O- Thompson, that he was not particular whac point
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if os ii n w a pi ears, a new cur- Tygh Valley: and N. W. and A.C- on the river was the site for the first
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will be substioited for ’Tn*<»TTrRon of Moro; Mrs. A. Nish, The uam as long as some activity was George D* Moss funeral
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rr»bable that the county Dalle«. Mrs. Leslie. Pasadena Cal-; started within a short time. He gave
Here Next Tphursday
coi«.»nitue would go ahead with and Mrs. Chaa. Bullard, Moro.
it as his opinion that Portland could
their plans- Sherman coanty scrip
not continue to grow as it should
was designed to release a portion of
unless the Columbia river was devel­
It was announced Thursday that
the money tied up in school warrants Wheat Condition Less
oped for power and transportation the funeral of George DeMoss, pio­
and a larger amout of currency would
and the Willamette valley was de- neer citizen ^and musician, who died
Fav arable This Week v eloped by irrigation.
not aid that objective until prices for 1
in California last month, will be held
farm products had made it possible
The meeting was in charge of Dr. in Moro. Thursday, March 16, at tho
for farmers to pay their taxes. In
Clark Black, serving as president
Methodist church- • Rev. S. L. Boyce,
any case a rising price level would
high hopes of last week for cause his successor failed to qualify
of the Baptist church of Grass Valley
not ma erially aid this county until ^e winter sown wheat have lost some for the office. As president he
will preach the sermon
next fall-
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j °f their fervor since that time. Wheat
presented his report for the year giv­
Members of the DeMoss family are
A design for the Sherman county
appeared healthy and strong ing in detail the work carried on and
at
present on their road to California
wheat scrip has been tentively ap- when the sun first shown upon it has «.he conclusion reached by the mem­ to bring back the body of the deceas­
proved. It will feature wheat and. faded and withered until now it looks bers of the association after a year
ed and they are expected to arrive
.in fact, will resemble a sack of wheat as if
might succumb.
of study and research into the possi­ early next week. They returned to
as much as possible.
It is probable that much of the
bilities of use for the river.
Sherman county this .week from Eu­
Progress is being made and it is wheat, even if still alive, may be
H.
H.
Richards,
representing
the
gene.
expected that scrip will be available weakened by the freezing so that it
Farm Rate Council, spoke in the
the lasv of nexi week unless too much may never make a good growth or
morning session presenting the atti­
time is lost by waiting for other produce a satisfactory crop, according
tude of that group toward transpor- Goillett’s New Store
forms of money or the project is to information given out by Mr.
tation
by water in comparison to the
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Stephens of the experimental farm-
abandoned altogether.
present mil service.
Opening
Set
For Saturday
In all probability many of the
Arthur M. Geary, attorney for the
farmers will sow the acres that look
Coppock Here
worst and then continue with seed­ Farm Rate Council and for other or­
L. R. Conlee has announced the
ing if the apparently live wheat does ganizations of farmers, was the .first formal opening of his new store for
Thursday And Friday not measure up to expectations at speaker after luncheon. From a
next Saturday, March 11- This week
that time. This may result in some fund of information gathered through a new porch was added to the build­
years of representig his clients be­ ing to shade the window which will
Hereafter R. H. Coppock will have rather late spring seeding.
fore congress and federal and state
be used for vegetable display-
to transact his Moro State business
Webfoot grange is coming to Har- commerce commissions he presented
The store is designed according to
on Thursday and Friday and those
facts about freight rates and the modern ideas of food store manage­
wishing to see him on his weekly landview grange Friday night -with
bearing river transportation might ment and is convenient for both cus­
trips here wll find him here on those a chain .program of interest to all
have upon the existing schedules. As tomers and clerks- The interior of
grangers.
days each week-
an example he pointed to the pear in­ the Odd-Fellows building has been
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dustry. Pears are worth more in rearranged to suit the needs of the
barter value in New York than in new tenant and makes a pleasing ap­
1926, he said, but the freight rates
pearance.
are so high that the grower cannot
Entertainment will be provided for
ship and the buyer cannot purchase visitors Saturday and everyone in the
the fruit-
county has been invited to call and
“There’s sure a pile of. news hap- still on gold yu understan’ only we
He stated that the railroads made inspect the new store.
peitin’ to raise the amount of tears ain’t got no money, we got scrip. money until 1931, but had invested
In this well known vale of ’em,” re- Don’t it beat the duce what folks can t^eir frqturns in bonds |nstesH of
A. Perrault and wife, of The Dalles,
* marked Uncle Emmett while glancing do when they set their minds to it?” retiring their own certificates- With
spent
an hour or so in Moro Wednes­
“I recon, maybe its’ a good thing,” the drop in bond prices they were
over the headlines.
day
on
business.
*Yea, things is plenty excitin’,” ventured Wabash.
hurt more by the market than by loss
“I’m no financier. Wabash.” stated of revenue- The profits of subsidiary
answered Wabash who usually took
Uncle Emmett “I never spent nobody companies were held as an example do. saying that what progress
”his news second hand.
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was
“We got a new president along elses money but my own, but I spect nf one means of making money by made in river transportation was up'
with a flock of bally-ho about confi- that even if we ain’t goin’ to use railroads other than by transporta- to the farm shippers. He assured his
dent faces r T Ha y ireHs from the either the gold or the money rneyho tion in its usual sense.
audience that there was plenty of
radio guys; rve got rid of a lot of ira’d heHer keep it io h°me. It
A talk on the work of he federal equipment, either his or in the hands
banks and reduced the size' of a lot makes awful purty teeth. We might ¡engineers was given by Major O. of others, to haul the wheat of the
of big men and Mayor Cermak from hn-e n heck of a time get in’ it back- Koontz who renorted on the costs of district- He doubted the practibility
what is known as the shoo iist city Wo nanally do ”
canalization of the Willamette river of sending boats above Celilo at pres­
“W sr neonje hoardin' much money and rave some of the necessities of ent. He believed that boat companies
in the eountr. got killed away from
home after Ji ing In Chicago for yn tMrk, Uncle Emmett?’’
successful boat service on the Colum­ should not be expected to provide
“Wal, Wabash, as one of the poor, bia from an engineering standpoint. loading facilities, but that districts
thirty years,” <aid he Mge.
“And then, we are doing without proud an’ downtrodden common pee- If funds for maintenance could be should be formed for that purpose.
money for a few days ’til we can get pul. I want to rise an’ give yu my gotten from congress—a plan that Is , W. D. B. Dodson, manager of the
scrip. That’s a good idee. ; If we thanks fer them kind words. I’m underway—Work toward removal of Portland Chamber of Commerce
dropped from cash money to scrip glad to know that someone still | dangerous rocks and shoals could be spoke on the needs of the northwest
we would think it was tough, but thinks we got something to hoard. I done that’would facilitate use of the for development and pictured the
yu see, we do without either for a wish Zeb Wilkins down to the store u^npr river.
the state with power and transporta­
.
week and even scrip will look good thought I had money hoarded. Shucks
To Captain Homer T. Shaver of tion in full use-
to ns. We didn't go off the gold Wabash the common folks don’t keep the towing company of that name
Those attending The Dalles meet­
basia. onr money is still based on their money past the grocery -s ore, was given the task of prophesying ing from Sherman county were- J. B.
gold. All the hard money guys can the butcher shop, the furniture stere what use would be madb of the river Adams. W. F. Jackson, W. H. Rags­
pat their chests about that, We just and the gas station. Yu know tha. in 1933- This the captain refused to dale, L R. French andG. L French.
vrent off ths money basis. Money is Anyway, son, who’s hoardin’ now ”
PLANS PROGRESSING ANYWAY
Uncle Emmett Awakes From Winter
Lethargy To Survey Political Scene
PORTLAND NEFDS RUHR WORK
No. 18
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OF MURRINTEREST
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Bride And Groom
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Home From Germany
Bill Buether is home again- Last
fall tired of waiting for a reluctant
government to clear the way for the
. , ' entrance of his betrothed to this land,
Baiks Have Large Part of County a he twk
Money
;' h;J‘dy
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t0 Germany t0 mnrry Quality of Greater Importance When
thc"-
I The marriage was celebrated short-
| ly after Bill's arrival at his home
■ town and the couple came home last
.
*n time for spring work on the
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PRICE EFFFCIS CHOICE
OF WHEATS SOWN
Price Is Low
SINKING FUNO OVER $80,000 wh Bill
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of Shcrm*"county EARLY SEEDING IS ADVISED
is a veteran of the German
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army; Kate Reape Buether. a girl of
lower Germany below Hamburg. Now
they are both residents of Sherman Smut Can Be Preverted To A Larger
Recommendation Made That AU Ro&d
county together after four years of
Degree Thia Year
Warrants Go Through Clerk’s Office
waiting. Congratulations and good
luck.
Probably the variety of wheat to
The . county audit, based on th©
be sown this spring on lands where
findings of Auditor Charles Logan, Reductions Necessary
has been filed at the court house. It
Before Lou ns Given the wheat has been frozen out has
already been decided by the farmers
has not been accepted by the county
in control and it appears likely that
court as yet, because the judge and .
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commissioners usually peruse their . Reduction of 30 per cent in the Federation Will be much the most
copy for a few weeks before putting acreage planted to cash crops will be highly favored wheat throughout
their seal of approval thereon. But required this year of farmers who Sherman county.
one copy reposes in the clerk's vaults produré crop production loans, the . However, D. E Stephens of the ex­
where it may be examined by citi­ Secretary of Agriculture announced perimental farm, urges that where
zens at their request. ;
today in making public the regula­ it is necessary to buy seed or where
No very stirring information is in tions governing the 1933 loans
Baart seed can be procured without
the document this year although,
In making available for crop pro- too much expense some of this va-
like all other volumes of its kind it due.ion loans this year $90,000.000 riety of spring wheat be sown. He
is full of figures and facts- A per­ of Reconstruction Finance Corpora­ explains that while the price ts low
functory examination of the book dis­ tion funds, Congress specified that the the difference between high test
closes the fact that the county is Secretary of Agriculture might re­ wheat that brings a high price and
still very much interested in the suc­ quire, as a condition of any loan, cheaper wheat is proportionately
cessful liquidation of banks in -this “that the borrower agree to reduce much greater than in normal times
county and others. The county has his acreage or production program
For instance, twenty bushels of
a total of $51,203.02 tied up in de­ on such a basis, not to exceed 30 per high test wheat at say 35 cents is
funct banking institutions divided as centum, as may be determined by the $7.00 while 23 bushels of lower test
follows: Moro State Bank, $33,681. Secretary.” The Secretary's regula­ wheat at 30 cents is only 36-90. Five *
55; Bank of commerce, $14,369.31; tions, however, stipulate that acreage cents is not too much difference to
First National. The Dalles, $3,15216. redaction will not be required of expect between two varieties of
The funds in the latter bank are se­ farmers who, in 1933, plant no more wheat and the low price gives the
cured by ample collateral- The than 40 acres of wh^at; 20 acres of better wheat a large advantage.
amount of money in the Moro State corn;z2H acres of truck crops; 12 Baart is usually a premium wheat-
Bank was reduced this year by a acres of sugar beets; S acres of po­ While Federation is a larger yielder
than Baart it does not carry so high
payment of $130 on a school warrant tatoes.
held as security.
Farmers seeking crop production a price.
this year are aoviseu
advised to ootam
obtain j ] The best proceedure of reseeding
In banks that were still operating loans tms
at the first of the year the county application blanks and copies of the depends somewhat on the conditions
had $19,905.39, but that was two regulations in their home counties, of the ground to be reseeded. If it
rather than from Washington- Rep- । is solid and packed it may be neces-
months ago.
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The auditor recommended that the resentatives in each farming county sary to dig it up with a spring tooth
road claims of the county be handled will assist farmers In filling out ap- ' or even a disc, or if considerable
| quantities of winter wheat remain
in the regular manner of county plications without charge.
Accompanying the required 30 per it may be necessary to kill it with the
claims which is through the clerk’s
office. This method, if followed by cent reduction in acreage planted to same tools.
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Otherwise drilling and harrowing
the court, would change the present cash crops, above the established
system of road fund accounting and minimum, the 1933 regulations limit are sufficient cultivation in a majority
place the burden of bookkeeping on thé amount available to any farmer of the fields, according to experiments
the shoulders of the clerk instead of to $300. In 1932, crop production conducted at the local station. Grain
loans were made to 507.632 farmers, should be planted about two inches
the road master.
The sinking fund for the payment averaging $126 each- No loan in ex­ deep as wheat sown shallower than
of county road bonds totals $82.660 cess of $100 will be made to any ap­ that is likely to become too dry be­
24 of which $28,914 94 is in cash or plicant who is in arrears on as many fore it has developed a strong root
Early seeding has shown
tied up in banks and $53,745.30 is as two previous loans made by the system
loaned to farmers within the county. Secretary of Agriculture- As last better results than late seeding of
The county has bought $15.000 of its year, interest is fixed at 5%, per spring wheat. The earlier the better
own bonds making a net balance due cent, to be reduced when the advance is the ordinary rule although some
of $202,339.76. The auditor has fig­ is made. All notes are due October farmers disagree with this-
Continued to page four.
ured out the probable interest until
t'ont>mieu on Paa* '''our.
the due date and it is $99,750.00.
T^mt year the school districts of
the county received $32,446 65 in
taxes. This is a small percentage of
the sums budgeted for schools and
therefore school warrants are being
written against delinquent taxes.
are on the street intersections leading
From the Observer March 13, 1914
to the hotel and the churchs.
Sam Brisbine has sold his entire
Moonshine Leads
The leading article in the Pacific
interest in the Moro hardware and
Monthly is concerned with water
Implement
Co.
to
N.
W.
Thompson
Man Into Trouble
making the Thompson family sole power in the northwest and is splen­
didly illustrated.
owners of the firm.
Albert E. Woods. Portland, was ar­
T. E. Hulery of the Moro Garage From the Observer March 8* 1893
The populists in this precinct held
rested on the highway near Rufus has established an auto livery service
their
primary last Saturday in the
last Thursday and brought to Moro that is at the call of the public at any
school house, W. J. Peddicord in the
by State Police Sergeant Grimm time to go anywhere. •
chair County delegates named were
Woods was reported to have been un­
Miss Greta Moore has accepted a
W.
Peddicord, J. W. Messenger,
der the influence of liquor at the
position as head trimmer for Mrs.
Will Powell, J. B. Florer and A. C.
time of his arrest. He had been work­
। Fagan in the millinery parlors.
ing on the road crew and had started
Huff.
A. Rose has a pen of Anconas frorfi
for Portland, when a fellow worker
Henry Schadewitz returned from
had offered him a drink of moonshine, which he gets as many eggs as he the river last Friday with a load of
has hens lacking one.
according to his story.
supplies for the ranches of SchadV
witz Bros, in the Kent neighbor
From the Obse^er March 11. 1903
hood. They expect to commence
The E. O- L- Co? Is introducing a
lambing about the 20th.
seed wheat into Sherman county. It
At Kent the debate on the question
' is Red Chaff.
“Resolved that the signs of the times
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MIN. PRECIP
W. B. McCoy discovered a live ta­ indicate the fall of the republic” was
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rantula
in a bunch of bananas Sat­ decided in favor of the affirmative.
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urday.
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When
disturbed it showed its
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Lloyd Smith is acting as deputy
poisonous venom too plain for com­ sheriff for Sheriff Leslie this week.
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fort. Dave Biggerstaff has it pre­
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Walter Douglas made final proof
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served in alcohol in the Maseppa as on his homestead before county clerk
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a fearful warning to people that eat S- S. Hayes last Tuesday. T. M.
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bananas.
Anderson and F. M. Hampson were
Total for week
The worst mud holes in the county witnesses.
News of the Days of Cleveland,
Roosevelt I, and Wilson
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