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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (April 14, 1933)
* Sherman County Observer Eat., 1888, Grass Valley Journal, Eat, 1897,. Consolida == = ■ ■.LU!!? a J WINTER WHEAT CROP "”“?TFXe. EXPECTED TO BE SMALL 255,360,000 ba. Bd«w Anraft OREGON IMS HUM Of CROP noon- Mrs. counties, ^ther^ <re t iiy Stocks Faras Indicate Farmers Are HsMbg The April first crop report issued by the government shows the extent of winter killing in the Pacific north west in winter wheat. Oregon that produced 15,020,000 bushels of win ter wheat last year and a five year average of 18,926,000 bushels is ex pected to produce only 5,670,000 bushels this year. The outlook for the entire northwest while not so bad, ' shows a reduction of almost one-half. The production last year wm 72.551, 0.:0,o.bU^ °'1winUr *he,t “0 37,291,000 bushels are forecast for 1933. Conditions in the United States are not as bad as in the northwest sec tion but conditions the first of April indicate a very small crop of winter wheat- The five year average from 1926-30 for the country is 589,447 000 ! bwjhel.. La.t y«r we produced 462,161,000 bushel, end condition. M far this year ini to . production of 834,087.000 busi for thia year. Stocks of wheat on hand are higher than usual. Oregon farmers are es timated to have 3,410,000 bushels yet compared to 1,948.000 at this time last year. In the entire United States i farm stocks are reported to be 178,- 854,000 bushels compared to 158,942, 000 in 1932. The five year average is j given as 97,129,000 bushels- ' Spring seeding has been generally I delayed and conditions throughout are arc! ' somewhat similar to those in the northwest where seeding was delayed i by cold weather. rad was conducted by the mpsuhsru of the Eastern Star- Commercial Club Plana Talk By Legislators The executive committee of the commercial dub met Monday night to consider a protest to the secretary of state about the payment of war rants for gasoline refunds. Some tanner, hav. hto difficulty in easing - - - these warrants as they are written on the general fund of the state. The gasoline companies pay in cash and the farmers refunds are paid by war rant- State warrants are, however, supposed to be cashable at some banks. A general county wide meeting is plBnn#d f#r AprU ^han it hoped ÜVM of district in the stete legislaure will be present to give their views of the legislation passed during the winter session. Invitations have been sent to Sen- ator J. P. Ya tee, of Wasco. Speaker w. Snell> of Arlington and Rep resentative J. O. Turner of Heppner. There are aeveral before the people that were placed there by action of the legislators giving any member of the house or senate plenty of topics from which to draw a sub ject, ______________ Let the Journal do your printing I List of New Books Arrives For Woman’s Club Library L The Moro Public Library has re-. Lockhart Sir Walter Scott ceived three sets of books from the ’ London The call of the wild State Libray; one set of fifty books McDonald Colette in France which may be kept for six months, Marshall Strength of th* pfoee and two “Little Library” sets which Mason Tom Strong boy captain may be kept for three months. Any Miller True bear stories person in the community may borrow Momtieth Some useful animals twobooks at a time and keep them Murfree (Craddock) In the Ten- for two weeks, and may renew a boede dom «« mauntains for two weeks more. Mr. McRea will Richdson Siege of the seven suitors exchange books for library patrons on Olcott, ed. Story telling tabling parai noras mid-week mornings and the regular Oppenheim The mischief maker librarians will be in charge on Sat Parker Cumner’s Son urday afternoon from 2 until 5. A Porter Freckles Hist of the books follows: Remick Jane Stuart-twin Altsheler . The border witch St. Nicholas Vol- 35, Part 2, May- * Barnard Europe in pictures - October, 1909 Barstow The civil war St. Nicholas Stories of Greece and Bond * With the men who do things Rome Bronson In closed territory Scott Ivanhoe Brown The secret of the clan Serviss Astronomy in a nutshell Bryce Folk lore from foreign lands VanSickle and others Riverside sev- Burnett T. Tembarom en th reader Bush Prairie Rose Wade Our little Japanese cousin Cabot What men live by White The mixing Carson Mexico, the wonderland of Lititle Library 73 O the south _ Gaudy The first bode of Alcott Under the lilacs Altsheler Hunters of the hills ‘ photography Peter Pan and Wendy Story hour read- i ®<rrie Coe and Christie Barton The great good man (Lin- ers primer coin) — The seiners Connolly Beuret When I was a girl in France Country cousins Deland Britt Boys' own book of adventures R. J’s mother Deland Brown The book of saints and Doyle Through the magic ddor friendly beasts Boy and girl heroes Frrmer Burgess Burgess bird book for Gale I Christmas children Brave little Holland Griffis Cather The castle of the hawk Grey The heritage of the desert Cherskaya Fledglings * His great adventure Herrick Church Stories of the old world , Hill The thirteenth puror The boy astronomer Wonder book of magni* Collins Houston Colum A boy in Eirinn tism Last of the Mohicans Cooper Tales from the Alhambra Irving Crew Saturday's children Mark Tidd Kelland Dalgliesh A happy school year Kirkland , The boy editor Continued to pego tour. Lippmann Making over Martha SHERMAN COU arch 6, 1931. Vasco Newa-Enterpriae, Eat, 1890,- Consolidated March 4. 1932 FFICIAL PAPER — Moro, Oregon, April 14, 1933 - - - Wm. H. Lee Buried At Wasco Wednesday BE ™ HAST OF NEXT WEEK RAIL HATES REDUCED THROUGH U.P. STAGES W FEíNÜf RIMIIUTEO RIMSUIE BATE IS BESTED No. 23 Moro Woman,s Club Has Unusual Meeting RAISE IN WHEAT PRICE AIDS THIS COUNIT William H. Lee, Well known resi- Far out of the ordinary Was the dent of Wasco. away suddenly program of the Moro Woman’s Club Monday afternoon JUhis home in that held at the home of Mrs- O. A- Ram city, While M*r. s been in poor sey on Friday, April 7. Twenty health for some has been im- New Ruling AIluws Sacked Wheat eighi member* and six guests were Sore Wbeiit iiow Worth Fifty Cents proving and wm rerrn *. sught to be re- arflgAsM ty Warnau Randier covering Ta Be Skipped Cheaper A Bushel from his .diabetic trouble. The subject for the afternoon was He was working at ) church «bing ‘Oregon Authors” and portraits of oon he came livirg authors were placed about the home feeling badly, dropped into a room, where ail could see and become coma and died withia two hours. acquainted with her favorite author. ‘ Mr. Ue wm bora > Texas in 1874 Mrs. Eugene Amidon was in charge and came to Orogoh when a young of the program and started it by man- He has lived hl Sherman coun reading a poem and a short story ty for 35 years and in that time has about jig-saw puzzles. She then call been manager of th*< McCoy-Atwood New Rate Is Subject To Cancellation er ed upon Mrs Wiley Knighten who Much of Wheat Held By First Owners 5 store in Wasco and pianager of the gave a comprehensive- review of the ' î Hsaw Fer Warrant Transfers Amendmert In Con' y Atwood-Lee garage. /He wm a mem ihree act play "Distant Drums” by I , ber of the city coundH of Wasco for Dan Tothéroh. Exceptionally inter- ten years retiring four years ago. esting were the poems which were Now comes an order from the pub read by Mrs- C. L. Poley- She read Scrip will be issued in Sherman He is survived by his widow, a step Wheat has been climbing., steadily county the first of the week, accord daughter, Mrs. A. J. Smith, four lic service commissioner of Oregon selections from Anna Hastings Hed in price for the past two weeks after ing to a decision made by the com brothers and a sister. Funeral servi given on application by the railroads, ges, Ant homy Euwer and Ethel Rom- a few set backs, and now the owner mittee given charge of it at the ces were conducted ifc'oni the Chris ihtv from April 5 to July 31, “unless ing, Fuller. Mrs. H. B. Pinkerton of reasonably good wheat may pro county wide mequng last month. tian church in Wasco by the Rev. sooner changed, revoked or amended” reviewed very briefly two books for cure fifty cents a bushel for iU Some Shortly after the meeting was held Walter Warner Wednesday af ernoon racked wheat may be shipped children- One ‘‘Windy Island” was kinds. of wheat, particularly high there were so many exciting things and interment was made in the I. U. y Union Pacific Stages in cars of written by Mr. and Mrs. Theodore protein wheat might bring more than happening in national affairs that the O. F- cemetery. Pall bearers were. 40,000 minimum capacity at a price ^c’.und -Harper, and the other “Ani that and even the shrivelled white issue was held in abeyance for fur J. P- Yates, Fred Fortner, L. J. Lu- that is lower than the intrastate mals of a sagebrush ranch” by Alice wheat that last summer’s hot spell ther developments: It was at first cas. H- S- Wall, J. T Johnson and charges. Day Pratt. Mrs. Pratt taught school produced would bring almost the fifty thought thgc the new currency put Victor Anderson. - At Miller the cost is 10 cents per in Prineville and spent her summers cent price along the river. Some was out by the government would increase hundred, from Wasco it is 13 and a on her hanch near that place- Mr. sold for 47 cents Monday and the money in the hands of the people so half, from there to Grass Valley the nnd Mm. Harper have spent much price has risen since then that scrip would nov be necessary but, Betr Advent charge is 14 and a half, and from time at Camp Namann,, a summer It is estimated that a little more as far as this county is concerned, there to Shaniko it is 15 and a half, resort for camp fire girls who have than a third of the wheat grown here Celebrated Hero that has not happened- It is presum there is also a reduction of 40 cents enjoyed meeting the authors and ap- last summer is still in the hands of ed that there is as much money tied per hundred if the shipper loads the pieciated the interest these delightful the original owners. While no accur up in banks not yet open as there is wheat himself which reduces the folks have taken Tn camp fire work- ate check has been made in any of Beer slipped into the lives of, Sher- charge two cents per hundred weight new currency. At the conclusion of the program the grain growers offices the mana man countians again last* Friday with m each case- Therefore, the decision to issue (he prerident Mrs. Strong announced gers believe that there is from 30 as litJe excitement as possible con scrip to aid in local trade and facilir At present the intrastate freight that the Mother and Daughter ban percent to nearly 50 perent of the sidering the long period when home taie the cashing of - teachers war rate is 12 and a half cents at Wasco, quet wi)l be held on May 1 in the wheat on hand. The 30 percent figure brew and other more potent liquors rants has been made The scrip that 13 and a half to Grass Valley and 14 basement of the Presbyterian church. would apply to the Wasco and Grass had been the only change from water will be distributed w|ll not be the sort The club will hold the next meet Valley units and the higher figure to and a half to Shaniko. The new or lemonade * • W* that was proposed before. At that Union Pacific Stages rate, with the ing at the home of Mrs. T. S. Reese the Moro unit Local dealers were able to procure time it was proposed that the scrip loading reduction, is a cent a hun on April 21. This means that there is about but one case apiece and this did not would be stamped scrip, but this plan | dred cheaper. The interstate rate 600, 00Q bushels of wheat still in the * la?t long for the euriousity drinkers, has been laid aside largely because is still from 17 and a half to 21 and hands of the Sherman county farmers intent on testing the taste, soon fin- of the passage of a new law by the a half on this line. M )ro Gràin Growers or others interested in the, county. shed the supply. legislature that makes it possible for The wheat buyer will be able to Each raise of a cent in the wheat Since that time other shipments Elect Two New Officers price makes the county worth $6000 taxes to be paid with warrants-. have arrived and the foamy beverage use this new rate for wheat that is It is certain that a goodly sum of is available, but it is being handled ueing shipped immediately to a more than before without considering money will be paid in delinquent tax without excitement and public inter known destination, but the statement the price on the crop now growing. Stockholders of the Moro Grein es this fall as a new law, previously I est is not centered on drinking. There that the rate may be discontinued Lowered freight rates increase the explained in these columns, makes has not been a pre-prohbition yelL a at any rime makes future buying on Growers met in annual session Tues percent money returned to the county day night and elected two new direc taxes payable in ten equaF install-1 pre-prohibition stagger, or a silly this basis doubtful. for the wheat crop and altogether ments. Land owners will either have inebriated grin since the advent of There is no doubt but the reduction tors for the ensuing two years- Hans wheat is again worth as much as it to begin payment this fall or some beer- Those who have sampled the was made to compete with the boat Thompson and J. B. Adams were the was two years ago. Not much, but They, will replace time before July 1. 1934. It is pre drink, however, are agreed that it. service on the river and the cut was men elected considerably more than the 22 to 28 Dewey Thompson and W. H. Rags cents a part of the crop was sold for sumed that many of these payments might be possible if someone with designed to stop the truck hauling dale who have been directors since during the winter- will be made this fall- sufficient determination should set out .hat has been going on for several .. ______________ /V.'--------- The scrip is being issued without to obtain a kick from th« brew. weeks from warehouses in this coun the company was first organized. The directorate is now composed of the stamps- It will be possible to ex ty. It is too early to determine what change scrip for warrants with which effect it will have on shipments from above men, L- L- Peetz, W. H. Powell, Internal Revenue Stamps Drunken Driving Leads Qnd Joe Peters. The date of the an taxes may be paid. The scrip com this county. nual meeting was changed from the mittee will act as a central agency Man To Jail second Tuesday in April to the sec Internal Revenue stamps are now where warrants may be found in al ond Tuesday in June. Th(p action for sale at the postoffice. This will ’ most any amount to meet the size of Forest Plan For Relief will make the annual meeting of the cause less inconvenience to those who the tax bill in any district. It is Clinton Henry Martin, of Portland, thought that this form of scrip will wag wording on the relief job near Going Ahead Moro group coincide with the meeting have to buy them for it has hereto dates of the other co-operatives of fore been necessary to send to Port move rapidly for whenever anyone Rufug until Saturday night. Sunday the district- land for them having it desires to pay taxes he | he waB drinking something intoxr- “We are going ahead with detailed can exchange the scrip for a warrant ^attng and driving on the highway, wkalrinto if possible nztaaihiM for £nr th» «rrin to tn ' _ . • _ ___ At - making it the scrip Sunday night he -___ was sleeping in the plans for the actual placing and use be re-issued. county jail here after having been ar of the first quota of 2500 men to be One of the greatest objections to rested by state policeman U’Ren. called under the recent reforestation the former plan was that there were Monday he was tried before Justice act for the Civilian Conservation too few persons to whom the scrip Ginn who administered sentence of Corps of unemployed,” announces could be given- This would have $100 fine and thirty days in jail on F. H- Brundage, acting regional for From the Observer April 17, 1914. i In 1903 the county collected in caused it to move slowly. The stamp Martin's plea of guilty to the charge ester during C. J. Buck’s absence in Ginn Coleman A Co- have received . round numl>er8 >800 for state . and feature would also have slowed up of driving while drunk. Martin did Wsshinrton. D- C. a carload of woven wire fencing. j county» $18,000 for schools, $3,300 the movement, it was feared. Now, no. pay the fine beCsueakif financial ; Men for this work will be recruited for roads. The city of Moro special with the stamp ¡feature eliminated inability and the presumption is that from the young, needy, unemployed. Judge William Galloway will be the tax was $208.68 and with the new law making every for the next 80 nights or so he will Those between the ages of 18 and 25 speaker of the day at the I. O- Q. F. taxpayer a probable user of scrip it continue to sleejr in the Sherman will be most favorably considered. Reunion held in Moro April 25th. Since Dr. Goffin has been in this is almost sure to be in demand, the county bastile. county he has owned 17 horses. All They must make provision to send Two carloads of Wasco wheat from committee feels. part of their pay home to parents or the Independent Milling company was the swift, untamed horses go to Dr. Only $800 dollars of the scrip will other dependents. Mr. Brundage sta sent to a flour mill at Astoria. When Goffin and the employees of the Blue be printed at first and this will be tes further: “The first work planned the Celilo canal is completed such Barn are even now breaking another Weather Retards Wheat distributed throughout as wide a ter on the 11 national forests will con shipments will be a regular occur- cuitian for him. ritory as possible so that taxpayers Growth In County sist of felling of dead standing trees anco, From the Observer April 12, 1894 in every district will desire it to ex . ' ,_____ < or snags, improvement of public for- The farmers of Sherman county change for warrants in school districts »«t mng, construction and repair of The program of the Sherman Coun The newly sown spriim >heat is ix/ H a *»*«* t Liivy v uwit nwn imiu* lun/1 -s receiving wiivir forest trails and fire protection roads. are _______ _ shipments of calves by _ ty Musical Association which will be Payment of taxes, in some form, growing, but no thanks need be given I ""d construction of simple protection exPre®s from a sort of a calf clear given in June includes numbers by There ha* 1 B is the only means by which schools o> the weather for that , , structures such as cabins for use of house in Tillimook. The new law many old tmers. J. J. Schaeffer, C can be kept open Md the committee l“rd|y b“n * w*"n a*1* nstrolmen.” Several young men from killing of calves illegal and A. Heath, Richard Dingle, J. O> Pow , convinced that by acting a. a dear- ” 0M *h.t would .t..md.to grow.ng , Sherman county farmers are rapidly ell, Mrs. C. A. Buckley, C. E- Brown, this county plan to apply- ing house for those desiring to pay Plan“- ^nd here it is the noddle of securing some fine dairy stock. Kitty Coon and Sadie Orr are some taxes with warrants the schools will । April ,nd the «™in “ J“‘ CominK of the performers mentioned. From tfio Observer 15, 1904. be aided and local business will be ■ uu^ of the ground in a large part of I the fields of the county. | Four young men were taken from W H. Ragsdale is teaching the increased. 4 Several of the farmers who left , their studies in Moro high school this Erskineville school and Is giving good Scrip will be printed in denomina- patches of winter wheat when seed- ! ' , week to go to the front on the C. S- satisfaction there being 25 pupls en tions of one dollar, fifty cents and MAX. MIN. PRBCIP Ry extension. They were Robert rolled. DATE ing have hooked onto their drills 1 i twenty five cents. It will be given again and seeded the land that was APR * Hickson, John Fitzmaurice, Arthur 7..Æ. 33 .00 6 for warrants on a five per cent dis Frank Hayes left for Portland left. There will be little winter Page, and Earl Saunders. They will 80 .00 7. ...47 count to pay for the expenses. Scrip Saturday to accept a postion with a wheat next harvest according to the 48../ 23 . 00 ' work with a survey crew, 8. may be traded for warrants whenever i business house In the metropolis. ,00 general belief. 47... 30 . 9 TJie CSRy have started their sum* enough of it has been accumulated by. Miss Julia Woods is assisting in .00 10. 53 .. 26 . mer schedule and now run two trains any one person. A large part of the -- ♦h« committee will be in 00 55....34 . the county clerk’s office this week. 11 daily. business houses of the county have position to aid merchants in trading 00 • * 12.. 59 .84 . Elder Bailey will preach in the agreed to accept the scrip and am uwiA wno desire to pay An 8 pound boy was bom to Mr. Baphst church n Moro ^Wednaadag 00 Total for week in fact, taking warrants- Through taxes. and Mrs. A. H Barnum yesterday. evening at 7 o'clock. ISHIO OF WHEAT SIILI HELD Other Days in Sherman County When Old-Timers Were Young ' WEATHER REPORT FOR — J WEEK ENOINO APR. 12
