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SHERMAN COUNTY OBSERVER, Established Nov. 2, 1888
GRASS VALLEY JOURNAL, Established Oct. 14, 1897
CONSOLIDATED, MARCH 6, 1981
WASCO NEWS-ENTERPRISE, Established 1891
CONSOLIDATED MARCH 4, 1982.
Managing Editor
Entered as second-class matter at the ’oetottico, at Moro, Oregon, under Act of
Congress of March 8, 1879. __ „
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FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1933.
CO-OPERATIVE GAINS
MORO,
OREGON.
ern Califonia to see what minerals
trip to Portland Sunday
were left in that part of the world.
Row'll Seas Off th? English Coast
Dr. F. A. Perkins
Those absent from high school this ।
week were Alta Norton, Marguerite [
Mitchell, Margaret Dunlap, Anna Sa- !
ther, and Virginia Helyer.
The grade camp cookery boys fin-
ished their fourth project last Fri-
GROCERIES
A complete stcck of all staple grocer
ies always on hand.
Clothing for all the family. Every
thing staple and guaranteed satisfactory.
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Dr. J. A. BUTLER
Reliability is our watchword
DENTIST
HOME OFFICE, WASC<>
Quality
Store
H. Zeigler’s
Grass Valley
In Moro th« First Week
in Each Month
Oregon
:
returning
THE HILLS ARE SUDDENLY GREEN
A broken cylinder in the well on
the Henrich Peters place caused a
It seems that there might be an opportunity for another Briggs cessation of work there for afew days
to sketch one of those cartoons about a“Ain’t* it a grand and while a new one was put in- George
Witter managed the job.
glorious feelin’ ”, based upon conditions here.
We have had three poor crops, a winter that froze out 95 per
cent of the wheat, a spring that was cold and forbidding and mis
erable for man and crops, an economic situation that to any one
but a wheat farmer would have been impossible and yet—we go
right ahead The hills are green again, the wheat is up, growing,
able, with favorable weather, to produce a crop that will lift the
burden of care from wheat men long worried by troubles.
Now the wheat begins to wave in the wind, to glisten in the sun
and to raise the hopes of farmers that perhaps things are not as
bad as they seem Hills are green to-day where yesterday there
was but the faintest touch of color; and likewise hopes are higher
since the winter is gone. Something in green fields and growing
things makes us all young and willing to carry on in spite of what-
difficulties might arise.
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Silver is worth about 36 cents per ounce and gold $20.67. Yet
the senators from the silver states want silver monetized at a value
of 16 to 1. Wouldn’t that be gorgeous for the man with a ware,
house full of silver? Wheat farmers might start a campaign to
make money out of flapjacks at say 50 cents per ounce.
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Mrs. Day Goodrich, of Yreka. Cal.,
visited here with her sister. Mrs.
Frank von Borstel and her brother
Don Clodfelter last week
Sam Holmes, with his daughters
Mabel and Cassie made a trip to
Lower Bridge last week.
L. R
French’s
Portland
here for
French and wife, and Mrs.
grand daughter arrived from
last Thursday to remain
the summer
MON
TUE
WED
Dell Olds and Florin Coon left for
Portland early Wednesday morning
with a truck load of Dell’s livestock
for the markets-
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Henry Tetx will be the principal in
Rufus school next winter after eight
years spent teaching the youngsters
of Grass Valley. \
W C. Schilling and Dick Edwards,
accompanied by their wives were
We seem to have abandoned the principal of government of visitors in The Dalles Sunday.
the people by the people and for the people and adopted a policy
The town has been full of men for
of saying, “You ro ’ahead Mr President and do whatever you a few days since the oiling crew ar
rived to repair the highway.
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Hop growers and hop buyers are hopped up it appears
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We like to look at ’em all right, but it is a total waste of mon.
ey to send so many brightly colored pamphlets describing the
Rev. Tennison, of Pendleton, visited
Chicago Fair to us. Private inflation of a tnousand percent
here
this week.
wouldn’t take us out of the county.
please with the country.”
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Daylight saving may be defined as a means of getting up
earlier without undue pain and suffering It is recommended for
those who like to kid themselves
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Cold weather this spring may serve to protect the fish from
raids by their worst enemies
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MAY
Ms. Stone returned home from the
hospital Sunday after several weeks
of serious illness.
Kent defeated Grass Valley in a
base ball game at Kent last Sunday.
Rolfe and Fritts were the battery for
Grass Valley and Young and Pluemke
were battery mates for Kent- The
score was 13 to 11.
GRASS VALLEY* SCHOOL NOTES
Genevieve Beardsley, Editor.
I>ast Friday night Mr. v and Mrs.
Tetz entertained the seniors, the eve
ning was begun by an outdoor ex
ploring, detective game, which led the
three parties of. competitive search
ers from the depot all over town. and
finally ended at .the high school fire
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Mrs. Ayres-
Refreshments were served at mid-
night
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Word has been received of the ser
ious illness of Guy Hoskinson, for
mer member of George Bell Post,
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who is in the Veterans hospital in
Portland.
Women of Kent are responding
enthusiastically to the call for vol
unteer workers to distribute poppies
, on Saturday, May 27, Mrs. Dellinger
.said as she was completing the en-
| rollment of her Poppy Day forces.
She estimated that she would havo
6 workers to help distribute the mem
orial ’flower' to the people of th ,
community.
। “The response to the Poppy Day
rail reminds me of the World War
days,” said Mrs- Sid George. “Now
as then the women of the city are
' ijrw to serve in patriotic work
The Southern rallwry • nr;*-, r'mm i boni W.
u i o» t h
They appear to realize that in the
of the gale as she headed lust th,. break lyatei
Dieppe. This photograph t ik >n vlih a lomr-focu
sale of the poppies they will be help-
Acuities which beset siiippui^ d:n».ij n>n/i w.»?«
Ung to rekindle for peace time service
the spirit of patriotism which mad »
' the great war achievements of our
them
y
and
home Monday evening
[ country possible. They know, too.
Dr. C. L. Poley was a visitor in
that they will be accomplishing much
Kent
Tuesday
evening.
Thursday
evening
Phyllis
Haynes,
for the welfare of the needy veter-
That we have a student so indus-
Maxine
Piuomke,
Edna
McKay
and
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ns' families of our city.
A
program
is
being
worked
out
fi
r
trous that he would ride ten miles
Wils on will recite in the' local
“The Auxiliary is very grateful to
on a bicycle. Just to sit in church with Mother’s Day.
Rev- Swanders of
.he “Light of his Love”?
| Portland will conduct the regular try-out. from the 7ih and 8th grade • all those who have volunteered to
1 help us in our poppy effort. We
Mothers Day sermon as has been the room.
Georgia actually beat Genevieve in
know that hard work and personal
custom for the last several years A
English?
sacrifices will be required of them.
pot luck dinner will be held at the
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We
hope that the public will recog
Kept
Vixilia
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v
Notes
That Ellen came into Miss Edmonds grange hall.
nize
their unselfish service and when
room to study,'during the last period
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wilson were
they
appear on the streets on Poppy
when they are having play practice visitors at the J. N Maclnnes home
Day,
will respond to them in the same
The members of the Auxiliary of
in the typing room 7
Sunday.
spirit
that their, service is given.”
. George Bell Post No. 49 and the Le
That Ferd Stark comes in Miss Ed
gion held a social dance Wednesday
mond« room last period to study—or
night in lieu of their regular meet
what?
ing. Mrs. Ayres, community service
For Jimmy Blagg to refrain from
The Misses Helen Thompson and ^airman was in charge of the music
talking and sit in his own seat for Winnie Hill, seniors of the Antelope and conducted a five piece orchestra
301'JC Second St
fifteen minutes continuously ?
high school visited at Kent school An interesting musical feature was
The Dalles, Oregon
That Phil Boyer could be trans Wednesday due to its being their a number of selections on a saw by
PHONE 211 W
Mr. Rogers, an ex-soldier. Mr- and
formed into an expensive and deli “bunk” day
Mrs.
Rogers
from
Long
Beach,
Cali
Oi
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OMETHIST-OPTICIAN
cate fish dish?
Dean Rogers of Portland gave an
fornia have been visiting Mr. and
Could Neva actually have lost her interesting talk to the high school
temper in American History class the last Wednesday afternoon about the
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other day?
trip which he had recently taken coV-
pring 1^,000 miles.
Whatever happens to agriculture in the changes that are immi
nent in farm legislation the farmers should see to it that the co-op
erative marketing associations, as well as regional and national,
are preserved. It is true that some farmers criticise them for two young men who unselfishly vol
causing the drop in wheat that caused such disaster, but every unteered to dig his grave
Attendants would not have been
thing else produced dropped as well and there is no evidence to lacking, had the people of Sherman
show that co-operatives in themselves have been responsible for county known where and when he
was to have been buried.
any harm to farm prices.
Who was responsible for this
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On the contrary the farmers through the co-operatives have shameful treatment of a splendid old
been steadily getting a larger percentage of the market value of gentleman ?
It is true he died penniless, but let
their wheat. The report of the^herman Co-operative Growers, of
us not forget that he was of that
Wasco, has just been made available and it is the latest example of generation and that character who
made this Oregon country possible.
the profits made by the farmer’s company.
As
a Government Scout during the
Shares sold for $30 with a down payment of only $3 The
Indian wars he actively helped win
remaining portion of the share was paid by note. No farmer has the west for the present generation,
been asked to pay these notes and while they were to be paid in and for years was a substantial tax
five installments many of them will be paid in three year opera payer in Sherman county, and always
to the last a splendid citizen.
tions How is that for an investment?
His financial reverses came not be
Wasco’s local is paying a dividend of one and five-eights cents cause of any viciousness of charac- {
but rather because of a too great I
per bushel on a patronage basis If each person owning a share ter,
generosity and sympathy for others.
put no more than 1000 bushel through the organization he would
Was Sherman county too poor to
receive $16 25 as dividend on an investment of $30 and a cash in pay for a coffin, or having paid the
fee to the undertaker, too
vestment of only $3. And this on the 1931 crop which no one con stipulated
indifferent to a past benefactor to' see
sidered to be more than one half normal.
that the.common decencies and cour
Kent News
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Furthermore the co-ops have disclosed to farmers many of tesies to he dead were paid him?
We old timers who soon must join
the tricks of the grain trade that have made plenty of money for him,
Mrs. Leroy Daniels and son Cecil
have reason to pause and pon
them in the past. There is the matter of protien Ten years ago der whether wo too can look forward spent Wednesday at the home of Mr.
there was not a dozen farmers in the county knew there was any to this kipd of treatment should the and Mrs. R. J Harbin of Grass Val
same misfortune over come us be ley.
protein in wheat. Now every one is informed on the subject. fore
we lay away our earhly cares
Mrs. Susie Davis and son Joshua
Through the co operatives freight rates have been lowered, some
Roy Atwood- •
of Kinzua were visitors at the J. C.
Wilson home Sunday afternoon.
thing the grain companies did not interest themselves in. The
Wm Mitchell is repainting and re
co ops have dropped the price of storage considerably, have been
Grass
Valley
'
modeling
his house-
instrumental in having the grain discounts reduced and above all
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Davis and
they have prepared their sales sheets so that any farmer can
daughter Evelyn spent Saturday eve
readily understand what the charges are against his wheat, an
Arnold Sharp, Grover Young and ning and Sunday at the home of Mrs.
innovation that will make it harder for any group in the future to Jacob Wassemiller left the last of the John Schassen in The Dalles
week for southern Oregon and north
make the profits from farmer’s wheat they have in the past.
Wilbur Haggerty made a business
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FRIDA), MAT b, 1933
escape where a stick of candy await
ed the worthy searchers
Owen Eakin and his assistants,
Genevieve Beardsley and Juanita
Boyce came out ahead, closely follow
ed by Loren Beardsley, Mary Brown,
INGRATITUDE
and Glendora Garett. Nothing will
(To the Editor of the Journal) will be said about Bruce Alley. Sylvia
In the April 21st edition of the Coyle, and Georgia Blalock; except
Sherman County Journal appeared an that they got their candy too. Re
article giving the history of the late freshments were then served, followed
Byron W. Anson who died in Moro on by a series of other interesting and
Saturday night April the 15th, stat nonsensical games.
ing he was buried from the Method
The school got two new Underwood
ist church in Wasco at 3:30 o’clock
typewriters Monday, and now the
p. m. Wednesday April 19th.
typing room is the most densly pop
Do the people of Sherman County
ulated room in the building Every
know how this old pioneer was real
one ha» to tryout the new machines.
ly buried? They should.
The play “Adventures of Grandpa”
He was buried not from any church,
but was hauled out to the Wasco will be presented this Saturday night
cemetery lying on a board, and there May 6 at the city auditorium. Ad
buried without a coffin, and without mission ten and twenty-five cents.
benefit of the clergy; although Wasco
My I What happy countenances the
and Moro both have clergymen who seniors are displaying, the announce-
would have gladly officiated had they cents came Monday. They were or
been asked
dered for April 20th, and no doubt
No one was present to pay their the company's ears burned during the
respects and help consign his earthly long interval of waiting.
remains to the dust from whence he
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sprung, except the undertaker and Is it possible?
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GILES L. FRENCH
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