IHE
ohennan (Cointtg 3inmud
COUNTY
MORO,
JOURNAL,
bREGUN, ^RlDAY, A)NE
Published Evary Friday at Moro, Oregon, By
Managing Editor
^|ConQu^rog
Ted Baker, son of Mr. and Mr*.
V- A. Baker, is visiting here for a
few days from Montana. Taylor is
home again from attending school in
Montanaand Mrs. Virgii Roberts, a
daughter of the Bakers is here also.
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'Mrs. Jake Eslinger returned home
(Monday* after a visit in Portland
Jake met her ,in The Dalles.
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Miss Margaret Morrison spent a
>nd-cla** matter at the Jo*to flice, at Moro, Oregon, under Act of few day« here the first of the week
as a gueet of the George Wilcox
family. •
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FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1983.
DUTY SAYS, “VOTE”
A public election that concerns residents of every school dis.
trict in the county will be held Monday, June 19, in the several
school houses Whether the voter is interested in good education
for his or her children or in efficient spending of tax money the
; ¡school election is important.
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Schools in this county required 45 percent of each tax dollar
raised in 1933 and are therefore of considerable moment to the
taxpayer As our public school system is our accepted means of
educating the youths and maidens of the country and preparing
through them a more satisfactory world to live in ,the make up of
each ocal board of directors is important to everyone.
Nearly everyone can vote, lack of age and time in the district
being the only limi ing factors, and everyone who possibly can
should vote This year the election of a new board of direttors
for t e Don-high school astrict will, no doubt, cause a good vote
in the country districts A patriotic interest in probably the most
important governmental function should cause a good vote in the
rown districts as well
Dr. and Mrs. Poley -went to Port
land Tuesday merr^ng accompanied
by Maude Homewood and Marjorie
Blake. Rachael is in a hospital in
Portland.
Hays and Lila Fay Boyce return-
ad home thia week from Beaverton
where they have been attending
school thia winter.
John Conroy
wool.
Mrs. Lillian Montague and daugh-,
f^r Betty visited here from /heir
home in Arlington early this week.
Amiel Garthaffner and wife were
here e ahort time this week while
on a vacation from railroad work
in Portland-
Geneveve Beardsley is visiting at
Lexington this wek.
Mrs. Marguerette Hutchcroft and
children are here from; Forest Grove
at the home of Mrs. Hutchcroft’s
parents.
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Dele Baker returned from Forest
Grove Friday having finished his
first year a* a student at Pacific
University-
IT MAY KICK BACK
A feature of the sales tax is now being discu-sed in the papers
that is vitally important to all farmers in this county While some
local citizens have considered the effect the tax would have on
wheat sales there has been no public discussion of it heretofore.
An opinion by Ralph S Hamilton, well known lawyer of Port,
land and forme-ly speaker of the Oregon house, states that coop
erative associations will be exempt from the payment of the sales
ux exoept when the cooperative buys wheat—for instance— from
the grower and holds it in its own name when a sales tax of .8 per
cent would be levied.
It may be furthur presumed that in case a wheat buyer other
«tan a co-operative sold wheat there would be a tax of 2 percent
<on the sale ? Any farmer realizes that this will certainly be reflect
ed in the price offered for wheat.- If the intention of the legisla
tors was to exempt farm products from the payment of a tax the
law should have specifically stated that there was to be no tax on
farm products until they had been manufactured into something
eke. Otherwise the farmer will have to pay the tax through re
Mr. and Mrs. Davies left this
week for Portland where they will
spend a part of the summer recup-
erating from the effects of teach-
ing school all winder.
Nr»- Willian) Harder is ill at the
(»mil? hQina goythwest of town and
Mis* Casale Holmes is attending her-
Charles Garrett was here for a
short time last week having brought
his daughter, Mrs. Sa«n Davis home
to assist Mrs. W. J. Davis who was
ill. The elder Mrs. Davis is I better,
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Vern McGowan is able to be up
again after a seige of the flu.
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BUTTERFAT
I. D- Pike and wife and son Frank
wer* iq Portland last week to en
able Frank to consult a doctor,
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George Witter spent the past week
visiting with friends in Goldendale.
It looks asif peoi le are beginning to worry about
business instead f their own We will change the law to catch
forg d n hard times an h« »rill slip away again when profits
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Tnn country seems to swing from republican to
ad f >:a weito dry ith greatest ease No one may say w£ arp
hid*‘b< UD4L
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fhe Indians shouldn’t feel to.badly about the loss of their
schools- Look *hat education has done for tlie white man-
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Our grain depends on the rain. If w< have a flood pt «in we
will have a flood of grain. No rain-no grain -
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Having an election of some sort every month makes plenty of
political gossip to pass away the time-
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Jt looks like the Columbia river has a chance to break its record
for flood fhi? year. but
American rivers arc not 80
bout bfepjkipg records as American people
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, Now some of the big bdye will know what It is like to be
caught with a toilet kit o it of order Public inspection is tough,
boys, but it makes a good army and good officials.
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DENTIST
'HOME OFFICE., WASC’1
AMBULANCE SERVICE
John Hays and wife left Wednes-
day for Ione to visit a few d^ys
with the Feely family near that
town.
Mr. J-’6.
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Dr. J. A. BUTLER
FUNERAL HOME
This man Howe, secretary to the president has. been held
to the people as a great guy. He should have let his reputation !
thw M
Wilin’» ©op, Le?-
stand and kept off the radio. Lots of men have ruined themselves Ur u graduating.
by talking He made a big hotter about the refusal of congress to 1Hlchard Sather and Lloyd Young
let the president cut veteran’s enough and told the listener about selected from ^to
work, in the
Kent to workjn
the troubles of trying to get along on insufficient stationary. He wood* thi* summer as a part of the
wott'd be funny any other place, but in government Mrvk»
CMias Coft»«rv»tion Con».
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ZELL S
Mr. J. M. Wilson and children and
I Margaret Dunlap left Sunday morn-
..rd I m for Pullman Wash where they
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the graduating exerci*-
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“A man’* house Is his castle.” said ecutor ber
“The Federal Trust company of El
Don Jaime contemplatively, “and I
presume that principle applies to the Paso.”
"Tom Antrim owes them a lot of
lands contiguous thereto. One has a |
right to defend bls castle from un money. In a dry year they might not grass thief with designs on your range
warranted trespass, and I’m here to be too anxious to discover that An —und I don't tlfink any jury In this
tell you, old Seed, I am very weary trim was invading your range—that country will convict you of murder,
of Tom Antrim and his sheeps—I 1», not until they had gotten their because Antrim «nd his men will
money out of the old hog. Now I have been clmrly outside the law,
mean sheep. D—n It, will I never get
over the habit of slipping on my plu like you, Jimmy, and I don’t want to you have a record for patient forbear
see yon get killed. Besides, If you ' ance In the past, nnd I will h* your
rals, like any Mexican! Three weeks
up to
kick up n row and don’t got yourself witnesH to prove
a^o the sheriff of this county arrested
Tom Antrim and held him and his •killed, you make work for me and Antrim’* camp uhannpil mid talked to
• usted,
men long enough to permit me to my men. Myself. Pm a man of peace. hlm like a
rangers’
amigo .mio?
drive his sheep off my range; and be Consequently It occurred to me—”
"You want me to give hint another testimony curries v?elglit with a jury.
fore I called the sheriff In I talked
to con-
with Tom Antrim. I told him he must ‘ chance—to appear weak nnd vacillate Anyhow? it jmt
r. You
Ing by talking to that Antrim ngnln?” viet a JIU l ’UU iph
not come back again, because oef—I
mean If—he did”—here Don ’ Jaime Don Jaime’ charged Instantly.
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shrugged eloquent shoulders—"well.
"Thank God, my blood Is the c<«»1 unntlKT's rights—nml Hu
II ny-
I would not bother the sheriff to fight blood of an Anglo-Saxon ancestry. If zurd; Antrim. Ims' never
for my rights for me. No. by Santa
I had your hot corpuscles. Friend thing else but.”
“You nre iilwnys," Don Jaime
Maria la Purislma! Jt Is In the blood Jimmy. I nCver would hnve risen* to
Miguel
IllgUenc.s reiterated, “my very
of the Hlguenes family to fight their h> a captain In the Texas rangers. Fd
own fights.”
have been killed as ■ prlvnte. Now, good friend. And you are as wise as
you listen to m*. because I have no h treeful of owls. You plot with all
The ranger protested again,
heard all about the famous dofi of Interest nt all In Antrim. I have, the ’ consummate craft of my own
however, a sympathetic Interest*. In people.”
yours to old Antrim, and I happen tn
"Where the devil do you suppose I
know the old ekunk don’t take orders you and your broad acres. You plan
to go over yonder and start something got my eduentIon. If not along the Rio
worth a cent Yet, he knows ynu
All wrong, old son. all wrong. You Grande?" Ken Hobart retorted. He
mean business That’s why his men
are all armed. He expects a battle tnke a ranger’s advice nml let the lit a cigar and looked out over the
and he knows you’ll lead your forces. other fellow draw first. Then beat him plemdHit garden. “Gosh., you’ve got
s nleo phice,here, .limmy, I wish I’d
Now, If you Should get killed in the to the draw."
fracas, your executor would be the
"You are always my good friend," been as discriminating In the selec
tion of hiy uneestors as you were.” ■
one to protest against tris trespassing murmured Don Jnlme fratefully.
Don Jnlme lauglusl lightly. "Only
In the future. Who might your ex-
"Now, listen, Jimmy,” ’ Ken Ho n III I Ie while ¡10» I was reflecting that
bart continued. "Tomorrow 1 shall
1 1ia\T n»»r had fq»i»oTtiintTy tn pmc
make It my business to drop in to thnt
tlce the dlsiTlminnJlon ¡»vfticed by my
Mr. an<^ Mrs. Lawrence. Amick.
gheep camp for luncheon. , A little ' »anewtoni In the pickings .of wives.
later
you
will
ride
up,
alone
and
un
. Kent grange will hold its regular
“If you
armed, I’ll report to Antrim thnt Friend llobnrt,'
meeting Saturday evening, June 10 you’re bent on «n argument, but not would be lord of a rancho marry a
Sunday June 11 the Kent grange will in the amoke; and he’ll go out to talk lady who Ims one and doesn’t know
what to do with It. Fortunately^ I
take the goodwill plane to Clamo.
to you, because I Khali -advise It
possess thees—I nien» this—rancho,
strongly. When he doe* you give him
so I do not need the lady!”
“If you did, Jimmy, where the devil
Highest P ices Paid For
. When Your Shuesneerì would you find her?” - -
•’You have the delightful habit of
Repair,send them to
placing your finger on the weak spot,
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Newberg Creamery Inc.
find a suitable wife? I nm ton busy
with thees—I mean this—ranch, and
Vancouver, Washington
GOOD SHOE REPAIRING-
when, once or twice a year I wander
TUE PALLE! to the. fleshpot* It Is tn be filled with
204 Second St.
amazement and fear of what would
happen to M. If I marry a modem
'Mrs- Torn Garrett, and daughter
visited in WalU W*Ha over the
weekend.
duced income
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As far as taxes paid directly to the state are concerned the sales
tax will decidedly aid the fanners of this county. There can be
no doubt about that However, if the passage of the sale« UR B
to result in reducing the price of wheat by a cent a bushel or more
the tax advantage will be practically wiped out. We can save
$33,000 in direct taxes, but we may lose as much in reduced income
if there is a tax to be collected on wheat before it is milled.
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and Henry Patjen
were in Portland thia weey to see
about getting a good price for their
final warning in language most be
coming to a hidalgo of your proud
ancestry. He’ll think you’re, weak
and afraid and of course he’ll disre
gard the warning. . . .
“Well, having warned him, you rifle
back home^ gather your gang together
and take possession of the water
holes where Antrim must, of necessity,
water his sheep tonight. Don’t lei
him water them. He’ll fight for th»»
water, rather than back-track with
his flock over ground that’s been
eaten over, only to find your men
guarding the water holes In that di
rection, too. A sheep can’t stand such
hardship, and three days without wa
tor will see his sheep dying by the
thousand.
“You understand me, Jimmy? You
provoke the fight but he shoots first.
Then you clean up and clean up good.
been uh * that’s the only way r you’re
ever going to have fieme, Aid rim’s
fate will I m * a lesson to >iny
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MAN CoUNTY OBSERVER, E*tabli*bed Nov. t, 1888
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Phone 345 The I »Hiles. Ore
GRASS VALLEY PHARMACY
In Moro the First Week
in Each Month
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Well Folks
^he Grass Valley Pharmacy is still in
Business — and if President Rooseuelt can handle Con-
gress, Ibelieue tue will all see better days.
In the meantime I will g1 (1(11 y sell you some beer
Fill your Prescription, andserue you in a Drug Store
way,.
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refd Good
CLOCK at 98c
It guarantees an early fishing trip
Mrs. Esie Wilson and son Charlie
Bill and Mrs. Betty Kelly spent Fri
day at the home of J.H. Wilson.
Mr and Mrs- J L Davis who spent
.he past week visiting with friends
in Portland and Hood River return
ed homp
Wednesday
afternoon
Their *<m Luther, remained ip Hood ,
HLver to visit with friends and tljeir
daughter Evelyn is spying at the
fepme of i^er grandmother Mrs. John
SchiMWn Ln
Paulina Dav|s JPW*
Bom? of Marjory MdnM*
Mr. and Miz, John Hoffmeister of
Portland spent Friday at th* home
of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Dellinger. Mrs.
Hoffmeister was formerly Mildred j
Boardman
Miss Velma Matthes Vvho has been
teaching at Enterprise the last year
returned home Friday evening to vis
it with her parent» during the sum-
jppr mofl
Dorothy Southern who has been at-
tgnding school at Chemawa arrived
tn Kent one day last week and will
spend the summer at the -horn© of
Grass Valley Pharmacy
PROPRIETOR
GEORGE H. WILCOX
A complete stock of all staple grocer-
lee always on hand.
Clothing for all the family. Every
thing staple and guaranteed satisfactory.
Reliability 1 b our watchword v
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“You have «11 of a Castilian’s hor
ror of a woman who believes she can
take as good care of herself as any
man eun. I suppose you want a girl
who will consent to dwell behind bam,
take no exercise nnd stand for a fat
old duenna tagging around behind
her, not to see that she avoids ro
mance but to make certain she doesn’t*
act natural and seek It."
“You «re wrong, my friend. I am
quite modern but a bit old-fashioned,
too. I have been in.love many times
but only In love with love. I must
think long and carefully before ask-
Ing any woman to share this life with
¡ne. Here, she would be lonely. She
would look from this hacienda to the
horizon «nd see—cattle. She would
look back and seo—me. One grows
weary of scenery. She would come to
regard me as a Jailer, not a husband,
pa I must be careful.”
“Well, when you meet the girl you
truly fall desperately In love with,
and she reciprocates your passion—”
"She,” quoth Don Jaime Miguel
Hlguenes solemnly, "shall he the
mother of my children.”
"Whore? Here?” •
“Where sho wtH, niy friend,” Don
Jaime replied with simple sincerity.
•*Then, Jimmy,” said Ken Hobart.
*1 hope, for purely selfish reasons,
you’ll meet your fate before long and
that she’ll refuse to marry you until
you sell this ranch and move to Hous
ton or Dallas or San Antone or—”
“The Hlguenes men do not take or
ders from women," Don Jaime In
terrupted. "And thia rancho will
never hp sold. Four gpnprntlons of
my family have owned It and fonght
fqr- It. I love It."
‘•'Well, If she asksjt, you’ll buy her
a town house and live there with her
pnrt of the year, will you not?”
"Asking Is not ordering or deliv
ering ultimatum*—"
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"Ultimata, Jimmy,” the ranger cor
rected him, mischievously.
"At any ryte," Don Jaime resumed
declining the argument, “It would be
a delight to be led but h—I to be
driven."
“Well, when some girl starts lead
ing you, you’ll need a good manager
for thl« ranch, Jimmy. I’m growing
weary of the reckless, modestly paid
Ufe of a ranger ... at least 1 could
be depended on to keef» this mrige
free of sheep.”
"There ar* also bandits from below
the bonier who raid my cattle. The
cemetery of the Rancho Valle Verde
k»» grown fast of tote years."
^Border fighting 1» right up my
alley, James, old son."
"As, a ranger you fight with the
law behind you. You start with a
moral victory. But as manager of
this ranch, which God placed too close
to the Rio Grande for comfort, you
would have to be very careful. It Is
better to be th® head of a mouse
than thé tail of i lion. However.
Friend Ken, if the time should come
for me to tie myself to a girl’s apron-
strings I shall send for /ou.”
Don Jaime lifted from the floor be»
side bls chair a copy of a pretentions
magazine devoted to country life In
Here Is a photograph of n
America.
girl." he Mild, turning the pages In
dolently. "whose face and flgure would
cast a halo ov*g Texas. Now. If she
were as good and sweet and womanly
ns ^he Is beautiful—‘Miss Roberta
Antrim.’” he Interrupted himself to
read from the caption, " ’one of the
enthusiastic members of the West
chester County bunt, mounted on her
crack hunter Croppy Boy.* Must bo
nn Irish hunter,” Don Jaime opined.
“Look at that. Ken, And see if you
can work up a cheer or two.”
The ranger studied the page casual
ly. “Well, why don’t you pull out
for Westchester county, New York,
secure an Introduction to her and see
if she’s too good to be true or other
wise? At least you’d start with on*
ndvnntnge. She was still unthiirried
when this magazine went to press.”
“One Antrim nt a time, Ken. When
I’ve disposed of Tom it will be time
to dream of having a look at Ro-
berta.”
“You aren’t afraid they’re related.
are you?”
Don Jaime favored his guest with
a withering glance. ’A man named
Jim I iohart was hanged at Austin
last Week,’1 he retorted. “Was he a
relative of yours—this train robber
and murderer?”
“Yes,” Ken Hobart answered even
ly, "he was my half-brother. And i
tracked him and captured him. A
black sheep wllFcrop out In the best
of regulated families, you know.”
Don Jaime'S hand caressed that of
his friend. “I did not know. ,1 am
sorry, my friend.”
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Ken Hobart turned bleak eyes upon
his host. “I want to quit the rangers.
Don Jimmy. I wasn’t Jesting when
I said I'd- like to be .the manager of
Rancho Valle Verde If you should
ever need me.”
“You-are the man I have been seek
Ing. Ken.' 'When"you reach town to-
morrow wire your resignation to the -
governor of Texas, and as soon as
you are released return here.”
- ;*Hupp. youUl.be here when I arrive,
Jimmy. You've got to fight that An
trim outfit, and when you do, (or the
Lord’s sake be careful. I really want
this job.”
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*“If I am still here you will be as
sistant general manager. If I am
not here you will be general manager
—and executor of my estate. 'I will
make a new will tonight. Your salary
will never be Ids« than the one yon
enjoy at ¡»resent. Write your own
ticket," he added, with a touch of the
tremendous prodigality of his Cas
tilian blood—a prodigality developed
to an excess growth doubtless, be
cause of the tremendous inconse-
quenre of his rugged environment.
bon Jaime made his will and hand
ed It to Ken Hobart at breakfast the
following - »uoauing. "Your . inatrne- .
tlons are all in that envelope, too,” he
explained, “In case I should be unfor
tunate. I have some Mexican first
cousins; they're emigres, living in Los
Angeles, and I’m leaving them the
ranch In trust, with you as trustee
and manager. The revolutions have
ruined them and I support them now.
Socially, I'm proud of them, but the
fact remains that they’re d—d spend
thrifts, and If they had their way
they’d sell this ranch and the cattle
for fifty cents on the dollar in order
to start splurging again. And a Mex
ican grandee Is much too conscien-
u tlous a splwrger to continue on the
Job Indefinitely. Consequently I, with
my acquired American conservatism,
must look after the .poor devils.”
jT>on Jaime,” Hobart protested.
Tm your employee now. Bl wire
the governor of Texas my resignation
and, without waiting for its accept
ance, Til ride back in time to be pres
ent when Antrim’s sheep come to th*
guarded water-holes.”
Don ’Jnlme smiled. “As yon will.
Ken. While I require no additional
proof that I hnvp made no mistake in
hiring you. still’’—he shrugged and
grlmactM as only a I*tin can—"It is
nice to have It. As you know, w* of
the Hlguenes tribe are easy-going peo
ple. We do not require the service«
of supermen, for we have never had
them, but we have been accustomed to
loyalty. Because I know you are
loyal to your Job I have engaged you.”
"Thank you, Don Jaime.”
They rode away into the southeast
together. In a clump of cottonwoods
a hundred yards from the sheep camp
they parted, Don Jnlme waiting while
the ranger rode Into the camp of th*
Invaders.
A smallish, unprepossessing man.
who might have been anywhere from
forty five to sixty years of age. stood
undex a smoke-discolored fly over a
small barbecue pit upon which a sid*
of mutton . was roasting. As th*
ranger rode up, this man placed hia-
arms akimbo, and gazed alertly at th*
stranger.
“All set for a quick grab for hl*
gvn. Ken Hobart reasoned. “Wily
Aloud he said, ’*0004
old wretch !
morning, Mr. Antrim.1
•Hello, yourself,” Antrim replied
with an assumption of heartiness.
••What’» your name when lunch la
Hobart grinned. Tm Captain Ho
bart, of the Texas Rangers. I su»-
pected luncheon might be reedy about
the time I was due to ride by, *o I’ve
Invited myself.”
"You’re welcome, ranger. What’u
the gossip around your way?"
To be continued.
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Clifford: “Doctor, what i* good for
my wife’s fallen archee?”
Dr. Collin*: “Rubber Heeia."
Clifford: “What’ll I rub ’em with?
,