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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (July 14, 1933)
X fay IflMBBk Eot- i897,.CaaooM4»to8 M^rch 6, 1931. V’aeco News-Enterprise, fiber was County 1890. Consolidated March 4. 1932 SHERMAN COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER . —«re —■ Moro, Oregon, Forty Fifth Year SMI EXPERIMENTS COVER BUY MB lilhgt. New Wtab. Crap latita, And Al Ptaes rfftat Cwered Crop Report Shows Barbers Raise Ante * » * To End Depression Afi’’ a The July crop reporta shows a to tha egnllBstew that the depres sion wouU end quicker for them if they returned to the oH prices for Ige spring and win- tomorial work and are making an? as been 795,080.000 ter 1926-80 period the 1988 crop to expected to produce but cent haircut charge will be in forco 385,767,O8O bushels off wtater wheat and lit 888*800 boMs of spring hair removed for the thirty-five cent No. 36 July 14, 1933 CHOP RMM PUN EXPLAINED TOEARMERS R . J. GinnRetires From L. Barnum Now A Wheat Buyer Active Busine»» A deal was concluded here Saturday that allowed R. J. Ginn to write re tired after his name. After haring been connected with the hardware E.LP«tlerud ERJackiMB Bring firms in Sherman county a major part of the time since 1887 Mr. Ginn First PuHic hfemSion en Phn has sold his interest in the Ginn Cole man Company to the other members of the firm and steps out. J . E. Cole man and A. M- Wright are the owners now. Mr. Ginn began his mercantile career in 1887 at Biggs when he was a member of the Ginn and McDonald flipn. He came to Moro in 1892 and Payments Will Be Made For Three started a store here. The present firm was established in 4913. INCREASED WHEAT PH MM few mais SIME Harvest This Week large percentage of the* total this season. This «tata to expected to produce 4,060,000 bushels of whiter Announcement comes this week that L. Barnum has been appointed as manager for the Pacific Continental Grain Corporation for this disti ict with headquarters at The Dalles. Mi. Barnum, well known to alb She: man eountains, will be found at 305 Second street. He will be in tho market for Sherman county grain. Henry W. Collins is the manager of .he firm. ', * T1 Discount Rates Have Been Raised Again North End Wheat Looks Especially Promising ÏIELOS TDI5 SACKS ESTIMATE Harvesting Will Be Under Way This • Month Tears O b T wo Year* Redaction Couuty Court Acrions SHERMAN COUNTY CROP HOLOS CDNDITIONWELL The new schedule of discounts has been published by the Merchants Ex change of Portland It strikes a balance between the'1 low discounts that have been in efl-ect, since Decem ber of last year and the higher dis counts that prevailed before. There is, of course, np discount of 60 pound wheat, that being No. 1 Turkey Red. Fifty nine pound wheat and 58 pound wheat still carry the low discount of onehalf and one cent respectively. From there the dis counts are larger than before, rang ing from 2 cents on .57 pound wheat instead of a cent and a half and 11 cents on 51 pound wheat instead of seven and a half However, the new discounts are considerably lower than they were a year ago v The differential on sacks this-year is three cents instead of two as it has been since December. A similar charge js made for bad sacks or com modity branded sacks? Dockage for foreign matter has been increased or the No. 3 and 4 grades. The charge for smut cleaning will be the same, 35 cents per ton for wheat having one percent or less of smut- With weather still remaining cool pulled out Monday morning with Sherman county farmers» two hun for July, wheat conditions in the coun hto rachine. He reports that the out dred strong, met at the court house For July Term ty has not changed to any marked side rounds indicated that the crop Thursday afternoon hear an ex ex- raised 16,020,000 bushels of winter degree since, the first of the month. would make seven sacks to the acre. planation of the new omeetic allot The earlier wheat in the north end County Court proceedings for July different, all grown far some specific wheat far a total of ZO.OW/JOO qpaltty, being shriteled some, but is ment plan given by of the county is practically out of . Agricultural Term of Court- and derfnite purpose and afl having Our average to approximately 23,000, belter than last years crop. This head of the division danger from anything but hail now and E R. Economics, at O. S. Petition to vacate road known as and it has filled very well and will in first report to considered an indica Jackman, crop of the ex- old Columbia River Highway from some day to ripening in various all probability produce a crop of“ tion that wheat throughout the coun tension service. These men are one “Chub’’ Fowler house east to L. E. United States, probably to a twice as many bushels as was raised ty may yield better than expected. of three teams going about the state Langford west line on the west. Mat in the same section last year. Farm to acquaint the wheat growers with ter held for information. , almost every experiment to cautimsed middle west. The average ers who have seen all sorts of crops the ' details of the plan aa far as Automobile Drivers for th. on. purpoa. «< «mita« . to* k“ *«• U.M.900. Last r-r on the land there talk about slopes County Clerk instructed to draw these details have b^n worked out was 51,289,009 and this year it that will make fifteen sacks and ten County Warrant in sum of $150.00 in Must Be Licensed by the administration. dropped 4p 42,379.000. sacks where last year the argument A discussion of the Heed for some favor of Hon. Hal E- Hoss, Secre was whether or not the Wheat would tary of State, as partial payment of method of. reducing the amount of tod to be 5004)00,000 bushds short produce f©ur or five sacks. There is progressive wheat growers. The realization that all drivers 11- human food produced on tho farms 1933 Biological Survey appropriation. undoubtedly some fine fields in that ’ This gives experimenter eenseo tooued before July 1, 1981, will of the United State« fras given by County Treasurer’s Semi-annual re pait of the county, not all of them, Stephens his only opportunity in fair to be over 90,000.000 short. bo automatically cancelled by law on Mr. Potter. He showed how the port, accepted. however, axe fine for some are very twenty years w vest mr uuin» v» ( < __ t___ September 1st has awakened active wheat sufplhi has groWq in the na- County Treasurer’s trial balance hi. winter whaata to th» final <ta- allow«! to b» ratoad by-th. new spotted where the ground is steep. interest in many motorists, reporte tion since the war an showed the for month ending June 30th, 1933, It appears that the prospects of the gree. A vast majority of the winter Hal E- Hoss, Secretary of State. The effect this has had on we price. south end -pf the county have been wheats froze out in ths December most common question asked at his Wheat crops have not l»een larger accepted. decreased during the past two weeks. The County Clerk to natructed to of having a head that is somewhat office to “What must I do to get a than before the war. in fact, the 1915 The giain had no moisture under it ann ex to Moro precinct No. 10, the crop was the largest that has been between the short thick head of the new license?-” and it was not near enough maturity , ’ precinct of Erskine, No. 5, and to Anticipating timt this information produced in the country as a whole, club wheats and the rathsr long head to ripen full sized berries with out notify all persona registered to vote “ tarkey wheat that is almoee smut re of Forty Fold, the new wheat has but export trade has fallen from a additional moisture. The light show- m Erskine Precinct of the change 835,182,»00 bushel hi£h In 1914 to head shorter and thicker even eds of the week have helped a trifle, prior to the Primary Election of some kinds of native turkey wheats club, andi I aak you if that isn it 123.774,000 in 1932. ’t odd. but the shriveled wheat is increasing and a couple of Minnesota wheats al l I»1 Estimates of the surplus as of July 1984-. - excep mult for obtaining • new-type 11- every day in many of the fields. It Grass Valley Defeated so have fair stands after the freeze, tionally hardy, are late wheats j 1 was 383,000,000 bushels which will ta and censeL County Clerk ordered to issue new has been reported that some late • but none of them yield as well as do not yield as well as local wheats, First, the applicant must obtain not be entirely wiped out by the small road warrant of $7000.00, dated Ju»y By Antelope 10 to 8 sown fields will not be cut at all. but does Oro nor do they have the smut but they are useful to cross with the standard application blank from crop to be harvested this year. 1th, 1933, plus accrued interest from this report is customary and never the Secretary of State or from local resistant qualities. Two Russian va other varieties. • As explained by the men from the June 7th. to July 5uh, and to sur- affects any material part of the acre rieties of turkey wheat stood through ^Ta minstin headquarters, state po extension service, who have been render old $7000.00 road warrant for The tillage experime nts this year The Grass Valley team, or part of age. the cold weather. One of these, Coop- show that- what is normally called lice, or or from the sheriff’s office. I called upon by the secretary of agri new warrant. $ it, took it on the chin last Sunday It is now possible for the fanner eratorka, was developed on one of good farming will pay big dividends Second, he must fill out the form in culture to explain the plan to -the when they met the Antelope boys on to get seventy five cents for hi* Resignation of C. L. Fridley as full and sign it in the presence of a the soviet farms and later distribut this year. The ten inch plowing farmers, the scheme is designed to the Antelope diauond. The score was wheat if he had it ready * to sell. ed as a high yielding wheat. It fail- looks to have a better crop on it than notary public or other person quali raise the price of wheat to the farm member of the Dog Control Board of i o 8. Antelope made 11 hits to 9 Raises of three and four cents per Sherman county accepted. - . ed to produce as expected and tho does the five inch plowing, although fied to administer oaths. All state er until as much goods can be bought for Grass Valley and the eirors were day featured the market early in the. experimenters who distributed it it doesn’t always yield better. These examiners are notaries public and will wi.h it as in the pre-war days. To Application for county aid for one liyided even, five apiece. were sent to Siberia as punishment. tillage experiments show that if it to perform thto service without charge. pay for this raise in price a tax is Mrs. Esther G. May held for infor ^P.*ur players were absent from the week. With the county almost ready to produce a crop at least as .large as Third, the applicant must file the to be put on each bushel of wheat mation and investigation. . or so goes the report. , impossible to keep the weeds off the Glass Valley lineup and their posi last year and with thq price twice as * completed form-before September 1, In this nursery may be found all summerfallow, cultivation does no milled in the United States Re. Claim of Marie Barnett Cooper tions were filled by Henry Roth. Don high, prospects for conditions much sorts of freaks fro/n the point of good- That far. cultivation is useful either by leaving it with an examiner Many of the figures used in show for damage to sheep by dogs in the Smith Fred Peters and Bernard nearer prosperity are hoped for with view of one who to used to the ordi only to keep the weeds down. This or by sending it to the Secretary of ing the plan are preliminary figures. sum of $35.00 held for further infor Rice. Ford and Fritts; McKay and some chance of .being realized- nary wheats of Sherman county. year the tillage plots are growing State at Salem. In either case, a It is not yet -known just what part mation. Berning were the batteries. Threshing will begin the 1st of this There is a beardless Turkey, a cross Baart wheat instead of turkey as the payment of $1 must accompany the of the wheat crop will participate in Grass Valley plays the Blaylock week or the first of next in the north County Treasurer instructed to the payments. Sherman county far between Marquis and Oro, developed winter wheat crop was frozen out. application- Orioles at Grass Valley next Sunday end of tho county and the Wasco dis mers have been using five-eighths out transfer from Bond Interest Fund to Each of the requirements are pro for right of way hay crop. There Discing before plowing makes it in a game that to expected to be trict will be harvesting before the end is a white kerneled turkey, a cross possible to plow in June with prac- vided by law and no license can be is it is probable that 60 percent will bo Sinking Fund, the sum of $2,540.16, good. of the month. The Point farmers are sued unless all are complied with, it a closer estimate of the part of a being the apportionment of tre Motor with Florence, that is smut resistant in the field now, and are receiving Vehicle Fund. fanner ’ s crop that will receive bene and hardy. There is a crow between was stated. Let the Journal do your printing to page two. very good returns. Forty Fold and Hybrid and instead J fits. This percentage is based on the Claims Allowed at the July Term Rrwtcine Will Vote At • ■ percent»«« of the entire crop that to of County Court, July 5th, 1933. Timm ,or b“™“ C0MUmP' Wily W. Knighten, Supt. Ex- Erskine Thi» Time ti0IL penses of 4-H Club mem $25.20 I The example given in the las bers to summer school weeks issue of this pap«r was incor- Hon. Hal E. Hiss Biological WhUe the county court has ruled rect in that it showed a payment on 150.00 survey appropriation ease five-eighthte of th0 crop after From the Observer July 19, 1894. Wednesday afternoon, a few min- trary to the promises of the advo- that the ErskiBe and Moro voting Coats County 20 percent reduction had been Mrs. S. L. Elwood Thompson's high land cher utes after scheduled time, US is ths cates of prohibits. He paid a com- precincts should be combined the new 15.00 The paper was now in the hands of charge ries were picked last week and the berogative of women, tite *motor- pliment to the small town by telling ruling cannot take effect until the uken< Farmers will bo given their D. C- leland. Mrs. Peter Fleck - County cr^e" of the Women’s Organizatin of the drinking habits of city high next primary election which will be compensating payments on approx samples left with us were perfect. 15.00 Frank Watkins of Rutledge, who is caue w । __ i .^1 „4-1. aXiine that held in May 1934. The law states M percent of their average three Charge for National Prohibition Reform school boys and girls and adding that The nigger killed at Olex on the now properly in the horsetrading T. D. Hathaway ’ County drove into town led by a sound truck such actions were unknown to resi that a county court may change vot- year production. A corrected exam- • 15.00 business, has made some good sales 4th was the nigger with a raxor in ing precincts at the court meeting in follows. Charge -fully equipped to attract the atten dents of the rural villages. Grass Valley. He had a razor in his July before a primary election. It is A farmer having 400 acre» tha W. J. Underhill recently of horses and mules. County He aho advised a careful study tion of all in the city. hand when the marshall shot him. 20.00 not possible at any other time ac- produced an average of 15 bushels Sheriff Holder and ye editor made \ Mrs. David T. Honeyman, loader of the .ballot. He read a letter from Charge Hon. B. F. Pike expects to attend year, ‘‘ * three *** ” Geo. B. Bourhill Box rents a lightning trip to Grass Valley Tues of the organisation in Oregon, spoke tho president favoring the repeal of cording to the local interpretation of per acre for the past would have a total production of the G- A. R. encampment in Boston 3.45 day evening leaving 'At 6:15 and re for all offices through the microphone ft rat and ex the 18th amendment and made the the tow. Therefore Erskine resi- «000 buahel.. Sixty percent of this next month. Sealer of F. D. Antrim turning home by 10:05. plained the peculiarities of the ballot statement that the government in dents will vote at home until next amount is S«00 bushel. <» which he 4.04 ' Weights and Measures that makes it necessary for those these times should have the revenue spring. Morricey & Wiegands arrived in From the Observer July 17, 9114. would receive a payment of Alva Stone 1 Predatory an- wishing to repeal the 18th amend- from liquor to spend Instead of allow A hail storm swept across the mately 28 cento per bu.hel which 12.50 Moro Saturday with a large traction Ing the bootlegger and moonshiner Non-High School Board imal control ment to vote *. Yes”. Wgine which they bought of Father southern end of Sherman county would total »1008. Thia would be his R. P. Foiater Reg. 9 voters Miss Lillian Harris, of New York, to wax rich on their illgotten gains. Ward near Dufur. It was brought Sunday afternoon and damaged wheat payment from th. «ovarnment to bo To Meet Saturday And with that the cavalcade folded at 10 cents told of the formation of the women*» across the free bridge and hauled up fields to an extent estimated at paid to him two thirds in th» fall and organtoatm ..ylng that it w~ fauni U> *» wirc. ito mjcrophon«. and J. E. Norton Reg. 3 voters the grade with a four horse team. $60,000. one third to the .prine after he has Contmued to page tour. ded because mothers, wives and busi- slipped out of town in its gaily dec- As no naptha can be had for love J. H. Smith and Mr. Walpole were Saturday is the date set for the actually reduced acreage- nes women felt that prohibition was orated cars led, aa all official caval I, 1984 »nd to 1935 h. to permitted or money to run the pumping engine visitors at the Experimental farm cades must be. by a uniformed state meeting of the Non-High School Dis not prohibiting and that moral con to bow but 80 percent of hto total at the water plant the cistern is dry. from Mr. Smith’s home near Irri- trict Board. Be ginning at ten o’clock ditions were worse instead of bet policeman. acreage which at the .ame rate would A hand pump has been installed and ; gan. There were nine in the party, five in the morning they will consult with ter. She proclaimed the belief of the give him 4800 buahels- If the 9™- people can pump their own water. Wednesday evening E. E. Kaseberg % women in /temperance and stated being women. They distributed their directors and clerks of the high school .toy. at fifty cento fur the three Frim the Observer July 15. 1904. ' west of Wasco, lost about 75 acres of that as personal liberty was one of pamphlets with the courtesy and districts relative to contracts for non- —are the farmer would receive »3000 MAX. • MIN. PRBCJP > DATE They high district .pupil tuition. These the precepts on which the nation was grace of ladies pouring tea. Meager reports from the Mitctyll wheat caused by an old stack botton nrnrket for hi» 1933 crop and .00 y even lacked the forwardness of Sal contracts must be signed by the 15th 51 6. founded any attempt to abridge that JULY \ . flood Saturday night ten or more fiie coming to life. »2400 a year, for his 1984 and 56 i .00 7. liberty, without popular aupport, vation Army lasses so far did they of July, which is Saturday- There crop, and to addition he would receive , -..J drowned. Phil Ru^lee The Kerr Gifford Warehouse in .04 I persons were .54.. miss the «rural coffeeption of women fore all districts having high school« ^yearly payment of »1008 dollar» 8. would end in failure. i ¿ report, that the John B»y i« hiih «nd 1 Hay Canyon has been purchased by .CO I 1 . 50. 9. Donald Long, an attorney from Po who favor the repeal of the liquor the Independent Warehouse and Mil- from the government, a total of $1 , full of wreckage-. 00 .48. laws. Fred Pigott, candidate for 10. •d at the meeting. rtland anda candidate for the re 1 ling Company. R. H. McKean is oo 824. If he stayed out of the plan he ..51. G. A. Meloy has sold Roy Benson 11. On the same day the parents of peal convention for Multnomah coun- repeal in thto county, met the party ! manager of the company. W. B. Knox «mH receive $8000 a year for his .SC —1 three quarters of wheat land at $12 12. ' ty, spoke in bohalf of repeal. He at DaMoss and accompanied It to children who wish to continue their will be in charge of the house. 10 I per acre.I. Roy ‘ is ......... — building *- for futuro Continued three Continued to page two. ■ said that poverty was still with us town and from here to Wasco where and that jails ware still filled, con- a similiar meeting was held. Other Days, Other Times Recalled By Old Newspaper Clippings Crusading WoMcn Half H out Stop In Moro and Wasco WEATHER REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING JULY 12