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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1933)
* 1 Gherman (County journal --------------------------- Sher..n C------------ ‘j Obeerver Bet.. 1S8S. Or... V.lle, J wm I. EeU 18»7.. Con.eM.Ud March «. 1M1. Va«o New.-Enterprl«'. &t„ 18SO. Conoolld.ted Marek 4. 1»32 -SHERMAN COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER BANK LOSSES CHARGED TO TAXING UNITS NOW Election Draws Little Interest POSSIBILITY Of BANK III COUNTY DISCUSSED A* election arrive* there i* little interest in the measures to be voted on as far as Sherman county is con-, cerned. The sales tex held the at- $19,000 T rtmt « Ibde But Sinai tention of the voter* for several week* until it was threshed out and Aumat Distributed explained after which discussion of it dropped to a minimum. The (repeal question is a lively topic in some quarter* but it has not aroused near- FRBZEH ASSETS ME CLEARED July 21,1933 Moro, Oregon Forty Fifth Year , *1 BeB Agree To Petition For v Brandi la County X* r » NUN-HIGH MEN SIGN CONTRACTS have The city council of Waicp cut the water rate in that city by a substantial percent a ^?e. The act ion was taken at the meeting of last Monday night. The minimum rate on water in Wasco( still remains the at $1.50 for the first 133 cubic feet, but the surdprgee have all been reduced. Whereas the users for merly paid 30c per hundred for the Rural High School Children To Go To County Schools I“—i ; NGHWHIWMIEHENT ASKED | _____ = XTÄ TUITION PETITIONS REJEC1EO ___________ to* charged . Threshing In County Will Start.Next Werk iBLALOCK DEFEATED BY GriASS VALItY BLUES Farmers who live out on the point ' are getting a decided start of the remainder of the county this year They have been harvesting for neai- ly two yeeks there on some farms and yet few. if any, farmers in oth er parts of kho county have l>oj:un threshing operations so far. Next w’eek will see the first general com bining in the county this year for by the latter part»of the week the north end of the cc.uniy will be plen tifully dotted with Combines, and bark of the ti actor and the horse combine driver will ‘he heard over tho land. . “Pretty fair crop" is the concensus of opinion about the wheat in this county- No one prophesies that it w$1! reach normal propVriicy but nearly a! are agreed that the county will have more wheat than in year since 1928. Weather has been favorable this week with cool winds every day. The wheat has finished it.? ripening pro cess slowly . when the absence of sufficient moisture is considered. Tho psklden drops of twelve and fifteen cents in the price of wheat reduced optimism somewhat the mid dle of this week. but most observers did not expect wheat to "blimh a® rapidly as it has anyway and were not surprised at the drop. There has been some contracting and quite a bit of Rcllirfg of last year’s crop at prices no one dreamed of a few months ago J 1 Visiting 1 cam Handicapped By Lack ►Of Regular Players UNG HITS FEATURE OF GAME cents per hundred- All above this • । amount of water will be charged for wheat—-and -the sudden fall—are at a rate of hut 15 lits per 100 cubic Twerty Hits Gathered By Locals While Local Pupils May Not Attend Outside items of much reater importance to Werk On ShermaB Highway and Sec- feet. • resident* of this county than the fire siren will Schools Unlesj’Conditions Warrant Hereafter the. c Visitors Get Nine method of handling liquor or collec ich day. This be sounded at not ting taxes that the election measures * sure that the is being done to i have - been shoved into the back- jrly and to let siren is working 1 Thc second meeting of the Sher A somewhat disarranged ball club it is time to A group of business men of the everyone know 1 There are 1405 person qualified to man County non-high school board from Blalock met defeat at the Sheriff Chrisman turned ovbr some county met at the Hotel Moro Tues eat- was held Saturday July 15 in the $19,000 in taxes test Saturday and in the special Section in this day night to discuss tb* banking sit-- hands of the Grass Valley nine Sun -------- i , . _ •*. 4» ____ u- county, but it is not believed that a uation and the possibility of inter-| court room of the county with rep day at .the Grass Valley diamond- check* for the *ame wUl aeon be in of resentatives of the -five highschoo The score of 9 to 5 doesn’t half tell e Stock Should 1 the hands of the clerk* and themselves of the opportunity eating a bank in coming to the coun districts. The secretary of the board the story for the game was closer ty. The cause of the meeting was a Inspected Here explained the stand of the new board ers of the taxing unit* of the offered-" The approach of harvest than the score indicates- petition written by R- C. Atwood, of county. I with it* attendant hurry wUl prevent Wasco, who became interested in in regard to the percentages of to al Glass Valley took the lead in the Not .11 of th. mon.y will b. given O’“’ “I* getting a bank for the county- sever- school costs that may be assessed to first when Dunlap, first man up, James Stewart, county stock and high schools. These were agreed on lifted the first ball pitched into far to the witing monw di.p-.wr., al days ago- He had a petition cir If a thousand voters brand inspector, . has informed this with little or no dissent and the con however A divtaion h>. be- nuul. U * left field for a homer. One more culated in a part of the county. office that hereafter* stock from this tracts for tuition of non-high school of the fund, in the clowd tank, .nd ”“■* ‘ w111 be *" ,hat 18 score was added later in the inning.' It was felt by a marjority of those County will be inspected here and and pupils in the county high schools were some of the taxing units will have expected. .... .. nkihrk <■ univ. back in. their half to present that the county should pres 1 that shippers havtf^ an inspection signed. These contrart* provide that fall on the offerings of Young and a large part of their fund* tied up । ent a united front in asking a bank certificate properly filled out will not. the non-high school district will pay made a couple themselves, tying the for a time yet. Thi* is caused be- to locate here and that ‘he citr. reexamined |n pp-tiand. Several the actual cost per pupil to each Boy Scouts Are Having Score., McKinney, who started for cause heretofore no notice ha* been, wherein the bank wa. to be located shipper> been ^arged , doub!(. school for the education qf high Blalock, was relieved at the begin taken of the fact that >89,858.92 was ‘ Stewi i> trying to Good Time At Camp .hould be chosen by the-bank itself- ( feePPand school pupils not in districts having ■ 4.^ ning of the third inning by Phifer, 4 tied up in closed bank*. The differ-1 Thi. sentiment wa. agreed upon. j R M high schools.. This is very similar to ♦he regular pitcher, but the heavy ent taxing unit* have received their IL C. Atwood was made chairman Depuly gt^ inspectors in the coun- the arrangement that has been in hitting of th.e local boys W’ent on un money from the county and th« Washington, one of the most of the committee whose duty will bo । have been suppA(| with proper effect for several years in this coun abated. Twenty hits were recorded frozen aaseta have been carried as difl|cujt ¡n the Cascade*, was to prepare petitions and send or Wanks ior inspectinrf stock ty. Formerly, though, the non-high for Grass Valley and many of them cash on hand or a* an unapportioned j Sunday by 4* group of scouts take them to Portland to present to blanks for inspects school pupils were educated from the Sherman County Road turnover. Now the auditor has made and a party of - Bend - men, - led - . by a chosen bank. Committee members were long^ ones which explains why proceeds of a tax levied by the coun- only nine runs were scored. Three a division of the fund* tied up and Chris Kostol. prominent skyliner of named were. A- A. Dunlap, of Kent. Sign Re-erectei ’ I ty court; now they will be educated Many Attend Funeral hits were home runs and several the part of each school district and Bend. A splendid view was obtained George Wilcox qf Grass Vslley, Fred from the proceeds of a tax levied oy w^re triples. Practically all of them ^ich town and each fund will be from the summit, which was reached Pickett of Moro A. J. Butler of Was Of Miss Hilda Schassen the taxpayers of the non-high school ¿^ept from the present turnover- ' The Sherman county road sign wa.- were W’ith no one on base- with considerable rope work, all .the co and C. A. Tom of Rufus. district, itself- This method was de Blalock collcted twelve hits off erected again Tuesday by a crew of This will permit of much dearer climber* were thrilled with the «kill A report was made regarding the vised to give the non-high districts Young, but were unable to start a Many residents of the south end men under the direction of Homer and ability of their climb leader. re-erection of the Sherman county a little closer contact with their tax Wall, bounty engineer. It required rally that lasted for over two runs« • ty officials As fund* are received A Court of Honor, held in the sign st the junction of the Sherman of Sherman county attended the levying lioard. from the banju. and some have al- screened dining hall at Camp Ring- branch of Federal Highway 97* and funeral of Hilda Schassen, held in The eight men nearly the entire day to A. touch of hard luck in the eighth The board made recommendations • ready been received, they will be ap waak, closed the first week of the The Dalles road which was torn down Dalles last Sunday at 2 o’clock. Miss put the big sign back n place so robbed them of a couple of scores. about the percentage of expenses thorough wan tho destruction per With one man on, the batter put dne portioned according to the auditor* 1933 Scout Camp. E- R. Westlake, by vandals last month. The sign is Schassen was born in Sherman coun that may be charged to high schools petrated by vandal?* the night qf into lefc field that rolled clear to the Harold Shearer, Rex A- Allingham, now the property of the business ty July 25. 1904 and lived here until report. that will tend to make more uniform June 19. race track and everybody scored. The 12 years of age when she moved. Less some warrants the taxing and Scout Executive W. W. Belcher men of the the county due to an ar the accounting methods of school batter forgot to touch secoad base Some work will have to be done With her parents to The Dalles- She units will receive credit or cash for formed th^ examining board of the rangement with the advertising com- clerks throughout the county- Some on the sign in addition to the put and a watchful player and Chas. Mc finished school there and took nurses court and awarded badges to a num their portions. The general fund pany erecting it- districts have charged a third of the ting back in place for the front was Cutcheon. the base umpire, saw it. training at the hospital« has $3332.87, the elementary school ber of the scouts. A suggestion was made that it principal ’s salary to the grades and cut in several places wiuh an axe There was a brief discussion about it She passed away at the open air New campers for the second week fund $1,852.08, Wasco school dis should be possible for this county to sanitarium in Portland after a short some have charged ten percent. The •It will l>e completely repaired in the during which Grass Valley offered to trict $763.43, Moro school district at Camp Ringwaak include Frtnk have a state policeman stationed ruling for next year J* not over 15 forget it and Blalock refused. The $1,139.64, Grass Valley school dis Sayrs, and Carl Peetz of Moro; David within the county instead of having illness. She leaves her mother, Mrs. percent. One percent will be allowed near future- Orioles took the field and the game John Schassen, four sisters, Mrs. L. trict $518-97 and Kent $845 00. Rufus and Henry Richelderfer, Jack Mor to depend on those who travel thru for depreciation of stone or concrete went on, with much less than the J. Davis, of Kent, Mr*. L- E- Clark ton, Stephen O ’ Meara, and Douglas will receive a smaller sum The The Sherman county boys who are customary bickering, thanks to good the county or come from their of Grass Valley, Mrs. L W. Eck and building, but no Interest may be Tuel of Wasco, and Stanley Jones of high school tuition fund will receive stations. A letter asking for a police charged the non-high school dis- at the C. C. C- camp near Friend sportsmanship- $1044.20. Moro will get credit for Portland. This brings the total num station within the county will be Miss Lillian Schassen of The Dalles were home for the week end and Batteries for Blalock were: Mc trict. $1.106.51, Wasco $17237 and Grass ber of campers up to 45 not includ dispatched to Charles Pray, head of and a brother John, of Portland, sev- agreed that the tall timber is a pret Kinney, and Phifer and Turner and five were received from many Petitions eral neices ape nephews and Valley $185.69. Only a part, and in ing four scout* from Kinzua for the state police. parents in the county asking pci - ty good place to be when the sun I Bartelmky; for Grass Valley, Young friends. many cases a small part, will be whom transportation home was not gets hot- Most of the boys have been and Fritts. Phifer struck out seven The possibility of having some of mission of the board to send their paid in cash- The remainder will be provided on the change day. Sun»- put at the more experienced jobs. I men and Jacob Young whiffed ten the federal money alloted to Oregon children out of the county for the used in the move to straighten out day.. spent on Sherman county roads or next school year. The petitioners 1 umpires. Democratic Leaders the books and allot the proper loss in Patronize Journal Advertisers roads in which the county are inter gave as their reason in a majority of closed banks to the proper taxing County Clerk George Vintin and ested in. was debated vrith general Interested In Election cases that their children were taking unit. family returned Tuesday from a approval promised toward any effort a course in some other school which visit to Wenatchee, Wt. George still to this end- A consistent and con they wished to finish or that high O. A- Ramsey i* superintending the like* Sherman county, but he did tinued attempt to interest the state Tried and true democrats whose schools were too great a distance construction of a straw shed and have a good chance to visit the highway commissioners in the com name« are on the mailing list in the from their home for convienent barn on the L. V. Moore ranch south Coulee City dam to be built by the pletion of the finish work on the office of James Farley have received travel. All of the petitions were re J. M. Parry, G. T Parr, and C. L. • government. part of the Sherman highway within a communication from the postmas jected Because this feature of tho From the Observer July 24, 1914. of town. Ireland. Wasco county was urged on the ter general requesting that they give board’s activity has created so much A fire on the Lambom place Sat county court and a motion was pass their aid to the repeal of the 18th comment the board voted the fol urday afternoon destroyed the straw Otto Peetz will have Hazelwood ice ed asking that body to attend the amendment. A letter from the pres lowing statement of its policy re carrier and rattle rakes of the thresh cream every Saturday and Sunday. session of the commission for «hat ident gives the reasons for, wishing garding the high school pupils of the er owned by George Lambom and Ed F. C. Mathais began his harvest McMillan and set fire to the straw a change in the liquor laws of the non-high school district: purpose. Tuesday, He has 1300 acres to In view of the fact that a number stacks. No very serious damage Continued work on tine secondary nation. As the platform of the rul cut. roads Joining this county with its ing party favored the repeal of the of petitions for sending Sherman was done to wheat, either threshed Local force* working against the gainst the use of intoxicant* by their H. A. Page has embarked in the neighboring counties was also advo amendment the president intends to county students outside the county or standing- repeal of the Eighteenth Amend employee* and Mrs. Aker* told of the market business at Grass Valley- cated. It stated at the meeting bring it about if possible in order to have been presented, to this board Ed Tomlin suffered a broken leg ment held a meeting of unusual in deplorable condition* under the open and since this board has rejected all that three million dollars have been put into effect , the principles on Monday while helping at the L- V. EYom the Observer July 26, 1894. terest at the Presbyterian church saloon from her own experiences in without exception, this board feels alloted this state for secondary which'he was elected. railroad and oil center*. Mr. Melter M'oore farm, A hitch broke as tho ' George Crosfield, representing the Sunday morning. Delightful music that a statement of its position on roads. Sherman countians present stressed the responsibility of better combine was being pulled out of the Staver machinery company» wai :n was furnished by Mr. and Mr*. El this rather delicate subject is due hoped that road work in thi* «action example in lawobservance to be set shed. tho city last week. bert DeMoss and the hour devoted Board of-Equalization Meeting the residents of Sherman county. of the state be given an appropriate in the Moro vicinity largely to talks by those interested our young people by the older gene Threshing Mr. Smith, one of our Shennan Feeling as we do that the good of ration and Mrs. Foss declared her share of this sum because of the need Notice: came to a partial stop Monday be county freighters, is about to com in the cause. the entire county is the paramount for the roads and for the need of There will be a meeting of the Coun iRev. McRea stressed the stand of lowalty to the dry cause. Mrs. Ram plete a contract for hauling wool to ty Board of Equalization of Sherman issue, we believe that our schools can cause of a heavy wind- the churches, the grange, the Nation sey and Mrs- Jackson recalled early the citizen* for work. be built up to a higher standard and The new six cylinder Studebaker The Dalle* from a point 35 miles It was the most amiable body of County, Oregon, at the Court House al Educational Association and the conditions under the saloon in this was demonstrated here Sunday with south of Prineville- on the second Monday in August, ------ 'Continued to page four. Federation of Women* Clubs a- vicinity while Mr. Wright graphi al business men who have gathered for bo much success that Judge William L. K. Moore and his barn builder* ly depicted the havoc wrought by the over two years within thi* county- that being the 14th day of August, ga inst repeal of the amendment. Heinrichs annexed one for his future aro enlisted in putting up a fine new 1933, at Moro, Oregon, to publicly liquor traffic in those days in every They laughed and joked In the man Mrs. Bryant spoke of th* popular examine the Assessment Rolls, cor driving. barn for-J. J. Schaeffer. Appearances attitude of mind which blames the town from The Dalles with its 31 ner of a luncheon group, reflecting rect all errors in valuation,description indicate that J. J- will nob be satis saloons, through Wasco, Moro, Grass the turn of wheat prices for the bet Observer July 22, 1904. From the J eighteenth amendment for modern qf lands or other property assessed fied when tho bam Is finished until Valley, Shaniko and Antelope and ter within the past month. lack of respect for law. She traced A new barn will be dedicated at he has a first class'residence beside by me, and it shall be the duty of challenged the often quoted statement /the general increase of crime among min . precip ! the farm o* df John Holman this - - Fri- MAX. —........ - it and a help meet j artner to pre DATE Funds are now available for the persons interested to appear at the • juveniles through the years, and that condition* are just as bad un I day night by a large crowd of neigh 54.... ; 00 ...94 payment of Sherman County Gener time and place appointed. . All pe- JULY 13. side over it- quoted authorites to show the cause der the eighteenth amendment. bors at an informal dance- 59 ... .00 ...98 All the speaker« protested' the al Fund warrants registered “Not ’titions must be made in writing and 14. Prof. Hiram Tyree, formerly sup- • to be the breaking down of the home CO 101 .. 60 verified by the oath of the applicant Delegates were elected to attend erintendent of schools for Sherman 15. with its religious training, parental plan of .the wets to balance the bud for want of funds’ »register Nos. . .00 :.99. 50 16 the meeting of the Oregon Develop county, has accepted a position restraint and emphasis on good Citi- get by legalising the liquor traffic in 29 to 100 inclusive and will be paid and filed with the Board within fif . .00 .52 ..86. teen day* from the time it is by law 17., ment Ix»gue in, Portland. They any form, and declared no feasiable by the county treasurer. svn.hip, toKether with the freed for principal of schools at Albany. ..83. 52 . .00 18. required to meet. were: W B. McCoy. B F. Pike, L. method of control had been offered Interest stops on this date. gain and self indulgence that char . 00 81... M R. J Ginn is supposed to bo on hi* 19. 7-21,8-11 Margaret W. Peetz, Bar num. W. H. Ragsdale, O. P. by the advocates of repeal. Their Dated July 21, 1933. acterizes the age County Assessor. 1 .00 * Hulse, Dr- 0. J. Goffin, O- W . Axtell, way home—from low*. Total for wa*k A. M. Voupg, County Treasurer. Mrs. Rose «poke of the consistent advice was to vote 301 X No, ant «tend of the railroad companies a- 315 X No. > 4 No. 37 Other Days, Other Times Recalled By Old Newspaper Clippings Drys Hold Meeting At Church Sunday Morning; Many Talk WEATHER REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING JULY 19 ... . > •