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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1933)
rBE bUZUMAN CUUNTT WUBNAL. MOBU. UZZUUM. «UDAY, OCIVBEIC #, WM VAGA german County Journal Grass Valley SHERMAN COUNTY OBSERVER, Established Nov. S, 1888 GRASS VALLEY JOURNAL, Eetebliobed Oct. 14, 1W7 CONSOLIDATED, MARCH 6, 1981 WASCO NEWS-ENTERPRISE, Eetabliabed 1891 CONSOLIDATED MARCH 4, 1982. For Sale: A »et of hack harnesa Seo L- R. French. 1932 Charles French left for Seattle PuMUM B.,ry Friday u Mow. Or.««. 8, I J?""4*7 HU, fill PS I PRVNrM . „ . Mo"«*, «me for him Sunday leavin« GIDES L*. FKlSNLa . • Managing Editor the next morning for home. Charley has not been well for several weeks and h«a lately developed a condition ION that may be serious. 4 400- ----- - —------------------------------------ ------------------- I J®“ Beardsley is hene this week at lh* Moro, Oregon, under Act of from his railroad run on the Condon branch. - Coogrew of March 1, 1879. 160 Mrs- Taylor, mother of Mrs- I> C. I Dickson, is visiting here with her SI W daughter thia week. 1 00 Don Smith and Vern Baker were here Saturday night from ' Forest Grove where they are attending school. SUBSCRIPTION RATES— PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Ono Year............................... .......... .............. ................ SixMooth.............. . ............................... FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6,1983 200 . 120 KO IO0 40 BACK TO REALITY Adaughter was born September 29 I to Dorothy Stradley Morris of Spo- A famous teacher in Portland the other day said that since k*M. She 1» a dau^t*»- Mt. ana the beginning of the depression people had gone back to thel1^ p- u stradioy. l . a to the El Paso offle« of the United Preaa go it was in the El Paso pa- pera this mornlug, and your Uncle Bill read it there." "Uncle Bill? Why, what wa« he do Ing In El Paso?" "En route to Valle Verde, my dear. I’d wired the old gentleman a hearty Invitation to come down and visit us. and he has accepted and was on his way." Thus Jaime Miguel Hfgueues —the Hari However, he comforted himself with the thought that l)«ftas only a white Ue and was to be pre ferred to violating his word of honor to Crooked Bill not to reveal to hla niece the news that only two days pre vious he bad been in Los Algodones, plotting against their peace and hap piness. "You’re such a dear, Jimmy. Si thoughtful, Dear Uncle BUI. I know he’s missed me. , Does he know I'm hurt?” “Yes. the paper» carried the Kory. I’ve wired him on the train to save his tears until our wedding day ” “Are we engaged, Jimmy? I c.in*t _ . . . , classics for their literature and philosophy; the newer ideas were I Engstrom ha» finished paint being discarded for the old. house oauide and in. and BUI That this movement IS going on in the world of thought is Brinkert has started on his farm not strange for normally when men are puzzled they are inclined I,oW- Both ranches belong to R. J to return to tbe things about which they fee) sure It has not been I Sincetroubles descended upon the state _ A fnelld8 sath«red st the leaders have exerted themselves to find and try new ideal» to help George celebrate hi» birth- that would not be given a second thought in normal times. 14ay. ao in the world of politics. 0 1921 1923 1925 A3 foreign restrictions on our wheat mount higher, more of it Uss up In this country. That la the 9ason at this chart of United Slates rheat stocks and the rate of import 'sty imposed by representative Ouropean consuming countries. In >25 these duties first became gen <al and sinos that time our wheat 1927 1929 1930 1932 1931 supplies have climbed. Tie Get man duty of 81.62 la highest of all. a* 'he picture shows. Next come? Hal. a 1; h a duty of 11 07 a bushel and IFiallv France Is lowest with a duty of 80.S5. The black bars, representing the wheat stocks In the United States, show that while these restriction« have been In force, the stocks have climbed to more than 360 million o bushels Even with the short crop is the United States this year, the black bar representing the stocks for this country h year from now probably will be near the 200 million bushel mark The following year, If nothing I* done to prevent It, the carryover I* again likely to be around 350 mil Iloti bushels. The library of the high school has “They say that if a man's ears arP Meier, Governor of the State of Ore Whether they are to prove sucessful or not remains to be seen. Herman Peters is leaving for port- undergone a thorough cleaning dur gon, by authority in me vested do cd itS a sign that somebody is talk Even in the farming practices of our own county a return to Iand •«x»“ b*™ another ®x«n>na ing the past week The Senior class designate and proclaim the period ing about him." the customs that have been tested by years is going on. Farmers ti<m by lnauranc® doctor»- . was selected to do the work and from October 8th to 14th a.i Fire “Yes, and he can just bet that somebody is also talking about him are less inclined to gamble on a crop than formerly; they groa Brewer th th he i 'f therefore escape some of the daily Prevention Week area&ier property in the north end of routine of studying. ® In support of this observance, 1 urge that local officials, and organiza tions in every community promptly unite upon specific programs of co operation, in order to discover and game and wonderful team work was cort-ect existent fire hazards, promote displayed measures of public and private fire protection, extend instruction in fire prevention among adults as well an Fire Prevention Week school children and arouse the people Governor Meier has issued the fol generally to the need for habits of lowing proclamation asking people to greater carelessness. observe fire week: If this be undertaken without delay In accordance with the proclama and earnestly carried on throughout tion issued by the President of the the year, the result cannot fail to be United States, I invite the people of a large contribution to public welfare In testimony whereof, I have here this state"to observe Fire Prevention Week from October 8th to 14th. I unto set my hand and caused the seal hope they will make this a conscious of the State of Oregon to be hereto ness of the dangers from fire which affixed on this, the 22nd day of Sep wlil remain with them and be effec tember, A. D. 1933 Julius L. Meier, tive throughout the entire year. - Governor, i NOW, THEREFORE, I, Julius L. the crops they can grow Livestock as a supplement to wheat town and will move to the budding» The vollyball game Friday night, farming is coming in again because a little variety gives more there this week between Rufus and Grass Valley was security of income. - Leslie Peterson has had the cast very successful indeed, for Grass Vai People are concerned with the necessities of life. We work I uk^ f hU ler and b now able ley. Both teams played a very good , . , , . , - _ , , I to get around on crutches- to provide for ourselves to-day instead of for a trip to California I next winter. We have turned to the basic ideals of life in a way. I were in Wc live for to-day Families that one time could find no enjoy- business and pleasure trip ment within their neighborhood are now content with the society I they find in their own community. It is almost like the ideal state I < --------- O--------- ' Kent News of affairs the pioneers of the county tell about , BONNEVILLE The Kent volley ball team motored . . I to Moro Friday evening to play their The government's decision to build the Bonneville dam has I first game of the season The girts been acclaimed with great joy in the section of the northwest I put up a good fight, but were unable where it will make the greatest change. As we understand it the to get ahead of the Moro team. The score was 30-14 in Moro’s favor. principal purpose of the dam will be to generate power at a cheap Mr. and Mrs Ted Kaser of Port er rate than any other plant so far constructed. This may be of land spent Sunday visiting in Kent great help to Portland and to other cities able to provide the other George Craig of Camas, Wash- was necessities for a factory center. a business visitor in Kent Saturday. I Transportation of goods on the river will not be aided by the The Kent high school duly initiated dam unless better locks are built than was first planned. thirf freshmen Saturday evening at a party which was held at the Legion They will be locks designed for barges and not for large vessels. hall- The teacher» of the school ond The goods of the Columbia basin will not be moved to seaboarc I the alumni attended also. Our advantage fron I Alta Norton and Lester Wilson of cheaper because of the Bonneville dam it will come from the increased population the cheap power max I Kent, Mrs. w. R. Adams of Antelope attract Up river communities that expect a boon after the dan 1 # r Seal for the N. R. A. CoOcc rater I land were dinner guests, at the J. C. is completed will, we think, be dissappointad for with Portlari I wuson home Sunday only 40 miles away from the power house it is only reasonable Mr and Mrs- J. L. Matthes spent to suppose that the factories that come to the northwest on ac I Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs count of cheap power will be built near tide water and near the I W’ D' Barnett Vaiiety. largest available supply of labor and the largest market for their <uy ni(rht at church ,nd organ_ products. ixed Christian Endeavor under the leadership of Miss Johnson who acted o at chairman. Pauline Dkvis wa^ elec Let no official of the borrowing state or county governments I ted president utter a word of criticism of the wheat farmers who borrowed I,-------------------- . . . . GRASS VALLEY SCHOOL NOTES . themselves rich a few years ago. _ ---------- O---------- I Freshman initiation was held Something should be said in praise of the weather mans actions in the past week. It couldn’t have been better unless it ushered into high school. had rained. I The director of dramatics. Mr- -O A destinct Step has been taken in the development of the dam on the lower Columbia: they are discussing names for it. . -------- o-------- Rowe, has decided upon a three act play to be given by the high school students. The title of the play is “The Dutch Detective.’’ It will be given sometime before December. The Senior class met Friday and There must have been a lot of baseball experts with a grouch decided upon the graduation an- after the second world series of game nouncements- -------- Q-------- . ., . . . The Junior ----------------- class selected their Wheat should begin to move now that the plan for exporting class rings and pins this Monday. it is approved and maybe there will be a price’ that farmers will take. Every business firm or individual who agrees to co-operate with the gov ernment In Its national recovery program Is entitled to use this seal, which is endorsed by the President The rather futuristic eagle holds with the tnions of one foot a cog symbolizing labor's place In the machine age, and with the other claw the zig zag lines representing electricity. --------- O--------- Let Portland have a road to the coast built from federal funds Goodness knows why two roads are demanded, most communities are glad to have one O “Cooking is not a messy job”, says a cooking expert She should take a look at the kitchen sometime when the wife is away. --------- O--------- The legion asked Hoover for beer and then at Portland asked for the bonus. Roosevelt gave them beer and they refused to ask for the bonus. It is reported that 34 cents in American money can be exchan ged for $3000 in Chines*« currency. As tough as it may seem it is better than if it were reversed. We have Stacks of Clothes and Shelves full of Shoes. They can be bought cheaper now—Don’t Delay—Get ready for winter. It is ECONOMY to buy while prices are low. Our large stock of Dry Goods and Clothing is an opportunity for our customers. H. Zeigler’s Grass Valley Oregon Milton—Henry, your wife never seems to grasp anything you are say ing to her. Henry—No; she’» the kind of wom an who. Instead of listening to what you are saying, is already thinking of what she is going to say. Employer — James I wish wouldn’t whistle at your work James—I wasn’t working; ‘ I just whistling- you was Lawyer—Then you admit that you struck the plaintiff with malice afore thought ? > Defendent, indignantly—You can’t fix me up like that- Fvo told you twice I hit him with a brick, and done it on purpose. There wasn’t no mallets nor nothin’ of the kind about it—Just a plain brick like any gentleman would use. if his nose is red.’’ ueror So tin* eihhr.rra sed wretch obeyed orders, arid Itoberm fainted again. “Don Jaime, ihla time It's your fault," Hobart almost moaned. "Fan her ami mop her face with this wet bandanna,’* Don Jaime comtnand- ed. He went the corral and "Are Wc Engaged, Jimmy?" remember that you’ve ever asked me to marry you.” “Oh, didn’t I, sweetheart?" z He rubbed his tanned chin and his lazy eyes roved over her whimsically. searched In the chuck wagon for the ”1 suppose I was afraid 1 might speak tin box containing the small field first- out of my turn, but of course when aid ki1 he suspected might be there. you came stampeding into that corral It was, so he returned to the girl, cut yesterday and broke the glad news to her clothing away from the wound and me, I couldn’t, as a man of honor, pre- applied first aid in a singularly work tend I didn’t understand you. So I manlike manner. Thereafter he at . rather took it for granted.” tended to his wounded men and when He bent low over her and that task was done he caught the her cheeks with bis eager lipa “SUH chuck wagon mules In the corral, har- interested In those bummer lambs, nessed and hitched them, spread out boll-weevil and Irrigation, brown on the floor of the wagon box the bed ding rolls he found there and loaded I babies and cholo men and women. I heat, dust and purple lights on the ids casualties Into the wagon. "Home, James,” he called cheerily I buttes at dawn and sunset, darling?” She nodded. "I can be a good part- to an Imaginary chauffeur, climbed up | ner, Jimmy. 1 never had any respon- onto the sent and gathered the reins. | si bl titles—and now I want so badly He peered down between his legs at I to share yours—always. How are Roberta's face upturned to him from I your wounded men?" the wagon bed. I "Taking an Interest in life. I sent “You'd have to live a few lifetime» I them over a quart of thirty-year-old In Dobba Ferry, Westchester county, I Bourbon whisky a friend gave me ro- Now York, before you’d get your teeth I cently, Mrs. Ganby is still weeping Into life as deeply as you have In the past hour and a half," he assured her I with Joy over our engagement, and I Robbie Is Jealous as a collie dog. He cheerfully. "Whose spunky old sw’eet- I has an Idea that when we’re married hoart are you?" I he’ll have to leave the ranch.” "Youse," said Roberta wearily. “I wouldn’t even have a groun I "Giddap," yelled Don Jaime, and I squirrel leave that ranch, Jimmy." flicked the rumps of the leaders with "Then we’ll keep Robbie and his his long whip. Gently he eased the I ma on the payroll" mules into yielr collars and rolled “Does Uncle Bill know of our en- away up the valley Into a long draw I gagement?” that wound between the hills and I Don Jaime produced the telegram eventually led them out to where the I and read: deserted motorcar waited. Here he "I never figured on you taking ore:- transferred hit wounded — Lambert my principal responsibility but now O’Grady, and Martine» Trujillo on the that you Insist on being reckless take rear seat, with Ken Hobart on the a tip from one who knows stop Do not front seat. lastly he lifted Roberta np Into Hobart's arms, after which I »poll her stop I did that long ago he braked the chucTc wagon, unhitched I stop You are as welcome in our fam ily as the silence that follows a con the mules and tethered them to the gressional oration wheels. “Sheepishly yours “Guess they can stand a night of “UNCLE BILL" watchful waiting," he declared, and “Why does he sign himself ‘sheep- climbed In back of the wheel. “And Ishly yours,* Jimmy dearT’ maybe I wasn’t a smart boy when I “Some far-fetched allusion to the put Mrs. Ganby on the payroll per manently. Nothing like having a good I sheep that brought you here. Bobby. trained nurse around in an emergency I Just some of his gringo humor, I Imagine." like this. Hold on. everybody!" “I sea "• She wag silent, turning hi» He switched on the lights and tooled I the car carefully down through the I brown, strong, useful hands, counting I the calluses on them. Hands that had sage to the Loa Algodones road, after I which they made fast time to the I known toll and would always know it, I the hands empires, hands ranch. Here one of the hands took I that, when that build folded at last In the peace the car and departed for Lo» Algo that would mean their* parting, would dones to bring back the only two doc be kissed by lowly people and sprin tor» there, while Don Jaime aided Mrs. kled with their tears. Ganby to make her patients comfort “It will be forever and ever, Jim able. my," she whispered "and I’m so happy About noon the next day Jaime —and grateful" Miguel HIguenes came into Roberta's "The Illguenes men keep their room and sat dffwn on her bed. women," he assured her gravely. "Caraveo and his men have Just got She thought of Glenn Hackett back safely," he Informed her. “Not I “Foor dear." she murmured absently. a man of that bandit gdng got back I i “He never had a chance," Don Jaime across the river, »o I venture to say I assured her, with a flash Of that this has been a lesson to them. I im I prescience, that clalrvoyaney, that agine the Rancho Valle Verde will be I would always make him. for Roberta, regarded In beyond-the-Border circle» I a new. puzzling, yet wholly under ns a good place to keep away from I standable human being and a Joy for- , hereafter. How'» the future Mrs. Hlg- I ever. Yea, he would be the same ab uenes feeling now. * "Not very chipper, Jimmy. How do lenging her Interest, always holding you feel?” It. Of him (the girl thought) It might “Guilty as a »heep-killlng dog. Still I be said that age could not wither nor every cloud has a silver lining. Din- I custom »tale his Infinite variety. gio’s dead and 1 Imagine he died In- I "I’ll get my guitar and sing you a testate. At any rate I have a sus Httle Spanish love song my gmnd- picion nobody is going to come around mother taught me," bo suggested. “IF» and claim a ten per cent Interest in very old. It came Into Pern with my lamba And I have a telegram I Pizarro and worked north. Oh. by the from your Uncle Bill. It seems that I way, I forgot something! Ix»t’» get when the news of the battle got to Los I this on record officially. Miss Anti n' Algodone» last night, via th» man I will you 4« me Hie m4ir honor to sent after the doctors, the editor of I marry me?’* (he local palladium of liberty, the Los "You outrageous Celt," she langbed. Algodones Herald, considered It of suf- I “YoO’rs the last of the troubadours flcleDt to put on the wire Of course I wlU." . importance . .. -----------------
