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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 22, 1933)
■ -....... < ? Ermatt Cmmíg Journal 4. 1932 SHERMAN COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER Forty Spith Year Moro, No?7 Slow BANK OF COMMEBGE Wheat Trade During The Week STORM BRINGS BAIN DECIMES DIH TOWBEATHRDS' First Payment Coes Tn Depositors Slow European demand and in creased offering* of new Southern Hemisphere groin featured the world situation during the week. Trade es- quiremonte about 86,000,000 bushel* below last season. This is reflected I . I' On* of the meeting* of th* ____ ____ »_______________________ 1 church Wdcwae Mrâtare Aids Wlmi Ct« “*mb" dims Here with m mu k «m» he «bout 40,000,000 botola Mow « Crag* mì Frxti This issue of the Journal contains ' new* that can qualify a* a welcome placed at 256,1754)00 bushels, age in st Oof* UUú», WcU A, 285,378,000 hntols produced last ___ year, a*d the Australian crop at 160,000,000 bushel* against 216,000,- -Axtell MtoM V. WDmcin a I delightful club WM held in th* Friday when with program- Part euvtqiped off fashion The program was a ÂXrÂïlMI.MfS MM OMUSE ■ World’® Meanest Man Located In Moro The Woman’s Club • by Mrs. C. p. J two repreaenta- •en* the conven- ■ecompaniment of W«. “Silent NifM” Ml th® otb* from 'Madonna of the Turquoise Land" by Moro with vocal Roads E- WS lEEMPUWflI tot Pf«?e of Speidiaf tloaay The carryover of old . wheat into ‘ ■ 't Previous to this week it was thot that the world’s meanest man wax he who stole his wife’s false teeth whUe'she waa cooking Christmas din ner, but another candidate has been discovered right her* in Moro who should be rated equally mean. He is the one who take* light bulbs from |he public Christmas tree Several days ago tha city had the tre* placed at the intersection of | First and Main streets and the Power | company decorated it with brightly colored lights all for the benefit, of tiie younger generation who are ea- p<’chny susceptible t.» Christmas trees. On several nighhr from four lo six lights have been taken- Even the Christmas spirit, apparently, is hut all inclusive- ALLOTMaT PAPEHS ON FINAL JOUHNEY ary Here COMM PBOSIUM IS KW To $8000 The local allotment committee trie* will probably be slightly lower finished with Its work Monday after- \ddifonal l.rans Made favorable effect on the wheat coun- inary renident of the county. The Bank Of than last year. “ * । "°°n “d the contracts were sent to try CrfnZ for we have Commeroo at Wasco has declared a «•limate* of carryover and crops and ont a * had the roina ri with- dn I o tatf Py I and Banks I CorvaJ* on their way to Washing cord ’ th the work in progress fully i, dividend to depositors to be paid for normal domestic con- out wind enough to seriously damage the ton D- C. for th* final checking and .MÄTo >?”Tber, h“, "“»X »warded____ ______ „ s di-‘^ " Dec mber 29. It is for ten percent ( eumption. Southern Hemisphere sup- the most pleasant part of the whole onounced hi- his- ' ** man of ,abor Pro~ clamation for her Renounced 1 plie* available for export and _ _ carry- • of deposits. , _ , brought 1.29 inchea of rainfall. Loans closed during the week end- scheme—them writing of the checks. The average inches of rainfall be- trionic ability. Little Miss Mugit, in : vided lor. Thia is the first dividend paid by O¥e<» amount to about 290,000,000 ing December 13 increased nearly Some time in January it is expect It is odd that the committee can either of the cloeed banks. The Bank b»4i*ls. compared with 328,000,000 tween September 1 and January 1 is the person of Mary tees?, distribu- forty percent is number over the pre ed that these will arrive at th- local of Moro has been closed since Sep bushels last season- Shipment* from 5.04. This season 4 80 incher have ted the gift* brought by members function at all for they are scattered vious week. This resulted in $616,- office under the care of th* treasurer tember 24, 1931 and the Bank of last season’s harvest to date have to- fallen up to Tuesday night with more and the afternoon dosed With the throughout the length and breadth of 550 being mailed to farmers over the of the Sherman County Wheat Con Commerce ha* been cloeed sine* Sep taled 286,000,000 bushels while ship jmt in the offing fipm indications. It serving of bounteous refreshment* the county and can get together only Northwest during this short period- trol Association, G. H. Root,., and tember 5, 1932. Now in the last ments during the August 1932 July » likely that we will receive the nor by the committee. Those responsible at considerable expense which must It was brought out that this money I from there will be distributed to the day* of 1933 comes the first payment 1933 crop season totaled 281,000,000 mal hmount by the end of the year. for this gay and youth reviving party be borne by each member. Officeis was mostly released to trade channels artgiously awaiting farmer*. and it should be most welcome a* a bushels. Th* quota allotted to th* Also the moisture this year has act- were Mra Cope, Mrs. Reese and Mrs. who do the work for the county com through the process of consolidating Wheat producer* in Lake county, mittee are also scattered from Wasco the farmer’s debts. means of paying end of the year bills Southern Hemisphere countri«* by I 1 ually gone into the ground and has Collis Moore. of which there are 38, have already to Gras* Valley with the result that that accrue strangely after- the the London agreement for the Au-^ I not run off a* it so often does. 1 ■ lA t— To date the total amount advanced received their allotment checks. It often information reaches other Sunday yas a windy day for Sher gust-July crop year is 215,000,000 Christmas month. by the twelve Federal Land Banks required approximately 3 weeks for members of the committee and other E- L- Morton, liquidator of the bushels Shipment* from August thru man county where wind is taken as Auto Wreck Lends sine* the Farm Credit Administra them to be returned from Washing offiers in a badly distorted condition! closed bank, in making the announce- December 8, amounted to 68,000,00t a matter of course. However, when tion was organized last May has ton after the contracts were sent in. To Atrest; Fine That) is just on* of the thhigs it come* to real wind storms this ment regarding the dividend said that' bushel* leaving about 152,000,000 passed the $145,000,000 mark, having Whether. this same speed can be that often happens in a hasty set-up it would total $15,709^7, that the bushels to be supplied from new crop epunty is not even in the running. about double* the amount loaned each counted upon this late fa th* season ' that has to work with speed before checks are all ready to be mailed as : or f«»* remaking stocks of old Along the coast they had winds that A man named Noi iter and one it b sufficiently organized to work month since July when the new Ioan or not is debateable. In any event reached 90 ififle* per hour. Here there soon a» the day set has aurrivea and wheat. policy swung into action. The amount the checks should arrive sometime one car and a Mr. smoothly. was 850^niles of wind during the 24 named Sharp in on* advanced in October, 1933, $28,091,- before the first of February. hour period that inchfied Sunday- Newton in another car met head on at | Report* to the committee regard- conditions of th* past, few years the Chistmas Will Be A 726, exceeded all loans made by those the turn-about a mile south of Gras* ing th« manner in which some of the Some error crept into our states I That makes an average of 14.6 miles liquidation has moved satisfactorily. bank* during the entire year of 1932- mentl last week and made ns say that Valley Monday with th* result that Quiet Day In Coiinty per hour for the day- Of course it men on the CWA work spend their When the bank closed it owed the deduction for local purposes varied in intensity but it jvas a calm both cars were taken to the hospital money and ways is which some striv $175,584-00 to the Federal Reserve for disabled autos. Kone of the men ing to get on the work might spend day compared to the storm center bank, the United State* National End of Decreasing Days I will be in ,03 the L centa . ,xir bu,h-L -Tt v/ere hurt • ,» n’.-'gnborhood of .003 K their money occupied part of the Christmas day promises to be much areas- Bank and the Reconstruction Finance Outside of the damage to the auto time of the meeting. The committee Brought By Calender centa Per buah«i which win make the Corporation. Of this sum $128.979.- ' like any other day in Moro this year . Several minor buildings were dam mobiles the only equity was Mr. wish it announced again that CWA spring payment about 7.7 cents- 13 has been repaid and preferred as far a* public celebration of the aged by tiie wind in the county. The Sharp ’ s pocketbook. He was spelling workers are to spend their wages With the wheat allotment out of claim totaling $9442.56 have also day is concerned. There will be a school shed at Kent was moved been liquidated. With the dividend church program Sunday evening and slightly; the approach roofs on the •Mr- Nooncaster at the wheel at he They are to spend them at home and Tomorrow will be longer than today. the way the county agent can turn payment $150,000 has been paid from the school children will appear Fri- Bourbon warehouses were blown clear time of the wreck without having they are to spend them for the ne The difference, say the savants is his attention to tha development of the closed bonk- day in song’and atory in observance over the houses, across the tracks undergone th* formality of buying a . cessities- Drinking of th* Droduct very slight between the shortest day the corn-hog allotment for this coun driver* license. On Ills plea ** the • 21st amendment made legal, and other days that come along at ty. Hog raisers will have a chance The bank still owes $46,554 87 bud of Christinas. There will be innum- and into the adjoining field; the barn guilty Justice Ginn levied a .fine of gambling or other form* of amuse the same tinp of year- The differ to hear all about it some time in Jan it has wheat receipts to offset a coft- erable family parties hare and some on the E. O. L. place south of town $2.00. ment generally frowned upon by a ence is in seconds but the important uary when the first meetings will be biddable part of this so that if con are planing on trips to other points. where Morris lives was damaged: majority of the people of the com thing is that tomorrow the sun will held. A conference of county agents ditions continue fair it will be out of Otherwise the season will be like the Deputy sheriff Nahouse lost the roof munity will not long be tolerated ac be on the road back with more hours will be held in Arlington December debt in the not too far distant future. latter days of any other month. to his straw shed and the temporary Corn-Hog Program May cording to committee members. of daylight for all of us here in the 28 at which time the schedule of roof over a wheat pile in Wasco was meetings will be made- Perry Johns Approval was given to several pro temperate zone. Be Profitable To State blown off causing some damage- ton will attend from this county- jects. Largest among the** were Some other buildings suffered some It is estimated on tho basis of 1930 county project* for road building. Mrs- Ben Messinger and Otis Mess displacement. ’’ census figures that this county might The job of widening Sherar ’ s grade inger and family were here last Frl- Oregon stands to gain much by the Wheat iq the county has grown so receive between 5C0O0 and $8000 un- wa* approved with th* understand day and Saturday from St. Helens to rapidly for thia time of year that corn-hog program, it is pointed out, visit Mrs. Violet Noonan, a daughter der ho» reduction program. It ing that if condition* become such in for though this is a deficit hog pro farmers are very scary about sudden that are sureties for officers bonds- County Court Proceeding«, Decem is believed that there are^nete hog* cold weather for, coming after balmy ducing state, price* here reflect di the remainder of the county that of Mrs. Ben Messinger. County Clerk instructed to l»8 Je spring like weather, it might freeze rectly the middle western market work cannot be carried on the men in the county than in that year. ber, 1933, Term. new road warrant In l|eu of warrant out tiie wheat again- Whatever hap- levels- can be taken there and continue to Re Applications for old-age pen AAA eficials are repeatedly asked work. It will require 6700 hours of sions received from Julius Ruhburg; No. A-410, for $6000-00 given to pens in the future, conditions just County Treasurer a* reeurity f*r loan 1 why there should be concerted cur- labor. Ella Van Landingham; John Hood now are favorable for the crop. from Sinking Fund to Rood Fund- Surfacing th* Brackett canyon road tgilment of production a* long as Henderson. David Aaron Fields, and Clerk also instructed to pay accrued there is a single hungry mouth in that ia almost all graded wa* passed. Mary Albertine Whiting. The appli interest ap per warrant No. A-410. University Aids this country. To this they reply that Hour* required will be 1060. The cations were held for consideration. In th* matter of to taxes levied there EUGENE, Ore., Dee- mw - 7 i — Oregon vjtjuh — ------ was being consumed •— —— all — the — city - of Wasco asked for two projects From the Observer Dec- 27, 1894 of th« evening. Application received from A. P. laws and their subsequent interpre- wUat> Po^. «»m and each requiring 6 men. Cleaning out L- V. Moore and J- C. Burkes went Anderson of Rufus for county aid,— The Observer is in receipt of cards ditch tot run* through town will a gunning with Hon. J. A. Smith one I owned by Alex McLennan. Petition tation by to courts made two dis- P*®4ucte that were being used at the . announcing the marraige yesterday application referred to County Relief and Order filed with County Court, tinct contributions to th* national de- P®*11 ot proeperity/there would still 'take 540 man hour* and widening the Week, and captured one goose among of Prof. W. C- Bryant and Mbs Elva Committee. velopment of the pretot publl* util- treat unused -surpluses a* th* re- viaduct in town will consume 720 accepted and ordered filed. a million- It was accidently shot "on daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lamburt Application of Mrs. Margaret E ity concept and to public regulation ,ult th* loss of the export market*, men hours. This latter project was th* wing" by Mr. Moore, but Burkes Whealdon, at Plainview, Ore. They । Financial statement of condition of Clarke of Rufus for temporary aid pf private industry tog the «ommon These hu<® «urpluses her* at homo approved with the understanding that *ays "w* killed it-" bonded school district* submitted to pf private industry for the eommon will be at home in Moro, after Jan received- After consideration the sum welfare, it is declared by John W. depress the markets, keep grower* >ork on it would not begin immed- the County Court ny County Treas Mis* (Maud Johnson, • the young uary 1, 1905. of $10.00 was allowed and charged to Joyce, formerly-« graduate assistant from getting enough money to buy i lately. The Wasco school board urer, accepted and filed. lady who has been so long bedfast The DeMoss family ar* doieg County Poor. in the department of economics at the the products of the cities, and hence asked for 450 hour* of general repair with tyfoid fever, was able to walk wonders down South for Oregon.. The sum of $12.50 appropriated to University of Oregon, in an article industrial workers are thrown out of work and painting. Sheriff’s report on prohibition Fund re-condition wireing In the Circuit entitled "Early Oregon Public Utility employment- The very surpluses thus The Moro school board put in an out in the lovely sunshine Monday Waldo give* an address on Oregon, received and ordered filed. Court Room and attic above same application for 99 man hours addi1- supported by the arm of her father. George talks Lewis and Clark, then add to the "hungry mouth*. ” - Regulation, 1843-1899," published in Sheriff’s turnover accepted and or* vinal to the present project as that Such details had not been received Portland gives up the job, sho can’t Henry and all join In th* soul stir Claim* Precented and Allowed at the recent issue of the Commonwealth dered filed. «mount of time is thought necessary the first of December but just as soor the December Term of Court, 1983 Review, a journal issued by the Uni make room for our Sherman county ring anthem: "Oregon, My Home-"’ as they are the information will be to complete the job now in progress wheat crop, and buying has stopped,*1 From the Observer Dec- 25, 1911. Grand Jury /«port for November^ »claimant: Amount versity here. Account of: The first of there contributions disseminated to all counties of the , The city of Gross Valley wants to wiilh two-thirds of it in the farmers’ Term, 1988, read and approved. The hunting contest for points was Walther-Williams Co-, New w-4 the enactment and subsequent •ut* county agents and ths lower the water pipes along one hands. O, for an open river to Request of Mrs- S- L- Coats of Ru lost Friday last by the L. Barnum truck for Sherman County. interpretation of the long and short V™ «° that •“ O”»™ ho« r»*’«” street In the town and this project Astoria. ■ide to the Martin Hansen side. As a > * fus for additional county aid held for $480 00 haul clause in the first general law ““ deci<1c what 018 E«4 CO“™ will was approved by the committee- It first payment 4 The Fossil Journal is quite sure tho result of the hunt 2550 pounds of investigation- will require 760 hours. regulating railroads, Mr. Joyce states. ln relation to tho control program. C. Court Richard J. Crone Paul F. Mohr railway will be built rabbit* was the next day to Decline in export demand has been The city of Moro had a small pro Re: Statement from Mid-Columbia reporter, 1 day 10.00 The second was the extension utility the associated Charities at Portland. A. D- 1895. From Fossil to The Dalles one of the principal factor* in bring* ject for the construction of a tennis hospital for medical aid rendered Bob, S. M. Axtell to include watfr supply companiea. Bailiff, Cir- ■ - - -- -- -— ing the hog market to it* present court but It was turned down by the the distance is only 15 miles farther C- C. Kerr is decorating and re- Elliott of Wasco. Held for informa cuit Court, 2 days 700 than from Fossil to Arlington- WFATMFR RPPHRT FAR I°w P^i^011' fisure* gathered by th* committee a* it would have required paperiing the W. W. M- Co- bank at tion regarding certain charges. Mrs- S- L Coats County WCRinCn nCrUn I run ‘AAA reveal. While hog production too great an outlay of materia! in From the Observer Sec. 80, 1904. Moro. Mr. Kerr is a visitor from Notice by W. J. Underhill, County 1600 charge EliniiiC ACP on in this country ha* increased about proportion to the labor needed in the M m Burkhart, a Sherman county Corvallis at the home of G. W- Han Poor, to dis-continue county aid af Mm. Peter Fleck wecr rmro ucUiZU (the Bame o population & opinion of the members- County lady who lives at Gorman won Ben sell. • ter December 1st, 1933, because of 20.00 charge Seventy one men are now employed MAX?»' MIN. fmcip P°rt* of hoflf producte hav* steadily OATR Holt. The prize could not have gone * The state legislature is composed removal from Sherman County. declined sine* th* world war until on CWA projects in the county and W.' J. Underhill County to any one who will appreciate it of ninety members, of whom 38 ar* 14 ‘¿^.44.. -.33... .27 trial balance for ' charge this year they were less than a quar R. O. Scott, disbursing officer, who is 20.00 DEC more thpn Mr*. Burkhart _____ 40 i 15 .. 29... .08 month of November accepted and or 8. E. Eakin County charge . , 10.00 ter of th* amount taken by other also a CWA employee makes 71 who 16... . . ., 38,.. .23 ,A. .03 A party was given Tuesday eve • Isaac Thompson Is visiting with hie countries In 1919, and haroly half of are drawing federal money in this dered filed. Jim^Tomlin County charge 25-00 17.,.. ............ 62.....32 .00 ning at the home of L. H. Martin in daughter at the .Neil McDonald the 1926 export*. county. Earl Oide of Grass Valley Clerk instructed to renew Fair Mt*. M. E Clark is.;.. ....... 50 . 35 .00 County * honor of Miss Lola- homo Just how much of a part Oregon has been made the new re-employ Ground Insurance policy- 19 . . ......... 5< .. $7 ... .17 charge 10.00 will take in to forth coming oom- ment officer but ho 1* paid out of Mr. and Mrs. S. S- Hayes enter 20.'.,. ......... 53 :37\.. 08 Clerk instructed to write Insuranc0 Oregon State Board of Control hog reduction program now started other funds than CWA. Robert Fois- tained Wednesday evening, whist "ac day* at Mosier with his sister, Mr*. ” *8 Total for week ...., . ......... Commissioner regarding companies Continued from page 2. (Continu*d on page two) | Continued to pag* two. cording to Hoyle" being the feature Vie Race. ™.S3 n. SXSKXt What Happened 40 Years Ago, • And Who It Happened To '
