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Ert^ 1898,* CenselMated Marek 4, 1932
Moro, Oregon, December 29, 1933
CHRONOLOGY OF »
FDR RHERMAN COUTO
Moro Citizens Do
Without Water
Jota Hog Redaction Plan
SALES IM ESIMIE
GIVES SGHDOtS J400-UP
Small boys in a large part of
Hog laùers in any cousty in Ore
Moro had their vacation unexpected gon will have opportunity to form
ly prolonged this Christmas for ear» their pww hog production control as
ly on the morning of the 26th the
fits under the uatkmhl cortf-hog OntTtacber
adjustment program, according to
No.8
M*"
Hold Final Meeting
The county committee of the $her-
mas County Wheat Allotment Asso
ciation met at the court house Fri-
d*y afternoon for what they hoped
«Wave would ba the final meeting «»ti
spring. Bills of the eosnm unity
committeemen Mai altetmeut men
BE KEPI NEAR HOMES
It it apparent that the Kn$sx li
quor law in not going to be in opr
eratiqn very-soon. The committee
appointed to opperate it don’t know
Evatt tf Pat Year Rctelili Sari
exactly what they want to do about New Order Makes Mere Projects A
the auMMMtrei and ccveral cities in
Fam FarEeadcn
tkv state have started proceedings
to have it declared unconstitutional 1
money would go. A ‘group of men It takes away the local power to
* thisrtate
was chosen to pay small amounts in get revenue from local liquor dh-
Growers’ meetings will be announce;
the next few months and the busU poniories; there's the rub.
soon by county agents.
ness was all settled up to date. It
Municipal officers throughout the
Regional associations were first
was expected that allotment checks state have received an ordinance
contemplated for eoustie with small
would be ready fdr mailing to own prepared by the league of Oregon
ed that the com-hog contracts ar
ers sometime within the next month. cities that will control the liquor
a very scarce article on Tuesday and hog production but since it is learn-
situation until the state law goes in Work Progressing Rapidly Over Satire
to effect or will replace that law it’
Bob Elliott Disappears -
comparativeljr sinmple it la believed
it is declared unconstitutional. It has
that even a county with only a half
From Wasco many of the same provisions as the
with a minimum of water.
dozen , growers can form its own
Knox bill itself and will undoubtedly
The sales Ux bill
The biggest news in the county
be adopted by some cities
Civil Works regulations have been
—March—
session of
pens and inconvenience. Corn prod-
this year has probably been the
Robert Elliott, who has ■* been a
At present beer of greater potency changed again in. the county since
Sherman county wheat scrip was udero of course who care tb join the legislature on
10 will resident of Wasco for the past year
w :
allotment piqn and the work
than prescribed by city ordinances is the federal re-employment agent for
tely one or eighteen months, has disappeared
in the plan will be in the same a«> reduce «ax levies
porUiring to it at least it has
being told in Sherman county, but
u
the largest amount of spacey Club. Only a small amount to be sociations
Some weeks agcKhe was operated on nothing is being done about it for no this district made a trip through the
?
» uing as it did through three or tried.
Ctensus reports of 1930 credit this from the school district taxes of the in The Dalles. The county psssed up one knows, what would be the chances county last week. He was not pleas
four months. The mooting of the
Bill Buether returned home with counity with a total hog production state according to an a lysis of the the bill for further consideration at lor conviction if a dispenser decided ed with the program that required
wheat league here in the county also his bride, Kate Rape Buether of of 3132 head and-corn production of bill by State Superiqt
the last meeting . Last fall Mr. Rll»
» plead not guilty. There is little mon to travel the length of the coun
is adjudged important from a news Germany.
20 acres out of a state .total of 224, Howard baaed on the I te tax com- lott was married to a woman from of the new whiskey being sold here ty for work and he ordered the locsf •
539 hogs slid 83,116 acres of corn mission’s estimate of tip revenes it fan Francisco who still has a part although a few puny individuals who committee to roughly divide the
point of view.
■Mrs. Emma Elliott died.March 7th
. cf her goods in the station at Was- are seriously affected by colds or county into three zones and to keep
Civil Works projects have lately at the home of her daughter Mrs. Oregon crop observers are of the will produce-
opinion that these state totals are
Receipts from similar revenue me- co. Now she is devoid of a husband threats of them have been able to the men regTstered in those zones at
i^ome in for considerable news as Charles Adlard.
co ns id enbky higher now and that asures in operation in puher states and has lived so short a time in this procure preventative potions- A woik on projects close to home.
many persons are Interested in it
School laws changed by legislative possibly most county totals ar^s up indicata tl^at the Oregon bill will u i vuuuvy
county »lie
she can
cannot be legally aided noimat number, of bootleggers are
either because of the work or from
This ruling makes it imparative
session, county districts with less as well.
produce $4-000,000 annually sey r- I ' by the county- Bob has flown- A still making the county, but are re that local units— school districts,
interest in the projects.
than 6 pupils will be discontinued
Though this would give Oregon «rtyfive percent or Hfi sum, or check has been made to findthnt he ported to be in a quandary about the cities, etc..— prepare and present
and non-high school districts to be hngj raisers a (theoretical "allotalent $3,000,000 will be apportioned to the is not in a hospital someplace, the future of their chosen profession.
projects immediately for the county
of between 175,000 and 200,000 hogs school districts in proportion to the missing persons bureau has sent out
The Tax Leagues of Wasco, Sher» formed in each county.
committee is charged with the re
man, Gilliam Morrow and Wheeler
A. M. Wright and wife celebrate and benefit payments at $5 ahead number of classroom «nita or the its call, but he has not been found-
sponsibility of keeping men at
i. This
coundies met at Arlington and made their Golden Wedding anniversary of just under a million dollars, ac- number of teachers
Mon-High Schoo!
work-
ooulJ not be nearly would amount to $‘
teacber- More than Normal Raina
at the home of their daughter, Mrs.
„Road work will employ quite a
Budget Reduced number
that high because of the minimum
latore to lower state costs.
C. R. Belshee, March 22nd.
of men in all parts of the -
limit set for participation.
proximately 7500 such units to the
y Come To County
The general opinion is growing
county it ig thought. Already the
Good rains in March raises hopes
Definite rulings have been rec Id.täte. On this basis bone-teacher
- -
t
it
.
for a wheat crop in county, as the eived by the Oregon extension scr- ( « «
* It was decided by the attorney Brackett road surfacing job has been
approved to continue after the grad
vice n?ttag the minimum limit for teacher school would receive $800;
Well Old Jupe made it Freezing general of the state that the' levy
ing
is done. A project for rebuilding
City Council provides bear regula joining the plan at 10 acres of and afive teacher school wrouId re-' nights and colder days were of no for high school tuition within the
a
part
of the Hay Canyon road
tions April 7.
corn or three litter of pigs a year, ceive $2000. This bill requires the avail to stop the rainmaker from county should not exceed the 6 per
above
Harmony
school house is in
died in Washington D. C. Jan. 7th
Silage and soiling crop county assessor so cut from the dis beating the average precipitation for cent limitation. Therefore the non-
Avery Martin rents Wasco Motor or both.
process
of
engineering
and the wid
of a heart attack, brought on by
high school board and the county
Service Co. And will be located corn is included. Many believe that trict property tax levy the amount the fall. For the past twenty years
ening
of
the
Shearers
road
is already
pneumonia- He was buried in The
between 65 and 75 percent of the estimated to be received from this we have received 5-04 inches of rain court met and agreed on individual
there.
before
the
state
committee.
This
Dalles Friday, January 13th-
hogs raised in Oregon are on farms fund.
I
from September I to January 1. reductions that brought the 1934 will permit men from each part of
George Wilcox, of Grass Valley, where less than three litters a year
The remaining 25 percent, -or $1,- This year we have nearly five and a budget within thoee limits. The the county' to work without travel
Regional Agricultural Credit Cor
appointed chairman of county wide are produced.
v
060,000
will go to the county school half inches. Furthermore all of this county reduced their budget which is ing over 20 miles.
poration asked wheat farmers de
relief committee with six assistants-
A farmer qualifying under either funds of the counties on the basis of moisture is already in the ground or to be used for payment of back
siring seed loans to file applications
There was a meeting ’of the CWA
W. H. Ragsdale was appointed by the corn or the hog provisions can the assessed valuations as equalized is laying on the unfrozen ground so, warrants and the board reduced
immediately
state
and county heads in The
their
budget
by.
a
little
less
than
join
for
that
one
cropt
though
if
Gov. Meier as RJ.G advisor.
by the state tax commission and the that it can hardly get away unless
Senator J. P. Yates received com
Dalles
Thursday for the purpose of
he qualifies for both he must join assemor of each county is required to real cold weather should come before $1000 to meet with state require
—April—
mittee appointments for the legisla
straightening
out some of the tan
for both- Reduction of at least 20 reduce the county property levy by it warms up enough to melt the ments.
tive session. E. W. Snell was elec
gles
that
have
arisen. Local com
County receives $10,000 paid by percent in com acreage and 25 per the amount received from this fund. snow.
ted Speaker of the House-
mitteemen are assured that the pres ’
Surety company for Bank of Com cent in hog production is required This reduction Will average approxi
ent regulations were made up after
County, Agents Confer
in return for rent payments on the mately one mill.
The County suffered another cold merce account
Sliding As Dangerous
a conference in San Francisco which
•pell of the winter January 16th with Wm. H. Lee a resident of Sherman corn land retired and cash benefits
Amounts that would be received
On Corn-Hog Plan was attended by federal men from
the mercury dropping over twenty county for 35 yean died at his home of $5 ahead on the allotment of
As No Man’s Land
from the sales tax revenues by some
Washington D. C.
75 percent of past average annual
in Wasco April 10th.
typical school districts based on at
Work is completed on the first
hog production.
School Budgets for the county
tendance reports of June, 1933, and
Perry Johnston was in Arlington city of Wasco project which provides
The recent raise in wheat price is
Boys and an occasional girl are Thursday u> attend a meeting of
total $101,735-14 for 1933- Cost of siding this county as a third of last
the reductions in district taxes that
having
lots of fun since the snow fell county agents of this district who for the lowering of nearly 3000 feet
tea' hi ng is 35 percent of total. years crops are still held-
would result are shown in the follow
of water pipe- Moro's water pro-.
White
Christmas
Make
Transportation costs are high being
ing tabulation. The valuations that sliding down the hills in Moro. Often met with representatives from the ject was handled in a different man
First,
Scrip
issued,
$300
worth
they
go
clear
across
the
highway
22.95 per cent
Things Look Natural were used in computing millage re । which makes it as dangerous as a state college for the purpose of mak ner than was contemplated. The
available,
ductions were those reported by the
ing out) a schedule for the Columbia
Miss Jeanette Medlcr and Robert
battle front hut that is nothing to * ta*n country for explanation of the pipes were lowered by changing the
county
assessor
in
March.
1938.
Richard
Brockert
and
Miss
Flor»
McDonald were married January 22
location into better ground thus ob
ence McDonald were married
The districts that are marked "El twelve yea old- No casualties have corn-hog program that will be the viating much of the contemplated
Jurt when Sherman countians were
in Wasco-
been reported although at least on« next thing for farmers to go into tfia.
day April 24th in The Dalina
sure that Christmas day was' to be ementary" in this tabulotion are in
rock work- Grass Valley is paint»
group of boys had a eloss call. Mot- past about
—February—
either
a
union
high
school
district
or
B iML Van Landingham, St years a celebrated with no decorations but
ing the school house and the auditor
orista
have
little
chance
to
stop
Claud and Dewey Thompson are resident of Wasco died April 2«th the green grass old Mother Nature in the county non-high school dis
ium.
quickly or evade sleds as they come * Read the ads in the Journal
journeying to California to bring and interment was made in Wasco sent down a snow to* blanket the trict. In addition to the millage In
slipping out of side streets.
MW
back a full blooded Arabian horse in
countryside and add real Christmas ductions set opposite them in the
tabulation they will participate in
exchange for a Perchion Alley.
scenery to the day-.
A few fields are being seeded a
the reductions* of the union high Production Loans
It
was
wet,
too.
That
in
itself
On Feb. 8th the thermometer re third time as a result of formalde
meant something to wheat growers school districts or the non-high
corded 12 Degrees below zero making hyde damage to treating seed.
Lagging In County
who are always concerned with mois school district to which they belong.
the second hard freeze of the winter
Mrs. Elva Bryant files as dry can ture conditions. There was two or The tuition charge for pupils from
mo’-e severe than the first.
didate.
three inches of it at first although the non-high school district will be
From the Observer January 3., 1895- granted a license to operate a saloon
Organization of production oan as»
A meeting held to appoint a group
reduced approximately $1500 per
Christmas
day
brought
a
little
more.
in Moro for the year-
—May-
sociations in this county is apparent»
Wm. Currie of Rutlodge haj
which a state committee could
The ground was unfrozen when the pupil as a result of the sales tax-
School meeting of Moro was held
ly lagging- So far no one has taken bought a tank which he will line with
An other good rain comas to speed snow fell for the first time since
i
five sati factory men to act as
Sherman County
and
the information given that it now
sufficient
interest
In
this
means
of
sheet iron and haul r wheat to tho
gage -adjustment board in this growth of wheat
second graders can remember and School Districts
costs
$3432 to operate the school
Ing
money
for
farmery
next
river
with
it
to
save
the
cost
of
Pi
county re olved itself into a pep a*-
3. Rufus, H. S. & elem. 4 units,
Six Sherman county youths were that is something else that makes
here.
A 15 mill tax was voted
spring to start work on organizing a sacks.
. mUy to organize county farmers chosen foe CCC camps.
farmers believe that there might bo $1,600 red. *9 iqills ap.
Robert Hickson is home from sur
into a militant group for protection
7. Wasco, H. S- A elem. 5 units. local association-
a Santa Claus after all these years of
The New Years dance at Grass
Mrs. Britania Fulton, wife of ex-
The finance committee of the wheat
veying
for railroads in central Ore
against forecloaures, high interest
1
$2,000
red.
1.7
mills
ap.
deubi ।—4—i—■_ _
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j
Valley was a big success with 34
rates and high taxes- Geo. Wilcox County Judge, was buried in Wasco
gon.
9. Kent. H. S. A elem- 4 uni s, league passed a resolution asking "I couples present
Temperatures have been less than
,600 red- 2-5 mille ap-
itha® a11
** “*do in I
proposed a county wide meeting.en-
One hundred twenty three wrote ten degrees bsjow freezing for the $1,600 red- 2 5 mills ap-
23. Grass Valley, elem A H. S. 5 ««ttlng up these associations in the I C. E. Jones sold -two spans of From the Observer January 1, 1915.
thus tactically seconded to organize a examination papers on Automobile , most part and with a covering of
nn
C. R. Belshee reports the John Day
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। several counties. It was then sug- horses for $150 per pair last week.
p otcctivc association. The committee Driving points in the rush for cheap- j snow that just makes the wheat feel units, -------
$2,000 red-
3.09 mills ap.
21.
Near
Moro,
rtem.,
1
unit*
$400
rested
that
several
counties
be
com-
They
will
pull
the
nets
at
the
Colum-
river
covered with 8 inches of ice
appointed on arrangements were: er drivers license.
comfortable.
near
the
Stewart place-
red-
1-87
mills
ap-
I
one
orlanization,
but
so
bia
river
fishery.
Geo W leox, J- M- Wilson, W. H-
xWasco church arranges for educa
I 17. Moro, H. S- A elem. 6 units, far nothing has been done. Concen-1 -
-
-
-
Ragsdale, Mrs Marie Cooper and
While cutting meat at the Moro
. The Observer believes that wheat
Patronize Journal Advertisers
tional institute to be held in Wasco
SUS of opinion seems to be that this
ceBg p<r
B
Leonard Mauros.
market
Saturday morning A. M.
$2,400
red-
2.58
mills
ap.
May 19, 20 and 21. "
Wright received a deep cut in the
25. Near Grass Valley,. elem- j county is large enough to have such from now-
Geo. DeMoss, famous musician,
: a borrowing group Itself.
Ray W. Gill, Master of Oregon
unit. $400 red- 2-18 mills ap
died in Marysville. California-
Hopes for a flour mill in Moro to be left hand.,
Grange, addressed sn audience in
operated by electric power are still
John Daugherty, Sherman county Grass Valley Sunday on the sales tax
J./ B. Adams drove to Portland. Arthur Johnson was called to Hood flourishing.
pioneer, died Feb- 16 arid burial was measure, upholding the grange at
PATH
he made calls to the neighborhood-
MAX.
MIN. PRKCfr the last of the week to spend the hoi-, River Saturday on account of the
made in the private cemeteity on the titude in his arguments against the
idayz with his family. He found the , serous illness of Tits mother, Mra From the Observer January 6, 1905
homestead of the deceased’s parent measure.
.61 . 44 ... .CO ’ roads all but impassable with water! Grapvilla Phillips. M!ra Johnson
DHC
21
C. F. Co« reports that A. S.
Miss Eathei Davis of Q m Vai-
60 .. 58
** 22..
near Kent
Johnon
is drilling a well for him on
•
running
sight
inehea
over
ths
floor
went
down
Tuesday
morning
but
ss
Fred Pickett flies as repeal candi
ley and Guy Hulse were married
28..
64... 33
.00
th«
ranch
near Grass Valley- He is
boards in one place and slides partly Mrs Phillips had Improved she was New Years day at the bride’s home.
Many Sherman Countians attended date.
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blocking the road in other places. Ha able io return homo the same night I
the funeral of M™. B«1 Peetz at
28
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28 ..
83
Forty eight students finish high
25
, Somebody has reported wheat tn
Pendleton, "the deceased having spent
returned by the Washington high
“
28...
82
21
20
school courses in Sherman county
the boot In Wasoo county It surely
way.
Serai Searcy and family were in
forty years of her life in this
A holiday reunion was held at the -
27...
20
00
28
this May-
Portland several days thia week visit
I
A. H. Barnum home Christmas eve
county-
* Davs and John Biggerstaff were
Total for wssk
1.07
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