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THE SHERMAN COUNTY JOUR NAL, MORO. OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1934.
TWO
number of friends Friday afternoon
with a quüting party and a fte r the
Moro, Oregon
Meets the le t and Xrd work was done th e ladies traded their
Thursday evening* of needles fa r cardes.
each month. ViaitUg
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mem hem cordially in
Don’t fail to see. Ethel Barrymore
vited to meet with us
Bryant in her big role Tomorrow
Elmer Hansen, W- M
C. V. Belknap, Secy. n ig h t
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M o r o L e d » . N o . 1 1 3 1. O . O . F.
M in Mildred Whalley arrived in
Moro, O roroa
Meets every Monday Moro Saturday for a visit with, her
evening in the I.O.O.F aunts. Mrs. M argaret Peetz and Mrs.
hall.
T ransient and
visiting brothers are Carroll Sayrs- She recently grad
cordially invited to uated from high school in Portland
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meet with us.
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Ralph Brisbine N.G.
Concurrent birthdays of W- H. I
Joe T ruitt, Secretary.
Ragsdale and O. L- Belshe wer©|
L u pi a . Rebecca Lod ge N o . 1 1 ® _
celebrated Thursday night a t t h e 1
Moro, Oregon
Ragsdale home with dinner and a
Meets 2d and 4th Tues
days of each month, gathering of friends-
Visiting members wel
e • • • •
come.
-Joe Peters and family visited in
Jessie Martin, N. G-
Shaniko Sunday with relatives of Mrs.
l.ila Bull, Secretary.
Peter*.
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C h ris 3 c h . l t * P o e t N o . 71
A m e r ic a n L e g ie a
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Mr». A- M Zevely of Dayville, was
Meets a t Legion hall on
calling on friends in Moro Wednes
2nd and 4th Wednesday
day.
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evenings of each month.
Giles. L French, Commander
Wily W. Knighton, A djutant
lyTown Talk
FOR SALE: Dry F ir and Pine
wood Will deliver myself. W rite
Ray Hulse, Mosier, Oregon.
Lost: 4 yearling Hereford heifers,
branded E on the right hip. Phone
A. C. Kaseberg, collect
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Baby Chicks: Leghorns, Reds,
Rocks. Order now for early fall
layers. Custom hatching 2 cents per
egg. Wilcox Hatchery, Mosier.
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Neil Rader, son of Air and Mrs.
William Rader was taken to a hos
pital in The Dalles last week suffer
ing from a broken arm caused from
falling fro n u a horse.
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R. J. Ginn has been kept to his
home for the past week or more be
cause of a slight stroke of paralysis
He is reported to be getting along
well-
Mrs. E rnest B arnett visited here
with her mother for several - days
this week from her home near Mikka-
lo in Gilliam county
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Mr- and Mrs- Guy Hoskinson of
Kent made a brief visit to the A. S
Johnson home on Tuesday afternoon.
Kidsk Come see your teacher per
form Saturday night-
Robert Eslinger came up from The
Dalles Wednesday because, as he ex
pressed it, he heard there was some
money up here.
E. 0 McCoy was here Wednesday
afternoon to accept delivery on a few
wheat checks covering his several
wheat farm s in this county.
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Bridge fans 1 Free lessons includ
ed with admission price a t the big
show-
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Old tim e friends dropped in on U
L Peetx Saturday night in honor of
his birthday and spent a few» hours
playing five hundred.
Sing High! Sing Low!
Hear
Rufus R astus Johnson Brown in
songs of the sunny south, Saturday
night, school house.
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'Mrs. Trum an Strong and Mrs
W alter Ruggles were hostesses to a
large party of women Tuesday a fte r
noon a t the Strong residence. Bridge
was played by twelve tables of
guests.
Fishermen, a tte n tio n ! Hripful ex
p ert advice Saturday night at the
auditorium
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The P N G. club will hold a m eet
ing Friday afternoon, February 9, a t
the Freeman home
Mrs. Freeman
and Mrs. Brisbine » will act as
hostesses.
Don't bother with dr.«~-rt
Come
early and eat Camp Fire Girl
candy. Saturday night a t the school
bouse.
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CHJIRCH
WASCO
10.00 A. M.
Church School
11:00 A. M.
Church Worship
7:30 P M.
Epwoth League
of
the church
The remodeling
building will be completed enough by
Sunday to have all parts of the
building in use Come and see the
convenience and safety of our new
arrangem ent. We ask you all now
to make greater effort to make your
church of more use to the com
munity.
Dr. T. D- Yames, D istrict Super
intendent of the Cascade District,
will be in Wasco February 13th to
m eet with the Epworth League Cab
inet and the Church School Board.
C h r is tia n
Landry
entertained
a
mist was distributed
Monday-
tho score being 21 to 20.
Tho g irls league held a m eeting on
The Moro high school boys will
play a basketball gam e with The Monday of th is week to decide w heth
e r bo give a luncheon, banquet or tea
Dalles on their floor February 2.
Several of the >igh school' girls
and boys are preparing a vaudeville
Act directed by M iss’ Biggness. to
be given a t the Womar.'s Club pro
gram Saturday evening- It isr hum
orous and should be interesting to
the audience. Those taking p a it in
the act are: Lucille McLaehlan, Alton
Axtell, Doris Mon ¡son, Harold Bel-
shee, Melba Thogerson, Phillip Rug
gles, Doris Thompson, Ted Thomp-,
son, Louis 'May, Marjorie Byers and
Gordon Fraser.
a t some indefinite date in the fu tu re
b u t it seems th a t nothing w as de
cided so th a t they know no more th a n
ihey did before, which is not saying
much as it concern- only th e fem i
nine portion of the student body.
S c ie n c e
ser are taking post-graduate courses
Spring fever seems to have strick
Subject: Love
thia semester. There may he others en some of the population of the
Golden Text Jude 1:21. Keep your- post graduate students later.
student body as there is an increas
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»alves in thp love of God, looking for
ing num ber of “victims” can be seen
A
num
ber
of
the
girs
are
working
the mercy of our Lord Jesus C hrist
on a stunt to be given before the starin g out of the window upon the
unto eternal life.
grassy swards, with th a t much-
high
school assembly soon.
Responsive Reading: Luke 10:30-87
quoted “ for away look” in their
All are cordia|ly invited to attend
The band seems to be progressing eye?. Or it may be th a t ,‘In the
the church services and to make use very well urider the direction of Mr- spring a young mans fancy’’ is caus
of the reading room m the re ar of the Sim pson, and th e group h as received ing some, _ of it although the said
church building, which is open dally th eir new books, and are practicing
gazing has not been altogether lim
where a!l authorized Christian Science diligently.
ited to the masculine portion of the
literatured may be read, borrowed ot
student's.
purchased.
GRASS VALLEY SCHOOL NOTES
Kenneth Todd—Editor
“ What time does your husband
T k e F a l l G o e p e l A s s e m b ly
Tho basket ball games played in arise in the m orning?”
Sunday School ........................ 10 a. m.
Kent this week end were very success
“In time for the radio exercises.”
Fellowship meeting, and preaching
ful for the home teams, as they won
“ Why I didn’tf know he went in for
11 a. m.
all three of the games played The exercises.”
Prayer m eeting Wednesday 2:46 p. m.
7th and 8th grade boys played first, “ He doesn’t, bub the g ir t across the
Every body welcome.
and played a very good game the street doe».”—^Rotary Reminder
(G rass Valley)
ecore
being 12 to 9 in favor of the
B a p lb t C k a rc k
Grass
Valley grade boys
The revival services ’ directed by
The
girls gam e was the faaters
Evangelist Ed C- Cofer will close
and most hard fought game th at has
Sunday night with a gospel rally
and baptism al service. Over eigh been witnessed for many a day (th at
is among the weaker sex) the girls
teen have made profession of faith,
and the church will receive many of all played an excellent game and the
these in fellowship. L ast Sunday score was exceedingly close through
The agricultural situ atio n also im
out the game. The Kent girls played
there were 106 in Bible School and
proved during 1933, p rin cip ally as a
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very
good
game
but
could
not
the mark is set higher for next Sun
re su lt of orderly m arketings of crops
day ' Bfbl* School 10- Preaching break through the Grass Valley
guard which was working to the and higher farm prices, actual p ro
by Evangelist Cofer a t 11 a. m., 8
point of extrem e perfection. The duction of crops being ab out th e sam e
and 7:30 p. m.
as in th e proceeding year. Clim atic
»core was 12 to 5 in our favor-
Church School ........................ 10 a. m.
The boys also had a very exciting conditions w ere generally favorable
B Y. P U- .......... ............. 6.30 p- m.
and close game. The boys all played for th e grow ing and h arv estin g of
a good game a-nd the score was clos? crops, although as a re su lt of the
Beginning the 8th of February, a
throughout the game. In spite» of dry year, range foi age w as e x tre m e
revival m eeting will be conducted in
the supreme efforts put forth by tho ly poor. Movement of livestock to
the opera house in Wasco, under the
G V. boys they only managed to m ark et w as about th e sam e as in
auspices of the Nazarene church
squeeze out a victory by one point, 1932, and prices improved b u t little
Services will be held each evening at
7:80 for an indefinite length <4 time
Special music and singing under the
direction of Rev. B- L. Simmons of
¡Milton, Oregon. Rev. G F Allee will
be the evangelist in charge; Rev.
Allee recently conducted a very suc
cessful revival a t Rufus.
Bank Reviews
Farm Situation
MORO SCHOOL NOTES
The Girls Glee Club was represent
ed a t the last' m eeting of the study
class la st Sunday n ig h t When call
ed upon to sing Dorothy F raser and
Doris Thompson sang “ Roses of
Picardy’.” A fter th a t Gayle Amidon
sang ‘‘Smilin’ T hru.” T hat was all
they had prepared but were asked
to smg. They finally replied by giv
ing three numbers “ When Irish Eyes
are SmiliQg, The Sunshine of Your
Smile, and Mother M achree.” The
girls Mio sang were Irm a Morgan,
Elms Axtell. Freda 'Rice, Gayle Ami
don, Dorothy F raser, Doris Thomp
son, Genevieve Nahouse, Norm a Mel-
zer and Ethel K ruger They were ac
companied a t the piano by Lavon
Sayrs. The reason for the Irish
songs was th a t Reverend Hutchinson
gave a talk on different religions.
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This Is the new United States cruiser Astoria Just launched nt Seattle. It
was built under the terms of the navnl treaty and is more powerful than many
battleships. The Astoria was christened with champagne by a descendant of
the founder of the city for which It Is nnrned.
S em ester exam s w ere held last
week and th e re p o rt cards w ere
handed out on Monday of this week,
much to th e delight, of some and
ch ag rin of oth ers. Those who m ade
the honor roll th is six weeks include:
Freshm en, F ran cis Fairchild. Sopho
mores', J a n e t W ilcox, Isabelle F o r t
The g irls glee club are also going ner, Cora B ayer. Juniors, Mildred
Community Presbyterian Church
Alley- Seniors, V ivian Reynolds., Lila
Sunday School ..."................. 10 a. m. to give a clever stunt.
Harold Thogeison, ar.d Paul F ra Fay Boyce, E a rl Shipley
Sunday Elmer B a n e s returned to
work in the E C W. camp above
Dufur afte r a winter spent a t home
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The basketball games with Rufus
Cheer the heroine . Hiss the
last
Friday were postponed until a
villian
Saturday night at the big
later
date became of scarlet fever
benefit chow.
in th at town
Mrs.
P o w e r f u l C r u i s e r Î3 L a u n c h e d
The high school paper. The O pti-
from the low levels of th a t year-
j ments in 1934 in the first of the ag
Steady improvement in Tw elfth ricultural situation and outlook r e
D istrict banking conditions followed ports for this year ju s . issued by
the pervd of severe pressure which the economists of the Oregon State
culminated in the tem porary closing college extension service.
This issue, which is the annual re
of all banks in March, 1933- W ith th e
view
and outlook number put out at
reopening of most banks on anl un
restricted basis in the last half of the s ta rt of each year, lias been pre-1
the month1, currency was redeposited pared by L. IL B reithaupt, extension
about as rapidly as it previously had agricultural economist, assisted by
been withdrawn. These funds, to A S- B urrier, associate, and IL IL
gether w ith those entering the dis White, assistan t economists- It is
tric t banking structure from large now available fo r distribution thru
net United States G overnm ent. dis any county agent or direct from
bursements in this area, enabled Corvallis.
Total supply of agricultural prod
banks to settle for a n et outflow to
other districts because of commercial ucts for the coming year is expected
transactions. to reduce borrowings a t to be less but no g re at improvement
the reserve bunk, and to build up re- in export demand is foreseen a t
seerve deposits
The gain of funds present, hence any m aterial improve
from n et T reasury disbursem ents m ent in the economic position of a g
continued during the last half of the riculture m ust come largely from im
year, resulting in the building up of provement in the home m arket, the
excess reserves to record proportons report point* out.
Home demand, moreover, depends
and in a reduction Tn money rates.
N et demand and tim e deposits of on the continued flow of income to
reporting member banks tfended up industrial workers, hence any improve
ward steadily a fte r March, and a f ment in business conditions should
ter Ju n e th ere was a m odem expan be reflected in agricultural b etter
sion in total loans and investm ents ment, even though it) brings some
as a result of enlarged portfolios' of advance in farm labor cosfs and
Government securities and an In prices of farm supplies.
The new year sta rts out with
crease in “ all other’’ loans. Subse
farm
prices 14 points above the low
quent to the banking holiday period,
capital structures of many hanks level reached' early In 1933, though
were strengthened through sales of
preferred stock, some banks were
PURCHASED BY CUBS
liquidated, and some merged into
branch systems, the effect being a
strengthening of the entire banking
system.
League Will
Help Cities
Eugene, O re—Legislation for liquor
control, federal aid civic work, city
planning and wide variety of topics
were taken up a t the third regional
m eeting of tho League of Oregon
Cities held recently in Medford-
Officials fiom Ashland. Gold Hill,
Grants Pass, Klamath Falls, Pheonix,
Talent and Medford were present-
Representatives of cities were
pioetieally unanimous in their opin
ion th a t projects under the Civil
Works Adm inistration should be con
tinued, as a means of relieving un
employment,
FoMordble atten tio n
w|as also given to the request of
M arshall N Dana, regional advisor
for the Public Works A dm inistration
th a t t h e —principal communities a t
Oregon establish a city planning
commission which will have for ita
purpose the securing of maximum
benefits from the public work*
projects.
William M. Briggs, field consultant
fo r the le a g u e of Oregon Cities, and
Herman Kehrli. executive secretary
of the league and director of th*
U niversity of Oregon bureau of mu
nicipal research, were in charge of
the session Briggs outlined leg
islation passed by the recent session
of the le g isla tu re th a t related to
cities, while Mr- Kehrli outlined the
purpose of the league-
Other meetings will be held in
various sections of the state, follow
ing the success of this session and
sim ilar gatherings held previously in
Marshfield and Baker.
Cheerful Outlook
Held For Farmer
geles ball club.
A prospective increase in raw
m aterials prices including farm com
modities, better and cheaper credit
and less unemployment with conse
quent better demand fo r farm prod
ucts, are foreseen as likely develop-
BEST FARM ORATOR
Kumquat)—I never deny my wife
the sligheet wish-
Strudel—T hat’s generous, but how
in the world can you afford it?
Kumquat—Afford it? Oh. it doesn t
cost me anything- If she want» to
wish, why shouldn’t I allow heT to do
it?
WHEAT
_ 7 Continued from page one.
¡some areas-
Italy lias reduced w heat acreage
around 10 per cent from th a t of last
year and excessive rains have dam
aged crops, particularly in Southern
districts. A sm aller acreage has
;dso been sown in Germany but no
serious dam age to the crop is ap
parent. Seedings in the Danube
are slightly under those of a y ear
ago, totaling around 17.300,000 acres
as against 19,000,000 acres last year.
Most sections of the Balkan countries
are protected by good snow covering
although conditions in Rumania are
below those of other parts of the
Basin. Conditions In other parks of
Europe are generally favorable. The
firH official estim ate placed the acre
age sown to w heat in the Indian Pun
jab a t 10.646,000 acres, compared
with the final estim ate of 9,927,000
acres a year ago. The condition of
I the crop was reported a t 95 per cent
j of qormal, and above th a t of other
Marbles Aid Light Bulb
When toy m anufacturers found s
demand for lighted toys, such as po< k recent years-..
Ru®sia has again d em onstarted her
et flushlighta, m iniature automobile*
and motorboats, lamps for such pur leadership as the w orld’s large« ‘
poses were unsatisfactory. They gave w heat producer w ith a b ’llion bushe1
light, but lacked adequate control
crop and ap p ears as a form idable
What was needed most, \yys popular
Mechanics .Magazine, was a tiny I. imp com petitor of the U ni.ed S tates en I
that would emit a powerful spot of o th er surplus a re a s in world m arkets,
light, resist breaking and operate from according to th e G rain M arket News
a single dry cell small enough to he Service of th e U nited S ta te s B ureau
Installed in the toy. Marvin Pitkin. of A g ricu ltu ral Economics.
Ru ? a
Nela Park scientist, got an inspiration
has
roughly
th
re
e
and
a
half
ime
from watching boys play marbles.
as
much
land
su
itable
for
w
heat
p ro
Some of the marbles were clear glass
“aggies.” After n little study an or duction as th e U nited S ta te s and the
der was placed and a quantity of ng proportion of th e m ost fe rtile and
gles soon arrived. When attached to best adapted lands to the to tal is
the stem tubing these aggies provided
much higher.
Just the light "spot” required.
DALLES FREIGHT LINE INC.
Dr. F. A. Perkins
D a ily T r u c k S e r v ic e
30!
Portland, The Dalles, Grass Valley
T ri w e e k l y to Antelope &
E
Second St
The D alles, O regon
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O PTO M ETK IST-O PTICI AN
way points.
FASTSER VICE-LG WESTRA TES
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JO S E P H A. M E E
The Wasco Shoe Man
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or your convenience 1 have a r
ranged for you to leave your
Shoe W ork a t W alter A. May &
Son. Pick up and delivery twice
a week at no cost to you.
F ir s t
W eek
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UPDEGRAFF & PEPPER
in E a c h M o n th
A tto r n e y s A t L aw
ZELL’S
Moro Woman’s Club
FUNERAL HOME
See your Neighbors Act, Hear your Neighbors Sing
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AMBULANCE SERVICE
7 BIGACTS-7
SONGS — SKITS - STUNTS
Feature — ONE ACT PLAY
by faculty A Comedy
Mothers Influeuce.”
Dick W ard, sen satio n al youn" Vi"lU-
handed p itc h er who w as bought by
the Chicago Cubs from the l.<»s An
it is not equally distributed to all
branches of agriculture- F arm pur-**
chasing power is not com parably im
proved because of the advance in
prices of things farm ers buy Com
plete application of the AAA pro
gram s and other projects designed
to adjust production to the probable
demand, are expected to balance the
tem porary disadvantage to agricul
ture of the price advances under the
NRA and sim ilar movements, the re
view sets out-
The review is illustrated with .
charts, graphs and tables which help
give a complete but easily understood
picture of the agricultural business
outlook as the new season starts. It
also contains suggestions and aids to
farmer's - in m aking out operating
budgets and keeping farm accounts so
as to put their enterprise on a strict
ly business basis.
Phone 315 I he D a lle s, O re
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O re g o n
W hen Y our 8hoeaneed
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GOOD SHOE REPAIRING
204 Second St.
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California Western Stales Life
Insurance Co.
Saturday, Feb. 3rd, 8 p. m.
Moro School Auditorium
Life - Accident - Health - Annuities
Adm. 35c, High School Students 20c, Children 10c
Campfire Candy Sale
For Library Benefit
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Mrs. William Fender of Meadow
brook, Neb., was declared the beat
public speaker among farm wo meg
from 33 states who contended for tlig
honor during the American Farm B a
renu federation's moating In Chicago
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