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AMpte. Portlapd. Oraan. PAGE IHE SHERMAN COUNTY JOURNAL, MORO. OREGON, FRIDAY. MARCH 30, 1934. FOUR OREGON STATE NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST Brief Resume ef Happenings of the Week Collected for ‘ Our Readers , Corvallia — The Benton county court has authorized a bounty W |1S n bend on eoyotea Eugene—Walter S. Glteeton«, a tailor of Eugene, who for 34 year« operated in the same block, ia dead at tho age of 75 yoars. The Dalles—The Dalle* port com mission ha* autl}ori*«d th* directors of The Dadle* Chamber of Commerce to proceed with a plan to obtain ocean shipping rate* for Th a Dali««. Klamath Fall*—Notice hat* been received at Klamath Falls that tlm- bef operations on th« Kir math rea- ervation will In voire sub'. Intlal re ductions of stumpag« pi\‘) this year. , Med(ord—Effort* are being ecr tinned *t Jacksonville to determine tho oldest pioneer woman in Oregon, who will reign over Oregon** Dla- . mohd Jubilee celebration at Medford next June. -Albany — In constructing a road through Sodaville, Linn county, a unique rock formation has been Ex posed. It consists of basalt bould ers weighing 100 to 1000 pounds and of hexagonal shape. Mrs- Bill Nedbit and son were in The Dalles on Friday- Mrs- 11 ugh White entai tinned members of the Senior class and gutets at her home last Wednesday nighit the occasion being the birthday Eqgene—A Rlnnle dam commis of Marie Olson. There wefe four sion, comprising representative* of tables of cards and B.tty McCafferty the Eugene Realty board, baa been made high scone for the girls and organised. It will promote tho Mc K as eburg for the boys. Kenzie river power development, an Paulen 918,000,000 project. Mrs Frank Morrow was shopping in The Dalles on Friday. - Hood River—In order to satisfy local dealers the city council of Hood River ha* decided, that future purchases of light bulbs for the mu nicipal light system shall be rotated among local dealers Redmond—While playing on a newly graveled street in Redmond, Clair Hyde picked up a stone that turned out to be a gold nugget worth about 310. The gravel camo from a pit just south of town. Roseburg — The Douglaa county eourt hu reduced the constable and justice of peace dlatrlcts from 28 to 13. Aa soon as terms of present of ficers expire there will be a further elimination of five more districts. Umatilla—Umatilla county mem« bora of the Eastern Oregon Wheat league have joined with members of the league from other Oregon wheat producing countlea in an effort to do away with tho tax on grain bag*. - Forest Grove—Mrs. Maud Boscow has been apoplnted treasurer of Washington county to succeed her husband. W. W. Boscow, deceased. During the Alaska gold ruah BoscOw spent several years at Nome. He re turned to Hillsboro and opened a clothing store. Astoria—The Port of Astoria has directed its attorney to defend a suit brought in the federal court by a group of Eastern holders of port bonds to restrain the payment of de linquent taxes with bonds and tho issuance of warrants tor defaulted bonds and Interest. Springbrook — The Springbrook Prune Growers' association has dis tributed 818,000 to its members. Of this sum 313,400 waa in final set tlement of tho 1833 prune pool, while the remaining 82COO went to redeem certificates of Indebtedness from the revolving fund. Monmouth—J. Q. Thomas, who recently celebrated hi* 10th birth day, operates his farm at Mon mouth, caring for 75 hens, a cow, a - horse and a garden, and aaya he feels a* ambitious about work as ho ever did, only ho can't keep going as he eould 30 or 40 years ago. WM a guest last week end at the ' it wm worth their time to attend Sargent home ' auch a meeting. - A meeting of the local Homemak- Miss Helen Ny« of Hood River w« * «UMI last a«k «nd at th. Club P'»“ “ Mo™ V“» Pork, on March 20. The park was Warner home selected as a suitable location for a Mrs- Ove Hansen entertained the picnic whidh the club had planned Webfoot Social Club and guests Ust previously to hold on this day. Friday. There were four tables and The meeting consisted of very lit Mrs. J. M. Yocum won club prize, tle business as most of the time was Mr 8- Hansen of Moro guest prize and spent in’eating the pot luck lunch the Mrs A- B. Potter consolation. | girb had brought. The president, Mr. and Mrs. John McDennid were Irm> Morgan, brought a lovely angel guest» at the home of Mr. and Mra. f°od cake as a special treat for the Alex Jone* of Tygh Ridge- dub. Ai« aa^on or Th. d ^ i « w .< T ho dwc uf **, c * rue* M the Jo. M« hom. l«t w«k, * | of the food Was devoured, and 'the girls aro planning to have another Delmar Smith of McMinnville will such meeting in the near future. Spend the Easter vacation with his Dorothy Fraser parents Mr- and Mrs. Art Smith. The Jolly Cooke, s met at the (home Patronize Journal Advertisers- of Mrs. Stephens which is the lead er. Betty Jeanne Vintin and Lois Melzer demonstrated making cream of tomato soup. Which they served to the girls. After we were done with our soup Mrs. Stephens treated us The Katt y Kamp Rookery Klub with ice cream and little wafers- Our went to the Cottonwood bridge Sate next meeting Jahe French and Lois urday- Millard Melzer was the only Melzer will demonstrate nudcing a vegetable salad; The Contract Club met on Wadmee- member absent. Each member pre Betty Jeanne Vintin. pared one dish for the meal. day at the home of Mra. Ed McKee- Eeach person washed his owndishe-, The Sunday school of the Chris dried them and put tlhem away. Afjer Th? Kent Calf Club No. 2 met at tian church will give an Easter pro tliat was dene a business meeting was the hopie of Frank von Borstel, Sun gram at 11 o'clock April 1 followed held. The rest of the time was spent day March 25th, with five members . - by a pot luck dinner in the basement in playing games and dipping mine present. A motion was carried to of the church. , AU members invited. now? from a lit Je pond. They were have our leader write to John Fair- Mrs. Eliza Dingle and brother successful in catching eight min- ckild and Billy Alsup to see if they were guests Sunday at the Richie nows for our school aquarium- Sev- would attend our meetings and take eral members enjoyed taking turns in part in our club. Otherwise they Dingle home. • fishing in the John Day river. would be dropped. They haven’t at Mrs- Geo- Wilde entertained a num tended a meeting so far, and they ber,,pf guests last Tuesday at dessert have none of their literature and re A summary of the organization of luncheon followed by bridge. • High port cards, and it will spoil our 4-H Clubs for 1934 in ths county un score was made by Mrs. Herbdnt cliancq of a 100 percent club- der the direction of Wily Knighten Root and low by Mrs- John McDer- The boys were tried out in judg and Perry Johnston, county officials, mid. proves that sixty standard clubs in ing Beef Type Cattle and Hogs but Mr. and Mra- Otis Royce spent cluding domestic sciences, ^ealth^ not to the satisfaction of the leader. Sunday in Portland with relatives. live stock, agriculture, horticulture He discovered they had not studied Mr. and .Mrs. Otis Hines and fam- and forestry projects, aie registered their Beef Judging ^amphleta. It ily netAirned retAimed to their home in Look- Look* and have commenced to carry out was decided to judge stock at the out, California, Monday after s’^nd- | their purpose- A total of 564 beys next four meetings, each one to judge ing some time in Wasco with red and girls of Sherman county who are an animal and at the end of the four atives eligible to enter into 4-H clubs are judgings such members points are to be added up. The 3 getting the high participating in this work. Mr. and Mrs C- R. Chamberlain of est score are to be the club judging In individual projects, codking has Portland spent Sunday at the home team. The next meeting will be at of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Scholl the oc- the greatest number of participators I a ^tal of 126 from sixteen cook- the W- C. Helyer ranch on April 8th casion being Mr. Sdholl’s birthd v I ing group* in the county. Forestry, All members are urged to be present Mrs- L. P Haven entertained guests introduced this year ' for the first at this meeting, and we would like at bridge l»wt Wednesday and Thurs time in Sherman county has proved for our parents to take part in our day. .............. to be a very ¡successful project for it meetings. G Luther Davs Jr. Mr. and Mrs. R. O- Scott and Mrs. is second largest of all the projects having 99 irJeonbersi composing dx Tracy Fields were in The Dalles Sun- Last Wednesday the Merry Mixers day and attended the Palm Sunday Afferent clubs in the county. With seven clubs and 55 members, sewing could not hold a meeting so we met servicen at the Episcopal church- I comes third in line for amount of Friday March 23rd at the home of and Mrs- Bruce Grady and i members interested in different 4-H our leader Mrs- Perry Johnston. We Nm>mi were dinner Quests at the projects. made plans for a hike and picnic to Nesbit home Sunday. - These clubs are under the super- be held soon. Mr. and Mra. LeRoy Chapman i imd vision of capable leaders, numbering Monday March 26 we rneld another baby of The Dalles are visiting at 51 in all, who are interested in these meeting at Mrs. Johnston’s home. the Eaton homie. 4-H club children and who are giv- There was a demonstration of quick ■ The friends of F- S- Lamborn are'“* a part of their time to 8ee tb*1 breads. We decided to meet regu glad to hear of his improvement, Mr. their club members are receiving larly on Monday instead of Wednes Lamborn is in Portland for medical correct information and will finish day- Also voted to have a penny drill each meeting. 100 per cent. attiention- Audreyella Searcy- Dorothy Fraser F. iR, Murray of Emporia, Kansas, was a guest last Sunday at th« Geo. Wednesday, Marti» 21, the High We girds of the Grass Valley High Lamborn home. School Cooking group decided to School Cooking Club had a pleasant Miss Helen Felitz of The Dalles postpone their meeting for the pur surprise When we met Monday, Mrs pose of attending the county-wide von Borstel was. present to demon Homemakens Meeting which was spon strate the making of an Angel Food sored by the county at the courthouse cake. We were each given a piece to on that day. test, but I noticed most of the girls Many useful and practical ideas forgot about the testing part because were obtained in reference to man- their pieces too suddenly disappeared- agement of the home, regulation of Boy. but it was delicious. diets and daily habits. The club feel j Missi Cassie Holmes, IMins- Alfred apoka on the development of “China Ware” from an early age to the proa- ant time having a number of differ ent dishes re^reoegating the different Library board* of th« . MiJ-Colum- stages of development. Her talk was bia district will meet in on very interesting.., Mrs. Warner sang April 12 for a dizcusmon of their accompanied by Mary J. Sargent and problems- Margaret Johnson gave' two piano Mra- Lawrence Funk entertained th« Tillicum bridge club and gurota were served by the committee in • at her hom« last Thursdny wid» Mrs. charge. Brock and Mix- jHull aa mutant Mrs- Steve McMillan agent last hoatess. There were six tablee and week end in MehbUa the guest of her Mrs. MePboraon won club prize, Mr* John McDermld gurot prize and low The Wasco high school put on their 3rd annual vodvil on Saturday right. for the club and iMrs- Bruce Grady It was the first appearance of the guest. . ' i hand in their uniforms which were Estes Morton of Heppner wn* vwry pleasing and their progrros tvaryterVirsy business in Wasco last made under the able direction ef Mr- Wednesday Simpson was remarkable for such a Walter lAiyint-n of the Farmer's short time. A group of Hood River National Warehouse Corporation was people assisted in making the affair quite a success. A large crowd at in Wzuco last Wednesday*. tended the performance^and it is Mnt Everett Watkins was shop hoped we may have.mere Speh fpleib ping in The Dalles on Wednesday-. . did school programs to the future. , ,x •» Mrs. .Jack Chapnum and Mite. IMra- Mary Andrew* entertained the Ernest Ferrell and Mra- Roy Belshe« Thursday bridge club »uxl guests at were io Wasco visiting last Thurs- her home Mra. E4 ; JtyfôKæ and Margaret npent the week end in Portland with relatives. The Wasco Woman’s Study Club had guests day Friday at the home of Mrs- Roy Atwood. Mrs. T- Le land Brown of The Dalles was the •urnic» Or««on. pursuant V Saacvnt of capiti up................ .. dur- Nat premiums r«c«iv< ....» 3.740.384.H ins ths raer ....... r*nU Intaaast dividends an •r.. 111.8H») ir«M 5r.. 3a»0.3S received Nat lisies paid during the year including adJusunent tiptnMi ...........................1 4.SM.5M.pt Tax««, licenses and tea paid during Uis rear .......... . 4»einet af all other expendl- Talal exp«nd>t^^ 5.431.500 84 U9.M1.M ....»10.5M.884 W Valve of real ostate owued (book valuti .......,.:....» 743.010.U Valut af stuckt and bonds _ owned (amasti«»d valu*).. 13.518.71183 Ioan« op luortfasos and co!- etc. KA liuns in caüra o? coll*c lion wrltlrn sine* *»p4*ni- latersst and reals dits' and accrued .... AU oUisrs ...' 1.3M405.M Total admit! ... .414.13X384.« 38 - un- .......................................... » 4.:8>.8U M t *f IMkfMd pran Mi «11 outeten din« ........... .--vjuíi— i 4.834,388.83 'r*V»MlÍÚa ÍBciúdlna J* üikMÍiúa ’ üi ómboon róí» W tai reaaivad duna« •r; Henry Collins. ««lÎNGER. RICHARDS 4 CO. Total incoas Rat losses rtar loci Estacada — White many ginseng grower* have become discouraged over future prospects. Coop A Kern planted 11,000 new plants this spring. ' 508.004 00 ............. » its ■ Medford—Plan* h»rv* been com pleted for th* operation of th« mv - mill and plant ef th« Ow«n-Or«gon Lumber Sale* company, which will give employment to 300 men. In ad dition to approximately 100 men now on the payroll. Th« logging eamp* nr* expected to be In operation in about two weeks. »473 04117 M0.U4.41 ».884.533.04 natia io 38.088.80 484.138.89 138.115.84 Se. rk’- a Skating. 4.844.813 35 Total eipendn »3M.M1H 1.8M.875.M 818.3500 Aiuount of all ether ex- tonditure« ............... 8.420.15 ’. Ï!» Value of real ««tate av.ned •*n»4 (market value) ... U .130.131 1» Loan* on mortaasu and col lateral. etc ...................... nil Caah In bank« and on hand 354.333 44 Premium« in eoune nt col lection written «inée 8«r- teaabar 34. 1833 ..' ...... 1 J-M5.S4 mterwat and r«nti dur and accrued, «ad other assets Total admitted ai*«et« ,,..|8 Uabilttl«» Oro.«, claim« for loas.*« un- . ..........................................I 4 mount w unearned pre- miumi on aU outstendlnc $15 00 Mill Run4 $15.00 per bbl. High Gride Family Patent Shorts $17.00 Flour south of Kent for dinner. We got down there about nine o’clock so some of us went up on , top a big cliff and tolled rocks down the- hill until about 11 o'clock then we start ed dinner and found out that we did- not have any of the things that we were supposed to cook so all we had wu a salad, cake, coffee and dry bread. After dinnc. we went up to Luther Davis’ home- He was sick and could not be with .tfk on our trip. We had tlbe business meeting up there- We named our dub the Hungry Eleven After the meeting we departed for home where we arrived about 1.30- Robert Mitchell. The Cooking III Club met last Wednesday at the ihbme of Annie Laurie Haynes, for a demonstration on luncheons. Annie Laurie and Levinia Barnett were on the demon- atration committee. All of the mem bers were preterit and a pleasant meeting was held- These same busy girls held another meeting at Mrs. Dunlap's home for a breakfast Sun day morning at nine. Maxine Pluem- ke and Helen Wilson demonstrated Waffles. For roll call several of the girls answered with interesting ar ticles or talks about cooking problems and how to solve them- The next meeting will be Thursday afternoon. Edna McKay and Helen Sather will be the demonstration team. The Clothing III Club met Wednes day at the home of Mrs. Davis The project was discussed and the girls are to start work immediately. We are looking forward to a very suc cessful year. The meetings will be held every Wednesday at the gymna sium Where the Auxiliary sewing ma chines are located- / More trees were received Thursday for the Forestry Club. The three varieties were Black Locust, Moun tain Ash and Russian Olive. Nearly all of the members took at least five WASCO MARKET RED 4 WHITE STORE Grocer ies—Meats—F resh Fruits and Vegetables in Season. Your Patronage Solicited SALT-half ground $16.50 A meeting of the Sunny Slope Forestry club was opened Wednes day p. m. March 21, in due form by ' Barbara Belshe, president Raymond Leonard was selected our yell a im I song leader and Barbara Bedshe and Winifred Bel shoe wege choeen our program and social committee. For our next meeting Miss Kruger asked each of us to give a report on the wild life of the forests. Clinton Kessinger is to report on the wild life of our local community. The meeting wm adjourned and for recreation Raymond led us in several yells. Since having planted our trees we have constructed an irrigation system with the aid of Mr. Homer Belshee- We can now water every tree with out lifting a bucket of water with the exceptions of four or five trees- We have also added two or more trees to our Sunny Slope forest. Winifred Belshee. The meeting of the Rabbit Club was called to order in due form by the President. All numbers were . present and there were two visitors’ Rietha Howard made a motion we name the club Moro Rabbit Club. It was seconded and carried. hDonald Williams made a motion that Rietha get our songs and yells. It was sec onded and carried- We have talked j to different members about getting rabbits. Billy Thompson qpede a mo tion the meeting be suijourhed. It was , carried. ‘ Gordon Thompson. R. H. McKean for commission a n d brokers«« ........................ 41.45X0« 44«. iie.n All ather AsbUiUe« ............. Gee! After learning: all about can ning (anyway we think we know all about it) we can hardly wsiit until fruit season to try our skill- Our club held its second meeting at the school house with all members present under the leadership of Mrs. W. A. Young. Anna gave her repoit cm Fruit Spoilage, and we hope it will do us some good when we start using oui 'knowledge.« The next topic wQl l>e • Kinds of Fruit It Will Pay Us to Can which was assigned to Phyllis Haynes and we ane looking forward to this talk from h&r Our singing quaitEMi aren’t veiy well organized yet but, believe it or. not, they are going to be- At least that’s our hopes. » Anna Sather was appointed to make the by-laws for our club. Our next • meeting will be r>ext Tuesday at the school house. Anna Sather rit.iTsw Contlnsency reserve — (see note A attached). Du« $6.25 Bran more and some took as many as twenty- There seems to be mor« in terest in this club than was expected when It waa organized. Evarycc» is enthused about the forests to be- Ti.*s enathusiasm seems; to be contrgious and has attracted two more members. The G. V- H. S. Sewing Club .was Eugene Norton and Phyllis Haynes Officers organized two weeks Margaret Dunlap- . chosen are*. Plaident, vice president, Eunice I The Kent high school cooks, the tary, Phyllis Dickson. Tuesday was Merry Mlakers, met at the school chown aa our sewing day. Mrs- Paul house March 23 in what proved to be ine Wilcox is our leader. another interesting meeting. Greta 'Rusrell. The meeting waa called to order by our president, CJaricc |M|tchdl, The Chick-ar-dee Chicken Club met after which the regular order of March 13 for ttb first tweeting. Ite buinesa was followed- The members of our club decided officer* are Robert Mitchell, president Virginia »Helyer, vice president, and to give a banquet for our fathers and mother* sometime in the near future Bertha Helyer. secretary Of course this will prove our cook Merril Sather and Eugene Norton ing ability, that is if we have any were put on the reporting committee and Millard Howell and Bertha Hel (and let’s hope we have as we want yer are arranging program, by-laws our banquet to be known as a suc cess) and constitution. The members of our club are also We met Mhrch 21 for our second meeting- Club songs were ommitted planning on giving an afternoon tea on account of all being to bashful to at a undecided date as yet. Evelyn Davis and Virginia Helyer lead- The president is to be sung were appointed by the president as - leader for future meetings and the secretary is to furnish a list of song* a committee of two to decide on re- for the members that didn’t havv freshments for the banques- Phoebe Lyons amd Clarice Mitchell will plan them- The Chick-a-dee<s met for their 3rd refreshments for the afternoon tea. At the close of the meeting a meeting March 27 all members pres ent, The constitution and by-laws vegetable salad demonstration was were accepted and the president ap given by Bertha and Virginia Hel > ’ pointed Virginia Helyer to report on yer. Our next meeting will be held “How to feed for egg production,” and Catherine von Borstel to report March 30 at the home of Clarice Mitchell where Evelyn Davis and on “Why grit is fed to chickens." Bertha Helyer- Clarice (Mitchell will pFove| ’to 4’ that many good dishes can be mad« Sunday foie noon the Camp Cook from eggs- Virginia Helyer. ers boys went to a canyon five miles ex c e p t ......................... I » 1.181.555 24 Total HshlUtlee, capital . a b*)ow) .............. ’WB It les from Cottage Grove—Roller ikatlng oa busy streets has become such a aul- aance at Cottage Grove that the eity council ha* ordered that, on several Street* and the entire route of tho Paeifle highway, there shall be ao Snow Maid Flour n’’ 1104.014.33 Seaside to Rockaway will Uun j a drive for the completion of the Wolf Creek highway. A committee has been appointed to bring the matter J>«fore the state highway commis sion. Dlvl4*n<U a*!« •* capitel stack Murin« U m rear .... CoamlsaloiM an < salarla Total expenditure« ..... « "»34.1454 3 Rawmlil To Add »00 to Payroll K lama th Falls—Ground squirrels, running a close second to grasshop pers as Klamath basin's far»» sr a' most destructive pest, have arrived three weeks ahead of schedule. These rodents do much damage by digging into Irrigation canals and flooding farm land. Poison Is being distrib uted free df charge to farmers. 881.818.18 aurea E spend Ginseng Gardens L. 4-H Club News Kock and Mrs. Clifford iRowe were visitors, also the grade school cook ing club- Eupice Noys* and Greta Russell’* demonstration of a vegetable salad waa postponed until the next meet- » SurpliM «ver «11 U«tUiti«« (tf n«te B b*low) ... E 8.773.137 13 SiirpitM m rvwardi poUcv- halSera ....................................A’."?. .47 13 Iwai .7; 8J8TJ.8U 14 raarA« policy- - U71.S1R. IS »'JSTW Year ■pi praaUuas r«c«lv*d dur- la« U m rear ...... 3 80.at.83 iMaaa p«M durm« ma pear , 84.343 77 L nmi meurrtd durin« th« par .......... 34,713 77 Naa« af eaoipanp. North Breuh A MercantU« Ina Co. Limited N um «f n»n«M. Call i Heraa* N*m« «4 santer?. * P. Stetutwp rralAtM attorti«« tor wrvte*. Thoma« B Thoaoaen, Furtian*. Or. N«te "A“—Non« ra«1r*« b«eau«« m - •urltr valua at actual markat «u«ta- Uotu Dae. 31., 1K3. «saa*»« kp 380.484 - 83 U m vatu»« on th« but« a«provo« bp U m New Yak Tn«>iraac« Department 4 Him. I on« ia Mrs. B.E. Hailey, Asst. Mgr. See us for lowest prices on Copper Carbonate Grain Bags, Chick Feeds and Rollep Wheat. Retailers of Flour »14,540.711.37 B ub I imm in Oraon for th« » »aMi.m.n 403,000.03 Wheat Bought and Sold GRAIN, FEED, INSURANCE DEAL with YOUR LOCAL Mitchel, Lewis & Slaver Co. Farm Implements Sherman Cooperative Grain Growers WASCO. OREGON Crown Mills FLOUR Wasco Oregon I
