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PAGE THE SHERMAN COUNTY JOURNAL, MORO» OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 2U, 1934- TWO« Mr. and Mrs» Vernon Van GiL luncheon followed by bridge. Club course, will try out the fisihang , knew what was going on, he. was nemember them, were John Duffy, hjeld Friday, April 14, at which prize was Uken by Mrs- Vic Smith der and family wwe dinner guests John Carney, Sim Romig and a big Mr- Teta presented «he letters to and guest prize by Mrs. Afton Me- last Sunday at the »Sawin home. _ Mrs. Clarence Morrison and Surrounded by the h^a. His the eighteen who had earned them. daughter Helen, and Mrs. Charles team «ropped. For some time he man named Mat Taylor. Intyne and Mre Art Barzee won, r O sb Morrow and family of The official letter ------- adopted by now mere vwmm r . the Now there were other mail Ruggles were in Portland Satur kept still. Could see nothing but routes running out of The Dalles students, it -------- consolation- , Monte Virta, Vista, Colorado, are guests was agreed by al . horses, he got infront of his team day. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Proudfoot at the Frank Morrow home. The first mail between The Dallee very attractive, being a sue inch H. E Wirth, a Portland insur and lead them, and with his whip and Canyon City was carried on a block “R made of scarlet c en and Mr. and Mrs- Art Smith went A number of the members of ance man, dropped into Moro he slowly worked his way, nearly pack nark horse bv a man called Cayuse >lle with white felt background. to Pendleton last Saturday to at- ( Annie Fulton Chapter O. _ E* S. by Thursday afternoon and announced a mile, through the herd. When tend the eastern Oregon Masonic motored to Grass Valley Monday George. In 1864 H. H. Wheeler The Lettermen ’ s Club enter be got to the edge of the herd he that he expects to be an indepen night to attend themeeting at that He called to ran a four horse coach from The tained at a “weiner roast” for the meeting held that day. dent candidate for governor- He saw tome men- 31oro Lodge No. 113, L O. O. F. Dalles to Canyon City This stag*e eighteen students who received The Wasco Women's SJudy Club P*ace' them. No answer. HIT then said at first crossed the Deschutes river their letters this year, and the “ Kli-Hi-um ” (how do you do). A Moro, Oregon Last Thursday Wirth is interested in helping the , the state libra - at Goirdon’a Bridge, whidhi was lo graduate Lettermen of last year, met Friday at the home of 'Mins- Herbert Root A paper on Home rian spoke »t • luncheon held at Meets every Mon farmer receive a larger percent laugh which he recognized as the cated about four miles above the Wednesday, April 18 on the the Sherman Hotel- Abaut 35 day evening in the age of the retail price of what he laugh of a whit« man was the first mouth of the river, but later on it Deschutes river- They played base Making was given by Mrs. Everett guests were present- In the af sign /he had that he was among I.O.O.F. hall- Tran produces*. He opposes state owner Watkins and two short poems on white men instead of Indians. I crossed at Shearer’s Bridge- Wheel ball until it was dark enough to Our Home Town were read by Mrs- ternoon other guests spoke includ sient and Visiting ship of public utilities. heard him say. “All the way er had lots of trouble with the enjoy the fire and roast “weiners ” McKean. The different members ing Mr. McCulloch. Representa brothers are cordi through that hemd of horses, my Indians who several times stole his tives from Heppner, Condon, Fos A skating rare was an event of exchanged flower plants also. ally invited to meet hat would not stay on. When I stage stock, and in 1866, while on Friday noon- In the first division, sil, Arlington, Moro and The with us. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Feldman were Dalles wer0 present the road, he was shot by an Indian. beard that laugh, my hat settled which included the let, 2nd and Kalph Brisbine, N. G- down on my head ” He made his The bullet knocked out several 3rd grades. Shirley Juhnke won, at Bonneville Sunday- __ Joe Truit, Secretary- Mrs- Hugh White entertained a • trip and saw no Indians. Some teeth and took the toof of his IMr. and Mrs- Bruce Grady and number of guests on Tuesday with Lupine RcL< ?ca Lodge No- 116 10.00 a. m two or three years later George mouth out. He and a passenger cut her time being forty-two seconds. Church School ... •day night and In the second division and Naomi dessert luncheon and bridge- Muro, Oegon . 11:00 a. m. wa i drowned at' the mouth of out the lead team and made their Church Worship Sunday at The Dalles with rel- “ Free for All ” laces, respectively, m. 7:00 p escape. Other parties operated the Epworth League C’V-3 Valley Canyon, near John Mr. and Wrs- Harry Proudfoot George and Helen Mac nab were atives- Meets 2d'and 4th Tu- line as long as there was a demand declared winners, Helen making it Day Bridge. It .was during the shopped in The Dalles on Wed- e^da^ of each mof^k Community Presbyterian Church Mrs. Hugh White entertained needay. spring ri-taw and the canyon, us for that kind of transportation. in the least amount of time, Visiting members wel guests on Saturday with dessert ually dry, was a nwift muddy Wheeler recovered from his wound thirty-two seconds. The Tuesday Study Club was come. luncheon followed by bridge- and for many years lived in what river. Shannon reached it after entertained this week at the home Christian Science The local Declamatory Contest, was known aa the Com Cob Ranch ¿ Gladdis 11 i dtz. N. G. Prof. Paul CcCulloch accompan of Mrs. Ed. Dutton. TBa following Subject. Doctrine of Atonement dark. He unhitched, tied the mail which was in Grant county near at which the decision will be made L ’r. Bull, Secretan’- the bags on one horse and rode ied by Harry Dean Proudfoot, officers were Elected: President, Golden Text: Romans 5.11. We th« final Mignon Wall, Mary Jeannette, Mrs. Evans; vice president, Mrs- where Spray is nowloceted Wheel as to who Will the - Chris Schultz Poet No. 71 M’o joy in God through our Lord er county was named for him He contest, will be held Friday, April Sargent and Winifred Fortner Joe Hilderbrand; secretary, Mrs. ® American Legion Jesus Christ, by whom we have same aide they went tl «K but 20 in tha school auditorium. The lived to be a very old man. attended the National Honor meet Yocum and treasurer, IMra. Sheets Meets at Legion hull on now received the atonement final county contest is scheduled Another stage line of consider Some * other driv«, not yet ing held at the Oregon University 2nd and 4 th Wednesday Responsive Reading: Colossians Mra, Earl Brown spent the mentioned, were Geoe^a CMgb of able importance ran from The for the following Friday at Grass at Eugene on Saturday- Mrs- Mc- evenings of each month- 1; 3. 5, 10, 12-15, 19-22. week end in Portland- Valley. ‘ ‘ 1 Dalles, via ‘ Goldendale and Yak Culloch also accompanied them as L. French. Commander Al! are cordially invited to at The Dalles, Benton , MutgUB of ima, and on to Ellensburg, Wash- Wes Wilde spent Sunday in . 4 - The ten members of «he cast in far as Portland. Wily W Knighten, Adjutant tend the church services and to Weston, and Charley Mack. All ington. I don t know just when high school play. “ Yimmie Arlington visiting. of these men drove stage between make use of the reading room Mrs- Guy Pound and Mil’s. Emer this line was first stait- L but be-< Yonson’s Yob,,’ ano uring every The Dalles and John Day Bridge. Mrs Lawrence Funk went to in the rear of the church building, son of The Dalles were in Wasco And there was another very lieve in the early seventies- T «pare moment in practice- The Heppner on Tuesday. which is open daily where all and attended Monday so believe it was started by Tom p)ay be n# authorized Christian Science liter well known stage driver that I Johnson, who alad built a finie funeral- W. C. Weld and Vinton Watkins wish to mention here, al «bough he ature may be read, borrowed or three story hotel at Ellensburg, had a “ hard time ” party at the never drove stage out of The Mrs- Eliza Dingle and Mrs. purchased. Weld home on Saturday night. Dalles- Charley Slade, in the early and called it the “Johnson House.” spending Manning are Robert The Full Gospel Assembly nineties, owned a hotel and a It burned when the town was several days at Camp Sherman in Mr. and Mrs- Louis Walsh spent 10:00 a. m. For Sale: Three purebred Here Sunday School livery stable at Grants, Oregon, nearly wiped out by fire one 4th Mrii. Dingle’s cabin. ‘tihe week end in Portland and Mc ford Bulls. W. C- Helyer, Kent- Fellowship Meeting and scripture and run a stage line between of July night. I had a room in The Mary Elizabeth class of the Minnville- They were accompanied lesson ...................... 11.00a- m. Grant? and Goldendale, Washing the hotel that night but did not| Mrs. Augusta Huckin entertain- M. E. churdh had a tea on Wed by Mrs. Riddell. Gem potatoes Prayer meeting every Wednes ton. and drove the Concord Coach occupy it. Ellensburg was named ed the Contract Club at her home Parkdale Netted nesday at the parsonage and a sack on exchange for day at 2:30 p. m. at the home of Effie Andrews and Norma Feld $1.00 a most of the time himself. Slade after Mus. Johnson, whose name last Wedneflday with dessert lun- program was given. • man spent several days in Port wheat- Leave orders with Clyde R J. Ginn- | cheon followed by contract bridge- was a lame man, wearing a cork 2-t-p Everybody welcome. boot. He was also left Ihanded, but Gillmor in Moro. land this week- » When the Northern Pacific jjrg jobn McDermid was a guest I >- Grass Valley Baptist Church he was an artist with that whip- Railroad was completed, the stage of the club. Mrs. W- H. Lee made Mr. and Mra George Lamborn Lost: Pair horn rimmed glasses Church School Loot: . 10:00a- m. The way he could swing the whip line terminal was Goklendale and «he highest score. visited in Portland this week- last Friday night. George WW- Church service 11:00 a. m. with his left hand, and never wrap later it was discontinued. Many Mns. Laura Weld entertained the »Ross Morrow accompanied by iams- ' . 6.30 p. m. it around 'his passenger’s neck that incidents of interest could be B. Y. P. U...... Junior bridge club last Wednesday Mr- and IMrs. Frank Morrow spent witten about these stage lines, sat next to him, certainly was won Rev. Weibe! Sunday School mis »nd iMrs. Tuel took club prize. several days in Salem the first of and the men connected with teem, derful. sionary for Pendleton Presbytery Mrs- Bob McDonald guest prize the week. but this article will answer the OLD STAGE DRIVERS Once upon a time an axel grease will preach at Community dhurch and Mra ’0. Hilderbrand draw Mrs- Bill Nesbit shopped at the company sent a fine hour-horse purpose for which it is intended. Sunday April .2nd, at 11 o’clock- prize. (Continued from page one) It will recall to the minds of Dalles on Wednesday. . > team all over the country giving Th« Woman’s Missionary Socie He drov^ four big,' fine horses from Mrs- Steve McMillan and Dana exhibitions as an advertising some who read it a rasembrance of ty will meet at the home of Miss The Dalles to Price’s Station, and scheme. The driver with his four a class of people, most of whom Jean shopped in The Dalles on Isabel Bourhill Wednesday at 3:30 six smaller ones from there to horses, all with flaxen manes and have passed over tihe Divide, that Wednesday. OREGON SALE p m April 25th- Leonard’s Bridge- He always came tails, was giving an exhibition- of played a leading part in changing (Continued from page one) Harland (McCurdy of . Heppner, Since the chilly days of the into the station on the run and fancy driving in Goldendale one day Eastern Oregon from the wild appraiser for the Federal Lane and manufacturer« of the com week end the sun has had a chance left the station the same way. I, when Slade drove into town. Some country it was then to what it is Bank was in Wasco the first of munity for the purpose of bring to shine and it is really com as a Small boy, wondered .if he of the boys coaxed Slade to give today.. last week looking after business ing before the consumers a full drove that way all the time. One fortable with out firs or coat- a wild west stage coach exhibition. matters- • - knowledge of what Oregon pro day I climbed a hill where I could After he had put two or three MORO SCHOOL NOTES Rev. Weigel of Pendleton will duces Oregon Manufacturers can see the road for quite a distance, drinks of drugstore whiskey under •R. O. Scott took three Sherman preach at the Harlandview grange The high school picnic and the county boys to the C- C. camp at meet any competition/ both as to and found that when about a quar his belt, Slade drove down the hall Sunday evening at 7.30. Sun quality and prices- ter of a mile away he would whip street on the run. He cut figure Junior-Senior breakfast will be Zig Zag last Thursday. day school is held every Sunday his Mm into a runjalso when held on Friday, April 20th. It eiglhits and drove rings all around is undecided where the event will at Harlandview at 10:30 in the Mr. and Mrs- Bernis Guy and leaving the station, after having fellow, who left town family went to Portland Friday morning. take place. The Juniors and Sen dinnct* and changing horses, M, wbile the people were still whoop- Richard Ginn visited here Sun would run them another quarter] ing it up for Slade He finany soid iors are to leave early in the morn- afternoon to bring Mrs. F- S. day with his parents and brother and then bring them to a sweeping ouj. ing for the breakfast and the Lamborn home. Mr. Lamborn has DENTIST moved to Baker City. Freshmen and Sophomores will been in Portland for quite a while and sister. trot. These drivers carried a «<úp Some of the hostlers that work- join the “bunch” later. for medical attention. HOME OFFICE. WASCo for the Northwestern Stage Friends of Henry Barnum were which they usually owned them- Mrs. Joe Hilderbrand entertain Selves, and took great pride in The typing contest will be held invited by Mrs- A. H. Barnum to Company at Price’s Station were call upon him Saturday night to keeping in good order. It consisb- Charley Lewis, Charley Baker and at the Moro high school, April 26, ed the Thursday bridge club and guests at her home with dessert make a party for his birthday, «d of a long lash pointed with silk a man named Lloyd. Menace An at 2 p- m. The lash was kept oiled and wax Over fifty were present for the drew« worked for the company In Moro the First Week The Glee Club girls had a Sherman Çarage and Machin ed to keep it pliable and the proper many years, all along the line. He occasion. very successful cake sale Saturday in Each Month weight- This lash was attached to was an old California miner. I ery Co. Wasco, Ore. Mr. and Mrs- Joe Evans of April 14- The girls had several a long tapering whip stock- Most heard him tell about chasing ten orders later to make cakes for and Mrs. and Mr- Goldendale-------- — ----- Charles Lemley of Grass Valley of the good ones were hickory, Indians ten miles, but stated that women who belonged to the lodge Buy Ratskwill were guests of the Amidon family ■craped ’ down and would be quite he wad two hundred yards in the The returns were $10-75. We wish imber and ornamented with silver lead at the start and more than Sunday- to extend our thanks to the women Ratskwill Kills rats and ’errils. It was said Bradley could Mrs. R. P- Brisbine has been on nick a fly from the lead horse and half a mile when the Indians quit of Moro who bought the cakes- mice but is Not a Poison. ■ This story is as follows: Rats cost the American ■ the rick list a part of this week- The report cards were distribut not touch th© horse. Hie and his partner were out people mOhons of dollars ■ W. M Briggs and H. H. KehrlL “Smoky Hill Carr” was another hunting and became separated. ed Monday, April 16. Spring fev yoarly. Rats carry every B officers of the League of Oregon driver of «he old type, as was p^aNy he saw what he thought er must have attacked the students communicable disease such H Groceries—Meats—F resh Citics, visited Moro Friday of last Frank Byrd, a lame man. He waa was his partner, standing on a log as the grades have declined some as Hydroprobia, Equine. In- H week while on a tour through a brother of Mrs- P. E- Mitchell. A ( near gom« brush and started to what this six weeks- The order - Fruits and Vegetables in You Cannot Afford to fluenza and Bubonic Plague. ■ eastern Oregon in the interest of Frenchman najn®d Billaveu drove ward him- When within two hun- for the respective classes are: be Unprotected Don’t keep these pests a-B Season. towns in this section. for some time. His by-word was dred yards, he discovered Indians Seniors 2 minus bout the home or business K George A* Williams was taken “Oh, Fit” so that was what we on each side, trying to surround Juniors 3 when you can get rid of V See Geo. B. Moon to the hospital Thursday afternoon boys called him. Rufe Markus al him. He then saw that that which Sophomores 3 plus them for the small cost ofH Wasco, Ore. Agent suffering from a severe heart so drove, and afterward married he had taken for this partner was Freshman 3 plus a box of RasekwiU. S and lived 4>n Willow Creek. Jim an Indian with hie partner’s clo attack. PRUE 50 ceats | RUFUS SCHOOL NOTES Lupine Rebekah lodge will cele Cecil was another Willow Creek thes on, whom they had killed. The Wilt & Co. G. VaUey, Ore ■ brate the Odd-Fellows anniversary man that drove stage- Tom Ward, story of his adventures would be The members of the school next Tuesday evening, April 24th, who was afterwards Sheriff of quite a book- board were hosts to the boy’s May & Son, Moro, Oregon.® with a social meeting to which Wasco county, drove at different] Other hostlers were George basket! .ball team Saturday eve (Moro Pharmacy, Moro Ore J Hankins, Who was killed Royce, Monroe Morgan, Charlie ning at The Dalles- They enjoyed Odd-Fellows and their wiven are times at Arlington, was also a driver- Craig and a man named IJom. The a banquet at the American Cafe invited- Mr* and Mrs. Roy Powell and John Mahon. Tip Williams, and names of the hor^ shoers as I and later in the evening Whaatar Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rugglee Charlie Gardner were among the NOTICE OF FINAL ’ SETTLE and Woolsey caused them MMOT drove to Arlington Wednesday best known men who spent much MENT— Notice is hereby given, iMghs in the comedy, “Hipe-Htja- night to attend the district meet time driving stage. Gardner prob thait the undersigned Jias filed ably drove longer than any other ing of the Eastern Star lodge. A <udent body meeting was man He drove from The Dalles her final report and account of Several persons from this sec to John Day Bridge and return for her administration of said es FUNERAL HOME tion plan to go to Portland this more than six years without a tate with the County Clerk. Sher • AND —- week end to take in the operas be missing trip- George Shannon also man County, Oregon, and that When Your Shoes need repaii send them to AMBULANCE SERVICE per bbl. ing presented there this week. drove several years. He had sev by order of the County Judge of For Sale: A 6 year old, well eral exciting experiences At one ■aid county,-Saturday, May 19, Phone 345 The Dalles, Ore broke saddle mare- Charles Dun time he had a team drown in the 1934, at 10:00 o’clock A.M., Co WERNMARK’S High Grade Family lap, Kent canyon below Price’s Station- The unty Courtroom, 'Courthouse, at GOOD SHOE REPAIRING GRASS VALLEY PHARMACY Moro, Oregon, have been fixed Patent Flour < There is to be a dance in Gram high water was caused by a spring Phone 222 204 Second St THE DALLE» Valley Saturday night April 21. thaw. At another time, during the as tha Unie and ¿lace for the If is given to benefit the Boy Indian war 'bt *78, the stage was hearing of said final report, and Dalle» at 6 p. m. On account, and objections thereto^ leaving The Dalles Scouts of that town. this particular night Shannon had jlf any th«*« be, and the aettle- O< C. Jessup and R. D- Roney, two fire hose salesmen, were hare two passengers. When he reached ment and closing of said «state» Dated Aj^ril 2ÖJ 1934. Tuesday night to meet with the the Deschutes river he was told ' • ZULA CURRIN tha t many hostile Indians had dty council- Executrix of the last will and crossed th« John Day river, and R H. Gutherie and wife were that he would never live to get to testament of Celeste M. Fowler, here Tuesday evening while on one John Day Bridge- % But Shannon deceased. of their trips to view tha Gutherie ■aid he would go on- His two George G. Updegraff. land southeast of Grass Valley passengers quit him there. It so! _______ Attorney for — Executrix. Retailers of They have recently returned from happened that a large band of 4-20,27: 5-4;11.24 thri- winter jaunt to California. horses, something near a thousand i,^Fiour ; Notice of Final Settlement Waller S. ’n. one of the head, belonging to C- I.- Helm. owners of the Eastern Oregon Clark Dunlap, the Chapman boys, AU persons are hereby notified Land Co-, was here this week Jeu Eaton and some ojnere, in to file their objections if any to YES GRAIN, FEED, INSURANCE We Buy Wheat from San Francisco- Accompanied charge of their owners, wore being the final account of the executor by (Mr. Adams he has been look moved aerou the Deschutes to of the will of Eliza X Powell, de ing over the company’s property keep the Indians from getting them DEAL with YOUR LOCAL ceased, on or before (May 4» 1934, in this county. When the horses reached the deep at 10:00 o’clock a. m. which is the Mrs. W. H. Ragsdale and Mre rocky canyon where “Pride's Oan- time fixed by the county court for Theodore Johnston were hootesses yon and “Fulton*• Canyon” came Sherman County, State of Oregon, Tuesday afternoon for a bridge together, darkness overtook tfierh for the settlement of said aetount. party at the Ragsdale home and they could not be moved on William S- Powvll. Andrew Thompson and wife are So they were held there until day Executor. • ■ WASCO. OREGON leaving Friday for a week or two light Shannon, knowing nothing Frank G. Dick, Attorney- of visiting with Owen Thompson of this, drove through the canyon Xhe Dalles, Oregon. 4t-a26 at Camp Sherman., AnA-bw, of in the dark. Suddenly, before ht| Y ureka Lodg* Iio- 121 A-F, & A.M Moro, Oregon Meets the 1st and 3rd Thursday evening« of each month. Visiting membra cordially in vited to meet with us. Elmer Hansen, W. M- C- V. Belknap. Secy. CHOIES m T ovii Talk I Wasco WHATÍ INSIDE Dr. J. A. BUTLER the New GRUNOW REFRIGER-4T0R? War On Rats' WASCO MARKET RED & WHITE STORE AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE Your Patronage Solicited ZELL’S Snow Maid Flour Mill Feed of all Kinds $6.25 Chick Feeds Egg Mash R. H. McKean Mrs, B. E. Hailey, .Asst Mgr. Now is the time to think Of GRAIN INSURANCE Crown Mills FLOUR Wasco Oregon Sherman Cooperative Grain Growers
