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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (June 8, 1934)
41 1 w sbssb SK Forty Sixth Yee NoJl LEAOIU6 IBIS ALL Wil; nsm S mk Dorothy Fraser Wins Club Note Contest Miss Dorothy Fraser was award- I the scholarship offered for that ry or girl whose club notes were pdjudged the best during the con test recently concluded. ¡Misses Virginia Helyer and Margaret Punlap and Luther Davis also fntered their scrap books and Hhte f«ea for first honors was said to k>V« occasioned the judges con- •HUrebl* trouble. Miss Fraser will attend the summer school at Cor- vallm with her tuition paid by the d*tfo*s of the prize. Official County Paper crop land bein 6 rar* m Oi EleçiOfficer» soon An election io name community committeetnte Ànd county eom- WRI be PETITIONS LAID ON TABLE BI COURT Young Foresters Learn Timber Lore On Trip HELD DAI AT STATION TO DE HELD SATURDAY Nearly a hundred and twenty Sherman county boys and girls and ajders spent Monday night un der the evergreen trees at Bonney Gru» Vale? Meato Vaatly Crews Routing Ifes gift Ni Hops into No Road Master To Be Appointed Crossing on Badger Creek in Was divided by co county as a part of the 4-H Wheat Urtd Needed* •Association. Measnring Wheels work of the forestry clubs of the county. Clubs from Rufus, Moro, Har- Iqiktview, Grate Valley «nd Kent and a boy scout troop from Grass Valley made up the personnel of man the group with Mhie club leaders, visitors, scout leaders and forestry men. Ole Hansen, educational lea der of the forestry service appear School Consolidation • ed with has picture equipment and follow»: KlontSka, Friday 15th, Fetter Receives Cemnu icatien On gave the children a few reels of Newly Developed Wheats May Be Vote Coming pictures Monday night and the for Fast Time Mankland Road I waders of Future hall. Wasa»* Sat*xd*y 16th, Í p, estry service detailed four m. th* Mgh achooli Loeurt and the state college sent herbar School electors of the Kent and Grove, Saturday 16th, 7:30 p*. m. ium manager McDaniel and f as at the school heos«; Mono, Monday sistant club leader Allen to assist Woo Lost. Pet- Liberty districts will be given a Team If you happen to me«^ threa Tlnree petitions bearing the ballot when they vote June 18 that Saturday, June 9? the annual 7 Antelope 0 , 1000 I will give them a chance to vote men in p car off th« front vhich 18tfc, 2 p. du M the eourt house; names of nearly everyone in Sher with the work- fiejd day at the experiment station 18th, 7.80 Clubber« were divided into Grass Valley 4114 for or against the consol idatlion ol is a skeleton life? yrbeellMirrw man county were placed before * will be held and all residents of 714 the Liberty district with the Kent don’t be alarmed. It will merely 5 2 Kent the county court Wednesday at groups to gather specimens -and •the bounty, farmers, business men 2 667 school district The election must be some of the surveying gangs i Moro the regular June meeting but the foresters led each group into the and stock men are invited to come 5 " 286 be carried by a majority of each going to measure crop or con 2 Klondike court brushed them aside by de woods. Boys and girls were intent and look over the experiments. th, 7:30 at th« grange halt 6 743 district. tracted acreage. - ' 1 Wasco ciding to with hold judgment un on gathering as many different Mar.y are acquainted with the 000 7 Harmony 0 til a later date- Three men were kinds of leaves, bark and fruit as rate and date of seE?ding tests that Local crews made up of three This consolidation was discussed possible and the knowledge of the asking for appointment as counity Next Sunday Grau Grass Vallay will last year when the Wilcox and men each have been given the job Mrs. Julia Newcomb have been conducted since ttb road supervisor. L. L. Peetz, foresters was tasked to answer station was started over twenty of running the line* on the land play at More, HaÜabdvigw-at Kent Dobie Point districts joined with the many question* of Jae children. William Mitchell and Homer Wall Kent but the matter was dropped under contract in this county in and Klondike at Wasco- Buried In Camas had Base ball, rope skipping and the years ago, but there are always petitions before the court. for the time being- Lately is has stead df the airpl*»e method <rf new developments on these plots Standings of the teams in the been revived with the result that maplng that was tried out a week That body has not yet given out usual shouting, rock throwing and due to the changed conditions. The Sherman county league were not the voters themselves, being the ago. While the system of photo creek wading common to priairie the woik they will expects of that tillage experiments are eVer inter Mrs Julia Neu«)rub died at the officer when appoined changed by the games of last Sun final voice, will decide whether the graphing the land is successful In post youth in the woods were indulged esting especially since lower prices home of h«r -a*n. J. S. Nerteeomb in every time the group congre day- Antelope defeated the Har two district« will combine or re and is being used in some of the poning the decision the court held for wheat and drier years have mony crew by a score of 26 to 8 wheat counties it was decided to in Grass Valid> Friday night June that there was nd* immediate need gated in camp and a more or less brought a change to tiie process of main separate. showing that their ability to get use local labor in this county- The 1, after a short illness resulting for a road man and that they formal ^program of stunts was wheat production- in the runs has not diminished cost will be approximately the itom a paraletic stroke. She had would name one when he was given around the camp fire after Of interest in recent years to a the pictures Monday evening. since the first of the season. Lock Hearing Attended same- '* ; been in Grass Valley for several needed- greater extent than in the days weeks. The trip was made by trucks and Grass Valley won from Wasco L. V. Walton met with the court After two days of schooling under Mrs. Newcomb first came to for a discussion of road matters school busses donated by generous of wo dollar wheat is the grasses. By Sherman Countians the by the close score of 8 to 7 and direction of E- iR. Jackman of citizens of the town« represented. It is probable that many thousands Sherman county in 1883 whte with they had th« breaks of the game the state college six crews began her husband, Talmon Newcomb, in hit district west of Kent. Old of two dollar wheat is tlhte grasses with them too. Wasco increased age pensions were given to Walter Monday - morning mapping and ginal land will eventually be sown she cam« from California where Rutledge and to Dave McKelvey. their scores from 4 to 7 in their Senator Yates, County Judge measuring the Klondike district M itchell- Antelope to grasses to replace wheat. Be they had been married in 1874, half of the ninth to give a sort of Potter and J. B- Adams, president Other crews will be added until Delbert Deyo of Ruf us was given fore tlhis can be done some sort of For a numb«* of year» Utey farm heart failure to Grass Valley who of the Eastern Oregon Wheat fifteen are at work accorfimg’ to permission of the court to apply Cut-off In Limelight grass must be developed that will had counted on winning easily- League were in The Dalles last present plans as given out by il. ed south «A, Finnegan cresk apd for a beer licneee- be hardy, easily started, and dur Mr. N ' ‘ ‘ ‘ operated. < threat- Wasco showed a much improved Thursday to attend the hearing M. Yocum, director of The audit prepared by Charles work able from a pasturage standpoint- addition to hit team over that which represented bfore the government engineers, for the county allotment com R. Logan was received by the Work on this development has farm, df twenty fire years that town earlier in the year. in which the chamber of commerce mittee. court and members of the county \There is sudden interest in the \ been started at the local station ago the f Mitchell-Antelope cut off since in of The Dalle* endeavored to per formation about its abandonment and several impoirted grasses are should hnprove- suade those officials that larger be measured first and the men Will has been circulated here- When growing thre. Also there are plats Buck Spencer pitched the entire locks were needed at the Bonne gradually work soerth vntij finish of native bunch grasses that may , nb- A communication from High the road was first suggested it was game for Wasco Instead of chang ville dam- ed- The .three men ergtos walk Ube funeral was held Sunday in way Chairman Scott to County planned to have it connect with the be the eventual solution of tlhe While the arguments pmeaented around the fields with the wheels Camas. ing off with Watkins as Watkins problem- ........... . Judge Potter diecuseed the recent Ochoeo highway just below Mitch couldn’t attend the game. Smith by the men advocating the dam measuring the angle« and the Interest in the growing of trees ell and continue down Bridge creek request the court made to the and Ford pitdbed for Grass Valley. were considered important and distances on the sides of the fields. to the John Day river, thence in this county has taken a spurt highway commission asking that Feature of the game was the foul truthful by the men present from These figures are brought in to S New Officer Elected down the river to Dry creek and , this year since several* forestry the Monkland market road be catching ability jrf third baseman thia county there is no great a- central office in charge of Hal made a part of the state highway up that creek and over to Antelope clubs have beten organized by 4-H Kirtley of Wasco who snagged mount of optimism regarding fine White and Sam Broek who, with For Woman's Club system. Mr. Scott stated that at and Shaniko to connect with the dub leaders. Several years ago three hard foul flies during the outcome. the aid of instruments and engin the present time it was impossible Sherman highway and via the the planting of trees was advocat- encounter- Goon of Grass Valley ’ Word has been received hare by eering knowledge figure .up the to add the Monkland road to the Dalles road to Wapinitia where it ed by Mr. Stephens at the station Mar shall Williams that postal prides himself on getting under acres in the measured ground. * Owing to the inclement weather state system because the secon would connect with the cutM>ff to who fdas several kinds of shelter fouls but Kirtley had all <he money ,orders were stolen from Land measurepienta so far in of last Friday the dub picnic was dary . cad system of the county al Portland. belts, and shade trees old Enough postoffices at Shaniko and Unity dicate that most of the fanners chances in Sunday's garnet Present plans of the highway to be effective- Farmers who are changed from Uro city park to Kent and Klondike engaged in and that there may be an attempt have come very close to tfie cor the church basement. After the ready exceeds available funds- It commission are reported to be growing more stock will wish to one of those Mating centiBat« that to cash them here- Merchants are rect number of acres of contracted dinner hour to which husbands and is estimated that the state has ob- to build the road from a point ten look over the rows of shelter result in record breaking scores. warned to watch for strangers land- In no case, so far reported, dllildren were also invited the ligated itself to complete the Sher or twelve miles west of Mitdhiell i bees and those who are improving ar road at a cost of $21,000 and Kent had the most luck and wound wishing to cash such orders. down Trout creek to The Dalles-! their farm buildings will wish to has there been a difference of more business meeting was held. Mrs- the Wasco-Heppner 'road at a cost up with the long end of a 26 to 16 than a few acre« between what the W.; F. Jackson gave a very in of $105,750. California highway near Madras see the shade trees on the station. Read the ads in the Journal score. , * ; farmer kept out of production and teresting account- of the Roseburg New varieties of wheat are al The maintenance on the Monk and thence across the Warm what he contracted to keep out. convention of the Oregon Federa land road costs about $1125 per Spring reservation to Bear Springs ways being developed. Several Considerable information other tion of Women’s Gubs, of which year and it is estimated that re- to connect with the cut-off. This this year are smut resistant. Be- than that derived from land iqpee- event sjie had happily noted down «urearing will cost $30.000 and would leave all th® northern roads cause of the freeze out of winter urements must be obtained from many of the funny stories used have to be done in five years. Al and towns off fine new road from before last work of developing a the ’farmer and the men will be by the various speakers to stress ready the state is caring for 41 the John Day valley to Portland winter hardy variety has prog- sent out to visit the farmers and the pointe so that her review was miles of road in the county at an and road enthusiasts of this coun- ressed faster than usual and varie fill out the questionnaires. The highly entertaining as wap as in average annual cost of $4400 and ty and Wasco county are becoming ties of wheat that withstood the saa- south west and came ito Grass In time* | extreme cold of ' that year are surveyors will not do this as only structive. Many interesting hints this addition would give the coun interested. Valley Canyon I think where Nish ¡mi eral deecri] Petitions are being circulated growing at the station. grant Read, M tt rt» «CH*« ShW- is now, and followed up it and on one man is needed and, the entire and recipes were-gleaned from the ty too great a percentage of the and officers of the chamber of com- man county. As a boy, I rod* over to the bridge on the Deschutes, crew would be kept waiting while roll call, response to which was funds available in the state for merce in The Dalles are starting the farmer was answering the a favorite recipe. The final act and over the Barlow road to the and secondary road improvement this old road mm' tim««, and was Miss Viola Hansen, deputy clerk action to persuade the commission questions. of the meeting was the installa maintenance- ¿ very familar rtfth it- I don’t know Willamette Valley. at the court house, left Mbnday for to build the road over the original The winter of 1861 and 62 was Work of measuring the hay cut tion of officers for next year, , when It was flnrt used but I think BellingOmm, Washington for a route. very cold, with a deep snow quite will be conducted later. At pres whidh officers ares president, Anna Cooks May Learn as early as lß47, visit with relatives and to see her early. Several miners were caught ent the land is being ^Measured so Moore; vice president, Donalds sister Mildred graduate from high Miss Sarah Brown is visiting at it in 1853. It crosses: the Jahn in this snow at the John Day river- that farmers may cut their hay Knighten; secretary, Mary Reese; school- Secrets Of Art Today the Peetz home for a few days. Day where léonard s bridge Was After the storm had cleared, ten in sufficient quantity, so tbat.no Treasurer, Mrs- H. 8. Conlee; built later and coming up the hill, men decided to get to The Dalles more than the contracted ampunit new director, Leona Douma. Starting earjy in the morning they of wfhieat will be allowed to ripen the old Ejnigrant Women of Sherman county have tried to follow the Emigrant road. north of where tl an opportunity today and tomor Exatpiner Coming was built later. From th* top of They had some whiskey which wa« row to learn some of the fine points Wool Growers Profit the hill it borp more to the north gone by the time they reached the For Driver» Licenses about cooking to Mrs. Audrey west, past a half m^y west of top of the hill. There was a young Herington who come« to Moro By Co-operation Emigrant Spring, croaaed China fellow, 18 years old, that would to conduct a cooking school. Not From the Observer June 11, 1915- ’ the trail hit Grass Valley for the Hollow below the Mathias place, not drink with them- Although he Carroll Sayrs accidently shot.4t^ celebratfow. only the preparation of foods by • cro?*ed Spanish Hollow near the waa thinly clad he was in1 the best heat but also the preparation and himself in the foot Friday noon’ Friends of Judge Fulton will be Growers of wool who. have Sink place and ov*r- tMg W to condition, and led the outfit all preservation of foods by cold will at the farm west of Moro. He was pleaser! to ham that he is rapidly Moro Friday, ■ Jun* 15th, 1834 at the way. Long before tfhey reached marketed their crop cooperatively Mud Hollow, and down to just be shown by the instructor as the brought to town the next day and reconvening from the accident above the big mud spring that i'4 China Hollow they lost ther oad. through the Pacific Wool Growers the Courthouse between th* hours second day will be given over to is now able to be about town on which? happened to him about a of 9 a- m. to 4 p, m., respectively, on the Dave Fulton place, out over and-some gave out. Orfe man association have averaged returns teaching about refrigeration- crutches. month ago. whan a horse fell with according to an announcement had a sack of gold, would not let 3% cents a pound above the aver the hill and came to the Colum The school is cooperative in that him, dislocating a shoulder- Mrs. Swaggart and family, from released from the Secretary of any one carry it for him, he soon age shearing time price« paid non bia where Biggs now is all dealers in electrical equipment Eugene, are visitting at the home This is where thè Emigrants sat down and they had to leave members, according to a report on Statato office- will aid in the preparation and of her sister Mrs. Howard Conlee- From the Observer June 13, 1895. first saw UneColumbi a river. The him. The boy then told them he the 13 years of operation of th« management of dhe school. The Following is the report of Mich Ivy Kingdon, who has been vis road then followed thè Columbia would go on, and if he gott hrough association (received by Georg* O. license* to dri^a «are ars-asked to Moro Hardware and Implement igan School for thb month of May: yet m touch torch Mr. Bentley. . iting with her aunt Mrs. Amidon, to the mouth of the D^sphutes. {he would send them help^ He got Gatjin, extension marketing econ Company’s store will be the scene Those present each day were Pearl to Grahams at the mouth of t#ie omist at Oregon State college. •nd. attending school, left Satur In the early days to. the fall of Blalock, Eathel Davis, Fay and of the school- AH cooks of ’ the The Pacific Wool Grower* ha* Notice of Annual School Meeting day for her home near Seattle. the year, the Emigrante forded Deschutes long after dark. At day county are cordially invited to Fred Blaylock- General average: around the mouth erf th^ Deschutes light Frank Irvine and a man nam been under the same management G. W- Hansell, N. W. Thomp Carrie Davis 78; Leslie Coon,. 9/; Notice is Hereby Given to the come and see the latest develop ed Poole started out and met two since its organization. It has pion legal voters of School District No. on a gravel bare- This bar wash- son, Dayton Hen rich« and wife are Edna Stanton. 84; Willie Blalock, men near where Biggs is now, v^ho eered in the field of cooperative 17, of Sherman County, State of ments in the art. on a fishing trip to Badger Creek, 88; Eathel Davis, 87; Fay Blalock ed out later.- ' One singular thing about thia told them they * hadleft a man wool marketing and waa -One of near Wamic- 94; Earnest Blaylock ~ 87; Fred road, there waa no water directly named Mulkey about two miles the first such organization to be From the Observer June 9, 1905. Blalock 83; Gilbert Davis 82; " of held at School Hou««; io bigjn at on it, yet U. rahrted water in sev- back. They found him and brought approved under th«’ Jeannie Jonee 83; Gus Smith 84. Th* new breed of red hogs in tfral places by* only a short dis him in. but he was so badly frozen the Farm Credit the hour of 2 o’clqpk p- m.» in Kittie Brown, Teacher. troduced into Sherman county last that he died. During the day three The Pacific now haa member third Monday cd Jun«b being .the tance. At Emigrant Spring • loop year by Ed Miller are on the in Miss Hattie I. HUI of The Dalles * MAX. MIN. PRKCIP road went from the main road to more man. got in, but the rest had growers in Oregon. Washington!, 18th day of Juna 4« D- p34- DAT® crease. More meat apd less feed was married Thursday evening to the spring and back. It was all perished- 'One of the men that daho, Nevada and California. E. T«a meeting U for the .... 63..; 86 ... .00 are the advantage MAY 31 Mr. Timothy Brownhill of Grass claimed that many made a dry met Irvine and Poole was Thomp- A- McCormack, Eugene, i* preai- purpose of elec^n|f « r ___ 63... 42 ... .00 JUNK 1 son- In 1875 I saw him at our old dent; J. T. Alexander, Chehalis, Valley, at the J- B. Mowry home camp there until some one lost Hon. C- C. Kuney has sold his term. Director *“ - 2 44 ... .00 I home farm above Wasco for |3,000 in Moro. Those present were Mr 62 their stock and found them by th* place, and heard him tell father vice president; C. E. GreUe,J?ort 46 .. .00 the story. He said that the boy and, secretary, and R. A. Ward, new usual at si 74 " 8 and will soon make his homo in and Mrs. Harry King, Mr and Mrs. 'Spring. ' waa the only one that was not C- A. Heath, Rev. M. F. S Henton Portland, manager. 80 .. 45 . 00 1934. Some time before 1860 Heming Dated this 81 and Mrs. A. Scott, of Gram Val .00 80 52 5. way built a bridge where the frozen som*. After the snow was Mr- and Mm. L- L. Peetz are ley; Mr. and Mrs. ¡Mowry, Miss 60......... 00 77 Shearer bridge m>w »tends. ’Bien gone in the spring one man named Miss Lucile Templeton went to 6 McKee, D Portland «ojoum«* this week. Moury, Mrs. Leet, B. F. Schaeffer a road branched off at the top of Alfrey was found on the hill aidé Redmond Wednesday for a short W. H. Total for weak. .... "3Î the John Day hill and run to the* and D. C. Ireland of Moro. When you get tired of hitting (Continued on page four) visit witfh her father- Ch airmail Board ofDirectom- MTEIOPE KW |IS tßO Work of Station Men For Year » Will Be Shown moke Ommer mar =rs«= 1UHT MW OEDS STUDIED DUSSES BEH GROWN NOW Old Emigrant Road Described Eg, EHUt Who Lived On It News of Long Ago For Those Whose Memory Is Long WEATHER REPORT FOR WEEK EROINE JURE 6. ; ' /
