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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.
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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
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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.
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