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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (July 6, 1934)
..... ■■■MBH ■MM OJE SHEiRMAN COUNTY JOURNAL, MORO. OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 6 W34 Work on Norris Dam is Progressing Well BIG YANK & i< THS STANDARD WORK SHIRT OF THS WORLD d EXTRA VALUE This photograph shows the progress that Is being made on Norris dam on the Clinch river 25 miles from Knoxville, Tenn. Excavation work In the first coffer dam, plainly visible, is nearly finished. Preparations were being made to pour the concrete which will be carried to Its proper place in dump buckets attached to the cableway pulleys shown in the foreground. • Patented strain - resisting News from the Wasco Community • Tailored collare and culai Husband—You are very extrava gant, dear You are spending too much. Dear—I’m not spending too much; it’s you wlho are not earn ing enough. Harry Proudfoot stuck his foot Grand Dalles. under one of the levers of the Mr- and Mrs. Roy Nunn from Clara—A month ago I was just automatic sack jig on his combine • Satisfaction Guarant—d crazy about George But pow I Oakland, Calif., are the blouse this week and has been limping don ’ t care a thing for him- guc~ts of the George Wildes- around with a sor'd toe ever since Anna — Yes —is’n’t it strange how Ai Advertised over the Air The weekly Thursday night pic changeable men are! The Day reunion was held ir Hood River on July 1 with 65 ture show at the opera house Inlas Specially priced for guests present. Mrs Howard Hi been discontinued. Wheat Crop Expected nes and family and Mr and Mrs Mr- and Mrs Ercel Yocum are Vintiön Watkins and children at- located in the Amosi house. They To Be Very Short tended from Wasco spent the winter in Boulder Dam Mrs. P. A Siscel ia enjoying Mrs- 0. W- Downie and daughter Wheat harvesting in the nortfi- a visit in the east She is the of Los Angeles and Mrs. Jack Rainey and daughter of Oakland ern hemisphere has now extend in Colorado guest of Mary Dunn and Mrs». Elfin Ross and two dr ed to more important producing I Mr. and Mrs Vinton Watkins ughters of Trout Lake are visit areas, with operations generally I left Monday for Rufus where !he ing at the H. E Everett home- from one te three weeks ahead of I will be employed -in the ware Gus Peterson, Cap Scott and normal. Tak? early harvest is main , house for several months. Bill Nesbit were fishing at South ly the result of heat and drought Mr and Mm- 0. T. ,Ba.mett Junction Sunday ajid returned ! have a son born on June 20. His with a nice catdh. name is Donald Lee A short time ago I^afe Barnett Mrs. Arthur Sargent and bro- drove to Portland to look around ther were in Portland Saturday the trap shooting clubs for a day returning Sunday with Darwin’s As of old he took a hand in the Swimming Trunks shooting and broke 86 out of 100 all wool $1.35 wife targets. On several tries he Work bias been temporarily clay broke 22 out of 25. 'Mr- Bartett discontinued on the new Millard is 75 years old wihich adds a bit You Cannot Afford to Little Men SUITS....... 9Oc house until after harvest. of distinction to such accurate be Unprotected. Keith Brown from Hood River shootng. was a guest of Mrs. Zelma Wat- L- Barnum was a business vis- See Geo. B. Moon kkns for several days. tor here Tuesday from The Dal Wasco, Ore. Agent Walter Warner is working on les. the Sargent rench during harvest in order to earn money to attend Rembrants Broadcloth school in tlh east this winter.. Shirts / $1.50 Hward Nunn from Vallejo, Cal. arrived in Wasco Sunday. Forest Green Uniform iMliss Norma Feldman was a Shirts $1.95 visitor in Portland from Friday $1 95 until Sunday last week. Ex. Act Fit Retailers of Mrs. William Hulitz of Portland is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs- Ed Feldman. ctowa miu » J Mr. and Mrs. Homer Wall mot GRAIN, FEED, INSURANCE ored from Bend Tuesday night to attend lodge His work as en gineer has been extended to in clude Wasco and Hood River co unties- Lester Lee and Virginia Smith Ladies Rayon Hats from Portland were the guests of Mrs- Anna Lee on Friday Wide Brim Straws IMr. and Mrs. Louis Scholl were business visitors in The Dalle® Monday Dell Hull has been ill and unr G able to attend to his business for the past week. Yancey is a visitor here GINGHAM - 12^c yard wth Lillian frie<nds and relatives- Mrs- Fred Fortner is the guest of her sister Mrs. Crawford at All Colors BIG YANK WEEK 89c AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE Wash Frocks $1.25 R. H. McKean} CP°WN Mrs. B. E. Hailey, AsstMgr. Sunshine Caps 35c Congo Hats 48c Crown Mills FLOUR I I Mitchel, Lewis & Staver Co. Farm Implements Wasco 49c Voiles-- 25cyard Snow Maid Flour ANKLETS 2 for 25c Large Spools Thread You can SAVE money on an OVERHAUL Job at- Boys Shoes Heavy Soles $2.50 Mens Oxfords $3.40 to 5.00 Bros. & SER VAL Bibb Ovalls $1.39 oz. Waist Ovalls $1.20 ' e pr Valuoline Oil Gasoline Accessories Wes Wilde : Wasco, Ore sox Uncle Sam & Rockford 75c 12 >r. Postman & Policeman $1.60 Bear Brand Sox J. P. Yates Store Wasco, Oregon WASCO MARKET RED & WHITE STORE mre humid districts, every farnser in tfue more arid sections hopes Problems against hope each year that the we ' can see that the sama Becoming Serious Thus procsses that are com|>iriing to destanoy dvilixatkm in the Middle West are constantly at work not Pullman, Wash-, July 5— The in one, but in every part of ths terrorizing pictures of desolation Pacific northwest. and waste and of fields being moved by wind and water in the In The Circuit Court of the State Middle West can besonne ^ven of Oregon for Sherman County. Erosion $6.25 where the land is cultivated Is it then any wonder that after ev ery heavy rain of spring thaw in the northwest we see every stream course transformed into a seeth ing mass of mud as tons of good topsoil are carried dowtrtstrfcam ? Is it' then, any wonder that ac tual measurments show that 60, 000,000 tons of this good soil are washed from the PalouJts region alone each year? Three factors combine© to add to the seriousness of the problem in the better of the dry farming areas in the northwest- They are: 1- Tha large percentage of land summerfallowed each year. 2. The Large percentage of land having over 15 percent slope. 3 Relatively small percentage of tilled areas having ad equate vege^ativa cov ering during the erosion season In the drier portions of tfie area there are also several factors which play a definite part in the erosion of the land surface. They are: I The prevale nee and nec essity of the summer fallowing nractide. 2.The long dry season. windstorms that may occur at any time of the year. Nor is this the conclusion of | the saory since thousands of gap- NABS PHONY MONEY Chick Feeds & High Grade Family Patent Flour Egg Mash Now is the time to think of GRAIN INSURANCE YES We Buy Wheat DEAL with YOUR LOCAL Capt. Thomas Callaghan, head of the secret service division in Chi cago, who rounded up a band of1 counterfeiters with half a million ' dollars in spurious money. Lonesome Spot Groceries—Meats—F resh Fruits and Vegetables in Season. Sherman Cooperative Grain Growers WASCO. OREGON Your Patronage Solicited against defendants Bernard Nys and Agnees Nys, husband and wife, and eaCh"of them for the sum of 11400.00 with .interest thereon from the first day of March, 1929, at the rate of 10 per cent per an num; and for the further sum of $200.00 attorney's fée In this suit and for Plaintiff's costs and dis bursements; and that the mort gage described in Plaintiff's Com plaint be foreclosed and the De fendants and all persons claiming by, through or under them, be forever barred and foreclosed of all right, title, interest or equity, save the statutory right of re demption In and to said real prop erty covered by sajd mortgage and more * particularly described as follows: The South half of the North half and the Northeast quar ter of the Southeast quarter of Section Twenty, and the East half of the Northwest quarter ■ and the Southwest Northwest quarter of the quarter of Section Twenty- ’ ono in-Township Four, South of Rango Fifteen, Rast of the Willamette Meridian, in Sher-' man County. Oregon Ths Southeast quarter of ths Northeast quarter and the Northeast quarter of the Southeast quarter, of Section Nineteen; the North half of the Southwest quarter, the WNWMl'. quarter of the more~ vivid and serious in the Southaaat quarter of Section SUMMONS farming districts of the northwest Twenty and the ’ Northwest if measure® are ndt adopted at Southwest Levi Chrisman, Plaintiff, : vo quarter of the once to prevent undue soil los Northwest and the ses. As we note each year the ap- Bernard Nys and Agne« Nys, * quarter quarter of the Northeast quar nearence of more clay ridge®, husband and wife, George W. ter of Section Twenty-one in mor? gullie?^ and more cheat, we Edwards and Mary A. Edwards, Township 4, 8. R 18, E. W. husband and wife, Thomas Silver- ^an only be thankful that the M. in Sherman County, Ore drouth, winds and sudden torren thorn and Jane Doe Silverthorn, husband and wife. Defendants. gon. tial rains of the Middle WeH have To George W. Edwards and You will take notice that this remained east of thee mountains- Mary A. Edwards, husband and Summons is served upon you by “Thousands of fields in the Mid wife, Thomas Silverthorn and dle Wc’t have had the more pro- Jane Doe Silverthorn. husband publication thereof by order of Hon. Carl/ Hendricks,. Judge of ductive top-soil blown off, leav- and wife; the Circuit Court in and for Sher- in g behind the infenor subsoil IN THE, NAME OFTHE STATE man . County, entered Oregon, w^.ch bakes and hardens and is in OF OREGON, You are hereby re- of May. herein on the 29th day prime condition for ruinous wash- ing.” states ILH.Bennett of the quired to appear and answer the 1934, aOd by said order directing Summons to be published in 'wil erosion service of the dfT*art- Complaint filed against you by Plaintiff in the above entitled tho Sherman County Jqurnal, a ment of the interior, Yet the®; condition? ar? Lrue in part every court and cause within four weeks weekly newspaper published at vear in the northwest where field after the 8th day of June, 1934, Moro, Sherman County, Oregon, of the. (or oacq a week for a period of after field lies exposed to the rav- .said date being of the this date Summons, not less thgn four consecutive first publication ages of wind and rain-- and if you fail RO to appear and weeks and for five issues of said Bcnr.ett continues to point outf anBwer you wJ11 be in default and newspaper. ‘ “frat the average soil loss on he want thereof> and the Plaintiff Date of first publication June 8. average slope used for a cultiv-1 herein win app|y to the above en. CECIL CHRISMAN ateJ crop is 3500 times more ra- UUed couH for the rellef prayM Attorney for Plaintiff t md than where native sod cov- for and demanded In • ita Com- Wallowa, Oregon. ers the ground, while the run-off plaint, filed herein. to-wit: Date of last publication July 6. of rainfall is 400 times greater decree For a judgment and Kinds per bbl. Wilde’s Garage Mill Feed of all and the premature ripening sug-’ big gull ilea are cutting field after gvsts a larger proportion of light shield of this region into unproft- weight grain than during the able patc+ies of tend A, single past few years. • Continued hot, downpour some five miles south- dry weather extending ovw large east of Moscow a few weeks ago areas of both nbrth America and scooped off strips of f topsoil in Europe has caused further crop summerfallow two to six feet in damhgV, although showers and . width the entire depth of the til- Nor was this the end of the moderate rains have checked det erioration in some areas. Moisture destructions« the torrents ripped supplies are still inadequate in gully after gully through fields most of th© important grain ar of fall grain already headed. eas of ths United States, in the Some of these “onia rain gullies'* southern parts of the Canadian were cut so deep that they hav provinces, in western, central and to be filled with pick and shovel southeastern Europe and in south before harvesting can begin. A ern Russia- Irreparable damage similar storm struck in th© vic has oc cured in large sections, ac inity of Johnson and another cording to trade reports and crop northeast of Moscow in the same estimates are being revised down aftennloon The gouging and scoop ward A fharp reduction in the ing of the hillsides, the destruction world crop is indicated with a of. fences and ■ bridges, and the smaltir autturn in European) and widening and deepening of gullies prospective decrease in the south in this one afternoon resulted in hemisphere more tluui offsettng familiar blows of early spring moderate increases in north Am- and summer will not be severe erica, north Africa, India and the losses of thousands of dollars. Orient. WWile this is going on in the Friend—Don’t you worry, Tomor-. row when you give your speech you will have all intelligent men on your side. Candidate for Parliament—That Is what is worrying dip . I would rath-1 er have the majority.—Lustige Blatter, Berlin. 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