niintu jjnurnal
—————r—-— — t ———— t ———
Forty SeVénth Year No ll
FAST, MME
WON BïfiMSS M
Ruins Defeated, ft Snail Martin
BOTH TEMOS SPEED SOTS
Second Corn-Hog . *
Payment Received
Moro, ’Oregon
ay, January 18, 1935
WOS now
TOTAL oil $195,000
■ .........
The second payment on the corn . Commutes appointments of the
hog contracts has been received repmsentatives ot- tbte ^dfetriot
by the local crop production control, haw beet announced this week by
organization and will ba diatribn- the prodding-nitoars ofi th« bdnse
ted immediately. This repreeepta JMMl ««!•$% Representative Fat-
•the $1 per hog payment and totals land is aa tho osaunitteo on agri-
$8.249.00. One hundred and. twen^. culture, alcoholic c u n f i t oiM-
Treasurer VuGUder Reports The .
Purchase ot 105 Bonds
Some were held up because of lask jiaaied. oa highSMr «®d hifhwy
of proper signatures and onewu
held in Washington.
Keystone Club To
Hold Third Meeting
- WSÎ PAtMENTS LARGE
$200,000 Already Paid Out
Lead Changed Twice In Last Period
Officiai County Paper
Danger Seen In
Installation Held By
Careless Coasting
Odd-Fellows, Rebekahs
Installation of officers was held
by the Odd-Fellows and the Re
bekahs Tuesday night and a gen
eral old time party added to the
usual festivities. The men were
entertainers and their mock cere
monies made the party hilarious.
Inducted into office were: Lloyd
Rice, NO; Charles Montgomery,
iRSNQ; Percy Thompson, LSNG;
Lewis McKee, VG; G. Douma. RS
VG; A. Douma, LSVG; Vernon Mil
ler, chaplin; Melvin Schadewitz,
captain; Horace McKee, warden;
Chester Searcy, conductor; Clar
ence Mersinger, Inside guardian;
Roy Kessinger, outside guardian;
Joe Truitt, treasurer; W. B. Rice,
secretary*
' The Rebekahs installed Viola
Hansen, NG; Leona Douma. RSN
G; Jessie Henrichs. LSNG; Flor
ence Martin, VG; Essie McKean,
RSVG; Hazel Woods, LSVG; Hasel
Truitt, warden; Margaret Peetz,
conductor; Belle CorJee. chaplain;
Alice Conlee, musician; Eliza Mar
tin, Inside guardian; Gladdis Buc-
holtz, outside guardian; Melvin
Schadewitz, captain; Lila Bull,
secretary, Elsie Stephens, treasurer
FARM RECORD SCHOOL
.WEDfflMS
Some of the boys sliding down
the street onto the highway Wed
nesday evening came close to be-1
ing killed when a truck barely
Stoppe«! ta iime. One can with »1-
most absolute certainty propl.Jesy
that it won't be long until some
children are either killed or in
jured kt the crossing if they con
tinue to slide - across the main
highway for cars cannot stop quick
ly on tho slick road nor can they
be easily controlled so as to evade
the children.
Q (rmtiOD GlVtD By “FroicMr
J
Charley. Smith
e^KÍKS PREISE RECORDS
Neil McDonald, ’ 18b-
m j
Need
Settler, Buried Sunday1
c
n
dll
•
a
Fer Better Bookkeeping Saea
The third meeting of the Key
*Ej Co„ _
la liter est
stone Study Club will be held at the
W. H. Ragsdale home on Sunday.
January the 20th at 7:30 p. m.
Neil McDonald, resident of SUhr-
Topics
have
been
assigned
to
Wily
About forty Sherman county
Figures co» filed by county
man county since 1882. died at his
k Colonel John Leader the irre-
gilder
this
week
iarmers
and farmers' wives re
presable Irishman who taught mili Knighten and W. H. Ragsdale and
home near Hay Canyon Thursday
treasurer Van
turned
to
school Thursday for an
tary science to University of Ore the study of the Orientals begun
night, January 10 from a long ill
the condition of
afternoon the occasion being the
gon students during the war days, last meeting will be continued. Mrs.
ness
that
has
kept
l.im
incapaci
the
road
bond
1
Mue
for
Sherman
farm record instruction course ex-~
came bouncing up the street after Harry Pinkerton and Mrs. A. W. Appointments and BaaineM Ended county. These ’ jonda were voted
tated for several years.
plained through the extension ser
a track meet between Oregon and McLeod are assistant hostesses.
•
IW 19B5"*r'-
In 1919 and iasudd in 1922. There
Mr. McDonald was born in On
vice.
With Charlie Smith pacing .
Oregon State waving his cane and
were 300 bond« each worth $1000.
tario, Canada, January 26, 1865 and
up and down the floor in the man
ahouting, “It doesn't make a bit
The
sinking
fund
for
repayment
Claim« Pret<*a<«<l and Allou 1
came to what is now Sherman
Snakes For Dinner? .
ner usually associated with old time
of difference who wins a match
of this indebted is was started (
county in the early eighties settl
school masters the farmers were ~*
- like that" The meet had been de
in 1925 and was lilt up until the
ing on land east of Moro. He mar
Go To Texas
given instructions in farm book
cided by the relay race at the end
depression, when , taxpayers asked
ried Bertha Thompson who survives
HhCMary Jame Y ota ng* Old
keeping, using as an example a *
of which a man had collapsed at
for
a
halt
on
tax«»
for
this
purpose
him, November 29. 1895.
Four
810.00
age pension
farm
in the Willamette valley.
the tape.
In a letter written by Mary John
although interest was levied. A
children also remain, George, who
The same remark might fittingly son Eva to Mrs. ML A. Bull was en Julius Rhubanr. old age pen-
The
farm record books are given
is farming the home place, Mrs.
15.00 part of the sinking fund was loan
»Ion ,
be made regarding the Grass Val- closed a newspaper clipping telling
out
to
farmers by the United
ed
to
farmers
(
county
during
Eltha Rader and Mrs. Florence
ley^Rufus basketball game of last of a “feast” indulged in by visitors Mrs. Ella Vanlaadlngham. old
States
Department
of Agriculture
1930
and
193Vty
no
-other
loans
!
Bruckert all of Moro and Mrs.
15.00
age pension
Friday night. As a spectacle it at a museum in San Antonio, Ten
which has learned that farm rec
were
available*
at>
that
time.
Clara
Houston
of
Chilliwack.
B.
C.
was probably the fastest Exhibi as. Usually the main part of the Mn. Albertine Whlttng, old
Since those dark days the bond Weather Man A Little Tougher T wq brothers. John and George of ords are not what they should be
»go pension
10.00
tion of basketball seen in this dinner was fried rattlesnake but
through the experience gathered by "
This Winter
Hardman survive Mr. McDonald.
and interest fund has been increas
listing farm production under the
county for years. Both teams use be
of a temporary shortage John H.. Henderson, old age
The deceased has been a respec many allotment programs now in
10.00 ing regularly and to date 105 bonds,,
a fast breaking system with plenty) in
species of reptile they sub- L pension * *
haver been bought by the county to
This winter .has already beaten ted member of his community vogue.
.
of passing and the ball was going gtituted bull snake, two big six David Aaron Fields, lid age '
decrease the indebtedness by $105, last winter in coldness although since it was first begun, taking his |
15.00
pension
someplace all the time, so fast that foot ones
Snake is certainly a
While
making
no
pretense
to -
000, leaving $195,000 «till owing, neither have been at all severe. place in dhurch and school and
the inexperienced eye could hardly n^ity as a part of the diet and Mrs. Flora Belle E>kln, old
being
a
complete
record
of
farming
age pensxn. ■
15.00 A large part of Qie'loaned sinking That is, so far. A reference to the fraternal affairs. He was a mem
keep track of it.
presumably it will remain so.
fund has been repaid to the county weather reports last winter shows ber of the Odd-Fellows lodge of operations for. the year the 20 page
W.
J.
Brownlee,
old
ago
pen-
Although Rufus started off in
booklet will grive each farmer who
* ' «-
? 15.00 through new federal loans. In 1934 that the thermometer did not gp be- Moro.
slon
the lead the first quarter ended in
uses it a very good history of tihte
back taxes were paid which made lew 20 above zero at any time and
pon-
The funeral was held Sunday year's main business transactions
a tie. both teams having 10 points. Beaver Sinks, Passengers William 8. Hall, old
purchase «of bond* possible and $57, only one night did it drop that Iqw. afternoon from the Methodist
■Ion
15.00
Grass Valley charged harder dur
000 of bonds were retired.
During the past week the mercury church in Moro with interment in if kept according to the instruc-
Davpl
McKelvey,
eld
age
pon-
-
ing the second period and made the
Gèt Thrill Of Lifetime •ion
and convenient.
Cost of this 105 bonds to the was driven down to 4 above altho Rosehill cemetery. Rev. Cooking- tions. It is ‘ short
15.00
. . . .
half time score 20 to 12. By this
Kam
’
One
of
the
mam
features of the'
Bounty has beat ’002.079.70 as it remained there a short time, nam gave the sermon, with a
W.
Rutledge, old age pep-
time the spectators were wonder
book
as
arranged
is
the farm in
many
of
them
were
bought
as
low
That
was
Tuesday.
Nights
have
10.00
•ion
quartette composed of Mrs. Wil
The Steamer Beaver, one of the
ing how long the lads could last
ventory
listed
under
different
head
aa
90.
At
present
the
bonds
are
had
a
temperature
of
around
12
ford Bels he, Mrs. L. H. Na ho use,
river boats belonging to the Shaver Abraham L. Alaup, old agb
at the pace they were setting.
ings.
It
has
columns
.
for
begin-
.
quoted
at
between
three
and
four
above
since
that
time
and
exceot
pension
.
10.00
Tom Fraser and L. H. Nahouse
Evidently Coach Tetz talked Transportation company „ struck a
ning and end of year for. all types . .
point«
above
per
and
the
last
were
f
o
r
one
day
it
has
thawed
a
little
Mrs.
R
L.
Coats,
county
cha-
giving
the
music.
Pall
bearers
were
more effectively during the inter rock while making a run up river
15.00 bought at 103 and a fourth from each midday.
P. C. Axtell, Wilford Belshe, T. S. of livestock and farm implements.
mission than did Coach Hughes for from Arlington Tuesday and was
the BtoU. The average pric« paid; Snow began falling 5,^^ Reese, J. C. McKean and Melvin
county
The example worked on Thurs
Mrs.
Peq'r
Fleck.
in the third period the Rufus boys sunk. W. S. Nelson, secretary of
has been 97 and an eighth.
day
is sufficiently varied to give
.
„charge
.
20.00
'
night
but
has
not
continued
for
Schadewitz. Zell was in dharge.
brought the score up to 25 to 24 the dhajpber of commerce and La-
each
of the pupils a concrete idea
Mm
Margaret
E.
Clarke,
''
During
the
life
of
this
issue
of
any
length
of
time
and
the
cover
with Grass Valley in the lead. This dru Barnum were on the boat at.
of the use of the different pages
8.00 bonds the county has paid interest ing on the ground is slight even
left the final score to be decided the time. They took to the life .* Co unir Charge
of the book, how. for instance to
"I totaling $182,849.30 up to July last yet. Wind has blown the snow Rufus Residents
in the final quarter. First Rufus boats and were brought ashore af Mrs. B..G. Garrett. County
record
varying receipts and diff
r*
20.00
year.
Therefore
the
total
paid
out
badly
and
many
of
the
fields
are
was ahead. Then the Grass ter an exciting few minutes during
erent
kinds
of expenses, aa well
.Pacific
Power
&
Light
Co.
,
>
because
of
the
bond
issue
¡has
been
Learning
To
Sing
barely
covered
while
the
roads
are
Valley lads began to overhaul which things looked, pretty dark
as
trading
deals.
-Courthouse-U«rhf
trill
5.40
1284.929 and $195,000 and interest filled with snow along the cuts.
them. Little Bill Roth came thru according to press stories. *
Abraham L. AUup. old age
from now on remain to be paid. I Probably if the snow was leveled
At the end of the class period
with two left handed shot« to score
A FERA project has gotten un Bankers C. R Harding and Eugene
Unless conditions within the cdun-’off it would be about two inches
George H. WUoox . Coroner«
and brother Henry dropped in one
.. —pansari: 'Mitten death
9.00 ty become very favorable immed deep throughout the county. It der way at Rufus for the develop Courtney of The Dalles each spoke
in the last minute to end the game Dairy Specialists Have
D
J,
Butcher,
Reemployment
iately the county will expend $600, is not thought that there is much ment. of community singing and briefly on the value of bookkeep
39 to 33. But the winning scores
Chance
For
Work
offlde
Tam
’
■
>
8.75
000
to retire the original bond is frost in the ground as the temper entertainment. Mrs. R. P. Foister ing to the farmer and Wily Knight
were not made until the game was
Roy
Ju
Baiter,
Premium
on
sue
of
$300,000.
atures have not been severe but it is leader of two groups of singers en and Perry Johnston told of the
drawing to a close. It was even,
10
00
J.
of
P.
bond
While the county has been able is doubtful if any of the snow is which will meet at different times 4-H club record project that is be-
Stephen up till that time. Stark,
There is an opportunity for any Bates. Lively A Pearson
to save nearly $3000 in the pur .able , to penetrate the , frost at during the week. The younger ,ing furthered in this county.
center for Grass Valley and Mac one who is able to test cows for
group, composed mostly of students
n
Premium
yon
The largest delegation at thé
chase of 105 of its bonds, the con that.
nab -center for Rufus, were both dairy herd improvement. Need for
will meet Thursdays and the elder court house Thursday was made
15.00
bond
out on personal fouls when the
ditions that made this possible are
testers is urgent and the state col Pac. Stationery A Prfnt. Co. m
group will gather Sundays at the Up of men from tile north end of
past and it is considered doubtful
game ended.
GRANGERS TO CONFER
lege has written asking that grad
church*
Some instruction in the the county although every part, of
6.20
Clerks'
‘
Offico-
supplies
Eakin and Williams were th**
if Sherman county bonds will be
uates in dairying or others qualified A. B. Potter,* Reet of Klondike
history
of
music and'in the techni- the county was represented T^rg**
quoted at below par for some time
speed boys for Rufus although
W. L. Teutsch will be here on cal part of it will be given and farmers, meaing. those with many
get in touch with Roger Morse at
5.00 as they have been above that figure
election
Morris made the highest score with Corvallis or see Perry Johnston,
January 26 for a meeting with the
Pacific TsL A Tel. Company
for nearly a year no# and there Is grange agricultural committees of some community singing will be acres, were more in evidence than
10. For Grass Valley Stark made
county agent.
encouraged.
I smaller farmers.
16.50 a demand for-good bonds that are
Total nf alhphooa Mia
10 points and Bill Roth made 11,
the county. This meeting will be
City ot Moro, Coart bau^
but the scoring in no case was on
being paid in good order. At five similar to one held last year in
2.95 percent they yield a larger income
water bill
a personal basis but was the result Woman’s Club Leader
which grangers mapped oA a plan
Pac.
Satlonery
A
Print
Co.
than do newer ■ Issues.‘‘ Counties
of team work on the part of all
for
an agricultural program for the
Superintendents •applies
and cities that are now refunding
Speaks Today Wasco
players.
remainder of the year. Usually
County Indua. Farm
their bonds are doing go at four
The score:
those things are considered that
Care Patterson Nov. A Dec.
percent or even less and the fed
Rufus
Grass Valley - *
will be immediately beneficial to
81.50
and
auppiles
Mrs.
Johnson
of
Portland,
will
eral government issues many bonds
9
Eakin, f
H. Roth, f 6
From the Observer. Jan. 19, 1906. gates to Portland on the 18th as
the
farmers of the county.
1
at a smaller rate that this. *
10 speak today, Friday at the Com George B. Bourhill. P. M.
Morris, f
B. iRÄh, f; 11 *
In An enumeration of Moro Lady follows: Wm. Holder, R. E. Frendb. .
8.15
Box
rent
—
all
offices
2 munity ch’urch at 2:30 under the
Macnab. c
- -
Stark,
c 10
Society
organizations this week Grant Hawley, J. Harvey Smith»
OFFICERS INSTALLED
Williams, g 8 auspices of the Woman’s club. The G. C. Vinrtln, Cash advanced
7
J. Roth, g
the
Lawn
Tennis was accidently C. W. Moore. —The Monkland Club
for office expenses < *
12.50 VETERANS REPORT FILED
Guilford, g 2 subject of Mrs. Johnson’s talk will
Peters, g
omitted. (The Bachelor .Girls), as elected delegates on the 18th. Jas. *
Hugh
Chrisman
The Annie Fulton Chapter, OES,
2 be “International Relations." The
IMacnab, c
Vintin, c
Board of prisoners 140.00
The biennial report ef the Veter of Wasco installed officer« last week we understand it.' have disbanded, H. Frazer, Elwood Thompson.
|
publio
is
invited.
Referee: Goddard
The wife of Dave Fuller, living
Expenses of prisoners 15.00 55.00 an's State Aid Commission recen putting the following persons in so many members having violated
Wily W. Knighten, Cash ad- •
tly published shows that in Sher to the ckairs: Daisy Barnett, WM; the “pledge" last year, and either on tlhe John Ginn Monkland farm*: .
vanced for office help, $12.00
man county 45 loans have been Melburn Burnett, WP; B. Estrelle married or agreed to become, died suddenly of heart disease one
office expense« $l&.O0
97.00 made to date. ' Fourteen of tfiese Hailey. AM; iRoy Belsihee, AP; An wives. The Basket Ball t^am are day last week.
Goe. B. BourhUL K M. A m <* mi -
hkve been on farm property and 31 nabel Fortner, secretary; Amelia in a semi-comatose pbnditlpn,.wait From the Observer Jan. 21. 1916.
ora o files, ■tappila«
19.00 off* town property.” The total for Root, treasurer; Mae McDermid, ing for the green sward of spring. ; Born to Mr and Mrs. A. Me- ■
People thought Dr. 0. J. Goffin Nab at their home near Rufus,
Sherman County Journal
the 14 loans was $35,800 and for conductress; Bertha Moor* AC; Lo
must
be going somewhere Tuesday, January 18th, a 12 pound boy.
County Printing '
15.65 city loans $62,200.. Of this ' sum uise Nisbit, Ada; Augusta Huckin,
The most thorough and practical | quickly transferred to the othter
t
To
the
asylum perhaps, as he was
The Moro Blue Barn, conducted
Gee.
H.
Wileox,
Coronerà
ax-
method of treating fence posts on, tank which contains creosote heated
repayments in interest and prin Ruth; Ethel Van Gilder, Esther;
chasing
about
town
in
the
snow
on
to
about
100
degrees
(the
cold
penare:
Bud
Moore
death
by
W. S. Easter is now equipped
6.60
cipal
have
been
made-for
a
total
the farm with coal-tar creosote is
Pearl Butler. Martha; Bessie Bel
of $54,638.42 leaving $71,882.10 still shee, Electa; Hattie Andrews. hunt 6f a parasol. He wanted it to handle livery business having
the so called hot and cold bath bath,) and left there for one or R. J. Ginn, J of P fosa—State
vs Janeen and State vs.
due the commission. Two loans Ohaplin; Christine Moon, Marsh for the leading lady in the White recently purchased a team, buggy^
open tank process, according to the more hours while the air in the
wood
contracts
and
draws
in
the
6.00
and runner« for the buggy.'
have been paid in full. Fourteen all; Casta Yates, Warden; Herbert Mountain Boy play*
U. S. Forest Products Laboratory
A good many people had their
J of the loans have been foreclosed Root, Sentinel. * ' • ‘ “
At a meeting of the Farmers -
Madison. Wisconsin. In this treat oil. ' To get best result«, the oil Geo. H. WNcox. Agent Fr^m-
curiosity aroused Tuesday morning Union last Saturday at Wasco the
lum on officere bonde :Teese< *
or the property acquired by other
ment two tanks are usually used. should penetrate the wood to the
at some scratches down the outer following officers were elected and
Clerk; Deputy , >Corou«r 185 00 means by tho commission. None
Thte tanks can be made by cutting depth of one-half to three-quar
COURTHOUSE JOB GOING ON wall of the Logan office building installed for the year 1915: G. W.
Geo.
G.
Updegraff,
premium
ters
of
an
inch.
Treatment
may
of
these
have
been
sold
but
10
city
thè head out of each of two 110-
lately vacated by Dr. James. After
on officers bonds:
properties are rented and three are
gallon metal oil drums. Fifty gal be made, in just one tank by first
A crew ifi Moro has btyn wort-' •earching investigation it was learn Root, president; W. B. Rice, vice
Die»
No
Bhofiff:
T*X
heating
the
posts
and
oil
to
the
president; A. Buhman* secretary;
idle. The one farm is rented.
lon drums are too short. The drums
ing on the basement under the ed that Mayor J. O. Elrod had and treasurer; L. Walsh', contrac
specified
temperature
for
1
to
8
collector;
Deputy
Sheriffi
186.00
should not leak and they should be
court house this week and are mak slipped on the walk at the, corner tor; H. £ Van Gilder, chaplin; Roy
strong enough to hold the weight hours and then allowing the potto Geo. G. Updegraff.: District
ing good progress. *Fbe dirt is the night before and had digged Belshee, door keeper. The report
Attorneys
expengM
J
'
and
oil
to
cool
together.
This
ac
of the posto and oil. and be so ar
being dumped in the street back his digets into the wall, in a vain of the secretary showed that mem
ranged that they can be heated complishes the same purpose as Qeo, A. Potter, County Judge«
of
the court house and the court endeavor to save himself from bers of the Union on last year’«
expel*«««
i ’ <
14.65
either by a fire beneath them or the two tank method but takes lohg
has
promised to level it and cover falling.
State
Indu«,
Accident
Comm,
-
*
“
er as the oil cools slowly.
purchase«, had saved $2.844.50.
by steam from a steam boiler.
MAX.
MIN. PIIECIP it with top soil next spring.
, PAT«
From the Observer Jan. 23, 1896. Quite a respectable sum.
The
oil
'should
be
kept
high
The posts are placed butt end
Wm. B. Martin left for Missoula
While out enjoying the be^utif^A <(
,.31. 26 ....... (0
JAN. 10 ..
down in one of the tanks and creo enough in the tanks so that when Dn C. L. Poter. County healtfc
Montana,
Monday, on an extended snow the other day in Ms sleigl>,.:>
officer
69.60
the
post«
are
set,
there
will
be
not
TOWNSEND
ADHERANTS
. 39 .. 29 .. .02
sote is then poured in to about a
11...
,
.U »
visit .to his son.
Johnny Mersinger living in the,
foot from the top. It is heated” to less than six inches of treated । Naomi Vaa Gilder, Caah ad
. 37... 267... .CO
It...
Two or three things are essen Rufus district, took a spiU. Tbe
Wood above the ground. In the! vanced for Treaetirere
A
potluck
supper
will
be
given
^31
..24..
.12
18...
F forgone to three hottfs. This "hot bath usually very little of the
office «xpeyty
l>.p
ox penara » )
hy the Moro Townsend^ Club and tial for a merry, merry sleigh rids; sleigh tipped over, throwing Job,. t.-
. 25 .. 16 .
.05
14
..
friends of the Townsend Plan 1st a nice string of bells; 2nd a his wife, cousin and little girl over
is called the hot bath, during which preservative i« absorbed, while to Ray Hutoe. WbM for county > .
22 .. 04 ......... 00
15 .
Monday evening January 21 at 6 little more snow than we had Sat board. Report says no damage done
the air in the wood expand« and is the cold bath the
poor
. 35 . 12 .. .00
15 .
o'clock at the Presbyterian church. urday; 3rd, a belle in the cutter.
except to John's feelings. #
partially driven out. Following greater and the oil should be kept Farmer« Elevator A Bupply Co,__
Gras« Valley Club elected dele-
19
Total for week
Important business meeting.
the heat treatment the posts *re|
(Continued on Page two)
I
Conti axed from peg» two)
ol Game
cpuRT e « os igsMa
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