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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1935)
* german County 3Itnwnal Forty S^Yfmh Year No. 17 Moro, Oregon, Friday, March 1, 1935 -------------- m Sute Hew Narkous-Amidon Recreational School * a" [Nuptials Observed To Be Given Here CLUB CHILDREN FETED 0Ï CLUB Official County Paper -U1B JIB UJ. TgBJI im p — Stephens Returns From Scout Dads Struggle •Triy To Washington Through Another Game LEGISLATION GOES ON DESPITE PAY The marriage of Miss LeNore • All those persons who have D. Stephens returned last Competition between the acout Amidon of Moro and Mr. Joseph longed to be able to arise in a Thursday from his trip to Wash dads of Grass Valley and Moro Narkins of Pendleton was sol crowd gnd say. ‘‘Now well all play ington IX C. where he worked in seems to be on an absolutely equal emnized Friday noon February ring around the rosy,” and then the department of Agriculture. Mr. basis although some accuse the 22 at the home of the bride’s make everyone enjoy themselves Stephens < say» that Washington time keeper and scorers of stop- ¿column pf çhatter father Mr. E. Amidon, before a will have their innings the week has changed more in the past four ping the game when the score is small group of relatives and of March 11 when Miss Gertrude aboub LefMabion and friends. years than in the twenty years tied. Anyway they played another Skow, extension specialist in rec Clubbers Tell ? d Work Io Club proceeding. New buildings for ag tie game at Grass Valley Wednes Bill To Relief¿ Indebted Tcwns Their attendants were Mr. and reational activities, will give a riculture, commerce, labor and the day night . introduced Mrs. Harold McIntyre of Helix. series of classes at the Moro school supreme court have been erected. All players g alon'» swimming Prqjwls - . Rew R. A. Hutchinson of The house. Classes will be held Tues ▼ Everyone is busy and there is said ly. being dressed in bathing suits, Dalles read the service. The day, Wednesday, Thursday and to be more people working in gov instead of the regulation basket Misses Dorothy Fraser. ~ Mary ernment offices than in the hectic ball costume- It was another slap With flta Legislature scheduled Pinkertop, Genevieve Nahouse Friday nights. Miss Skow attended a grange days of the world war. to continue until March 9, or 15 and Gayle Amidon sang accom- convention stick affair that caused much more last summer at Grass amusement on the i art of the spec days over the prescribed 40 days, panied by Mrs. Carroll Sayrs Valley and had old and young en tators than would a serious game more attention is being turned to who also played the wedding tertaining themselves happily for With a championship at stake. possible appointments under the march. several hours. It is requested that new administration as well as The bride wore a blue and white those -interested in learning meth what will happen to the big issues afternoon dress, her corsage was ods of group recreation register Road Resolution Would Aid Central Varied Fann Program remaining in the legislature »- of tea roses and sweet peas. Mrs. with the county agent before the Kent Will Entertain Children Next long with how will some Legis McIntyre was dressed in blue meetings begin so the course can Advised For Oregon Friday, March 8 lators eat. and wore a corsage of tea roses be planned to better advantage. Until the rainfall of Wednesday and violets. . Members of all groups in the night i.nd Thursday morning the “It .will probably pay bettor the pay of mem- After the dinner following the county, grange.lodge. churches and Some of the bills that concern 1 month of January and February generally, for Oregon farmers to R Ztopped, but the ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. Narkans clubs are all invited. A fairly * The second cofftogmty wide of 1935 were tKe ever re _ Sherman county have been passed plan on feeding hay crops and pay of fa $nd secretaries left for a short wedding trip. equal division between men and continues it | day. Members They will make their home in women is wanted for the school. affair given in honor of the 4-H corded in this county since the es- feed grain to livestock than to by the legislature during the past chib dhildren who completed their tablish nent of the experiment depend too much on the cash mar week and others have gone the whose wives ar^ their secretaries Pendleton. . About sixty are expected- have an advantage. Others who projects in 1934 was given at the statior here with the single ex kets next fall and winter,” says way of the majority and been in definitely postponed or been for ceptioi do not have much other income Experiment Stations Moro Hotel Saturday night with of moi if 1920. Only 1.20 inches the outlook report for spring gotten in committee. Court House Has ure has fallen in the first sown crops and vegetables just will find it difficult*. But every one Senate Bill 108 which has to do the two months of the year. Although released by th^j Oregon State of fhe ninety members will be Conditions Varied Face Lifting Operation o persons present including with the salaries of county officers / I th®re was a surplus of rainfall be- 1 college extension service. here the closing night—that ap was passed by the house with a- Gordon Fraser acted 1 kzoruon n raser as toast tween September 1 and the end of | The circular points out that peared certain tHn VAar master And and WHS was AS 0 culm calm before the year that cumlnc surplus has knnn been ' most of the 20 per cent gain in mendment^ ^hanging the sheriff Because of varying soil and For years the Sherman county nis after dinner crowd as on the wiped out by the dry January and the general lev'el of farm prices and assessor's saltfty from the And in matter of appoint climatic conditions, eastern Ore court house has had much the same football field. George Updegraff February. j since last May can be attributed contemplated $1600 to $1800, as gon has six of the nine branch ments, one member of the house appearance. Pictures taken in the welcomed the parents,, leaders For nearly two weeks the weath- to the drouth made scarcity of it is at present, and making the experiment stations The recent was being groomed by his friends early days of the centufy might be and club members and Melba er has been bright and clear and feed grain^ and»? hay which in treasurer’s salary $900 per year. for position as state printer to biennial report of the entire ex thought to be modern ones ex Thogerson gave the response for frosty niter the sun has gone turn cut down supplies of eggs, Whether it will get clear through periment station • system shows succeed E. C. Hobbs. There has cept for the growth of trees about the children- down. A break in this sort of butterfat and meat. While the the hopper before the final thump been no indication Hobbs would these variations as follows: ib. But this week it has been Vivian Fuller, Gayle Amidon. weather came Tuesday with a general price level advanced 20 of the gavels in the senate and Le removed by the Board of Con- changed. The doors that were set Dale Johnston. Ronald Powell,, change house is as yet unknown. cnange of or the me moon and cloudy c trol as he has made a fine name c inside the door arch, some five or Lloyd Henrichs, Doris Thompson, days- with promise of rain is now per cent, corn went up 75 per cent A measure has been introduced - K oats 70 per cent, barley 90 per for himself in that position, but s six feet have been brought out Betty Powell, Dorothy Fraser, in prospect. Farmers are almost cent and hay 57 per cent as an in the senate which will give the O £ the way of politics is sometimes almost flust with the brick wall to Mary Pinkerton and Frank Sayrs unanimous in the Opinion that average for the whole country. state bond commission power to strange. £ £ make room for a door to the new spoke for the clubbers and Mrs. - there is more moisture in the Compared with a year ago, the act as conciliator or intermediAur « I*. H. FraSer, Roy Powell and1 ground than last spring as those farm price of eggs is up 40 per between the cities having back in o basement. J. Richard Smurthwaite, Jr., This is practically the only dif Henry Barnum gave the parents\who have dug report at least cent, butterfat 90 per cent, hogs terest and bond payments and the Representative from Baker Coun Station In. DaF ference in the exterior of the and leaders’ point of view. Perry three feet of wet dirt in the Moro 120 per cent, beef cattle 50 per bond holders. The bill is known Ft. ty, has been the one advanced for Burns 4150 7.78 63 —15 building caused by the digging of Johnston, Wily Knighten and territory. Farther south there is cent and 'lambs 13 per cent. as Senate Bill 355 and was intro State printer. Personally, he de Hermiston .451 8.40 163 —36 *he basement. Jiles French gave brief talks and much less and there is a bit more Agricultural adjustment pro duced by. Chinnock although tho clared, he has heard nothing Hood River Underneath, though, the change Eugene Courtney, manager of the around WasCo. Little of the rain grams and relief purchases of treasurer’s office had much to do 300 3221 184 —27 official, h a Democrat and a Moro 1838 11.25 150 —22 is great. Smooth concrete now First National Bank in .The fall of the crop season has run off cattle and sheep played a. part, with writing the bill It i» thot pointer by |rade as well as a Pendleton 1440 13.29*149 —28 covers the floor, the vault is nearly Dalles, told of the interest that causing the fairly good conditions but most of the advance may be that this bill will provide a way • world war veteran. Smurthwaite Union 2787 13.23 118 —24 completed the walls smoothed down has been started in club w ---- work ___ in spite of the dry months. credited directly or indirectly to out for towns now overburdened is a member of the typographical *This figure covers only the 6 and the whole job ready for the in- through the success of the Shern Farmers are beginning to work the drouth, says the report. It by debt and permit them to refi union and is 41 years of age. Well years the station has been ec-tab- stallation of the new heating plant man county beef club last year. jn the fields in some places, either is pointed out that farmers, par nance at a lower rate of interest liked in the House. ished, which included a dry and other paraphenalia that will He had a copy of the banker s an- plowing or putting in crops on the ticularly in the 1934 drouth areas. and at a figure within the capacity cycle. The normal average rain modernise the old building into one nual- publication in which the land left idle last fail. will do everything possible to pro- of the taxpayers to pay. ‘fOinff’ Haight the editor fall ¡for Pendleton is about 14 that will better fit the needs of matter received favorable notice. I Fatlaud’s bill to give the county 1 duce an adequate supply of feed the times. Pins and awards were given for court ’s authority to set the salaries member of the Legislature from inches. Snip nf Shprman Cnuntv Bnd' ««»P first year work to Dale Johnston, aaie or snerman county prospectg reaaOnabi« favor- of county officers was defeated in Canyon City, was lonesome the Ted Thompson, Claudine Thomp senate which leaves the salary last few days. His wife and con Made । so gT^tlx, reduced, the market the son, Audrey Baker. Ardis Truitt. Horses To Valley schedule of county officers in ex stant companion slipped and fell ■ Ronald Powell, Lyle Nahouse. upon the hard tile floor of the -------- ' I demand for hay and grain for actly the same place it was prev Helen iMorrison, Donald Morris, State Capitol »nd broke her left More sales of purebred Perch shipment eastward can scarcely iously. Mearle Miller, Clara Mersinger, erons were made in 1934 than for be expected to be as great as for One of the major questions troub arm. The news gang here short David McLeod, Clinton Kessenger any year since 1929. according to the crop of 1934. ling the legislators this week has ly after received a fine note from Claims Presented and Allowed R. P. Barnett, hauling road Jessie Kenny, Glen Kenny. Rea- her voicing appreciation for the Of the various spring sown been the so called Snider resolu Against the General Fund Ac- supplies 5.00 tha Howard, Mac Hall, Wyman ITT» McFarland. " secretary of crops large bouquet of flowers. discussed in the report— tion which would force the high thie Percheron Horse Association count of “Courthouse Improve- W. G. Armsworthy, road ma- French, Betty Coffman. Gene at Chicago. Sales for the year wheat, feed grain, brewing bar way commission to finish the roads chinery supplies 17 00 Brisbine, Betty Belshee, Barbara ments”, at February Term of Speculation was rife as to what totaled 3.934 as compared with ley, hay, flaxseed, beans, clover that were on the highway map in Geo. Wild2. supplies and ' County Court. Belshe, Winifred Belshee, Robert chances Frank C. McCulloch, the 3.574 in 1929, and January sales seed, alfalfa seed, hops, potatoes 1917 before starting any new labor 13.50 Gillmore and Audrey Searcy. new public utilities commission Moro Hardware and Im- । onion and other vegetable crops— highways. A large part of the alone totaled 445. Third year pins were received $1.40 Wasco Markst, road supplies .65 plement Company er from Baker who takes office the market outlook for clover seed 1917 roads were in eastern Oregon Among the most recent sales is Tum-a-lum Lumber Co.. by Thirley Chapman, Lois Melzer on it appears, and this section wants Dick Morgan, Labor Friday of this weak, would make •i 73.40 2.48 Bonnie Peters, Elizabeth Mer- that of T M. Rolfe of Grass Val- appears the best. Road supplies the Fransont highway (Lake coun- courthouse basement in the wieldy organization over The 1934 clover seed 1 crop was Claims Presented and Allowed senger. Erma Morgan. Patricia Icy, Oregon, who has* just fur- ty) the Johnday highway and th« 30 per cant below average and the which he will be the head. Com W- C. Weld. Labor on court nished two purebred - Percheron Against the General Fund at McLeod. Wayne Thompson and 12.00 “ither old roads finished before start house basement missioner Charles M. Thomas was the February Term of County Betty Vintin. Fifth ¿year pins mares for the herd of E. R. Baker carryover not large. Demand for ing another road to the coast or State Indus. Accident Comm. | clover to replant killed aad dam- expected to assume a legal po at Newberg, Oregon. Court. went to Marjorie Byers, Lucille Protection for SERA sition with a proposed new bus are sired by Casino aged meadows where (frouth was other projected highways. Also Both mares McLachlin and Lloyd Henrichs. 25.71 Hugh Chrisman. Sheriff, laborers company which will operate in II. of the famous Casino breeding severe is strong, so that the avail the question of free tolls on the Cash advanced for stamped Second year club' members 4.70 coast bridges is still unsettled and McKean and Searcy supplies Portland. | envelopes for office $162.60 Billy Axtell, Bobby Axtell, Vera and one is in foal to a Lagos bred a^e supply should be pretty well it has caused worry on the part of Hanson Blue Print Co., sire. (Continued on Page two) .66* Mrs. Chas. Golliher, County Henrichs, Carl Peetz, Dean Pink all legislators not coming from the Blue prints of basement One change apparent in the 15.00 poor erton, Lois Reynolds, Gordon coast country where the matter is Hal White, mileage and mis utilities organization would be Geoi B. Eourhill, P. M. Thompson, Rodney Truitt, receiv cellaneous expenses of very hot indeed. that of supervisor of transporta 7.50 ed cards signifying their success Stamps for Treasurer 14.51 The governor and the grange engineer tion, or the head of the bus and Mary .lane Young, old age ful completion of their work. leaders had a few word* last week McKean and Searcy^ sup- truck division. Herbert Hauser pension 10.00 Fourth year cards were given 20.38 when the grangers were instru * plies who was Secretary to the 3-man Juliun Ruhbarg. old age pen- Betty Powell, Louis May, Leona mental in defeating the county unit O, Meara Supply and Imp. Co public servioa commission for a ’15*00 McLeod, Vivian Fuller, Jant From the Observer March 2, 1906. bound train* and on that side has bill Governor Martin favored. The 3.001 sion Courthouse supplies dozen years and who has been I Ella \ i nLr. Hnghi.în, old age French, Gayle Amidon and Don W. M. Barnet of Wasco has p xt besides ttw name of grange equalization school bill head of the and truck depart Ginn. Coleman & Co., sup 10835 15t00 ald Williams. Sixth’ year cards macaroni seed wheat for sale. The pension carried in the senate shortly there plies for basement j a] Welcome to DeMoss." ment was expected to be trans ~ Mrs, Alee» ,i:ie V iv.ng. old were presented to Doris Thomp only sure dry country wheat. after giving the grangers the first Farmers Elevator & Supply Co. . ferred to some other division. No Roy Kunaman returned Saturday round in the battle. pension 10.00 son, Jean Powell, Mary Pinker Lumber etc for basement 970.96 Justice Brock is about to move / • successor haa yet been mentioned. from Portland, where he has been . II ndernon, old age J Jonn ¡1 ton. Dorot'hy Fraser and George from Moro, and was the first Union* Pacific Stages, Inc., r ' pension 10.00 Hennagin. Cards showing seven qualified republican voter to si^n attending business college. HOG LEADERS ELECTED Freight on basement sup- • And while the recall for How age David Aaron Fields, old Bom to Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Bo years of successful, club work a petition for Wm. Rudolph as his The meeting for organization plies - 4.40 ard Merriam was under way in 15.00 pension gart, at their Moro home, a nine were given to Gordon Fraser, the Moro district of the com- of successor. Mr. Rudolph is a good Lane county because he did not Claims Presented and Allowed Mrs. Flòra Belle Eakin, old pound boy on the 29th. Paul Fraser and I Avon Sayrs hog allotment committee was held man for the place, not lacking in Against Road Fund at Febru vote exactly as ardh supporters pension 15.00 and for 8 years to Norma Melzer, experience either, ^having „served Mrs. P. Waldo Davis celebrated Monday night at the court house ary Term of County Court. of the Townsend Old Age Pension Melba Thogerson and Lois Kenny. several terms as J. P. of Kent. j N®r anniversary on the 29th and resulted in the re-election of 12.40 W, J. Brownlee, old age pen- • plan desired, another memorial C. A. Bargenholt, laborer sion 15.00 Dorothy Fraser and Mary Pink More than 100 of the most prom- of February, something many can- the same T>oard that functioned 12.40 again bringing up the Townseiid Ralph Eaton, laborer Abiliam S- Hall, old age pen erton won a scholarship for can last year. They are Henry Barnum, inent farmers, stock and business d°- 12.40 plan, was introduced in the House IDnck Yocum, laborer sion 15.00 ning judging and demonstrations men of Sherman county have pled- community committee chairman, Opservw March 5, 1896. 138.00 Hal White “ , county engineer : The other one was filled by the at the state fair, the poultry ged themselves to support an in- ErskinviUe school will be and county board member, Joe 22 45 David McKelvey, old age • W- C. Weld, laborer Senate. pension 15.00 judging team, Lloyd Henrichs, dustrial exposition this year. The by Prof* Hinman, Into of Peters and Tom Fraser, Commun 3.10 Vinton Watkins, laborer V/. C. Rutledge, old age pen- George Hennagin and Dorothy meeting held at the Court house ( Wasco county. ity committeemen. In the entire 26.80 E. L. Weld, road laborer The new memorial, known as 10.00 sion Fraser were given a ribbon won At the Moro sc J iqo J meeting Mon. county 78 hog growers have sign Saturday showed that the time is ----------- 19.80 -F^use Joint Memorial No 17, A. Shearer, laliorcr b • Al up. old age kt the fair, Lyle Nahouse re ed contracts to date which com ripe for something of this kind'^Y Bolton was elected di rec 20 60 differ^ from the other attempt L. L. Funky laborer pension 10.00 ceived-his 7th place ribbon for at home. The following officers ^or for 3 years, and C. H. Will- pares to 121 signer» of contracts Unino Oil Compapy, road •>' tlT’t it does not Memorialize floristry. Donald Williamd and were chosen: President, C. W. iams cleric. last year. 38.95 Mrs. S. L. Coatay County supplies h Mi.Th.ss to pass the “Townsend 15 00 charge Dean Pinkerton were given their Tom Van Orsdal has struck iMoore; Vice President, G. A. Me 1,50 CL1 A to Revolving fund plan, । Foss & Co., road supplies ; •. peter Fleck. County fifth place ribbon for crop judg loy; Secretary. A. B. Craft; Treas zero and is suffering from inflama- CHURCH SPONSORS PLAY but does a k it be brought out State Indus. Acc. Cojmm. • 2000 ing at Salem. Gordon Fraser was tory rheumatism. A dramatization, showing the charge urer, I. D. Pike; Board of Direc Rd employees protection 16 63 1 of Congress by tho ♦Mrs. Margaret E. Clark, ¡resented with ribbons denoting need of schooling among the Mex A check for 14,240.97 less the tors. A. H. Barnum, J. W. Booth, weys rnd means committee so National Hospital Ass’n ..8.00 swine and one County charge, paltry sum of $46 for roads in Sher three prizes for ican migrant families in the United I. N. Lemon, Fred Krusow, 15.22 Rd employes protection th*t t’ie plan can be aired pub- Mrs. R. G. Garrett, County man county, was remitted to Salem States, will be given in the Com for calf. wood Thompson. Mrs. C. M. Snider, Rent of liclyl 20.00 needy Ronald Powell and Betty Pow- From the Observer March 4, 1916. yesterday paying the tax of this munity Church Sunday, March 8, 6 00 road machine shed . W. C. Print, ami Bind Co., ell each received their scholarship M. C Davis has leased hi* 'farm, county in full due to the state on at 11 a. m. The playlet will be This* memorial, less demanding R. H. McKean. Rent of road- Supplies for C. H. $12.35 for winning first place in beef known as the Callaghan place, east the last assessment. May it satis a part of the church service con 12.00 than the other one. probably will f mw^r's offin« ssessor $1 10: Clerk ”alf competition», Dorothy Fraser of Grass Valley* to J. D.- Dunlap fy Lord, Kincaid, et al. ducted by the Woman’s Miaaion* get support, including Merriam’s Pac. Power and Lic^t Co. 29 45 $12.22; Sheriff $3.78 was given a third place for her ary Society, apd given by the nnd has moved to Portland. | Mn and Mrs. W. H. Moore left who really did vote for a modified Lights, roadmaster’s office 125 • D. J. Butcher. Re-employ home beautification project and children of the Sunday School. The John M. DeMoss has had a large Moro in a blitzard Saturday for old age pension memorial pre- City of Wasco, water for , 3.75 Gordon received his first place 6-foot sign painted by J. F Noonan Portland, but were blockaded in leading part will be taken by ment office in The Dalles 1 50 viously. It will cost Lane Coun-' roadmaster’s affirm Reaths Sayrs and Bob AxfelL and a scholarship for prize win that he will place at the entrance The Dalles. Oregon Stale College 1-2 ty thousands of dollars to attempt Feenaughty Machinery Co-, Special music will help to make ning wheat. r The Isenberg band of Belmont. 193^ appropriation for to his farm below DeMoss, which Supplies for road ma to oust a good man from the Leaders pins were given to Mrs. has been named Sunrise Farm. One Hood' River valley, captured all this* an enjoyable and instructive County Agent and Ex- 122.44 chinery „ Legislature on what has been side of the sign will face south listeners at the Wasco Camp Fire. hour, and the publie is invitai (Continued on page four) (Continued on page four) Shell Oil Co-, road supplies 58.62 termed purely a technicallity. COURTNEÏ NINES SUPPORT SMï BMSSE5 NOII5E First ’35 Months Driest Since 1920 Items That Were News 39, 29 and 19 Years tn The Past •-
