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TU UUMAN COUNTY JOURNAL, MUO, OREGON
SHERMAN COUNTY OBSERVER, Established Nov. 2, 1888
GRASS VALLEY JOURNAL^ Established Oct 14. 1887
CONSOLIDATED, MARCH 8, 1981
WASCO NEWS-ENTERPRISE, Established 1891 •
‘CONSOLlD^l EI) MARCH 4. 1932
mímica
Grass Valley
Born: To Mr, and Mr». Virgil
Schadewitz a » oil (March 25th, 1985.
Dr. Poloy and Ml** Cassie Holm**
attending.
Th* entire faculty of the Grass
Valley schools were reelected by
the board at its last meeting. Small
ON
Published Every Friday at Moro, Oregon, By
GILES L. FRENCH
>
Managing Editor new contract*.
The so-far successful Grass Val
Entered a* second-clasa matter at th* Postoffice, at Moro, Oregon,
under Act of Congress of March 8, 1879-
____ ley debate squad will meet the
Chiloquin High School debaters
SUBSCRIPTION RATES—PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.
April Sth in what will be the de
One Year ____ ______________________ ___________ ----- ---------- H ®<> ciding match before the final estst-
ern Oregon debate which will be
held at Hermiston later in the
MARCH 29,1935
month. Winner of the eastern
Oregon district will go to Eugene
for the finals with the winner of
EROSION VS BIG FARMING .
the valley district The Grass Val
ley negative team, which will be
The recent wind storm, mild as it was in comparison
composed of Mildred Alley and
with the winds of the mid-west, may be a fore-runner in Janet Wilcox, will debate against
point of distraction to storms that will ruin our wheat fields Chiloquin, probably at Redmond.
11 n 1 pm * proper steps of erosion control are taken.
The local declamatory contest
Since the development of the newer type of heavy farm will be held Saturday night March
machinery there has been many prophesies that eventually 30. Twenty six contestants are
*1] of the wheat land of this area would be farmed by a com to try for the three places on the
paratively few men who were able to operate large outfits. team which represent* the Gras*
Valley school at Rufus April 6.
That is certainly the present tendency «as a land owner
days can hardly afford to rent land to a lessee when
A dinner was given Wednesday
night
for the members of the bas
we can hire the work done so cheaply by the modern
ket ball squads of the high school-
‘ methods.
"
.
Parent* provided the food and the
There is another side of the picture. Unless immediate youngsters the entertainment.
••••
steps are taken to preserve our foreign markets it may be
Allen
Morgan,
sheep buyer of
come impossible to raise wheat exclusively in the northwest,
Condon, was here the first of the
•ven at the lowered cost made possible by machinery. This week on business.
would make diversification necessary and would prevent
Mrs. George Wilcox was taken
ill Sunday from what was thought
stopped it will not long be possible to farm large acreages to be an attack of ptomaine
with heavy machinery. - Washing may cut the land into poisoning.
smaller pieces and wind erosion may make closer attention
Mr. and Mrs. R J. Baker were
to farming methods so much a need that one man cannot
in Forest Grove Friday night to
operate so much land. Really, one of the first requisites of attend a recital in which their son,
successful farming is to keep the land in condition to Dale, gave several numbers on the
produce to full capacity and it is doubtful if this can be piano. x They returned home Sat
urday night.
done on the wholesale schedule now in vogue.
The period of bonanza farming in any country has last
A family reunion was held Sun-
ed only for the first fifty or seventy five years after settle day at the Rolfe home when the
day with
ment
After that time extensive farming or erosion children returned for a
the ’‘old folks.”
intervenes to make the land worthless. That is the history
of nearly all agricultural districts and it is doubtful if the
Miss Norma Garrett and friend
are
here this week from Monmouth
mid-Columbia basin will long be an exception to the general
Normal to spend spring vacation
rule.
Miss Hazel Boyce, daughter of
IMr. and Mrs. S. U Boyce was mar
A NEW MUSTACHE
ried here Sunday by her father
The trees have been taken out of the court house yard, and left, with her husband for
Salem where they will make their
that is, the most scrawny ones. Only a few of the best have
home.
been left. This is to our way of thinking an improvement.
Miss Helen Osborne spent the
Since the deforestation of the yard it has a bare look
week
end in Bend with friends.
somewhat like the appearance of a man’s face after he has
Mrs. Fred Cox was Uken to the
ghavad off a mustache of long standing. The court house hospital in The Dalles the first
■fund* out like a man’s nose after such an operation on the of the week.
much maligned hirsute appendage. But the trees were as
Mrs. Mac Alsup returned from
useless as the normal mustache and they have been remov. Portland the first of the week after
ed. The question before the house is, ’’now what”?
«pending several weeks there with
Probably there are few court houses in the state that her mother who just recovered
have as favorable location as Sherman county’s. It stands from a serious operation.
atop a hill with a natural and graceful slope to the street
Lawrence ’Davis was here Tues
on every side. It would be a magnificient place for a big day from Fossil where he and his
lawn. Only the fact that this is a semi-arid country makes brother Joshua are living.
the planting of so large a lawn impractical. However, we
Art Bibby and Jacob Wassenmil-
have available, through the state college, all kinds of trees l©r were in The Dalles Monday and
and shrubs, and there are a number of native shrubs that Mr. Wassenmiller remained in that
city on business matters for a few
are decorative. Also, there is a large and growing group
of boys and girls in the county which is interested in and to
Glen King was in LaGrande last
a certain extent informed about trees, how to plant them,
week to bring back a Holstein
and how to care for them.
heifer for his boy and a Hereford
The court could probably interest the state college bull for Ted Ball. He returned to
staff in landscaping in the problem of planning the arrange- Spokane this week after a bull for
ment of the trees and shrubs. The youngsters are already his own herd.
interested in planting trees someplace. All that is needed is
Taylor Baker and the two Ball
the advice and consent of the county court in order that the children are the latest victims of
grounds may be made more beautiful. The expense would the mumps.
be small; the result would be desirable.
Grass Valley School Notes
By Dorothy Fairchild.
THE MUMPS
Th© Minstrel that was presented
One thing the legislature overlooked was a revision of by the high school last week prov
the laws regulating quarantine. One of the peculiarities of ed a very agreeable entertainment.
the present law is that it is possible to close schools for Th* plot of the story? was that
only two weeks in case of mumps but the period of incep
tion is at least a week longer than that
Results of this rule are occasionly funny. Witness the
present situation in Moro. It probably isn’t very serious
PAL.’
considering the lightness of the attacks, but il is an example
of how the strictly legal interpretation may not fit the
practical side of the case at all.
,
Muddy Rains
Caused By
Dusty Winds I
is the Chiloquin Debate team, on
April 5, at Redmond. • '
Because ^aylpr Baker i| at home
this week with that which is conp-
monly supposed to be the mumps,
any one who feels a sore throat
fears that he, too, is afflicted.
Alaska te purchased from
th« Russian«, 1857.
treaty with Japan, 1854.
They need a ”Joe Bedcovers” for the western part of
Kansas.
'
L.
..
<
a •
1—England impose« a tas on
all bachelor«, 160S.
I Mrs. Jacob Crocker and Har.y-
. Yeakei of Golderidafe. Wash., were
at Kent on business Saturday.
FUNERAL HOME
The Highest Price
LIVESTOCK
Albright Commission Co., Inc.
Groceries---------- —-------- -
.
Trust us to have the
most complete stock, not only
of staples, but of vegetables too
H. Zeigler’s
Total
.........1 8 7.178.508 M
Value of real ««late owned
imarket valu«) .........8 851.582.1*
Value of stocka and bouda
“u ini**"®« vaiu*/ ••• 10.551.728.77
op mortcasu and eol>
Cash In bank* aad on hand
Premiums In coUrw of COi-
teUon written aince Sept.
1984
................................ ..
>
1 J91.021 15
1,040,780.25
4-H Club Notes On Various Topics
Reporters ar* allowed 250 words per story and may write for one dub only. Any clnb invited.
85,387 94
T*«l —•18.887.180.82
1J70.M8 90
It is too bad the governor did not go over the Sherman
highway. He wouldn’t have gotten stuck in the snow and
he would have found that it was worth improving.
QRÍ-GON <QA1RY COUNCIL
Mrs. C. F. Darby and Mrs. Ida
Davis were Antelope visitors Mon-«
day afternoon.
ZELL’S
Interest and rente due and
29—Vara Crux, Mexico, sur>
render» to General Scott.
1847. -
I
Serving meatless meals becomes One half cup boiling water
somewhat of a problem during the Two cups mixed fruits
Mn and Mrs. Frank Haynes and.
Lenten season- To prepare meals One tablespoon sugar
daughter
Annie Taurie and Mrs.
without meat over a period of time One eighth teaspoon salt
Max
Pluemke
were Dalles visiters
and to keep them interesting to the One eighth tsp cinnamon
family is sometimes a task as well । Put cheese through a sieve, add Sunday.
Young Man—(inquring at post as a test to one's imagination.
sugar, salt and cinnamon and whip
The Home Economics civ
office)—Any letters for “me today? Meat and its substitutes are muscle 1 ped creatn. Add jello dissolved in
building looos
foods and
should be
Add ---------
fruits. - Put
a masquerade
dance £
Postmas ter— N o.
ana snuuiu
uc in-, boiling water. ......
- sponsored
--------- —
----- .
the
diet
every
day.
They
in
molds
and
chill
until
set.
Unmold
the
grange
hall
Saturday
evenin
Young Man—That’s strange.
eluded in
Postmaster—Nothing so strange also lend flavor
flavor, variety
variety and
and satis-
satis- and serve on lettuce with fruit March 23rd. A large crowd atten-
ded. Mrs. J. L. Davis anfl Rosellen
about it You haven’t answered faction to meals. Meet substitutes salad dressing.
CONfDON—An experiment in Barnett received prizes for th
her last letter
include fish, eggs, cheese, nuts.
Supper wa>
dried peas, beans and lentils. Eggs range reseeding with crested wheat most comical mask.
are
now
considered
as
a
protective
grass
has
been
started
on
the
J.
R.
served
ca
feteria
style.
SYNOPSIS OF ANNUAL BTATXMKNT OF
THK COMMIHfE IN3URANCK CO of food along with milk, fruits, and Wood farm near Arlington under
Olena F«U«. In the atate of New York,
on the Hat day of December. 1934 m^de vegetables, and therefore, should the supervision of County Agent
to the inBuranc- commiuionrr of the
State ot Orwon pursuant to law:
be used often—daily for children, R. M. McKennon. The nursery
CAPITAL
plot is a part of a 400 acre field
। when possible. ”
Amount of cadi cal stock paid
21.000.000.00
up ....
..............................
on which no crop has been grown
Milk
is
the
best
bpy
on
any
food
INCOME
for several years. The seeding was ,
Met premium* received dur-
1.123.440.99 list and this is true no matter-how
Interest. (Jridends and rents
done early in March and four diff-j
great
the
need
to
economize
as
it
is
109.500 71
received durine the ye«r.
erent methods were used to deter
Phone 345 The Dalles, Ore
our
chief
protective
food.
It
should
Income from other sources
226.353 28
received durin« th« year .
, be used freely in food preparation, mine which is most successful. One
Total Income .. ...................... tl.4S8.294 98 especially)
in * meat substitute section was harrowed in, one was
DISBUR8KMENT8
plowed and seeded both in rows and GRASS VALLEY PHARMACY
Net losses paid durine the
dishes.
year includine adjustment
503.564 51
expenses ..... ............ .
Interesting meals can be built broadcast, one was seeded in rows
Phone 222
Dividend* paid on capital
in the sod, and one section was
60.000 00
tock durin«’tile year ...
around these meatless dishe«:
Commissions
«nd
sal«ries
broadcast with no preparation-
402.129 41
Codfish and Noodle Escallop
paid durln* tti« »ear ....
Taxes, licenses and fees paid
Two
cups
cooked
noodles*
51.249
88
durte* the year..........- • -
Amount of *11 other expendi
One half pkg salt codfish: soak
279.450 39
tures ....
.. . ..........
over night, drain, cover with
Total «xpend’turc» .... . ,11.296.495.99
, ASSETS
fresh water and cook until ten
Value of «tock» «nd bond«
owned (market value) ....12.764.468 61
der.
Loana on morteazca and col*
Two cups cream sauce, made as
285.428 45
lateral, «te. ....... . ...
can be realized from
106.245 82
Cash in banks and on band
follows:
Premiums in oeurae of cOI-
lection writt« «Ince Bea
Four tablespoons of butter
185.688.17
tern brr 20. IM*..................... .
Interest and renU due and
Four tablespoons of flour
8.332
17
acerued .... .....
.....................
One-half tsp salt
Total admitted aasset« ... .28.393,271.32
• when shipped to
One-fourth tsp pepper
LIABILITIES
Gross claim* for loaaea un
Two
cups
milk
141.052.04
paid . 5...
Amount of ui nearned prèmi
One-fourth teaspoon dry mustard
ti! outstandinc
um« on
1.080.065 «
rteka ...
One teaspoon lemon juice
Union Stock Yards North Portland, Ore.
commiuion
«nd
Due for
15.000 00
brokerace
.. .........................
One tbsp Worcestershire sauce
52.420 98
AU ocher UabiUUea ..............
Most Livestock Producer* recognize this fact
Melt butter, add flour and season
Total Uabilitlea. a x e a p t
528 53
ings, add milk slowly, stirring con
capital tl.3U
............................
•Why Not Be One of the Thousands that are Satisfied?
21.000.000 oo
stantly. Cook until thick - and
21.010.742 80
smooth- Arrange noodles and cod
policy-
•“Ä as .... renacds
Our Market Report issued every two weeks
fish in alternate layers in a but
...................... 82.010.742 80
tered
baking
dish.
«
Pour
cream
is FREE for the asking.
Total ............ ............................83 299.271.33
« IN OtUCGON FOR THZ YEAR . sauce oyer- Top
with ^buttered,
rTTTi
là»
crumb«. Bake 20 mhiuteb in a hot
»id d^«* 9“ ’.eêr
t ose 50
" ‘ f?”. . •
4.083.54
oven. (425 deg.> y. * ;
Limas With Cheese
Mame o' ¿ómoUtti OÒMMERC* INSUR-
AMOK
One onion, chopped fine
SÌ KSSm C « M"
_
Two tablespoons butter
itutory rrsldent attorney for servie«.
One No. 2 can lima bean*
। One green pepper chopped fine
Two cups strained tomatoes
One and a half cups grated mild
•y of December,
cheese
on the thirty'
suranca Commii-
Brown onion in butter and add
Oreson,
purtuani
•loner of the
to lav;
tomatoes. Heat thoroughly, and
CAPITAL
Amount of capital stock
season with salt And pepper and
I 2.500,000 04
paid up .
* "Ò8OÓM1
add drained beams. Heat thorough
ly and stir in beans. In buttered
For winter clothes, ouershoes, coats and
casserole, make alternate layers of
beans and grated cheese. Bake in
wool shirts and dry goods— SEE
a moderate oven (365 deg.) about
..2 7,467,473.54
T’“1 “ëiSJoMW
25 minutes. Fresh or cooked dried
Not loaaea paid durln* th«
year, includin* adjuatment^
Trade At
lima beans may be substituted if
2.588.432,24
Dividend* paid oa capital
preferred.
900.000.04
atock durln* Ute ye«r....
Commission* *ud aalariea
Cottage Cheese Mold
Quality
paid durln* UM year ... 2.049.424.57
Taxes, licensee and feea paid
One and a half cups cottage cheese
168.100
04
Store
durln* the year.. ..........
One cup whipped cream
Amount of all ether ex
1.575.529 04
penditures ........................
One package lemon jello
-Indiana attack and Back
Marlboro. Maw., 1678
A man in Portland is suffering from emphysema, which
means that his hide is full of air. Everyone has heard
speakers who were affected with mental emphysema. This
man has it from the ears down, not from the ears up.
!
Kent News
The band members are very hap
py over' their trip to Arlington
where a band concert will be held
on Friday, March 29.
MARCH
son* hit. published 1902.
V ,
Conference On
Family Living
Here April 16
ly when the sun shines."
27—P. Blak« gM hte patent on
th« corkscrew, 1860
PAGI THU*
dead ■Mster’s dsughter (whose
ments for better family living." smeared the glass, leaving it mud«
part was played by Marjorie Blake)
Miss Nye is a member of the state dy instead of clean- Due to wind
wa* being robbed of her rightful
rural housing , committee for the storms in central Oregon and Wasli
income by the villianious overseer
Federal Housing Administration, ington, much fine silt and dust wa it
(Guy Vintin) of her plantation.
and is in charge of the Home Eco carried into the rain belt Sunday
Her negro help knew thi* but could
nomics Extension program in Ore night Falling through this dust,
b* of no aid to her. It seemed that
gon.
the rein became so laden with silt*’
she would lose everything when
Other speakers on the program as to darken the water.
the handsome hero (Edwin Peters)
The muddy rain brings home th 3
are Miss Gertrude Scow who wiR
came to her rescue and secured for
fact
that the Northwest, as well
speak
on
'Recreation,
and
county
“If anyone doubts that Oregon
her her rights. Ellen Cox and families are improving their hou agent Perry Johnston. Registration as the midwestern and central
Ferd Stark were the parents of ses, even when it is impossible to begins at 9;45 and the program states, has a wind erosion problem
eight “chilluns” who had their spend much money, they should will begin promptly at 10:00 which must be solved. .
friend» and sweet heart* to add to talk with meh and women who are o’clock.
the numbar of singers. Dorothy i attending the county conference.”
Try Journal advertising, it pa:
Old. vwy «pUy filled the part of
Mi„ claribel Nye. SUU Le«-
the dear old, nigger' granny. In jer
Home Economics Extension
the end the negroes were happy who is on th. prog„m for the
because the overseer was gone and. secon<j annual conference on Fam-
now “Massa Roberts (which was ily Living, which is to be held in
Edwin’s name in that part) would the court house on April 16, from
Friends of Mrs. Orville Hockman.
be the boea”
9.45 to 4:00 p. m.
a recent bride and local teache •
This conference, which is being
Those members of the grade
here, surprised her Wedneeda;.’
school who will participate in the arranged by county agent Perry
evening with a shower at the hör/.)
local Declamatory Contest are busi- Johnston is one of
— a series of
U. S Department of Interior, i °f Mrs- George Wilson.
.
iy making their last minute prep-. twenty four meetings being held in Soil Erorion Service. Pullman,!
were: Mesdames. J.
’’
j
; r
_ Max ____
Id- Davis,
norm Theodo
’Thorvln' v ■
arationa. The contest will be held th© stat© during March and April.
.
,,
1935-2
Pluemke, __ Ida
in th© high school auditorium on All men and women interested in;
m ÿj
• von Borstel, Frank von Borstel, R.
- mÂ
- SO
-
IhouMinf Improvements «re ihvited “Muddy water in the »treat may I P. Barnett. J. L. Davis, L. Sather
Saturday evening. -
March
, I to be present through out the day.,
‘ »ont ».' Broadway and a flood
On Monday afternoon the Sen- Various house
1
__ plans
. r adapted to
UuciuL'inni
in Wilson! Geraldine0Norton, Marth t
tho ^
SI®7PPA
lor class had a meeting at which this county will be shown and ex- Pullman. Washington and vicini y H drickson Harriet Fredrickson
time they were advised to give plained, and materials and supplies Sunday n.ght it was the result of
brkte re-
serious thought to the subject of
' ceived a number of useful present; ,
class colon, 'flowers, and motto. for inexpensive interior housing ( * steady i am.
will
be
exhibited.
Miss
Nye
will,
Motorists
who
chanced
to
be
out
refreshments were served,
Later on they will meet to decide
speak from 2:00 to 3:30 on the sub-' observed the unusual nature of tho
on the groups choice.
ject “Inexpensive housing improve- rain whin windshield wipers only’
Virginia Helyer of Monmouths
The Lit Club plays have been
i andlMrs. John Adams of Hood Riv-’
postponed until April 12 due to
• er are spending this week at t)
word received that our debate team
home of the formers parenti E. S*
the negatives, will meet the cham
I Ü i
and Mrs. Helyer.
pions of debate District No. 9, who
and a shadow attend
It is said the Rexford Guy Tugwell will have an
important place in the administration of the five billion
relief money. Farmers had him put in the background
because he had never fanned; now perhaps relief recipients
will criticize him because he has never been poor.
FRIDAY,.MARCH 2». 1036
Amount of uMAm«d pr«-
miuma on *U outstand- .
M
Ins risk* .....
5,551.574,98
Due for commission and
„
«¡ter.o.u.U:::::-
Total . UftbillU«*,
•ffl®,,-..
JBB«
sxe«pt
*
. ’“"low».«
lull NESS hi ORtobN hdR
V YEAR
• Net premiums received durln*
iMee/pVid durljisr the jre«r^’ WO 99
Loeeee Incurred durln* the rear 7,«2l 70
Name of president. W M Smsltey.
for MÎTlOO,
Or««on.
NEWS
nett and Anni* Lauri© Hayne«.
Dorothy’s Kitcheneers Jr. held j We were going to have our n*xt
their fourth meeting' at the Legion । meeting at the Legion hall, but a*
hall with Geraldine Norton and it was stormy we had it at Dun-
Phyllis Hayne» demonstrating fruit lap’s. Maxcine Pluemke and Mar
garet Holm©« demonstrated veg-
salad and potato soup.
We have nine members in this ©table salad.
Our next meeting will b® st AI-
club. Some of the girls ar© taking
division two and some are taking. leen Gregg's with Anita Dunlap
division three. The ones who are and Dorothy Holmes demonstrab-
taking division two are Dorothy ing
Anita Dunlap.
Holmes, Geraldine Norton, Mhxcine
Pluemke, Phyllis Haynes, and An
COOKING CLUB III
ita Dunlap. The girls who tore
On Thursday, March 21. 1935,
talcing division three are Margaret
very • short meeting was held in
Holme*. Aileen Gregg. Levina Bar-
the lunch room at school, the pur
pose of which was to decide what
time our next meeting would be
gin.
The next meeting was held at
Mrs. Stephens house Saturdays, the
23rd, at 2:30 p. m.
At this meeting the schedule for
the year was made ouh We talk
ed about a name for the club, and
each member is to have a name
for suggestion at the next meeting-
Bonnie Peters, Rachael. Rob and
Dr. Poley were visitors.