UAb MMKMMAN COUNTY JOURNAL, MORO, OREGON
SHERMAN COUNTY OBSERVER. EsUblished Nov. 2, 1K8M
GRASS VALLEY JOURNAL, Established Oct 14. 1897
CONSOLIDATED, MARCH 6. 1931
WASCO NEWS-ENTERPRISE, EsUblished 1891
CONSOLIDATED MARCH 4. 1932
Published Every Friday at Moro, Oregon, By
GILES L. FRENCH_________________ L.
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Manuring Editor
MEMBER.
Entered as second-class matter at the Postoffice, at Moro, Oregon,
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JULY 12. 1935
A CORRECTION
The editor of The Dalles Chronicle has lately become
seriously enamored with the AAA. At first he upheld it
without evidence of deep conviction, then he praised it
greatly and lately he has stated with the certainty of a
closed mind that it is the only farm legislation that has
,
done the farmer any good.
This lapse of memory should not go unnoticed or un
corrected. Neither does one have to go back to the home
stead law of Lincoln’s time to find a farm act that helped
the farmers.. The government law that made it possible
for the farmers to form co-operative organizations in every
marketing town in the land was and has continued to be
of great benefit to the farmers and has especially aided the
development of The Dalles, itself.
Through the purchase of wheat by the government it
prevented that commodity from decreasing in price as fast
as it did in the early 1920s and had normal crops been har
vested would probably have kept the price high enough to
return a profit to wheat growers. We are not, however,
attempting to justify the purchase of commodities by the
government. It is a scheme that has never been successful.
It is not necessary to justify it in this case at point.
Reforms in the marketing situation were started by the
cooperative movement that have been far reaching and
they should not be forgotten. Because of co-operation of
farmers the shipment of wheat by water has been furthered
in the northwest. Farm agencies were interested in gettirg
the wheat to market at the cheapest price while wheat
handling firms were interested in making a profit for them
selves and the cost of transportation was a secondary con
sideration. The grain cooperatives have been instrument
al in cutting and holding down the freight rates. The farm
ers have received the benefit.
Until the cooperatives were started there were few
farmers in the wheat country who received any premium
for protein wheat, in fact, there were few who knew that
protein wheat was more valuable. Now premiums up to
fifteen cents are paid on some wheats. Such premiums are
marked on every sales slip now for every seller to see
The farmers have benefited.
Overweight in wheat formerly accrued to the ware
house company or to the warehouse manager, many of
whom succeeded in reaching a financial competence much
greater than their salaries would permit, by this means.
Now the returns from this overweight go back to the share
holders who are farmers and who have benefitted.
It is all very well to praise the AAA, for the theory of
crop reduction to meet domestic needs was probably neces
sary considering the world conditions that made wheat ex
ports difficut if not impossible. It is, however, incorrect to
say that it is the only farm plan that has aided the farm
ers.
An expenditure of $300,000 is anticipated in this county
by the Soil Conservation Service and CCC men used in the
work. The government expects the work to do that much
good to the farms and for the farmers of the county. The
county is aiding by allowing the use of the camp ground
and the city is aiding by giving a price on the water used.
Both contributions together are lees than one percent of
the total expenditure proposed. The work, if successful at
all, will aid the county and its citizens in retaining the pro
ductivity of the soil and in encouraging diversification of
crops.
Thia ia the beginning of the dog days when the actions
of congress are heated by the sun instead of by argument,
when movie and radio stars go traipsing about the country
to pick up a little summer income, when ball players are in
their hey dey and when the weather is too pleasant for any
one to get excited about anything. It is proper vacation
weather. Too bad we all cannot stretch out under a tree
along some mountain stream or loll near the sea coast
while the world goes on without us for a few weeks.
FRIDAY. JULY 12. 1936.
In Other Days
unan
“Nig” Wilson
Visits At Kent
be found back of the range of hills
white under body, no brands
that borders the north shore of
and no ear marks.
the Columbia river. He was also1 Said sale to satisfy the sum of
told that the Indians were ugly <1500 damages, and 28.50 expenses
and would resent habitation by incurred as Justice fees, advertu-
whites. When it became apparent ing sale, assessment of damages.
that tris bride would regain her and cost of making sale.
health, he conferred with other-
HUGH CHRISMAN
members of the party. It was de- Sheriff of Sherman County, Oregon
cided that they should all go on a.
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pathfinding tour to at least have NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE
patihfinding tour, to at east have
On the 29th day of July, 1935,
a look at this* wonderful para at the hour of 10 a. m. at the front
dise they had been told about. The door of the County Court House
journey was undertaken in the in Moro, Sherman County, Oregon,
first place as a holiday outing, for I will sell at auction to the highest
it was on July 4. 1859, that this bidder for cash, the following de
party of six courageous trail scribed property, located in Sher
blazers ascended the summit of man County, Oregon, to-wit:
the Columbia (hills and gazed upon
Northwest Quarter of the
an almost endless expanse of wav-1 Southwest Quarter of Sec-
ing knee-high bunch gTMS, watered
tion 1
Township „ 5 South,
by silvery streams, flanked by for-1 Range 16 East W. M.
ests of the Simcoe Mountains and
Said sale is made under execu-
towered by snow-capped peaks ta1 Hon iMued «„t .f th. Cireuit Court
the Cascades. There was no Dir-'of
State of Oregon for Wasco
ther parley about the matter. The County, to me directed in the case
party unanimous m voicing a senti 1 of ------
“Elizabeth S. Williams, plaintiff
ment tfcat the place for which they va
Ka,ien and Frank Gabel,
were seeking had been found—In- defendants.
Said real property
dians or no Indians.
will be sold subject to confirmation
The cattle were gathered into and redemption as provided by law.
a trail herd again The trip was and the purchaser will be put in im
made speedily. Log cabins were mediate possession thereof.
erected and thus began the first I
HUGH CHRISMAN, Sheriff of
permanent settlement of the Klick- Sherman County, Oregon.
itat Valley. All went well until GALLOWAY and KRIER
the winter of 1861-62. This was a Attorney for Plaintiff,
long winter with deep snows and j
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bitter cold. Needy all of the cat-
NOTICE
t;e perished, Mr. Golden having' pES CHUTES RAILROAD COM-
only six cows left. Supplies be- pan Y AND
AND OREGON-WASH-]
OREGON-WASH-
came exhausted. The settlers, JNGTON RAILROAD AND NAV-I
especially the children, endured GATION COMPANY hereby give'
great privation and suffering. Most notice
on June 16 1936 they
of them left as soon as they could filed with the Interstate Commerce
get their few belongings together. Commission at Washington, D. C?
but not so with John J. Golden. He' their joint appiication for a cer-1
was a man of foresight and rtill tificate that the present and future!
had faith that some day the Klick- public convenience and necessity.
it«t Valley would become a well (a)
the abandonment by
populated, fertile agricultural re- the Dea Chut« Railroad Company
gion He and hia father in law.,of that p.rt of itg railroad begin-’
Louie S. Parrott, moved to a loca- nine ,t miIe
o, »11ich ¡, '
tion. that was later to becom - a point on the main track of the Ore-
aight for the town of Goldendale. gon-Waahington -Railroad and Nav-
In 1864 Mr. Golden secured a igation Company at Ainsworth,
contract to furnish several hundred in Government lot five (5) of sec
cords of wood for O. S. N. company tion eighteen (18), Township two
steamboats at Columbus. The wood (2) North, Range sixteen (16) East
was hauled with oxen. His wood of the Willamette Meridian, and
cutting venture was followed by extending thence in a general
establishment of a saw mill on the southerly direction to mile post
Little Klickitat river about eight 71.26, which is a point on the Ore
miles northeast of Goldendale. His gon Trunk Railway in Gpverment
lumber was hauled to Columbus lot one (1) of section eight (8)
and conveyed on flat bottom scow Township seven (7) South. Range -
barges to Umatilla and Wallula. It fourteen (14) East of the Willam
was not a great while after he en ette Meridian, a distance of 71.26
gaged in sawmilling that he plat miles, in Sherman and Wasco coun
ted the town site of Goldendale.
ties, and the abandonment of oper
ation
thereof by the Oregon-Wash
Mrs Barnett tells me that, so
far as she knows, the only sur ington, Railrodfl end Navigation
vivors of the original party are her Company; and (b) require the
mother's sister and brother, Mrs. operation by the Des Chutes Rail
Elizabeth Pond, 86, and Elgin Par. road Company of the Oregon-Wash
rott, 84. These old people now re ington Railroad and Navigation
side together at Bryn Mawr, Wash, Company under trackage rights
about ten miles from Seattle. Like over the railroad of the Oregon
their famous brother, Wm. Parrott, Trunk Railway between Oregon
both are artists. Until very recent Trunk Junction and North Junc
years both were engaged in paint tion. a distance of 7475 miles, in
ing small reproductions of north Wasco County, all in the State of
west mountain scenery, that were Oregon.
DES CHUTES RAILROAD COM
sold in Seattle stores.
PANY
In early days at Goldendale Elgin
and
Parrott had a studio over the
Baker Bros, store, located on the OREGON-WASHINGTON RAII^
ROAD and NAVIGATION COM
corner Where the Ledbetter-Wallace
PANY.
company store now is. People came
from The Dalles and Portland to
O. L. Belshe and family return
ed last Friday from their auto trip
The most inspiring sight at the to Newport. They were accompa
Places See Keat People
Fourth of July parade here at The nied by George Hennagin in their
On Fourth
Dalles, for me at least, came when car, but George and family remain
the Moro School Band went by. ed a few days longer in the valley
Mr. and Mrs. L E. Wilson left
I was truly surprised at the ex to nurse a broken axle. '
Friday morning for their home at
cellence of the music those young
sters produced and at the number week has started •< number of Waverly, Washington. They were
of them in the band.
It was heavy “land blows* in different accompanied by Helen Wilson, who
will spend the summer with her
good
sections of the county. ;
aunt and uncle; and Otto Wallman
I am passing along the thoughts
C. H. and W. E. Howell were in who will work in that country dur
that came to me for what they may this vicinity Wednesday sizing up
ing the harvest season.
be worth to you good people of the prospects of beginning har
Billy Smith, who spent the past
Sherman county and for whatever vest. They will harvest 500 acres
encouragement they may be to pro for W- S. Powell with their self two weeks here with his aunt, Mrs.
mote a further activity on the part propelled combine and also with Max Pluemkee. left Saturday eve
of your musical instruction. There their Caterpillar harvester, begin ning on the train for his home in
is nothing in our school system ning in about three weeks. Howell Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Wilson, and
that promotes better citizenship Bros, have contracted to harvest
than musical instruction. Those 4000 acres with their harvesters daughters, Billie and Naomi. Mr.
and Mrs. J. M. Wilson and sons,
children in your band are engaged this season.
Jerry
Jr. and Dick, and Nellie Wil
in something that interests them.
Postmaster Parry was taken over
They entertain themselves and their the route of the proposed rural’ son were guests of Mr. and Mrs-
elders. They are
busy, doing delivery Monday and undoubtedly Paul Wilson at Antelope Monday
, \
something and not engaged in mis. will make a favorable report on afternoon.
chief. Your work with your band the matter.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Smith and
is to be commended. I noticed that
daughters Joyce and Virginia, and
your musical instructor. Mr. Clyde From the Observer July 13. 1906. son Billy left Wednesday for the
Joe Eddy has returned from Cali coast and valley towns to spend a
Simpson, accompanied the band.
He is one of our residents. He is fornia. He ^ys the Golden state two weeks vacation.
doing a good work among the is not a desirable place for laboring
Lester and Charles Wilson haul
young people of the Pacific north men.
ed two truck loads of wood from
Father Jordan, 84 years of age.
west in promoting his school band
Tygh Valley last weety
camp at Wallowa Lake this sum returned to Sherman county with
Marguerite and Juanita Mitch
his son and family, when they came
mer. All power to him!
ell,
John Decker, R. Abel, Karl
home from their visit in Wasco
My wife is a Grass Valley girl.
Pluemke,
Alta Norton and Cecil
county recently.
That town once had a band I re
Norton, Bertha Helyer. and Harley
The Band boys showed their ap
member when it participated in the
McKay were among those from
Celilo Canal opening. It was too preciation of Leader O. M. Heacock Kent who celebrated the Fourth of
bad that the Grass Valley people by investing in a grand upholstered July in The Dalles.
did not continue it. We have four Morris chair, which was presented
Gerald Kelly was at Kent Sat
small sons. After seeing your him with honors. Mn Heacock well
urday
painting the barber shop for
band playing in the parade on the succeeded in getting the music out his father, J. H. Kelly.
of
the
boys;
the
public
got
the
Fourth I am determined that my
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Wilson and
boys take up some kind of musical benefit of the music, and Heacock
son
Charles, Cecil Norton. Mr. and
instruction. It will be beneficial
Henry Schadewitz petition for a Mrs. Dick Beckman jn, and daugh
to all of us, and will lead to the
produetion of some musical genius jail at Kent was refused by the ter Margaret were business visi
tors at Moro Monday.
es in our own country something county court.
Mrs. J. H. Sachs, and little ones,
Miss Hazel Decker is visiting
like they have developed in my
native country through intensive accompanied by her brother Ralph relatives in Wendover, Utah, for a
musical study. Again I say, “Hats Kay, left on the 10th to visit the few weeks.
old folks at Nelson. B. C. where ~J. H. Shepard of Grass Valley
off to the Moro School Band.”
was a Kent visitor Tuesday morn-
Very Truly Yours. Mr. Kay is mining.
Mrs. Don Wheat was called to ing.
L. Comini. Eugene to be with her mother Mrs | Mrs. Roberta Johnson, and her
Fannie Gilbert, who died at her brother Paul Schilling spent the
home there July 6th.
fourth at Bend. ■
To the Editor:
Darlene Schadewitz of San Fran-
Today we rode in to The Dalles
cisco, Calif., is spending a few days
PIONEER STORY
here .with her cousin. Geraldine
There we saw many people and
Norton.
numerous auto’s running about
(Continued from page one)
like ants near an ant hill. Then
faintly * through the rattle, racket, known as Happy Home, near War- •
CALL FOR BIDS
and roar of the cars, came the beat wick station on the milroad.
At a special school meeting call-
When she requested that she give ’ ed for July 27th. at 3:00 p. m. the
of drums, and along the street
passed a great show, a wonderful me some reminiscences of the most board will receive bids covering
advertisement, and I said what is outstanding events in her memory, | transportation of pupils on two
it all about. Then I remembered, about her girlhood days in Golden- de^i ¿»mated routes.
this is'July 4 th. 1935, and people dale she said that she would much ( Description of routes and other
are supposed to be celebrating the prefer to tell me about the events information on file with the clerk
day that our forefathers declared which led to her father and moth- of said district.
themselves free and Independent er selecting the Klickitat Valley,
School District No. 9.
Just there before me were a group in Washington Territory as a place
A. A* Dunlap, Clerk.
of people with Moro Caps, and for a life time abode. I want to
Band outfit. That carried memory say to readers that this was inter spring of 1859, he and five other
back to July 4th, 1884, when groups esting to me, for there are several owners of cattle herds decided to
of people were climbing in their versions of just why and how John move to territory east of the Cas
wagons early in the morning to J. Golden and party came to the cade Mountains, where it was felt
the country would be more adap
go 20 miles or more to Poplar Klickitat Valley.
According to Mrs. Barnett her table to cattle raising on a large
grove to celebrate Independence
day. They carried their lunch. It father was born in Pittsburg* Penn, scale. Several hundred head of
was a pleasant day and there in along about 1834. When a youth in cattle were driven overland, by the
the shade of the trees, everyone his teens he concieved the idea Barlow route. The women, chil-
enjoyed themselves. The famous that he would go west to the land dren, and supplies came by river
DeMoss family made music for us. of the Golden Sunset, Oregon. In ’ steamer to The Dalles, where they painted by him.
Father. (Mother, two sons and three 1853 he bought a saddle pony and were met by members of the party,
In 1880 the eldest daughter of
daugrhten, everything was peace- started on the _ journey. At Fort! who had established a camp on Ten John Golden married Wilson M.
ful. so patriotic* its good to re- Wayne, Ind., he joined * wagon Mile Creek, southeast of The Dal- Barnett, who conducted a small
member in these days of stress and train party. This party did nqt' les. where the cattle were grazing
grocery store at Wasco In the Williams R. U. X. Compeand
strain. Other Independence days I stop until they readhed Dallas, Just before the herds left Polk period that followed, which made
Effective and Quick
Polk
county,
Oregon.
Her
father
county
an
event
occurred,
which
remember in a large grove of tall
Sherman county the banner wheat
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butternut trees near the banks of made the entire trip astride his furnishes a starting point for this producing county of the Uifited
By helping the important organ.
the Mississippi, where they used pony. Soon after arrival of the story. John J. Golden and the 14 States, Mr. Barnett became very
kidneys, largely responsible for
loads of lumber for platforms. party in Oregon, he learned of year old daughter of Louis S. Par prominent as a merchant, banker rheumatic conditions, Williams R.
seats, and refreshment stands, and mining activitie in northern Cali- rott, another cattle owner, were and land owner. When Samuel 5’ X- Compound gets at the seat
the orator of the day left no doubt : fornia gold fields. He went at once married. This was during the Hill Hrot be^an promotion of an ?hVe°
in your mind of why the people ; to Yreka, where he opened a store month of May, 1859. „
(Continued on page three)
By dissolving out the pain pro-
Soon after the bride arrived at
were there. It did not matter that for miners supplies. He also outfit-
ducing
poisons and helping the
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the
camp
on
Ten
Mile
Creek,
she
the cannons had awakened them at ted pack trains for conveying sup-
NOTICE OF SALE OF ESTRAY kidneys get rid of these wastes
three or four o’clock that morning, plies to miners in inland district» was striken with a severe illness,
Notice is given that I will, on ^hich may cause Rheumatic pain.
They went home more patriotic, This venture was successful, but in believed to be typroid. Women Saturday, the 13th day of July, Ne.“nt,£.,
members
of
the
party
gave
her
the
better citizens, for those old time 1857 he received such an attractive
1935, at the hour of ten o’clock
¿
celebrations. Will the modem cele- offer for his business that he sold best care possible. At times her _
zi— .« j
il vr t» 8C,eni>“Cly relieves your condition. = .
a.
m.
of
said
day
and
at
the
V.
B
Moreover, it contains a kidney
brtions of today do as much? ? ? out and returned to Polk County. condition became so serious that it
Eakin
ranch
located
about
ten
and
antiseptic
that protects this vita?
was
not
thought
she
could
possi
Harriet Nish, for a visit with his wagon train
one-half miles southeast of Grass organ from diseases caused by
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companions. He found that sever- bly survive.
After the party arrived in east Valley in Sherman County. Oregon, harmful germs that collect in a
| al of them were going in for cot-
ern
Oregon, someone told (Mr. Gol sell to the highest bidder for cash sluggish system.
Read the ads in the Journal
tie raising. This attracted him
Ask your druggest for Williams
•
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den about a wonderful valley to in hand, the following described
R- U. X. Compound. It is a liquia
estray, to-wit:
—It Works Faster. It is sold on a
One yearling heifer with
money back guarantee by the
young calf, Holstein breed,
Grass Valley, Moro and Wasco
black with white face and
at Drug Stores
To the Editor:
RHEUMATIC SUFFERS.
GET RESULTS
Collision Costs Her Commander His Job
A collision between H. it 8. Renown and the Hn.nl Li Inatal
maneuvers off Gibraltar caused the first naval coun
la many
It is going to take something very definite to convince years.- As a result the commauder of the Renown wn
of his
us that Leslie Scott is trying to oust Governor Martin in command and ordered to report to the Victory, Nelson's old a
The
order to get the job himself. No story could be more out repair work Qere.sahry on the Renown will prevent that vessel^taklng
part in the jubilee review in July. The picture shows the Uenowu arriv
of character.
ing at Portsmouth for repairs.
.. ASK FOR
SCHENLEYS
RED LABEL
BLENDED WHISKEY
We might develop a federal project under the relief
administration for the purpose of balancing the budget or
eluding ways of doing it
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PINT
Codo Vn. jmc
An eminent lady in Maryland has stopped a dog from
smoking a pipe. How would you like to be married to that
$1-70
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Everything seems to be settled about the new state
bouse except where it ia to be built anb what the state can
use for money to build it with
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