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Iferman Cmtitíg ^ourttal Forty Eighth Year No. I News About State Affairs Columbia River Subject For Essay Contest . By M U Uadbeck The accidental death of Senator John D. GoM Coo» Cu^Y State Historical Society Offers real shock to his col- the legislature now in Liberal Prize? To Boys and leagues •pedal entered into the political picture of Oregon as a mambar of the 1933 session was not only recognized as one of the ablest members Of the senate but ene of the moot popular members at <hat body. . His feafieesness in Girls of High School Age Official County Paper Moro, Oregon, Friday, November 8, 1935 Scenes and Persons nl the Current News Thermostat in Court House Heating Plant Is Moved Workmen were busy in jji? court house the first of the week changing the thermostat of the new heating plant from the sher iff’s office to the office of county superintendent. It was found that the sheriff’s office is naturally the warmest room in the building, and that the superintendent’s office is the coldest. It has been found that the heat can be kept more even by having the thermostat in the coldest room- AH the old heating stoves have been removed from the various rooms of the building, the one in the circuit court room I being moved this week, and it was i the last of the old heating system to go. Husband of Moro Girl Killed By CCC Truck J. H. Holmes Injured Fatally In Attempting to Stop Theft Of Government Machine The Oregon Historical Society J. E. Coleman this week received has selected “The Discovery of the full particulars regarding the acci Columbia River” as the subject for dent that claimed the life of his the 1936 C. C. Beekman essay son-in-law, J. H. Holmes, contest. The prizes offered are Martinez, Calif., week agd last believed. his ready wit his keen four in number, via., first, sixty Sunday. iMr. Ho-lines was superin analysis of public problems, and dollars; second, fifty dollars; third tendent of a CCC camp there. One his forcefullness th debate, marked forty dollars; and fourth, thirty newspaper account says: him as an outstanding leader in dollars; and will be awarded for “While his horrified wife and the best four original essays on two children watched, J. H. Holmes Governor Martin State Treas- the above named subject written 37, CCC superintendent and a urar Helman. Secretary Snell and and submitted by girls or boys Berkeley resident, was crushed to other high state officials joined over fifteen years of age and un death by four drunken CCC work with his colleagues in the Senate der eighteen years of age, attend ers in a stolen truck, whom 'he was and House in expressing their sin ing any public or private school, trying to halt. The four men ac academy, seminary, college, uni cere regret at his passing. ■ cused, World War * eteran^ were Gosa was 66 years of age. He versity, or other educational insti held in Contra Costa i ounty jail was born in Hudson, Wisconsin, tution within the State of Oregon. October 3 1896. and came to Ore Each of the four prize winners will “Mr. Holmes had been with th® Captain Lowe Believes Soil gon in 1901, locating first at Can also receive a handsome bronze National Park service for two Conservation Great Need-- yon City where he engaged in bank medak years. Last week when the CCC ing and mining. In 1907 he moved project was reopened at Mt. Di The conditions governing the 1—Florida National Guardsmen firing volley over tl^coilins of war veterans killed In the recent hurricane Over 200 in Camp Here U» Marshfield where he was en competition are as follows: ablo state park he was named before the bodies were cremated. 2-Two companies of Outh Carolina militiamen guarding the plant of the camp superintendent in charge of gaged in the practice of law. (1 The essay submitted in com Pelzer Manufacturing company In Pelzer after a strike rkt in which a woman was killed and more than a the work. With his wife and two petition must not exceed two thou score of persons were Injured. 3-Democratlc Represetl|flve Michael K. Reilly of Wisconsin nnd his bride, Soil conservation in Sherman children, Folger, 16 and Peggy, 10, In spite of the fact that it had sand words in length who was Miss Mary Isobel Ball of Washington and New York, a noted concert soprano. county started in ernest this week he moved into a cabin at the base been expected, notice from the fed (2) Be in handwriting or in with an army of over 200 boys in of the slope. eral government that there would typewritten form, of commercial Camp Moro of the SCS, created be no more funds from that source ** — “Yesterday he received a phone this summer at the county fair call from Lieut. W. L à Winton, in for relief, came as quite a shock to letter size, and written on one dide IZ’ll’ grounds. A special train of 13 charge of the camp. ‘Four men state officials who went into a hud only, with black space of about one 1 35 Cities Answer This Fanner Makes coaches bringing 190 boys from have stolen a truck—they’re head dle immediately to figure out ways and one-quarter inches at top and UlaCKlOOt Killing . Massachusetts, was met by the ed down your way—stop them,’ and means for meeting this new left hand margin and numbered. . To Roll- ChUAt Good On Poor Land (3) The essay shall be accompa- QlyeS III CoiHltV army trucks Sunday evening at cried the lieutenant. ‘ Mr. Holmes emergency^ While Uncle Sam ex J Biggs. Twelve of the boys are ran from..the cabin, and stood in pects to provide jobs for alt em nied by a separate sheet contain- from the state of Washington, and the center of the road, waiting for ployables under the Works Prog ing the name and post office ad-1 —------------- — River Meéting Robt. Rohde Reaps Young 14 are technical men from Oregon. the truck. It spe^doWn the slope. ress administration it is now up to dress of the writer, the date of his preaj DiJease Ho Jght To X ** TT í 'Work on conserving the top soil Waiving his arms, Mr. Holmes the state to take care of its own or her birth, and the name of the Fortune From Poor Soil iHave Been Brought Here By school attended. was started Monday morning and cried to the men to halt the vehicle. indigent« and unemployables. With approximately 100 per every day several trucks leave the When they ignored his commands, (4) There tfhall also be delivered Flood Water« of John Day sons from 35 cities and towns in During Years of Depression barracks for various points in this Mn Holmes leaped on the running A number of neophytes in the with the essay a certificate signed i the three Pacific Northwest states section. Six hours constitute a board of the speeding truck and a^ House were so optimistic Saturday by the principal or teacher of the present, the third annual meet Clarence LaFoon, living east of ing of the Inland Bmpire Water We have become so accustomed day’s work under the SCS regu tempted to halt the machine by as to look forward to sine die ad- educational institution attended. journment that night. In fact stating that the writer of the essay Grass Valley, is reported to have ways association Wau held in to the hard luck stories of the lations, and the boys are brought switching off the ignition. Terror- farmers the past few years, that in for lunch. lost _five calves recently from Walla Walla. they had planned to revamp the is a student attending the same. stricken, his wife and two children it is refreshing to run across one blackleg, and Wilbur Helyer, living In spite of the fact that the bar saw the men knock Mr. Holmes off capitol reconstruction bill accord ogram of the (5) The essay must be delivered, The seven point ing to their own ideas throw it by mail or in person, to the Oregon in the Kent district, is reported to association which as old as the who has snatched success out of racks have been in use less than the truck. His body fell under it. the wreck of the past few years have lost 16 from the same disease. back into the lap of the senate with Historical Society. Public Auditor- organization itself Its reaffirmed and is now on the road to sure a week, a visit there just before His back was broken in five places. -------------------- the Journal goes to press, gives The truck sped on. Constable Tru- . Vaccination of calves in this sec with the chief emp bis in the im- a **k® R or leavo । 235 s* W* Market Street, Port evidence that the camp is thor by Smith and several deputies cor tion and then go homi leaving land, Oregon, not later than Mon- tion is now in progress, in an effort mediate future to be placed on success. The success of Robt. Rohde, a oughly established and ‘’on its nered the occupants of the truck the senate out on a limb so to day, March 16. 1936. to nip the trouble in the start. Co securing the Umatilla 'Rapids nav young farmer living in Hay Can way” to carry on the work for and took them into custody 10 speak. Veterans of the House and unty Agent Perry N. Johnston is igation dam and the improvement (6) All essays submitted in yon, on one of the poorest pieces which is was created. Your scribe miles from the scene of the acci Senate received news of the pro competition will be numbered and of the opinion that the disease got of the Snake river. gram with knowing smiles, sat submitted, without the names of hold in Sherman county from the The newly elected Board of of land in Sherman county ought was chown through the plant by dent.” tight, and did nothing about it and the writers or other identifying flood waters of the John Day Trustees include: Idaho, R. S. Erb to encourage others who the past Lt. Edward A. O’Malley, second in Mr. Holmes was known to a the threatened revolt died aborn marks, to three judges selected by river last spring, as it is in that and A. L. Alford, Lewiston, and few years have been living under command, and he stated an invita number of Moro people, having tion is open for the public to make made their acquaintance on two section that the disease is showing Frank McGrane. Grangeville: Ore more favorable conditions. ing. the undersigned committee. • • • • Mr. Rohde moveçl onto his sec similar inspection at any time, the visits to this place. The funeral the most. Animals under six gon, Judge C. Li Sweek, E. B. Aid- (7) All competitive essays will months or over two years will not rich and Roy Ritner, Pendleton; tion of land in the year 1929 k At only request being that visitors County judges and commission- be judged according to their gen take the disease. Mr. Johnston Washington. B. M. Huntington, D. that time he was 22 years of age. call at the office before starting on was Tuesday of last week and bur erh swooped down on the legisla ial was in Berkeley^ Mrs. Holmes ture last week U> protest against eral merit and excellence; but the says the germs may be dormant Frank Baker, and Harry A. Rey The outfit on the place was mort their rounds of the various build and the children will continue to any amendment to the old age pen judges will also take into consider in the soil for years and then break nolds, Walla Walla. An executive gaged to a firm in The Dalles, and ings. make their home in Berkeley until Already classes in education school closes, when they will go to sion act that might increase the ation, in passing thereon, neatness out. Also it may be carried by committee will be elected from the man who had been in charge burden now borne by the counties of manuscript, accurate orthogra crows^ , neighboring cities in this section was so discouraged that he willipg- have started under the direction of Santa Rosa to live, she states in a and to insist that the state take phy. correct grammer and compo to assist Herbert G. West, execu iy surrendered his equity. The Chas. Auberg. The Wednesday letter to her father here. Mrs. Bacterian is used as a preventa- over the county burden as early as sition, and purity and clarity of tive, and it can be secured at the tive vice-prisident. when impor land is just below the Fourwny evening program is a fair sample Holmes lived in Moro two years, bridga Mr. Rhode assumed a debt of the work to be carried on in coming here with her parents from possible. Most of the members diction. county agents office. There is no tant decisions must be made. The Oregon State Library in of three thousand dollars when he this department. Here is the pro Nebraska. Major financial support of the (Continued bn Page two) Salem has a reading list or bibli cure for the disease. association is expected to come moved onto the place. Last fall he gram for that evening: Engineer ography upon the above named from appropriations made by the finished paying the debt, which ing. Glee Club, First Aid, Algebra, subject, which will be sent to any various county governments, 12 of with ----- --------- interest and ---- other expenses Geology A mimeograph paper Wasco Pair Married Vivian Lewis Girls’ Oregon student on request Books County Agent Gives those nearest Walla Walla having had mounted to s^x thousand dol- will be published, the first issue pretaining to the subject are °b-j . I • ■ made provisions in thair 1936 bud- ¡arg After paying off the debt he coming off Friday of this week. Orchestra Coming tainable in most Oregon public (Jut Committee LlSl The <jamp organization is as fol Fifty-five Years gets for expenditure« ranging bought a new truck and drill. He libraries from $500 to $1000 in amount for now bas 300 sheep and a better lows: Capt. David L. Lowe, of field artillery, first in charge; Lt. B. B. Beekman. Leslie M. Scott, outfit than when he started the association program- Wide Range of Subjects to Be George H. Himes. Committee. A budget of $15,210 for the com iM!r. Rohde says he owes his suc- Edward A. O'Malley, of 363rd in Mr.and Mrs. Asa Eslinger Spend cess to sheep. When he first went fantry, second in charge; Lt. War Day Surrounded Fy Friends Sextette for Thanksgiving Dance year was set up. Discnssed By Sherman Farmers ing Important resolutions endorsed on the place he put on a band of ren E. Gilbert, engineer; doctor is The office of County Agent Per-' included, one reaffirming the As- sheep. During the depression sheep Lt Samuel L. Bernstein of the Civil Service Has Mr. and Mrs. Asa Eslinger cele ry N. Johnston announces the fol sociation’s pledge to oppose any went so low that you could not Vivian Lewis and her 6-piece brated their 55th wedding anni lowing committees to serve during repeal of the long and short haul give a sheep away. But he stuck Continued to page 4 orchestra of girls, who come to Places For Youth versary Saturday at the home of the winter months, and to formu- clause; commending the work of to his program and won out. Moro to pbry for the firemens’ The startling thing about Mr. late discussions and programs for the Northwest congressional dele their daughter. Mrs. W. C. Patter dance on Thanksgiving, are rated the various meetings to be held at gations and thanking its members Rohde is that he is a batchelor Fear Expressed Some among the best musical organi Examinations Be Held Scon son at Wasco. for their hearty cooperation and W’hy the young ladies of Sherman A wedding dinner was served at different points in the county. sations for dances in the sUte of county permit so successful a man aqtive suppdrt; another lauding noon, and those present were: Mr Oregon. Here is some of their For High Salary Positions Transportation, Rural Electri Wheat Is Frozen and Mrs. Claude Eslinger and fam record. They were known as the cation: Harry Proufoot, Chairman; the Northwest editors for “their as Mr. Rohde to stub along in valuable assistance in furthering single cussedness is beyond the ily of Forest Grove; Mr. and Mrs. Portland Breakfast Club band for The United States Civil Service A. C. Kaseberg, (Vice-chairman* our program,’’ and two others en comprehension of those who know Clem Eslinger and family of Hills two years; broadcast over KEX; 1 Commission R S. Macnab, A .J. Smith, O. G. has announced open Location, Time of Seeding dorsing transportation services of this young man. boro; Mr. and Mrs. Ray Eslinger played the Northwest circuit of competitive examinations as fot Hilderbrand. L. E. Dehler, Floyd fered and contemplated on the of Grants Pass; Mr. and Mrs. Er Fox theatre«; played at Rockaway Root, Afton McIntyre, L. E. Kase- Factors in Extent of Damage nest Eslinger and son Marcus of beach one season; Alaska show, . . .. .. v Spencer, H. A. Walker, A. C- Rich- £hlXbin,rwlrl"^ Jun List Announced For rfer Waa<.o. c A Tonli Kuf. Grass Valley; Mr. and Mrs. James houses full season; for Jim Kelly! Junior geneticist (horticulture,) Blagg and family all of Grass at Boise two Reasons; and have junior nematologist, and junior us; C. W. Johnson, Klondike Iland’ and ‘J? y ha" November Term Circuit Court Miany farmers in this section Valley Other relatives were Sam company. I ms latier . j broadcast over KOIN, KGW, and pathologist (tobacco), $2.000 a Soil Conservation and Weed fear loss has resulted to the Stark and two sons Wallace and KEX. As advertised, the girls in year, Bureau of Plant Industry, ’ । Control: Dewey Thompson, Chair recently filed an application with'-------- the Interstate Commerce Commis-I Drawn for November Term of wheat from the severe and un Ferdinand; Mrs. I. W. Davis and cosume, put on, just before inter Department of Agriculture O.’• Gk Sayrs, (Vice Chair sion for a certificate of public con- Circuit Court which convenes on precedented cold snap that visited Mrs. Sam Davis, all of Grass Val mission, fifteen minutes of special Home extension agent. $2,600 a man; man) O. E. Deyer, Olaf Anderson. venience and necessity as a com- Novembers, 1935. this section for one week. The ley. The guests included Mr. and numbers, making a short floor year, junior home extension agent, A. H. Barnum, E. E. Barnum, D. L. Geo. Howell, H. A. Sommer, I. loss, if any, will be found in scat Mrs. Dell Eakin and daughter Em- showt The orchestra uses piano, $2,000 a year, Indian Field Service Belshe. Wilford Belshe, Carroll mon carrier and for joint water- rail rates and through routes. The w. Amick. W C. Helyer, and Lu- tered places in the county, and is Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Rolfe drums, trombone, trumpet, tenor ( Department of . the Interior. * , . economist, . var.ous ■ John- Waterways association endorsed ther J. Davis, Kent; Robert Rohde, explained by one farmer as fol majean; Social grades, ■ Sayrs. y A. ß Douma, Theodore Roy p<weI) of Grass Valley? Mr. and Mrs. and alto saxophone. They have a L. H. Nahouse: Fred Rhoweder; trio, whistfler. blues singer, and $2.600 to $4,600 a year. Children s p c Axtell, W. S* Powell, Karl this application and asked the In- Roy pOwell, Mark Henkle. Truman lows: Wheat that was sown early Mr. and Mrs E. E. Barnum and terstate Commerce Commissiotv to • strong, T. H. Fraser, J. N. I.andry. two Up dancers. Besides enjoying Bureau, Department of I^bor. ¡ Eaton, H. C Thompson, W. A. Mc- take early action upon it. and C. W Kenny, Moro: Geo. Fox. enough so that the roots went son Cleo, all of Moro;; Mrs. Leon a dance to good music, you will be Occupational therapy aide, $1,- Donald. C. R. Morrison, M. G. Mel- “ All river organizations and and Ormand Hilderbrand, Klon- down far enough will be found to helping the firemen, which is 800 a year, occupational therapy zer, Frank Burnet. Moro; Alva । committees of the Inland Empire dike; Albert Kaseberg, A. T. Stri- be untouched by the cold. It is ard Fields of Wasco; and Mt. and Mrs. Arnold Sharp of Grass Val worthy cause in itself. pupil aide, $1.440 a year. Appli Eakin, Grass Valley. from Portland to Spokane and keri c. Patterson, C. L. Fridley, the wheat that was sown later and ley. 1.. cants for occupational therA^y aide Production. Handling and 'Mark are united and in har-¡ a * H. McIntyre, W. A. Mills, S. J. was just sprouting that is dam A beautiful wedding cake was must have had at least 48 months I eting: T. M. Rolfe, Chairman, J. W. Lewiston Iris and Sweet Peas Flourished monv on one program, the develop Brock, Chester Medler. Benton aged It will be found that the cut and served in the afternoon. and for occupational therapy pupil Shepard. (Vice Chairman;) Lester roots in this wheat did not get | Barnett, O. T. Hansen, B. W. Van Here Before Late Cold Snap The cake was baked and decorated aide 24 months, of practical exper Barnum, Dean Reynolds, L. K. Continued from page 8 Gilder. G. H. Root, Wasco; Vernon down below the frost. Wheat that by Arnold Sharp. Mr. and Mrs. A ray of sunshine while we are ience in one of these trades or in Smith, Wallace May. Fred Cox, was sown just a few days before 3 Shipley, J. Shelton Fritts, Donald Eslinger were very happy to think shivering from the blasts of un dustries: Cement work, broom mak Herman Schilling, R. J. Baker, ^íHüdfelter, L. K. Smith. Fred the cold snap came is not damaged. they were both able to come back for the week WEATHER precedented November weather, is ing, upholstering, woodwork, sheet MillaiM Eakin. Chas. R. Baker, This same farmer explains that Stradley, Grass Valley. to Sherman county to meet so iX. M1N. PRKC1F found in a report Truman Strong metal work, or shoe repair, or in Arzell Lemley, Grass Valley; M. (» atk AH . thirty one jurors are the light precipitation that came many relatives and old friends. brought to the Journal office this horticulture and floriculture. .02 farmers. to thia section during the month 26 16 F. Sandoz, Moro. Oct. 31 Full information may be obtain-, week. Ju«t before the present cold of October did not sink deep They returned to their home in 24 .00 16 Triple A, Legislation, Taxation, Nov. 1 Forest Grove Sunday morning. wave struck Mr. Strong found in ed from the Secretary of the Unit-' and Finance. J L. Davis, Chair-, « Omer Sayrs and iRoy Powell are enough into the soil to reach the .00 30 02 2 .. damp under strata. Sections of his yard here in Moro sweet peas, ed States Civil Service Board of man; J. M Wilson. J. H. Wilson, « .00 giving demonstration of farm ma 36 .. (»6 3 35.000,000 acres of top soil has Oriental poppie« and iris. All these Examiners at the post office or J. E. Norton. Kent; Frank von chinery today for the benefit of the county where the moisture was been washed from the farms in the .00 44 12 4 heaviest are not affected by the are spring flowers, and the fact customhouse in any city which has Borstel, Grass Valley.'«* the SCS boys, most of whom are j „ States, or an area the size 52 .. 22 .. .00 from 5 that they were blooming in the fall a post office of the first or second the new England sUtes and cold, if the grain was in the ground United of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts D E. Stephens and Merrilll Ove- > „ .00 class, or from the United States 58 27... is proof that for climatic condi 30 are not familiar with western sufficient length of time for it to •nd Connecticut. tions Sherman county is not so Civil Service Commission. Wash son are asked to meet with all. get deeply rooted. 02 ( farming. Total for week committees. ington, D. O bad. Camp Moro SCS Thought To Be Permanent J I 1
