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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 1936)
IME SHERMAN COUNTY JOU RNAU First Semester New Men Coming Of School Draws To Fill CCC To Close Camp Quota Government Trapper Kills Two Coyotes In December Lois Kenny 4 The first semester of school draws to a close Friday January 17, that being the .efid of trie eigh teenth week of study. This week has been entirely demoted to semes ter examinations, each lasting ap proximately one and a half hours. Moro and the CCC basketball team will play their final game Sat urday evening, January'18. on the Moro floor. All townspeople should come to support Moro’s team in order to equal the support given the CCC team. A general “split up” will prob ably result in a civil war battle between the participants in the Brain Trusters vs. Sherman Coun ty Icabods game on Wednesday night, January 22. The Brain Trusters have won consistent vic tories, in all the games they have played. Inside information has it that this civil war is to take place on the Moro basketball court. The “split” results in a north and south ■ division of the Sherman County | Icabods. It may fie possible to, witness this enequnter if one has sufficient funds f to offer to the Chief Brain Truster. A double header basketball game with Kent High school will be play ed on the Moro court this Friday night. January 17. * Fifteen or eighteen new enrol- lees are expected to art-ive late this week from Massachusetts to fill t/he local camp according to Capt. Lowe. The number here now is given as 191 and the new men will bring the camp up to full strength again. Mrs. J. H. Hulett and Mrs. Joe Bush are visiting at the Orval Thompson home this week Tom Frazer jr. is chairman oi the Ag. Club dance at OSC accord ing to the student paper. Elmer Barzee returned Tuesday night from a short trip to Portland Lt. O’Malley returned to Moro 5 last week from »his trip to Los Angeles. He brought Mrs. O’ Malley who will remain here with her husband. J. B. Adams was in Portland last week end and reports that wind and rain visited trie city in great qiiantities during that period. Bon Sweir, of the erosion service visited the SCS men at the camp this week. He comes from Pull- » an. Captain Lowe returned Tuesday from a trip to Vancouver Barracks on behalf of the local CCC camp. The woman’s club will meet Fri day with Mrs. C. L. Poley with the library committee in charge. Wom en who have books they wish to donate to the local library should bring them to the meeting. Mrs. Poley will direct the meeting. Weather during the past week Mrs. J. C. McKean received word has remained stormy with rain this week of the death of her aunt. falling every day but Wednesday. Mrs. F. H. Hale, i'h Topeka, Kansas This section of tl^e county has re W. H. Ragsdale and other mem ceived 4.78 inchesNunce the be bers of the Mid-Columbia PCA ginning of the rai7n in December. were in The Dalles Wednesday to For the past four weeks we taave attend the annual meeting of the reported rain as follows: .32, .77, company. 1.74 and this week it is .95. Allen Murray Js reported to be Since the first of the year 2,74 quite ill with a case of the inches has- fallen at the experi measles. ment station.- -OlHer sections of Camp night Tuesday was held the county report more rain yet in the assembly hall at the CCC out official figures are not at hand. .camp. Slider showing work of-coq/ Tuesday afternoon it rained hea trolling erosion were shown by vily north of Gordon ridge but Sweir who also gave a talk ex little fell in Moro. Soil is reported plaining something of erosion and to be wet down from two to three the means of controlling it. A five feet in different sections of the real picture of early western days county. was shown to end the show. Near Kent where residents say Enlistments in the marine corps tlhe soil does not take water very are now being taken according to rapidly pools are standing in every postmaster Bourhill and a., limited low place and it is apparent that number of young men under 25 the ground is being furnished with years old may sign up for sea serv all the moisture it will absorb. ice or on some of the Pacific sta- ; Portland Monday. He was also tions. Melvin Fulkerson, county trap in Salem to attend a hearing be per accounted for a couple of fore the public se rvice commission coyotes during the month of De He failed to find Jack McNeal who cember according to the figures re left Grass Valley the first of the leased by bhe biological survey month to go to Portland for medi cal treatment. this week. Mrs. Phillip Searcy and daugh Vernon Flatt returned from ter- Irene returned Wednesday from Portland where Irene receiv ed medical attention. Earl Hobbs of Cornelius, ap praiser for tlhe Federal Land Bank FOR SALE: 1-3 Gang Oliver has been here this week doing 150-16” Plow -Call 29F2 or see work for the bank. He left Thurs pd-11 Frank May. day morning. FOR SALE: Fresh Milch cow. Ferrel Barr is home from Sim- Guernsey - Jersey stock. C. N. nasho where he has been working Fridley, Wasco. 9-10-11 with the CCC camp stationed tlhere LOST: One white gelding, weight At a meeting of the Townsend 1350. Has white nose. Notify club last Monday evening officers Gerald Holzapfel, Wasco. Oregon. were elected as follows. R. C. 11-12-13 Byers, president; Mr. Coleman, LOST: Two yearling Hereford vice president; Mrs. Ella Johnson, heifers branded SEAL on left ribs. secretary, M. A. Bull, treasurer. Iver B. Hansen of Goldendale Will pay $5.00 per head who will hold them and notify me where was here Thursday to look over they are. Sid Seale, Condon. Ore. his farming land in this county and see about the rain. Livestock Wanted. Mr. and Mrs. Giles French and HIGHEST corn-belt prices for car children left Thursday afternoon loads broke or range horses, mules for Eugene to attend the mid-win and coIte. Fred Chandler Horse ter conference of Oregon editors and Mule Market, Chariton, Iowa. which is being held this week end. TFei Weather Continues For Another Week Classified Ads At Ike Samo Oli Stand MORO. OREGON Oklahoma Town Is Quarantined Roy J. Baker Hardware Kan Grass Valley, Oregcn Legion’s 1936 Program Given Grass Valley Establishment The American ^Legion Auxiliary met at the horhe of Mrs. Mildred Changes Hands visiting with her niece Mri. Glen King for a few days. A great number of farmer« from this neighborhood were in Moro Tuesday afternoon to attend the farmer’s meeting designed to start a new farm program in its way. Dave Vintin is still in the hos pital .in The Dalles and his con dition remains about the same as when he entered. Grass Valley Teams Win Over Kent Resettlement Men Plan For Land Use CONFIDENCE ZELL’S FUNERAL HOME H. Zeigler’s ‘æ? UPDEGRAFF & PEPPER Here’s what making 380 million gallons ■X THRIFT Says' taught me I don’t need a mechanic to keep my \ John Deere in good running order. It’s so simple that I can make the few f adjustments necessary myself out on the farm. Yes sir, this is the real Family’s whiskey of us Wilkens—made exactly in every way ac cording to our own Family’s Recipe. And all the knack I got out of my 40 or so years of experience in making whiskey mild and tasty, I’ve put into the making of the \AZilken Family Whiskey. Up to the distillery, you’ll find me and the boys watching over it as careful as a mother hen with her chicks — from 6 a. m, Tried and True. Weil Spoken on Every Hand Buy What Others Are Satisfied With. It Pays We Have Your Wants in Sioen Call And Get Them PAGE THREE Norton Wednesday, January 8th. State membership fees for two women transferred from Antelope L. D. Pike To Be Postmaster was ordered sept 00 headquarters. ! Fees for two new members are be- For Another Term | ing held until questionnaires are ■ filled out. A card party was planned for Tro Orange Front Cate and pool Januaryl8th. room has been sold by Arthur Bib With a yeai- of intense activity by to Gus Smith and change in ahead, the George Bell Unit of the .ownership will be made within a American Legion Auxiliary urges lew days according to the men all eligible women to enroll as making the deal. Mr. Bibby has Janet Wilcox members. The unit plans to take been owner of the business for six The boys basketball team de active part in all phases of the or seven years and is undecided as feated the Kent team on the Utters national program, which covers a to what he will engage in for the floor January 10 by a final score of wide field of civic and patriotic ac . uture. Mr. Smite* has lived most ¿5 to 18. In spite of the difference tivities. of his adult years in Grass Valley in the score the game was inter The major activity in the auxil Donald Smith will have active esting because of the fighting spirit iary’s 1936 program, as drafted at charge of the business when tue shown by the Kent team up until the national convention in St. new owner takes it over. Both men the very end. Louis, includes work for the wel mat e a trip to Portland early in Due to the disbanding of the fare of disabled veterans and the week to complete arrange 1 Kent girls* basketball team the needy families of veterans, aid to ments lor the transfer. Grass Valley girls did not play the Legion in securing payment of Word was received here to the1 any game Friday but they will adjusted compensation and legis effect that I. D. Pike’s name had play Wasco tn the Grass Valley An outbreak <»f spinal meningitis In lation to bring widows and orphans been sent to the senate for approv gym January 17. This will be a tiaranflne that ch »sod e'p most of the business pine's as well as the of World War veterans under al as postmaster for Grass Valley double header with both boys and J kni I m . Grocery ami drug, stoles were permitted n» make emergency government protection, work for for another term. girls playing Wasco. During the elivi’ries of foods and medicines through their f. 'iii doors only, and the maintenance of adequate na Roy Feely and family are mov half and proceeding the games the aitional GiiardMiien enforced the regulations. tional defenses a/id the passage of ing to Portland from Ione and Pep Band will play and the rooting a universal service act,, American Roy will have charge of trie Inter section will put On a marching ism work to strengthen loyalty to< Stock Company. stunt. j during four years to • farmers, and confidence in American ideah state tMr. and Mrs. Myrtle Davidson As this is semester examinations most of whom lived on land that and institutions, and projects for and child, Mrs. Kate Smith and week • people who have never gould never hope to yield them a the betterment of conditions in the Smith and wife are here from studied before are carrying books 1 living. Taxpayers, and the people 8,600 communities where Auxil Ross Riverside. Wsr.ington to visit with home and acting serious for the who supported private charity, iary Units are located. relatives and friends in the county. time being. The final examinations 1 were therefore- practically subsid “These activities offer opportu Joe Gregg was down from his will be taken Thursday and Fri- izing those families to stay on land nity for interesting and useful new home near Redmond to take^y # , where they would never support work for his use to all Auxiliary members. ” back a team 1 horses The Girls Lpague held a meeting them selves. Mrs. Pluemke, unit president on trie farm tnere. , Friday to discuss their plans for The land utilization program of said, urging a targe enrollment to Art Bibby and Fred Peters drove ‘he coming semester. They decided the federal government is aiming enable the unit to carry out its to Maupin Tuesday afternoon for to sponsor the sport dance which at a correction of these conditions part in the program. “Some a business trip.. Third Article By L. C. Gray is to be held in the latter*'part of by helping these families move to full in the Auxiliary’s program The Grass Valley bridge clqb March. Several plans for raising good land, and by putting the poor where is an activity which will make met Wednesday at the home ol noney were suggested and it was Tells Cf Huge Costs land to some use for which it is special appeal to every eligible Mrs. Dell Olds who was hostess decided that pep dolls will be made fitted. This may "be either forest- for that day. •' and sold at the basketball games. ****ry, grazing, or other fortes of con-j"oman‘ , , • Bruce Alley was Injured playing The local Boy Scout troop No. It is obvious that poor families, serration. 1 While the Auxiliary is piimaii- Taxpavers in every rural county a service organization, forme« basketball at Vancouver and is 357 is preparing to move into its vainly trying to_ make a living on unproductive land, suffer from of the United States Fave a deep1 to support the work of the Amer- spending a few day’s in Irie hospit new headquarters, the Bressler there. - • - property, within the next week. their own misfortune. It can be interest in promoting a wise use ican Legion, it is not all work, in al Clarence Scheurer and wife and The hoys plan to make this there demonstrated, however, that these of all the land in their county.! the Auxiliary. „The organization Chailos Abel and wife of Portland permanent quarters and will spend attempts to use land,lor purposes Wise action may save' them many has an important, social side and Spent the week end at the Simon the next few weeks getting it fur thousands of dollars. ’ ! iivss its members many interest-. to which it is not suited also cost home. _ ___________ ' I social activities through which nished to their taste. . the taxpayer money. Jess Barnett celebrated ¿'.is 76th 11 a farmer cannot make enoug! ¡ ' Barber—Your hair is terribly happy friendships^develop.” . Again we invite all eligible birthday Tuesday feeling better off of his land to provide sufficient thin on top. Have you tried our women ’ to become members of our than for many years. great Russian tonic? food and clothing for his family, Try Journal advertising, it pays. unit at this time and join us in . Mrs. W. H. Snook of Madras is Victim—No. It wasn’t that. there is bound to be very little the interesting activities of the money for taxes. This is evidenced coming year. HEADS BRITISH ARMA by the fact that, largfe areas ot land are tax delinquent in regions V\ hen Your Shoes need repaii in tbe Pacific Northwest when» land is^being misused. Poor land send’them to in farms cannot pay taxes, Idle, cut-over forest land. whore fires All Satisfactory Business is built on have prevented reforestation, also Confidence -.Confidence on the "part of produce little if any revenue that REPAIRING (KW SkDE wiTl pay taxes. the buyer that goods purchased will be Yet roads and schools must be of good quality and fairly priced. kept up wherever there are people Roads and schools form the mhjor Dependable Groceries, Fresh Vegetables part of the expenses incurred by many rural towns and counties. Overalls, Jumpers, Shirts, and all kinds of Persons living on good land are forced to make up the deficit incur DRY GOODS red by the tax delinquency on poor land. Trade At Phone 345 The Dalles, O to Studies of this problem have been made by the Re-settlement Admin or--- istration in cooperaion with sqv- GRASS VALLEY PHARMACY eral state agencies. In one place twenty-eight families were found, Phone 222 which cost the county about $185: per year each to transport their Yorkshlr^r^lmcnt. Ins been iq children to sdhool. Each family pointed I ivji -I of the British Imperii paid an average of only $6.40 inl^nernl stall He succeeds Fie taxes. Inother words, taxpayers Marshal Sir Archibald A. Mold go from other parts of the county had ery-Mtissingl.erd. to take about $5,000 out of their pockets in order to carry those children to school. The- cost of keeping up the roads, and of sup porting the school was in addition Attorneys At Law to this exftyisd. In another state, it was esti Moro, Oregon mated that more than $7,000,000 was spent on relief, private charity and uncollectible loans given out Highest Quality Merchandise Famous IHC Brand -L FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1980 । b r AVAILABLE IN OREGON Owners llko th® etmpUoity and ®ccnomy of th® John Dr®re tractcr. You, to®, want Lnoo® f®a- tnroa in th® traotor yoa buy. 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