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Moro, Oregon. Friday, May 29. 1936
$ 72f000 to Be
Farmers Urged
Spent on Sherman y c-
Highway
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Boy Scouts Win Sherman County
Kent Boy Wins Another Game
Historical
: Added To Grass Prizes At
Has Prospects
Essay Contest
Camporee
Valley Column
For Good Crop ' *
Even before the votoe cast in - —4-_______________
From information given out at
\-the primary election >have been
The final report of the judges
The Moro Boy Scout Troop were
the
state highway commission
canvassed and with yet another
who have read the Sherman county
in
Tlje Dalles for the district
hurdle to be jumped at the fall meeting last Friday it may be as­
Historical contest essays was hana
Farmers
Assume
No
Risk
Camporee
Saturday and returned Conditions in South End Are
First
of
Game
Erratic
As
sumed
that
as
soon
as
the
federal
^ elections boomlets have been start­
ed in this week and the winners
with
a
string
of prizes in their
appropriation
for
roads
is
approved
.
n
ed already for candidates for Speak
have been announced by Wily Pitchers Wobble and Fielders
belts.
In
the
semaphore contest Especially Favorable Compared
by
congress
at
least
$75,000
will
be
In
signing
Sheets
But
Are
er of the House and President of
Knighten, county school superin­
they
won
first
and
in the fire build­
l t
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the Senate at the forthcoming leg­ spent pn the Sherman Highway be- r li J tl
tendent. This year all of the con­ Err; No Games Scheduled
ing and water boiling contest they To Previous Seven Years;
tween
the
county
line
and
Shaniko.
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hereby
1
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Ubtam
islative session.
testants were from the grade
made another sweep of the field.
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As soon as the nomination of Frank The work has the approval of the D
school
as the high school £upik of For County Sunday
In the games and races they came North End Wheat Spotted
federal
Bureau
of
Public
Roads
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ts
ror
Compliance
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X Lonergan of Multnomah county
the county failed to write for the
out
s«con4 best.
as one of the 18 republican can­ and should be done yet this year if
contest.
Roys
making the trip were Rob­
didates for the House from that the bill is passed.
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Winner
was
Frank
von
Borstel
In general the feeling about the
ert
Gillmor,
Carl Peetz; George
Estimates
on
the
road
are
fairly
“Fill out a work sheet it may of Kent who wrote • klstory of the .Gr“’ V“\lei continued iti s win
district was assured, his friends
wheat
, crop in this county is ,yery
¿Martin,
Johnny
Shipley,
Lynden
high
per
mile
but
the
heavy
work
mean
money
to
you.
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started A campaign for his eleva­
Kent vicinity, to get fir^t pl.ee.
m .Sn.ndi‘,r.^
good with a few exceptions. The
Mersinger.
Donald
Morris,
Rodney
Such is the advice to Oregon's M.ry Hoakinson won ueond with ln* the
tion to the Speakership. Lonergan has been done for some distance
»««m
Truitt and Billy Thompson. Scout farmers of the north end of the
is one of the most aggressive mem­ south of the county line and the farmers by the extension men of . history of Kent .nd Nellie Wil-! by an J^.en to,‘^h
Assistant Leader Mr. Mitchelmore county do not expect to harvest as
surfacing
should
be
finished
with
Oregon
State
college
who
are
ac
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bers the House has had for many
son
eb?“ ■ 11 J“
son was
was given
given third
third for
for tn
an essay
essay an, eKJ"bltlon
large a crop as they did last year,
was in charge of the boys.
years and is a veteran member cf the appropriation that should be tive in explaining and helping or­ on the same subject. Fourth place “i1 ’'*? 77 hlgh ?n
°Pln!on
because
of the freeze out and the
fortht
coming.
ganize the new agricultural con­ _
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r who of
most of the spectators and this
that organization with several
winner
was » Ellen
wrote
dust
storms
but in many cases good
servation
act
in
Oregon.
was especially true of the first
terms to his credit. He has already
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an exposition of pioneer life in
stands and healthy looking wheat
It costs nothing but a little time th_
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few innings when most of the Candidates File
been honored by election to the
.
promise as heavy a crop as in
to «1 ouf . w°rk sheet bhey poinl Roth
v.„
^onL^ scores were made.
Speakership, however, which fact DlSCUSSlOIl VIUD
1935. The thinly covered fields,
is held by many to constitute ®n
with . story of Joo'She.™ .nd hi,' Dufur made its eight runs be­ Election Costs
however, will reduce the average
, ever to the farmer filling out one,
fore the fourth inning was ovet
effective barrier to his election at
^*4 InrliQ
to
such an extent that it is proba­
the forth coming session, assuming
HlUld
as there will be 710 contracts of
The expense sheets of the vari<
and Grass Valley had finished
ble that the total bushelage will
scoring at the end of the fifth in­ ous candidates for county office be lower than last year.
that he is successful at the fall
The Toreadors, _ discussion
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ning. After that time the pitchers have been filed with the clerk with
election. Earl Hill of Lane county, group formed last winter, held its listing conditions on the farm last QIirvpv Trtn PUnviA/l
settled down and the fielders be­
Centra] Part Fair
who barely nosed out a win in the final meeting for the season at the y^r’ is the necessary starting UU1
lllj> I Idllliea
a f«w exceptions. These ahow th^t
came able to hold the elusive pellet
primaries, is held by many to be Moro Hotel Monday night and * P°int before a farmer can apply
moneys expended, in seeking the
|n the central part of the county
Leaders
and the game was better.
the logical choice for Speaker at celebrated with a dinner to which l*t®r this year for soil conserving
favors of the voters in the recent t^e wjie^t is better and with fair
the forth coming session and has their wives were invited. Principal or s°ii building grants under the
primary election. All statements weather will make a larger yield
A survey and field trip sponsor­ Hita Even
many friends in the House line-up talk of the evening was made by ( ac^~
must be filed by June 1.
than last year although there was
ed
by
D.
E.
Stephens,
of
the
ex
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in both camps who can be expected Miss Mildred Ginn who recently
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Each team made fourteen hits
Those on file are as follows: some frost damage and some
periment station, Harlow Parkins
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«t.n/l hv
tn the
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to stand
by him
him to
the last
last Hitz*h.
ditch, returned to Moro after spending
during the affray and a vast ma­
th® SCS and Perry Johnston of Jority of these were made in the Joseph A. Mee, $12.15; J. T. stands are thin.
A third contender for the honor five years in southern India as a
Extension men estimate that*
1 the extension service will be held
The breaking point for good
Johnson,
$12.80; C. XJ. Wilson,
looms in the person of Ernest R. missionary.
work, sheets have already been fill-
hectic first half of the game.
wheat is right at Moro. South of
Fatland of Condon who has dis-
Miss Ginn told of the religious ed out by some 10.000 Oregon today. Those wishing to make the Everybody got a hit and everyone $31.90; P. C. Axtell, none; C. V.
that point the wheat begins to
tinguished himself for his construe- work being done among the In* { farmers, which isv approximately trip will meet at the experiment in the Grass Valley team scored Anderson, none; R. A. Stow, .90;
look better and continues clear to
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M.
Hansen,
$13.05;
C.
P.
Moore,
station
at
1.30
and
will
be
taken
tive leadership in the past two Jians and showed many curios of ■ the number w’ho participated in
a run.
iG.38: M. W. Peetz, $12.50; Chas. the south end of the county. South
to
see
the
various
fields
of
Crested
sessions.
the country. In answering ques- j all the old crop control programs
teacher graced the
Sverett, $11.51; C. H. Lindeman, of Grass Valley th^ winter wheat
All of this, of course, assumes tios she told of the customs of the 1 combined. Yet there remain many
line-up as Squire,
$31.75;
C. P. Adams, $4.15;. Joe did not freeze out and is looking
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Hughes
.nd
Godd.rd
were
Absent,
the return off the Republican par- people, their clothes, their agri-' thousands who hav6' not obtained
Truitt, $14.78; L. H. Na*h'o<tt»ej fine, being almost as far along as
seed
and
the
oldest
stand
of
Cres-
ty to domination of the House, culture, their habits, their insects, these blanks from the county
Walker played third. Bill Roth
in the north end and giving prom­
Democratic candidates, however, and snakes and many other in- agent or community committee- ted Wheat grass in the state is was tried out at right during the $8.80; W. A. Ruggles, $4.86; G. A.
ise
of a better yield than has been
’
otter,
none;
David
Reid,
$11.15.
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Later
the
caravan
will
go
are admiting no such eventuallity teresting facts concerning India.
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game and may be given a chance
experienced for seven or eight
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to see some of the dams made by to further display his abilities be­
and are quietly- proceeding with
Recent flings on soil building the
d
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yars. .
plans of their own for organizing
fore the season is out.
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and u8e8 to which dlVert-.^
Auxiliary Appreciative Wheat Heading
the next House. In this camp, too, ;
Men
Should
c“ •* p«
«7»^ th. i.»e by th.^*’.™ 7^" Games Away From Home
there are plenty of aspirants to
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Winter wheat is heading out in
The American Legion Auxiliary
the Speakership. O. Henry Oleen
Next Sunday the Grass Valley will meet next Wednesday with some spots and is well headed in
■ Work in Harvest
. orchards
LXrd. in the
«„„ii
the s*/™ pucwiiib. the «n.i!
of Columbia county has let it be.
soil depleting or on
stop on the trip. As many as can team will drive to. Simnasho to Mrs. Hazel Woods for the June others and the spring grain is but
known that he is in a receptive
soil
conserving
area,
according
to
meet the CCC team there. . The meeting. Sale of poppies last a few days behind. The constant
Portland, Ore., May 28, - All
mood. Oleen is one of the ~ few Works Progress Administration the use made of the soil between are asked to make the trip.
r promise of rain in the skies raises
Moro OCC will play at Dufur.
week was very successful, reports the hopes of growers who feel that
Democrats whose experience in the project workers who go into priv- the trees, has brought hundreds
Lineups
Mrs. Wily Knighten, unit president,
House antedates the deluge of 1934 ate employment during the spring Into the prorgam in communities
with another inch or two of mois­
Dufur
Grass Valley
who expressed her appreciation for ture within the next two- weeks
which swept the minority party in­ and summer months will be eligible where no participation was thought
Nelson, 2
Dunlap, 1
the support given by the people of there would be a satisfactory crop
to control. ,Vernon D. Bull of La to return- to the Federal pay roll as possible, extension men report.
MJoore, s
T. Bissett, 3
this
vicinity.
Grande is understood to be ambi­ soon as their private employment
over most of the county.
Connel, 1
Walker, 3
tious to become a full fledged gavel comes to an end. They will even Weed Factor Helps
Fritts, c
C. Brandow.c
weilder and a number of the young­ be given preferred status over
Blagg. r
Rolfe, 2
er Democrats are reported to be workers who remain on the Federal
R. Bissitt, s
Vintin, m
willing that the mantle of «Speaker­ pay roll, according to a statement factor in parts of Oregon, while
Rice, I
Slusher, m
ship fall on their shoulders, in- issued today by E.
Griffith, east of the Cascades the inclusion
'Roth, r
Heisler, I
eluding Moore Hamilton of Med­ Works Progress Administrator for of trashy fallowing as a soil build­
Increasing consumer purchasing
Miller, p
R. Brandow,p
ford and Harry Boivin of Klamath Oregon. ~
ing practice and the ’ addition of power is giving needed support to
Minx^sota for his father and
By Frank von Borstel, Jr.
Falls.
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• i An order has been sent to all such acreage in the soil conserving the markets for farm products
brother,
Diedrich, who also filed
Before
the
settlers
came
to
the
All of which, is entirely prema­ district directors of- the Works total for purposes of figuring the at a time when the trend toward lYan/wntf» Pla«« l«nJ«
extreme southern end of Sherman claims in this vicinity. Many in­
ture inasmuch as the November Progress Administration instruct­ Class II allowance, is a great step increased agricultural production L'anClllg VlaSS £J1(1S
County where Kent is now located, teresting stories are told of John
election may change the entire pic­ ing them to encourage all workers toward encouraging anti-erosion is exerting a downward pull, says wr
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bands of Indians roved through the Reckmann who was later killed
ture. but, too, it might rob some to accept private employment dur- farming methods in th4 wheat the May report on the agricultural
With
canyons
and hollows, leaving their while driving one of the first auto­
of the aspirants of the chance of
situation by the OSC extension
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(Continued on Page two)
running for the Speakership, hence
Bobbie Root gave her ■ Petite traces in form of spear heads and mobiles in the southern end of
service.
the rush to get into the limelight
1?. The factory pay-roll index has Review Dance Recital, Saturday, arrow heads; many of which have Sherman County. How he planted
a fine orchard which was destroyed
before the curtain falls.
advanced to the highest level since May 23 at the Civic Singers Hall been found in an old Indian mound,
when his house burned down in
called
the
fort,
which
guards
the
in
Wasco.
It
was
an
unusual
af
­
last December, and factory workers
the
night and „from which he and
junction
of
the
Mackin
Canyon
and
Prison authorities of today are
are earning nearly 10 per cent fair for Sherman county as many
his
wife, Mary escaped in their
Buck
Hollow.
guests
who
came
for
the
dancing
not so much concerned with ways
| more than a year ago and fully 50
These canyons, containing an night clothing and spent the re­
and means of keeping men inside
ISSzrmr
per cent more than in 1932 and I and f°r tea will attest.
the walls as they are with keeping
1933. Business activity has been
Patricia Kaseberg, Sharon Hen­ ample water supply, were chosen mainder of the night in a haystack.
Later when they were drilling a
County Court Preceedings, May , In the matter of the contract be­ gaining, particularly in the durable ^a6in a?d Shirley Yocum, dressea by the first settlers who raised
them outside, according to Jamet.
tween the Shell Oil Company and goods industries.
in vari-colored studio costumes stock, lived near the small streams well 304 ft. deep on his place, great
P. Davis of the new federal board Term, 1936.
May 6th, 1936, being the time Sherman County, Oregon. Contract
gave example of Bar Tecnique, and grazed their cattle and sheep excitement was caused by a rumoi
on prison industries. Davis was in
Prices
Turned
Downward
for
the
regular
term
of
the
County'-
accepted
and
ordered
filed.
Jiyie
Wilde leading. Carol Day ori the bunch grass covered coun- that they had drilled through two
Salem this week to confer with
veins of good coal. This story was
In the matter of the coroner’s
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Drinkard
did a petite dance . and try.
Governor Martin and prison offic­ Court of Sherman 'County, in the
Despite this improvement
even published before it was told
stock
report
on
the
death
of
J.
A.
Pyburn
first
of
these
One of the
.,
Marion Crews did a tap dance,
ials on prison problems. The feder State of Oregon, the Honorable
domestic demand conditions, the
During the following intermis* raisers was Mr. Cornwall who that a practical joker had dumped
al government is now sending only County Court did on the said date of Rufus, Oregon. Report accepted
trend in the general level of farm .
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one out of every ten first offenders meet in the County Court room in and ordered filed.
prices has been downward for/^n ^.*r,t*reA.1Î0În“n ’,Oe *nd settled in the Mackin Canyon six a few sacks of coal in the hole un.
In
the
Matter
of
designating
pol
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several months. With fair crop!
®enna H«Jtebrad gave a vto- miles south west of what is now beknown to the well drillers.
to prison, Davis said. The other the Courthouse at Moro, Oregon.!
Other Germans including Jacob
ling places in each precinct in
Kent, in 1864 and raised cattle.
nine are released under parole or at the hour of 10 o’clock a. m.
prospects and a tendency toward i . w °*
Then
in
1871,
James
Mackin,
foi
Wassenfiller,
John Schassen, who
Sherman
County
for
the
May
on probation. Many states are al­
The following were present.
whom the canyon was named, set- settled in 1884, and John Patjens,
Primary. The following places increased plantings over the coun- Character Dances Shown
so inclining toward this policy.
Geo. A. Potter, County Judge.
try as a whole, the farm price in-1
tied there for the same reason. In who came in 1894, secured land
Some states are providing large
A. X. Dunlap and P. C. Axtell, were designated: Rufus, Mrs. De­ dex is now again fairly closely in
After the intermission the audi-
yo’s building; Locust Grove, Locust
1878 a man called “French Pete” north west of Kent which became
farms on which prisoners are em­ ^O’mty Commissioners.
line with the factory pay-roll in- enÇe was taken to China to watch settled
in Jack Knife Canyon, three known as the German Settlement
Grove
Schoolhouse;
Klondike,
A.
B.
ployed under, an honor system.
Geo. G. Updegraff, District At­
dex, whereas a year ago, owing Shirley Yocum do a Chinese dance, miles east of Kent and was one of and the school house was called the
Potter building; Monkland, Har-
Oregon’s prison industries prob­ torney, and
largely to drouth made crop scare- June Wilde did a clever tap dance
lem is not nearly so serious as
Viola M. Hansen, Deputy Clerk. landview Grange Hall; 'Rutledge, ity, the farm price index was fully and Patricia Kaseberg as a French the first men to raise sheep in this German School until 1918 when its
region.
name was changed to Liberty.
that in many states Davis said.
The following proceedings were Rutledge school building; Kent. I. ten percent higher than the index doll in pink organdie came to life
» There were several interesting
O. O. F. Hall; Grass Valley, City
Some
of
the
settlers,
who
formed
A thorough study of the situation had at said term:
and danced. Another intermission
of factory pay-rolls.
; characters among the homesteaders
here will be made later this year
in the dancing found Miss Johnson stock companies were: Kerr and in this district about whom stories
In the matter of the Designating Library; Moro, Circuit Court Room
before any recommendations are as a Secondary |State Highway in the Courthouse: and Wasco, City Special Review Given
and Miss Hiltebrand ready with Buckley, Booten and Bums. Bur­ are still told: Sailor’ Joe Elliot
gess and Scherar and Bronk and
made for new industries.
the Fulton Canyon-Wasco Road, Hall.
The circular, which is available other solos.
In
the
Matter
of
taxes
levied
a-
The Finnegan brothers who had a nasal, Bostonian ac­
Sharon Hennigan impersonated Price.
designated as No. 301. The Reso­
cent and greatly amused the neigh­
from
county
agricultural
agents,
Many of the larger Oregon em­ lution was adopted and signed by gainst real property owned bj
Shirley Temple, Marion Crews located nine miles north west of
ployers are paying their contribu­ the County Court and attested by Moro State Bank; Petition for gives a general review of crop gave a Cossack dance, June Wilde Kent in 1867, in a grassy canyon bors with his ready wit; for in­
stance, while dining with a neigh
tions to the unemployment compen­ the Clerk as of April 22nd, 1936, Order of Court cancelling real prospects with special information appeared as a gypsy and the three which bears their name.
on
wheat
and
rye,
feed
grains,
sub
­
In the early eighties much to bor he began eating ‘the dessert at
sation fund under protest. So far, and the copy of said resolution was taxes against said property
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. little igrls who started the pro-
May
sequent
to
1930,
filed
as
of
the
disgust of the stock men, the the beginning of the meal; when
potatoes,
onions
h.y,
p..tur«
.nd
ni
,
hed
it
.
burned
in
however, none has refused to pay placed of record as of May flth,
production,
fruits
.nd
£
,
nd
wooden
6th, 1936. Order granting cancel­ milk, egg
country was found to be good foi told that there was other food to
nor to‘attack the act in the courts. 1936.
nuts,
.nd
peppermenk
F.rm
pric-
v
u
y
,
nk<se
Doodle
.
farming and settlement became be eaten first, he drawled ‘‘Pie is
Publication of amounts being paid
Tn the matter of the payment lation signed May 6th, 1936.
good enough for me;” Kenefick,
In the Matter of taxes levied a- es and index numbers are given on
by some of the larger contributors of claims presented against the
Mrs. Lloyd Hennagin accom­ rapid. Settlers came from great
additional
commodities panied the dancers and Mrs. L. E. distrances to file their claims in a desperate character who hao
was protested as a violation of the Road Fund: County Clerk instruct­ gainst real property owned by many
provisions of the act for secrecy ed to write warrants against the Moro State Bank Petition for or­ grown by farmers in Oregon and Käseberg, and Mrs. O. G. Hilder­ this region. Carl Schadewitz and served ten years in a California
regarding reports and information Road Fund in the amounts and to der of Court cancelling taxes data are given on the trend of land brand presided at the tea table his three sons left their fruitful prison for killing a Mexican with
a bowie knife; and Al Hembree, a
filed by contributors.
the claimants listed on pages 178 against said property(J. F. Henkle) values and other subjects related to aided by Mrs. W. E. Ruppell, Mrs. farm in California in 1884 and fearless man who always carried
filed
May
6th,
1936.
Order
cancel-
Oregon
agriculture,
Louis Walsh, Mrs. F. M. Crews homesteaded west of the present a forty-four in his belt.
J to 182, inclusive, of Claim Docket
ling taxes signed May 6th, 1936.
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town of Kent, about three miles.
IA ruling by Attorney General No 3
and
Mrs. Dick Yocum.
Crop Conditions Improv«
One time he secured a five gallon
In the Matter of the Treasurer’s
Carsten von Borstel came from
Van Winkle to the effect that the, jn
matter of the fire insur-
keg
of whiskey and invited George
Germany and filed a claim six
board of control can allow no more ance pol}cy (No. OR 103662) on trial balance for month ending . Crop conditions have improved
WEATHER FOR THE WEEK
Jennings
a freighter and Kennefick
April
30th,
1936.
Report
filed.
miles
west
of
Kent
in
1886,
but
not
over most of the country since the
than a five percent differential in
courthouke building, ^Term 3
to
a
poker
game at Sailor Joe’s.
Court adjourned subject to call first of May, whereas crop pros-, DATE
AX.
MIN. PRKCIP tiking to live too close to the sheep
throwing state business to Oregon year3> premium $162. Policy ac-
Other
settlers
who were invited ta
men, moved to a place four miles
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pects declined somewhat during May 21
concerns may interfere with the COp(ej anfj the Clerk instructed to by the Judge.
this
party
decided
it was beat to
Geo.
A.
Potter,
Counay
Judge.
north
west
of
Kent.
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April. In the western states as
board’s desire to protect local in- wrjfe warrant against the General
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decline. In a drunken brawl they
I*. C. Axtell,
A. A. Dunlap a group, the supply of irrigation
John
Reckmann,
another
Ger-
dustries from outside competition puntjjfor the premium.
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Commissioners
man, who had been four years in quarrelled over the cards and Ken­
water is expected to be somewhat « 24 .
for state requirements.
| Injhe mattert of the agreement
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the
United States, was sent by his efick attacked Hembree with a ket­
above average and stock ranges
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i between the National Hospital As-
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Claims Presented and Allowed are in better condition than usual.
father to Oregon to see if condi- tle of boiling
_ water. Hembree car.
Sherman county was first in 8OCjation and Shermfan County,
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