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rHE MHERMAN UUUNTI JU F a GR TWO STATEHOUSE GOSSIP Sherman (County Journal (Continued f-om page one) SHERMAN COUNTY OBSERVER Nov. 2, 188b GRASS VALLEY.JOURNAL. K^Hshed Oct, 14. JtW CONSOLIDATED. MÂROH C BÖI WASCO NEWS-ENTERPRISE, Established 1891 CONSOLIDATED MARCH 4 1932 MEMBER cia O on Entered as second-class matter at the Poaioifice, at Moro, Oregon, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879 SUBSCRIPTION RATES—PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. One Year .............. .......................................................................................... JULY 17, 1936 construct a sod house and went to farming. After a few years he The Oregon Life Insurance had to self his stock company in a recent news story or give them away and pack up states that the people of the Pa his family *nd get out because cific coast states Lave an annual of the drouth and the grass hop- average spendable income of j He < came to Oregon and $2800 per family which is greater. in a . wooded valley where than the national average which. ‘ been happy and prosperous _ i | ne has is $2111 per family. ever since. He always maintain- This recalls the announcement that th? Kansas drouth was a of the department of commerce mosj fortunate circumstance for that of the counties of the United him tor it caused him to leave - States with a high spendable in— that state. ccme Sherman county was among . This year there is another the first hundred and fifty, with it is farther drouth although a “purple“ spot rating. north. This tirhe the government T!us year Sherman county is aiding the inhabitants to leave farmers may very easily receive or to stay, either one. The home $2,000,000 for their wheat crop steaders who left the short grass with their sales of stock and country in the eighties did so on small produce and wages and their own accord, driving their salaries and business incomes the' gw n vehicles, or they stayed thru total per capita inconx? of e i jt aH an(J made homes for them- people of this county may quite st|vea an<j descendants. They made reasonably be $1000 per capita their decisions themselves, which would be $4300 per family ( The residents of* the 1936 drouth or $1500 per family more than the | ar a are offered advice and aid average for the Pacific coast and 7 . .. I until they will have difficulty in a little over twice as much as the z knowing what opportunity to average for the United States as take. We hope, • with some mis a whole. givings, that they will be able to It has been noted with some keep some of their pride of de surprise that Sherman countians cision as well as did the indepen- as a whole fail to realize their ent Mr. Ekloff. extremely fortunate I position. 1 There are still many things to be desired but when living standards SNAKES IN THE COURT here are compared to those in oth- Rattle snakes, natives of the er parts of the country the true epen country where men are in- position is made known. frequent visitors, have been intro- ! duced in court in Los Angeles and ANTS AS CAPITALISTS have added a bit of comedy to a Car owners who have left their sordid murder trial that seems to vehicles, standing beneath tbe have in it some of the aspects of trees along the streets this sum- community advertising. mer have become acquainted with A snake, even though he wears a bit of natural history that is warning buttons on his nether ex- as interesting as its results are' tremity. is no fit companion for annoying. The “honey-dew” that’ mankind. It may be assumed that falls from the trees and sticks to a vast majority of mankind know the cars is made by aphides in jt to judge from the speed with the trees and the aphides in the which the courtroom was vacated trees are kept and herded by the when the snake witness broke loose busy ants w’ho live on the “heney- from his attendant. Those who dew.” deal in snakes and handle them are The aphides are one of the r.um- so few whep compared to the num erous guest insects of the red ber who do "hot that such practices ants, Guest in this case is the smack of abnormality. One is led to doubt if it is ab name applied to the insects kept and cared for by the ants for the solutely necessary to bring the juice they secrete much as men snakes into court to demonstrate keep herds of cattle. The ants to jurors their ability to kill or to take the aphides up the trees in emphasize their loathsomeness. the spring when the leaves come out and take them back in the fall when their work is done and the , Perhaps the recent news item feed is gone, just as stockmen regarding the citizenship of Hugh bring their herds from the moun- Ball, editor of the Hood River News tains when the grass is short and and newly appointed head of the state relief committee, will have the winter threatens. some good effect for it appears Other types of ants in other that Mr. Ball will become a citizen countries use other lice and in of the United States after some sects in similar ways and some, twenty years of considering-* the it is said, are agriculturists in move. that they grow a plant on which they feed. I« the«e days of social stress The Grass Varieties on the ex and talk of class war it ia strange periment station have been cut and that an organisation is not formed the work of harvesting the barley to try and prevent the ants from and oats has begun. Each variety enslaving the aphides and living must be cut and handled separately from their labor. One can picture so that its yield may be accurately the possible results from the checked. Threshing will not start struggle that might ensu#- Rad for several days yet as the grain ical young aphides might organize is cut with a binder and shocked. their fellows and strike thus starv ing the ants to subjection. It Since the re-oiling of parts of would follow that the aphides would be left up in the trees with the Sherman highway the yellow out means of getting down until ■tripe is gone. In fact, it is gone the leaves fell which would be dis- in some places anyway, because of astrous to them but they might steady wear. Before long foggy days will be due and it is to be win in the strike. hoped that before that time the It appears that the aphides are almost necessary to the ants but highway department will have a new stripe for motorists to follow. it also appears that the ants necessary to the aphides for if one wishes to rid his trees of them The reserve board is trying to pre he has merely to get rid of th® vent credit inflation by raising the ants. It may follow that the war kgal requirements for bank re- | ring classes of the social struc serves. Is it going to reduce ture of m<m are also necessary government lending as well? to each other, that labor would be helpless without the leadership of Cavemen and cave-women who, management and the aid of capital and that capital would be useless invwie southern Cabfom^ may ' without labor to make it effective. return home looking like a ripe tomato. • , PROSPERITY Sun Explosion Affects Radio Claims totalling $81,120.75 gainst the several counties fO! the care of non-violent insane un- der the so-called “ward” act ot 1931 were wiped off the books by the board of control this week- The claims were based upon the arbitrary charges of $20 per month which the counties protest ed as excessive inasmuch as it* was more than the actual cost of I the care of these wards to the1 state. In wiping out these claims' the board of control conceded this point. Charges against the coun ties wiped out by the board ac tion include:. Benton, $1122; Col umbia, $526; Coos, $729; D?schu-’ tes. $512.34; Lane, $3001.83; Linn! $2316; Mariip, $19-740.62; <Mor-1 row. $70.67; ^Multnomah, $44,- 572.98;.98; $636.66; Uma tilla, $180.33, Wasco $123.99:1 Washington, $1,444.68; , Yamhill, $1224.46. NOTICE TO CREDITORS YOUNG EXECUTIVE Sherman county co-operatives have strengthened their position to a marked extent by the purchase of their storage facilities. A Spokane woman is accused of bigamy because it appears she married four men in four different places. That isn’t bigamy, it’s in sanity. Union labor should remember about the dangers of a house di- vided against itaelf. I Notice la hereby given that Alice Belahe has been appointed admin istratrix of the estate of Clay Belshe. deceased, and has qualified. All persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified and required to present the same, duly verified, to said administratrix at the home of Robert Belshe, Moro, Oregon, within six months from the first publication of this notice. The first publication is June 26, 1936. ALICE BELSHE, Administratrix. J. Tracy Barton 34-37 Attorney for Estate NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Waiter E. Holman, youthful Port land (Ore.) business man, who was elected to the presidency of the Junior Chamber of Commerce the chamber's annual convention In Memphis, Tenn. Mayflower Child Governor Martin wants the Ocean us Hopkins was the name Dr. il*>lM*rt S Rlctuirdson Heft) of Mount Wilson observatory show« ‘back seat drivers who are con—; api^irHius »»th which he discover«) thill gaseous rxph<lon> occur of the child born on the Mayflower tinually knocking the government) ring on the sun every time It rotates, pul shortwave radio sets out of Ct»us- to quit their croaking and get out; mission |nsjM‘cfina tbe apparatus to the right Is Dr. Seth B. Nicholson. (logged Muffler and push. The “defeatists" atti- * A clogged muffler will cause the tude which he declares to be so I red during the series of lessons, । engine of an automobile to iver- deep rooted in the Willamette, is j an unforeseen feature which was. heat, according to the emergency especially scored by the governor easily) adjusted when difccovered road service of the O.regon State who declares that what western Cleaning re- to me. I had become interested Motor association, Oregon needs most of all is some ' in my leading soprano and while quires little time. of the fighting spirit which he From the Observer July 19, 1907. I I gave more time than is ordinary found to abound in eastern Ore i in the lessons, I did * not accept gon in his recent visit to that, Grain bags in - Portland are of their hospitality to stay over Quiet Rear Gears section of the state. ; quotable on a wholesale market at night with them. I was at that Pinion and rear gears, which 9 cents. The futura of the market time carrying the mail from drive the rear wheels by action on State officials and employees b uncertain, but decidedly firm, Grajits station <mce each week the rear aXles, must be properly who are not satisfied with the Everything depends on thè size of to W. M. Barnetts grocery store, meshed to insure quiet operation crop. kind of automobihs the state to where the postoffice had rec- of an automobile and avoid undue Henry DeMoss las returned ently been moved from Mr. Eat- wear. Gear tooth wear, together buys for them must either swal -, low their pride or buy their own from an extended northern buggy on’s. I did this on Saturdays and with bearing wear, may be indicat cars, the board of control de ride. As advance agent for the went directly to the Pierson place ed by a humming noise in the rear clared this w:ek in turning down DeMos i Lyric Bards, he placed the and gave the lessons. When end. requisitions for three new cars company on the high road to suc they learned I did stop, sometimes of more expensive make. The cess this summer. over night at Willerton’s where NOTICE is hereby given that board has been confining its auto D A Maxwell is hauling his my soprano singer could be con- Etta Houston Morford, widow of mobile purchases to the lighter winter supply of fuel from Klicki- tacted, it seemed not altogether Benn Morford, deceased, of Wasco. and less expensive models on t".e tat woods, over the old wagon trails to suit the family, just whom I Oregon, wrio on June 21, 1930, theory that the primary' interest popular 25 y’ears ago. never learned and never cared. I made homestead entry, act Dec. 29, of the state is to provide economi-' Rev ski rtk will prcach jn the later made it a point to accept 1916, No. 027339, for Lots 3, 4, Sj cal transportation. Spalding Chapel and the Rutledge «their hospitality and review the NWi, WiSWi, SWiNEi, EiSEl-4, lessons on Sunday morning to Sec. 4 NiNi, SWjNWi, NW1- church Sunday. their satisfaction. I was half in SWi, Section 22, Township 1. N., After taking up the $250,000 in It never pays to raise a scrub clined to believe my staying might certificates of indebtedness /ssued of any kind, animal, fruit or veg have been sort of an excuse to Range 19, E., W’illamette Meridan, to finance June and July relief etable. Se? the Gooseberries for- interest me in one of the young has filed notice of intention to needs the state liquor commission in>tance, that come from the Wm. ladies of their home. It was easy make final Proof, to establish claim will have only $630,000 available ! Morrison farm. Whoppers, as big for me to arrange my visits for to the land above described, be for the relief work during the fore Registrar, United States Land as Royal Anne cherries. Sunday with my preferred com Office, at The Dalles, Oregon, on remainder of the year according pany. to an estimate by A. K. McMahan From the Observer July 20, 1917. the 11th day of August, 1936. chairman>of* the., liquor commis-, Soon the wild stock-mans cus- Claimant names as witnesses sion. With five months to go' Misses Frances and Bessie toms gave way to local social Everett W. McQuillion, of Wasco, that means the state’s share of Anderson arrived home Tuesday gatherings and before we were Oregon; Chester Silver, of Wasco, relief expenditures must b? kept frotHTa visit with their uncle J. A. aware of these changes we were Oregon; W'illiam R. Reid, of Was below $150,000 a month if the Rasmussen and family at Hillsboro. of a farmer society in a real co, Oregon; George Smith, of Bla E. H. Moore and family, accom farming community. However the lock. Oregon. work is to be kept on a pay-as- you- go basis as Governor, Mar panied by Mrs. R. P. Deer, who has rope and branding iron carried W. F. Jackson, tin insists that it must. Approx- been visiting with Mrs. Moore from on their old practice of slick Register. mately $200.000 of the anticipated Portland, left Thursday morning earing. Farmers calves and colts revenues for this year will come for the Rose City \ ia auto and the not branded were roped, branded in for annual license renewal? Columbia highway. and led away to an isolated part Notice of Final Settlement during the last two weeks in De Mrs, J. M. Parry, jr.. left Tues-' of the range where they were Notice is hereby given that cember, McMahan said. day for Warrenton, near Astoria, herded until they took up with Frances Henrichs, administratrix for a few days visit with her broth the herd. I once had a fine, well of the estate of Walter Dayton If the State Industrial Accident er, Oren Johnson. l>efore his mus bred, halter broke, unbranded Henrichs, deceased, has filed her commission expects to avoid pay-| ter into the U. S. army with other mare taken from my pasture. Final Account in said estate, ano ment of the state “tithe” it must members of his National Guard Whither, I never learned. I did that Saturday, the 25th day of July, karn to put my —Z brand on 1936. at the hour of 10:00 o’clock look to the courts for relief. At-, Company. colts and calves there after. Stock a. m., in the County Court Room torney General Van Winkle has Huis, contractors * Hedges * V '4 X- • » and I 1 4 1 LA i , X. ‘ ' 11 L I X L X/ * * in * | advised the commission that in charge of building the new school mcn had their brands registered in the County Court House in Moro, L----- ------------- •_ rapidly _.ii with ... con- — . and no court could dispute their Sherman County, Oregon, has been the absence of a Supreme Court i house are moving ruling to the contrary it must be j struction work. They* have the ex-1 found branded. I have fixed as the time and place for the assumed that the act requiring cavation finished, foundation foot-1 8°od reosons to believe that some hearing of objections to said ac self-supporting boards and com- ings in place and work on the con- settlers, also, helped themselves count and the settlement thereof. to a fat calf or a marauding steer missions 4o pay a Ntithe” into crete forms well underway. Frances E. Henrichs about their premises. Iti was The______________ the general fund is valid. The! _ Administratrix of said estate easy to destroy the branded hide commission had sought to evade ¡ Geo. E. Updegraff and salt the meat in a barrel or the tithe on the ground that BARZEE STORY tub. Neither salted meat nor a Attorney for Administratrix the 1 workmen^ compensation I Continued from page one. tales. 34-37 fund is a trust fund and not sub were not Kentuckians who did not destroyed hide could tell ject to state regulation. ' believe it necessary to - educate Mr. Jacks, a highly honored set their children; yet (toe education tler, was by some one accused of helping himself to range meat. More than 80 law school grad- was limitd to the three R’s. His neighbors at once came to uates participated in the annual There had been hired by Mr. bar examinations here this week. Pit rson the previous winter a his rescue with the statement that This was a smaller, class than teacher who answered an advert they would rather accuse them usual. Last year 103 applicants isement from The Dalles that selves than their neighbor Jacks. for admission to the bar took the proved to be very unsatisfactory. Mr. Jacks during the winter of 1881 lived for some time on boil tests. It was believed sh? was a person ed wheat rather than appeal for of high life in The Dalles wanting a \acation. This winter, 1881 Miss aid to any one. । King of a settler’s family had C. W. Barzee, | be* n hired to teach the Pierson 412 S. E. 30th Ave. Portland, Ore, । family . Miss King had hired at a fum that included instrumental (Continued from page one) music lessons on their new organ. the safest driver is selected as Th? Pierson family was of two. To the Editor of the Sherman paientages, Willerton and Pierson. Oregon's representative in the first nationwide motorcade.” County Journal; especially its He. young Willerton, had married Anyone who has driven a private readers. « one of the Eaton older girls so she pessenger automobile 50,000 miles The Coming issue of my arti- was related to the Pierson family, or more in the last 10 years, with cles in the Journal will be of ab- 'Th:s married woman was one of out accident ond without violation sorbing interest for pioneer fam-1 ringing class, and my fame, of traffic law’s, is eligible to apply, ily readers. It will deal with ac- su< h as wa*. w:nt over to the it was pointed out. Application tual knowledge of the Old Immi-1 Picrson family. I had never blanks may be obtaned from the grant Trail as marked out by the ‘ professed to be an instrumental Oregon State Motor association in late Ezra Meeker and also person teacher but with the instruction Portland or from any branch office. ally known by me. When you book I was quite efficient at giv^ At the close of the safe-driver read it you* will understand the ’n8 instruction to his girls. Al reason why I contribute this let- an Ar,y a^e 1 become a cripple search a board of Oregon Judges will study the applications and se ter and ask your perusal of the in my right hand and through the lect the motorist found to have the lack of proper surgery which Article. best record, Persons whose records might have saved the practical You will do me a favor by are among the best probably will writing me a post card of com use of my fingers, I was never be called into conference with ment for or against the proposi abl? to finger the keys of piano the judges. the motor club said. tion put forth for your reading. or organ. I was a frontier child Affidavits may be requested to es Pioneers are fast passing the of early Oregon when sugery was tablish the reliability of statements Great Divide and it is to their not conveniently had. Mr. Pier- appearing on the applications. memory that I dedicate this Arti sen, to meet his obligation with From the character of applica cle in the Journal. C. W. Barzee, Miss King and give his girls an tions already received it is appar opportunity, applied to me for 412 S. E. 30th Ave. Portland Orc. their instruction. I insisted that ent that the honor will go to the I was not an instrumental teach- motorist who has driven sanely and ‘‘Courtship,” says Virginia Type- er but he assured me I could give inconspicously over a period of tickler, “is that penod which lasts entire satisfaction, from reports years.*Yt will noit go to the youth from the time a boy starts chasing before mentioned. Really I had who is able to take the corners on a girl until the girl catches him." no trouble giving correct instruc- two w'heels and at the same time I keep from hitting a telephone pole.' Try Journal advertising it pays. j yions. There, however, occur- i ‘ Cclmran DROUTH. MODEL OF THE EIGHTIES During the past week «or so, or while the drouth stories have fill ed the papers, we have been think- ing of Old Man Ekloff. Mr. Ekloff was one of $hose hardy Swedes who came to America after the Civil war to take up land n the United States. For tune, or what he took to be for tune, aent him to Kansas when that land was first being settled. He located on a claim in the western part of that state, built or laid or whatever one does to FRIDAY, JULY 17. 1*36 ed to $67.63. T..e city of Moro received $11^0; Grass Valley. Ki. 97; Wasco, 13,40. Published Every’ Friday at Moro. Or^on. By Varaan? Ed to« GILES L. FRENCH ED JL URN At, MORO. OREGON In Other Days i On Saturday the 25th day of July, 1936, at the hour of 10:00 a. m., at the front door of the County Court House in Moro, Sherman - County, Oregon, I will sell at auc tion to the highest bidder for cash the following described real prop erty located in Sherman County, Oregon, to-wit: The Southeast quarter (SE1) of Section Thirty-two (32), Southwest quarter (SWi), West half of - the Southeast quarter (WiSEi) of Section Thirty-three (33), in Town ship Three (3) South. Range Fifteen (15) East of the Willamette Meridian, and Lots 1, 2, 3, and 4 and the South west quarter of the North west quarter (SWINWi) of G Section Four (4), Lot One (1) and the South half of the Northeast quarter (SiNEi), North half of the Southeast quarter (NISEI) and the Northeast quarter of the Southwest quarter NEiSWi) of Section Five (5) tn Town- ship Four (4) South of Range Fifteen (15) E. W. M., Gon- taining 841.02 acres, more or less, in Sherman County, Ore- gon. Said sale is made under execution issued out of the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for Sherman County, to me directed in the case of “Evelyn Houghton, Plaintiff, vs. John Engstrom, et al. Defendants.” I am directed to sell particularly all of the interest, right and title in the above described property which W. M. McGinnis and Katie McGinnis, husband and wife, or either of them, had therein on January 4, 1926 (the date of the execution of the mortgage upon which said judgment is based) and any and all interest which they, or either of them, and all _ persons holding by, through or under them or either of them, may have since acquired therein. The purchaser at said sale will be placed in im mediate possession of said property and of the whole thereof. HUGH CHRISMAN Sheriff of Sherman County, Oregon GALLOWAY & KRIER Attorneys for Plaintiff 34-38 NOTICE TO CREDITORS All creditors having claims against the estate of George Hennagin, deceased, are hereby notified to present them in prop er form to the undersigned, the duly appointed executrix and ex ecutor of the last will and testa ment of George Hennagin, de ceased, at the office of Geo. G. Updegraff, Moro. Oregon, within six months from the date of this notice, to wit: July 17, 1936. Daisy Hennagin Lloyd L. Henhagin. Geo. G. Updegraff Attorney for Estate. 37-38-39 40 It’s Your Fair and you will be proud of it when the proud Perch erons, the stately saddlers, the handsome Herefords go by in the parade. Begin, now to prepare stock, gratti or sewing for your exhibit Remember: Every day is Sherman County Day” September 3-5, 1936
