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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
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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
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advised the commission that in charge of building the new school mcn had their brands registered in the County Court House in Moro,
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•_ 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
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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.
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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