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fe T aub nro rae uhkuman cuvntt jovhnau moro , origon MUDA Y, JVLY Bl, IBM I I -- --------- "-------------- ' •'— -------- electric wired poles will furniah' Frank von Borstel, dark, portable power for cultivation. Gros Vsltey. STATEHOUSE GOSSIP With the unlimited power in the' (County Jjinnnal (Continued from page one)^ mighty Columbia, electrical farm* I NOTICE FOR PUBLIC ATION missioner. T • e company hod more ing will become an accomplished Department of the Interior SHERMAN COUNTY OBSERVER E-tabhshed Nov 1*» than $3,500.000 in life insurance in fact. Should there ever be any U. S. I^and Office, at The Dalles, GRASS VALLEY JOURNAL, E<ablishe<) Oct 14. 1897 force in this state. The company, CONSOLIDATED. MARCH 6. 1931 limit or lack of power, night serv- Oregon, July 1, 1936. WASCO NEWS-ENTERPRISE, Established 189) one of the largest in the nation, ice could do the pumping of water. NOTICE is hereby given that CONSOLIDATED MARCH 4 1932 had organized under the laws of for irrigating windbreak trees ana Etta Houston Morford, widow of California. soil erosion will be a thing of the Benn Morford, deceased, of Wasco, Published Every Friday a- Moro. O’**ron, By past. - These growing trees wilL Oregon, wiho on June 21, 1980, GILES L. FRENCH ____________________ Managing Ed.toi Senator F. Mi Franciscivich oi with their foliage attract clouds made homestead entry, act Dec. 29, Clatsop county was in Salem this and rainfall will come wWere no* ' 1916, No. 027339, for Lota 3. 4, Si jwsek on a tour of the state in the 1| V heights 1 1 ■ • *** J NWi, WiSWl, SWiNEi, EiSEl-4, clouds pass over at extreme S sfiìY F Interest of his candidacy for the .’ through currents of air that (tees , Sec. 4 NiNi, SWiNWi, NW|- L \9SOi I M ION senate presidency. He refused to not condense their moisture in rain SWi, Section 22, Township 1. N., say how many votes he had “in Range 19, E., Willamette Meridan, drops. the bag’’ but declared that he was has filed notice of intention to There are millions of acres of Entered as second-class mailer at the Pus .office, al Mon», Oregon, well satisfied with his prospect®. fertile soil titat can be redeemed make final Proof, to establish claim under Act of Cuugivss of Alai di 18» ? — Senator Pierson, democrat of Mult to vegetation when our college bred to the land above described, be ADVANCE. nomah county, is also a candidate SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE farmers set about their calling. fore Registrar, United States Land 51 50 for this hbnor while several sena On? Year . • Rolling land may have to be farm Office, at The Dalles, Oregon, on tors are in a receptive mood in ed by present method^ but land the 11th day of August, 1936. JULY 31, 1936 cluding Dean Walker of Polk coun Claimant names as witnesses too rough can be turned to pasture ty and Robert M. Duncan of Har Everett W. McQuillion, of Wasco, when these changes com? in the wrecked the machinery it was to ney county. rainfall. AlF these possibilities Oregon; Chester Silver, of Wasco, IT SOUNDS SENSIBLE run. ^For all man has to do in this World war veterans serving time await the scientific farmer. From‘Oregon; William R. Reid, of Was- Governor Lardon of Kansas in world is “but to get food and shel in the Oregon pepiUnuary recieved the crooked stick, the wooden co, Oregon: George Smith, of Bla- making his speech accepting the ter and procreate himself.’’ bonus payments aggregating $22,- mouldboard plow to the caterpillar lock. Oregon, Republican nomination for th? pres 941. Thirty-eight of the 47.jvets:r- drawn gang plows was some ad-j W. F. Jackson, Chester Davis, who was administrator tor the AAA is seen here be- idency did not concern himself with ana in tiha institution qualified for vancement. . * A. SOME TRACKS Register. mg sworn in as a new member ot the Federal Reserve board. Oliver plans as much as with principles. thle bonus. Th? others served it We are just bordering in the , He is not one, apparently, who’ Midway up DeMosa hill are a the army lesa than 90 days, Two E Foulk. fiscal agent for the board, is administering the oath. electrical age for power. Black NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE gives birth to plans in sufficient geir;e3 of car tracks that have been of the pension beneficiaries are mined coal will give way to .white numbers to b? startling, nor is hi burned into the highway. They life termers. Several others are ry will spend a month at springs through the farms, by digging coal found in mighty water powers. OF REAL PROPERTY On Saturday, thé 29th day of one who follows a given plan be-(Were made the week end of the serving long terms of 20 to 25 in the Cascade mountains. holes or shallow wells, water could White coal must and will supercede August, 1936, at the hour of ten yond the restriction of American vourth of July. From the t/acks years. Look at Dad Peetz’ spud crop— be obtained that would last until the crude past and Ihe present o ’ clcok a. m. at the front door of principles. one may picture a car coming down and him a dutchman. Who can late in May and sometimes early now. Let not the incredulous be the Courthouse in Moro. Sherman He calls attention to one fact * the hill, making the most western- j Oregon sold $3,268,000 wortn too sanguine. I have seen much in worth of saj^ after this that only an irish- that hos been somewhat forgtten )y turn at a high rate of speed, hard liquor through its state stores man can excel in te art of produc June when water hauling began in my 77 years. From crude b?gin- County, Oregon, I will sell at public emesl Soon farmers built large auction to the highest bidder foi in the hub-bub of political turmoil sloughing to the wrong twde of the; and agencies during the first six ing spuds? cisterns that would hold a supply nings such as was used to harvest cash, the following described real and that is that the people of Amer highway to the trees growing along months ot 1936, according to a re-[ Mr. Dakin of Hood River, and Mr. Dakin of Hood River, and of spring run water that would a spring sown few acres of wheat property located dn Sherman Coun- ica require and want the same lib side and then cutting suddenly for port of the Liquor Control commis- j bis daughter, Mrs. Ina Dakin De county, , when - - m Waasco-Sherman waasco-onerman cuuiuj - last until near winter when much in erties and social opportunities that the bank where the car was stop sion. Profits for the six months Moss, of this county, have purchas a large pole was drawn by horses.Ay. O1’««0"/®-'" : . less water was required for Stock. roped to each end on a hot aft^Ä The North Half, and the North their forefathers who wrote the ped with probably one front wheel period amounted to $1,156,742 from ed a fruit farm in Washington For many years harevsting was rts»r Half of the Southeast . Qua Quarter Declaration of Independence want over the bank after every wheel all sources including license fees county, including stock, crop and noon, breaking the straw which done by heading and threshing with of Section Twenty-three, the ed. We may drive automobiles in had been slid until dt burned the and privilege taxes. tools. small separators or t by heeding was hand raked and piled for win- Northwest Quarter, the North stead of buggies and speak ovei surface on the road and the rubber and stacking, then forking into the ter feed. ■ While in Portland Mrs. James Half of the Southwest Quarter, smoked like it was in the furnace. the telephone instead of hallowing Tnrfee more youthful convicvs Woods had p]easUre of attend- machine. Soon both these plans C. W. Barzee, th? Southwest Quarter of the .After nearly a month the tracks across the canyon but we still have have been transferred from t^e a reception given by honorable gave way to the large steam en 412 S. E. 30th Ave. Portland, Ore Southwest Quarter and the th^ same desires and ambitions to are still there despite warm wearht penitentiary to the boys’ training w H Moore and wjfe to Mr. and gine powered lerrick-forcked thresh Northwest Quarter of the reach happiness through personal er and the passage of many vehi school at Woodburn. Three young mfs j j , Thompson, who have re ers that used all the daylight ana Northeast Quarter of Section TYPIST FASTEST endeavor. While conditions have cles. There must have been some felons were transferred previously turned to Oregon, after a briei some lantern light for sack sew Twentyfour, the Southeast changed in the past 160 years men fluttering hearts as the car stopped under Governor Martin s order that most unfortunate experience ing. Always the cookhouse was Quarter of Section Thirteen, all at the edge of the bank and, no are the same. youthful first offenders be segre— jn California, the worst of which made the field home of the crews. in Tawnship 1 North of Range As for debt, he stated that the doubt, those who were in the car gated from the older criminals. included the destruction of San Later the combine superceded all Eighteen, East of the Wtillam- are still nervous when they recall government’s money is the people’s Francisco. The Sherman county the oth*sr modes of harvesting. The ette Meridian and in Sherman th? accident they fortunately money and that what is spent by Both Attorney General Van Win county colony in the Rose City, farm auto now displaces the cook County. State of Oregon, the government must come from missed. kle and Governor Martin have been warmly welcome Mr. and Mrs. house. Together with the tenements, the people. It is a simple state appealed to this week by persons Thompson. The first well drilling machine hereditaments and appurte ment but one that may be forgot AND IT WAS HOT, TOO interested in helping; fi^h over the and Miss Hazel to be used in Sherman county was Master Lloyd nances thereunto belonging or ten unless occasionally recalled. Bonneville dam on thjfeir way to the brought to my place by Percy Jory, Dunahoo arrived home Tuesday in anywise appertaining. Down in Salem a man was fineo; spawning grounds on the upper Mr. Landon did not speak as an a brother of H. D. Jory. Having Said sale is made under execu angry man, nor as a caustic, crit $300 and given three months in Columbia river. Master fish war from a California visât. been school mates of this family, tion issued out of the Circuit ical one, but as one who had jail. It isn’t so notable that a man den Hoy predicted that the Oregon we were steadfast triends. We soon Court of the State of Oregon for thought long and studiously on the in these days of crime should re fishing industry would suffer severe learned that actual drilling exper the County of Sherman to n^e di problems he discussed. His prom ceive such a sentence, in fact, it loss unless adequate fishways were ience was needed. Our first hole rected dn tKe case of The Federal ise to “approach the issues fairly, happens every day. The offencv provided immediately. was a failure because the drill Land Bank of Spokane, a corpora as I see them, without rancor or was that in the evening of a hot passed through a seam of rock tion, plaintiff, vs. Henry H. White passion’’ compares with the words day, after work the culprit went i Public Works administrators that stood at a slanting perpendic and Cora H. White, husband and of one of Americas greatest pres swimming in a swimming hole in are urging the board of control to ular and the rock being seamy, wife; Wasco Investment Com idents who asked that we approach the Willamette which was already prepare a list of projects for filled with spring run water. The pany, a corporation; Bank of Com our problems ‘‘with malice toward in use by other bathers and that prompt submission if Oregon want« wedge edge of this stratum ot merce, a corporation; Mark Skin said culprit neglected to wear any to get in on the newly appropriated none; with charity for all.” rock crumbled and fell in on top ner as Superintendent of Banks of There li nothing of flaahry prom- ckz€h«>. federal funds. While the board is of the drill shaft and we dared not the State of Oregon; Stat? Indus From the wild rabbit,Coyote in There was recently quite a bit willing to accept Uncle Sam s do- j ise, of easy answers for major pass the drill jars below thus stra Miss Gioconda Zumpano. 20. ot trial Accident Commission: Lestei questions in his talk but behind it of controversy in Portland over e nations and there is real need for. fested Bunch Grass past to the tum for fear of sticking the drill Salt Lake City shown with her tro Alluisi, Receiver for The Dalles bountiful Productivity of Sherman all is an attitude of consideration sentence given a young man who many state buildings there is a jars and not being supplied with phy after she won an amateur typ (rarage Company, a corporation. for the seriousness of the plight was arrested for traveling 60 catch in the offer that has the! County and its neighboring coun- smaller jars and drill bits, could ing contest held in Chicago under The Dalles Garage Company, a in which the country finds itself. mike per hour while going to see bia’rd stumped-tWat is the 55 pel ' ti«’ not case the hole and was compeled the sponsorship of the Internation corporation; Sherman County, a One senses that his performance his girl. He was given 30 days cent share which the staU must put »=«■>, to the casualI rtwmr. he to give up further drilling in this al Commercial Schools association municipal corporation; Wasco Na up out of its own funds. The board I future of a great wheat grow.ng hole. would closely fit his promises. and also fined. and set a world’s amateur recorc tional Farm Loan Association, a The young man who exceeded the expects to make a survey of the region, the Inland Emplre. We thought we had a fair sup o* 106 7 words a minute. corporation, defendants. 39-43 speed limit certainly endangered, state’s building needs and submit ( In all frontier experience by the ply of water, which later proven HUGH CHRISMAN THE SIMPLE LIFE to some extent at least, the lives the most pressing of thiese to the pioneer farmer there are six prac- to be water I had hauled and emp CALL FOR BIDS Sheriff of Sherman County, Oregon An eagle recently died a violent and limbs of those whom he met legislature for consideration. It is tical points, always foremost in con tied into a cistern-well dug near by To persons living in Dist. 21: death at the hands of a Sherman and passed. Yet he was given a expected that the list will include' sideration. Two natural features For lack of complete equipment The school board will receive seal NOTICE TO CREDITORS either another office building or a must be recognized, the soil and the effort proved to be a total loss. county farmer, an eagle that had much lighter sentence than the All creditors having claims library building, possibly both, as climate. One of these thes? natural fea- The instruction book said such drill ed bids, up to August 8, 1936 for h en banded back in 1916 by an nude bather. well as new buildings and addi- tures, climate, may be sub-divided ed wells were not found more often the transportation of pupils to and against the estate of George other farmer in Klickitat county The attraction a cool, placid bit tions at several of thle institutions, for animal and vegetable life. The from Moro. The board reserves the Hennagin, deceased, are hereby than one in a thousan 1. across the Columbia twenty years of water might have to one who notified to present them in prop right to reject any or all bids. • • • 1 vegetable life of Sherman county, ago when conditions were different tad toiled all day in the heat might Ada Murray, Moro, clerk er form to the undersigned, the We then attempted to drill an A total of 474 motorists in Ore-1 likewise th? Inland Empire, is all for men and perhaps for eagles. easily cause a man to want to gon had their operator’s licenses | that can be desired to make growth other hole in a partially dug well duly appointed executrix and ex ecutor of the last will and testa In 1916, when W. J. Young of jump in w’hether or not he was revoked during the past year, 441 1 of the fruits of mother earth in on a neighboring farmers’ place, (ALL FOR BIDS At a special school meeting call- ment of George Hennagin, de eagle equipped with the patching of of these for drunken driving, ac-1 great abundance. For human need which might have succeeded hiad Goldendale banded this wheat was soaring to the high clothing usually worn on such oc cording to a report by Secretary । Sherman county, along with its the smith who sharpened the drill ed for August 1, at 8 p. m. the ceased, at the office of Geo. G. bit better understood his business. board will receive bids covering Updegraff, Moro. Oregon, within point and miraculous harvests were casions. His offence appears ti of State Snell and 11 for hitting neighbors, has no malarial low drill bit the transportation of pupils in two six months from the date of this In sharpening being grown in the Columbia basin have been light comparad to the land swamps to breed fever andi and running without rendering because of torrential rains. The sentence. mountain air from drilling edge must be centered with designated routes, with standard notice, to wit: July 17, 1936. chills. The pure One can pass a truck on a curve assistance to théir victims. bird was undoubtedly full grown at botih' east and west assures pure thle drill bit stem. This the smith equipment. Daisy Hennagin Description of routes and other the time to judge by the size of the against} traffic for $25 in most Lloyd L. Henhagin. unadulterated oxygen, the natural faded to do and we soon found we Payrolls have increased 75 pei band placed on his leg. He had cases, a man may speed hie car's cure for T. B. In fact, at some! had a crooked or slanting hole and information on file with the Clerk Geo. G. Updegraff cent and wage levels are up 30 flown over wheat field« growing limit for a like sum, a man, or ♦ • nu« mountain air this air is is some- swine- I this , on? we had to abandon. . Better of said district. The board reserves• per cent over those of two years tunes, even a woman, may become wildly what profuse in its delivery. Let no I expenenred dnll men would have the right to reject any or all bids. Attorney for Estate. sixty cent wheat and had undoubt 37-38-39 40 School District No. 9. intoxicated for a nominal sum duly ago in Oreogn industries according F discovered this slant in time to edly caught two-bit dhickens. to a survey by the Industrial acci one complain at the strong west - dynamite thè hole at the proper In the twenty years since his paid to the state, county or city winds. They assure fair crops, capture he has flown over the same but let one become so forgetful of dent commission. even with little moisture in the time and would have better sharp ened the bit and made a success fields when wheat was worth over the proprieties that he swims soil. of what w? made a failure. Mr. two dollars per bushel and when without his figleaf and he must Shlcrman county’s fertility was Jory became discouraged and sold the fields were maturing wheat spend three months of his time at m ver doubted by Walla Walla and the drill for a small sum and re worth thirty cents per bushel te behest of the state and donate Pendleton district settlers. My ex- turned to the valley. later bettei Chickens worth two-bits and chick $300 to the coffers of the govern p< rience in farming was the moist outfits for drilling made thle dis ens at a dollar have provided a ment. ci mate of the Willamette valjey covery that the whole country was 'Tis enough to make a commu meal for the marauder. From the Observer Aug. 3, 1917 ard I was not so sanguine about underlaid with abundance of water The men who fluttered about the nist of anyone, for it is said that this Stock-men condemned soil where depth was made sufficient. W. N. Froebe is a visitor in the fields over which the king of the in the land of the communists they county from his home at Vancouvei clmate. Thle deepest hole known to the bathe naked all the time. skies sariled have stewed and fret Washington. Now to the other features, water writer was made on the Pinkerton ted, worried and fussed, with gen Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Wilford timber and market. It has been place on the ar-top north side Governor Martin, who is criticiz erally unavailing schemes to raise Belshe, July 28th, a 10 lb. daughter, truthfully said that there is no of Gordon Ridge. This hole is ed by many of his opponent« in the market value of their posses or e so far from market as the some 600 feet deep but a soft stra Oregon for his conservative lean Dr. C. L. Poley attending. sions. Miss Ruth' McClelland is visiting farmer who has nothing to sell. tum of rock made part way easy The eagle has dined, when his ings—although that isn’t the term stomach needed food, on rabbit, used—crisicizes Governor Landon with her aunt, Mrs. W. N. Froebe, Market for early farmers was rea drilling. Some farmers resorted dy for their produce before they to water-witching. Practical drill fowl or suckling pig without vary because he is not liberal enough. at Vancouver. Washington. F. A. Sa yrs and wife have re had more than the home market ers depend on depth1. ing his diet, not according to the Truly, this is a political year. turned from therir vacation outing d manded. For timber, especially market value but according to his When I write of the future of “County Officials In Bad Over to the head waters of the Metolious the needed fuel, early settler« went Sherman County and other Inland taste and th? opportunity. Pigs at south some thirty or forty mile« farming regions in general, I may twenty cents per pound or pigs at Shortage“ reads a headline. Well river. The large new barn on the to Jack Knife canyon and get a be called visionary by the incredu three cents were of no consequence some thing like that would be hard for a three cent pig gives as much to brush aside with whatever non Wilbur Helyer farm south of Kent supply from its break«. Sometimes lous. The harnessing of the Col power to eagles wings as one at chalance might be imparted by r. was completed last week, the event they had to horse drag the trees to umbia at Bonneville, Celilo and being celebrated by a neighborhood the hill top before they could load Umatilla will revolutionize the In cigarette. twenty cents. dance and supper Saturday eve th sir wagon«. **To venture too far land section beyond that visioned An eagle would only be concern ning. down was dangerous. One man now by technocrats. Some genius The president in whiskers would ed with quantity for two pigs or Frank Haynes will soon have his lost his wagon by it« getting start will arise and make reversable disc two chickens provide more power be a funny sight considering tha"; Kent garage ready for the public. than one. And, although an eagle whiskers were worn in the horse He is now busy placing the floor. ed down the bluff into the deep plows or increased sized discs of canyon below. Juniper posts were the cultivator type, permitting tht and buggy days. would probably not be interested, When finished it will be a fine ad also used to a good advantage. soil to all be turned in the same di- two bushel« of wheat fill more This argument about the longest dition to the business life of Sher As soon as we had wheat to market recion. Poles can be made fast to stomachs than one. we could reload our wagon« with sleds which can be moved bj shy would be more to the point man county’s southern city. It is possible that our boasted Arthur Sanders was over from such as we had need of and bring horst»«. civilization has led us astray and if it could be shown that at matur his Ajax farm in Gilliam county it home without coat. that instead of desiring the ’things’ ity th? long ones were better, As cultivation proceeds these last week, He reports that the For water, let me add there is that make for a beter and fuller smarter, taller, tougher, more hand last of the steel for the new no one who has never hiauled water life we covet the usele«« article that some, had prettier hair or some Cottonwood bridge is being de for farm purpose«, can fully realize When Your Shoes need repau thing. It has been said of many represents them, money, and, by livered and that the contractor the hardship it brings to the send them to doing that lose, to some extent the a victim at a hanging that he expects soon to have the work farmer. An extra calf, colt or lit was an awfly pretty baby. very substance we desire. finished. ter of pigs so much' needed and «0 There may be something after From the Observer Aug. 2, 1907 Down in Florida a group of r? ■asily procured, called for extra all in the idea expressed by Mas- REPAIRING Mrs. F. G. Meindl is a member water hauling. When winters pro GOOD SHOE ters that that man’s brain and the ’ormer* beat a wrestler in order A What chance of the Moro colony at Camp Cas vided enough snow to make runs 204 Second St. civilization he has created with it 0 st®P th* : THE DAl.Lf* cade I,ocks. te Ilka an engine, too powerful, that VOU,<11 • ’‘«’former have beating • of ws er in the larger canyons | wrestler, anyway? Mrs. J. M. and Mrs. Walter Par- Former A. A. A. Head Assumes New Job jS^ernian Early Day Water Troubles Told By Barzee Horses-Horses In Other Days The Fair Board wants to know how many Sherman county horse owners want to race their horses at the fair September 3-5. If you want the fair to be for Sherman county race horses, strictly, notify the board and enter ycur nags in some of the announced races. Its your fair-enjoy it. WERNMAKK^ Do It Today
