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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 28, 1936)
Í.J |H g BR et M iU W m JO tjBLMA*-" WOKO, OhisUOf* FRIDAY. A U G U ST it», I93ß «A G * FOU* suit if it should arise. He advised me to have some special business Condon were business visitors when, if put off the train, damages Thursday. Mrs. Harley Dutton of could be collected to pay his fee Fossil accompanied them staying t ' J * w > and reimburse me aleo. On th'u at the home of Mr. and Mlrs. R. T. occasion my brother left The Dalles ' Evans Thursday evening. with me bound for Wasco. I- said Dr. Leah Richelderfer and family nothing to him about consulting I have had as their house guest for an Attorney but we had discussed I the past three months her sistfer, the extortionate fare on other oc-y • Mrs. Josephine Hamilton and daugh casions. When we transfered to ter Eleanor. They will begyZtheir the branch rail road at Biggs, while . ! return trip to Iowa Saturday. the train was waiting for baggage, Mrs. J. C. Ellison and daughters' express and freight transfer from I ' fe w W-l Patricia and Donna, spent a few the O. W. R. & N. raid road, the i-**-» Brothers Meet After days at the home of Mrs. Ellison’s Conductor passed through the Tar Freight Rate High sister in law Mrs. Helen Dingle. and noticed I was aboard, quietly, Twenty Years Separation * They are from Spokane. * Not only was the freight rate told me if I intended to ride on his Carrol Akers and family were made as much as the traffic would train'to buy a ticket of the Agent. Wasco schools will- open on here last Wednesday from nw... Bend bear, but the passenger rate was I answered that I had money to was kovu _ leav,ng . - « here __ on ~ M w his ad- August 31st. Four changes have frOm a « vacation 45 1 state statutes made above the tne svaue suiwico and pay p«y my fare and this ended ------- OÌbi 4 O ? been made in the^teaching stafi. trjp Hide-away Springs. was clearly illegal. This illegal monition. When he passed through >*• taking nn up fnrPS fares and C8mC came Miss Glenna Hilterbrand, resigned passenger rate _______— was accepted by the the car faVino NJr. and Mrs. Tilbert Barnett English teacher, is being replaced and children of Milwaukie were in ML community and little or no oppo to me I offered the usual statute by Jessie Ix-tnard of Corvallis. The town this week visiting. . sition was voiced against it Most fare. It seemed we had both HKS. ?• » primary teacher is Miss Frances ©likely fWw knew it was illegal. To chosen this occasion to fight it out Mr and Mrs. Afton McIntyre and Gorsline of Gateway. Miss Evelyn children are on a vacation trip to break this unlawful monopoly re on the fare question. He demand Scott is the chosen music teacher. Sea view, Washington leaving Sun show uuw down quired a real snow u before the ed the full fare and - I countered I :- : x . . • ’ i Z Rf placing Ray Critchfield, coach Courts and it became a “let George! had offered the state statute fare for two years, will be Frank day. do*-it” .-job for some one fully.in-, and he could take it or put me off Mrs. Lydia Darby and son Thomas. Remaining teachers are: • * ■ ' * * :* . foimed. It seemed to fall to my the train adding that I knew every Principal Homer Dixon, C, F. Lang Wayne, made a trip to Portland — A p - rock in the canyon and could care ,! , lot . again to force iKn the iaeiiA issue. Ac O I lev Misses Leona Clothier and I . eturmng Sunday. - cordingly I made up my mind to for my self admirably. My an Marie Andrews. I Mabel Thomas ^turned to Port bring the companyto time and the swer was made purposely loud so , S Ä “ Tor' 7 nvorniHit ruests Tuesday at land Sunday to continue her study fare within the state statutes limi- every passenger could hear. t l ^ W E TaU home werJ M rJa t Emanuel hospital following a ‘ tation'. This I did by a scheme all Combat Dodged Tate’s brother and wife and daugh-’ vacation of two w eeksspent wi o comes. ‘ - my own. At thia Stage of the controversy ’¿r, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tate and! her parents near Masco. my brother asked him why he did < . Wagon Haul Considered Jernice. They are residents of E w. McQuillen had as her 1 of this year the number of milk not put me off the train as I had Chicago. This is their first visit guests an uncle, George Howell of j On boarding the train at the bantered him to do. His answer cows on farms in the United States i^re in twenty years and the broth- Portland and his son, Leo Howell depot, I made it my plan not to came in a low voice saying lie “did was estimated at 25,623.000 or ap fis have not seen each other In that of Fresno, Cal. buy a fare ticket of the Agent.. not see his way clear to do so.” proximately 200 per thousand peo Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Fridley arc Lime. When the Conductor came to me The brakie, perhaps having been ple. «iWttcations are for some re Leland Spencer returned home expected home this week from a for the far.e I offered him the stat made wise to what might happen, ductions in cow numbers by next Thursday from Moro following a summer vacation at the numerous ute limit. He questioned me at said “Don’t put the poor fellow off, January, and further improvement stay of several months at the home beaches where they have been en first to learn if 1 knew what I was I’ll pay his fare if he has not tr.e in factory payrolls, which would be C. W. Barzee, joying themselves at clamming ant of Mrs. Ruth Miller. expected to result in some better 412 S. E. 30th Ave. Portland, Orü talking about and he soon found money.” 1 spoke loudly and told Guests visiting at the home of other beach activities. out that I knew what I was doing him I had plenty of money to pay The 1937 market outlook for ani ment in prices, seasonal changes Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Spencer Sun- • Under the auspices of the Gar and meant business. To avoid #a the extortionate fare but positively The extensive wheat growing in day were the latter’s parents, Mr. den Club a flower sale was held at mal products is comparatively fav- considered among the passengers that refused to be cheated by the com Marketings of cattle and hogs eastern Oregon very early attract scene and Mrs. H. A. Hardings and son. I the library rooms Saturday after orable for most items, with the pro would expose the extortionate fare spective supply smaller than 1936. during the next few months may ed the main-line-feeder branch he quietly said ‘‘If you have net pany This provoked the brakie Doris Cairns and family will now noon. and he said for the passengers to according to the current Agricul be expected to be larger, owing to roads that brought the Columbia be numbered among the residents Homer Dixon came from Day tuial report issued by L. R. Breit- the short supply and higrer prices Southern to Wasco. When this the 1‘uTI fare I will carry you . tor hear, many of. whom had been of this community having moved ville to attend to business interests baupt extension agricultrual econ- for foods in areas affected b£ the road was built it practically de nothing,” laying that which I had atoused to asking ior their money their household goods from Dee. before the return of his family to omist at Oregon State college. ./ diouth, the circular contintles? To stroyed the wagon road down Span given him in the scht beside me. back, to the amount of the statute rides were few usual’/ y I fare, ujqj tafce this fare out of his lew as l 1 usual Miss Marie Gamme dancing in their home in Wasco. The report deals with the poul- some extent the increase in slaugh- ish Hollow. Hitherto there had My rirlcs when he gets off the train.” Mr. and Mrs. Glen Wallace havr lry dairy and livestock outlook, ter will be offset by Stronger con- been the smooth even giade which made .my trips to The Dalles on j structor was an over night guest arriv Monday at the- home of Mrs. a baby girl whose birth occurred vith considerable space devoted al- sumer demand, but the price out- was defaced by repeated crossings horseback or with a wagon ovc< At the flour mill, just before arriv- Maude Akers. August 24. ib to crop prospects of interest look is better for beef next spring to which added the close proximity Rattlesnake grade. I determined ing at Wasco the train stopped to to keep my pledge to fight it out Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Clothier Mr. and Mrs, W.-R. Ried were in o O.egon growers. ‘ ’ ?"<> tha" «luringthe com- of the railroad engine and train to with the company and h£ counter unload some freight. This was near my brothers house and we got oi The outlook for dairy products i, mg fall and winter. Well finished which any horse must become ac and daughter have left town on a Portland the first of the week. ed With his generous “carry for the car, but my brother hesitated -ood, as the demand ia growing beef cattle are expected to be in customed for safe driving. Large nothing statefnent: thus giving : for a brief vacation» To Portland and return Mondaj saying *he wanted t< William Johnson retmned Tucs were Mrs. Augusta Huckin anc 'tronger while the percaplta supply betFer demand than stockersu and six horse teams with their trail me several free rides. ? I know if the. brakie still wanted to if milk will probably be somewhat,feeder,. _ wagons made competition over ay from Dufur where KR’t* HFTS eir.- daughter. collect the far^ in “hide.” Up to this time I had been ac^- The 1937 market outlook "Tor this most excellent road impracti iloyed for the present. Mrs. J. A. _ Ellis of Reedsport is .mailer during the next few years Sufficient to add the fare was ing*as my own council on the fare- *han during the < immediate hogs is strong, although market- cable after the buildirg of the Col Beryl Sheets „was in„Stanlield viaiLing fnends here while staying was about making a soon reduced to the state statute. >ast. In the last ten years the gen- ings may be Heavy during the last umbia Southern. Rest assured that question. tunday at the home of her grand at the George I»amborn home, ral trend of farm prices of butter- half of 1936. The drouth has ma- all these contingencies were con special trip to Wasco • from The All it needed was a bold front to larents. Her brother Billy, re-, . . ..— ft®! rc- fat in Oregon from year to year terially affected the maiket outlook sidered in making the freight rate Dalles and decided to council an bring the tail roal company to urned home after spending the Attorney and retain him for Jhe time. ( ’ all the traffic would bear. has been closely associated witu for hogs. rummer on the farm, the trend of consumer purchasing, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Wilde left power as indicated by the factory >n a touring trip over the Oregon payrolls in the United States, says roast highway. They were ac Breithaupt. This has been in companied by Beryl and Billy creasing steadily since the low Sheets and Valdis Wilde. point of 1932 and further improve Mr. and Mrs. Harold Case ot ment is in prospect. , ’ | 6 . • / » - T The other ma^r factor in deter-’ mining dairy products prices is the milk cow population. On January Civilians and Their Dogs Parade in Gas Masks Wasco School 1 Starts Next Monday T - Some objections were raised by farmers and at one time there was proposed a wagon haul wheat station at Wasco, where wheat could be transferred to arv established train of wagons and taken to Rufus station down toe Gerking canyon. This did not k effect the wheat rate so it came to naught, as a freight rate breaker. It was unlike the Rattlesnake freight ruse for the road and dis t a f f to be traveled was an open page to the rail road officials^ i » • W W * ' 11 ’ » Freight Rate Struggle Causes Differences _ Outlook For Animal * Products Good CALL FOR BIDS School District. No. ,15 will ac-, cept sealed bids until Friday noon August 28th for transportation of pupils to Wasco for the school term. Bidder to furnish car. The district reserves the right to re ject any or all bids. Mrs. Ine« Sargent, clerk Wasco, Oregon The Harvest UPDEGRAFF & PEPPER • M *- A tto rn e y » A t L aw M oro, O regon May ft, 1936. WASCO MARKET Zell’s Gentlemen: RED & WHITE STORE We can most enthusiastically rec ommend the “Caterpillar” Diesel Tractor as a money making invest F u n eral H o m e Groceries—M eats—F resh ment for farming. Ours has hardly had a “breathing” Fruits and V egetables in Phone 345 The Dalles, Ore. spell since we bought it over a Season year ago, and we have worked it or mighty hard. Alley’s Confectionery Our land demands a tractor with Your Patronage Solicited • not only plenty of power, but sure Phone 222 traction to cling to the steep side hills. The “Caterpillar” Diesel has both. We have just finished “floating” the ground to smooth the surface before planting peas. The float is heavy and 40 feet wide, but the; Diesel handles it in third gear at the rate of 140 acres a day. Our work with it last season includ ed plowing with 8- 14” bottoms; discing with 17 feet John Deere i double discs; In fact we did every -1 thing with it. One set of rings has been our onl> repair in over 1500 hours of use. See us for Sacks and Twine Considering the low upkeep cost and the fact that fuel costs are only about one-third what we spend M ill Feeds . G rain Bags on our gasoline tractor, we don’t know how» we could get along with D a iry and P oultry Feeds Twine out our “Caterpillar” Diesdl. We’ve been using “Caterpillars” Rolled Grains a Concentrates nine years and this Diesel is the Flour • • Salt b e s t , V * Yours very truly, Henry Treede. ' — A lt kinds o f Insurance - • • ENTERTAINMENT-FUN 2 D a y R a c e P r o g ra m B u c k in g R a c e s Races Between Sherman County Two Year Olds Sherm an C ooperative Grain G row ers : : : W asco, O regon O’MEARA SUPPLY CO. S a fe ty Deposit Boxes f o r Lease w ill b e o f u su a l h ig h q u a lity , in d ic a tiv e o f th e c o u n ty ’s r e s o u r c e s \ ‘ Remember: • * . * , “Every Day Is Sherman County Day -.1 D O N 'T M IS S A S IN G L E E V E N T • A r ’ * t. — V zp»T4,- Z
