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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
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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
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Patricia and Donna, spent a few
the O. W. R. & N. raid road, the
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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,
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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
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his ad-
August 31st. Four changes have
frOm
a « vacation
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state statutes
made above the
tne svaue
suiwico and pay
p«y my fare and this ended -------
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been made in the^teaching stafi. trjp
Hide-away Springs.
was clearly illegal. This illegal monition. When he passed through
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taking nn
up fnrPS
fares and C8mC
came
Miss Glenna Hilterbrand, resigned
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was accepted by the the car faVino
NJr. and Mrs. Tilbert Barnett
English teacher, is being replaced and children of Milwaukie were in
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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
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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
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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:
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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
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A p - rock in the canyon and could care
,! , lot . again
to force iKn
the iaeiiA
issue. Ac
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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
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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 <
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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.
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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.
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I
know
if
the.
brakie still wanted to
if milk will probably be somewhat,feeder,.
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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-,
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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.
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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
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- 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^
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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
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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
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not only plenty of power, but sure
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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
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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
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Yours very truly,
Henry Treede.
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Races Between Sherman County Two Year Olds
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q u a lity , in d ic a tiv e o f
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