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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1936)
Ma- ¿ fir •A ,1 ' r A TH E SE M E M A * PAGE TWO jgHjennan County jo u rn a l SHERMAN COUNTY OBSERVER Established Nov. 18»« GRASS VALLEY JOURNAL, Established Oct. 14. 1897 CONSOLIDATED, MARCH 6. 1931 WASCO NEWS-ENTERPRISE. Established 1891 CONSOLIDATED MARCH 4. 1932 < C O U N TY JO U R N A L . handsome man of her dreams at a cost of a mere dollar it la well worth the cost. If the worried business man can be encouraged • to keep a stiff upper lip and an aggaessive front against the forces i of evil that are supposedly bear- ‘ ing down on him it is worth the I price of the medium’s time. Some- i times there is no one else in whom \to cbnfide with perftftt assurance i the answer will be encouraging. This would be a dreary world if there was no bunk in it and i since the supply w so large it I seems a bit peculiar to discriminate ; against one kind or variety even ! though it be spread by a smelly oldster in bandaged head. MORO. OlÄttiON FRIDÁY, NOVEMBER ,27, 193« now on sale at the Moro post office. They can be bought in sums from B5c to >4.12. The government pays 4 per cent interest on these, the same as bonds. ____ _ ___ Leon B. Strong and Miss Lillian Rosier were married at the home of the bride’s parents in Livings ton, Montana, on Wednesday^ No vember 28th. Mir., Strong is a son of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Strong. Mrs. Geo. DeMoas and son El bert were visitors ? in Portland Wednesday in attendance at the Ysyye concert at the Heilig. El bert’s first teacher on the violin was Louis Persinger, who was a student of the celebrated Belgian walinmt. Mrs. Annie McDonald from Hard man, Oregon, is visiting with her son Neil and family. Proceeds realized by the Dorcas society from the bazaar and din ner given last Saturday, including cash donations, totalled $204.40. Of this amount >69.40 was realized from the church. the name Moro came about in this manner: A group of ladies gath ered dne day by accident in the warehouse which was alongside the main road at that time. Amon^ NOTICE OF OFF ER OF LAM1NI IN SHERMAN COUNTY, ORE GON, FOR GRAZING LEASE • Pursuant to the order of ?the Secretary of the Interior, dated August 29, 198«, and to the provi sions of section 15 of the act of June 28, 1934 (48 Stat. 1269). com monly known as the Taylor Graz ing Act, as amended by th e act ap proved June 26, 198« (Public, No. 827, 74th Congress, notiae ia hereby, given that aU of tffe vacant, ui>- q* »eterved. and unappropriated pub lic lands located withfo Sherman < County, Oregon, are hereby offered ’’ for lease -for grazing purposes on * j such term« and conditions as may ; hereafter be prescribed. Any and all persons having adveype or con- \ • flirting claims to »uefi lands ' or - J desiring to lease any part thereof ' i. for grazing purposes under author- ‘ ity of said act, must file notice- of...... their claims, or propw grazing lease applications in tt»e United States district land office a t The . .. Dalles, Oregon. Any o o deeiring . to assert a preferonow^ right lease isolated - or disconnected- - < tracts of 760 acres or lees in at- cordance with said act hs amend» ed will be allowed 90 days.^from „J ,^ ; Meets 2d and 4th Tu date of the first publication of this, notice within* which to fife a prop esdays of each month er application for leaeej^ , , Visiting members wel 4-S-6-7 An1 :te Funk, ¿2* come.« . , Acting Cqr tiseioner, Maggie Barnum, N. G. Office. General U I h Hull Date of first publication : N«ov^7, elude, with proper inscription, an inset at the top of a covered wagon in mid-stream „ with the driver mounted on the near ox of the yoke drawing the waogn. Then let a base for the plaque ibe made of cobble stones, such as the immigrants used in their markings, well cemented* together to a,height of two feat or more. As announcement of the plaque at proper distance on either side of the bridge, let two galvanized pipe posts be set near each oth er to accommodate a piece xu sheet’ metal securely fastened to each post. On this sheet metal painted black the word “SLOW” should be placed a t the top And below the words “DES CHuTRS FORD.” Reff should be the letter coloring. Then an arrow should be fastened * ♦ atop of the posts pointing across the stream where the ford is supposed to he. The red painted word ‘‘SLOW** will arrest attention and tJhe words “READ THE PLAQUE AT THE BRIDGE” will cause the plaque to be read. — -- - ■" ■? l upine Rfcbecca Lodge No. 116 Moro, Oegon them were Miss Melissa Hampton, who was later Mrs. L. D. Eaton, Mrs. Henry Barnum, Mrs. Scott, Published Every Friday a« Moro, O r^on. By Mrs. Ragsdale, Mrs. Julius Martin, GILES L. FRENCH Managing Editor Hugh and John Scott and I>dru Barnum, then a small boy. Names were chosen by each of them and dropped into a hat. Miss IN ED Hampton drew out Moro, which was also her selection. Thus was the little settlement named* and - o when the post office was establish Entered as second-class m atter a t the Posiortiee, at Moro, Oregon, ed it was given the same name. under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879 . , • ' John Scott was the postmaster SUBSCRIPTION RATES—PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. when the government designated Î1 5 0 One Year ...................... •* _______ Moro as an official office in the STATEHOUSE GOSSIP NOVEMBER 27, 1936 spring of 1884. He- was followed _(Continued from page one) by W^ H. Williams, who also surance that they will drop their owned a hotel, Mrs. Dora Williams DESCHUTES FORD Twenty-two new text books for burden of moisture on our fields. and then by John f’arry, civil war use in the public schools of Oregon This week we are publishing the Mayhap this seemingly endless veteran, who served many years final article by C. W. Barzee on of ciear, cloudless, bright, wore approved by the State and was relieved by Robt. Urqu- the Deschutes ford of the pion- unseasonably warm days will end Textbook Commission at its bien hart. nial meeting here this week. Most eer days. Mr. Barzee is leading with with th€ air fun feathery The town was incorporated in a movement to have some respon- gnow to bring the peace of bene- of these books will be used as baa- 1899 after an attempt to give it a al texts although a few are for sible agency place a marker along after months of prayer, charter had failed in 1897. It ihe highway, calling attention to But> and this is an afterthought, supplementary use. The new texts liad been chosen as a county seat include language, writing, history, thefW d in commemoration of Ihe we should not leave the “ Ancient in 1892 by a vote of the people men and women who riskedr thei Mariner*’ and perhaps should not and civics in the elementary grades of the newly formed county which lives and possessions tc cross the ente.. tf,e holiday season next and orientation, world history, had come into being in 1889 and Americaiudustory, general mathe turbulent river and continue their month without reading the finest had been increased in size in 1891. matics, Elementary science, biolo march to the settlements in the words ¡n the poem: The railroad came in 1898 and gy, phyiidb and home economics Willamette valley. ¡ “He prayeth well, who loveth well a water company was organized for the high school courses. Adop With his endeavor weoran have Both man and bird and beast. in the same year. In the mean tion of the new texts does noti Some weeks ago when we pub no dispute. One who crosses the necessarily mean that books now lished historical data regarding the time churches had been built, lod- He f>rayeth best, who loveth best sturdy bridge that spans the rive» All things both great and small; in use will be discarded immediate founding of other towns in the g«<s and social elube organized, and looks upstream to the riffles *** stores started, a cemetery set aside Bethlehem Changer. No. 78. O. E. S. 1936. that characterize the river in it« For the dear God who loveth us, > ly, C. A; Howard, state superin county written by those who took from the grass land northwest of Moro, Oregon tendent . of public instruction ex part in the Sherman county his He made and loveth all.” last 50 miles will immediately feel town, a newspaper bought and M eets Every Second Estate of Charles Franklin Faltaa. plained. The practice now follow torical contest the Tequest was a hearty respect for those pion vourth Thursdays in each NOTICE TO CREDITORS cd in most Oregon schools, ac made . by several whose age en moved in by Moore Bros, and Hos eers who braved the unknown ford, who was the first editor. lonth. Visiting membert No. 355 ABOUT MR. DORE cording to Howard, is to place titles them to be known as old water to reach the western side luvited. Aiound it, as is- true of any the new books in use only when timers of Sherman county, that In the County Court of the State Let such a man picture himself, | Ordinarily the attempted recall E ther Morris. W. M. other town in the present wheat the old books need replacing. of Oregon for Sherman County. we publish a history of Moro. accompanied by family and entire of a mayOr of Seattle would not • • • • Rose Amidon, Secretary. belt, has gone on one of the great Notice is hereby giv n that the possessions, three thousand hard caU8e mUch comment outaide of Without trying to search the or est developments of the age: the Uncle Sam will pour >768,000 undersigned has been appointed miles away from home, one of a that turbulent city. 'Recall at- iginal records in proper manner as change from cattle and horse herds Eureka Lodge No. 121 A-F & A-M Administrator c. t. a. of the es of new money into Oregon during band of such travelers, coining to tempts are almost to be expected the’ n e x t 't w o 'y « « histo™ln the following trailing through knee-high grass * Moro, Oregon ■ tate of Charles Franklin Fulton, the east bank of the Deschutes and there. However, the recall pro- dependent children, «cordin g to Meet» the 1st and 3rd “ wr!tten ,0.me ,n: to far off jnarkets to the bark deceased, by the County Court of viewing the picapect of. reaching ceedingg against Mayor Dore are Budget Director Wharton. The: f«>™>ation about the early days of Thursday evenings of of modern tractors tilling the soil the State of Oregon for Sherman the other side without loss of life a bit different in that the resul federal fund will have to be match- Much ° f the each mon.h. Visiting County and has qualified. to produce wheat, still, however, and property. tant election may prove to be a ed by both the state and the conn- J“ " 1» contained comes from the for a market too far away. The memhers cordially in All persons having daim s a- On one side was the uncrossable test of strength • betweeV» the ty government, for an ^ . « . t e viled to meet with us gainst said estate are hereby notifi town has followed and its deal Columbia. On the other the grass forces of militant labor and the of >2304,000 aill of which will be fished in 1905, copies of whjj;h ers now sell tractor parts on the H. B. Pinkerton, W. M. t , ed to present the same duly veri covered hills, with the roaring public that has been paying for spent in caring for dependent are in possesion of many Sherman same locations where early day C V Belknap. Secv. fied as by law required to. the un Deschutes coming from a narrow the cost of labor wars for some children, either in the hemes of county families , merchants sold horse shoes and dersigned at 514 Porter jfailding, Moro Lodge No. 113, I. O. O. F channel between them. Determi months. their own parents dependent on I The first settler in what is now bull whips. Portland, Oregon, within six Moro, Oregon nation to go on would not permit The mayor of Seattle has been relief for support, or in foster known as Moro was Henry Bar- months from the date hereof. a return and a shortage of sup- openly in favor . of JJat laborers homes. The fund is expected to num who built the house now oc- Meets 1st and 3rd Dated and first published, No plies, common at that stage of the anj the strikers. That is, of take care of 8000 children on the, cupied by W. J. Martin, jr. in OREGON TRAIL CONCLVDED Tuesdays in the - vember 20, 1936. ♦ ** overland journety, would not per course, his privilege. Now it is to basis of >12 a month. Many of 1868. He was a stockman who Continued from page one. I O.O.F. hall, Tran Date of last publication, Decem mit delay. be decided by popular vote wheth these are now being cared for in owned a band of horses and pas sient and visiting ber 25. 1936. The suggestion of (this plaque is No one looking at it today could er such a man may continue to state aided institutions brothers are cordi while tured them on the rolling hills no idle dream of the writer. As I W. M. Huntington doubt that many a hasty consul- fill the office of mayor. ally invited to neel otherR are receiving direct relief of the then named Grass Valley have crossed and and many times Administrator c.La. taticn was held on that bank and with us. Women are said to be among The fund will be administered by country. Some of his bank fences- recrossed this stream my memory Huntington, WHson A Davis, that many prayers were said be the leaders of the movement to the State Relief Commission thru can still be found near .the town. wings me back to the multitude of Lewis McKee, N. G'. Attorneys > - . fore the oxen were forced into oust Dore. Women were the first the State Child Welfare commis Joe Truit, Secretary He was married about that time hardships endured by those early the cold water and the current be to protest againat the closing of sion which will pass on the eli to Elmira Massiker whose parents Pioneers who made Oregon and gan to swirl around the wagon the Seatlle newspapers that threw gibility of children to thia aid and lived west of Wasco and had been Washington what they are today. their husbands out of work. select the homes in which they are m o n g the very first settlers in T>ne debt of gratitude in the placing t»»H»iw»«mm«H»nmnii»HnnniiiwwiB nmnawaBG>B— wheels. the country between the John Day of this Plaque properly belongs to - ' . It was one of the major hard Perhaps there is something to the to be cared for. • • • and the Deschutes rivers. the two states. It seems to me ships of a brave journey, a journey stories of feminine fear of danger No more habitations were built there are none who would refuse Secretary of State Snell has an- that has been rung and pictured to their families if labor wars nounced that he will recommend near him for fifteen years and few to add their little mite to this but can never be sufficiently im continue. ~— pressed on the descendents of thos* Anyway there is apparently an the repeal «of the >10 license fee persons came to the county. Bands great project. who made it. They saved the west active element in Seattle opposed on pick-up cars when the legis of cattle and horses roved over the The reader is asked to pardon my lature meets. Much injustice has hills unhampered by fences. Stock- return to fording the Des Chutes for America and their will to do to further labor domination. resulted through enforcement of men of olden days still recall that river. It is an event in my life as for themselves has been the high this act in the opinion of Snell who the grass grew to the horses knees. related to me never to be forgotten. est American concept until today. « TRAILERS Among the men who owned the points out that thousands of the Ascending the steep hill west of stock of the county at that time the Des Chutes, instead of turning In different parts of the east cars subjected to this higher fee WHO SHOT THE ALBATROSS? were the Fultons, Barnum, the to «the right near the top following are nothing but old cars with a they are debating and pondering Finnegans. Sherear, Cornwall and down near the Columbia river the box ‘bn the back while pleasure A friend, whose reading has the question of what to do about Gordon. Settlers for the Willam trail led up over the highest hill cars of much heavier construction been extensive, dropped in this auto trailers. Does the state tax week to inquire who had shot the them or not? May they be park escape with the payment of a >5 ette valley came through the north top and descended to a crossing on end of the county bound for a what is now termed Fifteen mile. fee. ' albatross. He drew a compari ed indefinitely? greener land, the valley settle It was the custom necessarily son between the famous story by In Oregon, for instance, automo Library workers of Oregon have ments were increased in population made to avoid upsetting wagons Coleridge whose .hero caused « biles are not put on the tax rolls cessation of wind, and the un and, presumably, neither are trail contributed more than >200 in also by families who came up from on etefcp Hitts and mountain sides known person or condition that has ers. Therefore if a family wishes cash toward the purchase of refer- California until that country be to go straight up and straight apparently caused a cessation o1 to live in a trailer—and it is pda ence books for the Bandon public! came too crowded for the more down. The Barlow route across library which was completely de- adventurous and they began to the Cascade mountains is marked «nttn: rainfall in these parts. sible in this climate—the • owner stroyed in the recent fire, accord spread out to Eastern Oregon. The by logs having been tied behind You remember, reader, about the thereof may rent a b it of ground in g to Mies Harriet C. wagons and rings about trees Ancient Mariner who stopped the along the roadside and camp for wedding guest to tell him of his as long as he pleases. He will pay librarian. In addition to these j gtockmen between the two rivers w here w-agons were let down steep cash donations seyeral large book was at an en(j. hills by ropes and chains, oxen hav wierd sea story. An albatross is no tax. publishing companies have also, homesteaders came into the ing no breeching harness to hold a large sea bird that was credited It is estimated that many thou made donations o f encyclopedias country to file on the w ater holes back loads. s in times past when ships were sands of people are on the move and other reference books. . a r j fence the grass covered sod, Because of this hill top climbing smaller and superstition more rife every summer and that more and • • * merchants and traders-also came Immigrants failed to see the most with aiding ships along by the more of them are buying trailers Oregon's open fall season h as; to. supply them with their wants, beautiful natural scenery in the power of its wings when most preparing to lead the nomadic life had a healthy effect on the state’s Liking company, perhaps, or think- whole northwest, the Celilo falls likely it was merely following the permanently. As long as they gasoline tax revenue. Oregon mo- ing it a nkely place for a business from the bluff south of the Colum ship to feed from the sailor s keep moving they will pay some torists, including the tourists in venture Fox, Scott & Co. built a bia. This beautiful scenic view is bounty. - At any rate the mariner’s thing to the state through the gas our midst, consumed a total of 19,- building on what is now the bank now marred to its ruin by the ship was doing well - tax, but when they stop at a like 693,428 gallons of gasoline during corner ¡n Moro and hauled in a Great Northern rail road bridge, “And a good south wind sprang ly town and send their children to October on which they paid sta te1 atock of groceries and supplies. which was built in hasty competi up behind; school while their trailer is park taxes totalling >984.671—>120,000 In a few years Fox sold out to tion and is now but little used. It The Albatroe« did follow. ed in a vacant lot the residents more than was collected from the fe. O. McCoy and the firm of Owen should have been preserved in its And every day, for food or play who pay for the teacher, the up same source in October, 1935., Scott and (Dutch) McCoy operated natural beauty «to our posterity. Came to the mariners’ hollo!” keep and the bonds on the school as a pioneer firm until they sold While thus giving a brief review Then, you recall, the Ancient house may be a bit aggrieved over out in 1897 to Moore Bros. of the family trip across the Great Mariner shot the albatross and the situation. Scott & Fox also bought some Plains, as they were termed, let the fortunate conditions ’ ceased land when they came in . . and . divided me say that on the night fol- forthwith— it into lots, there being six blocks lowing our arrival at Salt Lake of ten lots each. That is the or- f rom i owa, a pair of twin “Down dropt the breeze, the sails BARNUM WAS RIGHT From the Observer Nov. 29, 1907 iginal townsite of Moro. John; boys were bom to our mother. This dropt down, Those who look into the crystal L. A. and Frank Olds have Tw as sad as sad could be; bowl and tell the anxiously await bought the popular harness and Scott built a residence in town. ended our journey for that year and And we did speak only to break ing customer the secrets of his or saddlery business of L. W. Shanks O. E. Leet and J. B. Mowery s e t-} wg wirvtered in Utaib The Mormon By using our new Deposit-by-M ail Envelopes, you’re ss close The silence of the sea!” especially her future have had > of Grass Valley. Mr. S. expects to tic I near, E. J. Rollins put up a denomination became very obnox- stopping place that was the first ious our folk8 TKey decided to to this bank as your nearest mail box. And for a more accurate com bad year in Portland for the min remain with them, possibly until Moro Hotel, Ragsdales moved to tbe first train going west parison with the dry conditions ions of the law have hounded them the first of the year. W e have adopted this improved, modern system of town, Somers & McKenzie put up wbich was a freight train bound now felt in this country because out of their red velveted rooms ■ G. N. Crosfield is the manager a blacksmith shop to patch the ^or ing-by-M ail especially for those living some distance from mine« with provisions. Our of the hesitancy of the raindrops and held to scorn their most dear and «principal owner of the new freighters wagons and shoe their folkg learned of the terror or tow n — and for others who desire to save time and effort. ly obtained information. to fall— merchfuitile house in Wasco, the horses, John Landry, also a black- Danites who worked for Brig- The envelope provides a receipt o f deposit which is promptly Now certain of them protest outgrowth of the Hamilton Co., “And ever-y tongue, through utter smith moved in and built a home, Young and was glad for the that the American people are even succeseôrs to W. M. Barnett. returned to you. ’ drouth, Later R. J. Ginn sold out his store opportunity «to go on to Oregon as Barnum said they were ana Was withered at the root; Frank Comstock has completed at Biggs and opened - a hardware where some of our folks lived. An So, when you find it inconvenient to come here to the ° We could not apeak, no more than that no discrimination should be his wrork at the Coffin Stock Farm and ’implement store. other family accompanied us, be- made against any one class en bank, just remember that the bank may be easily,'quiddy, and returned to Portland. Mrs. if The town grew as the country a brother in law of our father We had been choked with gaged in fooling the public. There Bruce and. her son Frank Miller, became settled and the demand wbose wife gave birth to a pair of safely reached, by mail. Call or write for leaflet fully describ is wisdom in their remarks. ' soot.” who is the mahager of the farm, for services increased. Along about twins on the beach-boat landing at ing this simple, practical plan to tavfyou r time. We allow an indff»a singly large reside there. (And our visiting friend wonders 1883 it was named, and in amost The Dalles. The (w^gons were put John Carmody sports one of the peculiar manner. With the larger aboavd the boat * and- my father if perchance some one unwittingly group of rabble rousing politicians C. R. H arding..................... .............M anager has not ^ahot the albatross” or in to tell >the people things that oft- nobbiest turnouts in Portland, all number of residents the need of a ¿rove the stock down the Indian purchased in Moro and vicinity; times prove an anlaysis to be other ways incurred the wrath of name became more pressing and. trail >on the south bank of the Col- L . 4 . L ittle to n ..................... M anage. the water sending gods. Be that drawn frotn the same hat as the a fine pair of roadsters, purchased no doubt, it was a lively topic of umbia river. - These are some of the as it may, the mariner eventually most far flung ^prophesies of the by him while here last summer discussion for several weeks before hardships endured by the rugged got out of his trouble and was re mediums, and- we defy Anyone to fromM to which was fitted a first the actual christening. pioneers who made Oregon their turned safely to England although stop them from saying their say class harness from the Heydt es o f th e It is said that Owen Scott came home. hia sfcnity was a matter of ques A fter all, ’tis only human to tablishm ent, set off with a rubber from Moro, Illinois and that one I now take the liberty to offer tion thereafter. Perhaps we too like to be fooled if the words arc tire buggy from the L. R. French Truelove. who did some of the let- suggestions of my meditation s o n H e a d O jfica, P o r tla n d , O re g o n will some day re-enter the happy encouraging and hopeful. If the Implement Emporium. ter writing for Scott & McCoyu design for the plaque and its an- I fZ M B B a F E D S 1 A L D B P O 8 I T IN 8 U B A N C B C O B P O B A T IO > r state when clouds may be seen over agitated .maiden can be assured From the Observer NoK 30, 1917 . wished to have a short name given nouncement to all travelers, the western horizon with full aa- that she will meet the dark and Let the design of the plaque in- War revenue savings stamps are the place. The actual selection of » Origin A nd Naming Of Moro Related ^lí)aClcÍL-Ci(utíiÍui ! ha i/. 11 - COMPLETE LINE OF Groceries, Toiletries, Remedies Tobáceo Sundries TRADING CENTER For Sherman County People o r ii In Other Days v T he D alles B ranch U nited States N ational B ank Ì X * 4 * ■a’
