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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1936)
page TWO IM E $ Ü E K H a > CUtlATY JOMtNAL, MORO. ORJ ì A j OS * FRIDAY. DECEMBER 25 1936 /Max Belshe, road WR* S4-60 i that Saturday, the 2nd day of Ja»t COUNTY COURT STATEHOUSE GOSSIP THE MAN TO r» E. L. Weld, Surveying road 2.50 uary. 1967» 10 o d o ck #. fe. (Continued from paga one) (Continued f rom page one) WHOM NOTHING G a PPBNED Tutp'a-lum dumber Co., road raid dav. day, a t the tha Courtroom. at the dike and mileage 4 .^ 7 - supplies 1L95 Courthouse,' in Moro,. Sherman mission fpc the current year show By Willis J. Douglas 1H K 8 Jle tossed restlessly upon his bed. C. J. Thompson, Chairman UHFRMAN COUNTY OBSERVER. Establish«« Nov. 2. 1* a decrease of approximately three Geo. A. Potter, road expense 3.95 County, Oregon, haa bean fixed by ' GRASS VALLEY JOURNAL. 1 tablished Oct. 14. 1897 Mctnkland Precinct A mile per cent below the 1935 figures In his weary mind the shifting 67.30 said Court as the time and place age . ' . .•/< . T O ’8! L. L. Peetz, road labor CONSOLIDATED. MARCH C. ¡931 according to a report released by shadows of memory brought a con Clare Axtell, road labor > 87.92 for h c a r in g o f objections to said WASCO NEWS-ENTERPR1SU, Established 1891 Final Report and Account and the the tax commission thia week. Local fused picture of the. eventless, ted Geo. N. McDonald, Judge Monk- Elwood McPherson, road . CONSOLIDATED MARCH 4-, 1932 land Precinct settlement o f said estate. assessments shrunk from $761.129,- ious day just passed: those hate labor Etta Morford 734.32 to $736^84,760.06 due in ful, arrogant publicans, tax gath D. L. Belshe, Clerk Monkiand Joe Weatherford, road labor 34.32! , Published Every Friday at Moro. O ^eon. By 5.88 Bill McDonald, road labor Managing Editor ers, demanding the best rooms; Precinct part to forecloures on tax delin 69.32 Geo. G. Updegraff GILES L. FRENCH wr G. Hartman, road labor, 29.37 Attorney for Admmmtratrig quent property by the counties and the cuising, sweating camel-driv Wilford Belshe, Clerk Monkiand Precinct 6.88 Max Williams.- road labor 27.12 Dec, 4, 11, 18, 25, 1986. in part to a general deflation of ers carousing in the caravansary land values. Utility valuations that Jew and his sick, wife pleading T. S. Reese, Clerk Monkiand 5.88 McKean & Searcy, gas and sup Notice Of Final Settlement. ; dropped from $162,941,886.52 in for a room. .Precinct ~~ plies for roads “Fah! Jews-! The place was over 1935 to $156,423,247.58. Notice ia hereby given that tha Clyde Smith, Chairman of Rut nenuricK Dunlap, road labor 46.30 if a pool ¿eduction In local assessments run with them noyy. ledge and mileage 6.36 J.-E. Brown, road supplies 24.83 undersigned has filed in the County are shown in every county with man had nothing else to woriy Jas. W. Blagg. Judge Rutledge Court of the State of Oregon for Entered ^as second-class matter at the Posudtice, at Moro, O regon, Roy Barnett, 1 load bridge about than to have mid-wives an<. three exceptions. Crook. Curry Sherman County hie Final Report 17.00 - Precinct 4 under Act of Congress of March 3. 18«9 timber and Sherman counties show a slight doctors and gaping visitors undei- D. L. Reynolds, Clerk Rutledge and Account, ae Adminiatrator , Jas. Blagg, road labor, and SUBSCRIPTION JRATEfcF ^ ' Ù0 ^ 2Î}.. inerease in assessed valuations footU Ah ham,—-ah» was in a bat 11.00 with the WIU Annexed of the Es-- Precinct ~ r 4;66 team' One Year .......... Morrow county valuations dropped way—well, it ’s no concern of mine. Harold D. Eakin, Clerk Rutledge - U te of Amanda Ellen Martin, de 1< C. Axtell, burning weeds Better get seme sleep, tomorrow's approximately 25 per cent from DECEMBER 25 1936 ceased, and that Sgtnrdsy, the 50.40 Precinct » 4-^ and' labor county roads 1935 levels. . Clatsop county valu a busy day, they all are. Nothing L. D. Eakin, Clerk Rutledge Pre 16th day of January, 1937, at ton Tum-a-lum Lumber company ations are 18.72 per cent lower else ever happens around here, monopoly of water shipping. o’clock a. m. of said day, at the cinct road supplies 23.00 COTTONWOOD and Marion county valuations are nothing but work.*’ Courtroom, at the Courthouse^ m J. C. Freeman, Stamps for mail He couldn’t know that the Sav G. L. Hoskinson, Chairman Kent 6.80 per cent lower than in 1935. Fanners of Gilliam county who ing road warrants 6.00 Moro, Sherman County, Oregon, CHRISTMAS Precinct 6.66 Utility valuations in Marion and iour was to be born that night. live near Cottonwood grade have have been fixed by the Court as the National Hospital Association In this part of the worldly sphere Sherman counties shrunk by 13 There was no way for him to know. J. C. Wilson, Judge Kent Pre been working steadily this win road employees protection 20.20 time and place for hearing of ob- 9.01 cinct and mileage ter for recognition of that road it is customary to picture Christ per cent.. - In the case of Marion The angel Gabriel came to tell ections to said Final Report find between Ajax and Hay Canyon by mas with the ground covered with county the reduction ia accounted Mary and Joseph Of the miracle G. C. Young, Clerk Kent Pre Account and the settlement of said 6.66 Notice of Final Settlement cinct the proper authorities. Tire wheat a coat of fresh snow over which for largely by the sale of the that was to be.' The Star of the estate. WH there is - usually _____, ______ Notice is hereby given that the Myles Elroy Martin. grown hauled to the sleighs filled with happy merry privately owned water utility to the East appeared to tint.'wise men J. L. Davis, Clerk Kent Pre 6.66 cinct the Sherman county station and makers glide to the tune of bells city of Salem, taking nearly $1 and magicians. The Heavenly Choir undersigned has filed in the Geo. G. Updegraff ' the present road is not good by and the hurried trample of hooves, 000,000 of taxable property off the sang to the ahepherds on the hill J. C. Helyer, Clerk Kent'Pre County Couit of the State of Ore Attorney for Estate. 7-8-9-10 6.66 cinct side. There came to the inn-keep- any modem standard. Even the patron saint of the day tax rolls. gon for Sherman County her Final only the appeal of sick and J. B. Coon, Chairman Grass VaT- ,j Report and Account, as Adminis NOTICE TO CREDITORS The highway commission has jolly St. Nicholas himself, is sup- Valuations on tillable lands alone delayed work on the Wasco-Condon posed to travel by a sleek sleigh show a shrinkage of nearly $20,- weary womanhood seeking the un ley Precinct . 8.22 tratrix of the Estate o f Benn All creditors having^ claims -Heppner toad for a long time pulled by a string of reindeer, 000,000 while valuations on town usual boon of a bed in which to-, J. W. Hays, Judge Grass V al-. . Molden Morford, deceased, and againet the estate of Fred Blau, and has just started working be- That is the tradition. Unless snow and city property dropped neatly bear her child. How could he ley and mileage 9-22 deceased, are hereby notified to tween the latter towns. It is the , comes over the hill tops with Lupine Rebecca lx>dge No. 116 $14.000,000. The boom in the lum know it was to be the Christ? He W. Ray Blake, Clerk Grass Val- ‘ present them in proper form to the belief of the Gilliam county men rush and a roar the old gentleman ber business is reflected in an in couldn’t. Had he known who it Moro, Oegon ley Precinct .M * , yndaraigned, the duly appointed. that the section across the John.^who brings the good things of the crease of more than $4.000,000 in was, there would have been room John E. Alley, Clerk Grass Val ''*eets 2d and 4th Tu Administratrix and Administra Day should receive immediate at- day will And the going hard for sensed valuation on timber lands enough, and to spare. As it was, ley Precinct 8.22 tor of the estate of Fred Blau, de esdays of each month ceased, at the office of Geo. G. tention. No one can have any the famous reindeer and further- Valuations on h o n e s, mules, cat tiodh^ng happened :to him.; The Dell Olds, Clerk Giass Valley quarrel with their intention in this more the weather is not the sort tle and swine are also higher than first great Chiistnpid was just Precinct----- -----------_— —¿-JU m L Visiting members wel Updegraff. Moro, Oregon, within matter for the road is in deplor- to suit the heavy ¿oats erf fur those a year ago. another busy day. come. six months from the date of this able ctndition for a state secondary , north pole animals are used to To many people today angels can W. S. Powell, Chairman Moro . notice, to wit: Decemebr 4, 1936. Precinct 11,40’ Maggie Barnum, N. G. road I having. Forty degrees, and pull- Two of the newly elected legis not appear. We are not astrolo E. E. Barzee, Judge Moro Pre Minnie G. Blau Lila Bull. S w re » * r\ It is, however, one thing to want ing over bare ground may m ak e it lators resigned their posts on gers, and so we will not see tho WaU-r L. Blau cinct 11.40. something done and quite another a hard night on the prancing D ane state boards this week in order to star. We live ^hurried, toil-filled Bethlehem Chapter, No. 78. O. E. S Geo. G. Updegraff H. O. Kunsman, Clerk Moro Pre- to get it done. Local agitation er and Blixen. - clear the way for their qualiflea lives. We have to have our rec Moro, Oregon Attorney for Estate. cinct - 11.40 may eventually bring the road to But practical difficulties are notb tions as lawmaker*. Phil J. Brady, reation. We haven’t room nor time Meets Every Second Dec. 4, 11. 18, 25, 1936 Theo. Johnston, Clerk Moro Pre the attention of the highway com -. ing to tradition. It must and wu representative-elect from Multno to listen to the cry of soul-sick Fourth Thursdays in each cinct 11.40 mission but county courts and al-l go on regardless of weather. < mah county resigned as a member humanity. And nothing ever hap Month. Visiting membert NOTICE TO CREDITORS Mae Moore, Clerk Mtoro Pre readv established organisations can I jther hampering conditions, uni of the State Board of Conciliation pens to us. IN THE MATTER OF THE ES luYited. c i n c t s • Ji«4Q do so more easily and probably dren will dance aro u n d the Christ- and Thomas P. Graham, Jr., s^na TATE OF CHARLES H. SCH .Esther Morris. W. M. Belle A. Clothier, Chairman more effectively. It is probable mas trees in thousands of homes tor-alect from Mûltnomah county WARTZ, DECEASED. s. Wasco Precinct .8.19 Rose Amidon, Secretary. that the commission could be .per- and presents will be distributed in resigned as a memler of the Stats NOTICE ia hereby given that Myrtle M. Funk, Judge Wasco suaded to send a “bull-dozer” into profusion whether the ground Welfare commission. Several oth Eureka Lodge No. 121 A-F & . A-M the undersigned ha« been appointed Precinct 8.19 the county next spring to grade covered with snow or .bare. _ tr resignations are expected a3 a Moro, Oregon» administratrix of the Estate of Anubel Fortner, Clerk Wasco the road if there is enough mois- stockings will be filled w ith un r<: ult of a n ilin r by Attorney Meets the 1st and 3rd Oharies H. Schwartz, deceased, by Piecinct 81J ture to make that feasible. The common treats for ever h u n g ry General Van W’nkle that member From the Observer Dec. 28, 1917. Thursday evenings of the County Court of the State ot A marriage license was issued Idah M. Everett, Clerk Wasco county courts and the local mainte- young mouths just the same as H ship on state boards and commis •ach month. Visiting Oregon for the County of Sherman, Precinct nance men could arrange for it Santa’s team could go tripping over sions or employment at a lucra December 26th to George H. Wil members cordially in and has qualified. All persons Belle Clothie.r Clerk Wasco and do the work. hard packed snow. tive state or federal job is a bar cox and Marie Morrison. having elaims against said Estate vited to meet with us Precinct 8.19 Hans Thompson and daughters A large part of the work could Traditionally Christmas is a to membership in 'ne legislature. are hereby notified to present the H. B. Pinkerton, W. M. Clara and Geoigia left Thursday Chas Everett, Return of ballot „ be done with such a machine and time of giving because St. Nicho- Mkme to me at the office of T. C. V. Belknap Ser' boxes from Wasco 1-bO the powder work could be done at las is the patron saint of the day Wealth would become the yard for a visit in California. Miss Lester Johrriwm, Wasco, Ociegbn, any time. Then the road would be and it ’ was his custom, tradition stick by which votes would be dol Georgia will remain in California CLAIMS PRESENTED AND Moro Lodge No- 113, I- O. O. F w»th vouchers andv duly verified PAID AGAINST THE ROAD graded and would only need a sur- tells us, to go about the countryside ed out If the W ittiwer Federation and attend Stanford University. within six months from the date of - • Moro, Oregon Moro theatre on New' Years day, FUND AT THE DECEMBER 2, face to be satisfactory for the pur- in his native Germany and gjve should succeed with its program. this notice. Meets 1st and 3rd pose for which it is used. “ to children at Chrttmas time. We The federation has incorporated in at the matinee and evening shows 1936 TERM OF COUNTY COURT. Dated and first published Decem Tuesdays in the will throw on the. sri’feen pictures Mrs. C. M. Snider, Rent of ma It ia undei stood that there will I put aside our normal selfishness on Oregon under the leadership of a ber i i , 1936. ; - - ;r t I.O.O.F’ hall Tran chine shed 6.00 bo more federal money spent on the occasion and give some present group of Portland citizens, includ of all the boys who';are enlisted Date of last publication, Jan sient and visiting L. L. Peetz, Road labor 58.60 secondary roads thia year than for indicating our friendliness, i t ing John Schroeder, veteran chief in the army and navy. - brothers are cordi uary 8. 1937. several years in the past and this I makes us feel bettor for truly, It Simon Elcock made Moro a visit G R. Axtell, Road labor. 42.42 Mery E. Buoholta clerk of the legislative way» and ally invited to neet condition will make it more proba- is more blessed to give, th a n to means committee. Under the pro during the holidays. ’He was one Elwood McPherson, 'Road Administratrix with us. 52.00 labor ble than otherwise that work can | receive. posal of the federation all taxpay of the first farmers to engage in *T. Lester Johnson, Lewis McKee, N. G. 17.72 ers would be rewarded with an ex cultivating the soil of Sherman E. W. Weld, Road labor, be done on the road. Joe Truit, Secretary i Attorney for Administratrix 'Glint Haight in the Blue Moun- tra vote. Persons paying more county and for years was a r e -. Joe Weatherford, Road labor 38.15 liable threshing machine engineer.; M gtone Road u5or 6.32 „ i tain Eagle calls Santa Claus’ at- THROUGH RAIL RATES I ^ntton to Uncle Sam as a coinpeti- than $50 a year in taxes would His home is now in Portland. 17.50 : Biy McDonald, Road labor have two extra votes and those A recent editorial in the Oregon tor and states that Santa just paying more than $JO0 a year in •Mliss Ida May Johnston was a Union Oil Company, gas for 39.20 Journal calls attention to one I work« one day in the year while taxes would be given three extra Christmas visitor in Moro from 1 roads f Austin-Western Road Meh. possible way of removing some of Unde puts in 366 days at the votes. It is understood that an Huntington. 30.90 the handicaps of waterfront strikes, job. attempt will be made to refer the From the Observer Dec. 27, 1907. | road supplies Mr. and Mrs. Bullard of Mik- p^genaughty Meh Company It is to pass the Pettingill bill and ----- program to the voter« through a 40.95 allow railroads to make through Santa Claus removed the Eddie- proposed constitutional amend kalo were visiting relatives andi road suppnes friends in Sherman fcttunty lasL‘ Shell Oil Company, gas for A Merry Christmas and A,Happy New Year rates in competition with water I Wally episode from the front ment. • • 13.85 week. 1 roads transportation. I nages in jig time. Perhaps young * * * ♦ is the wish we extend to you Mrs. Lot Rust returned Saturday The u anes i ron Works, mad This bill has been bitterly | folks became interested in what While the Democratic, state cen fought by farm organisations ini Jim or Joan was going to give them tnal committee spent only $13,692. from a very pleasant seven weeks supplies 18.00 the northwest and the meetings of I and oldsters began to wonder how 36 in carrying Oregon for Roose visit with her daughter, Mrs. Wat- standard Oil Company, Kero- ’ gene and gas for roads 32.26 the Eastern Oregon Wheat League they were going to pay their Dec velt and Garner, records in the son in The Dalles and her sister are o fte n en liv en ed by a rg u m e n ts e m b er bills and th e k in g ly romance secretary of state’s office revea at University Park. j O’Meara Supply A Imp. Co 338.77 against this attempt on the part I just couldn’t stand the competi that the Republican state central Guy Hoskinson of uKent, stop- j road supplies 13.17 ped in Moro last week to have & Co., road supplies of the railroads to make it possible tion. committee spent more than $57,- c . M. Snider, Rent of meh for them to charge leas for haul-1------I ____ . _ 000 in their losing fight for Landon Dr. James attend his dental needs, before leaving the country for ; shed f or November * ' 6.00 ing freight from Chicago to Port-1 It used to he quite the thing f o r and Knox. land than from Chicago to Baket. I middle aged successful men to Idaho where he intend» to enter Roy Kessifiger road work ~ 49.20 • • • The railroad contention has been I trade in their wife for a younger school. Wilford Belshe, road work and The semi-annual apportionment 23.35 that they should be allowed to one. Mary Pickford may be start- of highway funds among the 86 . Mr. and CJ. .^q^tensen | team work 88.00 make cheaper rates for through ing a similar style for the women counties off* the state and Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Johnston q Adlord, road work complet 24.00 attended the Brock-Spoon wedding Ernest Huston, road work hauls because in that way they —--------------- < . ed by Secretary of State Snell this could meet water competition and There is really no need of Trot week. Under this apportionment at White Salmon. Henry Hennagin came up with retain a larger share of the busi- sky being broke. A man of his ex $800,000 is distributed among the I f w c io if have to be nets. Competition seta the rate | perience in traveling should be counties every six months on a the first snow from Beaverland. say the rail heads. I ccjual to Halliburton. He might basis established in 1931. County to enjoy ï'c /t whiskey! Opponents hold that the service I not be able to swim in forbidden Traffic Cop— Use ypur noodle courts are expected to make a fight rendered should set the »ate and places by moonlight but he has for an increase of this amount at lady! Use your noodle- that the shorter the haul the small I defied a bear, the forthcoming legislative ses- LaJy—My goodness’ Where is it? er should be the charge. F w m l---- — — I’ve pushed and. pulled everything organisations would not object to I This is the time to consider sion. in the car. lower through iwtw but desire low- diose resolution. which.o f“ " | Sevtn hundred automobile driv- er rate, for short haul. also. m en t.. * * ™ f » ™ er £ ^ " i f convicted on vurioua traf Teacher (in geography lesson)— rao«TM< >-|habits at the first of the year, u fic counts in Oregon /«nnrfa When the railroads had a mono• court« Airint during Now can anybody tell rffe where ply on the freight burnnem the (one lives so that the need for rer September, according to reports we find mangoes? law was passed that kept them form seems necessary on the morn- filed with Secretary of State Snell. Knowing little boy-—Yes, miss, from cutting rates in competition ing o f January first it is Perh*P® The list includes 78 drunken wherever woman goes.* ' M c C o r m ic k -D e e r in g with water borne transportation fitting and proper that there be drivers who suffered revocation of »• • a a « a a • i a• «•a » « and by this method killing the grow a change of habit The dark brown their drivers’ licenses in addition « • « • „ • • ■ • ■ • • » a a a a a a a a « < ing business. ___ r taste that comes from g o in g .to to fine« and jail sentence«. Twenty Conditions have changed to some] bod in th e.cold gray dawn will five reckless drivers had their lic A b o u t J a n u a r y F ir s t— W e w ill h a v e extent since that day. Now the] not occur to one who arises at enses suspended during the month. s o m e o f t h e s e T r a c to r s o n h a n d - I f rail roads have no monoply and] that time. are, in fact, losing ground rapidly | ------------------ y o u a r e t h in k in g o f b u y in g a T r a c t o r in the race for the freight business. ] It seems that Chinese war lords Water transportation is receiving| have to sell out once in a while to y o u c a n n o t a f f o r d t o b u y w it h o u t subsidies from the government and | get money to pay the troops. In s e e in g t h is tr a c to r . locks and dams are being built to feet soldiers have been known to facilitate the shipment of goods by pawn their leader for a few pence The water. Trucks fill the state built | apiece. It is said to be one of the .n highways and have already taken worst dangers of the generalship a goodly share of the lees than | in China. C h is m a ”*»» n i l Û til& l t i i l i i l l I F tl-M I ¿Btfjenww (Count» Bourrai In Other Days j //la lÁ tt .Groceries,. Toiletries, Remedies Sundries - - Tobacco TRADING CENTER For Sherman County People C O M IN G ! C O M IN G ! BW ) tofcS £Ä . tesssrû: : C O M IN G ! fhB new T035 Diesel For Comfort and Security *> ' Arvin j-jeaters It ia not so important as it was I The Sherman county farmer likes twenty five years ago to curb th e]to have his Christmas present in power of the railroads and it may [ a liquid form. If you don’t believe be necessary to help them if they it listen to the remarks about the and each of those who help are to Temain. Of recent years we | Christmas rain. build it wish to its readers and have become almost entirely de- _______ ______ . ____ _ _____ ■— -•’■■--t. - pendent on coastal shipping fori The next big event after Ohrist- friends a very Merry Christmas. tbe movement of grain from the] mas will be the rush to get a few Pacific northwest to southwestern dollars of the legislature for the ports. Now that type of shipping | favorite frenzy, Mr». A. S. Johnson has become embroiled in a fight Orval Thompson that baa stopped business entirely.] There may be those who cannot Giles and Lela French Wo chocked the k railroads from enjoy Christmas with bare earth Irjllfeg d^wyetltion a few years ago. | and temperatures of around forty perhaps it would be well now to and forty five, but we contend that give them the poww to check tho* It beats a'blizzard. You will be surprized at the size and specifications of this late and highly refined model crawler type McCor mick-Deering Tractor. 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