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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1937)
e 1 - 7/ THE SH ERMA N county journal . moku . OREGON FRIDAY JANUARY 16, 1937 =S==X = STATEHOUSE (¡OSSIP (Çontinued from page o n e ) __ n b * ’«cl btate debt, totalling $50.586,810 "sHEBM AN-COUNTY OBSERVER Established Nov. 2, 1 S88 ranks second. County debts total GRASS VALLEY JOURNAL, Established Oct- 14, 1897 424,609,806.63; sriool districts, $19* CONSOLIDATED, MARCH 6. 1931 012;760.62;- irrigation * district», WASCO NEWS-ENTERPRISE, Established 1891 $12.363.676.44; port districts, $7,- CONSOLIDATED MARCH 4. 1932 569,214.68; drainage districts, $1,- Published Every Friday at Moro, Orp-ron, By 978,369.61: water districts, $1.067,- Manairing Edito»- GILES L. FRENCH 320.60; highway improvement dis tricts, $105,000. .. M Bond issues account for $179,- 126.937 of the public debt in this EDI state, but outstanding warrant» a s 1 of last July 1 totalled $15,009,608. Holman’s compilation shows that the state has reduced its debt load Entered •» eeconJ-claM metter e t the Kos,office, et Muro, Oregon. by $14,000,000 since 1928 when it under Act of Congress of Marcò 3, 1879 leached its peak while the cities SUBSCRIPTION RATES—TAXABLE IN ADVANCE. $160 have whittled $12,000,000 off their One Year ......... debt load in the past four years. JANUARY 15, 1937 School district» owe ' $5.000,000 less than they did in 1932 and Jhe BOUNCE load of irrigation districts has been GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE Much has been made of the reduced by more than $5,000,000 The governor’s message to the since 1930, largely through refi legislature of Oregon will be grate statement that the princess of nancing with federal aid during fully received by the people of th t Holland who was recently married the past year. ' . state, if a bit of prophesy may be has “bounce.” She is 27, large and While the gross debt of the permitted. The governor does not of a size and shape that would be state and its subdivisions teimed fat in this country where vagktwü j&jerjnan (Courttu Journal notice of sale On Thursday, the 18th day of February, 1987, at the hour of 10:00 a . » . at the front door of the County Court House in Moro, Sherman County. Oregon, I will offer for sale and soil at auction to the highest bidder for easn, the following described real property located in Sherman County, Ore gon, to-rwit: Louie Sather returned to Kent Commencing at a point Fifty Monday from Portland where he . (50’) Feet W est o f ’the North had been with his son Jack who east corner of Block numbered- had an operation on his leg January Five (5) of BIGG6’ SECOND 2nd. Jack has had a lame leg for ADDITION to Wasco, now - the past twq, years, but is now im City of Wasco. Oregon, a e, -'. proving cording to the plat of-said ad- •- dition as the same appears-of'.: r J. L. Davis, and daughter Evelyn record in the office of the Coun were business visitors at Moro ty Clerk fa and for eaid Coun- Monday. ty of Sherman. State of Ore George Wilson fo Fossil, was gon; running thence West One • here on business Friday of last Hundred Fifteen (115’) Feet; week. t thence South One Hundred Kent folks who attended the Fifteen (116*) Feet; thence funeral of O. A. Ramsey at Moro East One Hundred. F ifteen Sunday were: Mr. and Mrs. iR, P. (115’) Feet; thence North One • Barnett, Mrs. G. L. Barnett, Mr. Hundred Fifteen (Ll6’) Feet and Mb’s. Theo, von Borstel, ant to the place of beginning. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Holmes. Said sale is made uhder execu tion issued out of bhe Circuit Sheriff C; C. Wilson of Moro Court of the State of pregón for at Kent Thursday on business. the County of Sherman to me di Karl LMrson of Portland was a rected In the case of “Home Own Congratulations are hr order and the four lucky ones felicitate each other as the camera click«. They are four collegians selected for Rhc<Je« .Kent visitor Saturday., ers’ Loan Corporation^ a corpora scholarships from the middle Atlantic district. Standing are Harvey Well Tourists were housed at several tion incorporated under.the laws of man (left), of Perry, N. Y.. student at Cornell univers/y. and Ne son fa»-m homes in the Kent vicinity the United S u te s of America, Leonard, of Mt. Vernon. N. Y„ a student at Lehigh. Sif.irg—Rooert Han- Thursday also a large number put plaintiff, vs Margaret Tuel et al, man. of Plainfield, N. J., attending Yale, and Jancea R. Gardner, of up at the Kent hotel, due to the defendants.” The purchaser at Baltimore, Md., of Swarthmore. snow being drifted so travel was said sale will be placed in immed iate possession of said property impossible. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Davis and and the whole thereof. recti In past LEGISLATIVE NEWS daughter Evelyn and son Warren Dated January 15, 1937. resolution to this eff< ie fMtfl has wer<' <**aner guests at the J. C. Wil First publication January 15. 1937. sessions the overtime (Continued from page one) Last publication February 12. 1937. amounted to the proportions of a man with a bill may be just as son home Sunday evening. haie-brained as the seedy looking scandal. . . Word was received today that C. C. WILSON oldster whose eyes glare with the George Barnett was injured in an •Sheriff of Sherman County, Ore. ______ ____ as he worked in the GALLOWAY A KRIER Another early action of the ses intensity of his feeling that h i s explosion, bill, if enacted, would make people ; ^¿v el pit near Shaniko, sion was designed to help stranded The Dalles, Oregon Attorney for plaintiff. legislative employees as well as happy for ever. Traditionally the first bill pre any legislator who might be short Eugene.— Frederic S. Dunn, of funds. It authorizes the state sented and passed is one to allow Bell Unit professor of Latin and head of the treasurer to make advances on the the money for the session or a classics department of nearly for-, per diem earnings of persons on part of it. To begin with the leg Finishes Clothing ty years, died, Thursday. January the legislative payrolL- Many of islators appropriated $25,00Q for Geo. Bell Unit of the American L7. sifter a three month’s illness. He these are just as “broke” at the end the session and at the close Swill of the session as they were when figure up the total cost and make Legion met at the home of Mrs. was recognized by his students as they started to work for the state. another bill to take care of the Mildred No ton in Kent on Wed a critic of Ripley’s “Believe, I t or différence. Other bills will be slow Not.” Several times (Prof. Dunn coming in and it will be several nesday January 13 with six mem proved “facts” in the field of bers present. days before the important ones Eight pillow covers were com classic» to be wrong. Winners of Rhodes S | ginkinr and believe that more taxes are want tetmea rat m ed nor desirable. He is proud ol P° P l r to »42386.- v _ I s?4 61 debt to a n et of his budget and hopes that it will females is thin. be adopted and he also warned But this bounce business in- $151,250,471.61. Assets of state the members against any serious trigtie9 the curiousity. It may be departments alone amount to more tampering with the laws of the that Julianna is lively and cheer- I th>n $27,000,000. most of this be- state. ful and of a happy disposition or lng p r e s e n te d by first mortgages There will be some new laws, it may mean that she is of the ftn(j reaj property held by the certainly. Every district wants durable type which, like a rubber Wo, | j War Veterans State Aid some changes made and many of ball can be tossed around in almost commission. Cities and towns re- them are desirable. It is constant any fashion and still retain its I por^ sinking funds of nearly $12.- ly necessary to change the rules appearance and vitality. It w<8 pOO.OOO while the sinking funds of under which we work because con certainly meant for a compliment L,cho<>j districts total nearly $2, by the servant who first used it. | 000,000. ditions are always different. The governor made a unique ref Bounce? It’s a brand new ad . , „ erence to the controversy between iective to use in reference to one of William E. Lamb. Oregon s offic- human and property rights. He the gentler sex. We classifjMkdm ial hangmap, who died this week called them “complementary’’ as slim, fat. hot, snooty, classy, in the Veterans hosiptal at Port- which seems to express an idea frigid, snappy, pretty and a lot of land was one of the most mterest- rather neatly. , He rirore 01 less com-1 ing character« this state has ever , perhaps meant . - other things bo th--------- that the ownership of property is UmenUry. But never in a life- known Mild _ _ mannered and one of the most chenshed rights, £ me of deaRng with adjectives and gentle in demeanor as his name which it is. < women have we heard one classi- might indicate he admitted to hav- The phase of human rights versus fied as a bouncer. We would like|ing officiated at the_ Kent Youngster Undergoes Leg Operation Geo. property rights has too long been tQ meet Julianna m order to be more than 700 persons—only one of used by agiators, both high a^|e ftdd another word to the I these a woman—in the nearly 60 years of his experience in this us and low, to arouse emnity between vocabulary. ual and gruesome profession. Most the people who have and those who of Lamb’s hangings took place in have not. It is safe to say that the Philippine Islands where he nothing advantageous to the na« DEATH FOR KIDNAPPING served for 17 years with the United b tion has come from the use of the J t is understood that in the state States army. During the 16 years combined words. of Washington there is a death of ______ Lamb’s employment at the state I are dropped in the hopper. The pleted to be sent to the Veteran’s It is certain that the principal penalty for kidnapping as well as I pr jgon "here he officiated at 15 men handing these bills want to thing to remember in the message for murder. There will be gener Eugene.— An increased demand at Roseburg. hangings. Lamb was a native of do some conferring before writ hospital is the request for caution and con al rejoicing over this, if it be a for university men and women with Seven' girls dresses and four Virginia and was 79 years of age ing the final draft of their bills. servation in the passage of laws some experience in business and blouses were also finished. last September. — ! add to news sent earlier — and the levying of taxes. Govern fact. Plans we e also discussed for a industry in the Northwest was re * * • ! The report that there was seeth- card party which will be held at ported this week by Karl W. On- Crimes like the Mattson one are ment costs have risen rapidly in Liberaxiation of Oregon’s parole I ing unrest at the Oregon house the Legion hall on Saturday, Jan thank, dean of personnel at the of a nature so revolting that no recent years as more and greater caused some merriment among services are asked of government. one can imagine them being per system, increase in the state par University of Oregon. Young ex members who failed to notice much uary 16th. .... As an emergency measure it might potrated by any but an insane man. ole staff introduction of new indus ecutives in business are particular of it during the day. Some of have been necessary, but as a per or one so deficient in the human tries into the penitentiary to pro- ly in demand, he explained. those who opposed Boivin felt bad virtues that his value to society I vide employment foT more prison manent trend it will be destruc tive to many of the institutions was absolutely nothing. The pres- era and the fixing of prison sent- From the Observer Jan. Ì8, 1918 ly about the committee appoint HE’D FEED ENGLAND ments but no one ever gets all he Orvation of ' the useless lives of ences by a board rather than by we have developed. wants—nor experts it. If they such men out of misplaced sympa- the courts is recommended in the Moro Cooperative Warehouse Co As the tax burden becomes great did there would be twenty five or thy is felt to be a mistake by the report of the Federal Pnaon In- er there will be more hesitancy on many who will rejoice at the law dustrics Reorganisation admmis- owned by local farmers, has voted Members of the local Farm W Ui»»v.r« «I.U ...vu vue thirty men on both the ways and f -------- ------ _1 Debt v « to dissolve and merge into the new the part of men to engage In busi 1 tration to Governor Martin this elevator company being formed, i means and highway committees and Adjustment committee met with S. against kidnapping. ness or agriculture with the result week. The ^report based upon During thé là years of its business | nothing would be done.. These jobs! Bailie, district supervisor, Tuesday that monoplies will develop. "survey” conducted by a staff of life, the company paid an an 8% are usually given out to the older ¡to consider a program of work for The governor is sound in his It is reported that. Americans I seVeral “experts’* working for sev- dividend and distributed $2 back men who have had experience and, the new year. Records show that statesmanship in this matter and are reading mdre serious books an d jc, ai months failed to develop any much has .been accomplished by to its stockholders for every dollai it is probably better that way. he but voiced the opinions of the not so much fiction. Perhaps they new ideas in prison reform but paid in. these voluntary groups throughout ( people of the state when he cau desire something a bit more merely endorses measures which the United States. Married at Vancouver. -Wash., on FINLAND’S PRESIDENT tioned against the passage of illy strange than fiction so read what have long been advocated by In Oregon the work has been Dec. 24th, Mrs. Dora Eddy to Mr. considered laws that may result is purported to be fact. divided into two divisions with a Warden Lewis and other prison Edw. Kelso. Mrs. Kelso is. a daugh merely in giving aid to certain supervisor for each. Members of and parole officials. ter of G. W. Brock, a farmer resi classes of people instead of the en the local group Include D. E. Ste , . The federal government plugged tire citixenry. phens, H. B. Pinkerton, Fred Further indications of peace in dent near Moro. Harry Kee has rented part of the a hole in the neutrality law the the House organization were to be Krusow,, C. A. Tom, and LeRoy other day by giving authority to found ¡n the fact that Chas. Leach. C. L. Powell land and is now at Wright, secretary. WEEDS AND WIND stop shipments of war materials of Multnomah county, one of Boiv home in the house at the head ol It is certain that a bill or bills to countries where civil war was in’s opponents presided as chair Harris canyon. • Ex Gob: “And now that I’ve told will be introduced into this legis in progress. Even the federal man over the organization meeting, The dates for the winter festi you I’m goinfe to marry Agnes, lature to permit the formation of legislature over looked that posai and in the further fact that Vernon val short term chautauqua -f o r there is only one thing I have to erosion control unit» in the state bility last year when the bill was Bull pf Union county, another riva Moro has been definitely arranged get off my chest.” of Oregon. They will be similar in drawn. Her Father: “And what’s th at?’’ for the Speakership, placed Boiv for February 23rd. 25th and 26. formation and authority to the in’s name in nomination. Boivin The program will be more interest Ex Gob: “A tattooed heart with present weed law. on his part, made a gracious ges ing than last year. M r.;s’c’s name on it.” Milkmen are said to be install One of the peculiarities of the ture in the interest o f organization situation is that at the same ses ing radios in cow barns to increase harmony in his distribution of the From The Observer Jan. 17, 1908 Mrs. Scallop— Do you favor the quantity of milk. Perhaps tht . sion of the legislature farmers are the short workday and the five day • “V o li. Beutman” or the “Blue I ««gn m en to Eckersley Coyotes have killed 20 pigs for asking for an erosion bill and an week for men? of Clackamas county, one of Boiv- F. A. Sayrs out of 60 head on the H. L. French of London, director amendment to the weed control Danube” would be appropriate in’s tnost outspoken critics, drew Rain Makers Delight Farm. This Mrs. Crabshaw—-I should say muaic. of the newly-created food defense bill that will make it Mess strict not! Why, husbands are around the chairmanship of the committee is a heavy loss. plans department tf the British gov and enforcable. Few of the coun the house and in the way too much on constitution and law. Bull heads Jus. Stewart nas been appointed ernment. currently one of the mokt ties that are harassed by perennial the committee on railways and stock inspector of Sherman county already. important posts. With war clouds weeds have, invoked the weeu law transportation. Hyde is a chair a voluntary act of the court, upon Lupine Rebecca Lodge No- 116 hovering over Europe, England because it might be used to the man of the committee on elections, a previous 1st class record of the Moro, Oegon plans to stock ita larder to with extreme disadvantage df the farm • President Pehr Evind Svinhufvud j ¿¿a. 1 Oleen was rewarded with the chair- appointee. stand. if neccccary, a prolonged Meets 2d and 4th Tu- of the important commit- owner who had weeds. A law that of Finland whose seventy-fifth birth blockade. A h’j ja reserve of food Miss Hallie Barzee and Mr. . esdaye of each month | on assessment and taxation. says that a man must eradicate or day wa3 celebrated throughout the is to be established “somewhere in Calvin Ingle were united in mar country with great enthusiasm re persristently treat or work peren Leach heads the committee on Visiting members welj mid-England.” probably in ware LAWYER nial weeds, or the county will do game and Hosch is chairman of the riage on the 9th at the home of the cently. He was hailed as the father houses built in worked - out coal come. bride’s parents near Wascof . of his country and praised for mak it for him and charge it to him is committee on utilities. mines. OREGON WASCO Maggie Barnum, N. G. Hog Killing has passed1 again ing a protracted fight for the consti a pretty strong law. * *', • Lila Bull. Secretary tutional rights of Finland against Rumblings of revolt are already at the C. G. Huis home. * The proposed erosion control law Wm. Henrichs has again beert’ czarist Russian oppression. heard In connection with the bud is similar in that it gives authority Bethlehem Chapter, No. 78. O. E. S. get and Governor Martin’s warning appointed Road Master for Sher to the control unit officers to go Alexander Graham Died in 1922 Moro, Oregon “not to rock the boat.” The rumb man county. Having served the on a man’s place and do what ever Alexander Graham Bell, the in Meets Every Second | lings come from members of the cour.ty satisfactorily in this ca they chose to stop erosion by wind Fourth Thursdays in each ways and means committee who pacity once, there are many to wel ventor, died at his summer resi and charge it to the owner. Thai dence, in Nova Scotia, in 1922. Month. Visiting membtn feel that the administration has come him back to the place. some legislation is necessary, there Invited. • : J put them on the spot—as it has. is no doubt. Anyone who has seen Je-is N. Landry, who was called Bjones—Say, old fellow, it’s Esther Morris. W. M. One of these revolters was near! to attend the funeral of his sister. a blow knows that they are harm strange to see you going around Rose Amidon, Secretary. to remark that they might as well Mrs. Calbreath, is now a resident less at the start. Permission to in that old light coat this cold put their official “okeh” on the gov of the stirring and handsome In work blows in the interest of the weather while yous wife is wear community will be granted this Eureka Lodge No. 121 A-F A A-M ernor’s budget and go home except land Empire city, Walla Walla. He ing a swell row fur coat. that if they did they would be winter in some form and associa paid U3 a visit, and the conversa Johnsing-^-Oh, I never get cold. Moro, Oregon tions will be formed to stop the de Meets the 1st and 3rd back again in special session with tion turning upon the recent finan All I have to do is to think of her struction when it begins. Thursday evenings of in 60 days to take care of needs cial panic, he remarked that not fur coat and immediately I start each month. Visiting which had been left out of the one of the five banks there closed perspiring. Snow in the Willamette valley is members cordially in budget and which deserve atten for a minute on account of it, and a terrible thihg. Now they have a vited to meet with ds. tion. No provision, they point out, the weakest of €hc five cashed aj has been made in the budget for $10.000 check one day in the midst’ couple or three inches and are as H. B. Pinkerton, W. M. any major capital outlays. There of the crazy jangle. He} is well troubled about it as if they were dcytf have to be Uv/i C- V. Belknap. S*rv. is no provision for meeting the pleased with Walla Walla completely snowed4 under. It stays to enjoy whiskey! on the roads because there seems Moro Ixodge No* 113, I* O /O . F» rapidly growing population of the new buildings which the state Harold—I can see that Ijpm only VW to be no machinery for getting Moro? Oregon Old Quaker brings yon a barrel off. A winter with snow in it o f quality In every bottle and It Meets 1st and 3rd needs. And much of the grumb a little pebble in your life.»'' * . • ‘ * I ling. strange as it may seem, comes Frances—That’s all. But I wish a real event and one not appre doesn’t cost you a barrel o f money. Tuesdays in the ciated. As you prefer in Bourbon or 'R .y I-O.O.F. hall. Tran. from . legislators who are . regarded you were a little boulder. Ì •lent and Waiting | »’ fnendly to ü w admim.traUon. v------ The Old Quaker Co.. Lawrenceburg. Ind. The reversal of the order of Sam Doc. I’s just bee$ bit by brothers are cordi- in the office of the weath Legislative employees will re a dog. ally invited to meet rt al ceive no overtime pay this session is aa excellent move. For Doctor—Well, well! with usi er of years we have had —unless ’ the lawmakers change rabid dog? Lewis McKee, N. G. M W .A I6 H I W H IS K I Y 'M l »’ W O O » this year we have «»M fa* * Joe Tjruit, Secretary their mind. One of the first meas Sambo— Nas;ah, Doc. lie was juot ures passed in the senate was a plain-hound dog. In Other Days J Debt Adjustment Group Meets T. Lester Johnson For Comfort and Security Arvin Heaters Weed Chains Eveready Prestone wjU • • srLr- y • i. ■ y ' ’ D ID Q U A K E R Foss & Co., 1 : r •-
