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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1937)
I rrTWfwjgtofr. r fam two T U edly will do Main, inestimable ser vice to the working man. They have never done him a lasting ser f b w » « » Cggwty Observer vice by strong arm methods. A * Established N ot . 2, 1888 man who sighns his onion applica Grass Valley Jearaal tion card—or else—is no asset to Established Oct. 14, 1897 the onion bot his ten dollar mem CONSOLIDATED March 6. 1961 bership fee will bay ae much beer Waaee News-Enterprise as if he had asked to join. That ' Established Nov. 1891 seems to be the basis on which men CONSOLIDATED March 4, 1932 are now recruited. - They are co- ____________________ Poblitoed Every F r i d i r i T " ! « « - d> not convinced ------ ~ | c -ncthne «before long, the em- 1 Hoytrs who have been scared and Giles L. French M S « ,.. r_ monthg the-people who; Entered ms second-class matter at. he” «Seen without necessities thro the Postoffice' at Moro, Oregon'picketing Between onions, and the under Act of Congress of March actual laborers who have been kept from their labor are going to de 3. 1879. mand of city, county and state officials and the high and mighty NLRB, that the beatings and win dow breaking be stopped and gov- cmment by illegal farce be ended. I Then the heavy shouldered and i «quart jawed so called labor organ izers can return to the prise ring OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER and wrestling mat from whence thev so unfortunately came. SUBSCRIPTION RATES The present tie op of work on the Payable in Advance ONE YEAR ....................... 1.1.60 Pacific e o u t U caused by a “juris- dictional” dispute which that two big union leaders can DECEMBER 3,1937 not work, Wager and hours for the men are not in the question. Men cannot work, however hungry FARM BILL , their children, for fear o f broken Sherman county farmers who jaw8 ________ gnd cracked heads. It is the take the time to analyse the farm the jungle and must be bill now before the senate will find several things in it not to their . liking. It is possible that many will be I CLIMATE COMMENT in favor of the compulsory fea t-1 Lagt week M A Bun foun(j a ores incorporated therein but it is J hopper jumping around on doubtful if a majority would favor, tfce flgt indicating that the fall had such practices for a long penod of, been eagy ¡naectg M well as M O W . OREGON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3. I W S H U M A N COUNTY JOURNAL. A CHAMP 4-H CANNER JayP rice Tells ; i Early Day • Families IN THE WAKE OF FLOOD day night, 7:80, ynnag people's choir. Thursday, 7:30 p. m., Bible study at the iMhnse. Graaa Valley Baptist Chareh Gerald C. Dryden. Pastor. First Baptist Chareh, Grass Val ley. 10:00 a. m. Bible sehoet Ws ought to reach 66 again. 11:00 a. m. Morning worship— “Christ Pre-. Eminent.” The Lord’s Sapper will ha observed. 7:30 p. m. Evening service—“Thirsty Bools.” Come and accept ChriaL-<«John 3:16. Thursday, 7:80 p. sa. Prayer and Bible Study E p h .-6. The .Bible* school is preparing a fine Christ mas program to be given Sunday n ig h t Dec. 19. Plan to come. Skamania, Wash., Dec. 1st., 1937. Editor Sherman County Journal: Thinking it might be interest ing to the people of Sherman coun ty to know some thing about the earlier settlers of the country, I will give a brief accoqnt of these people. In 1869 or 1860 the Wm. Graham fam ily located, on the east side of the Deschutes rivet'n ear its mouth. The family consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Graham, three boys, and a lot of girls. . A negro, the first one i ever Wasco Methodist Chareh ssw, made his home with them. F. L. Cannell Pastor They sold out in 1876, and moved s t h e r m a a sse n , is , of Lent«, to Dayton, Washington. In the Sunday school at 10:00 a. m. has earned the Oregon 4-H Preaching service at 11 su m. Sub championship in food p r e se r v a tio n spring of 1862 George Mas iker lo on a four-year membership la which cated at Sand Spring, later known ject, “The. First Old Testament •ho canned 1 0 » pints of fru its, as Price’s Station. Beside his wife Missionary” Text Jonah 1:1-1. vegetables and moats; rave • pub Special music by the choir. lic demonstrations and entered 11 there was William, Bather, Char judging contests, winning county ley, Elmira and George. Marty honors In 1017. She receives a trip was born there in 1863. Mr. Masi FULL GO8PEL ASBEMBLY «« ker died in 1863, and hi buried on Sunday School at 10:00 a. m. the old place. The widow and Sam Preaching 11:00 a. m. Sunday and p ions for sectio n a l honors and a 1200 uel Price was married in 1864, and w >. r» . - ■ scholarship, provided w ith other I was bom in 1866. They sold out Wednesday evening at 7:30 p. m. aw ards by th e K err G lass Corpora evangelistic service. Welcome. tion. If su ccessfu l sh e w ill com pete in 1883. Pastor, Mr. Norman. I think it was in 1863 a man for an additional >200, w hich r o e s to the N ational cham pion. named Biffle took up what, was IN THE COUNTY COURT OF This scene 'Was enacted many times In refugee centers established by the known as the Hay Stacks. Later STATEHOUSE GOSSIP Red Cross during the Ohio-Miesisr!?pi Valley flood. Inevitably floods THE STATE OF OREGON Mike and Pat Finnigan owned this bring the danger of disease as drinking sources become contaminated and FOR THE COUNTY OF place and lived there many years. (Continued .from page one) la r j: c are threv/n te g :th rr. T ’- i r ~ ‘leaf-health servlet SHERMAN PROBATE It was probably about 1860 that cent increase allowed by the state Tom Scott operated a ferry on the Of pie Red Crocs c-rves thousands each year, and is maintained by mem DEPARTMENT constitution in order to provide for John Day river at the mouth of berehip fundi conUibuttd to t ;.j crp'.nizatien at the time of its annual NOTICE TO CREDITOR^ growing coats of state government. Grass Valley canyon. He sold out r..¡1 C&U ir t.,i / .. .n k . lc j □ay to Thanksgiving. IN THE MATTER OF THE ES In calling attention to thia situa to D. G. Leonard in 1866. He built TATE OF MAUDE DAVIS, De tion the tax commission warned a bridge, and here w«e the first ceased. that if the business recession con Post office. It was named Scotts Notice is hereby given that the tinues, augmented in this state by P. O. Mr. Leonard operated the undersigned has been appointed humans. administratrix, of the Estate of From the point of this county j Furthermore, just to counteract abor controversies which have shut State Station, and hotel for many Maude Davis, deceased, by the probably the most dangerous part , the stories of buttercups in other down many of the larger indus years. And I think it was in Dec. County Court of the State of Ore of the bill is that which Creeses c|jme8t volunteer wheat in several tries it may be necessary to resort 1877 he was found in his bed shot Christian Science Society production on the previous ten flelds in the county has headed out to a property levy again in 1939. gon, for the County of Sherman, in the head. His wfe was tried for From the Observer Dee. 9, 1898. This is the second time in the murder, but came clear, but every Christian Sconce church services and has qualified. ATI persons hav year periid. This puts a penalty this fall for the first time m the Page A Parry have enlarged the on Sherman county that is not memory of the elders. All of thir state that it has been possible to one was sure she did the shooting. City market by the addition of a are held every Sunday morning at ing claims against the Estate, are fair, for our production was far be- indicates a lack of killing frost waive the state property levy both The Eaton fam ily settled in comfortable and convenient office eleven o’clock and on Wednesday hereby notified to present the same evening at eight o ’clock. The Wed duly verified, as by law required, low normal during that time. If for the part of the autumn, within and without the six percent Spanish Hollow in 1864. Thu place room annex to the meat shop. nesday evening service includes to the undersigned, a t 314 Davis our marketable quota is based on Since thege investors of warm cvy, thanks to the income tax, the is below the town of Wasco. - Mr, McCoy street has built up splen- testimonies of Christan Science Building, Portland, Oregon, with what we have raised in the period dgyg gnd fo rties« nights have been former occasion being in 1932. Eaton was »post master of the sec- idily this year. From L. K. Moore’s h e a lin g s. The re a d in g room is in six months from the date here T e c h n ic a lly , of course, there is proposed in the bill .the county will there has been several nights ondP. O. in that country, called be held to a total production of thftt would chin thç hop out the still a small state levy against Spanish Hollow. Thia was abopt handsome cottage at the south to open daily in the rear of the church of. A. C. Sanford’s cherry home at the bulding, ' where all authorized five bushels per acre less than our *rggg hopper and cause permanent property. That la found in the 1875. Dated and first published Nov. north end, two churches have been Chrstian Science literature may be 26, 1937. levy for elementary schoql pur former average. Now our average ceggatjon of growth in headed In 1866 Jeff Miller had a cattle Last published Dec. 24, 1937. per acre is figured at 16 bushels whegt gut after all it isn’t a bad pose« which is included in the state ranch in Grass Valley canyon about added. H. A. Moore moved in line read, borrowed or purchased. The for the purposes of the government climate in which hoppers hop in levy but which, for all practical seven miles from the John Day. and F. E. Brown’s model sub-base pnAlic is cordially invited to attend Neoma E. Smith, Administratrix. administration and it Was 20 jjovember and wheat heads in late purposes is in reality a county levy He sold to James Pearson. There ment home, of brick nearing com the church services5 and to make Oren R. Richards, Attorney. pletion. inasmuch as the revenue from thia use of the reading room. bushels per acre during the twen fall. were three boys, Will, Jim and IA good deal of Am cropped out levy is retained in the counties in ties, just prior bo the triple A. NOTICE Tom. And two girls, Mary and at the rebate at DeMoss Saturday LUTHERAN CHURCH which it is raised and never goes A return of good moisture con- Hanna. They moved 'to the Big Policies of Thn Liverpool A Lon night. J. F.- Foss was elected to through the hands Of state officals. H. H. Fleckenstein, dtons, which now seems possible, CONGRATULATIONS Bend country in the early eighties edit the Flan-Flap, thata where don & Globe Insurance Company, In an effort to keep . within a Next Sunday, Dec. 5th Lutheran would therefore be of no advantage with a large band o f cattle. Wasco is to »be congratulated future fun will crop out. The ques church service will be held in the Ltd., numbered as follows: 83076 safe margin in their estimate of to the county for the good crops on the organisation of a civic club . Henry Barnum located where state revenues for 1938 the tax tion debated: “Thax knowledge is Grass Valley Methodist church to 83100, in the possession, of that might be prduead could not after several years of inactivity. commission has placed collections Moro is now, in 1867 or ’68, and more beneficial than wealth” wa^ building. German service 10:30; Fanners Elevator A Suoply Com be sold unless drouth or other fail It is difficult to maintain interest from income taxes for that yest named it Seedum Valley. He mar negatived. The question tomorrow English sermon at lf:00 o’clock. pany, Agent, at Moro, have been ure ruined the crops in other parts in comsnuniity affairs throughout lost, mislaid, stolen or issued and at $4,337,704.67 which is approxi ried Elmyra Masiker in 1873. He night is “That Cuba be annexed.” a long period in any event and it mately $1,000,000 below ectual col died in 1884. He had n 0ie first P.' O. DeMm.s affirmative^ J. F Let us he diligent n church atten not accounted for. Notice is here of the nation. dance. It is, for some, the only In mention of the parity price is practically impossible without lections for the current year. In grocery and feed store at that Foss, negative intercourse which they have with by given that this Company denies the bill does not state the market some sort of a community club thus reducing their estimate on place. their God. Church going is not a all liability under said policies In about 1866 a manr named From the Observer Dec. 4, 1908. from which parity is to be figured. where ideas can be presented and income tax revenue«, the tax com drudgery but an exalted privilege. and requests that if any or all of said policies are found, they This probably means that the Chi discussed and action started. mission explained, they were Gould took up a place in Grass E. A. Hoskinson of Kent, re Sunday School 10:00 a. m. Any improvement made, be it in prompted by fears that 1937 in Valley canyon. He died and D. G. promptly returned t^ the Company, cago market will be taken. The port« several new wells of good 201 Sansome Street, San Francis difference in freight rate will con general appearance of the town comes upon which next year’s taxes Leonard got the place. Bill Grant water struck by drilling this sea Comm unitv Pre«hvtcrian Church 4-6-6 demn this part of the nation to re more cohesive communkty spirit or will be based have suffered serious owned it at one time. It was a son. L. L. Bell has one at 100 feet. Lawrence H. Mitchelmore, Minister co, California. A ItAtr vHkn/kk IP n^irvi a a u k u l w i l l he In the town ib a main far under parity for the dura shrinkage principally due to labor 1111 v rmy r <*«i< n. i >i ▼ in J. W. Dbugherty H 2 feet, W. H “Yes, I know the excuses. I and the county and be a source ol' troubles which have closed down the owner now. tion o f the life of the bill. Helyer 114 feet, the hotel well in know that one can worship God NOTICE TO CREDITORS pride to all In the organization. During the early sixties a man town is 140 feet deep. AU persons having claims against The surpluses gathered by the many of the larger saw mills and in a grove of trees, or by the run named Falconer lived where Flecks government to provide the ever- allied operations. Chronicle.—A quiet wedding took ning brook or in a man’s own home the estate of E. C. Thomas,' de Orshard is. Th next owner was place this morning at the parlors just as well as in church. But I ceased, are hereby notified to pre normel granary w ill be released Last week citizens of the county re ■ • • Tom and Jim Jenkins. ceived envelopes containing Christ when the price reaches parity. How of the Gerlinger hotel when Aaron know also as a matter of fact the sent them, with the proper vo'ieh- Prompt to recognize the absur In 1865 Thomas Gordon bought Fields of Walla Walla and Miss average man does not thus wor ers and duly verified, to the under ever, should we have a aeries of mas seals. Income from these wil dity of their original proposal to the Bill Nix bridge which was signed, the duly appointed ad years, and governmental man i pu to a l f g e ex'ent be used to aic pension all aged persons in the about four miles above the mouth Cora Arven of this county, wh*>r ship.”—ex-pres. T. R. Roosevelt. ministratrix of the estate of E. C. the local unit and that which goes lationa, similar to those di the married, Jodge J. M. Filloon, offic 10:00 a. m. Bible school. 11:00 a. state regarless qf need, the Ore very recent past wherein parity to headquarters will be used to gon Merchant’« Legislative League of the Deschutes river. He lived iating. m., Morning worship and song, Thomas, deceased, at the office of on the east side of the river. Gor fight tuberculosis. It is worth was not reached, a surplus would Mrs. Jewell, assisted by Mrs. when the pastor will apeak on T. Lester Johnson, attorney at law, this week filed a substitute and be built up that would be as stag something to have the disease re matrially modified initiative peti don Butte, Gordon Ridge, and Gor Clara Belshee, gave a Thanksgiv “Behold the Star!” or “Preparing Wasco, Oregon, within six months gering and as damaging as it was duced to its present status ant tion with Secretary of State Snell. don Hollow was named for him. ing party, on the 26th. for Chr.stmas.” 7:15 p. m. Eve of the date of the first publication Old man Cornwall located in during the days of the farm much more tc have it eliminate* Miss Emily Anderson will take ning Christian Endeavor unified of this notice, to-wit: Noveipber The substitute petition seek« pri Buck Hollow in the late sixties. He . . -A« It . . „... . - - board when the government held «nttniy. orders for family (baking, pies, service with groups for adult, high 19th, 1937. marily to legalize and license cer lived there several years. H e was Date of last publication, Decem wheat in an attempt to aid the school and . juniornutenmediate cake and bread, by the week or by “Cactus Jack” Gamer is report tain forms of gambling, including alone when he died, sitting in a the piece.* ber 17th, 1937. ages. Beth Mersinger will lead the price. - . nunch boards, pin ball games, horse For those who do hot believe in ed to have shot a 125 pound buck and dog races, etcetra. Revenues chair. Pat Finnigan, Black, and Clara Louise Thomas, From the Observer Dee. 6th, 1918. high school society in the subject Absolute government control of in the wilds of Pennsylvania. Are from these gambling license»—es Breckhouse made a box and took “What About the Bible?” Tues- Administratrix. farm operations and marketing this they sure it wasn’t a Republican" timated by a “League” spokesman him to Ten Mile and buried him. L. H. Martin was over this week Jimmy Mackin was the next owner from Heppner, returning Tuesday paragraph is important: “Sec. 22, Look out boys. Marion Miller as approximately $3,000,000 a year, of the place. (a) It shall be an unfair agricul with a shipment of farm stock and would go toward the support of tural practice for any farmer is telling the girls how to hook pensions for the aged under any Tommy McGraw and Jimmy Bur implements from his farm in this (whether or not a cooperator) to their man. Sounds like a fishing plan that might be adopted by the den, two Irishmen, had a . cattle county to the one he owns near ranch in Grass Valley Canyon be Heppner. market wheat or corn in excess ot story. legislature. low the mouth of Hay Canyon. his farm marketing quota establish Steel for the new bridge at Saltmarsh, a sheep man, had the Lone Rock crossing of Grass Val Well, let it snow. ed for the commodity unless prior Filing of pension applications by same place later. About 1869 Char to such marketing (1) the secre ley canyon arrived this week. The needy aged in the 65-70 year group ley Kandle was living on the John tary shall have released such com THE THOMPSON FAMILY concrete piers have been completed is now under way in every county Day river above the mouth of the modity from marketing quota re by the county. of the state. Early filing o f ap Cottonwood Canyon. Frank Kim Among the most numerous of strictions.” Violators are taken in County Agent Calkins and family hand by the district attorney of the first families of Sherman coun plications by the new beneficiaries ble had a cabin in Cottonwood. The and Mrs. Calkin’s sister, Mrs. ty is the Thompson clan which now made eligible to pensions under tfte Indians robbed Frank’s cabin. He Smith were all conflntol to their the United States. Debate on thia bill has just includes about 130 members sik act of the last legislature was urg set a gun for the Indians. ¿Kandle home this week with a severe at started and there are certain to be annually holds a reunion at De- ed by Governor Martin in a letter came there while Frank was away tack of “flu.” many changée before it is passed Mbss park to further acquaintance to the State and County Relief and was shot and killed. Henry An «unusual shipment for this the senate. When it gets to the and friendship among its many committees last week. Pensions for Willerton, a step son of Pearson, time of year was delivered by the new age group will date from married Jane Eaton. He lived in house there will be further changea branches. rur^l route carrier J. M. Eddy on January 1 but will not be payable Lower Grass Valley Canyon for Thursday of this week consisting The father and grandfather of s r a c ia ii and probably the bill that is paw ed will not resemble this Pope- them all, Charles W. Thompson, until the last of the month. It is a while and then in Hay Canyon. of baby chicks for Mrs. Anna Gil estimated that lowering of the age He later moved to The Dalles and ENVELOPE McGill bill in many particulars for was born in Iowa and came to Cor lette at Monkland. for pension beneficiaries will in worked for the railroad for many there is serious opposition to it vallis in 1875 to rem ain; a few rU B W IS H E D Y O V years until 1883 when he and his crease Oregoa’s pension load by ap years. Every motorist should know the from many quarters. , About 1870 John and Mike Har location of his light fuse so that wife Delila came to the present proximately 60 percent, the state Sherman county with nine 1 chil and counties sharing equally in this rington had a sheep ranch in Grass he may be able to replace it should incresse. Valley Canyon about east''of De- the lights fail as the result of a PRIDE BEFORE A FALL dren. For the greater convenience o f our out-of-town customers Moes Springs. Orv Donnell after “blown fuse.” He bought a homestead right at Pride goeth before destruction, and others who would like to use this service, we have Population of the state’s 11 in wards owned the same place and a haughty spirit before a fall. Monkland and started a general stitutions shows an increase of 175 will tell more along this line later. tiureka Lodge No. 121 A-F & A-M adopted a new, improved Bank-by-Mail method. One cannot but recall this bit of merchandise store there, latdl es daring the past year. Sevan of the Moro, Oregon Jky Price tablishing the first postoffice at Bibical philosophy when confront W e provide a one-unit D e p o sit-b j-M * il Envelope. You Meets the 1st and 3rd 11 institutions record population Lupine Rebekah L od ge'^ o. 116 ed with certain of our temporary that point. Mail was transported gains. These include the state Thursday evenings of to Monkland first from Nish and make out your deposit slip on the Inside Bap, enclose your labor leaders who with jaws prog- Moro, . each month... Visiting hospital for insane at Salem, peni endorsed checks, stamp and mail the self-addressed envelope. nathously protruding go «bout the later from Moro by star route for tentiary, and the home for feeble members cordially in Meets 2d and 4th Tu country telling honest laboring many years or until roads were im minded. Four state institutions vited to meet with us. Just as easy as that. One portion of the envelope is returned esdays of each month Roy Powell. W. M. men that “You just as well come proved. The present mail route out record a loes in population during of Moro is an outgrowth p fth e old to you as a receipt for your deposit. along with us, see. We got the ------- — — 7.----- L'r™=: Visiting members wtl <5. V. Belknap- S*w«\ government with us and w e’re Monkland route. come. / ... • • • • W e invite you to use this easy, safe system. It Is fully sz- The children grew to manhood gom’ to do az we please.” Mabel McKee, N. G. r - Mora Ledge Na. $13, I. O .O . F * Governfa* Martin has issued a call and womanhood, married and took ptaihed in a leaflet which may he had bv calling or writing. -These gentlemen have do«« ser , ~ Moro, Oregon ious damage to the cause of labor, up homesteads and many of them for a meeting of all persons inter Naomi Van Gilder, Sec. L. A. Littleton. A««t. Ugr. Meets 1st and 3rd C. R. Harding, Manager h a w materially aided in bringing remained in the county of adop ested in the conservation of Ore gon's wild life. The meeting will tion. They were Mrs. Emma Ell 'Tuesdays in the Bethlehem Chapter, No. 78. O. E. S about this present panto—politely I O.O.F. ball- Tran > Moro, Oregon called recession— but have in many iot, now dead: Andrew; Mrs. Har- be held on the Stats College vriet Nish, now of The Dalles; campus at Corvallis December 8 Meets Every Keconr sient and visiting _ _ _ helped t h w i h r s t to tempo- ¿w" th e James, of T>gh Valley; Nelson W.; and 9. Fourth Thursdays In eart brothers are cerdi- the Month. Visiting member» allv invited to o p p « s - < Frank—Every woman, without H o a d O ffice, P o o ^ o n d , O vogoss Invited. with u s ., e« to Join t o . u n i™ .« .h w t to.tr M E M E EE P K P E 1 A L D E P O S I T IW SPEAW CK C O E P Q E A T IO W Frances King W. M. exception, must always contradict ; Lewis McKee. N. G. Sylvia—That’s not true. - Ruth Sparling. Secretary. Joe Trait. Secretary h .™ » d uodoobt- _ Z 1 — E In Other Days m a * * w w **% t BANK B deposit °F“ The D alles B ranch s ä U nited S tates N ation al B ank ä i A 4- • ?
