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.v t-* PACK TWO FRIDA Y, JIANU ARY 28K 1938 THB SHBBMAN COUNTY LYNCH BILL . J JWf erm n u C o w n lv J J u u r tta « There is something > about * this most recent filibuster that isn't so Sherman Coanty Observer __ bad. In general the nation is op Established Nov. 2, 1888 posed to lynching although nearljf Grass Valley Journal every state has lynched one or more Established Oct. 14. 1897 persons at some time or other. CONSOLIDATED March 6, 19Q1 Even in the south lynching ■ is Wasco News-Enterprise frowned upon by a vast majority Established Nov. 1891 o f the citizens. CONSOLIDATED March 4, 1932 Regardless of the merits of the j h'U the southern senators will re- Published Every Friday a t h*2 some consideration for their Moro, Oregon »»gainst odds. About < quar- Editor Giles L. French ______ • of the fcenate are talking the Entered as second-class matter at bill to death and it looks like they the Postoffice at Moro, Oregon would soon have the job done and under Act of Congress of March the lynching bill returned to com- 3 1879 _ __ ____ ____ 4 mittee to die. It may not be good legislation, good government or m od morals but it was a good fight. OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER SUBSCRIPTION RATES Paveble in Advance ONE YEAR ...... ............ • $-1.50 ^resumption that Senator* Stiwer will resign soon and leave his job to an appointee of Governor 'Mhrtin is a bit premature. Instead it might be better if he ware per suaded to run again. STATteH6U31& GQBfilP •, t < Continued from page one/ and L. E. Webb has been COLOR Valley, 1; Wasco, 1; y An analysis of the atate payroll for September reveals the fact that 6188 persons had steady j 0 s with the state while another 3627 were isted as part time employees. Of the full time employees 4186 or 68 percent ad-e male and 2003, or 32 percent,, are females.« The total state payroll for the month was $983,851.16.' Average monthly sal ary for full time male employee« pf the state is $146.18 while fem ales employees receive an average of $97.20 a month. Although Salem is the capital City and -the center of state govern m ent'only 23 percent o f the full time employees are located here. These 2240 persons drew a total of $253,614.97 in salaries for Septem ber, Corvallis with 1649 state em ployees, or 16 per cent of the total, ranks second with a September pay roll of $138,226.77. Portland ranks third with 1263 full time state em p loye«, 13 per cent of the total, and a monthly payroll of $163,256.- 46. •Eugene, the seat of the state university, had 86b persons on the state payroll for an aggregate of $80,233.86. The other 3927 employees of the state with payroll checks aggregat ing $368,600 for the month, are scattered about in the various coun tie s ,’With everfr county represented. Crook count, had the amaUeet number—21—on the .U te payroll although their monthly pay check. principal for |h4faemaiader year. War garden seeds, furnished thia office by Congressman N. J. Sinnott are now ready for distribution. The Gorman school by having organized a standard ppultry club of five members under the direction of the teacher, Miss Marporie Hol man, is the first rural school to start club work this year. -*By Claude J. Thompson New Men Arrive Ferras 922, Sorrel Arabian Sire At CCCamp WEATHEM FOR T B S WEEK MIK. «4TK .00 Jan. 20 V - ........88.. • .4 9 ....8 1 .........02 * . 21 22 ........^ 4 8 ....3 6 .... .08 9’ ..¿ .Ì ....4 O . .29 ..; .0* 24 •««••••••.43< J8..,?J0 26 •••••••••,4 8 . 2 6 ...^ .0 0 26 .. ....4 2 $¿.13 Total for week Brown Administrators Van Vactor, Attorney» A NOTICE TO CREDITORS All persona having claims against the Estate of John Mathieson, Sr., Deceased, are required to present them with vouchers to the under signed at their farm residence near Rufus, Oregon within 6 months of the date of the first pub lication of this notice. The date of the first publication of this notice is January 7, 1988. Hugh S. Mathieson Executor Margaret Leff ' Executrix Frank G. Dick, Atty. Vogt Block , - The Dalles, Oregon 10-18 In a meeting called for the in struction of the rookies who have just arrived at Camp Moro, regu lations and opportunities of .t h e CCC were explained last Monday evening. Mr. Halstead, Educational Ad viser, explained the educational ser j vice that the camp offers to those j who are ambitious. He stated that Arabian Boy the most important problem that a i J | faces the CCC boy la that of train- environment.” ing himself for a job. He pointed Fine breeds of horses are evolved out that one of the principal rea only by the hand of man. For a sons for unemployment today is negative illustration, if you turn a that individuals are not trained to be of value to their employers. fine herd of horses out on the open He told those who desired col range, in a very few years eating lege and high school credit how NOTICE OF F IN A L „ SETTLE poor feed they will become worth they could get it through eorres- MENT less “critters.” “critters. Illustrating further nond_ _ „ t ue Univer- IN THE COUNTY COURT OF we s-ee in the evolution of the three North Dakota and Ok£ ^ SHERMAN COUNTY, STATE OF primitive breeds of horses, the homa. ' * ( OREGON. ^rrat difference man has played, IN THE MATTER OF THE It was recommended that the new ESTATE OF Maude P. lfuUsnburg, The scrubby, little, wooly ponies t o m the North and the big, black, men spend their spare time in Deceased. coarse, cold-blooded horse of the mental activity, not , only to in NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Flanders district, where man had crease their ability to get ’ a job that the und—rigneA administra no part in their development, are but to avoid mental stagnation and tor of estate of Maud i (P. Muilen- sorry looking creatures. Then put homesickness. burg, deceased, has filed in the In order to even the strength of County Court of Sh?rman County, ting over and against them 'the A. ab and Bart) where man has -the companies, 13 of the new men Oregon, his fine! account as admin- loved and worshiped his horse for will ba transferred to Camp Beacon ¡strator of gaj^ Csta e and that the over 3000 years we have the noblest Rock sometime this week. When 31st day of Jw u ar”,. 1938, at the of all " horse flesh. If you want these men leave, the company hour of 10 o’clock in the forenoon further illustrations, think of what strength of .this company will be of said day, at . the county court man has done in perfecting the 184. room in the courthouse > of said modern breeds. I Show: Edward Arnold and Gail county, has been fixed by the court We can develop these breeds here Patrick in John Meade’s Woman, as the time and place for hearing in the West. It is a natural breed-- Saturday 7:30 p. m. Sunday at of objections to said account, if ing ground for good sound horses 4:30 p. m. any, and the settlement thereof. and we not only Have the finest William Muilenburg, Percy—The sort.of husband Elsie Administrator of the »estate of blood obtainable, thanks to such Color breeding is perhaps the This Bonneville, business is far most fascinatirfg of all lines of from being straightened out. yet. breeding. Novelty and uncertainty While Ross is ready to contract JANUARY 28, 1938 make it not only interesting but for power he cannot know the price captivating and delightful. Antic until the part of the cost of the ipation and speculation as to color NEWSPAPERS AND BUSINESS dam 4or power is given, and until is so entrancing one can hardly Newspapers in Portland are in the lines are built he cannot be ex wait until the next colt it foaled. one wav pleased over the results of pected to. know the transmission -Over thirty years ago I started the recent strike. It has already coat. The number of years ana r« color breeding, tended to increase advertising line- the interest rate have been set „ ’“ T ? S age Firms'that did not advertise which gives some idea of the fin » ‘ 1,ttle ho” * “ one ever ee H found their business dropping every cing expense that will be amassed was a bay and white Pinto, said to day of the strike which brought against users totalled slightly higer tan did these them to the realization that they of Sherman County Journal: of the 22 in Jefferson, 23 in Sher»» be an Arab and Welsh cross. , Many of the finest Pinto horses in the were riding along on the coat tails ( Looking over some old papers, I man or 26 in Morrow county. North today are descendants of this of those who did inform the pub-,fin(j t^at many years ago Mr. Don- little hprse. lic of their ware«. nell, father of the late Lulu D. A 200-acre tract of land in the About ten years ago I started a All business dropped from ten Crandall, lost a favorite jack knife, Turtle Cove section of the fossil definite plan of breeding to develop to thirty per cent in three days and a jQng time afterwards he beds near the John Day highway giving the best possible proof of f ound jt.y H e was so pleased that in Grant county will be set aside novelty saddle horses. This time as sire I procured another extra- the necessity of advertising if the jje name<j the place whew is hap as a state recreation area if the tempo of modern business is to be pene(j( jack Knife Canyon. That federal department of the Interior ordinary borse, pure white with his back, maintained. A thirty percent drop how j ac^ Knife Canyon in south- accepts the state highway comrais- black, , leopard . . . spots . . on TT , , Eton», offer of 60 cenU .n .ere for h,P»- i nd h»d • in retail trade would bring on a de- ern Sherman county was named, marvelous mane and tail and an ex- pression more serious than any we j wish to tell your readers what the land. tremely beautiful head, more re have had which leads to the inevi- the early settlers between the John sembling the head pictures of that table conclusion that advertising is p ay and the D e p u te s risers had Governor Martin, Secretary ol an Mt>8olute necessity in this day contend with, in comparison with State Snell and Dan »Fry, state great picture “Pharaoh’s Horses and age. the conditions of today." For a long purchasing agent, helped The than I have ever seen. He was un This will - certainly encourage t ime The dalles was the nearest Dalles folks celebrate the restora doubtedly a throwback, to the Leo newspapers, both rural and post office.. Through the courtesy tion o f navigation to the upper pard Spotted Horse of Africa. p Muilenburg, deceased. who have been hesitant about,sell— the 8tage drivers, our mail was Columbia river last week. Snell From this horse and mares I had men as the late Homer.- Davenport wants is a strong, forceful, silent R. J. Kitchen, ing their space to possible advar-, br0Ught to us by them. And by and Fry went on to Pendleton to selected in the meantime I develop and that great horse-lover W. K. man— a ruler, in fact. Jimmy—That’s right—somebody LaGrande, Oregon, titers. It should also encourage arrangement Barnum, Finnegan Inspect the newly completed nurses ed what is known as the Painter Kellogg, and others, but I believe we have the greatest horsemen and to show her where to draw the Attorney for administrator. strain of horses. merchants to advertise with great- and others got their mail at our home ¡at the eastern Oregon state Three years ago I took these horsewomen in the world. And lbie. place. Wood was a big problem. hospital. er confidence. Eureka lx>dge Noi 121 A-F A A-M Leopard-spotted mares, together when we are gone our posterity will For many years Dad hauled wood Moro, Oregon Flood, and .lid ., during late ” \th ” ver*' P»l<»»in° J " » ™ J >>»d carry on. Men and women, lovers) Little Girl—Nurse, will I have a FREIGHT RATE8 ____ from Fifteen Mile Creek above Meets the 1st and 3rd T n - ! of the Western Saddle Horae, the mustache on my lip like Daddy Dufur now is located. ............ Eaton December r e ,U lt« n „ »80.0M dam- “ lectid- a"d The move for a fifteen percent where ....... ............................................ Thursday evenings of stallion clay is now soft in our hands. May ^as when«I grow up? ’ pure registered Arabian boost in ffhight rates by the rail g,ot dr^t wood from the (Columbia age to Oregon highways, according each month. Visiting Nurse— Pretty often, dear, J ex the W. K we mould it into breeds of noble roads cornea at a very unfortunate some times. Barnum got his wood 'R. H. Baldock, state highway that I purchased froi mem tiers cordially in pect. _________ . - Kellogg stables. Th^ horse is a animals. time for wheat growers w h o a j ve f rom Buck Hollow. engineer. vited to meet with ua. •een their income drop severely Lumber was hauled from The Guest—What a pretty name your j^ y Powell W. M. recent years and who— in thia^ part Daueg> or from Fifteen Mile-Creek maid has! C V. Belknap Secy. Are you having winter up there, of the nation—face a not too hope- Refruiars aettlers got j tail rate o f • Hoetess— Oh, that isn’t her real * ___ _____ ful outlook. I $12.00 per year on the bridge at now? I hardly know whether or name. We just call her “Dawn” Moro ixidgc No- 113. 1» O. O. P « There are very good arguments the month of the Deschutes river not to write you, for fear you’ll be because she's always breaking. Moro, Oregon against a flat increase in rates of And of course The Dalles w » b the snowed in and not have any meet Meets 1st and 3rd ‘ ‘ any kind for while some comsnodi- nearest town. There was no doer ings soon. Aunt Irma—Albert, aren’t Tuesdays in the ties might reasonably pay higher tor in that country until Dr. Rdl- : But I want to write «.anyway, sometimes afraid you’ll lose I O.O.F. hall Tran ret— gome are already paying too ijns located at G rass, Valley in perhaps it can be passed around trol of the car ? sient and waiting much. Rate rises based on a more «bout 1879. I will tell how he vis so you’ll all hear. H l write to the (Albert— Constantly,- Aunt Irma. brothers are cordi economic foundation would seem to jted one of his first cases. Hugh Grange also. It is marvelous I’m three installments behind al ally invite«}-to meet be just and equitable. A grocer Gibson, a half breed, broke his leg breather here. We are with >my ready. with us. eould hardly make a flat boost to, a t the Saltmarsh ranch in the after* niece, Mrs. (Cone. I wish I could ( Lewis McKee, N. G. his price marks for some articles ’boon. r Hi* b other, Ed rode to describe this place so . you could' NOTICE 6iF FINAL Joe Truit. Secretary- could be raised more easily than Gras» Valley to get the doctor. He visualize it. They have a little] SETTLEMENT others. tgfli told that Rollins was gone to kvacado farm up in the hills, with Notice is hereby given that Frank Lupine Rebekah Lodge No. 116 There is a3«* the feeling that tihe Dalles, and wouldfbe at Prices other farms like it around them. Moro, von Borstef and Amandus von railroads are covering up some de- Station that night. It was afttr There is a road, or in fact, a Borstel, administrators of the es ficiencies in management—both disk, when Ed got to our place. We whole net work of roads winding Meets 2d and 4th T u tate of Carsten von Borstel, de nast and present—in asking for 1st fry. Rollins have a saddle horse, around in various directions, so it esdays of each «oolh ceased, have filed their petition for this rate increase. It is perhaps not Dad agreed to drive his team and is a hard place to find. Several distribution, determination of heirs, Visiting members we| fitting that the average layman meet him on Gordon Ridge the pext different ones have become con determination of inheritance tax, come. mornlhg. which he did. Afterwards should be so bold as to offer new fused in trying to find this yWfce, management plans for so compli- I heard Dr. Rollins say that it was and wandered in the hills for a si Painter III, AppaJoosa Stud Colt of half Arab blood by Ferraa 922. and final account on said estate, Belle Conlee, N. G. and that IMbnday, the 7th day ol Naomi Van Gilder, Sec. cated a transportation system as the wildest ride he ever made. It much as three hours. It was sure, sorrel with considerable light in his March, 1938, at the hour of 10:00 the railroads have built up. Yet. was a very dark night, and Rd led luck we got here so easily. It was ^ n e and tail. Now I have from a. m., in the County Court Room recent financial transactions of Rollins hor»e and rods very fast, after dark and we got on the wrong this cross two-year-olds, yearlings, Bethlehem Chapter, No. 78. O. E. S in the County Court House in Moro, several eastern roads inevitably Rollins said he held on with both road and came right out or^ top of and suckling «cèlta of fi alj colors, Moro, Oregon * Sherman County, Oregon, has been leads to the concluston that all has hands, and managed to stay on, but •t.hill with a striig&tf dtyp down on Leop$xd -spotted,Finia-I& tted and Meets . Every ; Second fixed as the time and place for the not been dons economically and in, it was a great effort. He was not the other-sijek Fourth Thursdays in each along, ( cr^ y , and to b u M 'tti they are! Rearing of objections to said peti- the public interest W railroad cir- u»ed to traveling that way. From the Observer Jan. 27, 1899 Month. Visiting membert and a man directed us now to go, cross nicked perfectly with the ion, final accounting and settle- cles. In fact, it seems dear tthat, I will rslate.a story'about a rule but « id the road was dangerous, ’ part Arabian blood the’manes al Invited. ent of said estate. A play, “The Confederate Spy,” many lines have been looted by *fter a'doctor, that occurred before Frances King W. M. so we fairly crawled along a tnuddy, ready carried. The colors seemed is being rehearsed by a group of FRANK von BORSTEL their/ owners who ate now asking I can remember. It was told to me narrow road along a steep hillside. Ruth Sparling, Secretary. ^g about equal following the col- local people for presentation next AMANDUS von BORSTEL for higher rates to allow service to by my mother. .It happened in Guess it was accidental that WUiors the mares but, for that month for the benefit of the fire about 1868. Mrs, Eaton was very The government k u • .take in 1 .¡ok, and my mother, and Mr.. Tom made the right turns, but finally w u , matter, there were always as many department. Among the cast are came to a mail 'box. Thun ted around gpj y colors’** ks spots when I was W. H. Ragsdale, C. N. McCaleb, the railroad, because of heavy i Jenkin, who lived near where in the car until 1 found the flash- breeding spots to spots, Dolph Heydt, LaDru Barnum, Lloyd loan, that have been made in re- Murray S0r.ng. 1. now, w a. oaring light, and there was the name of ambition, is . tq make the Idleman, XX E. Kellog, J. V. Weber, cent year, through the KFC. • It for her. One n.ght it w a . decided "Cone” just staring me in the face, glamourous colored horse more Chas. Ragsdale, Bertha Darby, will probably have to take them th . , he must have a doctor. Mrs. This place is about 25 miles from beautiful in conformation and more Myrtle Lewis, Daye Anderson. Jenkins knew where Dr. Turner liv over in order to collect and Tt may Loa Angeles, and is about a 40 mile dpcik and intelligent ‘witfi it is Grass Valjey will have a Valen not be able to collect by that prac ed in Klickitat Valley, about three drive from “Old Baldy,” a moun- ^„g ’ kkapects tine ball oi\ the I4th. 'Tickets, in miles east of Centerville. Nathan tice unless governmental efficiency tato covered with know, and about jmd ^ortKy off ^ SS rtraM din ary cluding supper at the Vintin hotel Eaton was about fifteen years old. is higher than Is commonly thot. 2 hours frtnn a real high snow coiofmg. in d if¥ am c^tainly reali- $1.50. All American railroads are val It was ten o’closk at night when he mountain. Believe it or not, the iing7 objective in in c h colts of The Kefot-Moro mail is now being ued at $26.000,000,000 or nearly started, riding to the Columbia folks here are nearer the snow “pointer n i . a Leopard Spotted carried by Henry Wriffht. river, where he left hit horse, that sum. Total capital invested in rowed across the river, walked and mountains than we are in Sherman coit; «Arabian Girl,” a Pinto Spot-1 The first bill signed bv Governor them is reported at $18,342,297,429 ran up the hill three miles to the county. And I never saw a day in ^ed filly; and “Cremolynn 305,” a Qeer was one to permit Antelope which if the valuation is correct borrow $5000 on its waterworks, Ashley place where he got a wild June any more perfect than are the registered Palomino: All sired by indicates that overcapitalization it mule, rode on and found the doctor days here. We sit around with Ferras 922, A. H. C. of America. From the Observer Jan. 29, 1909 not so prevalent as at one time. The1 j^y breeding activities are neces- by Mrs. Jenkins direction. He re windows and doors open. Went for A postal from L. K. Moore in fortunate position of some* roads' turned as he had gone, got a horse a long drive thia morning, Will m garily somewhat limi^d, as forty undoubtedly brings up the average for the doctor to ride at the Jenkins hia shirt sleeves, and Rosa and I bead of botsfes is the m ost my 900- form s us that on the 20th they were of them all for some of the lines place and got home just as the without any wraps, and with the acre ranch will support. So if I at Tia Juana. Automobiles have knocked out • r t surely m o r tw e d for d they, four" Taking every windows of the car both down. -raise ten colts each year i m ust dis- are worth. rtages between Ontario, Vale and The Cone place consists off a f e v pose of ten Headabo. - * * thing into consideration, it was a The freight rate advance— if i t r„ wwuva> Nothing would please me more Bums. The trip will be made eith woaderful ride. 'Mfs. Hkton, a acres of Avacado trees with a few ta allowed—mean, th^t all indurtry ■ Splendid pioneer woman, lived walnuts. The house is on a bench than to "talk horse” fan-hours with er way in about six hours. j To give 'work to the unemployed agriculture will be charged a n |m tny year, afUr on the side of a high hill, and the those interested but space prevents, the British Royal commission pro additional sum to prevent the rails chicken house on another bench.' However, before closing I would When Leonard was shot, Frank ftpm going to the government. It Kimble rode to The Dalles, drove a The orchard ik on a steep hill side.) lik.3 to say that I think the time is poses the public planting off 9,000,- * .-J will hit some sections much harder livery team back, taking the doctor It is sheltered from wind on three ripe for Leopard-spotted and iPinto- 000 acres of trees. than others for freight rates al with him. He had started at 6:30 sides by hills, and on the fourth spotted breeders to organize asso- . Prof. Roberta of Kansai* State LONG DISTANCE is the personal, satisfy- ready have been used to discrimi a. m. and was back before 3 p. m. side, one can look down into the ciations as the Palomino people tells farmers to increase their granaries because of his discovery nate between sections of the coun I remember seeing him going both valley and see five towns, and the have. Then they can work to a ing way to keep in touch across the miles. of a wheat that will increase acre try. JRB3I.____________________________ ______ s*®*11! »wi». — Attractive discount tscotto many poifiQP— — * In about 1866 a telegraph line clear, one can see the Cktalipa la- of quick job to establish a breed “<THdr t5 ^ '? r in i~ r r b u s1 ie ir ~~ ~ From the Observer Jan. 31, 1919 „ apply fom 7 P. M. to 4:30 A. M. daily. These Now it is probable that one of was built from The Dalles to Walla lands. This plade is so warm and worthy of the name “breed.” Per Ben Tomlin arrived home this the mills recently reopened at Port Walla. It followed the stage road sheltered that they don’t have to mit me tp quote J. H. S, Johnston, same discount rates apply all* day Sundays land win ba closed because off the Nat Lindsey was the line rider for smudge their trees. EVen last win author of “The Horse Book,” on week with an honorable discharge starting at 7 P. M. Saturdays and carrying difficulty of selling lumber around ___ r ______ ___________________ many years. In 1878 Jack Skelton ter when it froze two or three in the only definition of a breed that I from the navy. the AFL boycott. The man who was looking after the line. There ches of ice in the valley, and killed have ever seen that I think cover? R. C. Byera ia adding to the farm through to 4:^0 A. M. Mondays. wrote that book about the sixty was no operator any where along <4 the citrus fruits, it didn’t hurt the ground: "A breed is a group of buildings on the B. F. Peetz farm Why not go to them by telephone? families should have included Wm. the line until farther east. The line a thing here. Don’t you think this animals possessing homologu- st DeMoss recently purchased by Green, John Lewis and Dave Beck was token out when the Rail Road i« • grand place to get over any character by inheritance so fiyply him. w.;_ • ..«. ------- 7 in his list of those who rule the was built. / - ailment one might have? ~ fixed as to be transmitted with H. C. Gregg, principal of the country. A J • j Price, Skamania, Wash.* / Ada Guyton reasonable certainty under suitable Grass Valley school» has resigned T H E PACIFIC TELEPHONE AND TELECHAPH COMPAh« - '-------- »: -I . . . 1 ' I — In Other Days ' LONG DISTANCE WILL BRING THEM CLOSE TONIGHTl / 7~' / I » V
