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THE SHERMAN COUNT* JOURNAL, MURO OREGON FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 193« PAO» TWO ===== «-;«,»w. g r a -^ c = Medivai ■ ‘T Hifit? Insurance on In fl. pickup 31.66 Loggers R Contactors Mach, f Company, toad supplies 46.61 Pafctfic Power R Light Company Lights in machine «bed 1.26 Eeenaughty Machinery Co., Freight on supplies -30 O’Meara Supply R Implement Co. Road supplies ’ 63.74 Mrs. C. M. Snider, Rent on machine shed , • 6.00 Wes Wilde’s Garage, Work on road equipment . • 80.82 Geo. A. Potter, road supplies .50 Service Garage, road supplies 5.36 Roy Barnett, Use of truck for hquling gravel 300.00 Roy Barnett, Freight on cul verts 20.70 Mrs. David Fulton, 660 yrs. of gravel at 5 cents per yd. 28.00 9 l» e r m to n t f e s t a t e 3fottrt»<tl national machine despite a vote getting candidate. The Gallup poll indicated that Chandler gained in Sherman County Observer i Continued from page orifci < . popular support from the first re Established N ot . 2, 188« going to Mrs. Templeton who will gardless of the visit 6f the presi Grans Valley Journal serve out the unexpired terra, end Established Oct. 14» 1897 dent. Davey was beaten in Ohio which ing in January» leaving the two CONSOLIDATED March 6, 1931 everyone expected and Bulkley candidate« free to fight it out in Waaeo News-Enterprise ___ November without eithen enjoying was renominated the ____ same way, Established Nov. 1891 In Idaho the nominations indicate Die advantage that might have CONSOLIDATED March 4, 1932 that the farm bill is not popular gone with the appointment. In Tillrfmook county there were there as Senator Pope was one of also three candidates for the p o st: Published Every Friday at the authors of the senate bill that — Harland Woods, head of the was partially incorporated into the Moro, Oregon young »Democratic club, of the coun present bill. Editor Giles L. French Without an understanding of ty; George Reichers, a republi-i Entered as second-class matter at local conditions it is difficult for can and prominent business man,' the Postoffice at Moro, Oregon observers to determine whether arx! Jack Caufield, active Demo« under Act of Congress of March the elections mean that the new i cratic leader with a record of two deal is on the road down at a T®pid teim s in the state ‘legislature. All 3? .1879. ........... . three were strongly endorsed by pace or a slow one. Mem influential citizens of the county Defined ----------- - V. O r e g o p ^ e w s p a ip p e e f ^ P u b li^ ^ r s and tiie choice of Woods is re Talking with a young lady ad OF DOUBTFUL PURPOSE mirer, Mark Twain bad occasion Suspicions of a political back garded as due largely td the en y V ^ A s s o c ia t i to use the word “drydock”. ground for the farm bill have not dorsement of the young Democrats, s e e “Wlsat is a drydock, Mr. Clem- been so pronounced at any time as er.s ; the present. Since the farmers ■ Failing jn their attempt to '“A tbir st physician,' rep lied OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER have learned that anyone, in fact initiate a measure providing .for th<‘ humorist. p actically everyone, whether co- the issuance of revenue bond» by SUBSCRIPTION RATES operators or not, may receive pay peoples* utility •. districts, spon Payable in Advance The Other Fellow ment of some size this fall the sors of this program will carry ONE YEAR ............................ 4150 feeling that afteraH the vote is their fight directly, to the legisla Factonv Worker—we had a meeit- strike. Why were you not there? the thing and the welfare of the ture, according to woid reaching 'Seconcj F. W.—I couldn’t get farmer a mere secondary consid Salem. The measure » being A U G U ST 12, 1938 sponsored by the BonnevilleFeder- there because, the trolileymen walk eration. 1_Warfare on the Siberian-Manchurian frcn.lcr has resulted in bloody encounters befrveen the nxm:a«»3i ed out. Those fellows haven’t a n y ^ It is sincerely to be hoped that ation ofOregon. < » w WHEAT HANDLING — this is not true just as one wishes Japan and Soviet Rossia. Soldiers of the Mikado such as these have engaged the Red forces 2—Fo; nrj:eiiri consideation* for the public. til? prr -rr.si Seasonal work has - taken up or principles for the guidance of the Republican party arc discussed at a Chicago meeting of the it were possible to conscientiously The outstanding thing regard committee, of which Dr. Glenn Frank, left, John D. M. Hamilton and Col. TLcsdsFe Rsàaevcit. Jr», s are. ros.n- Eureka Lodge No. 121 A-F R A-M believe that WPA and politics are some of Ahe slack in unemploy ing the harvest this year is the 2—-Dr. Irvin Abel, president of the’ American Medical association. now the far"ct cr a U. S. . .i ment in Oregon. Figures releas- bers. not related. Meets on the 1st and turn toward bulk handling of *s Whenever government becomes ed by* the Unemployment Compen- ' ment of justice investigation to determine whether "organized medicine" Las violated aa'.Jtr.x*. ’.aan .a 3rd Thursday eve wheat. A brief memory recalls primarily interested in perpetua nation commission show a d o p of ing co-operative health societies. nings of each month. that when elevators were first built cent in the active file of ting itself and secondarily inter 1! Visiting members cor in this county a little over twenty ested in giving impartial govern* job seekers registered with . the E. McPherson, road labor dially invited to meet years ago there was an effort made ment to all the people it is time for state employment « service last H.. Yccum, Toad labor , with us. to lead farmers to haul grain in a d»moeracy to stop and consider. week. Searal Searcy, W. M Jack Cothran, road labor bulk and that it failed. At that Those who have taken land out C. V. Belknap, Secy. C. .Baregnholt, road labor time farm bulk bins were consid of production and put it into oth-| ¿Statistic^. S tatistics compiled by Secre- ered a necessity and no little mon er or less valuable crops have made tary of State Sn«i reflect a con- By Franklyn Waltman Such, a figure cannot be more than A. Shearer, road labor No. 113. I. O.O. F. ey was expended on them. Haul a sacrifice in labor and money that tinued improvement in traffic con an «stimate. C. Hearing, road labor Moro, Oregon Poor Henry Wallace! ing was done with wagons which they feel entitles them to recom- d 'trns in O ego:-.. Traffic fatali- If it is an Sferrare statement Joe Brady, road labor Meets 1st and 3rd Here he is asked to cotne home was slow. then the country in the last three pense. That others who have not] ties for the first six months of the Tuesdays in the by his native,. State an<J do the years has gone through the wrin 'W. Johnsôn, road labor While many farmers stayed with I .¡n crop reduction should also] current year totalled only 126 com I.O..O.F. hall Tran keynot« speech for the Democrat the bulk method they were tew rM.ejve bounties at the hands of pared to 150 for the same period in ic State Convention. And here is ger o f deflationary liquidation to L. L 'P eetz, road labor sient and visiting and the warehouses held most of L^e government is cause for ange” 1^87* Twenty-nine persons lost a much greater extent than in the K. Dunlap, road lfbnr brothers are cordi The Com E. McPherson, road labor the wheat when harvest, was over. —an<j ¡t js causing anger. I their lives in t affic accidents on wheat down to the lowest price in 1929-32 depression. ally invited to meet five eyars; cotton selling at a fig road labor Now with no effort on the part of Ruch methods can prevent any Oregon highways during June, ure which if translated into terms merce department in its Statisti H. Yocum, with us. cal Abstract gives the total of p i- C. Hearing, road labor elevator owners the farmers are program of acreage reduction from] this year, which was within one of Eakin, N. G. of the old gold dollar would be the turning to bulk handling and clawnjbcing successful and inasmuch as] the record for June, 1937. vate debts for 1930 as $84,500,000,- Jack 'Cothran, road labor Joe Truitt, Secreta y lowest in the country’s history; 000 and for its 1935 as $73,300,- Clare Axtell, load labor for it many advantages. they have all .been unsuccessful farm income for the ■ first nine 000,000 or* a decrease of $11,200,- W. Johnson, road labor In Grass Valley, Kent and Moro heretofore there seems to be little months of this year estimated by u000’000 jf, _ a, Mr. Wallace say?,'M ax Pluemke, road labor vvvvvv. — ______ ___ . 4.40 i Lupine Rebekah lx>dge No. 116 more of the whei*. »a being hauled hope for relief until a new type Moro. Oregon the - Agricultural Department 2 8 ;state Indus- AcC’dent Comm. * the * "decrease ’ rease Vince since 1930 txxtals 28 St without benefit of sack« than ever] of attack on the problem is made, _______ H ” C O \ $800,000.000 below that for the| years'billion dolla’s, then there was 27.89 ( Metts 2J and 4th T Protection before, some is being hauled twelve same period last year and the to-1 a ‘ reduction of almost 17 billion National Hospital Ass’n. ! i*d?.y of each mcr.th miles to elevator® in preference bacco growers staging a revolt. 15.60 Visiting members we j Protection dollars in the last three years. to sacking. What to do? Poor Henry Wal-i Someone has missed a great story Foss & Co., Work and supplies 1 "omo. By ‘ «AM. SWlll S*»r*t«ry «t Star» At last it appears that the farm M»Uer n .G. . 89.33 — lace! But Henry does not have here. on pickup ers have recognized the advantages Florence Johnston, Sc J. K. McKean, Oil and fuel 27.02 high-priced ghost write: s for noth It would be hard to im«t, ne a From the Observer August 11, 1899 of a different method of handling Standard Oil Co., Gas & oil 113.95 fuel better suited to propel «-ght. ing. Those boys are clever. H But it Is Only a Fairy Story their wheat and very probably B. M. Brown lost a valuable motor vehicle« than gasoline. While you cannot boast abenjt the N ew r , . . . . Ginn, Coleman & Co., nails 6 00 Bethlehem Chapter, No. 78.O.E.S. ______ . <"j y ! 7; , Field’» Garapre, diearl oil and there will be a new move for ele-1 horse lately. He got caught in the it is an extremely ,powe:fiul «ex Deal, bame it on the1 Republicans, Moro, Oregon vators. It may have its benefit! halter while out in the pasture at they said. Tell thesw Jowans. Mr- Wallace to talking a o o , repair of tire 9.43 Meets Every Second and plosive when vaporized and mixed »aid the ghost writini,-Hhat the-hohnm and he knows it. His sole wj] labor ma. to the country for warehouse own- Kent. Fourth Thursdays in each with air, it differs from most ex G.O.P. is responsiiblefor what i s .^ j e e t .» to d.vert attent«.n from I c h jn c ry _ 3, .05 era are, if the truth be. known, a I Farm hands are in demand, Month. Visiting members little worried over the possibility] Vigorous showers visited this plosives in that it consists almost happening in 1938 even though th ei*t'e increase in the e™ . W. G. Armsworthp, labor on Invited entirely of Carbon and hydrogen of wheat being hauled to the river] region on the 8th and 9th, purify Republicans have been .¿ t o i pow- >"d he ts try.ng to do that by ,n- 5.30 Kcrrone Christianson W. M. which can be completely consumed Casualt & Surety Co. past empty warehouses. Bulking ing the dusty air and aiding vege- in .the process of burning, while er since March 4, 1933.' Tell e’m r’ co'm g confusion. He did so well, Ruth Sparling, Secretary, anything, advised the ghost whit-', he ‘became confused him self P , e - ---------------- .------------------------------ will make this impractical. tution that is not yet matured and , , . I,wv T , | other explosives such as dynamite e s, Wame it en the i e b t s - n o .. he started out by• contending The average age of farmers has doing no damage to the earlier! )ourdgned alao with the oxySren not the New Deal d e b t-te private 'hat deots are a bad thing for a increased and the men who used rr«m. — - which is necessary foe the burning debts of the 1920’s - t h o s e Iow ans: count |v and ended up by assert- to feel that handling wheat with-] Six applicants for the tea ch es I M - - ing that “in a capitalistic civiliza out the Spartan suffering of pick-j examinations are in Moro this | won’t know the difference! tion, such as ours, there can be m in g u p the sacks was not q u i t e week. They are: Miss Moleswonth . moral are now at the are when and Miss Hurley of Bigelow, Mrs. | the proper mixture with air is a Il Was Very Confusing , prosperity without an increase in handlin.tr wheat fL'ks is ^ > longer Ja«- Mitchell, Miss Mae Rust. Miss niore powerful explosive than TNT, So Henry delivered a speech on „ a p le a su re T he y o u n g e r men who Jenni* KaY. Moro, and Gilbert nitroglycerine, dynamite or blast- debt. Every few seconds billions ’ In pffect what Mr. Wallace saul th e r i e ^ l E d g i n g t o n . W , » . ' ¡ng powder If all the energy in af dollars rolled off Horry.« tongue. R^pyblicans were terri- were not farming when the eleva Cap’t Stanley, County Treasur- a single gallon of gasoline could It was tremendous! " A ¿ i4 a „Sn : ble people because of private debt tors were built, like the 'bulk er, has issued another call for be convened into useful work, it was evry confusing- -ani not all inc eased during their Adminis-i method. • .warrants, down to and including]would be sufficient to lift a 60-ton af it was in accord with the record.) trations, !hut he also said th^t For instance, in one place th e ; <<thpre pan be nQ p ^ p p ^ t y with-, Roads are better, trucks ^ t e d August 1st, 1899. loaded freight car nearly two better, bulk tanks are better m a d a J ^ ^ .. obaarver AuiruBt 13 l m miles straight up in the tir. Secretary said that “from 1932 t o ^ gn increage in debt.” -D oes'} and sacks remain at the same ir o " the Observer August , 9 a u to m o b ile 1938 the Federal debt was increas- Mr WftlIace mean to say he thinks! price regardle« of wheat price«. Horace W. Strong, always a I 11 18 the * * of W " *u‘omo*»le engine to harness this energy and ed from 17 1-2 billion to the alb n ,ere shoUid ¡he no prosperity?, For these reasons it seems likely «food farmer has just finished har- i ¿¡Perhaps, ‘Piirkuna n/hzn- transform it into forward motion. time high of£ 6 .1-2 trillion afte- »11 all, th«» the nnlv only diflfi- diffi that the sinewy gentlemen who vesting the best wheat crop he In the process of coaling the en Then a little further ^bn^ie said inilty is Mr. Wallace has greater lace the top,of the bag and the eYer raised. . . onzi nv -'7 heed of a good statistical econo weighty men who take delight in J w - Cochran’s little boy Buster ^ ”5.’ overcomi^ fric tio n and ex this: weignty men wno taae uengni in polling exhaust gases, approxi- “Most people don.’t realize Tthat mist than a political ghost writer. picking said sack off the ground naa J**" very sick this week irom energv and transport tr a n s n o r t it it away a w a v fo- so much scarlet fever. The baby in the la t e ly 9V per cent or tne «««rgy nearly 6 billion dollars was added and sway fo so much | recovered in the gasoline is wasted, so that to the Federal debt (before this apiece are perhaps to become one I The Huis and Powell threehing onlX 10 Per cent is actually utiliz- Administration took office. 3This COUNTY COURT with the header, the wagon and outfit cleaned up C. F: Coe’s D a le |e^ *n propelling your car Administration has adi<^ 1*2) (Continued from page one) the horseman in the farm economy! billion dollars (more.” . The gasoline- is drawn into the Gloria at the rate of 91 sacks to Sheriff’s office expense $£.00 7.50 of the county. In his first statement Secretary carburetor’ from the fuel tank the acre. Chas. 'R. Logan, 1908 audit to Wallace would «haVd the country The Shernran County Faic dates mixed in the proper proportio« believe the national debt, increased I *° «-30uM a n d ol JulF 85 00 WHEAT LOANS are October 1st and 2nd, the fair with air, then whisked through 19 billion dollars'betweert lb32 aiidllt- A. Stow, Justice court 3.00 the intake manifold at speeds as One phase of the wheat loan being held at Moro. 1938. But he would also have the' Reatha Saiyrs, Assessor’s office In 1909 Sherman County, because] high as 250 miles an hour into the program is not yet very clearly ex- 38.60 plained and it m aybe several days] it had 36 warehouses claimed to qylinders, where it is compressed country believe it' had t<'increascd, help before farmers are informed about] be the biggest little county in the ignited by an electric spark, bum only 14 1-2 billion dol'tors under, Heien Sayrs, Assessor!« expense 5.00 it. That is the matter of charge« wide world. ed and expelled through the ex the New Deal. The efore he un-1 for Appraisal trip for interest, insxrance and stor-k A large number of applications haust system. In the process of dertook to give the impression The Sherman County Journal ag e. If these are to be deducted for concessions have already been]'burning the tiny particles of that in the last year of the H oover; jCounty^Tfintnig from the loan a reduction of sev- received by the fair board consist- liquid gasoline are turned into regime the debt increased by Department of Agriculture, ) Sealer Weights & Measures 3.^6 era! cents per bushel from the 54 ing of: A. H. Barnum, president; cm ion dioxide, carbon monoxide 4 1-2 (billion dollars. An Example of Accuracy American Brush Co., Janitor’s to 56 cents allowed in thto county L. L. Peetz, C. A. Buckley, Chris and water vapor, many tim es the No^ the- o f f i c i a l '• fek- Supplies 8.63 may be ¿gpeoted. ] Anderson, I. D. Pike, Vice-presi-J original volume o f the gasoline, It Mem« preMMe that if the U - W allen Treasurer;tana i f is this sudden in c re a se in ords state the Federal ttliefrt on Hotel Moro, Judge’s expense 6.00 loan ia made on a busineaa basis G*°r»e Mmvry Secretary. volume which fo re « the pistons June 30, 1932 was $19,487;000,000 Standard Oil Co., Gasoline used by Government trapper 8.5G w ith th e e m e c ta n e v bv the Com- Hen» y Howell left samples of downward and causes the crank- and that on March 4, 1933—the modity Credit CorporaLm of tak- ®lue“ ‘ m ’ ith1" Monday from the shaft to revolve. day the New Deal arrived-Mt was Otis Baker, Janitor 50.00 ing over the w h e< at the ewpira-]®*”1 McDonald place that equals This brier explanation should ra $21.4000,000—an increase Of $2,- Geo?A. Potter, Judges Salary 37.50 tion date that the deductions will any wheat we have ever 8e€n- ‘ I mind the driver that he commands 013,000,000 and na| the $4,660,- David Reid, Comnatosioner’s 8.50 fees be made. If the loan ia a method From the Observer August 15, 1919 an extremely complex', powerful 000,000 implied by Secretary Wal lace. His statement in tlMi te- T. Lester Johnson, District that is being used to pay farmers Postmaster J. M. Parry has sold] machine when he takes the «vh«i.l 7.50 more than the market price for his residence on Main W e e t to | of ^ « car—a machine which mer apect was just about as accurate i Attorney’s expenses as the remainder of his speech. State Indus; Accident Comm. grain the deductions may not be] Francis W. Boyer, who with his it* the b e s t c a re and th e m ost ln- 5.37 The- truth of the m atter nrthM Peace Office’s protection taken. With wheat selling foe I mother will move here from Kent ] telligent use. according to Treasury figifr&, the Sherman County Treasurer around fifty cents it is important shortly after September 1. ———— — 1 . « 6.00 Stamps, Treasurer’s office for fanners to know .as soon as Hedges and Huis shipped thei: During a financial panic a farm-, Federal debt has increased «pprox- imalely. 16 ibijlion under Roosevelt, Geo. A. Potter, Judge expense 7.05 possible what the regulations are]constructoin material into Grass er wept to the bank for some mon- He was told the bank was not exclusive—and this is important— Sherman County Fair Aasocia- to be. I Valley this week to be used i n |ey If . tor»««, interest and insur-l bJiWi'nc' the annex" to the sihool | paying out money but was u sing! of more than 4 1-2 billion dollars t i<m, 1938 fair ' ,760.00 oe w e taken out of the farmer’s at that place. , cashier’s check. | of govemment-guarateed aecun-., PRESENTED AND ance return from the loan It will bring Mrs. Ellen Stoddard b i LaGrande He could not understand thia and ties or an increase of close to 21 LLOWED .... V * AGAINiST ROAD hl, price per bushel down to well is visiting with her .later, Mrs. insisted on monty I bflHon dollars. Accord'ng to Mr AUGUST TERM. 1938. below the M ty cent mark, but will D. E. Stephens. , The officer. t°<* h ™ J n hand Roosevelt, the Prden,l JH U . ju t. — s M i”, and Mrs. L. H. Martin are *rier another, with little effect, go up another 8 4-2 billion dollars 1 '• 3 “ - $68 20 make a better loan for the govern road labor <&.«> ment. Until more information is visRing at the W. J. Martin home At l.» t Urn president. released on the sàbjeot it behooves ner to be present at the welcom explanation tome inkling of the create confusion about this dread-, farmers to watch the market. ing home of Wm. jr. who has just situation seemed to be dawning on ful state of affairs—and he did. j | His real point, however, was snm-, been discharged from the army af the farmer’s mind. PRIMARIES ¡Much encouraged, the president med up in the sentence that “the ter two ye«”s of overseas service. W. C. Rutledge has begun to said: “You understand now how debtor position of the entire U nited, It would be something of a re - t States is stronger than at any} clear up the wreck caused by the it is, don’t you?” lief to have some state hold an A tto rn e y A t L a w “I think I do,’’ admitted the time since the early 20*s.” To prove election that was not a trial of btrning of , the Hotel Mo^o. The farmer. “It’s like this: When my that Mr. Wallace asserted, new deal prestige. The recent vote easily removed portion * ia being M o ro «r d W aaco In Kentucky showed that even a hauled to the Tum-A-Lum Lumber baby wakes up at night and wants ou t giving any autnority, that p’i- well oiled state political machine ( Co,, to makri a street fill in front aome milk, I give him • a milk vate da"7ts today are actuiRljf 28 'ticket.” .. ¡billion dollars less than in 1930. f a n not hope to compete with a 1 of their property. Statehouse Gossip o o k I n g o.r w a r In Other Days At The a re equa seen ai ywhere MKE PRIZES D o n ’t Fai! to See The Stock at Fair for 4 - H GEORGE G. UPDEGRAFF Ce’ves the Equal to the N orthw est’s best will be There. Every Dcy Is Sherman County D ay 4 «k k 4»