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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1939)
£ ■ ix- -f- -V. THE SHERMAN P W FACE tw q r — ..... ,;— m wagon over on the grade. A *lirrm «n <*»»1^ 3im roal lead st .ut legged horse is a subject for Sherman County Observer Established Nov. 2, 1888 Grass Valley Journal Established Oct. 14, 1897 C o n s o l id a t e d March 6, 1931 Wasco News-Enterprise Established Nov. 1891 CONSOLIDATED March 4, 1932 a show ring connoisseur instead of a matter for street Cornev rcon- vtisation where removable cylin- d rs and diesels are now discussed. And no one mourns for the old days. But like pictures of Uncle P m and Aunt Sally at Niagara FaHs the memory of them fills a n che in our lives and makes us more content with the compara tive ease of the present. ? P —' FRIDAY, AUGUST 11. 1 W JOURNAL, MURO. Q&RGON Obliging One Another ? + He leaned over the garden fence and beckoned to his neighbor: “I »ay, old man,” be »aid, “I un f» S C “ Here is the text of the booklet pi inted on the request of a number of organizations in the county led by the Moro Breakfast club. Some of these will be sent to the San Francisco fair and to other places where they have lze.n requested, also to hotels, etc., can be distributed. where they Over 90% of the farmers in Sherman County use the crawler or track type of tractor to handle thè large aerpages. The average size of the Sherman County farm is in excess of 1000 acres, ft has been found because of the high produc tivity of the land and the economical operation possible by the rolling terrain, wheat is produced cheaper per bushel than in any other county in the state, according to cost studies made by the Oregon State College Extension Service. derstand that you rake?” have • Jonas’ * The neighbor ’nodded. “Good” said the first, ‘‘if you’ll let me borrow the rake occasion ally, I’ll let you use his roller whenever you want it.” Income A government report released in 1936 gave Published Every Friday at Sherman County a purple spot rating, held only GEORGE G. UPDEGRAFF Moro, Oregon by 160 counties in the United States for its high living standards and per capita income. M u lt Officials of the Multnomah Ken- Gilep L. French__________ Editor Attorney At Law nomah was the only other county in Oregon so nd club, now the only dog racing Entered as second-class matter at ett«/Valley being included in sugar designated. \ " club in the state, feel that addi the Postoffice at Moro, Oregon tional permits to run the dogs Thfci average total income from wheat over a beet acreage when the present M oro a n d W twenty year period is $2,300,000, and the total sugar quota expires and a new al under Act of Congress of March u ould result in decreased revenue income for all crops and livestock Is approxi lotment is permitted. The large 3. 1879. f< i the state and the county fairs mately $3,000,000 annually. ' ‘ sugar refining • company, located that depend on racing m oney. to .— 1C—.— --- - --ti—• --------------------- ---------- at Nyssa, Or., is interetedsted. same extent. No doubt the club O il in the proposition and has been NOTICE TO CREDITORS Taxes has very fine facilities for running NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN corresponding on the subject. Do M U IS the dogs and it is doubtful if any The bonded debt of Sherman County has never that the undersigned, Sam Van -•been greater than $300,000 »nd this is now en mestic production is now under Vactor, has been duly appointed other club would wish to make the OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER rigid control-by"the'*departnw<it of tirely paid. Taxes are low in Comparison wH" ii vestment necessary Io compete the income because public debt is low. The agriculture, the control extending administrator of the estate. SUBSCRIPTION RATES with it. Therefore it is unlike county has the highest property valuation per down to the point of designing Orville G. Smith, Deceased, and Payable in Advance ly that another track would be has qualified as such administra school child of any county in the state. .The con wages for pickers. ONE Y E A R ^ , ^ .......... . *L50 c nned n.ar Portland in any event. tor. All persons having claims solidated millage for 1938 was 17.31. Citizens of some other part of the t • • • against said estate are hereby nob state might start such a venture, AUGUST 11,1939 1 . Efforts to develop- the ship fted and required to Land^Values • however, and bring in quite a bit building industry on the Columbia same, duly verified to the . B W of money for the county fairs. Wheat land, when it can be bought, sells for river and Puget Sound have re National Bank of Portland LEGIONNAIRES MEET from $20 to $75 per acre and pasture land varies ceived little encouragement from man County Branch, Moro O While forest fires are very ex- This week Oregon’s ex-servict * from ’$1 to S8 per acre- Location and average the Federal Maritime Commission g„n, within six months froim t yield’ and improvements cause the variation. p.nsiye, especially for the working men are in convention at Salem. and it has awarded contracts for d ,u of the first publication o' To many this will indicate a riot men who would benefit when the five cargo carriers to be construct ^ ¡ , notice, to-wif. 'August 11. ous time for the Legion, wittingly timber is cut, the condition they Farmsteads ed in southern California. , Every 1* 9' Sam Van Vaqtor or no, has built a reputation for Rave behind is worse. The heavy proposal suggested for th« estab Sixty-five percent of the farmers in Sherman Administrator. rains of the western pail of the conventions as hilarious as the County receive a gross income of $4900, or over lishing of yards north of San Fran best. Elks, Moose or Shriners do s hte soon cause an erosion prob- which means that on the average ,the farm homes cisco bay has been discouraged by Brown A Van Vactor. 1 m that can only be corrected at not excell them, so ’tis said. and farm buildings in Sherman County are equip- the commission and where there Attorneys Observation of legion conven tfimendous expense. ed with the most up-to4late and advanced con are no facilities the commission OF veniences such as lighting systems, running water tions in these latter days, since the Congress has adjourned and left in the home, modem heating plants, lawns, declines to award bids. men who went to war in ’17 have shafio trees, cement sidewalks, which indicate FOR SHERMAN COUNTY become grey and wrinkled, does Washington to the heat and the president, and the heat of the modern living co.iditions. Matter of the Guar ,an- not bear out the earlier assump One of the essentials in war is tion of extreme gaiety. Yet, a prt sident. tin The administration favors ship of the Eatate of LeRoy H- Farm Organizations good time is usafly had by all. y.ploring the United States in the Martin, an Insane Person. This hot weather s u r e \ makes hope of developing a supply. Gov C I T A T I O N As usual there is a reason for it. us pleased at the prospect of fall There are three active granges in Sherman To LeRoy H. M artin the above County which are highly representative and com ernment officials say traces have Men who went to school together frosts. A few facts parable to the average grange m Oregon, All e been found in Washington, Idaho, named insane person, to are joyous on later meetings, men of the grain warehouses and elevatorR in the Elroy Martin, to Lola ® Nevada and California - all- around who worked together become life about county are owned and operated by local co- Oregon, but no trace in Oregon. Clelland, the next of kin of the long friends. Men who fought the operative groups to which over 90% of all pro said LeRoy IL Martin, an insane war together have an emotional ducers are members. experience in common that can f Politics played a large part in PCIN THE NAME OF THE never be forgotten. Railroads the recent congress, but when STATE OF OREGON: You and The newest recruit felt the very rrtiai the Observer Aug 12, 1910 County, Oregon something affected the country each of you are hereby required The Union Pacific main line crosses the north- first day in the army that training Prof. Blough and wife, who have ern -end of the county and a branch line traverses and was not tinged with politics, to be and appear before the above __ for the war was going to be an ex Sherman County is situated 106 miles east of (he center Of th? county and a- the county u White House and Congress were entitled court within Un day^ perience different from anything sen visiting at the home of Mrs. Portland, its northern boundary being the Colum but little over 20 miles wide at any point the 31ough’s sister, M/s. Lester Con- as united as Siamese Twins - the from the date of the service of in civilization. War training made bia River. It is in the mid-Columbia wheat belt. rail i - o ad is not very far distant from any resident. ee, left for Portland Monday, as 2 billion dollars voted for national this citation upon you if served Sherman county is a series of rolling hills that no pretense of the gentleness re defense, as an instance. Although within Sherman County, Orego.n, gradually reach an elevation of nearly 3000 feet quired of law abiding citizens. dr. B. had a business engagement Highways congress has adjourned, one ihan’s i the county in which this at the southern boundary of the county. The west Men at an impressionable age n the Rose City that could not Sherman Countv U served by very excellent ern boundary is the Deschutes River and on the job continues. He is the ^hap ! pr0<.ceding is pending, and within X » postponed. were taught to hate and to growl roads. Highway 30, the Old Oregon Trail, runs east is the John Day 'River. Col. C. A Buckley, is now > n whose duty it is to see that all the twenty days if served within any and to stab fiercely with a bayonet along the northern border; Highway 97 runs clocks in the capitol, senate and There are 836 square miles in the county; other county of this state, if at figure» designed to resemble, New York City enjoying the lengthwise of the county and is a part of the lea- 535,040 acres, of which 290,000 are tilled. Sherman roughly, an enemy. They were n eezes that glide over the beaches eral highway f rom Mexico to Canada, r ive house office buildings keep running personally served, or if served by of°“"yy em’n ^ ’ in oTegonMd with two exceptions - hundred miles two°hundKd and also keep time even though no publication, then within twenty- trained to shoot accurately ,so they ?r.^m the Atlantic ocean. E. A. Cushman has his harvest one sees them but the janitor and eight days from the date of the has the largest number of acres under plow oi every farm an^^.•J^ear^oui.let^Over twojmnd , , might kill plentifully. War was The county is fortunate in charwoman. 1 first publication of this citation, miles are surfaced, —and would be again—a period in ill in, and it counts 3,640 sacks any of the 36 counties. that long hauls of crops to market are not or if served in any other state which civilization -4» overthrown uom one 315 acre field. Mrs. J. P. Strahl left on the 9th necessary. Climate within the United States, then for savagery. \ Mexican Highway Builder for a visit with friends and rein- within <wenty-eight days from the And if, when they meet they are It is a sunny land. The temperature varies .. Population < date of the service of this citation from 90 degrees in the summer to below zero in rough, and occasionally tough, it five» in Multnomah and Washing- The population of the county in 1930 was 2918. upon you, to show cause why a the winter although extremes of weather are in is because when they served to ‘cn counties and Olympia. The first settlement of the county started m the Mrs. George DeMoss, Elbert and frequent and never prolonged. Nights are always license should not be granted for gether back in war time they early eighties by native American stock from the Evelyn left for Portland Satur- oool. The air is dry and refreshing. Snow often the sale of certain real property were taught that way to better mid-west. Their descendants still make up a large covers the ground in winter months protecting belonging to the estate of the said serve the cause for which the> Ir.y. part of the population with a small mixture of the sown crops. LeRoy H. Martin, and described as Germans and new comers from the south cen were called. America took sonic From the Obseerver Aug. 10, 1900 The average rainfall during the past 25 year follows, to-wit: four million men to fight, taugh tral states. A. D. McDonald sacked 3160 period is 11 inches, the greater part of which Lots Nine and fi’en in Block them that men were pawns in a s icks of wheat from 270 acres. falls in the fall and winter months although June Towns . Three, Rossmere Addition to battle of ambitions, that human rains are not uncommon. John P. Neece and family are There are three incorporated towns in Sher the City of Portland in Mult Ufe was less than a song, thnt pjw residents near Grass Valley. Crops man county. Moro, located in the central part nomah County, Oregon. authority, however used, must be A stack of 200,000 lbs. of wool of the county, is the seat of local government. This citation is served upon obeyed in silence. lAnd America mid for 14c in The Dalles last Approximately 130,000 acres of land is devoted Wasco, in the wider wheat belt, and Grass Valley you and each of you by publication is very fortunate that these men ,veek. to growing of w hear for harvest which will ’ fluctu . , to the south, are the others. Kent and Rufus are thereof for a period of four con ate somewhat during years when federal agricul on returning, have so suppressed Horace Strong’s summer fallow unincorporated towns that are a center for schools tural programs are in effect. 'The normal yield of secutive weeks in 4he Sherman this training that they are gooc turned out an average of 37 bush- and stores. Modern up-to-date hotels may be wheat is from 16 to 40 bushels pct acre. The total County "’"Journal, a newspaper df citizen» of a democratic state. found in Moro and Wasco and a modern camp ls per acre, all fine wheat. yield for the county over 20 years has averaged general circulation, printed and The DeMoss family has returned ground at Grass Valley. 2,550,000 bushels. published in Moro in Sherman WHEAT HAULING from one of the moat successful The varieties of wheat grown most extensively Schools County, Oregon, by order entered oncert tours they have ever - in Sherman County are turkey red, federation, This week we saw them for in this cause by the above entitled Originally there were many schools in the conn- white federation, hard federation, rex and forty the first time in several years—a known., ty and each rural community supported a school. court on August 9th, 1939, and Hal Morrow’s separator was fold. ' . team hauling wheat to the wan - <mashed in an upset on Andrew With the advent of good roads and decrease of In addition to the production of wheat which is the date of the first publication of house. It wasn’t much of a team, .IcDonald’s place Tuesday. population, farm children were transported to th? main cash crop there is on an average 2000 this citation is August 11, 1939. town schools until now all children attend schools judged by former standards, a acres of barley seeded for harvest. This barley is President Lazero Cardenas WITNESS the Honorable George A stretcher chain broke on the the five towns where gfK ^ anff used exclusively for livestock feeding ahd fatten- ~ mere four horses hauling ore Schadewitz place at Kent recently Mexico, speaking recently at Tia A. Potter, Judge of the County are maintained. The. county has taken the lead ing. We also seed on the average 500 acres to wagon loaded with wheat sacks, ••suiting in four horses and a Juana, Baja Calif., announced ap Court of the State of Oregon for oats, harvested for grain for livestock feed. There in consolidating its schools. but it served as a reminder of the header bed getting mixed up. One proval of a 2.000,0G0 peso bond Issue Sherman County, with the seal of is an average of 10,000 acres of small grains and for construction of a 131 mile high said Court affixed this 9th day olden days when the fall air wes ’orse was badly injured. Recreation small grain mixtures seeded and cut for hay. In way from Mexicali, on the United of August, 1939. full of the dust of long wheat recent years about 25,000 acres have been seeded The Deschutes River, which bounds the county States-Mexlco border, to San Felipe, teams and the fall breeze carried Gras» Valley Journal Aug. 13, 1920 to crested wheat grass on wheat land as a diver George A. Potter on the west, is one of the great trout a Gulf of California fishing village. the songs and the profanity of sion under agricultural conservation program and Mrs. J. J. Wiley is spending the COUNTY JUDGE of the Pacific coast’ and its many tributaries also An irrigation system in the Mexicali 1500 acres were cut for seed last year, producing mule skinning wheat haulers. 40-43 week near Boise, Idaho, visiting provide excellent fishing. Within a day hun^ 2 valley will cost an additional 12,- an average of 100 pounds per acre in addition to When heading was over and the with her sisters. %• of big game may reach the inountams where 000,000 pesos. pasture derived from it, returning an average thresher had gone with its many dear and elk are abundant. A few hours takes Japer Dugger returned Monday Board of Equalization Meeting carrying capacity of one animal unit to each men who transformed the stacks tq his Boring home. one into the Cascade range for outing trips. or five acres. Bethlehem Chapter, No. 78.O.E.S, Notice: There will be a meeting of grain into piles of sacks and GuR*Engstrom is pretty well sat , four There is a small acreage of land in the county Moro, Oregon Churches of the County Board of Equaliza piles of straw, the farmer sorted isfied with his crop prospects this located along the John Day and Columbia Rivers, Meets Every Second and tion of Sherman County, Oregon,. out his rigging, the chains and ’arty in the seaon; his Turkey Red Each of the towns has churches and within the devoted to the production of peaches, p<ars, apri Fourth Thursdays in each at the Court House, Moro, Ore- county may be found Catholic, Methodist, Pres stretchers, greased his wagons wheat is making about twelve cots, prunes and vegetable gardening. Month. Visiting members gep, on the second Monday of byterian, Bap ist, Christian, Lutheran, Christian coupled them together and pulled •acks to the acre. Invited Livestock Science and Adventist churches. August, -hat being the 14th day of out in some grey dawn to begin A severe dust and wind storm Rose Amidon, W,M. August, 1939, to publicly examine the post harvest job of taking his struck at Kent Thursday afternoon In addition to being Oregon’s second wheat Experiment Station Ruth Sparling, Secretary. the Assessment Rolls, correct all county in point of production, Sherman County »heat to market. and it is reported that it shatter Since 1912, the federal government in conjunc | errors in* valuation, descriptions has long been noted for the excellence of its live In early times two or three days ed lots of wheat. tion with the state and county, has maintained Lupine Rebekah Lodge No. 116 of lands or other propeAy assess- stock. Horses, while not extensively used in farm were required for a trip. But as C. A. Buckley left for the ranch a cereal crops experiment station at Moro. From Moro, Oregon ing operations any more, are sjtill raised for sale ed by me, and it shall be the duty the railroads were built up into ’arly Wednesday morning with a this station was sent out federation wheat which Meets 2d & 4th Tues to those who have need for large, well-built dralt of persons interested to appear at the wheat lands the time was lew Best 60 h. p. tractor ' has been of inestimable value to the farmers of day of each month. teams. Belgian and Percheron are the predom the time and place appointed (ap sho^yned until everyone could the northwest. Experiments are constantly car inant breeds. Visiting members wel From the Observer Aug. 13, 1920 pearance is by petition). All pe ried on in all phases of wheat production and make a trip a day, many two Beef cattle are replacing horses to a marked ex come. titions must be in writing and A fire set by the passenger farmers, both new and old, may obtain definite tiipr and some, fortunate ones tent, the main breeds being Hereford and Short Rebekah Wilson, N.G verified by the oath of the appli information about farming practices. horns which are being successfully fed and fatten could make four or five. The far train Tuesday afternoon burned Florence Johnston.Sec cant and filed with the board ed on wheat, our principal cereal. Sherman G°urv- tber they came the bigger teams about 100 acres of stubble on the <-H<Club Wqrk ty has an average of between 10,000 and 11,000 the time Roy Powell farm south of Moro they used. Eureka Lodge No, 121 A-F & A-M within . . . . . fifteen days . , from x head of cattle which are distributed quite gener With the population of Sherman County under destroying three loads of hay and Meets on the 1st and ,l 1 8 * > > law requiredjo meet. The one-trippers came into the ally among the wheat farms throughout the Margaret W. Peetz 3090 persona there are Some 500 children ranging warehouses around noon to unload 186 sacks of wheat. 3rd Thursday < eve county. . , v , in ages from 9 to 18 and of this number 65% 7-40 County Assessor. Charles Kenny has had two nings of each month. and pull into an open spot to un There are some ¿3,000 head of sheep whijh are are enrolled in some 4-H club project. itubble fires this season, caused Visiting members cor hitch and feed their teams from distributed in small flocks and a few large range r dially invited to meet NOTICE TO. CREDITORS the hay in the wagon boxes, while >y hot carbon and back firing Electricity operators. • ». a # us A persons having claims a- Hog production is perhaps our lightest farm the men lunched heartily on food through the carburetor of his The county is now served by one of the major livestock enterprise with, an the average, some A. B. Christianson W. M. ! K“inst \ he e8ta? »f Harriet Root, put up in lard pails in the morn tractor. A chemical fire extin companies of Oregon. Incorporated towns and 3000 head produced each year, being consumed C V Belknap, Secy, deceased, are hereby notified to guisher each time quickly put the ing. Then there was the long, many farmers have electric current available at ss : present them, in proper form, to largely within the county. dusty drive home to load up again fire to route. ■ all times. The county is within 66 miles of No. - 113, I. O. O. F. undersigned, the duly appoint H. J. Warn arrived home from for tomorrow’s sunrise start. Bonneville, dam and will profit from the develop Moro Lodge System of Farming Moro, Oregon ed. qualified and acting Adminis- Portland Friday where he made ’i And now there is but one or two ment there. _ Meefr 1st »lid 3rd' Hator of the estate of Harriet The system, used in growing the principal crop, ai rangemertts to install a “root wheat teams in the entire county that of wheat', is known as the summerfallow Tuesdays ih the Root,' deceased, at the office of arid they are but an abbreviated jeer” barrel in his Bee Hive method'which is common in all of the dry farm [ I.O..O.F, hall Trai Geo. G. Updegraff, Moro, Oregon,, ehtaurant. Sherman County is a land of plenty. Wheat •ample of those of former days. ing areas in Oregon. In other words, approxi * ’ and' livestock, with the emphasis on the sient and visiting within six months from the date of 1A man named Jackson, from Trucks, nowdays, wheel the grain mately one half of the total farm land is plowed former, are the sources of a county income brothers are cordi | this notice, to wit: July 21, 1939 Hillsboro, acting as a header tin and left idle one year and seeded to wheat in the to market while the heat of sum- that has given prosperity to many. On its ally invited to meet G. Herbert Root ier on the Callaway machine, had fall or the following spring. The reason for this is m-i" sun is »till in the berries gently rolling hills the wheat waves beau with us. . Administrator i gash four inches long and to due to the lack of moisture which is necessary There is no pride in possessing n tifully and yields splendidly in the harvest Ve non Miller, N. G. Geo. G. Updegraff to cause nitrification of the crop residues in or team of well matched and fast he bone cut in his left leg by the and in its valleys, cattle rest content. It is Joe Truitt, Secretary. jAttorney for Administrator 37-40 der that tile seeded crop will produce the highest Tsn wheel on the water cooler a land to visit—and to live in. stepping leader« or a pair of huge possible yield. .■■■ wheeled» capable of setting the fbursday. L In Other DaysJ SHERMAN l < I ' . . r' ______ ■■■— — —
