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THE SHERMAN P W
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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.
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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.
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sugar refining • company, located
that depend on racing m oney. to
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--------------------- ---------- 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.
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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
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>
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.
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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.
.
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four
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due
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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
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seeded
crop
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live
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possible yield.
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