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THE SHERMAN
MORO, pltSGOfy
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1,1939
any years and has not received
dollarg w orth of help from the Statehouse
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Sherman County O t a . r r . r _ I. } ate.
a ts. The Sherman county side
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t f Shearers is fairly good; it is
Established Nov. 2, 1888
u ii AV-asco county side that wears wire pax»4 down, to a mere $665,
Grass Valley Journal
i ;e temper of a car driver and by tne Emergency Board which re-
Established Oct. 14, 1897
fti ;id to be tempted by offers oJ
,
CONSOLIDATED March 6, 1931 ven wh.re newly built it is not a free federal funds in order to ap-
* ocd road because of the use of
Wasco News-Enterprise » ' j jvc* gravel for a- surface coat. piov. expenditures for item3 not
Established Nov. 1891
The state has many fish to fry and of an emergency nature.
• « i all needed
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Most of the items requested by
CONSOLIDATED March 4, 1932 f ( ginQt i build
roads, nrtfl
and
the
Board of Control were for com­
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"assing the buck to the state,
Published Every Friday at
while it solves a problem for the pletion of the capitol program—
Moro, Oregon
counties, often does not solve the sh’ubs for the sunken garden,
problem for those who travel the sid. walks acioss the capitol lawns,
Giles L. French
bronze cuspidors and jardiniers
Entered as second-class matter at road.
and marble benches for the capi­ These senators are Idaho’s Liiu'oh,
ihe Postoffice at Moro, Oregon
For the first time in many t a corridors, and bronze flagpoles.
under Act of- Congress of March moons there is editorial criticism The em ergency board held that the California’s Hiram Johnson, Wash,
ington’s Bone (now hospitalized
3, 1879.
-,f the Oregon law that puts four need for ail of these iitems should with a broken hip), Utah’s King
time losers in the penitentiary for have been apparent six months ago and North Dakota’s Nye. With
-ood. The Dalles Chronicle argued whin the legislature was in ses­ them are Wisconsin’s LaFollette,
’gainst it last week, saying that sion and should have been pre­ Kansas’s Capper ami Missouri’s
P lIllS
often men were convicted for min­ sented at that time.
Clark. They are ready to take up
or offences and should not be put
An item of $6000 for two bronze th? tight where it "was dropped
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
in for life after four tries at good flagpoles on the capitol site was when congress adjourndd on Aug­
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
citizenship. A more usual criti­ trimmed by the Emergency Board
Payable in Advance
cism of the law is that three times to $500 with a suggestion that a ust 5.
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fir pole, tipifying Oregon’s lumber
ONE YEAR — ............ -- -< *k5° hould be enough.
Some of the insiders are
industry be provided for display of i ing that the government follow
“I didn’t used to think much of the flag rather than the two bronze I p * cedent laid by TV/
SEPTEM BER 1, 1939
tfVA and appi
4 tractor/.’ says our Uncle Jake, poles recommended by the capitol it to Bonneville and later to Grand
until I noticed how many less flies architects.
Coulee. This precedent is pur­
HIGHWAY 97
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here are nowdays.”
chase by the government of pri­
Addressing the public employee vate utilities and thus acquire a
.Improvement of the neglected
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In our country it’s the optimist pension committee at its, initial distributing system and a market
section of rokd
Shaniko
and the Criterion junction is now j that carries the umbrella and the meeting here this week Governor for government-generated power.
n i the
thp state
s ta te high
hich- ne
ssimist that thinks the sky ir­ Sprague called attention to the Such proceeding would require ac­
pessimist
on the program of
need far" some plan under which tion by congress which, in its pres­
way department for 1940 which going to be clear.
public employees might be retired ent frame of mind against further
means that unless something in­
from service ¿.on an adequate an­ intrusion of government in 'busi­
tervenes the contract for it will be
nuity but urged the committee to ness is not likely? However, the
let this winter and worrk will be
done in the spring and summer of
be conservative jp. jtp recommend»- innir-circlQ is considering making
tions ‘‘became -units,, of govern- a try anyway.
next year.
It is certainly to the interest of
mint operate., conservatively in
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residents of this county to see that From the Observer Aug. 31, 1900. this state.” Declaring the subject
Communists who were quick to
this road is not taken from the
of general pensions to be one for picket the German and Italian era-
F. H. Meader is buying wheat national rathe? than state consider- bassies during the Munich confer-
1940 program through any lack of
interest on our part. This has for a San Francisco firm.
ation the governor explained that erce are not carrying plackards
Mrs. Vintin, of G^ass Valley, is he had in mind ‘ not a pension denouncing naziism 1 arid fascism
occurred in years before.
Tourists going to Yakima, Seat­ this week the guest of her daugh­ system whose full cost is borne by • since Stalin signed .an
tle or points east are coming to ter, Mrs. Snooks in Moro.
the units of government which are , with Hitler. But pblice are
There is not an empty tenament the employers, but an annuity ! jng an eye on the British and Po-
use this shorter, straighter road
in greater numbers and when it is of any description suitable for system based on contributions (
embassies.
completed a much larger percent­ residence purposes in Moro.
made by the employees either in , Fifty million dollars worth of
The time fixed for opening the full or in part.”
age will undoubtedly come through
1 building construction (mostly gov-
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this county. We have something Moro High and public schools is
ci ment) is halted in the national
unique for tourists to see although the third Monday, 17th of Septem-
Approximately one half of Ore­ capTlol because plumbers, now re
we, who see it every day, may hav-» ber.
gon’s population are qualified auto­ ctiving $12 a day, want $13, and
Mrs. Strahl has located her mil­ mobile drivers according to Sec­ labor, rs in the one san/and gravel
tiouble b.lieving it.
Yet, except for the road from linery store in the Carlson build­ retary -of State Snell who expects supply company
striking for
Pendleton to Cabbage hill, which ing, Main street, nextr door to the number of operators’ licenses m ore pay and snorter hours.
is short, the road from Pendleton Moore Bros. & Ginn.
now being issued by his depart­
DeMoss
Bros., Henry and ment to pass the 500,000 mark.
to Walla Walla and some of thi
NOTICE TO CRROITORS
road from there to Spokane, there George, have acquired title to the
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
are no federal highways in the DeMoss property, and are prepar­
Decentralization of the-federal i that the undersigned, Sam Van
north west, except the Sherman ing to make som? very desirable government was advocated by | Vactor, has been duly appointed
highway, that give motorists a improvements in that place.
State Treasurer Walter K. Peer- administrator of ~ the estate of
Andrew McDonald is storing his son at a luncheon this week attend­ Orville G. Smith, Deceased, and
close view of the wheat fields that
are so important in the economic i wheat for $1 a bushel.
ed by state, county and city offi­ has qualified as such administra­
life of this section of land.
Mr. Temole late of Wasco is em- cials. 'Gael H. Chatters, Chicago, tor All persons having claims
If Oregon highways are to show j ployed now in Wallis Cash Store. director of" the Municipal Finance against said estate are hereby noti
fied and required to present the
Oregon to visitors no highway im-
.
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rem the Observer Sept. 2, 1910 • Officers’ association, told the as­ same, duly verifi d, to the First
provements could be made that
sembled officials that county an i
'The threshing machine for the city governmental units are suffer­ National Bank of Portland, S h u ­
would be more desirable.
However advantageous the sur­ Experimental farm will arrive in ing from over-regulation by feder­ man County Branch, Moro, Ore­
facing of the Shaniko »ection about ten days.
gon, within six months from the
W. B. McCoy managed the deal al and state bureaus.
date of the first publication ot
would be to the state, it is up tc
local citizens and county officials which was closed last week be­
Benefit payments to jobless this notice, to-wit: August 11,
to see that it is done. The highway tween Drs. Goffin and the Vancou­ workers in Oregon have now pass­ 1939.
Sam Van Vactor
commission has placed it on thi ver Realty Co., taking the Goffin ed the $9,000,0(10 mark accordin'’
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Administrator.
program. It may be taken off un­ siock farm in this county.
a report by the Oregon Unem­
Nipped at just the right time to
less we show sufficient interest to
Brown
&
Van
Vactor,
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ployment Conpensation commis­
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counteract the requests of other Monday afternoon to prevent a de- sion.
Attorneys
delrgations who will ask for structive fire, an incipient blaze
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money for their own projects. was squelched at the home of Jas
THE COUNTY COURT OF
Governor Charles A. Sprague IN THE
STATE OF OREGON
Therefore, if the road is not built Tomlin in this city. It started in and Mrs. Sprague are vacation
the kitchm wood box, but howl at an ¡Oregon beach resort this
FOR
.P U N T Y
in 1940 it will be our fault.
nobody knows. The w»H paper was week. ’The governor came in to
In Ue
burned off to the celling and the Salem Wednesday to preside ove ship of the E state of LeRoy R
WE CAN STAY OUT
woodbox was reduced to a char­ the regular weekly session of th i Martin, an Insane Person. ; .
One hears op every side these coal substance.
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Board of Cdntrol but otherwise he, C I T A T I ON ;
Evefyone so fortunate as to be has put aside all official cares for
days a debate on the question of
To* LeRoy II. Martin, the above
whither this country can stay out i present at the Annual Harvest thi week.
named insane person, to Myles
of a European war or not. It is Social given by L. L. Peetz last
Elroy Marlin, to Lola Beatrice
possible that we will not, but we I week, were treated royally, and
C’.elland, the next of kin of the j
‘‘What do you sell?”
certainly can stay out if we have ; had the time of their lives.
said LeRoy II. tyartin, an insane
•‘Salt.”
S. S. Hayes of Portland was with
learned the lessons of 1917 prep-
person.
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“I’m a salt seller, too.”
Pendleton’s thirtieth annual Rfcund-Up, Sept. 13, 14, 15, 16, will see a new president ride into the arena.
trly.
us Monday.
IN THE NAME OF THE
‘ Shake.”
»We should have learned that
Mr$. A. J. Syron was on the sick
STATE OF OREGON: You and He’s Bill Switzler, (top), former pick-wp « B a and many tim es judge at the internationally known western
even if we are the largest democ- j list last week.
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each of you are hereby required, •how. Below, oome of the 2,000 Indians, gorgeously costumed, who appear in parades, and who camp at the
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racy and have ideas about govern- I
to be and appear before the above Round-XJp grounds during Rou id-U p week.
GEORGE G. UPDEGRAFF entitled
ment, we are not the savior of the j From the Observer Sept. 3, 1920
court within ten days
Pendleton, Aug. 14th.—A whirl­ these goes also the $5000 sterling place originals no longer In exis­
world nor the anointed judge of | Eleven Sherman county Softools
from the ,d*te^«f the* service of wind drama of riding, roping, and silver Sam Jackson trophy. New tence. Every pioneer vehicle known
other nation’s disputes. There are ; will begin the fall term within the
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this citation updfi you if served Bulldogglng, starring co boys, cow­ departure in the world championship is found in that long amazing pro­
those in power who atill think we next ten days. Schools beginning
within Shermaq^County, Oregon, girls and Indians, and with bucking bucking this year will be the use of cession, from the Indian travois
should be the final arbiter of in­ September 6t^< are Grass Valley,
being the county in which this broncs, longhorn steers and bawling chutes instead of the former method (pronounced trav-wah,) used by the
M o ro an d W a»co
ternational right and w ron^and Boardman, Erskine, Harmony, Gor
proceeding is pending, and within calves as co-actors, the Pendleton of saddling the mounts in the arena. redman to transport family goods
man, Brock. Kent school will
to keep our sons from being shot
twenty
days if served within any Round-Up will go into its thirtieth The old system will be used for the from one camp to another, to the
on foreign battle fields we may start on the 7th. On the 13th
other county of this state, if annual performance for four thrill- northwest bucking. Thus the Rour.d- prairie schooner which creaked
have to change them. We can stay- Moro, DeMoss Lickskillet, and
personally served, or if served by packed days, September 13, 14,15, 16. Up will be the only rodeo In the westward with the first migration.
out of war if we want to stay out. Fairview will begin.
Bethlehem Chapter, No. 78.O.E.S. publication, then within twenty- I Now in its third decade and inter­ country offering to spectators a The Indians, 2,000 of them, bring a
Fred Downing and wife are vis-
If the note writing of European
Moro, Oregon
eight days from the date of the I nationally known as th« bigeest chance to compare the two methods. brilliant climax to the mighty caval­
diplomats is comparable to thq, iting in Portland
Besides the dally parades at the cade; chiefs, bucks, braves, squaws
Meets Every Second and
first publication of this citation, community owned, non-profit rpdeo Round-Up
Don Wheat has purchased the
grounds, the Pendleton —aged grandmothers, Tfidian maid­
quarelling and name calling and
Fourth Thursdays in each or if served in any other state i in existence, the Round-Up’s ocm-
talk that often goes on between’ J. C. McKean residence property
Month. Visiting members within the United States, then petition is open to the world of top- show offers its magnlficlent West­ ens and tiny papooses, drowsing in
two men when aroused, the wai on Court Street.
performers, who will compete ward Hoi parade, staged nowhere the beaded “tekashes” on their
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within twenty-eight days from the j hand
Miss Faith Ginn expects to leave Rose Amidon, W,M.
may be indefinitely postponed.
for $9,365 prizes. Of this sum, $4400 else in the world, which will wind mother’s backs.
date of the service of thja citat.on goes for events in whieh points ere through Pendleton streets on Fri­ This year sees a new Round-Up
Those who talk long about it and about "the 10th for Qupago where
Ruth Sparling, Secretary.
upon you, to show cause wEy a offered for the winner of tfce oll- day, third day of the show, at 10 a. president in the saddle;, he’s Bill
expend their anger in words are she will attend the Moody Bible In -|
license should not bb granted for vound cowboy championship of the m. The parade was conceived as a Switzler, active in the show since its
less likely to come to blows than stitute this current term,
Lupine Rebekah Lodge No. 116 the sale of certain real property
world, who’ll be given the crown at tribute to the pioneers of Oregon, Inception; a pick-up man in the
those who strike first and talk Miss Grace Muir has taken charge
Moro, Oregon
belonging
to
the
estate
of
the
said
the
close , of this season’s shows and its name came from his battle arena for 17 years, and seven times
afterwards. It is to be hoped that of the books of the Deschutes Mo- Meets 2d A 4th Tues
cry.
Some 5,000 participate, in ­ Judge.
LeRoy H. Martin, and described as throughout the United States.
this is the case, although the war tor company and will hold the po- day of each month.
cluding
whites and Indians, and
For the evening hours, the vivid
follows,
to-wit:
The four major events at the
may be actually started before sit»on of bookkeeper.
Visiting members wel
every
entry
is
historically
correct.
Happy
Canyon pageant, a story of
Lo,ts
Nine
and
Ten
in
Block
Round-Up
are
bucking,
steer
roping,
this is printed.
come.
Original relics are used and exact the old West, is offered, followed by
From the Grass Valley Journal
steer bulldogglng, and calf roping,
Three, Rossmere Addition to
Wheat wagons hake been on the Rebekah Wilson, N.G
and xor the high point winner hi replicas have been constructed to re­ dancing and games.
the City of Portland in Mult­
England, according to Life, has
Florence Johnston.Se«
move
this
week
and
the
two
ware­
nomah
County,
-Oregon.
found the ideal professional wrest­
of school age who havfc taken up to see if any vehicle is closely ap­
This citation is served upon
ler; ideal because of his extreme house? and the elevator have been Eureka Lodge No. 121 A-F & A-M
the bicycling pastime, the Ore­ proaching if/making a lift turn.
kept
on
the
jump.
ugliness, his lack of all the re-
Meets on the 1st and you and each of you by publication
gon
Motor association has suggest­
6. Do not ‘‘hitch on” to another
The rain of Saturday bight and
finments usually desired in the
3rd Thursday eve­ thereof for a period of four con­
ed
the
following bicycle safety vehicle.
human face and form. Who wants Sunday morning stopped all thresh
secutive
weiks
in
ihe
Sherman
nings of each month.
rules:
7. The law says you may not
to see a good looking man get ing machines, but most most ° t
Visiting members «or County Joprna^ a^jiewfpaper of
1. Two on a ‘‘bike” is one too ride a bicycle on the sidewalk.
them
were
able
to
resume
work
his features messed up on a idirty
dially invited to meet general circulation, printed and
many,
Monday afternoon.
canvas ?
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published in Mor« ; in Sherman
with us.
8 a Do not zigzag or do cjrcus
Turp Hill is up from Forest A. B. Christianson W. M.
2. All traffic lights and other stunts on street or highway. Such
County, Oregon, by order entered
Today’s mushroom growth of traffic signals apply to the bicycle. exhibitions are only for the circus
A few years ago Labor day was Glove visiting his many friends
C. V. Belknap, Secy. in this cause by the above entitled
observed only by members of ®nd looking after his farming in
court on August 9th, 1939, and bicycle riders has increased traffic
3. Dismount and walk across and are dangerous on streets which
yalwr unions and the average cltl- terests.
Moro Lodge No. 113, I. O. O. F. the date of (he first publication of 1 hazards, according to The Oregon a congested intersection wher: are used for traffic.
Star Ruggles has bought the
Moro, Oregon
zen didn’t bother to learn when it
this citation is August 11, 1939.
Slate Motor Association. In the there are no traffic lights. Do not
9. When approaching a rail­
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L. Peetz Holt Oregon Special
Meets 1st and 3rd
occurred. Now everyone observes
WITNESS the Honorable George [ old days “wheelmanship” and rid- dodge in and out of traffic.
road grade crossing and the red
Tuesdays — in the A. Potter, Judge of the County ¡Ug skill were aims of the averrge
it by doing no labor on the first after Mr. Peetz had finished., his
4. When two or more bicycles light is flashing, also wher’ . there
harvest run. The Harris is for
I.O..O.F. hall Trai Court of the Statd of Oregon for bicyclist. Now, with seven or eight aie traveling abreast, they should is no signal and where you cannot
Monday in September.
sale at a bargain* price of $1,250.
sient ~ and visiting Sherman County, with the seal of million cyclists roaming from the travel in single file when other see at least a block in either direc­
“Uncle” Ben Brown has return­
brothers are cordi said Court affixed this 9th day I Atlantic to the Pacific, a new mcn- traffic is approaching.
Perhaps if the Shearers grade
tion, come to a full stop.
ally invited to meet of August, 1939.
toad on both sides of the river is ed to Kent and is looking fine.
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ace
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the
“wobblcyclist”
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has
de-
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Always
give
a
signal
to
JÜ. The bicycle should never bo
with us.
made J secondary highway it will • Born: At the Vintin Hotel, Mon-
George A. Potter
veloped. To encourage safety in those behind when turning, by ex­ left lying around on the playgiound
he improved but there is certainly day morning, August 30th 1920 to Vet non Miller, N. G.
COUNTY-JB(Jp<;js;
, cycling among the distance riders, tending the hand. Also signal where some onq-nrght fall over it
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of it. Cottonwood Mr and Mrs. W. L. Holmes, aj ' .* r • ’
Triiltt, Secretary., County ^ o u T t'^ r .'
~ 40-43 i a* well as in the ranks of children before stopping. First look back and be injured.
has been'a secondary* road for sen.
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Pendleton Ready to Let ’er Buck, Sept. 13-16
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In Other Days
Bicycle Saftey
Rules Suggested
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