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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1940)
r-^ rr 4'ICIOAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1946 them to Europe me y b« made as pa&ily as was the 1 t one. Were we at warf there could be po complaint against taking men from their businesb for military duty. There was not, in* the Iasi war. The point is that the guards men; are being taken for a duty theyfdld not contemplate at the tfm< of enlistment, t This must mean that hereafter enlistment in the guard will have to be on a different basis, for if they may be called to foreign ser vice, or for training periods of a year when the nation is at peace a different group will have to be n.ade interested in the job. Kent Youth On Mr. ^nd Mrs. Walter Wilson at» relatives and friends a few days. working for Jay McKay this sum tended a ¿how in The Dalles Saturn They returned home Monday. mer, left for his home A# t* at Beaver* day evening. Gene Van Kleek, who has been ton Monday. ' ' > ' WVWUw W V Continued from page one) Sherman County Observer Established Nov. 2, 1888 tel officials, especially on one occa Grass Valley Journal sion when after Governor had issu Established Oct. 14^. 1897 ed a proclamation calling for the CONSOLIDATED March 6, ¡1931 display 'of the flag on all public buildings on flag day it was discov Wasco News-Enterpris^/ ered that there was no place from ji Established Nov. 1891 Albert Pluemke of Salem is which to display a flag on the cap CONSOLIDATED March 4., 1932 itol itsel.f The Board of Control » spending a few days at the home this week sent out a call for bids of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.'Max JJU6 on not one but two flag poles, one Pluemke, before leaving for train M l u s Mt at either end of the building. The ing with the Oregon Guards, of S E R V IN G T H E proposed poles are not to be oi which he is a member. Mrs. Wren Hogue and Roy brass as specified by the capital Published Every Friday at nuhitects but are to be tall firs, Hogue spent a few days last week Moro, Oregon 75 to 80 feet high, cut frotn Ore at the L. W. Amick home. Editor Mr. and Mrs. Charles Purchase Giles L. French gon’s own forests. - .7 i and Jesse Helyer attended a show Entered as second-class matter at Oregon patrons of private elee- ¡ The Dalles. the Postoffice at Mor<* Oregon Mrs. Grace Gregg and Delores trie utilities paid but a total of under Act of Congress of March w»**wsal $2 l *,189,107 for e l^ t/ic service dur were visiting at the home of Mr. 3, 1879. ing 1939, according to a report and Mrs. L. W. Amick Sunday af- September 15, 1911 OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER compiled by O. K. Bean, public ttinoon. Dr. Marie M. Goffin returned lo utilities commissioner. The 1,349,- SUBSCRIPTION RATES Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Helyer re Moro on the 11th from a brief trip 174,260 kilowatt hours of electric Payable in Advance turned home Sunday after attend to the Rose City. power consumed in. Oregon in 1939 ONE YEAR ......................... S1 50 ing the state fair,. Geraldine Hon. Geo; B. Bourhill, late judge represented an increase of 11.62 Norton returned home with them S E P T E M B E R 13,1940 of this county, was a visitor on the iH>c nt over the 1938 figures and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Cratty who 9th from his Rowena home. ,vrif- 7.79 per cent over the previous Mrs. Maie Nicholson and - ’ton, h’gh record established in 193 7, have been visiting relatives here, ih é T county fair : nd Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Cratty and Grandma Rust, are visiting Commissioner »Bean said, anti Rose left Wednesday morning Along in early fall when days relatives and friends at Boyd this osts of C. J. Nicholson week, g, get shorter, stock is being brought The industrial lx5om occasioned lor Santa Rosa, California to visit George Haskell has macfe his ar by the national defense program for some time. Donald von Borstel home from the mountains and crops are harvested come the_ county rangements to return to the farm and war orders from Europe is be is working in the garage while Mr. fairs. Small towns where these he left at DeMos3 Springs last ing reflected in a substantial in Slutty is away. are to be held start a designated soring. Warren Norton arrived at Kent crease in employment in Oregon if Hon. R. J: Ginn arrived in this records of the state unemployment Friday to visit his brother, J. E. wiek with every evidence of nor mality. Except for a little more city on business Tuesday and will conpehsation commission can be Norton and fam ily^"' buzzing on the street cpmers, a remain in the vicinity several days accepted as an accurate barometer. /.Mr, and Mrs., Robert Schilling Miss Jeanette RutlêJge has re Only 2445 claims for compensation look Bobetta to Portland last faster step on the part of the man- tgers, there is no indication that turned from a visit with Mr. and vt u filed with the commission dur Tuesday where she was entered at Mrs. Rollins at Seaside covering ing August while benefit payments Dtembecher Hospital for' treat there is to be a change. Then it begins to arrive. A truck a’.l summer. of $217,-225 made during the month ment. Mr. and Mrs. Schilling re L W. Ross, jeweler at Wasco, is were nine per cent below payments turned home Wednesday. load of hay for a horseman’s entry to a race, a couple of limber look closing up his business preparatory ide in August, 1939, While bene S e p te m b e r 8 , 1 8 6 5 . ..fo llo w in g the close o f the C ivil W a r,* th e Among those from here shop ing horses, numerous booted men to moving to Albany, where he has fit payments Tor the first eight ping and visiting in The Dâlles last firs t n a tio n a l b a n k on th e Pacific C o ast* was fo u n d e d . For th re e - who look as if they were used to secured a store room and dwelling months of the current year total week included; Mr. and Mrs. J. H. riding the buckers, brightly paintej to move into. ling $3,310,513 were slightly high- Wilson, Hugh Hoskinson, Frank q u a rte rs o f a ce n tu ry it has ta ke n an active p a rt in the c o lo rfu l t. ucks bearing the innumerable Sepember 16, 1921 ti than claims,paid out during the I riin t George Howell, Mr. and Mrs ______• ..... f.. -- . -- ... ... d e ve lo p m e n t o f this g re a t state. TODAY, w ith its sta te -w id e portions of merry-go-round and , same period j „r of «non 1939 they ..... were far _ ! With the arrival in Moro this below the ^4,728,632 paid out du»-- Gus Koepke, Mr. and Mrs. Walte-- feiris wheel, a trick horse or two, Wilson, Mrs. John Decker, Mrs. branches, it bring s to in d iv id u a ls , and the tra d e , com m erce t, t owns with a smear of grease Tnursday of tire three Barzee fami ;v;g the first eight months of 1938, Robert Schilling, Mrs. Jay McKay, lies, E. E., E. R. , and Art, the paint on their ears, truck loads of and in d u stry o f O re g o n a co m p le te , m odern b a n kin g service. he commission pointed out. Mrs. Allen Bekkedahl. monstrous draft horses. The hunt summer camp at Camp Sherman ♦ + • Mrs. G. L. Hosjcinson and Elea- ing is put on the streets, citizens n-ay be said to have been closed M em bers of the Oregon n ational i.or, Mrs, Charles Purchase, Mrs. parade themselves inx^orgeous cos for the season. Six families—Wm. guard will uu^ Auaa their right to j Grace Gregg and Delore»' attended .- ■■ z // ß ra n e h tf tumes and the surpressed extf te Hinrichs', O. T?. Belshe, George vote through mobilization into fed- • church in Grass Valley Sunday, nant becomes so great no one can Hennagin, W. F. Jackson, Roy eral service, according to (Attorney Mrs. J. C. Wilson and Nellie left stay at home and roam the streets Powell and L. L. Peetz—returned General I. H. VanWinkle. TWr- last Wednesday morning for Por*- looking and adding to the confus earlier this week. xiBom to Mr. and Mrs. H. C. guardsmen will still retain their , land and Forest Grove to visit ion. Oregon legal residence after their Then, one day, it is here. Thompson on Sunday, September mobilization and departure for con O F P O R T L A N D Ciowds gather at the grounds to 11, an 8J pound son. Mother and centration camps and will have the GEORGE G. UPDEGRAFF babe are doing nicely. cheer their entries ir. the races, Mrs. Harry Horner returned thi> right to vote in their own precincts small boys tug manfully at the lead through the use of absentee vot^r ‘ÁJin t i t en fooïiy A tto r n e y A t L a w lines of their prize winning steers, wt ek from The Dalles, where she baMots. £.igliitin iixiy foivi men, women and children don their had been visiting her mother. » J. K. Mesinger and family have bright raiment, and the fair is on. M o r o a n d W aaco A large delegation of Oregon From early morn until near dawn moved from Wasco to Thp Dalles. Miss Jessie Hoskinson left Thurs ‘intioners who called on the Board the excitement continues. There is day for Corvallis where she will at of Control this week charged that lots to see, plenty to do. nnrK;H;;mu*nKu;.*>u>rnrnt»»înnni cut-of-state bidders for state sup- tend O. A. C. the current term. The county is on parade. The F. L. Burnet’s mother, from pi es represented unfair competi- best of everything is on display and Kcwell county, Missouri, is a visi t’on in that they bid on merchan American-like we indulge in hard competition with neighbors, trying tor in the Moro home of the fam dise of a quality much inferior to that offered by Oregon dealers. Onr ;o outshow, out run, outbuck the ily. Miss Naomi Young left Thursday spokesman for the delegation told others. That’s why we get better, by con for Monmouth, where she will at the Board that the state should re fuse to accept hids from firms out- stantly trying, every year, every tend school. day. And the county fair is one of Grass Valley Journal Sept 16, 1921 s:de the state as. a measure of pro tettion to local firms which pay the principal adjuncts to that con taxes in support of tl)c state gov Sheriff Chrisman and editor Ire stant struggle for supremacy. ernment. The Board instructed tne land were visitors here Monday., As the contests become closer the state, purchasing agent to make Logan Gentry has bought the L. rivalry increases. lAmd here in sure the merchandise offered by tne V. Walton farm outfit and rented Sherman county the contests are cut-of-state bidders was up to state the ranch and will try farming foi . as close as they can be and yet standards and then give the Oregon himself. p,ck a winner. That is why this bidders the benefit of the five per The public schools of this cPv fair is among the best—regardless opened Monday, September 12, with cent differential permitted in home of size. an, enrollment of -30 in the high industry. - school and 47 in the grades. This FALL The state supreme court, whose breaks all records for high schoei We’ve been noticing it for a -attendance on the opening day. members have been on vacation couple of weeks. The nights seem Last year’s mark was only 18. 1 • since July, resumed its sittings this week. One of the first appeals to a little chilly, in the mornings the Freshies have enrolled to date. chill does not pass off until several Mrs. Frank Irvine has rented her be heard by the court was that oi minutes of sunshine, and through farm north of town, to Arch Rus- V. R. Osborn of Amity against Peter Zimmerman involving a pri the window the other day, came sell and brother. that unmistakable sign: the smell Mrs. Clara Baker returned to The mary nominating election contes;. of damp stubble, pungent and Di lies Sunday to be wity her son Elva. acrid. And it is fall. The wheat is in R. C. Atwood of Wasco, and J. C. the bins or warehouses and the Harper of Moro, were business straw that is to be stacked is haul visitors in Grass Valley Tuesday ed and piled; the stockmen who buy morning. stuff for winter feeding are bring Rev. Poolton and family left here ing them home and the stock that Tuesday morning for their new gres to the mountains is feeding home in Washington state. down the slopes getting ready to Bethlehem Chapter, No. 78.O.E.b. leave the foothils. Moro, Oregon And yet it is early in the year Meets Every Second and and the days are warm with hardly Fourth Thursdays in each a hint of the cold weather which T h ese Prices O nly W hile Q uantity Lasts—D o n ’t D elay—C om e Early Month. Visiting members we know is sure to - come before Invited long. Soon now is the time when a Naomi Van Gilder, W. M. farmer can tell whether the year Ruth Sparling, Sec. (Continued from page one! has been a successful one for him 1 0 0 per cent cr not. Last year his crop wax Lupine Rebekah Lodge No. 116 000 kilowatts. 6 .0 0 X 16 Spark P lugs______ - The step is u proposal which has planted in dry and unfertile Moro, Oregon^ Eastern been made by Administrator Raver 4-ply ground. Winter rains made it Meets 2d A 4th Tues 2 Gal. Can C o y o te T a ils ____ ___ that the Bonneville administration y>eld fairly well and the harvest day of each month. and be vested with authority to buy was not bad—considering. Now Visiting members wel and C learance Lights. gal. gas plants and facilities of» private util the year would have to be counted come. — gallons gasoline 7c a gal. 1 gallon gasoline For 7c ity companies and re-sell them to as a good one if the 1941 crop could Anna Davis, N. G. public utility districts and munici- be planted in warm wet earth to Florence Johnston, Set* L ocking Gas Caps 1 gal. gas palties. RFC has already offered insure a good start. • * • Eureka Lodge No. 121 A-F & A-M to furnish money to PUDs to pay Meets on the 1st and for property purchased for opera- W heel S pinners______ gas CALLING OUT THE GUARD Reg. $15.95 3rd Thursday eve nings of each month. t on by the public. , The National Guard is being call The pooling of the electrical out- B attery C arriers_____ $ 9 » 9 Ha-Dees Visiting members cor ed to training camps for a year pui of both Bonneville and Grand 12-Month dially invited to meet of hard work. That probably means Coulee is held to be justified in or Grille G u ard s__ the end of the National Guard as with us. and and Guarantee der to encourage the establishing E. Amidon, W.M. it has been known. of industries producing materials gallons gasoline 7c gal 5 Gallons Gasoline 7c gal. Four W ay Rim W rench^jQ ^; l.gal. gas q C. V. Belknap, Secy. Thousands of young men in the necessary to national defence, arid smaller cities of. Oregon and other to the extent that this is true com states have been urged to join the Moro Lodge No. 113, I. O. O. F. F ir e sto n e M uffler Jackets ___ 1 gal. gas munities in the northwest will ben Moro, Oregon guard for a little training with the efit. But it is \yell understood that Meets 1st and 3rd, expectancy that they would be Tuesdays in the the Underlying purpose is to bring a lied out for a yearly training per Set oi 3 J.O..O.F. hall Trai about a situation which ultimately iod and in case of insurrection or will result in creatioh of the on? Sient and visiting invasion. and brothers are cordi contempated central authority for * Now they are called out for and Pint aoministration of the affairs of ally invited to meet W asco C o u n ty ’s G reatest T ire Store training with the stipulation that 5 gallons gasoline 7c gal. both these great projects and fed ’ with us. 1 gallon gasoline 7c gal. they may be taken to anyplace on eral control of the entire electric a g lin iin iii iiii » » m iiiH n |j the weatem hemisphere. Another/ Orlo Martin, N.G. I industry in the Pacific northwest. Vernon Millet, Sec. cnange in the law that would Road To Join Army Mates OREGON COUNTRY In Other Days 1 FIRST RRTIORRIi BRRR Gasoline Gal Read These a t &A thb Big Savings W a lth er-W illia m s G reat 7 -D a y F/C S a le Silver King Oil Firestone Tires 99c Car Heaters $6.66 Batteries $ 3 95 AUTO SUPPLIES - 25c; 1 gaL gas 7c 25c; 1 ga1, gas7c 23c; 1 7c 49c 7c 29c; 1 7c 25c; 1 ga1, gas 7c i___49c; ' ga^ gas 7c J Auto Polish 35c Truck Flares $ 2 95 69c; 7C WALTHER-WILLIAMS CO. •i 4*-
