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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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