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F A M * SBSRMAN COUNTY J OUBNAU
Scheduled For
ORBGON. FRIDAY. NOVBMBER (, 1,4#
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Grass Valley
Death Rate
Home 9 Elk
A meeting will be held next
Saturday at the county courthouse
beginning at two o'clock. REA de-
vfkpm ent in Sherman county will
be the subject discussed and Eric
Johnson, superintendent of Wasco
county’s REJA, his engineer, a rep
resentative from the Bonnevilb
administration and one from ths
REA itself, will be here to tell of
tbeii plans for bringing REA
fj'ecfcricity to this county.
Beautiful Christmas Cards. Miss
Vivian Troune.
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Mr. and M % W . A. Ruggles
were In St. Helens Saturday to
visit with their son, ,Philip and
wife.
it
Merril Oveson was in Corvallis
last Friday and Saturday to con
fer with officials of the state
college in connection with the ex
periment station of which he is
superintendent.
Mr. and Mrs. Marius Douma re
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I »*ext three or four years, paticu- evening was spent playing five-
turned late SSnrday « night
from , ar,y *
armame„t program
hundred.
a trip that took them from Lan
should disrupt the practice of in-
iHenry Clements of The Dalles
stng
delivery
. , .
, . e“ h »*"•
new where
car »0 they
N mt took
York.
doSn' on the a 1 , trodu<:lng
modebl
is here visiting at the home ol
i
v a
Atlantic coast and home by the ;
Mr and Mrs. John Hays.
Marion Van Metre left Monday
morning for Prineville on busi
• v'-
southern route. They have been Kick Up Tunes
gone for about a month.
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Drops
repair shops of the nation employ
some 200,000 mechanics and 120,-
000 helpers within the draft age,
according to a survey just report
Dell Olds, Earl Olds,
ed to the Oregon State Associa Eakin, Jack Lewis, Roy
tion by the A.A.A.
rnd Alfred Kock left Friday for
Since there are but an e stim a t the Blue Mountains elk hunting.
ed 360,000 mechanics and 160,000 They returned Tuesday evening
helpers of all ages in the 90,000 with four bull elk and five cow
garages and repair shops, the elk. They reported nice weather
figures foretoken the possibility while there, but snowing the day
of a shortage of trained mechan they left.
ics when the draft and other phases
Roy Hogue, Ralph Balzer, Ed
of national defense get under way Graves, Harry Stark and Frank
and point to a need for prompt Bayer were visitors in The Dalles
institution of mechanic training Sunday evening.
programs, the Motor Association
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Newcomb
points but.
were (business visitors at Arling
Already, the national defense ton Saturday.
program has ’accounted for «the 1 Mrs. IA. F. Balzer and son 'Ralph
weaning of some 10,000 mechanics were business visitors in Moro on
from the repair shops to the a v is -, Monday.
tion and automotive industries, the
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. (Dunlap en
survey indicated. At the ssn»c tertained friends at a dinner party
t me, about70 per cent of the Wednesday evening. Those pres
garages answering the question- ent were Mr. and Mrs. Herman
rsire anticipated an increase in Peters, Mr. and Mrs. Eben Kee
automobile repair work during the and Mr. and Mrs. Ro yBamet. The
Saturday
The
kTed Paterson.
Fred Stradley was a business
visitor in The Dalles Monday.
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Mr. and Mrs. O. N. Ruggles had
Garage Men
Neededin Service Honten B r in g
The garages and automobile
as dinner guests Sunday his
mother, Mrs. Lucy Ruggles and
The traffic death rate for the first
Mr. and Mrs. Cauthers of Moro,
r:ne
months of 1940, as expressed
Mr. and Mrs. Earl McKinney ano
•n
the
number of persons killed per
family of Heppner and Mr. and
100,00^0,000
miles of travel, was
Mrs. Willard Barnet and son
10.8,
a
slight
decrease from the
Keith.
Arch Cantrall has purchased the rate of 11.2 recorded for the same
Joe Folda house in the north end period last year, it was announced
of town and will move his family today by Earl Snell, secretary of
there the last of the week.
The Baptist . Mission society state.
The lowered death rate is a
met a t the home «f Mrs. Sam Stark
tribute
to the driving care exer
Wednesday afternoon.
cised
by
Oregon motorists because
Mr. and Mrs. • Fred Cox were
it
indicates
that in spite of more
visitors in The Dalles Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Kendrick Dunlap travel in Oregon, and the conse
Miss Virginia Helyer, John Reck- quent greater exposure to accidents
p»an, Miss Patricia Cyphers anc tnere was actually a lower percen
William 'Beck attended the dance tage of tatal accidents, Snell said.
Traffic in Oregon,^ as computed
at Antelope Saturday night.
from gasoline consumption, wa3
Clyde and Doris Stradley and eight percent greater than during
C.
Durm wuoJ, pilot to Gen. Chi
Miss Georgia Blaylock were hosts the first nine months of 1939. In ang lla i-s h ;k , says the U. S. can
at a Hallowe’en party at the F. L. the face of this increase, the actual lick Jaycn In 93 days. Fnrm wood
Stradley home Wednesday eve death toll increased only three per w ill r .ii.r n to China a fte r visiting
ring. Games and stunts were the cent, giving the lower death rate his m e tie r in Chicago.
sports of the evening, with re for the period.
freshments »being served later in
•During the'month of September
thf evening. Thos preent were this year, the traffic death rate was
Mr. and Mrr. C. A. Ostreich, Mr. 9.3 as compared to a rate of 13.fi
snd Mrs. Ted Ball, Mr. and Mrs. for the corresponding month of
Lester Barnum,fcMr. and Mfs. Har 1939. There were 26 deaths dur
old Eakin, Mr. and Mrs. Norris^ ing that month, a decrease of 27
Glikison and Mr. and Mrs. Glen per cent from the toll of 36 for
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the corresponding month a year
Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Laffoon and ago. Travel during the month of
Mrs. H. (A. Sommer were visitors September was five per cent over
in Arlington Thursday.
that of the same month last year.
Miss May -Ellis of Hood River
is a guest a t the home of Mr. and
Mistress—What’s wrong, Mary?
Mrs. Ted Ball.
you
look worried.
Mr. and Mr. Dick Reckman
_ I t ’s that there baker, mum.
daughter Margaret were
’E’s been an’ gone an’ never come.
n The Dalles Saturday.
The Grass Valley library w:l!
TF7/ y t E n j o y I t ?
have the following new books on
the shelf Saturday. Frontier by
Winpower Needs No Tail Vane
Coe; Mystery Omnibus, Eberhart;
Therefore More Power
at you r ranch
Mrs. Miniver, Struther; Four Men
Gei Our Prices on New Batteries
and a Prayer, Garth; Clear Trail, W H E A T $ 2 p e r t o n
9-21 Plate, Spun Glass,
Seltzer; The Family, Fedorova.
10 yr Guarantee
—o v e r 2 t o n lo ts--
The bazaar sponsored by the
Also Used Delcos
G^ass Valley Rebekah lodge was P h o n e 5 2 1
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De Moss A Son
well attended. Lunches were serv
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Moro,
Ore.
Res. DeMoss Springs
ed during the day and five hundred
Grass V aliev, Oregon
was played- a t nine tables during
the evening while listening to elec-
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r* turns. Mra, Art Bibby and
Jsimes Matthea held high scores,
with low scores going to Mrs.
Areh Cantrall And Roy Barnet.
Two ladies were sitting at an ness.
Mr. and Mrs. Giles French were'
Among the shoppers and visi
in Fossil Saturday night to attend open window.
tors
in The Dalles Saturday were
One
was
listening
to
a
church
a Willkie-McNary rally.
Mr.
and
Mrs. Herman Schilling
choir
practising
across
the
way.
Mr. and Mrtfc Ray* Blake and |
and
son
Robert,
Mrs. Maude Gar
The
other
was
listening
to
the
Mrs. (Bernice Wilt, drove to Hood
rett
and
Children,
Daisy and Rob-*
River election day to celebrate noise of the crickets.
ert,
Mrs.
Glen
Karnes,
Mrs. W. J.
The
first
one
said,
“How
loudly
the birthdays ef Mrs. Scott Fort- <
Davis
and
son
Clyde,
Mr.
and Mrs.
they
sing
tonight!*'
nor, the Blake's daughter and Mrs
Atod the other one said: “Yes, Del Eakin and daughter, Emma
WiJt, which occurs within a few
and they tell me they do it with Jean, Mrs. Kendrick Dunlap, Miss
days of each other.
Anita Dunlap, Mrs. Don Smith and
their hind legs.”
The missionary society will meet
Miss Patricia Cyphers.
at the church auditorium Wednes
I. V. Kane assisted by Miss Jean
day, November 13 at 2 p. m. A
Powell
and the pupils of the 7th
Thanksgiving special service will
anc
8th
grades, celebrated Hallow
be held and , an offering taken.
e'en
with
a party at the school
FOR
SALE:
The
Catherine
John
Meidames 0 . A. Ramsey, Ida
house
last
Tuesday evening. The
son
residence
in
Wasco.
Inquire
Davis and W. Cauthers will be the
six
lower
grades
had their party
of
T.
Lester
Johnson,
Wasco
or
leaders.
1-3 cn Thursday afternoon.
Moro.
Mr. snd Mrs. J. K. McKean were
Mr. and Mrs. I£dgar Alley and
in Portland Wednesday.
FOR SALR: 76 head choice wean- children, John and Barbara, were
Paul S t Germain was here on | er and feeder pigs. Price Reas
visitors in The Dalles Saturday.
behalf of the International Har-
onable. Bob Blair, Rednmond
The grade school volley ball
verter company Thursday.
Ore.
Pd 52-1 team of Kent was defeated by the
The annual roll call of the Red I
local grade school team on the local
Cress will begin next Monday, WANTED: General Repairing. Rea floor Thursday afternoon.
Glenn McLochl ilin is home
Noverriber 11, according to Mrs.
the
hospital
|n <
d able to get
ital *m
sonable Rates. Write R. D.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Dryden apd
Robert Hoskinson who is chairman ; i Lyons, Grass Valley. Box 72. 51- son accompanied by Mrs. Shelton about a iittla/although still not
for Sherman county. Local chair-' 1 52-1-2.
Fritts and her mother, Mrs. Anne ready for work.
Mrs John ^<'-*3 was brought
man will be named this week.
Scliadewitz, went to The Dalles
home
from thfihoopital this we?k
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Sparling , -
Friday, Mrs. Schadewitz return
after
¡apendiaf taro weeks, ther?
rnd Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Byers re
ing to her home in The (Dalles, af
D r y G o o d s , C lo t h in g a n d
ns
the
result Of ah auto accident.
turned Monday from s week end
ter visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Her
daughter,
Mrs. Fred Hellberg
♦rip to Brush Prairie. Wn., to visis
Fritts, for a week.
S h o e s to m e e t th e
Mr. and Mrs. John Thogerson.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Krusow were rnd daughter are here to help her
Mrs. Lewis McKee entertained j
business visitors in T h e' Dali ?s mother for a time.
n e e d s o f th e
a group of friends Monday after- j Moro Community Presbyterian Friday.
noon with «bridge being played CnurCh. Sunday, November 10,1940
Mr. Edgar Alley and children,
c o m m u n ity
during the day. Mrs. E. R. Barxee 10.00 - Sunday School. Classes for John and Barbara, and Mrs. Will
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all ages. Chester W. Smith, sup ard Barnett and son Keith, were
won the prise.
’ D e p e n d a l e , Q u a lit y G r o c e r ie s
Elmer Barxee left last week for j erintendent.
visitors in The Dalles Wednesday
A tto r n e y A t L a w
Newport where he will open his 11:00 - Morning Worship. Special
Mrs. Tom Alley entertained
father’s house and get ready for music furnished by the choir. The members of the Grass Valley
the arrival of Mrs. Barxee who will pastor is preaching the second triage club at her home Wednes
M o ro an d W aaco
lesve soon for Newport where they sermon next Sunday morning on day afternoon. Scoring honors
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will spend the next month. Mrs. • the general theme, “Sinrs of To were held by Mrs. A. F. Balzer for
Schaeffer was in Portland this day.”
club and Mrs. Dick Huhman for
week.
The young people will
guest with low score
score being hel I
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Marvin of their discussion hour next Sunday • by Mrs. Dell Olds.
Hermistorisrpentoiaction dayhere j. even i ng at 7:30 at the home .Pi
Mr. and Mrs. Marion Van Metre
visiting with her father, Harry Mr. and Mrs. Russel Belshee east left Thursday on a business trio
town. Automobiles will be pro to Portland returning home Fri-
Kunsman.
Hallowe’en passed with little vided for all who plan to go. The cay evening.
disturbance in Moro with the ex ptcple will assemble at the manse
The high school students and
ception of the over turning of ' at 7:30 o’clock.
teachers had a Hallowe’en party
The monthy, meeting of the Mis in the fchool gym Wednesday eve
chicken house for J. M. Axtell and
the soaping of most of the win sionary Society will meet on Wed ning. Games and stunts were the
nesday afternoon, November 13 at diversion of the evening, with r?
dows along main street.
Mrs. A. B. Christensen was hos- the church. Mrs. Ramsey, Mrs. f’fcshments of doughnuts and cide
teer Wednesday to friends who Cauthers and Mrs. Davis will have being ?erved.
charge of the program.
came out to play bridge.
Mrs. Ed Alley went to The Dalles
Between forty and fifty people Thursday to visit her daughter in
Miss Nellie Jackson, Miss Effie
Jackson and Mrs. Reba Nye were attended the covered dish dinner the hospital. Mr. Alley went down
d’nner guests at the horn« of Mr. at the church last Monday evening. Saturday and brought them home.
and Mrs. A, M. Nelson, Wednesday The pastor gave a graphic expla
The Social Service club met at
nation of various philosophies of the home of Mrs. Charles Lemley
night.
Visitors at the A. S. Johnson life, comparing them with the Friday afternoon.
home last Sunday included Mr. Christian standards. This dinner
W. E. Garrett and Mrs. Alice
and Mrs. C. P. Ragsdale, Mrs. is the first of a series of five plan Schekneck were visitors at Moro
Norvall Coulter and grandson ned for the winter eason, to taki Saturday.
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Larry, from Hood River; Mr. and place on the first Monday evening
Miss Virginia Huhman and Miss
Mrs. W. H. Ragsdale from The of each month.
Helen Morrison of The Dalles
Henry G. Hanson, Pastor. spent the week end visiting Miss
Dalles and Dr. and Mrs. L. D.
Wleman from Salem.
Huhman’a parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Wasco Methodist church: Sunday H. D. Huhman. ,
Dr. and Mrs. Viggo Haufelt
a’rived home Tuesday from a trip School at 10 a. m. Classes for all
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Schilling
to Detroit where they bought a ages.
had- as dinner guests Sunday Mr.
The morning worship will be in ana Mrs. W. F. Schilling, Mr3.
new car. They cgm® home through
Ohio,, Kentucky, Arkansas, Texas keeping with ArmistiOC Day. The Amelia Peterson and Mr. and Mrs.
and the southwestern states ar- young people will furnish special
music and tl^e pa*>r will preach
riving just in time to vote..
cn the subject* ‘’Armistice.” Let s
go to church a»4 pay tribute to the
MORO SCHOOL NOTES
T. Lester Johnson
Last Friday marked the la<t memory of thete who gave their
volleyball game of the season. lives to make the yorld a bettar
LAWYER
It was played 0» the local floor place in which to Hve.
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against the Grass Valley teams. E p a -th
The Grass Valley boys and the
Moro girls were victorious. Both
4| A A a * a.,
games were close and exciting.
The boys have now started bas
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ketball practice. The first contest
will be the jamboree at Rufus on
h e hristian cience onitor
Decemebr 6th. Each team in the
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county will play a quarter against
each of the other teams. The team
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with the most points will be the
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I wish to thank the Voters at
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