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»A C E i , SHERMAN COUNTY JOURNAL MORO, OREGON
la n n ta l
Sherman Counly Observer
Established Nov. 2, 1888
. Grass „ Valley. Jo u rn al
Established Oct. 14, 1897
CONSOLIDATED March 6, 1931
' ' > > c o New s-Enterprise
Established Nov'. 1891
_ 7ONS0LIDATED March 4, 1932
published Every Friday a t
Moro, Oregon
(, b-s i . French
Editor
Entered as secondtclass m at’.er at
the Postoffire a f Moro, Oregon
under Act of Congress of March
..... ........
3 1879.
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Payable in Advance
PVF YEAR ..........- ......-..... 5150
JA N U A R Y
3, 1941
Secretary Olcott has issued a
.
,
e le m e n t th a t license tags have , Th<, » a m opera h .u „ , floo was
1 een issued for 519 E Jd.F . autos. used as the bitnquet hall and 274
’ he next popular car in the state pivtes were arranged on - long
j j th e Ford, there being 468 in double tables. Mayor O. J. Goffin
num ber the Buick is third. It is acted as m aster of ceremonies.
From the Observer Jan. 3, 1902
i Hi m ated th a t 7,500 oars will be From the Observer Jan. 6, 1922
Gwedolyn Reese left Tuesday
Guy Walton and Charley Guy­ : unning in the sta te th is year.
for
Salem , w here she will resume
ton both of Kent resolved to
The old year departed leaving
batch no longer and w illing to try this region pure w hite; the soil he - studies a t W illam ette Univer­
double harness, each took a wife ..n^iow and the tem perature soft, sity.
Clarence Lusk was seriously in­
curing the holidays.
to secure the m ost beneficial re ­
Rev. Elder held services . in sults to the grow ing crops from jured in a coasting accident on
Kent school house last Saibbath.
F irst street hill early Friday eve­
the*5 to 7 inches of snow.
• Pat McDonald, Elwood Thomp-
Mrs. Fred Hennagin has re tu rn ­ ning when he collided w ith the
stn and John Christianson, left
large bob sled on the crossirfg in
ed from Portland.
tl eii plows and came to town jres-
front
of the M ethodist church.
T ry the fam ous Sunday dinner
Little Miss Isla Gene, weight 8
terday looking for snow, They a t the Hotel Moro.
pounds, arrived January 2nd to
got sunshine.
Frank Hulery has sold his Per­ gladden the home of Mr. and Mrs.
The paternal hearts of Glen
Junkirf and O. A. Ramsey were cheron stallion to Green Bullack, JL - P. BriSfeine in the days to
gladdened by the arrival of a baby Frank Saxton, and Richard and come.
School resum ed Tuesday with
girl a t the home of each th is week. Robert Divers, of K lickitat county.
Dr. Goffln ’says all a re doing C. K. Cochran and family returned al! teachers present after a pleas­
to their W ashougal home January ant vacation sepnt in as many
nicely.
,
.
Kirk Toms had a lively runaw ay i -!’<*•
when leaving G rant to r M oro's1 County Clerk McPherson spent sections of Oregon.
A watch p a rty and neighborhood
New Year dance. N othing h u rt New Y ears helping M erchant Irby dance was held New Years eve
K
I
Kent, invoice his stock.
at DeMoss in th e old store build-»
j . W. M e r g e r avas the happy
The business interests of Moro
irg . Among those present were
recipient of a holiday visit from entertained the farm ing commu- three
_________
couplees from Moro who
his fath er Jacob, now in hia 80th ;
house s . turyday eVe- ” ’»*<» in cUimi" « * « enu,nelV fine
n
In Other Days
.A
X-K.
IR ID A Y . JANUARY 3. 1041 ,
/
W. C- B ryant estate, Moro
Mowry, -
Lots 3 and
Page 8
.1
.3 "
z
S. O. Clodfelter, Wasco,
A ’m sworthy
Page 9
10
Lenore M. Huis Cothers
Moro, Mowry
Page 10
1 17 26
u 18 29
1 18 22
3
1 19
1 19 19
1 19 17
1 19 “20
1 19 11
4
1 19
1 19 11
1
1
1
1
1
23
24
23
23
24
10
26
25
28
8
1
1
1
■ 1
1
1
1
1
1
1
26
69
68
71
74
76
75
75
73
73
9
19
16
17
6
6
6
11
11
24
.05 , .83
.78
M039 '
*
.12
31
19^8^
122
23
1937 . •
1.04
20
1936
3 5 > 124
.89,
1936 -
.¿5 '
1.45
.99 "
1933-4
. 1.16
.41
.75
1932
» 1.55
.60
.96
1931
6.67
'2.43
4 >34
1930
9.89
3.65
6.34
1929
•l
$25.93
** * t r*
2.15
.18
. 1.97
1939
220
29
1.91
1938
3.97
.74
323
1937
5.48
1.30
4.18
1936
5.17
1.45
3.72
1935
$18.97
1939
1938
1937
1936
1935
1933-4
1932 ,
1931
1930
1929 , -
.08
1.17
.17
1.18
34
1.49
39
1.26
.52
1.34
.70
1.48
.62
1.12
• 1.84
2.90
1.60
2.86
1.52
2.71 <
125
1.35
1.83
1.65
: 1.8b
2.18
1.74,
4.74
4.46 ’
423
$2529
FOR FORTY-ONE
There is a new year. Like a new
page it may be made to contain
v.ha» we w uit it to when it gives
.78
.05
.73
1939 -
w»> to 1942 a year hence.
Mamie E lliott -
1 42 15
1.01
.13
.88
W hat can Sherman county write From the Observer Jan. 3, 1912 I ning »1 a most elaborate .banquet, i ime- , _
1938
N W i ofSW i
1
1 97
19
28
1.08
.20
.88
6n the page of the new year th at 1N~THE CIRCUIT CCUftT GF ,f ~ ilE ~ S tA T E OF OREGON FOR T H E COUfcTT OF SHERMAN
1937
Page 11
1 95 10
1.28
30
.98
1936
will be valuable?
1 100 17
132
.37
There are several things. Among SHERMAN COUNTY, A Politi cul
S6
1935
8 23
2
)
$5.47
tU m are: A long step m ight be
Subdivision of the State of Ore gon,
made toward perm anent establish­
Pla intiff
2.50
.16
2.34
1939
Gladys E. Ford
1 49 16
ment of term inal facilities for our
r*- - 1
ys.
2.63
.34.
2.29
1938
1 49 13
i Wasco T ract Deed Record U
wheat, near the water. It is pos­
MRS W. M> BARNETT, TH E W. M. BARNETT ESTATE, JOHN
4.51
.85
3.69
1937
1 61 17
Page 400
sible that such facilities could be
PH ILL IP BLAIR, W. C. BRYANT ESTATE, S. O. CLODFELTER,
6.26
1.48
4.78
1936
17
61
Page
12'
1
NOTICE
OF
FORECLOS­
built in Sherman county itself and
LENORE M. HULSE COTHERS,*MAMIE ELLIOTT, GLADYS E.
4.86
.61
4.25
1935
3
1 63
URE OF TAX LIENS AS
full investigation, of such possi­
FO R D . ANNIS M. HARRIS EST A TE, VIOLET HAYNES, F. L.
- 4.71
1.70
3.04
1929
1 51 21
SHOWN
BY
SHERMAN
bility seems one of the jobs for
HULERY ESTATE, IN D E PE N -D E N T WAREHOUSE & MIL-
$25.53
COUNTY
FORECLOSURE
I TNG COMPANY, C. L. IRELA N D , W. F. & CARRIE JACKSON,
the year.
LIST FOR THE YEAR 1940
During 1941 the county m ight
B. A. KLICKS, NORTHERN PA C IFIC RAILWAY COMPANY, J. E.
1.21
-
.08
well gravel several more miles of
1.13
Ai.nie M. H arris estate
1939
1 60 20
NORTON KUBY B. PETTYS, JO H N C. RICHARDSON, MRS. C.
1.59
.21
128
read which have been widened and
Kent, Ragsdale A Morrison
1938 '
1 61 11
SNIDER,. CORA L. VINTON EST A T E , and all persons, corpora-
1.89
.35
1.64
graded already. The court has
Lots 1-2-3- and
1937 .
1 60 Tl
ratiens, known or unknown, claim.ii.g any right, title to or interest
2.32
.55
sufficient funds for the purchase
.
1.77
Page 13
1936
1 63 15
in any of the real estate hereinal ter described.
$7.01
of gravel. It has now p retty well
D efendants
gotten over the notion of buying,
.17
.01
.16
Vic let Haynes, Kent
6
1939
1 62
10
To all defendants above named and to all persons owning, or claim ing to own, or having or
a portable rock crusher, we be-
in
any
property
included
in
the
F
o’eclosure
L
ist
hereinafter
set
23
1
.03
.20
1
Page
14
1938
63
1
claiming to have, any interest
p> ve, and may be nearly ready to
27
.05
.22
1937
1 61 29
forth, and being the Sherman C ounty delinquent tax Foreclosure List for the year 1940:
R*t contracts for sizeable . rock
TAKE NOTICE th a t the plaintiff herein has filed in the Circuit
29
.07
.22
1936
64
21
1
You
are
hereby
required
to
crushing jobs. Locad laibor will
.29
.08
< *21
1935
1 66 23
Court of the State of Oregon, for Sherman County, an application to foreclose the lien of all taxes
not be so plentiful or so needy this
$1.25
shown on the Sherman County tax Foreclosure List for the year 19 40 hereinafter set forth in futl, and
year because of war work and
e court for judgm ent and decree foreclosure such tax liens not less
that the plaintiff will apply to th
cofcts for crushing may be a little
.22
.01
1939
21
1 69 10
F. L. Hulery estate, Rufus
19
thar. thirty day« from the date o f the of first publication of this notice, and any and all persons in-
higher than they have been, but
.22
69
n
.19
.03
1
•*
1938
Page 15
forested in any of the real proper ty included in said Foreclosure L ist are hereby required to file an
1941' may bring some additional
28
.05
.23
1937
' 1 68 H
be
to
such
application
for
judgm
ent
and
decree
within
th
irty
days
answer and defense, if any there
graveled roads.
.16
.12
.04
1936
1 71 10
from the date of the first publica tie r of this notice, which date is th e 13th day of December, 1940.
If the local service organiza­
$.88
thority of an order of the County Court of Sherm an County in the
This notice is published by au
tions are willing to do the work
aper of general circulation published in said county, and designated
Sherman County Journal, a newsp
1924
1.26
and g a th e r’ the information they
2
17.98
Independent Warehouse A Mill-*
1 70
1939
as the newspaper in which said notice is to be published by the order
in said order of the County Court
21.47
2.80
n a v ’ succeed in getting a bridge
ing Company, Wasco, Biggs F irst
70
9
1
18.67
1938
of said County Court dated the 4 th day of December, 1940; th a t J»e delinquent list for the year
built across the Columbia a t M ary­
1 69
2835
Addition, W est 38 feet of lot
9
1937
23.05
5.30
1940 which application is made t o foreclose as follows:
40.66
hill and Federal Highway 97
Page 16
1 72 15
31.04
9.62
1936
Int. to 1
brought up to m ilitary speclfica-
Year of 1 Am’t
39.87
5
1
75
28.68
11.19
ROLL
1935
|.TA
X
.
Range
Twp.
Name of Owner as shown o n ' Sec.
1 Of 1 June 15, 1
. tions in a few places where it
Dclin-
1 77
6
32.80
10.49
22.31
1933-4
E ast
Latest Tax Roll and Description or N - S
1
Taxes 1 1940 1 Total
lacks them. This is probably too
2734
quency
4
1 76
9.74
1932
17.60
!
VoliPge
Line
of Property
Lot or bl’k W.M.
big an order for one yfcar. Yet
3.35
41.37
76
10
16.04
1
1931
25.33
.22
3.13
1939
1 8 12
Mrs. W. M. B arnett, Wasco,
when the need for a north and
3.52
$251.10
.46
3.06
1938
1
1 9
8
Biggs 2nd.
Lots 9 and
10
south highway •’ strong enough,
4.53
.85
3.68
1937
1
1 9
C L. Ireland, Moro, Lot
33
1 70 14
1.67
1.56
» .11*
' Straight enough, w ithout tunnels
1939
6.26
1.48
4.78
1936
1 8 20
Page 1
Page
17
Lots
2-6
and
16
34
1
70
or bridges, is considered there is
1.81
1.67
.24
1938
5.91
1.66
4.25
1935
20
1 8
1
69
19
1937
2.44
1.98
.46
l u t one answer. We have it.
5.70
1.82
3.88
1933-4
1 8 20
We m ight
consolidate
our
1 72 20
1936
1.68
2.20
.52
4.59
1.78
2.81
1932
1 8 24
1
76
11
schools so th a t our children oould
2.47
1935
*
1.78
.69
8.97
3.48
5.49
1931
1 8 20
1 77 10
cbtain better educations Thia ¡3
1933-4
1.98
2.91
.93
8.83
3.17
5.66
1930
22
8
1
particularly true of high schools.
1 76
8
1932
231
1.49
.82
10.26
3.68
6 j 58
1929
1
1 9
1
26
A plan for county unit failed in
76
1931
1.90
3.10
1.20
3
.2
3
_
8.9*9
5.76
1928
1
1 9
1940. A plan for a consolidated
1 74 20
1930
5.79
324
9.03
$70.91
high school might carry for this
1 75 13
.. 8.46
1929
4.74
1320
1.67
.11
1.56
farce of having five high schools
14
1939
8
1
Total
$41.14
Mrs. W. M. B arnett, Wasco
1.75
.23
with hardly enough pupils for one
1.52
1938
3
1 9
Lots 243-4-5-6-7
Fairview,
W. F. A Carrie Jackson, Moro
1 71 14
7.41
1939
.52
7.93
6.22
1.16
5.06
is a joke. The present system does
1937
3
9
1
14
8-9-10-11 and 12
Lots
9
and
10
»
1
71
18
15
1938
7.49
8.61
1.12
8.71
2.04
harm to the students, costs the
6.57
1936
1 8 22
Page 18
1
70
11
1937
9.42
11.59
2.17
8.12
2.28
taxpayer more. It serves in a de­
5.84
1935
1 8 22
Puge 2
1 73 21
1936
8.00
10.48
2.48
7.84
2.50
gree to keep up civic pride by giv­
5.34
1933-4
1 8 22
1
76 10
1935
8.49
3.31
11.80
8.75
3.12
ing each town the rig h t to boast
5.63
1932
1 8 26
Total $50.41
31.70
12.29
of having a high school. Our
19.41
1931
1 8 22
31.22
11.21
children are paying a high price
20.01
1930
1 8 24
B. A. Klicks, P a rt of S i of S E i
1
1 78
1939
.73
.05
.78
<> 1929
36.32
13.04
for our pride.
23.28
1 9
A N E i of SE i
3«
IN
19
1
77
14
1938
.78
.11
.89
31.79‘
The problem Of power, public
11.41
20.38
3
1928
1 9
In Sherm an county
1 76 13
1937
38
.20
1.08
$174.09
or private, will probably be settled
Page 19
1 80
3
1936
.98
.30
1.28
in 1941. A year from now we may
1.67
1
26
19
.11
1933-4
1.56
.95
15
1939
.37
132
8
1
be burning Bonneville juice. We
Mr„. W .M. Barnett, Wasco,
1.75
1 20
2
.23
1932
1.11
4
1938 „
1.52
.61
1.72
9
1
may get it through form ation of
T ract deed Record R, page 327,
2.30
1 19
7
.43
1931
1.87
1.05
4
1937
.66
1.71
1 9
Pl J Districts, REAs, stra ig h t p u r­
South of Block 8, of Biggs 2nd.
7.03
¿
1
18
29
1.66
1930
5.37
1.89
24
1936
1.06
2.95
8
1
chase, through Wasco county’s or­
Addition.
9.59
1 19 12
2.69
1929
6.90
1935
2.48
3.87
1 8 24
139
ganization.
How to get it the
Page 3
9.26
2.96
6.30
1933-4
Total
1 8 24
$15.60
bes* and cheapest is our problem.
8.65
3.08
5.57
1932
1 8 28
On the agricultural fro n t we
N orthern Pacific Railway Com­
1 101 12
1939
.21
.01
.22
12.41
7.60 " 4.81
1931
1 8 24
could take some steps to substitute
pany
Lot 1,
29
17
1 100 '2 0
1938
.19
.03
.22
12.21
4.38
7.83
1930
1 8 26
other crops for wheat which is
Page 20
1 97 29
1937
.23
.05
28
5.10 ' 14.21
5
9.11
1929
1 9
falling in price and bids fair to
1
103
16
1936
.24
.07
.31
12.45
4.47
7.98
4
1928
9
1
continue to fall. The farm er is
2 18 15
1935
.09
.33
$91.53
l ow getting along with a crutch
' 2 20
J
1933-4
.25
.12
.37
provided by the federal govern­
9.62
2 19 12
.63
8.99
1932
20
1939
8
1
.20
.11
31
The
W.
M.
B
arnett
estate,
Wasco
ment. Eventually a perm anent
10.07
2 2Ó 4
1.31
1931
8.76
8
1938
.17
1 9
.11
28
McPherson,
Lots 3 and
adjustm ent will have to be made.
19.S5
2 20 17
3.71
1930
16.14
1937
1 8 15
20
..11
•31
Those who are in the lead of it
Page 4
27.38
2 20 12
6.48
1
20.90
1929
8
1936
1
.22
.12
.34
will have an advantage over those
50.19
2 19 27
14.08
36.11
1928
1935
1 8 16
.25
.14
.39
who lag behind.
69.87
22.34
47.53
1933-4
1 8 16
' Total
$336
There are minor things to lo
57.41
20.45
36.96
1 8 19
1932
• o improve our standard and our
J. E. Norton, Moro
1 101 13
1939
96.49
37.41
5.07
16
69.08
1931
.36
8
5.42
1
comfort in living. The Wasco
Page
21
1 100 21
95.00
1938
34.10
5.12
18
60.90
.77
8
1930
5.89
1
Garden club is showing the way
1 98
1
1937
39.67 110.51
6.45
70.84
19
1929
1.48
8
7.9LÎ
1
by trying to get rid of old and
1 103 19
1936
5.4«
Total $546.39
1.70
7.18
unsightly buildings in the little
2 18 16
1935
2.91
1.13
4.04
towns. It is a good movement
30.55
2.00
28.55
1939
1 8 21
Total
$30.46
The W. M. B arnett estate
pnu much m ight be done with it
31.07
4.17
9
-9
27.82
1938
1
Wasco, McPherson, Lots 5 and 6
Ru-by
B.
P
ettys,
Grass
Valley
1
with public co-operation. Improve­
112
22
41.39
1939
7.74
.39
33.65
1 8 16 ' 1937
.03
9.42
H enarie ville,
Page 5
ment of parks and streets is an-
1 111 27 .1938
57.08
13.60
.37
6
1936
43.58
1 8
.05
.42
Page 22
ether project worthy of effort.
1 108 14
1937
16.11 A 63.87
39
38.76
1935
1 8 17
.09
.48
We wonder what would happen
1 114
5
48.48
1936
15.60
.37
32.98
1933-4
.11
1 8 17
.18
to a county or community if every
»
37.20
13.26
23.95
1932
Total
1 8 20
$1.80
one in it. gave a p art of his or her
68.93 John C. Richardson,
26.73
42.20
1931
1 8 17
T hat p art
1 119 20
1939
spare time to civic im provem ent!
-1.45
.10
1.55
67.86
24.36
19
43.50
8
1930
1
of E i of SEI in Sherman county (j
2S
19
1 118 18
1938
1.56
ventures.
23
1.78
78.94
28.34
60.60
1929
1 8 20
Page 23
1 115
é
1937
.15
.03
.18
$615.37
1 121
1
1936
New Years day wvs very, very j
.18
;o6
24
2 36
5
. .83
1935
.05
quiet in Moro. People . who the I John Phillip Blair, Moro
.78
.18
1939
1 13 , 18
.07
.25
.91
.12
night before had been most active : Hays Addition .L ots 3-4-5 and 6
1938
.79
Total
1 14 r 11
$4.00
2.45
in welcoming the new year paid
. .45
7
1.98
1937
14
1
Mrs. C. M. Snider, Wasco,
Page 6
1 135 ,22
1939
16.04
2.20
J62
1.12
the least attention to its progress
17.16
5
1936
1.68
1 14
McPherson
2
1 133 16 -1938
15.63
2.50
.70
234
through its first day. Even those
17.97
1.80
1935
1 14 12
Page 24
1 130
2
1987
16.60
$8.87
3.82
who had slept through the annual
20.42
1 134 15 .-1 9 3 6
21.49
. 6.66
year changing were not inclined to
28.15
1.67
.11
24
,
1.56
17
'
1939
1
Total
teat the patience of the new,il941
$83.70
W. C. Bryant estate, Moro
k mi <
—
».«'*■“
1.80
.23
1.57
1938
1 18 28
Sy any noticable activity worthy
Mowry,
Lots 7 and
Cera L. Vintin Estate
1 148
1
1939 ú . 2.76
3.68
. - .19 - 2.95
.69
2.99
1 18 21 ' 1937
of note. The day might be com-
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Grass
Valley,
Sherman
Lots
1
&
4
10
1
145
2
1938 a
o
2.68
3.31
.40
3.08
.78
1936
'
.2.53
19
1
pfared X o ^ e firlt round of a long
1 140 17
Page 25
1937
2.73
3.71
.63
336
1.04
2.67
18
1935
19
1
boxing match "in which the con­
2
1 146
19.36
2.69
.80
4.37
339
1.40
1933-4
2.97
1 19 16
testants ’ feel oqtt each o th ers’
2
64
8
1935
2.83
3.48
1.10
3.93
1.24
^2.24
19
1932
1 19
m ight before IMtding for the chin.
‘4
Total
.
11.69
'
$16.71
4.53
7.16
1931
19
10
1
In 365 ajiort rounds we will van-
11.31
4.06
1930
7.25
3
1 19
SHERMAN COUNTY, OREGON
or.ish the new year but not before
T. Lester Johnson, D istrict A ttorney for Shermap county.
16.49
5.92
1929 ' * 10.57
1 19 10
By Ci C. Wilson, Sheriff And Tax
he has dealt blows to some of us*
A ttorney for the Plaintiff, Moro, Oregon ’
Collector
th a t will leave us sorb and groggy
and maybe hanging on the ropes, j
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