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JOURNAL. MORO. OREGON
vu tors who bring
memories
of
w Ip riM A « £ a » n t{> J lo ttrn A l otJ . r days m u st wonder if we have
jru.da social progress half a»
Sherman County Observer
at; riling.
Established Nov. 2, 1888
We »till tend our crop to m arket
G rass Valley Journal
in its lawet'L state. W orst of all,
Established Oct. 14, 1897
wv a re sending our next genera-
CONSOLIDATED March 6, 1931 t k n o u t of the country. T hat is
Wasco New s-Enterprise
a " a iu ta i result of concentration,
Established Nov. 1891
ol centralization of power and
CONSOLIDATED March 4, 1932 opportunity. It may not be a good
pclicy over a long period of
Published Every Friday at
time.
Moro, Oregon
Giles L. French
Editor
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FRIDAT, JULY 25, I M l
INERTIA.
Kent Friends
Kelly’s Column
O H U R O H " R ’
Wasco Church of 'Christ: F.
Claude Stephens, M inister.
10:00 School of the Church. W. D.
L John \Y. L< liy
W atkins, Superintendent.
Lesson for .the Day. “The Holy
In modified form the idea h> to
S pirit 'Inspires 'New Testam ent
e the employer deduct a cectain
L etters.” Golden T ext: 2 Tim. 3:10.
< en‘age of wages and tu rn the
Morning W orship 11:00. The Com
;tii. >y into- a special f»«ndi for im-
Friends of Mr. and Mi i. W% P.
m- ate u?e of the government. Jcftries surprised them) with a munion. T h ; Message—H arvest
Ci .it could be given the -worker charivari Saturday even-'-n«? a; 11 i Labor, Hire. Read M att. 20: 1-10
'O the am ount of his contribution K ;n t iht-lel. L ater in the evening
Christian Science church cer
•o hat a fte r the em ergency he Mr. and .Mrs-. Robert Helyer, Mr.
wc - Id have a nest-egg on which -be and Mrs. Hanley McKay, Mr. and vices a re held «•.‘any Sunday n am
cor Id d ra w. Ths- plan- would fur- Mrs. Choided Purchase, Eugene ing f t eleven o ’clock and. on W elu
nS i the governm ent w ith cash Noeiton, Dolores Gregg, D oris wesd-iy -evening. The Wednesday’
nn : build up -a reserve for the Stiles, Bcib Holmes and Jesse Hel- evening service includes testim on
w< ker when he needs it. An yer motored to Moro accompanied ials of Christian Scienu-s healings.
umesrt for thia is th a t fchea® by -the Jeffries a n d enjoyed a social Sunday school is» a t 10:00 -a. m. on
Sunday in 1ihe rear of the church
wi ;ld be no occasion to s-tari a time.
building.
The reading room is lo
W! A to keep people from hunger
Durward H elyer w as a business re ted in the cfo.vch w ith an a tte n
in he next depression.
vif rbor a t K ent Saturday afternoon dant a fte r services, when litera
’ wo other devices have been accompanied by son Goidon.
tu re may be borrowed o r ordered1.
keep
w •tic ally
completed to
Kent residents sweltered in the
w c king men from feeling
rich,
ho ttest w eather last week since The Outcast
O r is a g-neral tax bill, the other
1928. The .hottest day w as T hurs
A ball, elegant lady went into
O r income tax. The .tax m easure
day, Ju ly 17th; 106.
one
of our biggest deipairtmem-t
wiP become optrafcive ve
soon
stores
with thoughts of buying a
Mr.
iand
Mrs.
Earl
Myers
ahd
lui* the income tax will! net have
daughter, Ula B ay of Clarkston, skirt—ju st a sk irt, to w ear around
t()
pai¿ Uîïtil w x t March
19/ ' ’ir.'.xwne. ard by then eam'njg.’ Wn., and Wm. Young of Gresham ih e house w ith some blouses she
pu mibly will have to be »pent, were dinner guests ait /the A rthur had. The sales g irl she talked -to
qudlled this notion in no time.
-ire of this plan; af-e being C ratty -home Saturday. The Myers’
c by which th e tax payer mav w ire accompanied to W ashington ‘Thkv
Thfcy don’t m ake sk irts for tall
people,”
she said.
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by
Mr.
Yoking
who
will
visit
his
ret up a special fund in- h is bank
sister,
Mrs.
Richand
Myers.
which smaH amounts may be
R Abell was a dinner guest a t T> ue Enough
n a ; I sufficient in/ th eir accum ula
The woman was lam enting her
tion- to m eet the income tax when the home of Mr. and* l^rs. J. J.
bale
of woe. A builder, i t seems,
Decker Sunday evenring.
it i- due.
had failed to live up bo his a g re e
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Wilson drove m ent.
to Seufents and The Dalles on
“And I had a vercta.1 contract
busmsir-s, Sunday.
too.” <*he addled.
J. E . Norton motored ito The
“A verbal contract.” observed the
TAKEN U P: At my place north of D&Jles (Sunday to bring Mrs. N or listener, “is n o t worth the paper
Wasco, one white sow and four ton an d infant son home from th e it isn’t w ritten an .”
suckling pigs, with no m arks, hospital.
July 18. They will be sold
“She’s the image of «her mo
Mr. and Mrs-. Matt. Simon and
«August 11, 1941 unless , ownea < kvtghtens Dolores and Helen ot ther.”
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calls, prove-. property and pays
Valley
Mr and Mre
“Yes, a talking picturt?.”
casts for fet'd -and
rs notice.
ice.
Wilson and sons Norm ran
38-9
H. A. Van Gilder.
and Jam es w ere visitors a t the
LOST: 2 calves, Flying V brand, bume of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Juste-
square crop on rig h t ear. Suck sen Friday evening, the occasion
ling calves. Notify John Beu- being th e birthday anniversary of
ther, G rass Valley.
36-39. Mr. Justesen.
Mr. and M rs; Ersel Myers and
I? RT’S BETTER R. I. Red Chix,
•-- » rubber
daughters, Pwtsy and Betty and _ .
j uly $8.50 per 100. B etter fryers,
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a
g
tator stops
son Donnie of Eugene and Fay
L etter layers. B etter Leghorns
wringer rolls
Demaris of (Prineville were dinner
i7.95 - 100. Pullets $16.50. Re
guests a t the «home o f Mr. and Mrs.
member H a rt’s Hatchery, Bea-
Artlvur C ratty Sunday enroute to
\ erton, Oregon.
Trade your old washer as
'Hermiston where Mr. Myers will
'! -LADY WORK, Good pay: Re- run a rock crusher fo r Dunn and
down payment. Phone 1B1
1 able person« wanted to call o i BIcNutt.
fa-rm.irs in county. No experi-
Mrs. George McKay and son
for trial
r :ioe -or capital required. Soma Ray and Ruby C ratty returned to
risking $100.00 in a week. W rite Kent Friday evening a fte r a weeks
HAMPTON FURNITURE
McNeiss« iCo., 2423 Magnolia St . visit a t Coquille with- the form er’s
faklUr.'J, California.
38-39 daughter, Mrs. H. B. Ijeatheirwood
The Dalles. Ore.
end fam ily.
M EANING Pigs for Sale: Call
Mr. and Ms. J, C. W iban and
416, Wasco.
38-40 pd
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Lyons and
Reversal
daughter, Sammi-e Jean attended
“ And has your baby learned to the Ann-Jal Pioneer picnic a t Fos
talk y e t? ”
sil Sunday.
“Oh, yes.. We’re teaching him
Mrs. J. J. Decker and Mrs. Wm.
to keep quiet now.”
Mitchell visited Mrs. B. A. and
(¿ertrude Hogue Sunday afternoon.
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JUST A FEW CENTS MORE
IRAN A DOLLAR«^«,
Chaw ari
buys a great
Newlyweds
Entered as second class m atter at
the Postoffice at. Moro. Oregon
Oregon citizen’s seem worried!
under Act of Congress of March o\ er tha fac t tha-t most defense in-
do.-tries have chosen other loca-
3. 1879.
ti.ms. The Columbia gorge area
is especially concerned about it, cir
O il
SPUM I
eira rt is so close we notice the
CIATI 01 nijveonents of its leaders more
O lin s
easily.
A committee, composed of legis
OFFICIA L COUNTY PAPER
lan
re of both states, is now hold
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
ing m eetings in ,'Columbia gorge
Payable in Advance
c»:iea. An elaborate statem ent of
CNE Y E A R _______ $150
the problem has leen made. Many
qi estioms have been raised -about
JULY 25, 1941
z( aing the land within cities, plat-
tm g sub-divisions, building codes,
types of industry to be encouraged
FARM PLAN
(j resiumiaibly some a re to be dis-
ct irraged), architectural and land
To judge from an acticle in the scaping m atters.
last issue of Time there is going
Then there are more importanu
tv be a change in th e farm pix>-
1 toblema such as tax system s and
E!wn. At leant, Claud Wickard, ui iform ity to perplex the com-
secretary of agriculture, desires n ittee.
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•t change.
There is one bright spot in the
He is said to be in disagreem ent picblem : no prospective industry
v ith the p art of the farm pro- loiutor will have to deal with the
gram Zihxt has caused the produc ct mmittee. Ho will—and if in-
tion of a surplus in th e five pro- terested, probably has-—make his
*« <d crops which indirectly caws- own investigation. Most of them
cd a : hortage of other crops th at h-.ve gone to other locations be-
a te of equal or g rea ter importance c a .i S e fhe better waiter and rail
to the national economy.
ti anspo-rtationa
offered,
leveler
• Mr. W ickard’» proposals sound building sites, quicker aid from
much more sensible than any th a t }< al groups, etc.
have em anated from the de-part-
These reasons fa r th e lack of
n e r. of agriculture for some industry on the Oregon side o f -the
years, so m uch so th a t i t seems
have already been de term in-
L kily . h a t th e voters did some e.I by the governor’s office a yeaa
good when they put Mr. Wallace ago. when the Alcoa plant located
in another se a t last f a ll
at Ixxngview.
The principle of giving farm ers
There seem» to be a human de
a subsidy of certain crop» as a sire to investigate, examine into,
meant* of equalizing th eir loss and study public problems and' then
•thro.'gh the tariff— if a tariff is take no action because acting
to be continued—is an old one. It would entail effort. Libraries and
has been accepted in this country filing cabinets are full of report?
for tw enty years. The questions-
getting the public to do some-
hove been how , and on w h at crops thing about it is another thing en
the subsidy should apply. ....... ...... tirely.
For ten years or more we have
Thia week is fast removing con-
been trying to reduce the produc
tion of wheat, com , cotton, rice c-.*.m about sun stroke and such
and -tobacco by paying farm ers to n.atters th at made last week a
ieduce acreage devoted to these nig h t mawe. In fact it has been
o-eps. The result has been «that we ?•«> coal tha/t. same have called it
now have the largest supply of the first week of autum n. Certain-
wheat and cotton we have ever ly a m orning o r two of this week
had The price for w heat, a t least, has been cold enough «to banish tha t
is largely the result of political brethtes» feeling th a t excessive
m anipulation Instead of economic b eat engendered? There may be
need on the pant of th e consumer, fam e more ihot weather. It would
Such a price cannot be stable over be odd if the suffering p a rt c f the
summ er was crowded into one
h long period.
It has long been t«he contention vxek, a s long as th a t one seemed.
of many critics of th e present
T. Lester Johnson
farm policy th a t the subsidy should
BOARD OF EQUALIZATION
be paid on deficiency crops instead
MEETING
of surplus crop». If th a t were
Notice: There will be a m eeting
done «the farm ers in a real wheat
W A400
MORO ¡ of the County fBoard o f Equaliza
country could grow wheat without
tion of Sherman County, Oregon,
the competition of so many other From the Observer July 21, 1922
at the Court House, Moro, Ore
A bootlegger was found by
farm er» and the n ation’s agricuF
gon, on the secopd Monday of
tural production could be more Slicriff Chrisman and two federal
Avgust, th a t being the 11th day of
easily adjusted to the needs of the prohibition ag en ts an the old Frank
August, 1941, to publicly examine
ration.
Brown place last week in northern
the Assessment Rolla, correct all
errors in valuation, descriptions of
Now wc fiixl ourselves short of -Sherman county.
pork produots, tomatoes, dairy
Moro w as -represented by Lev
lands or other property assessed
products—says Wickard. If he S tew art and George Mitchell in
Harvesters must be by me, and it shall be the duty of
huii authority ¡to place the subsidy the annual American Legion climb
prsons interested to appear a t bhe
fed three times a day
time and place appointed (appear
on the.M? and other deficiency crops to ,the top o f Mt. Hood on Sunday,
ance is by petition). All petitio-ns
he cou’d give the naition a better July 16th.
must be in w riting and verified
living standard.
The F a rm e r’s Elevator and Sup-
bv
the oath of the applicant and
If Mr. Wickard 'has his way it ply company started taking wheat
W e can su p p ly you
filed with the board within fifteen
is probable th a t some change in nt all of th eir grain <iepot® this-
days from the time it is by law
farm ing mt-ihodis will be fortheem - week. H. B. Belshee was the fir?t
w ith the best in fo o d
required to meet.
ing, even in th is wheat county. to deliver w heat a t Hay Canyon;
M argaret W. Peetz
Tnere may be a guarantee on the I W . Sm ith first a t Nish; Eugene
County
Assessor 37-40
price of hogs and of dairy -pro;’-.« ts Amidon first a t Moro; O. G.
Ifor th e hungry men.
that will be large enough to en Sa> ns first a t Erskine; R. C. Byers
NOTICE OF FIN A L HEARING
courage farm ers to produce these first a t DeMoss. The grain all
'■ Notice is hereby given that tiha
test-ad
good
quality
and
averages
things instead of continuing to
undersigned has filed in the Coun
bet ween eight and fif teen sacks
grow wheat.
ty Count of the State of Oregon
to the acre, a s near as can be
11 -uw fM
fo r la r g e lo ts.
for Sherman County his Final
i rt mated.
Report and Account a s Adminis
Frederick R. Nunn of Wa«sco
CENTRALIZATION
tra to r of the estate of William E.
and Lillian Fern Conway of Gross
M c H a le * s G ro c e ry
People who come back to Sher Valley were m arried in The Dalles
N tw ton, deceased, and th a t S a t
urday, A ugust 23, 1941, a t ten
man county a fte r am ahsence of on Monday, July 17,tih
McHale,
O w ner
t/m or more years find it -**o changed
o’clock a. «m., of said day, a t the
Fiom the Observer July 19, 1912
they hardly feel it to be the
County Courtroom, in the Caurt-
422 E. 2nd St. The Dalles
&am< country. Those of us who * O. W. -Ramsey i» building a new
hnus«e alt M- oto , Oregon-, have been
have rem ained here do not notice bum for R. W. Pinkerton, north of 2COOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOC fixed by the Court as the tim e and
Moro.
place fo r hearing of objections to
the changes.
Fi\«n 31 acres of volunteer bar- Moro Lodge No. 113, I. O. O. F. said Final Report and Account
Before the farm s were tilled
Moro, Oregon
with big diesels th a t require little ley a t the Goffin Stock Farm , now
ar.d the settlem ent of said estate.
Meets 1st and 3rd
fue’ or rep air and but one opera- the property of Cameron« R ealty Co.
Elmer C. Newton »
Tuesdays
in th<
tor to cover huge fteds in a few Vancouver, W ashington, 350 sacks
A dm inistrator
I.O..O.F. , hall . Trai
days tim e, before the modern of splendid grain was threshed all
.a.
Geo. G. Updegraff
8lent and visiting A ttorney for A dm inistrator 38-41
combine which perm its two or three alxiut the same a s clear gain.
brothers are cordi
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Ed Froebe had a horse nlolen
men to cut over fifty or seventy
ally
invited
td-<neet
NOTICE
T 0 CREDITORS OF
acies per day, this was a different Friday night a t Wasco; Deputy
Sheriff
McKean
happened
,to
be
us*
ESTATE OF CHARLES M.
country.
Then there were m en around to in tow n and by quick work got a Joe Ritner N.G.
KUYPERS
Sec.
do the work, care fo r the stock, clue which he wired to Sheriff Vernon Miller,
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Notice is given th a t Elizabeth
drive the horse«, haul the w heat Freem an who immediately pure/ed (J^iptne Rebekah Lodge No. 116 Kuypers has, by order of the Coun
ty /Court of the State of Oregon
and straw . ' Young men and the villian.
Moro. Oregon
found c h .n r« . to oxorew-
(|>e ()|>wrer Ju|
, 9#2
MoeU 2d 4 4th Tue«
fo«r Sherman County been appoint
ed executrix of the last will and
their ta le n ts for labor.
day of each month.
Now the workingmen are super-
Tally Newcomb has purchased Visiting members wel
testam ent of Charles M. Kuypers,
ceded by machines, «two men and (he Chase Jenkin’s /thres-hrng out- come. .
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deceased, and has qualified. All
a machine will plow a hundred fit and will operate it south of Helen M artin N. G.
creditors of said deceased aife
hereby notified to present .their
acret. pe^ day, harvest fifty or Grt«r» Valley and Rutledge this Florence Johnston, Se«1
claims, duly verified a s by law re
jn i ere / a n d another will ha-ul the season.
M5«« Ina Guyton is vikitirg Eureka Lodge No. 121 A-F & A-M quired, to the undersigned ait h er
crop to m arket without touching
Meets on the 1st and residence near Rufus in Sherman
Mr«.
H arris and fam ily at the
tt- The young folks a re in the city
3rd Thursday eve County, Oregon,«within six morrth-®
w b tre they have work but not 1 »< chute« orchard. •
nings of eac)» month, tjroni the date of this notice, which
Beautiful w eather fo r harvest,
much cb-moe to g e t into the real
Visiting mombers cor s«id date is J-uflv 18. 1941.
thi».
m orey.
dially invited to me<
ELIZABETH KUYPERS,
The W W M. Co. is adding a 150
Through centralizaton we have
with WB.:- ,■
Execu‘r v
made a very definite progres» and fee t to the Grass Valley warehouse
.Carlton L. 'Pepper
37-41
Iwve vastly increased the produC-- and 104 feet to th e K ent wane.- Wendell Balaiger
C.
V,
Belknap,
Soty.
A
ttorney
for
Executrix
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C o m m o d ity C r e d it C o r p o r a tio n
W H EAT LOANS
L ow est P revailing R ates
INQUIRIES INVITED
In keeping with the policy of
this bank to cooperate in all
practicable crop production,
we are pleased to offer this service.
THE DALLES BRANCH
o f the
UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK
H ead O ffice----- P ortlan d
MEMBER
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T h e y run
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In Other Days
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Se SHERMAN
COUNTY FAIR
Food! Food!
¡Reductions
Nowhere do they have closer horse races;
faster, certainly; better. tracks, a few; bigger
crowds, yes; but better horse races would mean
more evenly matched horses, closer finishes.
There isn't any such thing.
H orse Races are only one of the m any features that
m ake the Sherm an C ounty F air outstanding.
Only a few
counties in O regon — and those m uch larger — have bigger
fairs than Sherm an County- ....
W e have local horses th a t are the best, home grown
cattle th a t go on to bigger things and wind up on some coi -
noisseur’s plate, crowds that spring from sage and stubble
to cheer buckers and riders to extend themselves to the limit.
All because it is a county festival, attended by all and
enjoyed by all.
S e e y o u r n eig h b o rs th e re — —
SEPTEMBER 12-13-14