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% PAO* 1 SHERMAN COÜMT1 JO U R N A L MORO cKEGON FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1®«» women probably, but famLles and Ellhue Scott, William andz t the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Field Training Can Ba Fun, Tool «.*-'*-'4 nevertheless. The exact date was Samantha G irking and their Leaving Sunday was Miss Elea RVFVS NEWS brood of five children, Henry T. nor Fox for Oregon State college. Stark. 1842. ___ Dell Olds took his daughter, Continued from Page One The next period continued to Jory, Charley and Emery Barzee, Eleanor had spent her spring va aolatlon prises went to Robert cation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marion Crews to her home * 1860 apd this was the time when Mary Millfer, 33, the head of a in Stevenson, Wash^ Wednesday, • Davis and Mrs. Grace Medler. A Mrs. George L. Fox. emigrants moved across the coun family and Stella 16, Oharles 13, delicious supper consisting of The Rufus school are planning after spending a few day» here , ty going to other places. They James 10, Joseph 8 and Leila 5. sandwiches, cake with whipped a school Prom to be held some with her parents. obtained some information about There were four Prices Including Mr. and Mrs. A1 Roberts and ; cream and coffe were served by time in April. the county, saw its luxuriant Martin, who was Martin Maslker • the hostesses Mr. and Mrs. Sam Making a business trip to Gold- children arrived Thursday from , bunchgrass, fed their weakened and. the first , white child born in Brock and Mrs. Adeline McDon endale Monday ^ a t Mrs. Alta Corvallis to attend the funeral of • oxen on it, felt the restless wind the county, ald. The next card party will be Smith and her brother, Clifford her grandmothr, Mrs. Louie These are about all the names and moved on, their eyes set on Davis on Friday. They spent the recognizable in the list. Barnum April 9. another land. Trumbo. Arriving home Wednesday was Mrs. Catherine Boise returned weekend here with her parents, , '■ About 1860 some settlement be was living in The Dalles at the Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cox. Mr. Rob Miss Donna Smith from EOCE at Sunday to school at Monmouth. gan. William Graham probably time. No mention is made of Mac- T^a Grande Donna came to spend Mrs. Jim Butler and their three erts and the oldest son returned settled on the Deschutes In 1858 kin, Finnegan, Ingleman, dr Rol her spring vacation with her mo children joined Mr. Butler, and to their home Sunday and Mr. and Tom Scott located on the lins.' Some mentioned were prob ther, Mrs. Alta Smith. Sunday, are living in Vancouver, Wash., and Mrs. Cox took Mrs. Roberts . John Day at the crossing a short ably laborers and Borne are cal ed Mrs Smith took Donna as far as Mrs. Butler and children spent and two children to their home “borders" in the original spelling; timé later. .V Pendleton where Donna caught the winter here in Rufus at the Tuesday. of the days. Many were unem Until 1880 the county did not Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Baumgart- , the bus to La Grande on her way home of her parents, Mr. and ployed and no doubt some were settle very fast. It was a time of ner and family were visitors In back to school for the next guar- Mrs. S. A. Wilson. workers on the railroad which stockmen and small stockmen at Judge C. A Tom is Interested Redmond Sunday. ter. - that. Let’s , try to picture what was then building through Sher Mrs J. H. Wilt of Portland and in scrapbooks. He has one of the the county looked like In 188C man county. In fact, one Carlj? most interesting ones in this com. Mrs. E. H. Moore of Moro were .The census for the Eaton Pre Warner, 42, of Vermont was list callers Monday at the home of cinct of Wasco county for 1880 ed as a railroad engineer. . On March 24, Mrs. James Mrs. Fred Cox. taken from June 10 to 19 showed Continued in a Later Issue Mobley of Eugene was an over Mr. and Mrs. Gus Smith of Tk«M U. S. Army «ecrulH fi««l that problems W" be fee «1 146 persons of whom two were ON YOUR P A V IN G S night guest of her mother, Mrs The Dalles were business visitors interesting work. They bare the techniques of X Chinamen. The original is in the - . -. here Tuesday. fence el coordiimtfen end cooperation with c^oor r . T. Dingle. From here she went National archives in Washington I IM P W S The City of Grass Valley Is hav- w ith , many opportunities tor educetien, advancement, end — SMSSTTr-t SBrstT to The Dalles to visit her daugh but a film Is in"the "state library U U V Q 1 I I V t I u ing the drainage ditch through FKDIRALLY IMSURiD ter Mrs. Harold Engtoerg before at Salem. No description of the the city dug out by a dltc^ | Mr. and Mrs. F? Claude Step returning to her home in by John Fulton and William ureefnet is given and it may have hens were in Klamath Falls for machine, which will help take Going to Troutdale to watch the Walker. It was moved by way included more t h a n Sherman a few days visiting their child smelt run Sunday were Mr. and take care of the flood waters. of Sherar’s bridge, in existence county, probably went farther ren. The returned to Wasco In Miss Dolores Rice- returned to Mrs. Andy Engberg, Mr. and Mrs, since 1872, and about 200 sacks pouth at least. her home in Holley* Monday after T o t a l l y » « •*» •* »• time for Sunday services. Harold Engberg and Mr, and of wheat threshed for Price spending over three months • Currant dlvWond 1 % . Of these 14C there were 11 Mrs. R. T Dingle. William Edwards underwent and three or four hundred for Eatons from Jesse, 53, to Jai es • W ithdraw al* p remedy working for Mrs. Eakln. . :. , an operation at a hospital in The without •« •*oA»0»on«. Mr and Mrs. John Rolfe had as the Fultona. just born. There were 13 Gordons, (Continued tr'm last week (Continued from Page One) • From $5 K $ * 3 .0 0 0 opon» • « - T h e year 1880 brought an eno although all might not have b'en Dalles last week. He is getting a- their guests over the week end long nicely and will be home be Saturday evening Alex Macnab her brother-in law and sister Dr. Feed for the stage horses af to an era for Sherman county. of the same family. There w-s fore too long. His sisters, Mrs. The first period for its , history of The Dalles, but a resident of, - and Mrs. John LarsMl from Port Price’s station was hauled from John, Brittanica, Frank and Da Jake Douma of Wheeler and Mrs. was that of discovery and early Rufus until a few years ago pass land. vid Fulton. John Van Patten, a . the Gould ranch southeast of Rose Dickenson of Springfield, day events and continues up to Mrs. Herman Peters went to minister and five other Van Pat ed quietly* away Moro, that being the nearest O r w rit* for com pUt. Snlamotio« were here over the weekend. 1840 when the first famines Rev .and Mrs. W. E. Rice are The Dalles Monday where she en place to get hay tens; Joseph McCoy, Ann, Owen Later Price the proud parents of a new tered the hospital for medical at did plant a few acres to hay came across the coanty. Indl u daughter bom Friday morning at but had little luck with it. Land a hospital in The Dalles The 10 John Rolfe. Everett Dunlap and that now produces remarkable Rices’ have two other children, Mrs. T. M. Rolfe were in Golden- crops of wheat and other grains dale Friday transacting Jessie and Vlncena. lie Friday a n s a went c t business , . « to a The p p a W» r e n t l y J took up Its agrlcul Mrs. Grover t r Young Miss Eleanor Fox, who Is a tural duties with reluctance for luulor in Education at Oregon Dalles Friday where she erJter^ early day crops were poor in li State arrived home Saturdav for the Mld-Colnmbla h£ P ltai cations of eventual value. a ten day spring vacation. She medical attention. Mr. Young 133 f .W . 5 th AV*- • ?O rrVAND. O M . Stockmen.were getting thicker was accompanied home by went to The Dalles Tuesday to and some men were coming m lace E. High, an U of O medical bring Mrs. Young home. with intentions of turning the • • • • • : student In Portland, who was an big bunchgrass under and estab • Get Your New Spring (o a t an overnight guest of Mr. and new meat wraps » h « wn lishingF themselves as farmers. • and Snlta at onr Pre-Raster Mrs. George Fox. WaHace le^ at OSC LOCKER SCHOOL As 1880 approached the day of • . Sale. Sunday evening for Sf aslde132 Two Improved methods unrestricted%tock raising became OtD • . Greta, The Dalle« spend the remainder of his spring (A M D F O R YEARS A F TE R ) s a w s s vacation with his parents. The country was assuming Miss Donna Smith, daughter. locket operator. • ' ,he some ot me aspects of clvilza Mrs Alta Smith is expected to ' TBCTOR O. PETEIWON noloov department at Oregon Eaton had his postoffiev arrive home Wednesday evening State college recently One con* tion. MANO established in 1878 and there REAL EST A T E from EOCE In I-a Grande for a slsts of a bag made to cling te a spring vacation chicken or other meat by crea2 n* w as also an Eaton precinct with BANK HOTEL, fH K DALLES short Kentucky Whisky Elton Medler, son of M r. Grace a partial vacuum, thus «^hiding officers elected. Henry Barnum was Justice of peace and John Medler was to arrive home air from around the meat. TM -A Blend Fulton was constable. Dr, Rol «ret of the week from OSC where other Is a wax dip method. MOTOROLA and PH1LCO h ?»L,lat ai75aXop^ratert attended lins had settled in Grass Valley he haa been attending “ h « ’1 ’? auto radio« far Immediate ton intends to help with the ♦KA^ h L l whiciTproved so popu- where the town is located and drlivrrv. for aM makes and the school^ hwas ^ ade that It be had built him a stopping place, spring plowing so w‘" nOt " mod'*l« of cara, come In and lar a ^ e l Berry, He also kept aome drugs and neo about having one Instal for the spring quarter P r t e e X was elected president practiced medicine, going great led. Prices IVom >46.0« up to S1UX.00. , the Oregon Frozen Food Lock distances by horseback to mln- er asa^laHon In a business meet- ister to the pi and -broken ol HARRYY» RADIO RKKVICB N é WS the pioneer territory. $3>oo Phone 2928 Ing during the school. The site of Grass Valley has ‘ $2-3« 511 W. »II» St. The Dalle», Or.egon Continued from Last Wee - a peculiar reputation for early Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Aliev left Phone 2928- day travelers reported that the Frldav for Portland on business ™ d te visit relatives returning rye grass that grew there was IN S U R A N C E as high as a man's head, even h°D^naldndOodfelter came home when the man was on horse Grain. Fond, Fuel back. Those who can remember ± ^ t e v X . d « k s n for medical __ the huge grass will be the last Faru. implements ‘Members and visiters of Annie to deny the possibility of that BARBED W IR E — GOOD POSTS alledntlr a t M^ C Cc ^ e C^ m e t*wit^ t e r No. 12L Order o’ 8tory. PHONE 163 Feedstore student at Obc came orln- ^ W her father to spend the spring the Kastern Star of Wasco gather Men were loginning to thresh GAS AND OIL some of the grain grown, Rollins Pd at the Masonic hall on the T lrt»-A rm »»4 lea ^ e n te g of March 22 for their raised and threshed some wheat in 1879 although Jesse Eaten R H McKEAN and SON X " ™ s Hazen Davls. had threshed rjito In 1874. Nei worthy matron from Auro«a ther had a machine and had done Grande. Callie who had previous the work by hand, or had P resid e d In Sherman county was tramped out the grain with ly re , „i.itors present. Mrs. horses and winnowed It by the i^vbTwas escorted and welcomed wlnd Sam Price had also done m th e T a s t, receiving a corsage , uttle threshing. The first threshing machine J6 Proof • 65% Grain Nputral Spirits From Mrs. leo n Smith, worthy was brought across the Deschu National Distillers Products Corp., New York m During the session te.ttetten tes from Wasco county In 1881 ceremonies were he'd^Mrs^Tracy he.d^ M r s jr a c y ------------------------ ------------- — Fields received the de^ ae Bible NOTICE OF SCHOOL «LEC TIO N In the Rural School District of HEN baby’s on his (or her) way—don’t let the was presented with a whl e Sherman County, Oregon, Upon Questiop of Increasing Tax I^evy flurry of tiny garments distract you from some from the c^iaEtephftr*er members Over Amount Lim ited by Section 11, Article XI, State Constitution, in honor of Cbwter ....................... , m ighty im portant considerations. and"PaM Matrons and Notice is hereby given that an election will be held Monday, For instance: W hat’s the best way to save now April 18, 1949, by the Rural School District of Sherman County, State of Oregon, in all component school districts of said Rural so you’ll ba able to meet th e increased expenses tfOIn th il l i s t i n g w lth^he mu- School District. (like school bills) that will be yours within a few. The election will begin at 2 P. M. and will be held In the oh-eo-sbort years? schoolhouse in each of said component district. The purpose of the election is to submit to the legal voters of the rural school district Fortunately, 100% safe U.S. Savings Bonds offer J t X Mr. the question of increasing the tax levy for the fiscal year beginning you a foolproof way to save through two all-auto July 1, 1949,' over the amount limited by Section 11, Article XI of TT w r e y 'o T ’X u t e r n ’ w“ s matic Plans: , the Constitution. ' The district base is small. Our income from the Basic Cchool 1: PeytoN Savin«« Plan—the only installm ent P*as and X aUer in memory of laid upon ww ma. «<* »»er ma- Support fund Is $20.000.00 less th an the previous year. To have buying plan. charter members and p P » - standard schools it is necessary to buy equipment and supplies and trons and patrons who na n maRe deflnlte lmprovements In school houses and on the grounds. 2t Pond A Ma nth Pion, fob those not eligible ibr e n j o y 1% Sherman. Coupty History What fo Jo -h’lla the baby com s \\l\< s Gentlemans Whisky Jram Kentucky . HERMITAGE Grass VolUv Wasco O.E.S. Gives Honors We Invite You To O p e n - A n ' W A ccount bef®re* . aitrvrving charter Names • present were members vr Root Mr. and iire A,bert” K»«berg. Mre. Marie W inter time, is reading time and w e can take care of that with, newspapers and a good supply of magazines’ THE TAVERN Ken Zechery "y -- ii : EU‘rnett A u re r 'GMA%aHrgent. £ “ ¿25 “ » ~ members were presented with candle memmentos ana were seated within the garden. Past .. matrons present were: Mrs. Lydia Darby, Mrs. Hlldred •Zoll. Mrs. Charles Everett, Mrs. W J . Nisbet, Mrs Ehtrelle Hail- ev Urs. Hvvh Hueh White Mrs. Mai McDermid, Mrs. G. H. Root. Mrs G. A. Sargent, Mr*. H. a . van Glider and Mrs. Paulen Ease ber*. Past Patrons, were Hlldred Gordon Harper, Roy shre. O. H. Root. E. E. Shull and IneRoy Belshee. 'Members of the hostess com mittee were Mrs. I^eon Smith and Mrs. LeRoy Belshee. Mrs Carl Tuggle assisted with the decora tions. Payroll Savings. t Either Plan helps you build a cushion of money that grows. For you get $40 back for every $90 you put in Savings Bonds, after only ten years! _ baby (supposing it’s twins!) comes, gee on your Savings Bonds program. Today t The amount of tax, in excess of the six per cent limitation proposed to be levied by the rural school district of Sherman County, Oregon, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1949, is $,n.503.00. Dated this 24th day of March. 1949. ATTEST Publish, March 25, a#d April 1. W. L. May, Wily W. Knighten, Secretary, Rural School Board Chairman, Rural School Board. . I AM R E C E IV IN G - - L O V E L Y S P R IN G FR O C K S , S L A C K S , SW E ATE R S, and J A N T Z E N T E A SHIRTS AUTOMATIC SAVING IS SURE SAVING — U.S. SAVINGS BONDS Sherman County Journal T h e G a y S ko p W asco , O re g o n nab« _ V. S. T rtatvrr ot Troooury D^porttnont and AdrortMnd Covmdf.