Sherman County journal., February 03, 1950, Page 4, Image 4

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PAG E 4
SHERM AN COUNTY
T h ere comes a tim e w hen it
ra in s depressing!}- all day th a t
all of us go actually or m eta­
phorically to the attic and ru m ­
m age around among the discard­
ed articles of our past life, recall­
ing here and there some scene
long forgotten, a program m ay
rem ind the dance w ith the t>eau-
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tiful blond, <ma>be you m arried
her), a ribbon bi ings back the
w ave in th at boy s hair and the
sm ile in his eyes.
A nother m eans of recalling the
days gone by is by pictures and
in these days of easy money-
everyone has a cam era, cheap
and sim ple and reliable or ex­
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1950
pensive and com plicated. There
are m any m oving picture cam ­
eras and at fair tim e some peo­
ple w atch the program through
a cam era peephole, -getting pro­
per view of it only late r w hen
the film s are returned.
It has been such a w eek a t
the Sherm an County Journal.
It Is being published this wdck
’ because of a long ingrained hab­
it about publishing every T h u rs­
day. It contains n eith er news nor
advertising of moment
Condi-,
tions are not m uch to . m ake
either.
On this page are some pit lu re s
and some c h a tte r about them .
L argest are ab out the M oro ele­
vator fire. A lthough it did away
w ith an elevator and some grain
it w as in o th er w ays n fo rtu n ­
ate fire becaue it w as kept from
spreading. A little difference in
the luck, the nerve of the fire­
fighters or the w ind and half
the tow n m ight have been b u rn ­
ed.
T h is p ic tu re w as tak en a fte r it
w as all p v e r b u t the b u rn in g and
w h en a ste a d y strea m w as k eep ­
in g th e d ep o t wet dow n. T h ere
is also a p ic tu re of the n ew ele­
v a to r, b u ilt in 62 days a lth o u g h
fo u n d atio n tro u b le took u p s e v e r­
al day s u n e x p e .tt dl\ .
It looks
so m ew h at differen t now
since
p ipes from th e head h o u se to
th e b in s a re installed.
It w as
o p en ed in tim e for the h a rv e st.
The county court began their
first m eeting with sm iles which
m ight not have been so board
had they known the problem s
of road and school they w ere
going to face.
Ja y Freem an ended his w ork
and retired.
Last job w as post­
m aster. He had been sheriff and
m ayor before and had served un
officially for years as purveyor
of shoes and sh irts to generations
of Sherm an county youth.
The m ap of the county itself is
alw ays an in terestin g thing to
look at.
T his one has on it the
pioneer tra ils and the w ater­
courses are m arked so one can
see w here they are. The pioneers
followed them w hen possible. A
plan is now being followed th at
is hoped will cause the erection
of a m arker on the John Day
w here the first em igrants crossed
now over a hundred years ago.
Youth m ust have its day—and
its picture. In fact, picture ta k ­
ing is a sort of activ ity of youth.
The young g ath er lots of pictures
and age has quite a few.
The
middle years are ones to produce
som ething else, it seem s, b u t it is
youth and age th a t are concern­
ed about th e future and past.
The baseball boys
look like
professional o u tfit and they w ere
doing well at the tim e. The foot­
ballers did well, too, until they
got into corppany too fast.
And, of course, one m ust com­
m em orate a fair. the fine stock
and the ru n n in g horses.
C ontem plated m ayhem is d e a r ­
l y indicated on the face of
George G earhart w ho partici­
pates in a boxing contest at
school.
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