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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1950)
CAGE 4 SHERMAN COUNTY JOURNAL, MORO, OREGON FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1850 there with her sister. Their sis with the cooking during harvest Hendrickson and son, Bob, from ter. Miss Louise Fraley of Port Guests at the home of Mr. and Gresham land was also a guests there. Mrs. Frank von Borstel Thurs- Mr. and Mrs. John Buether SimQn. Mr And Mrs. J. W. Blagg had dav were Mr. and Mrs. Victor as dinner guests Sunday Mr. and Mrs .Harold Blagg and daughter of Portlafhd, Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Pfogg and children, Mr. and Mrs. Clair Balzer, Gerald Blagg and Sandra and Mike filing, who are here visiting from Pendleton. Fred Gilkison left Sunday for his home in North Powder after spending a week here with his nephew and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Norris Gilkison. Mrs. Myrle Smith gave a blr- “ , and thday party at her home Friday Mr afternoon honoring her son. Low-* the eU on his fourth birthday anni- versary. The children invited were his cousin, Freddie Stalock, M Terry and Ray Eakin, Joy and Cathy von Borstel, Leslie Perr’igo, Ardine Todd, Susan Fields, Da- vid Eakin, Dickie Alley, Kenneth Curt and Cheryl Blagg, John,. Ronnie and Leonard Eiakin, and Alice and Rosalie Eslinger. The children played out on the lawn of a while and later refreshments a v were served on the lqwn. A large staj decorated cake with four lighted hon candles in circus motifs on top ler was the center of attraction. Pita Each child had a cup cake decor- v ated in the pastel colors and a Mrs lighted candle on top. Ice cream ',an and punch was served with the day cake. Among the mothers and .1 grownups present were: Mes- of dames Gwen Eakin, Donald von Sat Borstel, Charles Perrigo,. Bill Mr. Todd, Vernon Eakin, Ivan Blagg, A Elton Eakin, Marcus BSlinger wei and the Misses Juanita McClain, Sat Rose Edwards, Beverly Van Me- at tre and Carolyn Bickle, who is Bdi visiting at the Smith home from ed Louisville, Kentucky. ;___ Mr. and Mrs. Harold Blagg and ter y at Mrs Francis Hammond was a Matt business visitor in The Dalles Thursday and Friday. Luther Davis and his mother, Mrs Emma Davis of Kent flew to Portland Sunday accompanied by Helen Simon. They brought her daughter, Mrs. Mahlon Trace- well, and the twins back with them vihar will help her mother Third & Union St. The Dalles Oregon Paint - Wallpaper - ¡Venetian Blinds • GENERAL PAINT ¡BRODUCTS Heavy Kote • one coat finish Flex - Colorful decorator Kayonite, washable smooth finish Mortgage Loan» to Meet Your Individual needs August 26 ATTRACTIVE TERMS Coffee PROMPT SERVICE S ta n d a rd In su ra n ce C o. 5 a A western company serving westei n agriculture Pop HOME OFFICE 812 8. W. Washington Phone AT 4581 Cigarettes 1 6 Portland, Oregon will take vacation Grass Valley Auditorium 5. c< One completed o il derrick w ith all its diesel engines, b its , fis h in g tools, reamers and other equipment. Sponsored by I.O.O.F. Adm. $1.20 per person Hydraulic Angle for any tractor * T h e C & C slaughter house will be closed from August 31 to September 18 O ne h u n d re d and th ir ty tw o men w h o are experts in many fields— law , geology, engineer ing, d r illin g , tru c k in g , c a rp e n try , d e rric k building, chemistry, mechanics and so forth. Installed * fr Moon Equipment Co There w a y b e oil under your b a c k y a rd . . . bdt you m ight as w ell face the fact that it v .d i take a bit o f doing to find out. T he picture above shows all the men and n* itarials needed to drill one 10,000-foot explanatory w ell here in the United Stages, T c.xl cost w ill be anywhere from $125,000 jc $1,900,000 depending on conditions et> coithteied. W ilt oil be found? Even w ith the best •n m tific help only about one out o f every f i/e eip5o?s.ti>ry w ells drilled "come in.” t h e search for oil is • risky, expensive Vt.Jness, but ft goes on every day in many p.v?. v f the acrid In 1949alooe, we drilled < «nloratory w ells aca cost o f $6,385,000 . . _:riktng oil. A sbJSC o f the profits o f Standard vf Cuklorcia goes hack into the business in new refineries, new pipelines, new storage plants and other facilities. From these come good petroleum products to serve you w ell . . . petroleum products to add still more strength to our nation in the uncertain days OH f a o r «U F O »»,, WASCO, OREGON And, of course, there will be (lancing. Young couples will come and spend the entire evening dancing together—-as is the youthful style. It is snid—and they will get to know eoch others step and every mis-step and perhaps get tired of the conversation. But, It It’s the syle, you know. And older young people w ill come and dance, and dance with all the people they know and laugh a good deal and be very little inhibited the whole evening. Married couples will come in bunches and pretty much stay that way all evening. ‘Some of them will get very tired and have to go outside to get rested now and then. They will likely like the music and be very happy about the entire affair. The elders will come, also, and dance a good deal of the time whenever a tune is not too hot and spicy and they'll talk about dances of long ago when there wasn’t over two fiddles in the county and an old bass viol to make the music, and they rode horseback fojr miles to dance and meet their neighbors andl that new family over on Rosebush. And all this will be quite proper In Sherman county and fine preparation for the Sherman County Fair. Because Sherman county has been and is a dancing county. Children learn to dance in the corners of the dance halls .before they go to school. Dances have been held in kitchens, in front rooms, in barns, in granaries, but lately the dancing is done in regular halls where the floor is slick and the lights bright. « But is doesn’t m afe much difference to Johnny Reitz, who is going to bring his dance band here to make the music for the dances at Grass Valley and Wasco during the fair. He can play for any age. You see, he learned his music at school in stead of picking it up Sundays. He graduated from Lewis & Clark, took another year at the Univer sity of Washington, went down to Southern Cal. He was in the army three years. He plays a trum pet and a clarinet. He is the guy in the dark coat and the slightly larger grin which seems to be an occupational characteristic of dance band players—unless with moustaches. These fair dances are a great thing. They get people together and give them something to do besides jpst sit at home and wonder about how the events and the races are going to come out the next day. At the dance they can talk about it— and how they love It. Besides a dance is a sort of gala time anyway. We hold them on holidays, on big occasions and the rise of the Saturday night dance in popular esteem is only matched by the rise of Saturday night. It used to be the night on which the whole family took a bath; now they take a car and such other accompanying para- phenalia as seems needed and go sofheplace and do something. It Is a big change for folks who were led to believe that after a Saturday night bath it was time to go to bed. • Oh! Yes the dance at Grass Valley w ill be held on Friday night, September 15 and the one at Masco on Saturday night, September 16, and if yon attend both of them you won’t have to worry about what you missed. r
