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PAGE 4 SHERMAN COUNT! Grass Valley (By Mrs. A. F. Balzer) • FRIDAY, AUGUST a, JV5Z JOURNAL, MOKO, OREGON Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Crews and family and her mother, Mrs. Henry Roth of Olympia left Fri day on their vacation trip to California. They will stop in San Francisco where Mr-^ Roth will stay and visit her son in law and d a u g h te r Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Peters and family, Mr. and Mrs. Crews and family will go on to Ixmg Beach to visit his brother, Walker Crews and family and then will come back to San Francisco to visit Mr. and Mrs. Peters before coming home. Mrs. Echo Vintln of San Fran cisco, Calif., Mrs. Grace Bourhill and Mrs. James Morrison of Port land visited friends here recently. iMiss Janice Bibby returned h o m e last Tuesday from land where she spent a week at the beach wth friends from Portland. • m 11 i- rank Pa na and < hHdren of The Dalles are spending this week with Mrs. Alfred I’ayne while Frank is helping Bennie Payne with harvest. A party was held on the lawn at the home of Mrs. C. It. An derson Sunday evening honoring Mrs. L. S. Ix>gan, who is here visiting from California. A i>ot luck dinner was served at 8:30 and the evening was spent visit Mr and Mrs. J. E. Norton and ing and talkng over old school days. T hose present were Messrs. children Carol, Ross anti Wiley, tlrove to Tangent Sunday July R Alley, Ross Fields, Don Smith, 20 to attend the golden wedding Willard Barnett, Frank Pike, anniversary of her parents, Mr. s. Fred Peters and daughter, and Mrs. John Ross. They took Mrs. Orville Ruggles. MI’S. Minna theii'Mrand daughter, Cecilia Nor Burnell. Mi I tverne | like of ton to her home in Beaverton Goldendale, Robin Olds,* Larry ¿kfter spending several weeks Smith, Keith Barnett, Dennis here with them. Mrs. T. M. Rolfe, little Brad Andersen, the honor guest and ley Brockway of The Dalles, Mrs. the hostess. • Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lillard and W. B. Mathews and Mrs. Roy eft rhui day for their Wells and Rodney Rolfe drove to pen t home in Beaverton after spend Friend Sunday a n d ing several weeks here with her the day visiting Mrs. Rolfe’s brother in law and sister, Mr. grand.Gm, Everett Dunlap and * and Mrs. Orville Ruggles. Her family. niece Wanda Fischer of Prine Mr. and Mrs. Bert Cox anti ville accompanied them home for their son and daughter in law, a visit. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Morgan Mr. and Mrs. Frank von Bor and daughter, Vicki of Condon stal received word their son, left last Tuesday for Chehalis Frank Jr., who received his mas after receiving word that Mrs. N B W * U N IV E R 8 IT T HONORS E IN S T E IN . . . Prof. Albert Einstein Is presented a special scroll by Hsdsssab, the wom en’s Zionist organiza- ter’s degree at Massey Agricul Cox’s father, C. H. Augee was ttoa of Am artcan and the Am erican Friends of the Hebrew U niversity to tural college in Palmerston, New killed by a train that morning. m a rk the ground-breaking ceremony for the new Hadassah-Hebrew uni Zealand in April left Australia Funeral services were held at versity m edical eenter In Jerusalem . Presenting the acroll Is M rs. in May on the ship Morton Bay Chehalis Friday and burial was David de Sola Pool, form er national president ef Hadassah, and D r. stopping at Celyon, Aden, Mal at Vancouver, Wn. Mr. and ta, Italy, Austria, Germany and Mrs. Fred Cox, Mrs. Charles Da George W. Wise, president sf the Am erican Friends of the Hebrew uni* in Denmark. He attended a meet- vis and Mrs. John Rust went to v a r s i t y . in of animal husbandry and to Vancouver Bor the graveside services. Mr. and Mrs. Frank von Borstel England to have his thesis attended the American Legion printed in Cambridge, will arrive and auxiliary convention held at in New York either Saturday or Klamath Falls last week. Sunday on the Queen Elizabeth. IMr. and Mrs. Dell Olds had as Mr. anti Mrs. Amandus von dinner guests Sunday their son Borstel went to Washougal Sun in law Marion Crews and Mr. day where they attended her and Mrs. Don Lear from Steven family reunion. son, F. M. Crews and Mr. and Mrs. Darwin Van Gilder of Moro. Mrs. Crews returned home with them alter spending a week help ing her mother during harvest. anti Mrs. Bill Johnson anti dau ghter Carmen, were business vis itors in The Dalles Monday. Mrs. Jack' Brady went to The Dalles Monday and brought her son, Jimmy, home from the hos pital where he spent several days for medical attention hav ing hurt his foot with a power lawn mower. l.Mrs: Donald Clodfelter and Mrs. Clair Adams and sons, Jerry and Ronald were callers Sunday afternoon at the Frank von Bor stel home. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Coyle were dinner guests Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold PRACTICE is being continued at Peter MacGlllivray and John Scott here from New Zealand spent the week end at Crater lake. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Ziegler jr. of Heppner spent Sunday vis iting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Ziegler and his aunt Mrs. Helen Olds and family. Mr. and Mrs. Tomme Barnett (). N. Ruggles was taken to The Dalles Saturday to the Mid- Columbia hôpital for medical at tention. Mrs. Ruggles went to The Dalles Sunday to visit him. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Horner have as their guests his brother ami sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Mau rice Horner and son Dennis, who arrived Wednesday from Des Moines, Iowa. Mrs. John Engstimn had as weekend guest Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lund of Portland. David Bayer of Corvallis ar rivd Monday to help his father Frank T. Bayer with harvesting. y o y 'B ! h e W ARM ER KEALTHSER H A P P IE R v J C <§ n e w C y rn s s a c e T H IS W IN T E R H alf the people in this country live in houses m ore than 30 years o ld ! If you are one o f these, check the h eating p la n t fo r such defects as cracked fir ebox... leaky boiler o r v a lv e s...ru sty furnace. M oney to replace your furnace can be quickly arranged by the dealer of your choice th ro u g h o u r L o v /C o st M o d e r n iz a tio n Loan Plan. A N N O U N C IN G THE DR. F. A. PERKINS O.D. Eakin. N o D ow n Pay m ent N o M o rtg ag e Rc ]uired U p to 36 M onths io l ay & SHERMAN COUNTY BRANCH S T n a tio n a l bank OF PORTLAND • W S 8l/fLD O B fG O N TO G ETH «" A oabw Federal Dtpodt knaraac« Cor poruna* / 301 East SECOND Street in association with DR. ANGLO-EGYPTIAN MEETING . . . Sir Ralph Stevenson, the British ambassador to Egypt (right), Is shown with the Egyptian prime min ister, Hllaly Pasha, after the British and Egyptian officials conferred on a possible settlem ent of the Anglo-Egyptian dispute. The talks were described as In the exploratory stage. An Egyptian newspaper reported that England was ready to agree to Egyptian demands on the Sudan and lu e s canal disputes, but this was not authenticated. Starting Friday, July 25 and continuing to Monday, /August 18 J. D. MINNICK O.D. PHONE 2911 ; the v;2ughter house will he closed at Grass Valley t This county, being a county that «till adheres roughly to a pioneer tradition, doesn’t pay a lot of attention to women. The women aren't going to let that continue long, here, or any where else. But we're talking almut the county fair and It In true that women have had a pretty small part In It until recently anyway. Il all came almut naturally. It was men who first walked Into this county, coining across the hills from the boat landing ul The Dalles or later alighting from the steam trains at Giants and taking off Into the rolling hills of a new country looking for a quarter section on which to /Re their homestead right ■ their most valuable possession. Some of them had left women at home and when the dug-out was completed with sod roof and dirt floor they came on to the new home. They insisted up on anil probably superintended the construction of homestead cabins with a corner set aside for a parlor. They saw to It that there was a well and certainly their hands planted the thou sands of yellow rose bushes and Virginia creeper that gave the early Sherman county homes their only touch of lieauty. Old gardens also show the planting of trees, some rows of blue flags (now called Iris) and the prettiest of roses, the native wild one. | to a display of fancy work and some cooking and canning. Wom en raised the chickens, took care of the farm house and the huge would have a domestic fair and harvest crews. W om en, how ever, are not to it would lx? worth seeing—and be denied. T hey raise colts and tasting. calves, ride horses and become qneens, exh ib it cloth in g and pic tures and hobbies and cakes and are taking a larger part In the fair each year. O utside the fair th ey ’ve taken over oth er th in gs and have long m aintained rluhs that outlast mens', do the m ost W omen cam e later us school in |H>litics, head the m ost su c teachers. And for yea rs hardly cessfu l com m ittees. a one of them got away. T he de Girls who do not raise calves mand w as too great and th ey left the Job of ed u catin g ch ild and sheep take over the pavilion ren for the one of raisin g them . which is full of their dsplays. A Perhaps these w om en wVre our boy* who learns to fatten a calf you will find exhibits on which women have spent hundreds of hour3 work for a two dollar prize, there will be flowers that are a far cry from the brambly rose bushes with which the first homestead cabins were decorat ed, and there will be women to politely show you about and un derstand your snickers of mascu line sui»eriority. «A n if a w om an should he appointed to the fair board— w hich isn ’t a bad idea— there would he d isp lays of ch ild ren ’s work af sch ool agid ou tsid e school, exh ib its of ch ild ren ’s in And there w ill hr girls about v en tiven ess, more of the th in g s baking rak es and d isp layin g that make life more com fortable d resses ami learning the age old and few er of the th in gs th a t arts of hom e m aking. make life more profitable. So when you’re at the Sher man County Fair next September 12-13-14 go into the pavilion; (first cultural Influence, although may wind up as a hanker or a the beauty of the eastern sk y at bookkeeper; a girl who can cook daw n, the b reath less view of and sew is fitted for the activ likely pursue. en d less graft** and the sh in in g ity she will w h iten ess of w estern m ountains There's less lost motion about it. There are those w h o w onder must have softened the hardness of hom estead ers before there about the rontinunce of ropnty fairs; w heth er or not th ey would w ere school m a'ams. Until rcently women were stop If funds w ere harder to get. pectators at the county fair ex The fact that w om en are taking cept for a few booths given over a greater part in them is evi dence that th ey w ill continue. W omen don’t need nearly so much m oney for th eir part of the fair. We venture the statement that if the women of the county so willed It the fair would go on In spite of a shortage of funds. They Sherman County Fair © September IM î'H
