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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1955)
p a g i : « MIIKKM.AN COU.NTX JO V B N A I, M o n o , OltKGOS F K ID A Ï, Al'GVST a. 1833 By Nancy W ilson ».» M r«. A . P. It a lw r The Busy Bakers met at the Mr». Robert Schilling entertain- home of Mrs. Robert Helyer ed members of her bridge club and Thursday afternoon. The special guests at her home ruesday ev - feature of the meeting was the lng with three tables P ^ ‘M£ e judging of different foods such as: Arzell Lemley h®ld ¡1,gh’ ‘ J ” ™,., Breads, Cupcakes and Cookies. Bibby second a"d ' n After the judging the girls served zer low. Mrs. Harry I refreshments of cookies, koolade the trawling prUe. Members pre and ice cream. Those present were sent were Mrs. Mrs Linda »elver, Peggy McKay, Ju- Don Smith, Mrs. John East, M r. dv »elyer, Kay McKay and Mrs. Ixunley, Mrs. The Verne Mobley. rick IXtnlap and the hostess. Tnt Mrs. Luther Davis and children guefts included Mrs. red e y, motored to Wawawai, Wn., where Mrs. Bibby, Mrs- *Parl thev were guests at the home of, Bob Marvin and .1 . Op Mr amt Mr* I E Wilson. They kLns of Moro. Refreshments were returned Monday with Mrs. Ix»e- served by the hostess ar_,VP(, titia Wilson who has been a guest Alec Bran< ers of S there the past week. Sunday to begin his du i e a t the Mr. and Mrs. Lester Wilson and elevator as he will he Crain children and Jay Mitchell motored manager of the Grass Valley Gralr to Portland Thursday on business. Growers this fad, ... ' While there Jay Mitchell complet- Hooper J*®®1*?8 J™.™ entertained e ' his requirements for entrance Mrs Frank K ‘ h,,me Tues- Into the Portland dental school. the bridge clu > a tabies in Lester Wilson went to Silverton day evening wltb • Sunday with Peggy Beckman of play. Mrs, Harry <*>! Grass Valley, Nancy and Karen Mrs. Waiter I)avls ^ on.< . ‘ on Wilson where the girls will stay Ehen Kee low. . ’’ nrpsent for a week at the Conservative the tr®Yellr>g vrs Robert B iptist camp at Silver Creek Falls, were Mrs. led <■ • • • . The Merry Stitchers met Friday Sehili ng. ^ . K e n d r h * DunUj. afternoon at the home of Mrs. Mrs. Herman ic r ’ , v ’ Jack Jefferies. After the nfeetlng Swlck, Mrs. Arzell iiihbv refreshments of cookies, jello and John Rust ant , • ' koolade were served. Those pre- Mr. and Mrs. Frank von Borstel sent were Nancy Decker, Kay Me- attended the American Ix*gion Kay, Helen Sather, Shirley Sath- and auxiliary convention held at er, Judy Helyer, Karen Wilson Redmond from Tuesday until and the leaders Mrs. Kenneth Sa- Saturday. While there they were ther and Mrs. Jack Jefferies and houseguests of Mr. and Mrs. ( ralg children. Coyner of Bend,. Mrs. von Borstel _____________ served on the credential commit Marvin H. Layton, Beaverton, tee and also gave a speech for Mrs. was killcel In a logging accident Harold Leach’of Bonneville who July 18 at Tillamook. He was a was elected* the new state pre-si- brother of Mrs. Ml hired Smith of dent. Mr. von Borstel served on Kent and was fullback on the tlu1 legislative ‘ committee. They elected — as delegates to Nebraska football team and earn- were »v.. each . . . . . . ----- -- .. ed a berth on the 1921 Olympic the nation convention, which will squad. he held at Miami, Florida from --------------- October 9 td 13. A drivers license examiner Mr. and Mrs. Gene Reynolds had will be on duty In Moro Tuesday, a3 dinner guests Saturday to cele- August 1G, at the Courthouse bnate the second birthday of their I »etween the hours of 10 a. m. and daughter, Shelley, her grandpar enis, Mr. and Mrs D. L. Reynold«. 3 p. m. Mrs. Gordon lemley and child ren and Miss Carolyn Lemley re turned home Friday from Cannon Beach where they spent two enables weeks with the former’s parents, ♦he family Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Crews. ♦o lim it Mr. and Mrs. Harold Owens and ♦he cost Herman Peters and son, Arden, were In The Dalles Saturday on to iU needs or wishes. business. Mrs. Owens visited her aunt, Mrs. Bertha Matthes in the afternoon. Howard Garland of Rufus spent a few ('avs here last week with ^7 L e d WH his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tx*n mv MU» av C Garland.. , L2 A D U LTS I I * The Romans knew how to d rive horses and some of the u p p er crust of Romunhood occasionally rode horse« hut they parked much iron around w ith them it took a good horse fo r the Job and hoc*»*« w ere sm aller In those day*. So w ere the men hut the iron weighed the Mime. If you want to have some fun Imagining, picture on old Roman with hN toga popping in the breeze trying to ride one of Mac Barbour’s buckers. We don’t think a Roman would have done that; he would have got a Christian to do the hard work. That’s the reason September 8-9-10-11 • It w o u ld n 't seem odd to A w d runs hut the old R o m an* u*ed to put on «h o w * to please the people «<> they could get th e ir vote*. Dis trib u te d food and d rin k , too, I w asn ’t long u n til «*«* Iw rb a rta s s cam e in and took the c ity w hich tu rn ed out to be a lrig h t hut It Isn ’t w hat we started to ta lk abo«t was rodeos. Wm. 3. „ Jraut, sasc Oh Yes. It will he as worth see The fair board always has» a ing as if it was 200 miles away. tune getting the fair dates into W e have good thing.* rig h t at the heads of fair goers. home. Good land, good farm ers, I t runs big ad* w ith (he date good fairs and good bucking and emblazoned across them and puts if they all get together come next on sticker* for bum pers and still Septem ber 8-9-19-11 w e'll have a people ask when the fa ir is going good tim e. to lm held. T h a t doesn't mean th at they don't see o r don’t read hut that they are th in k in g about som ething else. Sherman County Fair September 8-9-10-11 Sherman County Fair September 8-9-10-11 y Sherman County Fair One of the activities of the fair board during the spring, and it seems to be necessary every year, September 8-9-10-11 is to strengthen the chutes and gates and corrals where the buck ing horses are kept while await We’d like to devise some way ing their unwelcome turn at toss ing a man around. They pull up to get the attention of everyone the posts, push over the fences, long enough to impress the dates kick off the boards and make the of September 8-9-10-11 on their little announcer’s stand atop the minds for that is when the fair chutes wave and wiggle like Little is going to be held. Chances are, however, that if we were too Egypt. successful at that we’d have to If all that energy could be put hold next year’s fair on the same to something useful like generat dates. Because when folks get ing electricity we wouldn’t have something in their mind once it to worry about the John Day dam. is as hard to get it out as it is to This year the board thinks It get something in. has fixpd things up so they will last one more year. Then some money will have to be spent to re Sherman County Fair build them for the 1956 fair. Either that or get some tamer horses. Spectators wouldn’t like September 8-9-10-11 used to getting h u rt and usually that. They want ’em rough. And taped up like an accident case we still have Christians hut no and still hobbling around try in g they’ve got ’em that way. to w in some more points. The Romans. 1 T h is year the Sherm an County F a ir I* going to come rig h t at the end of harvest, Septem ber 8-9-10- I I , when everyone w ill be tired and anxious to get aw ay from the farm and the sm ell of the combine and get to tow n fo r a few days and see some excitem ent. T h a t could be a good th in g fo r the fair., Sherman County Fair Quentin Reynolds' & Or. and Mr< w «ufe September 8-9-10-11 And here this early August In the second year of American |>eaee we got to thinking about the Ro mans and how they would have enjoyed one of our American ro deos. They were connoisseurs of enjoyment, too, because they were rulers of the whole earth for a few years and could produce any kind of pleasure they could Imagine. SO c e n ts k Sherman County Fair games. j STARLIGHT DRIVE IN Tues. Wed. Thus, only August 9-10-11 The Dalles Rodeos are violent. Most rodeo I buckers are violent horses and tiiey don’t like any single one of the human race. When tricked Into a chute and mounted by a man they tear out of there with Intent to buck him clear into the wide blue sky. Sometimes they do It. They always try. If they don't try they wind up doing hard work someplace which Is what happens to anyone who doesn’t try, so not exceptional. W hen we went to school, all of II*, we used to hear about the <dd Itoin an * and how they enjoyed violence In th eir spectator sports. T hey turned lion* loose In the arena w here Christian« were pen ned which was fine for C h ristian ity hut hard on C h ristian *. The R om an* had other rough little “ 'X t e 'S i drlv g Traffic convictions were hand- ced today. rominimpniiation recommendation ot of me the cuurw courts » in *» lojuuaivu, toxicated __ - ed to 10,997 erring drivers by The . convictions J > r ® “ss which their cases were tried. and driving while suspem et drive ¡wading violations which re- a previous convutiom Grass Valley Kent Items __th a t ,1,1« mandatory, and another 151 ,u l,ed In secretary of state’s office annouri- drivers were suspended upon the privileges MANY CONVICTED If there’s anything that makes a good fair it Is that it have about It something different from what people have been used to. Weil, no one Is going to be used to watching horses buck for the next month because there ain t no horses in harvest—not any more. W e do have good bucking at the Sherm an County F a ir, h r are inclined to play It down because It 1« at our own fa ir, hut It Is good, I about a* good a* you’ll **e a n y place. Professional rid e r* every one, used to getting th ro w n and horses are professional*, too, tried and found capable. And they hate men lik e a confirm ed old maid. Oh. worse than that. Not manv men get good buck ing pictures, not many try. Most of them stay on their own side of the fence when bucking is going on and the ones who do get close enough for a picture get so in terested watching they fail to shoot. These were taken by I>ean Fuller who could have got run over if he hadn’t been spry. Sherman County Fair September 8-9-10-11 T he h u ll* w ill buck, too, and th ey don’t lik e men any better than the horses do. Some have the repu tatio n of never having been ridden and we expect It’s true. T h e ir hide is *o loose a man slip* around lik e a car on Ice and most wonkl-he rid e r* land In the du*t rig h t In fro n t of the chute. I t is flo t recommended as a place to *J th t but w h a f * a pour bull poke going to do when th ere’s nothing to hold him up?
