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PAGE S SHERMAN COUNTY JOURNAL* MORO, ORIGON FRIDAY, JULY 5. IMT PUBLIC SALE— ADS Under provisione of section W A N T 2455, R- 8-, as amended bv section One who has attended some 14 of the act of June 28, 1934 148 FOR SALE: Used combines ready Publi*h«*<l Every Friday at thirty field days on the local ex gi>L, 1274; 43 U-B. C. 1171). there for Harvest now: The Oregon Historical society Maro, Oregon periment station will nota a great $ 750.00 is going to hold a meeting in The will be offered to the highest bid Int. ’51 on rubber change in the emphasis on exper ( . i l . - ! .. I r«-li« h 750.00 Dalles next Saturday evening, der but at not less than the ap Case V 15 ft. Hillside iments. When the station first prised value, at a public sale to Entered • • »«Mirili elaas m attar at tha Case V 12 ft. w-sidebulker July 13 as a means of getting ac started there was an extensive set P ostulile* at Moro. Oregon, under Act quainted with the historical spots be held at 3:00 o’clock p. m., on $1000.00 of f'-onrreaa of March 1. U T S . ______ of experiments designed to show Case V-2 16 ft. good con 1. 1300.00 in the state and giving all Ore the 28th day of August next, at the yields obtainable from rota Muller Farm Equipment gon residents an opportunity to 1001 N. E. Lloyd Blvd., Portland, tion of crops. There were plots n iw p a h r take part in the society’s program. Oregon, the following tracts of at The Dalles and Moro. 35-6c devoted to field peas, con, alfalfa, PUBLISHERS M. Ore- This meeting will 1* held at the land: T. IS ., R- 16 E.. spring wheat, potatoes and other Cats or half-grown A S S O C IA T IO N Junior high school. There will be gun Sec. 2, Lots 3 & 4, SWV<NUA« WANTED: crops because it was the feeling kittens for "barn-mousers”. Call 128.74 acres, appraised value a dinner and a talk by Dorothy then that eventually farmers In collect or contact Mrs. Fritz Johannsen, Reed college teacher $644.00. No bid will be accepted this area would want information Wbtkins, Wasco. 35c for less than the entire tract and chairman of the Portland on such things. Bids may be made by the prin MAN WITH CAR school board, who has just com The state college, for some six pleted a book on early northwest cipal or his agent, either person GOOD WATKINS LOCALITY ty years now, has feft and said history. Her subject will be David ally at the sale or by mail. Above average earlngs for qual that the summerfallow system is Bids sent by mail will be con ified person. 800 family foo, vit Thompson, first white man to a waste of time, of moisture and o i I n l A i . < oi Nl ' I * \ r i h come down the Columbia who sidered only if received at the amin, and cosmetic route. Cre good soil nutrients and the local Land Office prior to 3:00 o clock SI BS<RIPT1ON RATES who died 100 years ago. dit arranged. Also part-time experiment station has oft times Sunday the party will tour The p. m., on August 28, 1957. Bids ONE YEAR *200 reflected that attitude. openings. Wfrite J. R. Watkins Dalles dam after a "cowboy” must be in sealed envelopes ac Co. 3903 Brooklyn Avenue, Seat Experiments in depth of plow JULY 3, l»57 breakfast in a. The Dalles park companied by certified checks, ing, in rate of seeding, in date of tle 5, Washington 35-40c and will then go up Highway 197 post-office money order*, bank seeding, in time of plowing, have WANTED: Saleslady or man to to Boyd, station stop on the drafts, or cashiers’ checks made run their course, had the accum sell McNess Products part or FOURTH of JULY payable to the Bureau of Land Sherar’s route to Canyon City, ulated data compiled and been full time. No experience needed. being nailed to PP&L pole above. have lunch at Dufur and end the Management for the amounts of changed, sometimes farmers have IRRIGATION SEASON SAFE- McNess Co. Box 14, Bayshore Sign reads: Keep Metal Irrigation tour at Sherar’s bridge, historic the bids. The envelopes n.ust be Yesterday was the day of a adopted the practice recommend Station, Oakland 23, Calif. 35p picnic or a fishing trip and the ed sometimes not. They have quit TY FLAN of Pacific Power & Pipe Clear From Power Lines, spot and site of early .lay river marked In the lower left-hand start of a long week end for many plowing deep, quit disking in the ldght company includes renewal ‘‘Contact of up-ended sprinkler crossing and famous toll house. corner "Public Sale Oregon 05049, FOR SALE: DeMoss Springs American families. By newspaper spring quit harrowing wheat; of porting “CAUTION” signs on pipe w ith line« can Ye«ult in «eri- Sale held August 28, 1957.” school house, a good solid build The highest bidder at the sale and to some extent bv other they have learned to plow earlier, rural area service poles near irrl- ova shock,” reminds district man- LEGAL NOTICES ing, could be moved easily. UNITED STATES means of communication some of keep fallow clean, adopted new gation pumpw sim ilar to the *ign ager. will be required to pay immedi $200.00 or best offer. Curley Department of the Interior the significance of the day was wheats. ately the amount thereof. DeMoss, Moro. 35c Any adverse claimants of the preserved. ably cracking a long whip for sep Bureau of la n d Management Perhaps the most successful A f t - - U a a J j n a T h e FOR SALE: Grain-tight feeders The Declaration of Indepen part of the stations work has / l i t e r f i c U i i f f i g I lie arators were hard to pull being NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION above-descrlbed land should file and walls 1x4 tongue & groove dence was signed July 4, 1776, 181 been the development of new their claims, or objections, with mounted on iron wheels that dug dry utility $25 per M. years ago, starting this nation on wheats. The success of better the undersigned on or before the into the ground like disk plows Std. & Btr. H ”x6 thoroughly a course that resulted in actual wheats could be shown in fields on hillsides and besides they were time designated for sale. dry T&G for floors, truckbeds, independence a few years later. and farmers took them for their iLf Any contiguous owner claiming 1 J J A o r U A iif heavy. etc., $75 per M. We were protesting over taxes, own after a short trial. They have lYlOVCa I/I A l t e r W (111 a preference right must assert Behind that would come the Many other .sizes and items we wanted to make our own laws, been more reluctant to change such right to the undersigned Jena tho steam engine, puffing along at a from $17 per M up. we objected because the king tillage methods, although they When leai g » hnep slow Pace considering the smoke within 30 days from the above THOREN LUMBER CO. LYLE, V.W..V so w In ... some .......... graln was »jacked in 1 ge creale , Ab u puded was a "has erected a multitude of new have done sale date. However, contiguous ways Erosion experiments were once sixty foot stacks usually pac fiUed wUh gtfaw which SALES & SERVICE owners will not be able to assert WN., Ph EMerson 5-2216 day offices, and sent hither swarms of g wag the fuel used by the monster. or night. 32c-tfn officers to harass our people, and a major part of station work and end to end. If the tr p their preference rights to any that has been instrumental in new there nug *? tud. The engineer steered by a litde eat out their substance." parcel for which bids are not re ITATE WIDE PAINT CO. com H. S. Michael, Inc. Before the irate colonists got practices on farms. setting a t ougf wheel which wound and unwound ceived. plete painting and decorating down to enumerating their grie Now it is fertilizer that attracts n0,L2lke that ver;. For further information, write: ‘ n n a chain on a shaft that was at- service, spray or brush. Phone There was a time then n Uched tQ the front axle> Tbe fire. vances they wrote a preamble the Interest. It is a quick, for the Irving W. Anderson, Manager 3977 or 5293, 1205 E. 12th St. Madras, Oregon man continued to stoke the en- that set forth many things then time beinb, and sure way to in- the average wheat *™ wero Land Office, 1001 N. E. Lloyd Vern Campell and Jack Null, gine ag u moyed for lhresher new in government. Such theories crease yields and wheat farmers early days of the «>ntu.> co Blvd., Portland 8, Oregon 3539c Phone 2394 The Dalles. Oregon 38tfn r engineg Were like small birds and as that all men were endowed like something with a sure, fast take i t a 1 ittie easy for a e Custom Slaughtering by appoint 1 s0 bad to consume their weight with Inalienable rights and that return. Everyone realizes that fer- so H he didn i have 1 8 ment only. Meat cutting, wrap to secure them governments could tllizer may be a flash In the pan, up he could finish that job, either ping, sharp freeze. Kenny’s At tbe gelting the forkers slid I m - Instituted among men, deriving that it may lead to practices not put It in the barn, if he Band Market. Grass Valley, Oregon. feeder part way off the their Just powers from the con profitable, that It may even re- barn, or stack it in front Call 242 for appointment. 7c derrick table, straightened out sent of the governed" were new duce farm values but as long as stable. He also had o se Instrument Adaptability Tests their cables and threw their hea in 1770 when the divine nght of it brings in the cash right now it getting a threshing mathin FOR SALE: Omar seed wheat pull onto his place to do Jackson forks up on the stacks kings was considered the proper ls the subject to rally around. direct from combine, $3.00 per by William Sievers This year there are several ex- threshing. while the derrick drivers, whose theory of government. bushel. 12 miles from Arlington. Sometimes it was easy ant i bad pujled the table, hook- They threw in a word of cau periments in fertilization on the Bill Seehafer, Bickleton, Wash No Charge - No Obligations tion. "Prudence, indeed, will dic station that will interest wheat he happened to lie in the ysua ed tbeir teama to the other end ington. 31-6c tate that governments long es growers when the annual field circuit of a well establish^ of tbe cabies and the four of them Sievers Music Box FOR SALE; 5 room & basement forkerg and tw0 derrick dri tablished should not be changed day comes next Tuesday. Certain- threshing outfit all he had to do home in G. V. Stucco in & out, began to pile grain onto the for light and transient causes." ly there Is much to learn about was to await his turn. It he was 1 212 E. 2nd - The Dalles fireplace, oil furnace heat, In Although saying that people were this subject In a country not yet In line with competing outfits he (next to Pennys) sulated, nice yard & garage, 2 100 years old agriculturally and might speed them up by pitting motioned the separa- inclined to suffer evils as long as lots 50’ x 120’. Will, sell either driver into the setting to suit they could they were determined lt Is expected that many farmers one against the other. TRIAL Purchase Plan on New fully furnished or without, He had to go to town fur a fancy and the hoe-downs pull- to go ahead and break away from will be out to the field day to get priced to sell Phone 203 Grass or Used Instrument« the latest informalon. wagon load of gunny sacks and as the englneer England and its Intolerant king. Valley. 29tfn distribute them ar°und to he blg vehicle up the separator So for 181 years we have had ------------------ Oregon’s Junior senator publl- settings so they would be ready R The wa8 put oni the a country dedicated to the right of . backed inl0 jt, the separa- men to govern themselves. The city being a little shy, has ex- when the machine came and this evils of which the colonists talk pounded on the duty of govern- was quite a Job in itself for grain 8 wheels dropped into holes long feeder put ed have not l)een changed and per- ment to Inform citizens about the sacks oame in huge bales of 1000 The senator, sacks If he was using Calcuttas or » was time tQ rou hajis the the evils of government evils of smoking. Threshermen prided themselves whatever Its nature. We still have whose experience with tobacco in- 500 If he used the domestic var- unbearable taxes, we still have a eludes some very awkward at- iety. making fast moves anl crews Sack sewers much preferred w*b for there was mutlltude of officers to eat out tempts at pipe puffing, thus ex- workmanship In our substance, we still object to pands his maternal instinct to en- the domestic sacks for they had compass the habits of the citizen- a smaller lap at the top and could f.f years ag0. excessive lawmaking. ry. Well, too much government lie sewn with a shorter needle 3 . . _ and a shallower stitch which A water buck p ul led aManic of always winds up like that. made speed easier. When a sack water alongside th g . sewer made a proper lap on the engineer ,popped a h ^ e >n it, ONE HUNDRED YEARS top of a Calcutta hag he had a .urnedon the I n j ^ r and^ave nu thick ridge to sew while on the eng ne a d inkoit waui rheWa On June 20 The Dalles was Bemis or Ames. Harris & Neville that puHed the “ P»ra," erw“ 100 years old as an Incorporated bags of domestic manufacture the back across ' pulled city. The town Is older than that, lob was lighter. Many grain bags cookhouse; the roustabout puueu of course, as all towns are older were madTl'y prisoners In state in with the trap wagon and the than their official status. move was made. penitentiaries for years. In 1954 when Wasco county Some day the roustabout of the was formed there were very few chosen threshing outfit would persons living in eastern Oregon drop by the farm house and give one estimate being as low as 300 a definite time when the machine ADDING MACHINE which certainly didn’t Include OP P O R ÎL A N D could be expected, probably with Indians, nor soldiers of which in hours. At about that time, for there were not many. threshermen worked by the clock And by January 1857 when Col. and were predictable, a four horse N. H. Gates, a member of the leg TAPE team hooked to the derrick table islature got the bill through that RESOURCES would come directly to his first pody for incorporation of Dalles setting, cutting the fence where City there were not many in that Cash on Hand and Due from Banks.......................................$ 139,656,307.90 It was handiest. Behind It would town. The gold rush didn’t start At Journal Office United States Government Bonds............................................ 242,354,241.95 lie a six horse team pulling the for several years after that al Municipal and Other Bonds............................ 67,784,715.84 separator with the driver stand though a few stragglers were go Loans and Discounts— N et........................................................ 323,551,688.59 ing In the short feeder and prob- ing afoot or by horseback because Stock In Federal Reserve Bank......... ....................................... 1,200,000.00 no boats were running up the Bank Premises (Including Branches)....................................... 12,200,795.71 Columbia and trains were twenty Customers’ Liability on Acceptances...................................... 29,020.00 years away. The proven leader o f - Interest Earned............................................................................. 3,575,937.28 But The Dalles had a local com Other Resources.......................................................................... 87,425.72 plication that It seemed nothing hut incorporation would solve. Self-proplled harvesters $ 790,440,132.99 The military had a big parcel of land and so did the Methodists. LIABILITIES Trouble was that to a large ex tent it was the same land. Citizens Capital.......................................................... $ 20,000,000 00 could live on the military land un Surplus . . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 20,000,000.00 der certain rules and it appeared Undivided Profits....................................... 21,628,823.29 61,628,823.29 to the citizens that they needed Reserves for Interest, Taxes, etc............................................... 7,391,429.43 Come in - Let’s Talk Trade! authority to control some of the Acceptances................................................................................ 29,020.00 problems of ownership in their Dividends Declared..................................................................... 650,000.00 own way. WITH COMPLETE EQUIPMENT D ep o sits... ............... 710,721,580.68 In September 1856 they met and Interest Collected Not Earned......................................................... 4,591,804 81 appointed a committee to deter ♦ Folding Unloading Auger • Automatic Leveling Other Liabilities.................................................................... 5,427,474 /8 mine some things. They permitted each householder to settle on two * The Highest Resale Value $ 790,440,132 99 • Power Steering lots if he would build on one of ♦ Best Parts Supply • Ibg" 9.00x16 Hear Tires them. They laid out some land by TMi httlvJ*» 4 J kxwefc«» w Or«9«a M survey, paying $150 for the Job • Finest Service • Big 15x26 Front Tires hsao orrtes fostiamo . o s io o n and when the legislature met ar ranged to get some government • Delivered to you at— • Cross Auger Bulker for themselves. It wasn't hard. After the bill was passed It was necessary to get a charter written 11766736 ’which is the reason why it was June 26 before the town’s official existence began. This year that event is living D IIIC T BSANCH OS celebrated with whiskers and a TMV "N IT ID STATIS NATIONAL SANK OS SOITIAN1> pageant of sorts and It may well lie causing more excitement than HEIM W i t ITH TE W A flTDHL S AT~3 did the original event ba^k In the AK B A tT IA U n days of hoop skirts and whiskers PF.NDl.EToN - THE DAI.I.KH ___ ____ © because of lack of razors. One hundred years is not such a long YOUR CATERPILLAR & time in the history of a tewn or o nation; it Is a long time In the O W N S T A T I-W IO I BANK (AHUADK LIN KS, OREGON JOHN DEERE DEALER Vdstory of an individual and not . • . ---------- -- — .1ANUHENTER DISTRI II. OO. many achieve It. Historical Society To Meet In The Dalles FIELD DAY J e r m u in (County Jo urnal Threshing Outfit Jeep ^_>raterYien| o-f <^~^ondition At JUNE 6 , 1 9 5 7 your ta v e rn or s to re The United States National Bank E MACHINERY CO. U.S. NATIONAL 7 IHE BANK © Q o GO
