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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (July 11, 1924)
< ! f J tr Harvest h Coaly Shows {■EMUI Niin IISEMEI Wheat Effects OREGON NEWS ITEMS of Bad Growing Season OF SPECIAL INTEREST The wheat crop so’ far harvested Entered a» oecond claw matter at the poet oftceat Moro, Oregon, July 25, 1891 this season in Sherman county indi C. L. I reland Editor and Publisher F riday . July 11. 1924 In the cases of 125 persons arrested for alleged violation of prohibition laws of the state tn Multnomah coun ty during the first six months of 1924, the office of District Attorney Myers has obtained 102 convictions. Sam A. Kozer, secretary of state and Carl Gabrlelson, at the head of the state motor vehicle department, left Salem Monday for Salt Lake City to attend the annual convention of secre taries of state, state auditors and traffic department officials. The dryest early summer conditions ever experienced in southern Oregon ars being felt this season with prac tic* 11 y no raiifTall during the month just ended. The Rogue river has drop ped to the lowest stage ever seen and smaller streams throughout the coun try are at late fall stages. Some have practically dried up. During June only .09 of an inch of rain fell. Allotments for rivers and harbor improvements under the act of oon gres», approved J ud « 7, announced by the war department for this fiscal year, include in Oregon: Coos bay, 1663.000; Coo» river, $3000; YaqUina bay and harbor. 121.000; Clatskanie river, >6500; Willamette river, above Portland, and Yamhill river, >18,900; Columbia river and tributaries, above Celilo falls to the mouth of the Snake riv%r in Oregon and Washington, 14000; Columbia and Tower Willamette river, below Vancouver, Wash., and Portland >637,000. In compliance with a decision reach- * ed at a meeting of the Oregon state livestock sanitary board. Governor Pierce signed a proclamation modi fying materially ths embargo regula tions adopted following the outbreak of the foot and mouth disease in Cali fornia. - The new order removed the requirement that fruits and vegetables ■hippod into Oregon from California I be fumigated and took the ban off greenhouse products. The order also allowed sheep from California to move , through Oregon and the embargo was removed aa 4 related to wool and hides offered for shipment into this BILL- BARBER SAYS ACCORDING I li UNKING. J THE. RISING GENERATION cate about half the yield of an ordi nary crop year and will be consider ably under what is usually termed a bumper crop. Three factors are responsible for this condition, the most important of which is extreme Isck of moisture during practically all of the growing season to which must be added the unusual week of cold freezing weather in April fol lowed by the usual hot weather that, this year, came earlier than ex pected. As near as can be estimated at this time, the average yield to the acre vill not exceed eight sacks altho se.eral fields will have larger acre age yields for small areas. There are reliable reports current from widely separated parts of the county that numerous fields of wheat will not be harvested at all and some of these vill not even be in condition to be jaed for pasture to tide over the winter lack of feed for horses and cattle on the farms. The unusual crop condition of the farming section of Oregon is also affecting the fortunes of the stock and sheep men who depend upon government forest reserve pasture in the mountains. Severs I scouts for these interests hsve been in Sherman county the past two weeks trying to 1 locate abandoned wheat fields that have a water aupply where they can { oring their stock from the mountains for early fall and winter pasture I These scouts report that the hot veather that visited Sherman county in June also, because of lack of snow in the mountains, have turned the; irass pastures of the mountains into1 irittle dust and that the water supply usually so plentiful in the mountains i ia rapidly failing and, in fact, in numerous instance is nowfl, entirly gone. Branding Nuts With Electricity * tattooing a lemon, aiding a stout woman to melt the all-too solid embon point, shaving electrically—those are • few of the latest uses of electricity. The most recent application of electricity to industry is in the mar- keting of fruit and nuts with the grower’s " trade mark branded by automatic electrical machinery. With the current taken from an ordinary lamp socket* the brsnding device is installed next to the grad ing belt in the packing house. The fruit to be marked rolls from the belt co ministdre escalator, which carries it over electrically heated <Uel die* • These die» are kept at a tempera ture that will warm the natural wax in the peel or rind of the fruit ard when the surface ha» Deen thus pre pared, other die», taking ink from a ribbon, imnrint the desired mark. Man Not Work's. 8?Krnnt. Work was made for man and not man for work. Work is tiian’s'sefvnnt,- both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save as an almost universal iM*rverslon has made him such.—Holland. , R ead & G alloway GENERAL MACHINE SHOP Repairing Trucks, Tractors, Automobiles, Caterpillars, and .Combine Motors, Cylinder Grinding, Oyx-acetylene and Electric Welding The Dalles, Ore Phone Main 4001 615 East Second St Brief Resume of Happenings of the Week Collected for Our Readers. The state training school for boys at Salem now has the largest population in its history, 179. A total of >88,846.20 was turned over to the slate treasurer by the state land department during June. A severe electrical storm struck in the vicinity of Coquille and Marshfield and set four or five timber fires. The Milton Box factory which was destroyed by fire «bout four weeks ago, will resume work immediately. One of the oldest women In Oregon Is Mrs. Sarah Helmich of Albany, who celebrated her 101st birthday July 4. ; Building permits issued in Eugene luring the gnonth of June totaled >207,- 900 in estimated cost of construction. Chiropractors from all sections of the northwest will meet in Portland Thursday for their annual convention. In the month of June 26 building permits were issued in Astoria, repre senting a construction value of >170,- 825^ Lumber shipment^ from St. Helens for the week ending June 28 amount ed to 3,500,000 feet, the largest for any week this year. University of Oregon summer term registration has broken the record with 883 enrolled in the Portland and Eugene sessions. Customs house collections at Port land for the year ending June 30 amounted to >1,264,162, marking a new record for the district. The stage men of the State of Ore gon will hold a two days’ convention at the new Stage Terminal hôtel in Eugene July 9 and 10. Cranberry marshes of Clatsop coun ty are now in full bloom and give promise of the heaviest crop ever grown in that section. . An up-to-date hydraulic gold-mining plant will be Installed near Foster on the South Santlam river by a com pany of Albany capitalists. The >500,000 bond issue for an audi torium to be erected on the campus of the University of Oregon carried at a special election in Eugene. The forest fire situation in Oregon is not serious at the present time, de spite the continued dry spell, accord ing to F. A. Elliott, state forester. Ending the long drouth, and at the same time offering temporary. relief M from the heat wave, two-tenthi of an inch of rain fell in 12 minutes at Bend. Receipts at the Salem postoffice dur ing the quarter ending June 30 were >45,240.27, or approximately >2000 more than at the same period of 1923. About fifteen rafts, of half a million feet of spruce each, will be brought to Portland from the Quillayute river for the Multnomah Lumber and Box com- pany._____________________________ - i A total of 10.6^4 motor cars from other states registered in Oregon dur ing June, accordifife to a report pre pared by Sam A. Kozer, secretary of state. i Rev. George Douglas Byers, report ed murdered on the island of Hainan, near the China coast, presumably by brigands, was a graduate of Albany college. The red spider, a menace to the hop crop, is doing considerable damage In the hop fields around Harrisburg. The bug turns the leaves red as well as the hops. The Pendleton Packing & Provision company at Pendletbn has started con- 1 struetton work on extensive improve- menta to increase the capacity and efficiency of the plant. Nancy Gladys Scarbrough, 25, daughter of Dr. L. D. Scarbrough, wealthy retired physician and prune grower of Creswell, committed sui- Special Prices, on Harvest Groceries Come in and See. Our Special Prices on the Following Items Preferred Stock Coffee in 5, 2 1-2, Bulk Coffee Fruits in gallon tins Mexican Beans I pound tins Corn Peas White Navy Beans Soap, R & G naptha Pickels in kegs Very Close Prices Made On Large Grocery Ordert Moro Trading Co Matches We Pay Market Price For Farm Produce Teachai Ml» Hu Ran to Seed National Equity and Legislatioa Plans for carrying on the campaign for fawn relief and for agricultural equality, along the lines of the de funct McNary-Haugen bill, will be made at a meeting to be held this week in St. Paul, Minnesota. The meeting at St. Paul was called by George Jewett, head of the Amer ican Wheat Growers association and one of the leading figures in the Americsn wheat growers cooperative movement. It is planned that the me?ting will be composed of repre sentatives of all organized coopera tive associations, with no special organization atits head, the attitude of its sponsors being that it is to be a Mali on al mass meeting of farmers. Herbert Egbert, prominent wheat grower of Wasco county, wss sppoint« ed by Governor Pierce to represent the atste of Oregon st the meeting ;and was also elected a delegate by the Oregon cooperative council. Be cause of harvest work, Mr. Egbert could not attend and in his plsce A. R Shumway of Milton, Umatilla county, will’ attend and act. Mr. Shumway was to have gone to the St. Paul meeting any way aa a represen tative of the Grain Growers associa tion He is also vice-president or the Oregon cooperative council and holJs high office in the Oregon -farmers' union. Since the defeat of the McNary- Haugen bill, it was pointed out in the call for the meeting, the farm relief sponsors who made up a state wide organization to support the bill have practically disbanded, their pu^Vose being only to remain organ- izedas longes ' the bill wa» a live issue in congress It i» the hope of those interested in calling the meeeting at St. Paul that this will result in the formation of a nation* wide farm relief group such as the one that supported the McNary- Haugen bill and that the meeting will bring to national attention that the farmers, especially of the west, are determined to continue their efforts for agricultural relief and for agricultural equality in comparison with present Isws fsvoring labor in its relation to immigration; man»- facturing interests through the tariff, and railroad earnings through present related laws. cnee by shooting herself with a rm». The Gladstone city council has in structed the city attorney to prepare a bill to amend the charter to allow a >20,000 bond Issue for ths installa* tion of a new water system in Olad- stone. California dairymen and tarmar» who lost heavily In the recent foot and mouth- epidsmfb are appealing to Oregon for help tn restocking with high producing, sound animals to re- A ore their herds. Net more than <0 per cent dt the flax planted in Marlon county this season will be pulled, according to reports received by Governor Pierce from the growers. The short crop Is due to continued dry weather^ J. C. Prultzer, assistant to Dr. El wood Meade, director of reclamation, will make an intensive study of the marketing conditions on the govern- ment irrigation projects in thia atate with the idea of assisting to solve some problems of farmers on the pro- jects. According to a statement made by A. A. Bixby, president of ths Hudson Bay Creamery company, 1500 dairy cows have been tested for tuberculosis In the vicinity of Milton-Freewater and the Hudson Bay district within the last two weeks with but three re actors. It Is reported that the dam at the Fall River fish hatchery near Lapins has gone out. It is thought that about a million and a half trout fry of this spring’s hatch, Intended for planting In the lakes and spHhgs of central Oregon this fall, were washed into the Deschutes when the dam gave way. Dale Arthur, Robbie Bums and W. A. Anderson, convicts, escaped from the state penitentiary at Salem while being returned to the prison from the brickyard where they had been em ployed. Phillip Forester, also involved In the break, was captured by guards after being pursued for approximately six blocks. As a result of the severe drouth In various sections of eastern Oregon during the past few months there probably will be a noticeable decrease In ths number of trout in many of the streams In that section of the state, according to the monthly report of the state gams warden tiled with Gov ernor Pierce. Four Initiative measures, one refer endum and three constitutional amend ments referred to the voters by the 1923 legislature will be on the ballot at the general election in November, It is announced by the secrotary of state. Ths time for* filing completed petitions for Initiative measures expired at 5 o’clock Thursday. The port of Astoria has just closed ' its most saceessful year 1* the hand * ling of wheat. The official records show that in ths period from July 1, 1921. to June 30 of this year, oom- . prising ths grain shipping season of 19» 24, a total of 1979 ears, or 8,- ' >41,079 bushels of wheat was receiv ed at the local elevator. I, Oregon wiH receive another allot Zmont of 80,000 pounds of cannon and other war trophies captured during the late world war, according to word re ceived at the offices ef the adjutant general at Salem from the war de partment. Upon receipt of these tro phies they will be distributed among the various counties of the state A high school in an Oregon com« munity that is supported almost en tirely by agriculture is giving only eight-tenths of one per cent of its teaching efforts to agriculture. It is giving fourteen times as much of its teaching effort to foreign languages as to agriculture. Yet thia commun ity will raise or fall according to the degree of intelligence brought to bear upon agricultural problems. The country 'has been stirred from center to circumference since 1920 because of acute problems growing out of the agricultural situation. The best minds of the country have found tne problems so complex that little agreement to proper solution exists. Ought not the schools especi ally in such communities • as are primarily dependent upon agriculture give a large part of their effort to training that will* help directly in the -solution of farm problems T Ought not farmers themselves solve their own problem? Can farmers ever be certain that proper measures are proposed when they originste with other Jthan farm groups? Is our school so organized that a reason able amount of effort is concerned with the solution of farm problems? If not, why not? Call Upon Us ’ C J -■ ‘ ' No iiiHltpr what your luerchandien need* may be, we arfe qualified to fill them for you Room Size and Smaller Lineoleum Rugs and Congoleum Rugs Furniture Electric Appliances Fishing Tackle : Kalsomine Paints and Oils Builders’ Hardware 1 Everything for the Home is here at prices that invite a visit to this store When residents of one of Jiew York's suburbs hoard that “Tfna,’’ the old firshorse that had pulled the en- auction and was likely to end his days before an undignified ash eart or junk dealer's wagon, they banded together and bought the horse and gave him a pension for Ufa, which consists of s warm gtable In the winter time a good pasture in the summer. “TliT was led la procession to his new stable. On the way the Are engine came clsnglng down the street. "Tim’* bolted and ran ahead of the engine and was present st his last fira. *. Moro, Oregon THE MORO DAIRY O. O. Thorp, proprietor MORO x Phone aiFi OREGON The only dairy herd in the vicinity of Moro that is certified disease-free. RUPTURE Milk, lac quart Cream, 35c pint Deliveries daily, morning and evening Expert Coining to The Dalles Will give free demonstration Thursday, Friday and Saturday, July 17, 18, and 19 at Dalles Hotel from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. ’ Three days only. They come many miles to see him. On above date the noted rupture appliance expert, C. F. Redlich, will give a free demonstration. You will at once realise the differ ence between his highly efficient and modern sppliances and your mail order inefficient and harmful elastic bandages or ill fitting steel or wire trusses with tbeir obnoxious leg straps. These mostly make the rup ture worse instead of better until at last it gets beyond control, whereas Mr. Redlich’s special appliances will give you security «nd comfort for yesrs to come, mainly because these effective devices are scientifically ap plied by an expert in person. Recent, ofter cursble cases and especially old, neglected, painful ones, should promptly avail them selves of this opportunity for relief, before work becomes impossible and eventually the surgeon’s knife an urgent and immediate necessity. * Remember that demonatration is free on above date only, arid that a visit may mean a great deal to you and those dependent on you. Home Office: 335 Boston Block, Minneapolis, Minn. i -k -i-4-i l-t IfH I t t-1 i li I I * I OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOQOOOO . j MORO HOTEL BARBER SHOP ¡ .u HOT AND COLE) BATHS FT Moro Oregon WHEN YOU TRAVEL a • BY AUTO AND VISIT THE DALLES STORE YOUR CAR In the concrete, fully equipped, roomy garage of Wal ther-Williams Company. , Competent workman always ready to help you in any way they can at least expense to you. For any service rendered the charge will always be reasonable. WALTHER-WILLIAMS GARAGE THE DALLES OREGON We Specialize on Ford Work ing a Large Stock ■ i of Genuine Ford Parts Williams Motor Co Moro, Ore Authorized Ford Sales and Service ' ‘ / • V V t *
