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{■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
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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.
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Caterpillars, and .Combine Motors, Cylinder
Grinding, Oyx-acetylene and Electric Welding
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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.
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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
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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?
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Lineoleum Rugs and Congoleum Rugs
Furniture
Electric Appliances
Fishing Tackle
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Paints and Oils
Builders’ Hardware
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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
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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.
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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.
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