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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1924)
«i fr . SIEHM cm IBSEHEi Spring Wheat Varieties Tested as One Fanner Wk Wants to Stay ALONG LIFE’S * r Hundreds of varieties of spring have been tried on the eastern Oregon branch station» in an attempt to find a more productive and better quality variety for this section. During the early years baart proved to be the leading wheat in the trials at Moro and at Burns. Baart still con tinues to lead as a dry land wheat at Burns but at Moro, hard federation and federation, two new Australian | wheats, have out yielded all other! varieties. Under irrigatipn at Burns and also under sub-irrigated condi- tions at Union the federation has proved the highest yielding spring variety. In Oregon station bulletin No. 204 is ^iven a description of the federa tion wheats, and a summary of the truly remarkable results with them st the branch stations and by farmers in eastern Oregon. These varieties are spring wheats and are not recom mended for fall planting. Milling and baking results show that these two new wheats are superior to baart or bluestem for bread making. They are rapidly replacing all other sprihg varieties in most counties of eastern Oregon, because they have proved superior in actual farm tests as well as in extensive experiment station trials. The introduction of these two wheats will increase sere yields of spring wheat at least four bushels an acre in eastern Oregon. As soon as all inferior varieiea have been supplanted by the federation wheats, this will mean at least an extra 700,000 bushels of wheat annually for the farmers of eastern Oregon with practically no added coH of pro- duction. Enterad m second class matter at the «t office at Moro, Oregon, July 2S, 1891 grains C. L. I reland Editor and Publisher August 8, 1924 F riday Mr. Richard Hughes has written a play especially fur the radio. Faced With the apparently Insuperable dif ficulty of necessary Invisibility of his actors, this Ingenious dramatist hit upon the notion of placing his scene in the pitch blackness of a caved-ln coal mine, Llstenenkln received in structlon to turb out the lights la their rooms. In order to create the atmosphere of a coal mine—one would think a little more might be required -^and were further warned Hutt if they thought the tragedy would be too dreadful for them, they had bet ter not listen In. The whole of the mining a cd Sent was sent through the air, with crashing Sbd cursing—alas, there was no praying—the rush of icy waters, and the final sound of the picks as the rescue party approached. The whole cast consisted of one re sourceful Individual plus the book of (he play and a choice assortment of nolse-msklng Implements, says the Living Age. As an English paper ob serves : “It seems as though a new member bad been found for the club of queer trades, namely, the play wright whose chief characters are •noises of.’ “ The Importance of radio In the pro duction and marketing of agrlculfdral products Is brought oat In a special survey of about 1,200 representative farmers, just completed by the United State Department of Agriculture. More than 50 ;>er cent of the 1.200 fanners replying reported that the\ owned tulie sets employing three or more tubes, while approximately 50 per cent of the farmers reported hav ing homemade sets ranging from sliu pie crystal detectors to tube sets. Officers of the French colonial serv- ice have discovered a tribe in the Sa hara desert in which the women hftve completely subjugated their husbands and strut around the camps wlAi clubs In their hands. The Amazons are known as Kenouri and are a husky breed, who wear great baggy trousers. According to the amazed Frenchmen, their olubs very the women i^nds showed the freely when slightest hesitation of carrying out their orders. The ladies from time to time stage free-for-all fights and refuse to eat with thoir husbands. T^e great question is now: Are the Ke- nouri tribes leading the way in the development of the family and must we ultimately face a similar situation In other lands? Bere Is a mighty weapon for the opponents of woman suffrage Farm products are often shipped great distances when they might be sold with greater profit close st hand, says the United Sts tee Department of Agriculture. Surveys are now being made by the department In varioas parts of the country to determine the extent of thia wasteful practice and to help farmers make readjustments In their farming and marketing to enable them to meet local market demands. The noiseless airplane has become a reality, but the noiseless piano re mains a dream, and eke the noiseless automobile—and saxophone. BILL-BARBERI SAYS MONLY HAS wINGS BUI IT IS NOT A HOMING PIGEON t By THOMAS A. CLARK (W IMS. Western Newspaper Unton.) SELF-ENTERTAINMENT RANK MARSHAL Ilves in the vil lage near which I was born. He F was a farmer until he was forty-five— a prosperous farmer whose land had been left him by his father, He had never really worked hard. He had gone to the district school until he was fourteen mid his father had even sent him to a boys’ academy for a time and had offered to put him through college, but he was not fond of study, he saw nothing very prac tical in books or in education, and he came back home at* the end of his first year at the academy and announced that he was through. He went to work on the farm, an4 a few years later, his father having died, he inherited It and took charge of it. He developed uo interest outside of the routine work in which he was en gaged. He had no avocations, no hob bies, no recreations, He never read a book so far as I know; he had no In terest in newspapers excepting in the one or two technical agricultural pa pers which his father had subscribed for sad which he paid for each year in an uninterested way. He had no interest in music; he could not play a game; the details of travel confused him and got on his nerves. He was totally without resources for self-en tertainment. It had never occurred to him when he was young that old age would one day catch Up with him and separate him from hi*.old occupation, and If he were then to be happy there must be something within him to form a baste of that happiness. He moved to town when he was forty-five and gave up work. He alts by the radiator in winter and on the porch in summer, restless and discon tented. His chief interest Is tending the furnace in winter and mowing the lawn in summer. He has four times hs much money as he can spend, but he’s wretchedly unhappy because he has never learned to enjoy himself. One of the happiest persons I ever knew was an oid lady, blind and bed ridden. She had read widely and this reading had taken her into fields of poetry and romance, and into every foreign country on the globe. As she lay Jh bed her mind was filled with beautiful memories; her imagination carried her fur away from the scene of her misfortune. She repeated td herself the beautiful things she had committed to .memory; she sat with the people she had met in history and biography and fiction. _No one who visited her was ever Impressed with the fact that she was helpless and blind, for her mind was Afll of things for her own entertainment. Moro Picture Show Business and Equipment Changes Ownership In the future, If one’s photograph Is transmitted by this telephony device The movie ’picture machine and and comes out looking like s cartoon, equipment, including chairs, etc., of is one entitled to blame It on static? the Moro opera house has been sold As soon as scientists learn to har- to Harry Beasley of Grass Valley nem ths atom «very man should be who has taken a lease of the building and in futufe will have entire control able To drive his own. of all features of entertainment given Mr. Beasley has The cost ef living Isn’t quite so in the building. high ss formerly, but when it falls, It been employed by the Standard" Oil company at Grass Valley. He has la dwaji “to rise again.’’ had control of the theatres at Wasco and Grass Valley for several weeks and, with this desl, he now has entire control of the picture business for the three towns in this county. Mr. Beasley will assume charge of the theatre business at this place be ginning on Saturday, August 16th. MACHINE SHÓP .----------------------------- 4 - R ead & G alloway GENERAL Repairing Trucks, Tractors, Automobiles, Caterpillars, and Combine Motors, Cylinder Grinling, Oyx-acetylene and Electric Welding The Dalles, Ore Phone Main 4001 616 East Second 8t ’iue name Spain Main was popular ly given by English voyagers, during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth cen turies, to the north coast of South America, between the Orinoco river and the Isthmus of Darien, and also to the Spanish provinces of Central America bordering on the Caribbean sea. The expression "Spanish Main” is also used to denote the Caribbean sea itself, especially in connection with the buccaneers who Infested those waters. . . «Fr:~:— 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 1 pound tins Corn White Navy Beans Pickels in kegs Very Close Price* Made On Large Grocery Ord< rs Peas Moro Trading Co Matches We Pav Market Price For Farm Produce vice Corines Railway ScheWe Pnnr far F mt Mere Lean Yean <. i T3 * i A proposed change in the schedule of the O.-W. R. AN.1 company, Shaniko branch, which would elimi nate a daily service to Shaniko and way points and institute a schedule of three times weekly, was not mads, it was learned, after Congressman N. J. Sinnott had telegraphed a pro test to the postal department at Washington. Before the answer to the protest had been received, the railroad company decided to not change the schedule, which would put trains over the Shaniko branch, between Grass Valley and Shaniko, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, discontinuing the daily service Con gressman Sinnott was waited upon by a delegation of citizens from Antelope, who framed the protest, saying that 1,500 persons would be without train service four days a week. Mr. Sinnott was asked to place the problem before the postal authorities, as this train carries mail to Shaniko, Antelope, Kent and other towns along the line. A Wheeler county fanner, who says he is a democrat, has written to La- Fol letla headquarters at Portland pledging bis support in the campaign. The Wheeler county man says he does not know of one voter in his section that will support Davis, the demo cratic nominee, and that the condition of farmers generally will, in his opinion, not be conducive to support of his former party 's candidates. He says the farmers in his county are “so poor they have to lean against sage brush for support. ’’ How any voter, interested in farmer finances,' can support LaFollette is past com- prebenoion. LaFollette stands for increased wages and better conditions for the highly unionized labor of the1 United States, as a class, and for government ownership of railroads. 1 Both these conditions will only be arrived at by an added burden for the farmer to carry through increased railroad freight rates and lower prices for what the fanner, as a class, has to sell. Sherman Second Oregon County in Production of Cereal Crops According to Oregon experiment station bulletin No. 204, entitled Spring Crops for Eastern Oregon, the average acre value based on pre-war prices — 1906-1914— and the average acre yields of the grain crops in Sherman county for the years 1919 to 1923, inclusive, were as follows: Winter wheat... Spring wheat. .. Oats...................... Barley................. Acreage 116,247 9,465 1,192 3,156 The entire closing to campers, visitors and tourists of the national 1 forest reserve in and around Badger I lake and creek has been annoucned by the national forest service. This region, as well as others in the state, has been designated as areas of ex treme fire hazard and has been made necessary by the fact that much of the worst part of the forest fire sea son is yet to come. Production in bushels 2,680,475 142,372 26,070 74,734 r—Acre yields—. bushels pounds 23 2 1392 15.2 912 21.6 691 23.6 1133 Acre value 118.56 12.16 9.60 13.69 Based on 5-year average yields. Sherman county the second highest wheat producing county in Oregon, the aversge production of MORO, ORE. both spring and winter wheat being 2,822,847 bushels. Auto Truck and Team In yield per acre Sherman county Drayage of all kinds ranked twelfth for all counties of the Special delivery rates made on state, being exceeded in. average wood, coal, etc. to country places yield by the eastern Oregon counties Long and short hauling promptly of Umatilla, Malheur and Wasco, and done on short notice. by several Willamette valley counties. Headquarters st Hotel Moro. Sherman county ranked eleventh in the production of t barley with an average 5-year production of 74,734 bushels. Most other esstem counties outranked Sherman in total barley production and many ’ of them in average acre yirld. Like most eastern Oregon counties, Physician and Surgeon Sherman county raises very little osts. The aversge 5-year production for the county was only 26,070 bushels and the average acre yield 21 6 Main 182 bushels. In value per acre, winter wheat WASCO - OREGON ranked first, being 14.87 more than barley, which was the second highest cereal in acre value. . xm X m XXXK i TKXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. Information about varieties of spring crops including wheat, barley, oats, corn, potatoes and flax and cultural methods for sastern Oregon conditions, is given in station bulletin No. 204, copies <of which can be obtained free by writing to either of the branch experiment stations at Moro, Union, or Burns or to the main station at Corvallis. FOR SALE BY F. D. FLATT Dr W. JN. Morse Call Upon Us No matter what y«ur merchandis-e needs may be, we are qualified to fill them lor you Room Size and Smaller Lineoleum Rugs and Congoleum Rugs Electric Appliances Furniture Fishing Tackle Paints and Oils Kalsomine Builders' Hardware Everything for the Home is here at prices that invite a visit to this store' Moro, Oregon THE MORO DAIRY G. Q. Thorp, proprietor x MORO Phone 3iFi OREÖON The only dairy herd in the vicinity of Moro that is certified disease-free. kMilk, 12c quart Cream, 35c pint Deliveries daily, morning and evening USE MOTOR OIL AND UNION NON DETONATING GASOLINE UNION OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA Sherman Electric Co. Funeral services under direction of Zell Funeral Home, was held from the Presbyterian church in this city last Sunday afternoon in memory of Charles H. Belshee who died at his home in Hermiston the previous Wed nesday from a shotgun wound near the heart received while hunting rats in his yard. , We are informed that, at the time of his accident, he was holding his gun in his left hand and trying to raise a board from off the walk around his house under which a rat he had wounted had ran. In lifting the board, bis left hand dis charged the gun, causing his death about two hours later. The funeral service was conducted by Rev. Henry G. Hanson, pastor of the Presbyterian church, who made a special trip from Portlsnd to be present. Interment was in the I. 0. O. F. cemetery^ Chas. H. Belshe_ was born March 26th, 1850, at Warsaw, Illinois. He was married to Mary D. Sink on March 17th, 1870. To thia union was born nine children. They moved to Sherman county, settling in Grass Valley canyon north of this place, in >4883. They moved to California in 1900 where they remained until 1917 at which time they moved to Her miston. He united with th* Presby terian church at Monkland, this county, in 1893. Mr. Belshee died on Wednesday, July 30, 1924. He is survived by hi* widow, six daughters, one son, eight een grand children, eight great grand children, and on* brother: Mrs. Warren Myers, Oakland, California; Mrs. Maud Collins, Chico, California; Mrs. W. H. Rsgsdale, Moro, Oregon; Mrs. G. S. Vaughn, Berkeley, Cali fornia; Mrs. C. J. Thorp, Saera- mento, California; Mai. J. L, Smi*h, Lemon Cove, California; G. B. Belshee, Loe Angelee, California; Frsnk J. ^Ishee, Moro, Oregon. nusual 0 The >lng bush Kaltator) la found In small numbers throughout the southern half of Ohio, frequenting the undergrowth of dense wodtis, the thicket* along tbs borders of streams and the shrubbery of or chards and yardA > at Williams Motor Co Moro, Ore Authorized Ford Sales and Service One One Two One One Ford Truck Ford Roadster Starter Type, with Bosch Ignition, — r Po!o Cars Flupmobile Touring 1919 Haynes Touring Cord Tires, a real good buy Reasonable Prices and Terms
