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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1924)
uqsh mm iueitei ESitcim Hag of lanat Chry Federation wheat was the highest post o£c« 41 Moro, Oregon. July 2S, 1891 yielding variety of wheat grown in Umatilla county this last crop year. It sometimes is planted In the fall as winter wheat, although G. R. Hyslop, professor of farm crops, says it is unsafe for fall planting except where the winters are mild. The three federation spring wheat varieties—federation, hard federation and white federation—are of Austra- iin origin. The first sowing of these varieties in the United States was made at the branch experiment station at Moro in 1916 from small quantities of seed supplied by the department of agriculture of New South Wales, Australia. Because of their high yields in the station in 1918, a limited quantity of seed of hard federation and federation was distributed in 1919 to farmers for further trial. The result obtained by the farmers in 1919 and the result on the station justified a further distri* notion of these two varieties to different parte of the state. Hard federation is a good milling wheat and is coming into demand by the millers. Federation usually grades soft white and except where rainfall is light and growing season hot usually outyields hard federation. The hard federation yield in Uma tilla county this year will not be heavy because of unusual drouth, but its growth, the county agent reports, is remarkable. Indeed it is the only spring wheat to be harvested. C. L. I reland Editor and Publisher August 22, 1924 F riday There is surely no reason why the American designer and craftsman siiould be original at the expense of im memorial convention. That way there often Uee nothing but strained fantasti cality, writes Royal Cortissoa in Scrib ner* a. I remember the splash that was made in the salon by the French craftsman, Carabin. No wonder he got himself noticed! He would carve a goblin atop a chairback or reveal him climbing up over the edge of u fable. Then the craxe for l’art nouveau set tn and furniture abroad looked more or lees like the notorious “Nude De seen ding a Staircase." In the earlier exhibitions at the Metropolitan mu seum there were repetitions, as I have said, of established motives, but, thank hew ven, there were no freaks. There wasn't even the ghost of one in the eighth show, the show this winter. It was sane, conservative, a model of good testé. Fines assessed in cases resulting from the activities of the state pro hibition department during the six months ending July 1. 1924, aggre gated 177,407.49, while the expenses of conducting the department were 115,451.37, according to a report pre pared by George L. Cleaver, state pro hibition director. .ocai Man Member oí Party to CoEect Oregon Historical Data An excursion to the lava beds near Klamath Falls, where the Indians made their last stand in the Modoc war more than half a century ago, will be made August 21st by a party of prominent Oregonians The trip will be msde by auto, the round trip from Klamath Falls msde in one day. All who may wiah to join the party will be welcomed. Some of the ex- curainniste will continue their quest into Lake county where they will visit the geysers. Among the party will be Captain O. C. Applegate, who fought in the Modoc war and knew the contestants intimately; Jeff C. Riddle, author of a popular illustrated history of the Modoc war and son of Winema, the Now that Parte has decided Pocahontas of the Modocs; the Rev. ish American jazz, London Is netting C. Hulet, pastor of the First Presby- M about a crusade on American cowboy lorian church of Merrill; steer-roping exhibitions. 1 Ze ve1y of Moro,assistant county school superintendant of Sherman county; out the exportable surplus of Ameri and Dr. John B. Homer, professor of at Oregon Agricultural can civilization. history college. An astronomer tells us that the sun is splitting Into two parts. Wall, wo All c«real grain and fruit crops in don't mind that as long as the two parte agree to keep traveling In the eastern Oregon were far below the normal yield this year, according to same direction. a report just sent out by F. L. Kent, statistician of the bureau of economica Thia generation can drive au to mo- in the federal department of agricul bile«, fly airplanes, talk by radio and ture. A near failure of spring grain do many other things, but It is not and clover seed, and the smallest quite so sure that it knows how to prospective potato yield *in many bring up children. - yeara, are outstanding features of the present situation, the report states. What substitute has the old-fash Unprecedented drouth is given as the ioned superstitious fellow found for reason for this condition. The Oregon the cast horseshoe he used to pick 1924 winter hsrvest was nearly two up on the streets? week» earlier than usual, hence nu merous figures on winter wheat and winter oata were available by August L It appears, continued Mr. Kent, thst the acreage which was seeded rather early and which made a good winter growth, made up the higher producing fields. Two young girls have been admit ted to a high school In Copenhagen who are perhaps the flrst of their race to receive a European higher education. They are Eskimo girls and were adopted by the Arctic ex plorer. Amundsen, on his last trip to the polar regions. The girls have only one name, which sounds some what barbaric, but for the memonr they are Kokanitta and Carnitta. First thing they did after arriving in Copen hagen and after having looked around a little was to have their hair bobbed. That's an Important step on the road to civilisation. There's hope for the Eskimo race yet 444444HM44MH4444444tM MODERN INCONVENIENCES HAVE just had a letter from Wgt' son, a rural friend of mine who con 1 templates moving to town, and, know ing aa he does that I am au old settler in my community, he asks me to help him find a suitable place in which to live. He wishes, he says, “a medlum- aised house with all the modern in- cooveniences’’ Perhaps it is only a alip of the pen for he is none too •rudite; possibly lie was serious In wbat be said; in either case I under stand him. Tbare is a good deal said on occa- alon concerning the discomforts and privations which our pioneer ancestors suffered—the meagerness of heat and light and means of communication with the outside world with which they had to put up, and the almoat com plete lack of modern machinery. I am not at all sure that the hard ships of modern life sre any less severe than those my grandfather suf fered. No man who has a telephone in his bouse has any chance for uninter rupted I el surfed a y or night. It was raining this afternoon ; I could not go out. I was aloue, so I decided to do a little construction work in the base ment. I had only settled down to buslnsMi when I heard the telephoi » bell Jangling. At flrst I decided to ignore ft, but then it might t* ,m portant so I rushed upstairs almost breaking my neck in an attempt to get there before tlje caller rang off, only to find that ti»e operator had called the wrong number. I am not at all convinced that the man who invented the telephone conferred an unmixed blessing upon humanity. Electric lights are wonderful, but we had to resort to the old-time can dles the other night while the'local dynamos were being repaired. Water pipes and automobiles and oil heat ing plants bring their inconveniences which sometimes outnumber their comforts. I recently looked through a modem kitchen and laundry in a friend’s house, equipped wifh every sort of la bor-saving device. It would take a graduate of an engineering college to operate the machinery intelligently. The ordinary maid would electrocute her self the flrst day she were turned loose in such a machine shop. I believe Watson was right when he ......... all referred to the house filled - with modern Inconveniences." BILL BARBER’ A large elk, one of the four sent from Okanogan county last winter to roam In the Lake Chelan region, was shot by the game commission after permission had been granted from Olympia. The elk has been going on rampages near the Williams ranch at! Twenty-five Mlle creek, chasing every one who showed up. Oregon Highways Return Good Big Dividends to Their Owners A clever statistician has estimated that the state highways of Oregon, which represent a total state invest ment of about $70,000,000, besides the county roads that feed and serve them, actually return the state a fair interest 0.1 $800,000,000. This return comes in the way of tourist revenues, that without the comprehensive sys tem of state roala^wbtold rever reach the state. Investments that pay a profit on four time« their normal cap- itelization ought to be safe any where. A good roads policy that ip beyond the reach of the stampeder makes such returns possible. Oregon in the past has built paved roads of a quality comparable to city streets. By recognizing the advan tage and necessity of shork absorbing qualifit • in a ptverrant it has not only h* Id down fir-t costs tut it has redued rnamtenarce costs to a mini mum This latter item las wrecked many a good roans proi ram due to the useless drain it entails on. tax funds Complete tilings of candidates for state offices, as certified for the bal lot by J. Grant Hinkle, secretary of state, show 47 candidates for the nine elective positions. The field includes 25 republicans, nine farmer-laborites and 13 democrats. Special Prices on Harvest Groceries Come in and See Our Special Prices on the Following Items Preferred Stock Coffee in 5, 2 1-2, . pound tins 1 * 0 Bulk Coffee Fruits in gallon tins Mexican Beans Corn Peas White Navy Beans '' Soap, R & G naptha Pickels in kegs ’ < Syrup in jackets Matches » Moro Trading Co. We Pav Market Price For Farm Produce - Wild morning glory is considerable of a curse in the wheat fields of east ern Oregon, but experiments launched by Fred Bennion, county agent of Umatilla county, and Profess© George R. Hislop of O. A. C., may find an economical and easy way to rid the land of these clinging and vegetation choking vines. The two farm ex perts sprayed in various fashions patches of land infested with morning glory on the hank Geer place near Weston with sodium arsenite. In the first attempt the chemical was sprayed straight, in another it was mixed with soap suds to secure a more uniform spread over the leaves. In the third it was sprayed and then covered over with dry straw. On the fourth the solution was spray ed on wet straw placed atop and dry straw over that. Experiments with the sodium arse nite treatment in California, where fog and rain prevail to a great extent have resulted in a wholesale killing out of the peat, and the wet straw was resorted to to make conditions conform with those in California. The decision to use sodium arsenite was made after an analysis of the commercial «prwy disclosed the fact that the contents of it was between 10 and 15 per cent sodium arsenite The sodium arsenite is three times as effective when used alone as when used with other combinations, ac cording to Professor Hislop. The ordinary method for getting rid of the morning glory is constant cultivation for about two years One main trouble with this treatment is, however, aside from the long time it takes, in the fact that the morning glory plants must be killed and not allowed to be above ground, or they will not be killed but merely weakened. Farmers Warned Against Patron izing Defunct Portland Concern William W. Masiker, pioneer of 1858, died last week in Spokane. Mr. Maaiker was a half brother of A. J. Price and an uncle of L. Barnum and E. E. Barnum of The Dalles, A. H. Barnum and Mrs. L. L. Peetz of this city. He has numerous other rela- tivec in Wasco and Sherman counties, and is survived, also,by two brothers, Carson C. Masiker of Maryhill, Washington and M. J. Masiker of Grants Pass, Oregon. His wifs sur vives also, os does his eon, Walter Masiker of Spokane, and one daugh ter, Mia. Frank Pbelpe of Los Angeles. ■ Mr. Masiker was born 76 years ago in King eoonty. 111 , start ed acroes the plains in 1862, arriving in Oregon the following year. He lived for a number of years on Fif teen Mile creek near Dufur, follow ing his coming to Wasco county in 1862. Io 1870, he went to Grant county, aad later to Columbus. Wash ington, now ' Maryhill, where he was married, in 1877, to Miss Laura Henderson. Funeral services for Mr. Masiker were held at Maryhill, Washington, laat Sunday, A. H. Barnum and wife attending the services from this city. Members of the Every-Day Highway ( association from Washington and Ore gon gathered at Wenatchee to talk good roads and discuss the feasibility of an all-year road east of the Cas cades from British Columbia to the Mexican border. Samuel HUI, Seattle, is president About 75 were present. High officials of the Russian. Ortho-, dox Greek Catholic church In America filed a suit In the United Stetes dis- ■ trict court for western Washington ! at Seattle, Involving ownership and control of $340,000 worth of church property in Seattle and Alaska, against the Russian-American Greek Catholic church. Call Upon Us No niiitter what yAir inerchandi^e^iieiNiH may be, we are qualified to fill them lor you , Room Size and Smaller Lineoleum Rugs and Congoleum Rugs Electric Appliances • Furniture Paints and Oils Builders’ Hardware Everything for the Home is here at prices tirai invite a visit to thia store Moro, Oregon THE MORO DAIRY Q. G. Thor|j?, proprietor « MORO Phone 21 Fi OREGON The only dairy herd in the vicinity of Moro that is certified disease-free. MORO, ORE. D. N. MacKay, secretary of the Auto Truck and Team Condon Commercial club, has pub Drayige of all kinds lished a warning to farmers and stockmen, in the last Globe-Times, Special delivery ratee made on not to give orders to a traveling wood, coal, etc. to country places salesman claiming to represent ’fee Long and short hauling promptly Com umers General Supply company, done on short notice. which is supposed to have an office in Headquarters at Hotel Moro. 'Portland. The company is said to have collected money from farmers on orders for goods to be shipped im OOOOOOOOOOOOOCCOOÜOOOOCXXX mediately, as long ' as three months from date of the order the meichan- dise had not been received. The district attorney for Multnomah > ■ ' ’ 4. county has notified the Condon com * Physician and Surgeon mercial elub that the Consumers General Supply company has been put out of business and is now a defunet corporation. The warning was pub Main 18a lished in the belief thst salesmen were continuing to take orders for WASCO - OREGON the company. Milk, 12c quart Cream, 35c pint Deliveries daily, morning and evening USE ; Dr W. N. Morse MOTOR OIL AND UNION NON DETONATING Items of Interest From Every where Rainfall in varioua parte of the In land Empire extinguished a number of forest fire«. Precipitation amount ed to more than half an Inch- Mrs. Robert Laid was killed near Waitsburg when the automobile she was driving went into a ditch. Her husband was seriously Injured. Between 600 and 400 Ki wan la ns and between 750 and 1000 members of the American Legion will attend conven tions in Walla Walla the last of this month. ------ ' Fire destroyed the building on Pro duce row in Yakima occupied by the Pacific Fruit A Produce company. Estimates of the damage place it at 1100,000. Quinault residents Till celebrate the completion of the new North Shore highway Sunday with a barbecue and special entertainment at the Antppa Kestner ranch. Fairfield is the center of the seed pea Industry of the Inland Empire. There are 15,000 acres in the crop and last year the growers received more than $700,000. An investigation of the price of wheat being 10 to 15 cents lower at Davenport than at Creston and other Lincoln county towns will be made by the Davenport commercial club. Congress will be asked to appro priate an additional sum at the com ing seasion of congress to provide for the completion of the report on the Umatilla rapids irrigation project An estimated agvteg to the farmers of Washington of HMM0 was ac complished during 11 months from July j, 1923. to July I. 1914, by the iHortf of ths rodent control work supervised by Uto Unftfd Statse bk^ logical survey, so cwdlng to Loo Couch, in charge of rodent control of this state. A tremendous quantity of poison was used by the farmers of the state In redout control. Mr. Couch has estimated more than 101447 pounds of poteoned grain, 148,075 pounds of calcium cyanide and 9714 ouacea of strychnine wore used. Proposing one of tbo biggeet hydro- plectric power schemes of the state, appl^tipn wh received by Marvlr Chase, state superviqev of hyAraplIce, for water rights to divert tbs entire flow of the Columbia river, with a dam site located half a mils upstream from Starr on thp Great Northern rail road In Okanogan county. Applicant la George Adama Shamberger of Oro ville. The dam would be of concrete, 44 feet high and 11M foot long. The project would develop 110.000 horse power, It la estimated, and would coot between fopy and five million dollara u> hm GASOLINE Wssttn^MNise UNION OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA FOR SALE BY Sherman Electric Co —------- at----- ---- . Williams Motor Co., Moro, Ore. Authorized Ford Sales and Service One Ford Truck One Ford Roadster . I Starter Type, with Cord Tiros, Bosch Ignition, — a real good buy - Two Po'o Cars , One Flupmobile Touring 1 One 1919 Haynes Touring , ç , ' Reasonable Prices and Terms r, J __
