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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 9, 1925)
NEMii min ibsewib Wmt be tf Cwrt Sea! Canot C. L. I reland Editor and Publisher . post office at Moro, Oregoa, July 26, 1891 F riday ..............January 9, 1925 Relè Not Badly Hart by Freeze The sudden drop of forty degrees in temperature on December 17th and the continuing extreme cold weather for the ensuing two weeks caused a feeling of apprehension to exist among farmers of Shermsn county that the winter sown wheat fields were froaen out and that extensive reseeding with spring wheat would be necessary. This feeling was intensi fied by the knowledge thst suitable spring seed wheat was not in Uie market with which to supply the de mand if needed. After a great deal of investigation by numerous parties the consensus of opinion is that fields of turkey red wheat have been partly injured by the extreme sudden change of tem perature, but that in very few, if any, individual instances will reseed ing be necessary. At the present time it is conceeded that weak plants and the usual percentage of poor germinated seed will be frozen out, but this will not materially affect the remainder of the field»- unless the conditioi.8 of last December are re peated. At seedirg time, farmers always seed heavier than good number one seed demands; if all their seed were of usual quality this season, the percentage of poor seed that will be lost will be slightly larger, but not to any great extent' Investigation of wheat fields of other varieties than turkey red showi them to be in much better condition than was first considered’ possible and, at thia time, these wheat fields will most likely come through the winter in approximately as good relative condition as the turkey red variety. Federata Wbeat Makes Superior Flour mills in Union county sre producing a superior hard wheat flour from hard federation wheat, a new variety grown in larger acreage there than in any other county in the Unit ed States. Hard federation is-proving one of the highest yielding spring wheats in the entire west, and its excellent milling qualities, as demonstrated by the La Grande millers, add to its This variety has captured the prises for hard white wheat at most of the grain shows of the United States in the past three or four years In Ore gon it first became prominent when a bushel grown by T. A. Sammis of The Dalles took first prize st the in ternational grain show st Chicago. Fourteen thousand acres of the new wheat were hervested in Union cocnty in 1924. The first acreage was grown in 1921 by Frank McKennon, who sowed nine acres, and found it yielded ten bushels per acre more than hia red chaff club, the most widely ac cepted spring wheat of that district at that time. In his annual report for 1924, the county agent relates thst hsrd federa tion waa grown on 28 fame in 1922, as a result of a large acreage on the McKennon ranch. Avtry also dis cusses the increased average of Hy brid 128, a winter wheat, which yields around aix bushels per acre more than other winter vsrieties in Union eounty. Last year there were fifteen thousand seres, he states, compared with sixteen hundred in 1921. A number of British scientists are now making Investigations t* discover what the weather was like in prehis toric time*. It’s no use asking th* Oldest inhabitant, because he alwsys lies about IL Cash turnovers to the state treas urer by the state land board during December aggregated >91,375.13, ac cording ^io a statement issued by George G. Brown, clerk of the stats land office A log raft of the Multnomah Lum ber A Box company, which was In YaqiHna bay waiting to be towed to Astoria, broke adrift and under the in fluence of a strong *bb tide was carried out to sea. The raft contain ed 750.000 feet of kgs. The office of city ticket agent ha* been created in Eugene by the South ern Pacific company and Frank G. Lewis, who for the past five years has been located there as traveling freight and passenger agent for the company, ha* been promoted to the poo it ion. T BILL-BARBER SAYS THE KT tSTHF MAN WHO FINDS HEXT vnn a rut cox’ At the last term of the circuit court for Sherman county, held in November, the case that attracted meet legal attention • waa the suit brought by the McCoy-Atwood Co. against Lena Andrews in their effort to collect from 'Miss Andrews on a judgment and execution issued some months prior to the date of the case now pending. Because of fire destroying a resi dence ip Wasco on which Miss An drews r held an insurance policy, Me Coy-Atwood Co. attempted to trans fer the t execution to Multnomah county and collect the face of their judgment,held against Miss Andrews, from the insurance company paying the insurance. When the attorneys for Miss Andrews were served by the Mult- nomah sheriff with the transfer of judgment end execution from the cir cuit court for Sherman county they refused to accept the papers ss legal because the seal of the county court for Sherman county had been placed upon the transfer <n pl see of the seal of the circuit ' court for Sherman ounty. As we understand the statut- of the case, then Miss Andrews as signed her interest in the insursnee to other parties. The sttomeys for McCoy-Atwood next spplied to the circuit court for permission to amend the transfer by affixing the seal of the circuit court for Sherman county opto the same in strument that contain» the seal of the county court for Sherman county. Tie matter was argued by attorneys tor both sides end submitted to Judge D. R. Parker, judge of the circuit court for Sherman county, to be taken under advisement, reviewed, authori- . , A ties looked up, and decision to be rendered later. The attorneys for McCoy-Atwood Co., in their brief, contended that section 1386 of the Oregon laws pro vides that “all process authorized b> this code to be issued by any court oi officer thereof shall be signed by the officer issuing the same; and if auch procesa is issued by a clerk of a court, he shall affix there.n his seal of office. ” The attorneys for McCoy-Atwood had a lengthy brief in which they quoted authorities to uphold the fore going contention,clsimmg by possible inference, that inasmuch as the coun ty clerk for Sherpnan county is also the clerk of the circuit court for Sherman county and also the clerk of the county court for Sherman county, that either seal used would be suffi cient to be considered “his seal of office. ” The attorneys for Miss Andrews, in their brief submitted st the ssme time, took the position that only the seal of th« circuit court could be used on documents pertaining to that court and that only the seal of the county court could be used on documenta per taining to the documenta of the county court. To uphold their contention they quoted that “aectiona 963 to 966 of the Oregon laws provide for the seals of the several courta of record in thjs case, provide for the forms thereof respectively and provide for affixing the same to any process etc. required by the code. ’ ’ 1 hat section 1368 Oregon laws ‘‘REQUIRES that the clerk of the court, when issuing pro- cesa, SHALL affix thereto his seal of office.” Further, that the “Oregon supreme court has held, directly, that the clerk’s omission to attach his seal to a writ renders it void; and that since we have no statute authorizing the amendment of procesa from which the seal haa been omitted, no amend ment thereof can be allowed.” In hia decision, Judge Parker up- holds the contention of the attorneys for Miss Andrews end, among other things contained in his written opin ion filed with the clerk of the court for Sherman county states ‘ ‘The question seems to be settled in thia state (Oregon) by the decision in the case of Starkey vs Lunz, 57 Oregon 147. This ruling is conclusive and controlling until overruled, or until the legislative assembly sees fit to amend the statute authorizing such amendments. The motion to amend will, therefore, be denied.” The next probable proceedure will. be an appeal to the Oregon supreme court by McCoy-Atwood. ALONG LIFE’S;: By THOMAS A. CLARK <C. ISM. WMtarn Newspaper UaUa.) THE BARBER SHOP IF I were asked to name the great * moral and educational Influences of the country 1 should, of course, begin with the home, the church and the pub lic schools, but I should add to these the barber shop. What bridge whist or s tea party Is to a woman, the bar ber shop Is to a man. It la, of course, first of all a center of recreation and rejuvenation. One man enters all raveled and ragged n round the elges and makes his exit looking like a hundred thousand dol lars ; another comes in a rough-neck and goes out with a bair-cut and a 25-cent face massage and smelling of bay rum and sweet herbs. For 50 cents a tramp can easily be metamorphoeed Into a Beau BnimmeL One gets more for his money in a barber shop than at any bargain counter in a depart ment store. If the shop Is on the froat street, as It usually la one may sit or lie In the chair while the barber gives him a shampoo—“Will you have oil or eggs, sir?“—or softens up bis beard prepar-' atory to a shave and see the world pass by—young and old, rich and poor, society favorites and street Arabs sll playing their parts upon the little stage that Iles In front of the barber shop window. .And within there Is constant com ment and criticism—frank comment and franker criticism. I always have a self conscious feeling when I pass the window; I wonder whst they sre saying about me, though I am usually sure that I should not (eel flattered If I knew There Is nothing too sacred or too private to be discussed in a barber shop ; there Is no problem of society or athlet?dB or politics oV religion or edu cation too difficult or too complicated for immediate and final settlement by any tonsorial tyro. If the barber is ethically of a liberal mind, sometimes, in his shop, one caa pick up the latest scandal or the last snappy story, or discover the best chance to place a bet on the coming game, or the safest back-door entrance to a thirst parlor—it all depends on the barber. If he is straight-laced be has his victim at a disadvantage when he Is all lathered and swathed with towels and can drive home some pretty telling advice. Any way of looking at him, the bar ber is a great institution. He la an analyzer of character, he la a charac ter molder, he Is a purveyor of useful and useless information. The man who Invented the barber shop is entitled to a Carnegie medal. If I had to make a choice between being a missionary or being a barber. I should reach for the razor. The Russian government has or- dered that Innin's name shall not he used to advertise cigars, confec tions and other similar articles, but thaylre they would allow a manufac turer of dynamite bombs the privilege. The Ford motor company has de veloped a by-products business which during 1M4 will bring in more than thirteen million dollar*. This is entirely aside from its enormous motor vehicle bushes* and is the result of the company’* activities in lines generally not associated with the manufacture of automobile. The most remarkable feature of thia division, however, is that nearly four million dollars of the business comes from the sales of by-products reclaimed from waste. What the average large manufacturer considers as waste materials. the Ford motor company is not only turning into piotits but in so doing is contributing s large measure to the conservation of natural resources. Production of cars, trucks and trsctors has grown so great that the company has gradually taken over control of sources of raw materials in order to insure constant production. This has led to the development of coal and Iron mining, logging opera- tions^»glass manufacturing and simi lar basic industries, suiplus materisls freni wl are dispensed through a new department and find ready sale in the public market*. Coal brought into the river Rouge plant from the Ford mines goes into the coke ovens, yielding coke, most of which the company uses, snd such by-products as gas, benzol and am monium sulphate, which are sold and bring in more1 than one million one- hundred fifty thousand dollars an nus I ly. Slag from the blast furnaces at river Rouge is transformed into Port land cement at a new plant having a capacity of a thousand barrels a day. At Iron Mountain, Michigan, now the center of the company’s body parts industry, the largest wood dis tillation plant in the world is recov ering from the hardwood scrap a number of valuable by-products. These inelude ehsreoal, pitch, creo sote, ethyl acetate, refined wood alcohol, methyl acetone and scetate of lime. A number of those by products sre used by the company, but all in excess of its requirement* are sold and wiH bring an estimated return of more than two million five hundred thousand dollars annually. Charcoal, principal of these products, is made into briquets and as a clean, hot fuel sells readily for use in din ing car and hotel kicthena and in households. Another source of reve nue at this plant i* the sale of sur plus lumber. Plate glaas is. made at the com pany’s three elaSs plants. Grades not suitsble for Ford cars snd glass in small sixes, is sold to mirror companies and various other concerns. At Hamilton,' Ohio, there is a twelve hundred acre experimental farm adjoining the Ford wheel factory. Farm products and livestock can, therefore, be added to the list, along with electric power, which the company also sella. The sales of surplus factory scrap metal and non-metal lie material reaches enormous proportions. From these items alone the company real izes more than four million dollars yearly. Though the by-product* department is considered more or les* as a side line by the Ford motor company, it alone compares fsvorably in annual volume of business with many of the country’s larger concerns. County Roadmaster Wall' is now making: the final survey of th« first unit on the Lone Rock market road east of Moro. <If the preliminary survey stands as surveyed, the road will start from the east city limit* St the top of the hill near the west fence line of the experiment station, continue along the fence and then swing into the Ragsdale field oh the south side of the draw, then swing onto the old road at the turn facing the county fair grounds entrance, then along the old road to within a short distance of the south line of the Chris Anderson farm, where it cuts off about four acres, then cutting off sbout ten acres from tie W. B Johnston field and crosses the road into the Huis field and continues through th« E. 0. L. Co. land* to Gras* Valley eanyon and up that can yon to a junction with the present road at Lone Rock. Survey of the second unit of the but the approximate route will be up the canyon from Lone Rock, on the west side, to a location in front of the Brackett farm house and then southeast through the Damon farm, in front of the farm buildings, to a junction with the present road about half mile north of the Boardman school. It is expected that active work will begin on unit one about the first of March and that the entire unit will be finished by county fair time, including the ditching snd sur facing of the hill out of Moro to where the market road begins from funds other than marked road monies The route as surveyed is a six per cent grade to the fsir grounds. A substitute route, at one time consid ered by the court, was to have the road continue down Grass Valley canyon from Lone Rock, pass close to the Huis firm buildings snd then hit the present road at the fair grounds by construction northwest through the Douma farm. This last survey, al- tnough a better grade could be se cured. wss not adopted because of sacri flee of too much good farming property in contrast with the first L. survey which is practically all along the edge of farm lands. Tune in with Old St. Nick on a Thompson or Gilfillan Neutrodyne an Atwater-Kent or Kennedy set Demonstrations Cheerfully Made Installed Complete Prices on application Satisfaction Guaranteed FOSS & CO., Inc MORO, OREGON THE MORO DAIRY O. CL Thorp, proprietor MORO Phone aiFi . OREGON The only dairy herd in the vicinity of Moro that is certified disease-free. Milk, 12c quart Cream, 35c pint Deliveries daily, morning and evening <*OOOOOUOCXXXXXXXXX)OOOOOOOOOOOOOOCXXXX»OOOOOOOQOOOaQOQ *1 MORO HOTEL BARBER SHOP DeLARHUE OPTICAL CO. Manufacturing Opticians HOT AND COLD BATHS Moro oôoooooooooooc OOOCXXX>OOOOOOGOOOGQQOOOOOOOOCXXXXXX>JOOOOOOOOOOCXXX)Or Eyesight Specialists The Only Complete Optical and Lens Manufacturing Plant Between Portland and Boise Oregon *‘Science Plua Farm Practice.” X . OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE WINTER SHORT COURSES Eleven course« with names sod’detes as follows: Room* 15 -16 Vogt Block Paragraphs of State New* Miss Julia S. Groo, an 18-year old Portlard, Oregon, high school girl is the winner of the fifteen thousand dollar modern electrically equipped home in the national lighting contest in which more than one million school children participated. Miss Groo also won the two hundred dollar cash prize in the Portland lighting con- test Iler essay of six hundred words was worth over >25 a w< rd to her. In addition to the money prizes re ceived bv Miss Groo, she has been offered and has accepted the position of Lighting Expert with the General Electric Company of the United States The electric company will pay part of the expenses of her education and after her graduation will pay her a large salary, one of the largest received by any woman in the United Staten. The government of the Punjab, India, is seriously attacking the col- ostai problem of Illiteracy. Seven There is abiding integrity in Ameri thousand boys were added to the school enrollment in 1921-22 and 500,- can public and private life. Dishon 000 In 1922-23, but It 1* exceedingly esty in either is only a skin disease difficult to keep them In school, says no more significant of a decay of the the Department of the Interior, Wash economic structure qf the United ington. D. C., according to the New States than is a case of measles on York Times. Three-flfths of them an American child the precursor of drop out before entering the second an epidemic threatening extermina- class, and fewer than one-fourth con tlon of the population of the United tinue to the fourth clast. Even of States. those who remain long enough to be The National Geographic society classed as literate, many soon re reports the discovery of a tribe In lapse after leaving school into the Asia wl hose women keep no track of mass of illiterates about them. A beginning has been made In adult thelr ages. One might suspect clv- education, and adult pupils who show Ilized women of similar forgetfulness competency and enthusiasm often at If he regarded their statements on the tain literacy after six months* tuition. I same subject as perfectly sincere. A medical adviser counsels WMlkin; on all-fours to remain healthy. • If you find difficulty In getting down on all-fours, try crossing a b»i*y lnUh<- serthm with your face burled In a ne« simper. Work on Low Rock Market Road Schedded to Get Started in March The new 125,000 clubhouse for em ployes of the Pelican Bay Lumber company as Klamath Falls has been opened. The Dalles, Oregon During 1924 the city of Salem laid pavement aggregating a coot of >188,- 870. A total of >15,650.7« was expend ed for sewers. Postal receipts at Portland for 192 were >2,763,415.21. a gain of »177, *67.62 over the total receipts for 1923 or 6.86 per cent. The tax levy on property in Lake county has been fixed by the county court at 20.2 mills, a reduction from last year of 1.1 mills. Members of the Salem Klwanls club have decided to erect a modern greet- ing sign on the Pacific highway fire miles north of Salem. The b©dy> of Hine Briggs, 10, Briggs of daught* er bf lira. Rose Sardine Creek, was found in Rogue river near Medford by a searching party. William E Johnson, 49, editor/- the Madras Pioneer and first clerk Jefferson comity, died in Portland pneumonia. He. was a native Nebraska. oí of of of Farm Mechanics : 1. Farm“ Power and Power Equipment, January 6 to Dairy herd management— March 10 January 5 to March 20 II. Ga* Engines, Tractors, and Equipment, January 19-23 Fourth Annual Canners' School — 111. General Farm Repair, Jan February 2-20 uary 26-30 IV. Poultry Husbandry— Farm Water supply and February 2 to March >4 Sanitation, Febauray 2-6. V. Gas and ^Electric Light and Land Classification and Appraisal — Power, February 9-13. February 2-7 VI.’ vFarm Concrete conatruc- tion, February 16-20. For full information address Dairy Manufacturing— January 6-31 DEAN OF AGRICULTURE, CORVALLAL, OREGON TUXKDO VACUUM CUP OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOQQOQOOOOOOOOOOOOÖOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOw MAIN STREET ^MERICA*S super tire —finest materials, ex clusive service features, distinctive beauty of de-' sign, individual stand ards of service. We would be glad to show them to you and tell - you all about them. B arber S hop MORO, OREGON Joe Truitt, Proprietor SHOWER BATHS An appropriation of 1500,000 to be used in beginning the development of the Vale irrigation project In Ore gon wax requested of congress by the budget bureau. R ead & G alloway Lumber shipments from the Colum bis river for the year 1924 totaled 899. 826,314 feet, according to figures Is sued by Ralph Lamb, deputy collector of customs at Astoria. Building permits aggregating IL- 702,598 were granted by. the Klamath Falla city council during the past year, It was shown in the annual report. The permits totaled 551 Announcement was made at Salem by Senator Joseph of Multnomah coun Perhaps when they license the ty that he would Introduce in the chauffeurs it would be a good scheme next session of the legislature a reso to have them wear license pistes fore lution submitting to a vote of the and aft. so that they can be readily people a constitutional amendment Identified In an emergency, a* Is so authorising the sta.e to engage in water-power dovolopmeuL ’ often desirable. GENERAL MACHINE SHOP Repairing Trucks, Tractors, Automobiles, \ Oatofyillars, and Combine Motors, Cylinder V Grinling, Oyx-acetylene and Electric WMing’ That scientist who stated a few days ago that the suifs rays are not hk hot us they used to be Is either suffering from cold feet or entitled t<> the- championship In the nations! liar’s club. The Dalles, Ore. Moro Garage 615 East Second 8t M. R. Schadewitx, Proprietor READ THE OBSERVER Phons Main 4001
