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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.
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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-
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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
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MORO, OREGON
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. 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.
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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
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MORO,
OREGON
Joe Truitt, Proprietor
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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
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