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At a meeting of the Moro com
munity club, held Wednesday evening
at Hotel Moro and attended by a
large number of representative farm
ers from all sections of Sherman
county, it seemed to be the opinion
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of the majority present that altho the
winter wheat fields of this county had
4« I ’VK just been up at their Toontry
January 23. 1925 «xk-ibudly been «yerely pinclæd by
I place visiting the Simpkhwes,**
F riday
the cold snap of last December yet
George remarked to me this fall.
“Cadillac, motorboat, house party, fine
Gasofe Swpb
W* I over estimated.
board, no laundry bill, nothing to pay;
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It was contended by farmers present pretty soft”
N^ ims Safe ei Arte Vcbdes from Kent> GniM v.itey, w-co, *. I had met Simpkins at the end of
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well as those attending from this August, and he hxd told me what a
In spite of handicaps of an un- vicinity, that a large per cent of the grind the summer bad been to him.
known and uncertain supply of raw i turkey red wheat fields wouid not be “Ihe had to work early and late,** he
material, crude oil, the production of | hurt tu a sufficient extent 1o justify anld. “That family of mine had a tear
which is only three times what it was reseeding when the cost of seed and ing good time up north with their
friends, ,bnt the bills were tremen
in 1913. gasoline is being served 'expense« involved were Uken into
dously heavy, and you knhw aomebody
regularly to nearly twelve times as consideration.
It waa thot that even always has to pay.“
many motor vehicles
Six timt-s as a good half stand of turkey red wheat
The Beta Tau Sigma party, the pa-
much gasoline is being manufartj»ed. would not justify reseeding the field. per» said, had set a new standard for
In other words, improved pr • esses This conclusion was arrived at by social events In
this community,
are getting twice as much ga-> line many on the theory that a half crop Nothing was lacking to make It a »uc-
per gallon.
Without improved meth of turkey red wheat, now growing, cess—cabs, evening ciothes (mostly
oda of drilling, invention and per- wou|d mature as much actual wheat rented), favors, theater party, seven
fection of drilling equipment, new as reseeded spring grain that must course luncheon—it cost a pretty sum.
processes for greater extraction of mainUin itself against uncertain I wondered who was paying; father at
refined products from the crude and weather conditions yet ahead for this houie getting up euriy and going to
bed late? Sister teaching, or clerking
improvements in all departments of
or nursing? Mother going without the
producing, refining and marketing of
It also seemed to be the universal new gown or the vacation trip of which
petroleum, the manufacture and use opinion that wheat varieties other she was very much tn need? These
of motor vehicles would before now than turkey red was in all probabil thlngs more often than otherwise mean
have been checked by lack of fuel. ities killed by the December freeze.
sacrifice; for some one has to pay.
The achivement of keeping up with
Parker cut a pretty wide swath last
Speakers who addressed the meet
this enormous growth in demand and ing propose^ that seed wheat be year in college. He had the latest cut.
yet selljrg hirhly refined gasoline st { secured from Australia; that the rail- up-to-date clothes; he never misses a
■ round 34 rents a pjund today as road companies be requested to make good show—or a bad one; If anything
against 8 cent» for Lre«d or 10 tents «pecial rates for handling what wheat was going on be could be found sitting
in the front row. and there were un
for sugar is one on which the oil in- was needed, whether secured from
pleasant rumors about bls associates.
dustry is to be congratulated every } other sections of the United States or I knew bls being In college was pinch
tin* you drive to ■ hardy fill ing foreign; that the federal government big at home a good deal, but bls folks
•tation.
be petitioned to remit the import were quite willing to make the sacri
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seeding; that the Oregon legislature advantages that they had been denied.
Naboi s Forests Increasng in Value ' be lobbied to secure an appropriation It wouldn't have been so bad If he had
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.from the state for the purpose ef P*,d bi» pact by plugging hard on his
Only ■ few years ago, the state of i securing seed wheat and that this be <*Hege work. Mother could perhaps
Idaho sold fine timber as low as 2a repaid hy farmers over a spiead of bav^afforded to denj hervel a sp ng
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<*ent» per 1000 fret, and waa glad to years.
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‘buy a Phi Beta Kappa pia; but as It
get the money.
Rtcently the state
Conservative estimates place the , was, he finished the year In debt to
•old white piie stumpage for $13 per possible damage to winter wheat/ every one and with a scholastic aver
M, and the land has to be scientifi- fields of Sherman county at about age of 59. Those who were paying got
eally logged and waste cleared up to thirty thousand acres that most likely little tor their money.
make it a permanent state forest, must oe reseeded.. This does not in-
For every good time you have, for
Another sim lar «ale was made for elude the fields where a half stand of every luxury you enjoy, for every dts
$9 96 per M. A $11 sale was reported wheat is probable oj even instances slpatlon in which you Indulge or graft
four years ago, but this $13 sale is where a lesa number of live plants which you take advajiuge of. some
believed to top all lumber prices in are estimated to be now growing in body Is having to pay. You may charge
the account at times, but ultimately
American history. .
the fields.
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the bills esme in w4th interest
The growing interest in forestry
A. B. Robertson, present st the
It Is better on the whole for each
and reforestation is bound to relieve meeting from Gilliam county, stated man to pay bls share of the bill. No
the presure on the northwestern for- that it
estimated
the tola I one respects a boy who Is always eager
eats that is indicated by thia rise in damage to wheat in that county would to sit tn, but who never, reaches for the
Idaho pine prices. Forestry agitation exceed one hundred thousand acres check. If the home folks are willing
may have frightened the nation into a and that many of the farmers were to make the sacrifices and furnish the
sane forest program, so that as a now busy reseeding with turkey red. money, son ought to play the gurqg
result of conservation forest prices Supt. D. E. Stephens, of the experi- fairly, to economize occasionally and
may not rise greatly above the pres- ment farm, stated that it would be to square his half of the account by a
ent high levels.
The awakening did safe to sow turkey red wheat if it return of manly character and good
scholarship,
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not come too soon, when pine stump- were done before not later than the
There is an o^ gag in a popular
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Editor and Publisher
little more than a decade.
That western sawmills can cut
lumber from such Hgh priced logs
and still keep it the cheapest build-
ing material available speak» volumea
for their efficient management and
manufacturing methods.
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Ti is is the season of the year when
wot Id-Le political reformer» advocate
a multiplicity of state and national
lawd to remedy imperfection» in trade
and i us try.
There is a large number of people
who believe for defects and abuses
and dishonesty in the businee« world
is n ore and Mill more legislation.
Thus it come about that congress
and state legialatures and city gov
ernments design measures to control
and legulato railways, public utilities
and big industries.
The wonder ia thai with all these
onslaughts in the past, it has been
possible for large induatrial and
public service organizations to exist,
to ssy nothing about their ability to
make profita and enlist new capital
for extensions.
As usual, many novelties and ex
periments are proposed this month of
the year that the Romans dignified
with the God Janu^ie, a figure facing
both w ays.
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About five new cabinet positions
with prospective employment for one
hundred thousand officials and hun
dreds of new state boards and com
missions, alao employing taxeaters
galore, are proposed with the magic
formula “Be it enacted, etc.”
The people can only pi ay that most
of these measures will be defeated
«nd that steady principles of Belt
reliance and common sense may pre
vail in their atead.
We can never
improve on the maxim of Thomas
Jefferson that an
intelligent com
monwealth ia governed the best when
it is governed the least.
Topograph Three Säten Regoa
The first complete topographic
map of the Three Sister* region was
completed this week by Dr. Edwin T.
Hodge,
profeeeor of geology, and
eight geology student* of the Uni
versity of Oregon,
Dr. Hodge and
his students spent aix weeks in the
rhree Sister» région last summer ob-
tain in g topographie data.
The map
will be printed for
distribution
shortly to serve as a guide for thoae
who visit the saetion.
The area covered waa 16 by 12
miles. The scale of the map ia one
inch for two thousand feet anefthe
contour interval is one hundred.
The
futures of the map include a portion
of the McKenzie highway, traila,
mountain lakas, glacier*, and points
of acenic and geologic intereat.
"The T%r*e Sister* region will
some day be the play ground of Ore
gon,” said Dr.
Hodge.
“It vie*
with Mt. Hood and Crater Lake in
scenic importance and ia easily acces
sible on the McKenzie highway.
Ancient and. recent volcanoea, lava
flows of a comparatively late date,
’glass’ cliffs, a small. crater lake,
numerous small lakea and interesting
mountain »cenery are featuree that
will draw an increasing number of
tourists to this section each year.”
against foreign weed seeds being
State Highway Bonds Decreasing
brought into the county with the new
wheat and advised a thorough fanning
The total amount oi highway bonds
of the seed before »owing.
issued by the state since 1917 ia $38,-
At the close of the meeting a pool 800,000. Of these $639,250 have ma
waa formed by A. C. Thompson, tured and been paid. The constitu
W. S. Powell, Roy Powell, and some tional limit, 4 per cent of the assess
others and thirty six hundred »acks of ed valuation, is $42,356,229.
hard federation wheat was bought by '
In 1925 the annual interest and
phone from dealers in La Grande. principal charges will be $2,597,516.
This wheat will cost about $2.50 a
The high point of the bonded debt
bushel at Moro.
will come in 1928 when the charge
During the meeting Albert K»Be rjor ‘ interest and principal will a-
berg was called to the long distance mount to $3,476,998.
phone and concluded a deal he had
From that date it will decline,
under way with parties in The Dalles being $3,426,765 in 1929 and $3,188,318
whereby he bought a carload of hard in 1932, when the decline will be
federation wheat for reseeding his more rapid.
The life of the bond ia,
and neighboring farms near Wasco. for the most part, 20 years.
The price of this wheat was not as
certained.
The compilation of gross postal ro
celpts of the Medford poetoffice, $55,-
501.20 for the year, shows an increase
of more than 9 per oent over gross
receipts In 1923.
The condition of W. J. Kerr, presi
dent of Oregon Agricultural college,
who has been seriously ill for some
time, is reported by attending physi
cians to be imoroved.
During the biennial period, October
1, 1922, to September 30, 1924, a total
of 1259 applications for school fund
loans was received by the state land
board, according to the report of the
department filed with the legislature.
Of the applications received 2121 were
approved. These loans aggregated $2.-
185,706.
Dozens of Observer readers are truly
grateful for thought« that prompt many
which persona to phone in newt items.
An era of prosperity is one
people go in debt for things they
,A prime factor in the upbuilding of
don’t need.
a community is the community newspaper.
Ride to Health
With Wasco Bakery Goods
One hundred and eighteen mills re
porting to the West Coast Lumber
men’s association for the week end
ing January 10 manufactured 99.939,-
008 feet of lumber, sold 79,262,902 feet
and shipped 80,903,540 feet. New bus!
ness was 18 per cent below production.
Shipments were 2 per cent above new
business.
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On tale at the following
Sherman county stores
। Geo. N. Croifield, Wasco
McCoy-Alwood Co., Watco
Sealed bids received by the light*
house department for -the repair at
aids to navigation In the lower Colum
bla river, which were damaged , by
ice floes several weeks ago, have been
submitted to the department heads at
Washington, D.. C„ and ft is expected
that the contract will be let within a
few days.
Dr. Walter H. Brown of Richmond
O., accompanied by Mra. Brown and
two children, has arrived in Salem to
assume charge of the five-year child
health demonstration assigned to Ore
gon under the financial sponsorship
of the commonwealth of New York.
W. R Reid. Wasco
Moro Trading Co., Moro •
L. R. Ccnlee. M oro
J. H. Wilt & Co., Grass Valley
A. B. Potter, Klondike
Keep Sherman County Money at Home
By Patronizing Home Industry
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We bake white bread in two size loaves, and also bake Raisin biead,
Whole Wheat bread, Health bread and Rye bread.
Weyhave all kinds of Cakes always in fresh supply, including Plain,
Ix>af, Layer and Jelly Rolls.
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We make Cookies of alb de^riptionp.
Cookies are our s|>ecÍHlties.
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Spaili ««rcers for Parties. I ht net* Suppein, anH Pubic Gatherings
are solicited and given ilivvc y be*! of aitention ;iYy«l prompt service
Wasco Bakery.
Wasco, Oregon
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George M. Gelsendorfer has been
recommended by Representative Haw
ley for appointment as postmaster at
Cascadia.
About 210 men are employed on the
government dam under construction
on McKay creek, seven miles south of
Pendleton,^
Purchase of a hook-and-ladder truck
for the McMinnville fire department
. has been put in the hands of a com
mittee for action.
With the warrants all paid and mon
ey left In practically every fund of the
county, Lfnn oouhty closed 1924 with
a balance of $149,751.18.
A total of 481,127 tons were handled
In the port terminals of Astoria dur
ing the last year, according to data
prepared by port authorities.
Richard H. Thornton, 79, one of the
state’» ablest lawyers and founder and
flr»t dean of the University of Ore
gon law school, died at Good Samari
tan hospital in Portland.
Herbert Chandler of Baker won first
prize on a carload of registered Here
ford range bulls at the Ogden livestock
■how at Ogden, Utah. In addition to
the carload prize Chandler's Herefords
won all other prizes in the Hereford
Two hundred and fifty employes of
the city water bureau of Portland will
have to pay $60,000 in back taxes to
the government because of a decision
that employes of a public utility, city
owned, must pay taxes as employee of
^very other utility.
Because of embarrassment at the
government rock quar ry on North
6008 river and sloughing of much over
burden during the wet weather,
amounting to at least 7000 yards, work
on the south Coos bay jetty
sub
pended by Lieutenant B. H. Bowley
of the government service and 22 or
23 men will be out of employment for
a month or six weeks. Suspension
was caused by shortage of material tor
Put on the lod smoking jacket, encase your feet in house slippers,
seat yourself in the easy arm chair—then settle down for a cheerful
session with the Radio.
It's great sport.
We have foe sets for the best results;
all priced within reason.
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Thompson or Gilfillan
Neutrodyne
an Atwater-Kent or Kennedy set
Demonstrations Cheerfully Made
Installed Complete.
Although light snows continue to
fall throughout the Haines valley and
foothill district adjoining, there Is
not sufficient snow to assur^ crops in
the irrigated sections, where snow^
depended upon for water through-
out the growing season.
A new railroad story comes from
Curry county to the effect that the
Chicago, Milwaukee A St. Paul rail
road proposes to build down the Ore ■i »»-M
gon coast from Seaside to California
and thence on to San Francisco, prob
ably to attach to the Northwestern Pa
qiflc at its northern terminus at Eu-
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OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
WINTER SHORT COURSES
Eleven courses with names and dates as follows:
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Farm Power and
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Dairy herd management—
March 10
January 5 to March 20
II. Gas Engines; Tractor», and
Equipment, January 19-23
Fourth Annual Canners’ School—
111.
General Farm Repair, Jan
February 2-20
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IV.
Poultry Husbandry—
Farm Water supply and
February 2 to March 14
Sanitation, Febauray 2-6.
V. Gas and Electric Light and
Land Classification and Appraisal—
Power, February $-18.
February 2-7
VI. • Farm Concrete conatruc-
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you
Reports from farmers living th the
western part of Polk county show that
approximately 50 per cent of the
grain was killed in hie cold spell In
December. This will make
Ing necessary in the spring. Condi
tions In the eastern part of the county
were reported much better.
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The Brownsville woolen mill is now
employing several shifts of men and
the machines are running day and
night.
SHOWER BATHS
R ead & G alloway
GENERAL MACHINE SHOP
Repairing Trucks, Tractors, Automobiles,
Caterpillars, and Combine Motors, Cylinder
Grin iifig, Oyx-acetylene and Electric Welding
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Phone Main 4001
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