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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 30, 1925)
«ei MENIN COUNÏÏ IMENEI ALONG LIFE’S Locally many people are talking Sherman County,Oregon, about the child labor.Jj»w which is By THOMAS A. CLARK U»e tOM» oo me asacaamenta naoc oy me and aa equalized by the now being considered by the Oregon of. Equalization, also containing the aaaeasmenta made and certified by Tax Commission; and do certify that the »ev—*------- * J i; legislature. A number will be »ur- Entered as «econd claw matter at the (©. 1«S4. Western Newspaper Union.) to be awamed upon the taxable property ia Sherman Cot -•ip—' ‘ poet oftce at Moro. Oregon. July 25, 1891 prised to know that there i» no law ty, High School, Special School, Roads, Bridges, Civ •nd other purpose« for being considered at all. There is an CHANGING CUSTOMS 4 which a tax has heretofore been legally levied by the ( jnty Budget Committee amendment to the United States con and the Budget Committees of the different monicrpelitiea are a» foil stitution up for approval or rejec HAVE seen a good many statements Geaeral R m 4 Dirtrict Tu ' withta the last few months to the ef January 30, 1925 tion by the legislature. This amend social CBOOl IU t F riday ment is not a law at this time, nor fect that our young people are degen Di«t. Value Levy 1 Tex - DiM. Levy Value will it be at any time. It simply erating, that the moral standards of L $1,088 85 14 $ 777,749 1 $ ----- 256,635 S The ministerial association of Port 371 79 265,565 1.4 8 469 52 2 gives the federal government power girls especially are lower than they 2 586,906 land has endorsed the actions of 1.271.81 908,436; 1.4 1,694 55 3 736,760 2 3 to regulate, control and prohibit any were, and that youth Is going to' the 3 1,197.35 ■ 1 '■ 855,249 Cleaver, »Ute prohibition agent, and person under the age of eighteen from dog« generally. I have seen as many 4 14 4 109,839 — ■ » 554. 11 —■ - F4 396,371 5 701,653 has petitioned the legislature to working for wage, or .ny equiv.lent young peopie .. the next men. .nd t 5 1.4 1,115. 796,809 ’ 6 14,105 39 8 6 7 1,640,162 continue him in office. The county .. .. _ don t believe It. 1,946 39 1 4 6,724 12 7 1,390,282 7 9 9 851,155 sheriffa of Oregon claim that Cleaver of money consideration. It la simply that girls are more frank z 924 78 660,552 . 14 1,829 72 8 6 6 277,231 When the amendment becomes than they were a generation ago; they 10 has falsified, his reports and is un z 1,291.47 14 922.479 552.82 9 »- 3 2 122,755 effective, then laws conforming to are more open, they conceal less— 11 hnsw* 10 ■ 1 ■■ 897.59 641.139 242.746 l^L 12 truthful in his statements of farts. tve authority vested in congress by they, la fact, conceal very little, either 13 846 20 L4 604.426 691 35 11 432,094 16 Cleaver haa put hia personal property Put on the lod smoking jacket, encase your feet in bouse »liffNlWh 1,018 40 1.4 727.427 323.51 12 the act will be enacted. What these physical or emotional. The older gen 15 539,179 6 out of his hand», it has been claimed, 14 844,836 1.182. n 507 59 13 .7 725,128 »eat yourself in the easy arm ehair—then settle down for a cheerful laws are no one pretends to know. eration pf women may have had a good 16 522 98 ao that auita against him for false 373,558 1.4 10,585 44 14 8 1 1,306,844 Many persons under the age of many questionable things go through 17 . 578 41 session with the Radio. It’s great sport. t 1 . e 1.4 413.150 848.61 15 2 2 19 385,732 arrests and imprisonment r-nrot be eighteen have married and others their minds, but they were discreet; 20 739.86 1.4 528,469 939.19 16 1 7 552,463 valid. Cleaver has made affil ait in .535.51 382,504 14 We have the sets for the best results; ,slso the perts .make them- 8 212 3’ n 265,406 most likely will marry under that they thought under the cover of dark 21 / the United States federal cncts at 1,730.50 1.236,069 488 27 18 271,261 1.8 age. z The amendment gives congress ness ; they seldom gave anything away. 22 al! priced within reason. 928 01 Portland that he does not know 1 •» 662,866 1A 9 8 8,183 97 19 835,099 In our grandmothers’ day the mys 23 authority and power to say that these 1.44 679 01 485.010 15 621 75 Wasco 24 limiUtiona as a sUte officer. Mai.y 414,498 teries of life were never discussed; persons cannot work at all in any they were not nice. The privacies of 25 ' 516 16 368,685 ‘ 1.4 318 05 Moro 13 244,650 of hia actions seem to indicate that ■ 301 18 G. Valley 215,132 565,135 manner tq support their home. 26 14. tins feminine toilet <ere inviolate and Cleaver ia a political agent for Gov U ■■ ■— Il 1 — < 284,515 The amendment goes further, it beyond gjg knowie<jge and the expert- 29 —» Total General Road Tax. $20,239 47 ernor Pierce, who can aee no wrvng 656,043 wili force every parent to support eQce of maIL Thinga are different now. 30 664 68 i r ' 390,991 in hi» man Friday. Practical, com- 31 In a pUt»lic restaurant early one 32 379,213 mon-sense people would listen more their children in rdiene»» until they 418.99 are eighteen years old. Some may I morning not long ago, while waiting 33 149.6M /2 8 to ministers if they did not appear to ■■ • «^B 55,980/ disagree with this, but the labor union for a train, I sat near a young girl and 85 be ao biased in their prejudices that 1,820 56 364,112 5.0 * ” leaders who formulated the wording 1 her fiance, a» I gathered from the con- 37 City 197.03 3 6 54,730 r.o matter what the record they versatlon that drifted to me. She was 44 of the act, knew what they wanted. 19 26 Wasco 4 9 J. D. 7 X3.930 <85,010 , . $9,166 69 respond “it’s not so. ” S.530 28 ........... Parents who may wish to send their a ‘pretty girl, tastefully gowned. Her J. D 15 4,280 Moro.. avgibym.^ 2,775 20 children away to school or college and voice was soft and her speech correct Demonstration* Cheerfully Made —ï_____ and refined. It was early morning, us Total $14,456.763 .’ $52,216 69 Total £3|3hT« * - • 0^' * Austral inn «heat has been bought have them busy themselves with work I have said, and she was to take a High School Tuhibn Fóndi« 5 $17,472.17 by Pacific coast millers and is now to help pay their expenses, will not] train, as I was. She had bad none too of « stil and applies to all 40 0 Mills Total Levy in Wuco....... Di«tricta «x4ept No. 7, 9, 17 * ’ much time, I presume, for arraying Purple straw variety, the be permitted to do so. euro ite. 35 6 Mills Total Levy ia Moro ......... and 23; valuation $9,823,503 . original bluest, m wheat, is being Such institutions as Albany colltge, herself properly. 35.2 Mijis Total Levy in Grass Valley Prices on application «nd produces........ ............. $4,911 75 Installed Complete. bought to take the place of the native —heralded widely as a self-help in- | The male member of the combina wheat, stocks of which have been stitution —will be without basis for tion, true to type, addressed himself Total valuation oi taxable property of Sherman county, Oregon .£‘ ^4^56,763 Satisfaction Guaranteed practically exhs. -ted for some time. their claims or else their students pretty completely to his bacon and the The Levy for the General Fund is 11 1 Mill« and produce« . . *f iuO.47O.O7 morning paper. The young woman, will all be older than eighteen years According to infonnation. at least Which 1« divided as follow«:' 73,211.78 * Under the power conferred by the having finished her coffee, turned her two cargoes of A.Ktrtflian wheat is State Ta....................... j............. attention to her toilet. 25,771.00 Market Road« ........................................................ .......... being started for the Pacific coast, amendment, no person under age of. From a bag of tools. all care- . 10,000.00 Bridge«............................ .V............................... the fir t imp>rta(ions to entqr this eighteen will be able to work and ful young women now carry with them 12,000.00 . Per Capita School Tax ......... ......................................... 4,600.00 territory since pioneer day». Old learn a trade. Trades will be taüg it i wherever they go, she got out the para MORO, OREGON County.ud Children'« Industrial Fair«................... 1,210.00 Elec^QM«. ................... ................................................ timers in the trade recall the fret in schools maintained by tax money phernalia for putting her anils Into 750.00 DtMou Memorial Park Improvement«......................... that the fi'Bt cargo cf wheat ever and only those who are able can afford • condition. There is nothing more Irri 10,000.00 Interest on Road Bond« . ............................ . ............. One tating than a dangling hpng-nall. Then brought to the Oregon country esme to take advantage of them. 1,675.00 Care of Poor, County Phyaktaa and Burial Expenses writer advocating the amendment in the lip-stick ‘was generously applied 980.00 from Australia Pension«, Relief, Charity and Library .............. - • • ’ 3,760.83 the Oregon Journal of Portland, aad the edgea of the I l li I ♦ I 1 I I I H H I I I i l M H II l-U 14 4-4 I I I i I I I I IH 14444 » Sherman Highway Balance ............. . ......................... 16,511.46 claima that the 1920 census said that her powdered cheek «oTtHVOt’r a little. Balance for Running Ex pensea of the County............. one million sixty thousand children 'I should not have beep surprised or were working in, the United State» shocked—nor would hef companion, I $160,470.07 think—If she had given her teeth the General Fund. and that under the amendment and 52,216.6T O. Q. Thorp, proprietor ial School Tax Si once over, and screwed on a pair of 4.911.7Í subsequent laws that men and women earrings, or adjusted a transformation 20,239.47 . THt HOOtRN would take these jobs. Lssving the dragged from the recesses of her tool General Road Fund .... .. 17,472.17 FAM.NT persons under eighteen to drift around box. But her friend had finished his Special City To......... • • • ............................... . ............. .91 Overplus Fractional Extensions...................................... RHOMtSnH town and increase the numbers of breakfast at this stage of the pro The only dairy herd in the vicinity of Moro - SONAM youthful criminals who—ss in Chi- ceedings and she had no time for fur Grand Total Tax........... ...................... $255,311.0 that ts certified di»ea»e-free.. 237.29 IF Ht Amount oi advance tax collected by me............. cago—commit crime for the “thrill.” ther detail«. As I said, I don’t believe DOCSN’T that young people Innately are particu $255,073.77 Milk, I2C quart Cream, 35c pint Amount to be collected by the Sheriff............... SMOKE OR larly different from what they were in Cana Grow» Tall. DRINK our grandmothers’ time. It is just Dated at Moro, Oregon, thia 26th day of January 1925. Deliveries daily, morning and evening Sterna of the sugar cane plant re that customs are changing. Hi IS semble cornstalks and often attain a . Margaret W. Peetz, County Assessor OLD height of fifteen to eighteen feet, says Sheriffs of the state, assembled it Nature Magazine. They are thick and unbranohed, with broad, flat ninth annual convention at Multnomal A cleanup of all the hay in the. county courthouse In Portland, adopt leaves three feet or more In length. alfalfa fields of the weat end of Uma C V Belknap, Proprlttor ^ ed a resolution urging the state legia till* county will be effected within the lature to abolish the state prohibition next few week», according to Cari Me law enforcement body, of which Naught of Hermiston, manager of the Three thousand dollars is planned George L. Cleaver is director. Moro, Oregon to be spent on the Columbia, John hay growers’ co-operative organize Eastern capital was successful last tion. Approximately 80 per cent of Day and Sberman highways by the - Dance at The Dalles Next week in bidding for the Cherry creek state highway department, in connec the crop has been moved to date. Ladies and Children’» Hair Cutting reservation timber In the eastern The principal road» within Crater tion with Sam Boardman’» tree plant and Shingle Bobbing part of Klamath county. The high Lake perk will be herd-surfaced this ing project. bid wm submitted by the Campbell Congress has passed two Of the total amount, eight hundred year. Tpwle Lumber company of Oshkosh. dollars will be spent in Gilliam measures which give a total of $183,- The Northwest’» Fineat “Classical Jazz” Orchestra Wlz./wlth an offer of MU a thousand county alpng the Columbia highway 000 for road improvement in the park feet. ind seven hundred and fifty dollar» this year, and the money will be used A bill which would enable cities In will be spent on the same route in for replaclpg the present dusty JOQOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCOOOO from the Peoples Theatre, Portland, will give a the Willamette valley in Oregon t< Sherman county between the Des thoroughfare» wjth pavement. DANCE in the AUDITORIUM BALL ROOM proceed with a plan to develop a watei chutes and the John Day rivers. Foi Fred Herrick, purchaser of a large QQOCXXXXXXXX)OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUOOOOOQOOOOOOOOOr ' . > * • w- supply was Introduced in congress by the Sherman highway eight hundred tract of government timber in the Mal I Ticket» $1 Extra Ladie» 25c Representative ' Hawley. The meas and fifty dollars has been allotted. “Science Plus Fann Practice.’’ ’ - hear national forest In Harney coun ure would authorize a grant of ap One hundred dollar» will be spent ty the development of which in OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE Extra show at 7 p.m. in the big Eight men in Tuxedos, using a proximately twelve sections of federal in rew plantings on the Columbia volves the construction of 60 milea of Auditorium Theatre Saturday Hardman Grand Piano, on the government land around the head highway near Mayer perk at the top railroad from Crane through Burns nigtit of Pola Negri in “Li(y of floor of the magnificient Audi water« of the McKenzie river in th» of Rowena loops and the remaining has received a year’» extension of time Eleven courses with nstnes and dates as follows: , * The Dust.’’ See the show first torium Ball Room. It’s worth vicinity of Cedar lake to an organiza five hundred will be spent between to start logging operation». The ex and dance afterwards. the trip just to listen. 4 tion which It is proposed to have th< The Dal lea end the Deschutes river. tension was authorized by Colonel Ciry Manufacturing- . Meeh.nica : ■ ' state legislature designate as Ailanthus planted by Mr. Board William B. Orealey, chief of the forest L3 1 January 5-31 k ,F,nn Pow*r ,nd man last fall is progressing favor agency for construction. [ ° Equipment. January 6 to ably, despite the recent sold snap. Dairy herd management— March 10 « ¡1 , A nursery of these trees planted by January 6 to March 20 11. Gas Engines, Tractors, and ]| Mr. Boardman at his home is grow » av * i z- . « ta— Equipment, January 19-23 ' ing from the seed as is also a large Fourth Annual Cannera Sch<»l- General Farm R.palr, J«- 1 February 2-20 uary 26-30 T ¡1 nursery planted by school children of Boardman. * [ Poultry Husbandry- >v- F«™» Water supply and !| C. L. I reland Editor and Publisher I or Gilfillan an Atwater-Kent or Kennedy set FOSS & CO., Inc THE MORO DAIRY BILL"* BARBLR Pilone aiFi . OREGON SAYS x MORO Moro Hotel Barber Shop Saturday Night Jan’y 31 baths WINTER SHORT COURSES Ride to Health ' With Wasco Bakery Goods On sale at the following Sherman county stores Geo. N. Crozfield, Wasco McCoy-Atwood Co., Wasco W. R Reid, Wasco Moro Trading Co., Morn - L. R. Ccnlee, Moro J. H. Wilt & Co.. Grass Valley A. B. Potter, Klondike Keep Sherman County Money at home By Patronizing Home Industry We bake white bread in two size loave», and also bake Raisin biead, Whole Wheat bread, Health bread and Rye bread. We have all kinds of Cakes always in fresh supply, including Plaiin, Loaf, Layer and Jelly Rolls. We make (’uokies of all description». frugar, Ginpr and Oat Meal Cookie» are our upeciiUlie». Speci il ordern for Partie». I hióce Su uh . ’uMir • ialhrrings are »olivile«! and Riveli ih»* o*rv bi*>i o porting to the West Coast Lumber men’s association for the wook coding Jaawr 4?, manufactured 101,184.18« toot ocisunber; sold 1M.014JM foot; and skipped 115414441 tsoL Now daction. Shipments wore I pw »Mt sbovo new business. February 2 to March 14 [ Sanitation, Febquray 2-0. ¡] Gas and Electric Light and V. Power, February 9-13. Farm Concrete construe- J tiqn, Ffbruayy |S-gQ, For full information addreea DEAN OF AGRICULTURE, CORVALLAL, OREGON. • Land Classification and Appraisal— February 2-7 . CUP vi. xxxtooooooooooooooooooooocoooooooooooooooocxxxxíooooq rar* agü AMERICA’S su] ir tire J * —fìnp«t matír elusive service features, distinctive beauty of de sign, individual stand ards of service. We would be K],<1 to show them to you gnd tell you all about them. R ead & G alloway GENERAL MACHINE SHOP Repairing Truck», Tractor», Automobile», Caterpillar», and Combine Motor», Cylinder Grin Hng. Ovx-acetylene and Electric Welding ¿ pi^onpl service W h SCO Bakery, M. G. Tuel, Proprietor » . T r Wasco, Oregon NN The Ashland city council ordered calling of an election in the near future to submit to the voter» the question of issuing 18000 In bonds to purchase the historic southern Ore gon Chautauqua building, which will bq sold within the next few weeka to satisfy g mortgage foreclosure judg ment. Both the state penitentiary and the state training school for boys at Salem are fire traps and are not adequate to cope with present modern conditions, 1 according to B. Ogden Chisholm, a 1 member of the International prison commission, who is inspecting the pend Institutions of the Pacific north west. Plans ha vs been completed and the contract let for the rebuilding of the mill section of the Portland Vegetable Oil Mills company, which was doetroy ed by fire, Dec. 18. The mill, which will be used to procs the oil from copra from the Philippines and the South Sea islands, will cost shout $50,- 000 to rebuild. After he hsd held up lb men in a Troutdale pool hell, William Still, mlddleAHged Estacada man, »M shot and seriously wounded by two Trout dale citizens who witnessed the rob bery. Still escaped, Md In » patch of tall grass In a vacant lot. »nd was later captured and turned «ver to deputy sheriffs. Moro Garage The Dalles, Ore 615 Ei»t Second St Phont Mein 4001
