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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (April 24, 1925)
UfMll Nm HIEHEI Gatk Pupil. EliglNe t For County Cofittet -, Thira taa. IM Rtf Brown RufuS 08% 2nd Gbbrge EllisöÄ i Rufus 96% Fourth Grade < 1st Ada Jones Rufus 98% 1st Chester Coats Brock 98% Rufus 96% 2nd Jean Morris 2nd Joy White Locust Grove 96% Fifth Grade 1st Robert Chase Rufus 98%% 2nd June Brackett Rufus 96%% Sixth Grade 1st Maxine Birks Locust Grove 98% 2nd Edna 'Addington Brock 88% Seventh Grade 1st Marguerite Goin Locust G 82% 2nd No competition Eighth Grade 1st Doris Payne • Rufus 92% 2nd Harold White Locust G 82% FlÙlôwing is a complété list of all Froiptcts are favorable for A good spring wheat crop in Sherman coun the pupils of Sherman county schools ty this sason, according to the who gaiped first and second placez G. L. I reland records and observations of the local in the grade school sfielling contest Editor and Publisher experiment station. Because of the recently held in Sherman county by unusually early spring and the warm written examination. Proceeding Entered as second claw matter at the weather in early April, spring wheat each name is the standing secured by post ofice at Moro. Oregon, July 2S, 1891 is ' considerably farther advanced the individual pupil and following than for a normal season. This will each pupils name is the name of the mean that spring wheat will ripen school which the pupil attends and earlier than usual and with probable the per centage of correct spelling Federation Wheat Out- yields more nearly approaching that earned in the examination contest Yields All Varieties normally obtained from fall sown Each failure to correctly spell a wore. wheat. resulted in a deduction from a pos Soil moisture tests made early sible 100% earned. Some pupils Federation wheat grown alongside of dicklow, bluestem, marquis, liber in April show that there is a slight iiave a 1st or 2nd standing and yet ty, sonora and fortyfoid on irrigated deficiency of stored moisture in the are lower than other pupils in pei The cent of correctly spelled words. Such land in Crook county out yielded soil for a depth of six fe«t KENT DIVISION those varieties from 6 to 8 bushels percentage of moisture in the soil pupils have the highest standing in First Grade / per acre last year, reports Oregon this spring was 12%, as against th^t school for the grade indicated. 1st Evelyn Davis Kent 100% All pupils named in this list arc Agriculture college. Approximately 13.7% for the average of the past 2nd Joseph Morrow Kent 96% five years. This difference of 1.7%, eligible for the county championship 70 per cent of the county’s 9000 Second Grade is equivalent to approximately 1.5 in contest to be held at Moro on May acres of spring wheat was seized to 1st Hazel Decker Kent 96% 15th. This contest will be a written federation in 1924 and the year ches of precipitation. 2nd Margaret Dunlap Kent 92% The deficiency in stored moisture elimination contest. Fifty word? 1925 will see a big increase in thi» Third Grade is in the fifth and sixth feet and is will be given at each contest period. variety. 1st Charles .Dunlap Kent 100%, The agricultural economic confer caused by the lack of rainfzdl during Ihcse failing to correctly spell any 1st 100 % Charlea Wilson Kent ence held in Cro<& county a year ago the spring and summer months of word will be eliminated and a 2nd. 1st Lorene Young Kent 100%, 1924. In the fail of 1924, summer- 3rd,4th or more 60 word contest will favored federation for irrigated 1st Anna Sather Kent 100%, fields. - In a survey of costs of wheat fallowed ground was unusually dry Le given until some one pupil will 2nd Lillian Stassen Kent 96% production it developed at the con and the deficiency was not quite made win in each grade. For purposes ol Fourth Grade ference that a yield of at least 32 up by the slightly more than normal fauness the written contest was de 1st Clara Wilson i Kent 100%, bushels of wheat was necessary to precipitation during the winter and cided upon by Superintendent A. M 1st Alta Norton Kent 100% give the grower an even break on eudy spring of 1925, except in the Zeveiy. 2nd Matilda Holt Kent 94% labor, seed, etc. Federation averaged first four feet, which contains the Fifth Grade i MORO DIVISION normal amount of stored moisture. mure than 45 bushels in the county. 1st Doris Dunlap Kent 92% First Grade The following table gives the pre S. D. Mustard, prominent Powell 2nd Richard Sather 86% Kent Ridge 100% Ted Proudfoot G 1st Butte farmer, threshed an average of cipitation for 1924-1925 from Sept. Sixth Grade Moro 100% 71.8 bushels per acre of federation 1 to date, as compared with the , 1st Mildred Alley 1st Donald McInnis Kent 94% Moro 100%. 1st Mildred Adams normal. on his place. ¿nd Kepdric Dunlap Kent 84% 100% Curtis Johnson Moro 1st 1924-25 Normal Other high yields were 67 bushels Seventh Grade Moro 96% Inch 2nd Mary Pinkerton Inch per acre on the Harvey Mustard farm 1st Pauline Davis Kent Moro 96% .82 2nd Norma Melzer .67. and 66 bushels per acre reported by September ........... ¿nd Pearl Mitchell Kent Second Grade 1.01 .82 John Luckey. The highest yield to October ........ Eighth Grade Moro 100% Harry Barzee 1st 2.40 1.82 any other spring variety reported November............. 1st Della Helyer Wücox Henry Proudfoot 1.65 1.17 was 54 bushels per acre from a field December ............. 2nd Pollie Wilson Kent Gordon Ridge 100% 1.52 of bluestem grown by E. A. Bussett. January . . .'......... - 1.53 Moro 96% Kenny Anita 2nd 1.80 1.07 The rising tide of federation popu February ............. GRASS VALLEY DIVISION Moro 96% 2nd Max Clarke .45 .81 larity in eastern Oregon dates from March .................... t First Grade ,6& .67 2nd Lucile McLachlan 1921 when a relatively few farmerr April—to 21st . . . Monkland 96% 1st Mildred Lester G Valley 100 %> secured a limited amount of seed ¿nd Cora Bayer G Valley 92 % Third Grade 9.18 9.72 Total ^ .. . from Moro branch experiment station ¿nd Uarrel Walker G Valley 92% Moro 100%, 1st Maxine Henrichs To the 21st. which developed this variety, says Grade Second Moro 98% Belshee 2nd Sybil E. R. Jackman, farm crop specialist G Valley 100%, Moro 98% 1st Ellen Cox 2nd Flora Williams for the state college extension ser Former Wuco Boy ist Lois Russell Valley 100%, G Fourth Grade vice. In that year about 33 acres 1st Norman Fields ' G Valley 1007* • Killed in Mill Accident Moro 100% 1st Leora Peetz were seeded to federation. By 1922 ¿nd Valley 96% Dwight Baker G 98% Gladys Baker Moro 2nd the average increased to 520 and in Third Grade John Elwood Lamborn. son of Will Russell Belshee Harmony 98% 2nd 1923 jumped to 12,000. In 1924 1st Vivian Hayes G Valley 100%, Fifth Grade this variety spread to 10 counties L. Lamborn. former resident of Was 1st Fern Luttrell G Valley 100%, co now residing at The Dalles, wm 1st Doris Amidon Moro 97 1-3% and covered about 53,000 acres. At ¿nd Fay Luttrell G Valley 98% instantly killed in a sawmill »«ci 1-3% 1st Charlotte Johnson Moro 97 prevailing prices federation brought Erskine 967* ¿nd Mildred Heath Michigan 98% growers >165,000 more that year dent in Tillamook county on April 2nd Cynthy Bell Fourth Grade Sixth Grade than they would have secured from 16th. - Deceased was a graduate •of )8t Kenneth Piercy G Valley lp j%> Wasco and The Dalles high schools Harvey Thompson Fair- 1st varieties commonly grown. and of the Oregon Agricultural col- view 98 2-3% 1st Gerald Holzaphel G Valley 100% Rutledge 92 % He was an ex-service man 2nd Lois Bryant Moro 97 1-3% ¿nd Owen Eakin with a record of 14 months with the Fifth Grade Seventh Grade G Valley 97% American expeditionary forces in Moro 96 %> 1st Ruth Luttrell Given to Sam HUI France. His father and two brothers, 1st Evelyn Buell 2nd Ethel Barnett G Valley 9«% 2nd Ethel Kessinger Monkland 95%, Sixth Grade Clarence and Frank, survive him. . 95% Clara McDonald Harmony 2nd The county commisioners of 1st HaroldBlagg Funeral services were held st the Rutledge 98% Eighth Grade Klickitat county have granted Sam- Methodist church in Wasco last Sun 1st Emmajean Stephens Moro 95% ¿nd Vernon Eakin Rutledge 97 % > uel Hill, globe trotter, good roads day afternoon followed by military 1st Irene Higgins Seventh Grade Moro* 95% promoter and owner of a 5000-acre honors at the graveside in charge of 2nd Rosemary Walker De Moss 72% 1st Jeanette O’Leary G Valley 97% farm at Maryhill, on the Columbia the American Legion. Pallbearers •Moved to Kent, spelled at Moro ¿nd Russel Simpson G Valley 95% river in Klickitat county, a license to were ex-service men of the American Eighth Grade' operate a ferry across the Columbia RUFUS DIVISION Legion, while the color guard, bug 1st Dona Luttrell G Valley 100%> river from Columbus on the Wash ler and firing party were composed 2nd Harriet Simpson G Valley 94% First Grade ington side to Spanish Hollow, where of legionnaires and members of Com- 1st Eugene Spencer Moody 100% the state highway in Sherman county pany H, national guard unit of The WASCO DIVISION Brock 927* 2nd Ida Coats leaves the Columbia river highway on First Grade Dalles. 2nd Albert Thompson Rufus 92% the Oregon shore. Second Grade 1st David Thomas Wasco 100%, Protests by the Maryhill ferry com .s ...A...... I^eRoy Pyburn Rufus 100% 1st 1st Frances Carothers Wasco 100%, A- mass meeting was held by the pany, owned by H. G. Van Allen, Rufus 96% ’ st Margaret Moon 2nd Mary Ellison Wasco 100%* discuss citizens of Cascade Locks to John M. Johnscta and Ralph L. Mc 2nd Marguerite Burnett Biggs 96% 1st Margaret Johnson Wasco 100%, Donald, were disregarded. The Mary plans for tbe building of a new high 1st Gene Spencer Wasco 100%, hill ferry company property was re school for this locality. It was de Wasco 100%, ! st Evelyn Garret elded that the district school board cently purchased by the present Medford and Ashland have Joined 1st Nicholas Fish Wasco 100%, be asked to call an election to vote owners from E. W. Peck, the deal hands in another attempt to remove 1st Kenneth Tupper Wasyeo 100%> being held up for some time over 1200,000 bonds to run for 20 years. the Jackson county seat from Jackson Wadko 100%, Destruction of much of the spring ville to Medford. The latter city of 1st James O’Meara litigation brought by rival claimants 1st Wascb 100%, Doris Hentges for Peck’s franchise. The Maryhill truck garden crop near The Dalles, fere a free site and temporary quar 1st Dale Fleck Emigrant^lOO %, either by being washed away,or by ferry is operated a little over a mile ters for * courthouse. Wasco 9« % 2nd Barbara Nunn upstream from the place where Hill hail, and damage to fruit of an unde Prince L. Campbell, president of the will locate his ferry and was formerly termined extent, were reported by University of Oregon has returned to ¿nd Jeanette Scott Klondike 9» % Second Grade farmers and orchardlsts as a result of * known as the Grant ferry/ Eugene after an absence of several 1st Arthur VanGilder Wasco Hill said the ferry he will establish a freak hall storm and near cloud months spent at Coronado Beach for 1st Donald McDermid Wasco 100%, will be a connecting link in the burst. bis health. His condition was report 1st Bobby Casteel Wasco 100%, There Is to be no letup in construc ed to be slightly improved. Everyday highway, east of the Cas 1st Wasco 100%, Howard Nunn cades from British Columbia to Mex tion work on the Roosevelt coast high Word Is received in Medford that 1st Wasco 100%, Guyla Mae Casen ico, that he is promoting, and will be way, Senator McNary was assured Colonel Frank H. Ray, principal own Wasco 100%, ist Paul Howell by Colonel W. B. Greeley, chief of operated until a bridge is con er of the Rogue River Electric com 1st Claude Barnett Wasco 100% the United States forest service. Bev structed. s pany and a pioneer in the develop 1st Winifred Hentges Wasco 100%, eral sections of that highway have ment of electric power tn Southern 1st Verona Davis Wasco 100% been included in the Oregon forest Oregon, died at Huntington, N. Y. Wasco 100%, 1st Cleone Walsh Tbe number of business concerns road system. Wasco 98% 2nd Rapid work is being done on the De^ward Reid operating in Oregon has been increas Fire destroyed the old stern wheel Wasco 98 % ing steadily since 1919, until on Jan er Winema, relic of the early pioneer track laying between the rail bead 2nd Leon Smith uary 1, 1925, it totaled 19,341, a new days of Klamath county and took with and McCredie Springs on the South 2nd Dana J. McMillin Wasco 98% Third Grade high record for the state. it a dock and warehouse on the shores ern Pacific company’s new line over the Cascade mountains. About 100 ist Wayne Tupper Wasco 100%, of the upper Klamath lake at Ship There are 2963 regularly enrolled men aro laying track and about 300 1st Francis Huck Wasco 100%, students attending the University of pington. The old boat had ceased ac are employed in all camps. Wasco 100%, 1st Eldin Reid Oregon at Eugene for the spring term, tive service on Klamath lake and had Ralph Lichtenstein Wasco 98% ¿nd the The actual shortage of funds In been used as a dwelling. according to figures given out by Fourth Grade Carleton E Spencer, registrar. Ben Dorris of Eugene was relieved state treasury department due to 1st Louise Moret^ Wasco 100%, Th« first of a series of schools con of Ms commission as a member of the alleged manipulations of Clar 1st 100%« Gertrude Casteel Wasco once W. Thompson, ex-cashier, ag ducted by the state traffic department tbe state game commission by Gov gregates >5000.08, according to Alex 1st Wasco 100%* Phyllis Andrews ernor Pierce. Mr. Dorris had served for the purpose of explaining the pro ander Hamilton, bookkeeper, who has 1st Wasco 100% Harold Dutton visions of the new state automobile on the commission since June 1», 1922 Completed an audit of the books. \ ' His term would have expired February lighting law was held In Roseburg. About 94 members of the Brown Two hundred Knights of Pythias 25, 1928. Mr. Dorris was succeeded smead community, 20 miles easier by M. H. Bauer of Oorvallls. from all parts of the seventh district Mr. and Mra. H. H. Hoppe and their Astoria, have signed a petition asking of Oregon, comprised of Hood River, Wasco and Shermab counties, met in three children, Vernon, 17; Ruth, 13, county authorities to co-operate wtth and Herman, IL lost their lives In a them tn driving every vestige of annual convention in Hood River. moonshining and bootlegging opera Resolutions making It unlawful to fire which destroyed the Noble build tlons from that district, following the Ing In Marshfield, containing a gro levy or collect a tax from agriculture death of Elmer Hill, Brownsmead eery store and a cafe In addition to . or livestock for a period of 15 years or until 1940, have been adopted by four occupied apartments on the rancher, from acute alcoholism. second floor, with a loss of more than Oregon pensions have been granted Pomona grange of Yamhill county. 150,000. as follows: Kenneth Clark, Falls City, Thlrty-eix head of fine Hereford >18; August N. Parlett, Portland, >17; cattle belonging to County Judge T. S. , Representatives of about 20 Oregon RKPr Cornelius of Astoria have succumbed and Washington creameries met tn August Pederson, Portland, >15; Wil RIGHT liam Laing, Balem, >12; James Wil before a malady which attacked the Astoria for the first session of mem son, Portland, >12; Calvin F. Patton, bers of the newly organized North Pa herd last winter, leaving only seven rifle Co-operative Creamery assoc!« Balem, >15; Helen K. Tate, North survivors. tion. Creamery problems were dh Portland, >20; Naomi E. Bower, Eu . The battleship Oregon will arrive in cussed and announcement made tha gene. >12; Charles Rathbun, Hood Portland harbor June 15 and will be a meeting would be held next mont1 River, >15. the benefit of Its accepted formally by the state on in Portland. Two boys were injured by glass, July 2. This was announced follow Sale« by mills of the West Coast the roof of the Condon public school Ing a sseetlng of the battleship Ore-- Lumbermen's association in the week was blown off, heavy window panes gon commission. ending April 11 were materially high in the high school building were blown Actual damage of approximately w than output and shipments. Book in, a lumber warehouse was toppled, V Costsltta^ 15000 was done In a high wind that Ings for tbe week were 109,874,47V garages and homes damaged and a visited Umatilla county and gave peo feot. which was 8 per cent above tbe barn demolished by a heavy wind pie there the nearest thing to a corn output of 101,978,762 feet. Shipment* storm of cyclonic character which ! belt tornado that this part of the west- were 104,147,792 feet, or 5 per Cem struck Condon. The total damage was below b « w business estimated at >5000 j After .E^ery/feal vflnSEß J 2nd Myrtle Garland Wasco 100^* 2nd Henry Riehelderfer Wasco 98 %> 2nd Arthur Spencer Wasco 98% Fifth Grade 1st John Thomas Wasco 100%, 1st Carl Barnett Wasco 100% 2nd Paulen Käseberg Wasco 98% Sixth Grade 1st Janet McMillin Wasco 100%* 2nd Georgia McPherson Wasco 98% Seventh Grade 1st Myrtle Booth Wasco 100%, 1st Thera Fields Wasco 100%, 1st Bill Clothier Wasco 100% 1st Kenneth Fridley Wasco 100% 1st Gretchen Casteel Wasco 100%, 2nd Kenneth Woods Wasco 98% 2nd James Ellis Wasco 98% 2nd Orphea Davis Wasco 98% 2nd Frank Anderson Wasco 98% Eighth Grade Ist Vivia! Bolton Bigiow 100% Ist Darrel McQuillin Wasco 100%, 2nd‘ Kathrine Dutton Wasco 98% it Ü Moro Oarage Blacksmith and Machine Shop Plow Share Grinding Acetylene Welding Wood Working in Connection Let us give you prices on our Pennsylvania Vacuum Cup 1 We Have a Complete New Stock ; Moro Garage, m . r . ScUdewin, p»,. :: Telephone Main 171 SYNOPSIS OF THZ ANNUAL ST A TH- MBNT OF THZ Norwich Union Indemnity Company •t N« MAIN STREET capital stock paid ...... ■.... .1 B arber S hop 500.000 O« MORO, N«t OREGON PT.ml.nu receive« der- reeelv«« dgrlM ‘b* •, Inoom« from oth«r aources receive« during the year.. Tot*l Income 83.707 •» Joe Truitt, Proprietor 15.324 37 »3.742,468.8» Not loose« paid during the yoar, Inclading adjustment expeasoa ....... «... »1,422.868.81 Commiasiona and salaries paid during th« year...... Tax««. U<*na«« and (•«« paid during th« /ear ................ 58.600 82 tmonnt of all other expendi- 164.887.06 Total expoadltnree SHOWER BATHS »2.400.650 1» Value of stock« and bonda owned (market valus).... I »2.404.449 B9 <'Mh In bank« and on hand 118,432.1« Premium« In eoproo of collec tion written «Inee Soptam- »15,162 M accrued »34.064.45 aa^. »67,6*4 10) That New Car! (other ........ Total admit tod ano«ts . UabUitlos. Ol Amount «f unearned prem- luma on all octet, nd 1 ng riake ....’............................... Du« for eom-miaeion and brokerage .................. .. ..., All other liabilities...................... M7.S1&M •76,764.88 Make It A Star 112,180 6» 09,010.46 Tomorrow’» Car Today Total liabilltlea, exclusive of capital stock of »500.- 000 00 and euap I us of 550.5.240 84 ............................ »2.114 502 50 Ing the .oss«« Incurred during year. 16.122.42 8.70o. 20 8,934.20 A Demonstration Gladly Given Far any information concerning the Star car call on NORWICH UNION INDEMNITY COMPANY. » W a. H L. D. R Itornoy FALCONER. President KIDDER, Secretary ATKINSON, atatutory resident for service, Portland. Or. M. R. Schadewitz, Moro, Garagi Moro Oregon SYNOPSIS OF THE ANNUAL STATE MENT OF THE Phoenix Indemnity Company of N«v York. in the «txt« of New York’ on th« 31«t day of Docember. 1924. mad« to the inaur/nc« commlaaioner qt th« Stat« of Oregon, pursuant to law; (spited. Amount of capital «tock paid •P .............................................. » 500,000 SO Not premium« received dur- lag ths year ........................ »1.486,483 6» Interest, dividends and rents roeslvsd during ths year... 62,660.90 Income from other sources received during the yoar... 4.070 6« Tntnl Income »1,551,107.36 Drive It ! Compare It ! ” With The Million Dollar Motor Sherman Garage & Machinery Co. Waaco, Oregon •4 loa»e« paid durine the yacr. ineludlac adjustment Comen iMiona an I art en paid during the year..... Tax««, llc«n«ea and fees pAid See It ! ••s.Tsi.se 22. »45 22 143.800 IS Total expenditure« owned (market value) .I1.I20.5S» SS tl.8TT.460M 119,100 42 ramluma I» course of col- ' lac Ho« written ainee Sep Me.70S,T< T7) Moro Hotel Barber Shop 26.900 TO d ««»«ti--------»2,886^60 66 IJ«b4im«a. paid C. V. Belknap, Proprietor 4 68.642.68 •i8.era.s» ' M.489M 47.754 7« Total UabllltlM. exclusive of Mpltal stock of 6600. - OOb.OO and ’ gurplua of »781.8M.T* ............ .-...»1,167,615W f Moro, Oregon Ladies and Children^Hair Cuttm< and Shin<le Bobbing , BATHS I rocolred dur 18.097 6» 8.441 48 8.461 BO READ THE OBSERVER For The County News
