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
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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
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