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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (July 19, 1929)
I . •? ‘-á J The Sherman County Observer, Moro, Oregon, Sherman County Observer 8tï G~ de PT n Are U n I he Honor Koli C. L. IRELAND Editor and Publlaher {.^Town Talk. Rebecca Lodge N o . 116 highest standing pupils in the list of Mrs. Idabelle H u n te r a t the fam ily Moro¿ Oregon Meets*2d'and 4th Tues-Igraduates this year home a t E uphreta, Wash., on Monday d istric t 33. N ot su ffic ie n t reasons were shown w hereby this should not be done and both d istrict 1 ^ and th a t portion of d istric t 26 wore added to school d istric t 33, m aking a large consoli dated school d istric t of Buckley, No. 33. This school district will tra n s p ort the children of 33, 12, and a por tion of 26 to the Grass Valley school h e re a fter. T here were no objections to annexing th a t part of school dis tric t 26, m entioned above, to school d istric t 33. It is noticed th a t the people in Sherm an county are following what is a state-w ide policy, to consolidate and tra n sp o rt the children to a larger u n it w herever it is reasonable to do so. The good roads are a g re a t asset as an argum ent in favor to the tra n s p o rtatio n problem . Law rence W. Rakes, secretary of the d istric t boundary board. days of each m onth. Those whose names appear on the JuJy firgt Thom as G ortin of St. Paul evicted V isiting m em bers w e l- |County honor roll a re : C hester Coats C. T. H edricks arrived here from C° n e’ • n M r Jean Morris, and Ray Brown of Salem on Monday to take charge of his sister fo r non-paym ent of her Bessie H en rich . Sec.' R ufus; G ertrude Casteel. M yrtle G ar re n t. , i.* the DeMoss w heat w arehouse for the R obert S tato n of Burnham , 111., land, Joy W hite, Charles Nunn, and E levator-com pany. was fined $75 fo r killing two of his • C L u D • M Ti I A rth u r Spencer of i W asco; A lta . Nor- . C h rie S c h u lts r o i l N o . 71 r Mrs. L. H, M artin has her grand- neighbor’s pigeons anil eating them American Lesion ton, l i s t e r Wilson, M atilda Holt, of M eet, a t I 0 0 F hall on K ent; D elbert Rice and G race Coth- daughter Bernice M artin and grand in a pie. 2nd and 4th W ednesday eve- ran of DeMoss; D ori. F o rtn er, Mel- son Elroy M artin, from Lexington Mrs. Phoebe Kinsey of Portland, nings of each m onth. vin H ansen, Leora Peetz, and Ja n e t I visiting a t the fam ily home. d au g h ter of Eugene F ran k lin Skinner, F. D. F la tt, Com m ander Stephens of Moro; Tommy F raser and Richard Douglas, an 8 % Ib son L. W. Rakes, A d ju ta n t I Helen Searcy of B oardm an; B ru c e jw a s born to Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Mar- founder of Eugene, will be there for th e S unset T ra il pageant July 25, 26 A Bin v . c u / r o i w r c M i Alley a bd M arjorie Nahouse of Grass tin a t Portland on Monday, Ju ly 15 and 27. it was announced recently. HARLAND VIEW GRANGE No. 682 VaU Owen Eakin of R u tled g e; I Mr. Martin is a son of W. J. Martin, Eugene 8 k in n e r founded Eugene In U kV the“ second a n d ’fo u rth T hJrsda’y Sylvia Coyle of M ichigan; Mabie fa rm ing east of Moro, 1848. Mrs. K insey was bbtn in Eu nights of each m onth. V isiting J Thomas of K londike; Florence Young | A statc rock crusher plant is ar gene and lived th e re until a few years and Georga Blalock of Rosebush. I ra n ^ ng f or a 8et-up on the T rum an ago. G rangers welcome. C. P. Adams, Master. Those who made 90% or more in I stro n g farm north of town. The rock W hile w ading through the pools of Mrs. B. E. Davis, Secretary. geography in the two recent e x a m i - l j y used t0 su rface the new work Cannon beach a t low tide a few da>s nations a re : C atheryn Johnson and | Qn the G e rm a n highway. ago, H. H. Pregge waa gripped by the F redrika Ilappold of Biglow; Georg« A B asic N ecessity L. H. M artin has placed an order an kle and found him self in the grasp Ellison of R ufus; W innifred F ortner, for a 1 % ton truck, equipped with a of a baby octopus. The. youngster, C hristina Moon, Mary Ja n e tte Sar bulk w heat body for hauling grain m easuring 24 inches from tip to tip, Every year the A m erican people gent, Mignon Wall, H arry Dean direct from his combine in the field was put on display in a plm of ice consume 12,064,000 pounds of sugar, Proudfoot, and Eldin Reed of W asco; to the warehouse a t Moro. w ater in a store window at Cannon valued at $790,000,000. This rep re M arjory Byers and Jam es Eakin of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Riddell have Beach. sents two million dollars a day. Yet DeMoss; Lavon Sayrs and Jean Pow E. H. S trohm eler, well known Cen moved their fu rn itu re to Moro from U(i5 than half of this necessary com ell of E rskinville; Richard Barnes. tra l P oint ran ch er, spent his F ourth the Yakima district and will soon be modity is produced in th e United Dollie Belshee, Mildred H ansen, Fay of Ju ly in atten d an ce upon a family at home in th e ir residence until late- fltntes. Domestic p ro d u cer, have made I ’' O^ d 1'X occupied by Joe T ru itt. of 22 Duroc Jersey pigs which arrived ied by Joe T ru itt. the n ig h t of th e 3d. Fifteen of the D. E. Stephens and F oster M artin brave e ffo rts to Pro ^ e” Flora W illiam , of Moro; Katy foreign com petition. A low t a n « , I gjbil Bclthe Max BeUhe_ and were at Pullm an and Colfax, W ash., p ig lets survived th e Indipendence day festivities and Mr. Strohm eler figures combined with the foreign ad v an tag e! » u Or m n n v A im » F u l the first of the week atten d in g a grain th a t 16 in one farrow is a pretty good of cheap and p lentiful - p e ^ n t ” Donald grow ers’ m eeting in connection with mess of pork. *4 labor >,a , ‘he ‘n ^ a t r y w r t h .U and o{ Gra>( the W ashington S tate College. R esidents of Bangor, west of N orth back to th e wall. V alley; Vivian R eynold, and Bennie W. M. Sm ith, form erly a fa rm e r of Bend, and separated froin the main th a t e'1“.al'a‘ a P r ^ » « pay „e of R utledge; Lillian Schassen I the Schw artz farm south of Grass city by Pony inlet, will have city w ater w essentia , , . . s u n r l of L iberty; V irginia H elyer of W il- 1 Valley nine years ago, and now a soon. A rrangem ents are being made dustry, and the p Helen S tark of Rosebush; Earl resident of LosAngeles, was a busi- to extend the m ains to Bangor, where jg a basic necessity. Shipley of Buckley; Edna Lyons of I ness visitor in Moro this week. th ere is a resident population of more Doby P o in t; Charles Dunlap, Karl .,nd ^ r s . Jam es Smith are vis th a n 1500. The m ain will be laid this Pluemke and K enneth S ather of itor8 here this week from W indsor, sum m er by th e Oregon-W ashington A crop census of the delta diked I O nt., Canada.. Mr. Smith is a brother W ater company. lands near Scappoose taken by E. E. Kent. . Those who have this same honor a? I o{ Mrs; Robt. U rquhart, w orking for An unusually heavy crop of excellent Wist, Scappoose banker, shows th a t s total of 4088 seres are now planted a result of th eir study of physiology ty,e Michigan C entral railroad on its quality alfalfa hay is being harvested at Cove, w ith th e second crop m aking to 'cro p , w ith an additional 500 acres in the 6th grade are : G eraldine I C anadian division. Funk of E m igrant S prings; Delward J New crop w keat ¡s sta rtin g to come good grow th. W inter w heat Is head being prepared for next year. w arehouses in the ing and prom ises a good crop. Spring T ourists are sw arm ing into C rater Reed, Eugene Spencer, Cleone W alsh, L to the Dana Jean McMillin, Robert Ferrell, I county Some 15 farm now sown grains and corn are m aking good of I^ake national park at the rate . , _____ _________ _ ers , are . A rth u r V an G ild er, F ra n c is W a tk in s, I d e liv e ring w h e a t to W asco. I t is ex- co; Oregon increased Just a bit in the amount of Income taxes paid the fed- eral government in the fiscal year J920, aq compared - w ith 1928, the ,,<r- fig Burns of DeMoss; Mildred Adams, Mildred Alley, and Gay Amidon of Moro; Ruby MoClain, M argaret Bur nett and A nita Kenny of M o n k lan d J Doris DaVis of H arm ony; Louis T May and V esta Rebman of Fairview ; Gordon F raser and Glen Kenny of Boardm an; Ellen Cox, T aylor Baker, Ere da M ay Rice an d R ich ard | iocai d eliveries. for the two years being 15,902.- 675 in 1939 and >5.815,301 In 1928r Kernels of w heat y’aced by children In the gasoline ta n k of an automobile .resulted In burns being suffered by and Loig R ussell of G rass V alley ; EI-| ¿Newell V antassel of T errebonne when ton E ak in o f R u tle d g e ; L aw rence an explosion occurred. Vantassel was I -podd of M ich ig an ; an d M arvin Thom attem pting to remove the wheat from ftg Klondilce. the tank through the drain when the T hese people h ave a nice s ta r t on gasoline came In contact w ith a hot theJr worR tQ becom e a m e m b er of exhaypt pipe- , T he ?xPloaloIl scatter’ th e h o n o r ro ll, one an d tw o y ears ed flam ing gashliae over Vanassel and J now j-gapec^veiy, the car was considerably damaged. ures wls » > ii. T 1 J _ “ c> n J« « O.S.C. Electrical A Men Given National Award 1 1 Folks needing shoe rep airin g leave work with L. R. Conlee, agent, to be ien t to M. L. F ritts a t Grass Valley We can fit all kinds of people. Any size or weight. Crippled or deform ed feet. W ernm ark’s Shoe Store, The Dalles. T. S. Reese and fam ily had Mr. Reese’s b ro th er aqd fam ily as house guests this week, here on a visit from LosAngeles. Thq party le ft on the r e tu rn trip T hursday, Mrs. Reese going with them as fa r as Salem. Mrs. R. J. N orene and her three children, Jane, Bill and Jim m ie, are visiting this week a t the M. G. Melzer home. ' Mr. N orene, chief im m igr^ tion officer a t P urtlaqd, drove up last S aturday, bringing hi» fam ily and re tu rn in g Sunday. He will come a fte r them this weekend. Sheriff Hugh Chrism an made the round trip by auto to Toppinish, Wash., on Monday to re tu rn here G. C. Page, charged w ith breaking into a railroad tool house a t Sher^aH : Page was giv^p a justice cquri ifip l pn Tuesday, fpupij guilty apd $100 and $3 costs. He 1» »ervlng his fine in jail. Today, thfe local w heat m arket is m aintaining values around the $1.25 mark, with sales for fu tu re delivery reported a t $1.22 fo r turkey re d a t the^liver and for the same price for white w heat a t K ent. This is an in crease of 40 cents per bushel over the low price of 83 cents six weeks ago when farm er* weru feeling dowpeast a t t h e prospect of receiving a price somewhere around 75 cents a bushel for the crop soon to be harvested. In competition with student« from 119 college« and univer»iti«« throughout the United States, Paul R. Kiev of Portland (above), and Di W. Shirley, Tangent, electrical, engineering students,; at Qregon State college, have ju»t won th« na tional award of |106 given by the American Institute of Electrical En gineers for the best original paper -»n engineering problem« in the •lectrical field. The paper had pre viously won the regional prue. JOHN DEERE FARM IMPLEMENTS Dealers in Furniture, Hardware, • » • • The Full Gospel Assem bly “ In the beginning, was the Word and the Word was with God and the W ord was God.” — John 1 :1. C hrist JesuS was not only the preacher of the message revealing God to man, b ut H e was th a t mes sage. To receive Him is to receive the message. Services fo r next Sunday as follows: Sunday School, 10:00 a. Preaching a t 11:00 a. m. Subject, “ Giving and R eceiving.” Preaching a t 8 p. m. Miss Mildred Ginn will speak. S ubject-: “ Charac ters He B ears.” P ra y e r m eeting Tuesday, 8 p. m. Bible study T hursday, 8 p. m. J. D. and Mrs. Miller, pastors. C h r is tia n S cien ce Floor Coverings, Paints, Oils and Glass 7 M Eureka Vacuum ClearieiFS Ranging in price from $39.50 to $70. Model 11 is Especially Equipped to Clean Your Car. Linoleum Laid With Special Equipment 0301020100022348234848232353484823484823480148235323232323230048 Service Sunday m orning a t 11 ’clock and W ednesday evening a t o’clock. Sunday School a t 10:00 ’clock each Sunday morning, pupils up to the age of 20 years are received nto these classes. The lesson-sermon topic fo r the service next Sunday m orning will be L ife.” Reading room open daily where all authorized C hristian Science litera Lure may be read, borrow ed or pur- hased. The public is cordially invited attend the church services and visit the reading room. Mine S ch ools T o U se B usses Hotel Moro “ The House of Good Will ” Owned by the City of Moro Operated for the Benefit of the Traveling Public and Sherman County Community The Biglow school district has v ot Under the Personal Management of ed to suspend school and tra n sp o rt E. E. LARIMORE heir pupils. This is the 5th school Formerly of The Hotel Oregon, Portland district in ' the county to vote for transportation of pupils instead of m aintaining th eir school this year, «lid Mr. Rakes, county school super- ntendent, on Monday. The others a re : Boardm an, tra n s porting to M oro; Rosebush, tra n s SPECIAL CHICKEN DINNER THURSDAYS 75c porting to Grass V alley; Buckley, transporting to Grass V alley; Shear DINING ROOM OPEN USUAL MEAL HOURS er’s Grade, also tran sp o rtin g to Grass V alley.Jiuckley and S h earer’s Grade will use the one bus. T heir new bus a n ................................... ..................................................................m in i................... .... is already delivered. Rosebush and Boardman have ordered th e iir busses OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOI to be delivered about A ugust 15th. There will be nine district owned school busses in operation in Sherm an county a t the beginning of the next school year. _-------- 4------------- grow th and looking fine. C herry pick of last year. The Pacific northw est has started to harv est a w heat crop of 92,612,000 bushels. T his estim ate was issued by L. F. Kent, statistician for Oregon of the United Ttates departm ent of a g ri culture. The crop Is not as large as th a t o M a st year or the year before, but it is slightly better th a n th e aver age crop. I t also is la rfe r th a n grain pien anticipated a few weeks ago. The largest parade of v eteran organ lzations ever held In Oregon, state cham pionship Junior baseball league playoff, and dedication of Salem ’s new airport, are among the o utstanding events scheduled In conjunction with th e annual state convention of the American Legion to bo neld there August 8 to 10, Inclusive A govern m ent airplane squadron w ill be there to p articipate in the airpu<t dedication program. Three small whales explored Ya- quina bay r cently. They came Into th e bay alongside of th e steam ship Robert Johnson, and ran abreast of th e ship a mile above th e Newport city dock as the Johnson tu rn ed to head into port. The w hales capered about as If they had perform ed a pleas an t duty. L ater, when th e dredge Michie headed out to sea. th e w hales followed,“ keeping alongside of the dredge Jur as they came In alongside ♦L, t Moro, Oregon Topic: “ W orn W ith Hope.” You are invited. John Seethoff, Pastor. cording to rangers checking Incoming I E arl D utton, H ubert Seely, Leonard I pected t hat Moro and G rass Valley ing Is scheduled to begjn Ju ly 15 to 20, ma« bines. From July 1 to July 5. a Fields a n d N erine P atterso n of W as I farm ers will begin next week to make w ith a much heavier crop th a n th a t total of 6022 cars were checked. Ginn, Coleman & C<x The school district boundary board Moro M ethodist Church of Sherman county, Oregon, met July “ There are no tem ptations in the 17 to hear objections to .petitions pre sented the board on July 3, asking for cem etery, b u t who w ants to be c a rri the annexiatioa of school district 12 ed there? ” — Faunce. to school district 38 and for the an Sunday School, 10:00 a. m . f nexation of a small portion of school Morning W orship a t j C :15 a. m. district 26, lying in the southeast cor Topic: “ G uidepost and Highw ay.” ner of school district 33, to school Evening W orship a t 8:00 p. m. T hursday evenings of history has been required in the 6th rocK crusner • each month. grade, until this year, consequently C. L. M ontgomery has ren ted his Kate Stephens Oregon history was counted this year residence p ro perty to a m em ber of N ana Barzee S ^ S n i ^ 011 becaU8e 8th fiTaders this year studied the state rock crusher crew. it when in the 6th grade. H erm an B urm eister, fo rm er ow ner M i j n 113 I O O F I 11 bas been notic®d th a t those who of a tailor shop here, was in tow n oro o <• o O regon mabe Jiigh grades in the Oregon his- last week on a visit from Tacoma. Meets every Monday tory, physiology, and geography are j Shepherd, m anager of the evening in the I.O.O.F nearly alw ays those who are on t h e j o rftsg Valley E levator com pany, was Transient and konor ro jj or those who are exem pted a business visitor here on W ednesday, visiting brothers b rothers are I ’ » mu ®« ...................in certain subjects. Robt. U rq u h art is this season again cordiafly invited A fte r all the grades are in we find I jn char?e of the sack w arehouse in meet with us. th a t Tommy F ra se r has company. J Moro for the F arm ers E levator com- C. Axtell, N. G. A. M. Young, Secretary. I Miss Doris F o rtn e r also made an pany. average of 95% These are the two Donald R obert H unter was bom to more than 1000 autom obiles a day, ac- ttmmtmmtttmmlwmtmstsmmamttmiBmmmwonMMMMi County Board Consolidates School D istricts Twenty five 8th grade pupils have reached the Honor Roll so far this I Joe Gregg was a visitor here on E n te r'd aa second class m a tte r a t post office a t Moro, Oregoa, Ju ly SI, 1101 year as a result of the two recent 8th Monday from Kent grade examinations and their work h . H. Klclntyyre was a visitor here E u rek a Lodge No. 121 A. F. i A. M last school year. Their names have this week from Helix, Oregon, Moro, Oregon ' been inscribed on the roll which is| Mrs. L. R. MJonlee'has returned Meets the 1st and 3rd I displayed upon the wall of the office I from a visit with'relatives at Tacoma. Thursday evenings of of the county school superintendent. Mr and Mp& j ack Thompson are “ «¿bSS"w r<lW b“ t i In °rder to haVe hi’ n,me put on vsitors here this week at the N. W. vited to meet with us the h‘>nor ro11- “ th»‘ the Thompson home. Rv o order of W. M. | .tudent average 90% or more in all « Ran>icr on Monday bouKht , ny ru er oi w . m. .. the aubjecta in the gradea—eleven in naw Ford aedan from tbe pickett Robt. Urquhart, Secretary/ all. This includes the geography Motor company. C h a p te r N o 78 O. E. S. which is studied to completion in the F. D. F la tt has rented his home Moro, Oregon 7th grade and physiology which is R egular comm unica- I ’ w* , " “.7 nJ»«.«« I property to a m em ber of the state tiona each 2nd and 4th completed in the 6th grade. Oregon P^P X L u p in ® Friday July 19, 1929. th e other boat. Cascara bark shipm ents are going to the east from the coast section around M arshfield but m any g ath erers are holding for an advanced price- Seven cents a pound h as been paid th is year, b u t th e peeler« are certain th e price will advance. Some of the buyers find th a t great care m ust be exercised In receiving consignm ents. They sometimes find a stovepipe Joint hidden in the sacks, filled w ith rock. Quite frequently they find bark not ptoperly dried which has molded. T hat $1,000,000 will be spent by the governm ent paving th e rim road around C rater lake, prelim in ary work and surveying to sta rt th ia year, w«s th e Inform ation given out a t Medford recently ^y JV- M W ilbur, secretary of the Interior, A new building for the union high school a t F lo ren ce Is being planned, according to E. J. Moore. iJin e county school superintendent. The d istrict pro b ab l/ will be bonded. W endllng is also planning to erect a $20,000 school building, the superintendent report«. Independent Warehouse & Milling Co. R. H. McKean, Manager, Wasco, Oregon Joe T ru itt hus completed a deal whereby he becomes owner of the Jas Woods residence property. He has had J. F. Noonan refinish p a rt of the rooms a rd completed moving into his new home this week. Mis. Em m a G ardner, 77, pioneer of th e Wood Rlvor valley, waa killed In stan tly on the Diamond lake road n ear Pelican Bay Lum ber camp, and Mrs. C. Thom as incurred a broken leg when the ear in which they were d riv ing crashed head on into a large pin« DEALERS IN Lime, Plaster, Cement, Cedar Posts, Builders Supplies, Lumber, Wood, Coal and Hay MANUFACTURERS OF M IL L FE E D A N D FLO U R COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOC« treei F. L. Kent, who has served for many years as crop sta tistician for Oregon of th e United S tates departm ent of ag ri culture, has been promoted to the posi tion of trav elin g tru ck crop specialist of the dep artm en t and will have Ore gon, W ashington, Idaho and Utah as hla territo ry . Hood River citizens laid aside bus! ness for a couple of hours recently to dedicate the city ’s new $250,000 m u nicipal w ater system, which Is now affording uaers In th e corporate lim its and o rch ard lsts whose homes are along the pipeline w ith 4,500,000 gal lons of w ater per day. F ire o rig in atin g In the Oregon hotel a t Chiloquin destroyed the hotel and th e adjoining Brown building. Dam age was estim ated at about $35,000. E fforts of firem en and volunteers pre vented th e flames from spreading to other buildings. P atrons of the hotel escaped, but lost th e ir belohglngs. C. J. Thompson sold a grade geld ing, Percheron horse to th e A1 G. Barnes circus on Sunday to go with a match team the circus had. To make the deal, Mr. Thompson traded a pure bred Percheron mare to J. N. Landry for the horse he sold to the circus.it being the same horse he had recently sold Landry. Marvin Miller backed a Ford truck he was driving Tuesday afterrtoon off the highway when the brakes failed to hold on the steep aide of a fill be ing made by the highway crew on the new work north of Moro. Th© car w ent uphigh and came down on its side, with Miller riding wide, high and handsome w ithout “ pulling leather” and with no damage to. car or driver. L. H. M artin and wife and W. J7 M artin and wife left here last week fo r Baker, accompanied by Mrs. T. Buchanan, sister-in-law to the two Mrs. M artins, and who was on her re tu rn home from a visit with relatives a t Salem. Going east, the party vis ited with relatives and friends at Pen dleton, LaG rande, and Baker ; re tu rn ing, they visited with Myles M artin and fam ily a t Lexington, retu rn in g to Moro last Sunday. ■< , ................. ................ ............................ i n u n n in ...............I IH t ll ll I II 111 II I I llftt a tW O O «»« Where is the Hodcarier? Who used to carry heavy loads of bricks and supplies up ladders? Hi. lot was hard. All day len t h . carried h.avy burden.. He was paid for only the use of hi« MUSCLES. Today, the electric motor and hoiat, do the work helper. ✓ E lectricity hae taken the job from the hodcarrier, b u t it has created a b e tte r one. Developments in the electrical M t continue to reault in b e tte r w orking and living conditions. Pacific Power & Light Company 2 ALWAYS AT YOUR SERVICE ............... I.......I ll............................. ... ........1....................... ...