Th« ShertrtaO C ..»ty. Observer, Moro, Oregon,
a.
C. L. IRELAND
Editor and Publisher
Harvest Pictures Taken
B y C á ín e r a Field Man
Friday, August
Change Made in Date
For Rçun^Up Parade
The Round-Up?» historic parade,
Ckristla» Selenee
Percy Thompson was visiting known all over the world as the 1
famous
Westward
Ho,
is
to
be
held
Service
Sunday .morning at II
in Hood River last weekend.
on Friday at the Round-Up this year o’clock and Wednesday evening at
Want one to 50 ton of hay. Call instead of on Saturday as has been 8 o’clock. Sunday School at 10:00
Moro Meat Market, phone 332, the custom.
'
o’clock each Sunday morning, pupils
Douma Bros.
The change was made because of UP to the age of 20 years are received
Victor Barr drove over - ‘from the “Over the Hill” feature at the ' into th e ^ classes,
Mikkalo Wednesday to-check tip on grounds on Saturday. In this pageant j The lesson-sermon topic for the
feature, Indians and covered wagons ^nrice next Sunday morning will be
his harvest in Sherman county.
come
down over the hill side to the ¡'“Spirit. ’
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Barzee are
Reading room open daily where all
expected to return home this week Round-Up grounds. The Westward authorized Christian Science litera
Ho
parade
is
not
held
at
the
grounds
from a summer outing at Newport.
but on the streets of P«ndleton, which ture may be read, borrowed or pur
Mrs. J. J. Schaeffer returned Wed echo to the hoofbeata of horses as chased. The public is cordially invited
nesday from a vacation visit with the spectacular cavalcade-moves on. to attend the church services and
relatives at Prineville and Camp Westward Ho is a morning parade, visit the reading room.
Sherman.
at 10 o’clock, and is made up of
Mrs. L. J. Cope, who has been hundreds of horsemen and Indians.
T h e F u ll G o sp e l A » » em b ly .
visiting with relatives at Yakima, The bucks, squaws, papooses, sumptu
“ He that loveth not his brother
Wash.*, returned to Moro the first of ously attired in all the glory of whom he hath seen, how can he love |
buckskin, furs, beads, elk teeth and God whom he hath not seen?”—
the week.
feathers,
are mounted on Indian 1 John 4:20.
C. P. Ragsdale was visiting in
“ What a solemn thot, that our love
Moro last Monday on his way home to ponies as gaily caparia«>n< d as their
to God will be measured by our every
Baker, Ore., from a vacation spent riders.
Cowboys and cowgirl*» ride in the day intercourse with men and the love
at Seaside.
line of march which is headed by we display;; and our love to God will
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Wright ac Henry W. Collins, president of the
companied by Mrs. A. B. Riddell, Round-Up. There are creaking old be found to be a deluaion, except aa
drove to Yakima last weekend, re stage coaches to give an authentic its truth is proved in standing the test
of daily life with our fellow men.”—
turning Monday.
picture of by-gone frontier days, and Andrew Murray.
More than 560,000 farms in the ¡floats showing calf roping, branding
Usual services on Sunday.
United States are using electricity and other activities of the western
Sunday School at 10 a. m.
for light and power, an increase last cow country*. Westward Ho is
Preaching at 11 a. m. x
characterized by its wealth of color
year of 21 per cent.
Preaching at 7:30 p. m.
and is a never-to-be forgotten sight.
Bible Study at the home of R. J.
Harold Thogerson is the only boy
Ginn
on Wednesday evening at 7:45
scout from Moro to attend the first
J. D. and Mrs. Miller, pastors.
period of boy scout camping at
Am erican Legion
Figures
Given
A»
io
Meets at I. 0. O. F. hall on
Taxes Increase Faster Than Limberlost this year.
Amount Children Cost
2nd and 4th Wednesday eve
I. E. Wilson 'suffered a severely
Resolutions of Condolence
Population of the Nation sprained
nings of each month.
right wrist last Friday
Harvey Thompson, Commander
morning when attempting to crank Oregon Health Bureau, in Recent
L upine R ebekah «Lodge No 116,
Theodore Johnston, Adjutant
Taxes in the United States arc in- the motor on his combined
Statement Declares C ’ ild Must
Moro,
O regon, Ju ly 22,1930.
j creasing faster than is the population
HARLAND VIEW GRANGE No. 682
Re Thought of It. Eco
Of the motor vehicle drivers in the '
To the officers and members of
¡according to studies recently'm ade
Meets in their hall in Harmony Dis
United States, approximately 25 per
nomic Term:
Lupine Rebekah Lodge No. 116:
trict the second and fourth Thursday j public by the National Industrial Con cent are women, according to the
____
We, the committee appointed to
--
nights of each month.
Visiting ference Board, which sounds a warn
draft
“Resolutions
of
Condolence”
Grangers welcome.
ing against excessive business fu n o Oregon State Motor Association.
The child of today mur be thought
C. P. Adams, Master. -
i
tioning of government bodies.
Rev.
and
Mrs.
F.
A.
Ginn
left
Wed-
of
in economic terms, tht ■ditor finds n the death of Ada Grimes, mother!
C. E. Crites, Secretary.
The expenditures of all govern- nesday by auto for a two weeks va- in making a study of th Metro po li of Edna Grimes, beg leave to submit'
( mental agencies, federal, state, and cation to be mainly spent with friends j tan Life Insurance com ny charts. the following resolutions:
Resolved: That while we’ bovf,i{>
I local combined, in the fiscal year and relatives in and near Tacoma, A man has much in c< ¡union w ith
Grain Standards
submission to the Divine Will, we
I 1927 amounted to $102.67 per capita, Wash.
machines,
buildings,
fa
■
lories,
and
To Be Simplified ! as compared with $99.17 in the pre
_ ., „
. .
..
other industrial equipm ent of which deeply feel our loss in being deprived
avid C low n an d sister, Mrs. O tis
.
‘
. ..
ceding year and $91.88 in 1923, the -- D
,
. ,
,
/ . h e makes use in the but mess of liv- of the society and service of our
Baker,
li^ft
Wednesday
morning
for
Investigation Headed by Hyslop board points out.
truction” sister, Ada Grimes, who was ever
. ° :
\ g \ . I/ke
them he has "c nstruction
7
,
“This increase in total govern Portland where they were to visit
of O. S. C. Expected to Bring
I
cost ^during childhood while h e loyal, faithful and kind. May the
over the weekend with the
mental
expenditures
as
related
to
being prepared for s: ce. The memory of her noble life be a source
Trade Betterments
population for the period 1923-27 sisters.
cost of being born, of f 1, shelter, of inspiration* to us for all time.
R esolved:
That our .charter be
was wholly due to increases in the
W. F. Jackson was a visitor in P o rt-1 clothing, health and reci ‘ion, edu-
Symplified grain grades and stand budgets of the state and local gov land last week, attending the meeting
draped
for
a
period
of thirty days;
the -Ox
cation—these are some
ards for the entire country more just ernments,” the board states, “the of the democratic state central com-
that
these
resolutions
be placed in
penses which must be e< id er cd as
ly administered are expected to result federal government’s expenditures nittee as a representativa from Sher
our
minutes,
published
in the Uj.cal
n”
of
the
part of the “construe
•"from the investigation just completed per capita of population, showing man county.
human machine— making ready for paper and a copy presented to Edna
in Washington D. C. by a special even a slight net decrease in 1927
Grimes as a token of our sympathy.
Wm. Morrison and F. D. Fiatt the period at which it is ;pected to
committee headed by Professor G. R. compared with 1923; the greatest
Florence Johnston, Marganet Peetz
be a producer. *
*■ :
Hyslop, head of the farm crops de per capita increase was incurred by went to The Dalles Tuesday, bringing
and Glenna Hansen, committee.
If
the
average
family
income
in-
partment at Oregon State College.
the local governments. Federal ex back to - the Morrison farm 1‘iOO the United States is close to $25,000,
Hyslop has just returned to Ore penditures per capita in 1927 were pounds of chemicals with which to as charted, then the following table
Taxes Are Too High
gon after spending an entire year $34.40, as against $34.78 in 1923; combat farm land weeds.
sets forth startling figure».
carrying out the project in the bureau state expenditures, $13.96 as against
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hansen re
And Going Higher
of economics of the United States $11.12, while local expenditures turned this week from a vacation T o ta l C o st to P a r e n t o f R e a r in g a
C
h
ild
to
th
e
A
g
e
o
f
18
Y
ear»
department of agriculture. The work were $54.41 per capita in 1927 as motor trip, the last ’’weekend-being
(Willamina, Ore. Times)
envolVed an enormous amount of de against $45.98 in 1923.
spent at Camp Sherman visiting with Cost of being born .......... $ 250.00
“State
government*
in
1927
spent
Food
.
..............................
,
.
2,500.00
tailed study of records as well as
w are face to face with the fact
Raymond Henrichs and wife.
Clothing and shelter . .
3,100.00 that our present tax system is not
visits and hearings in some twenty 33.3 per cent more -than in 1923;
The I. E. Wilson harvesting outfit Education (minor items met
grain shipping centers all over the local governments, 25.6 more, while
very popular with the common
finished
it’s season’s work on the Vic by individual family purseX
the
federal
government’s
expendi
50.00 people. State and county taxes are
United States.
284.00 far too high, in Oregon, as in other
Called back to Washington, pre tures in 1927 were only 4.7 per cent Barr farm west of Moro last Satur H ealth .........
day and the same day moved to the R e c r e a tio n ...........................
130.00 states. With the tax hill growing
sumably for only three months, Hys higher than in 1923.”
Referring to the expenditures by Wilson farm west of Grass Valley.
Insurance ............................
54.00 higher and higher from year to year,
lop was asked to remain for one ex
Sundries .............................
570.00 it’s time we demanded a little more
tension of leave after another when state and local governments, Mag
Few
newspaper
men
aspire
to
be
it was found advisable to make the nus W. Alexander, president of the President. Several presidents have
The above figures do not appear to economy of those who have the spend
investigation rn complete detail so board, says that “It is most necces- aspired to be newspaper men. There include the very important majol- ing of our tax money. We are told
that specific recommendations could sary to keep these expenditures under is a fascination in printer’s ink that items of education. As a matter of there is room for more economy in the
be made at the end. A full report close scrutiny. The fact that state levels all distinctions.—Washington fact, they do, because, under the courthouse at McMinnville.
heading of “shelter,” tin re is already
will be submitted within a month or and local finances are, unlike federal Star.
The Times is of the opinion that
finances, not subject to a single cen
included the item- of taxes which .the tax rate should be greatly low
so, according to Hyslop.
Luther McGinnis, nephew of Mrs. covers the parent’s share of the com ered and assessors required to assess
As Hyslop’s stay in the east was tral control, afpri’da.much «pportunity
more and more extended, rumors grew for waste anq extravagance for which R. J. Ginn, was visiting in Moro munity cost of education, as well as all property. The rate is so high at
that he was to remain permanently there is no remedy excepting public last week over Sunday. He is a land other items furnished by the state.
present that assessors generally ex
appraiser for a Spokane bank and
with the federal service, but these vigilance.”
While the sources of material pect people to lie about values of
was returning from a trip to the wealth are carefully guarded, human their property—or lie out of owner
he stoutly denies, saying that he has
returned to this state with much in The Unconscious Arsonist Willamette valley.
resources are often carelessly used ship entirely. With a lower, fairer
formation which will prove of value
Mrs. i^ura Wild, sister 'J of Mrs. J. R .! and wastefully squandered. It is a rate, assessors could be expected to
in
producers of the northwest.
millions of A.ai rica.vi are I Morgan, is visiting here from Moran, 1 time honored adage that health
J have less sympathy with'tax-evaders
In view of the fact that this is
unconscious arsonists. »This is a Texas. Mrs. Wild ha3 been visiting rtbt apprccdited until it is lost. Just
how much/wc’alth is worth can now election year, the subject has especial
startling
statement,
and
any
one
of
with
a
daughter
at
Billings,
Mont.,
It people wiuld only pray as hard
to avoid war as they pray to wia the millions would angrily deny it. and arrived at Moro Thursday morn be estimated in dollars and cents. importance. It will be a good idea
Yet it is true. None of them pur ing on her way home to Texas.
The average American loses seven to find ou| where candidates for coun
one.
posely set fires. But all of them,
days a year through sickness. Losses ty and state offices stand on thiB
J. F. Foss and family left Moro
It takas a woman’s sewing circle through ignorance or carelessness,
from sickness and preventable deaths matter of holding taxes down.
last Saturday for a short vacation
to develop a lo
lot t of conversational unconsciously start fires.
In a recent issue of “Nation’s
are enormous. More than $6,000,-
*
The difference between the man motor trip. The first stop was Eu 000,000 could be saved annually by Business,” Merle Thorpe, editor,
halitosis,
gene, where Miss Gwendolyn joined
Rev. D. H. Leech of Salem, who consciously fires a house, and the party and from there a drive was applying what is known about mod brings out some interesting ^facts
ern preventative medicine and public about taxation.
brother-in-law of A. M. Wright, was the man who allows wiring to go un to be,made to the Oregon coast.
health. This great sum represents
The tax collector, according to Mr
n visitor in Moro the first of the attended, throws oil soaked rags in
corners o r . drops his matches and
Henry Ruggles spent the last week- the value of the lives list through Thorpe, takes from each of us a day s
„w eek.
cigarettes wherever he happens to nd at the mouth of the Deschutes preventable deaths. The basis o f thé labor out of »aoK week. We earn
We can fit all kinds of people. Any finish with them, is one of law and river. He had made the trip to try value of human liLjjuust naturally be around 80 billions dollars a-year and
size or weight. Crippled or deformed motive, not of effect.
fisherman’s luck for salmon, . but health—without health, earnings us the tax bill is 13 billions—almost one
feet. Wcrnmark’s Shoe Store, The
We are, with increasing success, found others who were ahead of.hjm ually drop. It is when the bread win sixth.
Dalles.
fighting the active arsonist, and when having so little success that he did ner of ft family is removed through
.Out of every eleven persons work
Sixty eight boys, largest group he is caught he is imprisoned for long no (fasting.
accident or disease and the mother ing one is a public employe. A com
ever to register on the opening day, terras. The unconscious arsonia^ is
Mrs. F. E. Fortner and children and young children must become parative.ly few years ago this ratio
had enrolled at Camp Limberlost beyond the law and destroys more are again at home after a vacation self-supporting that, first the de was one in 22. If the modern trend
late Sunday for the first period of lives and property than the deliber of several weeks, Miss Doris as a pendents, and later the community, toward a bigger bureaucracy contin
the boy scout summer camp. The ate arsonist.
realize the large capitid value which ues, probably one person in every
Every fire hazard imperils the en member of a campfire girls camp 'on
sepond period of camp, which begins
five will soon be living off the rest of
tire commuinty. A fire starting in the west side of Mt.' Hood and Mrs. has been lost.
August 13th, is fast filling up. Some
us.
a disused garage may destroy a mil Fortner and two younger children
Mr. Thorpe blasts the old supposi
of the boys waited too long to send
with
relatives
at
Lafayette,
Ore.
lion dollar factory* Arc you an un
G. IL Gochneur, auctioneer living tion that taxes are paid by the cor
in their registrations for the '-first
conscious arsonist?
Rev. and Mrs. A. M. Hicks, in at Sunnyside, Yakima valley, spent porations and. the wealthy, and points
.. period of camp. Those who are plan
company with a nephew of Mrs. the last weekend with frit ¡ids in Moro out that every dollar taken in taxes
ning on attending the second and last
A. E. Hutchinson, representing the Hicks, were visiting in Moro this He said the main item of interest in from railroads or any other business
period of the boy scout camps, should
send in registration at once to Scout state grain grading department, has week from California. They had his section at the present time was must be collected, in turn, from the
Headquarters,
Courthouse,
The been busy since harvest taking sam made a motor trip previous to coming baseball as played by a team whose customers of that business.
ages was around 20 years. He said
Sixteen cents out of every Ameri
ples of grain in all warehouses of here that had included a run north
Dalles.
the American Legion ha.» sponsored can dollar goes to the government
from
Victoria,
B.
C.,
of
more
than
Sherman
county:
The
samples
are
•
Wm. Loos, driving a motor cycle
200 miles and a visit to many places a national baseball serie * of. Junior That’s a fact worth thinking about
with August Wassamiller riding as split four ways in Mr. Hutchinson’s in Oregon, including a stop at Camp team games and that the* Yakima before enlarging governmental func
passenger, ran Into Louis Zogg, office at Wasco and part of 4-way Sherman.
team had won the eastern Washing tions in any direction.
driver of the AnUlope mail stage, samples are sent to the state grading
ton championship and were scheduled
George McDonald had a brief ex
on the main street of Grass Valley office at Portland wherb the tests are
to play Seattle for the Mate cham
made
and
certificates
are
issued.
The
perience
with a haryest field fire last pionship. The winners were then to
about 8:30 Saturday evening. Zogg
A n c ie n t C a m o u fla g e
received a broken leg, broken pose, expense is being paid jointly by the week when a rope became igpited play the Baker, Ore., team for thè
And >et the chttP’'\h° objects to the
end several fractured ribs. The two. three wheat cooperative organizations through contact with the hot exhaust championship ..honors ■ of the- two use of rouge Is the one who wrups
a $20 bill aiMM n roll of ones —Sim
oft the motor cycle Were badly bruis and independent wheat buyers oper pipe of the combine motor. The bgrrt- states. This winner was to play
ed, but no bones broken. Reports ating in the county, divided as their ing rope set fire to the harvester and Colorado" Springs for the mid-west Francisco Chronicle.
state that Zogg tried to cross the business operates. Evcxyz* pile of part of the burning material fell from championship and these in turn would*
street in the middle of the block, com grain in all warehouses of the county the machine and set flTe to the field. play at Memphis, Tenn., for the
H om e H u n tin g
ing suddenly from behind parked %Ve being sampled, regardless of The fire on the machine was put out national championship.
Prospective home buyers usuully find
sSJTTM
ntions
without
damage
to
the
harvester
and
membership
in
asfftTWations
or
owner
cars. Official reports state that all
Many a man who is a good shot a perfect small home, but the people
whiat in
parties concerned are willing to place ship ’of the same wh4at In other piles (the field fire, starting In thin stubble,
in
this world- hopes to miss fire yi who own It always seem to like It, too.
—The Country Home.
the accident in the unavoidable of wheat in the same or other grain .was quickly under control with no
the next.
damage to grain.
houses.
C. C. Groat, field camera man for,
the Caterpillar Tractor Co., was in
Sherman county this week taking
motion and still pictures of Cater
Eureka Udga No. 121 A. F. A A. M. pillar harvesters and tractors at work
>a
"* I Moro, Oregon
A ;A Meets the 1st and 3rd in the harvest fields. Wednesday
Thursday evenings of morning pictures were taken of the
each month, Visiting ! largest outfit in the county, owned
members cordially in-
Powell and Sayrs, showing the
By order of^W.^M?*6*
U" tractor and harvester being operated
Robt. Urquhart, Secretary.
j by an all feminine crew, the first
---------------:----------------------- -----— time, Mr. Groat said, he had ever
8cthicksm Chapter Ns Z8 O. E. S. seen this done in a thoroughly
Moro, Oregon
efficient manner.
¡ions “ ch 2nd “ n d « h : The crew was made up of Jean
Thursday evenings of Powell, separator tender; Patricia
each month.
Pswell, header tender; Lavon Sayrs,
Mrs. E. T. Strong.i , tractor driver; Althea Powell, truck
Nana Bartee, S e e re tar^ * • i driver. The miefiine was a “60" cat
_____ • ____________________ i pulling an extrem? hillside harvester.
It was, in one sense, a stunt picture,
Moro Lodge No. 113 1. O. O. F.
Moro, Oregon
but it showed that the girls, whose
Meets every Monday ages are all under 17, have the
evening in the LO.O.F mechanical ability to keep an outfit
hall.
Transient and
visiting brothers are moving . i f the emergency should
cordially invited to occur and also the ease with which
meet with ua.
it could be operated.
Clarence Meraihger, N. G.
Before leaving Sherman county
A. l i . Young, Secretary.
Mr. Groat also took pictures of Teddy
Thompson, 12-year old son of Dewey
Lupine Rebecca Lodge N o. 116
Moro, Oregon
Thompson, driving a “30” cat on his
Meets 2d and 4th Tues- fathers farm. Young Teddy is a
•days of each month.
Visiting members wel member of a harvest crew this sum
mer and at past times has kept a trac
come.
Bessie Thompson, N.G. tor outfit working in the field plowing,
Jessie Henrichs, Sec. drilling or weeding during the ab
sence of his father in town.
Chris S chults Post No. 71
IT ALL
COMES BACK
TO'YOU
Entered as seeond claes matter at poet
efflee at Mora» Oregon, July IK. l» t l
classification.
TV
~K.
The farmer’s income
goes back directly
into the community.
In dollars and cents, the farming
industry is the largest in the na
tion, exceeding both the steel in
dustry and the automobile in
dustry combined. The value of
manufactured products based on
farm products as a raw material
exceeds any one of the great in
dustries by more than 500 million
dollars.
Let us help you solve your
financial problems
Moro State Bank
Moro, Oregon
Moro,
Oregon
C. H. Larson,
Spokane
need of
I have the agency for
See me when
Draper,
drapers.
DE SOTA
and
PLYMOUTH
ADVANCE - RUMELY
AUTOMOBILES
COMBINES
I am also agent for the International.
Harvester Co.
See me for parts.
Also have two used- combines for sale
Special Sale on Cheney Weeders, Oliver Spring
Tooth Harrows and Oliver No. 50 Chilled Pl ow
Shares.
Independent Warehouse
& Milling Co.
R. H. McKean, Manager, Wasco, Oregon
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