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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (July 20, 1906)
I * » /-• t T uittee to devise ways and means MORO BARELY ESCAPES. Hitohoook has disgorged another >r procuring a greater supply $1,000,000 for the Klamath Irri Fire Fleud For au Hour Hovers There is much sensible talk of en gation project. larging the" storage system. For 'ftareateuingly Over 'lbe City. Elwood Thompson says the wheat weeks the supply in the reservoir in 8herm»n oounty this year is well At 11:20 a. m. Tuesday the fire above the city has been exhausted worth harvesting. FO R When you write anything for The bell sounded an alarm which by evening. -The warm weather, brought the population of Moro Io has almost doubled the demand ror l Observer tell us who you are. their feel. The home of J. F. U al- water. Large quautitiaa are used Otherwise, otherwise. The mother and sister of Mrs ton was burning, aud tbe business for sprinkling aud irrigating lawns. »THE 1 9 0 6 H A R V E ST . . V Should a fire break out after night Mattie Mitchell and JF Foes, are portion of tbe city was threatened witfi immediate destruction. With the city would be at the mercy of visiting in Moro from Athena. out a moment of time wasted the the flames. It is feir of such a con When kids of tender years become a publio street nuisance, its time for fire hose was stretched from three flagration, more than anything else, different lvydrante, and water turn that causes people to induce the parents to move out of town. * I ', HA Page and Johny Parry took ed on. It was imposfcible, however a scoot over into Gilliam and Mor to check tbe blaze, which was an intensely hot one, and tbe Walton regervoir and sink another row counties thia week to get. a home was doomed. Next to it was well, • squint at their farms. Both are very well pleased, orops are splendid a fire-trap known as the old Carlson House, to which tbe fire spread, T he b o c a l G iunche» over that way. WF Jackson has 434 acres o. and here the fight for mastery of Moro B aptist Churob the situation began, as it was ap farm land partly platted in the city ' a . . I ' ' parent that if the fire Bpread to the - . . 7 ... ... \ 4 ■ ... . . of Condon. He exchanged Texan Rev. Hill, of the Dalles, will oc next structure, the Peoples building and forit, trading with Wm Booth. a veritablnfire-trap, all that division cupy the pulpit next Sunday at 11 CK Cochran and Mayor JO Elrod of the city east of Main aud north a.m. All are cordially invited got 960 aores in the same deal. Miss Onesie Bottemiller expects of Firet Btreets, would go, including P ro s b y to rle n C h u r c h . ______s J be at home in the Dalles to shops, stables, warehouses, two res morrow from her trip to Yellowstone ¡deuces, ami the extensive wood ~‘~A J. Adams pastor I’resby park, Salt Lake city, Boise, etc., as and lumber yards of the Wind terian church, left Monday- for a one of the Oregonian winners in the River Company, hence it became month’s vacation in the shadow’ of OREGON. center. thti uuutt:«! ak late contest. • ' Our worthy TTTTascatir-Tir won this distinction fairly, and we the cornices on the north wall of will 1»© n<x preaching in. the Moro are pleased to hear that she has en the Peoples building, and it proved or Monkland churches for four joyed it, even to gaining 3-lbS aver- to be a moet determined an^ sue weeks or until further notice. oeeeful 'effort. dupoise since leaving Oregon. All the attention possible was But for the introduction of new Born? July 17, Io «ho wife varieties, potatoes would soon be given to the Carlson trap; and Roy Benson, a girl. E L G IN - W R L T H H M scarce. This is due to the careless after it fell in, to its smoldering JO Thompson made a flying trip selection of seed. All tbe tubers of embers. Meantime, one-man relays to Spokane Inst week. T h e two finest movement« in the world—backed by iron a crop are sold for seed, when only were kepi on the upper porch of the LV Moores' teams are hauling clad warranty. Both of the the best should be selected. If only Peoples’ building, hose in hand wood for winter from Wamic. movements aye in Geo.T Parr, CB Simmons, et. al The hot spell this year Was from tbe largest tubers from the tbriltiest and others on the roof, tb whom After October let yon may write G O ____ L D - - — S ___—----------------- IL V E R C aaea , buckets of water were passed in line, have incorporated the -Parr-Sim June 30 to July 16-15 days. Never and strongest plants were retained all over your postal card. * aud this work—steadily continued mons Grain . Buying Co., in La At prices ranging according ’ Planting raw spring wheat for a so long before since the calaotysm for seed, there would be an im M O R O , 8 H K K M  N C O .,O B X O O N : provement in the old varieties in for 20 minutes, saved the city. . to yftur requirements. We which formed The Inland Empire. Grande. . „ winter crop does not pay. Everybody, ladies included, want to sell one or the other Louié Heydt, RM Braab, Dan The grand lodge of the Ancient stead ot deterioration in quality. The vinelese potato man has come and we can make a better deal The price of The Observer re 11.60 But as long as seed potatoes bring worked at whatever vantage was Carmody' 'and Hubert Smith are Order of United Workmen convened Hie graft was a brief but for you than Eastern stores can t year. 7» oenta for six month«, 50 oeata to grief. obtainable, but to1 volunteers like whipping Badger, creek for trout- r four month»—bat if paid in advanoewe for their regular biennial meeting good prices, there will be both good offer. Drop in and see them. brilliant one. Dean Hayes, E. V. Littlefield, Roy » joept »2.60 In fa ll for Z year«. Shorter and inferior seed used. this week. term « than one year 12X oent« per month. Inks, mucilage, cards, envelopes, on the morning of July 17, in Port Evening Telegram: Work - on Powell, W. H.'Ragsdale and others, «per of every kind, tablet», every sty Is, at land. v Col. Nye, one of the curliest Q . 3£. Send for advertising rates, ,'he Observer Bqpk Store. the Oregon Trunk Ry. from Celilo who stood in the fiercest of the Pacific slope pioneers, died at his EE Dewey, of Chicago, was the AU local» w ill be run till ordered out, M ore» © *• N W Thompson and G A Meloy unle«». otherwise «peclfied. guest of Miss Edna Strahl a few to Madras is to be pushed as rapidly heat, covered with wet sacks while Crook county home On the 13th, steamed their new thrashing engine Don’t .«end u» for free publication any as possible! Mr Gregory has just fighting, special thanks’ ar.e due. days last week. Mr Dewey thing of an advertltlng character. from Rufus to the Thompson farm traveling in the interest of the returned from a trip over the route During the contest Chief J .F . Foss, aged 95 years. N’els Hansen is now at home in A Blue Mark here will answer an Wedneeday. Is Your Husband Proud of and reports*tHat prospects for the and Volunteer Roy Powell, were Moro with InFTWee little girls, in Chicago Correspondence Sohool In quiry, when entered upon our calendar, Joseph Hilee and family have glVfhg the dale of the paper as the date at Mrs WA Allison was up from early completion of the line are carried away to fresh air in faint Mrs Smitlila cottage, .lately oc Your Cookery? which your current «ub«crlptlon expire«. hiked away to the mountains, leav* Newberg this week on a visit to her good. He made his trip for the ing conditions. cupied by Mr and Miss Lewellen. x Difficulty in havingyour Observer ing their house “open” to prowling Liken good thing» to eat—does he? The ladies omptied the Peoples parents, Mr and Mrs GW Coy. She purpose of ascertaining what freight changed may be avoided by «ending the Wouldn't It be a pleaaaDt surprise to him in Seattle will drive the un holy street arabs. dealred alteration to thl» office. A lw ay» the winter time, to »st out some sliced tomatoes is very well pleased with her new could be counted upon and says building second story, of house rollers out. Why, of course. No give the name o f the office from which un a pretty white plate, fixed up just the way The town is quite sparsely popu borne in the valley. that it will draw from Prinevillp, hold effects of persons occupying community wishes to havè the ob you want It changed, as well a» the one to he like» them:— -. - lated now. ‘ Cool weather this week Or some eweet oorn on the ooh as juicy ana which It 1» to be »ent. • The following officers were in Madras,- Bend, Juniper flats and rooms there, w hile the fire consumed noxious vipers. Keep them «-run ’creamy se the day It wee pluoked—or green peas has driven “moet everybody” away stalled in Moro Lodge No. 113 Tygh valley districts. All inde the Walton and Carlson buildings, —or »ay—a dl»b of brook trout:—Or some other ning. __ ?. J uly 20,1906 to springs, etc. FRIDAY article of food of which he 1» particularly fond IOOF: GE James, NG; Wm. Ru pendent Of the present Shaniko after which many of them turned GM Cornett who went back to .but whioh cannot b* obtained, tot love or money . Miss Hazel Dunaboo and Miss dolf, VG; RM Brash, Sec; JF Foss «pur. Iff carrying bnekwte and- tub* full of. Els'oTT KetVtaftky’homr' to cek-hrate out of season. \ ' Frank Elkins, the new sheriff of water. It wa» «rtrrpritdng how well laet month, has again landed in Fin 8ec; WD Wallan, Treas; JP Well— her visit to friends in -Benton jewelry in The Observer, and eaob The ECONOMY Jar enables you to give him that very surprise. Strahl, War; FJ Meindl, Con; H Crook oounty, is making it hot for tbe supply of water held out Every The Inland Ethpire. Oregon look- oounty. Ti.e Ebohomy Jar ¡» a wide mouth, »elf sealing perfectly air tight jar. Noth- thereby reoovered their looses. battle and horse thieves out that faucet was open for blocks around, good to Mac. Strong, IG; FC Coe, OG; CG Huis Marking a bridge condemned L Heydt of this oity manufactur RSNG; 8P Brisbine, LSNG; RA way. He found a large number of and Father Laundry’s bortih wellf It» use you can perfectly preserve fruit, whole or siloed, vege tables—flab— Bear it in mind that here in Ore does not ottre it, nor remove the es and sells, for 16 cento a box, the game—or w i m o u i the i u « uee u w v> aiui-<>r any other article oi of mou. food, without of chemioala or any means stolen horses in different parts of , uever yet exhausted, furnished an Ginn, R8VG; AK Jones, LSVG;O gon the laws regulate the speed of except heat and pure, cold water. __. danger. Bronco Salve, whioh is a sure oure W Axtel, Chap; GE Lewellen, RSS; the mountains. Some were h°l>* hob ! at,UDdant supply. The city system an auto. and you may punish the No burned or cut Unger» when you use the Economy—no rubber ring» to You don’t get any wormy apples for wire cute, galls, scratches, inate-no dangerous acid» to develop. u- i. i...v bled, some were staked out and was up to date, perhaps, because of man 4 h o drives one nt a greater contam MG Ellie, L88. • -T h e next time the man of the house bring« in a basket of trout or game^iuat when you buy of GL Rohr. The burns, sore shoulders and uloers. put up »cine of theru.in an Economy Jar. ^’h en -w lth o u t »aylng a word to A shower of rain in Portland some were found in two cunningly thfl" early hour at which the fire raU than 8 miles per hour. Villa has the cleanest orchard in Kim- -net them out for hi» dinner mdnb day next winter. T h^ JT 1“J » t J u n S It you are of this olass walk up Friday evening presented a new contrived corrals in different parts occurred, aud would have held out Miss Myrtle Lewis stopped over and wholenome and appetizing a» the day they wttw put up. The treat will be Oregon. and settle, as we’ve a mind to ask of the mountains. These corrals hopefully lilul the hose been of bet one day in Moro this week, to visit like a vacation «lay in the woods or the mountain». A aiugle dozen w ill prove Fine line of clothing, hats and about 1,000 readers of The Old phenomenon in that the drops, big thin to you. Get th?ih at your dealer». had wings built of logs and brush ter quality many “girl associates’’ of former Sit down right now and write uh your name and the name of your dealer and gents furnishing goods. Prices to Reliable for a little money next fall. as hazel nuts and falling several from a quarter to a half mile in Just how the fire originated no years, all young ladies now, and we wtU send J o u - F R E K - a booklet of recip<«-toll you all please you. 0 . T. Store. Receivers We don’t jnind a year or two behind inches apart, were warm, Nome of them actually hot. It was the first length. All of the horses found body seems to be able to say. Mr. nice ones, too; of whom Moro is the Economy way, tell you where you may buy the Jar», ^and all about sale. band, but 10s 11s 14s oome to time: time in history anything of the showed the effect of lack of feed and Walton had returned from Portland proud. She was the guest of Miss “pleasant way» to »urprlae the nmu’i j>alate” without a penny of ooat to you or auy trouble furthejr than writiug us oue abort letter. 11A Thompson is up to look after I’ve stopped my paper, yes, I have; ° r- Four thieves Monday evening, and after break Ida Mowry at Cherrycroft. Miss Sherman Trading Co., Moro, Or. J. W . Meeainger & Hon, kind has occurred in that city and soarcity of water. his farming interests and oheer Mr I didn’t like to do it, Carmody Bro» , Moro, Or. W. F. Weigand Co., Graw Valiev. Or. were captured. fasting Tuesday morning, dressed Kent ( ounucn-tal Co., Kent, Or^ Hay Canyon Commercial Co^rfonkland, Or offers a splendid opportunity for Lewis is one of the most charm Dunlap in the harvest. He isn’t But the editor got too smart It is almost impossible for one bluiBetf ~fw 'work and witn his ing belles of eociety in Rose City. J. W. Smith, ltufu», Or. Wasco Commercial Co^Wae«», Or. ktudents of natur» wonders. --------- And I allow he’ll rue it. belly aching about hot winds. E. A. Webber \ Co., Wa«on, Or. Oregon Trading Co., Waeco, Or. bo has seen only the eastern or brother Dave proceeded^» repair Swift a Co. may not build them Some Oregon, people are. .jual ha. Shampooing, hair-dressing, scalp I am a man as pays my debts WADHAMS & KERR BROS., Wholesale Agents a monster packing bouse in Port Rocky mountain forests, to imagine the windmill of Mayor Elrod, leav ginning to appreciate the man—JJ treatment, manicuring, and facial An’ I won’t be insulted, the woods of the Pacific coast. ing Mrs. W. at home. She, being Hill.* We’ve always told them that So when an editor gets smart land. They expected the Port of massage. Will call at residence, if I want to be oonsulted. 239 Hoyt St., Portland, Oregon. Portland to dig out a bay for their Pictures of the big trees are as coffc- jick and under the care of a doctor Mr Hill was “the man” for Oregon, desired. For particulars inquire at I took his paper ’¡even years, mon as postage stamps, but the had lain down and was Bleeping And we felt that we knew what we ships to lie at, which the P of P D.F.Oaburn’s, Ginns’ late residence An’ helped him all I could, sir, moet wonderful thing about the big when smoke stifled her and awaken were talking about, with a personal declined doing, and the Swifts will Patriarchs Militant and Soverign An’ when it oomee to dunnin’ me, have to pay for it. Fully a year’s trees is that they are scarcely bigger ing she went to the door and called acquaintance in the early days of Grand Lodge, I 0 0 F, which con I didn’t think he would sir. than the rest of the forest. 'The Adolph Heydt, telling him she Minnesota to back it up with. Ontario, Sept 16th But that he did, an’ yon oan b eti. time would be required to accom Pacifio coast bears only 1-tenth of thought her kitchen mii-t W on The following officers were in plish the job. The work outlined It made me hot as thunder. The Dalles, Oregon. to 22d, 1906. Tickets no our national woodland, but nearly fire. Dolph, never slow, instantly stalled in Moro Lodge No. 351 ays I, I ’ll stop that sheet, I will by the packing-house provides for at Moro railway station; going via If the cuseed thing goee under 1 the dredging of a road from, the half the timber. An average acre said he thought it was: took to his WOW. OJ Goffin, PCC; JE Blue, Menical Staff: Hr. T..C. Avery. Stephenson Wash ; Dr-F-H- Skokane and return 180.10. Go I bunted up the measly whelp, main ship’s channel to a basis in in the Rocky mountain forest-yields ' sprinter Rtep, bounding to the bell- CC; FA Sayers, Adv L; A Heydt, Collins. Coldemlale, Wash.; Or. H. C. Dodds. Dufur Or.; Dr. J. A. ing via Spokane, returning via San An’ for his uunnin’ caper the slough, which will accommo 1,000 to 2,000, board feet of lumber, rope nnd immediately started the Banker; JM Dunahoo, Clerk; OJ Geisehdorffer. The Dalles, Or; Dr H Logan. Ihe Dalles. 0 r.: Francisco $101,96.,, On sale Sept I paid them ’leven years and quit; 8-9 and 10tb, 1906. Liinit to Nov Yes sir, I’ve stopped hie paper! Goffin, Phys; FC Çoe, Escôrt; FM |)r R W Logan, Moro. Or.; Dr. J. M. Lowe, The Dalles. Or. date carriers with a draft of 26 feet. in the southern forest 2,000 to 4,000, city to doing something. in the northern forest 4,000 to 6,000. 30th, 1906. So sudden was the fire that the Smith, Watchman; HO Shugart, The McCune Sanitarium for mefllcal and »urgical caaea has all the •« •» B o n and An average acre on the Pacific ooast Walt his saved absolutely nothing. Sentry; CT Coats, EE Barnum, CG advantages tlmt any up to-date hospital or sanitarium can oflfcr, and the u<iiiiiintial sdvantasee aud comforts of a private borne. yields 20,000 to 50,000. Telescope Floors in the building were saturat Huis, Managers. • t For further Ihforftiatlon, addre«» any member of the staff or The Sanitarium. the southern and Rocky mountain ed with grease from long use as a Couch Flanders says the Ports forests, toss the northern on top of storage place, and there was at least mouth tank disaster was occasioned them and stuff the oentral into the a ton of paints and oils in the ware- by'igiiuranoo of the watchman.” • afcjfek A At*« W chinks, and, aore for aore, our Paci- room Tuesday,under the same roof, This is complimentary to the dead WASCO MILLING CO. foreet will outweigh them all. all of whioh added fuel to the employe. If the tanks are allowed WM Hill, of the US Coast and flames, and made it desperately to remain in the regions about H A L F A S A C K of our hi<h gr«4a Sour Is Geodetic Surveys, established a hard to Bave the Heydt buildings Portland, we presume it will be equal io r e .u lt, to • full »«tk o f other station near Moro last week for across Fourth street, filled with because of the “ignorance” of au brand ,. ’ T l , tho beat on the m a r k « for halt agitin Ihe money. Uniform in quality and three days, taking observations to harness, saddlery, leather, buggies, thorities whose duty it is to see that partly. Th« highest de»«lot»n«nt ot Ihe test former observations. This work m UleiU art, combined w ith Ihe eery beat e tc ... Even at the old Barnum the menace ¡ b removed. wheat that ta raiaed la Sherman county. is done by order of Secretary Met- home, 600 feet away, hut in the Kansas brought the binding twine Once trie « — A lw ays m m «. oalf of the department of commerce direct track of the wind a hard trust to time, so far as that state is and labor to make an investigation fight was made, above which the air concerned,'by opening a big factory to ascertain whether there has been was black with charred cinders, for manufacturing twine at the state any horizontal displacement of the burning shingles, etc , that found penitentiary. The labor did not earth’s crust on the Pacific coast as lodgment in the hillside, nearly cost anything, and the raw material MOT «OT *> *.**Is* * a result of the earthquake of April mile out of town. It is a wonder was purchased aH cheaply as the 18 last. This will be necessary in that intermediate wheat fields were trust could buy it. The convicfc order toreotify existing charts and have been kept busy and the farm not set on fire. maps. In India, after the earth In the event that the fire had ers have enjoyed the uso of twine quake of 1897, revision of the tri caught on to the Peoples building, at half the price formerly paid. angulation showed difference in it is quite possible that^the Brock Wallis Nash, who went East in distance of 25 feet and of 13 feet in brick next door, and perhaps the tbe interest of the Cooperative height. Prof. Omori of Japan, who Elrod OperA Bouse building, in Christian Federation, has returned is investigating the effects of the which, are located the 8. T. Co. to Portland and announces that earthquake which destroyed San with a big stock, the offices of work will soon begin on the exten t * .■ . Francisco and other California cities Mayor Elrod, E. V. Littlefield, C. K sion of the Corvallis and Eastern April 18th, says that if accurate Coohran and Dr. J. FL James, the and that an independent road will observations had been taken of the largest and finest block of brick be built from Portland to connect smaller ebooks which have followed buildings in the county would have with the C and E at Mehama, the the great shook, would be easy to whole calling for 269 miles of traok. been destroyed prediot when, the earth would again Practically no fuult is found with He claims to have found it no tremble. He prediots that small the oity water system, but the trouble to raise tnoney for the work, ebooks will oonftnus to ooour for quantity of the supply nr what as well as forf other things Irt con years bat that there may not he oauses anxiety and compels people nection with the object of tbe feder another great shook In that part of to urge the mayor to appoint a oom- ation. the oountry for 60 year*. »<* «a We uuant a share of your trade Furnishing Goods Hats Shoes Clothing Etc. N e v e r b e fo r e h a s o u r lin e o f G e n ts F u r n is h in g s b e e n s o c o m p lé t é a n d w e i n v ite tio n and Shoos and Oxfords f Patent leather, Tans and Blacks, all the latest and best styles at prices that can not be beat by any shoe house canned d ried f r u it in America. s p e c ia l a t t e n b y e v e ry m a n b o y fo r th e ir 4 t h o f J u ly a n d h o t w e a t h e r c lo t h in g . goods OVERALLS S H O E S , ETC. Panama Hats The only hat for the summer time, they are going fast. Come while there are & J. w. plenty of styles to select from. SHERMiN TRADING COMPANY MORO, O REG O N.---- w a tc h es ! — T h e — O b se r v e r K The McCune Sanitarium MACHINERY F lo w s » H arro w s , W agons WASCO MILLING CO. Wasco, Or. M» Garden Hose —Lawn Mowers it YV. F. Weigand 2b Co., 1 8ï«g’ n