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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 .
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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.
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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 .
.
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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 .
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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 Â 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:—
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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.
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?. 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.
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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.
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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;
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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.
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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
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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*.
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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
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canned
d ried f r u it
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4 t h o f J u ly a n d h o t
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goods
OVERALLS
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Panama Hats
The only hat for the
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fast. Come while there are
&
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plenty of styles to select from.
SHERMiN TRADING COMPANY
MORO, O REG O N.----
w a tc h es !
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lo w s »
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WASCO MILLING CO.
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M»
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it
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