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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (June 12, 1908)
¿ I Or.Hist.Soc.« City Hull. se WSeW ‘i SHERMAN COUNTY M o ro , E k t s tiib liö liö d . 1 8 8 7 . TH E ONE SURE W A Y To those wishing socli relations we heartily «tend onr services. areh o use BANK M oro Confectionery Billiard and Pool Tables Ice cold d iin k s and Ice cream In sea son. Soda water, bottled and fountain, alw ays on baud. Vinton Hotel G R A S S VALLEY, O R C . PLUMBING a - STEAM FITTING C onvientto Business All kinds of Reaervoir and Cistern work in con- reclion with water systems installed in first class style and all work doh© guatrariTeed. Dynamite and powder work on all kinds of Rock Excavations PRICES R EA SO N A B LE Conducted on Best Principles C s m iM e r e la l —----... H. A .-S tu a rt, M oro, Oregon. fa in tin g , %) after J^anging - - _____ A Satisfaction Guaranteed T r a d « S o lic it e d W hen in P w r llu iid u m m M i i i ■ i i i i i i i a t f i n n * * * 1 **1 1 1 Oflice at Furniture Store. x F. R. A X T E L L , M O RO , O R m iii n r Hotel Oregon It It new and lit rooms are provided with running water and long distance tele- phones. European plan. Rate* • » per day and upward Highest priced room $3 per day. Wright-Dickinson Hotel Co. Chas. Wright, Prealimt. X . C. Dickinson, Manager. H otel M oro Nearest Hotel to Business Center, Banks and Depot. Esmond Hotel P ro tlan d , O reg o n . Sunday D inner 35 cents. OSCAR Opposite Post O ffice M oro. Oregon. t a t "here the people itop 'I'».*. D u l i e . , Steam H eat. t o r ANDERSON MANAGER ml Item tok Free bus to and from trains R ates by th e day 5 0 c, 7 6 ç, $ 1 .0 0 , $ 1 . 6 0 , $ 2 . European Plan The Umatilla House A Good Clean Fam ily Hotel O re g o n , Electric Call Bells. E lectric L ig h ts T . N. C R O F T O N , P r o p r ie t o r . M. L. E vans Of DeMoaa has been laid up w ith rheum atism for som e tim e and suffered untold agonies, but is now up and perfectly w ell. Aak him w bat cured him and he w ill say less than a 60c bottle of W atkins' Rheum atism and Gout Tablets. Sold by Subscribe for Thee Observer. in the Inland Em pire, Best Weekly published A les. Huater, A gL, b o a , Oregon Everyone reads it. W. H. Ragsdale i. M. E. M iller Menefee & W ilson » i Î E. B. Dufur Dr. C. Hartley HOTEL RATES TO SUIT YOU. All O R & N Trains Stop at Front Door Railway Ticket Office in the Lobby. Counting the Reserve. r- S TO P A T Corner 7th and Stark Streete- Both ip Woikmanship and Price O t' Meindl & Bryant LASTERING, R r ICK AND P.OHCRETE ^ORK | Q PH Y SIC IA N & SURGEON. Drs. Beers and Morse New Entirely. ****** 12, 1 9 0 8 i?ive> C e n t s git la, but It seemed to Daisy that he girl fairly pulled It off the hinges, she had been more watchful of her Inter was so eager to get it open. By ests than of the others, Hnd now—now "Oh,” sho cried, "you’ve got some Frank 11. she was being asked to make return I postcards for me!” Wdliams. A step aroused her from her thoughts, "I've got one, miss,” I said hesitat and she resumed her work Just as the r MARIK M. GOFFIN. | ingly. presldeut came dowu the stone stair “Let me have it!” she cried and way to the basement. Daisy’s Augers B y H e n ry H fu tin ^ . grabbed It from my hand. became nimble agalu, and she tried to She looked nt It, and then I saw her C o p y r ig h ted , 1908, b y A ss o c ia te d keep all traces of excitem ent from fyer C o p y r ig h te d . 1908, b y A s s o c ia te d Office Io The Coffin Building, 1st white figure quiver. Then she straight l.lt e r a r y Press.' i L ite r a r y P r e s s. face. ( Moro, Oregon. ened up, and w ithou t a w*»rd she w ent "Everything all right?” asked Mr. Into the house and closed Ahe door be Greenwell as he came Into the com I know It w as wrong fur mo to read George Barker, the newly appointed hind her. '• Dr. H K. Beers. Dr. W. N . Morse cashier, partment. "The count to correct?” her postcards, but I sort of got In the mdved rapidly between the I tell you I felt pretty bad about It. There was a note of anxiety In his habit o f doing It when I was walking row* of desks which lined the Walla of Not l>elng married myself, I had got the accounting department. Daisy, kindly voice. Daisy wondered if be past those vacant lots to her home, so Into feeling a sort of sense o f owner had any suspicious. For a moment bending over her huge volume, flushed before I knew it I was right up to the ship In that girl, and when she took It na alie caught night of the tall, soldier she was tempted to answer that all hilt In a romance. so to heart I felt that I ought to do was right. She could give an evasive Physicians ly figure, but her face turned white You see, It was this way. - 1 fraught something about It. I had no ffoubt answer and waru Barker that he was «lid tense ua she snw how grave his and Surgeons on to the facts from what sho told mo that Oscar still cared for Miss Alice expression was. Clearly something had In danger of discovery. Then came the occasionally. Oscar Roldel. her sw eet and hnd only hooked up with the other echo of the words “discreet and faith WA8C0 - - OREGON happeued. heart, who w as a civil englueer, got a girl because he w as mad at her post Others perhaps might not have no ful.” Job quite a distance away from her card and thnnght that Miss Allco had It would uot be faithful to the bank ticed tho change In hi* expression, but C a lls Promptly’ Attended during the summer. Before he left Os given hint the mitten. I wns dead cer to Dhlsy every shade of meaning was to.hide the shortage. It could not he car and Alice—her full name wns Alice tain that Miss Alice still cared for D a y or Night. familiar, and she knew that they must that Barker would have asked her to G. Minor—had a quarrel. It wasn’t a him. I kuew, though, that she was too be serious worries which took the smile hide his guilt. She looked bravely Into very bad quarrel, 1 guess, hut anyhow proud now to do anything to settle up from Barker’s eyes and made still the president's face. tho quarrel. Consequently I . saw It "Those packnges are all short.” sho she told him he mustn't w rlK a word more grave the lines about the mouth. to her during the tim e he was away. was up to me. said simply. “They are mostly the E ter since she had been iu the Finally I stepped Into a drug storo Well, that made him rather spunky, bank Daisy had made Darker her Ideal. hundreds, but there are five thousands and he said he’d do ,|y ,»t. as sho j udd handy and bought a postcard telegram )( too.” It wna' he who had lydycted her Into “Ask Mr. Rarker to com e here,” di but that he co u ld sen d her p ic tu re c a rd tr.x — r < m the back o f the card Attorney at Law. the m ysteries of tho savings depart was printed: rected the president. "Do not tell him postcards without writing a word to JL ’x . * ment and had stood» guard over her “There's only one person In the world her, and lie would send those. what Is the matter. Just say that I Office Ground Floor Ginn Brick ever since. l ie was alw ays ready to want to see him here. Come back with Oscar was surely a "sender.” At first for me. n»d that's^ you!" give her a help over the hard,places, I addressed this to Oscar In a hand the postcards came In fnst and thick » Next Door WiW.M.Co. Bank and of late It had seemed to Daisy that him.” writing that I know wns almost Iden As quietly as she could Daisy sum there was something more than mere tically the same as Miss Alice's. Then kindly Interest In the steady gray eyes moned the cashier. They were at tho I ’ d It. top of the stairs when her courage fail OREGON as be looked upon her. MORO ! 1 « d mighty ed. She could uot believe wrong of Now he came to a stop before her slow, I can tell you. I didn't know the man she loved, and yet”— desk and bent over the book on which wlfetlier I had mado matters lietter or', W . Ü. Bryant F. M eiudl . "There was a shortage,” she whls- she was working. n I I k I i i v anxious about t 1 h \ \ . .• se & n e d worn out “ M iss G liib ln s w ill look after your ’pererf. “Mr. Greenwell told me not to book t o d a y , h e said In a low vplce. tell you, but I”— each day when I passed her house. I Barker uodded understandlngly, but “I want to have your assistance 4n- kept hoping that I had made things all he kept ou toward the bascmeuL and countlng tho reserve. Tim bank ox- right—AuUii— Tard, and yet I w as Datoy followed wonderlngly. Green Law yers andner comes next week, and we want nfrald. < well looked up ns his cashier came Into to see that things are all right.” Amt then jute day In my route'« mall "I didn’t suppose that you were to the compartment. I ran across n postcard for Miss Alice R o o m s 1 and 2 The Ginn Brick know when the examiner came!” cried "I am sorry to say that your sus addressed In Oscar's hand and post picious are correct,” he said sadly. Daisy. Over W.W.M.Co. Bank marked from the place where he w ax “Will you and Mlsa— f r ”—' Barker smiled, but the smile was Tl(ut card would tell the tale! "Walling,” supplied Barker. le - _____ ... M>, ii .'i 1 wanted to look at that OREGON ip “ lrth MORO W o arc n o t su p p o sed to k n o w ,” ho - •*AVtlt yon and Miss W alling figure i e l ever wanted admitted, "but there are sometimes the exact sum? I am afraid that It Is to do anything so much as Just to turn leakages In the banking department. worse than we thought.” over that card and see what was on Barker took bis seat at the table op Will you come-wlth me to fire vaults?” tho back. Was It all right, or was It Daisy followed him to tho-basement, posite Daisy, and tb^ president-re- all w ro n g ?- In a m om ent I could see » where the reserve vaults were located., turnt'd to the upper floor. As they If I looked nt her' mall. But I reason • Attorney - at - Law ▲ steel cage, formed of henvy bars In worked Barker explained that he had ed It I li i l <louo enough place of the light nettings used on tho suspected that the former old eashles wrong In doing It before. 80 I put had resigned In fear of discovery. It Office upstairs Rooms 5 and 6 the card In my bag without looking at was at his own request that the count the back of It and started out on my »•«*> -w as being made before he became Re Opera House Building rout«». sponsible for tbe surplus. I thought I never would get to the “It won't hurt the bank,” continued Minor house. My route never seemed Qarker. "Bryan’s father will make MORO - so long before br aluee. Finally, how- good the shortage. It to not as bad as ey$r, I was op the block where the 1 had supposed. Of course you will house was located. Klowly 'I worked Fred Wilson Frank Menefee. say nothing of this to any one In or my way up tho street, and finally I out of the bank?” BUR HEI.U OUT THE lMMTCAHD WHKHE J rung the Minor doorbell. "Why did Mr. Greenwell tell me to COLT.P HEV. “I'hnvo a postcard for you,” I said. tell you?” she asked curiously. from him, and I used to wonder why It A s u if t motion, half fear, half hope, "Probably that the others might not was he scut so ninny of them amt no daahcd liita liur.face. overbear your m essage,” explained letters. That was before 1 knew about "Oh, let me have It!” sho cried. Attorneys - at - Law Barker. “Is that why yon warned tbetr quarrel and what she had said. I hundisl It to her. She turned her me?” he w ent on. “Did you think The girl was as happy as a lark while hock t o me As she looked at It so I that |>erhaps I had beeu meddling Office in the Vogt Block, upstairs she w as-getting so mhny of them, be- couldn’t tell from the way she looked with the reserve?" cahse she knew the man still cart'd for whether it wns good or hnd uews. ”1 didn’t think that,” denied Daisy, her. I could seo easily euough that ,she ' ll" d l l ns I tol l hlui," s he said In a with reddening cheeks, “bfit It w as a ll rttsd u n n riT n g irr.— 7 “ OREGON THE DALLES nmillc l voice, “to tho yery hist. Even V . - .* 7 ’ • t i L' so strange and mysterious to me, and , Then one day she hantletrin'e- -a post now he Istl't writing a wortl.” I—I didn't want to feel that perhaps I card and sort of winked a tjn g ^ \ 1 IsJfchU to get nervous. She started hadn't been—faithful.” "1 guess he’ll s l f ’Up When he gets to move inside the hall, nud It looked “I meant faithful to yourself,” ex ' ;,;u - that,” she sum. ns If I wasn’t goiug to And ont that plained Barker, remembering his >5 [ looked nt it when I got out of sight day w h a llh o message wns nfter all. words. "Was It because”— of the house. It wus addressed to Os Attorney - at - L aw X "L-I hope It Isn't laid news, miss,” v __ i.*.» »4 [>,‘»'♦¡M He did not complete hls question. car oil right, and on the back was one I managed to stammer. There was no need. Eyes answered of those printed postcard telegrams. MB?” Hli WKNT "Bad uews!” she cried, wheeling Office 787 Chamber of Commerce "ISTHAT WHY XOUWARKIP eyes. But some days later, when the The printing said: ON. around like a whirlwind. "Bad news! "Am very busy. Therafir a new man No, I should say not! Tho best of floor above, was provided with u table gray haired president suggested that Corner Third and Stark ’ ‘p and a chair. Daisy took her seat lie- a married man wns preferred by the In town!” uew s—the very beat of news! Seo I tell you what—1 hated to take that here, you dear old postman!” fore the plies of bills with which the directors as cashier, Barker agreed with him. card to the oflice! 1 knew how badly She held out the postcard where I OREGON tabic was loaded. PORTLAND "It's all arranged." he declared. "I It would make that willing fellow feel could see. It wns another postcard According to the law, n certain caslt am going to marry Miss Walling, the sw ay off in the wilds whore he was. reserve wns required of tho bank, nud telegram. This was the m essage print It was Daisy's task to count tho pack young lady who counted the reserve.” Jlut I had to take It Just the same. ed on It: “Expect me soon. Ivove you Greenwell nodded approvingly. « You know you get sort of Interested ages of bills and make certain tlint the In the snme old way!" "She will make an excellent w ife,” In people when you «all on them the contents agreed with the figures on the Dentist ho declared oracularly. "You have way 1 do eVery day, and I wns auxlous puper bands. Barker leaned across the Four Courtthip Sundays. made an excellent choice, George.” to see how Oscar would take the card. table. The four Sundays of November are I(|s postcards kept coming to her all observed as fete days In Holland. They Chargea reason •‘Mike will take these away and And Barker agreed with him. right—they were view s of the place arc known hy the curious names Re able, all work bring you more when you are ready,” A*ham«d of tho Debt. where I10 wns working and that sort of view, Decision, Purchase and Posses be said. "You kuow how to check guaranteed. An English gentleman rather plain souvenir card s-and then they stopped sion, and all refer to matrimonial a f them on the slips.” Daisy nodded understanding^. Bar tively confides to the London Outlook all of a sudden. I reasoued that he'd fairs. November In Holland being the ker turned away only to come back that he no sooner flatter« hlmeelf that quit sending them the day he got her month par excellence devoted to court WA8C0 - - OREGON and x bend close to the curly brown he has turned hls otherwise perfectly card. ship and marriage, protiably because Tbe girl was waiting for uie, her face ttie agricultural occupations of the year satisfactory w ife Into something ap head. Opposite the 0 . T. Co. atore. "Keinember,” he said Impressively, proaching an economist than he finds all shlulng with sm iles, the morning are over anA.p«MMH4y l>ocause the lords “I have selected you for the countlug out that he has done nothing of the that none of the cards showed up In of creation from quite remote antiqui the mall for her. because you are discreet and faithful.” kind. ty have recognized the pleasantness of ^**No cards for you today, Miss Allee," having wive* to cook and cater for He had, or he so believed, firmly Im • Thia time the new cashier ascended I said ns she met me at the door. the stairs, and Daisy's nimble Angers planted In her mind the fact that Eng them during the long winter. Tho smiles all left her face, at once, made quick work of the hill*. They land has the greatest revenue ever On Review Sunday everybody goes W a tc h m a k e r and J e w e le r ware and she looked at me ns though she for the groater part fifty dollar known, when she learned, through a to church, and after service there to a 1 couldn't lielleve It. Hot cm In packages of a hundred each, lecturer at her club, tbe figures of the church parade in every village, when Special attention given work sont and Daisy dropped them Into the box national debt. "No postcards nt all?" she cried. the youths and maidens gase upon each "Not one," I said. “Maybe the party "John,” she said on her return, in by mail or expreaa. at her aide ns she verified the count. other, hut forlwar to apeak. that*« been sending them to you Is The porter brought her n fresh sup "didn't you tell me that England haa i)n Decision Sunday each bachelor All work warrauteed first class hurt." ply of higher denominations, and of the greatest revenue ever known?” wuo Is seeking a wife approaches the At that she cried. "Yea,” he said. maiden of hls choice with a ceremoni 111 East Secesd Street Pboae Ns. H i these she took more careful, count. "Hurt! No; be can't be hurt!” “Then how la It.” she aald keenly, Several of tlie packages were short one ous bow and from her manner of re "I don’t necessa ily itieun physically sponding Judges whether hls advances or tw o bllla, and these were for f 100 “that we have such an enormous debt? The D alles, Or., and |500 each. The packages were Do we really owe that terrible aumt* hurt," I replied. "There's dther ways are acceptable. Purchase Sunday the tossed aside to l>e recounted later when She named It with great deliberation of being hurt than physically.” consent of the parents is sought If the She looked at me rather strangely at suit has prospenxl during the week. the work should lie done. It might be and awe. Ho admitted that the figure« were this, then tossed her head, marched Not until Possession Sunday, however, that some error had been made, and Into the house ntid slammed Uie door do the twain appear before the world other packages might contain a bill or correct. Address: MORO, OREOON. "Well, If that to so," bis w ife said after her. tw o In excess of their supposed num ns actual or prospective brides and There were no cards for her the next grooms. firmly, "I 'will never again admit ber. day, but 1 think she half expected abroad that I am an Englishwoman. I But packnge nfter package went to . - a Stock Inspector Having Money**end Not Having IL sw ell the pile on the rough deni table, could not travel In comfort known as there would be, for I caught 11 glimpse of her watching me behind the cuT- one of a nation so sham efully Indebt "Well,” said the old philosopher, ”1 and thero were none to balance the Sherman County, tains In the parlor as I wdlkiM past. don't see much difference In havin’ • shortage. Barker’s words flashed ed." r « The second day there were no cards, money an' In uot havin’ IL When peo through D aisy’s hrnlil. She wns to be Oregon. and again I snw her nt the window. ple know you've got It they’re red hot The Helping Hand. discreet and faithful! From the little glimpse I caught 1 A blind newsman stood In the early to git It from you. an* when they know Only two weeks back Barker had been promoted to lie cashier. Before eveulng on tbe curb at Forty-second thought she hud been crying. The third you hahi’t got It they're red hot to D eputy S tock Inspector day there was a single card, and before street and Third avenue. Tbe papere fetch In all the bills they’ve got ag*tn Louis S ch ad ew ltz, K ent, Oregon then he had been the assistant, nud It he sought were at a depot on the op I thought I turned It over and looked you au" try to gtt It anyhowv So, yoa Was he who had Inst counted and packnged the reserves. Now that lieWHl posite aide of the avenue. He stood at It. Then 1 wished I hadn't. The •co, It's a mortal worry a comln’ an* made cashier In the place of Newton silent. Presently a young man slipped card wns a photograph of Oscar look a gwtne. Ha>ln* It or not bavin* It, Bryan the count had to bo made again out of au Idle group near by, took tbe ing lovingly at some pretty girl who you're 'tw lxt the devil an’ tlie deep eea becanso the bank exam iner wns ex blind man by the arm, piloted him In turn was looking lovingly at him. six days out the week an* no rest on a pected. The shortage would become across the car tracks, toft him and The girl, I surmised, tirlongfel In the Sunday. It ain’t nothin’ bat printed tlty where he was worklug. so I was paper an* yaller an* white metal, an* Proprietor of known unless she was discreet and passed on. Neither said a word. Having obtained hls paper«, the blind mistaken In’ thinking It wns such a ylt the werl* almost stops turnin’ 1 faithful I , to look nt It. It saya It’ll be a friend te For a little time things turned black man turned again to the curb, standing Wild place. iu the first place, I bad no busluesa yuu RIMj then don’t stay with yoa long for Daisy. To Barker she owed her patiently. A woman, bareheaded and •vldentiy a tenement dweller near by, to look at another person's mall. In enough to gtt acquainted good. It*a an advancement In the l»nnk. He had vir tually saved her place for her by his walked up the avenue, paused, stepped the second place, It got me all tangled deceivin' aa Satan hlsee’f, though 1 up worse than ever In the affStlrs of must aay that Jeat about thia tim e I*d kindly advice when she had first taken aside, took the newsman by the arm, Praying of all Kinds. that couple; After seeing the card I like to see the deception o f It come ng, a position, and during the entire two conducted him back acroea the avanna and resumed her errand. Neither «poke. had the hardest klud of a time bracing way. 8k h to human natnr*, for which Trurikr and Gripe Hauled to and ears she had been with the l>ank he It’s Just flT way they have over tfcarw myself up to deliver It to the girl. w e ain’t rasponalbte,"—▲tlantn Oonnth ■d put her under a heavy burden of When I rang tbe MIxor doorbell the gratitude, l ie bad been kind to all tbal m the east aide—Naw York CUaba. ,, from all traini w Cigars, Tobaccos L r i z z z z Z.JLZ1.ZZ.Z. -\ Ju n o D R . O. I. ''GOFFIN, Dittata of Vinn I ChiUrei a SiecWh it burn holes in your pockets. Aside from the fact that your money will be safe from tfieft; the habit of saving tends to the establishment of thrift, economy, discipline and a general understanding of business principals essen tial to your success. ,\ M il l in g C o . lbber Stam ps Furnished. • -----1 for Typewriters, Typewriter Bapplloe, ltibbuae, ¿to» Q r o tf o n , .F r i d a y , D . You will then be eiempt from the uuaoyaoce oi-having W W m . Rudolf First street. Strong brdok ; Moro, Ore. To have money is to save it. The on ensure way to save it is to deposit it with Wasco Warehouse Milling Co. bank. asco C o u n ty , Every bottle p ositively guaranteed FARMERS READ THE WEEKLY OREGONIAN OF PORTLAND • For the general new sof the World also for information about Low t o obtain th e b est results in cultivating the soil. Stock R a is in g Fruit Growing e tc . . You can secu re inis excellent paper by addressing th< Sherman County Observer and enclosing $2.50, when w e will send, you the Sher man County Observer, price $1.50 and the w eekly Oregonian, price $1.50 each for one year, you sa v ing 50 cents by so doing. ’"very D escription to O rder Quick and Cheap! — sir z z / ’/ v / z w / n W S h e rm a n C hr D. Lindquist Ja m e s S te w a rt REED HULSE CITY DRAY NO. 2 t Picture !t* Postcard Romance.