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BANK
M oro
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Billiard and Pool Tables
Ice cold d iin k s and Ice cream In sea
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alw ays on baud.
Vinton Hotel
G R A S S VALLEY, O R C .
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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
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t o r
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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.
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All O R & N Trains Stop at Front Door
Railway Ticket Office in the Lobby.
Counting the
Reserve.
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Corner 7th and Stark Streete-
Both ip Woikmanship and Price
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LASTERING, R r ICK AND P.OHCRETE ^ORK |
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PH Y SIC IA N & SURGEON.
Drs. Beers and Morse
New Entirely.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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* 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
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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.
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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
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-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
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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
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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,”
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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.
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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
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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."
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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
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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.
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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.
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Every
bottle p ositively guaranteed
FARMERS
READ THE
WEEKLY OREGONIAN
OF PORTLAND
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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 .
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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.
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