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The best thing you can do is to do
L ittle Miss Margaret McGrath is
Deputy Sheriff McKean was in
visiting her sister Lena at Hood Portland on business Saturday.
river thia week.
kJ
tnn I ►
Only a man after her own heart
J B Holman and wife made a trip
R. P. Hulse
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q
Mrs Ramsey is entertaining M r to their Portlard home last week.
interests a young widow.
Waggoner and family of Iowa, who
A little dimple has caused many
L J Gate«, a merchant at Keot,
arrived on tbe 31st.
a tnau to have heart trouble.
was doing business io Tbs Dalles,
E C Rogers, late of the Hotel Saturday.
I t ’s hard to keep up appearances
Oregon, Condon, has purchased the
end save money Simultaneously.
J H Bottemiller, one of tbe stirr
Hotel Shaniko, Shaniko.
ing Keot businees men, was a Moro
The more justice some men get
R E Thompson is working with visitor Tuesday.
the ieee they went to talk about It.
the Douglass thrashing outfit. His
Miss Jennie Ginn arrived on tbe
These goods are always sold on a close
There are times when the truth is wife and obildren are staying with
5th
on a visit to friends in Moro,
about as inspiring as a oold fried Graudpa Isaac Thompson in Moro.
margin, but to # people who need an outfit, in
the guest of Miss Lillian Stanley.
egg.
Geo H H'mea has set his optics
whole or part, a good liberal discount will be
Mr and Mrs J O Thompson re
A man tuay overtake a lot ol on a Clatskanie fir 13 feet in dia
turned to Sherman oounty on the
given.
people on the road to ruin, but he meter. Dan Ingalls could «how him
31st. Their temporary address will
never meets any one.
one up the Lewis and Clark river, be Moro.
«
,
The difference between a job and that measured 19 feet 28 years ago.
Robert W Kaseberg is in the field
a position is sometimes not even a
.Mieses Vena and Ita Wehb, form with his new Best harvester and a
matter of remuneration
erly of this city, stopped over Sun No 1 picked crew, and ia doing ex
Tbe red ink editor ot tbe Laidlaw day on their way borne from Wallace, cellent work.
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Chronicle i* now associated with tbe Idaho. They are young ladies now,
Sellers of everything In our line.
Deputy Sheriff McKean has pur
publication of tbe Journal at Prine and still have a good word for Moro,
chased a neat reeidenoe property oo
ville.
dull as it seems to he.
Court street, from Hon B F Pike,
A new book, advocating starvation
If the Portland firm that asnds Mr Pike still has one more home in
a* a cure for all human ailments, is out tons of free catalogues monthly, Moro for sale.
out. I t was written by tbe author at 2c postage each, oould tee the
Hugh Martin was a Moro visitor
of prunes.
piles of its hooks in the street at Sunday, He and Mrs M are putting
E lla Wheeler Wiloox is advocat every poetoffice, they’d try some in their vaoationat the harvest with
ing perfect children, for other people different method of reaohing out Grandpa Martin.
M r*. W ilcox ia wholly unselfi*li in after trade.
Dr. and Mrs. Morgan returned
th* matter.
Andrew McDonald was up from home Tuesday from Shaniko, and
When an honest man is in hard The Dallea last week visiting bis tbe doctor is now at his offioe in
luck he doesn’t want charity so obildren and grand children iu Good Moro, lately oocupied by the Gordon
much a* an opportunity to dispense Old Sherman county. Friday he hank.
Our Goods are Absolutely Guaranteed and our
drove out south from Grass Valley
with charity.
Thrashing
machine,
oombine
and
with Mr Weigand; Saturday he took
Prices are Right. •
Your Business Solicited.
other Sherman county harvesting
The report that a serum worth in Mouklaud.
aoenes Postal Cards at The Observer
915.000,(XX) has been discovered in
8 B Johnston of Dufur, one of tbe Book Store, Moro. Best that are
a pigs tail is oertain to make the
progressive Johnston Brothers of
6 0 0 - 6 0 2 S e c o n d S t r e e t , T h e D a lle s , O r e g o n
public whistle.
made.
that progressive little city, died Sa
There is this good thing about turday afternoon from the effects of
R C Atwood made a tour of tbs
having been intbegrooery business:
oounty this week, inspecting the
fall from a horse. Deceased leave*
After retiring, a man knows bow to besides his wife, daughter and son, orope. There would have been a
big crop with a few «bowers in June
select a good chicken.
four brothers at Dufur, and many
and
July.
Sometimes a smoker gets a whiff friends in different parts of the ooun-
A
ll
thistles and aaltbuah should
of a cigar that reminds him of a try to mourn hie death.
be ¿i ut this month, before the 15tb.
particularly good one he smoked
Roy Powell found out that wood
now too late to prevent the
years ago but has lost track bf.
rats bad destroyed his combine It
seeding
of this years growth of C ali
Charles Golliher, I’fop., Wasco, Oregon.
Two attemps were made at Bend lines, when he went to get things
fornia
mustard.
within four daye to destroy tbe ready for business Monday. J 8
Miss White, the well known lady
94,000 stock of wet goods owned by Smith happened to be at our elbow
Eatebenet, with only 92,500 insur- when this item oame up, and he says olerk, formerly in the employ of the
that 75 cents worth of }4-iuch cot Emporium, at Moro, has charge o1
ton
line makes the best of lines for the postoffioe in this oity during tbe
The average man, when be goes
a
oombine
team. I t is strong, does absence of Mr Parry.
off and has a good time, takes it out
Mitchell and Foss are prepared to
of bis fam ily’s hide on bis return by not flap in the wind and ie juyt right
do all kind of turning and lathe
reducing tbe supply of sugar, tea, everyway.
and coffee.
Stephen F McDonald has been ap work, also outting key seats in shaft
pointed
by President H C Null, su ing. They oarry shafting in 1-16
When a man begins by saying,
perintendent
of the Regulator line sises from 1 1-16 to 1 1-2 inohes.
it-ie none of my business,
Mrs J P Bell of Kent, has return
but — ” it is a sign he is going to of ateutners on The Dallea-Portland
make it his business and advise you run. Tbe fleet consists of tbe Bailey ed from Booth Bead, Wash., very
Gatzert, Dalles City and Capital considerably improved in health.
what to do.
City. Steve baa been in the trans There is no plaoe like South Bend
Sixty policemen are now slaugh portation business iu Portland for
in whioh to reoouperate.
tering unmuxzled dogs io New York
years and is one of tbe best known
Dean Hayes of Portland, has ta
city without regard,-to breeding or
men on tbe waterfront. He has been
ken a position as manager of one of
ownership, and 100 are killed in
agent for 4he company at Alder
* • ’• • • * « * . • • * * « * * » • • * « « • • « a « « •<
the W W M Co. warehouses at De
Chicago, also, daily.
street dock.
Moes springe. Dean is a Muro boy
yf
Buying for cash is a great advantage to us because
M r and Mrs Nichols of Hood river
Dim iging fires are raging in many and hasdeveioped an active bu*iiieae
arrived Monday to attend the funeral places in Pacifio Northwest forests,
we save whatever trade discount there is. > > > >
man.
of Mrs Woods and infant son. Mr
but the worst ever kuown is up in
Selling for cash is a great advantage to you for you
J R Kaseberg is now harvesting
N is an expert undertaker, and as
British Columbia. A bout 2000 lives 2,000 acres, and with tbe possible
do not have to help pay any bad debts apt to be con
sisted M r Axtell in the work.
have been saorifioed, and property
exception of about 300 acres be has
tracted
in the credit system, > >
>
Every m in ’s hopes for tbe day, damage has been estimated at IIOJ-
oo kick to register. Early grain is
when he comes down to work in the (XX),000. Fernie'has been wiped out
Our prices will convince you that we are hewing
lots better than was expected. 250
morning, includes tbe unexpressed and the towns of Elko, Olson and
acres of his barley averaged 45 bush
cJosc to the line.
ft ft
belief that there will be money or Cokato
buaniu burned. Hosmer, Sparwood els per acre.
W e t 'o id ln lly M o lir lt l o u r
P a lio a tg e .
letters from unknown admirers tn atítÍM i icbel were badly damaged,
fftre .
Educational officials in Oregon
hi* mail.
region burned over is 40 miles
I .
X 3 . Z 3 Z a -z d .ix x ,
Z v £ o x c , O r e g o n .
are pleased with lb« preeent school,
When tbe neighbors call at his in ex’enl and is known as the Crows apportionment, whioh is the largest
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«,*; smm « •» ••• M w m M m a n a
bouse a boy notices that they laugh nest region of east Kootenay.
ever made in Oregon, 9256,067.20.
heartily when his father tells how
Hon. Gen A Liehe, who has resided That apportioned to Sherman oounty
he used to Bteal watermelons when continuously in The Dalles for half amounts to 91,694 40. Multnomah
a boy, but tbe hoy remembers that a century, was the recipient of a get* a I »out 960.000 00, Clackamas
when he tried it bis father whipped very handsome tribute in * The about 915,000 00.
•T H E S C H O O L O F Q U A L I T Y ” -
him.
Chronicle on tbe 50th anniversary
Mr and Mrs Isaac Thompson re
T
enth
and
Morriaon,
Portland, Oregon A. P. Armstrong, LL.B., Principal
No further evidence need be asked of hie arrival, when the city oom- turned from their Oregon oity visit
<LWe
occupy
two
floors
65 by 100 feet, have a (20,000 equipment,
prised
two
business
blocks
and
a
for to convince people of tbe Insanity
on tbe 2d. They bad a remarkable
employ
a
large
faculty,
give
individual instruction, receive more calls
few
«
'altering
residences
We
have
of Ezra Meeker than bis determin
fine time, and think that now they
for
office
help
than
we
can
meet. Our school admittedly leads all
known
George
A
Liehe
as
long
as
ation to k ill and stuff the cattle and
will remain at home at least until
others in quality of instruction. It pays to attend such an Institution
dog, his companions across tbe con we’ve known anybody in Oregon, Deoember, when they expect to go
<L8ald a BunlneHi» Man: "Keep hammering away everlastingly on thorough
tinent and back, and plaoe them in and all we can s*y additional ia to over to Trout lake to visit with tbs
work. It will win out in the end.” Said an Educators “The quality of instruc
express the wish that Oregon had families of Elwood and Mrs Niel
Puyallup park.
tion given in yonr school makes it the standard of ita kind in the Northwest.”
'** f*'. . several thousand men like him more
McDonald.
A man from Duluth, Minn., ie
<LOpen all the year. Students admitted at any time. Catalogue free.
than it has got.
Last Friday L Barnum and Alf
desirous of sstablising a match fact
Reference« 1 A ny bank, any newspaper, any business man la
Chronicle: Yesterday two peddlers Dillinger paid Bake Oven an auto
ory in Astoria, on a small scale. I t
is hoped he may do so; and, if he were arrested for selling good* w ith visit. Things look good over that
r
MF MF MF MF MF MF MF MF MF MF MF MF MF M F1
makes an article less dangerous out a license from the oily. The way. M r Barnum says tbe people
than the markets now oarry, ma> peddlers were selling the Watterson are all thrifty and oontented. They
he
oro
fountain pen at 91 00 eaob, and it is have good orope and help one
he prosper and live long.
said many oitisens thought they another. That’s the great seoret of
bserver
To drive flies away, rub the screen were the genuine Watterson 93 pen
suoceas anywhere: “ Help one an
doors with a doth dipped in kero and did not bestitate to buy liberal
other.** I t would work wonders if
sene oil and the flies will not come ly. The peddlers did not have
applied more generally by oommun-
near tbe door and the bouse oan be enough money to pay their fine of itiee.
kept free of them by this method. 95 each and are in duranoe file in
Do not sleep in a draft, even in
Oil of peppermint or oil of lavender consequence. They had spend their
the summer, for you are powerless
put in ao atomizer or sprayed profits, it is alleged in imbibing from
to avoid danger when you are asleep.
around tbs rooms and poroh will the flowing bowl. Nobody knows
This doe* not mean, however, that
drive a ll flies away.
where they stole tbe^ens.
there should not he a free circulation
Dra. E E and B C Ferguson and
Colonist rates whioh go into effeot of air iu the room at night. Night
daughter, Ruth, are en route to New Sept, la t and continue until October air is far lees dangerous than the
•¿■Ti-Ml. T H l
TEMPERANCE.
York where they take steamer for
31st are of great importance to Ore oluee air, whioh is full of poisons
”
a six mouths tour of England, Nor*
GVARANTKKD
gon and the Pacifio Northwest. from the exhalations of the lungs
NON-lKTOXICATIlW
I
way, 8wsdeo, Germany, France,
Eastern people are talking about and body in an unventilated room.
Austria and other European coun
MI used to th in k a
this seotlon of the oountry; they
John M Parry is In Portland to
tries. W hile away, they will study
g o o d n on -in toxi
want to come to Oregon, and when day with the rest of tbe Presidential
medicine and surgery in some of
catin g beer could
they oome on a one way ticket, nine poet masters in- Oregon, discoesing
the best institutions in the world.
.
not be mad© but—
times out of ten they become pros matters in a two days convention,
MALTONA
Grass Valley Journal: O P King, perous oitisens. Every commercial pertaining to the work of their vari
certain ly la
wife and obildren, who have been organisation, as well as every citizen, ous offices The.oommeroial bodies
SNAMYl
MUMTVaU
visiting a few weeks at Newport, ar should do their pert toward adding of tbe state have joined with the
rived here Sunday. I t is a matter to the population of tbe state daring Postmasters in inviting Postmaster
of future business matters, as to the 60 days of these oolonist rates, Gen. Meyer to attend, and arrange
wether they will remain. Mr King by writing personal letters to par ments have been made for meetings
as well as his fam ily, look like the lies in tbs east who oan better their in Washington and California, so
picture of health and tbs California condition by ooming this way, or that tbe postmaster general mayQk-
ollmate has proven of much benefit sending them The Obeerver—only a fcaad all three with the ieeet possible
hit a month.
to them.
your best.
. E. Thompson
H a rv e s t.
That means that you will need
G ro ceries, Rope, W a t e r B a g s
Shoes, H a ts , G loves
O v e ra lls , C a n v a s , B la n k e ts etc.
A good stock of which you will find at our store. We shall be
pleased to have you inspect our stock and get our. prices. It is
our purpose to give you the best in the market for the money.
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MORO COMMERCIAL CO
Granitware, Tinware,
Cook House Supplies.
I-
MoroHardorcandlmpleinentCo.
Plano Reader Extras
J Rawest Supplies Binder Tuiini
J
Rubricating Qils
L ane
Th«
O b s e rv e r
KOBO, SHERMAN CO.,OREOON:
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Born to M r and Mrs A Henntfgin
C, K Cochran is up from the Rose
in
Portland, a daughter.
city on business.
Born July 26tb, to M r. and Mrs
Hot Coff«e and Sandwich«*, at
Hayden Brisbine, a son.
A B W o lfard ’s, Biggs.
Mrs Clara Belches came bome’on
Mr and Mrs P O DeMoes have
the
3f)th for a few weeks vacation.
returned from their Wanhington
cnuaty visit.
Before a man goes into politics he
should hire someone to stay about
Rev
A
J
Adams
arid
wife
return
A Blue M arkbere will answer an
Inquiry, when entered upon our calendar, ed to Hood river Wednesday with the premises and do the chorea.
The price of The Observer is 91.50
per year. 7ft oenU tor sis months, HO cents
For four m o n th » -b a t If paid In sdvSnosws
BMapi gX-ftQ In. /(t il tor 2 year«. SborUr
'»«n» than on« year 1ZH oents per month.
giving the date o f the paper as the date at
which your current aubacrlptlon expires.
Mr and Mrs Nichols.
Most of the recipes for living to
C ity m arshal Huck ha* changed the age of 100 or 200 years appear
F R I D A Y ........... .A ugust 7, 1908
his residence, moving into one of no more appetizing than breakfast
Mrs Anderson’« cottages, east of the food.
Subscribe (or The Observer.
depot.
I f a 9300,000,000 lumber merger
can
be formed, there ought to be a
Tvpc-writer paper at The Observ
A few water tanks and water
er office.
troughs, new; ready for the first man good deal of money in scientific
Picnic-dinner pistes at Tbe Obser who wants them by M itchell and forestry.
Foes, Mofo.
ver Book store.
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Mrs McGrath is nowjnepared to
O L Belahe had his left foot badly do plain seving, and repair ga'OHnte
Wagon tires, put on new for 92.00
and iron extra by MilcheJI and Foss crushed in the jaws of his combine in first class style. Rooms in
Saturday. He is able to get about Sm ith’s building. Main street.
Inks, mucilage, cards, envelopes,
paper of every kind, tablets, w ary style, at and attend to business, but has suf
The dosing of saloons in Oregon
Tbe Obeerver Book Store.
fered intense pain. Dr O J Goflio since July 1st, according to Fiecken-
Mrs W Stanley was accompanied has the case in band.
stein, represents a gain of 925,000
borne from the valley by her invalid
Percey Long of The Dalles, is ma- per week to tbe old time boozers.
daughter Mie* Ro*e.
ing bimeelt at home at Rohr V illa
The airship is coming, but it will
I f you duttt find what you want this week. He is both delighted and be some time before it can he relied
at home, ooms to Moro. Keep tbe astonished that such a handsome upon to take us away and get us
circulating medium in Sherman resort, is so near and yet so little back in time to look after the even
ing chorea. ’
known by Dalle* people, ;
county.
Type writer oil, tbe beet 3 in-1.
T W Brannan wa* in Moro Tues
Lubricate*, cleans and poliehee, day after supplies. His crop is turn
prevents rust.
1 rv it TheOlteerver ing out fairly well, but would have
Book Store.
been far belter with a good rain a
Mitcbell and Foe* have lu m b er month ago. Tom never kicks, any
now on hand tongued and grooved, way. lie is possessed of a good
ready to make up into 400, 500 and temperament.
600 gallon tanka.
Old type make* the very best of
Babbitt metal. We have it for sale
and when you need any call at Tbe
Observer office. Price is right.
K C Davis, proprietor of the Grass
Valley Barn, promptly attend* all
oalls, day or night. Animals giveD
tbe very best of care. Charges are
right.
Next year be sure to grow pleuty
of oarrots for without question oat-
Low rale* East are now on by tbe rots are the most profitable crop
OR A NCofor this season a* follows one can raise for boras or oow, and
round trip direct to Chicago 972.50 b y cooking fur hogs and fowls.
S t Louis 967.50; 8 t Paul 963.15;
An expedition is being equipped,
Omaha 960.00; Kansas City 960 00. under the auepioes of the Russian
Tickets on Bale May 4, 18, June 5,
6, 19. 20, July 6, 7, 22, 23, August ministry of marine, with tbe object
6, 7, 21, 22. Good lor return in 90 of discovering a northeast passage
days, with stop over privileges at between the Atlantic and Pacifio
ocean*.
pleasure within limits.
T he old remedies are beet. H ic k
ory Bark Cough Remedy has been
in use for over 100 years by the old
Dutch Dunkards of Pennsylvania,
and it still in u*e by all old families
of western Pennsylvania. Is abso
lutely pure, made from tbe bark of
the white or shell-bark hickory tree.
Shipped from the east and manufac
out for Rohr V illa .
tured in Salem, Oregon. For sale by
T hr old Pennsylvania DutchDun Moro Pharmacy and all dealers.
kards recommend Hiokory Bark
A K Moretx lost 175 acres of wheat
Cough Remedy. Gnararteed to cure
and about 126 acres of good past
your cough, and guaranteed to be
pure. Made from the bark of tbe ure by firs , on the 31st. A gang of
abell-bark or white hiokory tree. For about 75 volunteers fought tbe fire
sale by Moro Pharmacy.and »11 deal persistently before it was controlled.
The origin of the damage was traced
er« everywhere.
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to an old tis heap, on the C 8 Ry
No exemptions for household goods
right of way, whioh the eeotion men
or other personal property can be
were reduoing to ashes. This report
allowed en the 1908 assesment roll,
is disputed and it is contended that
according to the opinion of Attorney-
the fire was caused by oinders from
Gen. Crawford. Aseeesor Peelx was the looomotive.
intending to allow the 9300 exemp
C an you afford to trifle with so
tion in accordance with the law pas
serious
a matter as to neglect a bad
ted by the legislature at the 1907
oold or cough, when for a trifling
session and had made preparations
amount you can secure a hottie ol
for doing so. H e learned, however,
that the assessor in Multnomah Hickory Bark Cough Remedy, that
is guaranteed to cure or money re
oounty was not allowing the exemp
tions on the ground that the l^w funded? Price 25c, 50o and 91.00
per bottle. For sale at Moro Pharm-
was invalid, so be wrote to the at
aoy, and dealers everywhere.
torney-general for an opinion. That
Children are to have a part in tbe
opinion is a follows:
Replying to
district
fair to be held in The Dalle*
yours of the 24th inet., relative to
next
October.
The exhibils will be
the 9300exemption on personal pro
perty, as passed at the last session open to the high, publlo and paroch
of the legislature, permit me to say ial sohools in Crook, Sherman,
that tbe supreme oourt of this state Wheeler, Wasco and G illiam coun
held the old aot, which was almost ties. These exhibits must be tbs
identical, to be unconstitutional and work of th e , pupils of the sobool.
must, therefore, hold the preeent act Flower's,vegetables, art, meobanical,
lavalid. Therefore the exemption need Is, poultry, oooking.sto. will he
oanoot to allowed oo the 1908 roll " represented in the exhibit.
Coming from The Dalles Saturday
M r Watts met a mother wild oat
and three large kittens on tbe free
bridge. He killed one of the kittens
and brought it to Moro, a fine speci
men . Tbe old cat escaped into Waaoo
oounty and the two kittens struck
E x-Sheriff McCoy and wife, ac
companied by M r McCoy’s oousin
and his wife, C C McCoy of Kansas,
have just returned from the head
waters of Des Chutes rivsr.
Millionaire Spencer, a eelf-expat
riated American, now dead in Paris,
was so sour on his native land that
be forbid bis remains to he brought
to this country. Millionaire Spencer
was evidently an American lemoD.
A typhoid fewer survey to deter
mine the means, aside from domes
tic water supplies, hy whioh this
disease is transmitted, is to be con
ducted in Pittsburg at tbe expense
of the Russel Sage fund.
Wasco News: The dance at Moro
Friday night was a decided success.
There was a large attendance, and
a good time was reported, Tbe
people of Moro are ready to welcome
another new hriok building. Who
will supply it?
Wasco and Grass Valiev have ad
vsrtieed Moro to the effeot that
farmers cannot buy supplies in Moro
on Sundays. This is an old trick of
our sister oities. The farmer can
buy in Morn any Sunday that he
oan buy in Wasco or Grass Valley.
A fin-back mother whale, with its
calf, entered a Bellingham fish trap
last week, and in attempting to drive
it out the calf was killed with a rifle
shot. The body sank and tbe oow
refused to desert the oorpse. Tbe
animal viciously attauked every boat
that approaohed. Au attempt to kill
the whale by rifle fire was tried but
without effect. Fears were enter
tained that the beast would destroy
tbe trap in her rage. She is 40 feet
in length. More than 92,000 worth
of fish per day has been lost to the
paoker through the present* of this
w to to
& S
exto n
WASCO IMPLEMENT HOUSE
Agricultural Implements and Vehicles.
Hardware and Threshermen’s Supplies.
Leather, Rubber and Link Belting, Steam
and Suction Hose, Derrick Forks, Cables, etc.
The Best of Engine Packing and
Belt Dressing.
> > J* **
A “WANT ' ad in T
M
O
- will reach more
people in Sherman County than
by any other medium available.
'V E / iD / c r
MALTO
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