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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1908)
i TRU"1 ' >Í-W / • ? <¡£H /. You never see ghosts, you only If re O P Hulse le under the ears I Sc boob will reopen in Moro on of Dr Goffln. hear of them. the 7th. Fernie will be rebuilt with Edison O B Meeeioger is building a ^arn DeMose Springe is now a money ooncrete cottage« for bis dray team . order offioe. 01 The tireless oooker has invaded W O Hadley wm a Moro visitor | L J Oates met If reG a tee at Biggs on busineee last week. Amerioa, and to stay. Sunday, on her return to Kent. b When some people need a bath, Mrs E A Cushman left on Tues Attorney M E Miller wm a Shani they uae a lot of perfume. day for her home in tbe R om oity. ko visitor on legal buaioeee this Never tell a joke on your friends, Hot, hotter, hottest, now in the] week. and if you hear one don’t enjoy it. Before doing wrong pad yourself for tbe kicking that la sura to follow. Ladies Waists, ranching in price from 50 cents to $3.00 Skirts, from $3.50 to $12.50 — Infants Bonnets, Muslin Underwear, Whete Skirts, Corset Covfers, Drawers, — Night Dresses Nearly everybody professes to dis like an amateur show, but they all go. Sum m er Dress Goods, including Lawns, Dim ities, Batiste, Swisses, Hulls, etc. MORO COMMERCIAL CO. O b s e rv e r KO BO , B H X BM A N C O ., O B BOOM: Picnic-dinner plates at Tbe Obser See advertisment of tbe sale now on by tbe Moro Commercial Com ver Book store. Our line of Suitcases, Telescopes pany. and Trunks is complete. Moro Com The prioe of The Observer is 91.60 mercial Company. par yoar. 76 oanto for six mooths, B0 m o U For Sewing Machine needles, oils, f j r four DBontbe—bat If paid In advenes wa aaaapt <2.60 In fa ll for 2 years. HborUr belts and auppliee of all kinds, call tonne than one year 1>H oanto par month on L W Ross, Wasco. , A Blue Mark here will answer an Inquiry, when entered upon our calendar, For.harvest supplies, oils, case or giving the date of the paper os the date al barrel, see the Moro Hardware and which your current eubecriptlon expiree. Implement Company. F R ID A Y ...........'. .A ugust 21, 1908 Great conveniences are the pic Almoat everyone has to think to be polite; the natural impulae la to help himself first. ' ' ’ t — ----- -—----------- Plenty of Fruit Jars, Masons and Economy, at tbe Moro Commercial Company’s store. Woman help wanted. For partic ulars apply to The Observer. An dldeTly woman preferred. These goods are always sold on a close margin, but to people who need an outfit, in whole or part, a good liberal discount will be given. line of Old Sols penetrating rays. Attorney Meindl is enjoying his Merohant Erby of Kent b fitting oUam oum dii in Ibeelaeeio shades his plaoe of business with lights for of ClaokamM. tbe ooming long evenings of the George Urquhart is firing for the winter. Ireland Bros steam thrashing outfit a Attorney C W Bryant expeots to in Kent. Some men act all the time an join his 'amily soon in tbe wondrous though they wished they were valley where rolls the hiatorio Wil lamette. widowers. J M Axtell b now ready tooocupy A man is alwsys jealous of hie his new home in Moro, as soon as wife’s past, but she only worries over hia son Ira ie through with harvest- hie future. mg his crop. A woman can keep a secret, hut Mrs Walter RutlegewM the guest she oan't disguise the fact that ehfl is of her sister, Mrs Lottie Rineareon, keeping it. at Hotel Violin, Grass Valley, Sat Women’s conversation is not as urday and Sunday. interesting as the men’s, but there That little dab of rain that fall is more of it. t upon Moro on the 12th and 18th, Senator Bourne will be in Oregon was general, spreading like bounties next month, to participate in the all over tbe Inland Empire. election of Taft. We were remembered by Mrs J B When a man oommenoea to seek Mowry this week who sent us a lovely office he generally keepe it up the rose from Cberrycroft, whioh spread baianoe of his life. its fragrance throughout the sanotus G. E. Thompson Granitware, Tinware, Cook House Supplies. Misa Lola Martin wm able to re Wasco public eohools will open) This le tbe 10th anniversary of turn home yesterday. with two new rooms next month. the building of Moro M E Cburoh. To close out the following Lines, before the arrival of Fall and Winter Goods, we offer them at a very low Price, 20 per cent off the regular Price. The Hulse Mies Long, of LaGrande, arrived on the 17th, on a visit to Mr and Mrs J C Freeman. Mrs Dunnahoo is improving from the ehake up received in the runa- way, whioh was quite serious, It w|,j n0| |awful kjn zi S ellers of ev er y th in g in our lin e. ' or Denny pheasant, io tbe Inland Empire, until January 1, 1912. DeMoee hill has been strewed to a depth of 6 or 8 inches, wbioh makes hauling splepdid for wheat teams. J piano fjeader Extras J J harvest Supplies Binder Twine Waeda can be burned in some places, but not everywhere, without danger of a conflagration not at all desired. Lubricating Oils Chrb Anderson lost a valuable colt, sired bjr Cloantbe. Its death Master E arl/th e adopted sbn of | with remarkable pleaeure. Thanks it is thought was on aooount of the Mr and Mrs Reed Holes, has re B F Peetz and wife, and MrzCarl ®xtr®m® h®Bt *nd duet of the past month. turned to hie foster parents. Peetz, are off for relaxation and re- poi C A Buckley left on Bunday New Z-alanders have now had couperation at the coast. Q h I is a obance to see at abort range that batching, but Mias Emma and Otto for a six weeks trip to the Eastern “white arm etretobed out across tbe say be ie a oapital boarding-house states, with principal stops in New York and Chioago. Hie family are keeper. Pacific.” with him. J W Leonard met with a very Ao Indiana woman seventy-three Master Forest Littlefield writes a years old got first prize in a spelling painful accident at his oombine oonteet,oonolueively proving her laok work near Kent last week. His left very pretty letter to his Bunday leg was laoarated and the flesh seri aohool teacher, Mrs Btrabl, telling of a ooliege education. • • * • “I » ously mangled. Dr Irving baa tbe | of tbe fine time he is having on hie There ie often more money left in summer outing. case in band. the pockets of the poker player who Wasco News: Wilber Cooper ia ie attacked by cold feet, than there Cottonwood, Idaho, recently dee troyed by fire, is rebuilding at a rate suffering from several broken ribs, would be if he remained in the game that gives employment to 100 me- the result of a runaway last Bunday, to the finish. ohanioa daily. Temporary business I The doctor reports him able to be Tbe man who Wrote Wont You Come Home, Bill Bailey, is broke. bousee and residences will he re-1 around, and doing nioely. The wagons and buggiee loaded If some of the hand-organs playing placed with ooncrete structures. Our Goods arc Absolutely Guaranteed and our Prices are Right. Your Business Solicited. L & S ane 600 - 002 Second S tr e e t, exto n The D a lle s , O r s« o n i *•. *'« aaM XRM Buying for cash is a great advantage to us because we save whatever trade discount there is. > j t jd Selling for cash is a great advantage to you for you do not have to help pay any bad debts apt to be con tracted in the credit system. > > > > > > > Our prices will convince you that we are hewing close to the line. u» > > /P /ip /F Manitoba is calling for 30,000 oic-dinner plates you buy at Tbe W e 4 o r d in lly R o lir lt io w r P a tiv a a fe . hands. Why not go up there for a Observer Book store. vacation? The scenery is grand. I - I E 3 . Z E Z a x d . i x x , Z v C o x o , O x o g ^ o x x Tvpe-writer paper at The Obaerv- Try the Fsv Stockings for your er office. with grooeriee indicate that the far Hiram Donley, the veteran loco the tune were broke tbe public would boys and girls, you can get them of Canned Pineapple, delicious for ww ♦ ♦ •»♦ ♦ as y.wiaash♦'*>.<j motive engineer of the C 8 Ry, on mers are taking advantage of tbe breakfast these hot days, at the Moro be better satisfied. Wagon tires, put on new for 92.00 the Moro Commercial Company. and irdn extra by Mitobell and Foes Kent has a tip top hotel, end the the Bigga-Bhaniko run, had Dr O J low prioea made during harvest by Our “ ads” attract attention and Commercial Company. tbe Moro Commercial Company. Dr Beers will leave on the 15tb, traveling publio that atop with Mine Goffin at tbe train on the 14th, to Inka, mucilage, oarde, envelopea, advertiee. When you get our ad bandage a badly sprained ankle. paper of every kind, tableto, every stylo, at vertiaing, you get busineeebringere. to represent Oregon at tbe Interna Hoet Moelaoher Three weeks more will just about will invariably The Observer Book Store. With the true grit of a stayer, pain finish up harvesting in Sherman make it a point to “Come again. Musical instruments, sheet musio, tional congress on tuberculosis, io ■THE S C H O O L O F Q U A L I T Y ’ Mifetall, and F om , have lumber ful as may be the sprain, Hi stays oounty, and the pretty part of the Washington city today. Bee advertisement. now on band 'tongued and grooved, Edison phonographs, records. Sup I at tbe throttle. T enth and Morrison. Portland, Oregop A. P. Armstrong. LL.B., ^ | story is that the kiokere have re An expert tells how to eave oc Thrashing machine, oom bine and ready to make op into 400, 600 and plies for all string instruments. L C.We occupy two floors 65 by 100 feet, have a $20.000 equipment, A welcome diversion from tbe tired. Everything is much better mbers. . There are many ways, W Ross, Jeweler, Wasco. other Sherman oounty harvesting 600 gallon tanka. __ employ a large faculty, give individual instruction, receive more calls heat of July was rain to tbe amount then wee expected,, We have just received our fall eoenee Postal Cards at The Observer but salt, pepper and vinegar, with of .10 of an inch on the evenings of for office help than we can meet. Our school admittedly Uad« *u Old type makea the very beet of Mesdamee John P Strahl, Myrtle Book Store, Moro. Best that are perhaps a suggestion of olive oil, others in qualityof instruction. It pays to attend aw IwotimHoii Babbitt metal. We have it for sale and winter catalogue of Mens Suits made. the 12th and 13th over most of Sher Brash, Mary Wheat and Buxtoo, form a method preferred by many. and are prepared to take your order. CSald a Bnxinoss Man: * * Keep hammering away everlastingly on thoroagh man county. IiideetQ ^^as general took the northbound train Tuesday and when you need any call at Tbe In destroying annual weeds one work. It will win out in the end.” Said an Edncator: "The quality of hutrac- The Laidlaw Chronicle comes to Moro Commercial Co. Observer office.. Price is right. throughout the Inland Empire and for visits in Multnomah, Washing tlon given in your school makea It the standard of its kind in the method is to disk tbe stubble fields, ue now in a dean, deoent, genteel Hot Coffee and Sandwiches, at was appreciated by all,even though ton and Laos counties. Mrs Strahl E C Da via, proprietor of the Grass <[open all the year. Students admitted at any time. Catalogue free. causing the weed seed to germinate, manner, just out of tbe pie-box in A B Wolfard’s, Biggs. lewhart’ of an inoonvenleuoe to will select her fall millinery goods Valley Barn, promptly attends all References: A ny bank, any newspaper, any buaineoa man In v^«***«—w* after which they can be killed by whioh Bro Meyers found it, after tbe farmers harvesting grain. A few water tanks and water subsequent cultivation. . Another on this trip. calls, day or night. Animals given escape of its imported pedestrian. tbe very best of care. Charges are troughs, new; ready for the first man method is to turn live stook, espec We have residing in tbe northern toas A eon of Rufus Wallaoe, who has Mitchell and Foes are prepared to suburbs of our town a young man, right. who wants them by Mitchell and ially sheep, Into theee stubble fields been in the’ employ of tbe O R N do ell kind of turning and lathe who if reports are true, is wonder ... T hx old Pennsylvania DutchDun Foes, Moro. to eat up tbe weeds and weed seeds. as brakesman two or three years, work, also cutting key seats in shaft fully and fearfully made. His doctor If you dont' find what you want kards recommend Hickory Bark The value of cultivated cropa, rota was run over by his train reoently, ing. They oarry shafting in 1-16 said he had an iron constitution; his Cough Remedy. Gnararteed to cure at home, oome to Moro. Keep the tions and summer fallow« ia also and wm taken to Walla Walla hos sizes from 1 1-16 to 1 1-2 inches. friends said he had nerves of steel; pital where one leg wm amputated your cough, and guaranteed to be circulating medium in Sherman good. The eradication of perennials Satisfaction Guaranteed Delineator: Thia ie the age of pro his uncle said that he bad a wooden at the knee, and the other foot tak pure. Made from tbe bark of the county. is more difficult than in the oase of # Both in Workmanship and Prioe greea. Ere long tbe movement to | head; the girls said be bed a heart | en off. Death resulted and tbe young shell-bark or white hiokory tree. For Type writer oil, tbe best 8 in-1. annuals. of stone; his enemies declared that plaoe the homeless ohild in a home Office at Furniture Store. aale by Moro Pbarsacy.and all deal Lubricates, cleans and polishes, man wm buried at Rufua Tuesday. Children are to have a part in the there was more brass to him than will he a national movement, and era everywhere. prevents rust. Try it The Observer distriot fair to be held in The Dalles Sheep killing is what has con the state whioh neglects this wisest anything else: others declared he If you are thinking of buying a Book Store. demned the old dog Shep to trail next Ootober. Tbe exhibit! will be The Implement store has recei open to the high, public and paroch provision for its dependent ohildren had lots of sand, while his admirers tediously in tbe duet and beat all watch it will pay you to get our will bear a blot upon its eeoutoheon, declared be was all wool and a yard prices before buying elsewhere. We ved a large shipment of bandy wa ial school b in Crook, Sherman,, the day long behind a Moro dray. gon and low metal wheel truoks. News-Letter: The Misses Jennie wide.—Sentinel. have them from 91.00 up, and we Death might be preferable to enoh a Wheeler, Wasco and Gilliam ooun- The best man we have for tbe life as that, Shep; and it might be give a special guarantee with every Ask to see them. ties. These exhibits must be the Ginn, Mabel Wright and Lillian watch sold. Yours, for good goods Superior round nickel tippedand work of the pupils of the school. Stanley, of Moro, visited at the edi general good of the town is tbe one tbe means also of saving tbe lives of at a fair margin, L W Ross Jeweler, rubber top pencils, two-for-6-cente Flowers,vegetables, art, meohanical, tors home Tuesday. The last time you will always see on the front seat valuable ebeep. Sheep-killing dogs and some for 10 cts per dos., at the needle, poultry, oooking, etc. will be that we saw them they were tiny of the progressive band wagon.' The I have nd rights to life, Wasco. P o r c e la in B a th T u b a . tots, but now they are young ladles | first to extend an open and warm Observer Book Store. represented in the exhibit. Buy the genuine imported aven- Nobodys Magazine for August is grown, end as pretty as tbe Hood hand to greet the stranger and wel The past tense. “When a man erious carbolineum; the imitation a oherry number. The illustrations Disoussing tbe forest fires raging river girls. come him to the beet town in the] being offered is only a temporary gets a new automobile you must south of Prineville the Review says: are original and especially attract Agent for the Best Steam Laundry Huooess in hortionltare depende county. He will resent an insult to ive, and there ie much information remedy if at all. If genuine one give him oredit for having money.” Ages ago a tract of timber land of the town as quiokly as he would a widely apon oar oorreot understand application lasta for all time. Ask “Not neoeearily. It’s merely a sign about 10,000 acres just east of Pilot Shop in Brick Building next Observer Office ooooerning the fruit industry in the ing and a proper application of cul slur at a member of hie family. He number. It is so especially good to see our sealed packages. The that he had money.” butte wm destroyed in this manner E D G A R L E W I S , P r o p r ie to r . very politely invitee the ohronio] Observer Book Store. Leave your watch arid jawalery This spot is known m tbe “big burn” tivation. Cultivation means simply croaker to move on. He is ever reedy issue to send to eastern people or separating its partiolee, thus fining MORO - - OREGON. for that matter tbe inquirers in any Moro will support a bakery, a for repairs with Wm. Rudolf, or today. Nothing but junipers, and to give bis jnst proportion to every and pulverizing and patting it in part of the ooontry. aboe sbop, a clotbea-oleaning estab leave them with me, and I will few of even theee, grow there now; the beet possible oondition for the publio enterprise. He talks up tbe lishment, and a regular milk ranch. guarantee to give you satisfaction. instead there ie a vaet expanse of Henrf^Smith ie up from his Val small bair-like roots to make their town at home end abroad and be rooky deeert not even good for sheep All are badly needed, and there is L W Rosa, Jeweler, Wasco. ley home looking after hie farming lievee it the beet plaoe upon the way through it in searoh of food and good money in each. No half made C an you afford to trifle with so range. That fire must have taken interests in Sherman oounty. He ie moisture. One effect is the gather green earth in which to live end de man or woman need apply. Active, serious a matter as to neglect a bad plaoe a thousand years ago, yet the in remarkable fine health. Mrs 8 ing and retaining of moisture from sires to buried here when be dies. progressive, up to date people are cold or oough, when for a trifling place is a barren desolation to this wm persuaded to remain at home Let us all try and be like him for the air. The partiolee of earth, being amount you can secure a bottle of day. No blackened stumps mark this trip, having ait too does to a wanted. one year and our little oity will take separated, admit tbe air, which, its location, nothing but rooks and on new life and improve aa never spray of poison oak oatobing the The way trains connect at Biggs Hickory Bark Cough Remedy, that is guaranteed to cure or money re ashes, showing the thorough work oomiDg io oontaot with the cooler before in ite history. braexas beneath an apple tree, and now, passengers have ample time funded? Prioe 26c, 60c and 91.00 soil, leaves a portion of its moisture done by nature and how permanent a double does of the deadly effects both coming and going, for an extra per bottle. For sale at Moro Pharm In the August Woman’s Home especially during the night. A pul And »wfereef has to be paid on It every jvar ie the destruction. of the trailing plant near by wbioh or two for painting or roatirw. The »rtnetpsl nice dinner at The Biggs, with Mr acy, and dealers everywhere. verised soil is cooler in hot weather; Companion Fannie Merritt Farmer h I so has to be pai aid over in * f ^ jraara vaars made her appear so shockingly bad and Mrs J J Hackard. Don’t forget by buying a new roof. O I) Woodworth, formerly of this the partiolee of earth, being separa gives a number of hot-weather sub 'hen you buy Low rates East are now on by the that bar beat friends knew her not. The Biggs, in your travels; there is OR a NCofor this season as follows oounty, now one of the eubetantial ted, oonduot the eon’s beet bat poor stitutes for meat. A very good hot- J -M ASBESTOS ROOFING time enough. The table is supplied round trip direot to Chioago 972.50 citizens of Hood river, ie building a ly, as oompared with a compact soil, weather substitute for meat consists all expense stops—as the first cost is the only Ex-Sheriff W B McCoy of this cost. T he R eason made of Aafraatoa, an with everything nioe, and tbe rooms St Louie 967.60; St Paul 963.15; fine residence at bis new home. Mr which oan be proved by examining of oheeee and macaroni croquettes. oity, bM made arrangements to en indestructible mineral—nothir« to rot, m at ar wear o u t Requires no coating or p ain th «— are new, neat and clean. Omaha 960.00; Kansas City 960 00. and Mrs W had an elegant home the different conditions of soil on Break macaroni in half-inoh pieoea, ter into the real estate business on a no expense for maintenance. Will protoet there should be two thirdsof «cupful. when they lived at Locust Grove, broad soale in Moro, in the offioe any hot summer day. It also Msists Tickets on sale May 4, 18, June 6, your building« from fire. Avenariua Carbolineua is a germ 6, 19, 20, July 6, 7, 22, 23, August A sbestosidk is an Asbestos Sheathh«, and end th ey oertainly deserve the beet. the oapillary attraction of moieture Cook in boiling salted water until reoently oooupied by C K Coohran. destroyer. Deoay being a germ, it ia the moat economical, durable and osaUy 6, 7, 21, 22. Good for return In 90 applied siding known. destroys tbe oauee of decay In poets days, with stop over privileges at The new home will be constructed from below, and this ie not so easily soft, drain in a oolander and poor Having formed a connection with A * k f o r M t m n i * « * r t< f o r lo w * . of oement blocks, two stories with oarried away by the drying winds over two capfuls of cold water to J O Elrod and C K Coohran in or timber. The US.Government, pleasure within limits. Portland, whioh will enable him to prevent pieoee from adhering. Add basement. Tbe plans provide for daring the day. Now, one of the dif the ORNCo., Multnomah county, T hx old rasedies are beet. Hiok handle propositions anywhere In and oity of Portland, are making ory Bark Cough Remedy has been six rooms on the first floor with a ficulties to be overcome in long, dry thiok white sauce made of two end S76 First Avenue South, Seattle, Wash. tern-foot porch in front and one eight summers is drought, beooe tbe need one-half tablespoonfuls of butter, Oregon. Mr MoCoy hM an estab general use of it on bridge timbers, in use for over 100 years by the old feet wide in the back. On the seoond of cultivation to prevent its deleter one-third onpful of flour, one oupfnl lished acquaintance, reputation and •to. It is tbe beet ohiokeo lioe de Dutch Dunkards of Pennsylvania, experianoa, not only hero at home, stroyer on the market, and will and it still in use by all old families floor there will be three sleeping ious eflkot. Cultivation should be of milk, one-fourtb of a teespoonfnl rooms end two bathrooms. All mo kept up as long m tbe drought and of salt and a few grains of pepper; but throughout the Paoiflo North sweeten and preserve a water trough, of western Pennsylvania. Is abso ko A L IT T L E MISSIONARY W ORK IN Y O U R beet leste nr the weeds gro^. If we then add one-third of a oupful of west, whioh essentially qualifies him pig pen, stable, etc., and keep away lutely pure, made from the hereof dern improvements will be supplied, idle days by telling your neighbors of the good including hot water heating appa quit cultivation early a luxuriant grated cheese. Spread on a plate to for bueineM in hie new field, and flies. It is a guaranteed article. the white or shell-bark hiokory tree. ratus, and when oom plated the growth of weeds spring up, wbioh oool. Shape, dip io or a mbs, eggs in whioh The Observer heartily qualities of Tho Observer. If you can’t get thfcir aub- The Observer Book Store is distrib- Shipped fro« the east sod manufac jolaa the general wish for hie ex- and crumbs again, fry la deep fat, aoriptions, send us their addresses and we will tend tak« up and «vapórala the moisture, building will ooet between 95,000 «tor of the pure artiola in Sherman tured In Salam, Oreson. For sals by Subscribe for The Observer. ^ainti-ng, apop angina F. R. AXTELL, MORO, OR M o r o s B a r b e r S h o p ? Everything first Class and Up to date. L T I H.W. Johns-Manville «2«. founty. * Mors Pharmaoy ana all doalara. and 96,000. leaving the ground hard and dry. . and drain aa bvova papa*. them temple oopiee. We pa^ for all aolioitiog j u t