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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 1908)
Y The ■ •r« O b se r v e r . C ity O f f ic ia l P a p e r . u r r ic U L r i r i a o r •H B K M A M OO MORO. OR BOON. 0. C. I rkland a S on .......... E ditors C. L. I reland , M anager . Send for Advertising rates. FRIDAY. .Ocr. 2. 1908 Church and Society notice* F R E E , e x cept « b e n for money m aking purpose*. Hoch notice» at regular rate* at the option of the publisher*. Before coming to the city to trade read er* are requested to examine TheObaei ver advertising colum n*. It * the active, wlde- 'awake bu*lne** man who advertise*, con sequently he I* the most accommodating, •e ll* the cheapest, and deals the m o*t lib erally In every wav. We will not be responsible for the neglect of Subscribers to n o tify us of chances in th e ir address. N or w ill th e notification of a Postmaster th a t the sub scriber has “ R em oved” settle the b ill of a d e lin q u e n t. It is remarked that Gov. Hughen has no friends in politic»» except the people! That’s enough. WONDERFUL INLAND EMPIRE. Cotton lias been added to the pro ductions of the Inland Empire. A Pasco editor made the discovery, and has actually grown a crop. The plants are about 30 inches high and the Huffy cotton is just bursting from the pod«*. That »he crop may be made profilable is shown from estimates of people who have seen the Pasco field and know from ex perienoo acquired by work around cotton fields down South. These declare that the article in sight will net 400 pouuds of raw cottou per acre after the seeds are extracted. Near this cotton field may be seeu a field of sweet corn, a purely north ern product attaining its full growth. Across the line iu Idaho experiments have been made in to batxxi growing, and that they have proved successful was shown at St. Louis, where some of the Idaho weed secured the gold prize. Some of the rarest specimens of exotic grapes from Southern Europe flour ish iu the Lewiston valley, which is auother additional proof of the wonderful climatic conditions exist ing within the Inland Empire. It will probably be a long time Suicide of a base ball player, by before presidential candidates go reason of its rarity, bears witness campaigning in aeropjanes. to the sanifying influence of out door sports. A t the rate the campaign is pro* Aeroplane men, like other mort grossing there will be a number of new synonyms for liar before it is als, are learning the truth of the proverb, that “ the road to the stare over. • ’ • is through adversity?-’ • Mr. Taft’s ability to “ talk back” is making him a lot of friends mid Argumeutive political hotheads people who admire lively cam would do well to bear in mind that paigning. no man has ever been convinced that he was wrong by black guard Some of the letters Senator Fora ing. ker received contained what might be regarded by some men as glad Oue thing in -favor of the flying tidings. machine is that when the speed- maniacs take to touring in it they Send The Observer to your absent will not be running over pedes friends. It is better than a letter, trians. and gives all the home news. Four months for 50c. Somebody ineinuatye that MOW letters a day do Dot reach the peo The widow of Leeds, the tinplate ple addressed. Very few contain magnate, is left with millions. Just ing “pleaBe remit” fail to reach the watch the . impecunious foftune addressed. hunters try the various leads bo the Leeds. There are farmers, thousands of them; who could buy and sell those Sales of special one way tickets who are talking slush about better from all points in the United states iug the conditions under which far to all points in Oregon begins Sept. mers live,and still have comfortable 1st, and continues until Oct. 31st. bank balances. bee adv. Over in Thibet the weeks are said to be only five days long. Putting off the weekly bath until Saturday night isn’t the cinch there that it is here. In .ancient times it was figured that wars were necessary, once io a while, to thin out the population. Modern iuveution has changed all that by providing other and quicker methods—the trolly car, fast mail trains, etc. Uhurcb people in Pennsylvania were piaying for rain last week, and now the dry spell is broken. A little prayer and some sign of grate fulness to God for blessings and mercy might be a good thing in [»arts of Oregon. have been found against Rogers, hotel keeper, and others. I Dr Marie M Goffin returned to Moro from the farm last week, and is gradually improving, though still quite feeble, x - I Get your Fall Suit N ow ! Hon WH Moore, formerly of this city, always has some choioe barg NEWS AND NOTES. ains in real estate. Bee the list to Ed McMillin was a Moro visitor day, in The Observer. Tuesday. In a day or two we will have one Mrs Elizabeth, Cushman returned hundred and fifty Ladies Coats and the same number of Suits and home on the 28th. Skirts, all Eastern Best, in fall and You can buy brick in Moro. See winter styles and colors, at our store Barnum, at the bank. in Wasco The stock is the best that Mry O P Hulse was able to take a can be gotten and prioes that will short walk, Monday. fit every pocket book. If yon do When you are settling up don’t not find that difference in our prioee from others pay you to make the forget The Old Reliable. trip, we will hand you in full rail Don’t borrow The Observer. Sub way fare and expenses to the store scribe, and have it your own. and return. G N. Crosfield, Wasco.” T J Miller of DesChutes city, was Condon Times: Hugh Scott ha* attending to business in Moro on cleared 11,200 off 160 acres of wheat the 28th. near Ajax, this season. He paid Reed Hulse has been quite sick for the seed and seeding last fall, but is now again able to be about also for harvesting and hauling this the city. falL In fact he never saw Lis farm Mr and Mrs Chas Bullard have in all that time until he came over returned to good qld Sherman from this week to sell his grain. We consider this a good criterion of Gilliam county. what can be done on land in Gillian Judge Littlefield returned Wedn county. Mr Scott offered his land esday from holding court in Wheeler for sale last spring for 13,000, bud and Gilliam counties. has now withdrawn it from the Charles T Golliher, of the Wasco market, and we are not surprised, Implement House, was a Moro v is as land that will produce half its itor on business, Monday. . \ value in one year is worth keeping. W h ile you have o u r C om plete A s s o rtm e n t to Select fro m H e r e y o u c a n se e e v e ry n e w sty le w o rth selectio n th a t will se e in g a n d b e a b le to m a k e a satisfy y o u as m u c h a s th e m o st e x p e n siv e g a r m e n ts y o u c o u ld h a v e m a d e to m e a su re . O u r sto c k o t n o te d I^eîjuüood F a ll7 S ü its th a t w e offer for y o u r in sp e c tio n th is se a so n m u s t c o n v in c e y o u th a t it is in d e e d su c h a m o st s m a rtly p o w erfu l a n d fa sh io n e d , p e rfe c t o rg a n iz a tio n th a t » s u p e rb ly ta ilo re d , ready-to-wear the moment you’re ready p e rfe c t fittin g p ro d u c e g a r m e n ts a n d a t su c h r e m a r k a b ly low p ric e s Grandma Coleman made the trip Fur a nice Assortment of Emblem to Portland one day last week un Pins and Buttons, call on L W Ross, attended, without mishap. Wasco Jeweler. E E Barnum is still makirig im provements to his Moro city prop W o u ld M o r t g a g e th e F a r m . erty. The latest is a roomy cellar. A farmer on Rural routs,2, Empire Mr and Mrs Roy Hulse will now be at home in the WO Hadley res A , ... ... idence, lately occupied bj-Attorney M E Miller. ’ * Ga, Floyd by name, saya, “Bucklen’a Arnica Halve cured the two worst sores .le v e r saw, one on my hand and one I my I weight I d $25-°° „ wortb moI. , bM gold. • I would not be with $27-50 $30-00 AND Little Miss Frances Rutledge was out it if I bad to mortgage my farm to get It.” Only 26c at Moro Pharmacy. taken to a hospital yester day, for treatment for appendicitis T b © - X z o c » i Q ). K r tiU « » attended by Dr O J Godin. 4L-4-- Delaura Beach is til# place for a M a r e P r e s b y te r ia n C h w re h . summer outing. Get particulars of Services in Moro Presbyterian W H Moore, room 5 Lafayette build church next Sunday, Morning and ing, 6th and Wash., Portland, Or. evening. Sunday school at 10 a m. The Circuit court of the State A. J. A dams , Pastor. of Oregon for Sherman county, will convene in ib is city next Monday, NEW TODAY. October 5th, Hon E V Littlefield Judge. OA Ramsey is having bis already neat residence in Moro decorated ith a new dress of paint beauti fully blended in nice colors. H H Hull, of Wamic, is the artist. Monkland Cash Store. W i l l ia m s & C o .9 The Dalles, Oregon. : MORO PHARMACY You get a square deal at the Monkland Cash Store. To’be happy jffly cash for goods Expert, Experienced, R egistered P h a rm a cists At the Monkland Cash Store. fle d icin es C arefully, C om pounded. Buy and sell for Cash, the only MrsStrahl’s Millinery goods have proper way, at the afforded the ladiee muoh pleasure Complete Assortment of Silverware and Jewelry Monkland Cash Store. this season, and sales of beautiful The farmers thrash and thrash, hats have been very satisfactory, in The store-keeper’s cry: Cash, Cash; deed. She is receiving new creations I It it cuts like a lash, last. every week, apd is-equally well pre-- Gebts are trash, trash, trash, M onkland C ash S tore , pared to please patrons today as at Monfclariff,"OFj A ny a n d a ll K in d s o f P a t e n t M e d ic i n e A lw a v s In S to c k the opening day of the season. SCRANTON, - PENNSYLVANIA. FORMALDEHYDE, RU BBER GOODS, PERFUM ERY, BRUSHES, COMBS, SPONGES, CICARS. Information Wanted. Lost, Strayed or Stolen. T E dalles SCHOOL a Debs oontinnee to tell the people that things are going to rack and Old as he is Uncle Sam has found ruin in the United States, but he out that the quickest way to get re doesn’t evince any desire to leave cruits for the army and navy is to the oonntry. use tfie columns of the oountry press instead of posting bills ou The reported shortage in the price bleak walls, in the desert of intel The O. Man boasts that during a of cranberries will probably be ac Iigent effort. life time of 60 years in a printing cepted as an excuse for raising the office he never pied a cas*. • The price of turkies along about the 26tb .1 Kickers on the farm are not so We have several parties who reason for this is that he learned | of next mouth. hard to get along with as kickers are looking for homestead locations | his trade in America. The last typa or relinquishments, also some good in the town. On the farm there is England will hardly accept the the kicking cow; aud our long eard hqje pied two cases in 30 days— his timber claims. If you know of any invitation to send a big fleet to friend the mule; in town there is the boast was that he learned Mis trade good homestead or timber claim s,it will pay you to write to us. Ad Australia. The comparison would old muss back, who wants all the in Europe! dress . A etna R ealty C o .,, be odious if the welcome were mere municipal improvements without T he grandmothers of old Dutch 225 Failing Building, ly a formal affair. pay ing for them. The cow may l>e Dunkard families of western Penn tfs4-309] Portland, Or sold for beef; the mule may be trad sylvania have made and used Hick- An eastern paper declares that ed for a shot gun; but nothing but I ory Bark Cough Remedy and reared ------ 1 will get rid of the town J their families on it for a 100 years. oysters thrive best in water contain a “ funeral kicker. e , I modern Now you can buy it of your dealers modern hospital hospital for for the the treatment treatment of of all all medical medical mid and sor sorgioa ing less than 4 percent, sa lt It is Ope 2-year old mare colt, alen Ask tor ft and use It, because it is dieeases, exoept such as are contagious. known for a fact that they seldom Her bull», gray color, double I-I-I “If I had my way I would build pure; because it will stop your brand on left shoulder. Finder R a te s , f r o m $ 1 0 .0 0 to $ 2 1 .0 0 p e r w e e k , a c c o r d in g to ro o m thrive visibly in church sociable a couple o f war ships less; yes, one stews. cough; because it is the best cough will be paid 110 reward on return Ambulance will meet all trains and boats if hospital is notified. would be enough; and I should take remedy made. Try it. For sale by of the colt. Call upon or address the $5,000.000 which it would cost, C. H. H owell , F o r F u r th e r In f o r m a t io n A d d r e s s A Chicago man claims to have Moro Pharmacy and dealers every tf-310] Wasco, Or died and gone to hades, and he says and with it constrflct 1,000 schools where. p it is not as bad a place as many say of agriculture within the United States,’’ declared James J. H ill, M e d ic a l D ir e c t o r s . it la. Bat all the same he doesn’t Xala«A chairman of the txiard of directors explain why he wanted to return to of the Great Northern Ry, nt the Chicago. Notioe. There will be a meet H O U K A N I» F 4 R N . recent dedication of an agricultural ing of the County Board of Equal ization, for Sherman county Oregon New Jersey wine presses are re hall at Crook»»ci. ) h . Hill st ih d Was« o News: NW Silvers cut 300 at the court house in Moro, on the ported to he aa busily employed that with the preseui birth rate the acres of wheat that averaged 15 3d Monday of October, that being under the Bishops’ law as before. oountry would not be able to take the 19th day of October, 1908, for sacks to the acre. care o f its own people, let alone the But it is news of the state’s output the purpose of hearing objections Dealers in Iron, Steel, Coal, Hardwood Lumber, Carriage prospect ot exporting grain to Eur Wasco News: J R Kaseberg cut if any, there be, to the annual as of applejack is awaited with most ope, unless our farmers Mfke deeper Material, Shafting, Wheels, Skeim, Wagon and Tank paint. interest. 3,400 acres of wheat which made sessment; and attending to other interest in th e study of the science 34,000 sacks, a A average of 10 sacks business, at which time all persons interested are invited to attend. America makes Irish blatk thorn of agriculture, and leaiu how to (22% bushels) to the acre. O tto P kktz , Architecture Bookkeeping Stenography Banking and Banking Law, Commercial Law, Advertising - Show Card Writing Chemistry Mechanical Drawing > Electrical Engineering Newspaper Illustrating, Civil Engineering, Steam Engineering C iv il Seryioi, . Board of Equalization Full information furnished free upon request by H. V. REED, Representative, 64 1-2 S ixth str ee t. P ortlan d , Ore. Repair to us for R epairs. We make a specialty of repairing wat ches, eyeglasses, spectacles and optica, goods. We have the tools and materials and skill to Insure good work. If you have any jewelry you oannot wear bring ,t here, and we will repair ,t so you can not tell It from neW. We dont hang your watch up for a week or so and ,theo charge you for cleaning ,t. Wd clean it and guarantee It for a year with ordin ary usage. h o s p it a l M itch ell & Foss, Blacksmith and Machine Shop, Moro Or. Assessor After all is said and done there is o!6-309] no better way to keep a man out of erime, than to keep him busy. Idle ness has hatched more criminals than whiskey has made, and that’s 400 Cords of 16-inch Pine wood going some. for sale on the cars at Mosier, Or., al $5.00 a cord. This means From Gilliam county the green cheap wood laid down here; freight acres of Kaffir corn on The Goffin rate to Moro $1 60. For particulars Stock Farm in this county, has ail write to E lmer R oot , sututner long appeared like an oasis * Mosier, Or in the desert. Dr Goffin says that tNl*] the hotter the day the greener and fresher the corn seemed to grow. Wood for Sale. l Phallamoot livery Co. Fossil Journal: Circuit court is in session at Condon this week and will probably run most of next week. One man has been sentenced Harleigh Glass, Proprietor. to a year in the penitentiary for Every kind of rig to order, robbery Another man who had been in jail several months await and all orders prompt and satis factory at reasonable prices. ing trial, was sentsnoed 30 days for Farmers teams fed as well as a similar offense. Indiotments for they are fed at horns, if not better. violation of tbs local option law Telephone at our expense. Wasco. Oregon. W a te r T a n k s , T r o u g h s . W heat R ack s U |i OLNES ¡3 Now ready for Delivery or made to order. F. V. Clark, Jeweler, 2 Optician * J ew elry of all k in d s. L a te st B racelet D esign s G O O D S SO LD R E A S O N A B L E L. W.ROSS, Wasco W atch Inspector O. R. & N. M ORO, O R EG O N . , - -u W A S H IN G T O N A N D T E N T H S T R E E T S PO RTLAND, OREGON J. M. DUNAHOO, Proprietor and Manager. FO R C A TALO G PRINTING B r in g y o u r to T a O PTIC IA L GOODS L IV E R Y , F E E D A N D S A L E S T A B L E S . W R IT E • T H E D A LL E S , O R EGON. BUSINESS COLLEGE that P lacet Ton in a Good Potition > i Mechanical Bngiuw riug, * (»as Engineering, Mining Engineering, Jiocomotive Running, Plumbing, Heating and Ventilating, French, German, Spanish, taught with Edison Phonograph. D «. Ferguson and Reuter, sticks to be sold in Ireland. It raise more bushels to the acre than makes Cheshire cheese to be labeled »1 ey are a!>l£ lo do at present. “ I in Liverpool and sent hack. It believe wo liMvescen the last dAy,in makes French wines to l»e tattled tlie history of this couutiy, he con in France, and Hindoo gods for tinued, when wheat will lw> cheap Hereafter, No. I hard wheat will Asian consumption. bring the 1R)c uhich it is w o ith a t Solon Thatcher: “ A» the tatlnm the pi-eseiit lime, and even more if of rnii'iy a dazzling fortune lie d is the s>il is pr.'peily c u ltiv a te d ” honor, infidelity, L*1 h *-I i <> o <1, rohls-ry Mr. H i l l d 'c..oed farther that the I »etray a I of a friend and llie wieck m ops of th«* l ist le w years have been o f the possessions of the unwary. steadily dccie isii.g in the y ield ,x»r W hat the farmer gains is laden with acre, and with the many thousands sweet sunshine, the zephyrs of of lesiple who have come into this spring and the fostering love ot ull cotin:iy t o settle, most of the laud nature’« m inistry. So that when Inis 1». en ta k e n up so the chance of oae takes account of the ooiii|H>iiHa accumulating greater acreage upon hicli to increase the size Of thii tious, jnental and spiritual, that com e to hiru whose daily (»read crops would noon be utterly inipos com es from honest toil, over him sidle, even iu. W esto n Canada. The who lives by his wits,or is the Rob only solution of I lie problem accor In Hoo<l o f society, the tmlsnoe ding to Mr. H ill, is to study the throws high into the air the one qiieetiou aud ascertain in what way who lives by speculation or dishon the output per acre can be increas- e st endeavor. can he _ O ld R e l ia b l e o n tim e. T. « ' from The Dallas or aay Bhsrmao «m aty points at ocr s x p s n ,... Bsrrtos famished to or from Moro to sny points OUR MOTTO "Pl«.« th« public.“ EVERYTHING NEW AND UP-TO-DATE, SPECIAL RATES TO COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS J3g" Subscribe for The Observer. in the Inland Empire. Bbst Weekly published Everyone reads i t
