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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 23, 1908)
t O> > V V M oro C ommercial ,G s M en s S u its Ladies S u its A choice selection at $10 to $25 , M en s Shoes The newest, best, styles $15 to $30 Ladies Shoes Guaranteed make, the Wells andGotzian brand $2.50 to $6. M e n s O vercoats John Strootman ? make, guaranteed to be best $2. Jo $5. Ladies S w e a te rs O ur new line has arrived Boys S u its - New and very “chic’’ Childrens C lo a k s . All new up - to - date goods, the best ever seen in this city *v. A • W 8 Powell has taken bis ore* Hoad Master G A Maloy has bean Circuit oourt, Judge Littlefield, to the Cottonwood farm for UH having an attaok of Inflammatory will re-oonvene oo Monday. rheumatism. seeding. Whan you are Battling up don’t _ Deep snow Jell in the mountains It is new asserted that persistent forget The Old Reliable. daring the reoent heavy rain storm ly going about bare-headed will lead Mrs Ramsey la visiting friends which makes good roads in Sherman to prematurely gray hair. and relatives in the Rose oily. oounty. ' > After the 10th day of November E H Moore ia fixing up hie hand 8 M Coney and Mrs Nanoy Stew Dr Morgan will divide hie time be some home in this city. R A Brash art were married in Albany recently tween Moro and Waaoo, spending ia the artist two weeks of eaoh month in the last They will reside on a farm Turkey imported 6,000,000 the of named city. Spioer. soap last year. Turkey is getting Offioers of the Ladies’ Aid Sooiety ^ The Ladies’ Aid Society of Moro there all right ME Cburob.gave a farewell Friday (or the ensuing year, are: President, Dr sod Mrs Park A Lillie and evening to Mr and Mrs Teagarden Mrs Bias; Vloe President Mrs Bux who hare returned to Washington ton; Secretary Mrs Ramsey; Treas family, of Akroo, Iowa, are on a visit bare to Mr and Mrs James urer, Mrs Freeman. oounty. Stewart C During the peat 40 days 240,000 Little Miss Frances Ruggles Nearly every body ie figuring on now with Mr and Mrs L H Martin idle freight oars have been put to at Arleta, one of the reeidenoe an work. Loafing around isn’t good having a fine time just ahead, when herbs of the Rose city, and is getting for a freight oar any more than it ia we all get fixed, sod the same vis ion is just ahead of us whan we fall good for a m a n .' good and jitroog. asleep. To live in the now, and en K A Kime has sold his interest in joy the present, is the work of a Apropos of the proposed parcels poet, the average man would like to the Buckeye Farm to W H Burris, philosopher. know if its going to be any easier to who haa taken possession. Mr Kime The hard winter prophet has remember to poet the paroeie than has taken another fern not far from finally made an appearanoe and de it Is to remember to poet hie wifj’i Monkland. clares that Nature is preparing for a letters? E 1 Ona way to make a rat proof ban blisxardly-bliteen winter ooming; a Mr and Mrs C D O’Leary are en house, and at the same time a more regular cattle killer. Might just as joying a visit to Portland and be healthy plaoe for poultry, ie to take wall prepare for it, anyhow; than if yond, a well earned respite from the about 25 bushels of ooal ashes and it fails to show np; ease down. long and duaty days Bad early and mix with it one bushel of thinly late hours of the harvest on a thresh slaked lime. Spread the oomhina tion oyer the floor and pound it Th» ing outfit. Amerioan sailors were welcomed down hard. lieeal Okoiekea MORO COMMERCIAL CO. The O bserver M O W , SHBBMAW CO., OB BOO«: Subscribe for The Observer. Cell on the Moro Commercial Co for school shoes. Watch fobs for everybody. The prioe of The Observer is 11.50 Roes, Waaoo Jeweler. PS» rear. TA aaatafor alx month*. SO oeoto for four month»—hot if paid la m t u » m vs •aoapt gS-AO la fa il for J rears. Shorter t e a r thaa on» year ISJ< oonte par month A Blue Mark here will answer an In quiry, when entered hpon our calendar, firin g the date o f the paper as the date at which your current aubacrlptton expires. FR ID A Y .......... L W Hot Coffee and Sandwiohee, at A B Wolfard’s, Biggs. Don’t borrow The Observer. Sub scribe, and have it your own. Pencils, .10 cents per doaen, rob ber insert. Observer Book Store. O ct . 23, 1908 Tbs latest thing in the apparel of the woman fashionable ie a skirt whioh may be tamed np and worn Subscribe for The Observer * as an opera ooat The Madras Pio About all a war is good for now neer claims that it ia not as late, is to help the olaee in geography. however, ae the night gown. Look to your bleeders. Shut off Tom VanLandiogham, one of the the water sod save expensive jobs old time stand-bys of The Observer of plumbing. at R utledge and Grata Valley, was Many a man finds that it ie hard in to see ns Saturday for the first to keep bis month shot during a time in years. He wae hauling politioal campaign. Rutledge grain to Moro warehouses The Eastern Oregon Snpreme with a splendid 4-in-haud. oourt will oonvene at Pendleton on Mrs Rngglee and family request Monday, November 2d. that The Observer extend their Fresh supply of genuine oarbolen- ium jnst opened at tbeObeerver Book The annual orop of stories about Subscribe for The Observer. Store. valuable pearls being found in oys Type-writer paper at The Observ O W Axtell has the finest line of ters, is now being harvested. er offloa. llneoleum, carpet, rugs, eto, to be The Ohio river was so badly run Inks, mucilage, cards, envelopes, seen in Sherman county. down that boys were wading it from paper of s ta r, kind, labiate, ovary style, at The Ohaarrar Book Store. L W Rosa, Waeoo Jeweler, hjts Cincinnati to Kentucky a month the neatest line of hand-painted ago. For a nice assortment of Beauty China ever shown in this county. Mrs Wallen left Moro this week Fine and Buttons, oall on L W Ross, Formic acid is ooming into vogue on her annual visit to her mother, Waaoo Jeweler. Try the Fay Stockings for your in Germany and England as a rem and Mr W ’a mother, at Garfield and boys and girls, yon nan get them of edy for tuberculosis and kidney Adams. troubles. Sherman oonnty roade are jnst the Moro Commercial Company. splendid since the rains. Makes a The celebrated Oregon city Wool If there is a better town in Oregon fancy pair of roadsters swell, and en Mills blankets, Meoinews, and than Moro, for the gise of it, please overehtrte, jnst received. Moro work teams happy. point it out to os on the map. Commercial Co. Things besides wheat and hay Onr “ ads” attract attention and Superior round nickel tipped and will grow io the Inland Empire at a advertise. When yon get onr ad «nbber top pencils, two-for-5-oente profit; hot things oannot plant and vertising, yon get busineeebringers. and some for 10 eta per dos., at the cu ltivate themselves. AW Door ll-TT-Tl M more. r. - — I f- . - -I -- I Observer We have jost received our fall fttvAAM A Clatsop oonnty man ia selling and winter catalogue of Mona Suits O W Axtell keeps the beet in fur all his stamps at a big prioe, regard« sod are prepared to take yonr order, niture. See hie fine line of bed rooa lees of what the oampaign orator is Moro Commercial Co. sets, beds and everything guaran going to do wbsn he oomes around If yon want first choice of the new teed just ae he says it is. again? Drees Goods and Suitings at Moro When yon are wanting- something An English inventor has a scheme Commercial C o .\ get in line. We up to date in the line of Braoeleta for saving the work horses a lot of have the linings, trimmings, etc, to call on L W Roos, Waeoo. labor. The beet way to help work r match. Great conveniences are the pio- horses would be to invent humane E C Daria, proprietor of the Grass nio-dinner plates you buy at The drivers. Valley Barn, promptly attends all Observer Book store. Young Marshall Field says that if oalls, day or night. Animals given Cornflakes for breakfast are so he were not an American ha should the very beet of oare. Chargee are popular that the Moro Commercial join the British army. Go on, Mar- right. ■hie; go on; don’t worry about your ’ Old type makes the very beet of Co now order it in 5-oase lots. Type writer oil, the best 8*In*I. Americanism. Babbitt metal. We have It for nal* The objective terminals of all the and when yon need any oall at The Lubricates, oleens and polishes, 1 Observer offioe. Prioe is right. prevents rust. Try it The Observer good roads meetings being held over Book Store. Oregon this fall, appears to ba at Jos. 8anders, Veterinary Surgeon, the state treasury. Of course, “we Thrashing machine, combine and has returned from Condon and will ’uns” ail must help. other Sherman oonnty harvesting be in Moro till January let. Those in need of his servioes please notify eoenes Postal Cards at The Observer Optimist: Wm Walker of Wasco, Book Store, Moro. Beet that are has removed to The Dalles and will him. made. study law in the offioe of W H Wil Before you buy a buggy, hack, son. Mr Walker was formerly edit Oregon Evening Journal: The heating stove, range, tinware of any kind, baby carriage, rug, eto., re Madras Pioneer tells of a 6-year old or of the Waeoo News. member this: That you oan do bet boy who while his dog held the at On the shelves of nearly every ter at the Moro Implement Co ’a tention of a oovote, killed him with grooery store in the Inland Empire store than at any other plaoe in the a olub. Dog or ooyote? are froit products pat up in distant oouoty, quality of goods considered. With all bis wanderings through out the original “Oregon Country,” Mr. George H. Himes, up to ten years sgo well known as “Himes the Printer,” now Assistant Seore- - t retary of the Oregon Historical So ciety, never drifted into Moro until last Thursday afternoon. His par ticular business in oom ing to this city was to have a retainiaoent visit with Mr. D. C. Ireland, with whom he worked on the Oregonian in 1864. Since the organisation of the Oregon Historical Sooiety on Dao. 1 6 ,1898, Mr. Himes haa been a par sis tent, searcher after hietorloal data relating to every phase of hu man aotivities in oonneotion with development of the Paoifio North west. _____ _ ______ A H ealth y F am ily. ••Our whole family has enjoyed good health d o e s we have deed Dr K in g’s N ew Life Pills three year»,” eeye L A Bartlet, Rural route l, Guilford, M« They eleanse end tone the system In a gentle way that does one good. 86e. a t Mata Buy the genuine imported aven- erious oarbolineum; the imitation being offered is only a temporary remedy if at all. If genuine one application lasts for all time. Ask to see onr sealed packages. The Observer Book Store. A women’s short skirt league has been form edin London. Mambers bind themselves to wear areeeee whioh will not sifoep the floors or pavements, and so gather the dost and miorobee. This is not a naw idea. In America wa have a simi lar organisation oalled the five inoh league. Ito them here are pledged to at least five inobes of clear space between the skirt and the floor. W h e re B a lle ts F le w . cities, and sold to housewives of the oountry at extravagant high prioes. Muoh of this preserved fruit oomee from California and more distant states, and muoh of it from Europe. Yet, every year enough fruit goes to waste in the orchard» of the Inland Empire to supply everyone not only the home demand for preserved fruits, but to represent a veins run- ing into millions of dollars if it was properly handled and marketed. Every oounty should have Its can nery, oentrally looated, and every fruit produoer should be jointly in terested in saving thia waste at a profit to his own pooket hook and family table., It ie a bad praetioe that cannot too quiokly ha broken away from. David Parker, of Fayette, N Y , a vet- e ran of th e civil war, who lost a foot at Oettyeburg, says, ••The good Electric Hitters have done la worth more thaa H600 to me. I »peat much money doo- toring for a bad oase of stomach troub le, to little purpose. I then tried E M - clr Bittern, and they oured me. I now take them aa a tonle and they keep me s t r a w and Well. ” 60» at MoroPhannaey I •p a a te ln g C h ap e l. at Yokohama by religious eervioee instead of danolng girls. The sur prise led to wondering: “Is Japan intentionally doing what it oan to precipitate hostilities?’’ A C s a » h R em edy t h a t C ures. Hickory Bark Cough Remedy, made by the Hickory Bark Cough Remedy Co, o f Walla Walla, Wash, guaranteed to be punt; guaranteed to cure yonr cough, or money refunded; guaranteed to make a Mend of you. For ante by Moro Pharmacy. and first elaaa dealen everywhere. Some of oar farmers are cutting ont formaldehyde treatment of seed wheat for smut, believing that it in terferes with a good stand. Most likely it does, unless the prinoiplee essential to its treatment are well understood and oloasly observed Nothing better than vitriol!ng has yet been discovered, is the expert of onr informant, 30 years a farmer in California and Oregon. %ev Waltin w aiu n Skipworth Bklpworth will preach at Spaulding Chapel Sunday a m, at 11 o’clock. First Quarterly meeting. . G. F. PiNKHAM, Pastor. M a a k la n g P re a b y te rla a C h a re h . Regular aervioe at the usual hour next Sunday. Everyone weloome. M ara Presbyterian Cbarah. Servioes in Moro Presbyterian church next Sunday, Morning and evening." The Ladies’ Aid of Moro M E Sunday school at 10 a m. Church gave a farewell reoeption io A. J. A dams , Pastor. honor of Mrs James Tsegarden, at M a r a M . C . C h areh the home of Mrs Orrin Ramsey, Regular eervioee every Sunday, Friday evening. Mrs Ramsey’s at 11 a m. Rev. Perry Chandler, mt home was tastefully deoor- Pastor. ated for the occasion. A musical Sunday School at 10 o’clock a m. program was rendered which was P H Buxton, Supt. Ladies’ Aid Society, every Thurs greatly enjoyed, after whioh dainty refreshments were served. At a late day, at 2 o’clock p m. Mrs J E heartfelt thanks to friends and lour the guests dispersed all voting Blue, President. neighbors for the kindness and t a very pleasant evening. f sympathy shown daring the illness No matter what yon do provided and death of their loved husband that you do it better than some one and father, Mr Phil Rngglee. D e n tis ts — » elee oould do the same thing, there’s Condon Times: Geo Moon, of Fer- a welooue availing you in tba world. OREGON ' canyon,- was in town the early Emerson said, “If a man oan write MORO part of the weak. Ha ia now run batter book, preaob a better sermon All Work Warranted. . ning two drills on his fine farm, and or make a better mouse trap than looks for a pbenominal orop in ’09. his neighbor, though he builds his Offioe In The Moro Hotel Brick. George harrowed his summer fallow house in the woods the world will four times, sod so be must, certain make a beaten path to his door;” so D R - O, J. GOFFIN, get a bountiful orop if work counts with a community, show a spirit of for anything. determination to do your best in a PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. Sid Mosier, one of the most pop long pull, a strong pull and all pull D r marie M. GOFFIN. ular base ball players that ever has together—things is hound to come made a home run in Sherman oonn- your way. ------------ . DlBööofloiM ICIilima Specialtj ty, has left ns wRh the intention.hy East Oregooisn ¡This morning firs Office In The Goflin Building, let St. invitation, of joining McCready’s oarloads of Nebraska bogs pasted Mora, Oregon. flourish nine. Messrs Ball, Nelson Umatilla oonnty on the way to the and McDonald, aooompanied Sid to packing bouses at Portland. Think Moro on his way, and participated of (at bogi being shipped 2000 mile in The Last Dinner together, at the to market through the heat hog pro A tto rn ey at L a w . Hotel Moro, at whioh the editor of ducing district in the United Stateel The Observer wae a guest. Think of a oountry free from obol- Offioe Ground Floor Ginn Brick Prof Bryant’s motion, whioh was era, free from all the diseases to Next Door W.W.M.Co. Bank which animals are subject, haying brought np at two suooeesive sessions its bacon and lard of a oountry has been adopted, providing that an OREGON all Sherman oonnty debating team where there ia a constant straggle MORO may now be organised to enter the with devastating stock diseaaeal It Debating League for Oregon. This Is a moat unreasonable situation. W . C. Bryant F. J. Melodi resolution provides that oounties A very pretty home wadding took with leas than 75 high school stu plaoe in Moro on the 18th, at the dents registered in all of the sohools reeidenoe of Mr and Mrs A 8 John of the oounty may enter the league son, when thsir oonsin Miss Ella Lawyers with a team selected by a scriee of Anderson, was united in marriage • / tryoats from all the high schools of to Arthur 8 Johnson ot Kent, Rev Rooms 1 and 2 The Ginn Briok Perry Chandler officiated. Mias the oounty. Over W.W.M.Co. Bank Lillian Stanley was bridesmaid, Mr Henry Moore, 2% miles south of OREGON Mosoow, display 40 different varie Ray Ragsdale being heat man, little MORO Helen Idleman, nieoe of the bride, ties of agricultural and horticultural Fred Wilson produote at a Palouse exhibition being flower girl. The wedding Frank Menefee. last week. Among the prise winners march was played by Mias Loraine were peaches, apples, pears, popoorn, Johnson. Immediately following prunes, tomatoes, squashes, oelery. the ceremony breakfast was served Attorneys - at - Law These last items, especially the oel to about 20 relatives ami friends. ery, Mr Moore produoas in large The bride and groom will make Office in the Vogt Block, u petal re quantities, and they are said to he their home at Kant. profitable orope. One of the onrios- Benton oounty folk olaim that tba THE DALLE8 » OREGON itiee to many of the old tuners, who Willamette valley bes been “wheat* formerly thought that wheat and ad to death.” W heated so long and bay ware the only suooeeeful crops f oootinnonely that one oan scaroe produoad in the Inland Empire, wae relee an umbrella on much of It. If his exhibit of the old eastern black most of it was plaoed to clover and A ttorney - at - L a w walnut. given a rotation of oropa it oould he Office 787 Chamber of Commerce Uriah Servise writes us an Inter fully restored io 5 or 10 years. The Cornar Third and Stark eating letter oonoerning the dispoe- ‘matter of wheat raising in Yamhill - - OREGON land owners of Sherman oounty suggests the following from PORTLAND oonnty who were oompelled to sur the McMinnville paper: “Why are render their homes to the Oregon 18 acres bringing a better Income Land Co. Senator Fulton wae ini than 200 acres? Both tracts are well A « m . i MORO. ORBOON. tiating a plan of reoovery for theee cultivated; both exoallent soil; both ontrageoue indignities when “the near North Yamhill; both have bean Stock Inspector dear, liberty loving people” lifted oropped for 10 years psst; hat the Sherm an County, 18 acres, with lose labor and iaes ex- him out of the United States senate gsnee in taxes, eto , averaged a bet Oregon. ohamber to make a plaoe for Our Gawge, and now, if anything is to ter net Income than 200 scree? Ten Depwty stack l oe p e rto r be accomplished It must he along years 18 acres prunes; 10 years 200 streooous lines of litigation as pro- acres, . grain. Any limit hers for posed by Mr Servise,who has recent grain raisers? Go ask Preston Bosh- ly spent some time In Washington hee, of North Yamhill, or oall him eity preparing for a oontest, employ op by ’phons; he owns 18 acres and the plaoe Is,not for sale. When he ing the beet counsel that oould obtained, and if any reader of Th* desires to do so bs takes his family Observer wishes to get into this fight to Southern California for the win The Old Man will be ready to open ter. It is not recorded that tba 200 t T he O bserver O ffice the book to them in a short time. • sere owner oan do on.” J. R. Morgan W. H. Ragsdale Meindl & Bryant Menefee & Wilson Comerciii Job Pnntinf ! Mas I •*. •4 / * eeeeeeeeei Public Sale Auction At my Farm Three Miles South Grass Valley S a tu rd a y OCTOBER 24, 0g| . C. G. Huis, Auctioneer Eight head good work horses and mares; One black driving team; One 2-year draft colt; One 2-year paoer colt by Grande Ronde; One yearling by Diamond; One yearling by Jnniper; Four head sucking colts; Two ¿bilk cowp; Two calves; Hogs; Chickens; Turkeys; One rubber tired John Deere top buggy; One new 84-inch Cooper wagon; One 3-inch Studebaker wagon; One 3J-inch Webber wagon; One McSherry drill; One Deering header; 3 header boxes; One McCormack reaper; 1 4-section steel harrow; 1 4 «line Benicia plow; 1 water tank; 4 set work harness; 1 set buggy harness; 1 saddle; 2 low down pumps; 1 Mandy Lee incubator; - 2 Petaluma brooders; and numerous other articles, too many to men^on herej Sale commences 10 a.m. Free lunch served T e r m s o f B a l e All sums under 925 cash; Over >25 a bankable note with approved security will be taken, due Sept 1, 1909, drawing 10 per cent interest; A discount of 10 per cent will be allowed for cash on all amounts over >25. R. P. Scheurer, Owner eeeeeeeeeeeeee«eeeeeee»eee«e««ee O A LITTLE MISSIONARY WORK IN YOUR D idle days by telling your neighbors of the good qualities* of The Observer. If you can’t get their sub scriptions, send us their addresses and we will send Hhem sample copies. We pay for all soliciting you do R. P . Hulow C eo. E. T h o m p so n loro Hardware aod Inpleioot Coopaoj k I a n y t h ln g 'ln o u r lin e v z IV « o p r c la lly Superior Steel and Wood Harrow, Harness Harness Extras, Gasoline, Kerosen?, Paints and Oils, Steel Ranges, Howard Heaters, Plumbing Materials, American and Pittsburg Perfect Fencing, C all Upon T h is Firm . Pittsburg Special Fenee Hofl Tight. Electric Welded. It’s Always Held BEST OF PLUMBING MATERIAL O u r Goods are A bsolutely G uaranteed and our Prices are R ig h t. L ane Y o u r Business Solicited. A S •O O - OO2 Sw oond Strwwt, exto n Thw DaOlws, Orw<on Buying for cash is a great advantage to us because we save whatever trade discount there Is. «A «A > E. B. Dufur Jam es S te w a r t ¿ Z Selling for caxh 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. . A « A » A « A Z « A « A « A O ur prices w ill convince you that we are hewing close to the line. «A Z «A’ Z »A «A Z d> X W e < t e v a i* l ly a e l l e l t V » « r X . • ........... F . S Z e iz d A x x , • O x e g ro x x “ T H l S C H O O L O F Q U A L I T Y * * -......—— ■ — T « a th and Morrison, Portland, Oragon A . F. A n aatraag, l j a , Prtoclpal < W e occupy two floors 65 by lo o feet, have a $x>»ooo equipment, employ a large faculty, give individual hariiurllrm. receive recce caOs for office help than we can m eet Our school admittedly lands all others in quality o f Instruction. It pay» to attend CflaM a Baalaaae K aai “ K.»ap h a m m ria f away »m laallaglj an fih work. It will wia oat ia the end.” SaM ae BSwatert **Tha qaaUty a i I tteu g h ea la year school w t r se It the staadard o f Its M adia the < p p en all the year. Students acbnhtod. at gay time. a Ara kank. an
