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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 13, 1908)
The O b s e rv e r. iistoricait ' sketch : (Contributed.) Mrs. Harriet Jane Erskine, wife ■ • r « c i t y w t » •« » * • ■ * •* « * • O F F IC IA L r » r i M OF B B K B K A » OO of Abiel Erskine, formerly of this county, died at midnight, October MORO, O R BOON. 24th, 1908, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. O. E- Williams, at C. L. I bblawd ............. A • .M anaqkb Seattle, Wash., after 24 weeks of D. C. I bblahd ........................E ditor patient suffering from paralysis, caused by a disease of Ion» stand Nov. 13, 1908 ing. She was called Home to her F R ID A Y .. loved ones who have gone before. Church and Society notice* F R E E , e x She was laid to rest io the beautiful cept when for money m aking PurP°*«* Lake View Cemetery, on a bed of H uch notice« at regular rate« at the option evergreens, covered wilb many floral of the publlaher«. offerings from her friends. Before coming to the city to trade read er« are requested io examine The Ob«ei ver ad vert tai ng column«. It« U»e active, wide awake huaineaa man who advertise«, con^ .euuently he 1« the moat accoinm.xlatlng, •ell« the cheapest, and deal« the mo»t II e rally In every way We will not be responsible for the neglect of so becriber. to no tify u . of changes in th e ir addreaa. N or w ill th e n o tificatio n of a Poetmaater th a t'‘ be aub- ocnber baa “ Removed ’ aettle the b ill of a d e lin q u e n t. Send for advertising rates Send The Observer to your absent friends. It in better than a letter, and gives all the home news. Four months for 50c. The smile that won’t come off has now become a positive grin of pros perity on the face of the American people. ' Oompers was wise when he an nounoed that he did not care fora position in President Bryan’s cab inet. The art of oratory may not be de dining,,but it would never be called ' in, for example, to build a Panama canal. Missouri ought to hold a jubilee now that it feels assured that its elections can no louger be stolen by "** ward Indians. i The Erie Ry. has the largest and most powerful locomotive in the world. It draws a train of 250 cars two miles in length. Ool. Watterson will find it hard to say anything new of Mr. Bryan in the way of fervent approval, or intense disapprobation. There’s a good deal to that sug gestion that after Roosevelt gets to be associate editor of the Outlook it may be changed to the Lookout. A New York theoeophist says Kate Elkins was of royal blood ‘in the former existence.* There is a lot of oonsolatiou for downtrodden people in„this life. In Indiana an automobile has been used successfully as the basket o f a balloon. In New York, as a rale, only the speed mad chauffeur goes “ op in the air.*’ Mr. and Mrs. A. Erskloj came overland from Nekou Station,Butte county, California, leaving there late in the summer of 1880, arriving at the present location of Erskine- ville, Oregon, October 19th, of the same year, wheie they lived and farmed for 26 years. In the spring of 1881 Mr. Erskine plowed, with bis 8 horse gangplow, brought from California, a small pieoe of land that yielded 800 bushels of 1st grade club wheat when threshed. While the crop was growing Mr. Erskine was away hauling the large timbers for the John Day river bridge,leav ing Mrs. Erskine to protect the un- fenoed field of growing grain. Many a night she would get up and go out waving a large pieoe of white cloth in the wind to frighten large bands of range horses away. She never tired o f showing samples of the wheat and extolling the resour ces of the bunch grass laud. From flour made from this wheat she baked many a pan of biscuits and gave to the weary travelers that camped near with their families hunting for homes in a new country. She would go miles to help those that needed assistance. One cold night she was called away from home in a blizzard. Her family tried to persuade her not to leave in the storm, but the answer was: “The mother needs me, and I mast go to her.” Mrs. Erskine was the mother of six children, all Califor nians by birth.. Two boys and four girls. Three children are buried in Northern California, aud two in the state of Maine. In 1781 people in the surrounding country as far south as Grass Valley, the Colony as it was then called; contributed 25 cents each per mouth, to a boy, George Larison the first mail carrier,to carry the mail from Was- oo to the home of M r.aud Mrs. Erskine. In 1882 they petitioned Washington city to establish a reg ular postoffioe. Mrs. Erskine hav ing kindly spent her time caring (or the mails the neighbors had Mr. Erskine appointed poetmastr and a regular office was established, with a mail route from Wasco to Erskine- ville, under the administration of President Chester A. Arthur. H«*» Publie Bebeele Third Grade. 12 copies each: Bird-woman of Lewis and Clark. Child Life: Reader; Seven little sisters; Art literature reader. Fourth Grade. « 12 copies each: Stories of great Americans; legends of King Arthur; North America. Fifth Grade. 12 copies each: Song of Hiawatha; Fifty famous stories retold; King of the Golden River. The rules of the library are lib eral, and the community may have access to It. NEWS AND NOTES. Senator Fulton will return to Washington city next week. The vote for Taft in the electoral college will be ¡321; for Bryan 162. \V H Ragsdale and family have returned from Wallowa county. Mrs Elizabeth Cushman started on her California trip this week. It is believed that work on the Harriman Ry up DesChutes will soon lie commenced. Of Sherman oounty, for the year 1908, as finally equalized by the county board of equalization: No a n d C las sific atio n . V a lu e 267,823 acres of tillable land ................... j ..................... 94,016,760.00 135,602 acres non-till able land................. 402,665.00 Improvements on deed ed la n d s..? . . . . . . . 150,975.00 Town and city lota . 81,740.00 Inprovenentson sane 206,090.00 Icproveaenta on land . not deeded............... 23,320,00 75.48 miles RR b ed . 688,880.00 87.25 mites telegraph 14,295.00 RR rolling stock . 80,120.00 Steamboats, engines, and trig rachinery. 17,655.00 Mdc a stock in trade 124,585 00 Farm implements, etc, 83,170.00 Money, notes, s e c ts .. 112,616.00 Household furniture, watches,jewelry,etc, 53,320.00 6349 horses and mules, 258,690.00 1951 cattle ............... 31,960.00 8413 sheep and goats, 25,235 00 1561 swine . v . . . . . . . . 7,026.00 374 d o g i................... 1,975.00 Gross value of a ll. . . .96,381,076.00 Total value of taxable property, as fipally, equalized by the County board of equalization, 96,381,076.00 O tto P lbtz , Assessor Sherman county, Or ¥&• leeeal Obttefcte Dr J R Morgan, Dentist, has ar ranged his appointments for \V**oo for two weeks in each month begin ning with the 15th day. The re maining partof each month he will D o a n 's K id n e y P ills ." be at his office in F o r sale by a ll dealers. P ric e 60 1 The Dorcas Society enjoyed the cents. F o s te r-M ilb u rn C o., B u ffa lo , Social very much at Mrs Henrichs’ N e w Y o r k , sole agents for th e U n ite d Wednesday. The meetifig for next States. R em em ber th e n a m e— Doans— an d Wednesday will be a busy one and take no other. members are requested to come early. Place of meeting at Mrs J . R . M o rg a n Woods. , Iforo.----- M e l n d l * B ry a n t, te le p h o n in g .. . 1.00 •• “ stam ps, etc. . 1 . 0 0 T o t a l ................................................ .910 76 B alance on b a u d ................................ 26 I do hereby c e rtify th a t th e forego! op la a tru e an d eo rrect s ta te m e n t o f tb e co n trib u tio n s and <1t»lHjreem*nta o f th e M oro T a f t olub, fo r tb e P re sid e n tial ca m p aig n o f 19<*4. F re d J M e ln d l, S ecretary Treasurer Subscribed a n d sw o rn to before m a, th is 4th d a y a f N o v e m b e r, ISOS (L l) W ttta a le y , N o ta r y P ubtta -------- * 1 * fo r O m g o w . . i. -xr.T.’Ty."T” ful. - W e ’ve got to hold our prominence. It would be pig headed to I grow big headed. merchandise. W e were never before so careful in buying our That is w hy w e took hold of Kenw ood • .-i ' Ready 1 " * t We are watching all the makers all the time and whenever we see a line of goods that is better than the one we’ve handled, we immediately replace the inferior merchandise and justify your confidence by constantly improv- ing our values. We thought we’d handled fine clothes and they were the best uhtil these better garments appeared; Nothing like them evefbefore only merchant tailors used to create. They fit absolutely without blemigh. They cost more, they’re worth all the difference, their extra wear justifies it. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦++++++++++++ A. 1. Williams & Co., The Dalles, Oregon. Horses lis t-R e m rl. Vinton H o tel G R A SS VALLEY, O RC. - Left my plaoe on or about tbe 15th of October, 1908, three horeee, N e w E n tire ly . One a bay mare, white atrip in face, weight about 1050 lbz, brand ed V on left atifle; One a bay gelding, weight about C o n v ie n tt o B u s in e s s 1200 lba, a white epot on his belly and a white etrip in hiaface; PR IC E S R E A SO N A B L E . _ One a black or brown gelding, - --------- - --- '-LSJ» ------ weight about 1200 lba, s ta r in face Conducted on Best Principles and one white foot, no brand. Any information that may be furnished either to myeelf or Joe B C e a t m e r c la l T r a « « B a lle li« « Morrison, Grass Valiev, leading to recovery, will be liberally rewarded Apply to me 8 miles east of Monk- land, on the Pape plaoe, or address J. R. H untkr , tf-n6-316] Monkland.Or W hen In SCHOOL SCRANTON, - PENNSYLVA Architecture Bookkeeping Stenography Banking and Bahking Law, Commercial Law, , Advertising - • Show Card Writing Chemistry Mechanical Drawing Electrical Engineering Newspaper Illustrating, Civil Engineering, Steam Engineering Civil Service, Mechanical Engineering, Gae Engineering, Mining Engineering, Locomotive Running, ‘ Plumbing, Heating and Ventilating, French, German, Spanish, taught with Ediaon Phonograph. Full information furnished free upon request by H. V. REED, Representative, PwrllniM l Inforufan l u t d . 64 1-3 Sixth street. P ortlan d, Ore. > Hotel Oregon 91 \a«aaaa i M j aaZi«««aaaaaa>aaa>aaaa aaaAaaaaq g aaaa x aa t aaaa>«azz—a«zzÌ Lea a ; fa in tin g , $ a p er R a n g in g Satisfaction Guaranteed per day. . D r . o . j . Io Buy, Sell ir Eicbauge Wright-Dickinson goffin , mabib m . goffin . Disease: of lomei t Clillrei 1 Specialty Office In Th e Goffin Building, 1st S t* Moro, Oregon. Any person or persons having horses, cattle, bouses, lots or house hold goods for sale, exchange, or parties desiring to buy euoh prop erty, will find T he O bserve * a go<xi medium for advertising end securing a customer. Try T he O bserve *. Moro, Or M . C . IH cklnaon, M anag er. T Esnoid Hotel P roti a n d , O r e g o n . Frank Menefee. Fred Wilson F U R N IT U R E M e n e fe e & W ils o n . . . AND ... Attorneys - at - Law UNDERTAKING Office in the Vogt Block, upstairs THE DALLES ' M y M u tto Is q u ic k Hals« and * S m a ll P ro fit«. OREGON OSCAR ANDIRSON R a g s d a le Office Ground Floor Ginn Brick Next Door W W.M.Co. Bank OREGON REED Office at Furniture Store. HULSE Proprietor of CITY DRAY NO. 2 Draying of all Kinds. Trunks and Gripe Hauled to and from all trains fl. |. fQsssisgsr M oro. C ity - Oregon. O r o ffo n . JOB PRINTING B r in g y o u rs to 1 he O ld R eliable . Fam ily M O R O , OREGFOK. Hotel L IV E R Y , FE E D A N D S A L E S T A B L E S . Phll&iont Livery Co. J. M. DUNA.HOO, Proprietor and Manager. Vuci, Oregon. T« v Every kind of rig to order, and all orders prompt and satis factory at reasonable prices. Farmers teams fed as well as they ere fed at home, if not better. Telephone at our expense. Express and Freight Delivered to any Part of the City « Piano and Furniture Moving. i N U ’Z SAZETTEER ta««« D tr«otorv o f ««eh C ity, and V I_ . illa«« la O r««o« and Itna, «Ivln g • D aècrtptly« W a«h la«toa. _____ B kMea , o f ««oh “ ‘. f ir ï o y i plan«. «o«* .C O . L ocation, at WW from Th« Hr m o o D«11 m or any Mharmao ooonty pointa a t oar «xpanro. f nrnfahad So or from M oro to any potato OUR M O T T Q Sidney Johnson, Proprietor. D ra y Trunks and Grips Delivered To and From all Trains. ........................................................ .... European Plan Good Clean O. w . AXTELL Moro F. R. A X T E L L , M O R O , O R Free b u t to and from trains R ates by the day 6 0 c, 7 6 c , B I . 0 0 , S I .6 0 , S 2 . C a ll an d E x a m in e M y Stoek of F U R N IT U R E an d H ID E L IN E S , before b u y in g Attorney at Law. MANAGRR Con# Frat ud M o™ Streets L iv e an d L e t L lv a , MORO Both in Workmanship and Prioe Hotel Co. Chas. W r ig h t , P real dent. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. D r . M ad e M e rc h a n t Tailoring We have several parties who S T O P AT are looking for homestead locations or relinquishments, also some good timber claims. If you know of any MORO - - - OREGON good homestead or timber claims, it C o r n e r 7 th a n d Stark S t r e e t s . will pay you to write to ue. Ad I t 1« new and II« room« are provided with running water and long distance tele All Work Warranted. dress A etna R ealty C o ., phone». European plan. Rate« 225 Failing B u il d in g , per day and upward Office In The Moro Hotel Brick. tfs4-.1091 Portland, Or Highest priced room $S D e n t is t ^ * known in the trade? ^"Actually haijd built and such style and shape as Hon W F Jackson and wife left W H Y SO W E A K V for California Monday. Mr Jackson expects to return about Christmas, Kidney Troubles May be Sapping Your Life Away. Moro People but Mrs J will remain until spring. Have Learned this Fact. ’... __________ . . . J Fifteen pupils are enrolled in The Dally Journal points to men who have takan 95,000,000 gained in Umatilla county and invested it elsewhere, which does n’t help to bitter things where the money came from. , ♦ ’ S p s u lS In g C h a p e l. At the last meeting of the coun Services Sunday noon, and at cil George Mowry was elected to fill the office of Auditor, vice Ray Rags .Wesley Chapel at 7 p no. G. F. P inkham , Pastor. dale, resigned to go to Wallowa. Dave McKalvery was bound over on examination before Justice Dun- ahoo yesterday on charge of killing sheep belonging to County Commis sioner Duncan Chisholm. T he fact that w e have succeeded in becoming the authoritative shop only makes us twice as ambitious and twice as care ♦ ♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ M e r e M . E . C h u re b W h e n a h e a lth y m a n or w o m a n be gins^ to r u n d o w n w ith o u t a p p a re n t cause, becomes w e a k , la n g u id , depress ed, suffers backache, headache, d iz z y spells an d u r in a ry disorders, look to th e k id n e y s for th e cause o f it a ll. K eep tho k id n e y s w ell an d th ey w i l l keep yo u w e ll. D o a n 's K id n e y P ills cure sick k id n e y s an d keep th e m w e ll. H e re la M o ro te stim o n y to prove It. O P H u ls e , liv in g in M o ro , says,“ K id n e y o o m p ls ln t an n o yed m e for years. Jn m y occupation I a m requ ired to d Q a g re a t deal o f d r iv in g , an d tb e const a n t ja r r in g o f th e w ag o n , an d exposure to a ll k in d s o f w e a th e r, g re a tly w ea k ened m y back. T b e secretions w ere too fre q u e n t In ao tlo n, b e in g scant a t t l i i w h ile a t others too profuse an d ouoas- io n a lly atten d ed w it h pain In passage. 1 fin a lly procured D o a n ’s K id n e y P ills at M o ro P h a rm a c y , a n d th e use o f one box gave m e e n tire freed om from back ache, a u d I was b enefitted In ev e ry w a y . I b o ld a v e ry b ig tf o p in io n o f Soon stands back. ♦ ♦ ♦ Get in quick if you want one of Regular services every Sunday, those houses J 0 Elrod advertises at 11 a m. Rev. Perry Chandler, today. They will sell quick. Pastor. Sunday School at 10 o’olock a m. " Miss Margaret Pinkham has ac P H Buxton, 8upt. cepted a position in the ladiee\d&- Ladies’ Aid Society, every Thurs part merit of the Moro Commercial day, at 2 o’clock p m . Mrs J E Blue, President. Company’s elegant new store. Oregon Agricultural College classes from Sherman county. Moro furn ishes 6; Grass Valley 6; Wasco 2; Early 1. The Store That Stands Still ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦ ♦ ♦♦ ♦ ♦♦ ♦ ♦ Mr and Mrs Roy Hulse spent a M o r e P r e s b y te r ia n C h u r e b . part of this week with relatives and Services in Moro Pre»byterian friends in the Rose city. church next Sunday, Morning and Robert Brash has purchased a 20 evening. Sunday school at 10 a m. acre fruit farm near Olympia, at A. J. A dams , Pastor. Abe head of Puget sound. The playwright who has decided B O O U I I F O B T I I K L I B R A R I to limit his output to a play a year Besides 15 Standard Magazines, for ten years, shows a consideration arriving every week or month, the which is reoom mended for imitation following list of books may be found to authors of ‘best seller».’ in the Library at Moro High School, Oregon gave Roosevelt 42,934 pin Stories of great Americana; rality in 1904. This mouth Oregon Fifty fatbous stories retold; gave Taft 25,000 plurality, a de Abraham Lincoln; crease of 17,934. H >w do yon ac Carpenters’ North America; T hk grandmothers of old Dutch Black Beauty; count for i t i Butti nsky. Dunkard families of western Penn Wonder Book, for girls and boys; sylvania have made and used Hick Four great Americans; ory Bark Cough Remedy and reared Daring the last fev days that the colonist rates were effective more Carpenter’s Asia; their families on it for a 100 years. than 1,200 people came to Oregon Carpenter’s South America; Now you can buy it of your dealers on one way tickets to make this Sunbonnet Babies* primer, Ask for it and use it, because it is Classic fab’es; state their permanent home. pure; because it will stop your Foods: or, How the world is fed; oough; because it is the best oough King of the Golden River^ remedy made. Try it. For sale by Teddy jr. has been promoted, has Fables and folk stories; Moro Pharmacy and dealers every got his wages raised sod will change where. ...................... his boarding place. This is going Good health; Habits of California plants; some on a month of hard labor and S e t o m e n t o f C o n tr ib u tio n « a n « E x a week-end vacation for the Cap Cinderella; p e n s e s e f M a r a T a f t C lu b . race. An American book of golden deeds; I present h e re w ith th e nam es an d Discoverers and explorers; The published livts of campaign Water babies; iim » u n t c o n trib u te d to M o ro T a f t olub: W 11 lUpnlale............. ... ....... $ 60 contributions is supposed to include Pieces for every oooasion; H be rraan C o u n ty O b s e rv e r,............ 2.26 all those who ‘blew’ themselves. Children of the cold; F re d J M e l n d l ............................................60 Bat what about the trombone per Giant Sun and his family; J M P a r r y ................ ' . ................ ................ 60 formers io the ‘cornet’ bands at the T C L e e ..................................... .60 Electric toy making; « spellbinder's picnics! O W A x t e ll...................................................60 Plant baby; G eo W B e r r i e n .......................................... 60 Games and seat work;* __ _ »_ 1 J A B r ia b lo e .................................................60 Mr. Roosevelt writes about the Around the world, Vol I; O E J a dim ..................................................... 60 •spineless cactus’ in one of his cam Central and South America; D r O J G o d in .............................................. 60 paign letters, but that other master A little journey to Switserland and O tto P e e t z ..................................................... 60 of letters Thomas W. I jmwhoii , of H 8 M c D e n e l .............................................60 F r a liv e . « B fF P e e t z .......................... 60 Boston, gets ahead of him with the Ty|w studies from the geographies W C B r y a n t .................................................60 “ gelatin spined shrimp.’* W Btanky . . ............... to of the United States. W D W a lla n ............................. *............ ” .26 a L B n rn u m ...................................................60 In addition to the above, funds Although the American sailors O hi I^ w e l le n .......................... 26 have sailed a long way away Jipan accrued from the field meet have H Elcnok............................................. | 6 ese hospitality is still finding an beefy investeil in supplemental N P H au een . . . . . : .................................... 60 T o ta l ..................................... 911.90 Mtsy mark in the visiting Americau reading, as follows: —.... - ...4 D la b u ra e m e n te : merchants. Beverage and Hobson First Grade. H berraan C o u n ty O bserver p r in t « .96.26 will find new evidence iu this of 12 copies each: • E xp e n se L D M a h o n s , speaker. . . 1 . 0 0 sinister and malevolent hostility. Sloan First reader; •• J D Lee, . . . 2 60 Art literature readers; Two steps hsvstieen taken in the Sunbonnet Babies* primer; courts this week to absolutely guar Child life: A First reader; antes bank deposits. 1. Potting C. In Mythland, Vol L W. Morse, the King Swindler of Second Grade. K.Y.City on prison diet for fifteen 12 copies each: years; and 2, preparing to land J. W. Bcriber, the thief of tl e La September tQJune; Sloan Second reader; Grande Farmers' and Trader«* bank Child Life, in tale and fable; in the same fix. That is the ouly Art literature reader; »tee people can have (bat is Fishing and Hunting. goods. i S u m m a r y e f A s s e s s m e n t R a il. ‘T U a w t l» public.” < EVERYTHING NEW AND UP-TO-DATE, SPECIAL RATES TO COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS O A L IT T L E M ISSIONARY W ORK IN YOl D idle days by telling your neighbors of the g< qualities of The Observer. If you can’t get their h scriptions, send us their addresses and we will sc them sample copies. 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