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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1908)
O i HittJSoc^ C itj Hall. M bA < W SHERMAN COUNTY OBSERVER. til ■ M l JOB HIM Fv«ry Description to O rd e r Quick and Cheap I ibber Stamps Furnished. ,----1 for Typewriters, Typewriter Supplies, Ribbons, L to . M oró, S h erm an E L a t a b li s h e d 1 8 8 7 . C o u n t y , O j^ tfo n , F r i d a y , B e e . 25, 1908 F iv e C e n ts W. H. Ragsdale THE ONE SU RE W A Y To have money is to save It. The one sure way to save it is to deposit it w ith Wasco Warehouse M illin g Co. bank. You w ill then be exempt from the annoyance of having it burn holés in your pockets. Aside from the fact that your money w ill be safe from theft; the habit of saving tends to the establishment of th rift, economy, discipline and a general understanding of business principals essen A tto rn e y a t L a w . A t F if t y - s ig h t H e la Good F o r a N in e ty M ile H o rs e b a c k R ide. v Major General Frederick Dent Grant, commander of the department of the east, ts receiving congratulations on all sides for the highly successful manner In which he recently went through the horseback riding test now made com pulsory for United States army offl cers. In spite of hla fifty-eight years Office Ground Floor Ginn Brick Next Door W.W.M.Co. Bank OREGON MORO W. C. B ry a n t P. J . M eindl Meindl & Bryant L a w y e rs tial to your success. To those wishim inch relation we heartily extent onr senices. W > sco W ^ M il l in g C o . areh o use ÇANK Rooms 1 and 2 The Ginn Brick Over W.W.M.Co. Bank MORO - - - MORO PHARMACY E x p e rie n c e d , R e g is te re d OREGON M oro Î Frank Menefee. E x p e rt, VIGOROUS GENERAL GRANT. P h a r m a c is ts H e d ic in e s C a r e f u lly C o m p o u n d e d . Fred Wilson Menefee & Wilson A ttorn eys - at - L a w Santa Claus on “The Limited** Offioe in the Vogt Block, upstairs »X r x A A t . M. j v i r r . THE DALLES , OREGON (C opyrigh t. 1W8. by A m erican Press A sso clatloa. J H E Chicago Limited was pulling Complete <\»sortment of S ilverw are and Jew elry out of the Grand Central sta tion In New York ta Dr. Henry Van Valkenberg submitted his ticket to the gatemau. He daubed D e n t i s t ^ ' * ' “'* through, pushing that Indlgnnnt offi cial to one aide, made a leap for the MORO - - - OREGON railing o f the last car of, the train A n y a n d a ll K in d s o f P a te n t M e d ic i n e A lw a y s In S to c k and a friendly brakemau dragged him “on board." Dr. Van Valkenberg All Work Warranted. smiled a little ruefully aa he thanked Office In The Moro Hotel Brick. the man and rubbed the aching sur face of his hand. Then be pulled him self together, picked up the books and newapajiera he had dropped and which r o j goffin the bystanders had enthusiastically hurled after him PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. and sought his haven in the sleeping car. r marie m goffin “G-oh! Were yon hurt?” said a voice behind him. “I w as ao Office In The Goffin Building, 1st Si f r a ld you were Moro, Oregon. going to fall.” Dr. Van Val kenberg. w h o A unetarn huepiu.1 for the treatment of a ll madical and surgiea was a tall man diseases, except an< h a« me contagious. of sixty, turned and looked down on 3 year lease at 3-ioths R a te s , fro m # 1 0 .0 0 to # 2 1 .0 0 p er w e e k , a c c o r d in g to room from hla great A h eigh t At his Am bulance w ill meet a ll train» and boat», if hospital is notified. feet s t o o d a 920 acre: 800 acres tillable, 75 acre F o r F u rth e r In fo rm a tio n A d d re s s baby. At least summer fallow, at 11.25 per acre. she seemed a baby to him, al Good House, B arn, and Out though she was . M e d ic a l D ire c to rs . v e r y dignified B uildings. P len ty of W a te r and wholly' self “w o i TOO HURT?” p o s se ss^ a n d Situated four miles north east of fully four years old. Fhe was looking up at him with dark brown eyes and »Klondike. Apply or write to was so delicious in her almost maternal C. E. J o h n s o n , M o r o , O ro g n solicitude that he smiled Irrepressibly. ♦•Why, no, thank you,” be aald. “I am not h u rt Didn't yon see the kind man help me on to the car?” N ea-eet H otel to Buniner« Center, Banka and Depot. “I'm very glad.” she said, with dig nlty. "I wna ’frald he hurt you.” She Sunday D inner 35 cents. turned as she Rpoke and toddled Into the section opposite his. where a plain J . T . P e t e r » B r ic k but kindly faced elderly woman s a t F ir s t C lass B a r b e r S h o p in th e H o t e l. M a in 8 tr e e t “W on’t you come over and visit me?” he aa»ed "I am very lonely, and I have no one to take care of me.” (the slid off the seat at once, with great alacrity. “I’d like to,” she said, “but I must MANAGERS ask Nana. I must alw ays ask Nans mer a yrs eo iller now,” she added, with dutiful empha ala. “ 'fore I do anvflng " She laid her hand on the gloved fin Dancing everySaturday even gers of the nurse as nhe spoke, and the woman opened her eyes, shot a quick ing until further notice. a d in T h e M oro < at the man and nodded. She A good door and the best of glance had not been asleep. Dr. Van Valken O bserver w ill re a ch m o re < music by Hulse orchestra. berg rose and lifted hla visitor to the neat beside him, where her short legs p e o p le in S h e rm a n C o u n ty th a n ■tuck out In uncompromising rigidity. “I can take care of you.” she aald b y a n y o th e r m e d iu m a v a ila b le . brightly. ”1 taked care of mamma a great deal, and 1 gave h e r her med' d n ’.” D a lle » Iro n W o r k s , O w n e r “Very well,’* he said, with the smile J . B . K irk , P r o p rie to r. women loved; "If you really are going to take care of me I must know your Autos Repaired and Stored name. Yon see.” he explained, “I need you In the night to get me Expert men always at hand to at a might y Q p wAera th» p»opl» »top glass o f water or something. Just tend to repair work and the upkeep think how disappointing It would be of a machine generally. Located If I should call yon by the wrong nun* and some other little girl came!" opposite Moody wharehouse, brick "Yon say funny things,” ahe said D o s llm « « t >«-•»«<>**. building and cheap insurance. contentedly. “But there Isn’t any other Steam Heat. Electric L ights Electric Call Bella. little girl in the car. I looked toon aa t came tn 'eoa I .wanted one to play with I like little girla. I like little H O T E L R A T E S T O S U IT Y O U . boys, too.” she added, with Inntwent expanpl venosa. M o r o . O re g o n . All O R & N T rain i Stop at Front Door "Then we'll play I’m a little boy. You'd never believe It, but I used to Railway T icket Office in the Lobby. be You haven’t told roe your name." / ’Hope,” she said promptly. “Do you Express and Freight T . N . C R O F T O N , P r o p r ie to r . think It Is a nice name?” Rhe made Delivered to any Part of the City the Inquiry with anxious Interest “1 think Hope Is the nicest name a Piano and Furniture Moving. little girl could have except one." he Trunks and Grips Delivered aald “The nicest little girl 1 ever knew was named Katharine. Rhe grew wua to be a nice big girl, too, and has little To and From all Trains. girls of her own now, no doubt," he added, half to him self. “Were you a little boy when she wae a little girl?" asked hla Visitor. All kinds of Reservoir and Cistern work in con “Oh. 410; I was a big man. Jnat as I nection with water systems installed in first am now Her father w ee my friend, Proprietor of end the lived In a w hite house with j, class style and all work done guaranteed. an old garden where there were all Dynamite and powder work on all kinds of Rock Excavations kinds o f flower«. Rhe need to play there when th e w as a tiny baby, and I would carry her around and hold her high up ao th e could pull the apples Draying of all Kinds. , *' * and penrs off the trees. When ahe Trunks and Grip« Hauled to and grew larger 1 gave her a horse and taught her to ride. She Seemed like my very own little girl, hut by and by front all traiot FORMALDEHYDE. RUBBER GOODS. PERFUMERY. BRUSHES. COMBS. SPONGES. CICARS. T J. R. Morgan D . . . D . , . . D u m a of W omen & Children a Specialty TH E D A L L E S H O S P IT A L Wheat farm for Rent Drs. Ferguson and Reuter, H o t £ l M oro Dancing Academy O pposite P o s t O ffic e Moro, Oregon. MORO OREGON O S , G . M A “ W ANT” The Dalles Into Garage » The Umatilla House 0. j. P lH iin g ir C ity PLUMBING «? STEAM FITTING Stuart &, Miller, Moro, Oregon. REED D ra y HULSE CITY DRAY NO. 2 P usterimo , P rick and C oncrete r rr rr r»' 1* I she grew up and l>ecame a young lady, and- well, she went away from me. and I never had another little girl." ’’Did she go to heavenT' asked the little girl softly. “Oh. dear, not" answered the doctor, with brisk cheerfulness. "Then why didn’t she keep on being your little girl alw ays?” The doctor hesitated a moment, lie was making the discovery that after many years old wounds can reopen and throb. No one had ever been brave enough to broach to him the sub ject of thia single love affair which be w as now dlscusalng. •Well, you see," he explained, “other boys liked her too And when she be came a young lady other men liked her. Ro finally—one of them took her away from me.” He uttered the last words wearily, and the sensitive atom at hla aide seemed to understand why. Her little hand sllpi*e<l Into hla. ’’Why didn’t you ask her to please stay with you?” she persisted pity ingly. "1 did.” he told her. “But, you see. she liked the other man better.” “Oh-h-h!" The word came out long drawn and breathless. “1 don't see how she possibly could.” There were such sorrow for the vic tim and acorn for the offender in the tone that, combined With the none too subtle compliment. It was too much for Dr. Van Valkenberg’s self control. He threw back hla gray head and burst Into an alm ost boyish shout of laughter, w h ic h effectually clear ed the atmoa phere of aentl mental memories. “ Where are you going to hang up your stockings to night?”, he asked “1 can't hang them up,” ahe an swered s o b e r ly . “ S a n t a C la u a doesn’t travel on tr a in s , N an a aay a .” “Nana Is al ways right,” said the doctor oracu larly, " a n d of DRAOOIKO CARTS AMD course yoU - UlUSt WOO1XT LAMBS. j exactly ■■ do aa nhe ahe M.vs But I heard that Ranta Claua was going to get on the train tonight at Buffalo, and I believe that If he found a pair o f small black stockings hanging .from that section he'd fill them." Her eyes sparkled. “Then I’ll ask Nana." she aald. "And If she says I may hang them 1 will. But one,” ahe added conscientiously, “has a teeny, weeny hole In the toe. Do you think he would mind that?” lie reassured her on thia point and turned to the nurse. , “I t>eg your pardon." he aald “I’ve taken a great fancy to your little charge, and I want your help to carry out a plan of mine. 1 have suggested to Hope that ahe hang up her stock ings tonight. I have every reason to believe that Ranta Claua will get on this train at Buffalo. In f a c t ” he add ed, "1 mean to telegraph him.” The nurse hesitated a m om ent He drew his cardcnae from his pocket and handed her one of the bits of paste board It contained. “I have no evil designs.” he added cheerfully “If yon are a New Yorker, yott may (»osslbly know who I am. The woman'a face lit up as she read the name Rbe turned toward him Im pulslvely. with a very pleasant smile. “Indeed I do, doctor," ahe Mid "Who does not? Dr. Abbey sent for yon last week," ahe added, "for a consultation over the last case I had this child’« mother. But you were out of town. We were all ao disappointed." ’’Patient died?" asked the physician, with professional brevity. “Yea. dorter." — ~ JL He rose from his Mat. ' “Now that you have my erodes husband's deuth three years ago, and ahe kept nt It day and ulght. Rhe waa ao aweet, ao brave, yet so desperately miserable w e r leaving her little girl alone in the world." Dr. Van Valkenberg set silent. It wns true, then. Tbla was Katharine's child. He had not known of the death of Armttage nor of the subsequent poverty o f hla widow, but he had known Katharine's baby, he now told himself, the moment he aaw her. "Well,” the nurse resumed, “after she died we raised a small fund to buy some clothes for Hope and take her to Chicago to her new home. Mrs. Armttage has a cousin there who has agreed to take her In. None of the relatives came to the funeral. There are not many of them, and the Chica go people haven't much money, I fancy." I)r. Van Valkenberg was hardly sur vlale," he aald cordially, “I want you prised. Life was full of extraordinary and Hope to dine with me. You will, situations, and hla profession had won't you?' brought him face to face with many Ijiter, in the feverish excitem ent ef of them. Nevertheless a deep solem hanging up her stockings, going to bod nity filled him, and a strange peace and p e e p i n g settled over htm. through the cur- “1 want her," he said briefly. “Her ’ tains to catch mother and father were old frtenda of y / Ranta Claua, e mine, and thia thing looks like fate. part of Hope's Will they give her to me—these Chi » e x t r a o r d in a r y cago people—do you ttftnk?” rv[K>se of man Tears flUe<l the woman’s eyes. ner d e s e r t e d "Indeed they w ill,” she said, "and her, but ahe fell gladly. There w as”—she hesitated— asleep at last, “there was even some talk of sending with great reluc her to an Institution before they finally tance. decided Jo take her. Dear little Hope! When the cur How happy ahe will t>e with you!” tains round her He left her and went back to the berth bad ceaeed seat where Hope sat crooning to the t r e m b l i n g a doll. Hitting down, ho gathered them m o it u n u e u a l both up In his arms, and a thrill ahot procession wend through him as he looked at the yellow ed Ita silent way carls resting against his breast Her toward Dr. Van child—her little, helpless baby—now " i ’ i x RR tour own V a lk e n b e r g 'a his child to love and care for! He i . itti -S uiai_" section. In some was not a religious man. Nevertheless occult manner the newe had gone a prayer rose spontaneously In hla from one end to the other of the heart ‘lim ited ” that a little girl in section 9. “nope." he said gently, “once long car Florodora, had hung up her stock ago I asked a little girl to come and ings for Ranta Claua The hearts of live with me, and she would not come. fathers, mothers and doting unclee re Now I want to ask you to come and sponded at once. I>resslng cases w e r e stay with me alw ays and be my own unlocked, great v a Uses were opened, little girl and let me take care of you m ysterious bundles were unwrapped, and make you happy. Will you come?” and from all these sources came gifts The radiance of June sunshine broke of surprising fitness. out upon her face and ahone In the A succession of long drawn, ecstatic brown eyes upturned to hla. How well breaths and happy gurgles awoke the he knew that look! Hope did not turn passengers on the car Florodora at an toward Nana, and that significant omta unseemly hour Christmas morning, and alon touched him deeply. Rhe soeund a small white figure, clad Informally to feel that here was a question she In a single garment, danced up and alone mutt decide. Rhe drew a long down the stale, dragging carta and breath as she looked up at htm. woolly lambs behind It 'Occasionally “Really, tr u ly r she asked. Then, there waa the aqoeak of a talking doll, aa he nodded without speaking, she and alw ays there were the patter of saw som ething lu hla face that was small feet and aoft cooing of a child's new to her. It waa nothing to fright laughter. Dawn was Just approach en a little girl, for It was very aweet ing. and the lamps, otlll burning, flared and tender, but for one second ahe pale In the gray light- But In the thought her new friend was going to length of that car there waa no aoul cry. Rhe put both arms around hla ao base as to long for silence and the neck and replied softly, with the ex pillow. Crabbed old faces looked out quisite maternal cadences her voice had between the curtains and smiled. Eyes taken on In her first words to him long unused to tears felt a audden. when she entered the car: ■•'1 strange moisture. “I’ll be your own little girl, and I'll Throughout the day the enow etlll take care of you too. You know, you fell, and the outside world eeemed far aald I could.” away and dreamlike to Dr. Van Val Dr. Van Valkenberg turned to the kenberg. The real things were this nurse. train, cutting Its way through the YI shall go with you to her cousin's snow, and thia little child, growing from the train,” he announced. “I'm deeper Into hla heart with each mo ready to give them all the proofa they ment that passed. The situation waa need that I’m a suitable guardian for unlqne. but easy enough to understand, the child, but," he added, with a touch be told himself. He had merely gone of the boyishness that had never left back tw e n ty g v e years to that other him, “1 want thia matter settled now." child whom he had petted In Infancy The long train pounded Its way Into and loved and lost In womanhood. He the station at Chicago, and Dr. Van had been very lonely—how lonely he Valkenberg summoned n porter. had only recently begun to realise end “Take care of these things," he said. he w ee becoming an old man whose Indicating both life lay behind him. He crossed the sets of poaeee- aisle suddenly end eat down beside alona iv I t h * the nurse, leaving Hope singing her sweep of his doll to sleep in his section. “I shall arm "Will yon tall me Y°a kn<>w have my hands about the child?*’ he asked. “Rhe ap full with my peals to me very strongly, probably be little daughter.” cause she's eo much like eotne one 1 J l e gathered used to know." her In t'o h i s The nurse closed her book and look a rm s as he ed at him curiously. Rhe had heard spoke, and ahe much of him. but nothing would ex nestled against plain this Interest In a strange child. bis broad chest He him self could not have explained with a child's It. He knew only that be felt It pow unconscious iat- erfully and com pell tngly. tsfactlon Io the “H er name la nop e Armttage," ahe strength and Mid. “Her mother, who has Juet died, firmneea of his waa a widow, Mrs Katharine A r a l clasp. tag«- They ware poor, and Mrs Ar- a m RBerL.cn aoaimbt “Merry Christ mltage seemed to hare ao relative« mm broad chkst . mas!” sounded Rhe had Mved a little, enough to pay most of bar expensM at the hospital. on every side. Everybody was ab sorbed end excited, yet there were few We all loved the woman. Rhe was very unusual and patient and chang whe did not find time to turn a laat ing. All the nurses who had a n y look on a singularly attractive little thing to do with her cried when ahe child held above the crowd In the died. We f*lt that ahe might have arms of a tall man. Rite waa laugh been saved If ahe bad e o p s In thna. ing triumphantly aa he bore her but abe wna worked out. Rhe hod through the throng, and hla heart waa M in e d her Uvtdg by eevfaag a fte r ha» and bodily weigh General Grant «•< ered ninety mi and experleni comparatively fa tig u e , sin lng that at au. moment he would be ready to under go the rigors of 1, hard campaign General J. Fran Bell, chief <»: staff of the anu has lieen one <• the leading advo cates of the horse manship test an Is quite as sever upon him self In the matter of phys leal discipline ns he Is upon any or who comes under the president's ordc The horsemanship tests are not the oughly understood by the public. The are not only necessary for officers. who may have to go on long marches i war, but they are a means of keeping them In condition physically and men tally for whatever dutiea they may be called upon to perform. General Grant Is the eldest son o' the late General V lysses 8. Grant, t!) hero of the civil war. During t Rpaulsh war he fought in Porto Iti< •• and later distinguished him self in the Philippines. He has been minister 1.» Austria and more recently held the p<> eltlon of polh-e eommlaaloner of Nev York. General Grant waa born at Pl Louis In 1850, was graduated froiu. West Point In 1871 and for a time was lieutenant colonel of the Fourth cav-' airy, U, 8. A. He was ouly twelve years old when bis father took him to the front, nnd he wna close to biui during the whole of the V Icksburg campaign. One of his experiences wa> running’the batteries of Vicksburg at hla father s side on a gunboat. VIVACIOUS MISS ETHEL Th« P re s id e n t’s C h a rm in g U n m a r r ie d D a u g h te r and H e r B irth d a y s . Miss Ethel Roosevelt, the vlvaclons daughter of the president. Is «till hav ing seventeenth birthdays, and as the year has a considerable time to run sbo m iss rraan RooacvexT. will probably materially lucreaM the number before 11«» rolls around. Sev enteen la by long odds Miss Ethel’s fa vorite age, and ahe doesn't care bow often It happens. Now at Manchester. Maes., visiting friends. Miss Ethel waa announced by Secretary Loeb on July Ifl to be giving a birthday party. Later thia waa denied. Then Mr Loeb deckl ed that Miss Ethel should be seven teen 00 July 18. The president Im patiently and emphatically denied that thia date waa correct Finally Loeh and Mias Ethel concluded that Aug. 10 would be aa good a tim e aa any to become seventeen. Now It Is m W at Oyster Bay that MI m Ethel wlU ha seventeen In September. It ts thought strange that a man of Mr. Loeb's experience should Indulge In any dlacuMlon over the ago o f any woman, young or old, for Uvea, fo r tunes and kingdoms have been Boat h r simitar action. I t la contended that he ought to allow Mtaa Ethel sure st rtc ted control over the ouaaRev «< her birthdays, and I f abe now taatata on having tw o or three a month le t her do eo, for the time w ill soon come, all too aoon, whan she w ill Insist on hav ing I s m than one birthday every three to hla «yee aa ha amOed hock at J
