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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1908)
Subscribe for The Obeervef, now Mrs A B Wolfard oZ Biggs, has been*very ¡11 with pneumonia fever Leon Strong is spending the holi days with his cousins and unde In Hood River valley. Several raffles are on in Moro th b week. ' ' Mr and Mrs H 8 McDanel dine with relatives in Portland today. eeaeaeeaeeaeaeaeeeooeeeoooooaeoooeeeeoooeaaeee *■* A This is a Day of Specialties Mrs Nina Hennagin bas returned from a visit to the parental home at I make a Specialty of Kent. Wheat Land Mr and Mrs Perry Strong of Wil- The election in thia oity Mooday oox, are off on a six weeks visit Ip oarried tor the amendment by 49 the valley and oq^tst. majority. Sell more land in Sherman and Gilliam counties, because Christmas bells are ringing thru- Monday waa tbe shortest day of out tbe Christian world today, peace I K N O W W H E A T LAND tbe year—now the» days begin to on earth, good will to men. lenotben. I am spending large sum s advertising wheat lands. My office location Tbe mid-winter excursion fever Mr and Mra C K Cochran and to California seems to be contagious. puta me in touch with the best Eastern Immigration to Oregon. It has taken off about 20 bona fide family, are guests of Mr and Mrs I can exchange your land for Portland property, acreage, or valley farms W S PowalL residents in Moro vicinity. Rev A J Adams and wife dioe to J R Kaseberg and family are now day with their daughter Mra Nich nioely settled io their new home at Portland. He has leased his Sher* ols, at Hood Rivar. A 20-acre farm on car line; fare m . _. . . .. lw o new 7 -room houses for sale; mao oounty farm to his brother Ett Mrs Bennett, one of tbe Pioneers 10 cents; two miles from city; $250 . . . . ___ , - , ii i . , i fit only $4,500 each; needs a small Kaseberg. of Kent, was the guest of Mrs Jas an acre; small cash payment, balance v ’ , , bbw ta r m « . ca8“ Paym entJ balance on easy terms Miss Mary Belobee, sister of Mrs Wood over Sunday. easy terms ft at 6 per cent. W H Ragsdale, is now Mrs Clyde Merry Chriatmaa and Happy Naw One 8-room house; twelve minute Thorpe, the wedding having taken Year greeting to all friends of The Some extra good tim ber to ex place at Woodland, California, od Old Reliable Observer. car ride from Portland postoffice; five change for wheat lands. Thanksgiving day. cent fare; price $4600, Mi»« Hasel Dunaboo, a pupil in That treat of good old-style hom the Monmouth Normal, is at horns iny, a rare dish in these days, was in Moro for the holiday vacation. greatly relished by Tbe Observer Mrs Parry baa returned from her W fl m Ja s b wr Fifth and Morrison, Morrisc opposite*TPostoffice family. Tbanks to Mrs Wm Mor eons John, at Hood Rivar; Walter, rison for tbe remem branoe. Telephone Main 6173 or A 3634 ’ , Rooms 519 and 520 Corbet building at Portland; and mother, at Falla Friends of Commissioner Duncan oity. Cbisbolm and wife of Kent, will be ie laid that the bonds have pained to learn of tbe death of tbeir floated for tbe proposed elec- gTba Charles Prioe, into whose little 6-montba old daughter last Coodon, Fornii, etc. bauds the 92,400 roll of bills fell at trio railway, week. Interment took place at tbe Buying for cash is a great advantage to us because We hope so. Catholic oemetery in Dalles city. tbe Ogden poet offioe, and which was we save whatever trade discount there is. j * j * jft Mies Clara Wallan, a student at subsequently oiaimed by the robbed Mrs Robert Urquhsrt was able to Selling for cash is a great advantage to you for you join in with tbe army of Christmas the O A C, Corvallis, is spending East Portland bank, “intends to shoppers Tuesday. She ia very her vaeation with her brother and keep tbe money;” asserting that it do not have to help pay any bad debts apt to be con in Moro. is not likely that anyone will show proud of that little new baby girl at family •• to tracted in the credit system. > > > > > > > > borne. And so is Bob; my, you J Pierpont Morgan will eat pie up with a legitimate olaim to tbe Our prices will convince you that we are hewing osn’t touch him with a 10-foot pole. at lunobeon today, and yet some ourreqey, and that It would be im possible for an j ooncern from wbiob people olaim that the rich don’t close to the line. > > > > > > > > / ? / ? / ? / « ? More than 200 persona attended it may have been stolen to identify tbe I D Pike auotion sale Saturday, have any good times. W e 4 'a r d la lly M e llr lt Y e a r P a t r o x x g « . it as its property. Hie talk in a and everything weut at a very satis Old Sol materially dampened tbe Salt Lake paper, aouods likeafi 1n- Z . Z 3 . Z Z a ,x < 3 -lx x , - Z /E o x o , O x e g 'o n . factory gait C G Huis bas most ardor Wednesday, of those who bad nooent” who bad been interviewed admirably succeeded in convincing builded high hopes for sleigh riding by a thief. tbe publio that he can fill tbe bill today. But tbe hope may be real Repair to us fo r R epairs. ised later. aS auctioneer. Snaps I Snaps! Have some all the time ! Tou are Iavited to call and ses them. ” - * • . » • MORO COMMERCIAL CO The O bserver KOBO, SHBBMÀM CO., O B KOON: Subscribe for The Observer. Subscribe for The Observer Type-writer paper at Tbe Observ Prioee on Holiday Goods are right at Croafield’s. er office Call on tbe Moro Commercial Co When you are settling up don’t The price of The Observer ie 91.60 forget Tbe Old Reliable. for school shoes. par v*or. 7ft oenUi for six months, BO orate I j r foor months—bn I if paid tn advanos w* Read Charles Bullard’s ad today Hot Coffee and Sandwiches, at sooopt |2-ftO In fa ll for S jrsnrs. Bbortor horses and harness for «ale. A B Wolfard’s, Bigge. ts'aas than ons ysar 1SX oonts por month A Blue Mark here will answer an Inquiry, when entered upon our calendar, giving the date o f the paper ssthe date at which your current subscription expires. F R I D A Y . . ; . - ............. D bg 26, 1908 'Subscribe for The Observer.. For Holiday Goods, go io Cross- fields. Pencils, 10 ednts per dozen, rub Christmas postal oards, the latest ber insert. Observer Book Store. and best. Observer Book Store. Croafield is giving sway three val - Don’t borrow The Observer. Sub uable prises. Ask for ^particulars. scribe, and have it your own. Latest of everything nioe in Post Largest assortment of Holiday Goode ever Been in Sherman county al cards, at The Observer Book Store. ' At Crosfields. Stationery, paper, pens, ink, Get in quick if you want one of those houses J O Elrod advertises pencils and all sorts of iotas, at the When it is in Toe Observer it is today. They will sell quick. Observer Book Store.v printed so that people can read it. Our “ads” attract attention and Old type makes tbe very best of Seven, ladies’ coats, the newest Babbitt metal. We have it for sale advertise. When you get our ad style trimmings, etc, at cost at Moro and when you need any call at Tbe vertising, you get busraeesbringers. Commercial Co. ;• Observer office. Price is right. Type writer oil, the best 3-in-l. When in Wasco don’t fail to see Freih.dppTy of Pennine oarfiolft- Lubricates, cleans and polishes, our stock of bracelets, tbe latest out. ium just opened at tbeObeerver Book prevents rust. Try it TbeObeerver L W Roes, Wasco Jeweler. Book ¡Store. Store. Superior round nickel tipped and Inks, mucilage, oards, envelopes’ . Something entirely out of tbe or paper of every kind, tablets, every style, at rubber top pencils, two-for-6-cents dinary is oanned pineapple for leaf T h « Observer Book « to re » and some for 10 cis per dos., at tbe than 26c a can. The Moro Commer Observer Book Store. Wedding stationery, and liters' cial Co ia ofpfring a bargain for your ture for all social functions, at The Christmas Tree Committees will Christmas dinner at 16c a can.Good Observer Book Store. do well to see Croafield for tree or- buying did tbe trick. meute, candies and nuts. He has If you want to buy read Tbe Ob'- Buy the genuine imported aven- em by the ton. Carver. If you want to sell adver* erioua carbolineum; tbe imitation A new firm in Moro is Stuart A being offered is only a temporary tise in it. Miller, steam plumbing and gae remedy-if at all. I! genuine one ■ Something new, fresh and deli cious. Canned pumpkin, at Moro fitting. Work done by Stuart a application laets for ail time. Ask Miller will pleaae you, or we miss to see our eealed pac?Agee. Tbe Commercial Co. Observer Book Store. oar guess. Take a look at tbe Holiday Goods There isn’t a farmer in Sherman The fine line of blankets and bed toys, etc, at Moro Commercial Co. spreads displayed in the Moro Com oou n t^ but could find profitable Mr Ross, tbe Wasco Jeweler, has mercial Company’s window, is very reading in Bulletin No 28, entitled ■ very rich and pretty show window attractive to housekeepers In need Weeds, and bow to kill them,” which would be a credit to any city. of comfortable and neat dressings which may be bad free, on applica I t is bound to catch the eye ol for their beds. tion to tbe Secretary of Agriculture, Christmas buyers. T hb grandmothers of old Dutch Washington, D. C. Men’s Craverette ooxte.good goods Dunkard families of western Penn A first class Dancing Academy for only 910 to 916, at Moro Com sylvania have aiade and used Hick hae been instituted in tbe Peters’ ory Bark Cougb Remedy and reared Brick block, Moro. Danoing every mercial Co. E C Davis, proprietor of tbe Grass their families on it for a 100 years. Saturday evening, until further no Valley Barn, promptly attends all Now you can buy it of your dealers tice. Good floor, good musió, good oalls, day or night. Animals given Ask for it and use it, because it is time. You are invited. Tbe Observer requests its patrons tbe very best of care. Charges are pure; because it will stop your right. - ’ , cough; because it is the beat oougb to keep back enough money from remedy made. Try it. For sale by their holiday purchases to pay tbeir When you are looking for bar Moro Pharmacy and dealers every back subscription and a year ahead. gains do not overlook the advertise where. The paper has made no fuss about ment of J O Elrod on tbe 3d page The Moro Commercial Company subscription money, but it is under of this paper. „ nave some of the most elegant dish heavy expense and needs wbat is Mrs Emily Anderson will take es with which to decorate your due, eo please remember. orders for family baking, pies, cake Chriatmaa dinner table, with a fine The way trains ooonset at Biggs and bread, by the week or bv the 1909 oalendar plate. Look before now, passengers bavs ample time piece. Baking prepared for special you buy. both ooming and going, for an extra occasions. Hoggard Cottage, Moro. Remember thia: J O Elrod b i a s nioe dinner at Tbe Biggs, with Mr A sure cure, and one you can de better position today to sell wheat and Mrs J J Heokard. Don’t forget pend upon, is Hickory Bark Cougb landa than ever before. Bee bis The Biggs, in your travels; there is Remedy; a sure cure, and its purel proposition on this page of Tbe Old time enough. The table ia supplied Use it for all lung trouble, coughs, Reliable. with everything nioe, and the rooms oolds, hoarseness and sore throat. The Moro Commercial Co has put are new. neat and dean. For sale by Moro Pharmacy and in an entire new line of canned Avenarlos CarbolineuB is a germ first class dealers everywhere. goods, in both fruit and vegetables; destroyer. Decay being a germ, it Ws have tbe prettiest patterns of they are sold a little ebeaper than destroys the oause of decay in poets Haviland China dinner sets ever the Preferred stock, but are better or timber. The U8.Government, shown in Sherman oounty, whiob value and fully as good quality. the ORNCo., Multnomah oounty, we are making a special prioe on. Try them. and oity of Portland, are making Don’t buy until you see it and get Several Christinas presents in the general use of it'on bridge timbers, etc. It is the beet chioken lice de our prices. L W Ross, Jeweler, shape of subscriptions to The Ob stroyer on tbe market, and will server has already been sent off to sweeten and preserve a water trough, M erkeS fee D e a th . relatives and friends by our patrons ig pen, stable, eto.,and keep away “ Three yeare ago I was m arked for which ia one of the beet presents lea. It is a guaranteed article. death; a grave yard oongh wae iraring you oan eend abroad as it will re The Observer Book Store ia distrib m y lunge vo pleoesjdootora failed to hel p utor of tbs purs Article in Bberman m e and hope had fled, when m y husb mind friends of you fifty-two tiroee oounty. annually. and got D r K in g ’s N ew Discovery,” ............ w . t--------- S ■aye M ie. A . C. W illia m s , of Bee, K y . “ T h e first does helped m e and Improve m en t kept on til I gained 68 lbs weight and m y health wae restored.” This remedy holds tbe w orld’s bealI ng reo ord for ooughs and oolds and lung and throat itionear- I t prevents pneumonia Bold under guarantee a t Moen Pharm a- a y . 60s and 91 ¡ tr ia l hottie rise. 4®-’ n go raae Opwvwtlew Ia the rem oval of th e appendix by a surgeon. N o dbg.who takes D r K in g ’s N e w L ife Pills U > e r snbjeot to this frightful ordeal. T hey w ork so q u ie tly you don’t feel them . T h e y cure eoo- etlgatloB, h se il a wh e. Mfei aa n iss, and A Cough R om ady th a t C a ra a . H ic k o ry B ark Gough Remedy, made by the Hickory B ark Cough Remedy Go, of W a lla W alla, W ash, guaranteed to be pur*; guaranteed to cure your cough, or money refunded; guaranteed to m ake a friend of y o a . F o r sale by M o m Pharm acy, and first I fi L FI ^ I Rfin I PORTLAND, , OREGON J Drs Ferguson writing from a port in Egypt to Mrs Crandall at Tbe Dalles, say it was impossible for them to visit Jerusalem because of tbe rough aea. They are returning by way of Chios, Japan tbe Philip pine« and Honolulu, arriving about tbe let of February^ We make a specialty of repairing wat ch«*, eyeKlaasea, spectacles and optical goods. We bave the tools and materials and »kill to Insure good work. I f you h a v ea n y jewelry you cannot wear bring It h'ere, and WS will repair it so you can not tell It from new. We dont bang your watch up for a week or so and then charge you for cleaning It. We clean ltan d guarantee it for a year with ordin ary usage. E C Goodwin, tbe energetic life insurance policy writer, was a Moro visitor last week. Mr G is identi fied with one of tbe beet oompaniee io America. Granville Phillips baa been laid up a long time from tbe fracture of a knee resulting from an accident, Stock owners in tbe Malheur re and is still unable to be about hie oastoBary labors. gions are informed by tbe state vet Mre J as Rice, youngeet sister of erinarian that until they kill off about 600 wild ponies of the scrub Mrs EJ Powell; stopped over on her that transmit tbe disease to valua return home to Linn oounty from a ble horaee, it will be im possible to visit to her daughter, Mrs Thomas eradicate tbe glanders in Malheur, Coyle, at Grass Valley. and Owyhee. These wild horses are Something new in advartisipg is of no value, and they convey tbe always to be found in tbe oolumns of Tbe Obaerver. Our merchants infection. . • I / ’ t ** Buying acme Christmas presents are alive to tbe wants of tbeir cus at Tbe Observer Book Store, Mrs tomers, and are telling you through W H Ragsdale chanced to remark Tbe Observer advertising oolumns wbat they have to offer. It will pay that some of these are for a new relative in California, tbe infant of you to eoan tbe ads oloeely and aea Mr and Mrs George Vaugbn, at if you cannot buy cheaper right Woodland, born on the 12th. * Mrs here at home than you oan at the Vaugbn was onoe tbe popular Misa so-oalled cheap bouses of tbe big Vera Belohee, of thia county, sister cities. LL the real value a watch has is in the m ovem ent—in the material, finish, adjust m ent of that m ove m ent. Hog Tight. F. W. Clark, Jeweler, I Optician A THE DALLES, OHEOON. Pittsburg Special Fence The H owabd is the only Amer ican watch ahvtyt finished and adjusted aft a /« # movement, at whatever price it is to be »old— from $33.00 to $150.00. > We are distributors for this dis tinctive watch. ------ Li lisci, Oregon Electric Welded... It's Alwiye Held BEST OF PLUMBING MATERIAL Our Goods arc Absolutely Guaranteed and our Prices are Right. — Your Business Solicited. _ L ane 600 - 002 Second &, S S tre e t, * exto n The D a lle s , Oregon W atoh le o p a a ta r f» r O S N C e . of Mrs Ragsdale. Nothing oould be better for tbe fall sown wheat than tba generous coating of snow whiob bas laid over the county tbe past two weeks. Tbe expectation is for tbe beet crop of winter wheat that has ever been harvested in the Inland Empire, and it adds to tbe pleasure to know that tbe area sown ie greater than ever before. A bill has been introduced in the lower boose of congress allowing tbe Sherman oounty heirs of Tbos G Miller tbe iqplgolficant sum of 9600 on aooount of tbe destruction of a ferry boat which Miller was operating aoross tbe Columbia river near tbe mouth of DeeCbutes. Tbe destruction ooourred during tbe Bannock Indian war. What are your boys and girls reading? They are bound to read something. They will read traeb, unleas you give them something better, equally interesting. Try Tbe Youth’s Companion. There is plen ty of adventure in the stories, and the heroes and heroines are of the real kind, finding in the line of du ty opportunity for courage and unselfishness. More.than 260 such stories will be published in the 52 issues of the volume for 1909. There will be fully as many articles and sketches and reminiscences to im part useful information in the most agreeable way, familiarising Tbe Companion’s readers with the beat that is known and thought in the world. Full illustrated announce ment in The Companion for 1909 will be sent to any address free with sample copies of the paper. The new subscriber who st onoe sends 91.76 for 1909, sdding 60 eta for extra postage if he lives in Can ada; will receive free all the remain ing isauaa of 1908, besides the gift of The Companion’s Calendar, “In Grandfiother’s Garden,” lithograph ed in 18 colors. Address The Youths Companion, 144 Berkeley at., Bur ton, M HEADQUARTERS s T A T I O ' W e are offering for your choosing the finest line of Stationery ever shown in this vicinity. Come and look over our line of China W are, Plates, and Novelties. Stationery. We have the best and most en tertaining library books for Boys and Girls, each for 30c WeAave a fine selection from <hc he Phoenix library by such authors as Martha Finley, E. Roe, Amelia Barr, etc at 30c A strong list of the best of the Popular Copyright books 7 5 c 1 £ Alphabet books, both linen and paper, some with large full page colored pictures at 5c Also a line of linen and, paper story books for youngsters plenty of pictures. 10c to 3$c China Ware. . Plates. We have a neat, dainty, aerviceable line of China in vases, plates, hair receivers, match safe«, tooth pick and hat pin holder*? trays, napkin rin p , etc., priced most reasonable. 111111I I I U 1 1 1 11 1 M 1 1» ; Observer Book Store, •: Moro, Oregon. I I 11 11 H I I H 4 H H C h r is t m a s H i G H - H C a r d » , different prices; some two for 6c; others at 60 and 10c; booklets 16c. Also Postal Cards a t two lor 6c, and 5c, also 10o Bookv. Writing paper is always proper and sensible gift, no matter t . where the recipient may live it can go by mail without damage and also be a useful means of keeping memory green when other presents * are put away; we have the best box papers to be pur chased anywhere; holly boxs priced at $1.75 down to 25c Postal Card Albums, fine assortment leather bindings, priced at $150, $1, 75c and 30c Boys story books, well pictured large type» from 73c to
