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I Madras wants a brick maker to establish a yard there. We have ready for you WINTER WEATHER WEARABLES C om bination German Sox, has a ru b b e r fo o t w ith a separate woolen inside fo o t and leggin, Felt Boots, Rubber Boots, Shoes, Overshoes, Warm Woolen Underwear, Sox, M acinac Coats, Flannel S h irts M ittens, W ool and Lined Gloves. MORO COMMERCIAL CO The O bserver MORO, BHBRlfÂH 00.,OBIGOM: The price of The Observer is 91.50 p tr year. 76 oeate for six month«, SO oe lo t four month«—bat If paid in advenes eeeept $2.00 In fa ll for 1 years. Shorter U m i than one year oeate per month. A Blue Mark here will answer an In q u iry, when entered upon our calendar, giving the date o f the paper aa the date at which your current subscription explrea. F R ID A Y . ................. J am . 22, 1909 T Its slaying, not sleighing, sinoe Tuesday. -S lu sh : But th at’s a silly name for last Tuesday’s stuff. Snow still covers the wheat fields *n spite of the obinook. Snowballing is a pleasure without the least bit of“ fun in it.* Yesterday was a regular April fool day. 8unshme, hailstones, ioe. Old Glory floats at the mast head over Moro publio schools regularly now. -Hot Coffee and Sandwiches, at A B Wolford’s, Biggs. _____ Inks, muoilags, cards, envelopes, to bis room with serious illness, in cluding premonitions of pendicitis, but he is improving the past few Stationery, paper, peua, ink, days and may not have to submit penoils and all aorta of iotas, at the to an operation/ Observer Book Store. H A Stuart did the sand bag pro Our “ ads” attract attention and tection act to perfection at the lum advertise. When you get our ad ber yard Wednesday. Whatever vertising, you get buaineee^ringers. Ping undertakes he does well. T h e grandmothers of old Dutch Old type makes the very best of Dunkard families of western Penn- Babbitt metal. We have it for sale s y lv ln ia have sade and used H ic k and when you need any oall at The ory Bark Cough Remedy and reared Obeerver office. Prioe is right. their families on it for a 100 years. K C Davis, proprietor of the Grass Now you oan buy it of your dealers Valley Barn, promptly attends all Ask for it and use it, because it is calls, day or night. Animals given pure; beeause it w ill stop your oough; because it is the beet oough the very best of oars. Chargee are right. remedy made. T ry it. For Hal« by Moro Pharmacy and dealers every- On hie return from Washington ’ - - • .<,» -----’V , 1 where. oity Hon R R Butler w ill open the When in Wasco don’t fail to see Moro Law Office of Bowerman A our stock of bracelets, the latest out. Butler in the rooms reoently ooon- L W Ross, Wasoo Jeweler. pied by ex-Mayor J 0 Elrod. I f you want to buy read The Ob Something entirely out of the or server. I f you want to sell adver dinary is canned pineapple for leas tise in it. than 25c a oan. The Moro Commer Something new, fresh and deli- cial Co ie offering a bargain for your oious. Canned pumpkin, at Moro Christmae dinner at 15c a can.Good Commercial Co. buying did the trick. A sure cure, and one you can de B u y th e g en u in e im p o r te d even- pend upon, is Hickory B a rk Cough erions oarbolineum; the imitation Remedy; a tore ours, and its purel being offered it only a temporary Use it for a ll lung trouble, ooughs, remedy if at all. If genuine one oolds, hoartenesa and sore throat. application lasts for a il time. Ask For sale by Moro Pharmacy and to see our sealed peonages. The first class dealers everywhere. Obeerver Book 8tore. Avenarlos Carbolineu« is a germ deetroyer. Deoay bding a germ, it destroys the oause of decay In poets or timber. The US.Oovernment, the ORNCo., MuRnomah county, and oity of Portland, are making general uee of it on bridge timbers, ato. I t la the bast ohioken lioa de stroyer on the market, end will sweeten and preserve a water trough, ig pen, atable, «to., and keep away les« I t is a guaranteed artiole. The ObeefVer Book Store is distrib utor of the pore artiole in Sherman We have the prettiest patterns of Haviland China dinner sets sver shown in Sherman oounty, whiob we are making a special prioe on. Don’t buy until you aee it and get our prices. L W Ross, Jeweler. The way trains oonneot at Biggs now, passengers have ample time both ooming and going, for an extra nioe dinner at The Biggs, with Mr And Mrs J J Heokard. Don’t forget The Biggs, in your travels; there la ooonty. ________ time enough. The table ia supplied A Care fa r M is e ry . with everything nioe, and the rooms ‘ »I have found a cure for the misery m alaria poison producás,” says R M are new, neat and olean. S James of Loosllsn,« C, “ I t ’s called Elec tric Blttsra,and oomee in 60c bottles. I t breaks up a case of chllto o ra blllloue a t tack In almost no tim e, and puts yellow Jaundice dean out of oommlaalon.” Thia groat tonic medicine and blood purifier, gives qulok reUef In a ll stomach, liver and kidn ey com plaint« and the misery A C su g h R sm o d y »h et C u rs e . H ickory B a rk Cough Remedy, made by the H icko ry B ark Cough Remedy Co, of W a lla W alla, Wash, guaranteed to be pure; guaranteed to cure yonr oough, or money refunded; guaranteed to m a k e s friend of you. For sale by of feme book. Sold under guarantee at Moro Pharm acy, and first Mow Albert Penteooet ie entertaining a few friends from Salem- Onoe on a tim e I knew a m aq Who sold It d id n ’t pay To advertise the goods he bed To sell or trade aw ay. M r aod Mrs N W Silvers return ed from their Valley trip 00 the 18th. we save whatever trade discount there is. R 8 W ard, the Waeoo restaurant keeper, baa moved across the line and established at Ceiilo. To prove th a t he w m o ff his bees And make h im olearly eee, I gave h im h a lf a page of apace And let h lui have It free. Masonic jo int installation to night of Blue Lodge and Eastern Star of- floers. do not have to help pay any bad debts apt to be con That New York million dollar private garage w ill be Incomplete without a hospital and a morgue annex. I t almost scared h im Into fits To s m him self displayed Aa I displayed h im , but be felt Its Influence on hie trade. Grandpa Belehee died at the bone of hie eon J F Belehee near Wasoo, on the 19th, at the advanced age of 95 years. I kept It op, hie buslnees boomed, T he customers swooped down Upon his store u n til he had T h e biggest rush In tow n. Some of those good resolutions of 22 days age may not have been broken, but they oertainly Buffered severe sprain Tuesday. One day I w ent around to oall And found h im on the run, W ith people w aiting for their tarn W hen those ahead were done. A few weeks ago the world beard a good deal about the Thaw trial Tuesday night Moro lumber yard had a thaw trial all its own. I th o ’t h e ’d lik e m y w o rk so m u ch , A n d th in k m y plan eo nice, T h a t he’d not only praise his w ane B u t pay m e double price. Uoket Vk« lieeal OkwtekM Seientista are now measuring the “ horse-power” of the ho man body I t may soon happen that the old phrase “strong as a horse” will no longer be allowable. A n d did he do It? Listen, pleaee; I tho’t th a t I ’d drop dead When suddenly he turned on me A n d vigorously said: “Take out th a t advertisement, quick I G o l dern y e r pesky s k lu ! Following Volapok and Esperan to a new international language launched called Elo. And for child ren there still remains the time- honored “eney meeny miny mo.” I ’ll never g it a chance to n e t Ea long es It stays In .” THE ORIGIN ’— nr OF FARMING. Another flood on the 19ih took out the Hay oanyon bridges below DeMoes, and made travel only pos sible with trains at eaoh end of a 3 mile portage. Moro got its letter mail yesterday afternooo on return of the Wednesday night up train from the wash-out. Now that Kata E lkins has gone into seolusion and w ill come out a nurse; and Abruzzi goes to the high M r and MrsClaud Spoon returned peaks of Asia, but little is being from Washougal Tuesday, bringing said about their loves. W ell, any home with them the finaet gift of way; they are of 0 0 more im port the holiday season— a lovely baby ance than John Smith and Mary boy. We join in oongratulationa to Brown. I t was only a perverted our young friends. ide'a of relative human importance Many who supply their fowls with at the beginning that gave them so water regularly during the summer muoh updue space in the news papers. fail to reoognize that it ia ju st as Because an applicant for oitizen- necessary during the oold months. Now the fowls are entirely depend ship papers who has lived in Modoo ent upon their human friends. Re oounty, California, six years and move the chill from the water, and earned 935 a month during that let it be puie; do not allow it to re time, admitted to the ooort thss he main in the dishee over night and had saved nothing, but wasted his freeze; freezing water does not mean substanoe in riotous living.the ooort pure water, even though some germs are killed by freezing. Exereiee the same oare regarding eleanlinees whiob was the rule during summer, and the fowls will not only drink with greater relish, but you w ill sat their prod note with aim ilar appre ciation. has had to fig h t for his daily bread, from fam ine-struck Ire la n d , etc., R ussia, In d ia , w ere m e rely because the w heat crop failed. W e kno w that the infidel and his devotees believe in evolution,and scoff at the story o f file G arden o f E den,and pretend to thin k that p rim e v a l men was o nly a brute, roaring and b ello w in g entangled throu gh the forests, and that w e once craw led on all fours, and still have a runt o f a tail at the end o f our back bone,and that the muscles o f our ears are only a little stiffened, and used to w o rk backw ard and fo rw ard , w hen the donkey brayed. A n d th a t i f ore should go into the jun gles o f A fric a and shoot a baboon we w ould be took a m o nkey and scraped his gave him a pipe to smoke. B ut in the face o f all evidence, this cannot be possible. F ro m out of the grave clothes o f mufomies, thousands o f years old, the descendants o f these first seeds have dropped, just as p er fect as they are today. W h e re did they come from t In an instant, in a flash, both a perfect man and a perfect cereal w ere created. doee to the line, w ® C w re ia lly b e lic it Y >mr P atrw aaff«. I - - 2 ? X a ,x c L lx x , ^ d Z o x o , O x o g ’o x x Repair to us for Repairs. W e make a specialty of repairing w a t ches, eyeglasses, spectacles and optical 8°°da. W e have the tools and materials aod »kill to Insure good w ork. , I f you have any jew e lry you cannot wear bring It here, and we w ill repair I t ■o you can not tell It from new. W e dost bang your watch up for a week or eo and then charge you for cleaning It. W e clean It and guarantee it for a year w ith o rd in ary usage. F. V. Clark, Jeweler, & Optician THE DULLES, OREGON. S p a u ld in g a n d W e s le y C h a p e ls Services SundayJ2 m, at Wesley Chapel. A t 7.30 p m at S 3 paulding Chapel, 8unday. Rev O F Pink ham Pastor, t M e r e P re s b y te r ia n C h u r e k . baa been “ fixed.” For more whau two years has that waste gone stead ily on. , Type writer oil, the beet 8 -in -l. Lubrioatee, cleans and polishes, prevents rust. T ry it The Observer Book Store. •S up erio r round nickel lippdd and robber top pencils, two-for-5-oents aod some for 10 ote per dos., at the Obeerver Book Store. I t D e e s th e Pittsburg Special Fence Hog Tight. Electric Welded. It’s A lw iy t Held BEST OF PLUMBING MATERIAL O u r Goods are Absolutely G uaranteed and our Prices are R ight. Y our Business Solicited. L ane 6 0 0 - 602 & S Second S tre e t, exton The D a lle s , O re g o n SCHOOL SCRANTON. - PENNSYLVANIA. Architecture Bookkeeping Stenography Banking and Banking Law, Commercial Law, Advertising Show Card W riting . ® Chemistry • ~ - Mechanical Drawing Electrical Engineering Newspaper Illustrating, C ivil Engineering, Steam Engineering C ivil Service, Mechanical Engineering, Gas Engineering, Mining Engineering, Locomotive Running, Plumbing, Heating and Ventilating, French, German, Spanish, taught with Edison Phonograph. F u ll information furnished free upon request by H. V. R.EED, Representative, 64 1-2 Sixth street, Portland, Ore. ' and B u s in eee. E E Cbam berlalu, of Clinton, M aine, eaye o f Buoklens A rnica Halve, “ I t doee the business; I used It for piles and it cured tham; applied U to an old sore and it beaded It w ith o u t leaving a scar be h in d .” 86c at Moro Pharm acy. B akery M o r o , O re g o n , F E. D o n h a m , p ro p rie to r Bread, Pies and Oakes always on hand^or Baked Jo O rd e r.___ Lunches and Short Order Meals a Specialty. M E A LS 2 5 C E N T S AND UPW ARD. k illin g one o f the descendants o f our hkir off, and put him in trousers, and O u r prices w i ll convince you that we are hewing Regular service at the usual hour □ext Sunday. Everyone welcome. g re a t-g re a t-g re n t-g ran d ia o th e r— and that G od,w hen he created m an,m e re tracted in the credit system. M a a tU a a d P ro o b y ta r ta a C k w r e k . nm and the groans w h ic h have gone up > Selling for cash is a great advantage to you lor you E E Lyon, former resident of this oounty, was oaught in the 81 Johns motor aooident on Tuesday, and was among the many who were badly injured. The Dorcas Society had a full and profitable meeting Wednesday af ternoon at M r Mortensens. Mrs Neva Johnson used her team and hack to good advantage in gather ing the members together. “ Well, w ell,” I cried In great delight To aee things boom th a t w ay, “ Lton’t advertising pay, old man? W hat have you got to say?” Theodore has been presented with a Chinese library printed in original Chinase characters, whiob make almost aa exciting aa an old laundry Now it the time to invite your friends in the east to come to Ore gon. During all of March and April the rate will be bat 925 from Omaha, Kansas oity, St Paul, Minneapolis, Winnipeg and other sim ilarly situ I f the party who took tbs rain ated points to a ll main line pointe gauge off the roof of the E O L Co in Oregon. From Chicago 938 and office in this oity .will return it, be from St Louis 930 50. will do the people of Moro a great TbeFebruary Delineator approves favor. Woman’s Work for Clean Citieo^nd After a shad dinner the native so does The Obeerver. Look, at Astorian likens himself to Napoleon the good work accomplished in this probably beoauee he has just been direotioo by the women of Dalles having the bony part of life’s city. I f Moro ever approaohea to feast. deoenoy in its streets it must ooms W alter Damroech declares that if through tbs work of la w enforce there were more musio there would ment by the push of our plueky be fewer divorces. Too much ‘chin women. musio’ is the oause of numerous Moro lodge 118, I O O F, install divoroes. ed the following officers: JO E lliott According to geological survey« NO; W D W allen V O ; R M Brash one-dth of Alaska is a coal field. Secretary; J F Foss FS; Otto Peetz As that territory contains 531,000 T ; Sam Brisbin W ; Fred J Meindl square miles, the prospect of warm C; C A Nish 10; O E Thompson O ing up the north pole when reached G ; W m Rudolf, R 8N G ;R o y Keshin is good. ger LSN Q ; E W Lewis R S V G ; Ira The Audubon society plan of an K A xtell L 8 V O ; I Hardin R 88; H enumeration of birds and animals C Ruggles LSS; Rev A J Adams slain by hunters should properly in Chaplain. clude a reoord of the human game slaughtered during the bunting season. Buying for cash is a great advantage to us because A card from H B Belshee informs ua that ba has found the mare wa advertised for him. Services in Moro Presbyterian Wheat, Rye, Oats, and The church next Sunday, Morning and Whether you were prepared to Heeding Done by Adam, evening.- speed the parting guest, the beauti Sunday school at 10 a m. W h e a t, barley,corn and buckw heat A. J. A dams , Pastor. ful has left us; and now we look on bleached hills with the hope of an cannot, and w ill not g ro w w ild . Oth’ K M e r e M C . C h u re h evergreen covering within a few er vegetables m ay live, but these w ill Regular eervioee every Sunday, not. N o w comes the practical ques at 11 a m. Rev. Perry Chandler, Sentinel: Frank Aldrich paid J dpya at most. tio n : “ W h e re did w h e a t, b a rle yc o rn Pastor. H Coffleld 9500 lor five bead of last The birds that have been coming and rye come from ? W ho first plan t spring mule oolts. Sunday School at 10 o’clock a m. to my window for bread three weeks ed th e m l” T h e re is only one logical P H Buxton, Supt. Train service has improved very daily, have been absent sinoe Tues deduction,and that is: G od sent them day. Ona red breasted robin gave Ladiee' Aid Society, every Thurs here to keep us out of mischief. A fte r much thia week; but there is a pros thrilling note of thanks as be A d a m had sinned he was led out ol day, at 2 o’clock p m . Mrs J E US pect for more— trouble. darted away to the highest branob Paradise, and then G od said to h im : Blue, President. I f acother cold wave has not ar of E H Moore’s tallest sheds tree at “ S tre tc h forth th y hand," and he rived by the time you read this, ask A H ig h e r H e a lt h L e v e l. noon. stretched it fo rth , and then into the the weather man about it. “ I have reached a higher health level, palm o f th a t hand G od put his treas That New York doctor who clai since I began using D r K in g ’s N ew L ife Mrs T aft is said to be a splendid to be able, by hypnotic suggestion, ures, ju st a few grains o f w heat and Pills,” writes Jacob Springer, of West cook; anyway, her husband baa a to send the souls of his patients to barley, and rye, and oats, and then F ra n k lin , Me, “they keep m y stomach, pleasant and prosperous expression. any old place and get a fu ll and ao- God pointed to these seeds and to the liver and bowela w orking just r i g h t ” I f The ground is so “ fu ll” now that ourate description of what is going g ro un d, and delivered h it judgm ent. these pills diaapolnt you on tria l money w ill be refunded at Moro Pharm acy, 36c it oannot bold a ll the water; but on there, is in the wrong business. “ N o w g o, and dig and p la n t,” and the snow is still bolding it down, in He should be a Morning Newspaper the hum an race haa been at farm ing That ancient burst in the w ater •pew: 4 •— - ---------- ever since. A n d for 6,000 years man Re porter main on Firet street,corner of Gburt, Carelessness causes more men trouble then lesyneee and wioked- Don’t borrow The Obeerver. Sub □eas oombined. Ezra Meeker is a Tacoma trolley scribe, and have it your own. Mme Calve advises girls to mar oar motor man; the first case on Pencils, 10 cents per dosen. rub ry; precisely what moatxif them are reoord where, by comparison with ber insert, Obeerver Book 8tore. trying to do. the passengers, the motor man was Freeh supply of genuine carbolen- Thaw got into Oregon and yet it meeker. lum just opened at tbeObeerver Book is said that Thaw ia still in limbo E E Barsee is bunting a house in Store. at a New York asylum. Moro to move into from the farm. See W H Ragsdale for bargains in Roosevelt had to burst loose agaZn Tenable bouses to rent are scarce in Sherman oountylsrm lands. Money and oall a lot of men liars. Aberra this oity. to loan on farms. tion, or temporary insanity, must There is no Bore expensive luxury Wedding stationery, and litera affect that man who has to have a than “getting even.” I f you oan ture for all social functions, at The frequency of brainstorm. make your scheme good you are a Observar Book Store. W m Raymond baa been oonfined very unusual man. paper of every kind, tableta. every etyto, at The Obeerver Book » •< *• Aa Oyyrwothsfi Merekaat, ■■■■ 1 • rgazine JOB PRINTING A STAB SERIAL BEGINS NOW There ia an article in thia number with s big jolt in it. D O N ’ T M ISS I T . You know tome o f the thing» EvzxrsoDv’ a hsa done. T H I S IS ANOTHER. ’ Bring There ia a story by the •• Pig» Ia Pig» ’ ’ man that is one long ache o f laughter, and back o f thesa special features a big, fine E v b s t s o d t ’ s M ao az in a. yours to rf T he O ld R eliable . ? T h e w heat to g ive life to the man, r and the man to look after the w heat. God w ho made on« created the other and they w ere bom w ill tog eth er, and live tog eth er, and w ill die to gether, and w ill be buried tog eth er. The Open Columbia River Trans portation Co will have a fleet of fine steamers in commission this year But it falls far short of the old fleet of the Oregon Steam Navigation Co, when Schenck, and Knaggs, and Buker, and the writer, helped Epb Day’s 6000-ton cargoes into U m atil la, W allula aod Lewiston. Epb Baughman, the surviving Master of those days of gold, put the Princess of the new fleet, The Inland Empire, on her trial trip, safely through all the rapids between Ceiilo ond Paeon before the late zero weather. Some very mysterious disease hss killed two horses for O F Ouintber this month. I t appears to us a bit like the plague that took off 160 heed for 10 W elle W elle farmers, an account of whiob was published in The Obeerver at the time. properly refused to grant him the right to beoome an American. The applicant vaa fully qualified in every other way, but told the judge that he had spent his earnings 00 liqnor M r end Mrs Chester Silver will and gambling, whereupon the court apend about two months visiting In rejeoted hie petition. the W illam et valley, end M r end Mrs E E Barsee will look after the B te m e e h T r e u k le C u ro d . farm until they return, whioh post I f you have trouble w ith your stom pone« Mr Bargee’s moving into this ach you should take Chamberlain's oity for a time. C a m e N e e r C h oking te D e a th . A little son o f C D Peterson, a w ell know n resident of the village of Jackson villa, la , had a euddn and violent attack Stomach and L iv e r Tablets. J P Klots, Ths next meeting of the Dorcas o f croup. M uch th ic k , stringy phlegm E d ina, Mo, eaye, “ I have used a great Sooietv, Wednesday, January 27 lb , m an y different medicines for stomach • up after fcM n g C ham berlain’s Gough Rem edy. M r P says, “ I th in k he trouble,but flndC ham berlain’sHtomaoh w ill ba at Mrs Mortensen’s. would have ohoked to death had we not sod L iv e r Tablets more beneficial than Ladiee Fancy Note Paper, large Iv e n h im thia rem edy.” For eafc by any other remedy I ever used.” Foreala nrtaaael wHb aavelegee te asatah, •» i t s M ora Pharm acy, at Moro P h a rm a c y , LL the real value a watch has is in the movement—in the material, finish, adjust ment of that move ment. ©eel |> itin tin $ convey» an idea of m s c cc m . Y o e m ay never eee the mao hlmaelf. It’s hh letter head, hk envelope, hte huslneae card, circulars at catalogue. You »lee the man up by them thing», ▼ hat imprcaaloo of a man and hi» hueinc« do you'get if he wrltea te you ea wrapping paper or axis greaae etatiooeryf H o w does your» look? Ia It neat, tasty and modem? It b if T h e Moro Obeerver Job Department prints it. Better bring Is that next fob k l‘ k F •» T h e H o w a r d is the only Amer ican watch «Xveyr finished and adjusted as a Jfow movement, at whatever price it is to be sold— from 935.00 to $150.00. W e arc distributors for this dis tinctive watch. ----------------------------------- S------------------------ « L I. ROSS, Vise«, Orapi W a ta k la a g e a ta r ffer O R N C a . INCREASING Your Advertising IN T U B S M E R flA N COUNTY O B SER VER ------ — can not be figured as additional expense. It is simply increas ing an inestment from which y ou are sure PORTLAND SEED CO to receive good returns. r . j
