Sherman County observer., July 16, 1909, Image 3

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Hot Coffee and Band w io bee, at
A B Wolfard’s, B^ge.
Harvest Supplies
R M Brash left Monday f«r his
new home near Olympia..
P C Axtell
and
wife returned
now in stock
from Portland Wednesday.
A big shipment of oomforters and
Tents, Bed Sheets, Hammocks, Gasoline
Stoves, McCormick Extras, Leather and
Link Belting, Oils of all Kinds, Etc., Etc.
blanket just reoeived nt M C Co-
M r and Mr« N P HarSsn are ex
peoted boose from Beattie Saturday
H EA D Q U A R TER S
Fresh supply of genuine oarbolen-
int" just opened at theObeerver Book
Stqrs.
HARVEST SUPPLIES
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Postal Card Albums fine, in doth
oovera, etc., fro » 25c up, at The Ob­
server Book Store.
Canvas
,
Mrs Claude.Spoon returned W ed­
nesday after a very enjoyable visit
at Washougal Wash
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Waterbags
Cured Meats
Rope
Vegetables
,
Mr And Mrs Riobelderfer, of
Wasco, were guests of J C McKe* n
and family during court.
Crockery
Fruits
Gloves,
Overalls,
Shirts,
Underwear,
Blankets, and everything fo r harvest men.
WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY. GIVE US A TRIAL.
The
O b s e rv e r
MORf», B R X B M A N C 0..0 R R 0 O 1 « :
Eurwka
Look those refrigators over at tbe
Type-writer paper at The Observ­
Moro
Hardware store.
er office.
L H Martin is up from Portland
on a visit to bis farm.
Mrs C L Montgomery
visitor to Moro this week.
was a
Lodge N o . I21>
Don’t borrow The Observer. Sub­
Alfred P Bell, of Kent, was a
scribe,
and have it your own.
Meets tbe flrat and third visitor at our office this week.
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I Phuraday evening* of each
Geo Berrian left Wednesday for
Mrs. M A Bull left for The Dalles
m onth Vial ting member*
. cordially invited to meet Tuesday morning for a short visit
a abort business trip to The Dalles
B y order o f the W . M.
Go to the Moro Commercial Co
J. M. P arry, Hecretary.
Button*, piano keys and other
fox
lowest prices on harvest sup­
B oth I eh a m C h a p te r sim ilar objects are now made from
No 7» O.B.S.
plies.
m ilk.
A . r A A. M., Moro, Or.
I tegular communication
I f you want to buy read The Ob­
M c b 2d and 4th lh u ra -
Fountain Pen Pocket Holder«,
<lay evening* m o n th ly.
server. I f you want to sell adver­
latest,
safest
and
bast,
Observer
By order W .M .
tise in it.
M r* H eien Parry, Hecy Book Store.
L V Moore has a new header bed
Horace Strong is building new
M o ro Lodge, N o . 113,
1. 0 . O . F . Moro, Orcgoa.
oow and sheep jhnrn and sheds on finished last week for him by
M eet* every Saturday
Mitchell A Foes.
venlng at 7:80 o’clock. bis farm near Moro-
present.
V 1*1 ting members are
Tbe Ladiee Aid society have
Don’t forget tbe place to get your
cordially iu vlted. Mem*
to-A, are expected to lie moneys worth in a watch is at L W closed their Thursday meetings for
J. O. E llio tt, N . G . Ross’ Jeweler, Waeco. .
tbe summer months.
Robert M. Brash. Hecretarv.
C L Look and wife are up from
The price of The Observer is 11.50 tbe Valley and w ill help Tom Peugh
pai year. 76 sent* for six raonib», 80 e«ntn
for foot month»—ho t if paid io a«vana*w * near Wasco, with bis harvest.
aooepi |2.60 In fu ll for 1 years. HborUr
M - m than one year UJ4 oeot* per mouth
Our **ads” attract attention and
A Blue Mark here will answer an advertise. When you get our ad­
Inquiry, when entered upon onr calendar, vertising, you get busineesbringers.
giving the dale of the paper at the date at
which your current aubacrlptlon expires.
Dan McLacfifan was in Tuesday
after tbe new wagon rack recently
Ju ly 16, 1909
F R ID A Y
bpilt for bim by W K Jewell for
harvest.
Real Estate
. O f fe r e d
For
S a le
bv
W. H . RAGSDALE
M o ro , Oregon,
N o . I 900 acres, 2% m il* * to ra il
rood alailon. 4 roomed d w e llin g , barn
88x46, blackam lth shop, granary, cow
barn, flue well w ater w ith w ind m ill
and cietern, amall bearing orchard, tel­
ephone in bouae, w ell fenced and croe*
fenced, 860 acre* tilla b le and all in crop
8 # miles to Grass Valley. Prioe >28,000
>2,600 cash, balance to suit purchaser
at 7 per cent Interest.
We will not be undersold in onr line.
this week.
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Groceries
Shoes,
“ Goods of Quality“ I« Our Motto
W ilm er Cooper «ltd wife were
gu««ta el H arry Benson ai»d family
C alifo rn ia’s handsome building Is oae of the very strik in g structures
on the grounds of the A l*a k a -Y u ton-Pacific Exposition. I t la In the old
Spanish Mission type ot architecture encountered bo frequently In South­
ern C alifornia, and the detail of Us fro n t baa attracted the attention of
artist* and architects from all dver the country.
In tbe building every county of the golden state w ill have an exhibit.
California, from 81ahlyon to San Diego, has shown os much enthusiasm
tor tbe Exposition as has W ashington Itself.
Jim Keeney, son of our old friend
Wm Keeney, formerly of Sherman
county but now living at Olds, A l­
berta, Canada, is.visiting former old
friends in this county.
^ e first local peaches of th«
n have put In an appearance
and are uf very good quality.
The
fruit oame from Mr Pbilson, oper
a ting the Rohr V illa orchards.
I f your plants seem inclined to
deca>, try sticking half a dogen
matches around them, heads down.
The sulphur in them will k ill the
worms that are probably eating
away the roots.
This week begins tbe spell of
Rain, accompanied by hard winds
summer
weather for Sherman
in
tbe vicinity of ColfsX, Wash/,
oounty for the year 1909,
last week did much damage to
R A Murray was in town Friday
standing wheat and barley.
Press
with the proverbial fatted calf for
reports state several hundred acre
the customers of the Moro Market
tracts were beaten down. Consider­
Mrs Radcliffe and Mrs 1 * 0 Fields, able portion of tbe damaged wheat
both of Wasco, were in Moro this w'll now be cut for hay.
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week having dental work attended
The Fort Lnpwai Idaho State
to by Dr Morgan.
Bank started about four months
Moro Commercial Co. h e a d q u a r­ A party of twelve will leave Moro
ago with a capital of >10,000, tbe
ters for harvest supplies, overalls, Sunday to register their names at
majority of which was subscribed
sh irts, shoes, gloves a etc.
Every­ Spokane in the hope of securing a
by Indians.
Deposits today sre
thing for harvest men.
tract o( Indian reservation land.
over >45,000, and it is nearly all
D r J R M o rg a n will be in Moro
Some great bargains in ladies’ Indian money. They are erecting
1st to 14th, Wasco 14th to 24th, shirtwaists, muslin underwear, and a bank building that w ill ooet f f,-
Gras« Valley 2<lh to 30th of each summer wash goods. Special prioes 000.
month to practice dentistry.
to close them out at tbe M C Co.
The Burns land office has been
C H Skinner has added a per­
O L Belshee and wife, and J C notified that the Harney V alley Im ­
fection oil stove, for sale at tbe Hockman and wife left Wednesday provement Co., an irrigation oom-
Moro Hardware store, to the bol by auto to pass an opinion on the pany scheme, carrying 59,000 aoree
weather comforts of his home.
circus billed for them that day at of government land has been sat
upon by the Interior department
The last load of lumber for the Tbe Dalles.
and lands are now open for home­
new baro being built by Roy Powell
Mrs J Waseemiller and Misses
stead entry. They are are a ll lo­
N o . 2 820 acres less than m ile from was hauled this week. W A Ray­ Emma and Lillian Schassen, all of
cated close to Burns.
Moro, "good d w elllhg and barn, nearly mond has the building io charge.
Kent, were in the oity recently as
. a ll tillable, plenty of good water, good
John Tow by, one of the firm of
rich deep soli, in good state of cu ltiv a ­
Our contemporary, Editor Sime patients of Dr Morgan having dent­
tion, floe bargaiu at >42 per acre, th ird
al work attended to.
Towhy
Bros., who have thnoontrnet
«•eh, balance to suit purchaser a t 7 per of the Wasco Enterprise, ba* left
The Pacific Coast Elevator Co. for constructing the railroad up tbe
eent In te re s t
tbe county and Editor W alker has
N o . 3 660 acres 4 miles from K e n t charge of the plant under terms of and the Interior Warehouse Co. Dee Chute«, was a Mqro visitor
460 acres tillab le, plenty o f water, well tbe lease to Sims.
have had their scales overhauled Tuesday and Wednesday. H e told
fenced, school house on oornerof place,
this
month at ail Sherman county an Observer representative that
•m a ll buildings, price >26 per acre aum-
E A Cushman left Wednesday to
m erfallow ed, >2,000 down and balance
this was a larger, bigger and more
points
by a Portland expert.
file his name in the Indian reserva­
on crop paym ents If desired.
prosperous looking county than he
The
C A Nish and Money Kissinger
NO. 4 400 acres 8 miles from K ent tion land lottery in Spokane.
had supposed it to be.
fair building«, plenty of water, well winning numbers will be announced are back from Visiting the Seattle
fenced, good state of cultivatio n. 226 beginning August 9ib,
We beard on the »reel» ths other
expoeition which they say is no
acre* tillab le, price >7,600, cash >1,600
day
of a man who claimed to be too
balance on terms to suit purchaser.
larger
but
the
grounds
are
laid
off
Geo Hennegin, wife and children,
N o O W l acre* 4 miles from R. It . Mrs Fred Hennagin, with the chil­ more attractive than the Lewis and poor to take hie home paper, hut all
station a io u t a ll tillab le. X mo . In dren ofJohnny Cbrieteneou m a d e • Clark lair.
tbe same be read a notioe in one of
sum m erfallow grain, K o f crop goea to
our
country papers telling how to
purahaaer. Plenty of water, w in d m ill jo lly party Wednesday morning
A Dayton, Wash., farmer insured
bd <1 good ci«U*rn. Oood d w elling of 7
prevent
a horse from slobbering,
bound
for
the
ciroua
at
The
Dallea.
hie grain orop the morning of July
- room*
Price >80 per acre. >3000 cash,
and
eent
>1 50 for tbe reoeipt
terms easy on balance
The Southern Pacific has sold all U th and that evening bis aoreage
When the >1.50 worth of informs
burned;
caused
by
sparks
from
a
N o O 000 acres east of Monkland its town lots it bad in Medford
“ Teaoh your
five m ile* from railroad station, about
railroad train. This is quiok re­ tion came it said:
626 acres tillab le, good bored well 100 ft ever since the days of the first rail­
horse
to
spit.”
deep cistern, 4 room house, 200 acres In road in Oregon.
They sold for turns on money invested.
sum m erfallow , th ird of crop goea to the
The furniture and apparatus of
>500
to
>7000
a
lot,
according to
Two purse« are trying to find
purchaser, flair barn, good rich soil;
the Weston Normal school,valoed at
prioe >30 per acre, «mall paym ent down location.
their owners in Moro.
One is in
balance to suit purchaser.
over >75,000, Including the furni­
John W Brown, formerly of oharge of J M Parry at the postoffioe
N o 7 l 00 acres, 1 m ile from K en t,
ture of geveral rented oottages used
180 acres in sum m er fellow w heat. 826 Grass Valley but now located at and tbe other is in charge of County
by studerts who oould not be ac-
per acre; purchaser gets8 lOths ot crop; W alla W alla, waa in the county Clerk MoDanel at the oourt house.
oomodated
in the dormitories has
<1,000 dow n, balauce terms easy.
last week.
H e^reports his son Who is tbe owner of tbe lost money?
been Sold to a firm in W alla W alls
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I20 00 P*r acr® ® Frank, who baa been siok for some
Ordinary baking soda, either as Shipments from the school includes
m lle a ’ from R R statlob, plenty of
w ater, about 260 acres tillab le, ».ro om time, os considerable better,
a powder or dieolved In water, w ill several pianoa and will aggregate
d w elling , small orchard, barn for 10
Aooordlng to President E D Kess­ put out a small fire immediately. over two car loads.
bead horses. W in d m ill, big cistern.
About >8000 cash, balanoe terms easy. ler of Monmouth
Nqrm«l, that I t formes a gas, carbon dioxide,
A hack Containing K H Moore
M o 0 000 acres about 9 miles south- school will close at tbe conclusion wbiob smothers the fire.
A small
w £ t t f Grata V alley; about 460 acre*
and family and Mrs C K Cockran
tillab le. W ater, well fenced, no build­ of tbe present summer term and handful io a oup of water or by its and ohildren, io all eight p*ople,
ing*. >W.OO par acre. N ever been >will not be reopened until either the self is usually sufficient.
was overturned late Sunday after­
cultivated. Crop payments If desired.
people or the legislature provide ; Tbe pioneer baohelor club of
noon
west of Moro by the horse«
N o I O O n* Mory brick building funds for maintenance.
Trout Lake, Wash., entertained taking fright at, a bundle of loose
In Moro, 26x70 feet, for sale obeap and
on very easy terms.
While going down a atesp slip­ daring all last week several pensive wire lying alongside tbe road. The
pery pieoe of road In a rain storm maidens who are yearning for the only serious Injury ;wae to Mr
Mo I I B rick aD<1
A^tory
Read vl lie, 14 miles fro m , Portland to
near Bend, Crook oounty, W H oom forts of home. The general ap­ Moors who bad bis right shoulder
exchange for farm lands, w ill p a , some
Ragsdale bad the sotifortune to pearance of the ladies was ■ sur­ dislocated. Since tbe «ocident Mr
xllfferencei pries >16,000.
NO 12 Appartment hooea In Port- break both front wheels of his anto. prise to every one. Tbe party con­ M has been troubled with ths re­
* land bringing good monthly rent. He came borne uotll he oould get sisted of several beautiful women, sulting soreness, but is recovering
Price >«000, to exchange for farm land
nicely.
new wheel« to oontinne the trip. ~ dressed in tbs helghth of fashion.
|a Sherman county.
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OEO. H . K IL D E U K A N D , Pre»
Mrs Rutledge acted as installing
officer at the Kent meeting of
Rebecca lodge Wednesday evening.
Next Monday July 19th Mrs Rut­
ledge will install the officers of
Wasco Rebecca lodge.
The common house fly has been
foond to he tbe oauee of typhoid
fever and this month the cities of
Chicago and New York have started
war on them.
Do your part h j
sejuring window and door screens
for your residenoe, at tbe Moro
Hardware store.
W riting from, Apple Crest, the
acreage property G L Rohr has
purchased near Portland; and where
The O. Man is visiting his daughter,
Mrs R., D C sav«! “ I am enjoying
high life, above the clouds, in fact,
We desire to publish all the new«
for two days past clouds and us
o f every part of Sherman county,
were so olosely related that all I
but if you bide your item under a
had to do was to walk out and take
bushel It doea nobody good.
a bite. The freehnetis wae fresh.”
A1 Hubbard, of Newberg, who
The farmers around Vale, Oregon,
ba» worked »everal seasons in Sher­
have hit upon a oew crop that real­
man county, came Wednesday to
ises for them from >50 to 1100 per
take bis old plaoe on a oom bine.
acre. The new feature introduced
P I I Buxton and family left into their farming is marketing al­
Wednesday for Forest Grove where falfa seed.
Heretofore the alfalfa
Mr B formerly lived before locating hay crop has been their largest
at M oro. They will be gone about money producer hut it has been
ten days.
found that the soil is better adapted
Mrs Nellie Hulse has as visitors, to the raising of tbe seed, and that
her
Grandma Cook, her sister it is more profitable to out one early
Nerva, and her mother Mrs L G crop sod then to allow the alfalfa
Rose. Mrs Rose and daughter live to go to seed. I t is not uncommon
for the yield to bring >120 an acre.
at Parma, Idaho.
T b it is exolttaiv» of tbe first bay
Your greatest aid in harvest is
crop.
your teams. See to it that your
The rains of the last two weeks
horses are not pestered by flies, and
that they are properly fed and have been of tremendous benefit,
uot only to spring hut to fall grain.
watered and the harness f il s .
In several localities fall grain is
Whenever a break appears in kid
about ready to harvest, in others it
gloves plaoe the edges as closely
le still in the m ilk.
The cool
together as possible and apply
weather and moisture will fatten
planter on the wrong side, pressing
the berry and make the yield much
it firmly to the kid. This gives a
heavier.
Spring gram in some
much better
appearauoe
than
localities was parched and dry, and
utitcb, and if properly done, will
the growers were gloomy, predict­
la«t a« long ae the glove.
ing orop failure. On tbe same fields,
In a heavy wind and rain Btorm wbiob looked a week ago as if there
at Utica, N. Y. July 5th thousands would be no wheat several bushels
of small frogs fell, covering the an acre are now predicted.
sidewalks to such an extent that
The moving picture show put on
walking was difficult. The rails of by Aldridge A Morris Tuesday
a railroad for half a mile were
evening was a partial failure by
covered and rendered so slippery
reason of the air pressure leaking
the speed of the train was materially
from the reservoir. This was tiied
lessened.
to be remedied before tbe show but
The first authentic offer for new
grain was made Fred Hungate, of
Pullm an, W ash, who farms 1800
acres of wheat in Whitman and
Garfield counties, was offered 90
cents for buestam wheat, >1.10 per
cwt for oats and >100 for barley.
He did not sell. Mr Hungate will
begin harvesting
with a ooip
binsd machine this week.
As an
indication of the trend of Eastern
markets >1 35 are being offered
Pens?Ivania farmer« with no sale«
could not with applianoea in Moro.
The defective part waa aent by ex­
press to The Dalles Iron Works the
next day for repairs while the peo­
ple waited io Moro fur its return.
Ths picture reels were good, best
seen In Moro for a long time, but
the dim light by lack of air pressure
caqeed some dissatisfaction. Man­
ager Rudolf was not to blame as
the leak was supposed to have been
repaired before the sbnw was put
on.
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Jas Woods waa awakened at 4 a
Miss Ma« Rust was visiting ip
m Wednesday in time to see a
Tbe
Dalles this week.
coyote help himself to a fat chickeu.
For
Postal Cards, and Postal
John M cIntyre, brother of Hugh
Card
cases,
try Tbe Observer Book
M d n ty re , and an old lime resident
8 tor«.
o< 8 her to an oounty, died at Athens
Lloyd Dunaho oame up from Tb«
laet «u<«k.
Dalles to work with Milo Elliott
The Observer received several
through harvest.
,
pounds of cherries from Old Y am ­
Stati«oery,
paper, pens, ink,
hill through Mr Derby’s home folks
pencil« and all sorts of ictus, at the
at Lafayette, this week.
Observer Book Store.
Old type makes the very beet of
J X Irb y , general merchandise
Babbitt metal. We have it for s»b
dealer
In Kent, was in Portland
and when you need any call at Ths
this
week
on business.
Observer office. Price is right.
Ora E llio tt and W A Woods were
Freeh vegetables and fruit in
in
Tuesday having Mitchell & Foss
season at Moro Com’l Co.
Ship
attend
to some needed harvest
mentft arrive Tuesdays and Fridays
Prioes moderate. Give ue a trial repair work.
on these goods.
Moro Hardware and Implement Co
THE CALIFORNIA BVILXMNG AT A^T^P?EXPOSITION, SKATTUL
| Main Sherman county headquarters for Farm
| Machinery and Supplies. 1 Drapers for all
X_ Harvester and Headers such as Holt, Best,
S Hodge, McCormic etc.
ALWAYS ON HAND
L in k B e ltin g , L e a th e r B e ltin g , L a c e L e a th e r
E n g in e p a c k in g , O ils, R o p e , M a c h in e E x tr a s , e tc .
Deering and Hodge Headers.
Opportunity
K n o c k s O n c e a t Every M a n ’s D oor.
T he E lchenberger ran ch near
H ham ko, w e ll im p ro v e d , h a lf In
c u ltiv a tio n , bal. posture, a t >16.00
per acre. >3000.00 caah bal. to s u it
purchoM -r.
H40 acre* o f tin e fa rm land, m ile
south o f Wasco, w e ll Im proved,
a l* u t 2UU aare« in s u m m e rfa llo w
>5,000.(Ml (‘ oh I), hal.eHHy te rm *,
F in e residence pro,H*rty in Waaoo
w in d m ill, ciste rn , p riv a te w ater
system , 6 room cottage, near rtan-
dow m ill. 8 1500.IM), one t h ir d (*a*>h
bol. on easy te rm *.
Parsonage p ro p e rty o f the U n ite d
R re tn re n c h u rc h , In Wasco, for
>900. O lie -th lrd cash balance on
easy te rm *. >100 o ft'fo r spot cash.
M y residence pro,a*rty in Wasco,
7 rooms l>e«i<le* b a thro o m , p a n try
and a ttic . Large ba*emeut. Con­
nected w ith w a te r and «ewer s y s ­
tem«; tw o lot«; house n h w ly p a in te d
new fence am i new «Idew alk, a ll
lu fln e coudlUon.
Alao several b u ild in g lots in d if ­
ferent part« o f to w n .
C. J. Bright, Wasco, Ore.
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Reduced Slabwood Prices
On
b o g rd
ra r«
nt
llir s c
p o l i i In
i
Wuw, Ub,
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DiMsi; Hi? Cuoa, or Mon
A good respectable saving guaranteed wood buyers
For price or information write or call up
Independent (fiarehouse fi milling fio
R. H . M c K e a n , M a n a g e r, W a s c o . O re g o n
Grain Storage Rates Reduced
to 5 0 cents per ton
At all our Grain Storage Warehouses in Sherman County
, No warehouse charges on Barley stored on exchange.
New Silverware Designs
Louis XVI Pattern
T h r e e F in e A c r e a g e T r a c t s
The latest stiver ware designs which
harmonizes ,*>rfcctly with the period it
represents and in rioh simplicity it rivals
the beat examples of silver ware any
where. It ia made extra heavy plate and
Two are inside and one just
outside the City Limits o f
Portland.
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Costs no more than othsr Silverware :
HAND PAINTED CHINA
FINE BUILDINGS ON THE PLACE
and
FOR SALE or
; Exchange for first class Wheat Land
CUT GLASS ASSORTMENT
la complete and up-to-date.
Have watches and watoh chain« in
several different style« and
prioes.
Now is the time to have your time keeper
pn^ln repair (or the summer*« hard nengo
• J. O. ELROD,
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P o rtla n d , O r.
: i 519-520- 521 Corbett Bldg.
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Opposite Post Office
J < w e l« r , W a e c o , O r e g o n
W a ta h ln«n««S»r fa r
O . R .< N . R«
5th and Morrison St.
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