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HEADQUARTERS FOR HARVEST SUPPLIES Canvas Groceries - Cured Meats Waterbags Rope Vegetables Fruits Shoes, Crockery ♦ Gloves, Overalls, Shirts, Underwear, Blankets, and everything fo r harvest men. WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY. GIVE US A TRIAL. Roads are very dry end duety, Mre Chorley Powell la on the eiok and straw is too valuable tbie fatl lieL Hans Thompson was a visitor on to think of strewing them. Grandma DeMose ie the gn«et of Tueeday. her daughter-io-law.Mrs Ina Dakin Roy Powall began hauling his DeMoes, at the springe. wheal to Moro Wedneeday. .. Attorney Joseph A Wilson of this Arthur Phillipe and wife were olty wae oalled sooth of Grass Val over from John Day river Tueeday. ley Saturday on legal business. Robert Hunter wae ready for the Mr and Mrs E H Moore and the threshers Saturday. All beaded and little boys, are visiting friends and stacked. relatives in Portland this week. Charley Powell had more wheat “Il looks very much like rain to than be expected; 4,000 sacks from day,” was the common remark on 400 acres. Tuesday; and it did, but it didn’t. Miss Nora Floook ie a favorite at Omer Sayres finished bis harvest tendant at Hotel Moro dining room work yesterday with his new Baby this summer. Holt oombine, which has given per Little Miss Franoee Rutledge has fect satisfaction. a fine kitten, so intelligent as to be Miss Jeanette Rutledge ie now at a real trioketer. home after a prolonged visit with 8am Brisbin was compelled to Grandma Vintin and Aunt Lottie, lay off from harvesting last week, at Grass Valley. uu account of sickness. A saloon brawl in wet Condon Miss Ge:tie Henrichs recovered ended in the killing of J R Wells, her lost bracelet advertised in The August 19tb, hit on the head by a Old Reliable last week. sou of the saloon keeper. It is getting toward the 1st of We are able to announce to her September yet there are many big many friends that Mrs. E E Barxee uncut burdocks and thistles. hae left the hospital much improved n Put out your nampfiree wherever you go. W B Johnston and wife returned home on Tueeday. A want ad in The Observer ie what you want if you want any thing. Anonymous oommunioatione find a plaoe in the waste basket at this offioe. Rev John Tonkins lost hie wheat orop in the stack, by a mystery fire Saturday night. Isn’t the weed law ever going to be enforced in this oity and oounty? And if not, why not J Mrs N W Silver ie having an en joyable visit from her daughter and grand daughter from Portland, Mre R 8 Wiloox and Mies Marvel Wiloox. J. M. Patterson, aooompanied by E C Cheeebro and Mr Dunsmore, were in Sherman oountv this week in the interest of The Dalles agri cultural fair. 2 J s GEO. H . H IL D E B R A N D , Pres. GEO. M E D L E R , Treasurer, Don Wheat has two 4-horee teams 39 hauling for Twoby Bros, from Moro 39 to DesChutes, on aooount of the 39 Harriman rail road construction. 8 39 Fred Hennagin and Martin Han in health and is now visiting with One of the teams is bandied by Aden Axtell. 39 sen finished their own and Charles frieirtis in Portland. Poole’s harvesting Saturday—in all Henry Gosh was in the city T<vo members of the Boesen orew 9(0 acres. were laid off by accidents last week, Wednesday and rented his (arm to O He and Col C A B.uckley spent a day in Engineer Chase lost a finger, and Louie Pape for a term. o o the city last week atteoding to ex Joseph Rutledge had hie right large Mrs G will now take a well earned <9 vacation. Mr. Pape has rented hie ecutive business of the development toe put out of joint. €> form east of Monklaud. league. * You can buy a railroad ticket at © That poor old Mowry dog will Rufus and Grant school districts Rufus, under orders of the railroad <9 X have consolidated, and a new school commission. And that is all the ac disgust people no more, but chloro ® Link Belting, L eath er B elting, L ace L eath er €9 bouse worth $5,000 is to be built at commodation one finds at the de forming him would have been the g Engine packing, Oils, Rope, M achine E xtras, etc. more humane treatment. There pot (so oalled). Rufus. 39 are other faithful old friends of o The development league has dep W S Coeper of Independence, was Deering and Hodge Headers. 39 mao that would be belter dead. a up last week looking after bis Klon utised Wm Raymond to take a series The steamer Tacoma, of the U. dike farm interests. He is still a of Sherman oounty views whiob Jas M DeMosa will exhibit at the 8. R M. arrived at Port Townsend heavy weight. coooooooooooooooooooooooo Monday, steaming around the Provision men of Portland are A-Y-P-E io Seattle. world from Baltimore, Md. She John Christiansen, wife and babe, in the market early for Thanksgiv brings news of tbe'dieoover y of relics ing. They are now cornering the returned from the springs on the of a prehistoric race in far away 19th, on account of serious illness K n o c k s O n c e a t Every M a n ’s Door. Turkey supply. Alaska. of the little one, which Dr O J Filer’s King of the Cattle Ring k 640 aerea of fine farm land, mile The Eicheuherger ranch near Sam Barr is dead. Should he Goflio immediately took charge of, i south of Waaeo, well Improved, Hhuuiko, well improved, half in Company carries a crack band, a be so fortunate as to find his good ! ala ut 200 aerea in aummerfallow cultivation, I ml. pasture, at $15.00 concert orchestra, and presents one and which is now out of danger. L $5,000.00 eaeb, bai. eaay term», per acre. $.3000.00 cash bal. to suit old father acoross the river Styx, Showgoiug people in general look purchaser. of the most entertaining and in wonder if that last dispatch: “Bury ; Fine residence property in Waaeo forward with pleasure for the annual structive dramas ever written. My residence property in Waaeo, windmill, cistern, private water father where he is;”will be called system, 5 room cottage, near Kan- 7 rooms beaidee bathroom, pantry Tramps started an 98 000 fire at visit of the Filer show. He always up? His son oomee from the east dow mill. 81500.00, one third casti and attic. Large basement Con brings a clean, wholesome entertain nected with water and sewer sys bai. ou easy terms. a station five miles west of Walla to bis funeral. tems; two lota; house newly painted ment, and his company is composed Walla, on the N P Ry, Saturday Parsonage proiierty of the United new feuce ami new sidewalk; all Citizens in the Fort Rook region, of ladies and gentlemen. Rretnren church, in Wasco, for iu fine condition. morning; two warehouses and 4.0Q0 Lake oounty, are too tender hearted. $900. One-tldrd cash balance ou Friends of Wm F roe be will be Also several building lots in dif sacks of grain were destroyed. easy terms. $100 off for spot cash< They are watching for fenoe cutting ferent part» of towu. pained to learn of the death of his Mrs Ed Smith, {prmerly of Grass fiends and give notice that when valley, and for yearsa sufferer from estimable wife, which occurred on caught they wiii be proseouted “so- the 20th, of canoer of the stomach rheumatism, has laid aside the old- cording to law.” What nonsense; at Waeci. Mrs F was very highly oooooooooooooooooooooooooo fftne crutches, and is now enjoying shoot the miserable cuss at eight. esteemed by a large cirole of friends excellent health at their new home Jim Finch is sending out a lot of and acquaintanceer in Gresham. Fd is doing a good stuff entitled, “sensations and emo Trains over the C S Ry began a business at buying and selling tions of a man found guilty of mules and horses. new schedule Monday morning. rqurder in the first d e g r e e H e ’d While at Portland last month The mail north closes now at 8 50 better devote the few remaining R. H . M c K e a n , M a n a g e r, W a s c o , O re g o n The O. Man estimated the pace of a m at Moro; going south at 2.50 days allotted to him on earth, to comers and goers daily at 6,000, at p m....Trains north bound are sup the study of “emotions of Ralph which some wiser folk bugged their posed to pass Moro at 9 20; south Fisher shot to death iu bis office at hound al 3 20. FULL LINE OE BUILDER SUPPLIES eyes. Railway ticket records show the bands of an assassin.” The Misses Peterson of California 12,000 passengers daily—597,600 There is always hope for a man since June. The sight of four trains who were guests of their cousin Miss who oan find employment; for there _____ W e have added a full line of bu 11 de r s upp II cx . H ¡ 1 ¿ U I I H 1 I , t I l O M V H H t n H i T v t H l i f<>F b r ( lf li$ 4 - I V “ n i r-u I V I u r u i w disembarking at the Union depot Is something inspiring in labor; They were most agreeably surprised one morning—all delayed, and none an act performed, a deed done. GET OUR PRICE8 ON with less than 14 coaches; all arriv at the progress which Moro and the What is idleness but waste, ennui, ing within one hour—made him sick county have made since their last perpetual despair. Doors, W indows, Frames, Lime, Plaster, Cement, Lumber Better far to of summer travel, and he went to visit here years ago. and Cedar Posts. W ill quote for delivery on O. R. & N . or wear out than to rust out; than to Apple Crest, where he wheeled him . TfownotoMOue Esther Mitchell has Colum bia Southern main line. live an inert, listless, senseless life, self under a cherry tree, three times been returned to the Steilacoom asy See us before laying in your Coal or Wood. and then finally be stranded, on a day, for 15 days. lum an opium fiend, found in a worse than a desolate shore. All kinds of mill feed and family flour. No Warehouse charges on barley stored on exchange. Those who drew blanks in the Chinaman’s shack at Departure One thousand catalogues of the government land lottery need feel bay. She is the last of the offensive Sherman oounty fair which is to no disappointment for of the many Beoton county holy rollers, the one be held io Moro, Ootober 1st and lucky ones who drew homesteads who murdered her brother for kill 2d have been printed by the state few were fortunate in getting land ing Cretfield, the alleged priest of ' -A- . - »■« - b o a r d . c a r . a l t h e . , p a l m « printer and are now in the hands as good as that which may be pur the outrageous colony. The ruin of George Mqwry, secretary of the chased In any good farming section wrought by that miserable wretch fair, and ready for distribution. already improved, and near to the in the nameof religion, should be a Anyone who desires one of these markets. Besides, a large part ol caution, to teach people bow iu fu A good respectable saving guaranteed wood buyers catalogues or any information re the Coeur d’ Alene holdings have ture to deal with gangs like the ho garding the fair should apply to since been destroyed by forest fires. ly rollers. the secretary or to any member of If tbs 300,000 applicants bad just James Smith, a jolly fat man, at the board of directors. Ae will he f l I I I I " I - H H 1 IH - 1 -1 I I 1 1 I1 I 1 I I E hU - l- l-l-H -H d t 1-1 made an estimate of their railroad Wheting, Ind., is the head of all the seen from the premium list, very fare from their homes all over the manufacturing departments of the liberal prises have been offered for union to the land office and return, Standard. This recipe for turning almost every class and breed of besides other expenses in the big oil into butter was shown to him: livestock, and for the different va lottery, a*nd then remained at home Heavy oils, of no use for lllumin- Louis XVI Pattern rieties of farm and household pro they could have pooled their wealth ants, are passed through red-hot duce as well, and there is every and bought the whole 700,000 acres tubes to decompose them into fixed reason to believe that there will be The latest silver ware designs which at 92 50 per acre and each would gases, metbone and ethone. These a large number of entries, and that harmonizes perfectly with the period it have had an interest in the land and are then converted into acetic and tbs fair will be In every way suo- represents and in rich simplicity it rivals -> money left to speculate with. The other acida. These are transformed oesaful. Drop into the Secretary’s the best examples of silver ware any • investment would have been a good into glycerol eeters of fate by heat offioe the next time yon are in town where. It is made extra heavy plate and • one; but no, blundering Old Uncle ing the glyoerine, and by combin and gat a catalogue. Sam must make a mess of it. ing fats in proportion a pure butter Main Sherman county headquarters for Farm | Machinery and Supplies. Drapers for all | Harvesler and Headers such as Holt, Best, | Hodge, McCormic etc. | The O b s e rv e r MORÍ), B B B B M A N C O .,O R EG O N : The' house fly seems to become .Hot coffee, sand witches, etc., at full grown in about four minutes Biggs hotel. Hot Coffee and Sandwiches, at this year. F A 8ayres new baby Holt com bine has been and is now doing pom« Are you looking for alfalfa hay? fine work. Inquire of Sheriff Freeman. -vtf—• — * Bear it in mirfd that Sherman Don’t borrow The Observer. Sub county must he represented at The scribe, and have it your own. Dalles fair October 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Passengers will find a most ex Instead of praying for strength to cellent lunch at the Biggs hotel. hear misfortunes why wouldn’t it be For Postal Cards, and Postal i good idea to pray for, sense to Card cases, try The Observer Book avoid them? Store. Americans abroad are spending Skating at the rink every Wed 160,000,000 this year. Next year nesday and Saturday evening from they’d aught to come out here and 8:20 to 10:30. See adv. make a comparison with our great Dr J R Morgan will be in Moto and growing Pacific New West. 1st to 15th, Wasoo 15th to 30th, Miss Allis Bayley opened the of each month to practice deutlstry. Boardman school Monday. Miss B See the Independent Warehouse is a popular teacher; this is her 4th and Milling Company, Wasco, be term at Boardman. Mrs R T Mor fore laying in your wood and coal. gan came io to meet her on her ar While Mr Siler does not especially rival last week. feature bis band and orchestra they Mr Filer has been happily suc are conceded to he two of the finest cessful in selecting vaudeville acts musical organizations traveling. that are clean, pleasing, and of high "Geo. W Berrian Js agent for the artistic excellence in the (between) Springfield Fire and Marine Insur acts, in his splendid presentation of ance Co., and is prepared to write the drama King of the Cattle Ring policies on grain and other risks. Fried trout, roasted grouse, baked Just received, a car load of lime, venison, roast« bear--steak, topped cement and plaster. (Wt our prices out with huckelberry pie, is the bill before buying elsewhere. Indepen- of fare mapped out by an excursion nt Warehpuae jmd Milling Co., party which left the South End for the mountains Monday. They will Wasco. pick their own huckelherriee. A man can seldom rely on his One of the strongest features with friends to tell him when to grasp an opportunity. But they never fail to the King of the Cattle Ring show chide him afterwards for bis lack of is the male quartet, the famous Cairnes Brothers. Four brothers foresight. with naturally beautiful and highly Fresh vegetables and fruit in cultivated voices, whose repertoir season at Moro Com’l Co. Ship ments arrive Tuesdays and Fridays. includes the best in pnpblar and classic music. Prices moderate. Give us a trial on these goods. We observe that spme of our ex changes follow their reports of the Buy the genuine imported aven- sensational legal battle in the U S erious carbolineum; the imitation being offered Is only a temporary court at Portland, to settle the bluff remedy if at all. If genuine one railroad strife along DesChutes river application lasts for aP time. Ask with advertisements of a patent nos to see our sealed pao?xges. The trum said to be a specific for nausea. A B Wolfard’s, Biggs. E u re k a Lod«« N o . 121. ' A . K A A. M., Moro. Or. With US. Meets the first and third Thursday evenings of each month Visiting members cordially Invited to meet By order of the W. M. J. M. Parry, Secretary. B e th le h e m C h a n te r O.E a. Regular oomrou Alcatlon each 2d and 4th Thurs day evenings M onthly. By order W.M. Mrs Helen Parry, Beoy No 7* M a r e L ed ge, N o . 113, I. O. O. F. Moro. Oretfon. ; Meets every Saturday Levenlng at 7:30 o’clock. 'V isiting mem tiers are 1 cordially Invited. Mem bers are expected to be J. O. Elliott, N . O. present. Robert M. Brash. Kecretarv.________ The price of The Observer Is $ 1.60 per year. 76 sent* * for six months, 60 cents lor roar months—hot If paid in advanoe we aeeept $2-60 In fu ll for 2 years. Shorter te'm s than one year 12J< oents per month. A Blue Mark here «ill answer an Inquiry, when entered upon owr calendar, giving the date o f the paper mb the date at which your current subscription expires. FR ID A Y ...............August 27, 1909 Type writer paper at The Observ er office. First class lunch served at a 2d class price at .the Biggs hotel. Photograph postal cards of Moro scenery for sale at Observer Book Store. If you want Io buy read The Ob server. If you want to sell adver tise in it. • e«- -«*• -duir Don’t forget the place to get your moneys worth in a watch is at L W Rim»’ Jeweler, Wasco. Fresh supply of genuine carbolen- ium just opened at tbeObserver Book Store. Fountain Pen Pocket Holders, latest, safest and beet, Observer Book Store. Stationery, paper, pens, ink, pencils and all sort* of ictas, at the Observer Book Store. Observer Book Store. Scenic picture poet cards, of views botanists rates will be put into near Moro, actual photo work, for effect by the transcontinental rail sale at Observer Book Store. roads identically with thbse that We desire to publish all the news brought 63,000 settlers to the Paci of every part of Sherman oounty, fic Northwest last spring. The but il you hide your item under a rates go in effect September 16 and bushel it doee nobody good. continue until Ootober 15. Old type makes the very best of Avenarius Carbolineum is a germ Babbitt metal. We have it for sale destroyer. Decay being a germ, it and when you need any call at The destroys the cause of decay in posts Observer office.. Price is right. or timber. The US.Government, Postal Card Albums fine, in doth the ORNCo., Multnomah county, covers, etc., from 25c up, at The Ob and city of Portland, are making server Book Store. general use of it on bridge timbers, ■ Our “ ads” attract attention and etc. It is the best chicken lioe de advertise. When you get our ad stroyer on the market, and will vertising, you get businessbringers. sweeten and preserve a water trough, pig pen, stable, eto.and keep away No warehouse charges on barley, dies. It is a guaranteed article. stored on exchange, at Independent The Observer Book Store is distrib Warehouse and Milling Company, utor of tbs pure article in Sherman Wasco. oounty. K C Davis, proprietor of the Grass The Dalles Chronicle tells a good Valley Barn, promptly attends all story on our old-time friend Havely oalls, day or night. Animals given sx-mayor at Dufur, who is a great the very best of care. Charges are potato produoer, always having 40, right. 60 or 80 aores a year. This season ■ | | 1 1 1 1 1 1 H * M * ■ I I 1 1 1 1 1 I'1*4*4 they turned out better thau ever, • • A number of my patrons are ,, and a friend congratulated him on ■; not aware that for some months ;; his good fortune, but he was inclin • ; past the Moro Commercial Co. ; ; ed to be pessimistic about it. When ; ; has had my bread on sale; any ; asked if the orop wasn’t better, and ;; purchases of bread at this ,, the potatoes larger? be admitted it J ; store will he appreciated by { J was so, “The best I’ve ever had, hut Mrs. K. Anderson. *; dog dang It th a j’ra aint any small ! H m u m H U H H 1* * * on«« to M d to th« pigs.“ Iu Skamania county yellow jack ets have microbes on their stingers They also carry a butcher knife, a hot poker, an electric battery, bottle of cayenne pepper, and the concen trated extract of toothache, ingrow ing nails and painters oolic, says a resident. JU LIU S M E D L E R . S e c reta ry , C H A S . G O LL1HER. Manager. It takes tact and ability of a high order to organize a show that will be well balahced in all departments, viz: a good band and orchestra, good specialties, and if a dramatio show a drama strong enough to win recognition without the .other fea The silver wells (so called), east tures. Mr Filer happily possesses of Bear creek, Crook county,, are this ability. attracting considerable notice this Simmons Brothers have 68 aores summer. The “walls” consist of of Mammoth red clover that stands several spouting springs, the water “breast high” to the Bend Bulletin of which is strongly impregnated man, and so thick that it is difficult with a substance resembling silver. to walk through. He claims tnat it If a bar of Iron, or any similar ob will go three tone to the sore. This ject, is left in the water 24 hours, it field was seeded in June, with wheat will come out thoroughly coated as a nurse crop, using six pounds of with Ml* substance. This silver is clover seed per acre. deposited around the wells several R M Powell, a Crook oounty far Inches thiok in places. Years ago mer, will threen 100 acres of alfalfa a oompany was formed and a hole for the seed. Alfalfa seed retails at drilled at the wells 800 or 900 „feet 25 c lh in Prineville, and the user deeo. The result of this protract takes every chance on its purity, vi ing was not generally known. -¿The tality and adaptability to tbvroli- hole was plugged and work aban mate. With seed raised at home doned.- The question now arises, everything is vouched for, and Mr is this so-called silver a mineral nf Powell has done a good thing which value and are people contemplat hie neighbor* ahould appreoiata. | ing developing It? ALWAYS ON HAND O p p o r tu n ity C. J. Bright, Wasco, Orc. Independent Warehouse & milling (¡o um m i Reduced Slabwood Prices Wco, M ttoli, DsMo:; lay Cwi, or Moro New Silverware Designs is made.” When he read it he groaned. “It sounds easy don’t it?” ‘But said be, the Standard Co isn’t spending a cent of its hard-earned ten nr eleven hundred million dol lars on any euoh game as ztbat. It never dreamed of manufacturing butter out of oil. It has a big Y ou w G w ant u s to plant at Whiting, which turns out have it w h en y o u see illuminating and lubricating oils, o u r samples and hear waxes, greases and other things, e a OUR PRICES s 8 but butter is noton the menu, and there is no ohanoe of its getting there. Ever since thia butter-mak ing fiction was started we have been overrun with offers from oom- Ç a /J a l t h h q ffte« In nt«d o f a n yth in g e »fiiisainn uierobants who want to in 1h« tin« q f nell, and fy>m people who make butter tubs who want uh as a cus tomer. There ie ae. much ebanoe of our making butter ae there It of our menuisoturtngsffe.” Costs no more than other Silverware ; W e W ant Y o u r HAND PAINTED CHINA Jobwork and L CUT GLASS Is complete and up-to-date. Have watches and watch chains in several different style« and price«. Now is the time to have yonr time keeper put in repair for the summer’s hard uange. ♦ ♦ PKIÑTING ~ J! 1 L. W. ROSS, J e w e le r , W a a e o , O re g o n Watoh ln«p««t«r He the O. R.AN. Ry nun* I M 11 I I U U