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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1909)
Judge B F Butler has been elect The moon WO« full again last ed mayor of Condon. night. Unole Esra says money don’t talk Bora: To Mr and Mrs C G H uis, half eg much ss them who ain’t got Ootobsr 23 i, s son. •imy. Dinnu forget The Highlanders at Chris Anderson has sold his floe the opera bouse tonight. bunoh of Colaoths oolts to Martin A man may think he ie sharp Hon It J Gina of Multnomah, is Hausen. and still be taken in by the sharper. in Sherman oouoty this week. The more haste tbe leee speed, is Buying a flying machine these Leon Strong carries his left arm an axiom often realised by furious days ie easier than sprouting winge. H A Page of Morrow oouoty was a Moro visitor Tuesday. io a sling as the result of too much athletics * drivers of motor oars. A men’s gratitude is always st The banquet habit may be tbe its best just after you do him a A new Columbia river steamboat making of the bead, but It is the favor. will be built this winter to take the ruination of tbe stomeoh. name and the run of The Dalles Tbe man who is too poor to lend “The duck has no sure crop.” Iu money to his frieude h*s few City. this respect tbe duck sod a certain enemies. The hear hunters are predicting a kind of farming are alike. bard winter. Whether so or not, Gray hairs may he honorable bat When grafters get to telling stories it depends upon whose bead they prepare for one and he on the safe on each other you get the real thing are. side. (n muck raking. The Bend Bulletin aays the new Don’t build sir castles until you Dr Marie M Goffin returned home are certain you have a tenant for Walker journal at Redmond has e x cellent financial backing: the D I P Wednesday from the wedding of them. M r and Mrs Frank C Miller, at St Co When a woman makes up her ’ Louis. Now ie tbs time to plant your tu mind it ie apt to be a flniahed pro Mr and Mrs Wm Morrison, ac duct. lips, narcissus, hyacinths, and other 4)ulba. to secure beautiful bloom in companied by their daughter, Miss Tbe good wbo die young might Elizabeth, are Dalles city visitor» the spring have been like tbe rest of us if given W ould you lik e th is b ea u tlfu f piano for a p resent? W e sh a ll p o sitiv ely this week. The Apple Show at 8pokane will a chance. giv e it to som e of our cu sto m ers. A oar of Rock springs lump coal require double the amount of floor Being patient is a condition C«me to our store, see and try this splendid Instrument. We will tell you all about our plan of giving space for fruit display that wss nec- free from dirt, has been reoeived by greatly prized— by others than the the Independent Warehouse and this plena away. Thia Is a present worth having. Thia piano Is of the celebrated UPTON make. It carries esssry lust year. patient one. the manufacturers Ten Year Guarantee. We cordially Invite your Inspectloa. Milling Co, Wasco. Mrs Vose, wife of. Prof Vose, o f ■ Miss Nellie McPherson arrived the Upper Hay canyon school, ar- j All the officers of the defunct home Wednesday after a Bummer at rived on the 23d, and opened Rut- Oregon Trust Co. have been arrested Beattie during tbe exposition. and are are held iu bonds of 95,000 lege school on the 25th. W N Brown ♦ bas sold hie Kent each. I D Pike and family, and Mr and hotel property to Bert Boardman, Little Miss Alioe, daughter of Mr It is never too late to mend a Mrs Don Wheat, made the round Hot coffee, sand witches, etc., at who beoame boniface Monday. broken resolution. ■/, trip to Chenoweth, below the Dalles and Mrs G E Thompson, has beeu Bigg* hotel. Full arid complete atock of school quite ill with a sore throat, but is Prolonged visits are apt to deal Bunday, in Mr Pike’s auto. There is a lot of people hunting MOHO. B H K B M AM C O .,O » B O n N : hooks, including High School books, now able to sit up and read. hospitality a death blow. Blue & Son made quite un exten trouble nut of tWIÍson. E u re k a Lodge N o . 121. Assessor Otto Peetz hrs assessed just opened at the Obeerver Book sive trip into the 320 acre home- When you have occasion to nail a PasEenger* will find a most e x Store. Hirst come first served. A . r <k A. M., Moro, Or. rtead strip south of Bend, but it 364 dogs in Sherman county, aggre lie u*e the hammer of truth. Meets the first and third cellent lunch at the Bigg* hotel Married. At tbe borne of the bride gating $3 740. Now kill off the cur had no attractions for them. „ Thursday evening* of e«<’b Carried to excess we have noticed Chicken dinner ev ry day at A. m onth V isiting n»em»*rs tribe, and let’s be done with worth at Bt Louis, Oregon, October 25th, H o n M A Moody was up from c o rd ia lly Invited to meet B Wulfard’s Bigg* lunch counter. that dignity becomes a chronic dis Frank C Millet and Mis* Ida Goffin, less dogs. The Dalles Bunday, looking over riti» us. B y order of the W . M. ease. Rev Father Hork officiating. Con J. M. P arry, Secretary. For Postal Cards, and Postal Henry F Meyers will have an bis Rutledge farm. The round trip gratulations are extended. Tbe One can never estimate the salary Card cases, try The Observer Book B e th lo h a m C hop to r auction sale Saturday, November was made in ou« day in his auto. happy couple arrived in Moro Wed No 78 0 .1 4 . of a man by the work he claim s to Store. 6th, at hie farm 2% miles south of Kegular communication Fred Meseinger has as fine apples nesday evening and will make their have done. Wasco, beginning at 10 a m. C G each 2d am i 4th 'lhuro- A want ad lu The Observer is at his Sherman county high lai|d home in Sherman county.. day evenings m o n th ly. salesman. Poverty throws,he door wide and what you want if you want any- By order W . M . orchard near Erskinville, as any Married: In Dalles city on tbe M rs H elen Parry. Hecy hing. sleeps without the fear of thieves one may wish for. Large, fiue fla C om m ercial reports are sending 24lh, Rev Father Bronsgeest offici that break in and steal. M o r o L o d g e , N e . 113, Fountain Pen Pocket Holders, vored, and free from pests of any '“dollar wheat” abroad by ship loads ating, John B Thompson,, of Rut l . o . U . F . Moro, Oregon. but there is none of that variety in If a man spends bis youth aright kind. latest, safest and beet, Observer , Meets every Saturday ledge, end Mies fTBTW^Trmichael. the Inland E m pire. Muet have got o ’clo ck. _______________________ he w ill not iu after day a hit ve to MFandWreTCotTnedn Wilt be at The groom was accompanied by bis ’ V isiting members are it at Scappose. mourn over wasted years. heme this winter at the residence ol Stationery, paper, pens, ink, eoWlsUy In v ite d . M em sister Nellie and brother Maurice, bers are expected to be Mrs Nellie Hulse suffered a re the bride by her sister Bertba. The Read the new deal at I P Hardin’s Hun W F Jackson, who expects to pencils and all sorts of ictas, at the J. O. E llio tt, N . O . preaent. lapse several days ago, but has ral happy couple returned Wednesday Moro Cash Store. Everything first sojourn at Long beach California Observer Book Store. Robert M. Brash. Secretary. lied frond it and at present writing stopping off at Moro; en route to class, and everybody treated right with Mrs Jackaon, until next spring, Skating at the rink every Wed- The price of The Obeerver te 11.60 appears better than before it occur their home near Rutledge. It doesn’t require much effort to for the benefit of her health. nnr rear. 7» oents for six ssontba, »0 oents neaday and Saturday evening from red, and may he said to he steadily h r foor luoovbs—bet if P*td *** * d grumble, there is such a painful The business of raising hogs for See adv. Dr James Withyoombe and asso •a. sul »2.S0 In fe ll for » y*ere. Hborter 8:00 to 10:00. improving pressure of things requiring m an’s market is not a new thing to John M m. then one year «*«“• P*r noontb ciates, to the number of about 12 S eeth e Independent Warehouse We ought to thank the N P R Co active men, lecturers, journalists grumble. A Blue Mark here will answer an B Holman, and in going into it at In q u iry, when entered upon onr calender, and M illies Company, Wasco, be lor cancelling the lecture dates of and promoters in general of agri this time he has double the oppor A very fine assortment of Ladies giving the date o f the paper asthe date at fore laying in your woiid and coal. 'Cook, of north pole and Mt McKin cultural pursuits, were in Moro which your current subscription expires. furs and muffs, fur capes and col tunities for suocese that existed in Dr J R Morgan will be in Moro ley notoriety, west of Minneapolis. yesterday on time end gave their the earlier stages of Inland Empire larettes, now on display at the Moro 1st to lfitb, Wasco 15th to 30tb, Tbe whole affair (Peary and all), is lietuers full value for the few hours Oct. 29, 1909 development, when markets were F R ID A Y Commercial Company’s. of each mouth to practice dentistry. a fake. limited and demaud inactive. expended in visiting them at the It is not enough that parents love O W A xtell’s furniture varnish demonstration train. Our Sherman The government must be held res -Type writer paper at The Observ John Alden Seabury, we give him their children, they must love them county farmers are on the anxious heats all the liquid veneer you ever ponsible for any damages that may er office. wisely ; love that isn’t thus balanced *11 be deserves in name, is off on a It from the spread of dissatisfac- "beat, and willing to learn all that saw. Try it. trump «gain, this time from Canada First class lunch served at a 2d is the worst thing possible for the to Mexico. He is a fake of the first (ion among the Chippewa Indians, can be learned from euch demon- The new King of Fruits will be child. class price at the Biggs hotel. stration traina as thia. order; we have sym pathy for those starved by neglect into wandering fittingly honored at Spokane falls Do you want a Sweater Coal? The Photograph postal cards of Moro from Dakota to tbe Pacific coast. little children ai^| his patient wife. Mayor McClellan of N YCity has November 15th to 20lb. Moro Commercial Company hltve anenery for »«Is at Observer Book It w h s not they who pied the Laid- delivered a letter to Collector Loeb, The Daughters of Rebecca enter As you are passiug Biggs if you some beautiful ones. Newest shades Store. law Chronicle office to get even with tained Mrs Corrie Hubbard of Polk from an American woman in Paris, If you want to buy rend The Ob want a good lunch don’t forget W al and fancy weeves. the owner for fancied abuses. county, their state president, on the notifying him that she is coming r* server. If you want to sell adver ford’s chicken dinner every day. What a lot of energy spends itself evening of the 21st. Tbe next day home and that when she passes tbe It is almost impossible to convict When in need of anything in the in words instead of in action. Put tise in it. Hon L Bar1|pmj>ok Mrs H to Grass custom house she will resent any a criminal with plenty of money at Don’t forget the place to get your line of saddlery and harness goods, into action it would bless ourselves Valley in his auto, accompanied by insults that may be offered her. In his disposal; but in nearly every in moneys worth in a watch is at L W make your first inquiries of Louis and others: frittered away in words many oases pinching, poking and stance the poor and friendless man Mrs Barnum and Mrs Rutledge. Heydt, the Moro dealer. Ross’ Jeweler, Wasco. it is useless. being personally felt of, she saya is declared guilty. It has been this The American Association or din Freeh supply of genuine oarboleu- Gentlemen : A suit to suit, and an If people would not waste so much way since the days of Paul, and the ing car superintendents at Chicago women have burned with indigna tion, but it is her intention to defend ium just opened at theObserver Book overcoat to fit, and fit to wear. C&ue tiae over great ambitions that cannot day will oome again when the laws laet week hit their patrons a back herself if similar attempts are made while there are plenty to select from be realized, they might accomplish a of God shall take precedence. It is Store. handed swat in the face, saying: Boenio picture post cards, of views at the Moro Commercial Company’s great deal along the line of small so now, if peoples’ vision was not BO “Many of them have more money and she will knock the fellow down and ask for polioe protection. near Moro, actual photo work, for Pumpkings, squashes, potatoes, achievem ents. obscured by filthy luore. than brains,” etc. There you are; M O R O C O M M ER C IA L C O M P A N Y . The Takes cooking, it makes -4—4- W OHAKhW ARE& UPLESEATtt M o ro , O re g o n OCXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX3OOOOOOOOOOOC ©$H&<H&GG®GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGO JU L IU S M E D L E R , S e c reta ry , G GEO. tl. H IL D E B R A N D , Pres. the finest ever, fresh from I P H ar How true it is that generally we We desire to publish all the new* din's Kenneth farm, fó rja le at the are more ready to find Jhe faults in those who displease us than to find of every part of Sherman county I P Harden store in Moro. but if you hide your item under e Now is the time to get your lap the excellencies in those whom we bushel it does nobody good. robes, horse blankets, etc. Call on esteem our friends. Old type makes the very best ol Louie Heydt for the best in market, Babbitt metal. We have it for sale at the lowest prices. Bee adv. and when you need any call at 1 he • Suit cases, imported directly from Observer office. Price is right. N Y City, via Cape Horn, excellent Postal Card Albums fine, iu doth values, at a sm all cost. Look them oovers, etc., from 25o up, at The Ob over. Moro Commercial Co. server Book Store. Bee the Independent Warehouse All with whom we have talked having experience, say the Portland Union Block Yards are going to ac- jomplish much good f r stock men in Oregon. So we believe. Borne exceptionahly good values in Mans’, Ladies’ and Children’s un Our “ ads” attract attention and and Milling Company’s supply of derwear, All wool and cotton flee advertise. When you get our ad blacksmith ooal before buying else ces. Bee our line before buying else where. Moro Commercial Company. vertising, you get buelnesebrlngers where. R H McKean, manager. E 0 Davie, proprietor of the Grass The Independent Warehouse and Valley Barn, promptly attends »11. Milling Co, Wasco, have received a calls, day or night. Animals given car of extra fine cedar shingles, the very best of care. Charges are whioh »re fleeing very reasonable. right. Call and see the fireless cooker at ■ h i 11 n i i i 1 1 11 * n i »1 |,|,H: the Moro Hardwareand Im plem ent ■ ■ A number of my patrons are ; ; Company. An advance step in the not aware that for some months ; ; grand procession of this progressive past the Moro Commercial Co. ; ; century. has had my bread on sale; any ; ; If you have anything for sale, or if purchases of bread at this ; ; you w anf lo buy anything, use the store will he appreciated by {J Mrs. K. Anderson. ; ; advertising oolumns of The Observ er, and you will he assured of Satis H I 1 I 1 1 I III» I H 1 1 1 1 ’ factory results. Avenarius Carbolineu« is a germ Knit scarfs, Phoenix mufflers, fur destroyer. Decay being a germ, It ospes, Jersey leggings, Jersey and destroys the cause of decay in posts wool gloves, sweater ooats. Every or timber. The UB.Goverument, thing to make you comfortable these the ORNCo., Multnomah county, chilly days. Buy them at the Moro . I t , of Portland, a r . making Commercial Company’s. general use of it on bridge timbers, Buy the genuine imported aven- etc. It ie the beet chicken lice de erious csrbolineum; the Imitation stroyer on the m arket, and will sweeten and preserve a water trough, being offered is only a temporary pig pen, stable, etc.,am i keep away remedy if at all. If genuine one dies It *■ * guaranteed article. application lasts for ail time. Ask The Obeerver Book Store is distrib-1 led poozages. * ator of the pure artiols io Sherman Book Mrs. McKean w h s handicapped on her Goldendale visit from hav ing had her suit case robbed of her finest dresses en route. The oase was checked and the O. R. 4 N. Co are in searoh of the stolen property. In response to Rudyard K iplings’ famous description of woman, when he referred to her as “a rag, a bone, and a hank of hair,” a lady writer of no little renown wbo has been seven years married, breaks out in a rhythmical description of man, apparently taken from married life, in which ‘his nobs’ ie referred to a ‘a jag, a drone, and a lank of air.” Kamela has been cut out of the Blue Mountain stations on the O R N Line. 4,200 feet above sea level with its population o f 200 the place has been the synonym of huckiebe^ ries and big game in season. Train pien used in helping trains over the ridge will now move to La Grand« or Gibbon, and helper engines will aid trains over tbe east slope, run empty to Gibbon, bring trains up the west slope, run empty to La Grande, and be ready to repeat the turn. s * 2 $ Denatured alcohol has been sue cessfully manufactured from flax straw at the North Dakota Agricul W hile sawing wood with a steam tural oollege. The yield of 86 gal driven saw last Fiiday, James Tom lone per ton does not make it a pay lin slipped and fell against the rap ing proposition, however idly revolving saw, and before he Every man should have a 8 -fold could he freed, or the saw stopped, ambition. That of making areal suo was so badly injured that be will cess of his life; advancing the well not he able to reeume work for a being of the place in whioh he lives long time, and may never'again he and the oheerfal performance of bis as strong. The fleshy part of his duties ss s loyal oitisen of bis left fore arm was baldy gashed and country. one of the bones out neary in two If people who “ sit and sing them H s was sawing at tbe home of Hon selves sway to everlasting bliss” W H Ragsdale, and after the acci would only have as strong a desire dent walked* from there to Dr Dof to reoisin here, and put a little more fin’» where the wound wee dressed •very day bliss into the lives of oth At present writing be appears to he ers, their own ohanoe of future, ss getting along nicely, b utjiis system well as present blise, m ight be iu was so shocked that he feels sore opaoty i Main Sherman county headquarters for Farm Machinery and Supplies. Drapers for all Harvester and Headers such as Holt, Best, Hodge, McCormic etc. i S G G O G G G G G G ALWAYS ON HAND . Link B elting, L eath er B elting, L ace L eath er G E ngine packing, Oils, Rope, M achine E xtras, etc. S G G G Deering and Hodge Headers. G G A G GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCXXMOOOOOO Opportunity K n o c k s O n c e a t fcvery M a n ’s D oor. Property is Low N ow and this is The Tim e to Buy. 640 acres of fine farm land, m ile 8 south of Wasco, well Improved, Under the law that was little less now take- your lunch basket and than black mail up at Hermiston Miewk into a chair car. where sleuths proseouted honest Reductions in grain rates of 12j people for saving tons of trout that percent from the Inland Empire to had been stranded in the ditches tidew ater, in eflect Nov. 1. on rail when the water was turned off for ways of the New West, will be a big the season by the government. If saving to the coastwise owners of anybody needed punishment it was ur Inland Empire product. It is the governin'nt employes tor their stated that the saving to tbe owners neglect to provide adequate screens w ill be at least 9300,000. to protect the fish in the first place. The street is not a place for mail Unole Sam ’s gang is no better tlian order catalogues, but we notice that any other careless gang. hundreds of ,h»-m are so deposited The trading ach Dender Brothers in Hherman county towns and cities. which stranded 20 miles from Beh We d is lik e to see a good specimen ring sea on the mud flats of Kusko of the Printers’ art so cast away, kwin river, Alaska, in 1906, arrived but there is precious little sentiment at Port Townsend on the 19th. Tbe about such things where the local vessel was saved by missionaries merchants are liberal adverlisers. and natives, digging a trench three Purple asters,golden rod and fall ing leaves reminds one that autumn has come. How strangely, yet bow naturally are we affected by tbe sea sons’ ohanges; the sobering retros pective effect upon us of autumn, is ao vastly different from the buoyant and prospective Influence of spring time. The dying leaves and flowers touched by the early froats, the evi dences all around ue of decay aeeert that the evening of the year hea come, end are in fitting accord with the evening of human life. Autumn haa aleo a beauty of its own in the leaves aflame with scarlet and gold, the ruddy fruit upon the trees, the genial sunshine and the ao t baay at mosphere. In Ilka manner the eve ning of every life should have beauty of its own; baanty which, in its richness, boa bean wrought out C M A 5 . O O L L IH E R , Manager. GEO. M E D L E R , Treasurer. G O b se r v e r sale at Obeerver Book Store. your miles long through whioh they were able to get the aohoonar into water of sufficient depth. Remote from a Battlement and without a regular orew, Capt Knafloh brought hie com mand to Puget sound without navi gating instruments or proper stores, end with tbs aid of a single seaman and a party of four stranded pros pectors wbo «era picked up on the river. Relief furnished the pros- peotors (who formed part of the orew) constituted an important fea ture of the spectacular experience# of the vessel in the North. In an open sail boat 22 feet loug a party of three men bad spent 46 days traveling the route between St. Miohael and tbe Kuskokwin river, a passage of 1000 mils». They had bean ten days without other food than flah whan the schooner was •b ru t 200 acre* In summerfallow $6,000.00 cash, bal. easy term«, The Elchenberger rauch near Bhamko, w ell Improved, h a lf In cultivation, bah pasture, at $15.00 per acre. $3000.00 cash bal. to suit purchaser. M y residence property In Wasco, 7 rooms besides bathroom, pan try and attic, ljarge basement Con nected w ith water and sewer sys tems; two lots: house new ly painted new fence and new sidewalk, all lu fine condition. Also several building lots iu d if ferent parts of town. C. J. Bright, Wasco, Ore. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCXXX) oooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooocxx > ooooooooqoocxx ? ooooooooo <>3 ooooooooooow Independent Warehouse & (1|iHing Co R. H. M cK ea n , M a n a g e r , W a sc o , O reg o n MANUFACTURERS OF TH E BEST M IL L F E E D A N D F A M IL Y F L O U R T ry the Pure Bluestem Flour WASCO PATENT. TULL LINE OF BUILDER SUPPLIES LUMBER. GET OUR PRICES ON Doors, W in d ow s, Fram es, Lim e, P laster, C em ent, Lum ber and Cedar P osts. W ill q u o te for d eliv e ry on O . R. & N. or C o lu m b ia S o u th e r n m ain lin e. See us before la y in g in you r Coal or W ood. m ill feed and fa m ily flour. All kinds of A good respectable saving guaranteed wood buyers oooooooooooooooooooooooooot OPTICIAL GOODS Jew elry of all kind:». L a test B racelet D esign s GOODS SOLD REASONABLE L. W.ROSS, Wasco W atch Inspector O. R. & N. -M J iO iB Facts Worth Noting Enrollment ol vturfonto paal yaar 4 « . All graduatea placad la gaad gaaltlaaa. 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