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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1910)
7 rw w w *; Mrs Anna Urquhart is visitingda .Dr. Fletcher says, chew every Washington with her sister-in-law. particle of food taken 32 times. Trum an Strong spent the holi A t that rate would it be possible days at Biggs, with M r and Mrs A i o finish dinner by supper time ? 1910 B W olfard. (I H appy Neu) Year The Observer w ill in the future publish authentic report of M oro weather every month. Being a mind reader has its draw- haclu, sometimes causing one to stammer and turn red. M a y y o u r h ap p in ess an d cheer th ro u g h o u t th e n ew year be n o less th a n th a t contained w ith in o u r overflow ing m e a su re of o u r G o o d W ish e s. W e are indeed beholden . for th e generous p a tro n a g e th a t h a s b u ilt one of th e b e s t businesses in th e co u n ty an d w e th a n k you in ad v an ce for w h a t m a y be o u r sh a re «Mb.— in the future. very sincerely yours MORO COMMERCIAL COMPANY. The O b se r v e r h o n r t . H H B B M A N OO ., OR KOON: Eureka La««« Nt. 121. A. r. a A. M. uoro. or. From Salem to Passadena is the Jas Tomlin-has four pair of full title to an interesting letter from blood English grey hounds fo r Owen T h o m so n to his sister Mrs sale at reasonable prices. A Nish, of Monkland. The writer M ore double holidays coming. had various kinds of amusement M em orial day and the Fourth o f fen route, and is a pretty fair des July, 1910, both fall on Monday. criptive writer. M oro is about to lose its city en There are people so painfully iumbte~that it is as com forting to gineer, M r Olds having purchased lave them about as it is to nurse a pbfe store, stock and good w ill of the W ilcox business in Grass Val toothache. * ley and expects to take possession E Peoples, C K Cochran and shortly. M r W ilcox expects to J O Elrod, have been appointed appraisers of the estate of the late make a new home in California. Thomas H Fraser. A g a in w ish in g y o u a H a p p y N e w Y e a r, w e are “ The worst chill ever,” hit al most the entire United States Tues- The icy wave headed for land circling the Atlantic Coast down the gulf, and up into California, freezing everything in its path. Coasting on First street in M oro was never better. And it i« en joyed highly. N o material acci dents yet to report. O f all the mean things said of explorer Cook none can be meaner than that his wife has quit lim . A canard beneath Peary. M oro Coasting Club have in vited their Grass Valley friends down to have a share in the sport Nez Perce» millers are taking on M oro Fin,t 8 trcctllid e ' Sprig caddot cub eddy too sooc to suid thelbost o f us. all the blue stem wheat at 1.08 per Bright Sunny M onday was Jan. bushel. 3d, beginning the new Business The glassy road» of the past •Fred L Derby is at his post of Year- Good sleighing, no ugly week called loudly for sharp shot duty in this office, after a season of I but a 4 below zero therm- horses. Three stock m Ai riding the ca boose o f a train in which they had 4ock for Portland,were killed near The Locks Tuesday, by a rear train running into the train upon which they weie traveling. Both trains were badly damaged by the nnpact, alleged to have been caus ed through neglet t to observe the block system warnings. OfcwieJt«« Moro M. E. Ckarck. 1 he usual preaching service next Sunday, at 11 o’clock a. m. Special Notico. Quarterly meeting service will be held in the evening at which time the holy communion w ill bt administered. D r Walton Skipworth, district superintendent, will preach, and conduct the serv ice at 7.30 p. m. You are cordially welcome. F. E. Smith, Pastor Sunday school at 10 o ’clock. Indies’ A id Society Thursday afternoon in the lecture room. Ckristiaa Scieace Society. First reader Mrs Marietta M ow ry. Service at 11 a. m. Sunday school 10 a. m. Wednesday 8 p. m. Reading room open from 2 to 4 p. m. Saturday. Bailees Corroopoagoacc. Some of Hardin’s Gash Priées CHRISTMAS GROCERIES M in ce M eat, like m other used to m ake, Citron, O range and L em o n P e e l - lb W a ln u ts, fresh stock, - - lb C h ristm as C andy, fan cy m ixed , - - « lb s for 75c Sinclairs M eats and L ard at lo w e st m arket prices Try Wadco’s Baking Powder I lb can s 5 lb can s Full line of Rubbers, Overshoes, Leggins, Gloves and Mittens. AU P r ic e s B e lo w M ail O rd er B o u s e C o m p e t Io n . M r Haskell and family and Eld Tonkins and family, spent New Year day with M r and Mrs Hen- dricson. An excellent dinner was served, after which the children entertained the guests with a nice program. Land was sold here in DeMoss recently at $150 per acre. Mrs Secretary of W ar Dickinson is Damewood purchased 6 lots of sued an order prohibiting the pur DeMoss Bros, at that pro rata. chase o f oils and other petroleum On Friday last Mrs Geo Davis products from the Standard O il received a partial paralytic stroke, ompany or any of its recognized but 6he is recovering, and is now agents. By this order the trust able to be about again. I ^e» as customers every branch Mrs Reese made a business trip of the m ilitary service. A similar to The Dalles last week. order against the tobacco trust has been in force for some time, but M r W illiam s of Forest Grove, only affects the commissary de was the guest of M r Hunter, his partment. uncle, last week. j L Æ o x o , û re g -n n >OOOOOOOOOOOOOCXXXXXXXXXXX3Ô ?°00000000000000000000<XXX>0000OOOOOO¿x^<XKXXXX>0000000 MORO HARDWARE A -P IP lK fflT CO T h e L e a d e r s in H a r d w a r e In S h e r m a n C o u n ty . ' - Call and see our stock of SILVERWARE GUARANTEED FOR Mrs Em ily Anderson and the holiday feasting in Y am hill towns. om cter- C L Powell and fam ily arrived I Mrs Cora Russell, of Spokane, little boys, returned from Antelope 25 Years Constant wear. at Long Beach on the 28th, after gigter o i Gilbert Davis of this city, to meet Tuesday. U1V I visiting several other points in the I ^ ag been very near to death s with us. By order o f W . M That squeaky sound you heard M . PASBY, Secretary If we are to make the most of Little Johny Hunter was badly sunny districts o f California. door recently. The ailiment is last Friday night was O ld 1909 on L L Peetz* Farm er', Ball . a , a 1 co" * ume‘i ° " I (d0 we must enter it saying: “ This hurt last week. W hile coasting his HAVILAND CHINA • « t h i a h a m C h a r te r his last legs. No. /« o . a. s. is to be the best year in the history sled got the best of him. The Dalles is warming up this Regular communication What has become of the man successful social event and all had The Gold Lined, the best in the world cold weather over the whiskey of ihe world and of my own life Quite a crowd gathered at the each zd and 4th Thursday a good time. The supper at The who used to keep a diary every as well.” W ilkins Micawber is no eninga m onthly. By or home of M r Evans New Year eVe. Hotel M o ro was up to date fine. topic. Licences in future w ill he of W . M . year—for about 20 days. different from Hcences in the past, patron, saint of prosperity, but if 1 hey all had a good time. Mu H s u s n P a s s y , Secy UOO<XXX>OOOOOO<XXiOOOOOOOOOO 00000000000000000000000000 Wheat in almost every part of all discouraged people start the A sweetly spoken refusal of a re in that old town. Miss Elizabeth Anna Conroy Sherman county is yet very nicely M a ro L ed s e , N o . 113 new year in high hope that some quest is more satisfactory than a l. o . O. F. uoro, o r. W ho said the old fashioned thing is going to “ turn up” they and Ernest H Dunwoodie of Van under the snow. An inch or two ^Meeting every Saturday begruged acquiescence. was added Sunday night, and in winters were a thing o f the past? will help to turn something up be couver, B C, were married on the levening at 7;30 o'clock I GEO. H. H IL D E B R A N D , Pres Mrs H W Strong, Baby Strong the absence of wind spread evenly I The PrcWint sample appears to be fore many weeks. Was ever the 28th. Mrs D w ill be remembered * Visiting members are cor 0 JU LIU S M E D L E R , S e c re ta ry , I OEO. M E D L E R , Treasurer, ' diaily invited. Members and Miss Vivian, spent the h o li over the fields. O - I about as genuine as “ the kind by a number of her M oro friends C H A S . O O LL IM E R Manager. world more full of things than expected to be present. W 0 days at Kent, with M r and Mrs i u d t /-«■ . I mother used to make.’* D . W a l l a s . N . G . W m . H bm rich , Secy now? Is it not enough to make who wish her much happiness. Moo K J G inn spent several I Perry Strong. She is a sister of Mrs John Tonk one happy, simply to live in these days here last week but reached Girls o f the University of Miss- HBfcu ins of this place. Most folks who itch for buck i is. Portland home in time for his ouri have organized an “ affinity wondrous days ? 0 ir, 75 cent* for aix months, 50 cents for 0 r m onth«- but if paid In advance we wheat cakes in the fall keep right New Year day was a day of Mew Year dinner. He took two c,ub- ” W onder if they are too fro m W alla Walla the Blue accept $2.50 in full for 2 years. Shorter & terms than one year 1 2 # cents per month on itching after they have eaten Sherman county turkeys, the gift f ° r l be judicious application mountains and the Salmon river feasting. N o less than four dinner 0 James T om lin, on« being for I ot thc maternal slipper ? parties are mentioned. A Blue M ark here w ill answer an in into the next year. ¿ ra a /o rf la o d s in n o r th Idaho come g quer, when entered upon our calendar Miss Clara, sister of Mrs W R M oore and fam ily. I In answer to an in q u iry : By a reports of suffering among horses A large crowd attended the Sun ¡>l the paper a« the date at giving the date of Wallan,after spending the holidays the which your curri ent subscription expires. ■K m e r recent e c e m I day “ “ 7 " school, - u u u i . the un7 Christian v u ii m i a i i Endeav- u n a c a v - 1 /tai ,1 . _ r Messrs R C Atwood, Tom Sink wige provision of nature the days and Cattle. Following in M oro, returned to her studies and President Clark Dunlap, of lengthen after the holidays so that thaw the ground froze e and rivqlets I orers and church services, Sunday. I ^1 n H ry C S lC r <1I1U nCHdCFS SUCh 2S H o lt , BCSt, J •h a n . 7, 1910 in the O A C at Corvallis. F R ID A Y the Development League.attended people may work a little longer to became strips of ice. h .ll..d e .| Albert Penleco.1 of Portland, »« , H o d g e M c C O rm lC d C . * made slippery sheets and grass visiting M r and Mrs George De - 1 A sure way of getting,the home County court M onday in the inter- 89uare up their increased bills, ’ k e in the river« have carried out peoples’ money is to have some est of the tax payers petition for I The nobleman who married blades stiff as sticks. Slippery h ill Moss. numerous ferries. thing the people want to buy, then a levy for publicity purposes. M ore , Miss Anita Stewart has been sued sides caused the death among String of Snggestioiu. let them know it, and at what rate than 100 tax payers signed in for $1,000,000 and thus the curtain heards where cattle, feeling their Observer Book Store Therm om L ink B eltin g, L ea th er B e ltin g , L a c e L ea th er eters are the thing. they may procure it. These facts, Wasco and the north end of the goes up on the latest version of way along thc tops of precipitous hills, lost their footing and rolled county. E n g in e pack in g, O ils, R ope, M ach in e E xtras, etc. When in doubt tell the truth. mply, plainly and honestly told the comedy called International Anything that w ill cure a cold to tht bottom oftheeanyon where through advertisements correctly Marriage. isn’t to be sneered at. Miss Jean Anderson of Pendle No one is great until he has felt their lives were crushed out on written and displayed in The O ld ton. who has been visiting in Kent Deering and Hodge Headers. the pangs of a crucifixion. C G Hulse Is on a business trip Ashes in Main street, in front of J the ft«. kg. Reliable Observer, w ill surely lo r some time, returned to her I Mrs M axw ell’s property, were very to the W illamette valley. Somebody has said that hate is 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ci 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 W a lte r Nevius was killed )ring in the cash in exchange for studies at Pendleton Academy on I lively Wednesday morning, and Uncle Jasper says “ Sum men love turned wrong side out. what you have to offer. T ry it. the 4th. Mrs O A Anderson re-1 but for the tim ely discovery by the thrQp. Ii carelessness near Bend are so good that they ain’t good now. 00000000000000000000000000 mained for awhile longer, a guest Celestial cook at the Hotel M oro, fast w\ ek. 1 le was driving a team J Over the bodies o f her martyrs fer nothin’.” j pull ¡nJ; stumps. Refusing to pass the world has stepped to freedom. of her daughter Mrs Ella Johnson I might have caused a destructive Discussing a movement on the New Year day 1910, produced over the cable, Nevius struck one It takes more force to start a the worst set back our summer has part of the Portland Commercial where that little grand son is the conflagration. o f tht horses, which gave a sodden thing than it does to keep it going. great attraction. f , . u . K n o c k s O n ce a t E very M a n 's D oor. Club to pay some respect-to the had this winter. Louis H eydt has beat them all jllfM L The arrangement which M r and Mrs K A Kime return-1 for 1910 in calendars. They are held the clevis had been broken W hy mind the bitterness of the An 80 percent silver gray fox printers’ craft at home, The Eu- hide killed in Klickitat county, sold geneGuard says: “ Here in Eugene ed home Sunday evening from an J real gifts. A beautiful calendar, and the machine was being oper tonic that brings you the things you all the University printing is sent extended Eastern trip, visiting in with basket attachment, embellish- for $240 in Portland. ated by sim ply slipping the clevis desire ? to the State Printer at Salem, tho’ Missouri mostly, at the home o f ed with a picture of a rider in the the end of the sweep. W hen Philosophise all you please, but N ow if you want that cutter at the president of the institution is I lis invalid mother. They found act of lassoing a buffalo. The the. horse jumped, the clevis a fat purse and a broad smile go 640 acre« of fin e farm lan d , m ile M y residence prop erty In Wasco, The Observer barn, buy it. A l a member of the board of mana «outh o f Waaco, w ell Im proved Hoary O ld W inter everywhere shape is a large pocket, 7 rooms lieeltle« b athroo m , p a n try slipped o ff and released the sweep hand in hand. about 300 aeren In nu m m erfallow most as good as new. and a ttic . Larg e baeemenL C on gers of the prom otion department. they went. On the 28th they had d , j j |5,000 00 caah, bal. eaay term s. which Hew back and struck Nevius nected w ith w ater and «ewer «ya . p 00^ ,hr“ ' en.'he Don’t quit the field when slan Roads in this vicinity Monday Probably it has never occurred to a lovely day in Denver, and they te n in; tw o lot«: house n e w ly painted across the abdomen, inflicting in der is rife, in the final shift you’ll T h e E lc h e n tntrgvr ranch near new fence anti new aide w a lk , a ll were up to date for fine sleighing him that the printing offices of this made good o f it, .ight .eeing , d“ T H b a m ko , w ell Im p r o w d , h a lf In juries from which he died. In Hue oondltlon. ,n< to hltfber ground. The Che be the victor. c u ltiv a tio n , bat paature, a t |15(X) but zero weather produced some city pay out $20,000 a year in wa by auto.- per acre. $3000 00 caah bal. to «ult Also several b u ild in g lota I n d i f waucan river is on a rampage and ges, and that this large amount rummy looking noses. Keep the upward gaze; it turns purchaser. ferent parte of to w n . Chas Munson, an aged man liv- is carrying huge cakes of ice Courage for the New Year. prisons into palaces and transforms M r and Mrs W A M itchell anc might be materially increased if all ing near Vancouver, was gored to through the streets of Paisley. The hovels into castles. son o f Spokane are now residents the printed matter used here were death by a gentle bull, pastured in river has spread over the entire Have the courage to start right, of M oro. Mrs M is daughter ol given to the local offices. Also, it a lot through which the man pass- valley surounding Paisley and is and keep right. You can invariably measure the ' ooooocxxxxxxxxxxxxx»oooooo oooooooooocx>oooooooooooo M r Foss, one of DesChutes railway might be argued that the state prin ed on his way home. A dozen | congealing into an greatness o f a man.by the number immense ice Have the courage to turn from ter insists on his right to do this contractors. of his enemies. men tried to drive the enraged an floe. Zero weather prevails. ■ n 1111 » 111111 1 1 n H I H I I I H 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 H + H t > t I I I H I evil, and to cling to that which is work, although until a year ago it Bob cats and cougars, driven was kept at home,where it belongs. imal away when it charged upon W hile every thing we strive for The Hadley house in this city good. near to habitations this winter on We are inclined to believe, how them, but was finally killed by a nearily escaped destruction by fire Have the courage to prefer com is not good, yef everything good account of the deep snow driving ever, that the state printer would rifle. Gent)e bulls often act like on the evening of the 3d, and fort and propriety to fashion, in comes after a desperate struggle. , » game out of the mountains, are not resist a determined attempt to that. Riches may have wings but they possible cremation of some child all things. Geo. M. Miller profitable to huntsmerf Brother Palmer of the Laidlaw ren who accidentally caused a deprive him o f the University are seldom used in comipg our Have the courage to wear your Knox, the 1-man showman who patronage, because he would not Chronicle, by the way the prettiest blaze by use of a candle too near T h e w e ll k now n w orkm an w ill attend old clothes until you can pay for way. plays for Knox, earned a good hit care to have the affairs o f his of sheet coming from the Oregon In-1 an ex-Christmas tree in an upper new ones. When hypocrites or carpet tacks to all c a lls direct or by phone for in Condon, where his performance fice brought too strongly into the land Empire, has discovered that room. E xit of the children was point heavenward there’s mischief J; ’ I lave the courage to discharge a was ‘under the auspices* o f an ath limelight, and this might be the re if the country editor were to snap obstructed by the tree filling a PLUMBING, STEAM EITTING, fTC . : dt bt while you have the money in brewing. at all the inducements held out he narrow passage way, but the sult ot such a course on his part. letic club,concluding with a dance. Many a storm could be easily a- would soon become a m illionaire; heroic little flock fought fire brave- you i pocket. A lv in Sigman, brother of Mrs C An official w ho"» making a net H e a d q a r te r s a t f lo r o H a r d w a r e & Im p le m n t C o . if he ran a paper according to the |y and mastered the situation, profit of $30,000 a year, and who Have the courage to obey your verted if we would only read the D O ’ Leary of Grass Valley, died H I I H H I S H I I U I H S t i l t S I > H H > l popular notion he would be in the n c „ .. o . conscience at the risk to being rid barometer that hangs on the hu at his home near Dufur last week, maintains this graft mainly because man heart. poor hoiue; if he publMhed ,11 the . iculed by men. ,o him he K ” ' " T ™ * J>nU,’ 7 1* I of Bright’s disease o f the kidneys. the people who pay the bills are hem. th ,t ,re H - H - H H ' H 'I H I 1 l-l-t -t- H-1 I î I I -H H - H -F 1 1 1 H H U H I I H I I II Necessity is a goodthing to make H e was a popular and highly res kept in ignorance o f the facts, is would be in ¡«il half the time ,n d A M e lo y ,m u lle d the follow- l ive the courage to own you not likely to court publicity in or a virtue of, if you have no better pected citizen. I . the h o .p l,„ th . other half. >*£ an poor, and thus disarm^poverty der to gamer in a few hundred material. of its sharpest sting. A Hilgard, U nion county man, dollars more. In this connection McCIure oT th» city and G, Sam Brisbin; V G .D on Wheat; has imported grey squirrels from it would also not be out of place If ive the courage to speak to a Gil«» French and Clayton Smith Sec, W m Henrichs; Fin Sec. J F Sometimes work is considered ■, S e - r x r e i . Missouri, hoping to populate his to call attention to the county fair friend, in a seedy coat, even tho’ of Gtass Valley, compose the de- Foss; Treat, O tto Peetz. District monotonous. Perhaps it is but ranch with them. The haunts to work and the telephone directory you are in company with one T e n a C o tta , F l p e s . bating league of Sherman county, D G P, Margaret Rutledge, in- the worker need not be monoton which they are let go are unknown for this county, which is printed in and are applying themselves to a stalled the follow ing officers in the richly attired. ous. Robert Burnt plowed fields, to any but the pine species of the Portland, or somewhere else, and II ive the coqrage to speak your hut he also sang his way into the study o f the question soon to be Rebecca Lodge. 116: Past Grand, squirrel family, but is supposed to paid for with the money of local discussed with the Crook county May James; N G , Eva Rudolf; sentiments when necessary to do heart of humanity. Elihu Burrett be an ideal place for them .. subscribers. It should be printed league at Prineville. The subject V O N e llie Pike; Secretary. Mary SO. worked at the glowing forge but B a th T u b s , P a te n t C losets, W a s h S ta n d s : I f the Astoria man’s rat extermi icre, even if the cost were a little Cu ° * ^ DW.,G ° VT : r Owner' W he«t; Fin Sec, Edna Freeman; I lavfe the courage to wear thick | he also mastered languages and Essie McKean. After the nator is what the local press paint more. Anyway, matters o f this ship _ _ o f Railways. The first team | Treas, ____ ______a.aav. boo« In winter, and insist upon became known as the “ Learned a t several different prices. it to be, Oregon should buy the rind are as worthy of attention o f of Wheeler county is to have the installation a banquet was served y ° “ r l n ^ daughter doing the Blacksmith.” And so the list I formula for free distribution. Rats our home League as they are of negative side of the debate at M oro I to about 100 O dd Fellows and game' i r might be indefinitely multiplied. E s tim a te s F u r n is h e d . has got to be fit. and as cats Is laid the larger and stronger organiza against our young men. The dates friends. The social features o i the I lave the courage to do without The point is that while the hands o ff for worthless pupa, die. Astoria tion which is boosting for a greater for these events have not yet been evening were the best ever known LANE & S E X T O N , The Dali«», Ora. that vhich you do not need, how- are busy the mind is free to exer- Portland. medicine should he distributed. fixed* 1 to the fraternity in M oro. ever much your eyes msy covet it. I cite itself as it w ill. Meet« the 6ret and third hurtday evenings of each J. K Main Skrman county headquarters for Farm Machinery and Supplies. ' Drapers for all W H „ •j A ALW AYS ON HAND Opportunity Property is Low Now and this is The Time to Buy. ovcf C. J. Bright, Wasco, Ore. e o m » nimuti ♦♦I WATER PIPES A O FITTINGS h PLUMBING GOODS r I
