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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1911)
Royal Worcester Corsets Burson Hose Do Your Summer Shopping Now An Elegant Assorment oi Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Notions, Furnishings, Shoes, Etc. W H IT E SUM M ER D R E SS GOODS Don’t fail to see our line of Embroidery, Laces, Ginghams, Prints, White Summer Dress Goods, Corsets, Underwear; Hosiery, Shoes Oxfords tor ladies gents and children. MORO COMMERCIAL COMPANY Strootman Shoes The O b se r v e r KOBO, SHBBM AN C O ., OR BOON FRIDAY.............A pril 21. 1911 The price of The Observer ia $1.50 per ▼ear. 75 cents for six months, 50 cents for four months—but if paid in advance we accept $2.50 in full for 2 years. Shorter terms than one year 1 2 # cents per month. A Blue Mark here will answer an in- m a r, when entered upon our calendar, v mg the date of the paper as the date at which your current subscription expires. with us. E u re k a L ed ge N o . 121. A. r . a A. M. Moro. or. Meets the first and third ly evenings of each month. Visiting members cordially invited to meet By order o t W . M . J. M . P a rm t , Secretary. • e t b le h a m C h a p te r no . 78 o . B. >. Regular communication 'c a c h 'd and 4th Thursday enings monthly. By or* o f M M . A nna M oore , M. M e r e L od g e, N e . 113, l. o . o. r. Moro, or. ^Meeting every Saturday (evening at 7:30 o ’clock. ‘ Visiting members are cor- 1 dially invited. Members expected to be present. R. K b m in o e r , N. O. W m . H e n r ic h s , Secy. ascribe for the Observer. and MrsC A Nish of Monk- returned home on the 15th. “1 Buxton has taken the agen- E Peoples’ Funeral supplies, oro * lest and best lot of pencils !, just received at The Obser- look Store. rn: To Mrs T S Reese, East- ening, a girl. Dr Goffin re mother and child doing V- ng your job printing to The rver office. Neat, attractive and reasonable prices guar- id. e Open River Transportation pany have cut the fare to 50 on The Dalles-Portland end e line. le last up-stream trip of the ler Twin Cities was run in jays and four hours from Ce- o Lewiston. j bargains in watches, clocks, try of all kinds, cut glass, silver , hand painted China, etc. Ross, Wasco jeweler. re L H Martin left for Walla la Tuesday, on a visit to her ler, who is about to return to lome at La Grande, nest Deatsman,brother of Mrs s Martin, stopped over at this four days last week, en route □rtland, from Ft Wayne, Ind. is8 Jennie Ginn, an expert 5, trained by experience in la Walla. The Dalles, and lendale, has gone to Idaho similar mission. iss Brune, of The Dalles, who employed as nurse at Geo nagin’s during the worst of lickness of little Francis, has ■ned to her home. O ln lld r o n O ry FOR FUTCMM’I McKibben Hats Birthday Postal Cards at The J P Strahl is doing some car Observer Book Store. penter work at Hood River. Some of the up-land fruit in this Pocket Maps of Oregon and county has been touched by Jack Washington. The Observer Book Store.* Frost. Materials are coming to the J R Caseberg and F G Warner front for the new public school were business visitors from Port house for Moro. land this week. L W Ross the Wasco Jeweler, is John Simpson has returned to selling out his stock of goods pre Sherman county and is looking af paratory to leaving Wasco June 1. ter his farm interests near Wasco. F A Block, at the Moro Pharm acy, has a full line of jewelry, watches, eye glasses, etc., at city prices. It is whispered about that there is to be a Sherman county Sunday school convention held in Moro next June. Inks, Red, Blue black, Jet-black; Violet, Green, anil the best qual ity fountain pen ink at The O b server Book Store You will find the Pioneers An nual Picnic and Celebration sub scription paper at the Moro C C store; walk up and sign. Born: To Mr and Mrs A B Wolfard. of Biggs, a daughter, April 15th, 1911. All doing nice ly. Dr Morse attending. The Moro Commercial Co has an elegant assortment of ginghams; prices 10c, 12^4c, and 25c. Don t fail to see them when in town. The Moro Municipal Spring clean up shows for itself, and the proudest men in the city are May or O J Goffin and Marshal C L Montgomery. W A Raymond has the contract for constructing the new public school buildings for Moro. He will install a cement brick, or a concrete block machine, and man ufacture the material on the ground. Jess N Landry and E W Lewis drove to The Dalles Sunday after noon with Mr L’s new rig, via Rohr Villa, making the trip in five hours. The Villa road is a fright. They returned via Rattle snake grade which is a fine road. Any one desiring expert advice regarding eye trouble or the prop er glasses will be pleased to know that Dr A L Golder of The Dalles, will be at Wasco Monday, April 24; Moro Tuesday April 25; Grass Valley Thursday April 27. E A Cushman has a splendid stray canine which he is feeding ; one of the kind that would be worth its weight In gold to Bro. Addison Bennett, on his Central Oregon tour; ornery looking, but good natured, and wise without any foolishness. Program pencils, new lot at the Observer Book Store. Miss Felton was called to Port land last week; returned Wednes day. 1 he latest and best legal form of romi8sory note, at The Observer ook Store. Mrs John Henrichs, of Pendle ton, is visiting with her sister, Mrs Henry Medler, at Wasco. The semi - centennial Oregon State Fair will be held at Salem Sept 11-16. Frank Meredith, Sec retary. Mrs Ella Johnson of Kent, re ceived a piano this week, pur chased from Mrs Pernie Johnson of this city. C E Poole and family are living temporarily in The Dalles, where Mr Poole has a short contract at carpentering. We have just received a big lot of laces and embroideries and will be pleased to show you the line. Moro Commercial Co. Sheriff J C Freeman, wife and daughter, were visitors at La Grande last week ; Mr F mixing Frank M Smith, of Ontario, business with his part of it. Canada, here on a visit to his sis H C Jorgensen was a Moro vis ter, Mrs Robert Urquhart, has itor on business M onday; he is turned over, plowed,, harrowed diversifying his farm work this year and seeded 997 acres since coming last month, besides planting three by planting 60 acres to spuds. Go to F A Block, at the Moro acres to spuds. Frank says farming Pharmacy, for all kinds of watch, in Sherman county is a revelation clock and jewelry repairing. to the down easttTTier. Work neatly done and all work Removal Notice: Huntington & guaranteed. Wilson, of The Dalles, have Let us do your next order oi opened offices in Portland. Ore Commercial Job Printing High gon, rooms 805-8D7 Lewis build grade work, at prices satisfactory. ing. Business sent to them from The Old Reliable Observer Steam Sherman county through their of Printery, Moro, Oregon. fices in The Dalles or direct to their L J Gates of Kent and Mr Wol- Portland address, will receive attention. Portland ley of Portland, gave us a very prompt phone, Main 7536 pleasant call Tuesday ; Mr Gates is looking very much better than E E Caseberg last week sold 160 we expected to see him after his acres known as the Jackson farm recent long continued illness. on Gorden ridge, to M Abrams Gus Lowit, the King thief of the of Portland; also an acreage tract Oregon Trust and Savings Bank, near Oregon City to H P Disher, leaped to his death from a sixth and purchased from Mr Disher ptory window in Denver a few his residence property at Wasco. days ago. He gets ail that was The different deals were made by coming to him by this act, but its J R Caseberg now located in Portland. Artist Raymond has placed in a poor way to pay debts. our office a photo of the Holt Cat- Don Wheat met with painful The New York Herald was erpiller engine crossing a field of injuries to his face Tuesday. Aprilfooled by a Washington city snow on Hood street, at the inter While plowing the plow struck a joker who sent it a plausibly writ section of First, street in this city rock, throwing him forcibly to ten story on the 2d, telling about February 24th ; it is a good adver the ground. Dr O J Goffin was Mr Lafferty helping a teamster on tisement for the machine. called and at present writing Mr the avenue to unload a load of lumber ‘yesterday.* Teams never Eigjity dollars per mo. straight W heat is resting comfortably. haul lumber on the A venue; the salary and expenses, to men with Most of the advice concerning dispatch was published on the 3d, rig, to introduce our poultry rem courtship and marriage that finds hence ‘yesterday’ was Sunday, and edies; don’t answer unless you its way into print is written by old the incident must have occurred mean business. Eureka Poultry maids, or women who didn’t find Saturday—all fool’s day. Food Mfg. Co., incorporated, Ea. matrimony a grand sweet song; it St. Louis, Illinois. [4tS7.88 would be a joy to hear from the Forest fires will soon be largely happy mothers now and then. reduced if the people will co-ope The Methodist Aid at their semi rate with the state forester in the annual election elected the follow April regained its customary on administration of the forestry law ing officers: Mrs Chas Huis, presi the afternoon of Easter Sunday, enacted by the last assembly. One dent; Mrs Elmer Barzee, vice “blowing some;” but unlike parts of the most lm;wrtant provisions president; Mrs Earl b ¡elds, secre of the middle west didn't kill any tary; Mrs James Stewart, treasurer. people, desolate homes, nor put of the law is making a closed sea The report for the six months any towns nor cities out of busi son for burning from June 1st to shows $193.25 taken in and ness. W hen we hear a tourist say : October 1st, during which period $162.40 paid out; with 19 mem “ I don’t like your wind,” we won out door fires of all kinds are pro bers enrolled. .The Aid has em der what it is that HR can be blow hibited except under most strin ployed R M Brash to varnish the ing about? Read the dispatch«!, gent regulations and the probabili ty of heavy penaldea. then ask youreelf. furniture o f their church. Sherman County Abstract Co for abstracts of title. Henry Schadewitz, of Kent, w«» in Moro on business Wednesday. Miss Idabel Urquhart has a hen setting on Denny (Chinese) pheas ants eggs. Dictionary makers please take notice : The captain of the Prinzess Irene wirelessed for help. Frank Thomas, brother of Mrs Laura Ireland and Mrs Emily Ashby, is here on a visit from Kansas. Grandma Rust, Mrs H W Strong and Mrs Eddy, were visitors at Mrs Heary Smith’s in this city, this week. Lot Rust finished seeding 300 acres on Saturday and started his plows Monday on 240 acres of summer fallow. Trains run so fast now on the C S Ry that the mail clerks haven’t time enough between stations to distribute the local mails. Frank Sayrs has a nice auto now nearer the ground than his origin al purchase, that gets over the road at an easy, rapid rate. ' Send The Observer to your ab sent friends. It gives all the local news, and is better than a letter. Mailed four months for 50c. A cotemporary has a local cor respondence from Montague, in which the family name appears ten times, and it is signed “one of • * us. John Schassen, of Kent, was at tending to business in Moro W ed nesday. He has sold 1,000 acres of his farm to his son, retaining 400 acres for himself. Now is the time to buy your spring suits.. Men’s and boys’ suits in the new shades and de signs just received and now on dis play at the Moro Commercial Co. The Moro Commercial Co is agent for American Ladies I ador ing Co and are showing a beauti ful line of samples. Suits, coats and skirts made to measure. I' it guaranteed; style to suit your fancy; prices right. • Jeweler Block is now the owner of an automobile having purchased the car formerly owned by W S Powell. Call at The Observer Book Store $ for push pins ; just the article you S need in decorating the walls of your room. We feel safe in making the pre o diction that the 1911 housefly will show as much pernicious activity as the 1910 model. HARNESS EXTRAS NOW IN <1 G T h e tim e has arriv ed w h en the farm er looks over his h arn ess and farm im plem ents before startin g spring w ork. W e have in stock a full line of Have your name on your sta tionery ; it always creates a good o g H A R N ESS EXTRAS, L E A T H E R , BU CK LES, g impression. We do the work for R IN G S , SN A P S, E T C . & you in handsome styles. Dr Goffin was called to Kent Saturday evening to attend Mrs ft Fred Haynes who presented Fred If you need a Plow , H arro w , Drill, or any with a boy that evening. farm ing im plem ent or extras, we can fit & Mrs Eddy, of White Salmon, is you out at prices th a t are right. visiting friends and relatives in Sherman county this month, the guest of her aunt, Mrs H W Strong. $ M O RO H A R D W A R E & IMP. C O ,g FARM IM PLEM ENTS I D Pike of The Dalles was in Moro Wednesday. He attempt ed to board the train but missed it, with good luck, as he might have been killed. When you have an auction sale you will need to advertise it to get profitable results. If you have the adv properly set, as we do it, post ers can be printed from it. New shoes and Oxfords for men, ladies, and children. Some thing snappy and up to date. Good quality and moderate prices at the Moro Commercial Co. A man died in Chicago the oth er day aged UR), who had never used tobacco in any form. The Spokesman-Review has a 97-year old chap illustrated who has used both licker and terhaeker all his life. Louis Heydt has in stock a new collar for horses th’at is successful in preventing gall sores ; it is made with an inside curled hair facing under leather. Call and see them ; they cost no more than the ordin ary collar. Mr and Mrs Robert Urquhart, entertained a party of friends from the city at dinner Easter Sunday, in honor of the visit here of Mrs Urquharts brother, Frank M Smith of Ontario, Canada, a former at tachée of The Observer. Dr A L Golder, of The Dalles, a graduate, experienced, licensed optician w ill he in Sherman county next week. Monday April 24th, till Tuesday noon at Wasco; I ues- day April 25th and Wednesday at New Moro Hotel; Thursday April 27th and Friday morning at Grass Valley. The Live Wire informs us that “ Hon W R Ellis left for 1 lermiston to take a run over his alfalfa patch jyst as the water has been turned on.” It may be wet. but we venture the assertion that it will be less dirty than the congress he recently left in Washington. )000000cxxxx)cxxx300000000000o Independent Warehouse J (Hilling Co 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 D EA LER S IN Lim e, P laster, C em ent, B uilders Supplies, L um ber, Wood, Coal, Cedar P osts, and Hay. MANUFACTURERS OF MILL FEED AND FLOUR. >OOOOOCOOOOOO<XX>OOOOOCXX>."X*x' O O O O O O c X X X X X T C iX X X X ) CLOSING OUTBARGAIN SALE I n order to close out my entire stock of goods I am selling every- ___ \ I cost- L. W. ROSS, Wasco, Oregon. GUARANTEED TLUWilNU GEORGE MILLER T h e well know n w orkm an will attend to all calls direct or by phone for PLUMBING, STEAM FITTING, ETC. Now prepared with a complete kit of tools to attend all calls for plumbing, etc. in the country. H a v e you seen our Steel W a te rin g 1 roughs? If not take a look and order one. ; Shop on Main St. Thursday, May 4th, assisted by local talent, Sylva W McGuire will present her unique and beau tiful Southern entertainment: Echoes from Dixie Land, at the M E church in this city, under the auspices of the Ladles* Aid Society. Further particulars next week. Simultaneously with the an nouncement of applications by many college students for harvest ing work in Kansas fields, comes the one that the green bug has ap peared in the wheat fields of that state and threatens the loss of the crops ; let the boys remember that the chinch bug has his day early in the season ; harvest always comes later. thingatandbe- low wholesale Moro, Oregon. A BRAND N E W PAIR OF E V E S out of the question, of course; buf but the pair of glasses with which we can outnt you (after proper testing) will almost convince you that you have the eyesight of youth back again. Fact is we can do your eyes and eyesight a lot of good. Let s talk to you about it. F. W. Clark, 3 M o u s e •• Jew eler and O pticians T H E DALLES, OREGON. | The season is at hand when & owners of dogs should keep care ful watch on their canines, lest they form the habit of self-hunt ing; certainly one of the worst means of destroying our upland ! birds and is the habit of many dogs unbeknown to their masters. 1 As the nesting season is at hand, rt would be a good plan for every person owning a dog which is in the habit of running at large, to see that it is tied up during the season when birds are rearing their young. 2 Q BSER VER ROOK g JQ R E jl j» D E A L E R S IN J» J» j» J» BOOKS AND STATIONERY « i $ 0 0 You are cordially invited to come in and inspect our line of Box Papers and Writing Tablets. We have the popular sizes. : : FINE LINE OF POSTAL CARDS School Books, Blank Books and Paper», Blank Notes, Contract Notes, Receipt», etc.
