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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1911)
Horse Thieves at W o rk. Additional Locals. The government has undertak en to reform the label-of a certain W C T odd had two horses dis J T Peters of Portland, was a brand of chewing gum. D o you appear from hitpasture about two business guest this week of W H m o ro c u y o t t ic i* » r o w * - -* chew the label ? Neither do we. weeks ago under suspicious cir STOCKTON Ragsdale; they visiged different o r n o a *, p à f i r o r s h ic b u a h <’° cumstances. N ow between June parts of Sherman county »Wed MORO, O R EG O N . • A lcohol, modern cooking and 19th and 24th twelve head more nesday by auto. clothes are killing off the Indians, belonging to Todd and one be .W hile thinking of your fishing Entered second claw ‘"•¡teL B,,J}je says theory, hact declares that longing to W E Newton have dis post office at Moro, Oregon, July 25, lo v l. and outing trips on the Fourth of the Indian population is increas July, give at least ten seconds of appeared from the same pasture, west of M oro, bordering on the ing. D. C. I reland , Editor. thought to what the Fourth of DesChutes river. Friday Mr Dr W iley is surely earning his July really m e a n s ,.I t is wprth the T odd had recorded his brand C. L. I r el a n d . . ...........Manager. governm ent salary. H e says or thinking. and the next day had gone to the F R ID A Y .......... .. > J u n e 3 0 ,1 9 11 anges should be picked while they The head camp of the M odern pasture to brand the horses as are green. With cucumbers it is W oodm en of America in execu thieves were suspected of the first If you do not read The Observer, why different. tive session at Buffalo June 22d, disapperance and then the last lot not? acted favorably upon the recom were gone. Sheriff J C Freeman We would like to have you take it, and “ It is estimated that in 7,000 mendation o f the tow committee . X ' “ .-o u X . b . p ro s..-.« » ?»“ » has som e very good clues as to years the food supply of this that a special session be held at where they went and, chances are country will ruu short if we are Chicago. January 2d, 1912, for good for their recovery. ^ c « d . ‘.„ d “pC.y lor Tt when you O . not careful.” For the love of the purpose of change in rates. posperity we promise to sacrifice Church and Society Real Estate Transactions. A Helm s Jr. editor of the parsnips. ________ _ Mitchell Sentinel, was acquitted of the publishers. of alleged criminal lible of Dr. R Furnished by the Sherman Senator La Follette seems to We will not be re.pon.ible for the . X . •« - b-"'b17 “ X ' V - b e hold the opinion that it is about H Jenkins, the mayor o f Mitch County Abstract Company: ell. H elm s worked hard for Jen time to elect a man with a pom pa E F Sharp et ux to M Z dour to the highest office within kins’ recall and failed; now H elm s D onnell seX of seX sec delinquent. the gift of thei people of the is victorious and Jenkins fails. 33 t 2 s r 18 e acres $ H em s was defended in his lible Did it ever occur to youthat it costf no United States. James N olan e t ’ux to Mart suit by H H Hendricks and Jay PM i"h S d ? Thf in Hansen of sec 24 S^erveV r. equipped wirh .1, ^ e “ Oder" Bowerman. t 2 s r 17 e and seX and Mrs Taft announced on her l-C h ie. f o r r J l r h . 0 order The evangelical churches of . - „ d ' i T u T n o n e c ^ d to your per.ee, wedding day that her husband n eX of sec 19 t 2 s r 18 e would be president of the United America are facing a very serious Jacob Harrington to Char satisfaction you need not pay for it. ley H endrexon a strip of States. She was one bride out of situation. - The six leading de- . Send for advertising rates. land 337 feet by 170 feet a probable ten thousand who I nominations show a net increase of only 384 thousand members in in the se corner of swX. made a correct guess.- A squeezed dollar doesn t emit the year 1910. This represents of nw X sec 35 t 2 s r 16 e any music. the com bined efforts o f m ore than Jacob Harrington to Char D r . o j . g o ffin , The story is told o f a woman 160 thousand churches and 17 ley H endrexon lots 1, 2, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.- About all a liar is good for is to who has been married six times, million church members. Each and 3 blk 15 Henariville having married one husband on net gain of one represents the add to Grass Valley 300 D r . marie start an argument. each day of the week except Sat year’s work of 44 church m em T he Sherman County Abstract urday. Her Friday husband bers and the pash outlay of more Very few stepmothers are given must be getting pretty nervous. C o., is now prepared to furnish than $650. C.‘ Office in The Goffin Building, 1st St. you an abstract on short notice. the benefit of the doubt. M o ro , O regon . ___________ ' By having expert stenographic ' Any colt looks pretty good DeMoss Correspondence. assistance prompt and efficient W hy is it that Cupid never gets when running by the side of a services can be had at a reason married and settled dow n? heavy milking dam. But the test M L Evans is off on a fishing able price. Try us. com es later on, when the colt be trip. A pessimist is a boy who sits on gins to shape up for a horse REDUCED RAILROAD FARES M ORO, - OREGON Evalin DeM oss is visiting her the bank watching the optimist Then blood tells its tale, and the 1st to 15th of each month. - father, Henry. lack of blood tells its tale of woe. swim. National Educational Association, San Office opposite Drs. Goffin G G DeM oss was in Portland Francisco July 8-14. Paying the fiddler will be the on business this week. Sherman County "Crop Conditions. next number on the program in -" OREGON For parties desiring to attend W ASCO , A R Kessinger and wife were 16th to 30th of each month. th^above meeting, a special round M exico. . W eather conditions are such as DeM oss visitors Sunday.. Office opp. M cCoy, Atwood Co trip of one and one-third fare has A new grand stand is being built Som e men have so little ambi to form an accurate estimate of the been made by the Oregon-Wash- for the Pioneers Picnic on the 4th. tion that they oversleep the alarm crop yield of Sherman county. ington Railroad and Navigation T he lack of moisture, late frosts, J W Case was in DeM oss on Com pany from all points on its clock on payday. and indifferent farming of late Tuesday inspecting the tourist bed lines in Oregon, W ashington and years in careless summerfallowing, A tto rn ey s at L a w Idaho. Tickets on sale June 22d, Poverty has probably kept many have com bined to cut the yield of manufacturing plant. people froth being killed in auto the county per acre, at the best, to W C Rees was a church attend and July 1st and 6th. With going Rooms 1 A 2 over W. W . M. Co. Bank. m obile accidents. ant at M oro Sunday, using his limit July 10th,‘ and final return an average of half what it should limit Sept. 15th, 1911. Stopovers be. W e are told that some farms pew buggy for the occasion. „ M ORO - OREGON E Larkin is4* hauling hay on allowed at Portland and south Graduates who possess the right will not pay the expense of run stuff will outlive all the jokes that ning harvesting machinery over shares with A Hunter, from the B thereof within going and return the land, but it will have to be F Ireland farm ten miles west of ing limits. Choice of routes via are printed about them. steamer from Portland at slightly done under the terms of the lease. Grass Valley. reduced fares. Friday June 23d rajn fell over T he trouble about the game of For more detailed information, give and take is that most of us al nearly all Sherman county and The Batchelor’s Prayer. fares, etc, call on any local agent the dry spell which had threatened ways play the second horse. of the O -W R & N Co. growing wheat was broken. A- ’ Backward, turn backward, oh gain M onday morning rain began time in your flight, and give us a Y ou may think you are not falling and continued until late in maid dressed proper and right. superstitious, but you don t like to the evening. The two days aver hear a dog howl at midnight. Ei __ . work horses weigh W e are so weary of switches aged, at M oro, better than three ing 1300 and over for sale. Call and rats, Billie Burke clusters and on or address me at Klondike, quarters of an inch of rainfall. It is said that the value of the peach basket hats. Oregon, box 36. jewels worn at the coronation of F W M athias . New Marriage Law. Wads of jute hair in a horrible rf,101] King G eorge exceeded $55,000,- pile, stuck on their heads to the A marriage to be legal in O re height of a mile. gon can now only be solem nized Something is wrong with the A Carthage (M o.) man has a T w o solid black fillies, 2-year by a minister or priest who has maidehs we fear, so give us the olds, weight about 900 lbs each. new name for the harem skirt. com plied with the new law and Last seen about June 1st. Reward girls as they used to appear. H e calls it a two-cylinder runa filed his credentials with the coun of $25 for the pair, and for infor G ive us the girls we once knew mation proportionate. bout. ty clerk receiving from the of yore, whose curls didn’t come W . C. à C. A. T odd , clerk a certificate and license to Carrie ; Nation left a fortune 516.4t*j ‘ ‘ M oro, Or from a hair-dressing store. perform marriage ceremonies. of $20,000. That is probably more Any one who has authority by the Maidens who dressed with a than the in ven tor‘of the hatchet rules of the church to which he sensible view, and just as dame made. • " belongs to perform marriage cere nature intended them to. A 26 horse Schmeiser com bine hitch for sale at a bargain. A N ew Jersey farmer dressed m onies is under the law com pe G ive us a girl with a figure her Can be seen at ray ly farm. w rite W n up his scarecrows in hobble skirts tent to solem nize marriages, pro own, and fashioned divinely b> J D M c D ermid or phone, vided such church has an organi and basket hats. H e got the idea W asco, Or j9tf.l00] nature alone, zation in this state. i . . ' ■' v from Paris. The minister or person is re Fem inine styles get fiercer each quired to have recorded with th^ year—Oh, give us the girls as they ^ A woman died the other day at county clerk where the marriage - At very reasonable price: 1 the age of 120 years. She never is solem nized satisfactory evidence used to appear. drank to excess or wore high- of his authority, said authority to O ne of the twenty-five year ago camp wagon, fully equipped with ling table, cooking utensili, heeled shoes. be aproved by the county clerk. kind; one whose fair tresses were chairs; 300 ft. Xin. wire cable; T he proof of authority to per ample enough, without additions tents; 1 team of borie» and harness; 1 single harness; 2 saddles; 1 new w It would be interesting to know form marriage ceremonies filed of makebelieve stuff. roller-top desk and chair; 3 sleep what sort of dream food the end- in one county, of which a certified G ive us the days when the hats ing bags, and numerous other arti o -the-world prophets eat before copy is filed with another county, wom en wore were not the reason cles.’ A cct. E. O . L. Co. they go to bed. is in the opinion o f the attorney Christian men swore. G eo . W.‘ B errian , I26tf.98] i M oro, Or. general necessary before a minis O ver our way such a fair maiden People of this country spend ter can legaly marry a couple out 8teer—yes, give us the girl as she $300.000,000 a year for soft drinks. side his county. used to appear. And yet they wonder w h y 'th ey Any person or persons having Has Prolific Cow. get up with a headache. horses, cattle, houses, lots or house Special Announcement. hold goods for sale or exchange, Dalles Chronicle: W T Gosier, or parties desiring to buy such This year’s cherry crop is large who lives at H olm es Gap, is the property, will find The Observer enough for the robins to have all O n the 28th of May, the South a good medium for advertising owner o f a cow that seems to they want. T hey -get tired of have gone the limit, for within the ern Pacific company put into ef an d securing a customer. Try THE O bserver . M oro, Or. worms as a steady diet.. last fourteen months the animal fect a double train service from W eed to Klamath Falls, thus has produced five calves. O n e Grease is cheaper than the J A m e s S t e w a r t set of this brood is triplets and the making perfect connections with horse, yet many who use wagons Atfdreee: MORO. OREGON. other twins. The five are all do all travel and eliminating the stop overlook greasing the axels at the over at W eed. Special rates for ing well but the mother has diffi proper tim e.' In summer the Stock Inçpçctor culty in telling which of the trip the summer months also went in heavy wagons must be used in lets is which because they all look to effect at that time. For detailed S h erm a n G oonty, u* plow ed fields and stubble, and alike. Mr Gosier is thinking of information call on. any Southern Oregon. when it happens that the matter tieing a ribbon of different colors Pacific agent or W m . 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DEMOSS SPRINGS, ORE. * ~ ‘ A Grand Time _________________ From _ Sunrise to Sunset. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __________ ' Sale. Orations, Addresses and Recitations By the B est of T alent. A MUSIC AND LITERARY FEAST To Buy, Sill sr Exchange. Cornet Band Concerts, DeMoss Lyric Bards Orchestra, Patriotic Music by a Chorus of 5 0 Singers._____ BASE BALL, S P O R TS AND RACES W atch Local C olum ns For Specialties. A beautiful sou ven ir gold w atch w ill be presented to the m ost popular lady in Sherm an county. All J people d on atin g g ets to vote free.