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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1911)
Mrs F A Sayrs is visiting at the P H Buxton has taken the agen cy of E Peoples* Funeral supplies, home of her daughter, Mrs A E at M oro Rice, at Mosier. THE HOLT MFG. CO. STOCKTON SPOKANE W ALLA W ALLA C hains, S creen s, G alvanized and S h eet Iron, Lubricating oils, G rease, D rapers, R ope, Leather and Link B elting, Lacing, H ardw ood Single and D ou b letrees, etc. City folks can now see the Ida Mrs H J Umberger and Mrs J ho harvester at work in Roy C McKean were visitors at The M artin’s Ragsdale wheat field. Dalles Wednesday. Call at The Observer Book Store Mrs M H Rust, after a visit to for push p in s; just the article you her daughter, Mrs Frank Watson, need in decorating the walls 01 near Grass Valley, returned on your room. the 17th. - Todd Bros were in town Friday Grandma Powell left Wednes- after header extras and harvest for a month’s visit at the home of supplies from the M oro Hardware her daughter, Mrs C K Cochran, and Implement Co. at Washougal. Sheriff J C Freeman spent five .F A Sayrs is the owner of a of the hottest days of the heajed Jackson auto, making a deal Tues term, last week and this, on the day by which the car he has been ail of an alleged horse thief, but using became part of the purchase ^failed tQ get his man. Pursuit has price. , not been abandoned. A t last the truth. The United HOLT HARVEST EXTRAS Geo. N. C fosfield, fig e n t Wasco, Oregon. Sherman county will have some wheat and then some more; but nothing that w ill stimulate excess of the brag which belongs to, per haps, districts knowing better than we how to conserve the moisture o f winter and early spring. O b s e rv e r Byron Hunter of the United This office was the grateful recip ient last week of some unusually States Department for farm man nice carrots and peas from the agement, made an official call upon the M oro Experimental garden of J A Nicholson. Farm management Jatt week. N P Hansen .was a business Rev J M Morrison, founder o f visitor to Portland Monday; on his return Thursday Mrs Hansen M oro Presbyterian church, now a met him at Biggs and they are retired minister of that denomina pow visiting in W alla Walla, at tion, made a short visit Friday the home of Mrs Hansen’s bro with friends in this city, en route to Portland. ther, Anton B Woodt. Hood River. The auto truck de livery line has employed a night shift and his machines are hauling freight to the country towns. Ralph Brisbine w ill work this harvest with Chester Silvers and his H o lt Combine; Ralph says the fringe left at the base o f his crani urn by tonsorial artist E W Lewis, was not a mistake, but according to order, ¡H A R V E S T E X T R A S « S P E C IA L L I N E O F 9 9 g McCORMIC, J. 1. CASE, A N D G IL B E R T H U N T g g M A C H IN E EXTRAS. 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CO. g X • - ■ - — ..X States war ship Maine was des troyed by an explosion from with * ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® * = * out, as latest discoveries show the bottom of the vessel elevated. »»® ® «® ® ® «® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® © ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® @ e® ® ® ® ® Prof Fagan is holding down a • job outside the school house this hot weather, aiding contractor x •• 9 Joseph Thibault of Chicago, Raymond to complete the build was made to sign a bond of $1,000 ing in time for school in Septem 9 9 Saturday, to keep from winking ber. 9 and making “ funny eyes” at his Children o f M oro Presbyterian 9 9 neighbor, Mrs Sadie Holliday; Sunday School were entertained 9 9 H. U. flA R T IN , fla n a g e r. and that’s all that Mrs Sadie got at Dorcas hall Wednesday after 9 9 9 9 out of her suit for trespass. noon at an ice cream social which was enjoyed by both old and 9 L L Peetz has received a G il young. ... bert Hunt self feeder for his steam 9 threshing rig, and now 'th e crew '’’•"W ork on the new M oro public 9 9 w ill not find it necessary to gather school house is marching on. The 9 9 9 around the cook house at meal newpart is up to the point where 9 9 time. The new appliance makes the roof w ill join, making one 9 9 threshing direct from the header complete covering of a handsome 9 9 9 building. boxes an easier matter. 9 MORO BRANCH © TBM1LUM LUMÏfiR CO. Fred Kruso and James Dennis Roy Kunsman w ill this season assist A L Landingham during were visitors from Grass Valley Monday by auto. harvest. MORO, MHKRMAN CO,,OREGON: Bring your job printing to The Chas R Belshee has purchased Observer office. Neat, attractive the M oro meat market from Ira F R ID A Y ......... ..J u l y 21, 1911 K Axtell; work and reasonable prices guar Alex Hunter and fam ily leave The price of The Observer i« $1.50 per anteed. next week for ^Cashmere, Wash., A K H all, with the Kent Com veer, 75 cent« io r six months, 50-cent« for tour month«—but if paid in advance we mercial Co was a business visitor M r and Mrs Parks from Sunny to visit with Mrs Hunter’s brother accept $2.50 in full for 2 year«. Shorter the last week. side, Yakima county, Wash., are whom she has not seen for 18 term« than one year 12% cent« per month. Fred W Matthias began harvest visiting with their daughter, Mrs years. The trip w ill be made by A Blue Mark here w ill an»wer an in- team via Goldendale. M r Hunter quer, when entered upon our calendar, work with his H o lt combine near A J Syron. _ the date of the paper aa the date at Klondike last Friday. D r G ranville Lowther left Tues w ill combine business with pleas which your current «ub«cription expire«. John Cooper accompanied Geo day f<¥ a short visit with his b ro ure in securing real estate options E u re k a Lodge N o . 121. Matthes, by auto, to M oro M on ther, at Madras, before returning for his clients. A. P. a A. m . Moro. or. to his home in Yakima. County officials expect one of day, from Grass Valley Meet« the first and third the most largely attended and hurtday evening« of each John Cooper, o f Cooper Bros., M r and Mrs H arry Kunsman month. —Visiting member« busy sessions of the circuit court Grass Valley, was distressed with cordially idvited to meet of Portland, w ill spend the harvest for Sherman county in its history; a painful affliction of his right eye, with ua. By order of W . M . season in Sherman county. J. M . P a r r y , Secretary. court w ill be presided over by when in this city Monday. If you want to be up to date sub Judge D R Parker next week. C h a p te r B e th le h a m The Wasco Hardware and scribe for The Observer. Get Several criminal and civil cases E. S. n o . 78 O. Implement Co have a no odor Regular communication your job printing done here. w ill be disposed o f at the term each 2d and 4th Thur»day coal oil stove on sale. The bright R P Hulse is making a business which convenes Monday. venina« monthly. By or- est and best; see them about it. ler of M rs . A nna M o o r e , visit to Sherman county and ex List o f teachers granted one W . M. Ray Ragsdale and Miss Alvina pects to stay until after harvest. year and longer certificates have M e r e L o d g e , N o . 113, Reiden who were married at D S Cameron, o f the Cameron I. o. o. f . Moro, or. Pendleton June 20th, w ill make been nearly completed, although ^Meeting every Saturday Realty Co, of Vancouver, was a the full official report will not be their home in W allowa county. (evening at 7:30 o clock. guest o f D r O J Goffin last week. given out until this week. There ’ Viaiting member« are cor Joe Eddy took home a large follows, however, a nearly com d ia lly invited. Member« John Holman arrived by auto __ expected to be preaent. bundle of papers Saturday and is plete list of those granted, but from Portland Tuesday to over A. R . K essin o er , N . G . considering the advisability of Sherman county does not appear W m . H e n r ic h s , Secy. see his harvest on the home farm. papering his farm house this fall. in it. — C L Montgomery has in charge A H Barnum was in The Dalles Named your farm yet? C G Huis is an auctioneer who the garage in the Strong brick. last week on business pertaining has made good so often that he L L Peetz returned from Port Autos stored and cared for at to the Sherman county fair to be cannot fill all the engagements reasonable rates. land Saturday. held on the new grounds October offered. Last week he had three Miss Lowther returned Monday next. M A Bull returned from Port applications- for his services for to her home at Madras after a land Saturday. Simon Elcock returned Satur the same date. A t Dick Patjens R T Morgan was a visitor from pleasant visit at the home of her day from the G A R encamp sale near Bourbon, the Pentacost uncle, C L Lowther. The Dalles Saturday. • ment at Ashland, after having sale near Biggs, and one at Walla For axel grease and oils, gal spent several days with relatives Walla, Wash. Mrs Chas Bullard returned Sat vanized pipe supplies and harvest at Portland. urday from The Dalles. Mrs Pernnie Johnson left W ed goods, call on the - Wasco H ard Services in the Presbyterian nesday for M onmouth to be with R W Pinkerton expects to start ware and Implement. Co. church Sunday as usual. Subject her daughter Miss Lorane. W ord his H o lt harvester next week. M r and Mrs J D Pike were vis in morning Unrecognized Faith. was received Tuesday that heat Mrs Simon Elcock is visiting in itors from The Dalles this week at Special music. Come, everybody. had prostrated Miss Lorane while Portland; leaving Wednesday. the home of Don Wheat and A J Adams, pastor. attending to her duties in the B W Anson and Chas G olliher amily; returning Wednesday. B W Anson of Klondike, and M onmouth local phone office, were visitors from Wasco this The M oro Hardware and Im Miss Mary Reynolds of Tacoma, she being unconscious for two week. * plement Co have a fine span of were married at the Presbyterian hours as a result of the attack. Dr O J Goffin was called to mules, harness and wagon, they manse, in M oro, July 18th, Rev W D W allan left Saturday by Portland Tuesday on professional are offering to sell reasonable. A J Adams officiating. auto for Adams, Umatilla county, business. Ernest McClure who has been F R Messinger left town Satur where he w ill join Mrs Wallan, Roy Benson is tuning up his working in The Dalles wool scour day on board a dry water wagon who had preceeded him several Idaho combine on the oat field ing m ill since school closed, ar painted a bright red. The tank days, and visit with his relatives of W B Johnston. rived home Tuesday for the har was built by J F Foss to be used there; from Adams M r and Mrs Mrs Pernie Johnson has rented vest. W expect to visit at Garfield, by Fred during harvest. her M oro home, furnished, to W W I I Buxton and wife from Wash., where Mrs W has relatives, Mrs Geo A M eloy and children Pomona, Cal., and Miss Ethel A Norcross and family. ’ before returning home about are visiting relatives and friends in Ray Havner is home, from Ida B u x to n , of Forest Grove, are vis Sherman county. They expect August 1st. ho, at the farm of former county iting their brother, P H Buxton to be absent from their W hite Rev John Tonkins and family and family. commissioner A M W right. lost their farm residence on the Rev Tonkins was>-up from his Salmon home a month at least. John Day river, and most of their R M Brash and J F Strahl left John Day farm Saturday; return A general fire alarm awakened furniture and all their clothing, July 14th for a trip to W illamette ingw ith his daughter Beth, who Nforo Monday, caused by a roof except what they were wearing, Valley cities, returning Tuesday. had been visiting with Alex H unt blaze at the residence of Prof Tuesday at supper time. Mrs Melons at the City Market July er at DeMos8. Fagan, which was most fortunate Tonkins had started a fire for 18th went off like hot cakes at Look up the adv of L W Ross, ly quenched before much damage supper a short time before and it X-mas; there w ill be more of them. there is an offer of something was done. is supposed to have caught from Three cars o f wood was re the pipe extending through the Messrs J H McCune and Don new, tasty and neat for all lovers Wheat were securing harvest sup of good jewelry, and at very ceived this week by the Tumalum roof. The house was a wreck Lumber Co; one each to R C within half an hour after the fire plies Saturday at the M oro Hard reasonable prices. Byers and J R Martin, and one was discovered. W E Dutton from Grass Valley, ware store. I here was no for Eugene Am idon and A H insurance. Inks, Red, Blue-black, Jet-black; and sister-indaw, Mrs Harley Dut Violet, Green, and the best qual ton from Denver, Idaho, were Barnum joint purchasers. C R Lemley, accompanied by Ity fountain pen ink at The Ob visitors Friday at the home o f J Night and day auto truck trans his son, Arzell, and W m Abbott, C McKean and family. server Book Store. portation is the latest order at all of Edmonds, Wash., near The; «999999999999999999999999999999 Seattle, was in M oro July 11th. The party had gone to Prairie City, via Baker by rail, and there purchased a team and outfit with which they drove through interior Oregon as far as Moro, sizing up the country and looking for a suit able location. W hile in M oro the party visited with Eugene Am idon and fa m ily,.w ho were former neighbors io Washington, WOOD - COAL - POSTS 9 The Pacific north west has heat 9 without humidity. Hence the in 9 9 significant death record as com 9 pared with the east, which ha6 been stewing in a continuous Turkish bath. - D r O JPGoffiu was called to at tend W m Morrison, Sunday, who was suffering from a bad spell in cident to stomach complaint of long standing. He is today rest ing easier than at any other time this week. A F Lowe was in M oro Wed nesday arranging to begin work with his H o lt harvester by July 26th. There are 1,500 acres in the farm to be harvested this year from which M r L expects to aver age near five sacks. Everett Moore, the 15 year old son of G E Moore, met with painful injury by the kick of a horse at the farm of E H Moore where his father is employed. Dr O J Goffin has the case in hand and the boy w ill soon be able to be about. Revella Calbraith and his troupe of junior actors has advanced from the amateur class to the near pro fessional. W hile in The Observer office Tuesday he said they were putting on a show one night each week and charging “ real money” to glimpse it. Heppner Times: W J Martin one of our old time farmers who is now located near Walla Walla, came down and spent the Fourth and Fifth of July with his daught er, Mrs Bennie Morgan. W e are always glad to see our old friends among us again. For a man who a year or two ago was eager to face any charge that might be brought against him, Louis J W ilde finds great difficulty in getting across the state line into Oregon. He was eager to come before he was called; now that he is called, he cannot hear. Sherman county moves up ano ther rung on the ladder of advanc- ment; we now have native daugh ters who can and do drive an auto without the presence of mere man in proxim ity to the levers. Mrs L V M oore is the first woman to have charge o f an auto on Sher man county roads. The sheriff of Crook county caught two horse thieves by phone as they reached Eugene after cros- ing the mountains from Culver. This case is rather peculiar; the men evidently were not trying to make a get away. They took the main traveled road and must have driven right into Eugene with two teams, a wagon and a buggy. Cholera has put up a fight in N Y City, and it is a vigorous one which has brought the United States experts scurrying from Washington to help stamp out the menace. Half a dozen of the patients under observation are in serious condition and the gravest apprehension is expressed. Most of the victims in quarantine came from the Italian liner Moltke- Lumber, Cem ent and Lime, W indow s, D oors, Moulding. 9 9 9 Special prices on Wood in car load lo ts where one or more are b u yin g 9 9 9 9 9 9 5 9 9 i§ > 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 » o o o o o o o o o o cx æ o o o o o o o o o o o o o o Independent Warehouse J milling 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 ” -------- W --------------- D E A L E R S in L im e , P laster, Cem ent, B u ild e rs Supplies, Lum ber, Wood, Coal, Cedar Posts, and Hay. 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