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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1912)
• FasSff'Dickens Gave • Bath la a city for which the Dickens lover <mgbt to have a peculiar affec tion. Dickon« stayed frequently In B ath In hl» early days, when engaged on reporting work, and his tobacco Jar eud beer mag are still piously preserv ed a t the Barm cn’s Head. About six j miles from Bath Is the tiny village of Pickwick, through which Dickens of- ten passed, tnd he bestowed the game upon his most ft mens er a * (ton . Many of the scenes in Pickw ick" are. It w ill be remembered, told In Bath. There la a t the present moment—or was until quite recently—!* tru desman In Bath of the name o f Sno lgrass.—London Chron- H e. ____ 1 The Big Hand t r f is of two kind*—* mceit and the big head that comes from >< siek headache. Does your head ever fed like a goard and your brain feel loose and »oar? You can cure it In no time by a "ng on your liver with Bullard's Heibinc I«"’« «» worth trying for the absolute *< ' certain relief »you’ll ; get? T h e O b se r v e r MORO, OREGON. FRIDAY........... June 7, 1912 > F o r m a t T a lk W ith Yqb. ' At any dmewhsa requested to do so. the paper w ill be discontinued. But we expect that ell arrears will be paid before such request is made. It is easy to ask us lor a statement, which w ill be cheerfully rendered at any time. ’ ’ f . t Democrats Introduce Cotton Bill Reducing Duties to 27.06 P er Cent ■eM to have bad her full share or adventure. That’s what pretty little Mrs. Nel lie Carter Downs, w ife of Captain Frank Downs, skipper e f the Standard Oil four masted steel bark Juteapolla. did. and she really enjoyed I t She landed home In New York after her year's absence brown as a berry. Washington.— Representative Un derwood at the direction of democrat ic members of the ways and means committee reintroduced the cotton ta r iff revision bill which was passed by the house and senate at the extra sea- sion of congress and vetoed by Presi dent Taft. The democrats contend that the bill would reduce the average ad valorem cotton duties to 27.06 per cent, aa against an ad valorem of 47.15 par cent In l t l l and < 1 2 In 1810. The committee w ill report the bill favor ably early next week. The democrats estimate that the revenues from the bill the first year of Its operation w ill be about 110.500.- , 000, compared with >124500,000 In 1010 and >12,300,000 In 191L In lta behalf they declare that the cost of cotton ei^thtng to the consumers would be reduced by >80.000,000. Throe-Y ear Homestead Bill Faased Without word of debate, without a I ‘ Sold by Moro Pharmacy. - 1 M C#c i st the Feast. As One Wouldn't Say H- Me. Maklnbrakes. who was one of the guests at a birthday party, was offering his congratulations to the hostess. “Permit me. Mrs. Jlpee," he said, "to wish yon many, many happy re turns of this—er—not too many, of course, for when one has already seen —that to to say. the—h ’m -th e burden of years, yon know—although, to ba sure, you don’t look half aa old as yon re a lly -o r rather you do. 1 m egn- whlch Isn’t st all what 1 was trying to—In abort, one who didn’t know yon would never guess— er— because, don't you know, a« we grow older In years and wisdom-1 don’t mean that Jou do, of course—though I certainly do or rather—havo yon read ‘Clayhanger,’ M rs JlpesF’—Chicago Tribune An Bngltobmi* >ud a Welshman dto putlog In whose country was the best living, the Welsh man said. “There Ip inch noble keeping In Wales that I have k n o t jj< o v e a dosen cooks am poyed at oevwpddlug dinner." "Aye.r agswsred tfce EngllshTnan, “that Was becateje every mah toasted hla d » n chee»e."-«-Argonaa(. An l riok. “I aerw a mafpetan turn water Into milk." “H e’s no magician; he's a m ilk man.”—Houston Post. You N e v e r C a n T e ll just the esuae of your rheumatism, but you know you have it. Do you know that Ballard'• Snow Linim ent w ill curs it? —relieves the pate—reduce« the «welling, and limber« the joint« and muscles so that you w ill be aa active and well as you ever were. Price 25c fo e and $1.00. Sold by Portland Oregon Thia thoroughly modern Pire- Pfioof Hotel offers Unexcelled Service, Comfort and Conven ience at the moderate price rates from $1.00 per day up. Popular Priced Restaurant in connection. Auto meets all trains.’ Bust R O S S F IN N E G A N M anager. 1 4 th a n d W a s h i n g t o n S t s . , PofotftCfoL O re g o n An English critic of American traits, writing in the Metropolitan Magaalne, says: "In America the let o f the rich man to net a vary happy one. H e ¡baa very little to spend his money on. i '| b , England yon might have an income pf a hundred thousand pounds a gear and still might possibly feel the want of money, because the means of upending M oro ’ s B a r b e r S h o p Ageni for the Beat Steam Laundry Shop in Brick Buildiug next Observer Office ®. W . or five feudal establishments. with great households e f servants and de pendents attached to . each, y n ite a b yacht, a racing stable And a stud gf motor cars would be as Isolated, lone ly and uuoccuplsd man. Thsrs -ponld be no one to play with him. H « might possess all these things, hot he could not do anything w ith thorn. ITb«r( do not belong to any recognised H fo W ' the country, whereas to England .the man who to barn to such possessions finds a whole society ef other people also born to them whom Ilfs Is spent In admintotsrtng and using them, quite often with a grave t e W d q ty . self sacrifice and public spyrlce whjeb la beyond the comprehension of any hut the most Intelligent Americans, tempty because It to beyond thefr experience" MORO W HEN -r IN - OREGON. PO RTLAND STOP AT n<r of 7th iad 8tark Strett . Moro Pharmacy._____________ . Barred. She was not to the least pretty, bat Evident. of course that counted for nothing Smith and - Jones were speaking against her. Likewise the fact that she oould not »boat the floe points of their respec dance or alng or crack Jokaa. tive sons. What stood definitely to the way of “T h a t boy o f mine," remarked her success was the political situation Smith extravagantly, “to the genuine This liniment also relieves rheumatic gaina For «ale by all dealers. In Europe. . article. H e’s all wool, yon can bet." “W ith not a monarchy left which a "Shouldn’t wonder," ctynmentod girl can hope to be instrumental to titoqult Gnqft of tbs Jones. “1 notice that he shrinks from SUMMONS—I« stete of Oreson for BherssSa dewnty, overthrowing. where Is the necessary washing."—Housekeeper. advertising coming from?” she rea M. O. Gone, Plaintiff, 1 soned. Bttylug which, with a gush of Phyaieal Jmpossibility. — Ells Gone Defendant. Ü bitter tears, she abandoned the notion ..." TU - 1 .1 - - - - ' - “Give ns the bald facts In the case.” of getting Into vaudeville to America. “Yea; then we can't split hairs over To Ella Gone. the above named de- fendant— <-Puck. them.”—Bal tlxanro American. In the name of the Stato of Oregon: dtoaenting vote, the house of repre sentatives agreed to the conference report on the Borah-Jones three-year m is . Down shot o r a l to kxxj * homestead bill and It was signed by Speaker Clark. A fter It to signed by hard as nails and, to fact, to such ra the vice-president It w ill go to th e I diant health that every one who greet W hite house tor President T a ft’s ap ed her bad to heave an envious sigh. proval and the general expectation Is | The voyage acmes the Atlantic and that the hill w ill become a law before around to China was slow, bnt un eventful. I t was on the first night the end of this week. that anchor was dropped to the Can I f the session of c »igreaa lasts long ton river that the adventures began. enough Senator Borah w ill endeavor Two sampans, bolding fifty Chinese to get through the house his correlat pirates, who aadb«Hed that Captain ed bill directing the patenting of Downs and hla crew ‘o f thirty-four, foi homesteads on government Irrigation lowing usual custom, bad left the ship projects .as soon, as entrymen comply to see the sights, stole up to the bark w ith th t homestead law. This MU at m idnight They caught the prong A Correction. the above entitled eail.ee er M fore * • taf» has passed the senate, but has not of their curious bamboo ladder on the There were some questions In geog is the only fit description for the man or «lay of the tilge pregerlbed In the ordetf df been reported by the house commit deck rail and quietly scampered rap by required to the preliminary ex woman who ii crippled with rheumatism. peblieattocH t<>-wit,on or belate the IM h >ay aminations for taw students who as tee. If It to ssteoted, homesteaders an aboard. A terrific fight was the result and pired to adstisalon to the bar. Among Just a few rheumatic twings may be the government projects oan get patent In to It M rs Downs took a prominent them was. “Ngme ten animals that forerunner of a severe attack—stop the three years. Instead of w aiting 10. as p a rt She to adept with the rifle, and. Mva to the arctic sons." One young trouble at the start with Ballard’s Snow * a t present required. armed with one, she ran up on the man wrote; “Five polar bears and five Liniment. Cures the rheumatism and all . Funds for Lower Columbia Provided deck. Captain Downs, fearing that pain. „ Price 25c, 50c sad $1 .OCL- Sold by An appropriation of >200.000 to con I she would be killed, ordered her below, tinue the Improvement of the Colom but she paid no attention and plunged bia and lower W illam ette rivers below Into the melee. Uoetion thereof/«* a | Portland to carried In the sundry c ivil . Downs had the steam pump manned. toe weeks in Tit» Bherra bill reported to the house and to to and with this effective weapon the Xw eekly newspaper oi sailors drove the pirates over the aide. published to Hherjuan Qetoing Rid ef ths Qwssticto. addition to the appropriation of >180,- nureuanoe to an order * Two days later the first mate went “George, dear, am I as fa t aa that 000 carried to ths river and harbor noha County Jnd«e f< swimming. The cry of an Infant ar woman over there?" Wll. The bill also appropriates >>>,- duly made «■» Ute < rested his attention, and he saw that “ Yea.” he replied quickly. “I should 191«, and the date of 000 for the Slustow river, where the thereof te the 31st day a girl a year old had fallen from a say that yon weigh ten pounds more engineers recommended >115,000, sampan into the water. Rymonds than she does" 7tm «lJyl91»7) AM which would have completed the axlst- quickly swam to the child and, holding After that she ceased to ask him keep on throwing until her wreath lag project the baby with one arm, started for the the question, and they now go to cafes, stays to the brunches, and the number NOTICE Off SALE OF REAL PEQPXUT1 In addition to ue foregoing the bill bamboo houseboat from which It bhd theaters and dancing parties to per o f attempts in supposed to indicate contains the ft ■owing Waahlngtoa tumbled. feet peace.-Detroit Free Frees. In the Oonnty Oonrt of tbefhaH of Qrsgqa, i4>e number of years she will have to Items : Contine lug construction of I As ha approached the sampan, from I w ait to gat married. When the girls public butldli f at Bellingham. >75,- which he expected to hear cries of de A Falsa Alarm. are thus -engneed the young men of lig h t his ears were assailed by shouts “Lookout for that girl who applied to Ima, >40,000; Olympia, 000; North Y the village Stfi.d nround chaffing them of rage and hto face by long bamboo you today for a Job as stenographer. MaQoy, Peseas« d 10,000; W i 9 Walla, >20,000; Mount I when they mtoa. The Maaura are poles. She has designs on yon." I'' baal Park. >5400; com Rainier Ni j a s r W t i ’i i a w Poles Who live in that part of Prussia . A ll along the Uns of sampans By- “Mbuckal You think every woman improvement of Grays plating th which waa once part of. Poland. monds and hto passenger were turned 15,000; completing the Bel away. A t length be swam w ith It to I who looks St ms wants to marry me This girls wants only to be asatoter to i rbor project, >52,250; Lake I the Juteapolla. There he turned It m e’’—Baltimore American. Poison O ak P o is o n in g over to Mrs. Downs She cared for It I t canal, >500300; W illapa •aribed real property bstiiqq^iyi to s*l<> \ Ballard'« So” « Liniment cures it. M r O • harbor, >75'?>0O; M cN e ill for several days, bnt Captain Downs I e* h i t ’a«vsnt(7) of Bloqk Tse (10; 1» Needed Lather. H P Corneliu«, Turner, Oregon, writes: Inland^penitentiary, >4<.ldk was opposed to bringing It home, so it “Who to the leather lunged speak “ M y wife has discovered that Snow L in i Full A evisio q wV“L«Kd T^Xra Urged- was given Into the charge of the Chi I er?' • * I ment cures poi«on oak poitoning,. a very ik>ur£ ti Ole?k’«“ ^E«iP 8 < ta tq y "tfew lands, ef Nevada, has nees sailors oh the Standard Oil float “Some soap box orator." " I don’t know what they did wi^h I m ad e i proposal which. If favorably it after we went away,” Mrs. Downs J “Judging from tbe appearance of hto peinhil trouble. She not only cured a acted upon, may result ultimately to I says, “bnt I shouldn’t be surprised to countenance, be needs a better ac esse of it on herself, but on two of her hto platform.’’ — friends who were poieoeed by the - »ante the eolutloa of tho perplexing prob I learn that they had tossed It back Into quaintance with ivy. Price 25c, 50c, and $1 00. Sold by lems which bow retard the develop the water. I didn’t learn that they are est in sod »o Lot Tour 1,4) of Beolion T h irl’ Moro Phartnao ment of the west, la brief, SOaator capable of such a thing until we were A Bad Tim e. ' Newland« proposes that the senators several days out on the way home." “Have yon read anything about thia and representatives of the west get Just after leaving Hongkong the Turko-Italian war?" * Rosemary, the c harming name of the together as a body or organise a com- , Juteapolla ran Into a typhoon that cost «Me Meridian, ritnatsd lb th* “I ’m Just beginning to catch up lla n t that’s ter remembrance, Is not her two masts and moat of her deck mlttee of 17, one member from each with I t They showed poor judgment of the public land states, and agree fittings. Bnt the rest o f the voyage to getting up a w ar Just a t tbe end of >aly frequently fouiSd to folklorian leg-. upon a complete and oomprebeaalve was beautiful The bark Just breeaed tbe pennant season."—Pittsburgh Post »nd, bnt has be. n esteemed also from straight home, making the Journey to the very dawn of history for Its “ea- from and after Monday M»s ad day plan of amending the public land lawn 1919, prooeed Io sell st private tele fer tte fc llfi days. It was then that Mrs. wntial ©11," Its «want water” and lta h i hand the above deeenbed teal P*OP« * Nailed. National Capital Brevities. Downs got her sharks, one of which • t tbe offloe of M id sdmlntotrator to tte fragrant dried leaves and branches. In Small B rother-A re you going to Another Important provision to the I was nine and ona-half feet IqBg- 8 k« W. W. M. Go. Bank at Moro. Bberm^a he middle period of English history marry Sister Ruth? sundrf civil bill abolishes the position shat (ham from the deck and has h K S d S T S m t L. BARNUM, really don’t Caller - W h y -e r -1 t was always a upeclal favorite in gar- of receiver st all local land offices enough pieces o f skin cut from them to know, you know! tens and was ter strewing upon GEORGE M0W b T,_ nod creates the Job of chief clerk at supply everybody she knows with the ' Small Attorney fee Estate. ' tM uiW I.tM Brother - That's what the floors of dwellings and upon case- i rqal thtog to pocketbooks. 1 2 ,0 « who will laad le all fuoda sad thought WelL /o n a rs P -U fa meats and also, of coarse^ fof' garden j act fog the reglstdr whqa the register embelltohment—Lonfion Spectator. This Nan Lifted a T oil la ahaead. l Net a Romanos. Richard*}©!, who died May 18, 1743, Plans tor a nation wide demand for at the syq “Dear heart" murmured the woman. I f you are a botpswife yon cannot reason n lx ty ^ v q n and Is burled “Thirty cants a pound today," ex ably hope to be healthy or beautiful by w a g the removal from office of United to B t Peter's eburebyafd. Isle of ing dishes, «weeteng »nd doing housework fltates Judge Cornell ua H. Hanford, Tfcgnet. t f p t . Bnglanfi. was known plained the butcher. all day, and orawling Into bed dead tired at 5 “In that case perhaps yon had better of Seattle. Washington, were announc throughout Europe as the “Kentish nig h t You mite ffte out into Ute open air ed by Congrv*4|nan Victor I a Berger, Hotoafea." or the ''second Ramson." give me some liver."—Louisville Cou and snulighL I f yon d ° tlkia «vary day *ad V* '* • < . v keep your stomach and bowela io good order Wlteti but a youth of seventeen years rier-Journal socialist representative from Wtecon dserman w w n .j by taking Chamteslaln’a Tablets when need be was Invited fo ’J.oudoo *by the king ed, you should become both healthy and Total ....................................... $3.00 The war department has rooalvod to give an exhibition In.rem arkable beautiful. For sal« by aU dealers. ----- * Meurances that the house oommlttoe feats of strength- Among ti>e teats of hto more mature years wefe those Douglas Jerrold. <m m ilitary affairs before adjournment of breaking with .hto hands and feet a O f Doualas Jerrold tha following w ill report favorably the skWtin pay rope wMh a tensile stxpngth of thirty- hill, which waa perfected a t a rooent five hundredweight and the lifting Of conference between the n a tio n a l m ill following On All Fours. tla board and the secrotary of war. A Barry county minister who quit To o o tw t the ’ eorporatien Judges” the pulpit to peddle .fire Insurance has ’ maker's one day ha was look! on the federal bench, to the object gf gone back to the ministry. He says Immaculate varptoh on the bs a r e l a t i o n introduced la the house vehicle. ... <* be found out It to all tbe same bote >y Representative Martin of Colorado The aaq»e ludgmsp* ®otB ssraii "Its polish to perfect now. nesa—Case Oonnty (M a t Leader. Ooltoth grant and Dated small. . H e has naked the president to oomplle "bat the urchin» w ill soon r and tra n s m it a Judicial census giving with scratches." Taking Her Down. A CalsroiKye “ Bnt; sir. I can pot on a f< (ha c o rp o ra tio n antecedents of every "Mia. Dash Is no longer In ony sat," "M y son. rostember this-m arrying I |ndge n om in ated daring the last 30 on a salary has been the salvation of a —iT“* " ones said at an afternoon tan. that will keep them off.” “No. To ma a thousand set so I understand." said another ^ many a young man." my carriage would be more Mine days’ leave o< absence tor all " I know dad. b d t snppooe my w ife than one on the hand of a to "Yaa," want on the fiite woman with te M id e n tla l postmasters la the states should lose her s a la ry r~ L o » d o n T it- to whom a stolen Uft might a haughty d n e a r-“yea, aha dropped fo Idaho, Washington and Oregon dur out soma time ago." • ing the month e | jfehs has bees grant p “Is that s o r said the other. " I wan under the Impression that she ellmbte 1 WRIGHT-DICKINSON HOTEL COMPANY NEW HOTEL PERKINS Portland, Oregon. Eastern Oregon Headquarters. P o sitively m o lt centrally located F ifth St. cars p a s t th e doors every few m inutes. 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