' -Tbe-aweftBL political m atham a-
tician is btu ra g a rip g where he is
Alteration Sale
of Womens’ Coats
Suifs, Dresses, Petticoats, and Waists
The Worlds largest manufacturers are represented in our
Sample Lines bought at one-third and one-holi Uss than the
manufacturers wholesale prices. . /n this Great Alteration Sale
u o u @ct the b e n efit‘Oi our special bargain buys.
This groat
$25.00 Spring Suits and Coats $14.75
$30. CO Spring Suits and Coats
19.85
$35.00 Spring Suits and Coats 24.75
$40.(X) Spring Suits and Coats 29.85
$15.00 Spring Suits and Coats 34.95
S ilk
Petticoats. $1.98. $2.49. $2.9£
Waists. 98c, $1.49, $1.98, up
to $15.
Samples and Models. Dresses
of every kind and description,
being a third to a half less than
the usual wholesale prices.
$12.00 Dresses priced at $ 6.95
$15.00 Dresses priced at 9.95
$20.00 Dresses priced at 14.95
$25.00 Dresses priced ut 19-85
$30.00 Dresses priced at 24.95
One single disc 18-7 K entucky drill
Due single disc 16-7. McSlierry drill
Dne New Deal two bottom gang plo\¥
Two 15-foot 3-section C orrigated roller complete
free tolls dausv in the Panama
canal law a n d a ’ the same time to
pass an act B th o rix in g establish
ment of a government owned line
of steamers, aa a freight and pas
senger r * t e l & : tor. to run be
tween N c w . Y t k and Atlantic
coast ports gfcePacific coast por S,
including Portland. It is propos
ed to spend $10,400,000 for eight
steamer; to be jtperated by the
Panama railway, which is owned
in turn by the U nited States.
About the time they are built an
other b ill w ill be introduced to
sell the railway for a song and also
incidentally thestcamers.
Senator W . H. Ragsdale is at
home again after bis first experience
as a member of the state legislature.
MORO, OREGON
He says that it is aa experience
worth the tin e and trouble and
March 21. 1913 expense; that very few-men are
F R ID A Y
broad minded enough to go
Entered as second clam matter at the through a session * ithout^beeom-
poet office at M oro, Oregon, July 25, 1891.
ing entangled in trades and log
rolling by which to secure results
Manager which their constituents desire.
C. L. I reland
M r. Ragsddc says that it is an
educational effort that is simply
Send for advertising rates.
If you do not read The Observer, why amazing to an onlooker to first
not?
read the platform upon which
W e would like to have you take it, and some legislators were elected and
we know It would be profitable to you to
become a subscriber.
W e send it two thep take up the legislative journals
year» for $2.50; oae year $1.50; 12Scts a and read their records o f daily
month ian’t much. T ry It. Order by
postal card, and pay for It when you can. voting upon men, measures, and
W e w ill not be re«pon»ible for the appropriations.
The
□ ne single disc 16-7 K entucky drill
at since tbq&gi&lature adjourned;
the latest atom the governor’s
office is thaf*1itate taxes next year
w ill be tiuflk and a half times
larger than A k year, which is true.
But those « ¿ b e inside know that
the governor and the state board
have whittled and pruned and cut
until state in s titu tio n s were in
financial dbtfess. for no other rea-
son than tQ rhavt a remarkably
low state tax levy this year; of
course they (fe ve r expected the
ppropriate funds by
larison might be ar-
which a c
rived at be
m different factions
different sections of
politically
the state sc
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Such notices at regular rates at the option
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f WESTBOUND
16 to April 15, 1913
BEND FOR THE FOLKS
W lf ile th e F a r e s a r e L o w
Low Fares apply from the following and many other
nts in the East, to any Ration on the O. W . R. & N.
in Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
Chicago, III.
A tlanta, G a .'■
Boston, Mass.
Charleston,S. C.
Louisville, Ky.
Milwaukee, Wis.
Montgomery, Al.
Forth W orth, Tex
Min neapolis,
Oklahom a City,
Pittsburg, Pa.
Kansas City,
Leavenworth,
E u rek a L o d g e N o . 121.
X . F. a A. M. wore. or.
Meets the first and third
■ « T h u rs d a y evening» of each
W month.
Visiting m«nbera
W cordially invited to meet
By order of W . M .
J. M . P a s s y , Secretary.
m Z- c I i
Baltim ore, Md.
$54.75
Buffalo, N. Y.
47.50
D etroit, Mich.
43.50
Memphis, Tenn._ 42.60
Muskogee, Ok
New York City
New O rleans
St. Paul, Minn.
Philadephia,
St. Louis, Mo.
Denver, Col.
Omaha, Neb.
X» M AC r» A ■ x> o w X> K M a*
Tickets w ill be delivered without extra charge to anybody at
any point where Colonist fares apply, upon deposit
with any O. W . R. & N . Agent o f the amount.
For particulars drop a card to
A. ROSE, agent for O. W. R. & N., MORO, OREGON
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Supplies,
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Regular communication
each 2d and 4th Thursday
evening» monthly.
F? E. F o b t n e b ,
Secretary.
M o r s L o d g e , N o . 113,
Meeting , every Saturday
evening at 7 JO o’clock.
Visiting member» are cor
dially In vited.
Member*
expected to be present.
F . A r S aybs , Noble Grand,
A . R . K k m in g b b , Secy.
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The market price of hogs at the
stock yards in Portland continues
to go up, and up; and than an
other up.
The king o f Greece was assass
inated the afternoon o f March.
18th by a Greek subject in the city
of Saloniki, captured in the war
from the Turks.
According to a recent ruling of
the post office department business
houses and private citizens can
send parcel post packages special
delivery. Packages so stamped
w ill now go the same as letter mail.
Farmers near St. Paul, Oregon,
have formed a co-operative cream
ery association, There is a broad
field for farmers in this state to
make common cause with their
neighbors in marketing their pro
ducts and results are bound to be
mutually profitable.
The industrious California lady
bug, whicti does nothing but eat,
but does that with discrimination,
is in demand every where as an
M ANUFACTURERS OF
exterminator o f pests that infest
vegetables. Germany and -New
Zealand have made application
to the state commission fo r con
signments o f the little bugs. M ill
ions of them are sent each year to
melon growers with the demand
for them increasing. Their home
A L L th e tim e .
F o r C o u n ty n e w t is in the California redwood forest.
MILL FEED
FLOUR
Eight foot Double Disc all ste e l'.
120 tooth U bar all steel harrow
12 inch Stockton plow shares ea
14
12
Canton
Dutchman
Fruit and berry sugar
-
-
Diamond flour
- . -
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3 pound can Hub or Mica axle grease
5.50
5.00
.20
Phone or write for prices on
what you need.
O b s e rv e r
neglect of subscriber» to notify aa of
changes -in their address. N o r will the
notification of a Postmaster that the sub
scriber ha» “ Removed” settle the bill of a
delinquent.*.
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fOU BUY, BUY R IG H T
T SEN D YOUR CASH T O
PORTLAND
It With Your Home Merchant
Automobile Agent for Sherman County for Reo,
Apperson, and Mitchell Four and Six Automobiles
W A SCO , .OREGON..
T h e S to re th a t Sells E ve ry T h in g
American women arc quietly
putting a crim p in the Parisian
dressmakers by simply refusing to
follow their fashion lead; which
in the last, jew years has tended
more and more toward vulgarity
of the coarser sort. The latest is
a dress cut off in front at the knees
and having a trail at the back.
One or two were tq be seen at the
New H otel Oregon while we were
there last week; they looked fine
on the ones wearing them, or
rather, those inside them were
genuinely swell.
The credit or discredit o f chang
ing the conditions affecti ng the sale
of liquor in M oro w ill lie with the
women o f this city, whether they
take an active part or not; and.
also, whether» they participate in
the voting. It can not be said that
this city needs the license money
as the councilman now in office
have, in the last seven years, paid
off virtually all warrant indebted
ness as well as providing better
streets and more water supply. " It
is a peculiar ^coincidence that the
question comM up with the first
Principal P. M : Nash received*
occasion of women voting at a the first of the week a consign
city eldfction in M oro.
ment o f seeds from the U. S. de
partment ç f agriculture for flower
Encouraged by the success of its and vegetable gardens. • These
initial performance, the Pacific were distributed to the students
northwest land products show w ill freé and if the surrounding country
hold a second and larger exposi does not bring forth blooms and
tion of soil wealth next fall. An vegetables it w ill not be the fault
organization for the coming show o f the school nor of Senator Geo.
hat been formed and officers elect E. Chamberlain who sent the
ed. The dates are for the week of seeds upon request
November 1 to 8. Exhibits of
both fruits and vegetables are
Residents were surprised to see
wanted, and farmers are being about two inches of snow on the
urged to plant fheir crops this ground at day light Wednesday
year with the idea of placing their morning. The snow storm was
best on display in Portland and with us interm ittently until noon
competing for the many pyizes w hen the sun came out- id warm
offered.
attempt to drive the winterly blasts
again to the north. Probably four
Under a new law enacted by the inches of snow was the total for
last legislature district, attorneys the storm which seemed to be
no longer hold office; hereafter general over the county.
the work is done by each county
having a county attorney?; District
A cement worker at Portland
Attorney S ta rr, b y ‘ virtu e .o f the
has a cemented nose, caused by
new law, is county attorney o f inhaling the fine cement dust as he
Wheeler county; T * A . W einkie mixed it in a hopper. Both nos
has been appointed, by G overnor trils are stopped up, caused by the
West as county attorney for G il dust hardening upon the moist
liam county, and Sbérman coun
membranes. The m an#is at a
ty has its appointment hanging fire.
hospital where doctors are trying
to chip the cement from the noae.
Theodore Roosevelt’s daughter,
O oa*b Medicine fo r Children.
Miss Ethel, will be (Carried at the
ranch care connot be naed in selecting
Oyster Bay family Ijdme Friday a Toe
cough medicine for ch it Iren. It should
A p ril 4th to Dr. Richard Derby, be pleasant to take, contain no harmful sub
a New York dentist. The wedding stance and ha moat effectnal. Chamberlain’s
Congh Remedy meet* these requirements
w ill lack the splendor that attend and is a favorite with the mother» of young
ed that of her sister Alice to Con children everywhere. For aale by aftDee-
gressman Longworth, but allee
samee Ethel has corralled a^man
with a pull.
The grain growers Conveniences
•. Are not alone con fine-1 to Rural Free De.ire.y of mail
and the Telephone.
There is another convenience which a ll
farmer* should 'have — and many do have;— a chucking ac
count with a ggori bunk.
The poesee-or oi such an account
avoid* tin risk of having his money on h»s jH*r on or about
hi« home where it is in danger of fire and thieves.
Il is bills paru by check are not only a valid receipt, but
also a convenience in his home transactions where very often
tire necessary change for concluding settlem ent is not at hand
Don’t stop to think this over, but sta rt an account now with
Best Drug Store in Sherm an County
is located right here in Moro, in
fack it skins any thing for a long
way in any direction, so thinks the
Moro Pharmacy
Geo. F. M. Newhouse, Oph. D.
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Successors to
D a lle a i,
O re g o n
Clarke-Newhouse Jewelry
Compesy
1 s e ll f o r c a » h o n ly
?'ine Diamonds, Jewelrv, Watches,
? /.^G lo ck s and Optical Goods
Satisfaction Gu ran teed or Money Refunded
THE
STA R
BARN
LIVERY FEED ANO SA V E S T A B L E
u'fc.
Q - i s t s s " V © ,ll© 3 r , O r ® .
Barn JLoca,ed near Hotel Vintin
Among otner improvements at
the county fair grounds this year
w ill be a new bard to house the
sheep and hog exhibits; the build
in g w ill be 48x100 feet in size and
built at the side of the bam now
used for the horse exhibits. ¿ X
Public Auctioneer,
For inform ation as to term s
and open dates addreaa the
Sherm an County Ohaerver at
MORO,
OREGON-
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Special Attention for. Commercial Travelers
Transient Teams Given Prompt Attention
George El lard, P ro p rie to r
AUTOM OBILE FOR H IR E