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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (June 20, 1913)
The O b serv er M ORO, OREGON FRIDAY C. L. I reland Managet Send tor advertising rates. If you do not read The Observer, why not? W e w ould like to hare you take It, and we know it would be profitable to you to become a subscriber. W e «end it two yean tor $2.50; one year $1.50; * month isn’t much. T ry it. Order by postel card, and pay tor it when you can. Saturday Even W e w ill not be responsible for the neglect of subscribers to notify as ol changes ia their address. N o r w ill the notification of a Postmaster that thej»ub- •criber has “ Removed” settle the bill of a delinquent. I , Church and Society notices F R E E , ex- | cept when for money making purposes. Such notices at regular rates at the option of the publishers. At any tiinewhen requested to do so, the paper will be o»acoatinued. But we expect that all arrears wui be paid before •och request is made. It b easy to ask u. I for • statement, which will be cheerfully rendered at any time. ________ '■ ■ June 21st, 1913, Huis Orchestra «ooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCXXJOOOCXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX» U n iv ersity of O re g o n S u m m er I School Tune 2 3 to A g u s t 1, 1 9 1 3 . fifty Courses......... Tweoty-five Instructors _______ Distinguished Eastern Educators added to Regu ¡j 111 ¡! lar faculty» University Dormitories Open. Board and Room at $350 p^r week Reduced Railroad Rates, f o r Complete Illustrated Catalog, Address The Registrar. University of Ofegon, Engenez; M ORO BRANCH H. U. H A R T IN , Hanager ed clerk for one year. No other nominations were made for either I office. .¿S»- j Financial affairs of the district I are in very good condition. After I paying all expense of the year there I is cash on hand amounting to I $270,62, from total cash receipts of I $9,917.37. Part of this is from borrowed money with which to I pay salaries until taxes came in I upon bolding a baby show at De- and has been repaid; the board Moss celebration, July 4. Since considers this as more satisfactory it proved such a “ howling” sucess I than a tax levy and the money last year. Rules governing the being idle a good part of the year. I contest and prizes there for, will be At the present time there is owing on bonds $4,000 and on warrants published later. - $2,131.75. The warant indebted-1' The Grass Valley business men (new is the balance owing on ffiwf have organized a commercial club new school and would practically as a means towards the promotion [be paid at this time if the state( of the general municipal welfare. I board of equalization has not re-' This is a step in the right direction Iduced the assessed valuation o f( and should be more often done railroad property in the district throughout Oregon. I lwt rtn* - ™~ } Moro school district owns Back water from the Colombia school property to the estimated at the bluff at Grants has closed value of$13,5(X); of which $1,500 the road to the ferry between Sher is for apparatus and the balance' man county and Goldendale. The school houses and grounds. There Columbia has only receded one rifi. an enrollment of 147 pupils in foot from the flood stage at Grant the district, 38 more than last year; and it will be several days before and 150 legal school voters, 42 the road will be open. more than last year. Every body who may live in a school, district i cannot vote'at a school meeting, 1 they must be property owners. SPECIFICATIONS L o n g S tro k e, T - H e a d M o to rs, 4 x 6 a n d E le c tric S ta rte r, G e n e ra to r, L ig h ts a n d L o n g W h eel Bases-- 120-in., 132-in., B ig W h e e ls, C e n te r C o n tro l. L eft S id e 4*^x7, H o rn s, 144-in. D rive, S p eed o m eter, T o p , G a so lin e a n d O il G a u g e s, etc Y o u owe it to y o u rself to see th e M itchell before you b u y WASCO, OREGON.; A g e n t for S h erm an C ounty, M itchell a n d R e o New Railway Time Card. A new schedule went into effect seedling, will ship as far and is as on the Shaniko branch Sunday, June 15th, the passenger train now good when canned. leaves Shaniko in the morning at F. E. Fortner is another one of 7 o’clock, Kent at 8:15, Grass our friends who has had the auto Valley 8:55, Moro 9:30. Wasco fever catch him in the plexus. He 10:45. and arrives at Biggs at 11:35 is now chief engineer of a nobby where it stays untilT2:40 and then Ford car, and, they say, that the goes a mile nearer The Dalles to Capital «lock paid i a ........... ............... speed ordinance will be strictly Sherman where it arrives 12:45. Surplus fund ..................................... profit», less uipeases enforced from now on if F. E. Passengers for Portland and The U ndirided 1 axes paid ........... . . . . . . . . .......... don’t at least slow down on the Dalles can transfer at Sherman Individual deposits subject to check and go into The Dalles on the Tim e certificates of deposit ............. corners. Special prices on Wood in car load lots where DesChutes train leaving there at on e or more are buying. • $ Receipts at the Portland stock 12:50 and a rriv in g in The Dalles of OrutfQP I „ yards for the week ending June at 1:25 where they can get the train State County of Sfcei man ) I, F . E . Fortner, a cashier of the above named 13th were 675 cattle. 90 calves, for Portland leaving at 2:05. bank, do solemnly swaar that the above statement 5905 hogs, 8883 sheep, and 27 Passengers coming this way from is true to the beat of my knowledge and belief. F. E . F o rtaer. a cashier. horses. Beef cattle averaging in 1 Portland or The Dalles can use sworn to before me thia 11th day price from $7.50 to $8; hogs seem the train they formerly had to Subscribed and of June. 1913. John M Parry, Notary Public ed to be in excess of market re travel with, leaving The Dalles at < L, ■ > * * C orrect, attest: t quirements and sold in the neigh | 11:30 or wait until the DesChutes R O . M cC o y. L . Barnum. D irector. borhood of $8. leaves The Dalles at ..12:4$ tr a in and transfer to the Shaniko train . Best Drug Store in Sherman bounty All who are fortunate to be the I leaving Sherman 1:25 and Biggs at is located right here in Moro, in possessors of an auto are now in 1:35 arriving at Wasco at 2:10, fine fettle luring the wary fish from Moro 3:15, Grass Valley 4:05, fact it skins any thing for a long the depths of the purling brook. Kent 4:55. Shaniko 6 p. m. wav in anv direction, so thinks the This pastime has become so A LOW FARE The new schedule gives plenty fashionable lately we cannot keep of time at Biggs for lunch and also I up with the coming and going of more than an hour each way in R o u n d T r i p E x c u r s io n our fishermen friends and society I The Dalles for the transaction of T ic k e t. notes anent this part of our work business. All who have heard of must necessarily be incomplete. the new arrangement are pleased FROM ÄLL with it. Another convenience for California seems to be hard hit the traveling public is the earlier by the elements this year; in the ' arrival at Biggs of No. 11 going O . - W . R . •» N . B t e t io n « spring the fruit growers had a very west, it now passes there at 7:32 TO TH E damaging freezing spell of cold a. m. instead of 8:50 a. m. weather and since then the hay When the traveling public are Principal Cities in the East and grain section of the state has more conversant with the advant been suffering from the effects of ages of the new arrangement ticket drought. A'large portion of the sales at Sherman will grow in im grain growing section will not portance as the four dollar round produce enough of a crop of eith opo trip tickets used so extensively by er hay or grain to pay the expense Sherman county people between of harvesting. The Dalles and Portland can be secured at Sherman for the same money and the fare now paid be- bween Bidds and The Dalles can Chicago . $ 72.50 Denver . ..$ 55.00 Lumber, Cement and Lime, Windows, Doors, Moulding. $ $ Moro Pharmacy J. N. Landry, Moro, Ore H e a d q u a r t e r s a t BB C o n fe c tio n e r y S to r e . Day or Night Service at Resonable Rates. P h on e O rders P rom p tly A n s w e r e d THE STAR L IV E R Y E qually tow Round T rio Faroe to p ro o tio a lly «H o th e r pein to C ast. BARN Let me help outline the trip FEED A N D SA L E ST A B L E Q " 1 3 -3 3 dr /'- 4 A ' ' J N ew York 108.50 Omaha . . 60.00 Phildetphia 108.50 Boston . . . 110.00 St. Paul . . 60.00 Minneaplis 60.00 Final return limit October 31st. ?• T T a ll© ^ » O x© - Barn Located near Hotel Vint in Special Attention tor Commercial Travelers .e h ciirooJo that your esse b beyond help A.Rose, agent O.-W.R. A N . L0$$gt aunar mevcmtcd Transient Tea mi Given Prompt Attention George Ellard, proprietor A U T O M O B IL E for h ir e try them. I have taken nearly three fourth ofa package of tham and can now eat si urns, everything that I w ant” For «ale by al fcabn.-AdwrtbWM»h - M r father used to any that Studebaker honor was •« ««ra as • United States bank note. H e waa talking after haying used Studebaker vehicles since ha wari a lad, and be told me hia father before him said. *Ba safe—gat a Studebaker. -Vehicle builders can't hold that serf of reputation now-a- days without delivering the goods. A Studebaker wagon haa d»a fiarf in i t That's why a man gate the most out of it—w hy tt s ^ '^ -iS ia la is H m a y aay to you something else is lust as good.* Rut when you buy a Studebaker. you're making a safe ir'ostme»» «vary time.” 5 m oor Daolcr or write os. ST U D E BA K E R m W VOXK I f INNKAPOUS South B end, Ind. CHICAGO DALLAS KAITSAS C ITY D fc M v U SALT LAKS C ITY ■ SAW FSAMCISCO FOXTLAKD, OSS. M o r o s B a r b e r S h o p ] ¡p o r c e la in B a t h T u b a . Everything First Class and lip to date. | Agent for the Best Steam Laundry - i Shop in Brick Building next Observer Office | E. W . MORO L E W I E , P r o p r ie to r . - - OREGON. VINTON HOTEL • r ih ' ■ . Grass Valley, Oregon. Co J“ over a month pent I h a w bean troubled trill "The only kind—because,’ aa 1 always say, when a man put» money in a th in g he wants to know that h e . g o i n g t o set the worth of it out "That a plain business as I look at i t "That’s w hy 1 say the price doesn’t tell you any thing at alL There’s only one thing that talks— except the wagon itself. That’s the name of the maker.” "W hen you buy a Studebaker you’re buying a vehicle that has behind it and in it sixty years of ex- - perience— sixty years of success— and sixty years of reputation for the square deaL ..That a why a Stude baker always looks good to me.” Entirely new, convenient to business. Clean beds, and table the best the market will afford. Prices reasonable. Com mercial trade solicited. CONDUCTED ON THE BEST PRINCIPLES. I