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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1913)
Interest in the hand* of the state - The treasurer earned by the school cover ! fund for distribution among the M ORO. OREGON counties of the state to be applied to the school fund of the various F R ID A Y counties is $8,230 more this year than last. The amount to be dis* tributed this year will amount to $360,711, of which amount Sher* man county will receive $1,883.07, C. L . I reland based upon a school census of 1029 persons of school age residing .fcylwithin the county. Multnomah ■ot? county receives the largest appor* W « would lik« to have you take it, and tionment. $87,724.71; Curry county r . « | t h e »m allet amount. $1,282.83. yean for $2.50; one year $1.50; 12% ct» a Sute superintendent Churchill it W ¿Ti «»’ conferini with the county roper- OREGON agricultural COLLEGE B E G IN S fo rty -A fth school BM n w s n to. »»is. , • n r f i S C E C O U R S E S ’» m any phaaesof IE A U T IF U L B O O K L E T entitled m m B h iic b m m k t o r I d u i , j a C a T xlo g c k w ill be mailed free application. _ . ’ IddreM H . M. T xw k a WT, Registrar, U te M ) Corrallia, Oregon. UY - - BUY RIGHT D O N ’T SPEND state to consider law relative to a diatrict being allowed participation Jn the distribution of the fun(j, tfoat Qf baaing the right •criber has ••Removed” aettle the bill of a delinquent. £ 1 S E X J L -a & ii iSli* upon recitation, of .tudiea at cer- tain frequent intervals of a cer- tain number of schooldays in- X itead ol .im ply keeping tbe before I gcfoool in session, some timet without pupila attending. rendered at aey tim e. _____ I expect that all arrears w i.i ba oaid ' - ............... J. R. Morgan O D erj-tlst up a situation in St. Louis teach- may apply to elections iu Oregon, ing society women how to box; I The other pamphlet it a co ra MORO. - OREGON the pugilistic instructor is credited pilation of all laws from code, 1st to 15th of each month. with saying that the shifting waist statutes, and session laws that in Office opposite Drs. Goffin line, from Empress effects to the any way pertain to roads, high- Bulgarian waist, was entirely too J ways, bridges and ferries. The O R E G O N much to remember when giving lessons. 16th to 30th of each month. '■ Office opp. McCoy. Atwood Co The government, under its new W ASCO. two books are very thorough in their treatnfent of the subject and any one who may desire to as- certajn pOints of law regarding forest reserve policy, is opening these matters are at liberty to call for. home stead settlement all the an(j Btudy them, or better yet agricultuial lands in the Siuslaw wr}te the secretary of state for a ^forest reserve. A large part o f the copy. 1 . „ ' land best suited to agriculture and . . waeamBBKSHES dairying has already been survey-1 There will be a special refer- . - A tto r o e y -a t-la w M asonic Building T b s D a ll e » ienced motorist. Hides were placed on the free list by the present tariff and the imports are double those of ten years ago. But shoes are no cheaper, another example of the fact that the admission of an article ed and segregated and the balance endum election this fall upon free of duty may be of no benefit ’ will receive attention as soon as I matters referred to the people by whatever to the consumer. R. R. Butler O re possible after applications by the last legislature. It is necessary prospective settlers have been for ai| yoters, men and women, to received. register with the county clerk or .. an officer appointed by him be- - The Portland stock yard mark- lore they can becoipe a qualified et has a tendency this week to go!elector. Under a new law in effect C J B u g h t , W .C . B r y a n t , M G . E l u « • Bright, Bryant & Ellis Attorn eya-at-La.w lower in price; hogs are from 101 this year for the first time, those cents to 30 cents under the price] who register before election this offices at Cole Hupmobile Ford At the time of the funeral of James Huis an umbrella was bor rowed from the home of W m . Morrison by Robert Urquhart for use that warm day. W h o ever happens to have the umbrella is re quested to return it to M rs.M orri- son as it it considered that -some one has it and does not know tbe ownership. I I fact it skins any thing for a long way in any direction, so thinks the M oro Pharmacy North Beach NOW IN FULL BLAST W h y not plan your Sum m er Vacation a t th is wonderful resort, reached by ra il to Portland via A R est A T rip B y T he O cean D own T he C olumbia AND Steamer Trip down the Columbia via O .-W .R . A N. Steamers * T. J. Potter” or “Hassalo”, daily except Sunday. Surf Bathing, Pishing. Tents and cottages for rent—Good h otel accommodations. Excellent [ restaurant service on boats. I nformation F urnished on A pplication Jb Rose, agent at Moro. I to forest reserve land is being in vestigated as to which kind of stock is best adapted for that particular reserve, in that way the discovery was made. In some re serves that apparently have a luxuriant growth of forage plant stock will not eat the growth and the land is being put to no use. Government maps are being pre pared showing what kind of stock is adapted to different sections ot each reserve. » The farmers of Oregon are in need of another law being put upon the statute books of this state; making it a felony to sell eggs from other sources outside the state as Oregon eggs. Last week market reports state that ten times as many strictly fresh O re gon eggs were sold as were re ceived in Portland. These outside eggs are reported to be worth the price asked, but they are not as represented and certainly hurt the home market for home Colonel Cody, better known as producers. Buffalo Bill, ha* had to legally dis T h e Bees M ed icin e In th e W o rld . “My little girt had dytentery very bad. I band his wild west show at Den .ought she would die. Chamberlain’« Colic, ver. The show that had made holers and Diarrhoea Remedy eared her, him famous was sold a few yean nd I can truthfully «ay that I think it is the eat medicine in Ute world,” write« Mn. ago to his partners and this was .Villiam Orvia, Clare, Mich. For «ale by another recently organized bronco ill dealers.— Advtrtiaeneatt. busting wild riding show. The The price of wheat should be tip colonel is supposed to be able to top in Sherman county this fall. ride anything that happens along, The section of the United States but the financial storm that over known as the middle west has took his venture at Denver was a practically no crop of either corn little to much on the bust for him. or wheat and the same can be said Arm y bayonets now form part of the telephone outfit of forest rangers. The emergency line con sists of small instruments and a coil of fine copper wire. The wire is attached to tbe nearest tele phone line, a bayonet is thrust into moist ground at the other end, and with circuit completed the ranger can talk • with head quarters, and summon fire fighters if necessary. MERCHANT WASCO, OREGON Y our chickens will soon pay for them selves in increased egg per hundred pounds that was paid fall need not register again for earlier in the week. Heavy re- any election at any time, provided ceipts of cattle and the fact that they do not remove from the first grade stock are not being put precinct in which they have on sale have lowered the prices registered and vote at each elec- paid an average of 50 cents per tion that may ensue after their Public Auctioneer hundred. Stock yard officials are being registered. If they should joining io the recommendation miss voting at an election, or e that all cattle be dehorned before change their residence to another . shipping as damages in shipment precinct, cr change their politics, LV are responsible some times for a they must again register, W hen the postal savings system loss in the prices. I w was first put in operation, post ___ . ___________________________ I The forestry service experts. masters were forbidden to permit agricultural department, in making deposits by persons not patrons of * a study of grazing lands in the the postoffice in which they sought national reserves have discovered to bank. Under a new ruling just a 125 different varieties of new promulgated the government will I species of plan Is which are now now accept deposits and permit being studied and classified by the withdrawals of the same by mail, botanists connected with the de without such depositor appearing Best Drug Store in Sherman County partment. Every acre of national at the office used for the purpose. is located right here in Moro, in ; HOME PORTLAND The C reeping T ractor is made here in the west at Chico, Cali., and is rightly named “The California Giant.” Thia machine is absolutely the best on the market. It is the ouly machine adapted to the all-around service that the Sher man County farmer needs. It is used for breaking sod apd plowing, discing, harrowing, and drilling, without packing the ground; harvesting, threshing and general stationary power work, road grading, ditching, and freighting. It stands the daily grind and^wears well. It uses kerosene or distillate more economically than any of the so-called “oil fuel” tractors. Why don't you come in and let me talk this matter over with you? I am agent for Sherman county for this machine and I am backing it with .my own guarautee and I am anxious to see this machine on every farm in Sherman county annual car shortage that usually the office of the secretary of state, occurs in Oregon about harvest j^ n W . Olcott. O ne is a . full time. One means to prevent car treatise on the election laws of shortage that was under discussion Oregon compiled from the code was to increase the demurage an(j the session laws of 1911 and charges during the busy season. 1913. together with extracts from i. jl _ _u — s s the constitution of Oregon and the A professional pugilist has given I statutes of the United States that Successor to Dr. W. C, Nason and Dr. O. J. Goffin Office in Goffin Building. YOUR TO Compels attention; it has no equal any where. The editional office of The The state railroad commission Observer is in receipt o f two very is taking measures to avoid the I comprehensive pamphlets from Physician and burgeon. Moro, Oregon. WITH CASH The Creeping Grip Tractor Such notice« at regular rate* at the option of «he publisher«. IT YOUR Great changes are taking place in American agriculture; the age of mechan ical power on the farm is here. The farm tractor and the stationary farm engine have brought mechanical power to the farm; the com ing of abundant poweg mean enormous things in the way of better and cheaper farming; it enables larger tracts of land to be cultivated effectively, and at a much lower cost of operation. The C reeping G rip T ractor will handle every operation on the grain farm from soil to market. , . / W e w ill not be reepooaibie for the intendents of the neglect of «ubacriben to notify aa of L change in the I school SEND production if you will use a quart can of carbolineum around the chicken house and perches; you can get it at the Observer Store. M ORO BRANCH The passenger depsrtment o f the O .-W .R . & N .C o ., have sent this office two very fine booklets; one a comprehensive msp of Oregon and Washingtion, showing their system of railways, and the other replete with fine reproductions of photographic scenes of various vacation resorts along their line of railway^________ H. U. HARTIN, flanager Elephants asEx«© **t ¡oners. Some Idea of what Baroda. India, was In tlioee p««t may be gathered from the following: A hundred ele phant« were kept at tbe expense of the «tate. and crim inal* wen? executed In a most horrible manner. The poor wretch, tied bend and foot, was fas tened by a long rope ronnd tbe walat to tbe elephant’» hind leg. Then the ani mal waa made to trot through the city, and the man, a t almost every step re- bounding against stooss and obstacle«, •ooo became a maaa of bruises sod wounds snd a ghsstly spectacle. I f hs •arrived this his head was placed on a block and the elephant crushed It with bis fo o t—Exchange. Lumber, Cement and Lime, Windows, Doors, Moulding. a . ’ “ The Cerinthien Canal. Tbe four ccntnrtes between tbs Pan , ■ma canal’s first conception sad Its completion are by no m e*— < r ecord • in the annals of canal construction. i The completion In 1880 o f the canal , acraaa the Isthmus of Corinth waa the finish of a schema for which tbe first i survey wns mads in the year 600 B. O., ( when Perlander employed Egyptian en gineers to carry out the work. Nero i actually commenced work along the site of the present canal, but a t hta death It waa abandoned, and tbe proj- 1 ect was not revived until 1882. and thia’ though the total length of the ca nal la under four miles, -r Loodon Graphic. W hen Treueera Were Saeree. Trousers were banned among Quak ers until the nineteenth century was halfway through. A correspondent of the London Notes and Querlee writes on Feb. X 1806. that ‘In onr retired northern dales the Quakers teaadoue- ly hold by their breeches as a testi mony against the modern re a lty o f trouser*. I often beard my father, who could not endure the Idea of troosera ‘aluttherlng about his legs,' aay that when he was a boy all the male population from three y e a n old o f California with its wheat, oats and upward, except sailors, w o n cock and barley. The month of July ed bets and knee breeches and th a t If was the driest Kansas ha* known a man was seen In trousers he was a t , once set down an a mariner.** in thirty yean; streams that have never been known to go dry are now void of water; thirty cities of that state are forced to be very economical of their water supply and twelve town* are entirely without water for domestic? use. Railroads are hauling water in tank can to other towns from Topeka and W ichita. - Special prices on Wood In car load lots where one or more are buying Diving Beil«. /, The diving bell was not mentioned before the sixteenth century. Tw o Greeks In that century (1538) gave an exhibition before Charles V - d sn een d • lag in to water of cooalderabie depth In a large inverted kettle. They took down with them e burning lig h t* Tbe man returned to the surface without being wet The light w— still bum D. W . Wade, agent, Wasco, Oregon Moro warehouse John Hardin in the south part of 50oeni8 per ton. now open for business with charge. The only house in the county handling grain at Satisfactory service guaranteed M oro B a r b er S hop P orcelain JBath T ub. Everything First G ass and up to date. Agent for Model Steam Laundry of The Dalles Shop in Brick Building next Observer Office J. N . L A N D R Y , P r o p r ie t o r . PD o p o , •«*»*.*» O re g o n . ALL the time. For County news i
