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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 29, 1913)
W. O. Nisley was ,a busi new -. ■. ^ J, .ZìSTT- ^5.. g ’ S*« J> ^2. . . . ?if a. F ifty -S eco n d A n n u a l Weather Rafa* for Last Week. visitor to M oro lust week. A rogubr feature of The dbeerver; data • Carl Happold was attending , uppiied by Superintendent D .E . Stephen« I. state federal experiment farm «talion, T county ___ — seat » M n Monday n d a v .t.te and and federal «périm ent farm atation business at , the Moro. Oregon. from his home east of Klondike. For the week ending August 24. Rev.A.J. Adams and Mrs.Adams East winds and hot weather returned from their vacation in prevailed during most of the week. The highest temperature recorded noon. was 94 degrees bn the 22r.d and Mrs.Clara fcelshee is a visitor in the lowest 41 degrees on the 19th. M oro from the Rose City at the Maximum temperatures reached of her mother, Mrs. J. H . irly ninety every day of the Landry. week except tl Uh, when the Russell W . Nicholsen. o f Boyd, maximum kwbper .iture was onfy who has been a visitor at the 68. The warmest night was on w m e o f his uncle,J.A.Nicholsen« the 22nd, when the minimum left Saturday to attend school at temperature was 68 degrees.^ I An Interest to the Public. H . U . M artin, M oro, Oregon. Mng. Tum-a-lura Lumber Co. i t Dear Sir: W e have recently organized in connection with the Tum-a-lum Lumber Company an engineering department. It is the .. Vl ‘ . purpose o f this department to aid in all questions along the building line that may come up. Harold E. Crawford, a graduate archi A whole week of pleasure and profit $20,000 offer tectural engineer, w ill be asso ed in premium« on Agricultural, Livestock, ciated with the department and it is hoped that in this way we shall Poultry, Textile and other exhibits. be able to render a real service whenever possible. Horse race», Shooting T ournam ent, Hrework», B , For prospective builders who are unable to get local architects Concerts, Eugenic» Exposition, C hildren » Play Monmouth. to aid them in their problems, this to Pendletoa. ground and other Free A ttractions, including Gasoline cook stoves, three Aatos Cress Masiatu.u __ department w ill submit sketches burner top and step burner for Boyd and Ogle’», One Ring Circus. F i». and w ill * endeavor to advise in Pendleton autoists and the oven with oven, priced special at Cam p Ground». You are invited. regard to the best methods of just about cost. The M oro H a rd Round U p people w ill sene several pilot ears to Shaniko to proceedure. For special work ware company. meet the Portland autoists who where such local service is not for Prem ium Liet and E n try Blank». Reduced Joe Hendricks heading outfit are going to the Round Up, available; this/ department w ill averaged thirty acres a day this September ll> 12 and 13, over the furnish plans and brief specifi rate» on a ll railroad». For particular» address. harvest with a twelve foot ma old Barlow trai . It is estimated cations to * our customers. In F rank M eredith , Secretary, Salem, Oregon. chine, cutting a total o f 800 acres that there wiU t 200 cars making special instances superintendence for their run. * * the run, covering two days, the during course of construction, Mrs. David M axwell returned first day’s run being from Portland whenever possible, may be furnish from The Dalles Thursday eve to Sbnniko. Here the Pendleton ed through this department. Best mucilage and brushes at the ning where she has been visiting people w ill meet the visitors and In regard to the “ Plan Books ’ Observer Book Store. at the home of her daughters Mrs. pilot them Into the Let ’er Buck copies of which we are sending I Mrs. Fred Hennagin returned G. M . M ille r. town where special arrangements you, this department w ill be able MOHO, SB BUM AW C O ,ORZOOS •fio m a visit to. Portland on Born to M r - and M r r S* w il| be made to park and house to give plans and specifications Hardin, at their home pear Rut the cars and give the people a for any design therein and for any RID A Y ........ August 29. 1913 Wednesdays train. changes that may be desired in Abstracts prom ptly made by the ledge, Wednesday, August 20st, place to eat and sleep. The route as mapped out w ill be: these designs. Estimates o f the Sherman County Abstract Com an eleven pound boy. D r.C .L. Eureka trd p r Na.lXI- From Portland to Gresham, 13 cost, the lumber bills, and bill of Poley attending. a . r. a * * Mwro- or‘ - pany, M oro, Oregon. miles, S^ndy 27 miles, Govern millwork will be furnished for each Meet« »be 6ttf «“\ lhir^ Lyden’Borders and chum from , G eo.O .W arfield had the first hurad«* «<««’"<• ment Camp 57 miles, Clear Creek design. This book, by the way, month Viriting member« The Dalles were guests this week car of 1913 wheat fo ilin g out o f 74 miles, W .ipinita 97 miles, De is the best Plan Book of the day cordially roeel at the home of his aunt, Mrs. local yards the m orning of the 9th By ordy ofW. M bt schutes River, Hunts Ferry (new and has in it a great many practi consigned to Kerr, G ifford Com W m. Morrison. steel bridge) 110 miles, Shaniko cal houses fully described, also a Max Pluenke expects to leave pany at Portland. B a th la h a m C h a p te r 135 miles, Antelope 142 miles. number of excellent barn plans. for Kent the last of this week mo . 78 o. s. •• Mrs. EiUwatu Edward Leach and daught Condon 195 Mrs. ---- irosstl Fossil H l 177 m ite s miles,. ,. luuuuu It is not our purpose. by or RcJular commanicatioo er, after a pleasant visit with their Olex 215 miles. Echo 294 where he w ill take over the man ganizing this department, to com ) • each 2d and 4th Thur«day daughter aftd sister, Mrs. Frank! miles, ., « -»ir _ :i~ agement o f the Kent hotel. rveninx« monthly. Pendleton 316 miles. pete with local architects and con ICE. Forrara, Brown jr., left Thursday for their tractors in the designing of local § Hastings and Morgan began home at Republic, Washington. Local Church. Aiaowncmsats buildings, rather it is thought that M e r e L o d g e, N e . 113. threshing from the stack Thursday we shal’ be able to aid customers Vivian Strong returned home lor Sunday, August 31, afternoon oF last week; they had I. o . O. F. Moro, Or. who are not able to get such local Meeting every Saturday lirst headed and stacked all their Thursday from a visit with Mrs. 'evening at 7:30 o clock. men to serve them in this way. W alford at Biggs and with the Methodist Episcopal Church: Visiting member« are cor grain, averaging sixty five acaes We are endeavoring to improve 1 Sunday school 10 a. m. dially invited. Member« iarnily of M r.W ilson at Rufus a day. - '• expected to be present. our facilities in rendering efficient Preaching 8 p. m. where she participated in a water $ H ampin , Noblk Grand, H.R.Butler, chief mechanic at A. R . Kaw iNcea. Secy. [Sermon topic: service to our customers. * M oro garage, has been in trouble melon social August 17th “ The M ore Excellent W a y” Trusting that we may be of $ Your chickens w ill soon pay this week with an infected foot, P e rs o n a l T a lk W it h Y ea Prayer meeting Thursday eve- service to jjou in the future “he price of The Obaw ver i« 51 50 per poisoned in some unknown way. for them w ive. in increa»ed e i i . production if yon w ill u « a quart “ l n i8 . |iie be(ore through our engineering depart $ r 75 cent« for •»* monUu, 50 cent« for Under the care of Dr.Poley he is ¡S r’montha-b»» * "«»d io -dvance we can o f *r°“*d -*Hthe annual conference at W alla ment, we are, ept $2.50 in full ♦«* 2 year«. Shorter now able to be again at work. Yours very truly, □. than onv year 12% cent« per month. « y September 3rd. A full Mrs. W . A. Norcross and Miss chicken hou.e Tum-a-lum Lumber Co. can Set .1 at the O to r v e r Store. Blue M ark h*re w ill answer « in- Frances Thompson, at the N o r desired. You — when entered upon our calendar : 1W the date ol the paper a« the date at cross home opposite the depot, T o the ladies o f M oro and ¡nvited. John S. Andersen, pastor, Sherms County Realty Transfers. | ription expires. your current aub«crip w ill be prepared to attend all calls vicinity an invitation is extended A t Spaulding Chapel: Sunday Dating from Augu«t 9 to Auguat 23, 1913. for sewing and dress making by to attend the 1913 fall M illin e ry Opening on Saturday, September school and preaching at 11 a. m. rry the famous Sunday dinner the ladies of ^ lo ro and vicinity. John Tonkins to A.N.Giberson, 6th. A competent trim m er w ill John S. Andersen, pastor, Jie Hotel M oro. Hugh Shull finished threshing xs in attendance. Mrt.F.E.Fagan. I tract in section 16 twp 1 s r 19 e Mrs.F.W.Mathias and son John from stacks Tuesday and housed Vernon Strong, who has been w m $4000. re M o ro visitors Monday. his machine that afternoon. About Bolton, in the jng 11 1 AV j John u iiu u vH w u, . living .— n — -y L n ejp e ip tn g hi« in s uncle u iiL ic 1 ■ .harvest at G e o .W . Brock to Henry and {arm near y or()> |cft M onday Jacob Richi, lot 10 blk 3 and lot A.J.Syron has purchased the eleven sack wheat was the best Mount Scott district Portland, was home at Leland, Oregon, 6 blk 16 town of M o ro $10. cock residence, form erly oc- crop they handled, from that to a seriously hurt last Friday by falling little* over two sacks an acre was off a horse he was riding; he heW I go-,ng horse back over the Cascade pied by City Engineer Sheets Amy ¡.Kellogg to T.E .M itchell, to the reins after striking the moUntaios by way of Lebanon the average. Carbolinium, fresh stock, direct lots 10, 11 and 12 section 31 twp The children of I.K .A xtell have ground and the horse walked o n ) wjlcrc he w ill Visit with relatives >m Germany, now on sale at 1 s r 19 e w m lot 3 section 6 twp a seen very sick during the last him, injuring him severly. D ‘ r. J. R. Morgan writing from 1 8 r 19 e w m $10. ie Observer Book Store. week with summer complaint, but Mrs. Ella W olfard was a visitor Portland says that he w ill be home Mrs. Rose and Miss Marjorie are now considered out of danger this week at the home of M fs.H . from his vacation in time to attend Always in stock, beautiful Birth turned home Friday of last week Vlrs.P.J.Dillinger’s little girl Edith W.Strong, arriving in time to as to his professional duties begin Day Postal Cards, at the Observer >m a visit to the Rose City. ias also been very sick with the sist in nursing Miss V ivian who ning the first o f the month and Book Store. W m .Young and H arry H orner same trouble. was taken suddenly ill Saturday expects that from this time and ere visitors in M oro Wednesday Fruit Buyers take notice that evening after her return from forever m o re -u ntil next ycar-there om Kent, making the trip by iartlet and Flemish Beauty pears Rufus and Biggs. U nder the care w ill be no more vacations. Dr. are now in season at the Fleck of Dr.Poley the patient is im prov Morgan w ill be at M oro until the About fifty head of young 15th and at Wasco the 15rh to 30th turkeys are missing from my yards, Pbe new 1913 Star w indm ill is Orchards. J.T.Boothby manager ing nicely. are supposed to have strayed r, sale by Crosfield at Wasco, <ufus, Oregon. Special prixe of - W e are in receipt of a book, o f September, » » t h e m ill with double pit; ►1.00 a sack, at the orchard, for from Mrs.Chas.Bullard, entitled \y .H .M o o re delivered a Ford awayi“ SM*ward is offered for their return or information as to where wind fall pears. Adventures and Day Dreams car \ y a|tcr Smith at Ione last they may have gone. M rs . S. J. R itchey , On the trip overland drs.C.G .Silver is entertaining Ruth Christiansen was thrown written by I. Owen Thompson, j^ d a y . 3t-a29sl2] Monkland, Oregon. brother to Mrs.Bullard, now livin g j ^ r ^ |o ore was accompanied by - sister, Miss Josephine, ant from her horse Sunday at their at Long Beach, California. The j £ H ill, Norwegian consul >ther. Mrs.Neal, from Turner, arm east of M oro when the horse <11 u u m > J.IV.HIII, she was riding from the barn de jook is one of a hundred pages; ^ 8|Oriat who * looking over egon. telling of adventurous happenings, ¿¡forent parcels of land in the lames, son o f J.B.M orrison, was cided that it preferred a sdialler Notice i. hereby tive n to al1 replete with photographic views counties of Sher* man, G illiam and door to the one Miss Ruth desired »assenger to Portland Tuesday M orrow with an idea towards iparjie‘>n^ tbu*“ r^ e,rhe nroperty ol taken personally by the author ' - - an idea towards • a visit with his grand father it to take to get outside the build ing. A scalp wound and body some being very fam iliar to Sher colonizing them when the rana-1 he § ^erman County Fair Asso- •v. J. M . M orrison. bruises was the extent o f injuries man county residents. It is an ma canal opening w ill cheapen ciatjon it prohibited. A reward of M illie , daughter of Roy Benson passenger rates between Europe ¿ 5 w ill be paid for the atre*1 entertaining book well written. and this coast. M r.H ill choose a conviction ot those responsible I on some glass Saturday and received. R.J.Ginn was a member of a Z i la y tor the trip, bu,isp.e.?ed - tS “ . f c Road Master W m.Henrichs has Ferly cut her right hand; fam ily reunion dinner at W alla officially declared the John Day ok three stitches by D r.Poloy to with the possibilities of this section 4royunJg g y order of the board, road finished and discharged his W alla Sunday afternoon at the ose the wound. |5-j20-176] L. L. P eetz , M oro. home o f his brother George when of Oregon. The M o ro Hardware and Imple road building crew Tuesday. The A real estate >, transaction was three sisters and three brothers ent Co. have in stock both the new grade averages between ap closed this week involving $30,000 1 r - met for the first time that all were proximately four per cent and ten liea and Hub axle grease rn cans worth of Sherman county lands 11 vOI3 together in twenty yean; one r pails. This grease always >ive for the distance buift and as soon W hen u w.iNOOTWMini of u« *v»»-i Team, wagon, and harness; when C.W.Nottingham Port sister being absent to prevent all as straw is put upon the dirt work itisfaction and is standard. land secured the Finnetfan ranch J ^ ^ w h c a t bid" to bind the road surface a first the fam ily being present. One E.A.Cushman returned from class road crossing-from this coun sister Mrs. Maggie Brady, cam? ic Rose City Tuesday afternoon ty »nto G illiam w ill be open to the from Seattle; another sister Mrs. e said from business appearances public. J. R. M orrison <*ame from - the question include an acreage of 2560 reag5nable. S. D. MONTGOMERY, Moro. Oregon. early the entire town must have Fraser river district in British and all the land holdings own- rf482] Mrs.S. J. Ritchey is offering a re cen to some o f the ccean beaches Columbia, near Mission Junction, ed in this county by the estate. ward in the advertising columns of fgf (¡g^ form erly a resident o f Sherman H .W .S tro n i ow n. what i. called B j ) escape the heat. this weeks issue fo r any information the middle of the old Shearer □»»» ' “ “ county and who proved up by The L T . L . w ill meet Saturday as to what may have become o eatate holdini». known at the | Plenty fternoon at 2:30 at the Baptist about fifty head of turkeys from timber culture and homesteac ö rim c . place, and Peter, »"<?11 M • fA>len J . - , fiye-nH «.ou,h hurch. Among other business to her yard. A t first thought this may proof upon the land now owner Ra«.dale own a ll fo fhe we.t « • ^ p | ace to look alter fence,. ome before the meeting w ill be seem odd to some, but it is not by Dan McLachlan and sold to j . M. ALLEN, Section of officers, A ll members uncommon fc r turkeys to travel him by her when the family left of M r. Strong, In closing the transaction Mr. Nottingham «e-| ¡20476] Sisters,Crookcounty,Ore. here 21 years ago. equested to be present. as much as fifty mileain a few days cured all the farm equipment „ 1 ■” when the wanderlust siezet them. - and .tock on ibe Finneian ranch . . .1 D j. » , Several turkey raifcen in the county Cole which w ill be managed by his lifliululo dl D Cole know personally of less distances ,.73 deed being made direct Should ch»ck- son, the the iu try tty our MU. famous Hnpmoblle uiv a e e o u c in £ u ia u c U i i w ... i I y a n ‘ o u ______ n a l -., :„.1 o nf nice that their birds have gone as they Hupmobile to him. and a modern home w ill en cogee. •w it seem to delight in going right be built on the farm as soon aulsandwich.pje, c a x . ^ g o o o ^ ^ ^ , ■ Ford & W olfaw I L unch C ounter Ford ahead when they get started on - , plans can be prepared. T H B BIO T H R E E OREGON STATE FAIR SALEM , SE PT . 2 9 -O C T . 4, 1913 rhe M ” * O bserver dealers in Gasoline, Paints, Oils, and Glass, Harness and Harness Extras. Dish pans, Preserving Kettles, and Cooking • utensils in Enam eled G ranite Ware. We sell the E -Z seal fruit jars and rubbers and the Economy jars and tops. J T Y Y W V T Y T W’J gSPE 1 The (rail (remara Conveniences Are not alone confined to Rural Free Delivery of mail and the Telephone. There is another convenience which all farmers should have — and many do have— a checking ac count with a good bank. The possessor of such an account avoids tbs risk of having his money on his person or about his home where it is in danger of fire and thieves. His bills paid by check are not only a valid receipt, but also a convenience in his home transactions where very often the necessary change for concluding settlement is not at hand Don’t stop to think this over, but start an account now with T»« IfliMO Dlarihouse milling G«. In k , of Ifloro. t •••••••••••••* •* •« * * « « * * * * * * R. J. GINN J. E . C O L E M A N -r í S IN N & COLEM AN r ----------------- 7^7----------------- - a Reward for Lost Turkeys Tresspass Notice T H E BIG three hike. D E A L 1 5 H * IN Glass, Paints, and Oils. Bone and Alfalfa Meal. AGECNT« Canton Plows. Superior and Peoria Drills. ICJCTKA.«» For all kinds of machinery carried in stock or procured on short notice. r Oeo. F. M. Newhouse, Oph. D. T tk » Successors to C la rk e -N e w house J e w e lry Compssy I « e ll fo r c a s h o n ly Fine Diamonds, Jewelry, Watches, Clocks and Optical Goods. Satisfaction Guranteed or Money Refunded ~ NEW GOODS JU ST ARRIVED Our Stock is Complete and Seasonable A new lot of Mens Drees and Work Shoes. An extra line of Mens Sox and U nder wear in Spring and Sum m er Weights. Our Stock of Oroceries is Always complete. Case Goods and Q uantity Lots at Special Prices. COOPER BROS. GRASS VALLEY, OREGON. NOTICE We wish to announce to the public that we are now agents for T h e H o lt M anufacturing C om pany’s full line ot machinery and extras. We are also agents for the B est Manufacturing company’s line of machinery and extras, and the G ilbert H u n t company’s line. Our stock is complete and we are prepared to supply you with everything in the way of harvest supplies. We solicit your patronage. Yours for business, M cC oy Atwood Co. •\7 T su sc c , I ncorporated . O r e g r o iX - The Store That Makes Good. “Onc Price to All” General Merchandise Try a W ant Ad. In The Observer. It Pays.