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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1914)
T he O bserver. MORO. OREGON. F R I D A Y ..........January Rutea d as seooud cl« « m a tt« « tos », Oregon, July 2S, ISM . G. L . I reland . . . . . . . Manager. Sued lor advertising rates. If you do not rand The Observer, W e would like to here you take it, and « e know it would be profitable to yon to become a subscriber. W e «end it two yean for $2.50; one year $1.50; 12% cts a month im ‘t much. T ry it. O r d « by postal card, and pay lor it when you can W e w ill not be responsible lor the neglect of subscribers to notify « of changes in their address. Nor w ill the n od^arion of a Postmaster that the sub- acriber hm “ Rem oved" settle the bill of a delinquent. Church and Society notices F R E E , nx- eept when lor money making purposes. Such notices at regu lar rates at the option o f the publishers. A t any ti ma when requested to do so, the p ap « w ill be aiacontinued. But wa expect that ail arrears w iu be paid before such request is made. I t is easy tu ask us for a statement, which w ill be cheerfully One of the ddighta of Christ mas, perhaps the special delight- fulneas of the festival, is that it is or should be “ joy in widest com monality spread.“ Christmas in the middle ages had thb com munity character in high degree. A ll classes mingled together at Christmas in the highways and the cathedrals. Europe still retains this publicity of celebration much more than America has ever had it. Celebrations in the churches and by organizations only very partially approximate to the com munity Christmas. It is gratifying and cheering that the idea of community celebration of Christmas has always been a feature of each recurring season in M oro. T h b year the community Christmas tree bloomed at the opera house in all its occustomed splendor, proceeded by a cantata by the children entitled Santa Claus in Slumberland which was exceptionally well staged and aaaaftaaaftfiAftfifteen A b the good man would say, thb b B .V .D . weather. Sure, you want to Be Very Deliberate. Still lots of us use still stronger ¡initial*. Presently Sr Hew Tw# Aseriáis Said a young lady named Anna, As she stepped on empty banana, “ N ow . what do you see That you stare so at me?” And bystanders cried, “ Hos-anna” Vere Seni B y CLARISSA M A C K II l i H H M I l l l 1 1 I IH I I I »♦I Dlek Bvaas sat up In bed and sleep I f the custom of buying cows ily rubbed b i* eyre. Again came a cau continues Sherman county may tious knock a t bis door. “Come I n r be called impatiently, some time be known as the and aa the aleak head of bis Chine« M ilky W a y .” A society of bible students want the word “ hell“ dropped. This tampering with sacred things is becoming really serious. he slit skirt is a wondrous tube, W hen first I gazed upon it. Said I , “ I ’ll bet some careless boob Has ripped it, stepping on it.' presented. house boy appeared In the aperture be added. “ W b at’s the matter, Fan SooF’ Fan Boo cloned the door softly ano tiptoed to the bed. “Him Smiee man boy bring c h it H ully u p r Evans took the note and read the brief cipher measag< it contained. Then he ■***»(«< tured a very suc cessful yaw n and d-missed the beady eyed Chinese. "Breakfast quick Babe. Ban Fool Dust out of bare a<>»r Fan Boo dusted out, or it might more aptly be termed as “melting from view.* Alone, Dick Evans worked with light ning rapidity. He was in and out of his bath In a Jiffy, quickly dressed In fresh white Hnen and packing a few valuables In his pockets. When he left the room there was nothing that he valued rontalnod therein, not even a scrap of paper. \ After a hasty breakfast he left his bungalow and went down the Can ton road toward the city. As the agent of a large importing house In Canton he preferred to live in the suburbs of that rather unfriendly and seething city. H ie position was very uncertain. Five time« had the agents of hie bouse been driven away by the hostility of the natives and each time had they with customary English dog gedness returned to the scene of bat tle. Now thinks were rather different With the country in a state of revolu tion, south China warring against the northern provinces, it was only a ques tion of days before he would be com- < Y the workers to £•>. who get The foreste of Florida contain Sherman County Abstract Com 175 different kinds of wood. pany, Moro, Oregon. V b it mitting his friend to the gloomy to ot a large e • •» a a lantern diffused was lined w ith niches. In each one of which was a rather battered Idol. Except for a straw pallet on the floor, a Jug of w ater and a bowl o f rice. the room was empty. v "W hat are you doing here?" asked Dick. "Had a tip from a C h in a « friend th a t our houses were to be looted and burned today. I sent you word, and I've taken refuge here after making an observation from the pinnacle and seeing the brigands coming from one direction and the soldiers from an* other. Between the two forces oui bones would be picked quite dean." "A fter they pass we can get away?" naked Dick thoughtfully. -M aybe," smiled Smith, “provided they don’t take it into tbeir beads to level the tower to the ground." "Wish we could give them a stifl scare. Tou know they are r a t h « sus picious o f thia place." " I know i t Give me time to think.” For a long time Smith M t on the floor with his head in his hands. At last ha arose and uttered a triumphant whoop. H e darted to a carved cheat thrust in one c o rn « and from it dragged stiff robes of yellow brocade, soiled and dusty and almost failing to piecee w ith great age. " I f they linger along till dusk I think I can acare them stiff w ith this priest ly garb,” he chuckled. “Tou know one of the traditions connected with thia place concerns an old priest ol Buddha who starved himself to death in the tower In order to attain c e l« tlal rewards The superstitious say that sometimes the spirit of this old priest co m « beck to the to w « , hungry and fbrlorn, and cries for food and drink. I shall be th at old priest to» awhile. Watch me!" When Smith's tall, gaunt frame was wrapped in the yellow robe and a black satin cap was stuck on his dark hair Dick confessed himself amaaed nt the resemblance to a Buddhist priest painted on one of the porcelain panels of the stairway. The disguise was per fe c t The tw o men M t and talked beside a tiny window that gave a view of the road to the city. “I f they only w ait until dusk we can scare ’em off, and then we can get sway," Smith repeated o v « and o v « When the curtain rose at the Funny the attraction a mahog beginning of the cantata the stage any counter and a brats rail has and settings had been transformed or mere man these few days be into a childrens fairyland by liberal fore New Years. A Blue M ark here w ill answer an in- use of cotton; there being snow query, when entered upon our calendar, white clouds floating in the ether The sad difference between the giving the date of the paper as the date, at and supported on all sides by ideal and the real: A woman's which your current subscription expires. snowy, filmy columns. • Those apparent figure and her actual taking part in the cantata were i igure. The gathering and selling of each and all little artiste; we are acorns is now a new industry, in only disappointed that space will T o him it has never occurred Arkansas, to supply eastern nur That credit's what you make it, not allow us to bestow the praise sery firms with material for forest And so he always keeps hb word the little actor* deserve in recogni planting. ■ ______ Because no man will take it tion of their efforts to entertain. The prevalent thought of the There are seven spruces in the W hen a man is young, he con cantata was that at Christmas,or at United States. Fcur are confined fidently hope* to capture fame., to the west; two to the east; while any other time, life b what you W hen he b old, he humbly make it and that when a person is one, white spruce, has a continent lopes to escape the poorhouse. selfish and lives to himself he wide distribution. But hope abides with him from doing injury to others and a great deal more to himself than he may the cradle to the grave. M ore than 800,000 horsepower imagine. The only remedy is that ap She goes abroad for everything has been developed from streams Since she came into wealth, on national forests under govern plied to the old man in the H er gloves, her hate, her lingerie, cantata when he awoke and real ment regulation. T h ir represents H er dresses and her health. the output under conditions of zed how utterly selfish he hac been in hb conduct towards lowest stream flow. One of the strides made by others; he was allowed what every women since the dark ages is-in Among *the rare exhibits of person some times is not; that o keeping their ages dark. Japan at the Panama-Pacific Inter providing a remedy and giving national Exposition will be many real Christmas to those who other The suffragist* who demand priceless tapestries, bits of satsuma wise would have had little, if any. W hat b rightly called the men's wages would probably get and lacquer work. It is said that Christmas Spirit is nothing else them if they were married. .die emperor may loan the his toric art collection from the im but making people happy in any way you can; if you have that Ancient Greek* enjoyed a blessing perial museum at Tokyo. spirit with you throughout the Trouser* never needed pressing; But to joy some gloom attaches year, then the Christmas Spirit The health commissioner of They had no place to strike their always with you; while to those Chicago refused to let his subordi matches. who loose it in the hurry of life nates tend out a bulletin warninf, Christmas has been provided for •gainst the danger of kissing. H e them to again secure as libera New Use Far Parcel Peal said there is really no * danger in amount of Christmas Spirit as kissing unless you are caught at it they may. Beginning with the first of the There b almost something human new year, Oregon creamery men about an official with ideas like The M oro postoffice handle« propose making good use of the ■ JHC - . ■ more mail Tuesday, Wednesday parcel post for the shipment o The harassment! and hardship* and Thursday of Ifttt week than butter to points both within anc ra n n is u n s i was r u m o r . of vacation are over. Cool weath ever before during the same out of the state. For year« the er has come to stay. W e may period. Tuesday over 2000 pieces creameries have used the express pelletf to vacate not only bin bunga low on the Canton road, but his of settle down to week* of reatfu of mail was sent out, and W ed companies for transportation o flees in the city as well. work. It is evidence of the virile nesday and Thursday fully as tbeir butter. The blow had fallen thia morning. Rates have been stamina of average Americana that many. From the incoming mai rather high at all times, creamery The “chit” or note that Smith had « n t had contained a few words of they return from vacation almost on Christmas over 3000 pieces men say, and this have had to him warning. A company of xoidiers boand aa well aa when they went away were received and distributed. be taken into consideration when north would leave the city at 9 o'clock, from work. During the holiday ruth nearly i ' pncea were fixed. Tne parce and that meant that tbeir passage would be marked by robbery and per not quite as many parcel post post offers lower rates and as haps worse. Every man who would be effic packages have gone out a* receiv packages Dick Evans wa« going to the bouse SO pounds can ient must store reserves of power ed; showing that our merchants be sent by od after Janu- of his friend, James Smith, and to gether they might eecape If they could for emergencies. Every man con have been doing a good business. ary 1st, the men propose reach the city, although It was whis taint unplumbed depths of poten The receipts of the postoffice for taking advantage of the oppor- pered that ail the traveled roads were tial force, which at the touch of a December will be the largest since tun ¡ties presented by this branch Infested with murderous bandits. I t was a good three miles to the crisis may make him a hero or a the postoffice has been established. of Uncle Sam's service. Smith place, and when he reached it Titan. Daily faithfulneaae* to little Butter is generally packed in he found it quite deserted M ve for duties are the springs that feed squares, weighing 50 pounds to fat comprador sunning himself in the The secretary of agriculture >a gateway of the compound. He gnve thb subterranean lake. showing the farmer how to raise the box, the plan teem* to be to forth surly answers to Dick’s ques crops, and the secretary of the reduce the weight of each square tions. Five hundred yards beyond the com Marconi annonnees prepara treasury is showing them bow he so that the same number of square* pound gate Dlek came to the old porce tions to connect North and South may pay for the gathering of formerly shipped by express wilt lain to w « that Is a historic feature America by wireless, having them. Now , if the interstate com weigh less than the 50 pound on the Canton road. Built many cen turies before as the private retreat of cured a fifty year concession from merce commission will show him limit, including the box. a itch mandarin. the exquisite porce Brazil for a service to New York. where the railroad cart are to lain paintings that adorned its la n « Thia, with the governm ent's plana come from all will be well. walla are still admired.' Now the tow Caaaty Realty Transféra. « was dererted save by bate and rats, for a transcontinental service by and it was whispered among the Chi way of Chicago, should usher in a Dating from Dec. 20, to Dee. 27, 1913 ne that devils hannted its many Since the sensational oil strike new era in wireless on thb side of at Beaumont in 1901 petroleum the ocean. J. S. Fowler to Mae Fowler; As Dick passed the old to w « there has had first place in the mineral nw X of n w X section 7 and n X came the sonud of a fam iliar voice—it came la a w h lsp er-th at voice of J a m « The road system of the Panama production of Texas, the value of of seX section 6 and nX of *wX Smith, and It hastened Dick’s steps Pacific International Exposition the oil output in 1912 constituting section 5 twp 2 n r 17 e w m seX toward the tower until be wan stand site has advanced so satisfactorily more than one-third of the total of *w X section 5 twp 2 n r 17 ing la Its tall shadow? •Dodge la here. I ll teli you when I that one may go in a buggy or an mineral production of the state. e w m $1.00 me you. Come up to the top floor P . automobile to almost every part Dick cast a sw ift glance around the J. P. Brackett, to W illiam Oeh- of the grounds, in comfort, and in Florida buttonwood, a tree con man; e X of seX and *w X of seX countryside and saw not a human be ing. He darted into the deepiem any kind of weather. During the fined largely to the key* along the section 5 and neX of neX lection brasure of the doorway and found him time of the fair autos will not be south coast, is very highly prized 8 in twp 2 n r 18 e w m $1000.00. self at the foot of a winding, rickety stairway. allowed inside the grounds as' for use in cooking on ship's gal S. D . Montgomery to Elmer A t last he reached the ninth precaution of safety to pedestrian*. leys. It burns slowly with an Armstrong; tract of land in Moro.' where Smith was w aiting fo r him w ith even heat and makes but little W . S. Baraee to W . Hucftin; pallid, drawn face and haggard e y « that had not known sleep for many One-quarter of the 25,000 wom smoke or ash. swX section 18 twp r 17 hours. en workers of Kansas City receive “Cut In here so 1 can done up the e w m Sl.oo. The highest mountain in W y o leas than $6 a week, although, place. The rascab win be about our United States to Leila Fowler, M rs In no tim e r be exclaimed. “Ten cording to the board of public ming is Gannett peak, whose n X o f seX section 6 and n X of received my chltF* welfare, a wage of $R50 is neces elevation, according to a chart “ An hour ago W h a t are yon dolnr swX flection 5 in twp 2 a r 17 sary for a girl to live comfortably published by the United States here?" “W a it - Come w ith are." Smith led io a boarding house, while $6 Geological Survey, is 13,785 feet e w ra. the way to a ddflr painted w ith so a bare existence. It is en- above tea level. Abstracts promptly made by the u th « red dragon and opened I t ad to sec the question The price of The Observer is $1.50 per year, 75 cents for six months, 50 cents for four months— but i f noid in advance wa accept $2.50 in full «or 2 years. Short« terms thaa om. y e « 12% cents per month. a The day wore on, and, although they caught occasional glimpses of sp proaching «Id lers, they did not make much progress, fo r there were much halting and disputing. I t was almost tw ilight when a company o f ragged « id le rs stirred the thick white dust of the road near the porcelain to w « . "They're going to halt there. Just as I thought They're taking pot shots at the to w « . 8 « the ancient cannon they are dragging along.” Dick looked out and m w all the things Smith described. H e mw motto for he noticed that they were prepar ing to load the cannon and gunners were pointing it toward the porcelain “Deuce take I t we’re in f « it now!" muttered Smith. “Get into your robes. Scare ‘em off, Toa can do i t 1 know the Chi __ like a book. TheyOI streak it if they s w th at old yellow back on tbs balcony of the to w « ." Thus Dick encouraged his friend while he helped Smith into the yellow robe W hile the gunners ware loading the cannon there came the « a n d of fierce cries from the « n th , and a band of tattered brigands came racing through the duat of the road. A t the same Instant Smith stopped through a door that led to a small bal cony that encircled the to w « and, lifting bis arms In their flowing sleeves, shrilled down a t them a mix tore of American slang and bad Chi n e « th a t hushed the riotous crowd be low. How long be stood there he never knew, but his arms grew stiff and uselsM and hia neck cramped w ith feta rigid attitude. The long‘silence ot the crowd below was broken a t last by a shrill screech of terror from a brigand. T h a t was the signal for panic. In ten minutes the long dnsty road w m empty and a fun moon smiled wanly over the place where superstition still held sway. “Tan y e a n from now thia could not happen.” said Smith as he entered the city that night w ith Dick beside bias. “The last remnants of superstition and ignorance are flying northward this very moment lashed by their 'own fears. China has awakened, yawne and nodded off again for another fo rtj winks. A f t « th at—well, we’ll all hare to keep pretty wide awake to keep up with her." Dick Evans, who m w a very profit able business going to the dogs, nod ded ruefully. "There’s Just one con- « la tlo n in the whole affair," he mur mured, "and that Is that It forms an excellent excuse for getting back Into God's country again, and Tm going.1“ Early U h of T obsoco. I have beard my g ra n d fa th « say that on* pipe waa handed from man to round about the table. They had first a ilv « pipes, the ordinary sort made use of a Walnut shell and a straw. Tobacco waa « I d then tor ft* weight in a ilv « . 1 have heard soma of our old yeoman neighbors say that when they went to MalmMbury or Chippenham market they culled out tbeir biggest shillings to lay In the s e a l« against the tobacco. Sir W . R., ■tending in a stand a t S ir . Robert Poynta’s park a t Acton, took a pipe of tobacco, which made the ladles quit ft until be had d oo e.-"B rtef U n « Bat Dawn by John Aubrey. Bur« e f H ia Judgment, Anyhow. A girl may not love the man who tails her she is beautiful, but she Is pretty sure to respect bis Judgment— Chicago Hecord-Herald. H i t f t R ig h t. Barber ( a f t « the shaveh-Hair dyed Mr? Custom « (bald beaded?— Tea. It died about Ova years At The Observer Book Store  FAIR SUPPLY AT THESE PRICES 5c Alphabet books at 2 for 8tory books at 2 for 5o 10c Story books at 15c Story books at 25c Story books at 35c and 25c Colored Picture Books 15c only four left. t 26c stiff cover books for children for only 16c 80c Rubber Balls 35c 50c a 60c Rubber Balls 25c only a few left— better speak quick P O S T C A R D A L B U M 8 25c value* 15c who wanterone N E W Y E A R S C A R D S are now on aale at thb atore Observer Book Store MORO, • OREGON Moro Pharmacy R. D. JACKSO N ■a R. J. GINN J* E- COLEMAN Z ? G IN N & C O L E M A N g X>BAXrlCIK« i x Glass, Paints, and Oils. Bone and Alfalfa Meal. jkoiB rtrr« aeoaa Canton Plows, Superior and Peoria Drills. For all kinds of machinery carried in stock or procured on short notice. ’3ff fto grail greoirfl [onvenienees Are not alone eenfined to Rural Free Delive.y of mail and the Telephone. There ia another convenience which all farmers should have — and many do have —- a checking ao- oonnt with a good bank. The poreesanr of such an account avoids the risk of having hia money on h«r per on or about Me home where it ia in dang« of fire and thieves. Hia bills paid by check are not only a valid teceipt, hut a b o a convenience in hia home transactions where very often the neoeaaary change for concluding settlement ia not at hand Dou’t atop to think thb o v « , but start an account now with Tie ||| h c o Warehouse (Hilling (a . tank, of Rare. w as Í ■>'"í IN W inter is the name of a season, not the description of a CUmato; LET US HELP YOU P LA N A V IS IT to the lead of Sunakiae, Fruits and Flowers. Outdoor Sports—Auto Trips [ toe Orange Graves—Trips to the Beach«—Surf Bathing—sad the sda of varied sasusemenu for which California ia fanuow Round T rip T ick ets a t Reduced Fares For handsome Booklets descriptive of California, also for Fares, Tickets or Reservations Gall on «ny Agent of the * Oregoft-Wasliiiifftoii Railroad , & HavUatton Company mm * t-> ÖC 5c 5c 10c 15c
