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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1914)
J 4k HÄ,-. / O b ser v e r. A N«(fd Agriculturist. Ant* Party Home Agaia. The Condon Globe says that | hopes of t h e powers vacations prove that naturalists H . U. M artin and fam ily re have no conception of th^ di- j ’ As r es u lt of t h e w ar . Mark 'A. Carlton. who ¡6 in MOI O, OREGON. charge o f all the experimental turned from a two weeks’ trip mensions fish may attain or of A u s tria - Annexation of 8ervla and uulon o f nit aoutbern Slava work w ith grains for the United M onday afternoon ter as far as thé number that may inhabit a j under the Hapsbtiiyc crow n; ex- F R ID A Y ......... •• August 21 1914 States department of agriculture, Dixie, Washington, where they given body of water. Vacations teusloii o f <lmil »wonareby to was a visitor this week at the Ex visited with W . J. M artin and aho prove that men would rather Aegeun kkm G erm an y—l ‘<’»«t|M»n«*ment of the Entered • • second claw mstter •» <he perimental Station at M oro. M r. fam ily, a brother of H . U . M ar sleep among snakes than hedbilgs, "Slav peril" for a generation; In poet office at Moro, Oregon, July 2S, 1891. Carlton is recognized as the best tin and that whiles they abhor a fly in case of a general war extension They report but two m inor their home, they are w illing to authority on grains in the United of German cuiutuawial interests, C. L IRELAND.............Manager. States. He has made several troubles on their trip, one a blow put themselves up as a meat with only (»rent B ritain ae a form idable rival out as they were nearing M o r tours of foreign countries for the course at a mosquito reunion. Russia—Extension o f em pire to department of agriculture in the gan, in 'M o rro w county, on the the Curpatblana on the south Congressional leaders have west, possibly tl»e aelxure o f Po- interest of grain production. The out trip, and the other a flat tire, planned quick action to increase Hen and Bast and W est Prussia, Kharkov variety of wheat was in caused by a nail, on their return occupation o f Constantinople; the internal revenues by $100,- troduced into the United States at Echo. establishment of Russia as un 000,000 to offset curtailment of disputed dom inant power In east The report of the accident at by M r. Carjton in 1900, dfter his customs revenue expected during eru Europe. If you do not rend The Observer, why return from Russia and Siberia on W alla W alla on the 9th was of France— Removal of Germ an the“ war. It hat been decided to not? an agricultural expedition for the another party of similar name, menuce; lessening of the terrible confine the additional tax at this W e would like to hare you take it, and expense o f unequal mMltary com but no relation and with the same we know it would be profitable to you to purpose of discovering what grain time to liquors, tobacco, proprie petition w ith her neighbor; op become a aubscriber. W e «cn<J ** tw° crops of those countries were best initials as W . J., and with another portunity to develop her north t y medicines, and the levying year, for $2.50; one year 51 50;, 12 * cl. . one in the party arkwering to the month « n ’t much. T ry it. Otder by adapted for growth in the United African em pire; recovery o f lost of a stamp tax on checks, etc., provinces of Alsace and Lor- postal card, and pay lor it when you can States. He learned the language initial o f H. The people who sim ilar to the tax exacted during W e w ill not be responsible for the and lived like a native on the had the accident also had chil rains. Great B rita in —M aintenance of the Spanish war. neglect of .ubacriber. to J10*’!? •* change, in their addreaa. Nor will the Russia farms, that he might 6tudy dren with them of similar names Iwlauce of power In Europe; The weather bureau office a notification of a Poa(m»ater that the .ub- the crops, more closely. maintenance of British commer He fore to those in the party from M oro, acriber ha. “ Removed” .ettle the bill ol a, cial and naval suprem acy; preser Portland reports the piesent dry which was a peculiar coincidence. saw that wheat which would with delinquent. vation o f her colonial posses spell as the longest known in Church and Society notice« F R E E , ex stand the cold climate of the Mr. M artin said that he had sions; w inning of G erm any’« cept when for money making purpose. Czar’s dominions would be ideally known of the family that had the twenty-nine y^ars, and it seems Such notice« at regular r a te at the option suited to the winter wheat states accident, but had never met them, probable th a ti this year a new ' "A «eund So».* of the publishers. ms brother and they having fre record fo r dryness in Oregon w ill j T ake an ordinary rubber band and At any timewhen requested to do *o, of the United States. One-half Possibly as a first stretch It between the thum b and fore the paper w ill be oiacoolinued. But we of the winter wheat crop is now quently had mail confused by the be created. expect that all arrears w i . i be paid before impression of what may be ex finger o f your le ft band. I f you pick such request is made. It is easy to ask us grown from the Kharkov-variety. similarity in the names. pected throughout the state if pro It w ith the fingers of the rig h t band for a statement, which, xh II be .cheerfully Harvey reports that the drive M r. Carlton also introduced rendered at any time. hibition carries at the election and let go suddenly It w ill make a from Eastern Russia a variety of rom M ilton, Oregon, to W alla sound wbfeb you can hear distinctly The price of The Observer is $1.50 per next November. enough yourself, but w hich w ill not ba year, 75 cents for six months, 50 cents for spring wheat, called the durum, Walla was as if they were driving four months—but if naid in advance we which is best suited to our dry through a large orchard all the Diseases caused the swine breed audible to any one a fe w feet aw ay. accept $2.50 in full 'or 2 years. Shorter Our durum wheat in way, the roads being macadam ers of Oregon to lose 6000 hogs, But I f you were to fasten the elastic, terms than on», year 12S cents per month. regions. dustry which has already resulted ized and in good condition. He valued at $60,000, last year, ac with a pin at each end. to an empty A Blue Mark here will answer an in- wooden box. only not so as to touch query, when entered upon our calendar, from this implantation is now val also said that the roads passed cording to’ a report which has the wood, and then tw ang it the aound giving the date ol the paper as the drfte at over on the trip were in very just been issued by the department would be much louder than before. ued at $40,00(),(XX) annually. which your current subscription expires. good condition considering the of agriculture. This is an aver T h a t box la the sound box, or aound board, and all stringed Instrum ents German cruisers .hunting Eng time of yeah The worst roads age death rate of 20 per 1000 huve one In some shape or other.—8 t A special session of the state were in G illiam CQunty at the top lead. During the year 1912 the Nicholas. legislature may bp called by G ov lish ships off the Oregon and G o ld e n H o r e e e h o e e . of the new grade leading from ratio was 30 per 1000 head and a ernor West for December first California coasts can have but a Roman w riters Inform ns th s t Oom- the new bridge, where the roads total of 8000 head were lost. unless, as he says, he “ changes iriet career in this part of the modus caused the hoofs of hia boras to lad been changed to conform to world dnless they replenish their The Japanese cruiser Idzuma, be gilded. Nero when be undertook his m ind.” If called, this will be section lines and were all cut up stripped for fighting, is reported ahort Journeys was alw ays d raw n by a month before the regular legal coal supply from captured vessels. rom travel over ¡the former wheat They have no home ports on to be follow ing the Get (nan mules th at had silver shoes, and tbose s e s s i o n . ' ________ of his w ife. Poppsea. had aboea of fields. this side of the Pacific; the cruisers cruiser Lei psi g o ff the coasts of gold. From a i»a*>*ng» In “ Dio Caasloa*’ The party came back by way of Eleven shoe factories operated are small, and in a chase after Oregon and California, they in there 1« reason to think that the upper the M cDonald ferry and report by the International Shoe Com prize would soon exhaust their turn followed %y the Amercan part only was formed of those noble pany in different cities of the coal supply. There seems every that M r. McDonald has that grade torpedo boat H ull for the purpose metals or that they were |>erhape p la t . United States have been closed ikelihood that the two German in excellent condition, it being a of seeing that neutrality laws are ed out of tbln slips W hen Boniface, marquis of Tuscany, one o f the richest by reason of curtailment of busi cruisers w ill soon be driven into wide, broad track on which it is ollowed. Japan gave Germany princes of hia time, went to Beatrix, ness caused by the seven nations a neutral port and interned unti easy to pass another machine at unti, the nigh» of August 23d to about the year 1038. bis whole train was so magnificently decorated that war in Europe.- after the war. • O f course they any point. get out of China or fight. bia horses were shod w ith silver. The On the return the party were at can take coal in a neutral port to A plant for distilling oil of pep nails were even of the same metaL Morgan, in M orrow county, the Americans in France are re get home on, but this can only be Rcatrieliena. morning after a fire had destroyed permint is being constructed at “H ow do you like your new f la t F cruiting a corp of rough riders for done once in three months, anc Springfield, in Lane county. a wheat warehouse with 3000sacks " It'a a little restricted.” replied the service in th% war. The corps not then unless they have been of wheat, a store and contents, Forty acres have been planted to patient man. "They won’t allow you home since being supplied. Re w ill include former cowboys and and residence with the contents, peppermint, and if the yield of to raise children or pets. They even cavalrymen o f the United States ceiving . a supply from South and three young people sleeping oil meets expectations, the forty n xcp lalo If you raise your voice."— and w ill be equipped by wealthy American countries might tempo K irh a o e e . in the house. The mother es acres should give gross returns of Americans living in that country. rarily prolong, their usefulness to caped by jumping through a win about $60005 The industry is their country, but not for long. dow, with burns and bruises that ikely to become an important Farming is attracting the atten one for Oregon. M oro has been too generous to are thought to be fatal, while the tion of men as it never has in al father escaped by sleeping in the The instinct to blame the other ages of the past. Because of its her farmer friends this harvest barn. The young folks had hac fellow when one is at fault is a M O R O , - OREGON bigness, its possibilities, its need, season and now, lor lack ol water a party that night, and the fire rooted instinct in human nature, 1st to 15th of each month. men are taking up the scientific surplus supplied harvest outfits was supposed to have started be not better illustrated than in an has been forced to discontinue C ffice opposite Drs. Goffin study of farming in our agricul fore their going to bed. endeavor to locate the cause of street sprinkling and curtail the tural colleges with more earnest the seven nations' war in Europe W ASCO , . - OREGON ness than they do law, medicine irrigation of lawns. The regrac The seven nations’ war in Eu from the speeches ot those in au ing of the streets last spring left or engineering. If th to 30th of each month. our main streets easily cut by rope has temporarily cut off the thority in the national life of the Office opp. McCoy, Atwood Co traffic when not kept in condition market that usually is used to ab interested countries. The government bureau of en by# sprinkling. I his, in turn, al sorb the surplus wheat o f Oregon Those who estimate the value graving and printing, where are lows dust to move in disagreeable and the Pacific nortnwe^t coast. of their crops and livestock and printed The currency, stamps and quantities, but as we of the town There would seem to he every ignore the value of ;he barnyard bonds, is the busiest manufactur must put up with this to a larger reason 'w hy prices to the con manure, are apt to find the profits ing plant in the United States. extent than our business patrons, sun.er should hold steady or even of the farm unsatisfactory. The Physician and Surgeon. It is running twenty-four hours a it is no more than right that all recede. Although the war best profits should come from the day and Sundays, and is turning should bear with the conditions only a fortnight old, the screws manure when judiciously used. Moro, Oregon. out $12,000,000 in currency each with as little grumbling as pos are put to the consuming classes, twenty-four-hour day. The one thing that has served sible until natuie conies to our re and prices already high begin to to bring home to Americans the Office in residence. lief. _____________ be lifted higher. Wholesalers reality of the European war has Rotation o f crops should be claim the reason is that Europe Few people work any harder wants to buy of the United States, been the danger and inconveni practiced, whenever possible, to increase the humus and nitrogen than the average farm wife. There and as yet, even if they do, there ence confronting the thousands of in the soils. If a large part of the is no good reason why she should is no commerce moving, and un American toqrists in various parts produce raised to be fed to live not have a vacation and many til it does, prices should not be of Europe. Lawyer. stock and the manure carefully good reasons why she should. arbitrarily lifted in all localities of The first shipment o f barley returned to the fields, there are After harvest persuade her to go this country alike. The situation from the Pacific coast since the few sections of our whole country away to some place where she demands and justifies examination outbreak of the European war Office with W. H. Ragsdale that w ill yield better profits for w ill have a change, if it is to be by all governmental authorities, left San Francisco August 13th on farmers than in Sherman county for only a few days. wherever a rise in price occurs, if the Norwegian steamer Guern MORO - OREGON^ for no other reason than to force sey for England, by way of Cal t discrimination between desire and lao, Peru. ability to command a higher price, No farmer is successful who BENNETT, and a justifiable commercial need thinks more of his barn than hS " SINNOTT, by reason of trade conditions. does of his home, and the devel „ & QALLOWAY opment of the farmer himself Every farmer and fruit grower, must precede the full develop ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW including any one with a breed of ment o f the ground he tills. General Practice pure cattle, poultry or horses on Owing to the continued dry the farm, should arrange to have spell and liability ot additional The Dalles, ««-^Bregón. an exhibit, however small, at the forest fires from careless hunters, Sherman County Fair on October Governor West has issued a 7-8-9 and 10. Several have been proclamation closing the deer, C .J .B r ig h t , W .C . B r y a n t , M .G .E l l is . planning exhibits„but these are in hunting season. too small a m inority. There is W h e n you bu y your .22 calib re Officers of the state m ilitia dis no doubt of the benefits accruing r r i f l e —r e p e a t e r o r t in g le » h o t—be! guided b y t h e e x a m p le o f t h e c ra c k -1 from our county fair, not in pre- missed from the service last fall B right, B ry a n t & •hot« and th e growing m ajo rity o f rifle , miums to individuals, but in the have been reinstated and placed Attorneys-at-Law user«. G e t a real gun—a R e m in g to n -U M Q . interest aroused for better things, upon the retired list. This leaves i them eligible for active service in G o ace th e d ealer w ho display« th e R e d B a lli and to make the fair the success it offices at M a r k o f R en tin g to n -U M C . Y o u r sign o f Sportsmen’« | case of war. should be, every one should do a H ead q u arters—the R em in g to n -U M C arms you w an t ‘ A total of 241 national and in* The Dalle« and Moro, part, however small. to own, and the am m unition you ought to have. J ternalional congresses and con-1 T» jr-ovr CUM cleaned and lubricate^ r ig h t «•« 0(1 a * saw paw dar aelvrn t. raet prpvvotaUvc, ««d gun Itet-ricexit. ventions have decided to hold ' Farm laborers of Oregon work, their meetings next year at the ’ learâtgto« Arnu-Unioa on an average of 9 hours and 44 Metallic Cartridge'Ce. Í •’■V minutes per day, according to a Panama-Pacific Exposition at San BF«aflwly. fvew I w»m report which has just been issued Francisco. T h i (raia C ram n toawalaaeaa Are not alone confined to Rural Free Delivery of mail and the Telephone. There is another convenience wh’ch «11 farmers should have — and many do have — a checking ac count with a good bank. The possessor of such an account avoids the risk of hiving hh money on his person or about h is home where it is in danger of fire and th iev es. His bills paid by check are not only a valid receipt, but also a convenience in hia home transactions where very often the necessary change for concluding settlement ia not at hand Don’t stop to think thia over, but atari an account now with t - r -. ¿r Thi (ilasco U anhoiie (HHliig {a. ¡¡aak, of (fiord ? 7 r <4-.- R. J. GINN / ' ' J- E. COLEMAN \ 6 IN N H 4 ' ‘g & COLEM AN C o m p le te H a rv e s t . G oods, S u p p ly o f L u b r ic a tin g E x tra « O ils , O r e a a e a . - AGENT« FOH McCormick Line | Headers, Reapers, Etc Pacific Coast Elevator Company ¡; is prepared to buy wheat or barley any where in the county and solicit your storage at their warehouses at Hhfus, Wasco, McDonald, and Moro. » ' The Celebrated Snow D rift Hour ' on hand at all times at prices lower than the lowest. For detail? write, or . phone, or call on D. W. Wad«, agent, Wasco, Oregon. J: R. Morgan ID e rx tle t $ 4 .1 0 P E R T O N Dr. C. L. Poley Grover J. Duffey 2 2 ALIBER RIFLES] $ 1 .9 2 P E R T O N Average cost of material on SEVEN PATENTED SILOS being sold in the Northwest, per ton capacity, $4.10 Average cost of material on three different TUM-A-LUM SILOS 1. - Lasting just as long, with just as good service; 2. Furnished on a day’s notice; 3 Material complete, including special inside silo coating and inside paint; \ 4. W ith FR EE PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS Per ton Capacity, $1.92 3000 18-inch and 21 -inch posts in stock. 2 Cars Rock Spring coal in transit. Fresh cement always in stock. Everything in the building line, Ellis. Or«. C M. Huddleston FOR SALE BY Moro Hardware & Implement Co. A flour m ill, wheat warehouse , by the United States department of agriculture. More than 27,000 and elevator, together' with 3000 , laborers are employed, and the barrels ot flour and 35,000 sacks' average m onthly compensation is of wheat, burned Saturday night W at Imbter, in Union county. $31 with board. Attorney at Law asco , - O regon 2«® H. U. Martin about it O 'Hom e of Tum-a-Lumber JOB PRINTING
