MORO,
F R ID A Y
anuary
Entered
second class matter at the
post office at Move, O regon, July 25,1891.
Manager
C. L . I r e l a n d
FLEECY STA PLE M U ST PAY RAN
SOM IN T O T H E COFFERS OF
WAR.
D E A L E R S IN
L im e , P la s te r, C e m e n t. E
Supplies, L u m b e r,- W ood
C ed ar Posts, and H a y .
Nation Ring* W ith Cria» of Stricken
Induatry.
By Peter Radford
Lecturer National Formers* Union.
W e would like lo have you take it, and
we know it would be profitable to you to
becom e a subscriber.
W e send it two
years for $2.50; one wear $1.50; 12)4 c t. a
month isn’t mu£h. Try it. Order by
postal card, end pay for it when you can.
WANTED
iiber o f mares and geldings weighing frdm
1300 pounds and standing from 15 to 16.1
hands high.
Age 5 to 12.
Must be serviceably
sound and harness broken.
Upon notification will
visit any farm in Sherman county and select horses
for delivery at Moro for final inspection, where they
will be given free feed until final action is taken.
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MORO
V e te rin a ria n and
G en ts’ Suits C leaned,
P ressed an d R epaired
L a d ie s’ an d G en ts’ Suits
/ R em odeled, A ltered
and. R eiined.
Official Stock Inspector
W ASCO,
OREGON
Telephone Main 502.
M O R O , -O R E G O N
Philips Bldg
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MORO.
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OREGON
1st to 15th of each month.
Office opposite Dr». Goffin
New 1915
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Heodoobe a n d Tim so— — O ared,
“Chamberlain’s Tablets are entitled to all
the praise I can give them," writes Mrs.
Richard Olp, Spencerport. N. Y . They
have cured me of headache and nervoue-
n«u and .restored me to my normal hea l t h.’*
For sale by all dealers.—Advertisement.
Treats sll Domesticated Animals.
English Money Slang.
Among certain classes of persons In
London the follow in g term* are per
fectly understood and com m only used:
A tanner is equal to sixpence.
A bob is equal to a shilling.
A bull is equal to 6 shillings.
H a lf a bull Is equal to 2s. Gd.
A quid Is equal to £1.
A pony 1» equal to £25.
A monkey Is equal to £500. ,
A kite m eans an accom m odation bilL
Copper or brouse coins are fam iliarly
known as browns, w h ile m oney gener
ally Is d esign ated tin, dust or b lu n t
She Reeslled an Instanoe.
_ “Mrs. Peddlcerd.” said that lady’s
husband, “did you ever say anything
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O R E G O N that you afterw ard regretted saying?"
“Certainly. I said ’Y es’ once and
16th to 30th of each month.
have been sorry for It ever since.
Office opp. McCoy, Atwood Co D etroit Free Pres*.
Severe A tta c k o f OoUo C u re d .
W e have, rig ht h ere , th e ear
fo r w h ich you beve w a k e d .
I t bold« the ro ad p erfe ctly
a t SO milaa an h o u r. Ito a rria o
five g ro w n people oom fort-
• M y . I t he« le ft hand d rive
w ith oenter co n tro l— »elaadva
MMfasg gear tre«em ission. I t
bus e Sims high tension nsag-
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I t rides a« easily es an y
> 8 0 0 0 o a r— X •Uipd-a springs
P h y sician and Surgeon
M oro, O regon.
O ffice in residence
G ro v e r
E. E. Cross, who travels in Virginia and
other Southern States, was taken suddenly
and severely ill with colic. At the first store
he came to the merchant recommended
Chamberlain’« Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy. Two doeee of it cured him. No
one should leave home on a journey without
a bottle of this preparation. For «ale by all
dealers. —Ad vertimmenL
SHER IFF’S BALK.
In the Oirouit Court of the State of Oregon
for Sherman County.
D u ffe y
L aw yer.
Office with W.
MORO
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OREGON
C .J. B r ig h t , W.C.BavaNT. M .G . E l l i s .
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tb « r e o u from ¿1
IM4, a» the rate e
annum, and the fail
I dred t od thirteen
B rig h t, B ry an t & Ellis.
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she aeeruing ooete (
A tto rn e y s-a t-I^ w
and hereinafter deaoi
«ifices at
The Dalits and Moro, O rt
C. M. Huddleston
ROY M . BENSON
MORO.
A tto rn e y a t L a w
OREOON.
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W H E N YOU T R A V E L
BY AUTO
A N D V IS IT T H E D A L L E S
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I d the concrete, recently completed, fully equipped,
roomy garage of W alther-W ill ¡am« Company.
Competent
workman always ready to help you In any way they can at
least expense to you. For any service rendered the charge
will always be reasonable.
WALTHER-WILLIAMS GARAGE
OREOON
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I columns of the press, wants to thank
the American people for the friend-
Presbyterian church:
ship, sympathy and assistance given-
Sabbath School at 10 a.m. . . (1 I the cotton farmers in the hour of dis-
Services morning and evening » tress and to direct attention to c o
11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. The pas operative methods necessary to per-
> manently assist the marketing of all
tor would be pleased to meet farm products.
those whe are now non-church I I The present emergency presents sa
grave a situation as ever coafronted
goers at these services.
, I the American fanner and from the
'P rayer meeting at 7:30 o’clock viewpoint of the producer, would seem
Wednesday evening.
to Justify extraordinary relief mesa-
Service at M onklm d at 2:30 pm i urea, even to the point of bending the
constitution and straining business
Every body come 1
I rules In order to lift a portion of the
A. J. Adams, pastor. •J burden off the backs of the fanner,
L IV E R Y
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Hope of the Future Lies In Co-opera- (
tlon.
A ll are welcome.
John Robertson, pastor. I The Fanners’ Union, through the ;
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Inquire at
H . M acb eth
, King Cotton haa s t if f erad more from
the European war than any other ag-
ricultural product onf the American
continent The sheila of the beUlger-
W e will not he responsible for the ents have bunted over hla throne,
neglect of subambers to notify as of frightening hla subjects and shatter
changes in their^nddress. N or will the ing hla markets, and, panioetrteken,
notification of a lH S h
the nation cries out “God save the
scriber has ‘ ‘ ResugRsed
king!**
delinquent.
. People from every walk of life have
Church and Society notices F R E E , ex- contributed their m ite toward rescue
cept when for apfwy making purposes, work. Society has danoed before the
Such notices at refute r rates at the option king; milady has deoreed that the
of the publishers*^'
fam ily wardrobe shall contain only
cotton goods; the press haa plead
At any time when r
the paper will be am
with the public to "buy a bale";
expect that all onefirs wi.t be p a id betore I bonkers have been formulating hold
such request is nude. 1t is easy to ask us ing plans; oongrees and legislative
for a statement, wkish will be cheerfully
bodies have deliberated over relief
rendered at s n y J flK *
measures;, state— an and writers
have grown eloquent expounding t i e
inalienable rights of "His Majesty"
four months— b u t if netd in -dvance we
accept $2.50 in full «or 2 years.
Shorter and presenting schemes for preserv-
terms than one year 12>< cents per month. I Ing the financial integrity of the
stricken staple, but the sword of Eu
A Blue Mark here will answer an in-
rope has proved mightier than the pen
q u r r v , * h«-n e n te r e d u p o n o u r calendar,
giving the date ol the paper as the date at of America In fixing value upon this
product of the sunny south. Prices
which your current subscription expires.
have been bayoneted, values riddled
and markets decimated by the battling
Local Cknrch A—
ncemenb
hosts of the eastern hemisphere until
for Sunday, Jaausry 24.
the American farmer haa suffered a
I 1 war loss of 1400,000,000, and a hale
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1 of cotton brave enough to enter a
Methodist church:
I European port muat pay a ranaom of
10 a.m. Sunday School.
half Its value or go to prison until the
Preaching service at 11 a. m. war la over.
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ORGGON
Corntr of 7th and 8 tirk 8trtst
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ru n n in g water and long distance telephones.
European plan. Kates $1 per day and up.
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| for unless something is done to check <
the invasion of the war forces upon ;
the cotton fields, the pathway of the
European peetllenoe on this continent
- will be strewn with mortgaged homes
■ and famine and poverty w ill stalk over
f the southland, filling the highways of
1 Industry with refugees and the bank-
* I ruptcy court with prisoners.
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All calamities teach us lessons end »
the present crisis serves to Illuminate
e the frailties of our marketing meth-
d ods and the weakness of our credit
iB I system, and out of the financial an
guish and travail of the cotton farmer
y will come a volume of discussion and
I a mass of suggestions and finally a
I solution of this, the biggest problem
e I in the economic life of America, If,
H Indeed, we have aot already laid the
»8 foundation for at least temporary re-
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h More Pharaohs Needed In Agriculture.
|e I Farm products have no credit and
perhaps can never have on a perma-
• ’ uent and satisfactory basis unless ws
X) build warehouses, cold storage plants,
- I elevators, etc., for without storage and
credit facilities, the south la com-
re pelled to dump its crop on the market
:h at harvest time. The Farmers’ Unions
I In the cotton producing states have
for the past ten years persistently ad-
,y vocated the construction of storage
[facilities. W e have built during this
period 2,000 warehouses with a ca
pacity of approximately 4,000,000 bales
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and looking backward the results
Would seem encouraging, £ u t looking
forward, we are able to h o u s e less
’a- than one-third of the crop and ware-
of | houses without a credit system lose
r»0‘ per cent of their usefulness. The
problem Is a gigantic one— too great
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the farmer to solve unaided. He
must have the assistance of the bank-'
p le r, the merchant and the government
B * | In production we have reached the
id high water mark of perfection in tho
% world’s history, but our marketing
methods are most primitive. I> the
dawn of history we find agriculture
>n; plowing with a forked stick but with
a system of warehouses under govern
mental supervision that made the
ck Egyptians the marvel of clvllliation,
nr- for who has not admired the vision of
Joseph and applauded the wisdom of
Pharaoh for storing the surplus until
is; demanded by the consumer, but In
Y) thia age we have too many Josephs
who dream and not enough Pharaohs
who build.
Eastern Oregon Headquarters.
Positiv ly m c e n t r a l l y
located
Fifth St. ca- s pass
the doers eve» y few minutes
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Popular; Priced Restaurant
E uropeen P lan. Vatos
aarf up
L. Q. SWETLAND, Mgr,
D A R N IE L L E B R O S ., Proprietors
The Dalles, Oregon
H e a d q u a rte rs for our S h erm an C ounty
friends; prices reasonable; first class
resta u ra n t w ith the hotel.
fw o Blocks F ro m N ew Depot
F R E E A U T O B U S T O A N D F R O M A L L T R A IN S
VIN TO N HOTEL
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M unchausen II. IJnltfeky.
Who wns the original Munchausen
that told the delightful “stretchers?"
Raape 1« commonly supposed to have
founded hl« hero upon Hleronymu«
Knrt Friedrich von Monebansen. who
had fought with the Russians against
the Turk« and died in 1797. But the
Rev. S. Baring-Gould ban told the ato-
rr o f h swindler who appeared at H al
berstadt In 1702 giving oot hla n an» aa
Baron Karl Friedrich Muaghaunen. Ha
married a wealthy lady there and'told
the most notonlshlng yam» of hla trav
els and ndrenturea The rest of hla ca
reer was -short In June, 17®, he mur
dered hla wife, and In August he waa
executed — London Chrohlrta
Suffering Humanity.
“lira . Bounnug. who thought aba had
a mhsslon- to look a fte r suffering hu
manity. la married. iKnt a h eF
“Yep"
-1 waa aurprlned to Inara that she
had given up her missies In life."
“She haun t
Her hunhand la going
to he suffering humaultjf hereafter.”-
Hoonton Poet
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Difference In Tim e.
A large, ate*’ footed darky was lean
against the corner of the railroad sta
tion In a manufacturing town when
the noon whistle in the big factory
blew and the bnnds hurried out. bear
ing tbelr grub bucket». The darky
Iteteued. with his head on one side,
nutll the rocketing echo had quit«
died away
Tbeu be heaved a deep
sigh and remarked to blmeelf:
-P a r «he go Pinner time fur some
folks, but Jes’ 1% o’clock fur me!"-N«rw
York Tluiea.
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Battle Roy si.
- I shall never marry." remarked a
girl of a certain age. but wot sped
fled.
“Never mind, dear." replied her beat
friend. .-Everybody will know that
yon made a heroic fight against the In
evitable
Philadelphia f^dger.
Uniform Affection.
“Somehow or «»tlmr. girl* generally
keep conntant to I heir soldier lovers."
-la that what you might call uniform
affecthm F Baltimore American.
E ntirely new, convenient to business
Clean beds, and table the best the m arket
will afford. Prices reasonable.
Com
m ercial trade solicited.
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