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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1915)
■SSseSHHWBWSse The O b se r v e r . M B * & The Opeaisf ef CeKle Canal, The week now nearing its dost Hovy a Parrot is an epoch distinctively its own as affecting the past and the future Effected a Match D S d ii Para fa S t a i a C t a y . history of what is known as the Oregon Country; a part of the United States that reaches from By LO U ISE B. C U M M IN G S the 'Pacific ocean on the west to F R ID A Y ...............May 7. 1915 as far east as Montana and beyond "Lucy." said Mrs. Arnold to her niece, Lucy MacKulght, "bow about thia a f and from the southern limits of Entered at second clast matter at the post office at M oro. Oregon, July 25. 1891. California to the northernmost fa ir between yon and George Horbl- George baa been attentive to you grain fields o f British Columbia.' een? for six month« and so far as 1 know C. L. I r e l a n d .............Manager. Tnis week is freighted with poten nothing has come of IL** "W hat can 1 do, Annt Rebecca? I tials far beyond the ken of most can’t make him propose." men and it rests with each one in “ My dear." said the old lady In V Send for advertising rates. I f yoff do not read T h e O bserver, why dividually as to what w ill be done kindly tone, " I have a suggestion to not? with the means provided as to make.” W e would like to have you take it, and “W hat 1« It, Aunt Beck?” how successful the outcome may we know it would be profitable to you to “Get a p a rro t” become a subscriber. W e send it two be which the future is to decide. “A parrot!” years for $2.50; one year $1.50; 12% eta a "Yes, a parrot But you’ll understand Celilo canal is now a part of month isn’t much. T ry it. O rd er by me better after I have told you a story. postal card, and pay for it when you can. the commercial life of this section. When I- was your age a number of W e w ill not be responsible for the The wisdom of its building has young men at different times showed neglect of subscribers to notify as of Each speaker me n good deal of attention, hut any changes in their address. N o r w ill the yet to be proven. notification of a Postmaster that the sub Wednesday, in the afternoon at oue who married me must furnish all the Income on which we would live, for scriber has “ R em oved” settle the bHI of a Big Eddy and at the banquet at I hadn't u cent There’s many a splen delinquent. did girl who has remained a maid for Church and Society notices F R E E , e x The Dalles in the evening, voiced this reusou. Any prudent young man cept when for money making purposes. this most strenously by persistently Is liable to balk because tbe girl be Such notices at regular rates at the option advising “ use it” and only by its would make bis wife can furnish noth of the publishers. ing toward the family support A t any tim ew hen requested to do so, use can the Celilo canal, as it now “H a lf a dosen young men had bqgn the paper w ill be disco ntinu ed.. But we stands completed, be justified. devoted to me, but when each had be expect that all arrears w in be paid before Credit for the completed Celilo came convinced that be must shoulder such request is made. I t is easy tv ask us for a statement, which w ill be cheerfully canal, it given to any one person the whole load If be married me be rendered at any tim e. withdrew One' day at tbe beginning above another, should be extend of tbe summer a friend of my mother's T he price of T he O bserver is $1.50 per year, 75 cents for six months, 50 cents for ed to Malcolm A. Moody and his caine In and said that she and her fam four months— but if naid io «dvance we personal persistent work when a l|y were going to the country and ask accept $2.50 in full <or 2 years. Shorter ed if we would take care of her parrot terms than one year 12% cents m onth. member of congress, in formulat while they were gone. Mother said A Blue M ark here w ill answer an in> ing the plans, securing authority she would be happy to accommodate query, when entered upon our calendar, or the preliminary work and the her. and tbe parrot—they called him giving the date ol the paper as the date at Roger—was brought over. He was a needed government eslimates, and queer looking bird—all parrots are— which your current subscription expires. securing for the government a free and was very amusing. The v^ay be right of way; these different topics would climb about bis cage, muttering The Millen Bridge Road. to himself, made ns all laugh. To me were each «poken os the different he seemed like an alderman In a red Wasco county officials should speakers at the banquet; as well as w alstom t “ W / put Roger on the porch, which be complimented upon the road Mr. M oody’s successful efforts to wa« ul'ely ttt ted for summer lounging, have the Columbia river free of improvements on the route from and usually left him there all olght The Dalles to M illers bridge. obstructions by the time the canal except when K «termed. Jn the even tug we sat there ourselves;,at least I The editor of the Observer drove should be completed. did. for 1 found It a very convenient one of the early autos over that place to receive my mends. The day chosen for the cere “That spring 1 bad met a young man road Wednesday m orning at an average speed o f 30 to 35 miles an monies at The Dalles and Big who seemed to be ns much plensed with me u« tbe others bad been, and hour without shaking up the pas Eddy happened to be most ideal by the time summer cume he was giv sengers in the auto. Returning, for the occasion. As usual, Sher ing me tbe usual devotion. But be the next day, the car speed had to man county was well represented. was a clerk on something like $1.200 a year salary, with nothing laid up or be materially reduced, from 10 to Sherman county was the only sec In prospect and I expected tbgt when 20 miles an hour, caused in part tion of Oregon, outside Portland, September came and those away for by (he large number of autos that to send a special train into The the summer returned I should be left out In tbe cold again had used the road the previous Dalles for this occasion. _ "During August there was scarcely During the formal ceremonies any one In town, and my admirer bad day and the road work being late When the work now-partly done eight river steamers were in the no place to go except to our bouse, and he was there four or five evenings is finished and a heavy fclin settles canal at the one time. a week. The truth is. this fact of bis the grades that road w ill be in a Possibly the most pleasant part having nowhere else to go was tbs better condition for travel than o f the day. to the editor of the principal reuson for bis coming so ever; but even then it w ill need Observer and his wife, was passing ofteu to sec me He never said a word about love or marriage, though I ad consistent «attention and be im through the tandem locks and the mit—but I am getting abend of my proved under a well formulated boat ride from Big Eddy to The story. “Well, Jack, as 1 have said, spent plan before it can be favorably Dalles on the Undine, as personal nearly every evening during July and compared with the roads of Sher guests o f Capt. Frank J. Smith. August at our house. Sometimes my man county. The next most pleasant memory mother used to sit with us. but moth was the meeting of many old er was afraid of the ulght utr. and since we n I ways sat on the porch Anson Woods is a visitor in friends and schoolmates from our she didn't trouble uh very much. Jack used to apologize for being at the M oro this week from W alla W alla natal city, Astoria The parade in the evening was house so much, saying that If we could at the heme of his parents, M r stand him till his mother nnd sisters and Mrs. Jas Woods. Anson was an instructive affair; bringing the came home ho would give ns a rest I at the Walloula^and Pasco cele old and the new into sharp con knew very well that he said this to bration of the opening of the trast; the first auto ever owned in prevent my considering his attention« serious Of course I told hl in he wa« upper Columbia river to through Sherman county, once the prop quite welcome and since all our friends traffic to the sea and was a passen erty of W m. Rudolf of this city were out of town 1 was as needful of ger on the steamer J.N.Teal from and now the property of Chas. Ids company as he wns of mine. "On the 1st of September Roger’s Pasco io The Dalles on. Celilo French at Grass Valley, was in owuer returned to the city and the Day, attending the allegorica the parade. If memory serves us same evening came around for her pet Jack was there, ns usual, and mother wedding o f the waters at Big Eddy right the machine generally left nnd the lady came out on to the porch that concluded the formal open Bill at the crossing near his home for the parrot. Jack rose and was tu ing of the C elilo canal Wednes and utilized the street intersection traduced to the lady He did not re hl nisei f . h u F ¿Food on the «tep as a one ring circus until he was ■eat day afternoon. where be usually stood when I hid him ready to continue the journey. good night on his leaving me Independsnt || (arihouse g f[ lllling Co .'uss: MORO, OREGON. Portland w ill be the mecca of # the lawyers of several states next August 23d, 24th and 25th, when the joint meeting of the Oregon and Washington bar associations convenes in that cijty. At this meet ing Some of the most prominent attorneys of the United States w ill be present, among them being Judge Taft, expresident of the United States. Elaborate enter tainment arrangements are being made, one phase w ill be an auto drive along the famous and beau tiful Columbia river highway. The new Portland Chamber of Commerce is planning a vast campaign for cooperative work for state dev J ip:nc They ex pect to aid the smaller organiza tions and clubs through out the state in their work and organiza tion and also aid them in their financial difficulties, when needed. This closer union of common in terest is bound to bring about a better understanding of state need in relation to future development o f our common wealth. About four miles this side The Dalles, returning from the Celilo celebration Wednesday evening. L.V .M o ore found evidence of a new spring in the road Leon re turned to The Dalles, reported bis discovery, sent the family borne on the special train, and re mained in The Dalles to attend to the necessary formaltics, arriv ing home the next noon. R. H. M cK ean , M a n a g er, W a a co , O reg o n D E A L E R S IN L i m e , P la s t e r , C e m e n t , B u ild e r s S u p p lie s , L u m b e r, W o o d , . C o a l, C e d a r P o s ts , a n d H a y . ♦ a MANUFACTURERS OF MILL FEED AND FLOUR. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCXXWOOOOOOOOOOOOc. 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 us* STORE IF the yahks ia /AN t TO <rF~T (XTT OF -TMe- S F u . 0 DIVISION W v SHCXJIO Sk?N HOUDINI AS — -< _ k # - A- ------------- -------------------- — 1 -------------------- rrvom n or m i n r u n « t a w i m t or m - NEW JERSEY FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY - O r X I W A X I , XV T V S STJLTV O T TTBW J 1 X M T on the 31st day o f December. 1914, made to tbe Insurance Comral«- «toner of the S tate o f Oregon, pursuant to taw. T o ta l In o o m e ................t .................................. ................• SZBBW BVM VKTB N e t losses paid d uring the y e a r....................................... « . . . $ Dividends paid d uring the year on capital s to c k .................. Commissions and salaries paid d uring the y e a r. . . . . . . . Taxes, license«, and fees paid during the y e a r . . .........*.. Am ount o f a ll other expenditures....................................... ... 838,114.03 T o ta l snpondlture« ..................................................................• buc,918.9« ASSETS V alue o f real estate owned (m a rk e t v a lu e )......................: . f V a lu e o f stock« and bond« owned (m a rk e t v a lu e )............. Doans on m ortgages and collateral, etc. .......................... Cash in banks and on h an d .............................. . . . . . . ............. Prem ium s in course o f coHectlon w ritte n since Septem ber 30. 1*14 ..................................................................................... In te re s t and rents due and accrued......................................... O ther a s s o fig '.............. .........................................,. ........................ .. Leas special deposits In any State ( I f any there b e ) . . . 4. THE W HEN 428,867.51 -N o n e 268.120.55 S I,834.13 .83,596.80 ib obxocm ro u QRGGQN £ WRIGHT-DICKINSON HOTEL COMPANY j * > NEW HOTEL PERKINS tu x t i i b P o r t la n d , O re g o n . Eastern Oregon Headqnsrters. P ositiv ly m '8t ce n tra lly located F ifth St. cars pass the door s eve y few m inutes — REFORMING A SAVAGE. J. R. M o rg a n X D e x itls t D r. Theo. O regon B e fe ts k i Official Stock Inspector Treati til Domesticated Animals. Coarter Jmiraal. — Popular Priced Restaurant European Plan. Rataa $1.00 and up T X i 1 L. Q. SWETLAND, Mgr. H otel a l b e r t D A R N I E L L E B R O S ., P ro p rie to rs - The Dalles, Oregon H e a d q u a r t e r s fo r o u r S h e r m a n C o u n t y f r i e n d s ; p r i c e s r e a s o n a b l e ; f ir s t c l a s s r e s t a u r a n t w ith th e h o te l. Dr. C. L. Poley D u ffe y AT Il lb p e w , a n d i ts r o o m s a r e p r o v id e d w ith r u n n i n g w a t e r a n d l o n g d i s t a n c e te l e p h o n e s . E u ro p e a n p la n . R a te s |1 p e r d a y a n d u p / T o ta l risks w ritte n during the y e a r . . . ................................. 81,149.198.00 Gross pr .alum s received during the year. ...................... 16.957.31 Profitin'.. • returned during tbe y e a r. . . . . . . r ...................... 4,906.48 Losses p (A- ’d u rin g the y e a r . . . . . . . ............. i f . . . ......... .. 10,923.76 le s se e I -uwvd duri.-g the .... . ; r r ; H , 456.74 T o ta l nnannal of r»ak.j outsta sdlrg In Oregon December - • 81, 1 9 1 1 ™ . ...................................................................................... 788,398.00 By tV. G. W H IL D B N . . “ — ‘ P re s id e n t S ta tu lo ty rfs id e it gexcral agent and a tto rn ey fo r service: O. W . D a r ’fi >76, ficeiey & Co.. Board o f Trade Bldg., Portland, Ore. W asco, V, STOP J00txxxxxxx)00000rcx)0000000c>0000c00000cxxxxxxx>000090 T w o B lo c k s F r o m N ew D epot 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 1 ’j DOOOOCXX>OOOOOOCXJOOOOOOOOOO OOOOCXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX) V IN T O N H O T E L Grass Valley» Oregon. 8 E n t i r e l y n e w , c o n v e n i e n t to b u s in e s s . C le a n b e d s , a n d t a b l e t h e b e s t t h e m a r k e t w ill a ff o r d . P r ic e s r e a s o n a b l e . C om m e r c ia l t r a d e s o lic ite d . CONDUCTED ON THE BEST PRINCIPLES. OQO0O00000CXXX3000OO00O000Q ooooooooooooocxxsoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ” HOTEL MORO V. C . R U T L ] E D G E , P r o p rie to r , N e a r e s t H o te l t o B u s in e s s C e n te r , B a n k a n d D e p o t. C o u r te o u s T r e a t m e n t , C le a n B eds a n d T a b le t h e b e s t t h e m a r k e t w i l l a ffo r d . / - - - ' - C. M. Huddleston » OREQON. C H A S . W R IG H T , P re s id e n t M . C . D I C K 'H S O N , M a n a g e r . 144,802.44 18,706.05 29,516.20. None B rig h t, B ry a n t & E llis. p - PORTLAND T o ta l UabBttl?«, Inclnofciv cnpltal stock of *1 000,000. gS, 109.317.39 T o ta l pr. ¡ntun.J la force December 31. 1914...................... $1.164,296.34 lu s n rrc s - Corner of 7th and Stark 8tre< t. T o ta l assets a d m itte d In O r e g o n . . . . , ................ ." .> .. *0,10«,317-3» L IA B IL n iE S Gross claims fo r losses u n p aid ..................7................. .......... 3 98,721.75 G ro v e r J . For IN HOTGL 208.878.98 757,336.00 761.350.00 99,032.52 605,615.27 2,000.00 18.92160 884.058.87 DALLES, DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGOOOOOOOO cxxxxxxxxxxxx>ooooocxxxxxx>. T o ta l assets ......................A ......................... ............................*3,1OS,317.3S Am ount o f unearned prem ium s on a il outstanding risks Due fo r commission and b ro kerage........., . .......... . . . . . . . . A ll other lia b ilitie s . . . . . . A ........... .................................... .. Surplus ............... . ............ ........................................... . . . . CAR W A L T H E R -W IL L IA M S GARAGE OATXTAX* Am ount o f e apltol paid u p .............................................. .*............g f,000,000.00 ..IB CO MX N e t prem ium « received d uring f i e y e i r . . ............................... I 707,487.20 Interest, dividends, and rent« received d uring the y e a r .. 104.750.88 Inoome fro m o th e f source« received during the y e a r . . . . 26,876.75 YOUR In the concrete, recently completed, tully equipped, roomy ¿arage of Walther-Williams 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 he reasonable. • • Jfe., Aftsr tha Treatment He Became Quits a Gentlemanly Chap. In "Among the I ’rtmltJve Bukongo*’ OREGON John H. Weeks tri la tbe story of a M O R O , - t*blef, Matnpuya of Klukuzu, who call ed on him a t Wat ben station to re k «1st to 15th of each month. quest that a teacher be sent to bla owu. "He seemed a very quiet, gen tlemanly s o rt' Of mnu," »»ys Mr. . - OREGON Weeks, ”«nd I was very murb sur W ASCO, prised to hear that he bad not always 16th to 30th of each month. l»een so deferential and modest. "Mninpuyn at one time treated tbe people of bis town In a very contemp tuous fashion and was always extort ing. on one plea or anotbev. fowls, gouts nnd other goods from them. “At last they could bear bis extor tions no longer, and so they bound him securely, put trim on s shelf to his P h y s ic ia n a n d S u rg eo n . own bouse, built a Are under him and sprinkled a quantity of red pepper on I t Tlieu they went out Snd shut tbe door closely behind them. The pun M o ro , O re g o n . gent smoke filled tbe b u t and Mam- puya sneezed tremendously. He would O ffic e in re s id e n c e . have died If there bad been a little more pepper on tbe Ore. “ Roger was evidently quite pleased to "At last they took him out of the see his mtstreds again and strutted Notice of Filing of Supplementary about whettlug his beak on his perch smoke nnd tied s stick serosa bla chest and showing off all kinds of nutlcs to his extended arms with the Inten Articles of Incorporation. When Jack said that lie would bid us tion of punishing him still further, ✓ A " but they let him off on payment of a good evening the parrot suddenly ex To whom it may concern: One and nian> promises of better be L a w y e r. ' claimed: havior. which promises be has scrupu Notice is hereby given that there " ‘Goodby.’ "Every one Ihughcd, and doubtless lously kept.” has been tiled ir the office of the this excited the parrot to further re Corporation Commissioner of the mark O ffice w ith W . H . R a g s d a le GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES. State of Oregon supplementary " ’Give me another. Beck.’ cried the articles of incorporation of the bird. Why Forwgn Nemenclsturs Oftsn Pux- MORO - OREGON. "Our porch wns furnished with an slss Amsriean Readers. Wasco Warehouse M illin g Com electric light, which Jack and 1 always Foreign geographical names often pany Bank, M oro, changing the kept turned off. Tonight It was turned prove confusing to American renders on. nnd my crimson cheeks betrayed name of said Wasco Warehouse because each European country has a C J . B r ig h t , W .C . B ryant , M .G . E llis . Roger’s meaning. Jack In eoufuslou M illin g Company Bank. M oro, was walking away when tbe parrot name of Its own for euch of Its cities, rivers and j>ther geographical feat- to Bank of M oro, by order of the cried out: ................... — —*~ hires. Every other* nation has a d if directors. Dated this first day of “ t ’orne back. Jack. You may have ferent name for the >nine thing. Amer one more.’ ican geographies foHow tbe English In May, 1915. E. O. McCoy, "1 turned and ran Into the bouse and th e ir nomenclature.’ Vut often employ A tto rn e y s -a t-L a w Attested: president. up to my room, where 1 suffered no a different pronmuTstlon. end of mortification I knew the story. W . D. W allan. cashier. For exumple. we call one Belgian o f fic e s a t would soon be «11 over town, and It city Antwerp, while tbe Belgians snd was. Every time Jack met an ac French call It Anvers. We term an quaintance he M Hs hailed with tbe other Belgian city Mechlin, while at The Dalles snd M o ro , Ore. words ‘Give me another,* and my girl home It 1« tentnnl Mallnes. The river E n jo y m e n t. A rertalu rich woman, ha ring ran friends taunted me with *Come back. Meuse 1« pronounced In Belgium and her eye over the latent report of the Jack; yon may have one more.’ The Fr»n<*e very nearly as we would pro result was that Jack was driven Into nounce It. while the Germa us pro burenn of «tntlstics touching food *tnff*. grew very blithe all at ouce. matrimony with me and I with him nounce It as If it were spelled Moysay. "Why ahouldn t I enjoy life when ao We were married and have lived bap snd the people of tbe Netherlands call few can renfly afford I t 7” «lie exclaim- pily ever since.** , .w It the Mass. Brussels Is Spelled Brux “Aunty," said Lucy, “where can I elles nt home, nnd tbe final s Is not pro- ed glowingly -I'u c k . get a parrot and how much would one oouixed. Dendennonde, on the river A tto rn e y a t L a w cost T* L a w m a k in g . Deader. Is prouounced Dandermond by “You don’t need a p arrot dearie I neldom make a law for me. It la Its Inhabitants, but it Is known as Ter- uaually you I am forcing to do some There are plenty of other devices that monde In most of the geographies. thing or preventing from doing some will do ns well.” ‘ Aalst Is also spelled Alost Louvain Is "Yes. auntie, but the parrot does It Leuven at home. Vienna la Wien and thing els»-. ^And when I do make a law for me I feci very free In violat nil himself * ’ Ghent Is Hand. ing It If occaelon «cettiK to require.— Books. _ 8o one might go dowu the line. IL ia Life. Books sre divisible Into two claesee to be liois’d that some day the geo —tbe bonks of the hour and the books graphical socletle* will get together G r o c l o a t e W .M .C *. A Brav« Patient. of all time.—Ruskin. and agree tijton a nomenclature that D e n tis t (to a^aivtaul * I th in k I heard will be nulTeraally adopted-- Detroit O w e d o f In d ig e s tio n . a p a tie n t it. the w a itin g room A sm IM V e t e r i n a r i a n and Tribuue. ' --------------------— Mr» Sadie P. Clawson, Indians, Pa., was ant Ye*. I ttt I can't tiring him In “My stomach H e ’s tu rn e d the key on th e lii«t<le.~ bothered with indigestion. Quit« Handy. pnined me night and day,** she writes. “I M eg g cic h irfc r K ln tlc r. "The automobile 1« a greet lnstttn would foel Moated and nave headache and belching after entlng. I slao suffered from rlonZ If you don’t do your lieat It’s fimllxh ronstipstion. My daughter had need Cham- "For ¡ustsnec?'' to try to <*onvlnce |>eople that you berlgin*« Tablet« and they did her so much "Yon can «It up lu It as yon pass » ood that she gave me s few desss of them friend snd crawl under It when a W A SC O . could have done better - Detroit Free OREGON sad insisted » on my trying them. They creditor heaves Into sight”— I xiu I st IH s Pre«* • Telephon« M ain 502. helped BM as nothing else has done." «de by all teeJets.— AdverdsMMWt, 1 .S U N D A Y * D IN N E R S 3 5 C . Opposite Postoffice Moro Oregon. 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