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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1915)
The Meteors • • They Falk 1 When a meteorite enters the earth s Near home it matters little how It Ip moving with a veloc- wife have re- roads may be mocked and guides (t7 ot more than twenty mllee per eee- O b s e rv e r* ., Coming by auto by way of the I Frank Sayrs and Columbia River highway We<i- turned from a six week outing and $ neaday afternoon J. A . Halliday, auto tour of interior central O re- district superintendent, Portland; gon, visiting Crater Lake, the hot O fifltl t a s M y . D.J.Butcher, special agent. Port- springs of Klamath county and land; B. L . Carson, manager for came near seeing “ the devil’s tea this district. The Dalles; telephone pot” a few miles from Fort Klam- August 6. 1915 F R ID A Y company officials; were in M oro ath where sr pot ot beans can be this week arranging for a better thoroughly cooked by the hot Ratered « a e c u o d *,a* J Íf goat oCce at Moro. Oregon. July .5 , 1891. and more satisfactory local and water spring in five hours. Seven long distance telephone service. days the party was with the Indians It has been arranged by the celebrating the 4th of July and M r. . .Manager. C. L . I r e l a n d company that, during June. July. Sayrs says they are Indian only irf do nof read The Observer, why August and September, the M oro name, being more civil-ixed than If office shall be open, continuously, the average white man. The auto oot? W a would like to hare you take H, and from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. on week party claimed as many as fifteen we know it would be projuble to you l to a aubacriber. e it ctaa two days and on Sundays and holidays members, part of the time, the become a e aubacriber. W >150. e eend i i 2% become a u i~ - , W 'year* lor $2.50; one year >1.51 from 10 a m. to 12 noon. - majority being relatives living month iaa’t much. T ry it. It. Order by A ll other months of the year near Prineville, and the route used when you can. poatol card, and pay tor it wt W e w ill not be responsible for the the Moro office-will be open, con- was one not visited by M r. Sayrs neglect of aubacriber« to notify . “ ?* tinuously, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. since the Modoc Indian war of change» in their addreaa. Nor w ill the . „ „ T S l i o . O< • r e m « . . Ih«> ¡fc« «¡b- and on Sundays and holidays! 1873 and the hanging 6 f Captain •criber hm ” Removed” settle the bill of a Jack, an Indian chief, for murder from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. tBeMHjiSA* f , ing the peace commissioners. Cherch and Society notice» F R E E , ex ' moro , orbgon . fop fe cept when lor money making purposes. Tbe Revelt e f the Gladiators. Such notices at regular rates at the option of the publishers. Thursday, August 12th, an ex • At any timewhen requested to do so, strong moving picture the paper trill be discontinued. Hut we ( ceptionally — r ----- expect that all arrears wiu be paid before , will he presented at the such raqueat U made. It to aaay to aak us u ra n ia k x a lt e r n a n t , which will b« cbesrfully opera house. A play founded on rendered at any time. ■ The price of The Observer b >1.50 per year. 75 cents for six months. SO cento for lour mty ih*—but if neid in «dvance we accept >2.50 in full *or 2 years. Shorter terms than one year 12X cento per month. A Blue Mark here will answer an in- ' query, when entered upon our calendar, giving the data ol the paper as the data at which your current subscription expires. Far the Aatoambile Driver. — — . . . ther from home ond. The friction of Its s w ift rush placed, but the you drive the »orc. bewildered a ' through the a ir produce« a tremsagsas driver become. a reliable < "*«"£?’ . j . meteor are melted off and dissipated In Bgey Tapor. but the paaaage through Archer A Wiggins Co., Port- the atmosphere la ao quickly complete land, are distributors for this state ed that the tnnvr portions are not ef- g uide as to tu rn s and twists. ol the Pacific C o u t Blue Book; • in t the h e t three h r e e coast m a .» states etates and a n d also tb"1 wben tbe* only 8trllte „ tbeeartb in also. ' tbe a,r ugually few feet includes street snaps of the m ain' at the most into the sou. cities, with a list of hotels, etc. 1 Similarity. The Observer Book Store has "Why do yon compare my marks the Automobile Blue Book on file manship with lightning 7“ naked the for any who may be interested in recruit “Because,” replied the Instructor, “It looking over such a thoroughly never hlta twice in the same place.”— comprehensive road guide; no Washington Star. trouble to show it to you, or get Anatomy. you one if you want it. A medical student ouce asked the Local Cherch for Sunday, August 8. late Profeaaor Parker Cleveland If there were not more recent works on anatomy than those in the college li Dating to In ly 31, 1915. brary. 1 • “Young man," said the profeaaor. Eva Fields to G A.Pound; “there have been very few new bones sec 13 tp2n rl6e and e # swX and added to the human body during the nw X »wX 8CC 18ftp2n rl7e, $10. last twenty years." _ Shermaa C o u ty Realty Transfers. W m . G . Seckendorf to W . J. Presbyterian church: ’ atterson; n e X 'Ä c 32, nw X neX Sabbath School at 10 a.m. and n w X sec 33 tp3s rl5e, $10. Morning service at the usual r hour, 11 a m. There will be no OREGON NEWS NOTES evening service. - A. J. Adams, pastor. reliable Roman history, in eight parts and three acts. It is Roman production, pictured at Rome, and shows, from start to last, total of 7,500 people in the cast. Spartacus or the Revolt of the MEANING OF “JITNEY." Gladiators, next Thursday, will be worth the 15c and 25c admission. There Aro Many Theorloe as to ■ ** I ed up after their fall and found to be hook that maos, _ _ charts and des- freezing cold within. Their velocity la cribei, *>aw clearly, ao rapidly w»»^| e v e ry main road -- - w reduced — by w the resistance of OF GENERAL INTEREST Stata ot Ohio. City of Toledo, I Lucas County, I T* Frank J. Cheney.mikee oath' that ho to rro of » . •• Cheney senior pàrtner of the firm F^J. ot To- a Co., doing business In _ _ ledo. County and Btate afc--------3 _~ - that said firm will pay the sum of ONB H U N D R E D DOLLARS for each and ev ery case of Catarrh that cannot be^cured by the use » r f * H A i f c f C - A - - T * A K S H g g » Indtptndent Warehouse R . H . M c K e a n , M a n a g e r, W a s c o , O re g o n to before me and subscribed In my pretouoe. this Sth day of December. Events Occurring Throughout tho O rigin of tho W ord. Wasco county will hold its an Tbe meaulog of tbe word Jltuey to a Delphian C b k Organised at Moro, nual County Fair and Rodeo at five ceot piece. Tbe origin of tbe word rests wholly on »uppoHitton. and many The Dalles on September 28th to A literary-educational, civic and explanations are given. One Interested October 1st. social society club was o rg a n ize d ____ In tbe subject gathered tbe following in M oro Wednesday evening at | tuformatiou: A correM(>oudeut from According to the state superin the home of Attorney W.C.Bryant Boda Creek. H. G , said be knew tbe . term as slang in Glasgow. Scotland, tendent of schools twenty per cent with a charter list of twenty mem- over ufty years ago. it »«» used to of the applicants at the recent bers. The new club has adopted designate aometblng small or inalgntfl , ~ . t ___ cant. The w ord was said to come from state examination for teachers fail the Delphian course of systems I -ju ty ,“ which means de ed to pass. university extension home •»■•dvi .. - — - -—- study caption, and -- the -------- French ’’nlaey." cor rectly “ulhla.” meaning n ninny or elm is a national and reading, which "The Celilo canal will be closed movement of merit and successful piston Another correspondent M id It to • to boat traffic during the first three in its field elsewhere. The mem foreign word which originated In Bus weeks of this month while the bership as now constituted is Dr. ala as tbe unine of a small Russian coin. A Ituestou scholar, however, da locks are drained of water and and Mrs. Poley, M r. and Mrs. G . Clares there to no aucb coin and that work done that was put off to per E. Lewellen, M r. and Mrs. C. L. the word In Russian mean» “rye. A correspondent from Tacoma. mit the official opening and cele Ireland, M r. and Mrs. L. J.Lucas, Wash., says tbe word “Jit.” meaning a bration last May. Freight is be M r. and Mrs. W C. Bryant, M r. five cent piece, caa toe traced back a ing transferred by the portage rail and Mrs. A. Rose. Mr. and Mrs. hundred years und was the original N.P.Hansen, M r. and Mrs. C. E. word used by abira traders for that way while the locks are closed. Sheets. M r. and Mrs. L. Barnum, coin. An Oakland. Cal., correspondent said that Jitney Is a word coined by the A cloud' hurst, Monday after M r. and Mrs. D. E. Stephens. Because of the difficulty and the southern negroes. Thera the small boy noon, on O -W .R .N . DcsChutes when told to run nu errand says. “ Do 1 river road, took out considerable tax upon the entertaining hostess get a Jltuey. boss z A Los Angeles man says that the track and two bridges shortly after it was voted to limit the member term to Mexican vernacular for nickel ship of the club to not more than the passenger train had passed. —Philadelphia Praaa. W ithin a short distance from the two more members. The next cloud burst tbe train was stopt by meeting will be Monday evening Church Union Is Proposed. a land slide. In backing up to re at the home of Mrs. Ireland. Eugene.— Demand for the elimlna Officers elected were Mrs.Poley port affairs, two cars jumped the tion of church competition In small president; Mrs Rose, vice-presi towns unable to support several de track. And “ there they were.” dent; Mrs. Sheets, secretary and nominations, the radical but chief theme of the third annual State Inter- treasurer. The sacks ordered by the farm Denominational Ministerial Confer ers union finally arrived Saturday A •¡miliar society, known as the ence In session here, took expression last. The warehouse company Wasco Delphian Club, was organ in the creation of a state-wide inter claimed, in a telegram received at ized Tuesday at Wasco with Mrs denominational church commission, delegated to work out some method of M oro July 21st, that shipment was Anna Medler as president; Mrs. unification. made on the 20th. The date of W .H .Y ancy as vice president, and the railway waybill is all of three Mrs. Lulah Starns as secretary and Eastern Oregon Lumbermen to Testify t^a Grande.— Eastern Oregon lum days later. Chances seem good, treasurer. bermen decided to send representa that if the first telegram had pot tives before the federal trade commis been sent the shippers, sacks may State School Fand Apportioameat. sion when It sits in Spokane August not yet be here. 6, to present problems of manufactur Because of a delay of numerous era and dealers, and the Western The multi-national war has borrowers to pay interest prompt W hite Pine association’s plan to enter Into the National association’s adver brought great prosperity to the ly the state school fund this year tising campaign, which contemplates jute hag industry of India. During is $13,424 less than last year with an expenditure of 150.000 annually In the one month of May. thir year, an increased school population of the Interest of lumber, was heartily in England took, eighteen million 3865. The interest to be divided domed at a meeting of the Eastern bags, half the usual number for an among the counties this year totals Oregon Lumber Producers’ association which convened here. ordinary twelve months. That is $360,066, the per capita appor tionment being $1.75 as compared Bad Spoiler«. one reason why deliveries of the Lord Wolaeley noted that spelling wheat sacks were late in Sherman with $1.85 last year. The school had been the weak point of tunuy county and also a good reason for population this year for Sherman great commanders. He was defending our farmers to figure on bulk ship county is 1,055 and the apportion Marlborough agnlnst the charge of il literacy. brought by Lord Chesterfield ment it $1,846.25. ments of grain. for one, who said be was “eminently Illiterate, wrote bad English and spelt It worse. ” Wolseley replied that a great many of Marlborough’s dto- tlngulshed con temporaries, aucb as Lord Chancellor Somers, spelled quite badly and that Wallington and Na ooe also ware among those who could never learn to do It properly.— London Telegraph. Reedy te Bargain. Suitor (to her father)—Sir, I love the very ground your daughter treads on. Father (gflmly)—W ell, young man. you ain't the first party that’s had an at tachment for i t Howeomefer. if you love it well enough to come and l«elp pay up tbe mortgage on It you can marry Sarah.—Exchange. A Wise Woman. Mr. Snaggle (snappishly)—Don’t be correcting that boy always. Sarah. Let nature take its course, won’t you? Mrs. Snaggle (laying aside the shingle)— I ’ll do nothing of the sort. Mr. Snag gle. I don’t Intend that any woman shall hove such a hn«bsnd aa I ’ve got M I eon prevent i t Herd to Keep. “Do you keep any aervantsT” “No. of course n o t” ‘- “But I tlmught I naw one In your kitchen r “Oh. w e 4 have aprrants on the pre mises a day or two at a time, but we 4on’t keep th e » ." —Houston Pont the State During the Fast Week. H all’s Catarrh Cure to todwu internally and acts directly upon the Mood and mu system. Bend for cous surfaces of the eyw 1 * A CO, Toledo, O. “ Druggtote. TÏC. by j e ll ■ Bold T Family Pilla for eonsdpatloa. Take W ill Appeal Married Teacher Case. Portland.— By a unanimous vote, the school hoard determined to appeal to the supreme court the case involv ing the dismissal of Maud L. Richards aa teacher in the girls* school of trades from the recent decision of Judge Morrow that Mrs. Richards la entitled to her position and also her salary during the time she was under suspension. D E A L E R S IN L im 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 ood, C o a l, C e d a r P o s ts , A nd H a y . M A N U FA C TU R E R S OF P A P E R H A N G IN G P A IN T IN G S IG N Estimates Eurnished Free. J.f Noonan, loro, Ore. J. R. Morgan . ID e r x tls t MORO, - OREGON S alem —State Treasurer Kay an lit to 15th of each month. nounced the apportionment of the In terest on the school fund, and It la >13,424.95 less then last year, while the school population Is 38S5 greater, W A S C O . - OREGON the total Interest for this year being 16th to 30th of each month. >360,055 and the total school popula tion 205,752 Last year the interest totaled >373,490.» and the school pop ulation 201,887. Thia makes the per capita apportionment (his year >1.75, as compared with >1.85 for last year. A considerable sum In delinquent In terest could not be collected this year prior to the apportionment, and thia P h y s ic ia n a n d S u rg e o n . accounts for the total being less. D r . C . L . P o le y BOND ISSUE DECLARED VALID M IL L F E E D M o ro , O re g o n . Supreme Court Decision in Favor of O ffic e In re s id e n c e . Propoeod Ksndall Road Plaaeea. , Roseburg.— One of the moot enthus iastic celebrations ever held in Rose burg waa the jollification celebration on the streets here after receipt of news that the Oregon supreme court L aw yer. had rendereii a decision upholding the city In the >300,000 bond Issue recent ly voted by the people of Roseburg to aid Kendall Brothers in the construc Office w ith . W. H . R agsdale tion of a standard gauge railroad ex tending from the city 30 mllee east to OREGON. MORO the timber belt, and the construction of a large sawmill near thia city. The celebration assumed the propor tions of a strawberry carnival and C.J.BaiaHT, W .C . Bar ant , M .G .E l u s . Fourth of July celebration In one. Attorneys and others Interested In the case are of the opinion that thia decision w ill end aff litigation in the A tto rn e y s -a t-L a w matter, and that K hM all Brothers may "how safely proceed with actual construction of their projects. offices a t B right, B ry an t & Ellis. Heavy Damage It Caused by Storm. Baker. — Bridges were torn out, roads gullied and part of the O.-W. R. A N. track near Durkee was swept away by a cloudburst in this vicinity. Standing grain In tho B u rn t' River oountry worth thousands ' of dollars destroyed W — Housekeeper Awarded Estate Eugene. —» Elisabeth M urray, who kept house and cared for James San ford for 13 years on conditon that he leave her hla property when he died, waa not left anything by San ford’s will. Court upholds her and ate w ill receive $25.000 estate. There’s Ne Place Like It. An K apert M m Gaddy wna n tunniopollte. She Johnny— What to an expert, pa? Pa — A fellow who telle ethers how to do was at home every vrBare—except at the things he r i l l do blmseir.-JfidBn. home.—Phlladel|>hln I^ d fr r . x The D a lits and M o ro , O rt. ___________________________ C M. Huddleston A tto rn e y a t L a w W asco , Dr F L O U R t %OOO0OOOOOOOQOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOC W HEN YOU - O regon T h e o . B e le ts k i e lu a te W . STO R E YOUR CAR In the concrete, recently completed, fully equipped, roomy garage 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 be reasonable. WALTHER-WILLIAMS GARAGE TH E DALLES. - - OREGON. OOOOCXXXXJOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO W HEN IN PORTLAND H0T6L STOP ORGGON »1. C H A S . W R IG H T . President M C . D IC K IN S O N , M a n a g e r. If 1« new, a n d its room s are provided w ith ru n n in g w ater an d lo n g d is ta n c e telep h o n es. E u ro p e a n p la n . R ates $1 per day a n d up. . WRIGHT-DICKINSON HOTEL COMPANY □ooooooooooooooorooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo 1 H I I ll-H H i l l 1- l -l l-l-H -in 4 i l- l - l l l H 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 H NEW. HOTEL PERKINS P o r t la n d , O re g o n . Eastern Oregon Headquarters. Positiv m st centrally ---------- . ‘ifth St. cars pass located the doo* s every few minutes Popular Priced R e s ti urani European Plan. Ratea $1.00 an d up L Q. SWETLAND, Mr- L I H ' t n i ' H I l l . t'H I' l l l l l l '. H w lU .l ' I . I W t H f H m oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo V IN T O N H O T E L Grass Valley, Oregon. E n tire ly new, c o n v e n ie n t to business C lean beds, a n d ta b le th e b e st th e m a rk e t w ill afford. P rices re a t so n a b le . C om - m ercial tra d e solicited. CONDUCTED ON THE BEST PRINCIPLES. 1 oooooooooooooooooocxxxxxxx HOTEL MORO w. C R , Proprietor. ----------- — U T L E D G E --------i E1— 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 ed s 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 -f - Official Stock Inspector S U N D A Y D IN N E R S 3 5 0 . Trotti til Doieiticitet iiis ili. Opposite Postoffice W A SC O . OREGON Telephone Maia 502. AT Corner of 7th and 8 U r k 8 tr c tf. a ffo r d . V e t e r in a r ia n TRAVEL BY AUTO A N D V IS IT T H E D A L L E S Grover J. Duffey Gets Job at O. A . C. Dallas.— E. M. Smith, former county clerk of Polk county, has accepted the position of auditor of the state agri cultural college at Corvallis and will move to that city about September L A N D W R IT IN G University to Add to Requirements. Eugene.— Further tightening of the screws at the university In an effort to raise the standard even higher la the edict circulated about the campua Ten per cent will be added to all re Your business will be quirements during the $omlng year. appreciated and an endeavor Required hours of study wlU he in will be made to'please all. creased, lessons will be longer, gen eral standards higher, the field of study larger and the depth of subject OOOOCXXXJOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO greater. The tightening Is not in the univer sity alone, says President P. L. Camp bell, from whose, office the order comes, but characterises high school work throughout the state. .. School Fund Interest L j Moro Oregon.
