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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1915)
• be «ar» «MMM— n t a * * ■» N . J- Sinnott, member of con gress for this district, was a Sher M O RO . OREGON man county visitor during the last week. W h ile in M oro he said be wanted to visit every one of the 17 counties in his district and also each pyecinct in each county, I l Au£ust 13. 1915 F R ID A Y possible, before returning to the o p tio n a l capital. T o do thi« Nfck second dam ¿ ¡T has bought a late model auto and M oro. Oregon, July 25, W R . the immensity of the task can be realized when it is known that no Manager. C. L . I r e l a n d state east of the Mississippi river is as large as this congressional district and several of the states are smaller than any of h a lf the . » t-e n b e r . *« « * * * £ ? counties in the district. rears for $2.50; one year Jl.SOl |2 ,4 cts a * W nile at M oro M r. Sinnott p o rtal c a rd , and pay lo r «» when you can. spent considerable time at the ex- W e w ill not be responsible lor the I peri me nt farm, securing data as to neglect ot retecribers to notify te o< the work and its results and its changes io their address. Nor will the io tih ^ lio n of . Potem—tcr th a t¡h e »ub- possible future needs from the de Celief Thera Events/ Occurring Throughout the State During the Past Week. * ------------ Porit Shipment Cause of Inquiry. Portland — The state dairy and food commission Is Investigating a ship < ment of pork, said by health officials > to he diseased, which was made from TamhUL More than 500 pounds of the meat officials averred showed the . presence of hog cholera. 195 Accidents for Week Reported. Salem.— During the week ending August », there were reported to the state industrial accident insurance commission 185 accidents, of which one was fatal. Of those reported, 12« were subject to the workmen’s com pensation act; 32 were from public partment and congress. utility corporations; 28 were from oth As affecting Sherman county in er firms and corporations who have particular. M r. Sinnott brought rejected the provisions of the act; and word that be was quite hopeful a three were from firms which do not employ labor In hazardous occupa- •criber has ••Removed settle the bill o< a dchaqueat. Church and Society notices F R E E , ex cept when lor money making PurP < *« ; Such notices at regular rates nt the option of the publishers. bill to A t nay ti mew hen requested to do so. the paper will be a-continued. But we ■ military o p e c t that all arrears w i.i be paid before reimburse the settlers on land in this county would , be enacted into law at-the next F session of congress. A special committee has investigated all the | r claims and documents and clim i-' ■ nated all the doubtful claims. M r. ! Sinnott said this bill was reported • favorable in the house last session ; and no doubt would again. From here. M r. Sinnori left for r Bend by way of Grass Valley and : Kent where he will investigate the ’ needs of the irrigation districts. Punishment 24 Hours A fter Crime. placed, but the further from home I by the two men. you drive the more bewildered a driver becomes without a reliable guide as to turns and twists. Archer A Wiggins Co.. Port land, are distributors for this state of the Pacific Coast Blue Book; a book that maps, charts and des cribes, clearly, every main road in the three coast states and also includes street maps of the main cities, with a list of hotels, etc. The Observer Book Store has the Automobile Blue Book on file for any who may be interested in I looking over such a thoroughly comprehensive road guide; no trouble to show it to you, or get you one if you want it. Io No Between Them. J,;. t u and the moon have the weather on the >n belief. T hl* belief 1 change« of weather foreucre In tempera Is baselesa. fot depend upon .« tare. ' ’ RnlnfaW la 4 le to the a <*riuntttution of water In tí» n2tm<>*phcra. Thia wa- ter can «reami B tr only K being evap- orateti from tl hnsurfarc of the earth. ■ThMiulfea heat. Winds also are due to & eat-~ greater warmth In one place than In another causing the air to rush toward where the warm- < if la rising. I f the moon and the planets could tornteb heat thay might affect the weather. But «6 heat they furnteb Is so Inflnlteslmalto »mall that It Is not enough to ebafijp the tempernture so appreciable fraction of « degree. The amount o f beat the> send us has actu ally been meetnfreri but It needed the moot d o lle u to « S< n"lt1vo a f lUMtru ments to iiereefte It Another proof tb ' neither the pinn ate nor the tuoea h.i *• any effect upon our weatbor djjgbn1 ire fu l compari sons o f the we*rth' ' l* the positions I of the planetadBd t! moon show that N ew port— Twenty-four hours after having waylaid and mistreated Mrs. R. R. Lakin, aged 1», of Blodgett, near Chitwood, Charles Reynolds. 17, of Tulsa, Okla.. and Frank Jones, 2«, of Tillamook, Or., were sentenced to life Imprisonment in the penitentiary by Judge Hamilton. The two men committed the crime at 8 o’clock in the afternoon and were captured at 7 o' clock. They were ar raigned before the grand Jury at To ledo the next morning, made a volun tary confession of guilt and were sen tenced. For the Automobile Driver. Mrs. Lakin was riding on horseback Near home it matter» little bowl atone from Nashville, her home, to roads may be marked and guides Toledo, when she was firs t accosted NEWSPAPER ERRORS. OUR WEATHER. PLAfJETS O b s e rv e r. Thuy Appear Glaring Baoause a* tha Publicity Thay Peoa. The capacity o f some people for de tecting error» In the newspaper» la marveloaa. Also It la singular bow many unexpected mean toga the people can find. I f the reporter write» that a man wore a coat of ancb and aoch a char acter aome one may call up and a a k lf the coat was all the man bad on? To satisfy these 'itteralhrte you must enum erate Item by item the other a rtl dee of attire or they w ill accuse you of making the victim appear half naked. ■ * The reader who digests his paper on the quiet In hl» home feels that he has shown great brilliancy I f he detects an error in grammar or capitalisation. i t Is one thing to find mistakes at your leisure In another man's work, quite another to turn out a high degree of accuracy uud precision In the haate of newspaper composition.. The banker makes blunders In hla figures, the lawyer draw s up Incorrect papers, and the business man submits erroneous bills. Such blunders are known only to the few persons whom they concern. The newspaper la like the actor on the stage, whose slightest slip la manifest to all and seems ridicu i between them. I f loos.—Iowa City Bepublienn. mid bars thy same there were w< planets were In the Fried Cutfcteflsh." weather when cli la not the c a re .- Young cuttlefish fried In oil are re same position. garded as a great delicacy In all Medi New York W « terranean countries. K EEP o u t O F DEBT. State of Ofeto. Clty of Toledo. I T h e first dep in debt is like the first «top in falsehood, almost in volving die seccrtity of proceeding m the tame course, debt following debt as lie follows lie. Haydon, the p a s ta , dated hh decline from the day on which he first borrowed none) .— Samuel Smiles. TH e S t e e l L in e d “ SPEED SH E L L S” F F o r V e l o c it y a n d A c c u r a c y Sportsmn . . . win»»,. to sport but they waetcerteiaty in their S M U . Get the Rcmington-UMC “ Arrow and Nitro Club — the steel lined “Speed Shell«. - __ . to the dealer who drew« the Sri AM I f sr> ef lUtUogloo- ~ U U C — h e c a n f a r o u o p r .r u Sold bv your h o m e d e a l e r a n d m n n tb a r f e a d l n g m orebants in Oragon D ucas County, 1 . Frank J. Chatter teak®» oath senior partner of th e Arm of A Co., doing buoincse In the C ity o f To ledo. County and m a te that said firm Will pay th e sum o f p w w H U N D R E D DODLARd for each end *v- Independent Warehouse ( WiHing (e l—l ' 1 ’ll 1 IS ----------- ---------- ------- 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 ■■■■— 1 Sworn to before are end 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 ood, C o a l, C e d a r P o s ts , a n d H a y . - of Edinbirgh. Scotland, 0® the • Uoeemhn 1»14. m®ds to - the I®e®r»®«s 0omniMt«>M*r at th« Blot« of Oregon, pars®- “ * “ A w x .l * * ¿ r 1— C M « -. dM“ “ ..................... .... M ANUFACTURERS OF •* '* '” *. In u re«!. dividend«. aad m ute r e wived doria* th« y w r . . . . . . . M.iaft.SS | Incom« from other SSurVM I®- eeired during the y e a r............ B2.100 00 COLLISION INJURES CONVICTS Engine H its Auto T ru ck Loaded W ith Prisoners Returning From Work. Total P A P E R H A N G IN G To tal axp«®d1t« P A IN T IN G S IG N , W R IT IN G W H E N YOU TR A V E L Estimates Furnished Free. BY AUTO A N D V IS IT T H E D A L L E S ••*•••! Ion streets, an automobile truck car-1 VahM of »«ook« »nd boad« owned rylng 38 convicts was hurled from the I (m ark«t Vajs«) . . . . . . . . . . . 4 S TO R E YOUR Cash la b®®k« and oa band . . . . track, seven prisoners were seriously PretaiooM Is eour»« of collection Injured, two of whom may die, sad 20 I w ritw n «lace S « p t« b « r SO, 1S14 others sustained painful cote and I Iat«r««t and real» dto ae4 aw WATER SOAKED WATCHES. O to »» elaiaaa for Io««— «» p a id , . f SS.BOB OT Amount of on— rn«4 proniam « o® all outstanding rio ts . . . . . . . . 195,473.11 Da« for «oauniaalon a®d brokerage 3?t»0 00 Total U abilitl— «selnaiv« « f d .p M it capital o f S 3 0 0 .0 0 0 .0 0 .» 2 S l,rt7 .T » Total prow iniM In force bor S L 1 9 14. . . . .............. .. SS7».334.03 Bastes— ln.O S — oo f« r tbo Tear. v Total risk« w ritte n daring tbo ___ , . . . 7 7 , .................... .. SIB8.7BB.OO Oroaa preminms »—0ived during tbe year . . . . . « i . ... 1,815.89 P rem in nu r o tp ra sS du rin g tbo year . . . . 7 7 7 7 7 . . ..................... ' 449.78 Looses paid during .the y e ar. . . . 8,656.87 | I^oaae« incnr—4 during the year. 4 ,3 8 1 8 7 C E N T U R Y I W R A N C X C O M PA N Y, By H .n r y W . B — wu A Co.. U. 8 . M aaagcn. Statutory real do— general agent and at torney fo r ««Trice: MeCargar, B at— A U r . ly , SOT Yoow B M g . Portland. Oregon WALTHER-WILLIAMS GARAGE J . R . M o rg an S e x x tls t TH E DALLES, that the guards might shoot through MORO, ' - • OREGON I failure to understand the cause. None W h a t to Do Wh®n Camping or W here of the men attempted to escape, but lat to ISth of each month. • Jgwster Can’t Bo Found. those that were able aided in pulling W h a t to do with » water soaked 1 the Injured men from beneath the en watch Is often a problem when one Is I gine. caught In the wlWerneea, or In a com W ASCO. - OREGON ruunlty where no Jeweler la to be A firm er near Wasco sent to found. Lack of knowing what stepe Cities Cannot Exempt Farming Lands. 16th (o 30th of each month. Salem.— Cities may not exempt by Pennsylvania, last year, for new to take often results In much expense, Notice of S tic of Real Estate. If not in the utter ruls of the watch. ordinance farming lands within the wheat seed and seeded 100 acres. Watches made with both a screw corporate limits from municipal taxa In the County Coart of the State of O re gon for Sherman county. Is the H e harvested 2 sacks to the acre face and screw back may be dried tion, according to a decision of the matter of the — t«te of John H . Lan •aslly by removing tbe front and back, | at a low of $1000 for the experi state tax commission. The ruling was dry, deceased. £ J emptying tbe watch of as much water Notice is hereby given thel under and I ment which could have been sav as w ill run out, reversing the crystal, made following a query from A. B. of aa order heretofore made and ed him if he had asked Supt.D.E. screwing it on the back of tbe watch Stearns, deputy assessor of Baker b<virtue entered in —id court in «aid matter on (he county. 6th day of July, A .D . 1915, the undenidn* Stephens of our county experi and then laying it where tbe sun will P hysician and Surgeon, will on and after Saturday, August 7th. ment farm, about the wheat. The have a chance to reflect through the Job Coat «30,000, Says Cashier Head. ed 1915, at 9 o ’clock a m. of —id day at the crystal. . experiment^farm had g,rown this The heat of the rnn on the crystal Portland.—Prank Menefee, three law office« of Bright. Bryant & EHia, in w ill draw the moisture from tbe works time» mayor of The Dalles, Or., once Moro, Oregon, proceed to «ell at private Moro, Oregon. In fifteen or twenty mteutea. I f water Its city recorder, and for two terms «ale, for cash, subject to the confirmation of the court, tbe following described real still remains In the works, the crystal district attorney there, testified in —tate situated within the City of Moro, in may be unscrewed, wiped and replaced O ff ice J n re s id e n c e Federal Judge Bean’s court that he —id County and State, towit: and the prr.ceee repeated. LoU two (2 ) and three (3 ) and the A fter the sun falls to draw any more was «30,000 poorer for having left hi* half of loU four (4) lying adjacent to lot of the w ater out on to the glass R is home and law practice at The Dalle® three (3) and »actional lot one (1) of Your chickens will soon pay safe to conclude that there Is no more in 1910 to take over the presidency block seven (7 ) of the original town, now city, of Moro, Oregon, and fractional lot G ro v er J . D u ffey for them selves in increased ejU In the works, and the oil originally on and management of the United States one (1) of block ^Seven (7) of Barnum« them, waruted by the sun. lubricates Cashier company. I addition to c a id e k y . together with the production if you will use a quart tbe parts. ' tenemenu, hereditament«, and appurten- .. Law yer. can of carbolineum around the There should be no more trouble with anc— thereunto belonging and appertain 60,000 Shoap on Forest Reserve. chicken house and perche«; you i the watch, although It ta advisable to Pendleton.— More than 60,000 sheep ing. Dated thia 7th day of July, 1915. have it examined by a Jeweler at the can <et it at the Observer Store. Sarah E. Landry, administratrix. Office with W. H. Ragsdale aarlleat opportunity—Technical World. and almost 10,000 horses and cattle grazed in the U m atilla national forest Bright, Bryant A Ellis, Moro, Oregon, • Attorney* for administratrix. Abstract« promptly made by the 1 Never cook mushrooms a aeeond last year, according to the annual re MORO - OREGON port of Supervisor Crydar, which has Sherman County Abstract Com time. I f this la done they may develop Just been completed. Twelve miles of an wholesome or dangerous qualities. pany, M oro, Oregon. telephone line were constructed, three ind one-half miles of road were built, C .J .* u o h t , W .C.B m a n t . M.Q.BU.U. ’.wo lookout towers for fire observed ra re built and a cabin to serve as a rangers* headquarters was completed, In addition to much fencing work. M 8 (0 MJD°LPH ^~AYy- B rig h t, B ry a n t & Ellis -rv æ 3 Q U IR R € U S COULD HEM ER- S U E A C R O Q U E T P L A Y E R O H -T M W ' C W A «& e O P „ H O N -S U P R D R n r- ELB O W GREASE. ThouundB of people is aaaal po- ¿I im m whine became thdr talents are thrown a way, because th ei ability haanoeftrowraoa. Itn n o te lro w room they need; i t » “elbow presae; it is enargy and strength. Thsnvery wtwang shows they are too n te llm tlm place thejf are io note. W hen dm right t o d of pence has too «mall a pkoa.he dote Iris w o rk ao wel as W HEN IN - - • OREQON. PORTLAND HQT6L STOP AT ORGGON Corner of 7th and 8 ta rk 8treet C H A S . W R IG H T , P resident M . C . D IC K IN S O N , M a n a g e r. It w new, and its rooms are provided with running water apd long distance telephones. European plan. Rates $1 pe?-day and up. WRIGHT-DICKINSON HOTEL COMPANY NEW HOTEL PERKINS P o r t la n d , O re g o n . Eastern Oregon Headqnarters. Positiv ly m nt centrally located Fifth 8 t. c a rt pass the doors every few minutes. Popular Priced Restaurant European P ita . V a ic i $1.04 a n d up HOTEL A ttorn eys-at-L aw Fireman Kxpect to Raise «1200. Oregon City.—Twelve hundred dol lars la the sum desired by committees in charge of the tournament of the W illam ette Valley Firemen’» aaaocia- tion, which w ill he held here next month, and after two days of soliciting the firemen are confident of raising the am ount Milwaukie, Gresham. S t Helens, Corvallis, Molalla, Woodburn, Oregon City. 8 t Johns and other towns througtout western Oregon w ill send teams of firemen here to engage In the annual athletic m eet Corvallis has raised «900 to send lta delegation CAR; In the concrete, recently completed, fully equipped, roomy garage of Walther-William« Company. Competent workman alway» ready to help you in any ,way they Tan at least expense to you. For any service rendered the charge will always be reasonable. ~ Your business will be appreciated and an endeavor will be made to please a lt . bruises. T o is l bbbg I b « • « • • • • • • • • • • • «9^^ 1.06S.D * Following the convict-laden truck, In O ro g o a..8 0 S 1 .0 B S .9 9 which was returning to the prison ' Total «««et« admitted n items— . with the men, who had labored In the ; flex fields all day, was Superintendent Minto and a number of armed p a r d s In an automobile. W ith the guards close by, It was said that the prtaon- I era feared to Jump to safety when they I gaw a collision Imminent, believing FEED AND FLOUR • -I Net I o « m « p a li dnrìag Um y« ar. .1 f)orami«SM»na «nd «alari«« pald dnriag th« y«ar T«ie«, tt®««M>. « n * P®»< Salem.— Struck by a Southern l'ti , clflc freight engine when attempting to croee the track at Capitol and U ir I _L offices at pear in the above eatitled court in the | above entitled matter on Saturday, the 14th day of August, a . d . 1915, at the hour of 2 o ’clock p m. of »aid day, then and there to «how cause, if any there be; why the petition of L . Barnum, the administrator, I filed herein, for an order o f tele and order of —le — prayed for, should not be grant ed, and the following described land« «old at private tele, in the manner provided by law, not l e - than half o f purchase price to be paid in cash, balageo to be secured by note and mortgage on the property, bear ing not le— than eight per cent per annum ioterest, payable within a reaaonable time, all subject to the confirmation ot the court towit * The north half o f n o rth e -t quarter (n tf neM ) o f section six (fi) in township three id) sooth, rang» eighteen (IS ) oast of W illam ette meridian«containing seven ty-eight and eight) e ljb t hundredths a c r - • • T h « Dali«« and M o ro , \ 'K Or«. N e a r e s t H o te l t o B u s in e s s C e n t e 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 th e m a r k e t w i l l afford. C. M. Huddleston A tto rn e y a t L a w S U N D A Y D IN N E R S 3 5 0 . ! Opposite Postoffice Moro Oregon. ^ooeoeoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo W asco , M oro B a r b e r S h o p D r . T h e o . B e le ts k i P o r c e la in B a th Tub. ~ E verything F irs t Class and u p to date. V e t e r i n a r i a n —< •m anu, hèreditsm. nt« and ÜMteunto belonging and sp Witness the H on. Fred of the said court and ti— sc Official Stock Inspector Treatx ill Doautlcat'l lilia li. W ASCO OREGON Agent for Model Steam Laundry of The Dalles Shop in Brick Building next Observe/ Office J. N . L X N D R Y , ^ C o x o , a *» - - - - - ----------------------------------------------------------------— P r o p r ie t o r . O lS g O E L . — i . i m m n n