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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1916)
■■ 'll— The O b s e rv e r. F. E. Fagan, county school su perintendent, reports all school ,T- < districts in the county but three, Gorman, Early and Rosebush, as having reported the day their school w ill begin the fall term and F R ID A Y . . . September 1. 1916 the name of the teacher. • Officili hper Sr tau M y . Entered as second d a « matter at the port office at Moro. Oregon, July 25, 1891. Date. School. 4th Biglow 5th 11th W e w ill not be responsible for the neglect of subscriber« to notify as of changes in their address. Nor will the aotification of a Postmaster that the sub scriber ha« “ Removed" settle the bill of a delinquent. Church and Society notices F R E E , ex cept when for money making purposes. Such notices at regular rates at the option of the publishers. ,18th At any timewhen requested to do so, will be discontinued. But we that all arrears wiu be paid before »quest is made. It is easy to ask us lor a statement, which will be cheerfully rendered at aay time. Titles of initiative measures are traps for voters. Official argu ments. with every word carefully weighed, every inference and de duction thought out ahead, are snares by which the backers or opponents of the bills hope to win their case.—Oregon City Enter prise. H a y Canyon Erskine Biggs Miss M ary E llio tt Miss Young ... Miss Catherine F le c k Kent I reland ............. Manager. W e would like to have you take it, and we know it would be profitable to you to become a subscriber. W e «end it two yean for $2.50; one year $1.50; 12% eta a month isn't much. Try it. Order by postal card, and pay for it when you can. DeMoss Rutledge Moody Teacher. Miss N ell Lloyd E. R. Curfman, prin. Miss Nina Searcy M is /C la ra Nelson Mias Vera Knotts Moro Grass Valley Brock Rufus Webfoot Monkland Fairyiew / Boardman F . E. Dunton, prin. R. J. Baldwin, prin. Miss Isbell McGregor C .L .M cC arth y, prin. Miss Floy Clodfelter Miss Hazel H inkle Miss Myrtle Sawyer| Miss CarrieCasperson G erm an Mrs. M . Milstead Michigan Miss L illy Schassen Klondike Miss Iva Everett M oretz Miss Lola Messinger W ilcox Miss Genevie Haven Garfield Mias Ruth Canright Locust Grove Miss Hazel Sneve Buckley Mass M illie Holmes Emigrant Spr. Miss Bessie lams China Hollow Mrs. Nellie Fields Wasco Not reported Shearer Miss Edna Prieve Districts with more 1han one teacher are: Kent, Miss Annie Kelley and Miss Bessie H ill; Ru fus, Miss Alta Lindeman; Grass Valley, Mrs. Julia Parrot,. Miss Mamie Bailey and one other; M oro, Miss Ruth Dickinson in the high school division, Roy Bowman, Blanche DeArmond Mabel W illiam son and Mrs. Nel ie M uir; Wasco has not reportec their teaching staff. yourself— and he who gives most receives moat." Because of the ADDITIONAL LOCALS. School Belk Will Soon Bo Ringing. M ORO. OREGON. C. L. T 1 1 ■ '■ Saturday evening an unusual phenomenen was witnessed ■ at M oro by those who were watch ing the heavens about 9 p. m. A peculiar white streak was noticed in the sky stretching almost d i rectly from east to west. It was a thin line of snowy white through which the stars glimmered dim ly. So far no satisfactory explanation las been made of the occurence. Upon his return from Portland riday, J. R. Kaseberg had his uncle. C. H . Kaseberg of W alla Walla, as a passenger in his H ud son car. It was M r. Kaseberg’s first trip over the highway and to say thaKhe was highly elated to )e able to make the trip with his nephew is stating it m ildly. After few days* visit with relatives near Wasco, the rest of his trip to lis home was made by train. Game Warden Jas. Stewart has been advised o f a shipment of Chinese pheasants for this county to be divided as follows: Sidney Johnson, Klondike; A .T . Stryker, Wasco; W . C. Bryant, M oro; W . VI. Barnett, Wasco; A. D. Richel* dorfer, Wasco. Each party re ceiving twelve birds for liberation at their farms. It is expected that another shipment may be ar ranged to be distributed in other portions of the county. By Mine Grace L . M ay. Read a( Class nt State Normal, Monmouth. The rural school problem is be coming greater ¿very year. Since it is one of the many problems that must be faced we should be gin to consider the responsibility at once. The main feature io an eastern Oregon rural community it the lonlineas and the lack of co-oper ation and enjoyment of neighbor hood life. The farm , homes are usually from two to five miles apart. Almost their only connec tion is the sou n try telephone, which is, indeed, a godsend?when not over used. I think the farmen themselves have the b e tta time of it, for their Beard of Equalization. discussions of crops and current N O T IC E —There will be ■ meeting of events at the post office are often the County Board of Equalization for Sher County, Oregon, at the Court House of more value than might be im man In M in m oro on on the 2d Monday in September, agined. Since it is much more that being I the 11th dav of September, 1916, difficult for the farmer's wife to to publicly examine the Assessment Rolls and corree all errors in valuation, de leave her duties, she quite often scription of lands, lota or other property assessed by me, and it is the duty of afl leads a life of drudgery and lone persons interested to appear at the time liness. Then, too, there it so and place appointed. Moro, Oregon, July 18th, 1916. much to be done that the seldom O T T O P E E T Z , Assessor. has time for good reading if she HONS—In the Circuit Court of the happens to be lucky enough to 8 P R elate of Oregon for Bherman oouoty. have good books or magazines in Lena Hsnith, Plaintiff, her home. vs. Many families become so ac W illiam T . Smith, Defendant customed to the lack of ready To W illiam T . Smith, the nbova named defendant- money and the habit o f eternally id the name of the State of Oregon« saving that they seldom venture Yon are hereby required to appear and answer the oomplaint filed against you In from home for-to much as a short the above entitled suit, on or before the last of the time prescribed in the order of vacation trip. The owning of au day publication, to-wft, on or before the 6th day tomobiles it fast lessening many of October, 1916, und if yon fail to ad ap pear and answer, plaintiff will apply to the such difficulties but there are many oourt for the relief demanded in the oom- plaint filed herein againet yon, to-wit. for a ] families for whom a car is only a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony dream. Even so, automobiles are now existing between the plaintiff and yonr seif, on the grounds of desertion and for I not a necessity and people can be anoh other and further relief as to the | Court may seem equitable and juat. interested in their homes and in Thia summons ie served upon yuo by pub-) their community without automo lioation thereof for a period of aix anooees ive weeks in ThsBharmau Ooanty Observer, a weekly newspaper of general oironlstion biles. published in Sherman ooanty, Oregon, tu The grave need of better trained purauauoe to on order of the Hon Fred Kra County Judge for Sherman ooanty, petservering teachers is evident, Oregon, duly made on the 21 at da v of Au but the average trained teacher gust, 1916, and the date of .the lirat pqb- iieation thereof ie the 25ih dav of August, dislikes to take a rural school for 1916. Bright A Bryant, rp even one year. This -it by no 7toa36o6 . Attorneys P la in tiff ■W means a wonder for all know that Notice to Creditor!. a country achool is generally Busby’s Tent Wat Crowded 5 «SSHI DOOR ‘ ’’’A, OPEN C U V T A IN Ö PM M O R O THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7th r The W o rld ’s Greatest Minstrel show, under the management of J. M ., Busby, had a crowded tent at their performonce in this city last night, and judging from the applause they pleased the people immensely. Regular old negro melodies pleases nearly everybody in this part of the country, and these darkies certainly were the genuine, both with their singing and their dancing. Their jokes and songs were cleat? in tone and theme.—Neodesha Daily Sun. A t ’M o ro Thursday, Sept. 7th. hard proposition and very often an extremely lonely one. 9 W E Rivets, Bolts, Belting, extras for Farm Machines and Threshers, Lubricating Oils and Grease, Wrenches, Nails, T in and Graniteware, Tents and Canvas, in fact everything you need for the coming season floro Hardware & Implmt. Co. MORO, OREOON MORO IUBSESS SHOP ’AAputeJn * Proprietor -Complete'Stock of- Leather and Harness Supplies. Call and See O ur Stock of M en’s and Boys’ Saddles a t D ifferent Prices, from $13 50 to $5o.oo. CHAIN AND HARNESS LEA TH ER W ORK of all kinds. ■111-H-H-1-1-1M-4--1-H 1111 M M 1 I FLECK ORCHARD STORE ;; MORO, OREGON Dan McGregor in Charge •FR U IT T H A T IS- I Ripened Right— Packed. Right— Sold R ig h t;; N O W IN M A R K E T Notice is hereby given that the under signed has been duly appointed executrix for the estate of Henry Smith, deceased, by the county court of the State of Oregon for Sherman county and has qualified as such. A ll persons having claims against the said estate are hereby notified to pre sent the same duly verified, together with the proper vouchers therefor, to the under ++++++-H-H-I-W-H-W signed executrix at the law ‘offices of I Bright A Bryant in the City of.M oro, in] said county, within six months from the j ite of this notice. Dated and first published August 25, 1916. - Isabel I H . Smith, Executrix of the Estate of Henry .Smith, deceased. — ‘ Bright A Bryant Attorneys for Estate. At this point cornea the need for change and improvement. W e sometimes wonder how one teach er can manage eight grades, be j social leader and exert some of the other influences that a rural teacher is supposed to have. Here is where some of the funds that the country district must have could be used to advantage. W e hear much about the farm SUMMONS. er being the mainstay in the na tion and we are coming to realize In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for Sherman County. that this is true. Rural credit sys tems and improved farming meth Mary Deckert, plaintiff, vs. ods are doing much to make the /illia m F . Weigand and Fran ces J. Weigand, F . 8. Flem farmer more independent, but the ing and Eva W . Fleming, A. farmer would be greatly helped i G . Anderson and Mrs. L . E. Anderson, defendants. more attention were given the Veigand and Frances J. schools. True, many wonderfu Weigand, defendants. changes have been brought about In the name of the State of Oregon, you in the last ten years, but year be and each of you are hereby required to appear and answer the complaint filed fore last the rural school enrollee against you in the above entitled suit on or over half of all the pupils in the before the expiration of six weeks from the date of the first publication of this sum United States and sixty per cent mons as hereinafter stated, and if you fail of these were in one room build to so appear and answer or otherwise plead thereto, for want thereof the plaintift will ings. The startling fact ia, that apply to the court for the relief prayed for at thè same time the nation was in her complafht herein, to-wit: For judg ment against you, the defendants, W illia m spending three times as much to F. Weigand and Frances J. Weigand, for educate the city boy a t the coun the sum of $1250.00, together with interest thereon a l from iv iu a November w v w nnn i / v i a 15, w , a 1914, x s w at s waaw the try boy. rate of 8 per cent per annum; for the furth- O f course thia is'nt fair to the er sum of $150.00 attorney fees; for the further sum of $14.20, together with inter country child, nor ia it fair to the ast thereon from April 29th, 1916 at the country teacher. The need for rate of 6 per cent per annum; and for plaintiff's coats and disbursements made trained teachefi would be more and expended herein and accruing coats; easily met if consolidation anc and for a decree of the court declaring and decreeing that the mortgage set forth in more co-operative work were plaintiff’s complaint be foreclosed and the made possible. I know of a com premises and lands therein described, to- wit: A ll of the S% of the N E X , and the munity in eastern Oregon where N % of the SE% of Sec. 30, Twp. 3 S. of there is a good two-room schoo R. 15 East W . M , in Sherman County, Oregon, ba sold in the -manner pre building next the railroad. This scribed by law for the sale of real property school has a large enrollment anc upon mortgage foreclosure; and the pro ceeds arising therefrom be applied in the often more grades than one teach payment of the costa of said sale, costs of er can well handle. Four miles on this suit, attorney feet, and the balance applied toward the payment of any sum each side there are small one-room found to ba due the plaintiff herein; and in buildings, poorly built and equip case that the sums arising trom said sale ba not sufficient to pay the sums found to ped and poorly attended. C o ba due plaintiff nerein, costs, accruing fees. any deficiency ] and attorney s operation of the three districts has arising after the application of said pro- been suggested but as yet no , that * plaintiff * - tiff ha have judgment against tion has been taken. Three $6 the defendants W illiam F . Weigand and Frances J. Weigand. for any such defici salaries are now being paid to un ency; that the execution issue herein; that trained teachers, where the tame plaintiff ba allowed to be a purchaser of said premises at said sale, and the sheriff money would hire two competent of Sherman County, Oregon, be directed teachers who could give more by to place the purchaser of said premises at said sale In immediate possession thereof; their combined efforts than the and that the defendants and each and all three. Consolidation is not prac of them and all persons, claiming by, through or under said defendants or any of tical in some country districts, but them, be forever barred of any and all in others it it and one of the re right, title, equity and interest in and to said premises or any part thereof, save sponsibilities of the present teach only the statutory right of redemption, and for such other and further relief as to the ers is to encourage the idea. If the hoy corn growers af O re gon continue the progress" they have made in the last year the state soon w ill b e jtt the front rank as a producer of juvenile agricul turists. said Prof. R. A. M oore of the University of Wisconsin, who judged the boys' exhibits at the I first national corn show held re cently at St. Paul. Minn. J. F. Belskn APPLES. PEACHES. PLUM S A N D S T P IN Q B E A N S PAYNE & EOWLIE, P ro p s., RU FUS, OREOON. t I 11 H - H | Deputy Game Warden Stewart has been advised that the state game warden department is facing W e are living in a period when a deficit of several thousand dot neutrality with honor must de lars, caused in large part by a fall pend upon previsionary, prepara ¡ng off of the sale of angler’s li tive and preventive statesmanship censes, amounting at this time to — not upon an application of the more than $10,000 decrease ovc Railroad Strike. philosophy of M r. Micawber. last season at this tim e .- It is sai T h e neutral policy must be based that the long cold spell and high has The O .-W . R. & N. Co upon reason, not upon mere dis waters is the most to blame for taste for danger. Now the ad issued the following bulletin: In view of the published state lack of interest in the sport of ministration's brand of neutrality fishing'. has, unfortunately .expressed noth ment to the effect that a strike o L. L. Bell, threshing on the ing but the will to be nationally train and enginemen on all rai roads inLthe United States has Guyton tarm south o f Kent,broke comfortable from day to day.— been called for 4 a.m., Pacific the exhaust valve stem of his oil -Collier’s Weekly. time,. September 4th, 1916, notice engine Monday, arriving in M oro is hereby given that if said strike at 1 a.m. Tuesday morning in , W hat it believed to have been in fact takes place unavoidable de search of an oxy-acetelyn weld to one of the longest tropical hikes lays will probably occur to passen permit him to resume work in the ever made by American troops ger and freight trains. The O .-W morning. N ot finding anyone in thrown cn their own resources in R. # N. Co. hereby give notice M oro who could help him , he a hostile country, was the hike that, effective at once, it w ill not went on to Wasco where Frank made by the 8th company, 4th receive any freight for shipment M orrow made the repair, and the regiment United States Marines, which cannot reach its destination return trip began at 4 a.m. for the when it covered in a day and on regular schedule by ten o'clock machine, 40 miles distant. night, on July 2d and 3d, the 76 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 2d. Agents nfilet between Monte Christi and Miss Blanche Meach is a visitor receiving freight which should Santiago. Santo Domingo, after from Vancouver, Wash., as guest reach its destination on regular fighting most of the way. The of Miss Gladys Moore. Miss schedule by the time mentioned hike was the third longest ever Meach is a sister of E. M. Meach, should write or stamp on receipts made by the United States Marine or bills of lading the following: who was the star pitcher o f the corps under any circumstances “ received without liability for loss, M oro baseball team when every that approached warfare. damage or delay by strike.’ ’ Fur one in Sherman county turned ther notice is given that the com out to see genuine ball playing as Aa Excellent Peri pany w ill not be responsible for put up by the M oro and Wasco nines. Several who played upon Busby's Minstrels are by far the any delays occuring to persons those teams are now ranking high best minstrels that ever visited the who take passage on trains after professionally, while others like city. They have an excellent per 4 a.m. Sept. 4th. M r. Meach are interested more in formance, especially the dancing other lines. N. J. Sinnott is the popular syhile the old time minstrel per Too much vulcanizer, mixed formance and songs delighted the nominee o f this district. He has audience. They carry a fine band filed notice of acceptance of the with torgelfulness, caused a fire in and are a tuneful, musical,talented nomination for congress from all the E. O. L. Co. office Wednes crowd.—Yates Center Advocate. three parties, republican, demo day afternoon about 5 o’clock. C. E. Johnson started a small vul cratic and progressive. A t M oro 1 hursday, Sept. 7th. canizer on an inner tube and then left town, forgetting the machine. When he got back he found the rear office floor covered with wa ter and the wreckage of papers, etc. The heat caused the solder on the side o f a five-gallon can holding coal oil, to run; and a fifteen gallon can o f lubricating oil was hot to tne hand. The side of the vault holding the papers of the company was also quite hot. Damage was incidental o’ her than to records. Mrs. Bourhill, in the Bourhill & Co. store next door was first to discover the fire. Getting-Ready for Harvest many channels for a teacher's ef fort I believe the country is the beat place to tee comparatively quick results. The work of the rural teacher' is indeed varied, but in a broad sense of the term it may all be classed as social work. H e r lead ership, her educational work and all the influences she has on a community affect its social system io some way. Great, indeed, must be the re ward of a teacher when he knows that even one person has been strongly influenced for good throu hb efforts. W hat a Godgiven work is that of the rural teacherl In her hands, I believe, as much as in any other, lies the welfare of] the nation. +++*+++++ 1 1 I I I I I I I I I I ! I I I M - H -H- M -l' I= a ,t± i© » n P ie e e r x ta * PEARL WHITE, GEO. 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This summons is published in the Sher As it is, the trained teacher who man County Observer, a weekly newspa goes to the rural districts should per of general circulation published in have many ideab for ber achool. Sherman County, Oregon, for six consec weeks, being seven issues thereof, in Only of late have we heard any utive compliance with an order of Hon. D . R. thing of the advantages for work ~ * , Judge of the Circuit Court of the of Oregon for Sherman County, offered in the country districts. which said order is dated the 12th day of O f course work b plentiful in the July, 1916, and the date of the first publi cation of thia summons is the 21st day of city and work b what we want, July, 1916, and the date of the last publi but what about the enjoyment of cation of thia summons is the 1st day of 1916. the reward offered: “ Teaching Fred W . W ilson, demands that you shall give— give Attorney for Plaintiff. 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