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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1917)
Before thb issue of the Observer reaches its readers war w ill have been declared between the United MORO. OREGON. States and the German govern m e n t In his address to congress when that body convened this week in special session President F R ID A Y ...............A p ril 6. 1917 W ilson differentiated between war with the German government and Entered m »econd clan matter at the the German people; at first thought poat office at M oro, Oregon, July 25, 1891. it may appear that no real differ ence exists, but after giving Ihe Q. L . I reland ............. Manager. war and its causes and effects a discriminating analysis there w ill W e w ill not be responsible fpr the be realized that a very large d iff neglect of subscribers to notify as of t anges in their addrem. Nor w ill the erence exists between the two. ‘fh e O b *e rv **r. 2:il Pape is Sta Gouty. i 4ification of a Postmaster that the sub- t.rib e r has “ Removed** settle the bill of a delinquent. Subscribe for the Observer. ELECTRIC ACETYLENE l i g - h t i x t g - st st e m s Plumbing and Heating Systems Installed. R. A. TWISS, The Dalles, Oregon Plans and Estimates Furnished Free o f Charge. ON’T carry around a great amount of cur rency. If you do you are beset by two great evils. One is the temptation to spend readily. A man with $100 in currency in his pOclcet is freer fo spend than the man with little currency: lie ia more apt to break a ten dollar bill than he ia td draw a ten dollar check. The other evil is the bait offered to Uiievea. A man w be ia buewn So oaary a large Sum of money in hia jiuosssriT" never can tell when he will be set upon by a hwayman. The wealthiest* men in the country ael- 4 m k carry large aroeunta of eaah. When you accumu late a goodly amount of currency deposit it in the bank at once. » THAT IS THB SAFEST PLACE FOB IT. Batykof ° MORO, OREGON 1 I I I I I I-I l I I I -I I- I I I I 1 I 1 t l - H - 4 1 1 111 -I-1 1 I I 1 I I I I I » I H llllil BULK CHAIN I I I VATIIK ORDERED PLEASANT VALLEE (WASH.) WAREHOUSE COM PANY CLOSES DEAL WITH TUM-A-LUM LUMBER COMPANY. In a deal closed yesterday the engineering de partment of the Tum-A-Lum Lumber Company has contracted to build a 130,000 bushel-grain elevator for the Pleasant View Warehouse Company, costing in the neighborhood of $22,000. Work will be start ed as soon as the lumber can be laid on the ground. This will be the first big bulk grain elevator in this section of the country, and, it is believed, will be followed by other similar elevators in other leading wheat storage centers, for grain companies as well as farmers individually, are being won over to the bulk method of handling their crops. DeaeaatratMB Trai« at Wasco. Members of the Farmers* Union at Condon have voted to enlarge their present concrete elevator from 50,000 bushel capacity to 150,000 bushel. Last year they realized ten per cent on the in vestment and expect to better that this Reason. The Cake Won’t Fall Crescent Baking1 Powder Through the Heart of Chicag in 24 Hours Moro High School Notes. The M oro high school has in stituted a jje w scheme for devel o p in g public speech makers. Each (student during the semester must deliver a rather extended report on some subject of interest to the school. The reports are covering such topics as the manufacture of rope from sisal fiber, buttons from ivo ry nuts, cocoa and chocolate from the cacao bean, celluloid from cotton and camphor gum; the history and modern processes of printing, photography, im proved fire apparatus, the dicta graph and phonograph, coal m in ing, etc. We have a “ model store” in full swing in the third and fourth grade room, where the children get actual experience in storekeep ing, buying and selling and figur ing accounts, arrangement of goods, checking up the cash, etc. Real life in arithmetic. The school library has books on the following subjects, which may be borrowed by anyone in the community: Home nursing, sanitation, ethics, politics, history (of almost all nations and times), photography, stock breeding, he redity, European war, birds, ora tory, recitations, mythology, biog raphy, sewing, cooking, food for sick, care of children, poetry, edu cation, biology, zoology, chem istry, mining, physics, literature, fiction, geology, industries, elec tricity, magnetism and many oth er subjects. * The Pleasant View elevator will be completed in plenty of time for handling this year’s grain crops. . —Walla Walla Union, March 26. - '''I h ' ïv .. Pour solid trainloads of beans from the O rient, valued at over a m illio n dollars and constituting the largest single movement of this com m odity ever coming to the United States, arrived last week at San Francisco to be trans shipped to eastern markets. The beans are of all varieties and their appearance here is one o f the new developments that the European war has brought about in this country. City Election Monday. A t the annual city election held A special train to demonstrate in M oro on M onday the ticket poultry raising, gardening and nominated by the citizens at a lome economics w ill be operated mass meeting the week before through Eastern Oregon nextweek went down to defeat as if the skids )y the O .-W . R. & N . Company were greased. Besides the regu in co-operation with the Oregon larly printed ticket another ap Agricultural College. { POSTS FOR SALE. A car load peared early in the day and won The tour has been arranged to of first-class juniper posts for sale, the election. The final vote was: stimulate interest in these pursuits f.o b., Des Chutes, Oregon. Chas. For M ayor—L. Barnum, 80; A. and to help in a material way to G riffith. pound down the high and ever in M . W right, 67. Contracts have been let for grain creasing cost of living. For Councilmen— W . S. Pow Competent instructors w ill be ell, 141; N . W. Thompson, 97; elevators at Weston and Down | with the train to explain how L. W . Ross, 70; C. R. Belshee, ing. The buildings are to be of work can most effectively be done. 69; R. J. G inn, 36. Three to be crib construction with concrete The train w ill start from Port- elected. W . S. Powell was a fav foundations, and are to cost about when you make it with $20.000. s — b b s — Reports from the middle west orite with both sides. and next Monday and continue at leastf two weeks in the field. wheat growing districts seem to in Total number votes cast, 159. A program w ill be given Satur Vegetable gardening lectures w ill dicate that close to 5,000.000 acres Some voted but for one candi day night, A p ril 7, to celebrate be given by A. G. B. Bouquet, of winter wheat has been hurt by the standardization of Harm ony date. professor of vegetable^gardening the past winter. In Nebraska a This was the most closely con school, com monly known as U p at Oregon Agricultural College, large number o f the farmers are tested election since that of some per H ay Canyon. The program and by R. E. Allen, superintend plowing up their winter wheat and years ago, when the women de includes a large number o f songs ent of the Hermiston experiment seeding again with wheat supplied But it will come cided that an effort might be made knd leans strongly toward the pa out “ light m a them at cost by those bringing it station. triotic. Supper w ill be served feather*r even to have the city grant saloon l i One car ot this train w ill be into the state. A half crop seems under adverse after the program. We „ want censes and they took a decided conditions. equipped with an [exhibit in vege to be the best that is looked for. interest in the result. This time it everyone who can possibly come table gardening, showing definite 25C POUND CAN According to the Autom obile seemed to hinge on an attempt to to help us celebrate. The pro plans for planting the ' various gram w ill begin prom ptly at eight. compel Sunday closing by city At AD Grocers kinds of vegetables, methods oi Magazine there is one automobile ordinance,a contingency we doubt Come early and get a good seat. in the United S ta t0 for every tillage and means of ^reservinj Dr. Freeze the Eye CRESCENT MFG.CO. the products. Arrangements w il’ group of 29 persons. The same was seriously considered by any candidate. The proposed issue of Specialist w ill make article credits Oregon with one also be made to organize garden Seattle, W ash. regular trips to M oro machine to every 27 persons, but city bonds for civic improvements clubs. also had a large bearing on the re does not allow for the number of each month during 1917. Call The poultry lectures w ill be giv M oro Hotel. sult. en by C. C. Lamb, of the poultry new machines bought last year. department of the college. An exhibit showing a model poultry plant for a city yard, accompanied by instructions for housing, feed ing and care of poultry w ill be part ot the train equipment. Miss Grace Johnson of the home economics department of the col lege, w ill deliver the lectures on that subject. These w ill treat of the different foods, their food val ues and cost, and it w ill be ex plained how certain meat substi tutes and less expensive foods can be used. Canning demonstrations w ill be given by Miss Helen Cowgill, showing inexpensive and simple methods tor preserving vegetables, fruits and meats. The special train w ill be in Sher man county Friday, A p ril 13, and | only at the one station, Wasco. e The Pendleton Farmers’ Union recently dedica ted a large elevator and the Pomeroy .Union has been considering one for some time. The local Farm ers’ Union has discussed the question but has not yet taken any action. îs - o ^ Sets of stereoptlcan slides show ing pictures o f Oregon flowers are soon to be distributed among the ligh schools of the state. They w ill contain twenty views accom panied by a lecture for the botany nstructor to give while they are being shown. Professor Albert R. Sweetser, of the University of Oregon, at Eugene, botany de partment, is preparing the sets d i rect-from nature. N o two are alike, and the distribution w ill be so arranged that a school may see as many as it desires and pass the slides on to another institution as soon as finished with them. munir nini ani A Typical Chalmers Performance At 12 noon, Monday, March 26, a stock Chalmers seven-passenger touring car with first and second gears removed, was started north on Michigan Boulevard through Chicago traffic. At noon Tuesday, March 27, the Chalmers was stopped at the starting point. It had gone 586.8 miles through Chicago’s densest traffic. The motor had never been stopped. • Nothing but high gear was used. To prove conclusively Chalmers flexibility on high gear, the low and intermediate gears were re* moved from the transmission. The car was a standard Chalmers seven-passenger touring model, complete with standard body, top and full equipment. The same model you can buy today. The P o ll of Astoria Commis sion has called for bids for a bulk grain elevator at that place. The system as planned w ill give the Clatsop county metropolis facili ties for handling 1,200,000 bushels o f grain. 586.8 miles, through the famous congested Chicago loop” district, is a wonderful feat. This perfor mance on high gear is even more wonderful. It is without an equal. It is an endorsement of the motor. It proves Chalmers reli ability. It demonstrates Chalmers cooling. It shows Chalmers flex ibility and perfect control. It is a new achievement. i A condensed summary of the signed certificate issued by the Contest Board of the American Automobile A sso c ia tio n , under whose supervision the test was made, is reproduced below. TH IS IS TO C E R TIFY that the Chalmers seven-passenger car above mentioned was a fully equipped stock car. |t was driven for 24 hours through Chicago traffic. Only high gear was used The motor was never stopped during the run. The mileage obtained was 586.8 miles The gasoline consumption was on average of slightly over 14 miles per gallon. C A a (rm « n B e w rrf, A n w r é c a n A a f a m e t t f a A i m c w I I m . Some Other Chalmers Achievements Chicago to Neu) Y o rk Wasco county’s road bond is sue of $260,000 was sold Monday on a bid of par and accrued inter est and the money w ill be on hand in a week. The county court w ill let the first contracts for road con struction next Wednesday and the whole road program w ill be pro secuted vigorously from now on. The bonds pay five per cent and are due serially five to 15 yean after date. They are regarded as especially attractive by 'banks be cause of the serial maturities and the fact they w ill be accepted by the government as security for postal savings deposits. An average of slightly over 14 miles per gallon of gasoline was attained, an excellent example of Chalmers economy. On June 7, 1916, a Chalmers stock car shattered all existing road records between Chicago and N ew York, making the run Of 1047 miles in 31 hours. The best previous time w as made by a Packard driven by E . <?. Patterson, whose tjms w as 35 hours 43 minutes. Giant s Despair Mountatn Climb On O c to b e r 6 th , 1916, a Chalmers captured the free-for- all event at the Wilkes-Barre hill climb on Giant’s Despair mountain, winning the $1,000 Hollenbeck Trophy and defeat ing four 12-cylinder cars, sev eral well-lmo«wn racing creations and many of the highest-priced and highest-powered American cars. W ins P i k e s P e a k Climb August 11, 1916, a Chalmers carried off first honors in the 230 cubic inch class on the ter rific grades of Pike’s Peak in Colorado^ Its time w as within a few seconds of much higher- powered, and specially b u ilt machines. D etroit to Indianapolis On June 12,1916, the Chalmers set a new record over the roads between Detroit and Indianapo lis, 305 miles, making the trip in eight hours. 23 minutes. A tlan ta to Chattanooga June 24, 1916, a Chalmers lowered all. records between Atlanta and Chattanooga. The distance of 125 miles w as cov ered in 3 hours, 53 m in u te s. This is faster than the time of the Dixie Flyer, the fastest rail road train of the south. ..X D allas to San Antonio I Another famous train — the Katy Limited— w as beaten by a Chalmers between Dallas and San Antonio. ’ The Chalmers made the run in 9 hours and 22 minutes, 1 hour and 33 minutes faster than train time. Hulery Bros., Moro, Oregon i I! < I ! i in . ill h <
