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.
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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.
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THAT IS THB SAFEST PLACE FOB IT.
Batykof
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MORO, OREGON
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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