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HERMÁN
M o ro , S h e rm a n
E s ta b lis h e d 1 8 8 7 .
Gardes Demonstration
J. B . H o s fo r d
Practises in United States
and State Courts also in the
State of Washington.
1
and
a
policy, outlined in his address to con
gress, of paying America’s war bill,
B u ild in g
The
Bank
so far as possible, while the war Is
being waged, leaving a minimum debt
OREGON.
MORO,
to posterity, wras reflected In a virtual
decision by leaders In tbs bouse and
senate to raise 60 per cent of the first
W . C. B r y a n t . year's expenditures by taxation.
C. J. B u c h t ,
Under this program congress will
be called on to rales war revenues of
>1,760,000,000 through new and In
creased taxation during the fiscal year
ending June >0, 1918. This Is exclu
sive of the >6.000,000,000 bond Issue,
Attorneys-at-Law
authorisation for which will be sought
The total demand upon the finan
cial resources of the country daring
offices at
the first year of war, under this pra
gram, would be >6,760,000,000.
Of the bond Issue, >3,000,000,000, It
The Dallas and Moro, O ra.
was definitely stated, would be loaned
to the entente allies.
The facilities offered by r bankers
and others who have asserted that
they would place their services free of
charge at the government’s disposal
to aid in making ths bond issue a suc
cess will be accepted. Assistance also
will be sought of federal reserve banks,
national banks, state banks, Insurance
companies, private and investment
bankers and of every governmental
Office on First street,
agency, such as the Internal revenue
MORO,
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O R E G O N offices and the postoffices, In floating
the issue.
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The terms 6f ths bonds are yet to
be decided on, as well, as the denomin
ations, but It Is likely that there will
be little change in the plan to Issue
them in denominations as low as >25.
Once the authorisation Is granted, it
Physician and Surgeon. Is possible that the big issue will not
be placed before the Investing public
In one lump sum, but will be Issued
from time to time as the mousy is
Moro, Oregon.
needed.
Creation of a general munitions
board waa announced by the Council
O ffice in residence,
of NatlonaT Defense. It will ba head
ed.by Prank A. Scott, a Cleveland man-
ufaeTUY'fer. and wm be charged with
supplying the 'army and navy with
munitions and equipment. One of its
chief functions will be to decide be
Eyesight Specialist
tween the country’s military and Its
industrial needs.
The board’s establishment puts Into
Lens fitted to suit each'individual.
Consultation and examination free the hands of a group of army and navy
officers and Industrial leaders virtu
Office in the McKee Bldg.
ally the same task given ths British
minister of munitions. >
J. R. Morgan
iD e x x tls t
D r . C . L . P o le y
Dr. F. E. BURGESS
W ASCO,
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OREGON
Viaiti made to other town« io the county
a* announced from time to time.
Dr. T heo. Beletski
V E T E R IN A R IA N
Interstate Stock Inspector
Examiner of Stallions for License
OREGON
W ASCO.
Telephone Main 502
J am es S t e w a r t
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SHERMAN CO UNTY
Âddiw : MORO, ORE
DIPLOMATIC REUTIONS
SEVERED BY AUSTRIA
Washington. — Austria - Hungary,
ranging herself unreservedly with
Germany, has severed diplomatic rela
tions with the United States, precipi
tating a situation which generally is
expected here to lead to war.
Baron Erich Zwisdinek, the Aus
trian charge, asked the state depart
ment for passports for himself, his
staff and the Austrian consular force
in this country, and simultaneously
American Minister Stovall reported
from Berne that Austria had an
nounced the break In relations to the
American embassy In Vienna.
Immediately the treasury depart
ment ordered the seizure of all Aus
trian merchant ships In American har
bors.
TO ARJEST FLAG IWSULTERS
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Warning Against Desecration of Na
tional Emblem by Aliens Issued.
Washington.—A warning against
D E P U T IE S
desecration of the American flag by
L. Schadewitz,
Dr Jo« Saunders,V.S aliens has been Issued by the depart
Moro, O re.
Kent, O re.
ment of justice. The following notice
was sent to federal attorneys and
marshals:
"Any alien enemy tearing down, mu
tilating, abiAlng or desecrating the
United States flag in any way will be
regarded aa a danger to the public
-x-ace within the meaning of regula
tion 12 of the proclamation of the
Also cheap farm money
president, issued April 6, 1917, and
for long time loans. Ref-
will be subject to summary arrest and
e r e n c e : - Northwestern
confinement*'
CAN SELL or
TRADEYOUR FARM
National Bank.
Ammunition Factory Blows Up.
Chester, Pa.—An explosion In the
plant of the Eddystone ammunition
416 Platt Building,
corporation, at Eddystone, Pa., near
PO R TLAN D ,
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here, is reported to have killed 60 to
150 persons. Several hundred are said
to have been Injured.
It Is stated the building In which
the explosion occurred was used for
making time fuses fot shrapnel. The
A re now [for tale. L o w
workers were mostly women snd
young girls.
price« and easy terms.
John A. Meissner,
M i Pacific Railway Luds
F o r price list and in fo r
m ation yvrite
J. A . T R O E H ,
900 Y e o n B uilding, „
PORTLAND.
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Trab.
be open to the public at Wasco
Will Issue Bonds for Five Bil fro m 3 to 6 and from 7:30 to 9:30.
P ro f. Bouquet of the A gricultural
lion and Allies Will Bor
C ollege, w ill speak on Vegetable
row Three Billion.
G ro w in g
at the W asco H ig h
School at 2:30; at 3:30 a H o m e
Washington. — President
Wilson’s C an n in g D em o n stratio n w ill be
Bright & Bryant
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C o u n ty , t^ re y o n .
$6,750,000,000 IS
T h is F rid a y
afternoon
and
evening the exhibit cars o f the
»StEDJIBST YEAR G a rd e n D em onstration T ra in w ill
LAW YER
S u ite
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Martial Law In G sutsmsla.
Guatemala City.—Martial
law has
If«
been declared In Guatemala. The ac
tion waa taken on information of dis
turbances along the Mexican and Sal
vadorean frontier«, «nppoeed to have
been created with German ualstaaoe.
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PENETRA GERMAN
UNESO
DEFBONT
F rid a y , A p r il
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Reo Automobile
Offensive r rom Arras
¡Lens.
jointly by the Union Pacific Sys
London.—The British offensive be
tem and the Agricultural College
tween Lens and* St. Quentin has
as an answer to President W il proved even more Successful than the
son’s appeal to have every one do earlier accounts lix<ileat«.l
General Sir Douglas Haig reports
their best to help their country in
this crisis in the nation’s history. that captures exceeded 9000 men,
It is conducted as a Food Pre- while 40 guns fell* Into the hands of
bis troops.
pardness Campaign for those who
The Canadians, who had one of the
have charge of the growing crops, hardest bits of the front to contend
both in field and garden. The with, are now In ^oqiplete occupation
appeal to raise a bumper crop qf the famous V&jb ridge, even Its
would be good advice any year, eastern slopes hiring been cleared of
the Germans. The Canadians have
but has unusual force at this time, also repulsed German counter attacks.
when there is a world-wide short
These reactions by the Germans In
age of food due to millions o f1 dicate the Importance they attach to
producers being engaged in war this position, whence the conquerors
fare. The shortage has been felt look down over the plain of Douai.
With Vlmy ridge gone the whole Ger
in our own country in the form of man line covering the French towns
increased prices that in some cases and Industrial districts to the north
were becoming unbearable. Every becomes a wavering one and any leis
body who will give attention to urely retreat the Germans may have
growing food crops this year will planned 1« made uncertain and pre
carious.
be doing as much for his country,
With the capture of the famous
under these circumstances, as the ridge the British made a considerable
soldier, providing he farms and stride along the road to Douai, while
tills to the best ot his ability and the capture of the high ground north
with a determination to raise a west of St. Quentin tightens the chain
which the Anglo-French forces are
bumper crop.
drawing around that town.
Near 8t. Quentin the Germans have
bees driven tram tiaeMtfb ground 1
tween Le Verguler and Harglcourt.
Fighting continues along the entire
battle front.
The British have »eixed the village
of Fampoux and the neighboring de
fenses north and south of the Scarpe
river,.
Irrespective o f whether the state
road bonds carry, Oregon will
have a designated system o f state
roads, made formally by the State
Highway commission at its ses
sion just held. The designation
was required by the government
as a condition to Oregon’s par
ticipation in the benefits of the
federal road building act
The
government' representatives were
London.—Diplomatic relations be
.present with the commission when
the designations were made, and tween Brazil and Germany have been
broken off, according to the Evening
concurred in same, subject to ap
News.
proval by the authorities at Wash
ington.
M Rio Janeiro.—Rupture of relations
A ll the roads designated in the between Brazil and Germany was de
pending road bonding act were layed solely on the formality of the
designated by the commission and reception of the official report from
Paris on the sinking of the Brazilian
form erly adopted as part of the steamer Parana by a German subma
system of state highways. In ad rine. The break will be followed by
dition to those roads, such other the seizure of German ships In Brazil.
roads were designated as were re The Commerce & Navigation company,
quired to make the state system owners of the Parana, have received
a cablegram from the captain of the
more .complete and fair, so as to steamer from Cherbourg saying that
connect all the counties with thru after the vessel was torpedoed she was
lines of travel.
•truck five times by shells.
If the bonding act fails of elec
The opmpany has turned the cable
tion the funds available, it is esti gram over to the government.
Dr. Eauro Muller, foreign minister,
mated, would permit improve
has refused to receive the German
ment of the main trunk lines in minister.
the most populous parts ot the
state during the five years. There
CUBA DECLARES WAR
would not be enough money for
any paving on these. The roads Island Republic Decides .To 8upport
•the Unite« States.
to the remote sections would have
Havana.—The republic of Cuba has
to wait indefinitely. They would declared war with Germany.
remain on the map as designated
In a joint resolution passed by the
highways until tunds were availa senate and approved by the house, the
ble for their improvement which Island republic ranged itself as an
might be many years, except as ally of the United States in the war
against the German government.
the county voted the money for
President Menoool signed the war
the principal part of the cost of hill immediately after It w^e trans
im proving same.
mitted to him by the house.
Should the bonds pass,the com
The wildest scenes of enthusiasm
mission w ilh have money to use greeted passage of the measure. Not
on every designated road in every one of the leaders neglected to men
tion the gratitude Cuba felt toward
county, This would mean that the United S tates and not one of them
every designated road in every failed to receive thunderous burst« of
part of the state would be put in a applause at such references.
travable condition during the five
England Stirred by Drive.
year period, much of it surfaced,
London.—The new« of the success
and from 500 to 600 miles of high
ful opening of the new British offen
way paved, as against no paving sive has stirred high hope among the
and all the current funds being ex people throughout the country. What
pended on the trunk highways to ever the enemy may have claimed as
the neglect of roads „connecting to the. retreat in the Somme sector
having been prearranged and strate
with the remote sections.
gical, It if contended that their recoil
Just go down the line and make comparisons. Where
is there a car at or near the pjpi.ee that is in the same class?
flunk of the quality, the reputation of the REO; consider
the bigness, the larger tires, the genuine leather upholstery,
the low upkeep, aecessability, oversized bearings, economy
—and it’s one cinch.it can clean up any other car at ot
near the price.
The REO
lutonobile
Is low
These multiple features have created a tremendous de
mand for the KEO. We again caution you that there won’t
Universally
Recognized
as Having no
be, can’t be, enough REOS to go around. O nly those who order
now and take delivery as soon as the loc.-jl dealer can supply them,
will be numbered among the “ lucky ones“ who w ill drive REOSJthis
season. To those who have other ears, if you’ve decided to quit ex
perimenting and buy a REO see to it that your Reo dealer is’advised
in the form of an actual order, or you sure w ill be disappointed.
Dr. Morse has just bought his third REO, a roadster.
W. A. Medler and Frank Landbornare both driving their third REOS.
It stands the test of continued use
Every REO owner is a booster.
Competitor.
The REO— the Gold Standard of Value
N. Crosfield,
W ASCO , OREGON
For Sale-Real Snaps
No. 1.—1120 acres, in sum
mer fallow wheat; lots of w’ater;
on railroad 3% miles trom town;
900 acres tillable; running water in
pasture; w ill take some clear nrop-
erty up to the amount of $10,000.
Price $55 per acre.
N o. 2, Wheat Ranch—480 acres
on railroad; about 400 acres in
crop this year; some stock and ma
chinery; fair house and outbuild
ings; water on place; 1 mile from
warehouse. Price $35 per acre,
part cash, payment in fall; terms
on ba'ance. This is good bargain.
Alex Hunter, M oro, Ore.
BRAZIL EXPECTED TD Harvest Machinery for Sale
32x54 Case Separator
RUPTURE RELATIONS with One
long feed and bundle feed;
before the blow delivered In the Arras-
one 12-ft. cut McCormick header;
one 12-foot cut Hodge header;
one derrick wagon complete.
6tm30
C. Chase, Dufur, Ore.
Undertaking Supplies
tween the United Statee and Oermany.
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F O S S &, C O .
M O R O ,
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Automobile Service
or from any point, partic
ularly Sherman county. Experi
enced driver and car always ready.
Phone me at my expense from
any place. Reasonable charges
with plenty of time given com
mercial men to “ make” towns.
G eorge E llard .
Grass Valley, Oregon.
GARAGE
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Blacksmith and Machine Shop
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Firestone
"T" 1 R F"
Goodyear
Gas, Oils, Grease and Accessories
A u to R e p a irin g and Storage
Iron, Steel and Coal, Hardwood Carriage and
Wagon Material.
U 5 T A R E M IN D E R
To conic to our store when in need of
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Furniture, Rugs and Linoleum,
Hardware, Plumbing Goods
Sheet Iron, Barbed Wire,Wire Netting
A N T I-U R IC
The famous R O O T and B E R R Y rem
edy for R H E U M A T IS M . Contain« no
opiate« or chemical«, and w ill not injure
the mo«t delicate «tomach or digestion.
Result« guaranteed or money refunded.
Price $1.50 per outfit.
F or «ale by the
Moro
Majestic and Universal Ranges
Vulcan and Canton Gang Plows
The No. 2 Star and Canton Double
Disc and Drag Harrows
Pharmacy
Hacks, Top Buggies and Bain Wagons
W asco-G rass V alle y
AUTO
STA G E
Two Tripe Daily Between
Wasco, Moro, Grass Valley.
Waterloo Stoves and Z-Iingines
Maytag Gasoline Motor, Electric and
Power Waa hi ng Machines
LEAVE.
Hotel W a i c o ........ 9 00 a m.; 3:00 p m .
Hotel Moro ............ 9:40 a.m.- 3:40 p.m.
Vintin Hotel, G . V . 11:30 a m.; 5:00 p.m.
Hotel M o ro .............. 12:20 noon; 5:50 p.m.
Upon request Stage will call for Pa««en-
ger« living in town.
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Caskets and Robes always on
hand; special supplies and caskets
ordered at any time. •
Sam Brisbine. Moro, Oregon.
A d o lla r’s w orth of road for a Lens region esnnot be explained away
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FARES
f o l i a r ’s w orth of expenditure is In any such manner,
Wasco
to
Moro,
50c
assured at the hands of the State
Moro
to
Grass
Valley, 50c
Spain
Declares
She
le
Neutral.
H ig h w a y Com m ission which is
Wasco to Grew Valley, $1
Madrid, via Paris.—The Official
charged with disbursing the funds
Journal publishes a decree declaring
raised fro m the proposed $6.000.« the neutrality of Spain In the war be
Prop,
R. A. COSTELLO,
000 good roads bonds.
F iv e C e n t*
TH E
British Storm Villages In New
London.—Brttiohl troops penetrated
the German ltheii all along a wide
put on in the passenger car at front from A r m Io Lens, ths war of
fice announce«. The statement says
tached to the special train.
The evening program w ill be in that in the d lm tion ot Cam brat the
British hvoo slBWTtiS She villages of
the Wasco opera house, begin Hermies and Boursiea and penetrated
ning with S talk on Food Prepar Hsvrincourt wood.;.
The fighting line from Lens to Ar
ation at 7:30; at 8:15 a talk on
Vegetable Growing, and at 9 ras Is approximately 10 miles In length
snd lies directly north of the field of
o'clock a talk on Poultry Raising
the retreat which the Germans have
w ill close the series.
been conducting for the past several
This tour is being conducted weeks.
Désignâtes Highway.
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COLEMAN & CO.
M ORO, OREGON
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