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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (July 6, 1917)
The O b s e rv e r MORO. OREGON. . F R I D A Y . . . . ’......... ..July 6. 1917 The price of The Observer is >l.3U per year, 75 cent» for six month«, 50 cents for four month*—but if nald in «dvance we accept $2.50 in full for 2 year*. Shorter term* than on«, year 12% cent* per month. WILLIAM L SIBERT OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST ALBERT CLEAVES A Way Around a Difficulty ' Principal Events of the Week By ELINOR MARSH Briefly Sketched for Infor M oro B a r b e r S hop PoecalalA Bath Tub. Everything First Class and up to date. A gent for M odel 8 ten mi L a u n d ry of T h e D alles Shop in B rick B u ild in g n ex t Observer Office mation of Our Readers. Mrs. Haskins had but one person In the world to He to; that was Alice E . W . L E W I S , P r o p rie to r . Nell. The old lady had the usual self The Speaker district of Douglaii ishness of oue of her age aud condition - - - - - O x o g 'O X X - county has sent every man of military and would not on any accouut consent age into the army. .. that Alice should marry. The Oregon State Edltoral associa But, grandma,” argued the girl, tion will convene In Pendleton on “suppose I marry and you continued to July 13, 14, and 15. live with me?’’ The Oregon State Chiropractic asso That wouldn't do at all. No bouse ciation will hold Its tenth annual con Is large enough for two families. No, vention at Portland on July 5, 6, 7. Alice, you can’t marry as long os I The annual meeting of the patrol live. I took you when you were a lit tle girl, and but for me you would have men of the Douglas County Fire Pa bad no borne. Now that I have no trol association was held at Rose home but with you. It Is your duty to ■ burg. remain single and take care of me.” I » Dave Cottrell was shot and almost That ended tho dialogue. Alice, sigh You may think you can get along without that new set of harness Instantly killed by Lane Wyland, both ed, for she had a lover who was argu this winter, and possibly you can-B U T WILL IT PAY YOU? of the Meadows district, - Jackson ing on tbe other side of tbe question. The time lost in repairing and tinkering and cussing on old and. ' county/^ 4 He admitted that Alice should cou- broken and unreliable harness will just about pay for a new one. Roy McCrary, 9 year-old son af tlnue to make a borne for her grand A nd time is money these days. James McCrary, of Albany, was acci mother, but he offered to take upon Then broken harness often cause runaways, and they often result dentally shot and killed by Curtis fatally to the driver or the animals. No, unreliable harness does Admiral Gleaves, In command of the himself a case of mother in law, or. O eat Size o f Those H o sp itals C an Bo NOT pay. Buy a new set NOW, and buy it from US, where it warships which convoyed the Ameri rather, of grandmother-in-law, wlllch M ajor-General Slbert, who la In ac Odenbolg. is BEST and CHEAPEST. A pprac'atod W h a n It Is S tated T h a t Baker County’s total output of wool, can transports serosa the Atlantic. ’ wag worse, and argued that the old tive command of the firs t Am erican woman should be satisfied with thia. Regulation Buildings In , the Moat about 800,000 pounds, for this year troops to land In France.' Com pact F o rm Cover - an A rea of has practically all been „sold, accord the - selective draft but lightly. It is But so long aa she would consent to nothing but Alice's splnsterhood there Eleven Acres. . ing to the growers. probable on the basis of present esti was nothing for It except that Alice At the Cherry day celebration at mates that not more than 2000 Oregon should remain a spinster. By L E O A R N S T E IN , Socialist Parade Precipitates R io t Freewater a large crowd was In at mep of military age out of the 62,000 Fred Martin, Alice's lover, fiually Vice C h airm a n M ilita r y R e lie f C o m persuaded her to a marriage^ which Boston.—Riotous scenes attended a tendance from all parts of Umatilla who registered will be drafted. m ittee. N ew Y o rk C h a p te r A m erioen Rod Cross. socialist parade here, which was an county and Walla Walla. Damage running into the hundreds should be concealed from hePgrand- Several crews of men employed on the general In nounced as a peace demonstration. of thousands of dollars was caused motber. Tbe old lady was so feeble l Uit in c diet I went t h a t The ranks of the marchers were bro Marion county roads have indicated when the reservoir of the KUmaque that the couple did not expect her to th e American ken by self-organized squads of un their intention of going op strike un Irrigation company, near Haines, went live very long, and while she did live (his plan would enable Alice to take nation was and still la iformed soldiers and sailors, red flags less the county raises their wages. out and the released waters rushed care of her on her grandmother's <ywn The annual convention of the Rex- nuprujiared for war and banners bearing socialist mottoes in a wild torrent through the village conditions. Of course It would be there la one notable were trampled on. and literature and all druggists of Oregon, Washington, of Rock Creek, destroying It and de hard on Fred and Alice, but after all exception — the b a a e and Idaho was held in Portland. More vastating thousands of acres of farm wouldn't it be better than for both to hospital service of the furnishings in the socialist headquar than 126 professional men attended. ters In Park square were thrown into ing territory In the adjacent valley. grow old separated or better even than j u. rican Hed Cross. H hen war first W. T. Cobb, 64, pioneer rancher of case of grandmother-lu law, for, so Purchase of the first installment of I . ..ke out In Europe and farsighted the streets and burned. the Baker district, drowned near his far as the old woman was concerned, a consignment of fir lumber to build :. uud women saw that thia country 1. home at New Bridge while attempt 30 wooden ships, obtained by the Fred would be nonexistent Wheat Pit Will Be Cloeed. I. . ,_ht ultimately become Involved the ing to cross Eagle creek on horseback. So the couple were married, and <’ < tors of the lied Cross began to pre Chicago. — government plans for • Robert Banks, of the firm of Kruse Emergency fleet corporation, obtained Fred fitted up a bouse near where his 1 • oil a large scale for auch aa emei- ’ at $30 a thousand, was announced by I food control, according to a statement L’p and* down the land went given out by President Griffin, of the ft Banks, shipbuilders of Coos Bay, Chairman Denman, of the shipping wife lived, he taking up bis abode In I i c 'ir'zeis urging public spirited citi board of trade, includes absolute con announces the firm has been awarded board. The lumber was bought from single blessedness, except when Alice ' could visit him. Tbe old lady went to six vessels by the government ship i ; b» cities all over the country to the Cooe Bay Lumber company of Ore bed at 9 o’clock, and when she was »’•llsh units and raise funds for boa trol of the wheat traeje in all its com ping board. gon and the contract calls for delivery asleep Alice would slip out and go to Eight wooden steamers, represent ! • equipment. As this meant In merclal aspects. There can be no tbe home where she really belonged. at seaboard. speculation In it. Buying and selling « n instauce the ralatriKTof from $25. ing a combined contract price of about The old military highway, between They kept a maid, so» ttjat If Mrs. (.» u to $30,000 for something whose uae- of other grains for present or future $4,500,000, will be built at Portland by Eugene and Klamath Kalla, now of Haskins woke up and Alkie wasn’t on J •J' ft li 'nesa was In the mlnda of the gen delivery will De unrestricted.. Supple & Ballin for the United States eral public very problematical, the task ficially designed as the Willamette hand the maid could say she had step shipping board. v aa no light one. road became It follows the river of ped around the corner to buy some A record-breaking sale of registered More than 1000 Grand Aimy men. But the workers persisted. Ao a that name tor a great part of the dis thing. Jersey cattle was held at the farm of This was not exactly home life, but s u it when thia country declared war McArthur ft Stauff, one mile east of members of the Relief Corps and tbe tance, will be opened for the first time Iron, Steel and Coal, Hardwood Carriage and tl h Red Cross w as prepared and has Rickreall, when 32 head of cows, heif Ladies of the Grand Army of the to automobile travel the latter part of as Fred was at work all day, not re nl-eady organized forty-four base bos ers, and young bulls sold for an aver Republic were attendance at the an August according to an announcement turning usually till after 7 o’clock. It Wagon Material. was not so bad. and It was not obli ; p ;.l units—thirty-nine for the army nual reunion at Forest Grove. made by Clyde R. Seitz, supervisor gatory on his wife to hurry home. By age price of $240 47, or a total of a 1 five for the navy, which wlH be Two hundred and fifty Oregon phy of the Cascade national forest and by Alice told her grandmother * r» idy to he turned over to the govern- 17996 sicians are needed at once for the A contract for 10 m iles of hard aur that site must go to a hospital for a B ent, w ith their equipment aa fast aa RED CROSS DOG FILAjf medical reserve corps, as the state’s face pavement, the first to be let un few weeks, and the old lady was tl v are asked for. Already seven of quota of the 20,000 doctors who will der the road bonding measure, ap obliged to remain In care q^tbc maid. tl ■ -to have been sent abroad for the SAVED MANY SOLDIERS. be assigned to tbe new army. After Alice was discharged from tbe u-e of the alllee, and the balance are proved at the June election, a The formal opening of the Tilla hospital there was a period when she r» dy to go at a day's notice. awarded by the state highway com This Red Cross dog, Fllax of Lewan- mook highway and dedicating the new mission and the Umatilla county court was continually running out for some- T H E D A L L E S . O R E . i'hu baae boepltal is housed In a aub- aiqudal, permanent structure anywhere no, owned by Mrs. R. F. Wanner, was roadway Just completed at tbe pass to the Warren Construction company tblng. But she could not go often from twenty-five to a hundred miles employed for several months In an am in the mountains, known as the Sour for $119,120.42. The section of the enough for her purpose, so one morn Is noted for its comfortable surroundings and the courteous ing when she was away and tbe maid Grass cut-off, was held Saturday. away from the firing line. The wound road to be surfaced Is the first 10 was engaged tbe old lady answered a attention received by the traveling public. ed are taken from the trenches by Wong Wen Tueng. Hop Sing tong miles between Pendleton and the ring at the doorbell, and there on the «•reteher bearers and carried to the gunman and slayer of Joseph Oue, Rates moderate priced. Rooms equipped with modern step was a three-weeks old baby. state line. dressing stations Immediately back of Chinese fish merchant, was sentenced Mrs. Haskins took tbe little thing up As a result of the decision of the In conveniences and newly refurnished throughout. tL" line. Here they receive emergency to life Imprisonment in the penlten terstate commerce commission in the In her arms, and when Alice came * -T drtwslng and attention and are then tiary by Circuit Judge Gatens at Port Y O U R P A T R O N A G E IS S O L I C I T E D 16 per cent freight rate increase cases home she found her grandmother ca rfed hack to the field hospitals in land. * Chairman Frank J. Miller of the Ore dandling It on her knee In n very s cu«ilances. From the field hospitals, Canneries operated by the Eugene e- * <on as possible, they are carried by gon public service commission expects motherly sort of war. The old lady wouldn’t consent that the child should Fruitgrowers’ association In Eugenfe, o.’uhulance and hospital train back to the railroads in Oregon which have be sent away, so Alice was obliged to Junction City and Creswell began the the base hospitals, where they are aur asked for 15 per cent increase on all divide Its motherhood with her. It I 11 1 m - T I" H 4"l l-H »H "H »f"H -l -i » 4- H r i- F H-1-1-1-H- !■ 1 I H - l -1 !■ 1 I »-1 | 1 r.unded by the beat hospital equipment season's run .this week, with pros Intrastate freight rates to abandon wasn’t long before the one woman known to m«xleni medical and surgical pects for continuous operation until their general applications and endeav was aa fond of the child ns the other. edence. Portable hospital buildings late fall. or to get Increases In the rates on cer Then one day the postman brought have been devised, so constructed that Announcement has been made by tain classes and commodities, which a note signed by « man who claimed they can be easily packed and shipped the division of naval militia affairs, might be able to stand higher rates, to be the baby’s father, saying that he and set up quickly. Washington D. C., that the Oregon The great size of a base hospital can Nine fatal accidents, out of a total regretted parting with it nnd asking naval militia will he mobilized at be appreciated when It la stated that of 429, were reported to the state In that it be sent to him. This put the Fifth and Washington Sts. Seattle for intensive training about the regulation buildings. In as compact duatrial accident commission this old lady In great distress. Alice wrote a letter to the father-at her grand PO R TLA N D , ORE. August 1. a • .'fin as can be arranged, cover an week. Tbe fatal accidents were a mother’s dictation—begging the father Stale Labor Commissioner Hoff has a ’ » LOOP feet long and 500 feet wide, Room with privilege of bath, single, fo llo w s ; John Lanto, Astoria, sawmill to leave the child where It wns, he e n acres bi all. The equipment started to assemble data on a state 75c up; double S I.00 up Fay B. Barnes, Gaston, sawmill', Fritx being permitted to come and see It ct. . e when stored occupies 19,000 cu wide census of crop possibilities, with Room with private bath, single $1.50 Miller. Powers, logging; Charles Ra whenever he liked. be' fe*»t. The cost of mobilizing a up; double $2.09 up. the end In view of assisting In har pioa, Sheridan, sawmill; Marion L. This brought a man who gave his Auto Meet* Trains. Street-, car* from Bi.it with Its equipment at Philadel vesting the crops when the harvest Sinnett, Bend, logging, Carl Carlson, name as Frederick Martin, aiid after Union Depot pas* our door*. »' phia recently, aside from transports season comes. Transfer at 5th and Glissn streets from j tion, was over $5,000. One base boa Firwood, logging; Indian George a conference in which be insisted that The biggest wool deal ever made in North Bank Depot. p’'al will care for 20.000 men. Hood River, railroad trespasser; E unless they wouldlake him to lioard he 9tlverton was consummated when Correll, Pendleton, railroad trespas would take the child away. Mrs. Has The portable kitchen, which feeds H I 1 1 1 1 1 -I-4-1-1 1 1 I 1 H - l 111111 I kina consented, and the family was Earl Wood and Frank Decker disposed 750 persous three times a day. la a ser; Charles Walker, Coquille, rail Increased by one man. of their lot comprising 65,000 pounds t - w tyi»e especially designed for the road trespasser. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCXXXXXX)OOOOOCXX>OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCXX> After awhile Fred began to pour a at 72H cents a pound to William I l Cross. The portable X ray outfit On their return from an inspectlou tale of woe Into Mrs. Haskins’ ear Is c en fitted with a generator to pro- Brown ft Co., Inc. of the Payette-Oregon elope Irrigation v •• Its own current, as there is never Pendleton will put on the market project on the Snake river, Attorney Hia wife had deserted him and her child for her grandmother. The old a..y certainty aa to whether direct or immediately the $20,000 Issue of sewer General Brown and Superintendent of lady was so Indignant at the “old a crusting current or any adequate bonds voted four years ago and upon Banks Sargent were enthusiastic crone,” as she called the grandmother, p rrent at all will be found already M BS. a . P . W A S INKS AMD n u x x . their sale will commence the con si ppUed at the point of destination. about the project. They went as mem that ah* could scarcely contain her- R. H. M cK ean , M an ager, W a sco , O regon Then there la the laundry equipment balance corps hi France and Is credited struction of a septic tank to take care bers of the state bonding board to In afl'f. of all the city sewage. Meanwhile the old lady noticed that complete even to a drying room; fumi with having assisted at the rescue of vestlgate the land relative to the cer Fred and Alice wer^ together a good Traveling auditors of the Industrial gating. sterilizing and incinerating fifty-four wounded soldiers. As he tification of $226,000 worth of bonds plants, a completely equlpi»ed operat picked hie way across the Somme bat accident commission cannot come the district proposes to Issue. Find deal, and she wished Fred’s wife D E A L E R S IN would die so that be could marry Alice ing room, laboratory, etc. There la the tlefleld, carrying relief to under the provisions of the workmen’s ings will not be drawn up for a few and tbe baby could have a mother as et-ht ton refrigerating truck, which is the wounded lg No Man’s compensation act, the commission was L i m e , P la s t e r , C e m e n t, B u ild e r s days, but the board, It la understood well as a father. When the pear was a complete unit in Itself, not only pro- land, shot an<^hiell seemed advised, because the commission can S u p p lie s , L u m b e r, W ood, C o a l, will Indorse the proposed issue. The ripe Fred came home one evening and d .clng two tons of ice a day. but run- to have no terrors for this not contract with itself. project includes 64,000 acres, all water announced that his wife was ‘‘no n'. g a l«attery of cooling plants. Cou anlmaL C e d a r P o s ts , a n d H a y . State Forester Elliott reports that so ed by pumping, the pumping power be more.” nt ted with each base hospital are far this year conditions have been ing electricity generated from the He tried hard to appear respectful to \ three ambalancee and a two ton truck his wife’s memory, but found It dlffl good as far as forest fire danger has water of the Snake river. M ANU FA CTU RER S OF for carrying supplies. MAKING UMBRELLAS. cult. This was not remarkable since been concerned, although a few fires »The base hospitals are under the dl The culmination of Oregon’s largest ration of the department of the mlll- The W ork of Assembling the Framee have been reported from logging timber lam) deal of recent years, grow the departed had treated both her husband and her child so badly. Mrs. tr ry relief of the Red Cross until mus camps. These fires were small, how and P utting on Covers. tng out of the option on the $4,000,000 Haskins averred that no resi>ect what tered Into service, when they become a In most umbrella factories the (ask ever, and did but little damage. holdings of the Dubois Lumber com ever was due her; that she had been a OOCXXXXXXXXXXXJOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCXXXXXXXXXXXXXs! part of the army organization. Form Secretary Olcott has sent out notices pany, granted to David C. Eccles, h of turning out ribs and stems la left to soulless, shameless creature, and the ing another very Important branch of this department are the ambulance other factories making a specialty of to all of the banks in the state call of the Oregon American Lumber com sooner Martin forgot her the better companies. Ent-b < »nr vny » o".3 sis of those parts. Ttaeee are sent to the ing their attention to the new law pany, on January 24, awaits only the Aa for Alice, she maintained a discreet ninety-one men. Including five wcd.tul mnnnfactnrer, and the man whose relative to bank deposits that escheat return of John Dubois, head of the silence, which her grandmother attrlb work li is to assemble the parts In to the state. Under the new law, sav ofticera. selling company, from the east nted to an expectation that she would, serts a bit of wire Into the small boles take tbe lost w ife’s place. Ings deposits do not escheat to the Still another branch of the depart- Official notice that the option, which The old lady after this was very 1m BY AUTO m« nt of military relief la made up of at tbe end of the ribs, draws them to state until after the expiration of 12 expired July I, was to ba concluded by gether about the main rod and adjusts patient to learn that the widower had the hospital units. Each unit la com years. purchase was given by Charles A N D V I S IT T H E D A L L E S proposed to Alice. She was not long poaefi of twelve doctors, usually ape- the ferrule. In cutting tbe cloth or silk seventy , The coming session of the Wil Early, of Portland, manager of the kept watting for the announcement or ctflUata, who may be shifted from five thicknesses or there* boats are ar lamette valley Chautauqua, which Eccles timber Interest* in Oregon, to the wedding. After tbe ceremony she point to point wherever the need la ranged upon a table at which skilled I opens July 10 at Gladstone park, will J. K. Gamble, secretary of the Dubois fell on her grandson-in-law’s shoulder greatest. operators work. In one department | mark the passing of one of Oregon's and hoped heaven would punish that Aside from this active service In the there are girls who operate hemming famous landmarks. The old audi Lumber company. In the concrete, rqt;enfly completed, fully equipped, “old cat” who bad caused him so much Attorney General George M. Brown field, the department maintains a ¿bu machines. A thousand yards of hem torium. erected 24 years ago, is to be trouble. roomy garage of Walther-Williams Company. Competent State Engineer John H. Lewis and 8u reau for providing the soldier« with med goods Is a day’s work for one of abandoned, and the big programmes perintendent of Banks 8- S-ifcent, workman always ready to help you in any way they can at the comferta of life not regularly a these girls. Tbe machines doing this part of the government's military sup Job attain a speed of some 3,000 revo are to be held In a new $6000 edifice the commission created by the irrlga least expense to you. For any service rendered the charge WILL ROWER. Misa Helen Metzger, age 18, died tion securities law of the 1917 legisla plies. such as extra medical supplies, lutions a minute After the hemming will always be reasonable. literature, tobacco and other comforts. has been done tbe cloth or silk la cut at Portland from Injuries received ture. have Just returned from a trip Develop your w ill power and Another Important unit la the sani Into triangular pieces with a knife, as when an electric train hit an auto she of Inspection preparatory to putting learn to use it. The education of was learning to drive near Gresham tary training detachment for the me- before, but with a pattern laid npoo the securities statute Into effect for the w ill ie really of fa r greater ... thodlcal teaching of first aid. Groups the cloth. The next operation Is the Miss Metxgsr was the third of the oc the first Im*. The Irrigation securi importance as shaping the des of men are trained for service with the sewing of the triangular pieces to cupants of the machine to die, 9. E. ties act provides for the formation of TH E DALLES, : • - - OREQON. tin y o f the individual than that army, resembling the vohjntary aid Aa- gether by machinery. Lindsey, her grandfather, having been Irrigation districts by agreement and of the intellect. Theory and tarhments organized wMb such success Tbe covers and frames are now kilted Instantly and bis wife having vote of the property owners within deetrine and inculcation of laws In England. ready to ba brought together. In all died two hours later. any designated and agreed boundar In short, by Its activities In caring there are twenty-one places where the and propositions w ill never of In view of the fact that nearly 6400 lea. It also provides that districts G ood S t a t io n a r y , n ic e ly p r in t e d is o n e o f t h e f i r s t for tbs well being of the soldiers the caver ts to be attached to the frame thomeelvee lead to the uniform Oregon men have voluntarily entered may issue bonds, the same aa school r e q u ir m e n L * o f a g o o d b u s in e s s . W e c a n s u p p ly y o u . Red Cross probably doubles the ef- The handle la next glued on. and tha habit e f right action. the national guard and the regular or port dlatrleta, to bring water to tha fl-'ency of the fighting forces. ■mbrel'a la ready for praaslng and in army, Oregon will feel the effect of a paction. A Blue M ark here w ill answer an in- qi cry, when entered upon our calendar, giving the date ol the paper as the date at t t - c h -our current subscription expires. liED CROSS WAS READY FOR WAR BUY HARNESS NOW! Buy It From Us Forty-four Bass Hospital Units Already Organized. 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