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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1917)
THE WAR,COUNCIL A WEDDING. J Moving with expedition in its efforts — — to promote the state highway work, Time Was When He ,Us«d to Assist In Abduotinq^Jhe Bride. the state highway commission has ad MORO. OREGON. Do you know why the bridegroom’s vertiaed for proposal* on a l^rge attendant at the wedding is culled amount of road work, the proposals to . July 13, 1917 FR IP A Y .. •best m<u" and how he happens to be ’ s .■ ■ - •»« be opened July 20, at the oflice of S. such au Important factor at a society T h e price of T h e Observer i« $1.50 per Principal Events ot the Week Benson, chairman of the commission wedding? He 1» supposed to look after year, 75 ceat» for six month«, 50 cent« for in Portland. ibe ushers, the carriage, the wedding :our month«— but i f r»oi«J in *dvance we Briefly Sketched for Infor Net profit In total shipment of ore ring und a host of other things that «cccpt $2.50 in full ‘or 2 year«. Shorter from the Blue Ledge mine near Med term« than on«, year 12H cent« Pcr month. ihe fortunate. lover could uot be ex mation ot Our Readers. ford during the last three months Js pected to concern himself with ut such A Blue M a rk here w ill an.w er an in- a time. But there wus a period In the between $75.000 and $100,000 in coppei query, when entered upon our calendar, The action of President history of the human family when the Fires in Oregon during June caused alone. The ore yields from $5 to $7.60 ¿,ving the date ol the paper a« the date at Wilson lu appointing the beet man had other duties than these which vour current »ubseription expire«. a ton in gold and silver, the net re a loss of $54,62p. ________ Red Cross War Council, to perform. It was when there was po The fifth annual Chautauqua opened sults in those metals being $10,000 in H with Henry P. Davison church ceremony and when primitive the same period. ,, In Dallas Tuesday. ™ of J. P. Morgan &. Co. at people bad come to the conclusion that Since the workmen’s compensation its head, set In motion the tremendous marriage within the tribe was not good Molalla's twoday celebration and law went into effect on November 6, campaign for popular subscriptions to for the race. Then It became the fash- round-up was a huge success. The eastern Oregon state conven 1814, up to June 30, 1817, the receipts a fund which the Red Cross will use Ion for the youug man of marriageable tion of Christian churches wa* held of the state Industrial accident com for supplying hospitals at the front age to go forth In quest of a bride, the mission have been $2,283,558.96, while and also for carrying on relief work daughter of some neighboring tribe. in La Grande. at home and In Europe on a scale per Strawberries are growing so large the disbursements have been $301,322. haps greater than tlie world has ever ' Perhaps the glrla were not entirely unwilling to be captured, but no girl, 04, according to a financial statement In Harrisburg that 18 of them fill an seen. either ancient or modern, would admit Issued by the commission. ordinary berry box. Other members of the council ap* for a moment that she had wandered Four fatal accidents and 352 non- pointed are Charles D. Norton, Q. M away from the protection of her male Actual construction on the Klamath Falls municipal railway commenced at fatal accidents were reported to the P. Murphy, Cornelius N. Bliss, Jr., and relatives for the actual purpose of be state industrial accident commission Edward N. Hurley, with William H. ing abducted. Even If there was no* Klamath Falla Friday. brother nt hand the girl was Jlkely to — ------ The tenth annual three-day conven during the past week. The fatal acci put up a game tight, and the prospec dents were: Joseph Streimer, Portland, tion of the Oregon Chiropractic aaao tive bridegroom had need of the assist department store; James Adkins, Ore elation was held In Portland. ance of a strong muscled friend to aid gon City, trespasser; J. F. Cuddeback, Work on the new $14,000 addition him in subduing her. There was very to the chapel of the Oregon normal Portland, construction; Paul Corchan. little to the ceremony once the girl had Clifton, logging. Am erican Red Cross F irs t Impressed been taken to the home of her future school at Monmouth has started. Eighty tons oM he 1916 crop of flax lord, but the ‘best man" was always a the W o rld W ith Its W o rk a t the The next national convention of the Is now being put through the watei honored guest In her home, especially Johnstow n Flood— President of the Mu Phu Epsilon, national music aor tf the marriage tuntied out well. In U nited S tates Also P resident of the ority. will be held in Eugene In 1818. retting process at the state peniten many mountainous parts of the civi Seventeen branches of the Red Cross tiary by Flax Manager R. Crawford Red Cross. lized world where old customs obtain The 20 tons of flax which was retted society with a total membership ol the "beet mau" still pretends to assist ATM I E but lie of 8ol- last fall has beeu scutched and work in abducting the bride.—SL Louis l ittSuo oe«urred 1671 have been formed in Linn county. ed up Into fiber of good quality. The Deer in the mountains have suffered | 1917 crop, which Is still growing, 1« Globe Democrat ■^«Ih 1859. It went fot- several days, severely from the long winter, says reported to be In good condition. that time 30,000 Charles Hosklna. an Echo sheepman. IDC.NT WILSON DEDitATINO NCW BED EATING TO LIVE. N. Campbell, registrar of the Port wounded men lay on The main railroads in Oregon have CROSS BUILDING, WASHINGTON — MBS. land United 8tates land office, has re* the field—Frenchmen, abandoned their attempt to get a 16 WILSON AT TH E BIGHT. Rules by Which Good Health May Be Italians and Russians. per cent increase in Intrastate freight ceived a bulletin from Washington an Gained and Retained. nounclng tentative plans for the sale Taft, chairman, and Eliot Wadsworth, Thousands of these remained for days rates at this time. Herewith I give a few general sug vice chairman of the executive commit In extreme agony, uncared for. Thou gestions for those who desire health, The little town of Flavel was visit of five sections of 8lletz Indian reser sands of them died for wdnt of care. ed by a blaze which destroyed twe vation land In Lincoln county. Ths tee, ex officio members. writes Edward B. Warniau. A. M., In lu appointing the War Council the It was one of the tAipreme horrors of frame buildings with the loss of ap sale will be held some tlipe in August president earnestly exhorted the Amer the Nautilus: nil history. No one cap have health who eata too and will be public. The timber la ican public to support its work, lssu proxlmately $2600. It happened that n Swiss, llenrl Du much. mostly Douglas fir, and government Ing the following statement: The American Home Economics as mint, went upon this luittlefleld and No one can have Uwiltb who eata I have to d a y created w ith in th e Red «ttw these dying, neglected men. He soclatlon convened In Portland Tues cruisers gave an estimate of 170,620,• too often. Cross a w a r oounoil, to w hich w ill bo told about It so vividly that the nations day. July 10, as a section of the Nation 000 feet. No one can have health who eata Scored of men, women and children in tru s te d th e d u ty o f responding to the of the world decided that It was time al Education association. too many kiuda of food at the »»we to take this atrocity out of war. The Hood River has shipped 80 carload« will be needed to harvest the crops ol e x tra o rd in a ry dem ands w hich the proa- meal. treaty of Geneva lu 18t3 for the first of strawberries and it la ¡»expected Polk county this summer, and unless ant w ag w ill m a k e upon the s e rv ic e * of No one can have health who eats nine provided for Jhc immunity of that fully 100 carloads will be handled this demand is supplied, fully 50 pei the Rod Cross both in tho Field and in when tired, hurried, worried, anxious medical und nursing services In battle, cent of the fruit and grain yield will o iv ilia n re lie f. T h e ba«t w ay in w hloh or excited. to im p a rt t h * g reatest efficiency end and the sign of fhut immunity was to before the season closet. No one can have bcnlth who rises Bids will be opened at Roseburg be lost Women, girls and boys tc energy to the re lie f w o rk w hich th ia l»e a red cross. And from that author late, gulps down a hearty breakfast pick the heavy berry crop now fast w a r w ill e n ta il w ill bo to concentrate and then sprints for the car. ization has sprung the great lnterua- July 28 for the Douglas county road bond Issue of $656.000 authorized al ripening are especially wanted at thl« it in tho hands o f a single experienced ti »rial older of mercy—the Ited C roes. When you have eaten do not wonder time, but steady work for an unlimit o rg an iza tio n w h ic h has been recognized If it will ngree with you. When you be The United' States did not adopt the the recent state election. Geueva treaty until 1MH2. Fron$ then Boys in the state training school ed number of men from now until th« b y la y s and by in te rn a tio n a l convention gin to wonder trouble begins Say until the year 1990 the Red Cross was and girls in the girls' industrial school middle of October or November is alsc ■a th e publio in s tru m e n ta lity fo r auoh goodby to It. not expecting to hear purposes. Indeed, euch a concentration h struggling organization, largely a will aaalat in harvesting, 3 he berr> offered. from It again. If you fear It do not a d m in is tra tiv e aotion in tbifc m a tte r eat It; If you eat It do not fear it. private,charity, without official recog- Attorney-General Brown advises J of crop of the Willamette valley» seems to mo abso lutely necessary, and Be cheerful at your meals. A sour ' The 28th annual convention, Ore O. Erickson, district attorney for Clat I hereby e a rn e stly call upon all thoa» countenance will give you a sour stom gon State Pharmaceutical association sop county, that the theory upon which yvho can c o n trib u te e ith e r groae sum« ach. began at Seaside Tuesday and will a justice of the peace In that county or sm all to th e a lle v ia tio n of th e s u f Praise your wires cooklng-lf you ferin g and distress w hich m ust in e v ita recently dismissed liquor cases against continue until Saturday night. bly arise out of thio fig h t fo r h u m a n ity can conscientiously. Reports deceived from growers in O. 8und and A. White it’ unsound. Th« and dem ocracy to c o n trib u te to the Rod If you go home with a grouch leave Marion county indicate that great attorney-general holds that all th« Cross. I t w ill bo one of th e firs t and It out of doors, where the dog will get numbers of pickers will be needed tc state needs to prove is that the liquoi moat nocoaaary ta a k * of th e now w a r It—then ahoot the dog. came into the defendants’ hands and council of tho Rod Cross to raise great The majority of people do not know handle the berry crop this year. sums of m oney fo r the support o f tho Announcement was made by A. H that the burden Is then shifted tc w o rk to be done and done upon a larg e how to live until they are ready to die. Lea, secretary of the state fair board them to prove that they secured such scale. I hope t h a t th e response to th e ir and then they are not ready to die be efforts w ill bo a d em o n stratio n of the cause they have not rightly lived. that the board ha« decided to put on liquor In a lawful manner. Dlaaatisfaction of the Klamath In generosity of A m orica and tho p o w e r of an automobile show In connection with genuine p ra c tic a l s y m p a th y am ong our Ganeais of the Playhouse. dlans culminated in a tribal meeting people t h e \ w ill oom m end th e a d m ira the state fair. Thespis In 63« B. C. acted his plays Experiments for the control of tht at which Clayton Kirk, Charles Hood tion of tho w ho le w o rld . In a wagon. In 499 B. C., during the WOODROW WILSON. onion mildew are being conducted by Abraham Charley, Drumer David, Har time of Aeschylus, creator of drama, In nu Interview given the same day the performances took place upon tem the department of plant pathology at rison Brown, Samuel Clinton and Sup the Oregon Agricultural college with ertntendent Asbery were speakers Mr. Davison pledged the backing of porary woodeu scaffolds, one of which, The Indians declared themselves cap Morgan & Co. to the undertaking and having collai>«ed during a representa promising results. Complete figures compiled by United able of self-government and asked that announced that he himself had tempo tion, the Athenians wefe Induced to rarily given up all other business to build the great theater of Dionysius, States Attorney Resmes show that some of their vast resources be made devote his whole energy io the Red calling It the Tension, which was the aince war cenaua deg. June 6, 364 men available for Immediate use. Criticism Cross flnauclal campaign. flrat permanent atone stRkture of Its of military age have been permitted tc of the present practice of the Govern kind. It required 100 years to erect It’ itf&nt In dealing with the Indians was register at Portland. There was no scenery, but the scene A large cattle transaction took place made and resolutions were adopted HIS TWO TENSE MOMENTS. was decorated so ns to represent the when C. A. Gorley and Arch Wasaom asking the government to give the locality In which the action was going On« a N in th In n in g C risis, th e O th e r a on. Roofless was his structure, but of Harrisburg, purchased 1100 head ol Indians a chance. D in ner T a b le C lim a x . •round the building were porticoes, to Work of opening the central Ore Durham steers from Georgs Brown, ol F hoto From Red Cross Msaaxlne I heard a promluent Cambridge man which the people retreated during rain gon highway, which will extend from Corvallis for $10,000. IN T E R IO R O F R E P CROSS H O S P IT A I. T E N T Five meetings will be held In Linn the Idaho state line to the sea, was tell of the two most tqpae momenta of storms. Sometimes awulngs were used irition dr national atauding. It first county this week under the direction begun last week, when a crew ol bis life. But the tension In each case to w'ard off the sun’s heat. Impressed Itself ui>on the notice of the of the United States department ot engineers working under the direc was different. 1 doubt if I ever shall forget either FIX HIS NAME AND FACE c«»untry by Its belief work at the Johns agriculture to teach farmers how tc tion of the state engineering depart occasion,” he anid reflectively. "They town flood In 1899. When the Spanish ment, pitched camp and started work were big moments. exterminate digger squirrels. Recipe of a P e litie ia n For R em em ber war broke out It was still outside the John W. Bowman, carpenter, shot on survey of the portion of the pro "The first waa when I was in col ing H ie Acquaintances. government and not organlxed or pre pared along military lines, lu 1904 and killed his wife and then sent two poeed road from Eugene to Deadwoodr lege. I waa captain of the baseball In the American Magazine a writer Mis* Mabel T. Boardman became the bullets into his own temple, dying al tn the coast mountains. The three team that year. We came to the end of says: head of It. Her Indefatigable work most Instantly, at Pendleton. Friend» links of this highway Will be the pro- the ninth. We needed one run to tie "My acquaintance was large, and I caused congress lu 1905 to give the or said Bowman was Jealous of his wife posed road from Florence to Eugene, the score and another to win the game was not only embarihreed, but annoyed Two men were down and two on the and hurt, by my failure to remember - ganizatlon a federal charter and desig Chin Bing, the first of six alleged the road from Eugene through the nate It as the official relief organisation gunmen lihpltcated In the murder ol McKenzie pass to Mitchell and the sacks when I came to bat And for much more prominent men. of the United States of America. It 1» Billie Eng. an Americanised Chinaman John Day highway from Mitchell to once in my career I did it. 1 lined out "One day in a hotel lobby a member a three bagger right over the railroad of congress from my state, who had the only organisation permitted to give Ontario, on the Idaho boundary. track. When I felt tt go-w ell, that been in congress for ten years, spoke volunteer sld to the victims of war in the recent tong war, was found District Forester Cecil announced was one occasion.,, to me heartily, and as I shook hands Oilier Institution* seeking the work of guilty of second degree murder at La that approval has been given by the "And the other.” He chuckled, but with him I committed the unpardon hrmanitariau service In time of war Grande. Fire prevention will be taught in the | secretary of agriculture to co-opera a slow flush crept over hl» cheek». “It able error of asking him who he was i ust do It through the Red Cross. The organization Is twofold In sev schools of Salem, and representative* tive road work in Oregon involving was thirty years ago, aoon after I left He happened to be a man of good eral particulars and therefore not of the atate fire marshal's department $1,114,184, which is distributed to 15 college. I went over to see a girl 1 sound common sense, as well as a good quickly understood by the public. It will make a complete aurvey of the project». This amount is matched by thought was pretty nice and to meet politician, and here Is what he said to is l»oth official und private In its char city, according to plana which have the state, assisted in some instances her folks for the first time. I went on me, after he led me away to a seclud a Sunday. All the men were away. a ter-that la, the government has by counties. The project on which co 'Ahd they had duck for dinner.”. He ed corner: been outlined. “ ‘Remembering new acquaintances adopted it officially as the auxiliary operation la authorized by the secre Several deputy state fire marshals stopped. “Ever carve a duck?’ he is a habit quite easily formed. There war relief service. The president of t 'e United States by law Is also presl have been sent to the eaatern Ore l tary are as fallows: McKenzie Pass asked meaningly. “No, neither had 1 are 14,000 voters iu my district, and <l«nt of the Red Cross. The comptrol gon grain fields to aid farmers and road, Eugene Florence road, Pendle- before. Nor bayp I »Ince." Hl» flush I can speak to four-fifths of them lor of the currency Is Its treasurer. warehousemen to give the fullest pro- ton La Grande road, Medford-Klamath declined. "Lnever even went to see by their first names. Ordinarily, when Iis accounts are audited by the war tectlon against fire that might destroy Falla road, Ochoco creek road, Canyon that girl agalh,” be »dded plaintively you are Introduced to a mau or when you see him at a distance, you hear his department, and Its annual ret<orts are needed food supplies. , ~ vllle Galesville road, Reedaport-Cooa —Boston Journal. name, but your mind Is on something a«1 Iressed to congress. While there Is yet little Injury to Bay road. Little frieetucca road, John else. When his name is pronounced Yet the government does not finance the grain crop* of the great wheat | Day road. Flora Enterprise road, BONEHEAO BASEBALL to me I have firm grip ou his hand and t ’ie Red Cross. On occasions congress belt Immediately tributary to Pendle Pine-Lakeview road. Pilot Rock-Prairie am looking at the color of his eyes has voted contributions of money to One Curious B re a k T h a t Evan t h * U m City road, Crescent Klamath Falla with my whole power of mind focused L Congress bel|*et| to build the new ton, farmer» are beginning to be ap pires D id N o t Notice. on thnt one combination of name and 'bulldibg, for Instance. But the great prehensive regm^lng the effect of the road, and Zlgxag road. Baseball a champion foolish play was prospect*. face. If the thing is done faithfully volume of its funds sjient for relief heat on their made In a game l»etween Washington THE MARKETS there is not one«,chance in a hundred Mlsa Bertha Althaua. saleslady at v , rk Is contributed by private Indl- and the White Sox in 1907. In that that anything can blot out the memory v ,luals. In ifi ’ i P’l d t i e d o f Its the Umpqua hotel at Roseburg; Mr*. battle Larry Schlafly was captain of Portland. <• ,sh bas come io the fo.'.u o' ; If« L Alice Allen, a Roaeburg nurse; W. J. the Washington* and also played sec in teu yearn.’ ” |e*»s than 30 jar cent of Its receipts lie Weaver, proprietor of the Umpqua Wheat—Chib $2.10; bluestem $2.15; ond base. ing from memliership fees. But with hotel at Roseburg; J. M. Burt, travel rod Russian, $2.05; forty fold, $2.10. Montana baa 101,7«S farms in 4per? At the end of an early inning 8chlafly the quickened interest In the Red Ing salesman for the John Deere Plow Barley—No. 1 feed. $42 per ton.( went out to telephone or buy a goat or tion. . \ Cross the memliershlp fees ar^ txvom Hay—Timothy. $26 per ton; alfalfa something and w*aa delayed so long company, of Portland; E. L. Parrott, lug an Imjiortaut source of revenue.' that the Senator» had three men put la time of war the Red Cross acts capitalist, and Floy< Miller, son of a $1« out t>efore hl» return. Butter—Creamery, 36c. prominent Dillard rancher, are Buffer the auxiliary to the medical and The Sox came trotting In for their Eggs—Ranch, 31c. pursing services—the sanitary services, ing from injuries which they sustained Wool—Eaatern Oregon, 61c; valley turn at bat Washington took the field, as they are called—of tip? army and when Mr. Parrott’* car left the road with only eight men and nobody on D ivy. It Is «.case of the auxiliary l»e- and turned over at a point near Ccn- 76c. second, and the game went on that |r**‘ ¡.-Tester tlmn the thing skied. Many yonvllle. Mohair—46c per lb. way till Fielder Jones hit one straight d-ribtleas wonder sh y the army and across second. Then, and not till then, That the Belland law enacted at th» The Way of the Arab. |ji»ry do not maintain their own hos was It discovered that there waa no •* ¿Ttal services on an adequate scale. w e n t session of the legislature to A traveler In Egypt write*: “In T ’ e « n e w e r Is th a t It lias been found prohibit the sale of salmon caught In camel caravan we once met in tho body on second base. Incredible as it may aeem, nineteen .*** t o lie id o re efficient and less «-ostly to the ocean off the Columbia river dur desert there waa a beast with a gigau give this talk over to the Red Cross. * ing the closed fishing season la un tk? load of cases towering about and men—seventeen players and two um constitutional was the decision of Cir on both aides of him. On the left flank pires-had started the half Inning Jn of thia mountain of case* rode a small this fashion and not one of them got cuit Judge Eakln at Astoria. The American Red Cross While the number of automobiles in Arab alung In a »ling. The reason was wise till Jone»’ hit »hot over the . obvious—the camel engineer* had mis empty station. By tKe Modem Method. state registered up to June 30 thia Bchlafly reappeared at this Juncture, BOUNDED to a id in the calculated In loading and had put too Buy your lumbor cut to fit dtroet year la greatly In excess of the num moch on the off side, thus giving the and the umpires decided that the hit thZmill. Send for our »ow book of WEST- * t h * p reven tio n a n d »S u b today. ber registered for the first six months camel a heavy list to »Urboard. Arab- was Illegal when made with only eight K&M MOI a lle v ia tio n o f hum an of last year, the number of motorcycle» W^NBUlLMNfi COMPANY men lu the field. Jones had to go back s u ffe rin g in tim es o f baa dropped off, according to a state Uke, being too laxy to repack, they and bat over.—New York Sun bad corrected the error by using » I ment issued by Secretary Olcott. s ta r a r d p ea c? . light Arab »» trimming ballaat" T h e O b se r v e r OREGON NEWS N O T E OF GENERAL INTEREST “Another of A m e flea’s Exceptional Hotels. 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