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MORQr OREGON.
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F R ID A Y ................. Ab« 31. 1917
Entered
second class matter at the
post office at Moro, Oregon, July 25, 1891.
.iE greatest bulwark against the indigence of
old age or the financial drain caused by a
protracted illness is a bank account. If you
are a business man making big profits; if
you are an employee with a fine salary, plan
to lay aside a certain sum weekly. Then
if the rainy day cornea along it will find
you prepared.
In times of stress you’ll find that your bank account
is your friend. You can look the world in the eye.
The man with a bank account looks better, feels better,
is better than the man without a bank account. We
transact all kinds of banking business.
C. L.
I reland ............. Manager.
We will not be responsible for the
neglect of subscribers to notify as of
changes in their address. Nor will the
notification of a Postmaster that the sub
scriber has “ Removed” settle the bill of a
delinquent.
SEE US ABOUT AN ACCOUNT TODAY.
“ M y C o u n try T i a of T h ee, 8 w e e t Land
of L ib e rty .”
“B ank of M oro"
Food Demonstration Work
MORO, OREGON
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Save Money—
A t present prices the Studebaker
car is in a class by itself.
It cannot be equaled in value.
On S eptem ber 15th
the price of all
Studebaker
Cars will advance
FOUR from $ 9 8 5 t0 $ 1 0 5 0
S I X frora $ 1 2 5 0 f $ 1 3 8 5
O ther Models Will Advance Proportionately
Place your order today and you will save
$65 on a FOUR and $135 on a SIX.
Enough to pay all running expenses
for a’year.
B E W IS E — B U Y
NOW
Walther-Williams Hdw. Co.
The Dalles, Ore-
Anything
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Natioaal Food Sorvey
In order that the officials of the
government may be able to base
needed action on a knowledge of
what the national larder contains,
and how it measures up to the
needs of the nation, the United
States Department of Agriculture
will begin immediately to make a
survey of available foods and feeds
throughout the country. This will
cover supplies on the farms, in
factories, and commercial stores
and warehouses, in retail shops,
and on the shelves and in the bins
of the family pantry. The work
will be carried on with funds ap
propriated for the purpose in the
recently enacted food production
bill.
The survey is to be made as of
date August 31, and it is expected
that statistics on the amounts of
certain important products can be
supplied within three or tour weeks
after the food survey is begun.
Geo. N. Crosfield,
CFs»yi«i Ajaiast Ckasspioa
WASCO, OREGON
at Home
Emergency
Can be supplied by us
or quickly secured •
GINN, COLEMAN & GO.
MORO, OREGON
F R U IT OR BERRY
Per Cwt
ONE SA C K OR FIFTY
The greatest aggregation of the
Miss Martha Bechen, of H ills
boro, has been appointed by the world’s champions ever seen in
O. A. C. and the U. S. Depart one contest will compete at the
AGENT F
ment of agriculture as food dem Pendleton Round-Up, September
onstration agent for the district 20, 21 and 22. The contests will
comprising the counties of Sher he the biggest things the world has
DUPLEX
man, Wasco and H ood River. ever seen. A ll former champions
INDIAN
There has been seven districts will meet and compete tor the su
REO
composed of 18 counties so far or preme title. In the cowgirls' relay
ganized, and the balance of the race Ruth Parton,Mabel DeLong,
state w ill be similarly districted at Bert ha Blancett, Mrs. Parsons,
later date. Miss Bechen is a ila Smith and Josephine Sherry
graduate from the O. A. C. home will ridei against each other. In
Value of OH Material
economics courses and has had the cowboys’ relay Sleepy Arm
considerable experience in exten strong, Darrell Cannon, Allen
As a means o f judging what can
)rum heller, Paxton Irwin, Knapp
sion work.
be
realized from what is termed
The appointment of agents is ynch and Bob Anderson will
old
junk, take the case of the Ce-
authorized by the provisions of ride. These riders are all cham
lilo
Portage railroad. The road
the food emergency legislation. It pions. In the steer roping Geo.
was
built a number o f years ago
is designed to obtain leaders to as W ier, Charlie W ier, Joe Beason,
as
a
connecting link between the
sist in the food conservation cam Henry Yabeny. Sammy Garrett,
steamers
on the upper and lower
paign that is counted on to create Tom Grimes, Ed McCarty, Dan
Columbia at The Dalles. Since
a patriotic desire to use the home Clark and John Judd, all former
the completion of the locks it has
winners,
will
compete.
In
every
grown food and leave as much of
not been used. It is 14 miles long,
the staples as possible for shipment other one of the competitive
and the property includes two lo
to the nation and its allies. The events it will be the same thing,
comotives, 28 flat cars and consid-
work is financed entirely from the champion against champion and
funds appropriated to carry the
measure into effect, with the pro
vision that the districts served pro
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F irs t C a ll L is t
vide suitable office room for the
agent.
O R SH ER M A N COUNTY
COLE
REO
DORT
Trucks
Food is now more plentiful than
at any other time of the year, but
there must be no waste. There is • •
little or no surplus of food in most
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staple lines. Experts estimate that
the wheat crop has been two per
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cent below normal and only
three per cent gain in acreage, the J ’•
gain in acreage helping to make
an average crop. This is also true t
of all other staple crops, except ••
corn and potatoes. At the same
time it has been said that prices • •
are 300 per cent above the average • •
for the last 40 years and that they • * • • A
are still going up. The United
States is now actively participat
ing in a world war of probably ..
several years duration; next year • •
will undoubtedly be harder than
this in a financial way and there • •
fore everyone must lay plans for a ..
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balanced production of food stuffs
that w ill give the biggest results
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with the minimum of effort and
expense. At the same time the
consumer must learn to conserve • .
all he can in the way of food and • •
above everything else he must pre
vent waste by canning and pre • »
serving now in preparation for the
lean winter months that will soon
be here.
Gasoline From Natural Gas
You want for harvest
field work in an
1
Statistics just completed by the
United States Geological Survey
show that during the year 1916
the quantity of raw gasoline ex
tracted from natural gas, includ-
g that produced by the com
pression and absorption methods,
as well as that obtained by the use
of vacuum pumps and recovered
as drips from gas-transmission
lines, and sold in that year was
104,212,809 gallons, a gain of 59
per cent over the output in 1915.
The quantity of commercial gaso
line represented by this new pro
cess, though not susceptible o f ac
tual determination, was probably
more than 200,000,000 gallons.
The number of plants for ex
tracting gasoline from natural gas
increased from 414 at the begin
ning of 1916’ to 594 at the end of
the year, a gain of 43 per cent,
whereas the combined daily ca
pacity ot all plants increased about
108 per ¿rent. The average re
covery of gasoline per thousand
cubic feet of natural gas. bv all
methods, being about half a gal
lon.
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A certified list of the men called from Sherman
county to the National Arm y. as reported to Adju-
tant General W hite by the district board at LaGrande.
The local exemption board had no report from the
higher board before the list was certified to the com-
manding officer and in several instances the action
of the local board has been reversed. Those apply-
¡ng for exemption on agricultural grounds have been
denied with two exceptions who, most likely, have
not been passed upon by the district board. Fol-
lowing is the list as certified.
Serial
No.
Name
278 Cleo Herbet Wing
8 Robert C. Llndeman
357 William Todd McCoy
331 Norman Henry 8mlth
102 Charles A. Jones
349 John Erickson
435 Roy Clayton Harper
433 Jim Reid
391 Arthur Dean Olds
128 Hiram Leedy
388 Frank Paul Worth
280 Albert Edwin Benefiel
343 Theodore Jastesen
218 Roy Ermon Boxart
54 John Golden Barnett
373 Arthur Smith Munger
140 Alex Hanley
10 Frank Schamel
251 Charles 8- Forrester
18 Eugene Vlntln
40 Omer G. 8ayrs
303 A. Conklin Buckley
432 Lewis John Sturzs
50 James Frederick Perkins
Roy D. Carpenter
then some outsiders. The Direct
ors say it will be the biggest
Round-Up ever pulled off. These
people will all positively be there,
as the Round-Up never makes
such an announcement until it is a
sure thing. Indications are that
the crowd will be up to normal.
The seat sale opens September 1,
and the advance sale is already
above 1915^.
In an intensely interesting illus
trated article in the September
Popular Mechanics Magazine is
described various more or less in
genious but always diabolical con
trivances that the Germans have
lately made a practice of leaving
in trenches from which they have
been driven by the allies on the
western front. ________
In a recent issue the Oregon
Voter says that it is very import
ant we ele^t fjrst-plasa men to the
legislature next year. The speak
easy spell-binder, the hot-stove
politician and the caterwauling-
tax-groaner will go into office a-
flying unless the patriotic citizens
of each county unite in support ot
some citizen who has an estab
lished reputation for honesty and
sound judgment.
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T H E TIM E TO
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BUY ‘T U M -A -L U M B E R ’
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IS RIGHT NOW
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In 1914 a Tum -A-Lum Barn cost 40 Hogs
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In 1917 same Tum-A-Lum Barn costs 24 Hogs.
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In 1914 a Tum -A-Lum Hou«e cost 480 bushels of Wheat
In 19J7 same Tum-A-Lum House costs 225 bush
els of Wheat.
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In 1914 a Tum -A-Lum Silo cost 220 bushels of Corn
crable other equipment.
Monday afternoon the state sold
the pcoperty for $59,000, which is
$16.258 more than the original
cost of the road, including grad
ing and surveying.
A firm of Russian Jew junk
defers were the high bidders
against eleven other bidders who
offered bids varying from $56.144
to >20,000.
The Medal-Wining
Baking Powder
Crescent Baking Powder has two
leavening actions. Most baking pow
ders have but one. Crescent Baking
Powder has nearly 15 per cent leaven
ing power. This is from one-fifth to
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one-fourth more than
most baking powders
have. Purity hasn’t
been sacrificed to ob
tain this remarkable
efficiency. No bak
ing powder is purer
or more wholesome
than Crescent. In re
cognition of its mark
ed superiority it was
awarded t h e Gold
Medal at the Panama
Pacific Exposition.
25c buys a full pound.
Crescent Mfg. Go., Seattle — San
Francisco—Loa Angelas-
ESCEN T
In 1917 same Tum-A-Lum Silo costs n o bushels
of Corn.
In 1914 a Tum-A-Lum Machine Shed cost 20 tons of Alfalfa
In 1917 same Tum-A-Lum Machine Shed costs 10
tons of Alfalfa
See H. (J. Martin About It
Tum-A-Lum Lumber Go.
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