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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1918)
•ut. w ith vary long atrokf. I t has a g re a t Notice of Final Settlement reserve power, only sixty per cent of tv Uourt ol the state ot O re its p o^er output being requierd to de gon for Shermarycounty, in the matter of Estate of Henry Smith, deceased. liver its rated load at the draw -bar. Side plates on the crank case perm its Notice is hereby given that the under- of convenient inspection and easy ad signed.has filed in the above entitled court ju stin g of connecting rod bearings. It her final report and account and that Tues the 3d day of September, A .D . 1918, is equipped w ith an autom atic prim ing day, at the hour of 10 o ’clock a.m . has been device for sta rtin g when cold. An appointed as the time and the county court efficient positive speed-regulating room in the county court house at Moro, Oregon, in said county, as the place fixed governor is also b u ilt in the motor. The rad iato r is of the flat tube type for the hearing of said report and account, the objections thereto, if any, and the w ith cast-iron fame, m aking it very settlement of the said estate. poat office at M oro, Oregon, July 25, 1891. Dated at M oro, Oregon, this 26th day rigid, leaks are easily repaired. ‘The of July, a . d . 1918. flat tubes w ill not burst from freez Increase Winter Wheat Acreage Isabell H . Smith, executrix. I reland .......... Manager. ing, as they can readily expand. Bright A Bryant, attorneys for estate. The Yuba ia also equipped w ith a W heat, the staple food crop for all Date of first publication, July 26, 1918 Donaldson A ir Cleaner. This is a Date of last publication, August 23, 1918 nations and kindred and people, for clarifier th a t keeps all dust out of the the boys of France as well as those at motor. I t requires alninim um of a t Notice of Sheriff Sale home, rniist be produced in greater tention. O ftentim es two or three quantities next year to supply the loathe Circuit Court of the State of Oregon cupfuls of dust w ill be removed from for Sherman County needs. it a t the end of a day’s work in dry « The U nited S tates D epartm ent of w e ll. M ary E. Lee, plaintiff “ M y C o u n try ’T ia of T h aa, S w aat Land j A griculture is asking for a 7 per cent soil. vs of L ib e rty ." The transm ission is of the sliding W . H . Sykes and Margaret D. to a 12 per cent increase over last "Sykes, husband and wife, The school board has had Contractor gear type b u ilt with a differential and year and is assigning every sta te its W . I. Chidester, C. M. ’ W c w ill n o t be responsible fo r the quota. ndependent brakes on eacty cross shaft Ramsey build a set of 38 combination Oregon had 562,000 acres of Poley and Addie A . Poley, neglect of subscribers*" to n o tify as of | w inter wheat in 1917 and the minimum lockers in the high school auditorium , to retard or stop one side for Bhort husband and wife, D . A . th a n g c f in th e ir address. N o r w ill the speeds Hatfield, and Florence E. , acreage to be planted in 1918 is 590,000 to be used during athletic events and turning. There are three iub- i.u iific a tio n o f a Postm aster that the Herndon, defendants. ic r ib c r has “ R e m o v e d ” settle the b ill o f a or an increase of 5 per cent. If pos- for.the convenience of those using the forw ard and one reverse. There is By virtue of an execution, judg d e lin q u e n t. ! sible we are asked to plant 692,000 shower bath appliances. A t the same direct drive on all three speeds, the acres an increase of 23 per cent over tim e fixtures have been b u ilt in the interm ediate gear being the plow ing ment order, decree and order of- sale, issued out of the above entitled court in I last year. This maximum iB just Domestic Science room, consisting of speed, and the low speed being used the The Work of the 0 . M. P. above entitled cause, to me directed 'eq u al to O regon’s acreage in 1914, tables and draw ers; book cases have on grades or heavy pulls. The ma and dated the 30th day of July, 1918, upon been built in the school library room chine w ill give the same draw -bar a judgment and decree rendered and en The Sherman County Delacf m ent of which was the largest in the last five sufficient to 'accommodate 4,000 pull on a fifteen per cent grade on tered in said court on the 27th‘ day of 1 y**ars. , the 4th Co., Oregon M ilitary police volumes,. The c&Be being 26 feet fow th a t it sustains on level ground July, 1918, in favor of M ary E.» Lee, I Sherman county is a wheat county have been in this county nearly a plaintiff, and against W . H . Sykes, M ar long and 7 feet high; in the labora on the interm ediate speed. This is garet D . Sykes, W . L . Chidester, C. M . month and during th at tim e have cov and every possible acre w ill be sown tory room a cabinet has been built, an im portant point. It gives the Poley, Addie A . Poley, and D. A . H a t ered about 3000 m iles, on patrol, and to wheat and as much of this w ill be field, defendants, for $1,000.00 with inter ^ h a v e called on nearly every farm er in sown to w inter wheat as w ill be pos- having glass doors in the upper half Yuba an advantage over a large num est thereon from September 5th, 1916, at and w ith 'p a n e l doors in the lower ber of other machines in work in hilly : sible under conditions, the county. Their efforts have not the rate of seven per cent per annum, $150 ground. The high gear is suitable section, this improvem ent being 18 as attorneys fees and $41.60 costs and dis been confined to (any one locality, you j Considerable spring seeding was feet long and. 7 feet high. The black for road hauling or for high speec bursements and the costs of and upon this w ill find an <>. M. P. in every part of done la^t year on spring plowing and discing w ith light im plem ents. There writ, commanding me to make sale of the the county ready for anything th at ! consequently1 The’ summer fallow boards have also been repaired and are only two reductions on any speed following described real property, towit: more blackboard space provided, pre should arise. The work has Veen m ost acreage was reduced, but under fav West half of southwest quarter (w^t sw%) paratory to the opening of school from motor to treads. Every gear north east quarter of south west quarter orable fall conditions Sherman county ly to do w ith the^protection of the runs in an oil bath and is enclosed in (n eX «WX ) a(,d northwest quarter of wheat crop, and so far they have had w ill still be able to fill her part of Septem ber 16th. south east quarter (n w X s e V ) of section an a ir-tig h t dust-proof case. very little “ W obblie” trouble or pro- the quota. eleven (11) in township three (3) south, The drive to the treads is direct German a c tiv ity —they are fast be A new law is in process of form a fifteen (15) east of W illam ette mer- through a manganese steel pinion, the range idan, together with the tenements, heredi coming good Americans. They have tion to be presented to the next legis ball race and tread acting as an taments and appurtenances thereunto be New Date for Registration bad a few would-be ag itato rs and in lature by which taxes to owners of internal gear a t the point of engage longing, in Sherman county, Oregon. every case have been able to show autos w ill be increased slig h tly to m ent. * This pinion is protected, and N ow , therefor, by virtue of said A presidential proclamation soon to provide a fund with which the state them the error of th eir ways and they execution, judgment order, decree and the im provem ent and sim plification of order of sale, and in compliance with the are now doing good work in the wheat be issued will require all persons who w ill |K)st signs on all roads throughout design a t th is point iB an im portant commands of said writ, on fields. From rej>orts received and have attained th e ir 21st birthday since the state. There is now a law com feature. No gears or pinions in the Saturday, the 7th day of September, from investigation by outside parties June 5th, 1918, and on or before A ug pelting the road supervisors and county Yuba tra c to r are exposed to d irt or 1918, at 3 o ’clock p.m. at the front door ust 24th, 1918, to reg ister on Saturday, we can say th a t Sherman county is one courts to do this work, and each sec of the county court house in Moro, Sher " o f the cleanest in the sta te ; by th at is August 24th,. Such registration con tion of the state considers ih a t in g rit. man county, Oregon, I will sell at public m eant, \e ry little trouble of any kind. cerns only those who have become 21 their own locality it is done rig h t up auction, subject to redemptioh, to the A ll of this has b£en made possible by years of age since June 5th, l9l8, and To the minufe?^ T his is noticed more highest bidder for cash in hand, all the With the Colon at Camp Lewis right, title and interest which the above the hearty co-operation of the farm er, on or before A ugust 24th, 1918, and from the direction of Portland than named defendants or either of them in the must not be confused with the larger other parts of the state, yet even in farm labor and the Home Gu^rd Co. Camp Lewis, August 4, 1918. above entitled suit, had on the 5th day of The (). M. P. work w ill* co n tinue reg istratio n to be made during Sep Multnomah county the lack of road The O bserver.—As per my promise September, 1916, the date of the mortgage u ntil the last bushfcl of grain has been tem ber. signs is very noticeable to a lost and before I le ft for American Lake to herein foreclosed, or since that date had R egistration regulations No. 2 are lone auto tourist. ship,»ed out of the county. The dan Probably Buch a w rite to you.vl w ill now try . Our in andto the above described property, or ger of large wheat field fires is nearly to govern this registration qnd by law and extra tax on auto users may trip here was made in about fifteen now have therein, or any part thereof, to satisfy said execution, judgment order, over and from now on the warehouses reason of the sm all number to be reg be the proper way to secure road signs hours, we g e ttin g on a drafted m en’s and decree, costs and accruing costs. w ill receive attention. * Be very care istered but one registration place in th a t are standardized over the state. J .C . M cKean, sheriff of special a t The Dalles, of about eight ____Sherman county Oregon 5ta2-30 ful if you have to go near these places the county w ill be provided. cars, and about 500 noisy, B erlin- R egistrants w ill not be assigned a fte r dark. The men are on the job bound draftees Upon arriv in g each JTen parents brought th e ir children and their orders are very stric t. They numbers by the local board, these w ill county’s quota was put to them selves later be assigned the reg istran ts by to the Red Cross rooms last Wednes and checked over and put through day to he measured and examined in the sta te adjutants office and certified the first inspection tent. Here we back to the loctjl board when de accordance w ith the request of the "National C hildren’s Bureau of eugen were cut in two. E ight of us are term ined. ics. Those in charge of the work for s till together; the other eight I have Moro are Mrs. Boley, Mrs. Bryant, not seen nor heard of. We are in -quarantine now fqr and Mrs. Muir. Babies from six A ttorney W. C. Bryant’ returned m easles, and can only get away from months to six years are elig ib le for Thursday evening from the Bryant & our barracks in column w ith an officer. Hansen ranch, east of Moro, where he this test. Bring your babies to the Today we marched to Puget Sound, committee and ascertain if anything is has been superintending the rounding about four-m iles, had sandwiches and up of th e ir c attle on the John Day wrong w ith their diet ¡or general ice cream. Seemed pretty good a fte r health. No charge w ill be made for breaks for tran sfer to their - Jim T om lin, proprietor pasture being in our barracks for a week. Of the service and all advice possible w ill ranch for the w inter. A t the pres course we can go to our drill ground, ent tim e Bryant & Hansen have 60 head be given parents th a t w ill make for but th a t is close to our barracks. better babies. pf c a ttle on 50 acres of corn, standing We d rill daily but the d rillin g is not Cily Dray ing, Express. Freight, from five to seven feet ta ll. Mr. hard now, and I do not think it ever Miss Mary E llio t of Oakland, and w ill be. Some few men complain of any hauling attended to promptly Bryant Bays th at the c attle seem to enjoy immensely the pleasure of Ernest S. E verett of Camas, Wash, th e ir back or feet. As for m yself I pulling plump ears of corn off the were m arried a t the C hristian church call it good exercise. stalk and th a t it takes but a short The officers, as a rule, are not ill- O R E G O N tim e for them to eat th eir fill and are a t Napa, California, on August 3d M O R O , Rev. A. D. Baker reading the cere natured or harsh. They w ant our ready for rest and w ater. mony. Mr. E verett is a member of attention when they call for it, and the United States m arine corps, sta expect us to give it, and do and drill tioned at Mare Island, w hile Mrs the best we can. E verett is well known as a teacher The sleeping quarters and beds* rire Mrs. E verett and her mother, Mrs. . fine, in our building, u p-stairs, there H. E llio tt, are now v isitin g in Cal i- are 100 beds where I am, w ith plenty fornia, where they expect to remain of room and ventillation. The eats some tim e, visiting with relatives also are what I call No. 1. Of course Pasadena, when Mr. E v erett returns we have butter only tw ice w eekly and to his m ilitary duties a t Mare Island brown sugar twice daily, but there is always plenty of m eat, spuds, beans, bread, a little fru it, and som ething Tractor Agency at Moro to drink. Our dining room seats 250 and in Ginn, Coleman & Co. have secured feeding th at many it is rough a t its the agency for the Yuba tractors in best, bo one has to ‘ ‘pitch in ” like the three counties of Sherman, Gill the rest of them do to get his share iam and Wasco. This machine has of the grub. A fter eating we all been thoroughly tested and tried out wash our own dishes and dry them. by exjierienced farm ers who have The washing of the serving dishes and operated tractors for a considerable setting the tables, also scrubbing the period w ith satisfactory results. floor and the tables, is done by the Ginn, Coleman A Co. w ill carry kitchen police or the K .P . as they are full stock of all necessary parts need called. The K .P. is made up of ten ed for replacem ent at their Moro men chosen daily in rotation from the 10c a pouch—and worth it warehouse and a complete stock of company. There being 300 men in my replacem ent supplies w ill be carried C r a o u ly la e te eo m a c /» lo n g e r i t co at a company, it w ill only come to me at S|>okane for this te rrito ry . Any about once a month, unless some one mo m o r e to cAau* t h a n o r d i n a r y p lu g part needed for a repair can, under commits a minor offense of some kind, this arrangem ent be supplied on short P . B . G r a v e ly T o l» a c c o C o m p a n y then he gets the K. P. job for a day notice. D a n v ille , V ir g in ia or more my turn is put off th a t much The model 12-20 Yuba tractor is further. b u ilt to supply a demand for a com The rgulations are pretty strict, pact, narrow, reasonably priced, yet but th at must he expected where there powerful machine of the endless track are so many men of all kinds and dis type. It w ill pull an eight-foot dou position. ThiB is especially true on ble-disc harrow, irf only fifty-five inspection day when our su it case, inches wide, and porw erfu, enough to IN C . extra pair of shoes, e tc ., must be ju st pull a five-disc plow, yet sm all so, and everything else spick and span enough to go anywhere. The model Being in quarantine, 1 have not 12-20 Yuba is four feet seven inches seen much of the camp, w hat I have high, and is very conservatively rated noticed is the wiod stirs up more dust at 12 h.p. on the draw bar. Equipped here than 1 ever saw in Sherman with the ball tread and generous track county and it is much d irtie r too, be area, it has the power and traction ing black and ashy. Must close for to pull a plow anywhere a plow shou' , this tim e and w ill try to w rite again go. soon. Would like to have my friends The rigid fram e of the Yuba consider this a le tte r to each one of composed of steel channels of specia them an<L«nswer it some tim e. heavy section, fitted into machined Thomas H. Douma, 166 Depot Bri surfaces. All shearing strain gade, 15th Company, 4th barracks, taken from bolts and riv e ts;. American Lake. Wash. .^The machine is equipped with tille r wheel operated by a ball-bearing State Fair, Salem, Oregon, swing circle and is one factor in mak September 23-28. Splendid ex ing the machine easy to handle. To take up road shocks the axle bushing bijnts, excellent music, high works up and down in forks against dnss in te rta in m e n ts and superb F o r particulars jxiwerful springs, whlffr* take the raving card. w rite A. II. ’ Lea, Secretary; w eight of the for wan! end'and allows Salem, Oregon. it to turn in reii|K»nse to a light touch Iron, Steel and Coal,, H ardw ood C arriage and with the steering wheel—as easily as Remember M u llik in , the h ar W ag o n M aterial. W* does an automobile. ness man, is now nt Wasco. Call The motor is of the heavy-duty type and see him . w ill not argue w ith an incendiary, that is certain, and it is hard to te ll the difference a fte r dark. • . The county has plenty of farm help MORO, OREGON. _____ j ,.| j_, x . - •--- - —— ----- — ■■ and they are a very good class of men. W ith continued favorable w eather the harvest w ill soon be over and the grain shipped. Continue to co-oper ate and our “ doughboys” w ill eat August 16, 1918 bread made from Sherman county F R ID A Y wheat, on the other side of the Rhine next year. Entered at second clatt matter at the 1-c O b s e rv e r. OScil Pips: for Shmia tey. Chas. Bullard w ith his motor-driven Deering comhine, called the baby harvester to distinguish them from the larger machines, has made a harvest record this season th a t any machine m ight have to hurry to equal. He finsihed his run on Tuesday of this Week, cutting a total of 275 acres in the three weeks the machine was in the field. During th a t tim e the m a chine lost a total of about four days by reason of damp mornings and no work was done on^Sundays. Yet the machine, w ith 10 horses and only one man besides the ow nerm ade an aver age of 20 acres per day w ith an actual working tim e of 14 days. The tim e lost by the machine was not lost to the - crew as they used th a t tim e to pick up the sacks and when the work of harvesting the crop was finished the fields were clean of w heat sacks as tee m mem MADE IN THREE SIZES ; " > 12 -2 0 2 0 -3 5 4 0 -70 f GINN. COLEMAN & CO. MORO, OREGON Agents for the Counties of Sherman Gilliam and Wasco All necessary parts will be car ried at Moro and a complete sup ply of parts will be carried at Spokane, Washington? COME IN AND LET S TALK IT OVER JOB PRINTING W e C 'o r d in lly M o lic i« l our P a tio a a < e . Moro Transfer Company Have You Your COAL? “9 Let a man once get the pure clean taste of Real Gravely Chewing Plug—and he bids ordinary tobacco good-bye. Peyton Brand R e a l G r a v e ly Now is the time to Fill Your Bin with Rock Springs Coal We have plenty of Coal if you order at once. C h e w i n g P lu g Have just unloaded a car, and another car is on the way. t cc Tum -A-Lum p” Óó c o . M O R O , o re :. « GARAGE Blacksmith and Machine Shop Firestone TIRES Gas, Oils, Grease and Accessories A u t o R epairing and Storage •4 z for all that’s Good in Coa, or Wood “Sec H. U. Martin about i t ! ” Turn-A-Lum Lumber Co., Moro, Oregon .«■r