Ibtke rf Skriff Sde
spoiled what bad no far been a pleas
ure trip, in the form o f a storm which
la the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon
u . S. S. Santo Roaalia,
for Sherman County •
so frequently inhabit that part of the
A u g ust. 1918,
sea. The ieaat said the better about
On active service with the Ameri M ary B. Lea, plaintiff
MORO. OREGON
Dear Friends and E d ito r:
that storm aa it brings back sour can Expeditionary Force, July 10th, ,
W . H Sykes and Margaret D .
Before leaving the stotoa 1 wan memories to me. The fish must have
Dear Friend Sheriff:
Sykes, husband and wile,
aaked by a prominent citizen of Moro thought it Thanksgiving, for 1 assure
Just « .lin e to toll you of some e x
W . I . Chidester, C . M .
to write a letter for the Observer of you there were many others beside periences that 1 have gone through
Poley and Addie A . Poley,
«
our trip over seas. It ia easier said m yself who were disgusted with life since I have been in France. The
husband and wife, D . A.
Hatfield, and Florence E.
than done, but I ’ll try. Not that I ’m
first day I came into the Front it was
A Herndon, defendants.
Au4u»t 30. 1918 in love with writing public letters.
FRIDAY
S e p te m b e r 5 t h , 6 t h , 7 t h , 1 9 1 8
about 12 JO and dark as biases. I
By virtue of aa execution, Judg
but it means fewer and shorter priv
w as the first to be on watch and bad " —
Reached by Gresham Electric Railway. Paved auto road to gronnda
ment order, decree and order of sale,
Entered m second class matter at the ate ones.
just got out of my dugout when one issued out of the above entitled court in
posi office at M oro. Oregon, July 25, 1891.
Estimated attendance F ifty to Sixty Thousand
Going back to the Oklahoma, 1 was
of those aeabags busted over my head. the above entitled cause, to ma directed
transferred from there in April to
Wall, nobody had to toll me to move aad dated the 30th day of July, 1918, upon
Manager Norfolk and from Norfolk to New
C. L. I r ela n d
for 1 jumped headlong down into my a judgment and decree rendered and en
tered m said court on the 27th day of
Orleans, where 1 spent five weeks
dugout. about four feat deep. It soon July, 1918, in favor of M ary E. Lee,
loafing before coming aboard thia
quieted down and I wont out again p la in t if f , and against W . H . Sykes, M a r
ship. The Santo Roaalia is a mer
and soon waa relieved. We thought garet O. Sykes. W . 1. Chidester, C . M .
chant ship just token over by the gov
it ” b. a .” when we wore told that Poley* Addie A . Poley, and D . A . H a t
ernment, waa my hearts desire along shore. The trip can be described in they dodged bullets, but wa soon field, defendants, for >1,000.00 with inter
thereon from September 5th, 1916, at
the line of sea going packets as it the two phrases: “ calm and fa ir’’ found out different. Whan a man est
the rate of seven per cent per annum, $150
affords more travel, more liberty, and or “ rough and stormy” both playing hears one of those lage shells coming as attorneys fees and $41.60 costa and dis
C o un try ’T ie of Thee, S w eet Lend
fewer regulations than a battleship.
an almost equal part.
he don’t have to be told to hunt a hole bursements and the costa of and upon this
of L ib e rty .”
In New Orleans a cargo of many
A number of hours from France for ha jumpa into the first one that he | writ, commanding me to make sale of the
, following described real property, towit:
different kinds of army and hospital we were met by “ destroyers” which
W e w ill not b e re«pon»iblx »or the supplies was token aboard, also guns were to act aa our escorts through the
1 am feeling fine and dandy just at
neglect of »uh»criber« to notify as of
were to be mounted, but time waa war zone. The merchant ships were present, for we have been out for a
change* in their addresa
N o r w ill the
notification of a Poatmaster that the aub- precious so it was decided to wait un arranged nine abreast and four deep, rest for about four days and it seems eleven (11) in to w n s h ip three (3) south,
We left there on June oura leading the second column on the like being In heaven. 1 was in a range fifteen (15) east of W illam ette mer-
teriber has " R e m o v e d ” settle the b ill of a til next trip.
1st to find after getting to sea that south. The destroyers patrolled on patrol whan the line was pushed out idan, together with the tenements, heredi
delinquent.
Fresh Fruita and Vegetables in Quantity and to
the A tlantic coast was infested by the the sides and front, but no guard was at the loft of Belliou Woods 1 mile taments and appurtenancea thereunto be
longing, in Sherman county, Oregon.
hostile
submarine.
This
.meant
port
If you have a news item, tell it to
and it was a vary clever stunt for the I
put behind.
Order. Special Orders Given Prompt
Now , therefor, by virtue of said
The next night at 6:05 the “ Mars” Boches never even fired at us.
the Observer. Do not imagine we every night and convoy in the day
execution, judgment order, decree and
time,
making
a
fourteen
day
trip
an English ship, was torpedoed and
know it and then wonder why it is not
When th ^ Marines took Belliou order of sale, and in compliance with the
Attention. Phone orders to Moro Store or to
in the pape:. Please use the phone where eight should have been suffi sunk in seventeen minutes. Having Woods the dutchmen stormed out of it I commands of said writ, on
. Saturday, the 7th day of September,
Fleck Orchards, Rufus, Oregon.
the position of the last ship in the like boos out of a hive. 1 picked up
if riot convenient to call aid tell us cient.
The last night, off Cape Hatteras, column on our left she was very close a German Lugar pistol, ss souvenir of 1918, at 3 o'clock p.m . at the front door
personally.
"
and from our decks we could see the the battle, but sold it. They are of the county court house in M oro. Sher
man county, Oregon, I w ill sell at public
men jumping overboard, a sight more worth about 800 francs over here. 1 auction, subject to redemption, to the
pitiful than it sounds and one I ’ll am not going to sell the next one, if I highest bidder for cash in hand, all the
never forget. The ship almost stood I ever get any mqre, for I w ill keep I right, title and interest which the above
on end, bow out of the water. For it as a souvenir of^ny trip to France. named defendants Or either of them in the
above entitled suit, had on the 5th day of
several minutes she sank slow ly, then
Wall, I hope thè Home Guard is September, 1916, the date of the mortgage
suddenly made one last plunge. , The doing good there and I hope the boya herein foreclosed, or since that date had
in and to the above described property, or
destroyers rushed back, part stopping are enoylng the work.
now have therein, or any part thereof, to
to pick up the crew, the rest after the
Let me te ll you when 1 come back satisfy
said execution, judgment order,
submarine. They dropped nine depth you w ill find that 1 w ill ba a different and decree,
costa and accruing costa.
bombs which shook the sea for milks man altogether, because I am grad
J. C. M cK ean, sheriff of
Sherman county Oregon
around, but it is not known whether ually growing that way. W ell, I Sta2-30
the submarine was sunk or not. In hope that the little town of Moro ie
the meantime all the merchant ships growing and that they have a good
oegan to blow their whistles and sig County Fair this fa ll. Of course. I
zag, reminding me of a herd of stam would like to be there at the Fair, !
peding cattle.
but that ia Impossible, although if
That night orders were passed to things runs good as I expect there is
sleep in our clothes and be exceeding a chance to ba home by Christmas.
The public should understand that
ly careful about lights which are not Any way I hope so and again it may
the profits of the packers have been
allowed to he seen on the decks while be two or three Christmases. W ell,
at sea, but nothing further happened. I have written aoout ail I know so
limited by the Food Administration
The next evening we arrived at Brest, w ill close for this tim e. Oh! yea, I
since November 1, 1917. For this pur
France, where the convoy split up, met Roy Bowman, he ia in the same
The Great
pose, the business of Swift & Company
mostly going north, but we were des regiment aa I am, as an apprentice
tined
to
southern
France.
By
making
of the navy. I was certainly glad to
is now divided into three classes:
Italian Character Actor
port every night and under heavy con meet a friend so far away from home.
voy by day we proceeded to to Las His address is 51st Co., 5th Marines.
Class 1 includes such products as beef,
Verdun Roads, at the mouth of the
Your friand.
pork, mutton, oleomargarine and
Girrone river.
We anchored there
Private George D. Tomlin,
others that are essentially animal
until the 14th, French Liberty Day,
43d Co., 5th Marines,
products. Profits are limited to 9
and then preceded up the river to Bor-
A. E. F. via New York.
MORO, OREGON
per cent of the c a p ita l employed in
deaux.
The
scenery
along
the
river
these departments, (including sur
ia some of the beat I have ever seen;
plus and borrowed money), or not
old
caatlea and many fields of grapes
to exceed tw o and a half cents on
and grain, would make one think that
each dollar of sales.
On active service with the Ameri-I
France ia the moat peaceful place on
can Expeditionary Force, August 1st,
Class 2 includes the soap, * glue,
earth.
Dear sister and a l l :
fertiliser, and other departments
Upon arriving in Bordeaux your
1 am now in an American Hospital,
more or less associated w ith the
mind would soon be changed aa every
meat business. M any of these de
activity
show evidences of war. some where in France. I was gassed
I
partments are in competition w ith
Along the dx:ks were many merchant with chlorine gas at the Front.
outside businesses whose profits
ships of different nationalities and went through the attack all right,
are not limited. Profits in this class
above these day and night are dozens and waa back in reserve when there
are restricted to 15 pet cent of the
of steam cranes lifting out supplies was a detail sent oat to gather up
capital employed.
which are quickly loaded in army salvage and I waa in the bunch. We
trucks and distributed to different were all lined oat across the field
Class 3 includes outside investments,
places. We were.greeted at our dock when the Germans sent a number of
such as those in stock yards, and
by fifty or more United States soldiers gas sheila over and they dropped cloee
the operation of packing plants in
each with a ljundred questions at to ua. Several of ua boya were gass
Jim Tomlin, proprietor
foreign countries. Profits in this
which we did our best in answering. ed, but not bad, ao don't worry. •
class are not limited.
They treat uj very good here and
At 3 p.m. we were given shore liberty
until eight the next morning and we have every thing that ia necessary. City Draying, Express, Freight,
Total profits for all departments
I hope that you are all w ell. I have
started out to see the city.
not
got any mail since 1 have been any hauling attended to promptly
together in 1918 will probably be
Bordeaux is a city of about 500,000
over here, ao news from home is
people
and
is
said
to
be
one
of
the
between three and four per cent on
O REG ON
oldest and most historic cities of scarce. 1 have two months pay com MORO
an increased volume of sales.
France. It’s oldness is easily seen in ing from the government, more than
the ancient stone buildings and crook I ever had from any body else. Writ
The restrictions absolutely guar
ed streets, but its beautiful parks and ing paper seems to be scarce here.
antee a reasonable relation between
monuments cannot be supassed by our Any way, we don’t have any chance
American cities. The bx teams and to get it as we are never where it ia.
live stock prices and wholesale meat
burros combined with the little dinky I am going to write Sadie a letter
prices, because the packer’s profit can
street cars which start and stop by today. 1 have not wrote to her for
not possibly average more than a
signals from a cow horn around the some time, I guess aha thinks I am
conductors neck, almost made me knocked off or something.
fraction o f a cent per pound of product.
I hope that the boya are doing good
think I was at a circus. At the
in their work, and that they hang onto
Y.
M.
C.
A.
headquarters
for
the
U
.S.
Since the profits on meat (Class 1)
Jobs w ill be scarce after
soldiers and sailors we got our money their jobs.
are running only about 2 cents on each
the
war.
1
sent
a young fellow« pic
changed and found that $10 was all we
Requires alertness to the ever changing war
dollar of sales, we have to depend on
could carry at one time. For instance ture home while 1 waa at Mare Island
a ten centime piece, valued at less did you get it? He got both heels shot
time conditions. You will always find us
the profits from soap, glue, fertilizer
than two cents in American money is off in the last attack we made. Hia
(Class 2, also limited) and other depart
ready to help meet these problems as they
about the size of our half dollar. The folks live at Walla Walla, Wash.
ments, (Class 3) to obtain reasonable
franc, valued at 17| cento, is used as Did Carl leave Bremerton, or ia be
arise, and we are going to help you to meet
our dollar. All under that are cen still there. Ha told roe that he
earnings on capital.
thought he would get a M- P* be
time pieces of different values.
them
On every corner is a wine shop, cause of hia heart. W ell, I am get
Swift & Company is conducting
ting
about
all
I
can
think
of
in
this
with the tables set on the side walk.
its business so as to come within these
The places from day light until dark letter so w ill does with love to all,
Your brother George.
limitations.
are crowded with the Frenchman who
48d Co., 5th Marines,
sit for hours sipping his beloved wine
A. E. F. via New York.
which tastes like bitter medicine to
The
O baerver
A War Time Trip to Fraace
Tractors Entered
W W
HB
DEMONSTRATION
Mrs. P. F. Alterm att
MORO,
Packers* Profits
Are Regulated
OREGON
M A D E IN T H R E E S IZ E S
1 2 -2 0
2 0 -3 5
4 0 -7 0
GEORGE BEBAN
L o s t in T r a n s it
Agents fo r the Counties of
Sherman Gilliam and Wasco
M o r o T r a n s fe r
C om pany
All necessary parts will be car
ried a t Moro and a complete sup
ply of parts will be carried at
Spokane, Washington.
COME IN AND LET’S TALK IT OVER
Meeting the Problems of The Day
By the Expansion of Your Credit
Swift & Company, U. S A.
You xiiiu more tobacco sat
isfaction in the condensed
Real Gravely Chewing Ping
than in a thick piece of ordi
nary tobacco.
Peyton Brand
Real Gravely
Chewing Plug
a foreigner. We stayed there ten
days and then returned to La Verdun
Roads where ten more days went by
before a convoy was made up.
On August 3d, with 23 other mer
chant ships and a French escort, we
started back Jo the United States,
this time straight across instead of
going north. After a while the pqn-
voy broke up and we came on alone,
catching a glimpse of one of the
ships on the horizon every few days.
Radio in the war zone we found to be
very busy and copied messages in five
different languages. The three of us
received a dozen 8. 0 . S, calls from
ships torpedoed, but none ware very
near our course. The return trip of
17 days was a good one and after two
months of “ canned bilC* and beans
nothing could look better to us than
an American restaurant, not Including
the home table.
Respectfully,
C arlton Ross.
8. H. Arbuthnot and w ife have re
turned from a ten day auto trip to
Seattle and Camp Lewis. Going the
Barlow route waa used and on the re
turn they traveled through the Yakima
valley, croaaing the Columbia river
at Arlington.
Always read the Obaerver.
At a number of the buaineaa places
in Moro are placed milk bottles by
the committee having in charge the
fund for the relief of the Belgian
babies. The bottles are emptied each
Wednesday and each buaineaa house
credited with the amount found in the
Receptacle at their place of buaineaa.
When gathered thia week the largest
amount was from the bptt,e at the
Ross confectionery store. # The largest
total amount to date is from the Moro
Market where C. R. Belahee Is in
charge. Total collection« for thia
week were $24.23. •
Several farms in Gilliam county are
listed with the realty department of
the Sherman County Abstract Co.,
Otto Peeta, manager. One la 1040
acres, good buildings, 800 acre« t i l l
able, good water supply. 8 m iles from
town. $85 per acre. The Improve
ments are very fine, inejudee new
bungalow and two large barns.
Owing to the fact that the main
pump had to be repaired, thereby lo o s
ing an entire day, whereby the w ater
in the reservoir became low, all water
users are kindly requested by City
Marshal Young to conserve on water
as mush as possible for the next few
day«, until a supply hag afaln been
obtained in the cittern.
On and after September 1st, 1918, all book
accounts will he limited to 30 days credit.
If an extension of time is desired, the Trade
Acceptance, a form of Commercial Paper
recommended by the Federal Reserve Banks,
For Detailed Information
Watch our advertisements, gpe ybur banker
or call on us and we will be glad to explain.
H.U. Martin, Manager, Moro
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