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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1918)
Notice for Publication left camp and only about 4 0 0 mile« away. I waa indeed surprised at the city, Department of the Interior, U . 8. I think it haa close to one m illion Land Office at The Dalles, Oregon, population but It waa quite different October, 81, 1818 in many respects from Bordeaux. The Notioe is hereby given that Frank street cars I found made a station lin Patterson, Of Mikkolo, Oregon, loop so whenever 1 got strayed I just who, on February 3d, 1814, made mounted a car and soon found myself. H .B . 012487 and October 18, 1814, 1 was free after I left the depot and made ’ additional enry No. 018808 for was just about as unnecessary as a nw inw l sec 17. n e|, ejnw t, nw isej person could feel. There were very sec 18. township 1 south, range 20 east few Americans there, which made me W illam ette meridan, has filed notice feel still farther from home. of lntenion to make final three year During my stay I put in one after proof, to establish claim to the land noon in the Public Garden, a moot above described, before J. D. Weed, beautiful place. There I found more United States Commissioner, at Con roees and greater variety than I ’ve don, Oregon, on the 24th day of De eeen in any park at home. There waa cember, 1918. Claimant names as very little natural beauty to the place witnesses: E. H. Bloomingdale, the river and lake bank were Samue( London, F. R. Bloomingdale, waited up, but as s man’msde place I R. W. Potter, all of Mikkolo, Oregon. had never seen its equal. H. Frank Woodcock, Register. Another afternoon I put in in the Quimet Musee. A striking point to me; that in their Musee; their educa tion; every where; they neglect their own history. One whole floor of the place was the exhibit of an Arcbolo g ist’s trip to Egypt. Stuff that was So old that the tablets of Moses would look like modern bricks in compari Cleaning son. I ’d like to exprse the thoughts Suits ♦ to Order that came over me there, but It is Pressing and Rem odeling impossible. The only way to do that is to v isit it with some one and do -PARRY BUILDING the expressing while the thoughts are fresh An amusing incident of the trip Main Street Moro, Oregon wsa s dinner I got while there. When 1 got on the train at Limoges I got X into a compartment where there was a little girl perhaps 16 or 16. She waa Just the age to be real crasy, but 1 was surprised at how refined she V E T E R IN A R IA N 1 assisted her in changing trains three times, talked with her most of the time, but neither asked her name nor gave her mine. When we left the train I carried her package to the Interstate Stock Inspector do<>r then went to the American M. P. Examiner of Stallions for License Sherman County Agent for office. Several days after 1 was set ting on a bench on one of the many little monument places along the main street when I looked up and saw W A S C O , OREGON her with her mother in a buggy. The Telephone Main 503 mother called me and said the little girl had been tolling her about the genteel American she had seen on the train and insisted thst if^ I had time to come out to dinner. I found a very nice home and the little distraction was just what I needed after being tired from wandering the streets. 1 found near Lyon a most beautiful AUTO TRUCK the war and I saw many pretty neat Soldier Traveling in France country, something like the Yakima little pieces I would Jiave liked had I DRAY valley, flat but with foothills and the money. mountains all around. The houses At this place 1 *aw my first sample The following letter from a soldier were somewhat scattering, about like in France to Miss Helen Davidson, of the Red Cross work. I ’ve often America, not grouped in villages to P h o n e M a in 314 M o r o , O re g o n teacher of domestic science in Moro heard of it, but never been north of such an extent as they are here. Also school, is an interesting travelogue here before. They had a kitchen and they were built of a red rock, while and mentions some new ideas to us cafeteria at the station, operated by F re ig h t and Express everything here is white limestone American women and serving about that are entertained towards America H a n d le d P ro m p tly . M o v in g 1 went out on a branch line to look up the same meal as our camp meal, but by the French. a d«nghtar of a friend 1 have here and E fficien tly A ttend ed T o . of course It tasted better because it First I ’ll tell you about my leave. while waiting for her to come home I y p prepared by some one else. It I left camp on the 14th for Nice, but dropped in the house next door. There eoat just 80 cents per meal and was when I arrived in Bordeaux the next an old lady there about 6$ who much better than I could touch fo r $1 day the police turned my leave down, had lost her husband before the war any place else. Inasmuch as my train so I took a few days with my brother and her son is now at the front. I left at 1 :80 a.m. I could not go to a a m es s te w a r t there, using an old pass to get by watched her with her knitting needles hotel, but waa very tired so a lady with. Whan I returned to camp and after about ten minutes thought a showed me a hall where they had changed my pass to Lyon and I start about 50 beds for just such occasions. piece of her^work would be a nice ed right back, there being no direct I slept well and was called 80 minutes thing to buy. I found out she did not line I was obliged to go across coun before my train. I can’t say too own the yam, but was making shawls try, changing cars at about every 60 for a store in the city for 6| cents much for the Red Cross. mile point. each, making two each day in her SHERM AN CO UNTY After leaving Limoges I went on ■pare time. 3he asked innumerable At Limoges 1 had snout 16 hours Addreu: MORO, ORE lay over to catch a rapid look over north and east and when I woke the questions about our country, showing the city. It reminded me a great next morning I was up on the high she, like most everyone, knew the deal of Seattle, being built more or plateau in central France. I thought Americas was west of here, but not leas on edge. Looks like it might be of making a side trip up to Vichy, much else. Among her questions wsa ^ D E P U T IE S in the process of being remodeled as but left, that for my return trip. one about our se ttle . She asked if About 10 a.m. I got on the southbound L. Schsdewils, D r . Joe. S«under«,V.S we had red cattle,stating that she had many buildings had new fronts on Kent, O rc. - Moro, O re. them, widening streets in places, etc. Paris - Lyon express and traveled al heard we ate the meat of red eattle. most as we do in America, arriving She said her husband had a red cow That was one of France’s chins and Chas. I . E v erett, W asco, porcelains manufacturing^!ties before In Lyon at 4 p.m ., 48 hours after I several years ago, but the butcher D ep u ty B rand Inspector would not buy It. They had to kill it and send the meat to Paris. 1 never saw anything hut white cows in that whole country. When I Ian out of money at Lyon I came back to where Walter is and spent three days there making wine with friends I met before I moved. This wine making Is something like our fruit harvest, of course it is done largely by women at thia time. The old ox cart goes out in the field with two barrels that hold about 800 gal Ions each. The women cut the grapes and dump them Into a small tub, two men carry the tub to the wagon. Of course grapes pile up quite rapidly so soon one of the men takes off his wooden shoes and gets in with his feet. Small chunks of mud go in too, I suppose it lends color. A t the house they are again thor oughly tramped, then eiftptied into a hugb vat whars it sours for three weeks. From one vat they drew off 86 barrels of w ise ef 260 liters each. After the first good wine is drawn water is put on the stems and hulls and a wine is made which makes a fair drink, Vandaguers are paid this year three franee, board and room This It what a Western Elec Board consists of soup for breakfast tric Lighting Plant on your with wine and bread. Boiled pots placa will mean to you: tees, more soup, wine, and bread for lurch, with a big dinher at evening. N o dark nights. I had a whole house turned over to me as the men had been buying up N o gas to explode. property and had several houses N o pressure tank to blow up. After dinner Jn the’evening everyone N o water to carry. turns In as it Is quite tiresome work. All managed to get drunk one evening N o lamps to fill. and forgot their tired feeling N o matches to burn. As near as I could find out a small place in vines requires about the seme N e sm oky chim neys to clean, attention, costs about J th e same, and produces about the seme revenue as a Tara a Switch anywhere day sr sight fruit ranch at home. Before the war I and get a feed strong fleed ef light. everything went to the property own as 80 cents wee a days wages, but Fer S a le ■» now things are reversed to some ex tent, at least. f ■ I Holiday Essentials and Staples in Great Variety & »fr» * Consisting of Cut Glass, Silverware in Sets and Odd Pieces Toys and Dolls for the Y ounger H . B urm ester Blankets, Lap Robes, Spot Lights, Tires, Tubes, Covers and Accessories TAILOR BANK Complete Line of Staple and Fancy Groceries, Candies and Nuts Dr. Theo. Beletski Geo. N. Crosfield, Wasco Cole, Reo, Dort, Cars ' J i l yen ncci haul Winther, Duplex, Bethelem and Reo Trucks OF MORO ,, <*. • ’ < ; • ' * - MORO, OREGON Youcl hardly know Pete was chewing. Y e t he says h e gets m ore satisfaction out of his small chew of G ravely than he ever got out of a big chew of o rd in ary to bacco. “ R ea l G ravely has a pore, rich taste,” says Pete. “ It’s sweetened just apoogh, and one s m a ll c h e w holds its good taste so long. 1 figure that this rUen of tobacco coats m e nothing e xtra — maybe/ess than I ’d h ave to spend for o rd in ary plug.” • • • • I l f a a f u r tk a r —th at'a o t ? y f t <ee¿ «safo • / A ia aUaa • f ttAaeea MitkatH a stra Mat. mm W - N. JO N E S rb e O b s e rv e r. MORO, OREGON. ill Piper fer tau Wy. R I D A Y ------D ec em b e r 13, 1918 Entered as second class matter at the sat office at M oro. Oregon, July 25,1891. 5. L . I r e l a n d ............. M a n a g e r. J STOCK AND BRINO INSPECTOR M y Country ’Tie of Thee, tw e e t ' ef Liberty.** Mayor N. W. Thompson has declar- d Tuesday, December 17th, a busi- eca holiday in Moro to allow all the Deal nimrods joining in the annual abbit hunt of the Moro Rod and Gun !lub. A ll stores w ill closs and bua- tiess generally suspended while the hase for the nimble cotton tail and ack rabbit is on. PEYTON BRAND Real G ravely Chew ing Plug each piece packed in a pouch p 0 GRAVELY TOBACCO CO > D A N V IL L E VA F O S S & , C O . in c . M O RO , ore :, GARAGE Blacksmith and Machine Shop X Firestone TIRES Beedyear Gas, Oils, Grease and Accessories Auto R epairing and Storage Iron, Steel and Coal, Hardwood Carriage and W agon Material. Western Electric Farm Lighting Plant Brighten Up The Farm Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co, - H.U. Martin, Manager, Moro Undertaking Soppiiis Caskets and Robes always on hand; special supplies and caskets | o rd ered at any tim e Sam Brisbin«. M o r o , O re g o n . litther-Vüliins Hi». Ci Ib i M is , O rijii. Agent fer Wasco sad Sherassa Conati«« A DOLLAR GOES FARTHER hero than anywhere else we know—that is for our kind of Community Silverware, Furniture, Leather Upholstered Chairs, Rugs, Li neoleu ms, Casserols, Mattresses, Dining Tables, Chairs ’ So if you are inclined to thrift of the real sort come and do your buying here. We promise you will make a genuine saving on each dollar you spend and not a spuri ous one made at the expense of quality. GINN, COLEMAN & CO. M ORO, OREOON
