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F R I D A Y . . . . . . January 17. 1919
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T h ese new spaper quotations
represent live cattle prices in
Chicago on D ecem ber 30th, 1918.
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T h e list sh o w s price ranges
on nine general classified groups
w ith a spread of $13.85 per c w t
—the low est at ^$6.50 and the
h igh est at $20.35.
W h y this variation in price?
Increased tonnage now available
through vessels constructed on this
coast and others released from
war service on the Atlantic, has
resulted in the flour mills of O re
gon being allowed to grind more
flour than had been contemplated
before the signing of the armistice.
This has resulted in cheaper
flour and more expensive feed for
stocd. Because of a lack of or
ders from the East, some flour
mills are closing down until the
maket is established. The W / W .
M . Co. mill at The Dalles closed
last week with a surplus stock of
flour on hand amounting to 30.-
000 barrels and no orders in sight.
B ecau se the m eat from differ
ent anim als varies greatly in
quality and w eight.
A lthou gh the q u o t a t i o n s
show n are in nine divisions,
Sw ift & Company grades cattle
into 3 4 gen eral classes, and each
class into a variety of weights'
and qualities.
As a result of these differences in
cattle prices,, (due to differences in
weights and meat qualities), there is a
range of 15 cents in Swift A Corn-
pany’s selling prices of beef car-
These facts explain:
1 — W h y re ta il p rices
d iffe re n t stores.
vary
2 — W h y it would be difficult to
regulate prices of cattle or
beef.
3 — W h y it requires experts to
judge cattle and to sell meat,
so as to yield the profit of
only a fraction of a cent a
pound—a profit too small to
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affect prices.
Sw ift & Company,U.S. A.
•
•SSy Country T ie of Thee, Sweet '
ef Liberty.*
N o other business has been hit
harder by the war than the news
paper business, particularly in the
smaller cities and country towns.
The large metropolitan papers
have probably suffered least. Dur
ing 1917 more than 1200 publica
tions went out of business. After
making allowance for new papers
started, it appears that there was a
net loss of 62 dailies and 569
weeklies.
The mortality statistics for 1918
will p r o b ity show as great a loss,
for the shortage of papqr, the in
creasing cost of all kinds of sup
plies and the higher wages,togeth
er with the heavy call upon news
paper men for military service,
have been more severe this year
than last.
" And one of the serious features
of the situation is that the people
of the country probably do not
realize that the most valuable por
tion of the press has sustained the
greatest loss. Under popular gov
ernment the country press, includ
ing not only country Weeklies, but
the smaller dailies, is the real voice
of the people. Editors of large
metropolitan papers do not have
and cannot have the close touch
with the people tha* is a necessary
incident of the life of the country
editor.
Just as Washington, D .
C , is the poorest place in the
country to get a line cn the polit
ical thought of the nation, so the
rig city newspaper office is the
poorest place to get a correct pic
ture of national thought, either
political or otherwise. The people
of the United States should realize
this, and should see to it that what
ever else happens the country
press shall be m aintained..
Do you know what the price of
wheat was 20 years ago?
We
did'nt, either, until we made some
inquiries. But we found that the
quotation in 1898 was 62 cents.
Eggs at that time sold around 10
cents a dozen. Butter could be
had for a song, and it did’nt have
to be much of a song, either.
Freedom of speech and of the
Everybody knows what wheat,
>ress is the first essential of a Re
butter and eggs are worth today.
publican form of government, for
Fifteen cents worth of meat is
practically invisible, although one the representatives of the people
cannot know the thoughts and as
used to be able to live several
pirations and desires of their con
days on a dime’s worth of meal.
stituents unless voiced through the
Automobile license plates for mediumship of the local press to
1919 are black figures on an or which they have access either di
ange back ground to replace the rectly, through the publication of
1918 plates with black figures on a communications, o r indirectly
blue ground. Application blanks through the editor's interpretation
for new licenses can be obtainec of the views of his community.
The country press, including ihe
at Jthe Observer office without
charge, a courtesy from Secretary smaller dailies, represents the pro
of State Olcott for the convenience ducing element of our nations
life. The large metropolitan press
of Sherman county autoists.
represents the commercial factors
White Rock Cockerels
Just as production's the first essen
tial of a permanent prosperity, so
A few good W hite Rock Cock
the maintenance ot that portion a:
erels for sale at a reasonable price the press that speaks for the pro
If interested write Mrs. A. B. Pot
ducers is most important.
ter, Klondike, Oregon.
The metropolitan press has its
place in our national (ife and no
body wishes it 111/ The fact re
mains, however, that the vital in
terests of the nation are most
promptly and most clearly repre
•entea and the thought of the peo
ple most freely and most courage
ously voiced by the country p re»
The people of the country may
not see it now, but they will some
day realize that the large prepon
derence of suspensions among the
weekly publications is a menace
to
national welfare.
C E IU N G S
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DEAVER BOARD
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FOR BETTER W A LLS &
Government financial needs for
AUTO TRUCK
many years are almost certain to
run above $4.000,000,000 annually,
DRAY 4
SHERMAN COUNTY
treasury experts estimate.and most
of the money will be raised by
MORO, ORE
Phone Main 314 M oro, Oregon
taxation. <
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Consequently, taxes imposed
DEPUTIES
last year and paid in June proba
Freight and Express
L . Schadcwits,
Dr Jos Sauodars.v.8
bly will not be lightened material
Kant. Ore
Moro, Ora. *
Handled Promptly. Moving
ly by the advent of peace, but
Chas.
I.
Ever««,
Wasco.
Efficiently Attended To.
necessarily will be high for many
years to pay off war debts.'
If the $16,850,000,000 of liberty
bonds already issued are increased
in volume by later loans to $25,-
000,000,000, the interest on this
sum would amount to about $1,-
000,000,000 a year.
In addition it will be ¿overmen*
tai policy to establish a sinking
fund to pav off the bonds at ma
turity, and -this would require
about $1.250,000,000. These items
and the ordinary government ex
T
penses would make an aggregate
near $4.250.000,(100.
T o offset this there would be
The first money Grover Cleveland ever
nearly $500,000,000 coming in an
earned
was from Ms ancle, Lewis P. Allen.
nually from the allies as interest
He
got
sixty dollars for six weeks’ Work
on their loans,which now amount
belpiag
to compile a book. He banked
to $7,000,000,000 and are likely to
the
money
to Buffalo, N. Y.
run much higher.
It is probable that the bulk of
Did you bank the first mooey yna
after-the-wqr revenue ^wili come
earned? Are yon banking yoor mooey
rom income taxation.
Excess
now?
profits, which has been a heavy
See us today about opening an account
revenue producer for the govern
ment will automatically be aban
Banking of all kinds.
doned and liquor revenue wttl
stop entirely when the constitutioiv-
al^amcndment is ratified.
Last year $3.643.000,000 came
rom internal revenue, including
$2,775,000,000 from income and
excess profits taxes. This year
these figures probably will be
doubled.
Factors which make estimates
c ó
in c
highly tentative are that the war
is not yet definitely over, so far as
expense is concerned, and that
war debts, both of the American
government to the public and o
the allied governments to the
United States cannot be figurec
until then.
STOCK AND BRINO INSPECTOR
Banked First
Sixty Dollars .
BANK OF MORO
FOSS
GARAGE
Blacksmith and Machine Shop
Friday, January 24th,
Dr. Freexe
the Eye
Specialist, w ill make
his regularviait to Moro
and may be consulted free at Moro
Hotel parlors all day. Are you
sufferer from headaches, eyeaches
croaseyes, or are your eyes weak aa
result of influensa, or other illness?
Careful examination and expert advice
assured. One day only.
At Kent
January 22d, Grass Valley January
23d, Wasco January 25th.
Dr. C. L. Poky
Physician and Surgeon.
Wc curry a oompteta stock ready for imme
diate delivery. Drop in today and gat aome of
our Int coating literature.
T l l - l L l ! LUIBER CO.
-V
U. MARTIN, Manager
Attorneys-at-Law
Auto Repairing and Storage
Iron, Steel and Coal, Hardw ood Carriage and
W ag o n M aterial.
M U LTN O M A H HOTEL
PORTLAND, OREGON
In v ite s th e P eo ple o f M o ro
a n d o f S h e rm a n C o u n ty
to e f n jo . . y 7 ' its
fa c ilitie s
,. ..
w h e n in P o rtla n d
t.
offices at
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Gas, Oils, Grease and Accessories
J. R. Morgan
Card ef Tkaaks
You c m cover up all thte trouble and danger
with Beaver Board.
Attractive, new eanitary rooms can he built-in
where the old rooms uaed to be. New partitions
. can be made and useteae waste space changed
Into usable quarters. Bearer Board will make
the old home look young again.
This
, LTsrfilsss manufactured lumber
can ba nailed directly over old cracked walls or
to the studding of new partitions. You can saw
the hig. sturdy, flawiem panels of Beaver Board.
Th« Dallas and Moro, Ora.
GARAGE
H . Burmester
TAILOR
Western states rank high among Suits to Order
Cleaning
those of the Union in the number
Pressing and Remodeling
of automobiles owned per capita,
according to the^ latest compara
PARRY BUIJJJING
tive figures. The most populous
Eastern states are well down the
Moro, Oregon
list and Southern states form the Main 8treet
rearguard.
Oregon had 63.500
automobiles and 3500 motorcycles
licensed during 1918.
AlhKa Tract k r Hrara.
OPERATED
Eric V- Hauser, Owner.
Moro, Oregon
VETERINARIAN
T o M y Patron«; I I you cannot get me
direct by phone at Moro, please calT Pom
> Co.'s garage, who w ill promptly notify
1 return Io town.
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BY
HOTEL
H. H. Cloutier, Manager
W H E N YOU T R A V E L
BY AUTO
AND VISIT THE DALLES
YOUR
D r . S anders
Eighty acres of alfalfa land.with
62 acres now under government
canal.
Land unimproved but
good soil and in first-class alfalfa
district. W ould consider good
work horses as all or part pay
ment. Price $3200.
Dodd A Knapp, Hermiston, O re.
Boodyear
Office in residence.
left to mourn his loss.
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R ’a no lon<ur neceMory for you to put up
with old crocked watte and dingy dteoolored
wall-paper— you don’t have to run the risk of
falling plaster ceilings.
TIRES
Moro, Oregon.
Bright & Bryant
1 wish to thank the people of
M oro and this cotnmunity for the
loving sympathy and kindness
which they showed during the
short sickness and death of my be
loved daddy, M r. Torey.
M i» Levon Moore.
M oro, O A .. Jan. 14, 1919.
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M O R O , o r e :.
Z D e x x t ls t
E. M . McKinney, farming the
O . L. Belshe place near DeMoss
died Wednesday morning from
the flu. He leaves a wife, sister
Office on First street,
to Mrs. T . W . Alley, and two
children. Funeral services were
held Thursday afternoon. Rev. „M O RO .
OREGON
M r. Lamb officiating. - Deceased
was 34 years of age and a native
W . C. Mar a n t .
of Illinois, moving to Sherman C . J. B s io h t ,
county in 1918. J Besides his wife
and two children, aged 13 and 7,
a mother and two sisters in Illi
nois an J a brother in the navy are
Cover up the Old
Cracked Walls and Ceilings
CO.
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CAR
In the concrete, fully equipped, roomy garage of W ai
th?-W illiam s Company. Competentfworkman always ready
to help you in any vysy they can at least expense to you.
For any service rendered the charge will always be reasonable.
WALTHER-WILLIAMS GARAGE
JH E DALLES.
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