Image provided by: Sherman County Historical Museum; Moro, OR
About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (March 7, 1919)
Th« O b server, (hat a road running north and Olcett sidered as of first importance, and i aid in improving the road leading to the Cottonwood grade as sec ond. Some discussion was had as to March 7. 1919 I the advisability of building lateral F R ID A Y roads trotyl each of the towns, but R atend m aecoad e l & matter at the all united for voting for a main roai oftcc at Moro. O rofoa. July 2S. 1891. road first and then using other county funds for lateral roads. C. L. I reland ..............Manager. Judge McKee and Commission ers Wilson and Ginn stated that they wanted an advisory commit tee from each section of the coun ty to meet with them for the pur pose of assisting the court in ex pending the proposed bond issue. •M y Country "Tie of Thau. Sweat ’ After some discussion it was voted • f Liberty.1* by those present to have a com Ben W . Olcott, secretary of mittee composed of oncJ member state, automatically become gov Good Roads for Skem an County from each road district to act as ernor of Oregon with the .passing If anyone doubts that the tax an advisory board, to meet at the of Governor Withycombe and payers of Sherman pounty want call of the court. This matter, as will take his place as the 16th gov ^Jood roads 'they should have at well as definite action upon (he ernor of the commonwealth. tended the session of the Sherman petitions will be settled at an ad W ith his elevation to the guber county court last Wednesdaywhen journed meeting of the court next natorial chair he will also continue a petition signed by more than 25 week. I to hold the office of secretary of per cent of the registered voters (state. Under the constitution the Order Your Men Early ' was under consideration by the secretary of state becomes govern court asking that a special election There is quite a demand tor ex or upon the death, inability to act be called to vote on the proposi- perienced farm hands right ,now or resignation of the incumbent. of bonding the county in the sum ant^very good irten can be secured The new governor will serve in of three hundred thousand dollars at present if a little time can be that capacity only until January 1, for good roads- allowed for securing them. J. D. 1921, as under the constitution he , At the same session a second Brown of the public employment would succeed to the gubernator petition was also presented asking office states that there are lots of ial chair only until the next gen that the court take action to have good men available at present but eral election. the road between Rufus and Was he expects that we will experience In consequence his successor will co designated as a pos* road, the difficulty in securing good men a be elected, at the general election same to be built .with the aid of little later. It takes two or three in November, 1920, and M r. Q I- county, state and federal money. days at best to get men up from cott will not serve the full term At the morning session of the Portland, so put in your call a lit for which Governor Withycombe court about fifty taxpayers were tle before you have to have him.it was elected. His successor asgov- present to urge consideration of possible. C. C. Calkins, ernorwill hold for a four-year term. the two petitions, and at the after County Agent. In the last primaries he was a can noon session this number was in didate for the republican nomina creased approximately one half. Sheriff P. H . Buxton returned tion (or givernor, but was defeated Considerable discussion was held Tuesday from Portland, where he by Governor Withycombe, who over the disbursment of the pro was visiting at the home of his was a candidate tor re-election. ceeds of the proposed bond issue, sister who leaves soon for a new but a vote of all present showed home in Ohio. In spite of the many difficulties under which dairymen of Oregon operated this last year there was an increase of 400,000 pounds of butter made in the state in 1918, over 1917. This speaks well for the patriotic spirit of the dairy men. Feed was high and labor scarce and some dairymen worked at a loss, but they endeavored at all times to comply with the re quest of the government to hold on I have given a lot of attention to the latest styles to their herds. -, e for Men's Spring and Summer Suits, and feel sure that these Suitings cannot be approached for qual The theory of the ignorant is ity of fabric and style in tailoring. that milk is a food for babies only MORO. OREGON. QSùl far fi t a l Crcaty. LOOK! SUITS TO 101)0 o m n i FROM and that “ real food is* something you have to chew.” Every wise housewife, however, nowadays knows the food value oLmilk for grown up folks, too. Think of a quart of milk as equal to eight eggs in value. Makes the milk look pretty precious these days. H. BURIESTER, Merchant Tailor MORO, OREGON P re s s in g a n d D y e in g . OWN A HOME Construction Adds to the Wealth For Your Children’s Sake BUILD NO W that City H a ll Court House School House M em orial Factory Church of the Country BUILD N O W ! BUILD NOW U . S. Dept. of Labor U . S. Dept. of Labor W . B. Wilson. Sec. U . S. Dept. of Labor W . B. Wilson. Sec. W . B. Wilson, Sec. I M P O R T A N T N O T IC E This page ot ads are copies of a number of various colored posters that were sent out to the build ing industry from the office of the U . S. Department of Labor, W . B. Wilson, Secretary, for free distribution to encourage immediate building. . May We Submit Free Plans and Make Estimates? T u m -A -L u m lu company H. U. MARTIN, Manager, Moro, Ore. KEEP T IM E S GOOD Let T H IS B U IL D IN G be built / W a n t to see EVERY During the War it was Patriotic So Well WAGE-EARNER Not to Build and So Quickly BUILDING NOW th a t the o w n e r u>il Ux Own His Own Home NOW by U . S Dept ot Labor U . S Dept. of lab or W . B. W iUon, 5 « Hfck Cast af U viag vs. Ws<v. Meeting at Gormaa south through the county was con we can best show our Patriotism encouraged to BUILD USHER W . B W iUon. Sec W. B. WiUon, Sec. of Labor U . 8. Dept. of la b o r W B W ib o n .S M . BUILDING U . S. Dept. of Labor W . B W iUon. Sec. The proposition as to the possi ble decline in prices and with this the decline on the high cost of living is a topic for serious thought at this time by all who have anything to do with the buy ing and selling of merchandise, and it is most apt to interest farm ers of Sherman county personally because of their being on the sell ing side of the marketing interest. The Fairview-Gorman commu nity cldb met at the Gorman school house Friday evening Feb ruary 28, to enjoy a local enter tainment. One of the most en joyable events was the reading of a local paper edited by Miss Edith Flemming, teacher in the Fairview district. It was noted that the gid dy gossip of the Gorman Gazette galled the gillies who v^re made the goat, though everyone man The publisher of the Observer aged to stand the gaff. Upon fin considers that the possibility ot a decline in prices in the immediate ishing the reading of her master near future is not a probable con production Miss Flemming ten tingency and to illustrate the point dered her resignation as editor, we reprint the following article stating that one is liable to be mot> clipped from the New Y ork T r i bed, you know, and looking at bune under date December 2. In Hans Thompson as she said it. Laying jokes aside it was an considering this problem it should | evening enjoyably and profitably be borne in mind that the ability to pay, scarcity of supply and the spent. Supt. E. R. Curfman and means of reducing the scarcity of County Agent Calkins were pres supply are dominant factors, ent and spoke to the club. Following the program Mrs. t hese in turn are governed by the ability of men, machinery and the Howard Conlee and Miss Flem farm to produce the goods most ming chose up sides for a cypher ing match, in which all participat in demand: “ Let those" who believe that the ed. Miss Margery Holm an, teach er at Gorman, gave out the prob c’ose of the war means a rapid lems, but at the close [showed her fall in prices, of course by neces ability by Cyphering down the > - sity wages as well consider one winner. As a fitting close the ladies served problem. In Norway Bnd Swed sandwiches, coffee and pie in ord en wages in many lines are higher er not to work a hardship on any than in the United States. And one All took a part in this part so are prices. It is extremely dif of the program. The next meeting of the com ficult to make close comparisons munity club will be held at Fair- that are really illuminating. But view March 14. here is an international industry involving the same article, namely, wood pulp. Mechanical wood pulp is now selling in Canada at Strayed fron/farm about Feb. around $38 a ton. The same ar 15. two red yearling calves. I f you ticle in Sweden and Norway is can give any information notify O m er G . Sayrs. around $59 a ton. The same ar I t * ticle in England is around $110 a ton. There is a great “ scarcity value“ for wood pulp in England, 12 tons of alfalfa hay and an and. as it is easier to get wood equal amount of wheat hay for pulp from Scandinavia to England sale reasonable. W rite or phone 23F4. H . H . Christianson, than from Canada, it might be 3tm7 . . 'M oro. Ore. considered that the price in N o r Strayed Calves Hay for Sale way and Sweden was determined wholly by the price in G reat Bri tain. It is not. • At a pinch Great Britain would have drawn wood pulp from Canada. It did draw it. It cost roughly $20 a ton more to get it from Canada than from N o r way. The price was fixed by the price in Canada And this was fixed by the scarcity of labor This scarcity drove up wages in Scandinavia just as much as. or m o re th a n , in Canada. Unless wages in both countries are sharp ly reduced, prices for wood pulp will continue high. A free sup ply of ships merely will not great ly reduce it. “ Both Norway and Sweden are countries which have a large re dundancy of money. But theirs is not paper money, but gold They are rich in money but poor in goods. As a result wages anc costs are so high that this surplus of gold is flowing out of the coun try as fast as it can find profitable channels. For example, it is said that there is $90,000,000 from N o r way alone lying in New York ready for the purchase of ships when they can be had. M ore or less, this means $90,000,000 of gold. The United States is almost the only great country that will have a surplus of things to sell for the better part of next year. The opening of tree.shipping must in evitably mean large imports of gold. The effect of this gold will not be different than in 1915 or 1916, or any other year. It will make prices higher or check a de cline Reward for Stray Red sow with black spots, a good big shoat, weight about 100 pounds; now gone about 2 weeks. Reward for information or return to E. A. Cushman, £28tf M oro, phone 5F5 Monroe, Banker And Diplomat Besides fathering the ( B M i doctrine that bears Us name, President James Monroe always preached conservation by banking. Hto keenness made the Louisiana purchase possible.. Every great man says that banking Is the bulwark ot tfib country. Every business man, every man, every woman, should have a bask Have you one? If you haven’t, start with ns today. B A N K JSZe itfrom me, says the super to the engineer “ You can't ever G o o d ta s te , s m a lle r chew ,longer life is w hat b ea t g o o d o ld makes G en u in e G ra v e ly cost less to chew than Gravely Plug. It’s ordinary plug. got the real tobacco W riit to:— taste that keep» a G bnuinb G ravbly danvillb . va . man satisfied." fwr k—k ltt •« cktwiug PeyL ton Brand ~ REAL CHEWING PLUG /Tag packed in pou ch F O S S ¿6 G O . Baby Chicks and E g g s' in c S. C. W hite Leghorn hatch ing eggs and baby chicks from one of the best trap nested strains in the Northwest. Breeders are healthy range raised birds full of life and vigor and will produce eggs and chicks of the best quality. Eggs by the setting or incubator lots a specialty. Book your ord ers now, as eggs and chicks fropi good flocks will be scarce this sea son. — * , Eggs. $2.50 per 15; $10 per 100. Baby Chicks: Less than 100 at 25 cents each; $18 per 100. Terms: 10% deposit with order booked in advance, balance due one week before delivery. First hatch first week in March, second, last week in March. Phone 25F15 Wasco. Arnold Buhman, Wasco. Ore. GARAGE Blacksmith and Machine Shop Firestone T IR E S Geodyetr Gas, Oils, Grease and Accessories Auto Repairing and Storage Iron, Steel and Coal, H ard w o o d C arria e and W a on M aterial. DELCOLIGHT Ç A e C o m p /Q td fii <7ZJ d p ow rer p / r i n t > /z e < f f i e < / & n d t / s o d b y t h e L/ S A r m y a n d N a v y th e Pedi r m sa n d the Y./V.C.A. More than four thousand Delco-Light plants were ds- Henry Gearheart Johnson was born near M oro October 3, 1890, and spent the most of his life in this county, attending the public school in M oro. In 1902. with the family, he went abroad for medical treatment and study in Europe, returning to M oro after an absence of five years. For sev eral years be has been obliged to go to California and Arizona dur ing the winters on account of deli cate health. The last message re ceived directly from him he seem ed to be feeling some better; then, without warning, a telegram wi received stating that he had died in Phoenix, Aria., Thursday, Feb. 27. aged 28 years, 4 months and 24 days. He was a member of the Lutheran church and also of the Masonic order. Pbneral services were held from M oro Presbyterian church W ed nesday afternoon at 2 o’clock, Rev. B. T . Smith conducting the services. Interment was In I. O . O . F. cemetery. . M O RO , O RE. liy e re d fo r war work. They were used to supply elec tric lig h t in camps, storehouses, hospitals, Y. M. C. A. huts, airplane hangars, sub-chasers and other branches of the service. In R e d C r o s s h o sp ita ls a t the front, Delco- L igh t operated Uf e-saving X-ray apparatus. Delco-Light was specified by the Government because It is dependable, efficient, simple to operate,—requires little attention, and because it is A IR -C O O L E D . fR w result of Government tests and the satisfactory use of D e lc o -L ig h t on over 60,000 farms are your as surance that Delco-Light w ill give you the tame de pendable service. Xt betters living conditions,— increases farm efficiency, end socks p a y s f o r its e lf in time and labor saved. H U L E R Y BROS. MORO OREGON TNB DOMESTIC ENCINEZaiNQ OO, Dnrta«, Otto Nnbam af DBL0O4JQMT F m A m S b Wei ' ¡¿SI Z f/Z A / < '. Z vzzv IY A /< ’/A > Subscribe for the Observer. «V* A O F M O RO “ «• 8 1 a
