the same was true o f the M onk-
land country. N ow . this year.
Preabyterian—Moro.
This harvest season is a test of Dewey Thompson in the Monk-
Sunday
school, 10JO a.m.
MORO, OR EG O N .
farming methods in Sherman land section is harvesting 11 sacks
Union services 8 p. m.
county.
W ith very few excep to the acre and a number of other
Christian Endeavor 7:15 p. m .
Batcretf •• «eco«*! elm« m*Uer «I dhe tions all wheat fields to the north tarms will do as well.
Bible study and devotional ser
po*i oftcc «t Mon». Orofoa. J o ljK , 18911.
This is the third successive year vice Wednesday. 8 p m
of Nigger ridge, running across
The members of this congrega-1
F R ID A Y ....................July 18. 1919 the county, will produce dandy that Sherman county has started
tion are urged to attend the morn
crops. The Observer office has its harvest after a shortage of rain ing service a t t h e Methodist
T . L . lRBLAND.............. M .n a ie r . not heard of any poor wheat in fall in the growing sea3on, altho church.
that section of the county. T o the the average for the crop year has
A t Monkland
south of Nigger ridge there are a been dose to normal each season.
Sunday school, 2 p. m.
O fiùd
County. number of excellent wheat fields, This year our rainfall is normal
Elm er E. McVicker. •
but these only go to prove that it for the crop year, but short an
Temporary Pastor.
is the farming methods employed inch and a quarter since M ay 1.
and the personality of the operat Yet, at Kent, the part of the coun
Christian Sctence Society
ing farmer that give either a good ty always hit by short cropsr there
Services will be held in the
are a number of farmers who wilt
crop or sometimes none at all.
church building on M ain street at
W e have noticed for some years have above an average crop for 11 o’clock. Subject— “ Life.’
•M y Country T io of THoo, Swoot '
Testimonial services are held
that very few farmers from the this year. This goes to prove that
of L ib erty.*
Wednesday
evenings at 8 o’clock.
personality,
seasonal
work
and
the
south part of the county ever visit
Sunday school in room at rear
right
kind
of
farming
will
always
the Experiment farm or study the
entrance of church at 11 a.m. Pu-|
The most unpopular taxation
produce results.
results from the work of the sta
pils up to the age 20 are welcome
ever invented in this country is
tion. W e know that those who
to
these classes.
the so-called “ luxury” tax which
A Pleasant Sarprise Party.
The reading room at the rear |
have are the ones making money
places discriminatory taxation on
entrance to the church building is
from farming lands in Sherman
John Hastings, one of Sherman open every Friday from 2 until 4
one industry to the exclusion of
county and they are in part lo county's enterprising farmers, will p.m., where the Bible and all au
another.
In most instances ar
cated in a section that tor years always remember Sunday. July thorized Christian Science litera
ticles classed as luxuries are every
produced little or no crops.
13, 1919, with pleasure from the ture may be read, bought or bor
day necessities and the tax simply
rowed.
~
In
these
days
of
high
prices
for
fact that it was his natal day and
adds to the cost of living.
The public is cordially invited
feed, labor and supplies it is folly the event remembered by his to attend the church services and
Under the new wheat regula to farm more land than can be neighbors, though for the time be visit the reading ro o m .'
A half ing forgotten by himself. Like
tions all warehouse or elevator economically handled.
section
of
land
farmed
right,
and the good citizen he is M r. Hast
operators, brokers or commission
Proposed New Hotel
at
the
proper
season,
kept
free
merchants, wholesalers or jobbers
ings accompanied his family to
Tw o conference meetings of J
in wheat or wheat flour, and all from weeds by proper cultivation church at Wasco that morning.
millers of wheat flour, and all of summer fallow will produce a Soon after their return home W ill members o f the Moro Chamber of
Commerce have been held this I
bakers using more than 50 barrels right crop regardless of its location Deaton called at the honse and
of wheat flour per month, must in the county. N ot many years one of his first inquiries was “ H ow week to decide on a line of action
secure license from the United ago land around M oro was pro old are you John?” “ Bless me,” regarding the building of an hotel
States Wheat Director on or be ducing about one-half what it is replied John, ” 1 am 53 years old in M oro to replace the old Hotel
now turning out to the acre, and today, but had not before thought M oro, burned July 4th.
fore July 15.
At this time the only proposi
of it.” Soon other friends and
neighbors began arriving at the tion being considered is a com
house singly and in bunches (for bination building where the o ld !
a time much to the astonishment Blue Barn formerly stood. This
of the fam ily) in honor of the oc location is now owned by several
casion, giving him one of the most people identified with the Farm
ers State Bank and as that bank
pleasant surprises of his life.
Have them carefully examined'and your
Among those to offer him con lost its business home in the fire,
glasses fitted by
gratulations and wish him many anything to be done with a new
returns of the day were Messrs, building at this location must nec
and Mesdames W . B. Currey, W . essarily also consider the bank.
The plans of the building under |
F. Johnson, Dr. Ghorm ley. Geo.
The
O bserver«
C m 4 F r a u « Always Fay«
D r, T . D e la rh u c
¡EYESIGHT SPECIALIST
fo rt Black.
P ie b Sunsu
Your Eyes Should be Cared for N o w
DR. D eLA RH U E
Kaseburg, D. E Maxwell, G rant
Armsworthy, E. W . Hastings, C.
E. Crites, C. M . Cunningham.
Rev. J. O . Marsh, Mrs. M . Beers,
Mrs. Cavano; the Misses Iris Mes-
singer, Norm a Armsworthy, Flor
ence Armsworthy, Dorothy Ca
vano, Dorothy Ghorm ley, M ar
garet Ghorm ley. Opal Duvall;
Howard Cavano, Rex Kaseburg.
George Kaseburg,jr., Billy G horm
ley, Arlie Duvall, Louis Hastings,
W ill Deaton.
Eyesight Specialist
17-1 1 I q t Block
the
EYES EXAMINED
GLASSES FITTED *
Phone Black 1111
D alles , ore .
Tins establishment is exclusively Optical and per
manently located at THE DALLES.
O’Meara Supply & Implement Co.
WASCO, OREGON
W e call your attention to the
MORELAND
Motor Trueks
* •
Embodying the Special Features of a
D IS T IL L A T E B U R N E R
by means of a special Gasifier that permits the Moreland
Trucks to burn distillate as efficienfly as other vehicles burn
gasoline, enabling the Moreland owner to save 8c per gallon
in fuel alone.
t
•
There are other reasons
consideration call for a garage in
the back lower portion facing
First street; on the front facing
Main street the bank will occupy
the corner; next to the bank will
come the office of the hotel, with
dining room and kitchen in the
rear of the office and bank; next I
to the hotel office will be a store
50x100 feet, and upstairs will be
the hotel rooms, 26 in . all. with
possibly 30 as the maximum.
After taking out the rooms nec
essary for those operating and
managing the hotel, providing
rooms tor the average number of |
regular boarders, there will in all
probability be very few rooms for
transient travel and such an hotel
would always be pattonized to ca
pacity, but so far as a real utility
for transients it would fall far short
of what is needed now, without^
discounting the future. Another
story would probably make the
difference between profit and loss
in the operation of the hotel part
of the building.
A committee was appointed by
the Chamber to consult with the
Webb estate and with W . C. Rut
ledge for the purpose of buying
that property and building an ho
tel on the old location^ut M r.
Rutledge did not want to sell now.
The owner of the Maxwell prop
erty is willing to sell 15 feet of his
I property if an hotel is built on the
old location. The three pieces of
property would make a holding
65x100 feet, nearly as large as the
location w heit the Farmers State
Bank will build, and would be an
all hotel building.
W hy all this talk about Bolshev
ism gaining a foothold in the
United States? W h y should not]
a bit of common sense be applied
every day by every citizen—simi
lar to this rule of the Boy Scouts j
—“ do at least one good act each
day.” Do not merely talk about
it, Apply the “ golden rale” to
everyday life.
Bol, heT‘,m
i# |
based on ¡gnoranca,di«|atistaction.
envy and greed, mors than on
poverty and hunger, although the
latter do cause desperate acts. Il
cannot thrive in the open sir and
bright sunshine of “ G od’s Coun
ment owned automobileaor trucks J
or motor eyelet, farm tractors,
mbtor boats, or stationary gas en»
ginea used for pumping, lighting,
hoisting, drilling, etc., of which In
all there are perhaps a million or
two, there were 5.945.442 automo- j
bile passenger can and tracks reg
istered in the United States D e
cember 1. 1918; one car to every!
A
N< J O N E S
STOCK s ii M ÛT RUCHES
FO R
AVITO T R U C K
SALE
D R A Y
Phone Main 314 M oro, Oregon
’ F. T. Hurlburt
Upper M ain Street, opp. Garage
CONDON. ORE.
Phone 1111-
Freight and Express
Handled Promptly.
Moving
Efficiently Attended Tcf. ,
Great Sale on Pianos at
Portland Department Store
Railroad Fare Paid Both Ways to Piano Shoppers Who
Will Take Advantage of the July Sale.
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A S a f e P la c e to B u y Y o u r P la n o .
L ip m ,n -W o lfe & Co.’, big Department Store of Portland ia maltini a rtroni bid for the
Piano business of this community.
The great Department .Store of Lipm an-W olfe & Co. of Portland is out after the Piano
business of Oregon.
Just now we are having a big July sale on new and second-hand Pianos which has stirred
the piano circles of the metropolis.
They are even bidding for the business of the country districts and make this startling
B O N E F ID E O F F E R : '
1st. W e will save anyone $100 in the purchase of an Upright Piano, a Player-RlOO
or a Baby Grand.
2d. W e will have our expert choose for anyone a Piano that we positively guarantee.
box it and pay the freight to destination covering a radius of lOOmiles from Portland.
3d. W e will pay the railroad fare both ways of anyoi
will go to Portland and choose a Piano on our sales floors
P IA N O S
W E
C A R R Y
O ur lines consist of the most renowned standard makes of America.- U ur leader is the
K N A B E . W e also represent the celebrated Francis Bacon Pianos in baby grands, players
and uprights. O ne of our most popular lines is the five well-known pianos of "The House
of Baldwin,” which includes the Baldwin, Ellington. Ham ilton, Howard and Monarch.
Then we are agents for the Hazelton Bros, and the famous Autopiano. The Autopiano is
probably the most popular and durable player-piano in the world. Already more than
>43,000.000 worth have been sold to the music-loving people of the globe.
O U R
U S E D
P IA N O S
.
One may nearly always find a good bargain in a second-hand Piano in our piano ex
change department. This month we are holding our semi-annual clean-up sale on these
instruments. The prices are remarkably low. -
.
W E
G IV E
T E R M S
Investigate our selling plan and learn how to save moftey buying a Piano from our
Piano Department.
. . . .
W e sell a brand new Baby Grand for $595. Uprights and players priced accordingly.
Ask to see our Player-Piano with the Ukulele attachment.
z
Orders by mail given preference and prompt attention.
L ip m a n -W o lfe & C o .
S a tis fa c tio n G u a r a n te e d
HARVEST SPECIALS!
Reel Slats for 24-foot Combines
Header Box
Cook House
Water Trough and material for Header
and Combine Hitches
SUMMER WOOD
W ILL HAVE IT. ASK US.
try" if we all do our part.
Without including any Govern» I
W HY
The Dalles, Ore.
w
c a n » w u e k r c « ..,«
T U M -A -L U M LUMBER CO.
A
O C. PIERCE, Manager