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MORO. OREGON.
Entered as second class matter at the
post office at M oro. Oregon, July 25, 1891.
F R ID A Y ............. January 2, 1920
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Farm Boreaa Coouoittooa Moot
O b s e rv e r.
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“M y Country 'T is of Thao, Sweet
• f L iberty.”
OSd&l Paper for Sherman hty.
J. S. Smith, deputy collector of
internal revenue, has been appointed
federal prohibition director for Ore
gon, according to announcement fr m
Washington, D.C. This is an entirely
new office created to enforce the pro
hibition law, to handle violations of
the narcotic laws, grant permits for
the sale or use of alcoholic mixtures
by druggists, doctors and others.
These mutters have been included in
the duties of the revenue agents and
the internal revenue collector hereto
fore. l^r. Smith, who is fitted for
his new duties by reason of his exper
ience as deputy collector of internal
revenue, w ill take over the new work
immediately upon receipt of his com
mission.
Fresh cow for sale; good and gen-
tie; phone E. E. Barzee, Moro.
oply join but be w illin g to do aa they
are doing. They have the responsi
bility, help them out by being ready
to join when they apeak to you.
Following the membership cam
paign each community w ill organize
for work. The membership campaign
w ill close at the time of the annual
county-wide meeting which w ill prob
ably be held the last of January.
Join now.
• While apace w ill not permit of •
detailed discussion of the farm organ
isation plan, its possible program of
work, its value to the farmer func
tioning as a rural Chamber of Com
merce, and the opportunity it gives
for expression by and development of
the rural people, it suffices to know
that it was discussed with the com
mittees of farmers in each of the nine
communities of the county, or 40 men
In spite of unfavorable weather
in all and without a single exception
every man was behind the Farm Bur conditions the Moro committee ap
eau and is w illing to accept his share pointed by the Farm Bureau met 100
of the responsibility in getting it per cent strong last week at the
county I gent’s office to discuss com
Jnto operation in their community.
From one and a half to two hours munity problems and organization
was spent with each copimittee. Bad i plan». The members of the commit
roads and weather conditions hindered tee were: Roy Powell, Chet Silvers,
calling public meetings in an effort A. H. Barnum, Harry Pinkerton, W .
to reach all the people, but the fact C. Bryant, Joe Brackett and Martin
that the committees over the county Melzer.
The committee unanimously indors
after discussing its different advant
ages for two hours have not only ed the Farm Bureau plan. Ths^prob-
found it to be worth while, but are lems of interest which should respond
w illing to take time to ask every to cooperative effort and the lines of
farmer in their community to become endeavor which should be pushed as
a part of the organization is a guar brought out by the committee were:
antee that it is worth while for every Control of weeds by all, universal use
of certified seed and better sires cam
one to affiliate with it.
The universal experience i n ' 800 paign. Other projects were discussed
Counties in the 33 northern and w est and w ill be taken up at the commun
ern states having similar organiza ity meeting later.
The names of the farmers tributary
tions is that it includes all of the
best and most progressive farmers. to Moro were divided among the com
Experience thus far shows the same mitteemen and every farmer w ill have
result in Oregon and Sherman county an opportunity to join the Farm Bur
No progressive farmer who understood ' eau within the next thirty days. The
the organization has not joined when i membership fee of two dollars covers
the cost of the Farm Bureau News
solicited by the committee.
The Farm Bureau is the farmers’ and provides funds for use by the or
organization absolutely. Members of ganization. During the latter half of
the committees know that and as such January the weather permitting, com
see its possibilities.
Had every munity meetings w ill be held to dis
farmer been on the committee or un cuss community problems and elect
derstand it as they do all would not committee men in charge of work in
the community.
Following these a county - wide an
nual meeting w ill be held at Moro
which should be attended by all mem
bers and their fam ilies. Plans are
being made to make this more than
worth while.
The committees appointed at the
other points which have had meeting»
are. Rufus: Payne, Kuypers, Tate
C. A. Tom and Chub Fowler.
Wasco:
Henry Howell, V. H
Smith, Herbert Root, Roy Belshee.
Klondike: Potter, Boice, J.
Johnson, LeRoy Seely.
Fairview: Hans Thompson, Cal
laway, Con lee, and Coe.
Harmony: P. C. A xtell, T.- S
Reese, E. W. Mason and T. J. Henkle
Grass V alley: Fred Cox, E. M
A lley, J. J. W iley, A.L.Ru sel and
Bruce Kee.
Michigan: O. N. Hodges, Fred
Stradley, W. C. Todd, Tom Coyle and
L. D. Eaton.
Kent: J. A. Schassen, L. Schade
witz, Wilber Haggerty, L. W. Amick
and Wilber Helyer.
A ll meetings have heartily endorsed
the Farm Bureau organization plan
and all thus far have been interested
in the same lines of work. Indica
tions are that most of the farmers are
going to join and get behind a pro
gressive program which w ill do things
next year.
FORDSON TRACTOR
You will soon be plowing and
to do it best you should have a
Fordson tractor. Yes, you can
• trade me some horses, and get
one that way.
Last car load
all gone and my next’ shipment
will soon be sold. Drop me a
line or leave word at Foss & Co.
DesChutcs Motor Company
R. S. Goff, Manager
Moro, Oregon
Suitable for old and young.
Shop early and get the best
MORO PHARMACY
i K. SCHADE, Prop.
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says the Good Judge
The man who doesn’t
chew this class of to
bacco is not getting
real satisfaction out of
his chewing.
A small chew. It holds
its rich taste. You don’t
have to take so many
fresh chews. Any man
who uses the Real To
bacco Chew w ill tell
you that.
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P u t U p In Two Styles. ...
RIGHT CUT is a short-cut tobacco
' W-B CUT is a long fine-cut tobacco
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STOCK ni WHUTRIHCHES
FOR SALE
Harris Harvesters for Sale
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F. T. hurlburt ’
Omer Sayrs, 24-foot cut with m otor, ' This harvetter
is in fine shape and ready to go into the field. Lot>
of new parts with the outfit. M r. Sayrs has bought a
NEW HO LT.
Upper M ain Street, opp. Garage
CONDON, ORE.
The L. V. Moore Harris harvester for sale. Thisis
the light 18-foot machine with m otor. Run only two
seasons. A H O L T T A K E S ITS P LA C E .
P. I. Hall- Lewis & Co.
Tht Dalles, Oregon
The Jess Landry Harris harvester for sale. This is
the light 18-foot machine with motor. Run only 23
days. A H O L T W IL L T A K E ITS P LA C E .
Registered
Civil and Architectural Engineers
and Surveyors
Maps, Plats, Estimates, Reports
on all kinds of Surveys
Plans, Specifications, Supervision
on all Classes of Buildings.
For further particulars see Omer Savrs, L. V. Moore,
~ C. R. Morrison, Jess Landry, or
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Geo. N . Crosfield, W asco, O re .
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WE ARE AGENTS FOR TH E
“ T H E T A IL O R ”
JOHN DEERE and OLIVER PLOWS
Moro, Oregon
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S u i t s RJiade to O rd er
Cleaning and Pressing for
.Women and Men
Undertaking
Caskets and Robes always on
hand; special supplies and caskets
ordered at any time
_ Sam Brijbing, M dr Q k Q regojq.
D r . S anders
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D R IL L S
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Chatam Fanning Mills
We have a good stock of
VETERINARIAN
It is always interesting to watch a
small account grow gradually in vol
T o M y Patrona: If you cannot get me
ume, registering the progress of its
direct by phone at M oro, please call Foes
owner.
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A C o .’a garage, who w ill promptly notify
And if it is inspiring to watch and me when I return to town.
encourage one individual to steadily
mark milestones in his career, the
banking business amounts almost to
romance when it is remembered that
it shares in the progress of hundreds
of citizens.
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With the increase in our depositors,
though, there is no decrease in that
personal touch we always maintain.
Bank of Moro, Moro, Oregon.
Theo.ßeletski, D.V.S.
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Wednesday evening the Fairview
community club met and enjoyed a
w ell rendered program goten up by
John M. DeMoss, Dell Wright, and
interstate Stocl inspector
Malcolm Neal. After the program a
Examiner of M allions for License
O ff Again; On Again; Gone Again good lunch waa served and then Mrs.
Edw Sagawa invited the crowd to her
house to enjoy the rest of the evening W ASCO, p»,X "'m d, O R E G O N
The electric lighting system the
in dancing, which the young people
Telephone M ain 502
last several weeks in Moro has been
very much enjoyed. The next club
so consistently and regularly irregular
meeting w ill be January 23d, 1920.
that it is hard for any one depending
upon it for either light or power to
calculate with any certainty whether
Mr. and Mrs. Hog came into town
it w ill or w ill not be at their com early Wednesday in the G. A. Meloy
mand. Last summer we paid $1.50 auto, George jr. acting as chauffer.
per month for 30 cents worth of juice They were all dressed ready for the
and now we can’t get either amount block, but even theycold weather did
in satisfactory installments.
We not permit them to deviate from their
have been told, by city officials, that uprightness as the car came to a stop
the cost in wages in running the plant on First street.
exceeds $200 per month, more than
any other time in the history of the
We do not want foreign malcontents
city. Yet, lights in the mornings to dictate to us whether our Important
are out of the running. This shortens Industries shall be permitted to go on*
one’s business day more than it seems or close. The war should have taught
to those who stay abed these winter us enough of the danger of alien mis
mornings and is one very potent fac chiefmaking In our affairs.
tor in the Observer being late to its
patrons. We had hoped to not be
A number of Americans are becom
forced to refer to this, but necessity
ing so excited over matters national
compels our stating the fact.
and International that they are almost
Indifferent to the fact that forecasting
There are risks in all lines of busi for the 1920 baseball pennant Is now
ness, even horse buying. H. B. Bel In order.
shee found this rule to apply to him
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this week shortly after he had paid
It Is, getting mighty hard for a rich
$175 to W. J. Martin for a line, large
active horse. H alf an hour after he man to have a son who does not grow
had received the horse the animal was up to regard work as beneath him—
sick and when nothing could be done and that Is equivalent to saying that
Is hard for a rich man to have a
for him was killed to relieve him
from further suffering. Howard says son who Isn't a lunkhead.
the horse was in good condition when
Another statesman proposes to re
sold, but turning him out to run with
other horses warmed him up too much duce the H. C. L. by making "porpoise
for the good feed he had had all fall leather shoes.” This massive mind Is
not at all bothered by the trifling fact
with little work to pay for it.
that the porpoise has no hide.
VETERINARIAN
[IEHT-POIHT CUTOUT DOUBLE ICTIHG DISCS
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Also we carry a complete line of Furniture, Ranges and
Heaters, and remember the Famous Z Line of Engines and
Fairaday Washing Machines. . ..
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Moro Hardware & Implement Co.
MORO, OREGON
JOB PRINTING
Wv. C o r d ia lly
M »ll«-li V otar
P a lr e a a m « .
B u ild e r s
T o Select and Plan fo r C o n s tru c tio n
W o rk E a rly N e x t S p rin g
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OUR FREE PLAN BOOK CAN BE HAD ANY TIME
“ I ’ll T ell the W o rld ”
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Be ready with your answers when
the census man calls at your house.
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P r o s p e c tiv e
K ris K ringle Gifts
ComOriny ,'T1Q7
Gilliam sod Wheeler Counties
The fourteenth decennial census of
the United States is on. Under the
immediate direction 6f Wm. A. Ter
rait, supervisor of the second census
district of Oregon, census enumerators
w ill call at every dwelling house in
Shrman county t» secure the informa
tion necessary to fill out the questions
contained on the printed census sched
u le s.’
Questions covering the follow ing
points w ill be asked of every person
in the United Statei: Sex; color or
race; age at last birthday; whether
single, married, widowed or divorced ;
birthplace of person enumerated and
birthplaces of father and mother, g iv
ing names of both country and prov
ince if foreign bom ; occupation, spec
ifying trade or profession, also indus
try in which employed; whether at
tending school; whether able to read;
whether able to write; whether able
to speak English; whether home is
owned or rented, and if owned whether
home is free of encumbrance or is
mortgaged.
Persona of foreign birth w ill be
asked questions concerning these ad
ditional points: Year of immigration
to theTJnited Sfetea; whether natural
ized, and if so the year of naturalisa
tion; mother tongue or native lan
guage.
Census enumerators also w ill call
at every farm in this county to secure
the information necessary to fill out
the questions contained on the agricul
ture schedule.
Each farmer w ill he asked questions
concerning the acreage and value of
his farm; whether he owns, rents or
partly owns and partly rents the land
he farms; the value of the buildings,
machinery and implements belonging
to his farm; the quantity of all crops
raised on his farm during the year
1919; and many ocher questions which
cover all possible farm operation.
An absolutely accurate census
vitally concerns the welfare of this
county and of every person living in
iL The official population for the
next ten years w ill be determined by
the e e n su /J f 1900.
O F T H E Y E A R FO R
A com plete assortm ent of
R hone
Aahog
T h i s is T h e T i m e
X - M H S G IF T S
Now on display.
C obmu Qoeationa
The Dalles Chronicle of the 90th
says : E. M. Badger, an employe of
the local telephone company, suffered
minor injuries to his arm and spine
when he slipped this morning on the
ice-covered Hotel Dalles steps. Bad
ger arose after his fall but fell again
in a half-faint near the postoffice.
Numerous other falls of more or less
seriousness occurred all along the s il
ver-coated streets today.
Dressmakers say that skirts are to
be of modest length. Tills will occa
sion great dissatisfaction among those
who believe such a length to be un
necessarily long.
No. 4. 1100 acres near Maupin.
Ditch water right paid on 60 acres.
225 acres in fall wheat. All stock,
including 27 head of cattle, 16 head of
colts and horses, and 25 head of hogs,
and the machinery can go with place.
Plenty of water, fair buildings. A
mighty fine bunch of all year pasture
goes with this place. Easy terms.
For terms and prices write to
W. C. Hanna; Dufur, Oregon.
A movement has been started to
‘popularisé the two-dollar bill.” We
know an excellent way—offer ’em to
theqpubllc at $1.96 apiece.
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Always read the Observer.
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N e a rly e ve ry one m akes som e ch a nge in
th e plan selected and by u s in g o u r se r
vice now you can ta k e m o re tim e to
th o ro u g h ly discuss th e plans w ith all in
te re ste d , help us to ge t special m a te ria l
in season, and yo u secure w o rk m e n e a rly
Occasionally a man threatening to
strike seems to.give very little reason
for such action beyond the fact that
haa become sufficiently prosperous
w> afford It.
ALL THIS MEANS A SAVING TO YOU
TU M -A -LU M LUMBER CO.
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Mosey Is worth mnch or little In the
measure that there Is solid, earnest,
useful toll behind It. Withdraw that
and It la worthless.
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Nothing left but 4 trans-Padflc non
stop flight, now, unless somebody wants
attempt to circumnavigate tbt
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O. C. PIERCE, Manager
MORO,
OREGON
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