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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 9, 1920)
1 * \ The O b s e rv e r. Baat aad Track Freight L ira Moro Has Now Postmaster TU M m w Uw S a la ri.. GiOiam and Wkeeler Counties Announcement has been made by He Is being "cramped and humili The close of the year 1919 also interested parties of the organisation marked the termination from the ac ated on all aides. Is conscious that MORO. O R E G O N ._______ of the Inland Empire Boat A Truck tive business life of Moro community he Is becoming quasl-mlserly through Line for the purpose of establishing a of J. M. Parry who has served as poet overatteptlon to pennies—In fact, la Entered • • second class matter at the post office at Moro, Oregon, July 25, 1891. freight service from Portland on both master in this city for a period of 19 himself living a petty and sordid life, the W illamette and Columbia rivers years and 1 month, a record that is and. what la much worse, sees those to be supplemented with a system of unique in official life in Oregon and he most cares for, and for whom he Is F R ID A Y ..............January 9, 1920 truck lines to deliver freight from one that probably few poet masters of responsible, " Involved In the same > 1 , ■ > 1 ~ —— q* river steamers to points inland. other states can equal. Because of destiny, says The Review. He wil C. L . I reland ..............Manager. Freight trucking depots w ill be es the m ultiplicity of duties that now lingly took on the vow of poverty for tablished at Rufus, Columbus, Arling are demanded from post masters by himself, perhaps, but not for them. ton, Roosevelt, Hood River, and the government, Mr. Parry tendered He would go Into plumbing If he knew other points, that w ill guarantee a his resignation in June, 1919, request enough. He la lu the clutch of an ■»ure and speedy delivery of freight. ing that he be relieved from his offi out-and-out exasperating experience, The truck line from Rufus w ill oper cial duties December 1st. This the one that Is destructive both of his ate as far south as Grass Valley and post office department did not grant dignity and his self-respect. Wheth probably as far as Kent when the and at their request Mr. Parry contin er, under this harrow, he reveals bol- business justifies. ued in the office until December 31st, shevold tendencies or not, a man In **My C o u n try rT is of Thoo, 8 * « » 1 Freight charges on the new • line at which time Robt. Urquhart took o f L ib e rty .” such a mood ought not to be teach w ill be from JO to 20 per cent less over the office as acting poet master ing our sons. He Is bound to be than now paid to the railroad com until his commission as post master wearied and distraught, If not bitter panies and w ill also elim inate the for Moro can be forwarded from and cynical. It takes enthusiasm and local delivery dray charge at each Washington. Preliminary to transfer fervor to Are the heart of youth. point as freight w ill be delivered laid of the office, an inspector of the de There 1» call for the clear and equable Guy R. Hulse was up from Portland down at the warehouse door of the re partment made an official v isit in No mind, sufficiently at rest as respects over Sunday, visiting with His broth ceiver. Return trips of the trucks vember and gave it a rating of “ ex Its own concerns to be able to spare er Roy P.. and fam ily. Guy is a w ill be vs*d to take freight to the cellen t” the highest one given to any that fores upon which his charges Sherman county boy who has made river landings where at all times it office by the department. ought to have the right to draw. As good in business circles of the Pacific will be protected by the operating Mr. Parry has consented to compile things now go, the best men will keep northwestrhe now holding the posi company. a history of the Moro poet office for tion of agency sales manager with It has long been urged that the publication in a future issue pf the out of teaching, and presently th e In ferior ones, less robust and resistant the Western Union Life Insurance way to conduct water transportation Observer, when this is published it of nonsenke, qjjpr actually fall, as Co., giving him authority over the successfully on the Columbia and will be better realized by the general some have already fallen. Into the company affairs in 14 states with W illamette rivers is to supplement public why a post master must be ex status of suggestible malcontents. eight more to be added shortly. He the boats with trucks and trailers op acting in the conduct of his office and is making arrangements to move to erating by schedule on the highways The heads of most professors are not w ill also show the large volume of Spokane where he w ill be better able that serve as feeders to the rivers. yet weak enough for bolshevism; but extra work that has been demanded of to attend to his large territory. certain Journals that dish up brain- We feel convinced that it w ill be post masters in the last few years. softening compounds, full of insinu succesful and that merchants, busi ation and suggestion, are Jar too pop ness men, farmers, and shippers gen The fruit crop for 1920, particular The daily newspapers constantly ular among them. To such Influences erally both in Portland and interior ly peach, cherry and apple, w ill be recount pathetic stories of the loss of they are becoming ever more "“open the the lightest in many years, is the points w ill back such an enterprise. rfloney concealed in mattresses and old minded.” This is dangerous. If the The new line is expected to be in op prediction of horticulturists who have teapots, under j rugs and in divers cure of Russian bolabevlsm is more eration by March 1st. made a careful survey of the damage other places. Remember the latest food, the prophylaxis of profesaorlul wrought to -»rchards by the recent story of the man who had several bolshevism Is more salary. severe weather. Always read the Observer. thousand dollars hid in a Bhoe and when w ife cleaned house, down near Law and Order Sunday MarshAeld it was, she threw shoe and fhoney into the river. Such losses Daniel C, Roper, commissioner of are quite needless in this progressive internal revenue of the United States age. An absolutely safe place for has just issued an appeal suggesting funds is in a checking account in this that Sunday, January 18th, 1920, be institution. Every dollar is protect observed as “ Law and Order Sunday’ ed and constantly available. Bank of thruout th e country. M weo . Mar o.. Q ra oju.----- — the“ day' be generally obaefVed. IK the course of his appeal he sa y s: “ The American people have declar W. H. Burres, one of Sherman county’s most prosperous farmers, re ed through dUte process in favor of turned the latter, part of last week national prohibition. The 18th am from Portland where he closed a deal ment to the constitution of the Uni with John Simpson and Oscar Loomis States, giving the legal authority for for the Simpson ranch near Locust thia, becomes effective January 16th Grove, a few miles west of Wasco 1920. Congress has seen fit to place The home and buildings on the ranch in the Bureau of Internal Revenue the are the most modern to be found in important responsibility for the en Sherman county, while the land, con forcement of prohibition. “ Whether prohibition ia a wise Bisting of approximately 1000 acres is rated among the best wheat land i national policy ia no longer a question for debate or contention among good the county. ITOCI ud WHUT RINCHES OSail Paper for Shernaa toy. 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. citizens, R. S. G off, Manager Moro, Oregon E. T. Hurlburt Jpper M ain Street, opp. Garage Harris Harvesters lor Sale Opier Sayrs. 24-foot cut with motor. T h i* harvetter is in fine shape and ready to go into the field. Lots lo t new parts with the outfit. M r. Sayrs has bought a NEW HOLT. ÇONDON, ORE. s. P.H. Hall-Lewis U i . The Dalles, Oregon * * • , • * a ' The L. V . Moore Harris harvester for sale. This irf the light 18-foot machine with motor. Run only two seasons. A H O L T T A K E S I I S P L A C E . The Jess Landry Harris harvester for tale. 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 IT S P L A C E . Registereil Civil and Architectural Engineers and Surveyor* Maps, Plats, Estimates, Reports on all kinds of Surveys Plans, Specifications, Supervision on all Classes of Buildings. 11. For further particulars see Om er Sayrs, L. V . Moore, C. R. Morrison, Jess Landry, or Geo. N . Crosfield, W asco, O re . WE ARE AGENTS FOR THE - * “ T H E T A IL O R ” -- ---------------- --------\--- — --...B.------ t — --------- ~ ------- Moro, Oregon JOHN DEERE and OLIVER PLOWS S u i t s RRadc to O rd er Thomas, Vanbrunt, . Monitor and Superior Cleaning and Pressing for Women and ^len Undertaking - Caskets and Robes always on hand; special supplies and casket* ordered at any time Sam Brisbine. M oro, Oregon. D r . S anders D R IL L S Chatam Fanning Mills Moro, Oregon W e have a good stock of V E T E R IN A R IA N T o M y Patrons: If you cannot get r direct by phone at Moro, please call Fc A C o .’s garage, who w ill promptly notify me when I return to town. Thco.ßeletski, D.V.S. J EIGHT-POWT CUTOUT DOUBLE ACTING DISCS Also we carry a complete line of Furniture, Ranges and Heaters, and remember the Famous Z Line ot Engine* and Fairaday Washing Machines. - Moro H ardw are & Im plem ent Co. K an integral part of the constitution of our country and all law abiding citi zens w ill demand its observance Officers of the federal government can have no different standard with re gard to the enforcement of prohibition than with respect to' the enforcement of any other law. „ “ It is suggested that Sunday, Jan uary 18th, 1920, be set apart and de Interstate Stocl Inspector signated as “ LaW and Order Sunday” Examiner of stallions for License throughout the country. I sincerely trust that thia w ill be generally ob . “ The Other H alf” is the apt and served and that clergymen throughout W A S C O . P o . t office Ridi. O R E G O N appropriate title of King Vidor’s lat the land w ill bring to the attention Telephone Main 502 , est production comiffg to Moro Theat of their congregations the vital im er on Thursday, January 15th As in portance, of law as the comer atone of the case of his other remarkable pro Americanism. ” duction that appeared at Moro Theat er some weeks ago, entitled “ The How Slang Originates Turn of the Road” Vidor sehms to have struck an intensely human note Not everybody who is dead has in this picture. “ The proper study kicked the bucket; not everybody who of mankind is m an,” says some sage, has died by his own hand has kicked and the youthful author director has the bucket, although in the process taken it as a maxim. Admission 15c some of them have kleked over other and 35c. things. This la not a revelation of the after life. It Is simply an expla Here is a fine Home Ranch for some nation of how It started. The term one; 490 acre farm, 175 acres wheat has come down to us for every meth land, 80 acres under irrigation; 3d od of leaving this world for the next oldest water right on creek; 4 acres Rocky Mountain News remarks. The in orchard; two good sets of build particular means which popularized ings; 4 miles from 'Dufur. Write It, however, was Introduced hundreds W C Hanna, Dufur, Oregon. of yean ago by one Bolzober, who. having lost his reason^ decided to com mit suicide—to hang himself, In, Three valuable dogs were killed by looking around for a support over their owners, near The Dalles, last which to throw his rope he found a week. Each was conclusively proven beam ao high over his head that It to he suffering from rabies. It would was necessary to stand on something be w ell for all dog owners to watch In order to reach IL The nearest their animals carfully as the disease thing happened to be a bucket, which might be carried into this county. served the purpose very well. After completing the necessary operations, Borne good city property here in the poor man actually and verily kick Moro. Some good buys in Golden- ed the bucket dale. Also some in Portland and the Having a housing shortage of her W illamette valley. Have some good farms in Sherman county. For sale own London, England, Is buying sur by Alex Hunter, real estate dealer. plus army stores In the form of British Call in and see me in Morq Bank army huts, thereby providing tem building, up stairs. porary homes for hundreds of families. Unless they have rusted away, the We have listed for sale a two year United States government also has lease on 640 acres of land, together quantities of these huts lying around with an outfit and over two hundred In thia country, all In corrugated sec acres of summer fallow wheat includ tions, ready for ejection, capable of ed. If interested write, phone or conversion In a day Into family habita call on the Sherman County Abstract tions. Co., Moro, Oregon, immediately. All political prisoners are freed and a general amnesty proclaimed In Costa Holshevlki nre occupying the fonmer quarters of the United Stntes embassy Rica, now that Tinoco has gone. If In Petrograd, thus adding a picturesque Carranza had followed such a policy detail to the geographic complication In Mexico, the whole country might In which bolshevism peculiarly de have been pacified long ago. MORO, OREOON , - .....7...................... ‘ A J M F // V E T E R IN A R IA N — * -7 JOB PRINTING W e 4 '* r < llit lly M o lic i! lo u r P a li« B S g e . T h i s is T h e T i m e BOOKS O F T H E Y E A R FO R The Best in Books, such authors as 5 P ro s p e c tiv e B u ild e rs T o S e le c t a n d P la n f o r , C o n s t r u c t io n W o r k E a r ly N e x t S p r in g Zane Grey, Rex Beach, B. M. Bower, Oliver Curwood, and Harold Bell Wright OUR FREE PLAN BOOK CAN BE HAD ANY TIME MORO PHARMACY K. SCHADE, Prop. has been incorporated as The French nation is making ar rangementa to finance'a hugh system of storage reservoirs to be built along the sea coast and to be filled at each recurring high tide. The water so impounded to be used through sluice ways to generate electricity. The new system, coupled with their natur al water power in running streams, w ill enable them to dispense with coal at the end of ten years. DesChutes Motor Company Phone it FOR SALE 303 ‘Some Men Don’t Know It Yet” says the Good Judge This class of tobacco gives a man a lot more satisfaction than he ever gets out of ordin ary tobacco. Smaller chew—the good taste lasts and lasts. You don’t need a fresh chew so often. A ny m an who uses the Real To bacco Chew w ill tell you that. Put Up In Two Styles RIGHT CUT is a short-cut tobacco W-B CUT is a long fine-cut tobacco N e a r ly e v e r y o n e m a k e s s o m e c h a n g e in th e p la n s e le c te d a n d b y u s in g o u r s e r v ic e , n o w y o u c a n ta k e m o r e t im e t o t h o r o u g h ly d is c u s s th e p la n s w it h a ll i n te r e s te d , h e lp u s to g e t s p e c ia l m a t e r ia l in s e a s o n , a n d y o u s e c u re w o r k m e n e a r ly ALL THIS MEANS A SAVING t o YOU lights. Fifteen million pairs of silk stock ings were made from wood pulp In this N o. 4. 1100 acres near Maupin. country last year. And nearly all of Ditch water right paid on 60 acres. them were exported, while we had te 225 acres in fall wheat. A ll stock, worry along with the- old-fakhloued including 27 head of cattle, 16 head of kind produced by worms. ♦ colts and horses, and 25 head of hogs, knd the machinery can go with place. “School teachers.” cites a supporter Plenty of water, .fair buildings. A of a union for pedagogues, “are left to mighty fine bbnch of all year pasture paddle their own canoes.” And for all goes with this place. Easy terms. . the small boy caree, they can devote For terms and prices write to * their whole time in that connection to W. C. Hanna, Dufur, Oregon. those selfsame canoes. TUM-A-LUM LUMBER CO. O- C. PIERCE, Manager MORO, OREGON
