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Baat aad Track Freight L ira
Moro Has Now Postmaster
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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
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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
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truck lines to deliver freight from one that probably few poet masters of responsible, " Involved In the same
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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.
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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
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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.
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For further particulars see Om er Sayrs, L. V . Moore,
C. R. Morrison, Jess Landry, or
Geo. N . Crosfield, W asco, O re .
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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‘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
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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.
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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