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MORO. OREGON.
Entered ae aecond class matter at the
poet office at M o ro , O reg on , July 2 5 , 1891.
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FRIDAY.............March 12, 1920
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Sherman County H arvest Fields
G. L. I reland ............. Manager.
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Sherman Electric Company Organises
Geo. N. Crosfield, Wasco, Ore.
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“The Miracle Man”
A d m is s io n
After several weeks of promotion
effort on the part of Noel. B Martin
of Wasco the...matter of financing a
corporation to furnish a 24-hour elec*
trie light and power system for Sher
man county passed into substantial
concrete form Monday afternoon when
728 shares of the total of 1020 sub
scribed met at the county court
house, ratified and approved measures
taken previously, adopted a constitu
tion and bye laws and elected a board
of five directors to supervise and d i
rect the completion of the project.
A rticles had, previous to the m eet
ing, been filed w ith the corporation
commissioner for the state of Oregon
and with the Si erman county clerk,
ib is with the adoption of constitution
Hntl bye law s, completed the legal sets
necessary and from th at date the
Sherman E lectric Company is a recog
nized factor in the affairs of the
state.
Directors elected were: C.
Buckley, Grass Valley, three year
term; C. H. Howell, Wasco, N. W.
Thompson, Moro, two year term; R
H.- McKean,
Wasco, and A. M.
Wright, Moro, one year term. Later
the hoard met, organized and elected
C. A. Buckley, president; N. W.
Thompsoif, vice president; A. M.
Wright, secretary
and treasurer.
The annual meeting is set by the bye
laws fot the first Monday in March of
each- year at the county court house
in Moro.’ Moro was selected as the
principal office of the company. Spe
cial stock holders meetings may be
held at any time upon call of the
president, vice president, or three
directors. , A majority of the stock
must be represented at all such
meetings, a two-thirds vote of those
present being sufficient to amend the
bye laws at any meeting.
With the construction of the trans
mission lines to the towns of the
“county and the use by them of a 24-
hour light and power electric service
development of Sherman county w ill
be immensely advanced.
The. building of the
railroad
through this county to Shaniko has in
the past been the one big factor for
the settlement and growth of this
county, but electric power and light
service w ill do as much or more for
the county as a whole than did the
building of the Columbia Southern
Railway in 1898 to Wasco, in 1899 to
Moro, and in 1900 to Shaniko.
It was intended that Kent be in
cluded in the towns to be supplied by
the new company, but the quota as
signed to that section was not fully
taken up. Nevertheless it was the
wish of the meeting last Monday that
the directors extend the service to
that section if it could be satisfactor
ily arrangdti.
For bargains in used tires ar.d re
paired casings, in most all the sizes,
see the Wasco Vulcanizing Co., Guj
Chamnesa, proprietor.
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Wait for Dr. Freeze, if
you need eye service
Trips‘.each month to
Moro and other towns.
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*' New Water System for Mere
> At the mooting of the city coUhcil
Monday evening it was definitely de
cided that the new city reservoir
would be built in the north end of
Mowry street, facing the acreage
property recently bought by T. W.
A lley from R. T. Morgan. Thia loca
tion w ill aupply alt the corporate
lim its of Moro with water at any
storage depth maintained in the res
ervoir and give a good pressure on
fire hose in case of fire.
The reservoir contemplated w ill be
50 feet wide by 90 feet long, with a
dividing wall lengthwise through the
center. Thia method of construction
w ill furnish the city with twin reser
voirs of total capacity of a little
more than 200,000 gallons. When
completed the reservoir will be higher
than the weather vane on the racing
barn at the county fair grounds, thus
supplying the fair ground with ample
water supply during fair week. It is
also said to be thirty-three feet higher
than the one now used by the city.
A t this same council meeting com
petitive bids were submitted by sales
men of pipe from Portland with the
result that a 6-inch steel lead jolrit
caulked pipe was decided upon and
ordered. Immediate delivery, price,
and quality being deciding factors.
The members of the council are
planning to have this work completed
by early summer. When ready for
use the present reservoir w ill be
abandoned, the pipe taken up and
connection made through the alley in
block 21 with the two large mains
and the new main to be laid to the
new reservoir site.
B tfflar Foand Conntiaf the Money
Wednesday evening when R. C- A t
wood and W. A. May returned to the
office of the McCoy-Atwood Co. store
at Wasco, after the supper hour, they
found the janitor of the Hotel Sher
man in the office of the store counting
over some 6200 left upon the desk du
ring the absence of the men at sup
per.
Sheriff Chrisman was» notified and
went to Wasco in company with Dep
uty J. M. Eddy and brought the man
to the county jail. It is said that he
claims Wednesday night to be his 5th
visit to the store in the last week,
but that he had only taken a pair of
shoes, two suits of underwear, a
knife, and some tobacco. He further
said that at one of his visits he found
61000 on the office desk and different
sums at other times.
Entrance and
exit of the adventurous man was
through a transom over a door on the
second floor, easy to reach from the
new Hotel Sherman annex.
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ing that a meeting w ill be held at
Moro opera house Sunday ^afternoon,
March 14, at 3 p. m. for the purpose
of perfecting the organization o f a
local band.
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The state wide political pot is be zation. Let everybody attend who
ginning to boil, particularly for the can help the project along.
office of secretary of State. For this
office at the present time there are
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six announced candidates.
Among
this number we notice the name of
Dr. W. D. Wood of Hillsboro, for
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the last 18 years state senator from
Washington county. The editor of
the Observer has a personal acquaint
ance with Dr. Wood as well as with
nearly all the other gentlemen whose
names have been mentioned. We are
of the opinion that Dr. Wood is the
best qualified for the position, not
IN T H R E E M O D E L S
overlooking the fact that one of the
candidates has been in the tffice of
the secretary of state for a number of
years. We base our opinion upon the.
record made by Dr. Wood in the state
senate, when* not considering office,
but the good of the state. He has a l
ways served upon the ways and means
We are able to make im m ediate delivery on th e oversize 20-35 from
committee and irom his experience
there has come the formation of the
our warehouse any time. O ther sizes can be delivered from factory
emergency board, the safety valve
regulator holding public officials with
branch on 10 day notice.
in their appropriations. Dr. Wood
was responsible for the emergency
board as it functions today and also
We will have a big working supply of extra pa^ts* in stock next
for the abolishing of special commit
tees appointed by each legislature to
m onth. Before this cornea in, any order fo r’ parts received at our
investigate and expert books and
offices of public officials and institu
Wasco office before 4 p.m. can be shipped from factory branch at
tions, when all concerned knew that
no investigation would be made, it
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Rev. E. E. McVicker returned Sat
urday from Portland where he partic
ipated in the first state convention of
churches of all denominations held in
Oregon with the view of furthering a
better understanding of what the in
terchurch movement stands for.
To properly place this matter be
fore our local people Mr. McVicker
has decided to use the morning ser
mon hour of each Sunday during
March to present different phases of
the work.. The first of the series w ill
be next Sunday morning, more details
appearing in the regular church an
nouncement.
In speaking about the interchurch
movement Mr. McVicker said: "The
interchurch movement is one involving
the church constituency of all denom
inations. It is a movement which
challenges every man and woman who
stands for the uplift of the human
race. We have been sending our
millions of dollars to the various
countries to maintain life —life which
has been ravaged by barbarianism,
scourge and famine—which ‘Christian
ity is remov’ng wherever it is intro
duced.
Why not Christianize the
world whereby these evils may be re
moved and means- introduced^ to pro
vide self preservation? Talents and
my^ns' provided now to accomplish
this end is only loaned resources.
Let us study this greatest ^movement
as it w ill be presented at the • morn
ing services each Sunday in March at
the Presbyterian church."
Department of the interior, U. S.
land office at The Dalles, Oregon,
March 2, 1920.
Notice >■ hereby given that Dell
H. Wright, of Klondike, Oregon,
who, on June 7, 1915, made homestead
entry. No. 015063, for eftsel, sw jsel,
Section 28, township 1-north, range
.18 east, Willamette Meridian, has
filed notice of intention to make final
three year proof, to establish claim
to the land above dedbribed, before
Mary L. Hoekineon, elerk of the cir
cuit court, at Moro, Oregon, on the
16th day of April, 1900.
Claimant names aa witnesses:
Albert S. Porter, of Wasco, Ore
gon; Vern Coe and A. S. Noyes, of
Moro, Oregon, and Grant Morgan, of
The Dalles, Oregon.
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