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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (July 9, 1920)
I Maral I ASB B^B^s — — ft• her parents, R. W. Pinkerton and wife. • Presbyterian Church Announcements A ba tracts promptly mads by the Sherman County Abe tract Co., Moro, Oregon. * pecial Prices on Groceries Ivory Soap, large ban, Campbells Soups, any variety, 2 cans . 13 f o r ................ 1.00 Matches, best grade. 12 boxes fo r . .25 Extra cut Stringless Beans. 3 cans for . . '.70 .45 O Cedar O il. *in sizes fo r 25c. 50c and 1.00 Del M onte Maine C orn, 3 cans f o r ........... 70 O Cedar Mops. N o 4 size each............ 1.25 G old Crest Butter, 2 lb ro ll fo r. - . . Brooms, best grade, 1.25 t o ............’. . . 1.90 1 lb can G iradella G round Chocolate .47 > , a J * Carnation M ilk , large can . • - ■ ............15 Sea Foam washing powder, 3 pkg for. • G olden West Coffee, 2% " “ .......................... 1 “ small can, 3 f o r . . . . . . .25 1.35 O lym p ic flap jack flour, per pkg ........... .35 “ ............. 57 Albers flap jack flour, per p k g ................... 35 Schillings B a lin g Powder, 5 lb tin,.. ■ ° “ 5 pound t in . . . . 2.65 ................... " 85 . • 1.35 Corn Meal, white or yellow, pkg each 2.35 .20 2 y i lb tin . . . 1.25 Pork and Beans, Del Monte brand: Small buffet can, 6 f o r .................. Mens Black and Cordovan Hose, .55 best quality cotton, 3 pair for . . . .65 M edium can, 3 for ................ .50 Canvas G lo v p , heavy weight, per pair N o. 2 can, 3 fo r - ................................55 .25 M O R O TR A D IN G C O M ORO, OREGON j he O b .* e rv « * P ' * >!<<■. Mil t-RMAA «.<•. ilHWWK We Have in Stock a Large Lot of S e ll Piper fcr Stasis b iy . Farm Wagons and Trucks July 9, 1920 F R ID A Y ... in Both Wide and Standard Tracks E u ro aa Also McCormick and Deering Reapers and McCormick Headers with ua. A Full Line of Extras for MdCormick and Deering Machines Grain Boxes and Grain Elevators Lodge No 121. A. P. & A m . Muro. Or. ' Meed the fiiat ‘ and third Thuridav evening« of esc)i month Vuiting members cordially invited to taeet By order of W . M . J. M . P a r r y , Secretary. B e th la h a m no . C h a p te r 78 o. a. s. Regular communication leach 2d and 4th Thursday .evenings monthly. i M rs . I n a K u n s m a n , W orthy Matron M rs . E sther M k ^ o y . Secretary., Aaykody Needing any of the Above # ill Save Money F a r m e r s E d u o a tlo n a l a n d C o - O p e r a tiv e U n io n o f A m e r ic a by Calliag on ns. M oro L o c a l N o . 41 GINN, COLEMAN & CO. Meets in l . O . O . F . hall each 2nd and 4th Saturday afternoon. Visiting members welcome W . S. Powell President. W . H . Ragsdale, Secretary. MORO, OREGON If you have a news item, tell it to the Observer. Do not imagine we know it and then wonder why it is not in the pape:. Please use the phone if not convenient to call aid tell us personally. Our Motto gome real good buys in real es tate In Washington, Gilliam, Wasco, and Crook counties. Also at Golden- dale, Wash. See md upstairs. Bank of Moro building, Alex Hunter,. Moro, Oregon. is. “ All we can give for the money; —not all we can get for the good«” The manufacturers hsve discontin ued the Building of Wide Track wagons so they are practically out of the market. We have a limited sup ply of both 3-inch and 3|-inch in stock but they will not last long. Any one wanting Wide Track wagons can get them by calling on us soon. Ginn, Coleman & Co. Th« Working Power of a Qollar |s What Count« . Yuba Ball Tread Tractors IN THREE IH 1 regular M O DELS M-55 oversize <0-70 oversize We are able to make immediate delivery on the oversize 20-35 from our warehouse any time. Other sizes can he delivered -from factory branch on 10 day notice, W p will httV’P u month, • — working supply of extra parts in stock next Before this oomes in, any order for , parts received at our Wasco office before 4 p.m. can be shipped from factory branch at Spokane next day. — z- ■- " ' ■ r O’Meara Supply and Implement Company , I „ Wasco, Orégon Sunday School, 10 a. m. Preaching and communion service * , — ' A. L. Barzee and wife are enjoying 11 a. m. Preaching, 8:00 p. m. a two weeks vacation at Newport on Choir practice, Monday, 8:00 p. m. the ^oast. There will be no Bible Study for Dr. Joe Sanders returned Wednes the next two weeks. day from a short business visit at On the third Sunday of July the Portland. only service at the Presbyterian church will be Sunday School as the During the month of June .58 of an pastor will be away. inch of rain was recorded at the State All are made welcome at these ser Experiment Station. vices. Come, lei us.worship the Lord Crosfield handles and sells only on the Sabbath day. Elmer E. McVicker, Pastor. genuine Holt extras. Do not be mis lead by inferior parts. Christian Science Society: Baseball game at Grass Valley this Services in the Church building, Sunday, July 11th. Condon vs. Mau Main street, ' at 11 a.ra. Subject: pin for a 11000 purse. “ Sacrament. ’’ Ford car for sale reasonable. Just Testimonial services each Wednes been overhauled. V. B. Howard, day evening, 8 o’clock. Moro. See me a t city pump Btation. Sunday School, rear church en trance, 10:15 a.m. Pupils up to tbe We understand that 87 signatures have been secured for the return of age of 20 are welcome. Reading room, rear church entrance, DeMoss Chautauqua week next year. open each Friday fiom 2 until 4 p.m., Just arrived, a good shipment of where the Bible and all authorized the Wide Track »Yellow Winona Christian Science literature may be wagon. Moro Hardware & Imp. Co. read, bought or borrowed. The public is cordially invited to A. M. Young, deputy district grand attend the^ church services and visit master, will hold installation of offi the reading room. . cers for Moro l.O .O .F. lodge* July 12th. Section Crew Careless With Fire The usual Dorcas social for Jiily will be held next Wednesday after Section men, burning trash at Hay noon at the home of Mrs. G. B. Bour- Canyon Monday, July 5th, • became hill. cureless and left while the fire was N. J. W illard, wife and daughter yet hot with the result that the wind have left the hot sands of Biggs for drove it toward the unloading plat th e‘cool breeze of the coast near Til form where a flat car on which was a combine was standing. lamook. The running grass fire caught an For sale reasonable. Good gasoline other pile of trash under the platform «quick meal two burner stove with with the result that the unloading ] burner and oven under neath. Harold platform was burning smartly when I Royae, Moro. A O. E. Baker chanced to pass that way Just received a new snappy line of about 4:00 p.m. He saw the situa ‘ boys suits, all sizes, up to the minute tion, could find no one near any of the ! styles, prices from $9/5$ to $16.85. houses, and climbed into the A. S. Porter home through a window where J Moro Trading Co. he phoned the alarm to Klondike and | Squire Huis, 70 year oldest brother from there A. B. Potter relayed it in i of C. G. Huis of this city, has been to Wasco via auto, the Wasco phone visiting here from Richmond, Ray station being closed. ¡ county, Missouri. Shortly after Mr. Baker got back to the fir« from the Porter phone, Dell We are in position to give good Wright appeared, being summoned by close prices on grain boxes and eleva the column of smoke from his farm tors, wagons, reapers and headers. •and was soon followed by one of the Ginn, Coleman & Co. section crew, who summoned the rest We Have a supply of canvas in from where they were working about widths 72 inch 10 ounce at $2.25 per a quarter of a mile away and by quick yard; 40 inch draper canvas at $1.35 work the fire whs gotten under control just as several auto loads of fire fight per yard. Moro Trading Co. ers came from Wasco. Special Notice — Crosfield gives Damage was confined to the unload warning to rush your orders for all ing platform, 80 per cent destroyed; parts that you will need for overhaul the freight car, 25 per cent of the ing Holt Harvesters and Tractors. decking burned away; and the com bine Rcorched. Dr. J. C. Ghormley reports the ar If allowed to burn ten minutes past rival of a seven pound boy at the the time of discovery all property at home of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Dugger, Hay Canyon would have been destroy east of Kldndike, 9:45 p. m. July 4th. ed. Mr. Baker is entitled to some thing more substantial than a vote of I have several varieties of splendid thanks for his presence of mind. garden peas almost ready for canning. Order now if you want them. Write, ’phone, or call on Harold Bryant, Ross C. OrndufT is again in his old Moro, Oregon. position at the Farmers State Bank. One good 2-ton truck and one prac Remember Mullikin, the harness tically new 3i-ton truck for sale by DesChutes Motor Co., at a sacrifice man, is now at Wasco, Call and see price. Investigate this before buying him. any large truck. We have a 1000 bushel steel grain An amount totaling $396.75 was the bin for sale cheap. Ginn, Coleman & sum of the collection taken at the Co. close of the address by Billy Sunday Look at our mens’ gummer hats. Tuesday morning in tl e Chautauqua Kakhi, grey, and mixed colors. Each tent at DeMoss.' 75 cents. Dress hats, $3.00 to $7.50. Crosfield is Sherman county agent Moro Trading Co. for the Harter Mustard Eater, made We wish to thank our Moro friends to fit all sizes of headers and harvest for their kind sympathy and beautiful ers. Orders received at once, we will flowers rendered us in the passing of rush in by express. our baby. Old fashioned grand Steinway Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Wilcox. (i piano for sale at the Dewey Thompson Thursday, July 15th, farm east of Moro. Mrs. Mildred Dr. Freeze, the eye Mortensen, 1225 Sherman avenue, specialist will make Hood River, Oregon. his regular visit to W. K. Johnson, new local manager Moro and may be consulted free at for the Tumalum I.umber Co., has Moro Pharmacy all day. Take care bought the OrndufT corner lot at First of your eyes before harvest by giving and Court streets and work has sta rt them protection against sun, wind, ed upon a 5-room dwelling to be occu: and dust. See the new Crookes lens pied by Mr. Johnson. which breaks the glare, but does not distort or discolor objects. Next visit For sale by owner. 480 acres of first part of September. At Wasco, wheat land in Morrow county with July 14th. Grass Valley, July 16th. stocK and machinery, fair buildings and plenty of water. Priee $40 per Kent, July 17th, until 2 p.m. acre. Part cash, terms on balance. For further particulars write W. G. Palmateer, Morgan, Oregon. No. 216. Report of the Condition of The Rank of M oro, at M oro, in the «late of Oregon The county farm bureau recommend at the cloae ot butineaa May 4. 1920. that $3.50 per day be, the regular wage for steady farm help. Harvest wages Resource«— „ to be $5 for common labor, sack sew Loose an«l iliacounla ................................ $509,231 83 tecured and unsecured......... 450 13 ers $6 and $7; combine drivers $6 and Overdraft«, Rond« and warrant« 12,011 98 $7; truck drivers $7. M> and $8. pick Furniture and fitture« .............................. 1.852 50 ing up and piling sacks, 2 cents each. Due from approved reierve hank« ......... 97 Mr. McVicker, the pastor of the Presbyterian ohuroh, will leave on Monday for Eugene where the Oregon Synod will convene on the 13th and continue until the 22d. Mrs. McVick er will accompany him as far as Ore gon City where she will visit her mother, brothers and sisters. He will return in time to till his pulpit on the 4th Sunday before leaving for his va cation during the n»optb of August. • Why pay $tf.9O and $7.00 an acre to harvest your crop when you can buy a good second hand gas harvester for $000.00? We have left with us a 16- foot Best, fitted with s 80-horse Holt motor. Can be put in AI shape for a reasonable amount to cut the average crop thia year. Thia is one of the beet buys we have had and wUl not last, so you had better hurry. Croafleld, Wasco, Oregon. AN INVITATION Moro Chureh: Check« and other ca«h item «.................. Ca«h on hand ............ .................. ............. O ther reaource«, donation«...................... Total ............... 2,691 04 8,009 22 MO 00 $384.099 87 Ltabilittca— Capital «lock paid in . ........ J 25,000 Surplus fund .................... .......................... 25,000 Undivided proSta. teas eapenses and taaea p-id ............ . . . . . . .................... 823 Due to hank« and hankers . ..................... 17.953 Individual deposits subject to check . . . 322,382 Tim « aad Saving« deposits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.540 N ote* and hills rediscounted......... .......... 91.400 Bill« payable for moSey borrowed . . . 50.000 Total .......................... 74 41 16 56 00 00 $584.099 87 Subscribed and «worn to before ■ « thia 8th day of July, 1920. i . C. Harper. Notary Public. x —*') My commission «spares Feb I, 1924 Oftrrgct. stteat k Bnrnum. It. C Atwood, Director«. Summer's Sunny - Hearted First Child invites us to make the most of the ¿olden summer gladdened by the promise o f a full harvest after honest toil. & » June’s invitation to be happy and care free holds good for all the year. Those who accept it have learned the secret of good liv in g —a well ordered present that provides also fo r a future harvest of contentment and peace. Accept June’s in vita tion through a banking connec tion here. The wise, full use of our facilities w ill help you to solve the secret o f good living. B an k o f M oro M o ro , O re g o n SOAP COLGATE’S BEST DOLLAR THE DOZEN New Stock Just A rrive d M y First Thousand Bars Sold in a Week MORO PHARMACY Phone K. SCHADE, Prop. 303 Just Arrived A shipment of the Yellow Winona Wide Track W agon We Also Have The Superior Drill, size 20-7 and 18-7 VanBrunt Drill, size 18-7 Thomas Drill, size 16-7 loro Hardware & Implement Co. MORO, OREGON Sherman County Agent for Rotary Rod feeder Also we carry a complete line of Furniture, Ranges and Heaters, and remember the Famous Z Line of Engines and Fairaday Washing Machines. M oro B a r b er S P o r c e la in J0 ath hop T u b ., Everything First Class and up to date. Shop in Brick Building next Observer Office c. H. JO H N S , P r o p r ie to r . H s z E o x o , -------------- O r e g o n . 00 00 State of Oregon I ## County of Sherman j " I, K.A. McFheraon, cashier of the above named hank, do «oleranly «wear that the above statement ia true to the heat of my knowledge and belief. K. A. McPherson,-cashier. (A—*—.) f LI > June— H ARRY M. BENSON H E N R Y HULS B e n s o n 6k H u i s General Contractors and Builders Cement and Concrete W o rk a Specialty M o ro , O re g o n
