. Local Ckarck Aaaoancements
Active construction work is under
way for the DesChutes Motor Com-
Presbyterian Church Announcements
patny garage building.
Moro Church for July 25th:
Job wanted hauling wheat by the
Sunday School, 10 a. m.
are Prepared
To give' Quality, Service and Prices on your
harvest needs. We sell, for cash exclusively.
Mens sox, good quality, 3 pairs * . . . . .
Cotton Comforts and Blnkets, $3.50 to $7.10
Crochet Cotton in colors. 3 balls................. 25
Common p i n s . . . . . . . .........................
Mens summer hats, 75c t o ................' •
W ork shirts, each, $1.50 t o . . . , . . . . .
*10
Safety pins, JOc and....................................... 15
Summer weight union suits. $1.25 t o . .
Slip grip collar fasteners in gold, each
.50
Canvas io widths 40 inch and 72 inch
per yard, $1.35 and.....................
2.25
Kahki pants for boys, vouths, and men
from $1.50 t o . . . . . . . . -------
Lace bottom riding pants, good qual-
• ity kahki.
. . . . . i ..............
Mens Harvester Shoes, in Mule and
Elk skin. pair, all sixes, $2.25 to 3.75
Cretones, (ancy and staple colors, per
yard. 55c to .... ............. .85
Voiles and Flaxons. per yard, 25c to . .
.65
Just Arrived
Ladies and childrens Handkerchiefs,
each, 10c to ....................-•;*-**■*..
.75
Childs Gingham Dresses
N ew Stocks of the Following Have
Childs Sateen Bloomers
Fancy bath towel sets in colors. .........
Common and fancy toweling, per
yard, 35c to . . . . ■
..........
Ladies Sport Veils
Ladies Aprons
W hite Embroidered Petticoats
Womens and Childrens Hats, 25c to $1.25
*60
Japanese Blue Bird table cloths, $2.75 to 3.75
Cinghams, plain and plaids, new stock
White wash skirting, good weight, yard
9
New line of Corsets in Bon Ton and Royal
Worcester
.60
M O R O T R A D IN G C O
MORO,
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O ksener
ild . SII^.HWA^ « Ó.
We Have in Stock a Large Lo^ of
Farm Wagons and Trucks
in Both Wide and Stapdard Tracks
Official Paper fcr S t a County.
vith us.
A Full Line of
E x tr a c to r McCormick and Deering Machines
z Grain Boxes and G rain Elevators
Meets the first and third
Thursday evenings of each
month
Visiting members
cordially invited to
neet
By order of W . M .
J. M . P a k r y , Secretary.
B o t h lo h a m
N O.
C h a p te r
78 O. K. 8. •
Regular communication
leach 2d and 4th Thursdiiy
.evenings monthly.
|M ks . I n a K u n s m a n ,
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W orthy Matron
M rs . E sth er M kl (TT. Secretary.;
Aaybody Needing any of tke Above Will Save Money
^ " a r m o r s E d u c a t io n a l a n d C o - O p s r *
a tiv a U n io n o f A m s r io s
M or o L o c a l N o . 41 >
GINN, COLEMAN & GO.
Meets in I . O . O . F . hall each 2nd and 4th
Saturday afternoon.
Visiting member^
welcome.
W . S. Powell President.
W . H . Ragsdale, Secretary.
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MORO, OREOON
For sale Baby Best Harvester $450.
Crosfield at Wasco.
Our Motto
is.
“All we can give
for the money;
— not all we can
get for the goods”
Th« Working Power^of a Dollar la What Counts
\
If you have a news item, tell it to
the Observer. I)o not imagine we
know it and then wonder why it ia not
in the papet. Please use the phone
if not convenient to call ard tell us
personally.
Reward for return of dark bay mare
with roached mane, white hind foot,
branded either JH attached or FX on
left shoulder, weight about 1150.
Gone aince June 26th. Verne Coe,
Moro, Oregon.
3t jl6
For sale by ow ner.. 480 acres of
wheat land in Morrow county with
stocK and machinery, fair buildings
and plenty of water. Price $40 per
acre. Part cash, terms on balance.
For further particulars write W. G.
Palrnateer, Morgan, Oregon.
Yuba Ball Tread Tractors
IN
THREE
( H l regular
O
M ODELS
oversize
flHO oversize
We are able to make immediate delivery on the oversize 20-35 from
our warehouse any time.
Other sizes can be delivered from factory
* branch on 10 day notice.
We will have a big working supply of extra parts in stock next
m onth.
Christian Science Society:
Services in the Church building,
Dr. C. PL,' Jo h n s was a business visi
Old fashioned grantjZ Steinway
piano for sale at the Dewey Thompson to r ut P ortlund th is week.
farm east of Moru. Mrs. Mildred
We have a supply of canvas in
Mortensen, 1225 Gherman avenue,
widths 72 inch 10 ounce at $2.25 per
Hood River, Oregon.
,
yard; 40 inch draper canvas at $1.35
It is expected that work will begin per yard. Moro Trading Co.
this week on the new Urquhart home,
W ord was received Sunday by the
a 7-»dom 2-story residence. Altho fam ily app risin g them th a t th e m other
not/yet decided, Mr. Urquhart expects of Mrs. G. A. Meloy Jr. had passed
to build with hollow tile.- •
Youngsters playing in the vacant
lot back^^f Dr. C. L. Poley’s resi
dence, Wednesday, set tire to some
boxes piled against his chicken house.
Fortunately it was discovered in time
before damage resulted.
Friday morning residents of Moro
had their first chance to test the
water pressure direct from the new
twin 200,000 gallon reservoirs. The
pressure at the-home of the editor of
the Observer, near the old reservoir,
is 3J times times that of the eld.
Uncle Jim Woods and wife re tu rn
ed Monday from th e ea ste rn p a rt of the
sta te w here they have been visiting
with th e ir children a t d ifferen t places
the la st few weeks.
Among o th ers m entioned la st week
as losing In the two sto rm s th a t
v isited S herm an . county, w ere the
Douma b ro th ers who had nine acres
burn Friday, Bet by the lightning. •
Dr. Gard retu rn ed M onday from
P o rtlan d w here he and Mrs. G ard w ere
visitors over Sunday. T he trip down
was made via au to which Mrs. Gard
retain ed while com pleting h er visit.
:
Rev. E. E. McVicker, p a ste r of Moro
.Ihresbyterian church, a t th e m eeting of
the church Synod a t E ugene la st
''W orkmen will soon have the exter week was appointed a m em ber of the
ior of the new Hotel Moro completed. standing com m ittee on resolutions.
Before this comes in, any order for parts received at our
Wasco office before 4 p.m. can be shipped from factory branch M
Spokane next day.
" O’Meara ¿Supply and Implement Company
Wasco, Oregon
. Andy S h earer retu rn ed M onday from
a w in ter Bpeut w ith his b ro th er W il
liam a t Shedd, Oregon. Andy will be
h ead er ten d er on th e P e te rs & Ginn
com bine when It s ta rts w ork S a tu r
Having turned over the ranch to day.
Mr. Mclntyremand sold him my outfit,
I will sell, or take four good work
horses in trade on my 12-30 Monarch
tractor. The bearings, gear and track
are all new.
Suitable either to plow
or run a separator. Owen Thompson,
Moro, Oregon.
The Christian Science church soci
ety closed a long pending deal last
Friday when they took title to their
present church building on Main
street from the heirs of the Hill
’estate. As soor as arrangements can
be made a number of improvements
in the building will be undertaken.
Mrs. Truman Strong is entertaining
her parents, C. A. Rasch and wife,
arriving Friday from Cottage Grove;
a brother, Walter Rasch, arriving
Saturday from Tacoma, and a second
brother, Herman, who has been with
them the last month. Mr. Rasch
senior is looking for a location, hav
ing sold their property near Cottage
Grove.
P aul Cam pbell was a week-end visi
to r a t the U rq u h art home in th is city.
He has ju st been d ischarged from th e
arm y a fte r two and a half years In the
Philippines and tw enty-one m onths In
Siberia.
Two com bines will begin h arv e st
operatio n s on th e L. L. Peetz farm
lands th is S aturday. One will bo in
charge of L. L. P eetz and th e o th er
will be operated by P e te rs & Ginn,
who have p a rt of the P eetz farm u n d er'
lease.
At the home of his p are n ts last
Sunday G eorge IL H ansen en tertain ed
a few of his friends a t d in n er la st S un
day afternoon. N um bered am ong those
p resen t w ere Mack E llsw orth of th is
city ; W alter W illiam s and E v erett
Stubblefield, both froul M alta, Mon
tana.
D.-C. W heat and wife retu rn ed F ri
day from a four w eek cam ping vaca
tion trip sp en t a t Camp Sherm an. They
had intended to m ake th e circle by
way of K lam ath, C rater Lake and Med
ford to P ortlaud, but the gasoline
sh o rtag e caused them to change th eir
plans.
John Muir was a visitor in Moro
last week from his new location at
Olex in Morrow county. He said that
his own crop proh|>ecta waH all for a
good sizable crop and that wheat in
that section had the making of a
bumper crop. Mrs. Muir and Miss
R ailroad train s se t two fires along
Grace, who have been visiting in the the rig h t of way la st week betw een
east, left New York city July 9th on Moro and W asco. T he first was a t the
their return to Sherman county.
north edge of Moro, being stopped be
Alex Hunter reports the closing of
three realty transactions last week by
which Dell Wright becomes owner of
960 acres ut Hay Canyon, taking title
from Fred Mahrt; Dick Reckman of
Ken? takes title from C. E. Dunn of
Colorado on a 480 acre farm 4J miles
southeast of Klondike; Norman Smith
buys 160 acres located 2 miles north
east of DeMoss Springs from John M.
DeMoss.
The directors of Erskine school
have let the contract for a full base
ment under the present building
which, when completed will be used
to house the heating- plant for the
building. Erskine school was the
first in the county to be built as a
model standard building and for
years was spoken of by educators as
the best built and maintained school
building in central eastern Oregon.
Now Erskine school district again as
serts its lead in such matters by the
present improvement.
An inside patch after your tire has
been entirely cut through by some
I sharp object is nothing more than first
aid. It is by no means a permanent
repair.
A temporary patch will
usually pull away from the position
it originally held and force itself
through the break. When inside
patches are used an outside emergency
band should he applied, but both re
moved as quickly as it is possible to
get to a tire man and have a perma
nent repair made. Thousands of tires
are prematurely scrapped each year
because the necessary repairs have
been neglected. Injured tires, from
what ever the c a u s ^ a re quickly, ef
ficiently and prhrrfptty repaired by
L. M. Thompeoq at th« Moro Tire
« ijhop.
“ A man ia judged, not alone by the company he
keeps, bat by the manner in which he pays hia b ills .’*
'
The fellow who produces a roll of bilia and peels
off the number required to meet an obliagtion might
formerly have created a favorable impression.
Nowadays people are likely to wonder why he
isn’t progressive enough to keep his money In bank and
check it out as needed.
How do you pay your bills?
B a n k o f M oro
M o ro ,
O re g o n
aw ay a t the fam ily home in Corvallt?
on S aturday.
Plumbing, telephone and light wiring
are about completed. Plastering is
F R I D A Y . . . . . J u l y 23. 1920 moving along rapidly. The directors
of the company are now considering
E u r t i a Lodge N o 121.
applications for the operation of the
A . F. A A M , M o r o . or.
building.
Also McCormick and Deering Reapers
and’ McCormick Headers
by Calling on ns.
Preaching, 11 a. m.
Preaching, 8 :00 p. m.
Dorcas Wednesday afternoon.
Elmer E. McVicker, Pastor.
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Dr. J . C. Ghormley reports that Main street, at 11 a.m. Subject:
Mrs. J. R. Dillinger of Kent, who re* “ Truth. ”
Testimonial services each Wednes
centiy underwent a major operation at
The Dalles hospital, is convalescing day evening, 8 o’c lo c k ./
Sunday School, rear church en
nicely.
trance, 10:15 a.m. Pupils up to the
Ginn, Coleman & Co., have had age of 20 are welcome.
their store show windows lowered,
Reading room,rear church entrance,
with the result that now passers by open each Friday from 2 until 4 p.m.,
can bee goods on display to much bet where the Bible and all authorised
ter advantage.
Christian Science literature may be
A letter from Rev. IL H. Miles, read, bought or borrowed.
The public is cordially invited to
new pastor for Moro M. E. church,
attend
the church services and visit
to R. J. Ginn says that he will be in
Moro in time for the first Sunday in the reading room.
August.
;
It is reported that a deal has been
about concluded by which Mrs. W. J.
Davis of Grass Valley will become
owner of the half section north east
of that city now owned by the Bishop
estate. The land joins the Barnum
Bros, property on two sides.
OREGON
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tack or bushel.* Three outfits with
drivers. Cali at Observer office or see
John Nelson at Grass Valley. St jl6.*
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District Deputy Grace Arbuthnot
announces that installation of officers
for Moro Rebecca lodge will be held
Friday evening, August 6th.
fore It cau g h t the crops a t th e E xperi
m ent station. T he seoond was on th e
Rebinan farm w here it w as p u t under
control juBt as It reached the wheat.
Fred O ttm an and son, from, P o rt
land, w ere v isitors this week a t the
Bourhill home. T his is the fra t viBlt
Mr. O ttm an has m ade to S h erm an
county In neurly a score of y ears and
the grow th of th e county h a s been
m ore th an he had considered possible.
He expects to h arv e st n ea r h ere this
season.
A p arty of form er resld e n te rs of
S herm an county wore visiting a t the
E. A. C ushm an hom e o ver Sunday of
lust week, co n sistin g of H. S. Mc-
Danel, form er county clerk, and wife,
H arry Moore and m other, Mrs. H. A.
M oore; Mrs. L uura Moore; and Mr.
and Mrs. Lawson, niece to the last
nam ed.
S. P. Brisbin and wife retu rn ed
T hu rsd ay from an auto trip as far
d o w n ' the W illam ette valley as the
sta te capltol. vlsithig p art of th e tim e
w ith relatives a t N ew berg and H ills
boro. On th eir retu rn they w ere ac
com panied by H ayden Brisbin, son of
S. P., now located a t Llnnton, and Mrs.
8. E. H oover and d aughter, from H ills
boro, d au g h ter of Mrs. Brisbin.
It is estim ated by those who special
ly study w heat conditions th a t tbn
1920 crop in S herm an county will be
Just about 3,500,000 bushels. At the
price a num ber of farm ers have con
tracted p a rt of th e ir crop th is m eans
approxim ately $K,700,000 to be divided
am ong probably 5,000 people. • No
w onder th ere are m illionaire farmer*
In Sherman oouaty.
HARVESTERS I
MAKE HARVESTING A PLEASURE
Goggles
Sun Burn Lotions'
Cream for Lips
MORO PHARMACY
K. SCHADE, Prop.
Just Arrived
A shipment of the Yellow Winona
Wide Track Wagon
We Also Have The
Superior Drill, size 20-7 and 18-7
VanBrunt Drill, size 18-7
Thomas Drill, size 16-7
Moro Hardware & Implement Co.
MORO, OREOON
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
M oro B a r b e r S h o p
P o r c e la in
JSath
Tub.
Everything First Class and up to date.
Shop in Brick Building next Observer Office
C. H . J O H N S ,
P r o p r ie t o r .
M o x o , ----------O x e g ro x x .^
X HARRY M. BENSON
General Contractors and Builders
Cement and Concrete Work a Specialty
M o ro , O re g o n
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