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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1920)
■ r I he O b s e rv e r- After working on the books of the I. R. HOWARD defunct Jacksonville bank for six MORO. OREGON. weeks, State Bank Superintendent Bennett filed bis report with the cir F R ID A Y .. October 1. 1920 cuit court, ebowlng assets of $217,- ’ S 527.18 and liabilities of $319.090, with The price ol The Observer is $1.50 pe. year, 75 cents lor sis month«, 50 cent« fo> an estimate that the bank will bo able lour month«— but if naid in «dvance wt to pay 25 cents on the dollar. accept $2.50 in full ’or 2 year«. Shortct Fear that Mr. and Mrs. Jessie E. term« than on«. ve»r 12 ’6 cent« per month A B u e M a ik h'-re w ill answer an ia- Tuck of Redfnond may be lost, with •cry. «hen cn 'eicU upon o ur ca le n d ar, out provisions. In the Gritzly basin <>vma ’ he Jure u.* the o*oer a< he date at country at the foot of Mount Jefferson,' «•hi , .'p » p t i \ u il’ « ’ • prompted the departure of a large search party from Sisters. No news <<r from the missing couple has been re Œ gk ceived for the past three weeks. • The Wasco county circuit court has dismissed t^a action brought by Silas Moody to enjoin the state highway L I‘> : r F E D E R A L R E S E R V E commission from constructing a pub Principal Events of the Week lic highway across land connecting up _ SYSTEM . the Columbia river highway iy east Briefly Sketched for Infor ern Oregon with the new state bridge recently completed over the Deschutes mation of Our headers. river. The first pay checks covering the New buildings of modern type are armory drill pay period of six months being erected on the Benson Pheasant for the Fifth infantry,' Oregon Na - C O W IN G the *eed is only one step in the •^production of a crop. If the harvest is to be farm west of Silverton, tional Guard, were received at the ad The laying of the superstructure for jutant-general’s office in Salem from © b u n d a n t , favorable conditions must be main tained. T o the business man, this means the $100,000 Sacred Heart academy In the war department at Washington. favorable credit conditions. Klamath Falls has begun. The checks aggregate $4,140.70. and J. R. Howard, who Is présidant ot T h e Federal Reserve System is the great Voters of Linn county at the coming cover the period from January 1 to the American Farm Bureau federation stabilizer of commercial credit conditions to» election will pass upon the question Juue 30, 1920. r day. I t insures an ample Aipply of such credit of an Increased county tax levy. Dlamonr lake, one of the famous j at all times, < Rain interfered with the Lincoln beauty spots of the Pacific North County fair, keeping the crowds away west, may he included in the boun-' FA R M ER S’ STATE BANK and hurting the fair financially- daries of Crater Lake park if the bill County sheriff and county clerks now being prepared by the National M o ro - - - - ¡Oregon of the state held two-day conventions Parks association passes congress, ac cording to word received by W. F. In Pendleton Friday and Saturday. Cleveland.—More than 100 delegates The recent rains have stopped har Ramsdell, forest supervisor of the were in their* seats in the Hippodrome vest work in Wallowa oounty, and if It Umpqua reserve. theatre here when Franklin D’Oller, continues much damage will be done. Marion county will have an agricul Residents of upper Hood River turist. This was __________________ ____ national commander, called to order decided at a meeting valley plan a vote on the proposition , oi the Marion County Community fed the second annual convention of the to increase the district’s special road eratiOn, when a proposal from Oregon American Legion. The theater re says th e G ood Judge tax. | Agricultural college was accepted. The sembled .a political convention deslg nated by standards. The rains of the past few days hay® ‘ college will provide the man. The Commander D’Oller presented Rev. Y o u get more genuine chew ------- -* the evergreen blackberry. coupty wjy r%isp $4000 and the state damaged Francis J. Kelly, of Troy, N. Y., the ing satisfaction from the Real ----- ... t0 a large ex- , contrjbut® $2000 of the $6000 necessary crop ot Lane county fighting chaplain,” who delivered the tent. to establish*thc office. Tobacco C hew than you ever Fully 50 per cent more potatoes will Sacramento was chosen as the place Invocation. Mayor William S. Fltz got from the ordinary kind. be available for shipment out of the fqr holding thp 1921 meeting of the gerald welcomed the visitors. A parade of 20,000 ex-service men, Deschutes valley this fall than last Pacific Coast Gas association at the T h e good tobacco taste witnessed by approximately 300,000 season. closing business session of Its con lasts so long— a small chew Irvin 8. Cobb left Bend Thursday vention in Portland. Officers elected people, including about 50,000 but-of- town visitors, closed the first day of of this class o f tobacco lasts after a three weeks' hunting and fish were: Ptesident^.W, H. Copus, Port ing trip. He will travel east to the land; vice-j>resident, Henry -Bostwick, the second annual convention. much longer than a big chew The insignia of each division was Oregon Short Line. San Francisco; secretary-treasurer, W. of the old kind. T h a t’s why in evidence in the parade, practically OooleyJSun, aged 7 yean, was killed M. Henderson, San Francisco. it costs less to use. almost Instantly at Salem when an The Norwegian-Danish Methodist everybody marching in uniform. The delegation from Centralia. auto truck In which he was riding was conference was fprmally opened in A n y man who has used both struck by a moving train. Portland by Bishop W. O. Shepard Wash., carried In the parade the flag h(ch was fired upon by the I. W. kinds w ill tell you that. Principals of the high schools of with more than 30 ministers, a large Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson coun number of laymen and a few visiting W. on Armistice day, 1919. The flag 'Put up in two styles ties met Saturday in Redmond to women In attendance. Thlrtyflve mis was carried by J. E. Murry, the same adopt the 1920 Iqtencholastle gridiron sions and churches were presented by man who carried It then. Four men marching at Murray’s W -B C U T is a long fine-cut tobacco schedule' for Central Oregon. the delegates from California, Idaho, side at the time were killed. T. E. Harold, who escaped from the Montana, Washington and Alaska. R I G H T C U T is a short-cut tobacco state penitentiary at Salem In 1912 and A committee of the Minnesota legis ,, n , '10/ Ö* , was captured In Idaho a week ago, was lature, composed of W. I. Nolan and BRIEF GENERAL NEWS returned to the prison. He has two W. I. Norton, representatives of Min Jacob 8chlff, widely known banker y ea n of his sentence yet to serve. neapolis, and J. T. McIntosh and John CXXXXXXXXX>CXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX><^DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOC Decision of sawmill companies be 1. Levin, senators of St. Paul, were In and philanthropist, died at h is home tween Reedsport and Powers to re Salem last week conferring with mem In New York. Flour dropped 26 to 40 cents a bar duce wages was abandoned after a bers of the Oregon Industrial Accident conference with officials of the Loyal commission with relation to the opera rel at the principal Minneapolis mills Legion of Loggers and Lumbeqnen. tion of the Workmen’s Compensation Monday, due to tho weak wheat mar ket. The Crown-Willamette Paper com act, now In effect In this state. General Wrangel, opposing Russian pany has purchased approximately The special election called at Ash 2100 acres of spruce timber land In land on Initiative petition to vote for Bolshevik forces on the southern front, Clatsop county from H. E. Noble of the city to issue $100,000 bonds for has taken more than 10,000 prisoners Portland, the consideration being $213,- the purchase of Buck lake, 35 miles In six days. DEALERS IN Grasshoppere, making tbelr first ap 500. east, as an auxiliary wkter supply, pearance In southeastern Nebraska for L im e , P la s te r, C e m e n t, B u ild e rs Not a single fire started In the tim defeated- the proposition by a vote of bered district of western Lane county 833 to 60. A $100,000 bond election years, are damaging winter wheat, Supplies, L u m b e r, W o o d , Coal, during the past summer, according to to conserve the waters of upper Ash which is just coming up. C edar Posts, and H ay. Ellbu Root, who has been aiding In a report b? Carl V. Oglesby, supervis land creek for auxllltary water supply, * . • I the establishment of a permanent ing warden of the Western Fire Patrol held September 19, carried 4 to 1. oourt of justice at The Hague confer M A N U FA C TU R ER S OF association. Willamette valley hop growers re Discovery of a hybrid prune, the port that the Oregon crop is about 90 ence. has returned to America. Alexandre MUlerand was elected “New Oregon,” which experts declare per cent harvested and saved, notwith prqpldent of France by the national will revolutionize prune growing In standing the recent exceedingly heavy the entire northwest, was announced rains. It Is behoved there will be assembly to succeed Paul Deschanel, <XXXXXXX)OOQOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO<M at a banquet of prominent Oregon scarcely any loss in the remaining 10 who resigned because of ill health. The Cesmopolltan Trust company of nursery men. per cent in the yards. The clusters The candidates' campaign pamphlet, have been free from Hoe and mold Boston was closed by order of 8tate which will be printed and mailed to The Oregon crop this season will ag Bank Commissioner Allen. This Is the fifth Boston bank to be closed the voters of Oregon prior to October gregate about 50,000 bales. since the Charles Jonxi crash. 17, is being compiled by Secretary of The continued fall rains have done BY AUTO State Koser and will contain approxi great damage to the Oregon prune A N D V IS IT T H E D A L L E S Cases Rem oved to F ed e ra l C o u r t 4 mately 60 pages. crop. Allowing for exaggerations in After five hours of deliberation a reports, which are usual when a crop Portland, Ore.—Throe members of jury at Salem returned a verdict of is in danger or Injured, prune men the federal liquor squad, indicted foj guilty against Mrs, Lena Steiger, $5 nevertheless believe that this year’s thetr alleged share in the recqnt kill years old, charged with conspiring crop has been cut down one-half. If ing of R. W. Hedderly, suspected boot In the concrete, fully equipped, roomy garage of W a l with Jesse Mullinix to murder her this Is true It w4ll mean a loss of legger, will not be tried in the circuit ther-William» Company. Competent workman always ready husband last March. about $3,000,000 to the prune growers court. By the issuance of a writ of Thomas A. Hayes of Portland filed of Oregon There were prospects In habeas corpus applied for by United to help you in any way they can at least expense to you. with the secretary of state petitions the spring of a crop of 80.000.000 States District Attorney Humphreys, For any service rendq^d the charge will always be reasonable. of his candidacy for United, States pounds of dried prunes in the state. the officers will be tried in federal senator from Oregon at the general The estimate was cut down to 60,000,- court before Judge Wolverton. One election to be held In November. Mr. 000 pounds when the June drop calne of the older acts of congress, enacted Hayes will make the race under the and now the rain damage has reduced in 1833, provides that any Indictment Independent banner. the crop probably to 30,000.000 pounds of any Officer while serving under the TH E DALLES, - -' O R E O O N .. Plans for the extermination of the O. R. Hartwig of Portland, president revenue laws of the United States, alfalfa weevil, an Insect which al of the Oregon State Federation of shall be removed to the federal courts ready -has caused considerable dam Labor, was nominated to continue in for trial. 4 t I H -I-H H U ! ■ I ■ H ’h H -l I H t I I 144 b » H ) H 1 H age to the alfalfa crops of the Pa office at the state federation couven elite coast, were discussed at a meet tion at Pendleton. Davie Ellis of 2 K ille d , S H u r t in W re c k . ing of prominent western entomolo Portland was nominated for vice presi Portland, Or.—Two persons were gists held In Salem. dent and W, E. Kioisey, Incumbent, killed snd five others were seriously Five political parties will be repre was dominated for secretary treasurer seated oa the ballot at the general Nominations for the executive board Injured when a gasoline speeder left the rails on a 70-foot trestle of a log election In Oregon on November 2,* were as follows; Portland, Arthur ging railroad near Cochran, Or. The Fifth and Washington Sts. according to the <.truncation of nam es Iroek, /. C. Jensen, J. E. Starr; Salem, and Information regarding in yiiuect* L. J. Simeral; Astoria, M M. Lornt- dead: Harry Lund, aged 33, foreman of PO RTLAND, ORE. and measures prepared by Sam A. aen; Pendleton, Charles Keane and the C. H. Whoeler logging camp at Room with privilege of bath, single, Cochran. F. G. Williams, aged 35. Koser. secretary of state. 75c up; double $1.00 up Sandy McClain; La Grande, H. T. Southern Pacific switchman, 948 Clin R oom with private bath, tingle $1.^0 Conjnanlcation has been received at Dodd;. Baker. Alex. Sewell; Bend, C. up; double $2.00 up. the Oregon Agricultural college. Cor- H. Baker,. These nominations will be ton street. Portland. A uto Meets Train«. Street car« from Tallis, from Morningside college, referred to all local unions affiliated ’ Union Depot pass our door«.* glonx City, Iowa, to the effect that the with the state federntlun. to he voted Brooklyn Winner In National League. Transfer at 5th and Gliaan streets from N o fth Bank Depot. New York.—Brooklyn won the Na eollege will send a debate team on a on by referendum within 30 days The tour of the Pacific coast next spring, new officers will take office March tional league baseball championship 1196 S t i l l $6 8 1 4 '»■■! I I I I 4"H- ■!■+ I I I I !■ i I I H"! "I I H I 114 and asking a contest with O. A. C. 4. Portland was named as the plact when Boston beat tho Giants, 3 to 2, Personal Investigation of devasta for next year's stats federation con in the »«coni gam*) of thalr double tion of forests along Oregon scenic /ertlon. No date was sot. header. highways has convinced Herbert Mann, state highway engineer, that the CAUSE AND •ondltlons are even worse than origin EFFECT. Laboring Under a Handicap. ally reported, according to a letter pre G u y C h a m n e o , P r o p r ie to r “This author kn .« s he has trumped pared ky the engineer and submitted T h e re was a about the country, beaten I lls way on good «Iasi , of W a s c o , O re g o n to Govern or Okott freight jralna and been thrown Int« m ud t.'irdw lng patent ffas beeu received "by the JallaJo yet meterin' for hta stories.” In tha cam - gfe»* of Oregon for 16.664 80 acres D ry C ure R e tre a d in g a S pecialty “That’s the way to study life at palgn. ef Carty act land, reclaimed un.ler the first hand." T h a t m ay re T ire and T u b e R e p a irin g B ru n s w ic k T ires Central Oregon Irrigation project In sult in its be- “Qnlte so. But he a ant« to lay the com ing la n d - central Oregon and located in the vl scene of hit next story in h fashion slide. z S atis fac tio n G u ara n te ed einlty pf Bend. Redmond and Powell able hotel. He ssys lie’s too old to be Button, according to information rv • bellhop and too poor to be a guest’’ —Birmingham Age-Hsnll gglvgd by Un »UU engineer. OREGON HEWS NOltS OF GENERAL INTEREST member ’Sowing” Dollars fo r a T h r ift C r o p AMERICAN LEGION IN ANNUAL CONVENTION “In E v e r y M IL L F E E D R e s p e c t” AND FLOUR. W H E N YOU T R A V E L STORE YOUR CAR WALTHER-WILLIAMS GARAGE GOVERNMENT BLANKETS New Gray Each Post Paid Ones J O N O T confuse these with “ Reclaimed” or “ Renovated” Blan- ket». Every blanket offered here it N E W and is io warranted. For sanitary reasons if for no other« buy N E W blankets. U. S. Olive Drab or Khaki Blanketa— Everyone new and guaran teed all wool; warranted never used. The very best quality for home or camp. $6.95 each, postpaid. U. S. C’m ’l B lanket No. 595~New Woolen Blankets warranted never .used. Orders filled from original bales bearing U . S. Army Quartermaster stamp. Heavy grey blankets—ideal quality for home use— $5.95 each, postpaid. J N e w M eat K ite S a d d le s Frying Pan and Plate of aluminum; ideal for campers and boy scouts; all new. f>5c complete—postpaid.. New Canteens —Something ¿very Boy Scout and campsr should have. U. S. Army Aluminum Cao.teens (new issue with screw top) 75c each, post paid. Old Issue Canteens; oval shape with canvas cover. 50c each, postpaid. Unbreakable Mirrors, measuring 3x5 inches, each in case; fine for hun ter« or Scouts. 35c ealh, postpaid. Barracks Bags for clothing or laun dry- splendid, big bags. 65c each, post paid. Glovea--Knit jersey gloves; every pair new and perfect. 39c pair, postpaid U nionaxlla Complete suit (jumper and over-alls combined) of heavy denim; uot a hole in them, $2.25 suit, postpaid. New full rigged stock saddle» with horn; western type; weigh 40 pounds each. New and perfect. $64.60 each. Genulae JTcClellan Saddles as used by U. S. Cavalry; guaranteed in ser viceable condition. $19.50 each. < T r a v e lin g Caaaa N e w F u ll L e n g th P a n ta l Men’s Trousers, full length, ol all wool Olive Drab worsted; excellently , tailored; every pair new and guaranteed perfect. $6.15, postpaid. a Khaki Breeches—the gen uine Army Khaki Breeches; a limited quar.t'iy «•’ $1.50 pair, postpaid A Ihcrseaa C apa-all nc*; »very one- perfect. 65c each, postpaid. i REM IT BY PO ST -O FFIC E MONEY O R D E R , E X PR E SS M O N E Y O R D E R , B A N K E X C H A N G E O R C A S H I E R ’S CHfcCK > You run no riah—everything exactly a# represented. Satisfaction or you» rrrnry back. Order at once—the supply won’t last long. . J - Federal Distributing Co. LARGEST DISTRIBUTORS OF ARMY TENTS IN UNITED STATES 3 6 9 -8 6 1 C. Commerce St. SAN ANTONIO, TEXAfc BIGGER AND BETTER THAN EVER WASCO COUNTY PAIR T H E DALLES Hundreds of agricultural, horticultural, domestic and in dustrial exhibits; boat races; attractions galore for young and I old; the Royal Italian band in coficerts; free lectures and demonstrations on farm, orchard and home topics, and a New I. York musical comedy troupe of 31 artists presenting Rroad- ; way’s latest Geosge M . Cohan successes.' * 4 A Cleaa Snappy Fair Wkere Tea get 4 Days and Nigkts of Rail Fleasart O c to b e r 4 -5 -G -7 $ e Sherman County Day, Wednesday, October 6 \ J. C. Jokoson, President J. M. Patterson, Secretary M b BEE HIVE EE M O I r M o ro , O re g o n ' H . J. W A R N , P r o p r ie t o r Short Orders and M EALS AT REGULAR HOURS R o o t B e e r B a r r e l - - - Ic e C r e a m S o ft D r in k s a n d C ig a r s S p e c ia l R a te s NEW HOTEL PERKINS:: WRITE, PRONE OR CALL UPON W. C. HANNA, DUFUR, ORE FOR BARGAINS IN FARM PROPERTIES __ .4 '» IBtHHHUIliB Speclil Attention Glvdn W h tlt and 8tock Farm WASCO TIRE AND VULCANIZING WORKS t f t Army Traveling Rolla for eowB, brush, shaving articles and toilet re quisites. $1.50 values, 75c poatpa d. a A 1 “W A N T”j ad in T he M oro O bserver - will - reach more people - in Sherman County than by any other medium available.
