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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1922)
Ofiul hp far Sunu Ccwity. C. L. I reland ............... M an ager. A A ri riw ■ ° _— -__- THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION F R I D A Y .............. January 20. 1922 During the month of December cine ty-aix students registered in 118 courses in the correspondence study department of the extention division of the University of Oregon. This brings the total registrations in cf.r reapondence study courses to 1086, representing every county in the state. A ll w ill be pleased to hnt-w that Clarence Lusk is recovering rapidly from the effects of his coaati. g ac cident. A paper was quietly c ir c u la te among friends of the fam ily last week-end that resulted in a total cash subscription of 8224.50, which has been placed to his credit with the local banks and w ill be used to assist him in his,recovery. The family and Clarence especially, ¿risk to thank the public for their generous support re ceived at this time. Returns From State Convention The religious motion picture, “ Be hold the Man,“ which waa prasen efternoor, and evening on January 17V. in the opera house to exceptionally large Kudune«*, might ba tanned a triumph t.f u t’iiic genius. The pic ture. in natural c jio n , followed closely the life story of Jesus Christ incorporating all the high points of lb s existence upon earth, and in doirg so gave in detail the habits stem« of the people of that tirav. it if well for the morals of the wot Id that such a story finds Its way to the screen. Soma argue a gainst the commercialisation of the story of the Christ. It is granted that some one is making money in pre- sm ting this film. But the harm so done is negligible beside the "good tl at*comes from imbedding the spirit of Christ in the hearts of thousands who might otherwise not have known Him as w ell, tfany people do not go to church. Many do not go often enough to retain a connected and con crete picture of the life of Christ. Visual education is the most lasting. The screen. reaches m illions that the Church does not. It is possible for the screen to be a powerful evan gelist “ Behold the Man“ is an indestractible pillar in support qf Christianity. and cu The third wee* gf tfte appeal irga have beep proceeding with good [ interest, tho at times the waa somewhat reduced because of to inspect th e cold weather. They w ill come to a cloae Sunday evening at the Methodiet Church. On the whole those who have had them in charge are very much gratified with the interest shown in the Cundameotals of the Christian Ufa, and believe that com ing days w ill reveal results that are not at present revealed on the surfaee. ft Next week the churches w ill take up agsia their normal program of activities, emphasising other lines of ehurch work. The midweek service next week w ill be held in the Presby terian church on Wednesday evening, January 25th, and will be led by U C. Smothers. It is hoped that the many who have recently formed the habit of III attending church on weekday nights w ill oontinue to come in large num W e Sell Them on Their Merits ber«. A rousing service of song in the use of familiar hymns, and also Take Them Home and T ry Them the learning of new ones w ill be a feature of the meeting. The young people are looking for '■ » • 1f » ward to a social to be given on the H e a d q u a r te r s for a f u ll lin e o f Bleed rim I T u b le evening of January 30th, probably at the Presbyterian Church. Further S to v e s , H e a te r s a u d A p p lia n c e s o f a ll k in d s plans w ill be announced later, bat all young people of the eomrounity should reserve (hat evening and be on band with a sociable disposition. The Christian Endeavor prayer meet ing next Sunday evening at 6:45 w ill be led by Mias Isle McCain, oa the them e,“ The Golden Rule in Business’* or Christian principles applied to buy MORO, OREGON ing and selling. The usual service of worship and preaching w ill be held in the Spald ing Chapel negt Sunday morning. Seeded Wheat Land far Sale N ext Sunday afternoon a special tervice for man only w ill be held at A t 827.50 per acre, in center of the M. E. Church. Time 3 XX). finest wheat land belt in Morrow To add interest in the special meet county, only few miles from railroad ings various organisations have at 450 acres sowed to wheat and 80 tim es been responsible for the service acres to rye; ranch consists of a with the exception of the preaching. little over 1000 acres of rich, deep W . M . W a lk e r , f U n a g ê r Last week the Ladies Aid society, the soil plow land, a tractor proposition Dorcas society and the public schools with only ten acres waste land; MORO - OREGON were the special guests as well as fur worlds of water and good improve nishing a part of the program. Wed ments. Just as it stands at only A Modern Tile and Concrete Constructed Building nesday night of thia week the men 827.50 per acre, 87,600 cash down, were in charge. In all cases there balance one-third crop payments. B u il t b y M n r o C o m m u n it y for the General Public were large increases in attendance, Sickness compels owner to move. and special numbers helped greatly. No better bargin e v e r . offered. Ad dress, E. M. Shutt, Heppner, Ore. STEAM H E A TE D E L E C T R IC L IG H T S Y ou are a n d G. R. S. E le c tric W a s h in g , m achines The latter part of the past week Supt Zevely returned from the Superintendents Cor vent ion held at Salem. She reporta a moat successful m elting. Problems of vital interest to every superintendent were dis cussed, with State Superintendent J. A. Churchill presiding Culmination ef College Romaace The matter of granting permits to teachers came up for spirited discus A college romance came to a happy sion. It was agreed that the war con climax last Saturday, January 14lh, ditions that made permito necessary when Edward L. Ward of Dufur* and had passed and that there would be a Misa Clara Thompson, daughter of Mr. decided tightening up on the issuing and Mrs. Hat,a Thompson living east of permits throughout the state. of Muro, were quietly married at high The questions of consolidation, in noon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy stitutes and records were among Kunaman, in the presence of witnesses others that were given time in the only. The nuptial knot was tied by Carttultj mated discussion. cylindrical Rev. Henry G. Hanson of the Presby One session was given to the dis terian Church. The bridegroom was cussion of the County Unit Plan of a graduate of the University of Ore cbactutc ‘ taiittioB school administration and taxation by gon la3t spring, a member of the Phi Superintendent J. E. Myers of Crook Delta Theta fraternity, majoring in county. Crook has the distinction of Sociology. The bride who was brought r ia p ia c K being the first county in the state to up on the farm near Moro, waa a F lo u r adopt this plan. Superintendent Myers graduate of Albany High School in gave an outline of the campaign in 1916, of Monmouth Normal School in putting the matter up to the vote of 1918, and of the University of Oregon the county end of the success of the in 1921. In college she was a mem Crecen system thus far. He reported t ie her of the Chi Omega sorority, her outstanding advantages up to date as major study was English. The happy being a general improvement in the couple lefts soon after the ceremony Alken uniformity of equ pment of the rural was performed for The D alles, and schools and especially their anility to from there by train for a sbori wed Notice a f Sheriff Sale Olility th e manage supplies for the schools in a dir.g tripz They w ill make their home h o tc a k e s more business like faanner than under on. a farm near Dufur, where the In virtue of an execution issued out the old system. o f th e bridegroom has already been at work of the Circuit Court of the State of W est for a few months laying the plana fox. Oregon for Sherman County, upon their future home. The congratu judgment and order of sale in favor Subscribe for the Observer. lations and good wishes from all of F. L. Houghton and against W.A. local people who know the bride go M ills and Fred Mabrt, fBr 817,174.88, with them as they start out on lif e ’s I w ill aell at the court house door m Moro, Sherman County, Oregon, on journey together. the 18th day of February. 1922, at the Show Show hour of 2 XX) o ’clock P. If. of said Losing Side Entertains day, at public auction for cash, the Starts Starts following described real property, all t:3 0 P.M. 7:30 P.M. The annual entertainment given by situated In Sherman County, Oregon, the loeing side in the Moro Rod and described as follow s, to-w it: Gun club hunting contest this year Beginning at the southeast corner consisted of a motion picture, “ The of lot four in section thirty-one. Town Silver Horde,’’ exhibited both after ship One N orth,. Range Eighteep noon and evening, and a dance and East of the W illamette Meridian, 1 1 7 a. ** Romance and Adventure on banquet in the evening, in the Moro thence east on base line three thousand opera hnuse, on January 18th. The Land and Sea and Under the Sea forty-one feet to the west line of the movie was of the usual Rex Beech Hay Canyon Road; thence following high standard. Dancing began shortly the west line of the Hay Canyon Road after nine o ’clock. The banquet was in a northerly direction as follow s, on the installment plan: the older to- w it: north five degrees thirty persons and the non-dancers eating minutes east a distance of one hundred first, tne dancers going afterwards in and forty-eight feet; thence north ten 99 fours and scores, as their hunger made degrees east a distance of two hundred itself evident. Dancing continued thirteen feet; thence north thirty-six until the stars blinked their last and T w o M en , a M a id , O n e H o u se, a n d a S to r m minutes west a distance of throe the sun gave signs of returning. Cred hundred fifty feet; thence north nine it is due Harry ¡Kunsman, Captain of degrees fifty-four minutes east a dis the losers, and his confederates, in tance of four hundred seven feet; »•OOOOOOOOOOOOOCMXXJOOOOOOOmoOdOOOt'OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCXX. presenting such an enjoyable affair. thence north eighteen degrees twenty- four minutes eaat a distance of one hundred eighty-six feet; thence north Imports Blooded Stock eleven degrees thirty minutes east a There are some men who make their distance of one hundred seventy-two money in Sherman county who spend feet; thence north fifty-four degrees R . M . M c K e a n , M a n a g e r, W a a c o , O re g o n it for the advancement of that county. thirteen m inutes’ east a distance of I They do not move to Portland. ninety-two feet across Hay Canyon; | Their interests lie with their fellow thence north thirty-five degrees eight men, with the home town and the minutes seat distance of one hundred D E A L E R S IN I community in which they live. ten feet; thence north twenty-five de The continued propagation of pure grees twenty-eight minutes east a Lim e, Plaster, Cement, Builders blood stock in this community is a distance of one hundred ten feet; Supplies, Lumber, Wood, Coal, I step forward. J. N. Landry has pur thence north nineteen degrees thirteen Cedar Posts, and Hay. chased two 2-year-old sorrel Belgian minutes east a distance of four hun 'fillies and a 4-year-old Belgian mare, dred ¡thirty-one feet; thence north ten these three averaging 1900 pounds degrees twenty-throe minutes east a M ANUFACTURERS OF leach; and a 3-year-old sorrel Belgian distance of two hundred seventy feet; | stallion, weight 2260 pounds, shipping thence north twenty-eeven degrees them from Sunny Side, Washington, forty-three minutes east a distance of I January 12th. The original Belgian two hundred seventy-eight feet; thence F o o o o c o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o cx x x x x x x > o o n o o o o o co o o o o o o color was sorrel with a lighter mane north ene degree twenty-eeyen minutes and tail, so this is one of the many west distance of - -four hundred two [ fine points that distinguish three of fe e t; thence nertM eighteen degrees Mr. Landry’s new horses as being thirty-three minutes eaat a distance I doubly worthy of their pedigrees. of four hundred fifty-eight feet; Already Mr. Undry has a small thence north twelve degrees throe | stable of Shire stock, but it is his minutes east a distance of one hundred • T h e D alle», R ed 351 intention to maintain two separate thirty-three feet; thence north two breeds, possibly elim inating the Shire degrees fifty-two minutes east a dis Mrs. M . J. W ille rto n I within a few years. tance of two hundred forty-five feet L ad y A tte n d a n t across Hay Canyon; thence north twen »Sh Red 1781 ty-two degrees twenty-two minutes Taken by Mistake oast a distance of throe hundred seven COMFISTF A roc«. O f UOOD3 CARRIED AT- ty-three feet to tho south lino of tho Waaco, W. H. Myer, Manager Last week, presumably by mistake, Moro, 8. P. Brisbin«, Manager I some one opened the post office box I. W. A M. Co’s private road; thence Valley, M B. O ’Brien, Manuger I rented by Harry Horner and departed north thirty-six degrees eighteen minutes west a distance of eighty-one | with all the mail contained therein. and throe-tenths feet; thence berth ¿«X t '«ornas, Since then this has not been returned J. H . Harper, creased Em baloer. Ito the office and Mr. Horner takes fifty-five degrees thirty-throe minutes Funeral Director. west a distance o f two hundred foot; this method of asking the party in thence north sixty degrees thirty-throe ► question to either return it or advise [him where he may get it. Postal minutes west a distance of throe hundred seventy-five foot; thence north authorities class the above as a very forty-one degrees fifty-six minutes I serious offense and seldom accept an weet a distance of throe hundred excuse when not immediately correct- thirty-one feet; thence north forty-six I ed. In this case Mr. Horner does rot degrees thirty-four minutes east a want to make formal complaint, he [only wants his mail returned as he is distance of one hundred eighty-throe G u y C h s m n e s s , P r o p r ie to r [sure w hoever has this mail took it feet to the south 11 m of tho right of way of the O. W. R. R. k N . C o.; W a a c o . O re g o n when hurried not knowing they had thence along tho south side of tho I opened the wrong box. right of way to a point oa the eaat D ry Cure Retreading a Specialty lias of lot four a f seetleu thirty Albera Flapjacks MOHO M Ml, Uk B S a tu r d a y J a n ’y 2 1 GINN, COLEMAN & GO. T b c ;44» i PORTLAND. ORE. Roost with privilege of both, riegle, 81.00 up; double 81.50 up Room with private hath, single 81.50 up; double 82.50 up. I I I I I f I I I I I 1 1 4 H H I - 1 4 Au(e Meet* Trains. Street can (row Union Depot pan ourdoora. Trentier et 5th sod Glieee street* iron North Beak Depot. i-l- F I I | l -l I H , JEWELER M ORO - I I I . OREGON S p e c ia l R ates NEW HOTEL PERKINS FiflkaUWukwlMSto. L. W . ROSS B U IL D IN G I H H I I 1 I I I 1 1 1 M A T E R IA L I l- l I I I I I I I I I | l WOOD Bank Hotel [liipiifiB t Ularehoast | (Hilling (¡0 WASCO TIRE AND VULCANIZING WORKS • Farm for Bale— 656 acres four miles from Boyd; 560 acres In culti vation. fair improvements, about 400 acres ean be worked with tract or. Price 865 per acre, easy terms. Inquire of W . C. Hanna, Dufur, Oregon. “Her Unwilling Husband The Dalles o t e l . ¡ 'ti I have opened a real estate office | at 87 Grand Avanua South, Portland S p e c ia l M o n th ly R a te s fo r R o o m o r B o a r d Oregon. About two blocks from the Rose City car, where I w ill be pleas ed to have any Sherman county friends call when In the city. Alex. a .t 1 8 > » ♦ » I > 1» t 1 »■■«■ M 4 < »4' M-M » >11 l » í »»6164 »l i t i I Hunter. „ T u esd a y J a n y 2 4 C r a n d a ll’s H Bath and Hot and Cold W ater in Every Room ww 61 UO1Q r ILL FEED A N D FLOUR. f l)o r o CEMENT COAL PLASTER L IM B F o rm e rly the A lb ert T h e D alles ’ N ew est and Beat H o s te lry Fr«« Plan Servie« to the Home Builder CENTRALLY LOCATED Sherman County Headquarters J. P. RATH. M«na<er T h e P a l l as l ♦ O re g o n TUM -A -LU M L U M B E R C O flR Y W . K. Johnson, M O R O ZkÆ oxo » Manager - O x e g 'o x x , - TIRE VULCANIZING SHOP A ll k in d * of w ork do n e. I also have some good second hand tires and tubes on hand. V. Ctiddebock Opposite Foes A Co. Garage Moro White Truck Line O. M. P/ERCE, R n p . Daily 'escept Sundays between The Dalles, Moro, and Way Pointe, leaving the Dalles 9:00 A. M from JTbe Dalles Garage, Moro about 2:00 P. 14., from Poas A Co. Garage. Odtors sv Express left st either piece M Frompt ead Carefef Atteetlea. y a Moro Hotel Barber Shop C. V. BELKNAP, Proprietor H O T AND COLD B A TH S H ^ C o x o , -------------- O x e g - o n . HARRY M , HENSON General Contractor« and Builders Cement and Concrete W o rk a Specialty ✓ F orb es A S o n T ira and Tube Repairing Brunswick Tire« Satisfaction Guaranteed jR lv e r traffic Is blocked at The Dalles by slush lee flow«. Automo bile traffic to Portland ia stopped be- causa of tho broken ferry serviec bo- low Hood River. The only Inlet and 'outlet of traffic la via tho railroad. ainotean and 10-100 eheles north of tho eouthaast eornar a f said lot four in said taction thirty { theaee south niaety-olae and 10-100 tho plans of beglnnng. KU«flV Hugh Cbrimooo Sheriff. chains to GRAY MORO. OREGON Freight tqd Rzprem Hisdled Promptly. Meriag U ritttly Atttffdsd Te» I »I 1 gntered a* second clam matter m (ba p«e< effiee at M o w , Oregon, July 26,1891 The Sherman County Farm Bureau w ill begin its membership oampaugn for 1928 with meetings at Wasco, Moro, Grass Valley and Kent. It is planned .to hold afternoon meetings ia the theaters and show the famous Farm Bureau film “ Spring V alley.“ A speaker from the State Farm Bureau office w ill be on hand to explain the relationship of the Shsiman Couoty Farm Bureau to the Oregon and American Farm Bureau Federation. * The date« of these meeting« are not definitely set yet as we must wait our turn for the film end speakers but it ia hoped that they can be held Jan uary 25-6-7-8. You may expect a letter from the County Agent ih time to notify you of the date. The “ Spring V alley“ film is a dan dy and you w ill be sure to enjoy it. Some good music w ill be provided for these meetings. The programs are free to every one. A ll are cordial- Jy invited. Tell your neighbors. 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