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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1922)
That’s Right Felix, Bury Your Troubla A W , W H A T ’S THE USE AU WH ä TS The use. ÖOLLM T I RAD o o n i Ö0& I c e x BIEN T ftte L<TTt£ WT — EVERM T im e I trn to 5 h ea k a 5<P A COP HEAME5 IN r— - r > -4GHT «--------- ’ F riday Department of the interior u . Land Office at The D alles, Ore gon. Sept. 1. 1922. . Notios ia hereby given that F ran C ad Schumacher, of Moro. Oregon. -h n on Sept. 4, 1917< made Hom*' s tr o i Entry. No 0 1 ^ 4 . f«r W J g g - Sec 39, N |S W l. NfeSEJ. SWfeSM. JiE JN W l. NWJNBJ S « G o n 2« Township 1 North. Range 19 East, W illam ette Meridian, has filed notice of intention to make three-year Proof, to eetaolh h claim to the land above S£ b described, before er, United States Land Office, at The Dal lea, Oregon, on the 28th day o — October. 1922. ‘ . . Claimant names as w itnesses R. Cothran, John Gibson, and Knapp, a ll of Moro. Oregon, and Del W right, o f Klondike. Oregon J . W. Donnelly, Reg>«Ut . Notice te Contractors N otice la hereby given that the Common Council the C ity of Moro w ill receive b id . for the «oortjruetion of a concrete septic tank in the City of Moro, In accordance w ith the plans and ^jecifleations now on fils in the office of the City Recorder, and in accordance w ith all the provisions of the Charter of the City of Moro re 1st- ,„g thereto. S ..le d b id . w ill be « • c l r a d u ntil eig h t o ’clock p m. on the 17th day of October. 1922. Each bid must be accompanied by a certified check for ten per cent of the amount of the bid. Successful bidders w ill, be required to furnish good and euf-1 ftcient bond, satisfactory to the Com noon Council. . „».J ■ The Common Council reserves the right to reject any and a ll bids. Dated this 3d day of October, 1922. By order of the Common Council of the City of Moro, Oregon. 8igned . R- C. Orpduff, C ity Recorder. HIDE BOOZE IN FURS ISLAND HAS DANCING BEAR «■ ? Canoe Party Finds That Animal Is I gager te Perform for Sugar and Honey. German Designer Declares Mo torless Planes Will Be Able to Climb to 20,000 Feet. Liquor Loaves British Columbia G u y C h a m n e M , P r o p r ie t o r W aaco, O regon Osttnsibty for Mexico. Victoria, B. C.— A ll by himself en a tiny Island in Sproat lake, northern Bootlegpsrq Take Advantage ef <xcep- Vancouver Island, lives a big black tlonally Heavy Shipments ef Furs bear that dances on hla hind legs at te Eastern Points—Ruse Is slalit of man and has a craving -for Average Attendance at Public Schools Last Year Fraction Less Than 99 Per Cent Discovered. Qlrla Who Appsar Too Attractive Coast Bathing Beach Are Ao- cueed of “W itchery- * Hookey" Unknown. “If there la a hose goose In the whole United Rtatee capable of keeping this z W. C. Bryant, reaiding at Moro. I hunch of kid eaters In subjection— I Oregon, and C. L Pepper, residing at want It." «aid Tanney “Pm Mck j»nd Tha D allas. Oregon, Attorneys for I tii-d of purautng them «me by one." tember, 190. P laintiffs. Date of first publication, Septtm her 16 1 9 0 . Date of last publics I A dlamopd pin. said to he worth »400. was found In a chicken which Mrs. Michael Kelly of Philadelphia was pre poring for dinner. ’»Th«* fowl wqa pur-haaed from a hotelier. Mrs. Kelly thought th*» Din of no value, but an ex- Oregon** Gasoline T ax »14037». Bal am. Or.— Auguat tales of gasoline Its Oregon as reported by dealers to I tha Secretary of state returned a tax « « Il «atahliahed belief among | to the state aggregating »140,173.34 invert in O b-«rv«r « 1 v « n .in < and broke nil previous monthly re©- M M , does le the» wey realise Valuable Diamond Pin Found Inside Chicken erds. Freedem Baaed e« It la Impossible to en or socially, » Blhle-r The principles of the groundwork of human ggg Oreefcy. THE OBSERVER PRINTING OFFICE Charlotte AmeUe, S t Thomas, V. L— I ’ The Virgin Islands have the nearest >, to 100 per cent attendance In the pub- C lie schools of any state, territory f r I ?, pesgess1*-1" of the United States, ac- I v cording to comparative statistics from X Washington. , I The school year jvhlch has Just I opened probably will show as high a percentage of attendance as last year, I ? which was a fraction leas than 99 per J f cent I t Is not unusu^.for a school to J ■ report 100 per cent attendaqge week H after week. I <? There Is compulsory education for I «. all children from six to fifteen years 1 I of age. When a child Is absent from J i ' school without proper excuse the par- I ents ace flued 20 cents for each day of 4 absence. Parents are fined 10 cents a for every time a scholar Is tardy> Sickness Is In vestig ated . When sickness la reported as the 11 ■ cause of absence, school nurses Inves- I ff ligate, «mi only on certificate from I . ’ these school nurses Is the excuse of J 1 illness recognised. Simple treatment I I I by the nurses frequently makes It poa- I j I ' stole for a child to return to the class ; room. r With this system of fines, “playing . ‘ hookey” la practically unknown In the “I j *• Virgin Islands. i 1 When the United 8tates by purchase W I , acquired the Virgin Islands from Den- S a mark In 1917, there was already a I s well-established public school system, I a and It Is estimated there was less then I • I 5 per cent illiteracy In the Island. The 1 it school system, however, then extended I h only to the sixth grade. F, ’C Plan Rehabilitation Marquesas Group. high school study. Children In the Virgin Islands are j Lanxlous to learn, according to School 1 0, I Director Nase, head of the Insular ays- ’ t«.n and the collecting of flues for 1 J tardiness and absence does not yield I I more than »10 per mouth. This year there are 18 school teachers from the ef United States giving Instructions In < «s I the Island schools, while all of the I I I other teachers are Virgin Islanders. I j ^ 1 Is IS AN E S T A B L IS H M E N T T H A T IS K N O W N BY T H E H IG H G R A D E O F ITS P R IN T IN G FIFTH AND W ASHINGTON ,8TS PORTLAND. OREGON Room with privilege ol bath, »ingle, S I.00 up; double S I.50 up Room with private beth, »ingle Jl.SO up; double $2.59 up. Auto M eet. Trsias. Street car» from Union Depot pa»» our door«. Transfer at 5th and Gli»an »treet» from - N o rth Bank Depot. R ,‘ H . M c K e a n , M a n a g e r , W a a c o , O r e g o n Mere Grades Are Added. Since then the seventh and eighth 1 I ia grades have bees established gener 4 u- I ally, and two Junior high schools have 1 I *d been opened, with the Junior yeai !, * being offered this year lor the first 1 time. In another year It Is planned to 3 I establish the fourth and last year of I 1 L i m e , P la s t e r , C e m e n t , C e d a r r o s t s , B u ild e r s S u p p lie s , L u m b e r , W o o d , C oal and H ay. M ANUFACTURERS M IL L F E E D A N D OF FLOUR The reader of advertisement» know» that reliable ¿uide to market» that exiM» in Household Hints, Avoid angles. Lay small ruga p a r-1 ’ to t,ie wu,,s- Don’t place pieces I . . I of fu rn itu re across a corner, leaving I 1 d a triangular unoccupied apace In the I corner. TABBY CAT WHIP8 ALLIGATOR tgo. ------------- ase-^ patties For Life ef Her Kittens and Her Methods of W arfare Are ' Too Much for Saurian. San Francisco.— Residents of the fnshbmnble district stretching >r<»m Snn Mateo lo Falo Alto have revived the practice of ducking “witches.” ac cording to Miss Wimmer Bonner, pe Dr. and Mrs. Handy pasaeo a 1 ninsula debutante, who claims that her ehutn. Miss Grace Relíele. was In the M a iW M B Investigating the d r - "ducked” In the swimming pool nt lllxatlon. culture and ebamctertatlcs or Palo Alto for “witchery." and that she the Inhabitants as a part of tl»e muse was crltlclswl by Miss Margaret John- um’s efforts to tisce the origin of the non, swimming Instructor, for wear Polynesian race. The adrnlnlatmtor’s principal pur ing a one-pie«* bathing suit. Misa Rebele*« “witchery.” according pose la to develop commercial. oppor to Miss Bonner, consisted In looking tunities for the netlvee and to estab I too attractive at the Palo Alto pool, lish schools, the letter said. The com while herSwn suit. Miss Bonner avers, mercial development depends upon di was <lescrlhe<l as “Immodest." “diaphan rect steamship connections between ous" and “Indecent" by the swimming Sen Francisco end the Marquesas, which have been the aceoe of much of Instructor. I A crowd of young men, the narra the popular Mtarature purporting to tive saya, first ducked Miss Rebele, who portray the languid Ufe of the South Suck would «U h l« I could hot swim, and then attempted to duck Misa Ronner, hut she swam the natives to eliminate the middle mea at T h M * <ho have reaped eoor sway. raoua profits from the efforts of the Marqueenns, -D r. Handy said. the plaintiffs w ill take Judgment ageinat you. Jointly and severally, for the sum of STO1-M w ith interest 1 th arson from the 1st day of A ugust, I 1PB0, at the rate o f eig h t per cent per I annum; for the further sum of $132.60 w ith Internet thereon from the 31st day of December, 1980, at rate of six per cent per a*.num; for the further I ruf $140.00 attorney’s fees; and tor p lain tiffs’ costs and dlsburaemento. Thia summons ia served upon you by publication thereof in accordance w ith an order made by D. R. Parker, Judge of the above entitled Court, on I the 9th day of September, 1922; said I Tanney ordered the grew •* « * » » order requires that this summons be te lock ’em up. They Insisted thafejt aaned upon you by publication thereof I could not he done. Arrests followed In the Sherman County ObaervW, pub- •Pd several paid fines yesterday. tlahed at Moro In Sherman County. I Publlc-aplrtted dtlxene, tryh*f to solve the problem today, asked Tanney Oregon, for aix consecutive weeks. to buy a boss goose and put It on hla The date of the first publication of this summons is the 16th day of Sap-1 pay-ndl. Brunswick Tire« When Sickness la Reported as Csuee ___ • f Absenoe Investigation Is Made IX “” by Trained Nurs es ■-“ Playing V French WITCH DUCKING IS REVIVED Tire and Tube Repairing Satisfaction Guaranteed No one, not even Indians, lives with-1 In many mile» of the Island, which Svanda alone nt the mouth of a little 1 < creek which empties Into the lake. The I bear has hla home in solitude, with no other animals larger than squirrels .fee 11 Night Flying Is Impossible W ith Gib < disturb or fear him. dors Because A ll A ir Currents Are The dancing beur was discovered by Downward a t Night— Haw k« ( i canoe party which was making an Fly Days Only? , explorailou trip from one eud of the lake to tin» other. As the canoe was 1 Cleveland.— A motorlesa »‘n»1«»1®. turning a head Jutting out from the. Island a man In the bow noticed a capable of climbing to an R,tltyde^ 20,000 feet, Is forecast by Dr. George huge bein'" squatting on the sand onh H Madelung, designer of the success a few yards away. He raised ills gnu ful Hanover gilder, which. In a recent to shoot, but when the animal, Instead glider competition in the Rhone valley, of scampering away Into the woods, broke all records by staying In the air stood on his haunches like a trick dog the gun was put aside and the canoe 1 for more than three hours. Doctor Madelung Is now a member of was brought closer to the shore. The bear held his ground and the designing staff of a local airplane company. Describing the phenomenal w»ggM *'ls head from side to side. development of the machine In Ger- The boatman tossed a lump of sugm In the direction of the bear ami It w a s , I many, be explained Its operation quickly devoured. The party landed The machine has a gliding angle sixteen to one, that Is, In still air on the beach and the big bear became It glides 16 feet to every foot It de so friendly that he ventured near scends. I t ha. a still air speed of 20 enough to ’licit honey that had beer m ile, an hour. I f the wind Is 20 spread on .a paddla. The eanoelrt. took a reel of photographs of the h**«' m ile, an hour, the gilder rem ain, a tlonary anH If more tnan that, It goes In various poses and then hade him backwards, hut If the air current la good-by. ‘ * .. It la conjectured that years ago the upward, the gilder ascends. It Is up bear, when only a cub, had been cap on upward currents of air that th glider place, main dependence for tured and tamed by men In a logging Sproat keeping aloft for more than brief camp and then abandoned. lake Is becoming popular as a summei I periods. resort, sp in future yearn the big beat Must Know A ir Currenufc Is likely to have plenty of company , In sailing for a considerable dis . as well as sugar and honey. tance the glider pilot must know ap- I I proxtmately where he w ill encounter ‘ upward currents. Plowed field, and EFFICIENCY 1 other open spaces, where the heat of - the sun creates a considerable up cur • I rent, ere favorable places. I t Is f»r « this reason that the charting of air y currents bee become necessary for d the commercial development of the if I glider. * ___ , I When the places along a certain „ route where sir current may be en- J countered become known, flights of 1 hundreds of miles and ascents of more ’ ’ than four miles may be accomplished. Bt Doctor Madelung said. * He pointed to the hawk and otnei P' soaring birds as an Illustration. The »d hawk w ill salt down to a field whence | tt w ill circle in ascent, forced upward n- by the rising air caused by the re- n. fleeted heat of the field. When It ha. « r reached a sufficient altitude It soar* ____ the process miles It im of little profit for a nen tu sit patiently for three weeks on a nest foil of eggs— unless the eggs are fer tile. Here’s the way to inuke sure the eggA are fertile—hold the egg to the opaque metal chimney of the lamp —the powerful light w ill apow the dark embyro, If the egg be fertile. Dry Cure Retreading a Specialty Cincinnati.—Mother love and meth ods of warfare which dared the larger of two oombatants won against terrible odds recently when a mother cat ba£ tied with an alligator which threatened her new-born kittens. The saurian I dragged hla five-foot length upon the poroh of W. F. Madden, where "Snook- ums,” the trusted family mouser, was basking In the suo with her five tiny kittens. . w. “Snookums’’ uttered a warning hiss, but the ’gator Ignored her and started sliding across the floor toward the fluffy kittens. The mother cat launched herself through the air and landed on the beast’s back, where she proceeded to Mice his tough hide with her claws Her howls and the din that ensued brought Mrs. Madden to the scene, and a bewildered and bleeding alligator was hustledTuto a cellar prison. C o m p le te L in e of A c c e s s o r ie s AUTO REPAIRING STORAGE Blacksmith and Machine Shop FOSS &. CO., Inc. .« « .S O S MORO, OREGON Mixed Copperhead Snake» With Lumbering Operations When a saw cut Into a log at the McDonald sawmill, near Shoals IntL. a naet of copper head snakes was found and threatened for a time to put a stop to operations at the mill. Several alnbn had been taken off by the saw wheo the m ake neat wee penetrated. Ifi »M 9 9 stent the saw carriage and mill waa a man« of squirming snakes. The Jhiiabermen attacked the -makes with log hooka and killed nil the reptile®. B E N S O N & SO N General Contractor» and Builder» Cement and Concrete W o rk a Specialty M o ro , O re g o n