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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1923)
j SHERMiN COUNTY IBSERYER _ 9 Governor Names Tax Com mission for Sherman Comity Gly of Adagiai fire Swept Monday Three Field Fires Destroy Grain and Harvest Machines p ractically h a lf <rf the buainea* •action of Arlington was totally destroyed and the other h a lf threat A , G. F a tte r, fram ing land north- Appointment of the Sherman county ened, d>y fire storting a t an early at of Moro, had his combine har Eatered « «ecood elees •* tax commission, w ith J. C. Freeman hour Monday morning. S lip a strand of denial flow (obtainable at any drug vester, some standing grain and p w «Ac« 1 Moro, Prego«, July 2S, 1891 of Moro; John T . Johnson o f Wasco, Fanned by a high wind fir m the forty sacks of threshed grain burn •tore) between every two teeth in yoar mouth If Officimi N e w w p e r fer SbcrmanCeunty and form er county judge Fred Kru- southwest, the flamee which started, last Thursday afternoon. The fire la the thread catcher, ur I f i t becomes cut • r the fiber« aow of Grass V allpy, was announced it is believed in the kitchen of the are torn apart, i t is a aure sign that y< u need dental supposed to have «torted from a hot wedk by Governor W e lte r M. A rlington hotel, ate th eir way to C. L. I reland . Managing Editor box inside the machine. When first w ork! Pierce. * adjoining buildings and swept south discovered the stubble was burning to The tax commiaeion was created P uiday on (he main street. ; the rear of t^e machine. The crew Then come to thia superlatively modern office where, under the new tax conservation law Two business blocks were burned, pulled the machine away from the by means of the wonderful dental anesthetic. aa passed by the last session of the one in which the fire started and standing grain Into a small draw and T w ilig h t Sleep “ for the teeth” , we elim inate to Tb« enthusiasms of young men ere legislature. Each county In the state the b kck across the street to the fought the blase by back firing a an almost unbelievable degree the discomfort always on« of the moot splendid spectacles has a sim ilar comthisaion. east. A change of wind, when the circle around the machine. W hile Ufa afford«. When they are linked to associated with dentistry. • The commiaeion members serve first block had burned put the fire fighting the fire in the grain, the patriotic Ideals they are thing« that without pay, although under the across the street end the flamee ate stubble and thrashed grain burned only foola or knave« would scoff at. provisions of the law, each com north along the opposite side from The crew lost a ll tool« and per aays the Natal Advertiser. Yet there mission, apparently, may have an where the fire had first burned. sonal belongings that were with the la no other arena In which men should office at the court house and may An attem pt w al made to secure machine. M r. Futter had about a I hasten aa «lowly aa 1® the political vmploy clerical aaaiatance not to ex help from The Dalles and the use thousand acre« to cut thia harvest and world. Youth and enthusiasm (they ceed $2500 yearly. of the fire equipment of that city, had just begun his harvest. do not always go together, for thorn Under the law the commiaeions buP the fire was under control before The machine waa a motorised mule are sometimes gray heads on gceeq w ill require a ll municipal district the special train could be made ready is obtainable O N L Y at these offices. C all a t any time and let power harvester, on which waa Jiboo , Fini National Bank Bldg. shoulders) are thing« that time re and county tax levying boards to us explain its incomparable qualitiea. We can satisfy you that to leave The Dalles. insurance. The grain waa also in morselessly correct«. They are at furnish them w ith budget estimates The* D allés» O r e g o n Three slight casualties were re- sured. ' a * beet bul an angle from which the In by October 1. Each commission must porttd. a cook and waitress in the volved and intricate political structure Meep accurate record and account of hotel, and B illy G arrett, traveling Monday morning a field fire on the “ T h e r e is N o H u r t ” can be viewed; and thoee who aee the the amounts spent by municipal cor salesman. The g irl was injured in John McClure and J. F . Royae farms, structure from the angle of youth to porations and ha^e the power to a leap from a second story window north of Moro on Gordon ridge, into the management of and Garret was singed in fighting his burned about eighty scree of standing day see It tomorrow from the cor enqure recting vantage point of matnrer mid accounts of a ll departments. why ftnm the building. The cook h ai grain, divided equally between the C arly in December the commission dle age. The middle age angle Is pei- two. McClure also bad the combine, the side of his face burned. practically 1 hap« only • compromise between the must require the levying boards to The large locust trees that had where the fire ‘ averted, rival one« of youth’« enthusiasms and make a U « levy in accordance with for .years lined the streets of A r ruined. The fire started from a hot ■« m |. g i I ><■■ ! I l l * 4 ■! i i I l"l' I I I H 11 • 11 H I H H I the reaction of old age. But, In poli its findings. Any tax not levied in lington, saved the town from total box on the McClure machine, operat C H U R C H N E W S tic« nt least, the compromise angle 1« accordance w ith the commission shall , destruction. The protecting branches ing in hie ft did. A considerable <. Notes of Interest te AU the moet likely In the long ran to be be null and void. of these trees acted as a wind break quantity of threshed g rain ,in the field, Whether or not school budget« and and lessened the danger of the r«-»t waa also burned. F. E . f l a r t i n , p r o p r ie t o r Phone a iF i Local Denominations the right one. road districts w i ll come under the of the town. A field fire discovered at midnight I jurisdiction of the new commission, I Among the business houses that Monday on the L. J . Pape farm , east | Rev. U . C. Smother« w ill preach The horse during the last year has Morning delivery made to anyone phoning orders is as yet uncertain A recent decision burned* was the postoffice building, in Moro Sunday 11 a. m. and at lost out a trifle In his race with the of Moro, farmed by J. R. Cothran, of the Marion county circuit court contents and a ll official records. Tire in the evening for extra milk or cream. We have Grass V alley a t 8 p m. auto. There are about 18,853,000 B to the effect that road districts same also happened to the city hall. destroyed 180 acres of grain before it the only dairy herd in the vicinity of Moro that is horses on American farms now. That s The folks that have been absent are not municipal corporations under The total estimated loss ia «aid fo was gotten under control. We have about 013.000 leas than there were certified disease-free. z no report as to the extent of the from Sunday School for several Sun the old budget law. Whether or not be near $80,000. two years ago. During those two damage to neighboring farms or the days are cordially invited to attend they are under the new law is a years the horse ha» slowly been on next Sunday morning. You are cause of the fire. question which probably w ill be the downgrade. In numbers. But auto missed, and the superintendents W ill Erect Monument to — A false alarm of a field fire a t men needn’t chirp, for the horse Is determined in the courts. • H H + - H I I -I 1 1 I 1 1 t— ■ 4- - I l - M - i 1 1 1 I t i l i l ' U t I I r t l ' H greatly need your presence and co vanishing at such a alow rate that it Col. Roosevelt in Cuba the C arroll 8ayra farm last Friday operation. You can’t tell by the look« of a OOOOOOOOOOOOOÒGCJOOC 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOC night railed a ll the men from Moro would take over 40 more years to Love’ f w ill be the subject at the woman’s fur coat how soon her him on a w ild chàse a fte r a fire th a t did make him extinct Fear not horse band will finish the Installments. Christian Science church aext Sunday not m aterialise. lovers, Dobbin will be here In mnltl morning. Golden T e x t: 1 John 4 u . tudes vfrhen people discard autos «nd Manchuria wants America’« won Belovea. le t us love one another: for One of the victims of fashions on use airplanes. love la of God; and every one that out street car«. Sorry, Manchuria, but this continent Is the egret—our own loveth ia born of God, and knoweth we are using them. American bird of beautiful white A symposium Is said to have shown God. Responsive Reading: 1 Cor plumage, called the “aigrette” In the that the majority of club women are inthians 18: 1-8, 18. ’ Sunday School Every day or so area another Eu H O T AND COLD B A T H S trade. Purveyor« of fashion and. their opposed to girls bobbing their hair at 10:16 Wednesdy evening meeting ropeen king setting out on n home i women patrons have rolled np a long B u t ladle«, it Is not bobbed for the at 8 p. no. Reading room open daily eeekers* excursion. • liability for fairly unspeakable cruel purpose of pleasing club women. in the rear of the church. The ties that have been practiced on the public is cordially Invited to attend egret In getting the “aigrette" Into the the church service« and v is it the society column. But that la all over reading room. now, thanks to Uncle Sam and the various sovereign stats«. The egret has been saved from actual extinction by a happy accident. A mao who bought a shooting preserve In South Carolina fortunately found a small / '1 colony of egrets, or snowy cranes, on has returned to Sherman county the estate. He protected them Jeel and will practice his profession ously, and now the tribe has “come New York.— A monument Is to be back." A colony of egrets In a South nt Moro and vicinity erected to Theodore Roosevelt in the Carolina cypress forest la shown, with city of Santiago de Cuba to commem orate his part in Cuba’s fight for free admirable llfe-llkeneeo of detail. In the A Co dom. according to an announcement habitat group of the American Museum made at the national headquarters of of Natural History, New York. I t fu r Terms Strictly the Roosevelt Memorial asaodatlo». nishes a picture well worth seeing. BY AUTO The project 1« In charge of a commit tee of the Rough Riders’ association AND V ISIT T H E D A LLES O f th« Pan-Hlapanic movement little l i t i H W I 11 H " W l U H - H - H by the Roosevelt Memorial as la known outside a narrow circle la 6 Cups and Saucers, regular price 1 65 ••• ............... 1.45 backed sociation and the Rotary club of San Ndrth America— m know too little of 1.80 tiago. cans Snow Ball Corn, regular price 16c................. our neighbors; writes David Y. Thomas The monument will take the form of « * * in the North American Review. I f the 1.gallon Plain Pickels, glass container, regularly 1 45 1.30 an over-Ufe-slxe bust of Colonel Roose 'economic Interpretation of history" Is In the concrete, tully equipped, roomy garage of W il- velt ns a Rough Rider, set on a granite M ORO. OREGON the correct one, then the Pan-Hlspanlc 1.70 pedestal. Thg bust Is now being mod ther-William« Company. Competent workman alwayt ready 1 No. 10 size Poppy Jelly, regularly 1.85........... eled by James Karie Fraser, the fa movement eeems utterly hopelees, for to help you in any they can at least expense to you. 1.30 mous sculptor, whose statue of Alex the economic Interests common to H alf Gallon W edding Breakfast Syrup, regular 1 40 For any service rendered the charge will always be reasonable. ander Hamilton on the atepa of the Spain and her former colonies are Treasury department In Washington very, very small. But some day we was recently unveiled by President shall learn that economic determi Harding. A site for the monument has nants are more powerful among some already been selected by a committee of distinguished citisene of Santiago people than among others. That they T H E D A L L E S, - - OREGON. 72-inch Canvas, regularly priced at 1.20.......' . . . . .. 1.10 at a prominent point of the boulevard are powerful In the United States la h i n -I- -I 1 1 i i a i ■« > i i i' i H - i -i-e leading from the city to San Juan hill. beyond dispute, that they are not Mens' B.V.D. underw ear .................................. /............ 94c “The monument In Santiago,’’ said equally powerful In Latin America Colonel Oreenway, who made the an seems also beyond dispute “Blood In 32-inch G ingham ............................................................... 28c nouncement, “will commemorate the thicker than water" Is an expression m day that Colonel Roosevelt himself re with which Americana are fam iliar. 27-inch G ingham *........................................................... 23c garded as the greatest day of his life. Some day, perhaps, we Shall learn Shortly after the battle he stated that Ladies’ Blouses, regularly priced at 6.85 • -.................. ,5-00 he would rather have led the charge that spiritual ties of blood and cul ture are stronger than bonds forged up San Juan hill than to have served three terms in the United States sen of gold. Pan-America has not arrived. ate. He frequently remarked In later Before It does we may have to change ? r years that the battle of San Juan bill our attitude on some question«. had made him President." Husband killers have become so nu *• merous that the promt«« to leva, honor 8D5 30 X 3 C i i i u d t - r M other's Stocking Loses and obey In the marriage oaremony 4< • ’r • ÖV5 30 X 3 | $2,400 Saved by Twins may be superseded by a simple request Ì6.25, • New York.—Mnrjorle «nd Thelma not to shoot. . U 1 . Z . 31 X 4 White, altWen year-old-twins, made a 15;2^ . • / 32 X 8J ¡St r l i g h t S i d e hlg hit In dancing and singing with Connecticut, which Is still trying to • 4 • • {D7Ä Fred Stone In “T ip Top," which Just live down the wooden nutmeg etory. . - 32 X 4 • •- ended a long season on the road. T h e ' hastens to remark that the painted (1 4» « /Ü 20 25 33 X 4 4^ •, t . • A White twins were accompanied by rocks sold for coni did not come from I .. u / 12 their mother, Mrs. H arry White of 5000 34 X 4 that state. Broadway. The mother and daughters went They are now taking new style« through the trying experience of being snowbound for three days last Febru from a tomb 8.400 yedrii old In Egypt ary on tffh Montana prnlrlea with the because they know the women have 11 50 30 X 3 i S uith Ì»rii -Gl writer “Tip Top” company, after which Fred nothing from that date. O v e rsii»* ( d i n c h e r « n d S t r a i g h t S i d e 13.25 Stone, comedian, embraced religion in 30 X 3J Butte. - The twins wltneaaed the con version. 20.20 32 X 3è S traig h t Side > » 4- Mra. White Is a frugal woman and .4 •< f 23.25 while the company waa on the road ahe 31 X 4 laid aside $2.400, which she pinned In • < <‘ 25.25 J / . 32 X 4 - her stocking. “ .■ « 4 -7 ^ ’ - 4< •> < 26.35 $ * j- ' After their matinee performance at « 33 X 4 the Riverside theater thV twins re During the sultry «immer ’ rt 27.20 • 34 X 4 L*1* * J O r i’ turned with thetr mother to their day* with the u»e of an apartment. '.y’ • 1 M 32.30 When Mrs. White, wtth her twin«, • 1 . • * 32 X 4J E x tra P a rts for D eering H a rv este rs reached the theater for the evening 33.10 33x44 performance she felt a pin sticking In also th ree g-foot D eering Platform E le c t r ic H o t P la t e e • 38.76 her leg below the knee. It waa a safe 34 i 44 D rapers for sale. ty pin used to attach the $2,400 In 3 - b u r n e r , h e a t c o n tr o l 34.90 <• “ . J*. • 3,5 X 44 large hills to her garter. The pin got looaa and the season’s hard-earned u . • *' a f 35 65 36 X 44 Io , profits were lost. “Don’t cry, mother; we can earn 89.96 33 i 6 more money,” said Marjorie with a smile aa her mother bemoaned the I«*«. e e 41.16 - 34 X 6 X/J/ this Test Yourself — Au4u,t 3- Puts the Teeth to Sleep • for the teeth * D R . S. B. M A S S E Y T H E M O R O D A IR Y MORO MORO x OREGON HOTEL BARBER SH O P O . V . B E L K N A P . P R O P .’ Oregon Moro Trading Co. S P E C IA L S Dr. Jos. Sanders V.S. A valuable knowledge of the reliability Moro, jOregon and integrity of businesses is the reward of .the steady reader of advertisements. Two Days Only Friday and Saturday. 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