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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1923)
«-**•"-* Ford Motor Coopasy Has NEMil Milin C. L I reland , M«na4*oi Editor December 7. 1923 F riday A Pennsylvania professor advances th« startling hypothesis that our stores of oil era inexhaustible, because they are being constantly replenished through flab. Ho asserts that fish con stitute our sole supply of crude pe troleum and that vegetable matter has nothing to do with it Nor Is it dUB- «•alt In the light of recent develop ments, to believe that this Pennsylva nia professor Is right In his deductions. He might hsve gon« further und In- defintely named tbe exact speclea of fish that produces tbe most oil, say» tbe Omahs Be«. If not that then the nam« of th« sp«d«a that produc«« tbe moot profits for those who play tbs •0 game. That member of the fish tribe commonly known as “suck««** tentlaUtles, at least for the promoters. Aad the supply seems never to dimin ish. On the contrary, Barnum seems to timste of one every minute— unic es be happened to mean that one spawns •very minute. And it Is well known that when a sucker spawns It deposits several millions of eggs. If the Penn sylvania professor Is right and our oil supply really does come from fish, then oil well promoters may rest well sat la c. L Daonlslfo was registered at Hotel Moro this w««k from Th« DallsA Daraialle is now selling automobiles from an agency owned in Th« Dallas. H« was hoard comparing transportation of the present day with daya of past years, the story (foaling with tbe cuetom o^freighting whiakey by teams into central eastern Oregon before anutemobi lee was evolved from a visionary’s mind. Tbe story went that the teamsters alwsys sampled their loed, generally including their friends ss samplers. Tb« particular teamster in question bed sampled to such generous propor tions that water had to be applied to the whiskey to again bring tbe barrels to th«ir capacity. It being winter time, and th« proportions so great, th« whiakey frose. When the saloon keeper topped the keg, the whiskey would not flow. It was sold, so said Darniell«* by th« chunk in place of th« customary drink. L. D. Eakin'a farm home, garage, and automobile had a cloee call from destruction by fire late Saturday night, November 24th. Eakin had been attending court as juror and drove home late that evening, parking Che car among weeds near the house. It is thought the hot engine set fir« to th« w««ds, which in turn set fira to th« grasM and oils in th« pan under the engine. When discovered th« family w«ra just about ready for bod and L. D. ran into the night with out clothes or nightshirt, started th« car and drove it to a safe place where he smothered th« fira with dirt and Director Stock of the Chicago Sym phony orchestra finds cause for slartn tiene to provide material In plenty for In tbe frenzy of European muaic and the exercise of their wiles. the vivid coloring and daring In tbe dress of European women as indicating The various mints in China during a trend toward war. Aa mu «id ana do the last tew years hsve turned out not generally figure much in fighting— enormous smounts of copper coins. It except among themselves—and ss la estimated that those now In circula women do not usually play a conspicu tion In the country number abopt 40,- ous part on tbe firing Uns, It would 000.000,000. Copper is In reality the seem that the director has been ob ■tedium of exchange of the masses. serving elements of minor military sig With the fall In copper prices and the nificance, aays the Washington Post. wholesale minting of these coins In Now If he bad caught tbe martial note China, Including the production In that is dominant In the concert of dis some cases of light-weight coins, the cords being rendered by tbe European value of the copper cent has continued ■ governments and th« thrilling notes of the piper to whom they dance, and who about 190 to 91 allver. It has reached soon or late must be paid, and bad ob such a low level that many mints have served tbe latest styles in heavy arma- discontinued Its coinage as being no ments, be would have found more rea longer profitable. There is still, how son for alarm. > . ever, one other difficulty that has to Tbeoe have been circulated on about tb« asme basis as the valus of the cop per coins, and bave shown little ten- certain provincial laauea other than Oae rather crabbed critic suggeeta would the state get along without Its Renewed ectlvltleo of the Japaneeo volcano Mihara create the fear that the efforts to cheer up may be hin dered by apprehensions that the worst Is yet to eome. The people of Nippon have nerd of an the fortitude tor which they are fhmoua. If the oil discoveries In Lower Cali fornia hold out. the rush for the Pacific coast may recall stories of the days of '4». The old romance, however, will be gone. The filvver cannot compete in pictureequeneso with th« prairie schooner. The Idea of equipping children with cosse to the point where those not se thyroid gland. And they laughed a* It is noticeable that, although Rus sia continues to print paper rubles, when it comes to exacting compensa tion from Finland she apocifies pay ment in gold. x Tbe price of gasoline Is going down while that of coal goes up; which fact will excuse many people for deserting the firedde for the filvver. We Have A Complete Stock SCHOOL BOOKS Pens, Inks and Holders Pencil and Ink Tablets, ■ * Composition Books Everything for School at Lowest Prices Large Modem Glass Plant Glass is now b«ing mad« at th« Ford motor company’s plant at River Rous«, Michigan, bringing th« company on« stop further in its pro gram to control th« manufactura of practically «varythiag «ntering Into its products. On« furnac« ia now operating in the Rouge factory, Area have been lighted under the second and the re maining two, it Is expected, will be going shortly after the firet of tbe year. When the factory g«ta in full operation it will have an annual capacity of more than 10,000,000 square feet of glaas. The company’s glass plant at Glass mere. Pa., baa an annul output of 7,000,000 square feet while th« smaller plant at Highland Park, started about four years ago as an experiment and where " th« Ford method of making glass wss devel- oped, daily produces 9,500 square feet All thia great production is necee - ■ary to meet the manufacturing re quirements of the company which at present call for more than 20,600,000 square feet of glass a year, due to tbe increased production of Ford cars and the constantly growing demand for enclosed types. Glass manufacture has been placed on a day and night continuous pro duction bssis through the Ford pro cess and aa carried out in the new factory it presents an industrial accomplishment of vaet importance and entailing operations interesting to laymen and experts alike. Every fifteen minutes 860 pounds o: the mixture is fed into the furnace opening and these constant addition* to the fiery mass within permit a never-ending flow of molten glass from the mouth of the furnace at the opposite side. As it cotnes from the furnace, flowing like molasses from a tank, the molten glass ia caught up under a roller, spread out and sent on in a solid ribbon 400 feat long at a rate of five feet, 4 inches every minute. The molten glass leaves the furnace mouth at 2,160 degrees fahrenheit, haa cooled to 1,000 degrees by the time it passes under the roller and proceeds through a long oven or lehr under lessening degrees of heat until it moves out at the end at 70 degrees. There it is cut in lengths. Tbe roller system as devised by the Ford motor company gives a uniform thickness to the glass, eliminates the so-called “waves” and saves about 26 per cent in materials at the very start as compared with other menufaeture where great pots of molten glass are lifted from the furnace and poured out on. Polishing also is on th« Ford system of continuous production and proceeds along a direct route until th« glass emerges highly polished. - These grinding and polishing ms- chines were devised by Ford engineers and Ford products utilized in their construction7 Every step of Ford glass manufacture is accompanied by the mbst exacting standards. All through the entire process from the careful selection and preparation of ingredients until the glass emerges resdy for installstion in cars there is constant inspection to see thst every piece is of the highest quality. It has never been satisfactorily set- tied just where all the pins go to, but the garbage man at Lyons, Kao, knows what becomes of quite a bit of the silverware. A short time ago the collector of garbage from the back doors at Lyons brought Into town three dozen silver spoons, and last year his collection of forks reached thirty. The silver is seldom discovered until the clop Is emptied Into pig troughs at the pens east of town, and when taken from the troughs It is too late to iden tify or return it, so It becomes the property of the driver of the garbage wagon. To combat plagues of grasshoppers, a flame thrower has been devised in the West By means of an air com pressor, gasoline and air are project or through a long rubber bom, lighted at the aossle and the blase sprayed over the ground, killing the grasshop pers Instantly, says the Popular Me chanics Magazine The insects usually travel In ranks with a front from 100 yards to one quarter of a mils and Ai depth of perhaps B0 to 100 foot When bunched in that manner, the in strument has been found effective That farming Is rapidly becoming more and more a profession la shown by the diligence with which ent-day farmer attends field meetings. demonstration tours and similar edu cational gatherings. At meetings of this sort be studies the up-to-date methods of carrying on his business with the result that the practice of agricultura is approaching more neerly its proper place in relation to the Th« power of th« state high commission to “¿«signal«, defln« adopt” roads as state highways was uph«lJ Isst w««k by th« supram« court of Oragon. which d«cid«d that it liae with th« discretion of th« high way commission whst land is n««d«d for road building. Tb« cas« brought b«for« th« supram« court, on which th« decision was mad«, was brouhgt by Malcolm Moody against th« highway department and was tbe suit that was heard in the circuit court at Th« Dallas, involving th« right to connect the old road over th« hill with th« Columbia rivar highway and th« new bridge near the mouth of th« Deschute« river by means of a detour across lands not in the original high way right of way. In th« Wasco court Judg« Fred W. Wilson d«cid«d th« cas« in favor of the stat« highway commission and his rulings hsv« bean held correct by the supreme court. Ralph Haynes, a Kent man attend ing Oragon Agricultural coilego, is on« of a class of 42 seniors in «l«ctri- cal engineering who loft th« col leg« Isst month on th« coll«g« annual field trip of th« «ip«trical «nginearing claaa. Th« students were accompanied by th« professor and assistant pro fessor of electricA!*.engineering. They will inspect electrical power planta and subotatiooe in and near Portland, having obtained thia privilege through the courteey of the power coanpaniea. Tbe new project of the Portland Rail- construction at Oak Grove, will also be visited and studied by the class. About five or six years ego tbe manufacturers of Mah-Jong sets were about to go out of buslneee. There was little demand for their articles of trade. Then came the^freat “Amerl- <nn public,“ with Ite desire for new itmusenient. and a new commercial field was opened. Possessing a value In itself as s game, plus tbs glamour of having come from a moot ancient race, Mah-Jong has cut in on a “party liae” ind nearly everyone is enjoying the visit. Meanwhile Mr. Chinaman, in bls factory, sits and smiles tnscrutsbly as the new enthusissts are helping the cast wind blow good fortune to him. The Incressing number of attempts to escape from jails and prisons mani fests an unwillingness on the part of those guilty of offenses against the law to pay the price of their wrongdoing. But this unwllliagness asserts Itself too late. The time for It to speak to the Inner man—and for the inner man to deliver Its message to the outer man would do some good. If those inclined to crime would only realise the price that must be paid and stop to consider whether or not they are willing to risk ¡»yinent, there would be fewer of- fenaea Dick Whittington, the cat fancier who became mayor of London, is being lonored by the five hundredth annlver- wry of his death, because “during his Ifetime he was influentlsl tn building ip London's fame end'fortune as well ts his own,” There is a lesson in this or present-day office holders. One of the German liners left Now /ork the other day with only fifteen nt ««engers, from which we deduce hat even a million marks to the dollar iren't much In the way of Inducement o desertion of the real land of tbe free or the Ime of the clare. The locomotive engineer who •P- >ealed to motorista to stay off the :rsde crossings when trains are only • few feet sway is in position to tes tify that In a scuffle for the rlgbt-of- vay. the train Is pretty sure to wta. Still, the professor who has made lour, rubber, molasses, tapioca, dyes <nd flavoring extracts out of sweet potatoes. hasn’t succeeded In making anything better of them than sweet mtHtoes. There are heartening signs that the vrtier of “Yes, Wa Have Ne Bananas' ‘nmrhed those kinds of hits. OBSERVER WANT ADS IS to 30 vorda, 50c DRESSED PIGS for sale; choice grain fed pis; weigght about ¡26 to 140 pound, at 1 l|e for whole hog or 12c for half hog, cash. Want to butcher They Will Save You Monev Spend Your Money at Home Long before the sntomobtle was pee- attacked as a menace to life. Under inndeH conditions Its threat *■ to- creosed greatly. Tbe total abolition sf •'safety-41 ret" method. -Moro Trading Co., Moro Certificete OREGON r t f t * I I Be ¡she pasture sbout flrot of No^em- 1450, haa slight split'in Isft ear and white face. Ooe brown saddle hers«, gliding, weight about 900, has thr«« white fest, while* strip 18 fee«, branded combination figure 4 and dash on left shoulder. Phone the Oboerver office or notify H. B. Belebe, Moro, Oregon. MORO HOTEL BARBER SHOP HOT AND COLD BATHS Moro Oregon FOR SALE. Lease on dairy and poultry farm located in Sherman county. Stock includes eowe, dairy outfit, chickens, bogs and aheep. Peterson A Freeman, Moro. FOR SALE OR RENT-The Wil liam Schleis residence property in Moro. Oregon. Inquire of Roy Kes singer, administrator, or W Bryant, attorney. 6% Loans under Reserve System on city or farm property Reserve Deposit Company 72 Fourth Street, Portland, Oregon. We pey parcel poet one wav on al) shoe repairing. Good quality leather and work. Joe Amore, The Dalles, Oregon O. A. C. FOSS & CO., Inc. Blacksmith and Machine Shop Phone 303, NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. Notice is hereby given that Nancy t. Miller es executrix of the estate of William E. Miller, deceased, has filed her final report and account with the Clark of the County Court of the State of Oregon for Sherman County, and that Saturday, the 5th day January, 1924, at the hour of o'clock a. m. and the courtroom th« abov« mentioned court at th« cc house at Moro, Oregon, has b««n fixed ss the time and place for bearing objections to said final report and Nancy I. Miller, Executrix. Rugs Tako Town’s Nsmo. The names of oriental rugs are token from the towns, states or tribes by whom or where they were woven, and have been handed down from generation to generation by word of mouth. Moro, Oregon We carry a complete line of Auto Accessories SHORT COURSES . Intensive practical instruction in agricultural specialties varying from one week to 20 weeas as follows: General Agriculture. .Jan. 2-March 19 .Jan. 2-March 19 Horticulture. Dairy Manufacturing... Jan. 7-Feb 2 Hardeman and Cow Teeter*...................... ..Jan. 2-Jun« 12 Farm Mechanics, Tractors, Trucks, etc......... Jan. 2-March 19 Farm Meehan lea 28 (one week)......... Feb. 18-Feb. Third Annuel Canner’s School... . Feb. 4-Feb. 28 Land Classification and Appraisal................. Jan. 7-Jan. 12 Agricultural Economic Conference .Jan. 21-Jan. 26 For further information regarding any course sddress The Registrar Oregon Agricultural College Corvallis, Oregon. Electricity is no longer a luxury to be enjoyed by the few. It is now within the reach of the many. Read the following figures based on the average rates for electric current. of Education. Pay Geography. Mechawicel th« only dairy herd in the vicinity of Moro that » •**< certified disease-free. ! ..y. r LEGHORN PULLETS for sale. Have too many for winter feeding. C. M. Cunningham, phone 27F8, Moro. HORSES LOST Fro^ the B B. remetned Arithmetic * REWARD. Disappeared from pas ture on Desehuteo breaks about July 1st, black mara colt coming 8 in the epring, has four white feet and white face, no visible brands. Reward paid for return or information. J. F. Peters, phon« 26F14, Moro. Oragon. tricity will I Watch for Our Special Sale Offers Morning dfiliv#y made to anyone phoning orders in. the Evening <>r extra milk or cream. VVe have MORO TO THE MORO PUBUC-Whil« I am away on a two month’s vacation my dray businesa will be in charge of Brace Gochnour, who will have full authority to collect all bills end settle accounts during the months of Decem ber and January on my behalf. F. D. Flatt. It Is predicted that tbe next wsi vtn be fought tn tbe str. The last o’clock p. Phone ai Fl F. E. nartin/proprietnr Carroll Say ree. Bandits lay tn wait for a Phlladei thia messenger boy and robbed him if 800.000. Patience has Its reward. School Ora..will THE MORO DAIRY Whiz Auto Products Goodyear Tires and Tubes Pyrene Fire Extinguishers and Liquid Auto Repairing and Storage Agents for Studebaker Cars. • 1i - A it | í« * I Independent Warehouse & Milling Co R. H. McKean, Manager, W Oregon ■ 0 'JF* DEALERS IN . Lime, Plaster, Cement, Cedar Posts, Buildeis Supplies, Lumber, Wood Coal and Hay; manufacturers of MILL FEED AND FLOU ' r • i • • I ” ' W l-l- M I »144*44 1 1 M ^H i llui M MJ | Il l i W H I I I I I I I i
