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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (March 7, 1924)
LX: J*' ---------------- MERMAN QOUNn OBSERVE« County Teachers Hold Suc Fashions Have Had Slight Changes vine nunarea and sixteen years ago Washington Irving described tn his One of the features of the Sherman “Salmagundi,” the proper costume for connty teachers institute held at ladies to wear of.'k morning tn the Wasco last week, was a talk by Roy city streets, says The Villager. "If J. Baker of Grass Valley. Mr. Baker the weather be very cold," * Anthony enumerated and set forth very clearly Evergreen advised, "a thin muslin the numerous deductions that were gown or frock to most advisable, be chsrged to a bushel of wheat before cause It agrees with the season, being The neck, arms and the farmer received his return. perfectly cool. Commissions, high freight rates, dock particularly the elbows bare, tn order charges, warehouse charges and high that they may be agreeably painted cost of labor were among the contrib and mottled by Mr. John Frost, nose- uting factors. The McNary-Haugen painter general. Shoes of kid. the wheat bill was taken up for discus thinnest that can possibly be pro sion and a resolution unanimously cured—as they tend to promote colds, endorsing this bill was passed. and make a lady look interesting. Copies of this' resolution were tele Picnic silk stockings with lace clocks, graphed to the cheirman of the house ..flesh-colored, are most fashionable, as c. remittee, chairman of the senate they have the appearance of bare legs, committee, N J. Sinnott, Charles, L. nudity being all the rage. The shawl McNary, Robert ' N. Stanfield and scarlet, crimson, flame, orange, sal mon, or afiy other combustible or President Coolidge. E. D. McKee of Wasco showed brimstone color, thrown over one that he had been studying the school shoulder.” And it was Fontenelle, situation when he stated that our a man out of that very land where the ¿chooto needed better discipline and ladles* fashions are made, who ex cooperation and that these two factors claimed, “How many foolish things might well be extended to the homes. the present would say and do If the He also statid that our younger past had not already said and done generation lacked respect for their them.” elders and that a little religious training might help the situation. Somebody estimates there are 600,- Plans were laid for a county wide 000 gasoline filling stations In the spelling contest from the first to tho United States. The estimate seems eighth grades inclusive. The out conservative You may see one on lying districts from each town are to nearly, every street comer and. be send their best spellers in each grade tween corners, In almost any town or to their respective town on March city, while Hues of them stretch out 28th at 7 p. m. to spell for the Into the country and along the high championship of their respective ways, says Capper’s Weekly. Not a divisions. The winners in the divi few are ornate and have cost much sion contests are to meet in Moro, on money. Overdevelopment and swelled April 23d, and spell for the champion overhead Is what alls the oil Industry. ship of the county. The work is to be It has been running wild. The oil written and each child in each grade men themselves admit It The pub is to spell the same list of woras. lic paid for these extravagances and Suitable certificates containing the for the filling station-competition for county seal will be given to each a time, then balked, and this arti champion ficial development broke down. The During the institute members of oil Industry has more need £f cutting the local and county fair committees down expenses than of reducing pro who were present met with the indus duction. trial club executive committee for the purpose of discussing plane relative Statistics compiled by the Savings to the fair work. It win decided Bnnk division of the American that each division representative of the Bankers’ association show that. In the local fair committee should become last ten years, savings deposits have acquainted with all club members and increased In- the aggregate from $8,- leaders in their division - and should 425,275,000 to $17,331,479,000, or more encourage them to mske definite prep than 100 per cent, and that the num arations for the local fairs. Among other things this committee was urged ber of accounts has Increased from 12,584.316 to 30,323,320, or nearly 150 to keep items running in local papers. The population fot the The question of gaining permission per cent. same period shows an Increase of for all schools to be allowed to at tend the fairs was brought before the less than 16 per cent. These figures committee and it was decided that bear Impressive witness to Increasing this be taken up with the respective prosperity and Its spread among the people at large. They show that school lioards. workers and small traders—those In The county fair committee also dis cussed plans and decided on again the humbler walks of life—are laying The distribution of meeting later in the year. J. E up treasure. Calavan met with the executive com-, wealth is proof of Just laws protect mittee and offered many valuable ing an Industrious people. cessful Institute at Wasco Entered u second class matter at the poet office at Moro, Oregon, Jnly 25. 1891 C. L. I reland . Managing Editor March 7, 1924 F riday In colonial days, 150 years ago, girts and women had “great dignity, Modesty, lofty sense of duty, un divided attention to the home, heroic bravery, deep religious faith, neigh borly kindness and grace and charm of manner." At least, so Mary Hil liard Hinton writes in the North Carolina Booklet For that matter, have not the women of today tltese self-same attributes of character? Perhaps attention to the home 'to not undivided, but in every other Instance yesterday's housewife and today’s must be virtually Identical. But it ^must be admitted that the girls hav< Ah changed, In this particular. colonial maidens expected to get mar ried, she writes, and, with very few exceptions, all did marry. And usual ly in their ’teens They were educated to become home-builders; not decora tors, lawyers, merchants, chief a Yet one should not be disconsolate. Rather one should be assured that today's girls will be equally fine when they fidget with the budget and darn the children's stockings a few years hence. To w believe contrariwise would be to forecast a crumbling civilization. That Philadelphia judge who held that reading movie titles aloud punishable offense has pointed the way to removal of an Increasing men ace to the peace of mankind. The right of others to pursue happiness is manifestly outraged by those who read titles aloud. Even the gentler movie fans resent such invasions. And the less gentle listen, with fingers Itching to get at the throat of the reader. Beading titles aloud is a provocation to the short-tempered that turns their thoughts to battle, murder and sudden death—to the offender. Many a pa tron goes to the movie in pleasant mood—only to have the evening ruined and temper spoiled by barbarians. Movie fans generally will applaud the Philadelphia ruling and will hope that all Judges tn the universe will take the same course. In the meantime, with all the chaos la Europe, the bear that walks like a man is probably doing something sacre than merely hibernating. A lady running for the house of com mons was so severely hurt in Glasgow that she had to be taken to the hos pital. In some parts of the world the game of politics threatens to be mis taken for a variety of football. suggestions. -, BILL ä BARBE 5AY5 Il I FINO THAT ■¡THE ■ wrm most ■ bald ■ MEN IS NOT ■ l A>0T PRO ■ oucncNBLcr ■r^eunûN Steady advertising is a business asset. The authority with which some of our “touch-and-go” visitors presume to Somebody’s always taking the Joy speak on things American suggests out of education—and there is little enough Joy in It at best That the that they either overrate their own feet of college girls are steadily in powers of observation or underrate creasing in size Is the latest bomb the Intelligence of their “galleries." to be hurled in the line of march of Americans may not be as secretive fair ones on the way to knowledge. and Indirect ns other peoples, and The girls’ feet should not act |hat things American may not be so hid way. There to no call for them to den and disguised as are things for swell out just because their owners eign. but they are not to be wholly are crowding their brains with learn read at a glance. Those who under ing. The size of the shoe is not a take to do so generally fall Into the variable that moves with the size of error of drawing wrong deductions the hat Mental understanding and from observations that are superficial. physical understanding should not We are a hospitable people, but some necessarily be commensurate. It’s all of the snap judgments that have been passed upon us are an Impertinence wrong 1 that not even hospitality can excuse. Sowing Good Seeds We Sell The INLAND SEED COMPANY SEEDS of Spokane, Washington These Seeds are per icularly acclimated to this section of Eastern Oregon Be Sure You Get The Best Death «f F. A. Sayrs Ends Active Career oí Pioneer Francis Alroy Sayrs was born at Corvallis, Bon ton county. Oregon, on August 10th, 1856, and passed away at bis - home in Moro, Oregon, on February 28th, 1924, being 67 years 6 months and 18 days of age. He was married to Emma J. Powell February 22. 1879, at Prineville, Ore gon, where they lived until the fall of 1883 when they moved to Sherman county, settling on a farm three miles west of Moro and which has since been known as the Sayrs farm. It here that Mr. and Mrs. Sayrs first knew the hardships of pioneer life and it it» here that their family of boys and girls grew to young man and womanhood, all of whom were at his bedside when he was called to rest. About' the year 1908 Mr. Sayrs re- tired from active farm service and has since resided in the city of Moro. During his lifetime he has seen the old style frontier dwindle and fade into active cosmopolitan localities. He has seen the interior section of Oregon gradually change from a stock country into the wheat growing em pire of the preset^ day. The change of conditions be witnessed can best be expressed by the thot that when be lived at Prineville it was a journey of weeks to freight goods into that section irom The Dalles where now it is done by railroad and automobile in comparatively a few hours. He was active in community and lodge affairs, being a member of Moro lodge I. O. 0. F. for 27 years, Moro lodge Woodman of the World for 24 years, s^inember of the city council for 25 years and a member of the board of directors of Moro school iisirict for nearly 30 years. Besides his life companion he it survived by four daughters, Mrs. R. T. Morgan and Mrs. C. R. Axtell if Moro, Mrs. W. A. Morgan of Con lon, Mrs. E. A. Race of Mosier; two «ons, Omer G. Sayrs and Carroll T. Sayrs of Moro; twenty-one grand •hildren, one great grandchild, two listers, and a host of relatives and frierds to mourn his loss. Card of Thanks We wish to thank the people of Mord and vicinity, both individuals and societies, for their many acts of kindness tendered our father, F. A. Sayrs, during hie recent illness and it the time and after hie passing and ilso for the same kind attentions to our mother, Mrs. F. A. Sayrs, cur ing her illness and recovery of her nealth. Especially do we eppreciate che many beautiful floral offerings in memory of our father. Sincerely,'in grateful remembrance. The Family. =P- Real Sportaci Are Not Péthunlers The man who kills more game than he needs, even though he keeps wlth- pothunter. No man who has the in- ; tereat of game preservation at heart can hear unmoved the story of one who tells of the Immense bag .of ducks or quails or squirrel that be has made, or of the over-large num ber of fish he has caught .In many of the states, now, wild life is in creasing duo to the vigilance of real , sportsmen and the laws they have caused to be placed upon statute books, but In others the unnecessary slaughter of game animals continues, and some of the worst of this slaugh ter is not done by hunters of the wrong kind, but by commercial inter ests. The time will come, we believe, says the Mundo Evening Press, when an aroused public sentiment, placing love of nature above lovo of dollars, will make it certain that all streams shall be kept free of pollution, many foresta be preserved as havens of refuge for bird and beast, and the pothunter and the dynamiter of rivera and lakes shall be considered criminals, not merely misdemeanants, and be sent to prisons where they be long. Come! and see the New Model Eight Canton Plow also our Vulcan Plow Both Plows Have Guaranteed Beams with Both Cast and Steel Bottoms Chance for success varies Inversely with the weight of the individual, ac cording to a Boston scientist Play the lean entry to win the race, he advises. He cites John D. Rockefeller and Henry Ford as examples of thin Moro, Oregon racers who have won, says the Wash ington Poet But how about the un distributed middle that so commonly marks the successful man of business OOOOOCXMXXl QUOCXX > x OOOOOOOOOOOOQOOOOOOOOOOOOOQOOOOQOO or finance? How about the numerous portly gentlemen who have writ their names high on the lists of success in ofher fields? Fatness of bead may militate against success, but bulk of body has little to do with the bulk of success, if the pictures of many successful men are to be believed. HOT AND COLD BATHS The fat man may “get there” just the MORO HOTEL BARBER SHOP Moro It to said that English grammar as we studied it has been discarded. ' I certainly have fund nothing resign bling It in the school work of my own children. The more’s the pity! A language has Its anatomy, which must be mastered in order properly to manipulate that language, says Scribner’s Magazine. * How we used to take apart and put together again and pound the meaning out of “Para dise Lost,” and the selections from Shakespeare given in the back of “Brown’s Grammar.” that grammar that was the law and the prophets of English language study in those days! “Parsing,” It was called. But so the English speech became a wonderful and living, albeit useful thing to ua The large number of spacqlator» who bought the Oerman mark as It was going down, on the gamble that It would come back, and who now are “broke” are paying for folly that was plainly marked “Q O. D.” The downward plunge of the mark the result of false economic prac tice that gave plain warning of its danger. The figure to which the num ber of mark Investors runs suggests that the sucker birth rate was greatly Wderestlmatpd by the late P. T. Bar num, says the Washington Post. Ger man marks appeared like easy money only to “easy marks,“ who now have only scraps of paper tn place of the dollars they threw away. OOOCXXJCXXJOOOOC FOSS & CO., Inc .Blacksmith and Machine Shop Phône 303 Auto Accessories A feminist leader says that old-fash ioned m^thds of education are Inade quate to the needs of modern woman; that' they , do not make for'develop ment of her possibilities as a factor I q world affairs. Maybe so. But many gleaming examples of such de velopment stand to the credit of those old methods. From Asp aide's day down through the centuries great women have played great roles In the world drama. They have figured large in political movements, held high place with leaders of thought and attained eminence in public affairs, in arts, philosophy and litera ture. As wives and mothers, women developed possibilities of Influence on Every reader of advertisements haa men end world affairs that are not to a purchasing advantage oí no mean value. be forgotten. While It may seem unbelievable, it is nevertheleaa authoritatively report ed that more than $100,000,000 were spent In 1920 for lost and damaged freight by the principal railroads of the United States. Officials find that the claims are mounting at an alarm ingly Increasing rate. Although mis takes and negligence are responsible for much loss and damage, a good por tion of this expense Item is due, di rectly or indirectly, to Inadequate containers. Insufficient packing and Improper marketing. Townly—“Do you often have to rush to catch your morning train?” 8ub bubo—"Oh, It’s about an even breuk. Sometimes I am standing st the stn tlon when the train cornea puffing In and other times It Is standing at the station when I corn« puffing in.” every meal . Moro, Oregon We carry a complete line of Whiz Auto Products Goodyear Tires and Tubes Pyrene Fire Extinguishers and Liquid : Auto Repairing and Storage - Agents for Studebaker Cars The reader of advertisements knows that he has the most reliable guide to markets that exists in the world today. An ear to substitute tor one ne lost being grown by doctors on a man’s A western sociologist prophesies back. When it la full-grown It will be transplanted to its proper place. For that within a score of years an intel the present, he has no objection to any ligence test will be a prerequisite of body going behind his back and say marriage, says the Washington Poet. Would such a requirement be fair to ing what they want to say. those about to wed? It Is common knowledge that Cupid’s victims—even Canary birds have been used to those of highest Intelligence — are test the quality of the atmosphere In a room In Pittsburgh where a often subject to lapses that would put a moron to shame. Through the ages mother and her son recently died, supposedly poisoned by fumes from love has Induced something does akin to madness In those whom it has a gas stove. It Is well known that smitten. Any observer can testify canaries are more sensitive than hu man beings to impure air, and the that lovers are insane. ’ A high regie Pittsburgh incident may call public ter of intelligence on the eve of wed ding would be too much to expect of attention to their value as warning any couple. Nature has provided that signals wherever gas stoves are in use. It may even arouse inquiry as to they shall be crazy about each other. whether their popularity In the Hartz mountains was originally due to the fact that the German peasant needed protection against his stove tn his airtight cottage. Oregon RAw*. 383 extra 295“"” BUY NOW! Every spring the demand for Ford Cars is several hundred thousand greater than the available supply. Place your order immedi ately, to .avoid delay in delivery. WE PAY CASH FOR FARM PRODUCE Moro Trading Co Verj dote Prices Made - King George of Greece plana to visit the United States next year, "and travel strictly incognito,“ says the dis patch. Further details will be sup plied by the royal press agent, as to the monicker, itinerary, etc. NOTE : A small ] your name on the p the Nearest Authorized Ford Dealer Occasionally parties to divorce pro- teed Ings manage to convey the 1m- pression thaï their household Inf elici- ties have In some mysterious manner become a national Issue. According to Washington statistics there are 340,000 people being cared for In public institutions Intire coun try, and even this number does not iDClud« the officeholders. CARS • TRUCKS • TRACTOILS
