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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.
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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.
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We Sell The
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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