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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1924)
siguí ciiiin oisata F riday THE JUDGE He Äx-Amines” an Old Patriarch ..March 21. 1924 Making Typewriter Fit. Time was when the sewing machine placed through the strictures of limit ed space In tbe sitting room presented a problem of reconciling oe with beauty, says the New York Sun and Globe. Today in the small apartment the typewriter presents the same problem. In one small apartment tn tower Manhattan the problem was dealt with by the substitution of the uaual typewriter cover by a square of rose- colored velvet In flowing drapes. The looseness of the cover conceals ths na ture of the hidden object and permits the dwellers to delude themselves that It adds a touch of oriental mystery to the room. If the lost cover could be found no doubt the seductive velvet draping would be discarded. **Ralnlng Cats and DogV* Old myths from Norway contain weird tales of the influence of cats an I dogs on the weather. As the cat rep resented the rain, the dog was sup posed to be the wind that accompanied the rain. Therefore, to “rain cats and dogs” means to rain and blow, says the Detroit New« Tbe dog and wolf were attendants upon Odin, the storm god. In old German prints wind to repre sented by the head of a dog or a wolf from which issue great blasts. English sailors still ssy that « rain comes when the ship's cat to unusually frisky. Witches were believed to assume the form of cats and ride upon the storm. Saracens Produced Sarcenet. The survivors of the Spanish Sara cen» were beaten back across tbe Medi terranean by Ferdinand and Isabella, but they left the sarcenet industry be hind them. Their racial designation remained firmly fixed as a trademark to the cloth. The Saracen rule was s wondrous civilization, says the Detroit News. Among the articles of luxury they produced was the kind of thin silk cloth which the French manufac turers quickly adopted, from France the Huguenot weavers took the proc ess of sarcenet making England. Political Notices of County Candidates J For Representative. ( To the Voters of Sherman County: I hereby announce mv candidacy 1 hereby announce myself as j for nomination by the Republic«'" '•candidate for the office of Count) Harty for Representative in the State Judge for Sherman County, at th« Legislature from the twenty-eighth Republican primary nominating elec District consisting of the Counties of tion, to be held on May 16th, 1924 Sherman, Gilliam and Wheeler, st 1 do this not altogether from choice the Primary Nominating Election to be but because of a demand on the par held the 16th day of May, 1924 1 of many tax payers to have ai have no selfish or personal interests to, unfinished work carried on consiatem serve; I am interested particulsrly in with a good business administration the welfare of this district; and If until all parts of the county shal; nominated and elected will faithlully have good roads. If nominated sn< and honestly represent my constit elected, I shall endeavor to rendei uency. E. D. McKee such a service. C. A. Tom, Rufus, Oregon. To the Voters of Sherman Co«nly: . To the Voters of Sherman County: I hereby announce myself as t I am a candidate for the republican candidate for the office of Count} nomination for District Attorney of Commissioner for Sherman County. Sherman county at the Republican Oregon, at the Republican nominating primary to be held Friday, May 16th, election to be held on May 16th, 1924. 1924. Reluctantly I do this, not be The office of District Attorney, cause I want the job but becauae of representing and protecting as it does the solicitation of those who desir« th« ir^erests of the State and the the continuance of the present road County, is one of th« moot important program until all parts of Shermar offices withln'the gift of the people. County may have good roads. 11 I am the candidal« of no class, ele nominated and elected, I shall use mj ment nor interest, but if elected will best efforts for a business administr^/ be the District Attorney of all the tion. L. L. Peetx. people. I am for efficiency in office To the Voters of Sherman County: and competent performance of duty. 1 hereby announce myself as a I ask for your vote and support candidate for the office of County and will appreciate the same. Commissioner of Sherman County, Ira M. Peterson. Oregon, at the Republican primary To the Voters of Sherman County: nominating election, to be held on I hereby announce my candidacy for May 16th, 1924. If elected 1 shall the office of District Attorney for endeavor to faithfully serve th« Sherman County, Oregon, at the Re people of Sherman County. publican primary nominating election A. A. Dunlap, Kent, Oregon to be held on the 16th day of May, 1924. If nominated and elected I To the Voter« of Sherman County: I hereby announce myself as a promise to discharge the dutiea of the office conscientiously, efficiently, with candidate for the office of County As fairness to all, and with minimum sessor for Sherman county, Oregon, at expense to the taxpayers of the the Republican primary nominating election to be held on May 16th 1924. County. Francis T. Wade. If nominated and elected I pledge to To the Voters of Sherman County rive my beat and careful attention in I hereby announce myself as a the future as in the past to the busi candidate for the office of Sheriff for ness conduct of this office. * Sherman County, Oregon, at the Otto Peetz. / Republican primary nominating elec tion, to be held on May 16th, 1924. To the Voter« of Sherman County: If nominated and elected I pledge I hereby • announce myself as a myself to perform the dutiee of the candidate for the office of County office without fear or favor and solicit Clerk for Sherman County, Oregon, at the support of the people to help in the Republican Primary Nomi the enforcement of all laws violated. nating Election to be held on May Hugh Chrisman. 16th, 1924. If nominated and elected I shall endeavor to perform the duties To the Voters of Sherman County: of the office to the beat interests of I hereby announce myself as a Rena Norton. all. candidate for »he office of Sheriff of Sherman County, Oregon, at the Re-, To the Elector« of Sherman County. publican primary nominating election, I hereby announce my candidacy to be held on May 16th, 1924. If for the office of County Clerk at the elected I shall endevor to perform the Republican primary nominating elec duties of the office, to the full exlent tion to be held on May )6th next. If elected I will give strict attention to Ryland O. Scott, Wasco, Oregon. the duties uf the office and endeavor to the best of my ability to perform To tbs Voters of Sherman County : same in an efficient and business like I hereby announce myself as candi manner. date for the offict of School Superin EL R. Hickson, Moro, Oregon. tendent for Sherman County, Oregon, at the Republican primary nominat To the Voter« of Shermsn County : ing election to be held on May 16th, I hereby announce myself as candi 1924. If nominated and elected, I date for the office of County Clerk for shall strive to promote a just and Sherman County at the Republican impartial business administration for Primary nominating election to be tbs upbuilding of our school*. held on the 16th of May 1924. A. M. Ze.ely. • If nominated and elected I promise to attend to the duties of the office to To the Voters of Sherman County: I hereby announce myself as can the best of my ability, being cour didate for the office of School Super teous snd obliging to al I,giving every intendent for Sherman County,'Ore one a square deal. gon, «at the Republicn primary James M. Morrison, Wasco, Oregon. nominating election to be held on May 16th, 1924. I am very interested in the schools of Sherman County and if Dominated and elected I promise at all times to promote tbs educational interests of Sherman county in every way that Will be most-efficient and impartial for the upbuilding of our Grace Miller sc boo is. TO lb« Voters of Shermsn County didst« fur th« offiw of County ^re«» urer on the Democratic ticket at the nominating election to lx held on Moy Mth, 4«M. and if elected. will undertake to attend to th« bur mesa of satisfactory to all The rsading of •dvertitementa it a To the Voters of Sherman County: 1 hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of County Clerk for Sherman County, Oregon, at the Democratic prltnary nominating elec tion to be held on May 16th, 1924. If nominated and elected, 1 shall continue to faithfully serve the pvop'e of Sherman Conn y • * Mny L H**km»on. To th« Voters <.f Srernan CoUfiy: 1 £U<reuy aniu unce myself as s candidate for the nomination uf Sheriff for Sherman County at the Republica primary nominating elaction to b‘ held on May 16tb, 1924 if nominated and elected, 1 wil' faithfully and diligently perform the duties of Sheriff and endeavor to enforce all violations of the law without fear and without favor. C. R. Belahee. OREGON NEWS ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST Brief Resume of Happenings of the Week Collected for Our Readers. Fire of undetermined origin destroy ed the plant and storage warehouse of the Vale Grain & Feed company at Vale. Eight dozen China pheasants ship ped from the state game farm at Eu gene wero released in Clackamas county. Hood River chamber of commerce has voted to appoint a commission to endeavor to attract new settlers to ¿he valley. More than 4000 persons attended the Medford American Legion poet’s in door circus. The circus netted the post a substantial sum. A county public health association, which will be a branch of the Oregon Tuberculosis association, is to be or ganized in Umatilla county. A landslide one and one-half miles southeast of Lostine, on the La Grande-Wallowa lake state highway, blocked the road to travel... Portland pastors are seeking ways and means to bring about the abol ishment of moving picture shows on Sunday throughout the entire state. Construction work on Beqd’s new high school, approved by taxpayers at the recent 1209,000 bond election. probably will start in the next few weeks. North Bend is ‘ fast becoming the palm city of Oregon. The city has Just finished planting 100 palms in the boulevard sections of Sherman avenue. The Willamette river from Oregon City to its mouth was closed to com- mereiai fishing Saturday noon, March 15, and will not open again until De- cember Advertisements for blds for approxi mately 300,000,000 feet of ripe timber on the Klamath Indian reservation in Oregon have been authorized by the department of the interior. Official notice has been given that the war department on April 1 will sell at public aucton all the temporary frame buildings which were erected at Fort Stevens during the war. On the charge of embezzlement of «1574 ¿f postoffice money Edward E. Byera, ex-postmaster of Olene, was sentenced to three months in Jail by Federal Judge Bean at Portland. Authority for a per capita payment of 1150 to the Indians of the Klamatl agency in Oregon was granted by th« secretary of the interior. The amoun to be distributed to approximate!) $183,000. About 1220 Indians wll share in the payments. Announcement hy the Standard Ot company that it Intends to remow its advertising signs along the stat« highways in Oregon is appreciated bj the state highway commission, ac cording to a letter prepared by Roj Klein, state highway engineer. Albany tor the purpose of voting $35, DOO bridge toads, the share Albany contributed te. the proposed highway bridge acrosg ibe Willamette river. Figures compiled by Carl D. Shoe maker, secretly ^pf the commercial fish commission of bregon, show that Ln the last six yean 124,871,19« aalmon fry have been planted in rivers and streams of the Columbia river dis trict. The Warrenton city council has been requested by tbe state game commis sion to construct a fish ladder at the city water system head works on the Lewis and Clark river. Clatsop coun ty sportsmen have asked to have the river above the dam closed to angler«, for a period of two years. Three confession« were obtained by H. H. Pomeroy, state fire marshal, and other officers from Dr. James Otis Kenyon, Milton dentist, that be wrote threatening letters to Dr. A. D. Wood manse«, also of Milton, and twice «et fires in the latter’s office. The fires that caused damage of approximately $4500 to the content« of Dr. Wood mansee’s office occurred November 8, 1923, and January 31, 19$«. No road district, whether within an incorporated oity or outside, has tbe authority to levy a tax for improve ment of a city street, was the decision handed down at Asteria by Circuit Judge Campb«U in the case of A. G. Spexarth against Clatsop county and its officers. The action was brought to test the validity of the special levy of $100,000 made by the Astoria road district meeting last fall to pay a portion of the cost of imrproving Taylor and West Bond street. _ ■ Layinc of rails on the Eugene Klamath Falls line of the Southern Pacific has been completed a total distance of $7H miles, according to announcement made by WMliam Sproule, president ot the Southern Pa cific company. Rails have been laid a distance of «Mi miles beyond Oak ridge on the north end of the so-called Natron cut-offT and for a distance of 31 miles north of Kirk, at the aogth end of tbe new improvement. This leaves $1 miles te bo completed. Preliminary arrangements for dedi cation ot the big highway bridge at Winchester are. being made by com mittees re presentlag - the Roseburg chamber of commerce and civic clubs of Oakland and Yoncalla. This bridge, one of the largest and longest on the Pacific highway, spans the North qua at Winchester and to to be named the R. A. Booth bridge in honor of the former highway commissioner The dedicatory exercises probably will be held Sunday afternoon. April $7. spring, 94c; hard winter and western red, 96c. Hay Alfalfa, I14.WO15.M ton; cheat, $13.50 ©14.W; valley timothy, $1701«; eastern Oregon timothy, $19 020. Butterfat—50c. - Eggs—Ranch, 19O$lc- Cbee«e—Prices to jobber« t o. b. Tillamook: Triplets, 17c; longhorns. Me; loaf, 18c per lb. Cattle — Beef steers, good grads, $8.0009.00. V 1 Hogs—Medium to good, $$.00O$-M. * Sheep —Medium, good and choice lambs, $11.15014.15. . Seattle. Wheat — Hard, soft and western white. Big Bend bluestem, 91; hard red. winter, 95c; soft red winter, north ern spring. 94c; western red. Me. Hay—Alfalfa, $21; D. $M; tim othy, 19«; D. C., SM; mixed bay, $M. Egg«—Ranch. Sl^Mc. Butterfat—SO Otte. Cattle—Choice steer«, $7.7503.75 medium to good, M-7SO7.TS. Hog«—Prim« light, $8 000 «35. Cheese— Washington eream brick, 210 >4c Washington triplets, 11« Washington Young America, Me Tillamook triplets, f. £ Ns, INJUNCTION AGAINST INCOME TAX SOUGHT Salem, Or.—Constitutionality of the Oregon state Income tax to attacked In a suit filed in the circuit court here asking an injunction against the state tax commission to prevsnt collection of the Impost. The Standard Lumber company, or ganized under the laws of Oregon, but which transact« all of It« business, consisting of retail lumber yard«, within Washington and Idaho, to tbb plaintiff In the action. The suit attacks the constitutional ity of tbe act upon several «eparate and distinct grounds. It insists that the graduated «cale of payments to “arbitrary and capricious,” and denies the taxpayer the equal protection of 4 if H ) the law guaranteed by the 14tb amend Charles B. Warren of Detroit, who ment to the federal constitution. It was appointed by President Coolidge also contend^ that the scale to not to be ambassador to Mexico. equal and uniform upon tbe same class of subjects, and therefore in vio lation of the clause of the state con Substitute for Beerwax. stitution guaranteeing that. It appears that a substitute for bees wax has been found In the leave« of the rafla palm, a product of the- Jsland REGULATION OF' OIL URGED of Madagascar. The wax is extracted by the simple process of beating the Attorijsyt-General Ask Mors Strlngsnt dried leaves on a mat, reducing them Supervision “of Petroleum Industry. Chicago.—The executive committee to small bits. The particles are then gathered and boiled. The resultant of the national conference of ettor wax is kneaded into small cakes. Ex ney«-general «t a special meeting here, périment■ have been mad« with this formally called upon President Cool substance to ascertain it« real oom idge. congress, the federal trade com merctol vaine—whether It may be used mission and the executives of the sev for bottling purposes. In the making eral states to take immediate action of phonograph cylinders, etc. CKHJ<KHXHWJ<XKIOO<XKXCOCL OO<K to establish a more stringent regula tion of the petroleum industry. Three Boy Punished Reciting that the industry seemed to be under such control that "prloea for Robb'ng Mail may be raised overnight at every New Orleans.—Three small boys, ten, eleven and twelve gasoline station in the nation,” the years old, pleaded guilty to tam statement demanded that “all unfair pering with and robbery of trade practices In the production, mail boxes and. were sentenced manufacture and distribution of gas tn Federal Ifistrict court to oline and other petroleum products be serve four years each In the abolished without delay.” government training school for boys at Washington, D. C. They Why Ho Knew. are Harold Schultz, ton .years In the privacy of his home, the vil -old; Jesse James Musgrove. lage butcher was telling his wife of the eleven, and Joseph Brown, arrival of a new resident. “She came negro, twelve. The boys were In todiry,” he said with enthusiasm, arrested recently by city police “ami f fhn tell you she’s a real lady, who caught them rifling a mall brought up select and exclusive. She box. don't know one cut o’ went from an- other, npf veal from mutton.' ' In ths Old Bt sambo st Days. Nobody dared ship bacon <m a fast packet In old steamboat days no th« Mississippi, because, if the craft were challenged to a race, the loyal crew would seize the freight stol.t^row it Into the furnace to make mure steam In the boilers. The engineer w«s famed afar for hto «kill and nerve. Hi« re ligion was never to be passed on the river, says the Detroit News. In tlm»« of stress he would send a negro up to alt on the safety valve, that the pre cious element of speed might not be sacrificed to mere safety. r M k IN STREET B arber S hop MORO, OREGON P opi id r SHOWER BATHS +++ ■W- A. M. HICKS Plumbing and Heuling Sells and intimila ti e famous Muelirr pipe . * I __ Wasco, Oregon WHEN IN THE DALLES I I I » I H I M I I I 1 4-4 * 4' l"ll l I H' I I I !■ I-H I- 1 I H -i-l I 14 -G ♦ I I I THE MORO DAIRY Royal Cafe Phone 21F i F. E. Hartin, proprietor Murder Suspeot Slain by Sheriff. Casper, Wyo.—Fren Van Gordon. 42, Casper real estate and insurance agent, wm shot to death In a duel with Albert Peyton, sheriff of Con verse county at Douglas, Wyo., when the officer entered a hotel where Van Gorden had taken a room to arrest him on charges of slaying his wife and 12-year-old son. Clemency Favored For War Prisoner». Washington, D. C. — The special army board inveptigating sentences of military priaoners indicated in a pre liminary report that it would recom mend clemency for a considerable As a result of ths serious Illnesi number. ' ... _ of O. P. Hoff, stats treasurer, Gov er nor Pierce announced that nothin; , THE MARKET» could be done at present with relatioi to the purchase of a «Ite for the pro Portland. posed new plant for the state train Wheat — Hard white, $1.«1; soft ing school for boys at Salem. and western white. $LM; northern The Tillamook county court has en- gaged N. G. Nease of Portland to cruise not less than 100,000 acres of timber land in the county, the cruise to be completed on or before Decem ber 1, 1924. Flax growers from various sections of the Willamette valley held a con ference with Governor Pierce at Salem with relation to the purchase of flax puller« to be us©4 in harvesting this yedr’s crop. The Southern Pacific railway bridge across Coos bay was damaged to the extent of >75,000 or more by the schooner Martha Buehner, which knocked an entire span of the struc ture into the water . It to not likely that the foot and mouth disease will spread to Oregoh, according to Dr. W H. Lytle, state veterinarian, who has returned from CsJitorhla, where he assisted In meas ures to «top the epidemic. The American Legion in Oregon is increasing in membership so rapidly that Mier« 1« every Indication that be fore many months there will be 10,- 000 members, according to Fred Kiddle ot Island City, state commander. f A special election on * May 1« has CHAS. B. WARREN . MyaArTdu« BattfC French acienttota have found bdob «- thing to puzzle over ln-t bottle that to owned by a.F er, and that to eaid to M tor tnUpibls weather forecaster. The bettto baa been hunded down from generation to generation, and to tilled With what ap- pears to be a red sand and a yellow liquid. So famed baa the bottle be come and so reliable that it to said farmers in the vicinity invariably con sult It before starting to harvest their crops. Solid particles gather in dus ters when rain to coming, and whits flakes appear before the snow. The entire mixture becomes cloudy when a hailstorm to coming. . . ¿. « a Open Day and Night Morning delivery made to anyone phoning orders -in the evening f<<r extra milk or cream. We have • the only dairy herd in the vicinity of Moro that is cet-itfied disease-free. MORO Bank Hotel OREGON Formerly the Albert 4+++ 1 he Dall«.«’ Newest and Best Hostelry I Independent Wai ehiiBse & Milling to.| CENTRALLY LOCATED .Sherman County Headquar ers R H. McKean, Manager, Wasco, Oregon The Dalle« - DEALERS IN> . Lime, Plaster, Cement, Cedar Posts, Builders Supplies, Lumber, Wood, Coal and Hay. NEW HOTEL PERKINS MANUFACTURERS OF FIFTH AND WASHINGTON STS. PORTLAND. OREGON MILL FEED AND FLOUR Williams Motor Co MORO, OREGON Automobile Accessories Ruckstell Axles for Ford Cars C-T-C- Tires and Tubes Expert Electrical and Battery Work * Complete Auto Repair Shop Your Patronage wll be Appreciated : SPECIAL RATES Room with privilege of both, tingle $1.00 up: double $1.50 up Room with private bath, «ingls $1.50 up; double $2.50 up’ Auto Meet« Trfini,.. Street cert from Union Depot pats our doors. Trantfer at 5th and Glisan streets Iron- North Bank Depot.
