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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 29, 1924)
UEHH iOmn OKEIKI Dates first Weeks rf Seytanber F riday BRltF NEWS Paragraphs State, News liens Fren Kent and Vicinity Hot as usual this week. Miss Grace Gentry, fropi Turner, is visiting in Kent this week. . August 29. 1924 ^Fairview» Rufus and Rutledge •chools will open September let Waaco, Moro, Graaa Valley, Moody, Wilcox, and Erskine begin the 15th. DeMoes, Monk land, Boardman, Mich- igan, Biggs, Rosebush and Kent start September 9th. No certificates have have been registered from the other schools. OBSERVER WANT ADS Rates: Under 15 words, 35c 15 to 30 words, 50c Over 30 wd*., l%c per wd. Mutual Creamery Co IATMBER Know Your Possibilities ‘ T. C. Lee and family have returned Eureka Lodge Nu. in Mis. Orville Leonard and children from a visit of several weeks spent returned to Hood River last Sunday. Meet* the 1st snd 3d Thurs at Portland. USED Pia:.oe for «ale in Sherman day evenings of each month, Marvin Howell and wife are visit- W. F. Jackson and family are ex county at bargain pricea. Easy ¡siting members cdrdislly invited to meet with us. By pected home this week from a visit dug with Mrs. Howell’s folks at The terms. Address J. Fellows, Shan Dalles. order of W. M. iko, Oregon. st Camp Sherman. Robt. Urquhart, Secretary W. H. Clifford and family have A. M., Wright and wife returned HEMSTITCHING—I have moved my The eighth grade final examinations Tueaday evening from an auto outing moved into the house owned by Jake shop frotfi 308 Washington street to Wilson. are to be given in the county school trip to Portland and Eugene. 817 Alvord avenue, close to Dalles ulsr communication* Fred Borstel and wife are the office, September 4th hospital. I am now better pre Ind and 4th Thursday superintendents office A. M. Hicks was up from Wasco and 6 th. Fo Mowing is the program. evening* monthly. pared than before to take care of on Tuesday repairing the plumbing proud parents of a baby girl, born Mr*. W. F. Hulery, Thursday morning: Arithmetic, writ August 26th. all work. Mail ordera promptly fixtures in the Beiknsp home. Worthy Matron. ing. Thursday afternoon: History, filled. Mrs. L. M. Boothby, The Mrs. Hogue ia visiting a few day« Nana Barsec, Secretary. Rev. Henry G. Hanson and family spelling, agriculture. Friday morn Dalles, Oregon, 817 Alvord Avenue. this week with her brother, F. L. ing: Physiology, language. Friday will return this week from their Bennett in The Dalles. ‘ floro Lodge No. iij I. O O. P. RESTAURANT building, business, afternoon: Geogrphy, civil govern summer outing st Oswego lake near Meet* every Monday eve- ment, reading. Mrs. Harry Homer, who has been Portland. equipment, and furnished rooms for iog in the 1. O. O. F. ball. visiting with her parents, Wm. Young rent Reasonable. Location on Main J. Thomsen was in on Tuesday from Transient and visiting bro The week beginning September 4th and wife, returned to her home at street in Moro, Immediate posses- thers arc cordially invited to will be observed as Constitution Week his farm in the Gorman district, the Hood River on Sunday. «ion if desired. See George Moore meet with us. and the schools are being requested to first time he has been in the city in Otto Peetz, N. G or call at Observer office for Several of the young men of this two months. carry out practically the same plan as A. M. Young, Secretary. particulars. last year with the added feature of W. S. Powell, daughter Velma, vicinity left here last Sunday for Portland, to take the examination'for Lupine Rebecca Lodge parent participation. These programs and Mrs. Sarah Landry, who have ROOM and board $35 per month. Mrs y No. 116, Moro, Oregon, are being sent to all the schools and enlistment in the navy. So far we been visiting in Portland, returned to Gladys N. Buxton, Muro, Oregon. meet* l*t and 3d Friday* haven’t heard what luck they had. of each month. Viaiting are to appear in the papers next thia city last Monday. week. A. M. Zevely. FOR SALE 400 head good stock ★ X member* welcome. Announcement is made under the J* cattle. Call E. G. Hunter, City Margaret Peetz, N. G. Movie News oí the Current Week church notices heading of a special Lanora Schadewitz, Secy Market, The Dalles, Ore. service to be held at DeMoss park Wasco Business Man Buys Bad CHRIS SCHULTZ POST RO. 71 next Sunday afternoon at 4 .30. No fsmily is happy unless there is WOMEN wanted for work on pears AMERICA/* LEGION a perfect understanding between and apples, commencing about Au Check With Money and Watch J. L. Gregg was a business visitor Meets at Odd Fellows Hall on parents and children- e«j>ecially be gust 15th. Libby, McNeill & Lib in this city oh Monday from Kent. second and fourth Wednesdays tween father and son. In “Bwy of by, The Dalles, Oregon. He was accompanied on the trip by A transaction in high finance oc of each month. Mine” Booth Tarkington ha« given curred last Saturday at Wasco where Mr. Sothern, farming near that town. 6% Loans under Reserve System Commander, I. M. Peterson, to the screen a story which prove« in Wayne Hull of that city waa the Adjutant, Geo. Mitchell. A son was bom Saturday evening this contention in a plot filled with on city or farm property looser. A man by the name of Chas. to Mr. and Mrs. Ravella Cal breath at Reserve Deposit Company human interest. ZalTs Fueral Home Now Opea at Thomaa shortly after taking a job the home of Mrs. Galbreath’s parents, The picture was produced at the 72 Fourth Street, Portland, Oregon. with G. W. Drinkard, farming the Starr Ruggles and wife, living west Hollywood Studios by J. K. Mc- We pay parcel poet one way on all Weir lands, appeared at the Hull of this city. Dons Id, who recently nave the picture shoe repairing. Good quality leather jewelry store and arranged to buy an A. M. Hicks, the Sherman county goers the successful human interest and work. Joe Amore, The Dalles, tanners Asked to Conserve Water expenaive watch on installments, plumber located at Wasco, has secured film, “Penrod and Sam,” also a Oregon making a small payment down. Sat the agency for the Simmplex furnace, Tarkington «»ory. Like the latter, urday evening la«t, Thomas called at Notice to city water consumers: rated as one of the very best made in “Boy of Mine” was directed by Because of the rspidly failing supply the jewelry store and presented a economy of fuel used for results ob William Beaudine for Firat National of city Wster a request is msde to the check having Drinkard'a signature and release and is to be shown at Moro tained. people of Moro that all users of city made out to Thomas. He called for Theatre this Saturday. Simon Elcock is a visitor in town water be as economical and use no the watch and received the balance in The cast includes; Henry B. Wal cash. Mondsy, when the check was this week from his borne at Portland. thall, Irene Rich, Rockliffe Fellows, more water than is actually necesaary and to report any leakage or waste presented at the bank, it was found He is one of the pioneer farmer« of Ben Alexander and Dot Farley. of water, either on private property by Hull thst Drinkard’s signature this county, for year« having charge or city ma i ha, tn the mayor as soon was forged and that Drinkard had of the throttle of a stationary thresh “Ponjola,” a picturization of as possible so that the condition can paid Thomas in full snd discharged ing engine during harvest. Cynthia Stockley’« famous story be remedied. N. W. Thompson, him on the previous Ssturday. Where Harry Beezley and wife have taken showing this Sunday afternoon at the man had kept himself during last Mayor. week snd where he now i« located light housekeeping rooms on the third Moro Theatre, correctly portray« was put up to Sheriff Hugh Chrisman floor of Hotel Moro. An electric Rhodesian life with but one ex A. H. Barnum on Wednesday of for solution. This last is a hard plate has been installed in their ception—th* native« do not wear this week concluded a sale of 30 head problem to solve Thoma« had apartments by the Sherman Electric clothe« as they sometimes do in that of yearlings and 2-year old Hereford forty-eight hours the stsrt of the company with which to take care of country. their culinary need«. Producer Rork, preparing to engage heifers to Roy Philippi of Gilliam sheriff. Sunday is supposed to be a day a number of colored men and women county. The stock bought' are all Mrs. C. H. Belshee left last week i of rest, but how m^ny house registered cattle. PhiIPppi owns the with her daughters, Mrs. Vera to play atmospheric part« in this wives enjoy this day of rest? T. C. Lee ha« accepted a position land lying between the John Day and Vaughn of Berkeley, California, and thrilling exciting picture, caljed upon with the Barzee confectionery store Bring the family to Hotel Moro Columbia rivera in north western Mrs. Marie Tharp, of Sacramento, his technical adviser, Randall H. in this city. for Sunday dinner. - Taye, to give him an idea of what Gilliam county. His intention is to California, for a visit of several J. F. Foes snd family left by auto weeks in California. The party ma te ihe native« wear bo that he could use this land for the raising of regis It is our business and a real makj arra gementa for the supplying on Tuesday for a visit with relatives the trip by automobile. tered Hereferd stock. pleasure to serve you.« of costum; s. at Terrebonne. Mrt. John Muir, formerly tca.’her Faye, who wa« born . in Rhodesia, A card received from Dr. J. R. of the primary grade« in Moro school a,)tj Bp.nt mo8t ot hl8 Hfe in that Hotel Moro Morgan state* thst he will again be and recently a resident of The Dalles, country, threw up his hands. “If in his office on September 8lh. has accepted a position as teacher of you are goirg to dre^s them as moat ths primary grades in ths school at of the natives dresa, then you are A cheerful thought: The Ie«« money O. L. Bel>he was a visited in the Woodburn, moving to thst city this going G have q 111< a tussel witH the you make, the bigger laugh you can city this week from his summer home week from The Dalles. censor,” he declared. have on the income tax collector. at Camp Sherman, returning Thurs- “Out in the ope.r spaces of Rho- The telephone companies in the dav. United state« have invested in tele desia the natives haxe lets to worry Solomon must have been "ho-nuff phone plant a «urn equal to more than about—but clothing ¡«n’t one of their managed to be the he — i wife man, — „ — — worries. When they take a trip into f richest nun on earth without being half the value of all the monetary Bulawayo, which is the principal city gold in the vaults of the United investigated. Slate« treasury and of the federal of Rhodesia, of course, it is different. Moro, Oregon According to the city laws the native« Mi«« Grace Gentry ia visiting in reserve system put together. must clothe themselves. the count/ from Turner, with her Mrs. W. H. Ragsdale, daughter “To them clothihg is clothing, no sister Gladys Gentry, of this city, Evelyn and son Harry, are «pending matter where it is worn, and it is not A WELL ventilated, properly and her father, G. L. Gentry, living the week at Camp Sherman. They uncommon, even in these day«, to see heated borne is absolutely east of here. made the trip to camp last Friday, necessary for the preserva A marriage license was issued at W. H. Ragsdale and John Searcy ac a black man coming into town with a Cash Price 42c August 28 tion of your family’« health pair of pants as hia only garment. the county clerk’« office in The Dalle« companying them. _ The last two in cold weather, - But mine times out of ten he would Estella Benson, Local Agent last week to Chester A. Bargenholt, returned the first of this week. be wearing them anywhere hut where 34, and Idalia Eunice Surratt, 38, BEFORE you start to make -Roy Belshee, Jeff Wilson and Mr. they belong. Sometimes they would those repsirs yon want to both of Wasco. Walsh,from Wasco town and vicinity, be thrown over his shoulder, some your home before winter George Ellsworth and family, ac were in this city last Sundsy con time« wrapped around hi« head. winds and cold weather is companied by Mrs. Sarah Landry, left “And native women often come upon us come to us for ad the first of the week for the Ells ferring with Secretary Richmond, of into town thinking that all they need the county fair board, regarding en vice as to the best way to worth homestead situated in the in the way of wearing apparel is a make those dollars do the Paulina district southeast of Prine- tries they contemplated making in hat. ” the chariot races and relay races. work you have in mind. ville. Miss Nellie McKeown, from Ridge Ten thousand miles of telephone J. L. Brackett, from Wasco, was a field, Washington was a visitor in the TUM-A-LUMBER is best be cause it is best. We have pleasant caller at this office on Tues- city last week end. She is a niece cable were manufactured by the all grades in stock and 'ban day. He reports the fsrmer« of thst of Mrs. R. J. Ginn and Mrs. M. L. Western Electric company during supply your every building section of the county a« patiently Hoskinson and a grand niece of Jas. 1923. This would be enough to lay waiting for rain before active fall Woods. Miss McKeown was formerly three cables between New York snd needs. work starts on farms. deputy county clerk for Sherman Los Angeles with more than six hundred miles left over. All the gold mines in the world county. put together did not produce enough F. E. Fagan and wife were visitors According to the Grsss Valley gold last yesr to pay for the tele in Moro last Saturday evening at the D. E. Clark, Manager prnal of last week, Roy J. Baker Jj phone construction and replacement of that city Jias sold his stock inter A. M. Young home, parents of Mr«. Oregon Moro, being done during 1924 by the tele ests in the Citizens Bank to Wm. Fagan. They were called to T^e Phone Main 91 phone companies in the United Walker, formerly manager of Hotel Dalle« the first of last week because States. Moro. The item «aid that Mr. Baker of illness of Mr. Fagan’s jnother who would continue wi’h the bank for the is now improving in her general health. present. S ystem A checking account means instant recog nition of your finan cial possibilities. A checking account means no delay, no fear and the knowledge that you always control your finances on your finger tips. Bank of Moro M oro T heatre a MORO. OREGON Saturday August 30 at 8:00 p. m. J. K. McDonald presents “Boy of Mine” By Booth Tarkington, featuring Ben Alexander, Henry Walthall, Irene Rich and Rockliffe Fellows, Admission: 30c and 10c Sunday August 31 at 4:00 p .m. Matinee only. “PONJOLA” A First National Picture featuring James Kirkwood, Anna Q. Nill’on, Tully’Marshall. Admission 30c and 10c Pays Cash for Cream Turn-A-Lumber Co Put your Car In Our HANDS For ' General Repairing life I have made it study to know cars and engines and know the game through years of experience, I give ifficient service snd as prompt as the work will permit. -Moro Garage, M. R. Schadewitz, Proprietor Mrs. Hinton Mitchell and daughter Allie are here from Ripley, Ontario, Canada, visiting st the Robt. Urqu hart home. Mrs. Mitchell and Mrs. Urquhart are couffins. The visitors arrived Sunday from Calgary, Canada, where they had been visiting with relatives. Mrs. A. T. Cattle and three chil- dren, from Lafayette, Yamhill county, who have been visiting with her sister, Mr«.,F. E. Fortner, left on Monday for Wasco where she will visit with her two brothers, F. M. Scott and Capt. R. O. Scott, before returning to her home. Francis Anderson, Mauris Dpuma and Rosco Moore returned last Friday evening from their trip to Crater lake by Ford truck. They claim the trip was an exciting one from, first to last, particularly the snap shot camera pictures of the bear they en countered near Crater lake. They traveled the entire distance with neither spare tire, tube, jack, pump, nor tools except one 8-inch crescent but, having no need for them, they were not missed. ’ A deal was about concluded this week whereby Fred Downing, em ployed the last «even years on the Roy Powell farm, has taken over the lease and bought the farm outfit and summerfallow from Frank Roberts, who has been farming the O. L. Bel- she place in the Boardman district. Salmon are running at the mouth of the DeSChute« river, and a number of good catches have been made by local anglers during the last several days. One party of trollers from Herbert Ellsworth, Ray Messinger, The Dalles caught several big fish Marvin and Paul Miller returned last Sunday. Trout are also reported late last week from their announced to be taking the fly and spinner freely expedition to the hop fields of the along the upper Deschutes river. Willamette valley. Marvin and Paul Rev. G. H. Wilber, while in Moro join in saying that the boys from this last week end from Hood River, was town worked so fast that all hops a guest at the C. V. Belknap home, were picked before their outing had Rev. Wilber having had charge of a fairly commenced. Since their re church at Colfax, Washington, the turn home, the two Miller boys and same time the Belknap’s were living Ellsworth have accepted positions with in a neighboring town close by. the railroad company in. the mainte Rev. Wilber is Sunday school mis nance of way division. sionary for Pendleton Presbytery.? C onstantly I mproved BUT No Y early M odels We Are Well Stocked with Superior and Van Brant Grain Drills And the Price is Right If in need of a Drill it will Pay You Big to get Our Price before You Buy MORO HARDWARE 8 IMP. CO R ead & G alloway D odge B rothers M otor E ars GENERAL MACHINE SHOP Repairing Trucks, Tractors, Automobiles, Caterpillars, and Combine Motors, Cylinder Grinding, Oyx-acetylene and Electric Welding- The Dalles, Ore 616 East Second St Phone Main 4001 Walther* Williams Company The Dalles, Oregon A “WANT” ad in T he M oro ' < O bserver will reach more oeonle in Sherman ‘
