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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 30, 1925)
A ' * ■' ' Gr - - 4 1 SKM» COINÏÏ OBSERVER BRIEF NEWS Second Article FRIDAY -........... January 30, 1925 The exemptions under the revenue act of 1924 are 1-thousand dollars for single persons 25-hundred dollars for the 1st aad 3d Thur«- married persons living together, and . members cordially beads of families. , In addition a 4- 10 *»ee< with M. By hundred dollar credit is allowed for W. Mt each person dependent upon and re ceiving his chief support from the taxpayer, if such person is under 18 years of age or incapable of self- support because mentally oi physical ly defective. . even inga moAhly. The normal tax rate under the Worthy Matron revenue act of ,1924 is 2 per cent on Nena Barzee, Secretary. the first 4-thousand dollars of net in come in excess of the personal exemp noro Lodge No. 113 4. O. O. F. " tions, credit for dependents, etc., 4 Meets every Monday eve- per cent on the balance. Under the sioX in the I. O. O. F. hall, proceeding act the normal tax rate raasient and visiting bro ken are cordially invited to was 4 per cent on the first 4-thousand meet with us. dollars of net income above the ex H. C. Ruggles N. G emptions and credits, and 8 per cent • A. M. Young, Secretary. on the remaining net income. The revenue act of 1924 contains a Lupine Rebecca Lodge No. 116, Moro, Oregon, special provision for reduced taxes meets 1st and 3d Fridays which did not appear in previous ot each month. Visiting laws. AH net income up to 5-thou members welcome. Margaret Peets, N. G. sand dollars is considered “earned On this amount the tax Lenora Schadewits, Secy income.” payer is entitled to a credit of 25 per CHRIS SCHULTZ ROST NO. 71 cent of the amount of the tax. _ AMERICAN LEGION For example, a tex payer, aingle Meets at Odd Fellows Hall on and without dependents, may have »«ond «nd fourth Wednesdays received in 1924 a salary of 2-thou- ■and dollars and from a real estate Commander, I. M Peterson, transaction a profit of 3- thousand Adjutant, Geo. Mitchell. . Zell’« F a aerai Home Now Open at The new trout hatchery of the state game cotamission on Roaring river. In Linn county, will be completed In March or April, according to M. L. Ryckman, state superintendent of hatcheries. The hatchery will be simi lar to the Tillamook station, and will bring the number of year-around plants of the commission to 22.' A heavy acreage of wheat, damaged In December when sub-zero weather {travailed for several days while the Wheat was unprotected by snow, will have to ba reseeded, according to Fred Bennion. Umatilla county agent. Reports Of similar damage has been received fpom northern parts of Sher mail, 01111am and Morrow counties. The state land board has asked for approval by the state forestry depart ment and agricultural department of Oregon Agricultural college looking to the exchange of approximately 70,- 000 acres at scattered school lands for similar government acreage In Douglas county. The latter lands are located tn Douglas comity and are In one tract. Four fatalities were due to Indus trial accidents In Oregon during the week ending January 31, according to a report prepared by the state In dustrial accident commission. The victims were J. T. Parts, Wendling, chaser; Ims H. Axtell, Portland, utility man J William M. Sweeney, Portland, track driver and J. V. Johnson, Marsh field, timekeeper. A total of 480 acci- dents was reported. The Willamette Central - Federal Farm Loan association was formed at a meeting, at Eugene of delegates from Lane, Coos, Curry, Linn snd Ben ton counties, who conferred with of ficers from the federal loan bank at Spokane, elected officers of the asso ciation and delegates to the conven- eion to be hold in Spokane in March and chose Albany as the place of the next annual convention. a MT! * Our weather strip sure made a ‘hit” * during the last cold It is economical and easily ap plied. No special tools needed- AH work done from the inside and when applied is “there” permanerfUy. Come in our office and inspect a sample door and window made up «0th weather Strip. Turn-A-Lumber Co. D. E. Clark, Manager Moro, Oregon Phone Main 91 * New and Used , Parts for all Cars The Motor Market The Dalles, Ore Phone 618 603 E and st Chas. Garhammer is back from his annual Portland visit ... A pet pony, owned by Omer Sayrs* son, was found early Wednesday with a broken hind leg. The pony was running loose with the rest of the farm hones and it is thought the leg was broken by a kick from a larger horse. The pony has been the boy’s pet for the past five years and has been taught a number of stunts by its owner. By aid of the horse the boy has not been tardy to school since be first began attending when six years old. Homer S. Wall, county road mas- ter, has the right idea of road con- servation. When in this eity the first of the week, a heavy rain broke which filled the street gutters to over flowing. Wall got out his shovel from the county road car and buaied himself cleaning gutters and drains on the city street. If all would do likewise when a little bit of bad road shows up that eould be fixed quickly, we would be payings less for road maintenance. A district rally meeting of Wasco, Hood River and Sherman county Odd Fellows will be held in The Dalles this Friday evening. Several hundred members are expected to be in at tendance from all parts of the dis trict. Delegations are also expected from Goldendale and White Salmon on the Washington side, A number of grand lodge officers will be in attendance including L. E. Carter of Portland, grand master; L. D. Por- ter of Corvallis, grand marshal; and Wm. H. Popham of Portland, grand guardian. The state legislature of Oregon is considering an appropriation of one million two hundred thousand dollars to’be loaned to eastern Ore gon farmers with which to purchase seed wheat for planting, in frozen out localities. In order first to determine whether it would be possible for the state to advance money for the re seeding purposes, even though the investment was secured by mortgage or lien, a committee was appointed to confer with the attorney-general and inquire into the legal phase of the situation. , The members of the board of directors of tha Sherman county fair association, appointed at the last term of county court, met at Moro on Wednesday afternoon and organ ized for business for the coming year. Business taken care of at the meeting included ax order for the replacement of the present board fence on the front side of the fair grounds with woven wire fencing, an order made approving graveling the driveways and epen space inside the grounds, near the paviIlion, and replacing water pipes inside the grounds with NEWS Notes of Interest to AH Local Denonutatioos Guy Hoskinson spent the week-end give the last of »her meaHages Ot) the First Psalm. . v Christian Seance church terY)» on Sunday 'at* eleven a. me and Wednesday at. eig^t p. m. -Sundiy school convenes at 10:15. Reading Mrs. Peter ^Peters is enjoying a room is open daily. All are welcome to attend the church services and to visit with her mother from Nebraska. make use of the reading room. I Mrs. A. L. Senders and children of At the Prebsyterian church next Moro ara visiting at the H. E. Mor Tuesday evening. Gene Simmons, row home. cartoonist will give a lecture and il Mrs.' Harry Hilton is improving lustrated chalk talk under the nicely from bums she received some auspices of the Women’s Missionary six weeks ago. Society. Admission 20 and 35 cents. Mrs. George Howell has received Part ot the proceeds will go to the word of the death of her father at local society. Battleground, Washington. The usual services will take place Mrs. A. A. Dunlap and Mrs. Max at the "Presbyterian church next Sun Pluempke were visiting at the Matt day morning. The pastor will give Simon home at Grass Valley Friday. a biographical sermon-lecture on Charles G. Finney. At 1 the Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Frank von Borstel fchool Mr. Tom Fraser will sing a are the proud part ts of a ten pound solo. Everybody should make it a son.' He arrived Saturday January point to arrive on time. 24th. Next Sunday evening will take Mrs. Roy Bame| accompanied by place a special service commemorat Mrs. Jas. Mathis and-daughter Velma ing the anniversary of the Christian were week-end visitors at the George Endeavor movement. Rev. Henry G. Barnet home in The Dalles. Hanson will speak on the theme, It is reported that Rev. Hicks of “Playing the Game. ” — The young Wasco will spesk at the Christian people are expected to have charge church every two weeks, beginning and various ones will take part on The next Sunday February 1st, at 3 the program of the evening. offering at the service will go to the o’clock. young people. All are cordially in J. U. Leonard was called ta Hood vited to attend River because of the serious illness of his father at that place, but fmm recent reports his father is much Ruggles Family Honors Mother’s improved. Art Justesen was a business visitor in Portland returning on Tuesday. In Moro on Wednesday from his farm L. W. Amick and wife were Grass near Kent. Valley visitors Tuesday afternoon. At the regular meeting of the city Wm. Mitchell and Roy Barnet council on Tuesday evexjng, George were in Wasco Friday on business. Ellsworth was reelected city marshal. Agent Rose, of the O-WGR. &. N. Co., is convalescing from his illness and la sow able to sit at {able st meal time. Mrs. Estella Benson is substituting as assistant in the local post office for Miss Elsie Bourhill, who is con fined to her home by sickness. Mrs. Art Barzee, who has been under medical care in a Portland hospital the past two months, returned to her home near Moro last Monday. The violin advertised in the Ob server as lost by Albert Davis was found by Homer 8. Wall, who brought it to this office on Mondsy to be re turned to its owner. « Alexander Jackson, resident of Kent district for some time where he has a homestead eaat of that place, baa accepted the poaition as posting elerk at the Bank of Moro. church« at Wasco on Wednesday eve ning and was one of the speakers on the program. About 125 attended. Miss .Helen Idleman entertained at bridge at Hotel Moro last Saturday afternoon in honor of Miss Virginia West of Grass Valley. Included among the guests who were present were Miss Idleman’s sister teachers of Moro school. Chris Andersen and wife came up from Portland by train last Friday to look over the wheat situation on his farm near Moro. Before their arriv al, snow had covered the ground and upon their return to Portland on Tuesday no definite Conclusion had been arrived at. A shipment of 50,000 eastern brook trout eggs was received at the state fish hatchery at Dead Point creek, near Dee. The eggs were taken at Fall creek, near Bend. The Dead Several local farmers in this vicin Point hatchery, which last year pro ity got busy the first of the week pagated over 3,000,000 fry, expects to and covered their probable seed wheat exceed this number this year. ne«ta while good vyietie. of .prior County Judge McKee,Commissioner wheel were ».Hable in the. mark« I. L. L. Peetz, Supt D. E. Stephens It is now reported that all spring and W. H. Ragsdale left on Tuesday wheat suitable for seed has been fur Salem where they will confer bought by farmers at widely separ with other similar committees from ated points in the northwest. to secure an appropriation from the state with which to finance seed wheat purchases by farmers who were affected by the cold snap of last December. - CHURCH - lira. A. T. Bolt is a patient in a W. A. Ruggles Is helping take the hospital at The Dalles. At the Jd ethodi ft, church Sunday annual inventory at Moro Trading Co. morning Mis. R. ,A. Fienstra wi|l Messrs. Dunlap, Wilson and Hart ley, directora of Kent achool district, dollars. His tots! net income was were visiting nearly all of Monday at 5-thousand dollars. Without the Moro school. We did not learn the benefit of the 25 per cent reduction incentive for the official visit of the his tax would be $80. His actual board. tex is $60. From his net income of R. A. Fee ne tr a attended the Father 5-thousand dollars he is is allowed a and Son banquet given under the persona] exemption of 1-thousand dol- auspices of the Wasco Methodist lars; the tex of 2 per cent on the first 4-thousand dollars is eighty dollars, one-fourth of which, or twenty dol lars, may be deducted. For the purpose of computing this credit, in no ease is the earned net income considered to be in excess of ten thoussnd dollars. A tax paver may have received for the year 1924 a net income from salary of twenty thousand dollars, but the 25 per cent credit can be applied to only one-half of this amount. New* Item From Kent and Vicinity A. C. Thompson, Martin Melzer and. Dewey Thompson are busy these days getting teams in condition for quick work in the early spring. They are buying and trading for horses— any kind, says A. C.—capable to help with the reseeding that they expect to do this spring. Andrew says that they are trading colts, yearlings, calves, chickens and money for any thing that looks like a horse. Dr. J. A. Linville, speaking before the Oregon sheriffs in convention in Portland, recently stated that a permanent federal prohibition office would be established in The Dalles on February 1st. No indication was given of who the officer in charge of prohibition enforcement would ba, although it was considered that Dan Kerfoot who has worked with Sheri Levi Chrisman, would be the mi most desirable. A large auto stage, operated on the Bend-Klamath run, upset last Saturday noon in the center of the horseshoe turn about a mile north of Grass Valley. The stage was oc cupied by the driver andtene passen ger said to be» the manager of the stage line. The , bus was traveling about 55 miles an hour, it is reported, and failed to clear the turn, turning over twice and spinning around once. It was a well battered wreck when brought to the Williams Morto Co. garage of this city for repairs. Birthday Anniversary at Home Mrs. B. F. Ireland arrived home on Monday stage from Walla- Walla, The home of Mrs. Lucy Ruggl s, Washington, where she had b«en * at the bedside of her mother, Mrs. C. P. in Grass Valley, was made merry on Woodruff, who passed away on Tues Friday evening, January 23d, by a gathering of her family. The occa day of last week. sion being her birthday. .Mrs. J. EL Norton was surprised Mrs. Ruggles was the recipient of Friday evening when a number of" beautiful presents and hearty w^hes. her friends walked in with a fine A bountiful dinner was served and a lunch. Her small daughter Alta happy evening spent. Mrs. J. N. invited the ladies in honor of her Landry made the birthday cake aud mothers birthday. Everybody had an it was a pretty sight with its gay enjoyable time. candles. 7 “Mother” Ruggles enjoyed seeing all her children with their families gathered at her hearth again. Movie News of the Current Week Twelve grand children were present. Other guests were Mr. and Mrs. The caveman method of wooing a Ravelin Calbreath of Moro and Mr. fair lady was much more direct than Leonard Workmar^ the modern System, but it had certain “Mother” Ruggles is a pioneer of ju iwn The mortality Sherman county, coming 'here with raU fc| her husband in 1882. At that time Gn the pther . hand divorces were Moro consisted of three houses, and very much more simple. But it was there were a few scattered settlers almost : I ways fatal to the man. throughout the county. She witnessed Butter Keaton, whose first feature the gradual growth of Sherman comedy-drama, “Three Ages,” a county. Always interested in intel Metro picture in fix reels, which is lectual development she kept in touch coming to Moro theatro Saturday, with educational matters and when it January 31«G has that and more to became convenient returned to Nor say about the art of love. “Wooing mal school and after graduating took was a simple matter in the cave-man up her profession again and for eight era. Buster explained. “You got years has had charge of the primary behind a rock and when your fair one work in Grass Valley. came along you soaked her over the The whole country-side join with head with your club and—she was her family in wishing her many yours. happy returns of the day. “As for divorce,-it was very sim ply arranged. The lady waited till the right opportunity and then pushed her sheik over a cliff. ” All this is clearly expounded in “Three Ages.” OBSERVER WANT ADS A woman visiting in Pendleton last year from the east, accepted an invitation from friends to drive with them to Walla Walla. An accident occurred on the trip, resulting in the death of the visitor and serious injury to the owners of the auto. The own- ert of the auto, who were entertain ing the dead person in a social capac ity at the time of the accident,» are now being sued for $7500 damages which will in all likelihood be paid by them with added court • costa on both sides, when the legal red tape is unwound. Oregon has a state law that the owner and , operator*.of a motor vehicle is liable for all damages suffered by any person riding in the vehicle, whether by invitation or otherwise. Vatch Your Step. Miss: Rates: Under 15 words, 35c 15 to 30 words, 50c Over 30 wds., ILc per wd. 6% Loans under Reserve System on city or farm property Reserve Deposit Company 72 Fourth Street, Portland, Oregon. We pay parcel post one wav on all shoe repairing. Good quality leather and work. Joe Amore, The Dalles, Oregon NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Notice is hereby given that the County Court of Sherman County will receive bids for the grading of the “Lone Rock Market Road”—Sec tion “A” up to and including ten o’clock a. m., Wednesday, February 4th 1925. Approximate estimate of quanti ties; 12700 cubic yards COMMON ex cavation, 4600 cubic yards SOLID ROCK excavation. Plans and specifications are on file at the office of the County Clerk at the court house in Moro, Oregon, and at the office of the County Ro^dmss- ter in Wasco, Oregon. The County Court reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Dated this 20thday of January, and published by order of the County Court. ‘ ( -Mary L. Hoskinson. County Clerk j23-2t NOTICE TO CREDITORS. In the County Court of the State of Oregs^ for the County of Sherman, in the matter of the Estate of Eliza beth A. Dunn, deceased. Notice Is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed ad ministrator of the estate of Elizabeth A. Dunn, deceased, by the County Court of the State of Oregon for Sherman County and has qualified. All persons having 4 claims against said estate are hereby notified to present the same duly verified, as by law required, to the undersigned at the law office of W. C. Bryant, Moro, Oregon, xwi th in six months from ths date hereof. Dated and first published January 30th, 1926. A. H. Barnu-n, Administrator of the Estate. W. 0. Bryant, attorney. • Last publication, February 27, 1925. M oro T heatre OREGON MORO. u Three Ages ” Saturday, January 31st. THREE AGES is a travesty on love, marriage ar.d busi ness—a satire on present day civilization which for sheer burlesque and comic exaggeration exceeds anything Bus ter Keaton has ever done. “The Isle of Lost Ships” Sunday, February 1st. THE ISLE OF LOST SHIPS is a story of an island of lost ships in the sailor’s mythological Sargasso sea; peo- pled by'shipwrecked men snd women; ruled by a giant brute; where primitive methods rule the lives of the island folk. “The Eagle’s Feather Saturday, February 7th. THE EAGLE’S FEATHER is a with the elemental passions of staggering in its tense, thrilling is a scene— But see it! You’ll powerful drama filled men and women and climaxes. And there never forget it! aA Son of the Sahara Bunday, February 8th The drama of an English beauty suddenly caught in the power of a mighty sheik. A drama imbued with the ro mance and adventure you yourself would love to live. 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