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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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. .
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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.
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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
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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.
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-Mary L. Hoskinson.
County Clerk
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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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