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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 6, 1925)
SSBSS iitmi conn oisEmR ^frebruary 6, 1925 F riday . Eureka Ledge No. tai A. P. A A. M. More, Ore. Meets the 1st and 3d Thar«- order of W. M. Robt. Urquhart, Secretary - ------- ------------ a.------------------- Bethlehem Chao T^evening« monthly. A- Cushman, Worthy Matron. Naaa Barzae, Secretary. floro Lodge No. 113 I. O. O. F. Meet« every Moaday «va- ing in the I. O. O. F. hail. Transient end vi«itin< bro ther« are cordially invited to meet with ua. H. C. Ruggles, N. G A. M. Young, Secretary. Lupine Rebecca Lodge [f No. 116, Moro, Oregon, meets let and 3d Friday« of each month. Visiting ★ A member« welcome. Margaret Peetz, N. G. Lenora Schadewitz, Secy CHRIS SCHULTZ POST NO. 71 — AMERICAN LEGION JjOk Meet« aPOdd Fellow. Hall on .econd and fourth Wednesday. MSV of each month. BRIEF NEWS Third Article. If you are single and support in your home one or more persons close ly related to you and over whom you exercise family control, you are the bead of a family and entitled under the revenue act of 1924 to same personal exemption allowed a married person, 32,500. In addition, a tax payer is entitled to a credit of four hundred dollars for each person de pendent upon him for chief support, if such person is under 18 years of age or incapable of self-support be cause mentally or physically defec tive. Such dependent need not be a member of the taxpayer’s household. For example, an unmarried son who supports in his home an aged mother is entitled to an exemption of 25-hun- dred dollars plus the 4-hundred dollars credit for a dependent, a total of 29-hundred dollars. If from choice the mother lived In another part of the city, the son, although her chief support, would be entitled to only the 1-thousand dollar exemption,'plus the 4-hundred dollars credit. The mother not living with him, be is not considered the bead of a family. An exemption as the head of.* family can be claimed by one member of the household. The 4- hundred dollar credit does not apply to the wife or husband of a tax payer, though one may be totally dependent upon the other. Commander, I. M. Peterson, Adjutant, Geo. Mitchell. ZdT« Fuera) H mm New Opea at t- . Member* of the Dorcas Study Club entertained their husbands and a few invited guests at a banquet at Hotel Moro Friday evening. The affair is an annual recurring event known in elub circles as husbands night. A vocal solo by Mise Idletnan, a violin nolo by Miss Perkins and an instru mental selection by Laura Urquhart were part of the program. Mrs. Kate W. Jameson, dean of Women, O. A.- C., wag principal speaker, using as topic her work among college Grover Young, farming near Kent, has discovered that apparently dead wheat, declared by wheat growers to haw been frozen out, can bo brought back to a growing condition again by placing weighted sacks over the plants in the drill row. Experiments conducted in the Kent district show plant growth of a half inch or more ‘ when plants are covered by sacks for. fear or five days. Mr. Young, when exaaoining his field, found a wheat sack which he placed over wbeet planta that had been apparently killed entirely and which again began grow- ' * ing when protected by the sack. How do your floors look? Movie News of the Current Week Coming to Moro theatre Saturday, February 14th, Dulcet” the latest “Connie comedy,” although different from anything yet made by Misa Talmadge, the play is describ ed as “typically American.” There is plenty of action, much humor and a lot of auatained interest. “Dulcy” was adapted from the New York stage hit by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. It was directed for Producer Joseph M. Schenck by Sid ney Franklin and is being distributed by Associated First National Pictures, Inc. “The Shooting of Dsn McGrew,” a film version of the famous Robert W. Service poem, made by the Saw- yer-Lubin company for Metro, is coming to Moro theatre Sunday, Feb ruary 15th. Thia new picture tells the whole story of the dramatic hate between two men* an actual happen ing in the days of the Yukon gold rurh. The eventr leading up to the gun fight are revealed for the first time. Bsrbara La Marr, Lew Cody and Percy Marmont play the great roles of The Lady Known as Lou, Dangerous Dan McGrew, and Jim, the husband. The exceptional east also includes Mse Busch, George Siegmann snd many others. The production waa directed by Clarence Badger and personally supervised by Arthur H. Sawyer. Winifred Dunn wrote the scenario. Agent Rose surprised his friends on Wednesdsy by being able to again appear upon our busineaa streets. He is recovering rapidly from his recent sickness and, if bis improvement in health permits, will leave next week for a brief visit in Portland before resuming his work as railway agent at Moro. Newt Items From Kent and Vicinity Mr. and Mra. J. U..' LeonaM ware in Moro Monday afternoon. CHURCH NEWS Notes of Interest to AU Start The Year Right! Local Denominations A. A. Dunlap and wife left Wed Mrs. L. L. Peets arrived home nesday for Portland to take in the The usual service wIlD take place at the Presbyterian church next Sun Saturday from Portland. auto shoMJ;1* ' t day morning. Sunday school st tan F. E. Fortner was a business visit- The Ladies Aid met at the home o’clock ard morning worship at or in The Dalles on Wednesday. of Mrs. J. N. Mclntes Thursday eleven. John Shearer drove to Portland nn afternoon. Beg'nning Thurdsay night February Wendeaday, accompanied by W. C. Mrs. Harry Hilton has been called to 12th and continuing for two weeks Miller. Hood River 1o attend a funeral of a excepting Saturdays, there will be S. B. Holmes was a btrainees visitor friend. held st the Methodist church a series in Moro on Tuesday from his home st Wm. Mitchell and R. P. Barnet of revival meetings. The meetings Grsss Valley. * were busineaa visitors at Moro and will be conducted by Rev. and Mra. R. A. Feenstra. The public is cor Mrs. M. W. Armstrong received Wasco Tuesday. dially invited to attend these meet word late Friday evening of the death Mr*. Geo. Howell arrived home ings and are asked to help make them of her sistter in Portland. Monday from Battleground Washing a means of spiritual blessing to this L. Sathern and J.'H. Grgeg were ton where she has been the past tw^p community. To this end reference is busineaa viitwi in Moro on Monday made to J er. 6:16. from their homes near Kent. Mrs. Grover Young spent a few At the Methodist church Mrs. R. A Ray Williams drove down the days last week visiting with her Feenstra will have charge of the Vel ma Pierson, near Columbia highway on Sunday, intend niece, Mrs. morning service. The evening union ing to visit a few days in the Rose Moro. service will be held at the Methodist city. A number of the members of Kent church, and " will be of apecial in- E. R. Barzee and Herbert Ella- Masonic lodge attended the funeral terest. The scouts will be present at worth left by auto Wednesday morn of W. A. Jdmstof in The Dalles on which time Scoutmaster Rev. Hanson < - 1 ing for a brief visit at Camp Monday.; x*- _ is to give a short talk to the boys Sherman. Paul Stout is nursing a sore hand on ihe value of the scout movement Dr. J. R. Morgan and wife return caused by cutting the hand instead of j by the message of the even »...____ ing by Rev. Feenstra from the words ed the first of the week from an a stick' of wi more * • ’IJ J "5 W ‘Ui of the Hebrew prophet “Open the extended visit with relatives in wood so you’ll know bow Paul. eyes of the young man that he may Portland. see.” « Mrs. Della Tubbs, from Cooks, visiting with her * Dorrence Axtell and sister Dorothy Washington, ii “Spirit” is the subject of the sisters, Mrs. J W. Forbes and Mrs. are expecting to leave soon for Rose lesson-sermon at the Christian Science ville, California, where they will church for Sunday morning at eleven Geo. Hennagin. join their mother. Roy Axtell is Mrs. W. H. Ragsaale and son expecting to leave at a later date. o’clock. Sunday school, which con Harry, who have been confined to The family will make their future venes at 10:15 is conducted in the Sunday school room at the rear of th$ their home by sickness^ is reported home m California. church. All those under twenty years to be improving. Miss Jane Crozier of Rowena and of age may attend these classes. Roy Powell returned Thursday Wilbert Benaon , of this eity were Wednesday evening meeting is at from Portlnad, where he has recently married at the paroopage of the eight o’clock. The reading room is undergone a major operation for United Bretneran church in The open at all times, All are invited stomach trouble. Dalles on Tuesday afternoon, . It is to attend these services and make use D. J. Butcher, district mansger of reported that the young people will of the reading room. the Pacific telephone system at The make their home at Moro. Dallea, was a businesa visitor at this Miss Itha Garrett, manager of the Boy Scouts Week to be Observed place on Wednesday. telephone office at Grass Valley, has Besaie Hanley, from the Lodene been transferred to an operators Next week, February 8-14'is known Beauty Shoppe at Wascc, will be at position at Bend. Mrs. Kate Run- throughout the United States as boy Ellsworth Hotel, Moro, esch Thurcdsy. yon, formerly at Bend, been scout snni^ersary week. It is fifteen Marcelling a specialty. transferred to the Grass VaUey office years since the movement started, and Rabid coyotes sre reported to be with Mrs. Garrett as operator. there are now in the neighborhood- of snspping and biting the heels of ' A. b. Thompson gays that the item 4-hundred thousand registered and range cattle and horses in "the Trout in the Observer brought him offers of over a million othen formerly con- Iske country, north of Madras. horses from all over the county, necUd, with it. Locally the observ Verne Chrisman and John Happold some of those who had horses to sell ance will begin with Scout Sunday returned to Sherman county late Sat getting him out of bed after midnight and the scouts will attend the union urday from an extensive auto trip to to try luck at horse trading. He service Sunday evening. Mr. 3anoon says he now has all the horses he as the scout master wilL give a short, Los Angeles and San Francisco. talk especially to the scouts as a part need«. C. E. Johnson snd wife, accom At a special called meeting of the of the program. This will be in panied by Mrs. A.- S. Johnson and connection with the union service at Mrs. C. C. Richmond, were motor city council, held Wednesday after; the Methodist church. Tuesday eve noon, three surveys of proposed routes visitors in The Dalles last Friday. for entry of the Lone Rock market ning, at the Presbyterian church, the W. H. Ragsdale left for Portland ronl into the city was ordered. Upon scouts with their parents, troop com laat Sunday, intending to visit S Jem completion of these surveys, the route mittee and scout masters with wives in the interests of the proposed state fur the r<»sd into Moro will be defi will partake of a supper at 6:30. At 7 :30 a program of initiation of those aid for the purchase of seed wheat. nitely ousted. ’ * who have passed scout tests this past Misa Lucile Bakerand Miss Dorothy At a special meeting of thé county year will be rendered. Speeches wfll Perkins, teachers in Moro school,have court held Wednè-day, the contract be rendered by Rev. N. W. Phelps of been confined to their homes the first for gracing thé I one Rock market Wasco Methodist church, W. E. Buell, few dsys of the past week by sickness. road was let to R<»e White on a unit principal of Moro public schools, and A. T. Holt, Carl Grgg and Wren basis. The contract covers only the J. E. Coleman of the troop committee Hogue were in town Monday from the first unit, from the city limits to The public is cordially invited to Kent district. They were interested Lone Rock. Right of way, damages, attend, hear tlje messages ahd-see the in securing seed with which to reseed etc., for this unit has been agreed scouts put on interesting stunts. upon but not yet entirely*setiled for. Rev. Henry G. Hanson is scout their acreage. master of troop one of Moro, and the The Chinaman indicates “ hoqje ” A targe delegation from the Ma- are Rev. tÍ88Ís|ant scoutmasters aonic lodge at Kent passed through in his written language by making R. A. Feenstra, A. M. Zevely and the signs for “ roof ” and “ pig, ” two Moro early Monday, going to The Dr. J. R. Morgsn. The troop com- Dalles to attend the funeral services things which every Chinese home rhittee is made up of E. Amidon, possesses. The thought occurs that held that day in honor of W. A. the American home might suffer J. E. Coleman and E. E. Barzee. Johnston. aesthetically, but it would rest upon Persistent reports from widely a firmer financial foundation, were In the Dittance separated wheat centers of eastern we to substitute pigs for some of the About the only tax-free securities Oregon and Washington tend to con- useless but highpriced jimcracks most a poor man can collect are treasures firm rumors of dealera willing to of us think are essential. In heaven.—Duluth Herald. contract next harvest wheat at >1.50 and better. ¿££î The easiest, quickest, and sureat way to get ready money is to save»a part ... of ali i you make in; this bank regularly. With thia money which you have saved, and your reputation, you can command credit. Then you- are in a strategic position—you will place your own limit on the extent of your success. This bank will help you start snd will help you hold the pace. Bank of Moro as « M oro T heatre a MORO. ' OREGON “The Eagle’s Feather ” Saturday, February 7th. THE EAGLE’S FEATHER is a with the elemental {»«Bions of staggering in its tense, thrilling is a scene— But see it! You’ll Are they bright and apick-and- ipan and shiny—ready for anothri winter’» wear? You spend twice at much time inside the house in winter as in the summer, and things should« look their best and br their best. You can quickly, easily and cheaply put your floors in fine condition with Acme Quality Paint and Vamiih. ~ Under thlt famous brand name there is a varnish for every purpose, paint specially prepared for Short, and Varno-Lac which both stains and varnishes at the same time.' It give' 'nexpendve woods the appear ance of fine oak or mahogany. Come in and let us show you the advantages of using these products. ACMEQUAUTY Turn-A-Lumber Co. D. E. Clark, Managar Moro, Oregon Phone Main 91 Total precipitation recorded at the experiment station for the crop season beginning September first to January Slat was above normal average. The normal rainfall for the period is 6.82, while the total rainfal recorded at the station is 7.38. The normal average for the month of January is 1.57, while for January 1925 the rainfall waa 1.53. Rainfall for the first four days of this month was .6, the average normal for the entire month of February is 1.04. William A. Johnston, known to practically every farmer in Sherman county as “W. A.” died suddenly at bis home In The Dalles last Satur- day. He was a member of all lodges io both the York and Scottish rite freemasonry and a prominent member of the Elks lodge. Unknown to his friends he was under medical attention for several months, as a sufferer from stomach and heart trouble. - Funeral Services were held on Monday under auspices of the masonic lodges. Manager D. E. Clark, of the Tum- alum Moro yard, has added a complete line of Acme paints to the building materia] supplies carried in stock at the local lumber yard. At present the stock on hand includes eighteen varieties of paints In twelve standard colors. Included "In the stock are house, barn, floor and varanda paints; screen, pipe snd auto enamels; stains and varnish as well as a stock of brushes. Any color of stain or paint not on hand can be quickly secured, My« Manager Clark The usual social of the Dorcas society for the month of February, will be held next Wednesday after noon at the Presbyterian church. Mrs. L. V. Moore and Mrs. C. V. Belknap will act as hostesses. Eastern Star lodge of Moro enter tained the Eastern Star lodge of Grass Valley last Fridsy evening. Part of the progam of the evening was work by the Moro degree team in initiating a candidate of Grass Valley lodge. W. B. Johnston was a visitor in this vicinity this week from bis son Luke’s home near Salem. He said that Mrs. Johnston, who- has- been under surgical care at a hospital in Salem, is now at home with her son Luke. L. J. Pape and John Mersinger, from Portland, motored up the Col umbia highway the first of the week, returning on Wednesday. Mr. Pape made the trip to look over his wheat lands, nipped With the cold spell of last December. H. H. Nichols and mother returned Monday evening from a six weeks auto trip to southern California, go ing as far aouth as Inglewood, about tan miles south of Los Angeles, where they visited with an uncle and sister of Mrs. Nichols. W. H. Williams became suddenly sick when in Wasco last Friday with an attack of intestinal trouble. As sistance was given him to return to Moro, but he had recovered by Sunday sufficient good health to enable him to leave that day for Portland. Friends of the family have received word of the arrival of a daughter born to Mr.*and Mrs. Holmes at Bur bank,, California, January 28th. The little stranger has been named Mar garet Gene. Mra. Holmes la a daugh ter of J. E. Coleman of thia atty powerful drama filled men and women and climaxes. And there never forget it! “A Son of the Sahara” Sunday, February 8th The drama of an English beauty suddenly caught in the power of a m A drama imbued with the ro- mance and adventure you yourself would love to live. “ Dulcy ” Saturday, February 14. DULCY—The rollicking tale of a happy harebrain who never opened her mouth but to put her foot in it. , “The Shooting of Dan McGrew” Sunday, February 15. You’ll be afraid to. bat an eye when you ace “The Shooting of Dan McGrew.” It’s the swiftest moving melodrama ever screened. Call Upon Us No matter what your merchandise needs may be, we are qualified to fill them for you Room Size and Smaller Lineoleum Rugs and Congoleum Rugs Electric Appliances Dewey Thompson haa traded his 4-year old grey Percheron stallion to a Percheron breeder living near Al bany for two registered grey Perch eron fillies, receiving cash to complete the deal.. The fillies were delivered Experienced farm hand wants year by motor truck last Friday, the round job on Sherman county farm. stallion being loaded by the Albany Understands handling horses and has man on the truck for the trip back had several years experience on Sher over the Columbia highway. man county farms. Inquire st Ob A number of old friends of the server office, Moro. . family will be sorry to learn of the death last week of Mrs. H. U. Um- berger at the family home in Hymer, the Kansas. Mr. Umberger first superintendent of the state and federal experiment station at Moro, the family making many friends among Sherman county people while in charge of the station work. The General whose army wins the battles of.today is not in command of men. The winning General is th« man who commands the most money and who has the largest reserve of credit. When you have ready money and a reputation for abitily and honesty, you have proportionate credit at your command.- Furniture Fishing Tackle Paints and Oils Kalsomine 9 Builders’ Hardware Home Again ! Everything for the Home is here at prices that invite a visit to this store I have movedjny Jewelry and Optical business into the room which has been occu[)ied for the past-few years by the , Corson : Music Store, directly opposite Pease &, Co.- • I expect to make this a modern store for and Jewelry merchandising and Jpwtlify Repairing and will have greater iaci 1 ¡très for the care of my patrons than ever before. Moro. I Independent Warehouse & Milling Co J R. H. McKean, Manager, Wasco, Oregon I will have greater conveniences for the testing and fitting of glasses, and the grinding of lenses. DEALERS IN Lime, Plaster, Cement, Cedar Posts, Builders Supplies, Lumber, Wood, Coal and Hay. I hope to see all my former patrons and many new ones visit my new-old store am< cau assure all that I will be better able to take care of your future needs in every desirable manner. Dr. Geo. F. Newhouse Oregon MANUFACTURERS OF MILL FEED AND FLOUR I I I IM’l-bM’1 i« H4H 1 lililí W Jeweler and Eye Specialist 330 East Second Street, The Dalles, Ore * A “WANT” ad in T he M oro < O bserver will reach more people ’ in Sherman County than by any other Medium available.
