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^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
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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
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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
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ing by Rev. Feenstra from the words
ed the first of the week from an a stick' of wi
more
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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
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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
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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.