■ siEiMH coran observer
Gonna« ScM Has Little Mack
Heo Waiting For Lost Owner
13. 1925
13» A
Ora.
cordially
with us. By
Secretary
Ne. 78 O. B. S.
lular communicstiotM
md and 4th Thursday
SK«evenings monthly.
s^r ^r*' E' A Cuahraan
Worthy Matron
Nana Bsrzee, Secretary.
I. O. O. F.
Meet« every
<
Monday eve*
filini in the I. O. O. F. hall.
and viritin» bro-
meet with u«.
Theodore Johnston, N. G '
A. M. Young, Secretary.
Lupine Rebecca Lodge
No. 116, Moro, Oregon,
meets 1st sad 3d Friday«
of each month. Visiting
member« welcome.
Mrs. C V. Belknap, N.G.
Hazel Wood«, Secy
CHRIS SCHULTZ POST NO. 71
_ AMERICAN LEGION
|^k Meet» at Odd Fellows Hall oa
second «nd fourth Wednc»day■
WwV of each month.
Commander, I. M. Peterson,
Adjutant, Geo. Mitchell.
.♦ Zell’» Fonerai Hom New Opea at
Ji The room» in the bank of Moro
building occupied by attorney I. M.
Peterson and Mrs. Urquhart have
heap-refinished with a neat pattern of
wall paper and woodwork repainted
kf gray tone. The improvement has
made the business places a much
more comfortable place in which to
> Edw Newton was ambling round
tqwn last week with the assistance of
• cane, caused by recurrence of his
old rheumatic trouble. It had been
so many years since he had had this
affliction that he was heard to say
that be had thought he never would
be troubled any more with his old
complaint.
Cal Ford of Waaeo 1 j a guest of
Sheriff Chrisman at the county jail as
the result of being apprehended in
Wasco with an illegal supply of
liquor in his possession. The justice
of tbs peace at Wasco presented Ford
with a package consisting of a fine of
8100, costs of 810 and 60 days in the
county bastite.
i Qiite
T * an v aggregate
'
of
baseball fans
were at the county fair
Sunday afternoon for work out prac
tice. Sentiment in Moro is crystal
lising into the hope that Moro wifi
be able to put a good team into the
field this year and that if this should
materialise that the right support
will be given the team.
- We have many articles in our
stock that will help to make
your home more comfortable.
Among these, is our Numetal
Weather atrip—It works day and
night—the whole year through,
(t 4» as serviceable in spring
and failles io winter, for it
makes all openings wind and
dust proof.
Lèi us glve you a demonstra-
tfon. We are »ure we can con
vince you, that it i» a’I we
claim for it.
Tun-A-Lumber Co
D, E. Clark, Manati
Moro,
Oregon
Phone Main 91
Where by reason of illness or ab
sence from home additional time for
filing an income tax return is requir
ed, the taxpayer should address
to । the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, Washington, D. C.,> re
quest for an extension. Collectors of
internal revenue are not, as under
proceeding acts, permitted to grant
such extensions. The request must
be made before the return is due-
on or before March 15, 1925, if made
the calendar year basis—and must
ntain a full recital for the causes
the delsy.
An extension of time for filing the
turn does not extend the time of
yment of the tax or any installment
ereof unless so specified in the ex-
nsion. As a condition of granting
i extension, the commissioner msy
quire the submission of a tentative
turn and estimate of the amount of
e tax, and the payment of at least
«-fourth of the estimated amount.
NEWS
Note» of Interest to All
.
Getting Ahead by 1926
Local DenondnatioM
Final Article.
F riday .
CHURCH
A. B. Riddell left Friday fora
busineaa visit to Sunnyside, Washing
ton.
Q. E. Gwynne was a business visi
tor In Moro on Monday from hi» home
near Klondike.
The following news item», written
by pupil» of Gorman school, has been
forwarded to the Sherman county
Observer for publication in anticipa
tion of the probability that whoever
has had chickens missing lately,
especially one black hen, might be
able to retrieve part of the relics of
a feast held recently at Gorman
school.
Mrs. R. A Feenstra will speak at
the regular morning service at the
Methodist church next Sunday morn
ing.
March the fifteenth will be celebra
ted as a Fanny Croeby memorial at
the Methodist Sunday school, with
Rev. Henry G. Hanson will preach
Mrs. Bryant as leader. The songs
at Gorman school house this Sunday
and life of this blind singer will be
afternoon at three o’clock.
revived. The collection will be sent
-
CALL FOR CHICKEN.
Mra^V. 8. Baxr, recently reported
We wish that-the persons who had tn aid the Fanny Croeby memorial,
to have been confined to her home by a chicken feast at the Gorman school a home for the aged.
sickness, is now able to again viait bouse last week-end, would please
The usual services will take place
her friends in .town.
call for their extra old black ben. at the Presbyterian church .next Sun
E. R. Barzee is enjoying a vaca Also pay for the rent of our cooking day morning. In the Sunday school
tion from the Moro confectionery thia utensils. We have been feeding the at ten o’clock the class of Opportun
week while helping his father seed hen all week. She surely is fat by ity will have charge of the opening
this time. Please call at earliest exercises. Mrs. Hanson will tell a
his acreage northwest of Moro.
convenience. Feed bill is increasing story and a duet will be rendered by
Dr. J. R. Morgan and wife were
Mrs. Belshe and Mrs. Hutchcroft. At
day by day.
called to Portland on Monday by news
Frances Ross, Gorman school, ,7th eleven the pastor will preach.
that the doctor’s sister-in-law was
From now on the sermons will deal
grade.
sick with threatened pneumonia.
with subjects related to the paM;on
ONE CHICKEN TOO MANY
of Our Savior, and leading up to the
Miss Virginia West, teacher in the '
Who ever stole chickens that were celebration of the Easter victory.
public school at Grass Valley, was
Prayer meetings will be held each
called to Portland last Friday by the blacx;
Had a great big hole in the end of Wednesday evening at the manse.
news of tbe death of her grand
Communion service will be held on
the sack.
mother.
The hea jumped out and surely ran the last Sunday in March. Special
Avery Martin lost psrt of the
The street between the Ellsworth
meetings will be held at the church
r
esent week from school while help- hotel and Williams motor company fast;
We’d like to know what thief saw during Holy Week, April 5th to 12th.
g with the farm work.
garage was graded and leveled last
The woman’s missionary society of
Vernon Miller was absent from week by a trackson-Fordson pulling a her last.
She ran and she run as fast ss a the Presbyterian church is' preparing
bool part of last week, because of blade grader.
grouse
,
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Iping with the work on the farm.
Jack Bums has returned to tbe
And stopped at the barn at the Presbyterian church Sunday evening,
Avery Martin tore the nail off his vicinity of Moro for the spring farm Gorman school house.
March 15th, at 7:30. A year ago
ft thumb last Saturday while play- work on the Edw. Newton farm. Mr.
Written by Purl Pierson, 6th the society put on a similar pageant
Bums
has
worked
around
Moro
for
g ball on the flat near the depot.
grade.
’
.
in costume and at that time the house
the past five years.
was packed to the doors, so the
Marbles is the latest form of
George Sbokley, formerly employed Forwarded to the Sherman County people know what the women can do
bool recreation each morning, noon
Observer for publication by Mrs. Lu
when given an opportunity. This year
d recess on the school campus. Tis with Hulery Bros., has returned to
R. Brown, teacher of Gorman School.
Moro,
having
accepted
a
position
with
the presentation will be fully as
id thst the best marble shooters
the Williams motor company in charge
dramatic and impressive, the theme
id it quite becoming.
of their Fordson department.
Robert
Richmond,
son
of
Mr.
and
selected
for the evening being “Circle
Tbe preliminary typing contest was »
Mrs. C. C. Richmond, haa recovered Three Sees a Vision.” The charac
Bring
your
fresh
eggs
to
the
Moro
□n by the team consisting of Dsrold
from his near attack of pneumonia so ters in the presentation are as follows:
j 1 she,Vernon Miller,Msry Smith snd cream station and gel tbe CASH for
as to be able to again play about the President, Mrs. Terry—Mrs. C. V.
them.
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I
make
regular
trips
to
Port
ladys Wright The team captained
Belknap
land each week and can assure you house.
' Morns Sesrcy was a close second.
Secretary-treasurer,
Mrs. Bangs —Mrs.
higest cash prices. F. D. Flatt.
In San Francisco a Chinese deliv
At the ususl Monday morning
O. L. Belshe
eryman
sent
the
following
bill
to
a
Mrs. A. J. Futter, who has been
Pastor’s wife, Mrs. Curtis—Mrs.
□dent assembly held the first of the
seriously ill at the family home east hardware dealer for services rendered :
Harry B. Pinkerton
sek,Principal Buell advised thst sll
of Moro, was reported on Monday as “Ten goes, 10 comes, at 50 cents a
Other characters are
□dents should sign up for some
went
—
85.
”
being the least bit better.
Mrs.
Mrs. Green —Mrs. C. L. Ireland
tivity for the 20 minute physical
Futter has been sick about two
V. B. Eakin was a visitor in Moro Mis. Butler Mrs. W. H. Ragsdale
¡riod each morning.
on Tuesday from his home at Rut Mrs. Evans—Mrs. J. F. Foss
All the pupils and teachers of Moro
Marbles are taking ine attention of ledge. He reported that about an Mrs. Forrester- Mrs. Susie Hastings.
bool were greatly pleased this week the grown ups as well as members of inch of snow covered the fields of
Mrs. Morton—Mrs. Geo. B. Bourhill
learn of the rapid recovery in the younger male set in Moro. Each that district the morning he erme to
Mrs. Brown—Mrs. A. M. Young
talth that Miss Dorothy Perkins is sunny afternoon a large number can town.
i
r-
Mrs. Jones Mrs. R. C. Byers
sking snd that she is now able to be seen playing different varieties of
town folks Mrs. Harris- Mrs. Larsen
Several
auto
loads
of
e visitors. Miss Perkins is teacher the game in front of the business
from Moro attended the basketball Mis. Martin—Mr». T. C. Lee
the 3d and 4th grades. *
places on Main street.
game played last Friday between the Mrs. Long—Mrs. J. R. Morgan
Effective action has been, taken on
W. H. Williams is operating a Moro and Wasco high school girls at Mrs. Clifford-Mrs. L. V. Moore
plays that is planned to be given trackson-Fordson at the local fox Wasco to decide the county girls Accompanist—Mrs. Roy Kunsman
Duet in pageant—Mrs. Hutchcroft and
by members of the senior and farm northeast of Moro, employing championship.
, Mrs. Belshe
or classes of Moro high school, the machine at useful work ,wl He
Tho rfifiorthi motor vehicle theft
first play to be given will be by demonstrating the possibilities of the act was dtc‘ared valid and constitu-. Director of pageant—Mrs. Henry G.
Hanson.
junior class entitled “Take my outfit.
He is operating a day and Atonal this week by the United States
Solo
by Tom Fraser.
dvlce. ” The second play entitled I night shift with the machine.
supreme court. The court also held
His Uncle'» Niece” will be given
The invitation ' dance given at that in seeking convictions under the
y the senior class following preaen-
Hotel Moro last Friday evening was act it w** not necessary to prove that Movie News of the Current Week
ition of tbe junior class play.
pronounced a social success by those the person prosecuted know he had
Superb and magnificent are the
The baaketball game played at who attended. Raymond Henrichs,« come into the possesion of a stolen
setting»
and scenic backgrounds to be
pianist,
assisted
by
musicians
from
car.
fasco last Friday between the girls
seen in “The Eternal City,” a First
jams of the Wasco and Moro high The Dalles, saxophone and drum,
the
Wednesday, March 11th, was
National picture produced by George
!hools was the deciding one of the furnished the music for dancing.
43rd wedding anniversary of Mr. and
Fitzmaurice,
which is coming to Moro
sries for the championship honors
The day was
Miss Lucile Baker, teacher in Mrs. L„ H. Martin.
ar the county. Wasco girls won by Moro schools, has as a guest this spent quietly at home with an anni theatre on Saturday. Adapted from
15-16 score, but they did it by using week her twin sister Hildred, senior versary dinner served at noon at the famous novel by Sir Hall Caine
lays they had learned while playing at Oregon Agricultural college at which time the table was beautified by Ouida Bergere, the »tory is enact
gainst the - Moro team.
A large Corvallis. Miss Hildred arrived in by a large lovely bouquet of flowers ed by a brilliant cast which includes
umber of thejspectators at the game time to spend last week-end in Moro sent to her parents byjtheir daughter, Barbara La Marr, Lionel Barrymore,
Bert Lytell, Richard Bennett and
re re from Moro school.
and will return at the end of the Mrs. Irvin Kunsman of Portland.
Montagu Love.
J. F. Aldrich, wife and son Victor jThe exceptional beauty of the pro
The three basketball games staged coming week-end.
uring the last week-end between the
L. S. Hines and wife were visiting drove up from their home at Corvallis duction is due to the fact that it was
iversity of Oregon and Oregon ¡n Moro this week from their home on Wednesday arriving in Moro about made in Siinny Italy, and the land
ricultural college were exciting jn Prineville. While in Moro, Mr. 8 p. m. Mrs. Aldrich is a sister of scapes which form the background of
•nta when measured by the interest Hines received word that their son Mrs. Henry G. Hanaon and remained the outdoor scenes have never before
;en by pupils and faculty of Moro Lloyd was ill in a hospital at Bend, to visit in Moro while Mr. Aldrich been used in a photoplay, giving “The
tools. Almost all the students were I The young man has been employed at and aon continued in their auto to Eternal City*” a considerable degree
shing the U. of O. would win, Bend fOr some time, but is not con- Pasco. The visitors expect to return of pictorial freshness.
to Corvallis the first of the coming
ile the faculty was about equally gidered to be seriously sick.
ivided between tbe two contestants,
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“Sherlock Jr.” coming to Moro
The usual Dorcas society social for week.
he first game was won by O. A. C. March will be held next Wedneaday
Merchants with a delivery system theatre on Sunday afternoon is Buster
nd some of the faculty were gfUm afternoon at the home of Mrs, J. C. are interested in what Is known as the Keaton’s third feature length comedy
nd the most of the student» felt McKean. Refreshments to be served peddlers bill. This measures aimed to be presented by Joseph M. Schenck
kewise. The second game was won will be prepared by members of the at itinerants who buy a stock of through Metro. It is an hilarious,
y U. of O. and then gloom descended girls domestic science class of Moro goods and then browse along the not to say delirious, story about a
pon the opposing camp. The Qjird high school under the direction of highways hawking their wares. The youth in a small town who is opera
nd deciding game of the series was their teacher, M ss Ann McPhersctf. bill calls for a substantial license tor in the projection booth of the
layed on the Willamette university Annual election of officers will be fee.
Merchants are permitted to local movie theatre, and from long
ym floor and resulted in victory for part of the business transacted.
operate delivery trucks for a radius association with celluloid melodrama
i. A. C. Now some of the faculty
of five miles outside of city Hunts or becomes a detective “nut”. When
members are explaining basketball
The reading of advertisement« i« a within a five mile zone if they are he is wrongfully accused of stealing
habit easily acquired, and is an invaluable
lays to student loosers.
a watch and the villain appears about
out in the country.
aid to the wide-awake purchaser.
to take away his best girl, Buster
dozes off in the projection booth and
Attempts by legislators of Oregon
dreams he has walked right into the
jo reduce the automobile license fees
picture he is showing.
«nd increase the tax on gasoline met I
Here his adventures take on all
with stern resistance. Nor was con- I
manner of thrills and romance with
»¡deration ' given to old cars. The I
Buster finally foiling the villian and
committee was afraid to tamper with
marrying the beautiful star.
the schedule of 1’cense fees, fearing
• It is at ohce the craziest, the most
it might upset the financial structure
sensible, and the most original pic
'O
lympic
on which the millions of dollars of 1
ture ever made, and Buster Keaton
(¡AHLS
highway bonds, now outstanding, are
goes through it all with the same
to be retired.
frozen countenance that has made him
O, A. Ramsey and wife accom
a comedy “Best Seller.”
lU HAVE ]
“Sherlock Jr.,“in short, is “some
panied by M. R. Schadewitz and wife
JO SEE
drove to Portland last Sunday ^here
thing new under the sun.”
/WHO^ AT
Mrs. Ramsey submitted to a major
operation at St. Vincent hoapital.
THE DOOR 4
A. E. Hammond, prominent civil
Messrs. Rarmey and Schadewits re
engineer, died in San Francisco last
turned to MorO on Wdenesday. They
Saturday aged 70 years. Mr. Ham
report Mrs. Ramsey as having recov
mond had charge of construction of
ered nicely from the operation and
the Columbia Southern railway when
that conditions are favorable to her
the line was built from Biggs to
early return home.
Shaniko. Later the road was pur
HLTICKLE FAN
A. H Hilton, manager of the
Tumalum lumber company at Kent,
was arrested in The Dalles Saturday
night on a warrant isaued out of the
justice court at Grass Valley charg
ing him with a statutory offense
ag&inst a 14-year old girl living near
Kent. Hilton was visiting with his
wife, ill in a hospital in The Dalles,
at the tims of his arrest. He ia re
ported - to have denied the charge.
Preliminary hearing * was held at
Grass Valley on Monday and the
accused bound over to the grand jury
with bonds set st 82600. At last
accounts the accused hsd not been
able to »«cure th« full amount of
bond» naoa»»»ry,
chased by the O-W. R. R. & N. com
pany. Mr. Hammond came to Ore
gon in 1880 from North Dakota,
moving to California aboutflve years
■go.
The interior of the tonsorial parlors
located in the Hotel Moro building
was treated to a freshening coat of
kalsomine the first of the week under
direction of proprietor C. V. Belknap.
The new color scheme in which the
shop is finished follows the general
tone of the main business portion of
the hotel, a light terra cotta, sup
plied by the Moro branch Tumalum
Lumber company from their Acme
paint stock,
There is only one way to pro
gress in this world—and that
is to save systematically.
Stick to that one resolution
during 1925 and ever aftei
that
Come to this Bank and let
us show you how it t an be
done.
Bank of Moro
M oro T heatre
OREGON
MORO.
“Eternal City”
Saturday, March 14
All the scenic and sacred wonders of Rome are in this
marvelous photoplay. They spent ten months ir. Rome
to make this the greatest love drama ever shown.
“Sherlock Junior”
Sunday, March 15
“Laugh and the world laughs with you”—see Buster
Keston in his new comedy for Metro, “Sherlock Jr.”
and you won’t be able to stop laughing —it’s the funniest
thing you’ve ever seen!
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