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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (March 20, 1925)
BSERV \ HERNAN ===== Moi*o, Sherman County, O Established 18S7 either the one-letter or two-letter matrix can be used in the same ma chine, and either character of the two-letter matrix can be used at will. The spaceband, which is used to separate the word* in a line and at Attorney-at-Law the same time “justify” the line to the end of the »lug consists of two steel wedges. Ope is about the size of and in form somewhat like a mat rix the other is about 5 inches long. Office Phone Main 93 The two are fastened together so Oregon Moro that the long wedge will slide past the short one. The short wedge has two lugs at the tap which engage in OOQOOOCXXXXXXXMXXXXXXXXXX* grove* in the front am »ack jaw of when pres- the first elevator« so ti sure i* applied to. U^« Irer end of the wedge, the anbrt wedge is held in position between the matrices, and as th« long wedge is forced up Attorney-At-Law • I ward, the thickness of the band or space increases until the line is justi Practice in All the Court* fied to its full length. of Oregon The assembling mechanism is the Phone Main 541 only part of the Linotype where the BANK OF MORO BUILDING g human mind is applied to the work of the machine. It is necessary for Moro . . . Oregon | the eye to read the copy, and the mind, through the medium of t^e fingers, to translate the copy into assembled lines of matrices; after that the machine acts automatically. The keyboard is made up of 90 With the issue of the Sherman County Observer keys, which act directly on the DENTIST this week and with a great deal of pride in the culmi matrices in their channels in the magazine. The slightest touch on nation of a hope long deferred, the publisher of the the United Stale* Dentil Exam buttons releases the matrix, Sherman County Observer announces the installation which key drops iner for thii district. to the assembler ’ belt of a new Model Five Linotype. This mechanical mar and is carried swiftly to the assem- vel is especially equipped with the necessary type faces bier. When a word is assembled, Office at to enable this office to serve efficiently those readers the spaceband key is touched and a assembler. who depend upon our publication for enlightenment spaceband drops into the MORO, OREGON When the necessary matrices and of the community happenings of Sherman county and spacebands to fill the line have been V^WWWW^W***********'*'' also those advertisers who use the columns of the Sher assembled, the operator raises the ydWMWW^W****** man County Observer to inform our readers of busi assembler by pressing the lever on ness news that would help them in ther purchase of the side of the keyboard. When the assembler reaches its highest point their daily requirements. it automatically starts the machine The Sherman County Observer has always aimed and the matrices ar- transferred to Physician and Surgeon to be able to keep its printing equipment up to the last the casting position , possible notch of efficiency to the end that our readers The casting mechanism consists oi metal pot, mo!u disk, mold, and advertisers would be adequately , served at ajl the ejector, and trimmi :g knives. When times. To that end the Sherman County Observer ’.j line of matrices leaves pie as- Office and Residence was the first newspaper to install power press equip ^mblcr, they pa*a to a position in. ment in all that eastern Oregon district between The fron. of the mold disk. The disk Hotel Moro Dalles and Pendleton. The first power used in this makes on^-iuarter turn to the left, W^VWWWW^A************ office was steam, later gas engine power was used1 and wLich t. ina 5 the mold from the ejecting' position,* where it stands in connection with the gas power was used electric while the machine is at rest, to the power supplied from the old city system. u Later, when casting posit ion/ It then advances the Sherman Electric Company power lines were built until the face of the mol.l comes in into our county we were the first to discard gas engine contact with the matrices. The metal pot advance* until the pot power for the present 24-hour electric service. mouthpiece comes in contact with Physician and Surgeon For the last ten years and up to and including the back of the mold; at this point • last week, the main portion of the Sherman _County the pump plunger descends and the metal into the mold and Observer has been composed upon a Unitype machine. forces against the matrices, ^Tbe pot then Main 182 So named because the operating idea of the machine recedes, the mold disk withdraws was based upon the old hand-set system of single from the matrices and makes three- WASCO - OREGON types which were used over .and over again. The fotfrths of a revolution to the left, Model Five Linotype, with which the reading portion stopping at the ejecting position, from which it started. The slug is of 'the Sherman County Observer is composed this ejected and assembled in the galley. week, operates upon an entirely different principle. During the last revolution of the This machine casts its own type from brass matrices disk the bottom of the slug is trim into lines of various lengths, thus the name Line-oL med offj and in the process of ejec type, using melted metal. The heat to melt the metal tion the sides of tno slug are trim Optometrist so that when it drops into the and the power to operate the Linotype is furnished by med, galley the slug is a perfect line of Spec!list in the examining of the Sherman Electric Company. type, ready for the form. After the eye* and fitting of glasses. slug has been cast, the matrices are We invite anyone to come in and watch the Lino Lens grinding shop in up ty the second position, connection. type operate. It is a most wonderful machine, intri carried where they are pushed to the right, Upstairs across from the cate and yet very simple in its operation. The capac and the teeth in the V at the top Edw. C. Pesse Co. stere ity of the work that can be done upon the Linotype of the matrices engage the grooves " and ' ' the ’ range of type ^aces that can e in the distributor bar of the second Room 10, Vogt Bldg. is unlimited composed on the Linotype installed in the Sherman elevator, which descends from the The Dalles, Ore. box at the same time that County Observer office run from a type face half the distributor the matrices rise to the second trans I size of this type you are now reading to type faces fer position. The second elevator MIUI I 4- 1 un i i - h 11111 » »■ »-»■ two and a half times as large. * In addition we have then rises toward the distributor I the choice of a very great variety of fancy letters, box, taking the matrices with it, but the space hands; these are initial letters, borders and decorative designs for ar- leaving then pushed to the right and slide tistic printing. into the spaceband box, to be used’ Eyesight Specialists again. THE MERGENTHALER LINO Manufaeturing Opticians As the second elevator rises to- of the assembling of the matrices TYPE. Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted the entire operation is automatic. ward the distributof box - with its Exelosively Optical A machine to set type was the In form the Linotype is not like load < of matrices, the distributor Complete Lens Manufacturing dream of inventors from , the time any other machine. It is in reality shifter lever moves to the left until Plant in Connection when the printing business began to the assemblage of four distinct ma the elevator head ha* reached its OREGON THE DALLES assume a position of importance chines or parts, so arranged that place by the distributor box. It 15-16 Vogt Block. * among the trades. The original idea they work in harmony—the maga then moves back to the right and I I I I I ! H 4-1 ! i I I 1 I M I !■ I -i-W was that a machine must handle zine, the assembling mechanism, the pushes the matrice* off the second type-founders’ type and compose it casting mechanism, and the dis elevator distributor bar into the dis into lines with the help of one or tributing mechanism. The magazine tributor box, where they meet the more operators. A number of ma is on top of the machine, sloping “matrix lift” and are lifted, one at chines were piade along this line. from back to front at an angle of 37 a time, to the distributor screws and JAMES STEWART One of these machines has been used degrees, arid consisting of two brass distributor bar proper. The teeth in SHERMAN COUNTY < in the office of the Sherman County plates placed together with a space the matrix and the. grooves in the STOCK AND BRAND Observer for ten years last past. of about 6-8 of an inch between. bar are so arranged that when a Some were failures entirely, while a The two inner surfaces are cut with matrix arrives at a. point directly INSPECTOR few others were perfected so that 92 groove* or channel* running the over the channel in which it belongs, they would set type, but found to up and down way of the magazine, it “lets go” and (b ops into its chan be too expensive to operate. ^It was fdr carrying the matrices. The nel. ft 1 X DEPUTIES: L. Schadewits, Kent, j through experimenting with a ma matrices slide down these channel* >If, however, there is a matrix in Or egos ; Dr. Jo». Sa a oder», Moro. ] chine for the more rapid transcrib on edge, with the face or punched the line which was not designed to ing of reports of law cases and the edge down and the V-end extending drop into one of the channels operat-* I reports of legislative committees toward the upper part of the maga ed from« the keybeiurd,. it will be a i that ¿the idea of a slug-casting ma- zine. Each one of these channels is carried clear across, the distributor I chine developed. of sufficient length to contain bar and dropped into the last chan nel, and from there it wilt find its ' * * ' The Mergenthaler Linotype is the twenty matrices. The Linotype matrix is made of way to the sorts box.. most successful one-man composing The distribution of the matrices is machine in the world. It is a single brass. Its thickness varies with the STÒCK & WHEAT I machine whfbh~ at the will of one size of the character stamped into the most wonderful part of the Lino I operator assembles a line of mat- it. The teeth which appear in the type. The distributor will handle - I rices, casts a slug from them, trims V at the top of the matrix are used the matrices day after day and week FOR SALE and delivers the slug into a galley in the distribution of the matrices. after week, taking the lines as they I ready for use, and finally distributes Matrices are made in both one- and come, separating the matrices and one-letter dropping each one into its proper I the matrices back into their respect two-letter—i. e., the F.T. HURLBURT ive channels in the magazine, where matrix has but one character punch channel without an error. It does they are ready to be called down ed on its edge, and the two-letter its work automatically «and requires I again, in their turn by the touch of has two character* punched on it* Continued on page Two the key button. With the exception edge. By an Ingenious arrangement Five Cents Marcii 20, < >n Sherman County Obser W. 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