Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931, March 20, 1925, Image 2

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    THE MODEL
FIVE LINOTYPE
nuil nun usara
Continued from page 1.
C. L. I reland
Editor and Publisher
■eta type for the Sherman
fonts.
Wt Co., •«
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This installation olU ‘the-
tions effective April 16th, providing very tittle attention
for an increase in th« rates chaiged
The manipulation of the Linotype' continued frospertty of
for certain matter sent through the keyboard differs from the operation coun y, a prosperity that caanoA
mail, the increased revenue to be of a typewriter in that it requires seriously impaired by temporary
post otiose« Moro, Orejo«. July 25. 1891
applied toward the advance in sal­ practically no physical exertion. On hard - ips or set-backs caused by the
MARCH
aries recently voted for postal em­ the typewriter the operator strikes element«. And, also, is a testimonial
ployes,has been received by Geo. B. the keys -with considerable force, to our faith that ths good peopl« of
.
March
20.
1925
Bourhill, postmaster at Moro, from while on the Linotype the slightest Sheru»an' count are duly appreia-
F riday
Washington, D. C. Th« increase in touch on the keybuttons is sufficient tive of our efforts to serve them
salaries will cost the department to release the matrices from the in ail departments of the printing
$68,000,000 yearly and it is believed magazine
One quick touch on a business to the very best of our
chat $60,000,000 of this win be raised key will bring down a matrix; if ability*
trough the lift in postal rates the key is held down the matrice«
More Oregon girls and boys com­ granted at the same time the higher will continue to drop until the chan­
lanes were authorized.
phmentary remarks .received from
pleted their club projects in 1921
nel i» empty.
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The first change mentioned is the
individual
pateons of ^tho Sherman
than ever before, reports H. C. Sey­
When the Linotype was fir«t de­
i crease in the rate for private signed it was thought that, at best, County Observer since the arrival of
mour, state club leader of the Or*
kon Agricultural College extensioL os^cards, ■ which heretofore have it would be used only for newspaper our new machine.
service. Other records were in the jeen handled for one cent. The new composition, and, perhaps, no larger
number of 100 per cent dubs, in egulations increase the postage to face than 8 point would be «wed.
amount of money won in scholarship .wo cents. However, the cards sold But such has been the excellence of
Period U Special Study
: nd prizes and in larger atten lance jy the department will remain at the the machine and its product that it
at the club summer session» at the >ld figure of one cent. Double or has taken possession, of every branch
?piy postal carda, unless purchased of composition ‘ for the printing
Pupils of Moro High School made
state college.
om the government, shall be two trade.
Oregon led the eleven westeri.
Dictionaries, encyclopedia«, a special study of the Mergenthaler
states in club enrollment with 6,047. .*ents on the initial portion and an ad­ cata'ogs, editions de luxe, books, Linotype machine.
As a result
.
Washington was second with 4,558. ditional two cents on the reply half. magazines, newspapers, newspaper this study they Jiave ascertained that;
If there ¡8 anything in the world you would like to lose, it 8 that disturbing
An increase is also authorised on ■advertisements, tabular work, and the Linotype was invented in 1886
< regon club money earned in the
nerve-upsetting
squeak. Drive your car into the Foss & Co. garage and we
i rojecta for the year was $49,831.19. merchandise parcelk, including farm commercial job work are now mt on by Ottmar Mergenthaler and that
Club winnings in scholarships and and factory products, going as the Linotype. The range in sis« and the first Linotype to be used cosn-
will get rid of that noise in a hurry. We do the kind of work that will
chird-claas matter, which do not ex­ face is from five point to 42 point. I naerciaily was installed in the cosn-
] rises were $4,309.25.
Credit for the good showing is ceed eight ounces in weight. The
please you.
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The Linotype is sometimes called poein.r room of the New York Trib-
given by the extension authoritie« to rate provided is 1 % cents for each ■ typesetting machine, but this is not une in July of that year.
local leaders, schools, newspapers i<o ounces or fraction thereof, up correct; it does not set type. It is a
They also ascertained that since
and farm journals, bankers and busi­ io and including eight ounces in different 'departure from th« »old the installation of the first Linotype
and the Very Best Grade of Tires, Tubes, Oils and Greases
ness men, chambers of commerce weight, excepting that the rate of typesetting methods.
It might be and up to the end - of 1924 that
hostage on books, catalogs, seeds, •onsidcred a substitute for type set- 19,000 Linotypes were now in use in :
and fair associations.
Without the volunteer services of uttings, bulbs, roots, scions and Ling. It is, strictly speaking, a com­ ^ixty-three- dtfferont countries, pyo- I
the local leaders many club members plants, not exceeding eight ounces posing machine, as it does composi­
who begin their work enthusiastic­ in weight, shall be 1. cent for each tion, bat its product is not set type, hundred different language«. These
ally drop out before
finishing. .wo ounces or fraction thereof.
Mene News of the Current Week
but solid slugs in the form of line«
Facsimile copies of handwriting of type with the printing face cast
Other facte of interest are noted a»
Some say that the “Isle of Lost
,r typewriting, produced by a me- on one edge.
follows:
rry who viaited Moro.this month said
MAIN STREET
Ship«,
” wher« is ««ntered the story
Number of clubs, 725; number en­ hanical process, are treated as
The original Linotype carried 90 is his address at the Presbyterian
rolled and submitting first repprt, natter of the third or fourth class. characters in one magazine and the church that -the Africa*. mission of th« mode pictnr« coming to Moro
arber
hop
theater on Saturday, March 21st, is
6,047; number completing project, .rovided they are presented for mold was stationary; that is, ’ in
MORO.
OREGON
4,572; percentage completing pro­ nailing at the postoffice windows order to change the length or thick­ type with which to compose .leaflets a sailer’s myth—this Sargasso sea—
jects, 75.6; number 100 per Cent >r other depositories designated by ness of the slug the entire mold was und books for the use jof smUana who yet the atlas ahows it at the Gulf
And here
clubs, 373; number making exhibits, he postmaster, in a minimum num- removed and another substituted, had been taught the language of of Mexico’s very door.
4,587; number attending collegt ,er of 20 identical unsealed copies. »hr development of the machine their section of Africa.*..»-' —*
Joe Truitt, Proprietor
tf mailed elsewhere, or in less num­ from- the original type has been I „• Moro High Schoolupupils
summer sessions, 397.
»
School pupil» also.
*s- turn on an >*l«nd of derelict ship«—
also.ps»
■ones» ««Nkuries old-r-4pcked together
bers, payment of the first-class rate steady and gradual.
As printers certained, while studying the U qo ?
in a, tangle of seaweed and peopled
of postage shall be required.
Thursday evening of last week the
by, a. colony of men and two women
On fourth-class matter which shall
SHOWER BATH«
Moro boy scout troop under direc­ weigh in excem hf eight ounces the
। ruled by a giant brute with the
| «trAAgth end soul of a pirate sire!
tion of scout leaders Hansen, Feen- rate of postage will b« by the pound
stra and Zevely went to Grass Val­ is established by anti In conformity
A beautiful <irl, a detective and his
prisoner, a man accused of murder,
ley for a friendly call and to meet with the Act of AUkutt W, 1912,
sole survivors of a shipwreck, cast­
with the scout troop in that city. and in addition thereto there shall
aways in this strange place, where
Contests, games and a general good be a service charge of r2 cent« for
•very woman, by community law,
time was had. At the close of the akch parcel, except upon -parcels or
must choose a mate from among its
exercises a nice lunch was served by packages collected on rural delivery
population. Two men want her—
Dr. and Mrs. C. L. Poky ahd Miss routes, to be prepaid by postage
the brute who is czar of this empire
Snodgrass, teacher in Oie Grass Val­ stamps affixed thereto, or as other­
ley schools. To say thit ‘this wk* the wise prescribed by the regulations
of ghost ships—i-end the man accused
last but not least of this doings of of the postmaster general.
of y>i|rder! . And with the woman­
hunger strong in them they fight for
the evening expresses pretty MW)
"Parcels
bearing
the
words
the prize! . You’ve never seen any­
the minds of the boys who were pres­ “Special handling” and prepaid with
thing like it!
ent.
25 cents postage in addition to the
A typographical error in our advertisement
regular postage and service charge,
last
week apparently showed a drop in the
Another • frank and refreshing
Sunday last, on his trip by truck shall receive the sante expeditious
incturizatioa of American life ia
local price of cream. Friday, March 20lh,
to Portland, F. D. Flatt drove into handling, transportation and dehv-
.coming to Moro theatre £uad«y in
th« crowd of fishermen engaged in ery aceorded to mail matter of the
cream price is 48 cents. We have paid
; hint
National’s
production of
dipping smelt from the Sandy river fi^»t class.
47 cents for all cream received at Moro Cream
‘Lillies ofw.tile Field.!’ which has
at andneaf Troutdale. Hi «aid that
Parcels of the fourth clas« must
been
pronounced
by
many
critics
Station since we have reopened the station un­
the report of fifty thousand cars be mailed at a postoffice, branch
a masterpiece, of emotional ap­
lining the highway in that vicinity postoffice or delivered to a rural or
til this advance in price.
peal. The picture is notable in so
He other carrier duly authorized to re-
was greatly under estimated,
We hope to continue to pay this price and, if
many
respects
that
it
is
difficult
to
was two hours going one mile be- ceive such matter.
describe
it
adequately,
or
to
list
its
In regard to registered mail the
market conditions justify. a‘better price.
tween the two bridges over the
ouiatanding features in point of
\ river. . One way traffic was following b provided:
Sandy
msait Taken as a whole, it is de­
maintained by state traffié officer«
Mail matter »hall be registered
clared to be one' of the most per­
Your patronage is solicited. Come in at any
and at places only room to drive was only upon application of the party
fect, pictures that, have ever been
left in the center of the highway. . posting same, and the fees therefor
time and talk things over.
shown, on the screen.
shall not be less than 15 nor more
Corinne
Griffith
and
‘
Conway
than 20 cents in addition to the
Tsarle are co-featured in “Lillies of
regular postage.
the Field,” «Ui Ahey duplicate the
‘K
“hit’.’ they., registered in “Black
Fred Hennagin and wife were visit­
Oxen.” another First National suc­
ors in Moro last Sunday from their
cess, shown at B^oro Theatre the
farm west of Wasco. Fred said that
Jirst of this month. . This talented
Mrs. Hennagin had gone on strike
pair of stars are being hailed far
WHAT THfU
that day and had informed him that
No Amount Too Small
The accompanying illustration will give readers of the Sherman and , wide as “the screen’s ideal
GERMAN ■
no cooking at home was to be part County Observer some idea of the marvelous mechanism of th« Model lover«,” and their work in “Black
of the program, so they left home Five Linotype, which is a machine on which are assembled matrices (or Oxen” Inspired many thousands of •1
COUNTER- j
early, took dinner at the hotel and molds) from which lines of type are cast—lines such as you are now . fgns tQ write to the producers, piead-
FEITERS ARi!
Mutual Creamery Co,
spent the day visiting with friends. reading.
DOING FOR
—ing that both be included in future
He said that he had been working
Moro _
Portland
---- j__xt---------- Their appearance in
A LIVING
night and day and Sundays for the learned to adapt their work to the tyr,e\ ! Linotype. matrice» pud
a,, Fieid>. ¡, . direct an-
THESE DAYS
aceband, can be umd .«BL and
from
pubUc
past several weeks and that the rest machine and the machine to the
was as good for him as it was for work, they demanded more of - the °»''!
. V" ***'r
i
of th. Field.......... colorful
of tbe Me of todays
Mrs. Hennagin.
Linotype and improvements began And that becauie of, thia fact the
of the machine to compoat
to appear.
The two-letter matrix, capacity
.
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coaling at oa« moment the lighter OOOCCx kxkj OOOOCXXXX ooooooooooocxjooooooooooooooooooooo
which gave the operator 180 char­ type for pnntin« wm
»ide of life, with iu butterfUe. apd
M<i
conlr„ting it
acters in the magazine, instead of to capacity of output «.<L OU a f»U m
C. V. Belknap, Proprietor
u of the Grcat
90; the Universal Adjustable Mold, font of matnccand the UMMd.com-
which made the change of slug in plement of »pacebands.was ordinari­ Game.
length or thickness the work of a ly sufficient in quantity for even
Moro, Oregon
minute; the two magazine machine, the fastest Linotype operators.
♦
which gave the operator 360 char­
Boere t«ry of the Interior Work will
&2j-
acters; the quick change machines,
Arrangement* forati» 1925 Mid- leawaWMh legten. D. O. «bout March
Lndies and Children’s Hair Cutting «
which permit a complete change of Columbia baseball Jaagu«. seasoi n AO -with <B».. EU wood Mead, commis-
and Shingle Bobbing
magazines in one minute by one ..ere completed at n.rsoent meeting «W T ««t reclamation, tor tn« soutn
man; and the last grand triumph, of th. director. Imia iu The
'■"*- “d
U* PMln’ COMl-
the three magazine Linotype and Pat Foley wa. «l»cted .urwid.»» ot
•»«» “
«‘«“»th
the four magazine Linotype.
The the league for-tku
ln*a«uB wu>* to Orwou for an
former giving the operator a selec- and Lloyd Duaaho» «HMtury «B X
”*ch K“”*'11
Lion of six or more faces, 540 char-, treasurer.
Th« ISähi zeanDa wi L
«
acters; the latter, eight or more
faces and 720 characters, With the
original machine only the text mat- Dalles playing .Dtfuv- at
, hrorabla condition
ter of newspapers could be set; with Goldendale playing. Hood River, a H sM«r«fch$, a« j^w
the modern four magazine machine Hood River, and Wuto^st Whit H
«baxe^mductln and 4 per cent
the entire paper, heads, ads, and Salmon. Last year tite MMoa -tart -
text can be set from the machine ed on the 23rd of March.
tM
«h pment.
weather for the flrMiew «ame«3
without change of magazines.
1 The rapidly increasing demands of unfavorable, and 41 was th« iudge-
Of your car skidding if you use
our advertisers and others for more ment of the director, that the time m iThM-rtittcatem of bonds by the
varied typography, induced us to in- for opening should be wt baek twe
«mtroL for both the
Pennsylvania
•, -
w
Md -Shasta. View, districts
stail in our composing room a model wekg
five Linotype for the quick, accurate
Vacuum Cup Tires
Sport Tub Silk«
and L pleasing presentation of the
in Strip« and Plaid*
news of the day and the production cil, which was
I lltk»Hr «UAh»"
» Y
Û
LL ».
. We have a complete new stock of
r»' » nt
tk. o—> —*
will b« under Irrigation
of superior job work. Our. Linotype recent
seeaH® of llUTnsger
Th*
.«bogt 8090
Fancy Button«, all colors and shapes, bone and glass
enables us to set by machine nearly
Tires and Tubes and prices are right
all forma of composition that form­ Justice
progin^t^y |$M,000. z
erly necessitated tedious work by
m r ScUdcwta,
hand. Our plant is now -capable of
Tissue Ginghams,
turning
oht
work
with
modern
type
Telephon« Malo 171
Home phone Main 474
Ladies* Gloves
faces in many different sizes, and
the change from one type font to
another is made by the proverbial
twist of th« wrist. In the flicker of
w.
an eyelash the versatile operator— dos « of the council is to Investigate
The reader of advertisements knows that he bat the mt
whose hand is made famous by the
reliable guide to markets that exists in the world toda
Mergenthaler Linotype Company as ■Imple rule, of Judlotol »rondure to D.MO» Burtlch. ^" Coffey. Lloyd
Reynold! and W. V. Fuller.
DM* “the hand that keeps the world in- the Oregon courts.
B
S
Cream Price
Advance
&'l l»RARBcP
Bring in Your Cream
at Any Time
I
Moro Hotel Barber Shop •
BATHS J
»—1
You Need Not
Be Afraid •
10c
^Moro Garage,
Moro Trading Co
L «X..7X
— a.**-
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