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The construction of a bridge across
the deep Crooked driver canyon on
C. L. I reland
the California highway was author
ized recently by the state highway
Editor and Publisher
commisi on. In uniqueness the bridge
Entered as second class matter at the will rival the Oregon Trunk railroad
post office st Moro, Oregon, July 25, 1891 bridge and will be located a short
distance above that world famed
structure. It will be about 340 feet
high and about the same distance in
length, each bridge end resting on
Rail - Highway Engineers the canyon natural rock wall for
support with no supporting central
Will Tunnel Moutain
piers.
Including approaches and
the
building
of new road grade to
Engineers of the O-W. R. & N.<
Co.and the state highway department the bridge from the highway, the
have agreed upon joint action in an cost is estimated to be approximately
attempt to stop a sliding action of $180,000. When completed the bridge
will eliminate what is now a danger
the mountainside east of Mosier.
The rail linp contemplates driving ous grade in getting into and out of
shafts and boring tunnels just east of the canyon.
Id osier, where the action of s -.bter-
runean streams causes a conr-^ntly
F. E. Fagan, wife and daughter
guttling and shifting of the earth’s Florence motored to The Dalles from
surface over a considerable area. The . Zoodburn on Tuesday, from which"
tunnels, similar to those constructed
place Mrs. Fagan and daughter con
west of Cascade Locks, where the tinued by stage to Moro , where she
rail line-had to fight these same con visited with her parents, A. M. Young
ditions, will control the underground and wife, until she returned to The
flow of water, it is expected.
Dalles this Saturday.
In the mean
It is stated that the rail company time, Mr. Fagan motored to Spokane
had already expended $7000 in where he was one of the speakers on
Luilding retaining walls and driving the program at the meeting of the
j iling in a vain effort to prevent the Inland Empire Teachers association
slide. The Columbia highway, since held at that place on April 8th, 9th
its construction in-1921, has sunk six and 10th.
feet for a length of 500 feet, and
maintenance crews find it necessary
The state land department in March
constantly to fill in the grade.
turned over to the state treasurer
$120,128.34.
Fifteen and a half million feet ol
Out of the 70 teachers employed in
government timber in Coos county, the schools of Bend, all but 14 will
tributary to Coos bay, was sold at return next year.
Roseburg in four separate lots. The
Albany school children will undergo
four tracts, all of which were O. & C.
grant lands, carried 4.000.000 feet ol a daily inspection until danger from
Port Orford cedar, which sold for $7 diphtheria is past.
The state tax on gasoline and dis
per 1000 feet. ,
tillate
collected on sales made during
Confident that the petition to the
interstate commerce commission for February aggregated $201,309.25.
During the month of March Jack:
permission to build a road from
Sprague river east to Lakeview will son county expended $816 for boun-
be granted, the Oregon-California A ti»s on 86 coyotes, 81 wildcats and one
. _ ..
Eastern Railroad company has order wolf.
ed a survey and location of this pro
Fourteen teachers and 64 pupils
jected extension.
have been reported out of school «t
Governor Pierce, at the roqusst-cf Bend because of more-or loss mild
a large number of water users ta the cases of influenza.
Hood River district, ordered the at
George S. McCord of Baker was
torney general to intervene, in a suit appointed a member of the state
Involving certain water rights which board of dental examiners *to succeed
• Is to be appealed to the United States F. W. Hollister of Portland.
supreme court by the Pacific Power
The state livestock sanitary board
A Light company,
has refused to modify the quarantine
A full-grown coyote walked through against the importation of California
the business section of Canby and cattle, sheep and swine into Oregon.
then went back to the timber unmo
NoM—al jiird troops from all sec
lested. Coyotes have become quit» tions of 1 Oregon will start for Med
numerous in the section and because ford on Jame It where field maneu
of thia fact the Union Hall farmeSs.
i»'WOtreaa for 16 days.
have organized a “coyote club” with
A high school band concert will be
a view to exterminating the paste.
hold in Corvallis Ratnaday. Bands
Oregon received HOUK far taH
rivers and harbors during the fiscal
year beginning July 1, according to al
locations of funds made, by the board
of army engineers. - ADetsnrsts are
as follows: Columbia and'WlUaxnette
rivers between Portland and Van
couver, $683,000; Columbia river and
tributaries above Celllo falls, $6000;
Coquille river, $16,000; Coos bay,
$750,000; Coos river, $3000; Clatskanie
river, $7200; Willamette river, above
Portland and Yamhill river, $17.400.
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The Astoria school board has let a
contract to Rohaut A Gearhart for
the erection of a new junior high
school in the east end of the city,
at a cost of 179,000.
All building permit records in the
history of Portland were broken dur
ing March, according to a report is
sued -by the building inspector’s of
flee, which showed that during the
month a total of 1580 building permits
were issued for a total of $4,540,105.
L. W. Peare and Arthur Covell were
-sentenced at Marshfield to hang in
the state penitentiary at Salem May
22 by Judge Kendall, who for the
■second time passed the death penalty
upon the two men who were convict-
ed two years ago of first degree
murder.
.’.Provisions of the statute revoking
the license of a person guilty of driv
*a< an automobile while under the
Influence of liquor are clearly manda
tory, and the license can only be re
•tored by issuing a pardon, Attorney
General Van Winkle has advised Gov
eaor Pierce
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all coion aad shapes, bon« and glass
I priced per card, from 70c to................................... ,. .
Printed Silks and Crepes,
' Tissue Ginghams,
Ladies’ Gloves
Moro Trading Co
10c
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FALSE FACES
ELL WITHERS and I—Bill Hved
across tbe road from us—bad been
B
reading "Bentley Burrows, or The
Skeleton Hand.” a tale of ghosts and
bandits and general horror, continued
from week to week in “Tbe Saturday
Night,” a literary journal which oUr
hired man bought every week ^at
Cole’® drug store In town. Shivering
with fear, I wa® just finishing tbe last
chapter in the dusk of g dull Novem
ber evening, when I heard a knock at
the door. I called “Come in,” as was
the polite custom in our community,
and to my horror a real bandit entered
—leather legging, big revolver, bris
tling moustache, and all. I was fright
ened for a moment, and then I caught
eight of a lock of curly red hair »tick
ing out through a hole in th? sombrero
and a freckled ear protruding. It was
only Bill Withers wearing a false face
and trying to fool me.
I have had the experience often
since.
I was at a party a few night» ago,
where on the surface everything waa
hilarious. Through th» dim light,
however. I could see that all the fel
lows were wearing false faces. Above
the din of the ragtime sounded out
from the long-Buffering piano I could
detect tbe hollow unnatural voices Is
suing through the masks that the men
were wearing.
I watched Mary Gay, rosy-ch»eked
and bright-eyed, and I thought I had
never seen a happier and a more ani
mated face. She was smiling on every
one and showing a vivacity and an in
terest that held a pleased crowd about
her. A few minutes later I came upon
her unobserved as she was standing
before the mirror tn the hallway sur-
repitlously adjusting her false face.
I ran onto Jlrfi Burton one Sunday
this summer at church with his pat
ents. He was looking pitois. attentive,
and altogether unsophisticated. As he
leaned over to pick a hymn book from
the floor I could see how crudely he
had adjusted his false face, for under
neath he was the same Irreligious, ir-
reverant, irresponsible youth whom I
had known at college.
The false faces whiPb we wear or
see every day seldom deceive anyone
They are like rouge or oleomargarine,
or hair dye or face powder—no one
ever thinks them real. We put them
on to make ourselves beautiful or tm-
piueMve to our teachers or our sweet
heart» or the tax collector or the home
folk® or tbe minister or our Creator,
but more often than otherwise the lock
of red hair escapes or the freckled ear
•ticks out and gives us away.
Paragraphs o? State News
Tne state irrigation securities com
mission has extended for a period of
six months state guarantee of in
terest on $550,000 of bonds issued by
the Tumalo irrigation district.
The Eugene chamber of commerce
has appointed a committee to investi
gate flax-growing conditions in the
Willamette valley and to act in con
junction with a valley committee.
Poultry production will be greatly
increased in the Pilot Rock district
this year, it is reported. Indications
are that 10 or 12 carloads of chickens
and turkeys will be shipped this year.
The Home telephone & Telegraph
company, with headquarters in Med
ford, filed application with the public
service commission for permission to
increase its rates on an average of 25
per cent.
The tax levy for 1925, based on
the valuations of all assessable prop-
erty in Oregon Mor 1924, aggregates
$42,660.338.65, according to a state-
ment by Earl Flsher, state tax com-
missioner.
Nearly 100 representatives from
Salem, Silvertoa, Hubbard and Wood
burn G. A. R. posts and Woman’s Re
lief Corps attended a meeting of
Marlon County Veterans’ association
at Woodburn.
A woman was killed, a man prob
ably fatally injured and two .little
girls badly bruised when the horses
of the Halfway-Cornucopia stage ran
away at a point about 40 miles north
east of Baker.
Station KFDJ, operated by the Ore
gon Agricultural college, has been
dismantled to make way for the new
500-watt class B station, which will
be Installed and ready for use in the
latter part of April.
A hearing will be held in Portland
April 6 for the purpose of prescrib
ing freight classifications affecttag
auto truck owners performing the
service of common carriers on the
highways of the state.
More than 4700 inquiries relative to
agricultural opportunities in Oregon
were received during the 30-day period
ending March 80 by the'Land Settle
ment Department of the Portland
Chamber of Commerce.
The Coos county court has set the*
$770,000 road bond election for May
12. The election has three measures,
oae for state match money, one for
laterals and a third for construction
of a bridge across the bay in Marsh
field.
The Coos county court has voted
an appropriation of $2000 for adver
tising the county, which will be used
in the construction of a proposed
archway at the intersbetion of the
. Coos Douglas state highway and the
Pacific highway junction.
The Marion county boundary board
authorised an election to determine
whether the Gervais union high school
district should be dissolved. Petitions
asking for the election were signed
by six of the seven districts compris
ing the union high school unit
I
NeeRWMy Mix
*The ‘munieiiMd ownership’ cry
subsiding hr the United States.
practic». Inawilicr are competeat
run great enterprises are not im peH-
tics, and if they are hired to run mu
nicipal utiktier they are too much,
hindered by politics. One very bad.
feature of municipal ownership is
that newspapam seldom tell the peo
ple the full truth about iLOua-gopd
feature of private operation W that
newspapers will jump on a corpora
tion at the leaet deviation from set-*,
vice. It is a aad condition when news
papers cease to be watchdogs of the
public welfare and become silent ac
complice® of public incompetence in*
municipal opanttion.
But, whether
privately or publicly operated, pubtio
utilities shouid^be strictly amenhbte
to public control.
Every franchtoe
should stipulate - that. And in mu
nicipal ownership; taxpayers should
be informed how much of a deftoit
they are making up.”—-Henry Ford.
Unless at least 200 more acres can
be produced thia spring for^ sugsribdbt
'growing, a beetoxport from CMNovaia
will not remain at Mlmnath IBM tor
tbe experimental work." the eliSsnboi ~
of commerce officials have annooneod.
George T. Gertinger of Portland was
reappointed a member' of'tbe State*
forestry board-by Governor Pteroo.
The city council, wMcir recently
.announced that it wouM ent off all
users of city'water living outride* of
don ordinance dall tag a special elec
tion May » proMdtag for the ta er ess
ing of the* etty Itatita to* take In <all
city limits who desire to be annexed
Contracts for the construction of
the proposed 'new state training
school for boys st Salem were award
ed at a special meeting of the State
beard of control. The cost of the
plant will be $218,839, exclusive of
furnishings. The general construc
tion contract was awarded to 'Setter
gren Brothers rtTortlantf for $154,508
Coos county’s cheese output will
probably be standardised this year
under the Mslowest brand. A session
of cheese makers, dairymen and sell
era was held recently at Coquille, with
this matter in view. The county has
a great dairying area, but the trouble
In the past has been to organize the
Individual makers and ranchers so a
standard product oould be sold and
guaranteed.
AH details preliminary to the con
structlon of a fl,350,000 general medl
cal and surgical hospital for ill aad
disabled veterans at Portland, soon
will be cleared up. Brigadier-General
Frank T. Hines, director of the veter
ans’ bureau, will immediately order
an engineer of the bureau to go Io
Portland from southern California -and
make an examination of the proposed
hospital site.
Htactically all of the principal »aD
roads of Oregon and* Waabingtoatand,
the Gilmore & Pittsburg and tbeHPk-
cific & Idaho Northern were «nade.
defendants In a proceeding beaggnt,
before the interstate conunexee oeip
mission by the Cattle -and HorsedtalS-
ers’ association of Oregon, the North
western Livestock Shippers’ teagiW
and the Portland Livestock aacboaga
Certain rates charged, by the -carriage
unfair and reparation is asked.
CUSTOM
HATCHING
H* there »Mmy-tdiing in the world you would like to lose, it b that disturbing
uerve^upoettiing squeak. Drive your car into the Foss & Co, garage and we
■WtigeLrid of that noi^e in a hurry. We do the kind’of work that will
Nave a Complete Line of Auto Accessories
TO THE DALLES
Dr. MeUeütWn
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Moro Garage
Blacksmith and Machine Shop
Plow - Share Grinding
Acetylene Welding
Wood Working in Connection
MBS NOT OPERATE
VRbee. -4 k * wpb : 10 a. wi. to 4 p. m.
'WDÂY ONLY
* "No ‘ charge for Coasaltatioo
ate imm adirine and surgery and is
Iicensad bytbaatote of Origan. He
does net operato* fos-ahsoaic appendi*
citis, gaU stones, tricen • of-stomach,
Let us give you prices on our
Pennsylvania Vacuum Cup Tires
We Have a Complete NewStock
Moro Garage,
m . r .
sdudewitz, Prop
He has to bis wed it • wonderful re
sults, in diseases oí the-etomaah, liver,,
bowels, blood, skin, nerves, heart.
lea ulcera andr»»tal-ailna«®»to.
MAIN STREET
B arber S hop
Hedwick Wilson, Gold
Beach,
Ore., varico»» ulcers.
Frank Koehler, The Dall»» Ore.,
stomach trouble.
K. G. Hammock, Myrtle
Point,Ore., goitre.
Mra John McGue, Lakwide, Ore.,
Ontario,
Ore.
Baker,
Ore.,
MORO, ORI WON
Joe Truitt, Proprietor
SHOWER BATHS
eczema.
O. M. Richey, Boring, Ore., heart
trou Ue.
Lovis S. Setiber, 326 E.Buchanan,
Portland, O m ., adenoids and * ton-
tat ion on this trip will -be free
V
3.
5.
Will have 15 compartments
empty in our Masnoth Wish-)
bone Incubator on April 6th
making- available -capnettyofr
3000 eggs for custom hatch
ing-
Our price is 3He per £jMf.or7
$7:00 per compartment—«200;*
eggs per compartment. Mu*t.t
set in 2, 4, 6, 8, or, 10 Aun-t
dred lots.
You -cannot af-‘ j
ford to set your Juns >f or 4hw
figure.
Make It A Star
AM vom : til Bradbury Btilding
Loa Angeles. California.
scribing a morbid stata, «Khar faac-
tionalor-
Demonstration Gladly Given
For any information concerning the Star car call on
disorders.
M. R. Schadewitz, Moro, Garagi
Moro Oregon
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1 ‘The Mlles, Oregon
Opposite First National Bank \
Phon» 794
Nicht phone 690W
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Sherman Garage & Machinery €0.
W»»co, Oregon
New tand Used
C. V. Belknap, Proprietor
Thf Uillee, Ore
Moro Hotel Barber Shop
603 E md
Moro, Oregon
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Ladies and Children’s Hait Çütfin#
and Sbin^lc Bobbing -% \
Has returned to Sharman county
and will practice bin prof see ion
M Mon».and AcinMg
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