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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (May 29, 1925)
SIEMMI COUNT! OBSEMER 8Ü> Grade Graduate* Come From 17 Schools ALONG LIFE’S Field Meet Won With Large Margin by Wasco Foss & Co., IQC- 100 yard daah A—Dutton,, Wasco, Following is the names of all the 1st» May, W mco , 2nd; Andrews, pupils attending the schools of Sher Wasco, 3rd. Time Ils. By THOMAS A. CLARK man county who have passed the fi Moro, Oregon C. L. I reland i > mmi •« •* »n—’ 100 yard dash B—Elliott, Moro, nal eighth grade examinations and Editor and Publisher 1st; Root, Wasco, 2nd; Summer also the names of % all who have well, Wasco, 3rd; Time 12s. passed the final eighth grade exami 50 yard dash C—Barnett, Wasco, Entered sa second class al REDEEMING THE TIME nations conditionally by reason of post office at Moro, Oregon, July 2S, 1891 1st; Richelderfer, Wasco, 2nd; failure to reach passing grades in not «/-p HE chemistry building is full Barzee, Moro, 8rd. Time 7s. 1 more than one subject. 1 today,” an undergraduate said Mile run A—R. Nunn, Wasco, 1st; The abbreviation P after a pupil’s to me late in May as we were walking Bryant, Moro, 2nd; L. Nunn, Wasco, name signifies passing in all subjects. past that structure. • 3rd; Time 5m 24 4-5s. Three School* Graduate “What’s the show?” I asked. The abbreviation C after a pupil s 50 yard daah A girls—Marie Ax “ Oh, it ’ s the loafers and the pro Pupil* With High Rank name signifies failure to pass in one tell, Moro, 1st; Virginia Smith, subject. Those who have failed to crastinators trying to make up for lost Wasco, 2nd; Norma Powell, Moro, time. A good lot of fellows plsn to In connection with the complete pass or those who have passed condi list of graduates of the eighth grade tionally may take an examination in do most xif their work the last three 3rd. Time 6 4-5s. 50 yard deeh B girls—Marie Ax weeks of the semester.” from all the schools of Sherman the conditional subject or an entire It is a misconception not confined tell, Moro, 1st; Norma Powell 2nd; county, printed in another columi ew eighth grade examination ac to youth that if you let opportunity go Doris Payne, Rufus, 3rd. Time 7s.« of this weeks issue of the Sherma cording to the terms of a notice pub- by you, you can catch her easily by 50 yard dash C girls—Charlotte County Observer, the records at the ished elsewhere in the Sherman cutting round the corner. Johnson, Moro, 1st; June Brackett, “My son failed in two subjects last office of County Superintendent County Observer by the county i Rufus, 2nd. Time 7 3-5s. semester, ” a father wrote to me this Zevely show that the three pupils school superintendent. 220 yard daah A—Dutton, Wasco, week “Since be has now got the hang X'. ho passed with highest rating m the Biglow school—Elizabeth Vivian ®f the college, will it not be possible 1st; Burr es, Wasco, 2nd; Gragg, <ounty are Doris Payne of R .fu! Bolton, P; LaRue Little, P; Will- next semester for him to carry these Moro, 3rd., Time 25 4-5s. school, highest; Dona Luttrell c two subjects in addition to his regular 120 yard hurdles B—Root, ^Tasco, .m Macnab, P. (.rass Valley school, second highes. course ? The subjects be failed in ought 1st; Royse, Wasco, Ynd; Henna , Brock school — Ruth Wilson, P, Henrietta Akers of Klondike school, to be easy foj him now." Having car Opal Addington, P; William Ed- 1 ried but half their work one semester, gin, Moro, 3rd. Time 16s. third highest. r 120 yard hurdles A—Myer, Wasco, If there is anything in the world you would like to lose, it’s tbit .disturbing mondson, P. most loafers feel confident that they 1st; Peets, Äoto, 2nd; Chase, Ru Rufus school—Rebecca Nell Lang can easily curry four times as much nerve-upsetting squeak. Drive your car into the Foss & Co. garage and we fus, 3rd. Time 19 3~5s. ford, P; Lois Elizabeth Fowlie, P; the next. Contract Let For 1926 I Relay race A-B-C girls — Moro, 1st; will get rid of that noise in a hurry. We do the kind of work that will “ I can make it up before the end of Auto Licente Plate* E.D.Blaine, P; Helen Doris Payne,P. the semester.” “When I get out of Rufus 2nd; , Wasco 3rd. Time 21 Locust Grove school—Hardld L. college I shall find time for all these please you. 3-54. * t Contract for providing the 1926 White, P; Harold Goin, C. things.” “After I am married I intend Shot put A—Myers, Wasco, 1st; Oregon motor vehicle license plates Wasco school—Rose Edna Moretz, to cut out all my bad habits.” How I distance 38 feet 3\kinch. Andrews, has been let by SecreUry of SUte P; Hazel Gladys Miller, P; Kathryn familiar these things sound. It seems I Wasco, 2nd; distance 38 feet 2 in. and the Very Best Grade of Tires, Tubes, Oils and Greases Kozcr to a Portland firm on a bid Of E. Dutton, P; Kermit Summerwell, s simple mutter to redeem our lost Peeta, Moro, 3rd; 34 feet 10 inch. time. If we huve social or Intellectual $.1297 a pair. Only two bids were P; William Carl Reid, P; Darrell Max Shot put B-—Root, Wasco, 1st; or moral delinquencies we expect, all entered, the Portland company being P; William Carl Reid, P Darrell Max of us, to atone for them In the near distance 32 feet 5 ft inch. Benson, low bidder by slightly more than two McQuillin, P; Mary Fortner, C. future, and the longer we put It off Moro, 2nd; distance 30 feet 2 inch. cents a set. The price for the 1926 Kent school—Stanley Higgins,C; the easier, often. It seems of accom Stradley, Grass Valley, 3rd; distance plates is one-half a cent less than Edith E. Sias, C; Tessie A. Allen,C; pllshment. Declamatory Honors | 27 feet 10 inch. »»t»n»:nnn»n»H»n»nmînî î îî»n»un»u i »u :i»i »n»» tm«»ttiwiiii uuung Every sinner condones his evil life that of the 1925 plates. Thelma M. Howell, C; Gerald E. Go to Five Schools Half mile run A—R. Nunn,Wasco, by promising himself that he will ere The 1926 plates will be of black Kelly, C; Roger E. Haynes, C. 1st; H. Nunn, Wasco, 2nd; Bry background with white letters. The Webfoot school—Alice Louise long become a saint; every loafer ex- I ant, Moro, 8rd. Time 2m 21s. A large attendance of interested contract calls for 200,000 sets of White, P; Erma M. Ferrell, P; Zel pects soon to brace up and get down I school patrons from all sections of Running broad jump A—Chase, to hard work and win success. Every plates for pleasure cars and 17,000 la V. Seely, C. Intellectual delinquent looks forward I Rufus, 1st; diitance 17 feet 11% Sherman county attended the Sher sets of plates for trucks. In addition Gorman school—Esther M.Pier, C. to the time when his studies will be I inch. Dutton, Wasco, 2nd; distance man county Declamatory and Orator Blacksmith and Machine Shop there will be 2700 pairs of license DeMoss school—Lloyd Rice, P; creditably completed; every failure j 17 feet 6% inch. P. May, Wasco, ical contest held in Moro opera house Plow Share Grinding plates for motorcycles, 700 pairs of Rosemary Walker, P. sits In the shade and dreams of the I [¿rd; distance 16 feet 5 inch. the evening of Field Meet day last plates for motor vehicle dealers and Moro school—Kenneth McKean,P; time when be will have become a Running broad jump C—Barnett, Saturday. The successful contest Acetylene Welding 15,000 chauffeurs’ badges. It is esti Vivian Pauline Buell, P; Emmajean world-beater. ants in each class and each division Wasco, 1st; distance 11 feet 11 inch. There is not a young person today, mated that the license plates con Stephens, P; Dorothy Alice Foss.P; Wood Working in Connection Richelderfer, Wasco, 2nd; distance were as follows: tracted for will require 150 tons of Leon M. Cochran, C; Charles A. Rug if he amounts to anything, who will 11 feet 8% inch. Alley, Grass Val- Class D — Charlotte Ruggles, Kent 27 gauge -steel and 2000 gallons of gles, 0; Theodore Roosevelt Barnum, «▼er have ss much leisure time as he I icy, 3rd; distance 11 feet 1% inch. division, 1st; Lester Lee, Mdro divi hss at this moment, who will ever Let us give you prices on our C; Thomas A. Stephens, C. enamel. have as easy a chance to be wise and | Running broad jump B—Royse, sion, 2nd. ^donkland school—Marie Verdell good and happy as he has today. Ths rWasco, lit; distance 16 feet 6 inch. Class C— Louise Moretz, Wasco Penn*yl vania Vacuum Cup Tires Axtell, P; Wendell Forest McLach-> time and the opportunity that are lost Root, Wasco, 2nd; distance 16 feet division, 1st; Evelyn Olds, Grass are seldom, if ever, redeemed. Those I 3 inch. Hoanagin, Moro 3rd; dis- Valley division, 2nd. We Have a Complete New Stock lan, v. “ . Grass Valley school—Neal Rug who wait until the last to do their I tance 14 feet 2 inch. Class B—Dorothy Foss, Moro dl- gles, P; Dona Luttrell, P; Gail Hol i work, to make their reforms, usually 220 yard low hurdles A—N. May, /ision, 1st; Doris Payne, Rufus di- zapfel, P; Stanley Krusow, C; Elsie fall. It is an old, old cry. this: “The Wasco, 1st; Myer, Wasco, 2nd; J. vision, 2nd. M R- Schadewitz, Prop. harvest is past, the summer Is ended, Lemley, C; Frank Pike, C; Harriett and I am ndt saved." The time that I Thompson, Rufus, 3rd. Time 29 3-5s. Class A—1 Maravene Carlisle, Ru- Simpson, C; John W. Rust, C; Mar la lost Is seldom. If ever, redeemed. HtRt ARE Discus throw A—Andrews, Wasco, fus division, 1st; Hazel Morets, Was tha Hodgkins, C; Dolores B. Baker, AIOT OF I 1st; distance 106 feet 10 inch. My- co division, 2nd. At the close of the declamatory FAMIUU1N | C; Jessie Pike, C. I ers, Wasco, 2nd; distance 100 feet MÍRICA SO 1 Rutledge school—Walter E. Eakin, Mastodon Death Traps 9 inch. Peeta, Moro, 3rd; distance and oratorical contest, held !ast Sat POORTHA Make Our Modern Roads 94 feet 2 inch. P; Gertrude Eakin, P; Leona M. urday evening at Moro opera house, HEY HAVE the Moro school through Principal Payne, C. Javelin throw A—Myers, Wasco, ONLY ONE MAIN STREET An interesting article in a recent Michigan school—Grace New- 1st; distance 149 feet 8 inch. Dut W. E. Buell, received the silver cup issue of World ’ s Work, written by presented by the field meet associa comb, P. ton, Wasco, 2nd; distance 117 feet TO THEIR Frederick Alan Thompson, starts arber hop Wilcox school—Della Helyer, P. 9 inch. Chase, Rufus, 3rd; 106 feet tion to the most successful school in NAML.. Klondike school—Henrietta Ak with mastodons in the prehistoric era the county typing contest held MORO, OREGON - as the basis of an article on modern 6 inch. ers, P. Running high jump C—Alley, several weeks ago. road construction. Strange as this Buckley school—Hylan Clodfel- Grass Valley, 1st; Richelderfer, comparison may seem, the mastodon ter, P. Would Soo for Himaolf Waaco, 2nd; Barnett, Wasco, 3rd. Joe Truitt, Proprietor stuck in a pool of asphalt and pre Small Boy (to village preacher)— Height 4 feet 2 inch. served for thousands of years and the Running high jump B—Royse, Ohl Mr. Spivens, Daddy aays you've application of this water-tight ever Wasco, 1st; H. Nunn, Wasco, 2nd; got “bats In your belfry”—can I come lasting material as a road covering Goin, Rufus, 3rd. Height 4 feet 11 up and see them one day?—From the SHOWER BATHS Passing Sho#, London. have much in common. Mr. Thompson says, “Through the inch. Running high jump A—Peetz, ages this seemingly deathless mater I Moro, 1st; Height 5 feet 4 inch. No OBSERVER WANT ADS ial has had many practical uses. Now PLAYERS PIANOS GRANDS it affords luxurious pavements on 90 2nd or 3rd place. -'oooooooootv: - ¿yw? ’ oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Rates: Under 15 words, 35c Pole vault B—Benson, Moro, 1st; PIANO TUNING per cent of the famous thoroughfares 15 to 30 words, 50c Rufus, 2nd; Summerwell, of the world. Appius tlaudius made Goin, Over 30 wds., IHc per wd. and ACTION REGULATING C. V. Belknap, Proprietor the Appian Way a great causeway of Wasco, 3rd. Height not stated. Pole vault A—Myers, Wasco, 1st; layers of stone three feet thick, be A Recommended Expert Chase, Rufus, 2nd; Carlisle, Rufus, FOR SALE—One McCormick com- cause he didn’t know what a canny . bined harvester in good repair; Carry Complete Set of Piano Accessories also a few good,, fresh milk cows. Scotch engineer named Macadam 3rd. Height 10 feet. Moro, Oregon ’ 440 yard relay race B—Wasco H. B. Belshee, Moro. and all Tools necessary to do found out eighteen centuries later. Macadam’s theory was simplicity 1st; Moro 2nd. Time 55s. HEMSTITCHING—Mail orders fill Ladies and Children’s Hair Cutting 880 yard relay race A—Wasco GOOD FIRST CLASS WORK ed promptly. Mra. H. A. Woodruff, itself. He said that no matter of and Shingle Bobbing 1st; Moro 2nd. Time Im 46s. 704 East 3rd st, The Dalles. i what structure you made a pavement 440 yard dash A—Burres, Wasco, the earth must in the last analysis Will be at Hotel Moro this coming week. IOWA CREAM Separator in good 1st; Peetz, Moro, 2nd; L. Nunn, condition for sale cheap. Phil hold it up, and that the earth,dry and Call or Phone for work to be done Starr, Moro. I compacted, would ordinarily sustain I Wasco, 3rd. Time 60 l-5s.J I any reasonable load; therefore, only WE PAY parcel post one way on all ‘ I a shell, if water-tight, was needed shoe repairing. Good quality work and leather. Joe Amore, The 11 over the dry earth. He found that Public Ownership of Dalles, opposite th« post office. Utilities Rabe Taxes I rock dust between angular broken I stones, would, when set, form a mor- Nearly 11 cents out of every dol I tar and thus cement the stones into ! lar received by the Portland Electric I a waterproof shell—and so the Rom Power company in the form of gross Say It With Flowers an three-foot road became a mac- earnings dtfring 1924 will be paid I adam six-inch road. But alas, for all BUT his brains, the Scotchman had not out for local,county, state and feder Say It With Oura al government taxes. Its gross rev I seen the coming of the automobile enue was $10,841,617; its tax bill ■i I which, in passing sucked up the pre- was $1,140,000. These taxes were I cious rock dust and deftly sprayed it MOTOR OIL I over gardens and fresh laundered payed in three counties, to federal “Merchant* of Beauty” government and for rental for using I curtains. Right here, asphalt came The Dalles, Oregon I to the rescue. The grim tenacity of the Washington-Oregon interstate bridge. , ANO the clutch which held the mastodon Under the program for public Opposi ts First National Bank I as though he were a fly, bound tight- Phone 794 Night phone 690W I ly together the stones against rend- ownership of such property as this WITH A I ing by the juggernauts of the road, it has never been claimed that more I and at the same time, shed water like efficient or cheaper operation could be secured. As publicly owned prop 1 a duck’s back. NON DETONATING I “Water is a tireless, resourceful, erties are tax-free, who would make S k We Will Give I cunning enemy of roads; if a pave- up to * the various departments of I ment is not waterproof, water pene- government which collected in 1924, 20 Per Cent Discount Now Demonstrating I trates it and softens the underlying $1,140,000 tex revenue from earth. Asphalt is so flexible and property, the amount which could be Until August 1st at the Ray Hulse farm east of Moro ———t resilient that the severe stresses set lost under public ownership? Should on w up by nature have no effect on its the general taxpayer be assessed this additional amount so that the favored stability. This flexibility also allows Fluff Rug Work the pavement io maintain contact users of the service could receive a That is what usually Tripps Fluff Rug Works with the underlying earth with its lower rate? • . OF ; tremendous supporting power. A happens in public ownership under The Dalles Oregon rigid material would be forced to takings but it is an unfair proposition For Particulars see CALIFORNIA bridge every shrinkage .of earth which the public rebels against as foundation or break under the load.” soon as it understands the situation. Moro, Orogea, Friday, May 19, 1»25 Moro Garage BILL- BARBLR Moro Garage, SAYS-'“ ’ B S Moro Hotel Barber Shop BATHS'. USE Work Hartwig’s Flower Shop ARISTO Your Summer Fallow UNION Fordson Full Crawler , GASOLINE Save Your Horse Feed! Williams Motor Co Moro, Oregon What is the Condition of Your Car We Specialize on Ford and Dodge Work UNION OIL COMPANY Many states have Uken advantage I of the lesson Uught by the Tnastodon stock in the asphalt. They have used thousands of miles of well-packed old gravel and macadam highways find streets as the base for a water proof covering of asphalt mixed with crushed rock and rolled down under pressure. Such roads and streets have been in use many years. They I were built at a minimum expense and ! have given a maximum of service and taxpayers have been saved mil lions of dollars. L. W. Rakes, principal of Rufus school, when visiting at this office during the week stated that the Brock school, joining Rufus district on the east, had voted «t a recent school meeting to close their school next term and join with Rufus school. The pupils of Brock school will be taken to and from school each day by motor. The change will increase the number of teachers in the Rufus school and make towards better effi ciency in teaching. H. Lloyd Has Moved to Moro and will r * Repair Machinery Phone or Write The Observer, Moro Orc * A “WANT” ad in T he M oro J O bserver will reach more 2 * people 'in Sherman Cöunty. than ] I by any other medium available. 4
