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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (May 29, 1925)
NEHM 6mn 3he Judge- F:obabj£latejB OBSERVER JUME 1 ° UKE TO POSTPONE THIS CASE HOW EXCESSIVE TAXES BUCHT A I NATION'S LIFE A FEW MINUTES MV ATTORNEY HADN'T-y ARRWEO YET / WHO ‘S \ youp? ATTORNEY?; / THAT f FELLOW EVER VÍAS on TIH i B IH HIS JUDGE I have you even to HÂVE WEPT TUB J OONBAHVTVWiq ---- COURT WMTItiq 7 ' ON PME .70J . Productive Effort Stope if Gov ernment Takes Undue Share of Profita, Saye Treaeury Official WEALTH IN RUSSIA FLED BEFORE THE TAXGATHERER Men in America Prefer Golf to Giving Fruits of Three Days Work a Week to Income Taxes . The blighting effects of excessive taxation, leading to a nation's econom ic destruction, are described in the current issue of the American Bank ers Association Journal by Garrard B. Winston. Under-secretary of the Treas ury. Citing possible effects on the Ford Motor Car Company, he declare» that "the value is no largo and Its ownership so centered 1t 1» concelv able tbat collection of inheritance taxes may check, if not destroy, that unit of policy which has created and expanded that industry and thus pre vent its future prosperity. Of what avail, then. Is It to any government if It collects one hundred million dol lars once in estate taxes and destroys a source of income upon which it can rely for revenue year after year? ' “Success of the Ford Company does oot mean »imply that Mr. Ford and bis son have grown wealthy It means employment of tens of thousands of men and women; that mines, forests railroads and vessels are brought Into ase. that the public ha» received an efficient »nd Inexpensive means of transportation;, that the farm is in touch with the city, and the worker with his office “ Mr Winston says in OREGON NEWS ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST GENERAL DOREY Brief Resume of Happenings of the Week Collected for • Our Readers. Chance to Attend Worship. That the troops may have an oppor tunity of attending public worship, as well as to take some rest after the great fatigue they have gone through, the general. la future excuses th«n from fatigue duty on Sunday«. except at the shipyards, or on special occa sions until fbrpier orders. The gen eral Is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice hereto fore little known in an American army, Is fro wing into fashion. vice so mean end low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises iL —George Washington.______ ** Groat Awakening It • Coming to Thu Man M. HICKS New and Used There's a certain member of the Hollywood AtMetM club who didn't knoW What he Was getting into, when he joined. It seems that his wife took a great fancy to the beauty parlor, and when she discovered that she could go There as ofteff as she pleased and mere!/ sigh a tab, she got the habit bad. Hubby, being a buay man, had not gone to the club, and thinking that the bills at the end of each month were merely announcements of com ing events, he never opened them. Finally he did open one envelope, and It chanced to be a letter telling him ' The Pythian Games. ' that no more service could be extend One of the four great festivals of ed his wife until the account was ancient Greece, celebrated every fifth settled. year, in honor of Apollo, In the Cris- After inspecting the bill, he decided saean plain near Delphi was the that this was great news aud sent the Pythian games. They were instituted, club a letter of thunks.-^j^^^^ according to tradition, by Apollo, in commemoration of his victory ovbr the NOTICE OF SALJ&. serpent Python-^-whence the name. Notice is hereby given that I have These festivals were at first limited to ginging, with -cithern accompaniment; a pasture and feed bill lien against one certain white mare, weight but afterward they came to include about 1150 pounds, about seven years athletics, horse racing and contests old, kept; fed and pastured by me in poetry and art. The victors were since the 7th day of December, 1924. crowned with a laurel wreath, ot pro- I will on the 20th day of June, 1925 ------------------ . sented with a palm branch. TheTyta» o'clock in the forenoon of lan guinea were continued until 8»4 day Rt the A. C. Crowther place A. D. ......... ' " «bout five miles east of Klondike sell •------- --------------------- — a - t * public auction to ___ the highest bid- . _________ • a S __ JAartWtk- Plumbing and Heating Selk and initaUa Ibe famous Mueller pipe or pipeless furnace; Th« Motor Market The Dalles, Ore SCIENCE WILL AID ; TEACHER’S DEFENSE "after every meal * Watch Inspector for the O.-W. R. & N. Co. Jewelry and Watch Repair ing given special attention The Dalles, Oregon WHEN IN THE DALLES EAT AT a ' Is a Health Builder and can be the had, delivered night : From Certified Disease or morning, Free Cows of for the only ' The Dalles’ Newest and Best Hostelry CENTWAtLY LOCATED Sherman County rieadquart era CRANDALL UNDERTAKING COMPANY THE DALLES. OREGON Moro. Oregon Westinghouse N^AznA T amps FOR8ÂIX G alloway NEW HOTEI rin 616i l l l l l lll I H Sam Brisbine, Agent I»»»! I I READ & “Formerly the Albert t B Bank Hotel ill Flood waters, the result of a cloud burst, tore down Black Horse canyon and swept through the town of Lex- ington, leaving in tiheir wake dam age ^timated at least as high as $40,000. At an election in Gold Hill an issue of >15,000 water bonds for extending »nd reconstructing the city's water system was approved by an 8 to 1 vote. The reconstruction work on the Parents - encourngf the plant will commence as soon as the children to cure for Oieir teeth/ bonds are marketed. Give them Wrigley’«. Dealers keeping on display or offer It renurvea food particlea ing for gale immoral periodicals would from the teeth Strengthen» be subject to a fine ranging from >5 the Quma Combats acid to $500 or Imprisonment for a period Gert. Halstead Dorey, who haa been mouUi. of six months under the provisions of named assistant to GovernorGeneral Refreshing and beneficial! an ordinance Introduced at a meeting Leonard Wood of the Philippines. of the Salem city council. Development of the poultry industry HEALED WWaTth Fiooe Opprseslon in the Hermiston district has been TIGHT “Upon first impression it might ap Phil Starr, Moro, Oregon rapid, according to H. E. Crosby, ex THE MARKET« KEPT pear that • nation could take all of ed.the proceeds to be applied to the 10c a IH quart ■ ' 11 i T i i fi H H i hi ।1111 u 1 1 hiiiiiiihi "*11111 tension specialist of. Oregon Agricul RIGHT the earnings of its cltisens or all of -payment of said lien and the costs j Portland Chair property. T%» Soviet govern; tural college. Between 25,000 and 30,- and expenses in connection with this Wheal — Hard whitey >1.45; hard «ale, the remainder, if any, to be ■ •••< proposed to appropriate all In 000 hens and pullets are expected to winter, >1.00; boft whttet>1.42; north I ,aid to F- E. Glennie, the owner of strumentaliües of trad» and oom- : be in production this fall. Dayton, Tenn The American Asst* White. I said mare. mere* Y»L when the state reached Suit for >500,000 damages against Advancement of ern ’ it M' ’’ I ’ Dated and published the first time Out toirtsp this Wealth, it disappear the California-Oregon Power company elation for the H./M5»!^ to.; »ne,>02S. $1.40 Science has joined actively in the ed ïnd Sft hbCMnt but a tew* tangible was filed in circuit court at Klamath Tennessee evolution case, it was an objbèts. inch as’ gold and jewels, W. Seehofer. y ■ Falls by the Fort Klamath Meadows nounced as a Rhea county grand jury timothy, >30021; eaatern OregM I which were easily transported to' oth Scopes, science timothy, $28©14. •r countries. Wealth in Russia ceased company for alleged flooding of lands indicted John Butterfat—41c delivered Portland. to »xi»t_ __ ._____ _ j •long upper Klamath lake. It was I teacher, for violation of the stae law, —Ranch, 24© 30c. -If income tax rates are placed aov •barged that the building of the power which prohibits teaching of evolution g I 1 I I I 4 1-i I 1 I I 1 I 1 I » « ' i » I I » 1 1 » » A 11 Cheese—Prices f. o. b. Tillamook: high that capital tn productive busi- company dam caused water to in un In the schools. The case was set for Triplets, 24c; loaf, 27c per lb. , neos no longer give» a net return com date thousands of acres of land own- I _ __ _ GOOD FRESH MILK mensurate with the risk, capital will ed by the plaintiff corporation rend- I trial July 10. Cattle—Steers, good, >9.50©9.74. The Scopes case, which has attract go out of productive business. He Idle. •ring it unauUablo for irrigation pur "Hog»—Medium to choice, $11.00 a ed world wide attention promises to . fo ahfhad, intn tax-exempt semri poses. bring lAo a test of the constitutional 13.00. ties, or find other ways of avoiding Sheep—Lambs, medium to choice, ' The state of Oregon will be glad to tho tex. If Indome tax rates ar* *o accept all tho artillery piecea among I ity of the law some of the brightest $7.50©11.40. •xcesaivo'that a man of ability finds STARR DAIRY 1 the allotment of captured German war 1 rmlnds in the American legal fratern- ho must Work inbro than three 4«y» ’ Seattle a week for the government, ho will be- Krophies made to IL but there are no The presence of large crowds in Wheat—Soft white, $1.48; western eome discouraged and decida that the I state fundi available to pay freight ! Dayton to attend the preliminaries has result is not worth the effort. L am charges from Newport News, Va. That white, $1.42; hard winter, $1.42; west I taoome will be produced and leas will I reply haa been received from the state brought the suggestion that a tempor ern red, >141; northern apring, >1.42; | be realised from the tax. , . _ A, I adjutanVgonoraJ'a office at Salem, in ary courtroom should be erected on Big Bend bit em, $1.43. “Recefitly a letter earns to the answer to a communication sent to the baseball park site. The proposed f24 : P. >28 tim Hay — 4W Treasury from a'small termer. Ho I every state by the war department building would scat 20,000 persons. 124 othy, $24; D. owned a few acres which in 1913 were detailing the articles allotted for dis Butterfat -^íc. saseaeed at »00 and on which a tax MRS. WILSON GOES ABROAD Eggs- Rand», 28 @ 33c. of >13 was levied. In 1934 the as- tribution by act of congress. Kye is ripening in Umatilla county Hogs—Prime, >13.50©14.00. •etsed value increased to ».200 and Cattle—Choice steers, >8.75©9.50. the tex to >123. but the farm failed and is being cut for green feed in the War President’s Widow Listed as Mrs. • Eleanor Collins. Cheese—Dragon fancy to retailers to produce any more. Taxes exceed Wiliam otto valley, acoordlng to the ed th» rental valu» of th» ‘land and I weekly crop summary of the weather New York—Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, >7c per lb.; do standards. 25c; Wash mor« than th¥« earnteg» ot the Jbunau.' Seeding of spring wheat and widow of the former president, sailed ington fancy triplets, 24c. Your Nearest Dodge Dealer | oats continues in elevated districts. incognito* for Europe, on the White while in some western localities apring Star liner, Majestic. To avoid public-) «pokane. wheat is heading in most of the mild ity Mrs. Wilson was listed as Miss Hogs — Prime mixed, >12.75© 13.00. “Often there come to notice eases sr sections. Conditions have been Eleanore Collins. Cattle—Prime steers, >9.00©9.50. where a particular improvement 1» WILLIAMS MOTOR CO Mrs. Wilson has as her traveling •ot made, or a particular business Is mostly favorable aot started because after' dedueting Planting ot- corn oontinues and early companion Miss Belle Baruch, daugh TEACHERS’ EXAMINATIONS l| Moro, Oregon taxes the firft -txWIndr-m value of plantings are coming up well. ter of Bernard M. Baruch, who was Notice is hereby given that the | • • W. L. Gilchrist of Albany was cut the expected return. Men have drop chairman of the war Industries board. county superintendent of Sherman I ped bu.fne.a spent Ueir winters In In several places about the face and I under President Wilson. ATWOOD - WILLIAMS MOTOR CO County, Oregon,, will hold the regu» I Florida and Chat* auMteers abroad, hands- near Halsey when a China Wearing deep mourning apd carry lar examination of applicanti fori because what they are permitted to pheasant Clew 4£to the windshield of Waico, Oregon state certificates at’ Moro, Oregon, I retain under present tax rates is not Mr. Gilchrist's car with such force as ing a bouquet of white gardenias un- as follows: Commencing Wednes-1 I der her arm, Mrs. Wilson said It was worth the labor they must give to to shatter the glass. day, June 10, 1925, at 9:00 o’clock her rule "to say nothing.’’ acquire It They prefer golf to the Dodge Sale» and Service a. m., and continuing until Saturday, I. | k -Walter Ford, 9, La Grande school farther developinest of th» country. June 13, 1925, at 4:00 p. m. boy, was dangerously Injured as the Unsolentlfle Taxea Destroy a Nation Quake Casualties Placed at 800. Wednesday Forenoon—U. S. Hl* I “UhscieBtlite methods of'taxation result of boys playing with a pistol. New York — A cablegram received tory, Writing (Penmanship), Music,! He was shot through the neck and Drawing. ' ¿A by the Japanese consulate general said Wednesday Afternoon—Physiolo-T proparty which It should ba lost much blood before medical at the probable number of dead and in gy, Reading, Manual Training, Com I th» principal interest (of a govern tention was obtained. jured from the earthquake in Japan position, Domestic Science, Methods! ment to foster. When it reaches the State highway officials of Oregon was 800. Toyo-Oka. with 2000 fami in Reading, Course of Study foul limits of what is known as its taxsr bl» capacity, a nation haa begun to I will meet with those of 10 other west lies, Kinosaki with 700 and Kumi- Drawing, Methods in Arithmetic. Thursday Forenoon—Arithmetic, I die. If taxes are raised too high. • I ern states at San Francisoo Friday to hama with 500 are the principal towns History of Education, Psychology. GENERAL lÄACHINE SHOP country will slowly but surely de» I । designate the interstate roads in those that suffered, the message said Toyo- Methods in Geography, Mechanical stroy itself It will for d«Hy con* I states to be uniformly marked as Uni-1 Oka and Kinosaki were said to have Drawing, Domestic Art, Course of I sumption the seed corn on which Its I ted States'highways. Study for Domestic Art.** I been destroyed mainly by fire. future lif» depends, and the spirit ot Thursday Afternoon— Grammer? Ten were killed In traffic accidents Geography, Stenography, American initiative and adventure in its peo in Portland during the first four Sir John French, War Hero, Dies. ple will finally disappear. Ona or Literature, Phyd* Deal, England —The Earl of Ypres, Methods in Langu age, Thesis .fog more of three things happen: .The month» of 1925, an increase of three quantity ot consumption is cut down, over the corresponding period in 1924, better known as Field Martial French Primary Certlfickw. •Theory and Friday Forénooi according to an announcement made British World war hero, died here, which means a lowering ot the stand M fSpelling)! Practice, Orthbgra •rd of living; or capital accumulations । at police headquarters. aged 73. He underwent an operation Physical Geography, flettali Litera- tor extensions. - improvements and A total of 34.112 applications for on March 19. Soon thereafter he was ture, Chemistry? ■ aew underthklngs most dl«nln!»h. re cash bonus and loans have been rc- Phone Main 4001 Friday Afternoon—School Law, reported to be recovering but subse sulting in a •iew.ug up of progress ctiwd since the creation of the sol Geology, A'.gebra, Civil Goverhinent, quently his condition became worse and le«»enifit eventually of taxable Saturday Forenoon—Geometry, diers' relief act In 1921. according to Avenue; or. thirdly, a slackening of Botany. Carpets In Homer's Time. Salem effort on the part of the dtlMn will announcement made Saturday Afternoon—General His Hundreds of years ago. when yeke place when too large a part of bls George A. White, adjutant general. * ropes ns were living In houses with tory, Bookkeeping ... The old house in which Homer A. M. Zevely, . earning* aM token in taxes. bare floors or floors strewn, with County Superintendent. -Th» effort in taxation should be Davenport, famous cartoonist, lived in rushes or twigs, carpets were being I to find th» tax which will continue Silverton for many years Is to be torn used in China, India and Egypt, to raise money over a period of years. down or moved to some other location first carpet# were rug< to sit i ultori. NOTICE Invariably, with an oxcom I vo tax. its to provide ground apace for a new taking the place of chairs, says “the FINAL EXAMINATIONS Notice is hereby given that >1.1 yield has fallen off year by year, state armory to be erected this /ear. Detroit Newa In Hemer's time, either pupils who have passed the fina. I while each rate reduction is reflected plain or embroidered carpets were eighth grade examinations condition In aa increase ot taxable income If Rightseof a Mothar in-Law. spread before the couches of the guest* ally, or who have failed, may take an | tho Treasury is to Ho assured s con The luother ln law. in this country In Greek booses. Later on rich an I examination in the eOhditional sub- tinuance ^of revenue, our dtisens at all event». Is a much abused rela guy carpet» were Imported to Greece jcct, or an qnthre"h*Vr '*xanf!hHtion must prosper If they are to prosper tion, but In China the has come Info frem Babylon. These carpelt W on June 11 and f»TT925,Tit the the appropriation by tho state of their her oWn. There a new law haa been I ralsetl figures of men and animals and county court house in Moro, Oregon, \ •amIngs and property must bo based paMe<l under which divorce mny be ! were made in gorgeous colors. In or, by appointment, before the clerk •pou economically sound principles'* granted for the Ill-treatment I later RomM times carpets were luv of the school dtetHet'wWe they re side, as follow*: T* * fL' mother-in-law, or a i fHthor-ln-law, for i ported from the Orient. morning Arithmetic, Thursday “Sugar TrS' tbat matter, naya 1 the Detroit News. Writing. Saving Due to Habit The sugar of the Iw uglas fir has a This code replace* the ancient law ternoon — History. Thursday decided rally from the scientific awl called •‘Yi n.’' which legalised divorce । if we analyse the psychology or the Spelling, Agriculture. chemical point of view. Its present from a too-talkatlve wife, for lack of “why” of saving, we find that saving Friday morning—Physiology,Lan price being ab<mt >70 per pound. Bui respect for a mother-in-law, or for Is, after all, more of a habit than an ( guage. J Oue other unique refofm Instinct; at least nmong human». Near-. to most people the chief interest of its jealousy. Friday afternoon —-Geography, dmcovery lies In the fact that nature has been made, namely, that the con |y nU students of this important sub-, Qhril Government, Reading. V , has somehow contrived to withhold the sent of a father and mother haa to be ject come to this contusion.—The County Buporintoadoat. secret of the “sugar tiwee" from man's •btalaed bsfws g divorce may .be Thrift Magailn« pryin> syaa for «0 irlator A E. Myero, ¡TON STS FIFTH AND WAS1 PORTLAND. OREGON 8«^ St- Warehouse & Milling Co H. McKean, Manager, Wasco, Oregon DEALERS IN ^imc, Plaster, Cement, Cedar Posts Builders Supplies, Lumber, Wood Coal and Hay. ' MANUFACTURERS - OF ' ¡ J MILL FEED AND FLOUR: : Renovated Throughout * : liesst: äö lad SPECIAL RATES I 'Room with privilege of bath, «Ingle, । $1.00 up; double $1.50 up 'Room with private bath, single $1.50 * ___ V) CO ..n mmumuwm*