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*ìr i s £ » “I •. The Sherman County Observer, Moro, Oregon, Friday, June* 26, 1925 it mmi min « serie » ss—-ss—— . äs ?— Sunday Schools Meet Next Sunday at Wasco C. L. I reland Editor and Publisher Sherman county Sunday schools will meet for their annual conven tion next Sunday at Wasco. Ealerad as second class matter at the The Wasco Methodist church is poet oAce at Moro, Oregon. July 25, 1891 the gathering place, their pastor and people being the hosts of the cofi* Official Newspaper for Sbeiwaa Ceuty vention. The convention will open at 10:00 a. m. A splendid program is being Eureka Lodge No. lai prepared. and a profitable time |s A. F. i 1 M. Mere, Or*. Meets the 1st and 3d Thurs anticipated. day evenings of each month. Mrs. W. C. Bryant of Moro Metho-, ¡siting members cordially dist church will have charge of the invited to meet with us. By opening exercises. Mrs. R. A. Feen- order of W. M. Robt. Urquhart, Secretory stra has been selected to teach the young peoples class; Mrs. H. Pinker Bethlehem Chapter ton and Miss Gwendolyn Foss of the Ne. 78 O. B. S. Regular communications Moro Presbyterian church will take ch 2nd and 4th Thursday charge of the juniors, and Orville evenings monthly. Thompson will teach the combined Mrs. E. A. Cushman, intermediate classes of scout and Worthy Matron. Nana Barzee, Secretary. camp fire ages. K For the other departments thé best floro Lodge No. 113 of teachers have been selected from I. O O. F. * Meets every Monday eve- the Wasco and Grass Valley Sunday schools. ransient and visiting bro thers are cordially invited to meet with us. Theodore Johnston. N. G A. M. Young, Secretory. Rotary Rod Weeder, manufac tured in Cheney, Washington, for sale by the Moro Hardware & Imple Lupine Rebecca Lodge ment Co. J No. 116, Moro, Oregon, Rosemary Walker, daughter of p meets 1st and 3d Fridays of each month. Visiting Hugh Walker, is convalescing from members welcome. a minor opration at Hamilton hos Mrs. C V. Belknap, N.G. pital in The Dalles. Hazel Woods, Secy Miss Kathryne Hennagin, daugh CHRIS SCHULTZ POST NO. 71 ter of Fred Hennagin of Wasco, sub ME RICAN LEGION mitted to a major operation at Ham Meet, at Odd Fellow. Hall on ilton hospital in The Dalles Wed »econd .nd fourth Wedncdayi nesday. m A month. The McKenzie pass highway was Commander, 1. M. Peteraon, opened to travel last Sunday. At one Adjutant, Geo. Mitchell. place cars passed through a snow Zell’s Fanerai Home Now Open at drift that was as high as the tops of the cars. jjRjk Theo. Johnston attended the state convention of American Legion held at Prineville this week as a delegate from Chris Schultz post 71 of this city. L M. Peterson attended as al ternate delegate. Dr. Butler, dentist at Wasco, re turned Monday from an extended fishing trip. While away he visited with relatives and friends at Colfax, Washington. Robt. Guth rib and wife, from Port land, were registered at Hotel Moro Jas Blagg was in town the first last Monday. Mr. Guthrie was on a of the week to consult Dr. Froyd as motor trip to his farm southeast of to his health. As a result of the con Grass Valley. ference Mr. Blagg has left for an Vernon Flatt had his left shoulder indefinite stay at Government hot severely wrenched last Saturday springs near Stevenson. evening when a startled horse pinned Foes 4 Co. are building an 18- him to the side wall of a stall he was l.orse combine hitch for Ray Han trying to enter. sell of The Dalles. It speaks well of Ask N. W. Thompson of the Moro local mechanics and workmanship Hardware 4 Implement Co. about • when orders for farm equipment the guarantee on the new Rotary „ come here from outside places. Rod Weeder, manufactured in Che E. Fortner and family left ney, Washington. . Thursday by motor for Twin Rocks, Miss Isla McCain and sister-in- on ths Tillamook coast, where Mrs. law, Mrs. Helen McCain, have been Fortner and children will remain house guests at the C. R. Belshee until September. Mr. Fortner 1n- home this week, returning to their tended ta return shortly after the Some at Portland on Friday. 4th. O. B. Messinger and family have H. Schade, father of K. Schade of moved from here to St. Helens, this city, was a visitor in Moro this Their household goods were moved week from Portland. Mrs. A. C. to their new home on Tuesday by Robinson, sister of K. Schade, accom the Floyd Flatt auto truck line. panied |er father on the trip up the R. C. Ornduff was a business visi highway, returning to Portland the tor in Moro the first of the week, on first of the week. his way by car to interior Oregon Mr. West, farming the Martin where he intended to spend the next place at the edge of town, is com three weeks on business matters. plaining that crows are feeding too R. P. Brisbin and family will soon expansively on his growing corn. He move fnto their old home at the west wants to get in touch with some boy side of town. They have rented the sharp shooters to make a killing a- residence from where they will move mong the feathered tribe. - • to B. B. Bayles, who will move late this summer. One of two boys, tramping thru the country looking for work, was Mutual Creamery Co. taken suddeuly ill at Hotel Moro on Monday with what Dr. Froyd diag MORO, OREGON nosed as intestional poison from eat ing wild berries. CREAM PRICE TO-DAY . 44 cents THE GLORIOUS FOURTH Will no op be here, and with it the usual amount of hot weather. Get ready for that hot “spell now, and have on hand a sup- . ply of real summer wood. We will have a car of Box Fac- * tory Wood on track about the 29th or 30th. This is an ideal fuel for summer use and a ■ most economical one. , Place your order now. D. E. Moro, Clark, Manager Orogc Phone Main 91 Miss Laura Inger from Davenport, North Dakota, is visiting at the V. J. Flatt home in this city. Miss Inger is a teacher in the Davenport schools and lived with Mrs. Flatt when the latter resided at that place. Mrs. Géorge Piercy, wife of one of the railroad trainmen at Grass Val ley, was in town last Tuesday to con sult Dr. Froyd as to their daughters health. The young lady is sick with what doctors call following flu. The highway around Mt. Hood, known as the Loop Road, was opened to public travel last Sunday. A check maintained by traffic officers showed 40 cars a minute passed at one place on the road for more than five hours. Fred Wineberger and wife and Jess Pierson and wife are a motor party that left here early in the week for a visit with friends and relatives it Bend and a look in on the state American Legion convention at Prineville. Dr. J.A.Wonderlick, of Wasco, re ports that Leo Watkins caught his little finger in the gears of a weeder he was greasing and had the tip severely crushed. He escaped fur ther injury by forceably withdraw ing the member. Miss Retha McDonald was taken to the Hamilton hospital in The1 Dalles’Wednesday-as the result of her car upsetting near McKee springs between Rowena and The Dalles. According to Miss McDonald the brakes failed to hold and the car rolled over a 75-foot embankment - Thursday was the record hot day Sherman couqty this season. ; The government thermometer at the ex periment station registered 101. An east wind, blowing until late after noon, did not improve conditions. The next» warmest day this year was last Saturday when the same instru ment registered 96 degrees. « * r BRIEF LOCAL NEWS News Items From Kent • And Near Vicinity MORO CHURCH NEWS Paragraphs on County and Community Events John MacInnis was a Moro visitor Monday. < < Notes of Interest to • All Denominations —————Jacob Crocker is a patient at a There will be no morning services V. J. Flatt has moved into the hospital in The Dalles. O. B. Messinger, residence. | L w Amki and w„n Hogue at ¿he loc^i' eMirches i Robt Lindaman was a visitor in were Wasco visitors Monday after morning. In the evening the usual union service will be held at the Pres Moro last Monday from Rufus. ( noon. byterian church. Message by Rev. Matt Simon and wife were visitors Mrs. X an Walton and Mrs. Jacob R. A. Feenstra. in Moro on Tuesday from, Crass Crocker were visiting in *010 Dalles Christian Science* church services Wednesday. Valley. are held on Sunday morning at 11 Mr. Atwater and Mr. Norton of o’clock and on Wednesday at 8:00 Mrs. F. A* Sayrs is visiting with Pedpe, Orejón, were recent visitors p. m. friends and relatives at Hillsboro and Sunday school at 10:15 a.m. at the home of J. E. Norton. Dallas. The reading room is open daily in H. R. McKean was a business Z Mrs. Wm. Young was a passenger the rear of the church. All are in visitor in Moro Thursday' from on Fridays stage for Hood River, vited to attend the church services where she will visit at the H. R. Hor and to make use of the reading room. Wasco. ~ ner home. J. C. McKean returned the first of Miss Susanna Walters who has Picture Show News the week from a brief visit to Camp been spending the past six weeks Sherman. For The Current Week visiting relatives in Iowa, returned Mrs. Clare Axtell returned last home last week. A gay and spirited comedy, filled Saturday from a visit with relatives | Miss Nona Morrow who has been with hearty laughty and with a sur- at Hillsboro. i visiting with her sister, Mrs’ Arthur prise climax that is both thriving and Dayton Hen rich« and family are Sanders and family of Moro, return- funny is “The Battling Orioles,” the enjoying these hot weather days at ed home Tuesday. feature length Pathe con.edy pro Camp Sherman. duced by Hal Roach. It is a joyous - The Sunday school of the Chris combination of nonsense and com Harvey Thompson and’ wife were tian church are planning to attend Prineville visitors during the Aiheri- the Sunday school convention to be mon sense, a happy mixture of slap- stick and philosophy. can Legion convention. held at Wasco next Sunday. a novelty “The Battling Ori J. F. Belshee and wife have re Word was received here that Mrs. oles’ is something distinctly new. It turned from a visit with their chil Joseph Patterson died at her home at is a story of the adventures of a dren at Salem and Portland. s White Salmon, Washington, Wednes small town youth, very much in love, day afternoon. Mrs. Patterson is a who comes to the big city, finds his Laura Urquhart had a bandage op sweetheart innocently involved in a her right wrist this week, caused by sister of Mrs. B. A. Hogue. a burn from an electric iron. Mrs. Hogue who has been visiting scrape that threatens her arrest and calls upon the aged and now high- Ben Sias and wife and Mrs. Roy at Toledo with her daughter was hatted and dignified “Battling Ori called to White Salmon, Washington, Harbin were in Moro on Monday »on oles” to come to the rescue. because of the serious illness of her a shopping tour of local stores. Once upon a time, in 1874 to be sister, Mrs. Joseph Patterson. Mrs. Guy Hoskinson and wife were visi Hogue arrived home Monday. exact, thAe “Orioles” were the most tors in this city the first of the week belligerent baseball team in suits. Mrs.-J. H. Smith and children who They were ready to fight at the drop from their farm home south of Kent. have been visiting here for some C. J. Thompson and family have time with her mother Mrs. Ida Davis, of a hat and the score of a game in returned from Corvallis to spend the left for her home in Mitchell Mon those days generally ran high both in One of the summer on their farm east of Monk day. Mrs. Davis and daughter Paul runs and black eyes. funniest sequences of the story pic land. ine accompanied them to their home. tures the old team during one of its The infant daughter of M. B. Hat Miss Glenna Dellinger who has sandlot triumphs. Here we are given ley is reported to be on the sick list, been attending the state normal a glimpse of the dandy of half a cen a combination of hot weathef and school at Monmouth for the past year tury ago, his face amply covered teething. has returned”* home for her summer with decorative sideburns, mous Mrs. C. R. Belshee and daughter vacation. We understand Miss Dell taches and what were once techni Jessie returned late last week from inger will teach near Antelope this cally known as “I-ady Killers” and “Mutton Chops.” It is a delightful Portland where they visited during winter. bit of satire and fully worthy of the the rose festival. Geo. Barnett and wife of The comedy genius of Hal Roach. Miss Millie Benson, who has been Dalles spent the week-end visiting visiting in Portland, has returned with relatives here. They were ac Virginia Valli has added another home to be with her mother during companied by Mrs. Barnet’s son,Mr. Nunn, who has ju'i returned from success to her considerable list of the summer months. achivenients of the screen in her J. M. Axtell and wife and Aden Chicago where he has recently grad- work in “K—The Unknown.” The r. .ted from a medical college. We Axtell and wife have returned from • ..nderstand Dr. Nunn will locate at picture as a whole is a fine vehicle a motor trip to Hillsboro where the. for the star and for the others in the Seattle, Washington. ’, visited with relatives. cast as well, for it is a story that W. H. Ragsdale and family return Nevr st; ’o Rotary Rod Weeder for does not tax the credulity of the ed late Thursday from an expensive s?.le by Moro Hardware-4 Imple spectator in any manner; quite "to auto tour of Umatilla, Union, Wal ment Co. the contrary, in fact, it makes the lowa and Baker counties. spectator quite certain of acquaint . G. G. Thorp i» complaining of loss Mrs. A. E. Blackbume and daugh of little cl irks by^ats. He says the anceship with men and women who ter, who have been visiting at her cussed vaiments are txx» wise for any might well have been the characters. Universal made “K—The Un parents home in this ¿ity, returned trap he has yet been nbl? to try on known ” from the novel “K” written to Arlington on Wednesday. them. by- Mary Roberts Rinehart, and Di- Karl Schade in company with Dr. Polllard decided, R. P. Brisbine and family and Roy rector Harry M. F. Froyd left Thursday evening F. Dean and wife were a motor par quite „wisely, that he could do no by motor for Prineville to attend the ty that left here Friday for Prine better than tell the story on the American Legion convention. ville and the American Legion state screen just about as the author told it on paper. The result has convention. Roy Kunsman, Leo Moore, Roscoe been unusually satisfactory and one Moore and Glen Schultz left early Truman Strong and wife and J. W. Friday to attend the American Le- Sheperd and wife, the latter from leaves the theatre feeling that around . the corner or across the gion convention at Prineville. Grass Valley, were' a motor party street the same emotions of grief, James McCoy, • brother of Mrs. that left here the first of the week and of happiness and of passion are Feeastra, arrived from Corvallis last for Prinevill^. possessing someone. Friday to spend the summer among A. J. Jackson, I. M. Peterson and the harvest fields of Sherman county. Richard Bruckert made up a motor “Wine”; is the screen version of L. B. Payne of Rufus was in town party that left Moro early Thursday one of the most sensational works of last Monday. He brought a Short for Prineville and the American Le recent fiction. It is a Cosmopolitan horn bull by auto truck from his gion convention. magazine story of the same name Rufus orchards for Eugene Amidon. Roy Powell and family'-returned written by William MacHarg, who ‘ The VanDynes have sold their res the first of the week to Camp Sher devoted his talents to a scathing He intended later to drive expose of the manner in which the idence property in Moro to Ed Stortz man. to Prineville to take in the American prohibition laws -of the nation are of Brownsville. The property is now flagrantly violated by men and wo rented by B. B. Bayles for the Legion convention doings. men of breeding, education and high , summer. Cash Prices paid for poultry and social position. eggs. Auto truck trips to Portland About 35 members and guests Universal trusted the portrayal were present at the Moro Community made weekly, oftener as business club banquet held last Monday eve warrants. Eggs received any time, of the story to a cast of drawing Deliver to proven talent: Clara Bow, Forrest ning at Hotel Moro. Among the poultry on Saturdays. Freight or Stanley, Huntly Gordon, Myrtle guests who were present was F. L. Moro Cream Station. Ballard, state, county agent leader, express fiddled on order from either Stedman, Robert Agnew, Walter and all county agents connected direction to any way point. F. D. Long, Leo White and Grace Car lisle. Louis Gasnier directing. Flatt, Moro. with the work in eastern Oregon. Principal among the spectacular features of the screen story are a number of cafe scenes, where throngs of fashionably gowned women applaud the efforts of pro fessional entertainers. Just as fine an entertainment as they could have found in a real cafe, for the beauti ful girls who danced in beautiful if scanty costumes on the screen ver A l SURE UIM "CHAW 06EF sion of “Wine” were recruited from those who make their living doing WHEN Mt GETS the same thing in the cafes of Los OUT Angeles and Hollywood. in Hole B. M. Van of the Western Hotel at Wasco, sustained severe back strain the first of the week while breaking the fall of Mr. Miller, when the latter fell from the restaurant building where he was making re pairs. Miller is reported to have fallen about 12 feet. T. W. Hayes was a visitor in Moro Tuesday from Grass Valley, where he now farms the Les Peters place. He was nursing a badly cut left thumb, injured when he was trying to cut a boot to fit a tire on his car. The knife slipped and neatly sliced the inner side of the injured member. rJ. A. Truitt has found that care ful attention to the .wishes of his customers has so increased his busi ness that he has found it necessary to install a second chair in his bar- ber shop on Main streqt. The new chair is tho very latest of, its kind and will be appreciated by his patrons. M oro T heatre MORO, OREGON Chantes ” Friday, June 26 Buster Keaton will keep you laughing in his latest and funniest film, “SeVen Chances.” Laughs? There is .nothing else but in this film comedy delight. “ The Battling Orioles ” Saturday, June 27 A gay spirited’romance, laughter coated pill of philosophy—-nnd pennant winning funmaker of the year! Hilarious story of a flock of once gay old" Birds known as “The Battling Orioles” the hardest hitting ball team in suits. K—The Unknown Carl Laemmle presents the greatest love romance ever written by Mary Roberts Rinehart, starring Virginia Valli with Percy Marmont. This charming star of filmdom is here seen in one of her finest roles—the trained nurse who loves the doctor who dapes not reveal his past. “WINE”; Saturday, July 4 Brilliant cafe scenes ranging from those whose electric lights flash over the streets of a great city, to the jazzy palace created from the interior of a ship anchored beyond the Volstead Act limit, are conspicuous features «¡of “Wine.” The featured players in the cast are Clara Bow, Forrest Stanley, Huntly Gorden, Myrtle Stedman, Robert Agnew, Walter Long, Grace Carlisle and Leo White. ;3©©© MAIN STREET B arber S hop MORO, OREGON^ Joe Truitt, Proprietor SHOWER BATHS Special Price Labor ön Rear End Labor on Transmission $7.00 $5.50 Work Guaranteed Ninety Days Free Service Nine Years Factory Experience H. A. Melane 703 2nd Street The Dalles, Oregon I
