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The Sherman County Observer, Moro, Oregon, Friday, June* 26, 1925
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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OREGON^
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