The Sherman County Observer» Moro, Oregon, Friday, July 10, 1925
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District Road Money
C. U I reland
Editor and Pubit«her
A new 11125 session law uncovered
। by the county judge of Polk county
1 carries a wallop which is apparently
Entered «• aeeond clan matter at the “ttls - known throughout the state.
Mt office at Moro, Oregon, July 25, 1891 This is an amendment to the law re-
garding the levying of a general rqad
fund tax in each county and' the
manner of distributing it between
the general road and the cities or
Eureka Lodge No. tai
districts in the county.
A F. A A. M. Mere, Ore,
Under the old law 70 per cent of
Meets the let and 3d Thure-
the
general road fund levy, went to
iday eveaings of each month.
»VWiing members cordially the city (or road district) wherein
invited to meet with us. By it was raised for use on roads or
order of W. M
streets, and 30 per eeqt went to the
I. Urquhart, Secretory
general road fund to be applied at
t
Bethlehem Chapter
the discretion of the county court
gV
Ne. 75 O. E. S.
The new law
Regular communication* for road purposes.
^^each 2nd and 4(h Thursday provides for a 50-50 division of the
D^evrninga monthly.
funds between the general road fund
YWg Mrs. E. A. Cushman,
and the district or city road fund.
'
Worthy Matron.
It further provides, in regard to
Nana Barsee, Secretary.
cities, that this money be spent in
floro Lodge No. 113
improving county roads within the
I. O. O. F.
city,
and streets leading to market
Meets every Monday eve-
ing in the J. O. O. r. hall. roads or state highways. * Hitherto,
Transient and visiting bro there has been no restriction as to
thers are cordially invited to the streets that it
might be applied
meet with us.
on.
Theodore Johnston, N. G
Cities and road districts as well
A. M. Young, Secretary.
will have 20 per cent less from the
Lupine Rebecca Lodge
J No. 116, Moro, Oregon, general road tax, which by law is
V meets 1st and 3d Fridays from 1 to 10 mills, according to the
of each month. Visiting determination of the county court,
members welcome.
in counties of less than s25,000 popu
Mrs. C V. Belknap. N.G.
The general road fund, on
Hazel Woods, Secy lation.
the other hand, will be almost
CHRIS SCHULTZ POST NO. 71 doubled.
_ AMERICAN LEGION
'WSw
Meets st Odd Fellows Hall on
second and fourth Wednesday*
e®ch month.
Commander, I. M'. Peterson,
’ Adjutant, Geo. Mitchell.
ZeD’i Fuer al Home Now Open at
I will buy all of your fat calves
and young cattle.
Phone 38F31.
Geo. L. Fox, Klondike, Ore.
New style Rotary Rod Weeder for
sale by Moro Hardware & Imple
ment Co.
W. C. Todd and daughter were
visitors in Moro on Wednesday from
their home west of Grass Valley.
Judging by the income tax lists
there should be an excellent opening
for several fortune tellers in Wash
ington.
Monkeys tire of playthings quickly
Ask N. W. Thompson of the Moro
Hardware & Implement Co. about and divorce statistics indicate that
the guarantee on the new Rotary there may be something in the Dar-
Rod Weeder, manufactured1 in Che winian theory.
ney, Washington.
Lloyd Grimes and family were
Threshing started in Sherman visitors in Moro on July 4th from
county this season on the Fred Blau Portland, guests of Mrs. Grimes
farm north of Wasco the first of this parents, D. W. Nish and wife.
week in a field of barley which is
Miss May Lusk, who is complet
turning out 20 sacks, to the acre. The ing a nurse training course at St.
grain is a trifle pinched, but is of fine Vincent hospital in Portland, is visit-
quality and will easily grade No. 1.
ing in Moro at the home of her
Mrs. J. A. Morgan of Condon and parents.
her sister, Mrs. Harry Holzapfel of
Henry Lloyd and wife have re-
Grass Valley, were in Moro recently turned from Bickelton, Washington,
having dental work done by Dr. J. R. where they attended the Old Settlers'
Morgan. Mr. Morgan is a stock reunion at that place on the 4th of
broker at Condon while Mr. Holza luly. Mrs. Lloyd is an old residenter
pfel is conductor of the Shaniko, of that district.
branch train.
Norman Fields, son of Cecil Fields
• Onewf the new style McCormick-
of Wasco, received' «'■fractured arm
last week when he fell off a Shetland
received by Ginn, Coleman A Co. pony he was riding at the W. S.
for L. D. Eakin, farming in the Rut Fields farm. The sufferer was quick
ledge district. The new machine is ly put at ease by Dr. Wonderlick at
ji 12-foot cut, has the sidehill level Wasco. ...
e
ing device and is equipped with the
A. M. Wright had his/head severe-
largest ¿hoe on any machine of the
ly hurt last week when a tire rim
same cut.
blew off the wheel of his auto when
the tube was being filled with air.
The rim had not been securely locked
and was forced off by th^ air
Baby Holt Combine
pressure.
FOR Sale
CHEAP
Can give ownership through
mortgage foreclosure
ATTORNEY
The Dalles Oregon
Room 21 Vogt Block
Phone 96
Mutual Creamery Co.
MORO,
OREGON
CREAM PRICE
TO-DAY
46 cents
Wasco has something new in the
local business world in the form of a
bowling alley and confectionery
store without a card room. The new
business is owned by Mr. Fish, local
representative of the Union Oil
company.
..
C. C. Richmond returned Wednes
day morning from Twin Rocks, on I
the Tillamobk coast, where he spent
the 4th of July with Mrs. Richmond
and children.
Mrs. Richmond will
remain at the coast resort until
September.
George Haskell of The Dalles has
accepted a position in the Main
street barber shop, operated by J. A.
Truitt, until after harvest Mr. Has
kell is known to a large number of
Sherman county people, who speak
highly of his skill as a barber.
Woodshed
will be a reproach when the
cold weather comes, and
when you remember that
Sunday, June 21st, was the
longest dgy, winter is not so
far awtfy.
*7
Better fill the woodshed- now
with some of oqr Slab Wood
—the kind that splits right,
burns right, and is
Priced Right !
Tum-A-Lumber Co.
D. E. Clark, Manager
Moro,
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Phone Main 91
Paragraphs on County
and Community Events
What the world needs is an am
plifier for the still small voice.-
C. H. Larson returned Tuesday
from a business trip to Spokane.
Asa Eslinger and son were visitors
in Moro on Wednesday from Grass
Valley.
A local Sherman county man who
returned the first of the week Horn
nis 4th of July vacation sported a
black eye. When asked if he had
been in a figfyt, he declared that it
was a birthmark, explaining that he
had crawled into the wYong berth.
Jeff Witeon and wife spent the 4th
at Arlington where Mrs. Wilson met
friends from Burns, also celebrating
the 4th at Arlington, and returned
to Burns with them for a visit of
several weeks with her mother who
resides in the central Oregon city.
E. B. Penland was a business visi
tor in Moro this week from Halsey,
Oregon, on his way to Pendleton.
While here he arranged that some
of his land farmed by Wilford Belshe
would in future be farmed by Tom
Fraser. Mr. Belshe turned the land ,
back to Mr. Penland because he had |
too mueh for one men and not quite
enough»for » eotond outfit
Irving* Kunaman and wife are
visitors from Portland this week at
the home of Mrs. Kunsman’s parents,
Mr. and MrarL H. Martin. -
Marian McKee, son of County
Judge McKee, left the first of the
week for Hermiston where* he has
accepted a position in the local
pharmacy.»
Mrs. B. E. Sagawe, living east of
Moro, is reported to be recovering
nicely from a 0cent attack of illness
under the care of Dr. J. A, Wonder-
lick of Wasco.
MORO CHURCH NEWS
A Bird
‘in the Hand
Notes of Interest» to ,
All Denominations .
Christian Science church services
are held on Sunday morning at 11
o’clock and on Wednesday at 8:00
p. m. Sunday school at 10:15 a.m.
The reading room is open daily in
the rear of the church. All are in
vited to attend the church services
and to make use of the reading room.
You know the saying. Its '
Its even more true that a
dollar in the
... Bank of Moro
is worth two in your pocket
T. S. Reese and family and George
Dr. M. F. Froyd was called to
Sunday
evening
July
12
at
the
Antelope Tuesday on professional Mitchell and wife made a motor trip
The dollars in your pocket are on their Ayay
to the foot of Mt. Hood on the 4th, Methodist church a stereopticon lec
business.
ture will b^ given by Ray I^awrence,
out, the _ dollars
___ _ __
__ ____
_______
in the
Bank of
Moro ___
are _____
earn-
driving
40
miles
on
the
loop
highway
Mrs. Nellie Muir is a house guest
an O. A. C. student working at the
towards
Portland.
ing
more
money
to
put
in
your
pocket.
from Woodburn at the J. C. McKean
Moro experiment station this sum
We, as leading bankers of this section, are in a
L. J, Lucas and \yifo were visitors mer. The slides show the work of
home this weak.
in
Moro
on
Mondaj
from
Wasco.
position
to help you.
the Wesley foundation carried on by
One is born every minute and
While
Mr.
Luca>
ittended
to
busi
the Methodist church of Corvallis in
nearly all of them learn to sing
ness matter*. Mrs. Lucas spent the behalf of the students who attend
"Sweet Adeline," ....
] day visiting friend .
Oregon Agricultural college .The
It is a good idea to kiss the chil-
date is July 12th at 8 p. m.
A
large
number
of
Sherman
coun
dren good-night, if you don’t mind
ty
folks
used
DeMoss
park
as
a
rec-
waiting up for them.
/
Services at the Methodist church
reation place on the 4th. Late in
County Judge E. I). McKee return the afternoon 15 cars were counted next Sunday both morning and eve
ed Monday from a visit over the 4th parked near the pin c.
ning. Sunday school 10 a. m. Mrs.
with his family at Seaside.
IR. A. Feenstra will preach on the
Mrs. N. P. Han en
. au8 ter fourth church of the Revelation of
The usual Dorcas social for July Marparet w^ Jwere
visituig ^‘th st. John. You will find the discus-
will be held next Wednesday at the
Hanson’s ¿areuts,
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re‘ sion of those churches very helpful
home of Mrs. J. F. Foss.
'Jas. Woods, returned Wednesday to I
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and applicable to this day. Come on
„
a the
»u house
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Home is the place where you can 1 their home at Portland.
• Sunday to
of * worship.
MORO. OREGON
say things about the food that y°u । A family reunion gathering was: Sunday evening the young people
TWICE -‘A - WEEK FEATURE INTERNATIONAL NEWS REEL
don't dare say in a restaurant.
j held in Moro park on the 4th by the are in charge of the service. Miss
D. E. Clark, local manager of the
__ I Ellsworth family,
. members of which i Ruth Bryant will be the leader of
“ The Fast Worker ”
Tumalum company, and family spent were present from St. Helens, ;, Port- the program for the evening. Mr.
Friday, July IO
Ray Lawrence of O. A. C. will put on
the 4th with friends at Hood River, land, Wasco and Moro.
Fast Worker? Say, girls, he goes down LoVer’s Lane like one
an illustrated lecture showing especi-’
of Babe Ruth’s home runs flying over a fence! If "Siow" really
Mrs. A. S. Johnson and daughter ' District Attorney I ranci M. Wade ally the splendid work done among
is In the dictionary he doesn’t know itr When other fellows
Imogene spent the 4th with relatives returned from Portland Tuesday, the college students by the Methodist
would have been asking her first name he is giving her his last!
where
he
has
been
spending
several
at Hood River, returning late Sunday
That’s how fast he is.
days in the .metropolis partly oh busi church. There will be special selec
evening.
tions in song and we hope to have a
ness and partly pleasure.
report from the Christian Endeavor
The Hurricane Kid ’
Dan McLachlin and family spent
Fred Mahrt was a visitor in Moro convention closing this week at
the 4th by means of an auto trip over
Saturday, July
3
Hoot Gibson cut loose with everything to make "The Hurricane
the newly opened Mt. Hood loop on Wednesday from his home at Portland.
Heppner. He reports conditions in
Kid’’ the greatest picture of his career. Vou will find it packed
You are welcome.
highway.
with suspense, thrills and some of the most daredevil stunts
Morrow county as about as he sees
ever attempted by anyone.
T. B. Searcy and family returned them in Sherman county.
Picture Show News
Sunday evening from an outing va
O. A. Ramsey has been busy the
cation spent at the headwaters of
For The Current Week
“Dream Street
greater
part of the week rebuilding
the Metolious.
the roof ori the Kerr, Gifford ware
"Dream Street" sounds like a sort of dreamy picturesque photo
Aad intoxicating whirl of love and
They sat on the porch at midnight; house now owned- by the -Farmers
drama, but when you see it in the full flower of its beauty you
excitement
—
with
a
ladgh
to
every
their lips were tightly pressed. The Elevator & -Supply company.
will say that it is altogether different than imagination pictured.
new development in a plot that
old man gave the signal and the bull-
moves faster than a racing auto—
Mack
Ellsworth
and
wife,
now
res
dog did the rest.
- H Racing Luck ”
idents of St. Helens where he is that’s "The Fa^t Worker,” Univer-
Saturday, July 18
W. E. Newton spent the 4th at a employed operating a lumber carrier ¡sal’s new Reginald Denny-Laura
High-powered six-cylinder fun, thrills of the niosl exciting
hospital in The Dalles, nursing a in one of the large saw mills, were. LaPlante Jewel feature coming to
nature and a romance that is flavored with true love that (fooH
severe attack of his old trouble»sci- visitor« in Moro over the 4th.
~ I Moro theatre. It’s a mad hurricane
not run smoothly are to be fountain the comedy feature produc
atic rheumatism.
tion, "Racing Luck” that has Monty Banks as the star.
Mr. and Mra. B. n Kreir, Mill. :<’f
Ibrilb, and^
««""X “ U*
J. W. Boone, who has been visit Sather Hart. Mr. Milbern Johriaon, । I,r“f tbat
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ing at the home of his’’Bister-in-law, of Hood River, and Rev.'and Mra.|only “‘“,r on the “creen who can
Mrs. J. J. Schaeffer, left on Sunday Murphy of Seatth'. were Fourth of wear the mantle of the late Wallace
TWICE-A WEEK FEATURE INTERNATIONAL NEWS RBEL
Reid^ as Hollywood^ stoutly main
for his home at Prineville.
July guests ©f Mrs. A. J. Murray.
tains.
O.
Ramsey left Wednesday for • q j ? Mathews and wife were ^is-
Th(> stofy, adapted from George
the Bryant aqd Pepper farm east o; iting in Mofo late last week on their Barr MoCutchetfn’s novel, “The
Monkland where he will make exten- way to T*?tmp Sherman to spend the Husbands of Edith," tells’ the tale
sive repairs to their barn.
4 !>. Thr'j expei ted to return to of a man who-impersonates a friend
MAIN STREET
Emil Pierson was in town the first Portland by y/ay of the McKenzie as a favor, then finds he’s been sad
highway.
of the week, hunting a carpenter» to
dled with a wife and 'fanfily and
arber
hop
put a roof on his barn at the Pierson
C. B. Horringr, living near Rufus, doesn’t know it. To jnake matters
•MORO, OREGON
Bros, farm east of Monkland.
suffered a painfi:| injury the first of worse his pretended wife has a sister
V. S. Barr was hauling Tumalum this week when he accidently gouged with whom hd promptly falls in love.
material to his farm last week with the palm of his hand with a piece of | Then* the fun becomes fast and
Joe Truitt, Proprietor
which to construct hay racks to .use glass, requiring several ’stitches to furious.
close, the wound.
in garnering his hay crop.
A Tornanti^' story of western
Chris Andersen motored up from
Truitt left by auto stage
their hardihood, sports-
ranchers,
Monday evening for Portland where Portland on Monday to be present ; manship and courage, is told in
SHOWER BATHS
at
the
annual
meeting
of
stockhold
he intended purchasing supplies for
Universal-
Hurricane
Kid
ers of the Farmers Elevator & Sup- J
his Main street barber shop.
ply company. He returned to Port-1 Hoot Gibson special production.
Like the past few Gibson pro
Howard Conlee accepted the de land on Wednesday.
ductions it was staged in the most
livery last week of a new Buick
Mrs. J. A. Butler, wife of Dr. J beautiful we8tern backgrounds ob-
coach in time for a trip down the
Butler
of Wasco, was
, able to return tainable dn the ranch country of
Columbia highway on the 4th.
home from Hamilton hospital last 1 California, and directed by Edward
Miss Bessie Hanley returned Tues Monday much improved after suffer
Sedgwick, maker of the best Gibson
day to her home at Wasccf*from a ing for more than a week from a
attractions.
visit with old home folks near Hills severe nervous attack.
I Special care was taken to get the
Labor on Rear End
boro during the 4th of July holidays.
Jas Kenny, fanning east of Moro, • most unusual scenes in western pip-
Dr. C. L. Poley and family have has purchased a Hqlt senior selfpro- ture history of "Pal
and other
Labor on Transmission
rented the Roy Powell summer cot pelled caterpillar combined harvester horses in natural "horse stuff.’’ The
tage at Camp Sherman and left last for work this season in his grain story was written by Will Lambert,
Monday for an outing at that place. fields. The new machine is an 18- adapted by Raymond L. Schrock and
Work Guaranteed S
Ninety Days Free Service
scenarized by E. Richard Schayer.
Roy Powell and family returned foot cut 55-horse power outfit.
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Gibson known for his human in-
Monday from Camp Sherman and
Forrest Peetz has been absent
will be busy with harvest on their from work at the Moro confection terpretations of the western type
farm near Erskine until late this fall. ery during the past week, enjoying of hero, usually so conventionally
portrayed, has the role of an itiner
A. M. Young celebrated doubly on a vacation «period at Camp Sherman. ant cowboy who blunders into one
The Dalles, Oregon
the 4th of July, it being the anni He and his brother drove down from mess after another because of a high
703 2nd Street
versary of his birth and the anniver Camp Sherman on Wednesday.
regard for the ladies and a determi
sary day of national independence.
Mrs. Dan Stanton, who has been nation to see no wrong go una COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOQOOOOOOOOOOOQOOOOOOCOOOQOOOOC
Bank of Moro
M oro T heatre
B
S
Special Price
$7.00
$5.50
H. A. Melane
George B. Bourhill, postmaster at
this place, expects to leave next Mon
day for Seattle where he will meet
his sister and the two will leave that
Revella Calbreath and family are
port on the Admiral Rogers for a
10-day steamer trip to Alaska by way visiting in Moro from their home
near Paulina. They will assist with
of the inside passage.
R. H. Piersol and family, formerly the wheat harvest in this locality be
residents of Wasco where Mr. Pier fore returning to Paulina.
sol conducted a tailoring and cloth
ing repair business, left there last
week for Meacham, Oregon, where
he has accepted a position as mana-
ger of the Meacham hotel.
An Empty
BRIEF LOCAL NEWS'
visiting at the home of Mrs. O. A. venged. It is a role requiring a hum
Ramsey, returned to her home at an emphasis rather than the custo
Bend on July 3rd.
Mrs. Stanton mary gun-fighting "rough stuff.”
formerly taught the Erskine and
Boardman schools in this county.
"Racing Luck" is a speed demon.
Its story calls for lightning fast
thrillls and they come fast and heavy
bolding one spellbound until the
^finish. Much of thq fun and excite
ment hinges on the auto test made by
Monty Banks, taking lessons in driv
ing. and in the big race in ’ which
Monty plows through billboards and
fences, jumps chasms, ravines and
rivers and tears in and around the
country in a mad effort to keep on
the course.
This race in which Monty Banks
surprises racing fans when he drives
a highpowered racing car through a
thousand deaths is the piece de resis
tance of "Racing Luck." This speed
display js alone sufficient to give an
audiehcc. thrills aplenty. Yet the
other sections of the story arc
speeded along in a meYry comic way,
creating laughter and building up an
exciting love story all the way. Mon
ty Banks keeps the speed pounding
at high pitch.
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,POLKS
A PICTURE OF THE
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BIGGEST e«R.
FIREO !!
Rotary Rod Weeder, manufac
tured in Cheney, Washington, for
sale by the Moro Hardware & Imple
ment Co. t
Howard Conlee and wife and Les
ter Conlee and family drove to Ea
gle creek, on the Columbia highway,
for the 4th where they met Harry
Blough and wife from Portland.
Mrs. Blough is a sister of Howard
and Lester Coni««.
Peerless Light Draft Rotary Rod Weeder
Weeder Cultivator and Packer
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The Three-in-One
• Practical Farm Implement
Once Over the Ground
Anc? All Three Operations
Are Completed
On Di»play and For Sale
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Moro, OroGon
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