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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1925)
s onocKs rower L.ineman BRIEF LOCAL NEWS • From Kent id Near Vicinity R. P. Brisbine report« Witnessing a most unusual electrical storm ear ly Sunday morning when he was tn I Wasco county doing repair work -W- office at Hord, Orcgta, July ZS, 189! the Sherman Electric company power line. He first saw peculiar wedge and funnel shaped clouds which ap- peared to be in the vicinity of Shan iko. These were inky black in color and had their blackness intensified by the rising sun behind them. Dur Meets the let and 3d Thur»- ing the rain storm which followed the appearance of the clouds, Bris- members cordially bine and his helper Herbert Ells (4*dW. M. worth, got thoroughly wet. A feature Robt. Urquhart, Secretory of the storm was the unusual amount of static electricity with which _ the air and wires were charged. Brisbine coosmunicstioM said the static burned through his each 2nd and 4th Thursday' heavy glove and at first he thought evenings monthly. some person had again turned the Mrs. K. A. Cushman, “ Worthy Matron. current on the wires. He finished Nana Bar see, Secretary. his work by grounding the static with Horo Lodge No. 113 a long piece of barbed wire, which he I. O O. F. hauled up the pole by a rope. The Meet» every Monday eve- static was so strong that it jumped niag in the I.O. O. F. hall. Transient and viaitiat bro a foot space when he tried to loop ther* are cordially invited to the barbed wire over the power line. Paragraph« on County The farmers ere getting ready to News jIEIIH CO»!! INHIEfl .. » ~~ ==^===W5B=======:=^ C. L. IRELAND Editor and Publisher _ poet Theodore Johnston, N. G Lost No. 116, Moro, Oregon, meets 1st and 3d Fridays of each month. Visiting members welcome. Mrs. C V. Belknap, N.G. Hazel Woods, Secy CHRIS SCHULTZ POST NO. T1 __ AMERICAN LEGION Meets st Odd Fellows Hsll on MnJ wS® Wednesdsv* of each month. Commander, 1. M. Petersog, Adjutant, Geo. Mitchell. - Zell’» Fanera! Home Now Opea at J 4 G. B. Abraham and wife, fromAia- meda, California, were visitors in Moro last week-end, guests of M. W. Armstrong brother of Mrs. Abraham. There were five in the motor car when it left Alameda, and by taking turn about driving the trip to Salem. Oregon, was made in 36 hours. T. E. Armstrong returned with them to Salem on Tuesday. ^ 7. Silver Fox Back in Kent Pen Tl.ru the kindly offices of C.H.Lar- son of this city, manager of Kenneth Springs silver fox farm north east of Moro, Mrs. Theo. vdnBorstel has rt- Luvered the ailv£C.iox which dug out o^. its pen un the vonBoratel farm near Kent April 1st last. While visiting at the Chinook Fur Farm near Walla Walla about six weeks ago Mr. Larson was told about a strange silver fox which had been brought to that place and offered for sale by a passing motorist. When shown the fox Mr. Larson quickly identified it as being the lost von Borstel fox by means of its ear brands. The fox was found near Ione by C. W. Frazier of Milton on April 5th. How it got out of Sher man county, travelled across Gilliam egunty and half the width of Mor row county without being seen is not known. It has been at the Walla Walla fur farm since April 21st, when first offered for sale by Frazier. C. H. Larson and wife and Mrs. Theo. vonBorstel returned here on Tuesday from a motor trip to Walla Walla, bringing with them the fox which was turned over to Mrs. von Borstel after she had established ownership of the animal. W. H. Meyers, of Wasco, formerly marshal of that city, and who has been recently working at the Klon dike elevator warehouse was taken to the Hamilton hospital Tuesday eve ning by Dr. J. A. Wonderlick, suffer ing from’ a serious cerebral hemor- rage the result of a fall on his lawn New style Rotary Rod Weeder for almost a week previous. His condi sale by Moro Hardware A Imple tion is reported to be very serious. Mr. and Mrs. Irving Kunsmaa ment Co. who were visiting at the home o' Mrs. Ku ns man’s parents, L. H. Mar tin and wife, left last Saturday for Lexington where they intended visit ing with Myles Martin and family. They were accompanied on the trip by Bernice and Willard, son and daughter Of Myles Martin and wife, who were visiting here while their mother was in Portland at the home of her father who has been seriously ill for several weeks. Baby Holt Combine FOR Sale CHEAP Can give ownership through ' mortgage foreclosure ATTORNEY The Dalles Oregon Room 21 Vogt Block MORO, Phone 96 OREGON CREAM PRICE TO-DAY 48 cents H. M. Vaught and wife of Wal lowa, Oregon, were guests of C. V. Belknap and wife Thursday and Fri day of this week. They were driving home from a visit with relatives at Vancouver, Wash. Mrs. Vaugth is an aunt of Mrs. Belknap. C. A. Perkins and wife, formerly of Moro, passed through here early Sunday on a motor trip from Bend to Portland. They reported passing through a hard rain storm in the Shaniko district that lasted until they got close to Grass Valley. Hard federation wheat brought in to Moro Tuesday from the C. J. Thompson farm showed plump ker nels some of which were slightly pinched by the hot wave. The first run of the field indicated that the yield would be close to 25 bushels. Arthur Christiansen is authority for the statement that the crop of barley referred to last week by the Sherman County Observer, as being threshed by Fred Hemnagin in the Locust Grove district west of Wasco, turned out about 50 sacks more than 2400 from off 110 acres. Harry Kunsman returned Sunday from a week-end visit with his fam ily at Government springs near Stev enson. He brought back with him a gallon jug of the mineral water which is different water from many such places because it is not un pleasant to drink when slightly aged. will be a reproach when the cold weather comes, and when you remember that Sunday, June 21st, .was the longest day, winter is not so far away. JIetter fill the woodshed now .with some of our Slab Wood —»-the kind that splits right, burns right, and is Priced Right! D. E. Clark, Manager Phong Main 91 Walton and wife were week end 'dzitors in The Dalles. 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. C. R. Beiahee was a business visi L. V. Moore and wife left the first tor in town Tuesday from Moro. of the week on a motor trip to Elk G. W. Barnet and wife were week lake. A y'* • end visitor» here from The Dalles. Chester Andersen was a visitor ir ' Glenn Howell and wife are visi- Moro last Sunday from White Sal .or» from The Dalles at the George mon, Washington, Howell home. “Yes, I know all the excuses. I J. C. McKean and wife left Wed Mre. J. L. Gentry and son of Muro know that one can worship the Crea nesday for Portland and the Elks were vidRing Sunday at the J. C. tor in a grove of trees or by a run* national convention. ning brook, or in a man’s own house Wilson home. just as well as in a church. But I R. C. Atwood and wife and two . F. L. Bennett was in town Wed guests passed through Moro Sunday nesday forenoofr wi0i a truck load of also know as a matter of cold fact the average man does not thus on a motor trip to Elk lake. garden products. worship.”—Theodore Roosevelt. J. N. Landry is busy this week at Mrs. Earl Greg* and children from Sunday morning services at the the Tumalum yards building a hay Bend are visiting with her sister Mrs. Methodist church will be at the usual rack and fitting it onto a wagon. -- Cari Gregg and family. hours. Sunday school at 10 a. m. Sheriff Hugh Chrisman and wife : Mrs. G. 1» liuskmsun is enjoying and at 11 a. m. Mrs. R. A. Feenstra drove to Portland Wednesday to at a visit with • si 1er from Dakota is going to preach the fifth of the tend the Elks convention in that whom she has no’ jen for a number series on the churches of Revelation. In the evening the union service will city. of years. be held at the Methodist church, Rev. ''Miss Frances Huff of Baker, so Mrs. A. A. •‘Du nap arrived home R. A. Feenstra preaching the sermon. rority sister of Miss Margnerette Friday evening ftom a months visit You Eire cordially invited. Foss, was s visitor at the Poss home with Mrs. Dunlap’s brother Guy ■dast week-end.. ‘ Haynes; at YaWflHIl SVe Ginn, Coleman & Ço. for 14- C. H. Larson; left Wednesday Mrs. W. A. Young and daughter foot Harris or Holt combine used morning for Portland where he will who have been visiting at the Harry drapers. attend the convention meeting of the Horner home at Hood River the past C. C. Richmond Sr. has accepted a Northwestern Fur Breeders associa month, returned home Sunday. position in the wood working depart tion. , Frank Haynes and wife took their ment at Foss & Co.- The annual hay fever attacks on daughter Phillis to the Shriners hos Foss & Co. have completed build- men working in hay and grain isnow pital in“ Portland last Sunday, return- on and is quite a problem to be ing Tuesday, Mrs. Ida Davis went ing a new water tank for Fred Hutchcroft to use in harvest this worked out with pollens of the with them. season. offending weeds. - C. Ben Allen and wife drove to The Rotary .Rod , Weeder, manufac Dean Barnett returned to his home Dalles last Sunday to see Mr. at Wasco from the* Hamilton hos Crocker. They report him as much tured in Cheney, Washington, for pital where he has been for the past improved and that the doctors think sr.lu by the Moro Hardware & Imple ment Co. four weeks recovering from a case they can save his leg. of ruptured appendicitis. Mr. Nunn Jr. of Wasco while work Bail for the release of A. H. Hilton H. C. Tate, father of W. E. Tate was not supplied by residents of ing at the farm got a piece of steel which was successfully postmaster* at Wasco, at the age of Kent. The bail came from persons in his 97 years is suffering his first serious living in the vicinity of—but not removed that evening by Dr. Won derlick. illness. He is under the care off Dr. in—the town of Kent. J. A. Wonderlick at Wqsco. Ask N. W. Thompson of the Moro I. H. Scheer and family were in an George Belknap, sedior at the Uni auto accident Saturday at the over Hardware & Implement Co. about versity of Oregon, has returned to head railway crossing, near Celilo, the guarantee op the new Rotary Moro for the summer vacation and but were able to continue to Hood Rod Weeder, manufactured in Che ney, Washington. ia.now working at the Experiment River the same afternoon. Farm helping with the harvest. .. Bart Burrell has been taking things Mrs. Theo, von Borstel has recov- easy this week, nursing an incipient , Wm. R. Wall and wife were visi ered the silver fut that dug out of Attack of tonsilitis. The first he has tors in Moro last week-end from its pen on April ’st last, It was had since had qn attack four their home at Longview, Washington. looted at Walla Walla, Washington, years ago following recovery from They were here to look after resi-. where it was taken and offered for dence property which they own in sale by a man who claimed to have the Hu. _ Í . -, The Mt. Hood loop road is now in Moro. found it near tore i tine shapt with the exception of a W. R. Zevely, wife and two daugh-, few places that need patching and ters, from Prineville, were visitors in ( Krs. Ida Blair i f Portland is visit- the week-end travel was immense, Moro late last week on a motor <.r«p ing V in Moro with friends and according to C. W. Wanzer, division to Portland. While here they visited relatives. ’ engineer. at the A. M. Zevely home, brother of Dr. M. F. Fruyd reports, that Mrs. J. T. Thurston, working orf “the W. R. Zevely. George Mitchell, has been sick this E. H. Watkins farm near Wasco, Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Morgan left week with the flh. - fell from a’ load of hay Monday with early Wednesday morning by motor resultant injuries to hia-back. He was Mr. and Mrs.‘L. Barnum were for Portalnd where they will join in -taken to Wasco where Dr. Wonder v/éck from The the fun at the Elks national conven visitors in Moro ln>t lick gave him a support for his back. Dalles, guests of !'?. an J Mrs. Roy tion. Dr. Morgan will again be, at Kunsman. Elmpr Haines, working with a his office Tuesday morning. caterpiller on the John M. DeMoss Francis and Audrey Carothers, son Carl Everett of Wasco and George farm north of Wasco, fell from off and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Wilkerson of Rufus’’ were visiting Carothers of Wajco, underwent the machine on July 10th which re with friends in Moro last Sunday. sulted in injuries to his head and hip. Omer Sayrs expected to start minor operations at Hamiltofi hos Several stitches were needed to close pital Wednesday mornipg. harvest on his farm this week by the wounds. threshing out a pieoe of barley. P. C. AxteA rechived a severe cut E. H. Weld and family1, of Wasco on the right side of his head last A party of four left by motor were dinner 'guests last Sunday at Wednesday afternoon for Portland week when he lost his balance and the Robt. Urquhart home in this city. fell into the double trees from off a to attend the Elks convention. Those The occasion was the birthday of in the party were Glen Maurer of rod weeder he was*driving in one oi Wayland Weld on Saturday and the Wasco, Miss Jessie Hoskinson, and his wheat fields. birthday anniversary of Mrs. Urqu Mr. and Mrs George Lee of this city. Man with several years experience hart on Sunday. Wm. L Chrisman is drawing down on* Sherman county farm wants a Mr. and Mrs. Walter Peterson, $36.50 per month while recovering year round job. A good home and from Livingston, Montana, have been kind treatment more object than from his accident last month at a visiting during the week at the home saw mill in Monroe, Oregon. The wages. Make me an offer. Address of Mrs. C. H. Larson, sister of Mr. compensation is being paid through P. 0. Box 371 Portland, Oregon. Peterson. The visitors' left Wednes the state workman’s insurance bu E. S. Forney, wife and daughter day for Fresno, California, by way of reau. Doris were visitors Tuesday and Portland, Eugene and Klamath. 7 A very light sprinkle of rain mark Wednesday at the C. V. Belknap Hayden Brighine arrived in Moro ed the dust in the streets of Moro home. The two families were neigh- last week from his home at North lArrs when the Belknaps lived J at last Sunday morning. The same The Forneys Plaijhs, Washington, and is now busy storm visited Boardman district Addy, Washington. putting the combine harvester own where the out-of-doors sleepers at were returning home from a motor ed by H. B. Belshee in condition for trip to Rainier park, Seattle, Port the - Clarence Sparling farm' were the field. He will also act as separa- land, Gervais, Morotnd Ritzville. forced indoors by the rain. tor tender on the machine during R. P. Brisbine and Herbert Ells worth were in Wasco county three days last week, patrolling the power line of the Sherman Electric com pany, making necessary repairs, and checking on its condition for next winter. . They found twb insulators missing, which were replaced early Sunday morning. Wood»h«d Foss A Co. have completed horse combine hitch for V* S. Barr. MORO CHURCH NEWS Hans Thompson was in town Wednesday to greet his nephew, Oscar Thompson, from Portland who will help harvest on Mr. Thompson’s farm in the Fairv^w district. Since leaving here, Oscar has visited his old home in Denmark and more recently been working in Portland at the carpenter trade. Mr. and Mrs. R. W.-Niles and son Dickey and Mr. and Mrs. Zozell, all of Salem, spent last week-end as house guests at the T. S. Reese farm in Harmony district. The visitors left early Monday morning for Sa lem, driving over the McKenxie pass, and planned to be in Salem in time for an early supper in their own homes, . Immediately after parking his car at the curb on Main street last Fri day, Dr. M. F. Froyd discovered his car on fire under the hood. The blaze was quickly extinguished, but not before all wiring connections were ruined. The fire is thought to have been caused by a loose elec trical connection. The car was in- lured against fire, $225 being paid by i •urad the company for the damage done. | I * • harvest. Use That Club IF SOM- OF THOSe pec rut LIW OFF OP soon they ' re 0OINÖ tc MAKE Mt TH»« CLOÔ — — ÖA0 i MATE TO DQ’ IT If C»T«ES ArtO COMl4UKIT1f£ WITH AN IMTR¡EA*IN MOUNT SB1ÜÊ y Al Kirtley and wife were visiting in Moro last Sunday from their home west of Wasco. While here Mr. Kirtley is reported to have said that hard federation wheat being thresh ed on the Wm. Burres place east of Wasco was said to be yielding close to 1 4 sacks to the acre. T. W. Alley and wifet left last Saturday for Portland where they are enjoying the Elks national con vention this week. Before they re turn they will motor to Camp Lewis where they will visit with their son Edgar, who is an enlisted member of the citizens military training camp at that place. Missess Marguerette and Gwen dolyn Foss returned the first of the week from Portland where they at tended the national convention of Christian Endeavor. This is the second national convention of Chris tian Endeavor attended by Mar guerette, she having been a delegate two years ago when the convention met at DesMoines, Iowa. J. C. McKean and George Meloy took a short drive Sunday afternoon for the purpose of inspecting local wheat fields. The fields showed var ious degree« of maturity which weiy hard to estimate a»., to * ultimate yields. In making the turn on the highway near the top of Nigger ri Ige their car got hung yp on a tongue ••’ land between two washed out shal- A passing motorist low furrows. helped ' them get again, on . thm wheeling. ^0 T heatre MORO. OREGON . TWICE - A - WEEK FEATURE INTERNATIONAL NEWS REEL “Dream Street” “Dream Street” sounds like a sort of dreamy picturesque photo drama, but when you see it in the full flower of its beauty you will say that it is altogether different than imagination pictured. “ Racing Luck ” ‘ Saturday, July 18 High-powered six-cylinder fun, thrills of the most c nature and a romance that is flavored with true love that don not run smoothly are to be found in the comedy feature produc tion, “Racing Luck” that has Monty Banks as the star. TWICE-A WEEK FEATURE INTERNATIONAL NEWS REEL “ The Navigator “The Navigator” is the story of a Young Feller* who couldn’t Make Good on Earth, but was a Big Success at the Bottom of The Ocean. • “ Between Friend* ” Saturday, July 25 A story woven around the scripture, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” Into this theme has been woven intense action, a mjuiptor’Az studio, gay artists’ frolics, a model’s life and a fascinating story of action and thrills. TWICE-A-WEEK FEATURE INTERNATIONAL NEWS REEL Your Motor Overhauled and Rebuilt by Chevrolet Expert Including Labor and Parts Nine Years Factory Experience $45.°° H. A. Melane 703 2nd Street The Dalles. Oregon
