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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1925)
t JL '/ i The Sherman County Observer, Moro, Oregon, Friday, 1* Avgust 7, 1925 ■w».—u* UEHH mm iikwíh 7 ____ ____ roruana Man ounday C. L. I reland Entered as second claw matter at the poet often at Moro, Oregon, July 25, 1891 Eureka Lodge No. 131 Meets the 1st and 3d Thurs day evenings of each month, ting member* cordially invited to moot with u*. By order of W. M. Robt. Urquhart, Secretary communication* each 2nd and 4th Thursday evening* monthly. Mrs. E. A. Cushman, Worthy Matron. Nana Barzee, Secretary. 1. floro Lodge No. 113 I. O O. F. Meets every Monday eve ning in the I. O. O. F. hall. Transient and visitint bro thers arc cordially invited to meet with ns. W. B. Rice, N. G. . A.M. ypung, Secretary Lupine Rebecca Lodge. No. 116, Moro, Oregon/ meets 1st and 3d Fridays of each month. Visiting member* welcome. Mr*. C V. Belknap, N.G. Hazel Woods, Secy CHRIS SCHULTZ POST NO. T1 AMERICAN LEGION Meet* at Odd Fellow* Hall on K h IK k V Sunday afternoon August 2nd, a quiet wedding took place at the Pres byterian manse in this city when Rev. Henry G. Hanson pronounced the words which made two one. The contracting parties were Mr. James Robert Phillips of Portland and Miss Georgia Thompson of Moro. The in vited guests consisted of immediate relatives of the couple, and are as follows: Mr. and Mrs. Hans Thomp son, parents of the bride, and their three children, Mrs. Clara Thompson Ward of Dufur,. Miss Lillian Thomp son and Master Harvey Thompson of Moro; Mr. Edward L. Ward of Dufur Mr. Thompson, a cousin of the bride; Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Kunsman and daughter. Barbara of Moro; Mrs. Phillips and daughter, mother and sister of the bridegroom, from Port land. Mrs. Kunsman sang “Because” and played the wedding march from Mendelsohn. Refreshments were served immediately after the con clusion of ths ceremony by Mrs. Han son and Mrs. Kunsman. The bridegroom is a graduate of O. A, C., and is now connected with a business firm in Portland. The bride Is well known around Moro, having been a resident of the county ten miles east of here. She has at tended Albany college, and Leland Stanford university, of which latter institution she is a graduate. Since graduation she has been a librarian nt Stanford, and during the past year in the central library at Port land. The young couple will make their home at Multnomah station, IrortUuuL The many friends of the young couple wish them a happy and prosr erous voyage through life. i Editor and Publisher »econd and fourth Wednesday■ of each month. Commander, I. M Peter .on, Roy F. Dean, Adjutant Way ZdlTs Fanera? Hone Now Open at Mr. and Mrs. Guy Pound are visit ing at Wasco with Mrs. Aridrew Shearer, aunt of Mrs. Pound. Mr. Pound th from Eureka, California, where he has been engaged in th$ jewelry business. He is also a for mer resident of Wasco where he own ed a jewelry business and expects to locate soon at The Dalles in a similar business. C. 0. Elliott and party of five who recently visited at the home of G. G. Thorp when on their way from Eugene to Alberta, Canada, spent the last week-end again at the Thorp homa on their return. Mr. Elliott owns 1 Mi sections of land in Alberta and had planned to sell it when he arrived, but changed his mind after he saw the crop of wheat it was pro ducing this season. Mutual Creamery Co. MORO, OREGON CREAM PRICE TO-DAY 52 cents Neighborhood items From and after this date charges for hauling will be $1 per cord for wood; $1 per ton for coal; other charges accordingly. C. L. Mont gomery. C. W. Smith finished his harvest run Tuesday and on Wednesday had hissing combine harvester in the shed until time to start it in harvest next year. Forrest Peetz was employed by Mr. Smith to place the outfit un der cover. Four silver knives and forks with the initial P on the handle was lost Sunday in front of Mrs. E. J. Pow ell’s home from. off the running board of an auto. Their loss spoils a set. Reward will be paid for re turn to Mrs. Powell. E. T. Olson, farming in the Ful ton district west of Wasco, made two round tripg to The Dalles last Monday after men for his harvest crew. The first time he brought back two men and the second time one. Three men was the total needed. C. J. Thompson has finished with the harvest on his farm east of Moro and is now planning to leave here the last of the week ?br his home at Corvallis. The family will make the trip by way of Camp Sherman and Belknap springs stopping about a week at each place. A number of local owned threshing machines have finished the harvest on their owners farms and are now be ing operated in joining fields. It is only a matter of a. few days until the larger part of the wheat harvest in Sherman county for this season will have been finished. Mr., and Mrs. C. L. Powell and daughter Lucile accompanied by Madison Cooper, drove up from Port land last Saturday for a visit with relatives and friends in and near Moro. They were intending to re turn to Portland the last of the week by way of McKenzie pass highway. It's a good thing those Put nam boys are going back to school f^ext week OU heard the latest exploit, didn’t you! Left the water running in the bath tub and ruined the'living room wall. redecorated, it waa, and Mrs. Putnam knew she couldn’t ask to have it done over. But her cousin Jim, the decora tor, said if the boys would buy the Acme Quality No-Lustre Finish he would do over the walls him« if. Mrs.> Putnam says now she isn t sorry it happened—the walls are sirflply lovely —and she has learned something about wall finishes she wishes she had known years ago. - | Y ACME QUALITY NO-LUSTRE FINISH Ali the ndzhborbood b6y* its Acme Quality Paiate, Enamel*, Stain* and Varnishes in our ator* It you want to join everyone elae in bnghtenin* up the home* in the pei«hborbo<id, fee ean tell you juet how to «o »bout it, what Acme Products to use, and now to use them. Tam-A-Lamber Co f. - .s- D. E. Clark, Manager Phone Main 91 The Dalles Battery Co., 514 E. 2nd street The Dalles, is an official state testing and adjusting station for auto head and spot lights. C. A. Fritzsche is in personal charge of this work and is fully capable if issuing the Just required certificate necessary to be; secured by all auto car drivers by September 1st. Rev. John Robertson, formerly pas tor of Moro Methodist church and now pastor of a Methodist church in Spokane, was a brief visitor in this city Wednesday afternoon. ^He was on his return to Spokane from a visit to Seaside and visited in Moro while Jfrs. Robertson visited with relatives at Dufur. Dr. L. D. Idleman accompanied by Mrs. Idleman and their daughter Miss Helen Idleman were visiting in Moro this week on their way from Salem to Camp Sherman. They were joined here by Mrs. A. S. Johnson, sister of Mrs. Idleman, when the party left on Thursday for the head waters of the Metolious. Anson Woods was in Moro from Walia Walla Wednesday afternoon. He has a farm near Weston in Uma tilla county and had heard that a Sherman county farmer who held joining land wanted to sell. , When the two got together both agreed on the buying and selling but were several hundred dollars apart on the price. * Franklin Gibson, eigh< week old baby boy living near Wasco with his Grandparents, W. A. Bayliss and wife during the tempory absence of his parents in or near Portland, died Sunday night from pneumonia fol lowing an attack of whooping eough Funeral services were held at Wasco ■ Tuesday morning interment being in the Wasco Oemetery, i BRIEF LOCAL NEWS News Items From Kent And Near Vicinity MORO CHURCH NEWS I Paragraphs on County I and Community Events , A. A. Dunlap is a Portland visitor this week. Notes of Interest to All De nominations Mr. and Mrs. Norton were Moro Chaa. Mann is visiting in the coun visitors Monday. ty from Susanville, California. • Mrs. Thorp was . visiting at The David West, farming near the city Dalles a few days this week. limits, was in The Dalles on business Arnold Dellinger spent the week Monday. end visiting friends at The Dalles. K. ¿r • E. R. Barzee has purchased a light Mrs. Jas. Dellinger is enjoying a truck with which to handle his short visit with her brother and family haul deliveries. from Bend. Sunday morning at the Presby terian church Rev. Henry G. Hanson will preach his second sermon in a series on Fundamental Religious Truths, taking for his theme “Jesus.” Last Sunday afternoon he spoke on “God.” Other sermons of the series will be announced later. Sunday school as usual at 10:00 a. m. T. R. McGinnis, wife and son Lu L. W. Amick and wife were Sun Christian Science church services ther were visiting in Moro this week day visitors pt the Ben Payne home are held on Sunday morning at 11 from Corvallis. at Grass Valley. o’clock and on Wednesday at 8:00 Sheriff Hugh Chrisman and wife Jimmy and Preston Leonard of p. m. Sunday schopl at 10:15 a.m. were in The Dalles Tuesday taking in Hood River are visiting their grand The reading room is open daily in the Barnes animal circus. father, Chas. Guyton. the rear of the church. All are- in ’ *1 • * Judge Fred Krusow and wife of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Sproul of Van vited to attend the church services Grass Valley were combining busi couver, Washington, are visiting at and to make use of the reading room. ness with pleasure in The Dalles last the Wm. Young h<ime. Monday. The second service of the churches Geo. McKay and family are spend next Sunday will be held in the com- * ■ / V. S. Barr was expecting to have ing the week ¡with Mr. McKay’s sis-! fortable shade at DeMcdi Park at his threshing work completed and his ter, Mrs. Geo» Howell and family. 4:30 p. m. Eveiybody is cordially outfit under cover by Wednesday of Mrs. Crocket arrived home Sunday invited to these opc n air services, this week. and reports Mr. Crocker doing fine Rev. Henry G. Hanson will preach. The usual Dorcas social for and that he ejects to be home the August will be held next Wednesday last of the we^t. 1 afternoon at the home of Mrs. Roy Picture Show News Mrs?* Jas. Mathf»s and daughter Kunsman. For The Current Week spent the week-end at The Dalles at Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Lee and son the home of Mrs. Mathes parents, No character in history or legend Lester were visiting at Moro last Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Barnett. ever appealed mure to the imagina week-end for the second time within Miss Alta Norton who has been tion for his preponderance of dash two weeks. spending the past two months with ing romantic nerve than Robin Hood, Newton Crosfield and family of her grandparents in the Willamette whose exploits in the Twelfth Century Wasco, accompanied by Mrs. Jessie valley arrived Home T uesday. serve to mark that era as one -in Amos, left last week-end by motor Miss Minie Hogue arrived home on which the spirit of chivalry reached J. for an extended visit at coast points. Tuesday evenings train from Toledo its zenith. No character in the mem-I A baby girl weight 7 Vi pounds ar where she has been visiting the past ory of mankind ever was given such 1 rived safely at the home of Mr. and month with her sister, Mrs. Clair a magnificent opportunity to be im• i pressed permanently, so brilliantly. 1 Mrs. Ray Morehouse of Klondike Simler. Douglas Fairbanks’ masterly portray-. Friday, July 31st, Dr. J. A. Wonder- A baby daughter arrived at the al of this character in his photodrama lick attending. home of W. D. Barnett Wednesday “Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood,” ! Raymond Henrichs drove down the 29th. Mother and daughter do is sure to enhance the popularity of 1 from Camp Sherman last Saturday ing fine, but Slim’s head has gotten this hero since this film undoubtedly । in time to almost immediately take so big that he has made two or three will live just as any great novel with off his coat and go on duty at the trips to The Dalles for a hat, but has a historical background survives the confectionery store. been unable to find one to fit him. onslaughts of time. T. W. Alley and wife, F. L. Bur He has decided to hate Dunlap see As Visuatized in the matchless nett and wife and Mrs. E. F. Brown what he could do for him during “Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood,” were among those from Moro who buyer’s week at Portland. this character becomes the very king attended the Barnes animal circus in of romance in all that the term im The Dalles Tuesday. | T. B. Searcy has finished the plies, : n l his manner of impressing C. W. Kenny and family were 'harvest on his farm in the Board his commendable traits of standing visiting in Wasco Tuesday evening. man district. The barley is reported unabashed as the -bold fighter in be Mrs. Kenny expects to leave soon for to have averaged (Jose' to 20 sacks to half of frail woman is one which will Idaho to visit her mother whose the acre and the federation wheat nut fail to remain fixed in the mind of every person who sees the rein 12 Vu sacks to the acre. health has been poorly. > carnation of his spirit by Mr. Chas. Bullard is reputed to be the Fairbanks. Miss Edith Jones of Portland, visit ing at the Miller home at Wasco, is owner,pf the first threshing outfit to under the care of Dr. J. A. Wonder *'e put into the ahed after finishing A courageous but inexperienced lick suffering from a severe attack o, • .ts harvest work In Sherman county easterner going through the- trials this reason. The machine was placed of ranch life in an effort to gain a inflammatory rhuematism. untlor cevir last Saturday. proper perspective of life is the plot Dr. Froyd was called to Antelope Miss i’ai> Joh-nson and Mrs. Susie of Hoot Gibson's picture, ‘‘Taming Monday to attend Gilbert Vander- '------ hoff who was suffering from a lacer Hastings, trove down the Columbia the West.” The story is an adaptation of ‘‘The highway Wednctday of this week, ated foot, supposed to have been Miss Johnson to visit in Portland and Range Dwellers,” in original story caused by a barbed wire fence Mrs. HasLngs to transact business by B. M. Bowers. It deals with the At the meeting of the city council curious experiences i and humorous at Vancouver, ;shingt< n. held on Tuesday evening J. C. Free episodes in the life of an easterner Chris Andersen stepped on the gas man was elected as councilman to who has gone to live on a ranch in serve as successor to T. W. Alley throttle of his .ar early Monday search of character. mophing and left via the Columbia who recently resigned the office. highway for Portland. He said that C. C. Young and wife from The he was quite well satisfied with the Man with several years experience Dalles, accompanied by Mrs. Young’s crop from off his place west of Moro. on Sherman county ’ farm wants a niece, Miss Palma Mone from North Ed Suran, working for E. P. Rich, year round job. . A good home and Dakota, were visiting in Moro last near Wasco, is suffering from a foot kind treatment more object than Sunday at the A. M. Young homa. injury resulting from a horse step wages. Make me an offer. Address O. L. Belshe and L. L. Peetz drove ping o0 him when extracting it from P. O. Box 371 Portland, Oregon. down from Camp Sherman on Tues tangled harness. An x-ray examina- Dr. Froyd was called to the J. F. day to have another look at harvest tion by Dr. Wonderlick showed no Noonan home Saturday night to ing operations. They returned a- broken bones. * treat their 4-yeur old son who had gain to Camp Sherman on Thursday. become poisoned in some unknown The top price for 1025 wheat so Harry Blough and wife who have manner. Monday the youngster had far reported to have been paid in been visiting in Sherman county with fully recovered from the effects of was that received Sherman county Mrs. Blough’s brothers, Lester Con- the poison. by Bruce Kee on Tuesday for .No. 1 lee at Moro and Howard Conlee at The price "was $1.41 de Ted Everett, working on his broth Fairview, left Monday for their home marquis. livered at Hay Canyon. W. W. M. er’s, C. A. Everett, farm near Wasco at Portland. Co. is the reported purchaser. received an injury to his eye Tuesday Julia Sagawa, 17-year old daugh Mrs. G. A. Meloy and daughter, caused a small gash on the eye ball. ter of Mrs. Bertha Sagawa residing Miss Kathleen, are visiting from Cor Dr. J. A. Wonderlick dressed the in at Fairview, submitted to an opera vallis a£ the home of M. A. Bull and jured member and Mr. Everett is tion at the office of Dr. J. A. Wonder family. Miss Kathleen is a graduate again at work on the farm. lick at Wasco Tuesday for the re of 0. A. C. and is now studying for Chas. Fields, working on the Roy moval of tonsils. . an advanced degree. Part of the Belshee farm north of Wasco, was Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Morgan left by work necessary i that she shall kicked on the shin by a horse last auto Wednesday for a months vaca make a social and historical survey week. After a week of home treat tion and camping trip. They will of some city in Oregon. She has ment and his getting no better he spend the first two weeks at Govern selected her home town of Moro for went to Dr. J. A. Wonderlick for an ment Springs and the second two this and their visit is for the purpose x-ray examination which showed a weeks at Seaside. of securing necessary data. cracked shin bone. M oro T heatre MORO/ OREGON TWICE-A-WEEK FEATURE-INTERNATIONAL NEWS REEL 44 Robin Hood ” 25c an ¡ 170. Special Prices: ‘‘Robin Hood” is a noted English historical novel ma< by its presentation the past few years in light opera and musical revues. In it. to the same high standard of excellence. Taming The u p g West The swiftest romance that was ever put on the sire eh. Just one continuous whirlwind of bucking broncs, fist tights, love-making speeding automobiles and galloping hoofs. Adapted from “The Range Dwellers" by B. M. Bowers. TWICE-A-WEEK FEATURE INTERNATIONAL NEWS REEL Douglas MacLean in “ Introduce Me “Introduce Me” is one of the sensational feature successes of the year, starring Douglas Mac Lean Jack Hoxie in “ Ridin’ Thunder ” Saturday, August 15 more reckless—»-more thrilling band of u ij-d-riding cow- punchers never rode a bucking bronco. You’ll see the most thrilling exhibition of horsemanship in this roaring tale of the Great West lead by that daredevil cowboy, Big Jack Hoxie. TWICE - A - WEEK FEATURE INTERNATIONAL NEWS REEL ■ MAIN STREET B arber S hop MORO, OREGON Joe Truitt, Proprietor SHOWER BATHS Special Price $7.00 on Transmission $5.50 Labor on Rear End Labor Ninety Days *Free Service Work Guaranteed Nine Years Factory Experience H. A. Melane 703 2nd Street The Dalles, Oregon Phil Starr claims to be milking the premium cow of Sherman county, a 7-year old Jersey that according to W. J. Cody, agent here for the Mu tual Creamery Co., gives a cream test of 6.5 on whole milk. The cow is now giving three gallons a day and is due to again freshen soon. Dr. M. F. Froyd was called to the Clem Eslinger farm »Sunday to*, at tend the 15-ycarwuld son of Ben Payne who had been injured severely when his horse fell with him and rolled over him. Dr. Froyd stated that the boy had concussion of the brain and was unconscious until M onday. ' Mrs. Idabelle Hunter and sister, Laura Urquhart, arrived late Sunday evening by auto from Oroville, Wash ington, h.aving made the drive in one day. They stopped nearly 1 ’4 hours in Ellensburg and also had a rest from driving when ferrying the Col umbia river at Arlington. Oroville is near the Canadian line, 432 miles from Moro. Dr. M. F. Froyd and Joe Truitt are busy these days seeking inter views with live wire boxers .who are wanted for places on the boxing ex hibition prograin that is being pre pared for Sherman county annual fair week. At the present time the card is about filled, fighting men from Portland, Yakima, The Dalles, and other points having agreed to be present when the gong sounds. Peerless Light Draft Rotary Rod Weedet A Weeder Cultivator and Packer The Three-in-One Practical Farm Implement Once Over the Ground And All Three.Operations ^/Are Completed On Display " and -For Sale BY F * Ginn a Moro, Oregon
