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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1925)
The Sherman County Observer, Moro, Oregon, Friday, mnu min ibserie « C. L. I reland Editor and Publisher October 9, 1925. ; ».4» Conference Year-end Show. Methodist Church Progress ' ♦ --------- ^ Methodist ministers in attendance at the .annual denominational con ference in Eugene last ^week were surprised when the final totals made by the church statistician showed a decrease in conference Sunday school woik. The report showed 181 Sun day schools in the conference this year as against 191 a year ago, and 34,764 scholars enrolled as against 34,927 a year ago. The average at tendance this past year was 17,977 per Sunday and for 1924 it was 18,- 153. An increase was shown in the number of teachers and officers, there being 3054 this year and 3016 the previous year. During the past 12 months the church received 1327 accessions to membership from the Sunday school, and the jHüdren gave >8772 to world service. There are 8823 Sunday school members who are members of the church. . 'Active membership in the iletho- dLt church at the close of the church year, totaled 27,405 fof the entire conference, an increase of 261 over 1224. Altho the figures showed some gain, the increase would have been greater l.ad not three churches been transferred to another conference during the year« , The Oregon conference has 190 church buildings valued at $2,262,- 113, 127 parsonages valued at $355,- 2$5 and other property valued at $97,449. It has paid out on build- ings and improvements during the year >104,751 and on old indebted Hess it has paid 179,070. News Items BRIEF LOCAL NEWS Paragraphs on County and Community Events m Kent Near Vicinity i MORO CHURCH NEWS The cold, nights makes a fcllov think winter is close at hand. 1 Notes of Interest to All Denominations Elmer Hansen of Zoro was ssen The usual union meeting will be C. L. Powell left Sunday by auto on our streets Sunday. held Sunday evening at 7:80 in the tor his home at Portland. Miss Thelma Dellinger and Paul Presbyterien church, Rev. Henry G. Mrs. L. C. Kessinger is visiting Stout were married in Portland last Hanson will preach. Christian En- with her mother, Mrs. Bowertox, at week. deavor preced.a the ccrvice, begin- Moro, Oregon Eugene. I. E. Wilson end family were visi ning at 6:45. Meets the 1st and 3rd Thursday evenings of Forrest Peetz is clerking at the tors at the J. M. A. ilson home near W. A. Sellwood of Portland, field each month. Visiting Moro Trading company during their Eugene last wiek. worker for Near East Relief will in- members cordially closing out sale. A small daughter arrived at the speak at the Presbyterian church vited to meet with ua By order of W. M. Attorney I. M. Peterson returned home of Ted von Borstel, Saturday, next Sunday morning. He has a thril Robt. Utquhart, Secretary. ling story to tell, and everybody Monday from a professional and busi September 26th. ness visit to Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Jensen and should turn out to learn about the Bntklaham Chapter No 7S O. E. S. great work being done for the thous Moro, Oregon J. A. Hardin and family were Mrs. J. U. Leonard of Hood River ands of orphaned children in Europe Regular communica were in town Sunday. Sunday, visitors the first of the week tions each 2nd and 4th and Aisa. ' - ' 4 Thursday evenings of at the R. L. Kunsman home. Rev. Gilstrap of Eugene gave an each month. Services at lite ; ct .o .ist church A. M. Hick” was in Moro the first interesting sermon at the Christian Lois Barzee, at the usual hot r 03 Sunday morning. of the week, ^u.ng necessary plumb church Sunday evening. Worthy Matron Nana Barzee, Secretary. ing v.oik ta me Moro Confetcionery News is very scarce around here, Mrs. R. A. Feenstra au I pleach from sto;c. nobody apparently doing any thing the statement in tho Apostles creed Moro Lodge No. 113 L O. O. F “I believe in t’ e cor..munion' of the Mor x Oregon R. J. Ginn is in Portland this week to get their names in the paper. saints.” Meets every Monday on b^s.aeiss connected with the Ginn, Lloyd Johnson and his two sisters, evening in the I.O.O.F The pastor an I ».is good wife have Coleman & Co. hardware and house Josephine and Imogene, were Sun hall. Transient and been returned to . oio to serve furnishing firm. visiting brothers < are day visitors at ths Pluemke home. church and community another year cordially • invited to Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Moore returned Frank Haynes has installed a radio and earnestly solicit t c cooperation meet with us. last Sunday from a weeks auto trip set and Dick Abet'also has replaced of all to make the wuxk of the church . B. Rice, N. G. that included a stop with relatives at his old radio selrwiiha new one. A.M. Young, Secretary most effective for righteousness. rmtkmd and an inspection at the t TTT"' Miss Glenna Dellinger who is atate fair at Salem. Moro, Oregon Christian Science church services teaching near Antelope was a Sun Meet* 1st and 3rd Fri- are held on Sunday morning at 11 M. LI. Saunders, well known piano day visitor at the home of her days of each month, o’clock and on Wednesday at 8:00 U ner, notifies the Sherman County parents. Visiting members wel- p. m. Sunday school at I Ori 5 a.m. Observer that he has been delayed in ♦A come. Roy Barnet and wife accompanied The reading room is open daily in Marie Peters, N. G. his schedule and will not be able to by Mrs. Wm. Young and Wm. Mitch the rear of the church. All are in Hazel Woods, Secy reach Muro until the last of October. ell motored to The Dalles and return vited to attend the church services Chris Schultz Post No. 71 Rev. U. C. Smothers, former pastor last Friday. and to make use of the reading room. ♦ \ of Lloro Methodist church, and more J. L. Matthes and wife, who have Meets at L O. 0. F. hall recently pastor of Woodlawn Metho on 2nd and 4th Wednes- been attending the state fair, return Every Sunday at 10:00 there is a dist church, at Portland, has been M day evenings of each ed home Saturday evening. They re Bible class at the Baptist chur: ,. transferred to the Monta villa Metho- month. port a very enjoyable time. Everybody welcome. Studies for this R. P. Brisbine, Commander. uist church. Picture Show New» Roy F. Dean, Adjutant M. month are “The danger signals of J. E. Norton and Mrs. For The Current Week James Tomlin arrived in Moro last /.ewitz returned home last week. failure in Isreals history.” “Written Sunday from Bend, where he ha? Zell’s Funeral Hone New Open at Norton and.the twins remained for our admonition” Stop! Listen! Lessons in love are furnished by Leen visiting during the summer with Heed! ir’ie visiting with her parents. four pretty women in Reginald Den his son Jim. He will spend the win ny’e latest Universal-Jewel feature, ter with his daughter, Mrs. Rose Ben F. Payne and wife and L E. Wheat Nursery in Umatilla “I’ll Show You the Town.” Fan Kunsman, in this city. E. McMillin of Waeeo had an over Davis were visiting in Moro last Sun was affectionate. Hazel was petite. County Develops New A. C. Thompson and wife returned .oat stolen from his auto in The day from their home in the Rutledge Agnes . vrtu wealthy. Lucile ./as Tuesday from an auto trip to the1 Dalles Tuesday night. . Wheat Variety section. passionate, and Alec Dupree, the Willamette Valley that included a ?. C. Hartley and fafnily of Kent Mr. and Mrs. R. Dingle, who have Studies made from the 1926 crop pensive college professor, played by visit with relatives at Portland a.i^ v/eie quests last Saturday and Sunday been spending the late summer at of wheat in the Umatilla county Reginald Denny, was, it may be said Corvallis and an inspection of the of R. C. Byers and family. their vacation home at Camp Sher nursery are expected to prove of far- without exaggeration, a wee bit too state fair at Salem. Martin Hansen was a business man, expect to return to Wasco the reaching economic value to wheat ambitious. The net result being that The special priced candy offering visitor in Moro, during the week from last of the present week. . he learned about women from her growing interests. ut Moro Confectionery last Saturday hfs summer tourist resort on the Selections of the smut resistant and her and her, in a series of highly Notice is given to motorists by Jay wheats developed by Washington thrilling experiences which are I 4 .oyed of special interest to young Metolious river; Saltzman, state traffic officer, that he rand old alike. Watch for the display State college by crossing hybrid 128 vouched for by a press agent who is Want to trade horses for Ford will commence to arrest violators of with white Odessa and martin will be famed for his sterling honesty, as the I of special priced sweet things in the car, either new or us< d car in good the new auto headlight law. He checked in an effort to determine I laughingest list of excitable trifles window each Saturday. repair. H. B. Belshe« , Moro, Oregon, claims that preliminary warnings are what strain or strains are most suit- 1 ever flashed on the screen so far this j Dell Wright was in Moro last Sat phone 2F5. • 4t* not heeded by car owners and that urday from Hay Canyon, with his able for propagation eastern Oregon .Mr. ana Mrs. O. L. Belshe return many are not trying to have their farming conditions. The new vane- j left hand carrying a bandage. He ed late Wednesday from Eugene lights adjusted. . ty yields better than hybrid 128 Mrs. Harry Beezley is clerking at said that he had gotten a tiny scratch where tiny assisted their daughter T. W. Alky and F. L. Burnett re and tests disclose that it has a higher Moro Trading company, helping on from a wheat elevator bucket that milling value, in addition to its im the dry goods side, during their clos seemed to have caused a form of Linnie start the fall term at Uni turned last Friday from a try at deer versity of Oregon. hunting in the Paulina mountains. poisoning. munity from smut, at present one of ing out sale. Tom said that he had the wrong Fields garage in Grats Valley had the* most costly sources of loos to United States treasury officials Roy Belshce v/as a visitor last Sun-' shooter, that if he had had a camera their safe biown Monday night with wheat growers. have issued a warning that spurious day from ms Lome nortK of Wasco, he would have gotten many good Federation and jenkins club, bills of $10 denomination are being a loss of about $100. The combina spring wheats, have been improved at the home of his parents, J. F. circulated in Oregon cities. The bills tion on the outside door was manipu- shots at long distance, but that he had no luck at rifle shooting distance. gnd several selections that show a Bel she e and wife. are raised from $1, $2, and $5 bills lated and the inner door forced. L. C. Kessinger returned the mid by erasure and insertion. Places winter habit have been chosen for A large crowd from every part of C. W. Moore and G. E. Baker, up further testing. , Two selections of dle of the week from Portland where open at night seem to be the chief from Portland to attend the meeting Sherman county was in Moro early jenkins developed at Corvallis sta his mother, Mrs. F. C. Moquet of victims. of stockholders of the Citizens bank Thursday morning in time to enter tion are included in the strains that Yakima, Washington, underwent a at Grass Valley, were business visi the Moro Trading company store at Dr. W. O. Boone, of Portland, have been sown in the Umatilla recent operation for gall stones. 9:30 when their big closing out sale tors in Moro Thursday afternoon. classmate of Dr. J. R. Morgan in county nursery, and several selections began. Extra clerks had been secur John Reid was in town on Wed dental college days, was a visitor in The usual Dorcas social for Octo ed to take care of the anticipated of federation are also being tested nesday. While waiting to prove up to determine their winter hardiness. on his homestead near Antelope, he Moro on Wednesday accompanied by ber will be an all-day affair, meeting rush of customers, but even then the W. G. Richardson, Portland postal at the farm home of Mrs. T. S. Reese clerks were given more than they has been visiting with old friends employee. They were traveling by Wednesday, October 14th. The church board of trustees have and touring the hop yards of the auto intending to try fisherman’s luck planned to meet at the Moro hotel could do until afternoon. sold the Presbyterian building at Willamette valley. A number of members of Moro at 9 a. m. the day of the social. it Cove on Crooked river, Monkland to Serena Hall for the sum lodge I. O. O. F. plan to attend the Mrs. Walter L. Johnson of Kuna W. A. Ruggles, accompanied by The next meeting to be held by of $131. Notice of sale of the build Idaho, gave a series of high clas? annual district convention of mem his son Charles and his mother, Mrs. I he Dorcas Study club will be at the ing was made in the Sherman County readings at the Methpdist churc. bers of the I. O. O. F. lodges of Sher I ome of Mrs. Clarence Sparling on Lucy Ruggles of Grass Valley, drove Observer some three weeks ago. Monday night piano and violin duet, Friday, October 16th. All members to Portland Sunday to meet Mrs. man, Wasco and Hood Rivor coun A contract was awarded this week were furnished by Misses Baker art' Ure requested to meet at Moro hotel C. C. Walters, sister of Mrs. Ruggles, ties, called to meet at Cascade Locks AU attending report t not later than 2 p. m. of that day. and Miss Kate Morris, cousin of Mrs. October 12th. A feature of interest by the postal department for an air Perkin». to local members this year will be delightful time. mail route from Elko, Nevado, to I Conveyance will be provided for Ruggles. The two Visitors reside at the work to be put on by the degree Pasco, Washington. Four planes will John W. Clark, accompanied b. nembers who have not made special Oakland, California. team of Columbia lodge of The be used by the air mail contractor, hie sister-in-law, Mrs. W. II. Harrie I plans to atend. Home-grown swtet potatoes have Dalles. two in service and two in reserve. of The Dalles, was visiting in Moro Rev. and Mrs. R. A. Feenstrq re begun to appear on the Portland The contractor is paid eight cents an last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Clark City Marshall Williams has placed turned from attending the annual market from lands close to Walla two iron barrels on the side walk ounce for nil mail carried between have been spending the past week ir the two points. This new mail con The Dalles, visiting with Perry conference of the Methodist church Walla. Four years ago culture was curbing of Main street where waste Sunday started with 36 plants, and this year papers and light refuse materials can nection will deliver* mail from the Strong and W. H. Harris and held at Eugene last week. afternoon, the closing day of the con 71,000 were set out in the valley, at be thrown by the public. If all will east nearly 30 hours shorter time families. the rate of 7520 to the acre. Grow ference, Mrs. R. A. Feenstra along use these barrells for such purposes than th* present route. ing of the potatoes proved successful, church last I with ’ others and having completed At the Presbyterian ’ it will materially help Marshal Wil- Monday afternoon two young couplei I the scholastic requirements was or- even in the foothill section and a I liams and go far toward keeping the were united in marriage by Rev. I jained into the church ministry by much larger acreage will be planted city more cleanly thus making a bet next season. H. G. Hanson. Mr. Ralph Gustafson Bishop W. O. Shephard. ter impression on strangers as well and Miss Mahama McKee, and Mr. I as helping ourselves. Alvah DeGuire and Miss Lillian Dahl. I Rev. J. M. Cornelison, for a quar They gave their immediate residence I ter of a century Presbyterian mis as Wasco, Oregon. sionary in charge of the Tutuilla In Misses Helen Idleman, Lucile Bak I dian mission church near Pendleton, er and Dorothy- Perkins, teachers in I has been given a leave of absence Moro public school and bacheloi I Aifd ordered to report to the national maids who are housekeeping in the I board of missions of the Presbyter Ridgeway residence, misnamed by I ian church at Chicago. For the next their local friends “the hungry I several months he will tour the east three,” will entertain the members of I ern states, engaged in missionary the Keystone Sunday school class of I promotion work for the church the Presbyterian church this Friday I board. evening. A jolly time is anticipated I . George Ellsworth and wife return by the q I ms . ed late last week from a visit to the Nearly seventy people enjoyed the I Paulina mountain deer hunting dis- dinner at the Presbyterian Action now will decide potluck trict. Only one deer was seei^ by church last Sunday following the them on the trip. This animal was a the question. morning service, A fine social spirit I large buck which Mrs. Ellsworth prevaded the whole, and this was in-1 spied when taking up a position We have just finished unloading terspersed with informal music. Later a car of Castle Gate Big Lump. where a likely shot could be had. Another, car is due to arrive very in the afternoon the choir had a Mrs. Ellsworth said that she herself soon. more formal practice of hymns and was more surprised than was the deer specials to be used on future occa- and entirely forgot about her rifle Castle Gate is the very best coal siona It is quite likely that this fea ban noa«- until after the deer had vanashed. • ture will be repeated some time in What is believed to have been a GET YOUR ORDER IN EARLY the near future, NOW 1» the real and only time to record for a toy balloon was estab Biological experts of the Vancou put your winter coal tn the bin. lished recently when a balloon that ver, B. C., provincial museuta claim had been released by the Fir Drug Don’t wait until the roads are bad that parts of a skeleton found ini company at Shelton, Washington, and farm work becomes heavy, Okanogan lake in the southern inter fell at the feet of John Sweeney, for then you lose mofiey. ior of British Columbia aré the back farmer, of Sedalia, in Madiion conn- Wa are plentifully supplied with bone of a whale. Francis Kermode, ty, Ohio, while he wae working In his all »orts of fuel at very reasonable curator of the institution, also stated garden, according to the Madison price«. - that the lake is three hundred miles Press, of London, Ohio. The balloon from the Pacific coast and separated traveled at least 2200 miles by direct ; TUM-A-LUMBER CO. from the ocean by mountain». One MORO. OREGON air Un*« , ’ B. B. CLARK, Manatar theory given was that indiana took Rhone Main 91 I the bones into the interior for relig It pays to advertise, ious festivals, Entered as second class matter at the post office al Moro, Oregon, July 25, 1891 in the Hand You know the saying. Its Jts even more true that a dollar in the Bank of Moro is worth two in your pocket The dollars in your pocket are on their way out, the dollars in the Bank of Moro are earn* ing more money to put in your pocket. We, as leading bankers of this section, are in a position to help you. Bank of Moro * M oro T heatre MORO, TWICE - A - WEEK FEATURE INTERNATIONAL NEWS REEL “ I’ll Show You The Town ” Saturday, October 10 A Harry Pollard production from Elmer Davis* popular novel, presented by Carl I-Aemmle, with Reginald Denny in the stellar role supported by Marion Nixon, Lilyan Tashman, C issy ritz- gerald, Edward Kimball, Margaret Livingston, and Neely Edwards. “ The Man From Brodmeys ” Sunday, October 11 “The Man from Brodmeys” is u smashing good story that is carried to a successful climax by the cast included among whom i— are such well known screen favorites as J. Warren Kerrigan, Alice Calhoun, Pat O’Malley, and Wanda Wiley. TWICE-A-WEEK FEATURE INTERNATIONAL NEWS REEL “The Meddler” Saturday, October 17 A western Robin Hood story with William Desmond as the star backed by the cream of fastgalloping famous Ranch Riders sup ported with a cast that includes Claire Anderson, Albert J. Smith, Kate Lester, and Georgia Grandee. “ Rosita ” Sunday, October 18 “Rosita” is a Spanish romance with famous Mary Pickford in the title role with a supporting cast of well known movie players that include Holbrook Binn, Irene Rich, George Walsh, Mme. Mathilde Comont, Mme. de Bodamere, and mpre, Ki TWICE-A-WEEK FEATURE INTERNATIONAL NEWS REEL Peerlets Light Draft Rotary Rod Weeder A Weeder Cultivator and Packer The Three-in-One Practical Farm Implement Haven't I Always ßeeiffoui Trient I Whldk a WWW OREGON Once Over the Ground And All Three Operations Are Completed On Display and For Sale BY A Moro, Oregon * A “WANT” ad in T he M oro | | O bserver will reach more । J people in Shpnnar. County than 5, I by any other medium available. 4 READ THE OBSERVER Fof™»^nty n ! w » | Business Men Sayt ‘Advertising Ptys’“!
