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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1925)
The Sherman County Observer, Moro, Oregon, Friday, December 25, 1226 .......... - ........... - Picture Show New» Real Aoto Service is bur business and our hobby, 1 We have only one policy and that is to rive the beat roods and service. Wishing you Merry Christmas and happy New Year Moro Garage M. R. SCHADEWITZ, Prop. MORO, OREGON At this time we want to express our appreciation of the patronage given this store since we have be came identified personally with the business life of Sherman County. ' We will endeavor to show our appreciation daily during the New Year. Wiahiag «II • Merry Chrisman Happy New Year MAY & SON MORO, OREGON • ..................................................................................... | A photoplay in which the United States government itself took an local color and supervision, to "The Midshipman," a story of life in the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Uncle Sem's training grounds for future Perrys and Paul Joneses. The story written especially for the screen by the noted scenario writ er and weaver of film tales, Carey Wilson, to a pure and simple romantic drama. It to chock-ful of incident, the kind that commands the atten tion of all movie goers. There are fights, dress parades, college initia tions, pursuits on high seas with U. S. destroyers as the pursuers and sur prises and thrills galore. There to al so a shot of the graduation exercises at which President Coolidge presided. Edwin Carewe’s productions are always distinguished for their excel lent casts and realistic settings. The director surrounded Nasimova in ‘‘My Son" with a note worthy cast of players, which includes Jack Pick ford. Young Pickford plays the role of Nazimova’s son, which is said to be one of the most interesting char acterizations he has ever attempted. Hobart Bosworth plays a New Eng land sheriff with great sincerity. Ian Keith«. Constance Bennett, Marv Atkin, Charles Murray and Dot Far ley also have strong supporting roles. The sets for “My Son” were con structed by John D. Schulse and they are of unusual pictorial beauty. Peter Pan, the beloved Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up, will come to Moro December 29 to make you happy and take you sailing on a silver cloud to the wonderful Never, Never Land. The land of pirates and painted red- akins, and the glorious adventures of | youth. C hristmas carols sung by i MORO POSTOFFICE CONGESTED STREET MINSTRELS WITH CHRISTMAS MAIL ■ ---------- "One of lie most unusual exper Saturday of butt weak and iences I ever had was when I was in Germany some years ago," said John est sale of 2-cent stamp« ever made Siefert, head of the voice department at the local postoffice. In the two in the University of Oregon school days business more than |100 of 2- of music. "It was just a few days cent stamps were sold in addition to before Christmas, and a blizzard was nearly the same value in stamps of blowing outside,” he eontinued,"sud- other denominations, all placed upon denly, right up on the front porch out going mail. of the house I was living in, I heard The early closing of the mail each a bugle playing 'Holy Night, Silent morning haa also caused a congestion Night' Hearing that old familiar at the mailing windows by people melody 3,500 miles from home, made who want packages weighed and the an impression on me never to be for- proper amount of stamp« affixed in mail carrier, as I afterward learned. time for mailing that day. Many this year have gotten into the habit Thus it was that I learned about the of mailing their letter«, cards and beautiful custom in Germany of mail packages the day previous but al carriers playing earols on trumpets in the days before Christmas, as they ways there to "just one more" that had been forgotten until near mail go about delivering the mail.” "Carols are more popular in Eu time. Packages of all descriptions, cards rope than hen " says Mr. Seifert, and letters have come in ever in "especially in England, Wales and creasing volume while the postoffice Germany it is very common for force worked ‘ swiftly to keep from groups of stagers to go about the being literally buried beneath the streets at night during the Christ heavy shipment of mail incident to mas holiday season, singing such old the Christmas holidays. Tuesday evening, when the demahd that Binds,' and ‘God Rest ye Merry for 2-cent stamps became more in interest in sistent, Postmaster Bourhill tele nounced awaken! t At last graphed’to the postoffice depository carols over the Christmas time, groups were orga- at Portland for an additional supply ixed in many Oregon cities to go so • that the call for 2-eent stamps would not too seriously deplete the about the streets singing carols." supply of other stamps needed for There are many good carols that parcel post business. have recently been composed. But Christmas day ths local postoffice the old carols ar being sung too. In will be closed nearly all day, in ac fJct, they probably are sung more. cordance with instructions of the They have endured for a long time. postal department and to permit the force to recover from their strenu- sung for a season or two and then oua efforts of the past three weeks. forgotten; though some are probably 1 ____________ to you a thousand times greater than the »lav, which has charmed millions in its twenty-one years of unequalled popularity. Betty Bronson, Barrie’s own choice, is the ideal Peter Pan. Ernest Torrence is a marvelous Cap tain Hook. Wendy, Tinker Bell, and the other delightful characters are faithfully portrayed. "Petar Pan" is distinctly the wo»d«r picture at the screen. '< The tillit of Good Wifl Í Our Wish to a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Tear to all our friends and patrons with all the MERMAN ELECTR/Q COMPANY “Little Annie Rooney,” the com edy drama of tenement life in New York in which Mary Pickford stars, appears to have been written to or der for "The World’s Sweetheart” for it is an ideal Mary Pickford itory. Combining comedy and dramq, smiles and tears, children’s gang battles and a pretty love story, ‘‘Lit tle Annie Rooney" to the type of play in which the public loves to see Mary Pickford, and the type she can-do as no other actress can. It to as Irish as its name, and as Irish ps the curly haired little ragamuffin who plays the title role. It deals with the young lighter of an East Side policeman whose playmates are about thirty young boys, and who enters into the gang fights and rows of these lads with all the vigor at her command. The enrol to primarily a folk song. All the old carols sprang from the heart. But generally the original tunes have been perfected, and given a definite form, and set down by some composer. That to to say, the carols are often folk tunes modified by art Carols came into being among white people much as the spirituals did among negroes. The increase of interest in carols is due partly at least to the increased interest in religious matters today. On the other hand, I think the sing ing of carols has helped to awaken interest in religion, too. Many peo ple get more spiritual inspiration from music than sermons. I can hear a good sermon and ge away inspired PROGMESS and SERVICE Our constant endeavor to to aid in the 'develop- and assistance whenever possible. Farmer’s State "Bank Moro, Oregon MMM COUNTY FAIR GROUNDS WILL HAVE NEW GRAND STAND The board of directors for the Sherman County Pair Association haa authorized the Tumalum Lumber company to prepare plans for an ad dition to the present grandstand at the county fair grounds. The new building will be a con tinuation of the present building to the south. It will be 80-feet long and set at an angle to conform to the track curvature. The south en trance of the old building will be housed over and used as an entrance to both the old and the new budd ings. The lower part of the new build ing will be finished.» the same style as the old building to house exhibits. The new building will approxi itual inspiration from hearing good mately double the seating capacity religious singing, if the «Inger's of the grandstand and also double heart to even partly in the song. the space for exhibits. It is an im provement long needed at the county »•oooooooooooooooeoooooooeoc SNOW STORM HITS SOUTH fair grounds and will stimulate inter- SHERMAN COUNTY cultural products of the county. Moro was visited with a snow storm early Sunday morning that re / ------ ?---------- A BONFIRE CELEBRATES sulted in a total of eight inches depth that evening and which registered PROSPERITY .87 of an inch of moisture at the ex < I periment station. Later this was The following editorial printed in fallowed by a heavy rate on Tuesday the daily Oregonian in its issue last WITH evening that added to the total pre Tuesday indicatea/the interest arous cipitation Yor this section an addi ed throughout the state in the very tional .18. The total tor the storm unusual manner of disposal of the term being 1.06. cancelled mortgages that were given Reports from Kent indicated a to the state to secure the repayment depth of six Indies at snow at that of funds advanced with which to pur- IF DESIRED place by Sunday noon and similar re ports from west of Grass Valley stated the same condition there. That bonfire fed with mortgages East of Moro the snow fall was We Have Money Now Available about half that at Moro and at Was that had been paid off by Sherman farmers celebrated the pros FOR FARM LOANS ON FARM LANDS co and north of that place the snow county perity that has come to eastern Ore was reported to be about half what gon farmers, but it celebrates also to Progressive Sherman County Fanners it was at Moro. the readiness of Oregon to help any State highway engineers reported of its people who are suddenly struck natural and that no snow fell east of Biggs, but down ty-of Write Direct to As usual in such cases, t effects of the “big freeze" last win’ SHERMAN COUNTY PIONEER DIES AT THE DALLES 0 of the $1,500,000 fund Oregon-Washington Joint Stock Land Bank the state was needed to eat The farmers have Joseph T. Morris, aged 81 years, a had a good crop, which was sold at resident of Rufus for 20 years, died profitable prices, and the total of all at his home, in The Dalles Saturday defaults made because, of wheat seed evening, December 10. Services were loans to farmers in all counties of the held from the Zell funeral heme state will amount to leas than |10,- 000. Having paid not only seed loans Tueftday morning followed by inter but taxes and ob” tions, farmers ment in the Wasco oeasetery. Mr. should be in the ir in Sherman Morris resided In The Dalles for the and other grain countries. gu»ttncnnimn»tttKmtmttini»»»num»tt»nmmtt»mni»»uii i utt»«»mmtt That celebration at Moro*to a sign last four years. He was a member of the condition of Oregon farmers the Grand Army at the Republic, hav of in general. There are always some ing enlisted in Company K, Third exceptions, but growers of almost regiment of Illinois cavalry. He to every variety of crop have good yields survived by a son, Walter A. Morris, at good prices. So it to with wool- growers, and the livestock industry to coming back from post war de- OUR BUSINESS A. M. MacNab of Wasco; Mrs. L. E. pression. Producers from the soil Langford of Bufus and Miss Nellie have made marked progress in mark eting at less cost and higher prices Morris of The Dalles. and are learning to adjust produc- -*■ ^tion to markets. The accomplishment of Sherman county in "getting out of the hole” with the proceeds of one LONG TERM LOANS PRIVILEGES SHORT S ■ can come to any household What finer way can the sentiment of th e holiday season be expressed than thru the gift of an automobile. Something that can be used and enjoyed thru- .1 •a We kwve used cars that are good cars without a doubt and which have many years of driving yet ahead of them. Th ese are for sale at very moderate prices. We are sure that we can satisfy most an yone as to price, condition of car and— many times—the very model and mak e of car that is desired by you. H ■ : Overhauled. 71 New Paint for 1921 Nash 6 Al condition. ‘ New Paint 1922 Buick 7 passenger Overhauled. New Faint 1922 Dodge Touring. New Tires New Paint Completely Overhauled $550 MOVING — occasional aid from the state when sdme great calamity befalls them. $350 The best of holiday greetings to you' and wishing that you have the most Prosperous New Year. $550 F. D. FLATT & BRO. MORO, OREGON $425 Commercial Moving of all Kinds 1923 Maxwell Touring. Good Tires Al condition. New Paint ............... . Two D-45 Buicks Your choice for only......................... . Team or Motor Truck $100 A MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR ' ... The.DaUetf Oregon . • y For Good Monument Work and Better Prices ’ X ; WRITE THE DA LLES BUICK GARA GE b 4« International Monument Association Pendletotk Branch MORO, OREGON - A D. CROSLAND, Manar« 21S Jane Street Fasdtete*, OvaVo« ■ mm J
