The Sherman County Observer, Moro, Oregon, Friday,
December 25, 1226
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Picture Show New»
Real Aoto Service
is bur business and our hobby,
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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
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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
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"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
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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.
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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
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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 /
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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
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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.
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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-
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^tion to markets. The accomplishment
of Sherman county in "getting out
of the hole” with the proceeds of one
LONG TERM LOANS
PRIVILEGES
SHORT
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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-
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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.
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■ : Overhauled.
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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
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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
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The.DaUetf Oregon
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MORO, OREGON
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