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The Sherman County ObMmr, Moro, Orofon, Friday,
June 11,1*16
HARVEST WAGES ADOPTED
RADIO ON FARMS HELPS SOLVE
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’’FARM PROBLEM”
Harry B. Pinkerton, secretary of
the Eastern Oregon Wheat League,
Qne ou| of every six farmers in
returned Wednesday from Arlington the country new has a radio set. I A
wheie an executive meeting of the good one, tool a recent survey made
league was held at the same time • by the department of agriculture
meeting of farmers was in session shows that the average cost has been
That is whai our patrons say after
to fix harvest wages for the Colum- >175, and they can be tuned in for
they have enjoyed the excellent
lunches we serve at our foun-
bia basin counties.
distant stations. Up in Alberta and
’ tain.
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The meeting voted that the follow- Saskatchewan, Canada, on the lonely
ing wages would be fixed as the min- wheat farms, the proportion with ra-
You too, if you are not already ac
imum wage for the class of work indi- ¿j0
even larger
quainted, are invited to share
cated, with a recommendation that
jn many cases, grain and live atock
with others our delightful and
appetising electric hot plate
wages for home men and also for scalpers have objected to this radio
quick lunch service.
men who were experienced and able growth; they say it gives the farmers
to perform their work in a better a chance to know from the colleges
Naturally, first emphasis is placed
way than the average would be high^ and federal authorities ^he real pric
on the quality of our service but
er than the adopted scale.
e8 M goon as the dealers themselves
with quality assured the attrac
tive prices will draw many to
Sack sewers .......................... • >4.00 anj they can no longer speculate
Drivers ........................................ 4 00 on the farmers' ignorance of values.
Header tenders ...... .<4... 3.50 This is an important fact in explain-
Separator tenders......... .....
5.00
the general prosperity trend of
Caterpillar drivers....................
5 00 farming—to know values and actually
Straw haulers.................. ....
8.00 ^t what products are worth.
Cooks, to 10 men .................... 3,00
Opposite Hotel Moro
Water buck and roustabout .. 3.00 1
MORO, OREGON
OBSERVER WANT ADS
Sack jigs...................................... 8.50
Bulk drivers ............................. 3.00
Rates: Under 16 words, 35c
1.25
Sack pick-up, per 100
15 to 30 words, 50c
Derrick drivers ....
2.00
Over 30 wdu, 1 ^c per wd.
Box drivera, nets ..
2.50
Box drivers, no nets
' 8.00 WANTED at oncer-women and girls
4.00 to hull strawberries -good v
Loaders ................
4 00 steady work—excellent workii
Header punchers ..
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ditions—apply Libby
Hoe downs..............
During the trying hours of sorrow, friends and relatives must be
8 00 Libby. The Dalles, Oregon.
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Engineers ................
relieved of every possible burden and responsibility connected with
5.00 --------------------------------- •—
2 oo LOGAN BERRIES for sale at a bar-
Hay hands..............
the funeral J
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gain; >2 per crate; we pay express
W. C. Carpenter of the U. 8. em- or
Order now. Joe
The funeral director is the only one who, by thorough training and
ployment service, reported that a Douda, Estacada, Oregon.
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experience,
is capable of quietly and efficiently attending to the
branch employment office would be
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many details that arise.
opened at Arlington in time to sup-
ply farmers with harvest help. Mr.
We have conscientiously endeavored to place at your disposal thh
Carpenter also stated that ’’the U. S.
best in personal service and essential equipment.
employment service has five main
functions to perform. One of these
The Crandall Undertaking Company
is the farm Jabdt division under the
Each and part delivery charges
direction of Geo. I. 'fucker of Kan
will be paid for two bear cubs and
sas City, Missouri. The secretary of
a fawn. Write G. V. Rafferty,
labor and the director general of the
U. S. employment service are very
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anxious to serve the farmers of the
nation and are devoting more at
SWIM. OREGON
HOT WEATHER
tention with, perhaps, a greater ap
CHILDREN SHOULD BE KIND TO propriation to this branch than to
ANIMAL PETS
Is a time of hardship for
any other department function.”
Sam Thompson of Pendleton and
the housewife made easier
It is important that children should F. B. Ingells of Dufur were named
with a Kohler Power and
be taught the care of household pets, as delegates tp attend the meeting
Light
Plant on the farm
J. F. VOLSTORFF
and especially regularity in feeding of the federal commission grain grad
that permits working in a
and watering. This is not only hu es and discounts that met at Spokane
Hood River Height«
mane education, but incidentally it is this week. Mr. Ingells will also at
cool kitchen when ironing.
teaching children continuous appli tend a meeting of the federal finance
Agency Dealer for the
cation, than which there is no more committee that will meet at Spokane
FOR SALE
important humane lesson to be learn about the same time to further in Hupmobile
Oakland
Pontiac
ed. Teach children that all living vestigate the possibilities of the fed
Automobiles
BY
creatures should be treated as they, eral intermediate credit system and
Federal
Knight
Truck
themselves would be treated. Consid extension of this service to apply
eration for dumb animals is a mark of to growing crops as well as harvest
USED CARS
humanity which is all too rare in ed grain.
M. R. Schadewitz, Proprietor
the human race.
SATISFIED!
Ddiçhtful to
Servo
Delicious to Eat
Ross’ Confectionery
Kindly Service
$10
FOSS & CO
Moro, Oregon
GARAGE AND BLACKSMITH SHOP
Dealen In
Bar Iron and Steel
I have a lot of Deering harvester
parts on hand that Pwill sell for 50%
off of the regular list price.
Crosfield’s, Wasco, Oregon.
Plow Shares Sharpened
Double Trees and Single Trees
Woodworking
Tank Lumber and Hardwood
TH’ OLE COUNTRY SCHOOL
By Kin Hubbard
“What memories fondly twine
about th’ little red schoolhouse in
th’ valley,” says some writer. Th’
only country schools o’ my boyhood
days that I kin recall stood brown and
■npaintod on a barren knoll, an in-
up fourteen or fifteen dollars a
month.
But romance an’ a io< fer th’ wild,
had not a little t’ do with their in
clination f break homo ties.
Th’
youths gave up home an’ all f teach
in the grove, were more often impel
led by economic reasons rather than
a mere desire t’ disseminate know
ledge. So it .will be seen that th’
country lads an’ lassies who attended
th’ ole time country schools wus tot
by those who needed th’ money an*
not by warm sympathetic teachers
conditions that have changed th’ far
mer from a be whiskered, unsophistic
ated ole coot t’ a clean shaven up-to-
date fox, have revolutionised the
' an' th’ ground, which area afforded country school system. Th’ schools
a fine recruitin' station for rabbits. are built along scientific lines, skunk
proof, well ventilated an’ heated.
would let out on account of a skunk. They are furnished with modern seats
pianos, workshops, lavatories, an’
everything necessary fer turnin’ out
a first class intellectual giant Th’
students are hauled to an’ fro from
ther homes in passenger vans, or in
privately owned automobiles.
Th’
scolars are tat eve’thing from the
name o* th’ great manufacturin’ city
at th’ junction o’ the Alleghany an’
th' Monongahela rivers,t' how t' make
a lamp shade or a blue print frame.
But there is t'day many men an'
women left in this country who em
erged from th’ little “red” school
house scarcely able t’ name th’ capital
o’ th' United States, an’ with only a
half hearted belief that th’ earth wus
round. But they picked up readily,
an’ t’day, after well rounded lives,
many o’ them are gliding down th’
slope o’ life in luxurious limosines.
Country school teachers o’ 'th’ red
flannel underwear age boarded with
th’ school directors—a month with
one, then a month with another—-an’
after a long winter diet o* hominy,
backbone, thick pies an’ hot biscuits
an’ molasses, they would return t’
civilisation with complexions like an
English walnut and twenty two or
three dollars. Squire Marsh Swal
low likes t* tell about th’ time, yean
ago, when, as a young sqirt jest out
o’ th’ third reader, he applied for a
country school t’ teach.
Th’ school
directors put him through ah ex
amination an’ th’ last question they
asked him wus, ’’Does th* sun rise in
east or th’ west?”
And Marsh an
swered, ”1 teach both ways,” an’ he
got th’ school.
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GOOD HAWKS AND BAD
,The red-shouldered hawk and the
broad-winged hawk prey upon the
destructive rodents of the farm, and
they are enormously valuable to ag
riculture.
The most destructive
hawks we have over large areas of
our central and southern states are
the sharp-shinned and the Cooper’s
hawk. These hawks usually perch in
a tree. In many places pole traps are
set up for the ^purpose of catching
hawks. The broad winged hawk and
the red shouldered hawk do not hide
in a tree; they do not feel that it is
necessary for them to secrete them
eelves. Along comes an enthusiastic,
well-meaning, but not well-informed
game protector; he puts up a pole
trap because he saw a hawk catch
a quail. Flyihg slowly across the
field comes a hawk which is bene
ficial to agricultural interests, alights
on the pole to look ground the mead
ow for the mouse or rat that is work
ing near, and is eaught instantly,
and subsequently reported among the
other vermin that have been killed.
—T. G. Pearson, President National
Audubon Society.
When delivering gasoline at Moro
last Thursday R. L Kunaman was sud
denly attacked with intense abdominal
pain. He was taken to Dr. Wonder
lick at Wasco, who diagnosed the at
tack as rupture of a gas^o ulcer of
the stomach* He was then taken to
The Dalles where he underwent an
operation soon after arrival at the
hospital. Up to the time of the at
tack Mr. Kuisman bad no warning of
sickness and had experienced no pain
previous to the seizure. He is re
covering rapidly and will soon be
able to leave the hospital.
Dr. C. L Poley took Ray Miller to
a hospital at The Dalles late Wednes
day night following injuries received
in an auto accident south of Kent.
Miller was in charge of the Winnie
Helyer farm While Helyer was away
fishing. Wednesday night he and an
other young man were driving a Ford
car without lights when the car got
out of control and went into the
ditch. Miller was pinned under the
car, receiving injuries to his back that
will keep him in the hospital for at
least six weeks.
A federal employment service bur
eau of the U. S. department of labor
was opened this week in the epuqty
agent's office, at The Dalles, under
the management of Harold V. Sim
mons of Dufur who served In a sim
ilar capacity last summer. The work
of distributing harvest help began
being sent out to various harvest
grounds. *
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They are predicting four years of
prosperity. The best we can give
them is one; for th# second year is
when another campaign starts.
S. J. Stanek
610 E. 2nd St.
The Dalles, Ore.
Harness
“Everything in I
and Saddlnry.
General Repairing.
Auto Tops
and trimming. Indian Novelties.
BIGGS
SERVICE STATION
H. H. Willard,
Lone Rock
O. R. Hube, Proprietor
Fresh Milk and Cream
at all times.
DELIVERY TWICE DAILY
Leave orders at
Moro Pharmacy
Proprietor
Lunch Goods
Bottled Drinks on Ice
Quaker State Oils
Union Gas Ajax Tirei
of my Sharman Coauty Neighbors
Will bo Appreciated
A valuable knowledge of the reliability
and integrity of businesses is the reward
of the steady reader of advertisements.