Sherman County observer., January 14, 1927, Image 2

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center of the building where a well
ran to the cupola on top, and being
driven by suction up the outside of
RHODA HUBBARD MAKES
One quite often hears the exprea­
the building to the eaves, from the rion, “Bill Jones always was a lucky
fire in the scale room, where the teHow.” Wh<n former-Governor Cox
About ten minutes after six o dock flames were sucked into the building of Ohio planned a building for his pa­
eight years, died at the Mid-Columbia
Tuesday night the alarm of fire under the eaves and joined the fire in­ per, tiie Miami News, in Florida, sev­ lospital in The Dalles the morning of
Mr. Hoes is a native Oregonian and brought the people of Moro running side the building.
eral years ago, he checked over the January 4th, 1927, following an op­
About an hour after the fire was plans drawn by the architecte and
has followed the newspaper profes to the foot of First street where fire
eration and a very brief illness. De­
lioi practically all of his life. He had been discovered in the scale room discovered the cupola fell to the in­ said: “This building is going to bo ceased was taken for interment to
Saturday, January 15th
. TWO SHOWS
of the Farmers Elevator A Supply side and shortly after the roofs of the built in the tropics. Is the construc­
Mt. Vernon, Washington, the home of
merchandise
warehouse
and
the
feed
company
property.
of the Oregon State Editorial asso
tion such tKat I can get hurricane in- Mrs. Rakes’ parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Peter B. Kynes Famous Story
Within a very few minutes it was roller rooms also collapsed. The build­ iurance on it?”
Hubbard.
Starte 7:46
seen that the fire was out of control ing then burned slowly the balance of
The architects didn’t know. Cox
Mrs. Rakes was born at O’Conner
“ THE ENCHANTED HILL”
and the large 85,000 buahel capacity the night from the top down. The told them to, find out The result was
near lÎLVernan, was graduated from
— with —
elevator was doomed to be destroyed next morning showed burned portions ±at the building had to have addition-
NEWS REEL
the Mt. Vernon high school and later
by fire. Attention was quickly given of the bins, some with wheat more or il bracing at the corners. But the
Jack
Holt
and
Florence
Vidpr
from the Washington state normal at
* LEGISLATURE gets to work M saving part of the merchandise less damaged, twisted machinery and
?ost of thia was only $8,000, and Bellingham. Mr. and Mrs. Rakes have
itock stored in the warehouse joining partly burned side walls of the bins Governor Cox got his hurricane in­
Admission 10 cents and 80 cent.
both been employed aa teachers at
the elevator and also saving the resi- yet standing.
surance.
the Rufus school, in Sherman county,
ence and business property near the
The building was built in 1918 at
After the hurricane 4hich wrecked for thro« and one-half years. Mrs.
.•levator that were seriously threat­ an estimated cost of $33,000. Since to many buildings, the Miami tower,
, Sunday, January 15th
With good will among members, be
Starts
7:45_
then many improvements have been laid to be the higest inhabited struc­ Rakes was highly respected by those
ened by the fire.
tween the senate and house, and be
The residence property owned by made and additional buildings built. ture in the tropical world, came out of her profession in the county and
THOMAS MEIGHAN
tween these two branches and the ex­
COMEDY
Mrs. Hazel Woods snd the railway In addition to this, the cost of the with only a few broken windows and also in the state and was sincerely
ecutive office, the 34th assembly of
loved
by
the
children
and
parents
of
depot were two buildings that at one equipment totals more than $12,000. som« water in the basement.
the Oregon legislature started work
the Rufus community. Her interest
NEWS
lime were considered to be rtf immi- A conservative estimate places the
IRISH LUCK”
Was Governor Cox any more in her pupils of the first four grades
Monday. It seems too good to t
ent danger. Next to these was the value of the property burned, includ­ ’lucky” than the owners of other
true. Such harmony, such accoi.
Admission 10 centa and 30 cents
mplement 'storage house owned by ing merchandise, at more than $50,- buildings which were completely de­ followed them to their homes and
and such expressed willingness to co
throughout the summer vacations.
Ginn, Colemsn A Co. That any of 000 which is covered by insurance molished or badly wrecked by the hur­
operate and co-ordinate is unusual.
Mrs. Rakes also worked with the up
these buildings were saved was main­ variously estimated to be between ricane? Apparently, there was no
This legislature will be even more re
per grades and high school children
ly due to the fact that all the time $26,500 and $32,000. ¡Not included uck about the fact that his building
markable if this same spirit prevails
the fire was at a danger point there in the figures given is the grain dam­ itood. He simply used good judg­ as industrial club leader and as di­
for the 40 days of the session.
rector, assisting her husband in var­
was very little wind to carry the burn­ aged and destroyed by the fire. Some ment which even his architects failed
Direction of Newton CrosfieJd
This is to be an important session,
ious forms of school entertainments.
of this grain was insured by owners x> show whep designing a building
ing embers.
with a number of subjects of state
During her years at Rufus she has
When water was first thrown on to the extent of $12,000. Others had for the tropics.
BIG PICTURES ARE COMING 1‘
wide interest to command the earn­
left an invaluable impression for good
the depot building on the aide next no insurance, having failed to renew
est attention of the members and test
on the minds of tha_growing children
i iiiHiunimnuimniiHwt gamtpBiMHMRMWHm i
the railway tracks, the water had their policies whelF"these expired by
their best considered judgment and
and on the community as a whole.
little effect for, although not on fire, limitation January 1, 1927. <
HOW MUCH SPEED
so, out of these, there may and prob­
The position of a sincere teacher is
it was too hot to touch with the bare
Chris Andersen had about 1,500
ably will come clashes of opposite
difficult to fill, but the love of the OOOOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOOOOQCOOOGOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
hands. The same could be said of bushels of wheat on storage and L. H.
opinions certain to disturb the placid
children of Rufus will stand as un­
There
have
been
many
theories
ad-
waters. However, the taxpayers can both the Woods residence and the Martin about 5,648 bushels, both ful­ /anced as to the results which will dying proof that Rhoda Hubbard
ly protected by insurance. Fred Cole
THE PERSONAL ELEMENT
look forward to a safe and sane ses Ginn, Coleman A Co. property. Water
Rakes met the qualifications of a real
on
these
buildings
quickly
turned
to
and F. L. Burnet had in parnership ’ollow Henry Ford’s five-day week,
■ion, whose final history will disclose
taaeher as given by the First Great
dr.
Ford
is
credited
with
saying
that
Our service includes friendly and sympathetic understand­
a record for conservation and very steam when it touched the hot side about 2,650 bushels, about two-thirde i five-day week will give people more Teacher.
,
ing of the task in hand. The personal element, we hold,
insured.
In
addition
to
these
H.
W.
walls
of
the
buildings.
little of the spectacular.
To mourn her loss Mrs. Rakes
is equally as important as proficiency in technical require­
The fire seems to have been discov­ Strong had about 360 bushels, W. C .ime for leisure and buying, and that
An income tax bill has been intro­
leaves her parents and immediate
his
in
turn
will
make
a
greater
de-
ments.
Miller
about
1,300
bushels,
and
Mrs.
duced at this legislative session spon­ ered simultaneously by three different
family at MU Vernon, Washington;
nand for manufactured goods.
people
—
D.
E.
Stephens,
who
saw
it
M.
L.
Holman
about
400
bushels.
sored by Senators Butler and Cars-
This does not explain how a man her husband, L. W. Rakes of Rufus,
ner. The bill is similar to the one from the Experiment farm, Mr. Rose None of these three last had insur­ rith simply more time to spend than the entire Rufus community and
The Crandall Undertaking Company
initiated by the Grange and defeated who saw it from upstairs in the depot, ance.
noney is going to ba able to spend many other friends.
and Mrs. Woods who was telephon­
About a half hour after fire was
at the last election.
none money with his wages cut from
The Dalles, Oregon. Phone 35-J. Lady Assistants.
Representative Hazlett has pre­ ing in the front hallway of her resi­ first discovered and when--"it was dx to five «lays. The Ford plan does
WHEAT FARMERS MEET
sented a House joint resolution pro dence. Mr. Stephens end Mrs. Woods thought that the railway depot would lot contemplate six days’ wages for
posing the repeal of the law guaran­ both tried to call George Meloy at oe entirely burned, all the furnish­ Ive days’ time, without increased pro
teeing state interest on irrigation dis­ the elevator. One of them succeed­ ings owned by Mr. Rose was removed luction.
Increased prosperity is in store
ed in gettlhg him to the phone, but from the upstairs part of the building
trict bonds.
If idleness is merely to breed the for wheat farmers as a result of ten-^
The senate and house adopted a when the fire had been located by Included in this was a redhot heater desire to spend more money, the re dencies in wheat growing sections of
joint resolution to congress Tuesday, Meloy it was p<at the stage when it with a fire burning in the stove iults will be disastrous. Mere money- the middle west and east to turn to
urging them to favor amendments of­ could have been extinguished by the When danger from the fire had passed pending, in itself, without an aim or diversified farming, George Severance
fered by the Oregon delegation bear­ fire fighting apparatus on hand at the volunteers again carried the house jurpose in life, would be a curse to head of the department of farm man­
hold goods to the depot and stored
ing on the construction of the pro­ elevator.
agement at Washington state college,
them for the night in the freight he nation. Extravagant ideas would
Mr.
Meloy
had
just
gotten
through
posed bridge across the Columbia
>e developed which would soon de told members of the grain marketing
river at Longview. The Port of Port­ cooking and eating his supper and had room.
nand artificially higher wages, which, school last week.
When it was realized by Manager
land is willing to supply funds in ad­ washed the dishes and put them away.
Commenting on the world market
n turn, would result in uncalled-for
dition to those appropriated by con­ He was sitting in the office reading a J. C. McKean that the buildings and ncreases in the eost of living.
and high tariffs in the United States
HARDWARE
IMPLEMENTS
FURNITURE
gress to build this bridge so that it paper when the phon«- rang to tell merchandise would be lost by the fire,
Can any but the strongest and on wheat, the state college man de­
may be constructed in a manner not him he would never cook another he went to the telephone and ordered /oungest workmen maintain a pace clared that if the high tariff wall is
— FEATURING —
a new stock of goods to be shipped
to interfere with navigation on the meal in the building. At first he was
vhich regularly calls for six days’ maintained the eastern and southern
immediately. He also arranged with
Columbia river and thus hamper the at a loss to locate the fire, because
▼ork in five days’ time, in an indus- section of the United States, with its
A LARGE STOCK OF
every place where a fire had been carpenters to build an office in the
ever-increasing population, would
growth of the state.
ry
already
traveling
at
high
speed?
warehouse close to fhe elevator pro­
If salaries of state and county offi­ used that day had carefully been
It is pretty generally accepted that aoon consume the entire surplus of
AXMINSTER RUGS
taken care of earlier in the afternoon perty and was ready at eight o’clock
cials are to be raised by the legisla­
is
production is increased per man, the Pacific northwest. The orient to­
the next morning “for busineas as
and
evening.
ture at the present session such raise
vorkmen are entitled to their share in day provides the greatest single mar­
'CONGOLEUM AND LINOLEUM
After careful consideration as to usual.” Wednesday morning part of
will not become affective during their
he profit, in the form of increased ket for Pacifie coast flour, while
the
goods
ordered
was
delivered
by
Europe is the best wheat market.
LEATHER CHAIRS AND FIBER SUITES
present term of office if House joint •very possible cause of the origin of
motor truck, part came by freight vages. This, in itself, does not mean
E. F. Dummeier, professor of eco­
resolution No. 1 introduced by Rep­ the fire, it is the opinion of officers
hcreased
prices.
and now customers of the Elevator
CEDAR AND WALNUT CHESTS
resentative Swan of Linn county is of the company that the fire
Whether human activity can be nomies at the college, spoke on mar­
started either 'from the flue used company can secure merchahdise
keting
Canadian
wheat
and
on
“
What
’orced beyond a certain point remains
MAJESTIC RANGES
in cotuaection with the boiler where just the same as if no fire had destroy­
o be seen. The life of a racing is Orderly Marketing and How May
steam is generated to heat grain for ed the company property.
It Be Promoted?”
A NATION OF TELEPHONES
The board of directors of the Ele­ lutomobile is short because it runs
feed grinding or else from defec­
:ontinually
at
full
speed.
Can
the
MEADOWS POWER. WASHER
tive electric wire. . When the men vator company had ordered payment
A third transcontinental long dis­ quit work at the feed roller, about of an annual dividend of sixteen per luman body be driven at racing speed
SOULLESS CORPORATIONS
The Machine with the Least Machinery Possible
tance telephone Une will be completed an hour before fire was discovered in cent to the stockholders at a recent vithout disastrous results?
Mr.
Ford
’
s
idea
is
worth
watching
to do its work well
shortly after the first of the year. The the building, there was no evidence meeting, amounting to just about
The above phrase, along with its
’or he generally knows what he ir
of such a catastrophe. Manager Mc­ $10,000. At first some said this div­
•
•
t team-mate, “The public be damned,”
, SELLS ON ITS MERITS
San Francisco in 1915. The second, or Kean was in the building about twen- idend payment would have to be re­ Joing.
has outlived its usefulness. That cor­
southern line was built to Los Angeles 1 ty minutes before the fire was dis­ considered by the board of direc
porations have an interest in encour­
Azk For a Try Out
You Nothing.
about two years ago; now the third, covered and at that time was in the tors, but it has been officially stated
4 GREAT PAYROLL INDUSTRY aging and perpetuating the best there
or northern line, terminates in the Pa­ roller boiler room, under where the to the editor of the Sherman County
is in human relationships, is evidenced
cific northwest.
fire was discovered, and had noticed Observer that the action of the board,
by the recent action of the officials of
How much scientific metallurgy is the United Gas Improvement Com­
Transcontinental service will not be nothing to alarm him.
taken at the close of the best year of
AUTONA CIRCULATOR STOVES
at the mercy of storms in any one
When the fire was first discovered business done by the company, would -«sponsible for improved conditions pany of Philadelphia.
section of the country. This is simply by Meloy, the side of the scale weigh­ stand as ordered by the board and be n mining is shown by the records of
WILL HEAT FOUR TO FIVE RQOMS a
Recently the fact was brought to
another link in the network of tele­ ing room was all on fire and shortly paid exactly the same as if no fire i few big western mines. Utah Cop­
Che attention of the company that an
phone wires which make a neighbor­ after this the room was entirely filled had occurred. Last year, because of ier used to recover 60 per cent of the
old brownstone dwelling on the lot
hood of this nation. No other eoun- with the flames. A new Ford truck conditions caused by the “freeze- :opper in its 1.8 per cent ore, hand­
adjoining the company’s main office
ing
24,000
tons
a
day.
Now
it
re
­
which stood on the scale weighing out” of the winter wheat crop, the
building, was the birthplace of that
compare with our unified system, platform was entirely destroyed be dividend had been passed by the covers 90 per cent from poorer ore,
wonderful old hymn, “He Leadeth
which has made the telephone so com­ cause when men tried to move the board and the dividend this year was landling 40,000 tons daily. The Sul­
We.” This hymn was written by Rev.
mon in the United States that nearly car, flames from the scale room bil­ in reality a dividend for the two years livan mine at Kimberiy, B. C., sold a
Dr.
Gilmore, back in the sixties. It
every family has one and any child lowed over their heads and into their at the one time. Each year since the few yean ago for $250,000, had com­
has
been
sung all over the world, has
organization of the company an eight plex ores that, though rich, defied the been translated into every language,
faces, driving them from the car.
chemists.
A
long
series
of
experi
­
Evidently the fire burned two ways per cent dividend has been paid to the
and is in the hymn books of practic­
Reading of advertising is worth at the same time. Crossing the scale stockholders, with the exception of ments followed, until a flotation pro­ ally all denominations.
while.
platform and being sucked into the last year, and the payment to be cess has brought them an 80 per cent
The United Gas Improvement com­
made this year takes care of such a laving of zinc and 90 per cent of lead,
pany
had purchased the lot on which
and
net
profits
of
$15,000,000,
with
payment for each year the company
the
old
house stood, for the purpose of
has done business. Very few com­ 100 yean’ supply of ore yet in sight.
A34-l>
erecting
an additional office structure.
Mining
pays
almoat
as
large
a
pro
panies can undergo such a loss as the
Elevator has sustained by fire this portion of its money for wages, as Realizing that the home of the hymn,
week and yet undertake to pay such farming. It is one of the few indus­ “He Leadeth Me,” would be torn
tries that in many canes has a wage down, Samuel T. Bodina, present
a large dividend to its stockholders.
Plans for rebuilding the elevator icale based on profits; a scale that chairman of the board of the U.G.I
have been under consideration by offi provides for wage advances based on Co., authorized the erection on be­
cers of the company since the fire. the sale price of metal in addition to half of the company, of a tablet as a
Just what form the new building will * liberal base pay. Mining is a cash permanent mark of the birthplace of
be has not been decided, but one defi­ market for labor, for the farm, for the hymn. It is on the Broad Street
Round
One
nite assurance has been given by com the manufacturer everywhere. It is side of the U. G. I. building, in plain
view of all passers-by and reads as
Trip
Way
pany officials: A new elevator will be entitled to the fairest laws possible,
follows:
The Dalles
$ 2.05
and
the
encouragement
of
everyone
built; it will occupy the site of the
He Leadeth me, O blessed thought!
who
can
give
it
a
boost.
180
Arlington.,
2.70
burned structure and will have as
0 words with comfort fraught!
Bend.........
much or more capacity as had the one
5.70
Whate’er I do^ Whe
leth me.
that burned Tuesday evening.
Biggs.........
Barnes said he wanted him to “take Still ’tia God'a hand
.70
“He Leadeth Me.” sung through
off
his
pants.
”
The
man
said
he
didn
’
t
.35
Grass Valley..
want to do that “too many girls out the world was written by the Rev.
10.75
Klamath Falls
19.20
Owners of the wheat not insured
Thia year there were 4,756 Buicks in a total of44,472
here.” Barnes said he didn’t want Dr. Joseph H. Gilmore, a son of a gov­
Madras..
tried to salvage part of their grain
him to do it there, but to go home ernor of New Hampshire, in the house
Wednesday morning. Wheat in the
5 70
Redmond.
3 80
first. The man went home and put of Deacon Wattson, immediately after
lower part of some of the bins were on dry clothing.
preaching in the First Baptist Church,
Shaniko..
2 05
Buick.
in remarkably good condition, con­
northwest corner Broad and Arch
Wasco..
sidering the possible damage from
streets, on the 26th day. of March
Pendleton
Alex Jackson, one of the volunteers 1862.
■moke and water. This salvage work
h and Deacon Watt-
Portland.
4 35
was under way albday with the result, moving furniture from the depot far
on the ground upon
-that evening, of a possible half being
which this building is erected.
STAGBO-LRAVK
Northbound
Southbound
recovered by the owners. The wheat wood rocker tome one had thrown
“The United Gas Improvement com­
thus saved Is not considered to be best from the upstair landing to the pany in recognition of the beauty and
9:08 A.M.
9:27 A.M.
grade, but it can be used for feed for ground, aa he was going back fer an­ fame of the hymto, and in * remem
11:53 A.M
hogs and chickens and represents other load to carry from the building. bi^nce of its distiguished author,
7:08 P.M
6:42 P.M
the Continent—or around the World.
quite a money value to those who Jackson said, “Who in hall threw makes this permanent record on the
first thought of it as being a total that?” At that moment Mr. Rose first day of June, 1926.”
wanted to know abo. It was the only
.
THE GREATEST BUICK EVER BUILT
Corporations may not have souls,
Meter Coach
thing broken for Mr. R om .
but the men who operate the success­
.GEO. N? CROSFIELD
W. H. Barnes, railway section fore­
ful ones do, and they are good Chris­
man, tried to get a Mexican section
DISTRIBUTOR FOR SHERMAN COUNTY
Walter Scott, of the Babcock Grain tian gentlemen who are constantly*
hand, who had kept a fire hoee play­ company of Portland, and W. V. Leh­ helping to make the United States a
WASCO, OREGON
ing on the depot during the heighth man, of the Independent Warehouae better nation.
of the Elevator fire to go home and company of Pendleton, arrived in
change his wet clothing. The man Moro Thursday for the purpose of bid­
did- not seem to understand what ding and probably buying the dam­
The millions of germs on money
Stage Depot — Ross’ Confectionery, Phone 411
Barnet wanted and asked a compan­ aged grain in the Elevator fire from and in kisses never make a man re­
ion what Barnes wanted him to do. the insurance companion.
fuse either.
IN MEMORIUM
2 Big Shows 2
WASCO THEATRE
Ginn, Coleman & Co
MORO, OREGON
New Stage Rates!
MORO
Buick. Ahead Again
in the lellowstoife !
System
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