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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1927)
MOTOR WARJ4A Y BREAK NO MORE FAMILY COUPES TUX WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH Pre always believed ia the old adage "Give the <ievil ________ his __ dues. — ” A MkM nsen _ BILL CAPITULATES — WITH THE HONORS OF WAR EXACTED — ---------- The warm, warm days of early spring, Happy notes that from hillsides ring, * The pulsing song of a bird on wing, Have robbed me of my anger. . A honking wedge of geese high-flying, Breeses soft o’eY green fields sighing, The whistle of a sage rat erving, - 1er. Lay down your weapons. Ginn, Coleman & Co. MORO, OREGON As the period approaches when the One-armed driving, five-passenger long rumored war within the motor furniture IMPLEMENTS HARDWARE industry is expected to be brought So far Tre riinpiy sat^n Äo fence, flivver coupes and multi-colored -a --- A Ika Miyg, windshield stickers, were among the into the open, leaders in the industry of pen». numerous things put under a sudden continue to observe • tightrlipped FEATURING — ban by the new rulings of the stete silence respecting their plans. I’m rough and tough to the rest of you. Of the three priine factors in the the Printer’s Devil, traffic department, according to an A LARGE STOCK OF I may shoot and cuss tijl the air is blue think I’m worse. rumored war — the Ford organiza announcement made by state traffic ^And then in the spring when the world is new And Fm absolutely on the level / Fall victim to Spring-fever. . r tion, the General Motors corporation officer Jay Saltzman Monday morn- AXMINSTER RUGS Aa I tell you about this curse. C Thus ever, since the world was small, and the Independents — from O“1? The bluffer they are — the easier fall. Pm literally pushed into this fight, No more than three people over 12 the later has there come a statement. CONGOLEUM AND LINOLEUM I’m merely a thread in a pattern, that s all, Therefore I’m here to stay years of age will be allowed in the William C. Durant, a manufacture And fate ’ s the mischievous weaver. ■ While I write with all my might LEATHER CHAIRS AND FIBER SUITES er in the independent field, announced front seat or compartment of any To tell you >hat people say. We’ll meet as maiden or man to man vehicle hereafter, nor may the third that he shortly will reveal plans for a A conf’rance we’ll have and a treaty we 11 scan. CEDAR AND WALNUT CHESTS move that will rival anything in his person be seated on the lap or knees Thev corner me at work; You drop your weapon — my shot gun I II. ban ThS think they’re talkin’ awful sweet of either of the other two, is the new already sensational career within the Does that really please you?_ “ MAJESTIC RANGES I — I simply sharpen my dirk. Do you think as a cowboy I’ll not be game7 ruling effective under the emergency motor industry. r- My true self admit, tho it may be with shame? Vdon't mind bein’ told the tenth, Rumor has it he plans a new low When you tell me .yours, I will sign my own name. But wh« it comes to accuretion fatoe clause. priced car, the product of a combine Drivers of motor vehicles may not MEADOWS POWER WASHER Then the fight will be thru. i »Lt what _ I ain’t no Ruth, on which he Is reported to have been Buckaroo Bill Nor would I represent a Santa Clans. operate the machine while gently The Machine with the Least Machinery Possible squeezing the1 waist of their wives or working for more than a year. Folks say, "Who’s Sal?” sweethearts — or other men’s wives Of the numerous plans attributed to do its work well Aad as I feebly blush, - Sweethearts, a. the case may be. to the Ford company, one of which is I They say, "You’re the gal SNOW DEPTH SETS RECORD' 47 STATES WILL BUILD ROADS Nor may they hold on their laps a given more than ordinary credence, is From out the grey sagebrush. SELLS ON ITS MERITS bab/, large or small, or any package Others say» "This here BiUie — ” Will Coastoruct Several Large Bridge« that it soon will announce a revised A.k For a Try Out It Co.ti You Nothing. or merchandise which might interfere Contrai Oregon Mountain« Hare price schedule on the light ear it now Well, I Von’t either Mt, and Maintain 239,847 Mile« But they ramble on wilne-nilhe the Doopeat Snow Fall of has on the market; this to be followed with driving. Accusin1 other folks so gay. •f Highway The tourist whose sole passion is to later by the introduction of a new Finally, they get the bright idea go out collecting windshield stickers The construction of 26,841 miles of four-cyhndered machine with an air Not only is the depth of snow now That one poet writes all three I AUTONA CIRCULATOR STOVES Now I ’Claim by grace of St. Cecelia during the summer may as well stes mantling the central Oregon Cascades road and the maintenance of 289,847 cooled motor, and a changed trans-1 home, for hereafter no stickers wil miles are included in the 1927 state mission The new car, it is reported, Th«» that’« too much! even for me. WILL HEAT FOUR TO FIVE ROOMS be allowed on any of the glass, front, deeper than in any season in recent highway programs of 47 states ac will be in the lower price class. With I may be the Printer’s Devil, side or rear, of any motor vehicle in years, but the moisture content is cording to reports received by the in a few months, according to these But I refuse to be those h ires. the state. Official state permits for unusually great, according to reports. bureau of public roads, United States reports. Ford will be on the open And I tell you I’m on the level cars in transit ttc., are excepted, of The depth of the snow and the ab department of agricultural. The pro market with a second new car, this an | When I say I resent these kicks. normal moisture content asures an __ The Printer’s Devil course. grams also include the construction of eight-cylindered machine of the mid Saltzman returned Monday from abundance of water for several sea a number of large bridges and the re dle-priced variety. Salem, wrere he had been attending sons, it is believed. Indications are that the General construction of (roads previously im- WHEAT ON PROTEIN BASIS Back from Créant m th.. UBe<rUinty Motors corporation will stand with the stete traffic officers convention. The meeting was one of the best in summit country of the central Oregon | of supporting _____ na Mtimate legislation no estimate its present line of cars. It is thought by many that the time years. Among the speakers was the Cascades, the snow is 12 feet deep, of the season’s work is possible as yet will soon come when the price of California traffic chief, who holds it was learned from William Seals, in Connecticut. who was in Bend test week from his will be determined very largely sway over a force of 300 officers. In carrying out the above programs I OBSERVER WANT ADS traps in the Cr^cqnt lake country. on its protein content. At present it is expected there will be expended the protein test is of much importance VOTERS MUST REGISTER SOON The snow is reported to be four and under the supervision of the state one-half feet deep at Crescent lake and when there is a scarcity of high Four brood sows and ‘one pure and throe feet deep ip the town of highway departments jn the 47 states blood Polan China male for sale or protein, premiums are paid on wheat Unqualified voters of Sherman a total of |«48,488,000. which goes over a basic amount. The county have only two months more in Crescent Lake. In addition to the stati expendi trade. Homer Belshee, Moro, Oregon. * * is taking department of agriculture The entire range of the Cascades which to register for the special elec We can fit all kinds of people. Any tures approximate estimates indicate through central Oregon, from Crater up the matter of uniform eating in tion to be held June 28. size or weight. Crippled or deform that counties and other lessor sub the different laboratories. Registration books will close 30 lake on the south to Mount Jefferson divisions of government will expend ed feet. Wernmark’s Shoe Store, The days before the election. A number on the north, carries its heaviest load during the year $475,000,000. Dalles. of citizens have been dropped from of snow in 10 or more years, it is the Of the expenditures by the state IM« is the best time to prune WANTED — Used Deering 9-foot estimate of old timers who recall hard the registration books because of roees, in the opinion of the majority their failure to vote in one of the winters for a quarter of a century or highway departments of the 47 states combine in fair condition. Must know approximately 1421,000,000 is the soon. Adolph Adgidious, route 3, The gf Tosogrewers I* Oregon, says the last two elections. These persons more. For the first time in recent landscape gsrdening department of estimated amount for road construc Dalles, Oregon. -m25*3t years, six feet of snow cover the ex will be required to register if they the state college. Prumng should be tion and, according to present plans, posed lava fields in the McKenzie pass desire to vote in the coming election. We pay parcel post one way on more than $56,000,000 additional will Those who must register include country. The snow east of the pass is all shoe repairing. Good quality work be spent for new bridges. For recon persons who have never before voted reported to be 10 feet deep. and leather. Joe Amore, The Dalles, will be so swollen that the live struction of existing roads it is es Despite the fact that heavy snow in the county, those who have moved branches can be distinguished from timated that the expenditure will be opposite the post office. since the last election and those who fell in the central Oregon mountains the dead ones. The place to prune nearly $27,000.000, and for main ' For Sale — Standard make piano | have failed to vote in one of the last in the past winter, the snow fall in with relation to the bud is easily de- tenance approximately $126,000,000. in vicinity will be sacrificed. Must the plateau country, from Bend two elections. sill at once. $10 monthly. Write termhuil north to Madras, has been compara Tallman Piano Store, Salem, Oregon. tively light, but the rainfall in this HUGE CAVERN FOUND Range For Sale: Combination wood section has been abnormally heavy. and coal, hot water coils and stove While snow was falling in the higher Marie country, rain was failing in the lower Holm Drilled For Highway Draia pipe included; reaonable. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Amidon, Postoffice, Moro. 2tm25* territory. The heavy snow in the summit ter Baby Chicks for sale — $15.00 per Belief that a subterranean cavern, Harold Lloyd ritory, very likely, result in mountain probably a big laya c^ve, has been hundred; Rhode Island Red, O. A. C. I roads being closed until late in the tapped on The DaUes-California high strain. Write me and give your or-1 wesson- It is probable that the Cen way just south of Redmond is hold by der. Mrs. P. H. Thomsen, Route One, ADMISSION and tury drive will not be ^open for W. 8. Hodge, highway maintenance Moro, Oregon. < traffic over its entire distance engineer. For Sale — Certified Earliest of until June. Small canyons in the Mention of the possible cavern was All, Early Ohio, Netted Gem, seed po.- mountains are reported by trappers made by Hodge when touching on the SUNDAY tatoes. Also Swift’s Commercial Fer to be completely filled with drifted success of holes drilled near the high tilizer. The Dalles Cooperative Grow Onopound can of Edwards’ Dependable snow. way bed to drain off water that had ers, First and Jefferson streets, phone | Of special interest to motorists is accumulated from irrigation districts. 388, The Dalles, Oregon. the snow conditions in the Three Sis This hole was drilled 22 feet through TAKEN UP — Six black and white ters district, where, it is feared, the solid rock when the cavity was struck. — with---, / McKenzie pass road will remain From this hole there at times isspes a shoate, weight about 80 pounds, at Renee Adoree and Aleen Pringle blocked to traffic until the first of wind. At other times, there is a suc my ranch 2 H miles southeast of Moro July unless a snow plow is taken over tion of air, the air movement varying on the Lone Rock road, Saturday, THREE BIG STARS the summit route. It is recalled that with the temperature above ground. March 26. Owner requested to prove North of Redmond, a hole over 184 property, take them away, and pay Always at your service the old road over the lava fields in ADMISSION and 1917, just 10 years ago, was blocked feet deep was drilled near the high damage and cost. D. C. West, Moro. way bed for drainage. The first unit until after July 4. of this hole, 59 feet was through solid The frozen, rain packed snow in * the mountains will resist the sun and rock. Next, the drill bored through Newton Crotfield, Director Guaranteed Watch warm breezes much longer than light 75 feet of cindtre. Below this, a grav el was struck. This gravel absorbs ul tuz — AND — snow, according to those who are in ooooooooooooooooooooooc touch with snow conditions in the the waste water. Jewelry Repairing The drainage holes have proved mountains. BY EXPERT WORKMEN successful, reported C. W. Wanser, Change in rates effective Jan 1,1927 division state highway engineer. Sim Leave Your Work with W. A. RAILWAY CROSSING ACCIDENTS ilar holes were drilled along subirn- Ruggles at Moro Confectionery gated sections of the highway several F. H. COOLIDGE ------- TO-------- Number of Persons Killed and Injur years ago. Round One HOOD RIVER, OREGON Trip . - Way ed During 1926 Show Increase $ 1.35 u. of O. EXPELLS S3 STUDENTS The Dalles m a k 4 with every electric percolator- 05 DOWN and $1 for 8 months i^Kid Brother” ISC 5QC “Tin Gods” S&ermasi Electric Co IOC SOC Waxo Theatre New Stage Rate«! MORO Higher Quality at o< increasing Volume Production in Chevrolet kCRjuch Mt smoother. The Most Beautiful Coach InJChevrolet History! rti prrriou« value triumph*, the acclaimed a« the outstanding L Beautiful new Fisher bodice— Jy low and finished in new colors jsm, one-piece fenders ... bullef- ilter and AC air cleaner... finer is 595 TIPTON A MANCHESTER, DEALERS THE DALLES, OREGON ASSOCIATE DEALERS FOSS A COMPANY, MORO . .SHERMAN GARAGE, WASCO • GRASS VALLEY MOTOR CO., GRASS VALLEY QUALITY AT LOW COST Concerned over the increase that Fifty-three Students were expeUed took place in 1926 compared with from the University of Oregon for 1925 in the number of highway grade crossing accidents and believing that falure to meet the minimum scholas more care should be exercised by all tic standards during the winter term. those crossing railroad tracks, the Of this number 49 were men and 4 American Railway Association has an were women. - ■ ’ The number of flunkers is com nounced plans for a nation-wide essay contest among school and college stu- paratively small because of the pro denAs with three cash prises of $250 bation system under which poor stu each, to be awarded the authors dents are given a second chance. The of essays containing an outstand personnel committee gives special ing, readily available suggestion for attention to weak students, and many are warned in time to improve their | preventing such accidents. the In 1926, there were 5,821 highway work or else "if withdraw before kt * grade crossing accidents in which end of the term. Last fall term 72 were flunked out, 2,492 persons were killed and 6,991 and in the winter term of last year 41. injured. In 1925, there were 5,479 accidents in which 2,206 persons were The number on probation this fall ____ Owing _____ to _ was 120, and it is expected this num- killed and «,555 injured. the increase that is Constantly taking | ber will be smaller for the spring place in the number of automobiles in term which has just started. use, the hazard from such accidents is annually becoming greater. Only PIANO FOR SALE «137 through the co-operation of the pub lic and the railroads can a reduction Regular $500 value used of course in such accidents be brought about in view of the fact the complete eUm but In fine condition. Terms $9.00 nthly. Free delivery to Moro dis ination of highway grade crossings is impossible, not only because of the trict. $119 and $165 buys other fine time that would be involved but also used pianos fully guarranteed. Write because of the prohibitive cost which for lists and prices, or call at once at Big Piano Side on for short time, ultimately falls on the public. Western Piano Brokerage Co., oppo site Post Office, The Dalles. An attractive color combination Tor the kitchen is a delicate shade of lilac The apple ring is a delicious relish for the wails and nile green for the woodwork. The curtains may be lilac for meats. The unpealed apple is cut and white or lilac and black checked into slices half an ineh thick. They gingham. The furniture may be are cooked in a buttered frying pan painted nile green with stenciled de until tender and then sprinkled with brown sugar. signs in black.*' Phone 35-J “ QUIET SERVICE ” Lady Assistants CRANDALL Undertaking Company THE DALLES, OREGON Arlington.. Bend. *... Grass Valley....... . . Klamath Falls........ Madras............... . . Redmond............... Shaniko................ . Wasco.................... Pendleton........... Portland................ STAGES NASH 180 4.45 »70 .35 10.75 2.80 3 80 1.35 .35 4 55 4 35 2.70 6.70 1.05 . .55 19 20 4 20 5 70 2 05 6 85 LEAVE Northbound Southbound 11:35 A. M. 7:08 P.M. 9:27 A. M 3:42 P.M. Columbia Gorge Motor Coach System Leads The World -In MOTOR CAR VALUE 7-bearing crankshaft, the most smooth running motor in any car, is standard tin all Nash models. Stage Depot — Ross’ Confectionery, Phone 411 . NASH LIGHT SIX SEDAN, $865 F. O. B. Factory WENTWORTH A IRWIN, INC. Portland, Oregon CLARENCE ANDERSON Wasco, Oregon Special Representative * A “WANT”- * n T hf . M oro i • O bserver will reach more * people in Shenna: County th^r * by any other medium available
