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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1927)
The Sherman County Observe», Moto, Qregtm, W4»?, Aprili, 1881 ____ FINNEY OF THE FORCE - Send Your Jewelry Repair Work to Pound’s Jewelry Store MO? F in MKV tí * BILU WAS svemce A «00b 00KB ON Kq ÀLLROiGiJnr - BAM- I KAR VoufiPB4TAV<iK TRAOGNO DOWN A 6ÚM WHO PASSED A BAO $IOO AND I FINALLV CAUOHT MA MA MO .7 ,40 FINNEY I W0MT,HONESr! RARA MA — TQWL Ilf ao ho ho nwx frÔMO*hAN ELSE, WILL Ytt ? I w O m V NELL GUY A. POUND A Spedalty Catthd Attention Given To WATCH REPAIRING The Dalle«, Oregon ALHAimiR By an overwhelming vote of about ready making preparations to handle or invented by the federal foresters 13 to 1, a 3300,000 bond Issue has been the season’s strawberry tonnage, to fit the special woods conditions un authorised by the taxpayers of Union which will reach approximately that A totaLof 886 miles of telephone der which these lines must be built high school district No. 3 at Klamath H of last yoar. Growers have been able ’ine was built in the 22 national for and maintained. to contract their berries to canners at Falls. ests of Oregon and Washington dur A decision to hold a celebration* in a minimum price of 9 cents a pound. in« 1926. Of this total, 909 miles COMPULSORY CO-OPÈRATION That there will be no modification Brief Resume of Happenings of Hermiston some time this spring to were built in Oregon and 177 miles of ths scheduled advance in graslifg mark the completion of McKay dam at the in Washington, as shown in a state the Week Collected for was made by the Hermiston commer fees for national forests ia indicated Australia, world experiment station ment isued by the district forester, In a letter received In Salem by Sam cial club. in untried'things for agriculture and . v Our Reeders. Portland, Oregon. A. Koser, secretary of state, from- W. The Salem Nut Growers ’ Cooper The telephone is an important tool labor, is trying out compulsory co M. Jardine, secreUry of the federal tlve association transacted 340,896 5 in protectin« the national forests operation in the state of Queensland. department of agriculture. There will August Rossi, prominent citlsen and of business during 192«, according to 408 E. 2nd St from fire; speed in reportin« fires be- Under the new law, when a majority be no increase in fees during 1927, but annual . report of the organisation the *a member of the city council, dropped in« one of the first requirement* is of the producers of any farm com The Dalles, Oregon The association handled 170,996 after this year an increase will be ap dead In Beaverton last woek. fully recognised by the government modity vote to cooperate in the mar pounds of walnuts and 2546 pounds of plied in installments of 25 per cent foresters. The entire forest service keting of that commodity, then all the - Six velai of coal, one running six esch during the years 1928. 1929, 1930 Lu neh and Dini.©'' com bina tion. telephone system in the north Pacific producers of that particular commod feet in width, have been opened on filberts. and 1931. The full Increase will be that are said by r patrons tn district now embraces 9,423 miles of ity must sell through the same co-op the John Day river, 33 miles west of Appointment of Henry W. Meyers of applied during the years from 1931 to equal Home Cooku. Salem as superintendent of th© Ore line, 6,156 miles in Oregon and 3,267 erative agency or not sell at all. This I Canyon City. 1934 Inc’uatve. miles in Washington. The total con plan has in it an element of cercion, Approximately >40,000 will be ex gon state prison, was announced by struction cost of the system to date but the farmers of Queensland justify pended in Improvements on the Ore- the stat* board of control. Meyers A prime factor in the upbuilding of is 3639,192. -Forest fire lookouts on it on the theory that if there are so gon national guard’s new encampment will take charge of the preson April a community^* the community news 1, and will receive an annual salary the mountain peaks and rangers, many selfish farmers who will not grounds near Gearhart. paper. / of >4000. guards and patrolmen in the valleys help themselves, then they must be construct 31 The forest service will Mrs. Sarah Trask, 75, believes “It’s SYNOPSIS OF ANNUAL STATEMENT below are connected by this system, made to, rather than to be permitted miles of new telepHme line in the La . OF THE to remain outside the organisations the climate’’ In Grants Pass, for while which is built primarily to speed up Grande section of the Umatilla nation AMERICAN CENTRAL IN JEWELER and hinder them by seling in compe visiting there with her son, I^em action on forest fires. al forest this summer. SURANCE COMPANY. Trask, she has started cutting her In edition to the regular tele tition. Across the border In Canada The Klamath country lost one of its third set of teeth- It new appears tha thirly-flr«t day of Dacombor. 18 Repairing a Sr-laity. is a scheme for centralised control phones, road and trail crews and large mada to th« Inaurane« CommlMlonar earliest p^neers when Martin R that she will be forced to discard the th« Stat« at i>r«son. pursuant to law: fire camp* are connected, where pos that while it does not go as far as the Frain. 94, died at the home of hia son, Capital. . - • _ 502 E. Second sL set of false teeth which she has been sible, by means of army emergency Australian plan, is not far removed Amount of capital «tock-paid ’ W. L. Frain. of Topsy, Or. from it in principle. The co-operative using for the last 25 years. 2 Doors East of Skaggs Store wire and portable telephones. Many A J. H. Jensen. 60. farmer, residing in of the lines are known as “tree lines,” sets minimum f. o. b. prices and fixes The state treasurer last week sent Met premium« received dur are built under pioneer conditions and dates when products may be marketed the Lewis and Clark district near As to New York a check for >1,535,863 32 ins the rear .............................. I5.4O8.OM.M considerable ingenuity is at times re and the percentage which each pro torla, died while driving an automobile covering highway bond principal'which »rem n quired in their construction and main- ducer may market, also a percentage between Astoria and his home. amounted to 3700 000, and Interest. lacome from other‘Bouree* re 14L201.n finance, it is said. Many tools, spo- of export shipment. The purpose is There will be no increase in th« The payment is due April 1. It was T^aJ Incom« .................................. W.W MI rt cial porcelain hangers, tree nails and 'to regulate prices by controlling the salaries of Salem school teachers next reported by the state treasurer that IMaburwemeat«. year, according to a decision reached the outstanding highway indebtedness other devices have been worked out supply that shall be marketed. year Including adjustment ex pen«M ................. M .... I by directors of the school district was reduced by this payment from Dlrtdend« paid on capital 334,044,750 to 335444,750. lOS.OOO.SO •tock during th« year .... The operating revenue of the Valley Reserve District No. 12 CommiMlopa and «alarie« Eyesight Specialists » Charter No. 240 paid during th« year .... A Siletx Railway company during th« Imperial, ghost city of central Ore lm 7-1“ « Manufacturing Opticians REPORT OF CONDITION OF THE FARMERS STATE BANK 204. m. 44 year 1984 was >259,799, according tc gon. in the high desert country east of Eye* Examined Glasses Fitted at Moro, in the State of Oregon, at the close of business March 28, 1927. a report filed with the public service Bend, must pay a tax of 30 cents for ' Exclusively Optical each of its lots this year, although commission. RESOURCES Total oxpanditurea . Complete Lens Manufacturing 1. Loans and discounts, including rediscounts, acceptances or Following what he thought was a only a few stakes mark the site of the Plant in Con nee ti or. of «tock« and bonds bills of exchange, sold with endorsement of the bank (in town once advertised as the seat of a Valu« owned (market value) .. ..S7.7M.KS 34 ORE .<N 3182,431.77 coyote that had been after his turkeys, THE DALLES cluding items shown in 29, 80 and 32, if any)........... • four-year high school. Imperial is hard 773.78 Orb Lowell at his-place near Harri* 'rtmluni in com «*« of col- 15-16 Vogt Block. 2. Overdrafts secured and unsecured.................... • lection written since Kep burg last week, shot and killed * blue > to locate these days, because the last l.t49,34XM 8. U. S. government securities owned, including those shown tember SO. 1DM .............. .. .. 5,000.00 deserted building has been moved merest ana rents du* atu in items 80 and 35, if any..... ..................... .. • •. ■ • » ♦ • • ; Arctic fox. 113.268 7S accrued ........ ................... 5. Rtoeka, securities, claims, liens, judgments, etc, Federal Early gardening is going on at Sweet 1,6000.00 Total admitted asset»... Reserve Bank ...... ................................... • • Said to be the first of its kind in _ IJwbiUUoe. 1,808.00 Home. Several farmers have cabbage 6 Furniture and fixtures Oregon, a longdistance water stage Oroaa «laima for loaae« un- / 1.00 high, lawns art planta throe inches Real estate owned other than banking house........... - . pal¿ 9 718«St l.OT 7. 8,705.18 being mowed and a general clean ur recorder is to be in operation on the 8. (a) Lawful reserve with federal reserve bank ...... -- Deschutes river at Denham Falls by «Uh* ...................................... ................... 3,310.22<l 83 8. (be) Cash on hand in vault and due from other banks, 7,926.39 is in progress. 232.810 24 bankers and trust companies .« • • • • • • ;■ ......................... the start of the 1927 irrigation season. All oth«r HabilHIe«............ Cleveland Martin, living near Gold Connected with Bend by wire, this re Total cash and due from banks, items 8, 9, 10, Total llablllil««. ««cluaiv« which gave birth of capital «tock of >1.000,- and 11,................................. 316,631.52 OOO ............................................. ?.. »«. 27 0.70X4« corder will automatically register the 1,114.36 Hill, has eight ewes thls spring to 20 lambs. Two of the 12. Interest, taxes and expenses paid ... .................................... 13.00 volume of water In the river, recording 15. Other assets, if any, Liberty Bell Banks............................... 3209,373.88 ewes had triplets and one gave birth the readings in an office in Bend, 12 Mot premium« received dur- Total . 42.M2 87 to quadruplets. miles from the falls. Lo«««« Incurred during th«. Painia** Extraction LIABILITIES y«ar ...................... ... SS.M7.M After many months .of slow con Thomas Richmond and Fred Assen- AMKMCAN cent * al INNURANCS 45,000.00 • 16. Capital stock paid in ................................... COMPANY.. 6,000.00 struction because of a “pay-as-you heimer of Douglas county were recom B G. CHAPMAN JR.. Pr««ld«nt J 17. Surplus fund ............................................................... ¿oann'Ao 2,500.00 build” policy, the now Christian church mended tor membership on the fish (a) Undivided profits ....................... • • • • • • 32,500.00 D K. MONROS, 8«cretary. 18. at Vernonia was occupied for the first commission to represent the second FRED TEBBÏN, Portland. Or.. Stat rHeiBwd Deposits, other than banks, subject to reserve: utory Reildant Attorney for Serv- 28. Individual deposits subject to check, including deposits time last Sunday. district, and Sam Hughes of Marion W. T. Slatten, D. D. S. CO.. Reaident H COX due the State of Oregon, county, cities or other public Rebuilding of Marcola’s fire-swept county and Otto Hartwig of Portland/ Asenta. Portland, Or. fundi ......................................•........................... • • •• 112,545.03 Over Wa*co County Bank business district started last Thursday from the state at large, by a group of Total of demand deposits, other than bank deposits, sub- j^tto reserve, itemT28, 24, 25, 26 ............. 3112,545.03 The Dalles, Oregon when Riley Garrison, whose garagt dealers and fishermen representing the Timr and Saving« Depoaita, subject to reserve and pay- was dynamited to check the flames coast district, who conferred with Gov 805 2nd St. able on demand or subject to notice: - began reconstruction. ernor Patterson recently. 16,628.35 27. Time certificates of deposit outstanding .t.............. Frances P. Adams, M. D. Mrs. Darwin Dails was seriously in Total of time and savings deposits payable on demand or According to news from Gold Hill, subject to notice, items 27 and 28, ......... >16 628.35 4,200.00 jured at Seaside Monday, when a goll recent summing up of the surveys 29. Notes and bill* rediscounted with Federal Reserve Bank. . Physician and Surgeon ball she had placed on a hot stove ex made by the highway engineers in BIGGS 11.' Bills payable with federal reserve bank or with other ba^ks 22,500.00 ploded, throwing acid and hot rubbei planning the new highway from Rose or trust companies SERVICE STATION Wasco, Oregon burg to Diamond and Crater lakes, in . 1209,378.38 in her face and eyes. Total dicate that the road will be construct Plans were offered at a meeting hole STATE OF OREGON, County of Sherman, ss. < . ____ ed through the low pass in the Ump Phone 182 I 8. W. Searcy, cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear in Gran> Pas* l*st week of Jooephint qua mountains at the headwaters of that the above «tote me nt is true to the best of my knowled«e and belief. county poultry men for formation of Bottled Drinks on Ice Correct—Attest: S. Searcy, Cashier. a Rogue rivor valley cooperative poul Trail creek, and join the Medford-Cra* Hours: 9 to 12 a. m; 2 to 6 p. m. ter Lake highway at Trail. Quaker State Oils W. H. Ragsdale, Omer G. Sayrs, P. C. Axtell, Directors. try marketing association. Oregon monthly pensions have been Subscribed and sworn to before me this 29th day of March, 1927. Salem is growing more rapidly than W C. Bryant, Notary Public, my commission expires September 28^ 1928. any other municipality in Oregon, with granted as follows: George Wede The PatrMAM the exception of Klamath Falls, if tele kind, Portland, 3*0; John F. Hilton, phone connections and construction Portland, 320; Aaron C. Sample, Sa lem. 325; Fred W. Zepp, tforth Bend, Reserve District No. 12 Charter No. 216 are considered an indication. 330; Claude Kaye, The Dalles, >80; Net sales of water by the Bend mu Duncan L. MeKay Jr., La Grande. 330; REPORT OF CONDITION OF THE BANK OF MORO Pl.mbinK at Moro, in the State of Oregon, at the close of business March 23, 1927. nicipal system In the first nine month« Henry Bolton, The Dalles, 330; of operation^ wert 388.714, according Waldon C. Long, Albany, 312; Will RESOURCES ~ ? / .. - to the auditor’s report. Operating ex lam F. Turnbow. Umatilla, 325. 1. Loans and discountsrincluding rediscounts, acceptances of penses for this an»o«nte<l tc Sells and installs the famous funeral home MU« of exchange, sold with endorsement of the bank (in The Wilson River Toll Road .corn 3206,181.50 317,408. eluding items shown in 29, 30 and 32, if any) ........... , Mueller pipe oy pipeless furnace pany, with headquarters In Portland, 1390.48 2. Overdraft* secured and unsecured .................... ................... Astoria banks announced that they filed articles in the state corporation THE DALLES, OREGON 2,600.00 Stocks, securities, claims, liens, judgments, etc. ...... 5. 2,150.00 will institute a system of service department In Salem last week. The WASCO, OREGON Phone 845 The Dalles 6. Banking house, 3............. furniture and fixtures, 32150.00 charges on average monthly balance* purpose of the corporation is to con 9. (ab) Gash on hand in vault and due from banks, bankers and trust companies designated and approved ^reserve of less than 850 and will reduce in struct a toll road from a point near 18,288.02 terest rates paid on savings deposit« agant* of this bank.................. - ....... . ............................ Forest Grove to Tillamook. This pro 10. Exchange« for clearing house and items on other banks posed highway would shorten the dis after April L ‘ MORO, OREGON 1,201.74 tn the same city or town as reporting bank......... ............... Total cash and due from banks, items 8, 9, 10 and 11, Silverton voters approved a >45,001 lance between Portland and the Tilla ............ .. . ... ?....................................................... .319,489.76 bond issue to improve the city watei mook beaches approximately 35 mil©« 3,802.86 12. Interest, taxes and expenses paid ........................................ system last week. The count was 116 Checks of 3500 each were received Total 3285,414.60 ............................. ......................................... to . 32. It was planned to carry out ex from the sUte by H. Christoffersen, tensive improvements providing an chief criminal deputy sheriff of Mult LIABILITIES nomah county; George Jackson, coun 25,000.00 additional flow.' 16. Capital stock paid in........................... ..................... ............... 5,000.00 A SOgalloB capacity moonshin« ty jailer; Ed Gloss, oeunty constable, 17. Surplus fund ....................................................... • •• • ............ and P. V. Rexford, motorcycle deputy 21. Net amounts due to other banks, ‘ bankers and trust com- 329.33 plant, fully equipped and carefully sheriff, as rewards for the capture of hidden away in sagebrush, qps found Damaad Depoaita, other than banks, subject to reserve; James Willos and Ellsworth Kelly, Calls for and Delivers last Sunday by Bend boys who were Individual deposits subject to check, including deposits 23. COSTS LESS THAN convicts who escaped in a prison due the State of Oregon, county, cities or other public eight miles southeast of town on a > in Moro Wasco 57,754.51 break in Salem, Or., in August, 1925. funds .......... ....... .. ........................... .......... .. • jackrabbit hunt. Total of demand deposit*, other than bank deposits, sub- Nine per cent more lumber was cut and Grass Valley The 14th annual conference of the i ject to reserve, items 23, 24, 25, 26.................... 367,754.51 ’Daughters of the American Revolu in 1926 In Oregon and Washington Tima aad Savings Dwpoaita. subject to reserve and pay Mondays and Thursdays able on demand or subject to notice: tion convened in Corvallis last week, than in 1925, the United States forest To ride on a ’ 88,110.76 with M of the 10 Oregon chapters rep- ■ ! service and bureau of the census have 27. Time certificates of deposit outstandifig............................ deposit payable on demand or Total of time and sa’ resented and more than 100 delegates estimated. The figures of the two . .383,110.76 subject to notice, items 27 and 28 .. agencies are’ based on the output of, and visitors in attendance. 30. Note* and bin* rediscounted including bonds or other securities sold under repurchase agreements with contin- Thirty miles of barbod-wire drift 45 mills whose cut represents 65 per A Complete Liae of 48,220.00 fence will be constructed in tha Fre cent of the total output of the two Ent liabilities..... .................................... .. Bürget & Callaway Setefa« «J Portag* CorA Us payable with federal reserve bank or with other banks states. In 1914 the cut was 12.258.- 16,000.00 mont national forest, in the Chowan- 000,000 board feet; in 1925 It Was IL- sr trust companies ................................................................ can and Sycan cattle and horse dlvl- Funeral Directors Total 3235,411X0 ........... ................................ .......................... 243.000.000. When in The Dalle» HAVE YOUR Lunch or Dinner J5C (Full bourse) FOREST TELEPHONE LINES OREGON STATE NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST White Restaurant D. Lindquist De Larhue . Optical Co. Portland Office Phon«* Main 93 Moro Oregon Dr J. R. Morgan DENTIST United Stales Dental Exam iner for this district. Office at MORO, OREGON DR. C. L. POLEY PhyUcia People can reach me from Moro at night from the long distance booth at Hotel * Moro by ringing The Dalles. t Dr W. N. Morse Physician and Surgeon THE DALLES, OREGON Office at the Hamilton Hospital Phone No. Hospital 487 DENTIST 31.00 A. M. HICKS Model Laundry l-4c Per Mile Seiberling All - Tread Union and Third St The Dalles, Ore. STATE OF OREGON, County of Sherman, s* - L F. E. Fortner, cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. Corrset—Attest F. E. Fortner, Cashier E. O. McKoy, L. Barnum. J. W. Hoech, Directors. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 29th day of March, 1927. J. L. Searcy, Notary Public, my commission expires March 8, 1980. will be primarily for ths purpose oi keeping cattle out of sheep range. Silver Falls Timber company camps, which opened a week ago, were forced to close again because of th* heavy snows which fell daring the past wook. Sherman Garage & Mchy Co By the middle of April, according to Hood River fruit shipping concerns,; , Wa»co, Oregon ail of the record tonnage of the 1924* apple crop will have been forward, d Portage Cords at Mail Order Prices to market About 25 cars remain to shipped. The association is d- V 4 I I I I I I H I I I I I I I 14-4 +I 4 4-4-+ JAMES STEWART SHERMAN COUNTY STOCK ANO BRAND INSPECTOR I DEPUTIES: L. 8ch.dewit«, Kent i Oregon; Dr. Jet. Sautuferti, Moro, Î Ore.; W. H. Mcver, Wasco, Ore Bank Hotel The Dalles’ Newest and Best Hostelry’ CENTRALLY LOCATED Sherman County Headquarter* EDW. BALL, MANAGER The Delle* - * Oregon ^mWW^WW^V************
