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The Sherman County Observer, Moro, pregón, Friday, April 8, 1927 MEANING OF WORDS This Little Rabbit avoid the y, so that home for d when awakening th« heart« of amnaMmmn CIVIC AUDITORIUM, THE DALLES Friday Eve, April 15, at 8:30 (Prior to Opening at the Auditorium, Portland) METRO - GOLDWYN - MAYER in arrangement with - _ . A. L. CRT ANGER, C. B. DILLINGHAM and F. ZIEGFELD, JR. Present THE SUPERB CINEMA SPECTACLE BEN HUR Founded Upon * GEN. LBW WALLACE’S Immortal Story and the Famou« -Play of That Name DIRECTED BY FRED NIBLO Now Being Predated in Its Complete Magnificence WITH TOURING ORCHESTRA PRICES: 50c, 75c, >1.00 and >1.50 PLUS TAX ' ¿p* ; AH Seats Reserved * Mail Order« Now to Service Drug Store, The Dalle« Watch Thia Bulletin Good Used' Car Value* IMO Dodge Brother« Touring — New >625 >700 >475 »00 .. ......... >200 >150 >125 *24 Dodge Brothers Coupe-N«w paint Rs 0f t xtra a b s«n well taken car« of lìti Dòdg« Brothors Coup« — N«w Paint; — Extras .. ............... Dodg« Brothers S«daA — Excel- 1924 Dodge Brothen Sedan — Very Valu« a . .... • » Dodg« Brothen Touring — Onr- Studebaker Six Touring — Good Shape Ford Tourtag — 1923 Notice is hereby given that the county superintendent of Sherman county, Oregon, will hold eighth grade examinations at Moro, Oregon, as follow«: Commencing at 0 a. m. on G«od B«havi««l Thursday, MAy IB, and continuing A number of local readers of until Friday, May 18, 1927, at m. th« Sherman County Observer were Program for Examination« disappointed last Saturday evening when they realized that the promised Wri ing, Oregon History. lursday afternoon—History, Ag- disclosure of the identities of the Spelling. writers of local verse was not to ma riculture, Friday morning—Physiology, Lan- terialise at the concert given by th« afternoon — Geography, Moro Community Orchestra at Legion n&M Civil Government, Reading. hall and that in place of the identity A. M. Zeverly, • , being revealed it was a burlesque * County Superintendent. stunt put on to create a more varied program. Sewing clubs led the list for organ This week each of the five poets dis ization, enrollment and members re closes their identity in a series of j composite verses to which has been porting for 1926 with 508 organized, added the last of the series written by 8,449 members enrolled and 2,609 Rollin' Plata, who in real life is J. C. members reported. The value of the Huntley, father of Mrs. Dorotha sewing products was >13,745.46 and Moore, alias Buckayoo Bill. Mr. the cost >8,785.58, leaving a profit of Huntley’rhome is at Beaverton, Ore >4959.88. Cookery was seen with gon. He is connected with the Port 160 club« organized. land office of the O-W. R. R. Co., his Farm Crop Outlook duties as auditor being mainly with OBSERVER WANT ADS U. S. Report Indicate« Western States the joint track operation of his com pany and other related companies be Four brood sows and one pure tween Portland, Tacoma and Seattle. blood Polan China mal« for sale or The 1927 agricultural production His ability to successfully hide his program as indicated by reports identity must be conceded when it is trade. Homer Belshee, Moro, Oregon. from farmers appears to be in fairly realised that several of his composi We can fit all kinds of people. Any good balance as among crops and tions were received by the Sherman size or weight. Crippled or deform livestock, although weather conditions County Observer mailed from Tacoma ed feet Wernmark’s Shoe Store, The will be a decisive factor, says the bur in time to be printed in the weekly is Dalles. eau of agricultural economics, United sue of the paper following the printed WANTED — Used Deering 9-foot States department of agriculture, in verses upon which comment was made combine in fair condition. Must know its April 1 report on the agricultural by him, as was the verses printed thia won. Adolph Adgidious, route 3? The situation. m25*3t Dalle«, Oregon. The production season is reported “How do they get that weigh?*’ is a question heard often by feiryboat mariners, acording to Captain Chas. F. Heath, superintendent of South ern Pacific ferry steamer service. It refen to “weighing the anchor,** which proce«dure, Heath explains, means exactly what it say4. Few people, however, are aware that “weigh”, among other definitions, mean* “to bear up, raise, or lift.” Another perennial question is: Why are ships always called “she”? “In the case of ferries,” Heath said, “it might be due to the fact that ferry boats require aprons, slips, stays and bonnets. They have walking beams, too, but never walk. * i ii nnm ai i iii u i h i hhh u “Modern ferryboats are ships in every sense of the word. Some have made long sea voyages and all our boats can be operated with perfect safety in almost any weather.” CONFECTIONERY .... .. EIGHTH GRADE EXAMINATIONS Ford C mp « — 1»2« >150 Buick Touring Six.................................... — ALSO — We have Several Other Cars ranging and up — from . «................ >25 Buy With Confidence WALTHER-WILLIAMS CO. The Dalles, Oregon DODGE BROTHERS MOTOR CARS GRAHAM BROTHERS TRUCKS Repairs and Parts Depot as fully two weeks early, with frost Yes, it is certainly true all sho« repairing. /Goqd quality work out of the ground and spring work That Sagebrush Sal is thru and leather. Joe Atabre, The Dalles, coming into full swing over most of With fights; for a scrap cares not a rap . opposite the post office. the country. Storms in the north have She She’« really Ruth Bryant to you. kept land from drying out in some For Sale — Standard make piano —« Sagebrush Sal localities but a good share of early in vicinity will be sacrificed. Must grain is sown and fields are being fit I’ve been just a little bit rude. sell at once. >10 monthly. Write My fancy used quarrels as it« food ted for later crop«. Tailman Piano Store, Salem, Oregon. Early crops and general work in It has indigestion. Now here's a suggestion Range For Sale: Combination wood th« south are reported as “markedly Clarence Huis is the sad City Dude. and coal, hot water coils and stove advanced, the southwest, especially, — City Dude pip« included; reaonable. Marie presenting a very promising picture Amidon, Postoffice, Moro. • 2tm25* as to grains and forage crops. Fruit I’ve fought with th« others until is unusually advanced almost every Of quarreling we’ve all had our fill Baby Chicks for sale — >15.00 per where, although there is still a con We’ve had lots of fun. hundred; Rhode Island Red, O. A. C. I can’t shoot a gun siderable frost hazard this month for Tho Dorotha Moore is wild Buckaroo Bill. strain. Write me and give your or fruits and tender truck crop«.” der. Mrs. P. H. Thomsen, Route One, —. Buckaroo Bill Reports from farmers show an in Moro, Oregon.- cention to shift acreages of. crops I’ve passed remarks good and bad. • Notice — We have quite a lot of rather than to make any substantial With the others my fun I have had. flour oh hand and are exchanging as change in total production. Re- I hate to confess usual. Stop at th« house as you go But I ’ d better I guess adjustment in th« cotton belt, for ex through Tygh, as we aim to keep a Rollin’ Plain is Dorotha’s dad. ample, is indicated by a planned in — Rollin’ Plain supply in Tygh. Tygh Valley Flour crease of about 6,000,000 acres in Mill. feed and food crops. The north and John and Jack seem to thrive For Sale — Certified Earliest of west are planning about a 3,000,000 On funny jokes they connive. All, Early Ohio, Netted Gem, seed po acre increase in their principal crops, Hayseed Blank’s their selection. tatoes. Also Swift’s Commercial Fer which would little more than replace By-the-way for connection, tiliser. The Dalles Cooperative Grow acreage lost by drought in the great — Hayseed Hank ers, First and Jefferson streets, phone plains last year. 388, The Dalles, Oregon. “If conservation is to be recom SEEING mended on any part of this intended TAKEN UP — Six black and white program,” says the bureau, “it should OURSELVES AS OTHERS SEE US ! shoats, weight about 80 pounds, at probably apply at least to the cash my ranch 2 H miles southeast of Moro crops, «specially potatoes. The in Not often comes the privilege, on the Lone Rock road, Saturday, tended potato acreage, with average The joyous right to censure March 26. Owner requested to prove Our very selves as others do; yields, would produce some 410,000,- It is a sweet adventure. property, take them away, and pay 000 bushels, or near a record crop, Like the other night we sat among damage and cost. D. C. West, Moro. which would be a sharp increase over The audience as erities glum And saw ourselves paraded there: the crops of the last two years. wonder if poets are all thought “The country is going into the new I I wonder if poets are all thought dumb season without carrying burdensome Guaranteed Watch stocks. March reports showed only Our own John Searcy as Sagebrush Sal, _ — AND — about 14,000,000 bushels more po Was good in his portrayal, Jewelry Repairing tatoes stored than a year ago. There And Mrs. John as City Dude, Is apt to be betrayal. are around 380,000,000 bushels less BY EXPERT WORKMEN of feed grains on hand than last year. That Hayseed Hank with foolish pranks Leave Your Work with W. A. We know as Dorotha Moore: Ruggles at Moro Confectionery much less than was thought probable We wonder if she’s really he, She has words enough in store. a few months ago.” F. H. COOLIDGE The tendency to expand potato That Hockman man, as Buckaroo Bill, k HOOD RIVER, OREGON acreage is reported to be particularly Was wild and rough, in size dimin ished : marked in the cotton belt, in Michi If he had felt like his acting gan, Minnesota, and in the western We’d have seen the whole crew fin states. Increases in Virginia and in ished. the cotton states except Florida and The thing that made US really laugh, Phone 35-J Texas seem to be mostly outside the Was Mrs. Frances Hockman, Play little man like Rollin ’ Plain, commercial areas. There is a marked The difference would be shockin’. QUIET SERVICE tendency to increase acreage in both — Rollin’ Plain the gpmmercial and noncommercial Lady Assistants areas of the western states, and it is in these states, says the report that Coming To The Dalles CRANDALL the nfarketing problem is most likely to be serious next fall, if present in Undertaking Company “B«n Hur” With 20-pUc« Touring tentions are carried out and average Orchestra to be at The Dallo« yields are obtained. THE DALLES, OREGON April 15 “Ben Hur,” th« magnificent Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer ' cinema spectacle founded upon General Lew Wallace’s When a new subscriber in Tokio immortal story of that name, will be SATURDAY wishes to have telephone service, it presented on April 15 at 8:30 at the costa him 1500 yen, or about >750, Auditorium, Th« Dalle«. for installation alone; after that he The story of "Ben Hur,” in the must pay regular cost of service. Last forms of novel, play and cinema, has JUNIOR STARS OF 1926 year number of telephones in the fascinated readers and theatre-goers COMEDY — NEWS FOR THE — United States increased 800,000. If in America for almost half a century. each new subscriber had been re To the majority of people the story 11:00 O’clock quired to pay >750 for installation, in its present form is far more attrac 7:45 to it is safe to say the increase in num tive than when it was set forth on th« ADMISSION ber would have been much smaller. printed page or in th« spoken drama. and The cinema has the power of present ing the exciting scenes of the chariot RESULTS race, the sea batle, and.the gather SUNDAY Here are a few specific examples ing of the followers of “Ben Hur,” that show the effect of safety teach the soldier, in a manner that was im ing. A small colored boy was on« of a possible through the other mediums REGINALD DENNY the Thompson Warehouse Building class in Springfield, Massachusetts, of art. At the same time the beauty — IN — that worked out an elaborate project of the love story and the depth of Next Door to the Hotel Moro • feeling of th« spiritual scenes are in fire prevention. Among other things the class made a trip to a fire retained and perfectly set forth by station, and was taken to a fire alarm means of the camera. A very im . With Leonard Marty KNOTYFER DENNY box and taught to ring an alarm. In portant factor in the success of the ' presentation is the musical score ar MIRTHQUAKE their classroom work, in addition to our Pendleton Parts Stock in Charge the more usual activities they also ranged by David Mendosa and Wil- built a fire station and an alarm box. lliam Axt and performed by a large 7:45 to 11:00 O’clock A few months later a fire broke out touring orchestra. COMEDY a - NEWS “Ben Hur” was directed in the in the kitchen of the small boy*« CALL AND SEE OUR STOCK makin g by Fred Niblo, who in this home. His mother lost her head and * ADMISSION stood in the middle of th« floor cry picture has achieved th« greatest ing, but Nathaniel ran out and rang triumph so far in his career. Among in an alarm, waited for the fire en the well known players who appear in gines to come, 'and directed them to the chief roles are Ramon Novarra, his home. The next day th« father Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, told th« principal of the school that Clair« McDowell, Kathleen Key, Car th« action of the boy was undoubted mel Meyers, Nigel de Brulier, Mitchell ly all that saved his home from burn Lewis, Leo White, Frank Currier, Newton Croafield, Director ing, a home that represented his en Charles Belcher, Betty Bronson, Dale Fuller and Winter Halt La For The County News tire savings. Now Open in Moro PHONES EXPENSIVE IN JAPAN “FASCINATING YOUTH” 10c in 30c Ginn, Coleman & Co. MORO, OREGON HARDWARE furniture IMPLEMENTS FEATURING A LARGE STOCK OF axmi N ster rugs CONGOLEUM AND LINOLEUM LEATHER CHAIRS AND FIBER SUITES CEDAR AND WALNUT CHESTS MAJESTIC RANGES MEADOWS POWER WASHER The Machine with the Least Machinery Possible to do its work well i SELLS ON ITS MERITS A»k For a Try Out. It Cost* You Nothing. AUTONA CIRCULATOR STOVES WILL HEAT FOUR TO FIVE ROOMS ummtmmttmmmmmmmnnsmmsnmmMmunmMnmMm A “HOLT” COMBINED HARVESTER holt FOR ANY SIZE RANCH A Model 30 and 32 set up and now on display at Arlington There is no harvester better made. No harvester can do better work. They are well liked by all o£ the many owners now using them. It will pay you to go to Arlington and look these harvesters over. Remember these are standard machines. B. A. AMY, Dealer The Dalles, Oregon “ Holt ” Combine Harvesteri and Supplies New Stage Rates! Change in rate« effective Jan. 1,1927 MORO ------- TO--------- One Way The Dalles... Arlington..... Bend........ Biggs............. 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