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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1927)
omtmxmmxtamt be used to pay expenses at tip Boy» OBSERVER WANT ADS add Girls summer school to be held .J at Corvallis in June. Seattle Predvc. Saleansaa and Wife PIANO >OR SALE in Modo vicinity. Papils Mmw Yw« ProgroM .WI^ Kilted Me* Ci» 7 ’ 1 High grade; n bargain. Pay |10 MORO LOCAL FAIR monthly. - For particulars address * Exhibits to Five CMNrty From Highway Wtat»rn Piano Brokerage Co., 121 The Moro local school fair was Division» Madison . Street, Spokane, held Wednesday, April 27. The Moro Sheriff Hugh Chrisman received 5outh Washington. dtalb grade exhibit 'was very artistically word from Rufus about 8 o’clock Fri RUFUS LOCAL FAIR We can fit all kinds of people. Any grouped together under a booth that day eweatag that an auto wreck hgd The annual local school fair was carried out a Japanese effect. Gor- been discovered about 1 miles east gw* or weight. Crippled or deform held at Rufus on Monday, April 25. man, Fairview, Monkland, DeMoas of Rufus in which two people had ed feet Werhmark’s Shoe Store, The Don C. Mote, entomolo- The athletic tryout for the county and Erskine were the rural schools been killed. - pf the «periment station. field meet took place before uoowmsd who had exhibits. When the scene of the wreck was ■ "Tfll» gomman garden dug attacks 'the results showed that the remainder Among other interesting features I reached by Mr. Chrisman it was soon tettuce plant» espedat- of the eounty will need to look to Fairview showed kodak pictures of I discovered that the victims ware The Pendleton Self Adjusting Weeder ta. A poison bait It one ounce of cal- their laurels in a goodly number of program work during the year. The! W. M. Newaseyer and wife of Seattle, Monkland school featured the study! driving east in a Studebaker touring The Peerless Rotary Rod Weeder j up lattuee leaves helps protect! the dkyk event». We pay parcel post one way on At one o’clock a community lunch of the Constitution worked out by car. Later it was learned that the the garden from the slug. The in- was served by the girls of the high the seventh grade pupil, Ronald Me couple had ¿ft Seattle the previous all qho« repairing. Good quality work yr^ianta are well mixed and scatter- and leather. Joe Amore, The Dalles, and the Tomlin Weeder . • school. This was followed by a base- Lachlan, during the entire year. day for Yakima on business conaoct- *gd t* stnall heaps about the area. opposite the post office. ed with W Bruit and produce firm of Ronald had booklet studies of the tail game between the boys and girls ’ • Cubing the tender plants off jusl I of the school. \ The game closed with life xand the effect on the Constitu which Mr. Newmeyer was general REAL GOOD PASTURE with plen- under the soil is the favorite occupa * _ tion of John Winthrop, Benjamin I manager. A - ty of spring water handy for a tion of tiie cutworm in the early g» the boys entitled to the higher score, Franklin, Patrick Henry, Samuel The wreck was discovered by John small number of horses. Prices but also trith the information that den. A poison bran mash is the staaxb Adams, John Hancock, Thomas Jef ny Mathietan, garage man of Rufus, reasonable. Call Fox Bros., '?8F81 _ . ard remedy for this pest. The mash this Whs the first time they had been ferson, George Washington, Alexan I who had been called to a point furth- Klondike. 1» prepared by mixing 26 pounds of able to come out victorious. I er east to «ssiat a stalled car on the der Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, For Sale — Standard make piano hrew, one pound of paris green, I Each of the two grade rooms and Woodrow Wilson, Francis Willard highway. >When he was passing the in vicinity will be sacrificed. Must u nound salt, and one pint of mo the high school room had a very fine and Susan Anthony. This school also place whete the ear had gone off the sell at once. |10 monthly. Write ------ Thio is successful if the mash I exhibit of school room work. During ' had an exhibit of industrial club grade ho< happened ta notice the Tallman Piano Store, Salem, Oregon. .|^ Made coarse and crumbly and »» I the evening the local declamatory handwork along with a very excellent I mark* in the gravel at the side of the sea tort d thinly over the surface • of ¡ tryout waa held at the church. • Anna Notice — We have quite a lot of Ue soil along rows of plants after I j Coats, June Brackett and Opal Ad- flour on hand and are exchanging as •undown. Chickens aro not allowed usual. Stop at the house as you go Idrngton were winners for their re- through Tygh, as we aim to keep a ta a tooated -field. below the highways I spective divisions in this work. supply in Tygh. Tygh Valley Flour Ths fire so called because From marks left on the highway it An interesting feature in connec- MORO, OREGON * ' ~~ V its hind tags are made to jump, is i don with this fair is that this Is the work and club work m connection is considered very likely that the MOL difficult to control as it foods on the with their general exhibit of school] wrecked ear was traveling at high year that Rufus has earned out speed, turned in too «lose to the right under side of plant leavee. - Bordeaux room work. the days activities without neighbor- mlvtmre — copper sulfate I mpound, hand cliff when attempting the turn, The Erskine school had a most out quicklime 1 pound, and water-11^ mg rural sAeoh. This is explained standing exhibit featuring a great ihit the bank and skidded sidewise SATURDAY ONLY aliens__ applied as under spray acts I by the fact that all of the rural | variety of handwork in addition * to across the highway «nd over to de schools In the vicinity of Rufus have Mtai effective repellent. the required school room work. In struction below. ■ The accident is supposed to have * The Tadhh maggot is a destructive suspended and are working directly stead of the usual booth plan the with Rufus in a semi-consolidated occurred about 2 -.16 > »». Friday, the pest that attacks early garden pro- exhibit was arranged on ducti' Eft» laid by a fiy later hatchi 1 plan, with the exception of the Miller decks and t^e sails of the boat, Er watch worn by Mrs. Newmeyer hav- Into maggots. The best known meth- school, which is transporting its pu skine. On the booth display Erskine I mg stopped at that time, altho the od Of control is to grow^the radishes pils to The Dalles. Two modern school received first place, Monkland second | watch owned by her husband had also stopped but a half hour later. under a btteen of heavy cheese tioth J buses were in evidence near the and De Moss third. — WITH — The car first made a vertical drop or light wire. V-shaped frame» cov I school grounds during the day. The Moro Cookery Club under the of about 76 feta and then rolled, uruff with screen are built at Slight! Phone 192. Opposite Moro Hardware Co. direction of Mip. John Searcy had an WASCO LOCAL FAIR WALLACE BERRY etat and may be ttioved readily from exhibit from each member of the another 76 feet down a sharp inclined AND The Wasco local fair was held on club; cookies for the first division sidehill before coming to a stop ode plhce to another. ¡among a west of big boulders that, Tuesday, April 20. Each grade room RAYMOND HATTON land cake for the second. Flora Wil- The twelve-spotted leaf beetle feeds on many plants found in the and each high school department RM Hams received the blue ribbon oh her I literally made a complete wreck of “ GOBS OF LAUGHTER ” very complete exhibits. Blglow and| cookies and Josephine Johnson re-1 the oar.- The victims of the crash re-, garden and field and even on weeds. ceived injuries that resulted in in-! Klondike were the two rural schools -JRicotine sulfate dust consisting of ceived that place on her cake. who had excellent work on^ exhibit. Erskine also had an excellent show-1 stant death. *• After -being released f/om the The manual training work from the SPECIAL this pest. • . d ■ ing of both first and second division I Wasco grades added much interest wreck the two bodies were carried Mis* Janet McQuillen sewing. Lavon Sayrs received the I Clustering together on the foliage] I several hundred feet over rugged aaA steaw of plants are the plant lice ] "The entire exhibit was placed in sep- blue ribbon in the first division and I WILL DANCE [arate booths in the auditorium and boulders to the railroad t»ack where prproduto’ moth more rapidly [the gay colored decoration* gava a Patricia Powell in the second. they were placed on a railroad section than any known insect. Spray or very festive appbartnee. The com- push car and taken to Rufus and from DECLAMATORY CONTESTS ' tomtit nicotine Mlfate is the remedy. ADMISSION I there to The Dalles by Zell who pre- Yntfntk df the visitors during the after .•W Ab spray to «add, the solution ac Declamatory contest winners from noon showed the highest praise and part-d the remains for shipment to tually WVt* the insect to get good ire- appreciation for the wort. During Rufus: I their home at Seattle. -1 * Complete Stock of Parts Carried Anna Coats, Class C Division the early part of the afternoon the I I Two Complete Shows June Brackett, Class B lower divisions of the field tryout for the following tractors Opal Addington, Class A ” Pension* for Minister* The constitutionality of the flexible were -carried out with a showing of 1 Declamatory contest winners from provisions of the tariff law, whereby exceHettt material for the county con- SUNDAY I Wasco: Presbyterian Cherch Coedects Cam- | the president may raise or lotata Ms-' Iteft I- The Blglow school under the direc potata^Mb-IO per cent» has been hp- I Margaret Johnson, Class C Division pulka to Raise Feaston Fuad haja by a unanimous opinion of tteo tion of Mrs. Jeannette Yocum was Louise Morets, Class B for Retired Pastors United States court of customs W4 fMvdil fltwt place in the booth judg- Rose Edna Morets, Class A The oldest and the newest pen-, parta The court held that dotation ■I ing. Three divisions bf Hub sewing Declamatory contest winners from don systems in America are Presby-1 WITH of uuch aathorf^ >tho preside* WB were show*. Janet McMillen won Moro: terian. Almost sixty years before the-blue kibben ta the third division a valid exercise of the constitutfastal Alberta Alley, 1st place, C Division th! Continental congress, as one of I Eddie Cantor, Clara Bow gru*£ Sit power to Congrem to regu- whieb carried with it the special hon- Mildred Adams, 2nd place, C • ” its first acts, provided pensions fori and Billie Dove 1 or and a prixe of fifteen dollars to persons disabled in the war for I Jean Powell, 1st place, B Complete Stock of Parts Carried Guaranteed Comedy Scream ¡Josephine Johnson, 2nd place, B American independence, the Presby There were no contestants in A terian church at its general assembly | for new and old model “Holt” harvesters ADMISSION division at the Moro division county of 1717 in Philadelphia had estab- ’ school local fair. | lished a “fund for pious purposes,” for the benefit of its old pastors. The first pension was paid to a widow and COMING NEXT WEEK Harvester owners who will need extras are re State Defend* New Law amounted to f21. “ Stella Dallas ” Today the Presbyterian church is quested to place orders early, to avoid possible Highway Commission Show Costa of I completing a * 16,0*0,000 fund that । Dance Friday Night r> • ? “ The House of Good WiH ” will be the basis for a more adequate | delays. Highway Constrncfion and recognition of workers grown old in‘ Owned by the City oi Moro Maintenance service of the cross. To benefit by it, I Operated for the Benefit of the Traveling Public <| Answering the complaint of the ministers and * their congregational ? ^and Sherman County Community | Oregon-taKea and Parker stages at must make payments over years and tacking the constitutionality of the the big fund new being completed j Newton Croaficld, Director W Under the Penonal Management of new stage and bus license fees, the I will provide for accrued liability so t; E. LARIMORE public service commission filed its that foremost life insurance authori > Formerly of The Hotel Oregon, Portland answer in the circuit court at Salem I ties and actuaries give assurance that the plan will be“»etf-perpetuating thru '.SPECIAL CHICKEN DINNER SUNDAYS 75c I on April 21. The commission declared that the I I all time to come, t Its soundness has highways of the state have been con-1 I been attested by *11 qualified to give . DINING ROOM OPEN USUAL MEAL HOURS ¡1»- 2 — •* -......................... V.** 1 -^5 r *..................... f structed at a cost to the public of I opinions upon it. WiH H. Hays is chairman of the ||MM—l t tMIIIIIWmmtmill»lt*lttWtlMtntlll»MMiMMHtiHlllH»HIHIIH»U»»liroig 188,000,000 and are being maintain ed at a cost of |800 per mile, or |2,- I laymen’s committee directing the na tion-wide campaign. The east has 300,000 annually. , The answer avers that the charges finished its part. Sunday, April 24, imposed by the law are not sufficient ministers in 400 -cities and towns or adequate to reimburse the state I throughout the Pacific 'Coast spoke for the damage done by reason of j from their pulpits for the plan, at the use of the highways by the stage I request -of Chairman Hays. Change in schedule and additional lines. The answer states that it costs! “Care of retired ministers is the laymen ’ s duty, ” said John Willis Baer Oregon practically mx cents per ton service effective May 1st. I mile for construction and mainten- chairman of the coast executive com ance of the highways and the part of mittee. “The ministry is the only I the highways used by the plaintiffs. The state further alleges in its to financial failure from the Cutset. answer that the loss, if any, sustained Get“ new schedules and other infor I by the plaintiffs, is chargeable to the | manner, method and character and mation from our local ticket office. extent of the operation of the stage If a city has an ‘electric light or I lines, and to a condition over which power plants water plant or other Balloon I the commission has no control. property operated by private enter- Dual ■ prise, such property 1* taxed a large INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBLE sum of money annually to help sup port city, county, state and national The city of Morgantown, West] governments. If Mie city buys this Virginia, according to C. L. Topping, j private property and it becomes a state fire marshal of that state, has municipal enterprise, It no longer just finished an illuminating example pays taxes on the property, and Vie of what can be done to keep insur taxes thus lost (but which have not ance rates down. The University been eliminated) must be made up City has gained the new and improved by heavier assessments on other prop * classification in fire insurance for erty. In California, where such cities as which its officials have been striving for nearly a decade, and it will mean Los Angeles and Ban Francisco have an annual saving to that citoy in in-1 invested millions of dollars in muni- suranee premiums of approximately] cipal undertaking», the farmers ob tens of thousands of car ject to being double taxed in order $60,000. Mr. Tapping adds: . * owners. No experimenting “Each individual insurer is large that citixens of the large cities may — it ’ s not new but a tried have cheaper rates on electric and • ly responsible personally for the rate water service simply because these •nd proved feature with he pays. • Every fire hasard be toler ates within his building, and every municipal undertaking are not as GeneraL he oro exposure from without, adds to the sessed their just share of the tax bur bserver basic insurance tax, for it is a tax den. MORO GARAGE increasethe value cin which Buick’s The farmers are demanding that «/•■•V j j* , j %» t v . " that is applied either directly or in '' MORO, OREGON • t t »A • Ini • * directly to all businem transactions the laws be change^So that such pub . lesfderdup is based. „ licly owned enterprises of an indus M. R. Schadewits, Proprietor and the dost of living. To reduce trial character be taxed to contrib Phone 171 । that tax, municipalities must streng GEO. N. CROSFIELD then their fire-fighting means and ev ute their just share toward mainte DISTRIBUTOR FOR SHERMAN COUNTY ery citizen must strive to eliminate nance of government, instead of be ing tax exempt. conditions which cause fires.” J WASCO, OREGON Weeders ! Weeders ! These weeders are made in sizes to suit the purchaser up to 24 feet Ginn, Coleman & ’ Co Navy Now!” A. E. Page Machinery. Co. Inc. Moro, Oregon 10c and 50c KID BOOTS Caterpillar” 60 Hotel Wro Caterpillar” 30 10c and 30c Wasco Theatre GENERAL Notice I mcK’s A “WANT” ad in T M < O will reach more < neople in Shermar County than ]
