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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1927)
The' Sherman County Observer, Moro, Oregon, Friday, May 6, 1927 ■SBM Agriculture a Business 1 Hotel Moro “The House of Good Will” Extra Events Since the holding of the local county school fairs a tbo Rvs main divuion point, in the coua* a —. » ■ lart week, Au there nas Ri Deen rapia aJt aa- _ yanoe. mad. to fintab th. F™«™» for the annua Sherman C^ounty Field Meet and Declamatory^and Oratorical contest to be held at Grass Valley on Fnday, May 20. ... Thi. year, as was the practice the past few years, but one judge will be employed to mark the standing of the contestants in the declamatory and oratorical contest to be held W the civic auditorium at Gram Valley the evening of Field Meet Day on Friday, May 20. Professor Robert D. Horn of th. public .p^klnr dopmiMtof th. Umremty of Orejon, hu Wn Mlwted for th» pomtion. Mr. Horn make, no ch»r»e for hi. «rrviee. m Jud«., except hi. expen« for makin» j? Owned by the City of Moro Operated for the Benefit of the Traveling Public and Sherman County Community Under the Personal Management of E. E. LARIMORE Formerly of The Hotel Oregon, Portland ma - SPECIAL CHICKEN DINNER SUNDAYS 75c • • DINING ROOM OPEN USUAL MEAL ? HOURS "vy-, • ,• ,^,v. ,• i.| 4^ • » ' ■ ’ t DAYS “Stella Dallas — WITH — BELLE BENNETT, RONALD COLEMAN ALICE JOYCE and LOIS MORAN Life of every Woman X - Rayed GREAT AS A NOVEL GREATER AS A MOVIE 10c and 35c SUNDAY 2 VARIETY” 2 BIG SHOWS IN ONE CIRCUS STORY With EMIL SANNING . — ALSO— “ Ali Din” in Person MYSTERY MAN. ASK HIM —HE KNOWS ALL. 50c 10c ADMISSION MONDAY With W. C. FIELDS The Potters” and “Ali Din” in Person « •. CHANGE OF PROGRAM EVERY DAY 10c ADMISSION an 50c “Ali-Din” Will Drive a Buick Town Car Thru the Streets of Wasco “Blind- < Folded ” at 4 o’clock Monday Afternoon. Wasco Theatre Newton Croefield, Director DANCE FRIDAY, MAY 13th Sale of ranges ...awarded world’s highest honors I • • • • down wiring ineluded Sherman fry.?«**? OBSERVE* WANT ADS unions in western states are adopting GREEN CUT HAT for sale at my the slogan, “Make Agriculture a Bpsi- farm south of Moro. E. H. Moore. x- . ' ”■ . 81m6 i„ gome astern states farm organ- pa STURE FOR HORSES__ Write isations are represented in the legis- r t , Kramer, Box 86, Shaniko, b for th. pro- Or^on. . m6 - S _____ ducer|j fn>m entir^y f«,« a — — bMineo Midpoint, neb a. b.tter ’««¡d ISk. H. H. marketill< of crope cooperative Christianson, phone 23F4 Moro. upoB ,___________________ t 8t*m6 butineaB pBtctlceB that pay actual div- F0B gxijg — Eight dozen quarto of idends. fruit and seven dosen empty Ma- of questioaJ1 f Ajnerican A-M.Eevaly» Moro. Wh>t REWARD FOR RETURN of lost me^ d<> u help agrieulture as an in- spare tire and riA, license plate dugtry? Sound BU<teations will un- 186-789 and bracket, and tire carrier. offered at a four-state Lost on rural route about two weeks farm with the above slo- ago. Vernon Flatt, Moro. m6 itB watChword of progress, bab|T b. h.w .t Cor- P1**O P.y »10 JoM monffl^For Jdna —Mure. tike .tat« ownw- WMtern Piwo Broker»». Co., 121 . «“dlenl measure, nn. war, owner MadiMn Spokane. «f-ration of grtat hydro- WjMhfatUB. ~ «tai 5 the trip. Thi. will amount to about enormoua bond W. can ttt all kind, of people. Any »»0 and ia the only reaaon why on. . v... b relented by the peo- or weight. Crippled or deform- judn in place of three b no l.n«.r ih^£X wTrnmarV. Sho. Store, Th. the custom. Three judges would ne- **** • . Dalles ccMitate an expen« of mor. than i"““*« U«« ^ the ------------------ .------------- interest of tW producers and tax w< ofM> WBy on 8150, which limited funds prevent. - payers. all shoe repairing. Good quality-work The field meet contests will all be '■ ------ and leather. Joe Amore, The Dalles, staged during the afternoon of Field FRIDAY and SATURDAY Admission b am | 5 Meet Day. Contests in the three di- - Local School Fair Week visions will be put on simultaneously " For Sale — Standard make piano and will afford spectators a more ProareM With in vicinity will be sacrificed. Must speedy program. The morning of sell at once. |10 monthly. Write Field Meet Day will be given over to Exhibit, in Five Coenty Tailman Piano Store, Salem, Oregon. sports that will include a tug-of-war Divisions Notice — We have quite a lot of contest between a Wasco town team flour hand and are exchanging as and a Moro town team, baseball game w'“ on '*~* w — ------------------ - — between the Rufus town team and a GRASS VALLEY SCHOOL FAIR MUjd gtop at the house as you go Kent town team, and the play off ef The Grass Valley local fair-work through Tygh, as we sim to keep a the girls’ baseball teams for the eham- was shown in the civic auditorium «upply in Tygh. Tygh Valley Flour pionship of the county. The teams last Thursday where each of the I Milt £ contesting in the girls’ championship grade rooms and two of the rural - ■ ■■■■■ i ■!--------- ■ baseball series will be selected from schools, Buckley and Michigan, had ri - . inr T stm those having the highest percentage separate booths with excellent dis- ^nining ror ratings. plays of schoolroom and club work. Everybody is requested to bring handwork sewing division under “Oil is taxed from the time it their basket lunches and join in mak P*« direction of Mrs. Donald Me Greg reaches the surface until it comes out ing the county annual Field Meet Day or had ten complete exhibits. In this of the exhaust pipe of automotive or a succesa Lunch will be served at «»UP KMheryn Burton was awarded stationary engines as expended en- noon under the trees in the city park the blue ribbon. Maxine Rolfe re- ergy, ’ says D. H. Bancroft, in. the El at Grass Valley, joining the athletic ceived first place in the cookery work Dorado, Arkansas, News. grounds and the partition where the which ia being directed by Mias Sag- “It ia taxed with a severance tax, several different contests will bo held, LU* Coon * >«»4ing a storage tax, a property tax and a - _______________ Diviaion I and II sewing work, where gasoline tax and machines that use - Norma Garrett and Elmo Kee receiv- it are levied upon with property tex Common Labor Problem first p^«8 _ and license tax, road tax and school ______ At noon a community dinner was tax, state tax and city tax. Wher- n a 1^ k • A i. served with the women of the civic eYfr there has been a hook to hang a j Great care should be exercised in , . ,__ . _ „ ___ u ^a _ . . .. , . .. . dub in charge. The well filled plates new tax on, it has been decorated, the matter of further restricting im- * . .. . , jT.__ were carried to long tables arranged end whenever there weren t nooks migration. Under normal conditions . a ... . , . under the trees in the park. Immed- enough they were manufactured for at present time, demand for common . : . .. «r • . . . „ .a . „ .. ' a . lately after the dinner, the entire the occasion, to meet the need of a labor in Pacific coast territory and m * . a « - _ . .. , . a .. ___ _ crowd went to the grandstand and new source of revenue, agricultural belt of the middle west ... . . , to teaa tte'-WBDlv bleachers to watch the local field Over 400 measures affecting the „ ... * tryout. The interest shown by the oil industry were introduced in the Were it not for the labor obtainable visitors was equal to that shown at a legislatures of practically every state from Mexico, Pacfic coast industry regular ebunty meet. Joe Bibby of in the union, during their recent ses- agricultural, horticultural, packing, Liberty .ehool did some excep- sion. Of these, only two proposed to manufacturing and transportation — tionaf work in the high jump, reduce the tax on gasoline. would be crippled. ___ a - At Grass Valley the winners in the “Deep hidden in the earth,accesaible The great fruit, vegetable and cot- declamatory contest were Pauline only by expensive drilling, accompan- ton crop, of California, are largely Pierey> Kenneth Piercy and Mable , ied by grief such as only the wild- harvested by Mexican labor, and poweil for the C, B, and A divisions, eatter knows and which is shared in much of th. truck ubor of wotenl , texUBt „„ by hi, brothe, raoremh to Mexican. operating 4n proven territory,” says This is a kind of labor which the KENT jBCHOOL FAIR Mr Bancroft, “oil appears to the av- average white man no longer desires The Kent local school fatwas held legislator as the magic lamp to perform, hence it does not eom- on Friday, April 29. The exhibits which needs only to be rubbed by a pete with or economically concern were shown in the different grade new law of some sort to release vast him in a competitive sense. rooms and in the high school room, wealth for the benefits of ro^ds and I * From Seattle to New Orleans and The entire exhibit showed that work achools or a public library in Lick- as far east as the Missouri river there of high quality had been produced by «kiBet.” is scarcely an industry that does not the school during the year. An exeel------------------- -— employ some Mexican labor, not from lent exhibit was also shown by the - A ♦ lj preference, but from compulsion be- Wilcox sc hoot An industrial club . „1.. lnirS MM it i. th. only kind obtainable. cook«-y exhibit tn. mud. by th. fid. taiiTb.tw«n SI end“ 32 mUtarf X There is no valid objection to the admission of Mexican laborers in a moral or social sense. They are no less law-abiding thsn other people, The city of El Paso with population about half Mexican, compares favor- ably with any other city in point of civic enterprise, social progress and prevalence of poverty and crime. If any change is to be made in our immigration law respecting the citi- sens of Mexico, it should be in the repeal of the visa and head tax, so that this channel through which our industries may obtain needed common labor may be relieved from artificial impediments which serve no good or essential purpose. Have You.Faith An important Pacific coast utility corporation, with an intensive cam- paign Ror the sale of its securities to its own customers, instructs its agents to urge no one to drop any other safe investment to take up its own more profitable securities. “You pave the wv t° th. ohurc of nuJdn« thorn gamblers, when you urge the switch for a higher rate,” is the company’s theory. “They’d quit you cold on the same argument by any irresponsible agent, once you get them started on that thought. Ask only for their idle money.” . - The community that will invest its own money in the service offered by a widespreading corporation, b to be trusted and helped; for it proves its faith in itself, its integrity, its Indus- trios, its permanency. Money invest- ed in a utlity to serve one’s own com- munity, pays not only about the best financial return, but it pays the magic profit of cooperative development Better water and power and electric and telephone service attracts Indus- tries, lowers rates, multiplies eom- forte and homes; and this betterment comes only by larger capital and col- leettve faith. * The community that waits for out- side capital to come In and do all the things it has no faith to do for itself does not deserve to prosper; and it will not from the upper grades of the Kent school under the direction of Miss Mildred Ross and also by the girls from the Wileox school under the direction of Mrs. Essie Wilson. Alta Norton of Kent was granted the first place in this work. In the high school department the manual training received marked at- tention. The pieces were nqt large but they showed su^h superior wqrk- manahip that the exhibit was excep- tional. During the afternoon two baseball games were played on the gronnds The first was between the Moro girls and the Kent girls with a resulting score of 18-20 in favor of Moro. The second was between the Kent high school team and The Dalles high school team, resulting in favor of The Dalles. . The winners in the Kent decl^ma- tory contest held during the evening were Helen Wilson, Evelyn Nelson and Ethel Helyer for the C, B and A divisions respectively. Fue| b , ' pi ■ — £ine» Two 4B0 n»U* Ph* in _ from the Amarillo, Texas, fields to Kansas City. Each will cost about I2O,OOCOO6. A 406-mile line b projected for Denver. A slightly ahorter one b P«>po^d from Colorado and Wyom.ng gas wells, to Salt Lake Unes are to carry natural and not manufactured gu; it »not be mid what will happen to them if or when the natural gas supply abates, ®ut • »tudy of gas development indi- **tes that if that day- ever comes, manufactured gas will take the place the natural product. The com- »««hl world b rejecting the day of coal smoke, ashes, personal handling ®»P«nse, and inconvenience of coal direct heating. • Only a few days ago, lighting was the only use for gas; today there are a few gas lights burning, but the de- mand has increased tenfold, 100-fold, It must contin is looking for Weeders! Weeders! CALL AND SEE The Pendleton Self Adjusting Weeder Thé Peerless Rotary Rod Weeder and the Tomlin Weeder These weeders are made in sizes to suit the purchaser up to 24 feet Ginn, Coleman & Co. MORO, OREGON A. E. Page Machinery Co. Inc. Phone 192. Opposite Moro Hardware Co. Moro, Oregon Sales Agent For ’ Caterpillar Tractor Co. • Complete Stock of Parts Carried for the following tractors “Holt” 45 “Holt” 75 “Best” 60 “Caterpillar” 60 Caterpillar” 30 Complete Stock of Parts Carried for new and old model “Holt” harvesters Harvester owners who will need extras are re- l! quested to place orders early, to avoid possible ! ! delays. ¿ . ' '! I GENERAL to make friends Notice ! Change in schedule and additional service effective May 1st. Get new schedules and other infer- - I mation from our local ticket office. Four Treads A special design for everyone,] With our tire engineering knowledge we can equip your car with the correct sieC^and type tire to give Matar Coach System MORO GARAGE MORO, OREGON Stage Depot— Ross’ Confectionery, Phone 411 Phone 171 A “WANT” ad in T he M oro O bserver will reach more people in Sherman County than by any other medium available.
