The' Sherman County Observer, Moro, Oregon, Friday, May 6, 1927
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Agriculture a Business
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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*
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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.
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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»
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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
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SPECIAL CHICKEN DINNER SUNDAYS 75c
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OPEN USUAL MEAL ? HOURS
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“Stella Dallas
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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
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“ 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
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down
wiring ineluded
Sherman
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OBSERVE*
WANT
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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.
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i„ gome astern states farm organ- pa STURE FOR HORSES__ Write
isations are represented in the legis-
r t , Kramer, Box 86, Shaniko,
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for th. pro- Or^on.
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ducer|j fn>m
entir^y f«,«
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bMineo Midpoint, neb a. b.tter
’««¡d ISk. H. H.
marketill< of crope
cooperative Christianson, phone 23F4 Moro.
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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.
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itB watChword of progress,
bab|T b. h.w .t Cor- P1**O
P.y »10
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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.
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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. .
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relented by the peo-
or weight. Crippled or deform-
judn in place of three b no l.n«.r
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wTrnmarV. Sho. Store, Th.
the custom. Three judges would ne- ****
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Dalles
ccMitate an expen« of mor. than i"““*«
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interest of tW producers and tax
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ofM> WBy on
8150, which limited funds prevent.
- payers.
all
shoe
repairing.
Good
quality-work
The field meet contests will all be
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leather.
Joe
Amore,
The Dalles,
staged during the afternoon of Field
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
Admission
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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
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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 £
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baseball series will be selected from schools, Buckley and Michigan, had ri - .
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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
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Diviaion I and II sewing work, where gasoline tax and machines that use
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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
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At noon a community dinner was tax, state tax and city tax. Wher-
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dub in charge. The well filled plates new tax on, it has been decorated,
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migration. Under normal conditions
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under the trees in the park. Immed- enough they were manufactured for
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a . lately after the dinner, the entire the occasion, to meet the need of a
labor in Pacific coast territory and m
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bleachers to watch the local field
Over 400 measures affecting the „
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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.
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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
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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
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preference, but from compulsion be- Wilcox sc hoot An industrial club
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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Two 4B0 n»U*
Ph*
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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.
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GENERAL
to make friends
Notice !
Change in schedule and additional
service effective May 1st.
Get new schedules and other infer- -
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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.