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The Sherman County Observer, Moro, Oregon, Friday, May 18, 1927 FINNEY OF THE FORCE Finney Goes Well Prepared CONS ON wBU StZ, MCWAU.!- GIT VERSILF DHRttSED VF? CAKT GO OMEQ Tb NRS.SNOOP3 JWT THINK AV nr, f MCKAgL MR&SNOOP HA6 INVIT1D US lb HEAR think av n*.**- \ THE Fl#ST POVClTAL BV LOOKIN’ L oik E HER sJOlCt PUPILS V— OREGON STATE NEWS 35C OF GENERAI INTEREST When in The Dalles HAVE YOUR Lunch or Dinner (Full Course) at the White Restaurant 408 E. 2nd St The Dalles, Oregon t usual price», Lunch and Dima* that are said by equal Home Cook h TL a T— combinations r patrons to D. Lindquist JEWELER Repairing a Sr' .ally. 502 E. Second st 2 Doon East of Skaggs Store Portland Painless Extraction $1.00 gon pioneers gathered at the state of logs will be coming to the com shrine at Champoeg, on the Willam pany's mill in Cottage Grove. ette river in Marion county, in annual The Western Fish Lift company, commemoration of Founders’ day. Portland, has been granted permission More than 300,000 year-old trout by the state flab commission to install were planted by the Oregon state an automatic fish elevator at the Ore- game commission during April, says goa City tails, the work to be done the monthly report of Matt L. R>ck under the supervision of Hugh C. man, superintendent of hatcheries. Mitchell, superintapdent of hatcheries. Glen Bowen, 34, Silverton, ex-service The new elevator is to be Installed man, was killed instantly on the high without cost to the commission and way a mile west of Silverton when he will not interiors with the fish way The state land department during stepped from behind a parked car Into now in use at the falls. April paid over to the state treasurer the path of an approaching automo The Oregon Agricultural college the sum of >117.692.77. bile. rifle team, which has just finished its A school budget of 154,350 was ap Work was completed last week by season, has turned in a record of vic proved at a meeting of taxpayers at Crater national forest employes in the tories in 23 matches out ot 29 fired Cottage Grove last week. Imnaha district near Prospect where «latches were scheduled with teams . The Rainier cannery started opera 500 acres of burne^over land was ill over the United States, which were tions last Tuesday and it is announced planted with 2-year-old Douglas fir recorded by telegraph. that it will run steadily throughout trees. — Oregon now has 41 accredited high the season. Ralph Russell, 23, was killed in schools, according to the list received, Building permits calling for con stantly near Cushman last^preek, when following the recent meeting in Spo struction ..worth 8125,800 were issued a dead tree fell and struck him on kane of the Northwest Association of in La Grande during April, bringing the head. He was employed by the Secondary and High Schools, by E F the year’s total to 1671,005. Duncan Slough Lumber company ar Carleton, chairman of the Oregon Elmer Watson, 33, was killed In logger. 'ommission on accrediting. stantly when struck by a rigging Carl Greve, Portland, was electee Official opening ot the Oregon caves chain while working at the Brlx Log president Of the Oregon Jewelers’ na has been set for Sunday, May 15. A gtng company, near Holbrook. sociation, which held its 20th annual f hovel has- been at work all winter Brief Resume of Happenings of the Week Collected for Our Readers. Several hundred members of the convention in Corvalli^ last week Order of De Molay were in Salem last Portland was dhosen as the 1928 con week from all parts of the state, at vention city. tending the annual state convention. Mrs. Mabel Steele Endrup of Half Charles Steed, 65, son of a pioneer way, Baker county, died from injuries Oregon family, died The Dalles* hoe received in an automobile accident jrttal last week from spotted fever, be when the machine plunged over a 12 lieved to have started from a tick foot embankment on the Baker- Cornu copia highway. John C. Veatch of Portland was re Dr. Thurston Laraway, formerly a appointed a member of the Oregon physician at Vernonia, has been ap state fish commission last week.' He pointed Douglas county health officer has served on the commission since succeeding Dr. Richard Thoippson 1924. Miss Helen Atwood of Salem is the Receipts at the Eugene postoffice new county nurse. in April this year gained 14 per cent Ashland clinched the western Ore over those of the same period last gon debating championship at Warren yew, according to D. E. Loren, poet- ton by winning a unanimous decision master. over Warrenton. The winner will Trapshooters from all parts of the meet the eastern Oregon champion northwest were in attendance at Hills- ship team for the state title. boro to participate in the annual Ore After a shutdown of a year and a gon trapshooting championship tourn half the Anderson & Middleton camp ament last week. at Culp creek will again be in opera The steadily lessening band of Ore- tlon within a few days and trainloads The Sherman county schools annual Field Meet and Declamatory and Oratorteal contest to be held at Grass Valley next Friday, May 20, is attracting county wide attention land interest. Following is the list of participants and the county school division which they will represent and the events for which they will contest RUFUS MORO BIGGS SERVICE STATION Union Gai *TU Patreanga Althea Powell Norma Powell Marie Axtell Clifton Benson Harry McDonald Lloyd Rice • Earl Beshee Merle Miller , Ferrel Barr / Harvey Thompson Patricia Powell Alvin Wright Jean Powell La Von Sayrs George Hennagin Richard Barnes One or two alternates WASCO FUNERAL HOME TH! DALLES, ORBGON Phone 845 The Dalles Ambulance Service MORO, OREGON Harold Payne , Vernon Dutton Floyd Root Harold Nunn Ludus Nunn Durward Käseberg Otise Royse Harold White Thera Jields Clarence Spencer Paul Moretz v Thomas Jackson Henry Richelderfer Irene Jones Claude Barnett Eugene Spencer Danna Jean McMillin Model Laundry GRASS VALLEY Gail Holzapfel John Rolfe Alfred Payne Gerald Blagg Donald Martin Loy Adams Stanley Krusow Mabel Powell / Robert Poley Clayton Vintin Wallace Stark Robert Brown Helen Stark Ferdinand Stark Maynard Christianson Vjvian Reynolds . EVENTS, / C Division Calls for and Delivers in Moro Wasco and Grass Valley Mondays and Thursdays Fay Brackett John Thompson Harold Goin Doria Payne George Ellison Curtis Thompson - • Howard Hill Robert Hill Charles Lyda Robert Chase Clinton Deyo Ray Brown Mildred Chase Robert Clark Earl Lyda Chester Coats Ida Coats Running high jump B Division 100 yard dash 50 yard dash (girls) 120 yard hurdles x Shot put Running broad jump Running high jump Pole vault 440 yard relay race A Division 100 yard dash Mile run 60 yard dash (girls) 220 yard dash 120 yard hurdles Shot put • One-half mile run Javelin throw Running high jump Pole vault 880 yard relay race 440 yard run > Girls relay race, divisions A, B, and C Funeral Directors ' Union and Third St The Dalles, Ore The names of the participants in the Declamatory and Oratorical contest cannot be published at this time, to protect both the participants and the judge from undue criticism. S oap iñua Y EARS nothin cotton f WMV SHOULD WE GO AT ALL M KW KAR 'EM TUO WELL FPOM HERE/ INTblßELV/* widening the caves highway and the state highway department has placed the road in excellent condition. Approval by the state securities commission of a plan to construct an 18-inch steel syphon acrosh Bear creek was requested by the Talent irrigation district in a letter received at the of fices of the state engineer in Salem. The Reedsport fishermen of the Umpqua river are anticipating one of the most prosperous shad seasons of several years. Approximately 150 fishermen with their boats and nets are awaiting May 10, the opening day. Organization of the Lumbermens National bank of Bend, succeeding the First National bank which recent ly closed its doors, was announced in Bend last week. The Shevlin Hixon company subscribed 51 per cent of the 1100,000 capital stock now fully in. For 61 years Elijah Davidson, 78- year-old pioneer of Jasephine county and discoverer of the Oregon caves, has tended his trap line in the moun tains surrounding William Creek val ley, near Grants Pass. Last week he demonstrated that be still retains his .“shooting eye,” for he brought down a huge eight foot cougar with one shot. Work was started last week on- the oiling of The DalleMCallfornia high way between Bend and Lava butte, a llstance of ten miles. From the butte lection, the Mling^rews will be moved o the Beud-Sisters highway, where a light coat of oil is to be applied, pil ing of The Dalles-Gallforala highway in Jefferson couniy bas been com received amounted to 76,499,151 feet, against 78,011,872 feet for thé week ending April 23. Shipments of .lumber tor the week reported on amounted to 87,869,292 feet, as compared with shipments of 89,714,250 feet for the previous week. The state board of higher curricula ¡ bas approved the addition of three i major curricula to the college courses to be offered next year. The J^osrd also added 17 new courses, expanded 15 more and discontinued or codso II- dated 15 others tn approving recom mended changes in Instructional work. Major curricula in agricultural engl neerlng, lumber manufacture, and real jstate are the ne^w ones approved by the board, thougtr only the last named required the addition of Important i now courses. All of these curricula I are found in the leOing colleges in this country though this is their first introduction into this state. Berry growers in the vicinity ot Canby report that frost early in the beason did some damage to the blos soms and that the strawberry crop hi likely to be very light this season. The Eugene Fruit Growers’ associa tion, which annually cans many tons of string beans, has announced to the growers that none but beans grown on irrigated land will hereafter be ac cepted, according to F. E. Price, ex tension specialist in irrigation and drainage at the Oregon Agricultural college. New England Rag Dolle Old rag dolls were treasured heir looms of many New England homes. Of all sizes, and attired In many sorts of quaint costumes, they had some points in-common. Their face* were Invariably flat, their hands were stiff and rigid, their toes turned out in a moat alarming manner. „ Sometimes they had Mack buttoh eyes; frequent ly their prim faces were painted with beet and fruit julcea; occasionally eyes, nose and mouth were embrold ered. For hair they wore toupees of yarn or hemp or wisps of real hair. < Their garments were 1 full-skirted gowns of sprigged muslins or prints and they often wore sunhonnets of the same materials as their dresses. Tn one New Hampshire family still Ilves an old rag doll who for over 80 years has pleased Its daughters. True, she bas become somewhat the worse for wear, but her blemished features have been renewed by the simple expedient of recovering her face with a piece of fresh doth.—Antiquarian Magazine. Troth Man's idea of pledging himself to marriage, according to some sources, comes down to ns from the Roman ages. “Treouth,” which was what the Romans called the pledging ot oneself. Is still ours in the shape of the Eng- lish word •‘troth.*’ Tn the Roman era great ceremony pleted. was attached to the act, but these The first pheasants of the 1927 sea traditional rites i____ have been simplified _________ ____ :on were hatched tn Pendleton last gradually until today about the only week at the eastern Oregon state thing remaining is the giving of the jame farm» and 4500 eggs are under ring, this having persisted through the hens and will hatch In the next few centuria«. As originally practiced, the weeks. An additional 1000 pheasant ritual Included troth rings for both >gg« will be placed under incubation . maid and man and this double Hug m med lately. The hatching of wild custom Is still preserved by some Eu urkeys has been successful and It is ropean peoples expected a large number will be re- Waters Sacred to Hindu» ieased this year. Bathing fairs and pilgrimages nr« Returns \n the state-wide election very popular among Hindus of all ! being conducted by the school children castes, who believe that spiritual ! of the state in the selection of a state grace may be acquired by bathing In ; bird would indicate that the meadow- the Ganges at the sacred city of ark was leading the other entries a Benares, in other holy rivers, and in I merry race. Although in certain sec- sacred lakes. In the midst of a tract of land con ' lions the bluebird leads, with the var- ' ied thrush carrying acme of the rural taining the 360 holy places, south of | precincts, the popularity of the mead Thanesa, are two lakes, Tlrath Kuruk- ! Jwlark tn the more populated sections shatra and Sanlahet. On the night ¡’makes this songster a favorite in the of an eclipse of the moon, gatherings of thousands of pilgrims bathe in race. these lakes. Pilgrims try to immerne At a board meeting of the Multno- themselves In both lakes during the J mah County Fair association in Gresh short time the eclipse lasts, and the am last wook, the contract for the vast crowd is wrought up to an in new fair building was let to Steel A tense pitch of religious frenzy. Thou Dax)s, contractors of Portland, who sands of devotees struggle and splash In hundreds of bathing-ghats, while were the loweat bidders. Their bld throngs fill the roads was 812,98$, The structure will be a club building for the boys’ and girla’ , Turned Down A Big Job club exhibits and domestic science A very large business concern work. It will bo 70x100 feet, of con wanted a certain man for a big job. crete and tile construction, with stuc It offered him a salary which It was co flnlBh and cement floor. quite sure would dazzle him. He re- A full month’s delay in trou egg- , fused to take it7 Why? Solely be taking operations has been expert-, cause ho hadn’t absolute faith in the enced by the hatchery department of character of the men in control, even the state game commission, according though ths company was financially to the report for April just Issued by very — strong, ■ says Forbes Magazine, Matt L. Ryckman, superintendent. j We may be rather tired of hearing #egvy snpw and lea are bald respon about the Importance of building up sible. As fat the too hag not broken the right kind of reputstlon in order But IP OP Diamond l*ka, tb® best source tp be able to sell a product for rainbow trept eggs In th* Ptata. doos not this incident suggest a new | but preparations are being Hide to thought namely, thgt as business rush the work once the ice la »one. morals Improve, concerns whose char- I «umber shipments and orders con acter and reputation are not of the tinue wen above the level of produc- very highest may In future encoun- Uon, ar cording to the report of 72 t»r difficulty In attracting the finest mills by the West Coast Lumbermen’s type of executives do matter howenor- ■ association, for the week ended April mous the salary or other emoluments 30. Production during the week totaled offered? As men grow wiser, they learn 71,977,124 foot of lumber, against SI,» to attach less Importance to the get* 491,044 feet produced during the pre ting of money and more Importance to vious wook. Now business or orders bow they earn it Etruria in History In ancient geography Etrurln was s division of Italy, north and west of the Tiber and west of the Apennlne mountains, and Including the valley of the Arna Modern Tuscany and the northern half of the province of Rome cover about the same territory today. Etruria proper contained a confedera tion of twelve cities, each of which was Independent. The people of Etruria, called Etruscans, were the most advanced of any in Italy before the rise of Rome. They bad a highly developed political organization. They were at the height of their power about 500 B. C., and were the allies of Carthage. With the rise of Rome came a struggle In whiah the Etrus cans were worsted, becoming virtual ly tributary In 309 B. C., to the more powerful Roman state.—Exchange. . I 7M6 KX COrtFAxyf- CAVE THE C» MAN THI oooooooooooooeeooooooooooo W. C. BRYANT Attorney-at-Law Office Phone Main 93 Moro Oregon 0OOOOOOOOOO0OQ0G00000O0QOO Dr J. R. Morgan DENTIST \ •* United Stiles Dental Exam iner for thia district. TO ALL HOLDERS OF. SECOND LIBERTY LOAN BONPS Office at -MORO, OREGON NOTICE OF REDEMPTION All outstanding Second Liberty Loan 4 per cent bonds of 1927-42 (Second 4's) and all outstanding Second Liberty Ixwn Converted 4^ per cent bonds of 1927-42 • , (Second 4U’«> »r« called for redemption on November 15, 1927, pursuant to the terms of their issne. Interest on al) Second 4*s and Second 4M*> *1!) eease on said redemption date, November 15, 1927. Holders of Second 4’s and Second 4 % ’• will be entitled to have the bonds redeemed and paid at par on November 15, 1927. Such holders may, however, in advance of November IS, 1927, be offered the privilege of exchanging all or part of their bonds for other interest- bearVig obligations of the United States. Holders who desire to avail themselxee of the exchange privilege, if and wlfen announced, should request their bank or company FÌÓP-ft««*«* DR. C. L. POLEY Gras« Valley, Orafo* People can reach me from Moro at night from the long distance booth at Hotel Moro by ringing The Dalles. the exchange offer Furth«» informatigli may ka obtained from any Federal Re»erre Bank of brZnrh. or from the Commi»»ioner ef the PabHe Debt. Treaeury Department. Washington. A. W. MELLON, Secretary of the Treasury. Dr W. N. Morse Washington, May 9, 1927. Physician and Surgeon SYNOPSIS OF TUB ANNUAL ST AT»- MKNT OF THE THE DALLES, OREGON Newark Fire Insurance Com pany Office at the Hamilton Hospital of Newark, la the State of New Jersey, on the thirty-first day of December. 1928. made to the Insurance Commis sioner' of the State of Oregon, pursuant J to law: Capital. Amount of capital atock paid up ...................................»1.008.000.00 Net premium« received dur- . Ing the year ...................... ^.$8,980,518.49 IntarMt. dividend» and rent» received during the year.. 288.907.04 Income from other aourcea received during the year.. S7.29S.S9I Total Income ........................... »4.800,4S4.13 / " »laburaemeMta. Net lo«««« paid during the year, including sdjustment expenses ......................................$2,008,197.89 Ivldends paid on capital 50,000.00 Commission» and salaries 1,127.110 29 paid during the yea^..... Taxes, licenses and fees paid 142.585 during the year ................ 20 Amount of ail other expen- 280.929 01 dlturea ................................. • Total expenditure« ............... $8,588.772.3«» Vzlu« of real eatata owned (market value) ..................I I 185,770.47 Value of stocks and bonds owned (market value)..., 5,748.489 50 Ix>ana on mortgagee and col 250.850 00 lateral. stc.............................. 502.809 90 Cash in banks and o* hand. Premiums in course a< col lection written sincl Sep 700.339 23 tember 80, 1920 . .............. Interest and rents duo and 71.508.88 accrued ........... .................... 24,702.58 Phone No. Hospital 487 F John H. Buygard & Co., realdent «sept, L Fortland. A. M. HICKS Plumbing Sells and installs the famous Mueller pipe or pipehiss furnace WASCO, OREGON Frances P. Adams, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Wasco, Oregon Phone 182 Hours: 9 to 12 a. m; 2 to 6 SHERMAN COUNTY STOCK AND BRAND INSPECTOR Mero - - Oregon ’ i DEPUTIES: L. Schadewitz, Kent, Oregon; Dr. Jut. Sounder«, Moro, Ore.; W. H. Mever, Waaco, Ore, i Bank Hotel Total admitted assets .... »7,574.121.49 Liabilities. Gross claims for losses un paid ..................... -.............. — * 498,144 44 Amount of unearned premi ums on all outatanding 8.773,484.35 risks ..................................... Due for commission and bro 18,275.10 kerage ..................................... 191,842.82 All other llablllttea ................ Total liabilities, exclusiy«* of capital stock o f 81,000.000.00 ................... »4,478.880.71 Business in Oreson for the Year. .Net premium* received dur- 40,250 24 I^asea paid during the year. 2O.122.3T Loeaea Incurred during the 24481 07 NEWARK FIBK INBUBANCB COMPANY OF NEWARK, NEW J ERN EV, T. L FARQUHAR, Pre«tde«4; G. A. BERNARD, Secretary. C. D. Gxbri«l«on. Salem, atatutory raal* dent attorney for aervlce. JAMES STEWART The Dalle«’ Newest and Beat Hostelry CENTRALLY LOCATED Sherman County Headquarter* EDW. BALL, MANAGER The Dalles
