Dayi
Moro Theatre
j. B. Sparks
Manager Spark* of th* Wdro
1'heatre i* starting * midweek show
for the bonofit of burinens peoplo
who. on account of being open
oa Saturday night, have been un-
able to see the Saturday night
This Thursday was the first
program to be presented under the
new arrangement.
He also ex-
pecta to run another night or two
after the busy harvest season is
over and school starts.
The New Victor Authophonic
has arrived and* was used for the
first time Thursday.1' This new
instrument gives a perfect repro
duction of the real pipe organ
with the mew Victor authophonic
pipe «Mjgan records, as well as
giving aa entirely different tone
to the popular jazz records.
Please remember that all shows
start promptly at 8:15. Try nad
be there on time as you cannot
enjoy the show to the fullest ex
tent unless you are in your seat
We hear a lot of talk about how
the radio, the telephone, and the'
moving picture have lessened the
distance between the big cities and
the smaller towns and rural commun
ities. The greatest single factor in I
this development of the smaller city I
and town is not given proper credit, I
«nd that factor is the home news- I
paper. Just stop for a moment and I
compare our home newspapers with I
what they were a dozen or so years I
ago. You will find that the change I
is astounding.
Even in the very
small towns the home newspaper is
now a thriving, up-to-date institution I
with metropolitan airs. Through its
outside news connection it keeps I
the people in touch with the very I
latest thought and the latest customs
throughout the nation. And by its I
local efforts it encourages progress I
and good citizenship at home. Give,
therefore, the home newspaper its I
share of credit for lessening the gap I
between the home town and the I
■ »etropolis.—Coldwater (Kan.) Tales- I
misnoa relative to railroad rates for
the transportation of livestock in the
northwest. The growers of Idaho
and Montana are the chief complain
ants, with those of Oregon and Wash
ington watching the issue closely.
A great amount of testimony was
submitted by the shippers on one
side and the railroads on the other.
CORSON THE MUSIC MAN
Misery loves company, but not any
more than happiness does. -
Many a seemingly successful man
owes it all to his wife’s father.
Possible at All Times, to the Fanner,
and to Help Out as Much
as Possible
Our Store Will Be Open
We Will’ Aldo be Open for Business
Sunday Mornings
Through the Harvest Season
Special Prices
on Quantity Harvest Order*
Mrs. J. F. Beishee’s talk at De-
Moss, at the Sunday school rally
meeting, on pioneer Sunday school
work brought to me many memories
of our early days in Sherman county.
The day we met to organize our Sun- j
day school there were tw^> men there
who had been Sunday school workers. ।
They declined to act as superintend
ent of our school. Grandfather Bel-'
tress should fgj-
requhremente: it
clean, free from
filth, oil, vermin, and the possibility
oLdisease transmission ; it should be
firm and level and yet elastic enough
to be springy, and it should be made
of proper material to retain its elas
ticity and shape. While the last two
requirements are important it may
be seen that the one most in need of
attention is that dealing with sani
tation.
WaMb County Af.n»
Claims
Hage Losa by Wheat
^hattaring
Fifteen to twenty per cent of the
grain has shattered out on the
ground on ranches in Wasco county,
where some of the heaviest yields
were in prospect a week ago. Most
of the shattering naturally takes
place in the ripest grain but the dis
couraging feature is that consider
able grain is on the ground in fields
which will not be ready to harvest
shee because of his age, and my
whether the material is clean on the
for at least another week.
father because of his imperfect
inside of the mattresa? Appearance
This discovery was made by Wasco
hearing. So I did my little best in
may point toward cleanliness, yet the
County Agent C. W. Daigh in com
that office until Mr. Robert J. Ginn
practice of unscrupulous dealers and
pany with E. H. Matheny, Frank Em
became a worker in our school, and
manufacturer* who cover used mat
erich and George Obarr when an in
our superintendent.
erial with fresh ticks and sell the re
For the first month we had no sulting product as new, naturally j spection was made of a field of Regal,
Sunday
school
literature.
We
the first smut-proof variety grown in
raises the question.
that county, and which was planted
brought our Bibles and such hymn
Old, discarded mattresses frequent on the Obarr ranch last fall. This
books as we had.
Mrs. Willerton
was kind enough to let us have the ly form a conriderablt part of the field is not ripe enough to thresh but
use of her organ, as well as her business of junk dealers. They dis at least 16 or 20 per cent of it is
This variety was
house, until our schoolhouse was pose of such material to a mattress on the ground.
built.
____ ______ ■ -
- - .— renovating plant where covers are immediately condemned as not being
One Saturday Rev. Josiah Bower removed, the contents reworked and desirable for this reason. However,
sox came to our home, and father new covers used. In many of these | adjacent fields of Turkey red on the
and my brothers called on the neigh establishments no attempt is made | same ranch and on the W. C. Kortge
bors—not by telephone, but on horse at sterilisation of this material which ranch showed on unusual amount of
back—and let them know that there may have been discarded from hos shattering, probably 10 to 15 per
preaching at Wheat’s pitals or other places where communi cent at this time.
would
They are
This same condition was also found
schoolhouse, in the canyon below the I cable diseases existed.
Wheat homestead, on Sunday morn-1 then sold to the unsuspecting pur- on the Emerson and Petroff ranches
I where grain was showing signs of
ing, and in the afternoon at Jack’s!
schoolhouse southeast -of what is now I
Reputable manufacturers have long I maturity. Some grain is lost each
Klondike.. We went to both school-! tried to control this evil, but it is a I year on the south and west slopes
houses, not in an automobile over! difficult situation. The state of Ore
paved roads, but with horses and a I gon enacted a law in 1923 providing amount has been lost wherever the
that all used and contaminated ma wind hits it.
wagon, across country.
Monday morning as Rev. Bower terial must be thoroughly cleansed
The Hybrid field oa the Emerson
v »___ _____ <____________
sox was leaving he asked if «he and sterilised before being offered _____ V
goods
must
bear
a
could send us some Sunday school for sale. The
well this spring will not be ready to
literature. I wondered if we could' Special yellow I ag giving name and harvest for another week, but there
pay for it, for we had not even address of fin* piping the sterilising is enough grain on the ground now
In to seed a new crop. An inspection
taken a collection up to that time. and the date of sterilisation.
1927
the
law
was
amended
to
comply
Money in thoee days was one of the
was made of the Hybrid field on the
things the most of us had the least with the7model law of conformity C. L. Look ranch across the road, one
ordered three with frecoinrri^ndations of the Better of the best fields in the county, and
However
months’ supply of literature and few
It is estimated that at least 10 pej.
know that my good mother paid for modal law includes in addition to cent of this grain is shattered.
bedding, overstaffed furniture. The
The Davis brothers on Eight-Mile
From that time on we had regular enforcement of this law will protect I report an unusual loss from shatter
collections and found many willing the public from infection that might ing in their fall-sown Federation.
helpers. , I shall always have a warm I be transmitted by second-hand ar There was considerable shattering on
spot in my heart for my co-workers I ticles of bedding and uptiolstery.
the same ground two yean -ago but
in that little Sunday school. Some-1
Penalties for the violation of the much more thjs year. I. F. Hill also
times Mrs. Willerton’s sisters and! bedding and upholstery law apply to reports considerable grain on the
brother drove out from Wasco and I the person selling or offering for sale ground on his Eight-Mile ranch.
This is a condition which is not al
helped. If we had not much money renovated or remade bedding mater
we had fio movies or jass to spend ials that have not been sterilized.
together unexpected, Daigh explain
it on- We had plenty of hard work
The law also provides that all bed ed. The wheat kernel« are unusually
and the ability to make our own ding sold shall be labeled to show I I plump and thia has loosened up the
amusements. *
its true contents whether it is new I I chaff. The heavy winds of the last
We played baseball afternoons in or has been remade or renovated. I I week are largely responsible for the
summer and evenings in winter we I Funds for the administration of this rather discouraging outlook at the
This grain on the
debated, declaimed, and sang at the law including inspection are derived present time.
schoolhouses. That was better than from the sale of tags to the menu-1 ground is a total loss. None of the
movies, because we had to study and facturer, which they are required to I I varieties mentioned are as bad to
cultivate our memories.
affix to each piece of bedding put out. I I shatter as other varieties which are
Our first winter in Sherman coun Thoee tags are obtainable from the sometimes produced.
Frank Emerson estimates that if
ty came a deep snow in February. State Board of Health.
Father got out his carpenter tools I . Many problems of sanitation are! wind and weather conditions do not
and made snowshoes and we were I encountered in the use of matthesses. J I become more favorable there will be
out over the drift* and coasting I Through long use mattresses become! j a 50 per cent loss in some fields be-
down hill. Soon some of the neigh soiled and dirty and need cleaning. ] fore they can be harvested.
This information is not being re
bors did likewise. Many a tumble I This is particularly true of the older
I we got. Most of our neighbors were
leased simply to offset the publicity
mattresses, the tufts giving an ideal
of unusua^ bumper crops in the north
canyon
bachelors, but across
collecting place for dust and dirt.
from our home was the home of Mrs. Newer mattresses are made by secure- west, which have reduced the price
Anne McDonald. There sister^and I ly joining separate rolls or compart-1 of northwest export wheat 7 cents
I went on snowshoes to visit her ments of mattress material. Second below the* middle-western domestic
price, caused the Chicago market to
daughters Elizabeth and Mary.
hand mattresses are frequently in
drop 1 eent in a day and increase the
Our first 4th of July father got
fected with vermin, and once these
up the horses and we all went to I insects become established they can price of wheat sacks 2 cents; but is
Poplar Grove, some twenty miles or be eradicated only by disinfection a simple statement of facts which
more, to celebrate. There we first with an insecticide, as well as a bac- has not been exaggerated and which
anyone can verify, Daigh declared.
heard the DeMoss family — father, I tericide.
mother, three daughters and two
The role of insects in disease
sons—*ing. Later we walked over I transmission is well known and the
Buttering the nose of the cream
the hills to the Badger postoffice, extraordinary vitality of bed vermin pitcher prevents the cream from
now known as DeMoss Springs, Which enables them to live for ex dripping and making spots on the
where young George DeMöss led a
tended periods under the most ad table doth. ■
house full of youngsters in singing
verse conditions is conductive to the
school.
I spread of disease.
Sometimes mother sent me
I
The greatest danger lies in the
t^neback, with butter, to the one I cheaper mattresses.
The apparent
small store in Moro, now the Sher monetary saving is due to the fact
man County Observer printing of that the cheaper mattresses are filled
fice. Tom McBride was clerk there with old clothing ground to a fibrous
at that time. I only remember one I condition but not cleaned, or old
house there, Mrs. Barnum’s, where I stuffings from a mattress some one
now lives Arthur Phillips. There I
else has thrown away.
first met Mrs. Barnum. Sometimes,
The health problem involved by
on my way home I stopped at Mrs. I common use of second-hand bedding
Bound’s homestead, now the H. W. I is a problem that the State Board of
Strong place below Moro. I could Health is facing. The new act con
relaw other things of those days; cerning bedding and upholstery has
many comic, some tragic, but I only been a necesstiy for the protection
wish to say that should there ever of the public health.
be a memorial window in Sherman
county for church workers it should
have on it the name of Rev. J. M.
Morrison. No other one person rode
as many miles or preached as many
Just as the country towns and
sermons in the early Sherman county
smaller cities hold the preponderance
day* as he. He spread the gospel of newspaper circulation in the na
from Hay Canyon to Kent.
tion, so the thousands of smaller in
“Lest we forget.”
dustries of these towns hold the pre
Harriet Nish.
ponderance of payrolls and general
production, except in a few highly
Thirty different diseases are trans specialised industries, remarks the
mitted by flies. They deposit germs Pantagraph, of Bloomington, Illinois.
This remarkable industrial growth
in three ways. By contact, vomit
spots and excreta.
Flies are the has taken place largely within the
filthiest insects known. They taint past twenty-five years, and has been
everything they touch. Fly-Tox kills concurrent with the far-reaching de
flies. It is safe, stainless, fragrant, velopment ,of electrical power and
sure. Simple instructions on each distribution^ Large power plants at
'bottle (blue label) for killing ALL central points are linked- to far re
household insects.
Insist on Fly- mote places, to smaller towns and
the testing was finished a
Tox. Fly-Tox is the scientific insec oven to the open country regions.
year ago and now it has had
AU
this
tends
to
result
in
men
em
ticide .developed at Mellon Institute
a
«olid year of actual use by
ployed
in
industry
being
able
more
of Industrial Research by Rex Fellow
ship. Fly-Tox brings health, com and more to find homes where they
ean have more of the comforts of
fort and cleanliness.
owners. No experimenting
life than they could in the congested
—it’s not new but a tried
centers of the great cities. Electric
and
proved feature with
, Kitchen scissor* may be used for ity contributes to the recreational
cutting up chicken, shredding lettuce, facilities of smaller communities, and
chopping raisins, and marshmallows. tied up with the auto and radio, its
Rub the blades and the fingers with younger brothers, provide all the ad
MORO GARAGE
a little butter when preparing sticky vantages of the large city to the
MORO, OREGON
food.
country dwellers.
M. R. Schadewitz, Proprietor
The industrial output of smaller
Phone 171
Painting the lower cellar stair cities and “country towns” is gradu
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MORO, OREGON
SOUTHBOUND
8:50 a.m.
3:35 p.m.
7:50 p.m.
Rtege leaving at 8 J5O A.M. mokes direct connections at Bend for
KlamaCh Fall* *ud way potots.
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MORO
Portland.
The Dalles.
Bend.........
Yakima ..
Pendleton.
Arlington/
1.36
4.46
6.60
4.66
1.80
2.06
6.70
11.00
6.86
2.70
Walla Walla, $5.60 $ 9.60
Spokane
8.76 - 13.70
Klam.Fall* .10.76 19.90
Redmond . . 3.80
6.70
4.20
Madras.......... 2.80
Hood River. / 2.20
3.30
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