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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 7, 1927)
WP' -s—~ «aammm» Ope ^teel Hawaiian canvas case, 86. One barn- nod and automatic reel; ►ok, tackle and flies, 88. es, Box 24T, Moro. Ito7 colds. Wm Mil directly, it is most likely to be the insurance company and the savings Figures compiled by ths United s nel eos d C bank which are investing the savings States treasury department indicate Mn. Paul Stent returned home FOR SALE—One 14-7 Superior hoe drill; one 18-7 Van Brunt hoe drill. of millions of our people of all cl a mm that the people of this country spent Monday from The Dalles. Both drills are ready to go into the in the capital of widely diversified tn a single year 81 >847,000,000 for Dr. Poley was called to see Mrs. field and will be sold at a price worth tobacco, 8820.000,000 for soft drinks J. E. Norton Monday who was quite the money. Also a 1923 Cheve Coupel concerns.^ “Wo think of managers no longer and ice. cream, 8934,000,000, for for 8200. Gap. N. Grosfield, Wasco, sick. aa the perrisan attorneys of either theatres and amusements, 8689,000,- Oregon. Ito? Mr. Myers started to make a busi group against the other. Rather we 000 for candy and 8500,000,000 fòt FOR SALE—Standard make of piano have corie to consider them trustees perfumes, toilet soaps and chewing ness trip to The Dalles Saturday, Hs in vicinity will be sacrificed. Must of |he whole undertaking, whose re-1 gum. run out of gas. sell st once. .810.00 monthly. Write Store, Salem, Oregon. sponsibiHty to to see to it on the one Compared with these figures, which Mr. and Mm E. A. Hoskinson were Tallman Piano '__________________8to7-21 side that the invested capital to safe were computed from international week-end visitors in Moro, returning- MILCH COWS for sals; 81 head to and that its return is adequate and revenue taxes for 1924, the revenues home Tuesday. pick from; E. E. Barnum farm. continuous; <nd on the other side of thè electric utilities shrink into the ^.4 ’ : . C. E. Decker and A. J. Decker that competent and conscientious background. In 1926, two years later made a business trip to The Dalles FARM FOR SALE—One half section men are found to do the work and than the figures quoted, the sixteen wheat ranch. Good home, well im- that their job to safe and their earn million wired homes in this country ths first of ths week ings are adequate and continuous. ! paid only 8450,000,000 for the neces Mias Ruth Hamilton visited with Manager« may not be able to realize sary, convenient, safe, luxurious and her sister, Mrs. K*rl Eaton and fam FOR SALE—Ford roadster, 1926 that ideal either for capital or labor. restful service of electric light and ily at Grasa Valley on Sunday. model; good condition. Call Sher It to a great advance, however, for us power in the home., When statis Mrs. Waldner and Mrs. Dunlap; man County Observer, phone 101, to have formulated that objective and ticians deal with the spending habits Miss Hajmeo and Miss Hogue, were Moro^ ___________ . ' - to be striving toward that goal.” of the American nation, they play visitors in The Dalles Monday. WE PAY pareel post one wa; on all around with billions. That’s how the shoe repairing. Good quail r work Fred Haynes was taken to the hos The ■ and leather. Joe Amor country got the notion that the elec Dalles, opposite the post o tric industry was big. Compared to pital Thursday and operated on the same day for acute appendicitis. We can fit all kinds of people. Any Taxes may be so high, says a prom the totals that the nation spends for W¥en Hogue, who was operated on size or weight. 'Crippled or deform inent political economist, ths^great other essentials, such as food, clothes “Fortunately, we are making great multitudes of peopleware thown out and rent, the total spent for elec at The Dalles recently, returned home ed foot. Wernmark’s Shoe Store, The progress in America in these difficult of work, because industry is rendered tricity to a bagatelle. The family Saturday in company with Jacob Dalles. I electic light bill represents about relationships. We are trying to think unprofitable. WEANLING PIGS for sale; 85 each. in terms of human beings——one group Theodore Johnston, phone 23F31, “A tax,” he says, “may take out bf I seven-tenths of one per cent of the Paul Stout was operated on sarly Moro, Oregon. of human beings who put their capital the pockets of the people more than I home budget. Sunday morning for appendicitis, this in, and another group who put their it brings into the public treasury.” | Collectively, thè electric industry makes three men from Kent to bo lives and labor in a common enter The high tax that drives capital out represents a great aggregation of operated on for appendicitis in less capital, bpt, when compared with any prise for mutual advantage. of industry is a tax of this sort. The head of the family should con commodity used than two weeks. other service The voice of experience instructs “We are learning as one result of stitute himself safety engineer of Jos. Gregg Who has been farming generally by American people, that our widespread prosperity that the us as to the harmful and inescapable his abode. He should make inspec the old John W. Clark place« now industry is relatively insignificant, human being who puts his capital in tions of the house and its premises. to no longer the gentleman of the defeat its own ends and to bring upon Many people think of the electric in owned by C. L. Ireland, has moved to uncover many He will undo ubi the John Schasspn farm. cartoonist in need of fat-reducing the people unforeseen and endless dustry as gigantic and overpowering, danger spots, Fich as prbtruding simply becausi statisticians have col Ott Smith, Who has been farming STsrdset It to rather the lean school burdens. —' lated in one lump sum the revenues the Guy Walton place, has moved to nails, which should be pulled out or and the investments of the thousands the C. L. lysland farm, one mile hammered down. He must see that the empty tins are consigned to the of separate electric companies scat north of W11 cog station. proper receptacle and that fly-draw- tered throughout th n United States. ing and breeding garbage is consigned to the incinerator. vanity, chairman of the board, Gen eral Electric company, in an address w^ewtiy at the dedication exercises, Geoigo F. Baker Foundation of the Graduate School of Business Adminto- tmtion, Harvard University. Mr. Young said: “Zsst in labor to influenced by another mental reaction well known to us all but too frequently neglected. Is a man working for fimself or to h* a hirad man? It has been assumed th«» ^rtth the evolution of business into large organizations, it was neces- aary to increase the percentage of' hirad men.- That feeling was en couraged by our old habit, of thinking. Capital was the employer, buying labor as a commodity in the cheapest market and entitled to all the profits. Managers were considerd the paid at torneys of capital to devise ways and mi—ws to squeeze out of labor its last ounce of effort and last penny of com- penaation Is it any wonder that in this land of political freedom men re sented the notion of being servant to 00 Genuine Sealy Mattress t October 17th to 25th for only QQQ V w*WV MORO, OREGON BETTER SETTLE No nation 4n the world can show The following is a statement of the ' such electric development as the Ashcraft—The weather seems Qiu financial condition bf the office of United States. No people in the settled. county treasurer for the nine months ‘ world enjoy such electrical con- Crandall—Yeah; they must have ending September 30th, 1927, ah. l* tveniencs as do our citizens. forgotten to pay the weather man’s filid with the' County Court for the Tç illustrate how such service to* October term. given, take a typical company like Funds on-hand: North America. It is one of s number 113671.90 of large electric companies serving Farmers State Bank 3898.87 our 115,060,000 people^ It has inter W. M. Barnett Bank 5364.18 connected power snd light lines serv CitiMn's Bank ...... SATURDAY 9791.18 ing 1,032,908 customers in seven Bank of Moro ...'. ?......... 1763.80 states from Ohio through the middle Bank of Wasco ....'......... 985.00 west to the Pacific coast. Its con Nat’l Park Bank.............. 1.00 solidated balance sheet shows assets Safe . .................................... •Overdrafts........................ - 9991.23 totaling nearly 8700,000,000, and WITH Total ......................... 45366.66 •transferred from various funds to country. . ? others. When public fwnership advocates Funds propose putting tho" state or ’ the County fund ....................... 8 1620.98 government into the electric business SUNDAY^ Per capita, school........... 3101.70 figures like these are of interest. To 688.33 duplicate the service rendered by just Elementary school........... 237.27 this one company, the public would School District Ns 8 .... 125.00 have to invest neatly three quarters School Dist No 7 . ... . 212.50 of a billion dollaa. Then, instead of School Dist No 9......... .. School Diet No 16.............. 9.11 getting upward of 810*000,000 a year School Dist No 27 ....... taxes which a private plant of this Bond Interest .......... 3935.87 kind pays, the public would have to I Advance Taxes ... ............. 6.74 make up that amount by increased Oregon Made Film I Prohibition Fund ... .......... 1984.35 taxes on other property as publicly I Cash Unapportiened......... 88894.88 owned plants pay no taxes. Big Laugh Special Total 45866.66 Thesq are a few of the facto which A. M. Young, must be cçnsid' County Treasurer. istic friends MR payers intp Mfi and operalion enterprises. * ' Parlor Furnaces For those that want the utmost in satis factory heating we have many sizes and styles of beautifully enameled or plain black circulators capable of heating the whole house with, a minimum of con sumption of fuel. These stoves are built for wood or coal. Priced *as low as— >75.00 MORO, OREGON ^everywhere- people turn to . admire its beauty/ Embodying all the’ masterly de sign and craftsmanship of bodies by Fisher— . . —offering such marks of distinc* tion as full-crown, one-piece fenders and bullet*type lamps— Romantic Age the 15th 1928 automobile. But after the 15th, bur special offer is over. Now you set special terms on : Much small town trade was drawn to the larger towns and mall order ■houses through constant advertising, but remember that it can be stopped by the small town merchant by apply ing the remedy—advertise the goods, then be sure to have them when they I are called for.—Detroit Herald. IN MEMdklUM Not long ago a lady called at this office and regained psasecoton of her lost purse containing Mvwral dollan in money. . A went ad plieed by the finder of ths purao accomplished its purpose. And then some will argue that it does not pay to advertise on the slim pretext that people do not read the advertisement Let a gro cerman, for instance, advertise 80 pounds of granulated sugar for fl, and aoe whether or hot people road the ads. That merchant wouldn’t be able to And enpugh ragar in tho town to supply the demand for one day.— Charles toe, in tho Potosi (Mo.) IndA *745 •525 595 625 TIPTON 4 MANCHESTER, DEALERS THE DALLES, OREGON A . ASSOCIATE DEALERS FOSS Ä COMPANY, MORO SHERMAN GARAGELWASCO DR. THOS. D. FISHER C. V. Belknap, Propriety CHIROPRACTIC PHYSICIAN Funeral services ter I. P. Hardin, pioneer Sherman county farmer was held from Crandall’s chapel at Tho Dalles Tuesday morning, Rev. C. A. Edwards officiating. Interment was at the Moro cemetery the same after noon. The deceased was born August* 24, 1845, at Rutherford* N. C./Ho lived until 1898 in Alnbsma, Momtag te Hood River that year. 6Eive ppaeo later he moved to S)4toMn county and took up a ranch east of M®o. / He leaves four MPa and Wdnugh- ters. Sona are JstMIrA., The Dalles* S. V., Ashland; JL W, Lewiston; R. N., Baker; daughters, Mra’’E. Sink, Portland; Mra. W. L. Taylor, Pendleton; Mrs. Minnie Rich, Yakima, Mrs. I. E. Fields, Grass Valley and Mrs. E. Ginn, The Dalles. Tsn grand children also survive. Mrs. Hardin, mother of the chil dren, died about 22 years ago and to also buried at Moro. LANDAU —and finished in lustrous colors Of genuine, lasting Duco—to day’s Chevrolet is- everywhere acclaimed as one of the world’s most beautiful automobiles • • « so refreshingly different, so out standingly smart and stylish that people everywhere turn to ad miré it! The General When each good day to near its close with old Sol sinking to repose, I shut the door on office life and come on home to kin my wife. O when I pull my weary shoes, I sprawl around to rest my thews and seise the well- known Journal-News to read good Edgar Guest, his runes, and grina- while at new cartoons. I love to read in daily papers of cartoon people and theij capers. I lovo to scan some work of Dwig’s, some prank of Petie Dink or Jiggs. I gaze with awe on Jiggs’ wife Maggie, and thank the. Lord that mine's not naggy, or pity those who spend their bones forever keeping up with Jonea I like Bud Fisher and his line; old Mutt’s a special friend of mine, and Jeff who wears the hoodoo sign; for be it love affairs or beta, the worst of it to all Jeff geta. I hope I’ll never see it slump, that pleasant tale of Andy Gump, of Minnie With her arms akim bo of Chester and of -Uncle Bimbo. It stirs my sympathy and dander to see the wiles of Widow Zander; I know a chin to often handy, and so I sympathise with Andy, but Congress has some spineless chumps much wtn^e than any chinless Gumps. This world so full' of Sorrow now, with worry lines on every brow, would be the pleasant eat of places, U grouchy folks would crack their faces, if every butcher, baker, grafter, wold try the medicine of laughter. Of men who serve their kind and kin the best are those that make us grin. Of all life’s boone the very hponest come from my favorite cartoonist. tw IMPERIAL Moro Hotei Barber Shop Office iñ Moro Hotel Hours 9 to 6 p. m. Moro, 0regen Sundays and Other hours by appointment. Ladies and Children’s Hair Cutting and Shingle Bobbing Moró, Oregon BATHS When by the use of a pair of glasses you can stop Bh aI1 y°ur eye strain. ■pOMp Protect your eyes and they will take care of* you. We are best prepared to take care of your eyes than any one in Eastern WHEN YOU TRAVEL < by ' AUTO AND VISIT THE DALLES^ ». < z ¿A 5 ' ‘ STÖRE YOUR J&4R in-the concrete, fully equipped, roomy' garage of Walther-Williams Company. Competent workmen < always-ready to help you in any way l they can at least expense to you. For any service render ed the charge will always-be reasonable. WALTHER-WILLIAMS GARAGE THE DALLES, - - OREGON. ^OOOOOOOOOaOOOOOGeOOOaOOOOOQOOOQOGOOOOOOOOOOQQOOMl Office at Farmer’s State Bank MORO. OREGON R ead & G alloway GENERAL MACHINE SHOP Agent for Sherman County for thè WEST COAST UFE INSURANCE CO. A most progressive company. Has very attractive policies. Is up-to-date in every way. ■■ Repairing Trucks, Tractors, Autorpobiles, Caterpillars, and Combine Motors, Cylinder Grinling, Oyl-acetylene and Electric Welding The Dalles, Ore. Phone Main 4001
