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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1927)
The Sherman County ESS 10% discount; $100 of It is nothing new for an American You Gm Always Good Show SATURDAY “Runaway Express SUNDAY ‘The Wrong Mr. Wright” FRIDAY DANCE Wasco Theatre of the Caterpillar Magaxine shows, in a series of photographs, the story of one of our industrial romances— that of the tractor. 4 v The track type tractor's efficiency for any kind of “rough-and-ready use first came to the world’s attention during the war, when it hauled guns through mud and over precipitous mountains, and swept, in the role of a tank—“a caterpillar with a tin hat”—across trenches and entangle ments. That was its .war work. And then, back from the war, with hat and coat off, it went to work and has proven invaluable in time of peace. Many of the boys who a few years ago were guiding a slush spattered, death dealing tank through the battle fields of France are today directing its peaceful brother while it builds roads through once impassable terri tory, or moves tons of machinery to a new power plant orafactory, or accom plishes hundreds of other hard tasks. The modern farmer in this country has learned the value of the tractor, as one of the greatest of progressive agricultural steps, comparable to the invention of the cotton gin and com bined harvester." And all over the world this strictly American product has been received with the same en thusiasm and for a multitude of uses. It cultivates the rice fields of Japan, works on sugar-land in British Gui ana, builds roads in Uruguay, makes a golf course in England, and in Hawaii clears acres of cactus covered land, once useless, to make way for pineapple planting. The Caterpillar tractor is an Amer ican commodity with a world story and an international romance. This week the Sherman County Ob server prints in full the new reduced rates put in force this month by the Sherman Electric Company on all its lines in Sherman, Gilliam and Morrow counties. The new rates are very much lower than those formerly in force in this territory. This will be particularly noticable in the reduced minimum charge which in most cases have been reduced half for all lighting service. A second noticable reduction is the power rate« which was formerly based on a charge for horsepower installed and then an additional charge for all current used. Resident»! Service This schedule is applicable only to electric service furnished through one meter for lighting, cooking and small single phase power and heating equipment in private residence, in dividual flats, and individual apart ments. It is not applicable to clubs, rooming houses, hotels or to apart ment houses served under one con tract . Rates per meter per month: First 15 kilowatt 15c per kwh. Next 15 kilowatt, 10c per kwh. Excess over 30 kilowatt, 3c per kwh. Minimum monthly charge: $1.50 per meter per month within the cor porate limits of cities and towns. $2.50 per meter per month in all other territory. Discount none. Water Heating Service Any customer using an electric tank water heater in conjunction with an electric range, or other heavy duty cooking appliance having a capacity of two kilowatts or more, will be fur He is indeed stingy who. will not nished service for such water heater at flat rates quoted below, providing give you a smile.. the water heater and the cooking Your wife, as well as your sins, equipment are served through one will find you out. service and so connected by means of a double throw switch or limiting device that it is impossible for a load greater than the normal cooking load to be thrown on the service at any one tiipe. • No water. heating service will be furnished unless tanks are equipped with an^ approved insulating cover and with a thermostatic device for limit ing the water temperature to a prac tical maximum. Flat rates for water heaters: 600 Watt Heater, $2.50 per month 750 Watt Heater, $2.75 per month. 1000 Watt Heater or larger, $3.25 per month per kwh. Commercial Service over first $400 of monthly bill, 40% discount. \ On installations totaling 20 horso- Moro Theatre pressed in manufacturer's rated horsepower capacity of equipment, will be assumed to be the maximum demand, except that for installations totaling more than 5 horsepower the maximum demand may be determined by suitable teat of service where Saturday, October 22nd warrant. The maxim um demand s^aD be determined by suitable test in any RCULATO 99 Parlor Furnaces SM3N — AUSWOO Evenin« Show Starte 8:00 p. m. ■ Uo-/* T*.-'. * ’ *' --.v '■ lation is being operated normally tín- plate rating of the equipment On installations totaling more than 20 horsepower the maximum demand shall be taken as the highest average demand recorded during any period of 15 consecutive minutes and shall be determined by suitable test For the purpose of this schedule no maximum demand will be conaid- facturer’s rated capacity of the equipment. 4 4^ < When n-ray machines are served under this schedple the maximum de mand used for computing charges for service to such machines will be con sidered as 40% of the instantaneous capacity of such equipment, except that no such in4al lation will be con sidered as having a demand less than 1 horsepower. DANCE Grass Valley For those that want the utmost in satis factory heating we have many sizes and stvles of beautifully enameled or plain biack circulators capable of heating thè whole house with a minimum of con sumption of fuel. These stoves are built for wood or coal. ^Priced as low as— Saturday, October 22nd $75.00 COMING Tuesday, October 2£th “The Man Ginn, Coleman & Co. MORO, OREGON — of Mystery” No one bad dared to about—his past! No one had ventured to be—his friend! No one had question* ask Service win be given under this whednl. for opparatu. to connwtion with an establiiht d enterprise of « permanent but strictly seasonal char acter, but tn such cases the customer xhall pay the regular rates for a per iod of not less than six months in each Sendee will be given under thia schedule for apparatus installed in connection with an enterprise of strictly temporary character on .a month to month basis, provided the customer furnishes all necessary material and equipment incident to giving him service and pay all erec tion," dismantling connection and dis connection costs, including a reason- able amount fi depreciation on ma- .erial and eqi ►ment furnished by the company. Irrigafien Service Customers operating irrigation pump motors under the six months seasonal proviaion of this schedule will be permitted to use such motors during the remainder of the year in pumping water for domestic and, stock consumption and for other purely do mestic purposes, provided the opera tion of such motdfl jo confined to an off-peak period to be specified by the company. Monthly charges for ser vice during such period shall be com puted according to the regular sched ule except that the minimum monthly charge shall be 25c per horsepower and not less than $1.50. Term of contract, not less than one year for regular service. This schedule applies to commer cial, professional, mercantile, indus trial, fraternal, educational, and other similar institutions for the service of lighting equipment and small inci dental single phase appliances and power devices. Rates per meter per month: , First-30 kilowàtt hours 15c per kwh. Next 30 kilowatt hours 10c per kwh. Next 140 kilowatt hours 8c per kwh. Next 400 kilowatt hours*6c per kwh. Next 400 kilowatt hours 5c per kwh. Women Want Service Next 1000 kilowatt hours 4c per kwh. Excess over 2000 kilowatt hours 3c per kwh. * Minimum monthly charge: $1.50 per meter per month within the cor- porate limits of cities and towns, TUB MUBIO4AND ENTERTAINERS More tha^ seven women out of ten $2.50 per meter per month th all R. AND MRS. WILLIAM BEEK, “The Musio-Land Entertainers," on American farms believe that elec other territory. Discount, none. present a program of vocal and instrumental numbers with nov tric service is the greatest contribut elty features added. Mr Beek is a versatile young artist who« Term of contract, one year. ing factor in making dally household major work i> on cornet and trumpet He givea character impersona tasks easier. Commercial Cooking tions and will be heard in banjo numbers. Mrs. Beek is a brilliant A questionnaire recently sent to a pianist and a vocalist of considerable attainment with a lyric soprani This schedule applies to service large group of women on farms, ask ys^go of brilliant timbre. They are to appear here soon. e furnished for the operation of cook ing them what they most wanted to ing and baking equipment in commer make their work easier, brought 882 cial installations such as restaurants, replies. Of this total, 889 said that A Varied Program of Bewitching Artistry hotels, bakeries,' hospitals, schools, electricity would be the most desirable etc. The service is unlimited except addition. — First Number Moro Lyceum that where the installation includes The electric equipment wanted ap heavy duty equipment for baking} pur Monday, October 24 pears as follows, in the order of pref poses the company may specify a erence shown in the replies: daily peak load period of four hourtf 1. Electric lighting. during which such equipment shall 2. Iron. not be operated by the customer. 3. Washing machine. Rqtes per hour used per month: 4. Water pumping system. First 100 kilowatt hours 4c per kwh. Vacuum cleaner. Next 200 kilowatt hours Se per kwh. 6. Toaster, percolator, fans, etc. Next 700 kilowatt hours 2c per kwh. 7. Electric »wing -machine Excess over 1000 kilowatt hours per . 8. Electric range. . month 1 % per kwh. • 9. Electric refrigerator. Minimum charge: $1.50 per month 10. Electric water heater. per kilowatt of maximum demand. The maximum demand is considered Gives More Satisfaction to be the maximum load that may be Safety Hint* for your Radio "Dollars connected at any one time during normal operations and shall be taken Although poisons are known to be as the manufacturers name plate rat The keen buyer, the man who compares values, the woman who de terribly dangerous, every well equip* ing, or at the company's option may mands one hundred and one cents of value for a dollar, are invited to make a comparison of radio vslues. You are entitled to demand be determined by suitable test or in ped home has a medicine cheat con more for your money. r . Y, spection. Discount, none. Term of taining a variety of poisons ranging from iodine up, which usually are not contract not less than one year. on of tone, selectivity, range, volume and appearance will kept locked. These bottles should be you that Kolster gives it. •.' Ganoral Power Heater Rate« kept in a separate chest or each iden AB industries progress and Kolster is leading the radio procession to This schedule applies to service for tified with a pin for the sake of those satisfaction for your radio investment. The time is ripe. electric motors, arc lamps for photo whose common sense or observation graphic processes, x-ray machines, is stultified. It is well for every adult and other power and heating devices to know the antidotes to the poisons not specifically included under other to be found in his own home. If you are interested in the purchase of a radio set Thousands of young folk are killed schedules in this tariff and is not ap and will write or phone, I will set up a Kolster Iftidio plicable to power »errice furnished or injured every year by playing with in your own home to demonstrate its long range and for operating generators used for firearms or sharp instrumenta. Chil supplying energy directly to lighting dren should never be given guns or easy tuning qualities. any sort of firearms with which to toy. circuits. Net rate: First 85 kilowatt hours used per Pointed scissors, knif»». rasors and month per horsepower of maximum other sharp or pointed- instrument» are dangerous play things for the demand, 7c per kwh. youngsters. Next 65 kilowatt hours used per month per horsepower of maximum demand, 2c pot kwh. In order to acquire more fawn land Excess monthly consumption over most of sthe present landlords have bad to buy it. Of land owned by a above, 1c per kwh. „ Minimum monthly charge 11.50 per representative group of 24,000 farm horsepowei of maximum demand. landlords, latest figures show that Quantity discounts, applying to more than four-fifths had been pur monthly bills under this schedule: chased and only about a sixth obtain First $100 of monthly bill, no dis- ed by gift or inheritance. - No one had guessed why his right hand never left hie pocket! No one had known why he did everything with his left hand! Until Love Came to “Lone Hand Sounder»” Fred Thompson Why Red Juniper Wood e 4-foot Red Juniper Posts , IM» Thrilling Millions/ 3x7x7 The COACH X E. HEAGY, *595 lEDMOND, OREGON 4-Ooor DR. THOS. D. FISHER CHIROPRACTIC PHYSICIAN Never before was a low-priced erf eo de- lightfuUo drive m today's Chevrolet! •625 •695 •715 *745 one wanes in an automobile today! ance is the famous (Chevrolet valve-in-head motor—a motor that has established a world- »39J *495 gear shifting, that have made Chevrolet so Office in Moro Hotel Heurs 9 to 6 p. m. Sundays and other hours by appointment • Moro, Oregon favorite model—and you'll know wl lions have acclaimed today's Cbevr TIPTON J & MANCHESTER, DEALERS THE DALLES, OREGON ” ' ASSOCIATE DEALERS FOSS & COMPANY, MORO SHERMAN GARAGE, WASCO GRASS VALLEY MOTOR CO., GRASS VALLEY M Kolster Radio C. C. Gillmor, Moro, Oregon mil* COST WHY OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOQOOOOOCXXXXXXXXXXX» Be Uncomfortable C. V. Belknap, Proprietor. Whan by the use of a pair of Rinses you can stop all your, eye strain. 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 Oregon. Moro Hotel Barber Shop Moro, Oregon Ladies and Children’s Hair CuttinR and Shingle Bobbing BATHS -Dr. Geo. F. Newhouse 320 E. Second Street, The Dalles, Oregon WHEN YOU TRAVEL 1 - BY AUTO AND VISIT THE DALLES STORE YOUR CAR - > ** . , A < % ” ■’** . I--“”* In the concrete, fully equipped, roomy garage of Walther-Williams Company. Competent workmen always ready to help you in any way they can •at least expense to you For any service render ed the charge will always be reasonable. WALTHER-WILLIAMS GARAGE THE DALLES, OREGON R ead & G alloway GENERAL MACHINE SHOP Repairing Trucks, Tractors, Automobiles, Caterpillars, and Combine Motor», Cylinder Grinling, Oyx-acetylene^and Electric Welding * The Dalles, Ore. 616 East Second St — Phone Main 4001
