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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1927)
The Sherman County Observe Moro, Oregon, Friday, October 28, 1927 « «Should th* rtok-boaring and Tisk- T"*' ■ power from central plants of and in order to keep ahead of the an- srxiiari? protection they afford suddenly be ture for steam plants last year was eliminated, our whole well-knit sys- in excess of the amount for hydro- teas of production and distribution penditure during the present year amounts to $9,028,345, of which $8,- swn-shop stage of fiscal hto- 299,744 to being spent for hydro-elec n credit was extended at tric plants, $588,19$ for steam usurious rates only upon the pledging plants, $558,346 for sub stations, $1,- of definite property,” says Henry 127,740 for transmission lines, and Swift Ifea, Vice President, Casualty $2,215,267 for distribution systems. Public utilities in Oregon last year “It to only because of the safe had a gross income of $27,960,076.- guards now offered by the institution 92, upon which $3,053,278.7^ was of insurance that civilised man may paid in taxes, or 10.9 per cent of the gioss income. The relation of the little fear that he will be deprived of taxes paid to net incomes was 66.6 the fruits of hto labor by storm, fire, per cent, all electric, gas, railway and or any of the other similar water companies having a net income uncertainties which constantly beset of $4,581,503. him. -It to only because of the pro Light M|d power companies in Ore tective dike erected by insurance that gon have 25,172 stockholders, there human initiative has been freed from oeing 1,748 employes holding stock of social snd economic risks thus mak- along with 10,378 customers. G m radtruints imposed by a multitude teg ‘poesiHe the unparalleled world ------- — wide industrial development of the “To control the river to to control last half century. > ‘ the mountain.” This ancient proverb “Insnnnce, indeed, has made the was a guiding principle in the Japan world safe for industrial progress.” ese policy of erosion control and tor rent regulation as long ago as 1688. Since that time reforestation, has been Unit Price Given applied extensively throughout Japan as a factor of prime importance in the protection of the tremendously valuable rice fields of the empire, and in insuring the permanency and full utility of the waterpower resource. Twelve major electric light and power companies received one and three-tenths cents for each kilowatt Some Oregon farmers succeed be hour generated during 1926, and one and six-tenths cents for each kilowatt cause they use a grain binder or other hour sold and delivered. They served expensive implement for 10 or 15* 231 towns and 181,000 customers yean while their neighbor buys a new selling 729^936,784 kilowatt hours. one every five yean. More farm Their average losses in kilowatt hours equipment rusts out than wean out, is between production and delivery'was the finding of the Oregon experiment 20 per cent, and they generated and station. Ah implement shed to house purchased 164,025,449 kilowstt hours all farm machinery often makes the of ilsoMe energy in excess of the difference between 20 per cent and 10 per cent' depreciation—enough to aniount sold. OrefiMi ¿omjmnles ndw have 2,116 build such a shed. t .. _ - Sherman County Sunday School Convention in Moro on Wednesday. dates; will sell cheap, O. R. h, Moro Dairy. 4t-o28 WINTER APPLES Earg^rises; Mr. and Mrs. Sommers were vtoit- । Cooker grades and windfalls, 65c; ing iiyMoro the first of the week. postage 55c box. Jonathans, Grimes Golden, Winesaps, snd Romes. Bring J. H. Wileoc and family were Tygh your trucks. - Fine Winter Onions Valley visitors Sunday at the home of $2.50 per 100!b. M. M. Burtner, Du fur, Ore. . 2t*o21 Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Taylor. TURKEYS FOR SALE—SeVe« mam Al Swegie brought hto carpenter moth Bronze ^Toms; fine birds for tools up, from Moro Monday, and Is breeding; at 37:60 each; raised by busy building a porch on the George A. Pierson, owner,, at TrouV Lake, Wash., Call or phone A. Pierson eare Witter house. L. H. Martin farm, Moro. L. W. Amick'and Mrs. George Bar- net of The DaRps left K4nt Tuesday evening for Missouri to visit their sell at once. $10.00 monthly. Write Tallman Piano Store, Salem, Oregon. respective mothers. X 8U7-21 Prof. Myer and two daughters and WE PAY parcel post one way on all Miss Hamilton made a hastily planned shoe repairing. Good quality work and leather. Joe Amore,' The trip to Portland immediately after the , Dalles, opposite the post office. closing of the school Friday. We can fit all kinds of people. Any Dr. C. L. Poley was recently called size or weight. Crippled or deform to the Mettera heme to see the three little girls who are quite sick. He ed feet Wernmarrs Shoe Store, The pronounced IM^mslaily scarlet fever Dalles. noon and all that night. Should the proposed initiative petition calling for a decrease in the sutomobile license fee from the ad justed scale of fees now in existence to a fiat fee of three dollars, for all passenger cars be approved by the people and become a law, not only would the state highway program be stopped instantly, but the obligation of some thirty-four million dollars in highway bonds would fall as a direct tax upon general property and would be apportioned to each county. The burden of highway financing as originally voted rests entirely upon the motorist so long as the present system ia adhered to. But if the pro posed initiative measure should pass the outstanding bonds both interest and principal would become a direct obligation of the state, and general property would be compelled to take up the obligation, paging interest and principal until all bonds are retired. This would entail the payment by a general property tax of a total of and quarantined the family, closed Any man who works only for pay $52,971,718.90 and the last payment* the school, and. forbade any public gatherings for one week. seldom does his best would not be made until 1950., Not only would this huge sum have to be raised by general taxation but all state highway construction would Judges Announce Awards stop immediately and all future work SATURDAY on the highway program would be abandoned. Home This would mean that sections of George O’Brien the state who voted for the issuing of K Last Friday forcing Mrs. Lulu D. highway bonds with the understand — IN ing that the highway program as out Crandall and D. J. Butcher of The lined v/ould be carried to completion, Dalles^ and Senator W.’A. Ragsdale, will not be given the roads promised of Moro, met in the parlors of Carson Music Company and after about two them. and a half hours spent in looking over Citizens of Oregon voted for the the many beautiful exhibits submit highway system and the issuance of ted in th^Home, Sweet Home con bonds under the proposed financing test, made the following awards: plan. Bond companies and investors First prisoj^wew piano—Children bought the authorized bonds after in of Columbia School District 58, sub vestigations based on the «tattad mitting a rustic log cabin of pioneer financial plan of license fee and gas day»- ¿3 - tax, which were said to be, and have Reginald Denny1 Second prist, 6-tube radio—Mrs. since proved to be, a safe and eco M. C. Mulleins, The Dalles, submit* — IN nomic method for raising sufficient ting polycrome picture. i fupds for paying interest and retiring Third prize, portable phonograph ..... ■ ■■ ■ ■ bonds. —Mrs. C. A. Cntes, The Dalles, sub There is an obligation on the part mitting pen and ink drawing. of the citizens of tills state to con Fourth prise, silverware—Mrs. tinue the existing method of financ Penners, The Dalles, submitting de ing under which investments were sign in needlework. made until such time as the retire Fifth prize, piano lamp—Mrs. Earl ment of bonds has mad« that prob A. Moore, Hood River, submitting lem one of minor importance. decorated cake. There to also a direct obligation on Sixth prise, banjo ukulele—Mra. the part of the state to see that those Ada McCauileyp Cascade Locks, sub- sections of the state where promised construction has not tak^-. place re ReaHy nearly every answer sub ceive roads due^them. mitted was weM worthy of a prize and When these obligations nave been we are sorry everyone could not be met or at least brought to a point of a prize winner. The contest proved l completion where readjustments to be quite educational for it brought DR. THOS. D. FISHER would not endanger the existing high <»it the hidden talents of the young CHIROPRACTIC PHYSICIAN way program, Suggestions for tax re as well as the grown ups. duction will be more opportune than We take this opportunity of thank Office in Moro Hotel at present. ing all who entered the contest and Hours 9 to 6 p. m. ‘A statement, prepared by the state also extend an invitation to everyone am Glee dub win offer a moot interesting novelty pro tax commission at the request of to call at the Corson Music Company fit the near future. This popular organisation to headed Sundays and other hours by Governor Patterson, shows the in store where the exhibits will be on appointment. Xylophone, saxophone, bell ringing, banjo num- crease in the amount of state taxes display all thig week. . Ibllo quartet wort feature this most enjoyable program. to be apportioned to each county, if the interest and retirement of state Moro, Oregon highway bonds were t^ be required, The Second Number Moro Lyceum * Denver Dude, ” With Hoot under the proposed initiative law, to be levied directly upon property. Thursday, November 3 An unusually large east, every The statement is based on the 1927 apportionment and shows a member of which is a well known ' total indebtedness of state highway screen personality, will be seen in bonds and interest to maturity of the “The Denver Dude,” the Universal- smmamimnmmngmmmmmmmmmmnmmmttmnm bonds to be $52,971,718.90. ■MMn Jewel starring Hoot Gibson, when it Be Uncomfortable . If the proposed reduction in license opens its engagement of one day at When by the use of a pair of ; fees should become effective, Sher Moro theatre Saturday, October 29. glasses you can stop In tbe feminine load opposite popu-- man county would be apportioned all your eye strain. $481,883.73, as against a present lar Hoot to Blanche Mehaffey, one of * ^Protect your eyes the screen’s most popular of the; ! state assessment of $29,685.33 and they will take care of you. We This total amount of $481,883.73 younger actresses, whose work in^ are best prepared to take care of would necessarily fall upon the farm other pictures is remembered every-! your PROGRAM AND ENTERTAINMENT eyes than any one in Eastern ers of the county and be a direct where. Robert McKim, deep-dyed , < >regon. - . ! further expense and financial load for movie villianr who has glowered and them to carry. Anyone who has a plotted through many a film, also has Dr, Geo. F. Newhouse BENEFIT. OF car that would cost around $50 for a prominent role. , “The Denver Dude” was directed a license, would also have property enough to make their assessment by Reaves Eason, from an adaptation ' The Dalles, Oregon much larger. On the other hand any- of an original photoplay b/ Earle { : one who now pays the lower license Snell, written for the screen by Carl ; fees, would shoulder a load out of all grusada and William Laster. Sr proportion to those with a present Mb Epur Miles East of Klondike higher licensed car. There to not one person now living Quiet Helps Efficiency Light — Heat Power Good Graveled Road From Wasco in Oregon and who intends to con For Electrical Appliances tinue to live in Oregon who can af Scientists say that the notoes of a * and Wiring ford to vote to throw an additional See v* large city cost millions of dollars * ■ $52,971,718.90 tax upon the proper year in impaired ’ efficiency of SHERMAN ELECTRIC ty of the state. J workers.. EIGHT O’CLOCK COMPANY Many of the older, more excruci- J ating noises of civilisation are being “ Always at Your Service ” Road Engineers Organize eliminated. Electric and gas welding . Everyone is Invited to'Bring Basket Phone 482 , Hotel Moro Bldg. to superseding the pneumatic riveter. County road engineers of Oregon attending the annual meeting of the Northwest Society of Engineers at and rubber-tired vehicles give back Portland last Saturday organised the only a fraction of the clatter of the Guaranteed Watch County Engineers’ association, which old steel tires on granite block paving. . — AND — But the city to still fearfully noisy. ; [ has as its object a closer cooperation Jewelry Repairing between county and state road engi- Every unnecessary noise saps nerves and destroys health had working. ' neers. BY EXPERT WORKMEN The meeting was attended by nine efficiency. With ten people Hvtat Leave Yodr Work with W. A. road engineers. Homer S. Wall, where one lived two decades ago, the ’ i county engineer for Sherman coun sum total of noises to larger today F. H. COOLIDGE ty, presided and was elected as th® than it was in the earlier days, hence < first president of the association. the greater necessity for notes reduc HOOD RIVER, OREGON The association will outline a uni- tion. - * To escape notoe is one reason for ! form system of operation and prepare , plans for closer cooperation between growth in the tendency to take induo- different branches of officials. Legis Phone 35-J lation considered as essential to more better air, and more greenery and ¡ efficient operation of the road depart more room and more individuality are i -, “QUIET SERVICE” possible. All these are definite, bank ments also will be suggested. AMERICAN LEGIÓN HALUAT MORO — • In a resolution adopted by the as able assets for any industry. Lady Assistants Electricity, gas aBd eofind muffling sociation the following objects were set forth: Cooperation with county asphalt on streets ’ MM of the I MUSIC BY THE CRANDALL ‘ courts; increased efficiency; improve most potent noise’ reducers, and #ork ' ment of construction standards and as ideally, under rural conditions as in , methods of financing, and determin the city; with them industry in the ing a more definite and uniform pro smaller community can be almbbt. THE DALLES. OREGON JOU WILL LIRE OÜR PEP AND TIME gram of construction and mainte- noiseless and nerveless and 100 per . cent efficient ; nance. “Is Zat So?” 10c and 30c SUNDAY ‘Tast »^Furious” 1927 Christian Church Kent, Oregon Saturday and Sunday, November 5th and 6th SATURDAY EVENING PROGRAM Devotional......... ......................................................... 7:30 10.00 - 11.00 11:30 12:00 » SUNDAY MORNING PROGRAM Devotional ................ . ............................................... I.. to 11:00 Sunday School to 11:80 “Teaching the Bible” . .Miss Clara Esson, Portland to*12:00 “The Purpose of Our Conventions”............. ........................................ James H. Price, Portland to 1:00 Basket Dinner 2:00 to 3:00 8:00 to 4:00 SUNDAY AFTERNOON PROGRAM Group Conferences: Young ScholaYs, 7th grade and down, ....... . ......................... Miss Clara Esson, Portland Price, Portland Adults and Teachers ..... .Rev. Arthur Hicks, More Devotional Collection, “Help the County Work” Election of Officers New Business Unfinished Business • SUNDAY EVENING PROGRAM 7<30 ■ Devotfhnal Session Rev. Wilber, Hood River Address..... James H. Price, Portland Address ......... Benediction Speakers Assisting From Outside Sherman County J. H. Price, Portland, State Secretary Council Religious JEducation ; Miss Clara Esson, Portland, President Bible Institute Rev. Wilber, Hood River, Presbyterial Sunday School Missionary . tiiH i ninmniu:m>m»uHnH»»Mmnnu»m»mniH»»Hniniim i nHim»nMR i ii 1 CIRCULATORS 10e and 35c Parlor Furnaces Wasco Theatre Fors 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 fuels These stoves are built for wood or coal. Priced as low as— $75.00 1 Ginn, Coleman & Co, MORO, OREGON c Tuesday, Nov. 15th HELP! HELP! HELP! “DANCE « -t - œmnm«mm»immn:ntttKu:nor.îUîru::n:n:mHm»nîmnînmœœœmœm Basket Social The Klondike Grange • C. V. Belknap, Proprietor ' Moro Hotel Barber Shop Moro, Oregon . Ladies and Children’s Hair Cutting and Shingle Bobbing * BATHS OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO^XXXÌOOOOOOOOQC WHEN YOU TRAVEL BY AUTO AND VISIT THE DALLES STORE YOUR - CAR 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- xed the charge will always be reasonable. WALTHER-WILLIAMS GARAGE THE DALLES, OREGON mmmmmwmwnmmmkm «ft ? 4 R ead & G alloway QENERAL MACHINE SHOP Repairing Trucks, Tractors, Au tom obi let, Caterpillars, and Combine Moton, Cylinder Grin ling, Oyx-acetylene and Electric Welding The Dalles, Ore 616 East Second 8h X 7 z* I Phono Main 4001 *4—
