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TM» Ccunty Repmentad
CHANEY
w ith
LIONEL BARRYMORE
MARY NOLAN
F a te had mad« him a c r a w ii* * I
t k t a * — a crippled m o n .te rl
Se ba ta a k bis revenge a a U f a !
L a a C b a a a y , la bis screes career,
has never crow ded so m ach te r
ro r a a d ascitassaat ia a p ie to re
M ¡B this d ram a playad haaaatb
th e A fr ic a » s a a l D a a 't jaiss i t l
“LEGION OF THE CONDEMNED” I
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••The Legion of the Condemned,”
Seven Moro farmers have
Paramount’, screen play of the war placed on com m ittw. to mnk«
from the air, cornea to the Moro The- rangemenU and gatherm Steria
ater Christinaa night, December 15. the second Columbia Basin
• The Legion of the Condemned” Outlook conference to be hel
is filled with the romance, the daring Arlington, February 11-13.
and the excitement which surrounded Thia conferenee, called by the
those birds of war for which no mis- era Oregon Wheat league, will
aion was considered too dangerous, aider many phases of the wheat
! It is chock fun of uniqul thrills taken during and marketing prohlemi
from the cockpits of the airplanes, will lay special »tress on invei
I I t is the tale of a young American Itiön of the feasahility of a barg,
newspaperman who, believing that Me down the Columbia. Chari« B
sweetheart has passed out of hie life of Heppner, president of the le
forever, plunges into the “Legion of with the other officers and <ttre
the Condemned,” whose personnel has asked the cooperation of the
consists of men who want more than college extension service in m
anything else to die. Each and every the conference as inclusive and
one of them have paria, and, accord- tiesi as posible.
ing to their philosophy their sins may
Local men who will assist offl
be expatiated only through death.
in the conference are H. B. Pi
i “The Legion o f the Condemned” ton, secretary treasurer of the 1
comes from the pen of John Monk and chairman of the producUoi
Qsunders, author of the famous road- age and seed supply committee;
show “Wing.," and was directed by Powell, director and member <
William Wellman, who handled the committee on transportation;
megaphone on “Wing..” The latter Stephens, secretary of the comi
was a member of the Lafayette Ion production, tillage and see<
Squadron during the war.
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ply; W. H. Ragsdale, on the coin
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The east consists of Fay Wray, on warehousing and interm
who leaped to fame through her per- credit; J. B. Adams, chairman
formance in Paramount’s ‘T h e Wed- committee on crop insurance;
ding Maw*," after being “discover- J Barnum, on the committee on
ed” by Eric Von Stroheim, Gary inspection and market news s<
Cooper, as the leading man, and Bar- W. H. Ragsdale, on the legl
ry Norton, Lane Chandler, Francis committee; Charles W. Smith,
I McDonald, Voya George, Freeman | program of work committee.
Wood, E. H. Calvert and Charlot^Bird. I ■
“ W E S T O F Z A N Z IB A R ”
Lon Chaney, his head shaven and
wearing one of the weirdest disguises
of his many outstanding adventure!
in the sphere of screen makeup, while
M oro T heater
Christinaa Night, Tuesday, December 25
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a ari ‘ JI
- an aviation thriller
- a new pair of lovers
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W®
G ARY
WRAY COOPER
a great picture
DNiÉCIINüElINED
From every comer of the ' I
world they came. That val-
< 1 iant hand of youths whose
last illusion and first women
were dim memories. They
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. had tried everything in life
hut death . . . and death they
eagerly courted.
A sensational mystery-melo
drama of the air. With Pa
ramount’s Glorious Young
Lovers.
APARAM OUNT
P IC T U R E
A William Wellman production. From the story by John Monk
Saunders. Screen play by John Monk Saunders and Jean de Umur.
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SHANIKO LOCAL ITEMS
Victor Smith is in Portland this
Gerald Kelly of Kent was s visitor
week attending to business affaire« here Monday.
Mrs. Walter Medler and daughter
Alex Roes made a trip to The
Jennette are spending the week in Dalles Thursday.
Portland.
j Walter Wilson of Kent was a via-
Mre. Reid, aged mother of Mrs. ijor here Monday.
Lixxie Fuller,.haa been quite ill the
Herman Peters of Grass Valley was
lari week.
* a visitor here Etonday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Hilderhrand
Henry Padjens of Sisters was a
were visitors in The Dalles Ttfesday visitor here Wednesday,
afternoon.
I
r Altermatt and Frank Wagner
Mr. Chas. Adsit, former editor of gp«nt the weekend in The Dalles. ’
the Wasco News, ft In The Dalles
Several from here attended the
L hospital, quite ill.
' <jance at Antelope Saturday night.
Mr. afid Mrs J. T. Johnson and
Mr <nd
Harvey Pullen were
Mrs. Geo. Creefield were visitors in y^^ors jn £ and Thursday and Friday.
The Dalles Monday.
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Hollister and James Bax-
Mire McDonald and Miss iriplett t e r Of|fa u p in w e rev isito r sh er eS u n -
wiU leave Friday to spend the holidays dgy
I in the valley.
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and Mrs. j ame8 Bickell and son
Mrs. Frank Anderson of Spokane BIUy
visiting in The Dalles
of Wasco High School, left Saturday
for Tacoma, W»«h., to spend the hoH-
days with hag parents.
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Miss Haulenbeek, Miss Weaver and L
Miss Patey, high school instructors,
are leaving Friday to spend Christ
mas vacation with their friends and J
parents.
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The high school play, “The Whole
Town is Tailing,” was a great success ç
ror. The play ia n grim story of a I and the students and instructors, MisaP
terrible revenge, laW isFthe primitive Patey and Miss Weaver, deserve a I
wilds of sq African jungle. Chaney I lot of praise.
is a dominating figure in the crippled I Mildred Butler, daughter of D r.I.
ex-magician who, by his terrible de-1 and Mrs. Butler, is leaving Friday to 1
termination, and aided by the tricks! spend the Christmas vacation with her j
and illusions with which ha holds his I aunt and uncle, Dr, and Mrs. Layton I j
sway over the savage horde, trails his I at Colfax, Wash.
enemy relentlessly through many ter-1 Mr. and Mrs. Watkins, formerly of I
rore to final destruction.
I Wasco but now residents of The Dal-1
. /'W est of Zanxibar” ia a story of I lies, visited over the weekend at the
Living Christmas Trees
revenge, into which is woven one of I I home of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Chapman, I
the most dramatic of love stories, I I Mrs. Watkins parents. „
“The children of Moscow, in soviet
and its settings, weird, grotesque, I Mr. and Mrs Richard Ÿocum areL Russia,
are thia year forbidden to I
and terrifying accentuate the sensa-1
Christmas trees. The Russian I
| the proud paren ta of a daughter born I have
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tional narrative. Chaney plays a I in The Dalles at the Mid-Columbia L
for the Defense of Nature”
former stage magician who, paralysed I hospital lari week. Mrs. Yocum will 11 “Society
laments the destruction of young fir I
in a fight with the man who stole his I he remembered as Mae Brock.
trees,” so reads a recent news item. 1
I Wife’s love, goes into the jungles to
Mr.
and Mrs. Wm. Burress, daugh-l “Not so in America, where foresters I
I trail his enemy to the death.
ter Rita and sen Lowell, are to leave I strongly endorse the continuance of
Lionel Barymore plays “Crane,”
I this weekend for the sunny south,! the old custom which brings joy to I
the ivory trader whom Chaney re-
I lentlessly follows into the wilds, and Los Angeles. Calif. Mrs. Burress has I youthful hearts,” « y a John D. Guth-1
I a brother living in Los Angeles.
rie, of the U. S. Forest Service, Port
Mary Nolan plays the “Voodoo’s”
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Mr.
and
Mrs.
Fred
Hennagin
left!
land, Oregon.
I daughter, while Warner Baxter is
I superbly dramatic as the renegade 11 Saturday morning for Fresno, Calif., | Forestry is the growing snd hand
¡physician who finds regeneration in 11 to visit with her sister during the! ling of trees for human uses and
| his love for the girl. Tod BroWning, , I Christinas holidays, and also to Lour I needs, and a Christmas tree surely is I
| responsible for “The Unholy Three” * I parts of interest in the sunny state. I a legitimate human use and need. I
|and other thrillers, directed.
The community Christmas tree was j Cutting Christmas trees may be done
in such a manner as to improve the I
I erected in the center of Main street I
forests and may be good forest con-1
Tuesday. There will he Christmas I
servation. By cuttin^trees from thick I
carols and all that goes to make a I
patches of young growth and using
11 Merry Christmas for all Sunday eve-1 | the
shapely tope, and not cutting mqje
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| trees than actually are to he used, a
Miss Effie Andrews, formerly of I | real benefit will be done to the forest,
' Wasco, but attending normal school I | federal foresters Say.
> at Ellensberg, ia much improved and I
The use of living Christmas trees,
r I we hope to see her home in the near ¡brightly
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lighted and decorated, by
. I future. Her mother, Mrs. Guy An-1 | towns and cities is growing in popu-
| drews, has been with her the last six | | larity in Oregon and Washington and
weeks nursing her.
j is also strongly endorsed by the Unit
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Mrs. Wm. Reid and Mrs. Roy Bel-1 ed States Forest Service as a' besuti-i
I thee entertained the high school sto-l | ful and practical form of exppression
r I dents and also the instructors, Misai J of the Christmas spirit.
I Weaver and Mias Patey, who took
It is said that some five million
5 part in the high' school play, with a ¡Christinas trees are used each year
j delicioih dinner. Everyone reported in the United States. , By cutting
| every suitable tree 5,000 to 10,000
g an enjoyable evening.
b
A s urprise f arewefi party was given | acres would furnish thia supply,
a to Miss Irene Jones Saturday evening J whereas a single man-caused fire
. at the home o f Mrs. IL S. McKean, | might destroy several times this nun£
n Fourteen of her darnm at« were pres- J her of young Douglas fire, the Forest
ent. They presented her with a beau- | i Service says.
p | tiful gift. Mbs Jones left Sunday for
1 1 her new home in Redmond,
a
Mrs. Dr. Butler entertained the
d Lesjonera Bridge Club lari Thursday
la the gohd old days when grandma
t afternoon at the Motel Shermpn. Mrs.
and
grandpa ware young, it was con
a Jack Henderson receiving high ecore
d for the elub and, Mrs. J. T. Johnson sidered an ill-omen to have a Mack
r guest’s high hongre. A fter the cards eat croae one’s path. Doubtless many,
a dainty lunch warn served iq a hefit- of the dear old folk would exclaim,
“I told you so," i f they hoard the
I ting manner. ' ■
story o f John Coffey,'reported from
Mrs. Merrit « te l aad Mrs. Chaa.
e Everett enterta&ted the - Lesjoners Muskogee, Oklahoma.'
Apparently the black cat Of this
o Bridge Club with a Christmas party
tale cresaed Farmer Coffey^ path at
d Thurday afternoon e t the home of
a very inopportune moment. The
Mrs. Everett. Additional guests were
farmer, in attempting to light his
Mrs. Estrelle Hailey, Mrs. Albert
pipe, broke the match, which dropped
d Kaseberg, Mrs. J. T. Johnson, Mrs.
into a kerosene can. An nnfortnnate
_ Fred Fortner and Mrs. R. 8: McKean.
accident for the e a t The explosion
that edme instantaneously ignited the
poor feline and H scampered frantic
Seattle White Elephant
ally f or tho hare, where it was con
sumed by flames along with the build
(Corvallis Gsmette-Times)
On March 1, over >1,500,00« wffl ing and the hey stored in ft.
“A Mack cat— I told yon so” . . .
be required by the city of Seattle to
pay on its white elephant, the ttreet yes, hut why Mama it on the cat?
railway system, municipally owned. Why have an open can o f kerosene
Fq[ this,. Seattle paOpU pay jnat as standing about and why light a match
much to ride on street care that they near such a can? Common sense dic
wouldn’t have If a pnhUc utifity tates that all iaflammahte and explo
owned* them, as they would pay if sive liquids should be kept in tightly
owned by a private corporation. Tfioy dosed metal containers aad in a safe
Claire Windsor playa the wife’s get poorer serviee, on worse este over plage.„ The black cat from Ma happy
role and her rare Monde loveliness rougher lines on dilapidated streets bunting grounds knows they are dan
and stunning gowns add enormously aad pay just as much for it, that they gerous, and the National Board of
to the dramatic possibilities of the would ever stand for If the tines were Fire Underwriters supplies figures
pari. Handsome Lawrence Gray.
showing that the aaneal fire lorn fkmn
owned privately.
idly becoming the pet leading man of
rarslsm haadlis« of petroleum aad its
the day, baa the husband’s role, while
■ products was over | 1 4,000,000 In
Roy D’Arey performs more than cre
ditably aa the villainous partner. The beautiful, declares a great painter.
models and the out-of-town buyers, Indeed they are, hut why shouldn’t
ably led by Jed Prenty aa Joaesy from they? Haven’t they been trying to
for several thousand years?
S t Louis, add plenty of comedy.
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WASCO LOCAL ITEMS
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Are all made In factories that employ White
Help exclusively and where Food Sanitation
conditions are very carefully looked after
WE SPECIALIZEIN
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AH Kind, of Hard Mixed Candies
Party Candle.
Hand Dipped Chocolate*
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We have a very fine reasonable priced j;
Christmas Assortment in all varieties
MORO CONFECTIONERY
W. A. Ruggles, Proprietor
SHERMAN
Shaniko, Oregon
On The Sherman Highway
Meals and
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Short Ordero
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¿s-
Reasonable Prices
Regular Dinner 50c - Rooms 50c np
Cigars mm I Ta b ae ees
Soft Drinks and Confactionarg
Dance HaU in Connection
Mr. and Mrs. H. Pullen, Proprietors
M o ro H a r d w a r e
& Im plem ent Co.
DEALERS IN
OLIVER PLOWS AND REPAIRS
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We will Eave a carload
in the first of January
WISH TO ANNOUNCE
that we have some 18-inch Oliver Tractor Gang
Plows in 2- and 3-bottom, with Special Design
ed Moldboard for turning over heavy stubble
We yet have several John Deere
gang plows and parts, which we . j, _
offer at reduced prices to clean up
It will pay you to see the Special Oliver Plow
before you buy
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Hotel Moro
Owned by the City of Moro
Operated for the Benefit of the Traveling Public
and Sherman County Community
Under the Personal Management of
E. E. LARIMORE
Formerly of The Hotel Oregon, Portland
SPECIAL CHICKEN DINNER SUNDAYS 75c
DINING ROOM OPEN USUAL MEAL HOURS
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