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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1929)
» x *■ -i . ■ | .w j ftw w R m i . . The Sherman County Observer, Moro, Oregon, Friday January, 18, 1929 Sheniîaa CwBy ObfflVer C L. IRELAND Editor and Publfcher N at«r«4 a s M cond «U m m attar a t post >flU « a t Moro, Oregon, J u ly IB, t i l l Earolw Lodge No. I l l A .F . f t A M Moro, Oregon Meets the 1st and 3rd Thursday evenings of each month. Visiting members cordially in vited to meet with os By order of W. M. Robt. Urquharf, Secretary. BothUham *rkep»or No ZB O. E. S Moro, Oregon Regular communica tion» each 2nd and 4th Thursday evenings o f each month. Alice Conlee • ^Worthy Matron Nana Barzee, Secretary. M o ro L od g e N o . I l l I . O . O . F . ' Moro, Oregon Meets every Monday evening in the LO.O.F hall. Transient and visiting brothers are cordially invited to meet with us. P. C. Axtell, N. G. A. M. Young, Secretary. L a p in « Rebecca Lodge N o . 11® Moro, Oregon Meets 2d and 4th Tues days of each month. Visiting member»- wel come. Bessie Axtell, N. G. Jessie Henrichs, See. C h ris S eko lta Post N o . 71 A m o ric a a L egion Meets at I. 0 . 0 . F. hall on 2nd ana 4th Wednesday eve nings of each month. 2 F . D . Flatt, Commander • L. W. Rakes, Adjutant HARLAND VIEW GRANGE No. «82 Moots in their hall in Harmony Dis trict the second and fourth Thursday nights of each month. Visiting Grangers welcome. C. P. Adams, Master. 2 Mrs. B. E. Davis, Secretary. Dancing Each W eek The dancing public will be pleased to know that arrangements have been made by the American Legion posts of Moro, Wasco and Grass Valley to have a dance at one of the three towns each Friday night. Under this ar rangement each town will give a dance by^the American Legion every .third Friday. The first dance given at Moro under this hew arrangement will be Friday, February 1st. Pats Six Aces will play for the dances. Brings Social Development In spite of the steady increase in recent years in the amount of elec tricity produced In the United States, the number of generating stations in operation is 543 less than in 1920, ac cording to the United States Geolog ical Survey. Small stations of un certain efficiency, are being replaced by large stations serving wide terri tories. s An electric company can adequate ly serve a, single community only when it can reach a large closely settled population. In sparsely settled sec tions, the area served must be suffi ciently large to overcome the small ness of the population. To met this need, pooling of power resources through ' interconnection of trans mission lines, was innovated, and with outstanding success. The result of this system is shown in an important agricultural state. Fifteen years ago a public utility in vestment company acquired nine plants in as many small towns and connected them into a unified system. From year to year more plants were added until the total, at present, is 140 in towns with average popula tions of 1800. Previously, 46 of these towns had no electric service and many of them would have none today if they still were forced to defend on local plants. Of those which had electricity, 33 had only night service, and the re maining communities were served by «mall plants with - limited facilities and at a high cost. Now all the com munities receive continuous high- grade service. , Industrial decentralization, farm electrification and social development of small communities are to a great extent the result of uniform distri bution of electricity. JVe can fit all kinds of people. Any size or weight. Crippled or deformed feet. Wernmark’s Shoe Store, The Dalles. The woman with brown eyes or red hair will find brown, green or black jnost becoming and therefore most suitable. , . Every automobile seller claims to feature the biggest feature of his particular car, but the biggest feature in any car is its depreciation, which no seller seems to mention.1 BILL THE BARBER SAYS waI Home 5000 The Rumply Tractor School Friends of the family will be pleased to know that Miss Cecil Coth ran will probably be permitted to return home from the hospital this coming weekend. She has been stead ily, but very slowly improving since she regained consciousness. r Her return home to Moro has coop- led with it a very strong order from her doctor that no one will be per mitted to call at the home or see her until such future time as they think it best to modify this order. Mr. Cothran has asked the Sher man County Observer to state thia order of the doctors in as pleasant way as possible and yet have it plain ly understood that on compliance with this order will depend the more rapid recovery to health of the pa tien t A possibility that jtll true friends of the family very much desire^ In this regard it is well to state that phone calls asking about the patient is regarded by the doctors as of very bad taste, to say the least Many patients are prevented from recovering is quickly'aa their physi cal condition warrants by the fact that friends call over >the phone and thereby create a discussion that the patient cannot-fail to overhear with many times disastrous results to the patient and the family. Just the fact that Miss Cecil is allowed to return home speaks vol umes as to her present condition aiyi all true friends of the family will take the doctors order literally and abide by i t New Library Books The Moro Library has received a set of forty-nine books from the State Library which may be kept for a period of six months. It is hoped that library patrons will avail themselves of the opportunity to use them. The titles and authors follow. "High Acres/' Abbott; "Across Seven Seas to Seven Continents," Aitchison and Uttley; "Bobbie, a Great Collie," Alexander; "When I was a Boy in Armenia," Alexanian; "King of the Wilderness," Allen; "The Blue Win dow," Bailey; "Little Black Sambo," Bannerman; "Edge of the Jungle,* Beebe; " What Books con do for; You,” BShnett; “Cross Trails,” Bindloes; Drums," Boyd; "Farm Life Abroad,” Branson; "Ancient Times,” Breasted; Science Remaking the World,” Cald- rell; "The Castle of the Hawk,” Cather; "Aloskaq," Curwood; “Think ers and Doers,” Darrow; "Belshazzer,” Davis; “A Riddle Book for Silent Reading,” Dootaon; "Cattle Ranch to College,” Doubleday; "Makers of Freedom,” Eddy; "Year in the Won derland of Birds,” Hawfcsworth; "How Other People Travel,” Headley; Child's History of the World,” Hill- yer; "Hunchback of Notre Dame,” Hugo; "Ragged Water,” Lincoln; Caravans of Commerce,” Marcoason; On tq Oregon,” MorroW; "Hari, the Jungle Lad,” Mukerji; "First Lessons in Nature Study," Patch; "Men of Iron,” Pyle; "Gipey Nan,” Rankin; Bardelys the Magnificent,” Sabatini; ‘The Universe of Stars,” Shapley and Payne; "American Etiquette,” Shu bert; “The Book of the United States,” Singmaster; "Becky Landers, Fron tier Warrior,” Skinner; "Annetje and Her Family,” Smith; “Kak, the Cop per Eskimo,” Stefansoa and Irwin; Northward Ho!” Stefanson; "The Scarlet Cockerel,” Sublette; "Magni- ficient Ambersons,” Tarkington; "Be yond Khyber Pass,” Thomas; "Silver Pennies,” Thompson; "Japan, Korea and Formosa," Tietjens; "Michael Strogoff,” Verne; "Captains All," Wetjen; "Cousin Jane," Wilson; "Bill the Conqueror,” Wodehouse.' See me for anything wanted in harness work. oK shoe repair, at the Moro harness shop. John H. Will Contrary to local street talk, hnnt- ert engaged in the annual sparrow hunt ip this vicinity report that very few, birds can be found in wheat ware houses. They seem to congregate to large extent in barns and chicken houses because of the heat from the animals housed in those places. A meeting of the Moro Rifle Club has been called by the president, L. W. Rakes, to meet at Joe Truitt’s shop at 8 p. m. Thursday night, Janu ary 17. The meeting is for the pur pose of considering proposed legis lation dealing with a paid game ward en for Sherman county, an open sea son on pheasants, quail, etc., and the limitation of hunting near the Colum bia river. t W. M. R om and son Howard spent Snnday in The Dalles. John H. Will, Moro, prompt atten tion given to your shoe and harness repair work. Mrs. Percy Thompson, who has been quite til with a severe case of Flu, is much better. Mrs. George Hennagin Thursday evening entertained at cards the Past Grand Club and their husbands. Mrs. W. M. Roes, who it a patient in the Mid-Columbia at The Dalles, is reported to be much improved. Ellsworth Woods of Milton was visiting in Moro last weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J as. Woods. Attorney C. L. Pepper of The Dal les was in Moro on Wednesday on legal business concerning his clients. Mrs. Roy Belshee of Wasco is a patient at Mid-Columbia hospital, very ill with nervous conditions in duced by asthma. E. R. Barzee delivered 25 head of Hampshire sheep to Dell Ealdn at Moro on Thursday. Mr. Barzee re tains part of his band. B. L. Fleck of Klondike, who has been under medical care at Mid- Columbia hospital, was permitted to return home last week. Work wanted by a man .familiar with farm work, willing to work for room and board until spring work starts. Call or write Observer office Members of Kent, Shearer and Har land View granges met at Grass Val ley Monday in an all-day session to install the elected officers of the three granges. Ben Hockman and Fred Piekett left here this week for Portland, return ing Wednesday with new model Ford ears for Jodie Morrison and Ben Hockman. Miss Mary Smith, daughter of Mr. sad Mrs. C. W. Smith, who has been under medical care at the Mid-Colum bia hospital, was last week permitted to return to her home near Moro. E. E. Larimore, manager of Hotel Moro, was just about able to take care of business affairs Wednesday, recent sickness having caused a suc cessive painful attack of backache. A number of the local huntsmen engaged in the annual contest now in full swing in the locality, spent the larger part of Wednesday engaged in a hunt for Rabbits in the central part of Gilliam county. The Woman's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian church will meet at Mrs. W. H. Ragsdale's on Wednes day, January 23, 1929. Mrs. C. V. Belknap will be the director, with National Missions the topic to be studied. . x For • Sale — Creek ranch of 800 acres in Morrow county. Creek bot tom under ditch; nearly all place fenced sheep-tight; comfortable build ings with running water in house; small orchard. Address Box 43, Hepp ner, Oregon. A group of bird hunters visited the W. J. Martin farm Tuesday night and harvested 55 birds from the raft- of his chicken house. Leaving there they visited the L. H. Martin farm close by and bagged the same number from that chicken house. Names added to the list of local hunters engaged in the annual bird hunting contest at Moro since the list was published last week include H. Larson and Geo. Meloy Jr. on the Thompson side and Lewis McKee and Chester Searcy on the Rakes side. The new school building finished this year by Harmony district, east of Moro, will be used by the pupils sad teachers for the first time when school starts on Monday, January 28. The new building embodies several new features in its arrangement and equipment. Fog and low hanging clouds over head, frost in large clusters on trees and fences, and ice coated sidewalks and highways seem to be about all the winter that will visit Moro this season. For more than a month this has been served to this section of the county by the weather man, broken an Average of once each week with a visit of sunshine enough to break the ice And fog and prepare everyone fbr more of the same. ... »* A large crowd, estimated at more than 200. people, attended the lectures and movie picture demonstrations of the use of tractor power and combine harvesters on the farm given at the lforo Legion hall on Monday by fac tory representatives of the Rumely Harvester Co. assisted by C. H. Lar son of Moro, agent for the company for Sherman county, and by Mr. Tipton, of Tipton & Manchester, The Dalles, agents for the company for Wasco county. The moving pictures o f the indus trial plants o f the company were a revelation as to size and capacity for the work of manufacturing the trac tors and harvesters sold by the com pany. The audience were taken through all phases of work done in the manu facture of the machines and these were exceptionally clear and well presented. All the views were of great educational value, even to those who did not operate machines made by the company. The views of the fac tory were only a part of the pictures shown, which included scenes from the Cheyenne, Wyoming, round-up, airplane view^ of the country between Spokane and Walla Walla, the Snake and Umatilla riven, and of actual harvesting by Rumely combine mach ines in Sherman, Gilliam and other coufities of eastern Oregon and Wash ington. X All who attended were invited to register their names for a chance at the drawing for cans of oil, giybn as prizes by the company to those who attended. Those who were successful are: J. W. Owens, W. H. Todd, Jennie Martin, Roscoe Roberts, L. A. Olds, A. T. Holt, J. U. Leonard, W. J. Martin, A. Douma, Mrs. Chas. Bul lard, Floyd Douglas, C. P. Adams, S. E. Aken, Harold D. Eakin, Carl Gregg, R. J. Bruchert, W. S. Powell, Art Justesen, Wilford B«lshee, W. E. Nicholls, O. C. Brooks, R. Abel, Robt. Belshee, H. B. Belshee, Dorothy Bel shee. Dinner and supper were served by members of the Home Economics committee of Harland View grange. New Lodge Hall Dedicated The Masonic-Pythian hall recently built in Wasco was dedicated Tuesday night by the Worshipful Grand Mas ter of Oregon and his staff in an im pressive ceremony before an audience of about 350 Masons. The Dalles, Arlington, Moro, Ante lope, Dufur, Grass Valley and Port land had delegations attending. The hall was sufficiently large to accom modate the crowd. The Eastern Star members of Wasco served a very fine lunch at midnight. Some very fine talks were given. The different delegations had speak ers, who told the history of their lodges. Some interesting facts were brought out. Robert Urquhart of Moro gave the history of the local lodge in an appropriate manner. The new hall at Wasco is paid for. It belongs to the Masonic and Pythian lodges of Wasco. The new school building at Rufus will be used for the first time when school starts next Monday, January 21. The building has been built in record time by the contractors and is modern in every respect. Located on the Co lumbia highway, just west of Rufus, it will be a fine landmark of the educational advantages of Sherman county. A party of bird hunters, captained by Percy Thompson, visited the Clar ence Sparling farm the first night of the contest and cleaned his two barns of all sparrows roosting in the build ing. They got about 355 birds, using a torchlight they borrowed from Mrs. Sparling. The joke, such as it is, rests upon the factor that Mr. Spar ling was on the opposite sido» A 7-year old boy, trudging aim lessly along the Columbia highway last Friday afternoon, was picked up near Celilo by Lester Smith and brought to Moro. The boy told such different and varied stories that he was taken to Hotel Moro and Sheriff Chrisman notified. After much ques tioning it was found that he had run away from his home at The Dalles and was returned there the next day by stage. Moro Methodiat Church Sunday: Keep your ^ears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -— - Stevenson. 10 :00 a. m. Sunday School. 11 :15 a. m. Morning Worship. Topic: "Out of . . . Beauty, God . . . ” 6:30 p. m. Epworth League. Miss Palmrose in charge. * 7:30 p. m. Evening Worship. Topic: "A Study ^of the Great Commission.” Wednesday: 7 :30 p. m. Prayer service at the Parsonage. John Seethoff, pastor. Phone 353. Christian Sciane« Service Sunday morning at 11 o'clock and Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock. Sunday School at 10 o’clock each Sunday morning, pupils up to the age of 20 years are received into these classes. The lesson-sermon topic for the service next Sunday morning will be "Life.” Reading room open daily where all authorized Christian Science litera ture may be read, borrowed or pur chased. The public is cordially in vited to attend the church services and visit the reading room. K eep A R e c o r d W ith Y our C hecks jUJAKE at least one good resolution this year — AVA resolve to pay your bills by Check. By doing so you will have a complete record of all money spent as well as a legal receipt for all payments made. BANK OF M O R O Ginn, Coleman & Co. M oro, O reg o n DEALERS IN Household Furnishings of Every Kind, Class and Quality Meadows Washing Machines Full Gospel Assembly Bible study Sunday 10X)0 a. m. Preaching service 11:00 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. Studies in "Revelations" every Thursday evening. All are welcome to the services. J. D. Miller, pastor. Play Date Changed Electric and Gas Power Agent« for John Deere Plow Co. Moro and Grass Valley Districts Because of the new arrangement ttnmiHnn«nmt a taCTnm»qmtninnn::»nnnnn t »Hm«:»nn»a:»nxntHn»»i by the three American Legion posts of Moro, Wasco and Grass Valley, whereby each post sponsors a dance in their town every third Friday night, it has been necessary to postpone the B e c a m e w e K N O W t h i s t i r e , w e o ffer y o u Senior Class High School play from the advertised date of Friday, Febru ary 1st, to Tuesday, February 5th. All tickets sold hold good for the change in date to Tuesday, Febru ary 5th. U1|L DEAR'S FREE ►fo Lectio Real Road Service flflilin S t accid en ts. w h e e l m is- alignm ent, negligence, cuts, under-inflation, rim Road engineers are constantly cuts, blowouts, bruises. adopting more practical methods to secure the greatest mileage of suit We Carry anV road hazard... able road at the least expense, accord ing to statement of B. E. Gray of A Complete Stock West Virginia State Road Commis sion. Mr. Gray says building of roads of “is a direct challenge to the highway engineer of today." "It is no particular trick to build Seiberling Tires a $50,000 per mile road where all materials are available 6f the best; and Tubes it simply requires attention to details in carrying out the specifications to Auto Accessories produce a satisfactory road, but where funds are limited, where the need is great, and where a satisfactory road Philco • can be produced for three or four or five thousand dollars per mile Radio and Starting which gives entire satisfaction to trav eling public, then I believe tne engi Batteries neer performs a real service." "I know of no material which lends itself to work of this nature as well Zenith Radios M ORO G A R A G E as asphalt. There is a grade for every M. R. SCHADEWITZ, Prop. need, and I believe that we are just beginning to find out the infinite Phone 171 Moro, Ore. variety of uses to which it may be put, and that several years from now, we will be obtaining satisfactory sur-» faces at low cost, from materials which have not been formerly in cluded in specifications." K xm m tm ttm m m ttm tm nnxim m m Jitunm tßm m idm m nttm m aöm wm m ö» il or SEIBERLING ALL'TREAD Railroads And Prosperity C. V. Belknap, Proprietor Moro Hotel Barber Shop In the eight years that have elapsed since the federal government return Moro, Oregon ed control of the railroads to private hands, the principal lines have spent Ladies and Children’s Hair the record sum of over six billion Cutting and Shingle Bobbing 1 dollars in providing improvements. The result has been seen directly in better, faster, more efficient and more comfortable freight and pas senger transportation. The railroads have steadily improved their service, until at the present time we have the deooooooooooooooooooaoeoooeoooooooooooooooooooooooooc finest railroad facilities in the world. The indirect result of this vast ex penditure is not so easily perceived, but it is of equal, if not greater, mag nitude. It is the significant contri BY AUTO AND VISIT THE DALLES bution of our railroads to our general prosperity. For shops, houses, machinery, tools, steel and copper, and other supplies, In tie concrete, fully equipped, roomy garage of the lines have spent a tremendous sum that has been refleefcd by better Walther-Williams Company. Competent workmen conditions in our entire industrial life. always ready to help you in any way they can If our railroads prosper and prog at least expense to you. For any service render- ress there will be general prosperity - ed the charge will always be reasonable. and progrees. If they languish and retrench, a blow js struck at employ ment and progress. For purely selfish reasons, it is to the advantage of every citizen that in the future the OREGON. THE DALLES, — — railroads go steadily ahead as they ■ ftp' have in the past. A V BATHS A group of three farmers drove over from Gilliam county on Wednes day in searcty of some od<Ff arm equip ment. They made the trip by way of Cottonwood grade, which they report ed to be in good condition but needed careful driving because of the ice under the top covering of thawed mud. Their running boards had a thick layer of soft mud on them when they drove into Moro about 2 p. m. A reception was held Wednesday evening at the Presbyterian church to vt^lcome to Moro Rev. Chas. D. Parrott, Mrs. Parrott and their daugh ter Mary Louise. Following a brief program and an informal social hour, refreshments consisting of coffee, cake and brick ice-cream were served. Rev. Parrott comes to Moro from the Kenilworth Presbyterian church at Portland, from which pastorate he recently resigned to become identi fied with church work in Sherman county. • P re s b y te ria n C hurch Sunday School at ID a. $n. Morning Worship at 11 a. m. Ser mon theme: "The greatest Question in the World.” Evening^Service at 7 :30 p. m. Ser mon theme: "Profit and Loss.” The highest motive in church-going is to get in tune with the Infinite. Comeun that spirit and let us wor ship God together. Chas. D. Parrott, Pastor. W H E N YOU TRAVEL STO RE YOUR CAR WALTHER-WILLIAMS GARAGE WILSON DAM AT MUSCLE SHOALS Photograph shows airplane view of the Wilson Dam at Muscle Shoals. 1; r
