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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1929)
I % , ' J» . • ,_1- . t - The Sherman County Observer, Moro, Oregon, Friday January, 25, 1929 Looking To The Future 7- Oregon Rank Average ^Movies New H. S. Activity S tate W ide C ontest B illed by O. S. C. coun£kN otes Route Freight Via The past year is rated as one of Home* W ired For E lectricity N ow For Public Speakers N um ber 82 P er Coat the moat eventful in the industrial r-i. KENT LOCAL ITEMS “THE COSSACKS’ history 0 / 6ur Country. There was Oregon high school students will L e a v e s P o r t l a n d daily at 6 p. m. Oregon is right on the average of Fred Pickett was here Sunday from less politics and more business in Men who braved death on many hereafter receive encouragement to Leaves The D alles daily at 8 a. as. homes wired for electricity in the Moro on business. volved in the vital issue of electing war fronts; a troop of hard-riding ward excellence in public speaking Leaves Grass V alley daily at 2 p. as. United States. While this state ranks a new President than ever before. Cossack soldiers who fought for the George Ryder and wife of Portland through a state-wide Extempore 1 for Portland The slogan, “Payrolls and Industries eleventh among the forty-eight in the Czar and with the* White army, travel- are here visiting with Mrs. Ryder’s Speaking and Interpretation contest, Are More Important than Partisan percentage of homes wired, the aver rom Europe to turn screen acton, Portland — Sherman County W ay Point« details of which have just been an father, B. M. Brown. Politics,” was proved eminently age for the whole country is 82 per when they rode with John Gilbert in L. L. Peetz and T. M. Alley were nounced through the department of C onnecting with Mail S tage at Grass V alley sound. Turning on these lines, the cent, which is also the average for The Cossacks,” Metro - Goldwyn- public speaking and dramatics at here again Sunday in the interests of for Kent — Shaniko — A ntelope * national election centered upon how Oregon, th e states California, New Mdyer’s spectacular epic of Russia, Oregon State college following more thieir side of the hunt club. to maintain a continued era of sub York, Rhode Island, New Jersey, New 'coming Saturday, January 26 to the Moro Agent — Fred Pickett Motor Co. than a year devoted to perfecting a Mr. and Mrs. Beyer wish to extend stantial prosperity. This over-shad Hampshire, Utah, Connecticut, Illi Moro Theater. Wasco Agent — Wasco Motor Service Co. plan in cooperation with state edu their thanks to all who assisted them nois, Massachusetts and Michigan owed all moral, religious and political These men stage the thrilling Cos Grass Valley Agent — Grass Valley Motor Co. cational officials. in their recent bereavement. have a greater percentage than has differences and a candidate standing sack rides and sensational battles in The state contest will be sponsored A real blizzard struck here Friday — Office at — squarely for sound, safe and sane Oregon. At the bottom of the list is the picture. The Cossacks, together by the forensic and dramati honor evening. It was three above zero Portland — Lincoln T ransfer Co., 10th end H aw thorne, P hon e E 77 « 0 industrialism won, and Our Country Arkansas with only 25 per cent of with several hundred Russians re societies on the state college campus Saturday morning, and three below The D alles — 212 Federal S t., Phono 107 is reasonably secure from attacks of the homes wired. cruited from Russian settlements in Including all farms in the total California, populated a complete Rus who will provide cash prizes for the Sunday morning. radical elements and all the devices of American or European Pater -»umber of homes, two-thirds of all sian town built for the picture. They winners in the state finals and certifi The O. W. R. & N. Co. have a crew nomcs in the United States now have lived just as they did in Russia, with cates of award for all those who ad here fixing up the depot building and nalism. As a result the moral and struc electricity. For the first nine months all their native customs, while the vance to the finals. doing general repair work on the The organization plan of the con tural future of Our Country is strong of 1928, there were 842,000 new spectacle was being made. company property. test, which has received the approval er. The rights of labor and capital homes and farms wired for electric “The Cossacks” is one of the most Understand that returns from the are more clearly defined and urmly ity, and if the last quarter of the elaborate screen plays of the season of Charles A. Howard, state super state laboratory are that the disease Shaniko, Oregon intendent o f public instruction, di year has shown the same proportion- established on lines of scientific man With Gilbert in the leading role as that killed little Irene Beyer was vides the state into 16 districts, each On The Sherman Highway -> e increase, the number of wired agement, mutual consideration, o. a young Cossack soldier, and Renee spinal meningitus, and that the doc bitration and cooperation. Our finan ,oir.es added during the year will Adoree as its heroine, a cast that with a local supervisor. High schools tors think there is no danger of any Meals and Short Orders cial system, built on the federal re appioximate 1,150,000 and the grand included Ernest Torrence, Mary Al in these districts will hold their con further spread of it. AU hours -:- Reasonable Prices test early in March, each school being total at the beginning of 1929 will serve banking idea, with 12 national den, Neil Neely, Dale Fuller, Jose Regular Dinner 50c - Rooms 50c np represented by one entrant in ex exceed 19,000,000. financial centers, instead of one, is phine Borio, Yorke Sherwood, Paul C ig a rs a a d T o b a c c o « Approximately 1,400,000 new con Hurst, Joseph Mari and others of note tempore speaking and one in inter considered invincible and elastic. Our SHANIKO LOCAL ITEMS pretive reading. sumers were added during 1928, mak Soft Drinks and Confectionery foreign markets are growing by leaps played with the throng of Russians, Jack Kelly of Kent was a visitor The final state contest each year Dance Hall in Connection and bounds, sending shiploads of trac- ing a total of 23,000,000 now served who regarded it as not merely a pic tors, gangplows, seeding and harvest by this industry. Of these, nearly ture but as a labor of love for the will then be held at Corvallis, where here Friday. Mr. and Mrs. H. Pullen, Proprietors The picture show here Thursday in g machinery into the furthermost 19,000,000 are houshold users, indi glory of their native land. George the contestants will be the guests of ' • continents to develop new countries. cating the rapid increase in the dif Hill, director of “Tell It to the Ma Delta Sigma Rho and National Colle was well attended. giate Players, the two honor socie Greater fields for our manufactured fusion of electric service to the homes rines,” directed the huge feature. G. H. Reeder was a business visitor ties. The winner of each branch of in The Dalles Thursday. products and our home market are of the nation. Twenty-five years ago The Cossacks staged many riding the contest will receive a $50 cash the total number of all consumers assured. thrills, such as pyramids of men on Jack Kelly and son Gerald of Kent / was 650,000. Electric service has now galloping horses, sensatiohal races prize. were visitors here Sunday. Management of the contest will be been extended to every city with and battle scenes. A battle in a huge Harvey Pullen and E. K. Pullen in the hands of an executive commit All’s fair in love and war and the population of 6,000 and over; to 97% replica of a Turkish fort was one of were visitors in Antelope Monday. tee consisting this year of Superin I checkroom line. of all communities with populations the supreme thrills filmed. Mr. and Mrs. Parker and three tendent Howard, Dr. Earl W. Wells between 1,000 and 6,000; to 60% of The Cossack troop was commanded People rich in experience are often all communities between 260 and by General Theodore Lodi, former assistant professor of public speaking daughters of Portland were visitor» poor in spot cash. 1,000; and to more than 25% of all commander of the Czar’s bodyguard, at the college; R. R. Turner, Dallas here Monday. hamlets of leas than 250 population and the settings designed by Alex school superintendent; Rex Putman Several head of hordes and cattle Farms connected with the electric ander Toluboff, once head of the principal of Redmond high school were shipped from here Saturday DEALERS IN power lines in the last three years Czar’s colonization forces, and build Esther Hettinger, instructor in Eng night by train. OLIVER PLOWS AND REPAIRS have increased by over 125,000, mak er of towns in Turkestan and Crimea. lish, Marshfield; Helen Woodward Big dance January 26 at Shaniko ¡ng a total of nearly 350,000 farms In the making of the picture all direc Portland, president of Delta Sigma Hall. Music by “Buster’s Gang.” Rho and Henry Fitzpatrick, presi Everybody welcome. now enjoying electric service. We have a carload tion was relayed to the crowds in dent of National Collegiate Players Russian, as few besides the principals Mrs. Ruth Kramer and Mrs. Pete ‘ due to arrive soon Districts are, first, Clatsop and Co Saturday, January 26 Olsen are working at the Columbia spoke English. lumbia counties; second, Tillamook Radio U. S. Teat Cara Among the thrills in the picture are Washington and Yamhill; third, city Southern hotel thia week. the great torture scene in the Turkish WISH TO ANNOUNCE Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Pullen of The of Portland; fourth, Multnoffiah and Some time next month a fleet of fort, the battle of the pass, the storm Dalles arrived here Wednesday and Clackamas; fifth, Lincoln, Polk and highpowered test cars of the depart ing of the great fort and the sensa Benton; sixth, Marion and Linn; sev are visiting with their son Harvey that we have some 18-inch Oliver Tractor Gang ment of commerce, newly equipped tional riding in the Cossack festival enth, Lane and most of Douglas Pullen. under its own specifications, will take or rodeo. Plows in 2- and 3-bottom, with Special Design-* Mrs. Ed. McKinly and children and eighth, Coos, Curry and part of Doug the road on the trail of the elusive ed Moldboard for turning over heavy stubble las; ninth, Josephine, Jackson and Elgin McKinly have moved to town hetrodyne. Six automobiles, each part of Douglas; tenth, Hood River from their homesteads, three miles self-contained monitoring laboratory Old Silk Stockings Wasco and Sherman; eleventh, Jef west of town. We yet have several John Deere ' will work out of Baltimore, Detroit, ferson, Deschuts and Crook; twelfth Mr. and Mrs. Lyn Mulkins and Atlanta, Kansas City, Dallas and San gang plows and parts, which we The average homemaker considers Klamath and Lake; thirteenth, Wheel daughter Mona Shirley of The Dalles Francisco to check up the wave the warm appealing beauty of real er, Gilliam, Morrow and Umatilla were visitors at the Harvey Pullen offer at reduced prices to clean up lengths and powers of the nation’i old hand-made rugs a dream too fourteenth, Union and Wallowa; fif home Thursday and Friday. broadcasting stations. costly for realization. Yet, with the teenth, Grant, Baker, Harney and Among those from here to attend William D. Terrell, federal super expenditure of infinitely less time and It will pay you to see the Special Oliver Plow the dance in Antelope were Ralph visor of radio, has announced that the patience than it cost to make the Malheur. before you buy Reeder,~ Henry Spallinger, Mr. and frequency monitoring and field treasured heirlooms and antiques, she Mrs. Fred Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Ivan strength measuring devices, now being may have this luxury for her own Rose Pruning Methods Alsen and Jimmy Rees. built specially for the government home. And many women have taken w ith radio inspection service, are nearing up this occupation. The coldest weather for Shaniko Rose pruning in Oregon may best this winter was Friday night with completion in the Westinghouse plant Our great grandmothers made Renee Adoree at Springfield, Mass. One of the test hooked, woven, crocheted, braided be done towards the end of March five below zero. Saturday night four MORO, OREGON cars is there now, being used for Erneat Torrence and sewn rugs of many types — some or early in April, says A. L. Peck below. About three inches of snow landscape gardener at the state col fell Friday, drifting in piles two feet model installation. of them very beautiful and many very A „ Three of the cars are in Detroit, homely., Their patterns were the fami- lege. March is the best month for high. All roads in this section are George Hill where the apparatus will be installed lycat or dog, a flower motif, or some dwarf hybrid tea roses; while dwarf open to traffic. under the direction of S. W. Edwards more conventional design. Materials standard “teas” are best left until P r o d u c tio n supervisor. One car is at Atlanta used were sometimes dyed especially April. In eastern Oregon, all prun T h e stars o f " T h a B ig P a r a d a ” and another at San Franeisco. Field for the purpose, sometimes parts of ing is best postponed until danger County School Notes a r e to g e th e r a g a in en «m other strength apparatus for measuring the old worn clothing, used without dye from frost is over. Climbing varie p ic t u r e o f lo v e a n d w a r — power output of a station has been ing. But the colors were always ties are usually pruned in March, but t o t a lly d iffe r e n t — ju s t as The Moro Boy Scout troop will be installed in the latter. Each car will bright, happy colors, designed to give require strict attention after the fol fa s c in a tin g 1 lowing season is over, at which time unable to get their play, “The Scout’s be manned by two inspectors. the hous« an air of warmth and the old wood is trimmed out to afford Honor,” ready, for January 25th. The 25c and 50c cheerfulness during the long, dreary weather has been so bad that the boys better opportunity for growth. Business Men say: “Advertising Pays winters. All dead or diseased wood is cut who have a long way to travel, could Today, the most popular of the off close to the strong branches of the not some in often enough to practice hand-made rugs is made of worn silk tree. Stronger growing shoots are regularly. A ngw date for the play The House o f GodT Will ” ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo stockings, either in their original pruned less severely than weak ones will be announced soon. colors or dyed for the development • » • • and no cross branches are tolerated ■r ■ '■ ’1 a of a definite design. Long, narrow At a school meeting held at the The practice is to prune to a bud continuous strips, made by cutting Owned by the- City of Moro pointing outward, so as to give the Rosebush school Saturday, January round the stocking in a circular fash center of the plant air and sunshine 19th, the patrons of the school decided ion, are worked on a mat or back Operated for the Benefit of the Traveling Public Climbing varieties of teas require to suspend their school and attend at ground of heavy material or screen very little pruning, being merely Grass Valley next year. It was de and Sherman County Community The cross stitch is popular for this cided that the school could be run thinned out. purpose, as is also the needle point Standard or common roses are our cheaper and have advantage of the stitch, which gives practically the most common grafted forms. These larger school. Rosebush will buy Under the Personal Management of same finished effect and perhaps takes rose3 require careful thinning; the bus soon for transportation. A plan E. E. LARIMORE a little less time. Other silk knit tips of long shoots are shortened back to have one of the teachers of the Formerly of The Hotel Oregbn, Portland materials, cut into narrow strips and very sparingly, for, if cut in close Grass Valley school drive the bus was Electricity is not merely a business used either dyed or plain, may be 30ft wood and no flowers will be the favored by some, since the chldren enterprise — not merely a money used to supplement the stocking result Worn out, or superfluous would be under control of a teacher making undertaking. It is much more SPECIAL CHICKEN DINNER SUNDAYS 75c supply. shoots are better removed. Perpet to and from school. and much greater than either or both • • • • Clever, original designs are some uals are allowed to develop a free of these. It is a public trust, stabilizing times worked out by home economics spreading habit of growth. A meeting was held at Buckley DINING ROOM OPEN USUAL MEAL HOURS students at Oregon State college with the whole social structure by making Provence and mossroses are best school Wednesday night for the pur their study of color planning and pruned in March by removing old pose of deciding whether or not they possible better standards of living and design. Old patterns may be success wood. One may remove all but eigb would hold election for the same pur production, and greater freedom from fully copied, however, as mWiy tell or ten of the best growths. Young pose. - Shearer’s grade school and - unequal distribution. their own stories of a period when basal shoots may be shortened back Buqkley met together at Buckley. It grandmother used this medium foi io five or six buds, the same treat waa decided to hold an election for One doesn’t have to be a patriarch to recall the lighting fixtures of yesteryear — the combination device which made expressing beauty in floor coverings. ment being given to laterals of two- the purpose of voting on suspension it possible to use gas if at any time the electric lights and the two schools buying one hue. “went off/’ zear old wood. The Rose Rugosa rose is a native It was estimaated that, within .a cer Within the memory of many present day industrial workers Advantage« of Fuel Oil of Japan and possesses large flowers tain plan, the two schools can run on also is the recollection of the steam plant which was always ^reely produced in terminal clusters from $1000 to $1200 and buy the kept in repair as a standby should the electric power fail. Almost five million more barrels \nd a stem covered with thorns. In school bus at the same time, whereas Gone are these emergency appliances. Over night, almost, of gas oil and fuel oil were used in February the long base suckers may at the present time it is costing about R. H. McKean, Manager, Wasco, Oregon electric service has been developed to a point where an Our Country in 1927 than in 1926, oe shortened back to 3% or 4 feet, $3000 a year to run them both. adequate and unintenupted supply is taken for granted. • • • « according to a recent report of the while others may be shortened at The rapidity of this development and the universal benefit Rufus school was scheduled to move Bureau of Mines of the Department various lengths or cut out entirely. DEALERS IN it has conferred, have been due primarily to the courage, 4 into their new $40,000 building last of Commerce. The largest increase Heavy pruning causes a late bloom. initiative and prophetic vision which have marked the was in the field of domestic heating Polyantha or Pompom roses com Monday. Harmony will move in next management of the country’s light and power companies. Lime, Plaster, Cement, Cedar Posts, Builders for homes; 6,377,479 barrels being prise a class well adapted for growing Monday. Under the sound business administration of these compa y • ♦ . Supplies, Lumber, Wood, Coal and Hay used last year and only 2,905,401 in pots. These roses are usually thin nies, unfaltering service is not only available to everyone Many of the texchers are signing barrels in 1926. Heating of office ned in April, thinning out rather than at all times and for all purposes, but the cost of this service has steadily been reduced. buildings, apartments, schools, hotels, pruning back. If basal growth is up fQr the next term. Only a few MANUFACTURERS OF hospitals and other buildings required desired, the individual branches may changes are being made in the rural In the hands of these companies the public is assured a schools. 15,143,245 barrels in 1927, against be Qut back. ^¿continuous expansion of electrical service to meet the needs * of our national development — and at decreasing rates as , 13,874,479 barrels in 1926. Climbing roses require little prun more current is used. Preceding figures do not include ing, but need considerable thinning. We should feel more confidence in coooooooeoooooooooogoooooooooooooooooMaooNeoaoN c furnace oils and lighter distillates for Long sucker growth is given every * '' domestic heating. It is estimated such encouragement to continue, as flowers the fellow who tells us he knows ex oils approximated 6,000,000 barrels, come on this new wood the following actly what is the matter with our radio set, if he hadn’t remarked to us which would bring the total amount season. once that he understood women per * r of oil used in heating buildings to 27,- IS AN ESTABLISHMENT TH AT IS KNOW N fectly. 520,000 barrels in 1927, compared Pedestrian :~ S a y , yon Just missed BY THE HIGH GRADE OF ITS PRINTING With 22,780,000 barrels in 1926, at There’s quite a lot of red tape be testing the increased interest in mod me.” Motorist: “Well, stand still and tween the people and those who hold ern dirt, eliminating automatic heating I’ll try again.” the reins of government ; bat the net systems. ALWAYS AT YOUR SERVICE “Man wants but little here below,” work is nbt yet, thick that the voice remarked the dressmaker as she meas of the people won’t, penetrate it, if j only lifted up loud enough. ured the length of the gown. He who laughs last is dumb. C. H. Gilpin Truck Line S h erm a n R esta u ra n t M oro H a r d w a r e & I m p le m e n t C o. Moro Theater His fieriest Romance/ Moro Hardware & Implement Co. Hotel Moro Where are the Lighting Fixtures of Yesterday? In d ep en d en t W areh o u se & M illing Co. • M IL L F E E D A N D F L O U R Pacific Power & Light Company THE OBSERVER PRINTING OFFICE Business Men Say: ‘Advertising Pays’ A
