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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
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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
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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
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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
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„ 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
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and no cross branches are tolerated
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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furnace oils and lighter distillates for Long sucker growth is given every
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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
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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.
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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’
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