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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (March 29, 1929)
Tjie Sherman County Obaerver, Moro, Oregon, Friday March 29, 1929 League In Every State E lectr ic !»«l«*try M««t C om b at Ea- What Newspaper Ads Did “Paint-Up and Clean-Up” Make The Hen» Pay Tli« A .o u .1 D * » - F w Moro W ill Bo The old joke about the cackling It was only a few years ago that hen, and her owner who demanded, Friday, A pril 5th Coun KENT LOCAL ITEMS the retail stores in towns and the “chicken, la you lyin’ or laying,” has smaller cities did the bulk o f. Velma Matthes student at the U. At the meeting of the Moro Com lost its humor, It isn’t funny, now week’s business on Saturday. While mercial Club, held at Hotel Moro on days, when the flocks do not lay of O. was home this week from Florence (Colo.) Citizen the other five business days might Wednesday evening, a committee enough to yay for their keep. The Eugene. “The electrical industry has been have paid expenses thé merchant de was named, consisting of W. C. I eats regularly and lays only Mr. and Mrs. Frank Haynes Mr. criticised in some quarters for op pended upon the Saturday sales for Bryant, L. L. Peetz, W. A. May and occaaionaUy a constant drag upon Mrs A £ Murphy and Mrs. A. posing government competition with the major portion of his weeks F. E. Fortner, to take charge of the I thg pr^fitg 0£ the farmer who is de- Duniap attended the Tri-county private business and combating the profit. Needless to say the average annual spring civic house cleuning pending upon his poultry flock for a I CQUncil in Antelope Monday night activities of such organizations as merchant would have been exempt for Moro. substantial profit The railroad company h*® a crew the Public Ownership League of from excess profits taxes in those The committee met the next moru- , Figures available from a test made I . here ^ - 8 weeh, repairing the America. days. . ing and districted the town mtc. se University of Illinois indicated * building They will repair all “Evidence of the far-flung and The newspaper is given credit lor divisions profit on 264 flocks I company _______ hpfore they before lei divisions and and a a painting painung commi e, ’ I I that the a v e r a g e profit buildings they leave. comprehensive activities of the Pub discovering the possibility of scat with a captain and committee mem- aye • 161 hen8 each was 86 in lic Ownership League is provided by tering the Saturday peak load over bers, to attend to each designated I feut thg average on I Miss Ruth "”•*-* Hamilton, teacher to drive oh«» trot an excerpt from the eleventh annual the six business days of the week and section of the city. Your name and I f i ”thA.tWm-Airds of the flocks was | the Pnm ary a new Ford roadster that she got report of that organization, reading it was newspaper advertising whic street assignment can be found On the best two-thirds $2.28 per hen. In other words, the from the Fred Pickett Motor Co. Another master stroke in the building of Wheel achieved the present more equit- as follows: posters to be posted Saturday. aas “loafers” in the flocks were e a tin g Tractors that is far ahead of any other wheel “There is not a state in thte union able distribution of the week s last week. * It is planned to have a BIG basket up $1.42 cents worth of the profits that the League has not entered, William Mitchell has taken the business. Saturday is still the mer dinner at noon in the city park, with tractor yet built in a great many ways has been represented in hearings be chant’s busy day, but now he is only L. L. Peetz in charge of the cofee the good hens produced. dirt work job from the state in wide THE NEW CASE MODEL “L” TRACTOR Presence of hens laying less than ning the highway from DeMoss to fore state legislatures and has pre a little less busy on the preceeding making and the ladies of Moro IS BUILT WITH 90 eggs a year on farms throughout pared literature and press service days. Grass Valley and will have a force enthusiastically endorsing the work four cylinders upright; three speeds ahead; low gear for combiM and has campaigned for weeks at a This is only one of the many ser by means of a hearty lunch to be the country is standing between of men and teams at work in a few pulling; larger motor; higher rated horsepower. farmers and a substantial profit from stretch in state-wide cam,-a n s for vices performed for business by most generously served to the work- If interested in a tractor, come m and let us explain its many h ig h days. c Z o7 Z Z a n d other, their pouitry .«ordì««: » u. s. public powers measures. Two radio newspaper advertising. It is irrefut- grade qualities. ____ Darrell Haynes was home from . 1 h . V farms X | Corvallis a few days for the Easter stations are broadcasting League ble that a great' part of the increase are not barred, ere cordially invited D epytm ent better stock on the messages every week.” a business experienced by the re to join in and make the affair the Need o f ------ nf America is paramount, according vacation. Mr. Byers, a classmate A press service is prepared by the tail stores generally in recent years success such affairs should be. because under I who lives in Coquille, was with him Investigators, League and an ever-increasing num has been created by newspaper adver Mayor N. W. Thompson has given Pre«ntcondl«on,4 »any farm er, ,r e ) and had new idea, of, ea.tern iitiona* „»»»»/ —-------- ------ ---- ber of daily and weekly publications tising. Newspaper advertising has “ Clean-up and Paint-up” day a their poultry business at Oregon when, he left. conducting are using this and other publicity been the “Aladdin’s Lamp” of the real boost by offering to donate free ____ _ a. • - I There was about two inches of matter prepared by us. Some merchant. There are still of all charge a duplicate amount of a direct loss. Cooperation of the hatcheries of snow here Friday night. They report MORO, OREGON have frequently used special artl^1®B | isolatea towns where one may see paint of any color or grade for each _ koon «orured in an ' I six inches inches east of town, and another their pages over for himself what “might have been” pint, quart, gallon or barrel pur the country has been secured in an six on their editorial AGENTS FOR THE GASE LINES the nation over if newspaper adver chased from the Moro Hardware Co. attempt to raise the standard of fall of two or three inches Saturday entire system.” poultry on farms. Formation of night. It is supposed to have done a tising had-never been. For Moro, Wa»co, and Gra»» Valley Dutrict It need not necessarily be applied into a business organ, lot of good .. . next Friday, but any time soon and hatcheries ization for the purpose of insuring the ground and putting that much Experiment Fail» must be used on external work only, farmers and poultry raisers of abso-1 mOre moisture in the ground, Control Centralized thus helping to beautify the town we lute fair dealing took place within Mr Roy Daniels and Miss Ethel (Gold Beach Reporter) call “our home.” the last year. These hatcheries, 1 Helyer were married in Moro The Non-Partisan League in North | Smau E n te r p r is e s S u p e rs e d e d By united under the slogan, “Hatchery I urj ayt A number of friends and C o -o rd in a te d S y s te m s Dakota has flunked. The famous ex Quality and Advertising Chicks For - Greater Profits,” are I neighbors called on them that eve- periment of this radical organization The business unn of thk country pledged to the production of chicks I ning at the home of the brides in state ownership of industries and The effects of centralization of are ....... ...... _____ .... value ol udver- from good egg laying strains, to I parents, Mr. and W. C. Helyer. They learning that the banks has failed and all that remains ownership or control and the aV "|tlaiDg cannot be r ensured merely by insure poultry raisers of a fair re-1 expect to make their home in Astoria of it is a state bank, doing a small sorption of independent generating effect H hag on the pubUc A turn on their investment. | where Mr. Daniels will engage in the rural credit business, and a few stations accom panying the extension begins by advertising a product, fishing business. minor insurance projects. of transmission lines is shown by the gg h)g progranc grows be has to This venture of the Non-Partisan most recen t sta te sum m aries released gtudy It to discover Its advantages, “ The House of Good Will Easy Living Stressed League in North Dakota was the by the U nited S tates B ureau of the SHANIKO ^.OCAL ITEMS long he dHcovern, Inevitably, most radical venture of the kind in Prof. Coffee spent the weekend Census. I its disadvantages—the shortcomings By C ontribution» M ade the United States. It was launched 14 The num ber of individual gener- quality or serv’ce subconsciously Great in The Dalles. A p p lied E le c tr ic ity years ago by a group with com ating stations in the various states nQted by tbe consumer—and In order Owned by the City of Moro Bill Haynes of Kent was a visitor munistic ideas who contended that has either rem ained statio n ary or e1“ to re t the businrsa he Improves the here Thursday Operated for the Benefit of the Traveling Public all business should be controlled by Floyd W. Parsons, well known to a considerable decrease product This Is, a fte r ail. the final has shown Rev. Richards of The Dalles held the commonwealth. Farmers of North and Sherman County Community five-year period, 1922 field of competition—the. constant ef- readers of the Saturday Evening services he^e Sunday Dakota» in • ®*d plight beeti * 1927. A great many of the smaller I *ort improve product and service Post, starts off an article in the Gas Joseph Rittner attended the dance poor market conditions for their pro-| enterprises have been superseded by and t0 jower C08t—which has made Age-Record as follows: in Kent Saturday night. ducts, grasped at the idea as a drown co-ordinated systems whose current Unjted states the economic won- “What an age! Photographs by Under the Personal Management of ing man grasps at a straw. They MW I is supplied by large, centrally-located der Qf ft)e worl(L It la aQ ideal com- radio. Machines that think. Lights A. R. Altermatt spent pie weekend E. E. LARIMORE in the new organization a means of | plants, whose greater size and more jn that It oes not bring profit that pierce fog. -Gas made from in The Dalles with his family Formerly of The Hotel Oregon, Portland better markets for their products. James Fisher was a business effective operation of machinery we L one at tbe expense of another, ez- water. Vending machines bo replace Instead of North Dakota I evident in the remarkable increase, in I gg the otber may fall behind the salesmen. Horns that can be heard visitor in The Dalles Saturday, v l . . — of prosperity the the average horsepower per engine L m ei In the jong run the determining 40 miles. Beacons that are visible Mrs. Alex Ross was confined to SPECIAL CHICKEN DINNER SUNDAYS 75c a veritable heaven of prosperity, we and IIT ‘ the increase in ontnut .... the output D per eri____ factor ju ...... success Is value—what the 250 miles. Crewless trains, and five- her bed a few days the past week. in theories failed to work out he J kilowatt of capacity, which the census | geller getg depending on what million volt guns built to smash C. L. Ireland of Moro stopped here practice. Losses and debts accumu atoms. gives. lated, there wa. chao», bankruptcy | ««?rea .how DINING ROOM OPEN USUAL MEAL HOURS Thursday while enroute to Bend. “ Locomotives that pull trains two In Oregon, there has been a Mrs. John Reid returned Thursday and dissillusionment. Having sown the wind In China, miles in length. Street lights con marked decrease in the number of from a visit with relatives at Red Under its new governor, North sovleta are now reaping the whirl trolled by clocks. Cameras that re (that is, en ter- 1 “establishments” Dakota is going out of the state mond. in the service of wind. The pupils who so dlllgm tly cord the path of lighting bolts. ownership business. The state has prises engaged Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lang of The electricity supply). A shrinkage of learned the lesson from Russian Ups Electric shovels that lift 24 tons. learned its lesson and learned it well. 22 is noted in the number of comr thQt Chtna should drive out the for- Dalles were visiting friends here Electric lamps of 50,000 watts, and panies, representing the net result elgnert have turned on their t Aach- invisible motion-picture apparatus Saturday. Mrs. Van Olson and Japies Reps Ar.nn ii.«<M.-r.i has JuRt been made of a gain of 9 and a loss of 31, while erg gnd are forcing them to wlth- to catch burglars. by i;»* prer.h’cnt of an American to- two municipal enterprises have been draW| Bay9 the New York Times. The “Machines to measure the smooth were business visitors in The Dalles liacc»» i'y th a t it will next year absorbed into private systems. The Nationallgt8. w|,0 less than « year ness of road, record nature of Wednesday. Arthur J. McDonald of Clarno spend 81?. <XH> In advertising Its most striking facV that the census ggo were under the Inspiration of Bus- accidents, strip telephone cables, put principal brand of cigarettes. That figures reveal is, however, the glan advisers, are following the ex- news in type direct from wire, ad was attending to business matters is a lot of money for a single com relative growth of steam generation ampie of the northerners, who ex minister an anaesthetic, ^transcribe here Wednesday pany to sjiend for advertising In one in a state supposedly blessed with j^ned Russian agents and exposed the phone calls, shoot cement, bury Mr. and Mrs. Mart Bleakney of Have you ever noticed how completely the year, says the Trenton (N. J.) Even power resources. Steam engines and anti-Chlnese activities of the commu- power wires, and repair stockings. Redmond were guests at the Roy turbines aggregated 37,680 horse- L lsta geVeral months ago. Slowly the ing Times. As a fact, the expendl news columns of this paper covers all of ‘Devices that will measure the Wheeler home Thursday. £ure aj»pears to he Intended to retain I power a t the end of 1922. A t the end leaders of the Chinese people have biollionth of an inch, register earth E. Williams, connected with the the various sections of this community. It a popularity already won. Of the of 1927 these totalled 136,905, an I come to realize that Russia has been tremors, freeze fire, identify deli Bell telephone service of The Dalles, reflects in condensed form all of the social total $6,500,000 will be paid to the increase of nearly 100,000 horse- playing a hypocritical role and that cate tints, grade cotton, control en was here Friday inspecting wires. dally newspapers throughout the power in the aggregate and showing ^er professions of friendship for China tire systems of traffic lights, pro and business activities which have tranS’ F. Saunders of The Dalles, form country and $1,200,000 to the maga a rate of growth of 263 per cent. On have masked a desire to use China vide secrecy in radio speech, exert pired ‘ during the week. If you have a erly a resident of Shaniko, was stop- zines, the announcement explaining the other hand, while the increase of | for her selfish alms elsewhere, pressures so enormous as to render enroutfi that “this division of our advertising water wheels and turbines also neighbor who is not subscribing, you will possible the manufacture of dia- P,nK nere There are now fewer insane patients monds, and that will hear light and I Bend- budget la based on the continued ex totalled 100,000 horsepower, Iheir do him a favor to tell him about it. And Mr. and Mrs. Bert Dudley and son perience of the company with large rate of increase was only 147 per in Alaska than at any time since the we will thank you for your interest. scale advertising, which has satisfac cent. Klondike gold rush, says the San Sometimes it seem. a . though we of Antelope have moved h .r , Mr. torily demonstrated that newspapers The output of electricity by the Francisco Chronicle. Insanity gener might Stop thinking about rates, | Dudley is work.ng for the Shaniko offer the most effective medium of light and power enterprises of Ore ally was described as caused by the kilowatt-hour production, capital in Farmers’ Elevator Company. appeal.** Can anything be more con gon stood at 840,062,576 kilowatt-J long wluters and Isolation from hu vestment and what not and look oyer Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wheeler enter vincing than experience? hours in 1927, as against 266,860,874 man society. Miners, trappers and the contribution made by applied tained with a bridge party at their i in 1922—an increase of 215 per! reindeer herders were its victims. electricity to the art of living. home here Thursday night. A large T he umbrella, which lost much of | cent. The total numbers of custom Radio and airplanes have reduced this crowd attended. Mrs. Silvertookh Its popularity when closed autos and ers grew fronr 78,534 at the end of malady, physicians nt Juneuu declare. Sherman County’s Leading Newspaper and D. V. Bolten won first prize porte cocheres came In, seems to be 1922 to 209,078 at the end of 1927, Practically all the distant camps have Copper Prosperity Mrs. Gertie Murphy and John coming back Into Its own. In Europe —an increase of 166 per cent. The rndlos to tell of events around the Silvertooth second prize. the other day the umbrella of a prin much more rapid growth of output world nnd diffuse entertainment. Al After six years of metal depression cess kept her from being Injured by than either generating machinery or J most dally airplanes may be seen In the flying glass from a shattered win the number of customers reflects, every section of the territory, bring following the World War, copper has Why Stay Poor ? dow; In Chicago a woman chnsed her again, the favorable factors of unde- ing letters, newspapers nnd supplies gradually emerged from a position of uncertainty to one of commanding former husband and poked her um spread inter-connection and the to the most Isolated settlements. A favorite argument in favor of supremacy. brella In his ribs And he thought It attraction of large-use industrial government developments and opera With the rapid expansion of the was a gun and called the police; then consumers to these lines. A postcard, mulled at Philadelphia tion of the Muscle Shoals power plant he was pinched and had to catch up In the summer of 1909, was delivered use of electrical energy the demand has been that under present condita on hlsst»ack alimony, says the Hous In New York November 30. 1928. The for the red metal is widened, because ton P^w-Dlspatch. In Houston a po A supertelescope will bring new card contained the message. “Having electricity and copper go hand-in-1 ion8> the power is sold to a private lice officer took charge of a crossing worlds to view—with little hope, how a good tim e; wish you were hero!” hand. A number of the railroads are 1 concern at an absurdly small price, while fire apparatus was passing and ever, th at any of them will be able to The sender, haring died In the i.i^n - giving earnest «on»ideration to a thus allowing it to reap immense convey information as to how to man directed traffic with an umbrella. tlme. the greeting was slightly sta r comprehensive plan of electrification profits at the expense of the public The efficiency and which holds title to the project age this one. tling until the postmark was noted, of their lines. economic advantage of this means of I Muscle Shoals power is sold to an The cost of the last great war. though the cheerful tone belled the The foresters are rig h t: thousands power are well recognized by the rail-1 Alabama utility for two mills per kil $400,000.000.000, would have provided of New England acres classified and impression 'that it had been mailed roads, and once it gets well under I owatt f under a contract whereby the a comfortable home, it has been said, excused as woodland are really waste from the place where the recipients „J company can take as much or as little for every family In at least ten coun- land with no profit from scrub growth of such vucatlon messages usually way it will develop rapidly. While the price of copper may go I a8 it wants. The contract is revoca trlea of the world, or a $2,.r)00 house and poverty grass. wish the senders of them would go. erected on a five acre lot, furnished slightly higher, it is not the opinion I ble by either party on 30 days’ no- with non worth cf fo-n,ture. for Health experts regard Influenza ns A Kansas City thinker says the of those who are in close touch with tice. •t-ddemlc.** Aa bo often happens, the average farm would he more success the situation that it will rise rapidly every fumily In the United State- Yet, according to a table published Canada, England, Ireland. France. most eti.caclous prescription Is least to a level greatly higher than the I jn tbe gan Francisco Chronicle, dur- ful If conducted on the lines of Walea and Russia, and would have expensive—sunshine, fresh air nnd bank. ?o the first thing would he to present one. The producers are pre- ing ie 2 8 the Alabama utility took but given a $500,000 hospital and a $10.- warm clothing. select a group of substantial repre pared to meet the demand, and, a.« I 12 per cent of the available power, 000,000 university to every city In the price goes up, increased produc- I ybe mO8t took in one month was a up a sur A little more than 25 years ago. tin- sentative farmhands to get 1 these countries of over 200,000 Inhab tion will quickly follow, which action third. the iea8t it took was less than music halls were singing a son.?. fey. itants. . Even then there would have “Shall We Ever Be Able. Ever Be will have a stabilizing effect on the one.fifty-sixth. The balance of the been money left over. Able to Fly?^ It was supposed to be A fortunáis editor In Iola, Kan. metal price. ■?. J power went to waste. a very comical ditty. has no trouble finding a subject for Sizing up the situation, we natur-1 Tbe iOgjCal deduction from these Toledo’s kidnaper-murderer who had an editorial: Ue Just discovered that jn 8pite pf the apparently An average oyster, says a fisheries one of the government’s flood relief ally conclude that the outlook for the facts ia th e courage to kidnap and murder n copper industry is especially bright. I jow price of the power, the purchag- child, waa very much lacking in c*qjr- report, lays 16,000,000 eggs and a very schemes would put his office 85 feet The price is not so high that it will ing utmty obviously Is not making an large one as many as 60,000.000. We •g e when It came hla turn to die, ,and under water. discourage the use of the red metal I exorbitant profit, or It would take al went to the chair with lips moving In can see advantages In counting them and bring into use substitutes; yet, it I power and make a still more ex panic-stricken supplications for mercy. Itefora^thes are hatched. If Eliza walked around on the Ice is sufficiently high to enable the pro-1 orbitant profit. Before you transgress the laws, try to Most criminals go to the death she must have tracked up the kitchen ducers to make an attractive profit, Tbe chronicle propounds the inter consider how you will feel when called chair “dying game,” as the reporter« floor something awful. which can be used not only for divi-1 eg^^ng question: “Why doesn t the upon to pay, says the Houston Post- put It. Why the heroics? If the\ dend purposes, but also to enlarge Alabama Power company take all this Dispatch. Two boys who thought It hod lived game they wouldn’t hnv* “Beginning In mid-July,* say» • their plants and develop new ore re- dirt-cheap power and get rich resell a heap o f fun to hold people np and to steel themselves to die rfhme. travel prospectus, “Americana t>our serves. On the whole, the statistical | ing ¡t at monopoly prices?” frighten and rob them have Just been Into Purls.’* And vice-versa, perhaps? position of copper is better than it sentenced to spend five years behind The preponderance of men •‘with has teen for many years. Reserves the walls, and are beginning t o t a l i z e few advantages” who.guceeed mlgh’ Some people think they are making Reading of advertising is worth Indicate the need of a re-examination are at a low ebb and demand is lively. th a t It Is not so funny on pay day. up their minds when they are only while. to see whether some disadvantage^ moving their feet following the crowd. —Ely, Nevada, Daily Times. haven’t been mistaken for advantages Beading advertiaementa is worthwhila ten aiv* P ro p a g a n d a The New Case Model “ L” Tractor M o ro H a rd w a re Irn p lem en t Co. Hotei Moro A Home , Paper That Carries All The Home News 0 herman ^ o u n ty f l bserver Crowds Come those who
