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.
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