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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (May 3, 1929)
The Sherman County Observer, Moro, Oregon, Friday May 3,1929. New Game Bird New Message System Typewriter Print! Letter* w On Gum Paper Tape Accurately _ KENT LOCAL ITEMS Eastern Oregon to Be Given Arizona Quail Instead . of Pheasant* Oscar Adams is building an addi- tion to his residence here. J. C. Wilson was in Portland over It won’t be long until the sad nasal The Western Union Telegraph Saturday and Sunday with his family. note of the Arizona scaled quail The high school boys defeated (Callipepla Squamata) will mingle Company has just installed a Simplex •Wapinitia here Monday 8-3 in a good with the weird desert noises of cen Printing Telegraph system in Hood River that is the latest innovation m game. tral and eastern Oregon on a summer J. U. Leonard was in Hood River night. Fifteen of these sturdy little modern automatic telegraphy. The Simplex printer is a sort of the past week on account of the death game bink tfe re received last week long-distance typewriting machine. of his mother. She was buried Sun by the state game commission at the The new svstem replaces the old-time day. .Corvallis game farm, according to a Morse method, which required many . James Stewart was up from Moro communication from Gene M. Simp months of training in the ny 8te™;s Monday inquiring about disease in son, superintendent, to Harold Clif- of the clicking sounder, and substi the stock, but did not find any at ford, state game warden. tutes a typewriter-like apparatus The scaled quail is expected to this time. easily operated by anyone familiar Warren Norton left for his former eventually take the place of the sage with ordinary typewriting. home in Polk county last week, to be hen, that splendid game bird of the The Simplex Printer conduces away a few days attending to busi sagebrush country, which is gradually greatly to both speed and accuracy, dying out despite the protection ness affairs there. as well as to ease of opeiaiion. It afforded by legislation. The scaled The local school fair was held Mon has been adopted for general use by ivory vvuve-v ... quail nests on the ground under yucca day and Uie declamatory contest in the Western Union company on cir Norton was was th the e 1 or sagebrush, is hardy and well flesh- cuits of certain specified classes . u the evening. Cecil Norton . . . ed This new arrjvai in Oregon feeds •.inner in the only division that had machines are being installed as rat on small beetles, ants, grasshoppers, idly as they can be manufactured. more than one speaker. small seeds, and plant tops and is The ground for the American The apparatus is compact, being little found in any typical desert country larger than a ^ ordinary typewn1«- t egion building was broken Monday of the southwest not too far from and weighing complete about 70 afternoon, Prof. Kilpatrick of Cor water. pounds. In a majority of instances, vallis delivered a short address. J. In Warden Clifford’s opinion the the operators are young women who M. Wilson, Giles French and Fred scaled quail is ideally suited to the 8it before this super-typewnter, Fickett also gave short talks. high uplands of eastern Oregon, which has everything but its key where Chinese -pheasants will not go board housed in a glass and metal Millions of Trout Eggs nor stay. This variety of quail is jacket, and Up out words on the keys. often referred to as the “cotton top As she strikes the letters, electnca because of his white-tipped comb. The Crane Prairie egg taking impulses pass over the wire to a dis The »ex.es are much alike in coloring» tent city, setting up impulses in an station of the state game commission being of pale bluish gray on top and bids fair to be one of the best in the other super-typewriter at that end ranging to a buff under the belly. in such a manner that the corre- state according to Harold Clifford The young have black bars on backs aponding typebars are pulled down state game warden. A total of 7,000,- with brown bars on side, but lose 000 rainbow eggs will be taken from and the message is typewritten on these distinguishing marks with ad it this year. Diamond Lake station the dry side of a gummed paper tape. Another girl seated before the super- is the largest operated by the com vancing age. The “cotton top” adult ranges from typewriter > *he di8tant end P1C1“ mission, but eggs taken from it are 9 to 12 inches in length, has a wing approximately six weeks behind those up the tape as it flows frofr the ma chine and with the aid of a small taken from the Crane Prairie station of from 4 to 5 inches long and a tail gumming instrument, glues it rapidly which is located on the upper De of about the same length. These to a message blank, after which the schutes. All eggs taken there are quail are prolific and lay from 9 to l atched in the Fall River hatchery 12 eggs to a setting and raise two or message is ready for delivery. The girl may be typewriting over and the same crew of men operate three broods a season. They are found in their native habitat in large a distance of several hundred miles. both the station and the hatchery. numbers in western Texas, Arizona, When the distant office wishes to send, the operator here merely stops Reading advertisements is worthwhile New Mexico and Mexico, typewriting and the original process la reversed. Some 600 Simplex Printers are now in use in the Western Union system, and during the next four years the number of machines will be increased to about 8,000. With the Simplex system, letters are hurled across the continent in a fraction of a second, and a message of 75 words is sent the same distance in a minute. It is faster than the Miss Thelma Kelley, Home Economist telephone, and more accurate. It has | of Pacific Power & Light Company, will almost the speed of light. Some electrical engineers predict conduct an Electric Range Cooking Schodl that the Simplex Printer or some on May 6 - 7 at the Legion Hall. similar machine eventually will be found in every business concern in This school is open to all and we ex the country of any magnitude, and tend you a cordial invitation to come. they foresee the day when there will ' be telegraph exchanges, similar to the present telephone exchanges, which will permit a concern in New York, for example, to obtain a con nection with its branch in Chicago, after which stenographers seated at the Printer keyboards will carry on business correspondence between officials of the concern, transmit re ports, receive comments or exchange any other cmmunication that may be necessary. A nnouncement feMovies People who talk in their .1«P F raid tell the troth while .w»kr- Yet, it is only within the past five yearathat 4,000 towns and villages of the United States were supplied with electricity for the first time. In these days, when even the most modest cottages is wired for electricity, it is difficult to Realize that within the short span of seven years 9,000,000 homes — the hearth-stones of 40,000,000 people — have been added to those already served. o TERM so truly or lovingly expresses Mother as the word “sweetness.” ,No cift for Mothers’ Day, Sunday May 12th, is more appropriate or symbolic than a gift o .Candy. And Mother like almost everyone else, if given the opportunity to specify her favorite Candy Store would name Moro Confectionery candy. Present her this tribute of love and attentiveness on ljer day of all days. SPECIAL BOX CANDIES for Mothers’ Day at very reasonable prices N Mr. Edison was ridiculed in 1882'when he set about to prove that artificial light could be furnished over wires from a central station. Today — less than 50 years later __ 19,000,000 homes have artificial light at the touch of a button. Pacific Power & Light Company 50c $1.00 $1.50 $3.00 ALWAYS AT YOUR SERVICE Moro Confectionery :ninmnHHti i in i nnn»tt g i W. A. Ruggles, Proprietor R. C. HEWITT & CO. 307 Court Street, The Dalles In d e p e n d e n t W a r e h o u s e & M illing C o .? “THE STORE FOR PAINT’ R. H. McKean, Manager, Wasco, Oregon Decorators and Painters Dealers In Sun - Proof Paint DEALERS IN Waterspar Quick Drying Enamel I,imp, Plaster, Cement, Cedar Posts, Builders Supplies, Lumber, Wood, Cosl Mid Hsy Velumina Wall Paint (Better than Kalsomine) MANUFACTURERS OF M IL L F E E D A N D F LO U R REID THE OBSERVER Florhide Enamel ? We have a large assorted stock and up-to-date Wall Paper. Mail orders receive our best and prompt attention. A post card will bring you our Catalog of latest designs in Wall Paper, COME IN WHEN IN THE DALLES ? \ For The County News SHERMAN COUNTY Stirring Drama In ‘The Pagan” Tropic scenes of wonderful beau- f, thrills such as a battle under ater with a deep sea shark, and ther vivid details of life in the ropics, embellish a romantic love Lory, in “The Pagan,” Ramon No- arro’s latest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer icture, which comes Saturday to loro Theatre. “The Pagan,” adapted from the amous novel by John Russell, was irected by W. S. Van Dyke. The ast includes Renee Adoree, Donald Iriap, Dorothy Janis, and others of lote, and the picture was made in its ntirety in the islands. The company isssed weeks in Tahiti and in the ungles to film this dramatic romance >f tropical life. Novarro plays a young half-caste slander, heir to a fortune and practi cally chief of a tribe, who is pitted ELgainst an itinerant trader in a strug gle for the love of a native sweet heart. She, in turn, is the rival of a white adventuress on the island for the love of the youth. The white woman, “ Madge,” is played by Miss Adoree, while Miss Janis plays the native charmer. Novarroft sensational swimming through a shark filled lagoon and his battle with one of the “tigers of the age/» the thrilling trek of hero and heroine into the primeval jungles, and other dramatic details surround a charming love story in the new pic ture. Historic spots on the island, and locales mentioned by the author are used as settings for the new pic ture. Am onglbUa 1« the famous old church where the first missionaries Christianized the natives, and the queer little colony established on the shore near Tahiti by Zane Grey, the novelist Would you move to a town where you couldn't have electric service, if you could help It? ' TRACK MEET Grass Valley, Oregon, May 11, 1929 FO R EN O O N 9 : I S B a se b a ll K en t vs. S h e r m a n C o u n ty S c h o o ls T e a m . 1 1 -0 0 M u sica l P a g e a n t ■■a afternoon during the day T r a c k a n d F ield M eet. T e n n is T o u r n a m e n t H a n d b a ll T o u r n a m e n t Bring Lunch - IN TH E EVENING A n n u a l S p e a k in g C o n test. .sr — Stay all Day S p e c ia l A r r a n g e m e n ts A re B e in g M a d e to M aktf It a n E n jo y a b le A ffa ir «¿HERMAN
