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
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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
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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