The Sherman County Observer, Moro, Oregon, Friday June 7, 192£
Home Pointers
Boys* and Girls* Club Notes
Dollars
And bringing to you low cost
merchandise of merit through our part ownerahip
of wholesale store connections and membership in
the Chain Store Association of the
C
tru s
United Grocers of Oregon Inc. W y
A i rjtfrfra
household
Special Offer, Citrus House-
so ap
hold Soap, 6 bars for . . . 25c
See
our hand bills for Saturday and Monday Specials
Walter A. May & Son
No. I l l Un led Grocers of Oregon. Inc.
in the United Chain of Grocer»
sendently Owned 1 Unitedly Operated !
Answer This Question
All Automobiles and Furniture are Painted by Air
Pressure. Why not Your Home and Barns?
We Save You Real Money!
lit t le
in excess of the cost for the Paint you might buy
More than 700 4-H member», rep
resenting 82 counties, are expected
to attend the fifteenth club summer
session at Oregon State college this
summer, June 10-22. Special rail
way busses will bring the delegations
from Willamette valley counties, and
special transportation will be arrang-
' ed for groups from distant parts of
!the state.
TWO STOVES
“ The Voice of the City
For the first time the complete pro
gram of the annual boys’ and g irls’
4-H club summer session at Oregon!
State college will be broadcast for the
benefit of the 11 or 12,000 members
a ing at home and of the parents I
of those attending. Each evening, the boy’s breathless romance and his
begining Tuesday, June 11, the groups eventual clearance of the charge t
from three or four counties will be in which jailed him. It all takes place
charge of the program, broadcasting within the space of twenty-four hours
dug songs, stories of the club and in and because of this contraction it t<
n
dividual activities, special numbers, moves with express-train speed.
Its setting is the underworld of a a
etc.
Special assembly speeches, pro-| great city, and shows in vivid fashion
grams and entertainments will also the life of those people who live in
“go on the air” over KOAC, the col fear of the law. There is deception, a
lege station, for the benefit of the double-crossing, violence, fear and t
hatred all intermingled. Yet through I c
general public.
> , this plot of shadows there runs a shin-1t
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ing thread of romance. In fact, the 11
love story is j p usually Render and ap-li
I pealing, contrasted as it is with the J i
Crowded # housing conditions, a I grim terror of the man hunt.
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great problem in the past, will not
Robert Ames is splendid as the boy,I,
I harried, innocent and confused, while I
Burning of omelets for lack of an
I Sylvia Field, fresh from her triumphs
I on the Broadway stage, is appealing “omelet pan” may be avoided by'
and dramatic as his sweetheart. But placing a tablespoon of salt In the
I outstanding honors go to Willard I skillet and heating it very hot. Then
I Mack, who both wrote and directed empty the salt out, wipe the part, and
I the story, and who gives one of his cook the omelet with a small amount
I best character interpretations as Biff of butter.
I the detective. He makes the detective
■ I thoroughly human and sympathetic
Farm Pointer»
I I in spite of his ruthlessness. Mack
- 1 secured an excellent cast for his pro-I
) I duction. Aside from the splendid
- work of the principals, other excellent
e I characterizations are offered by
b Alice Moe, Beatrice Banyard, Duane
I Thompson, John Miljan, James Far
ley, Clark Marshall and Tom Mc-
| Guire.
I
With each Monarch wood
and coal range we will
give a Colman Aero Gas
camp stove, giving you a
summer stove with your
wood and coal range.
With each Monarch Elec
tric stove we will give
an Electric Cooker Pot.
This special offer is only
good till June eight
hite. ,O 1
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Moro Hardware and
Implement Co.
Moro, Oregon.
Race Meet Nite!
DANCE
Grass Valley
Friday, June 7 th.
Music By
“ BUSTER’S ORCHESTRA*’
Come and step to lively tunes
Gasoline Tax Problem»
Call us up at phone 102 Moro lor estimates, a h «
put you under no obligation to us. Ask our customers
- about us. We refer you to the school boards of the DeMoss
school, the Moro school, the Boardman school, the Grass
Valley school, and the Grass Valley Elevator Company.
President Hoover recently declared <
that the solution of the probleip of *
law enforcement was more vjtal to *
Our Air Brush, run by power, is a Master Pa‘n^®J’.
the preservation of America^» Insti-
“last word” in excellance in painting roofs or buildings.
tutions than any other question. All
All the cracks, crevices, and inaccessible places are
crime, from murder to forgery, he I
reached by Paint, driven under high pressure, like rain
said, had increased in the United
driven by a windstorm. A first blast of air gives a CLEAN
SURFACE while the ^ « diate^/® 1J.0^ S KSfAY?i „
States to the point where life and .
Driven Pressure Painting gives a CLOSE CONTACT, re
property were relatively more unsafe I
sulting in neat, beautiful work!
than in any other civilized country I!
in the world. ‘‘We are not suffering
All Work done on a Guarantee and at very rea
DEPENDABLE USED
from an ephemeral crime wave but I
from a subsidence of our founda-j
sonable prices and easy terms.
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tions,” he said.
poses; in live a portion went
i “A surprising number of our I
street construction; in two states the I I people, otherwise of responsibility I 1925 Ford Roadster..............:
small sums were placed in the general I
Ford Sedan, New Motor
in the community, have drifted into 1921
last year, ...........................
statefund, and in several other states the extraordinary notion that laws
part of the gas tax was employed for I
are made for those who choose to 1920 Studebaker Touring, . .
R. H. SMITH
purposes beside road building.
I obey them. And in addition, our law I 1926 Ford Coupe....................
Here are the two great imminent I enforcement machinery is suffering
Ellsworth Hotel _ —
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Moro, Oregon
dangers of the gasoline tax. One is I from many infirmities arising out of 1926 Dodge Commercial, . . .
to increase the amount until it is I its technicalities, its circumlocutions, 1925 Ford C o u p e,.................
out of economic proportion to the | Its involved procedures, and too often,
1928 Chevrolet C o ach ,.........
Business Men say: “Advertising Pays” Read the Observer for county news. cost of fuel; the other is to use a
I I regret, from inefficient and delin-
special tax, levied against a certain |
1926 Ford C o u p e,.................
I quent officials.
portion of the population, for general, |
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What
we
are
facing
today
is
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1924 Dodge C oupe,...............
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purposes. When these are done, the the possibility that respect for law
tax becomes unfair, confiscatory and I is fading from the sensibilities of our I Fordson Tractor.....................
an obnoxious example of class legis people. Whatever the value of any
Fred Pickett Motor
lation.
I law may be, the enforcement of that I
Because the gas tax is easily levied I law written in plain terms upon our
Moro, Oregon
and collected is no reason, why legis I statute books is not, in my mind, a
latures should increase it when funds debatable question. Law should be
for some purpose or other are needed. I observed and must be enforced until
The automobile, from a social and I it is repealed by the proper processes
I business standpoint, has almost un I of our democracy. The duty to en
limited benefits. To raise the tax force the law rests upon every public
beyond natural limits or to use the official and the duty to obey it rests1
money for other purposes than road
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operating
I upon every citizen.”
building and maintenance, legislates
[ deluxe Stages
President Hoover is right. The
against a great agency of pleasure I remedy is not in the passage of more
► DAILY SCHEDULE
and progress.
I legislation further restricting law-
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- To
I abiding citizens on the theory that
k Wasco and The Dalles
PROVERBS TO REMEMBER I this will curb the crook. Each new
k Lv. *10:50 a. m.{
Are you taking advantage of the many electrical servants
I law passed makes more law-breakers
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available? Do you realize the number of ways that elec
* ’ Connect* at the
tricity can lighten the burden of household duties?
Don’t put all your eggs in one I and less enforcement.
es for Portland.
We must reverse the process and
basket.
’ Shaniko, Madras, Bend
have
more
enforcement
and
less
legis-
Developments during the last forty years in the electrical
A man who has nothing, has noth
Lv. 8:55 a. m.; 2:55
I lation if we would reduce crime and
industry have revolutionized homes, industries, transpor
ing to lose.
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tation and communication.
Whatever way you wend, consider create respect for law.
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well the end.
Of th* 28 million homes in the United States, almost 20
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EXPRESS PACK
Every one should sweep first be
Making Automobile Tran»
m illio n now have the advantage of light and power. The
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AGES CARRIED
fore his own door.
facilities of the power companies and the many appliances
portation Safer
When flatterers meet, the devil
now on the market enable all of these homes to employ
goes to dinner.
electrical servants at reasonable cost.
“Trifles make perfection, but per
Every year, as thousands of ad
fection is HO trifle.” — Michael ditional automobiles come into use
These servants do not have to be humored. You do not
and traffic congestion grows, the ac
Angelo.
have to give them ‘‘a day off.” They work for you with
cident risk increases. This is being
the same efficiency all day, every day, Are you enjoying
offset to a great extent by the trend
of Fire In»urance
in automobile construction and mod
their service?
em highway design.
From time to time complaint is
Present-day cars, with four-wheel
raised that the acquisition cost of brakes,.pon-shatterable glass and all- How? By doing what
of young people i
fire insurance companies (the cost Ksteel bodies, give the rider a maxi teoreo
ltd loot year. Thoy model
tho eun abonel
of doing business) requires a con- I mum of mechanical protection.. In an hoy took while
advantage of oOTl
stantly increasing amount of the pre emergency any one of these features Summer School. They
thot troining woo
mium dollar. While this may be true, may very easily mean the difference realised
n i r i r —r Thoy diocov-
thot Northwestern
the average of insurance premium between a fatality and a slight mis •rod
Troining onoblod thorn to
rate goes down, A little analysis will hap.
moke foster progress—
Northwestern Train
show that this situation ifi entirely
The new trend in highway building thot
ing mods it possible for
them
to accept their first
is likewise conducive to the highest positions
logical.
earlier. They i
The cost of writing insurance (ac possible degree pf safety. Engineer ahead I T oo, too, eon do
quisition cost) has increased largely ing spcifications call far WMkF roads,
because of the added Service which many of them capable of carrying
fire insurance companies are render four cars abreast, with smooth “non
ing to the insured today, all of which skid” surfaces and banked turns.
ALWAYS AT YOUR SERVICE
BaoaswAY am Saínen -
P ootland , Oaaoow
increased service helps to reduce fire
New roads are being built and old
hazards and save the insured fire roads rebuilt to conform to these
C L IP A N D M A IL T O D A Y
losses, thereby tending to lower rates. modern standards of safety and com
Self insurance on the theory that fort. Motor car manufacturers are
acquisition costs are tob high is a using all-steel bodies and equipping
short-sighted policy when the added their machine^ with modern safety
READ THE
service rendered by insurance com devices. As a result, in spite of high
panies is constantly reducing hazards speed driving and heavy traffic,
SHERM AN COUNTY OBSERVER
and the net premium cost to the in- motoring dangers are being mini
I sured. A dollar saved in acquisition mized.
'AND KEEP.INFORMED
cost might, if the companies curtailed
V
OF THE
their educational and prevention
I work, result in the loss of thousands
NEWS AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTY
through a preventable -conflagration.
AIR-ELECTRO PAINTER
Your Servants
do you use them ?
UNION PACIFIC
STAGES INC.:
$ 200 - $ 400
during your vacation
Power &
Company
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R. C. HEWITT & CO
307 Court Street, The Dalles
“THE STORE FOR PAINT’
Decorator* and Painter*
Dealers In
Sun - Proof Paint
Florhide Enamel
Water»par Quick Drying Enamel
Velumina Wall Paint
(Better than Kalsomine)
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
The HOLT
Hillside Harvesters
A re H ere
We want you to see Models 34, 36 and 38 either
at The Dalles or at our Moro, Arlington, Condon
or Goldendale salesrooms.
These harvesters are of the old reliable Holt line of 40 years stand
ing, vastly improved and now being built by the Caterpillar Traotor
company.
Into these advanced machines are going the same high grade of work
manship and materials that thousands of Caterpillar users will testify
are found in the Caterpillar tractors.
The new features and improvements of the 34, 36 and 38 were not
developed from theory, but from actual experience in the field—from
the experience and suggstions of wheat farmers, and from an ex
haustive study of the nroblems of the men who operate the machines.
The Re»ult i»**Here Awaiting Your Judgment!
Cascade Tractor & Equipment Co
217 East Third St,
The Dalh
Harvester and Tractor Parts are carried at our Dalles, Moro an
Combined
HOLT
Harvesters
Business Men says “Advertising Pays” Read anil subscribe for the Observer.