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7 / The Sherman County Obeerver, Moro, Oregon, Sherman County Observer C. Lu IRELAND Editor and Publisher Sherman County Has 23 at W heat League Meeting M' (.frTownTalk Friday, January 17, 1930 Broken Rail Caute« Wreck o f Shaniko Branch Train C. H. Larson, Moro, Oregon The local pssssngt" train, due here Twenty three farmers and grain M ethodist Charch N otes Thursday night, was wrecked about v Dave Boardman is on duty at the Entered as second class matter at post men from Sherman county attended Church school at 10 a. m. office at Motet Oregon, l a i r »1, U*1 the annual meeting of the Eastern Moro State Bank as assistant book three miles south of Grass Valley. Preaching at 7 :30 p. m. next Sun Reports of the accident state that keeper. day. No preaching Sunday morning. — DEALER IN — Eureka Lodge No. 121 A. F. A A . M- Oregon Wheat League at Pendleton a broken rail was the cause. The en this week, where matters of import Mrs. E. Siscel is confined to her Prayer meeting Wednesday even Moro, Oregon gine and all can of the train left the Meets the 1st and 3rd ance to the grain growers were con- home at Wasco with a fractured hip, rails and was laying on their sides ing a t 7:80. Thursday evenings of ered a t a three day session. the result of a recent fall. Ladies Aid society meeting every when the wrecker arrived from The each month. Visiting Reports on many large important Thursday at 2 :00 p. m. Homer Beale, who has been renting Dalles. A carload of horses in the members c<dially in items were heard by the delegates at The woman’s foreign miaaionyy vited to meet with us the 0. L. Belshe property, moved this train lost one set of trucks and with the sessions held on the closing day. society held a very pleasant session By order of W. M. week to tire F. D. Flatt residence. the front set skidded down an em Reports of the committees on produfc Robt. Urquhart, Secretary. at the home of Mrs. J. F. Belshee on Vernon Flatt’s younger son is con bankment with the floor of the car in Tuesday afternoon. tion, financing, .warehousing, river rth lth em Chapter No 78 O. E. S transportation, legislation, and coop- fined to the family home with an at tact, killing three of the horses and Last Sunday, being the 76th birth Moro, Oregon crippling several others. day anniversary of Mrs. J. F. Belshee, Regular communica atives were considered in detail by tack of blood poisoning in the arm. Robert S. Dugger, fireman, John tions each 2nd and 4th the meeting. recognition was given to it at the The missionary society of the Pres Thursday evenings of Warnings againstNtoo large plant byterian church will meet Wednesday Perry, engineer, ware both scalded by close of the Sunday morning service. each month. ing of rust resisting Wheats until fur- afternoon at $ :30 at the home of Mrs. steam from a broken pipe. A. E. Sister Belshee was called to come to Kate Stephens Dalrymple, conductor, suffered three the front of the church and tell how W ortny Matron ther tests were sounded, while use of J parro^ broken ribs. Karl E. Smith, brake- more chemical weed eradicato« was it seemed to he seventy - five years ziana Barzee, Secretary. ‘ Word was received this week by man, suffered an injury to his neck. young. Every one enjoyed her talk, advocated. Liberalization Of the fed M o r o L o d g e N o . 1 1 3 I . O . O . F. eral warehousing act which is burden Sheriff Chrisman of the death of Jaa. The injured men were taken to The and the pastor congratulated her in Moro, Oregon Hedricks at Pendleton Wednesday Dalles by ambulance after being giv behalf of the audience on her many Meets every Monday some was advised by the committee in Come In W hen Next In Town en emergency treatment at Grass Val evening. evening in the I.O.O.I charge of that matter. years of active Christian service and hall. Transient and The conference approved the co presented her with a volume of “Har The residence property owned by ley. The cause of the wreck is supposed ooooooooooos»cooooooooco3oooocooooooooooooooooooo< visiting brothers art operative plans as formed under the O. L. Belshe has been sold to A. K. bor Lights of Home” by Guest. The cordially invited to to have been a broken rail Mail for North Pacific Grain Growers cooper Richardson, who is coming here as meet with ua. , Sherman county points was brought congregation sang Faith of Our Moth ative and urged formation of local owner of the N. W. Thompson hard ers, Holy Faith, We will be true to Geo. A. Williams, N. G. to the various offices by motor truck A. M. Young, Secretary units. River transportation to tide ware store. thee to death, followed by everyone from The Dalles. water from inland points was heart present giving Sister Belshee a hearty L u p in e R e b e c c a L o d g e I*|o. 1 1 6 Wm. J. Martin has bought the S. The wrecker, late Friday morning, ily endorsed. Radio wire reports were W. Searcy residence property and is greeting.« Moro, Oregon abandoned the wreck and returned to Meets 2d and 4th Tues recommended and Portland and the You are cordially invited to fellow moving here from Wasco, where he The Dalles, because of the cold weath- days of each month state college urged to maintain defi ship with us in all our worship. had an oil truck driver job with the re and the weekage being far enough Visiting members wel nite hours for these. F. A. Ginn, pastor. .come. from the track to permit traffic to be Union Oil company. John Withycombe, Arlington, was Jessie Henrichs, Sec One all-electric Radiola for aale again resumed. Metta Axtell, N. G. ¿lected president; Harry B. Pinker Presbyterian Church ton, Moro, named vice president, and complete with tubes and speaker foj Chris Schults P ost No. 71 $60. Guaranteed. Used for demon Charles Smith, Heppner, secretary. La»t Lyceum Number Com- I I e(j "*• n0‘ God “ A m erican Legion ’ . for whatsoever a, man soweth, that Mr. Pinkerton was secretary prior to stration. Phone or call Pacific Power Meets at I. 0. 0. F. hall on ing to Moro February 5tn | ghall he also reap. For he that soweth and Light Co., Moro. 2nd and 4th Wednesday eve this meeting.’ ^ to his flesh, shall of the flesh reap cor Dick Able was in town Saturday nings of each month. ruption; but he that soweth to the The “Manhattan Marionettes” pro from Kent. He reported a car wreck Harvey Thompson, Commander Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life Snow Plow» Open» Road* ed south of Grass Valley that morn gram, to be given here on the evening Theodore Johnston, Adjutant ing wherein a machine was completely of February 6th at Legion hall, aa the everlasting.”— Gal. 6:7-8. Sunday School at 10 a. m. HARLAND V IEW GRANGE No. 682 Community snow plows on Friday ruined, but the two men occupants last number of the Lyceum course Morning worship at 11 a. m. Meets in their hall in Harmony Dis lid their share in opening roads in not injured. sponsored by the Moro Woman’s Club, trict the second and fourth Thursdaj Sermon theme “The life after this, is an. achievement in Marionette pro he vicinity of Moro. The plows were nigkts of each month. Visiting S. B. Tatom, eastern Oregon dis arm built “ V ” pushers and did the trict manager for the Allis-Chalmers duction that marks the greatest ad but where?” Gtrfngers welcome. Sermonette to the children. vance in the history of the Marionette C. P. Adams, Master. vork economically. One of the ma Evening service at 7 :30. Mrs. B. E. Davis, Secretary •hiñes, operated by Vi$ Barr and C. .ractors, was in Moro this week con theatre. - It fulfills, in many respects, ferring with C. H. Larson, who now Missionary meeting on Wednesday ■>ayrs, cleaned the roads west of here. bandies this line of farm power for the dreams of George Sands, Oscar at 2:30 p. m. Wilde, Gordon Craig, Maeterlink and Interest In Power Farming This plow was built to work with the Sherman county. “We live in deeds, not years; in all other lovers of the puppet theatre. Is Now Growing Rapidly ractors owned by Carroll Sayrs, E. C. A. Binder, Roht. Urquhart, C. L. thots, not breaths; The Manhattens have approached 1. Barzee and J. N. Landry. The second plow was operated by Montgomery, and Clarence Mersinger the “ideal” program because they In feelings, not in figures on the dial. S ta te C o lleg e A n n ou nce» N ew Shprt Toe Peters and Omer Sayrs and was made a party of foujr to drive to Was have popularized a high form of ar We should count time by heart-throbs C ou rte Jan u ary 6 to 1 8 He most lives built to work with the tractors owned co Wednesday night to visit with the tistry. The dolls are versatile and in by Peters and Roy Powell. This ma I. O. O. F. lodge and assist with their that respect they differ from the or Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts dinary puppet production. They are the best.” - Power farming has spread so rapidly rin e will clean a double track road nstallation of officers. JOHN DEERE FARM IMPLEMENTS called the “dolls that really live.” 16 feet wide while the Sayrs outfit All very cordially invited. C. N. Friedley was in town Thurs that it is now estimated that there Chas. D. Parrott, pastor. day from Wasco, leaving there at 2 There are dancers, if you please, and are 853,000 tractors on American vill handle a 10-foot strip. circus acrobats who do the amazing ■ • • • • p. m., he arrived here about 5 p. m., farms of which more than 125,000 after spending a large part of the things you will find under the big top; were manufactured last year alone T h e F u ll G o»p«l A »»e m b ly Home Pointer» Lime in a snow drift a t the side of the and there are jugglers who balance American farm workers using me A king of olden time asked the balls on the tips of their toes—almost road, where his car had skidded into chanical power now produce from two unbelievable feats for mechanical Prophet Jeremiah “Is there any word • to five times as much as similar work (From School of Home Economics) a drainage ditch. from the Lord?” The quick, glad re dolls. ers in the older European countries Cornstarch has about three times as L. L. Peetz, county commissioner, sponse was “There is ! ’’ Thank God, The Manhattan cast consists of To meet the demand for more in much thickening power as flour. in company with Homer Wall, county more than thirty beautifully costum not only for that king at that time, formation on installation, use and An easy method of slicing Boston oad master, were in Portland this ed Marionettes. You will swear that but for every human being today, repair of power equipment, the agri week. They presented a petition to whatever his condition, state or need, cultural engineering department at brown bread isjo wrap the loaf with the state highway commission for oil they are alive—even though you know there is “a word from the Lord” in they are not. There are eight hun a piece of string, cross the ends, and Oregon State College has announcet ing the Sherman highway south of dred strings required to operate the His book, the Bible, thatj fully answers a power farming short course to be ull away from each other. Kent to a connection with the Califor little folks and make them do the that need. To “search the Scriptures” given on the campus January 6 to 18. It is host to leave at least one nia highway west of Shaniko. things that seem impossible. There is to find I Material to be covered in lecture .nch of stem on beets when cooking are seven artistic scenes in the pro Usual Sunday services. Cold i days—cold engines. Always and demonstrations includes tractors avoid bleeding, and thus prevent Eureka Vacuum Cleaners duction and best of all there is inci Sunday School at 10 a. m. <eep your doors open when you are trucks, gas engines, automobiles, oss of color and flavor. Preaching at 11 a. m. Subject to be "unning the engine inside your gar- dental music. electric motors, rural electrification, Ranging in price from $39.50 to $70. Model 11 Water, served with meals aids in ige, warns the Oregon State Motor You will see them dance— and hear ‘The Second Coming of Christ.” irrigation and household pumping digestion, if it is not used to wash «ssociation. When doors are closed them sing, and you will marvel at the Preaching at 7:30 p. m. systems, farm refrigeration and gen is Especially Equipped to Clean Your Car. Bible Study Thursday at 7 :30 p.m. the deadly carbon monoxide gas gets wizardry behind the scenes. It s a «ral repair work. More complete he food ‘down. One or two extra tablespoons of in its work. Remember you can’t see | great show for the old folks aa well as J. D. and Mrs. Miller, pastors. information may be had by writing melted shortening in waffles will it, taste it, or smell it—but it is dead the youngsters and you’ll enjoy every • • • • the agricultural engineering depart minute of the fast-moving program. often prevent them from sticking ly just the same. Linoleum Laid With Special Equipment ment. C h ris tia n S cience A _o the waffle iron. Late Thursday afternoon, while rid Service Sunday morning at 11 A little vinegar added to water in ing on the highway near DeMosa, the Two Have Birthday Dinner» o’clock and Wednesday evening at « . i f j n . m ....... ......................... .... ............................................................. .......... I ..................................... vhich an egg is being poached will lorse J. R. Cothran waq riding became 8 o’clock. Sunday School at 10:00 Served at The One Tim e ielp coagulate the white of, the egg scared. Cothran jerked on the rein o’clock each Sunday morning, pupils and the horse responded by rearing «L -.Tt «CM » •'•*--■« quickly. up to the age of 20 years are received up and going over backwards. The A splendid turkey dinner, honoring into these classes. Adding the sugar to fruit while it WE PAY parcel post one way on al The lesson-sermon topic for the a cooking toughens the fiber of Old, c»ntle of the saddle caught Mr. Coth two birthday anniversariea, that of shoe rc| airing. Good ’i ? r u n t b a th e r. Joe Amore, Tne Dt ruit and helps to retain its sKape. ran across the right thigh, bruising Mrs J. F. Belshee, age 76 years, and service next Sunday morning will be of Mrs. A. M. Wright, age 67 years I “Sacrament.” .. .. -sac the post office. ___ • f the object is to soften the fruit the leg, byt no bones were broken. Reading room open daily where all Floyd Flatt, Edw. Sargent and a was enjoyed at the home of Mr. and \VE CAN fit ail kinds of people. Anj fiber, it is best to add the sugar just fl:7-e or weight. Crippled or de jefore taking the fruit from the fire. life insurance agent named Horton Mrs. Howard Belshee last Sunday. The authorized Christian Science litera The House of Good Will formed feet. Wernmark s Sho, spent the last weekend in Portland, guests being Mrs. J. F. Belshee, Mr. ture may be read, borrowed or pur A more flaky pie crust can be ob- and Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Cope, Mr. and chased. The public is cordially invited S’ ore. The Dalles. .ained if in cutting the fat into the coming back to Moro on Monday the Mrs. Chas Belshee and daughter Jes to attend the church services and trip took 2 hrs 48 min. from Morrison flour the particles are not made too sie, Mr. and Mrs. Sawtell and daugh visit the reading room. COMING fine, as it is the rather coarse pieces and 16th to Hotel Moro. The time to ter. At the close of the dinner the TO THE DALLES of fat which melt and give the flak- The Dalles was 2 hourss 3 minutes. following poem, written by Howard It is necessary only to have the This is considered to be extra good Birthday Surpri»« Party Owned by the City of Moro M particles fine enough for fairly elapsed time, considering the lee and Belshee, was read: X n distribution. • I conditions on the pavement. OUR MOTHERS I Operated for the Benefit of the Traveling Public SPECIALIST On Tuesday evening, a number of The weaiher turned decidedly cold We wonder at times as our lives pass in In tern al M ed icin e fo r the A rather rich, baking powder and Sherman County Community friends and neighbors gathered at the by — past fifte e n year» * jiscuit will be finer grained if knead er this week, with snow to a varying home of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Wright DOES NOT O PER A TE ed a little with a very light motion. depth of six to eight inches and the Who guided our feet in the paths of for a surprise party. The occasion Under the Personal Management of thermometer running around zero un right ; who sat by the fireside while W ill he *t The success of either angel food til Thursday night when the bottom was the birthday anniversary of Mrs. E. E. LARIMORE the lamp burned low, and mended THE DALLES HOTEL Wright. The evening was spent most ;ake or sponge cake generally lies dropped to sixteen below. Wednes Formerly of The Hotel Oregon, Portland our clothes until far in the night? W ED N ESD A Y A ND TH U RSD AY .n lightness of manipulation. wkn was it that taught us our first lit- 1 pleasantly in conversation, games and day night and Thursday an old time J an u ary 29 and 30 Who was it that is fn _ . . . I----- Refreshments were served and Use of a tray often saves many blizzard wind piled the snow into tie step and nursed us through sick- 1 __ ____ . Office H o u r.: 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. ness and sorrow and want? ’ friends departed, wishing Mrs. steps when setting the table, carrying drifts and left most of the seeded TW O D A Y S O N L Y Wright many happy returns of the / vegetables from the basement, or wheat fields bare of protective cover Who shared all our sorrows, our cares N o C harge for C o n su lta tio n day and grateful for the helpful asso and our joys, who loves us and pro ciations and happy acquaintance of Dr. Mellinthin is a regular gradu doing numerous other tasks that re ing. quire the carrying of several articles Another world’s record has been tected us, when we were small girls these fine people. ate in medicine and surgery and is DINING ROOM OPEN USUAL MEAL HOURS at once. brought to Oregon, this time by and boys? licensed by the state of Oregon. Viola’s Rinda Fancy, 716673, owned Each person in the United States He does not operate for chronic And the answer comes then as if from t g n i i i i uunnanff Ship» Trainload of Cattle mmiiiiinmtnn appendicitis, gall stones, ulcers of eats about 110 pounds of sugar a by M. N. Tibbles of Independence! re the towers, there^is one, always one, ports H. N. Colman of O. S. C., su "those Mothers of ours 1 ” stomach, tonsils or adenoids. year. $ , , , , i , .iiij i u iiiiiiiiTiiTTn ît TT^...................... . .......... ..i.....ii»>m iaan g perintendent of official testing. Her He has to his credit wonderful re The largest consignment of cattle tu llia » Baking powder biSTOj^^yi placed record, just completed, was 12,738 Who is that waits for the knock on sults in diseases of the stomach, the door, as they silently sit and to be shipped over the Great North in a cool place and cdVered with a liver, bowels, blood, skin, nerves, zery thin wet cloth to prevent a crust pounds of milk and 939,96 pounds of rock to and fro, and listen for a ern railroad billed to San Francisco, heart, kidney, bladder, bed wetting, forming, can be allowed to stand an fat in 365 days, smashing the senior c. V. Belknap, Proprietor Moro, Oregon sound that will tell once more of a left Gateway last Sunday morning. catarrh, weak lungs, rheumatism, sci hour or two before baking, without two-year-old world’s record in class This first trainload from central loved one that has come who has A by a wide margin. She also be- atica, leg ulcers and rectaj ailments, Oregon was made up of nine cars of ventured to roam. injury?* comes Oregon State leader in her — added Below are the names oX » X<W°t cattle with eleven more cars Who is it whose lives are a symbol of Too much beating is one of the class and age. his many satisfied patirirtszta OH- good, who live by the light and the | at Prineville Junction. The price at For Appointment, Phone 182. who have been treated for one or the most common causes of poor muffins. Dutch Fuller, driving his large Gateway f.o.b. was 10 Vic and the av guidance of God? Baking powder biscuits, on the other truck,, and the state snowplow, in other of the abov£ yarned causes: erage weight of the steers was 1026 »and, are often not mixed as much charge of Frank Forbes, met in colli The answer comes back through the pounds. The price received in S AGENCY FOR WILLIAM’S CLEANERS Mrs. H. H. Blake, Marshfield, Ore. sunlight and showers — as would be desired for the best tex sion on the DeMoss hill Thursday at Francisco for these steers was better Alfred Clemmens, Corvallis, Ore. Those sweet darling ladies, AND MODEL LAUNDRY, THE DALLES ture. than had been received in Portland 6 p. m. The plow had backed partly Chas. Desch, Portland, Ore. “ Those Mothers of Ours ! ” »»..... . A perfect frosting is usually con off the grade in turning around and Mrs. J. C. Huntsucker, Toledo, Ore. n u n ....... m u...................... — Howard Belshee. for some time, it was declared. was struck by Fuller, who was coming sidered as one that is just stiff enough John Lucian, Echo, Ore. W W to stay where it is spread, is not sticky down grade and thought by speeding Bert Lampa, St. Helens, Ore. Read and subscribe for the Observer. to handle, and cuts easily without he could pass before the plow again Most wise paragraphs are borrow Mrs.. Maybelle Snyder, Alsea, OTe. he oro We can fit all kinds of people. Any cracking. The texture is smooth and got onto the hi^w ay. The truck ed and most humorous ones are Miss Emma Turner, Mikkalo, Ore. size or weight. Crippled or deformed creamy like the center in a good grade frame and engine waa injured, put clipped. Mrs. John Van Pelt, Harbor, Ore. bserver of chocolate cream, and the flavor is ting it out of commission. The high J. H. Wood, Eugene, Ore. Folks needing shoe repairing leave feet. Wernmark’s Shoe Store, The way machine had its plow attachment Mrs. Jennie Woolery, Salem, Ore. well blended. work with L. R. Conlee, agent, to be Dalles. badly broken. The highway crew sent to M. L. Fritts at Grass Valley. , Remember above date, that con Merchants who advertise should pulled the Fuller truck into Moro af sultation on this trip will be free and take some interest in What they ad ' Every pretty girl may think that ter both machines were again on the There are three devices that keep ‘kt-that his treatment is different, and how. The rea so n w. y she has the rest of the world sitting a man from getting round-shouldered vertise road. l'- Married women must be acco advertising doesn’t pay is usually be up and taking notice, but she must ^1 suspenders, a nagging wife and a fat Dallied by their husbands. 1 cause is Isn’t advertising. A' d -A o d rew : 4 2 / W e t Third Street, remember that it takes more- than bank roll. Reading advertisements is worthwhile looks to get far. a Los Angles, California A Full Line of Farm Implements Valvoline and O il-Pull Oils Tractor and Horse Drawn Plows COMBINE HARVESTERS MONARCH TRACTORS DeSoto “ 6 ” and “ 8 ” - in -lin e Cars Wasco Warehouse Milling Co. -Moro, Oregon General Warehouse Business Grain - Feed - Flour Wood -- Coal Gbn, Coleman & Co. M oro, O reg o n Dealers in Furniture, Hardware, Floor Coverings, Paints, Oils and Glass ( WANT ADS [ Dr. Mellenthin Hotel Moro Barber Shop MARCELLING A “ W A N T ” ail in T M O will reach more people in Sherman County than by any .other medium available.
