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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1930)
? Shermair County Observer C. L. IRELAND Editor and Publisher Entered as second elaes m a tter a t poet K u r tk u L o d g e N o . 121 A . F. A A. M. j* X Ä 3 m Moro, Oregon Meets the 1st and 3rd Thursday evenings of each month. Visiting members cordially in vited to meet with us By order of W. M. Robt. Urquhart, Secretary. B eth leh em C h ap ter N o 78 O. E. S Moro, Oregon Regular communica tif,ns each 2nd and 4th Thursday evenings of each month. Kate Stephens Worthy Matron Nana Barzee, Secretary. M o ro L o d g e N o . 1 1 3 1. 0 . O . F . Moro, Oregon igoi Meets everv Monday evening in tne I.O.O.F hall. Transient and vixiting brothers an cordially invited to meet with ua. » Qeo. A. Wijliams, N. G. A. M. Young, Secretary L u p in e R eb ecca L od ge N o. 116 Moro, Oregon . Meets 2d and 4th Tues days of each month Visiting members wel come. Jessie Henrichs, Sec Metta Axtell, N. G V C hris S c h u lts P ost N o. 71 A m erica n L egion Meets at I. O. O. F. hall on 2nd and 4th Wednesday eve nings of each month. Harvey Thompson, Commander ^Theodore Johnston, Adjutant K A R L A N D V I E W G R A N G E N o . 682 Meets in their hall in Harmony Dis trict the second and fourth Thursdaj nights of each month. Visiting Grangers welcome. C. P. Adams, Master. Mrs. B. E. Davis, Secretary Folks needing shoe repairing leave v.oik with L. R. Conlee, agent, to b< sent to M. L. Fritts at Grass Valley A proposal to increase the Crown- W ill&'aetfe gam 3 refuge in Clatsop ccuu'.y to ca rp ^ ro rim e te total of 90,- 000 acres ha3 been rejected by the s ta te gam e cemmis-don. The p resen t refu se of C-,000 acres is regarded as lar~3 enough. Eaby N ineteen thirty arrived in Ash land Jan u ary 14, tn d in g one of th e longest periods w ithout births in the history of the city. P ractically every m erchant in the city had offered some prize to the first baby bern in the city lim its in 1930. Chinese pheasants and other valley gam e birds will be fed grain if the present snow stays on the ground and the tem p eratu re sta y s below freezing point a few days longer, according to Rodney Roach, deputy sta te gam e w arden at Eugene. Mrs. Ella Shultz Wilson was elected secretary of the Oregon state fair board tor the seventh consecutive year. Mrs. Wilson form erly served as assista n t secretary of the fair board. A. C. M arsters of Roseburg was re-elected president. The finan cial rep o rt of the secretary showed th a t the 1929 fair was a success. □ WANT ADS W E PAY parcel post one w ay on al shoe rep a irin g . Good q u ality work and le a th e r. Jo e A m ore, T he D alles opposite th e post office. W E CAN fit all kinds of people. An? ai^f or w eight. C rippled or de form ed fe e t. W e rn m a rk ’s Sho« Store. The Dalles. COMING TO THE DALLES Dr. M ellenthin SPECIALIST in Intern»! M ed icin e fo r the pact fifteen year* D o n s NOT O P E R A T E W iil be at T H E D A L L E S. H O T E L „ W E D N E SD A Y AND TH U RSD AY J an u ary 29 and 3 0 Office H ours: 10 a. m . to 4 p. m. TW O DAYS ONLY N o C h arge for C o n su lta tio n Dr. Mellinthin is a regular gradu ate in medicine and surgery and it licensed by the state of Oregon. He does not operate for chronit appendicitis, gall stones, ulcers ol stomach, tonsils or adenoids. He has to his credit wonderful re suits - in diseases of the Stomach, liver, bowels, blood, skin, nerves, heart, kidney, bladder, bed wetting catarrh, weak lungs, rheumatism, sci atica, leg ulcers and rectal ailments Below arc the names of a few ol his many satisfied patients in Ore who have been treated for one or tn* other of the above named causes: Mrs. H. H. Blake, Marshfield, Ore. Alfred Clemmcns, Corvallis, Ore. Chas. Desch, Portland, Ore. Mrs. J. C. Huntsucker, Toledo, Ore. John Lucian, Echo, Ore. Bert Lampa, St. Helens, Ore. Mrs. Maybelle Snyder, Alsea, Ore. Miss Emma Turner, Mikkalo, Ore. Mrs. John Van Pplt, Harbor, Ore. J. H. Wood, Eugene, Ore. Mrs. Jennie Woolery, Salem» Ore. Remember above date, that con sultation on this trip will be free and that his treatment is different. Married women must be accom panied by their husbands. Address: 4221 West Third Street, Los Angles, California. Moro School Notes ** {■\Town Talk Mr. Hammersley and a number of the boys have been engaged in the invigorating and sometimes hazard Dan McLachlan is under medical ous occupation of shoveling snow treatment at a hospital in The Dalles. from the top of the schoolhouse. The Miller school buss was damag Last Friday night the Moro and the ed by fire in The Dalles Tuesday Rufua boys met in basketball conflict, morning, caused by a short wire cir our team coming out the victori cuit. ous end of 32 - 16 score. On Tues Mrs. E. R. Barzec returned to her day night of this week, a double head er was played at Wasco. Wasco won home Thursday from The Dalles, the laurels; 30-19 in the boys’ game where she has been under medical at- tentiop. v and 2 8 -9 in the girl’s game. Because of the continued cold weather, the American Legion dance advertised for Kent this Saturday has been postponed. J. E. Collins young son is reported on the sick list this week by Dr. Poley suffering from a throat trouble similar to that of a year ago. Maurius Douma has been the Good Miss Cole’s first and second grades Samaritan of Moro this week, taking room won the attendance banner for over the job of removing snow from the 17th school week. The decrease off overloaded roofs. in attendance because of cold weath Roy Powell left Wednesday even er and b&d roads has marred our ing for Portland in charge of a double heretofore good record. For four deck carload shipment of 250 sheep Jays the Boardman buss was unable owned by himself and Vic Barr. -o get through. However, some of the At the close of the lodge session on jupils who come in from the country were fortunate enough to have a Tuesday evening, the ladies of the place to stay in town and consequent Woodman auxiliary held a social ses sion with 500 the entertaining fea ly missed no school. ture. A notice appeared on the bulletin The I.O.O.F. and Rebekah lodges joard this week to the effect that each held joint installation of officers Mon-« :lass is to enter a candidate for the jueen contest to be held in connec day night, the ceremony beginning tion with the coming carnival. The with a big dinner served at 6 p. m. •lasses immediately held their alec- in the lodge room. ions, with the following results: AJ- Dr. C. L. Poley reports that Gale hea Powell was selected by the sen- Amidon is threatened with ap attack ors, Josephine Johnson by the jun- of pneumonia. She was moved to the ors, Patricia Powell by the sopho- E. T. Strong home this week from pie nores, and Marjorie Nahouse by the farm to be nearer the doctor. reshmen. Votes will be sold at the About fifteen attended the meeting »rice of ten for one penny. of the Womans Missionary Society of L ew » C am p F ire New« the Presbyterian at the home of Mrs. The Lewa Campfire held its meet- Parrott on Wednesday afternoon. The ng on January 8. The side that lost lesson was devoted to “China.” n the recent contest of selling tuber- E. R. Barzee and Vic Barr brought ulosis seal stamps gave the winning ide a party. The boy scouts were in- their c a t tractor snow plow into /jted. We also talked about the ba- town on W ednesday, cleaning the road both ways as they traveled, and when .aar we are planning to give. -JT.h® Lewa Campfire held its regular here they also cleared some of the netting January 15. Mrs. Hammcrs- main streets. ey presided over the meeting. The The Boardman school buss got into business meeting was held and it was a deep snow drift one day last week lecided that Mrs. Hammersley and and tore out the differential in con Miss Pepper would give the girls a sequence. This accident and the deep urprise party on the following Wed- snow preventing travel, made the bus« lesday. It was also decided that the lose four school days. neetings, while it was so cold, would Monday night was the coldest night je just social. The meeting was ad journed to go to the gymnasium, experienced here for some years with where games were played until nine the experiment station registering 18 /clock. Mildred Hanson, Scribe. below zero. The same night it was re ported that Grass Valley had 24 be low, The Dalles 32, and Maupin 47. Semester examinations in the high school are to take place on Thursday and Friday of this week. Those who receive an average of 90% in a class will be exempt from the examination in that subject, providing, their citi zenship grades are not below 90. The exemptions will be published in the next week« news. O re g o n S ta te New s The Alsea school buildings were en tirely destroyed by fire recently. The gram m ar school and en tire contents were a total los3, but all the equip m ent was saved from the high school. During the month of December there were 36 herds, containing 607 cows, on te st by the W allowa County Dairy Im provem ent association. The average production was 25.45 pounds of butterfat. The American Legion post of La Grande has set aside $1000 of ita funds to form a loan fund to assist worthy students attending the E astern Oregon norm al school to carry on their education. During 1929 the state grain inspec tion departm ent inspected a total of 24,406,452 bushels of grain at P o rt land, St. Johns and Astoria, according to the annual report of Seymour Jones, state m arket agent. The board of directors of the Pen dlcton Round up fixed dates for the event as August 28, 29 and 30. The w eather, to u rists and students were factors in changing the dates from Septem ber to August. A company has been organized at O ntario w ith sufficient funds sub scribed to build the settling basins and reconstruct the filter system at the municipal w ater plant and lease the same to the city. The total tax rate for Salem for 1930 will be 55.6 mills as compared with 54.2 mills last year. The prop erty valuation for this year is slightly lower than last year, due to the elim ination of bank share taxes. The Canby high school bus, driven by J. A. Glger, skidded off the Wilson ville road near Aurora and turned partly over. A telephone pole near the rond saved th è car and its 24 pas sengers from serious accident. Tho value of Linn county’s road and bridge building equipm ent, shop and plant sites Jan u ary 1 was $136,030, according to an inventory made by tho county court. This is on Increase of $18,357 ovor the preceding year. Robert W eber, 5 year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul W eber of Eugene, died from burns received when his night gown caught fire. He was standing in front of the fireplace a t home when the gown was ignited from the blaze. W hile th ere is no ap p aren t danger that the disease exists in southern Oregon cattle, the m a tte r of undulant fever has been brought to the gtten tion of the Jackson county health u n |t by the U nited S tates p u b lic . health service. ' Growth of the Oregon co-operative prune exchange during the past year is indicated by the fact th a t an anilqf- pated pool of 8,000,000 pounds turned out to be more than 11,000,000 pounds by the end of the season, according to M. H. Harlow of Eugene, director of the association^ Grass Valley Boy Wins Prize in Çtatc Club W?rk Donald Cox, 17, of Graaa „VaRey, has won the Union Pacific scholarship of $100 offered each year by the rail road company to the hoy over 16 years old who is of the highest record in club work. This rating is counted on his club work and his leadership. The $100 will be deposited in a bank in Corvallis so that when Donald is through high school and enters the state college he will have $100 to start school on there in the state college town. Donald was the alternate for this scholarship last year. This year it is George Hennagin of Moro who has won the second place. He is the al ternate this year:' This should inter est boys in high school, for it is not at all had to have a hundred dollars handed to you when you put on the green cap in any college. Will Issue Directory Of AU The Oregon Cities A ready - reference directory of Oregon’s 922 cities and towns is now being compiled by W . G. Ide, manag er of the Oregon State Chamber of Commerce. The directory will be published within the next thirty days and is part of the state chamber’s “Build Oregon ! ’* program for 1930. Information and data question naires have been sent to all local chambers of commerce in the state to obtain all essential and up to date data. The directory will be the first of its kiad giving important informa tion on every city and town in the state. “ We are in constant need of a directory of this kind and have calls for information about all parts of the state and therefore have completed plans to make one available to the business men of the state,” Ide aaid. The directory will carry information concerning the . transportation facil ities, major industries, banks, high ways running thru each city, and about local chambers of commerce. Copies of the directory are to be placed in scores of out-of-«tate cham bers of commerce and will *he in the files of all local chambers. We can fit all kinds of people. Any size or weight Crippled or deformed fe e t Wernmark’s Shoe Store, The Dalles. Wm. McLachlan, second eldest son of Dan McLachlan, is seriously ill of pneumonia at a hospital in Chehalis. Mrs. McLachlan is with him. One all-electric Radiola for sale complete with tubes and speaker for Mr. and Mrs. W’. C. Bryant are $60. Guaranteed. Used for demon planning to celebrate their 25th wed stration. Phone or call Pacific Power ding anniversary this next Sunday, by and Light Co., Moro. keeping open house at their residence from 2:30 to 6.00 p. m. They will be With a total foreign trade of 1,508,- flad to receive calls from all of their 437 tons, the shipping board’s annual friends during the afternoon. report received by the maritime com • The cold weather is no respector of merce department of the Portland lersons. All the water pipes and the chamber of commerce, lists Portland ¡ewer outlet at the Sherman County 13th among the ports of the United Observer office has been frozen tight States in foreign trade tor the fiscal for the past two weeks. In addition year ended June 30, 1$$9. Thia Ja a. to this, last week we had a crippled drop of two points as oompared with cylinder press that had to be fixed be the total for 1918. The state tax commission has seat fore we could print the paper. out 250,000 Intangibles ta x blanks and Mrs. Ester Speidel, daughter of approximately 8000 corporate excise Rev. D. H. Leech, former resident of .'ax blanks. Laws providing for the. Sherman county, and niece of A. M. collection of these taxes were enacted Wright of Moro, died at her home in at the 1989 legislative eeeeion. In Washington, Iowa, Monday, Jaunary tangibles tax blanks were seat to all 20th. She is survived by her husband, registered voters in Oregon, while the John M. Speidel, who came to Oregon excise tax blanks were sent to all cor to attend O.A.C., where he graduated porations. Taxes under these laws in animal husbandry. are due March L Electric pow’er was off the lines on Road construction is In progress, or Monday from 2:30 a. m. until about about to begin, on all sidpa of western 9. In consequence, Moro nearly lost Lane's seaport, Florence. Work on both deep well pumps by freezing. the south or the G len ad a sector Of Engineer Ruggles was fighting a water the Roosevelt highway shows the 80- shortage by having the pumps run all foot slip between the ferry float and night and just as the power went off trestle, a heavy piece of work, com he got up to replenish the fire at his pleted, and revetment work, done only home. He took but little time to get nt low tide, requiring 400 tons of rock, into his clothes and get to the pump placed at a rate of about $0 tons house to drain the pumps before they dally, brought by scow .down river from government quarry at Beck. < froze fast. ? — J The Golden Book-mark’ CH ES M eth o d ist Church Notes Church School at 10 a. m. Preaching a t 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Subject of sermon Sunday morning: Prayer Meeting Wednesday even ing a t 7:30. The church with a cordial welcome. F . A. Ginn, pastor. • • • • P resb y teria n C hurch If you come out of the winter air, you bring in the cold. If you come out of the conservatory—fragrance. If you come from Jesus—you bring blessing; if you come as a vassal— you overflow with grace. "Si . , Regular services of Bible Study, Worship and Praise at 10 a.m.-— 11 o’clock and 7 :30 p.m. All are very cordially invited to meet in His Courts, that we may tarry for His blessing. O rest, in utter quietude of soul, Abandon words, leave prayer and praise awhile: Let thy whole being, hushed in His control. Learn the full meaning of His voice and smile. Chas. D. Parrott, pastor. • • • • C. H. Larson, Moro, Oregon —J DEALER IN A Full ull Line of Farm Implements ailvoline and O il-Pull Oils Tractor and Horse Drawn Plows COMBINE HARVESTERS MONARCH TRACTORS DeSoto “ 6 ” and “ 8 ’’-in -lin e Cars Come In When Next In Town Wasco Warehouse Milling Co. A Moro, Oregon Thu F u ll G ospel A ssem b ly More than one hundred fifty pro phesies concerning Christ Jesus, His birth, life and manner of death are re corded in the Old Testament Scrip tures, every one of which was literal ly fulfilled. Interwoven with these that tell of His humilation and com ing as our redeemer, are hundreds of prophecies yet to be fulfilled, of His coming as King to sit on David’s throne, to set up a kingdom glorious in power, and righteous in every par ticular, which are yet to be fulfilled. Sunday services as usual. Sunday School at 10 a. m. Preaching at 11 a. m., subject to be “Learning from Mistakes.” Preaching at 7 :30 p. m. Bible Study at 7 :30 p.m. Thursday. J. D. and Mrs. Miller, pastors. • • • • C h ristian General Warehouse Business Grain Ginn, Coleman & Co. M oro, O regon S cien ce Service Sunday morning at 11 o’clock and Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock. Sunday School at 10:00 o’clock each Snnday morning, pupils up to the age of 20 years are received into these classes. The lesson-sermon topic for the service next Sunday morning will be “Truth.” Reading room open daily where all authorized Christian Science litera ture may be read, borrowed or pur chased. The public is cordially invited to attend the church services and visit the reading room. So Far And Yet So Near - Feed - Flour Wood -- Coal JOHN DEERE FARM IMPLEMENTS — ---------------- 1 . Dealers in Fourniture, Hardware, Floor Coverings, Paints, Oils and Glass Eureka Vacuum Cleaners Ranging in price from $39.50 to $70. Model 11 is Especially Equipped-to Clean Your Car. One can not visualize the industrial ■xpansion of the United States with out realizing that the basic factor is ■ > -J . transportation. More than 80 per cent of the products of our farms, 98 per cent of the products of our mines and forests, and 87 per cent of Linoleum Laid With Special Equipment the products of our factories, require transportation between producer and consumer. Economically vital there n: x n u » n :m K n tu u i:n : ::n:nm an:z n : m n n u a i: :i::::n n :n iiiii i i i iii n » il ili iilimr»C fore is the cost and quality of trans 3xflxni»nntxx:t»:»unt xxxxaxxxxxxxxxx»x :xxx:xx x xxxxun» x ix xu : txum»i i in»»tw a portation. It is universally conceded that com pared with cost and quality of trans portation service in other countries, the United States has the advantage in that it has the lowest cost and best service of them all. Rates evidence The House of Good Will the direct cost, wheras every shipper and economist knows that there is an indirect cost such as shrinkage, decay, damage of one kind or another arising from poor service which may easily exceed the direct cost. Poor service is dear at any price for Owned by the City of Moro the indirect cost may be such as to not only consume the shipper’s pro Operated for the Benefit of the Traveling Public fits but make production unprofitable. and Sherman County Community What but good service enabled the producers of the Pacific coast to con vert their low producing grazing lands Under the Personal Management of into high producing fruit ranches and E. E. LARIMORE increased the value of these lands a Formerly of The Hotel Oregon, Portland * hundred fold? Cantaloupes, oranges, apples and like fruit are shipped by the thous ands of carloads from the Pacific coast and placed on the breakfast tables of the Atlantic coast 3,000 miles distant as fresh as when picked DINING ROOM OPEN USUAL MEAL HOURS from the vines or branches. Consumers and producers of Pacific coast buy and sell in the 66 primary m » m iu n » iiiiiiiii» H » « c markets of this country almost as tnmnmmwxxxxxxxxxxxxxnxxxxxxxnxnxjxxnxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxnxmxwammnamwawa conveniently as if all these markets were at their doors. That is what sustains production and makes for C. V. Belknap, Proprietor Moro, Oregon general prosperity. Better equipment, faster speed and reasonable rates combine to overcome the disadvantage of long hauls. Mrs. Bessie Cross, of Wasco, will be here Continuation of judicioyrf public | EACH WEDNESDAY regulation united with eartfcatl ©o-*t For Appointment, Phone 182.' operation between shipper and carrier ; seem best to insure the public wel AGENCY FOR WILLIAM’S CLEANERS fare in thia,regard. The^cnrriers AND MODEL LAUNDRY, THE DALLES should be protected against unneces m u m x ixtxmx x xxxxxx i itxx x x xx xx xxxxx xxxxxxx x w x x xxxxxxxxxxxxtixntxo x tn ttn m H tt« n n H H H i> i sary duplication of service and waste ful competition in order that the nt w people may be protected in their right to good service and reasonable rates. Hotel Moro Barber Shop MARCELLING First Labor Secretary On Februury 20. 1913. the United States senate passed a bill establish ing the Department of Labor. The new secretary of the departemnt was appointed when President Wilson eami into office. He named William & Wilson. / i A “W ANT” : » » L 4 ad in T he M oro 4 4 O bserver will reach more people in Sherman County than other medium available. anv »
