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1 ( .WEEKLY ANI SEMI-WEEKLY VOL. XIX DALLAS, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, APRIL 20, 1907. NO. 7 flo timeto thinl When pipes begin to leak and the bathroom floor is flooded, look out for a fall in the ceiling below. All small leaks become Niagaras if neg lected, and it costs lots of money to repair a ceiling. The surest way to avoid a Plumber's bill is either to put in the best plumbing at the start, or to watch but for possible leaks and rusty joints. WE are, expert Plumbers, use only the best materials, the best k workmanship, and guarantee all work done. THINK AHEAD! If you have plumbing that you want done in the cheapest manner do not come to' us. We don't do that kind of work ; but if you have Plumbing that you want done in a first-class man ner, , Plumbing J that's fully Guaranteed, better see us. That's the kind of work we want and our price will be as cheap as that kind of work can be done. , TO THE MAN WHO WANTS TO BUILD A HOUSE we will say that we can furnish his . . . Building Hardware at a price which will please him. Better see us about' Toledo and Universal Ranges Iowa Cream Separators Smooth and , , Barb Wire Pattons Sun Proof Paint Woven Wire , Fencing 1900 Washing Machines Fishing Tackle IN OUR FURNITURE DEPARTMENT we can please you in the goods to furnish your home. NEW DESIGNS IN BED COUCHES DAVENPOBTS LINOLEUMS MATTINGS CARPETS BUG 3 In fact we can fur nish your home Complete. GUY BROS. & DALTON Dallas, Oregon NEWS OF COUNTY TOWNS. AIRLIE. Percy Hadley has a new cream separator. Dorsa Turner hauled the loggers' boat to Hosklns, Tuesday. The axe-handle mill Is now at work on the Anna Brown place. Mr. and Mrs. Byron Gill spent a week with Mrs. Gill's people at Scio. Charlie Stuart is having a very serious time with sciatic rheumatism. Luckiamute will be well represented at the circus In Dallas next Monday. E. C. Burroughs and his mother left here Sunday evening for Okla homa. Claude Lewis passes through here every few days with a band of goats or sheep. Mrs. Bonnie Smith, of Lewisville. was doing her trading at this place last Friday. Gus Fredrickson, who was recently kicked in the face by a horse, Is able to be around. B. L. Hastings returned from Albany last Wednesday, much im proved in health. D. H. Simpson was over to Hoskins the first of the week, scaling logs in the dam at' that place. An 8-pound girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Emmet W. Staats, April 21. AM getting along nicely. Mrs. Mark Embree, of Dallas, spent a few days at this place with her sister, Mrs. Josie Bevens. Senator A. J. Johnson, of Corvallis, spent a few days with his brother, C. V. Johnson, at this place last week. A veterinary by the name of Brown came up from Portland, Tuesday, and did some work for Joe Brown and others, W. E. Williams has added some new machinery to his wood-sawing outfit and is now sawing axe-handles, brackets, etc. Mrs. M. M. Jones, of Monmouth, came In on Tuesday evening's motor and will assist with the work at the home of Willie Williams. A. A. Lindeman was in town a few days ago and informed us that he is making arrangements for theerection of a windmill and water tower at his place. The Best jh 4' Time For Lj 11 i f - , ' ' 1 , U u Copyright 1907 by Han Schaffner ii Mrx We are showing a good assortment of Men's and Boys' Straws and Sailors from 25c to $5.00. Our $5.00 Panama is a Winner. OXFORDS, for men, women and childrenich wilUuit you in both style and price. Our White Canvas Oxfords are here. A New lot of SILK WAIST PATTERNS in Checks and Plaids just in. CAMPBELL & HOLLISTER ) It BRIDGEPORT. Miss Bertha Foster is out home for hop training. Mrs. M. E. Miller has been quite sick, but is convalescent. W. H. Mack will plant about 15 acres of corn this year, to be put up as ensilage. Mr. Grazier's family have moved to the Plankinton hop yard, where they will train hops. We have never before seen the ground dry so fast and everyone so busy in this community. Rev. M. B. Young preached at Bridgeport, Sunday. He informs us that there will be quarterly meeting next Sunday. Tom Card, who has been sick for several years, has returned from a Portland hospital, having failed to get relief. He is at the home of his mother, Mrs. Shepard. We do not hear much said abou the School Children's Fair in this neigh borhood, but hope the parents are Interested enough to encourage the children to be industrious and to enter into competition with others. , BUELL. Miss Hattie Constable is visiting friends in Dallas. Mrs. T. L. Butler, who has been ill for some time, Is no better. Mrs. Porter, of Roseburg, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Davis. Hop work is being rushed with all speed; many fear the ground will soon be too dry to plow. Rev. Crossy preached to a large and attentive congregation, Sunday. The attendance and interest are increas ing, both in Sunday school and church services. The yoking people gave Will and Allan Fletcher a pleasant surprise, Saturday evening. Games were the order of the evening. All report a pleasant time. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Davis expect to start on a three months' visit to their old home in Iowa next Saturday. Their daughter, Mrs. Porter, will accompany them. The program and basket social for 3JT1 Some men always look well dressed; their clothes keep in jhow long they're worn. That's our Hart, Schaffner & Marx mea; mat s ine khiu ui ciuuiea we offer you here; all wool, tailored right fit right, priced right. ; Hats the benefit of the school library, given by the pupils of the Buell school Fri day evening, was a decided success. The neat sum of $26.25 was realized from the sale of their baskets. BUTLER. Glenn Howell Is on the sick list. D. T. Hodges was a Dallas visitor last week. J. C. Cockerham began training his hops, Monday. Mr. and Mrs. G. O. Butler visited in Sheridan last week. . James Paul, of Salmon River, was in Sheridan, Friday. Rev. Parker, of Salem, preached in the schoolhouse, Sunday. The farmers in this neighborhood are finishing their Spring work. Dr. Kershaw will soon have his fine residence at Wlllamlna completed. Mr. and Mrs. Irve Hussey have a line new boy, bora Sunday, April 21. Mrs. Lee Rowell was at Sheridan last Friday to see her father, Mr. Faulconer, who is dangerously ill. ' BUENA VISTA. Dr. H. B. Stanley is thinking of leaving here. Rupert Hall made a business trip to Salem, Saturday. George Kreutz, of Springfield, Is visiting relatives here. Carl Neal, a student of the U. of O., is visiting bis parents. Mose Millner has moved from the Richardson place to town. A. J. Hall was a business visitor la Independence, Saturday. Harvey Nash's gasoline launch is running very successfully. Arthur Mason is working in the lumber yard at Independence. The Smith family have moved to their farm In the river bottom. The Methodist presiding elder, Mr. Hollingshead, preached here Sunday. The home of Mr. Thacker in Marion county was burned Saturday morning. The warm weather is bringing the hops along very rapidly, and hands are needed for training. Rev. Phelps moved Monday. His work for the next year will beat Mapleton. Mrs. Ira Rowe went with them. Roy Hawkins and Billy McAdams gave their motion picture show here Saturday night, under the auspices of the Odd Fellows' lodge. Dressed Spring EOLA. Miss Mary Sheridan, of Salem spent Sunday with . her sister, Mrs. Ferguson. Mrs. Cora Haulk, of McMinnville, visited relatives la Eola and Salem last week. Miss Blanche White, of Salem, and Oda Crowley, of Crowley, visited at the Capps home last week. Hop training commenced Monday and all available boys, girls and women are at work. Some yards are still short of hands. Eoad Supervisor O, W. Chapman has a force of men and teams at work, cutting down the hill between T. W. Brunk 8 and Mark Capps' place. He reports hands very scarce. A. Heise, of West Salem, sold 10 acres of land to the Government to be used in filling in th6 lot around the Salem postofflce. The contractor has a large force of men and teams at work. A very commendable spirit was shown by the men" and boys of Eola last week in helping a fellow-man in distress. They went to the home of Wes Robertson, who was so badly crippled a few weeks ago that he has been unable to work since, and staked and trellised his hop yard so that he is now right up with his work. The following helped: Messrs. Swanson, Davis, Crippen, Schaffer, Aouff, Aut rican, Schuett, Mitty, P. Robertson, R. Robertson ; Ferguson and sons, Roy and Ray ; Stewart and son, Mar shal ; Dunsmore and son, Anderson : George, Cliff, Byron and John Gosser. FALLS CITY. A. F. Courier's cottage Is nearly completed. A. and E. Inman were Dallas visit ors, Wednesday. The new hospital is nearing com pletion at a rapid rate. Perry Wheeler is kept busy plowing gardens for Falls City people. D. Tollar's and Zlmri Hinshaw's buildings are nearly completed. Aikman & Boughey are building a sawmill southeast of Falls City. The Paul brothers are painting Jos eph Floria's house in north Falls City. F. Harmon and his nephew, Bert King, are cruising timber in the Siletz country. One of Mrs. Wolfe's houses caught Are in the roof, Tuesday morning. The blaze was soon put out by neigh bors. The Dayton street bridge is so nearly completed that teams can pass over it. It will soon be ready for travel. Bert Dennis passed through Falls City in his automobile, Wednesday morning. He says the roads between Dallas and Falls City are quite rough. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Edgar came home Saturday from Portland, where they had been to care for the remains of Mr. Edgar's brother, Joseph, who was drowned in the Kalama river. Newcomers are arriving in Falls City every day. Many are locating here and at Black Rock. There are not enough houses to accommodate the dally arrivals. Falls City la booming. INDEPENDENCE. Mrs. Layton Smith was a Salem visitor, Tuesday. Mrs. Tom Bohannon, of Astoria, is visiting relatives here. Mrs. Thomas Fennell was a Salem visitor the first of the week. J. M. Stark was In Portland for a few days during the week. Mrs. O. M. Johnson, of Salem, vis ited her brother. Dr. W. R. Allin, this week. Mr. and Mrs. L. Damon entertained the social whist club at their home Monday evening. Hop training Is now on in a num ber of yards and an Idle person Is hard to find in this vicinity. Miss Lola Stark has Joined her parents here, having visited In Pendleton and Portland, since leaving Baker City. Mlssa Brittle and Opal McDevAt returned to Dallas, Wednesday, after a visit with their sister, Mrs. G. W. Conkey. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hubbard returned from Portland, Sunday, where they visited relatives. They were accompanied home by Mrs. Claude Hubbard. The Misses Mabel and Francis Cooper, Ray Walker, Ted Cooper and Dean Goodman, who attend the Lni- verslty at Eugene are spending few days' vacation here. Harry E. Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. V. M. Smith, of this city, was drowned at Troy, Idijho, Saturday. The remains were brought here W ed nesday and buried in the I. O. O. F. cemetery. The city council met In adjourned session Saturday night and several important subjects were up for con skkrttion but little business of im portance transacted. Action will be taken on Important measures soon. LEWISVILLE. Miss Minnie Lewis has gone to Dallas to work In a store. Born, April 2i, 1907, to Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Williams, a 10-pound son. Several of the school children have quit school and gone to training heps. Some friends from Hillsboro have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Phillips here. Mrs. Flora Lewis is again in poor health. She is suffering from heart irouble. Mrs. D. O. Bronaon has been visit ing In Dallas with hor daughter, Mrs. J. E. Sibley. Friends of Mr. White have just come from Oklahoma and are tenting near the sawmill. Several of our young people were present at the balloon ascension in Falls City, Saturday. Miss Blanche McKlnney is at home now, after working at the axe-handle factory for several months. Rev. P. A. Moses, a former pa9tor of this place, was greeting his many friends in this vicinity, Monday, while en route to Falls City. Rev. M. B. Young preached his first sermon here Sunday night. He made quite a favorable impression. Rev. Metzger will hold the first quarterly meeting of the Evangelical church here next Sunday at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, at which time the sacra ment will be administered. MONMOUTH. Everybody making garden. S. M. Daniel went Portland for medical treatment last week. The Rlgby family arrived here from Idaho, Thursday, and like the country. Three teams are engaged in hauling hardwood lumber from the sawmill west of town. Miss Ella Johnson is improving nicely since returning home from the hospital in Portland. Mrs. Drewey, who is in the poultry business here, has over 300 young chickens and a large number of ducks. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Graves, editors and publishers of the Mon mouth Star, took their departure for Salem last week. Rev. T. T. Vincent, a former pastor of the Evangelical church in Mon mouth, but now County Clerk of Benton county, visited friends here, Saturday. Thomas Boothby made a business trip to Coos Bay last week. Hd says business is booming over there. He paid (8 to ride from Roseburg to the Bay and had to walk over two-thirds of the way. Coming out, he walked all of the way and saved bis money. Mrs. Sarah Cain died at the home of her son-in-law, Dr. J. M. Crowley, Saturday, April 20. She was born In Nodaway county, Missouri, July 20, 1825, and came to Oregon in 1885. She was a member of the Baptist church. Burial took place ln, the Etna ceme tery, about four miles north of Rick reall. The funeral sermon was preached by Rev. J. W. Osborn. Socialist Goeble spoke to quite a crowd of listeners In the blacksmith shop, Tuesday night, but I do not think he made any converts to his faith. The most he did was to criticise the other political parties and the cap italists, also President Roosevelt He told of all the mistakes the President had made, but said nothing about the good work he has done in bringing many rascally capitalists to justice. The cannery and evaporator is now an assured industry. A meeting was held on April 20, when by-laws were adopted and a board of supervisors elected. The meeting was largely attended and everyone seemed inter ested in the project. Tlans and speci fications for the cannery building will be drawn up soon. Prof. Emll Per not, of Corvallis, attended the meeting and gave an instructive talk on the canning business, also on the manu facture of elder and vinegar. Many farmers are going ahead and setting out fruit trees. Now watch Monmouth grow. PERRYDALE. Ourachool will cloBe May 17. Dick Dulgnan, of Portland, visited JMa parents, Sunday. Jesse Plankinton has secured em ployment in the Keyt store. Mr. Jennings has purchased the residence property of Mrs. Nancy Wl. Henry McKee and Will Keyt were passengers to Portland, Monday morning. Miss Anna Reetz has cone to Dallas r z 0- TI:a effect of Scoffs Emulsion, cn C. pals children is magicaL It makes them plump, rosy, active, hsppj. It contains Cod Liver Oil, Hypcphcsphittj , er.d Glycerine, to make fat, blood and unci so put together that it is easily d'rcitc! by Litis folk. ALL PRUCO'STQi Oo. AND Si.OO. to study dressmaking with Mrs. George Stroud. The Christian church has been thoroughly renovated and dressed with a pretty new carpet Elmer Enes, who has charge of Martin's lumber yard, Bhipped a car oontalniog 2S.000 feet of lumber to Palo Alto, California, last week. Mrs. Bay L. Sherwin, of Ashland, Worthy Grand Matron of the Order of Eastern Star of Oregon, accompanied by several members of Amity Chapter, was a guest at the home of Mrs. Alice E. Lynn, Sunday. POLK. The roads are getting dusty. School will close Friday, April 23. Ed and Lena Douglas, of Liberty, visited friends In this vicinity, Sun day. Some of the boys have got out their bicycles and are taking advantage of the dry rpads. Mrs. Eugene Byerley has been vis iting at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Reddekopp, Frank Friesen has purchased a registered Jersey bull from Mr. Nel son, of Independence. The stork visited the homo of Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Peters and brought them a fine 7-pound girl. Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Braun and Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Kliever visited friend at Fruitland, Marlon county, Satur day and Sunday. A mistake was made in the announcement of the Basket Social last week. The date should have been given as April 28 Instead of April 19. The farmers In this neighborhood are nearly through plowing their orchards. James Boydston, Dunn Brothers and John Rempel have already finished. RICKREALL. H. C. Fox has trellised his hop yard. Preaching here next Sunday at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Miss Aurelia Burch Is home from Eugene for a few days. W. R. Black sold 18 head of hogs to M. F. White this week. Miss Paulino Nesmith came home last Friday, much improved in health. Oliver Walt returned home from a several days' visit in Seattle last week. The Rickreall Alumni Association will hold its annual reunion on May 4. Mrs. James Clark and little son, Joe, of Springfield, have been visiting relatives here the past week. About 30 young people from this place went to Dallas, Saturday night, and had a good time at the skating rink. Remember that the United Artisans will give a picnio at Rickreall oa the first Saturday in June, and that everything will be done to make It a success. Blaine Southwlck had a runaway, Sunday. His horse became frightened at an automobile. The buggy was smashed up considerably, but no one was hurt. John Buroh has been laid up with, a sprained ankle for more than a week. He is the first to moot with an accident since skating has been indulged in here. GET READY TO SPRAY J. B. Nunn dives Formula for Best Spraying Materiel for Moths and Caterpillars. J. B. Nunn, Fruit Inspector for Polk county, hands us the following formula for fruit tree spray for this season of the year and requests that we publish it for the benefit of our readers : For apple and pear scab, on the truit: Spray with 6 pounds of lime; 4 pounds of blue vitriol; pounds arsenate of lead, to 60 gallons of water. The lead will kill the codling moths that enter the blossom end of the fruit To destroy caterpillars, spray with 3 pounds of arsenate of lead to SO gallons of water. Spray thoroughly, with as fine a mint as possible, as soon as they make their appearance. If they eat the foliage this year, they will destroy most of the fruit buds for next year's crop. If you want a crop of fruit next year, kill the caterpillars. For codling moth, spray as follows : First time, June 15 to 25; second time, July 20 to 25 ; third time August 25 to September 10. Save this formula for future use. Lgal blanks at this office. y f "tf '4 y C ( 1 t