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About Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1907)
,1 OILIC P PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY VV JTS .. II - I Swl. Ufl .11 V . W -.11 ' njajataji.- T --JUiA5k.A JL -'t- DALLAS, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, DECEMBER 13. 1007. i. .1 V" u. "-g Christmas 3 don't you friends would hing useful? ier could you '. presents than 3 and Furni , Let us give uggestions: NEWS OF COUNTY TOWNS. "4 kins Chairs Stand Table Morris Chairs Pictures Sideboard Buffet Library Table Office Chair Desks China Closet Dressing Tables Chiffonier Silverware Ingersol Watches Match Safes Pocket Knives Razors Table Cutlery Toledo Ranges Air Guns 22 cal. Rifles We have a big assort- cnt of all the above tides and would be ad to show them to 1 COS, ton Hardware Furniture Plumbing Carpets Paints )S aper ; 1 - where you i our money's Oregon AIRLIE. E. T. Evans reeentlv soM !ht hon of hogs to I. M. Simpson. D. N. Turner was in Independence a iew days ago purchasing loggers' supplies E. and H. Tartar were hauliner the uuyer hops to this place for shipment a lew aays ago. Bums Rose has moved his familv to the Siletz basin where he has taken up a homestead Bosco Staats has passed the civil service examination, and is now on tne train as a mail clerk. Mr. and Mrs. McDonald, of Wood burn, are visiting their daughter. airs, into Simpson, near here. Mr. and Mrs. J. Brown have tonn t.n Newberg, where they will stav until his axe-handle factory is started again. A new directory for the Indeoendent telephone office at this place will be ready for general distribution in a lew days. A. C. Guyer sold his hons to Tt V. Williams last week for 7c. The Seb- ring Brothers and J. C. Nendel sold for the same figure. George Grover. of Oregon Citv. was a business visitor in Airlie this week, in the Interest of the Independent Telephone Company. Dr. O. D. Butler, of Independence. was called out this week to bra M. Winterstein, who is suffering very mucn irom poison oak. .rercy Hadley took the school census last week. It shows that there has been a decrease of about a dozen nhli. dren since the June census was taken. V. Cecil Staats. son of Mr and Mm C EStaats, of this place, is finishing his fourth and last vear nt t.hA at. Louis Medical University. He will return home early in May. Our teacher. Mrs. Winterstofn. nnt .li. , uoiug time to teaon tnis week on account of sickness, caused by poison oaK, secured a teacher from the O. 8. N. S. to fill her place for a few days Mr. and Mrs. E. Con Nebraska, after spending a couple of weeks with relatives at Kosehnri?. returned to this place a few days ago ana win spend the winter with their son, George. As soon as the A D telephone line in completed to Airlie a cable will be put in to connect several new instrnmnnts that will be installed. The completion of this new system will give us two commercial lines to Dallas. The H. S. and L. C. card club held their first meeting for this winter at the home of Mr. and Mrs. I. M Simpson last Thursday night. There were 16 present and light refresh ments were served at midnight. The next party will be at George Conns, Friday evening. Mrs. Joe Graham met with a serious accident, Tuesday. While the house sheslipped and fell, striking the back of her head on the walk and lay unconscious until seen bv CI vow Turner an hour later. She was carried into the house, her husband was called from his work near by, and a doctor sent for. She is reported but little better at this writing. BUTLER. G. 0. Butler was in Dallas, Satur day. D. T. Hodges was a Sheridan visitor last week. . Mrs Charles Ganon was a Sheridan visitor Saturday. Sam Osborne visited in this neih borhood last week. Miss Beta Eowell is in Sheridan. ... ... r m with the mumps. Ueorge Elgin was out from his claim on Salmon Eiver lastThursday. John Hodges hnn returned to his school work in McMinnville. after a weeks' visit at home. Leonard Shaw returned to his home in Dallas, Saturday, after a two weeks' visit at the home of Mr. anrl Mrs. Glenn Butler. EOLA. Our Christmas tree programme is progressing nicely. Thomas Holman is prenarlner to build more new wire fence. Mrs.,H. B. Brophy has been auite sick at ner home in Salem. Mr. Forrest and family, of Turner, have moved to the McNary farm. John Brophy, of Salem, spent Sun day at the farm home near Eola. O. A. Kruse, of McMinnville, is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. O. Q. Savage. A. O.' Brown butchered eisht ten- months-old hogs which averaged 280 pounds apiece. Davis Allen has gone to Marion county where he will spend about two months on his farm. Grandma Eobertson spent Thanks giving at the home of her son, T. W. Eobertson, at Eickreall. Mrs. T. H. Dunsmore is visiting for a few days at the home of her daugh ter, Mrs. P. B. Bobertson, of Turner. The proceeds of the basket social at Popcorn, Saturday night, amounted to $18. 75, which will be used to add new books to the library. There were several hop sales In our neighborhood last week. H. B. Brophv sold for lie : Archie Brown. 71c : W. T. Eobertson, 7c, and George Harris, 6. Mrs. William Eublo. of Highland. who has attained the ripe acre of 83 years, is still as spry as most women or 50. Sne does her house-work. milks her cow, and drives her horse Mrs. Bubie claims the distinction of taking the first cultivated berries to saiem In 1855. They were the black cap raspberries, her husband having dug the original bush in the woods. bhe received $1.50 a gallon for the berries. Mrs. Ruble owns a fine farm at Oak Grove, which is rented by Hon Frank Fawk. INDEPENDENCE. J. McCready visited in Black Eock during the week. A. S. Locke is up from Portland for a few days' visit. G. W. Conkey was a Portland visitor the first of the week. Mrs. Lillian Eaton has returned from a short stay in Portland. Mr. Gus Sperling has sold his resi dence property to Mr. Lindem. Mr. and Mrs. P. HDrexler enter tained the Crab Club, Friday evening. Mrs. Florence Whiteaker is visiting her sister and brother in Jacksonville" Oregon. J. S. Bohannon left Saturday for a trip in the east, and will visit relatives in Missouri. Mrs. Hattie Town send, who has been visiting relatives here the past two weeks, returned to her home in Seattle, Tuesday. Mrs. A. J. Goodman visited here the latter part of the week, on her return from Eugene to her home in Pendleton. Mrs. N. O. Clodfelter returned to hr home in Portland, Tuesday, after a two weeks' visit with her daughter. - CJ 7 Mrs. A. C. Moore. The ladies of the Presbvterian Church held their Annual Bazaar, Saturday, a ladies minstrel show by home talent, being the chief attraction or tne evening. pioneers are passing away, and only about four are left in this vicinity to tell of the early settlements. Anson McGowan, a former resident of Lower Spring Valley, has purchased a farm near Newberg. Miss Dora Walker, of Salem, is nt her sister's, Mrs. D. G. Henry's, nurs ing her nephew, Worth Henry. Mrs. Eose McGrath and little daughter, of Portland, visited in this vicinity last Saturday and Sunday. Miss Una Phillips has returned from an extended visit with relatives and friends in Portland and Independence. Morton Mortenson ha3 left the Cald well farm, near Lincoln, and is going over into Tillamook county to work for William Patrick. Misses Marie and Joyce Crawford went to Portland last Friday, to visit their brother, P. L. Crawford and to do Christmas shopping. On last Monday morning the stork called at the home of Ealph Shenard and left a bouncing son. Mother and son are doing nicely. Mrs. W. L. Cook has gone to Ari zona for the winter on account of noor health. Mrs. Jessie Holland accom panied her and will remain for a week or two until Mrs. Cook is comfortably located. FALLS CITY. Mr. Buys and family, who reside in the Hicks' property, intend to move to vituiuiuui, iu me near future. on . BUENA VISTA. Mr. Bolter went to Portland. aay on business W. J. Steele was in .TenVrsnn business, Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Marlon Win n want tn Albany, Wednesday. A. K. and W. S. Hall were in Salm on business Monday. w. M. and J. D. Winn wer Tnda pendence visitors, Saturday. A. K. and W. S. Hall have iointiv . . . . j purcuasea a iarm or w. J. Steele. air. ana Mrs. A. s. Loneraere. of Silverton, are visiting friends in this neighborhood. Mrs. B. F. Snyder and son. of Van- couver, are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Steele. Mrs. Carrie Bickner has returned to her home in Oswego, Oregon, after a visit among relatives. John Loy was found dead at Ms i - home Wednesday. The cause of his death is unknown. He was burled Friday. Lady Maccabees Elect Officers. lne Lady Maccabees met at th home of Mrs. J. G. VanOrsdel. I HAS. day afternoon, and elected thn fniiw. ing officers for the ensuing year: 14. U Uizabeth VanOrsdel. LL C.-Ella M. Thompson. E. K. Eva Hayter. F. A. -Blanche Eakin. Chaplain Eliza Black. Sergeant Rosa E. Fidler. M. at A. Meda Holman. Picket Hester Flake. Finestllneof toilet cases at Stafrios. C. D. Shepard has been awarded the contract, by the County Com missioners tor tilling in the approaches to the new steel Dridge. Frank Butler, who has been aoriousiv ill for the past several months, is Improving rapidly and will soon be able to be up and around. W. H. Becker, of Shedds, Oregon, is the successor to Dr. Wolf and will take up the latter's practice immedi ately upon his arrival in this citv. He comes well recommended. ' Dr. Osmar K. Wolf, the efficient young doctor who has been practicing medicine in our city for the past eight montns, left Monday morning for hia home in Salem. About the first of the coming year he will go to John Day, urant county, Oregon, where he will resume nis practice. Mrs. Sarah Miller died in Portland December i, 1907. aged 71 years and ft months. She was born in Indiana and afterwards moved to Kansas where she resided for several vears leaving that state in 1890 she came to Oregon and has since made this her home. Mrs. Miller is survived by seven daughters and two nna ,n w wwuwf Mil residents of Oregon. Her remains Drougnt to this city for burial. sprvWa being held at the home of her daugh ter, Mrs. W. E. Hinshaw, last Thursday. MONMOUTH. The school census shows that there are 227 children In the district. Mr. and Mrs. Clanton, of Portland, visited friends and relatives in Mon mouth last week. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Kennedy, of JJailas, visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Walker, Sunday. The O. S. N. S. defeated the U. of O In a game of basketball, Saturday night, the score being 27 to 7. Hubert Goode played the star game for Mon mouth. Mr. and Mrs. A. Chute, of South Dakota, cousins of A. L. Chute, arrived in Monmouth last week, and will locate here.Mr.Chute brought with him several head of fine Peroheron horses, beside other stock, and many farming implements, and intends to purcnase a farm as soon as possible. E. Eobeson, of the stock dealing firm of Robeson & Son, Ilderston, Ontario, brought two car loads of fine sneep rrom Canada this week, one for J. B. Stump, of this city, and one for j M. S. Woodcock, of Corvallis. Mr. Eobeson is highly pleased with the Willamette Valley, and says that it is an excellent stock country. 0AKDALE. You know as well as anv one when you need something to regulate your system. If your bowels are sluara-ish. your food distresses you. vourkidnevs pain, take Hollister's Eocky Mountain Tea. It always relieves. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets. Belt & Cherrington. US V - r '' I if . i 1 1 ' ,i ' If I 1 h - - V Stylish Overcoats and Cravenettes $75 tO $20 Copyright 1907 by Hart bchaffher is Mar We are closing out our Furs and Ladies' Coats and have some good styles to show you at way down prices. Campbell & Hollister Cash Store Dallas, - . - Oregon Mr. Peterson has been very ill but is Improving. There has been considerable rain lately and the roads are very muddy Cephas Nelson and John Eobinson and father have bought the Stapleton place. Mr. Dickinson lias purchased the Siefarth property, and has moved his residence to that place. John Macomber has built himself a house near his father's residence, and Is now employed in cutting wood. An epidemic of measles has been causing so many absences from the public school, that it was found neces eary to close It for a short time. Vick Brothers, of Falls City, will erect a sawmill on the John Farley property In the coming Spring. Thev have already cut considerable timber in this locality. Bissol SALE NOW ON SALE NOW ON R. Jacobson, the Pioneer Merchant of Yamhill County,, after a successful career ot 40 years in the mercantile business, -of which nearly 30 years has been spent in this county, has fully decided to retire and spend his remaining years with his family Whether 'the business is to be continued by the junior member of the hrm or Sold Out to outside parties, the entire stock has to be reduced to a lim ited amount. The merchandise, former treatment and prices have installed a confidence m the people which cannot be shaken. To this end we offer prices which cannot be duplicated and which it is your duty to investigate. $65,000 Worth of First Class Merchandise Is now offered to the public at prices unheard pf before on the West Side. Don't wait until the last minute and expect to find a full assortment as the stock will move out very rapidly. Checks on Banks and Clearing House Certificates taken same as cash. . R. JACOBSON & Mcflinnviile, Oregon CO., When winds shriek hteh in fiendish glee. And enters winter with his key Protect yourself, from disease be free; Take Hollister's Eocky Mountain Tea. Belt & Cherrington. Legal blanks at this office. Latest Christmas Books at Stafrins. Skating races at the Colosseum Bink, Tuesday, Thursday and Satur day Eight this week. Open to all gentlemen skaters who desire to enter. SOUTH RICKREALL. Cass Gibson is laying cement walks around his house. John Orris grading his lawn, and will build cement walks. M. M. Jones and son, of Monmouth, are shipping their cream to the Dallas creamery. Mr. and Mrs. William Jones, of Monmouth, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Miller, Sunday, Mr. McDonald, who bought the Calkins farm is well pleased with his new home. He praises Polk County aa the garden spot of Oregon. ZENA AND SPRING VALLEY. Colds are prevalent throughout this section of the country. Mrs. Ben Windsor is seriously ill at her home near Lincoln. . Clyde Henry is home again after a two years' sojourn in Los Angeles. W. L Crawford went to Portland. Thursday to attend the Dairy Conven tion. G. F." Crawford is having a seige of malaria and Is scarcely able to be about - Worth Henry is quite 111 with typhoid fever at the home of his parents. The Gilbert and Patterson farm at Lincoln was sold last week to a Mr. Morgan, of Portland. The funeral of the late Mrs. B. F. McLench was held from the Zena church last Saturday. Slowly the! vr RING OUT THE OLD, RING IN THE NEW!" f -5T Our New Line of Goods for the Holidays is Now Ready for n spection. Come in and see it. A Few Happy Suggestions for Christmas A Tea Set A Coffee or Tea Pot A Set of Carvers A Set of Silver Knives and Forks A Set of Tea, Table or Dessert Spoons A Set of Nut Picks and Cracks A Manicure Set An Embroidery Set A Pair of Scissors or Shears A Pocket Knife A Cigar Clip Other article too numerous to mention DALLAS, . FAULL THE LEADING HARDWARE DEALER w m OREGON