The Best and largest Paper in Polk County
VOL. x x x iv
NO. 34
DA LLA S O REG O N SEPTEM BER 17. 1908
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A NEW OAT
WE INVITE YOUR
INSPECTION OF OUR
Fall Showing Of
Raised by C. D. Nairn—Prices of A r
ticles in Polk’s Pioneer Days.
—NEW FALL—
Dress Goods
Shoes
Ladies’ Skirts
Kingsbury Hats
U nderw ear
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I and a man and team only got $2 a <lav
A NEW OAT.
I for hauling, while men got 75 cents and
$1. It cost Mr. Brown $2 a hundred for
!-$ -
hauling of his freight from Portland Mr. C. D Nairn Gets Good Returns I •*T'
What Articles Cost Away Back in to the Dallas
by ox team, but he cheapened
From a Cross.
1856.
th at considerably by hiring a man by
w
the month and using his own teams. Mr i \ D. Nairn, the famous proprie
The other day while visiting Uncle One of Mr. Brown’s best custom ers* tor of #Sct#.ch collie kenuels, near Balla-
Bill Brown he allowed us to glance over and one who generally came all the way ton, informs us th at he has lately got
a ledger kept by him in 185<>— 62 years from Salem to trade with him was the ten exceelent results from a new cross
a,$o. when Dallas was but a ham let. He late Judge H. P. Boise. They were , bred oat, Swedish and English, and l»e-
started merchandising in Polk county great friends, and in looking over his Ì lieve» it to be the coming oat. From
on April 1, 1853, 65 years ago. At that j old l)ook account we were struck with i about sq of an acre he recently harvest-
prices of things then, and which our ed 74 bushels and 26 pounds. The seed
time the county was very sparsely set the
readers won l no doubt like to are
com
tled, and the great state of Oregon hot ! pare
a was imported from England last spring,
with the e of today. Here
Goods are comming in daily.
yet adm itted to the Ui. on As a lad I tew we
and Mr. Nairn considers the returns
noted:
Uncle Bill crossed the plains in 1847, i 20 |Hiiinds of -ugar .........
I J 25 better than th at secured by Mr, Hunt-
1
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j
0
yards
of
calico
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and was married the following year.
75 ley of 117 bushels an acre of the Shade-
i>ot............................
His life had been one of hard woik, and I Coffee
25 land Challenge oat, which w as also in ¿ / k i'v - '
Skein of thread ................
he had never acquired an education of Pair of overshoes ............
2 00 troduced by Mr. Nairn. This new oat
3 50 will be called Sbadeland Climax, a fit
any sort. For several years he worked 70 pounds of salt ............
of nails ............
00
at manual labor after coming to Oregon, 0 loo pounds
name, grown as it first was on
pounds sugar ............
15 00 ting
hut ambition stirred within him and he 10 pounds
2 00 Sbadeland farm, and is probably the
of apples . ...
longed for a business life. This he knew 5 pounds of coffee ........
1 00 climax as far as a good oat can be. The
75 seed will probably be distributed through
to be impossible unless he could keep 1 dish ................................
37
quart of ta r .....................
books and be a fair mathematician. 1 1 set
2 75 the Portland Seed Company, as are
of teaspoons..............
| To acquire this knowledge he set him- 130 eggs...............................
3 40 Mr. Nairn’s other productions. Polk
1 self to work. To make a living kept 1 pound b u tte r..................
75 county is hard to heat for imported live
8 00 stock, grains, etc.
' him busy during the day, so he utilised 2 dozen chickens ............
62 j
v erm ifu ge..........
1 the nights. It was not a burning of 1 1 liottle
s h e a rs ....................
50
the m idnight oil with Uncle Bill, as oil 8 pair
DISC PLOWS.
bushels potatoes............
4 00
was very scarce and precious. It was 1 veil ....................................
2 04»
50 A Disc plow to do good work should
| by the light of a pine knot th at he learn 5 slate pencils...................
of tobacco..............
Q U A L IT Y »
00 run a depth of at least six inches. The
ed to “ Agger” and to cast up accounts. 0 1 plugs
pair socks ....................
50 Oliver will do this and even deeper ow
T enth and Morrison, Portland, Oregon A. P. Armstrong, LL.B., Principal B" lllloF B ''t »'»1 «ticktoitiveness caused 1 handkerchief . . . . . . . . .
50 ing to the fact th at it has the weight
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him * soon
to m aster these two funda- I broom ................................
75
it and is so constructed that it
H w e occupy two floors 65 by 100 feet, have a $20,000 equipment,
,
50 w’itn
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mental requirem ents ot a successful 4 pound' dried apples . ..
runs lighter than any other Disc plow
1
flannel
undershirt
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1
75
employ a large faculty, give individual instruction, receive more calls b„8iness career, and Mr. Brown decided
on
the
of lighter weight. You
2 Imya’ hats for Sunday
2 50 can turn market
either to the right or left as
for office help than we can meet. Our school admittedly leads all to embark on a mercantile lit«* with 0 pounds rice......................
1 00 easy as with any walking plow owing to $ -
others in quality of instruction. It pays to attend such an institution. what lie had saved up. The location 1 silk cravat
..............
1 50
fact that it is all handled with your
1 45 the
was w hat is known as Old Dal 10 yards sheeting ............
team. We are going to make you a
C.Said a Business Man : “ Keep hammering away everlastingly on thorough selected
10
yards
bleached
muslin
3
25
price on one of these Double
work. It will win out in the end.” Said an Educator: “The quality of instruc las, opposite Peter Hansen’s home in 1*2 bushels apples ..........
12 00 special
Disc Plows while they last. The regu
tion given in your school makes it the stan d ard of its kind in the Northwest.” ; North Dallas, There lie began busi- It will lie seen that the greatest differ lar
price
on this size of a plow is $70
! ness and laid the foundation for the ence in prices of then and today was in and you can
now have it for $50.50. If
C.Open all the year. Students admitted a t a n y time. Catalogue free.
apples,
which
were
selling
at
$8
a
comfortable fortune of which he is now
w ant a Disc Plow buy it now . as
References: A ny bank, any newspaper, any business man in Portland. I possessed. His one great pnde now in bushel. This was because, we suppose, vou
only good until the 15th of
apple orchards set out by the pio this offer is Mail
or phone orders will re
¡his old age is that he never tried to the
neers had not vet come into bearing. October.
ceive
prompt
attention.
| cheat a customer in any way. He simp- All freight was then brought around the
R. M. W ADE A CO.
Resolutions opposing the candidacy of I A certain n an of our town got up I |y sola |,is goods at a fair protit, collect- horn or across the I stum us, and of
W. E. CRAVEN, Manager,
fe etary Taft, declaring th at his elec Monday morning and proceeded to put 1 , , .
, , .
,
, . . course caused high prices. Just think
Independence
tion would mean the “ perpetuation of ou I,is'trou s.-,,.Tons, After vainly en- !6,1 what w“ ,1,,p h,m - aml
for a moment of the price paid for labor
government by injunction” and suggest- deavoring to get them to come together money, investing more largely as he se then, what had to be paid for the ne
i g th a t no man carrying a union card over what you might call his emliom cured the means to do so. \\ hen he be cessities of life, and you will surely con Mrs. I. I). Phillips, after a two weeks
should support the Republican nomi- p oint, he became alarmed and called to gan to think of a business career he clude our lot of today a most easy on e. vi*it with relatives here and at Mon
n , were adopted without a dissenting liis wife that lie must he swelling up as could not add two 25 cent pieces. (irit While you are at it think of the many mouth, has returned to her home at
\ i e at a meeting of the Federal Trades his pants would not meet hv a foot.
luxuries of today not even dreamed of Croy. Ira came down to Portland to
( iiticil. the central botlv of organized She took a look and rem arked: “ No and perseverance carried him through then.
meet her and buy furniture for their
lal>or in Portland, Friday night.—Ore wonder, you are trying to get on your and made him the wealthy man he is
residence. Mr. Phillips and W. J. Yost
gonian.
son’s.”
have h 1-rge store at Croy.
texlay. Labor was cheap in those days, Finkt*. the b,*nt printer.
OLD TIME BOOKS
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SQUARE AIR-TIGHT
DID YOU EVER HEAR
OF ONE BEFORE?
The body is made of genuine planished iron and
is protected by a cast lining, the front section of
which is so formed that the draft admitted by the
screw damper is carried downward nearly to the
stove bottom The door opening is very large and
is proviped with a smoke curtain. Th. re is a check
domper under the pipe collar to he used in ke*ping
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With each Banquet range a tea kettle, coffee-pot and tea
pot-three useful articles with the best range on the mar
ket. No more solid and durable range ever built. The
most convenient to operate, the most economical to use.
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ROCKERS
We have a large line of Rookers that we must
turn into money; for money and room we must have.
Reed Rocker like cut
$4 00
Dallas Furniture Co’s ‘p rice....v
Adams & Brobst Co’s price
$3 OO
Quarter oak rockers;
$7 00
Dallas Furnitore Co’s price
Adams & Brobst Co’s price
$5 5 0
Upholstered rockers in leather:
#10 00
Dallas Furniture Co’s price
Adams & Brobst Co’s price
$ 8 OO
BODY made from heavy
grade blue planished steel,
double and interlined with
asbestos where exposed to
the direct action of the fire.;
DINING CHAIRS
CASTINGS made from the
best grade of pig iron.
A large stock of chairs that must go. We have to
TOP PLATE cast in sec make room for our ranges and heaters that we have
tions to insure against warp
ing or cracking, covers and been keeping in our side room; but having rented it
centers of trussed designs. we will have to move them into the furniture room.
GUARANTEE: We will
put a range in your home
and after using it for thirty Highly polished quarter oak chairs:
days you are not satisfied,
$1.75
we will take the range back Dallas Furniture Co’s price
Adams
&
Brobst
Co’s
price
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and give you your money
back. Could you ask for
anything better?
We have over a dozen styles at c< rrespondingly low
prices.
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