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0 n The Paper th at 64 COLUMNS nt \ y Y o u W h a t T Y o u W a r v t -to 'R f a d \'v ^ A l i p r w Dallas bills more Freight out and in than any town in Oregon, except Portland. The Best and Largest Paper in Polk County VOL. xxxvi. DALLAS, OREGON, MAY 18, 1911. R e : s o l v e : d th e m o r e you W ash THE 5EJT UASHABLE5 THE BETTER THEY LOOK THE MORE YOU WEARlHE BEST WASHABLE5 THE B e tte r You L ook HINTS FOR OUR GOOD. Our Booster Gives Some More Unvarnished Advice. NO. DECORATION DAY. and Exercises in the on Both Parade Afternoon. few days pending a decision as to the method o f heating to be used. Eight bids were submitted the building and five on the heat ing, and competition was keen, as evidenced by the small differ ence in the figures. A site has been reserved one block east of the normal campus Considerable building activity is under way in Monmouth now, and among several handsome residences is one being built by President Ackerman. A full complement of the com Editor Itemizer: mittees were present at the coun As I took a run over the hills cil chamber Tuesday evening for the pu o f maki arranRe. to Monmouth the other day I saw merits for Memorial day. The some fine clover fields and some nieetin was called to onJer by ancient manure piles, and a lot of hillside land that would mire a Mayor Craven. The formation of duck; but believe me, rich in hu an order o f exercises was the mus if properly drained and mod first business taken up and dis ernized. As I was a stranger in cussed. It was decided to hold the town I guess I was the object the parade and exercises in the Motion Filed. o f much pity. Although it was afternoon, the parade leaving May I saw several men wearing j In the case o f Sophia Tharp town at 2 o ’clock, and the cere overcoats to keep warm. I was Gregory vs. Agnes M. O ’ Keefe, monies attendant being put on interviewed as to where I lived, ct al which was tried in the cir- at the cemeteries. and when I replied that I lived j cuit court here last week, the Reports from the heads of the ; in the five mile angle between ] defendant Miss O ’ Keefe has ask- several committees previously j Monmouth, Falls City and Dallas, ed for a new trial. Her motion appointed showed that all organ was told that it was the poorest for the new trial is supported by izations mentioned would be able [ land in Polk county. I was told the affidavits o f herself and her to take part in the parade, with 1 the apple industry was overdone attorney, P. H. D’ Arcy, o f Sa- possibly the exception o f the Re- and there was no money in grow- j lem. The reasons given are that bekahs, so many o f them being ing vegetables. I asked the qrice | the evidence was insufficient to teachers in the schools and al / ! • ¿3 « of spuds and was told the market support the verdict, and also on ready engaged for the occasion, was almost bare, but what spuds the ground o f surprise. The ai- and the Spanish War veterans, were in sight were $70 a ton. I fidavits state that the defendant numbers are small and WHEN THERE \S SO MUCH DU.ST FLYING IN THE asked if they could fill an order O’ Keefe had supposed and ex- whose they also engaged in other sec- AIR, ARE NOT WAJH GOODJ THE M oJT for ten boxes of Newtown Pippin pected that the defendants, Drs. tions of the parade, DESIRABLE MATERIALS FROM WHICH YOU apples and they said no— there I Starbuck, Bollman and McCallon, j On motion of Fenton the se^ CAN MAKE YOUR .SUMMER D RE J JE J ? YOU was no demand for them or thev would fight the case mutually lection of the flags was left to KNOW IT IJ A VERY COMFORTABLE FEELING would have raised some. Now j with her, but on the contrary, at the teachers and W. I. Ford was people, there it goes. If a | the trial thereof they conducted appointed a committee of one to TO GET INTO A FR.EJH, CR.IJP, NEWLY IRONED good man was a millionaire living in their defense separately, causing get samples, etc. DREJJ. IF YOU ARE FAJ U D IO U J ABOUT THE San Diego or London, England, the jury to find in their favor ! j t was decided to hold the ex- PATTERNJ YOU WIJH— WHEN .SHOULD NOT he would have to go without his and against Miss O’ Keefe. A , ercises in the rear of the I. 0. ONE HAVE THE RIGHT T o CHOO.SE THE THINGS favorite apple because Polk coun motion to dismiss the application 0 , F. cemetery, between that ty, Oregon, had forgotten t o , o f Miss O’ Keefe and counter- and what is known as the old THAT PLEA.SE THEM— WHEN THEY MUJT PAY raise any. The kind o f apples to j affidavits in support thereof, FOR THEM? HOWEVER FAJTICIOUJ YOU raise are those which can be sold have been filed by Attorney L. D. cemetery. The music to be furnished was MAY BE WE CAN PLEASE YOU. LET \JS JELL at home or in foreign markets at i Brown, in behalf o f the physi- left in the hands o f the program YOU YOUR WAJH GOODJ. from $2 to $6 a box, and not a cians; the counter-affidavits are committee, the music committee lot of shrivelled Ben Davis ap made by Attorneys L. D. Brown gladly volunteering the services A G o o d N ew Fancy Shirt fo r $ ples you ought to be ashamed to and B. A. Kliks, who conducted o f singers as soon as known the defense for the physicians, what was required. C h eap on es fo r 7 5 c look in the face. One old gentleman suggested and affidavits by the physicians The programme as paitly out T h e Pest ever fo r $ 1 .5 0 that if I wanted to get rich I themselves. The matter will be lined will be as follows: Invoca S ee o u r n ew line o f S m a rt S o ft Shirts should buy 2000 acres of hill land heard by Judge Kelly in Cham tion, music, reading of Abraham and get 500 goats. ' ‘ Well uncle,” bers, in a short time. Lincoln’s Gettysburg address; said I, “ give me 10 acres in good music; memorial address; music PENNSYLVANIA. I prunes and apples and you can and grave decoration. have the goats that will eat the j 1 Rev. Miles moved that a com- brass buttons off your coat, but Letter from a Dallas Maid Far | mittee o f three be appointed to give me the apples that will put] solicit funds and to purchase from Home. gold buttons on mine.” He said, flags. Mayor Craven appointed “ By grab, you are the limit; I Mahaffey, Pa., May 10, 1911. A. B. Muir, H. L. Fenton and W. I. Ford. wonder they let you loose.” Editor Itemizer: What we want is more Burbanks Mr. Lovelace reported that I will write and tell you and fewer mistakes and acci I think of the state of Pennsyl abefut fifteeiT old soldiers were dents in the agricultural field. vania. I landed here May 2nd buried in our cemeteries, and The goat has his place, but put I ¿^ d find things quite different that when the time arrived he him on brush land that is n o t 1 from what they are in Oregon. would have them all designated adapted to fruit raising. We Farmers are getting ready to sow for decoration. He also request have Canada and Alaska for a oats, and peach and cherry trees ed that all persons having rela market and we can enter the are just in bloom. We had quite tives or friends there, members field with the best dried fruits a thunder shower this evening. of the G. A. R., notify the com man ever ate. Over production It was beautiful to see the light mittee at once, as it was not the Merchants attract trade to their stores is a myth when prices soar high ning in the sky and the heayy desire to miss any. er and higher. Look at the dried peals o f thunder following it, but Mr. Fenton also requests that by illuminating the store front and fruit market and the thousands it frightened me. Every build friends or relatives notify him of sidewalk with electric lamps on artis o f our fellow mortals who cannot ing in this part o f the country the abiding place o f parties in afford to buy it right now, be has lightning rods upon it, which the old cemetery, many o f them tic posts. Investigate our new offer on cause their salary cannot stand looks strange to me, as in Oregon being entirely unmarked. Mr. this form o f lighting. Ask our new the strain. Apples, the king of we have no use for such things. Chapman has offered to furnish fruit, can be shipped dried or There is no timber here and the head boards for all these un Business Department, Telephone 24. fresh all over the world, and so people all burn coal. Everything known, and the request is that can prunes and peaches. If a looks black, not clean and bright they meet with Mr. Fenton at the cemetery Monday and assist time comes when we cannot sell as in old Oregon. in identifying those not known. them, we can feed them to the HARRIET DAVIS. Particular stress is placed on this pigs; but hops can only be used request, as it is desired to make for horse bedding and they some Located in New York. the marking complete. times wreck banks and private Staying at the Ansonla today, All parties having flowers to citizens alike. And oil—1 only J. L. WHITE, Local Manager hope oil will never be struck, as under the name o f Mr. and Mrs. be used by the decoration com it would be the ruination o f our Francis M. Von Ardyn, areThos. mittee will please leave them on late abbot of St. Monday morning at Webster’s I w v w t w w w w H w v m w t w w m m w w w i w w M w w w w w « horticultural field. Let us raise Meienhofer, something the human or the Benedict at Mount Angel, Or., confectionery, as the committee beast can eat, and not something and his wife, formerly Mrs. cannot spare the time to visit ************************* * that is a burden if it cannot be Belle Gerlinger Dalton, divorcee, residences and pick them up. daughter of Louis Gerlinger, All such gifts will be most grate sold. a Portland millionaire lumber fully received, satisfactorily car Oh the apple, the king o f fruit. man. ed for, and tenderly placed to That grows on the hillsides of The name Von Ardyn has not commemorate our heroes gone i Polk, Cleaning, Pretiing, Dyeing been assumed by the former And the prunes that are so de- monk. He is the scion of a titled before. Do you need wood? In pre- ' and Alterations It was arranged that the mem • liciously sweet, paring to place your ar- 2 family, and before entering the tiers reiiu*ml)er that I am 4 With peaches and cherries so red Benedictine order was Baron Von bers o f the G. A. R. post here able to furnish you all kinds * They look like a blush on the Ardyn. He chose that name rath would visit the public schools the All Work Guaranteed of slab wood from either of ^ Friday afternoon previous to Me cheek. the Dallas sawmills, at the 4 er than that o f Meienhofer on morial day, and deliver addresses Go fill up a basket o f apples, leaving the monastery. best possible rates, Send in 4 “ I’ m Goods Called for and your orders by either phone. J Peaches, pears, cherries and happy here,” said the former to the scholars on subjects com memorative and indicative o f the Mutual 119«; Bell 443. 2 such. Delivered abbott, after admitting his ident day. That always bring pleasure to i t y to a reporter. Visiting Grand Army men and eat. Mr, Von Ardyn is broad shoul- members o f Posts from else- | Ladies' Work a Specialty To admire, to handle or touch, I dered, wears spectacles and where are requested to be pres -1 And the price that they bring speaks with a distinctly German ] enj and £Urn out in the parade, In the marts of the world Room 5, Wilson Block accent. Removing his eyeglass- ^ most cordial invitation is ex Is ever and ever so much. , es. he said: “ I am almost blind. tended to such by the embryo Phone 520 But the goat go way back and The sight of my right eye is for- post here. sit down, ever lost. My left eye, too, is Your hair is a good thing to sell. affected. Under the care of em- Former Dallas Boy Seriously III. R. L. CHAPMAN...... But your carcass I don t want to ¡nen^ specialists, I am progress- FU N ER A L DIRECTOR NOTICE TO COASTERS John M. Pipes, city attorney tOUCh‘ T f HITMT ing, but quite slowly. o f Eugene, and a son o f Judge EMBALMER _______ _ MUIN1- “ One day I suffered a sudden I will run a gasoline launch at Pa M. L. Pipes, o f Portland, was ] O r r iC K : Chapel and Parlor.. N. Main at. MCNMniiTU a c c f p t ? Din rush of blood to the head. The operated upon at the general DALLAS. OREOON: cific City this year. Parties taken MUNMOUIH A tl.h r 1 3 Bill. light seemed to go out o f the Bell Phone liM - Minimi Phone IMW. hospital there Monday for ap anywhere and rates reasonable. c i . » Y j t i c aqo u- l ri 0 ht eye. A specialist said I had Call* Promptly Answered Day or Night Salem rirm to Build >16,998 High suffered detachment of the ret- pendicitis. and is in a dangerous R. H. STEFFY. School Near Campus. ina. From that moment 1 grew condition. Dr. R. C. Coffey, of ___ discouraged, I felt I was stand- Portland, performed the opera tion. Mr. Pipes was very ill for The Monmouth school board let jn* in the wa/ , of ° ther9 was a week before the operation, and theco tract Tuesday for construe-1 IpsmKJpy usefulness to the or the physicians deemed an opera tion o f the new high school to der. Ms duties at the monastery tion necessary to save his life. | B y applying two coats o f W R IG H T 'S C O N D E N SE D SM OK E ■ d irectly to the m eat with a brush a fte r the m eat has gone Wechter Woods, o f Salem, for included three full hours a day of ■ through the salt, it will be thoroughly sm oked, will have a $16,998, complete except the what might be termed ‘bookish Depot at Whiteaker’s. ■ delicious flavor and w ill keep solid and sw eet and free from ¡In sects through the entire sum mer. heating, for which separate bids work.’ I could not perform it.” Mr. C. L. Barnes and his bridge were received. The building will — Journal. gang went down to Whiteaker’s contain 10 rooms, will be con _________________ a liquid sm oke and contains nothing e xce p t w hat Is obtained Printing Done Right. Monday, and have erected a neat structed o f brick, and when com by burning hickory wood. It la put up in square quart bottles only, each with a and commodious depot there, metal cap. N E V E R SO LD IN B U LK . A bottle will sm oke a barrel o f m eat pleted it is the purpose o f the There is no better equipped job lbs.). F or sale by all druggists at 75c. E very bottle guaranteed. A ik i 280 board to equip it with down-to- office in the Willamette valley capable o f sheltering all the pa rugglst for FR E E BOOK. “ The N ew W a y .“ Be sure to g e t the genuine W R IG H T ’ S C O N D E N SE D SM OKE. M ade only by date apparatus for science work. than that o f the Itemizer, and trons successfully until oil is T H K I . H . W R IC H T C O ., Ltd ., Kansas City, M o . ^ The lowest bid for the heating we can turn out work cheaply struck, when various improve fixtures was $1800, which was and as good as anyone on short ments will be in order at that 1 taken under adviaement for a notice. 1 station. 1.00 DALLAS MERCANTILE CO. Electric Light vrhqr STREET POSTS 19. Men’s Clothing! Offered at Just \ HALF RECULAH FREE I L" ---------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- --------= = = = — 4 = % % * BOY’S CLOTHING AT A GREAT SACRIFICE $25.00 LADIES’ SUITS NOW BEING CLOSED OUT AT $9.85 I t * t WOOL DRESS M ATERIAL IN FANCY W EAVES AND PATTERNS f AT JUST HALF REGULAR * PRICE t LADIES’ SPRING JACKETS { WORTH UP TO $10.00, NOW GOING AT $2.85 | t W. L. DOUGLAS SHOES $3.50 AND $4.00 STYLES BEING CLOSED OUT AT $1.89 PAIR % * ! The BEE HIVE Store t % 4 D allas, O regon . (t * * ^ * * * ^ ^ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * '* * * '* ■ * * Oregon Power Company The Sold on Easy Payments WOOD FOR SALE j Ranco Vesto Club j; I S e w in g Machine AUGUST SOMAN j and c THE NEW WAY OF SMOKING MEAT 1 The Most Beautiful The Lightest Running The Easiest to Operate The Most Improved Machine Made & For Sale by W right’s Condensed Smoke CO NRAD « T A F R IN , Dallas, Oregon. DALLAS, ORE. The Sterling Furniture Co.