J Polk County has Soil 1 Adaptable for all Purposes, k Any Fruit Thrives VOL. XXXVII Last Wednesday night the high school second team defeat ed Independence second team at Through the courtesy of Mr. Independence by the score of j \V. Ellison, of the local firm of 25 to 17. The game was very electricians, it fcras our pleas- rough and exciting. The Inde- ure this week | to look over a pendence team seemed to think COpV of a paper-nearly 113 years they were playing football and ; old, jt was known as the Ulster the Dallas boys refused to be run j County Gazette and was pub- over. The officials could not put I ijgjjed in Kingston, New York, | a stop to it. The first ended on Saturday, January 4, 1800, with a score of 10 to 9 in tayor i ^|,at issue being the 88th num- of Da'las. The scoring for Dal ber. It is a page paper, of las was: Campbell 4, Eakin 3, four columnsi to the page, the Lockman 3, Gooch 1, Wilson 1. measure for tne columns being Williams did all the scoring for 14 ems, instead of 13 ems, as A N D LET ME TELL YOU Independence, shooting 7 field newspaper columns are set in baskets and 3 fouls. Ray Boyd- width today. Nothing but Ro ston refereed and Will Ridgeway man type is used for heads or of Independence, umpired. 1 body, except that some words The Adelphian literary society gj.g “thrown up" in advertise met Monday afternoon and held ments in what used to be known a bosiness meeting, and decided ^ “title.” The paper itself is to give the PhJlogia society a re- considerable like our manila, only turn party. of a coarser fibre, and one well Saturday night the Dallas high calculated to withstand the time school basket ball team will play : ____ has been usage to, this but copy their first game of the season in I and sub jeered" the print is as Dallas, when they meet the Cap-1 good ag ever, ital Business College team. The On account of (he death and locals defeated the Salem lads funeral of George Washington early in the season at Salem. contained therein, this copy of Since then the college team has the Gazette been much been strengthened by the addi sought after all has over world, tion of several new players. The and our foreman, Mr. the Dawley, regular Dallas lineup will be put that a few years ago in Los in the game, consisting of Woods says Angeles he assisted in printing and Boydston forwards, Heistand many duplicate center, Matheny and Herzog same edition. copies of this guards. The game will be called John Adam i was president at at 8 o’clock sharp, at the armory. this time, and the front page is Admission 25 cents. Every considerably devoted to doings bodycome. congress, just taking its seat, Manager Cadle has arranged of and to the president’s message : to play Ashland high school, the and congress’ thereto. It D O N 'T F O R G E T : Southern Oregon champions, two only took three reply months to get ' games in Dallas during the holi- news from the mother country, ! days. Klamath Falls will be and another news feature was a j here the 4th of January. The humber of dispatches from promi next game will be with the Leb- officers of the British ar LOWEST OF LO W PRICES ¡anon high school December 14. nent my giving an account of the battle of Zurich, which had oc curred on September 30th, but Wants Some Tools. at that date they had received I Mr. Editor: By the W ay, Ladies: London papers up to October I see by your Rocca news 20th. All the powers Seem to | about a narrow part of the road. a principally been engaged in I Can anybody show me a wj(je 'have war, Holland having been evac | part? It is nothing but a trail, uated by the Russians, several i and always will be until we have Spanish ships having been cap a district. Just think of,.it a tured bv Bgitxin, and the allies man has 75 miles and more road having a time with France. to work. Don’t you think there were The Gazette had turned col is a nigger in the fence? Can umn on account of the you tell me what becomes of our death rules of Washington, they be road money? No, you can not. ing about three times as It is ordered paid, and that as those in use at the pres settles it. We have a right to thick day. George Washington believe that some of it goes for ent this life on the 14th of WHEN YOU WHEN YOU whiskey. I hope not. You can departed December, 1799, aged 68 years, V V III ■ ■ ■ W I li V Q not woik the road with hand and he was entombed with all tools, which has been the case. the honor SEE IT IN SEE IT IN and splendor possible Do not run our supervisers out at that date, noted men of his of Dallas. One is all you want. tory taking a prominent part. OUR AD. OUR AD. Give one to Falls City and give The paper had a number of us one, and some tools to work sheriff sales, Peter Ten Broek it with. We have the teams and being kept busy in this respect IPS SO IT’S SO we will widen it. The advertisements are espec- i Dadlas, O r e g o n F. H. SCHMIDT, unique, being a bare state Rocca. ially - ment, of facts, but Luther An dres invokes the muse in a dis- VOTE IN POLK. cription of what he has for sale. Abraham I. Hasbrouch announc Women Exercise Suffrage Right at es his intention to continue the grocery and boating business; the Independence Election. printshop has writing, wrapping AFTERNOON LUNCHEON. RUPTURE EXPERT HERE. Dallas Band Organizes At the municipal election in and bonnett paper for sale, and This Beautiful Independence Monday there were li e his brother of today adver Seeley, Who Fitted Czar of Russia, Monday night the Dallas band 411 votes ca3t, 51 of which was tises for old rags; John Schoon- M n. M. M. Ellis Entertains Offi met and elected the following Recalled to Salem. women. maker wants to sell half a sawmill cers and Directors of Needle PILLOW TOP cast The by candidate officers: President, Melvin Dun- for the mayor and also a stout, healthy, active F. H. Seeley, of Chicago and gan; secretary, Norman Ramsey; work Guild. alty of the citizens’ ticket, K. negro wench; Wm. Peters wants Philadelphia, the noted truss ex treasurer; business manager, Roy C. Eldridge, won out, while for an apprentice in the clothing bu pert, will be at the Salem hotel Plans for the coming recorder D. M. Swope on the siness; Mtys Van Stunberg ad At the home of their president, and will remain in Salem this Finseth. winter were discussed 'and same t:cket, carried the day in vises no one to harbor his wife, Mrs. Ellis, on last Saturday af Monday and Tuesday, only. De adopted. will be his Co itest. and there are many lost, strayed, ternoon the ladies of the Needle- cember 9th ami 10th. Mr. Seely held every Rehearsals Wednesday night; dlework Guild met in a business ; says; "The Spermatic Shield which will begin next Wednes For councilman for two years, and land for sale notices. session and heard the reports of Truss as now used and approved day evening. Several new play D. W. Irvine, on the citizens’ the officers, a resume of which by the United States Govern expect to join. Plans for the tiiket, W. H. Walker and T. H. LETTER LIST. we publish elsewhere in this is ment will not only retain any ers Drexler on the Independent tick big annual concert will be made sue, which shows what these la case of rupture perfectly, afford et were the successful ones. in the near future. All mem The following letters remained dies are doing for the relief of ing immediate and complete re bers One of the candidates for city uncalled of the band remember next for in the Dallas post- the poor and needy of our com lief, but closes the opening in Wednesday councilman, H. Lallaberty, was office night at 7:30 sharp. Tuesday: arrested during the day for using munity. The afternoon was ten days on the average case. Mrs. J. A. Adams. made especially pleasant by Mrs. This instrument received the on- abusive language and fined $ j . Dr. Chas. A, Ballard. Ellis, who had prepared dainty re ! ly award in England and in Mr. and Mrs. G. N. Cherring- It. A. Bills. freshments, which where heartily Spain, producing results without ton, of Portland, spent Thanks Brother in Dallas. Miss Inez McCarthy. discussed after the business had surgery, harmful injections, pre giving here with Mr. and Mrs. Olaf A. Tocitmoa, whose name Newman Lewis. been disposed of, and which scriptions or treatments. Mr. Lynn Chapman. To prov. »he superior beiuty of Real silk has been so prominent in the Miss Mary E. Nelson. came as a decided surprise to the 1 Seeley has documents from the Embroidery over the many imitation, and dailv pre88 for the past two John J. A. Neufeld. ladies. Many beautiful cut flow United States Government, to ihow the beautiful, aofl, rich effect! pro- i ^ jn connection with the big Henry Rallen. ers and ferns were in evidence Washington, D. C. for inspec uce wit ' • ». dyi amite trials, has a brother Margaret Saunders. throughout the house, the din tion. All charity cases without Carlson Currier do . s Perfection reading ¡n Dallas. The brother Fred Stennett. ing room being particularly love charge, or if any interested call j IT m h p n i f l o p v Q i l l f is a man of family with a wife Mrs. Mercedus Wadsworth. ly by a profusion of white chrys he will be glad to show the truss | The only poetively painless cancer an<t several children. He can e C. G. GOAD, anthemums and purple violets, without charge or fit them if de cure in existence It is also the most irom the old country at the certain. We have removed by this Postmaster. we make this liberal offer. You can get out which also added to the pleas sired. Any one ruptured should cancers that other noted speci FREE above Pillow Top and back , a list solicitation of his brother, but1 of the afternoon. The remember the date and take ad method alists have failed to cure. of handsome Embroidery Designs and one when arrived in Frisco, the big H. O. Lane has sold the Model antness officers present were, Mrs. M. vantage of th.s opportunity. Don’t fool with uncertain methoda. book, “ Suggestions in Shadings,’* by pur wai on, and his brother Variety store, on Main and Oak, M. Ellis, president; Mrs. Oscar Don’t waste time by having them cut D5 chasing six skeins Carlson Currier Co.’s strike out or treated dy X-ray or other elec Embroidery Silk and one Lesson Sheet at who was dispensing aid to the to his brother, Frank Lane, who Hayter, secretary; Mrs. H, C. trical methoda. strikers, could do nothing for has taken charge and will re- Eakin, treasurer; directors, Mrs. our Art Department for 2 5 cent«. Swell Our Population. That persistent pimple, that warty him. and he gradually drifted on modle the storeroom and put in H. B. Gosper, Mrs. George Ger- Abraham growth that is slowly growing; that Friesen, a brother of up this way. The family picked 1 linger, Mrs. G. P, MacGregor, Pete Friesen, arrived here Sun-j mole-like affair that ia slowly spreading DALLAS MERCANTILE CO. hop:j this fall for Vern Smith, a larger stock of goods. place somewhere on your skin that Mrs. W. V Fuller, Mrs. Theo day from Langham, Canada. that Rev. C. T. Whittelsey, former and are now living in the eastern forms s scab which on coming off leaves dore Farrrington, Mrs. C. G. He brought with him his family ly a professor in Dallas college, Coad, Mrs. J. G. VanOrsdel, raw surface, repeating it time after Miss Emroy McDevitt, of In- part of town. that lump in your breast that is of wife and ten children, and; a time; and more recently pastor at Eu Mrs. E. Hayter, Mrs. E. C. Kirk getting a Tittle larger, is the be 1 dependence, has been visiting W. E. Schoel has severed his gene, is now preaching at Cove patrick. Mrs. C. L. Crider, Mrs. I has located here. If a few more ginning just a dreadful disease that will Sam Smithson is back from a Mrs. Virginia Smith has re ! her parents here, Mr. and Mrs. connection with the Oregon Orchard and at McCoy, Next George Scott, Mrs. W. J. Kearth, families of that size will come in sueediiy of carry you to your grave. three weeks visit with a brother turned home from Eugene, where! C. S. McDevitt Sunday, December 8th, he will Mrs. W. F. Manston, Mrs. J. R. it will not take long for Dallas ful Thousands of testimonials from grate- Power company here, and after she has been for several seasons,, ^ . r. __ , r cured patients treated during the to reach the 3000 mark. in California whom he had not at McCoy at 11 a. m. and Algood. month’s vacation will take a at preach past thirty years. Send for booklet. head trimmer in a large millinery , ^ hjg parenta’ Mr. and Mrs. H. a position : een for 29 years. 3 p. m. Morning, subject, with the Northwestern “Does God Speak to Men?” Af and see us before your cancer Dr. and Mrs. Mark Hayter cele Come get to the point where no one can cure L. Fenton here last week. Frank Lsws will leave next establishment Electrical company, of Porland. ternoon brated their 25th wedding an Mr. Carl Thompson, of St. subject, “S te p p in g you. Ail treated under guarantee. Ad week for Tennesee, being the i Curt Hubbard has been visit- J. E. Beezley was one of the Both Mr. and Mrs. Schoel will Stones of Henman Progress.” Johns, spent the week visiting niversary at their home Saturday dress Drs. Russell A Billington, lu20 first visit he has paid his old ing with his brother, Doug, at winners in the Oregonian sub be greatly missed from our so All are invited. 8th Avenue. Seattle, Wn. evening. A fine time was had. with Mr. A. E. Thompson. home in 13 years. his Rocca home. scription contest making $35. cial circles. Sterling Furniture Co’s., Suggestions WHAT TO GIVE First of all: Select few articles, buy good goods, something that will last. Don’t ask if a $5.00 Extending Table is good. For it is not. We cannot buy a good one for that money. Do not throw away your money on poor trashy stuff. We are in position to furnish you with the best. We are delighted when we have calls for the best. Then we can give you your money’s worth, and can stand back of our goods. Let us help you make your selections. We will see that you get good value for your money. Mr. “ PUT-IT-0FF-F0R-T0M0RR0W that if you don’t take advantage of the remarkably low prices, now prevailing in my store, you will be doing just as the balance of the “I-WISH-I-HAD-DONE-IT” kind are doing, namely: Kicking Yourself. : : & Therefore, avoid being sorry. Come in today and select one of those Elegant Suits or Overcoats, or Hat, or Shoes, or whatever your heart may desire and your purse allow, that are on Sale Now at a Great Saving : : : : : : : Fresh, Up to Date, Season able Goods in the heart of the season at the Do you desire something really useful as well as ornamental, in the way of present, for your father, husband, son, brother or sweetheart. Be sure you come in to see, Yours most respectfully, Sterling Furniture Co. ting r*«# 1 * 11 . VU- Wm. Herzog Leading Clothier DALLAS, OREGON Free Cancer Specialists. V