easy stepups at the crossings, which in the event o f hard surface are entirely done away with. 1 he com pany stands ready to put in as small a job for Dallas as three blocks, they relying for the balance o f the work on the satisfaction that is bound to ensue, and the or ders for the balance needed will come later. They say that this has been their experience everywhere and they do not expect Dallas to be different. The matter o f hard surfacing is no doubt grow ing in sentiment, especially since the bithulitic people have found it practicable to use our macadam and not have the property owner pay ing for excavating and doing the primary work all over again, but our council does not find itself willing to take any such responsibility on their hands, nor are they going to. Warren Bros, figure that it will cost the property owners on our main streets something like $5 a front foot to put on the hard surface, this meaning fo r half the street. I f hard surfacing is done th is y e a r .it will have to come up to the council by petition from the property owners themselves, showing conclusively that they desire the improvement. We understand that pe titions to this effect will be circulated in the near fu ture, and the matter definitely determined, for the com ing year at least. The Item izer hopes that the improve ment will go through, and stands ready to sign up for our property on Mill street. What say the rest o f you? THE POLK COUNTY ITEMIZER. A d m itte d t o th e s e co n d c la ss o f m a il m a tte r. . T H U R S D A Y JA N U A R Y 16, 1913 V. P . FISK E . i ’PHONES: Itemizer, one out* year I in advance...........................................$1 50 With Weekly Oreg. .miau or Semi-weekly Journal........... 2 00 Bine....................... ................................ 1 60 W illi Goat Mugazi MU™*H R «l k I m M .n i l So. IM MuinSt. Patronise One Another for the Upbuilding ot Town and County. I f those political plums have to g o to republicans, the Item izer knows o f no two men who are more enti tled to them than Lawrence K ey t and Chalmers K irk patrick. Mr. K ey t has all his life been a true blue re publican, one that the party leaders should rely on, and who was never found sidestepping. Since Mr. K irk patrick joined the republican ranks, he has been in the s u r e category, and we are glad to see them receive the appointment. Both are well qualified for the position, and if they obtain them, will fill the offices with credit to themselves and the state. Polk county is doubly honored by their selection. Commissioners In the matter o f the petition i o f Chas. A. Parker et al for a ! new road district to be carved ! out o f District 5, the petition was granted, the new district to be known as No. 18. The bond o f J. H. Moran for constable o f district 5, with Dan iel Dove and S. H. McElmurry as surities, was approved. Th ^ tax levy for 1913 was made j as follows: | State ta x ........................1.42 mills | C o n n ty ________________ 3.28 ” S ch o o ls_____________ 2.06 ” High school____ ________ .7 ” D efic ie n c y_____________ 3.00 Roads and highways _ .4.00 The only lady speaker at the Jackson ban quet the other e v tn in g in her otherwise most estimable talk, ad- v cated the givin g up o f the Phillipnes. Her only reas on was that the mothers o f the land had already given enough o f their sons and did not want to give more to retain them. This is an instance where sentiment runs away with business judgement. The mothers o f our land are annually givin g more o f their sons to keep up our railroads than they would in the acquirement o f a half a dozen islands, and will continue to give them for other development purposes as long as the world rolls on around. The islands have cost us too much money to now give them up, especially before we have been financially reimbursed and the development o f the coun try and its population finished. T o ta l__________ $15.00 Ordered that hereafter no dis bursements be made or liability incurred for which the county must pay by any officer o f the county except on formal requisi tion filed with the county court and approved by said court. It is the intention o f the above or der that office supplies o f the va rious county officials, as well as all other supplies shall be includ ed within the meaning o f said or der. That the county clerk be and is hereby authorized and di rected to have printed 1000 re quisition blahks, and that he sup ply each county official with a supply o f said blanks, together with a copy o f this order. It appearing to the court that the old indexes to deeds and mortgages should be transcribed and brought up to date according to the indexes now being used in the clerk,« office, time being wasted in looking up records, it was ordered that E. M. Smith be employed to do the work at five i cents a transfer. Lyin g is not altogether an unmixed evil, but may be so necessary to the occomplishment o f a good pur pose as to be a duty, where truth would be a sin. Lies are too precious to be wasted. Mark Twain in an essay on “ The Decay o f the A rt o f L y in g ” read before the Historical and Antiquarian society o f Hartford, said: “ The custom o f lying has suffered no decay, for the lie as a virtue, as a principle is eternal. As a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time o f need, the fourth grace, the tenth muse, man’s best and surest friend, the lie is an immortal and cannot perish from the earth. "B u t the noble art o f lying has given way way the hab it o f slovenly lying. L yin g is a necessity, hence a virtue N o virtue can reach its highest usefulness without care ful cultivation. Therefore this art o f lyi ng ought to be taught in the public schoole. What chance has the un cultivated liar against the expert? Judicious lying is what the world needs. I sometimes think it is best not to lie at all than to lie injudiciously. An awkward lie is often as ineffectual as the truth. None o f us could live with an habitual truth teller, but thank goodness, you don’ t have to. He is an impossible creature. He does not exist, and never has. The man who strictly speaks the truth to save his soul has no soul worth saving. T o lie to help a poor devil out is worthy o f all praise. W. E. Arnold, a representative o f the bithulitic pavement company c f Portland, was a caller last week. He made a proposition to the commercial club for the placing o f his hard surface pavement on our present macadam system o f street covering. Bv scarifying the present roadway, the company say that it will be in fine condition fo r the application o f their compound, and that jt will stick just as good as though they put on the sub grades themselves. It will raise the grade o f the streets some three inches, but they assert that this will not hurt anything, as our walks are now too high to make How Are not come very fast in the last half on account o f the close guarding by the determined men. The Multnomah team changed their lineup during the last half, but the Dallas lineup was not changed. The final score stood 22 to 19. The scoring o f field baskets fo r i Dallas was: Gates 4. Ballantyne 2 and Shaw 2. For Multnomah McFarland 5, Keck 2, and Pugh j 1. Ballantyne threw six fouls' out o f 10 tries. Keck threw 3 out o f 4. Gates showed up to good advantage at throwing bas kets, while the guarding o f Mor ton and Boydston was very close, the club team’ s forwards not getting a basket. McFarland and Keck played fast ball for Multnomah. The lineup: Dallas Multnomah f Keck Gates Fischer f Ballantyne Shaw Morris c McFarland Boydston g Morton Pugh g Teats refereed the game. Tfrr a great many years I have been gath ering1 statistics to the effects u as of Peruna when taken for ea- tarrnal derange ments. I have on hand thous ands of unsolic ited testimonials from people in all stations of life, who claim that after many years futile at tempts t o r i d themselves o f chronic catarrh S. B. H A R T M A N . M. D . by various forms of treatment they have found complete relief by the use of P e runa. These testimonials have come to me unrequested, unsolicited, unreward ed in any way. directly or indirectly. They have simply been gleaned from my private correspondence with pa tients that have been more or less under my treatment or taking my remedies. No remedy, official or unofficial, has a greater accredited basis for the claims we make for it than Peruna as a remedy for catarrh. I have never been opposed at any time to the regulations offered by the Pure Food and Drugs Act. I am not now opposed to its provisions, but I am opposed to the proposed amendments to give to a partisan board of physi cians the unqualified authority to de cide as to all therapeutic claims which 10,000 Facts and Figures— Several Hundred New, Special Features. A moat valuable pam phlet. Telia and illu stra te» how to clear »tu m p land at the low est know n coat I p er acre by d e v ic e » ju et p erfected . F ree to o w n e r» o f »tu m p land w ho send tne their name». ALBANY C O R V A L L IS M c M i n n v i l l e EUGENE ROSEBURG G R ANTS PASS M EDFORD ASHLAND a n d f r o m o t h e r M s in L i n e a n d B r a n c h L i n e P o in t s t o L o n A n ç e l e i , C o lt o n . P - s a le n a . R iv e r a i ’e . 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The that o f ladies and gentlemen. 1 1 club men were not to be denied | bespeak for them kindly consid-i | and brought the score up to 10 to eration. J. Frank Hanly, Ex- 15 at the end o f the first half. Governor Indiana. The second half was more excit Admission 35 for students of ing than ever all the men play public school, high school or col ing hard for the honor that they lege. 50 cents general admission. know would come with victory. Reserved seats may be secured The Dallas boys played their at Stafrin ’ s, after Monday, Jan short passes and worked the ball uary 21 for 25 cents. to their end only to lose it. The ------------- « • • ■ . . club men worked their long pas sing to good advantage on sever Judge L. D. Brown has been al occasions but their playing did appointed city attorney for Falls not come up to the old Dallas City. style o f play. The scoring did STUMPS may be made for a proprietary medi cine. It is manifestly unjust to refer su-’h questions to a body of men who are already convinced of the worthless ness of proprietary medicines. To give such a body of meu the unlimited authority to decide whether our claims for Peruna are valid or not is a mani fest violation of my constitutional rights. My claims are based both on cred itable theor tlcal grounds and upon ir refutable statistics. But I am quite willing to have our claims as to the composition of Peruna properly and thoroughly Investigated, and if found to be false a proper penalty should be fixed. Or if I am m iking any state ments concerning disease, as to the nature, symptoms or danger of tiny dis ease, If I am making any such state ments as to unnecessarily frighten the people by false assumptions, I am will ing to submit to any unbiased tribunal or Investigation. Mrs. Alice "Bugle, 803 Clinton St., Clr- clevllle, Ohio, writes: “I want to in form you what Peruna has done for me. I have been afflicted with catarrh for several years. I have tried different medicines and none seemed to do me any good until I used Peruna. I have taken six ’ 'Ottles and can praise it very highly for the good it has done me. I also find It of great benefit to my children/* PERUNA IS FOR SALE A T A L L DRUG STORES. SPECIAL NOTICE — Many persons are making inquiries for the old- time Peruna. To such would say, this formula is now put out under the name of KA-TAR-NO, manufactured by KA-TAR-NO Company, Columbus, Ohio. Write them and they will be pleased to send you a free booklet. JUBILEE SINGERS. DALLAS DEFEATS MULTNOMAH. . lhe Dallas Champions Win From Their Old Rivals, Multnomah. HOW TO PULL C A L IF O R N IA T h e y O b ta in e d ? A sk Y o u r D ru g g ist fo r F re e P e ru n a A lm a n a c fo r 1 9 13 . The world famous Williams’ Jubilee singers, who have de lighted five former Dallas audi- [ ences, will bring another o f their cheery programs on Tnursday, January 23, when they Will ap pear at the high school auditor ium. The fact that these artists combine read culture with the popular element makes them most acceptable where they are best known, and no doubt entit les them to the claim o f “ the greatest company o f colored sing ers in the world today.” Hear what others say about them. I have heard the Williams’ Jubilee Singers a number of times at Chautauqua during the past seven years and take pleas Last Saturday night the Com ure in commending their work I pany G team scored a victory o v They give excellent satisfaction | er the Multnomah Club five by i crnm»! and are people o f good character the score o f 22 to 19. i nt g a m e , an(] atandinjrt_ w . j . Bryan,! I was fast and a iitjle rough, al- ! nominated three times for Presi- NOTHING BUT TRUE BLUE. A t the meeting o f the Jackson club in Portland last week it was the consensus o f opinion among the 400 democrats gathered from all parts o f the state that in tne givin g out o f patronage none others should be con sidered excepting those who have through thick and thin remained loyal to the principles and national and state tickets o f the party. It was thoroughly agreed that the everlasting kibosh should he put on the office seeking aspirations o f all renegades that they might as well keep out o f the race for all the good it would do them. In all o f which the Item izer most heartily con curred, as we do not believe it right nor justice that the true blue democrat, who has for years fought the battles o f his party, should now be laid aside and the reward which might be rightfully his, handed out to some half faithful follow er o f democracy, who never was quite certain just what stand he was going to take on nation al or state matters, and who every once in a while thought himself perfectly safe in voting with the other side. The keynote o f all the speeches at this banquet was to the effect that to the victor belongs the spoils, and all would stand united in seeing that he got them. Unity on a certain principle is the basis o f party strength, and the man who is continually wavering should be considered an outcast at all times most certainly when favors are to be awarded, as this uncertainness o f his may have been the means o f causing others to waver, thus to some extent detracting from the party’s strength both at the polls and elsewhere. Those who forgot to follow Bryan cannot be considered Wilson stppoiters, and can in no way expect now but to take the consequences o f their own unfaithfullness. The meeting last week was to lay down these principles, and to pave the way for a successful and thorough organization along these lines. Only by such methods can the party be successful in the next warfare. Those P e ru n a Testim onials in Printype will be sent you on re - 1 quest.' U t ui.s «5 offer awaken you to your need o f I he < »liver Typewriter and the ease w.th which you may own it. Remember—tb only and on comes Tne Oliver Typewriter. 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