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About Polk County itemizer. (Dallas, Or.) 1879-1927 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 1913)
?£L Th* L&rgft'tr&nd Bej't Papêr in Poli) ( ourvtÿ i ♦ Polk County has Soil Adaptable for all Purposes. A n y Fruit T h rives Dallas w ill Build T w ic e as Much in 1913 as She Did Last Y ea r The Paper -that QiJes Y ou W K à f You Warvt to fatati DALLAS. O REGON, SEPTEM BER V O L . X X X V III. ITEMIZER CONTEST Tw o Young Ladies of Polk County to Get $100 Diamond Ring Time Asked for Putting in Independence —Pioneer Reminiscences H O P Y A R D W O R K SOON O VER AN O LD T IM E R . T w o Y o u n g Ladios o f Polk C o u n ty Have C hance to W ear $100 R ings. W e a th e r T h is Y ear Ideal, R ain B eing G reat A id, N o t a H in d ra n ce . P leasing R e co lle ctio n s o f Pio- neer T im e s by Aged P o lkite . Beginning on Wednesday, Oc tober 1st, and closing on Friday. October 31st, the Itemizer will run a subscription contest, the prizes for success being two diamond rings valued and guar anteed by one of our leading jewelers at $100 each. The rings are here and can be seen any day in the show window of ,T. H. Shepard on Main street. They are the best that money can buy for the price, and would be the delight of any young lady fortunate enough to secure them, and the everlasting ad miration of her friends, also, the envy of all beholders. These rings are not being o f fered as first or second prizes, but as one principal prize for two diiT rent sections of the country. In other words, the n mizer will give one of the lings to the young lady from i :;..i who brings us in the most subscription money, and t o the lady front outside of Dal las wl brings in the largest subscription list, we will give the other ring. We are making the contest this way because at th.~ Inst one some of our con testants believed at they were working again ;-1 handicap in t o r ’ .aing with Dallas young ladies. This way will give the lady contesting in Polk county ti e right to work anywhere out side of Dallas, and the Dallas ladies wilt be confined to the Dallas field alone for canvass ing, although no contestant will be barred the use of the phone as that would be restricting all contestants a little too closely, and interferring seriously with good work. There will be no other restrictions placed on the contest, and contestants will re ceive straight through 100 votes for every dollar’s worth of sub scriptions, although additional prizes may be offered for a cer tain week’s work. This last will be for future consideration. If you have a friend whom you would like to see wearing diamonds, sign the nomination blank printed below, with her name and address and send it in to this office, or if you wish to enter the race nominate your self. On October 1st the names of those competing will be pub lished, report blanks having been furnished them by that time, and the four weeks’ scramble for votes will be on. Remember the old adage ah' ut the early bird, and send in your name as soon as possible, so that you may commence with the dawn on October 1st. On October 8th, the first week’s re port will be due, and we will publish the standing of the con testants the next day. Now is the proper time of year to do good and effective work, as the long winter evenings are com ing on, and everybody will be looking toward renewing their subscriptions to the great fam ily newspaper of the county. A large number of the hop yards of Independence will finish up with the picking this week. The weather lor the picking this year has been ideal, sunny but not. too hot. The rains the first week of the picking season washed the dust off the vines and cleared the atmosphere and since this time there has not been a day lost in the gathering of the crop. The quality of hops this year is the best that it has been for a number of years, there being little if any mould. The C. A. McLaughlin yard fin ished today and H. Hirschberg, who owns the place and is pres- dent of t h e Independence National Bank, and also owns the Independence and Mon mouth Railway Company, dis tributed a large amount of money among the picker’s today, scattering the money and let ting them scramble for it.— Oregoniim. Mrs. J. W. Shelton, a pioneer of 1851, lives at Independence, Ore. “ Like many of our pio neers, I cante from Virginia,” said Mrs. Shelton. “ 1 was born in Brook county, Virginia, but moved to Morgan county, Ohio. My father’s name was Israel Hedges. He took up his dona tion land claim two and a half miles south of the present city of Independence. "The reason that we cante here, was that while in the Grand Ronde valley we met Henry Hill and C. P. Cook. They were what were termed in those days speculators. They came out to meet immigrants with supplies to trade for cattle or loose stock. When Henry Hill learned that my father was a blacksmith, he told him he could do well by settling near his claim in Poik county as there was no blacksmith in that sec tion of the country. “ I was only 11 years old when we came across the plains. There was a school house on Major John Thorp’s donation land claim. The first teacher I went to was Miss Mary Rountree. She taught a three months’ summer term. The next teacher was a Miss McWhorter. She was followed by a young Methodist minister named McAllister, who taught several terms. “ When I was a young girl there was only one buggy in this whole neighborhood. A man named Hawkins owned it. The height of every girl’s am bition was to get a ride in this buggy. 1 was particularly for tunate as I had three rides. I went once to a wedding in it once to church and once I went for a pleasure ride. “ I was married in 1857 when I was 18 years old. Most folks thought I was going to be an old maid to wait that long. My chum, Elizabeth Davis, married Janies Carmack when she was only 14 years old. They have a son now living on their origi nal donation land claim. A man named Tom Bounds married a young girl named Viney Mc- Birde. She was 11 years and two months old. She was a relative of Dr. McBride. It was a sort of a family affair as Vi- ney’s mother married Mr. Mc Bride and her stepson, Tom Bounds, married her daughter. Viney. Tom Bounds, who mar ried Viney, was nearly 40 years old. They settled south of In dependence. The reason girls were marled so young in those days was that a man and his wife could take up a full section for their donation land claim, while an unmarried man could only take up a half section. “ My father and my husband. T. C. Thorp, owned a sawmill W IL L W E A R Pt Mill D IA M O N D S . o— N O M IN A T IO N B L A N K . I hereby nominate for en try in the Itemizer Diamond Ring Subscription Contest the following lady: Address . Nominee T IM E E X T E N S IO N IS A S K E D Independence C lub M ay G ra n t R equest o f M ill C om pany. A letter was received front the Falls City Lumber Company today asking for an extension of one year on the millsite and their franchise down Sixth street. The business men of Independence through the Com mercial Club presented t he Falls City Lumber Company with 17 limits of the city, the same to be used as a millsite. The mill was to be built within six months. The company owned a large bunch of timber in the Siletz Basin, which will be reached by the Valley & Siletz Railway, but owing to the trouble in getting their right-of-way, it will be im possible to finish the road this year. Not being able to get logs until it is completed the Falls City Lumber Company will be delayed in the completion of the mill. The extension no doubt will be granted to them, but noth ing can be done until the Com mercial Club directors hold a meeting. This probably will take place in the next few days. — Independence correspondent in Oregonian. M O T H E R D IS C O V E R S BOY. Habeas C orpus S uccessful A fte r L o n g S earch. A case that has attracted considerable attention in thii county and one that has kept the sheriff's office and the dis trict attorney’s office of this and other counties of the state busy the past eight months culmniated successfully Satur day when Mrs. W. Phelps, for merly Mrs .Mary Chandler, se cured possession of her infant son, John Clotis Chandler. Her present husband got possession of the child in Coos county on i rblld, a hoy of 7, and left for j parts unknown. Mrs. Chandler habeas corpus proceedings. Three years ago Mrs. Phelps, soon secured a decree of di then Mrs. Chandler, was de vorce and was awarded the eare serted by her husband, John W. and custody of all the children. Immediately search began for Chandler. Chandler left his wife alone to care for their | Chandler and the boy. When three children and. contributed Chandler had been definitely nothing to their support. A located near the Siletz and year ago Mrs Chandler began steps were being taken to serve suit for divorce and asked for him with the necessary papers the custody of the children. to secure possession of the child Before the suit could be heard he got notice of what was being her husband, John Chandler, done and at once left for South went to the Airlie home, where ern Oregon. After a search of the children were being cared two months he was located at for by the father and mother of Fmnire City, in Coos county.— Mrs. Chandler, took the older ‘ Oregon. and a grist mill in partnership, at a place now known as Falls City. They ran it from early In the fifties to 1865. when they moved the flour mill to Rick- reall. My husband, T. C. Thorp, was a brother of E. A. Thorp. They both setled here in 1844. E. A. Thorp was the man who laid out the town of Indepen dence. What is now called North Independence or ‘Old Tow n’ was the original Independence. This street running in front of my house was called Log Cabin street. The street running east and west of me was named Jew street while the street running north and south on the western boundary of our property was named Sag street. “ When Mr. Thorp laid out the town a store was started by Miller and Weinshank. Weln- shank was a Jew and that is . hat gave the street its name of Jew street. There was an other store on Log Cabin street >wned by Thomas Burbank and Leonard Williams. Burbank's family lived In the back of the store while Williams lived on Ills claim north of town. "Mrs. Henry Hill, who lives tcross Ash creek, came here in 'he forties. Her husband alsc iaid out a town. I think it was vbout 1860 when Henry Hill laid out a town on the other ide of Ash creek. Hill donated lots in his townsite and the main part of the town was built on his claim. “ I moved into this house nearly 40 years ago, and have been here ever since. My pres ent husband, J. W. Shelton, is a pioneer, too. He i3 at work out in the garden. He will be able to tell you many interesting things about the early days.” Mr. Shelton came in and took a chair by the old-fashioned fireplace where we were sitting. ‘We came across the plains in 1846,” said Mr. Shelton. "I was 14 years old. Captain Crus Brown,who is the son of Grand ma Tabitha Brown, was the captain of our train. The train divided near Fort Hall, some go ing with Steven Meek on the southern route and the rest of us taking the northern route, the regular emigrant trail. We stayed with the northern route. “ My father’s name was Zeb- edee Shelton. Of all the family I was the only one to stay on the farm. My brother, J. C. Shel ton, became a doctor, and lived .intil his death In Salem. An other brother, Thomas, became a doctor and settled at Eugene. “ When we first came to Ore gon we settled at Smith’s Bridge, between North Yamhill and McMinnville. I have lived all of my life in Yamhill and Polk counties. I was born in 1833, so you see I am 80 years old now, and ant still able to do a good day’s work on my place here. “ When I was 20, I married Mary Jane Burford, the oldest of the Burford girls. DY. Mc Bride married us. It seems strange now to think of so many towns located on the old donation land claims I used to know. 1 remember they used to laugh at William Newbey who was trying to make a town where McMinnville now is and McMinnville is a mighty live, progressive town. The town of Carlton is at the ford close to where we setled. “ A 'ter my father’s death I bought the farm. The towns that were here when we came in 1846 were Dayton, Wheat- land, Forest Grove and Oregon City. Oregon City was our trading point. Joe Meek anu Colonel Nesmith and all those old timers are gone. In fact, most of my friends have joined the silent maority. "When I was a boy, we did all our traveling on horseback or with oxen. I used to ride up to where Wilamina now is, where my w ife’s father had a claim. We had gotten acquainted at school and we had arranged things between ourselves but we had thought best not to tell the folks for a while yet. I used to ride over to Wilamina pretty often. “ In those days all o f the men folks wore buckskin suits and moccasins. About the only man In the whole country that didn't was my father. He came from the south and had ideas about how a gentleman should dress. He always went to Oregon City and bought cloth o f Dr. Mc- Loughiin's store. “ I lived on that same farm for 54 years. I sold It in 1900.” — Oregon Journal. 18, 19I3J N O . 42 TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS AGO. Taken From the Itemizer Files of Saturday, September 17, 1887. t l T H E R E IS A The American bark Coloma, ♦♦♦ Captain Gray, was the first deep sea vessel to pass up the Wil- 1 ianiette river through the M o r - l J rison bridge draw. V More building was done in 1887 than in the three years Dor previous. V. P. Fiske came back from a { trip to ’Frisco. | j Wick Grant accepted a posi- 1 Y tion as counter hopper in Neis & Smith’s store. A F IN E C L O T H E S Rev. J. S. McCain left to as sume the pastorate of the Methodist church at Grant’s j Y Pass. V Rev. H. Gould moved from | Dallas to his new pastorate at «*» Halsey. Mrs. B.L. Chambers and child i were very low with typhoid | { i’ever. M. D. Ellis was turning out iome fine work in the photo «*» fine. ♦♦♦ Dr. Farley left for the east to & take a course in Bellvue hos-1 { pital. Charley Osborne, of Cooper | V Hollow, while running races with Indians on Bird Island,had j «> 'its shoulder dislocated by fall ing from his horse. T Judge N. L. Butler tied his maiden marriage knot, operat ing on J. A. Tate and Ida F. McCaleb. V*. V. -r . ; ■: • v>.v. i -•»: v. - Miss Ollie Kays died at Buena Vista. V ■V .-Ï V lL . I Rev. T. F. Royal moved to Dallas as pastor of the Method ist church. B. M. Smith's drug store at Sellwood was burned up. The railroad trestle near Coprrtfht Hart Schaffner * M . n John Brown’s caught fire and 1 was partially consumed, also about fifty cords of wood and some fence for him . Rolla Ilarboard, of Salem, was arrested for stealing some money from L. B. Frazer, of Crow:, v. T >. 'Ki d’s Gray Eagle came out winner in a trotting race in Brown’s lane near Dallas. ArchHastings was badly hurt above Lewisville by a wagon running over him. F. S. Glandon and family moved from McCoy to Salem. Miss Hattie Hackleinan was seriously ill at McCoy. Bob. McOrew, of Perrydale, and Vlvi Franklin, of Zena.were made man and wife. T. S. Jeffries left McCoy to take in the pioneers’ excursion to the eastern states. Frank Dicus passed away at his Monmouth home. La Creole academy opened with Prof. Bell as principal. Curt Hawley was advertising T H E H O M E OF H A R T. SCHAFFNER & M A R X for a stray bird dog. P. L. Campbell, of Monmouth, A and Miss Eugenia Zieber, of Forest Grove, were married. Dr. J. B. I.aughary left Dallas for a course at Bellvue hospital. Mrs. Samuel Stiles left Dallas to spend the winter with her son in Pennsylvania. Eti. Casey, a former editor of the Itemizer, dropped into town having been on a canoe trip from Portland to the headwa ters of the Willamette. who trades with us to Win. llerren and Rosa Simp son were married by Rev. Gould get a good bargain. at Lewisville. O. J. Bagley and son, John, u W e do not claim to left on the pioneer excursion for the east. give you something C. R. Parker was thrown for nothing, but we from a horse at his home at Buena Vista and had his collar will give you the very bone broken. In a one-mile state champion- 1 best goods for the very ship bicycle race at Salem Glen - - * u A4 A Lewis, of Dixie, came in first, least money. and Carey Howe, of Dallas, second. Come in and let us J. B. Stump’s hop house burned at Suver and about a figure with you; we thousand pounds of hops. are satisfied we can James Davidson, near Parker, had a stubble fire that was put please you. out just in time to save great damage. Nathan Hughes left Dallas to work at his trade in California during the winter. A. S. Crider, Morris Jones, W. C. Brown and Win. Chambers left on the pioneer excursion. Peter Cook’s fine trotting Household goods stored by W eek , Month or Y ear mare,Cleo,ran into some barbed wire and lacerated her neck badly. P. W. Prather's wife at Buena Vista presented him with a girl. Phone 20 The Reliable Dave Dodson was down from DALLAS, Home his l.ong Tom ranch. ORE Furnishers C. E. Herren was badly crip pled at Buena Vista by a kick from a horse. D IFFER ENCE B E TW E E N Hart, Schaffner & Marx C ^ 1 and OTHER Clothes sold at the same price. A man wearing a Hart, • Schaffner- & Marx suit is our best advertisement. C31 Try one, only $25.00 and big value for every dollar. I f You W ant CHEAPER SUITS we have them but at a cheaper price. Suits and Overcoats at $7.50 amd up. Boys' Suits and Overcoats, $5.00 t t f t X t Y f t ? ? f t t ? ♦ A fine line, just in, o f Blues, Browns and greys. Get the boys a suit before school begins. BUSTER BR O W N shoes are the best, and the best are none too good to stand the Oregon winters. Dallas Mercantile ❖ W an t every one P 9 Ba rsa i ite SECOND-HAND DEPARTMENT' FULL OF “GOOD BUYS” Davis & Horn ■ i