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'U-, TKt VyQ-L /> S S &ndi Q e j t P a p e r in P o llj Ç o u rvtÿ / " * ------------ 1 ‘ ” 1 Dallas will Build T wice as Much in 19 J 3 as She Did Last Year Polk County has Soil Adaptable for all Purposes. Any Fiuit Thrives T h e P a p e r -thaHr Q i^ e s Y o u vol . xxxvm . W K a T Y ou W a n < -to T^çad D A LLA S. O REG O N . N O V EM BER 6, 1913 NO. 49 ALMOST TWINS LO , P O O R INDIAN □ Young Martin Quick. Prize Winner, and Miss Sibley, Presented to Public Senator Lane Looks After Needy Indian at Grand Ronde-Last of Humphreys Dead C O U N C IL M E E T IN G . L. M. H U M P H R R E Y DEAD. Reports Received fo r Sewage Disposal and City Incinerator. Another Pioneer of N orthw est Passes Away at Moscow. The city council was called to order last Monday evening by Mayor Van Orsdall, with all the officers and members pres ent, except Councilman Fenton. The Himes Engineering Com pany reported that they had run levels as ordered for the disposal of the city sewage, and that it was feasible to drain the whole city to a point on the creek be low Abel Uglow’s. They recom mended the purchase of about five acres there to accommodate city stables, and incinerator anti a septic tank of sufficient size to take care of a city of 3000 people. The report evoked considerable discussion, but no action was taken, other than to o'tlec the committee to go ahead with its work as outlined, providing as far as possible for all ermi in genues. Claims allowed: Oregon Power Co....... $182.00 City Transfer Co........... 10.00 W. L. Barber, w ood....... 3.50 G. W. Vaughn, la b o r ... 1.00 Lynch & Iloffee, la b or.. 1.35 E. F. Coad, salary......... 70 .OC W. G. Vassall, salary. .. . J5X.40 Crider’s General Store.. 150 Himes Engineering Co.. (»6.50 Grant & White, team 2.60 Soehren Warehouse. 7.55 Itemizer, printing... 22.06 S. P. Co., freight. . . . -6.46 S. P. Co., freigh t___ -7.10 G. W. Vaughn, plumbing 123.00 Hary Marshall, brooms. . '.’.50 Star Transfer................ 5.54 A.B. Robinson, recording 1.00 Smith & Ellison............. .20 H. G. Campbell, recording 3.00 60.00 O. P. Chase, salary....... J. D. Shaw, salary. . . . 6T.00 Craven Bros., sundries.. 615.77 Chas. Gregory, sa la ry .. . 74.35 Fire Department........... 45.00 Fairview street w o r k ... 225.95 A deed was received from U.S. and Nellie Grant to an alleyway next their home and accepted by the council. A communication was receiv ed from J. D. Minty asking $50 for a heifer that fell down a bluff at the quarry and broke her neck. Referred to street com mittee. Tracy Staats appeared before the council and asked lor a grade for a contemplated cement sidewalk in front of the high J U S T L IK E H A R R Y . HUNDRED YEARS OF clothes, featured by all leading men’s shops thro’out the country, P ric e d $ 2 0 to $ 3 0 N ew stock o f Mallory and John B. Stetson Hats in the new green shades at $2.50 to $5.00. A ll the n ft y lasts in Chesterfield and Florsheim shoes at $3.50 to $5.00. W e also have the newest patterns in Monarch and A r row shirts. Priced $1.00 to $1.50. For the newest Arrow collars come to us. O N E ON BRO. T O T T E N . where he had been disposing of rights to a farm gate. He Had Just Left the Pulpit to D. W. Driskel, of Monmouth, Ascend the Tripod. had returned with a bride,whom he captured in Idaho. In the Woodburn Independ Miss Nellie Butler celebrated ent’s write-up of the state edi her 18th birthday anniversary at torial meet Its editor gives Br<j? Monmouth with a party to about Totten a previous calling that he 40 of her young friends. is not entitled to, but which we S. B. Ritner, an old pioneer, will wager he could fill with passed away in Kings Valley. honor should need arise. A. E. Watson sold his hogs to “ The two Dallas editors sat L. B. Frazer, of McCoy, for 4 beside each other at one session cents a pound, gross, they aver of tiie association, calling atten aging 218 pounds. CLO TH ES SHOP tion to the harmony that existed Abe Fisher had a runaway at between brothers o f the quill Smithfield and broke up his who so often do not speak as hack, but ail the occupants es they pass by. One was short A c ro s s fr o m C o u rth o u s e . caped without serious injury. and thin, the other big and fat. Mrs. T. H. Moreland passed And the fat man had been a long away at McCoy. time in the harness, while the Elisha Starbuck and family lean one left the pulpit to ascend moved from Eola to make their the tripod only a few weeks ago. home at Yaquina. As to what had become of the 3 C 3 C A. K. Wilson and family mov small man’s predecessors, we ed from Southern California. could only guess when we view While returning from Corval ed the ample proportions of his lis. Charlie Hamlin and family competitor’s waistcoat.” had a bad runaway and some of them were quite badly hurt. TW E N TY-SIX Y E A R S AGO. Harry Fiske came over from Salem to Dallas oil his new rac T aken From th e Files of the ing bicycle in 68 minutes. Item izer of Saturday, Born, on Salt Creek, to the November 5, 1837. wife of W. G. Campbell, a son. Dr.August Kinney and Mrs. Louis Fleck killed a wildcat Dr. Owen Adair started the pub on the Big Neslucca. lication of a prohibition paper at Dr. Farley and Dr. Loughary Astoria. wrote they were much pleased A Missouri woman gave birth with their quarters at Bellvue to twins having snakes heads, hospital, New York, where they H A V E YOU C O T S O M E T H IN G YOU D O N ’T W A N T , T H A T and who as soon as placed side were taking post graduate YO U W A N T T O T R A D E FOR S O M E T H IN G YOU DO W A N T ? by side would begin to stick out courses. their tongues at each other and Mary Bagley and G. Steele, of making a hissing noise. A daughter was born to Prof, Airlie. were married. Independence was digging a and Mrs. T.F. Campbell, at Mon well and was to have a water mouth. F. M. Collins and family mov works system. The Itemizer did not believe i t ed back to Dallas from Mon in a proposed constitutional mouth. Hon. Ben Hayden had gone to amendment to change the state elections to November. attend court at Prineville. W E C A R R Y IN OUR N E W S T O R E A LARGE L IN E OF T H E C. W. Dodenhoff sold his meat Miss L. E. Denny and II. S. market in Dallas to Henry Brown Portwood were married at Mc B E S T G R A D E S OF N EW F U R N IT U R E . S TO V E S , R A N G E S and and William Garron. Coy. G R A N IT E and T IN W A R E , R U G S, C A R P E TS , L IN O L E U M S . Mrs. America Grant was back M'ss Jennie Rowell and C. O. from an extended trip in Wash Coed were married In Dallas. E TC . ington territory. Superintendent Ruben F. Mrs. Cartwright and Miss Robinson brought to the Item Smith opened dressmaking par-, izer office from the Hallock lors in Dallas. place a raspberry bush on which Mrs. Anna Newman, the wife there were about two dozen OUR USED D E P A R T M E N T IS F U L L OF S L IG H T L Y USED of a former Dallas jeweler, died ripe berries and many blooms. in Portland, and the wedding of GOODS A T B A R G A IN P R IC E S . her daughter,Veva, to H. S. But Advertised Letters. C O M E IN AND SEE IF W E DO N O T H A V E W H A T YOU W A N T terfield, a Portland jeweler, oc letters remaining unclaimed curred on the same date, at the in Dallas |>OBtoffice Novembers, mother’s request. 1913. Horn, to the wife o f J. W. Wil Bright, Bryant & Ellis. son, on Mill creek, a daughter. Bullock, Mr. Harry Buck, Mr. Charles. W. H. James went from Mill Carv. Mr. Robert H. Creek to spend the winter in Phone 20 Keller, Mrs. H. Baker City. The Reliable Mille, Mr. Sam. DALLAS, Home J. C. Fletcher and Woodson Nesblt, Mr. T . S. ORE. Maddox, of McCoy, returned Furnishers Phelps, I>r. A. H. F. from a hunt with 10 deer. Wilson, N. Win. Mason was bac k in Mon- j C. G. Coad, ^ + ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Postmater. mouth from a trip to Waitsburg,, N o t i c e —Special prices remain on all m er chandise le ft from the Wm. Herzog stock. <Price$ra$? tHeir money is not spent lot their benefit and that the Indian bureau gives no account of how its funds are expended.” When the matter was called to the senator’s attention lie saw Commissioner Sells about if and Sells wired to the agent at Siletz, who sent a doctor to see the sick Indian. It has been learned the doctor never called. The In dian’s house had burned -own and he lay, with his squaw, for seven weeks in a wretched struc ture 8 by 8 feet with one side out and the rain beating in through the broken roof before he died. Senator Lane declared that he would not stand for such con ditions and the commissioner has promised to remedy them whenever he finds that the In dians are not given decent cave. — Oregonian. □ □ ? Y f school, and the engineer was in structed to give the same. On motion of Risser, notu es were ordered published to prop erty owners for a sidewalk from Miller avenue to Washington stieet on Uglow avenue. The auditor was ordered to Albert Lemmon and family,of notify the Dallas City Bank to fix up the alleyways they lad "Salem, were visiting J. R. Her rington’s over Sunday. torn up. ONE ? } H ow A b o u t It? I ? T ? T ? Y it t PEACE. If You Have Here is the to Trade X I t ? t ? t ? t t t ? X f i ? X ? t f — D o n a h e y in C le v e la n d P la in D e a la r. □ SYSTEM Dan. O. Quick, son of Mr. and the recent Oregeon State Eu Mrs. J. W. Quick, of Ballston, genics contest, with a score of and Catherine Sibley, daughter! 985 points. of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Sibley, of Miss Catharine was born in Dallas, are almost twins, both Dallas, where her father is a being born October 8, 1911. Master DanO. was born on the prominent attorney, and is a old Stouffer homestead, near granddaughter of Mrs. Alice Ballston, where his grandfather. Dempsey, and a relative of the Dau. P. Stouffer, and his moth long-lived Embree family. She er, Lina Stouffer Quick, were did not enter the State Eugenics both born. For the past year he^ contest, but had she done so she has been living witii his grand-1 would, no doubt, have received parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dan P. j a good score, as she is a fine Stouffer, at Dallas. He received j specimen of babyhood and re the second prize, a handsome j ceived the first prize as the pret - silver cup, for country boys be ties! baby girl at the Polk county tween 1 and 2 years of age, at school fair one year ago. Library Report for October. It is reported that Henry Pat ton, o f near Independence, suf fered a stroke of paralysis Mon day, and is not expected to sur vive. 3 C SriECIAL OUNCEMENT Looks A fter Case of Destitution j at Grand Ronde Agency. Senator Lane has had Ins at Death claimed another pio neer o f the Northwest Tuesday tention tailed to the case o f an at the Inland Empire hospital in Indian dying in a shack on the Moscow, when L. M. Humphrey, Grande Ronde reservation in who had been in declining health | destitution, although he owned for the past year, passed away | the land his shack stood on and after an illness of six werks. had some $240 in tribal funds. “ It serves to emphasize my His family was at his bedside when the end came. Mr. Hum contentions,” said S e n a te I. ane, phrey was well known in Mos “ that the affairs of the Indians cow, having been engaged in are very loosely managed, that farming near Moscow since 1907, coming here from Dallas, Oregon, where he had lived a number ot' years. He was a na tive of Colorado and was 50 years of age. He is survived by a widow and three sons.— Ore gonian. Lon Humphrey was a brother j of the two brothers who i let their death at the penitentiary last spring and was the last of the family, the mother having been buried here a few months previously. Lon had lived here for some 20 years and was a re spected citizen. He was a mem ber of the Dallas Woodmen I camp. Children’s fiction books loan ed, 263. Children’s non-fiction books loaned, 61. Adult fiction books loaned. 468. Adult non-fiction books loan ed. 62. Total number of books loaned. 854. Number o f callers, 2057. New borrowers’ cards issued, 60. m 3 C We are now ready to take care o f the most critical buyer in Men’s, Young Men’s and Boys’ Wearing Apparel. W e invite you to come in and inspect our special selections o f stylish clothes. The Almost Twins Have Notoriety-Totten Named as Gentleman of Cloth-Other Items F . 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