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VO TÉES, Dallas Camp, NO; :09 Woodmen of the World A T T E N T IO N ! IN SPRING VALLEY. Spring Valley we plahted some peaches and put out some seed- Meet« every Tu e«d»y at W iw J n lw H all | ling raspberries. We set out Pretty a* a Picture TH E coiner of YVaehinatoti ami .letter«uh Street» both wild raspberries and wild is the wheat that Roes into Oregon’s Visiting Neighltore welcomed. blackberries. In those days K. K. K kki >, Coturni Commander Best flour. Kvery kernel fully ripe, Spring Valley was a regular W . A. A y tuca, Clerk every one sound as a dollar. The hunter’s paradise. There were choice wheat and the perfect milling lots of deer and some elk, and are what makes "O regon’s Best” A. r . I t A. M. plenty of grouse and pheasants. flour one o f the very finest in the M e a t s a n d F is h o f a ll k in d s Jennings Lodge, No. 9 "Sixty years ago the Willam world. Order a sack from your Meets Seo'iei slut Fourth Fridays o f each ette valley was not drained and month in Mssonic hsll on Msin street. Vis- grocer. I f he don’ t keep it let us consequently was not farmed as in s e a s o n . O u r m e a ts a re tins brethren welcome. know. W e ’ll tell you a good grocer were the foothills. All through E A. H.tU!!.TON. W . M. who does. out Spring Valley were ponds W a i . tkh S. M ils , Secretary a l w a y s f r e s h ™ o u r p r ic e s c h as . G r eg ory , ; to PrePRre for bis trip to Oregon. where wild ducks and geese SW EEN EY BRO S. Auditor and Police Judge I He started his preparations were to be found by the thous A lm ir a Rebekuh Ledge, No. 26 of Dallas, Oregon. nearly a year before we came. and. For weeks at a time we a lw a y s r ig h t. H ig h e s t M eet» on the First und Third WeilneHttay -----------------------------------------He bought five new Vanbelt nad to eat grouse or pheasant, i>f each «»nth in the Odd Fellow» Hull. Notice Of Final Settlement. wagons and scoured the COUI1- ducks or g< “ F.v, :> \> m a r k e t p r ic e p a id f o r p o u h Notice Is hereby given that the un- . , _______ , E l l a J. M etzger N oble Grand dei.signed. Matilda J. Ridgway, ad- t r y t o secure the b est oxen t o be much abused. Later we began On a C ohpku , Secretary niiaistiatrix of the estate of William had. We s ta r te d w ith 15 y o k e raising chickens and had a t r y a t a ll t im e s . Ridgway. deceased, has filed her Final o f o x e n , three yoke to e a c h change from tne wild game. Account in the County Court of the wagon W e did llo t a tt e m n l to "W e used to g o to S d ’ p - - > State of Oregon for Polk County and " Ve attempt to Mistletoe Circle, No. 23, that Saturday, the 15th day of Noveru- c a r r y a iiy t iliiig usiciti ir u ili o u r way of Spong’8 ferry at what Wonen of Woodcraft be'-, 1913,, at the hour of to o'clock a . clothing an d p ro v is io n s , except was iaier CiiiiUU Liak.OUi. O — [ Meet* oa th ; SUcood uni Fourth Wedna M , at the County Court Room at Dal- a Cook Stove, w h ic h was in o n e PHONE 13 Campbell, one of the first teach- ; day. of each month at the Woodman Hall. las, Polk Couu'y, Oregon, have been set as the time and place of hearing of the wagons, the pipe coniine ers in that neighborhood, mar E mma J ost , Guardian Neighbor All ried John Wait. The Spring and settling the said Final Account through the canvas cover. .S a d is L yn n , (Junta and closing the said estrte. of the meals were prepared in Valley neighborhood soon began Now. all per: jns interested are the wagon. Many oi me early to settle up qmte u u c k l . 1 hereby notified to appear at said time and place and show cause, If any they settleis can out of their supplies Higgins and Skaifes and Henrys have, why said final account should on their way across the plains and others moved in. This was j Dal la s Asst mbly. No. 46 not be allowed the administratrix and had a hard time on the last about the time that Thurston ] United A r ti sa n s THE discharged and her bond exonerated. leg of the journey. was a delegate to congress. Mrs. Meet* F i:.it anil Tinnì M 'lid.tv Kvm in.u n Dated this 14th day o ! October, 1913. "When we started from our Thurston’s maiden name was M ATILD A J. RIDGW AY, each w om b in Woodman 11,11. V isiting home in Illinois, my father was McLench. Mrs. Thurston was Administratrix of (he estate of members cordially invited. William Ridgway, deceased. made temporary captain, but a very bright woman and a lov- Mrs. M i i . u k M. S t a k k i n . Matter Artisan To want you to come here for all your W. O. Sims, Attorney. when we joined the train at St. ible character. After the death W illi • Sia uno». Seer tare Shoes. To have you do that we must Joe, Mo., lioliver Walker was of her husband she married Administrator’s Final Notice Notice Is hereby given that the un elected captain. Uoliver Walker, General W. II. Odell, who now make this a store of pleasant recollection. his brother, Claiborne lives in Portland. Mrs. Thurs dersigned administratrix of the estate with of Henry Tarter, deceased, has filed Walker, had gone to Oregon in ton was one of the teachers at LON MUHCOTT, PROPRIETOR her final account in said estate with 1845. Bolivar had come back the Oregon Institute when Gen A ll kindB of hauling at reason the County Court of Polk Counly, Ore- able rates. Phone orders I was gou , and the same has by said Court in 1817 to bring the rest of his eral Odell was a student. The Latest A dder promptly attended to. Head aniily out to Oregon. On ac • ery well acquainted with Mrs. been set for hearing on Saturday, De are now ready. Come here first and let quarters at Webster’s confec cember 13, 1913, at the hour of 10 count of his knowledge of the Thurston, and I remember when tionery. o’clock a. m.. at which time Mi per us demonstrate. COSTS BUT $25 Phone 511. Barn Phone Mutual 24 sons having objections thereto, if any plains, he was made captain of her husband was coming back The Bristows, the iom Washington by way of the W A L K O V E R for Men, U T Z & D U N N for there be, are hereby notified to appear the train. and present the same to said Court for Hendricks, the Hookers, and Isthmus o f Panama; they wore See our Exhibit—Ask Women and Children. adjustment many other pioneers who have making big )>re^nT"-:tin“ ‘’ to v.»- Dated this 5th day o f November, 10 days’ trial since made their mark in Ore eive him. S. R. Thurston was MRS. OLIVE SM1TH-BICKNELL 1913. gon history, were of our train. coming home to mane a c.it.vui.s SURBRINA T A R TE R . Now we make this offer so that Here Is a new price on a compe Administratrix of the Estate of ‘ ‘When we arrived at The or his re-election as delegate to Instructor on offices et erywhere may learn what ter 1 Adder. On a machine that U Henry Tarter, Deceased. Dalles we found the soldiers congress. Thurston’s friends v raj id. full-sized and Infalible. Sibley & Eakin, this machine means to them. P IA N O and O R G A N there. They had just returned expected quite a hard fig) r, as The very latest machine, built Attorneys for Estate. Phone 513 M RS. J. C. G A Y N O R , Proprietor W e will gladly place in any office com the Whitman mission. Ben there were a great many other by men who know, in one of the Studio 712 Oak St. Dallas, Oregon one Ameican Adder for a ten days’ lariest metal-working shops. Simpson was with them. He names proposed as delegate, Notice of Final Account. test. It Is an Individual Adder, to be Cw/ !U Notice is hereby giv en that the un was a fine man. . He invited us among them Jesse Applegate, placed on one’s desk, close to one's There will be no obligation, and dersigned executrix of the state of to come to his place on french Joel Palmer, J. W. Nesmith, Jos books and papers. To take the Samuel Thurston Smith, deceased, has and charges will be prepaid. eph Lane and others. Mrs. pla 'e of the central machine re- filed her final account with the clerk prairie. quring skilled operators. "Mother was not well, so fath Thurston and I were guod- Compare it with any non-lister— of the County Court of Polk County. ♦ R. L. CHAPMAN... It I b also Intended for offices and . . Oregon, and that Saturday, November er bought a ranch near Brooks. friends. She, as v eil as Mr. even the costlest. Let anyone use stores where costly machines are a { FUi E R A L D I i t C T O R 2 j 29. 1913, at the hour of 10 o’clock am. It was owned by a Frenchman Thurston’s friends, was making It. See if any machine can serve luxury. I e ..n o • I of said day at Ihe court house at Dal- better than this. EMBALMER f I las, Oregon, has been fixed by the named Mustal. At that time separations to greet him on his The price is due to utter simpli land was so plentiful that no cturn. She was making a new J OFF1CF.: Chanel and Parlors, N. Main at. $ I Court as the time and place for the Just send us this coupon and city, and to our enormous output. « D A LLAS. OREGON: » : earing of objections to said final ac- aluc was placed upon the laud silk dress in which to go down Set en keys do all the work. we’ll send the machine. • 1 count and th; settlement thereof. ! Both Phones 1 1 8 3 A pereon paid for the improve to the mouth of the Columbia to Each copied number Dated this October 30. 1913. f Calls Promptly Answered Day or Night. ments. Tills claim had a log meet hitn. One night she had a Please send us an American Add P'-xjlJTTA ANN SMITH, lg shown up for check ing Machine for ten days’ free trial. cabin on it and a fence, so fath very vivid dream that she was Executrix of the estate of ing before the addition Samuel Thurston Smith, er paid the owner for this and in board a boat wth him and s made. deceased. Name ; ................................................ moved on the claim. that he walked offf the boat and L. D. B UTLER N. L BU TLER The machine will sank beneath the water. She “ Mother died the year after Notice. odd, substract and mul Street A d d re e e ............................... we got here, and father died dreamed that she had searched tiply. With very slight Notice is hereby given by the und BUTLER & BUTLER ersigned taxpayers of Road District three years later, in 1852. I had, the boat thoroughly and that he practice anyone can City .................................................... In those days there Number 11, in the County of Polk, of course,become well acquaint was gone. LAW YERS compute a hundred fig State of Oregon, who are more than ed with Bolivar and Walter were no means of getting word ures a minute. And IN D E P E N D E N C E - O R E G O N ten per cent, of the taxpayers of said Walker while coming across the State ................................................... the machine never rom a person, and when she District, that a meeting of the resident makes mistakes. 1 soon met their broth told her dream to her f riends taxpayers of said Road District will nlains. Count l e s s offices, M a n u fa c tu re d and G u aran te e d by be held on Friday, the 2Sth day of er, Claiborne Walker, who had they laughed at her. She re chines t h e hlgheest Novembor, In the year 1913, at the come out in 1845, and had set fused to finish her silk dress,and class of service, AMERICAN CAN CO., CHICAGO Subscribe for the Itemizer. hour of 10 o’clock A. M. of said day. at tled In Spring Valley, In Po’ V when the time came to go to class of sercvlce. the Confectionery Store of W. E. W il She liams, Airlie, Oregon, in said Road county, about seven or eight Astoria, she would not go. Claiborne said she knew her husband was District, for the purpose of voting on miles from Salem. bottled at drinking strength the question of whether or not an ad Walker and myself weer married dead. She was right, too, for ditional tax shall be levied by the res by a Christian Mr. Thurston died at sea on ident taxpayers of said district on all taxable property in said district McWaller, in 1850. We had hoard the steamer California on ? the for road purposes, under the provi comparatively few neignbors in the ninth of April, 1851. He W . J. Van Schuyver & Co., General Agents sions of Section 8321 of Lord's Oregon those days in Spring Valley. The was only 35 years old. He was Laws as amended by Chapter 316, Gen the Phillips buried off Acapulco.” Portland, Oregon eral Laws of Oregon, 1913. A t said Wait fathily and T I meeting the resident taxpayers of amily were our nearest neigh said district will by a majority vote bors. My husband, Major C. C. - OA T j 1 of such taxpayers levy such additl- Walker, and his brother. Po'ivnr ~ I tional tax (If any) as they may deem <r j advisable to Improve the roads of who married my sister, Cather REAL ESTATE SNAPS ine, took up adjacent claims. 4®t i said district. .4. Witness our hands this first day of We built our houses half a mile November, 1913. W e s h o w n o p r o p e r t y — ju s t p u t t apart. When father and moth Names Names y o u in c o m m u n i c a t i o n w i t h t h e er died they left quite a family T. P. Bevens T C. M. Lewis o w n e r , a n d y o u a n d h im m a k e of children younger than Cath H. V. Link E. Cox i | A. Annie Brown th e d e a l. - M. K. Crowley erine and tnyself. The boys : H. M. Berry J. Bagley lived with us, sometimes staying E. E. Staats V W. C. Williams with my sister and sometimes W. H. Williams 4?« J. M. Atwgter staying with me. There were W. E. Williams J, M. Simpson W. M. Shewey > D. N. Turner Japson, Nelson, Charles, Smiley J. C. Nendel « ♦ J. F. Ulrich We have for sale at $60 an acre a and Joshua. By the time the C a. Calkins JL| F. L. Turbandt improved farm of 318 acres, situa >ther boys were grown the well G A. Conn ♦ R. A. Womer ted within 3?c miles of a railroad town, lainiB were all taken up, so my and a coast railroad is lieing surved J. C. Turner ♦J* Percy Hadley H. P. Whlteaker Z. A. French husband and his brother divided through the land now. There are 200 Wm. Toedtemeler I.oren Cooper their 540 acre claims and gave acres cleared and under cultivation and A. E. Calkins C. N. Johnson & Co. in pasture, and alxiut 100 acreH in oak 'ach of the boys some land. P. L. Lewis B- Tarter grubs. The land is both rolling and “ Wherever v o " j, , L. R. Grant C. E. Staats Date of flrnt publication, Novem two classes of people. As the valley, making it ideal for subdivision into small farms. There are a number ber 6. 1913. ountry setdl of springs on the place, furnishing wa wo sets In Spring Valley. In ter for the homes. There are three Executor’s Final hfctice. houses on the place and three harnr, . . Notice Is herby given that the un one set the buys t, ne of the houses being and extra gtxal The Itemizer has made arrangements wnth the dersigned, executor of the estate of bet on horse races and the girls • ne of nine rooms. There are 30 ac-rsa Ballard P. Tarter, deceased, has filed went to dances. The other set ut hojs, 20 acres o f them being newly i Portland Evening Telegram whereby we can give his final account in said estate with tre lisid. This land can be seci red for the County Court of Polk County. went to Sunday school and a payment of $>000 down. prayer meeting? »• ’ *~-i- - ■ subscribers the advantage of a gigantic combina Oregon, and the same has been set Seven-room house on Washington for hearing on Saturday. November tere8t in the activities of the tion offer for a limited period. You can get a 22nd, 1913, at the hour of 1 o'clock p. church. We belonged to the lat itreet. All modern Improvements and paid for 31800, $1000 down. m. of said day. at which time all per ter set. The church peonie got sons having objections thereto. If any Metropolitan evening paper with all the latest 5 acres, well imptoved tract, 2 J ‘ there be, are hereby required to ap together and took up a subscrip miles from Dallas, nearly all in fruit, ; pear and present the same at the tion to build a church, news from all over the world and all the news of When County Court room In Dallas, Polk the church was built and It for only $2500. A bargain. 11-acre prune orchard, trees 5 years Polk county in the Itemizer at a remarkably low I County. Oregon Dated this 16th dav of October, 1913. came time to collect the money, old, no houses. 3 miles from town on Salem road. $300 an acre. it was found that many o f the BEAUREGARD TAR TE R. price.- Executor of said Estate. 42 acres, 2 1-2’miles from town, subscribers to the fund had mov Sibley * Eakin, slashed and goated for four yeaus. No The Evening Telegram is the best paper inthe cd away, so there was a debt of Attorneys for said Estate. buildings. Price $100 an acre. $800 on the church. By hus state, market reitorts unexcelled. Saturday edi 6-acre well improved tra c t. 1-2 miles band and his brother, Bolliver. M IS S L U R A W IL S O N from Dallas, most all in fruu lor sale tion contains a magazine and comic section in of Salem, Is coming to Dallas to or and a man named Fiske paid at 32.J0O ganize a class In vocal. Miss Wilson this $800, so that the church 57 acres, 2 % miles from Dallas , 16 colors. has much experience In teaching She might start clear of debt. acres cleared, balance in flr and oak. has studied in the east, and Is now Houa« anil barn and other farm build "M y husband wanted to move The Portland Evening Telegram - $5.00 per year under the instruction o f Prof. Walsh who has studied many years in Eu away because he said the neigh ings. One acre bearing orchard and 700 prune trees just planted. $3500, The Itemizer . . . . . . . 1.50 per year rope. Miss Wilson is the soprano borhood was getting so tough. ♦7* T o N e w o r p r e s e n t S u b s c r ib e r s soloist in the Presbyterian church at I tod him that I did not intend to $1000 down, balance at 6 per cent. ■ Salem. For further inquiry call Miss We have a 10-acJe tract just outside Total, . . . -$6.50 Wilson at Main 1727, or write 277 run away from the devil, but I o f Newberg that the owner would like w h o h a n d u s t h e i r 75 c e n t s n o w Intended to fight him. He said: to trade for something of the same na North Liberty, Salem. I low do you plan to fight the ture close to Dallas. : devil?” I told him if he would A house ami lot in Dallas near sch< oi give me $20 I would buy litera house for $1100. Mail or Bring Your Subscriptions Today to the O ffice of PACIFIC STUMP PULLER ture and other supplies and start We have a 10-acre tract rear Fal’a "Built for Northwest Stump*’ ’ a Sunday school. We started City m wly set to fiuit that can be A simple, powerful and inexpen our Sunday school and the Wall 1 bought for $1800. Creek across one sive machine, which can be operated ing girls and mvself acted as corner. by one man and on* horse. teachers. That Sunday school A 12-acre tract near Dallas for $2200. Write for free B U L L E T IN No. 34. has never missed a session since It tells how to clear stump land at a For $3000, $2000 cash you can get a cost per acre than haa ever it has been organized. We had 10-acre tract within a mile o f Dallas, ? lower been possible heretofore. no superintendent for years. In well improved and set to fruit, with « ► PACIFIC M A N U FACTU R IN G CO. fact, the first superintendent we good house and barn. -J 1112 Western Ave., Sesttle, Wash. had was in about 1882 or 1883, 4 ► B a r g a in D a y A g e n t s o f th e W e e k ly O r e g o n ia n when J. It. Shepard became su perintendent. ’’Shortly after we moved to D A L L A S , Itemizer for artistic Job work. - OREGON 10 accordance with the provisions j of A law enacted at the 191.1 session PiOheet Resident Tells of Early Days in That Beautiful of the Oregon Legislature, it ts now ! incumbent upon each voter within the Valley. | corporate limits of the City of Dallas, ! Oregon, to register with the Auditor j and Police Judge of said City before | “ We came to Oregon in 1848,” he or she shull be permitted to vote ! said Mrs. Claiborne C. Walker, at any general or special City election. oi Portland. "1 was 17 years old The registration books at the office when we started from my home of the undersigned Auditor and Polite „\ly maiden name Judge in the City Hall are now open m Illinois. to voters, and will be until 30 days 1 was Louisa PufVill6. prior to the next general City election, j “ Unlike many of the early set- or until March « 1914. t le is , m y father took ample time Flesher Meat Market We Do Any and All Kinds of Printing Flesher M eat M arket We Are Selfish Enough American Adding Machine City Express & Transfer Co. NEW FALL SHOES DALLAS SHOE STORE w h e n y o u t ir e o f ro u g h , stro n g high proof whiskey C yras No Die i t f THE ! Weekly Oregonian t IT E M IZ E R Including 4 Page Supplement Until Jan. i, Great Combination Offer •9 15 MORE THAN ENTIRE YEAR For 75c i During the Bargain Period Ending in a few days Th e I t e m i z e r I s Itemizer Realty Concern » Both papers through this oftice if paid in advance for one year, on or before Decem ber 31st, 1913. $4.25