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THE ONCY DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER IN POLK COUNTY
THE POLK LUUNI (
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Admitted a» Second ('lass Mail Matter.
THURSDAY JUNE 11. i9I4
V. P. FISKE.
SUBSCRIPTION
’PHONES:
Itemizer, one ,e ar in aiivauce............... .........................$1 5(
With Weekly (n .gu iiian or Seml wee».y Journal
....... 2 O
With tioal Magazine........................................................ 1 5l
M U T U A I.!
Office,
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Residence,! 11:1
O ffice :
No. Ö01» Main St.
Patronize Ooe Another for the Upbuilding of Town and County
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Commenting on the Itemizer's suggestion two weeks
ago that Dallas people turn out en masse and attend
the races in that city, the Independence Enterprise
says: “ Right you are, Brother Fiske. if this same
congenial spirit had prevailed in years past between
the two towns in question, both would have profited
greatly by it. Independence is and always lias been
ready to meet our county seat folks half way. Will
Dallas boosters ever wake up to this fact?
Cheerfulness pays. It is the most valuable business
asset you have. Few of us are born with a cheerful
disposition. Most of us either have to cultivate the
habit or else go through life handicapped. Therefore,
if you are not one of the lucky few. by all means culti
vate the habit. Learn to look on the bright side of
life. Keep the sunny side of your nature toward
others. Make cheerfulness your daily companion, lie
an optimist.
WHAT A NEWSPAPER DOES FOR A TOWN.
The value of a live, energetic newspaper to any town
or city is absolutely impossible of estimation. There
are so many ways that the good newspaper promotes
the interest of the city and the individual citizens
where it is published that it would be liko trying to
number the sands of the sea to enumerate them, it
is the true friend of the city or town and every resident
thereof and stands ready to light the battles even of
the individual citizens in a way that no other agency
has either the nerve or the courage to do. It stands
as a great bulwark of defense for the city and for the
people.
But this is only one feature.
There’s another that is seldom given much thought,
and that is that the newspapers of any town or city are
a paying investment for such place as industrial insti
tutions. People welcome witli open arms and loud ac
claim any factory costing a few thousand dollars and
they think the town is wonderfully fortunate in secur
ing a plant that will give employment to a number of
people. Sometimes they even put up a bonus to se
cure such a plant. There are many newspapers which
give employment to a number of people, and nothing
is thought of it. The money that comes to the paper
is spent in the town or city where it is published. None
of it goes away, except for ink and paper and some
other small supplies that cannot lie bought at home.
The newspaper is essentially a home institution. It
works day and night to build up its home town and
state, and spends its money freely witli home people.
It is published on strict business principles these days,
and that is the reason for the growth and prosperity
that has come to many papers during (lie past lew
years.
As a business enterprise, a good newspaper is about
the best industry that any town lias, ami its publishers
ask nothing but a square deal.
FLIES NOT SO NUMEROUS.
Dallas housewives have undoubtedly noticed (hat the
pestoferous house-fly is not so prevalent this si ason as
in former years. While the Itemizer does not desire to
claim any credit that does not rightfully belong to it,
yet we honestly believe that our fly swatting campaign,
conducted at the proper time to accomplish the most
effective service, is somewhat responsible for the short
age. While not so many thousand dead flies were a
result of the campaign, yet each one killed would soon
have multiplied our supply into the millions, making up
the great shortage that is now in evidence. My next
year we hope our people will lie so trained to the work
that the scourage will be almost and unknown quan
tity.
THINGS ARE CHEAPER.
The buying public can hardly coincide with (lie Ore
gonian and other papers that there has been no mater
ial decrease in the cost of living since the passage of
the Wilson administration's tariff hill .Inst now during
the strawberry canning season, they are finding this
out very particularly. The berries are costing them
75 cents per crate and sugar is $4.50 the sack, as
against $6.25 last year. If this is not a material re
duction, we cannot conceive o f one, and it is on one of
the material Mcssalties of life, what the WllffOa bill
was framed for and aimed at. The bill will work to
that end just as rapidly as possible, and there is no
question but that It will eventually perform in every re
spect the benefits for the public that was Intended by
its projectors. Really, the cost of living is more an
improvement to be made by the people themselve than
by laws that ever could lie framed. If economy is not
practiced by the individual himself amt by his family,
the passage of any law for his benefit is of practically
no value. What the American people really need to
get back to true prosperity is to abolish their extrav
agant way of living. Such financial ability as we
heard of the other day, where a man in Dallas refused
the chance to pay $5ft0 cash he had down on a home
and expended it on an automobile instead, is the true
cause of much of out so designated high cost of living.
Cut out the extras and the necessitites will be taken
care o f by the new tariff law.
PANAMA CANAL TOLLS.
Even though he voted for free wool, it gives us pleas
ure to compliment Senator Chamberlain of Oregon for
the fight he has made in favor of free tolls for coast
wise vessels passing through the Panama canal There
Is no subject of greater concern to the western people
than this question o f free tolls. Unless our coastwise
vessels are given protection in the Panama canal
against the unholy railroad combination, it is probable
that the canal will prove a detriment rather than a
benefit to the whole western country. The comple
tion of this canal is going to make a decided reduction
in the in igfit on goods snipped from foreign countries
to file United States, and thus increase tile competition
with our own producers. The rate on wool from
Australia to Boston is now $1.55 per hundred. When
the canal is completed this rate will not exceed $1.00.
This will save the Australians more titan half a cent per
pound. But what benefit will the canal be to our
western wool growers? Certainly very little, for under
present rates we are not going to be able to reach it.
Tite westbound freight on wool from Idaho, Montana,
Utah, Whyoming and other intermouutaiu states are
so high that, when this rate is added to the rate from
coast points to Boston, it will be cheaper to ship east
by rail. Now the same thing applies to meats. At
the present time no chilled meat can be landed on the
Pacific coast for the distance from Australia is too
gieat to permit the chilling. When the canal is com
pleted chilled meat will reach Pacific coast points at a
very low rate front the Argentine. But the canal is
not going to reduce the rates on domestic meats, for
again tite westbound rate is so high that we cannot
atford it. What has been said of meat and wool is
more or less true of other products of the intermoun-
tain country. The only reason this country had for
building the Panama canal was to obtain competition
for the transcontinental railroads and thus aid the de
velopment of the west by giving that section lower
freight rates. Now, if we are to charge our coastwise
vessels ior using the canal, it means that whatever
that charge is will be added to the rate charged by the
vessel and will be paid by the producer and consumer.
Suppose the charge amounted to ti torts per hundred.
That would mean that the ocean rate on all our pro
ducts would be raised 6 cents per hundred, but what is
more important, it would also mean that the railroad
rate would also be raised 6 cents per hundred on
everything that is handled. Free tolls would also
cause the railroads to reduce their rates on all the
traffic they handle, which would amount to many mil
lion dollars per year. All this reduction would go into
the pockets of the producer and consumers. If by giv
ing $1,000,000 in free tolls the government can save to
its people ten times as much in reduced railroad rates,
then justice demands that it be done.
Aside from the economic phase of this question there
is not a single argument that can prohibit free tolls
except the desire of some to truckle to Great Britain
and thus gain her support in carrying out some alliance
into which this country had never any business to en
ter. Not a word in the treaty prohibits free tolls and
any man who reads the treaty, and understands
treaties, knows this. In giving our ships free tolls un
der litis treaty we are doing just what Great Britain
has done under a similar treaty for nearly 100 years.
The Panama canal is built on American territory at the
expense of $400,000,000 of our money. It is as much
ours to control as would be a canal built across the
state of Utah. Since we purchased the canal zone and
acquired sovereignty over it we need no treaty with
any power. No nation has asked for tree tolls except
Great Britain, and she has been prompted to do so sole
ly by the Canadian Pacific railroad, aided and abetted
by our own trancontinental railroads.
In his opposition to the repeal of free tolls, Senator
Chamberlain has merely assumed the position of a
patriotic American and an able lawyer. Ultinvrielv
the people will understand this question and find that
much of the rot that has been published in favor o f
high tolls came from interested souces. When that
time conies, and it will not be far distant, there will be
a heap of explaining to do. Roosevelt will have a good
deal to say about this when lie comes home and finally
the people will understand It.— Tite National Wool-
grower.
NEW OFFICERS OF WOMEN’S CLUB !
Dallas Organization Closing a Busy Year and b a n
ning New W ork.
CULTIVATORS
$ 20.00
81/2 ft.
6
ft.
$ 15.00
John Deere Steel Frame
Weeder with Seat
/ 7rs JT/te c// 7 &zlzy'<s^
SVz tf.
$ 23.50
6
$ 19.50
ft.
Corn Cultivators in Stock
Craven
Hardware
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It la not necessary to heat the water
Summons.
In winter, and with lamps connected
In the Circuit Court of the State of
to water vessels there ts always more
Oregon for the County of Polk.
or less danger.
Nathan M. Conner, plaintiff, vs.
Warm water freezes easier than
cold. The hens prefer the latter, and James M. Carlisle, an insane person,
| and J. C. Syron, his Guardian; the un
KEEPS YOUR I-IOME =
FRESI-I ¿?//^CLEAN
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known heirs at law of Polissa Rowell,
¡deceased; also all other persons or
i parties unknown claiming any right,
j title, estate, lien or interest in the real
j property described in the complaint
herein, defendants.
Combination Pneumatic Sweeper
r P H I S Swiftly-Sweeping, Easy-Running D U N T L E Y Sweeper
cleans without raising dust, and at the same time picks up
pins, lint, ravelings, etc., in O N E O P E R A T I O N .
Its ease
makes sweeping a simple task quickly finished. It reaches
even the most difficult places, and eliminates the necessity
of moving and lifting all heavy furniture.
; To the unknown heirs at law of Polis
sa ltowell, deceased, and also to all
other persons or parties unknown
claiming any
right, title, estate,
lien or interest in the real estate
described in the complaint heroin,
or claiming any interest or estate
T h e G r e a t L a b o r S a v e r o f th e H o m e — Every home, large or
to the real property hereinafter de
small, can enjoy relief from Broom drudgery and protection from
scribed, defendants:
the danger of flying dust.
In the name of the State of Oregon,
D u n tle y is th e P io n e e r o f P n e u m a tic S z vce p ers —
You and each of you are hereby re
Has the combination of the Pneumatic Suction Nozzle and
quired to appear and answer the com
revolving Brush. Very easily operated and absolutely guar
plaint filed against you in the above
anteed. In buying a Vacuum Cleaner, why not give
entitled suit, in the above named
the
**D u n tle y ” a trial in your home at our expense?
t Court within six weeks from the date
Photo by C. M. Barnitz.
W r i. 'j today f o r fu ll p a rtic u la rs
of the first publication of this sum-
! mons, which said date of first publi-
Agents Wanted,. Duntley Pneumatic
A GOOD SQ U ARE VESSEL.
TW EN TY-SIX YEARS AGO.
! cation of this summons is the 11th
Sweepr Co , 6501 S. State St., Chicago.
it Is better for their digestion. We day of June 1914, and if you fail so to
present styles of water vessels for old appear and answer said complaint the
Taken From the Files of the
above named plaintiff will, for want
and young fowls.
I thereof, apply to the Court for the
Itemizer of June 9, 1888.
On hot days water should be shaded relief prayed for and demanded in his
and should be changed occasionally, as said complaint, which is substantially
stale, warm drink brings intestinal as follows: For a decree requiring
IVY
Miss Nellie Howe is visiting
trouble to youug and old stock. Place said defendants, and each of them,
in Portland with friends.
C.M.UARNITZ
the vessel so dirt and litter cannot be whether they be heirs at law of Polis W
RIVERSIDE
scratched Into It. and make the duck sa Rowell, deceased, or other persons
I Born, to Mr. and Mrs. John
PA.
water vessels so deep that when they or parties unknown claiming any
Robbins, near Danas, June 3rd,
I right, title, estate, lien or interest in
drink they may dip iu over the eyes, I or to said real property, and each of
a son.
or sore eyes and heads will result.
them, to set forth the nature of their
claim to the following described real
Mrs. James Dickey died at r 01£Kt*PONI>ENCE
! property situated in the County of
SO LIC ITED
Mill Creek Wednesday and was
Polk and State of Oregon, to-wit:
buried in Harmony cemetery.
j Being a part of the Donation Land
| Claim of Daniel Rowell and Polissa
Last Friday’s rain, it was
Rowell, his wife, Notification No. 1892,
j Claim No. 72. and being parts of Sec
claimed,
benefitted
Yamhill
tions seven (7) and eighteen (18) in
county fully a hundred thous ITlteso articles and illustrations must not
¡Township six (6) South of Range five
be reprinted without special permission. J I
and dollars.
| (5) West of the Willamette Meridian,
which said part is more particularly
Stone and lumber was on the
THE W ATER VESSEL.
described as beginning at the North ?;
ground ready for the erection Chicken« art* certainly on the water j
west corner of said Rowell Donation
of the big flouring mill by Felir wagon ami then some. This is because
1 Land (Malm and running thence South B
along the W est line thereof thirty-one i f
Noel, which is expected to be water Heures so in their comfort,
and 17-100 (31.17) chains; thence j
ready for operation by the first health and growth. They must have
By M^63.
South 89 degrees 40 minutes East,
of October.
It to soak their food. It Is such a large
thirty-seven and 39-100 (37.39) chains
constituent
of
t>gjcs
and
flesh,
so
that
'
(
to
a stake from which an ash tree W
The Dallas firemen at their
H EY called him
j seven inches in diameter bears N. 3 » !
wise poultry man will always keep ,
“Freight Car
last meeting elected the follow a the sufficient
degree W. 152 links distant: thence U
quantity of fresh, pure wa I
Fm ldy." lie was
ing men to office: M. M. Ellis, ter before his fowls.
North twelve and 18-100 (12 18) chains
slow, but somehow
to
a stake: thence South 89-degrees
C. G. CO«d, li. I,. Fenton. II. B. A water vessel should be Inexpen
sure He got there
¡40 minutes West one and 42-100 (1
Cosper, M. I>. Ellis, L. I). Grant, sive. bold at least a day’s supply.
In his own |»ecul-
| chains to an iron pipe; thence North
Win. Mulkey, T. it. Rowell and
la r t i m e
and
eighteen and 99-100 (18.99) chains to
j i,. L. Shreve.
an iron pipe on the North boundary A N N U A L REPORT OF T H E C O L L E C T IO N S AND DISB URS EM EN TS OF
route. Freddy was
SCHOOL D IS T R IC T NO. 2. FOR T H E SCHOOL Y EA R ENDING
line
of said Rowell D. L. C .: thence !
not n hol»o. but a
J U N E 12. 1914.
W. 11. Grove was the first to
North 89 degrees 40 minutes West,
rising young O D I in a class all
Balance
on hand June 16. 1913........................................ $5,857.90
renew his subscription with the
thirty-five and 97-100 (35.97) chains to
his own
the place of beginning, and containing Received from special tax............................................... 9,783.43
new proprietor of the Itemizer, j
They also called him “ Freddy,
133.60 acres, in order that the alleged Received from common school fund............................... 7,052.00
and Friend Doughty, of the Polk
th« Human Grasshopper.” You
interest of said defendants, either as Received from state school fund..................................... 1,597.59
/a.-er
knew
where
to
find
him.
Comity Observer, was the first
heirs at law of Polissa Rowell, de- | Received from high school fund.................................
180.22
Freddy was the antithesis of
o f the editorial fraterity to
ceased, or as other persons or parties Received rebate on street Improvement...................
36.00
himself—if you can get that
claiming any right, title, estate, lien Received for rent of rooms..........................................
honor our sanctum with his
13.00
lie was the l>r Jekyll nnd Mr.
or interest in or to said real property, ! Received for tuition............................ .......................
presence.
6.25
Hyi’e of motion
Now you see
and each of them, may be adjudged j Received miscellaneous sources.................................
$26.752.60
and
determined
by
said
Court,
and
!
him.
Hs
slow
and
deliberate
as
a
Mrs. W. G. Ross, of Astoria,!
Disbursements.
that by said decree it be declared and '
freight
car.
and
now
you
don’t,
'10,227.25
had a most interesting and val
adjuged that said defendants nnd
! Teachers' salaries............................................
as fust and elusive as a grass
926.25
uable relic of colonial times in
of them have no estate, right, inter Janitors’ salaries...............................................
hopper It needed a magician to
250.00
est or claim whatsoever in or to said Clerk's salary ............................................. .
the shape of tite Boston Gazette
keep tabs on this very real
301.00
Fuel
..................................................................
real
property,
or
any
part
thereof,
but
'
and Country Journal of date of
Freddy
389.01
that they, and each of them, be es- . furniture and other supplies............................
106.00
The land of newspaper readers
Monday, March 12, 1770, 118,
topped and forever debarred and en Repairs to buildings and grounds.....................
120(00
has a few Freddies
One time
years ago. six years previous j
joined from hereafter asserting orf at W ater ...............................................................
•
12790
they start on their trip through
tempting to assert my interest in or Light and pow er...............................................
to the signing of the Declara
30.50
Telephone ........................................................
the paper and proceed slowly,
right
to
said
real
property,
or
any
part
tion of Independence.
2,875 00
stopping at every way station
’hereof, and further decreeing that Interest on bonds...............................................
295.77
Plaintiff is the owner in fee simple of Kitting up room for Domestic A r t ...................
The next time they Jump here
Following were the graduates
275.00
all of said real property above de Insurance ..........................................................
and there through It In a way to
from the Monmouth normal
1.395 17
Street
Improvement..........................
-...............
scribed. and that plaintiffs title to
make the average grasshopper
36.70
school that year: J. W. Houck.!
said real property be forever quieted M iscellaneous expenses.....................................
green with envy.
$17.354.55
(}. E. I louck, J. W. Lawson. C. C. |
in him. as to every and all persons 1
Be a freight car If you must,
$ 9.398.05
whomsoever whether claiming to be Balance on hand June 12, 1914............................................... .
Bacon, Florence Barber, J. D.
but don’t l»e a grasshopper Bet
Amount
in
sinking
fund
to
take
care
of
bonds
and
interest.........
$ 5,437.50
heirs at law of Polissa Rowell, de
Murphy, H. W. Shreve, U. T.
ter. be neither.
ceased. or In any way claiming any Balance on hand to carry on school until another tax collecting
Burnett, Lena Butler . W. S.
The sensible newiqiaper reader
period
.....................................................................................
.........
$
3,960 55
right, title, estate, lien or Interest In
B. H. M cCALLO N.
Is M O P E R A T E lie’s not a pk»d-
or to the said real property above de TR A C Y STA A T 8 .
Carpenter, Lottie Ground. Isa
District Clerk.
Chairman Board of Directors.
der or a skipper, but a PICKER.
scribed. or anv part thereof, and for 1
Photo by C. M Barnitz.
bel Gray. S. Goodnight, J. A.
Are you following CONSIST
such other and further relief as to the
Houck, Inez Hamilton. Lizzie
T T P W o r W ATER TOM«KLA
Court
may
seem equitable in the
ENTLY the ads. in this paper
Jakes, C. H. Jones, 11. G. Little
tton of this summons ts June 11. 1914.
Shake Off Your Rheumatism.
premises
that appeal to you?
field, Jean McDaniel, E. C. Pent- should protect water from dust and j
Now is the time to get rid of your
This summons is published by order and said Defendants, and each of
them, are required to answer Plain
of the Hon John R Teal, County
land, Ida Smith, S. Shedd, W. L. run. l*e covered so chirks cannot pret :
rheumatism. Try a twenty five cent
Into it and fowls cannot dip their j
Judge of Polk County. Oregon, duly tiff's complaint within stx weeks from bottle of Chamberlain's Liniment and
Worth, Vida
Worth,
May
Wood
.
,
..........
<*«*n ! « ■ ml w -iff . s Into the " itt r nut
Hard work Is still the road to pmu made and entered at Chambers at said date.
see how quickly your rheumatic paina
b u r y . h a r a ll W i m b e r ly and T. A. should Ilf made so It may be easily : parity and there is no other.-BeujP Dallas, Oregon, on the 9th day of June,
R. L. CO N N E R .
Attorney for Plaintiff.
disappear
Sold by all dealers.
Want).
carried, filled and cleaned.
1914, and the date of the first publics-
■du Frank Up.
im w
Our
o
9 ,0 0 0
A c re F a rm
Practically all irrigated and located five miles
from Grass Range will be
Sold in Tracts of
Why Are Some
Folks Human
Grasshoppers?
160 Acres
This is the last large farm to be cut up in the
Fam ous
F ergu s C oun ty
Along the new line of the C. M. & St. P. Ry.
Grass Range Ranch Company,
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Grass Range,
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Montana