Polk
OUNTY
VOL. . XVII
DALLAS, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, AUGUST 19, 1904
NO. 23
HE AND SEE US
IN OUR NEW
STORE ....
Buy your clothing of the Hub Clothing Co.
id vote for your favorite for the "Free Trip to
rorld's Fair'.'. One coupon with each 25c purchase.
We have Collars and Ties
for the most fastidious.
Trunks, Valises and Suit
Cases for travelers.
Hart Schafiher & Marx
Clothing
SHOES for men and boys, including the
ORTHOPEDIC, one of the best $3.50 shoes made.
A Few Nice Outing Suits Left.
?0?v THE LADIE We have a line of the well
known BLACK CAT HO E, also a line .of the
i'ery latest Blouses.
I. Jacobson (Sh Co.
Kirllpatricli Building. DALLAS, OREGON
3To Ice Cream of Quality"
, rich cream and the purestof flavors, blended with unsurpassed skill
Swetland's Famous
Ice Cream
A QUART FOR SUNDAY'S DINNER.
WALTER WILLIAMS
SOLE AGENT FOR
U.LAS ----- OREGON
i visiting Portland don't fail to call at SWETLANDS' 273 Morrison
nd present this "ad." You will receive FREE an attractive souvenir
ie table.
alias Ice H Cold Storage Co.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
Cold Storage Rates are Cheap. Our Ice Is made of Pure
Mountain Water.
MEAT MARKET
OLESALE AND
fAIL
CONNECTED WITH OUR PLANT.
We Guarantee the Choicest and Best Cold
torage Meats.
ssages over Mutual Telephone at Our Expense
V.'e ive a World's Fair Tour Coupon with
every 25c purchase.
EeU Phone 366. Mutual 21.
Dallas, Oregon. -
WILL HAVE TO PAY MORE
PAINTS,
WALL PAPER
and
MOULDINGS
2 Hew Wall Paper & Paint Store.
Oil & CORiNES, Mill street, Dallas, Oregon
CAN BE CURED BT nMDf
sim Tablets. On lttu
immediate relief or money
' Id bndome tin boxe
t Cberrington, Dallaa.
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE OAY
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
AO druggist refund the money If It
fall to ror E. W. Grve's slrnatnre
City Council Raises License of Auc
tioneers and Street Peddlers
to $10 a Day.
Hereafter it will be unlawful for any
person to operate an automobile for
hire or profit within the corporate
limits of Dallas without first having
obtained a license therefor, and such
machine must not be driven at a speed
greater than six miles an hour; the
throwing of confetti on the streets or
in public places will be strictly pro
hibited; medicine peddlers and street
venders will be required to pay a daily
license of $5 instead of $2.50 as at
present, and auctioneers of bankrupt
stocks and transient dealers in mer
chandise will have to pay $10 a day
for the privilege of doing business,
These are the provisions of the ordi
nances passed by the city council at
the regular meeting held on Monday
evening.
The officers present at the meeting
were Mayor liayter, Councilmen
Cosper, Muir, Muscott and Simonton ;
Auditor Stouffer, Marshal Grant, and
Street Commissioner Williams ;absent
Councilmen Belt and Boals.
The report of the Finance Committee
on the quarterly reports of the Auditor
and Treasurer was read and accepted.
Claims against the city were ordered
paid as follows :
GENERAL FUND
D. P. Stouffer, fees for quarter. .$70.95
W. G. Vassall, fees for quarter.. 18 28
M. D. Coulter, sprinkliug streets 6.00
F. H. Muscott, washing hose. . . . 4.50
William Faull, merchandise.... 9.25
J. M. Grant, salary and fees ... 37.50
Oscar Hayter, professional ser
vices 5.00
Loughary & Ellis, merchandise .25
SEWEB FUND
D. P. Stouffer, clerical work ..$122.75
The petition of interested property
owners asking that the sidewalk on
each side of the new Kirkpatrick
building be raised to the established
grade was referred to the Street Com
mittee.
An ordinance granting to the Salem,
Falls City & Western Railway
Company a right-of-way on Birch
street between blocks 21-24 and 22-23
in the Improvement Company's addi
tion and also across Lewis and Lyle
streets was read first time.
An ordinance regulating the manner
of driving animals through the
streets of the city was read fi rst time.
This ordinance provides that all
animals must be led through the
business and residence streets, or
driven by not less than two men on
horseback.
An ordinance prohibiting the throw
ing of confetti was passed by a
unanimous vote of the council.
The ordinance to license and regu
late automobiles was also passed, all
of the councilmen voting in its favor.
The new law imposes a license of $5
per day for operating these machines
for hire, and also limits their speed to
six miles an hour. The penalty for
violation of the ordinance is a fine of
not less than $5 nor more than $20.
Action on the ordinance providing
for the construction of a sidewalk
along the south side of D. J. Riley's
property on Washington street was
ndefinitely postponed, for the reason
that the walk has been built.
An ordinance raising the license of
medicine peddlers and street venders
from $2.50 to $5.00 per day, and of
auctioneers of bankrupt stocks from
$5 to $10 per day was passed by a
unanimous vote.
Georsre Richmond was elected Dep
uty Marshal, to serve without compensation.
The next meeting of the council will
be held Monday, September 5.
Mrs. David Seth and sister, from
Dallas, visited their sister Mrs. Peer-
son in Dayton over Sunday. McMinn
ville News Reporter.
Mr. andltfrs. J. M. Wise, of Boise,
Idaho, were Dallas visitors, Saturday.
Mr. Wise has music stores in Boise,
Baker City and The Dalles.
Andy Tupper, for fourteen years
marshal of Independence, has located
on a fruit ranch in California. His
accessor in office is J. W. Ball.
Lott D. Brown, formerly of this city,
is now in the employ of the Oregon
Smelting and Refining Company, at
Sumpter, Oregon. He holds a respon
ible position in the office of the com
pany, at a good salary, with a chance
for rapid advancement.
Some excellent yields of wheat are
reported. J. H. Mulkey got 37 bushels
per acre from a field that he had had
in clover for two years ; most of the
grain is going from 20 to 25 bushels,
however. Monmouth Cor. in Inde
pendence Enterprise.
Irvin Smith, of Butler, and Miss
Ora Porter, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs
T. A. Porter, of Nestucca, were married
at the bride's home, Wednesday. Both
are well and favorably known in Polk
county and begin their married life
with the best wishes of many friends.
They will live at Butler, where Mr.
Smith is engaged in hop raising.
You Know What You Ar Taking
When you take Grove's Tasteless Chill
Tonic because the formula la plainly
printed on every bottle, showing that
it Is simply Iron and Quinine in a tawtc
1ms tnrm V run Vn P tar
J. C. Cockerham, of Butler, was a
business visitor in Dallas, Friday.
W. R. Craven left for Sumpter, Ore
gon, on a ten days' business visit,
Saturday.
Mrs. R. G. Black, of Vancouver,
Wash., is visiting her cousin, Mrs.
W. J. Wagner.
Miss Addie Osfleld, of Portland, is
visiting at the home of her brother,
H. J. Osfleld, in this city.
H. C. Eakin and family arrived
home from their vacation at Newport,
Saturday, and report a pleasant trip.
Eugene Hayter and daughter,
Frankie, left Saturday for a week's
outing at Ocean Park and Tillamook.
Fred J. Oberer, owner and manager
of the Charter Oak sawmill on the
Luckiamute river, south of Mon
mcuth, was a Dallas visitor, Saturday.
Mrs. Kate Lucas, of Dorry, Polk
county, came down Saturday to look
after business interests and visit for a
few days with relatives. McMinnville
News Reporter.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Biddle came home
from Newport,Saturday. They greatly
enjoyed their stay at the beach and
are much pleased with Newport as a
summer resort.
W. H. Fulkerson, one of Polk
county's pioneer citizens, has sold his
property in Monmouth, and will prob
ably go to Eastern Oregon for the ben
efit of his daughter's health.
S. H. McElmurry, a resident of Polk
county for many years, has rented
his farm in that county and purchased
the residence and five lots of J. L.
Couey in Lebanon and will move to
that city to reside. Albany Democrat.
Leonard LeSieur, who has been
clerking in the Bryan-Lucas Com
pany's store in Falls City for the last
few weeks, left Saturday for Sacra
mento, Gal., where he will take his old
position as salesman in Halo Brothers'
department store.
The Observer is prepared to print
large orders for hop tickets on short
notice, and guarantees to the growers
first-class stock and first-class print
ing. No order too large for our
capacity, and none too small for our
appreciation and best attention.
Tickets ordered by mail will be
promptly printed and delivered.
THE STATE FAIR
Prospects That Attendance This
Year Will Break All Previous
Records.
We like best to call
SCOTT'S EMULSION
a food because it stands so em
phatically for perfect nutrition.
And yet in the matter of restor
ing appetite, of giving new
strength to the tissues, especially
to the nerves, its action is that
of a medicine.
Send for free sample. .
SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists,
409-415 Pearl Street, New York.
5oc.and$i.oo; all druggists.
The Oregon State Fair this year is
going to bo a record breaker, in more
ways than one. The races are going to
be very rapid for there are In training
now more horses than have ever been
on the track at this time of the year
and in the Greater Salem Stake for 2 :15
pacers $2000 purse. There are 31 en
tries in the $2000 2:17 trot. In the
Lewis & Clark Stake, there are 17
entries. In the Rural Spirit Stake 2 :11
pace for $1000 there are 18 entries. In
the Inland Empire Stake for 3 year
old pacers for $500 there are 11 entries
and there are besides 11 other pacing
and trotting races to say nothing of
the running races of which there will
be at least two each day.
The camping ground has been fixed
up, streets laid out and named, camps
numbered and a Camp Grand Mar
shal, will look after the matters there
day and night. Water has been piped
into the grounds and other improve
ments made, making it one of the best
camping grounds in the state. Take
your family and a tent and enjoy a
week of solid comfort.
All trains of the S. P. R. R. Co. will
stop at the grounds during the week.
The street railway system into
Salem has been thoroughly over
hauled, new cars purchased, the track
widened to standard gauge, and the
roadbed improved, allowing the com
pany to make a 6-minute service and
possibly shorter. The pavillion and
grounds will be lighted by incandes
centelectric lights, thus giving a much
improvedsevice.
Will Improve the Service.
W. E. Coman, general freight and
passenger agent of the Southern
Pacific Company, spent a couple of
days in Eugene this week. Mr.
Coman in conversation with a Register
reporter, spoke very encouragingly of
conditions, believing that the diversity
of resources of the country will tide
us over any shortage of spring grain
that may obtain, and that we will all
have plenty and to spare. In speak
ing of his road, Mr. Coman says they
are preparing for a larger and better
service, 60 miles of new heavy rails
will be put in in the valley, rock
ballasting will be done and more and
faster trains will be run. They are
looking for good business and are
preparing for it. Eugene Register.
Blank notes tor sale here.
J. S. Macomber has been seriously
ill for the last three weeks at his home
near Oakdale. He is recovering slowly
and will not be able to resume his
farm work for soveral weeks.
Sweet Marie Raced at Salem.
Sweet Marie, the mare who won the
big $10,000 stakes at the Empire City
track, in New York, is the same trotter
that was ruled off the track at Salem
last Fall during the State Fair races.
The mare was ruled off the track be
cause the driver was accused of lay
ing up heats. Since then she has been
sent on the grand circuit, where she
has been making quite a name for
herself. She won in two straight
heats, her best time being 2:10. She
was reinstated at a meeting of the
National Trotting Association ad
visory board, held in San Francisco
last February. Durfee, who was
trainer and driver at Salem, has
nothing to do with the mare at the
present time. Telegram.
PRESIDENT RESSLER RETURNS
Says Oregon State Normal School Is
Well Represented at St.
Louis Fair.
Blank Bills of Sale are sold here.
A large number of Dallas and
Rickreall people spent Sunday in the
mountains west of Dallas.
Lou Wiprut, book-keeper of the
Independence National bank, returned
Saturday from a three weeks' outing
in San Fraucisco. Independence
Enterprise.
THE BIG CIRCUS COMING
Ringling Brothers Will Visit Salem,
Wednesday, August 31.
The announcement that Ringling
Brothers' World's Greatest Shows will
exhibit in Salem, Wednesday, August
31, will be received with more than
usual interest by the people of this
neighborhood. The Ringling Brothers
have a name that stands for all that
is new and entertaining in the circus
line, and the management announces
that this season the show has been
enlarged to such an extent that a
whole extra train is used in addition
to the four trains of last season. The
show is now transported from place to
place in eighty-five seventy-foot cars,
constructed especially for the Ringling
Brothers. In connection with the cir
cus proper, in which the arenic per
formance is marvelous, the Ringling
Brothers are this season presenting
the beautiful and sublime spectacular
production of Jerusalem and the Cru
sades. This pantomimic play necessi
tates the use of 1,200 actors and
actresses and of almost threo hundred
horses. It is presented on the largest
stage ever used for exhibitional pur
poses. Special excursion rates have
been arranged for on all lines of travel
by Ringling Brothers and those who
desire to go to Salem where this groat
circus exhibits Wednesday, August
31, can do so at a comparatively small
cost. This will bo the only point in
this vieinity where the circus will ex
hibit this season and no one should
miss the opportunity to see it. Watch
this paper for additional announcements.
President E. D. Ressler, of the Ore
gon State Normal School at Mon
mouth, passed through Portland
Monday on his return from a six
weeks' visit in the East, says Tues
day's Oregoniar.. Like all loyal
Oregonians, he thinks there is no
place like Oregon, and is glad to find
himself once more in the land of
promise.
While at the St. Louis Fair, Mr.
Ressler made a careful study of the
educational exhibit, and picked up
some valuable points for the exhibit
to be prepared for the Lewis and
Clark Fair. The State Normal is well
represented at St. Louis, but will do
much more at the Exposition next
year, where more space will be
allowed. Preparations will be begun
at once, and a faithful representation
of the regular work of the school will
be made up during the school year.
The great Louisiana Purchase Ex
position is a liberal education in
itself, says President Ressler, and a
month there Is worth a year's study in
the university. His experience in
visiting the World's Fairs at Chicago
and Paris enabled him to see a great
deal more in much less time than one
not so equipped, but a little study be
forehand of magazine articles and the
excellent official guidebooks, together
with a preliminary survey for the fin t
day or two in order to find out what is
of greatest personal interest, is a
valuable preparation for any one
wishing to put in his time to the best
advantage.
President Ressler will remain in
Monmouth until the opening of the
school year, September 20, except for
occasional short trips to county insti
tutes. He looks for an increased
attendance next year, for, besides the
usual inquiries from prospective new
students, a number of graduates of
the Monmouth and other normal
schools have signified their intention
of enrolling for the advanced course
provided at the last sossion of the
Board of Regents.
T. B. Rowell and family are enmp
iugonthe LaCreolo river above the
old Hallock mill.
Hon. ,1. M. Stark, landlord of the
Little Palace Hotel at Independence,
was in Dallas, Monday, on his way to
Falls City.
Ringling Brothers World's Greatest
Shows employ 1,280 mon, women and
children ; have C75 horses, use eighty -flvo
double length cars, exhibit a
monster herd of forty elephants in tho
largost menagerie on earth, and have
a spread of canvas that covers fifteen
acres of ground.
I FREE
WORLD'S
FA
TOUR
A World's Fair Excursion to St. Louis
and return, and $100 Additional Ex
pense money.
Contest Now Open
PRIZE
Will be awarded to any lady in Polk
County receiving the highest vote.
WE GIVE COUPONS With Eve,y 25C Purcha5e-
The Bee Hive Store
Dry Goods Clothing Shoes
T. A Riggs
Groceries
Guy Brothers
Hardware
Frank J. Chapman
Furniture
The Hub Clothing Store
Exclusive Men's Furnishings
A. H. Harris
Jeweler Optician
Bliss Bertha Collins
The Leading Milliner
Meiser & Meiser
Crockery Notion s
Heath & Cornes
Exclusive Paints Wall Paper
Lee Smith's Cyclery
Bicycles Repairing Sundries
Frank Fuchs
Star Bakery
Dallas Ice and Cold Storage Co.
Cold Storage Meats
Walter Williams
Cigars Confectionery Ice Cream