Polk County Observer
J. C. HAYTER,
KDITOR AND PUBLI8HKR.
I'ublisliecl Weekly at 11.00 per
Slrlrtly In Advance.
Ytar.
D.VIXAH, OKKGON, AUiiUHT 20, 1901.
The way to build up Dallas ts to pat
ronize Dallas people.
Republican National TicKet
FOIt PRESIDENT
THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
of Now York.
FOIl VIJK-l'ltKSIIKNT
CIIAS. W. FAIRBANKS
of Indiana.
For Presidential Electors :
15. Dimiek, of Clackamas county
C. Hough, or Josophino county.
N. Hart, of Polk county.
A. Ft, of Umatilla county.
Tho farmers aie making prepara
tions for the hop picking season, and
the streets of Dallas are crowded with
wagons and teams sent in after sup
plies. Pickers are plentiful, but will
bo paid 50 cents a box as usual. Pick
ing in most of the yards will begin
tho first week in September. The hops
are making a fine growth, and the
yards have made wonderful develop
ment in tho last two weeks. Prices
are soaring around the 25-cent mark,
and growers are highly encouraged
with thooutlook for a highly profitable
year. Many farmers have sold their
yards to buyers and speculators, some
of them receiving tho equivalent of 20
cents a pound. The crop is free from
lice and mold, and is of exceptionally
high quality.
RETURNED FROM CALIFORNIA
T. J. Cherrington Spent ueugnuui
Outing at Pacific Beach Resorts.
Mutual telephone directory in this
paper.
R. It. Riggs. of Bridgeport, was in
Dallas, Wednesday.
J. R. Mooro uud family have moved
from Salt Crook to Woodburn,
Old and unsightly yard fences will
soon be a thing of tins past in Dallas.
I. H. Whealdon and family have
returned from an outing at Siletz
Bay.
Ross Ellis has been making some
needed Improvements on his dwelling
house near the depot.
Mr. and Mrs. B. Gildnor, who have
boon spending tho summer at New
port, arrived home yesterday.
Come to the Ouhkkveh offieo for
blank notes, warranty and quit-claim
deeds,- real estate and chattel mort
gages, bonds for deed and bills of sale.
Our blanks are excelled by nono for
quality of iujxr, care in printing, and
general appearance.
Mrs. D. O. Bronson and son, Hu
bert, are down from Prineville on a
visit to relatives at Lewlsville, Dallas
and Riekreall. Mr. Bronson's health
has Improved greatly since going to
Eastern Oregon, and tho family may
decide to remain there permanently.
It is worth while for Dallas people
to go away from homo occasionally to
hear the good things that are said of
tho town by people living in other
communities. No town in Oregon
has a better reputation for enterprise
and progress, and on every hand one
hears compliments for the successful
efforts of Dallas citizens in establish
ing important industries and keeping
in the lead in the march of progress.
Tho people of Dallas have worked
earnestly and harmoniously togethor
to bring about this stato of affairs,
and they may be pardoned for being
proud of the reputation that the town
enjoys t.broad.
Jolly Bonfire Party.
Mrs. D. M. Metzgorand sou Norval,
Mrs. F. II. Morrison and family, and
Miss Madgo Groves returned homo
Monday from tho mountains, whore
they had been camping for three
weeks. Ou Saturday evening they
gave a bonllro party to about twenty
young people who drove out from
Dallas. Tho camping place was
lighted Jby Japanese lanterns, and
hammocks and campstools were pro
Tided in abundance. The evening
was spent In singing nud story-telling,
and tho hours passed merrily to all.
Before starting for home, tho guests
were treated to a mountaineer's
supper. The young jteople spent a
delightful evening, nud all agree that
tho party was tho most novel social
rvent of the year.
SILETZ RICH IN TIMBER
Railroad Survey Party Loud In
Praise of the Section.
T. J. Cherrlngtou arrived home last
Friday from a three weeks' pleasure
tour of Soutnern uanioruiu. n
visited L03 Angeles, Pasadena, San
Pedro, Long Beach, and other points
of interest and enjoyed every minute
of his trip. He prefers Oregon to
California, however, and is glad to be
at home again. He has been kept
busy early and late in his photograph
gallery s'nee his return, and is turn
ing out a large amount of work that
had accumulated during his absence.
Mr. Cherrington found many former
Polk and Marion county people living
in Southern California, and says they
are all prosperous and enjoying life.
He visited Mr. and Mrs. Felix Noel in
Alhambra, a puburb of Los Angeles,
where they have been living since Mr.
Noel sold his flouring mill in Dallas
Mr. Noel is engaged in the real estate
business and is doing well. Mr.
Cherrington also enjoyed the hospi
tality of Dr. J. E. Kirkpatrick and
family at their pleasant home in Los
Angeles. Doctor and Mrs. Kirk
patrick are spending their declining
vears amid the most comfortable sur
roundings, and are both in tho best of
health. Their property is rapidly in
creasing in value, and one of the
finest buildings in the city is now be
ing built within two blocks of their
home.
At Long Beach he visited his broth
er, Captain C. W. Cherrington, a
retired business man. He says that
Long Beach is destined to become the
most popular resort in California, and
that it is entitled to be classed as the
"Coney Island of the West." Thous
sands of Eastern people are there now,
although the season will not be at its
height until midwinter. Every form
of amusement has been provided for
visitors, and the fishing and bathing
facilities are unexcelled. W. R Pfen
nig, a former Dallas jeweler, has a
jewelry store in Long Beach and is
enjoying a fine trade. Mr. and Mrs.
Pfennig are delighted with their new
home, but still remember with pleasure
the years they spent in Dallas.
Mr. Pfennig has developed into an
enthusiastic fisherman, and spends
many of his leisure hours in fishing
from tho pier that extends far out into
the ocean. When Mr. Cherrington
arrived in Long Beach, the jovial
jeweler immediately volunteered to
give him a few lessons in the fasci
nating sport of deep-sea ffshing.
Equipped with a pleutiful supply of
bait and tackle, they joined the throng
of fishermen on the pier and tho ex
pert angler was soon busy explaining
to the beginner the mysteries of the
art of luring the fishes from their
hiding places in the bottom of tho sea.
The novice proved an apt pupil; in
fact, he soon grew wiser than his
master, for at the end of an hour he
had twenty-seven fine fish, and Pfen
nig had one. The first fish caught by
Mr. Pfennig was about three inches
long, and Mr. Cherrington yanked it
off the hook and put it on his own
hook for bait. Not wishing to sent
expert homo to his wife in disgrace,
Mr. Cherrington generously divided
his catch and wonded his way back to
his hotel. The next morning he met
Mrs. Pfennig on the street and was
surprised beyond measure when the
good lady invited him to the house to
lunch "to help eat some fine sea fish
that Mr. Pfennig had caught tho day
before." He says that Pfennig had
actually gone honio and told his wife
that he was the man that caught, the
fish, and had made hor bolieve it. He
says Pfennig will probably deny tho
truth of the whole story, but he
respoctfully submits that tho word of
a man who will wickedly deceive his
wifo In a casa like this is entitled to
no consideration whatever.
PREMIUM ON HOP CHECKS
One Dallas Store Will Give 55 Cents
in Trade for 50-Cent Tickets.
We beg to inform the hop pickers
that their 50-cent cheeks will bo good
for 55 cents in trade this year at the
general merchandise store of Prills &
Keyt. No goods will be reserved, aud
your checks will be good for 55 cents
iu purchasing any article in our big
stock of dry goods, clothing, shoes,
hats .groceries, etc. This 5 cents prem
ium on every hop check will amount
to a neat sum when you come to
purchase your wiuter supplies. You
cannot ao netter tnan to buy your
entire bill nt our store, where all
goods are of the very best quality and
nil prices are reasonable.
Respectfully yours,
ELLIS & KEYT.
Lost.
A Corporation Rato Shoot, giving
water rates in McMinuvillo, Portland,
l onaioton, snio.n ann uauas. t uuier
will please returu to this office.
What are Humors?
They r vitiated or morbid fluids cours
ing the veins and aflivtlng the tissues.
They are commonly due to defective diges
tion but are sometimes Inherited.
How do they manifest themselves t
In many forms of cutaneous eruption,
alt rheum or eczema, pimples and boils,
and In weakness, languor, general debility.
How are they expelled T Py
Hood's Sarsaparilla
which also builds up the system that has
suffered from them.
It. I ta lt tttfietaa fvr U burner
Airs. Fiske Withdraws.
Eluding it an impossibility, without
the outright purchase of many
thousand votes, for any of the con
testants to secure sufficient tickets to
close the World's Fair contest in time
j to attend, I hereby withdraw, after
sincerely thanking tho friends who
i have given me their votes.
Heter Fiskf,
Low Rates to California.
The Triennial Conclave Kuights
Templar will be held at San Fran
cisco, September 5th to Mb aud the
Sovereign Grand Lodge I. O. O. F.
will be held at same point September
19th to 25th. For these occasions the
Southern Pacific Company will place
in effect the extremely low rate of one
and one third fare for the rouud trip,
not to exeoed $25.00, the rate from
Portland. Those who are planning a
trip to California should take note of
these rates.
DeVltt's K Salvo
For Pile. Burns, Sores.
The surveying party of the S. Chap
man Lumber Company that has been
in the Coast Range Mountains since
May 23, completed its task Saturday,
coming out at a point no one guessed,
saysthe Indepenednce correspondent
of the Oregonian. The survey as
completed Saturday intersects the
Southern Pacific scarcely nan a raue
south of Independence, near the old
racetrack. The surveying crew, com
prising 15 men, Is in charge of Engi
neer L. M. Rice.
The timber found in the Siletz
Basin was a revelation to the party,
many of whom are experienced timber
men and surveyors. There is enougn
timber in the Siletz country, says
Chief Engineer Rice, to last 50 years
after it is made accessible by rail. The
route terminating at Independence is
a very feasible one and, according to
the survey, it is not over 45 miles iuto
the heart of the rich Siletz liasin.
Terminating here, timber over the
proposed route could be handled by
rail or river, and the Southern Pacific
is just completing a spur from within
a few rods of where the survey ended
Saturday iuto the bed of the river. A
road over this survey would also
afford a short cut to Newport.
Floyd Daly went to Portland, Tuesday.
Fred West arrived home yesterday
from a visit in Tacoma.
C. E. Maxfleld, a Pedee hop raiser,
was a Dallas visitor yesterday.
Mrs. S. C. Dodson and daughters
are taking an outing at Newport.
Mr. and Mrs. Claudo Dunn visited
relatives in Woodburn this week.
FrankButlcr, of Falls City, was In
Dallas on a business errand yesterday.
Prunes wanted: Highest market
price paid by E. H. Hibdakd, Dallas.
Mrs. S.J. McDonald, of Gresham.
is a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
W. G. Campbell.
Mrs. H. L. Fenton and Miss Bertha
Collins were Portland visitors this
week. Miss Collins was selecting her
stock of Fall millinery goods.
S. P. Kimball, of Salem, was in
Dallas looking after his orchard
interests, Saturday. Mr. Kimball is
preparing to dry a large amount of
prunes in addition to the product of
his own orchard this year. See his
ad in another column.
Tho fire in the timber west of Falls
City is well under control and . no
further fears of damage are enter
tained. The fire was successfully
handled, and the loss of valuable
timber is small. The valley is filled
with smoke, but it is thought that most
of it is blown by the northeast wind
from Washington and British Colum
bia. Alex VanOrsdel leaves today for
Cheyenne, where he will visit relatives
for two weeks. He will then enter the
University of Nebraska as a student,
aud after two years in that institution
will take up the study of law in Ann
Arbor, Michigan. Alex is a bright
aud earnest student, and his many
friends predict for him a successful
career in his chosen profession.
Independence has given the Inde
pendent Telephone Compauy the
privilege of placing poles in the
streets, aud the work of building the
lino into town will begin at once. The
line has already been built into Mon
mouth, connecting with other inde
pendent lines. Free connection will
bo given with the independent lines at
Dallas, Falls City, McMiunville,
Amity, Corvallis and Newberg.
County Surveyor J. P. VanOrsdel,
assisted by five men, has made a sur
vey of the proposed road from Inde
pendence to Sidney, and reports that
tho cost of building it would'be be
tween $500 and $G00, including
bridges. Tho road would accommo
date about GO families. A delegation
of Independence citizens will come to
Dallas ou a special motor on Wednes
day, September?, to urge the County
Court to authorize tho opening of the
road.
While out walking with a gentle
man friend yesterday morning, M. G.
Pfoutz saw a large cougar in the
Levens hop yard just west of towu.
The animal took fright when the men
approached, and rau into the timber
near by. Several men went out with
their dogs and attempted to track the
big cat, but their efforts were unsuc
cessful. Cougars are plentiful in the
Coast mountains, but are not often
seen in the valley. The last one seen
near Dallas until yesterday was
killed by City Marshal J. M. Grant
near the campground fifteen or twenty
years ago.
Fidler & Marks, proprietors of the
ice factory and cold-storage meat
market, wish to announce to the
public that nowhere elso in Polk
county can be found such excellent
meat8 as they are selling. The meat
is not frozen, but is kept in cold-storage
rooms where tho temperature is
just above tho freezing point Leav
ing the meat in those cool rooms a
few hours, all the animal heat and
gas is taken out of it, and it goes to
your table sweet and clean and w hole
some. Do not be deceived by any re
ports you may hear that our meat is
frozen aud that it will not keep long
after it is sold from the block. - We
number among our customers the
very best families in Dallas, and they
are getting meat that cannot be ex
celled anywhere in the world. Give
our meats a trial and you will use no
other.
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The burnished plum,
age of the peacock
owes its brilliancy and
splendor to a health
ful condition. Let the
bird be sickly, and the
plumage droops and
grows dull. There is
vrntinn in na-
ture to the rule that beauty depends on
heal'K
' Women who see their beauty waning
rarely associate the external change
wi'h failure of the womanly health.
They do not understand the c ose rela
f'on of the general physical health to
tlie health of the delicate womanly or
ganism, until after being cured of wom
6 , i: - fi, of T)r. Pierce a
RUIV Ulscascn uj - -
Favorite Prescription they find the color
returning to tue cueen ami iut uu
the IkxIv. , , ,. .
'Favorite Prescription" establishes
reo.ilaritv, dries weakening drains, heala
inanimation and ulceration and cures
female weakness.
"Several vears ago I was very poorly," writes
Mrs. Mav Kcliev, of Sylvia, Kans., "so weak I
couht hardly walk across the floor, and at times
differed s-verelv. I took; two bottles of Dr.
Pi-rce s Favorite" Prescription aud got well and
h i! Iv i tine 1 twelve pounds in two months
and was the picture of health. Your medicines
have cured me. Almost everybody I meet says,
' You look so much better than you have 6
several years ; you look well now.' P
"Favorite Prescription" makes weak
women strong, sick women well. Ac
cept no substitute for the medicine
which works wonders for weak women.
tv Piprce's Pleasant Pellets are
Wlv's laxative. Nothing equals then'
J thoroughness.
CHARTER OAK MILL BURNED
Fire Is Supposed to Have Started
From Sparits rrum i-hs t
mi... ii, nali sawmill, owned
j. ue uuan- '
and operated by Fred J. Oberer on
the HelmicK place bouw i
mouth, burned about 3 o'clock Satur
day morning. The fire is supposed
u .,to,i fmm Rnarks from tho
lOUSloow'"'" " r
i th-q rpnnrted that tho greater
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part or tne uihcuiuoij'
damaged so as to ue uuu
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building, and a small amouDt of
lumber. About $2000 worth of lumber
in the yard was saved.
Mr. Oberer feels the loss keenly, but
is not in the least discouraged, and
will soon have his mill in operation
again. The Charter Oak mill saws a
1 - n mAlint rif I'm. k timber each
year, and is an important industry of
Polk county, as ii givco oj
ployment to a considerable force of
The product
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of the mill is shipped to all parts of
i miVrnfa nt 111.1
the country ana onugs a buwom.
n il. nl'tiri'
sum or money into roiK couuij
year.
Miss Bertha Barrio left Wednesday
i a ,.--vrti-u-l
evening for rortianu. juki d..
ing a week there she will go to Dallas
to conduct a millinery establishment.
Grants Pass Courier.
for gentleness at;
COURT HOUSE NOTES.
minor heirs of
deceased bond filed
PROBATE
Guardianship of
E. B. Martin,
and approved.
Estate of Henry Grosse, deceased
final account set for hearing Satur
day, October 1, at 10 o'clock a. m.
Estate of James H. Townsend, de
ceasedestate admitted to probate;
Alice E. Townsend appointed admin
istratrix ; bond fixed at $4000 ; A. C.
Taylor, A. B. Muir and Frank Lynn
appointed appraisers.
Estate of Isaac Mattison, deceased
final account set for hearing Satur
day, September 24, at 1 o'clock p. m.
Estate of Mary A. Leigh, deceased
ordered that citation issue citing
D. E. Berdan to appear September C,
at 10 o'clock, to show cause why he
should not be removed and some
suitable person appointed in his stead.
Estate of Sarah Jaspersou, de
ceasedfinal account set for hearing
Saturday, September 24, at 1 o'clock
p. m.
Estate of James I. Ball, deceased
petition for order of sale of real prop
erty set for hearing Wednesday,
September 7, at 9 o'clock a. m.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Mary C Martin to Washington
National Building, Loan and Invest
ment Association, lot 2, block 11,
Levens LaCreole Hd add to Dallas,
$15.
Mrs F M Collins and hd to M J
Ballantyne, lot 2, block 1, Levens
LaCreolo Hd add to Dallas, $125.
Benton Embree to John B Embree,
tract in t 8 s, r 5 w, $1.
Martin Sacre et ux to Louis J Carl,
tract in Monmouth, $1500.
George Wells et als, trustees, to
Joseph Winn, lot in Buena Yista, $30,
W A Govro et ux to I Govro, lot
and north half of lot G, block 23,
Thorp's Independence, $300.
B F Whiteaker et ux to B B Dun
ham, tract in Independence, $1.
Henry Hill et ux to Trustees M E
Church, South, Independence, lot 3,
block 13, Hill's Independence, $25.
P E Wilcox to H A and Rachel New
man, lots in Monmouth, $600.
Will Adams to Joseph Winn, lot in
Buena Vista, $125
Bryan-Lucas Lumber Co to Salem,
Falls City & Western Ry Co., right-of
way for sidetracks and spurs, $
J S Cooper, trustee, et als to H
Hirschberg, right-of-way for railroad
track to gravel bar at Independence,
$1.
J ulia A Ellis et als to J J Wiseman,
part of lot 3, block 3, Dallas, $200,
World's Fair Vote.
Miss Nora Robertson 1993
Miss Rose Bronken 1382
Miss Hallie Reynolds 904
Miss Lilly Baxter ice
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Notice of the Meeting of the Board
of Equalization.
Notice is hereby piven that on Mon
day, the 29th day of August, 1904, the
loard of Equalization will attend at
the office of the County Clerk of Polk
County, Oregon, and publicly examine
the assessment roll aud correct all
errors in valuation, description or
qualities of lands, lots, or other prop
erty, and it shall be the duty of per
sons interested to appear at the time
and place appointed, and if it shall
appear to such Board of Equalization
that there are any lands, lots, or other
property assessed twice, or in the
name of a person or persons not the
owner thereof, or assessed under or
beyond its actual value, or any lands,
lots, or other property not assessed,
said Board shall make the proper
corrections.
Dated at Dallas, Oregon, this 12th
day of August, 1904.
F. E. MYER,
Assessor Tor Polk County.
Hodol Dyspepsia Curo
Ci'sssts what you eat
HERE AT LAST
A complete line of those
FANCY LAMPS
you have been wanting.
Some Very Good Bargains
we have and it will pay
you to call and see them at
Meiser and Meiser's
Auctions!
E. H. H05NER
THE CYCLONE AUCTIONEER
is the man to do your work. Remem
ber the name.
Fifteen Years' Experience.
Phono, Main 113-Hotkl Monmouth
MONMOUTH, OREGON.
A. II.
DEALER IS
LIVESTOCK
Buys and ships Hogs, Mutton and
Stock Sheep. Highest market price
paid at ah times. Address,
h. f. n. so. 1,
DALLAS, OREGON
DEALER IN
LADIES and
CHILDRENS FURNISH
ING GOODS.
The largest and best stock of
Materials for Fancy Work
in the city.
COLLINS BUILDING
Dallas, Oregon
Flour and Mill Feed
of all kinds.
LAWN and FIELD SEEDS
House Medicine and Stock
Food of all kinds
We buy Wool, Hides, Furs and Tallow
One Door west of Hub Clothing Store
on Oak Street.
J. L. Castle, . Dallas, Oregon
DON'T WATCH!
your old time-piece to see
if it is keeping correct time,
but buy a reliable Hamilton
Railroad Watch or a Paillard
Non-Magnetic Watch.
ONEIDA SILVERWARE,
made of the best material and
a 25-year guarantee with all
articles of this brand. We
also keep the White Metal
brand Knives, Forks, Tea
and Table Spoons.
Can and See My Line of Goods
CHARLES H. MORRIS
JEWELER.
DALLAS, - OREGON
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50c & $1.00
Fre Trial.
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New Grocery
Department . .
We have our New Store in the G
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Department nicely arranged.
They do say we sell our Groceries without
profit but you see we sell a great many of
them. We offer our customers the best e
can get all the time, and our prices are
very reasonable.
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we are now opening one of the finest stocks lu
of General Merchandise ever offered in the
city. We especially excel in : :
Clothing and Shoes
and our prices are away .below anything
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that you will find anywhere, and the1
"Star Brand" and "PacKard
Shoes and Hoffman
Rothschild Clothing'.
are the very best made.
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MANUFACTURERS AND REPAIRERS OF
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Klagons, Carriages, Budgies and farm machine
Rcrse Shoeing and Plow Klerk a Specialty.
We have one of the best Shoers in the State.
New and second-hand rigs to sell or trade.
O. H. COBB
a Phone Farm 329.
North Dallas, Oregc
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Will close out our stock of groceries at
once to make room for Shoes and other
lines which are now in transit. NOW
IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY.
Good Cider Vinegar
at, per gallon
iQt Bring your
gallon jugs.
Pollock's Cash Stori-
UGLOW BLOCK, DALLAS, ORE
WAGNER BROS.
CARRY A COMPLETE LINE OF
1 Single Shovel Plows, Double Shovel Plows, Wing S.th
I ;l0W8 Five-Tooth Cultivators, Disc Cultivator?, Peg
Harrows, Spring Tooth Harrows, Disc Harrows, reverb
I with Extension Head. : : : : : : : : : : :
I All kinds of Plows, Harrows, Cultivators and everything ne'sa
I cuIt'vate a hopyard or orchard.
NCOR. OAK and MAIN STREETS. DALLAS, OREGON
DALLAS IRON WORjg-
W. C. JACKSON, successor to Ed. Biddle.
Manufacturing .. IBidsContr
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OF WOKfc.
v w ngs ana tstimates (liven Foot of
work Guaranteed DALLAS, ORt