LVOL. XVII
DALLAS, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, JANUARY 6, 1905
NO. 42 5
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I HAPPY NEW YEAR
the simplest way in which we can ex press our good
mishes to our customers and friends. We wish them
. 1 the joys and comforts that the year can possibly
' jing and we agree to use our efforts toward making
gVing both economical and pleasurable,
jjj' The success of this store in the past does not
?veasure its standard for the future. We shall en
iavor more than ever before, to justify the expres-
Sdiis of good feeling which are coming our way.
I We ask you to judge us by what we do. We
inestly believe that if you do the greater part of your
iying here, 1905 will be a happier year for you. We
low it will for us! As an earnest of our good interi
ms, we ask you to read what we offer for this first
isiness week:
:
Special January 2 to January 7
LACE CURTAIN AND
EMBROIDERY SALE..
zs Curtains 75c $1.50 Curtains $1.15
ul " - $1.40 $2.50 " $1.75
iv Laces and Embroideries at great
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reduction. One week only.
HA,
HILL STREET, DALLAS, ORE.
"tALESTATE!!
'es Nice Homelike place,
-Dod buildings and fences
s in cultivation lots of fine
$1500
., , with a good little House
arn all fenced and under
tion, only. , $ 650
3 acre tract, finely sit--worth
$50 per acre only $ 32
,-100 acre farm, well im-
$5000
nproved farm of 117 acres $2500
. improved farm of 4G0
jt $9500
,.p.tanch 900 200 acres under
lotion Can't be beat $9000
tie Home of 15 acres $1100
,nd Grain farm of 230 acres
nailing good place at a
n.
es 30 und'-r cultivation
lgs Fenced a good place
as dirt only $1500
i tne cnoa!--t place in
tfci'i 81 acres, House, Barn,
ler Improvements worth
t least for only $ 800
"Ve all classes of Ranches and
for sale I can suit you in
' or price.
rLF HENRY CAHPBELL,
o:AS, OREGON
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azine u cription?
0Ke can give you prices as good
fis any cIuIUd g agency.
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Do You Want Lumber?
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LUMBER CO.
THE
CLOTHING CO.
WILL CONTINUE THEIR.
UNTIL JANUA
We Now Offer You
r Clothing at a Bigger Cut
Than Ever Before.
Our finest Clothing the Celebrated HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX will
go now at 20 PER CENT DISCOUNT instead of 15 per cent. A $15 Suit
will cost you only $12.
OUR THIRD LOT OF CLOTHING will now go at 33 1-3 PER CENT
DISCOUNT A $12.00 Suit in this will cost you only $8.00
ub Clothing Company
KirllpatricK Building. Dallas, Oregon.
i. C. DODSON & CO.
Merry Surprise Party.
A pleasant surprise party was given
by Miss Ada Osfield at the home of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Os
field, on Friday evening, in honor of
her cousin, Miss Gertrude Campbell,
of Portland. Instrumental music and
the games of pit and flinch were Bome
of the features of the evening. The
young folks made merry until a late
hour, when light refreshments were
served.
Those present were : Mr. and Mrs.
H. J. Osfield, Misses Ella Butler, Etta
Phillips, Leona Allen, Edna Scott,
Eula Phillips, Mamie Allen, Ruth
VanOrsdel, Carrie Foland, Florence
Palmer, Gertrude Campbell, Ada Os
field; Messrs. Leif Finseth, Lester
Butler, Orra Arnold, Roscoe Ballan-
tyne, Louis Gates, Martin Meiser, Lew
Ballantyne, Edward Dunn and Carl
Osfield.
Mutual Telephone Meeting.
Notice is hereby given to the owners
of the Falls City, Dallas & Lewisville
Telephone Company to attend a
special meeting at Falls City, on Sat
urday, January 14, 1905, at 10 a. m., to
receive the report of the Executive
Committee and for other most import
ant business.
F. K. Hubbaed,
Chairman.
Attest:
Frank Bctleb, Secretay.
H. G. Campbell, agent McMinnville
Insurance Co.
Notice to Club Members.
The regular annual meeting of the
members of the LaCreole Club will be
held iD the club rooms on Saturday,
January 7, 1905, at 7 :30 p. m. In addi
tion to the regular business, those
present will vote on some amendments
to the Constitution and By-laws. A
full attendance of members is desired.
Tbact St a ats, Secretary.
Legal Blanks for sale at this office
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VATICAN TREASURES FOR FAIR
Valuable Acquisition of Papal Relics
Secured for Lewis and Clark
Centennial.
The fine arts exhibit at the Lewis
and Clark Centennial will receive an
almost priceless addition in the shape
of Vatican treasures from Rome. The
Cardinal Secretary of State has given
permission to Rev. J. T. MoNally,
special commissioner to Rome, to
transfer the sacred treasures, which
were exhibited at St. Louis and supple
ment the collection by additions im
ported from Rome. The exhibit em
braces manuscripts, mosaics, paint
ings, Byzantine work from the Apse
of the basilica of St. John Lateran,
and some objects of art never before
shown.
At least four very valuable pieces of
mosaic may come, which will be
highly prized by art lovers visiting
the Exposition. These are copies of
Raphael's Madonna Delia Seggiola,
in mosaic; of theMadonnaof Barbino,
both originals in the Pitti Palace at
Florence. Italy; of the Arch of Titus ;
and a tavola di lavoro, or a small
table showing the method of working
the mosaics. Seven pieces of Byzantine
work from celebrated architecture are
also expected, as well as a very fine
death mask and hand of Pope Leo
XIII.
New Work For Many Hands.
The completion by the Smith Broth
ers of their new visible typewriter,
which is now on the market, is a
step in the progress of industrial
Syracuse. The new machine is said
to be worthy of the genius of Lyman
C. Smith and his brothers and of their
home city, which largely through their
efforts has already achieved wide
fame as a typewriter town. The plae
ing of the new machine on the market
will mean steady employment for a
large number of men and increasing
prosperity for this city.
No Syracusan can more loyally
serve his home city than by investing
brains and capital in industries in
our midst, and in such way Lyman
C. Smith has proved himself true to
Syracuse. For years he has kept the
wheels of manufacture busy here and
all his fellow townsmen will wish the
Smith Brothers good fortune in their
latest mammoth venture. Syracuse
(New York) Telegram.
E. G. Heath Drops Dead.
E. G. Heath dropped dead at his
home in Independence, Friday night.
He was last week elected commander
of the Genral Gibson Post, and was
janitor at the public school building.
Mr. Heath was a potter by trade. He
came to Independence six months ago
from McMinnville and had lived in
Falls City and Buena Vista. He was
born July 6, 1841, and had lived in the
Willamette Valley the past 31 years.
Mr. Heath was an active member of
the Methodist Church.
Close Branch Store.
Irvin & Petteys, the Salem shoe
merchants, have closed their branch
store in Dallas, and the stock has
been shipped back to the Capital City.
The Dallas store was opened two
months ago, but proved to be an un
profitable venture. With one large
shoe store already well-established
and all the general merchants carry
ing heavy stocks of footwear, there
was no room in Dallas for a second
exclusive shoe store. Mr. D. L.
Green, who had chargo of the busi
ness, is a courteous and obliging
gentleman and made many friends
during his stay in Dallas.
DALLAS' PROSPERITY
Brief and Concise Description of
Polk's County Seat in New
Year Statesman.
The New Year number of the Salem
Statesman is on our desk. It is
handsome paper of 26 pages, with
beautifully illustrated cover. The in
dustries and resources of Marion and
Polk counties are set forth in an attrac
tive style, and the entire paper is full
of valuable information for the home
seeker. Many thousand copies of the
annual will be circulated in the East
em States, and a large number of
papers will be reserved for free distri
bution at the Lewis and Clark Fair,
The information relative to Dallas
is presented iu a brief and concise
form; and practically covers every
point of interest and importance. The
article is as follows :
Dallas, the county seat of Polk
county, is 60 miles south of Portland
and H miles west of Salem. It is on
the Yamhill division of the Southern
Pacific. It has a motor line to Inde
pendence and Monmouth, with cars
twice daily. There are two trains
daily to Falls City, and a stage
to
Salem, daily.
Ninety new dwelling houses were
built in 1904.
Dallas has a large number of -sub
stantial brick buildings. One of the
best was built last summer by E. O,
Kirkpatrick, the well-known hop
grower and dealer.
There are two newspapers, the Polk
County Observer, published by J. C,
Hayter, and the Polk County Itemiz
er, by W. A. Wash.
Dallas Industries. Electric lights,
two sawmills, sash and door factory,
foundry, machine shops, flouring mill,
planing mill, hardwood handle fact
ory, tannery, brick and tile factory,
organ factory, wagon factory, ice
factory, stone quarry (Polk county
court house built of this stone).
Churches. Methodist Episcopal,
Presbyterian, M. E. South, Christian,
Baptist, Adventist. All these churches
have modern buildings.
United Evangelical New building
just completed ; seats 800 people.
Educational. Dallas College; 140
students. The school is four years
old, and the endowment fund is near-
ing $25,000. President Charles C.
Poling is now in the Eastern States
working to increase the endowment,
and is meeting with remarkable suc
cess. lhl8 is the only college of the
United Evangelical church west of
Iowa.
There are two public schools 400
pupils in one and 50 in the other.
Railroad to Falls City. Completed
in 1903. Length, nine and a half
miles. Dallas raised a subsidy of
$10,000 for this road. It is a standard-
gauge commercial road. It has s
large freight and passenger traffic.
Chief shipments, lumber and logs.
Rails are now being delivered for a
three-mile extension into the big tim
ber beyond Falls City. This will
bring the road into one of the finest
bodies of timber in Western Oregon
The road is owned and operated by
L. Gerlinger, a capitalist of Portland
Gerlinger, Jr., is a resident mana
ger.
New Industries established during
the year 1904. "Charter Oak" saw
mill, owned by L. E. Knapp. Capacity,
daily, 10,000 feet. There is a ready
sale for the product. It is located on
he terminal grounds of the Dallas &
Falls City railroad. The logs are de
livered by rail from the oak hills be
tween Dallas and Falls City.
Dallas Hardwood Handle Company,
Coovert & Weybright, owners. Manu
factures axe handles, pick and ham
mer handles, etc., plow beams, tent
pins, insulator brackets, etc. Grub
oak is used. The quality of the wood
obtained around Dallas is said by ex
perts to be the best in Oregon. This
factory finds a ready sale for its out
put in Oregon, Washington and Cali
fornia.
Dallas Ice Factory, John J. Fidler,
of
the Dallas-Salem stage line, is
owner and manager. It is a first-class
ice and cold storage plant It supplies
ice for West Side towns, and has
agents in Independence, Monmouth,
Falls City and McMinnville.
Improvements on industries already
established. The W. W. Johnson
Lumber Company, wealthy sawmill
men of Minneapolis, are owners of
the Dallas sawmill, Dallas' leading
manufacturing concern. George E,
Johnson is resident manager. The
company spent $75,000 in improve
ments In 1904 such as additional
boilers, machinery, lumber sheds, log
ponds, dams, etc. Nearly the entire
product is shipped to California and
Eastern points.
Dallas Sash and Door Factory,
Frank J. Coad, owner. Built large
new building in 1904, and moved old
plant into it Put in large amount of
machinery. It is a well equipped and
splendidly arranged plant All on
ground floor, with skylights.
Municipal improvements. The city
water works ; completed in J une. Cost
system $35,000. Gravity system,
circulating mains. The water is
brought from Canyon Creek, a clear,
cold mountain stream eight miles west
town. It is piped into a 400,000-
gallon reservoir three-fourths of a
mile west of the city limits. Elevation
of reservoir above street level, 192 feet,
This gives a splendid fire service. The
water is cold and pure. The stream
is never muddy, even in the rainiest
winter months. The plant is owned
by the city and is operated by H. V
Gates, under lease from the city,
There are forty-five hydrants. The
city pays nothing for their use.
New Fire Apparatus First-class
system of hook and ladder trucks,
hose-carts, etc. Volunteer department,
The city built a new house for shelter
ing the apparatus this last summer
Sewerage System. Installed as soon
as water works were completed. It is
in all business .blocks and a large
portion of the residence district. No
sewer bonds were issued. Paid for
when completed by city and property
owners.
Financial condition. Floating in
debtedness, none. Bonded indebted
ness, $17,000. Tax levy, 6 mills. Total
taxable property, $300,000. Sinking
fund for bonded indebtedness rapidly
reducing city taxes.
City Officers. Mayor, J. C. Hayter
councilmen, H. B. Cosper, A. B.Muir,
Chas. F. Belt, Willis Simonton, F. H,
Muscott, W. H. Boals ; auditor, Dan
P. Stouffer ; marshal, John M. Grant
attorney, Oscar Hayter; street com
missionor, J. J. Williams.
WANT MORNING TRAIN
Towns on Lower Yamhill Division of
Southern Pacific Ask For In.
creased Service.
A petition was circulated in
Mc
Minnville this week asking
the
Southern Paciflo Company to place a
daily train on the Yamhill division
connecting McMinnville with Port
land. The request is, that a train be
placed on to leave Portland in the
morning, to come to Whiteson on the
Yamhill division, then down on the
west side division from that point to
McMinnville, and leave McMinnville
in the afternoon for Portland.
This would give direct railroad con
nection from McMinnville to all parts
of the county and would also give
better service to Portland. This train
would be a great convenience to all
persons living along that road and
would doubtless be a paying proposi
tlon for the railroad.
The petition asks that the train be
placed ou January 4, as an experiment
and also to give transportation to per
sons desiring to attend the meeting
called for that day at McMinnville.
The petition was numerously signed
in McMinnville, and we understand a
like petition was circulated at Newberg
and other points along the road. Mc
Minnville Telephone-Register.
Married In West Salem.
William H. Squier and Miss Jean-
ette Smith were married at the home
of the bride's parents in West Salem
on Wednesday, December 28, Rev,
H. A. Ketchum officiating. Mr,
Squier is the carrier on the Rural
Mail Route No. 2, leading out of
Salem. The newly-married couple
will reside at the home of Mr. Squier's
mother, Mrs. Skinner, in 7est Salem
impoverisnea soil
Impoverished' soil, like impov
erished blood, needs a proper
ertilizer. A chemist by analyz
ing the soil can tell you what
ertilizer to use for different
products.
If your blood w impoverished
your doctor will tell you what
you need to fertilize it and give
t the rich, red corpuscles that
are lacking in it. It may be you
need a tonic, but more likely you
need a concentrated fat food,
and fat is the element lacking
in your system.
There is no fat food that is
so easily digested and assimi-
ated as
Scott's Emulsion
of Cod Liver Oil
It will nourish and strengthen
the body when milk and cream
fail to do it. Scott's .Emulsion
is always the Hnne: always
palatable and always beneficial
where the body is wasting from
any cause, either in children
or adults.
We will tend you a tarn pie tree.
Bo sum that tlii.s pic
ture in the form of a
la,b'l is on tln wrapper
of every bottle of Emul
sion you buy.
SCOTT 4
mm
CHEMISTS
i09 Pearl SI., few Tori
50c. find fl.00.
All iJrugjfists.
FAILURES ARE UNKNOWN
Nature Does Not (Jo Back On Her
Promises in the Willamette
Valley.
The range of profitable crops that
can be successfully grown in the
Willamette valley is greater than
anywhere else in the United States, or
elsewhere. ,
This is a broad statement.
But it is supported by the facts.
There is no crop that can be suc
cessfully grown in the Mississippi
valley states that cannot also be
grown here with profit. It may be
contended that corn is an exception.
It is true, to some extent. Forensilage,
however, corn is as successfully
grown here as elsewhere. Corn does
not mature here as in the East, though
very good corn for milling purposes
is raised some years, and by some
people. This is not a corn state, how
ever.
But we can raise profitably many
things that are not profitable there, or
not grown at all.
This is the greatest hop state in the
Union, and Salem is the greatest
market in the world for hops from
first hand. There are only four hop
states, and Oregon is as great as any
other two.
There is no other section of the
country that can raise the now famous
Oregon prune to perfection, as it is
raised, cured and packed here.
We lead the United States in Angora
goat breeding, and will soon lead the
world.
In long wooled sheep, we are now
ahead in the United States and will
be more so.
There is no other section of the
United States that can produce a flax
fiber equal to the best grown in Ire
land, Belgium or France. This fact
will ere long result in the building up
here of a linen industry that will be
worth millions of dollars a year in
income.
Clover is a profitablo crop.
Also alfalfa.
ur any otner rorago or hay crop
grown in the temperate zone.
Onion growing pay9 well.
There is more money in dairying
than elsewhere in the wide world.
Also in poultry raising.
And swine breeding. (No hog
diseases here.)
Strawberry growing is profitable
and on the increase.
There is good money in Logan
berries.
Same with all orchard and small
fruit crops.
Wheat and oats and all grain crops
are letter than in most other sections.
Three has never been and will never
be a total failure of a well cultivated
crop. Nature is good to the farmer
here. It makes him a business man.
His note is as good at the bank as that
of the merchant. There are no failures
if he does his part. He is therefore
reliable, if he is by nature that kind
of a man. The rains always come
and the sun always shines. Nature
does not go back on her promises.
She performs her obligations to the
letter. The element of chance for the
farmer is eliminated.
If you have industry, if you have
capital, if you are the kind of a man
to do things, don't hesitate about com
ing to Oregon. This is the place for
you, and the place for your children to
grow up. Salem Statesman.
OPENS NEW TERM
Dallas College Resumes Work With
Increased Enrollment of
Students.
Dallas College opened Tuesday
morning for the new term with an in
creased attendance of students. The
school is constantly enlarging its field
of influence and usefulness, and tho
attendance this year is larger than
ever berore. The faculty of Dallas
College will compare favorably with
that of any older or stronger school In
the Pacific Northwest, and the ad
vantages offered to students are such
as to attract the favorable attention
and consideration of young men and
young women who are seeking a
thorough education.
Rev. A. A. Winter, the financial
agent of tho institution, has been
working steadily for the past six
months to increase the endowment
fund, and has met with liattering suc
cess in his efforts. Many large cash
donations haye been received, and en
dowment notes aggregating thousands
of dollars have been turned over to
the college trustees. President Charles
C. Poling, who is in the East on leave
of absence, has been doing good work
for the school among the members of
his church in Pennsylvania, and has
ledges of substantial support. It is
safe to predict that before the end of
another year, the endowment fund of
the college will have reached the sum
of $25,000.
One strong reason for the popularity
of Dallas College among the young
people of Western Oregon is found in
the f actthat no school attaches a great
er amount of importance to the value
of a thorough athletic training. When
one considers the comparatively small
umber of young men in a new school
like this, from which to choosol
material for field and track teams, the
record made by Dallas College in the
state intercollegiate athletic meets is
little short of marvelous.
The record of the Dallas College
basketball team is one of which any
school in the United States might well
be proud. Taking up this fascinating
winter game three years ago, the
young men of the college developed a
team that soon won recognition among
the smaller colleges of the state and
finally defeated the teams of each of
these institutions in turn. The next
season found the Dallas team in
faster company, playing and defeat
ing the teams of the Oregon Agri
cultural College, Willamette Univer
sity, Portland Y. M. C. A., Multnomah
Amateur Athletic Club and other fast
teams of the Northwest. Of the fifteen
games played last year with the
strongest teams of Oregon and Wash
ington, Dallas lost only four times.
At the end of the season, the team
hed the undisputed championship of
the Pacific Coast.
J. I. Montgomery arrived here a few
weeks ago from Falls City, Polk
county, and expects to make Grants
Pass his future home. He is a
carpenter and contractor and intends
to follow this line of work here.
Grants Pass Observer.
VACANCY IS FILLED
Dr. H. L. Toney Elected Councilman
for Second Ward Reduced In
surance Rates Assured.
Dallas once more has her full quota
of councilmen, the vacancy in the
Second Ward having been filled by
the election of Dr. H. L. Toney at the
regular meeting of the Board on Mon
day evening. This vacancy was
created when Councilman C. E. Shaw
moyed out of the ward early last Sum
mer. No matters of vital importance
coming up for consideration, the city
business was carried on by six council
men and tho vacancy was permitted
to continue until the first meeting of
tho new year. Dr. Toney was elected
by a unanimous vote. His term of
office will expire on the first Monday
in May, 1906.
The following telegram from the
head office of the Board of Fire
Underwriters of the Pacific District,
relative to the reduction of insurance
rates in Dallas, was read :
San Francisco, Jan. 3, 1905.
Mayor of Dallas, Oregon :
It was decided November 22 that re
duction in rates account of recent im
provements should be published to
take effect as of date of completion of
system. We are pledged to the re
duction, and reduced rates will bo
published as soon as possible and will
date as of date when installation was
completed.
(Signed) Alfred Stiu.man.
A letter from J. C. Stone, manager
of the Portland office of the Board of
Underwriters, notifying the council
that the re-survey of Dallas will be
commenced not later than January 15,
was read and placed on file.
Claims against the city were ordered
paid as follows :
W F Muscott, oak wood $ 1.90
J E Richter, labor 3.50
E C Kirkpatrick, right-of-way. 23.80
J G VanOrsdel, electric lights. 130.50
Guy Bros., nails 4.25
J J Williams, salary 21.00
J M Grant, salary, etc 36.00
F J Coad, doors for hall C.30
Deserves Swift Punishment.
The man or woman or child who
spells it "Xmas" or speaks it "Xmas"
should bo permanently excommuni
cated without the benefit of clorgy.
There has never boon anything in its
line or savoring of its class so en
tirely and hopelessly without justifi
cation or reason as this senseless
custom of referring to Christmas.
Why not speak of "Xtianity ?" Or the
early disciples of "X?" The idiot who
originated this intruding hypallage
ought to be made the pertnauent vic
tim of epileptiform convulsious. We
can't just on tho spur of the moment
think of any other species of adequate
punishment for the offense, as we see
the word "Xmas" in every column of
every paper wo open, and thrusting
Itself to the forefront of every display
in the otherwise beautiful shop
windows that so noticeably adorn our
streets. Salem Statesman.
(jreat Demand For Souvenir Postals.
The first issuo of souvenir Lewis
and Clark postal cards is about ex
hausted and more will be provided.
Through the courtesy of Secretary
Henry E. Reed, of tho Fair corpora
tion, the Ob.hf.rveb received 500 of
these cards for gratuitous distribution,
but the supply lasted less than three
days, so great was the demand for
them. The Telegram says that the
work of distributing the first issue of
200,000 has not cost the Fair manage
ment over $3, as postage is paid on
them by the people sding them to
friends. It is believed by the manage
ment to bo the best way of attracting
general attention to the big Fair, as a
postal of this sort arouses inquiry on
the part of the recipient
Mi3s Pauline SDyder, of Wrangell,
Alaska, is here for a month's visit
with the family of Capt. V. P. Fiske.
She is spending the winter in the
valley to perfect her musical educa
tion, having already gained enviable
fame as a pianist.