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I We will have on display this week a new line of Ladies' ready to wear skirts
hi all the very new and snappy styles for both street and house wear. All good new
i J styles of cloth and make. Made to lit and fit to wear.
'The new mannish effects in Scotch mixtures for
street wear are very nice and all bound seams and
fancy cut
Ct r)rice
$3.75 to $6.50
The new Voiles Panamas in Cheviotts and Tweeds
are made in the best of cloth and by the best makers
price
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Royal Worcester
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, The best for all-made to
fit all styles and figures.
The best known, best
styles and best price from
50c to $2.50
New Tape Girdles in white
and color.
Black Cat
Hose
Don't forget we carry the
Famous Black Cat Hose
for men, women and child
ren. The kind that costs
no more than others but
wears longer.
Lace
Curtains
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Ladies, it is soon time to
clean house and you will
need some new . lace cur
tains and our line is new
and up-to-date. The new
Bonne Femme is the latest
price from 85c to $5.50.
Just received word from Hart, Schaffoer Marx that
we will receive our first shipment of Clothing for Spring
about March 5 to 10. Gentlemen, you should see this line
before you buy.
"the hub- R. JACOBSON COMPANY Dallas-0re-
K1RKPATRJCK BUILDING. MAIN STREET.
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PROPRIETOR OF Dallas Electric Eight Plant
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Dallas, Oregon.
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FOR A CLEAN TOWN
City Council Takes Steps Looking to
Formation of Citizens' Civic
Improvement League.
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DALLAS, OREGON.
SSIAN STOCK FOOD
ij'kind best food for Horses, Cattle,
j'jU Sheep and Hogs.
USSIAN POULTEY FOOD
For sale by
Dallas, Oregon
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JESl El EYES!
re made a study of the eyes for
i and am a graduate Scientific
rjiian. Many have been success
q;; fitted with my glasses and are
eet t testimonials of my success,
exultation free.
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.ry oloviis j..t V'-ry reasonable
--sell the Lewi, & Clark Gold
i'arsand Tc:;i; i. us. The spoons
, lie rrguiar sod both sou
,r cf t!. 1 f ir are unique
, fountain rens. Silver Sets
and Xovcltifts.
ORRIS
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Dallas, Oregon
"TRIAL BY JURY"
Famous Operetta Will Be Given By
Home Talent at City Hall
Tonight.
The following is the program of the
musical entertainment to be given at
the City Hall this evening, under the
auspices of the Epworth League of the
M. E. Church :
PAET I
1 Chorus, "List to the Bugle Call"
2 Song, "Swing My Baby"
Leona Williams, Norville Gates,
Ruth Morrison.
3 Chorus, "Old Mother Hubbard"
4 Four Part Song, "Last Night"
Rett Kjerul
Misses Ella Eoy, Emroy McDevitt,
Edna Morrison, Eebekah Gates
5 Solo, "Sing me to Sleep" Greene
Mrs. Grace Cherrington
6 Musical Comedy, "O. P. R. A."
Manager Walkemhonie Dr. H. L.
Toney; Signorina Belatrino Mrs.
Mona Thompson ; Herr Von Lagger
kegg Mr. Will C. Aylsworth ; Biddy
O'Flannagan Miss Pauline Gohrke.
PART II
Comic Opera "Trial by Jury"
Sullivan and Gilbert
Judge - Mr. Will C. Aylsworth
Counsel - Mr. Lester Butler
Usher - Mr. Andrew Holman
Plaintiff Mrs. Grace Cherrington
Defendant - Mr. Willis Simonton
Jurymen Mr. Fred West (foreman)
Messrs. Ed. Dunn Ray Grimes,
Ralph Williams, Everett Gwinn,
F. P. Levin, JoLu Simonton, Dr.
Toney, Earl Shelton, Prof. Dun
kelberger, Walter Critchlow.Nevin
Palmer.
Bridesmaids Mrs. Thompson, Misses
Gohrke, McDevitt, Morrison, Roy,
Gates.
Lawyers, spectators etc.,
Miss Opal McDevitt, pianist
W. C. Aylsworth, director
Curtain Rises at 8 :15.
Dallas, already one of the neatest
and cleanest little cities in Western
Oregon, will be made still more
cleanly and attractive during the
coming Spring and Summer months
if the movement started by the City
Council this week is taken up by the
citizens and successfully carried out.
The plan proposed by the city officers
is to organize a Civic Improvement
League, with a membership open to
every man, woman and child in Dallas.
The work of this League will be tc
suggest plans for beautifying the
town, and to assist the officers in en
forcing the ordinances already pre
pared for civic betterment. The object
of the movement at this time is to
arouse public pride and get all of the
people interested in making the town
attractive to the hundreds of Eastern
visitors who will come here this year.
The members of the council invite
the citizens to meet with them iu the
City Hall on Wednesday evening,
March 29, at 7: 30 o'clock, to take steps
toward the organization of a Civic
Improvement League, and to discuss
matters of general interestilong this
line of work. The women can render
valuable assistance in chi3 worthy
movement, and it is hoped that many
of the fair sex will be present. The
councilmen hope to get the school
children interested in the work, and
the school teachers are especially re
quested to be present.
Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Emmitt, of Falls
City, Polk county, are visiting at the
home of Mrs. Emmitt's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. D. Tilton, in Eugene. Eu
gene Register.
Hon. Tilmon Ford, the well-known
Salem attorney, who fell in his room
in the Willamette Hotel in Salem
about three months ago and fractured
his leg at a point immediately above
the knee, has been removed to St.
Vincent's Hospital in Fortland. Mr.
Ford has been in a hospital in Salem
most of the time since the accident
occurred.
The special committee of the Greater
Salem Commercial Club, appointed
for the purpose of making arrange
ments for the holding of a convention
of commercial clubs of the valley in
that city, and composed of President
Hofer, Frank Davey and J. L. Stock
ton. has issued a circular invitation to
I all of the clubs of the cities of Western
! Oregon, asking them to send delegates
to the convention which w ill be held
j in Salem on Wednesday, March 23.
rOHYSIflBIO'CUIlB
BakM Kidney utf Vitddtr E!g!ii
Still Holding Hops.
Conrad Krebs is highly Incensed by
the reports in circulation to the
effect that he is selling his large hold
ings of hops. He says he will hold
his hops until such time as the brewers
must get on their knees and pray:
"Oh, hop growers, give us this day
our daily hops, and forgive us for
having attempted to deprive you of
your just dues in the face of a shortage
which had warranted 50 cents a
pound."
The new linen-finish visiting cards
may be had in any quantity desired
atth is off ce.
Every
Two Minutes
Physicians tell us that all
the blood in a healthy
human body passes through
the heart once in every two
minutes. If this action be
comes irregular the whole
body suffers. Poor health
follows poor blood ; Scott's
Emulsion makes the blood
pure. One reason why
SCOTT'S
EMULSION
is such a great aid is because
it passes so quickly into
the blood. It is partly di
gested before it enters the
stomach; a double advan
tage in this. Less work
for the stomach; quicker
and more direct benefits.
To get the greatest amount
of good with the least pos
sible effort is the desire of
everyone in poor health.
Scott's Emulsion docs just
that. A change for the
better takes place even be
fore you expect it.
We will tend you a
ample free.
Be sure that tli'u
picture in the form of
a label it on the wrap
per of trcTj bottle of
Emulsion you buy.
Scott Sc Bowne
Chemist
409 Pearl St., N. Y.
$0 crntsaal fl.OO
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LIFE IN THE ISLANDS
Walter Nichols Tells of Conditions in
Uncle Sam's New Eastern
Possessions.
ASINGAN, Pan., P. I., Jan. 22 -(To
the Editor.) When I promised to write
you after my arrival in the Islands, I
did not know that the climate here
could make me more lazy than I was
when in Dallas, but if such a thing is
possible, I am lazier here than there.
It has been several months since I
wrote you. If 1 remember rightly, I
wrote you from Dagupau. We left
Dagupan, June 11, for Asingan, a
town 30 miles to the East. The trip
consumed six hours, and cost us $7.50
for ourselves, to say nothing of our
trunks and provisions.
Asingan has a population of 21,000
natives and three Americans. The
Americans are Mr. Sheehan, the prin
cipal of the grammar school here,
Mrs. Nichols and myself. We have
no street lights, sidewalks, sewers, or
water-works. Mail service is good
here, as compared with some of the
more remote towns. Mail is received
on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur
days, and "States" mail is received
three days after it lands in Manila.
The climate here in November, De
cember and January is very much
like September weather in Oregon ;
that is, very hot days and cool nights.
Under three large covers, we sleep
none too warm at the present time.
The climate in Baguio is very much
like the Oregon climate very cool
during the winter months, and not ex
cessively hot in the summer months.
Instead of four seasons, we have but
two, the wet and dry. The rainy sea
son begins the last of June and con
tinues until the end of October, and
the other months are all dry months.
The rain here is much different from
our "Oregon mist." It seldom rains
more than a few hours at one time,
but rains as much in one hour as Ore
gon can produce in six. During the
four months of rainy season, I remem
ber but two times when it rained more
than one day.
The people in this municipality are
mostly weavers and farmers. l'efore
going farther, perhaps it is best to ex
plain more fully the word "municipal
ity." Each island is divided into
provinces, and each province into
municipalities. Each municipality is
divided into barrios, (villages,) and the
pueblo, or city proper. Asingan has
twenty barrios outside of the pueblo.
The entire municipality is about 12
miles long and nine miles wide.
The people, as a rule, have no edu
cation except in Spanish and English,
and this is usually confined to the
pueblo, the boys and girls in the
barrios seldom receiving any educa
tion at all. The prevailing religion
is Catholic. At present the Aglipay
branch of the Roman church has a
large membership. These people,
under the leadership of a man named
Aglipay, rebelled against the severe
treatment of the friars and established
tke Independent, or Aglipay, Cutholic
church. In Asingan, both churches
have a large rr.embership, but all
worship in the Roman church, because
the Independent people have no build
ing. ' The principal crop in this section is
rice, but fine gardens and fields of
corn and sugar-cane may also be
seen. Tropical fruits are abundant.
Bananas ripen every month in the
year. Oranges may also be had, but
the ordinary orange is not so good as
the oranges we buy at home. Fresh
pineapples can be had during the
months of February, March, April,
May and June, and when many are
on the market we can buy them for
one and one-half cents each. Bananas
cost from one to three cents per dozen,
dejiending upon the kind.
I think the Philippine Islands pro
duce nearly every kind of tropical
fruit, but the natives are not pro
gressive in any of their work, hence
the farming industry and fruit-raising
are at present in need of Improve
ment. The natives follow in the foot
steps of their ancestors, and, as a
result, the land is not worked any
better than it was 100 years ago. This
condition does not apply to the people
in the pueblos, but only to the people
living in the barrios, The rural peo
ple have no desire to advance or be
more progressive.
The Government is now building
and opening industrial and agri
cultural schools throughout the entire
archipelago, with the hope of meeting
the needs of the people and encourag
ing them to use modern methods, im
plements and machinery, besides
teaching all the useful arts and trades.
The hemp industry of the Southern
Archipelago has a very bright future
at present, owing to the invention of a
machine to separate the fibre from
from the pulp. This machine, so the
leading daily papers say, will be to the
hemp industry what the cotton-gin is
to the cotton industry.
It is glad news to us to hear of the
subsidy bill passing Congress, thus
giving us mail from home every two
weeks. Asingan affords two schools
a municipal school and a grammar
roLEYSirciisrTAn
school. Mrs. Nichols is teaching In
the grammar school. When I came
here in June, there were but three
schools in the municipality except the
grammar school. Now I have eight,
and during the month of February
will enroll more than 1G00 boys and
girls. This number, with the 200 in
the grammar school, will give Asin
gan a large enrollment. It is my in
tention to have the largest enrollment
in the province at the close of the
school year, March 21.
From April I to June 12, we have a
vacation of ten weeks, and will
probably spend part of it at Bagui,
the summer capltol, in the province of
Benguet. It is between 40 and 50 miles
northeast of Dagupan, and is high up
in the mountains. At present, the
road to Baguio is not complete, and to
reach there one must ride over a trail
on a native pony or burro. By the
middle of February the Government
expects to finish the road so people
can go direct iu a cart. This road to
Baguio has cost the Government
several hundred thousand dollars.
One of the greatest needs of this
proviuce is good roads and bridges.
More than half of the bridges between
here and Dagupan were washed out
when we came to our station last June :
and two have been repaired. Where
the large bridges are gone, it is neces
sary to cross on rafts duriugthe rainy
season. As this is a great rice section,
the people, of course, have many rice
canals and are not particular about
keeping the water out of the road.
During the rainy season, the people
of one barrio use the road for a rice
canal, because it is lower than the
other land and they do not need to dig
a canal.
To make matters worse, the carts on
which nil heavy loads are hauled are
made like the trucks for a car; the
wheels are stationary on the axle.
Each wheel is made of some native
hardwood, four inches thick at the
axle, one inch thick at the edge, and
about three feet in diameter. This
cart, when turned, acts like a plow on
the road, because it is impossible to
move one wheel without the other
unless you slide it. This slipping
and sliding over stones soon cuts the
roads to a depth that lenders them
impassable for horses or anything
else except the caraboo.
If this letter does not put your paper
out of business, I will write again.
Mrs. Nichols and myself are well, and
have not been sick since our arrival.
Kindest regards to all our Dallti
friends.
W. F. NICHOLS.
CITY ELECTION OFFICERS
Judges and Clerks Chosen For Annual
April Election.
Judges and clerks for the coming
annual city election were chosen by
the city council, Monday evening. The
election will be held on Monday, April
3, at which time a Mayor, Councilman-at-Large,
Auditor and three Council
men will be chosen. The retiring
officers are Mayor J. C. Hayter, Coun-cilman-at-Large
H. B. Cosper, Coun
cilmen Muir, Muscott and Simonton,
Auditor D. P. Stouffer and Marshal
J. M. Grant. The hold-over officers
are Councilmen C. F. Belt, H. Bonis
and Dr. H. L. Toney. The Judges and
clerks of election are :
First ward E. Cadwell, J. G. Van
Orsdel, H. Holman. judges; Ralph
Morrison, Frank Holman, clerks.
Polling place, Dallas Flouring Mill
office.
Second ward T. J. Hayter,, W. A.
Ayres, S. W. Blessing, judges; H. L.
Fenton, TJ. 8. Grant, clerks. Polling
place, Council rooms.
Third ward Joseph Black, F. J.
Coad, J. J. Wiseman, judges; W. V.
Fuller, Walter Muir, clerks. Polling
place, II. L. Crider's office.
The Observeb office wants the print
ing you are particular about.
Portland and Falem are not the
only towns that are growing fast these
days. Woodburn, Silverton, Dallas
and all the towns up and down the
Willamette valley are growing, most
of them faster than ever before. Salem
Statesman.
An enterprising Dallas photographer
is offering to make a fine negative
free for every man and woman over
70 years old residing in Polk county.
The pictures are to be grouped and
will bo placed on exhibition at the
Lewis and Clark fair. It will prove
an excellent advertisement for Polk
county, as well as for the enterprising
artist Amity Advance.
Mrs. Almira McLaughlin was
granted a divorce from her husband,
William McLaughlin, in Multnomah
county last Friday. When the case
was first brought, the husband pre
pared to contest, but later settled
matters with his wife outside of court
and agreed to allow the case to go by
default. Upon his wife's testimony,
McLaughlin was recently convicted in
the Federal Court of sending her an
obscene letter through the mails.
Since the settlement of the divorce
case, Judge Bellinger has set aside
the jury's verdict in the criminal
action, and McLaughlin is again a
free man, with no stain of crime
against his name.
BUMPER CROP PROMISED
Weather In Willamette Valley Has
Been Highly Favorable to All
Vegetation.
Prosrects for a bumper crop in the
Willamette Valley were never better
at this time of the year than they are
this season. Fall grain, of which
there is an unusually large average,
is growiug nicely. The warm sun
has given vegetation of all kinds a
great start, and farmers are plowing
for Spring seeding. A few fields have
already been sown iu Spring wheat,
and if the good weather continues
another fortnight, farm work of all
kinds will be well under way. Tho
cold snap of last month did littlo
damage to the Fall-sown grain, but,
on the other hand, had a tendency to
kill the wild oats and weeds. A few
lots of Winter oats were frozen out,
but damage along this line is very
slight.
Owing to the fact that last year's
Spring crop was almost a failure,
farmers in this section of the Valley
took advantage of the splendid Fall
weather, and sowed most of their
available land before Christmas. The
Spring-sown acreage will be as large,
if not larger, than the same acreage
of 1904, and the seed will have' the ad
vantage of being in the ground a
month to six weeks earlier than that
of last year. If March proves a favor
able month for farmwork, the bulk of
the grain crop will lie seeded by April
1, whereas last season's seeding was
all done in April and May.
Although the wheat acreage will be
large.many farmers will sow a greater
portion of their Spring fields in barley
and oats. Timothy, cheat, clover, and
vetch hay will all be grown iu great
quantities in the Valley this year,
while potatoes and other garden truck
will receive more attention than for
some years past. Farmers are antici
pating large demands from Portland
duriug the Lewis and Clark Fair, and
many of them will be on the market
with big supplies of vegetables,
poultry and eggs.
Hop yards are being plowed and
put in shape for Spring work. Grow
ers report their yards in good condi
tion, especially those that were set out
last year and the year before. If the
season is a good one, Oregon's hop
crop will be a record-breaker.
Fruitgrowers are a little uneasy
over tho present state of the weather,
for they fear an early growth that
may be Injured by late frosts. Fruit
trees ure beginning to bud, and if the
weather should tuin cold and frosty,
great damage might result.
Stockraisers are feeling jubilant
over the mild Winter and the early
starting of grass in their pastures.
The months of January and February
were all that could be desired by stock
owners, especially sheepraisers, who
report an excellent lambing season,
with a very small per cent of losses.
Sheep owners are also elated over tho
wool outlook, many of them having
refused to contract the coming clip at
20 cents per pound. The supply of
Willamette Valley hogs will be con
siderably larger than last year. -Dallas
cor. in Friday's Oregonian.
FIX DATE FOR MOHAIR SALE
Polk County Pool Will Be Sold April
1 Growers Plan Fine Exhibit
For Fair.
The Polk county mohair pool will
bo offered for sale in Dallas, on Satur
day, April 1. This date was decided
upon by the growers at a meeting of
tho Polk County Mohair Association,
held in Brown's Hall in Dallas last
Saturday afternoon. No mohair will
be received In the pool after Wednes
day, March 15.
H. L. Fenton, secretary of the Asso
ciation, informs us that the pool will
be as large or larger than that of last
year. Practically all of the growers
in the county have already listed their
hair, only a few scattering lots re
maining outside at the present time.
Applications to join the pool are being
received and accepted every day.
The officers of the Association sug
gest that it would be a good plan for
the farmers, while shearing their
goats to save the finest samples of
mohair for exhibition at the Lewis
and Clark Fair. Any such samples
brought in to the Secretary will be
properly prepared for display, and
will be labeled with the grower's
name. The goat men of Polk county
are wide awake to the importance of
tho Angora industry, and never lose
an opportunity to advertise the ex
cellency of their flocks. It is there
fore certain that the farmers will
heartily co-operate with the officers of
the Association in preparing an ex
hibit of fine mohair that will prove of
inestimable benefit to all parties concerned.
Ralph Butler, of Dallas, came over
to the Capital City Saturday for the
purpose of entering the Capital Busi
ness College, where he will take a
business course. Statesman.
Cures CoMst PtvbU faeaaiftaia .