NEWS OP COUNTY TOWNS. . . AIRLIE. AIRI IF. j C. Nendel was doing business in .'. ' i..t WpiI npsdav. palius i"" wi.n iwiseball boys are beginning to ..mi up fr P' aclIse- Several farmers began plowing the first of the week. Quito a number from hero nti attended .....a.,in at Lewtsviiie iusi inn rsd ay. j jr. Slants ia iu Kings Valley put, ting up another telephone line. Ilg up aii""" ThflSebrlDR boys are cleaning up their hopyanl, and will soon have wl.lv for the plow. Charley Ncndel Is out of hay an linrley Nendel is out of hay and "eorge McCoirnm is up from yttn b0en hauling some In from differ- C0lver, Wash., visiting his daughter. Prank Laws Hnil fniviil.. ...ill . ,nt PlCHS Several of the youug people from here attended a dance at Pee.lee, Sat urday evening. E E. Staata toolf a four-horse load of provisions to the logging camp be yond Peedee last Sunday. Roy Chapman came near severing 1,1a great toe with an axe one day last Dig gicno J Wpek. He uow confl"e,l to the .,,,. house. iMi.ri-. and Henry Tarter are lUUtl U" tlr.cwood, ami Frunk Lmdeman is " . r-.i ... 1 t . working at Simpson's logging camp ill who are interested In the educa tion of their children should attend tion ui - the patrons' and teachers' meeting to beheld at Lewisville, Saturday, Feb- ruary ic Clyde McKlnney came out from Portland recently and ia now running nnAnf tho saws at the axe-handle fac- tnitf His father, who owns one of the best teams In this vicinity, has been hauling material from the mill to tho station all winter. Mr. Plunkett was In from Kings Valley, Sunday, and took out tho material for a phone line that will extend from Logan's to Wren Station. It will accommodate 18 families and thus give Alrlie free connection with alilg scope of country. Percy Hudley and wife, C. E. Staats and wife, George Conn and wife, and E.E. Hiltibrand and wife met at the home or Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Simpson lust Friday evening, ami had a very pleasant time in social games, music etc. A nice lunch was served. The week before they met at the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Oeorgo Conn and Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Staats. BALLSTON. Much wood Is being cut on the AVill Keyt place, preparatory to clearing ' the land for hops. Frank Gould's graphophone keeps up a perpetual grind; you can hear anything from concert hall ballads to one of Gladstone's speeches or Roose veltian thunders. Several thousand cords of oak wood will be hauled on the right-of-way here this summer. Locations for piles handiest to the switch have been already preempted. Goorge Clark has thousands over in Yamhill county todoliver here If the bridge is put in .... condition Rl kCV OfiCK Fvl filildlo, ot Dallas, a Tuesday. Come again H. L. Tilton, of Eugene, was a Tues day caller. Black Hock is undoubtedly the best little lumbering town on the coast. C. A. Kurre, of Independence, called on Black Rock friends Tuesday. Mrs. A. Graham is visiting In Falls City. Mr. Emmett. Folia Pitv's VHU VI uaiu - ' "V prosperous contractors, made a busi ness trip to this burg this week. G. W. Cone went to Dallas, Tuesday, to attend to business matters. Mi. wne is one of our hustling mill-men Miss Maude Fercuson. our obliging notei waitress, went to Falls City and Dallas. Tuesdnv. j . Al Lavton return.! Wednesday from a week's vacation. Mr. Layton has been 111 for a few days but is now ftPnntt f - - 1 thinly improved. Thft tlPW olnntrtii lisvlit nlnnf tvwvintlv Installed at the Cone mill is nearly completed and will be in operation the lotf- .... . ki puri oi una week. 'ilding is being pnshe.l ahead vigor- j uuiuung wm ue a aw wnen completed. You may talk alwut your Angoline, r taiK about your Valentine, B'it I say come to Black Rock, Beneath the shadow of the pine. Everyday brings more people to "lack Rock. There are now no less ttan eight dwellings being erected. If yu want a nice summer home, come 10 Black Rock to live. Arthur Moore, a member of the Independenee dramatic club, paid us Pleasant visit, Tuesday. Mr. Moore With k! . ... . . .... v uv. Uj . . . - his trnnno .trill t,loo nt Wnff enlng. v Elaek Rock la the proper place for ,th ii m. . ' the laborer, The different concerns pulled to hrln . are now compelled to bring from the einninvmf -.i,.wpiyiM0,o," in 2, ... j .77 . 119 vlci"ity range .50toi4perday. Bpatitf you can. BRIDGEPORT. Rome nm talking of Hhpai.ing thft,r tita. . - i "' hop yards. Miss Bertha Foster viuit,i i ents here last week. r par- George McColMm is un from v. -.m t K'i,W9.ftnt,fa'i'y will remain j-i. l. uui tue coming year. Jack Bennett, of Lane county, Is v siting hts brother and sister at this place. With a prospect for good roads, our mail carrier wears a broad smile these days. Old Mr. Bressler is seriously ill at - "cnuuaiy ni at hia homo in Cooper Hollow. He is about 80 years of atro. Some farmers have pruned their fpllftl'.lct hut 41 U . ... ''V orchards, but there h oniui.t.. .1 as been little spraying dono on account of bad weather. The Doernbenkpr mill i.i., uiiib oci "P in the hills near the Bogynska Place, and will soon be ready for op- eration. Stock of all kinds has gone through the winter with but little loss, and .. " "iu uiiu v have not heard much complaint of BUENA VISTA. T. D. MeCla'tn is In Albany on busi ness. Claud South recently returned from Albany. George Ground is visiting friends in Buena Vista. William Bevens wa3 in Monmouth Saturday and Sunday. Ralph Hall is re-setting his hop yard with trellis poles. Spring farming and gardening are beginning in this vicinity. The clay barge will be loaded and ready for transportation today. J. M. Prather sold three 3-ycnr-o!d colts to I. W. Dickinson, the livery man of Independence, W. R. Hall has returned from King's Valley, where he canvassed for fruit trees and the Lewis gate. Chester McClain. a foreman of the Crown Pulp Company, of Oregon City, is eetting out boom sticks ; they are being cut on W. J. Steele's place. Clark Groves came nearly having a serious accident while driving north of Buena Vista, Sunday. One horse kicked over the tonerue and broke it, but Mr. Groves managed to stop the team before any great damage was done. The tonguo was repaired so as to enable him to reach town. The river is now down to the normal stage. It was the largest flood 1 t. Jnmna in several years, and the damage was considerable. Several head of stock were drowned, fences were carried mj '. -- trellis Doles, the replacing of which will cause considerable expense to me hop growers. BUTLER. Mrs. P. C. Lady is sick with lagrippe. John Lady is quite sick with the grip. Chris Ilussey came up from Sheri dan. Monday. til ' 1 J. C. Cockerham was a ouenuau isitor last week. Lee Howell attended Masonic lodge in Sheridan, Saturday evening. ! r i? mu nf T?nnr f!amr. came out for a load of provisions, Monday. t.i eiiotionl visited her sister,' Mrs. Chester Ellis, in Sheridan last week. jrr3. Sam Pettyjohn and son, Louis, went to Sheridan, Monday, for a few .... days visit. I f Ta Hartman left Monday for a weeks vajt a Portland. I George and Harry Elgin came out I 1 1 1 II I vn' n timnpr r iiiiiin tn Camp, Monday, and went to their home in oaieiu f. .,,. Mrs navis. Ol x.aLv.u Oregon, left for their home last week, after a several weeks' visit with Mrs. Davis' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hall. EOLA. Preaching" Sunday evening at 7:30, by Rev. Mason, of Salem. H.B.BroPhy is shearing his goats. He has about CO young kids. The farmers around here have started their plows. B. I. Ferguson is spraying his orch- Mi33 Ktta Shuett is dressmaking in Salem. ChanihoHntn J r ' . eaeh r, "1 . .uu 1IB- Bnett ucw incuoator. Hon. I. T. ph, . L.rt . -'""oiouuaQa A. SH. (ill- SlfPvestockCo. were visitors in Eola, Monday. Earl Brunk Dasmxi tv.nt.,k.u , AVQ,, t, oigiiLu Kiaae ' ""gil OL'UOOl. 1W g uhe Di08 weather LeKoy whem 1,1 T waiK'ng to Salem. ScZ Coding the High E1 Mitty was our accommodating "mil carrier one day during the high water. He brought Eola's mail from Nalem and distributed it. T- W. !rnk recently sold two Pol and China brood sows at $80 apiece- (inn tt XV f ! r . w. minor, or llflnnnei n,l Olio tn II n . . . ' r . ' Washington. FALLS CITY. Our new Bank is flourishing. William Harmon is on the sick list Zimri Hinshaw and family are sick wuu lagrippe. Charles Moyer is on the streets again Hiier several days of sickness. Joseph Floria is lmnrovlntT his lnta oy setting out fruit trees. Mrs. John Hughes is alowlv recov ering from typhoid fever. W. D. Bancroft is doing carpenter work tor E. Jacobson at Black Rock J. H. Flower and Frank Butler have Installed a phone in their office Ole Aurland has been confined to the house several days with lagrippe Wesley Achlson, of Dallas, was a falls (Jity visitor, Tuesday. City Marshal Chamberlain is kept busy these days shoveling the mud off me crosswalks. B. F. Beezley and party left Falls City, Monday, on a railroad survey west or Falls City. William Chaddock has sold his In terest in tho hotel and will go to Mich igan on a visit. Voget & Co.'s donkey engine has arrived, and will be ready to draw timber to their mill south of Falls City this week. Mr. McMann, of Cadillac, Michigan accompanied by W. V. Fuller and Frank Hubbard, left for the mount alns Saturday morning to cruise tim ber. LEWISVILLE. B. F. Smith is on the sick list. The family of W. W. Smith are suffering with lagrippe. Rev. Reagan is carrying on a week of prayer at the church. All are In vited. Emmett Staats bought a fine Berk shire boar of E. E. Hewitt, of Mon mouth. Will Bronson is moving into the Evangelical parsonage. He islooking for a good farm. Miss Minnie Lewis has gone back to Corvallis to resume her duties In the Hotel Corvallls. Our teacher, Miss Lucy Freeman Is attending the teachers examination at Dallas this week. H. S. Smith took his spraying ap paratus to Ames Atwater's, Tuesday, and sprayed the orchard. Dorsa Turner has purchased a fine rooster of Bonnie Smith. He reports this breed fine layers. Mrs. Flora Lewis is Improving from her heart trouble, under the treatment of Dr. Crowley, of Monmouth. Mrs. Baldwin and son, Ira, have (rniie to St. Johns to live. There is prospect of a store being opened in the house vacated by them. A horse buyer passed through here recently with a view to purchasing, hut our men know a good thing when they see it and would set no price on property. A teachers' and patrons' meeting will be held in the church next Satur day at 10 o'clock. Come and bring your dinners. Superintendent Starr is to be with us. A delightful social gathering was held at the home of John White last Tuesday evening. A delicious luncn was served, and the wee, sraan uoms found them on their way home, wo rn delishted to hear of the progress of the automatic telephone Portland to Corvallis. The workmen are now between Salem and n,i Albany, and are completing uie line at the rate of one mile a day. t w T. Arnold sold his remain ing property at public sale last Thurs day and started for Ohio on Tuesday, where the family will live with Mrs. Arnold's father aud take care of him We reeret to part with on them, as they were a nice family. Jess her Orrie Arnold will Oil me puii-u once a month. MONMOUTH. Moscow. Miss ku"j Idaho, is visiting at the home of her uncle, Mr. Mcueyno.ua. Mr and Mrs. B. Olson returned from Newport, Friday. His health Is much improved. m.karta una a visitor at Missiieu j-""" -- . the home of her parents during the commencement exercises. Frank Grounds and family have been visiting relatives on the Luckia mute. Miss May Goode went to Salem. Tuesday, to take the state teacher's ex amination. A large number or our citizens went to Salem, Tuesday, to attend the Legis lature. Rev. J. A. Good, pastor of the Evan gelical church, will Legia a pro tracted meeting Sunday night. Ev erybody invited. A. L. Chute killed 12 head of hogs, Monday, receiving 8i cents a pound for them. Surely, there is money in raising hog3. D. F. Wilcox, of Gaston, was in town Sunday. He says hundreds of bushels of potatoes were frozen In that vicinity during the cold snap. Rev. Mowre, of Portland, delivered the graduating sermon, Sunday, to a well-filled house. He is a good speaker, aud held the audience spell bound for 30 minutes. Joseph Radek has bought the small house next to Cornwall's shop and moved it to his bakery, where it will be fitted up for an ice cream and con fectionery parlor. The Normal commencement exer cises were of a high order of excel lence and the attendance was large. The chapel was filled to its utmost, showing that the people are interested in the Normal here. PERRYDALE. Miss Elsie Keyt is ill with lagrippe. Grandma Bell la visiting her daughter, Mrs. Jolly. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Keyt were Dallas visitors, Tuesday. Henry Jones is having his treated by Dr. Gillis in Salem. The infant daughter of Mr. eyes and Mrs. Henry McKee is seriously 111. Miss Mattle Koser, of Rickreall, is visiting her sister, Mrs. nenry McKee. A literary society wa3 organized last week to meet every Thursday night in the school house. Rice Cook has gone to Portland, where he expects to secure employ ment from the street car company. POLK. Farmers are busy. More sickness in the neighborhood. Some of the wild brush is putting out leaves. M. McNulty iscultlvating his straw berry patch. Pruning and spraying fruit trees is the order of the day. II. G. Robbins. is getting out oak posts and preparing to build a wire fence around his place. The wild geese are doing a good deal of damage in the wheat fields by tearing the grain up by the roots. Frank Johnson, wife and brother have sold out and gone to Odessa, Wash., where his wife's folks reside. H.J. Rose and family, from Oak hurst farm, east of Derry, have been greeting friends and acquaintances in this vicinity. RICKREALL. Farmers are all busy with their work. Mark Burch has been to the metrop olis. Miss Alice Burch spent Sunday In Ballston. John Vaughn and family were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Kirk land at Independence, Sunday. Mrs. W. O. Morrow Is visiting rel atives at Tacoma. Miss Edna Holmes, of Dallas, was the guest of Mira Lucas last week. Mrs. Southwiek, of Salem, was here the first of the week, looking after business interests. Mr. and Mrs. Middleton have both been Quite sick. , There will be preaching here Sun day afternoon at 3 o'clock. Fred Crowley, of Falls City, was greeting friends here Sunday. Frank Gibson is in Salum, attend ing the legislature. ZENA AND SPRING VALLEY: Miss Peebles spent Sunday with her parents In Salem. Worth Henry has returned to Salem and is working in The Spa. Mrs. Coyle expects to go to Newberg i soon as the boats begin running. The cold weather has been very hard i vounff lambs. Several farmers have lost a good many. Mrs. W. H. Darby has been visiting parents, Mr. and Mrs. w. u. Duncan for several days. Mis Alice Shepard and brother, Robert, came out to their bonne for an over-Sunday Tisit this week. The Telephone Company rxtponel its annual meeting UDtil aiamn , on account of the stormy weather. It is noticeable that the hop yards . . ri ,i. U are nearly an cieanea up. j.uo uuV men are getting reaay ioruieirinuK plowing. Messrs. Lawrence Marsh and Zac Barker came out from Salera and attended the basket social, Friday evening. Mrs. J. L. Purvine has been in Salem for a week, taking care of her daughter-in-law, Mr3. Frank Piirvine, who ia quite sick. Miss Inez Bollier has been visiting her parents for a few days before be ginning work in her new position as stenographer for A. O. 'Condit, of Salem. A large crowd attended the basket social at the home of Mrs. C. C. Walker, last Friday evening. Social conversation and games were indulged In until the hour of ten. when the baskets were put up at auction, Mr. Morrow acting as auctioneer. Con siderable merriment was had over the selling of the baskets, and the neat sum of $35.75 was realized. At a reasonable hour, the jolly party dis persed, declaring the occasion one of the best socials of the season. Miss Lina Phillips has returned home after a three weeks' visit with friends and relatives iu Salem. Rev. Knotts filled Rev. W. W. Ed monson's appointment at Zena, Sun day.the latter being sick with lagrippe, W. B. Duncan shipped a number of dressed veal and hogs to Portland this week. His goods commanded the highest market price. -'. W. J. Crawford aud J. R. Shepard re cleaning up their orchards, pre paratory to spraying. Mr. Shepard has his old orchard entirely grubbed out, and Mr. Crawford has been severely pruning his young apple orchard. . Last week we were without mail for four days, the Willamette river being so high that the carriers could not cross the bridge. The telephone poles were down, and at times we were un able to get Central. Altogether, It seemed as if Fate was against us and that we had been removed far back into the ages. The school meeting held at Lincoln last Saturday was a decided succens. The largest crowd that has yet at tended one of these annual meetings was present. In the forenoon, a pro gram was given by the three schools in charge Zena, Lincoln and Spring Valley. It was a very creditable affair, and spoke well for the respective teachers. Then came the dinner, to which everyone did ample justice. In the afternoon, impromptu speeches were made by W. J. Crawford, C. L Hawley, J. Ruble, Professor Roy and others, in response to a discussion presented by Superintendent Starr. The three subjects of discussion, all of which met with favor, were : The annual school children's industrial fair, elementary agriculture in rural schools, a play-room for pupils of rural schools in stormy weather. Professor Condon Dead. Thomas Condon, t for many years occupying the Chair of Geology at the Oregon State University at Eu gene, passed away Monday morning in extreme old age, and after very little suffering. He had been in re tirement for somo time but until recently led a very active life, hearing classes attheUniverslty and lecturing at Eugene and elsewhere. lie had collected one of the most valuable geological museums on the Pacific Coast and written many books and pamphlets on his geological dis coveries. He was for many years a Congregational minister at The Dalles. The town of Condon was named after him, as was the town of Fossil, where he made one of his greatest discoveries. He had made his home for many years with his daughter, Mrs. R. S. Bean, at Eugene, Reception to Visitors. Immediately after the basketball game, Friday night, a reception was given by a number of the college girls at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Hall in honor of the Newberg and Dallas teams. A social hour was spent in games and amusements, after which delicious but harmless re freshments were served. Those present were : Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Hall, Misses Edna and Merle Hall, Lillian McVicker, Winnie and Amy Kelly, Inez Allen, Edna Hayes, Vera Cosper, Alta Savage, Veva Burns, Regina Elsie, Eula Phillips, Nola Coad and Ella Roy; Messrs. D. and E. Kenworthy, Wilson, Hammer, Spaulding, Hoskins, Hayworth and Hodson, of Newberg ; Messrs. Grannis and Forbes, 61 Salem ; Messrs. Shaw, Launer, Craven, Fenton, Savery, Arnold, Morton and Crilchlow, of Dallas. Burglary by explosives Is the name of a new crime that will be added to the Oregon criminal code If the bill Introduced in the senate by President Haines becomes a law. The penalties provided for the commission of this crime are heavy, the smallest punish ment being twenty years, and the heaviest forty years in the penitenti ary. The crime of burglary by explos ives Is deflnod as the entry of any building at Dight with intent to com mit a crime, and tho use of nitro-gly-cerine, dynamite, gunpowder or any high explosive. Printing, the kind that pays, at the Obsfrveb office. ROCK KOAI) QUESTION WHY D. WARD KING FAVORS BUILD ING MACADAM HIGHWAYS. Expert Tells How and Where Tber Are a. Poealblllty Advlcea Any Com mnnlty to Build Mile or More of Stone Rood Each Year.' "The conviction that progress Is pos sible must first exist before any at tempt at progress will be made. It cer tainly Is unfortunate that the mistaken Idea that macadamized roads are im possible prevails in so many communi ties," writes D. Ward King iu the Good Roads Magazine. "Some folks seem to have a uotlou that unless the fields are covered with stone rock la too scarce for road building. I will be dogmatic for a moment aud assert, as a general proposition, that a macadamized pike Is a possibility wherever laud is worth $30 per acre and rock can be obtained within two and a half miles of the pro posed road not all of the roads, of course, but the main thoroughfares. 'Termlt me a few moments iu sup port of my position. While visiting la Alabama one summer I saw rock roads building at a cost of $2,200 per mile where the best land was priced at only $25 to $30 per acre. Moreover, iu my opinion, the road they were building was far heavier aud wider thun the travel demanded aud therefore much more expensive than necessary. But the people there have been educated to see the advantages of the stone road. Please do not think I am speaking of a radically progressive community. The old darky still doffs bis tattered hat and Bteps off the sidewalk as you pass. Chain harness is the rule. The old style bull tongue plow Is iu the majori ty, and these fine roads are traveled by ox teams. Not of the 'new south' am I speaking, but of the genuine old fash ioned hospitable 'old south' of the antebellum days. And now another statement: Although rock Is superabun dant thereabout, still the contractor found It profitable to haul the crushed rock two and a half miles before mov ing the crushing machinery. I submit that these two facts prove that with rock less than two and a half miles distant and land at $.'tO per acre mac adamized roads are a possibility. Aud It would seem a natural sequeitee that where land Is more valuable the stone can be hauled farther. "And now let us consider an in stance where a community might have 'V1 OON8TKU0TINO A MACADAM EOAD. rock roads if they Just thought so. I have in mind two towns here in Mis souri, lying about six miles apart. What Is land worth? Well, laud be tween these two towns has sold re cently for $100 per acre. Probably not an acre can be bought for less than $50. Therefore the land value is there. As for rock, If we start from one town to go to the other we find rock within 100 steps of the highway before we travel a mile. At two and a half miles rock Is less than half a mile distant, at three and a half miles only three fourths of a mile away, at four and a quarter miles from town but a quar ter of a mile to rock, while at five and a half miles it is only half a mile from the road to the quarry that is kept open constantly. Here Is rock, quanti ties of It. Here Is land worth more, much more, than $30. Why dou't these people have a stone roud? Is your an swer ready? My answer has been giv en. The answer Is fouud iu the convic tion of the people that rock roads are beyond their reach. The people have been educated to this belief by reading the walls that arise from our brethren In the rockless region of our neighbor lug states. Aud alj that Is needed to inaugurate an era of stone roud con struction right here iu Missouri Is the removal of this mistaken conviction. "In conclusion, pin my faith In the future betterment of our highways to these foundation truths: "First. Six or seven feet of stone Is sufficient for the average rural traffic. "Second. Any community where rock Is available Is behind the times If it does not euch year build a tulle or more of stone road. "Third. Rock within two and a half miles Is available where lund Is worth $20. "Fourth Where stone roads are ab solutely out of the question aud where, If they can be built, they are not yet an accomplished Improvement, a drug ged road Is the best substitute. "I hop to sea the people settle dywu to steady Improvement a certalu stat ed amount each year, not necessarily a great deal, but something. People get scareA when they begin to figure on a large number of miles of expen sive road to be finished In a year or two. Let promoters be content to make s beginning and add a little each year." r ' Worthy of Kniolatloa. It Is reported that A. J. Moore of Johnson Ceck, Niagara county, N. Y., has offered to give $100 over and above his taxes and 10,000 yards of crushed stone from bis farm toward the build ing of an improved road from the city of Lock port to the vicinity of his furm, about nine miles distant. This Is a striking example of the appreciation of the value of a good road from the farmer's standpoint and Is one that could be emulated with great profit by farmers generally throughout the country. Legal blanks at this office.