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V 1 1 1 r- n ? .Si 4 -d wm fci-ffi ttHH ikHuMt&mim'i "W WEEKLY AND SEMI-WEEKLY VOL. XIX DALLAS, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, MAY 31, 1907. NO. 14 Dainty Furniture dresses up not only the Parlor but the Dining Room and Living Room. We are offering just now unusual values in Dining Tables, Buffets, and Din ing Room Chairs. ... Better .see our 'High Grade Solid Oak Dining Sets. Don't you think that you could spend at least a portion of your salary to make your home brighter and more beautiful?. ;';.:' It is our business to help you do so by plac ing our line of Furniture, Carpets, Rugs. Linoleums ' and other " furnishings in your home. We will save for your pocket book too; . V A J .';. , A fine line of Iron Beds for your in spection. Goods of the Season Ice Cream Freezers, Lawn SprinKlers, Lawn Mowers, Refrigerators - Hose. When you want Builders' Hardware be sure to see us, our motto: "A Better Stock and Lower Prices." Toledo and Universal Ranges Razor Steel Cutlery Fishing Tackle Whips of all kinds Bird Cages Rugs of all kinds and sizes Axminster, Brussels and Ingrain Carpets Linoleum Pattons Sun Proof Paint A new line of Engine Fittings including Oil Cups, Injectors, Lubricators, etc. just arrived GUY BROS. & DALTON The store that saves you money. Dallas, Oregon NEWS OP COUNTY TOWNS. AIRLIE. Harry Williums has typhoid fever. The Assessor is doing this vicinity this week. Percy Hndiey is planting 11 large acreage to potatoes. Nearly everybody attended the pic nic at Ridder's grove last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Staatswill attend the pioneer reunion in Portland in June. ' Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Simpson and Henry Berry are attending the State Grange at Hood River. ira Williams and R. Evans will give an Ice cream social at Maple Grove, Saturuay evening, One of the most hotly contested ball games of the season will take place at Pedee on Sunday afternoon, Airlie lost to Pedee last year, but Intends to even the score this year or "bust a mitt." Dont miss the game. BUELL. L. 0. Miller was a Sheridan visitor last Saturday. There is some talk of having lecture here June 8. J. B. Constable is plowing his hop yard the second time, Mrs. Bennett has finished painting her house. Mat Glaze did the painting. Leonard Brothers, of Sheridan, were visitors in the Mill Creek country, Sunday. Clarence Olmstead has been depu tized to oversee the road work on Gooseneck. George Hinshaw, traveling sales man for the Watkins remedies, passed through here last week. The Oviatt boys have begun their contract of cutting three million feet of logs for Company. the Sheridan Lumber BRIDGEPORT. E. E. Gilliam was over from Salem, Tuesday. Mrs. M. E. Miller has been quite sick for a few days. Dr. McCallon was called out to see W. N. Brown, Tuesday. Buunie Burns visited at J. H. Fos ter's on Saturday and Sunday. Hops are not looking as thrifty as common in this part of the country. Miss Lizzie Bennett, of Creswell, Is visiting her sister, Mrs. R. R. Rlggs. Clay Miller and Andrew and Clar ence Gilson each have a new buggy. Mr. Grazier will build hop houses for Ike Yoakum and Eddie Lee this sum mer. Miss Hattie Teats is at home again, much improved in health, but still very weak. Doug Giiliam's hop yard will not be cultivated this year, Mr. LInebacK having given It up. Vlrv. Schneider has rented the Lee farm for the summer, and may decide to rent it foi a number of years. Jesse Gilliam, of Garfield, Wash., is visiting the scenes of his boyhood. He says the prospects for good crops in the Palouse country were never bet ter. BUTLER. . Mr. and Mrs. Lee Rowell have been in Sheridan. Lee Rowell and J. C. Cockerham were visitors In Portland last week. Mrs. G. 0. Butler and daughter visited relatives in Dallas this week. Mitch and Glenn Butler, of Dallas, hav been visiting tneir nroiuer, Glenn. Herman Muller, who has been Btay- ing with Mr. Whitman, has gone to Falls City to work for H. L. Fenton. Dr. Kershaw's fine residence in Willamina is completed, and he is moving his household goods from his home at the Agency. BUENA VISTA. Hayden was In town. ducted the eighth grade final exami nations. Harve Nash and Ed Prather took a contract of Mr. Ogdop to furnish 100 yards of rock for the Government work near Independence. Several men near here put in a day's work in the I. 0. O. F. cemetery, Weduesday. Services were held then by Rev. S. E. Launer, Thursday, at 4 .ou p. in. Mr. Sealy, of Albany, is here with his launch and is making preparations to tow to New Era the logs that are Deing cut on the Santiam river for Mr. Dornbecker. EOLA. Eola is still on the map. 0. G. Savage is building an addi tion to his house. The picnic at Popcorn was a grand success, as usual. Mrs. A. G. Byers is visiting relatives in Independence. Mrs. Hattie Biden, of Eola, is visit ing her aunt, Mrs. H. B. Brophy. Messrs. Savage, Brown, Ferguson. Harris, Gosser, Holman and Capps are to nave new phones. West Salem had a flag-raising, basket and ice cream social, May 24, which netted the district the handsome sum of 16. Miss Jeffries', the teacher's basket sold for $6.25. We will close our school on TueS' day, June 14, with a flag-raising and Ice cream social. Generous hearted Hal D. Patton, of Salem, will present the school with a flag. B. I. Ferguson has marketed several crates of strawberries at $3 a crate. He has taken off nearly 200 pounds of honey, the bees having done much better than they did at this time last year. Road Supervisor G. W. Chapman has completed the road grading west of T. W. Brunk's and near" Alt Vernon's. The road is in fine shape to receive the coating of gravel it will get later on. He has a force of men at work now on the fill near the Hogg place. W. S. Fitts, of West Salem, proprietor of the State Street fish and poultry market, accompanied by Mrs. Fitts, left Tuesday for Sunnyside, Wash., to visit his brother, Daniel Fitts. Mr. Steiner, formerly the proprietor of the Steiner market, will look after Mr. Fitts' interests during his absence. , was in Salem, Judge Ben Monday. Harley Prather Saturday. M. N. Prather was an Independence visitor, Tuesday. Mrs. Addie Harmon was in Albany last Wednesday. Emil Gobat has purchased a new rubber-tired buggy. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson made a business trip to Albany, Wednesday. T D McLain, of McMinnville, visited friends and relatives here last week. A large number of people from . j.J ka a-fr t at Buena Vista, aueDueu p. Kidder's giove, Saturday. Six teams are hauling clay to Parker, to be snippeu Three of the teams are from Corvallis. PfsorJ.Dean Butler, of Inde . FALLS CITY. Watch Falls City grow. The new hospital is nearly completed Frank Hartman went to Salem, Tuesday. William McHardy was a visitor in Falls City, Tuesday. Two hundred people took dinner at the Hotel Walker last Sunday. Frank Butler's fine residence In south Falls City is being painted. The Dallas band gave the Falls City people some good music Sunday. Come again. Walter L. Tooze left for Woodburn and other points north, on business, Tuesday. C. Vashaw is building an addition to his store and putting a porch in front of it I. L. Stoddard has painted his house and built a good wire fence around his property on the bill. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Newman, of Monmouth, visited at the home of his cousin, H. P. Bogart, Saturday and Sunday. The two families visited Black Rock on Sunday and all were astonished to find such a change in a year. Mr. and Mrs. Newman returned home Monday. INDEPENDENCE. R. D. Cooper returned Monday from a short visit to Portland. Mrs. M. Wiprut, of Salem, visited her son, Louie, here this week. Miss Pearl Squire and Mrs. J. D. Belt visited In Portland, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Johnson, of Salem, visited friends here Friday. Claude Hubbard came up from Portland. Saturday, for a short visit The Independence Driving Club Is arranging for a race meet to be held in June. Miss Ella Robinson came up from McMinnville for an over-Sunday visit with her parents. Mrs. Lillian Eaton, Misses Ivy Cooper and Bertha Bohannon have gone to Hood River to pick strawber ries. Mrs. B. Estes has returned from eastern Washington, and will make her home here. Mr. Estes will join her soon. The remains of the late Amos Wysong will be taken to Canton, Illi nois for burial. He was 40 years old and left a wife and four children. He was a member of the Woodman and K. of P. lodges. Union memorial sei vices were held In the M. E. Church, Sunday after noon, at 3 o'clock. The Rev.' W. J. Douglas preached the raenjorial sermon. The Independence public and high school closed its year's work last week. The High School graduating exer cises were held in the opera house Friday evening. There were eight young ladies in the graduating class. Mrs. P. H. Burnett returned to McMinnville, Monday, after a several months' visit with her daughters, Mrs. C. W. Irvine and Mrs. J. D, Whiteaker. From McMinnville. Mrs, Burnett will go to Tillamook City, her future home. Mrs. Riley Craven and little son are visiting here. Mr. and Mrs. Craven will soon move from McMinnville to Pendleton, where Mr. Craven will enter a partnership with A. J.- Good man in the hardware business. Both gentlemen were formerly residents of this place. MONMOUTH. The Hotel Monmouth Is doing a good business. Miss Ellen, Johnson Is no better and is sinking slowly. H. Robertson went up to hia farm Monday and returned Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, 6f Corvallis, are guests of Grandpa Westfall. Mr. and Mrs. James Crosby, of Portland, formerly of Monmouth, are visiting friends here. Miss Newman, the accommodating deputy postmistress, visited friends In Lebanon the last of the week. J. B. Stump Is preparing to ship 20 head of fine goats and sheep. Mr. Cornwall is making crates for them. Miss Esther Fisher returned home Friday from Eastern Oregon, where she bad been teaching school since last Fall. Judging from present prospects, the apple crop will be short this year. The farmers say there are hardly any in their orchards. Pears and cherries seem to be all right. Mr. and Mrs. David Hampton have moved from Newberg to Monmouth and will engage In the hotel business. They formerly conducted a hotel at this place. We bespeak for them a good patronage. Mrs. Ellen Baldwin, of Hoskins, accompanied by her mother who Is a resident of Drain, passed through towu Tuesday on her way to Falls City, where she will visit her brother, N. A. Em mitt Amos Wysong died at his home near xaonmoutn, Tuesday, May g, 1907, after an illness of only two weeks. He had always been stout and robust, but succumbed to an attack of typhoid fever. He was a Woodman and also carried $1000 In surance in another order. PERRYDALE. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Lynn were Port land visitors last week. Mr. and Mrs.Duignan visited rela tives in Portland last week. The graduating exercises last Tues day evening were a credit to the pupils and Professor Stine. Appreciation was also expressed for the vocal solos rendered by Z. C. Mulkey. President Ressler, of the Monmouth Normal School, made an able address. After the program, the class and invited guests repaired to the borne of Mr. and Mrs. Henry McKee for refresh ments and a social visit, while the other students and young people of Perrydale assembled In the hall for ice cream. POLK. Almost like Summer weather. David Peters is having the lumber bauled for his new house. Miss Susanna Toews has gone to work for Mrs. George Gerllnger in Dallas. A. G. Rempel has begun work on his new house on the old' Bobbins place, of which he recently purchased a part. .Many of the children of this neigh borhood are helping Mr. McNulty pick bis strawberries. He has several acres of the luscious fruit ZENA AND SPRING VALLEY. Miss Dora Walker, of Salem, is visiting relatives in the Valley. A number of teams are hauling gravel under the supervision of Road Supervisor G. H. Crawford. It looks v y ' -. i y k IS V Copyright 1907 by Hart Schaffher 4g" Marx If you aim to be well dressed, aim for this store, and a HART, SCHAFFHER Q MARX SUIT You'll make a hit in it. We will show you other good things to wear. Now is the time and this is the place to L. buy your White Canvas Oxfords l We have a good assort ment at the right price. Our stock of EE WASH GOODS is second to none in the town, it will pay you to see them before buying your summer suit. Prices ranging from 5c to 50c the yard. A new shipment of Men's Outing Suits. Prices $9.00 to $12.50 Yours for business, CAMPBELL & HOLLISTER CASH STORE as If we wero to have summer roads next winter. One more week will find moat of the sheep sheared In this district. School Superintendent O. L. Starr was a visitor in this community last Friday. Mrs. S. L. Bennett, of Medford, Is visiting Mrs. W. J. Crawford for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. William Patrick have returned to Tillamook, after a week's visit In the Valley. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Shepard and baby Dorothy visited at home with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Shepard, last S'inday. A goodly number assembled at the church last Tuesday and made a cleaning of the church and cemetery. The cemetery looks better than for several years past The Zena school closed last Friday. A large number of friends and patrons enjoyed the nice program given by the pupils. A picnio dinner was served, and the usual merriment common on such occasions prevailed. Of all the fruits there are in the land, That grow on bush or tree, I would give up the choicest ones For Ilollister's Bocky Mountain Tea. Beit&CherriDgton. Died Id Albany. After ah illness of six weeks, John Francis O'Brien, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank O'Brien of the St. Charles hotel, passed away Monday morning 8:45 o'clock. The deceased was almost seven years of age, having been born June 11, 1900. Cause of death was Inflammation of the kidneys and dropsy. The funeral services were held Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock from the Catholic church. Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien bave the deepest sympathy of their many friends and acquaintances in their bereavement. Albany Herald. COURT HOUSE NOTES Items of Interest From the Records In the County Offices. REAL ESTATE. Winifred Purdy to W E and Ollie Purdy, land In 1 6 s, r 5 w, $2700. G A Steel et ux to George Walling, 70 acres, 1 8 s, r 6 w, $100. M W Rankin et ux to Smiley Pur vine, 100 acres, 1 7 s, r 3 w, $1. Lulu M Myers to R E Williams, 1C0 acres, t 8 s, r 7 w, $2000. C 8 Graves et al to L K Sweeney, lot in Dallas, $2300. R E Williams to C S Graves, lot in Dallas, $1. Mabel Yoakum et al to Emma Vas sail, land In Dallas, $500. J R Moore to Mary E Moore ct al, 2 acres, 1 7 s, r 4 w, $1. B L and Llllle Murphy to Monmouth Canning and Evaporating Company, 2 acres, 1 8 s, r 4 w, $1000. W A Middleton to Franklin Everett, 40 acres, 1 8 s, r 7 w, $3270. J F Watson et al to J A Venoss, trustee, lots in Independence, $1. Irvin Schneider et ux to J J and Eliza MInnich, 99.20 acres, 1 8 s, r fi w, $3100. Jacob Rhodabarger to W L Tooze, lot in Falls City, $100. - - -- -- -- - Convalescents need a large amount or nounsn merit in easily digested form. Scoffs Emulsion is powerful nourish menthighly concentrated. p 0 It makes bone, tlood and muscle without ( A tax on the i locution. SS-li ..I o o o o o o o ALL DRUCCISTSl 60c. AND $I.OO. J. fK A, A -m -m- -m m m M 't v v V. . "m m m It's too bad to see people who go from day to day suffering from phys ical weakness when Holllster's Rocky Mountain Tea would make them well. The greatest tonic known. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets. Bolt & Chcrrington. David Alaxfield. David Maxfleld, an old and respected citizen of Polk county, who died of paralysis at the Salem Hospital, Thursday, May 16, was born In Ten nessee, June 15, 1836 and moved with his parents the following year to St. Louis, Missouri, where they resided a short time, going from there to Illinois, where In 1853 he was united In marriage to Miss Elizabeth Owen, atBfillville. Mr. and Mrs. Maxfleld crossed the plains In 18C1, landing at Salem, Oregon. To this union were born eight children, five of whom are living. They are: Mrs. Laura Hunter of Lafayette ; Samuel, Don aod Misses Angia and May, all of Independence, who, with their mother, aro left to mourn his loss. Independence Enter prise. . Artists have no trouble In securing models. The famous beauties have discarded corsets and have become models in face and form since taking Hoilloucr's Icky AiIouutiQ tc3. cents, Tea or Tablets. Bolt & Chcrrington. A Condon man received 3,500 head of cattle Sunday. , TION AUC - SALE Friday, June 21 10 o'clock A. M. The undersigned having sold the biggest part of his farm will offer for sale at Public Auction at his farm near Lewisville the following property: 250 head of sheep 275 head of goats, all nannies 9 head dry cows and calves 8 head of 1 year old colts, half blood Morgan by Lambert Boy 1 matched pair 2 year old horse colts by Lambert Boy 2 two year old fillies by Lambert Boy 6 head mares with colts at Bido by Lambert Boy 1 saddle pony 6 work mares without colta 4 head of hogs Plows, wagons, farming Implements This is the place to buy fine carriage horses, brood mares and colts. TERMS: All sums under $10 cash in hand, all sums over $10 bankable note on one year's time at 8 per cent interest. J. W. BROWN . Millard White, Auctioneer. Calls promptly answered day or night, R. L. CHAPMAN FUNERAL DIRECTOR &. EM3ALMER DALLAS, - OREGON' Phone 103 Mutual F'liui'e 1 -4 pendence, was here Friday and con-