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OUNTY PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY VOL. XX DALLAS, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, MAY 22, 1908. NO. 13 II till NEWS OF COUNTY TOWNS MONMOUTH. Mr MoNeal is able to be out once nor after a severe Illness. Fred Huber is able to resume bla work after bd illness of two weeks. A construction train is at work on the railroad south of this city, repalr- " ng bridges. Mrs Lora Davidson and family, or Staytoo, are visiting at the home of Mrs.S. M. Daniel. Professor Paul Wyman, of Salt Lake City a graduate of the Monmouth Normal, is visiting friends In this city. Tne fruit crop in this vicinity was but slightly 'damaged by the reeent' severe weather, and the grain is doing anely. The Monmouth creamery is in full operation, and is producing some of the finest butter that can be procured in Oregon. Arthur Whitney has returned to his home In Wyoming, after an extended visit at the home of his mother, Mrs. Clara Cornwell. Many people went to Newport from Monmouth this week and saw the big Atlantic fleet, as it passed that point on its voyage northward. - Wednesday of this week was the ninety-sixth birthday of Ira F. M. Butler, and many of his f riends called at his home duringtheday and offered their congratulations. The Rev. J. A. Goode, formerly pastor of the Evangelical church in this city, has been stationed at Lents, and moved his home thither last week. He is succeeded in Monmouth by the Rev. C. L. Hoover. BALLSTON. AmosKauf has been quite ill with the mumps. - R. A. Campbell and C. J. Curtis were Amity visitors Sunday. KenDetb Campbell has returned from a visit to Portland. M. D. Coulter, of Dallas, was a busl. DALLAS The old proverb""The early bird" etc., was more than fulfilled for our early shoppers on Monday morning. Bright and early, before the store opened, they, waited patiently and, their patience was rewarded. Bargains such as were never offered the public in this city before. This sale will be continued throughout the week if the rockers will last. This Company is striving to give the best the market affords for the money, and if our many customers are any criterion to go by, we are succeeding wonderfully. NOTICE None of the advertised BARGAINS will be sold to dealers Closing Out Sale MILLINERY Greatest reduction in prices ever known in Dallas. Trimmed hats 25 cents off on the dollar. Patterns, Shapes, Flowers etc special price. Sale Closes June i, 'o8 THE VOGUE ness visitor in Ballston, Friday. Leslie Beatty, of Indiana, is visiting at the home of his uncle, F. B. Gould. . Russel Harris and Will Harty have been hauling stirfbp timber for Joseph Davidson. . Mr. Merritt and family, of Red Prairie, spent Sunday at the home of M. F. Hall. Mr. and Mrs. Chapln, of Bellevue, spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Davidson. Miss Rose Hall has gone to Alrlie to be with her sister, Mrs. Will Robert son, who is quite ill Mrs. F. B. Gould gave a party at her home Saturday night for her children. A number of their schoolmates, were present and a most enjoyable evening was spent. Mrs. R. L. Sears and little son, Waldo, of Portland, are viRiting at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. May field. Miss Otta Mayfleld, of Mon mouth, was at home Saturday and Sunday for a short visit. PEDEE. P. O. Burbank was in Dallas, Sat urday, on business. Thomas Kinchin was a business visitor in Dallas, Tuesday. Miss Grace Tioe has returned to her home in Marion County. Henry Tartar, of Airlie, drove a fine herd of cattle to the bills recently. The logging work at ' Hanna Brothers' camp is nearly completed. Mrs. W. L. Phillips visited at the home other daughter Wednesday. The Burbank brothers are doing some fine work on the roads in this neighborhood. Mrs. Tina Pagett, of Sumpter, is visiting at the home of her brother, C. S. Craton. Ernest Seilsch, of Parker, has hauled 6700 shakes from P. O. Bur banks place recently. Levi Burbank has returned from Washington, where he has been employed in a logging camp. FURNITURE CO. . Get our prices on Columbia House Paint It is a world beater at the price POIK. Many ripe strawberries are to be found all over the countryside. The fruit crops around Polk prom ise to be exceptionally heavy this year. Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Rempel and Lizzie Frlesen visited in Pratura over Sunday. ' The Rev. and Mrs. Isaao Dyck have returned from a pleasant visit to Menno, Washington. Frank Lynn, of Perrydale, recently bought a One Jersey cow from Tilmon Crook of this place. . The present run of wet weather is doing untold good to the grain and gardens in this locality. The Dolph farm, consisting of 900 acres, is being surveyed and divided into 20 acre tracts, and will be sold. FACTORY BEGINS OPERATIONS Dallas Bottling Works Will Have Capacity of Two Hundred Cases a Day. The new bottling factory, just In stalled In Dallas, began operations Wednesday afternoon, the machinery having all been installed during the earlier part of the week. The machinery is operated by elec tricity, and with the expert bottler now employed the plant will be able to turn out about 200 cases of bottled goods a day. Only the various carbonated drinks will be bottled at present, but It is probable that Mr. Btolz will soon enlarge the equipment of the plant to comprise the bottling of fruit juices, and the manufacture of vinegars, in which be has attained an enviable reputation throughout the Coast states. Polk County Horses Win Prizes. " Although the stock of Polk County was not represented very extensively at the big stock show in Corvallis last week, the animals which were sent from this county measured up credit ably alongside of the best exhibits from Benton and adjoining counties. Two first prizes were won by Polk County exhibits, oae for the best driver's double team and one for the best single team. In both cases the animals exhibited were the property of O. F Hembree, a prominent stock raiser and farmer of Monmouth. v Genuine Horton Wash Machines with or without wringer. They lead in good WASHERS INCREASE IN REGISTRATION Polk County Towns Show Heavy Gains Over Vote of Two Years ' Ago. Deputy Clerk H. B. Cosper finished his work on the registration .books of Polk County, Wednesday evening, and gives the total number of voters registered for the June election at 2905, an increase of 382 over the regis tration of 1906. The distribution of these votes is as follows: Republican, 1636; Demo cratic, 931 ; Socialist, 127; Prohibition ist, 88 ; Independent, 65 ;not designated, 54 ; Populist, 2. This gives the Repub lican vote a majority of 371 over all other votes in the county. The increase in the registration since the books were closed before the primary elec tion in April Is 336. The largest increase is in the three precinct 8 of Dallas which show an Increase of 222 votes. Falls City comes next with a total Increase of 153. Most of the other precincts show a substantial growth in tbelr voting force, but a few register from three to 10 votes less than in 1906. Only two votes are registered in" Rock Creek. The registration by precinots follows : MUSC1KCT REP. DKH. TOTAL TOTAL 1SI06 1M Douglm 5i .37 100 98 Jackon 80 42 MS 138 Salt Lake " 43 19 64 68 Spring Valley 84 30 55 ' 61 Eola 72 .47 128 ' 126 Rickroall 49 55 12ft 110 S Independence 95 62 155 176 N Independence 121 ' 88 . 219 224 BuenaViata 40 36 83 . 82 Surer 18 16 84 84 N Monmouth 58 28 95 101 8 Monmouth 51 39 112 102 Lucltiamute 90 79 175 174 Bridgeport 87 29 75 76 Falls City 272 73- 282 436 McCoy 34 18 80 78 Rock Creek 1 16 Eaat Dallaa 189 107 237 848 North Dallaa 122 55 161 198 South Dallaa 180 72 . 207 278 Tolali 1638 931 , 2f23 2906 LIBRARY ADOPTS NEW PIAN Will Charge Small Rental to Readers of Latest Popular Fiction. The Dallas Free Library has found it necessary, in order to keep pace with the increasing demand for late popu lar fiction, to follow the custom which most of the large city llbtarles have adopted, and rent out the latest books of fiction at five cents a week. These books cost the library $1 apiece, and it is planned to put thero into the general circulation as soon as each book has earned 60 cents from rentals. The money secured Id this way will be held In a separate fund and re-Invested in new books of fiction. It Is hoped that everyone will co operate cheerfully with the librarian In this effort to increase the supply of books to the end that no one will lend or borrow the books under rental, except through the medium of the Library. In this way, these popular books will quickly earn the required 50 oents and then be placed freely at the disposal of the general reading public. SCHOOL PICNIC IN JUNE Superintendent Seymour Announces Date For Unveiling Monument at Rickreall. Superintendent H. C. Seymour has finally decided to fix the date for the School Children's Picnic and unveil ing of the monument at Rlck reall In honor of the first school ever opened in Oregon, for Friday, Juno 5. The program for the day will be about the same as the one which bad been announoed for last Satur day. This big picnic is worthy of the undivided Interest and attention of the people of Polk County, 'since it commemorates the first step in the development of one of our state's most important Institutions ' and the postponement of the date, until a time when favorable weather may be reasonably looked for, and when the best possible crowd may be expected to be in attendance, baa met with the approval of alL Over (.1000 bas been subscribed by the business men of Dallas toward tbe fund for the carnival to be held June 18, 19 and 20, and definite arrangements for tbe program are rapidly being formulated. At . a I meeting held Wednesday evening. Us i following sub-oommlttees wers ap ! appointed: Sports C. L. Crider, Carl j Fentoo, H. C. Seymour; grounds and i stand privilege H. L, Crider; plo ! neer dsy-H. L. Fentoo, O. W. Myer, C 8. Loagbary. A meeting of tbe variouscommittees will be held tonight to perfect further plans for the big event. j J. E. Allen, of Oak Grove, was a : business visitor In Dallas yesterday. ! He says that preparations for tbe pie ale to be brld at that place J a os IS, : are almost completed and believes that It will be trie root soeeessf al event 'ver held in that vicinity. Tbe Dallas Junior baseball team will plsy against Iadepesdeaos in that city today aod will play la a pre liminary at Falls City tomorrow ' afteroooa. LARGE CROWD ASSURED Thousands of Visitors Will Be In I Falls City Tomorrow If Weather Is Fair. The preparations Tor the big Wood man picnic to be held In Falls City tomorrow are fully completed, and the committees that have worked hard and faithfully for so many weeks, are now fully prepared to assure their vis itors a royal entertainment, rain or shine. The following complete train sched ule makes it possible for anyone to attend thepicnio all or part of the day, and to remain until the very last of the entertainment, with the assurance of having prompt and direct trans' portatlon homeward when the picnic closes. On Saturday trains will leave Dallas at 7 :10 a. m., 9 :00 a. m., 11 :30 a. m.. 1:15 p. m. and 7 :30 p.m. Trains from Falls City will leave for Dallas at 10 :10 a. m., 2 :30 and 4 :20 p. m. and 12:30 Sunday morning. On Sunday a train from Dallas at 12 m. will bring back those who have remained over In Falls City, at 1 :20 p. m. Ample accom modations to and from Black Rock will be furnished Saturday evening after the picnic. Among the special entertainment features that have been secured, in addition to the athletic meets and races, will be a balloon ascension and a sensational high dive from the top of the falls in the afternoon. A merry-go-round has been secured and will be set up on W. . Newsom's property In the central part of the city, and Is sure to be a strong attraction to the younger generation. Enthusiastic in their efforts to make the pionioone of the most memorable events of this season, the oltlzens of Falls City have spared no pains in assisting the members of the W. O. W. to prepare the best possible program for the occasion, and it Is believed that the crowd in attendance will be one of the largest that has assembled in Polk County for years. POLK COUNTY WILL COMPETE Cherry Growers Will Exhibit Their Best Fruit at Salem Fair. The annual Cherry Fair, which is held in Salem, is being looked forward to by the fruit growers of Oregon and the entire Paclflo coast with keen Interest. Indeed, fruit experts In all parts of the continent are watching this event, as it stands for the best exhibition of the best cherries grown in the world. - Although the date has not yet been definitely fixed for the fair, it is safe to say that it will be held early In July, as last year's date was July 10, 11 and 12. There is ' now every reason to believe that a large crop Is In store for the cherry growers of the state for this season, as tbey have bloomed bounti fully and, as far as can be learned, they fully fertilized and a large crop of fruit has set At the 1907 cherry fair, over sixty premiums were awarded, Including about thirty beautiful silver cups. The Judges upon that occasion were leading fruit men of the Northwest and the greatest satisfaction pre' vailed. Salem Statesman. Last year the exhibits from the Polk county cherry district lying along the Willamette River west of Salem, took a majority of the prizes at the Cherry Fair, and this year the cherry growers In that vlcloity are planning to place on exhibition larger and more com plete display of fruit than ever before, Twenty-Seven New Books For Library. The following books of popular fic tion were received at the Dallas Free Library this week : ' The Thrall of Lief the Lucky-LU- Jencrants Little City of Hope-Crawford Wards of Liberty-Kelly Tbe Crucible Luther Their First Formal Call Cooke Tbe Mother of Man Phlllpotts Come and Find Me Robins Tbe Romance of an Old Fashioned Gentleman F. H. Smith The Barrier Beach Miss Moccasin Ryan Tbe Suburban Whirl Cutting Rosalind at Redgats Nicholson Ths Aogel of Forgiveness Carey Tbe Shepherd of tbe Hills-Wright The Msn of Yesterday Klncaid Alice For Short DeMorgaa Satan Sandersoo Rives Dr. Ellen Tompkins Aunt Jane of Kentucky HaU Tbe New Misslooer Woodrow Tbe Ancient Law Glasgow The Cozy Lion Burnett Tom, Dick, aod Harriet Barbour Keal, ths Miller Otis Aa Island Refuge Otis Ears Jordan's Escape Otis Legends of King Arthur and His Court Greeoa. Lodf Katie. Stated eotnmonlcaUoo of Jen SrValeg Lodge, No. I, A. F. ft A. M.Friday evening. May 13. Work la X- M. degree. Vlaltiog brothers Invited. By order of W. If. J. C HATTER, BacreCsry. Vote for W. L EAjDold. Copyright 1 908 by Hart Schaffner & Campbell Coy Brothers CONTRACTORS and BUILDERS Reference : I. C. School of Archi tecture. Scranton, Pa. MOToAtPHo;g:J. DALLAS, - OREGON Dallas Truck & Dray Company Hubbard I Brown, Proprietors Phone and stand at Belt & Cher- rlngton's drug store. Bell and Mutual Phones. All kinds of hauling Wood for sale. 3 , !,', ,WHELCR- 4K "'fill-'' 1) h nit I' I I I I Daring Burglars Foiled ! The residences of several of our best citizens were attacked by a band of blacklegs now infesting this city, in the shape of Flies, Mosquitos, Gnats, Bugs and Worms. But we are pleased to state that the blood-thirsty villains were - foiled -at - every - house where we have sold Wheeler screens -the only real Scientific Screen. These Screens are really "burglar-proof," for they are the only Locking Screen; a burglar would have to cut the wire which would waken any one! Peo ple who sleep on first floors appreciate them. Ten-Day Free Trial On any or every window you wish to screen. No matter what you thought to buy, or what you thought to pay, first use the Wheeler ten days free, and learn all that a Screen must do to satisfy year after year. Off thev come after the trial if they fail in any way. Wm. FAULL DALLAS IF YOU THINK A MINUTE you'll realize that as many people see your back as your front. The cut of your coat, the hang of It, the way It fits your back you can't see it yourself, but a lot of other peo ple can. You want it right, and we offer you the olothes that will make it right, they're made by HART SCHAFFNER & MARX and there are no better clothes made. HWe show you here the bock of one of our VARSITY MODELS Very smart; look that way on you. Let us show you this kind of clothes. Marx & Hollister The Best Meats Are found In our tender and Juicy beef, mutton and pork. We do our own killing, and can guarantee ail meats to be wholesome and fresh. ' Give us a trial. 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