County
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PUBLISHED SEMI-VEEKLY.
VOL. XX
DALLAS, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, JULY 17, 1908.
NO. 22
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NEWS OF COUNTY TOWNS
INDEPENDENCE.
Mra W L. Bice was a Salera visitor
o w Trvine was a PortlaDd Visitor
v. "
nver Sunday.
Trvine. of Portland, is in
Independence on a business visit,
w E Wacroner, of Portland, was an
Independence visitor for several days
this week.
Mrs. J. Dornsife and Mrs. Van
- Dornsife have returned from a week's
stay with relatives 1 n Eugene.
Mrs W. H. Craven and children
nave returned from Portland, where
they have been visiung tor buujo umo,
Misses Maude and Frances Patter
son returned Wednesday from -Port-Iand.twhere
they attended the funeral
of Miss Mildred Long.
Mrs. E. Stroud and M. Merwin, of
this city, were married in Portland,
Saturday aDd sailed the same day for
San Francisco on their honeymoon
trip. Mr. Merwin is the Independence
postmaster, and Mis. Merwin has con
ducted a milllneryjstore here for some
time.
Miss Orble Taylor and Mr. Loren
Wann were married at the home of
the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. R.J.
Taylor, Wednesday. The wedding
was a quiet affair, only a few imme
diate friends and relatives being
present. Mr. and Mrs. Wann' have
gone to Newport for a week's bridal
trip.
FALLS CITY.
(Falla City Newa.)
Sidney Trask and family, of Airlie,
were Falls City visitors last week.
W. H. Weaver, of Dallas, was a
business visitor in this city Friday.
Henry Clifford and Clyde Smith
have gone to the Siletz on a fishing
trip.
Richard. Gains and family have
gone for"a short camping trip to the
coast.
Mrs. Q. F. Rounds is in Newberg
attending the annual meeting of the
Friends.
Robert Judson, formerly engineer
in N. Q. Harris' sawmill, has gone to
Salem, where he is to operate the
county road roller for Marion county.
A movement is afoot in the local
lodge to secure the proposed Pythian
Home for Falls City. A committee
has conferred with the Grand Lodge,
and has pledged a fine building site
and $1,000 In cash.
The joint Installation or the W. O. W.
ana tne women 01 woodcraft was
held Wednesday night at the K. of P.
Hall. After the installation cere
monies were completed an excellent
program was rendered, followed by a
fine banquet.
HONE BUILDERS
ATTENTION
We can build you a home complete
Irora a $450 cosy cottage to a $5000
residence. Call and see our cottage
plans. We can make plans for you.
See us before letting your contract.
COY BROTHERS
CONTRACTORS
and BUILDERS
M;iPHONK8-H:Ooy;;3B5
DALLAS, - OREGON
LOOK HERE!
The City Express & Transfer Co.
does all kinds of hauling at
reasonable rates, Stand and both
phones at Webster's Confectionery
Store.
MUSCOTT & STARR
Proprietors
DALLAS,
OREGON
DR. ELBERT E. FISHER
Specialist In diseases of the
Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat
Office, Rooms 12, Over Bush Bank
SALEM - - - OREGON
BALLSTON.
Miss Zelma Butler Is visiting friends
in McMinnviile.
Miss Marie Short has been visiting
friends in Hillsboro.
Mrs. MeCullooh, of McMinnviile,, Is
visiting her son, George.
Mrs. J. W. Mayfleld is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. R. L. Sears, of Hills
boro. C. A. Ball and family have moved
from Portland to their summer home
near this place.
Mrs. L. C. Bennett and children
have returned from a visit among
relatives in Washington.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Savery, of
Dallas, have been visiting at the
home of their son, Ralph.
Professor T. J. Newbill, of Portland,
is visiting at the home of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Newbill.
Miss Zella Dyer has gone to Forest
Grove for a short visit at the home of
her sister, Mrs. Bertha Sparks.
A special meeting was held Monday
night and the people of Ballston voted
to erect a floe new school house.
POLK.
John Rempel is working for G. D.
Braun during the harvest season.
Johann Quiring began running his
binder in the wheat field Tuesday.
Jacob Nachtigall has returned from
Southern Oregon, and Js helping
Frank Friesen with bis hay harvest
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hill, of Port
land, are visiting at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Bobbins'.
The farmers in this vicinity, taking
advantage of the fine weather, have
almost finished their haying harvest.
Much annoyance has been caused
among the pbple lfvlng along the
rural mail route in this neighborhood,
by some party tampering with the
mail boxes.
Henry Lobrmann will return in a
few days from a months' visit in
Mexico and the Southern states, where
he has been looking for a suitable
place to locate.
MILITIA HAS BUSY WEEK
Non-Commissioned Officer Appointed;
Rifles Distributed; Fine Range
-- Secured Near Dallas,
Electricity for Lighting
Is only expensive to people who are
wasteful and careless. To you, who
are naturally careful; it does not
come high.
It is economical because It can be quickly turned off wnen not needed.
With gas or kerosene there is the temptation to let light burn when
not nettled to save bother of lighting and adjusting. In some homes
the electric light bills amount to only one or two dollars per month.
You can probably get some kind of artificial light for less money
than electric light, but does it save you anything when It limits op
portunities for work and recreation ruins your eyesight smokes
your walls mars decorations and increases household work. You
could probably save a dollar tomorrow by going without your meals
but it wouldn t be economy. It is not so much what you save, but
how you save that counts.
WILLAMETTE VALLEY CO. RATES Residence on meters, per
Kilowatt 15c; Residence, flat per month, 16cp 60c. RATES FOR
BUSIN ESS HOUSES 25o per drop and 6c per Kilowatt up to 10 drops ;
over 10 drops 20c per drop and 6c per Kilowatt up to 40 drops ; over 40
drops i7jc per drop and 6o per Kilowatt. A drop figures I6cp or less.
For power rates apply at the office. We are always ready to explain
the "ins and outs'' of the lighting proposition to you, call on us or
phone to us, we are never to busy to talk .business.
Willamette Valley Company
E. W. K EARNS, Manager for Dallas.
Office on Mill street, Just north of the Court House. Phones Bell 421.
Mutual 12U7.
PEDEE.
H. Tingle is visiting friends in this
neighborhood.
Miss Inez Burbank is visiting with
relatives In Marion county.
O. L. Craton is visiting at the home
of his brother, C. 8. Craton.
Peter Kinchin is visiting at the
home of his brother, Thomas Kinchin
Jasper Willet has resumed his work
in the Simpson logging camp.
Levi Burbank is driving a stage
from the Wilhoit Springs to Oregon
City.
Mr. and Mrs. P. O. Burbank recently
visited relatives residing near Inde
pendence.
C. S. Craton recently purchased a
new bay rake from John McCallura,
of Kings Valley.
Mr. and Mrs. Phillips have returned
from a pleasant visit at Belknap
Springs.
LINCOLN COUNTY ABSTRACT
COMPANY
It is not business to buy real estate without an ab
stract of title. Let us make it; we guarantee same
to be correct
C B. CROSNO and C L HAWKINS, Abstractors
TOLEDO, OREGON
BLACK'S STABLES
Having purchased this well-known barn, we so
licit a share of your patronage.
EVERYTHING FIRST-CLASS
Excellent accomodations for commercial men.
W STVFX
5T0WE BROS.
STREET DALLAS, OREOON
Exciting Runaway.
Mrs. Frank Holman was quite ser
iously Injured in a runaway on Jef
ferson street Wednesday night Mr.
Holman had stopped bis buggy near
the armory and was watching the
militia company at drill, when his
horse became frightened at a sudden
maneuver on the part of the men and
wheeled sharply around, tilting the
buggy and throwing Mr. Holman and
bis daughter to the ground. It then
dashed down the street, and as the
buggy struck the crosswalk at Court
street Mrs. Holman was thrown out
violently,, her ankle being sprained
and her back seriously wrenched. She
was taken Into a nearby bouse and
cared for at once. Mr. Holman and
bis daughter were uninjured with the
exception of a few bruises.
Starts Cherry Drier.
S. P. Kimball's cherry drier with a
capacity of 300 bushels daily started
working Wednesday. The rest of bis
larse crop will be pitted and dried. It
is believed to be a solution for the over
production problem so far as canneries
are concerned, as there is a large mar
ket for dried pitted cherries. He has
a machine pitter that will run with
power and pit as fast as the drier will
take them, and can probably take
cherries besides his own crop. Cherries
can be bandied by driers, long after
they are unfit to go to the cannery,
and the best results are obtained after
tbey are so ripe as to be sticky. Salem
Journal.
The case of John Walling 3. H.
Peterson, seeing for 100, the value of
some 20.000 hop roots delivered the
4 i defendant reoruary, w, w ou ui
Ti . w- 1 Am
' yesterday nienioon ikiviv
Burnett Webster Holmes represen ted
tbe plaintiff and the defendant was
! looked after by Attorneys L. EL Me
! Maaoo and C L. McXary. The mat
ter wat to the jury at o'clock, and
to minute later the verdict was in, for
the plaintiff. Sm Statesman.
The appointments of non-commia
stoned onlcers In Company H were
made Tuesday evening and the com
pietea roster or tne onicers la as
follows:
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
C. D. Chorpenlng, captain.
F, H. Muscott, 1st lieutenant.
Albert Stafrin, 2nd lieutenant.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Peter Greenwood, 1st sergeant.
A. W. Bennett, quarter-master.
Conrad Stafrin, 2nd sergeant.
Samuel Chaney, 3d sergeant.
Thomas McDonald, 4th sergeant.
Louis Carter, 6th sergeant.
Harold Rich, Lester Butler, C. V.
Teats, Verne Compton, B. M. Guy,
J. R. Sibley, corporals.
DeWitt Harris, articifer.
Carl Williams, musician.
The new Springfield rifles were re
ceived Tuesday and were distributed
among the men for the first drill Wed
nesday night. Tbey are light and
beautifully constructed weapons, made
after the latest model and equipped
with all of the latest devices. The
belts and bayonets belonging with the
guns have been received but have not
yet been distributed.
Arrangements have been completed
seouring for the company a fine rifle
range ontheCoovert farm near Ellen-
dale, about one mile and a half west
of Dallas. The new range gives a
klear 1000 yards almost on a level,
with a hill backing it. Targets will
be secured as soon as possible, and
the men expect to put in considerable
time In rifle practioe.
The officers are very enthusiastic
over the securing of the new range
and hope to be able to arrange for
having the state rifle meet held at this
city next year.
THE COMMONER.
BY DEAN COLLINS.
I come in harness yoked with Kern,
i inane a valiant sally,
And pour the glowing words that burn.
At Democratic rally.
The fabric of my checked career
Is wove in varied tissues,
With threads of brightest silver here,
There with some other issues.
'Most any question I can use
As vote detaching lever,
I'll sieze, for men may come and go
But I run on forever.
I chatter of the bloated Trusts,
And hope you will not care if
I bubble on the railroad rates,
And babble on the tariff.
I chortled thus in '9C,
Upon the silver question.
But found the dose too bitter for
The National digestion. 1
let, "hatter, chatter" still I flow,
LiBaii'ukon s brimming river.
For meti may come and men may go,
uut i run on lorever.
I wind about, and in and out,
In Democratic rasnlon.
I see to spot each voting man
xnat 1 can mane a masn on.
'Most any thing I'll advocate,
( free Silver if no better.)
That seems to have some elements
Which make a good vote gutter.
In my platform I graft them all,
And this way I endeavor.
Though men may come and men may
go.
To run right on forever.
I've never won a campaign yet,
But still, thin (8 can't be darker
For me in next November, than
They were for Alton Parker.
I'll spout, I'll spiel. I'll brag, I'll blow,
And otnerwise i n nector.
Persuade, seduce, or bullyrag
The vigilant elector.
Yet if I fall, please bear in mind
1 11 not Rive in no never
Buteach four years I'll run some more,
Forever and forever.
REBEKAHS INSTALL OFFICERS
Interesting Ceremonies of Almira
Lodge Closed With Enjoyable
Banquet.
The installation ceremonies of the
Rebekah lodge were held at their hall
Wednesday evening. Miss May Shel
ton conducted the installation, and
after its close a pleasant social hour
was spent, and a delicious banquet
was served.
The names of the newly Installed
officers are as follows: Mrs. W. L.
Soehren, Noble Grand; Mrs. W. R.
Ellis, Vioe-grand ; Miss Edna Hayes,
secretary ; Mrs. J. D. Smith, treasurer ;
MissEvangoline Hart, warden; Mrs.
C. L. Crider, conductress ; Mrs, J. G.
VanOrsdel, chaplain ; Mrs. J. T. Ford,
outside guardian ; Miss Ella Brown,
Inside guardian ; Miss May Shelton,
R. S. N. G. ; Miss Ruby Fiske, L. S.
N. G. ; Miss Olive Smith, R. S. V. G.,
and Miss Nora Robertson, L. S. V. G.
Concert Program For Sunday.
U. 8. Grant, conductor of the Dallas
band, submits the following program
for the concert to be giveo In the City
Park, Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock :
March, "York City Post" Crumling
Intermezzo, "Sonoma" (by request)
Friedman
Walt (selected)
Serenade, "Loves Response" Miller
Overture, "Radium" Southwell
Intermission 10 minutes.
Two Step Intermezzo, "Indiaoola"
Hartz
"Flower Song' Lange
Valse Mexicaine, "I See Thee
Again" Estrada
Medley Overture, "Around tne
Town" Huff
A Bother Block Nearly Finished.
The Improvement work on the Mala ,
street business block lying along the
Courthouse square will probably be
completed and the block re-opened for
traffic by the middle of next week at
the latest. The work on the block just
south of it on the same street is also
well advanced, and at the rate the;
work Is now being carried forward.
the citizens of Dallas may reasonably
expect ta see folly four blocks com
pleted by the first of August, wtute
the whole of the proposed nine blocks
of Improvement work will probably be
finished several weeks before tne De
ginning of the Fall rainy season.
Carl Oerlinger returned Tuesday
from a short visit in Portland.
Municipal Improvement Books.
The State Library Commission has
just sent to the Dallas Free Library a
number of volumes containing infor
mation on various phases of municipal
improvement, which will be retained
for about two months, for loaning
among the patrons of the library. The
subjects treated in this series of books
are as follows :
Municipal Engineering and Sani
tationBaker.
Highway Construction In Wiscon
sinBuckley.
Municipal Administration Fairies.
Water and Public Health Fuertes.
Municipal Improvements Goodhue.
Waterworks for Small Cities
Goodel.
Methods of Sewerage Disposal-
Johnson.
City Roads and Pavements Judson,
Engineering Work in Town McCul-
lough.
National Municipal League Pro
ceedings (10 volumes.)
Disposal of Municipal Refuse Par
sons.
Improvement of Towns Robinson.
Street Pavements and Paving Ma
terials Tillson.
Principles of Sanitary Science Sodg
wick. v
Public Water Supplies Tufneaure.
Garbago Crematories in America
Venable.
American City Willcox.
M unlcipal rubllo Work's Wh In n ey.
Decade of Clvto Development
Zuebluin.
MID-SUMMER
SPECIAL SALE
Commencing Thursday, July 9th, on
our entire stock of Ladies' and Men's
Oxfords-Tan, Patent or Vici.
Ladies' Shirt Waists, Silk or Lawn,
to close out at a big reduction, r
Wash Goods in Lawns, Organdies,
Dimity, Mulls etc., all go during this
sale at cut prices. .
Owing to the cold, backward
spring we are overstocked on these
goods. Space will hot permit of
giving prices, but the price is low.
COME and SEE.
Campbell & Hollister
Texts For Teachers' Examinations.
BtateSuperintendent J. H. Ackerman
announced Wednesday that the
sources from which questions will be
taken for State and County examina
tion papers are as follows : Book
keeping, office methods and practical
bookkeeping, parti; physiology,
Hutchinson; U. S. history, Doub;
civil government, Strong & Sbaefer;
theory and practice, White's Art
of Teaching; Arithmetic, Smith;
grammer, Buehler; geography, Red
way & HInman, National School
Geography ; psychology, Buell ; Eng
lish literature. Newcomer : and the fol
lowing classics: "Sketch-book," "Rip
Van Winkle," "Legend of Sleepy Hol
low," "Merchant of Venice," "Ivan
hoe," "Westminster Abbey," "Strat-ford-on-Aven,"
"Christmas," "The
Spectre Bridegroom." Remaining
subjects will be taken from the State
text books.
Wh ere did you go so early this morning, Mrs. Wise?
I was down to HALL & HAYES to get one of those
Silk Floss Mattresses
they make. They are strictly all floss and each bed
guaranteed, and they have the most complete line of
Carpets, Rugs, Matting, Lace Curtains, etc. in the
city. And say,, those Couches they make are just
simply grand. And they said they would not be
beat on prices.
1 HALL & HAYES
l Successors to F. J. Chagman.
TTOBMIY AT IAW.
Oscar Hayter,
Upstairs in Campbell building, Mill at
DALLAS, GRBOON.
TTORMYS AT LAW.
SlBLEY A EAKIN,
Ths only reliable set or Abstracts Is
Polk county. Office on Court St.
DALLAS, ORHXJON.
Lumber For Sale
Rough and dressed lumber for
sale at your own price. Let mo
figure on your bill. Mutual
phone.
N. G. HARRIS.
DALLAS, - OREGON
SOME MERCHANTS
LIKE TO CUT PRICES
We do not make a practice of traveling about the
country doing this kind of business but will meet any
Cut Price that others wish to make.
My Price Others Cut Prices
Standard Binding Twine 10c 10 3-4c
Plymouth " " 10c 10 3-4c
Wm. .FAULL
The Man for a Square Deal
DALLAS
OREGON