County
PUBLISHED SElVfl-WEEKLY
VOL. XX
DALLAS, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 1, 1908.
NO. 29
MANY LICENSES ISSUED
privilege of Hunting in Polk County
Has Been Granted to 157 Men
Since January 1.
The records in the office of E. M.
Smith; County Clerk of Polk county,
show that since January J, bunting
licenses have been lssueu to lbi rnon.
More than half of thjjse have been
issued since July 1, to. huntsmen who
were preparing for the opening of the
deer season, while during the time
between the last day of January and
the first day of July, a total of only 29
licenses were issued, considerably leas
than the number issued during any
one of the other three month.
The month of August heads the list
with a record of 48 licenses 'Issued,
July scores 43, January, 37, April
stands at the bottom of the list with
only 3 liceuses to hercredit, two of
which were issued on April I. It is
not known whether this "boodoo"
date had any effect upon the hunting
fortunes of the two Nlrarods who had
the temerity tJ secure their licenses
at that time. During September as
the opening of the elk season and
pheasant season approaches, the num
ber of licenses Issued will be Increased
even more.
Dr. C. A. Mock and Professor
Floyd E. Fisher returned last week
from a two week's outing In the Alsea
country, where they have been on a
fishing trip, and Incidentally have
' been working with good success for
the interest of Dallas College among
the residents of that locality,
George Nessllng returned to his
work at Black Bock this morning after
a short visit in Dallas.
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Oregon's Matchless Beach Resort
The Place to go for Perfect Rest and Every Conceiv
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TS FACILITIES ARE COMPLETE Best of food ami an abundanos of
it Fresh water from springs. All modern necessities, such as telegraph
telephone, markets freshly provided every day. Fuel in abundance.
Cottages partly furnished or unfurnished to be had cheaply. Strict mun
icipal sanitary regulations
NEWPORT Is reached by way of the Southern Pacific to Albaoy or Cor
Tllis, thence Corvallis & Eastern R. R. Train service daily and the trip
a pleasure throughout.
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General Paesecgrr Agent, Portland. Oregoo.
INTEREST INCREASES
School Children Are Busy Preparing
Exhibits For the Industrial
Fair.
Only a few weeks remain until the
time for the annual Industrial Fair
of the school children of Polk county,
and County Superintendent H. C.
Seymour says that communications
coming daily from the various school
districts in the county, indicate that
the preparations for the Fair have
been more thorough and extensive
than at any previous time.
It is a significant fact that the school
children themselves throughout Polk
county seem to be taking an even
more aotive Interest In the Fair than
the parents and teachers themselves,
and on this fact may be based the
belief that the com ing Fair will achieve
a greater success even than the pro
ceeding ones, since it Is mainly upon
the efforts of the school children that
its success depends. .
In addition to the fine exhibits that
have been prepared and are being
prepared for the Fair, the committee
is endeavoring to secure as fine pro
grams as possible for the occasion,
and is sparing no effort to make the
Fair the best In every respect that has
ever been held in Dallas. In their
work they are enthusiastically sec
onded by the majority of parents and
teachers in the county and by the mass
of school children, and in view of this
.they feel justified In anticipating com
plete success.
Harry Byers returned to Dallas last
night after an extended stay in the
vicinity of Grants Pass, where he has
been working on a timber cruise In
company with J. P. VanOrsdei.
W. I. STALEY, Principal
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WORK ON RIFLE RANGE
Men of Company H Make Active
Preparations For Installing
1 Targets.
A number of the young men of
Company H spent Sunday forenoon
on the rifle range near Ellendale,
measuring off the grounds, building
the butts and digging the rifle pits.
They left the armory at about 8
o'clock, taking with them picks and
shovels and plenty of carpenters tools,
and, for several hours after they
reached the range it presented a scene
of almost as great activity as a large
and populous ant's nest. Everybody
"got busy," to use an expressive col
loquialism, and the work progressed
rapidly. At 12 :30, they stopped work,
loaded their equipments in the wagon
once more and drove back to town in
plenty of time for dinner.
The survey of the range gives a
good thousand yards of almost level
ground, backed by a hillside, which
will serve as a buffer for the bullets
during rifle practice. The men will
advance across the level ground
toward the targets precisely as they
would advance upon the enemy in
battle, and the practice they will gain
in shooting with speed and accuracy
from various distances and in various
positions, will prove invaluable in
case they may sometime be called up
on to take part la a regular engage
ment. The work on the range was not
quite pompieted Sunday and Captain
Chorpenlng will call out the men
again next Sunday for a few hours, so
that the work can be finished and
everything put in readiness for install
ing the targets. When completed, the
range will be one of the finest in the
state, and the members are in hopes
of being able to secure the state ride
contest for Dallas next year.
Polk Will Be Represented.
Inquiry has reached the state fair
secretary from Mrs. F. A. Wolfe, of
Falls City, Polk county, regarding the
matter of obtaining space in the main
pavilion of the Oregon state fair for
making an agricultural exhibit at the
coming fair. She indicates that old
Polk may be numbered among the
contestants for the rich cash premiums
offered to the eight counties that will
make the best displays of agricultural
and horticultural products. This is
pleasing news for the fair manage
ment, as it was thought that Polk
county would not participate in the
contest this year. Mrs. Wolfe has
taken considerable interest in past
fairs in this respect and holds a blue
ribbon as a winner of the special farm
exhibits premium at a previous exhl
tlon. Salem Statesman.
Heavily Laden Plum Tree.'
J. J. Williams brought into the
Observer office last Friday, a branch
from a green gag'e plum tree, which
although less than a foot in length,
had CO plums on It. In spite of the
fact that they were crowded so closely
upon the twigs, the plums were fully
as large and well formed as the aver
age plum. The tree from which this
rnmarkable'sDecimen was taken grows
on Mr. Williams' residence property
on Church street The branch brought
to this office Is a good type of the whole
tree, whose branches are so heavily
laden that Mr. Williams has found it
necessary to beat off several bushels
of the green fruit to prevent the tree
from breaking under its enormous
burden.
Fit Up New Theater.
Messrs. Whiteside and Cooper began
clearing out the room in the Eiley
building on Main and Washington
streets adjoining the rooms occupied
hv the Dallas Furniture Company,
yesterday morning, preparatory to
fitting it up for their moving picture,
theater. The-wails will be plastered,
the front altered Into a regular theater
lobby, and the floor given toe approved
forward slope to insure a clear view of
the canvas from any portion of the
room. The management will have the
work rushed as fast as possle and
expects to have the building ready for
use with In two weeks.
Orera Peaches te the Front .
There Is probably nothing in all the
fruits of the world thst surpasses the
big yellow peaches that from the hun
dreds of orchards of Oregon are now
finding tbelr way to market Kothing
finer at least ever came to Portland
from anywhere, and the crop this year
it as big as the Iruit is One. Every
train and every boat that comes lo
from the east or south brings in its
offering of this superb fruit The
Oreroa reach, as the Oregon apple
i has already done, bids fair to be k nown
hereafter as the standard telegram.
Professor D. M. Metxger returned to
Dallas yesterdsy. He was dismissed
this week from the Isolation hospital
I in Portland, where be has keen qoar
' en fined for three weeks with a light
attack of smallpox. His illness was
! at no time of a serious d store, ana o
i is now as well and healthy as ever,
j Cleveland Sears and Job a Van 5k Ike
! returned yesterday from Eastern Ore
go where they have beea employed la
lb harvest fields for some time.
LIMBER CUT WAS, LARGE
Year of 1907 Makes Record in this
Industry in Spite of Adverse
Circumstances.
The lumbercut for 1907 In the United
States proved to be greater tban that
of any of the preceding years in spite
of the depressing influences of the
short financial panio during the Fall
of that year.
Thisisexplained by some authorities
to be due to the fact that prices of
lumber and other building materials
reached a lower stage during and
Immediately after the financial flurry,
than they may be reasonably expected
ever to reach again, and that the
increased demands for lumber from
those who desired to build and at the
same time to grasp the opportunity
for securing their materials at the
most favorable rates, caused-the
demand to rise above the average,
resulting in a marked increase in the
total lumber cut and in the sale of
lumber far that year.
The increase in building activity
seems to gather momentum as time
goes on, and although the subsidence
of the panic wave and the rapid return
of the oountry to prosperity was
naturally followed by an upward
Impulse in prices of lumber and other
building materials, it seems probable
that the demand for lumber during
the present year will be even greater
than In 1907, Bince builders apparently
realize that the advancing prices will
probably never fall back to as favor
able level as they hold at the present
time.
Commenting on tho remarkable
record made-by the lumber industry
last year in the face or adverse cir
cumstances, the Oregonlan gives the
following interesting statistics :
"Figures of the lumber out In 1907
compiled by the bureau of the Census
and the Forest Service showed the
largest total ever reported In the United
States, exceeding by over ieven per
cent the cut reported for 1906, until
then the record year. This does not
necessarily show a larger actual out
than in 1908, for the returns obtained
last year were more complete than ever
before. The figures themselves dis
close some interesting facts.
'In 1907, 28,850 mills made returns,
and their production was over 40,000,
000,000 feet of lumber. This Is believed
to include 95 per centof the actual cut.
In 1906, 22,368 mills reported about 37,
600,000,000 feet. Since according to
these figures nearly 19 per cent more
mills reported last year than the year
before, while the Increase in produc
tion was only a little over seven per
cent, it might be thought that the
amount actually manufactured must
have been greater In the earlier year.
This, however, would be a too hasty
Inference, for It is almost wholly
among mills of small output that the
gain in the number of establishments
reporting has been made.
"The figures of production show that
during 1907 Washington fell off very
decidedly from Its huge cut of 1906,
while Oregon, Is credited with a slight
Increase In its total. In the early part
of the year Washington suffered from
a car shortage, and at the end the
combined effects of business dis
turbance and higher freight rates had
brought the Industry almost to paraly
sis. Oregon kept up its cut because
of Its larger proportion of coastwise
and foreign trade. These two states
together produced more lumber than
any other two states in the Union.
"It is a striking fact that though
lumber prices have been steadily going
up during the last half century, the
per capita consumption of lumber has
also been going up. In 1850, accord
ing to the best figures obtainable, the
average consumption to each person
In the country was 250 feet, In 1900.
460 feet, and In 1907, 480 feet This
illustrates what has been found true
the world over that with Industrial
progress the demand for wood becomes
greater and greater."
Notice to Contractors.
Notice is hereby Riven, that sealed
bkls will be received by the County
Clerk uptosnd Including the 2nd day
of September 1908, at 10 o'clock a. m.
for hauling and spreading gravel up
on the following named fills. At
IndeDendence bridge. Flannery bridge
and Ash Swale bridge. Bids will also
be received at same time for furnish
ing Oak or Cedar posts and railing
and for setting same and putting on
railing and bub board all complete.
Bids will be opened at 10 o'clock a. m.
of said 2nd day of September 1908,
reserving the right to reject any or all
bids.
Bv order of the County Court Aug
ust 26th 1908. Specifications are on
Die with the County Clerk.
(Seal) E. M. SMITH
County Clerk.
The wooden sidewalk In front of the
Williams and McCallon property on
Main street between Mill and Oak,
ill be replaced with a concrete wain.
The portion of the new walk la front
of Caldwell's pool room lies over tbe
mill race and a concrete arch Is being
kniit tVwr similar to the one that tne
city has put over the race where It
I erows the stree.
Wesley Atchison was a busioess vis
itor la Biark Rock yesterday.
READY FOR HOP PICKING
Season Will Be Almost as Busy
Throughout Polk County as
Ever Before. '
The approaching hop picking sea
son in Polk county will be one of
almost as great activity as ever in all
districts except that lying about
Bridgeport, where the majority of the
yards that have this year been with
drawn from the hop acreage of Polk
county, are located.
In the vicinity of Independence, the
largest hop center of Oregon, practi
cally everything is cultivated (though
a trifle less thoroughly than In
previous years), and almost as large
an army of pickers will be required to
take care of the hops in that locality
this season as has been required dur
ing previous years. ,
Dallas will see almost as active a
hop picking season as usual, since in
the widespread crusade for the reduc
tion cf Oregon's hop acreage last
year, only four of the yards iu this
vicinity were plowed up and put out
of cultivation. These are the Rowell,
Kirkpatrtck, Hagood and Grant
yards, all lying in the outskirts of the
city. ;
Polk county's flops are almost
entirely free from lice and mildew
and It Is anticipated that the 1903 out
put will be composed of an exception
ally fine quulity of hops.
Pear Canning Commences.
Operations at the Salem cannery,
which since the close of the cherry and
strawberry season had been quite slow,
opened again with renewed energy
Monday morning when pear canning
was begun. Although the price this
year Is far below the usual, market
price, pears are coming in quite fast
and from present indications' there
will be fully as many cases of this
commodity put up by the cannery this
year as lust. This Is only true of the
pears, however, other fruits showing a
decided falling off, and It is not likely
that the total pack this year will exceed
over two-thirds'of the amount put up
a year ago. With a large yield of
pears throughout the country gener
ally, and no demand In outside mar
kets, thecannery is filling up fast with
the fruit and the amount that will be
handled by th,e company will largely
depend on the amouut of help that can
bj obtained. While a considerable
force will be put on tomorrow and
additions will be made through the
week, yet it is feared that when the
bopand prune season opens there will
be a scarcity of help and much of the
fruit will go unbandled. Salein
Statesman.
Train Collides With Wagon.
The morning train between Port
land and Dallas collldod with the
wagon of a Mr. McCrumm near New
berg, Friday, overturning it and kill
ing two horses that were tied to the
rear end. The occupants of the wagon
were uninjured. Mr. McCrumm was
driving from Portland to the coast
with his family. His wagon was
covered with canvas after the manner
of the old "Prairie Schooners" and it la
supposed that he failed to see the train
until It was close at hand. He then
whipped up his team and endeavored
to hurry aoross the track, but was un
able to do so before the train was
upon him. It is generally conceded
that the blame for the unfortunate
occurrence attaches upon the driver of
the wagOD for attempting to cross the
track without taking the precaution
to see that all was clear.
Meetings Will Close Sunday.
The tent meetings held by Rev. W. F.
Martin and O. W. Pettlt In the Gospel
Tent on Mill ami Shelton streets will
be closed next Sunday. The attend
ance has been large at every meeting
and the subjects handled by Elder
Martin have been of great interest to
all who heard him. The subject for
tonight's address will be "Spiritual
ism; Are There Such Things as
Ghoste?" Tomorrow night Elder
Martin will speak on "Religious Lib
erty or The Tendency of the United
States Toward Union of Church and
State." Elder Martin Intends to
remain In Dallas for a time after the
close of the meetings.
Dance Was Successful.
The dance given at the Colosseum
rink Saturday night was most success
ful, the attendance tieiog far greater
tban the management bad anticipated
when the affair was announced. The
big rink proved an ideal dance hall,
sod the guests were Insistent in their
demand that another dance be given
next Saturday night Encouraged by
the liberal patronage they have
received, Messrs. Kerslake & White
have decided to give a dance every
Saturday night during September,
until the time when the rink will be
re-opened for skating.
Work on the new Williams building j
on Cqurt street Is being carried for-1
ward rapidly. The foundations .are
all laid, a quantity of the brick is on
the groundsand the walla will prob-
1 ably be well advanced la construction
by the end of this week.
J. B. Nona went to Portland this
morr leg 00 a business visit
NEW
New Arrivals in
SHOES
DRESS GOODS
UNDERWEAR
BLANKETS
KINGSBURY HATS
Campbell
CASH
Electricity for Lighting
Is only expensive to people who are '
wasteful and careless. To you, who
are naturally careful, it does not
come high. .. v - .'.
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 needed 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 electrlo 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 15o ; Residence, flat per month, 16cp 60a RATES FOR
BUSINESS HOUSES 26o per drop and 60 per Kilowatt up to 10 drops;
over 10 drops 200 per dropand 6c per Kilowatt up to 40 drops; over 40
drops 17Jo per drop and 60 per Kilowatt. A drop figures 16cp or less.
For power rates apply at the offloe. 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. KEARNS, Manager for Dallas.
Office on Mill street, just north of the Court House. Phones Bell 421,
Mutual 1297.
DALLAS
Places an education within the reach of every ambitious
young man, and woman. The earnings of vacation will pay a
full years' expenses.
Offers advantages equal to those of any similar school In Ore
gon. Courses: Classical, Scientific, Elementary Academic
and Musical. ' Special work for those preparing to teach.
TERM OPENS SEPTEMBER 23.
For Catalogue and Information address the president.
C. A. MOCK
"CLEANLINESS IS NEXTTO GODLINESS"
says a noted proverb. Following out this line of reasoning
we are missionaries to the good of the general public We
will call at your door for your soiled linen and will return It
clean and white as Mt Hood snow. We laundry Carpets,
Rugs, Blankets, Quilts and Lace Curtains. Will wash and
press your suit In fact, anything that is done In a first
class laundry. Despite the vast superiority or our work our
prices are the lowest Phone in your orders to the DALLAS
STEAM LAUNDRY. Mutual Phone 1-J7.
A. E. THOMPSON Dallas, Ore.
BLACK'S STABLES
Having purchased this well-known barn, we so
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