Polk County observer., September 25, 1908, Image 1

County
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PUBLISHED SEMIVEEKLY
VOL. XX
DALLAS, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 25, 1908.
NO. 32
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CORRESPONDENCE
LEWISVILLE.
H. D. Staats recently purchased a
floe driving horse. .
Miss EHa Portwood, Burness Bruee,
Emmett Norton and Walter Guyer will
attend the Oregon Agricultural College
this year.
Frank Kemp will have charge of his
mother a farm near here.
Many people from Lewisville and
vicinity attended the State Fair last
week.
Mr. Bancroft, of Falls City, the eon
tractor on our new achoolhouae, has it
nearly completed. Mrs. D. M. Calvin,
Youngs-Men's Clothes
Ederheimer, Stein & Co., Makers
PROVIDED especially this Fall
for you fellows of high school and
college age. Bought the smartest
Young Men's styles; of makers spe
cializing Young Men's clothes.
That's why the garments we're selling
best meet your ideas of the sort of
clothes you ought to have.
You're probably g-ueued tba maker nam U
Ederheimer, Stein & Co. No other name to cIomIt
uociated with tylith clothe for young menj no
other house devoting o much thought, study and
ripe experience to thi on branch of clothesmaldng.
We're got the newest model; many nifty style
of cuff and lapel; pattern are the richest American
and foreign weaves. You'U find your choice among
them. . . '
The Bee Hive Store
SELLS EVERYTHING
of Amity, will begin teaching October
5.
Earl and Orval White and uncle
and Bufus Dodge have gone for an
outing at the coast. .
Arthur Phillips, "of Everett, Wash
ington, is visiting at the home of his
slater, Mrs. Lillle White.
George Conn has gone for a hunt
ing trip In the Cascades with his
father and uncle recently from
Nebraska.
Misa Olazier and Miss Eabey re:
turned last week from Belknap
Springs. Miss Glazier's health la not
much improved.
Mrs. Josie Brinkley and Mrs. Lester
Lewis, of Portland, are visiting at the
borne of the former's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. D. W. Lewis.
Phy Ward is hulling clover In this
vicinity. The yield is good this year
amounting to 20 sacks from 20 acres
on the Frank Lougbary farm.
" AIRLIE.
H. S. Portwoods new residence is
about completed.
McCormack Brothers finished pick
ing hops Monday.
Born, September 20 to Mr. and Mrs.
Henry McCormack, a son.
Born. September 21 to Mr. and Mrs.
John Hannah, a daughter.
Quite a number from this vicinity
attended the State Fair last week.
A blacksmith shop is being ereoted
at this place by a man from Suver.
T. J. Robertson is hauling cordwood
to this place for shipment to Newberg.
Henry and Robert Tarter are haul
ing railroad ties from the Peedee mill.
' J. M. Staats has a force of men at
work on the scbool building at this
place.
Bura Tarter is having a porch and
other improvements added to his
bouse.
John BItner has a orew of men at
work putting a cover on the Turner
bridge.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Robertson
returned from a trip to Silver Lake a
few days ago.
George Conn's father and brother
arrived from Nebraska a few days
ago. They have gone to the .Cascade
mountains on a hunting trip.
Mr. Eichlnger, who has been living
on the Anna Brown place the past
year, has purchased a farm near Solo
and will move there In a few days.
POLK.
Pears have been selling for from $12
to $15 a ton.
The grain yield In the country about
Polk Station was quite heavy this
year.
Several buyers have recently been
offering 40o a bushel for oats of this
year's yield. .
P. P. Buhler has several men
employed on the construction of his
fine new house.
C. Buhler, a successful dairyman of
Salt Creek, will secure a gasoline
THIRD ANNUAL
INDUSTRIAL FAIR
of the School Children
of Polk County
Held at the Woodman Hall in Dallas on
WednesdayThursday-Friday
September 30 and October 1 and 2
More prizes offered than ever before. Larger exhibits
entered, and mammoth crowds assured.
Parade of Polk County School Children Thursday after
noon, followed by Watermelon Feast in Woodman Hall
Special trains from Independence, Falls City and other
points.
Everyone should attend and help make the Fair a
complete success.
Music furnished by Dallas band.
power milking machine in ' thenear
future.
Harvesting Is finished in this vicin
ity and the work of the Fall season Is
well under way.
Jacob Nichols and Will Johnson, of
Adams county, Washington, are vis
iting in this vicinity.
Many of the people of this vicinity
attended the State Fair last week, and
all declare it beyond doubt "the big
gest and best ever." '
The Enns and Dyck prune driers
were started last week, but the season
in this neighborhood will be fairly
short this year owing to the lightness
of the crop.
DALLAS COLLEGE OPENS DOORS
Ninth Year Begins With Good Attend
ance and Promises of Success
cessful Work.
With the first chapel exercises Wed
nesday morning, Dallas College
entered into the ninth year of its
exlstenoe, a year which promises to be
one of greater sucoess in every line of
work than ever before.
The greater part of the day after the
close of the chapel exercises was spent
in registration and classification, and
class work was begun in nearly all
departments yesterday morning. By
the beginning of next week, registra
tion and all other preliminary work
will have been practically completed
and the year's work will be well under
way and running smoothly.
The young men of the Christian
Association will open the social sea
son in the college tonight with a stag
party held in President Mock's room
la the college building, for the pur
pose of. allowing the older students
and the young men who have just
entered college to become better
acquainted with each other. A good
program has been prepared and nice
refreshments have been arranged for.
A large attendance of both students
and alumni is anticipated.
Work in the two new departments,
vooal musla and art, will be arranged
for at once, between the new Instruc
tors and the students desiring to take
up those branches of work. Mrs. May
Wright Is an accomplished elocution
ist as well as a reliable instructor In
vocai musio and her work will no
doubt have a noticeable influence in
thef oratorical efforts of the students.
Miss Sue Parrott, the new art teacher,
will give lessons not only in oil paint
ing and drawing, but also in the
handpalnting of china, in which
branch, of work many of the young
people both from the student body and
from the city will desire to take instruction.
Notice of Meeting of Board of Equal
ization. Notice is hereby given, that on Mon
day, the 19th day of October, 1908, the
Board of Equalization will meet at the
County Courthouse at the city of
Dallas, in the county of Folk, state of
Oregon, to examine and correct all
assessment rolls, to correct all errors
la valuations, descriptions or qualities
of land, lots, or other property, or
Inoorreotly assessed as to description
or quantity, or where assessed in the
name of person or persons not the
owner thereof or assessed under or
beyond the actual cash value thereof
and to assess all lands, lots and other
property appearing to have been
omitted or that was not assessed.
Petitions or applications for the
reduction of a particular assessment
shall be made in writing, verified by
the oath of the applicant or his attorney
and be filed with the board during the
first week It is by law required to be in
session, and any petition or appli
cation not so made, verified and filed
hall not be considered or acted upon
by the boa.rd.
Dated 25th September A. D. 1908.
C. S. GRAVES,
Assessor of Polk County, Or.
9-25-6t
Hop Kinf VUiU Salem.
E. Clemens Horst, the bop king of
New Tork and London, was a visitor
la Salem for a few hours yesterday
morning. He came In on the early
morning train. Southern Pacific, and
after a few moments consultation with
bis local representatives, concerning
the outlook for the 1908 crop and the
renditions of same he departed on the
morning Cottage GroTe local for Port
land. He did not even stop off long
enough to make a visit to bis bop
yard In Polk county and observa the
progress being bade with bis bop
picking machine In operation tbera
but took the first train out of Salem be
could. It is known, bowerer, that ha
entertains ao optimistic view oflhe
bop situation aa it now exist and Taa
left orders for the purchase of bops at
tba ruling price, or about cents per
pound.
New Book for Library,
Tba following new norels bare
raoeaUv been added to tba Dallas Free
Library with tba proceed from the
rental of tba new books teal were
plaoed on tba special list a few
mnntha aOL "Tba Chaperon" Wil
liamson. TbaMaa From BrodoeyV
McCutcheoo, Tba Last Yoymga of
tba Dons a Isabel" Fairish and
Tba Lara of tba Mak" JlcOratb.
INTEREST GROWS DAILY
Polk County School Children Eagerly
Preparing For Big School Fair
Next Week.
County Scbool Superintendent Sey
mour returned Wednesday evening
from McMinnville, where he had been
attending the opening of the Yamhill
County Sohool Fair.
Mr. Seymour says that Yamhill
county has fairly surpassed herself in
the excellence of her fair even down
to the smallest details. The big
exhibit hall, one of the finest buildings
of its kind on the West Side, is
admirably adapted to the display of
various exhibits, and the exhibits
entered this year are considerably
larger, finer and more varied than
those of last year. Especially excellent
was the display of furniture made by
the school boys of Yamhill county,
which was conceded to be fully as well
finished and as fine in appearance as
if it had been factory made.
A goodly numberof school ohildren
and parents from various districts in
Polk oounty, attended the Yamhill
County Fair and in consequence inter
est in their own School Fair whioh
will be held In Dallas next week has
been redoubled. Demands for the
official labels from the fair committee
are being sent in dally, many school
children asking for from 30 to 40
labels for their entries. Superinten
dent Seymour received a demand from
a school girl living near Bridgeport,
Thursday, for 75 labels, and entries of
from 15 to 25 exhibits have become a
oommon occurrence.
The closest contest for the grand
prize on collective exhibit will
probably be among the school children
of Bridgeport and vicinity, as a larger
number of entries from that looality
has been received than from any
other distriot in Polk oounty.
Superintendent Seymour went to
Independence yesterday to arrange to
have the schools of that city and of
Monmouth dismissed on Thursday,
the second day of the fair, so that the
pupils and teachers may come to
Dallas in a body and take part in the
grand parade of the school children
of Polk county.
T. W. Brunk, of Eola, has Informed
the superintendent that the school in
that district will be closed and that he
will secure teams and bring the
teachers and all students who are able
to come, over to Dallas, Thursday, In
time forthe parade, and arrangements
are also under way to secure the
attendance of the pupils in the schools
of Falls City and neighboring districts.
The list of prizes offered this year is
considerably larger than that of last
year, and the fact that the exhibits in
each department have been out down
to two classes Instead of four, will add
much to the Interest of the contest
Formerly the exhibits were divided
into classes for children over 12 years
of age and children under 13 years of
age and girls and boys exhibits were
kept in separate entries. This year
children will be permitted to enter in
any of the exhibits, regardless of the
sex of the exhibitor, the only class
division being that of age.
Steve Cooper Drowned.
The following dispatch In Wednes
day morning's Oregonlan gives a
brief account of the death of Steve
Cooper by drowning, which occurred
near Independence, Tuesday after
noon : "Steve Cooper, a foreman In the
bopyards of J. R. Cooper, of Inde
pendence, was drowned late Tuesday
evening la the Willamette as be was
returning to the bop yards. On leav
ing the ferryboat Cooper walked Into
the rlvertblnklog the boat was landed.
The boat bad drifted from the landing,
and be walked off into 13 feet of water.
Tba river has been dragged without
finding any trace of the body. Stav
Cooper was a middle-aged man who
bad resided In and about Independence
for the last 15 years. Ha had been
employed by J. B, Cooper off and on
during that time In bis bop yards."
NEW
GOODS
New Arrivals in
SHOES
DRESS GOODS
UNDERWEAR
BLANKETS
KINGSBURY HATS
Campbell Hollister
CASH STORE
Electricity for Lighting
Is only expensive to people who are
wasteful and careless. To yon, 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 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 loss money
than eleotrlo light, but does it save you anything when It limits op
portunities for work and reoreatlon ruins your eyesight smokes
your walls mars decorations and Increases nousehold 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. BATES Residence on meters, per
Kilowatt 15o: Residence, -flat per month, 16cp 60c. RATES FOR
BUSIN ESS HOUSES 25o per drop and 6o per Kilowatt up to 10 drops ;
over 10 drops 20o per drop and 5o per Kilowatt up to 40 drops j over 40
drops 17Jc per drop and 6o per Kilowatt. A drop figures 16cp or less.
For power rates apply at the oflloe. We are always ready to explain
the "1ns and outs of the lighting proposition to you, call on us or
phone to us, we are never to busy to talk buslne.
Willamette Valley Company
E. W. KEARNS, Manager for Dallas.
Offloe on Mill street, Just north of the Court House. Phones Bell 431,
Mutual 1397.
DALLAS COLLEGE
Places an education within tha 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 thosa preparing to teach.
TERM OPENS SEPTEMBER 23.
For Catalogue and information address the president,
C. A. MOCK
Dallas, Oregon
Bright Prospects for Normal.
The Monmouth Btata Normal School
opens with bright prospects this year.
At tha close of tba first week 7 a
students bad registered In tba various
departments, of whom 41 were Just
entering their first year of Normal
work. Of tba new students, ten had
taken blch school work previous to
entering tba Normal, nina tba tenth
trade, is tba ninth grade and aix tba
eight grade. Tba full registration.
when all students bava enrolled, will i
probably exceed 125. as new students ,
bava been oomiog to almost as rapidly
this week as durina- tba opeolog week i
of school. The faculty and student !
bodr ara already preparing for an ;
active year's work sot only la tba;
regular routine or stud lee bat also la
tba athletic field, tba oratorical aod
debating contacts and other work of
an Intercollegiate nature.
Card af Tmaaka,
We extend oar sincere thanks to all
who ao kindly aaslcted as during aod
after tba Bra that Octroyed our bona.
Ma. Ma. O, a Ami.
C I e an, Fresh Groceries
We carry the Famous DIAMOND
"W" brand of Extracts, Spices,
Coffee, Tea and Canned Goods.
Fresh Bread Every Day
SIMONTON (Eb SCOTT dallas
4
W. D. Cllna went to Portland. Wed
nesday. bR ba la aaaadiog tba live
stock exhibit.
BUILDERS ATTENTION
In connection with our Lumber and
Shinde trade we are now handling
LIME, PLASTER, CEMENT. BRICK
and SAND. Lowest possible prices
on all building material.
THE CHAS. K. SPAULDING LOGGING CO.
A (food wnr or.r better. Well established reputation. 8ooefuI arsd-
aiea. hkiUful,palBtasiBa: teaobera. Uvtof Mpcawi hw. Many other
advantages. Let as tell yon about them. Write far catalogue.
SALEM OREGON
W. I. STALEY, Principal