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PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY
VOL. XX
DALLAS, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, NOVEMBER 6, 1908.
NO. 38
CORRESPONDENCE
INDEPENDENCE.
Edwin Wallace was down from Cor
vallis over Sunday.
Mrs. Lottie Dorris has returned
from a visit in Portland.
E. W. Cooper, of Portland, visited
in Independence the last of the week.
Mrs. H. Mattison and Mrs. Charles
Iliff visited friends in Corvallis during
the week.
Miss Bertha Bohannon and Miss
Ivy Cooper were Salem visitors the
last of the week.
Miss Helen Cooper has gone to
Portland to attend the Behnke-Walker
business college.
Dean Walker, of Portland, visited
OPERA HOUSE
Monday, Nov. 9th
W. M. Rasmus
Presents
The Alcazar Stock Co.
In the beautiful pastorial play. The play you
want to see.
"Our Minister"
Do not fail to see this splendid play which
appeals to old and young alike. The play is
full of heart interest. Given by the COM
PANY that belongs to YOU.
THE "BEST FOR THE BEST"
Tickets on sale at Stafrin's Drug Store
C O U C I:
Couch upholstersd in best grade of leather on steel construction; quartered oak
frame; claw feet. Price $43-o
A nice couch upholstered in best grade crushed plush; steel construction that is
guaranteed never to slip or sag or give out in any way with the hardest wear and
tear that can be given a piece of furniture. $13. 5
A couch upholstered in Velor; claw feet. A very attractive couch for $7-5
Princess Dressers
ADAflS & BR0B5T CO.
Dallas Furniture and Implements Oregon
his parents, Mr. andMre.S. B. Walker,
the last of the week.
Miss Cecil Wilcox, who is attending
the U. of O., is visiting at the home of
her father, G. A. Wilcox.
Mrs. M. W. Wallace and daughter,
Grace, left Tuesday for a three months'
visit in Dakota and New York.
Miss Florence Gebro entertained
twenty-five of her young friends at a
Hallowe'en party Saturday evening.
Dr. Eaton, of Portland, visited in
this city Sunday and was accompanied
home by his son, Joe, who will attend
school there this winter.
The Rebekah lodge celebrated the
15th anniversary of Its organization
Tuesday evening. A literary and
musical program was rendered and a
lunch served during the evening.
About 150 people were present.
The Social Hour Reading club was
entertained at the home of Mrs. G. A.
Nade of selected quarter-sawed oak of a fine flaky grain or
in birdseye maple; high polish finish. The buse is 28 inches
long and 20 inches wide. The handsome mirror is the best
quality of French beveled plate, 18x36 inches.
Price Quartered Oak
" Birdseye Maple
Wilcox, Friday afternoon by Mrs. L.
Damon, Mrs. E. L. Ketchum, Mrs.
J. E. Hubbard, Mrs. S. E. Owen and
Mrs. Wilcox. There were guessing
games for which Mrs. O. D. Butler
won the first prize and Mrs. G. W.
Eutch the booby. Dainty refresh
ments were served.
PEDEE.
Frank Merrill has rented the Schey
the place.
M. Bush has moved into one of A.
Womer's houses.
Jasper Willet has rented the Frank
Wrightson place.
Frank Bush has finished logging
on the Lucklamute. '
W. M. Shewey has been hauling
hops for Harry Lacey.
A. B. Lewis recently purchased a
number of beef cattle in this vicinity.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Scheythe will
make their home in Monroe this
winter.
t The Cherry Grove school has com
menced with Miss Maggie Kemp as
teacher.
Robert Phillips and George Conn
have returned from a hunting trip to
Pine Opening.
W. S. Janes, who recenty purchased
and moved onto the B. M. Fowle
place, has been hauling lumber for
Albert Newbill.
Frank Gilliam will go to eastern
Oregon for the winter and his mother
will spend a few months with her
daughter in Salem.
BALLSTON.
Mrs. Eimsey is improving.
William Hill was a Portland visitor
Monday.
Charley Spagle was a Portland
visitor Saturday.
Miss Bertie Coulter, of Dallas, has
been visiting friends here.
J. R. Bowman, who was accidentally
shot a short time ago, is able to be up.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Sloan were
Monmouth visitors the last of the
week.
A hallowe'en party was held at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. V. B. Sears,
Saturday night.
Alt Campbell and Van B. Sears
attended the Domocratio rally in
Sheridan, Saturday night.
A. M. Tillery has completed an addi
tion to the house on the Whitman
college farm, occupied by R. A
Campbell.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Pointer are
$19.00
$17.00
here from Eastern Oregon visiting
relatives and friends. They will make
their home in Portland this winter.
While going into his barn Satur
day night. Will Yocom stumbled over
a dog and broke the small bone in his
leg just below the knee. Medical aid
was summoned at once and he is get
ting along as well as could he
expected.
POLK.
Frank Friesen lost a valuable horse
recently.
The recent rains have put the
ground in first class condition for
the Fall farm work.
A very enjoyable Hallowe'en party
was held at the home of Bernard
Friesen, Saturday night.
John Friesen and Miss Josie Sliultz
were married at trie cnnrcn or trie
Mennonite Brethren, Sunday.
A. L. Windover has returned from
the rock quarry where he has been
working as engineer for several
months.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Friesen cele
brated their twenty-fifth wedding
anniversary at the Mennonite Church
last Sunday.
A large quantity of the potatoes in
this neighborhood have not yet been
harvested but will be dug this week
it the fine weather continues.
MONMOUTH.
Ed Griff a, of St. John, is visiting
his brother in Monmouth this week.
Franklin Chambers, of Kings Val
ley, was a Mon mouth visitor Saturday.
Farmers In this vicinity are taking
advantage of the favorable weather
for planting Fall grain.
Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Coral, of Forest
Grove, visited at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Huber last week.
The masons have finished their
work on the new building of Radick
& Smith, and the carpenters are now
finishing the interior.
The Rev. 0. R. Chool, of Wisoonsln,
and R. Y. Blalock, of Tillamook, are
conducting a series of meetings this
week at the Baptist church.
Considerable damage to private
property was done by those celebrating
Halloween, Saturday night, but no
steps have been taken as yet for the
punishment of the offenders.
FALLS CITY.
(Falls City News.)
J. Flynn.of Portland, a lormor resi
dent of this city, was a visitor here
this week.
Will Dennis has charge of the elec
tric plant during the absence of Mr.
Brown, who is ill in Portland.
Mrs. A. H. Dodd was called to Cor
vallis last week by the illness of her
daughter, who is attending school
there.
Mrs. W. T. Grler and Mrs. R. L.
Fuller entertained a number of their
friends at a pleasant Hallowe'en party
Saturday night
Bert R. Paull, of Couyvillo, has been
appointed pastor of the Methodist
Church of this city and preached his
first sermon here last Sunday.
Mrs. Frank Laws died at her home
near Bridgeport, Thursday, after a
long and severe illness. The remains
were taken to Amity for burial.
Masquerade Complete Success.
The first masquerade of the season
held at the Colosseum ripk Tuesday
night, was one of the biggest and best
affairs of its kind ever held in Dallas.
Aside from the natural interest that
would be manifested in the brilliant
spectacle of the scores of skaters in
elaborate costumes, the election re
turns, flashed from time to time upon
a big screen in the west end of the
hall, offered another element of attrac
tlon which drew a crowd of spectators
that fairly overflowed the galleries.
The prizes were awarded at 9 :30 o'clock
with W. J. Keartb, W. W. Ullrey and
Ed Bricker acting as judges. The
list of prizes given and those winning
prizes were as follows: Ladles I mo
Johnson, Zouave Lady, best fancy
costume, (2.60: Mrs. C. Gough, W. O.
W best advertising costume, 12.50;
Essie Frakes, spoons, most original
costume, 10 skate tickets; Miss Leta
Grant, fisher girl, best skater, 10 skate
tickets; Mrs. Henry Stump, Indian
squaw, best sustained character, 10
skate ticket. Gentlemen Lief Fin
setb, Mexican, best fancy costume,
(2.50; Hugh Ay res, Dallas Soda
Works, best advertising character,
12.50; Frank Syron, soldier, best
skater, 10 skate tickets; George
Morton, officer, best sustained charac
ter, 10 skate ticket.
October Library Report.
During the month just passed, fill
buok have beeo loaned out from the
Dallas Free Library. 34 of which
were flctloo, 7 noo -fiction and 150
children's books. 1127 callers were
I la the library and 31 oew borrowers'
cards were tesued. The following oew
'books have beta doosted by George
j Bowles : Life of Christ Stalker, Chsr
' meter Sketches Lofton, and The Story
:of 100 Years Sbepp.
J. V. Massey. of McCoy, w
' visitor la Dallas yesterday.
SOME RAMBLING THOUGHTS
Notes By the Way From the Former
Editor of the Polk County
Observer.
WOLFVILLE, Arizona, Nov. 2
(Special Correspondence.) Where is
Wolfville, do you ask? Well, reader,
you will not find it on any map. You
will search the railway folder in vain
for it, and there is not the slightest
use In looking for it in your Tourist's
Guide. Where Is Wolfville? Why
its where Doo Peets used to live and
Dave Tutt, and Old Man Eorlght, and
Dan Boggs. But it isn't known as
Wolfville now.. Only the initiated can
give you its exact location and the
initiated are those fortunate readers
who have enjoyed the Inimitable tales
of the Old Cattleman, as re-told by
that prince of frontier humorists Al
fred Henry Lewis. Thousands of
American readers know where it is, so
I am violating no confidence when I
tell you that Wolfville is in Arizona
not a thousand miles from Tucson.
And its neighbor town is Red -Dog 1
No, the Wolfville of today is not the
Wolfville of a quarter ot a century
ago, and were tne uia uattieman to
revisit his ancient stamping-ground,
I fear that he would find few familiar
landmarks, and still fewer familiar
faces; for the Wolfville of twenty-five
years ago was In every way typical of
a class of mining and cattle camps
that slowly, but surely, disappeared
before the steadily increasing tide of
immigration from the Eastern and
Middle States.
Were the Old Cattleman to drop into
Tucson today on bis way to Wolfville,
be would seek in vain for Old Monte
and bis ancient Concord stage-coach.
In their stead, he would find it neces
sary to Intrust himself to the tender
mercies of a spooky looking individual
with goo-goo goggles, and a few
minutes later he would find himself
streaking It across the desert in one of
those ungodly contrivances of modern
ingenuity known as a touring car,
with its 40-horse-power engines fairly
eating up the long miles, and its
'smelling-to-beaven" odors sending
the jackrabbits and prairie dogs
scurrying to cover in all directions.
Pleasant anticipations of a feast of
beans, salt-hoss and "air-tights" at
the "O. K. House" would bo rudely
ended when he arrived and found
Mrs. Ruckor's well-known hostelry
transformed into a modern 100-room
hotel, with its electric elevators, its
lavishly furnished buffet and grill,
and Its own Imported Hungarian
orchestra, led and directed by Profes
sor Dam of Amsterdam. Strolling
out to get a "little something" to cut the
prairie dust out of his throat, he would
search In vain for the familiar sign
of the old "Redllght Saloon" and
would soon find his way, by unorrlng
instinct, into one of the numerous
places with potted palms in the win
dows and half the electric lights In
town on the outside. Instead of the
"New York Store" supplying the cow'
boys and miners with only such staple
articles as hats, boots, clothing and
tobacco, bo would find a half-dozen
department stores those marvels of
American commercial life, with stocks
of goods anticipating every personal
comfort and household need; with
armies of uniformed salespeople, and
their abominable "peony change"
system' "Boot Hill Cemetery," he
would find converted into a lawn ten
nis court, and the "Mexican Dance
Hall" into a 10-cent, moving-picture
show. Where once the "Stranglers"
dealt out justice, swift and sure, to the
hapless evil-doer, he would find the
"more civilized" law court, with its
creeping machinery, its tedious and
expensive delays, and Its pleas of
"moral degeneracy," "emotional In
sanity," ami "brainstorm." In short,
he would find Wolfville no longer a
frontier cattle camp, but a modern
American city, with its trolley cars,
electric lights, burdensome taxes, and
grafting aldermen.
The Wild and Wooly West never
as wild, nor as wooly, as the Eastern
story-writers would have had us be
lieve Is a thing of the past. Its days
have gone, never to return. The Wild
West can nowhere be found in Amer
ica today, save within the enclosure
or Buffalo Bill's big show and, as
Arthur Greene aptly remarked In a
recent number of the Oregooian, it is
highly probable that a majority of
Colonel Cody's cowboys and broncho
busters learned their stunts on some
vacant lot In South Chicago!
Tbe people of the so-called desert
states, aldod by the Federal Govern
ment, are literally obeying the Divine
Injunction imposed upon Moses, wbeo
tbe Lord eommanid him to "take op
tbe water of the river aod pour It up
on tbe dry land." Aod the fsultl og
miracle, wblle of a widely different
nature. Is scarcely less wonderful
than tbat which followed Moses
obedience of his Lord's eommaod.
For marvelous. Indeed, Is tbe chaoge
vhat Is belog wrought by tbe applica
tion of water to tbe desert lands of tbe
South western states. Wastes of sand
aod sagrbrofth aod alkali have twee
w mfr-m1 Into ffTVn fluids. WSViOff
NEW GOODS
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.
It Is economical because It can be quickly turned off wnen not needed.
With gas or kerosene there is the temptation to lot 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 got 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 Bave 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 16o ; Residence, 11 at per month, lflcp 50o. RATES FOR
BUSINESS HOUSES 25o per drop and 6o per Kilowatt up to 10 drops ;
over 10 drops 2()o per drop and 6o per Kilowatt up to 40 drops ; over 40
drops 17c jier drop and 6o per Kilowatt. A drop figures lOep or less.
For power rates apply at the oflloe. We are always ready to explain
the "ins and outB" 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. KEARN8, Manager for Dallas.
Offloe on Mill street, Just north of the Court House. Phones Boll 421.
Mutual 1297.
The Jacobson
All kinds of hauling promptly done. Spec
ially equipped for the careful moving of fur
niture and pianos.
Phone orders to Belt & Cherrington's Drug Store
Bell, 301 Mutual, 253
WOODMAN HALL
Thursday, Nov. 1 2
OTTO F. L. HERSE
TENOR
Nature's own singer. The sweetest songs by the
best composers. In English, German, Scotch and
Irish songs, assisted by
FranK A. White
Pianist
ONE NIGHT ONLY
TicKets, 35cf 50c and 75c
On sale at Stafrin's Drug Store.
Hollister
STORE
Transfer Co.