C OUNTY PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY VOL. XX DALLAS, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, NOVEMBER 24, 1908. NO. 41 OBSERVER MRS. POWELl PASSES AWAY Highly Respected Young Woman Dies at Her Home in Monmouth. Mrs. Ira C. Powell died suddenly at her home in Monmouth, -Thursday. Mrs. Powell was formerly Miss Lena Butler, a daughter of A. D. Butler, of Napa, California, and granddaughter of ra F. M. Butler, of Mon mouth. She was born on July 18, 1869, in Oregon nod spent her childhood in this county. Her father was at one time president of the school in Monmouth and she was educated there, taking her degree from Christian College and later from the State Normal. She was married on December 12, 1894, and leaves her husband and three children. Her oldest son, Clares, is 12 years old, there is a boy of six years while the baby Is only two days. old. The immediate cause of her death was an attack of pneumonia. Funeral services were hold at the Christian Church, at 2 o'clock Sun day. Mrs. Powell was well Known in this city, having at one time been a teacher in the Dallas public school. Dallas Wins First Game. The skating basketball team of Dal las opened the season auspiciously Friday night by winning its first game, played in Falls City with the local team of that place, by a score of 21 to 7. The game was fast and inter esting in spite of the uneveness of the scores, Falls City playing an excellent game, considering the fact that this is the first year of the team's organi zation and the first match game it has ever played. Both of the Falls City forwards and the center secured a field goal and Siefarth threw the foul goal that scored the seventh point. In the Dallas team, Magers led in goal throw ing scoring 8 points; Elder and Brown each threw three field goals and the former scored an additional point on foul throwing. Both teams are well pleased with the success of their fl rst game in point of patronage. Arrange ments have been made for a return game to be played in the Dallas rink Friday night, November 27. Pacific Homestead Representative Gives His Impressions of Polk's Fertile Farming Land. Program at Electric Palace. Tonight and Wednesday the follow ing pragram will be given at the Elec trio Palace in the Riley building: pic tures, The Bridge of Sighs, Sandy Mc Pherson's Quiet Fishing trip, Ten Piccannies; songs, Make Believe, and Little Boy in Blue. Boy Wassam returned Monday from a visit toNewbergand Portland. Mrs. Wassam accompanied him to Newberg last week and will remain in that city for a week's visit with rela tives and friends. Hon. U. S. Loughary was a Port land visitor over Sunday. December Bulletin Price List Owins- to a ffood manv late shipments, we find that our stock is too heavy for this time of the year and in order to reduce it before the first of the year quote the following prices : we CO samples of Ladies' and Misses' Dress Skirts (val ues from $6 to $8) December price $4.85 10, 15 and 20 per cent discount on all our Ladies' and Misses' Dress Skirts 10 to 20 per cent discount on all our Ladies' and Misses' Tailor-made Suits, Cloaks and Furs. The entire stock of Children's Coats at Cost. ' " ' " Millinery at S3? off. Big reduction on Ladies' and Misses' Coat Sweaters. G5o Ladies' Union Suits (Gray) Dec. price 43o 75 & 85c " " ' C3o $1.10 " ' ' ' 78c $1.60 " " " " .' ' $1.18 Closing out at Cost all the Black Cat Ladies' and Misses Woolen Hose. $1, 1.15 and 1.18 Ladies' Sample Waists, price 78c $1.38, 1.50, 1.65 " . " " ' $1.18 All higher priced waists cut in proportion. I2jc Outing Flannel, this seasons, Deo. price 9c 50c Dress Goods, late novelties 42o 66o $1.00 $1.25 including blue and black 48c 820 98o 25 discount on all Fancy and Figured Silks. To close out a lot of Kid Gloves, values to $1.50 85o Hundreds of good things are still to be had from our line of "Manufacturers' Sample Sale." Odds and ends in Shoes at almost your own price. AT OUR CLOTHING STORE We buy from the most reliable manufacturers and sell at moderate prices. Men's all-wool Suits and Overcoats from $7.60 to 12.50 Men's worsted " ' " " $12.60 to 20.00 H. S. & M. hand made " " $15.00 to 25.00 Young Men's Suits from $5.00 to 16.60 Children's " " $2.50 to 7.50 The largest stock of Men's Women's and Children's Shoes in the county. Remember that every article sold at our store is guaranteed. If not right we make it right. Before buying your Fall bill come in and get our prices. D. M. NAYBERGER Former Partner aud Successor to R. Jacobson & Co. McMinnville, Ore. To The Highest Bidder T""ifrrliiillh llliiiyHM(u--i:i'- 'iiwWliijiiii iiil!:lf'j ' AS OTHERS SEE IS" A $40.00 Banquet Range to be sold to the highest bidder regardless of price and without reserve, for cash. The BANQUET RANGE is without a peer among the steel ranges on the market today and we have adopted this plan of calling the attention of the pub lic to the merits of this particular range. BANQUET RANGES embody the many features of practical excellence you expect in the product of one of the largest stove plants in the world. The oven walls are lined with asbestos, concentrating the heat around the oven, economiz ing heat and making Banquet Ranges quick and perfect bakers. You run no risk when you buy a BANQUET RANGE. You can try . it for 30 days, and if it will not bake and cook as good as any range, we will take it back and refund your money. Sealed bids will be received for the range up to the 24th day of December, 1908, at 12 o'clock noon, and no bids will be opened until that time. All bids must be securely sealed and marked, "bid on range", and addressed to ADAMS & BROBST CO., Dallas, Oregon, with your name and address and bid enclosed. We will be glad to show the range and explain its merits to anyone and if anyone bids on the range without seeing it and after seeing it they are not satis fied, they will be under no abligations to take it as it will then be awarded to the next highest bidder. (In answering thi advertisement, please mention tbe name of thi paper.) ADAHS & BROBST CO. Dallas Furniture and Implements Oregon E. A. Ehoten, field representative for the Paoiflo Homestead gives an interesting outline, in the last issue of that paper, of a recent trip through a portion of the fertile farming land of Polk county, telling what he saw and sketching briefly what some of the leading farmers and stockraisers of the county are doing in their lines. The article, which follows, is highly interesting and gives a good idea of theexoellent advantage the representa tive farmers of the eastern portion of Polk county are taking of its magnifi cent resources. "Taking my new horse, that was named "Bill" before I got him. I left Salem for a little trip across the Wil lamette River into Polk county. "As I neared Eola I came upon the construction gang working on the new railroad from Salem to Dallas. The work was going rapidly on and, when completed, the road will be a great aid to the traveling publio as well as bringing logs from the mountains near Falls City to the Willamette river. "A little past Eola I came to the Spring Brook farm from whence has "sprung" some of the best Poland Chinas in the West. Thomas Brunk, the proprietor, was found busy in the field with his team putting in the fall crops. He was sowing vetch and oats on the drier part of the field and cheat and vetch on the lower lands. This is a practice among a good many farmers, as the cheat stands the damp ground better than the oats and either with the vetch makes excellent hay. Mr. Brunk also grows considerable clover for hay. "Fred Koser, near Kickreall, was fin ishing digging his crop of "spuds" which had turned out well. In many places in Western Oregon it is the practice to leave the late potatoes in the ground until ready to ship. Last winter I found soma large growers digging potatoes as late as February, and the crop was coming out nicely. Mr. Eoser bad just finished threshing his clover seed and while not up to last year's yield, it was fairly good and better than many got this year. From one fifteen-acre field he secured eighty bushels and from another forty acres he got 248 bushels. Mr. Eoser makes "good money" out of his clover seed, but his chief pride is in his regis tered Berkshire swine and Cotswold sheep that he raises nearly to perfec tion. "W. O. Morrow lives near and is an enthusiastic dairyman. He showed a nice bunch of Jerseys at the recent Oregon state fair and while he did not win as many prizes as the old exhibi tors he made a good showing and ex pects to be out next, year with a strong herd. "My next stop was at C. I. Ballard's, toward Monmouth. He has a nioe lot of fancy poultry and O. I. C. swine. It isn't said that he raises his hogs and turkeys together but each seem to be doing nicely and he reports doing a good business. "Two of the best breeders of Angora goats and Lincoln and Cotswold sheep live near Monmouth viz : J. B. Stump and William Blddell & Sons. Both are old exhibitors at the state fair. The last year or so Mr. Stump hasn't come out but is planning to be out strong next year. He is also breeding pure Percheron horses and expects to have a string of them out next year. He Is quite enthusiastic over the grow ing of English walnuts and thinks there Is a great future in this industry in this valley. He has quite an acre age of young trees. "The Biddells always exhibit a strong flock of Angora goats, Lincoln and Cotswold sheep at the fairs and 'Dave' Rlddell had only been borne a few days from making the fair circuit. Tbeir Angoras, as usual, captured by far the big end of the prizes offered at the fairs. Mr. Bid Jell said that he followed the old system of wheat farm ing until be was nearly bankrupt and badtoqultit Now, be and his several sons are making large financial profit raising theep, goats, clover seed, and vetch seed. Tbey are now making money and the farm is getting richer every year, while exactly the opposite was true under the old style of farming. "Both the Biddells and Stumps report goat tales not up to tbe usual trade; in fact, I Bod tbe same true all through the country, but tbe demand for sheep baa been good. "On southwest from Monmouth live the two Hewitt brothers, on separate farms. E. E. Hewitt Is making a specialty of raising Toland Chin awioe and bas a number of floe ones oo band. O. O. Hewitt is getting into tbe registered Jersey cattle business, havlog purchased tbe entire pure-bred herd of W. J. Loooey besides having several before. Tbia will make him a Bice start and we predict and wUb him aucceaa. "Back toward Salem I traveled, stopping at U Kelson home bear Independence. They bave about fifty pore-bred Jerseys and sell whole milk to be retailed ia town. Tbey Lave a amber of heavy rrodueera in their herd and are making money wttb their milk business. By selling the whole milk and thus saving no skim milk It makes calf raising rather expensive so they are selling good registered male calves very cheap. One of the things of especial interest on this farm is the transformation of an old orchard, that is so common in this valley. A year or so ago this orchard was in the 'worthless' list and it is paid that a sound apple would have been hard to find; pruning shears and spray barrel have changed this and this tall they have over a thousand bushels of fine marketable apples. I examined one bin contain ing several hundred bushels of Bald wins and failed to find a wormy apple. They were nice, large, well-colored apples and free from disease. Here is a good example of what is possible with these old orchards. 'Charles E. Brooks was busy caring for his pure-bred herd of Holstein cattle. He has a well-bred, useful herd and he markets bis crop at a big price by feeding to these cattle. Like a good many otnors tnis year, ne failed to get his corn crop put into bis silo. An unusual early and heavy frost came the latter part of September and nipped the corn and only those that could put the crop in tbe silo soon after the frost, put It in at all. Mr. Brunk failed to get a machine until his corn was so dried that he thought best to feed it otherwise. A good many silos throughout the Wil lamette valley stand empty for the same reason." RIVER RETURNS ITS DEAD Body of Walter Thomas, Missing Three Weeks, Finally Found and Identified. Lying in the Willamette river near Fairfield, 18 miles down rivor, tied to the bank, the body of a man presum ably that of Walter Thomas, drowned several weeks ago, after working on the Mathloma, is being washed by the rippling currents awaiting the cor oners arrival this morning. The dis co very of the body was m ade Th u rsd ay afternoon and Coroner Clough was immediately notiflod. He visited the scene Friday morning. Thomas was drowned in the river many weeks ago while with friends he was in a boat which capsized. His friends stuck to the boat, but Thomas was a good swimmer and he started for the shore. The current was so swift however he was unable to combat it and sunk to his death. Authorities dredged the river for many days but with no result. While no definite information has been received It is probable that the body found is that of Thomas, as there have been no reports of other drownings in the Willamette recently. The publication of the foregoing paragraph in the Statesman, Satur day morniug, was followed Sunday by a dispatch to the effect that the body of the drowned man had been posi tively Identified by Perry Thomas, of Dayton, as that of his son, Walter i . Thomas. The remains were taken to Dayton and were buried near that city yesterday afternoon. Captain Skinner Dead. Captain George Skinner died at his home in Independence, Wednesday, November 18, from an attack of dia betes, after an illness of only a few days. Captain Skinner operated a launch on the Willamette river be tween Salem and Independence tor more than twelve years and had be come one of the well known characters of bis home city. He came to the Pacific Coast in 1882 and settled in Independence in 1890. He was a na tive of Ohio, having been bora In that state In 1817. The funeral services were held at the Methodist Church in Independence, Thursday afternoon. The Thanksgiving season will be celebrated this year with two dances. The first will be given by company H la Dallas, Wednesday night, and on the following evening a grand mas querade will be given at Wagner's Hall in Falls City. Tbe committees in charge of both affairs are using every effort to make them tbe best of tbe season. Tbe dance in Dallas will be tbe second given In this city this winter, and so great was tbe success of tbeir first dance that the young men of the Company are anticipating an exceptionally large attendance tomor row night. The employees of the Spaulding Logging Company bave been bard at work for several days repairing tbe wall on tbe east bank of tbe mill race near tbe camp ground, where a stretch of embankment nearly 300 feet in length gave way and fell Into tbe race last week. The vrail was built of timbers and these had rotted away, al lowing the whole structure to cave In. Tbe rompaoy will be unable to drive log down from the campa to tbe mill pond until tbe damage bat been re paired and tbe race bed cleared of debris. Tbe repair work on tbe Adventiftt eaarch It progressing rapidly and ben Bobbed will make It one of tbe beet appearing and most convenient buildiogt of It kind la Dallas. Hood Craves returned to bit claim oa Sal moo River yesterday after a 0 lUti tuinea visn in isanaa. Big Reduction 5 ALE . lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllBlltM On all Ladies' and Children's Coats. All this season's styles. Special Sale on Clothing Men's, Boy's and Youth's Suits will be sold at a big cut in price. If you need clothing it will pay you to see what we are offering. Special lot Ladie's 26-in. Umbrellas 90 Cents Campbell Hollister CASH STORE SAY! HOW ABOUT THAT PICTURE Wouldn't it look better in a brand new frame? Well, there is just one place in Dallas where you can have it attended to in first-class style, re novated, reframed or remounted. That place is HALL $ HAYES FURNITURE STORJ, 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 wnon 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 tome homes the electric light bills amount to only one or two dollars nor month. You can probably get some kind of artificial light for less money than electrlo light, but does it save you anything whon 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 butitwouldn t be economy. It is not so much what you save, but bow vou save that oounts. WILLAMETTE VALLEY CO. RATES Residence on meters, per Kilowatt 15c: ltesldence, flat per month, lflep 60c. RATES FOR BUSINESS HOUSES 2iic per dropand 6c per Kilowatt up to 10 drops; over 10 drops 20c per dropand 60 per Kilowatt up to 40 drops; over 40 drops 17Jc or drop and 60 per KIlowBit. A drop figures l p or less. For power rates apply at the oflioe. 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. Offiee on Mill street, Just north of the Court House, Fhonet Bell 421. Mutual YlJl. The Jacobson Transfer Co. All kinds of hauling promptly done. Spec ially equipped for the careful moving of fur niture and pianos. Phone orders to Belt & Cherrlngton's Drug Store Bell, 301 Mutual, 253 i"0 t-w Ed. F. Coo, Office Id Courtnouse DALLAS. OREGOM TToaitrrt at Law BPwOWN & STOUT AMTBACTOftt KlITllI rTBUO CotAJCTfOM rglow Bldg. DALLAS, OF.EOO