Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, January 01, 1909, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextPolk County Observer ""Kimball is over from Salem on a business visit. t b Thompson went to Ashland ..rHavoo a business visit. E A Brown, of Black Rock, was a visitor in Dallas, Wednesday. Cass Rigf?s. of Crowley, was a busi ness visitor in Dallas yesterday. Sheriff J-M. Grant was a business visitor in Independence yesterday. Bert Dennis, of Falls City, was a business visitor in Dallas, Wednes day. Miss Iva MeDaniel has gone to Portland for a few days' visit with relatives. W T. Grier, of the Falls City Lum ber Company, was a visitor Id Dallas, Wednesday. Frank Ward returned yesterday from a few weeks' visit with relatives in Washington. Mrs. Mattie Martin, or Portland, Is visiting at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. C. Uglow. Miss Alta Savage returned from a short visit in Portland and Vancouver, Wednesday night. John Olin returned Wednesday night from a holiday visit with his family i Vancouver. Seth Kiggs is up from Portland for a few days' visit with relatives aud friends in Polk county. Miss Vivian Hargrove, of Salem, has been visiting at the home of her sister, Mrs. E. M. Smith. W. T. Belcher and H. A. Packard were in Dallas, Wednesday, enroute to Portland from Falls City. Ira Yocom, of Willamlna, and Allyn Yocoui, of Sheridan, were business visitors in Dallas, Wednesday. Mrs. C. G. Coad and Miss Margery Hayes returned Wednesday night from a short visit In McMinnville. Misses Ruth and Sue Steiwer re turned to Portland, Tuesday afternoon after a short visit with their friend, Miss Maud Gage. Miss Nellie Hadaway returned to her home in Dayton yesterday after a few days' visit at the home of Mr. aDd Mrs. C. L. Crider. Programs will be given at the Star Theater during the month of January only on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday of each week. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, by Fox, and The Revolt of Anna Royle, by Martin, have been received at the Dallas Free Library and placed on the rental list. CLEARANCE SALE CONTINUES We will continue our sale this week. Now that Christmas is over and people are through buying Christmas presents, we will give you a chance to come and buy what you want for yourself at a great bargain. Remember we close our sale Saturday evening, January 2, 1909. W. H. ROY (& CO. xEASE TfEFfRSFDAVWOtN 5 Every season finds more women seeking the protection that comes with the trademark of "Queen Quality" shoes. The number of "Queen Quality" customers is now somewhere up in the millions. But this is nothing surprising to those who know the "Queen Quality" shoe. Their only wonder is that any woman can be induced to wear any other. THE BEE HIVE STORE DaBat EXCL.USTVX Miss Bertie Bentley and Miss Nellie Damon, of ndedendence, were Dallas visitors yesterday. Mrs. A. A. Cunningham, of Port laud, Is visiting at the home of her cousin, Mrs. R. L. Chapman. The advent of the New Year was celebrated in nearly all of the cities In this vicinity with pleasant dancing parties. Mr. and Mrs. E C. Richmond returned to Corvallis, Wednesday, after a holiday visit with relatives and friends In Dallas. Charles Shennefleld, of Indepen dence, manager of the Pacific Tele phone In Polk county, was in Dallas this week on business. Programs will be given at the Star Theater during the month of January only on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday ana Saturday of each week. Dr. L. A. Bollmari returned Tues day from Portland, where he repre sented Company H, O. N. G. at the annual Militia Convention. Work in most of the public schools in Polk county will be resumed Mon day and Dallas College will open for its second term on Wednesday, Janu ary 6. Miss Bertha Frink was in Dallas yesterday returning to Monmouth after a few days' visit with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Frink in Falls City. Prospective buyers of goods for the new year will do well to examine the prices'listed by the Bee Hive store in its advertisement published elsewhere in this issue. F. S. Ramsey wound up his racket store business In this city yesterday, and P. A. Finseth will occupy the building he has vacated with the stock for his new suit and cloak establish ment. J. E. Beezley has been appointed postmaster for Falls City to succeed Dr. M. L. Thompson, who has held that position for a number of years. Mr. Beezley will assume bis new duties about February 1. John Rowcliffe and Miss Mabel Car men were married recently at the home of the bride's parents in Dray ton, North Dakota. Both were formerly residents of Dallas and are well known to many of Its citizens. They will make their home in Portland. At the Presbyterian Church, Sun day, Jaouary 3, tne pastor, Rev. N. L. Reeves, will preach at 11 a. m. on "The Moral Harvest," and at 7 :30 p. m. on "Submission and Resistance." The Sunday School meets at 10 a. m. and the Y. P. S. C. E. at 6: 30 p. m. A cor dial invitation to all services is ex tended to the general public. DtALXK - Ortjoa OREGON HAS PETROLEUM Expert Believes That Willamette Val ley Is Destined to Become Great Oil Producing: Section. R. M. Brereton, of Woodstock, pub lished a long and Interesting letter In Monday's Oregonian, giving the data on which he based his belief that Ore gon, and especially the Willamette Valley, Is rich in deposits of petroleum and that all that the state lacks is proper exploitation and scientific drilling for oil, to make it an even richer oil producing region than Cali fornia. Extensive use of technical and scien tific terms make the letter rather dif ficult reading, but the points sug gested are worthy of serious consider ation and the fact that the writer an nounced the presence of petroleum deposits in California years before they were actually discovered in the very regions he had indicated, adds weight to the statements made con cerning oil prospects in Oregon. Of principal local interest are the statements he makes concerning the indications of oil in Polk county. The subject has been under investigation in this county in recent years and several tentative prospects have been made in different sections, the one most widely lrnown having been per haps, the prospect on the Whiteaker farm near Monmouth. The salient facts, which have bear ing on the indications of the presence of petroleum and natural gas In Polk county are briefly as follows : The geological formations in Western Oregon are in the same sequence as those in the oil regions of California. The most productive petroleum producing sections in Cali fornia lie in the upper mtoceoe terti ary formation and Yamhill and Polk counties west of the Willamette River lie in the same formation. The struc ture of the shales and sand stones in the hill range east of Amity and Mc Coy and in Holmes' Gap between McCoy and Rickreall are identical with those in the oil bearing regions of California. "Petroleum," Bays Mr. Brereton, "is a product of marine vegetation and the strong salt springs in the Salt Creek neighborhood and about Amity indicate that it was once the bed of the Pacific Ocean, prior to the period of the uplift of the Coast range." He believes that all prospecting hereto fore has been too superficial and in many cases that the prospectors have drilled in the wrong formations. If the drilling were prosecuted in the places where the oil bearing form ation is found instead of having been made in the more difficult and frequently barren strata, he Is confl dent that both oil and natural gas would be found in abundance through the Tualatin and Yamhill valleys and a large section of northern and cen tral Polk county. Union Prayer Service. The week of prayer for the churches of Dallas will begin Monday evening, January 10, union services being held each evening as follows : Monday at the Presbyterian church, subject "The Bible," Dr. C. A. Mock, preacher; Tuesday at the Metnodist church, sub iect "God's Faithfulness and Man's Possibility," Rev. H. H. Farnham, preacher; Wednesday at the Christian church, subject, "Missions, Home and Foreign," Rev. N.S. Reeves, preacher; Thursday at the Evangelical cburcb, subject "Intemperance and Gamb ling," Rev. M. P. Dixon, preacher; Friday at the Baptist church, subject "The Family and the School," V. M. Metzger, preacher; Saturday at the Evangelical church, subject "The Signs of the Times," Rev. Curtis P. Coe, preacher. During tbo month of January no nrnurama will be Riven at the Star Theater on Monday and Thursday evenings. Miss Bertha Reese returned to her home in McMinnville, Wednesday, after a short visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Coulter. Mrs. A. Anderson, of Bueua Vista, and Miss M. G. Lee, of Junction City, have been visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Hall this week. Claud Brower, of McMinnville, and Miss Vida Gwinn, of Heppner, were visitors at the home of Mr. Brower's teter, Mrs. M. B. Grant, this week. Mrs. Lydia Messenheimer, of Inde pendence, was yesterday committed to the State Insane Asylum for the third time. Both previous times she riiorharired cured but in each case the attack of insanity reoccurred with in a short time, bbe bas several young children who will be sent to the Boys' and Girls' Aid Society. Mrs. Messenheimer s husband left the state some time ago and no clue can be secured as to bis whereabouts. His wife has been living at the borne near Independence for several months in a practically destitute condition. Notice. Having sold my grocery business I desire to close up my books and settle all outstanding accounts. Parties having accounts will greatly oblige me by calling at the Dallas City Bank and arrange in some way with F. J. Craven for closing sai 1 account. U. 8. Lorc.mar. Caatlc's Graewr Located coe door south of the Dallas National Bank. We carry a complete stock of fancy and staple grooerie and are prepared to give prompt and oourVoas erTios to all oor customers. "The beet for the beet" and the pmcr for yon to g tbe beat is Caatle'e grocery store. J. L. Crixi, proprietor. ARE STILL VICTORIOUS The Oregons Make Higher Scores in Montana Than They Did in Washington. After having played through Wash ington and Montana without suffering a defeat, or even being matched against a team that could make things really Interesting for them, the Ore gons entered North Dakota, Tuesday night and made known their arrival in that state by beating the Dickinson basketball team by the big score of 60 to 10. Their farewell game in Mon tana, played against Company K of the National Guard In Billings, Mon day night, was won by 39 points to their opponents' 15. The telegraphic reports from the games have been less regular during the past week and the Dallas friends of the team have been several times disappointed after waiting at Johnson Brothers' store until long after mid night for the returns from the games. Johnson Brothers however, to whose enterprise the arrangement for securing the returns, is due, have taken the matter up and will endeavor to secure a prompter and more regular transmission of the messages for which the friends of the team wait each night with so much eagerness. The two hardest games that the Ore gons expect to play during the next 10 days will be against Stillwater, Minne sota, Saturday night, January 2, and Hudson, Wisconsin, Monday, Janu ary 4. They will meet their old oppo nents, the Redwings, on January 5 and 6. The record made by the team thus far has been truly enviable, the total score of the Oregons being far in advance of their opponents. The com plete scores as far as reports have been received are as follows : Oregons, 43 Vancouver, 6 Oregons, 34 Winlock, 4 Oregons, 34-Seattle, 16 Oregons, 42 Rosslyn, 17 Oregons, 67 Ellensburg, 3 Oregons, 55 Spokane, 14 Oregons, 22 Anaconda, 16 Oregons, 97 Billings, 8 Oregons, 50 "YMCA15 Oregons, 39 " Co K 15 Oregons, 60 Dickinson 10 Totals 533 124 EXCHANGE OF OWNERSHIP M. D. Ellis Takes Grocery Store and Hon. U. S. Loughary Enters Mercantile Company. The beginning of the New Year notes the consummation of an important business transfer in this city, M. D. Ellis having purchased the grocery business of Hon. TJ. S. Loughary and and Mr. Loughary having purchased his share of the stock in tbe Dallas Mercantile Company. Mr. Loughary's store was closed Wednesday for invoicing and Mr. Ellis took full charge yosterday. Mr. Loughary will assume his place in the Mercantile Company's establish ment today. While both have been working for several years In widely different lines of the mercantile profession, neither finds himself in an unaccustomed field in assuming the business ac quired by the recent transaction. Before going into the grocery busi ness In Dallas, Mr. Loughary was for about 10 years engaged in the dry goods business in Salem and other cities. Mr. Ellis likewise had a num of years' experience as a grocer before he became Identified with the big dry goods establishment, working for a number of years as one of the part ners in the grocery firm of Loughary & Ellis. Both are men of exceptional busi ness ability and will doubtless meet with marked success In the new Hoes of work thoy have chosen to adopt. Legal Blanks at this ofQce. Dr. Donohoe, Dentist. Cglow Bldg Legal blanks for sale at this office Ealtz, piano tuning. Orders at Dan iel's. 10-21-tt The Obskbveb office wants the print ing you are particular about. Money of private parties to loan at 6 per cent on well-Improved farms. Siblet & Eakih. Brown. & Stout, lawyers : abstract ers ; notary public ; collections ; Uglow Bldg., Dallas, Oregon. Thursday afternoon of each week will be ladles' day at tbe Dallas Bowl ing Alley. 12 22-tf Make a good resolution on January 1. Bfcin taking lessons of Mrs. Mae Wright; Tocal or dramatic 12-18-5t Fares on the Salem stage now 75 cents. Beet way to catch the 1 1 o'clock train (south bound) on the East Side. U-I-tf W. R. Ellis, agent for Daily Ore gonian and Eveo In g Telegram. Have a daily paper delivered at your house by the wk, month or year. No extra charge for delivery. Dry fir cord wood wanted In any quantity up to 500 cords; to be delivered In Dallas or Falls City. For further particulars, call on, or add reea, Salem, Falls City & Western Ry. Co.. Dallas. Legal blanks for ale at this office. Dry flr cordwood wanted In any q uantity op to 500 cords ; to be delivered In Dallas or Fall City. For further particulars, call on, or addrea. Salem Falls City A Western By. Co., Dallas DR. ELBERT E. FISHER Specialist la dUeaacs a4 tbe Eye. Ear. N. Tkroat Office. Rooms 1-1. Over Bush Back SALEM - - - OBEGOX "Oregon's Best" guaranteed to be the best soft wheat flour in the Willamette Valley. Sold by all grocers in Dallas. Manufactured solely by Dallas Flouring Mill SWEENEY BROS. Props. THE LEADER Restaurant In new quarters with im proved equipments. Reg ular meals 25c. Short orders a specialty. Give us a call. One door north JOHNSON BROTHERS' AND RIGGS, Props. BOTH PHONES TIMBER LANDS Fuller & Elliott Only Real Estate Arm in Polk County handling Timber Land exclusively Don't fall to call or write if you have timber to sell. Office in I. 0 0. P. Building Dallas, - - Oregon LOOK HERE! The City Express & Transfer Co. does all kinds of hauling at reasonable rates. Stand and both phones at Webster's Con feotionery Store. MUSCOTT & STARR Proprietors DALLAS, OREGON We Wish You a HAPPY NEW YE With the beginning of 1909 we desire to thank our many patrons for their ' liberal patronage during 1908. You, by your liberal buying, have made it possible for us to materially increase our stock, which means that we will be able to serve you better both in your selection of goods and the prices we can make you. It is our aim to accord to all fair treatment, but through some mischance we sometimes make an enemy. We are sorry, but it is the way of the world. If at any time you think that you do not get fair treatment from us come in and see us. We will meet you more than half-way in fixing it up. We desire to state further that you will find our stock of goods of Hardware, Furniture and Plumbing of high quality and as complete as the market affords. NOTICE. If you are registered for one our Calendars we will keep it for you until January 10, then we will distribute to the first comers. Trusting that 1909 will be a prosperous year for you. GUY BROTHERS & DALTON HARDWARE AND FURNITURE THE STORE WHERE YOU ALWAYS GET YOUR MONEY'S WORTH THAN X&ZM N0T HAIR STUFFED Our store is the only place in the county where you can buy this f am mous line of mattresses. ALL $ HAYES FURNITURE STORE Keep Your Horses Warm Freeze yourself if you enjoy it. Sit on the seat and shiver all the time you are driving, but for goodness sake when you hitch, see that your horse is blanketed You owe that much to your faithful servant, even if you didn't its business It costs less to keep a horse if you keep him warm Many a horse has gone to the bone yard because of the need of a blanket There's no sense in it when I sell blankets as low as I do Full-lined blankets from $1.50 to $2.50 Call and see for yourselves at the Harness Shop FRANK SALFICKY Dallas, Ore. 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 Transfer Co.