Polk 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
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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.