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PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY
VOL. XX
DALLAS, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, JANUARY 19, 1909.
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Big Cut n Prices
Our second Annual Clearance Sale
commenced
Saturday, Jan. 2.
Everything reduced in price. We
will save you money on every pur
chase. Yours for business
Campbell Hollister
CASH STORE
School Report For December.
The report of the schools of Polk
county for the month ending Decem
24 has just been completed by Super
intendent H. 0. Seymour, having been
considerably delayed by the slowness
of a number of the teachers of the
county io sendiug in the reports for
their various districts. In the 61
schools In session during December a
total of 2646 are registered. 1404 of
whom are boys and 1243, girls. The
average daily attendance was 2432 or
m.G percent, 1209 pupils being neither
absent nor tardy during the entire
month. The schools placed on the
roll of honor for attendance, having
ran do a percent of 95 or more are:
Bridgeport, Lewisville, Ballston, Salt
Creek, Parker, Monmouth, Scrogglns,
Gooseneck, Cochrane, Blokreall, Oak
Point, Elkins, Independence, Buell,
Spring Valley, Popcorn, Harmony,
Upper Salt Creek (100 per cent.) North
Dallas, Etna, Sunnyslope, Guthrie,
Liberty, Palls City, Cherry Grove,
Mountain View, Rock Creek, High
land, Mistletoe. The following schools
were placed on the roll of honor for
having bad no tardtes during the
month :Smithfleld, Bridgeport, Valley
View, Gooseneck, Bickreall, Upper
Salt Creek, Enterprise, Etna, Concord,
Liberty, Bock Creok, Highland,
Mistletoe.
Castle's The Grocery For You.
Located one door south of the Dallas
National Bank; carrying a oomplete
line of fancy and staple groceries;
affording prompt, careful and cour
teous 'service to all customers. When
you are In Castle's store you can feel
at home. If you are not able to come
up town send In your order by either
phone he is ready to take care of It.
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BUSY COUNCIL MEETING
Matter of Sewer Assessment Causes
Much Discussion Dallas Will
Number Houses.
The greater part of last night's
session of the City Council was spent
in discussing the resolution fixing the
sewer assessments in Dallas and hear
ing any objections brought by property
holders In the various sewer districts,
to the mode of assessment or the
amount for which they bad been
assessed.
The subject is one of wide interest
among the residents of Dallas and a
large crowd of the property holders
in the districts in which the assess
ment was made, were present while
the matter was under discussion.
The resolution, after -having been
read In detail, was finally adopted,
Councilman Uglow casting the only
dissenting vote. Prior to its adoption,
three objections were entered, one
against the mode of assessment and
two against the amount.
On the first point Hon. J. E. Sibley
appeared, representing a number of
property holders on Clay street and
claiming that as all of the land on
that street was residence property and
the benefit would be therefore practi
cally equal to all, requested that the
assessment in that district be made on
the basis of superficial area instead of
property valuation. The other objec
tions were made by D. J. .Riley and
Frank Eerslake, both of whom claim
that the assessment on their property
is out of just proportion to that on
property lying in the same districts.
After the adoption of 'the resolution
on street assessment, an ordinance to
have the plumbing in the city of
Pallas regularly inspected was read
for the first time and the ordinance
for the numbering of the houses In
Dallas was passed.
The contract for the numbering of
the houses has been given to Holman
& Dungan. The signs bearing the
street names will be furnished at 35
cents each and the prices for the num
bers for the bouses will be regulated
by the requirements of the property
owners.
FRESHETS FOLLOW THAW
High
Water Does Not Appear Until
Snow Is Practically All
Gone.
Dr. C. A. Mock went to Portland,
Friday, for a few days' visit.
J. E. Foster, of Boseburg, has pur
chased the Caldwell poolroom and
will move the equipments into the
room in the Uglow building which
was formerly occupied by J. C. Shultz
where he will fit up a fine up-to-date
pool and billiard ball. Mr. Caldwell
will soon move to Eastern Oregon for
the benefit of his wife's health.
Legal blanks for sale at this office
In spite of prophecies of floods and
destruction to follow in the path of
'the Chinook wind which sprung up
Thursday afternoon, the thawing and
disappearance of the snow gave
little cause for worry in this section
until this morning. Under an inter
mittent fall of warm rain the snow
has faded away so gradually that the
inorease in the height of the streams
was almost lmpreceptible.
Commercial and manufacturing
industries in this city, which were
almost at a standstill while the snow
storms endured, begun to swing back
to the normal at the first indications
of an approaching thaw. Mail routes
were opened up once more and the
business interchanges between town
and rural districts were re-established
within a few days.
The mills throughout Polk county
and the logging camps from which
they receive their supplies of timber,
resumed operations this week, after
having been shut down for a period
of from six to ten days.
The self congratulation of the people
however, over the "ideal thaw" as
they styled it was changed to chagrin
when after the greater part of the
snow had melted safely, a night of
coutinued and heavy rain raised
streams to flood height within a few
hours. Beports of high water came
in from all over the county this morn
ing, although at no place has the
situation become serious.
A number of cribs and break waters
along the LaCreole have been swept
away and several tracts of low lands
have been Inundated, but thus far no
great damage to bridges has occurred.
DEATH CALLS PIONEER
Ira F. M. Butler Passes Away At His
Home In Monmouth Aged 96
Years.
Interest In Skating Revives.
After a temporary lapse, the interest
of the people of Dallas in the recre
ation of roller skating seems to have
returned with renewed vigor. The
Colosseum rink was closed during the
greater part of last week and the week
preceding and when Its doors were
reopened Saturday night the floor was
quickly filled with a larger throng of
skaters than had been assembled for
months. During the present week
Mr. Eerslake, the manager, intends
to open the rink on Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday nights.
Three nights this week at the Colos
seum rink Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday. Don't miss one of them.
Ira F. M. Butler, one of the jnost
widely known of the pioneers of Polk
county, died at his home in Mon
mouth, Saturday, January 16, at the
age of 96 years and 8 months.
Mr. Butler was born in Kentucky in
1812, when his father was a private in
the American army serving under
Wayne in the last war with Great
Britain. At the age of 17 he moved to
Illinois with his parents, settling in
the city of Monmouth, where he
resided until 1853, when he crossed
the plains to Oregon.
In 1835 Mr. Butler married Mary A.
Davidson, eight children being born
to the union, three of whom survive
him : Misses Maggie and Allie Butler,
of Monmouth, and S. A. D. Butler, a
fruit raiser of Napa, California.
While in Illinois be served as deputy
sheriff of Warren county under his
father and in 1838 he was elected sher
iff. For seven years he was circuit
clerk under the famous Stephen A.
Douglas.
When he came to Oregon he secured
a dobation land claim of 320 acres
situated on the Luckiamute river,
which he held until 1856 when he dis
posed of It and moved to the site of
the. present city or Monmouth, where
with a number of others he laid out
a town, which, In compliment to him,
was named after his home city In
Illinois.
From that time until about 1882,
when he virtually retired from publin
life, Mr. Butler was one of the lead
ing men in the political and civil life
of Polk county. In bis political affili
ations, he was a Democrat and in
Oregon, as in Illinois, he proved him
solf a leader In his party. He served
in the legislature in 1836, '68 and '62,
acting as Speaker of the House in
1858. From 1878 to '82 he was Judge of
Polk county and during a large part
of his public career, he served as
Justice of the Peace in his district.
He was one of the founders of the
Polk County Bank In Monmouth,
and one of the founders of the
Christian College, being a member or
its board of trustees until it was finally
merged with the State Normal School,
when he resigned.
Mr. and Mrs. Butler celebrated their
golden wedding In 1885 and only three
years after, death called his faithful
wife from his sido.
The funeral services were held In
Monmouth, Suuday afternoon, and
the remains were burled in the David
son cemetery near that city.
In his home town, the citizens
reverenced him as a patriarch and
his birthday was the occasion of
annual celebration, during which
scores of friends visited him and
extended their good wishes. Through
out his life, he was one of the highest
and perfect types of a strong, positive
and progressive citizen and the record
of achievement which he leaves behind
him, is one of which his children may
well be proud.
MONROE MILLER IS DEAD
Venerable Citizen of Dallas and Ore
gon Pioneer Claimed By The
Grim Reaper.
Oregons Defeat Neenah.
The Oregons defeated Neenah, Wis
cousin, in a hard basketball game
Thursday night by a score of 19 to 11,
and thus recovered their prestige in
that state, which had received a severe
blow on the two preoeding nights,
when they Buffered defeat at the
hands of the team In Lon Du Lao.
Friday, Saturday and Sunday the
team played no game, but was
scheduled to meet Detroit last night.
The report of that game was held up
last night and did not reach Dallas
until about 10 o'clock this morning,
when a telegram was received an
nouncing a forfieted game awarded
to Dallas by a score of 2 to 0. The two
teams did not appear on the floor
owing to a dispute over the selection
of officials tor the game and Dallas
was afterward obliged to secure a
lawyer to get the amount of their play
ing contract covered. The Oregons
will line up against the Buffalo
Germans, the champion team of the
world, Wednesday night, and the
resulting struggle will probably be
one of the hardest and most solentiflo
in the history of the game.
Elmer Beard at Star Theater.
Elmer Beard, the contortionist who
appeared at the Star Theater last
night in the first of his series of enter
tainments which will be given here
this week, proved himself a performer
of more than ordinary ability and his
act was greeted with hearty applause
from the audience. He appears to be
practically jointless, sliding and
writhing back upon himself, abso
lutely tying himself In a knot and
twisting his body into positions which
seem almost impossible of accomplish
ment for a man built in human form.
His act reminds ono of the graceful
coiling of a serpent. It
Mrs. Walter Williams, of Falls City,
loft Sunday tor a month's visit with
her sister, Mrs. F. J. Chapman In
California. She was accompanied as
far as Portland by Mr. Williams.
A. Monroe Miller died at his home
in this city Sunday night, after a
brief illness, aged 81 years and 10
months. A fall received by slipping
on the icy porch of his home last
Thursday, was directly responsible
for bis death, his age and enfeebled
condition making it impossible for
him to rally from the shock.
Mr. Miller was born in Cole county,
Missouri, November 9, 1827. He was
a son of Richard Miller, whose ances
tors had emigrated to America from
Scotland. Mr. Miller lived in Missouri
until ho was 19 years of age, when he
started with his parents, on April 13,
1817, on the long trip across the plains.
After being six months on the road
they reached Oregon and settled near
McMinnvIlle, where his father took
up a donation land olaim. In 1849 his
father moved to California and in the
following year, the deceased and his
brother followed to that state where
he remained until 1851 when he
returned to Oregon and settled on a
donation claim near Bickreall. After
ward, 1861-2 he made several trips
with pack horses to the Florence
mines.
Mr. Miller remained on his farm
near Bickreall nntil about 1884, when
he moved to Dallas where he resided
until the time of bis death.
He was twice married his first wife
being Margaret Crowley, who died
only a few months after their wedding.
Afterward he married Mrs. Lucinda V.
(Fulkerson) Logan, a pioneer of 1852,
who died January 6, 1887. Three
ohlldren were born to them, only one
of whom survives him Nellie E., the
wife of U. S. Grant, of this city.
Funeral services were held at the
Baptist church at 2 o'clock this after
noon and the remains were laid to
rest In the old cemetery.
A man of sterling character and
tine social qualities, Mr. Miller
Included in the number of his friends
all with whom he became acquainted
during his residence in Dallas, and
with his departure from among us, is
taken away a character and an influ
ence that has wrought long and
effectively for the welfare of this com
munity. He was a true Christian
and bad been a member of the Baptist
church since early manhood.
Adams & Brobst will send you a
plumber to mend those pipes which
were broken in the freezing weather.
ANNUA
ANUARY CLEARANCE
SA
This sale means a mercantile event that borders on the marvelous. A regular price cutting outrage. A sweeping reduction through
out this entire store. Reduced prices that will undoubtedly create a sensation. All broken lines and odds and ends go at a mere
fraction of their former value. Prices have been cut as never before. We are going to make this sale a record breaker in the his
tory of this house. The only original and genuine clearance sale is now on at THE BEE HIVE STORE
Mammoth Reduction Sale on Men's Winter Suits
This gigantic clearance sale which started here Saturday morning, January 2nd, carries an important message to every man
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Clearance Sale of Men's Shirts
Men's Golf Shirts, broken line. Values from 50c to
$1.00. Sale 35c
:Monarch" Shirts $1. to $1.25. Sale 75c
Clearance Sale Underwear
Men's Cotton Ribbed Underwear, regular 50c grade
37 l-2c-
Men's Wool Ribbed $1.00 grade 75c
Clearance Sale Men's Pants
A line of Fancy Worsted Pants, values to 3.50. Sale
$2.40.
Clearance Sale Hosiery
One lot Children's Black Hose, regular value 25c Sale
12 l-2c
Clearance Sale Suspenders
Heavy Web Suspenders, 25c and 35c values
19c
Clearance Sale Shoes
One lot Children's Shoes, values up to 1 .25. Sale 69c
Clearance Sale Ladies' Shoes
One lot Ladies' 3.00 and 3.50 shoes, all good makes.
Sale $2.50.
Clearance Sale of Towels
Our large 25c Linen Towels, white and fancy border.
Sale 18c.
Clearance Sale Underwear
Children's and Misses Union Suits, values to one dollar.
One lot. Sale 48c
Clearance Sale of
Comforters
Special lot, full size
White Cotton. Sale
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Clearance Sale of
Linen
66 inch Table Dam
ask, 75c grade, at
59c
Clearance Sale of
Outing
Best quality Outing,
fancy and plain col
ors. Sale 8c
Clearance Sale Embroidery.
One lot 8 and 1 0c values at
5c yd
Clearance Sale Petticoats
Sateen and Heatherbloom. Sale from $1.6S to $3.45
Clearance Sale Bed Spreads
A large, heavy Marseilles spread, 1.25 value. Sale 93c
Clearance Sale Blankets
All wool Blankets, white and colors, values to 7.50.
Sale $4.95.
Clearance Sale of Muslin
Heavy Brown Muslin. Sale
Lonsdale" Bleach Muslin. Sale
6c
9c
Clearance Sale Boys Caps
All 50c caps, all styles. Sale
35c
Lot I Boys Knee Pants Suits, 3.00 to 3.50 values.
Sale $1.98.
Lot 2 Boys Knee Pants Suits, regular 4.00 to 4.50
values. Sale $2.79
Lot 3 Boys 5.00 to 6.50 Knee Pants Suits, all late
cuts. Sale $4.39
Lot 4 A broken line of Men's Suits, regular 8.00 and
1 0.00 values. Sale $4.75
Lot 5 Men's Navy Blue Serge, Fancy Worsted and
mixed effects, regular 12.50 to 15.00 Sale $9.85
Lot 6 Men's Hand Tailored Suits, values from 16.50
to 20. Sale $13.85
There will be no reductions on the following lines: W. L. Douglas Shoes, Queen Quality shoes, Gordon Hats, Butterick Patterns
Prices on these g'oods are controlled by the manufacturer and must be sold regularly.
This Sale Positively Closes Saturday, January 30th, 1909
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