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K urn , I f i ti M iM : ! - iSt- L 17 J U1ZJJJ L J L . S3 DALLAS, OREGON, TUESDAY' DECEMBER 26' 1911 NO. 86 01 PATRONS IB TO HE OF INTERESTING SERIES BE CONDUCTED SATUR DAY, JANUARY 6, AT SPRING VALLEY. JSSIONS FOR EVERYONE jte List of Sections, Districts, 's and Names of Chairmen who ; Preside Association Officers Large Attendance and Hearty icipation. series of school officers', par- and teachers' meetings which heretofore created such uuiver tcrest and advancement in the iif education in this county, be resumed and the first one k held at Spring Valley, Sat- i January 6. starting at 10 k in the morning. T. W i president, and IL C. Sey i secretary, of the Polk County i Officers ' association, under ! auspices the meetings are con si, have , issued the following aent in announcing the sched- f the gatherings: liese meetings have in the past very interesting and now for (lining school year, if all will I and take whatever part they r the discussions, we will , be to make the meetings for this t he best ever. toping that we may have the y co-operation of every school r. parent, teacher, and patron ie county who is interested in ihools, we are, etc." Schedule of Dates, rcnvilh is given a list of the se ns, place of meeting, time and of presiding officer: ring Vallev section: Brush ge, Lincoln;' Zena. Spring Val ml Lone Star. Meeting held at ng Valley Saturday, January C, Sinikins, chairman.1 , 'Coy section: Bethel, McCoy, 1'errydale; meeting at McCoy J'lay, January 13, M. A. Lynch, man. la section: Kola, West Salem, 'itain View, Popcorn; meeting Wst Salem Saturday, January v. S. Ruge, chairman, kreall section: Rickreall, Oak t. Crowley, Smithfield, Green '. Polk Station; meeting at Oak e Saturday, February 3, J. E. chairman. h 11 section: Buell, Harmony, eneck. Butler, Valley Junction, "le Ronde, Pleasant Valley; at Harmony Saturday, Feb ' 10. Alferd Hall, chairman, ntioch section: Antioch, Mistle Cochran. Elk'mg; meeting t toe Saturday, February 17, C. r,n. chairman. Import section: Bridgeport. n.r- Oakdale, Qakhurst, Powell P. Rock Creek, Guthrie; meeting 'Uthrie Saturday, February 24, H. Mack, chairman, "t Creek section: Salt Creek. r Salt Creek. Concord, District North Dallas. Pioneer; meet t Salt Creek Saturday, May - E- Hart, chairman. ; section: Airlie, Ward. Val Fairview, Lewisville; meet-' t Airlie Saturday. March 16. 'b, chairman. ' weti.: Tedee, Fir Grove, "ary. Cherry Grovt. Maple : tewtin at PeJee Saturday. , ' J- N- 'ft. chairman. -t"n VT;i,,n: Ball.ton. Enter-. "-i rr.vn pri.gr;i); jmeet- "aurdav. March 3 chairman. "J' V"l in: P.uer.a Vis- -r;. II:-d. Il.ville. Sn ; p-y at barker Satar lar. Patrons of Salt Creek Rural Route Remember Carrier in Generous Way FOR PUPILS Oil no SPRING VALLEY RETAINS EN VIABLE LEAD AS THE ONLY STANDARD SCHOOL IN POLK COUNTY. IMPROVEMENTS ARE MADE F. J. MORRISON RETURNS FROM TRIP WITH MORE CHRIST MAS PRESENTS THAN HE TOOK OUT. Many Others Striving Hard to Add Remaining Points to Certificate Long List of Roll of Honor Dis tricts for Attendance and Absence . of Abhorred Tardy Marks. The regular monthly statistical re port of the public schools of Polk county for the month ending Decem ber 1, has been compiled by Super intendent II. C. Seymour and is pre sented herewith. In commenting up on the results shown, the superin tendent says: "While we still have only one school in the county that has won all the eleven points for a Standard School Spring Valley we have many schools that have won many more points than they had last month and many now have nine and ten points, which means that before long we will have many Standard schools. "The attendance for this month is the best ever reported aiid all schools show a great improvement in attendance. "Nearlv every school officer in the comity is working to make his school a Standard school. Results in Figures. Number of schools refilling cor rectly and on time, 50. Names of schools not reporting correctly and on timeSalt Creek, Brush College. Harmony, ixv Grove, Greenwood, Oakdale, Lone Star. Number of pupils remaining at ime of last report, 3320. Number of pupils registered new during month, 108. Number of piipil registered sec ondary during month.-32. Number of pupils readout-ieu aur- ing month, 150. Total number ot pupils on regis ter during month, 2810. Number of pupils dropjwa auimg month, 251. . Number of !pils remaining at time of this report, 2559. Number of days taugm uur...s month, 18.1. Whole number of days anemias. 44.495. Whole number of days aosence, 153L . . . Whole number of times late, si Number of pupils neither absent nor tardy, 1621. Average number of pupns wiu.ii:- m ... nw. '- , Ol-I Q Average daily attenaance. -r r.t attendance. 96.6. Iff Kill. - Number of visits by parents, 14. . j Number of visit by school boards.; 39. . . , The following school have (-. w.t on the roll of honor for the coui.tr for bavin- made a r cent.. Iten-lance of !5 -r m-re: Smitl.ii.-R IV.W. rn,u"'- . C.7f i'rk.O;ik i-vi;;e. ia.ivti. " " . rove. M..i:moUtk Di-tn.-t ' ( A lni", i"1""- K, t i ;..t-.'!. Oak P i: f. r.-iin. . . ' i (Ccrtinael ai Pare Five) Remarkable Example of Apprecia tion of Year's Work of One of Uncle Sam's Faithful Workers List Includes Everything From Cash to Good, Wholesome Eatables How would you like to be the post man? With a mental picture of driving rain, biting snow, frostbitten fingers, cold feet, and mud, mud, mud, and more mud mud, miles of mud the responses come few and far between, for such are a few of the things that go to make Uncle Sam's rural mail carriers realize that they are earning their salaries by the sweat of their brows. In the gladsome summer time, when the humming; bird is on the honeysuckle and the hired man s on the bum, and all nature is gay and frolicsome, and the grass is green and the sky is blue, and the weeds are in the garden and the beautiful wildflowers rear their tiny tokens of creation's matchless imagery, and the price of eggs goes down, and the roads are smooth and dusty oh, then, then, indeed, is the postman's lot a happy one, and he goeth forth and trilleth a song of gladness from the first rosy streaks of dawn until the west ern horizon separates the day from the night. But in the winter that's another story. Hooray ! ! ! But, even in winter, there are rec ompenses even in the work of a rural route carrier. There are times wheu the way seems not so long nor the mud so deep when the knowledge that he is doing his duty in a way that's appreciated shortens the cold est hours and smooths the roughest trail. Christmas time is when the rural route man is at once the most bur dened and the most remembered. It is then, if at all during the year, that the patrons of the route bestow upon him various practical ways their recognition of his courtesy and accommodation. The most astonishing example of generosity on the part of the patrons of a rural route in this county, and perhaps in the state, occurred on the Salt Creek route last Saturday, when Rural Carrier F. J. Morrison, made his last trip before Christmas. At practically every home lie was stopped to partake of some remind er of the grateful thanks of those whom he had served so faithfully and -diligently throughout the past 12 months. For four years Mr. Mor rison lias been delivering the mail in the district that comprises Salt Creek, Perrydale, Ballston, Smith field and Polk Station, and he has made many friends by his obliging ways. The result was that when he rot'urned from his trip he brought back more Christmas packages than he took out. As evidence or this, a list of the presents he received is given herewith: One Day'i Receipt. One box of fancy pack apples, from J. S. Parker. One blx fancy pa-k apples, Ew ing Brothers. Twenty-five pounds of veal, i . J- BisselL Five pounds of pork, John Cnp pen. Tcu pounds of pork and sausage. .Iam- E. Hill- A cbw V. J. E. Goetz. Cah. W. J. Gamer. Five i-.r.r,.!s of t-ni.-ked MUze. Kru k Fr n. Two liike:,-i. G. F-fk. One palloa jar nunccciC-at. J- II, ,w wiM you Lie to be tL? pi:n:a!j f Parliament Buildings, Teheran, Where Persians Defied Russia 5 t "" MB f 1 1 i V 1,1 i'. i hlv. Hi,- ir- - - - ... . ''.dSi K j ; v f A iF V 1 5 M V ,V -- i .rrz... w S V 111 JUV ' ' v, -y.:: .A-.llJh."..'. .'.tf ,.IJ ; , ALTHOUGH tbe average American know little more about Persia tban that it Is "the place where the rugs come from." the recent newi dispatches from Teheran detailing the plucky if not altogether tactful " opposition made by W. Morgan Shuster, the American treasurer gen eral, to the dictatorial demands of Russia have been read with intense inter est, nor can Americans fail to sympathize strongly with the Persians them selves, who. having expelled their dissolute and autocratic shah, are trying to conduct a constitutional government and apparently look upon the young American who has worked wonders with their revenue system as their finan cial savior. Russia at first peremptorily ordered the dismissal of Shuster, and the national assembly refused thus to renounce its independence. This action was taken at a special session while thousands of patriots thronged the precincts of the parliament buildings. Later, however, the Russian foreign office manifested a more conciliatory spirit, possibly on account of the spirited Interpellations of the government in the British parliament, many of whose members are hostile to the partition of Persia even If England get a slice. NEW MASONIC OFFICERS ffeniiings-Lodge, No. 9, A. F. & A. M., Holds Annual Election and In stallation. The regular annual election of Jennings Lodge, No. 9, A. F. & A. M., of Dallas, was held in Masonic Hall last' Friday night and was fol lowed bv the ceremonies of instal lation. A noteworthy feature of the occasion was the retirement of Sec retary J. C. llayter, whose business interests made it necessary to give in) the exacting and numerous du ties that are a part of that import ant office. In recognition or Air. Ilavter's lonir and valuable service- in that capacity, the lodge voted to nrpsent him with a costly Masonic emblem. The list of newly installed officers follow: Worshipful Master W. L. Soeh- ren. Senior Warden E. A. Hamilton. Junior Warden U. S. Grant. Treasurer W. G. Vassal. Secretary Walter S. Muir. Senior Deacon Carl B. Williams. Junior Deacon J. R. Mills. Marshal George L. Hawkins. Senior Steward A. B. Muir. Junior Steward Edward Biddle. Tyler D. S. McDonald. Committed Suicide. A renort received in Dallas today conveyed the information that Bert Miller, a young man about 2-t years old who ha! been employed on the farm of J. O. Graves, in lamiu.i county, near Sheridan, bad commit tal suicide by shootin?. o details were obtainable here. Tax Voted Dowa. a jsj-cial i Wii'-n LeIJ ia At a i-cial t ,- ti-n teiU ia r..aa .tri-t No. li in Itri-l-'r-rt iir- itv !at Saturday, tie ffT-rt to vow . . . a. ... -i .v m. r. t 14 to 12. CENSUS SHOWS INCREASE I Many More City Pupils Than Last Tear. As a result of the annual school census made of this city by Tracy Staats, clerk of the j School Board, it is shown that the increase in the number of children of school age, during the past year amounted to 142, an unusual growth for a place of this size. A remarkable fact in connection with the figures j given is that there is a differ- ence of only four in the numlM-r of boys and girls. The census for this and the preceding year is as follows: Boys Girls Total j 1011 447 443 1910 391 3.17 Increase 50 80 890 743 142 I DALLAS WINS BOTH GAMES Defeat Philomath and Silrerton Ball Teams. In a contest which was notable for its excitement, especially in the firnt half, the basket ball team of company II, N. O. O., defeated Phi lomath college at th armory in this city lat Friday night 34 to 12. Neither team scored during the first six minutes of play and Philomath scored the firft goal. Dallas came back with a goal and Philomath ad ded another placing her in the ieal. The Dallas team finally got down to hard .work, however, and I sran pil ing cp the won-, ninmn? the tal lies up to IS to 6 at tb end of the firt half. Gate for Da'la scored ix of th 34 g"!s. alih'mch Bal lantyne. Shaw and p..v.l-tm f.rjred materially in the gofd throwirsr. In the Chn-tn a night rn.e, t.Liy ed 8t S Ivert'-n. Dal!a deftated t..e j 1' '.im ' f tl.lt J !;u-e l,v t!,c se.,re of J22t17. ray ior LIFELESS DODY AT BRIDGE REMAINS OF INDEPENDENCE MAN FOUND NEAR BRIDGE IN THAT CITY; NO CLUE : TO DEED. MURDER THEORY ADVANCED Footprints in Mud Lead Form Scene Beneath Bridge; Two Men Seen in Converse Near Bridge at Mid night; Coroner Chapman Investigates. The town of Independence was thrown into excitement this niorniug by the discovery of the body of Mike Cassidy, a laborer, who had met death during the night, while on his way home from celebrating Christ mas. The. discovery was made about daylight near the end of the steel bridge on the Salem road, and the corpse was so badly covered with mud that it was some time before it could be identified. When it was recognized by his wife, she broke down completely. Cause Unknown. The cause of the death is a mys tery. So far, it has been impossible to determine whether it was a case of murder or suicide. Cassidy, it is said, had been drinking Christmas night. ' One report says that he start ed home about 10 o'clock, while another gives it as midnight. Will 11. Block, a member of the Independ ence meat, company, passed the bridge about midnight, and says that he saw two men standing talking about where the body was found. Tracks were noticed in the vicinity of the body this morning, it is said. They were traced from the body to the slough and also twin the body to the bridge. As far as could lie discerned there were no marks of violence on the body. Coroner H. L. Chapman left IndeH'iideiice today to conduct inquest. Cassidy was a laborer and lived in Indi"eudenee about years. He leaves a wife and a large number of children. for an bad two FACES FORGERY CHARGE Stranger Pays For Christmaa Pur chases in Dallas With Worthless Bank Checks. Sheriff Grant is in Portland today where he went to bring back a man wanted here for iiaxsing alleged forged checks on Dallas merchant last Friday, while making Christmas purchases. The stranger bought an overcoat at the Bee Hive store and rave a check for flfl, signed by "W. H. Walker." and drawn on the Mc- Minnville National bank, introduc ing himelf as the owner of a 400 acre ranch between here and the Yamhill county seat. Within a few moments later he bought a couple of rinirs at Shepherd's jewelry store and tendered in payment a check on the same bank but bearing the sig nature of "W. II. Snyder." Mr. Shepherd was suspicious of the man and bt rm time in forwarding the check to the bank upon which it was drawn, shortly after receiving the information that it was of no Talae. Sheriff Grant was notified and discovered the chink artist in Port land mhere he had been arretted a similar charce. He will be brongU ba k here for trial. Count A.--e-.jr V. S. Graves wa a visitor in M-d. month this morale.