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DALLAS, OREGON, TUESDAY' DECEMBER 26' 1911
NO. 86
01 PATRONS
IB TO
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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 '
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lni", i"1""- K, t i
;..t-.'!. Oak P i: f. r.-iin. .
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(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-
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Parliament Buildings, Teheran,
Where Persians Defied Russia
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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
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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.