FOLK COUNTY OBSERVER
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BRAND FLOUR
Is made by the Rickreall Mil
ling Company, manufacturers
of the celebrated "Blue Stem
Blend." It is in great demand
and we are selling big quan
tities of it.
New Crop Sates
Just In.
Simonton & Scott
Court Street Dallas, Ore.
GRAND FINAL
Lace Curtain
Sale
AT
DKI'OT STORE OX
STREET
CHURCH
These flue imported goods will lie
returned to Xew York City next week.
In order to reduce the hulk of this
tthipmeut and to afford the eopic of
Dallas anil vicinity a last chance, we
have arranged for a final special sale
next Friday and Saturday, Slay 24 and
25, at prices a trifle above wholesale
coHt. Never again will there be such
an opiMH'tunlty.
The Depot Store
On Church Street
Sunrise Restaurant
I4;9VP k?iaPT, Proprietor
liieais and short orders served at all
hours. Everything new and clean.
Specialties.
ChOD Suev and Noodles
Smith Building; Main and Mill Streets
Dallas, Oregon
Dallas Iron Works
Machinists
Foundryincn Pattern-
Makers.
SAWMILL WORK A SPECIALTY
We are prepared to dc any kind of
Iron and Brass work. Lumber trucks
and Stock work on hand. We make
the best and cheapest Stump Puller
on the market Prices reasonable,
West Side Marble
Worlls
G. L. HAWKINS. Proprietor.
MONUMENTS. HEADSTONES AND
CTRBING.
A Complete Line of All Latest Designs.
Star Transfer
Company
GRAVEL FOR SALE
All who want Gravel please order
of us.
General Kxprcsa and Transfer lousi
ness. Stand at Webster's Confect
ionery Store. Phone 5 It. Darn
Phone 1071.
G. A. c L. C MUSCOTT
DALLAS OREGON
Sochrcn Warehouse Co.
CEMENT CUREIXGS AND WALKS
W handle a full line of Cedar and Oak
Fence Posts, Brick. Lime, Sand and
Cement. Land Plaster, Drain Tile.
Shingle. Fire Brick. Hair. Wall Plast
er and Hop Supplies.
One block south of depot Phone 114
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Yields readily to Dr. Bell's Ami
septic Salve. You see an Improve
ment after the first application. We
guarantee it. It is clean and pleas
ant to use. 25c a box at Stafrin's.
Trout fishing is reported good this
season in Silver creek and several
large catches are reported.
OFFICIAL
STATE OFriCEES.
United States Senators
... .. Jonathan Bourne, Jr.
George E. Chamberlain
Congressmen
First District... Willis C. Hawley
Second District... A. W. Lafferty
Governor Oswald West
Secretary of State.. Ben W. Olcott
State Treasurer Thomas B. Kay
Superintendent of Public Instruction
L. R. Alderman
State Printer Willis S. Duniway
Attorney General ... A. M. Crawford
Supreme Court
Chief Justice, Robert Eakin ; Asso
ciate Justices, Thomas A. McBride,
George H. Burnett, Frank A.
Moore, Henry J. Bean.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
State Senator C. L. Hawley
Representatives
Ira u. 1'oweii
F. W. Chambers
County Judge Ed. F. Coad
County Commissioners
William Hidden
... S. H. Petre
County Clerk E. M. Smith
Sheriff J. M. Grant
Treasurer Tracy Staats
Assessor C. S. Graves
School Superintendent II. C. Seymour
Surveyor B. F. Beezley
Coroner R. L. Chapman
CITY OFFICERS.
Mayor J. R. Craven
Councilman-at-Large . .W. A. Ayres
Couneilmen
Ward No. 1 H. L. Fenton, .
II. G. Campbell.
Ward No. 2 Tracy Staats,
J. G. McBee.
Ward No. 3 F. J. Coad,
A, J, Barham.
Auditor and Police Judge
Charles Gregory
City Attorney ... W. L. Tooze, Jr.
City Treasurer W. G. Vassall
City Engineer J. J. Sammoiw
Street Commis'er . P. S. Greenwood
Night Policeman
D. J. Grant
LODGE DIRECTORY
REBEKAHS Almira Lodge No. 26
meets first and third Wednesday of
each month at Odd Fellows' Hall.
NOLA COAD, Noble Grand.
OKA COSPER, Secretary.
WOODMEN OF THE WORLD Dal
las Camp No. 209 meets in W. O.
W. Hall on Tuesday evening of
each week.
TRACY STAATS, Consul Com.
W. G. VASSAL, Clerk.
WOMEN OF WOODCRAFT Mistle-
toe Circle, No. 33. Women of Wood
craft, meets in Woodman Hall sec
ond and fourth Wednesday nights
In each month.
MARY STARR, Guardian Neighbor.
SADIE LYNN, Clerk.
A. F. & A. M. Jennings Lodge, No.
9, meets second and fourth Fridays
of each month, in Masonic hall on
Main street. Visiting brethren wel
come. W. L. SOEHREN. W. M.
WALTER S. MUIR, Secretary.
UNITED ARTISANS Dallas Assem
bly, No. 46, meets on first and third
Mondays of each month at Wood
man hall. Visiting members made
welcome.
F. G. WING. M. A.
WILLIS SIMONTON. Secretary.
COME ON!
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PRINTING of every
description
Cards. Billheads. Circulars. Auc
tion and Show Bills. Pamphlets.
Law Blanks, Briefs. Blank Book.
Labels at Reasonable Price
For Twtctieta Century PrintiEf coat
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BY
F.EIRIGG
CE5frRALPC!f?Tj
ROGUE RIVER
VALLEY
OREGON
CORRESPONDENCE ft
This matter must not be reprinted with'
out special permission.
Life has held great Joy this spring
for the small boy who was so fortunate
as to possess a pair of rubber boots,
The wading was fine.
The poultryman living in the warmer
climate does not have to bother with
frozen combs, but he has a correspond'
ingly bigger trouble on his hands as
the result of Inroads of lice and mites
There are flocks of hens that net
their owners from $2 to $4 per head
yearly. There are others that don't
net more than from 20 to 40 cents. A
part of this difference in income Is due
to the hens, but more to the man and
the care.
While the Impression seems to be
somewhat general that a cow's milk is
richest when she is fresh, tests show
that milk contains the largest per cent
of butter fat when the cow is far ad
yanced in her period of lactation in
fact. Just before she goes dry.
California Is the only state which
makes a production of borax. The
outout for 1910. according to the
United States geological surrey, was
42,357 short tons, having a value of a
trifle over $200,000. About one-half of
the amount of borax consumed Is iu
the enameling Industry, in the making
of kitchen and sanitary ware.
In case it should be found nec
essary to use seed corn of a rather
low germinating power far better re
sults will be secured if the seed bed
is put in extra good tilth and if the
planting of the corn is put over until
the ground Is thoroughly warm. Such
seed will need the most favorable con
ditions, and those should be provided
so far as possible.
A good pair of eyes and a sharp knif6
may be able to distinguish with con
siderable accuracy as between a dead
and a live germ in a kernel of corn,
but the combination falls down when it
comes to telling a kernel with a vigor
ous germ from one in which the germ
is wenk. Herein lies the chief argu
ment iu favor of the test box. which
shows plainly what kernels are dead
and what are strong and weak.
Few farmers feel that they have
time to give to an elaborate corn breed
ing plot, but none of them is so busy
that he can't take time to select the
best hundred ears in his supply of
seed and. after testing to be sure of
its vitality, plant in a plot on the
south or west sides of bis main field.
Doing this will not only simplify the
matter of selecting the seed ears next
fall, but the location of the best and
most thrifty type of corn in the posi
tion mentioned will mean that much
of the remainder of the field will be
fertilized by the tassels on these bet
ter stalks.
A reader of these notes who some
years ago lived at Trinidad. Colo., suc
ceeded in ridding her house of eock
rouehe after trying a number of things
by putting some of the following mix
ture In several places on the floor
where they were in the habit of run
ning: Equal parts powdered sugar and
powdered borax, scented with a few
drops of essence of oil of lavender.
Whether the insects ate of this com
biuatlon and found it did not agree
with their digestive gearing or wheth
er they were offended at the smell of
lavender is not stated. At any rate,
they quit the place.
With popcorn so Npulnr an article
of cor. sumption as it Is. there Is no
farm iu any portion of the oru belt
that should not grow a patch to sup
ply the family needs. Poorn will da
well on auy land that will produce a
good crop of corn. It should le culti
vated and cared for la the sauie gen
eral tnauner as corn.' though It may
be planted more closely. It ripens in
about 10 days, and It should be
shocked as soon as It is ripe, so that
it will dry out well before huklng. It
will produce from fiftr to sixty bushels
of ears with a good stand, and this will
ftch from f 1 to $2 per bushel.
According to a recent report of th
Wisconsin state dairy commissioner.!'.)
pounds of American cheese wber as it
comes from the rat contains fire and
three-fourths pounds of milk sugar,
fourteen ounces of nitrogenous mutter
and flre ounces of butter fat. Of the
Ihreo elements mentioned by far the
Bost Important Is the milk sti-ar. but
the Talue of this Is largely lost, as
wbey i usually allowed to nonr. If
tested at ooc to ISO degree F. tbe
bacterial life contained I kiHeL with
the result tbst tbe miik stsrar retains
Its form aod des not chance to lactic
acid. Fanner living la tbe THnitj of
cheese factoclea wou'd do well to take
tfcU fst rato conW!erstioo and see
that tbe wbev r(Tct of tbe factory
la ateriUxed la tbe ma oner sectioned.
Cleanliness will do much to improve
the quality of butter in fact, first
quality depends upon cleanliness of
the raw material.
If you don't believe In keeping cows
comfortable visit the stables of the
men who get large milk checks. That
ought to convince you.
That black silk dress that you prom
ised the good wife some time ago and
that you have put off getting will do
her a" lot more good if she can wear it
to kirk or a party with you some day
soon than as a shroud for her as she
lies in ber coffin.
If the currant or gooseberry bushes
become Infested with worms the pest
can be abated by dusting the bushes
with powdered white hellebore or
spraying them with a solution made
by adding the hellebore at the rate of
a tablespoonful to a quart of water.
It may be evidence of a monkey an
cestry to like them, but on the ap
proach of spring there is absolutely
nothing that goes to the spot like a
dish (a good sized one) of greens. As
accessories there should be boiled pota
toes and a piece of well cooked salt
pork.
The dandelion Is a perennial pest,
and worse some seasons than others.
There are two methods of getting rid
of it One is to take a sharp knife
and cut the planls off Just below the
crown. The other and this method is
recommended for larger areas is to
spray the young aud tender plants
with a strong solution of iron sul
phate or green vitriol. This puts the
plants out of commission, but does not
seriously injure the grass.
The milk distributers' trust In the
New England states has forced or is
keeping the price it is willing to pay
for milk down to the point where a
good many farmers cannot produce it
and make both ends met. with the re
sult that in some sections farmers are
quitting the dairy business entirely
and going Into poultry raising. It
would seem that If enough do this it
would materially improve the market
conditions for those that keep on with
the cows.
The severity of the past winter was
shown in the freezing over of many
lakes so completely that all air boles
were closed. Now that the Ice in
these lakes has disintegrated the result
of the closing of these air holes is mani
fest in the presence of thousands of
dead flsh floating to the shore. At
Lake Wlnoha, Minn., so many fish died
by suffocation during the Winter that
the health authorities had no small
job on their hands disposing of their
decaying carcasses.
A farmer living Wear Puyallup.
Wash., has carried out the color
scheme 'to the limit In his choice of
animals which he raises. His prefer
ence is white, and he has carried it
out in white buildings and fences.
white horses and ponies, white cattle.
hogs, sheep and goats. cbicUeus. ducks.
geese, turueys aua guinea iowis. .-oi
satisfied with his outlay, he bus Spitz
dogs uud Persian cats, an albino elk.
hree white deer, a mountain sheep
und a polar bear cub.
In the valley in which the writer's
ranch is located there Is frequently
considerable damage to older apple
trees from sun sculd. the damage re
sulting from the warm, bright days.
followed by frosty uights. This season
we bare safeguarded against this
damage by tying long piue shuUes on
the southwest side of each trunk.
This will shade them aud keep the
sap from flowing too rapidly. This sun
scald damage Is likely to occur at any
time during the winter, but is often
most serious duriug April and May.
The housewife can save herself much
bard labor at housecleuning time by
the use of her head that is. by study
ing best methods aud by employing all
the substitutes for "elbow grease" she
can tiud. Along this line It will pay
ber to read the household hints found
in tbe various magazines published for
women. While many of the sugges
tions thereiu contained are imprac
ticable, if not iudeed ridiculous, still
some ideas are furnished which are
well worth consideration and trial by
busy women whose work ut best Is not
light.
Many a youug wife, all unconscious
ly, places her husband in a tryiug po
sition by Incurring expenditures quite
beyond his meaus. Id many instances
tbe bl.-uue for this state of affairs is
chargeable largely to the husband be
cause of his failure to take bis wife
Into bis confidence. Many a home has
been wrecked or had its happiness
largely destroyed through failure on
the part of the husband to luforrn his
wife of his exact financial status. It
Is her right to know the volume of the
Income. If she does and is not willing
to co-operate In making both ends
meet, then tbe blame rests on herself.
A bill has been passed by both
bouses of congress and has doubtless
ere this appears la print received the
pignatura of the president, which
makes some radical and much needed
changes In tbenitlonsl homestead laws.
In a general way the new law Is pat
terned after the Canadian bomeMend
laws, which are said to hare been re
sponsible for much of the emigration
from the felted States to Canada. Tbe
period tbe bomestesder has to reside
on k's cialra L reduced from five to
three year, wtiie tbe entryman and
kis family are allowed to he awty from
tbe claim Cre oonths daring each
year.
"THE TIME IS COf.MG WliEli
THE ELECTRIC MOTOR WILL
MOVE THE WORLD"
SAID THOMAS A.
Certain types of engines have more than 200 reclprocatine
The electric motor has but one moving or revolving part
Many of the prosperous factories of the state are operated today
with electricity served from central generating station.
Central station electric power
uur power ensuieeia win juune
1 HI 1
problems and render dependable, scientific reports, without charg,
Telephone 24
Oregon Power Company
605
Are You
Build ?
Let Us Quote You Prices
on all Your Lumber Bill
Will be pleased to send our salesman to call
on you upon request by
mail or phone
Dallas Lumber and
Logging Co.
Dallas,
Real Estate For Sale
My place of business is 608, Court St., Dallas, Oregon.)
If you are interested in buying or selling Real Estate oij
any kind I shall be glad to have a talk with you. V&o
straight commission business and keep in touch witkj
the best bargains throughout the valley. Read carefully
the following list and remember I am here to serreyuu.
No. 144. 68 acres of good land 1 and
1-2 miles from a good town; 20
acres in cultivation and In crop,
balance timber and pasture, 105
young fruit trees, six room fram-j
house, barn and other buildinsi.
good well, spring and creek, ail
fenced and first-class condition.
Price $4,000. Terms.
No. 145. 1S7 acres seven miles from
Dallas, 1-2 mile from school, 85
acres in cultivation, balance tim
ber and pasture, bearing orchard
and 650 young fruit trees, six room
frame house, new barn 30x40, gra
nary and other buildings, land all
fenced and has running water all
year. Price 160.00 per acre.
No. 18. 80 acres three miles from a
good town, one mile from school,
12 acres In cultivation and more
can be easily put in cultivation,
small house, barn and other build
ings, good young orchard Just com
mencing to bear, all fenced and the
best of soil, no rock or soap stone;
one good team of horses, 2 cows
CITY PROPERTY.
j No. 5S. Large 9 room two story
house, plastered and In good con
dition: cellar and cement base
ment, good well, chicken house,
woodshed. 4 large lots, 5 bearing
fruit trees. Price $1800. One
half cash, balance easy terms. Will
consider a trade.
No. Al. Cloee in C room dwelling
In first class condition. Lot 60x140
good new barn, wood shed. etc.
This Is a good home and the price
F. E. COOK s..
EDISON RECENTLY
increases out mi t and ... X
, .
careuu investigations of
Court Street
Going to
Oregon
FARMS
and 2 beifei calves, twa tarn.
ons and in fact all tools include
for $4 0 per acre; 1-2 ca"
No. 81. 83 acres four miles ftoai
Dallas. 2 and one-half T
Falls City, one mile
25 acres in cultivation. 2 and one
a In
garden, balance in timber and
ture, small frame house, f
house, goat barn, etc., 1200 rs
berries, soil good dark loam. vr.
$60 per acre. Half cash.
No. 46. 30 acres of land all
soil dark rich loam and .11 j
on a good wagon road and J
railroad. Will sell all or in
tracts. Price $110 per acre.
S3.
5 acres Just on. -
town on a gooa r..u.
all the way to town. All
vation and part in ' "
room house, wood house
house and good well: 3
fruit trees and some berries.
$1700. Good terms.
pn
and terms very '
$1200.
lot in Sr
No. 62. Good nig- - ,
west Ilas 0xl44. Urga ban
32 with shed foil fpr
side, desirable part of tow
t 95 A
No. 22- Two large lots on , :,
part tawn, 61x14. J ,
this property 1. very
will e'.l yta beth f 5
REAL ESTATE