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DALLAS. OREGON, TUESDAY. MAY 27, 1913 . . " NO. 25
DECORATION DAYPLANS MAWWmmmMMM DALLAS FEATURE
I L r mm rk p unn s A f 1 1 f w f rt I
tfil ni n Mi)Wa MHAItU IUSALUUII I miIIVAL
MEET HERE PROPOSAL AT SALEM
GREAT CROWD WITNESSES EX- CITY ESTOPPED FROM ISSUING OVER 500
L.Ja l COPXWOHT-,PRKrkMOcT.ON. H CITING EVENTS OF SATUR- LICENSE TO JAMES V. CHIT-
DAY BETWEEN POLK TY IN ACCORDANCE WITH
Wfi V'' I ?&SA COUNTY SCHOOLS. VOTE OF COUNCIL.
Plans for Friday Holds
Promise of Interest For
Veterans and Their Friends
fjemory of Comrades Who Bore Arms For Their Country To
Have Fitting Recognition; Parade in Morning to
Be Followed by Patriotic Exercises at
City Park or Armory
Willi the formulation of a program
iipd arrangements for a parade, plans
far (lie proper observance of Deco
ration Day in Dallas are now com
plete. The parade will form at the
vjrinorv. at 10 o'clock on Friday
nforning, but the line of march will
i, determined by the condition of
streets later. John E. Miller has
;,oii appointed marshal of the day.
The parade will be headed by the
i&llas band followed by company G
N. (. as guard of honor for the
etcraiis of the Grand Army of the
Ifrpublic and Woman's Relief Corps.
Students of Dallas College and of
She high school and the public schools
vll also participate in the parade.
I Morning Program.
f The patriotic exercises will be held
either at the City Park or the ar
njory, owing to weather conditions,
iqt in either case will consist of the
fallowing:
Selection, Dallas band.
J Invocation, Hev. Cornwall.
I Song, "America," audience.
Selection, Male quartett.
I Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Rev.
Cf 1'. Gates.
Selection, High School quartett.
Address, Walter L. Tooze, Jr.
Strewing flowers for the unknown
dead. .
Selection, Male quartett.
Selection, band.
A delegation representing the vet
erans will visit the Dallas cemeteries
on the morning of Friday and will
decorate the graves of departed com
rades. In this connection it is urg
ed that all who have (lowers to spare
are requested to leave them at Staf
rin's drug store not later than 8
o'clock on Friday morning.
A committee from the G. A. Rr.
visited the city cemetery on Sunday
afternoon and placed fiags on the
graves of the following comrades:
John lseman, Joseph Lowe, B. F.
Reasoner, J. E. Smith, J. M. Conno
way, William Grant, H. C. Dirnick,
Samuel (load, William Gilliam, Cor
nelius Gilliam, Milton Thompson, I).
S. Martin, Samuel Sloan, William
Siebring, A. Siefarth, Simon Tuttle,
Martin Hisey, G. W. Reed.
Anyone knowing of other United
States soldiers who are buried in the
cemetery and whose names do not ap
pear in the above list, are kindly re
quested to notify B. Lovelace at Dun
gan's paint store before Friday, as
it is earnestly desired that all graves
of those who have borne arms for
the union, be properly decorated.
New $20,000 Bank Building
Will Soon Rise in Dallas
Dallas City Bank Will Build on Cor
I ner of Main and Mill Streets;
I Work to Start Soon.
f KxKMiditure of probably more than
2(1,000 in a modern store and office
imilding, was the decision reached
yesterday at a meeting of the board
of directors of the Dallas City bank
when a deal was closed for the pur
chase of the Morris Klinger proper
ly, corner of Main and Mill streets
now occupied by a one-story frame
imilding used as a meat market,
fjater a deal was arranged for the
imichase of the Mattison and Mat
ihews property adjoining the Kling
i'T corner on the north and west and
ibis insures the erection of a build
ing Ii(lx84 feet. Active building op
erations will begin early in July ac
cording to present plans of the bank.
The present meat market building
will he razed and the store room
now being tiitted up for saloon pur
poses will be moved off the lot to
-some temporary location to be de
cided. I Cream Brick Construction.
i While plans have not yet been
drawn, and although the exact na
ture of the architecture has not been
determined, it is probable that the
flow building will be of cream brick
construction, or facing, on Main and
Mill streets. Aside from the bank
ing room, which will occupy the cor
ner, there will be two store rooms
w Main street, and one facing on
Mi!! street It is understood that
lie north room on Main street has
seen leased for two years, while an
npiion to lease has leen given on the
M il street room. There will be one
ft'"!!! on Main street which has not
yes lx-en leased. The upper floor will
fx- litted up for office purposes and
will he modern in every respect. En
trance to the upper floors will be by
stairway which will rise from the
iter of the building on the Main
'street frontage.
i Start on Masonic Building.
! A force of workmen began last
"-k on the addition and improve-
-'it of the Masonic temple build
in i: on Main street. The first work
ai !( r way is the digging of trenches
' d tiie building of the concrete foun
dations for the 20 foot extension to
tl e rear of the present building
will give the occupants of the
kver floor additional store space.
A- l as already been stated in these
i iinns the second floor will be used
- a banquet hall bv the lodge while
!i ; third floor, which will be added.
''' le used for lodge purpose.
Hotel Addition Soon.
J- W. Crider, owner of the prp
"' announces that plans have
drawn for the addition to the
H -1 Xew Scott which he has in
i and that this work also will be
r n m a few days. A new concrete
k -i-'H!.2 will be built on the lot ad
t ' -it the Sterling Furniture store
building on the west and the upper
floor will he tittted up for hotel pur
poses and will connect with the pres
ent structure. This will give the
furniture company the new room to
the west of their present quarters
while a portion of the present store
room will be used to extend the din
ing room of the hotel.
These three projected new build
ing enterprises gives evidence that
Dallas will experience one of the
most substantial years in the line of
permanent improvements for some
time and, taken in connection with
the street work, means the expen
diture of a considerable sum in
wages and material during the pres
ent year. There are two other build
ing enterprises under consideration
which will also mean much to the
city but which The Observer is not
permitted to reveal at this time.
riAIIS FOR FOURTH
UNDER WAY
COMMITTEES TO HANDLE DE
TAILS OF AFFAIR NAMED.
Prices for Decorated Automobiles
and Store Buildings; Much Inter
est Shown in Arrangements.
With the apMiintnient of various
committees the arrangements oi
many details and a general discussion
of the affair. Dallas' coming big
F..tirth of Julv celebration, was giv-
- , i
en a substantial im.m t -j- t
meeting of the board of directors of j
the Dallas Commercial club held lat
night. The full nieniiK-rhip of the
board was present and much interot ,
in the coming celebration wa mani
fested. The following conm.it tees were
named: , ... ,,
Advertising and Tarad-W alter
L. T.H.ze. Jr.. W. V. Kuli-r. J. h.
Craven. ,.
Finance-harbs Ddveu. Hmrj
Serr. W. R. Kill-. Euirene i.-tcr.
T?.in.l Mumc AtLJM-n.eut cn.it-
tee of Commercial c! iH.
Other muic-Fred '
D. M. Metzger. J.d.n - Mi'"r.
Babv Carnar- Parade It. 11. t-
IratH.T.s-r. S. nzhry.
Sorts-H. L. Fenton. altfr I-T.-ze.
Ted. Srr.
f7.ncci..n-W. A. Ayres. .
Fuller. W. L. S-l.ren.
firework Her rr Srr
Pn-crara Ful"
ijf
GUI, lad, you bare your uniform.
MB 1 Klhen I put on the blue
NT ntart was Toung, my hope
were btgb.
I waa a boy (the you.
I thought that It waa great to do
Che bright and brave array,
But Uncle Sam'e regatta then
leant eomethtng more than play.
It meant long yeara from Bull Run'e field,
Olbere raw troopo felt the breath
Of leaden etorms, wboee Itghtntnga flashed
Hnd thunder epohe of death,
Co Hppomatto, where beneath
Per famous apple tree
Che sun went down upon the hope
Of those who fought with Jut.
It meant long marches and a bed
apon the froien ground,
Che open shy our only tents,
Che elements around.
It meant scant clotntng, slimmer fart
Hnd Insect teeming dens.
It meant dfeeaae and fever camps
Hnd southern prison pens.
It meant the fiercest fighting
Cht old world has ever seen '
from fair Oaks to the GHldcrncss
Hnd all the way between,
Hnd this with brothers of the blood,
from common lineage sprung,
taith the same sacred memories,
Cbelr speech a common tongue.
HII that Is over now, my lad.
Che passions have surcease,
dt have one flag, one hope, one land,
Hnd all our ways are peace.
6onc are the hatreds of the past
Che anguish and the tears.
Che battle scars are buried 'neatb
Che snows of fifty years.
Jlay you, my grandson, never know
8uch fractrlcldal scents,
But Keep alive their memory,
Co teach what freedom means.
Chrough them this land, as Lincoln said,
6aw liberty's new birth.
Chrough them she now has come to b
Che leader of the earth.
F.-t'er. H- "
Belt. H. C. Seymour.
Marshals of the Day W. E. Wil
i;.... iirliw ftiiff a-islants. John
lid .l""' -. v
Orr. Kickreall: J. C. Talbott. Falls
Citv; E. V. D. Paul. Bucll; Jdm
Sin'ipkins, Sprin? Valley; Asa Tay
lor. Indepeinlence.
Parade a Feature.
It jilanii'-d to riiake the morning
parade one of the features of the -ra-ioii.
and a substantial prize will
le offered for the lx-t decorated au
tomobile r.wne-l in Polk county ont
ide of Pallas, and another prize ill
le off. n-d f'T tlie tCNt decorated ma
,!,ii,c owned within the city. Prizes
! be offered for tlie -t dec
orate! buildinsr in tie citv.
It a arred to employ the Dal
!a band and it is probable that the
IVrrydale band will 1 wcured.
S-.ator Burkett. of Xebra.-ka. one
f tlie (lautanqna attraction, will
! the orator of the day.
FILE APPLICATIONS FOE LAND
O. & C. Railway Lands Still Proves
Attractive to Investors.
Ten applications for the purchase
of O. & C. railway lands in Polk
county were filed with County Clerk
Robinson today by John McKee.
These lands are a portion of the vast
tract under litigation and which a
recently decided adversely to the
company in federal court at Port
land. As stated elsewhere in today'
iiie, it is probable that these land
may never be ojen for settlement
and. if they are. many years will
probably elapse.
Birthday Surprise,
Mrs. J. C. Gavnor was given a sur
prise by the Ladies' aid swiety la-t
Friday afternoon, it Wing her birth
day. A pleasant social time was
lnt by all.
MULKEY MADE JUMP RECORD SAYS ORDINANCE VIOLATED
Sixteen-year Old Lad of Dallas High
School Surprises Attendants at
Event; Dallas Leads in Points
With Independence Second; Dallas
Wins Ball Game From Airlie.
Dallas sralloped away with the
honors in the Polk county school
field and track meet held in this city
last Saturday before one of the larg
est ciowds ever gathered here to wit
ness an athletic event. The meet
well repaid the crowd as it was ex
citing from first to last.
Dallas gathered in 74 points; Inde
pendence 41 points; Airlie 28 points;
Monmouth 10 nnd Bethel 1. Al
though Dallas has a heavy lead in
the points it is no indication that
the meet was not without its sensa
tional features.
Makes Thrilling Jump.
Mulkey, of Dallas, made a thrilling
mmt) ot 21 teet 5 inches, which
comes near being the record for
10 year old lad. The interseholastic
record for the country is 23 feet anil
5 inches, made bv E. T. Cook of
Ohio in 190(5. Mulkey 's jump is just
two feet behind the woild's inter
seholastic record. Considering the
fact that Cook had been in splendid
training for years for the event and
a much older lad than Mulkey, Mul
key s .pimp is remarkable.
Dallas Takes Ball Game.
Dallas took the ball game and the
county championship from Airlie m
the morning by a score ot 5 to 4
Many were of the opinion that Airlie
had a little the edge on the local
boys and it was certain at some
stages of the game that the visitors
did. Some squabble arose because it
was claimed by the visitors that Dal
las allowed Bevens, its pitcher, to
rest for half an hour near the close
of the game and that the rest allow-
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MANY FAST PLAYERS SEEN IN
NEW BASE BALL CLUB.
Men to be Given Tryout; Ted Serr
to Manage Team; List of Players
With Their Positions.
The Dallas base ball team has been
organized for the present season and
among the players who will tryout
are the following: Catchers, Shaw,
Serr, Ilerzog; pitchers. Barham, My
ers, Clark; first base, W. Too.c, K.
Bovdston; second base, r. Boydston;
short. Cooper; third base, Baker;
outfield, W. Barham, E. Barham, E.
Rice. All other local players who
are not on this list may receive a
fair tryout against these players by
reKirliiig at the public school
grounds Sunday morning at !) o'clock.
Material Looks Good.
The material looks good ami a
fast bunch should be the result of
careful picking ami elimination. For
catchers we have Shaw and his good
headwork and playing; Herog has
been playing with the high school
and his woik is well liked by all.
Serr has Im-ch playing with some of
the best teams in Portland and the
valley and has a good record in Cal
ifornia. Barham, Clark ami Meyers
are known to Im- capable of working
with the best on I lie mound anil
Wm. J. Coy, Complainant, Declares
City Has Not More Than 2300
People; Judge Galloway Grants
Injunction at Salem; Present Liq
uor Interests Accused.
Probability of a third thirst parlor
in Dallas was placed in the problem
atical class on Monday when City
Auditor Gregory was served with an
injunction, signed by William J.
Coy and issued by Judge William
Galloway at Salem on Saturday, re
straining liim (Gregory) from issu
ing a license to James V. Chitty, as
granted by the council at a recent
session under the provisions of a new
ordinance carrying an emergency
clause which also passed the council.
By the terms of his complaint up
on which the injunction was issued,
William J. Coy declares that the city
council is attempting to violate the
provisions of ordinance No. 14!),
passed November 21, .1010, which
provides that but one "license shall
be issued for each 1000 inhabitants
or major fraction thereof within the
corporate limits of the city. Coy
sets up the allegation that there are
now but 2300 people within the cor
porate limits and cites the fact that
but 2124 were here in 1910, accord
ing to the government census, as
proof of his assertion. Members of
the city council who voted for the is
suance of the license to Chitty de
clare their belief that there are more
than 2500 people here.
Mr. Coy, who is a resident of this
city, and a well-known prohibition
ist, gives a bond in the sum ot .flOO
with J. P. Rogers ns additional
surety to hold the city against dam
age in the event that the final hear
ing on the injuction shall bo decided
agaist him.
Bnngs Strong Contention.
Since the filing of the injunction
and even before, the probability that
a third saloon might soon bo in op
eration here caused the widest com
ment, some declaring that, the city
ouncil had deliberately violated the
provisions of ordinance 14!) while
others asserted, with equal vehe
mence, that the council was entirely
within their rights.
The first draft of the present sa
loon ordinance was published in the
county pners for (he information of
the voters on October 11, 1!)10. The
ounty was dry at that time, but the
council explained to the voters that
this ordinance had been prepared iin
advance ot the election to let the
M'ople know how the liquor business
would be controlled and regulated in
the event that the county went wet
at the November election. The sec
tion limiting the number of saloons
in the city was worded as follows:
"In issuing such license, or or
dering them to be issued, the said
city council shall permit but one
license to be issued for every 10110
inhabitants or fraction (hereof, re
siding wil hilt the- corporate limits
of Dallas."
The election was held on the Hth
day of November following, nnd the
county was voted wet. Thirteen days
later or on November 21 the city
council passed the liquor ordinance
as originally drafted, with the excep
tion that the foregoing section was
changed to read "one license for
cv.iv HMHl iniialiitanls, or major
fraction thereof."
Liquor Interests Blamed.
Chitty and friends of the third sa
loon idea declare that the proprie
tors of the two saloons already in
business here are the real movers lie-
hind the injunction proceedings, and
that they are using the prohibition
forces as catspaws to keep out com
petition. I Ins is o:eniei by the pres-
nt saloon interests while those op
posed to the liquor business state
that Ibey are against the move be-
Too.e and Bovdston rank with some cause the honor of the city was
of the best semi-pro men in the ' pledged to the dry element prior to
country. Bovdston 's work at second! the Novemlicr 1 III 0 election and that.j
will le hard to improve and ilh Iwcausc of that pledge, the county j
CooH-r at shott that xsition will Ik j decided to license saloons,
one of the strongest on the team. I It is not known when the case willi
"Home Kim Baker." as he is known j lc heard further in Judge Galloway's
by all, has a fine record and has J court. The Judge, it is uudcistood.
broken up more tames bv bis slui'-iwill lie here some time Ix-fore the
tint' at opiortune times than any j new judicial district law goes into j
other player in the valley. L Itice effect earlv in June, but whether he,
and W. and E. Barham will lie hard , will take up the question at that time!
to beat in the outfield, for they are is not known. j
fast and are hard hitters. j Chitty has already purchased his
Ted Serr who has bad considera- bar fixtures and stock and a lar-.-e
ble experience in managing some ot j sum has been expended on the build-j
the best teams in Portland and else-ling and improvements all of which i
where, has to-en selected as manager must await the adjudication of the
of the new Dallas aggregation. J trouble in the courts.
BOOSTERS FROM
HERE MAKE LIFE MERRY
AT STATE CAPITAL
LAST WEEK.
THIS CITY IS WHOLE PARADE
Enthusiasm Runs Riot; Visit Means
Hundreds of People at Big Fourth
of July Celebration and Chautau
qua Meetings; Engine 1361 Carries
Moose Lodge 1361 to "Doins."
Drawn by engine 1361, gaily deco
rated and screeching greetings, mem
bers of Moose lodge 13(51 of Dallas
invaded Salem Friday night for one
of the roundup times of the year.
Over 500 Dallasites were in Salem on
that day, Salem-Dallas day of the
Moose carnival.
And it was all Dallas on that day.
If there was ever any doubt of the
boosting proclivities of the people
of this city they were swept away
in a tide of enthusiasm Friday.
In the parade Friday afternoon
Dallas was practicnlly the "whole
thing." Out of a sparse number of
automobiles Dallas carried away
the honors with over half the cars
and for decorations the cars of this
city wei-e far in the lead. With gid
dy advertisements of the Fourth of
July celebration and Chautauqua
here ns well as of the Dallas suprem
acy in the world of prunes and fruit
the thousands wdio .had gathered at
the carnival will have a vivid re
membrance of this city and undoubt
edly the showing will mean that hun
dreds of Marion county people will
bo in Dallas for those big events.
Dallas Crowd Helps.
At night Dallas was also the main
feature. Without the Dallas crowd
and the Dallas band, Friday, the big
day of the carnival, would have suf
fered materially. This is admitted
by those who were in churge and Sa
lem Moose and Salem people have
been singing the praises of the Dallas
contingent ever since.
In npenking of the showing made
by this city the Salem Statesman had
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PAVI IRK TO
M SOOII
NEW PLANT FOR USE HERE
ALREADY ON WAY.
Curb Work May Begin Next Week;
Work on Clay and Ash Streets Re
sumed; Requisitions I Necessary.
Paving operations in the city of
Dallas will begin soon after the first
of June according to members of the
Clark & llenery Construction com
pany which has the contract. A new
paving plant has been shipjied to
Dallas and will probably arrive next
week. The first work undertaken
will be the building of the curbing.
Work on Clay ami Ash streets
which was susMUided when the rainy
season began last fall was resumed
this morning and will be pushed for
ward to completion as rapidly as
weather conditions will ermit. Ad
ams & Martin who were awarded the
contract for hauling all rock requir
ed by the city at 70 cents er yard,
signed up Monday morning and will
ilo the work on Ash and Clay streets.
They will also haul rock for the pro
mised improvement of Fairviey av
enue, the city doing the grading.
Decision that hereafter all mater
ial purchase, f,,r the city must oniy
lie on requisition signed by the com
mittee, or some member thereof, has
been made bv the street committee
which has lieen designated purchas
ing agents for the city. Heretofore,
it is said to have ltecn the practice
to order supplies and other material
indiscriminately but hereafter all
who exet to have their bills allow
ed must l,e supplied with requisition
for each item thereof.
A nobby new sign gracefully at
tached to the d'Mir jamb on the Nortb
side of the city hall now conveys in
formation as to the whereabouts of
the office of the "City Auditor, Po
lice Judge and City F.ncineer" and
hereafter it will not lie necessary for
visitors who have business with these
officials to blunder into the city jail
or climb the nice stefd b !l tower to
locate them.