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II 5 Jim l fe (11 ittttitTf fWHi j MiftfUM VOL. 25 PAULAS. OREGON, TUESDAY. JUNE 17. 1913 NO. 31 nm if riTii nninrnn niTTrnn - I . . i- i iuiimi nm, i r; silllllll EtID MAY EMPLOY MEtf MAKE lllfill BV "BARNFY'S" I r, I fur on nr murf tuiii w it lull ULI1UU Ul IIIUIIL 1 1 II 111 -s ' $ ffiWE BEfERS J THIRTEEN 8 BBS YT 7 LARGEST CLASS IN HISTORY OF COUNTY PASSES EXAMINA TIONS WITH FINAL PER CENTAGE OF 87.9. ONLY 29 OUT OF 241 FAIL Not a Single Failure in Spelling in County; Monmouth Pupil Has the Highest Average; Educators Pleas ed With Showing; Exercises at Rickreall on Saturday. With a percentage of 87.9, and with (inly 2!) failures out of a total nf 241 pupils of the county who wrote in (he tests, the report of the eighth grade examinations for the school year 1912-13, just issued by County Superintendent II. C. Sey mour,' shows a very encouraging condition of the schools of .the coun ty and one in which every citizen ami friend of the schools may take a pardonable pride. Of the 29 pu pils that failed, a few moved out of the county during the interim be tween the first and 'the final exam inations, and it" is probable that the majority would have passed had they remained here. Forty-one schools had pupils in the examinations of which there were no failures in 26 schools, every pupil passing. Not a failure was recorded in the county in spelling and 94 pupils made n perfect score of 100 in agriculture. Tims, the eighth grade graduating class for Polk county for 1913 will lie the largest in the history of the county. Miss Hawley Ranks Highest. Miss Francel Hawley.'of the Mon mouth school, daughter of Senator 0. L. Hawley, has the honor of mak ing the. highest percentage in the county and is credited with the re markable record of 99..r). The Monmouth eighth grade class of 12 passed with the highest aver age in the. county, having a class av erage of 95.8; 'the Bethel class of five pupils made an average of A4.o, while the Falls City class of 21 pu pils made an average of 93.7. The Rridge'iort class of two, passed with an average of 94.5. "1 am very much pleased with the result of the'examinations," declared Superintendent Seymour yesterday. "It shows that the teachers and the pupils have been doing some good work and that Polk county's school system is still at the head. This re sult has been accomplished because of the faithful and conscientious la lnirs of our corps of teachers and the interest taken in the work by the pupils themselves and I am proud of bolli touchers and pupils." Graduation Exercises Saturday. What will be the largest eighth grade graduation class in the history (Continued on Page Six) POLK FAIR BOARD LEAVES QUESTION OPEN FOR TIME. Chas. A. Park Named President and W. V. Fuller Secretary at Meeting Held in Dallas Monday. Wiih (lie election of officers and a PtncrJ discussion of the situation, 'he recently annointed Polk County Fair !oard met on Monday in this rity and completed its organization, but hit the matter of the selection for a site for the county fair for a Tieeti! which will be held on Mon day. June 30. Charles A. Park, of We-i Salem, was elected president, -id W. V. Fuller, of Dallas, secre tary. n motion Secretary Fuller was in rm:..d to notify all commercial or---ni.itions jn the rounty, also all Prai-Lv and other societies, and resi dent. f ti1. county generally, to ap pear at the meeting to be held on June :;n an,j forth the claims of Iheii various communities as aspir ant. f,.r the county fair location. In this connection it mar be stat 1 tii.it. so far. Dallas and Independ ent are tf,e only towns in the county that .pir t0 be fair location, but u i. j.sible that some others may -r the list,. At any rate, the W! .Wide,! to give all an oppor- II FI SlIEIIIECUll IE 30 is sum HOPEWELL HITTERS CAN'T I j SECOND ANNUAL COMMENCE- NEW LAW DOES NOT APPLY TO Y SOLVE DELIVERY AND DAL- MENT OF DALLAS HIGH CONTRACT MADE PRIOR TO "f, I ) LAS WINS SUNDAY SES- J SCHOOL ATTRACTS JUNE 2, SAYS ATTORNEY j i SION 5 TO 1. I ,0 iilll ' BIG CROWD. GENERAL. I lllll J 20 IS STRIKE OUT RECORD Fenton Helps at Bat and His Timely Bingles Are Feature of Matinee; Hopewell Bunch Good Ball Team But One Bad Inning is Disastrous; Notes of Game. To the accompaniment of the sing ing of the little birds in the grand stand, and their cheerful "tweet, tweet," the bunch of hopeful aspir ants for diamond hours from Hope well, went down to defeat last Sun day afternoon in 'the Dallas base ball lot to the decidedly decisive score of 5 to 1. "Barney" was about all there was to it for Dallas, and Fenton and Clarke were about all that was needful at the bat. Dallas' slabster was at his best and had the visitors swinging their heads off before the session was well under wav. The further it progressed, the more they swung, until the last man went down in one-two4hree order in the hrst of the ninth, and a total of 20 strike outs was credited to this young gentle man who recently graduated from the high school team. One Bad Inning. Even at that, things didn't look very rosy for Dallas until along about the middle of the game. The Hopewell aggregation had succeeded in pushing one over in the nrst on two hits, a passed ball and an error of Geo. Cooier at second and it was one, two, three for the locals until the sixth when the fireworks liegan. Wayne Barham was given a life at first when Dennis let the ball get away from him and he kept right on to second without trouble. A free pass to first, two singles, and more boots, resulted in a total of three scores for Dallas to which two more were added in the eighth on singles by Walt Barham and Fenton, a boot by Dennis and a wild pitch. Cleve Woods who starred on the mound for the visitors, did a good stunt in the flinging department un til the sixth, when he had his trou bles, and poor support which lost him the matinee. While his strike out record is not unusual, neverthe less he kept the hits well scattered and only three of the locals were able to solve his delivery safely. He fielded his ixtsitimi like a veteran, accepting 12 chances with but two bobbles. Makes Remarkable Record. Barney's record of 20 strikeouts comes very near equaling any previ ous performance on the base ball diamond. The visitors simply could ( Continued on Page Six) ADULTERY IS CHARGED IN AC TION OF MRS. IDA PHILLIPS. Wants Custody of Minor Child and $15.00 Monthly Alimony; Other Suits Filed in Polk Circuit Court. Charging adultery and naming an Ide,,-ndence woman en,Ida B. PhiH.! "T'" "Z ,;,, fr divorce iron. I, f in the rout nun..,. ' . - . h S'HH the COUpie -,r . Minn., several years " ' thev have reded f-r Ust past in P'- ; r' r , ,iff a.ks f-r n a -ola-e -ad for the cu-f-ly of -old son of the M..n. " the KMirt to award i,. r i month fromdclend.ii.t t"--- , 1 can- and ed.u th.n -f " Other Suit Fued- r j - ''-"'"v; : . , ,;.t ri;; r '" al. action to .i.n-t " -r ter for plaintiff. t.. I 5 I.nr'arv. 1 '' , ".. .e-...Ti to ' Isaac M. "' v.r.- ! an eiite: John H. , M D. U. . 'V " title: J. H. H. w.rf.-r p- Carl Frederic Steckelberg, noted vio linist, who will appear at the Dal las Chautauqua in connection with the Artists' Trio, for two concerts on the second day. McVeigh and tharp success ful BIDDERS. Lee Crusher Not to be Operated; Gravel From Independence Bunk ers at 25 Cents per Yard. Contract for the operation of the county rock crusher near Willamina for the season was awarded by the county court on Saturday to Sam McVeigh on his bid for 87 cents per cubic yard, and the hauling contract for the same quarry was awarded to A. Cr. Tharp whose bid ranged in price from two cents per cubic, yard for the first quarter mile to 55 cents for three miles. Bids for crushing rock at the Lee quarry were !so opened but were not awarded pending the closing of a deal with Skinner & Larson of In dependence for gravel. Later a con tract was closed with the Independ ence firm for gravel at 25 cents per yard f. o. h. cars at that place. Ac cording to the figures for freight charges previously supplied the court, this will make the gravel cost StiVi cents ier yard delivered at any sta tion on tlie Salem, Falls City & Western west of Dallas, while the charge here is 73V2 cents per yard. At Monmouth gravel will be furnish ed for road puroses. for a fraction over 42 cents ier yard. These prices ns flip most favorable the county has ever received and are much cheaper than the rock crushers can be operated, judged by the bids received on Saturday. Other bidders on the rock crush ing and hauling jobs were J. M. Sears, and Bidwell & Hayden eom- pany. SALEM COMES SUNDAY Watt Shipp's Team to Meet Dallas; Final Game Between Salem and McMinnville May Come Here. Watt Shipp's base ball team of Salem, will meet the Dallas aggrega tion al the local park on Sunday. June according to the announce ment of Manager Kerr. The team w a ta-t one and a spirited contest should result. u effort is iH-inir made to secure the final same la-tween the Salem and the McMinnville teams for this city. Both teams have won one game each ad the third contest, which must be Iaved at some neutral .int, should L 'a humn, r. It is ui.der.tood that McMiinville has a creed to come to bulla and negotiations are nw in ro!ne.s with the Salem team. The ,T.m'f t ph'wd on June 2!. PUU OIL WELL CASING Operations at Whitekcr Oil Pros pect Now conned to Removal of Six-Inch Pipe to Permit Drilling. Ver f-Y.rs it in i'e to re- ,! ,!., -. -d i-i'.eh eaMt:g L"!.r ,i 1-.!t..t.i of the Whiteaker , ' e", l.f-! I.y -' ..:..ie.l at tie m J' I"- ' r . - I I eH v l f- r:t i 1 -' ,:j V r. :ie. COURT LETS IK PROGRAM IS INTERESTING PAVING CONTRACT MODIFIED "s , Address to Class by President Ho man is Feature of Evening; Salu tatory by Lena Skersies and Vale dictory by Loren Butler Win Ap plause. 4 4 - ,,, Class tf 1913. The class of 191 11 is the sec- oud one to graduate from the Dallas High school. Its person- uel is as follows: Alice Miles, Ruth Marie Shaw, Minnie Pearl Phillips, Carolyn Anna Gohrke, Josephine Wilhel- mina Luebke, Ethel Claudia Brown, Ruth Virginia Campbell, Lena Gertrude Skersies, Loren Gardner Butler, Frank Hill Campbell, Julius Allen Herzog, Victor Rav Boydston, Frank Harold Willson. (By E. F.) Amidst a bewildering array of fragrant rose blossoms that made the air heavy with their perfume, banked by an artistic frame work of ever green boughs with the figures " Mil" interwoven in white roses, and wit nessed by an enthusiastic! and inter ested audience of their friends and neighbors, the graduating class of 1913 of the Dallas High school en joyed a most auspicious commence ment at the assembly room of the high school building on Friday night. The class of 3913, consisting of 13 graduates, and holding its exercises on Friday the thirteenth, is worthy of the splendid institution in which it has completed the course of study; and a credit to the corps of instruct ors whose ability has been instru mental in making this result possi ble. Every number on the program was carried out as published and every one was interesting and instructive. Esecially so was the splendid ad derss delivered to the class by Pres ident Homan, of the Willamette University, of Salem. Seldom has a graduating' class in any institution been so fortunate in the selection of its final adviser and certainly no au dience was ever more interestingly (Continued on Page Six.) BUYS CANNING PLANT Strawberry Growers Invest in Plant to Save Their Fruit When Case Quotations Decline. When the price of strawlwrries de cline to less than $1.00 ))er crate, the public will not find fruit from the II lihee tracts on the market hereafter, according to the declaration of the growers. While in Poitland last week, W. V. Fuller purchased a small canning plant which has arrived and is being made ready for service. The capacity is something like 1.000 to l.')00 cans daily and a special effort will be made to put up fruit of ex cellent quality that will find .a ready market. PAVING PLANT IS HERE Machinery for Clark & Henery Com pany Arrives But Unfinished Spur Track Prevents its Installation. Tl... ..ai-iior i.ltint ol-ilen.! bv i ne lie. ... . i . , (the Clark & Henery company for the manufacture of the top dres.in for ti. Ii.llic i.a In" has arrived from California, but. as the Suit hen. Pa cific company ha not completed the connection with the spur to the old Spanlding Mill company's plant in North Dalla. it cai.not b unload"!. This will not delay the woik, howev er, for riie present, and it i thought that the spreadm:: of the concrete !,;- may be started by Thursday. First to File Report. A. W. Fink, ch rk of Orchard. !,.-.! di.lnH No. 1. a the hrM I., Me In rr.rt for the prewtit year. A. lfen.ll. ho l,a held that h..:.or f'-r -veral ear. M-coi.d ai.d he declare he would have teen f rt. had not Fu k tMinte-l tip vveral (.J;;., ,f l;i!e Watii s him l it. !,VttI Vlieve ti.at a fellow without in , .t i at a di.advaj.ta in a ra. of this kind. PAVING CONTRACT MODIFIED City Council Adopts Resolution in Conformity With Decision; New Ordinances Passed; Disposal of Surplus Rock is Problem For Prop erty Owners. Resolution autlrori.ing the modifi cation of the contract entered into by the city with the Clark' & HeneVy construction company, relating to the hours of labor of the men in its em ployment), was passed by the city council at its regular meeting on Monday night. When the contract was entered info, it was thought that the new state law requiring that h boiers on all city contracts should not work more than eight bom's daily, would apply, hut, according to a re cent decision of the Attorney General, as explained by Attorney Oscar Hay ter, who appeared for the Clark & Henery company, it had been held that the law oid not apply Jo con tracts entered into before June 2, the date the new law went into effect. The resolution, therefore, provided that the company might employ their men for longer than the eight hours per day mentioned in the first con tract. In the-passage of the resolu tion, Councilman McBee was the only vote cast against it. Later, on motion of Councilman Fenton, the city attorney was instructed to bring in a resolution at the next meeting, extending the same concession to the contractors for hauling rock for the city, which agreement; had also been made prior to the going into effect of the new state law. New Ordinances Passed. An ordinance to license billiard and pool tables in billiard and pool halls was read the second time and passed with the following vole: Vot ing "yes," Councilmen Barber, Ilay ter, Gohrke and McBee; voting "no," Barham, Fenton and Risser. An ordinance placing fhe city mar shal on a flat salary of $50 per month and requiring him to turn all fees and other emoluments which he now re ceives into the city treasury, was passed unanimously. Resolutions appropriating the sum of $100 to pay the premium on in demnity insurance for city employes at the rock crusher and one appro priating $(il.H0 to pay for the pur chase of a screen jacket for the crusher, were passed. Disposal of Surplus Rock. The question of fhe disposal of the surplus rock, that must be removed from the surface of the streets in the proposed hard 'surface district, pro voked considerable discussion. Coun cilman Gohrke, reported that he had interviewed the property owners and, while some of them didn't care what was done with it, others want ed to use it, but "didn't know what to do with it." Some wanted the oil v to store it somewhere to be used at some future time, and all sorts of ideas were advanced as to its dispos al. He thought, however, that it would be jMtssible to secure enough rock to conitdete fhe proposed im provement of Miller avenue. It was also reported that the county court had under contemplation the con st met ion of a concrete walk around the jail procrty on Court ami Jeffer son streets, and that Siblev & Kakin. Illayter lints, am! Abel Uglow would ! do 'likewise in front of their pro jcrty on Court street, fhus giving a concrete walk from the Main street I corner to the Dallas garage. It was suu'gc.ted that other projierty owner who hail an interest in I In rock in front of their piemises might take advantage of the optrtunity to place the r-k ami build concrete walks at this time. i No More Pavirtg. j Mayor YanOrsdcl again brought : nit the matter of paving the addi- tioii.-il four blocks heretofore men I tioned, but Councilman llayter. from the finance r-nnniittee. declared that the city 'lid not livr sudieient finance, to undertake the expense of paving (lie iiitereelioiis. and the mat ter mill probably If dnp'd. The city auditor was instructed to I notify the railway eornaiiy to r-iir i ils cr-s.iiig on Main street. Bla Allowed. ! The f,.lloing claims against the if-ily mere audited and allowed: II. .'n an t Irani, ljlior on nk rni.her .l".frt Dallas l.unJer lagging Co. Crfi.l-I J. ('. Hayter. Inereliaiidn-s .. 7.4't I". S. f ary, itk rrhandi . StnirJi &. KJIison. Ia.TSi .45 (Continued en Pare Six) Beautiful Southern Belle Is One of June's Pretty Brides WHEN Invitations were sent out for the wedding of Miss Ethel McCor mick, one of the prettiest daughters of the south, to Francis H. Mc Adoo, son of Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo, on June 21 a buz of Interest was manifested among society circles in Washington, Bal timore and New York. Miss McCormick's beauty is of the pronounced southern type. She is as talented as she is vivacious and charming. She is the daughter of Mrs. Isaac E. Emerson and stepdaughter of Captain Emerson, who live at Brooklandwood, a fine country estate twenty miles from Baltimore. Tha wed ding was scheduled to take place there. Music By Three Bands to Be a Celebration Feature Dallas, Rickreall and Perrydale "Hornblowers" to Participatte in Big Program at Dallas on Fourth. At a meeting of the committees that have charge of the coming Fourth of July celebration, held on Friday night, further arrangements for the affair were discussed and plans were made to see that Dallas PETITIONS AIMED AT SALOON MEASURE IN CIRCULATION. Would Hold Matter Up Until City Election in Spring of 1911; Law yers Differ as to Methods to Pursue The prediction made by The Ob- I server last week, that the new saloon itinlinance which provides for the is suance of three licenses by the coun- i cil, would In; referred to a vole of the H-ople, was realized this week, j when K-titioiis were placed in circu lation. According to the voting strength of the city it is stated that j 80 names will Itc suflicient to n-fcr the measure. Th etitioii directed to the city auditor and the city 'council places the date of voting i.v 1 on the ordinance at the city election !to I held April 0. 1!HJ. ' There is some tlilTen-nce of opinion, however, among the attorneys of the ;citv as to whether it is not willnii , the t,wcr of the council to order a 'sjiecial election at an eatlier date. ' Friends of the petition, iieverthelc.s, declare that theie can le no scial election railed, for the reason that ithe city rhailer does not provide for contingencies of this kind, and. in the alscnce of some other pnivisioti. itlte state laws must fovern. i Judge Calloway still has the de i miirrvr to the complaint of the in-jinrtiii-applicrjt under considera tion and ha riven no indication , to when be will decide it. He is at .resent out of ihe state attending a i reuni'Ki of ioiw-r in Idaho and wiil r awav for sec,al d.us. 0 OUII 10 OLD OFFICERS ARE BE M V. RE-ELECTED i has the best and most successful event in her history. It is certain that an interesting program of spouts will be provided and it is planned to make the automobile parade in tb morning a feature of the day. The Rickreall band has been se cured and this will give tlhrea bands, the Dallas, Perrydale and Rickreall organizations, and it is certain .that there will be plenty of music. Baby Carriage Parade. Chairman H. H. Belt, of the com- (Continued on Page Six) CHAPMAN FOR DIRECTOR AND STAATS FOR SCHOOL CLERK. No Contest Develops and Election Are Unanimous; Proposed Im provements in Schools Are Cited. H. L. Chapman was re-elected m director to serve for three years, ami Tracy Staats will succeed himself as clerk for the coming year, as the re sult of the annual school meeting hehl at the high school building on Monday afternoon. There waa a fair attendance, but no contest developed, ami no candidate was nominated against either of the above men, their election iM-ing unanimous. The usual routine matters were disposed of and the meeting adjourned. In making a report on behalf of the tli lectors. Chairman McCallon stated that the board bad a numer of improvements under consideration for the good of the schttols. He said 'that a department of niatm.il train j ing and one for domestic art would probably ls installed at the high school during Ihe year. J It was al planned to grade the high schmd ground, and the formation of a teachers assoriali.n for the mutual lienefil of the in structors ami the g'I of the srh.I. Tlie annual rert by Clerk Tracy Staats showed that the balance n thatid in the treasury at the end of I the last ear was nearly t.t.ol in excess of U.e previous year, notwilh .fanditg the fact that the board bad Wn d!if'd to spefd eonsi.lerabie f.r the r w dcpaTlrr.ent of .-neti ' scieiH-e iustal'ed dunnf the tciiu.