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DALLAS, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1913
NO. 63
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ENGINEERS NEAR DALLAS AT
' ' WORK ON BIO PROJECT.
Investigations Being Made of Water
j Resources; Maps Will Show Sur-
face Relief of Country.
I So much interest has been attach
ed to the sudden appearance of a
large party of United States engin
eers in the vicinity of Independence,
that a number of inquiries- have
'reached the Observer office recently
concerning the nature of their work.
The following letter from the United
States Geographical Survey of Wash
ington, D. C, fully explains the work
being undertaken by Uncle Sam in
the Willamette valley:
I : Six New Maps in Progress.
l In cooperation with the state en
gineer of Oregon, the topographic
branch of the survey is this season
engaged in making maps of the areas
known as the Salem, Albany, Aums
ville and Corvallis quadrangles, in
the Willamette valley. These are 15
minute quadrangles, each covering an
area of approximately 212 square
miles. Mapping of the Condon 30
minute quadrangle, in Gilliam and
Sherman counties, with an approxi
mate area of 842 square miles, is also
In progress. A large amount of tri
angulation work, to establish the con
trol of other areas to be surveyed is
also in progress.
: The work will include the detailed
turreys necessary to prepare a map
ahich will show all rivers, towns,
roads and railroads, as well as the
lurface relief of the country by
(neans of five and 100 foot contour
Sim-. The completed maps will be
trrraved on scales of one and two
lilies to one inch, and the river pro
lie will be reproduced on the scale of
a!f a mile to one inch. The maps
trill probably not be ready for distri
ct ion until about two years after
lie completion of the field work, but
hi river profiles, reproduced by the
rfiotolithographie process, will be
rvailable next spring.
Investigate Water Resources.
The water resources branch of
ke Geological survey, in cooperation
i h the state and others, is investi
fr ting the water resources in the va
i ',-. portions of Oregon. For this
Ri'jiose 110 gaging stations are main
i ed in the state, ten of hich are
B the Great Basin, eight in. Pacific
-t and California drainage basins
92 in tbe Columbia river basin.
;n or these stations are maimain
y th Federal survey alone. 2S in
9 i ihe rect in cooperation wnn on
r Federal bureaus, municipalities,
r private persons. At these pasrine
I n the height or stace of the
i - is determined each day by local
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SpleSe survey
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Polk County School Exhibit at State
Local Prunes to
London and Stockholm To Receive
First Shipment Car Goes To
day to France and Russia.
The first export shipment of Polk
county prunes left the Armsby pack
ing company's plant Wednesday des
tined to London and Stockholm, one
car to each of the two cities. The
shipment consisted of 1,500 twenty
five pound boxes to each car.
Today the first shipment of prunes
to France will leave Dallas. Half of
this shipment will be sent to St.
Washington Widow Scores Teal
Remonstrance Against Widow's Ex
travagance Heard From Terms
County Officers Spendthrifts
When County Judge John B. Teal
went on record as strenuously op
posed to the extravagance of certain
widows of Polk county when they so
far abused the generousity of the
county tax payers by purchasing pea
nuts by the pound and buying tur
muffs and colars for their children,
he did not reckon with interested per
sons residing outside the bounds of
Oregon state.
Up in eastern Washington in the
town of , in the county of
Grant, there lives a woman whose re
cent years has evidently been spent
in fathoming the depth of sincerity
existing in the hearts of the ordinary
county official. She writes the fol
lowing letter to Judge Teal:
Dear Sir: "On September 2G,
1913 I notic a artickle in j'our daily
paper that you acuse the Oregon wid
ders of spending state's money fool
ishly, that some of them widders had
Mrs. Wm. W. Dodge Buried.
The funeral of Mrs. Wm. W. Dodge
was held at the Methodist church
yesterday afternoon. The sen-ice
was conducted by Pmf. I). M. Metz
ger of Dallas College, assisted by
Rev. C. P. Gates, pastor of the Evan
gelical church.
Mrs. Dope was born in Jefferson
county, Wisconsin, about 53 years
ago. The past four years were ent
with her family in Oregon, mostly in
Dallas and in the vicinity of Salem.
Her illness which continued through
most of the pa-t year was attended
with intense suffering that was borne
with great patience. In this Mie wax
sustained by a cheerful disposition
that made her a favorite with her
acquaintances. In her death her hus
band loses a faithful companion, her
son and daughter a devoted i?tt!:er.
a goodly circle of young people and
other acquaintance a cheerful friend.
Interment was na.le in the Odd Fel
lows cemetery at Dalla. Oregon.
John Sibley is attending the state
bar examination in Sa'em tiiis week.
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Fair That Captured First Prize.
Foreign Lands
Petersberg, Russia, and the consign
ment eonsists of an especially fine lot
of fruit.
Between 50 and GO women and 25
men are now engaged in the packing
department of the plant and while
it will be the first of the week be
fore the plant will be working in full
blast, daily consignments of prunes
keep the help J)usy. Only a small por
tion of the immense prune crop has
reached the plant from the driers
but it is expected that the quantity
will be sufficient to keep the plant in
full operation from now until the first
of the year.
bought furs to keep their little bodys
warm with and another had bought
rings for her little ones. Outrageous
is it not. Now just think of the tex
payers money that is wasted by men
of Public offices that very seldom per
form their duty toward the peopal
take the Judges and prosecuting attys
and all the way down, they wast mor
Public money than all the widders
could do in a life time. Yet there is
no one to look over the list of what
they eat and wear. They draw their
salary weather their work is done or
not and spend it as they pleas. But
it is not so with the unfortunate
mothers. Oh the brutality of men
toward women and children. If our
men could only come up to the stand
ard of our wild beasts that alows the
female an equal right with the male
to get a living for herself and young
ones, then would Goods Kingdom on
earth. We would need no humane
Societies or associations or Judges to
decree that mothers can not rase
there own children.
"Trusting you will lie more humen
in our old aw, I am very trulv yours.
"Mrs. M. Brown, , Wash."
Foot Ball In Earnest.
After years of successful basket
ball playing iu Dallas, athletics in the
local high school has taken a sudden
turn for more strenuous sort, and
as a result Dallas is expected to be
represented on the gridiron with one
of the fastest and best football
teams in the Willamette valley. Dur
ing the past week a large number of
aspirants for positions on the team
have been trying out and a number
of the "old heads" are confident that
the school team will make a pood
showing during the coming fall sea
son. Next week a captain and man
ager will be e!x-en and actual field
practice will bejHn.
Boy Breaks Leg.
Howard F.mmerson. son of L C.
Kmnicrson. 216 lnirch street was I
painfully injured Wednesday when he j
fell from a 4a!,k bridleway Lichj
pans the Laf'reole river near the
Levens street bridge. A the r-u!t
of the fall Lis right -z was broken.
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OCH TO 111
DESTUCTION OF DIKE TODAY
UNITES TWO OCEANS
Incident Means Completion of Great
est Engineering Feat Dallas To
Join Celebrators.
While efforts are being made
through the Portland Chamber of
Commerce to change the hour of the
blowing up of the dike in the Panama
canal which will unite the Pacific
and Atlantic oceans Dallas is prepar
ed to greet the incident with due cere
mony. Should the urgent request of
the Portland people be considered,
the destruction of the dike will take
place at 11 o'clock instead of 9
o'clock. As there is a difference of
three hours in the time between Port
land and Panama, this would mean
that it would be 6 o'clock here should
the dike be blown at 9 o'clock.
The pupils of the Dallas schools
will be dismissed in case the whistles
blow and they will be given full priv
ilege to make as much noise as they
wish for five minutes.
Although the flooding of Culebra
cut will be an event of great im
portance as it will mean the supply
ing of the last link connecting the
Atlantic with the Pacific, the blow
ing up of the Gamboa dike will not
be made the occasion of any extensive
celebration at Panama, .
Colonel Goethals, the building gen
ius of the canal, clad in white uni
form which ha made him a conspic
uous figure during the work on the
canal, will be accompanied by a
small staff of officers and citizens.
When the explosion comes, after all
is in readiness, there will be a tre
mendous upheaval followed by a
mighty rush of waters from Gatun
Lake carrying the enormous mass of
rock, soil, trees and other tropical
vegetables into Culebra cut. This will
be all and the following day the work
of removing the mass and clearing
the canal will be taken up by the
dredges which have been held in
readiness for some time.
Tomirraphy of the canal lone is
difficult to estimate in words. It is
to be remembered the canal will run
more north and south than east and
west, and the Pacific coast entrance
paradoxical as it seems, will be a
shade faither to the east than the cn
trafice of the canal on the Atlantic
side. Gatun locks are located at the
extreme Atlantic siile. Miraflores
and Pedro Misruel locks are on the
extreme Pacific coast end of the
canal. In between is Gatun lake on
the ea-t end of the Atlantic side of
which has been erected huge dam
known as Gat an dam. Toward the
Pacific entrance from Gatun Lake is
the Culebra cut. the cut on which
immense sums of money have been
per.t and preat enrineerinp skill cx-
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OLD III ollEFS
Items of Interest in Country
Districts Interestingly Told
OBSERVER SPECIAL SERVICE
Observer Representatives Keep in
Touch With All Matters of Import
ance in Their Part of the Famous
"Blue Ribbon" District of the
State of Oregon.
FALLS CITY
W. II. Doraian and family have re
turned to Falls City and will make
their home here where they have
property.
Mr. and Mrs. 0. Aurland visited
over Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Har
ry Dempsey of Ihckreall.
Miss Clara Montgomery came up
from Monmouth and spent the week
end at home.
Falls City is still producing straw
berries and the prospects are good
for some for lhanksgiving.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Finley were
business visitors in the city this
week. They may decide to go into
business here again.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Moyer of Hos-
kins visited in the city this week.
Floyd Seymour returned this week
from an auto trip to Washington.
The trip that way was made in one
day covering something over two
hundred miles.
Miss Sylvia Phillips is making her
home with Mrs. Cobb during the
present school year.
Clarence Armstrong and family
are preparing to move to Michigan
where they will make their home,
Air. and Mrs. Ira Mehrling were
Salem visitors a few days last week.
Mr. Mehrling also attended the post
masters convention which was held
there.
The buildings which formed the
Falls City Lumber company camp
above Black Rock are being moved
to the new Teal Creek camp. Log
ging operations will soon begin there.
, Mrs. Geo. F. Vick and daughter
Hollis of Salem, were Falls City vis
itors the first of the week.
A business and social meeting of
the Epworth League was held in the
league room Monday night.
MONMOUTH
These late rains puts a smile on the
face of ithe farmer for now he can
finish his fall work.
The prune crop around Monmouth
is about all in and the crop was
larger than was expected and of . a
good quality. The Monmouth dryer
has about two weeks run yet, a long
er run than usual.
Uncle George Ebberts is somewhat
better.
There has been no arrests at Mon
mouth yet, for violation of the game
law, which shows that we are a law
abiding people. That is right, obey
the laws and be happy.
Grove A. Peterson of buver, made
a business trip to Monmouth Sat
urday, his old home, and was sur
prised at the improvements being
made here.
J. Miller, of Rainier, is in town vis
iting his sister, Mrs. 1). M. Hewitt.
D. M. Hewitt is dryer at the prune
dryer and it keeps him busy every
day in the week.
Mr. and Mrs. Max Haley after
about two weeks' visit with relatives
in town, left for their home in Port
land Saturday,
I. G. Davidson and wife of Port
land, were the guests of Maggie and
Addie Butler Monday.
S. M. Guillams went to Portland
Saturday, returning home Monday.
Isaac Jones, of Kansas, is the guest
of his sister's family, Mr. and Mrs.
M. M. Jones. He likes the valley
real well and may some time in (he
future make it his home.
M. M. Jones and Sam Wiliams have
rented the Cass Gibson place near
Rick real I and moved on to the same.
Mrs. C. Tate, of Dallas, was in
town Saturday, the guest of her fath
er.
Dale Hill, of Black Rock, was in
town Moiulav looking as pleasant as
a basket of chips.
I rank Lesever, of Goldendale.
Washington, is the puest of his old
neighbor, S. Hinkle. He is well
pleased with this part of the valley
and said if he could trade or sell his
pnierty there, he would locate here.
II. O. Newell, or Portland, was a
visitor at Hotel Monmouth Monday.
M. A. Kwinp, of Scapioose, was in
town on business and called at the
Hotel Monmouth to pet the inner man
replenished and he pt what he
wanted.
J. Grimes, the meat vender, and
familv, has rented tbe house known
a the Oliver Waller bouse and mov
ed into the same.
Tbe concrete block paraee that A.
N. Poole is building is moving right
along and tbe new brick is being
malted U a Cnish.
The achools of Monmouth have the
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Bill IS
SLOW III 11111
WOMEN TAKE SLIGHT INTER
EST IN ELECTION.
Voter Must Register on or Before
April 14, in Order to Vote at Gen
eral Election Next Year.
Registration in Polk county for the
coming state election in November,
seems to have awakened but little in
terest yet, according to County Clerk
Robinson, books from the outlying
voting precincts are coming in reg
ularly. The fact that it is unnecessary for
voters who registered at the last gen
eral election, to again register in or
der to vote at the November election
is largely responsible for the seeming
inactivity in registering. There are
a number of new county residents,
however, who are taking "interest in
the work. The number of women
registered so far, are few.
Notice has been given through the
secretary of state's office, that every
man or woman of legal age who have
resided the required time in his or
her precinct, must register on or be
fore April 14, 1914, in order to be
entitled to vote at the general elec
tion in 1914. The registration books
are now open continuously and reg
istrations can be made by the county
clerk, or his duly appointed deputies.
By registering now, voters may as
sure themselves that they are entitled
to vote at all subsequent elections
without further annoyance or cere
mony. The books will remain oen
until 30 days prior to the election.
WATER PLANT OWNER HERE
H. V. Gates Visits City; Willing to
Have Case Taken to Commission.
For the purpose of looking over his
interests in Dallas, H. V. Gates, own
er of the Dallas water works system
was a visitor in the city Tuesday,
and made a careful investigation re
garding the condition of the plant
and the reduction of rates asked by
the city. v
White retraining trom expressing
a direct opinion as to the water rate
controversy, Mr. Gates intimated
that he was perfectly willing that the
city should take up the matter with
the State Railway commission, infer
ing that if necessary he would carry
the case to the supreme court, should
the ruling of the court be against
him.
Celebrate Golden Wedding
In the presence of two hundred
people among whom were numbered
their children, grand children, rela
tives and friends, the fiftieth wed-
ling anniversary of Mr. and Mrs.
James Elliott was held at the Elliott
home south of Dallas Tuesday.
The beautiful home was artistic
ally decorated for the occasion, the
main living room being decorated
with yellow dahlias and sunflowers
and the dining room a mass of yellow
chrysanthemums and yellow and
white ribbons draped trom table to
ceiling.
The anniversary dinner was serv
ed at noon after which a picture was
taken of Mr. and Mrs. Elliott and
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their children and grand children.
Jn the afternoon about j invited
friends joined the happy gathering
and they were served with lunch
from the quaint old china dishes
which were used by Mr. and Mrs.
Elliott when thev first began house-
keepinp 30 years ago. The same fa
de cloth uimio which was spread the
first wedding dinner of Mr. and Mrs.
r.IIiolt and which was also used by
heir five daughters on wedding oc
casions was again in evidence during
the afternoon luncheon.
Among the many beautiful gifts
given Mr. and Mrs. Elliott waa a
beautiful gold handle cane and um
brella presented by the members of
VALLEY US
MEET III
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION HOLD
SESSION TUESDAY.
Interesting Talks Given and Papers
Read on .Medical and Surgical
Treatment of Goiter; 15 Present.
Physicians to the number of 15
representing members of a medical
association formed some time ago and
which include physicians from Polk,,
Yamhill and Marion counties, gather
ed about the banquet board at the
New Scott hotel Tuesday night.
The program was purely an in
formal one. A greater part of the
evening was spent in the discussion
of the medical and surgical treatment
of goiter. Dr. Griffiths, of Salem,
read an excellent paper treating on
the subject, and Dr. Clemments, also
of Salem read a paper regarding the
medical literature of the past year.
The association meets five times
each year alternately in Polk, Yam
hill and Marion counties.
Those present were: Drs. Butler,
Independence ; Mathis, Monmouth ;
Bird, Prince Bird, Griffith, Clem
ments, Stevens, Thompson, Van Win
kle, J. M. Smith and Morse, Salem
and Bolman, Starbuck, McCallon and
Staats, Dallas.
INDEPENDENCE GIRL IS
DROWNED IN WILLAMETTE
Miss Mamie Kellogg Ends Her Life;
Ppor Health is Said to Be
Cause.
Dallas friends of Miss Mamie Kel
logg of Independence were shocked
to learn of her tragic death Monday
night in the waters of the Willam
ette river near her home.
According to advice received here
the following day, Miss Kellogg vis
ited Independence Monday and vis
ited a physician of that city, telling
him she was in poor health. After
leaving the office she made her way
in the- direction of her home. She
was last seen approaching the river.
As she did not return for supper, an
inquiry was started with the result
that part of her clothes were found
on the bank of the river. Her body
was later found in the stream. Tem
porary derangement brought on by
illness is supposed to be the cause
for her suicide.
the Methodist church.
Mr. and Mrs. Elliott came to Polk
county from Peterboro, Ontario, 30
years ago and have lived on the same
farm south of Dallas since that time.
Their ten children, five boys and five
girls were born in Ontario with the
exception of Bert, the youngest, who
was born here. Nine children are
now living and all but Mr. Isaac W.
Elliott and Mrs. S. R. Kennedy, of
Scott, Sask., Alaska, were present at
the ceremony.
The children present were: Mrs.
Fred J. Wagner, Mrs. Conrad Staf
rin, Mrs. Glen De Haven, Wes M.
Elliott, Fred R. Elliott, Dallas; Her
bert J. Elliott, Perrydale; Bert It.
Elliott, Grants Pass, Oregon.
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The prand children present were:
Miss Ahbie I Walked, Dallas; Mrs.
Harry E. Walker, Monmouth; Miss
Florence O. Walker, Dallas; Miss
Verna M. Wagner, and Miss Mary A.
Wagner, Dallas; Miss Wanda Elliott,
and Miss Ione Elliott, Perrydale;
Miss Ruby It. Stafrin, Dallas; Win
ifred, Kenneth, Russell. Roberta aud
Barbara Elliott, of Dallas.
The following1 relatives living out
of the city who were present, were:
William Elliott and nephew, Walla
Walla, Wash.; Mrs. Anna Andrew
and niece, Mill City, Ore.; Mrs. Ger
tie Aleskey and neice, Portland and
Mrs. Sam E. Elliott, neice and
daniter, PortlamL