THE POLE COUNTY OBSERVER, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1915.
DOINGS IN POLK COUNTY
STORIES BY THE OBSERVER'S
CORRESPONDENTS.
Personal Paragraphs Pertaining
1 Movements of People Whom
You All Enow.
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OAE GROVE.
Mr. Trueblood was baling hay in
this neighborhood again last week.
Beth and Emma Riggs of Portland
visited at Webb Lewis' one night last
week.
Mrs. Frank Farmer was a caller
here the latter part of last week.'
Grandma Crowley returned from
Portland recently and came to Oak
Grove last week to visit awhile.
Seth Fawk was a business caller in
Salem the latter part of last week.
Mary and Rebecca Walker of Port
land have been visiting relatives here.
Mrs. John Young of Greenwood vis
ited her daughter, Mrs. Seth Fawk one
day last week.
Miss Zanna Van Dorn, who has
been visiting Mrs. Seth White, return
ed to Salem last week.
A large number was in attendance
at the Ladies' Aid meeting at Mrs.
W. W. Fawk's last week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Edgar spent
Tuesday with H. M. Edgar and family
of Dallas.
The Martin boys sawed wood in this
vicinity last week.
CROWLEY.
F. E. Valliere and son have been
hauling baled hay to Dallas for Mr.
Grant.
Henry White sold a fine team re
cently. Plin Wilson was binding grain last
week for George Smith.
C. H. Farmer shipped a load of
sheep from McCoy last week.
Mark Holmes was a Dallas caller
Friday.
R. J. Williamson and family and
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Edgar motored to i
Dayton Sunday to visit friends.
Mary and Kebecca Walker or Port
land have been visiting their aunt,
Mrs. Malcolm Pewtherer.
Georee Smith and Jim Buttrick
hulled clover for the Palmer boys last
week, eoine to McCoy Friday.
Mr. Trueblood baled hay last week
for Mr. Valliere and Mr. Hamilton
Miss Pearl Dennett went to Dallas
last week.
Charley Knower was a recent Dallas
visitor.
F. M. Edgar and son, William, haul
ed several loads of lumber from Dal
las the past few days.
Little Frank Whaley of Rickreall is
staying with his Grandma Smith,
while Mrs. Whaley is cooking en the
cnslc wagon.
The Martin boys of Greenwood saw
ed wood last week for Malcolm l'ew
therei'.it F. White and Finley.
Seth itiggs and sister, Emma, mo
tored up from Portland last week to
visit relatives here.
Malcolm Pewtherer was marketing
some nice tomatoes in Independence
last week.
Mrs. Frank Starbuck of Portland,
who has been visiting relatives here,
went to Salem last week.
A number from this vicinity attend
ed the band concert in Dallas batur
dnv nitrht.
Mrs. John Williamson and son of
Salem were recent visitors at K. J.
Williamson's.
Stella Smith is helping Mrs. Whaley
cook on the cook wagon.
R. J. Williamson and family and
Mrs. Gay and daughter, Cora, were
visitors at J. W. Edgar's of Oak
Grove Saturday.
Kaner Trent was a Rickreall caller
Sunday.
Donald, Mr. and Mrs. Chas Bird, Mr.
and Mrs. Thos. Card, Mrs. Ross, Mrs.
Clifford, Mrs. Davis, Mr. and Mrs.
George Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. C. A.
Bruce, Fountain Murphy and Mrs.
Mima Murphy.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Sherwood of Dal
las will stay at the Sellers ' home
while they are away.
MONMOUTH.
The whistle of the thresher engine
and the hum of the thresher can be
heard on every hand, which shows
that the farmers are taking care of
their bountiful harvest. Wheat is go
ing from 20 to 48 bushels to the acre.
A. H. Cravens and wife returned
from their visit to Cascada and Ban
don, on the coast, Tuesday.
J. B. V. Butler, wite and son, re
turned from San Francisco this week.
Doctor J. F. Calbreath and family
of Portland are guests of his broth
er's family, D. M. Calbreath.
Elmer Gilliam and family of Dallas
Were recent guests of E. R. Pike's
family.
Mrs. Bertha Newman and family of
Shedds, Linn county, are guests of
her sister, Mrs. F. M. Fisher.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Pitzer of the
Lnckiamute valley were in town on
business, Monday.
Isaac Simpson, one ot the leading
farmers and dairymen of. the Luckia
mute, made Monmouth a business vis
it Tuesday.
Men and teams are at work exca
vating for the new training school
buildine.
Grain is rolling iijto the Monmouth
warehouse at a lively rate.
The two road districts leading into
Monmouth have put about 1000 yards
of gravel on the roads, besides grad
ing of the same, and yet some are
finding fault with the county court.
C. C. Lee made a business trip to
Albany this week.
In order to work to a better ad
vantage, A. N. Poole and family have
moved temporarily to Parker, where
he is building a school house.
Tuesday. 'we made a trip into Mar
ion county, east of Independence, and
there we found everybody busy. The
hops look well. Orvil Butler has about
the finest crop of oats we nave seen.
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MY FIRST CASE. '
OAE DALE.
The Georsre Sellers thresher
threshing for Jim Hubbard, Ben
Thompson, O. E. Dennis and others
this week. Grain is turning out well.
Hops are backward here as in other
places. Looks as if we would not
pick hops any earlier than usual, in
spite ot the advanced season.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bird and children
of Pioneer visited at Ben Thompson's
Kiin.lnv. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Kobin
son and G. D. Robinson also spent the
dav there.
Don Miller is able to be around
once more after his long siege of sick
ness. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis and Joe,
Frank and Ruth, visited over Sunday
with the family of Junious Ward at
Independence. Mrs. Ward is 51V.
Dennis' sister.
Mrs. J. D. Chitwood and son, Har
ry, and daughter. Hazel, all of Bor
ing, Clackamas county, made Oak
Dale a flvinsr visit Sunday. They vis
ited their old home, now owned by
Jim Wilson of Dallas and called at
John Robinson's and 0. E. Dennis'
homes. They motored up in Harry
Chitwood 's ear.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarenee Sellers and
children, Mrs. Arthur Hepner aad
children and Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Hub
bard have gone to Agate Beach for an
onting.
B. A. Wright has sold his home
here to family by the name of Oil
son, lately from Canada. Mr. Wright
has moved his family to St Johns.
Thursday evening a number of the
neighbors gathered at the Wright
place to bid Mr. and Mrs. Wright
farewell and wish them success in
their new home. They have made
many friends while here and we are
sorry to loose them from onr midst.
Thos present were Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Mniycv and sons, Chas Oleott. Mil
lert 'Tdrik, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Mc-
ZENA AND SPRING VALLEY.
Jas. French spent Sunday in Salem
with his mother.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Catton visited
over Sunday at the home of his par
ents. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Catton.
Miss Dora Walker and Miss Emily
Jeffries returned.to Salem Wednesday,
after a pleasant visit here with Mr.
and Mrs. 1). G. Henry.
Mr. Dake is hauling his hay to Salem.
Robert Miller of West Salem, and
Aubrev Crawford of Salem, have been
spending the week with Mr. and Mrs.
Harvey Crawford.
Wm. Burners snd tamuy spent aim-
day with relatives in Salem.
Mrs. Samuel Barker is entertaining
friends from Salem.
Last Wednesday, while driving to
Salem. Capt. P. F. Clarke s horse be
came frightened at an automobile
which dashed into the buggy while
passing, causing the horse to overturn
the buggy, which was about demolish
ed, and throwing Mr. Clark out to the
ground, where he was dragged for sev
eial yards over sharp stones. Mr.
Runcorn caught the horse, and anoth
er passing auto (the one that caused
the accident "beat it" as the boys
say) took Mr. Clark to the office of
Dr. J. N. Smith in Salem. He was
badly bruised, and received several
bad, but not serious cuts on the head,
and internally injured, causing a high
fever for several days. Mr. Clark is
over 86 years of age and it is a won
der that he escaped with his life, but
he is recovering nicely from the ef
fects of the accident.
. SMITHFIELD.
The farmers are busy threshing and
hauling grain. The grain is very
heavy. The farmers are looking
around for more sacks.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Heinrichs are
delivering books which they have sold.
We are having Sunday school in the
Smithfield school house in the after
noon, beginning at two o'clock.
Mr. P. J. Bones has had bad luck.
Two of his horses got foundered Fri
day and died.
Smithfield Farmers Prosper.
When winter oats weigh from 106
to 108 pounds to the sack and there
are three bushels in the sack,"farmers
around Smithfield believe they are
entitled to recognition as grain pro
ducers. John Diehm, who came to
Dallas Wednesday to enjoy a rest af
ter threshing his large crops of wheat
and oats, says that on one plot where
the yield was about 73 pounds to the
sack last year he cut 131 pounds this
season, the average on other plots
on Mr. Diehm s place is about lUo
pounds, or 30 bushels of grain. On
heads of oats Mr. Diehm has counted
as many as 60 large kernels of grain.
The yield was so heavy that tanners
failed to make sufficient provision tor
sacks to handle it all, with the result
that, in many cases, threshing crews
are dumping the grain on the ground
as it is measured.
Robert Warwick Tonight.
The Orphenm tonight will present
Robert Warwick in "The Man of the
Hour," one of George Broadhurst's
most successful dramas. The stage
fame of Warwick in this play is too
well known to the general pnblie to
need more than the mere announce
ment to tax the seating capacity of
The Orpheum playhouse.
It's usually too late for congratula
tions when the happy couple have
been married more than a week.
(By J. C. Rickii.)
I am a lover of the soil. Mother
earth with its mysterious infinite pos
sibilities and respect an intelligent
farmer above any other man. I have
always considered that the fates serv
ed me a scurry trick in not granting
me to be a laimer. My xoremosi
original ambition was to come to
America and show "Uncle bam" ex
actly how to make real genuine Swiss
cheese with those cute little cavities
glistening with briny moisture. Alas!
the nearest 1 ever attained to a prac
tical realization of that dream was
making bricks in a Nebraska brick
yard. Such is life. We must learn
the lesson, of resignation. When I was
bran new to this great country, and as
green as grass on an Oregon hill-side,
in the spring time, I hired out for a
few weeks to a German gardener in
Westchester county not far from New
York city. In casual conversation with
my employer, Mr. Katzcnjammer, I
impressed upon him the fact that I
was a graduate oi an agricultural
school (Potato University) in Swit
zerland and had also participated in
a course of veterinary surgery, etc.,
never dreaming or any ultimate conse
quences. The good man oecame prouo
of me and toolishly told the neigh
borhood all about it.
The countiy-side bordering on Long
Island sound was covered by the beau
tiful estates of rich New Yorkers. One
fine day an elegant conveyance drove
up occupied by a dignified elderly
gentleman and some ladies. Presently
I was advised by Mr. Katzenjammer
that my services as a veterinarian
were in immediate demand. It ap
peared that an aristocratic Jersey
cow of the bluest blood, owned by
the aforesaid gentleman, had gone
wrong that morning and was in a bad
way. As soon as I somewhat recov
ered from the shock I endeavored to
back out on various grounds, but
without avail. The party happened
to be one of the most liberal custom
ers of mv employer and the latter re
peatedly said : " Karl you must make
good.
Ye Gods! True enough that pro
fessor had come out to our institute
from the city of Bern to give us
lecture once a week, including some
practical demonstrations, etc. How
ever, I was a dreamer in those days
and the interior department of a
cow had no fascination for me. I had
whattyou might call a speaking ac
quaintance with cows in general, but
I am ashamed to confess it, although
a graduate of that institution, no
"Bossie" had ever even been milked
by me. I did not think it right to
deprive a cow of her juice. Here,
however, I was up against it right on
the start while still afflicted with the
"Heimweh," a condition of mental
agony to which the Swiss are prob
ably more susceptible than any other
nationality. A stiff upper lip has car
ried me through many a crisis during
a rather eventful life and I determin
ed upon a bold front. My English be
ing of the most fragmentary kind.
the gardener's charming young daugh
ter, Rosie, was sent along as the of
ficial interpreter. After reviving my
memory of our professor's hocus-pro-cus,
I had hurriedly picked up a com
mon tack hammer and a beer bottle
cork, which I found on the premises,
and the two mile walk with Rosie to
the estate where, that unfortunate
cow was waiting for my ministration,
gave me time to devise a plan of how
to meet that first emergency in a dig
nified professional manner.
Arrived on the ground I bid nosie
tell those people to bring forth the
cow where I could get a good look
at her. A plow boy in a nearby field
was lustily singing the popular song
then in vogue, "Oh, Shoo Fly, Don 't
Bother Me," and strange o say this
melody gave me confidence and inspir
ation. I cast a professional eye over
that Jersey lady and carefully sound
ed its torso by means of that tack
hammer and beer cork. In the region
of the lungs I placed my ear to the
cows body, closely observing the face
of my as yet unsoaked watch. With
out hesitation or a flicker I diagnosed
the case as one of "rheumatic lung
fever." Ever since then I have had a
burning curiosity to know exactly how
Rosie communicated that information
to those serious looking people.
My uncle Arnold, back in the old
country, was a pioneer and authority
ot the hydropathic school, success
fully operating two large resorts
where people of wealth would go to
be treated for real or imaginary ills.
To do him honor I decided to apply
his methods to the cow in question.
"Tell those people," I bid Rosie,
"that the case is not over serious.
Pile a couple dozen wet gunny bags
on the cow ' fore part, covered by at
least three dry blankets and by all
means keep her out of a draft and on
short .dry rations." During the fol
lowing three days I actually prayed
for that cow's health, but on the
fourth day the pressure was relieved.
The bntler of the estate showed up
quite cheerfully with a roll of green
backs in his hand and instructions to
settle my account, at the same time
reporting my late patient as good as
new. However, I politely but firmly
declined the fee.
The great P. T. Barnum was right.
The American people evidently liked
to be humbugged. I had achieved
professional reputation which subse
quent events proved. I preferred to
leave that reputation intact and it
was about time for me to go west any
how. I had been carefully reared to
be a conscientious christian gentle
man, but what would you have f
MP Ml 1 Ml PUB,
The Interests of Farmer arid City Folk Being Prac
tically Identical There Should Be United Ef
fort for the Betterment of Conditions.
Since coming to Dallas, two and a half years ago, we have felt the need of greater co-operation
between the farmers of Polk county and the merchants of Dallas, and have come to the conclusion that
with the assistance of our rural friends we are in 'position to render aid that will result in mutual bene
fit to all concerned. Polk county is known far and wide as the "Blue Ribbon County of Oregon,"
from the fact that here are grown crops unsurpassed by any section of the state, for which fame the
farmers are responsible, they producing the crops that make this enviable title possible. Here are
grown the choicest of grains, grasses, fruits, vegetables and hops, and it is or the further promotion of
these industries that we contemplate holding "a county fair," on a small scale, each month during the
year, where seasonable products may be displayed and where our rural friends and neighbors may as
semble and confer with each other regarding the best methods of raising such crops as are shown. We
firmly believe that such an institution cannot fail to augur to the good of all, for through conversation
regarding those things in which we are most vitally interested further enlightenment and greater pro
gress are sure to come.
The Polk county fair, a most praiseworthy event, is held but once each year, but not all the crops
are here displayed because of the fact that some produce does not mature at the right time of year.
What we would like to see is an exhibit of the farmers' produce as it matures something can be shown
each month of the year. For example, take khe month of June, we have strawberries, and everyone
knows that this berry is seen at the county fair only as the preserved article. Why not have a straw
berry display, that everybody who raises strawberries may strive for a prize. Those who fail to receive
a prize, will be interested in knowing why so that in the following years they may take the lead. And
the same applies with equal force to other crops, and thus the educational feature is presented.
READ OUR PLAN:
We stand ready and anxious to co-operate with the farmers of the county to bring this thing
about, not from a mercenary standpoint, but because we feel that we can be helpful in further develop
ing the unrivaled natural resources of the county. The material interests of the farmer and the city are
practically identical; what helps one helps the other, and it is only through co-operation that greater1
advancement may he attained. We purpose to devote our large show-windows to the display of such
crops as may he exhibited from month to month, and besides offer
TWO PRIZES OF $6.00 AND $4.00
respectively for the best and second best exhibit, quality to be the consideration in making the awards.
The person entering the contest would simply do so by number that the judges would not know the iden
tity of the exhibitor until after the awards had been made, the judges to be chosen from non-interested
persons. Following the awarding of prizes the names of the growers would be attached to the exhibit,
and if not perishable left in place a week or longer that others might study it to their advantage.
, This would cost the farmer absolutely nothing, and would, we believe, prove an incentive to then
to strive for better crops of every description. It would also be the means of advertising the farms of
the couity, and raise them in value with a contemplating purchaser. One interested in buying a ranch
wants to know what it will produce. This opportunity is here afforded, without money and without
price. We desire to be of service to the entire community, and after studying the problem for months,
believe we have hit upon a plan whereby this end may be accomplished.
SALES DAY IN CONNECTION
And while this monthly display is being made on a given date, hereafter to be decided npon, why
not hold a market day in connection. Every fanner has something on his place for which he has no use, .
while some other farmer is desirous of owning this very thing. For instance, yon have just bought an
automobile and wish to sell a buggy or hack, or you have a plow, or harrow, or drag; a cow, horse, wag
on, chickens, incubator, or what not. You could bring them in and we would sell for you at auction,
without any fee whatsoever, or if you preferred to send ns a list of the things you had to offer we would
advertise it in the county papers in advance and charge you nothing for the service. This latter plan
would be most advisable, as then others would know what would be offered each sales day. We have1
abundant room adjacent to our store for holding such a sales day, and here farmers might "strike their
own bargains" if they so elected.
We are desirous of getting the opinion of farmers from every part of Polk county regarding this
plan, and also as to whether we might expect their co-operation in making the undertaking a success, and
therefore ask each reader of The Observer to fill out the enclosed blank and mail it to ns without delay,
making such suggestions as yon may deem worthy of our consideration. Please cut out the coupon and
mail. Do not pass it by with the thought that some one else will take your place in this project. We
want YOUR co-operation.
F. E. DAVIS,
SUCCESSOR TO DAVIS HORN.
The Reliable House Furnisher,
DALLAS, OREGON.
Cut this out and mail it today.
Mr. F. E. Davis, Dallas, Oregon.
Dear Sir: We have read your proposed plan for holding a monthly exhibit of the products of
Polk county, and hereby signify our willingness to co-operate with yon in making it a success.
Yours respectfully,
To Address Sign here
If yon think this plan is not practicable, please tell ns why, using the following lines, or better
yet, write ns in detail.
Sign here.
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ERNEST HANSON
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