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About Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 27, 1915)
the folk county observer, Friday, august 27, 1915? DOINGS IN POLK COUNTY STORIES BY THE OBSERVER'S CORRESPONDENTS. Personal Paragraphs Pertaining Movements of People Whom You All Enow. to MONMOUTH. Work on the Normal training school buildmg is progressing nicely. There is a large force of men at work, and they are Monmouth men, except a few leading ones, which makes times quite lively here. The contract or says he is anxious to get the build , ing under cover before it rains. Philip Boche of Portland spent Sunday visiting his mother, Mrs. Net tie Boche, and his grandfather, S. N. Guilliams. His wife preceded him by a couple of weeks. He is studying law and teaching in the Y. M. C. A. building. He left for home Monday, but his wife will remain here for a while. C. E. Force and family left for Arlington, Eastern Oregon, Tuesday. They expect to live there a year, hav ing rented their properly for that period. P. J. Mulky, their son-in-law, and his wife are teaching at Arling ton, and spent the summer here, lhe party went in Mr. Mulkey's auto. C. Newman and wife autoed to Portland Saturday to visit their daughter, returning home Monday. C. E. Herren expects to begin pack ing hops the first of next week. He always keeps them well cultivated and they mature early. He is about the first to get to picking. Wm. Mulkey of Big Elk, was in town this week visiting relatives. The spring grain will soon be threshed, then the clover hulling will begin. Clover is a good crop this year. Grain continues to come into the warehouse at a lively rate. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smith have moved into their new house on Main street. A. N. Poole and wife spent Satur day and Sunday at home. He is get ting along nicely with the Parker school house. Misses Maggie and Allie Butler re turned from Newport, Monday. They spent the summer there. C. P. Cornwell and wife went to Chitwood last week, returning home luesday. Miss Anna Rasmussen and Miss Gladys Fuller of Missoulia, Montana, were the guests of Miss Fuller's aunts, Mrs. Stine, and Mrs. Thorp, and J. H. Moran, her uncle, for a few days, while enroute home from San Francisco. Miss Fuller's brother is a graduate of the O. A. G. and is en gaged in teaching. Her father, Rubin Fuller, long since dead, was a son of Arnold Fuller of Benton county, and one of the oldest settlers of the val ley. Mr. and Mrs. J. Staley of Salem are guests of the Grahams this week. Mrs. Babe Graham has returned home from a visit in the east, where she had been visiting relatives. F. M. Fisher reports that while lie. was in Wisconsin, he witnessed some heavy rain and thunder storms. He was glad to get back to Oregon. Dallas 1 Tuesday to attend the circus. Missr Ada 1 'anner and John Braden went to Newport Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Gay and dautrb ter.of Hebo came Monday to visit relatives a few days. They made the trip in their new Ford and report the roads in pretty good condition. Mr. Spooner and son of Dayton were callers here the hint ot the week Mr. Hickerson is hauling grain for Mr. farmer. M. F. White went to Salt Creek Wednesday to auction a sale for Mr. Fink. . Ed. Hodge hauled wheat to McCoy for Henrv White last week. WILDWOOD. Mr. White. Mrs. Beecher, Miss Etta Edgar and Miss Cor Gav were call ers at the homes of E. B. Hull and L. D. Fry last week. Miss Gav has been employed to teach school here this winter. Nearly everyone in this part of the country is through threshing. All re port fairly good crops. J. F. Leigh made a trip to Hoskins Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Katie Leigh was elected school director to fill the vacancy of Mr. Leigh, who resigned. A forest fire has been keeping a number of men trying to check it for several days. We hear it is under control now. BORN BY THE ROADSIDE SOME REMINISCENCES OF PIO NEER DAYS TERSELY TOLD. Frank Collins First Saw Light of Day While Parents Were Crossing the Plains With Ox-Team. OAK GROVE. About fifty relatives and friends of Mr. and Mrs, J. W. Edgar met with them Sunday to enjoy a birthday din ner with Mrs. Edgar. Charley Mangus went to Dallas the first of the week. Charley Allen and Thad Stevens went to Dallas Tuesday. Miss Mary Allen returned Monday to her home in Portland, after spend ing two weeks here. Mrs. Fawk spent several days last week with her daughter, Mrs. Frank Farmer. " Seth Fawk went to Eola Monday for peaches. Miss Alice Riggs spent last week at the Lewis home here. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Butler of Port land have been visiting a few davs with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed gar. R. J. Williamson and family called at J. v. Julgar's luesday evening. Several from here attended the cir cus at Dallas Tuesday. AGAIN THE CITY PARK. AIRLIE. The Airlie operators left on the 27th for a three weeks' vacation. Mis. R. E. Allen and Miss Helen Conn are relieving them. We who know the condition of the switchboard and lines believe we can greatly assist the new operators by showing a little pa tience and courtesies. SMITHFIELD. The early grain is threshed and now the late grain is being threshed. Miss Elizalielh Dielim has finished her short course of bookkeeping and typewriting and is now al home in hopes of getting a position. The circus was well attended from this locality. Mr. and Mrs. P. ,T. Heini ichs, newly-weds, are living in the (ilazeinan house. Quilc a number of people from here al tended the and ion sale at Dr. Fink's on Salt Creek. John Diehm has nicked his nears and is selling them for ,"0 cents a bushel. The grain turns out good, which the iarniers an appreciate very much .nr. Kortad was a Dallas visitor Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Neufeldt will soon return from Minnesota, where incy went to tne bedside of her moth er, Mrs. Katherine Voth. Mrs. John Kliever will go to the home of her sister-in-law. Mrs. Ger hard Kliever, to pick blackberries along the creek. The prune crop ig heavy in some -places, and in gome orchards 'the crops are light. Mr. and Sirs. Chs. Robertson. Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Heinrichs and Jacob Rempel from this place motored to Wesley Robertson's near Brieilwell. Gerhard Diehm intended to take a inp to fort land to get his gister, bnt did not succeed. Upon arriving near " uiiBson me roads were go dusty and there were go jnany chuck holes that pe wok two tumbles, and returned home. CROWLEY. Harley Bly was i Dallas the first of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Butler of Port land are visiting relatives here this week. Mrs. R. J. Williamson and daugh ter erda, Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Ed Hodges and little daughter went toi Municipal Grounds Could be Beauti fied at Very Small Expense. It has been suggested so many times at public meetings and through the press that it is getting tiresome to think about improving the city park. But when Dallas business men stop to think what the improvement of that beautiful spot would mean to this city they usually tell someone about their idea, and the chain starts. It is peculiar that this has no ettect in creating action, when so many ap preciate the advantage the city would have over other valley towns in being able to offer its citizens and its guests such a spot for recreation. As one who brought the question up this week said: "For five hundred dol lars we could plow that place up, seed it to grass, set out shrubs and flowers and have the garden spot of the val ley." That is about as far as things go in connection with the city park development. There are natural ef fects in the surface of the park that would delight the keen eye of most any landscape artist. A creek run ning through the park bordered with trees, and many large oaks set here and there throughout the tract. The beauty of the park would be unequal led it the lommereial club, or some other enterprising organization, would get behind a development movement and evolve action from too much talk. Attractive benches could be added to the equipment of the park at small cost, and a place near by could be set aside for tourist parties to make their camps. A little advertising and a little time only would be required to make the place a niecca tor auto mobile parties eii route in either di rection. They are all looking for a beautiful and comfortable place to send the night, and when they hnd that place the nearest merchants ga ner I he sheckles that tourists leave in their paths. From Portland nianv parties would be delighted to come to Dallas for the week-end if such a fine camp site was open to them. And when tourists come thev always leave money. Within a short time, sav Ihose who are most interested in the development of the park and a near by camping place, every week-end would see travelers in great numbers enjoying themselves here. The tour ist gain would be secondary perhaps to the great value the park would be to the residents. A pleasant place to lounge about on a warm afternoon is not now available, but at little ex pense the park could be put in proper shape and would fill the bill excel lently. What more desirable place could be found to hold the public band concerts than just such a park as is suggested by tbose who are anx ious to see the development of the Dallas city park put under wayf Elks' Night at the Fair. Thursday night. September 30, has been designated by the state fair board as Elks' night, when it is ex pected there will be a good represen tation of the Elks from the towns of the Willamette vallev. Frank Lynchers Unknown. Leo M. Frank came to his death at the hands of unknown persons" was the verdict returned by the cor oner's jury at Marietta, Georgia, on Tuesdar. Fred Lockley, special writer for the Portland Journal, who recently visit ed Polk county for the purpose of gathering information from pioneer settlers, has the following about one of this section's best known citizens, F. M. Collins: "Francis Marion Collins is what I was christened but they generally call me Frank," said an Oregon pioneer of 1846 when I visited him recently at his home in Dallas. "I was bom in Missouri on November 19, in the year 1834. My father. Smith Col lins, was born in Virginia. My moth er, Emily Wyett Collins, was a Ken- tuckian. Thev were married in Mis souri and had 12 children, eight boys and four girls. I was 12 years old when we started tor Oregon in the spring ot 184b. On Bear river, six or seven miles this side of Soda springs, one of my brothers fell out of the front of the wagon and before the oxen could be stopped the front wheel ran over him and killed him. Father made a coffin for him from the false bottom of our wagon. They buried him by the side of the trail. fhev covered his comn with flat wa ter-worn rocks from Bear river so the coyotes could not dig him up. At Fort Hall we were met by Captain Levi Scott, the founder of Scottsburg, near the mouth of the TJmpqua. He told us that he and the Applegates and some others from Polk county had a new cut off which saved the hard climb across the Cascades or the dangerous trip down the Columbia by raft or batteau. "Four families of our train decid ed to take the new cuit-off. There was our family, the Pringle family, the Fanlkners and Old Captain Brown, who followed Captain Levi Scott. We took a different road than that taken by Stephen Meek the year before when he attempted to show a large train of emigrants a cut-off by the southern route and they came to grief. "We had no trouble except near Klamath lake. One of our party man by the name of Tanner, lagged behind and failed to come in one night. Next morning they went back to look him up and found mm back a piece in the road, stripped naked and full of arrows. They dug a shal low grave for him beneath a big chunk of sagebrush with their hunt ing knives and tramped the ground down and left him. ' We struck the head of Bear creek and followed it down to about where Medford now is. We had been joined by nearly a hundred wagons which had turned south at Fort Hall, among them the Vanderpools, the Crowleys, and others. Old man Vanderpool was bringing in some blooded sheep, but at near what is now Grants Pass the Indians charged his band of sheep, scattered them and got most of them. As we were making our way down a heavy grade the man who was driving Crowley's wagon called out tor me to stop. I had the wagon just ahead ot Crowey s. He told me Leland Crow ley was dying and for me to send my mother back at once. Mother went back to Crowley's wagon but Leland only lived a few minutes. She was a very bright, pretty and likeable girl, about 17 or 18 years old. We drove down the grade and camped beside the stream. Mother laid Leland out and prepared her for her burial. They buried her by the side of the stream which for years went b.t the name of Grave creek. It is now called Leland creek after Leland Crowley. Crowley station and postoffice here in Polk county is named for the Crowley fam ily. "A few davs after we buried Le land another party came along and found the Indians had dug her up and taken all her clothes, leaving her naked. Thev reburied her. J. 1). Smith, who lives in Dallas, was in the party that reburied her. He still has the iron fire shovel they used to hury her. It happened to be the only shov el they had. "Colonel Cornelius Gilliam, my wife's father, who had come out two years before, helped build the first house in Marysville, now Corvallis, for Mr. Avery, and be built a cabin for Eugene Skinner at what is now Eugene. F. Skinner had gone east for his family, so my brother Jim (you probably know him as Judge J. L. Collins) stayed all winter in Skin ner's cabin, taking care of our cat tle. A man from trench Prairie, I think his name was La Chappelle, came to Skinners Butte, or Eugene, as they now call it, and father hired him to take our family and our goods by pack horse farther np the valley. He took us to what was later called Parkers station, on the Big Luckia- mute, not far from the present town of Independence. We wintered there. Next spring, the spring of 1847, we took up a place near what is now called Silvers station. My father and mother lived there nntil their death, j My brother Alec's familv now live on the old claim. In the spring of 1849 father went to the 1 alifornia gold mines on horse back. In 1834 I went to the Califor nia gold fields. I came back to the Willamette vallev in Febrnarv, 1855. and two months later I arain struck out for the California diggings. While my brother Jim and I were workin; a claim on Scotts Bar, I picked up nugget worth $120, and within fiv minutes Jim shoveled one out that weighed over .fall, we rocked out a little over $2.10 that day. Our claim was about 40 miles from Yreka. "I will always believe that farther up the ridge there in a rich ore bodv though it has ever vet been located In 1858 I look a drove of cattle from the Willamette valley to Tehoma, and next year, on August 28, 1859, I was married by Justice of the Peace Isaac otaats to Lizzie Elizabeth Gilliam, for whom Gilliam countv is named. "Some mighty good people came across the plains in 1846. Among the best known are Governor Geoige L. Curry, J. H. Bridges and Mrs. M. A, Bridges of Salem, L. A. Byrd, George W. Burnett, who settled at La Fay ette, H. C. Buckingham of Monroe J. C. Allen of Eola, Levi Anderson of Portland, Mrs. Lucy A. Deady, Lncle Dave uridine ot Dallas. Mrs Meliola Munkers of Salem F. R. Smith of Salem, John Savage and J. W. Shrum, also of Salem, Lazarus and Martha Vanbibher, Tom Town send of Salem, J. Quinn Thornton, R. is. Ihompson ot Portland, t . Martin or balem, Andrew Losen of Aums ville. Rev. A. E. Garrison of Salem G. S. Cox of Silverton, J. H. Clozpore of Albany; A. S. Cone of Butteville, J. W. Chambers of Salem and many others. ' REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS 4 The following is a complete list of realty transfers recorded during the week ending yesterday and reported to The Observer by Sibley & Eakin, abstractors, 515 Court street, Dallas: V. C. Staats and wife to J. C. Em- merson, lot in Dallas, $500. John Q.uaenng et al to John W. Quiring, 51.70 acres, T. 7-5, $11). John W. Quiring to Katharina Quiring, 17.60 acres, T. 7-5, $10. John VV. Quiring to David Quiring, 17.60 acres T. 7-5, $10. John W. Quiring to John Quiring, 3rd 16.50 acres, T. 7-5, $10. Fritz Kathke to Pierre and Pauline Traglio, 85 acres, T. 7-3, $25. George M. Armstrong et al to Ar thur J. Johnston, 120 acres T. 9-5, $10. M. W. Seitz Trus. to Arthur J. Johnston, 120 acres T. 9-5, $10. Capital Trust Co. to George P. De kum, 1 acre, T. 7-3, $10. Kinkwood Park Co. to Floyd Crab tree, lot in Kingwood Park, $325. Lice Don't Bother Ezra. Ezra Hart has fourteen acres of hops on his Salt Creek farm that are pronounced by buyers to be the best they have seen this season, both as regards quality and quantity. Mr. Hart's yard has been free from lice this year, and no sprayinc has baen done. He will commence picking ear ly next week. Auto Collides With Buggy. While automobiling between Dallas and independence Tuesday night an unknown driver collided with a bug gy occupied by two women, throwing them to the ground, but fortunately causing no serious injury to them. The accident took place between here and Monmputh, and every effort was made to hush it. DR. STONE'S POISON OAK REMEDY A snow white medicine, soft and soothing to the skin, applied every hour at once relieves and soon cures POISON OAK Price 25c. and 50c. For sale by all druggists. CityTransfer W. R. COULTER, Proprietor The world moves itself; We move anything else Piano and Furniture Mov ing a Specialty Stand Kersey's Confec tionery. Phone 1061 Residence Phone 1202 Bringing In the daintiest, choicest flavoured flaked food ever produced-- New Post Toasiies If you like corn flakes as, most folks do, there's a delightful surprise ahead. 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