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TEE FOLK COUNTY OBSERVER, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1915. I Teachers Annual Institute October 27, 28 and 29 A teachers' institute for Polk county will be held in. the Dallas High school building three days next week, commencing on Wednesday, for which a decidedly interesting and instructive program has been arranged by County Superintendent H. C. Seymour. A number of prominent educational workers, including J. H. Ackerman, president of the Oregon Normal school; E. K. Carleton, assistant state superintendent public instruction; Thos. H. Gentle principal of the training school, Oregon Normal school; E. D. Ressler, depart ment of education, Oregon Agricultural college ; B. W. DeBusk, department of education, University of Oregon; F. L. Griffin, department of Education, Oregon Agricultulral college; M. S. Pittman, Oregon Normal school; Miss Lillian Dinius, Oregon Normal school; Miss Alice Mcintosh, Oregon Notarial school; Mrs. Mamiei Fulkerson, Institute Instructor, Salem; H. H. Parsons, rural school supervisor, Polk county, will be present. It is expected that practically every teacher in the county, numbering about 150, will be present on this occasion. The program, as follows, has been sent out from the county superintendent's office to all teachers within Polk county: WEDNESDAY A. M. 9:00 to 9:20 Opening Exercises Dallas High School Orchestra 9:20 to 10:00 General Session. Selected Thos. H. Gentle 10:00 to 10:20 Recess 10:20 to 11:00 Department Work Primary ' 1 . T . ,. , ! Reading Miss Lillian Dinius Intermediate J , Advanced Language Miss Alice Mcintosh High School .Round Table ..E. D. Ressler 11:00 to 11:20 Recess 11:20 to 12:00 General Session. Professional Progress E. D. Ressler . WEDNESDAY P. M. 1:30 to 1:50 Opening Exercises Dallas High School Orchestra 1:50 to 2:30 General Session. Education Preparedness E. D. Ressler 2:30 rto 2:50 Recess 2:50 to 3:30 Department Work Rural Round Table H. H. Parsons Primary ) T ,. y Reading ..Miss Lillian Dinius Advanced History..; Miss Alice Mcintosh High School '..Round Table :..J. H. Ackerman 3:30 to, 3:50 Recess 3:50 to 4:30 General Session. The Teachers' Compensation. J. H. Ackerman 8 :00 to 11 :00 Reception for visiting teachers given by Dallas teachers. THURSDAY A. H. 9:00 ito 9:20 Opening Exercises..- Falls City High School Orchestra 9:20 to 10 :00 General Session. Some Mental Tests of Use to the Teacher, B. W. DeBusk 10:00 to 10:20 Recess 10:20 to 11:00 Department Work Primary Phonics Mire. Mamie Fulkerson Intermediate Spelling Miss Lillian Dinius Advanced Civics Miss Alice Mcintosh High School. ....... ..Adapting the High School to the needs of the pupil B. W. DeBusk 11:00 to 11:20 Recess 11:20 to 12:00 General Session. A Converted Public M. S. Pituman THURSDAY AFTERNOON 1:30 to 1:50 Opening Exercises Falls City High School Orchestra 1:50 to 2:30 General Session Play and its Meaning in Child .Life B. W. DeBusk 2:30 to 2:50 Recess 2:50 to 3:30 Department Work Rural Your Problem in the School M. S. Pittman Primary; The Childs' First Mouth in School Mrs. Mamie Fulkerson Intermediate Language Miss Lillian Dinius Advanced Arithmetic Miss Alice Mcintosh High School Teaching Pupils to Study . B. W. DeBusk 3:30 to 3:50 Recess 3:50 to 4:30 General Session. That Better Position M. S. Pittman FRIDAY A. M. '9:00 to 9:20 Opening Exercises. Music. 9 :20 to 10 :00 General Session. Club Work, What it is, means, your part in it F. L. Griffin 10:00 to 10:20 Recess 10:20 to 11:00 Department Work Rural Round Table ., H. H. Parsons Primary Selected Mrs. Mamie Fulkerson Intermediate Arithmetic Miss Lillian Dim us Advanced Selected Miss Alice Mcintosh High School Round Table E. F. Carleton 31:00 to 11:20 Recess 11:20 to 12:00 General Session. P. P. L E E. F. Carleton FRIDAY P. M. 1 :00 to 1 :20 Opening Exercises. Music. 1:20 to 2:00 General Session. Polk County Schools 1915-16. H. C. Seymour Musical and Litenary selections will be intersjiersed through the program by the following: J. W. Orr Miss Edna Morrison Prof R. E. Miller " Miss Alice Grant Fred B. West Miss Gladys Cartwright Miss Bertha Clark Miss Georgia Curtis Miss Pearl Owings Miss Lucile Hamilton SUPERINTENDENTS NOTE. All schools in the county must be closed during the Annual Institute. (Section 75, Page 40, School Laws 1915.) You will notice that this program contains just sixteen hours and as the law requires sixteen hours attendance it means that you must be there at ev ery session and on time. We have tried to arrange the program so that all teachers may get awav from bene on the train leaving at 2:00 o'clock Friday. It may be necessary for you to dismiss 'your school early Tuesday afternoon in order to get to Dallas Tuesday evening or W dnesday morning at 9 o'clock. Be here at that time. The reception given by the Dallas teachers is to be an informal affair, and I am sure you will appreciate (this kind invitation by these teachers and will plan to attend. Bring your note book and come prepared to get all possible from this in etitute. Be ready to ask questions from the instructors, Mr. Parsons or my self, in order hat you may go back to your school prepared to do your very best work. Be rare yoa become acquainted wtth every teacher in Polk County. time of the murder. Residents along the road near which the body was found report having seen Mrs. Bootjh follow in the direction taken by her husband shortly before. Mrs. Booth bad pleaded that she was going to see her ill mower. THE CITY IN BRIEF Drs, Lowe & Turner, eye specialists of Portland, will be in Falls City again Wednesday, October 27, at Falls Uity Hotel. Take youm automobile repair work to V. J. hreeve, Oak street. 64-tf. , The bterling Jmrmture company irames pictures. 64-tf. For Fire and automobile Insurance see Chas. Gregory, city hall 32-tf Dr. C. L. Foster, dentist, City Bank building, Dallas. 78-F. See Van Orsdel and Manston for old line fire Insurance the Queen, Liverpool, London & Globe, company 13. The oldest and best on the coast. J. he sterling furniture company irames pictures. 644f. Go to the Dallas Brick and Tile company for your briek and tile and save yourself money. 55-tf There Is more to hair cutting than merely cutting off the hair. Try u for an up-to-date stylish hair cut. C. W. Shultz. . 13-tf. Automobile repairs of every kini and nature at C. J. Shreeve's, Oak street. 64-tf. Dr. Rempel, Chiropractor, 513 Church Dr. Stone's Heave Drops cures heaves. Price $1, for sale by all drug gists. Adv. 79-tf. The Dallas Wood company la ready to furnish you with mill wood. Good loads and good service. All wood cash on delivery. Phone 492. 103-tf. If you have land you wish surveyed see S. B. Taylor, C. E., city hall, Dal las, phone 791. Dependable work at reasonable prices. 58-tf. Itie bterting iurnjture company irames pictures. 64-tif. t ord owners, take your repair work to the ford Garage, C. J. Shreeve. SMALL ACREAGE IN FARMS. Area of Oregon is 61,188,000 Acres. Less Than Fifth in Farms. According to a recent report from the U. S. department of agriculture there are 1,900,(100,000 acres in Che land area of the United States ; of this area 878,000,000 acres, or less than lhalf, is in farm lands, and a little ov er half of the farm lands are improv ed. Oregon has a land area of 61, 188,000 acres and only 11,685,000 acres, or 19 per cent, is in farms. Of the farm land only 4,275,000 acres is improved, or 7 per cent of the total. Washington with a land area of al most 20,000,000 acres more than Ore gon has, 15 per cent of the farm land improved. Under the law, which gives the .states a share of the income of the national forests, Oregon received $69,- 545 last year, while Washington re ceived $52,423. STATE FAIR CLEARS $7000. $1000 Debt of Last Year Paid Gross Receipts $35,000. Approximately $7000 was cleared by the Oregon state fair this year, after paying a debt of $1000 '.eft f -om last year, according to an announce ment made by W. Al Jones, secretary of the state fair boam. The gross receipts at the fair were about $35, 000, and of this amount $21,000 wns taken in at the gate. Wednesday of state fair week, which was Salem day, had the largest gate receipts in the history of the faiiii, approximctelv $8000 being received, which is $300 more than any other day's gate re ceipts since the fair was instituted. SEEKS REFLECTION. KINDNESS TO CHICKENS AND OTHER CREATURES MURDER SUSPECT HELD. Arrest Mad Over Sheotinf of Wil Umina Farmer. That William Booth, who was found dead in the road half a mile above the Willamina briek plant, to m or dered is the finding of the Coroner's jury that held an inquest at Willam ina Saturday. The finding of the body Friday was kept quiet until Tuesday. William Branson, aged 23, is und-'r arrest, suspected of the murder of the farmer. Booth had been seen two hours before the traeedy, and Bran son, with whom Booth is said to hare been on bad terms, is unable to ac count for his whereabouts between the time Booth was last teen alive and the finding of his body. Branson was seen near the scene of the trag edy daring the afternoon of Friday. He had borrowed a bicycle from a Willamina man shortly before the McArthur Makes Campaign Before Taking Original Seat.' C. N. McArthur, who will take his seat as representative of the third congressional district when congress meets in November, announces that he is a candidate for renomination in the republican primaries next spring. Owing to the time of his election and the opening of conjress .McArthur is in the peculiar position of making a second campaign before he has taken rhe seat to which he was elected. He says that he will remain at asliinir- ton and will not return' to Oregon to conduct his primary fight. Laying Out Spur. S. B. Tavlor left on Wednesday for Roseburg, where he will lav out the proposed railroad spur for the Oswe-go-Portland Cement company. Tavlor did the preliminary work for the com pany here, and left it prepared for the track laying . crew to get at work. Four miles of track will be built at Roseburg, and Mr. Taylor will do the engineering work preparatory to the actual track laying. When Greek Meets Greek. The first football game in Eutrene between the State University and Ore gon Agricultural college that has been played since 1907 is set for November 20. It is expected to decide a tie that has existed for three years. Special trains will be run from Portland and Willamette valley points, and seats to accommodate 9000 persons will be ready. Walnut O rowers' Meet The first annual convention of the Western Walnut association will be held in Portland November 3-4. and will doubtless be attended by many interested persons in the Willamette valley. (By J. C. Rickli.) ', Brothers And Sisters: Yes, be kind to the great American hen. It may not only pay you ; it is your duty. W e gave the subject of chickens our pro found study and attention last winter. We laid awake nights trying to dope it out how to improve the sanitation of our egg foundry and how to ren der our chicken park more attractive and inviting to its occupants. Please note that the modern well-bred poul try man never talks about a poultry yard or pen. He invariably refers to it as a "chicken park." Only the vulgar know what a barn yard or poultry yard is. Have you ever gone out on a raw, rainy morning and tried to spread sunshine among your hens'f Well, we have and can still see their eager, expectant faces when we would ap proach with that bucket ot costly wheat. We got on such good terms with our chickens that we could in vade our proud Leghorn roosters' harem anytime and he would tolerate us with only an occasional mild pro test. Intellectually we are bound to say chickens are no great shakes. However, there are exceptional. We had one speckled hen who 's brightness we discovered quite early in her life. She was such an intelligent, cheery, confiding, voluble little creature. We got into the habit on our daily mis sions to -have a confidential chat with her by the gate. Alas, one fateful day our folks got awful hungry and the wife went into the chicken park to make a selection.! In the hurry. flurry and excitement that ensued, my tavorite hen must have lost her 'head. At least when we made our evening round we saw her no more. Either the grief or the way our late lamented friend was fried gave us an acute case of indigestion that night, and we had a terrible time ot it. We are con strained to admit, however, that kind ness to chickens is expensive. We owe Mr. Braden, down on Mill street, a large bill right now, but "nitohevo" (Kussian tor 1 should worry that don't bother us.) Ouir chickens were happy while that feed lasted. Never theless this kindness to chickens can be overdone. You should also at times give some thoughtful consideration to your own kind, to humanity. This reminds us of our good old friend Hubbard, down in Texas. It was during that period of American history when Belgian harea. constitut ed the folly of a nation. He was bad ly infected with that fad and well stocked with pedigreed Belgian aris tocracy. .Nothing was too good for those fool hares. My friend Hubbard would go up to Pecos town, buy Quak er rolled oats in packages by the case and feed it to those worthless things with the reckless abandon of a Harry Thaw. Many times his wife Mother Hubbard would go to the cupboard to get some "vittles" tor her chil dren and when she got there the cup board was bare, and the poali clnl lun" had none. The best we can say in defense of our friend is that' the poor fellow lost his sense of propor tion. He should have somehow man aged to feed those children along with the hares, or at least give them an even break. We have long been pondering on the matter and have come to the conclusion that we had the honor of knowing the only origi nal, genuine and historic Mother Hub bard. Anyhow, we never saw our friend 's wife without that classic garment. Bdothers and sisters, excepting pole cats, the south end of mules facr ing north, and a few other things you should endeavor to cultivate closer relations with our animal friends. We can go to any back alley and say Kootchce wootchee," or words to that effect, and the most fleeting, de praved, disolute Tom cat will pause in liis mad career and reflect. He will give us a stai'tled kind of a "Johnny- l-liamlv-Kiiow-vou" look, then we Hi lk to him like a dutch uncle and he will come to us like the prodigal son, tell us all about his woes and fur our commiseration even exhibit the wounds received in a recent battle be hind our neighbor's fence. Such is the power of man, who after all is only a kind of a superior, concerted animal himself. 'Tis sad, but true, that often a good faithful dog is a better companion than our fellow man. The other Sunday the wife and "us" went out for a ramble over the mountainous region on South Main street. As is our mutual habit we would say a kind word to horses, dogs and cats we met by the wavside. In some mystic inscrutable way thev can sense the approach of a friend. When we got to Mr. Embree's place a hand some Collie dog came romping out of the bouse opposite and gave us joyful greeting. Just then our daughter, with a brace of very pretty girl friends came scampering down the hill. That collie was the sly old dog. There was better game in sight. He promptly gave us the shake and the adroit manner and expert grace with which he kissed those effusive young ladies was a delightful sieht. It beat the Dallas band; it beat us in our palmest young days. Well, winter is at our door once more. The question before the house is shall we devote every moment of the evening of our life to chickens f Echo answers, "No!" Let George do it, and darn those cheap beat hen Chinese tsx, anyhow, which the same we are free to maintain. Sisters and brothers "yoa are dismissed good night Star Transfer Co. WE MOVE ANYTHING THAT IS MOVEABLE PROMPT SERVICE G. A. & L C. MUSCOTT & A. P. STARR, Props. I Phone Stands: Webster's Confectionery 511 Barn 1074 Ellis Confectionery 1062 W. E. Greenwood, Mgr. G. Stolts Company, Props, Dallas Soda Works Manufacturers of Soft Drinks Telephone 703. -422 Ellis Street BLACK'S GROCERY We can please youifyouwant the best J. A. B AHH AM E. V. BARHAM BARIIAM BROTHERS . General Contractors and Builders REPAIRING AND REMODELING. CEMENT WORK A SPECIALTY. IiET US FIGURE ON TOUR FOUNDATIONS AND SIDE WALKS. Phones 661 and;i012 Dallas, Oregon HENinineedof Athletic Sup plies, Flash lights and Batteries, Pock et Cutlery, Bicycles, Mo torcycles, Sundries, Blast ing Powder, Gun Repair ing, Umbrella Repairing, Bicycle and Motorcycle Re dairing, or in fact any light Mechanical Repairing, call, on L. B. IIIXSOH, Jr. PHONE 1072. 315 MAIN ST. AND CAN SUPPLY EVERT NEED FOR MUSICAL EQUIPMENT 1'K.OM OUR LARGE AND COM PLETE STOCK OF Instruments, Bows Picks. Bridges Keys. Strings WE SAVE THE FINEST Violins, Guitars, Man dolins, Banjos, Accor dions and Harmonicas , . IN THE CITY . THE FULLER PHARMACY MAIN STREET, CORNER MILL THEO. BERGMANN SHOE MFG. 00. ' Incorporated. Manufacturers of the Celebrated Bergmann Shoe. PORTLAND : OREGON The strongest and nearest water proof shoes made for loggers, miners, prospectors and mill-men. AND ALL KINDS OF GOOD PRINTING AT THE OBSERVER. When We Hand You Our Estimates of the cost of the lumber yon requiit 70a can depend upon it that the fut ures will be as low a first-class, well seasoned lumber can be sold for hon estly. If yon pay nor. yon pay toe much. If you pay less yoa fet lest either in quality or quantity. Willamette Valley Lumber Co. 2 World-Famous Brands Each thm bnt of It class. 3 mpUndid grades at 3 difforont prices. Old Master and San Marto Coffee "ThtKmJ With thml SOLO BT DALLAS MEAT COMPANY. Butter Wrappers! Get them at The Observer GUARDIANS NOTICE. Notice is hereby giren that the un dersigned has been duly appointed Guardian of the estate of Henry M. nry, an incompetent person, by the Hon. County Court of Polk County. Orefron. All persons holding claims against said estate should present toe same to the undersigned for adjust ment, and all persons owing said es tate are hereby notified to settle same with said guardian. J. D. SMITH, Guardian of the estate of Henry M. Berry. SIBLEY k EAKIX, ERNEST HANSON". Carpenter and Contractor, WaU-pa- perlnf and Painting, Cement and Brick Work. SIS Orchard Are. Phone Wert Red S3 The Observer, a Twlee-a-Week pa r, costs mo more than a weekly.