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VOL. 27
(THE HOME PAPER)
DALLAS, FOLK COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1916.
(TWIOE-A-WEEE)
NO. 69
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ROAD FUND EXHAUSTED
MODERNIZING HIGHWAYS RE
QUIRES LARGE SUMS.
Deficit Created in 1915, Amounting to
$30,702, WiU Not Be Exceeded
Present Year.
The entire amount of the county
road fund has been expended this
year in modernizing the roads of Folk
county and the indebtedness above the
total fund is assuming such propor
tions that improvements and repairs
on the roads have practically been
suspended. Only little defects here
and there are being repaired, but it
seems that there is up end to the-de
sires of residents along the highways
and the county court and the roaa
master are constantly 'besieged with
requests to spread a 16ad of gravel,
cut down the rough spots, tpit- a
bridge or make a fill. It was'ilie in
tention of the court to bring all road
?work to an end six weeks ago, but
these little things have made thnt im
possible and some work is still bain
ydone in some parts of the com ly.
Only1 last week the last bridge thai
is included in this year's list of nec
essary improvements was compler-id.
' It spans a slough between Halls'on
and the Yamhill river and was thrown
open to travel a few days ago.
When the amount of money spent
on road and bridge work this year is
considered, a better idea of the oxcent
of such work is obtainable. By a tax
levy of 20 mills last year the comity
court raised approximately is,uou
for road and bridge funds, this en
tire sum has been expended and a
life-sized indebtedness has been
curred. Nineteen and six-tenths niiils
was the total levy provided by the
original road budget last' year, and
this brought a total or .f4H,uuu to the
county treasury for the road fui.d
proper and $26,519.32 for bridges and
ferries. An additional .4 levy was
assessed to bring the total levy up to
20 mills and provided approximately
$78,000. There was an indebtedness
facing the court at the beginning o?
the year amounting to $30,702.93 and
2.6 mills of the tax levy was direccod
to the payment of that sum. Witn
the addition of other sums the indoot
..jedness was cleared up, and the dibt
this year is not expected to be nearly
so large. The levy has been heavy
the past two years because of the
fact that the county has been depriv
ed of $14,000 annually in taxes from
the Southern Pacific railroad compuny
for the O. & C. grant lands. If I tie
courts finally decide that the jrant
lands shall revert to the railroad com
pany the county may get a lump cum
of $42,000 in back taxes with the
probable addition of interest at six
per cent. .Naturally the county is
more or less anxious to see the lands
revert to the railroad.
The official report on road and
bridge work will be issued within a
month or bo, and all sums spent and
received will be made known, togetner
with the costs of all improvements.
The tax budget for next year will le
prepared sometime in December by
the county court, and the levy for
roads and bridges will amount to
about the same as that of this year,
The advocates of the new bridge
across the river at Salem suggest that
the county count set aside $50,000
from the road and bridge fund to pay
a part of this county s portion ot the
cost of the new bridge. If that was
done there would be a maximum of
$13,000 available for road work aft
the probable indebtedness had been
. paid off. That the suggestion s an
impossible one is obvious.
working establishment in the north
west at Buena Vista, Polk county, in
la i H, is now in charge of the Portland
offices of the Denny Renton Clay &
Coal company, through which all Ore
gon territory business is handled, r ol-
lowing in the footsteps of his father,
young Smith until recently had charge
of the "image" factory of the West
ern Clay Manufacturing company of
Portland, .
PIONEER MINISTER PASSES.
Rev. Carey Wooley Was tOnoa Sta
tioned at IiucUamute.
The Rev. Carey Allen Wooley, aged
75 years, and some years ago station
ed at Luckiamute in this county, died
at bis home in Jwigene on Tuesday.
Rev. Mr. Wooley f9 said to be the
oldest pioneer minister in Oregon and
had built many churches on this coast.
He was born in Gerard county, Ken
tucky, November 22, 1836. He was
married in Trenton, Mo,, in 1859, and
started west shortly after. , On his
westward journey Mr. 'Wooley stop
ped in Denver, where ha.worked in the
mines for two years to procure enough
money to purchase a praitie schooner,
four mules and to insure him means
to complete his trip westward to Ore
gon. ; .
PRAISES MARKET DAY
ALBANY DELEGATION OUTLINES
PLAN IN VOGUE THERE.
Dallas Merchants Signify Willingness
to Support Movement Inaugur
ated by Mr. Davis.
FOOTBALLONSATURDAY
WALLOP MAC. IS SLOGAN OF
DALLAS HIGH SCHOOL TEAM.
Interesting Football Game Will Oc
cupy Attention of Sports Both
Young and Old Tomorrow.
IMPROVEMENTS FINISHED.
Nineteen Blocks Bettered at a Cost of
Approximately $20,000.
Peter Greenwood, street commis
sioner, was the happiest man in Dal
las Tuesday night. And all because
he had that day completed one of the
largest street improvement jobs ever
undertaken by this municipality, ihe
improvement included twenty-one
blocks of macadamization and eon
crete curbs in the most populated
parts of the city, the cost of which
exceeded $20,000. The work was done
nnder the direction of the street com
missioner, who rushed the improve
ment with all possible speed in order
that the extensive undertaking might
be completed during the present sea
son. The last load of crushed rock
was delivered on Tuesday, Uglow ave
nue being the last thoroughfare to re
ceive betterments.
Dallas-Fslk City Road.
The road between Dallas and Falls
City is now in splendid condition, the
highway being rocked the entire
distance, thus making winter travel
possible. Automobiling. however, on
this road has been somewhat difficult
daring the past week because of the
lose rock. During dry weather travel
took to the side roads in preference
to the gravel, but the recent rains
forced traffic to the center.
There is a lot of fine enthusiasm
and high school spirit being develop
ed about the football game between
Dallas and McMinnville high schools,
which are to play on the college field
here tomorrow. But in spite of that
there is to be one warm and furious
tussle if the Dallas players are to
come out anywhere near the victory
end of the score. McMinnville has a
team that will not be beaten so much
by spirit and enthusiasm as by genu
ine, battle, Taeir strength was in
dicated last Saturday when they held
the Corvallis high school team, one of
the best in the valley, to a small vic
tory. The team is fast and heavy and
that of the Dullas institution is nan
dicapped in weight, as well as in
speed, if last Saturday's tussle
against the balem mutes is a sample.
but in the face ot that the light team
is going onto the field tomorrow with
deteimination and unless they are
just played to a standstill they will
figure prominently in the score that
is made. Several of the team's best
players have been ruled out of the
game by the school authorities for
failure to maintain grades, but re
cently Coach Rudder has developed
the tew available second string men
to take the places of those who are
-ineligible.
. Those who will most likely get into
the mixup against McMinnville to
morrow are Captain Newman Dennis,
Forrest Martin, Ray Scott, Earl Cut
ler, Bud Hart, Theodore Berg, Ed,
Cutler, Frank McCann, Elmo Bennett
Arnel Wilson, Irving Balderee, Virgil
Brock and Webster Beebe. ' Dallas
merchants are doing what they can to
support the high school boys by ad
vertising the game extensively and
several clever advertising stunts have
been arranged in local windows.
Plans were laid on Tuesday after
noon for a big football rally to be
held by the high school students to
night. The boys and girls consider
the McMinnville game the "big
game oi the season and are taking
as much interest in bringing about a
victory as the team members them
selves. Several speeches were made
by students and instructois on Tues
day at the meeting presided over by
Yell Leader Hams Ellsworth, the
high school song was sung and Cap
tain Dennis made a brief talk to bis
schoolmates. Floyd Ellis, Joseph Hel
gerson, Earl Cutler, Forrest Martin,
Llwin Craven, Miss Marions Holman
and Miss Helen Casey, president of
the high school student body, were
other speakers among the students.
Prof. . 1. r ord made a tew remarks
that created much interest in the wel
fare of the team. The big rally on
the college campus will be held this
evening, beginning at 7:00 o'clock. A
urnpntin mnnh rinwn nlftin street
will be a feature and at a eornA gath
ering Mayor Kirkpatrick will be a
speaker. A twelve-piece band, under
the leadership of Prof. Downey, will
play between quarters of the game
tomorrow.
Plans for a public sales day were
outlined at the court house on Wed
nesday evening by a delegation of Al
bany merchants to a gathenng ot
about 75 Dallas businessmen, who, by
unanimous vote, decided to stand be
hind the idea and to do everything
possible to make a sales day a month
ly feature of the community life. A.
h. Fisher, who has been the prmfi
mover behind the successiul public
sales day at Albany, was the princi
pal speaker, and he offered an outline
of the work -that has been done .n
that oity and had much praise for the
plan as one that will develop harmony
between the businessmen and ttie
rarmers. The cost has been reduced
to a minimum at Albany and the spon
sors for the sales day there gave the
committee of Dallas merchants sever
al lessons in cost reduction so that it
will probably be able to conduct the
event at a very low cost. The meeting
on Wednesday was more to get ideas
and the view of the Albany boosters
regarding the plan than for the trans
action ot business and the matter will
be brought up for further discussion
and action at the regular Commercial
club meeting next week. The local
committee is up against the proposi
tion of reducing a probable expense
of about $80 a month to $15 Or $20.
When that saving is effected the sales
day proposition will probably go
ahead with a boom, and with a guar
antee of ultimate success.
In his talk to the businessmen Mr.
Fisher said: "The merchants of Al
bany have a systematic plan of adver-
using and inaugurate a system of
special bargains in their several lines
on each and every last Saturday of
the month. With proper provisions
for the establishment of the sales day
and with reasonable encouragement
on the part ot the merchants we be
lieve it possible to work out a new era
for all mutually concerned. Albany
has made a special effort to welcome
and cg-tyerate witu.the.iarmera,hatJ
attend our monthly sales davs. sale
and bargain days combined encourag
es farmers to bring their families to
the city, take advantage of special
prices and lay in monthly supplies. By
this combined effort community inter
ests are crystalized, confidence estab
lished and business encouraged."
LEVY EIGHTEEN MILLS
BUDGET WILL BE ADOPTED BY
COUNCIL ON MONDAY.
Liquidation of Armory indebtedness
r Planned by Aldermanlc Body.
; , The Several Funds.
Polk Boy Has Good Position.
Harold S. Smith, whose father.
Amedee Smith, started the first elay-
Abns May Bring Divorce,
Forty-two years of turbulent mar
ried life may reach a climax when a
divorce complaint, filed this week by
N. Norton against his wife, Margaret
J. Norton, is heard in Circuit Judge
Belt's court. . Children from the un
ion have all reached majority in spite
of the nagging and abusive disposi
tion of the mother, according to the
complaint. The kind and loving hus
band was married to the alleged nag
ging, quarrelsome and abusive wife in!
ton county in 1873.
Horse Breaks Leg and Is Shot.
Lot Brown lost a valuable horse on
Monday when the animal fell in a
ditch and broke a leg and had to be
killed. A man on Mr. Brown's farm
was pursuing the animal to show, it
to a prospective purchaser when it
stepped into the ditch. The leg was
so badly broken that it could not be
set.
NAVY TEST ANNOUNCED
REPRESENTATIVE HAWLEY IS
SEEKING MEN FOR ACADEMY
Examination to Be Held November
5-6 and Later Selections for
School Will Be Made.
The office of W. C. Hawley, repre
sentative in congress, has announced
that there would be held in Salem on
November 5 and 6 a competitive ex
amination to establish a register of
young men eligible for appointment
to the United states Ivaval Academy
from the first congressional district
of Oregon. The government particu
larly desires that all nominees be
carefully examined, both mentally and
physically, before being designated to
take the entrance examinations.
Representative Hawley invites all
young men between the ages of 16 and
20 years, who are residents of the
district, to enter the competitive ex
amination at halem. The mental ex
amination will be conducted by Pro-
lessor J. i. Matthews at Eaton ball.
commencing at 8:30 a m. Saturday,
Aovember b. Or. J. u. Van Winkle
will determine . the physical qualifi
cations of the candidates by examina
tion at his offices in the United States
National bank building on either No
vember 5 or 6 by appointment.
from the eligible register estab
lished by this examination, Mr. Haw
ley will nominate a principal and
three alternates to take the entrance
examinations on either the third Tues
day in April, 1916. He will make his
nominations before March 4. 1916.
and the principal or alternate suc
cessfully passing the entrance exami
nations will be admitted with the
class of Jirne, 1916.
I Eighteen mills will be the city tax
levy for 1916, and that sum is pro
vided for in the budget prepared at
an informal meeting of the city coun
cil on Friday evening. The budget
will be adopted as official by resolu
tion at a regular meeting of the coun
cil next Monday evening. Though on
its face the levy seems alarmingly
high, it is only d.o mills higher than
that of last year, and in view of the
retirement of one warranted indebt
edness the armory fund the in
crease is considered reasonably low.
the various funds, and the levy for
each are: Armory, .75 mills; library,
1 mill; water, 1 mill; county fair
grounds, .75 mills; sewage disposal
plant, 1 mill; roads and streets, 3.50
mills; general funds', 10 mills. The
levy for the armory fund will make
it possible to entirely pay off that in
debtedness and will give the council
an opportunity next year to mske a
levy for some of the several necessary
improvement funds that are contem
plated. On January 1, the various funds
will be more or less depleated and the
civic indebtedness will be about $4500.
The legal limit to this indebtedness is
$5000 and this year that limit was
reached. The council discussed the
tentative budget at length, and al
though the members learned that the
Bingham law, limiting increase in tax
levies to six per cent more than either
of the previous two years, had no ef
fect on municipalities they confined
their estimates within a very close
margin of its provisions. The council
labors under the handicap created
when the city treasury lost' the money
irom nquor licenses, and it required
close figuring to make up this loss.
The increase over last year's levy is
in the general fund, and amounts' to
2.5 mills. The funds provided for
roaa work, and general expenses will
make possible the same civic progress
that has been carried on this year.
ikhough new undertakings will not -he
extensively advocated until more of
the warranted indebtedness is releas
ed. The increase in the general fund
levy was made to pay off certain of
the outstanding warrants and to al
low more room for action bv the coun
cil.
"We cannot have the progress that
we would all like to see until more of
our indebtedness has been removed"
saiu mayor JvmcpatricK in discussing
tne ouoget that will be officially
adopted at the next council meeting,
"but under prevailing conditions the
levy that has been made should permit
the council to carry on work that has
been started and make reasonable de
velopment in civic undertakings.'
but the conflict with their own pro
gram made it necessary for them to
decline.
Doctor Has Fine Roses.
When this thing of rose culture or
"plant wizard" comes into the daily
discussion one might get some genu
ine saiisiacuon oy visiting Dr. A. H.
Starbuck's rose garden. Yesterday
the doctor picked one of the choice
American Beauty roses from his well
cared for bushes and the stem meas
ures exactly 46 inches. The foliage
is almost penect and the blossom
equals-most any hot house flower that
could be grown. Dr. Starbuck uses
up-to-date methods in the propaga
tion ana care oi tue plants, and the
result shows the effort to be very well
worth while. The beautiful flower
with the forty-six inch, stem graces
a window of the Fuller pharmacy.
Mrs. Evans Wants Divorce.
Charging drunkenness and inhuman
treatment, Elizabeth Evans filed a di
vorce complaint this week against her
husband, (J. E. Evans. The couDle
were married in Wyoming in 1903 and
recently have made a home at Eola.
There are three children from the
marriage and Mrs.-' Evans asks cus
tody of these with $25 monthly for
their support. . -.
NEW SYSTEM DESIRED
SALEM MAKES PROTEST
LOSS OF BUSINESS MAY RESULT
IN REPAIRING BRIDGE.
Another Examination of Inter-County
Structure Will Be Mads With
out Unnecessary Delay.
YAMHILL COUNTY SWEPT BY
GOOD ROADS CAMPAIGN.
Court Appoints Committee to Study
Methods in Vogue in Various
Parts of State.
COURT RECEIVES FLAG
M'CAMMANT PRESENTS BANNER
FROM SONS OF REVOLUTION.
Impressive Ceremony Marks Receipt
of Fine Gift From Patriotic So
ciety on Wednesday.
Attend the Dallas-McMinnville foot
ball game tomorrow afternoon, and
lend encouragement to the young ath
letes of the high school. The rame
Benton county in 1873. '
On behalf of the society of the
fwns ot the American Revolution,
allace McCammant of Portland pre
sented to the circuit court of Polk
county yesterday a beautiful silk
American flag with a request that the
starry banner be used in naturaliza
tion proceedings in the court. Each
circuit court in the state is being so
uonored oy the Sons or the Revolution
and it is the hone of the donors that
the flag may present a useful and hon
orable object to those becoming citi
zens. For the society Mr. McCam
mant, president of Ihe Sons of the
Kevolution. made a brief and well
Worded statement of the ideals repre
sented by the flag and theimportanceof
impressing the intending citizen with
tne greatness of American citizenship.
Mr. McCammant was introduced bv
Judge Belt, who reauested" Olen 0.
Holman to respond on behalf of the
court. Mr. Holman called attention
to the glorious history of the nation
al emblem. "There is no place on
our nag for a hvphen, Mr. Holman
said. "When one adjures allegience
to a foreign king or potentate and
joins hands with the good citizens of
the United States, he becomes an
American king, and with the Ameri
can king there is no hvphen." Mr.
nolman s remarks impressed the
large audience that attended the pres
entation ceremony, which was most
patriotic throughout. Adjutant Love
lace of the Dallas post of the G. A.
R. represented that organization and
W. H. Himes attended the meeting
on behalf of the national guard. The
folk county teachers attending the
teachers' institute were requested to
attend the presentation ceremonies,
Yamhill county is out in a lively
campaign for good roads. The move
ment was started by the Carlton board
of trade. A hundred farmers and
business men from that section last
week swooped down on the county
court and demanded that a practical
business system of road maintenance
and construction be installed, in place
of the present wasteful method of 41
road districts. With "eood roads
banners flying, the farmers marched
in a body to the county courthouse at
McMinnville. They evidently made
an impression on the court, and as a
result of the visit the county court
has just announced the appointment
of a committee to prepare and sub
mit to the court by January 1, 1916,
a practical business road system for
the county, the committee is com
posed of three prominent business
men and taxpayers, W. B. Dennis of
Carlton; C. S. Wright of McMinn
ville and D. M. Kirby of Bellvue.
The committee will make a thor
ough study of various road systems
in other counties of the state, as well
as the most successful systems em
ployed m other states. There are
1300 miles of road in Yamhill county,
and during the current year the road
fund has amounted to $06,000. In
previous years it has been as high as
.to,000. xbe interest in road improve
ment is general throughout the county
and the people are willing to tax
themselves heavily for road purposes.
The county court will await the re
port of the committee before taking
definite action toward any change in
the present methods.
TRACE WORE IS DELAYED.
Operations on Railroad to Quarry Sus
pended for Lack of Material.
About three-quarters of a mile of
track was laid on the -Oswego-Port-
land i.ement company's project betore
the large crew of workmen was forced
to suspend operations awaiting more
steel and gravel. The track work has
been going forward rapidly since it
started ten days ago and about fifty
men were employed. All work that
could be done with the material .on
hand has been completed. About
three miles more track is to be laid
before the spur from the Southern Pa
cific track to the company's quarry is
completed.
steel is expected to arrive every
day and as soon as a supply comes
work will be resumed and the job will
be hurried to completion. S. B. Tay
lor, the cement company 's engineer in
Hus territory, has been laying out
right of way for a similar spur track
at Koseburg. Mr. Taylor was in Dal
las on Tuesday afternoon, en route
to Portland for a conference with
company officials and will return to
Koseburg this week. They viewed the
progress of the work near Dallas and
expect the job to be ready within a
short time. Development has started
at the Oswego plant and all signs
point to the beginning of active oper
ations by spring.
Ladies Will Hare Visitor.
Mrs. Bolivia rsenvie, who holds a
high position in the state organiza
tion of the Ladies of the U. A. K will
visit Dallas in the near future for
the purpose of attending a meeting
of the local society. She will be ac
companied by Mrs. Himes. past state
president, and mother of William and
Edward Himes of this city. The La
dies of the Grand Army of the Re
public are taking do inconsiderable
merest in the work, and the member
ship is gradually increasing.
The heavy loss of business to Salem
merchants as a result of the closing of
the inter-county bridge brought a re
monstrance from representatives of
business interests which had a ten
dency to materially lessen the danger
ous condition of the structure. As a
result a thorough investigation and
examination was ordered at the meet
ing of the county courts of Polk and
Marion counties at Salem on Tuesday
with the idea of determining the ap
proximate cost for repairing the bndge
to fit it for light traffic until such
time as the Polk county court ean le
gally pay its share for a new span.
With the fact before them that almost
85 per cent of the original strength of
the bridge remains the Marion county
delegation had little choice in the mat
ter when confronted with the plea of
Salem business men, who ,are losing
many dollars each day that the bndge
remains closed to traffic. That the
idea of a ferry is impracticable was
shown by a traffic report read at the
meeting in which it was slated that
120 automobiles and horse drawn ve
hicles going over the bridge in an
hour was not an unusual traffic. A
ferry could not begin to carry that
amount and when such impossibilities
come into the game the ox of Salem
merchants is the one that is gored and
bridge tactics must take a new course.
The second report from the state
highway engineer's office will probab
ly carry a different wording between
the lines than the first one and it is
reasonably to be expected that - the
bridge will not long remain closed to
travel.
Assistant State Engineer Saddler
reported that probable expense for
repairs on the bridge would not ex
ceed $2,000, in spite of the supposed
woefully dilapidated condition of the
big span, and said that it would be
necessary to tear up parts of tho
bridge floor to make the necessary ex
amination. This would put the bridge
out of commission for nearly a month,
and when all repairs are made the
bridge, according to Mr. Saddler, will
carry 80 per cent of the load that it
carried when it was new, 25 years ago.
No loads over two tons will be safe
on the bridge that was originally con- ,
structed to carry 1800 pounds to the
foot. The repairs will fit the bridge
to carry its loads for two years, or
until such time as a modern bridge
can legally be erected. When the
Polk county treasury is in better con
dition there will be little opposition
in this county to building the stylish
structure that is the center of Salem
ambition and to building it directly
into the heart of Salem's business dis
trict. Judge McNary, who attended
the meeting, offered legal opinions re
garding the liability of the counties
in case of accidents on the bridge be
cause of its weakened condition. The
county is undoubtedly liable to dam
age suits, said the judge, if the bridge .
should collapse, as it has been held
that anyone who travels thereon pre
sumes the structure to be safe, if it
is open for traffic, and the county
must pay if travelers are damaged.
At the conference Tuesday the
Polk county commissioners stated that
while they might raise the money by
taxation that it would be necessary to
call a special election and there was
a great probability of the proposition
being voted down and I. L. Patterson
of Eola then presented his proposi
tion as to the raising of the funds
necessary.
There is a law in this state passed
by the 1915 session of the legislature
which limits the increased tax levy
for county purposes to a 6 per cent in
crease of the budget for either of the
previous two years. In 1913, said Mr.
Patterson, Polk county's budget call
ed for $288,000 and in 1914 for $273,
000 and of this $273,000 and some
$30,000 were used to pay off outstand
ing warrants. Now if a six per cent
increase over the $288,000 were made
it would provide a budget of about
$305,000. Then if the county were
run as cheaply as last year and no
outstanding warrants were bought in
the bridge fund would be enriched by
the difference between $.105,000 and
$243,000, or about $60,000. To this
might be added $10,000 from the gen
eral fund which was $107,000 last
year and by 910,000 from the road
fund which was $51,000 last year and
this would add $20,000 to the $60,000
and provide the $80,000 necessary for
Polk county's share of the bridge.
Seek Changs of Vsnns.
Messrs. Holman and Tooze, who re
cently instituted an action in the
Marion eonnty circuit court to compel
the county court of that county to
take cognizance of seventeen applica
tions for widows' pensions, have filed '
a motion for a change of venue to
either Polk of Yamhill counties, and
the motion will be argued before
Judge Kelly tomorrow morning at 10
o'clock.