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About Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1915)
lip folk fcwfg Itewfr (THE HOME PAPER) DALLAS, FOLK COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1915. (TWIOE-A-WEEK) KO. ?7 ;r better job RIGKREALL P.O. ROBBED HOTEL GAIL CHANGES HAS PROMINENT PLACE BUDGET GETS APPROVAL DALLAS NOT TO SUFFER KES TO POSITION AT LTURAL COLLEGE. THIEVES ENTER LUCAS PRICE MR. THOMPSON, FORMEE OPER- POLK CONSPICUOUS IN FARM TAXPAYERS ENDORSE WORK PREPARATIONS FOR DRY DAYS HAVE BEEN MADE. STORE IN UNKNOWN WAY. ATOR, BECOMES OWNER. , EES' WEEK PROGRAM. OF THE COUNTY COURT. lerintendency of Polk Book Containing Stamps Carried Henry Sen Leaves Dallas to Seek Higher Altitude for Benefit of Mrs. Serr't Health. Stockmen and Dairymen Will Discuss Proposed Levy of Twenty Mills Re Shipments of Intoxicants Into Baili wick Numerous During Last Days of Dying Year. ILfter Four Yean of irked Success. Away Gold Watch Stolen From Leading Questions at Coming Corvallis Meet. mains Unaltered Voting Pre cincts Are Changed.. Eakin Home. Seymour, superintendent ty schools, has been elect ard of regents of the Ore tural college to succeed Griffin as state leaden & girls' club work, under .1 of the extension depart- i college. Prof. Griffin has . a similar position with the 1 (" apartment of Cornell Uni ' it l.hica, N. Y., and is expectt- i ,va for that institution eariy t. y, when Mr. Seymour will t duties at the 0. A. C. s three terms as county nt, with headquarters in Seymour has won not only t national distinction as f school work, and under Polk county schools have arful progress. Especially Ork in connection wilth trial club work become gnized, and the federal Jucation was not the last s excellence. As county nt of schools, Mr. Sey been a diligent worker, tie greatest energy and me at his duties. His ideas d work have combined to 'oik county school system icle upon which it rests to g spent most of his life in : Dallas and in that time iany hundreds of friends, rough his personality, but sneral appreciation of his las been an advocate and .' the home credit plan that a successfully worked in ts of the county, and be t about a marked improve- ,ie teaching force of the n the boys' and girls' club Seymour's efforts were re- it a great extent tor the f the school department of - fair, and for the winning ors at the state fair, recognition of these many lalities, as well as in ap of t'he man himself, that W has been selected to the position with the agncul- 9. lit is a position requir adaptability and special and these the college r. Seymour better than in person. His selection was n the part of the board of here were several other ap- ' the place. He is to work ider Prof. R. I). Hetzel, extension department, bull 11 be distinct from that of xtension workers. He will ati ox assistants, lamong two well-known in Dallas equent visits, Miss Helen 1 Leonard J. Allen. Mr. served (t hree terms as su t of Polk county schools prith genuine regret that f people see him leave, ty court is in a quandary ipointment. of a successor, robably bring the matter ttlementj at the January the court. There are nu Hcants, both among repub-democrats- Absolutely no 8 been made upon any one n fast, several women ap ve been given preliminary Mi by the court. There are men or women eligible to a and qualified to hold t. requiring great energy and as well as education and wig the men whose names mentioned are H. H. Par- l school supervisor, B. A. odependence, H. L. Keezcl rth, Mr. Johnson of McCoy ford, among republicans, ley is an avowed democrat tit. Mr. Crowley had al ared himself a candidate mination at the democratic next spring. The Rickreall postoffice, located in the Lucas & Price store, was entered by thieves on Tuesday night, or early Wednesday morning, and tyw or $;u in stomps taken. The theft was dis covered by the proprietors when they opened the store on Wednesday, and in the meantime the robbers had so well covered their tracks t hat no trace of them has been found. Although much of value was handy in the store those who broke in did not molest anything with the exception of the stamps, which were in a large book. The key to the registered mail bags was within reach of anyone in the of fice and . the registered mail sacks contained approximately $100 in mon ey and orders. The stock or tills in the store of Lucas & Price were .un touched, the thieves evidently being satisfied with the haul they made on the stamps. Wednesday morning the cover to the large stamp book was found on the Nesnuth place near Riclcreall, where the robbers had dis carded it after tearing out its con sents. Sheriff Orr went to Rickreall early on Wednesday to investigate the rob bery, but found no clew of value in his search for the culprits. The doors of ithe store were all securely fasten ed when the place was opened by the 'proprietors ithe morning after Itlhe robbery, and it is a mystery how the thieves gained entrance unless tney had pass keys, and were well ac quainted with the store. Several Rick reall people are sure that the robbery was committed by two men who pass ed along the road toward Dallas about eleven o'clock Tuesday night. The finding of the stamp book coven indicated the route they took in mak ing their escape. It may possibly have been the same person, or persons, who entered the postoffice, who later entered Horfc C. Eakin 's home the same evening and took Mrs. Eakin 's purse containing a valuable watch and some money. This theft was not discovered until late Wednesday morning, and it is attrib utted to the earae thieves as those who entered the postoffice. Nothing In the Eakin house was disturbed with the exception of the writing desk, whOTe Mrs. fcakin's purse was. Mr. Eakin 'a sister heard unusual noises in the early hours of the moraine, but attributed them rather to the wind than to robbers. The watch, which Mrs. Eakin valued greatly, had her full name engraved on the inner back case and would be very hard to dispose of dishonestly on that ac count. HIGH SCHOOL TEAM WINS. ; ARE MADE HAPPY. ice People Provide Food Jiothinj, at Christmas. pen purses and willing people of Independence ral ristma time to the support a need. More than (120 in ell as-donations of clothing, i potatoes were provided, lilies supplied. Committees i these families previously, lined hat was most needed Christmas comfortable and Chen filling the orders, the rere not forgotten, and a : of eandy and But and a for each child in the fam ;luded. . Student Basketball Flayers Clean Up at Smithfield. The Dallas high school basketball team showed a fast team of Smitht- Jfield' youths the rudiments of the game on Wednesday evening when it defeated them on their own floor by a score of 48 to 9. Both teams played good basketball throughout the game, bust coaching and practice and know ledge ot the game were i favor 01 the Dallas beys and they went on the floor like a whirlwind, taking everything in their rushes. For Dallas Ray Scott was the chief point winner, and to his credit are marked 11 Held baskets and (two free throws, or just half of the total number of points scored. Floyd Ellis' made five field goals, four of which were in the last period of play. At the end of the first period the score was 20 to 6, and in the second period Dallas made 28 points while the Smithfield team could only score a single goal. For Dallas the game was played by Cutler, Bennett, Scott, Hart, Ellis and Berg. For Smithfield the following five played the entire game: Diehm, Myers, McCrow, Trent and Zumwalt. The next game on the schedule of the local team is that at Silverton with the high school of that city on Saturday evening, January L Thrown From Buggy. While returning home from a neigh bor's on Christmas dav, Mrs. E. 1 . Rogers of the Oakdale district was thrown from the buggy in which she was riding alone at the time, but es caped serious injury. Mr. Kogers had left her with the rig while be opened m gate when the horse made a quick start, overturning the bnggy and throwing its occupant to the ground. One wheel of the vehicle passed over ber body, but it being light her in jury was slight Show Give Promise. The Marion County Poultry associ ation b offering much greater cash inducements, than ever before, to tie poultry fancier to exhibit some of After a successful career of nearly four years under the capable manage ment of Henry Serr Wie uau noiei nas been purchased by its former and original proprietors, Mr. and Mr. J. B. Thompson of Albany, owners of the building. Mr. and Mrs. Thomp son operated the Gail for eleven years, and under their management tne nos telry gained widespread fame among (travelers and among! local paopjiei Three and a half years ago the Thompsons sold to Henry Serr, who has continued to run the business along the lines set down during the Thompson ownership. Some years ago Mr. Thompson built a brick an nex to the hotel and equipped tnat part in a thoroughly modern way, making the hotel one of the best ui the valley. It has outlived several other establishments in the city and enjoys the majority of the first class trade that comes into the city. Mr. Serr has been successful in the management of the hotel ana leaves only because of his wife's health. The family will leave here early next week for Spokane, where the several members thereof will en-, joy a well-earned rest until Mr. Serr locates in a similar business in some of the inland towns, where a higher altitude will benefit his wife. Mr. Serr enjoys Wie close friendship of every Itnavehng man who makes lal las and this trade is an important item to the Gail. He expects to en ter the hotel business somewhere in Idaho when he finds the proper loca tion. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson havo been living in Albany since they sold to Mr. Serr, and there are heavily in terested in the Hotel Albany. Under ithe new management the Gail will be operated as it was when Mr, Thomp son was in charge before. No ex tensive improvements are planned for the immediate future, but Mr. Thomp son has in mind several things which will he changed when the proper tiina comes. He was an active factor in the civic and commercial life of the city when he had the hotel before, and in this Mr. Serr has been like him, closely identified with the wonk of the Commercial club, and commer cial and civic undertakings. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson are spending today at Portland and will assume charge of the hotel tomorrow morning, start ing the new month and year. SPAN PLANS ARE SORTED. 0 19 Submitted for Salem Bridge, Only Few Are Considered: All except five of the nineteen plans submitted for the proposed Marion- Polk county Willamette river bridge at Salem were eliminated from con sideration on Tuesday by the board of viewers and the state highwf y de partment, because they did not con form to the specifications imposed by the state highway department. From the five plans left the viewers will recommend the two deemed best. The courts of the two counties will then select the type desired. McMinnville Citizen Dead. At the age of 70 years, Royal G ro ver, one of the best-known McMinn ville citizens, passed away. He is sur vived by his widow and the following children: Mrs. Mande Kirk of Rose burg; Mrs. H. L. Toney of McMinn ville; Principal Carl Grover of Oren co, and Professor Isabel Grover of McMinnville college. The funeral was held Wednesday. ' Farmers' week at the O. A. C, be ginning on Monday morning, will be one of especial interest to Polk coun ty residents because of the fact that so many Polk county people will be speakers at the various meetings and conferences to be held during the week. On Monday J. Waldo Finn, county roadmaster, will deliver a thir ty minute talk on "Oiling Roads, Methods and Costs." This is to be in connection with the Road Builders' conference. On Tuesday, January 4, "Leading Guernsey Families of America," will be the subject used by Mr. Chase of Independence before a meeting of the Guernsey Breeders' as sociation. On the same day the Ore gon Jersey Cattle club will meet at tne college and one of the subjects discussed will be "Raising the Jersey Heifer." Guy Hewett of Monmouth will lead the discussion of that sub ject.! Wednesday will be given over to various meetings, among the most important of which will be the. con ference of the State Dairy association. Mrs. F. E. Lynn of Perrydale is ad dressing that gathering on the sub ject of "The Dairy Farmer's Home." At the same meeting Frank Loughary of Monmouth, president of the Polk County Cow Testing association, will deliver a five-minute talk. A confer ence of officials of county fail's of the Btate will be held on Wednesday and a number of Polk county people win oe present, a. u. oeymoutr, coun ty superintendent of schools, will ad dress the meeting on "School Indus trial Exhibits," a subject with which he is very familiar, as shown by his work Here. " Women s Work in Con nection wimi tne county fair, is the subject that has been assigned to Mrs. Winnie Jiraden tor treatment. Farmers ' week will be a busy one for all who are present at the agricul tural college, and a number or rolk county people in addition to those on the program will attend. There will be evening social features for the pleasure of the hundreds of farmers and. othejs, who will, be in Con cllis, and the business meetings of the var ious organizations will be another in teresting feature. POLK COUNTY IS FINANCIER. November Payments From County Treasury Amount to ? 82,295.62. Polk county deals in sums of money each month 111 the transaction ot rou tine business that would seem to in dicate high finance. For the month of November County Treasurer Hoi man's report is interesting in this connection.' During that month 82,- 295.62 were paid out of his office. The largest part of this was in pay ment of warrants called in, amount ing to $31,750.35. In addition to that heavy expenditure the last halt of the state tax was paid, amounting to $28,000.04. Other expenditures thut helped moke the total a large one were: General fund, $5,025.58; gen eral road lund, fl4V!l; common school fund; $5,703.75; high school fund, $849.12; special school tund, $7862.78, and special city fund, fi,-956.79. Fruit Growers to Meet. . The Polk County Fruit Growers' association will convene on Saturday, January 8, for the purpose of elect ing officers for the coming year and for the transaction of such other bus iness as may come before the meeting. President Eakin is desirous that there be a full attendance on this occasion. lawley Attends Meeting. awley of McCoy, represent Jregon" Purebred Livestock a. has been attending the their poultry at tbe show to be held f the Oregon Irrigation eon Portland this week. Irriga rom all parts of the state as far away at Texas have esioa wit the congress in from January 11 to the 14th, inela- nve. This will be the only winter show held in the Willamette valley this season and will therefore draw from a maea greater territory than ever before. GOOD BYE, OLD YEAR. GOODBY, OLD YEAR, GO0DBY! YOU HAVE BROUGHT MUCH PAIN AND SADNESS; YOU HAVE BROUGHT MUCH JOY AND GLADNESS. MANY A PATHWAY YOU HAVE BRIGHTENED; MANY A SOREOW YOU HAVE LIGHTENED. GOODBY, OLD YEAR, GOODBY I COME IN, NEW YEAR, COME INI WE ARE MUCH REJOICED TO MEET YOU. WITH WORDS OF WELCOME WE DO GREET YOU. FOR YOU THE MIDNIGHT BELLS ARE RINGING; FOE YOU THE CHORISTERS ARB SINGING. COME IN, NEW YEAR, COME INI . COME IN, NEW YEAR, COME INI LIGHTEN THE FOOTSTEP IN THE FURROW; SOFTEN EVERY PANG Or SORROW; SOOTHE THE BROW THAT IS EVER ACHING; COMFORT THE HEAET THAT WITH PAIN IS BREAKING. COME IN, NEW YEAR, COME IN! Without a single change and by practically unanimous vote the assem blage ot taxpayers at the public bud get hearing yesterday adopted the 1916 budget as prepared by the coun ty court. There was a large number ot prominent 1 01k county people at the meeting, and the discussion enter ed into was to the point and effective. Contrary to many expressed predic tions the meeting did not cut the county fair appropriation. The var ious items on the budget were taken separately and studied, but the levy of 20 mills remained unaltered after a session lasting throughout most of the day. Several matters of importance to voters in several parts of the county were brought to the attention of the meeting. A new voting precinct was created in the Rock Creek district by cutting off the major portion, includ ing all the west end of the Pedee pre cinct. The new precinct is larger, as it was created than the Pedee pre- cmot, which was formerly one or the largest in the county. Some of the prominent voters in the new district are H. Lt. Hayes, Frank Heyden, Joe Sampson, E. Wright, J. L. Chamber lain and t . L. Fatland. The County Boundary board, con sisting of tbe county court and the school superintendent, reviewed Ithe special school tax levy of the Black Rook district from five mills to three mills. A petition asking for the re view was presented by C. L. Starr, representing timber interests in the district, while the district itself was (represented by Mr. Ross of the school board. The reduction was caused be cause the school board computed its tax levy on a lower assessed valua tion than that shown by the tax as sessment rolls. Among those who attended the pub lic hearing were : Senator C. L. Haw- ley of McCoy, I. L. Patterson and Frank Gibson of Eola, C. A. Park of Salem, J. Imlah of West Salem, J. K. Sears of McCoy, S. L. McElmurray of Independence, L M. Simpson of Airlie, H. M. hdgar and Jesse Wil liamson of Crowley, A. R. Southwich of West Salem, A. Lrvuigtoree of West Salem, C. L. Starr ot Portland, G. W. Gibson .and Charles Pierce of West Salem. MASS MEETING NEXT SUNDAY. The Other Side of Sunday Laws to Be Argued by Wm. Healey. The anti side of the Sunday clos ing law will be discussed at a general mass meeting on Sunday afternoon at the Grand theater by the Hon. Wil liam Mayhew Healey, an authority on that particular subject. A wave of so-called reform is sweeping the coun try and the lid is constantly being clamped tighter on Sunday activities of any kind. There are innumerable arguments pro and con, but the ma jority of those presented are in fa vor of closing everything on Sunday. Mr. Healey and those Who are asso ciated with him in the anti-Sunday law movement have different ideas on the subject and his presentation at the Sunday mass meeting will be in teresting. Some of the question, he will deal with and attempt to answer satisfactorily are: Are Sunday Laws Religious f Who Made the First Sun day LawT Civil Rest Day Law Ex ploded. Shall Majorities Rule in !!e ligious Matters t The meeting will be open and free to the public. MR. SOEHREN WOULD RESIGN. COME IN. NEW YEAR, COME INI DEAL GENTLY WITH THOSE THAT WANDER FROM THE FOLD OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD. WITH THE BEEAD OF LIFE, OH, FEED THEM, AND IN THE LIGHT, OH, KINDLY LEAD THEM! COME IK, NEW YEAR, COME INI V Believes Fair Management Should B Vested in Farmers. Giving as his reason that the coun ty fair should be under the manage ment of the farmers of the county, Mr. Soehren has declared that be will tender his resignation as president of the fair board, and uus being toe case there is a vacancy to fill. Who will be elected to succeed to the pres idency has not been discussed by the other members of the board, but if it is the wish of Mr. Soehren that our rural neighbors hare tbe management of this institution, and resigns with this end in view, it would be only fair to him to elect bis successor from among the farmer member of tbe di Postoffice Inspector Here. C. W. Linebangh, United States posioffiee inspector, was in Dallas yes terday in connection with the Rick reall postoffice robbery. Mr. Line bangh found nothing that will mater ially aid in finding the culprits, but has subject matter for a -complete re port to the government. Brophy Will Probated. The will of the hue H. B. Brophy, who aeeidentiy shot and killed him self in West Salem early in j the month, has been admitted to probate in Marion county. The estate is val ued at (16,500, and eoasuU efaiesly at real estate. By means both fair and foul The Observer has compiled the approxi mate total of intoxicating liquors shipped into Dallas Bince the first day of December. And the total is as tounding to those who had a belief that the city, as well as the remain der of the state, would be tee-totally dry beginning with the first of the new year. Perhaps never during the palmy days of the saloon in Dallas was so much liquor consigned to the 'city as 'has been shipped in this1 month. Throughout the state cellars are taking on a hospitable appearance with the approaching dry days. In fact today is the last on which in toxicants in various forms can be re ceived without the prescribed permit, and from the figures here presented it is not at all likely that County Clerk Robinson will be called upon to issue a permit in Dallas for some time. A significant fact put forth by a metro politan contemporary, and borne out in the case of Dallas people, is that the "tipplers," the habitual drink ers, and those who go miles out of their way to patronize a saloon, are not those to whom liquors are con signed. The shipments coming into Dallas from Portland, Independence, and other wet towns, in addition to northern California points, are deliv ered in a majority of cases to people who have not been known to even take their "morning's morning," on "evening's evening." They are the folks who staunchly supported prohi bition, and who shunned even the thought of having intoxicants in their homes. They are the class that will be but lightly affected by the enforce ment of the prohibition measure; those who did not want liquor enough to warrant the saloon evil, but who, now that the saloon is singing the last sad notes of its swan' song, sea that their homes must be as oases in the desert of prohibition and are stocking up their buffets and basement lockers. Wholesale liquor dealers, es pecially those of Portland, have done a land-office business in Dallas with in the past month, but tonight at 12 : 30 o'clock the crape of prohibition will be tied to the door knob, heavy shipments .will cease and when the available supply is used the shipment of 24 quarts of beer and 2 quarts of whisky or vinous liquors to each four weeks will start. But getting down to figures in the matter of liquor shipment to the "dry" city of Dallas, we find that through two. sources, and not includ ing the great amount of "booze" that has been brought into the city in suit cases and packages from Falls City and Independence, there have been .' delivered to Dallas people, during the - month of December alone, approxi mately 47 barrels and 25 cases of beer, or, roughly figured, 3580 quarts, enough that a quart of beer could be allowed almost every man, woman and child in the city. During the same penod barrels, 11 kegs, 4 cases and 318 quarts of whisky have been de livered to Dallas people, in addition to what has been carried in. r lguring roughly again it may be seen that tie total amount of whisky shipped into Dallas in the monph of December would allow a full quart to 2185 peo- . pie. Not only has whisky and beer been shipped in large quantities, but wines have been popular. Of different kinds of wine Dallas people have re ceived 1 barrel, 5 kegs and 8 cases in December, or the approximate equivalent of 980 quarts. In addition to beer, whisky and wins the ship ment of 1 keg of gin and 2 kegs of alcohol has been recorded. It is, in view of these figures, not difficult to estimate that during the month just closing there were delivered to Dallas people almost 7200 quarts of liquor. These figures do not include all that came in yesterday or any of to-day consignments. Verily the new year will be a wet one. FREIGHT TRAIN IS DITCHED. Shipments Into Dallas Delayed by Ao ddent Near Oregon City. The regular daily freight shipment from Portland to Dallas was delayed yesterday because train number 221 went into the ditch between Oregon City and Pulp, a station just beyond Oregon City. Tbe derailment delayed the freight into Dallas nearly an en tire day aa the ear did not arrive un til late in tbe evening, when it was dns early yesterday morning. Train 221 brings tbe daily freight shipments down the main line, and at Whiteson leaves Dallas ears for the local train to pick up. The derailment resulted in no aerioos damage. 1 Retnxm From California, Ed. Jaeobson and family returned yesterday morning from California, whither they went several months ars to reside permanently, and will agaia take up their rem deuce in Dallas. i ' '!" )f if , r.a ; 4iic id - t. f I CPS t, CAL. . r r Jl