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About Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 1916)
THE POLK COUNTY nmmHTER FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1916 PROGRAM ANNOUNCED 5TH ANNUAL COUNTY FAIR TO OPEN WEEK FROM TUESDAY Address by Governor, Auto and Stock Parades, Judging Con tests Are Features. .The program for the fifth annual Polk County Fair, to be held in Dal las froni September 19th to 21st, in clusive, has been announced by the secretary, Mrs. Winnie Braden, and included features which will make this year's show one of the best and most interesting ever held. Balloon ascensions each day, an automobile parade on Tuesday and a stock par ade on Wednesday, an address by Governor Withyeombe, stock judging contests, band concerts, singing by Mrs. Hallie Parrish Hinges of Sa lem and acrobatic feats by the Ar nold Amusement company, comprise a few of the features of this year's exhibit. Following is the complete program for the three days: TUESDAY 10 a. m. Balloon ascension. 1 p. m. Automobile parade. 2 p. m. Address by Governor Withyeombe. 2:30 p. m. Vocal solo, Hallie Par rish Hinges. ' 3 p. to. High dive by Captain Henry Kerns. 3:30 p. m. High wire walkers. 4 p. m. Flying Trapeze and La Schell act. 4:30 p. m. Slide for life by Wbn gowed Wonder. ' 7 p. m. Band concert. 8 p. m. Vocal solo, Hallie Parrish Hinges. WEDNESDAY 10 a. m. Balloon ascension. 1 p. m. Stock parade. 2 p. m. Boys' and girls' saddling and riding contest. Premiums to be given by the Bank of Falls City. 3 p. m. Vocal solo, Hallie Parrish Hinges. 3:30 p. m. High dive by Captain Henry Kerns. 4 p. m. High wire walkers. 4:30 p. m. Flying trapeze and La Schell act. 5 p. m, Slide for life by Won gowed Wonder. . 7 p. m. Band concert. 8 p. m. Vocal solo, Hallie Parrish Hinges. i , THURSDAY 10 a. m. Balloon ascension. 1 p. m. Stock judging contest. Dairy cattle judging open to every boy and girl of school age in Polk county. Premiums offered by the bus iness man of Periydale. First, trip to State tair and .$2; second, $2.50; third, ifl.50; fourth. $1; fifth, 50c. 3 p. m. Vocal solo, Hallie Parrish ' Hinges. 3:30 p. m. High dive by Captain Henry Kerns. 4 p. m. High wire walkers. 4:30 p. m. flying trapeze and La- Schell act. 5 p. m. Slide for life by Won gowed Wonder. 7 p. m. Band concert. 8 p. m. Vocal solo. Hallie Parrish Hinges. an expert travels from farm to farm, spending usually one day at a place. Each cow's milk is weighed and test ed, as is her feed. An account is op ened in the ledger for each animal and at the end of the year the profit or loss of each one can be ascertained. The heifers of good cons should be selected and the poon- cows should go to the slaughterhouse, otherwise they may be the means of ruining the own" er's business. -A cow-testing associa tion is a co-operative organization with local otlicers, and one that can be of use also for advertising the sale of cattle. The results obtained with such advertising have often been remark able. Dairvmen and breeders are cer tain to be interested in such a move ment for the bettering of the busi ness. At u(i esent about 350 of the organi zations keep the records for abom 150,000 cows owned bv about 7,500 farmers. These men are realizing the benefits of co-operation. The dairy business is well adapted for co-operative organization, and concerted ef fort by dairymen usually means much greater profits on milk and cream through the elimination of waste, the application of more economical meth ods of production and manufacture, and the development of more produc tive cows. County Fair Notes. W. O. Morrow of Rickreall, Frank Longhary and G. G. Hewett of Mon mouth and McArthur and Stauff of Rickreall have entered dairy cattle for competition. John M. Scott, general passenger agent of the Southern Pacific lines in Oregon, and Ben W. Olcott, secretary of state, have acknowledged receipt of their special tickets and have promised to speak to county fair audiences. County School Superintendent Rey nolds and County School Supervisor Moore report a keen interest on the part of the school children through out the county in preparation of ex hibits for the fair. The two officials covered the entire county the first four days of the week. HOPS BADLY DAMAGED RAIN HAS CAUSED MOULD AND HONEY DEW. Some Yards Will Not Start, Others Pick But Part River Growers Most Discouraged. With prices disgustingly low be tween six and eight, with mould and houev dew attacking the hops and more rain, the lot of the hop grower is not an enviable one this year. The most disgusting part of it to some of the lion men is that the hops are big and fine, and just turning black. C. L. Cridcr's yard is in this latter class. Some yards, particularly along the river, will not start picking; others will pick a kiln full and call it good. Last night's heavy shower has fur ther discouraged the hop men and picking today started with a lack of interest. Over in the Independence section where hops are the big crop, it is ex pected that not over 50 per cent will be harvested this year. The low price is responsible for non-activity in sev eral yards, while others will not pick because of the bad condition of the hops. Court House News. The Oregon Hop Growers' associa tion has purchased the 1916 crop from the following county growers: B. R. Oliver, L. H. Carufel, H. Laliberty and Lloper Brothers. Oliver has a ten-acre yard six miles north of Sa lem; Carufel has 16 acres one and a half miles south of Independence, known as the George Ruef farm ; Lal- iberty 'has ten acres in hops on his place near Independence; Slopei Brothers have 72 acres six miles south southeast of Independence. Judge Belt has dismissed, without costs to either party, the case of H. Horenstein vs. Dottie Phelps and Harry G. Phelps. Pack Prunes October First. The J. K. Armsby company is ex pecting to start up its big prune packing plant i Dallas about the first of October, and it now seems prob able that the pack this season will run between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 pounds. Prunes were never better than this year; all conditions have been favorable to their growth, and with continued good conditions dry ing will start in the orchards by (lie 15th of the month. The price has been running between six and seven cents to growers this year and at this rate the prune crop will bring very profit able returns. After being started the supply of raw material should be governeu u, t, ..,,Uv of the rilant and will ui determined by the treatment accorded the grower by the management. The development of a labor supply should he a natural one ana wnu iuci...s ,.;im.,l facilities favorable transput' i,:., n.i;i;,,ns should be worked out. The successful production of traits, berries, veaetables and root crops de mand the highest type of intensive, culture. Small tracts can be maae iq nroduce as much income as many ot tlio nresent larse faiins. To secure best results irrigation and fertiliza tion will be resorted to in many CflSCS. The dividing of our large farms into small tracts that will provide homes and incomes for many fami lies, increasing the population den sity of the territory tributary to Dalla9 will automatically add to the population and business development of Dallas. A look into the future shows many of the "little farms" in that part of the Willamette valley adjacent to Dallas. But to reach this state of development it is absolutely necessary to provide a market for the potential products of the "little farm" and it would seem that Dallas should be able to meet the five re quirements necessary for the logical answer a cannery. R. U. STEELQUIST. CONGRESS QUITS TODAY WITH AGREEMENT ON REVE NUE BILL SOLONS REST. Senators and Representatives Home, Happy as Children Re leased From School. Go Smithfield Warehouse Ready. The warehouse of the Smithfield Co-operative Exchange is ready and all that is now needed is the license from the county court. The Exchange will do a general warehouse business. CO-OPERATIVE DAIRYING PAYS Elimination of Waste and More Eco nominal Production are Results. There are so many leaks in the dairy business that only by the use of the best business principles can it be made permanently profitable. Indi vidual cows must each make a profit . over the cost of feed: this can lie de termined only by weighing each cow's milk and the feed that she consumes. The old argument that the best cows are known may have some foundation, but few men know the jxiorest cows, and the latter go to make up the av erage as well as the good cows. No dairy is better than its average pro duction." If this is too low, the herd is not paying a profit. Business prin ciples must therefore be applied to lowering the cost of milk production. Efficiency is as much a necessity on the farm as in the factory. Few men feed their cows in proportion to the quantity of milk prodm-ed. yet what could be more simple and more nearly right? With little regard for her needs, feed is put before the cow Jn plenty if it is cheap and in less quan tity if the pjrice is high. Cows use about fiO per eent of their feed merely to keep their bodies working, and it is the quantity that is fed above this fixed necessity that furnishes the ma terial for the milk. Too often the dairyman says "I would do all the up-to-date things if I had the time." Can the storekecer afford to run his business without keeping books? Yet that is what the farmer is doing. Working in eo-operat ion, dairymen can obtain the benefits of business methods at a vey small cost through the organization of a cow-testing as sociation. An organization of this kind that hire an expert to deter mine the teed cst of milk or fat pro duction for each cow in the herds of the members isf easily possible. Such I The Seal Ring, The seal ring dates back to the days of the Old Testament, and products of tue glyptic art, as gem engraving was called, were known In the most remote times. In Exodus xxvtli, 17-20. men tlon Is made of the following stones, upon which the names of the twelve children of Israel were engraved: The sardius, the topaz, the carbuncle, the emerald, tlie sapphire, the diamond. the llguro, the agaie. the amethyst beryl, onyx and Jasper. In verse 2 of the same chapter we find mention of the engraving of signets upon the hardest stones. It is believed that the Egyptians instructed the Israelites In the art of stone engraving. The Egyp. tians used the lapidary's wheel and emery powder and knew the use of the diamond In engraving other hard stones. Among the Assyrian and Babylonian ruhis were found One spec imens of signets on gems, many of them set In rings. Dublin Cattle. Dublin castle has a history of over seven centuries, for It was King John who in 1204 ordered it to be built, "well fortified, with good fosses and thick walls strong enough to defend or con trol the city." Henry III., when about to visit Ireland in 1243. ordered the ad dltlon of a hall, "with sulBclent win dows and glass casements." and other Improvements were made in succeed ing reigns, particularly by the Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III., who as viceroy spent much money on the cas tle to make it convenient (as bis father complained when railed niion to payl "for, his sports nnd other pleasures." London Standard. MAINTENANCE OF AMERICAN RIGHTS. Had this government by the use of both informal and formal diplomatio opportunities loft no doubt that when we said "strict accountability" we meant pre cisely what we eaid and that we ' should unhesitatingly vindicate that position I am confident that there would have been no destruction of American lives by the sinking of the Lueitania. There we had ample notice in fact, published notice. Further more, we knew the situation, and we did not require specifio no tice. Instead of whittling away our formal statements by equiv ocal oonvereations, we needed the straight, direct and decisive representations which every dip lomat and foreign office would underetand. I believe that in this way we should have been epared the repeated assaults on American lives. Moreover, a firm American policy would have been etrongly supported by our people and the opportunities for the de velopment of bitter feeling would have been vastly reduced. From Mr. Hughes' Speech of Acceptance. Another for the Cannery. I believe Dallas' greatest need re present time, is a well equipped rannerv. iMtuiiteil as it is, Dallas is Mi-rmmidcd bv numerous small land holders who are not possessed enough land to make a living by rais ing grain or stock. These men niusi of necessity, spend n portion of the year working away hum their own land in order to support their fami lies. A well equipped cannery at Dal las would enable these people to nil lize their very rich soil in the pro duction of small fruits and vegetables. There are many different kinds of bind in close proximity to Dallas, which would make it possible to raise almost, every kind of fruit or vege table handled by a cannery. Such an institution would make prosperous small farmers out of the men who are now casting about in a futile attempt to gain a livelihood; it would fur nish lucrative employment, not onlv to people within the city, but would also turn to profitable labor the time of many women and children in the surrounding districts. A prosperous farming community will certainly add to the prosperity of its commercial center, therefore 1 believe a cannery to be the greatest industrial need of this connminitv. A. B. STAR BCCK. WHAT DALLAS NEEDS Realistic Play. "Can't you children play without con tinually ringing the doorbell r asked mother, who had been trying in vain to get an afternoon nap. "Xo. mother." said Alice. "It's quite Impossible. You see. Edith and I are playing house, and Freddie Is the col lector."-SL Louis Post Dispatch. Long Time Between Showers. In liii ruin foil in the nitrate terri tory of Chile for the first time in near ly nair a eniiiry. and for the first time In man' tm-mory tbe coast towns were free from dust Enough Said. "Thrifty, is s!ie;' "Thrifty! won't go Into a long dis course. I roerclv tell roe that she banks money tn Iwx-emlier." Just as .mo are nlwj at flndlna fknlts yon are displeased at ODdtn perfection - l-eratrr Says Cannery is Needed. Industrial and agricultural devel opment are probably the keys to the development of a greater Dallas and when one industry can directly ac complish both of these results it3 claim for attention should merit some serious consideration. Mr. Fuller, in the. Observer of Sep tember fifth has suggested that a can ning and preserving industry be de veloped and that seems a promising field. To the writer the five essential for a cannery project in the order of their importance seems tn be: a ean- abl management, adequate capital, a sufficient and reliable supply of raw materials, a pood labor market .and economical transportation facilities. I pon the management devolves iln risk of capital, the production of class A product, the marketing of the output, and perhaps most important of all, tactful dealings with the growers to insure proper plantings ana the enpply of raw materials in the quantities and of the qualities de sired for full capacity operation of the plant. Proper capitalization should provide a complete plant with the best equipment, furnish funds for purchase of supplies and for the most satisfactory results, should per mit of cash payment in full for the raw materials as delivered to the plant CHLOROFORM IN SURGERY. The Horrors That Were Stopped by Ite Use ae an Anaesthetic, Sir James Simpson, who was con nected with the medical department of Edinburgh university, If not actually the discoverer of chloroform, was at any rate the first to introduce Its em- pity meat as an anaesthetic into sur gical practice. This wns in 1848. Previously all operations were per formed without anaesthetics, the pa tient being drugged with whisky and held down by strong men while the op """" wus Pcrrormed. No medical discovery ever did more to alleviate uuiuau Buuenng. Sir James Is generally given credit for the actual discovery of chloroform, but it is stated in some works that it was discovered some years previous to his first experiments by an American doc tor named Guthrie and by a French Physician named Souberian. In any case, it was Dr. Simpson who proved ts great value as an anaesthetic, and the room in which he made his first ex periments stiU exists In Edinburgh chloroform on himself and two medical . lo3- They proved "8 efHcy by toultaneonsly falling beneath Ve LJ t James had siderable Prejudice to overcome before chloro form was adopted generally by the meaieal profession, it being denounced at one time as dangerous to health, momh, and rellgioI, Pea Congress adjourned tit ten this morning after nine months labor. Protruded sessions in both houses last night to approve the conference agreement on the emergency revenue hill to raise approximately $200,000, 000 needed by the administration to meet the extraordinary appropria tions for national defense and the Mexican crisis, were held. Eager to iich home to visit their families and constituents, congressmen began leav ing Washington on the midnight trains last night. The coming politi cal campaign is drawing many who want to be on the ground to take cure of their fences. The revenue bill as it went to Pres ident Wilson for approval today eon- tains drastic provisions empowering I lie president to retaliate against foi eign interference with American com merce, creates a non-partisan tariff commission, increases the duties on dyestutl's to encourage their manufac ture in the United States, provides means to prevent dumping of cheap foreign-niaile goods into American markets after the war, and provides for income, (inheritance, munitions, corporation stock, liquor and miscel laneous iulerual revenue tuxes. During consideration of the report in the senate, Senator Chamberlain protested vigorously against elimina tion by the conference committee of a retaliatory provision ngainst Cnna- linn control of Pacific coast fisheries, and Representative Gardner of Mas sachusetts, enlivened the house with hitter denunciation of the retalia tory provision ngainst foreign inter ference with American commerce. Representative Gardner charged congress with hypocrisy and his crit icism of the administration aroused the ire of some of the democrats, two of whom Representative Decker of Missouri and Cullop of Indiana- made speeches in reply. Representa tive Bennett of New York, republi can, said he disagreed with both rep resentatives Gardner and Becker, but that there were questions of national honor that rose above partisanship. Representative Becker, amid lounds of applause, thanked God that there was m the Wlfite house a president who was willing to resort to negotia tions, before resorting to the sword. suggested that the views of Mr. Gardner and of Mr. Roosevelt were pro-ally. Brave FISH I A, N"ow is thetiaa Peaches mim; J wy company. m lights andBatil et Cutlery, Bij! torcycles, SucdJ ing Powder, K ing, Umbrella I Bicycle and Motel pairing, orafai: Mechanical Rep LB. PHONE 1072. BULLETIN FAVORS WOMAN SUFFRAGE. Some time ago . consideration of our economic condition, and tendencies, of tue a ot Zia SaiUfUl aions of the nature and course of the 'and. led me to tbe conclu Judgment cannot defeat tht OXE CENT A WORD, 'PHONE 10- BU A HEADY BUILT HOUSE e furnish ready-cut buildings, and alt materials, including hardware, inside and outside paints, lnth, plas ter and shingles in fact every thing complete for erection except foundation and brickwork. Before you build see us in regard to our cuts nnd plans. If you find nothin satisfactory we will give you prices on your own plans. For further in formation address Jack Syron Sheridan, Oregon. 53-0t-x LOST Bunch of keys. Finder please return to Observer office. 54-55 1 BUTTEBWIffi WE FID! j WE PEKI M observes rmi W ANTED Prune packers at the Dal las v arehouse & Manufacturing Co. FOR SALE-$.-,0 Columbia Grafonola. used very little, for .$30. Will give six records with machine and will sell other records at half nrice. i'hone 1151; no Main street. 54-55 FOR SALE Louvain setter dog, W2 years, $15. Joe Gladh. 54-60 TO EXCHANGE-2i2-year-old sad dle and buggy mare for a first class cow, coming in. L. Zorn, Dallas, 54-lt-c i,1" dr? 'Waning of all k'-ds. Phil Begin. Phone 109 t LOST In town Sunday, new gold Pin, black set with small brilliant, rmder leave at Observer office. 54tl FOR SALt-Une span matched driv- ' pomes, covered buggv and dou- Also few pieces of inquire, J. S. Ash- 52-3t-x FOR SALE-Malleable steels i air cooled, two horsepower gasoline en?,ne, New batteries and coil t-o casn. Pnce Brothers. 50-4t. ble harnes! good furniture. baugh. WX7EIrA for funeral house work. Call Rickreall 51. 53-2t Pearhos . " ? f .7 ivars ior can- mng. Dallas Grocery eompanv. REM dr. in ELECTR0-THE AM) ) nr nStlTOA ttU DALLAM vnvn KHARS mn! UNIVERSITIES w LARGE HOSPTOlj LONDOS. BBS, OVER THDfflflf EXPEREiaB SPECIAI nrncE IBB DALLAS MAHMW One block east, om W depot CVm On m to 12 7 to 8 p. m., Sunday l" TelepMK BpeciilM CAflCI; Tur.io No knife ani ' plasters and pi" POLYPUS PILES. DISEASE 1 WON NOSE, THHOft Kidney, BlWf Liver, SV jTerw J"":, Goat. 7-7k Suits to order & Semi-Weekly Observer fl.50 year.