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' THE POLK COUNTY OBSERVES, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1916 If CROP BEST EVER "S LARGEST PRUNE JVBST IS FINISHED. .oduced 40,000,000 Pounds aed at $3,000,000 Car i Shortage Felt. largest and finest prune crop .frown in. Uregon. has now been y gathered. The 'harvest has been tically; finished in all sections, y jew dryers or high-land fruit il operating, and they will complete ar work this week. ' The gwers have had the most fa "vV.e i -ving season in the history ta riiBie industry. The crop, in a, will come up to the highest te made by any of the packers, X. Jng to about 40,000,000 pounds. I-it ysar the output was finally es timated at 18,000,000 pounds, and the average for recent years has not been war 25,000,000 pounds. It is figured by authorities in thie line that the 1916 prune 'crop will bring into the state about $3,000,000. . The quality of the crop is pro nounced to le the best ever produced in Oregon since the prune industry was started, Even with the greatly increased yield the sizes average as large m in several past years, when the production was only a third as lafrge m now. This condition is the result of fertilizing and the care that the growers have taken of their or chards. ' : ; The market is in good shape and what was lost during the lull of some six or seven weeks during the sum mer months has been fully regained. There is a good demand for prunes in all parts of the United States, and it W believed by packers that the present crop will clean up at prices very satisfactory to the growers. Tfiie packers are now paying 61 to 6 cents for 30-35 's, with the Usual drop for smaller sizes. The outcome of this year's prune growing and marketing is highly en couraging to all friends of this im portant Oregon industry. That it will be one of the greatest agricultural lines in the state in the near future is assured by the large expansion of prune acreage. Packers who have been nonnected with this branch of the bus iness for the past 20 years predict Ijhat within the next five years a full jrop in the northwest will mean about 30,000,000 pounds of prunes. Such a pield will bring into this state annn Uiy fully $5,000,000. The oar shortage which has hurt ;he lumber 'industry so badly this fall is now being felt by the prune dis tricts. Fruit growers at Riddle, Myr Je Creek and other points in Douglas (ounty, where prune raising is exten tive, are unable to ship their prunes immediately on account of the short ige. Salem complains of inability to ret care for the prunes and other sec :"S, also feel the shortage. As the iied prunes are not a perishable! jommodity, however, and as praeti lally the entire crop has been con raeted by the packers, it is believed bare will be cars forthcoming in iroe to take care of the crop. as), The Earth (Fagan), You Never Can Tell (Shaw), Beyond Human Power (Bjorneon), The Kreutzer So nata (Tolstoi), The Healer (Herrick), The Fugitive (Galsworthy), Society (Robertson), Every Woman's Roajd (Hammond), Androcles and the Lion (Shaw), Overruled (Shaw), , Pygma lion (Shaw). L. R. Pratt and wife of Riverside, Cal., spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Sweeney. ? ' 4&Q qq$ Appreciates Rev. Curtis. The following clipping from the 'illamook Headlight will probably nterest number of Dallas readers: Rev. C. C. Curtis, late of Corvallis, nived here on Saturday and on Sun lay began ihis' work as pastor of the Christian church of this city. Rev. tartis cornea well recommended and rill no doubt receive the hearty sup- ort of his church membership here dA a hearty welcome by the other hnreh organizations of the city. A Corviallis paper has the follow ig to say in regard to Rev. Curtis: "Rev. Cv C. Curtis has received a sail' to come to Tillamook to. take arge of the Christian church there, d he bg accepted. "Mr. Curtis resigned his pastorate e ' tt six weeks ago.. He took -ge t-f the Corvallis church about ear ro, coming here from Dal-1 I j a s pusher, progressive in lm s of work tending to make o ehnrdb bigger, more modern and er equipped for present day re- Sunday Big Say at Christian Church. Sunday was the biggest day that tflie First Christian church of Dallas has seen for several years. At both morning and evening services great crowds heard the Kellema Brothers, "Sunshine Evangelists," now con ducting services for the church. In the Bible school, beginning with an enthusiastic song service at ten o'clock, two hundred and seventy-nine men and women, boys and girls stud ied the bible lesson and listened to Evangelist Kellema deliver a short message. At the regular eleven o'clock Sun day morning service, over three hun dred people heard the splendid mes sage 'on "Christian Diseases," de livered by Evangelist Jesse K. ICel lems. Mr. Kellems named twenty seven spiritual diseases that some times afflict the christian, and pie scribed the remedy for each. In the evening his sermon subject was "Immortality" or "Is There a Life After Death?" He gave a great deal of excellent testimony from val uable sources to prove that there is a life after death, and established his points beyond the shadow of a doubt. Every available seat was fill ed and several were forced to stand because of the immense crowd. The two great choruses under the direction of Homer Kellems, together with the immense audience, made the old songs of Zion ring, while the pi ano, the organ and the fine orchestra under the direction of Will Caldwell did their part in 'making the song service a splendid success. Last evening the auditorium was again well-filled with Dallas citizens to hear Evanirelist Kellems explain the charl) on "The Scriptural Heart and How it is changed." After the mesage, three young peo ple were baptized by the minister, Mr. McConnell. The baptismal ser vice was especially impressive cause of beautiful decorations anil lighting effects, ., So far, there have boen fourteen additions to the church during the meeting. Tomorrow evening a large delega tion of Salem people are coming over b) attend the meeting and it is ex pected the house will be crowded to capacity again. Special music is promised for the next three nights by well-known Dal las singers: Airs. McConnell sings tonight, Mrs. Tooze, Wednesday night and the little Smith girls on Thursday night. All services commence prompt ly at 7:30 o'clock. A WOMAN. IN DALLAS One of the splendid courtesies of men and women in their hours of tri umph are the acknowledgements giv en their assistants. The recent ac knowledgement by County School Su perintendent Reynolds and County Supervisor Moore of the assistance of Miss Almeda J. Fuller in the work of arranging the prize winning exhibit in the state f aar and her work in the school section of the county fair is an example. To help Polk maintain her enviable record Miss Fuller proffered her services and was accepted. It meant nothing but a lot of work for her. Yet Polk won and she was satisfied. School work with Miss Fuller is not a passing interest, it) is not a stepping stone to something else, it is not a temporary bread and butter winner. Rather school work, with her, is a, life work. As a little girl she said she wanted to be superin tendent of Polk's schools and she never changed her mind. When she had completed her teacher's prepar atory work she sought and received an appointment to a Polk county school. At every opportunity she as sisted in school work. She was in terested enough to do these things and asked no pay other than the ex perience gained. She had ambitions to succeed in school work land de cided that unrelenting work would land her. Work is part of her scheme for success. to invade American markets with her cheap products. England, for exam ple, proposes to feed herself from her colonies and to cease buying wheat nd other foodstuffs from the United States, An economic war of combined groups of European nations against the United States is the prospect. But, were the conditions after the war to be no more onerous on Ameri can producers than they were before the war, what state of preparedness would we be in to meet them if the democratic administration is still in power? One can judge only by conditions immediately preceding the war. In the ten months immediately preced ing August, 1914, when the war be gan, democratic legislation and demo cratic administration had substituted poverty for prosperity in America. Unemployment was becoming a mem ace. Commercial failures multiplied', bank clearances fell off, building op erations were at a standstill. These are matters within your own recol lection. Bear them in mind. If you want to return to them, vote for Wilson. The Dalles Chronicle. GO PLANT A TREE. Abraham Funeral Held. The funeral of Peter Abraham of Salt Creek was conducted at the Mem- nonite church at Salt Creek, Sunday afternoon at three. Rev. Enns, Edi ger, and Bartell officiated. Mr. Abra ham leaves a daughter, Mrs. Nachti gal of Salt Creek. The War To Come. Sometime during the administra tion of the next president of the Uni ted States the war in Europe is to come to an end. The existence of that war has conir (Mi'lled Europe to buy from the United States some two billion dollars more worth of goods a year than Europe required from this country in peace time. When the war ends, those pur chases will cease abruptly.1 Europe already is reorganizing her industries," warns Edward N.- Hur ley, democratic chairman of the fed eral trade commission. As Mr. Hur- be-J.levshows-aad-AS-ihe. studies of the. National Foreign Trade council have demonstrated, she is reorganizing them on a basis to shut European markets to American producers, and Wouldst thou upbuild a home where sweet wild lives are nested, Glad with the sound of song, quick with the flash of wings . Where the soft broods may rock, warm-housed and unmolested, Deep in the leafy nooks, through all the changeful springs 1 Wouldst thou moke day more fair, night more rich and holy, Grant the sweet earth a gift, deep- rooted, ripening slowly, Add to the sum of joys that bless the rounded year? Go, then, and plant a tree, lovely in sun and shadow, GraciouB in, every kind maple and oak and pine, Blessings of dew and shade, hereafter shall be thine! For though thou never see the joy thy hand hath granted, Those who shall follow thee thy gen erous boon may share, And each of many a spring shall find thy gift more fair. ANON. Missionary Society Meeting. The Ladies' Missionary society of the Presbyterian church will hold a missionary meeting at the home of Mrs. Lovelace tomorrow afternoon at 2:30. . C 'or Course Announced, e s lv course of the literary see- of the Woman' club for the as been announced by the prem of ttie section, Mrs. B. Casey. It The Madras House (Barker), 1 and His Lost Angel (Jones), 6rw First (Jones), The Hoi (Yeats), Riders to the See ). The Rising of the Moon Gregory). The Truth (Fitch), nbers (Fitch), The Weaver sum), The Vale of Content tun), Reeina (Sudermann). 1 Robe (Brieux), Damaged Irieux), Maternity (Brieux). ad Mebgande (Maeterlinek). t Galeoto (Eehesaray), iyself (Hervieu), The Sea wfcbov). The Cherry Orchard . The Father (Stnnd Flying Squadron Don't Miss It! A Flying Squadron composed of Polk county talent will within ttfie next two weeks visit several towns and school districts throughout the county in the interests of dry legis lation. A great many people are unaware of the very dangerous nature of the innocent looking "brewer's amendment" which is to be voted on at the November election, hence At torney M. G. Ellis of Dallas will ex ercise his knowledge of legal docu ments nd bis ability to talk:, pomtine out the "wet jokers con tained in that fearfully and wonder fully made piece of fake legislation. Accompanying him will be a line vale quartet comprised of the following gentlemen, H H. Dunkelberger, John Cerny, Al Longnecker and Sam Gib son. Mrs. Frank Brown will provoke you to laughter with her humorous readings, and Miss Leta Woolsey will please yon with her soprano solos. Arrangements , have already been made to visit the following points: Oakdale, Monday evening, October 16th; Bridgeport, Wednesday even ing, October 18th; Smithfield, Thurs day evening, October 19th; Oak Grove. Monday evening, October 23rd. A union meeting has been arranged for Falls City Methodist Episcopal church Sunday evening. Mrs. D. A. IfacKcnzie will give solo at this meeting. Other points with dates ill he announced later. G- E. E. Notice The Fidler store has been closed and turned over to me for sale. Stock and fixtures will be sold at your own price; make me an offer. L. D. Brown. 66 Dr. Freeze, the Port land specialist, will continue to make reg ular trips to Dallas each month. Watch paper for dates. Call Gail hotel. Fourteen years' ex perience over 7900 cases treated. SJooo Foods come and go, but for nearly twenty years Grape Nuts food has held first place among ready cooked cereals In homes where Grape-Nuts is not known, a single package from the grocer would make it a fast friend and standby because of ita wonderfully pleasing flavor and staunch nourishment the -supreme goodness of whole wheat and barley. Every table should have its daily ration of Grape-Nuts "There's a Reason CALL PLASTER THE MOVE-Y MAN When something is one place and you would like to have it somewhere else. Phone 551 Opposite Gail Hotel THE QOOD JUDGE WAS NOT SURPRISED. hello. mato: i 1 thought you said ) IT WAS TOO STRONG? was living too HIGH: TAK1NQ TOO LARQE A CHEW. NOW IM GETTING WISE !THATS THE IDEA-- A SMALL CHEW LOOKS) BETTER AMD TASTES ) BETTER t; I THE tip from a user of W-B CUT Chewing to a beginner is: "If you won't take a little chew don't take any. W-B CUT isn't ordinary tobacco. It's rich tobacco a chew as big as a regular sized wad of plug is too much of a good thing. If you really want to know what tobacco satisfaction is, tuckaenibbleof W-B into your cheek, and notice how the good tobacco taste lasts and satisfies. ' H.J. lr WEYMAN-BRUTON COMPAMT, SO Unios Square, New York Cily Those Cnrictmat Photo. Hare yonr Christmas photographs maile now while conditions are most faTorable for best work. Ten per eent discount given on sittings this month. O. B. Stone, the Pbotoeraph- II EMST UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM SUPERIOR SERVICE Through Sleeping Cifrs PORTLAND to Chi cago, Kansas City, Omaha,-Denver and inter mediate points. Dining Car Service seeond-to-none. The Route is via the famous Colum bia River The "Old Oregon" and "Pio neer" Trails wonderful in scenic and his toric interest. Automatic Signals guarding the entire main line, and 1,140 miles of double track are guarantees of the high standard the "Jon Pacific sets. f UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM JOINS VEST AND EAST WITH A BOULEVARD OF STEEL Tickets, reservations and travel service to suit your needs npon application to CITY TICKET OFFICE, Washingt-ii at Third VM. McCUERAT, General Passenger Aent, PORTLAND SHIP YOUR CREAM TO MONMOUTH CO-OPERATIVE CREAMERY IT BELONGS TO The Farmers of Polk County THEY GET THE MANUFACTURER'S PROFITS Monmouth Butter Guaranteed ASK YOUR GROCER FOR IT - Why Should Oregon Vote Pendleton $125,000 and one-twenty-lifth of a mill for a normal school only 21 miles from where the state owns a good plant at Weston which requires but one-fortieth of of a mill annual maintenance to put it in success ful operation f Read page 28 of the voters' pamph let; and if you want to avoid needless taxation, vote 309 X NO Paid advertisement F. D. Watts, Weston, Ore. Star Transfer Co. WE MOVE ANYTHING THAT IS MOVEABLE PROMPT SERVICE G. A. & L C. CSC0TT & A. P. STARR. Props. Ph.B. Stands: Webster's Confectionery (11 Ellis' CenfscticaciT 1M2 Bam 1074 Ask for Polk County Products Pngh's Lovan berry Juice has a flavor yon will not .for get It is sold at all leading confectionery and grsosry stores. Kannfactared by C. J. PUGI1, Falls City, Oregon "."f-T Husband's Wife (Tbom-, er in yonr town.