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About Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 16, 1917)
.as - ta : i. ; L. treet, IS IN BRIEF If MAST PLACES w W POLK. ( Paragraphs of w The Observ u Readers. ordayJuBband's birthday r. FreeWph Scott enter 1 mok Monday ev- 1m time was enjoy e atif the evening, the AlUv refreshments. . ' cyfea traded farms tun$Newbcrg, a oroin- thiho lives aere. went to Newberg sister, Mrs. Uigs- Lined Sunday to latter a week ' vis iter, Mrs. Jamos H. Crawford visit- iome of their son, .. finm the uni- days, convalescin; iix. as ne is biuuj- M. I), we endorse becoming immune has returned from In and other rela- returned - - leasant visit with m jry entertained the 'ionary society on ' Won. A goodly fnt and a pleasant moon enjoyed. F. D. Henry have ' for a rook party i ening of Wasbing- ;i ! of West Salem .'it at P. F.Clarke's . .,N. Crawford and jFriday for a visit re. Crawford's sis jjjmith. Mr. Craw- """Jine Monday ; his r a week longer, in has been rented isas, who, with his ike possession soon: ... .'ieen visiting an old tt proved up. on 'a irns. Mrs. Taylor jjtriends and school- o in Nebraska. ;a8 been staying at several weeks left Sio care for Mrs. auly good health, case of la grippe. t bought two good e on the farm. Jolliers sold twen- potatoes to Pugli two cents a pound. r are trying to get Soail a car. Pughs their own raising. i is quite sick with -- -ach trouble; nea- ie of Unity met at t Thursday after .berg was reader. started to school 'iy morning, ed the road meet week. in Eola Friday on nt the ferry land roty side. RATION Tiebe visited with in, at Smithfield 1 has been visiting '. fripnds hart TW. ! in Canada Wed- PP is working for P. a association met After a short and eirls' com j L. Chapin from talk on the corn the near future. be given later. Ev J invited to hear in Dallas all last f her mother and " quite tick. w here from Se to make his borne I is planting prone ti Dunn have re- "Mid, where they fca's nephew's fu- the owner of T busy pruning kne Wednesday i a ner eyes op- J weak yet 'snonary meeting C. Gilson's of THE POLK COUNTY OBSERVER, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1917 " iuo muies are especial- Smithfield. ly invited. RICKREALL Mr. and Mrs. Bud Ramsey left Eickreall Friday for a short visit with relatives in Portland before go ing to Eastern Oregon, where they aTe planning to make their future home. Their many friends here are sorry to have thein leave but wish them much pleasure and success in their new home. Mabel Craven spent Sunday with her parents, returning to Monmouth Monday. Mrs. J. J. Burch is spending the week with her daughter, Mrs. ' J. A. McLean, in Salem. - Lester Wright of Newberg spent the week-end at the home of his brother, Professor H. C. Wright. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson and family of McMinnville spent Sunday at the B. F. Lucas home. Miss Anna Arier, who has been at tending the sisters' school at Salem, is staying with Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Burch and going to school in Kickre all. A basketball game was played here Friday afternoon between Smithfield school and the Rickreall teum. Mrs. E. F. Craven and daughter, Mabel, were Dallas visitors Monday. The Misses Caroline and Amelia Burch came home from Albany this week. Miss Aurelia is a teacher there but has been sick for several weeks. She is slowly improving. McNARY Mrs. E. M. Young was visiting her husband, who is in the Salem hospit al, for several days this week. He is improving now. A. 0. Brown and sons arc clcarina olT some stump land. Mr. and Mrs. John Robbins were Salem callers Thursday. Mrs. Rob- bins is taking treatments there for eye trouble. Walter Brown was a business visit or in Independence Saturday. E. F. Brown and family motored to Independence last Saturday. Louis Ilasleton is getting out some flue wood for summer use. Will Cook and (1. Newton treated John lfoltliins' pump last Saturday. It was a case of too much sand. John Underwood is putting up con. sidcrable new fence on his place. Mis. A. 0. Brown and daughters. Christie and Minnie, visited lasl Thursday with Mrs. John Robbins Frank Ililtebrand, who has been quite sick, is now getting along fine. With his mother he spent last Sunday at the J. R. Robbins home. Mr. and Mis. A. 0. Brown attend ed church at the home of E. F. Brown Inst Sunday. Mr. Talkinp-ton has been suffering with rheumatism for several days. Mr. and Mrs. John Kobhms were Salem visitors on Monday. GUTHRIE All the farmers are making good use of the sunshine by plowing anil nuttini in arain. W. 1). Gilliam has several pair of spring lambs arriving with the sunny weather. Miss Annie Slagel of Portland vis ited with her sister, Mrs. E. R. Palm er, last week. Henry Fern has sold his sawmill and is moving his family back to the farm here. A couple of students from the Nor mal school will spend next week vis iting at the Guthrie school. They are among the 120 Normal students who are to take a week's practical work among the schools of Polk. Yamhill, Marion. Benton and Washington counties. AIR-LIE Mrs. L. P. Ball visited friends in Independence Saturday and Sunday. Mrs J. F. Ulrich and children were in' Dallas having dental work done Saturday. . ., lUisx Lula Peterson was in Dal.a sninr.iiiv and Sunday. Flovd Crowley visited relatives m Albany and Corvallis a few days last Mra. C V. Johnson is visiting her brother, Sam Rundlett, in Salem, lor a few days. . Miss Hattie Rundlett, who has been visiting her sister Mr C . V . John son for several months, lef t for Port bnd Monday where she P visit friends for few day . before leaving for her home in Mrftord. jSSfv.1. Hiltebrand visi cd over Saturday at hi. home in IJP- 1erC. Csnghey spent Snnd,v in Al bany visitine friends. Powell offered stroke of paralysis Saturday and familr to F!l? CM procured work in the mil. r F Dodn on" T !T .-bout the head Tarrfw mink en tl-e V; . mr,A MONMOUTH Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Guthey of Cor vallis were visiting last week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Har vey (iutney, here. M. K. Boatman of Corvallis was in town this week looking after his interests. Miss Mary Tate of Dallas was a guest at the home of her grandpa over Saturday. Ben Polau is working at the Wig rich hop yards, near Independence. Ilie company is settiug out some new yard. Lowel Hewitt and wife of Portland were the guests of his grandmother, Mrs. V. M. Hewitt over Sunday. Lincoln's birthday was observed at the Normal by speeches and a song rogram. Adous Cochran, teacher in the Sa lem high school, spent Sunday here with friends. She formerly lived in Monmouth. James Scrofford and wife ara. vis iting with his brother, Mort Scrof ford, and family of Luckiaruute. Miss Edell Bolen of Portland was a visitor at the home of Mrs. A. F. II uber on Saturday and Sunday. Arthur Norton of Lewisvill-j was a vi;,i!oi at the A. N. Haltcrk home Munduy. The livery stable ' ha changed hands. Gordon Bowman his sold out Frank Skein. I-'.. W. Strong has sold his mercan tile hi'tiuess here. The grocery de partment was purchased by Millet Bictheis and the dry gjods depart ment was bought by two Blo:m brothel's of Portland. Air. Strong has not decided where he will locate. A. R. Riggs of Portland, formerly in business here, was in town Mon day. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Brant of Independence were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Bowman over Sun day. James Graham of the firm of Gra ham & Son, is still confined to his home because of sickness. The sick people of our city are im Drovinff now. Glen Work has resigned from the (school he was teaching near The Dalles and returned to Monmouth. Sicknes's was the cause of his res ignation. He is figuring on studying at the University of Oregon at Eu gene. Mrs. William Brown of Dallas was a Monmouth visitor on Monday. FALLS CITY Mr. Hart was a business caller at Falls' Cilv the first of the week. John Sumpter lost a valueable horse lately. Mr. Gaynor was a caller in Falls Citv lately. Willie Dennis of this place is going to plant his entire farm to potatoes this year. The dance at the Willie Trueax home was well attended and every one una an enjojuuie was furnished by T. Sullivan of Falls City and G. Sullivan of Pedee. X. T. Brown will soon have nis sawmill ready for operation. R. J. Sullivan, the well Known . 1.1 iwrnjt a lortrp swine 'ureeuer uas eujujcu a ..B sale for his pigs this year. He re rrta nf hnvin2 sold all the stock on hand and has booked orders ahead for six months. The prices are high, but the demand is growing for his stock. BALLSTON Jessie McKibben went to Yoncalla on business last Sunday. Muriel Newbill left last Saturday for Raymond, VVaslnngion 10 " with relatives. Mrs. E. P.. Woodley was a luesaay visitor in Sheridan. Richard Clanfield's tamiiy is no convalescent. Mr J O. Sechnst's motner, ww has been visiting here a few days, re turned to her home in roniana j-- Prof J. B. Horner of the Oregon Agricultural college, gave a stereop tican lecture on Oregon's Pioneers at the Methodist Episcopal church here last Friday night. A good crowd was in attendance and all enjoyed the en tertainment. Mrs. Ross of Rickreall, who has been visiting with her daughter, Mrs. Richard Clanfield, returned to her home last week. Mrs. Orval Price of Rickreall visit ed her husband's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Cook, last week. . Mrs. McEIroy, who lives about 3 miles from here, was m town this S h to se.1 900 1 pound, o hesn. which she raised. Recently she sold hundred sc v. " Portland parties st $5 per ek She did all the work of planting and fer ine for them helself She , hm . iho oM a number of bushel, of potatoes Erma Newbill visited her aunt. Mrs. Rae Craven b.D.llUst week, and returned borne Sunday. j V Frank ITi?kra .'. . -j. ...I Tlfives w were McMinnville visitors on Tues day. Mr. and Mrs. Rod Bowman were in buerittan Tuesday on business. County School Supervisor Moore was here last week looking after the interests or our school. Mrs. White- is visiting with Mrs. ts. vvoodly for a short time. Mrs. Lettie Lucas (nee Birks) came up Sunday to visit with her husband, who is helping to build a new house on their place near here. ilenrv Butler will farm the Mrs. Nancy Newbill place this year. He is now cleaning up the debris left by ihe ure wnen the house burned down. OAK DALE There was a musical social at the Dennis home Sunday afternoon. Miss Maude Miller played a good many fine piano selections. Miss Vera Miller and Miss Georgie Curtiss sang a num ber ot vocal selections in a very pleas ing manner. Mrs. Klopfenstein, John and Will Dennis and Mr. and Mrs. George Robinson also helped with the music. It was arranared to have an other social gathering like the one last Sunday at the home of Mr. Kloptenstein next Sunday. Mr. Southworth and Mr. Griffo are batching this week while Mrs. South- worth is away in Dallas. Mr. South worth says they may not live long if they have to keep on eating their own cooking for any length of time. Monday morning they decided they would have pancakes for breakfast. They mixed up the dough putting in two teaspoonfuls of baking powder ( 1 ) . When the pancakes were frying they began to smell sulphur good and strong. They hunted all over the house and finally noticed that the pancakes were a sickly yellow and tasted even worse than they looked. They investigated and found the bak ing powder was sulphur. Will Den nis says that if they were experienc ed bachelors like him they would use prepared pancake flour and then they would have no trouble. Miss Lulu Miller has been visiting relatives at Perrydale. Mrs. Southworth is in Dallas this week taking care of her daughter, Bessie Southworth, who was brought home from Salem sick last week, but who is improving now. There is one comforting thought about our bad roads. If the Germans should invade the Willamette valley they will never get to Oak Dale over these roads. Mrs. Nathaniel Hughes is up and around the house once more, after a long siege of sickness r Who among you grown folk, doesn't remember that beautiful beloved, fairy tale of Grimms in which the wicked queen inveigles Snow White into biting into the poisoned apple? What a child of ten today has not read this tale of how the dwarfs carried Snow White's body in state to the palace, where the queen rejoices until the furious Prince Florimund threatens to kill her? How many times in childhood days have you read bow the dwarfs dropped the cas ket and Snow White awakens. Margurite Clark that incomparable and exquisite screen favorite of yours plays the part of Snow White. The parts of the seven little dwarfs are actually taken by seven midgets, whom the Paramount peo ple secured with great difficulty for this one play. This is the "big" photo-play you've been waiting for and it's here at last You can see this universally beloved picture play of seven reels at the ' Orpheum Sunday-Monday FEBRUARY 18 AND 19 Because of the great popularity of the picture and the tremendous patronage it has had In the cities (almost a half million people saw it in two days at Kansas City just three weeks ago). We have arranged for four shows on Sunday to accommodate people from other cities as well as Dallas. These shows will be 2:16 p. m.. 4:15 p. m., 7:15 p. m.. and 9:15 p. m. Monday shows at the usual hours, and usual admission prices of 6 and 15 cents. L DistingiusAing the Best from the Rest J Star Transfer Co. WE MOVE ANYTHING THAT IS MOVEABLE PROMPT SERVICE G. A. & L C. MUSCOTT & A. P. STARR, Preps. 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