Local and Personal.
J. C. McClaire was in town,
Sunday. j
Douglas Pierson was seen on
our streets Monday.
Miss Opal Boothby was a Dal
las visitor Wednesday.
Mrs. Brewster's Home Bakery
was started Tuesday.
H. Hirschberg was looking after
business matters in this city
Tuesday.
Dr. Crowley was a passenger
on the 1:30 motor for Indepen
dence Tuesday,
W. M. Fishback, of Monmouth
Heights, was transacting busi
ness in this city Tuesday.
J. DeWitt who is employed in
the Forest Service at Grants Pass,
is visiting his mother here.
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Miss Edna Strong is making a
specialty of music under the
training of Mrs. May Bowden
Babbitt. We have noticed several young
people buying furniture of Bogert
& Son, that means more wedding
bells for Monmouth.
Mrs. T. J. Pettit and Mrs. A.
F. Puber and daughter drove out
to Oak Grove Satuday for a visit
with Mrs. Clay Taylor.
We hear that David Campbell,
who is taking a course of music
at Walla Walla, is very much "in
love" with the place, the school,
and everything pretaining to his
work. i
W. H. Irela d was in town Sat
urday and reports his son, Ellis,
as very much improved in health
and that he is now at Dayton,
where he will remain for the
winter.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Murray
and daughter Audrey, of Spo
kane Washington, are here visit
ing with Mrs. Murray's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. R. McReynolds.
Mr. Murray is editor of the
Spokane Chronicle.
Mrs. Nellie Eoche presented
the editors wife with a bucket of
fine cider Monday. We were
allowed to sample it and pro
nounce it good. Mrs. We says
it makes her think of her child
hood days on the farm near
Lewisville, when bright October
days had changed the verdant
woods to gold.
Fred Iluber states that the
roads are muddier now than at
any time last winter. The cause
is that there was a lot of dust
on account of the long dry spell
and when the rain came it wet
clear through and there has been
no dry weather since to give the
roads a chance to pack.
The following schools of Polk
county have received an average
of attendance of 95 per cent or
more for the month ending Oct
2 and have been granted certifi
cates of honor: District 2, Dal
las; District 13, Monmouth; Dis
trict 21, Cochrane; (100 per cent)
District 29, Independence; Dis
trict 33, Buena Vista; District 38,
Upper Salt Creek. -Observer.
President P. L Campbell, who
has been connected with the Polk
County Bank since its organiza
tion twenty years ago, has dis
posed of his interest to the other
stockholders and retired as Vice
President and director. This
action was voluntarily on his
part, and on account of his re
moval to Eugene. J. B. V.
Butler has been elected Vice
President of the bank in his place.
Charles O'Brien was a business
visitor here Monday.
H. S. Chase spent last week
with his son near Salem.
V. 0. Boots transacted business
in Independence Tuesday.
Mrs. Janet Waller is over from
the Seletz visiting friends in the
city.
Arch Poole, the carpenter is
building an addition to H. E.
Guthrie's house.
Mrs. Mumpers, who visited
here for a while has returned to
her home? near Salem.
Mrs. Singleton, wife of the
depot agent at Falls City, is visit
ing relatives in town.
Judge Butler, of Dallas, was a
passenger on the 1:30 motor
Tuesday going to Independence,
As all the farmers are burning
their straw stacks there surely
won't be any strawberries next
spring.
Joe Kadek & Lo. are going
right along with the work on the
new brick, despite the rainy
weather.
Hugh M. Guthrie has returned
to his position in Grants Pass
after a, visit with his parents and
friends in Polk County.
Mrs. Arthur Treadway fell
from a step ladder at her home
north of town last Sunday and
fractured her arm near the wrist,
An Autumnal Ball was given
at the O. S. N. S Gymnasium
last Saturday night. Those at
tendiifg enjoyed its festivities
very n uch. o
George Gilbert Bancroft's lec
ture "When, Vvhom and How to
Love" will be the first of the
Entertainment Course and will
be given at Normal Hall October
29.o
J. M. Staats, proprietor of the
Staate telephone lines, was a
business visitor in Monmouth
Monday. Ie reports everybSdy
prosperous in his part of tlfe
county.
Smith B. Holt, who iaprincipal
of the Buena Vista school, was
in the city Saturday and reports
his school getting along nicely.
Miss Ada Belshe is assistant
teacher.
Mrs. I. G. Singleton, of Falls
City, Miss Edna "Guthrie and
Hugh Gutfirie, of Monmouth, J.
P. Dewitt, of Grants Pass, and
Mr. Ricard, of Corvallis, formed
a merry automobile party to Dal
las, Sunday evening. Observer.
The executive committee of
the Entertainment Course met
in the Presidents office Friday
night and discussed plans and .t
was decided to go ahead with
plans as outlined at the previous
meeting. There will be three
concerts and two lectures, further
announcements will be made from
time to time as they are secured.
Milton B. Smith left his home
in Pennsylvania 23 years ago and
his relatives had never seen him
since and nine years ago all
trace of him was lost and he was
given up as dead. Last week
he paid a visit to his sister, Mrs.
L. S. Fuller and set at rest any
question as to his being alive.
He has been living in the west
for the past several years.
Saturday, October 10, the ruins
of the bakery were still hot from
Friday n'ghts fire arfti on Satur
day the 17th the foundations for
the new brick were nearly com
pleted and if the weather is at
all propitious it will not be more
than thirty days until the walls
of the new structrre will be com
pleted and work will be under
headway on the finishing. John
Howell has the contract for
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Wagon Repairing. .
Horse Shoeing a Specialty
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All wotk done with Neatness
and dispatch.
Cornwall's Old Stand
Normal Lodge, No. 204
Meets -every Monday night at
7:30 o'clock.
LChas. Newman, N. G.
Joseph Radek, Sec.
erecting the building.
Miss Nellie Olden received
Tuesday, four fine White Wyan
dotte roosters from C. L. Haw
ley, of McCoy. They are certain
ly beauties.
While rebuilding a portion of
the Bogert dwelling this week,
G. T. McKinney discovered a
copy of the Oregon City Argus
of April 1860, which contained a
part of Lincoln's inaugural ad
dress. The building is one of
the oldest in Monmouth and had
been remodeled some years ago
and the paper was covered up, it
having been used as wall paper
and had been pasted on, so was
somewhat torn in removing it.
A deer, .appearing suddenly
on the riile range west of Dallas,
Wednesday, attracted for a
moment the fire of the boys who
were out at rifle practice. In the
excitement of the moment the
young men forgot to lower their
sights from the 1000 yard mark.
The shots that were fired passed
over the animal which was only
about 500 yards from them, and
it escaped uninjured. Observer.
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