STATE NEWS The walnut industry will de velop rapidly from now on. A mountain lion visited a hen-1 nery near the Dalles, and besides killing all the chickens badly frightened the family. While ducks have been much more numerous this season than for several years past, the birds are not as fat as usual, says the Marshfield Sun. The clerk of Marion county has received 20 applications for per mission to levy special taxes in that many road districts for per manent improvements. Conrad Krebs thinks he has a plan which will revolutionize hop cultivation. The innovation is a ten disc hop plow to be .drawn by four horses, and complete a whole row at a time, averaging 14 to 16 acres a day. He was al ready disposed of a carload, num bering 60. Fruit tree planting in Wasco county is decidedly on the in crease, many thousands of trees having been set out in the last few weeks. A man of experi ence in fruit culture advises the planting of trees now, as he says this is the best time of year for this work. It is foolish to chase around hunting gold mines when eggs are selling at Arlington for. 45 cents per dozen and chickens 15 cents a pound, says the Record. A good sized turkey is worth about as much as a cow was after the panic of 1893. Go into the poultry business and get rich quick. Hubbard correspondence of Woodburn Independent: The hop market is now 2 cents below the cost of production and still going lower. Is it not. time to turn under the hopyard and do some thing else; say, raise chickens or get a few milch cows? Eggs are worth 40 cents a dozen, butter fat 35 cents a pound and poultry from 10 to 12 cents a pound. Is it not better to make a little pro fit all the time than to raise hops and only make a little profit one fourth of the time and the other three quarters of the time go be hind? An old settler writes to the Estacada Progress: The land on which the city of Estacada is built was a wilderness less than 60 years ago. It was taken up as a donation claim by Franklin Pierce and his wife, Matilda. The struggle was long and hard to tame the wild land. The wife often walked to Portland in com pany with Mrs. Sybell Palm'ateer carrying their infants in their arms to engage in washing or house work to support the family, while their husbands worked on the claims to turn them into farms. A Big Real Estate Deal. Wm. Addison, of Monmouth, and E. V. Carter, of Ashland, have purchased the farms of Jas per Rhodes and the Kurre estate, consisting of approximately 700 acres, for a consideration of $35 000. This is one of the biggest sales made in this county for a long time, and is, we believe, the forerunner of many sales. These gentlemen will sell this land in tracts to suit as soon as they make the proper arrangements. The greatest drawback to this part of the state has been that the land is held in large bodies and but few of the owners will sell a part without selling all their holdings. Just as soon as these tracts are bought up by progress ive men they will be cut up into small heldings and this county will receive such an influx of im migration that in five years it will be an altogether different country and it will be one of the thriftiest in the state. , Taxes will be lowered and bet ter roads will be built; good fences and dwellings will take the place of the makeshifts that are seen in many places. There are any number of men in the Willamette valley that are land poor, but they still persist in holding what they cannot improve themselves and don't want any body else to improve, saying to those who would buy, "Don't invest your money in land here, for it will produce nothing but taxes." These people ought to get off the earth ad let someone have their share of the atmosphere that can appreciate it REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE Polk County Bank At Monmouth, in the State of Oregon, at the close of business, No vember 27, 1908. RESOURCES Loans and discounts $77,089.70 Overdrafts, secured and unsecured 3,350.72 Bonds, securities, etc 33.332.77 Bankins house, furniture, and fixtures. 11,000.00 Other real estate owned 1,414.97 Due from approved reserve banks 21.429.93 Checks and other cash items 1,340.66 Cash on hand Total - liabilities Capital stock paid in 80.000.00 Surplus fund 3,000.00 Undivided profits, less expenses and taxes paid 4,561.35 Due to banks and bankers 287.27 Dividends unpaid 10.00 Individual deposits subject to check 121,924.94 Demand certificates of deposit 260.75 Time certificates of deposit 13.544.64 Total 173.5S8.95 State of Oregon, 173,588.96 SS County of Polk, I, Ira C. Powell, Cashier of the above named bank, ao solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. IRA C POWELL, Cashier, Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12th day of December, 1908. B. WILSON, Notary Public. Correct Attest: I. M. Simpson J. b. .Stump Directors J. H. Hawley Church Directory. Evangelical Church L. C. Hoover, Pastor Morning service at 11:00 o'clock Evening service at 7:00 o'clock Sunday School at 10:00 a. m. Y. P. A. Meeting at 6.30 p. m. Prayer Meeting Wednesday evening. CHRISTIAN CHURCH. W. A. Wood, Pastor. Morning Service at 11. a. m. Evening Service at 7:00 p. m. Sunday School 9:45 a. m. Y. P. S. C. E. 6:30 p. m. Prayer Meeting Wednesday 7:30 p. m. Baptist Church. Sunday School 10 a. m. Preaching 2:30 p. m. Rapidly Americanized. An Englishman temporarily liv ing in Boston took his Fmall son to the top of Bunker Hill and pre pared to give him the British ver sion of the historic fight at that point. His story, however, remain ed untold, the following question and answer alone being exchanged between the loyal subject of the British crown and his youthful off spring, who had been a resident of this country less than six months: "Now, my son, do you know what event took place a hundred years ago where we are now stand ing?" asked the fond parent. 'Yon bet I do!" was the prompt reply. "This is where we licked the stuffin' out of the Endish "Bos ton Post. Secret of "Nervous Balance." The secret of mental health and nervous balance is to be iound in obedience to a few rules. Here they are: 1. Cultivate sound, health cre ating emotions love, joy, peace. faith and hope. 2. Allow yourself sufficient time in which to do your work. 3. Hold in reserve a surplus store ol nervous energy by keeping .... . ! ! witnin tne limits oi your organiza tion, savs Rev. Samuel McComb in Harper's Bazar. 4. Do one thing at a time. 5. Prepare yourself in good season for sleep. 6. irust in the in finite goodness of God, who loves every creature he has made. itf ui ik m m z ATTEND The Big 1 0 Day Sale at Lindsay & Co. Look for the Big Tickets and gather in some of the 1 0 UNTIL CHRISTMAS Every Article in our house a Cufc Price Bargain Nickels do the work of Dimes If Spent Here LINDSAY & CO. 13 Acorn Store Wm. Evans, Prop. Books, Periodicals, Ice Cream, Soda and Soft Drinks. J. W. HOWELL Contractor and Builder Carpenter shop and General Repair Work. Moulding and Finishing Material Cor. Knox and Jackson Sts. Monmouth Laundry We want to make our good reputation better still by giving universal satisfaction to our pa trons. If dissatisfied, tell us why. Bring in your Suits and have them Cleaned and Pressed, at the Monmouth Electric Laundry For Sale. One of the nicest residences in Monmouth, 12 rooms, hot and cold water, bath and pantry. Furnace heat. Four lots, some fruit trees and shrubbery to gether with almost entire furnish ings for $2500. Terms can be given on a part of this. Enquire of the Polk County Realty Co., at the Herald office. This price is far below real value and will only stand for a short time. TWO DOLLARS' WORTH of up-to-date Kitchen FurnlahlnRf wftl givo you much more real comfort and satisfaction (baa twenty dollar spent in jour parlor. THE SAVORY SEAMLESS Toe raised Oral Bottom makei it positively elf .basting. Results always satisfactory. Easiest to clean. Family size, $1 , SHAKER SIFTER. Tba One-Hand Sifter. Costa 23c. ad dives more satisfaction tbaa half doira cheap lea-cent sillers t Small Jam of Monty Span Hmem WM Glow You t Up-to.Dmt Get your Roasters for Christmas of R. M. Wade & Co. W. E. Craven, Mgr. Independence, Oregon Polk County Bank Established 1889 Monmouth, Oregon. Paid Capital Surplus and Undivided Profits $30,000 $7,000 Transacts a General Banking Business OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS J. H. Hawley, President J. B. V. Butler, Vice President, Ira C. Powell, Cashier F. S. Powell, J. B. Stump, J. B. V. Butler, I. M. Simpson. Monmouth Herald $1 per year