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Vol. II
Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, April 22, 1910
No. 35
B.
REGULAR PORTLAND LETTER
Portland Sends Business Men
Over Oregon
DEVELOPMEWT OF RIVERS IS PROPOSED
Oregon Has Been Chief Attrac
tion to Immigrants for
Several Years
Portland, Or., April 19th -It's
a long time since Portland busi
ness men were so thoroughly en
thused as they are now over the
great Business Men's Excursion
' which will leave Portland Mon
day evening, April 25th, with a
schedule that is so arranged that
every single print on the trip
will be visited in daylight and
thirty points are visited.
Both the East and West sides
of the Willamette Valley, the
Rogue River Valley, Klamath
. Falls and the surrounding count
ry, and the Umpqua Valley are
included, and all the big jumps
that consume time are travelled
in the night.
Seventy-five representative
business men compose the party,
and as a result of this four days
spent in Western and Southern
Oregon they will get a' better
idea of the universal prosperity
of these communities than they
could gain in a year from their
offices.
The development of both the
" - Columbia and Willamette Rivers
has been the topic of important
meetings during the past week
one at Pasco, the other at Albany
and both had splendid atten
dance. A number of prominent citi
zens of Oregon have received in
vitations, through Hon. John
Barrett, Director of the Bureau
of American Republics, to be
present at the dedication of the
new building at the nation's cap
ital April 26th. One of the most
beautiful rooms in this attrac ive
building is finished throughout
with Oregon fir, the mill 'work
made right in Oregon from spe
cial design and furnished by the
Oregon & Washington Lumber
Manufacturers Association. Dis-
' tinguished personages to speak
at the dedicatory exercises are
President Taft, the Secretary of
State, Ambassador of Mexico,
Senator Elhiu Root and Mr. An
drew Carnegie.
For the last three years Oregon
has been chief among the states
in attracting Western immigra
tion, and while it is .too early for
comprehensive figures on this
year's colonist travel it is already
certain that the total will be the
biggest yet. Trains have been
. running in from two to four sec
tions to accommodate the travel,
and owing to the active work of
the Oregon Development League
in furnishing advance informa
tion through the commercial
bodies in dozens of Oregons com
munities, these newcomers have
their minds definitely made up
as to location, and buy their tick
et to that point
Oregon never got an advertise
ment so wide-reaching or so
striking as a full page advertise'
ment, with Portland as the Cent
ral feature, which appeared last
Sunday in the New York World,
Indianapolis Star, Chicago Record-Herald,
Chicago Tribune,
Minneapolis Tribune, St. Louis
Globe-Democrat, Kansas City
Star and Omaha Bee.
Universal elation is felt over
the assurance of horticultural
experts that the fruit crop of
Oregon will break all records in
1910.
J. H. Hawley and 0. A. Wol
verton visited the northeastern
part of Polk county, Wednesday,
in pursuance of soliciting signers
to the initiative petition, to get
the State Normal School propo
sition upon the ballot for the
November election. They met
with fair success bringing back
some sixty names although the
territory covered was sparsely
settled being a farming ammun
ity. Generally speaking the Nor
mal school question is a favorable
one, and it grows in favor as the
utility of normal instruction is
made plain to those who have
given it little or no thought.
What We Know About Comets
Even the head of a comet is
either not solid, or if solid, that
the size is very small; so that
even the greatest comets are
very insignificant bodies, except
for the immense airy tails they
exhibit. A comet's tail is so rare
that it has not more than one
particle to a cubic mile of space.
Hence it is much rarer than the
vacum of an air pump.
Accordingly, although comets
appear large as they loom up in
the sky and strike terror" into the
minds of the people, yet they are
in reality mere airy ghosts of
gaseous nature and the most
harmless of celestial bodies.
Babinet, a celebrated French
mathematician, has calculated
that, on the average, one comet
will colide with the earth every
fifteen million years. And if the
collision should occur, the harm
done would be very slight, and
purely local in character. It
might damage one locality on the
earth, but the effect would not
be worse than what we frequent
ly observe in the eruption of a
volcano such as Vesuvius. And
in the case of some comets the
amount of matter in them is so
slight that they would not reach
the earth, but produce only a
metoric shower in the atmos
phere, like those of 1799 and
1833. In fact, these celebrated
star showers were produced by
the earth passing through the
tail of a disintegrated comet.
The dust of these old comets
burns up in our atmopshere and
gives us simply a beautiful mete
oric display; yet in the case of
the shower of 1833, the heavens
were so full of shooting stars
that the negroes in Virginia be
lieved the end of the world, had
come. Prof. T. J. J. See, in May
Pacific Monthly.
Thomas A. Ed'son has invented
a new storage battery electric
street car which it is thought
will do away with the trolly sys
tem car and also the gasoline
motor both in cost of coustruct
ing cars and in operation. The
storage battery car is said to run
150 miles with one charging of
the battery at a cost of one cent
a mile.
NEWS FROM COUNTY SEAT
Court House Notes.
PROBATE
Estate of Robert Howe, de
ceasedwill admitted to probate;
Rebekah Howe appointed execu
trix without bonds; E. Hayter,
D. P. Stouffer and C. G. Coad
appointed appraisers.
Estate of Henry Flickenger,
deceased petition for sale of
personal property granted.
Guardianship of Robert Travis
Farley etal, minors petition for
order of sale of real estate filed;
ordered that next of kin and all
persons interested appear on
Monday, June 6, at 10 a. m., to
show cause why an order of sale
should not be made,1 and that the
order be published as required by
law.
Estate of Susan A Macken, de
ceasedfinal account set for
hearing on Saturday, May 21, at
10 a. m.
Estate of William F 'Muscott,
deceased cause continued until
April 23, at 10 a. m.
Estate of Anna Grow, deceased
estate admitted to probate; let
ters to issue to John C Brown on
executing an approved bond in
the sum of $250.
Estate of Mary Z Percival, de
ceasedsale of real estate ap
proved and administrator ordered
to make deed.
- HOP CONTRACTS.
John Munson to Klaber, Wolf
& Netter, 20,000 pounds, 1910
crop, 15 cents.
Sebring Bros and Byerly to
Klaber, Wolfe & Netter, 20,000
pounds, 1910 crop, 15 cents.
T A Riggs to Klaber, Wolfe &
Netter, 90,000 pounds, 1910 crop,
16 cents.
REAL ESTATE.
George L and F R Baker to
Wesley S Broders, 50 acres, t 6
s, r 6 w, $10.
David Knightengall Sr., et ux
to Edwin Jacobson, 171.90 acres,
t 7 s, r 5 w, $5250.
E J Chapman et ux to E W
Kearns, part lot in Dallas, $1200.
Ollie S Jones and hd to C S
Calkins, 89.40 acres, t 9 s, r 6 w,
$10.
O A Graham to M G Flynn, 10
acres, t 9 s, r 4 w, $400.
CADicket ux to F W Cole
and E E Tripp, part lot in Inde
pendence, $190.
William Martin et ux to Edwin
Jacobson, 40 acres, t 7 s, r 6 w,
$1200.
John M Farley et ux to H R
Sloan, 167.40 acres, t 8 s, r 6 w,
$10.
W A Ayres et ux to John M
Farley, 50.75 acres, 1 8 s, r 5 w,
$4850.
Elizabeth Stoner to Minnie
Morris, lot in Dallas, $350.
Weldon Black et ux to Minnie
Morris, one-half lot in Dallas,
$125.
Andrew H Holmes et ux to
Minnie Morris, 50 x 100 feet in
Dallas, $300.
Mary E Price and hd to F L
Price, land in Polk county, $10,
Sadie F Dwier and hd to Fred
G Meyers, lots in Falls City, $100.
Noah Ferguson et ux to Wilbur
P Lewis, 10 acres 1 8 s, r 6 w,
$10.
Myrtle L White to Calvin and
Gussie Patton, 33.80 acres, t 7 s.
Mrs. Chapman Coming Next
Week-Last Concert April 29.
The second and last number of
the course will be given Friday
evening, April 29, by Mrs. Paul
ine Miller Chapman, mezzo-soprano.
Mrs. Chapman won instant
recognition in Berlin in 1906-7,
and the press of that great mu
sical center was very enthusi
astic about her voice. She has
appeared as soloist with some of
the greatest symphony orches
tras, including the Thomas Or
chestra in Chicago. She gave a
concert in Mozart Hall, Berlin,
before a distinguished audience
of musicians and critics. On ' his
occasion she was presented with
a large laurel wreath by her
many admirers.
Mrs. Chapman is a pupil of
Prof. Lamperti, Europe's great
est vocal teacher, the teacher of
Sembrich, the world's most fin
ished singer. He himself de
clared that there were not ten
better voices in the world than
Mrs. Chapman's. Madame Etel
ka Gerster, the great coloratura
singer, predicted that Mrs. Chap
man would become the first sing
er of America.
Seats may be reserved at the
Book Store on and after next
Tuesday.
Polk County High School
Baseball League
The High School boys of Polk
county have organized a baseball
league and will play a series of
games for the championship of
the county. The officers of the
league are: W. I. Ford, presi
dent, and B. W. Teats, secretary.
The members of the committee
on rules, regulations and sched
ules, are: County Superintend
ent H. C. Seymour, A. L. Clark
and J. E. Dunton.
M. W. Walker, an enterprising
business man of Independence,
and a loyal friend to the schools
of Polk county, has offiered a
handsome cup to the champion
team. With this prize as an in
centive, some red-hot ball play
ing may be expected of the high
school boys during the next few
weeks.
SCHEDULE OF GAMES.
April 23 Independence at Dal
las; Falls City at Monmouth.
April 30 Monmouth at Inde
pendence; Dallas at Falls City.
May 7 Falls City at Independ
ence; Monmouth at Dallas.
May 14 Monmouth at Falls
City; Dallas at Independence.
May 21 Independence at Mon
mouth; Falls City at Dallas.
May 28 Independence at Falls
City; Dallas at Monmouth.
K. H. Sickafoose and wife
were in town over Sunday having
come down from the logging camp
some miles above Airlie. Mr.
Sickafoose returned to camp Mon
day while Mrs. S. stopped in town
a few days longer.
r 4 w, $2197.50.
W D Eoff to Harvey Hill, 30
acres, 1 7 s, r 6 w, $150.
S P Kimball et ux to Alice Le-
Masurier, 40 acres, 1 8 b, r 5 w,
$4000.
Emma Ray and hd to II M and
Mary E Brown, land in Dallas,
$1030.
INDEPENDENCE NEWS BUDGET
From Our Regular Corres
pondent
DAILY HAPPENINGS IN OUR SISTER CITY
Scan This Column For News on
Importance From the
Riverside.
Peter Cook, of Rickreall, was
in town Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Hooper
were capital visitors Monday.
Frank Masterson is the guest
of his sister, Mrs. Frank Wilson.
T. W. Brunk and famly, of
Eola spent Sunday here visiting
relatives.
Mrs. C. A. Moore and children
are visiting friends and relatives
in Portland.
Mrs. O. A. Kreamer will go to
Portland the last of the week to
visit friends.
Mrs. Henry Waller has return
ed from Tillamook, where she
has been for several months.
Word Butler has returned from
Coeur d'Alene where he went to
look after some mining interests.
Miss Ida Richardson returned
to Portland Wednesday after a
week's visit with friends and rel
atives. Work is progressing nicely on
the Methodist church, which is
being moved on to its new foun
dation. Miss Scollard, the first grade
teacher in the public school has
resigned her position and re
turned to her home.
Thursday evening the I. O. 0.
F. lodge of Dallas visited the
lodge of this city, and a very
pleasant evening was enjoyed by
all.
Last Saturday evening the
boys' class of the Christian
church entertained the girls'
class in the W. O. W. Hall. All
played games until a late hour,
when refreshments were served.
There were about 35 present.
Independence is to have as fine
a high school as other towns.
It is to be built of reinforced
concrete, two full stories with
basement. Asbestos shingles
will be used, making the building
fire proof. . This new structure
will be 87 by 67 feet, and will be
located on the eight acre tract in
the south part of town, which
has been purchased by the school
board.
Hurt In Runaway
While driving from Falls City
to Salem to meet the lumber
men's excursion last Saturday,
W. T. Griee, manager of the
Falls City Lumber Company, was
thrown from his buggy and pain
fully injured. The accident oc
curred at a point about two miles
west of Falls City, where the
team became unmanageable and
runaway. Mr. Grier was thrown
out of the rig and one of the
bones in his ankle was broken.
He was otherwise bruised by the
the fall. A report from his home
last night brought the good news
that he is resting comfortably.
Polk County Observer.
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