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Vol. II
Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, July 22, 1910
No. 48
Th
REGULAR PORTLAND LETTER
Portland Harvest Festival to
be Great Annual Event
REALIZED BY EXCHANGE OF COURTESY
Marshfield Carnival the Biggest
Event in the History of
Coos County
Portland, Oregon, July 19,
Portland's Autumn livestock
show and race meet on the
Country Club grounds will be
known as the Harvest Festival,
and the biggest purse ever of
fered in the Pacific North wesL
for a single race will be hung up.
It will be $10,000 and will be
known as the bankers' purse.
Another, offered by the hotel
men, will be $5,000. Many small
er prizes will be offered and it is
believed the festival will attract
a larger gathering than any sim
iliar meet held in this part of the
country.
James J. Hill will probably be
the biggest attraction of the fes
tival. A strong telegram of in
vetation has been sent him, which
it is believed he will accept. It
is planned to put the great em
pire builder on the programe fo
an address.
Dates of the festival are Sep
tember 5-10. The amusement
end of the festival will be far
more prominent than ever before.
The attractions will be selected
with a view to meeting the va
ried tastes of the multitudes in
attendance and it is promised
there will be a good time for all.
The interdependence of North
west cities, one upon the other,
and the good to be realized from
the exchange of courtesies is dem
onstrated every little while.
The latest evidence was at the
recent Salem Cherry Fair when
Portland boosters filled a special
train and made a neighborly vis
it to the Capital City, taking in
the Cherry Fair and making
notes of the progress of Salem
since they were there last. This
jaunt did everybody good, both
those who went and the Salem
people as well. Albany will have
an apple fair this fall and Port
land will do every thing to make
that a success. In return, Port
land receives the support of the
Valley cities at its Rose
Festival and other times.
The Western Forestry and
Conservation Association, which
embraces the states of Oregon,
California, Washington, Montana
and Idaho, is carrying on a cam
paign to save the forests from
the usual fire losses that occur
each summer. This organization
represents 13 minor associations.
Printed matter, fire warnings
and circulars, are being sent out
to timber owners, millmen, farm
ers and others directly concerned.
In its literature the Association
states that half the merchantable
timber in the United States is
contained in the five states in the
Association, and that their pro
duction of lumber is one-fifth of
the total in the country.
What is said to be the biggest
event in the history of Coos
County will be the Carnival to be
held by Marshfield and North-
bend in the week beginning Au
gust 15. A clam bake, the larg
est ever held on the Coast, is one
of the features. There will be
many amusements for the people
and big illuminations of the Coos
Bay cities and harbor. The ar
rangements now being made are
on a larger scale than was ever
attempted in the Coos Bay count
ry. Portland has organized a group
of "Live Wires" that proposes to
do things for this city. The
membership is composed of those
best fitted to be expert boosters
for their home town, and the
plan is to ginger up the city to
an extent never before attempted.
With gangs of men and teams
grading streets for paving in
various parts of town, other
gangs laying new water mains
and concrete walks, and contract
ors and builders busy on the
erection of new business houses
and residences, Roseburg pre
sents about the busiest appear
ance of any town in Oregon at
the present time. Together these
workmen are building here a sub
stantial modern city. Review.
Dies of Chicken Pox
W. Newton Squires, the 4-year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Squires, died at the family home
in Salem, Sunday. Death was
caused by chicken pox and blood
poisoning. The little boy was
the son of one of Salem's, rural
mail carriers who formerly re
sided in Polk County. Observer.
Nervous Collectors.
"Have you ever noticed," asked the
botanist, "how extremely nervous a
collector becomes? 1 mean a man
or a woman who makes a collection of
auythliig-froui birds" eggs to copper
Jars or from crustacea to ichthyosau
rla. So soon as a collector has ac
cumulated two specimens along the
same line he begins to fear something
will happen to them, and his nerves
are torn by a desire, on the one hand,
to show his collection to everybody
who cau be induced to look at it, and
by an agony of apprehension, on the
other hand, lest some one should care
lessly touch one of the precious ob
jects. "The other day I laughed at one of
my friends who has a collection of
rare and beautiful butterflies. They
are. of course, mounted under glass
and then are placed in glass cabinets,
yet when he is showing the collec
tion he fairly dances around the in
spector, lest some accident should
cause a finger or an elbow or a para
sol to crash through the two protect
ing crystals and ruin a delicate speci
men. He "laughed, too, and admitted
all I said. 'I can't even bear,' he told
me, 'to have anybody point at a speci
men, and if I find a man the least bit
careless with his hands I never show
him my collection more than once.' "
New York Tress,
Too Many Rivals.
As an instance of the abundance of
claimants to the Spanish throue Senor
Emllio Castelar once told that at one
of the splendid balls which Marshal de
MacMahon gave during the exhibition
of 1878 Queen Isabella of Bourbon met
King Amadeo of Savoy, who had re
placed her on the throne of Spain. She
invited the monarch to see her in her
little palace, near the Arc de Trlomphe.
Amadeo, flattered at this exhibition of
affability, made haste to visit her. On
entering the palace he met the Due de
Montpensier. another claimant to the
Spanish crown. Hardly had Amadeo
saluted the royal hostess when she In
troduced to him her "cousin Don Car
los." The king's astonishment reached
a culminating point when an usher, In
loud tones, proclaimed the entrance of
his excellency the Marquis de Mollns.
ambassador of his majesty Alfonso
XII, king of Spain. This was too
much for the Italian prince, who found
himself face to face with so many
rivals or their representatives, and.
tubing his leave, he retired as soon as
possible. Exchange.
INDEPENDENCE HEWS BUDGET
From Our Regular Correspondent
DAILY HAPPENINGS IN OUR SISTER CITY
Scan ThU Column For News of
Importance From the
Riverside.
G. A. Wilcox and wife have
returned from their vacation.
Robert and Ernie Simms of
Blue River are visiting Dr. Allin.
Miss Irene Williams left last
week for Chicago to visit her
sister.
Mrs. D. A. Hodge and Mrs.
Kreamer visited Salem one day
last week.
Wm. Addison of this city is
visiting friends in Ashland, his
former home.
Gus Spurling of Portland is
visiting friends and relatives
here this week. .
P. O. Mervin and wife have
gone to Newport, for a two
weeks vacation.
Henry Clodfelter of Portland
is visiting his sister, Mrs. C. A.
Moore, of this city.
Miss Opal Hall of New York
City has been visiting her sister
Mrs. Claud Skinner.
Mr. Hartley, a real estate deal
er, of Los Angeles was visiting
relatives here last week.
Miss Hazel Lorence of Mon
mouth was the guest of Miss
Grace Wallace last week.
The M. E. Church will be fin
ished this week and is considered
the finest church in the city.
Rev. Thompson left Friday for
Heppner, Oregon, where he went
to fill the pulpit at that place.
Claud Hubbard and wife have
returned from Astoria where
they have been visiting for some
time.
C. L. Fichard has returned
from New York, where he spent
the winter with his wife and
daughter.
Miss Brettie McDevitt, matron
of the German Hospital of San
Francisco, is visiting her sister
Mrs. Geo. Conkey.
Mrs. Hodge went to Portland
Wednesday to meet her sister
who is coming from the East to
visit, this summer.
Will Campbell commenced bail
ing hay last week with his steam
bailer. Mr. Nelson's hay was
the first bailed this season.
Mrs. Clara Hall Stover of
Weiser, Idaho, has returned to
her home after visiting relatives
in Monmouth and- her sister,
Mrs. Skinner of this city.
Tom Heart and Mrs. Ella Irvin
were married in Salem one day
last week. The happy couple
returned to this city Sunday
where they will make their home.
Lem Baker has bought the
steam laundry of Mr. Johnson
and will take charge the first of
next month. Mr. Baker has been
imployed for some time on the
motor.
J. D. Butcher of Portland ar
rived here kst week to take
charge of the t instruction work
on the Bell telephone improve
ments planned for this place
and Monmouth.
Mrs. Edith Davidson of Port
land is visiting her parents, Mr.
a d Mrs. Owen.
Joel Wilson, Principal of the
public school of Toledo, and his
wife are visiting friends here.
Mr. Wilson was a former resident
of this city and a graduate of the
Monmouth Normal.
Mr. Miller a former resident
of this city, but now of Bend,
drove over the mountains last
week, and reports the roads ex
cellent and'every thing around
Bend in a flourishing condition.
P. H. Hembree was in town
yesterday and took home a harv
ester from Winegar & Lorence.
Mr. Lorence went along to set
up the harvester.
Buy Ground for Depot
It is now an assured thing that
the Oregon Electric will be run
ning into McMinnville within a
year from the fact that they have
purchased the southeast corner
of Third and B streets from Vin
ton and Gee, a lot 75x100, for
$7500, together with the other
property they have secured on B
street be' ween Second and Buck
eye for yard facility s, car barns,
and freight house. The officials
state that McMinnville will have
one of the finest little depots in
Oregon. McMinnville Telephone
Register.
A. W. Palmer Hurt
A. W. Palmer, driver of one of
the grocery wagons in the city,
was painfully injured by a horse
Sunday evening at his barn in
the East end of town. He was
attending to his work of feeding
and washing his horses, when
one of them reared and struck
him on the right leg below the
knee. The leg was not broken,
but the injury will lay him up for
a couple of weeks. Polk County
Observer.
Telephone Meeting
At the annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Mutual Tele
phone Company, held Saturday,
the following directors were
elected: James Wooden, F. W.
Daniels and Walter Russell.
M. W. Potter was elected presi
dent, W. A. McLean secretary
and F. W. Daniels treasurer. Im
provement of lines was decided
upon. Sheridan Sun.
Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Honn and
their daughter, Miss Pearl Honn,
of Porterville, California, are
guests at the Baldwin home in
this city. They are old-time
friends of the Baldwins, the
families having been acquainted
in the east. Mr. and Mrs. Honn
and their daughter are well
pleased with our country and
climate, and as they contemplate
making a change in location,
they may decide to remove here.
Independence Enterprise.
For Sale
A gentle family driving horse
of Hambletonian stock. Enquire
ofW. D. Edwards, at Butler
place, one mile south and one
mile west of Monmouth.
NEWS FROM COUNTY SEAT
Court House Notes.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Thomas W Hart and Ella M
Irvine; Earl B Goodwin and Leta
Coryell.
PROBATE
Estate of Arthur B Williams et
al, minors inventory and ap
praisement filed and approved.
Estate of Elizabeth Fishback,
deceased bond filed and approv
ed; letters issued; W H Mack,
A J Shipley and James Goodman
appointed appraisers.
Estate of Franklin A Link, de
ceasedinventory and appraise
ment filed and approved.
Estate of Fred C Raymond, de
ceasedfinal discharge entered.
Estate of M A Syron, deceased
petition to sell real estate
granted.
Guardianship of Robert Travis
Farley et al, minors report of
sale of real estate set for hearing
Wednesday, August 10.
Guardianship of Mary L Dough
erty et al, Martha Deakins ap
pointed guardian; bond of $300
filed and 'approved.
Estate of Henry B Steffy, de
ceasedfinal account set for
hearing August 20 at 10 a m.
Estate of Mary Emiline Know
er, deceased petition for ap
pointment of administrator filed.
Estate of Pleasant Orchard,
deceased proof of will filed;
Peter Cook appointed executor,
bond fixed at $3000.
REAL ESTATE
B F Gwin et ux to Anna Strain
one-half acre in Monmouth, $1000.
W II Walker et ux to Louisa
Basye, land for road, $75.
W L Fisher et ux to John Wag
ner, lots in Falls City, $175.
J Adams and hd to W R Black
lots in Rickreall, $979.
Bertha V Ball et al to Mary E
Stansberry, 2 blocks in Indepen
dence, $1.
G A Cornwell et ux to A J
Barham et ux lots in Dallas, $125.
Edward Richmond et ux to
Martha J Brown, land in Dallas,
$1.
Henry Heine et ux to R A Lier-
man, 99 acres, 1 6 s, r 8 w, $6000.
T P Bevens et ux to C E Wil
son, 308 acres, 1 10 s, r 6 w, $3388.
Maggie J Kllis and hd to Ella
Moffitt and hd, lot in Dallas, $350.
Judge Galloway Holds Ad
journed Session of Depart
ment Number 2
Judge William Galloway held
an adjourned term oi urcuir.
Court, Department No. 2, for
Polk County, Friday. Orders
were made in three divorce cases
and one registration of title case,
as follows:
Emma F Lowery vs Frank C
Lowery, divorce; Oscar Hayter
for plaintiff. Divorce granted.
Marie B Miller vs Jasper N
Miller, divorce; L D Brown for
plaintiff. Divorce granted.
Registration of title of Edgar
Hartley; W L Tooze, Jr, for
plaintiff. Report of examiner
filed; decree of registration or
dered as prayed for.
Walter E Vaughn vs Maudie M
Vaughn, divorce; Oscar Hayter
for plaintiff. Divorce granted.