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Newspaper Page TextKIQHT rAOIi FOUGHT FARMING : BATTLE ALONE. went Into Wilderness and Mads a Ten Strike, OLE MARTIN'S HEROIC STORY Mil Frem Any Human Being, He Broke the Lend With a Hand Cultl valor and Won With Hit Narva ana Brains Ola'a Eptrlno With Potata Growing. Tlila Is the story of farmer who won Ix-cause lie had nerve and under at nnil Idk fmiiiKh to alt down on bis land oud fit-lit It out to a flaUb, a fanner lio liml never beard of tbe word dlneourageuu'iit and whose only definition of fiillure wna that It meant "try bkiiIii a little harder;" alito It la tliu tnlo of a mnii who funned aa much with iila hi-nd aa he did with hl bands, and he did an t-imriiious amount of work with thoa latter. Ilia name not Unit It miitti-ra par ttculiirly-ls Ole Miirtht. and ulx yeara ai'o lie drlfl-d Into tlii'ne United States from Sw.hJcii. where be bud heeu furin In In rocky and cxliuuMtod hind for fifteen yenra. Hlx nioiithH after hU arrlvul at New York h wan In AlaHka. and six months after that he had a few acres of hind on the Kenal enliiHUla. Then bo boaiin to farui. There were no nelghhor-not then, at leaat, for It waa not until later that a taciturn Scot sot down it abort distance away and began to farm on bla own ac count Had No Oogt or Horsea. The location was three and a half rollea north of the new town of Sew ard, and there waa no railroad; also there were no horses ana at nrsi mn j -J - ...M.-Mn ,w..-kiJ-.. ...... " . '. ' fi " ' "'.I,,-' 1W OLE MARTIN'S CABIN AND EXPERIMENTAL POTATO PATCH. even a dog, ao aupplies bad to be "packed" In. A man who baa never carried alxty to a hundred pounda on bis back over rough, unbroken coun try can only Imagine that Ground had to bo broken and cleared. Then it had to be prepared for Bowing, and the old mothoda of Bweden and tha Vnlled States even wore useless. Mar ti, i began with potatoes and fulled. IV.h reaults were watery caricatures t; the potato of commerce. He had 10 Per Cent Discount on all Goods Ten per cent dis count on all goods in the store except contract and rubber goods. Greater re ductions on broken lines STOCKTON INPECMOCNCK gWTCWWHI. INDEPENDENCE, OREGON, I ...i l.i. .mhU from Haatll-. and ha tried again and failed aeain. i urn mmmn in farm wltb bla head ila I ha pro- fwded to adocate bla potatoes a and lent h thrm to grow reap tauiy i t'hla could only l dona by growing ami rt eeodhitf. Koou he nao real .una ... I j.an to aell llldlll. store i-nltivatlfn waa a iirublwii. for w rltn- out toola It waa dlnVult. Martin a-ih it.i. i.n.lilein. however, lu bla o patient way Ila built hlmwlf a bau niiiehtua and lyUaliiHl II liliuacu nr.tiu,u labor. Later, wbeu bt I tltU bad ..w . .!! doe- team, be broke them to haul the cultivator. It waa severs task, for be waa alone. luers waa i no hired roan-Juat Ole blmaeir ana dO(. Dscldtd en Garden Truck. the ein,n..it iiimuilf ao rloaa to a grow w i,u..'g - t... ,.,,i,iniiii Martin aaw that In garden produce there would be a mar ket, and be aot to put aoine aeveo acre under cultivation. In nearly all bla work ba bod trouble with bla seeds. Thoss from the Ktatea would not gro well In a aoll where there were i tnot.. f rainfall In a year, and ao 10 be bad to educate bla turnlpa, bla cauli flower, carrota. cahhagea and the reet to grow In damp aoll. Tho government mnlntnlna expert meiit atotlona. hut these were and are too few; alho they aro only experiment ataUona. and the real work must be done by tho real farmer. Martin wont through It all. and he built bla log Iioiikp. haru and outhulldlni!. Ho cnl bla hay-ion of II -by hand and rt k It alone, lie lluda time for flowers, and those are h!a auiuaenietita. He built nn Incubator and la mining chick' rna and la hoiwlng them In a log houao eUl)M-d with a atove. Every bit of work on the plnce-every laat tap-hns iM-en done by this farmer sin gle handed. He baa combined the work of the experiment atationa and the farm, and to hlra la duo tbe auc ceaa of farming on the Kenal. Now the railroad haa come to blm. and he can ablp bla producta In to Seward, even across the Bound to Cordova and Valdex. and be la well to do. Fought Twenty Houre a Day. But tbe trlala and the light of thoss early day a, when he waa wrestling !..- i..... in nf n aumnier day and ivtriu -j wm 2 .i d ----- eight hours of a winter twilight with a rough, semlarctlc country, pushing a clumsy, homemade cultivator by hand and smiling cheerfully, will not soon fade, uor will the days when eighteen hours of yellow sunlight brought the seeds rushing to tbe surface and ma tured them in Bve weeks. Those were the moments when be saw the thlnga the future held. And he's not going to sell out and go back to Sweden. He's golng to stick on the job. It's bla ho ma bow. and" M atwa the tl ma lu ten yeara oo. Bve wTo ha will hare farmer neighbors all abouT blm and tha rlt b aoll a 111 pa working tr tho inru wbo can conquer It I'p In the Tanana valley and In tha tpier rHer and tha Bmltoa. too, fiirmera are following the track of Ole Mnnlii. the men Abo farmed and mad ii -j i throtih nfcma. MONMOUTH NEWS Hoy Hmllh waa a Imlhta vUltor Saturday-. Peter Springer waa a Bsl.-m visitor Saturday. A groat many of our dtlrena ha live bet n Buffering wltb la grippe. We are glad to welcome the mild outli wind td gentle Oregon ral once more. Johnny Moran. one of our II real estate men, tranaacted bualiK live In Dallaa Saturday. A horao belonging to A. J. Hal" ,y bad the mUfortune to get badly cut on barbed wlro recently. H, M. c;uthrlo and wlfo are vUltl Ing the former's parents while enroute to Eugene where Mr. Guthrie w Ill continue his work. Mm. II. E. Gutlirlo, who hH heei seriously 111 the pant ihre - weeka. I now recovering her health. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh M. Guthrie at tended services at the ChrlHtla church Sunday evening. Monmouth Creamery Company be Id a stockholder' meeting Saturday af ternoon and made a very favorable rooort for their paat year's work. Mrs. Dr. Price reports the little Bon of Jay Powell as much Improved. The child haa been very 111 of typhoid fa vor. J. Lindsay and wife returned Sun day from a week's visit In Portland. Mr. Llndaay was attending to bualnes connected with bis store. The basket ball game Saturday ev ening In the Normal between New berg and Monmouth high school teams resulted In a victory for New berg. The score was 14 to 13. Saved at Death's Door. Tha door of death seemed ready to open for Murray V. Ayers, of Transit Bridge. N. T., when tils life waa wonderfully saved. "I was In a dreadful condition," ho writes, "my skin was almost yellow; eyes sunken; tongue coated; emaciated from losing forty pounds, growing weaker dally. Virulent liver trouble pulling me down to death in spite of doctors. Then that matchless mediclne Elec tric Bitters cured me. I regained the forty pounds lost and mow am well and strong." For all stomach, Urer and kldner troubles they're su preme. 60c at air druggists. Crops Are Promising. Cold frosts of the past ten days aro Bald to have done little damage to croDa In Polk county. Observant farmers near Independence report on ly slight damage to vetch and oats, so blight that they believe grain will come out as soon as warm rains set In. A. Nelson has made a tnorousn test of his field of vetch and oats and says that where the ground is protected with stubble no damage was done; otherwise the freezes have lifted the top soil and some damage will result. In the latter case he be lieves that as soon as the rains set in the ground will settle and the grain will take root and continue to grow. II. C. Constance made a trip across his fields the first of the week from his place, three miles, to visit an oil well near Monmouth. He took partic ular notice of the condition of the grain fields through which he went. He has formed an opinion from his observations that with good weather following the storms of the past six weeks all grain will make a fair stand. Fruit and hops are said by growers not to be damaged.- Portland Captures Convention. Wool growers of the. country will gather at Portland in 1911, bringing to that city a convention representa tive of a great industry. Delegates tn the recent convention of the wool 3 men at Ogden from tho Pacific north west were a unit for Portland as the next meeting place and they cap tured the gathering without serious opposition. Ninety per cent of the wool growers of the country are mem bers of the organization and the convention will bring thousands of visitors to Portland. The next meet ing of the national body will be held at Portland In January, 1911. JANUAWV tl. 1110. POLK COUNTY SCHOOL REPORT following l a report of the schools of Polk rounty for tha school month ending Ixxt-mbcr SI, 1909: Number schools reporting cor rectly and oil time .... .... Number schools falling to report on tltua and c-orrt-nly, District No, r.9, (Cherry Grov) .... 1 Number of pupils remaining at laat report 2iii Number of pupils rcuttercd new " during month 30 Number of pupils regltred sec ondary during month Number of pupils readmitted durliiir month 101 Total number of pupils on reg- ller during mouth 26M Number of pupils dropped during month 13 Number of pupils remaining at time of this report 2H9 Number of days taught durin month H-5 Whole number day attendance, Whole number days absence . . 2328 " Whole number times late .... -123 Number of pupils neither absent nor tardy 1"" Average number of pupils be longing 2.122 e Average dally attendance .... 2316 Per cent of attendance 9- Number of visits by parents .. 133 Number of visits by members of school boards The following schools were placed on the roll of honor tor the county for having made a per cent of attend ance of 95 or more; Pedee, Rtd Prairie, Bethel, Cochran, Buell, Sprint Valley. Popcorn. Harmony, I'ppcr ball Creek, Lincoln, McTimmonds' Valley, Rock Creek, Grande Ronde, Mis'letoe. The following schools were placed on the roll of honor for having had no tardles during the month; Smith field, Red Prairie, Valley View, Polk Station, Gooseneck, Popcorn, Harmo ny, Upper Salt Creek, Lincoln, Enter prise, Etna, McTimmonds" Valley, Greenwood. Sunnyslope, Oakdale, Rock Creek, Mistletoe. While the attendance this month Is not as good as the months In the past, It was very good when the kind of weather the children had to con tend with is taken into consideration and If all will try and attend all of the time from now on until the close of school, there will surely be no trouble In reaching the 95 per cent which all are after. The county superintendent Is very much pleased with the increase lu the number of parents visiting the schools. This shows interest in the school work and will get results. It is found that nearly a)l districts in the county have secured the window-boards and the individual drink ing cups. These are meeting with the best of satisfaction in all cases with parents, teachers and pupils, and it Is hoped that the few dis tricts which have not secured the cups and window-boards will do so at once and thus put Polk county in the lead. 2ured of a Severe Attack of Bron chitis by Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. "On October 18th, last, my little three-year-old daughter contracted a severe cold which resulted in a bad case' of bronchitis," says Mrs. W. G. Gibson, Lexington, Ky. "She lost the power of speech completely and was a very sick child. Fortunately we had a bottle of Chamberiain-s .tjougn em- edy in the house and gave it to her according to the printed directions. On the second day she was a great deal better, and on the fifth day, Oc tober 23, she was entirely well of her cold and bronchitis, which I attribute to this splendid medicine. I recom mend Chamberlain's Cough Remedy unreservedly as I have found it th surest, safest and quickest cure tor colds, both for children and adults, of any I have ever used." For sale by M. Kirkland. Hogs Takei Wings. An example of the big money in ho g raising was given at Portland during the past week when a single porker, weighing 680 pounds, brought 61.20. This is the highest price that i single hog ever brought at the tockyards. The hog was raised by Henry Larkin of Colfax, Washington.- Hogs reached $9.20 during the week, j PAGE THREE COUGHS AND COLDS H0ULO. NEVER BE NEGLECTED Tska boss s bottle of K'd gprors aad White I'tae Compound Cough Medicine and bog of Willlania' L alive Cola Tablets sad be pr soar ad. Sold oal by WILLIAMS DEIIO IBJH'ANf Indapandsnca, Oragon Slaters Succeed whert everything ! 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