KIQHT 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
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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
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Slaters
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I 'i nervous rc iiraiion and female
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