SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
Managed hf th l'olk Oonnty Tciuli.r A
OvlKl loll. Mild dl'VOU-U to III. adYaiuvmuut
VI ill 1-UDIItltKtlMlulM.
KJ1TF.I MY I'KUK. T. A. 11AYK8,
1 ndr pr udonc, Oruu.
All communication rrlatlnc to (UN work
must Iw addrvwwd to Hi editor ..fllili do-IwiinienU
REPOBTS.
EI.KINS 1'IBI.IC SCHOOL.
For month ending March
JvhiiiUt day attendance..... ...
' " iibnit)..
" enrolled .....
Average i!tmiler Ix'UmniiiK
" tlrtily attomUueo
Kutuber iifithor Hlwnt nor tardy.
" viiM bv directors .".
" " by other
I children, it was agreed to go buck
'home and let the law there "y
who shall have the little girls.
The mother of the children bears
the appearance of a refined and
educated lady. As we know noth
ing of the circumstances in the
care, we dj not have any idea how
it will terminate.
15,
wo
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::o
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10
l
4
ITKMS OF 1 XT tilt KMT
Gathered from oar Various Lxohnges
Tbrontrhout the State.
E. M. Smith, Teacher.
KICK RE ALL PI BLIC SCHOOL.
For month ending March 15,
1S95:
Number days attendance .
l)IICO,m
" Urdiea.
Number absences ixctitd
Whole number enrol led
Average number belonging.
" daily attendance .
Number cur6ral punishment....
Number visits br board
" " by 'others
1. A. IIoao, Teacher.
901
8t
1
(UI
a
.1
1
1
2o
The George Simmons placer
mine near Yrek was sold last
week to Oregon and Washington
INTEI EXDEXCE Pl'BUC SCHOOL.
For the month ending March 13.
Ir93:
Number days present..
4' '7:1
arnvneo SS1
" taniie 40
" excuta fur tartlit-a ;'.
! ,4 enrolle-l, boys 15J.S, girls l4i
total 287
Averatfe number belonging
' daily attendance 2o0
1'er cent of attriulanre 92
Jiumbcr pupil admitted, boys 3
girls 4, total
Xnniher corporal pmiicliment 4
dumber visits by directors, 17; pat
rous, 12; teacher, So; others, 23
Number rhetorical exercises during
month .
T. A. Hayes, Prin.
THE POLK COUNTY PJKKS3
"ews Items and Editorial Ex
pressions.
(Itemizer.)
Sheriff Plumuier has arranged
with the banks of Independence
and Monmouth to collect the taxes
of those most convenient to those
places.
Assessor Beckett will now start
out on his work of assessing the
county, beginning in Douglas pre
cinct. He will have a couple of
deputies in other parts of the
countr. I
The county clerk has supplied
to all road supervisors a list of tax
payers in their respective districts.
T. A. Farley is buying goat wool
- for Vrm.. Brown, of Salem, paying
' . 20 cents for a good article. He has
already taken over 1,200 pounds.
" The new postoffice at the old
Crand Rounde store will be named
.'-Russell, that being the name of the
"general in command of the fort
. there forty years ago.
The experience of carefully observ
ing hog raisers has been that it pays
best to push a pig from the time of
its birth to seven or eight months
old when it ought to weigh from
150 to 200 pounds. After that it
' costs more for any given increase
of weight. The above is not a mat
ter of guess work, bnt the result of
many careful experiments.
Hastings Bros, bought several
thousand bushels of wheat within
the past week at 35 c-.-nts per
bushel. Airlie Cor.
(Observer.)
Born, Friday, March 8, 1893, to
the wife of A. M. Ginn of this city, I jjj
& son.
Mr. Elmer Reid, who lives in
the west part of Dallas, suffered a
most unfortunate accident a few
days ago. While taking a shoe oil'
his horse he got a small piece of
(Bteel. in his eye, and went to Port
land for assistance, but physicians
there deemed it necessary to re
move the eye. So Elmer, came
home Wednesday minus one eye.
The Dallas democrats have nom
inated their city ticket for election
which will occur on the first Mon
day in April, as follows: for may
or, A. B. Muir; recorder, J. P.
Magruder; marshal, Chas. Belt; 1st
ward, Cas. Black; 2d ward, A. K,
Wilson; 3d ward, R. R. Turner.
Born, to the wife of D. J. Grant,
Saturday, March 9, 1895, a 10
pound girl.
About one month ago, a Mr.
Elder appeared in Dallas from the
Est with two little girls, one 9
nd the other 11 years old, and
has been here ever since. On
Monday ther appeared a sequel to
the case. The mother of the child
ren, arrived in Dallas ar.d claimed
her husband had taken the children
capitalists for $23,000.
Hayes ASainden have picked up
about $1500 worth of coarse gold
at their placer mino on Oscar creek
exclusive of the lino gold they will
get when they clean up.
It is said that tho W. C. T. U,
at Gold Hill is tho largest in the
6ta'.e, with the exception of the one
in Portland, having 40 members
after being organized only a month.
John Millard, a well known Al
b. ny resident, while running after
a calf Tiusday had the misfortune
to fall in siuh a way as to break
his left thigh bone and right shoul
der blade.
The McMinnvillo evening local
train is now heated bv steam in
place of tho old stove, and has air
signals instead of tho bell cord.
The change is one of greater con
venience and comfort.
Gold Hill has a barber-shop con
ducted by three ladies, all of
whom are said to be tonsorial
artists, only one of them being
married. It is needless to add
that they get nearly all of .the j
business in their line,
A youth of 17 by the name of
C. Stewart presented himself to
Sears, of Multnomah county, Sat
urday afternoon March 9, an d said
he would like to bo taken care of
as he was insane. The ov has a
strong dcare to kill himself and
knows that he needs watching to
prevent him from doing himself
harm when in his fits of insanity.
Professor Coote, of Corvallis, has
demonstrated that curly leaf in the
peach tree is caused by cold tem
perature. He placed two trees
badly affected with the curl leaf
where there was a continious warm
temperature, and thj leaves are
now as healthy as any tree, and
the young peaches on the trees are
already making a good growth.
Gen. J. C. Tolraan was 82 years
of age on the 12th, and the mem
bers of the Tolnian family drove
out to the Tolman springs where
the General has been spending the
winter and gave him a birthday
surprise Tuesday. He is enjoying
excellent health lately and is re
markably bright and spry for his
years, with prospects of many
more before him yet.
George Payne, the 42d victim of
the Silver Lake holocaust, died
February 25. His body, with the
other unfortunates, was placed
near the center of the cemetery
there and a monument will be
erected to their memory. All
others who were injured have re
covered, except Clara .Snelling and
Mrs. T. J. Labrie, who are im
proving slowly.
John W. Waggoner, of McMinn
ville, an old gentleman who room
ed alone over Kun's bakerv. and
odd jobs about town, was
funeral was held at the residence
Sunday and the interment look
place on tho old home place a few
miles west of Eugene.
Tho Virtue mine's second clean
up for tho mouth amount to 420
ounces. It fooU up $7980, making
a total of nearly $13,000 for only
20 days' run with 20 stamps.
The people about Arairo have
incorporated for dairying pur
poses, and purchased the Arago
creamery, payiug $0000 for it. Tho
stock is owned by nearly 100 milk
producers.
Hayes A Swindon' placers on
Oscar crook, a tributary of Apple
cate, have produced SfloUU in
coarse gold nuggets so far this sea
son. They range from $2 pieces to
a $125 specimen. No clean-uj
will bo made until the season
closes.
Geo. K. Quine was in town from
Kiddle Tuesday. He recently told
his placer mino to Mr. Ball, of
Tacoma, who paid 930 for it. This
mining property consists of a gravel
bur on Cow Creek, where consider
nl Id gold has Inen allied out
with rockers. Mr. Ball will put
up some extensive machinery and
go to work on a large scale.
.Mr. M. K. Lewis, who came
from Nebraska t Oregon several
months as, is greatlv pleased with
Oregon. He now owns 120 acre.1'
of tine fruit laud between Albany
and Wills, and has a good idea in
connection with it. He will make
a specialty of apples, and already
has 1000 trees out, mostly lien
Davis. His idea is to have only
hardy keepers, red cheeked fillows
that will be sound iu the spring
when appks are scarce and prices
hiah. Mr. Lewis alio has lOOO
gooseberry plants o"t a;id will
raise other fruits in small quanti
ties.
Wrrw.
What is
ir .v r u.w,
1
Castorlft is Dr. Samuel ntcher' prosier! t too for Infanta
and Children. It eontaln.1 neither Opium, Morplilno nor
other Nnreotio substance. It 1 a. ImrmloM subxtltuto
for lre-orle, Props, Bootliintf Syrup and Ciwtor Oil.
It 1 Pleasant. lt piarnntiH) U thirty ymrs use by
Million of Mother. CudorU .leatroys Worms and alhiyn
feverlnliiiesa. Castorlrt prevent vomlllii;T Sour Curd,
cures Dlarrhaiu aud Wind Colic. Qutorln relieves
teething troubles!, euros constipation mid flatulency.
CastorU nsslmll.ites tho food, r.cttlatc the, stomach
tul bowels tilvI::X healthy nn.l natural sleep. Cas
torU iJ tho Children's ramicca-tho Hot hoi's l-'rlcud.
Castoria.
"Cfcrtori'x la an cxivl!o.-.t mulleins for chil
dren. Sti!! km ropiMtistly liitl uio tf iu
good (Wlfct upa iljitr c.:.l;rv
D.I. 11. C. O nwn,
l,ov!., tua.
" caatorla li Cm U I nn.v t''r ch-'-'w '
which I am mxi ia 1 !..; f : uirl
far ant Vur.:lw:v !;;. R.U !lVn':l
InU'r.t-t of Ci. U uUii lr ;i. r I C-.-vrl !
B!caJ of thevirkvjjtviirk iwiin'unl'i an
dcatwylnjthvlr Kwa Xy f. v -i.ro; :l.i i,
morrh!n'. o.:h.r.j iynir eis-t i-ivr Iri 'sul
1,-iettU i5on thoir thmsts, th.iviy t
thuja to jrojia:ur i-r:
pi J. i VTiM, !irti,
CVa..i', Ark.
Castori.
I rvcmtMi" hJ ltMujfiMrioJiy jivrliUna
ti.tiua h wo." .... i. r.
It. X, Anriica, U. P.,
lit r. Oif f I :;t . i:r.HvixB, N. Y.
" I'Hir iiili'bM I l! i1'" Ir'i" d!."
nuiit luu ("- ' I '.;! 1 " r !"
r In ilirlr ou:IIj im jcI. wiili Cant.ttia,
a it alltioi:-b J i"' hvn anion fur
hhiI.iU ui i :t'- .li.t l kiuiwn a n-sui .r
j :--.ii t wiwilmi t. cou.. tltt Ui
li-.. n: vt l"jiina l- "oa ua lu lucll lCi
wr ui"ii It."
I'NITCU IllWWTL thO iM-M'tHIUliT,
AIXM C, B:tu, V.,
6PfQ DATE.
We have received A small portion of
our now spring and suniiiier nlck of
Dry Goods, Clothing, Shoes, Notions, Etc
Wo hiive plenty inure on thewny. And
they are till "tip to date" lui
Good Goods are Cheaper this Season;
Than they rver were, if you know
where to get I hem mid have tho
money to pay fur tin m.
PRIGES 20 PER GENT LOWERj
'X'ii'A.2Sr LACT -YiajLiz.
Tixn
hv than fvrr. Our t.Ji
III IN I! I t' 1 1 M 1 1 I 'J 'II LI I HI"" ! ' w . r ,
will t uii)riK it lino lino in I lulit h', M iVhh ami Clii
iIivu'hm'i!.-' Mi'u'h ho. Tun IIomi'I-j-huuntc'h.
Tha Ccntcc? C'.t;rr, 1 rinrray SLrccN Vow York Citj-.
do vou Spell it?''
How to Tell a Girl's Age.
Ci iris of a marriageable do not
like to tell how old they are; but
you can lind out by loilowing the
subjoined instructions, the young
lady doing the figuring. Ti ll her j
to put down tho number of the!
month in which she was born,!
then to multiply it by 2, then to
add 5, then to multinlv it br "0.
then to add her asrc, then t sub
tract 3C5, then to add 115, then tell
her to tell you the amount s!ie has
left. The two inures to the right
will denote her nge and the remain
der the month of her birth. Fur
example, the amount is 822; she is
d-o-r-g."
"Yes."
"And how do
asked the wife.
"I say, it's a d n-w-g, dawg," tin
replied in a surly manner.
"Vou mean a dnr an nniinal
"Of ooVo I do! I've spelt il that
wav lor 20 y'urs and 1 know I'm
right!"
"But that isn't aeccrdii'g to the
Knglisli language, ma'am."
' I don't keer lor no Knulish
language," slia swapped ns she r
up and enteiul the hon. c.
I was about to say I hoped I
hadn't ofiended hi'r when the
husband aro.cand pulled the door
! to, ami cot a pood crip on t!ia
handle and whispered
",-trang-r, I'll try to bol l tlto j MINNEAPOLIS
i tlr.ur till vn' fiL i tntT (lwuit in' ! AND
, , .... - ri
i:. lexr.n.i.. itn hcr. '
I to Tin;
i m ii i vjIt-n. r t
CiVErl Tin: I'HOIl'l: vv I ,
Two j i:
Trcnsccntinental ?
ROUTE S'i
(;i!E.IT I'XIOX j:
i ' a iirr-ii i'ii i t ii i niniM iir
i ilk i iii. ; I: ' i' ii ii, ir i;
l.uillllbll.un i .nil iv ill.
VIA I A
sj-o.c.VNi: di:nvi:u j
i
Monmouth Mercantile Co.
MDN.MOl'TII. OKK.
We bell
Bissell Chilled "OloiirQ
J. I. Caso Steei
'A Garden Cultivator
U an implement you cannot gt along without,
cuft jnly a ti ifb when Uniht at our "tore. .
A Sweat Pad
Will protet t ymir horse and niahle him lu do licltr:
serviiv. We've jiift received a largo iifsortmeiit.
IFRAZER & SON, Monmouth. I
22 y'ears old, and was born in the
eighth month (Augtii-t.) Try it.
Kather Sot In Her Ways.
" Why, what's the niat'or?"
"The matter is i;iy wife is rnth.r
sot in lit r ways,, pertickerly on
snl!in'. and I can hear her potiriu'
shot and jKwderinto the bird gun!
Stranger, I'm sorry tohevyo'go
! this way, hut dawg pone my dorg
if vour di' hain't L'ol to hustle or
ST. PAUL
O M AHA
AMI
Kansas City
FOR
sp.
Kin' h.kbinefs!'
When I made tin; turn in the
road he ivns still holding the door,
but I saw sciiicthiii'' that looked
Especially In a Matter of Spelling Tliat 1 po cut of th
Had Stood a Teit of Twenty Years, j
One day as I was toiling up a
rough trail road in the Cumberland
mountains of Tennessee I encount- j iIi0 a w'""1" ciiml.ir g out of one
ercd a man on horseback, jun as of lhl- side windows with a gun in
he turned in from another trail. 1 ni;r I'-U'd.
as we were going the same way- we i
I jogged along together, and after
found dead in 'his bed about 4 p.
m. Sunday. The doctors estimated
that he had been dead about 15
hours. The coroner's inquest pro
nounced death due to heart failure.
Deceased was born in Indiana, was
62 years of age, and an Oregon
soldier of three years service dur
ing the civil war, receiving his dis
charge at Vancouver in 18G4.
The faculty of the State Univer
sity held a meeting yesterday
some general talk he observed:
"Stranger I want to ask yo' a
question plumb center, andifyo'
don't feel like answerin' it I shan't
be put out "
"Well, go ahead.''
"Kin yo' read print?"
"Y'es, fairly well."
"Kin yo' read writin'?"
"Yes."
the nixt 40 rods, and then he said:
"Stranger, I'm liviu' two miles
further on. I'd like to hev yo,
stop at my cabin and settle a
dispute."
'I shouldn't like to got mixed up
in any quarrel, you know."
"Oil! of co'se not. It's a dispute
between me'n my wife, and we've
been a lookin' fur somebody to
j settle it fur the last three months, j
Yo' won't git into trouble about
it. We don't spell nor figger, nor
pronounce jest alike, and I reckon
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I.I.W itATKS TO Al.l,
KASTKItN I ITIKS.
OCKAN 'sTKAMKIlS ,
l.ravp I'lirlhmd
fury 4 ilu .r
SAN FRANCISCO.
l-'nr f.:li iIcIiiIIn mil nn II. li. A II, Aitnt
M.o. I'lil'TKi;. I mil 'iH'iutciK'P, Or. -nr
iul.lrt':
w. ii. urnun iiT.
(H-tt. I'lifn. Aunil,
riirllanil. If.
Hid
WAY LAN'm.V
SALEM, PORTLANJ)
iSLSteamer Altona1
f
Lenvo I'ortlai.d Tuepdays, Thurcdavfi and Saturday. fl;00 a. to.
Leave Indi peudeiieo Moiidny, Wcdnendays and Kridat s -l;.'U) " f
Leave Salem " " " 7H. "
Fast Time. Cheap Bates
-L'-ndi'ig-
1
17
V
City Draymen!
Alexander-Cooper Drug "Co"
All kinds of
Hauling
in or out of the city
Pronqdly attended to.
Ci aryeu reasonable..'
Perfumes,
Stationery,
Taints,
Oils,
Vnrnii-hes,
1'rtishef,
Con, bs,
Soaps,
Always aim to please and keep on hand ' f
Riildier Hoods, j.
Sulilitir, I
I'lltellt Mediciw
Cigars, . ;
Therinonnti"'
Hooks, I
Tens. J
Pencils,
Ktc, B
Right Arm Paralyzed!
Saved from St. Vitus Dance.
Tlnn. T, Oi.k.t, lli nrj' I
-i n
JflORTHERN
lll'liry 1'. liniii",
U.. .-H . m
PACIFIC R. R.
yringes,
Prescriptions :-: Carefully -:- Compoundei
Diiv or Nicht. ' I
IITJEjpTliisroElTOE, OREQOIT.
R
afternoon and one of the members f yo' kin set us straight."
had an opportunity to get a good
joke on Prof. Condon. He moved
that the university adjourn on St.
Patrick's day, whereupon Prof.
Condon made a lengthy and
weighty argument against respect
ing any holiday otherwise than
one strictly pretaining to American
institutions. He was allowed to
When we reached his cabin I
was tendered a sip from the jug
and introduced to his wife, she
was a middle-aged woman of great
firmness of character. The hus
band explained that we had met
accidently, and he asked me to act
as referee and added
"Our daughter, I;l:
teen years of ajre, life
afllictod with nervou.
lost the entire use of
V e feared St. Vitus c
v:he, now flf
X!en terribly
;ss, aud had
r riplit arm.
ce, and tried
"Now. Btraneer. how do rn' ru.ll
finish, then quietly informed that ' dawu?"
"There is no such a word as
dawg. It i dog "
"But how do you spell it?"
hy d o-g, dog. How do you
and left her. After considerable 1 1846. He was a man well respect
quarrelling who should have the fed by all who kqew him. The
it made no dinerence, as St. Pat
rick's day will come on Sunday
this year, March 17.
Mr. Stephen Jenkins, aged 73
years, died at his residence in j spell it?"
Eugene last Saturday afternoon. "I don't go fur to consider to
He i an old pioneer of this coun- reckon I'm much of a speller, but I
try, having come to Oregon in ' git a 'd' and an V and an V and a
'g in thar furnwhars."
the best physician-;, with no benefit.
She has taken three bottles of Or.
Miles' Nervine and has pained :;i
pounds. Her nervousness and sv mo
torus of St. Vitus dance arc entirely
gone, she attends school regularly,
and has recovered complete use of
her arm, her appetite is splendid."
IU1S. Ii. IL fclXtoCK, Isrlahion, N. Y.
Dr. Miles' Nervine
Cures.
Dr. Miles" Nprvine fa wild on a pmltlra
puaraniee that the first bottle will Vn.-lit.
All'usirteiaaellltil. bottles for 16. or
It will l writ, prepaid, oa reo-ipt of price
by Hie tr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, J rid.
u
N
o
Pullman
Elegant
Tourist
Sleeping Cars
Dining Cars
Sleeping Cars
TO i
HORSE
MEN
"That would be spelling
the best work.
enabled to secure
from your investment,
some fine
(let jour bills
piinted at lb?
MXTKKPIUSi;
ofhee. and get
You will thus !
the best results
We have
sr. p.iul
MT-AE.irous
DULUTll
(J ROOKS ro.v
WIXMl'EO
lIKLKX-j and 2
1WTTE
THROUGH TICKETS
TO
f! II I C.I GO
ir.fSfJYOTO.Y
I'll iLii)i:um.i
mcw roth'
F OS TON and all
'Of NTS "1UST mid SOUTH
IN DJCPKN DUNCE
Dray & Truck Co.
Praying of nil kinds in and
out of the city will receive
prompt and careful atten
tion if entrusted to
A. W. Docksteader,
(Hiiiwwmr to Clina. HtauU)
Our prices are the lowest.
INDEPENDENCE, - ORKdON
Of ALL K!NB I
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HERCULES
ENGINES
: GAS AMD
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in., kiiiiiim""';
iv:lruiia'i
stock: cuts.
it j f iyour jirices are the lowet-t fr
For Infiirrnnllxn, limp cotiIn, maix and
tickrla, call on or w rile
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lours
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