• 2 FEATHERS OF STUFFED PARROT STILL GROWING « • 1 OWNS “NARROWEST FARM’’ W. A. Dresser Property la Twelve Mlles Long and Ilghty-FIvs Foot Wide. Clippings Made During Past William A. Dresser of Lafayette. Ind., owm one of the moat un 1 Thirty Years Now Measure fams in the world from a topom Six Feet. cal standpoint T>»- place ta is » long nly 80 feet wide and la lo­ to the Wahnali river in the •’Alox,*' a parrot born in Central cated America fifty-four years ago, sits In vicinity of the village of Americus. a glass ease at the residence of Ills Tim ground formerly was right owner, Mrs. George Spellman at New of way of the Wabash and Erie oahal. a waterway that outmoded the Grout Orleans. 'lolly Alox" net er stirs and he Lakes with the Mississippi river and was the chief avenue of transporta never talks. Tho only sign of animation about tlon in western Indiana. It was aban­ him—and this is a slow process—is doned as a caunl. howover, shortly be­ the feathers. They grow steadily. fore the Civil wur and Mr most Of Ito Every six months or so Mrs. Spellman distance was oonverted into turn land has to trim them In order for "Polly Mr. Dressor bought the entire strip recently whan It was offered for solo Alex" to lit In the glass ease. The parrot has been dead for thirty for taxes years. He was twenty -lour years old when he died, lie was given Io Mrs. PORCUPINE FALLS INTO BOAT Spellman when she was a baby. “I have trimmed the feathers, tall, wings and sides, of Polly Alex at least Praaoher-Fleherman Dives and Swims Ashore, Once a year for thirty years," salti full-grown porcupine. qulUs and Mrs. Sisdlmnn. "At first many per- Ml, A dropiiod from an overhanging tree sons were Incredulous, so I have been Into tho rowbofit front which saving the trimmings. In thirty years Jire<1t)y M, I have trimmed more than six feet of the Ilov. flldney Buck of -Wash., wm fishing, in Lakv feathers from the bird." Mr. Spellman Is sexto* of a ceme­ Tho Rev Mr. Book, better verted in tery near the Spellman home and he block sheep and goats than t>otcupln()(). Mr. and Mrs. Clarence lame of Ash Men’s suits and overcoats for less The youngster is a Jersey, and was land, Oregon, .visited A. A. Penning at Morris Schnal’s sacrifice sale.— sold to him by Clifford Reid of Mc­ ton this week. Mr. Lane is a busi- Adv. Minnville of the Reid stock farm neHs man of Ashland. Miss l.ura near that city. The hull bears the I. Labowitch of Portland is here for Bland accompanied them from Me- title of Goldie’s King of Nehalem. a while helping out in his brother’ Minnville. store. Henry Crenshaw went out into the Norton Bradford of the Federal mountains Tuesday and came home with a fine two—point buck that he Reserve bunk of Portland, and his mother, Mrs. Bradford, and G. A. Reeher of this city, left Tuesday for .1, A. Omiandy, general passenger an outing up Wilson river, and the agent for the Southern Pacific, was in Oregon Fire Relief Assn. men of the party may do some hunt­ of M c M innville the city the latter part of last week. Mr. Ormandy recently received a pro­ IRA G. NELSON motion along with other of the rail­ RESIDENT AGENT road employee», and is »aid to be one 702 Second Ave E. Corner 7th of the youngest general passenger agents along the Pacitic coast. Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Moon - S«i