Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1904-08-12
Order your hop checks now.

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Miss Mamie Starr came home from
Newport yesterday.
Mrs. Glenn Butler, Of Butler, il
visiting relatives in Dallas.
| J. A. Cornes and family left fol
Salmon River beach yesterday.
Mrs. D. M. Metzger was passenger
to Portland on this mornings train.
Miss Lena Stouffer has returned
home from a visit with friends in
Portland.
Miss Louise Gilbert left Monday for
Dallas for a visit with relatives. s.-Cor-
wallis Times.
Frank Hubbard will leave soon for
Grants Pass, where he will make his
home for the next few months.
Walter Lyon, editor and publisher
of the Independence Enterprise, was
in Dallas on abusiness errand, Wed
u6Sudy dLI6IuOOu.
Ringling's circus will visit Salem
on Wednesday, August 81. Five
trains are required to transport this
big show from city to city.
The OBSERVER office is booking
orders for hop checks and will begin
printing about August 20. This office
has long made a speciality Of this
work, and is prepared to turn out a
better job on short notice than any
other printing office in the valley.
A report of Secretary GiItner of the
Lewis and Clark Fair Board shows
that the counties already giving def
mite assurances Of exhibits at the big
Fair next year are six in number
Polk, Linn, Sherman, Morrow, Grant
and Marion. Polk county was the
first to take steps towards preparing
an exhibit. This is right and proper,
as Polk was the prize winning county
at the Oregon State Fair last year.
and, as such, should hold her place at
the head of the procession.
The room in the Brown building to
be occupied by the First National
Bank is in the hands of the carpenters,
and the work of changing the front
and putting In the necessary parti-
tions will be rushed to an early COM
pletion. The furniture has been ord
cred, and work on the brick vault will
begin at once. Eugene Hayter, who
is to be the cashier of the new bank,
has charge of the installation of the
furniture and fixtures. The bank will
probably be open for business by
/.
Messrs. ], B. V. Butler, L. Ground,
DR.. 0. d. Butler and G.. T. Boothby
returned Friday from a hunting and
fishing trip in the Yachats country.
There is a spirited contest each year
these gentlemen for the fishing
championship, for he who catches the
greatest number of the finny tribe is
King on the next trip and has none of
the onerous duties of the camp to per-
form. DR.. Butler was the lucky one
this year and will probably lord it
over the rest of the bunch in great
shape next extyear.-Independence Enter
prise.
A jolly crowd Of Dallas people visit
ed M. M. Ellis camp above Falls City,
Wednesday. When the noon hour
well-filled lunch baskets were
brought out and fine dinner was
enjoyed. Returning home in the after
noon, some of the party were late for
the train, but the loud yelling and
frantic gestures Of J. G.. VanOrsdel
induced the conductor to stop the train
and wait for the belated passengers.
Those going from Dallas were DR..
and Mrs. w. S. Cary, Rev. w. T.
Wardle and son, j. G.. VanOrsdel and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. Hardy Holman,
Judge and Mrs. N. L. Butler, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. B. Muir, Mrs. H. B. Cosper
and daughter Vera, Mrs. Aldrich and
grandchildren, Mrs. Pratt; Miss
5enevieve Aldrich, Miss Neva Camp
oell, and G. H. Chapman.