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Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-08-04
Cotton Declines.

William W. Cotton, commissioned
by President Roosevelt for Federal
District Judge in Oregon, has de-
clined the appointment, and the
several aspirants for the place, who
sought the honor until it was awarded
to Mr.. Cotton, nearly two months ago,
find the course open for a new race.
Among the leading candidates fol-
the position left vacant by Judge
Bellinger are r. S. Bean, Judge of
the Oregon Supreme Court; 7. A. Nc
Bride, Judge of the State Circuit
Court; Henry E. McGinn, ex-Judge
of the State Circuit Court; Ralph W.
Wilbur, a lawyer of Portland, and
L. R. Webster, County Judge of Multi
nomah. Others mentioned are @. E.
WoIverton and F. A. Moore, Judges
of the Oregon Supreme Court M. G..
George and A. F. Sears, of the State
Circuit Court; E. B. Watson, ex-J udge
of the Supreme Court; John L. Rand,
of Baker City, State Senator, and
Stephen A. Lowell, ex-Circuit Judge.
Bean, Mcbride, Webster, Wolverton,
Moore and Rand have been recon-
mended by Senator Fulton.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-08-04
HOP MEN WILL GATHER
Growers of Two Counties Will Hold
Meeting in independence,
Monday, August 7.

Hop men in the Dallas district are
planning to attend the Growers Meet.
ing in Independence, next Monday
afternoon, in body. Many matters
Of interest are to be discussed, and the
meeting will be open to every grower,
large or small. Hop farmers through
out the valley are taking lively
interest in the proposed meeting, and
it is highly probable that large dele
cations will be in attendance from
Marion, Yamhill, Benton, and other
counties. The Independence West
Side of Tuesday says
'The proposed meeting is a matter
of Importance to growers. The i'm
portance lies in the fact that the last
Legislature enacted law fixing the
weight of a box of hops, and the
urgent necessity of picking clean hops.
Complaint has been made against
unclean picking of Oregon hops, and
it is highly desirable that concerted
action be taken along this line to
insure a cleaner grade this year.
Whether or not picking shall be by
weight or box is another matter that
growers should decide. Other matters
of interest to growers generally can
be discussed at this meeting, and it is
hoped no grower will neglect to at
tend"
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-08-04
The Weston Normal.

When time came for the board Of
regents meeting in Weston, Saturday
afternoon, at which time $4,000 cash
was to have been subscribed to sup
port Weston's Normal school for
another year, or the school closed, be-
tween $1,000 and $4,000 was reported
secured by Regent G. w. Proebstel.
However, as a majority of the mem
bers of the board were away from the
city, no meeting was held and the
friends of the Normal have a brief
respite. Mr.. Proebstel says he believes
the amount can be raised, but others
are not nearly so sanguine.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-08-04
MANY SAW THE RACES
One Thousand People Attended Sec
ond Meet of independence Driv-
ing Club Last Saturday.

One Thousand people attended the
second race meet, held under the
auspices of the Independence DRIVING
Club, at Independence last Saturday
afternoon. The grand-stand was
packed to overlooking, and hundreds
Oh people stood along the track on
elther side of the judges stand and
enjoyed the sport. There were four
eVents-three harness races and a
boys running race. W. w. Percival.
the veteran horseman of Polk county
and president of the Driving Club,
nad charge OF the days sports, and
the program was carried out in a
manner highly satisfactory to all.
Inc merchants Of Independence and
the hop men of the surrounding
country declared haIf-holiday and
gave their employees chance to enjoy
the sport.
The 2:3O trot was won by Dell
Wilkes, owned by Mark Holmes, and
driven by John Kirkland, time, :19y.
Rev. W. G. Belknap's Ramona, driven
by the owner, was a close second.
Will Rowells gelding, Ted R., won
the club race in three straight heats
time, ;95@. The buggy horse race
was captured by The Freak, owned
and driven by J. N. Scott, of Salem :;
best time, 1:19i. The boys running
race was won by Hill Bros Jane,
ridden by Harry Simmons; time, So
seconds.
The officers of the course were
Judges, J. B. Stetson, starter; j. W.
Kirkland, of Independence, and G. A.
Westgate, of Albany; timekeepers, D.
Woodworth, of Albany, and Asa
Staats, of Airlie,
The Driving Club is planning to
hold another meet during the hop
picking season, when handsome
purses will be offered and an effort
made to secure an attendance of 5000
people.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-08-04
MANY BLOODED ANIMALS
Finest Herds in the World Will Be
Shown at Lewis and Clark
Stock Show.

Polk county stock raisers are taking
much interest in the stock show to be
held in connection with the Lewis and
Clark Fair from September 19 to 2S
inclusive. Blooded animals from all
parts of the world will be brought to
Portland for exhibit, and the exposi-
tion managers do not hesitate to
declare that this will be the greatest
livestock show ever held in America.
Polk county is one of the leading stock
counties in Oregon, and will furnish
its share Of fine animals to the exhibit.
In the pens, which will be on the
peninsula back of the Government
buildings, will be more than 700 stalls
for cattle, as many more for blooded
horses, and allotments for sheep,
goats and swine.
An idea of the extent of the exhibit
may be had when it is stated that a
shipment of blooded Percheron horses
left Havre, France, 20 days ago, and
arrived Saturday at their destination.
A. @. Ruby of Pendleton, Oregon,
one of the best known fine stock
breeders in the United States, arrived
in Portland Monday and entered his
display of Percherons with the chief
of the department, M. D. Wisdom.
All over France Mr.. Ruby travelled,
and secured a number of splendid
Percheron and Belgian horses. These
animals have won prizes at livestock
shows in Europe. The cost of bring
ing a carload Of horses from New
York to Portland is $780,
Some of the most famous herds in
the world will be brought to the ex-
position. One of the firm of Nc
Laughlin Brothers of Kansas City,
the world renowned breeders and
owners Of fine horses, has informed
the chief Of the livestock department
at the fair that in his own opinion he
will bring to the exposition the finest
band of Percherons, Belgians and
other blooded horses ever exhibited on
the North American continent. J.
Crouch, another famous breeder of
fine horses, located at Lafayette,
Indiana, will bring his blooded
Percherons and German coach horses.
Not only in horses will this show ex-
eel, but in fine cattle One of the
finest herds of Holstein cattle In the
world, owned by Pierce Brothers of
Stockton, California, will be brought
to the exposition. This herd includes
a Holstein bull expressly imported
from Holland, for exhibition here.
r. M. Hotaling of San Anselmo,
California, will exhibit his noted herd
of Holsteins, as will John B. Irwin, of
Minneapolis. another we'll known
breeder of fine cattle. w. E. Skinner,
secretary and manager Of the Inter
national Livestock show Of Chicago,
will come to the exposition in person,
and with him will come trainload Of
the finest cattle, horses, sheep and
swine. Of swine there will be on exhi-
bit the best of Berkshires, Yorkshires,
Poland -Chinas and Duroc-Jerseys,
and of sheep and goats there will also
be the best of their kind
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-08-04
WANT MOTOR SERVICE
Salem Statesman Business Men Favor
Plan to Build Railroad to
independence.

A number of people in Salem are
talking about the proposed exten.
sion of the Independence Monmouth.
Dallas-Airlie-Salem motor line. Some
of the leading men of Salem declare
that this line would do more good in
increasing business here and in build
ing up the city than any other that
has been proposed. And it would take
only about eight miles of trackage to
connect the present system with
Salem. The leading business men of
Salem are in favor of it, There is not
an exception. All the people of the
Capital City will help in every way
possible, if the proposition for the ex-
tension can be gotten before them in
tangible shape. There will not be a
single knocker. The time is ripe.
There should be no delay in getting
to work in the premises. There
probably will not be. AS prominent
business man of Salem said recently,
the construction of only eight miles
of track would put the whole west side
country in connection with Salem.
There would be trips at frequent inter
walls to Independence, Monmouth,
Dallas and Airlie, and the motor line
cars would connect with the Southern
Pacific passenger trains for McMinn-
vile, Corvallis and all the rest of the
towns on the west side Of the Will
lamette. The proposed extension, as
a part of the present Polk county
motor line system, would pay. 1t
would pay big interest on the cost Of
constructing the additional eight
miles of track.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-08-04
THE AUTO-BOLIDE
A Dip OF Death Which Makes the
Heart Stand Still.

Arrangements have been completed
whereby the Barnum & Bailey Great
est Show on Earth will positively ex-
hibit in Salem, on August 23, and in
Albany on August "a. This is indeed
good news for the people Of this city,
as it will give all an opportunity to
see this truly marvellous tented aggre-
cation. For high-class, refined and
moral entertainment, the Barnum x
Bailey show has been in class by
itself, and the visit of this stupendous
organization will be the amusement
treat of the season. The worlds great
est and most sensational acts will be
offered by the show this year, and the
multitude of startling exhibitions will
be headed by the most thrilling act Of
true nerve and grit ever seen in Amer
ica-Mlle. Mauricia de Tiers, a beauti-
full and dashing French girl, looping
the gap in an automobile.
For nerve of an increditable magni-
tude this now famous feature termed
the Auto Bolide Dip Of Death" is
beyond description and belief. The
same presentation as given in Madison
Square Garden, New York, during the
spring season will be exhibited in its
entirety, with the extraordinary feats
of marvellous aerial work introducing
the renowned Imperial Viennese
Troupe, grand hippodrome, exhibit
tions Of daring and bravery, an ava
lanche Of comedy by the thirty clowns,
the congress Of earth's wonders culled
from the forest Of curiosities, the
grand double managerie Of the rarest
specimens of wild beasts in captivity,
and the almost impossible feats Of the
Brothers Ancillotti looping and leap
ing simultaneously the quadruple
chasms, makes the show without an
equal in the world.
The managers Of the Barnum &
Bailey Show announce that the
parade will be abandoned this year,
but a wonderful exhibition Of daring
will be given on the circus grounds
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-08-04
Extreme Low Water.

The Willamette lacked but one inch
Monday of being at dead low water.
Dead low water means the mark that
is as low as it has been since there
has been a record. They have a
gauge at Albany that shows a mark
several inches lower than at any other
point, which is said to have been the
notch touched in the summer OF 1861.
The government engineers, however,
do not recognize it, but are guided by
the marking at Corvallis, Salem and
other points, all of which agree. The
indications now are that the river will
get low enough this season to smash
the record, and establish a new mark
ing for low water.-Corvallis Times.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-08-04
Bell Swinging Service.

The Junior Christian Endeavor
Society of the Evangelical Church has
purchased from the Woodmen the Dell
Of the NJ. E. Church, South. 1t has
been placed in the tower OF the Evan
gelical church, where for the first
time it will swing on Sunday morn
ing, calling the public to service in
keeping with the occasion. Special
music. All are invited.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-08-04
Contracts Let for Coast Road.

Awards have been made by the Atlas
Contract Company for the delivery oil
2OOO tons of steel rails at Hillsboro FOL
the Portland, Nehalem & TillamooB
railroad. The delivery is to be made
by September. The rails are of the
6O-pound type. The company has
awarded the contract for clearing the
right of way to Clark & Dixon, ol
Forest Grove, and to Thompson Broth
ers the contract for grading the first
three miles from Hillsboro.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-08-04

Hall. who owns a farm three
and a half miles south Of Inde-
Dendenoe. Polk county, passed through
Oregon City, Wednesday. He had
With him a freak owl, with a monkey
faca and the bird is one OF the
straneegt curiosities that has ever
been seen here. Mr.. Hall is taxing
the owl TO the Homer Davenport IaIn
At the Exposition.-Oregon ClEy
Courier.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-08-04
A Great Convenience.

The neutrality-suspicious. auto car
line is again about ready to resume
service with its roadster, which was
laid up for few days. In the mean
time they have kept up the service
with rigs. The business worked up
by these people is proving a success,
and will be of a permanent nature.
Trips are being made on time, and
passengers are we'll satisfied.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-08-04

free, shortly before the opening of the
doors. This new policy is to be com
mended, as the public has grown un-
interested in thee time-worn circus
parade, and Barnum Il Bailey are
now centering all of their time. money
and attention in the show itself, there
by more than ever, keeping faith with
the public.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-08-04
Get a Club

The Fogg family are to have a re-
union in Boston next month. Several
members of the tribe reside in Oregon
and Washington, but, owing to dis
tance. many Of them will not attend.
Tbev will be classed as the Oregon
missed. salem Journal.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-08-04
Health OfIcer's Notice.

Parents of children with the whoop-
ing cough are hereby notified that the
law requires a close quarantine Of
infected children during the active
stage of the disease. Violations of the
law will resultin arrest and fine.
VS.. CARY,
Health Officer
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-08-04

Mr.. and Mrs. E. G. White returned
Wednesday to their home near Dallas,
after visit with Mrs. Whites parents,
County Treasurer and Mrs. J. L.
Hyde. Toledo Leader.
1t will wash and not rub off
This complexion all envy me,
1t no secret so Til tell
Take thou Rocky Mountain Tea.
Belt & Cherringtons.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-08-04

Dear Gus Il have solved the moth
er-law problem, just give her regular
ly HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea.
1t will make her healthy, happy and
docile as a lamb. 35 cents, Tea or
Tablets. Belt & Cherrington.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-08-04

If you are troubled with dizzy spells,
headache, indigestion, constipation,
HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea will
make you we'll and keep you we'll, If
it fails, got your money back. That's
fair. 35 cents. Belt & Cherrington.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-08-04
PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF POLK
Annual Report of County Superintendent Starr
Shows Healthy Increase in Attendance.

County School Superintendent completed
and forwarded to the State Superintendent Of Public Instruction The
port shows the public schools Polk be hurh condition.
with healthy increase interesting
fol
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-03

found In cutting thru floors for fur
mace pipes that the spaces between
floor joists had often been filled with
concrete With this kind of house
building. the Canadians seldom plan On
running furnace pipes to their second
story rooms, depending entirely upon
heat from the lower rooms.
If this is the result of careful con-
stucton in coutry where weather is
supposed to be mild at 10 below, II is
not difficult to see what effect such
construction would have upon our
heating problems In Iowa. Inquiry
among the builders promises unusual
activity in their line for the coming
season. hence days like the present are
the time for one to settle I'm his NINA
Just what method he will adopt 10 ar
ford the most economical protection
against the weather.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-03
An Ideal Rural School.

With the help of a $4,000 contrbu-
tion from the general education board,
a model rural school has been estab-
lished in Knox county, Tennessee. 1T
Is an educational center for the entire
community. grown people as we'll as
children. The school grounds occupy
twelve and one-half acres of land. A
home for the principal OF the school,
with garden, barn and so forth will be
built here This viii be as nearly as
possible an ideal country home-a
model home for the community. Two
or three acres Will be planted in
shrubbery or laid out In walks and
drives The remainder will be divid-
cd into plots for fruits, berries and the
crops best suited to the locality. This
Is not an experiment station. but is to
be a demonstration of what has and
what can be done with various crops
There will also be a. workshop, and
whatever else is necessary for the gen.
eral advancement of country boys and
girls.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-03

eaten up. HAN OF the receipt can be
used with good result.
A disease to guard against Is "scaly
legs" in fowls. Various opinions are
advanced as to It's cause. but it is now
l&.nerally conceded to be a parasite
that adhcrcs and builds its intrench
mcnts' very much as the coral docs
i'm the coral islands. The best and
simplest remedy Is to use kerosene oil
applied with a stiff brush.
The difference in the weight of a
large turkey and a small one is an
important matter as the turkey is an
industrious forager. and picks up the
greater portion of it's food, which
brings the actual cost OF production ia
a low sum when large and small
weights are compared.
Old vines and canes are Of no use
to the new ones nor to the ground,
and they should be cut away at any
time after the cold weather sets in.
The best time for so doing Is when the
earth is frozen hard and stiff. You
will then also have more time for so
doing.
The test of good farming 10 found in
the thoroughness with which every
scrap of manure is, cleaned from the
barn yard at least twice a year. for the
use of crops. A considerable quantity
of manure will accumulate during the
summer, and is best applied as n top
dressing for such wheat or grass as is
to be plowed next spring.
To find out whether any individual
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-03
ANOTHER RUSSIAN DEFEAT.

France, profiting by her own eXper-
fence or revolutions has Withdrawn
from financial support of the Russian
governments The French bankers who
had pledged themselves to take n large
PROMOTION OF the Russian bonds FOR
the new loan have stepped from under
them and refuse to place their money
with a nation trembling on the verge
of a revolutionary unheaval. Berlln
bankers were less fortunate Urged on
by the German government they had
already subscribed to eighty millions
OF the war loan.
The French pledge to take twice as
much seems to have been unwritten
and now the French bankers refuse to
accept the bonds. German investors
find themselves with eighty millions of
securities that the public refuses to
look at.
If Russia cannot depend upon
French financial aid there seems to
be an end of her foreign credit and
the possibility Of borrowing money
wherewith to carry on the war The
condition Of the two warning nations
cannot be better illustrated than by
the detection Of 1inanciers from Rus
STA and the ready market for Japan
csc bonds on both sides of the Allan
tic. Russia stands in the same posi-
ton to the worlds great money loan
ers as dissolute business man on
the verge of bankruptcy does to his
bankers. Japan has the advantage Of
financial rating over Russia as she has
in the personnel Of her people, her gem
erals and her armies. The refusal Of
the French financiers to risk their
money on Russian success is one Of the
most telling incidents that the war has
produced in favor of Japan.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-03

COW is a profitable MEMBER OF the dairy
herd or not separate account should
be kept of her milk and butter. IL no
such pains are taken, it is not easy to
learn just what is the worth Of the
doubtful mixer The true policy is to
throw out every COW which does not
yield a profit and replace her with
better one. 1t costs Just as much to
feed an Improbable COW as good one.
In transplanting trees all the roots
which may have become bruised or
hroken in the process Of lifting should
be cut clean away behind the broken
part, as they then more Really strike
out new roots from the GU parts. In
all such cases the cut sho,ld be a clean
sloping one, and made IN an upward
and outward direction.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-03
HEATING PROBLEMS.

"How cold was it?" Twenty seven
below?" rs that so?" Can you keep
warm down at your l1ouse?" mo trou-
BILE at all, for I've got big furnace"
are the questions and reply one is
likely to hear in the barber shop or
offices during spells of weather like
this. The problem of heating involving
as it does at this season, an expendi-
ture sometimes as high as SO cents per
day in a single family, is near to every
mans heart. Wherever man possess
es a very large furnace or stoves Of
large capacity, his troubles are aninim-
lied, for the economy of heating large
quantities of air at low temperature
rather than trying 70 heat small guam
titles of air at a high temperature has
become so well established that there
is no longer any question about it.
However, the construction of ones
house cuts fully as important figure
In the heating problem as does the
size of the heater used. For instance,
the managers of g Marshalltown fur
mace factory. which has recently been
selling its product in Canada, say that
they called their Canadian salesman
to task for specifying furnaces of no
larger sizes in the Canadian country
than he did in Iowa. knowing that
the thermometer often registered 40
below around Winnipeg. 1t was feared
that the average sized furnace would
prove too small, but the salesman
merely laughed. He asserted that he
could heat an eight room house with
q small sized furnace easier in Canada
than he could in Iowa, because of the
manner in which Canadian people
build their houses. Up there he said,
house walls were sheeted with shiplap
then covered with building paper fully
one-uuarter of an inch thick. and often
heeted with shiplap again before
seatherboarded Inside the walls
Ire often -plastered, and he had
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-03
THE TRUE MUNICIPAL SPIRIT.
LCedar Rapids GnHotte.
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FOR MEN ONLY.
TC;rInncll C,aZctte.1

An exchange says: II saw n man
and woman come to town the other
day when 1t was cold The man was
dressed in n heavy otter fur coat.
with heavy cap pulled down over his
ears. German socks and ovcrshoes on
his feet and fur lined mittens on his
hands. He drove the team and kept
warm. Reside him was his wife
dressed in thin fall Jacket, with
veil-like mosquito bar over her face
and ears and the same thin shoes she
wore last Christmas, while her hands
were wrapped in a little shawl. Say
il that man didn't know what to buy
his wife for Christmas, 1t isn't too