Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-08-11

son visited relatives in Salem, Tues
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Zimri Hinshaw, Of
Falls City, attended the Fair this
week.
Mrs. Frederick Wilson, Of Spokane,
is a guest at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Gerlinger Jr
Dan Hollingsworth has returned to
Dallas from several months stay
in the Butler neighborhood.
The OBSERVER job office is prepared
to print both weight and box hop
checks on short notice. Both phones.
Mrs. o. E. Dennis, OF Oakdale, sent
a choice collection of cut flowers to
the Polk county exhibit at the Fair
this week.
ID. w. Sears, the well-known capitalist
and Democratic leader, was over from
Independence on a business visit
yesterday.
Ralph Hill is assisting Deputy
Fred Toner in the Dallas postoffice
while Postmaster Coad is taking his
summer vacation.
Fred J. Oberer, owner and manager
of the Charter Oak sawmill in Inde-
pendence, was in Dallas on a business
errand yesterday afternoon.
Gus Olin, who is clerking in a
drugstore in Vancouver, Wash, spent
Sunday at the home of his parents in
Dallas. His mother accompanied
him to Vancouver, Monday, for a
short stay.
The Johnson Lumber Company has
a large force of men at work on the
upper LaCreole, building wing-dams,
clearing the stream of distractions
and getting everything in readiness
for the Fall log drives.
About fifty applicants for teachers
certificates are taking the examination
at the courthouse before County
Superintendent G. L. Starr and his
assistant examiners, Mrs. F. Fl. Nor
rison and Miss Dora Roy.
Messrs, Guy and Glenn Weaver, of
Clarion County, Pennsylvania, visited
their cousin, Rev. A. W. Teats, in
Dallas this week. The young men
are leisurely touring the Pacific Coast
states, and are greatly enjoying their
vacation.
Mrs. Rose Koons, of Wilkesbarre,
Pennsylvania, arrived in Dallas,
Wednesday evening, for an extended
visit at the home of her sister, Mrs.
J. J. Williams. She is delighted with
the Oregon climate, and may decide
to make her home in this state.
The Adventist preaching services in
the City Park last Sunday afternoon
were largely attended. An able
sermon was preached by Rev. F. M.
Burg, Of Portland. Meetings we're
held in the church building on Mon
day and Tuesday evenings, the house
being we'll filled at each service.
The Southern Pacific section gang
is doing some good work on the track
between Dallas and Monmouth. Sew
eral thousand new ties have been laid,
and the track is being leveled up and
improved generally. The improve
ment of this portion of the road is
made necessary by the heavy ship
ments of lumber from the Dallas and
Falls City mills.
Otis @. Smith and family are visit
ing at the home Of his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. j. D. Smith. Mr.. Smith is
in the employ of the 0. r. & N.
Company, as local agent at Umatilla,
Oregon. He says that travel from
the East is rapidly growing heavier
and that the overland trains are
crowded to their utmost capacity
with Fair visitors.
Roy Clippinger, editor of the Norris
City, Gill; Record, Is a guest at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. H. Ruddick.
Mr.. Clippinger is one of the bright
young newspaper men of Southern
and is greatly enjoying his
on the Coast. He was for
many years a resident of Fairfield,
the former home of Judge
J. E. Sibley and H. G. Eakin, of this
city.
Painters are putting the finishing
touches on County Assessor Graves
handsome cottage on Mill street.
Good progress is being made on Fl. L.
Fenton's new residence, and the
building will soon be under roof.
Contractor Morrison has had large
force of carpenters and laborers at
work this week raising the Woodmen
Hall building, and the material for
the concrete foundation is on the
ground. All these buildings will be a
credit to the city when completed.
A little daughter of Judd Ross, Of
Albany, made rare find on the Nye
Greek beach a few days ago, when
she picked up what she thought was a
shell, and found it to be water agate
with two distinct cavities and air
bubbles. The agate is in the shape Of
a clam and the bubbles are plainly
visible. This makes the second double
water agate found on the Nye Greek