Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1906-08-03

/ Dempsey few days this week.
DR.. Lowe, the eye specialist who is
to be at Hotel Gail next Monday and
Tuesday, has been coming to Dallas
over 16 years.
DR.. loves superior glasses cost no
more than others, and you have the
benefit of his skill and over 1s years
experience.
Buy your Dry Goods, Clothing and
furnishings Of us. Your moneys
worth or your money back. DALLAS
MERCANTILE Go.
Clyde Reynolds has resigned his
position as assistant to Agent Woods
at the Southern Pacific depot and is
working in a logging camp. E.
Jacobson, of Cottage Grove. has taken
his place in the depot.
County Clerk Smith issued license
to wed to Abel R. Porter and Florence
A. Snyder, and Arthur g.. Porter and
Esther A. Hutchins, this week. The
contracting parties are all residents
of Buena Vista, the young men being
brothers.
Leonard Downer, foreman of the
OBSERVER Office, is painfully ill with
kidney trouble at the Cottage Hotel,
and has been confined to his bed since
Saturday. His physician reported his
condition slightly improved at late
hour last evening,
Willard Linville, manager Of S. L.
Kline's store in Corvallis, was the
guest Of the Cosper family, Saturday.
He was pleased to note the many evi-
dences of substantial growth and
prosperity in Dallas, and predicts a
bright future for the town.
John Diehm and his family are
back from a few months stay in
Nebraska, declaring that Oregon is
good enough for them. They went
east last Fall, intending to make their
home in Nebraska, but soon came to
the conclusion that there was no place
like Oregon.
Richard Turner arrived home yester-
day from a trip to Eastern Oregon,
where he went to locate a desert claim.
He reports a successful trip and sue
ceeded in securing a claim to suit,
Miss Lulu Turner remained In Port
land with relatives and will not re-
turn to Corvallis. Gazette.
Seth Riggs, ex-commissioner of
Polk county, was Dallas visitor,
Friday. He had been excused from
Federal jury duty in Portland for
few days and had taken a run up to
his farm near Rickreall to look after
the harvesting of his crop. He re-
turned to Portland the first of this
week.
Miss Lillian McVicker, of st. Johns,
and Miss Mildred L. Clemons, of
University Park, both students Of
Dallas College, are we'll toward the
head of the list of young people who
are working for free scholarships in
the Portland Journals educational
contest. Carl Shelton, former Dallas
boy, now a resident of Mount Tabor,
is rapidly pulling up toward first
place.
Fire broke out in the north wing of
the Oregon Insane Asylum last Fri
day morning and damaged the big
building to the extent of $4,000 before
the firemen succeeded in getting it
under control. Most of the inmates
were taking their morning exercise in
the garden when the alarm was
sounded, and many of them per-
formed heroic work in helping to
subdue the flames
Peter Loggie and @. L. Albrecht, Of
North Bend, were in Dallas, Friday,
securing signatures to a petition to
Congress for the improvement OF Coos
Bay harbor. These gentlemen are
representing the North Bend Board Of
Trade, and are visiting all the prin-
cipal towns of Western Oregon for the
purpose of soliciting cooperation in
the effort to deepen the mouth Of their
harbor. They are meeting warm en-
couragement all along the line from
Portland south.
Charlie Howe, a son of Mr.. and
Mrs. James Howe of this city, and a
promising young railroad man in the
employ of the Southern Pacific Com
pany, is now stationed at Merlin,
Josephine county. He writes that
Merlin is one of the heaviest peach
shipping stations in Southern Ore
gon, and that shipments will COM
mence about August s. Between
1000 and IA, 900 boxes will be shipped
from Merlin by express during the
next two months.
The Southern Pacific section gang,
under the direction of Foreman
Charles Schaffer, has made a great
improvement in the appearance Of the
depot grounds and switch yard in this
city. The grass and weeds have been
carefully removed, scraps of paper
and rubbish cleaned away, and all
rubbish and waste material burned.
The depot grounds in Dallas are
more attractive than those Of many Of
| the larger cities in Western Oregon,
and, with 18 trains arriving and de-
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