Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1906-09-21

Falls City may have an electric
light plant.
G. N. Cherrington was business
visitor to Portland, Friday.
John Bird returned home this week
from an extended stay in the Capitol
City.
Fine electric pianos we're shipped
to Dallas this week for J. G. Shult2
and Chitty & Bilyeu.
E. w. Hinshaw's neat dwelling
house in Fir Park addition is near
ing completion.
Clarence Aikman and family have
moved from Rock Greek to Falls City
for the winter.
County Judge Coad and Commits
sioner Teal inspected bridges in the
Falls City neighborhood yesterday.
J. @. Talbot, of Falls City, and his
uncle, B. M. Talbot, of Brooklyn,
Iowa, were Dallas visitors yesterday.
David Calbreath, formerly of Inde
pendence, will be vice president Of the
new J. G. Lee Bank in Portland.
J. H. Albert, the Salem banker, and
Mrs. Elizabeth McNary, formerly of
Polk county, were married in Seattle,
Monday.
Fred West left this week for Aber-
deem, Wash, where he will take charge
of the electric light machinery in a
large sawmill.
J. L. Castle, the Dayton hardware
man, visited old friends in Dallas this
week. He says his loss by the recent
fire will not be more than $500.
Police Judge Stouffer will go to
Ballston in few days to superintend
the harvesting of his prune crop.
The drying season will last about two
weeks.
Conductor Thomas Burkheimer Of
the evening passenger train from
Portland, is taking his annual vaca-
ton. Mail Clerk E. S. Piper has had
his vacation and has been transferred
to the morning train from the
metropolis.
r. Robinson, proprietor Of the
Dallas Cheese Factory, arrived in
Dallas, Wednesday, and paid the
farmers for their butter-fat at the
rate Of 25 cents pound. He expected
to reach Dallas ten days earlier, but
was delayed in southern Oregon. He
says there is constantly growing
demand for Dallas cheese and the top
price will be paid for milk at all
times. A 3OO-pound cheese from one
Of Mr.. Robinson's Coos county fac
tories was one Of the chief attractions
at the recent State Fair.
klamath basin, where the United
States is building irrigation works to
reclaim 250,000 acres Of land, offers
the chance of lifetime to home
seekers and investors. Not cheap
land but good land cheap. Farmers
are needed in klamath county and
land can be had on favorable terms
Write to Frank Ira White, klamath
Falls, Oregon, for further information.
This Is the time of the year that our
good customers are ordering their
office stationery. Don't overlook the
fact that the OBSERVER office turns out
exactly the same grade Of work as
is produced by the best printing
houses in the large cities. Let us
submit samples and figures on your
next job. No order too large for our
capacity, and none too small for our
best attention.
A. E. Meyer, of the Oberer-Meyer
Mill Company, was up from Portland
on a business visit this week. He
drove out to the mill beyond Falls
City and spent day looking over
the plant. He expressed himself as
we'll pleased with the work done by
his partner, Mr.. Oberer, in installing
the machinery, and says the mill will
be second to none of its class. A
market has been established for all
the lumber the mill can cut, and ship
ments will commence in a few days.
John w. Fulton, of Helena, Mon
tana, secretary of the American
Angora Goat Breeders Association,
was in Dallas a few days this week.
He was here to help work up interest
in the annual Goat Show, in which he
takes lively interest. Mr.. Fulton
thinks it would be good plan to hold
meetings Of the goat breeders each
day of the show for the purpose of
discussing matters of interest and
listening to papers by successful goat
men. Mr.. Fulton is responsible for
the appropriation OF 5000 by the
National Association for the Dallas
show.
II. G. Campbell and family spent
Sunday with the family of his brother
in-law, J. G. Morrison, at the Horst
hop yard. He says the new hot-air
blast dryers in use at this yard are a
great SUCCESS. Each house has two
! dry lofts seven feet anart. and the