Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1906-12-21

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Portland this week.
P. A. Finseth was business visitor
to Portland, Monday.
Senator U. S. Loughary was Port
land visitor, Monday.
0. E. Focht, of Ballston, was
Dallas visitor last Friday.
@. L. Hopkins, of Falls City, was a
county seat visitor, Tuesday.
Mrs. E. j. Metzger returned home
from Portland, Monday evening.
The OBSERVER job presses are kept
busy turning out high-grade printing.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. E. Gilbert OF Falls
City, visited friends In Dallas, Tues
day.
Mrs. Emma Belt purchased
beautiful $3.50 piano for her home this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claud Dunn, of Port
land, visited friends in Dallas and
Monmouth this week.
Henry Stump, engineer at the Dal-
las Lumber Company's sawmill, is
severely ill of pneumonia.
Miss Ann Mann, niece of ]. s. and
Riley Cooper, of Independence, was
recently married in Portland.
Thomas Tatom, formerly of Dallas
but now a resident OF Treadwell,
Alaska, is serving as a member OF
the Federal jury at Juneau.
The first basketball game of the
league series will be played in Dallas
one week from tomorrow night between
Dallas and the Portland All-Stars
Get ready to put on your parlor face
and tell your wife that necktie was
just the one you had been wanting
ever since you first saw it in the cloth
ing mans window.
Invitations are out for the wedding
of Mr.. G. o. Tennis and Miss Bertha
Ellis, which is to take place at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. Ellis on
Sunday evening, December 80.
Edward J. Runk, author Of Wash
ington," National epic in six cantos,
gave a reading at the college chapel,
Wednesday. The teachers and students
were delighted with the hours enter
, tainment.
Mrs. Lottie Hedges-Dorris and Mrs
D. Davidson, of Independence, were
in Dallas yesterday. Mrs. Doris will
resume teaching vocal music in this
city after the holidays, with greatly
increased number Of pupils.
The Dallas orchestra will furnish
music for the Woodman ball at Falls
City on Christmas night. A special
4 train will be run from this place and
it is expected that large crowd will
visit our neighbor town on that
r occasion.
A copy of the Pacific Christian Ad-
= vocate containing well-written and
: handsomely illustrated description OF
e the Coos Bay country has been sent to
'' this office by w. r. Craven, the
r popular manager OF P. A. Finseth's
o branch store at North Bend.
n Worthy Book, an employe OF the
D Honeyman Hardware Co., of Port
$ land, has been nursing a badly
Q crushed foot at his mothers home in
/ this city. The injuries were received
n while the young man was running an
d elevator. He is now able to walk
E. without crutches.
u G.. A. Griswold, sales manager o.
the Falls City Lumber Company, was
: in Dallas, Tuesday. Mr. GriswolC
4 expects to transfer his headquarters tC
the company's office in Portland aftel
l January !, leaving the active manage
/ ment Of the mills at Falls City Il
/ Messrs. Grier and Belcher.
II The holiday trade in Dallas thi
II yeari is record breaker, notwithstand
Il ing the unfavorable weather Th'
II merchants all report rushing bust
ness, and are only regretting that the!
did not order larger stocks OF Christ
mas goods. Polk county people ar
prosperous this year, and it is notice
able fact that the trade in expensiv
| and high-grade goods is better thai
ever before.
II Last year when Hon. W. Q. Brow
celebrated his birthday by giving
dinner to the widows Of Dallas, h
promised present Of rocking chal
to the first one of his guests entering
the matrimonial state. The prize wa
II won by Mrs. Cora Repass, who wa
recently married to Mr.. McAllistel
Mr.. Brown this week presented Mrs.
McAllister with one OF the fines
/ chairs to be found in Dallas.
II The following from Dallas registere
at Portland hotels this week: In
perial-Mr. and Mrs. 1. N. Wood
II A. w. Teats, H. P. Given, Mrs. Il. :
II Metzger, Mr.. and Mrs. L. L. Shor
II ridge, Mrs. H. L. Fenton. Miss Berth
II Collins, Carl Fenton, A. +. Tone
II Perkins-Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Madison
ii Mrs. G.. N. Cherrington, P. A. FIJI
| seth, W. V. Fuller. st. Charles-G. '
Cone, George Nessling.
The Otter Rock Improvement Con
pany has filed articles OF incorpor
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