Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1906-09-28


on business visit, Wednesday.
Frank Gillian, of Pedee, was
business visitor in Dallas yesterday.
Hon. F. A. Lucas, Mayor of Falls
City, was county seat visitor yester-
day.
Everett Staats, of Luckiamute, was
a business visitor in Dallas, Wednes-
day.
Mayor Edward Biddle and Attorney
Oscar Hayter we're Portland visitors
this week.
George Coad has been painfully i'll
at the home of his mother. Mrs. Anna
Coad, this week.
The OBSERVER has sold its gasoline
engine and will soon be operating its
presses by electricity.
L. @. Parker is up from Portland
looking after the harvesting of his
prune and apple crops.
Azure Ford has secured employment
as express messenger on the evening
passenger train from Portland.
Mike Krebs, Of the big hop firm Of
Krebs Brothers, was a Dallas visitor
yesterday, and was kept busy greet
ing his many friends.
Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Stiles have
moved to their farm south of town,
where Mr. Stiles expects to ultimately
engage in agricultural pursuits.
Mrs. T. R. Rich arrived home Sat
urday evening from Revelstoke, B. g.,
where she attended the funeral and
burial of her daughter, Mrs. Beatrice
Cowan.
Herman Kahn, of North Bend, is
the guest Of P. A. Finseth. Mr. Klahn
has sold his foundry and machine
shop in North Bend and will locate in
Portland.
F. H. Muscott, the obliging conduc-
tor on the Dallas and Falls City pas
senger train, accompanied by Mrs.
Muscott, visited relatives in Portland
this week.
The many friends of Rev. @. I.
Whittlesey will be pleased to learn
that he has steadily improved in
health and strength since moving to
Newport. He has large congrega-
tion, and greatly enjoys the work in
his new field.
A Dallas man can be pardoned for
feeling proud when he goes away from
homo and hears so many good things
said for his town. Dallas is certainly
on the map. No town in the state has
better reputation abroad.
The school children's Industrial fair
will open in the College gymnasium
building this morning. The exhibits
are all in place, and fine showing
of agricultural and domestic products
is ready for the inspection of visitors.
License to wed was issued to Adolph
Bieczynski and Mamie A. Maneval
this week. The bride-elect has been
holding holiness meetings in Dallas
for several months. Clerk Smith also
issued licenses to Dave Coovert and
Mary Walter, Leslie Kearns and Edna
Miller, Carl Fisher and Edna Kirk.
T. M. Splawn, recently of Klickitat
county, Washington, paid this office
pleasant call Tuesday. Mr. Splawn
was a resident of Dallas over 80 years
ago, and is acquainted with the older
residents. He is pleased with the
healthy growth Of our city and expects
to settle here permanently.
Leo Roberts, the 17-year-old son of
J. A. Roberts, OF Salt Greek, while
handling a 22-caliber rifle Tuesday
morning, accidentally shot himself
through the right instep, causing a
painful though not dangerous wound.
DR.. Cary attended the wound and the
young man is doing nicely.
Over 100 hop pickers, under the
chaperonage Of R. E. Williams, went
to the Gillian yard, on the line of the
Dallas and Falls City Ry., by special
train last Sunday and proceeded to
pick the yard as thoroughly as time
would permit. The pickers together
with several hundred bags of hops re-
turned in the evening.
Harry s. Warner, OF Chicago, who
is general secretary of the National
intercollegiate Prohibition Ass oci-
alton will speak in the Evangelical
church on Sunday, September 80, at
7 80 %. m. Mr.. Warner will speak in
the interest of the College Prohibition
movement. A union service will be
held. All are cordially invited.
klamath basin, where the United
States is building irrigation works to
reclaim 250,0O0 acres of land, offers
the chance of a 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.
There isn't a better news story in
the OBSERVER this week than that con-
tained in the Willamette Valley Com
hpany's advertisement. The announce
ment that the day power current is
soon to be turned on is Of great i'm
portance, as it means that complete
revolution is to be brought about 10
all manufacturing enterprises. The
advertisement also contains an an
nouncement Of interest to every house
wife.
Step into the Crider Grocery and