Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-06-18
Legal blanks at this Office.

B. Gildner came up from Portland
on a business visit this week.
Cleveland Sears is back from a long
cruise in the timber Of the siletz
Basin.
Merit wins. Everybody goes to the
Dallas Hotel Try meal and you'll
know why.
Mr.. and Mrs. North .Cherrington
returned last night from weeks stay
in Portland.
Don't miss our dinner, when in
Dallas. We have the best white chef
south Of Portland.
Miss Mama Forbes is visiting with
friends in Harmony, before returning
to her home in the East.
Go to the Dallas Hotel. All white
help. Special attention to the wants
of commercial travellers.
The best rooms and best meals in
Dallas, (white cooking). A share Of
your patronage solicited. DALLAS
HOTEL
Miss Winnie Launer is working
during the summer vacation as one
Of the operators on the switchboard Of
the Pacific States Telephone Company.
Mrs. J. Yiggers, of Portland, is
visiting at the home Of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. I. V. Lynch. She Is
accompanied by her little daughter.
W. J. Dancy, Of Salem, manager of
the Pacific States Telephone Com
pany's lines in Polk and Marion
counties, was a business visitor in
Dallas yesterday.
Born, Monday, June II, 1907, to Mr..
and Mrs. Edward Gerlinger, a son.
Edward, Jr., is the first grandson of
President L. Gerlinger of the Dallas
& Falls City railroad.
The hop yards about town are all
exhibiting a strong and luxuriant
growth. Most Of the preliminary
training is done, and the work of
stripping and suckering is well under
way.
The end OF the cold rain, and the
commencement of these hot days, has
set the electric fans going in the con-
fectionery stores, and has resulted in
the installment Of several new fans
in other stores.
Captain V. P. Flske, editor of the
Itemizer, is slowly recovering from a
long and stubborn attack of rheuma-
tism. His many friends in the county
will be glad to learn that he is again
able to be in his Office.
M. M. Jones, Of Monmouth, was a
!, Dallas visitor yesterday. He says
: the carpenters are making rapid
progress in the construction Of the
, cannery in that city and the building
will soon be under roof.
Henry Brown, who was married in
Portland, Sunday, arrived here with
his wife Monday evening. Mrs.
Brown, who was formerly Mrs. Bailey,
is niece Of William Kersey, a we'll
known citizen of Dallas.
By diligent use Of the wedding
shovel and at the expense of much
toll and pains, Milo Woods is uproot-
ing more thistles from the Courthouse
lawn than a casual observer would
think could find room there.
Miss Lima Stouffer, who has been
teaching school at st. Helens, arrived
in Dallas, Monday evening, having
finished her years school work. She
will spend her vacation at home, and
has not yet decided whether she will
teach another year.
Jack Sibley and Harry Byers, who
arrived here Sunday night, from
Portland, went on to Falls City, Mon
day morning, to join John VanOrs-
del's surveying crew, and take up
once more the strenuous exercises Of
the chain and transit.
Grand Master Lot L. Pearce ap-
pointed Oscar Hayter, Of Dallas, to
the office of Senior Steward of the
Oregon Grand Lodge of Masons Mr..
Hayter also received the appointment
of Grand Master of the Second Vail
in the Royal Arch Chapter.
R. L. Williams returned home yes
terday from weeks stay in Portland
where he attended the Masonic Grand
Lodge and the meeting of the State
Bankers Association. Mr.. Williams
was honored by the latter organiza-
ton by being elected to the office Of
Treasurer.
P. b. Stoddard, district manager Of
the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company, has moved his family
from Portland to Dallas and will be-
come permanent resident. He has
rented the Chapman dwelling house
on Church street. Mr.. Stoddard's terri
tory is Polk, Benton, Yamhill, Wash
ington and Tillamook counties, and
he moves to Dallas to be nearer his
work.
All singers, take notice. The music
committee of the Fourth Of July cele-
bration, requests every singer in
Dallas to attend a meeting in the
Presbyterian church, Saturday eve
ming, at o'clock. New choruses have