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Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-12-13

, Our Christmas tree programme i
progressing nicely.
Thomas Holman is preparing t,
build more new wire fence.
Mrs. H. B. Brophy has been quit,
sick at her home in Salem.
Mr. Forrest and family, of Turner
have moved to the McNary farm.
John Brophy, of Salem, spent Sun
day at the farm home near Eola.
o. A. Kruse, of McMinnville, is
visiting at the home of Mr.. and Mrs,
Q. g. Savage.
A.. o. Brown butchered eight ten
months-old hogs which averaged $50
pounds apiece.
Davis Allen has gone to Marion
county where he will spend about two
months on his farm.
Grandma Robertson spent Thanks
giving at the home of her son, 7. W.
Robertson, at Rickreall.
Mrs. T. H. Dunsmore is visiting for
few days at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. P. r. Robertson, of Turner.
The proceeds of the basket social at
Popcorn, Saturday night, amounted to
$1S.75, which will be used to add new
books to the library.
There were several hop sales in our
neighborhood last week. II. B. Brophy
sold for 78c; Archie Brown. 74c w. 7.
Robertson, 7c, and George Harris, Ct.
Mrs. William Ruble, of Highland,
who has attained the ripe age of SO
years, is still as spry as most women
OF SO. She does her house-work,
milks her COW, and drives her horse.
Mrs. Ruble claims the distinction of
taking the first cultivated berries to
Salem in 1856. They were the black
cap raspberries, her husband having
lug the original bush in the woods.
She received $3.50 a gallon for the
berries. Mrs. Ruble owns fine farm
at Oak Grove, which is rented by Hon.
Frank Fawk.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-12-13
BUENA VISTA.

Mr.. Bolter went to Portland, Tues
day on business.
| W. J. Steele was in Jefferson or
business, Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marion Winn went te
Albany, Wednesday.
A. K. and W. s. Hall were in Salem
on business Monday.
W. NJ. and J. D. Winn were Inde.
pendence visitors, Saturday.
A. K. and W. s. Hall have Jointly
purchased farm Of W. J. Steele.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. S. Longacre. of
Silverton, are visiting friends in this
neighborhood.
Mrs. B. F. Snyder and son, Of Van
couver, are visiting her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. W. ]. Steele.
Mrs. Carrie Bickner has returned to
her home in Oswego. Oregon, after a
visit among relatives.
John 10y was found dead at his
home Wednesday. The cause OF his
death is unknown. He was buried
Friday.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-12-13

We have q big assort-
ent Of All the above
|ticles and would be
ad to show them to
~.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-12-13
OAKDALE.

Mr.. Peterson has been very i'll but
is improving.
There has been considerable rain
lately and the roads are very muddy
Cephas Nelson and John Robinson
and father have bought the Stapleton
place.
Mr.. Dickinson has purchased the
Siefarth property, and has moved his
residence to that place.
John Macomber has built himself a
house near his fathers residence, and
is now employed in cutting wood.
An epidemic Of measles has been
causing so many absences from the
public school, that it was found neces-
sary to close it for a short time.
Wick Brothers, of Falls City, will
erect sawmill on the John Farley
property in the coming Spring. They
have already cut considerable timber
in this locality.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-12-13
BUTLER.

GO. Butler was in Dallas, satur.
day.
D. I. Hodges was aSheridan visitor
last week.
Mrs Charles Canon was Sheridan
visitor Saturday.
Sam Osborne visited in this neigh
borhood last week.
Miss Reta Rowell is in Sheridan,
ill with the mumps.
George Elgin was out from his
claim on Salmon River last Thursday.
John Hodges has returned to his
school work in McMinnville, after a
weeks visit-at home.
Leonard Shaw returned to his home
in Dallas, Saturday, after a two
weeks visit at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Glenn Butler.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-12-13
ZENA AND SPRING VALLEY.

Colds are prevalent throughout this
section Of the country.
Mrs. Ben Windsor is seriously i'll at
her home near Lincoln.
Clyde Henry is home again after a
two years sojourn in Los Angeles.
W. I. Crawford went to Portland.
Thursday to attend the Dairy Conven-
ton.
G. F. Crawford is having a seige Of
malaria and is scarcely able to be
about.
Worth Henry is quite i'll with
typhoid fever at the home of his
parents.
The Gilbert and Patterson farm at
Lincoln was sold last week to a Mr..
Morgan, Of Portland.
The funeral Of the late Mrs. B. F.
McLeneh was held from the Zena
church last Saturday. Slowly the
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-12-13
pioneers are passing away. and only
about four are left in this vicinity to
tell of the early settlements.

pioneers are passing away. and onl,
about four are left in this vicinity t,
tell of the early settlements.
Anson MCGOWAN, former resident
ofLower Spring Valley, has purchased
a farm near Newberg.
Miss Dora Walker, Of Salem, is at
her sisters, Mrs. D. G. Henry's, nurs.
ing her nephew, Worth Henry.
Mrs. Rose McGrath and little
daughter, of Portland, visited in this
vicinity last Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Lima Phillips has returned
from an extended visit with relatives
and friends in Portland and Inde-
pendence.
Morton Mortenson has left the Cald-
we'll farm, near Lincoln, and is going
over into Tillamook county to work
for William Patrick.
Misses Marie and Joyce Crawford
went to Portland last Friday. to visit
their brother, P. L. Crawford and to- do
Christmas shopping.
On last Monday morning the stork
called at the home of Ralph Shepard
and left bouncing son. Mother and
son are doing nicely.
Mrs. W. L. Cook has gone to Ari-
zona for the winter on account Of poor
health. Mrs. Jessie Holland accom-
panied her and will remain for a week
or two until Mrs. Cook is comfortably
located.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-12-13
INDEPENDENCE.

J. McCready visited in Black Rocl
during the week.
A. S. Locke is up from Portland for
a few days visit.
G. w. Conkey was Portland visitor
the first Of the week.
Mrs. Lillian Eaton has returned
from a short stay in Portland.
Mr.. Gus Sperling has sold his resi-
dence property to Mr.. Linden.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. Drexler enter
tained the Crab Club, Friday evening.
Mrs. Florence Whiteaker is visiting
her sister and brother in Jacksonville,
Oregon.
Us. Bohannon left Saturday for a
trip in the east, and will visit relatives
in Missouri.
Mrs. Hattie Townsend, who has been
visiting relatives here the past two
weeks, returned to her home in Seattle.
Tuesday.
Mrs. A. J. Goodman visited here
the latter part of the week, on her
return from Eugene to her home in
Pendleton.
Mrs. N. 0. Clodfelter returned to her
home in Portland, Tuesday, after
two weeks visit with her daughter,
Mrs. A. G. Moore.
The ladies of the Presbyterian
Church held their Annual Bazaar,
Saturday, ladies minstrel show by
home talent, being the chief attraction
Of the evening.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-12-13
SOUTH RICKREALL.

Cass Gibson is laying cement walks
around his house.
John Orr is grading his lawn, and
will build cement walks.
M. M. Jones and son, Of Monmouth,
are shipping their cream to the
Dallas creamery.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Jones, Of
Monmouth, were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. E. Miller, Sunday,
Mr.. Mcdonald, who bought the
Calkins farm is we'll pleased with his
new home. He praises Polk County
as the garden spot of Oregon.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-12-13
NEWS OF COUNTY TOWNS.
AIRLIE.

II 3. I. Evans recently sold eight heac
OF hogs to I. M. Simpson.
i D. N. Turner was in Independence,
a few days ago purchasing loggers
supplies.
| II. and FL. Tartar were hauling the
Guyer hops to this place for shipment
few days ago.
Burris Rose has moved his family
to the Siletz basin where he has taken
up homestead.
Rosco Stats has passed the civil
service examination, and is now on
the train as a mail clerk.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mcdonald, of Wood
burn, are visiting their daughter,
Mrs. Otto Simpson, near here.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Brown have gone to
Newberg, where they will stay until
mis- axe-handle factory is started
again.
A new directory for the Independent
telephone office at this place will be
ready for general distribution in a
few days.
A. q. Guyer sold his hops to r. E.
Williams last week for 7c. The Seb-
ring Brothers and J. G. Nendel sold
for the same figure.
George Grover, of Oregon City, was
business visitor in Airlie this week.
In the interest of the Independent
Telephone Company.
DR.. Q. D. Butler, of Independence
was called out this week to see Mrs.
Winterstein, who is suffering very
much from poison oak.
Percy Hadley took the school census
last week. 1t shows that there has
been decrease of about dozen chill
dren since the June census was taken.
V. Cecil Stats, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Q. EaStaats, of this place, is finishing
his fourth and last year at the st.
Louis Medical University. He will
return home early in May.
Our teacher, Mrs. Winterstein. not
being able to teach this week on
account OF sickness, caused by poison
OAK secured teacher from the o. s.
N 3. to fill her place for few days. !
Mr.. and Mrs. r. Conn, of Bennett
Nebraska, after spending couple of
weeks with relatives at Roseburg,
returned to this place few days ago >
and will spend the winter with their
son, George.
AS soon as the A D telephone line is "
completed to Airlie cable will be put y
in to connect several new instruments Q
nat will be installed. The completion :, :,
II this new system will give us two y y
commercial lines to Dallas. 70 .e
The Fl. s. and L. @. card club held -,
heir first meeting for this winter at u
he home of Mr.. and Mrs. I. M. q,
simpson last Thursday night. There h,
we're 1G present and light refresh =,
nents were served at midnight. The p
lext party will be at George Conns,
Friday evening.
Mrs. Joe Graham met with a serious
ccident, Tuesday. While leaving
be house she slipped and fell, striking tn
be back Of her head on the walk and So
~ unconscious until seen by Clyde fu
'urner an hour later. She was carried
lto the house, her husband was 30
allied from his work near by, and a fo %
octor sent for. She is reported but ~
tile better atthis writing.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-12-13

You know as we'll as any one when
you need something to regulate your
system. If your bowels are sluggish,
your food distresses you, kidneys
pain, take HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain
Tea. 1t always relieves. S5 cents, Tea
or Tablets. Belt & Cherrington.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-12-13
Lady Maccabees Elect Officers.

The Lady Maccabees met at the
home OF Mrs. J. G. VanOrsdel, Tues-
day afternoon, and elected the follow
ing officers for the ensuing year:
L. C.-Elizabeth VanOrsdel.
1t o.-EIla NJ. Thompson.
r. K.-Eva Hayter.
F. A-Blanche Eakin.
Chaplain-Eliza Black,
Sergeant-Rosa E. Fidler.
NJ. at A.-Meda Holman.
Picket-Hester Fiske.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-12-13

Latest Christmas Books at Stafrins.
Skating races at the Colosseum
Rink, Tuesday, Thursday and Satur-
day night this week. Open to all
gentlemen skaters who desire to enter.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-12-13

When winds shrek high in fiendish
glee,
And enters winter with his key
Protect yourself, from disease be free ;
Take HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain
Tea. Belt & Cherrington.
Legal blanks at this Office.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-12-13


ugs
Rocking Chairs
Stand Table
Morris Chairs
Pictures
Sideboard
Buffet
Library Table
Office Chair
Desks
China Closet
Dressing Tables
Chiffonier
SilverWare
Ingersol Watches
Match Safes
Pocket Knives
Razors
Table Cutlery
Toledo Ranges
Ait Guns
p cal Rifles
We have a big assort-
ent Of All the above
ticles and would be
a IL - H. L.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-10
What Revision Means.

Business interests need not be
alarmed. The Republican national
convention to meet next June will
declare u~nequiyocally for a protec-
tive tariff and against throwing the
American market open to foreign.
ers.'
Thus speaks the Des Moines Capt.
tai. That assurance will not, how.
ertr, prevent a serious disturbance
OF business when tine hauling over
OF the tariff schedules begins. The
charge is made that some of the
schedules are too high. No particu.
lars are given. So the minute the on.
slaught begins all protected interests
will be in a nervous state; retrench.
ment will be in order, factories will
slow down, workmen will be dis,
charged and business Of all classes
will show an unhealthy tone during
the uncertainty Of the tarif discus
sion. And then, after it is all over
and another compromise bill is adopt.
ed. the country will again struggle
back to its present condition of pros.
pefity. Meanwhile the people will
have experienced a slump that will
cause them to wonder If, after all, the
present schedules were not all right
and that it would have been better
TO stand pat.-BurlingtOn Hawk-Eye
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-10
THEY ALL WANT TO DO SOME
THING TO THE TARIFF.
.'Not Qesirable.

Would tariff revision make an in
creased demand for labor? Would
more mills be started, more mines be
opened or more wages be paid
through its results? Would the re-
vision proposed be expected to add
to the prosperity we are now and have
been enjoying, or TO take from 1t?
These are some of the very pertinent
and practical questions asked by Sena'
tor Foraker of Ohio, in the course Of
an address last week. The senior SEN
ator of Ohio may represent some pur-
poses which the voters of Michigan
would not approve, but his questions
suggests a position in the matter OF
tariff tiLkering which Michigan does
approve. That tariff revision such as
would meet the requirements of the
most aggressive advocates Of such &C.
ton would be accompanied again with
Just such results as have always in
the past accompanied 1t Is a reasona'
BILE answer to Senator Foraker's ques-
lions. And that is why II is not now
desirable.-Reed City (Mich.) Clarion.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-10
The Ethics Of Protection.

There is no duty on the logs that
may be brought into this country
says the Hawkeye, Not in our sched'
ules. but there is one in the Canadian.
When Dingley raised the Mckinley
rate of one dollar to two dollars, Cana
da, resenting tine discrimination
against its lumber, put a stif export
duty on logs Sioux City Tribune,
The Dingley tarih Of two dollars on
lumber was purely a protection to
American labor. The intention was
TO allow the shipment OF logs into this
country free of cost SO that American
labor could earn wages in saving
them into lumber and TO stimulate
this home industry a tariff was placed
on lumber sawed by cheap foreign
labor. The wage Garner Is better able
TO build homes under the present era
of high wages, stimulated by the pro
tectiye tarir, ever with the present
high prices IF material, than he wal
punder the unprotected times OF Dem
ocratlc rule, when building materia
went begging. Everybody vss beg
ging in those days-Burlingten Hawk
' Eve
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-10
A Serious Matter.

The tariff cannot be amended with.
out diligent and thorough inquiry. and
this inquiry. can a great deal OF
time and brings about a sharp conflict
OF the industries affected. Modern
business is so complex and tariff
schedules are so involved and far,
reaching that to tinker with the Gus,
toms schedules is TO set almost every
kind OF business in eager motion, eth,
er 10 gain some fresh advantage or
else 10 defeat proposals that seem
fraught with menace. All this is laugh
ed to scorn by theorists as of no con
sequence, but business men know II
is a serious matter. indianapolis
Star.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-10

AS soon as it dawned on the intel
iigence Of our stand.pat friends that
every free trader in the land was
content and even anxious to play at
the game OF the maximum and the
minimum, the thing was jerked out Of
sight and a new piece put on the
boards-revisiOn by the friends OF
protection Washington Post.
No man with IN intelligent grasp
of the principle and policy of pro-
lection ever had the slightest hesita-
ton in identifying the little free
trade Joker concealed in the maxi.
mum and minimum proposition. Pro
t~ectionists prefer a single tarin. II
a double tariff is made necessary by
foreign tariff discrimination II
should be a minimum and a maxi
mum; a stable minimum not subject
to trade dickers, and a high maximum
as a peslty for unfair tariff treat
ment by other nations. That Is the
true protectionist position.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-10
The Typhonoid.

vessel, claims hat II cannot be cap.
sized, except possibly when making a
short turn at high speed, when great
skill on the part of the steersman is
required.
The motive power consists Of Two
four.cylinder V.type motors Of go
horsepower each, coupled together
and to the propeller shaft. Double ig-
milton by magnets and by accumula-
tors is provided to lessen the chance
of failure. The screw Is 31h inches
in diameter, which is placed at the
bow. The inventor has guaranteed
a speed of 100 kilometers, or more
than 62 miles an hour.
In the new boat the centrifugal dis
placement and the central void are
thus converted into beneficial effects,
and the limit to the advantageous in.
crease in the velocity of rotation of
the propeller is removed. The "typhO.
mold is derived from a Greek word
which means a whirlw!nd, and the APP
paratus Is designed to act by suction
in the manner of a waterspout.
According to experiments, the
typhonoid will produce the maximum
of speed for a given expenditure Of
power. and as 1t presents no project
ing edges. II Is m~anifestly superior to
the ordinary screw propeller for the
navigation of shallow waters contain.
ing vegetable growths. The typhonoid
propeller consists of a number OF
blades-six in this instance-symmet'
really distributed around an axis and
terminating in a cylindrical tube,
Each blade is composed Of two sheets
or surfaces, One sheet is spiral.cy'
lindrical, like a loosely.rolled sheet oil
paper, with its inner edge at the axis
and its outer portion forming part OF
, the enveloping tube. The other sheet
is smaller, inclined and helicoidal, like
the blade OF an ordinary screw pro
peller. II extends from the front
edge OF the cylindrical sheet to 9
spiral line traced some distance be
hind the front OF the cylindrical sheet
of the preceding blade.
The principal dimensions of the
t~yphonoid are: Length over all, 8!
feet; length on waterline, 52h feet
greatest width over all, 5h feet
greatest width at waterline, 4 feet
inches; moulded depth, 4 feet AZ
inches; mean draft, 2 feet ~ inches
area Of amidships sections, ia squar'
feet.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-10
is PROOF AGAINST RUST.
New Workers Secure Rights on a Val
liable Invention.

Cansul Albert Halstead, Of Birming-
ham, reports that an option on the
American rights to a patent process
called 'sheradizing," which, 1t is as
serted, makes iron and steel rust
proof, and has been successful in Eng.
land for a time, has been sold to a
finn in New York. He adds:
1T Is claimed for this process that
Il coats iron and steel with zinc as
well or better than ordinary wet gal
vanizing. and that the iron and steel
thus coated can be brilliantly pol
ished. In the process zinc dust is
placed in a cylinder which has been
brought TO a temperature Of 400 to 500
degrees Fahrenheit; that Is, below the
melting point OF zinc. The articles
It is desired to 'sheradize" are put
into the cylinder, which Is then re
volyed. The zinc In this process Ia
not actually melted, but forms an al
10y through the surface Of the articles
absorbing the zinc, and then a coating
covering the whole visible surface II
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-10
Protecting the Wstercourses.

So extensive has the utilization OF
streams for industrial purposes be-
come in France that the minister OF
agriculture has instituted a commits
sion to study the best mea of pro-
tecting them. II is stated hat many
streams have been virtually destroy.
ed for the sake of industrial establish.
ments, that certain small water
courses have disappeared entirely.
and that the effect in some places has
been to transform the physical fea.
lures of the country. The intention is
not to prohibit the use of the waters.
for modern industry demands more
and more OF that, but to regulate 1t so
that the streams may at the same
time be preserved for their beauty
and their usefulness.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-10
Wind Guard Open and Closed.

will cover the bowl to any extent de.
sired, and that 1t may be readily fold
ed out of the way in order to give the
smoker ready access to the bowl when
desired. The guard is formed of teles-
coping plates. which In folded posi-
ton lie approximately level with the
top of the pipe bowl. They are hinged
TO a ring which is secured to the pipe
by means OF pins that project into an
annular groove near the top Of the
bowl. This method of attachment per-
mits the guard to be rotated to any
desired position. When in use, ok.
plains Scientific American, the tele-
scoping plates are raised. and form a
hood which rises over the mouth Of
the bowl, at the same time leaving
sufficient opening for the admission
Of air. The extent to which the bowl
is covered may be governed by the
number of members which are raised.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-10
The Better Policy.

We are told we must revise the
tarin, Secretary Taft wants to cut 1t
down. | don't know just what he
wants to do except that he thinks 1t
ought to be revised. Theodore +. Bur.
ton also wants to revise the tariff. DO
you farmers want the price of wool
and sheep and wheat and your other
products cut down?
! would like to have a bill of particu.
lars from these Republican gentlemen.
Unless they can give a satisfactory
reason for a change the tariff should
stand as It Is. No doubt the time will
come when conditions will call for re.
vision OF schedules, but until the time
comes that the country will be bene,
flied by such changes, let us be salts.
fed with the tariff as it stands.
Id rather have a policy that makes
more rich men than II which will
make more poor men-Seuator For
sker at Sandusky.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-10-10
Nothing to Be Thankful For

The Protective Tarif league ought
to be thankful that the customs agree
ment with Germany has prevented a
commercial war that would probably
have resulted in hasty action by con-
gress to reduce our tariff rates mate
rally or else cause serious loss TO
American manufacturers and pro.
ducers Of foodstuffs. st. Paul Dis
patch.
Thankful for nothing There never
was the remotest possibility of a com.
mercial war with Germany. Germany
put up a blur. encouraged thereto by
the Reciprocal Tariff leaguers and
such tariff reforming" newspapers as
the Dispatch, and our government
laid down" to 1t. That's all,-Amer-
lean Economist,