Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-06-10


circulation in Eastern Polk county
and the editor spent Saturday driving
and visiting in the Polk county hills
A drive through pretty, picturesque
Eola is like entering the gates OF
Paradise The roadway after you
pass the watering trough is lined
with hedges of wild roses and sweet
brier. The fence corners-and there
lare real old fashioned worm rail
fences-are filled with masses of wild
flowers. Old vine and moss covered
houses with crumbling chimneys, are
hidden away In neglected orchards,
while here and there roses bloom in
wild profusion. Beds of old-fashion-
ed flowers show their blooms up
through brambles and grass-grown
door yards, while porches and por-
ticos. on the more pretentious man
In their day. tell
of the ambitions of prominent citi-
zens who once dwelt in the would-be
capital of Oregon.
Up Into The Hills.
The drive to Oak Grove skirts
along the hills north of Eola and Is
along a very good road. There are
not many improvements here. The
farms are large, are mostly rented
and grown to grain. Only where
fruit and dairying is followed does
one see improvements. Oak Grove
has a fine picnic ground where the
Popcorn band discoursed patriotic
music, rival baseball teams contested
for the championship, there was
fat mans race. a literary program,
and picnic dinner for everybody who
brought a basket, The Journal man
was the recipient of some of the
finest layer cake he ever tasted.
The layers were of angel cake. The
filler was OF jelly, cocoGnut, orange,
banana and crushed strawberry. with
a lfttle lulu and yum-yum thrown
In. A slice OF that cake would al
most make man commit arson to
get another, and no wonder the lady
who made II is married to one of the
best and most prosperous farmers
IL Polk county.
At one house where we cauvassed
the man had no use for daily paper
OF any hnd. He had bushy whis-
kers and seemed too busy to do any
thing buf smoke pipe. We offered
him premium TO start him, of
box OF toilet SOAP, but II WIS no use.
His wire had been keeping still in
The background, when she finally
hauled out dollar and said she'd |
subscribe for the Capital Journal
Weekly year. Those shears areA
lust what ! need. I've been wantin'4
% trim his whiskers for a year, ana9
know he hasn't washed his neck orsl
'ars for three months. III scrub himd
Up ana make him go to church neu
sunday" she sRid.
Tic Oak Grove Neigbborhood.
Far grain Is looking we'll In the
ills. Spring grain is needing rain
adiy. Gus Larsen and Gussie VIII
Iamssn have each a prune orchard,
nth a good crop prospect. ]. f. Al
IN WHO bought the old Allen Rogers
lace says the hay crop Is fair. He
as 1873 acres and about 500 acres {
ented, in wheat and oats. There h
grange hall, "A Methodist church, u :
ood school and a larger hall for
iating rink and basket ball. otto :
ansen has fine hop yard near Z
ere. Burnham Southwick farms 500 n
res on the hills, the Geo. Wau o
ace, above here. His grain promis- II
well-spring grain on new ground "
fairly good. He has an acre OF y
falfa that is dong fine. Gilbert r.. 81
iams has s7h acres in the EolA X
lis, ~ acres IN strawberries, fine q
op yielding him 175 crates. He el
- - ~ NhN INV Atlu 10 lnOnIHh -"
o ana has made wonderful inn
ovements In the way OF clearing &c
:. He has put out 100 cherry trees. NJ
0 apples, $50 prune trees, 100 ST
ach and some walnuts, logan and
lckberries. an
T. j. Stevens has 10 acres, 3 acres
early potatoes. 8 acres In late. 4
'es in apples, several acres In
awberries and black and Logan
'ries. One man who has quite a "
ge family said the new adoption
would cost him $50. It
him that six years ago.
rhe wheat acreage about Mccoy sil
fallen on over one-half and the on
ntry is going into dairying and aDc
sheep. Geo. l.. Kelly and his bar
her Of Mccoy were of the first TO Itel