Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1908-04-21

The members Of The Jolly Seven
skating club have Issued invitations
for the last skating party OF the sea-
sou, TO be held st the Colosseum rink
tomoFrow night
Dan Brown spent Sunday in Mon
mouth with bis wife, who has been
quite Ill for some time. Mrs Brown is
improving, and ii Is hoped that she
may soon be able 20 return % her home
in Dallas.
Miss May Shelton and Miss Evan
geline Hart have been chosen as dele
gates 20 represent AImira lodge al the
Rebekah Assembly il Salem. May 10.
The Dallas lodge has been invited TO
put on the work on that occasion.
Mrs. Ira SiubbIefield left last week
with her father, J. Byerley, for
Newport, where she will reside for
some time in hope Of recovering her
health. She has been suffering with
lung trouble and found the climate in
this locality very unfayorable for her
recovery.
The Commissioners Court went to
Perrydale this morning and inspected
the Flannery bridge near that place.
The old structure is in very bad
condition, and they purpose to install
new bridge and make fills instead
Of the long approaches which are 80
expensive to keep in repair
The newly completed grade on the
tsnnery hill makes the heavy hauling
from the Dallas Lumber Company's
lumber yards much easier and will
be found an Invaluable improvement
when the city begins b auling crushed
rock from the Boise farm, west Of
Dallas, for the payem ent Of its streets.
Il. Stroup, OF Woodward, Dallas
county, Iowa, wants TO locate In Ore
gon. After much reading, he has
selected Polk county as the best county
In which 10 locate. He wants 40 acres
Of land, with fair improvements, small
house and fruit. Has any OF our sub
scrlbers anything 70 suit him? Write |
him, giving distance from town and
price Of land.
The Polk County Oil Company, after |
being delayed for long time by |
lnfavorable weather, has at last begun |
he work OF drilling for oil on the |
farm OF b. r. Whiteaker near Dallas,
and as the contract gives only four
months In which TO complete the first |
we'll, the question as TO the presence OF
)il In this vicinity will prob ably be |
definitely settled by the first Of Sep
.ember.
Fred Wagner has just installed one
II the Bareus horseshoeing devices. 1t
8 the latest thing out for shoeing |
and can do the best horseshoeing tn at |
8 done In the county. He has none
Jut the best OF help. and theref ore can
pack up just what he gays. Just give
lin a trial and be convinced. There
8 no better work put out than Is put
'ut at his shop. 4-2l-St
At the meeting OF the city council
asst night bid was presented by
!. W. Sweeney, a Portland contractor.
N the work OF matchmaking the
more important streets OF Dallas. Mr..
Iweeney offers to do the work at 50 rs
'er cubic yard, excavation at 35 cents
cubic yard, cement crosswalks at IS
ents square foot and wooden cross
ialks at 80 cents a lineal foot. A
pecial meeting OF the council will be
eld Monday night to take action on
his bid.
Joe Kehoe, who recently resigned
lis place as engineer on the Portland
corvallis run on the West Side and
those place was taken by J. II.
icQuade, for many years engineer on
he Dallas Portland freight, is one Of
he oldest and best known engineers
q the roads OF the Willamette Valley.
Ie retired after having passed the 70
ear age limit and Is now a pensioner
I the company he has served 30 long
nd we'll. John Franzon, formerly OF
)allas, will take the place on the Cor
allis freight which was formerly
coupled by J. II. Hayes, who sue
eeded McQuade to the Dallas run.