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Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1908-01-07
DARKY SINGERS COMING
Large Advance Sale of Seats fOI
Tennessee Jubilee Com
cert.

The Tennessee Jubilee Singers, a
company travelling under the manage
ment of the Interstate Lyceum Bureau,
has been secured by Dallas College
to fill an engagement in this city,
Thursday, January 9.
This company is composed Of eight
trained singers, all negroes, who have
worked together on the stage for years.
Their tour on the coast during the
present season has been an unqualified
success, and demands for a return
date have been made at nearly every
town in which they have sung.
Their repertory consists mainly of
the negro plantation songs-the songs
composed by dusky skinned cotton
field hands, and filled with those
haunting cadences and minor har-
monies, such as can betruly interpreted
only by negro singers. The plantation
chant, the negro dancing song, the
jubilee of the colored campmeeting-al
are represented, making one Of the
most enjoyable musical programs that
can be devised
Tickets for this entertainment were
placed on sale at Belt & Cherrington's
drugstore today, and it is anticipated
that one of the largest audiences of
the season will be in attendance.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1908-01-07
MANY READ BOOKS
Librarians Monthly Report Shows
Large Increase In Number of
Borrowers Cards Issued.

Miss Jennie Muscott, librarian at
the Dallas Public Library, submits
the following report for the month
just ended: Number of callers, 1493 /;
books loaned, 74O of which 5O7 were
fiction, AZ fiction, and 19l childrens
books; new cards issued, %.
By way Of determining the growth
of the Importance of this institution
in our city, a comparison ofthis report
with that Of the corresponding month
in 1906, is interesting. No record Of
the number of callers was kept year
ago, but the remainder Of the report
stands as follows; Books loaned, 582,
of which 377 were fiction, 35 nom
fiction and 40 childrens' books; new
cards issued, Is.
Especially noteworthy is the fact
of the increase Of borrowers cards
issued. The natural tendency would
be for the number Of cards issued
monthly to decreas steadily from the
time of the founding Of the library,
after the first heavy demands were
but these reports indicate the
reverse, and show a steady growth in
the sphere of influence that has been
compassed by the Free Library since
its beginning.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1908-01-07
PLAN FOR SCHOOL FAIR
Executive Committee Outlines Work
For Annual Exhibit by School
Children of Comfy.

The Executive Committee of the
School Childrens' Industrial Fair held
a meeting in the Office of County
School Superintendent Seymour, Sat
urday, and completed the more
important steps for the successful
engineering of the Fair which is to be
held next September.
The county was divided into several
sections, each comprising three or
four districts, and one Of these sections
was assigned to each member of the
executive committee, who will thor
oughly canvass them and secure as
large list Of prize contributions as
possible.
Instead of dividing the exhibits into
four classes two for boys and two for
girls) as has formerly been, there will
be but two classes of entries at the
coming fair, the first for boys and
girls over 10 years of age, and the
second for boys and girls under 12.
This will make it possible for girls to
compete in the agricultural exhibits,
and the boys to enter work in the
departments formerly open to girls
alone, if they are so inclined. 1t was
further decided to dispense with prizes
offered for local exhibits, and to make
each prize open to every child in the
county who may desire to compete for
it.
Resolutions were passed urging
that teachers, parents and children
throughout the county cooperate to
make the Fair a success, and advising
the school childred to begin prepara-
tion for the exhibits at once. 1t was
also decided that in future the name
Of every child making an exhibit at
the fair would be placed on file and
published in the papers, as it is
hoped by this means the young
exhibitors will be encouraged, and
others who were not yet exhibiting,
will, be persuaded to make the
attempt.
The success Of this meeting was
largely due to the fact that every men,
ber of the committee was present and
was willing and eager to work for the
benefit of the Industrial Fair. The
names Of the committee members and |
the sections they represent are as fol-
lows T. w. Brunk, Eola 7. s. Brown,
Salt Greek; J. R. 10y, Buena Vista;
G. w. MYer, Dallas, O. Q. Gardner,
Bridgeport; Mrs. G.. L. Hawkins, Mrs.
E. M. Smith, Mrs. J. A. Lynch and
Mrs. Fl. @. Seymour, Dallas; Miss
Butler, Monmouth Mrs. s. L.
Mccoy; Mrs. George Conkey,
Independence and Mrs. Ira Mehrling,
Falls City.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1908-01-07
MlD-YEAR RECEPTION
Dallas College Students Delightfully."-
Entertained by Members of
Faculty.

In addition to the student body many
friends and alumni of Dallas College
attended the annual mid-year recep-
ton given by the members Of the fac
ulty, Friday night.
Professor Metzger acted as master of
ceremonies, and when the occasion
demanded, led the students in the col
lege yell with as much enthusiasm as
the most hilarious Junior in the
assembly could have shown. DR..
Mock in an address Of mingled pleas
antry and seriousness welcomed the
students to the beginning Of the new
terms work, and bade them enjoy
themselves to the utmost "for', he said
with smile, ''you will probably find
the faculty in better humor tonight
than they may ever be again" After
two instrumental solos rendered by
Professor Caldwell, and by Miss Ada
Longnecker, one of the students in the
music department, the remainder OF
the evening was given over to social
amusement.
Near the close Of the evening, light
refreshments were served By request,
readings we're given by Miss Gertrude
Phelps and by Alphus Boyd, and after
singing a verse Of the college song,
and giving the college yell with hearty
goodwill, the students and guests
bade their entertainers good night.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1908-01-07
FIELDON PLEADS GUILTY
COnfesses That He Robbed Falls City
SalOOn-MOney Cannot Be
Found.

At the preliminary hearing before
the Justice of the Peace in Falls City,
@. II. Fieldon pleaded guilty to the
charge OF having robbed the Bank
Saloon last week, and is now confined
in the county Jail in Dallas, awaiting
the action Of the Circuit Court.
The prisoner had but little OF the
money that he had secured from the
cash drawer and slot machines on his
person, but said that he had hidden
the remainder while in Dallas. An
officer was sent at once TO search in the
place named by Fieldon, but was
unable to find any traces OF the hid
den plunder. When the prisoner was
brought down from Falls City, Satur-
day, another search was made under
his direction, with no better results.
1t is believed that somebody must have
seen the young man hide the money.
and that it was probably carried away
a second time almost as soon as it
passed out OF his immediate posses
sion.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1908-01-07
MAY GET SPECIAL TRAIN
Many Teachers and school Officers
Will Attend Institute in
Falls City.

The majority of the teachers of the
Dallas Public School are preparing to
attend the School Officers, Parents
and Teachers Meeting, which will be
held at Falls City next Saturday, and
it sufficiently large crowd OF Dallas
people can be persuaded to go, an effort
will be made to secure special train
to carry the delegation from this city.
This meeting, since it is the first OF
the series that the association has
planned to hold in various districts Of
Polk county within the next three
months, is more or less an experiment
and those who are most deeply inter-
ested In it are doubly anxious to make
it a success, since that it will not only
benefit the Falls City district, but will
practically assure the success OF the
sessions which are to follow.
The meeting will be presided over by
Ira Mehrling, vice president Of the
association in the Falls City division,
and the speakers of the day will be;
G. L. Hawley, of Mccoy, President OF
the Polk County School Officers Asso-
citation @. G. Gardner, of Bridgeport ;
Hon. w. L. Tooze, William Ellis, Mrs.
A. E. Seymour and Mrs. George Sic
farth.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1908-01-07
CANNERY FOR DALLAS
Farmers Meet and Organize to Secure
Greatly Needed Industry in
Polk County.

At the meeting of the Horticultural
Society, held at the Court House,
Saturday, the first steps were taken
toward founding what will prove, il
carried out, to be one of the most val
liable industries ever established in
this city-an up-to-date fruit cannery.
1t had been the intention of H. s.
Butz, the president OF the association,
to call the meeting for date some
what later in the month, but learning
that Colonel Hofer, Of Salem, and
J. r. Shepard, Of Spring Valley, were
to be in Dallas, Saturday, on their
campaign for 1000 facts of production
from the Willamette Valley, he called
the meeting for that time, so as to be
able to secure these two prominent
men, both Of whom are experts on the
subject of canneries, to address the
meeting, and if possible, start move
ment in favor Of establishing such an
industry in Dallas.
Both Mr.. Hofer and Mr.. Shepard
spoke to the farmers and fruit raisers
who were present, explaining the
cannery business at length, and
answering any questions asked con-
cerning the various phases of the
business. Within a radius of five
miles of Dallas, they said, there is
enough fruit raised now to support
medium sized oannery through every
month of the summer except the sea-
son of small fruits.
Raspberries, loganberries, etc., have
not yet been planted in very large
amounts near here, and during the
season in which they would be in
bearing, it would probably be neces-
sary to either close the cannery or
ship fruit from outside.
These conditions would not last for
more than two or three seasons, how
ever, as the farmers about Dallas
would plant small fruits Immediately
when they found that the cannery was
an assured fact. Thereafter the entire
season would be filled. beginning in
June with strawberries and running
on through the seasons Of cherries,
small fruits, plums, prunes, pears
and apples until late in the Fall.
Thoroughly convinced that the plan,
if carried out, would be successful, the
society appointed a committee of six to
begin at once the work Of solicitation
among the fruit growers and business
of Dallas and vicinity. On this COM
mittee the following men were
appointed M. M. Ellis, J. L. Brown,
Henry Voth, J. G. VanOrsdel, H. G.
Campbell and Dee Dunn. All are
deeply interested in the plan and are
to do their utmost to carry
it through. If the citizens Of Dallas
and the fruit growers in its vicinity
give the needed support, it is highly
probable that fruit cannery will be
in operation in this city in the near
future, adding an important item to
the list Of our industries, and bringing
into this neighborhood a revenue
which was formerly secured by cities
entirely outside of Polk County.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1908-01-07
Week of Prayer.

Union prayer services, are being
held at the various churches in Dallas
this week. Last nights service was
held at the Methodist church, and the
program for the remainder Of the
series will be as follows: Tonight at
the Presbyterian church, Wednesday
at the Evangelical, Thursday at the
Christian and Friday at the Baptist
church. All of the ministers Of the
city will cooperate in conducting
these meetings.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1908-01-07
Lean Year Skating Party.

Messrs. Kerslake & White will intro
duce a novelty into their weeks
skating sessions tonight (Tuesday) by
conducting a leap year skating
party" Although everybody will be
admitted to the rink, gentlemen will
not be allowed to skate only when
accompanied by a lady partner. A
liberal prize will be awarded to the
best married couple Of skaters on the
floor.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1908-01-07
SOME ACTUAL RESULTS
A Few Facts of Production In Ore
gOn That Read Like Fairy
Tales.

Inc following Items or interest
taken from the Salem Statesman e
New Year number, will give an idea
Of what is being done by our pros.
porous farmers. It is such items as
these that will make up the zone
Thousand Facts of Production" soon
to be given wide circulation in the
Eastern states:
None Of the farmers around Mon
mouth have made less than 800 an
acre on green fruit since the evaporator
was built.
M. N. Bowman, of Monmouth, netted
$14OO from 10 acres Of prunes.
@. E. Hanna, of Independence,
realized $4,000 from a 27-acre orchard
in spite of very light pear crop.
w. J. Crawford, of Zena, milked 10
COWS in the dry month of July, and
his creamery check was $76.16.
@. A. Templeton profits from poultry
on an eight-acre tract in West Salem,
have enabled him to buy and pay for
20 acres more.
@. A. Clark, Of eastern Polk, will
realize over $1,000 from one acre of
celery.
B. Southwick raised 800 crates Of
strawberries OH his Eola hill farm and
sold them at 81 crate.
J. Imlah's cabbage patch in the
Willamette river bottom yielded five
tons to the acre.
j. B. Stump, of Monmouth, threshed
5000 bushels of oats from 14O acres, an
average Of 81 bushels to the acre.
When B. I. Ferguson finished
marketing the cherries from his
orchard Of less than two acres, the
Salem cannery gave him check for
1885. His total income from 10 acres
of land in 1907 was $500.
William Morrow, of Rickreall, sells
his cream to Portland creameries and
realizes from $75 to $50 year on each
COW.
Charles L. Brooks, Of Rickreall,
finds that his COWS yield him an
average Of $75 each per year.
H. g. Campbell. of Dallas, has net
ted over $500 each year on a prune
orchard Of 10 acres.
W. M. Elliott, Of Dallas, cleared
$4,000 on his As acres of prunes last
year. M
R. L. Chapman, Of Dallas, has 40
acres of Italian prunes and made
over $4,000 on his crop in 1907.
The Ems sisters, of Dallas, con-
verted a 13-acre fern patch into a
prune orchard, and received over
$4,000 for the crop last year, besides
good sum from berries and grapes.
Gooseberries, currants and straw
berries paid for the land with their
second crop, and gave the family
living while the 13 acres of prunes
we're growing.
J. r. Shepard, Of Zena, picked $500
worth of cherries from one acre of
trees. The fruit on one tree brought
$50.
Interesting reading, isn't 1t? And
these are only a few out Of hundreds
Of such items that might be printed
about Polk county. And the best
feature of all is that every statement
made can be proven. Come West,
young mani
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1908-01-07
w E wish you a
w Happy and Pros

w Happy and Pros
porous New Year, and
take this occasion to
thank you for the gen
erous help you have
given us that has en-
abIed US to build our
business to what it is.
On November, Z 1903,
we began the Hardware
business with a total
stock of $4,000 occupying
a floor space of 1000
square feet.
In January, 1905, we
added the plumbing and
timing department to
our hardware business,
and on January 1, 1906,
added another depart
ment, that Of furniture,
by the purchase of the
Kerslake stock. Fhis
needing more floor space
we leased the entire
Kirkpatrick building,
which we now occupy
with the addition of a
large warehouse for each
department.
We now have a total
floor space Of over 5000
square feet, over 9 times
the space we had in the
beginning. We now
employ regularly ten
people to look after this
business; five times as
many as we had in the
beginning, and we are
now doing more than
ten times the business
we did in 1904, and be-
lieve that in 1908 we
will do Is times as much
as we did in 1904. |
You, our customers
have made our increased !
stock possible, for which
we thank you, n d
promise in the year 1908, |
if we have your custom
it will be taken care of
in the same way that it
was in 1907.
Yours for a more pros
porous 1908.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1908-01-07

Edgar King, Of Revelstoke, B. c., is
visiting his mother, Mrs. F. r. Rich.
After spending a few weeks in Dallas,
he will go to Kendrick, Idaho, where
he has some large building contracts.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1908-01-07

Miss Elsie Ray gave a very enjoy
able dinner party in honor of Lisle
Hendricks, of Corvallis, and Harry
Patterson, of Eugene, at her home
Friday night. Miss Ray has but
recently recovered from severe ill
ness, but nevertheless she presided
over. the evenings entertainment and
proved herself a most charming
hostess. The guests were: Misses
Halle Coad, frankie Hayter, Ella
Roy, Messrs. Lisle Hendricks, Harry
Patterson, Frank Kersey and Carl
Fenton.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1908-01-07

W. R. Palmer returned Sunday to
Corvallis, where he will resume his
work in the agricultural College after
spending a two weeks vacation at the
home Of his parents in Dallas.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1908-01-07
IN SOCIETY'S REALM
Pleasant Parties Given by Mr.. and
Mrs. VanOrsdeI and Miss
Elsie Raw.

Mr.. and Mrs. J. G.. VanOrsdel enter.
tanned a few of their friends at their
hospitable home Thursday night. The
evening was spent in very pleasant
manner, and delicious refreshments
were served at it's close.
Those present were: J. G. Van
Orsdel and family. U. S. Loughary
and family, J. L. Sweeney and family,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. P. VanOrsdel, Mrs.
H. @. Eakin. Mrs. s. @. Miller, Mrs.
J. B. Thompson, Misses Olive Smith,
Dessa Ridgeway, Lillian Kerslake,
May Shelton, Virginia Miller; Messrs.
Louis Gerlinger, Jr., Dean Collins,
George Gerlinger, Jack Eakin and
Moss Walker.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1908-01-07

Miss Bertha Collins left this morn
ing for Grants Pass where she will
visit for a few weeks at the home OF
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. F. N. Col
Iins.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1908-01-07

Mrs. P. s. Dykeman and daughter,
Miss Nora Davidson. Of Falls City,
were in Dallas yesterday, enroute for
Portland.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1908-01-07

Mr.. and Mrs. W. L. Soehren returned
Saturday from an extended visit in
Hillsboro.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-02-01
OPINIONS or BILL THE BRUTE

into effect u seems 10 me TIE IN.
would benefit and the spon -
come 10 life again. aagyessa O.
he.
Yes. I gees 70. But say. vei1.s
Il be fun % sit back an rsn &
cornish tryin' ter get IT,,
Burns Inter = ring VII Jeek -
SON Dyer tink De chzmz :
come back right erway soons II,
An say. 30. don't yah i.nk NJ
give dem dc spiral menirifix ~
ter match Abe Atfel va o.
Moran agins Dey say AT A.
wuz lucky ter make a draw = 1
Dc lsH' time an Stat hurtib' hInul
IooIin' fer any more o. narsi
game.
Den s'pose deg wanted ter ED
de lightweight atinosfere a. -
bat Nelson afteF Joe Cans. c..
yer see de Dane Ies brezkIz =
neck eetfin' his monachef o11s \
p0fpern tor meet Gans7 list IA :
llese fight Cans IS give avsy -
uh bis eyes. Yes. dat ocniz1 4
have a peach uh time ali fis1t Z
right"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-02-01

= attf
pity the exclusive woman pro.
fouudly. How very. very tired she
must get OF the same old bores In
the same circumscrihed social set.
even though that set holds nothing
but DE Peysfera and diamondsl
When you visit the social dictator
at Smiths Cross Roads you quickly
learn 20 place" the residents BY the
warmth of your hostess smile or the
stony GOODNESS ~ her stare.
II n the same old pretenBe thar
the city keeps mp transpianted 10
the cruder environment OF the couu.
try village.
There may be many more inter.
esting people outside the society
woman'a doors than I'm. but she will
lose caste" II she admits them. 40
she ignores their presence.
II would require courage 10 invite
10 our homes such people rs we
really like. or who need our friend.
ship. and thrust ont the lnane. the
vapid and no account. wouldn't ~
II I find Mrs. OBrieu. the wash.
woman. more interesting. as she Ger.
falnly IL Wittier. than Mrs DE Gas
oline, why shouldn't I have her al
my party or reception
Half the wrinkles that line the
modern woman's brow and keep the
masseuse In spending money are
due 10 the strain OF keeping up a
false position before the world and
trying To appear Serves or rare
porcelain when In reality they are
/ but common clay.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-02-01

Women observes the Rev. W.
A. Bartlett. Of Chicago. ARE more
exclusive than men. They form
CLANS and gaze askance at the
newcomer Who does not belong 20
their set /"
All Of which Is true. And the
Chicago divine might have added
the additional truth that women are
also narrower than men. less gen
erous toward human faults and fail
lnws. and prone TO view strangers
with suspicion.
II In the exceptional woman who
will take q stranger on trust and
think no evil.
The Brotherhood OF Man may
some day be realized. but the Sister.
hood of Woman will lag behind the
millennium.
Women are not wholly 10 blame
for their petty chlld's play of be-
longing 10 = specific circle and look.
ing down on the rest OF creation.
Centuries OF ignorance and false
standards Of NE are welded into
this bauble called -exeIusiyeness =
i n IL foaterrd BY silly pride and
boistefed up ~ empty heads, and
finally II bee0mes a fetish TO tho
woman and a matter of great envy
10 her neighbors
To be exclusive" Is 70 miss the
best In life. 10 limit ones powers Of
enjoyment. to bar out knowledge. tc
live In a hancOop.
Your trne democratic eye takes
In the fuil sweep Of the hOrizan: Fl
Is not fixed on a knot hole in the
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-02-01

Well. wot tell yub iiak nh Jim
cofbett an his side idee bout run
min dc fight game like deg run base
ball. Wit a national cornish" de-
handed nill the Brute.
4 had not heard Of the pugiiiat.
actors plan. replied Champagne
Charlie. What Is ltT"
wy. Jim he wants tuh have
bunch uh guys like Garry Hermann
an Ban Johnson an Harry Puiliam
make de- matches just like de big
mugs uh baseball makes out de
schedules for De biz leagues.
Jim Says de fahirs has made de
game a goat long enough, an. dat It's
time 90 use dc hook on yips like
lawn O'flriea. Tommy Ryan an
oder NUTS vets got caught aid de
goods In der socks.
II Iim'a sehems went tru all de
matches nd be made In de open. DE
cornish nd tell de pugs who dey
meet and when dey Rotter fight. N
dey Ket Wise 20 any douhlecTossin
dey uses de hook an the gent wot
Is crooked gets de black list"
II Cofbetts scheme can BE- put