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Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-01-24
SUCCESS in DAIRYING
HUGH SMITH, OF DALLAS, MAKES
PROFIT FROM COWS.
Plenty of Feed and Good Care Essen
tial Factors of the
Business.

The subject of dairying in the Will
lamette Valley has aroused a great
deal of interest and a greater amount
of discussion as to its practicability
for the average farmer. Some have
made a success of it and others have
not One of those entitled to be classs-
ed among the former, is Hugh Smith,
well-known resident, who owns a
farm one mile southwest of Dallas.
Mr.. Smith believes dairying is a sue
cess here, and, as he keeps a careful
record of his receipts and expendi-
lures throughout the year, he is pre-
pared to back his belief with the fig
ures of actual results. During 1910
he sold $S35.91 worth of cream from
nine cows, four of which were two
year-old heifers. During the year he
paid out $242 for mill feed, leaving
him net return of $59391 for mis- la
Dor, besides the value of fertilizing ele-
ments which were returned to the soil.
The monthly amounts received by Mr.
Smith in payment for cream furnished
the local creamery during 1910, are
shown herewith.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-01-24
KEEP TO RIGHT IN SALEM
Chief of Police to Enforce New Ordi-
nance Regarding Teams.

Residents of Polk County who drive
into Salem will be interested in a re-
cent ordinance passed by the City
Council there, governing the handling
of teams and vehicles on the streets.
The following, taken from the
Statesman, explains the new require
ments:
"Chief of Police Hamilton means to
enforce the ordinance about driving
on the right hand side of the street.
and in turning from one street into an
other. The ordinance requires that
the turn shall be made square in order
to bring the vehicle clear across to the
right hand side, but drivers seldom
obey il. All horses hitched along the
street must be facing the direction
which will bring them on the right
hand side. The chief says he will in
sist that drivers observe these ordi-
nances."
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-01-24
DALLAS, POLK COUNTY, OREGON JANUARY "A, 1911
FOR CHURCH UNIFICATION
Doctor G. C. Polling Goes East to At
tend Important Meeting.

Doctor c. G. Polling, of Dallas, left
Monday for Chicago, to attend a meet
ing of delegates representing the two
branches of the Evangelical Church,
which will be held in that city, begin
ming Tuesday, January 81, and lasting
probably week. He will go direct
to Columbus, Ohio, where he will visit
his son, Daniel A. Polling, formerly of
this city, who is now General Field
Endeavor Union.
Doctor Polling goes East as the sole
representative of the United Evangeli-
cal Church of this district, which COM
prises all of the territory lying west
of the Rocky Mountains. His mission
senting the entire denomination, who
will confer with a like body of dele
gates from the Evangelical Associa-
ton. Their purpose will be to bring
about complete unification of the
two ecclesiastical organizations, which
are already closely related. 1t is ex-
pected that the United Brethren
Cnufcn also Will De represented at the
conference, and that they will seek to
join the union of the Evangelical bod
les, and form a still greater church
federation. Representatives of the
Protestant Methodist Chuch, as well,
may be in attendance. The meeting
will be especially notable in that it
will be one of the greatest efforts ever
made toward the Capitalization of
church work and the unity of creeds.
The action of the delegates will be
watched with great interest not only
by the members of the churches di-
rectly concerned, but by the adherents
of every other Christian form of wor-
ship.
The complete unification of all de-
nominations has long been dream of
the idealist, but it has been only with
in the last three years that active
agitation by laymen toward that end
has shown results.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-01-24
WOULD PROTECTFARMN NAMES
Senator Hawley Introduces Bill In
Interest of Rural Homes.

Those among farm owners in this
State who take pride enough in their
homes to give them an appropriate
and euphonious name, will be inter-
ested in a bill which has been intro
duced in the Legislature by Senator
C. L. Hawley, of Mccoy. If it should
become a law, and it probably will,
every proprietor of landed estate in
Oregon can designate his place by
some beautiful name and go to bed
TRANQUILITY at night, secure in the
knowledge that he will not awake in
the morning to find the appellation
stolen. There is nothing more exas-
thought strength in trying to evolve
a suitable combination of sounds that
will be agreeable to the ear, pleasant to
the eye when in print and above all
descriptive, than to find out a day or
two later that the meanest man in the
country has given the very same name
to his little old rundown brush patch.
The practice of designating rural
homes by suggestive and well-selected
names is a most cOmmendable one,
and is worthy of every encouragement,
both legal and moral. 1t adds dignity
to the home, invests ii with fndivid-
uality. and marks the difference be-
tween living and merely existing.
Senator Hawley's measure is known
as Senate bill No. 2. and reads as fol-
lows: ANY farm owner in this state,
upon payment Of 81 to the Clerk Of
the County Court in the county in
which said farm owner may reside,
may have the name OF his farm duly
recorded in a register which the
County Clerk shall keep for said pur-
pose, and shall be furnished a certih-
cate issued under seal and setting
forth the name and location of the
farm and the name of the owner there
OF. provided that, when any name
shall have been recorded as the name
Of any farm. such name shall not be
recorded as the name of any other
farm in the same county, except by
pre-fixing OF adding designating words
thereto"
Homestead. Of Salem. has this to say.
Hon G. L Hawley. Of Mccoy.
member Of the Oregon State Senate
from Polk County. is the author Of
bill which II passed will have a tend
ency 20 assist in the general uplift Of
farm conditions throughout the com
Of which he and many
thousands Of other persons are inhab-
itants- Mr. Hawley il the weIl-knoun
breeder of the famous Locust Lawn
Lincoln sheep. and whose farm. situ-
ated near Mccoy. is ranked among the
places of the country.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-01-24
WILL OPEN IN SEPTEMBER
President Ackerman Arranges Details
For Organizing State Normal.

That the State Normal School at
Monmouth will open next September
is the announcement made by J. H.
Ackerman, president, according to a
press dispatch in the Oregonian. 1t is
stated that the State Board of Normal
Regents is making arrangements to
carry that plan into effect
1t is the purpose of the Board to se-
cure the strongest faculty possible,
place all the buildings in the best of
repair and fit all of the departments
with modern apparatus. In many
ways the course of study will be mate
rally strengthened and it is the hope
of the new president to place the
school in the front rank of educational
institutions.
Considerable time and labor must
be expended in organization of the
State Normal School," said ]. HI. Ack-
erman, the new president. with se-
lecting the faculty, making arrange
ments for repairs and renovation of
the buildings and the addition of a
boys dormitory, which I understand
will be considered in a short time,
there are many things the president
of such an institution has to attend to
before the institution opens.
An intimation has been given that
the State Board of Normal Regents
acted too hastily in the selection Of its
president with the salary of the Of
ficer to start in February. Members
of the Board of Regents take the same
stand as the president, who urges the
necessity of the president having suf-
ficient time to obtain the services of
a strong faculty of placing the school
on basis where it may open properly
and establish a commission there to
be in readiness for the opening in Sep
tember."
Whether the Legislature will be
asked to add boys dormitory is not
known at this time, but 1T is under
stood that the Board will consider the
question soon. President Ackerman
hopes to organize the faculty that the
school may become one of the strong
est in the Pacific Northwest, despite
the setback given 1t when the Legis-
ature refused to furnish further funds
For its maintenance and the school
was vacant for IS months.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-01-24
ANNUAL FARMERS WEEP
Agricultural College VIII Provide
Instruction by Leading Specialists.

CORVALLIS, JAN 16.-The annual
Farmers Week course at the Oregon
Agricultural College has been set for
February 8 to IS, and the plans for
the work are being rapidly brought to
completion. In addition to the regu-
lar lecture and demonstration work in
fruit growing, orchard work, market
ing, soils, drainage farm management,
stock raising, home management, in
sect and disease pests, butter and
hceese making and kindred subjects,
two special features in the form of
discussions and demonstrations on the
subjects of good roads for the state
and irrigation in the Willamette Valley
will be added to the program.
A large corps of special lecturers
many of whom are representative men
of this state, have been secured to as
sist the college experts in carrying on
the work. This has made it possible
to fill every hour of the day from 8
in the morning until 10 at night with
special features.
The work will deal entirely with
vital problems which are claiming the
attention of the people of Oregon.
Those in attendance will be urged to
bring up for discussion and demon
stration subjects in which they are
particularly interested, and which per-
tain to the peculiar problems arising
out of their experience, and which are
characteristic of their particular COM
munity. The work will be carried on
very much in the form of large
farmers institute, with a special divis-
ion giving particular attention to the
various matters of home making and
management.
A poultry show, at which the best
fowls in the Northwest will be exhib-
tied, is scheduled for the last day of
the session. This feature, in con-
nection with the special work on good
roads and irrigation, will add greatly
to the scope of the work. Indications
are that last years attendance of 400
will be more than doubled at this ses-
munications are coming in in much
greater numbers than ever before,
and that the general interest through
out the state seems to justify the be-
lief that the college will be crowded
to it's utmost during this week. The
railroads have promised to give spe-
cial rates for the OCCASION and the city
is being canvassed for accommoda-
tions for the visitors
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-01-24
Goes as Witness.

J. y. Dixon. of Independence, start
ed for Arizona the latter part OF last
week. where he is called as a witness
in a trial. in which the Southern Pa
cific Railroad Company is interested
Some time ago Mr.. Dixon. who is fore
man Of the warehouse here, loaded a
car with hops. and the same was con-
signed to parties in New York At
some point in Arizona the car was
side-tracked for a day or two. and
during this time parties broke the
seal and stole the contents Il Is un-
derstood that they have since been
and Mr. Dixon is called
as a witness in the triaL-Independ-
ence Enterprise
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-01-24
ANNUAL "DAY OF PRAYER"
Dallas College VIII Observe Occasion
With Appropriate Exercises.

The annual DAY of Prayer"
throughout the Christian Colleges of
the world will be observed at Dallas
College, Thursday, January &c, in
manner appropriate to the occasion.
The Reverend C. p. Gates, of st. Johns,
Portland, will address the students in
the College Chapel at 9 a. M, and es-
pecial effort will be made to impress
them with the importance of making
decision as to their life's work.
At o'clock, Wednesday evening.
January 25, the Reverend Gates will
talk to the members of the Young
Mems Christian Association on THE
Man at the Bat; or. Getting Started in
Life" This meeting will be held in
the Association room, in the Dormi-
tory.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-01-24
DALLAS MILL MAN HONORED
George Gerlinger Chosen Fourth Vice
President Lumbermen's Association.

At the recent meeting in Portland
of the Oregon and Washington Lum-
ber Manufacturers Association, George
Gerlinger, manager of the Willamette
Valley Lumber Company, of this city,
was elected to the position of fourth
vice. president
Aside from the election of officers,
the convention was the Endorsement
of the plan to join the Washington and
the Pacific Lumber Associations to
create a fund of $4,000 to exploit fir
lumber in the markets of the Middle
West, the East and the Orient.
One of the speakers said that it was
an established fact that builders, arch
itects and contractors in the Middle
West were ignorant of the good quail
ties of finished fir. He knew of one
case in Chicago where the chief engin-
eer of a large contracting firm had
never heard of the use of fir finished
lumber in buildings. Mr.. Kingsley be-
lieved that such was the experience of
every man who had gone into the East
with view of trying to market his
finished product. He added that the
lumber industry in Oregon and Wash
ington was on the decline and that new
markets must be found. The output
of the two states in 1906 was 7,O00,-
900, 900 feet. In 1909 the cut amount
ed to 5000, 100000 feet, loss of g.
900, 100000 feet. This, he thought,
was due to two things-the increase
in the freight rate and the lack of
proper publicity.
o. M. Clark, of Portland, told of a
market to be found in Toxic, which
had more wooden buildings than any
other city in the world. A. C. Dixon
told of one car building company
which last year bought 5O0,0O0,0 900
feet of lumber from Oregon-almostI
half of the cut He said that it was
about time to start movement to in
crease the trade.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-01-24
MAY HEAD this WAY
PROSPECT OF OREGON ELECTRIC
ROADS EXTENSION.
Thought Construction VIII Be Contin-
ned to Dallas, En- Route to
Corvallis.

During the past two or three years
it has been reported from various
sources that this city, at no distant
date, would be connected with Port
land by electric railway, but as time
passed and no actual operations were
undertaken to carry out such pro-
ject, the announcements lost interest.
Now, however, the matter is revived
by the published report, coming from
Portland, that construction of the
McMinnville branch of the Oregon
Electric may be begun within the
present year, although no definite
steps in that direction have been TAX
en-" On the face of this, therefore,
it appears that the people of Dallas
and Polk County may have the salts
faction of thinking that at least, the
proposed Line is headed in this direc-
ton. The Oregon Electric people, with
keen appreciation of the resources and
possibilities of the Western William
ette Valley, or West Side, have planned
tending from Portland to Corvallis, so
that, once the rails are laid into Nc
Minnville, it evidently will be but
question of CONSTITUTIONAL progress
until the roadbed is completed to Dali
las.
I'VE are principally concerned just
now with the Eugene extension" said
John f. Stevens, head of the Oregon
Electric railway, and other Hill enter
prises in Oregon, although the Nc
Minnville line has been receiving our
earnest consideration. We have COM
pleted surveys for two different routes
and will select one of them as soon as
we deem construction advisable. 1t is
hard to say when work on the Nc
Minnville branch will start, but we in
tend to build it eventually. Rights of
way and franchises have been secured
in McMinnville and in the territory
through which we must pass"
McAIinnviIle Eager.
Residents of McMinnville are eager
to secure the Oregon Electric service
into their city and have been press
ing their claims for place on the Hill
map ever since the line was built to
Salem. The franchise for use of the
city streets was granted several years
ago, and at that time high hopes were
for the early construction
of the road. Mr. Stevens latest assur-
ance that the officials are keeping that
project in mind has given them reason
to believe that electric cars will enter
their city within the next few years.
THE tendency is more and more to
use electricity" said Mr.. Stevens.
while we are building all of our
electric lines in such way that they
could stand steam traffic, we are not
doing that with the view of using
steam. 1t is merely matter of safe
Ly and economy in the end to construct
hem in that way.
'Tt is because of this that the opin-
on has been advanced that the use of
steam on the Oregon Electric line is
,ur ultimate object. So far as know,
he Oregon Electric will remain an
electric line indefinitely"
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-01-24

The Prohibitionists Of Polk County
have arranged to hold a meeting in
the Court House in Dallas. Saturday.
January Is. beginning al ? D. m C. T.
Taylor. field secretary. will address the
assembly. which Is called for the pur-
pose of -eiecting permanent officers
FOR the County. 20 adopt q uniform
plan % action against the liquor traf-
&c. and 10 do such things ss may be
deemed expedient % those present-
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-01-24
sliDpa.f and Fell.

As the result Of a fall last Friday
morning. George Robinson of oak
dale. suffered greatly from an injury
20 his hip. He was on his way % the
house from the harm. and had a
bucket Of milk in one hand and Ian
tern in the other The boards were
covered with frost. and when his feet
slipped he was unprepared to save
himself from striking his hip on the
sharp edge q the walk. For time
the psin Vas severe. but he Is nov
able to walk about
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-01-24
Indenendence Won

The Dallas High School basketball
team met defeat at the hands OF the
Independence High School boys, at In
dependence, last Friday night, the
score being 23 TO 8. 1t is said that the
game was a fast one. In a preliminary
game Independence Primary School
defeated Dallas Public School team.
Is to IA
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-01-24
Mill Con1DIeted.

MONMOUTH. Or. Jan. 1s.-The
Iuekiamute Valley FIGURING Mills
Company has completed its new four
story building in this city. which Is
the largest structure here. II has been
under way for about one year. and the
company has erected II at a heavy
cost II is one OF the finest Touring
mills In the Willamette Valley.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-01-24
EntIreIy IIarmIess.

This is the way the humorist Of the
Falls City News writes up a leading
social event In that city recently: 1t
was not one Of those Old-time neck
tie sociafIs. where an objectionable
citizen was attached 20 one end Of a
hitching rope. In a rude. unfeeling
manner. Willing hands, guided By
loving hearts fashioned the neckties
used. Tuesday evening. out Of fine,
harmless material. and not life was
lost during the entertainment. though
some hearts may have changed own
are
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-01-24

FALLS CITY. or. Jan 1s.-While
playing with a p rife cartridge this
afternoon. Joseph. the 11-year-old son
of james Gage. a farmer living near
this place. dropped the cartridge into
the open Fireplace. The cartridge ex-
ploded. and the bullet struck the boy
In the right arm. inficting a painful
wound
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-01-24

-A-~AA -At'AHlt-tA%NAAA- - AFAh-os
Many Dallas people have chronic
Appendicitis. which IL carelessly treat
ed a. II ia were ordinary bowel OF
stomach trouble. II you have wind or
gas In the stomach OF bowels. sour
stomach or constipation. try simple
buckfhorn bark. Elycerine. etc. as
compounded In Adler-i-ka. the new
German Appendicitis remedy. Conrad
Stafrln. druEEist. Dallas. states that A
SINGLE DOSE Of this simple remedy
viii relieve any bowel or stomach
frouble.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-01-24

Williams famous Jubilee Singers
viii be heard in Woodman Hail, Dali
las. Wednesday evening. January 25.
under the patronage Of Mistletoe Cir
Gle. Women OF Woodcraft. The
prices OF admission will be IS
and so cents. and seats may be re-
served at Stafrln's Drug Store.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-01-24
Monmeulh creamerr Mnnarcr.

J. L. Murdock has succeeded his
son. Frank r. MurdOck. as manager OF
the Monmouth Creamery. the latter
having given up that position TO look
after the Lindsay a Company store
Monmouth Herald.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-01-24
$593.s1
Not Result of Chance.


These results are not the results of
chance, or of haphazard work. Mr..
Smith is a progressive farmer and
believes that a man must read and
study to keep abreast of the needs of
agriculture. His time is only partly
devoted to dairying, as on his 145-acre
farm he has 12-aere hopyard, 10
acre prune orchard, and 3S acres of
land given over to the culture of grain,
all of which demand his personal care
and attention. Seven years ago, when
he moved onto the farm it was run
down and Improbable. During that
time he has steadily increased the fer
tility and improved the mechanical
condition of the soil, until it is highly
productive. Last year he raised one
acre of little yellow dent corn that
went 40 bushels to the acre.
He does not believe in trying to get
something from nothing, and there
fore, Mr.. Smith makes it strict rule
to see that his cows are we'll fed and
well cared for at all times. In the Fall,
he began feeding from an acre of
green corn. 1t was followed by man
gels of which he raised several tons
from a quarter of an acre of ground. |
After the mangels, he feeds kale from
a two-acre patch. Last year his sup
ply of kale ran short by the first of
February, but this year he will have
plenty. He has good success in rails
ing it, the heads averaging as much as
80 pounds. Whenever a bright day
number of days, so when a storm
comes he is not unprepared. During
the recent snowy weather his cows
did better, he says, than when the
weather was milder. At such times
they are not allowed to stand around
outside, shivering in the cold. but are
kept in warm shelter, being let out in
the morning and again in the evening,
for water.
Feed and Care Required.
Mr.. Smith is a firm believer in the
necessity of plenty of good, well-bal-
anced feed for the dairy COW, and he
carries out his belief i'm practice. Each
cow is given at a feed a five-pound
pail of chopped oats, a five-pound pail
of bran, and the same sized pail of
alfalfa meal. They are also given
plenty of good vetch hay, and when he
is feeding kale they get SO pounds of
that day.
As far as possible, the cows are
kept from being frightened or annoy
ed, and a dog is not permitted on the
place. Strangers are not allowed to
milk them, as Mr.. Smith thinks they /,
give better results when he takes care
of them himself. He is very particu-
lar on that point, and among his herd /
he has three four-year-old cows that
have never been milked by anyone
else.
Not more than two calves are kept !
each year, but they are the best, and
they are crowded from the very first. :
In this way the cows have been i'm /
proved from year to year, until he :
now has a fine lot OF grade cows.
As a sort Of by-product of his dairy, {
MFR. Smith raises hogs. and the demand ]
IS such that ne can sell the pigs for SO Z
each at six weeks Of age, faster than
he can raise them. He has one SOW
that produced 56 pigs in four litters,
which. at that rate. would be worth
t1GS