Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1913-05-06

rience Of other cities. There Is no
occasion for the macadam stage in
the business district of any city OF
town, with a future before it. While
property owners may object to the
higher priced improvement. and In
sist that the ''town isn't large
enough for hard surface, the time
will come, and usually in a very few
years, when the hard surface will
be demanded and will become an as
sured fact. Then a large share Of
the money expended in the unsatis-
factory and unsanitary macadam
will have been squandered in vain.
Property owners in any community
will be dollars ahead in the end if
they omit the macadam stage en-
tirely and 90 at once from plain
dirt streets to pavement. Dallas peo-
pie see the philosophy in this argu-
ment very forcibly at this time. The
paving should have been done wears
ago.
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Fiske. Of the Itemizer. wants it dis
tinctly understood that he was the
first to advocate hard surface paving
in Dallas and he doesn't want any
Of his glory bestowed upon another.
now that he finds the improvement
has become popular. We feel deeply
panied that the Observer even init
mated that somebody else thought Of
something before the Itemizer editor
of course that would be impossi- |
bic; everybody knows it, but we F.!
ieep making mistakes Of this kind.
somehow. But we really didn't
hink that Fiske was first with the
dea. That must have been soon af-
er he finished digging the William
tie and building Mount Hood. These
obs were pulled off about the time
hat old man Puget was digging the
Ound, consequently Fisk couldn t
elp him with it. although history
Informs us that he thought Of it
rst. AT that time he interviewed
ONE Of the inhabitants but they
lought the Willamette job would be
heaper, 50 he was robbed of the
lrger contract. Darn it. how fel-
w. forgets!
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The decision Of the Portland iurist
Y which the Southern Pacific com.
any loses out in its fight for ..
10000 acres Of 0. & c. lands in Or q
yon, brings no JOY to the hundreds |
ho were induced to spend Their
1Od money for possible claims. Il
declared that, if the government :
lally secures control Of the land, =
icy will be opened to entry and =
ttlement without regard to pravi- b
Is filings. Another proof of the d
sertion that it doesn't pay to lis :
n to the siren song Of the fellow
no profits through the gullibility G
those who want an "inside deal" u
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The editor of a Kansas paper SAYS -
at he picked up a Winchester rife ?,
Gently and started up the street d
deliver the weapon to its owner
le delinquent subscribers got it in. tc
their heads that he was on the W
II path, and everyone he met in rc
ted on paying all they owed. One
IN wiped out a ten years standing.
his return to the office he found
load Of corn, ten bushels of po- IN
toes, a load of wood. and barrel
turnips that had been brought in re
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If this chilly spring weather
esn't warm up before many days tt
is feared that the Democratic th
I'm tree will be badly frost bitten.
lile very small amount of fruit in
) been picked the majority of it ~
ms in no hurry to bloom. II.
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Well, Bryan's western trip wasn't
ogether in vain after all. He laid
corner stone for the new Y. NJ.
A. building in San Francisco and
de a speech or two. - 80
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Bryan Awaits Wilson, 5 Orders
Sacramento says a headline in mr.,
daily press. Not entirely true. bu
may have awaited Wilson's or Ne
5 but he obeyed Hi Johnson'S.
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aterpillarS have invaded Salem.
'ther evidence that the ancient !
is experiencing some activity at we