Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-28
TERSE TALES OF TOWN
LOCAL NEWS OF DALLAS AND
THIS NEIGHBORHOOD
Personal Paragraphs Pertaining to
People and Their Movements,
Cleaned by Observer.

ing at Dayton during the week.
Tracy Staats, DR.. V. C. Stats and
Ii. d. Stats and families made up .
happy party this week on an outing
to Tillamook and other coast resorts
DR.. Starbuck, Fred Gibson of Eola
and Rollin Beaver arc spending a few
days in the Salmon river country on a
fishing trip.
Gladys Martin has returned from
North Yamhill where she has been on
a vacation.
Miss Eunice Ebbert of Condor, Ore
gon, who has been the guest of E. l..
Johnson and family, left Saturday for
Eugene.
Thos. Catherwood was a Portland
visitor on business Friday.
A large oil tank was installed the
past week in the Williams heating
plant, being container for fuel oil,
which will be substituted for wood.
Mrs. p. A. Finseth went to Port
land Monday morning for visit with
relatives.
Mrs. B. Casey and daughter, Helen,
left Monday for Roseburg where they
will visit relatives for the next two
months.
j. c. Hayter was a passenger on the
Monday morning train for Tillamook
on pleasure trip.
d. M. Hampton, of Monmouth,
chairman of the Republican County
Central committee, was in Dallas, Sat
urday.
Sarn Best of Portland was an over
Sunday guest of Bert Downey and
family.
G. f. Corsen, formerly manager of
the New Scott hotel, was Dallas
business visitor Saturday.
Among the Dallasites at Newport
this week are Mrs. O. C. Coffin, Vey
Coffin and Ed Wilson and Lee Glenn
ems and families.
Mr.. F. H. Morrison left this fore
noon for Waconda, a station on the
Oregon Electric, there to visit his
niece, Mrs Juvia Heath, who, with her
husband, will soon leave for Manila.
There was a dance at Suver on
Thursday night last, which was well
attended
Mrs. Bat Casey and daughter, Miss
Helen, left this morning to be gone
for the remainder of the summer.
Mrs. Casey will go to California and
Miss Helen will visit in Roseburg.
Miss Grace Spong, stenographer in
the county school superintendent s Of
flee, is taking her vacation and Miss
Nola Coad is taking her place.
"Bill" Hines has returned from
near Butler, where he was "keeping
score' for the county court on road
work.
Miss La Verne Kayler returned to
Portland yesterday afternoon, after
IL week s visit with her sister, Mrs.
II. E. Thayer.
With an abundance of hay, choice
in quality, the hay-raisers are at sea
as to price and place of storage. The
vetch and oats are turning out be-
yond sanguine expectations. 1t is
stated by those who seem to know that
the destruction of the Portland dock
recently and the absence for storage
in other places is responsible for
lack of bids for this forage crop.
VIM. Bevens and wife of Buena
Vista were Sunday visitors of Mr..
and Mrs. L. S. Ballantyne. Mr.. Be-
vens drove over in his auto Saturday
and returned to his home Sunday
evening.
Mr.. Darr of Bridgeport recently
traded his twenty-seven-acre farm
there for house and four lots in
Salem.
C. H. Hoag is so seriously i'll that
he is confined in bed.
Rev. G. H. Bennett and Mr.. Far
rington left on Monday for a fishing
trip on the Siletz.
Richard E. Kingery and Mary Eliz-
abeth Fuller both of Kings Valley,
were married at Corvallis last week.
The corner stone of the new fed
eral building at Albany was laid last
Saturday.
-Four Amity young men are gather
ing cascara bark on the headwaters
of the Big Luckiamute, and will soon
market about 1000 pounds.
There is movement at Willamina
for the establishment of a cheese fac
tory.
Hugh Boyd. of Duvall. Washington,
a former Dallas citizen. was in the
city Wednesday and Thursday visit
ing relatives and friends. Mr. Boyd
is on his way home from Newport
where has has been spending a few
weeks with his family who have
cottage at Nye Beach.
4 new daughter is reported at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Eric Oman.
John Brown and wife returned yes
terday from their outing on the coast.
Earl Portmiller. a classmate of Carl
Fenton during his work at the state
university of Oregon. passed Sunday
with the latter, attending in the mean
time the ball game at Sheridan. in
which Mr.. Fenton participated with
honors.
Representative Verd Hill and Mr..
Sloper of Independence were Dallas