Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-17
TERSE TALES OF TOWN
LOCAL NEWS OF DALLAS AND
THIS NEIGHBORHOOD.
Personal Paragraphs Pertaing tt
People and Their Movements,
90 Cleaned by Observer.

took course in library methods. Th
trip was pleasant one, but Oregon
advantages and climate are now doub
ly appreciated, so says Miss Muscott
James Bailey and family of Ne
braska are guests this week of MI
and Mrs. Finseth. They are mucI
pleased with the coast country.
Mesdames Gregory and Holman ar
at the sea shore this week.
Fl. G. Campbell took an automo
bile load of young people to tn
Christian Endeavor meeting at Tur
ner on Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. d. Hillery, formel
residents of Dallas have gone tt
Roy, Washington, where Mr. Hillery
expects to engage in business.
Mrs. Lydia Miller left on Wednes
day for an extended visit with friend:
in Portland.
VIM. Ridgeway of Buell. was Dalla:
visitor this week.
Mrs. w. A. Griffin and little son
Joe, left on Wednesday for Newport
where they hope to improve the
health of the child, who has infam,
matory rheumatism.
Mr.. Fred Wells went to Pendleton
on Wednesday to work for the sum-
mer.
Attorney Oscar Hayter returned on
Wednesday, after short business trip
to Portland.
Mrs. A. H. Collins left on We'd
nesday for vacation trip to New
port.
D. A. Downey and family, who were
motoring to Gearhart, altered their
plans because of bad roads encounter
ed and went to Florence instead for
a weeks vacation.
There will be no band concert Sat
urday evening, as several members Of
the band accompanied the militia to
the encampment.
S. B. Taylor returned the first of the
week from Timber, where he had been
on a railroad survey.
Messrs. N. l.. Guy, Lloyd Soehren
and W. R. Howe returned the first of
the week from fishing trip on the
Siletz, where they caught some record
speckled beauties.
M. A. Vandenberg of Eola was in
town on Wednesday nursing sore
hand. While logging in the woods
near his home he caught his foot
on a snag and fell, his hand striking
splinter on stump and inllicting
a bad wound.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ D. Ellis returned
on Wednesday from an automobile
trip to the Tillamook coast, where
they spent three days most delight
fully. Mr.. Ellis says the roads are
ideal.
Prof. Metzger and Rev. Gates have
been in the Siletz country this week
angling for trout. 1t will be the pro-
fessor's last opportunity to sport with
the speckled beauties of the coast
country, for he will depart within a
few weeks for Iowa, where he has ac-
cepted a position as instructor in one
of the leading educational institutions
of that state.
On Sunday evening next Rev. Gates
will deliver the second of a series OF
sermons on "The Baseball of Life,'
taking for his theme, "Stealing Sec
ond." The first discourse last Sun
day attracted considerable atten-
ton, and the attendance on this oc-
casion will undoubtedly be much
larger.
County Superintendent of Schools
II. C. Seymour, wife and party, re-
turned on Wednesday from a pleas
ant outing on the Nestucca river in
Tillamook county. The party made
the trip by automobile.
Many growers are spraying their
hops.
The lesson sermon at Christian
Science next Sunday morning will be
Life" Other meetings as usual.
Early peaches are on the market,
only two weeks later than the first
fruit of the kind to arrive from Cali
fornia. The peaches are Of excellent
quality.
The city council will convene on
evening next.
County Clerk Robinson returned on
Wednesday from Portland, whittier
he was called by the illness of his
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Martin, Mr. and
Mrs. w. L. Tooze, Jr., and Mr. and
Mrs. Lew A. Gates were recently on
he headwaters of the Big Luckiamute
ishing.
Mark Holmes, a well known farm I
n of northern Polk county, was ,
business visitor in Dallas, Monday. He
vas accompanied by his brother-in- d
aw. W. |. Lacey, of Anadarke, Ok !
ahoma.
John Peters and family arrived in
Dallas from Saskatchewan, Canada,
o make their future home in Polk
ounty. Mr.. Peters looked this sec
ion of the state oyer three years ago )
md finally decided to locate here. =
Charles Hayter is visiting at the /.
iome of his sitter, Mrs. H. H. Pat
erson on Grays River, Washington.
Mrs. Frank Kerslake of Suver Is
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