Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-05
TERsE TALES OF TOWN
LOCAL NEWS OF DALLAS AND
THIS NEIGHBoRHooD.
Personal Paragraphs Pertaining t.
People and Their Movements,
Cleaned by Observer.

two for Los Angeles, California
where he has been offered a positio
on one of the leading dailies. If
again Joins the ranks of newspape
men, L. A. Dickinson will have charg
OF his orchards for the next tw
years. Mr.. Johnson was busines
manager of the Tacoma Daily Time
during the year of 1914. For severa
years prior he was advertising man
ager of the Oregon Daily journal O
Portland, and for over four years pre-
ceding his Portland connection wa
with the business office staff of tn,
San Francisco Chronicle. His hom,
and orchard is one of the prettiest O.
Polk county.
Messrs. c. v. johnson, 2. A. Frenct
and j. F. Ulrich of Airlie were Dal
las business visitors on Wednesday
Mr.. Ulrich returned on Monday from
two months visit with friends and
relatives in North Dakota.
c. L. Starr, tax adjuster, Of Port
land was in Dallas Tuesday.
j. c. Cannoy, one Of the prosperous
farmers of the West Salem district
was a Dallas visitor on Wednesday
Mr.. Cannoy says the people of his
locality are considerably inconveni-
enced by the closing of the inter.
county bridge.
Peter Finseth transacted business
in Portland on Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Wagner are
spending the week in Portland
Mrs. Ella J. Metzger returned from
McMinnville to spend Tuesday in Dali
las, returning the same day to her
mothers bedside. Mrs. Metzger's
mother has been very low since early
last week and for several days her
life was despaired of.
Mrs. Beaver is visiting at the home
of DR.. and Mrs. A. B. Starbuck.
Miss Violet Conkey Of Monmouth
is visiting her sister, Mrs. Dick Web
ster.
Mr. and'Mrs. M. D. Ellis left Thurs
day for an extended visit at San
Francisco.
Pastor W. 7. Tapscott of the Bap-
tist church, will take for his subject
Sunday morning, ga Sleeping Church
and a Wide-Awake World" " Even
ing subject, "Disobedience to the
Gospel and What Comes of It.'
The Rev. Howard Mcconnell Of
the Christian church announces "Four
Essentials to Church Life" as his
subject for the Sunday morning SER
vice at IL a. m. Bible school at 10
a. m.; Christian Endeavor meeting,
$50 p. m.; evangelistic service 7:30
p M, subject "Locusts and Honey" I"
c. L. Crider was business. visitor
in Portland Tuesday and Wednesday.
DR.. McNicol reports the birth of
o nine pound girl to Mr.. and Mrs. C.
Powers of Falls City on Tuesday.
Having been siezed with an acute
attack of appendicitis, L. E. Beebe
was brought home from his farm ten
miles from the city on Tuesday. That
Mr.. Beebe is progressing nicely is the
report of the attending physician.
Mr. and Mrs. M. d. Ellis left last
evening for an extended trip through
California. They will visit at San
Francisco and may go to the San Die
go fair.
Mrs. e. N. Hall of Woodburn was
a guest of friends in the city on We'd
nesday, leaving the same day for
Kings Valley, where she will spend
several days with her daughter.
H. l.. Hays and A. H. lizard of
Nortons, Oregon, were visitors in Dal-
as on Wednesday.
E. E. McNamar of Willamina spent
in Dallas.
M. d. Leabo of Hubbard was
suest of his sister, Mrs. G. W. McBee
Mrs. Eva Butler is visiting at the
ome of her daughter, Mrs. Rodney
,oulter. Mrs. Butler was called re- ,
emily from her home in Portland to /,
ttend to insurance adjustment on a !
mall fire that threatened a house y
'hich she owns at Monmouth. The =
re occurred last Friday evening, and
the kitchen. Only by the "
resence of several persons, it is said,
as the house saved from destruction. u
A fire that damaged the home of +
I, M. Grant in September and the y
vner did not make report of the :,
re to insurance adjustors until this =
eek. The damage was appraised y,
Id an allowance made.
Mrs. Field Allen was operated on
the Dallas hospital yesterday and NJ
ii probably be a patient there for nj
n days or two weeks. r,
Henry Serr will return today from ns
incy, Wash, where he went on r,
nday to be with his father in
Tere illness. The elder Mr.. Serr r
5 very much recovered from a par
tic stroke and is considered out of su
nger.
Dr.. W. A. Foster and family drove
II from Corvallis on Sunday and WI
mt the day with DIR. Fosters par ey,
5, DR. and Mrs. ID. L. Foster. ple
'om Stockwell left today for Bend. Da
expects to make his home at that Mr.
ee. where the lumber industry is lea
ming, but is not quite sure that he car
not be back in Dallas within the An
sent month. ha,
Ir. and Mrs. Ohio Williams return loc,
yesterday from Portland, where apr
! spent several days. yer
uther J. Chaplin, former agrieul- Pile