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The Spectator., 1915-12-31
CONCORD

We are having fine weather for Xmas time. Old Santa has come and gone. Everone is well pleased with what he left them.
 MT. and Mrs. Ed. Kitchen and little daughter, Ruby, of Alix came out to attend Mrs Kitchen S brothers infare dinner at her fathers Mir. R. Gambrel.
 MT. Elmer Gambrel and Miss Clarice Turner were married at her fathers home, MT. and Mrs. Elias Turner, Dec. 22nd.
 Mir. Will Thompson and family near Ozark, visited Mrs. Thomp- sons father and mother, MT. and Mrs. G. w. Bilard, Sat. night.
 Mir. John Dill of Tenn. and Mr. Moark of Okla. and Mr. John Hatcher and family of Okla. are visiting Mir. and Mrs. A. J. Dill.
 Jesse Turner of Cass, visited this place Sunday. The school at Concord is pro- gressing nicely. Next Friday will end the first month of school. MT. and Mrs. Fonso Shuller and family .isited Mir. and Mrs. Threadgill Xmas. Miss Beulah Threadgill visited Miss Elzora Gambrel, Christmas afternoon.
 Miss Helen Threadgill, Miss Helen Brannen and Mir. Claude Marret, Mr. Cornnie Dill, Mir. Everett Mayes and MT. Tom Keaton visited MT. R. Grambrel Sunday.
 Red Bird.
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PREACHING ON THE STREET

If Saturday IS a suitable day J. w. Pruitt, of San Antonio. Tex, will speak on the street about 1:30 D. m. Subject. What Makes the World so Bad After 1900 Years of Preaching?" Mir. Pruitt is known by thou sands of people as the Cow Boy Evangelist" Hear Him.
 xxx.
The Spectator., 1915-12-31
TRUCK FARMING
MT. Editor Spectator.

l notice some one wrote from Texas, that he farms to live and gives quite a list of what he does and raises; truck patch to live and save expences. have lived in Ozark. Ark, 10 years, the first 8 years 1 kept a horse and COW, have never bought more than one ton of hay. have one and one half acres on which l raise my hay and irish potatoes, grow ing two crops each year. For two years have had no COW and for two years 1 have carried over hay, so this fall 1 bought two yearlings to eat my surplus hay. 1 buy 35 bushels of corn each fall for my chickens. Don't think l have fed my horse over 5 bushels corn in 2 years. have 75 fruit trees, peaches, pears, apples, cherries, and plums. 1 sell some to neigh bors, use all we can while green, dry all we can use, can it in more than dozen different ways, ship some. but as you you al" know. don't get much for it. I have garden about B yards square in which l have two rows of grapes. two of blackberries, bed of strawberries, 8 feet broad. Off of this 1 have sold 300 pounds grapes. 15O quarts blackberries, the same of strawberries. 1 raised 25 bush els sweet potatoes, bunch beans, pole beans, onions, turnips, peas, radishes, okra, tomatoes. egg plant, lettuce, sweet and hot pepper. have lettuce, turnip greens. onions and to- matoes now, green onions s to 12 inches long. Have raised l35 pumpkins from 9 hills. l have a roasting ear patch. sometimes watermelons, musk melons and cantelopes. Buy POO pounds pork each year, live on chicks and eggs balance of the time. We sell potatoes and eggs what we cant use. but find market for chicks at home. 1 have one- half acre of Bermuda on which my horse lives thru grass time.
 Daniel Jeffers.
The Spectator., 1915-12-31
WHO AM I?

am more powerful than the combined armies of the world.
 l have destroyed more men than all the wars of the world.
 l am more deadly than bullets, nd 1 have wrecked more homes than the mightiest of siege guns.
 steal in the United States alone, over $300, GOO, 900 each year.
 1 spare no one, and l find my victims among the rich and poor alike, the young and old; the strong and weak: widows and orphans know me.
 1 loom up in such proportions that 1 cast my shadow over every field of labor from the turning of the grindstone to the moving of every railroad train.
 1 massacre thousands upon thousands of wage-earners in a year.
 1 turk in unseen places, and do most of my work silently. You are warned against me, but you heed not. 1 am relentless. 1 am every where: in the home, on the streets. in the factory, at rail road crossings, and on the sea.
 1 bring sickness, degradation, and death, and put few seek to avoid me.
 1 destroy, crush, or main: l give nothing, but take all.
 1 am your worst enemy.
 1 am Carelessness.
 Miss Ruth Powe is visiting in Fort Smith.
The Spectator., 1915-12-31
COLE-HARRIS

Miss Bonnie Harris and Mir. l. l.. Cole were married at the home of the bride in Dardanelle, on Christmas eve. They spent Christmas in Dardanelle and re- turned here the first of the week, and'are at home in the Dr. Sher- burne place on Third street. We extend congratulations.
The Spectator., 1915-12-31

Miss Ruth Powe is visiting in Fort Smith.
The Spectator., 1915-12-31
ENTERPRISE
Lots of rain this week and some sleet.

Lots of rain this week and some sleet.
 Lagrippe in this part too numerous to mention all their names. Most every family has from one to six and seven cases.
 Our school teacher of this place, Oliver Moore, has taken to bed with lagrippe. His brother, Charlie, is teaching the school until his recovery.
 Ernest Shamblin who is teach ing the Liberty Hill school near Hunt is in bed with lagrippe.
 The Christmas tree at Enter prise was a success. A good program was rendered. No one was ''boozy," and extra good order.
 Ernest Shablin was the guest of Arthur Price last Thursday.
 Lee Edwards gave a Christ mas dinner on Christmas day.
 Mrs. Green Morris happened to a bad accident Wednesday, while standing before an open fire place caught her clothes on fire and was badly burned.
The Spectator., 1915-12-31
SERIOUSLY BURNED

Mrs. Green Morris. residing in the Union Ridge neighborhood, five miles northeast of this place, was very seriously and probably fatally burned last Wednesday morning when her clothing caught afire from an open fire place in her house. She was resting very easy today.
The Spectator., 1915-12-31

his mother, Mrs. Mary Dresher.
 Dart Glover has bought the old Chancey place and will move to 1t soon.
 Morris Jones has gone to Bell view, Tex, to make his home with his aunt, Mrs. w. F. Ham, blln.
 Mrs. Green Morris is in a very critical condition from the severe burn she received We'd nesday. The entire community extend their deepest sympathy.
The Spectator., 1915-12-31

Judge Weaver has got it in his bones to run for representa- tive. He has not finally made up his mind, but our opinion is that shortly after the Charles ton court. Uncle Buck" will be covorting over the coun- try shaking hands with the the horny handed farmers and soliciting their support.
The Spectator., 1915-12-31

Mrs. Ed Garner came in from Los Angeles, Calif., Wednesday night. Her mother, Mrs. G. A. Carter, was afraid of the change in climate in mid-winter and decided to remain in California till spring.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-08-03
A NEuTRAL CONFERENCE.

The Independent declares that the
hour has come for a conference OF
neutral nations upon the questions
growing out of the war, and to ex-
ert the influence of the neutral world
toward the restoration of peace. In
as much as the material interests of
the whole earth are more or less in
volved in this great struggle, and ev-
cry nation is concerned in the pro-
lection of fundamental rights which
are being disturbed by the acts of bel
ligerents, there is ample justification
for such a conference, ard a firm.
united stand by all neutrals should
have a powerful influence upon the
course of the war IL not upon its ter
mination. II it were definitely under
stood that all the neutral nations of
the world were Of one accord-in
their Interpretation OF neutral rights.
and in their determination to insist
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-08-03
SAFETY LAST.

In the steamer Eastland disaster
the same as with nearly all catas-
trophies that are not due to natural
causes, the fault can easily be traced
to the fact that someone responsible
for providing adequate safeguards for
life deliberately neglected to follow
the rule of safety first" In the case
of the Eastland this responsibility ap-
pears to have been shared by num-
ber of persons, all of whom must
stand some portion of the blame. The
design of the vessel itself was con-
cededly faulty, and marine experts
now tell us that she never was safe
boat In an effort to remedy this
fault her upper deck was removed
several years ago, but even after this
alteration she was known as a marine
"crank" and experienced lake sailors
fought shy of her.
But the larger and nearer respon-
sibility of course rests on those con-
nected with her management and use
at the immediate time of the disaster
which caused the needless sacrifice
of hundreds of lives. Only year
ago her allowed passenger capacity
was 1000, yet an accommodating fed
eral inspector increased this to $500
at the solicitation of the owners
Here the responsibility begins to be
more clear and definite 1t is now
known, also, that even the legal limit
was largely exceeded on the doy of
the accident, it being claimed that
the number of persons aboard at the
time of the accident was nearly, if
not quite, 1900. 1t also is admitted
that something was wrong with her
water ballast system and the engineer
has stated he could not make II work
properly. And, finally it is signifi
cant that when the vessel was listing
dangerously at her dock the captain
sent warning to members Of the
crew, but for some unexplained reas-
on failed to give warning to the pas
seneers, or to take any step to free
the latter from their peril.
All around in fact, the good rule of
safety first appears to have been
displaced by the careless and negli-
gent reverse rule of safety last" And
back of this carelessness and negli-
gence was the old fault of greed-the
desire to make the last dollar of
profit, regardless of risk and danger
to those who We're invited to make
use of the boat, and who had a right
to expect that reasonable and proper
precautions would be taken to safe
guard them against just such hazards.
1t was terrible and costly mistake
on the part of those who shared in
this responsibility, and no doubt
someone will be made to pay the PEN
atty But this will not repair the
damage or restore the lost lives. What
is needed is the kind of regulation
that will prevent such accidents, by
choking down the greed of men who
allow the dollar sign to obscure the
motto of safety first"
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-08-03
MATERIALS ABUNDANT.

Official investigations have estab-
lished the fact that Germany is am
ply supplied with all raw material
necessary to continue the war for a
long time. Good crops are furnishing
sufficient quantities of breadstuffs,
vegetables and potatoes, even permit
ting a considerable increase in cattle
and swine, the number of which had
been artihcially decreased to guard
against scarcity of potatoes and
fodder. The production of meat is
thus increased. There are plenty of
vegetable substances to produce all
necessary oils and fats.
OF greater importance is the cer-
tainty that Germany is producing
enough lead to satisfy all demands.
Besides the large reserve stores, there
are immense quantities of lead pipes
which are easily replaceable with
iron. The stores of copper are large
enough to manufacture all shells and
shrapnel far beyond the probable dur
alton of the war. Even If the pre-
diction of Germanys enemies that
the war will be of long duration
should prove true, the copper now in
private use could be replaced easily
with other materials. Statistics show
that the amount of copper used in
roofs. household utensils, pots, plates
and boilers is more than 100000, 900
tons, which is sufficient to continue
the war for many wears
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-08-03
JUST A PIE.

The st. Joseph Gazette is much in
terested in the story of the Chicago
man who makes pies and who placed
an entire page ad. in one of the Chi
cago newspapers to tell the public
about his pastry. The advertising cost
him a vast sum of money-no matter
how the expense is figured. 1t seems
particularly great when we consider
that the entire advertisement-takl
as much space as the largest mercan-
tile establishments of Chicago en-
ploy in attracting attention to their
immense stocks of goods-was devot-
ed to talking about something which
retails for a dime. Moreover, that
something was just a pie.
What could a man say about a pie
which everybody who eats pie would
not already know? inquiries The
Marshtield Times. How might such
an expenditure for such purpose be
considered at all likely to earn even
slight return on the cost? 1t is all
well enough to spend large sums of
money advertising something to
which popular attention is being di-
rected for the first time. But pie
everybody who likes pie knows all
about pie. There could be no oppor-
tunity for building up profitable pie
business merely from talking in the
newspapers about pie.
That is what a lot of people would
say, and they would believe it, too.
But the Chicago man who makes pies
thought differently. He told news
paper readers about his own brand of
pie-how delicious it's taste, what
fine dessert it makes above all others,
how young and old acclaim his spec
ial pastry to be the very choicest to
be found anywhere. He talked as
though it kept him extremely busy
making his kind of pie fast enough
to supply the demand for it from
people unwilling to eat any other.
Down in the corner of the page he
showed a picture of the place in
which his pie was made, and it was
like the advertisement-big and at
tractive.
We fancy this pie announcement is
about the first page-size publicity of
that kind ever indulged in by pie
maker. We are certain, too, that it
paid, for reading it. we longed to
send the office boy out with dime to
buy one of those particular splendid
pies We have no doubt that the ad-
vertising made other people hungry,
too. and that thousands of these were
able to Immediately buy |
the pie they had been reading about. |
It pays to advertse-anything that |
the owner wishes to sell to somebody |
else. If there is possible profit in the |
leal. advertising will make the dis
posing of the property easier and the |
gain therefore better. 1t matters not |
whether it be a $1,000 piano or To-
,ent pie that is offered-the more the
bargain is offered, the great will be
he financial benefit to the advertiser.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-08-03
AN AGE OF SPEED.

Celebrity in travelling has always
been one of mans great ambitions
and during the last few years more
progress has been made in this dl-
rection than for many preceding CEN
turtles. On land and in the air he
now exceeds the swiftest birds in
their flight. A recent item related
that some homing pigeons in Texas
had broken the record of their tribe
by making an average of forty-one
miles an hour for a distance of 500
miles. Yet about the same time an
automobile in test at Chicago aver
aged 100 miles an hour, and the old
dream of "a mile a minute" is at
tained easily and every day by men
who think nothing of this perform
ance. Real flying machines, the cher
ished ambition of inventors for ages,
also have become an accomplished
fact, and they soar like the birds, eX-
ceed them in rapid motion, and go
through evolutions beyond the range
of the feathered sort.
A locomotive has travelled at the
rate of 120 miles an hour. Motor
boats have covered forty-five miles an
hour and each year shows an ad-
vance in their speed. Aeroplanes have
worked up to a flight of nearly 100
miles an hour and an altitude of six
miles Birds are so far outclassed
that they can no longer be said to be
in the running for records. 1t long
seemed that human air flight was too
battling a problem ever to be solved
in practical sense, but at length
success came with a rush. No limita-
tons to what it may become can now
be seen. 1t may in time be the choic-
est method of travel. For simple
ease of motion it is the most agree
able and its swiftness already is great
er than was expected.
1t is said that war legislates. 1t
certainly stimulates invention with an
intensity not seen at other times. Ma
poleon's most important rule of ac-
ton was celebrity. The world apprec-
iates speed in its various forms, and
the progress made in it is simply
SO wonderful, in fact,
that humanity as yet fails to grasp the
real significance of the changes which
have been wrought in this direction.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-08-03
GOOD ADVICE.

In the current issue of Farm and
Fireside contributor writes an inter-
esting and practically helpful article,
full of sound advice to farmers, on
the subject of the purchase of farm
machinery. He takes up the guaran-
tees which many manufacturers give
with their goods. Some say that such
guarantees are of no value and 9TH
ers say that they really protect the
purchaser. The following general
comment on the subject of guarantees
is taken from the article: ITS good
plan in reading a guarantee to see
whether it fully covers all points in
which you want protection, Some
guarantees sound convincing but real
ly promise very little. If you want
a free trial or shipment on approval
you can sometimes get such a privi-
lege by asking for it, But it is unwise
to assume any more than is actually
specified.
Modern business is built up largely
on guarantees. People do not like to
trade with folks they cannot trust
That business is getting freer from
traps and hooks is due largely to
guarantees, some of which assure you
of satisfaction or your money back
Others promise iong-contiuued SER
vice and free repairs. while still 9TH
ers give a free trial till you make up
your mind whether you want to buy.
The idea is to help you get your full
moneys worth, and to make you feel
safe in buying an article on which you
are not fully posted but which you
want if 1t suits you.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-08-03
Wells Gives Land to County.

Commissioner Wells was in town
yesterday, and when asked why he
was undertaking to hornswoggle al
the money from the road fund for
roads in his district, he replied that
the records would show that this dis
trict was getting no more than it is
entitled to. Il personally" he said,
gave the county strip of land 200
rods long by fifty feet wide through
my farm in order to make road
around a hill instead of over it, and
did not ask cent remuneration
therefor. The road is being built for
the benefit of the many and not for
me individually, and while there may
be some dissatisfaction in my section
/ believe that on the whole the peo-
pie are satisfied with what the court
is doing in the way of road construc-
ton"
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-08-03

upon proper respect for their rights
the belligerents could hardly afford
either to defy or to ignore them.
| 1t is true enough that with the ex-
ception of the United States all of the
neutral countries are comparatively
small and unimportant. Outside of
Asia and Africa there are some thir-
ty-five independent countries not at
war. Their combined population is
but so per cent greater than the popu-
lation of the United States, and their
combined resources probably less than
ours, yet altogether they could WELD
an influence quite out of proportion
to the sum of their individual powers.
There is this danger, however. The
overwhelming superiority of the Uni
ted States would place upon its shoul-
ders large share of the responsible
ties growing out of such confer
ence, and the tendency among the
representatives of this multitude OF
minor nations would very likely be
to let us take all the burden upon our
selves The big brother act is very
fine and very beautiful, and Uncle
Sam has done some great things in
international altruism, but he can
hardly undertake to shoulder the
troubles of the entire neutral world.
However, a conference of neutrals
whose work would be limited to the
expression of views and to the offering
of mediation would not be open to
that objection, and it might accom-
plish great things even under such
strictions.-Globe Democrat.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-08-03
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF
ADMINISTRATOR.

Notice is hereby given that the un-
dersigned, w. A. Keyt, by an order
of the County Court of the State of
Oregon for Polk County made and
entered on July 13, 1915, was duly ap-
pointed administrator d. b. n. with the
will annexed of the estate and of the
Last Will and Testament of E. c.
Keyt. deceased, and that he has duly
qualified as such. Now therefore all
persons having claims against the
said estate or against the said deced-
ent are hereby notified and required
to present the same with the proper
vouchers and duly verified, to the
undersigned administrator at the law
office of L. d. Brown in Dallas, Ore
gon, within six months from the date
OF the first publication of this notice
or be forever barred.
Dated July 16, 1915.
W. A. KEYT,
Administrator d. b. n. with the will
annexed of the estate and Last Will
and Testament of E. c. Keyt. deceased.
b. A. KLIKS,
McMinnville, oregon, Attorney
for said administrator. J16-A6
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-08-03

representative of the American people
in general. If the American people,
as Mr.. Spring Rice would have us be-
lieve. are for the allies, what makes
him presume that the laboring classes
would go to the length of strike sac
rifices in order to prevent ammuni-
ton shipments to England? If, on
the other hand, they are pro-German,
why, then his first contention rails
to the ground. Or, are we to pre-
sumo that any partisanship our work.
ing classes may feel sink into immed-
late insignificance as soon as some-
body shows cash money? No matter
which way you look at it, the whole
talk appears idle and vicious. And,
worse it is stupid.
For these strikes are due to exactly
the same causes that furnish the real
reason for strikes in all cases. The
,workingmen realize that this Is a
great money-making season for con-
tractors who furnish the allies with
war munitions, and they want their
share of the profits. Whatever may
be said against such tendency from
an economic or patriotic viewpoint
cannot alter the fact. The workman,
worthy of his hire ever raising his
valuation in direct ratio to the de-
mand in which he finds himself, and
being ever on the lookout for an op-
portunity to better himself, he sees
no reason to let the present chance
escape. And, right or wrong, war or
no war, this is an axiom of economics
that even a Gompers ought to appre-
ciate by this time.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-08-03

Louis j. Simpson of North Bend,
who last fall announced his candidacy
for congressional honors in this dis
his time being too precious to devote
to such trivial matters as politics. His
position is well taken. While Simp-
son is popular in his own balliwiek.
he does not enjoy an extensive ac-
quaintance through the first district,
and even were this the case there are
other good and sufficient reasons why
his candidacy would not be greeted
with enthusiasm.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-08-03
MUNITIoN FACTORIES.

There is considerable gossip goins
about in labor and diplomatic circles
10 the effect that recent strikes in
American factories being utilized in
the manufacture of munitions are due
to some nefarious and outside cause,
presumably German influence. OF
course, no proof is forthcoming. and
unless somebody in Washington is af-
fected by the heat, there will be no
investigation. The best thing officials
can do in a foolish case like this is to
ignore it. But it leaves bad taste,
and We trust that the spokesmen for
the unions will come back with
quick and determined denial and thus
end the nonsense.
American laborers are. no doubt,