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Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-12

| |. 0. 0. F., probably the first frater-
nal group in Polk county, purchased
various things at various times. The
organization is charged, in one place,
with ~ box candles, 81, /" but that was
some years before AL. Snyder bought
candles for the order Many papers
of pins were sold at Is cents each,
sugar sold at 5 pounds for dollar,
coffee was cheaper then than now,
and the shoes that were in popular
demand in that day brought the mer-
chants from $1.25 to $1.75 and in
rare cases, especially in the sale of
boots, they took in So. Mrs. John
Turpin's Sunday shoes cost her $1.5O
and Henry Wineset, the first shoe
maker in the county, paid 81 cents for
bottle of ink. Hickory, casinette
and calico, with an occasional yard
or so of drill, velvet or Irish linen,
we're the chief dry-goods that changed
hands. Judith Shelton, mother of
Miss May Shelton of Dallas, was an
early day purchaser of much cloth,
according to the evidence in the led
ger. Isaac Levens, whose donation
land claim is now west Dallas, bought
two tin pans for $3.50. Charles La
follett, an uncle of Aleck M. Lafol-
lett, state senator and peach king,
paid $3.50 for fur hat for himself,
and McMinn Dodson, a pioneer
school teacher, bought four Webster
spelling books that came around the
horn in sailing boat, for 81. Prob
ably less than Carey Hayter would
sell them for today, the same Carey
Hayter, whose father, T. j. Hayter,
paid $500 for Al pounds of sugar.
E. w. Carlyle, under whose name an
entry shows that the store did both
a banking and mercantile business,
bought wash board for IS cents and
sealed the transaction by borrowing
"cash Ito go to show ST." Bart
lett Whitlow, who will be instantly
called to the minds of such living men
as Tom Hayter, j. l.. Collins and 9th.
ers, raised the first tobacco in the
county and therefrom manufactured
an odiferous contrivance which he
packed in boxes, labeled as "Segars," !"
and sold to Brown & Heath at the
rate of $3.50 box 1t is not prob
able that those who remember the
maker will testify as to the quality
of his cigars. The contractors who
built the present county Jail in 1858
had many commodities, tools and
nails, charged at the store, according
to the record. Among hundreds of
entries made in the book within the
brief span of few years are: Thom-
as L. Highight, pocket bible, $1.25,
shirt $3.50; Henry Meyer, father of G.
w. Meyer of Dallas, 6 common tum-
bier glasses 1926; John H. Lewis,
cotton thread, 25 cents; Geo. Basket,
4 bushels oats at $4 bushel (now
plentiful at 25 and 80 cents bush
ely; Will Taylor, four pounds dried
apples 81 and DR.. Stewart, l lead
pencil, II cents. Sanford W. Staples
is charged with ~ bottle Pain Kill
er, 80 cents"
Not only did the firm sell
to settlers, but it bought from
them. George Tillotson received ST.
so for a deer skin, and Moses j.
Smith got $1.25 for half a deer skin.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-12
(By M. Seymour)

(By M. Seymour)
For ten years the state of Oregon
has had device known as the Oregon
State brand. Its intended use was
to distinguish first grade Oregon-made
butter from second grade. 1t was
also intended to distinguish Oregon
butter of good quality from butter
not made in Oregon. This same State
brand was abolished by the last legis-
lature because it failed to serve the
purpose for which it was intended.
As far back as 1904 the Dairymen S
association wrestled with the problem
of quality At that time one organi-
cation suificed for both dairymen and
,creamerymen, the membership con-
tanning large proportion of the lat
ter.
During the annual convention of
1904 legislative committee was ap-
pointed with instructions to prepare
a bill providing for a State brand
and its use on all butter of first grade.
This the committee did and it was
duly enacted into law at the following
session of the legislature early in
1905. The following is partial quo
tation of that particular section of
the law as it stood until recently:
Any person or persons, firm, asso-
citation or corporation who shall with
in the state of Oregon manufacture
creamery butter for sale in said state,
shall have printed upon the wrapper
of each roll, print or square, the de-
vice or motto to be adopted and fur
nished by the Oregon dairy and food
commissioner, and such device shall
be known as the Oregon State brand; ;
provided, that all the butter that is
sold as second or third grade butter
shall not be sold in wrappers bearing
the "0regon State Brand All but
ter bearing the "0regon State
Brand" placed in cold storage shall
have the date when stored stamped in
plain letters and figures on each box.
and if said butter remains in cold
storage more than thirty days the
same shall not be sold in wrappers
bearing the "0regon State Brand"
The State brand has been a farce
because it gave absolutely no clue to
quality, there being no provision for
grading the butter and determining
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-12

The thumb-marked and time-worn
pages of an ancient ledger, brought
to The Observer office by J. G. Brown,
reveal many interesting facts in CON
nection with the business dealings OF
pioneer merchants and their early-day
customers in the territory of Oregon.
IL one can read between the lines,
that ledger becomes of double inter-
est, for the peculiarity of pioneer
methods, and the comparison that can
readily be made with costs and sys-
TENS of the present day. The ledger
at hand was the official record book
of the general merchandise store OF
Brown & Heath, operated at North
Dallas, as many as go years ago, by
w. C. Brown and Lucien Heath. w.
C. Brown was the father of j. q.
Brown, through whQse' courtesy The
Observer reviews the interesting vol
ume, and the grandfather of Lot D..
Brown of Dallas. Lucien Heath has
many relatives in Oregon and he was
the first secretary Of state when Ore
gon was admitted to the union in
1859. Brown owned a general store
for a number of years before he and
Heath combined stocks, capital and
energy late in 1857. Their store was
the center of trade in the early days
when Oregon was in its embryonic
stage; when the foundation of state S
notable history was being laid by the
hardy settlers who are responsible
for the present degree of perfection
The general store took the place OF
the newspaper. The nail keg in the
corner by the stove was a seat, per-
haps, for the county clerk, or the
circuit court judge, who swapped the
yarns and gossip of the day with the
blacksmith and the questionable char
acter who had, as if he were abso-
lutely insane, put out the first peach
tree or planted the first apple or
chard, in his barnyard. The box, half
filled with sawdust, by the stove, fur
nished reasonable excuse for inter-
rupting the anti-slavery argument
with the expectoration of stream OF
juice llOul lODdCCO lldI COst ~ SSh'o
a plug. The store, in fact, was the
pivot-point of the community, about
which revolved everything that per-
tanned to the life of the settlement;
where saints and sinners, with the
latter in the majority from the puri-
Tanical view point, congregated to
enjoy the warm comfort of the stove,
when snow piled everywhere, and to
enjoy the boundless blessings of good
Fellowship with next door neigllbors
many miles down the "road.'
OF those men who have enriched
Oregon history by their lives AMI ac-
tions, and whose families have taken
their places in the busy marts that
succeed the general store; whose
great grandchildren listen in wrapt
attention to the tales OF early day
strife and struggle, while snugls cud
died in grandfather lap close to the
silent steam-radiator in the modern
apartment house, or architecturally
perfect bungalow, the names of many
are familiar today through family
ties. Only eight that we can call TO
mind of the then young men, remain
to tell us, first hand, the story of
the pioneers. Those who have defed
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-12

| the fight of time are Judge J.
L. Collins, T. ]. Hayter, Frank Col
hins, Thomas and James Campbell
Of Dallas, John M. PLY Of California,
Joseph L. Morrison of Rock Creek and
Benjamin F. Nichols of Laidlaw.
These are the hardy souls whose grey
ed hair tells as honorable story as
is told of any man or group of men
who ever figured in the development
of the territory or the state. But all
that the book contains is no5 valu-
able alone for the possibilities of The
reminiscent thoughts that come there
from; much is humorous, and some is
almost tragic. Just for instance,
there is story about Hardy Hol-
man s coat. May Hardy, whose life
has been a tribute of respect to the
name of his worthy father, James S.
Holman, who was one of the most en-
thusiastic participants in the stove
side gathering, forgive us for telling
the tale. A notation in the book is:
"To j. S. Holman l fine boys coat,
&c." Can you see, as you read, the
youngster tramping out of that old
store with his chin lifted high over
the collar Of his fur coat? Can you see
him as he forget to speak to passing
friend, and proudly goes out of his way
to be noticed by little girl who
comes down the path as, hand in
hand with dad, the little lad struts
toward home to show mother his first
coat? Seeing such little things be-
tween the lines helps some in reading
the notations in the ledger 1t is a
fact that j. S. Holman plunged the
then great sum of nine dollars into
the best coat in the store, for his
son Hardy. And Hardy tells, with
a deal of pleasure, of the bigness he
felt when he became owner of his
first coat. Sure, mother had been
making his wraps for several years
already, but this was a sure "store
coat" and mothers handicraft was
mostly in the form of shawls and
capes.
There is another charge: "To Polk
county for election supplies, 2 bot
ties ink, u quire paper, pens and
holder, 81 cents" That 81 cents rep.
resents the sum and total of the cost
of holding an election in the Polk
county of the middle fifties. The few
precincts were scattered here and
there, and the intricate system of mod
ern politics was sacrificed in the ear
ly days for economic results. The
few apples that could be grown in the
limited orchards brought top prices.
In one place Ben Whiteaker is given
credit of $3.50 for delivering 212
bushels of his fruit. And when John
Turpin bought II of the same apples
they cost him 75 cents.
The store, though small, was in no
way limited in stock. Everything
from canned tomatoes to saws and
hammers and whisky was to be found
in the establishment. Farm imple-
ments and all kinds of livestock fig
ured in the transactions carried ON.
A grocery, drug, clothing, hardware,
dry-goods and wet-goods stock was
carried at all times, and no matter
what the want of any individual in
the community, it could be satisfied
by Brown & Heath. Friendship lodge,
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-12

to the use rather than the misuse of
the hand separator. Then can the
State brand be made to stand far
quality and the housewife rely upon
II
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-12

"Never bet on two pairs, even with
aces up" saws Tom Caiherwood. " Its
just like the British armies-they
can t win"
The Washington herald., 1915-09-17
GEORGETOWN
u UNIVERSITY
The Law School
Session of 1915-1018 begins October 1.
1915, At ESQ p. m.

secretary's office open daily from .
= m to p. m. for registration and
consultation.
HUGH J. FEGAN, Secretary.
Georgetown Law School Building.
oth and E SITS. N. W. Tel. VI. 72sa,
The Washington herald., 1915-09-17
DON'T BE A SENTIMENTALIST.

What do you think of the man who
gives as his excuse for not wanting
women to have the vote that his
sense of chivalry does not permit it
the man whose sentimental regard
for woman would be outraged if she
went to the polls?
If you have any idea at al on the
subject of the sentimental male you
ought to read the little paragraph in
this weeks Saturday Evening Post on
"The Sentimentalist."
According to the writer, this SEN
timental sanctity does not in the least
involve an effort to make life in any
way brighter for women. 1t does not
involve trying to get shorter hours
or higher wages for her if she is a
breadwinner, or greater security for
her rights if she is wife, or the pro-
lection of the ballot. A community
of true sentimentalists would never
let women vote.
"The sentimentalist is not at all in
terested in Tightening women's work,
improving her political status or
doing anything else that tends to
make her free. He wants her to be
dependent on him. In that condition
he will make her some slobbery
phrases and cheerfully murder who
ever shocks her sentimental instincts
providing he feels quite sure he
can do it with perfect safety to him
SELF"
Not one club or society woman
out of ten knows how to perform the
simple task of getting manuscript
ready for the printer"
That from a busy printer in town
who handles, every winter, a great
deal of program and pamphlet work
for the various club and charity or
CARNATIONS of Washington.
"Most of the copy comes in some
thing like that" and here the printer
man drew forth a batch of manu-
script from his desk drawer. 1t was
written in a large rather dashing
handwriting-the sort of writing that
The Washington herald., 1915-09-17
HOUSE.
DAILY
ECONOMY.
CALENDAR
Shool Lunches or Children.

The child returns to school In the au-
tumn usually in a healthy condition, with
a good appetite. The lunches some chill
dren are given to carry to school are
enough to dull the edge Of any appetite
so try, by planning variety and tempting
food in the childs school lunch, to tempt
its appetite as well as to nourish 1t.
Tho lunch should be daintily but SIM
ply packed. II you don't want to trust
the child with silver-and you probably
dont-there are very good spoons and
forks and knives to be had for 8 to 10
cents. Paper plates and napkins. a COL
lapsible drinking cup that is washed
at home each day, and a basket or box
to carry the lunch in are also needed
One tempting dish for the child is
this: Remove the skin from a large,
rather trat apple. Then remove the core
and into the core hole draw a sausage.
Bake, covered, until the apple is ten
der. cool. and wrap in oiled paper.
Deviled eggs are always a standby. To
! make them. boil the eggs slowly for
| twenty minutes-they are more digestibe
when boiled a long time. Plunge them
in cold water, and remove the shells,
and cut into halves. either lengthwise or
| crosewise. Rub the yolks smooth in n
| bowl. Mix with a little soft butter. pep
per and salt. and something for flavor
| ing-sometimes let it be minced parsley.
SOmetlmeS minced sweet pickles or
pimientos. sometimes a little meat finely
chopped. Then force the yolks back
| into the whites put matching halves to-
gether. and wrap each egg in a little
waxed paper.
Potato salad can be served occasional
ly for the child's lunch. To make it. cut
cold boiled potatoes into dice. mix with
a little minced parsley, and pour over
it a cream dressing. Wrap in individual
portions. each on a lettuce leaf, in
squares Of waxed paper. Sometimes add
chopped parsley to the potato salad. and
sometimes add diced cold boiled tongue,
mutton or chicken.
Banbury tarts may be served occa-
sionally as dessert treat, II your chill
dren are allowed to eat pastry. To make
these delicacies, cream a well beaten egg
with a cupful of sugar. Add the grated
rind and juice of lemon and a cupful
of chopped raisins. Cook in. double
boiler until thickened. Make a good
pie crust. cut rounds of It. put a table
spoonful Of the filling on one side. fold
the other half over, pinch the edges,
make a small opening with a fork for
the escape Of steam, and bake light
brown.
Use fruit literally in the child's school
lunch. and always have plenty Of good
sandwiches. excepting On such days as
substantial dish. like the salad or
apple and sausage, Is served. Then
buttered roll may be used. and SO the
sandwiches will not become monotonous.
lCoryrishf. isi5.)
The Washington herald., 1915-09-17
IN THIS HOT WEATHER, TOO!
New York SaIoonists Put "Growler
Up to Is Cents.


New York. Sept. 16-New York's first
touch of the horrors OF war is almost at
hand. Within few days the 10-cent "tin
can" of beer will be but a memory, and
when the workingman sends Jimmy
around the corner with the growler In the
cleaning he will have to give the lad
Is cents.
The Retail Liquor Dealers Association
has voted the dime bucket Of suds" out
of existence And it is a direct result of
the European war, they say. The war
tax of 20 cents a barrel on beer. imposed
by this government to make up for the
loss in customs duties and other revenue
because Of the war. amounts to at least
$40 q week in the average saloon. the
dealers say. Then the new State law.
raising the excise tax from LOO to 81 500
q year was the last straw.
Three hundred saloons will close their
doors on October when the new excise
tax goes into effect. say the dealers. And
they prophecy that go more VII soon fol-
low -.-4---~ -------
The Washington herald., 1915-09-17

was considered quite correct in
boarding schools some fifteen years
ago and which still betokens de-
gree of refinement and elegance
pardon the hackneyed adjectives.
But the manuscript was written on
both sides OF the paper. 1t was writ
ten without margin and it was writ
ten with such Auence that, though one
might decipher the usual words and
such proper names as Smith and
Jones, when it came to anything un-
usual it was quite out of the ques-
ton.
The printer man was really at his
wits end.
1--WE don't like to refuse manu-
script in handwriting because then We
would lose some valuable patronage.
And we don't like to give too many
suggestions. But when manuscript
like this comes in all we can do is
to do our best. With the aid of the
social register and the directory we
make what we can out of the proper
names. Then we send proofs to the
woman who has written the copy and
what invariably happens-or nearly
always-is that she returns with con-
tempt for the printer. OF course
there are mistakes and lot Of them
and after considerable fussing she
corrects the proof-and even then
many OF the corrections are illegible."
Would it be such a difficult task
for women who act as secretaries or
press agents of clubs or organizations
to post themselves on the very simple
rules for preparing manuscript?
Write on one side of page only
leaving wide margins. When not
typewriter, manuscript should be
legible, proper names all being writ
ten in printed letters.
That's about all there is to it and
it would make a world of difference
to the printer man.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-17

his services promoting the interests of
the Mexican constitutionalist party be-
fore the administration at Washington.
A counter claim has been filed
against Browne for $7S.104 damages
for tho alleged negligent performance
of certain work. A hearing today was
adjourned.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-17
ACCOUNTANCY

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bookkeeping not required.
COURSES OFFERED.
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Call or write for free bulletin.
THOMAS W. WALTON Director,
Washington School Of Accountancy.
Y N. C. A.. 1874 g st. N. W.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-17
Italians Marching on Turks.

Paris. Sept. 16.-Athens dispatches re-
port that large Italian expedition is
landing on Turkish soil on the north side
of the Gulf of Saros with the purpose
The Washington herald., 1915-09-17
Woods School
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Washington Preparatory SchOol-Pre-
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Warrington school of Acsountancy-
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See the adjoining advertisement.
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excellcd Bookkeeping and Steno-
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Grade SchooI-3s boys made up lost
grades last year.
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The Washington herald., 1915-09-17
PLEADS FOR PREPAREDNESS
Senator Colt Says Nation Must b.
Ready for War.

Kingston. r. l.. Sept. Ex-senator
Lebaron Colt, of Rhode Island. in ar
address at the Kingston Fai rtoday de.
clared that I'VE are only following the
dictates of reason and common sense
when we insist that this country
should be reasonably prepared fol-
war"
The European war, Senator Colt de-
clared, shows that the spirit OF nation
ality and racial instinct Is dominating
and that, until this spirit abates, or
until il is extended into an interna-
tional brotherhood of interests every
nation must be prepared to defend it.
self by force of arms.
The British government budget Is so
called from the old French bougette. a
bag, which was formerly used for bring
ing papers to the house for inspection.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-17

of assailing in the rear the Turkish
forces on Gallopou peninsula. The Ital-
ians are said to be cooperating with the
Anglo-French forces In a plan Of cam
paign by which they hope to take Con-
stantinople within a few weeks.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-17
SUES FORMER CARRANZA AID.
Herbert j. Browne, of Warrington
Wants $4,000 for Services.

Mineola, L. l.. Sept. 16.-Herbert j.
Browne. of Washington. D. c.. has
brought suit here for $1s.1s2.5o against
Rafael Zuburan Capmany former Mex
fcan minister of the interior. which
sum he says represents the value Of
The Washington herald., 1915-09-17
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The Washington herald., 1915-09-17
George Washington
University Law School

Member Of Association Of American Law Schools
insuring strict standards fer entrance and
select student Lody and maximum credit from law
schools throughout the United States for WORK done
Case Method" used: instruction by
professional teachers and lawyers in
active practice.
Twenty-Five Eraduatea wrote
the last d. C. Bar Examination,
and every one passed, while
20 per cent of othe. candidates
failed.
Forenoon course. 9-12. or afternoon.
4:50-6:30.
Optional classes, 7:50-s:40 a. m.
Secretary, Masonic Temple, Phone,
NJ. lSlO.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-17

1t is regarded as a death warning in
some parts Of Germany to hear a crick-
cts cry.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-17

Opens Oct. I. ESQ T.. n.