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Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1917-01-02
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
PROPERTY

Pursuant to the terms Of the Will
of the late Gideon Sewers, the under
signed Executor of said Will offers
for sale, for cash, at private sale the
following described premises belong
ing to said estate, to-wit:
Lot / in Block I, Montgomery's ad-
dition to Falls City, Polk County,
State of Oregon, being store property.
Lots 5, 6 and 7 in Block B, Mont
gomery's addition to Falls City, Polk
County, State of Oregon, being resi-
dence property.
All bids to be submitted to the
undersigned Executor Of said Will at
the office of Walter L. Tooze, Jr., at
Dallas, Oregon. Bids will be received
on each tract separately, and all bids
submitted should state whether bid is
for one or both tracts, and be accom-
panied by certified check for 5 per
cent of the amount offered.
All contracts of sale are made sub
ject to the approval of the County
Court.
W. F. NICHOLS,
Executor of the Last Will and Tes-
lament of Gideon Sewers, deceased.
WALTER L. TOOzE, Jr.,
Attorney for Executor. ASST
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1917-01-02
sHERIFF's NOTICE OF SALE

Notice is hereby given that by vir-
tue of an execution issued out of the
Circuit Court of the State of Oregon,
for Polk County, on the 14th day of
December, 1916, and to me directed
upon judgment that was enrolled
and docketed in the Office of the clerk
of said Court on the first day of De-
cember, 1916, In a certain suit then
pending in said Circuit Court where
in W. c. Winslow was plaintiff and
C. G. Long and Mary c. Long, his
wife, were defendants, (Case No.
4934) judgment was rendered in IA
vor of the above-named plaintiff, W.
C. Winslow, and against the above
namet defendants, C. G. Long and
Mary c. long, his wife, for the sum
of s. Hundred Six and Ten-100 Dol
lars (s60610), together with interest
thereon at the rate of s per cent per
annum from lie 4th day of February,
1916. until paid, and q further sum
of Sixty and NO-lO0 Iollars ts60.00l,
attorneys fees, and IT, -ther sum
Of Nineteen and NO-100 Dollars tslo.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1917-01-02
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Notice is hereby given that the un-
dersigned, George A. McCulloch, has
been appointed by the County Court
of the State of Oregon for Polk Coun-
ty, administrator of the estate of Sa-
brina E. McCulloch, deceased, and has
qualified.
All persons having claims against
the said estate are hereby required
to present them with the proper
vouchers within six months from the
date of this notice to the said ad-
ministrator, at his residence near
Broadmead, in said County of Polk.
Dated and first published December
IL, 1916.
GEORGE A. McCULLOCH.
Administrator of the estate of Sa-
brina E. McCulloch, Deceased.
OSCAR HAYTER,
Attorney. TD12-J9
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1917-01-02
sHERIFF's NOTICE OF SALE.
TD12-Jg

Notice is hereby given that by vir-
tue of an execution issued out of the
Circuit Court of the State of Oregon,
for Polk County, on the Sth day of
December, 1916, and to me directed
upon a judgment that was enrolled
and docketed in the office of the clerk
of said court on the 7th day of De-
cember, 1916, in a certain suit then
pending in said Circuit Court where
in Gertrude Z. Kruse and Emma L.
Savage, trustees under the will of
Grin G. Savage, deceased, were plain
tiffs, and f. F. Fisher, Alena E. Fish.
'er, his wife, Fred A. Handy, W. S.
Cation, Mary Fisher, ]. B. Blair, re-
ceiver of Fisher Bros. & Steiner, Pri-
vate Bankers, R. L. Fisher, NJ. NJ.
Fisher and G. A. R. Steiner, co-part-
ners doing business as Fisher Bros. &
Steiner, Private Bankers, Grant
Smith, J. B. Blair and A. L. Warren,
trustees of Fisher Bros. and Steiner,
Private Bankers, were defendants,
(Case No. 49O5) judgment was rem
dered in favor of the above-name
plaintiffs, Gertrude E. Kruse and En-
ma L. Savage, trustees under the will
of Grin G. Savage, deceased. and
against the above-named defendants.
F. F. Fisher, Alena F. Fisher, his
wife, Fred A Handy, W. S. Cation.
Mary Fisher, J. B. Blair, receiver Of
Fisher Bros. & Steiner, Private Bank
ers, r. =. Fisher, NJ. NJ. Fisher. and
@. A. R. Steiner, co1partners doing
business as Fisher Bros. & Steiner.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1917-01-02

00), costs and disbursements and the
costs of and upon this Writ; and
whereas it was further ordered and
decreed by said Court that the fol
lowing property should be sold by me
to satisfy said execution, | will, on
Saturday, the Goth day of January,
1917, at the hour of l O'Clock P. M.
of said day at the front door of the
County Court House at Dallas, Ore
gon, in Polk County, sell at public
auction to the highest bidder for cash
in hand on day of sale, all the right
title and interest and estate which
the said defendants have and all per
sons claiming under them have in OF
to the hereinafter described premises
and every part thereof, said property
being described as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at the Northeast corner
of Lot in Block No. l in Henry
Hills Town of Independence, Polk
County; thence West 74l2 feet
thence South 102 feet; thence East
741a feet; thence North 102 feet to
the place of beginning, all being sit
uated in Henry Hills Town of indie
pendence, Polk County, Oregon. Save
and except therefrom the North Fifty
(50) feet.
Said sale being subject to redemp-
ton in the manner provided by law,
the proceeds thereof to be applied to
the payment of the aforesaid judg-
ment, and that in case any proceeds
are left after the satisfaction OF
Plaintiffs said judgment the same
shall be paid over to said defendants
as their interests may appear here
in
Dated at Dallas, this 10Th day OF
December. 1916.
JOHN W. ORR,
Sheriff of Polk County, Oregon.
W. C. WINSLOW,
Attorney for Plaintiff. T.D.l9-Jl6
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1917-01-02

Private Bankers, Grant Smith, J. b.
Blair and AL. Warren, trustees of
Fisher Bros. & Steiner, Private Bank
ers. for the sum Of Fifty-three Hun
dred and no-100 dollars ($530000),
with interest thereon at the rate of
six per cent per annum from the 2lst
day of August, 1916, and the further
sum of Four Hundred and no-1O0 dol
lars ($4OO.OO), attorneys fees, and
the further sum Of Seventy-Fom and
no-1OO dollars ($740O), costs and dis
bursements, and the costs of and up
on this Writ; and whereas it was fur
ther ordered and decreed by said
Court that the following property
should be sold by me to satisfy said
execution, l will, on Saturday, the
18th day of January, 1917, at the hour
of | o'clock P. NJ. of said day at the
front door of the County Court House
at Dallas, Oregon, in Polk County,
sell at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash in hand on day of
sale, all the right, title and interest
and estate which the said defendants
have and all persons claiming under
them have in or to the hereinafter de-
scribed premises and every part
thereof, said property being described
as follows, to-wit:
The West one-half of the ID.
/. C. of Jesse D. Walling and Eliza
Ann Walling, his wife, it being claim
No 4S in I. 6 S. r. 4 w. and Claim
No. so. I. 6 S. r.. 3 w. and claim
No. So. T. z S. r. 4 w. of the Will
lamette Meridian, in Polk County,
State of Oregon, save and except
from this conveyance the following
tracts of land: isl acres, more or
less, out of the N. f. corner of said
West half of said claim, decided to
Mrs. Eliza Ann Walling by the heirs
of the said Jesse D. Walling, the said
tract of land so reserved and excepted
from this deed being described as fol
lows, to-wit:
Beginning at a point on the North
line of the said Jesse D. Walling and
wife's claim 1917 chains West Of the
N. E. corner of said claim; and run
ming thence South 7411a degrees West
1857 chains along the North line of
said claim; thence South Is degrees
East 22.64 chains; thence North 74i2
degrees East II chains; thence North
Is degrees West Z chains; thence
North 741a degrees East 21.66 chains;
thence North Is degrees West 1925
chains to the place of beginning. ..
Also the following: Beginning at a
point in the North boundary line Of
the D. l.. C. Of Jesse ID. Walling and
wife in 7. 6 S. R. A W. of the W. M.
in Polk County, Oregon, which said
point is South "a degrees 80 minutes
West 1864 chains from the North
east corner of said D. L. c. and run
ming thence South "a degrees 30 min
utes West along the North boundary
line of said D. L. C. 1925 chains;
thence South Is degrees East 22.64
chains; thence North "a degrees 30
minutes East 1926 chains; thence
North Is degrees W. 22.64 chains to
the place of beginning, and contain
ing 30 acres of land, more or less, in
the D. L. C. Of Jesse d. Walling and
wife, and in section 36 in T. 6 S. R.
W. of w. M. in Polk County, State
of Oregon.
Dated this 18th day of December,
1916.
JOHN W. ORR,
Sheriff of Polk County, Oregon.
EARL C. LATOURETTE,
Attornaxr for Plaintiffs TD1C-J |
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1917-01-02
A LECTURE ON
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Continued from page five)
and establishes the government of di-
vine Principle, God.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1917-01-02
MRS. EDDY

Mrs. Eddy, the Diseoverer and
Founder of Christian Science, was a
gentle, refined, and cultured, New Eng
land woman. A native of New Hamp-
shire, she received her early religious
training from Puritan parents, be-
coming a member of the Congrega-
tional church in her girlhOod Mrs.
Eddy early in life evidenced a deep
ly religious nature. She was ever
seeking for the truth about life as
the Bible taught it, without concern
for merely man-made doctrines, as
evidenced by her refusal to accept the
doctrine of preiestination when she
joined the orthodox church.
Passing through human trials Of
more than usual severity but always
trusting in God and seeking to know
more Of Him, Mrs. Eddy discovered
the law Of Christian healing at a time
when a severe accident threatened her
life and her entire trust-hsd . be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-31
RUSSIA BAD's PLIGHT.

The commission which the United
States has sent to Russia for the pur-
pose of helping her to untangle her
transportation system will have a
man-size job on its hands.
At Vladivostok, the Pacific port to
which supplies from the United States
have been shipped, all the warehouses
are full and goods of various kinds.
worth several hundred millions. are
piled up on the hills around the city.
These accommodations include machin-
cry, which is rusting, and cotton that
has been lying for months without
freight congestion. American export
ers attempted to send goods thru by
parcel post, and at the same port
100000 post packages have been
waiting to be forwarded.
At our own ports on the Pacific
coast are $4,000 tons of railroad sup
plies, munitions and other products.
bought here by Russia. awaiting
shipment across the ocean.
Immense orders for rolling stock
for Russian railways have been placed
in this country. Some have been
filled but there is no way to get the
locomotives and cars to their destina-
ton. 1t is not surprising that the
country of the Muscovites seems par
alyzed. The wonder is that it has
been able to make as good a showing
in the war as it has. 1t lost the Jap
anese war thru the existence of con-
ditions little better than those from
which it now suffers.
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DINNER STORIES

In his younger days Gilhoofey used
to be a travelling salesman. One time
he rode on a train with a man who
didn't like the Irish. Presently the
train passed a mountain that didn't
have a tree or shrub of any kind on
it. SO Gilhooley said to his neighbor:
IT wonder what makes that noun
tain so bare?"
Its bare" was the reply, because
an Irishman spit on it"
Just then the man who made the
offensive remark lifted his hat and
showed a head that was absolutely
bald.
T. suppose an Irishman spit on
your head, too,' said Gilhooley.
Mr.. O'Sullivan returned from the
political meeting. which had waxed
long and sultry. There's eight ma
tions reprisinted in this ward of
ours" he said to his wife as he be-
gan to count them off on his fingers.
There's Irish Frinch, Eyetalians,
Poles, Germans, Roossians, Greeks
an" he continued, then stopping for
a moment, he started again: There's
Irish. Frinch, Eyetalians, Poles, Ger
mans, Roossians, Greeks, an'-ain't
it queer I disremember the other
wan? There's Irish, Frinch-'
Maybe twas Americans, wasn't 70"
suggested Mrs. O'Sullivan. "Shure,
an that's tn very want cried her
husband. exultantly. "Oi c'uldn't
think of it,
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The federal trade commission

The federal trade commission an
nounces that it has placed its special
agents in important coal markets to
study price tendencies and safeguard
the people against either too great ac-
tivities of middle men or too rapid
advances in price. This incident.
which displays an outright assumption
of authority on the part of govern
mental body, says the Black Diamond,
is indicative of the spirit of the times.
Every governmental agency having
any approach to authority is taking a
hand in the regulation of coal and is
doing its best to beat down prices. The
federal trade commission itself is 60
ing even further and is warning the
people not to buy eagerly now lest
they tempt the coal men to put up
prices.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-31

THE senate finance committee
aas1irg with the war revenue bill, has
thrown out the house provision tor
horizontal increase in the tariff rates
IT is well. Nothing so disarranees
business. as does tariff tinkering. II
&c important at this time that busl-
ness be permitted to proceed with as
little disturbance as may be. me
committee is showing disposition 10
cut down the volume of war taxes
provided by the house, which action
probably will meet the approval OF
a large majority of the people. Taxes
however levied, finally reach the ultl-
mate consumer. Wage earners ana
persons receiving small salaries can
not pay present high prices OF the
necessaries of life and heavy increases
IN taxes at the same time. Prices are
certain to remain high while the war
lasts. l. will be better therefore 10
nostpone, in large measure, payment
of the cost of the war, until peace
has been established and the business
of the country has become adjusted
10 the changed conditions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-31
WHY BE I'LL?

1t is said that of the 0.0OO, 900 wage
earners in the United States, each
loses an average of nine days a year
thru sickness and that degenerative
diseases have increased 90 per cent in
the last twenty years.
This is all wrong and much of it
might have been avoided. knowledge
and care are the great preventives.
Nobody who is born without inher-
ent weakness or hereditary tendency
to disease need ever be ill. The laws
of nature are memorable. Any viola
ton thereof brings certain punishment
sooner or later. Correct knowledge
therefore, of the rules which should
govern eating, drinking, exercise, ETC.,
and strict observance of those rules
will render anybody immune from ILL
ness. provided always that he has been
we'll born.
But here is the source of most of
the ills that human flesh is heir to.
Millions are not we'll born No truer
thing was ever said than that the sins
of the parents are visited on the chill
dren, even to the third and fourth gem
Grafton.
Medical men and lawmakers are
| Laundering about trying to find a
remedy. The foundation of a cure
rests with the people of the present
generation. The prime requisite is
knowledge; the second obedience to
the God-made law. violation of which
brings its punishment not only to our
selves but to our posterity.
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GLOBE SIGHTS
IFrom the Atchison G1obe.1

[F'rom the Atchison G1obe.1
Knowing how you hate to be bored,
try not to bore others.
Occasionally there is a woman to
whom marriage seems to be habit
Some men seem to think that a
mean disposition is essential to disci-
pline.
You are expected to talk your
prejudices, but it isn't often a good
idea to bet on them.
The rule is that the man who isn't
henpecked isn't married, altho there
may be a few exceptions.
Extended acquaintance with the
farmers will convince you that the
weather is always too wet or too dry.
Never write a letter while you are
mad. They are the kind of letters
that lose money and destroy friend
ships.
Short jerks is very good provid-
er. He is always threatening to go
to work providing he finds a snap of
a job.
A woman who wears awfully short
skirts may be decent, but she certainly
isn't on the verge of being overcome
by modesty.
Il have some doctor, believe me-
Link Preston said this morning. He
told me not to do a lick of work for
the next six months
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-31
TRAWELETTE

BY NIKSAH

A city of a hundred and fifty thou
sand people that has good trout fish
ing within its city limits and Indians
living in their tepees a mile and a
no" grasp unless you know the west.
And even if you do, Spokane would
strike you as something of surprise.
1t looks as tho it had been built yes
terday in what was a virgin wilder
ness the day beforehand yet made
lights and everything that you could
find in a New England town. except,
perhaps the cultured atmosphere.
The Spokaneites do not miss the
cultured atmosphere. If you asked
about it, they would probably tell you
For they are an out-doors-living crew.
A citizen of Spokane may attend a
board of directors meeting in the
heart of the city at 10 a. m. and at 4
p. m. he may be hunting bear. The
mountains crowd right down upon
the city, and there are fifty lakes
within a radius of hundred miles.
Spokane. like Rome, was not built
in a day, but it was set up at a rate
that makes all of those old saws about
how long it takes to- do things look
hollow and meaningless. It was only
in 1858 that the Indians got their
first decisive defeat in this region, and
the first locomotive arrived in 1881. In
1890 they had something of a town
started. but it was wiped out by fire
that year.
The real growth began when the
river was turned into electric power
100000 horse. From this giant dy-
namo, electricity reaches out thru the
canyons to hundreds of mines, driving
the power trans into the bowels of
the mountains, bringing wealth to the
city, which sits like a spider at the
center of it's mighty web of current.
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to do for a rabbit partridge or squir-
rel He borrowed a shotgun and set
out a few days later. He walked .
couple of miles and entered WOOD.
If he was lucky enough to scare up
a grizzly. all right; If not. then he
would make a chipmunk fill the bill.
The hunter was walking softly ana
peering about when he caught sight of
a girl instead of a bear. She stood
beside a tree in an awkard attitude.
He recognized her at first glance. Mr..
Glenn sat down and began to whistle.
A squirrel chartered at him, but he did
not shoot A rabbit scampered along.
but no lead pellets hustled him. TWEEN
ty minutes went past ard then a voice
hailed him with:
Mr. Glenn, will you please come
here?"
Mr.. Glenn pleased. AS he stood be-
fore her he said:
Am I mistaken in thinking this is
Miss Winfield 2"
Il am caught by the foot in a root.
as you see" she replied as her chin
quivered.
will you follow me?" he asked as
he knelt down"
Certainly"
There you are. 1t was real trap.
walking away when she called to him
with:
Come back, Mr.. Glenn, and sit
down. Now. then, 1 am ashamed of
my part of it,
"Ditto."
And let us be friends"
Let us be more than that"
And neither war, cyclones nor earth
quakes could have prevented the we'd
ding that took place by and by.-
Copyright. 1917, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-31
PHILANTHROPY RUN WILD.

Just now, when everybody who has
money is being urged to use it in the
purchase of a liberty loan bond, the
philanthropic societies, of which there
seems to be no end, are showing in
creased persistency in their appeals
for money. Almost every mail brings
to this desk a call for funds in sup
port of this or that charity. Why can
not the work be consolidated under
one head?
The war has enormously increased
the already large crop of philanthrop-
ic societies Every such organization
calls for long list of officers, a paid
secretary and paid assistants, a large
amount of expensive literature, and
in some instances a magazine. If one
joined all these societies, or gave to
them all, there would be nothing left
for the church or the hospital. In
deed the churches complain that these
outside appeals for money have cut
down their incomes.
Ministers say if they preached on all
the special causes to which they are
asked to devote a sermon and service
there would be no Sundays left for the
preaching of the plain gospel. Many
busy person, appealed to by the
commendable causes represented in
these new societies and unable to give
personal attention to such work, says
Leslie's, eases his conscience by a gen.
erous contribution and the permission
to use his name on the list of vice
presidents. All societies have an i'm
posing list of vice presidents af prom
inence, which gives weight to their
appeals.
Our criticism is not that the causes
represented are always unworthy of
support, but that the thing has been
overdone, that the middleman is too
big an item of expense in philan-
thropy just as he is in business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-31

the suffrage cause, to remove the
pickets from the White House and
the capitol. Recent events have
demonstrated beyond dispute, Mrs.
Gait declares, that the picketing IS
harmful to the suffrage movement.
The National Suffrage association,
which is the nationwide federation
Of statewide leagues, totaling 2,00O,-
900 members. is and always has been
opposed to the picketing. The picket
ing policy is carried on only by the
National Woman's party, formerly
called the Congressional Union, which
is an entirely separate organization.
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about fifteen pounds in weight. and
ships well, both frozen and fresh.
The sablefish was called cod and
wasn't a cod. Another fish which the
liable food fish is a close relative of
the cod. ana from its various names it
has been impossible to suspect the re-
lationship. This fish was known as
the lawyer. the Seelpout. the ling. the
cusk and by various other unusual
designations. 1t was always regarded
as destructive to food fish and useless
itself. Its real name is the burbot, it
is the only fresh water member of the
cod family and it makes excellent eat
ing. 1t is found in America all the
way from the Arctic circle down to
the Ohio river, being particularly plen-
tiful in the Great Lakes and the larger
The burbot is expected to come on the
market as a fish that combines good
food qualities with low price.
Apparently every popular name for
fish is a misnomer. There is a fish
plentiful on the coasts of Alaska
bureau Of fisheries patiently points
out THAI it is not a mackerel and
nothing like a mackerel But it is an
excellent food fish. and can be snip
ped sailed. Alaska canneries have
been encouraged to salt this fish,
WHICH, VIII DS KNOWN as the dIkaIlSn,
and it should make its appearance in
our markets in the coming winter.
The bureau is following the same
process III popularizing these differ
ent fish that proved so successful in
the cases of the tile-fish and the sea-
mussel. Gamers must be encoura ged
to develop proper methods of canning.
and then the public must be informed
of the nature and value Of the fish
in question. When this is done, de-
mand usually exceeds supply. When
all the fish, mentioned above have be-
come established on our market, they
will add several hundred million
pounds year to our food supply
Questions on the above or any sub
ject upon which the reader desires in
formation should be addressed the To-
peka State Journal Information Bu-
reau, Frederic ]. Haskin. Director.
Washington. D. c., with 2-cent stamp
e., closed for reply.