 JANUARY 23, 1915 
C. J. Pugh went to Salem Monday. Mildred Thompson is improving slowly. Mrs. Wren will leave for Portland today. Mrs. Alva Limebak is here visiting relatives. Donald Hopkins is laid up this week with a bad cold. Bad colds are the prevailing complaints in the city. Cecil Cook who has been very ill will soon be in school. Mrs. Clara Emmett was in the country visiting this week. Mrs. Wade of Washington is visiting Mr. and Mrs. L. Wade. Hon. W. T. Grier came over from Salem Friday evening. Mrs. Mary Thorne who has been ill with the grippe is improving. Orel Courter is confined to the house this week with the grippe. Mrs. Willard Gilbert is visiting her mother, Mrs. Sam Tetherow. H. S. Tetherow visited Fred J. Holman at Dallas the first of the week. Miss Ida Mack sixth grade teacher left her school to take a business course. Miss Clara Davis is staying with her brother, W. Davis, to attend school. Mr. Dorman's baby is reported to be improving. It has been sick for a long time. Mrs. T. Harris has been in the country for several days caring for a sick sister. E. A. Larsen and family left Thursday for Molella, Oreg. where they will reside. Measrs Cobb and Belcher of the Falls City Lumber Company are here from Portland. D. L. Wood, Jr. has been absent from the office this week on account of a severe cold. Geo. W. Ford suffered a slight paralytic stroke Monday. This is the second. He was stricken last summer. Rev. C. J. Purcell and wife of Hubbard came last week to assist in the revival at the Free Methodist church. The departure of Mr. Vick from Falls City will cause a vacancy in the school board and necessitate a special election to elect a new member. Select a good man to fill his place. Mrs. Guttry who has been attending the meetings at the Free Methodist church returned to her home at Salem Monday. Financial settlement was made last Saturday between the Falls City and Black Rock school districts. Black Rock on withdrawing from Falls City and becoming a seperate district was entitled to certain considerations that were never adjusted until this time. Kenneth Wonderly, Kenneth Rich and Donald Hodges are out of school on account of sickness. B. M. Howell has received letters patent on his device for preventing railroad rails from spreading. The revival meetings at the Free Methodist church is progressing nicely and the interest good. It is the intention to hold over Sunday, if not longer. Elders Coffee, of Portland, Cook, of Salem, Hight, of Woodburn, and Upton of Newberg who have been assisting in the revival meetings at the Free Methodist church departed Monday for their respective abodes. Tuesday night some thirsty individual demoralized the water fountain on the corner of Bridge street and South Main. Both pipes were broken off short and the fountain thrown out in the street. Were this a "dry" town we might suspect that some one mistook it for a "blind tiger" and was trying to make it work without 'lubricating' it. It was no novice, however, as they were familiar enough with the workings to shut off the water. Only a few in the city know the location of the cutoff placing suspicion upon a limited number. Mrs. Welty and daughter who have been attending the meetings at the Free Methodist church returned Monday to their home at Hubbard. The stock-holders of the rural telephone lines met in this city Tuesday to review the business of the past year and make plans for the coming year. PUBLIC INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS Odd Fellows and Rebekahs Hold Joint Installation. Banquet Served.
The evening was spent in a pleasant social manner. Officers installed, Odd Fellows: N. G., N. A. Lunde V. G., John Hughes Sec., J. C. Talbott Treas., Geo. M. Tice Warden, Wm. Ellis Conductor, G. D. Treat O. G., Tom Hollowell R. S. to N. G., J. R. Moyer L. R. to N. G., Billie Murry R. S. to V. G., F. K. Hubbard Chaplain, L. B. Murry Rebekahs: N. G., Mrs. Tom Hollowell V. G., Mrs. Wm. Finley Sect., Mrs. Jessie Moyer Treas., Mrs. Jennie Cobb L. S. to N. G., Mrs. H. Tice R. S. to V. G., Mrs. Geo. Tice L. S. to V. G., Mrs. Wm. Ellis Warden, Mrs. Maggie Talbott Conductor, Mrs. Krebbs I. G., Mrs. G. W. Gardner O. G. Mrs. H. S. Tetherow Chaplain, Mrs. Minnie Moyer John Kurz of Warren, Minn., arrived last week to visit his brother, P. G. Kurz and brother in law L. B. Murry. CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Bible School at 10 a.m. Junior Endeavor at 3 p.m. Christian Endeavor at 6:30 p.m. Theme - Morning Service: "Has Jesus Christ a Church on earth? If so, when and where was it organized, and what was the purpose of the organization?" Theme - Evening Service: "The Great Refusal." A cordial invitation to everyone. Stranger made welcome. B. L. HICKS, Pastor $25.00 REWARD
Falls City Electric Co. COUNCIL MEETING
EPWORTH LEAGUE INSTALL
The following officers were installed: President, Miss Pimm 1st Vice Pres., Miss Montgomery 2nd Vice Pres., Miss Hammond 3rd Vice Pres., Lorena Treat 4th Vice Pres., Miss Mehrling Secretary, Helen Treat Treasurer, Elizabeth Sammons Critic, James Bohle Chorister, Ralph Harrington. FAREWELL PARTY
WILL SERVE TEA
This class has pledged itself to raise thirty dollars for missions during 1915. Anyone not being able to attend the tea but desiring to assist the girls in the fulfillment of their pledge may do so by giving ten cents, more or less, to any member of tea committee, who are: Evelyn Haley, Beulah Young, Lucile Finley, Ose Brown and Ida Dunn, or to their teacher, Mrs. Chloe A. Seymour. 
It's the old story of prohibition, Williams. Close the respectable, well-conducted beer saloon and seek by legislation to rob men of their liberty, and you have a problem that never works out in favor of a town. You don't keep men from drinking. Refuse to sell them beer, which heretofore they have drunk moderately because they know it's the drink of True Temperance and beneficial and stimulating, and the stronger drink line bobs up. You send thousands of dollars out of town that ought to be spent right there, and you encourage drunkenness and law-breaking. Your town will wake up someday, Williams, like many another town that has been disillusioned E. D. Ulrich, Chamber of Commerce, Portland, Oregon  |