 MAY 1, 1915 
Mrs. Addie Montgomery went to Salem Tuesday. Wilford Bancroft was a visitor at Dallas last Sunday. The flag pole at the Eola school house was split by lightning last week. Loyd Miller visited at the home of W. D. Walker near Gilliam last Sunday. Henry Fern of near Gilliam was transacting business in this city Tuesday. Mrs. George Reece has gone to Medford in hope of benefitting her rheumatism. N. Selig is having his store building painted. R. Paul is doing the work. Our ad on page three tells you how you may get $1 worth of advertising free. Mrs. Geo. Sutherlin and daughter visited in Salem Saturday, returning Monday. The automobiles have come out of winter quarters and are buzzing around like busy bees. Mr. and Mrs. Lew Cates of The Dallas Observer motored to Falls City Tuesday afternoon. C. C. Pugh is building a loganberry manufacturing plant on his lot near the school house. Miss Edith Johnson is attending the annual Sunday School convention at Portland this week. W. E. Thomas of Salem was in the city Wednesday putting up a tombstone for Mrs. Harrington. Mrs. J. P. DeWitte of Monmouth visited her daughter, Mrs. I. G. Singleton Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Emma Hinshaw left Tuesday morning for Portland to visit her sister, Mrs. Edwards who is very ill. The show at the Gem Monday night given under the auspices of the ladies of the Christian church was well attended. Mrs. C. S. O'Brien of Black Rock visited her mother, Mrs. J. P. DeWitte at the Singleton home Saturday and Sunday. C. M. Munson is going around on crutches. He slipped off a log last week and as a result he has a badly sprained ankle. J. L. Brown of near Dallas was in the city Wednesday? He had not been in Falls City before in six years and was impressed with its growth. Tillie's Punctured Romance at the Gem Theatre Tuesday night May 4th is one of the most uproariously funny plays ever put on. Six reel. Don't miss it. Work on the new road to the coast is progressing nicely and it is thought will be ready for travel by June. Get the travel turned this way and Falls City will take on new life. Miss Mary Hammond and her music class went on an outing near the Estey place Wednesday evening and camped for the night. A rain came up during the night and they got wet. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Brown left this week for an extended trip through southern Oregon. Mrs. Lucile Techenor is taking Mrs. Brown's place at the switchboard in the telephone office during her absence. W. R. Hinshaw went to Dallas Friday. Miss Ella Mehrling is much improved. Mrs. R. A. Titus was in Dallas Thursday. Mrs. Paul Shepherd is visiting in Portland. Mrs. C. L. Hopkins was in Dallas Thursday. Mrs. Alvin Rains is visiting Homer Links. Floyd and Mrs. Seymour drove to Salem Thursday. Alvin Rains has secured a position in Detroit, Mich. Mrs. L. M. Robinson who has been very sick is improving. B. F. Beezley has moved his family from Newport to Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Lewis were in Dallas and Independence Tuesday. Mayor F. K. Hubbard went to Gilliam Friday to Conduct an estray sale. Frank Bradley and family left Wednesday for Panhandle, Texas where he goes to take charge of a grain and stock farm. They have been here about three years and we regret to see them leave. The Governor has set May 4-11 as clean-up week. Mayor Hubbard beat him to it in Falls City. However, there are quite a number of places that escaped the clean-up at that time and it would be well to continue the good work. There is nothing that speaks better for a community than to see the streets, alleys and yards clean and free from tin cans and all refuse matter. Join the Governor in his good work and clean up. Dr. Hellwarth is having the foundation laid for a new bungalow to be built near his office on the corner of Main and Second street. R. M. Wonderly has the contract. CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Bible School at 10 a.m. Morning Theme - "Elijah." Junior Endeavor at 3 p.m. Christian Endeavor at 6:30 p.m. Evening Theme - "The young man in a far country who found himself." A sermon for young people. A cordial inviataion to everyone. Strangers made welcome. B. L. Hicks, Pastor.
Through it their treasury has been enriched to the extent of $9.15. Chloe A. Seymour, Pres.
U. S. Postal Savings Bonds may now be purchased. Application to purchase these bonds, which are of the issue of July 1, 1915, must be made to the postmaster no later than May 31, 1915. The bonds are of the usual type in issues of $20, $50, $100 and $500. Redeemable in twenty years. Interest of 2 1/2 per cent in semi-annual payments is the consideration. Ira C. Mehrling, Post Master.   THE THIRD DAY OR EPOCH
The beautiful simplicity of this statement might mislead us into thinking that the gathering together of the oceans and the erection of mountains were works of magic. While Divine operations are all great and wonderful, they are usually accomplished by reasonable methods, called the "course of Nature" and Nature's course must be marked out by Nature's God. The ring theory of Cosmogony is that several rings had precipitated themselves upon the Earth during this Third Epoch Day. These, according to the Divine intention, so increased the pressure on the crust of the Earth as to cause it to buckle or wrinkle. These depressions became ocean beds, and the upheavals became mountain ranges. Thus was the work of the Third Day accomplished. The waters were gathered into seas and oceans, the dry land was upheaved and began gradually to drain off in preparation for vegetation. This draining must have required a long time - Genesis 1:9, 10. We need not assume that all the continents as we now know them were thrown up on the Third Epoch Day. In all probability the American continent was thrown up much later than were Europe, Asia and Africa. Earthquake disturbances in our day have changed the surface of the land. They give us a reasonable conception of how the Divine command was executed on the Third Day, preparatory to Earth's vegetation. Appropriately we next read: "And the Earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit." That is to say, vegetation began on the Third, or Carboniferous Day, though it did not reach its perfection until after the light of the Sun penetrated. There are grasses and other vegetation which prosper best in darksome shades.  |