 OCTOBER 10, 1914 
Mrs. N. Chapin was a Dallas visitor Monday. T. B. Hooker spent Monday at Black Rock. For Rent - Dwelling House. Apply at News office. Fred Chapin was a Black Rock passenger on Monday's train. T. B. Hooker was at Airlie and the Peedee country this week. Mrs. Rueben Hastings was taken to her home at Airlie Tuesday. Mrs. W. A. Persey returned Sunday from a three-days visit at Salem. Mrs. C. L. Hopkins went to Dallas Wednesday and returned Thursday. J. O. Bennett of Portland district organizer for the W. O. W. was in town Wednesday. The twelve year old sister of Mrs. Cleveland while splitting kindling Monday afternoon accidently split the big toe on her right foot open. For Sale - 16 inch big fir wood $1.50 per rick delivered. Wm. Estelle. Josh Talbott who has been sick for several days is reported better. Edgar Baldarree, of the Baldarree camp was brought down here Wednesday night and taken to the Dallas hospital Thursday to be operated on for appendicitis. Mr. and Mrs. Frank DeWitt gave a dance at their home one mile southeast of town Saturday night a week ago. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Frank DeWitte, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Teal, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Spawn, I. V. and R. V. DeWitt, Elsie and Otto Kneebone, Dave and Merritt Martin, Ed Baker, Lacy Reece, Sutt Talbott, Lee Teal, Rufus and Glenn Ferguson, Wyrick Banecroft, Guy Lewis. A good time and good music was enjoyed by all. Supper was served at midnight. SCHOOL NOTES
The Ell Dee Society have decided to purchase a piano for the High School. Miss Wolverton was also sick Thursday, Miss Kate Barnhart taught in her place. Mr. Vick, chairman of the Board gave the school a very pleasant call Thursday. The fire drill is taking good form and we are able to empty the entire building in 60 seconds. Mrs. Whitman, our english teacher was away from school Monday on account of sickness. Archie Montgomery and Velma Miller started to High School this week swelling our number to 55 pupils. The Manual Training will make two tables for the first grade equipment saving the district considerable money. We wish to warn the parents not to rush up to school in bunches, to see what their children are doing, it might flustrate the teachers. Some of the teachers say that they can stand anything even to a fellow, but deliver them from the H. S. Orchestra. The new student chairs that was ordered some time ago have arrived and to a small degree relieves the crowded condition of the school. If the unsuspecting public hears groans and unearthly wailings in the neighborhood of the school house, don't get alarmed, it is only the High School Orchestra at practice. The Crown Milling Co., of Portland by the request of the Falls City Mercantile Co., presented the Domestic Science Department with two ten pound sacks of Crown Flour. The boy who has to stay out of school to dig potatoes or chop wood a day is undoubtedly a very sick boy. Excuses from the parents to the fact that the boy is sick will be received by the teachers, with a snifle. Miss Mehrling is dividing her farmers class up into sections of five, so they may be able to use the milk tester. This class will no doubt find some extra fine cows in the community. We are in hopes however that none of them will test 100%. The school grounds with its sightly position could be made a beautiful place with small expense. The comparison between the imposing building and the unsightly ground give one an impression of something lacking. The rubbish pile of old furnaces at the east end of the building, the tall unkept grass, the gravel bin left by the contractors of a year ago, adds to the untidyness of the surrounding. CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Bible School at 10 a.m. Junior Endeavor at 3 p.m. Christian Endeavor at 6:30 p.m. Theme - morning service: "The Unchanging Christ" Theme - evening service: "God's Invitation and Man's Excuses" A cordial invitation to all. Strangers made welcome. PROHIBITION DOOMED!
Prohibition is a failure and has had but one effect wherever tried: to put a ban upon the open and above-board drinking of beer and other light beverages and to drive men to secret, immoderate drinking of the strongest stimulants. This is notably true of Maine, a prohibition state. There is ten times as much drunkenness per capita as there is in France. JOHN M. JOHNSON DEAD
Funeral services were held Tuesday Sept. 29th at the residence at 1:30 o'clock and at the church at 2:00 o'clock. Mr. Johnson was suffering with his legs, through which the blood did not circulate freely. He was taken to a Portland hospital and underwent an amputation of one leg in the hopes of helping the circulation in the other. The operation did not bring the desired results and it was necessary to amputate the other leg. After the operation he went back to his old home in Minnesota. He was well known in Falls City and liked by all who knew him and his many friends express their deepest sympathy. ROCK HAULERS STRIKE
STUNG BY YELLOW JACKETS
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