INDEPENDENCE MONITOR
THE PAPER THAT EVERYBODY READS'
VOL.6
INDEPENDENCE, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1917
NO. 3
THE RHYMING SUMMARIST
The hops are dropping from the vines,
But dropping into basket,
And there's a place for every hand,
For those who seek and ask it;
We wish we had a dozen kids
To put them all to filling,
It would buy the grub
And fill the lub,
When winter rains are chilling.
Girls and women there are no men
Are looking very niftly
In pantaloons and overalls,
Times do move so swiftly;
A number dare to walk the street
Brave to take such chances,
Next thing we know
If they go,
They'll wear 'em at the dances.
Besides the hops we have some beans,
Beets and man' taters,
And tho they never had a drink,
- They'll pass the second raters;
But say if it only had rained
And wet their roots and cinter,
It would be
For you and me,
Ham and eggs this winter.
Back to pantaloons we must go,
To those now worn by lady,
So we can end this batch of rhyme
By quoting thus from Sadie:
"I'm making me some ladyalls,
So well I cannot tear 'em,
But there's no chance
To see my pants,
,1'H never, never wear 'em.
DPA'EO MENS EARS iUST BE SOUND
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Ki.1 n :il -li l.v . j i..lcr. i! inixi imiHjrtant lu motlorn warfare.
OREGON WHEAT PRICE OF $1.90 NAMED
A price of 1.90 is placed on Oregon
wheat. Efforts are being made to make
Portland a primary market so the Chi
cago price of $2.20 may be obtained.
HOP PICKING ON
Hop picking is on in full swing.
Every yard is well supplied with
pickers, and they are making
good wages. Many acres of un
trained hops will be picked and
the pickers will get an extra
price for this work. The hops
picked are of a good quality but
the yield, averaged up, is below
normal.
The market remains normal.
Offers of over thirty cents are
turned down. But few contracts
for the 1118 crop are being made
in the state. The 1917 yield is
now estimated as low as 25,000
bales.
WOMEN'S COUNCIL
A branch of the Women's
Council for National Defense was
organized in Independence last
Saturday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. O. D. Butler. Altho but
a few were present, it is antici
pated that much interest will be
taken in the work here. Officers
elected: Mrs. Grace Swope,
chairman; Mrs. Bessie Butler,
vice president; Mrs. Frances
Hill, secretary; Mrs. Carrie
Clark, treasurer.
The object of the organization
is to promote patriotism, to assist
in conserving the nation's food
supply, to aid the government by
giving its services in any capacity
and in a general way help win
the war.
Saturday, September 15, has
been set aside as registration
day at which time all women
may be voluntarily listed as to
what line of work they are most
fitted to do in case their services
are needed by the government.
LETTER FROM CO. L
La Grande, Sept. 4. Co. L is
now at La Grande. Half the
company is doing guard duty
and the remainder are fighting
fire. Roy Whiteaker was left at
The Dalles while eating, supper
and had to telegraph for trans
portation. Ernest Smith was
also left while seeing his girl
and he had to pay his way.
Cyril Richardson has met a
couple of college girls he knows
so is at home here. R. W,
RED CROSS MEETS
After an adjournment of sev
eral weeks the local Red Cross
held an interesting business ses
sion Wednesday evening. The
following names were added to
the sewing committee: Mesdames
Owen, Krcamer, M. O. Fluke,
Frank Fluke, H. Mattison, Percy
Dickinson and A. L. Thomas.
The ladies in charge will make
an effort to prepare many sup
plies during the season, 'lhe
Auxiliary will hold business
meetings the first Wednesday
evening of each month.
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DEATH RATE LOW
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of Hie Ca'.iUi'n i. m;i
great hh 1 i"
bolif'f n( In til i c 'ii
win) Imvp roini,,i" P
til U!l!l-1 llWM ill t 'l!
A rari-ful i ::!
c li'inlly rink
fil l uiuriy wj
.1.1 hii'il is tlif
ui.'i'-iiiU here
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one limn l i li.H i ii U ...i'.i 1 ai.ij uii out
of .'khi !-..es H Iltiili ix-eiil reirt
from Kiein-!i iiii'l I'.iif'i ho jiltata
show that tit-mil cut recover
fri-m Bfiiiiiil.v while a - i.l !) er cent
are h!e to return ! fie tliiii line.
WUlie the iimri.v i o x wliielal bobl
un!ilaei views In r -Kuril to the eipeet
el mxim'tie unions their owu troop
In Kraiiie. It In pointed out that the
"mMirr of the m l" recently engaged
j iu warfare In Haiti suffered less than
1 per eent lon.e. Tliete were aua
j tulm-il while eoverhiK a wide terrain,
j llhtinK fnnri hoiie to hoilxe and eap
j tUiiiiK arid huhling winail n-dotihtM tak
I en one hy one from the enemy. Thl
! tnethoil of warfare i miid to he rapidly
I Bii;i-rH.-.linx the trench tygtera on the
eterti frout
V. & SL WHISPERINGS
The Valley & Siletz expects to
complete its work on the west
end within a few days and it is
paid that the men will be trans
ferred to Independence for labor
here. It is not stated what will
be done. The V, & S. moves in
a mysterious way its railroad to
build and we never know what is
to be done until commenced and
not always then.
It has been surmised that it
would be advantageous to all
concerned if daily train service
was established between Hoskins
and Independence. It would
give the people of the Hoskins
section a "way out" for them
selves, stock and grain, add
some business to Independence
and would no doubt prove profit
able to the railn ad company.
NEW COUNCILMAN
The city bosses met in regular
session Wednesday night. J. S.
Bohannon was raised to the sub
lime degree of a city councilman,
owing to the resignation of H.
B. Fletcher. John will wear the
toga like a veteran and take the
cussings with a smile. The high
cost of living making it hard for
even a councilman to live, two
city employees were given a
boost in pay. The marshal will
hereafter get ?G0 a month and
the street commissioner $80. The
council confirmed the mayor's
appointment of VV. B. Barnett
as wire inspector. Bill can now
get rich. The city will proceed
at once to build several cement
walks in different parts of the
town, the contract having been
let two weeks ago. Nd action
was taken relative to Council
man Craven's whiskers.
PETTY THIEVES
Numerous caBes of petty thiev
ery have been reported to the
Monitor within the past ten days.
Stealing of this character may
continued for some time without
the guilty parties being known
but sooner or later they will be
caught and it will go hard with
them. A community pestered by
netty thieves, is not going to
have much mercy for them.
WILL LOOK FOR OIL
The government will soon
send a representative to Polk
county to investigate and find
out if there are oil and gas here.
The gas well on the farm of Cass
Riggs has led many to believe
that it is very probable that Polk
may be sitting on a sea of oil or
gas or both.
GRAND FINALE COMES MONDAY
Members of a certain religious
sect, which has a ckurchin Inde
pendence, are predicting the end
of the world to come on next
Monday, Sept. 9. Some of our
citizens, confident that the date
is correct, have been making
preparations for several weeks.
Christ was asked by his disciples
what Bhall be the sign of his
second coming and the end of
the world and he replied in sub
stance as follows: There will be
warsandrumonof wars. Nation
shall rise against nation and
kingdom against kingdom. There
shall be famines and pestilences
and earthquakes. Many false
prophets shall rise and deceive
many. Iniquity shall abound.
Then, "immediately after the
tribulation of those days shall
the sun be darkened and the
moon Bhall not give her light,
and the stars shall fall from
heaven, and the powers of the
heavens shall be shaken." (Ac
cording to members of this sect,
the sun was darkened on May
19, 1780, and the moon did not
give any light on the following
night. The stars fell on Novem
ber 13, 1833). Paul further de
scribes the last day 8: Men shall
be lovers of their own selves,
covetous, boasters, proud, blas
phemers, disobedient to parents,
unthankful, unholy, without
natural affection, truce breakers,
false accusers, fierce despisersof
those that are good, traitors,
lovers of pleasures more than
God, having a form of godliness
but denying the power thereof.
But why particularly worry
about Monday, for Christ him
self has said, "But of that day
and hour knoweth no man, no,
not the angels of heaven, but my
Father only." The Monitor is
firmly convinced that God has
kept the date to Himself and the
chances are a million to one that
we'll all be here Tuesday morning.
JUST THE GIST
U Portland News
Philip Polski,
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Former newsboy of Portland
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And confetti magnate at the
Rose Festivals,
Is now an expert farmer
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Near Independence, Or.,
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And he is raising pigs by the
dozen.
And he expects to sell a lot of
them next winter.
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Phil says farming is THE life,
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Whenever he wants eggs he
goes out to the chicken coop and
gets all he can carry.
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And there's a corn field at his
back door
And fruits galore.
"Oh, it's a merry life," says
Phil.
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And he's got a nice little pig
he calls Frankie.
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In honor of a well known Port
land ex-grocer-insurance man.
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And there's another he calls
Daa,
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In honor of a certain lawyer.
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And he calls another George.
He says he's named one of
them GiBty, too.
WHAT IRRIGATION WOULD DO
It's doubtless true that we may
never have great irrigation sys
tems like those of the desert
countries, but we ought to plan
to use the water we have in such
abundance in the seasons when
the normal rainfall happens to be
short. Even if it were applied
only to pastures the results would
be well worth the eost, at any
one may see for himself by com
paring a lawn that has been well
watered with one that has not.
Increasing by artificial watering
the number of nead of stock that
can be kept on an acre of pas
ture is an excellent, way to con
serve feed and reduce the coat of
meat and milk production.
The Willamette valley is mar
velously dowered with resources,
and if we take advantage of
them as we should we shall soon
have a dense population htre.
But if we do not take advantage
of our opportunities we shall go
on for generations complaining
that all we need to make us
prosperous is a larger population
to develop our latent resources.
Eugene Kef inter.
EX-PRESIDENrS DAUGHTER IS A "CANNETTE"
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Helen Taft, dauKhter of Major General Taft, Is h profeaaor at Bryn Mavr anil haa alo volunteered to do liar
bit for Ciic-le Hato. Together with a numU-r of atuileuta, I'rofeaaor Taft U rultlvatljin aeveral acrea of laud naar
the rollt-xa 8h la an iu the atraw bat wltb ber aHaUlaiita atriiiKlug beam whh ft they have Junt gathered tut
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