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About The Independence west side. (Independence, Or.) 18??-1891 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1890)
WhfD you vote for MeBee you vote tax of at kmat ISO m each tbouaand dollar worth of property la the county . A. B. Atkins and Mart Bcraffbrd wore called to tern on the United Main grand Jury at Portland this week. ' The Oregon eoufcreuce of tlie Kvan- filial church will meet lo annual suasion at Albany, Oregon, oo Friday morning of into week under the chair manship of Bishop T. Bowman. Bishop T. Itowman, of Chicago, III., will preach at th Evangelical church next Tuesday awning, May Mb, and oo Wednesday at 10 a, m. at the Cal vary church. All an cordially Invited. It la surprising Uiat Independence Is iiuklug such substantial growths when, according to cor Dallas friends, tit county to suffering ao tuucb from tbe unwtUed oundltkin of the county rat. Tula town was never ao pros perous a now. Tli sociable on last Friday eveulug giwn by I lie ladles of the Kvangcllcal church, both financially and socially, wai a grand uess. After the concert, which waa eotayed by all, especially tltat part rendered by Prof. Taylor and hta excellent wife, the people did more than Juatice to the refreshments nerved The net proceed were something over fifty dollar. According to announcement, candl date for baptism presented themselves at the Evangelical church butt Habbath al 8:30, where an Impressive sermon waa read by ilia pastor. Mr. U. K. Whltenker, Mb) Mlrdle Whltoeker, Mlw KtU Wbltoaker, N CarrandJ. tow took the ouveimntal vow, after which all went to the river at tha ferry crowing where all were baptised. At present property valuation the tax levy of Polk county to y running eirwneM and lUte Ux next year will be at leant tweuty-flve nillli on the dollar. Add for a new court houw and bow will our county look to the tax payer. The Howl we eoum nor pre vent The bridge we must have.ai the northern part our county nave oniy the Halem bridge to call for money. Tbe court how can Just an well wait and If you elect I. HI in peon It will not be built at ouce. CHICAGbWILL IPC AHEAD cm line. Alto there will be Mother road running upward be tween the curves of the spiral already described, fur a driveway, by which carriaitea may be com fortably driven up. Sixteen hun dred feet la a big climb: but it will not actuully seem no, because the grade will only bo a little more than forty feet of ascent m erery 1300 feet or ao of the journey that making one circuit of the tower at the bottom and a little more at the top. TbiH method of aaoeudlng will be infinitely preferable to the ele vator plan of the Kiffel tower, for several reasons. At every circuit of tbe mighty structure the view will change with the elevation, and there will be no such thing an the elevator aea -Meaner!, which cmweu a majority of the visitors to the Tour d Kiffel to go no farther than the nrnl landing. It will be acknowledged in the year 1892 that Chicago haa the fullest thing on earth by all odd. ftuggeatlons buve been made to the effect that it might be better to make the tower H'J'J feet high one foot for every year in the date at which Columbus discovered America but this would imply a painful sucrinoe of altitude lor motive not altogether siifllcleot. Chicago la desirous of making Columbus w famous as possible, but not at too great a cost in ad vertising value. And did ever a town have mien a chance to adver tine Itwlf to the world an has Chicago nowt Nations abroad will look upon it art the great American city when tbey know that the urn covery of America Is to be ccie bratcu there. RAINY DAYS. In 1892 it is proponed to erect at Chicazo a tower Himuar to tne Eiffel tower of Paris, only instead of 1000 feet high it will be 1600. It will cost 11,800,000, or 1500,000 more than the Eiffel tower. At the base it will be a circle 400 feet in diameter, diminishing to 276 feet in diameter at the top. Around it from bane to summit will wind a roadway seventy feet to width in spiral fashion, on which cars will be run at one-minute headway by a system newly invented. The whole distance from bottom to top will be three and three-fourths miles by Communkud by L.) Da a a Enm: It haa alwayeaeemed to me one of the advantage! of Oregon's rainy esnson Ibitt it afforded loob ex oelltmt opportunity for reeding, for tody, and general improvement, but all do uot seem to have Ibonght of it la tbal light We Bud men ooeaaionallj who aeem to do a vail deal of thinking; thntngh tbe loug rainy days they pit by the flreplaoe quietly smoking, and are ao proficient in tbeir chosen oeenpalioa tbal wife going ont for wood or water or lending tbe crying baby doea not aeem in tbe leaat to disturb tbeir meditauooel Of oonrae tbe queatioD of bow to paaa the winter la largely solved for Ibt "women folk" for "A man may work from ana to son, But a womau'i work ie never done." And when there ie no "ana" bow eaa a man workl Yet all onr life w not com- Brined in tbe absorbing oaeelioo "What (ball we eat, what abed we dnnk, and where witball shall we e clothed? Even tbe moat proaaM of oa need something to nil tbe wheel of eitotonoe, eonelbibg to brighten dark day, to obeer aiid en rich onr better aelvea. Home of na And it in the love of bonaeplanta, aome in ont of door ratnblea, yet "rambles," in all eve the very etc nay or aevere weather, repay a tboaaaad fold the real lover and atndeiitof nature, otbere And it la book od paper, otbere la vartooa kiadaof faaey work or la the many pleeeaat ta door gamea, bat to all there t mneb of pleasure iu aooial iotoreoone, and it m of thai wpeeiallr that I wib to speak. I believe that there i too little attonlloa paid to ooavefMlKHi a an art, for aaeb it ie, one of the moat bantifal, enreet to eodnra, bat ant treated an an arif Who atodiee it J Who toaebea ilf Tbeoele bra led Dr. Jobaeun's remark after aa evening in eom pen y appliea broadly to day; "There wa a treat deal of talking. bat vary little evnaervatioe." Not that we would ealtivnto a style as pompon as tbal of tbe old dootor. bat if our atten tion were tamed to tbe eabjeet we eoald all learn aometbing of tbe art of true manly and womanly luteieoarea. There are few of na bat eoald make oar word parer in pnrpoee more helpful in ton. Uoublle tbe piece to begin w in tbe bear! tor "oat of lb ebaodanee of tbe bearl lb month apeaketb." When we try to think and ee the beet in boroaoily, when we are readier to prates than lo blame, when we nee cheerful rather than enmplalniDg tone in the family, wbea wa eliminate personalities as mack poMible and nbstital oar idea on any boneat aubjeot. and try to use good Eog 1Mb uoHavored by Iang, w ahall bave taken a long tride in the Improvement of oar everyday talking, and may bop to begin to learn something of the "art of conversation." Til a OrWrirrlhl week, In substance Admits that the proposed new eourt house will cost from 174,000 to fHu.omi. Tlie ooet of the court house la a small Item to the Dallas iaper;Uieoourt house to the main thing and the cost will be regulated later. "If fxO.ono to not enough we will make ItSIAO.OOO. It to easy euougb to pay the tax." Of course! and no one cares how much they are taxed nor by whom. Not don't ever think of the oust, Jurt vote. Faker's Goldsi? hm Pills.. fnf fwaala Imwnlar lllMiuotblndlkaihw a tbo taarkvt Hnr all H.-p.IiiI!t and lr pnwIIHiiil laillH inunlhlr. Oiwranowii lo nllvvs iupiiMat4 BMiwUnulna. tusniarticuTswt Don't b hnntmnrwl. Has Tim. Health, sad moaay ,uka do oh r. ant to any addiaaa. Mura by mall rnt it-osletolprlaa,HW- Addrtn, THE IPHR8 lEDICWE COSPUT, aisacA, toiv,rvBTMJkB, oj MARVCLOU3 ra DISCOVERY. Oat Oraale assi eTMseMey lala eeet aeas wwm aa wmaeatss serea. very klM aad edeh) ctobiIt beMSMseV Vi imiiIm, Hk nlalmi at Dr. WJ. A, Haa ail. Um worktfcatfd j&n3u la MtadPliiiMa.
