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Rost phone Main 022.
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Skinner and
Mrs. G. W. Conkey uutoed to Port
Piuno for rent. Phone Main 0422. land on Thursday.
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Mrs. Fred Howard was a Corvai
The Monmouth street paving case
The Presbyterian church was
lis visitor yesterday.
comes up for trial next Wednesday. crowded last night, the occasion be-
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Geraldine Farrur at the Isis Sun | ing a benefit entertainment. A half
Dr. R. E. Duganne, Dentist, Inde
day
night.
dozen excellent musical numbers
pendence National Bank Building.
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were given and the climax of the
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Mrs. E. L. Buchanan of Salem was evening, “Old Peabody Pew ", staged
Henry Mott has returned to I ii
calling on friends hero yesterday.
by ten women, was very good. All
dependence.
those taking part did clever work
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Willard Ingermanson was in Inde
Mrs. M. C. Williams was visiting and showed much talent.
pendence this week.
relatives in Portland this week.
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FARM WORK PROGRESSING
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Quite a number of men are now
WITH INCREASED ACREAGE
Wilma Atwater of Airlie lias been
employed at the Horst ranch.
enrolled in the Junior Rainbow Div
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ision.
This is the quiet season in the
The city council met Wednesday
town. The farmers are putting in
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night. No business was transacted.
I Ion, L. J. Simpson, Republican sixteen hours every day in the
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candidate for governor, was in In fields and they have no time to loaf
Arthur Burkhead is home on a dependence yesterday.
around on the streets. A ride in the
furlough from the naval station at
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under waybic cmfwyp shrdlu etaoi
Mare Island.
Mrs. Layton Smith will begin the country shows that spring plowing
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long journey to her home in Alaska is well under way and finished on
The Clark Jewel Oil Stove will tomorrow.
many farms. The government’s ap
please every housewife that uses
peal for increased acreage has
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one. They are neat, simple, and
Mrs. Lilian Crane and son of brought results and unless set back
easy to operate. See Craven & IIufT. Portland are visiting relatives and by bad weather, the Willamette
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valley will make a record in 1918.
friends in Independence.
Mrs. Girfin of Corvallis is a guest
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at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Majestic range and household AMERICAN CASUALTIES
J. W. Kirkland.
TO DATE TOTAL 3559
goods for sale. Phone Main 0422.
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Furnished house for rent. Phone
Washington,
April 16. — Total
A Junior Red Cross has been or
casualties among the American ex
ganized in the Lewisville school Main 6422.
peditionary forces abroad to date
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with a membership of 19.
A daughter was born to Mr. and are 3559, divided as follows:
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Killed in action, 246.
County Superintendent Crowley Mrs. Oscar Bostwick in this city on
Tuesday
morning.
Killed or prisoners, 15.
is arranging for a county teachers'
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Killed by accident, 189
institute in Independence April 27.
Mrs. K. C. Eldridge departed Tues
Died of disease, 891.
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day afternoon for San Francisco
Lost at sea, 237.
R. G. Dykstra has been elected where she will remain for several
Died of wounds, 79.
superintendent of schools at Uma weeks.
Gas attacks, suicides, causes un
tilla for next year.
known, 45.
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The W. C. T. U. will meet Tues
Civilians killed, 7.
Willard Reeves has joined the day, April 23, with Mrs. Peter
Wounded, 1783.
navy and is now stationed at Goat Kurre. A good attendance is de
Captured, 43.
Island.
sired.
Missing, 37.
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Unaccounted for, 1.
Geraldine
Farrar in Cecil B.
Grand total, 355!).
W. II. Beard of Falls City has
been elected chairman of the Re DeMiller’s supreme photo-spectacle
publican county central committee “Joan the Woman" at the Isis A NATION HONORED AND
OBEYED HER COMMANDS
and Mrs. Stella J. Henry of Spring Sunday night, April 21.
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Valley secretary.
The story of Joan of Arc, who
Across t h e dark' horizon of j
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fought with men, was loved by men France there flashed the figure of
Rev. .1. L. Hall, call pastor of and killed by men will he shown at : the greatest woman who ever lived, j
Western Oregon, will preach at the the Isis next Sunday evening,coin- j From a peasant hearth she rose by I
Baptist church next Sunday even meneing at 8 o'clock.
her wondrous works until she stood
jng. All are cordially invited to
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beside kings. At seventeen she was |
come and hear him.
Hobart M. Dickson came over j commander in chief of the French :
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from Toledo Tuesday and will re j armies. At nineteen she was burn
S. II. McElmurry received a let main here for a week. lie will then ! ed at the stake by the people she;
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ter from his son. Corporal Oran Mc go to Washington and join the | loved.
Elmurry, Wednesday. The letter army.
They did not understand.
indicates that the young man lias
It is a story which has thrilled .
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not been sent to the bring line.
men,
women and children through
We are very grateful to the kind
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neighbor (Identity unknown) who the centuries. Now it is told, beau
tifully, wonderfully by the marvel
A1 Bentley, who bus been out on left a flock of delicious doughnuts
oys photo-spectacle..
on
our
front
steps
this
morning.
the Luckiamute for tin; past month
Jesse Lasky presents Geraldine
came to town the first of the week Our bachelor brigade devoured them
Farrar, as the immortal maid of
at
one
sitting,
except
one
which
we
to remain a few days, lie reports
Orleans in “Joan the Woman" at
the snow on the foot-hills several mailed to Virginia Southern ns a
the Isis, Sunday, April 21.
sample of our baking.
inches deep.
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MISCELLANEOUS THOUGHTS
IN SHORT PANTS
Wandering around a little
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Yesterday
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We ran into
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Modern Bakery Equipment
Told us
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■' produce the toothsome dainties that are
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Qu> % anj cleanlineta «K the twin n<ottwJ
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of tha hmkery ml mil time».
That they all
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lather and mother.
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We supposed
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Into useful men and women
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And as they grow oleier
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Will gradually disappear.
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Tlie oldest one
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Told us
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Part of tlie bunch
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Because they couldn't
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Get out of it
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All the time.
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"I don't go much,"
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He said,
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Abuot keeping clean.“
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But the sixth one
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“Anybody
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What wants to fight,"
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Was the answrer.
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Hi' verified his statement
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By fighting his sister
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Before we wandered on.
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From children
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We learn much
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And we believe
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That here's something
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That will help the boys
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Who are doing
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The fighting over there
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And one of them
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Should tell
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General Pershing
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About it.
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A soldier,"
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Hr continued.
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"And fight;"
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Fight who?”
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If be will let
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The “men
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That’s teaching ns:
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We asked.
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Five were so marked
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1 That they were diarernahle
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Blended so completely
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With the ground
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That he or she
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Could not be seen
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By the linked eye.
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We suppose these kids
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Will grow up
Told ns
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W e w ill deliver you
high-grade custom-tailoring
at a price that you never
thought possible to secure.
She talks too much
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Chicago, U. S. A .
Just compare the quality o f our
tailored-to-order clothes—point for
point in finish, fit and fabric and
you’ll make your selection here at
once.
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There were live of them.
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But the oldest one
There were six.
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Merchant Tailors
Attended school
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Of dirty children.
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• The oldest one
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A herd
H E French o f today
an fam ous as pastry
are
makers, but they would
not now think o f using the crude m ethods pic
tured ^ere that w ere em ployed by them som e
c entunes ago. They, like ourselves, m ust have a
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The dirt
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F Y O U want exceptional clothes
satisfaction, you’ll find it to your
advantage to leave your measure
n o w fo r y o u r n e w S p rin g suit
tailored to your individual order by
Go dirty
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Long enough
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They will get to looking
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So much like the ground
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That they can't
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Be seen.
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Then we ask
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The hoard of strategy
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W’hnt would prevent
Them from marching
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Straight thru
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To Berlin.
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Being a patriot
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We don’t ask
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Any financial assistance
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For this discovery
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Tho when
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Tlie history of the war
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It would be all right
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To put our picture
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In it.
Max Goldman
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