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INDEPENDENCE MONITOR
VOL. 1
INDEPENDENCE, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1912
NO. 3
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INDEPENDENCE TO GET NEW RAILROAD
The Iron Horse to Displace Buggy and Wagon and Steel Rails to Compete With County
Highway from Buena Vista on the Willamette to Independence
TAPS HOP YARD
Line Leaves S. P. Track
Two Miles South
LINE TO BE 3 MILES IN LENGTH
Train Service Daily from
Independence to be Giv
en and Line to be in
Operation this Fall
Surveyors have been bu3y the
last two weeks surveying a new
railroad for H. Hirschberg from
Independence to the Krebs hop
yards and ultimately from there
to Buena Vista. The new line
will leave the S. P. line about
2 miles south of town and will
be about 3 miles in length. Dai
ly train service will be operated
over the line. As soon as the
right of way is secured (and the
farmers are all anxious to have
the liue through this section)
work will be rushed and a large
construction crew will be shipped
in to hurry the wo rk through in
time to ship the season's hops to
mark . ' . ..is line will be an im
portant addition to the various
lines now centering at Indepen
dence and is but one of three
new ones which the Monitar
mentioned last week as coming
to this city in the course of a
very short period of time.
a new 13 room home all com
pleted which cost $6000. This
house has all the modern conven
iences, is well arranged and mod
ern in every respect. Mr. Brown
located on what is known as the
Hattie Jones property a few
years ago and has worked out all
of his indebtedness and built this
new building complete through
nis own energy and manage
ment in the course of a very
short period. This demonstrates
tnat the Willamette valley farm
er who makes use of his land can
get results. The other new home
we wished to mention is that
built by the same firm for E. M.
Younff on his farm. This is a
nine room bungalow, with a full
basement, aceteline gas light
plant, hot and cold water from a
compressed air plant and sewer
age system by means of a septic
tank, giving him all the modern
conveniences of a city home. He
also has a fine new barn, chicken
house and other necessary build
ings. This property complete
represents an expenditure of
about $7400
NEW DEPARTMENT AT
0. S. N. S.
Eggs go as far as cash for gro
ceries at Fluke & Johnsons.
BIG STOREROOM
Graven & Huff to Add
Line of Implements
ROOM TO BE BUILT AT ONCE
Implements Ordered for the
New Warehouse and
Stock Complete One
Craven & Huff are to have a
fine new warehouse built just to
the rear of their store building
on C street. The building when
complete will be 36x40 feet and
and will be used as a storage
room and display building for the
implements and machinery de
partment of the Craven & Huff
hardware stock.
Mr. Craven, in a "conversation
with the editor of the Monitor
stated, "We have our complete
line of implements ordered and
will carry the P. and O. lines of
goods, consisting of wagons,
plows, harvesters, harrows,
rakes, etc. The line will be com
plete and we are waiting
the completion of the new build-
v,oc h.n nnpnH hut a ! very best Normal
11CVT in in huj r-"
few months but are fretting j
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Hiicinoca llA uic ill mui jl va awi uia v.vtu-
The Oregon State Normal is
preparing for their winter term
now and will increase the effi
ciency of the course by adding a
domestic science department to
the school. Plans are out and
the contract will be let during
the week, in all likelihood, for
the fitting up of the old sloyd
building just West of the
school for this purpose. This
building is large enough to make
them a good domestic science
department and the public
schools are now requiring that
the teachers be able to teach
these new subjects in the public
school and the Normals are thus
compelled to prepare to handle
them.
President Ackerman is plan
ning on giving the graduates of
the Normal the best training
available for teaching purposes,
and has put in considerable time
looking into the work of the dif
ferent schools of the east to be
prepared to add the work re
quired here. Many new teachers
have been brought to Monmouth
from the very best schools of the
east and where they have had the
latest experience, and this ex
perience Mr. Ackerman is using
in helping build up a fine institu
tion at the sister . town of Mon
mouth.
No school in the state comes so
directly in contact with the little
folks as the Normal, because its
graduates go out to do the work
that reaches direct to the little
children. Their first schooling
in the public school is at the hand
cf the teacher and the more Nor
mal students we have the better
training the little ones secure.
There are too few educated teach
ers and too many who are not ed
ucated. What we need is the
work we can
secure in Oregon. The big east
ern Oregon counties realize this
a trained nurse. She had the
very best of care. The family in
Portland made every effort to be
with her, but were late a few
hours.
The editor of the Monitor has
been personally acquainted with
Florence for nineteen years, and
words fail to picture her as she
was. "The purest treasure mor-
! utation," and the heart, charac
ter and life of Mrs. Allin is an
open book. She was as true as
steel, and as inflexible to wrong
doing as human character could
be. Her friends were legion, and
Alfalfa does well in the Wil- wnen once. maae tnev remained
lamette valley bottom lands. In M true tnea ana trusted.
no section does it do better than' "We speak of our friends as
around Independence where the dead. The casket contains her
river bottom overflows every outer covering; she still lives.
year and leaves a rich deposit &ne looked witn tnose eyes, spoKe
PLANTALFALFA
Crop Does Fine on Rich
Valley Bottom Land
PROGRESSIVE FARMERS TRY IT'
Editor Interviews Fanners
and Learns Valuable In
formation on Good
Hog Food crop
RESULTS TALK
Post Office Oot Grows the
Agent's Estimate
MORE BOXES ARE REQUIRED
Business Increases 40 per
cent in Six Months and
District is Restrict
ed by River
of new soil and sand preventing ( with that tongue, those lips, used
the land from becomine: worn . those hands, for there was that
out and non productive. That within the body which employed
is one reason why the Indepen-! these organs as instruments,
dence hops are recognized as the She has passed through the door,
best in Oregon, and why other invisible to us, into a world not
communities when speaking of of ghosts but a world of Bub
their hops state thev mav eaual ! stance of human forms. She
of the increasing
around Independence.
2 NEW HOUSES
Brown and Young's New
Country Homes
cation.
We have been unable to learn
j how much thrashing has been
idone up to the present time or
the location of machines work
ing but reports arrived this week
stating that the Wheat was being
! delivered to the diffeaent ware
houses in quite extensive quanti
ties. The Iudependence mill re-
Iceived over 3,000 bushel last
Elbert Thompson, of the firm j week ank some this week. The
of Thompson Brothers, of Salem, ! quantity coming this week has
was in Independence this week, j not been so great as the recent
and in telling of the new resi-' rains and thundershowers kept
dences around Independence, ' back the thrashing crews for sev
mentioned two of the best a3 be- eral days and thus caused a ces
ing that of A. 0. Brown, who sation of the grain to the ware
livea just north of town and has houses,
thtj famous Independence hop
Catlin & Linn were the first to
plant the alfalfa successfully
which was done on their farm
about four years ago in the ter
ritory known as American bot
tom. This section above Inde
pendence has been an experi
ment station for the alfalfa rais
ing business. Sloper Brothers,
about three years ago, tried the
crop and found it productive.
Krebs Brothers followed with a
forty-five-acre tract of alfalfa,
which is producing a fine yield
and demonstrated the fertility of
the bottom soil. Joe Pincus tried
sixteen acres on his place and is
well pleased with his returns.
R. H. McCarty, three years ago
planted three acres and this year
Mr. Hartley has produced two
crops already from this little
tract and will get more.
As feed for hogs the alfalfa
settlement in the American hop
bottom claim alfalfa is king and
the returns indicate it There is
no reason why this crop should
not be raised more extensively.
It is a fine producing crop when
once it is well stooled and being
a perennial crop it does not have
to be replanted every year, and
then too when it gets sufficient
water it will produce several
crops during a year. It isn't like
merchandise on your shelves.
It grows money while you sleep.
DEATH OF FLORENCE I. ALLIN
Allin Near Eugene, Oregon,
on the upper Mackenzie, Sun
day, August 11, 1912, at 5:15
p. m., Florence Inez Allin, of
uremic coma, brought on by
diabetic condition,, aged 34
years, 11 months and ten days.
Florence Wagoner Allin was
born in Springfield, Illinois, Sep
tember 1, 1877, later moved to
Dayton, Washington, and from
there with her parents and broth
ers came to Indepeneence in 1893,
so the greater part of her life
was spent in this city, She was
married to Dr. W. R. Allin eight
years ago, and to tne union one
boy was born, William, who is
five years df age. Besides her
husband and son she leaves a
mother and father, Mr. and Mrs.
H. H. Wagoner, of Portland,
and two brothers, Harry E.t and
Clarence R., and no death has
ever occurred prior to this to mar
the family happiness.
For several years Florence had
suffered from diabetes, and that
too, without hope of permanent
cure, but through it all she was
cheerful, hopeful, uncomplain-
... , !! i
inc. At ner Deasiae were nus-
band and son, two doctors
nas gone forth clothed with lm
mortality and stands today in the
presence of her father and her
f2 f her Savior and ours
i carried with her the
fruits of her true and kindly
words, brave and generous deeds,
noble conduct and endurance; for
in that sphere character alone
survives and every one shall find
the place for which he or she
fitted. We can not tell what
things may be given her to do,
but we are sure her higher life in
that glorious world unseen by us
will be one of activity, of minis
try to others, perhaps to us, in
ways we cannot understand."
The vacant chair in this house
hold must ever remain empty
and the husband loses a helpmeet,
the son a mother's love and guid
ance, but to us all life is swal
lowed up in death. It is a tender
chord that unites us to this
world and death may linger long
or be as swift as the flight of
meteor. Everything in nature
dies to live again. The flower
withers on its stem and dies; the
leaves fall in the autumn and be
comj a part of mother earth; the
forests are consumed by fire and
destroyed by man; the frost
comes from a clear sky and kills
the fruit so promising before it
has had time to mature; floods
and hurricanes and fires sweep
over whole areas and leave devas
tation in their wake. So with life,
some are gathered to their rest
mg place m infancy, others in
the full strength of manhood and
womanhood, while others are
allotted the full span of life giv
en to man, but with u3 all, life
is swallowed up in death, for this
corruptible must put on incor
mption and this mortal must put
on immortality, 0 death, where
is thy victory? O grave, where
is thy sting?
The funeral services will be
held in the I. O. 0. F. hall today
Thursday, at 10:00 a. m., under
the auspices of Clover Leaf Re
bekah lodge of this city, of which
she was a member. Dr. II. C.
Dunsmore delivers the funeral
Bermon. The interment will be
in Portland, probably the River
view cemerery.
There is no occasion to leave
Independence to buy your mer
chandise. You can get all you
want right here. The competi
tion is keen enough to insure
you bed rock prices, and the
stores large enough to carry a
stock to select from. This town
needs no more grocery, drygoods,
hardware, or drug stores. She
is well equipped in all those lines
with those here and those that
and 1 have announced their coming.
In October, 1910, the Govern
ment sent an agent out to make
an estimate of the size of office
needed for Independence, and
stated that a lock box service of
336 boxes would satisfy this town
for ten year's time. Since then
the service here has grown to
such an extent that 126 more
boxes were necessary and have
been added, and the indications
now are that another section will
be needed in a very short time.
The increase of the office busi
ness in the first six months of
the last calendar year is over 40
per cent. If this increase is kept
up for two years it will make a
second class office here. That
would place Independence on an
equal looting witn all oliices in
the state except Portland and Sa
lem, which are first class offices,
One reason this place does not
now have a second class offi:e is
from the fact that there is no
bridge across the river and the
rural mail that shou'd go out from
here to the immediate territory
tributary opposite Independence
now goes out from Salem, Alba
ny and other points and this poor
service to these people can only
be remedied when a bridge spans
the river at Independence.
Mr, Merwin also stated in his
conversation that a larger build
ing would be required if the bus
iness kept increasing at its pres
ent rate and an addition would
be put on to the present property
if demanded. There are 23
second class offices in Ore
gon but very few of these have
as limited a territory to draw
from as does Independence.
the
old
surance Company, called on
editor Tuesday. He is an
acquaintance, having been in the
State Normal at Monmouth to
gether. Mr. Nash formerly
hailed from Buena Vista, but was
recently assigned to the Salem
end of the accident work of this
company. He stated we are pay
ing $8.16 a week to Mr. Jordan,
who got his hand hurt a few
weeks ago, also to Mr. William
son and Walter Boyse, all of In
dependence.
Mr. wash said- l got your
first issue of the Monitor from a
boy selling it on the street, and I
was surprised at the cosmopoli
tan appearance of the paper: its
make up; clear, clean print; in
fact . I have not seen a better
county weekly in the valley, and
I tell yot it speaks well for Inde
pendence." We wish to state it
almost makes us blush to print
such praise as this, but we take
it for what it is worth and sup
pose you will also.
M. J. B. Coffee sells better than
any other Why? Ask Fluke &
Johnson.
OUR ANTIOCH NEWG ITEMS
THRASHER GOES TO
THE LUCKIAHUTE
Luckiamute is to the
again, lhis time she is .n
ready to thresh her own grain.
They were all down Saturday in
their wagons and with their best
horeflesh to get their new sepa
rator. M. Scrafford, E. Cham
berlain, Mr. Green, Mr. Nelson,
Mr. Rutschman, Ernest and Glen
Hiltibrand make up the seven
that have combined together and
bought this new machine. Enoch
Chamberlain has an engine of his
own and they have all the per
quisites to put the grain into
sacks and get it ready for the
market.
What surprises the editor of
the Monitor is that they had not
thought of this matter before.
They are wide awake up there
and will soon have a railroad
through their farms to the coast,
or near them, and they are pre
paring to get ready for the on
rush of settlers.
I
NEW TELEPHONE
Ten Arm Two Party Ser
vice Planned
FROM AMTOATBOTTOM IN
Joe Pincus in Town Satur
day Perfecting an Orga
nization of Farmers
and Hop Men
Mr. Kenyon preached at the
Antioch school house Sunday.
Theodore Moffit of Oakdale,
passed through here enroute to
Monmouth Friday.
Ralph Barber finished hauling
wood to town for Mrs. E. Clarke
Thursday.
Clarence Bruce, of Oakdale,
was in this vicinity trying to buy
a horse Thursday.
Mrs. C. E. Clapp and mother,
Mrs. Rnell, were Monmouth visi
tors Saturday.
G'over Ilinkle and Jim Riggle
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Clarke, of Lewisville.
Joe Swearengen, who was wa
ter boy with Rogers' threshing
crew, was brought home sick la3t
Saturday. He was suffering
from a severe sore throat during
the recent rain.
Bill Bogynska, who has been
working for Mr. Holman on the
threshing machine, quit Saturday
and Riley Rhodes has taken his
place.
He Likes The Monitor
C. E. Nash, special representa-
tative of the Occidental Life, Jn-
Mrs. J. E. Caldwell X
has consented to take up the
soliciting work for the Muni- '
tor and is authorized to collect
and receipt for subucriptions.
We have no bargain days,
cut price offerings or specials
to offer.
NEW POOL HALL
Asa Taylor Property Is
Leased by Gaines
Asa B. Taylor rented his new
store building now being built on
C street this week to W. W.
Gaines, a brother of Dick Gaines,
who will open up a first class
cigar and tobacco store, and in
connection will carry a complete
line of soft drinks, candy, fruits,
ice cream, etc. He expects to
put in about four tables and will
have one of the best places in the
valley when it is finally com
pleted and ready for occupancy.
The store has a frontage of 33
feet and a depth of 90 feet, mak
ing it a model place for a good
store. In connection a small res
taurant may be opened in the
rear of the building. The place
will be opened and running be
fore hop picking time and will be
a good resort for the hop pickers
when in town after their day's
work.
Joe Pincus was in town Satur
day and with him he had a list of
telephone subacribers. Their
ine up American bottom is in
bad condition and they decided
to see what could be done to
wards a new company. A num
ber of the ranchers between In
dependence and Buena Vista
were in town and they pretty
generally signed up for stock in
the new company. Three hun
dred telephone poles were start
ed down the river over a week
ago to be stopped at the Carmi
chael yards for a line from the
old Krebs place to town. If the
st of the people signed up these
Jes would be used for a ten arm
uvo party service to town, giv
ing the people of this section one
of the best services in the coun
try. They were generally sign
ing up when in town Saturday
and a meeting was held to effect
a general organization in the af
ternoon at the Lerona hotel. The
line will be pushed along so as to
get it in operation before hop-picking.
GENERAL STORE
To Open in the Whiteaker
Building Soon
LA. CAREY LIKEslHE TOWN
States he Comes to Stay and
Hopes to Have Stock
on Hand Soon
L A. Carey of Spokane, com
menced fixing ap his place on
Main street a few days ago. He
is boxing in some well arranged
windows, nutting in shelving and
expects to get a new stock of
merchandise on the shelves in a
short time. He has the Whitea
ker building, joining the Lerona
! hotel property and is improving
it before securing his stock, lie
said to the editor of the Monitor,
"I have been all over this valley
looking for a place to locate
a good, up-to-date, general stock
of merchandise, and three
months investigation has caused
me to select this town. I am
here to stay. I did not come
here for hop picking as some in
timate, but am fixing up per
manently to begin business and
have just orderd my stock. I
will carry from $10,000 to $15000
stock and if I find the trade
will jusrify I will put in a $20,000
stock here.
A new building 50 x 100 is be
ing erected at the corner of the
three hop ranches of H. Hirsch
berg, Horst Bros., and Mr. Wolf.
High Buffum and sons are put
ting up the building, doing their
own carpenter work and getting
the building in shape for the fall
dancing at the hop yards. The
old story of work and pleasure
combined is causing this new
monster 50 by 100 dance hall to
go up and being situated at the
corner of a thousand acres of
hops it will undoubtedly be a
busy spot during the whole of the
hop picking season.