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NDEPENDENCE MONITOR VOL. 1. INDEPENDENCE, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1913 NO. 32 TEACHERS SES- M IS A BIG SUCCESS Mfinmnilth Qtafa Nnrmal IHWilJIIUUlil WIUIU IIUIIIIUI Holds Session Saturday MARION C3. SENDS DELEGATION Teachers of county see work of training depart ment and learn much The institute meeting at Mon mouth Saturday was well attend ed, about 130 teachers from all sections of Polk county being present. Besides these Co. Supt. W. M. Smith; Supt., Kreutz of the Salem schools; Earl Kirkpat rick, principal of the Sa!em high Bchool, and a delegation of students and teachers of Salem were present. The normal and training school held regular. sessions, showing the teachers and student teachers at regular work. The regular classes of both the Normal and Model school were assembled in all grades. Critics as well as student teachers took part in the work. As an entertainment, the following program was given by the seventh and eighth grades, with but few alterations. This program took the form of a decla matory contest: Music, Orchestra of Training School. Chorus, Pupils of Grammar School. The Building of the ship, Mabel Smith. An Afternoon at a Hotel, Wilda Fuller. "Putsy". Grace Parker: Mvnic, Girls Tiio. The Black Horse and His Rider, Donald Portwood. How the Church was Built at Kehoe's, Francel Ilawley: Music, Orchestra. Francel Ilawley won first place. At the close of the contest Miss Wilcox, physical director, gave a demonstration of work by the jrradet, the drills and exercises being on the platform of the school room. After this the visitors assembled at the gymn asium wv ere one of the regular Normal classes gave exercises in marching, concert drill work to music, etc. The session was a decided suc cess and this year's attendance of 130 was much better than that of last year, when 80 only were present. One of the interesting features of the meeting was the dinner served by the students of the do- meslic science department or me school. TAX NOTICE Pay your taxes at the Farmers State Bank. RIVER WOR 1 3 III " NEEDED HERE Adverse Report is Made From Engineering Department Senators Chamberlain and Bonnie have been appeak-d to, to aid in getting the revetment be low this citv continued down the. river. T: e rna't.-r was taken up with th- w.-.r vpartmir,t by them and ll t hue i i.! red an adverse t VT I -V. i been ! J inter- f tpoit. This report has maii.ly induced by the engi ing (b-t-artt:n-nt in charge of this, work in Oregon for the govern- SO ment. The Monitor has personally ex amined this revetment, and be lieves much of the damage now being done is caused by the re vetment washing out a channel below, which is taking out private property, washing into the county 'road and otherwise damaging property interests.' There should be a continuation of the revetment down the river , and an united effort should be made to get this matter adjusted. Senator Lane reports he is con versant with conditions at this point, has personally examined the river at this place and will use his efforts when he is in Washington to see if he cannot get an appropriation set aside for (his work. While private parties own the land along the river, the general opinion is, that most of the dam- no-e is paused hv worW dene here- tofore hv the trovernment. the revetment not having been built as far down the river as it should have been. j It was decided to have the next meeting of the principals at In- CELEBRATE AT SALEM;Tih Tomorrow Saturday, Salem will! celebrate the completion of the new P. L. E. bridge across the Willamette. The Salem Board of Trade issued a call for a big meet- ing on the above date. Polk county is as much interested in tnis new steei uriuge as is a"y i section of Oregon, because it 1 . . T 1 . . I means Detter service iorinaepen-1 dence, Dallas, Monmouth, Falls j City and other Polk county towns, i TpyW and Alexander are ' having a special sale this week, nrninum nr ninniniTro rrnnllirJV 07 i oiahuiiiu ur bANUiuAico rconuHni l j AT 2 P. M. J DISTRICT NUMBER ONE ) l : Mrs. Elwood Ilartman M iss Grace Lalibeite Mrs. J. K. Sinionton Mis. Homer Wood Mrs. I). O. Taylor Miss Nona Saun 'ers Lola Morgan Mrs. Ilobt, Mills Mrs. I. E. Hooker M iss Grace (Jirard Miss Gave Buoli'-nian . Retta Outhbert Miss Emma Montgomery Miss Florence Sawyers Miss Elsie Lamaster Mrs. E. L. linker Vivian Whitaker Mrs. Clint Moore Lavilla (looker Vale Ilillebrand DISTRICT NUMBER TWO Miss Francis Quisenberry Moni;outh 'lViiiiin Chancy Monmouth linrtha Uaiuaim ' R. F. I). No. 2 T.'i a J'.rown Monmouth ?di-; Franci Harrington Xelli, Kevt IMna Co; !i Etta Edgar Hen,;'--- Well-! ,V i n ii it Ballard Ruby Fr-viu Mrs. l'. I. Fergu.-on Lela Erickson Leon i ll.i Suii'.h Mis- Mable Johnton Mrs. J.. O. Anlers(,i- A'bli.' RiL'L'S na Fallback, Ileitis S(adetoii Mamie At water Mora Grice (;iads HaU-h.r I'ii"la Smith Kat.hervii Fox lilanch Fawk Airlie PRINCIPALS CLUB HAVE MEETING Big County Field Meet Planned In May COMMERCIAL CLUBS TO HELP Rules and regulations are adopted for governing these contests at the annual meetings A meeting of the principals of Polk county was held at the 111- stitute in Monmouth Saturday. The purpose was to adopt rules and regulations for the county ! athletic association's track meet, j ai uiat uaie a, iiawc m u selected at which to hold the countv track meet It was de cjde(j to ask the commercial clubs t0 ra;se a guarantee sufficient to ; pay te expenses of the meeting. ; anj at ti,e regular meeting March 22 a town will be selected by the , principais at which to hold this meetmz. The cost is estimated at f rom 10o to $250. . - .... Tne Drincipals decided on Marcn 22, as the date for the contest between the schools. This will be a big feature and Indenendence is in the field for the meeting. Independence 142.225 " 128,675 " 94,405 73,130 " 06,380 " 58,745 53,190 " 52,735 " 45,880 " 42,640 " 40,815 " 38,605 " 35,220 " 32,845 28,860 10,340 . " 11,640 11,775 " 10,480 8,845 00,340 .65,190 53,675 47,650 40,305 39,400 31,265 Monmouth Perrydale Airlie 28,610 28,400 28,235 21.505 linen Vista U.K. I). No. 2 Mon i n ou .h Kola 21.940 20,430 18.670 18,630 10,560 17.635 14,200 13,325 10,750 10,300 10,345 10,10 9,23 8,105 Bii. Mon inoiitl It. F. 0. fin VisU No. 1 Rickreall Monmouth , R. F. D. No. 2 MountainView Suver Rickreall Rickreall News Items Nat Bureh, and wife who have been visiting with Mrs. Burch's mother Mrs. Clark for the past two months, returned to their home near Springfield, last Sat urday. Mrs. William Rowell went to Independence Friday to visit her mother, Mrs. Byers. The Rickreall school teachers attended the Teachers Instute at Monmouth. Saturday. Linn Nesmith of Salem visited witn his grandmother, Mrs. Clark, over Sat urday. Mrs John Burgard of Portland is visiting her mother Mrs. Clark. Mrs. Henry Tate has been quite sick. Several of the ladies of Rickre all have formed a reading club. Mrs. Fred Thielson and child ren of Salem, are guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Westcott Mrs. Sam Orr and son Glen of Portland visited relatives and friends Tuesday and Wednesday The Ladies Aid Society met at the home of Mrs. John Vaughan last Wednesday afternoon. The Artisans held a meeting Wednesday night to which they invited their friends. A program was rendered, lunch served and a jolly good time was enjoyed Several new members were se cured. LARGE APPRO PRIATION FOR REVETMENT Independence Gets $10,- 000 for Revetment In the closing day3 of this session or congress a bill was passed that made an appropriat ion of $10,000 available for the improvements, and building of an additional revetment to tne revetment built a few ypars ago by the U. S. goverment just be- ow Indenendence. Senators Chamberlain and Bourne secured the adoption of amendment to the original bill making an allowence for this amount to be added to the original bill f or the purpose men tioned This money is conditioned on the approval of the engineering epartmentof the gover nment in charge of the river work in this section of Oregon. It had been hoped that a small amount of the former approbation could be se cured to do needed work at once but this failed to get the approval of the War Department in whose charge all of this work is keep at the present time. iThe $10,000 probably became available as soon as President Taft signed the measure when it was presented to him, and be fore he retired from his office as President. "B. A. Y," Did said? ye read what Mr. Dooley Did ye yell f 'r a police Did ye get the idea? Are men j ye going to take the chances yer self, or let the wife and children take them? Are ye going to let the suffragette pen ye up in the house wit'i the el ild ei and take no chances f'r yer-self? It's a "poor rule that won't work both ways" and ye will find a policy in the Brotherhood of American Yeomen an absolutely GOOD! rule to apply. j The Independence policeman has gone on a strike, so just yell for Johnson and lie oman. Mr. Basie of near Dallas was in this city on business Wednesday. JUDGES OF CONTEST TO RE CHOSEN Names Will be Announ ced in Next Weeks Issue of Monitor RIVALRY BECOMING KEEN As race for Valuable Priz es nears end Candidates renew efforts Only about three more weeks remains till the close of the thou sand dollar prize voting Contest and as predicted in a previous issue, many changes would take place in the standing of Candi dates before the race was over. It requires only a glance at the list to prove this prediction was founded on something more than mere guesswork, and many'more changes will take place before the close and we will not be sur prised to see some Candidate, who to look at the standing now, does not, seem to have a ch ance, take the lead before next week is over. . JUDGES TO BE CHOSEN In next weeks issue we will announce the names of those who will act as contest judges, they will be representative men of our city whose integrity is beyond question and each Candidate is assured "fair play". Now Candidates as the race is drawing near to a close it is be ginning to grow serious and some of you who have stayed near the top right along, and building up a reserve force of votes to cast the last night, are likely to be dis appointed if you fail to keep working right up to the close, you may have lots of votes in reserve but how about your competitors? They may be playing the same game, so it behooves each and every one of you to keep diligent ly after subscriptions, if you let up now, thinking you have a cinch on the prize you are after you are ikely to be disappointed when the judges announce the winners for there are several others after the prizes and they are justas confident as you. HAS GOV. WEST A PREFERENCE Vetos 'or Tare on Hops, Against it on Grain, Wool and Mohair Gov. West signed Butler's sen ate bill No. 30 that abolished tare on all grains, wool and mo hair. He vetoed the bill intro duced by Rep. Verd Hill abolish ing the tare on hops and it is generally believed that the hop buyers forced the issue and brought pressure to bear that in duced the Governor to veto the bill. They were in evidence'dur ing the session doing everything they could to defeat the measure. It looks like an unjust discrimi nation against the hop growers. Former Business Man Visits at Our Office Warren Cressy Sees Im provements and is Surdrised at Changes Warren Cressy, an old time resident of Independence, now South Bend, Washington, visited at the Monitor office Wednesday, and in a conversation with the editor he states, "Independence is taking the right course by put- 1 ting down cement paving. We used the same at South Bend and believe in paving. One sugges tion I would make is that the city buy its own machinery and do its own paving, thus saving at least 40 per cent to the tax payers. That is the policy we are pursu ing at South Bead and it is suc cessful." He also spoke of a city-owned water system, strongly favoring such a move. He stated also that he saw a great improvement in I Independence. at the M. e. church Sunday School at 10 A. M. Theme. prayer that all should pray. Ep worth League at 6:30 P. M Topic, The nature of the kingdom. Leader, Mrs. F. N. Sandifur. Evening Service, at 7:30. Theme, The world's greatest lover. Ev eryone invited. F. M. Sandifur, pastor, County Court Sees the Need of Bridge Here The matter of a new bridge eading from C street to the river was taken up with tne county court Wednesday, a delegation of business mon of this city going to Dallas for that purpose. The present bridge is in bad condi tion and is too narrow even for traffic and the county court has realized this fact for several years, but have been endeavor ing to make the old structure answer th'1 purpose until they could decide just what was need ed. They promised the citizens they would visit Independence this week and see what style of bridge should be built at this point. BIG BARN AND 200 TONS OF HAY BURN CommisslonerWellsSuffers Loss by Fire Sunday Geo. A. Wells suffered quite a loss Sunday, his fine $2800 barn catching fire about 7:30 A. M. and burning to the ground. About 200 tons of hay were in the barn at the time all of which was lost. The property was in sured for about two thirds of its value. The cause of the fire is unknown. Badge Weeks of Dallas visited at the home of his brotherinlaw Elmer Martin. St. Patrick smoked his pipe of clay. And danced an Irish wake that day. So celebrate in the same old way. On March 17, at the Opera House I say. , An Irishman. Loren Wann and family started home Thursday after visiting several weeks with Mr. and Mrs. It. J. Taylor. They will visit several places enroute where they have friends and relatives. Miss Lettie Weddle left thia week for Rtayton where she will visit with friends and relatives. Mrs. Simonton was a Falls City visitor Thursday. Nelson and Henkle and the Masonic lodge started laying brifk on their new building the first of the week. Work will be rushed on both buildings as fast as possible. The cement foun- dations were allowed a few days in which to settle and harden be- fore brick laying was started. It is estimated then from 20 to 30 days will be required to get the walls up. BRIDGE PLANNED INDICATIONS POINT TO R. R. Surveyors Making Preli minary Survey to Will amette Opposite this City WILL BRIDGE WILLAMETTE This fact coupled with re cent developments In and around this place indicate that Hill is coming The Monitor is reliably in formed that engineers of the Oregon Electric have- been surveying from their main east side electric lino to the Willamette river coming out below the ferry. Several men were in the surveying crew. This fact coupled with the survey that has been made from here through the Siletz timber belt to tho coast, the purchase of right of way, tho securing of a franchise on six tli street tli rough this city, and the activityin the renlty in the north end of Main st. indicates that active railroad work will begin at this point boon. VitsoQ Makes Interesting Inaugural Address Woodrow Wilson was inaugu rated as president, Tuesday, March 4, and gave an intensly interesting inaugural address in which he spoke of the human side as against the selfish mone tary side. One of his leading paragraphs: "But the evil has come with the good, and much fine gold has been corroded, with riches has come inexciisanie waste, we have squandered a great part of what we might have used and have not stopped to conserve the exceeding Inunty of nature, with out which our genius for enter prise would have been worthless and impotent, scorning to be careful shamefully prodigal a wfll ns ndmir;iblv efficient. " Taken as a whole the address of the President was a strong ap peal for justice and the support of tho general public without re gard to party affiliation and upon the principal of theeommon good. The new cabinet was selected as stateri in tne ivionitor iasc week. t He speaks of the matters to be aceompolished referring to th tariff, banking and currency ques tions as fie Ids of much reform. He favors the"'improvement of our industrial system, the water courses, the'forest'protection and reforesting of lands an I th? waste in mines. lie dwelt ' strongly on safe guarding the health "of the peo ple and their rights in the strug gle for existence. ' Miss'Retta Cuthbort has accent ed a position in the school sot-th of town in American Bottom and leaves Monday to assume her new duties. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Craven left Wednesday afternoon for Everett Washington too attend the funeral of David McAdam, a brother of Mrs. Craven, who died there this week. He left one brother and tree sisters in California. Mr. McAdam was formerly in Independence, quite frequently, having, charge of the D. B. Taylor hop yard at Corvallis for several years. BUILDING