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State Uniyersltjr 1NDEPEND MONITOR 1 I. VOL. 1. INDEPENDENCE, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL fj, 1913 NO . 32 ENCE CITY TO PAVE THIS YEAR Railroad, Monmouth. B, D, E and Second Streets Council Advertises for Bids for Paving and People . Petition City A number of business men got busy the first of the week and decided to start petitions for pav ing Railroad street. The South ern Pacific started the ball rolling by saying that "they would not lower this street to grade unless the street was paved and improv ed. The property owners dlong the street signed a petition ask ing the council to order paving. The stretches of unpav. d streets from Main to Railroad that wou'd -connect witn paved streets were also ordered paved, these are B. E. and D street from First to Second streets. Monmouth street is to be paved from Railroad street to the bridge. The above paving was ordered at the meeting of the council Wednesday night. NOTICE. Regular Cojnmunication Lyon Lodge, 29, A. F. & A. M. on Sat urday night, April 5th. Work in M. M. degree. Refreshments. Members and visiting brethern invited to attend. C. W. Irvine, Secretary- ORDINANCE TO BE DRAFTED ORDER City Council Wants Motor cycles and Autos Regu lated The council instructed the recorder to bring in an ordinance at the next meeting allowing a speed limit of 15 miles in the city and requiring motorcycles and automobiles to keep their mufflers closed. Expresses Thanks I wish to express my thanks through the Monitor to my friends who so willingly assisted me in the recent Monitor contest. Mrs. Elwood Hartman. PIANO CONTEST ENDS Brice 5 Calbreath Close Their Contest and Win ner Is Announced The contest for the fine piano on display at Brice & Calbreath's furniture store and which was awarded to the winner Thursday was won by Miss Florence Bur ton, Miss Burton was number one on the nomination list at the store. She had a total of 10, 204,724 votes. Mrs. Claud Kurre was second, number 21. with 4,756.725 votes, and Mary How ard third, number 20, with 2,178,000 votes. SUNNY SLOPE NEWS Dow Hamar made a business trip to Salem Friday. Elmer Rake of Monmouth visit ed relatives here Friday. John Walker was on the Mon mouth streets Friday. Mr. Fiskeof Monmouth was a pleasant guest at the Ed Rodgers home Tuesday. Roy Johnson visited friends in Independence Thursday. Mrs. Elda Rake and son visited with her sister, Mrs. Belle Sulli van, and family last week. Silas Clinton made a business trip to Independence Friday. Roy Johnosn is visiting with his uncle and aunt, John Hamar and wife of Toledo. Jesse Johnson and wife of the Luekiamute spent Sunday at the Fishback home. Mr. Chesboro of The Dalles was here on business W ednesday. Miss Minnie Wunder of Oak dale visited with her parents. Robert Chaney and daughter Tennie were at the county seat Friday. V. A. Fishback and wife of Lewisville were gupsts of her parents, Clark Clapp and wife, Sunday. A. J. Shipley and R. M. Bosley erected some new wire fencing the past week. SELLS AND BUYS Clarify Kurre Sells His Home and Then Pur chases Another. The residence property of Chas. Kurre on Fifth street near the high school became the property of Mr. Binman this week, Charley looked around, could not leave town, so purchased the Neil property in the north part of town. He will move into the new home at once. EXPRESSES HER APPRECIATION I wish to express my apprecia tion through the Monitor for the hearty support of my friends in the "prize contest" just closed, in which I became the winner of third prize, a sewing machine. Mrs. J. R. Simonton. Notice J. M. Gentry wishes to state that all orders for hop pegs must be received by the 7th of April or he will not be able to furnish them. YAMHILL AND . POLK MEET County School Athletes Will Fight It Out. Baseball and field and track events will be features of the "Field Meet" to be pulled off be tween Yamhill and Polk county school athletes in McMinnville on the college oval on Saturday, May 24. There's considerable interest shown in this athletic event. The champions of each county will play bait in the morning and the field events will be pulled off in the afternoon. McMinnville News-Reporter. School Notes TIim wratla teat lit r and the - - - r different grains had their pictures taken by our new photographer this week. The high school was taken with the circuit -camera giv ing a picture about three feet l""g- Indepondenou made appli cation through i Com mercial Club to pneure the field rrect -f the schools of Polk county. The schools of Indepen dence have he-ii doing ex cillent work this year, es pecially in the manual train ine and IV domestic science departments which ha e be come popular The method introduced by principal Chute are the latest and bring the Independence schools intD general notice. The work of the students is oo 1 and it is the plan of tliis p;iper to have an illus trated scl)o. 1 writeup in our big special which will he a big advertising feature for Independence. HIGH WATER COVER FLATS Floods General Over Whole of Valley No material damage has been reported here from the high wa ter of the Willamette at this point. The mountains were fill ed with snow and when the warm rains startsd many feared n re cord breaking flood. The highest point reached by the water was Tuesday, when the river at this point was almost up to the bridge leading from Main street to the river. The boat rnnning between East Independence and this city, connecting with the Oregon Electric, landed at the foot of C street all week. At Salem the flood report was an 18 foot raise. The river is now in its banks here and going down continually. SOUTHERN PACIFIC MAY BUILD ON TD NEWPORT Supt. Campbell Hopes to Recommtnd it In a Years Time Secretary Jenken of the New port Commercial Club receives word under date March 22, says the Newport Signal that the C. & E. R. R. will probably build from Yaqina to Newport; stating that this season the line would be rehabilitatedfrom Albany to Ya kina. The proposed work will cost $200,000. The extension can not be made this season, but they hope to extend the line by another year. This letter came from D. W. Qampbell, General Supt, the letter written by the Commercial Club recommended and asking for the extension being referred to him by Mr. O'Brien to whom it was addressed. This would indicate that the S. P. system plans extending the Corvallis & Eastern, and presum ably their extension will be nec essary on account of the proposed Valley & Siletz line to be built from Independence this year HOME TALENT PLAY COMING Band Benefit Under Direct ion of Prof. Merrill and Wife A home talent play will he put on at the opera bonne here Friday, April LI, under the auspices and for the ben efit ot the Independence ban i. Professor and Mrs. Merrill of San Francisco are. here and will have the direc tion of the play. Full particulars and the names of those taking part, etc., will appear in a later issue of the Monitor. The L. T. L. had a chart talk last Sunday which was enjoyed by all. Come neat Sunday ind bring all your friends with you. L. T. L Superintendent. newThoe SHOP George S. Campbell Opens Shop on C Street. George S. Campbell has opened up a boot and shoe shop on C ; street in the old hotel building, j He says: "I make shoes and boots to order and make a spec ialty of shoes for cripples and people with deformed or injured feet I make the old fashioned high-top peg boots and peg shoes. I guarantee fit and work manship." He also states that he believes there is plenty of room here for a boot and shoe maker, who also did repair work in spare time. FOR INDEPENDENCE RACE TRACK PLAN Les Galbreath - with String of Horses Flans Com ing Here Les Galbreath was in this city this week to make arrangements to bring down a string of seven horses from Hood River and Wy oming points. He plans on mak ing this his headquarters for training work and is expected here in a few weeks with his racers. Les is an old timer here, having lived in and around In dependence in former years. Tuesday was the opening day for the fishers and the county re cords show that up to date about 250 licenses have been issued in Polk county for hunting and fish ing purposes. Lew Ritner of Kings Valley was in town over night Monday on his return home from Dallas, where he has been making out his deeds for right of way through his farm. FERRYDALE NEWS NOTES Mrs. Homer Foster of Dal las is visiting at the home of her parent3 hero. Mr. Dornhecker and wife visited over Saturday and Sunday with relatives in Dal las. Mrs. Tom Foster of Bridge port is visiting at the Foster home a few miles west of here. Elsieand vVanda Key t were Dallas visitors Saturday. Several of the people from this vicinity attended the basketball game in McMinn ville Saturday night. Mrs. George Boyer and her sister from the east are spend ing a few days in Airlie. II. J. Elliot and wife were Dallas visitors the last of the week. Mr. Kofer of Kickrenll has begun work again on his house which is under way of construction. Mrs. Warthen and Alice Ileetz visited ovir Sunday in Portland. Mr. Lebon from the east is visiting at the Jennings home. Mrs. Ira White and daugh ter Ida werw P rtland vishois Saturday. Mr. Richardson visited a few days last week at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Fred Werner. Fred Werner was a Mc Minnville visitor Saturday. Derniece Boyer spe.it Sat urday and Sunday with her sister in McMinnville. Fred Hebding, Maxwell Flannery and Edward Parker were McMinnville visitors last week. Miss Hazel Duignan was a Dallas visitor Wednesday. The Penydale High School will give a play entitled ''Hack to the Country Store" on Friday evening, April 11. Admission, children 15c. ad ults 25c. Everybody is cor dially invited. SCHOOLREPORT Showing General Condi tions for the Month Following is the report of the schools of Polk county for the school month ending March 21, 1913: Number of schools report ing correctly and on time GG Number of schools not re- porting on time 3 Number of pupils remaining at the time of last report 2737 Number of pupils register ed new during month 29 Number of pupils register ed secondary during month 4J Number of pupils readmit ted during month 243 Total number of pupils on- register durinu month 3058 Number of pupils dropped durinsr month 433 Number of pupils on regis ter at time of this report 2G25 Number of days taught dur ing month 19.1 Whole number of days at tendance 484GG.5 Whole number of times late 443 Number of pupils neither tar nor absent 1486 Average number of pupils belonging 2G79 Average daily attendance 2550 Per cent of attendance 95.3 Number of visits by parents 108 Number of visits by mem bers of Bchool boards 79 The following schools have been placed on the roll of honor for the month for having made a per cent of attendance of 95 or more Dallas, Smithfield, Red Prairie (100), Bridgeport, Lewisville, Monmouth, Airlie, Bethel, Oak Grove, Ward. Perrynale, Fair View, Butler, Oak Point, Brush College, West Salem, Buena Vis ta, Spring Valley, Popcorn, Har mony, Upper Salt Creek, Mont gomery, Lincoln, North Dallas, Enterprise, Suver, Crowley, Mc- Timmonds Valley, Fir Grove, Sunny Slope, Oakdale, Lone Star, McCoy, Liberts, Falls City, Black Rock, Pioneer, Cherry Grove, Oakhurst, Mountain View, Hop- ville, Mistletoe, Valley Junction, Guthrie. The following schools have been placed on the roll of honor for the county for not having made any tardies during month: Smithfield, Eola, Pedee, Red Prairie, Cochran, Oak Point, Brush College, Spring Valley, Montgomery, Crowley. McTim monds Valley, Sunny Slope, Oak- dale, Lone Star, Guthrie, Liberty, Black Rock, Pioneer. Cherry Grove, Oakhurst, Mountain View, Hopville, Highland, Mistletoe. The following schools have now become standard: Fair View, Pio neer, West Salem, Buena Vista, Red Prairie. Orchards, Zena, Mountain View, Guthrie, Oak Hurst, Lincoln, Liberty, Perry dale, Ward, Airlie, Harmony, Fern, Mistletoe, Highland, Cherry Grove, Smithfield. The attendance for this month has been the same as last month but considering all conditions of the past month we have done well and we will make a much better average this year than last. We have not had many visits by parents this month as last but over 20 more visits by members of the boards than last month. The following Bt-hool rallies have been held during the month and all were well attended : North Dallas, Lincoln, Suver, West Sa lem, Rogue River, Popcorn, and several more parent-teachers as sociations have been organized. Respectfully. H. C. Seymour, School Supt, Polk county, Oregon. A missionary tea for the bene fit of the Presbyterian church society was held at the home of Mrs. Geo. Dickinson in their fine new bungalow Tuesday, March 23, when a millinery disylay and trimmers' contest were the fea tures of the program. A large table was loaded with the latest creations, marked at from $25 up, the display being of the com ical style, and the trimming mainly from the household class. The contest to show the ability at creation, was won by Mrs. Guy Walker, the prize being a garden bonnet, the second going to Mrs. Fletcher, a boquet of violets. The hats were made of tissue pa per by those present. Twenty three were present and all report the evening a pleasant one. It is planned by the society to later send a delegate to Portland at the meeting there. - Mrs. J K. Hubbard returned the first of the week from Cor vallis. The editor of the Monitor re ceived his commission as Notary Public this week. Mrs. Flora Spurr is back after a six-months' visit in Oakland with her daughter. Frank Schow ha3 accepted a position with O. A. Kreamer in the clothing department of the store. Mrs. Claud Hubbard came up Monday evening from Portland to visit with Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hubbard. Homer Link and J. M. Staats of Airlie were in town Tuesday on business, both looking for new automobiles. Don Dickinson lost a fine mare last week but he is taking conso lation in the fact that the little colt is coming along nicely. Mr. Cocbran, who has been em ployed in the O. A. Kreamer store, left for St. Johns where he is tak ing charge of a mill recently pur chased by his uncle, Mr. Johnson. 1. W. Dickinson has made a noted improvement in his barn. The wood approach has been tak en out and cement put in, making the barn first class in every respect. Geo. Dickinson is fixing up his lawn all around his new home at the farm. He has a fine seven room bungalow, with all the mod ern conveniences and a large basement there. A. D. Cook who purchased a threshing machine last year has purchashed the necessary attach ments for handling all kinds of work. A clover huller, self feed er, and a new blower are among the new purchases. J. I). Hibbs & Co. report the sale. MARRIED Miss Maud Thompson to Tom Brink by at the resi dence of Dr. Dunsmoro, Wed nesday afternoon t 8:30. r.'ie young couple will make their residence in the Ana 15. Taylor pioperty on sixth street, which Mr. Brinkley purchased about two weeks n,,,. Aft.ii- Iih ('(remnn v t lift juiii .... j young couple left for Salem, i . i ii : .. ., ; i Wliertj lliey win iiiiuii -jiii.il iM-idjy, after which they will lie at Imue to their friends. Mr. Clark and wife were the ,.,,1,7 u.itnuuuoa In 1 lie weddinc. ,IJIT IVIIV ' At a meeting of the pastors called by drs. S. 11. Cuth- bert, huperintondent of house to house visitation work for Polk county, after the preli mi'iary discussion it was moved and carried that we adopt the plan of the County Superintendent and author ize her to get necessary print ing done to carry out 'he plan. It wis moved and carried that each Sunday School of the city be assessed one dollar to cover expenses. It was decided each of the Protestant Sunday Schools furninh three visitors and two substitutes to make the visits. The visitors are to meet on Tuesday, April 8, at 9:30 a. m. at the M. E. church to start on their work. At 7:30 the pastors and superinten dents of all Sunday Schools will meet at the M. E. church to take all the names of their preference. Mrs. S. H.Cuthbert, Superintendent. BUYING THE RIGHTOFWAY VALLEY & SILETZ LINE WILL SURELY GO Mill Will B: Built at In dependence, Making Big Fay Roll Here. This week active work has been going on on the permanent location survey of the Valley & Siletz railroad from Independ ence to the Sileti timber. A report from the county court house shows that about eight right of way deeds have been filed along the proposed route of the Valley & Siletz sur vey from the Link place on the Luckiamute west. These right of way purchases are mostly in the section that has hereto fore been covered by options, and these options are being taken up before they expire. It takes time to get a railroad located, the right of way secured and the permanent surveys all completed, but the work is pro gressing nicely on this new road and we believe construction work will be begun in a few weeks. A new Reo, run less than 3,000 miles, this years make, for sale cheap. See C. G. Long. Rickrcall News Items It is rumored that a com mercial club will soon be or ganized here in Rickreall. Orval Sever and wife who have been working for Fred Ivoser have moved to Eugene. Sam ul Orr and family of Portland are visiting relatives here. Mr. Orr just returned from a trip to Scotland. Mrs. Janios Nesmith came fnm Portland on Sunday for a visit with her relatives. The Artisans gare an open meeting Wednesday night. Dr. (1. C. Eshelman of Port land was speaker ot the eve ning. The Kickreall Band will give a concert and basket so cial at the Artisans Hull, Saturday evening, April 12. Fveryone is invited to come and help the hoys out. Mr. Westoott and wife have moved to Salem. John Simonton went to McMinnville Saturday after noon to referee the basket ball game between Dallas and Silverton. At a special school meeting held at the school house, Sat urday afternoon, John Orr was elected pchool director. Mrs A. Hill has returned home after spending the win ter in Dallas with her son Harry. Mrs. Win. Clark has been visiting Mrs. Ed Clark of this place. Miss Alta Black was in Dal las last Friday. The Kickreall boys were beaten by the Greenwood boys in a ball game last In- f 1 1 . V . 1 1 t w. day aiiernoou, mo bwio ucmg 11 to 12. Don't forget the icecream social at the school house, Friday evening, April 4th. Come and have a good time. Dud Lucas and wife who have been visiting in Scio have returned home.