Independence monitor. (Independence, Or.) 1912-19??, August 08, 1913, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextTHE INDEPENDENCE MONITOR Published Weekly at Independence, Polk County, Oregon, on Friday. atcr4 as secoad Class Matter August 1, 1812 at the Tost Office at Inde- fndace, Polk Connty, Oregon, Undar the Act of March 3, 1879. Q. A. Hurley, Publisher & Proprietor Snoscription Kates: One Year $1.50 Strictly In Advance Independence, Oregon, Friday, Aug. 1, 1913 and the feedeis should follow later. Polk county being placed on the great Pacific Coa-4 National Highway from California to Washington, will be required to have a permanent, well built road ut a.i early date from Salem through Independence and to Albany. It i w)rth oonejideri ng now, how to route and build this main road. With this road laid out, all the main travel from Portland south will pans through Independence. This is worth inventigHing by the people of Independence. ADVERTISING RATES Single Insertion per Inch, By the Month, - - - - By the Month, 10 Inches or More, per Inch, Half Page, one week, ...... Full Page, one week, - - 20 per cent off when same add repeats Minimum ad Locals and Reading Notices 20 cents 50 cents 40 cents $5.00 910.00 $1.00 Classified, each Insertion, per word l cent Frontpage, per line, each Insertion .... lo cents Locals and Readers, one Insertion, per line 10 cents Locals 5 Readers, by mo. changes allowed weekly, per lime, 5 cents All locals or other advertising totaling 20 lines or more, 5 cents first Insertion, 4 cents thereafter. Lodge notices, cards of thanks, pay church or society notices, S cents per line, when totaling one Inch or more, 23 cents per Inch. Cultivate Community Friendship In the everyday businefH of trying to make money, majority of our people forget there are oihsr people that they should know. While this fact is true among neigh Dors and Dullness rneti ana farmers it is even more to in different communities. Dallas last week and the week be fore made their nrist break in community visitation and while there was an incentive- -the county fair the idea independent of the fair, is a good one. Dallas and Inde pendence both are too claniih. They carry the stay at home plan too far. Ho many business men in Independence do you suppose visits the Buena Vista, Airlir, Kickreall, Suver, Eola, Perrydale or McCoy country in a year? We believe we are safe in saying that not a business man has knocked oil' from his books or business this year and visit ed the farmers and the bunnies men around the adjoining towns. We should cultivate oomru unity friendship. We should learn where the farms are and who art the farmers. W ahouhi know our county. To do business successfully we must know the people with whom we may do business. If we dont care for our surrounding country should we ex pect them to care for us? II we set back like wooden sol diers, will they look at us otherwise than as little tin dolls. Business isbusinsss and from a purely selfish standpoint alone, Independence should learn who the people of Polk ounty are. The Monitor every week tollsof something doiag among the farmers. Its editor has visited not only Dallas and Monmouth, but Rickreall, Perrydale, McCoy, Huena Vista, Eola and Alrlie as well. In doingthie we have learned first handed things t he merchant of Independence should know These communities have needs that the people of Indepen- dene might help them to get. They know but little of Independence, because Independence has not seen tit to visit them. They say we know the people) of Salem, Mo Minuvllleor Albany, which i true but the question is why don't they know the people of Independence? It is because Independence does not create community friendli ness. It does not oarry the doctrine of Independence away from home. It does not seek to make new friends. That is the secret in a nut shell, Take Care of the Farmer While we are waiting for tlie inanufaoturies and the pay roll let us take care of the interests of the farmer. Independence can be the farmers' center of this county by doing the little tilings that count for farm betterment The banks, merchants, hotels and tuuvcpHperw of Indepen (hnoe should put in an much energy boosting thufsmi busi ness as in boosting saw niillsnnd factor j vs. Theopportunity todevelop thebestthere in in I he soil, systematically, should be encouraged and the community that dors this intheoom munity that makes its growth peimanvnt. The liops, t'ie cattle, the hogs, the fruit, the clover set-d, the grain and hay of the section irihutory to In lependence are the irre at factors for the town's stability. The wealth i f this county should not be c -initi'd by what the soil is ns eased at. but at what its returns are. The idle soil like the ,buried dollar has no value. How many idle acres a-e there in Polk counts'? How niuoh wenlt ' is dormant because farmers either do not find the time tt till the soil or do not realize the value of this idle land? Would it be of value to the town of Independence to expert our farms and learn what the farmers are doing mid what their neighbors are doing? Would it be of benefit to the farrows? If it would be, we should take up the offer of the expert in this section and get busy. Establish Your Grades and Curb Lines The paving of Monmouth street has demonstrated one thing thoroughly and that is, that the city should uryey the town, establish grades and locate the curbing lines on all thocity streets. Then when streets are paved they should conform to the city survey. On Monmouth street most of the curbing on ths street had to be taken out, necessitating a double expense to those who had put in curbing to beautify their places. If thocity would survey those streets and set the grades per manently it would mean better streeU in the residence section. HtllbleK. Will (PlUlltlCSS UIVe J'lSt 88 Sflt- Ih factory results iu the mere form of illuminating H8 the one set within a clump of flowering shrubs, or erer green hedges, or dwarf Rpruces, bot there will be no comparison In the decorative value. BOYS AND GiRLS LEND HELP IN BEAUTIFYING CLEVELAND That Drinking Fountain How cool and refreshing it is to have a drinking foun tain on the main corner of the town when you come from a long, dusty drive. Cities that have established these foun tains would not dispense with them under any consideration Iney are just paved streets, electric light, city water and sewerage, hard to get in the first place, hut harder to get along without after you have onoe had them. They are just like the new pocket in your young son's first shirt. The editor the Monitor is in reoipt this week of a copy of the Roads, Highways and bridge laws of Oregon, also a copy of the Election laws, the same coming to it from the odioe of Ben W. Olcotl, Secretary of the State; any of our readers desiring to look up road or eleotion matters may have the prirelege of looking over these books at any time The irriduciable school fund of this state has just been apportioned and Polk with 4803 school children is allowed 8,789.49. Theieare in the state 197. 110 children and" l'olk is the fifteenth county in population of school children. The Pendleten Round Up promises to be a lively affair again this yar. Pendleton certainly worked out an enter tainment that was unique when tney planned the Round Up feature for an annual fair. An exchange says "Down in California the lady bug is put in the hop yard in great quantities to destroy the aphis and hop lies. Qardens Cared For by Boys and Girls Decrease Disease and Crime. Fully 5,000 public school children of Cleveland, O.. gave their help In the city beautiful movement there accord ing to the school director. Under their system It Is possible to show in definite terms the resuiB aitiiined by the young gardeners, (ha efficiency of the work done, the results obtained and the amount of good accomplished. Statis tics and data have been collected showing Uie decrease In flies and dis ease where gardens are planted and the decrease in the number of juvenile offenders In neighborhoods well sprin kled with gardens. Both the boys and girls take an ac tive interest In these gardens and im mediately after school Is out In the afternoons the children gather for work. In Cleveland a temporary build ing was erected for the storing of the tools Every Saturday morning during the summer the gardeners hold a flow er and vegetable market when they sell their produce. The flowers and vegetables crown are the property of MONITOR APPLICATION 'BLANK ISDEPEXDEXCE MONITOR, Independence, Oregon, Gentlemen: In accordance with your special subscription and library offer I send you $1.50 for the Independence Monitor for one year to be sent to '. . . , of . and lor one of the fire book premium lists as indicated below: 1. One book . and one membership in the Monitor Library Club, including ' fcooi or 2. One. book recent copyright reprint fiction or 3. One cook book, Iloyle, speaker or other special book or 4. Two books as follows .or 5. One Membership in the Monitor Library Club, inclu ding book late, reprint copyright fiction. sign name on this line Dated this. address on this line 1913 The books or membership are for- Address all Communications to the G. A. Hurley, Idltor, library Depart ment, Independence' Monitor, Independence, Oregon. If you wish to show your grains and grasses at the Polk county lair, you must gath er them now. A few more weeks and these will all be gone. THE CITY BEAUTIFUL GRASS WALKS AND STEPS ADD TO ANY CITY OR PARK 8loping Ground Terraces Neoeasary For the Beet Results. Miiny gardens In Knghuul owe their beauty in no hiiihII measure to the vel grass steps and walks that link ogelher one feature of the garden with aimllier. (irttss walks are pleasunt to alk upon ami are pleaNlng to the eye. Moreover they enter Into perfect bar- Good Roads a Big Asset There is nothing of no tmuh benefit to the country at Urge as are good roads Thoy are of benefit to every one the merchant, tlie transportation oompauies, the b;g cities, the travelling public and the farmers. Good roa Is enhance the value ot the farms they reach, they make travelling a pleasure, they make large toads of produce movable and at the least expense. Where the traffio is heavy we should have the best and most expensive road. The tnsin thor pughfarea should first bs built with a view ot permanency ww I" yr country, and tney can be eaBily substi tuted for the unsightly stone steps or ragged dirt steps which are common. LIGHTING YARDS ADDS TO THE BEAUTY OF SUBURBS Illuminating Conveniences For Home Should Be Picturesque. the O HASH MTira IN ENOI.AND. luony with th surroundings, whether It le lives, shrubs or herluuvous flow ers. A flower fringed grass walk la al ways a pleasant feature, but such a walk must b laid with car. t'nlike gravel walks, which should have a con cave surface), grass walks and steps must b level, and this means perfect drainage a most Important item, for If badly drained a walk of this kind w ould ! a source of Inconvenience aft er heavy rains. On sloping ground ter races are necessary. They require the same care that oiib would devote to a well kept law n, hut no inure, once the effect Is secured. There are few steps of this kind lu America, but they alxunid tu Kng'ib gardens. There Is no reason why they would not reuialu green ihrouu'iout the entire year iu seme .vvllous "t ;hls The use of kerosene, gasoline, home made electricity and acetylene gas are being carefully tested on many farms and suburban estates, out of reach of public service corpora tlons, for supply ing lights. The commoii use of gaso line generators, which have now reach ed a high st;ite of perfection, has brought them Into prominence for out door lighting, ns well n.s providing bril liant lights for the house and for cook ing purposes, (iasoline lamps for the entrance gate posts, for lanterns set perinanctilly on stable walls and for use w ithin the stnbli-s Htid dairy barns may be enjoyed at little cost when one of these practical gasoline gits gen erators Ikis been established for Illu minating the lioine and the grounds. Without this plant for general use the plainest types of gasoline lamps, filled and lighted the same n.s coal oil lampH, may serve as the source or nepennn ble lights for j.-irds and stablea. Many practical and enterprising farmers who are blessed with streams on the home grounds that can be har nessed for the development of power are experimenting with homemade electricity with very satisfactory re sults. Ily damming up the stream for satisfactory water power an Inexpen sive electrical plant may be thorough ly practical wherever there is a stream of water of sufficient siie and fall to turn a water wheel. One of the most Interesting features In establishing this form of home Illumination t the fact that the ttirbiiie used to furnish light will also provide power to run various sorts of farm machinery. In eluding the feed mills, the wood saws, corn shelters, etc. The subject of providing Inexpensive aud pictures, pie lanterns for yards and stables, however, need not depend upon the Installation of extensive plants, or even the simplest of appara tus for homemade gas mul electricity The cheapest form of steady burning keroseue lump, set within a lantern of good type, ami with a (toed reflector. Is within the reach of every farm own er and renter A pli'turesnue setting; will cost no more than a lantern position carelessly selectisl An ug!.v P'st set close heslde the driveway, at a dirk turn in the parden lia ling t carrlnge sheds and Photo (J by American Press Association. YOUTHFUL AMERICAN OABDKMXB. the children, and they niny either sell them or take them home. Records are kept of skill iu planting, cultivation, weeding: and products. Courses in nature study regarding Ufa processes of plants. Insect pests and how to com bat them, plant diseases and how to combat them are given in Cleveland and make the garden work of real val ue to the children. The large gardens are radiating cen ters for the neighborhoods In which they are located. They make possible greater efficiency. Intelligence and sci ence In the home gardens. Interest lu garden work la cumu lalive. When the children are prop erly directed their ambition Is stimu lated, and year after year they will extend their activities and acquire greater success. Supplies All the troubles of canning day disappear when you use our supplies. Every thug of the best was time tried and fully tested before we even placed the or ders with tba manufacturers. Jars that'ara alr-tignt, parafflne that Is guaranteed to be absolutely pore aad all the other Uttle Items that make canning the pleasure should be. And the prices are the lowest la the town consistent with value. Call In and Inspect our Stock before Purchasing. FLUKE & JOHNSON ! Beautify Your Back Yard. It Is a shame that the words "back yard" should so often call up a dismal picture of dilapidated fence, coal ashes, old furniture ami garbage tins. Begin now to Interest yourself and your chil dren iu the Improvement of jour back yard. Spend a dollar on tools and the same on flower seeds and make pleas ant, healthful occupation for many summer' hours. There are a number of hardy annuals that flower profusely and require no scientific care to give good results. Perennials sown at the proper time will give cut flowers every year after the first It may be pleas- anter next July or August to sleep In your back yard than lu your house un der these conditions; also you will find- that if the people living in a block get Interested In gardening they will not tolerate a lot of useless cats and dogs about, whereby the peace of tha neigh borhood may be enhanced. Who loves a garden still bis Eden keeps." Texas Farm and Ranch. Bicycles, Motor Cycles and Sewing 1 Machines REPAIRED Independence Bicycle & Repair bhop MAW STRICT 4 - . V 4 4 Beet Feed For Lambs. Recent experiments at the Iowa sta tion show that with corn at ordinary prices cheaper gains on lambs may be made with dry feed than wltn room or silage. The Best Is Good Enough and You get only the best when you buy meat from us A new refrigerating plant keeps the meat cool and fresh, aud when you once buy from us you buy again, beoause our meat? give satisfac tion. We havt just added new rendering vata and sausage machinery thus being able to sup ply you with lard and sausage, at all times. A'e have our own smoke houses and give you country cured hams and bacon. NELSON'S MARKET C Street, Independence, Ore. i A Big Bargain for You (M your Suniiiu r Clothing when you can make the best bargains. Tailor made suite always give satisfaction. Ours are a little betUr than the best. vV'e are now offering oiu pair of trousers free with every two or three piece suit bought from u. $12.00 Suit, $ 4.00 pair or Trousers free 16. 00 Suit, 4.75 pair of Trousers free 20.00 Suit, 6.00 pair of Trousers free 25. Ot) Suit, 7.50 pair of Trousers free 30.00 Suit, 0.50 pair of trousers fiee 35.00 Suit, 10.60 pair of Trousers frse 40.00 Suit, 12 00 pair of Trousers free H. J. FORD, CLEANING AND PRESSING PARLORS Phone No. 7121 Cor. Monmouth and R. R. Sts., INDEPENDENCE Thsse Suits are at regular Rock Bot tom Prices with Trousers Thrown In Order yocr suit today.