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VTT COUNTY NEWS NOTES Items of Real Interest from Others DOVE LAKE VALLEY ITEMS the Wolf Sund iy. Mrs OrtCrfr Lewis and bby boy have juat returned from a visit wUh her parent near Dallas. Laet Sunday t and Fitcliard hopyard Hazel, the litfJedaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Buffi n had (lie misfortune to get her fourth j Mr. Carlson's aunt from, finger on the right hand j Portland 18 keeping house caught in an old hay binder, j tor him this lummer. vering the member at the; Dave Jacobs-m and family first joint and breaking the ' visited at Mrg nay(en-8 bone of the finger up to the j Saturday. hand. She was taken im-j ,. .. , ,,. , . , , t . t t ! Dr. Jlammond of the Kim med ately to town for treat- , ,, ., . u . . . J . t , , ball College of Salem preach ment, but a? no doctor could ; , , Q . t ' l,.wl (linra nn htif Hair aha o . J appreciative audience was taken to ??alein for treat ment and is no v renting easy, although itwill be some time before she will be well con sidering the nature of the break and cut. Mrs. Rosa Cusidy spent several days in the Valley the nst week, a guest at the Houghton home. Henry Schaffer the genial proprietor of the Sohaffer Rooming House of Indepen dence, was a visitor in the Valley Sunday. Mr. Hallord of Indepen dence was viewing our hop section last Sunday. John Olson visited with his sister, Mrs. Bert Wolfe last Sunday. Mr. Ii C. Suit is expsoted back shortly from his vaca tion. The busy season is now near at hand when the valley will be full of people, picking hops. Every preparation is being made in this section for their comfort and conv en ience, the camp grounds being put in first class order. Chas. Smith reports a first class oropof hay at the logan berry ranch on the Balem road better than ever before seen on that name property. Mr. (jeorga Wilson took a trip to Salem, Portland and various eunmier resorts on the coast last week, reports says looking for a mate to as sist him through tho bop picking season. He prefer axoung lady (of course) but s yet has not been aide to ruttke a choice. Anyone knowing of a party to fill this bill would confer a favor on the genlk nian by making it known. He conies well recommended and can give a Urol clan reference. o give u Eola Items A young elocutionist Salem is planning to a recital in the near future for the benefit of the church we are looking forward to something extru good aa sh is a graduate of the Willa mette Univerbity. Particu lars later. r tir 11 iura. waiKer Jierry ana children are sp (tiding severa flays at Hubbard with rela ties. lions are loomng fine in this section and picking wil begin about the .first o September. Mrs. Huttie Armstrong visited friends at Stavtonlast week. Highland Trent who had the misfortune to shoot two of his toes off with a shotgun is improving nicely. Win. Antrican's new barn is almost completed. Win; Cromley made a busi ness trip to Portland. The farmers are busy haul ing their hay to market, the price being extr. good this year. The dry weather is telling on the gardens in this local ity. t iieaoning services every Sunday evening at the school house at 7:30 p. ni There is a great deal of talk going around as to trie condi tion the Bieel bridge at Salem in in. The very heavy haul ing that it being done overit .Ail' . m . I at una nine or ine year, a great many predict n serious accident if something is not done to prevent it. Iggg&UPBOARD TOMATOES AND MEAT. Mrs. Mitty has just return ed from a two o'aya visit at Nye Creek, the. gue!t of Mrs, Thus. Holnian. She reports a very pit asant time. Mrs. It. I. Ferguson visited friends and relatives in 8alem UHHAKFAST MENU. (.Vrral, I'rffliii, TomuttH'H anil Itaeoiv Km I'orii lireail. Cufo hu l.iilt. 0 NK of tin most useful snmtuor vcKiinliii's In tliu toiunto. Not toil jr uiiiy it ulmio be cooked In many nppi'll. In ways, but It combines nicely wit li oilier fomli Tiviintoes com bined with nslfbr meats make a whola- ,some summer dish. Combined With Fish. Tomatoes With Fish. Lay alternate slices of canned tunny and fresh to- ma to upon dish and between each aflce lay a thin round of onion. Gar nish the edge of the dish with bor der of iliced cooked, cold potato, Sprtn kle tbe whole with aalad dressing. Tomatoes and Bacon. Take large. ripe tomatoes and cot them Into thick Ucea. Butter a broiler lightly and broil tbe slices of tomatoes OTer clear lira Arrange on a not dish, sprinkle wltb pepper and place on eacb a slice of tomato and a slice or two of crisp fried bacon. Baked In the Oven. Tomatoes and Eggs. Take some good sized tomatoes, bat not too ripe, remove stalks, balve and seed them, en non wltb pepper and oil, place tbem on a greased pan, then add some minced mushrooms with a little onion and simmer In an uncovered pan wltb a small piece of butter. Moisten bread In a little stock Teal, then crush and break up with a spoon. Add the yolks of two eggn, salt and pepper to taste. Remove the mushrooms from tbe fire and add tbe above mixture, stirring well. Then garnish eacb tomato wltb the mixture. Rprinkle with bread crumbs, add a few drops of oil and cook In a alow oven for about an hour. Nioe Supper Dish. Tomatoes and Beet -Take ripe but moIIiJ tomatoes and dredge tbem wltb flour. Put a tablespoonful of butter In an agnte frying pan and when melt ed add tbe tomatoes. Btir and cook smooth. Let cook about Ave minutes. Have half a pound of dried beef chipped as tbln as possible and shred ded. Add this to the tomatoes and dimmer gently for a few minutes snd serve, A green pepper wltb seeds re moved and shredded is a nice addition and gives a bit of color. HOW TO U8E CLAMS. DINNER MENU. Clam Chowder. Best s la Mod. Boiled Potatoes. Green Pem. Stuffed naked Tomatoes. Peach Pudding. Small Cakea. Coffee. CLAMS make a light and nourishing summer food. When the fresh shellfish cannot be procured can ned ones may be substituted for them. Hot Weather Foods. Clam Salad. Heat together one pint of elder vinegar, one slice of onion, lx whole cloves, a bay leaf, pepper and aalt t'lace as many little neck clams as are needed In a dish. Tour over them the hot vinegar and let It tii nd until cool. Tben drain tbe damn and arrange In a nest of crlap lettuce leaves. Oarnlsh with minced bard boil ed eggs. Clara Mousse. Take three dozen clams and strain tbe liquor through u fine sieve. Tut tbe clam Juice In a freezer, senson wltb celery salt and to every pint of clntu Juice allow one cupful of whipped cream. Freeze to a soft water Ice connivency snd serve In bouillon cups. Fried Selden Brown. Clam Fritters. Take two and two thirds cups flour, four teaspoons bak lug powder, one-half teaNpoon salt, two eggs, one pint clams. Clean the clams and cut tbem Into hnlf Incli pieces. Mix together dry Ingredients, add egg, well beaten and in I x ml with clams. Hare fat hot enough to brown a bit of bread In one and one-half minutes. Drop mixture by spoonfuls Into deep fat, fry until a golden brown and drain on brown paper. A Popular Chowder. Clam Chowder. Take one Quart clams, four cups potatoes cut into three fourth cubes, one and one-half Inch cuts of fat salt pork, one sliced onion, oue tableapoon or aalt, one- eighth teaspoon of pepper, four table spoons butter, four cupa scalded milk, eight soda crurkers. Clean the clams. drain reserve liquor, boat to boiling point and tral n. Chop finely ban I mi r t of i Ilium, cut pork In small pieces ii ml fry nut. Add onion, fry Ave uiln- Ich mid Htrnln Into stew pun. 1'sr- lioll iiotMm'M live tuluutes In boiling water to eover. drain and put a layer In bottom of stew pun. Add chopped I.iI'in. Miitnkle with salt aud pepper ii.il divide "III) flour, add remaining h nioeH. iij.-rtln Rprinkle with salt and i "per. dredge with flour and add two ml one -In I r eiipH boiling water. Cook en minute, add milk, soft part of I din anil butler, boll three minutes i ', mid cracker split and soaked lu : 1 1 iii!iI milk to moisten. Reheat :.u;t wal r ( hiilllurf point and thtck n v Ith one tablespoon of butter and o :r .-i.nUi'd together; add to chowder v. I before nerving. Fruit Cup Custards. Plum Trifle. Hub stewed plums through a sieve. Add to eaih cupful of pulp the whites of three eggs beat en stiff and sweetened Fill tbe cups two-thirda full of soft custard and beap the fruit of meringue on top. Plum Compote. Take two pounds of sugar to each three pouiidM of plums. Wash tbe plums and drain them. Tut tbe sugar on a slow Are in an enamel ed vessel with as much water as will dlssofve It Let it simmer slowly. Prick each plum wltb a needle and place the fruit In another cooking ves sel. Pour tbe sirup over it, and cook until tbe skins break and tbe pluma are thoroughly heated. Served loe Cold. Scalloped Plums. Take the large red weet plums. Peel tbem, remove the tones and cut tbe pulp In large pieces. Take a fancy dish, place a layer of tbe prepared plums, tben a layer of broken walnut meats, tben a layer of sweet ened whipped cream and so on until dish is full. Each layer of plums should be well sprinkled wltb sugar. Cover the top wltb the cream and set the dish on Ice to chill. With Whipped Cream. I'luin Tart Make a crust with half a pound of sifted flour, one-quarter pound of butter, a tablespoonful of sug ar, tbe beaten yolk of an egg, a pinch of salt and Just enough milk to mix smooth. Line tbe edge of a deep pie dish with a strip of this paste, fill It with ripe stoned plums, add a small cupful of granulated sugar and cover the pie wltb the crust. Ornament tbe edges and bake In tbe oven until lightly browned. Sprinkle the top with pow dered sugar and serve with whipped cream or a thin boiled custard. A Substsntlsl Pudding. Baked Plum Pudding. Make a bat ter with two beaten eggs, five table spoon fu la of flour, a pint of milk and a pluch of salt. Itemove the stones from a quart of large ripe plums, crack tbem and put tbe kernels Inside of tbe plums again. Mix the fruit with two heaping tublespoonfuls of moist sugar and stir It lightly Into the batter. Turn It luto a buttered pudding dlab and bake In a hot oven till done. Sprinkle powdered sugar over tbe top and serve hot with half a cupful of butter, a cup ful of sugar and a well beaten egg stirred to a cream and flavored. tumble down on to tbe floors as wltb tbe old careless way, where eggs are so often broken uud squabs fall down, get killed or chilled or mixed np. The parent birds like the nappy and are not so apt to nest on the floor or tear up some other Homer's nest They sUck to the clean, roomy nest, and there are no bugs to drive them out. The squabs stick to the nappy and are not compelled to Bit on a hard, dirty board aud thus get sore, swollen bocks and crooked toes. Then the nappy is so easy to cleau. Just a dip In scalding water and all flltb and vermin are washed away. These two conveniences cost but little, but count much for success. DON'TS. Don't have eyes and see not and ears and hear not. Nature now la at her loveliest To love nature Is to become lovely and to love nature's God. Don't expect fertile eggs from over fat breeders. Feeding much corn few chicks born. 6j -Wi.hssv, fey ftn- uCd-4U-'nBlhSfem(Wi&iasX.. 100 acres all In cultivation but 1 acre. Hay and grain, 25 acre app'e orchard, 5 acres three years old. Big barn, 8 room bouae, chicken bouse, smoke house, etc, $15, 0O0. H.J.Taylor. . for Sale 160 acres, artesian well, desert bind, well located. Price, $3, 000. Will consider Valley land In trade. Also residence at Bend, Crook county, Oregon, at $1,500. R. J. TAYLOR, Independence. N. L. Butler L. D. Butler Butler & Butler Attorneys at Law Office in Cooper Block Independence, Oregon ELECTRIC WIRING AND Electric Supplies I am prepared to wire your building for electric lights, furnish all materials and prepare you to connect with the Electric Light Company. Write ma or 50 acres 3 miles from Independence, j phone 4021 and I will call on you. good soil, price $125 per acre. B. J. I Taylor. SUPPLY HOUSE LOCATES ON THE THE PROFESSIONS 1 1 HUM DESSERTS. Ill:. Mlvtiiig (iluius bo sure that ..mi use only riie oues Tbey n-, ulre plenty of sugar, aud d ,0 sons or Mvviigiigea are cook i' xhuulil he pricked with a in iiivi em their bursting. Drexler & Alexander "THE MONEYS' WORTH STORI " Dealers in Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes Groceries EXCLUSIVE AGENTS fOR Royal Worcester Corsets Buster Brown Shoes White House Shoes Selz Royal Blue Shoes Pure White Flour Monopole Canned Goods NOTES BY CMDAENITZ RTIRSIDE PA. o CURKtSPOKDENtX SOLICITED Photo by C. M. Barnlti. SQUABS AJD NAPPT. 8pnno culture or wnest. Hnrrowlug wheat In the spring is a practice that Is receiving considerable attention of late yeurn. Where the ground is compacted hard from beating ralus of early spring, followed by rath er dry weather, the harrowing of wheat with a drag harrow Is good practice. So far experiments have shown at the Missouri station, however, tbe bar- rowing of wheat Is not always sutll- cleutly beneficial to pay for the work, although where one barrows in clover seed at the same time the practice la usually a payluc one. Where the wheat Is badly "heaved' the use of a heavy roller In the early spring Is a good practice. All depends. however, upon the extent of the "heav Ing ' Driving a Horse. Tbe man who continually yells at bis horses so that you can hear him all over the farm gets less work out of them than the man who speaks to them Id a unlet tone. B. F. Swope Attorney at Law and Notary Public Will practice in all cooits of the etate. Probute matters and col lections given prompt attention. OFFICS: COOPER BLOCK independence, Oregon ast Side of Main Street JAMES M. JONES Independence Oregon Dr. R. T. Mclntire Physician and Surgeon Office over Independence Nation al Bank. Phone No. 4412 lndpndenc. Oregon R. E. Duganne Dentist Office ortr Independence Nation al Bank. Phone No. 4411 Independence, Oregon Chrysanthemum Plants A Choice Selection of Chrysanthemums - All Varieties - for Sale. WM. BARNETT Those articles and Illustrations must not be reprinted without special permis sion. J -v . PIGEON NESTS AND NAPPIES. Much of tbe success wltb squabs de pends on huw the birds are nested, and It is strange bow many do stick to the old style stationary nest when tbe style we show is so easily made, moved and cleaned. Here tbe newts are arranged in bat teries set up like a bookcase, the size DON'T BREATHE DUST Utitt "Cedarine" swtiipiii) compound for floors ami lin oleums it collects the dust 'No Dust", for carpet? am linoleum. Fcr snle at (Jul breath & Bice. TRAIN SCHEDULE Vf Ml kv I esV, 'A' art i. 6:00 7:00 7:05 9:00 10:10 10:52 10:55 1:00 p. m., a. m. a. m , a. m., a. m., a. m. , ( :-P i Km A' m I. & M. to Dallas. m., S. P. leaves for Portland. I. M. to Airlie. Boat for O. E., Portland Boat for O. E., Eugene. S. P. for Corvallis. I. & M. for Dallas. Boat for 0. E., Portland and Eugene. 2:14 p. m.. S. P. for Portland. 2:15 p. m., I. & M. for Dallas. 8:15 p. m , Boat for O, E , Portland 4:30 p. m., S. P motor car, Salem. 4:30 p. m., I. & M. to Airlie. 4:35 p. m., Boat for O. E., Eugene. 6:30 p. m.. Boat for O. E., Portland and Salem, 7:15 p. m., S. P. for Corvallis. 7:15 p. m., I. & M. for Monmouth. All S. P. and motor cars on main S. P. line connect at Derry Groaning with Salem and Falls City trains both ways. Photo by C. M. Barnlts. A HKST BATTKBT. of the Best box made to fit the nappy. different sizes of the latter belnjc made for Hunts, Caruoaux aud Homer. The bottom of the nest box pulls out like a drawer, aud the whole arrangement can be removed tier by tier and quickly cleaned and sprayed with bug killer and the walls of the loft may be white washed. Thorough cleaning' is Impossible with the old style nailed up nest boxes, and bugs, especially the bloodsucking ticks. can hide lu safety behind tbem. wbere no spray can reach. Tben, if It Is desired to remove the birds to another building it is no task at all to carry the battery of nests along and sot them right up without the trouble of ripping out the old nests or kuocktng up new. The earthenware iappv Is a great convenience. It holds the nest material right In place, and the eggs and sguabs do not Pon t pack eggs too tight In the In cubator. If you equal the capacity ad vertlaed you do well, for they are often a sell. Pou't give the cluck more eggs than she can cover comfortably. If you crowd the cluck you have bad luck. lion t pile eggs on top of each other In the egg tray. The top eggs over heat, the germs slsale, then flssle. Pon't buy a cheap, claptrap Incubator and then get a fit If It hatches nit Don't Inbreod your stock. Breeding In a family circle makes disease tar gets, especially of turkeys. Pon't line an lucubator lamp that's a chronic smoker But study the same; perhaps ron're to blame. j 20 acres all to be sold In 5 to 10 acre tractaat $125 per acre. Near town, ft. J. Taylor. For sale, 4 lots and good seven room house In North Independence for S 1 500. Inquire of R. J.Taylor. R. J. Taylor Has the Best Real Estate Bargains. Ask him. 2 Z House Moving and I am prepared to mova your building and f put it in shape for the carpenters. Let me figure with you. Phone 8311. H. D. Buffum RESTAURANT AND LUNCH COUNTER IN GAINES POOL HALL MEALS AT ALL HOURS REGULAR. DINNER AT NOON SDIMIERS fOR BREAKFAST AND SUPPER SANDWICHES A SPECIAITY W. F. GORDON PROP'R INDEPENDENCE STEAM LAUNDRY Patronize home Institutions and Help Buildup POLK COUNTY, Oregon 2 Al work Gaarinteed. Independence, Oregoa - rrrrrr rr rrrrrrrrrrrrsiei isjiesjs ii WILL BUY WOOL AND MOHAIR I AM IN THE MARKIT TOR WOOL AND MOHA1K ALWAYS PAYINO THI HIOHIST MABKIT TIRCX cirr officrs and clubs Independence, Polk Co., Oregon. Population 1800, has water, sewer and electrc light systems, $25,000 higli school, public school city park, hotel, paved streets, two banks, fine rallronii and boat connections, and city hall. The city officers are: Mayor, K. a Eldmie. Marshal, A. J. Tuppcr. Recorder, B. F. Swope. Treasurer, R. R. DeArmor.d. City Couneilmen, J. L. Hanna. J. H. Dixon. A.L. Sperling C W. Ir vine, W. H. Walker. P. H. Dreiler. Meets 1st and 3rd Wedn.sJnyF ofechmonth Independence Commercial Club Meets First and Third Tuesdays of each month. Membership over 100. J. S. Cooper, Preside ;' K. C. Eldrevijje, Treasurer. J. G. Mcintosh, Secretary. BELL PHONE: Mill E3 ALLEN F. CLARK, Monmouth, Oregon r THE INDEPENDENCE NATIONAL BANK Established 1889 A Succesaful Business Career of Twenty Three Yeara INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS H. Hirschberg, Pres. D. W. Sears, V. P. R. R. DeArmond, Cashier VV. H. Walker, B. r. Snith, O. D. Butler M t 1 -rf
