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INDEPENDENCE MONITOR VOL 2 INDEPENDENCE, FOLK COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY, AUG. 29, 1913 NO. 5 SUVER IS IMPROVING School District Boys New Seats for School Teacher for Coming Year has Been Secured School district No. 43, at Suver has just ordered 30 new indi vidua! seats for the school and will install them before the fall term of school opens. They also have purchased a new blackboard and hare the schools now in first classshape. Last year the build ing was repaired and improved and this year the money available was used to improve the furni ture and fixtures. Miss Olive Lembke, of Portland has been selected to teach the scnooi in this district and comes well recommended. About eight of the young boy and girls of Suver are preparing to take some of the leading prizes at the county fair and are spec ializing on White and Barred Rock and White Leghorn chick ens, Indian Runner ducks and on vegetables. They hope not only to make a creditable showing in the county fair but to be entered in the winning exhibits at the state fair. PLEASANT AFTERNOON PARTY Friday afternoon, August 22, Mrs. W. H. Walker entertained a number of the ladies of Inde pendence at Five Hundred at her home, corner of Monmouth and Fifth streets. The prize winners were Mrs. McDevitt first prize and Mrs. M. C. Williams second prize. Dainty refreshments were ser ved and the event was one of much social pleasure. The guests were the Mesdames A. L. Thomas, P. H. Drexler, L. Damon, J. E. Hubbard, R. E. DeArmond, A. Nelson, 0. D. ButlerJS. Wv Conkey, J. J. Mc- kinnon," H." Mattison, W. M. Huff, S. B. Walker, M. C. Wil liam?, I. L. Smith, G. G. Walker, G. W. Henkle, E. T. Henkle, C. G. Skinner and M. Merwin, of Independence, and A. M. Hurley of Vale, Laura Miller of Portland and Mrs. McDevitt of Corvallis, and the Misses Florence Burton, Emma Henkle and Ora Henkle. Miss Ora Fenton was hostess Saturday evening to the P. D. C. at her home, the occasion being a lawn party. Among the games were ten step; run, sheep, run; come, come, pull away; Ruth and Jacob. Dainty refreshments were served consisting of ice cream and cake. Those present were the Misses Lucile Craven, Hazel Porterneld, Vera McKinney, Marie Shinn, Beryl Robinson, Bessie Swope, and Philis Bush and Messrs. Bel don Owens, Ernest Hartman, Ralph Floyd, Dutch Williams, Cecil Swope, Elmer Addison, Isles Sandifur and Bliss Byers. A pretty wedding took place at Sunny Slope, Sunday, August 24, at 3 o'clock at the home of the brides parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lafe Johnson when Robert Fish back and Miss Hazel Johnson were united in marriage by Rev. W. A. Wood of Monmouth. Only relatives ' were present. A deli cious lunch was served following the ceremony which was very much enjoyed by all. They re ceived many useful presents. DIED Mrs. Anna Barbara Muhleman born in, Switzerland on the 4th day of April, 1831, died at the home of Sam Muhleman of Inde pendence, Aug. 22 at 1:25 a. m. aged 82 year3, 4 months and li days. She came to America in 1887. She has been a widow for the last 42 years living with her children, Mrs. Rosa Waldespelof Salem and Sam Muhleman of this city for the last twenty five years. She had four children two girls died aged three and five. She was a devoted christian woman and was a member of the German Methodist church at Salem. The funeral was held at the Muhleman home Sunday afternoon, Aug. 24. She was laid to rest in the I. 0. 0. F. Cemetry. DIRECTORS NOTICE Notice is hereby given that there will be held at the public school building on Monday even ing, September 1, 1913, a meet ing of the legal voters of school District No. 29 to determine whether it is the wish of the peo ple to pave C street at the school grounds. By order of the Board, E. L. Ketchum, Clerk. Announcements were re ceived in Independence this week uf the marriage of Min nie E Chambers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Chambers of Eugene, to Austin F. Flegel Jr. Friday jvening, Septem- ber 5, at ihe bust M. LJtin th ht kind f rock for church at Eugene. This will be the first wedding solemn-! ized in the new church, which ; ,.tQ,i n Ku thu fint. building owned by the M. E. church i n Oregon. M r. Flegel is a young attorney, now as sociated with his father in the practice of law. Tin bride is well known in this city, having spent her child hood days in Independence. E. E. Tripp reports the ale of the 60 acre W. B. Hopson farm located between Independence and Corvallis, to G. N. Cox of Corval'is. Part of the above ranch last year produced eleven buhels of clover seed per acre, he- sides a I ay crop and pastur ing stock on thelaud bwlweeu crops. MAURY I. DIGGS I i Vp f, I r;:3-!. 0"e of the defend- : . l-r. oi'S California white i ' i v. as convicted. A very pleasant party wa given ai the beautiful home of Mr. John Dickison Thurs day afternoon. About forty ladies were present and the party was one of the most pleasant of the season. Many new and novel features of en tertainment were introduced to enliven the afternoon's pleasure?. Chas. Mc.Vuieyand George Graves have just returned from a t wo-weekf fishing and hunting trip and report fish ing and hunting good but caught nothing larger than an elk. Dr. and Mrs. R. T. Mc Intyre were visitor in fcialem Wednesday. k Si ti . f HOW"- I f A -. AS 4 1 RIVER TO BE IMPROVED Work on Revetment Starts First of Next Month Survey of Project Complet ed and Passed Favorably By Engineers Is Report The Monitor is reliably inform ed that the government engineers have passed favorably on the re vetment work north of this city on the Willamette river, where there is grave danger of the river current making a new chan nel through the Burton hop yard and thus hindering navigation on the river. Engineer Fisher was in this section a few weeks ago and sur veyed the river at this point with a view of improving the river at this point. One of the difficulties he en countered was the matter of get- ; ta work an(j it a prjce to make the improvement permanent with the appropriation available, but wis we understand nas neen worked out by the engineers in charge. Several months ago an appro priation of $10,000 was made by the Government for the river work at this point and it is this work the engineers intend to complete at once, commencing about September 1st. It is the policy of the govern ment to do this work at low wa ter and consequently work will be rushed through as fast as pos sible. On Monday night of this week some burglars broke in to tho post office at Monmouth and evidently succeeded in securing all they planned on getting. Two hundred dol lars worth of stamps and three hundred dollars in mon ey were taken. This was un doubtedly h bold but success ful attempt. Tho strength of the nitro glycerin was of such force as to completely demolish the safe. Mr. and Mrs. G. V Gertson is expected home this week from Hartlino, Washington, where they have been veil ing Mr. flertsen'a paren's. Wesley Buffin is home from Black Rock and reports the fishing fine in the mountains. Maurice Butler will have charge of a store at the Rose hop yard. Allen T. Clark is associated A'ith Maurice in the same. CORVALLIS CANNERY WantsFruIt and Vegetables The Corvallis cannery wants pears and it wants apples, in any quanity and from anywhere. The demand for pears is far beyond the supply and at priees that are tip-top. The last report of the Northwest Pacific Fruit Distrib ting Association, in comparison with the 1912 crop, shows the pear crop to be but 60 per cent, prunes 65, apples 70, and Aloerta peaches 80 per cent. Last year the California people buying pears in this s?ction paid but $15 per ton. They paid that in cash, of course, but the Cor vallis Co-operative Cannery, which takes any fruit only on consignment, finally paid the grower $20 per ton. This was in the cannery's first year. The cannery will be able to pay much better than $20 this year. The Corvallis Cannery' is ready to accept pea's and apples in any quantity from all sections of Ben ton and the four counties adjoin- i iag. A first-class apple and prune packer has been secured and a bid for apples and prunes is made. Fancy and extra-fancy apples will be packed and shipped, and the culls will be canned. No apple, even fur canning purposes, will be accepted if it is below 2 inches in diameter. Machinery will not handle smaller frait. Prices for good apples are excel lent and the cannery is prepared to handle them economically, so that there will be a maximum return. Green prunes also are wanted. Manager Tinker asks the growers to report on prunes, and to re port on anything the cannery can handle. He cannot market fruit that is not reported. He says that this year offers opportunity extraordinary for the fruit grow er and all he asks is reasonable co-operation. Four tons of rhubarb will come from Lebanon tomorrow, and blackberries are beginning to come in quantity. Plums also are having on inning. Th caa nery has put up two oasof rhu barb, many cars of beans, and the sacond crop is now on. If you have anything canable, anything shippable, call Manager Tinker at the cannery. MORE MEN GO TO VALLEY AND SILETZ Another Contracting, Com pany With Scrapers and Teams Go Monday Work on the Valley and Siletz Railroad is making progress every day and indications are that crews of men will be at work all along the line in a very few waks. Monday saw another contract or enroute to the railroad right of way near Airlle. In this crew were about 40 horses, wheel scra pers, plows and other construc tion machinery. PAVING WORK GOES RIGHT ON Linden-Kibbey Company Have Army of Men at Work Bltucrete Paving Will Prob ably Be a Big Success and Permanent The storm sewer on Monmouth street has been practically com pleted and the Linden-Kibbey construbtion company are grad ing down the street ready to re ceive the first course of the new paving material. The torm sew er is being built between Railroad street to Ash Creek and the ,-e-ment curbing on Monmouth street hat been all put in place. Most of the curbing on the stub streets have been put in and are set. The. Main street curbing has all been placed, and the first of the week saw the company putting in the curbing on Railroad street. Grading of the stub streets and the west side of Railroad street has been progressing nicely. The construction company have installed their own gravel plant on the Damon property and are getting out the material for the hard surface work and will be putting in the street paving now in a very few days. The railroad company have their new ties and rails all placed, their granite have for their taack all in and the Linden-Kibbey company will complete the paving o the street and track for them. This company aliio has the con tract for placing the fill to the abutments on the new C street cement wagon and foot bridg;j. Taken altogether the city is takiag on a neat appearance and w ill be one of the prettiest towns in the valley when tr.e work planned is all completed. HOP PICKING NEAR AT HAND Special Trains With Pick ers Coming Independence to be the Llvest City in Oregon for a Month The stores have oeen preparing for the rush of the hop picking seaion and cars of merchandise haye arrived to take care of the needs of the 15.000 extra pickers that will be camped in the six mile radius of Independence by the last of next week. Not only in grocery lines is the increased supply but in all lines of general merchandise. The stores are buying in quantities so that they can sell at bargain prices and will give the hop pick ing communities the benefits of these prices during this season Many are coming from sections of the state where they cannot get the advantage of good, up-to date stocks of merchandise at the right prices, and it will pay these people to look up the Indepond ence stores and supply themselves for the season, while they can get the goods they want at the prices they want, Tuesday, Mr. Hirsehberg an nounced two trips daily over the railroad from Independence to the Wijarrich hop ranch, the first to leavei at in the morning, the second train at in the afternoon. Saturday will see the first special train of hop pickeis to arrive in Independence. Arrangements have been made at the different camping grounds to have stores established where the hop yard necessities can be secured and several danee pavil ions are being arranged to help along the amusement feature. In the city the skating rink is to be kept open every evening and extra skates have been se cured to take care of the crowds. The Isis Theatre will give spec ials during the carnival of hop picking at different times, besides having a good line of moving pictures every night. The city council failed to have a meeting Wednesday evening, a quorum not being present, Sev eral important matters are up for consideration, among them being the matter of paving C street. We understand this will be before the next council meet ing. k DOVE LAKE VALLEY ITEMS O. W. WiUon, of the Wolf ranch, will he at the ranch through hop picking, and mivonn wishing t seti or cor respond with him will ruaoh him at Boutti l, l'ox 12, care A'o'f ranch. Mr. Wilson wan nroute to Newport Friday coniin uin liis trip a men tioned in the I)ove Lake items a few week ago and he wiwlies to Mute his prefer ence in a mid lie ag. d woman. The Dove Lake corronpond-t-nt haw been especially dele gated as scout by M". Wilson to investigate and report on a.l inquiries. Den Kadfoid of The Dalles has arrived here with hie family' aud aged mother. Mr. itadford is here looking over our necti'in with a view to pun-Imping, a small trac1. of la;id ot live or Inn acren on which to make his future h-jme a he is very favorably impressed with the country. Weuley HuHin took his de parture for Biack Ito:k lm wei-k fora fortnights vucation and a viit with friends and relatives. John So'iaffer and family of Independence was visiting in this seotion last we-k. Mr. Aron Moore of Salem was in the Valley last week. Mr. Geo. W. Wilson was in Salem visiting his son A. Wilson. Robert NfeKenzie of the Wigrieh Ranch was a visitor in this section. Mrs. De Hogan and Mr. Art Ilogan were onllin In the Valley the past week. Thursday last a fire broke out at about 8:30 p, m. in a building at the Mottville ranch, formerly used as a hop house, but recently as a dwelling, destroying, it com pletely, with its content and i large straw stack. In view of the fact that it wa vaonnt and at a safe dictation from any other buildings it looks as if there might bt a fire bug at work. The loao was estimuted to be about $700. We understand there was no insurance carried. Mr. II. B. Wolfe at the vVolfe and Fitchard hop ranoh has been erecting a neat row of cottages for Ihe hop piekm, ther being about five in all built which will add greatly to the oomfort of tho people al this place. Mr. A. M. Liwson is build in.' himself a nice little bun galow on Main street at this place. Considering that Mr. Lawson has just returned from his summer vaoat.on this looks as if he might be going to susprise his friend in a tdiort time with oards of invitation. Mr. G. W. Wilson is back from Newport where he re porta a most enjoyable time. MARTIN H. GLYNN Hiirtln H. Glynn, Lleutenint Govt nor of New York, who cllm the riff, to let ai governor, owing to Impeach, ment proceeding! agalnet Governor Sulztr. The Monitor received an advertisement for publication from tho Corvallis cannery this wenk in which they are advertising for fruit to can Ibis year. They are especial ly calling for apples, pears ami prunes. It would pay the people of this vicinity to ri tlo ir m ice and market their surplus crop. ros SALE -A fine 3-yr old led polled bull, i frtsh cow, several high dnde Holsteln bnll calves snd soms beef cattle. CEO. I. IOWE, RICKREALL, OREGON McArtbur Farm at Something new in a manixtrt hajr black aateen ahirt, tripla Btitchd, re- - . a ...:.u iu f i.m iimlMr urit.H and on back. Try on.. CON K F. X & m4ir I 0. A. C. SESSION INTERESTS ALL Good Attendance at All Meetings Here Erenlng Lectures Especially Interest and Please. Col lege Does Good Work The sessions of the traveliag General Welfare school of the Oregon Agricultural College held In this city Monday and Tuesday were largely attended and much enjoyed by all. Nearly 400 nopl a altogether were present. Four sessioas were held. The domes tic science talks and practical demonstrations given each after noon by Mrs. Robbins and Miss Groves were greatly appreciated by the feminine population and doubtless will be by the male por tion as soon as the ladies hava had a chance to try out the now and appetizing dishes the manu facture of which was so graphic ally shown. The Social Hygiene exhibit from the State Society Is both extensive and well arranged and well worth a visit. Mr. E. J. Cummins of Portland, thelectur er In charge, gave talks the last evening to young men. He distributed to those Inter ested literature consisting of cir culars of Interest to young men. girls working In factories, and to the parents. The plan rtelner to teach the effect of sex diseases upon future generation and to show the work the Hv glens So ciety Is doing In this state. Cnm!stry, preservation and adulteration of eroods wm discus sed ably and In a very m-artlea! manner by J. T). MleVIe, State Commissioner and Prof. R. K". flrodie of the Department of Cnemlstrv of the O. A. ( Prof. Reed's Introductory re- merks at esch session were !lv1v and full of wit. TTIs lecture en Mark Twain Mondav evening was very Interesting and enloyed bv several relatives and eon!n. teaces of the great humorist. Tuesday evening Prof. Reed rsve his lecture on TiOnfellow llustrstlng the different scenes that were the cause of th differ ent literary poems of this treat American point. Every member of the visiting party wishes to thank the people of Independence for th fntrfot taken In the school t this hnv time of the year. Thv hop to come to ns acraln and we eertalnlv hope they will. K P. Tartar of Alrllo ws Monitor office called the first of the week. The little word "TTonev Bunch" has a powerful men ir.g whsn a "MIm" wnt o know a "Man." Our new society editor bss heen busy stamping hop tickets and we are just a little shy of small news tM week. Mrs. E. E. Paddock and children are spending tbeir summer va"fltion nar Balls- Ion on the Yamhill with Prof, and Mrs T. J.Newbill. Frank Whiteaker was in town Saturday from Albany Visiting card none better than those printed ry tne Monitor. Mri.W. Puffin nnd children took in the circus, last week at Salem. NOTICE A black boar, weight about 250 lbs. 4"whlta feat and white stripe down forehead, came to my place atTalmage Mnndav nltltit. Owner can nave same by psylng CO.. of keep f t