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INDEPENDENCE, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOV. 21, 1913
NO. 16
SNDEPEND
THE GITY
ELfCTId
December i, Sees People
Voting for New Officers
Indications Now Point
Plainly to Two Tickets
in the Field
The city election is now only
ten days off and the forces have
not lined up their respective
tickets. There are to be elected
at this election, a mayor for one
year, three councilmen for two
years and a city recorder for one
year. The election is at 9 a. m.
and closes at 5 p. m.
If the street talk is any indi
cation there will be two tickets
in the field this year and a hot
city contest will follow. Issues
are in the embryeo form as yet
but we can hear rumors of what
the fight will be.
The vote Monday on the road
district matter was a surprise to
many.
The women are expected to
cut quite a figure in the coming
ejection and are pretty generally
registered.
GOOD TIME AT
BUENA VISTA
Basket Social and Mon
mouth Band Concert
On Friday evening, November
28, a treat will be Riven the good
people of Buena Vista and sur
rounding country in the way of
plenty good eats and good music.
All persons wanting to have a
good time and hear one of the
best bands in the state are re
quested to come and be sociable.
The Monmouth concert band of
27 pieces will furnish the music.
A good program will be given
by the school and the baskets
will be sold at a uniform price of
one dollar, the proceeds to be
used for shool purposes. Con
cert and social to be held in I. O
0. F. Hall.
All ladies are requested to
bring baskets.
Program begins at 8:15. Come
and be sociable.
Wanted hard wood, for par
ticulars inquire at the Monitor
office'.
Wm. Cockle returned this week
from an extended trip to eastern
Oregon and eastern Washington.
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MOOSE HALL
NOW READY
Club Rooms used Wednes
day Night by thn
Members
Other Lodges Invited to be
Present Next Wednesday
at Big Grand Opening
The Moose, Hop City Lodge of '
Independence, has completed th-;
club rooms, has its new hall in I
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j tion next Wednesday night. I
(jrann preparations are being
'made for this event and the!
Judges of Sa'.em. Dallas and other
, near by towns are invited to be
, present.
1 '1 he main reception room has
1 been newly carpeted, and
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holstered chairs and lounges have
been installed in it, where all the
magazines, papers, etc., can be
found at any time. This room is
the front north room of the
Campbell building, formerly us;d
as a photograph gallery. The
south rooms have been renovated
and remade into billard and pool
club rooms, where two fine tables
have been installed. A nice
ladies waiting room is made at
the head of the stairs and the
club rooms extend along the south
side of the building, w hich with
the
dining rcom and kitchen
I givfes excellent apartments for
1 the lodge members. The main
hall has been carpeted, and tinted
1 and remodelad making a modern
j up-to-date lodge room.
Last Vedn3day evening the
whole building was lighted up
and used by the members and
; Independence boasts of as good a
home for the Moose as any city
: its size in Oregon.
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DINNER.
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COMMUTE
RETURNS
Dr. Dunsmore, after the meet
ing at Salem, in the interests of
Polk county in the eight county
cooperative exhibit plan at the
Pan-American exhibit in Califor
nia in 1915, went as one of a
committee to Portland to secure
space in the Oregon building
and reported the space secured
as very desirable. It was de
cided to ask a pro rata assess
ment from the county courts of
the eight counties on a taxable
valuation basis. It is estimated
that I'olk's share will be from
$3.r,() to $ 150.
fHOP ROOTS
t Por
All Varieties, For particulars inquireof
Jess Merwin
Independence, Oregon
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MEETING OF
THE HOP UN
Held at Salem Tuesday to
Protect Themselves
35,000 Bales of Hops Yet
in the Market for Sale
One of the most important
meetings ever held in Oregon was
called Tuesday at 1:30 in the
Commercial Club room at Salem.
The meeting was for the pur
pose of discussing and deciding
ss the advisability of pooling the
hops of this valley.
It was brought out at the meet
ing that about 32,000 bales of
hops were in the hands of the
growers in Oregon end that these
hops are recognized as the best
in the world. Eastern hops are
quoted above the valley hops and
this is believed to be due to the
eastern manipulators and the
present meeting was held to de
feat this plan.
AIRLIE HASTHEJEGORD
Highest Price on Record for
s Chicken
Frank M. Shuck of Airlie raises
capen chickens and markets them
at fancy prices. He shipped two
to New York City getting 32c a
pound for them. The largest
one weighed S pounds and netted
the neat little sum of $5. 70. He
also is a champion egg eater and
was in the city trying to get a
wager as to his ability to lay
away the coveted "hen fruit."
He found no takers.
A FOLK POTATO KING
VV. H. Mixer of Buena Vista
Has Record Crop
The Monitor is in recipt of a
communication from our corres
pondent at Buena Vista stating
that "VV. II. Mixer harvested
from one acre of ground rented
of J. K. Neal in Huena Vista 5204
bushels of potatoes. No wonder
Polk county land brings good
prices."
Potatoes are queted in I'ortland
at $1.00 per 100 pounds and this
means that Mr. Mixer's 31,230
pounds brought him $312.30, a
pretty good figure from one aero
of good Polk county soil.
Mrs. McElmtirry who m quite
ick at Albany, was reported
some better the first of the week.
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