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A. . INDEPENDENCE MONITOR "THE PAPER THAT EVERYBODY READS' INDEPENDENCE, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1915 VOL.4 KO. 5 GOING AFTER THEJOLLARS AIM TO GET THEM TOO Painless Method By Which All Concerned Will Be Sat isfied and Contented Commencing tomorrow morn ing:, Spt. 25 and continuing un til Tuesday, Oct 6, will be tL. Monitor'! aanual bargain week. Ai will bo noticed by the ad vertisement on the last page, a very liberal inducement ia offer ed, sot oi ly to new aubacribeni, but old ones ai well. New subscribers may get the Monitor from this date until Jan uary 1, 1917, for one dollar, a . period of fifteen months. Old subscribers may take ad vantage of the same offer, pro viding they pay all arrears to date, if there be any. but the bargain price cannot be used for the past indebtedness. The Monitor has promoted ne contest of any kind much pre fering to give its readers the amount that it would have to spend for prizes. Because of this liberal offer, we insist upon the payment of back subscriptions during this time. It is an inducement that will not be given again for some time. In locking overour books, we notice that there are several hundred who owe small amounts. In the most polite way we know how, we ask them to pay what they owe and thus be in a posi tion to accept the dollar offer. If your subscription needs "fiiin'," fix it. Copies of this issue have been sent to scores of people who are aot subscribers with some-thing marked with a blue pencil. That "something" is well wor thy of their acceptance. Start. Saturday morning, Sept. 25. Ends Tuesday night, Oct. 5, at 6:30. No other time and only cash talks. UP TO DATE. CIVILIZED AN IMTEBEST1N6 ' PERSOtUSE Vlrglala Southern Has Entertaining Chat With Mrs. Virginia Callaway An interesting personage in the city with whdm a real inter view is a delight is Mrs. Virginia Callaway. She is of Southern lineage and waa born in Clark County Geor gia Nov. 13, 1843, and ' was edu cated in Rome, Georgia. When asked if she wert superstitious she answered, "No, like Mr. Wilson, 13 is my lucky number." She is a staunch Southern Demo crat and an ardent admirer of the Woodrow Wilson administra tion. Iho Mrs. Calloway is now past 72, she learned early the luxury of doing good and all the vicissi tudes and adversities thru which she has passed have aot left any Winter in her years, and the little character is more than paintings or poets can express. She was reared by millionaire parents, her father being a large sjave holder and plantation own er. That she has undaunted cour age is manifest through the fact that in 1864 ahe . went through the army lines from Georgia into Tennessee to attend a wounded relative. To do thia she had a special permit from the army generals. Through Masoryc fra ternalism, Genera! Joseph E. Johnson sent a special escort of soldiers with her through the Union line. It took her ten days to make thia journey to Clearland, Tennessee, which waa only fourteen miles distance. She is nothing short of an ad venturess for the Rebels had ar ranged to burn a valuable eotton mill, and she carrjed dispatches revealing the plans of the trage dy concealed in her underwear, (continued on page 3) MARRIED Charles A. Lockridge, former ly of Independence, was married at Heppner Thursday, Sept. 16, Miss Helen Aiken of Heppen er, being the bride. Mrs. Lock ridge is an estimable . young lady, a high school graduate and is very popular. They will live in Heppner. Mrs. M. J. Bullock attended the wedding of her son. AND MODERN WARFARE. Fitt0Wid in St. Lw Peet-Diepatdv FARMER BILL SAVESJVIONEY RECITES INSTANCES Way In Which Newspaper Advertising Benefited Him Fifty Dollars For One A farmer tall ui that he has laved ovtr $50 by reading the Monitor the past year. We have aaked him to write the itory and he has promised to do to if we keep hie identity a secret Liiit week'a Monitor. Here it the atory. To the Editor I never thought what a hard job it was when I promised to write how I saved $50 by reading the Independence Monitor, for while I saved more than that I can't remember just where I got the goods ao will tell of a few cases I remember. My wife wont help me because she says I was never cut out foi- a newspaper writer and the .arm is where I shine. I trade in Independence, Al bany, Dallas and Salem, just where I find things advertised in the newspapers and so do my neighbors. This trade at home business ia all rjgat when it don't cost lot extra to doit. One thing about the Monitor and most other aewspapers is that they put reading ads in the news as if they waa trying to force people to read them. In a house you don't put cur piano in the kitchen or keep the thick ens in the pantry and a news paper ought to put its adi to gether and its different kinds of news together for if most people are like me it mskes me mad to read advertisements when I waat to read news. The adver tisements are read wherever Ihcy nay be because it is profit to do so and if there is anything in it I want and the price iis right I buy it. I subscribed for the Monitor at a bargain week and saved 50c for a starter. Its news is well written for there is some brains to back it up and if I had any thing to sell I would put it in ike Monitor for the better .the reading the better for its adver tisesaenU. There arc times when its advertisements or be cause the advertisements are not ia it forces me as well as my neighbors to go to other tow ns where they arc advertising. September 1914 I bought my boy a pair ef shoes of Mist-all & Knapp's and saved 75c. I proved what they said in their Monitor ad to be correct, by comparing prices on the same kind of a shoe in another town, Salem if I remember right, In October, Sloper Bros. & Ceekle had a nice etove ad in the Monitor and as I had to have a stove I bought one of them and saved $1.50 .ova my Sears Roebuck catalogue price. On the last day of the tame month Onkey & Walker advertised 125 salts at $17. I loc ked over suits in another town and saved just about $3 ai Mr. Conkey said I would. At Wetherbee & Jones' clear ance sale in January or Febru (continued on page 3) SUICIDE'S METHOD UNIQUE Here Is New Way of Ending Your Life It Tou Are Tired and Want To Go The ways of committing sui cide are novel and unique and the one employed on the farm of A. L. Sperling, one day last week, is no exception to the rule. By wrapping and winding the strings of a hammock around the neck, then falling out of the swing and choking to death, soenia quite impossible but nev ertheless it occurred in just that mar.n-'r. Domestic trouble was the cause. During hop picking several old hens got to clucking around 1 and were finally herd by the suicide's relatives and rather than meet them face to face, death waa preferred, but it occurs to us that it wouui have been considerable less trouble to fall off a barn or to jump in front of an automob:le. SHERIFF RAIDS Sheriff John Onr. aided by lo cal officers, swooped down upor. a gambling joint in this city Monday night, aud caught the Lunch "with the goof's." Eight prisoners were taken to Dallas where they faced Judge Hol man witb a guilty Bign. Fines of $25 were assessed against all with the exception of the oper ator who was hit for $150. Be cause of a shortage of cash, sev eral will "lay it out" in jail. Most of those arrested are non residents, and by the use of fic ticious names and a "'John Doe," identification has been fairly well screened. PRUNES TO EXPO R. !H. McCarter raised such fine Hungarian prunes this year, nice tig, fat, juicy fpllows, that, he shipped a box of them to the Exposition that the world might see the kind of fruit Polk county produces. He has received word from the Oregon Building offi cials saying that the fruit ar rived safely, that it had been placed and was holding up in very fine condition. BACK AGAIN The maiden, who in picking hops, put in the leaves and all the tops, a coy and pretty little miss, took pen in hand and wrote us this: 'Mr. Editor-The maiden, who in picking hops, put in the leaves and all the tops, for cer tain, she knows it true, never made any eyes at you." The maiden, who in piekl g hops, put in the leaves and all the tops, should not tell such horrid lies, she did make at us those goo-goo eyes. But the maiden, who in pick ing hops, put in the leaves and all the tops, now that all the work is thru-ay, here's your hat goodbye, adieu! TENTING AT THE FAIR The following from this sec tion will pitch their tents on the state fair grounds and with their families will see everything that; is to be sean mxt week: W. M. Black, S. H. MeElmurry, C. P Hembree, G. G. Hewitt, S. Cal breath, L. S. Compton. George lisuf. George Jones. W. C. Mor row, Isaac Simpon, Frank Longhary and C. C. Marks. 500 BALES GO Tn fill contract made lata a Anoint C. A. MeLaugfelin let poof 500 bales of hops this week, The pric was 11c. n.ra of 12c. are being turned down daily. Watchful waiting j, tha role. LARGE YIELD THinECTION HOP CROP IS IMMENSE Other Parts of State FaU So Short, However, That Local Growers Gain Advantage The harvest days are over. The hope are in the ihed; Now comes the gol dorn "nKgorin', To put a man ahead. . -Mac." The Independence ho;) .crop ea It 11 was a Dumper ana naa me remainder of the state done as well, there would have been hops to feed to the pigs. But fortunately for the Independence growers, in otner sections mere was a shortage unequaled in years, nunureus oi acres were not even picked and it is sur- 1 1 misea tnat n nuniDer or yarns will ! used for some other pur ... . L - J pose in the iu:ure. as a snori crop this year is very advanta geous because of certain condi tions, the local growers have been lucky and they have more than :.ny equal chance of recei ing a good price. Fo'lowing is an estimate of this year's yield in about 25 yards of this vicinity and the gain over lat year is also given. In some .yards the increase is due to added acreage. The es timate is cf bales unless other wise stated: Yard yield gain florst 6200 1400 Wigrich 2500 700 Mitoma MOO 200 McLaughlin 2350 700 Hose 1400 200 Fitchard-Wolfe 1400 400 Fletcher 250 same Percival 900 250 Damon 160 -40 Roberts 900 450 Davidson-Hedges 175 Sperling 650 ZW Patterson 800 200 Cooper 550 ,150 Walker Bros. 675 75 Lewis . 1000 400 Hubbard-Jones 200 same Sloper Bros. 6100 bx -19O0 bx Sloper-Patton 140 90 3 Hills -50 Lalliberte 75 -25 Hanna increase PSOMISING OUTLOOK The Oregon hop growers ex pect to reap the profits of their policy of "watchful waiting' according to J. L Clark, secre tary of the Oregon Hop Growers' association, who said today that from U reports received thus far by the association the 1915 hop crop could not possibly ex ceed 80,000 bales. "In fact," said Mr. Clark, "all Indications point to a much smaller yield. By October 1st we will have nearly complete reports in from all sections of the state and will know within a thousand or two the exact vmount of bales har vested. Tins iniormation we i will give you as soon a ol. Stained. Reports from all hop ; producing sectioB3 of the world ' are of ahortages. In the face of ithis, we are very optimistic that 1 values must advance as soon f s 5 the brewing trade realizes the (correct situation. Neer for j years has the outlook been so i promising and if the growers will rest easy, they will reap the , benefit of these conditions. j Saiem apiwi journal. SCHOOL COMMENCED MONDAY Fruitful Year In Prospect, Harmon Prevailing; Paiker School Dedicated The schools of Independence and surrounding country "took up" Monday morning. In Independence there waa a different t air than a year ago when a fteling of uncertainty existed and the term's future was clouded because of the tenv ueraiiK'nt of a prominent factor, who was antagonistic to the members of the school bonrd and to some of the teachers and pu pils. This year .there is har mony between sch l board, leachers and pupils and the fu ture is fruittul of good results. At Parker, the uew school building was dedicated last Sat urday with appropriate exercis ed, banquet and oratory. NO K. K. THIS FALL Independence will have no new railroad thia year, nor is it probable that the Southern Pa cific will electrify its line from VVhitcson to Corvallis this fall. Superintendent Donald of the V. & S. was here Monday and aid that the company could not finish its construction this fall; hat all they could do was to finish the work as far &s the Luekiamute river mi be ready to put down the rails in the spring. The construction from the river to Independence is an asy task, and with the work on the other side of the river com pleted, the rails can be laid in a hort time and the whole system be ready for operation in J,h spring. -- - Although the Corvallis eity ouncil stands ready to give the Southern Pacific its desired fran chise in that city, the company new seems to be in no particular hurry, which indicates that their proponed improvement has been abandoned until spring. JOHN DOING IT "Whatever the law is, I will enforce it, ".said John Orr, when he was a candidate for sheriff. John means what he said and will do it. GOOD SHOOTERS Mr. and Mrs. Topp'.-rwein en tertained over a hundred people it the race tracks Tuesday af ternoon by fancy shooting I'hey were the bet shots ever in Independence. SOME NO SNOOK BY GRAND JURY PASS UP RECALL HITS Nobody Comdemned Nor Exonorated; Too Much Time Required To Probe The grand jury adjourned last week without making an inves tigation of the charges made in the recently cireulated recall pe titions. Its members thought it would take two weeks to make a thorough investigation and did not denm tht charges of a suf ficient character to take that much time. There waa no con demnation .of anyone, neither was there an "eionoration" of anybody as has bstn reported. One member of the jury tella the Monitor that they were asked to apply m little "white wash" but would not do it. While perhaps somebody was entitled to it, they were not wil ling to give it without investi gation. The Monitor is informed that the recall petitions will be put in circulation again. Whether' they will be received with open arms or pointed boota, we can not guess, but will repeat what we said before that snore "gen erals" are needed to make this recall movement ever get to a vote of the people. JURY SUMMONED The following from thia sec tion have been sailed for service at the October term of court: P. O. Burbank, A. O. Drown, John Compton, D. H. Dickinson, D. G. Dove, C. E. Huntley. W. H. Harman, Allen Johnson, Claude Kurre, V. J. Love, Frank Laws, J. U. Caleb, G. H. Ruef. A. T. Steel, D. P. Staple ton and W. w. YeaUr. CANDIDATE MENTIONED In Democrat!) circles, Verd Hill ia spoken of as a suitable candidate fir county comaaiasion er. The Monitor always leads. TEAM. Brwrton n Atlanta Journal. &MlT