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About Independence monitor. (Independence, Or.) 1912-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1916)
1 I 4 I We are pleased to announce to the ladies of Independence and vicini ty that we have just received by express our first shipment of the Famous Queen Qualify Shoes for women, priced at $3.50 to $5.00 per pair. We invite you to call. Eddy & Elliott Incceisors to Wetherbee 6 Jones Juit receivcd-A NEW LOT OF CROCKERY, GLASSWARE AND GRANITEWARE 10 and 15c each. Matches went up $1 per case, but we still sell them at 3 boxes for 10 cents. 5, THE FAIR 10, 15c Store Indep.nifsnc., Oregon Willamette Valley Lumber Co. MONMOUTH, OREGON 1 e fe' Hi LOOK OVKR OUR LUMBEI and you will be nir prised nt t'ic bnMiee of lart unsightly knoli and knot holes. Put It to any test you please and you'll find it come up to require ni n t . We handle the better giadea and you'll do well to ute only thone kind. W can prove they arehechapet in the end. Willamette Valley Sod Yellow Fir and Hemlock Lumber i rMMMtM('MMMMMMIHtMM Nominating Blank, Popular Voting Contest 191G Aldrcia At a lady worthy to become candidate in your l'opular Voting t un test, I prrrvrt tHi rrre wth the dmlrct understanding and Bitraiviit that the manager of the paper mill nut divulge my name. Tiiit does not obligate in tn any way whatever. Sigi.4 Address 25 VOTE COUPOIN 8Bu this Coupon In The Independence Monitor offke within fifteen day from dni aid It will couat twemy-flva votes. No money required Willi this Coiymi ' VOTE FOR. Dated January 21, 1019 The Monitor For News All the Time r .5 LOCAL NEWS Phone in t!i news. i. G. Walker n in land thin week. Ming Cecil Colli hh is vint ing in Pcrllan !. Theodore Elh etad visi'ed in Corvallia over 8unday. Dr. R. K. Duganne, den tint, National Bank Building. MisH Mable Stevens has been given h life eeitirient1. A flood pair of rending glasses "or 31.00 at O. A. Kreamei's. Mr. W. H. Craven and daughter vituted relalivea in Portland this week. Dr. J. 11. (JriiUr, dentist, rucceMor to Dr. Allin, Coop er Dldg. Phone Main 1021. Minn Mabel Porter ia now at tialem where ehe expect to soon graduate &a a trained nuree. The Fair Store's new lot of crockery, gluasw are and gran iteware will go like hot cakes ut 10 and 15 cents Minn Emma Henkle has rewigned her position in the Corvallig schools and will en ter the State Normal. While it is cold and bad wtather buy yourself a maok inuw or sweater at reduoed price atConkey it Walker'. Buy your good heavy wool and cotton underwear, in unions and septrate gar tnents, at (donkey & vValk er's. Mrs. Margaret Dalton, third grade teacher, haa re signed, to take effect at the close of the fir-t bvintmler, Feb 4. Misa Uretchen Kreamer will leave next week h r Ah aorta where she will teach nius o in the publio schoole of thnt city. Miss Eselyn Kobettaon vicited in Salem lt week, the guest of Dr. and Mrs. U 11. KobnUon and Miss Mil died Brooks, county record er. Don't forget that tht American Restaurant i notv lotMt"il one door noithof the Isis Theatre, wlure old pa trous and new are mode wel come. Save your vote coupons found on this page and give tltem to some of tlie girb . ho siw the c nleslants in the Merchants-Monitor pi ano contest. Homer Wod is appreutic ing at the pottoffica. Mrs. Pearl Hedges enter tained the Klaus Tillicums last night. Air. and Mr. Arthur, Gra ham were visiting ia Port land this week. The Dallas Commercial Club lias played its trump card by electing A. L. Martin as president. Friends are painfd to hear that Mrs. J. W. Kirkland has not yet fully recovered from injuries which she re c ived in a f. il several weeks ago. After Monday call for vote ooupons when you niakw. a cash purchase at the stores represented in the Mer chants-Monitor piano con test. The Willamette Valley Lumber Co.. which has a big yard in Monmouth has com metered an advert:sing cam paicn in this section nnd its first announcement appears in today's Monitor. Rut two shipments o oooze nave neen received in lndepende. ee thus far which indieites that either this community ha gon "dry" or that the supply in the cel lars are etil! holding out. Mrs. Jennie Jisperson. k 1 111 tor,ner na wen Known res ident of Independence and now living in Minnesota, ar rived in thU city this week and received a warm wc come from her many friends. The estate of Mary M. Fry er has hten admitted to pro hate and Thorns. J." Fryer appointed adminietr a t o r. The personal property has been appraised Rt $3052. The heirs are the husband and two children, Dr. C. P. Fry er and Mrs. Dr. T C. Camp bell. E. E. Tripp reports the sule of the M. VV. Wade ranch consisting of 6l)7 acres located about 7 miles south of Albany, to Willis Cald. well of Afdiland. Also 10 acres improved near Ashland also a fine residence in the city of Ashland. Total con siderations of th above sales, $23,000. A mid winter eonoert will he given at thw Oregon Nor mal School on Thursday evening, Jan 21 TneGlee Club will sing a cnntaU com- osed by Alfred Cianl, enti tied "Ruth," and the orches ira will play. A large crowd from Independence will at tend. O. A. Macy is a mem her of the Qlee Club. DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. Found Gent's Gold Signet King, owner can hate by deecrib ing ami paying for this ad at Howe's Jewelry S ore. BARRED ROCK EGGS Aftr fab. 6,. I will h for aale, VM for hatohinn from two eapociaily mated pen of th famous 0. A. C laying- ttrain of Barred Koeka. Single mininga of 15, aach $1.60. two tattings for $160. Yoo cannot secure a bottsr laying strain ar.ywharo than from theea two pens as O. A. C Brrd Rocks won wep.tW-a in the sgg laying contest at the I'Riiama raeifla Exposition- You had butter place yourorJer early aa the numtr of these settings will be limited, i! A. H. Craven. Monmouth, Ore. Watch the Monitor. Mra. Caroline Iirittou is the only we man magistrate in I'li!laUeliliia. The first woman (secretary to a com mlyskmiT of tlie IiMrkt of Columbia la Sii.-wi Alice L. (Jcuikr of i tiiludell'hla. Miss Blanche Kerree. who driTes a delivery auto car for a Philadelphia floriKt, la the only woman holding such position In that city. In a recent efficiency auto run Mis Era Cunningham of Haverhill, Mass., took first prize In the contest, with elchty men corxitH-tltors. Mls Florence I'owdennaker has been made assixUint chemuit in the Baltimore board of health, a position never before held by a woman. Miss Prcssley Smith, a prominent suffrage leader of Kugland, has been appointed as assistant secretary of the British legation at Chrtstlanla, Nor way. Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, who served Chicago as a sx boolteacher for fifty three years, has discussed the deepest phases of educational methods on the same platform wltb men educators of ' the highest caliber. Echoes of the War. The Nobel peace prize bag come to be regarded largely as a melancholy re minder. Washington Star. All kings cau't go to the front War expenses" keep even klugs In their counting rooms. Atlanta Constitution. It la easy to say that the war has cost $38,000,000,000 to date, but hard to realize that the sum would found a 15,000,000 university every day for more than twenty years. Boston Her ald. In some resixcts this war may have set back the bands of the clock of civ ilization. Hut humanity tn the treat ment of prisoners has on the whole made notable progress. Philadelphia Ledger. -SHORT AND SHARP. THE INDEPENDENCE MONITOR AN INDfcPOWENT NEWSPAPER Publiahed Weekly at Independence, Polk County Oregon, on Friday. Entered at Second Class Matter August 1, 1912 at the Post Office at Inde penaeace. Polk County, Oregon, Under the Act of March 3, 1879. CLYDE T. ECKR, Editor NINA B. ECKER, Associate Suoscription Rates: One Year $1.50 Strictly In Advance ADVERTISING KATES: 15c. per Inch for one Insertion. 12 l-2c. for two or more Insertions, 10c. on monthly contracts. Headers, 5 ind 10c. per line Independence, Oregon, Friday, January 7, 1916 Having- no regular comic section, the Orecxmian placed a scream regarding the "Chinese egg menace" in its editorialcolumns. And bow many of your good resolu tions have survived? Genius is supposed to be bard work, but the mun w ith the hoe never Beetna to realize It While a man Is unsatisfied be may be satisfied, but 'once be Is satiHtied be is dissatisfied. It begins to look as though the ulti mate fate of little nations Is to be fed by the United States. When the war is over no interna tional diplomat will have any need to take a correspondence course. It now looks as If even Abyssinia were going to set Into the tight to pre serve national existence game. None of the warring nations has pro posed making republics out of the sug gested buffer states to be organized. Man la a strange animal. Today he has vague ideas a bum becoming great Tomorrow he will worry about holding his Job. Prospects of a continuous session of congress will make sure that long ex pected sequence of Just one thing after another. It looks as If we were going to have some regular, old fashioned baseball this year, such aa we have read about in the back flies. The steadily decreasing death per centages in Paris hospitals indicate that war batb its victories no less re nowned than peace. A committee of ten scientists, ap pointed at the president's request, is going to bare a look at the canal. May be they will coin a scientific name for whatever atla it By the interference of Governor Withvcombe, VT Al Jones lost his job this week as secretary of the State Fair Board. The governor's official life is just one blunder after another. T. R. is back on the front page. It looks like he was going to.run over the Republican party again. Alter what he did to this same party four years ago, he ought to be as welcome as a bull in a china shop. We cannot help but believe that American citizens should not ride on the ships of the warring nations of the world. We call it unpa triotic for a man to consciously assume a position for personal advantage or convience that might plunge iris country into war. Career of the Levalert. I.evt lers first appeared In Germ.my. Two men. .Munzer and Storck. taught WANTED! All your Old Gold and ; Silver B n.ij PIi.o l7.lnl. This was In the " "'v Wi'l pay you cash. . Rcwe'8 .Jew lry Store "Where a Dollar Does its Duty' rlclits of mankind 8Uteenth century. At the bead of 40,- j Cased, Chains, etc 0U0 men Munzer commanded tne sov ereign princes of Germany and the magistrates of cities to resign. His followers ravuKed the country tiutll one of the German overlords defeated them In battle. Their leader was be headed. A pnrty of levelers appeared in England In 1017. where they became powerful in parliament They deter mined to level nil ranks and establish an equality of titles and Miller Tim Tailor lias hit new fall line of panicles in. Corre and see them. The estates bt'St in t he market at lowest Current Comment. These days perhaps China throne ia as good as any. Poston Record. A tax on restaurant checks over $2 would be no novelty.' It Is paid now. hut to the waiter, not to the government.- Phlladc'phia Ledger. The baseball peace is another Illus tration of the fact that Just as soon as the leaders tn-Kin to lose money out of war they drop it. Detroit Free Press. Wltb platinum bringing $100' an ounce gold is outclassed as a precious metal. Gold may soften principles, but It does not harden bullets. New York luu. Powder and Ball. Naval guns have longer ranges than land weaiHins of the nuw sizes, b cause it Is easier to rvitne them and heavier charges can be used. By making gunpowder by a chem ical-mechanical process Instead - of grinding It In mills, a German inventor produces smaller grains, wbicb explode more rapidly and completely. Seventy tous of coal a day will carry an ordinary battleship along at the cruising speed of ten to twelve knots. but to drive her at twenty or over five ttinee that amount must be used Political Quips. One of these- days somebody will pro- poet' taking the pi'litk ian out of pon tics. St l.ollH KepuM! . in the matter of polirl al fences every congressman is anient y tn ravor or preparednew. "hknco Ne s. S;ikitic if the oM conundrum. What Ii ht : :i couvejitlon la June be answer i. "Two convention. throughout the. kingdom. About this time Cromwell departed for Ireland. The Levclers raised mutinies In vari ous quarters. Cromwell put tueui down In ltMO aud Imprisoned their lender. A pnrty of Levelers apiieared ift Eng land during the French revolution. A 'ioyal association" was formed against them, ami their efforts brought no re sults. Kansas City Star. prices. Fit or no sale. For painting and paper hai ginp, call Main CJ12. 9if H. Sauer. Chemical Dangers. A professor of a northern university i who was as ' emarkable for his felicity in experimenting as Itouello could be for his failures was once repeating an experiment with some combustible sub stauce. when the mixture exploded, and the phial which he held In bis hand blew Into a hundred pieces. "Gen tlemen," said the dix tor to his pupU9, with the most unaffected gravity, "1 have made this experiment often with the very same phial and uever knew It to break in my hands before." The simplicity of this rather superfluous as surance produced a general laiiRh, in which the learned professor, who In stantly discovered the cause of it. Join od most heartily I r. lv I II. in Med leal Pickwick. Wood, Gravel and Sedi ment, delivered. 18U F. K. Rider. Good as-h, fir and rt.apl9 wood for sale. 49tf Homer Hill. Call J. N. Ellsworth, the Veterinary, corner of 4th and I) Greets. Phone 3122. 3if i A Crtckeijhck Suit measure at $ 15. Can't beat. Fit or no sa'e. Miller The Tailor. to be BUTTER WRAPPERS The Law Save They Must Be Printed or So Stamped as to Conform toLaw PAY UP Having fold rr.y grocery, all pHities owing me aren quebted to call at ihe store and settle. L. - . Re-Vf ;. $1.00 per Hundred Pedigrte Duroc Jersey Boar Fcr Full ure Ftock getter. Puce rea?onable, or will accet i trinl in Rtock. Apply, U igrich Rkih li, li, di'pendenr, Ote. Phone 1702 Farm. 15tf At I Hi. 1 Monitor Office Bad tnowy, s'oppy weath er calls for dry feettoward off coLs and eriD. Wear j rubbers, rubber tdiot-8, rub I her boots and watter proof j your shoe. You will find jthem all in your sjre at Ccii 'key Walkr'e. Washington IVtst
