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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.
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10, 15c Store
Indep.nifsnc., Oregon
Willamette Valley Lumber Co.
MONMOUTH, OREGON
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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
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that the manager of the paper mill nut divulge my name.
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Dated January 21, 1019
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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
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ADVERTISING KATES: 15c. per Inch for one Insertion. 12 l-2c. for two or
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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
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A Crtckeijhck Suit
measure at $ 15. Can't
beat. Fit or no sa'e.
Miller The Tailor.
to
be
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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
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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.
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