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. i ! 4- T CooZ 5n a caol LIieri AH thf heat is concen trated where i' is necJsd kee,ii you tool and makes for beUer cooking A HEW OIL CCffiSIOVE tin... 4 t i.L ' iiiiimiiuuiwilJl , a mnriarn nil Mnvi lsl m. V mer and be comfortable? Bakes,, broila, roasts, toasts, More efficient than your wood or coal stove, and costs less to operate. Better cooking because the long bluechimneysgive stead ier, more evenly distributed heat, under perfect control like gas. No smoke or smelL In 1, 2, 3 and 4-burner sizes, ovens separate. Also cabinet models with Fireless Cooking Ovens. Ask your dealer today. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (CilitonL) Tn1re'Senr i Ktiulti s r V. : - J Wh t Mexico W.i Once. There win n lime when tlie t'nlted Slates wa . ii-.i . large lu ara as I aiexico. l lie cu,.,. re tint f Kpnln claim j eI tin luilrd Texas, California. Arizona i anil New Mexico and oilier western j lan'lH, even before Louisiana was bought. In the day before tills country ac quired Texan ami before other areas baI tx'en bought .Mexico and the Unit ed States were of about the same size. The Mexican boundaries have Hhrunk, those of the United States have ex panded. Now Mexico has only about one-fourth of the area of the Culled States. Mexico today contains about 75,00 'iiare miles. It Ik bs large as Ureal Britain. Vraw e, (jermany. Austria and Ireland, lint the five larcest states of this comitry-TexuH, California. Mon tana. New Mexico and Arizona ex ceed all Mexico in area. The border lietween till coimlry and Mexico Is about 1,800 mile Ioiijj and for t.biO mile Is easily crossed at most seasons -Philadelphia Ledger. METHODISTS MAY UNITE CHURCHES Union of Branches Wcuia Give Nearly 6,000,000 takers. SLAVERY CAUSED THE SPLIT Methodist Episcopal Church, Metho dist Episcopal Church South and Methodist Protestant Church Now Have Total of 27,41.6 Ministers and 47,615 Churches. Tor Sale By CRAVEN S HUFF SLOPER BROS, fi COCKLE J. D. HIBBS & CO. THE INDEPENDENCE MONITOR AN INOIiPBNDENT NEWSPAPER Fitliehcd Weekly at Independence, Polk County Oregon, on Friday. littered as Second Class Matter August 1, 1912 at ttic Post Office at Inde pendence, Polk Countv, Oregon, Under the Act of March 3, 1870. CLYDE T. ECKER, Editor NINA B. ECKER, Associate Snoscrlptlon Rates: One Year $1.50 Strictly In Advance ADVERTISING RATES: 1B. per Inch lor one Insertion. 12 l-2c. for two or more Insertions, 10c. on monthly contrscts. Readers, 5 and tOc. per line Independence. Oregon, Friday, June 30, 1916 8hoilifters In Europe. Shoplifting In European cities Is sn organized ; em of biiganda;.'e. In America r i r ; J Iji'.IikhI It Is usually tint Independent undertaking of a sin gle sneak thief.' But la Kurope.in cities this (tort of larceny Is curried on by organizations of thieves directly under the eon t ml of some receiver of Ktolen goods. The Ihofts are not done In a haphazard uiaiiuci. as with us that la to nay, the taking of any eonvenlent nr tlcle on the chance that It can be dls posed of. t'nd T the foreign system the "fence," or re -fiver of Ktolen poods. furnishes these thieves with a list of the articles tnut he can bundle with the (TeatPHt facility and the lurvest prollt. They go out to th shnptt to tint) pre cisely the articles their pniilover wlah- In one city alone the proilta of a little group of these thieves, thus or ganized and working; under a fence. nmounted to over $ lu.iioo In one year. - Isiturday KveuliiK 1'imt When to Bend Your Knees. Hire Is a hint for ymi In case you should happen to be run. 'lit In a falllntt elevator bend your knee. One day an elevator in a flxioon story bulldltis be came disabled and fell from the sev enth lb. or to the basement There were ne en passengers In the car Alive to the danger, the ;ir operators shout ed: "The car Is ,:oIiik lo fall! Turn your backs I the door nud bend your knees!" Six of the seven passengers obeyed and escaped Injury, although the ear landed wit U n nisli thnt sound ed all through tint biilliliiiL-. The ser. enlh rider failed to obey the order and suffered fractures of the rlsht thigh none and of the right knee and lacera tions, liecnusc he was facing the door and the broken glass showered upon blin when the car struck. New York Letter In rittshuigU Dl-spatcb. We can't enthuse over the tails of the two tickets. One of Mr. Hughes most serious faults is his whiskers. Many people believe that whiskers harbor germs. Mary Ann can make au excellent salad, thanks to tlie domestic science in the high school curric ulum. But Mary Ann would make a better hit with us if occasionally she spelled a word correct ly, could add three rows of figures the same day she started and had learned that Ml Paso is not the capital of Mexico, Tuxedo's Grip by Walt Mason Tuxedo is the gripping smoke, a boon to every buyer; you take your pipe of English oak, of meerschaum, clay or briar, and fill it with the fragrant weed, the choicest man can gather; and then you have a smoke, indeed; and are 'ou glad? Well, rather. Tuxedo has no kick or bite, suggests no "morning after;" its mission is to bring delight, and fill your heart with laughter. It caught the sunshine, of tlie south, when it was riven and growing, and brings f!..t bhine to your v.n -., ! , out the smoke ;s' e : "Tuxedo's in a ; r.c snioKer Hie iu- i. . trc frairtance all its own, '. all comimri'i An grps trie v-ien who snuk, and hold then . 1 . non; iw i'u.i'v b;ur ii-pcs :acv sun- i. , l , . l CC, l i '5 it i,!.CC- Real Envy. A considerable iiilnsllnt; of social classes occurs lu our li.il village, writes a correspondent, owing to the town folk's piactl.e of renting suunner cot tages in our tuiJ; I and llvlns ther neighborly iitli the real working peo ple for whom the plnci-s were built. In one such case the 1 1 uiilent from town was an unmarried l :ilj ; the "genuine" cottager next door b id a husband who. to put It mildly, was notoriously no blessing; to her. Making a friendly call one dav the wife was greatly Impressed by tlie pleasant uir of comfort and well being achieved In a cottage other wise Hie duplicate of her own. She looked round with n mildly envious alr and cani'Ml remarked, on a little algh. ' i:e, .Miss X, you ought to b 'appy -uo uslniud nor uutliiu'. "-Manchester (iuardlun The Portuguese Rsbanadas. A dish as much eaten by the Portu guese us mime pie by Americana la the rcba mo! is It Is of Moorish origin did Is easily uud quickly prepared, as bclltie! the habits of a nomadic race. Thick slices of bread are soaked In new milk, rr.c.l in olive oil and then Hpicad with licney n il l caleu hut. The ilt is sirtucCiing delirious, and those lu have once tasted the rebmia.lue want t.i tiUic It ua!u. The pros,ect of Methodist union, pos sibly us early us ,,H and in any case not Inter than has aroused vviue Bjueud Interest uiauiig the lueluners of rrolestant ( luirches as to the si; and ruuk of the Methodist chun h wiieu re united. , The .Methodist general conference, which Just concluded Us session lu Saratoga Springs, N. Y., unauiuiously Indorsed the proposed union of Ameri can Methodism. If the geiicsjil cou fereme of the Methodist Episcopal Chim b South In 11118 aiso Indorses the plan the union (an proLialiiy be put Into effect to some exieut at once. The union proposed Is of these two denominations and one other, the lltebodlst i'lotesijut chur.h. The nu merical results will be Imposing. The new Methodist church, for that will probably be the name, will have al most exactly one-third of the 17,742, communicants of the thirty church bodies which are now tuetnbess of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America. It will have more than a thbd of their 13II.001 churches and more than one-fourth of their 103, 113 ministers. The next largest body will be the southern Baptist conven Uon. and after that will come the ne gro Baptist, with the Presbyterians fol lowing. Some Statistics. Here are the figures for 1015, the most recent obtainable, as given In the Churches of the Federal Council, edit ed by Charles 8. MacFarland and Is sued only a few weeks ago by the Fleming- II. Kevell company: Mlniaters. Methoillst Kplscupal church 18,813 Mathodlst K'placopal Church South. 7,203 aluthodlat I'roteatant church 1,410 T' - T7,tW Churches Mnthodtat Episcopal church Mothodlst Epiacopal Church South. 16.787 Mm hod In t Proteatant church ... 2.WQ Total 47iMj Communicants. Methodist Episcopal church J.657.6M Meihodlat Episcopal Church South.2,OT2,035 Mothodlst Pniteatant church 201.110 iTHE AUTHOR KNOWS WHAT'S WHATJ IVOU 6tT INSPIRATION f0 THAT VICW OONT YOU ( yOU otT INSPIRATION raoW rES- I CT INSPIRATION f THAT VICW OONT Y0U?C V"0M THE VltW NOf - -JV rcoMroRT PROM THC L. REAl" Tt0 CHCW MOBODY wants to put s bid, bulgy wad of tobscco in his cheek. A All sroend foe. mn sr. o.ml W-B CUT Chewin tht Resl Tob.cco Chew, mtm tut, ti Utnd sad iclliol ineir Ineodi .bout Uu cbew thai brinli so moch somiort. sds ly WETMAN-BRUTON C0MPANT, 50 tUoa Samara. New Tork Cry Smart Bo. A tea. her was taking s class of boi n the subject ir war. mid the follow Inu statenicnts were beard Teacher -A bullet Is driven out of a gun by means of exploding gunpow der Small Hiiy- always thought a bal let was leud. uot driven. A Spanisri Custom. It la custonmiy throughout Siialn for the waiters of csfea to till a glass of wlue or 1 1. 1 cor so tlist It overflows Um the vamer This custom. In which It is desired to show an appear uee or iitx rallly la called "the foot bath- Depends on Circumstances. "Ps, w hat d.s' mother mean whea she calls you a matrimonial uilsfltr "My sii. she never means the same thin" twice. I cannot answer your question." Hlrtuingham Age-Herald. Rsgular Ordsr. Collector--Md you l.wk at that little bill I left yesterday, stir T House Mem berYea. It has passed the first read tng -BoBtou t;iol. All Arranged. "Say. pa. I Ut Hobby Smith lOceuta tinlay you could lik his dad in fifteeu mliiutes. so W sure and keep S.itu:!ay afternoou en "-lnck. Want of care dees wore datnae than waut of knowleiK-v. Franktla. Tn'al .....'...6.930,739 When It Is added thut neither the southern Baptist convention, with 2,!J,217 communlcaiits, nor the Pres byterian Church lu the rutted States of America, with 1.405.157 communicants, approaches In size the Methodist Epis copal church the numerical greatness of the united Methodist church will be readily appreciated. Caused by Slavery Issue. Slavery, which also divided the Bap tist and Presbyterian churches, was the rsuae of the division of the Metho dist Kpiacopal church. Among Metho dists the schism took nlace In 1S44. arising from the case of Bishop James Osgood Andrew of (Jeorgla. whose wife was s slaveholder. The Metho dist rrotestant church was the out growth of a still earlier dispute over the mutual rights of the ministry and laity. It was formed about IK30 and was Itself spilt In POS by the slavery question. In 1ST! the northern half of the Methodist Protestant church fused with the Wesleyan Methodist church, and In 1S77 Ixith parts of the Metho dist Protestant church . were again brought together. The couilng uulou of Methodists will create a denomination aa pre-eminent In missionary work as In membership. The three c'.iur. lies when fused will bsve alxmt l..m foreign missionaries as sgHlnst l .lmt missionaries of the Presbyterian Church In the t'nlted Stutes of .'.merk a and 323 foreign ; missionaries of the Presbyterian Church In the I'niled States South. The reunited Methodists will have about G.INki home missionaries. North ern and southern Presbyterians togeth er have not many more than 3,im). T. R. CALLS IT P.O-ZE-VELDT, Proper Pronunciation of Name That le Frequently Mispronounced. Chamioey M IV!w who has known T K. from nti.v Inxid. says '"Uosa Teldt," with the accent on the first half of Itosa The dictionaries say "Uo le-velt," with the ac cut on "l!o." It Is a ques tion why nine persons out of ten per sist In pronouncing the last half of the Colonel's iimue as If It were spelled Roosefelt. That "felt" is tilmnilnahly wrong. The ex -president himself says Iio-ie-reldt. ail spread out nice and soft like, with none of your Mousey or Hoey "felts" alsmt it. - There are thrtn- distinct syllables In his name Instead of two Farmer Beys a Street Car. Two well livse.l men sold WtsYn- stu farmer the Cai .ago street car on which he was riding for $7 but the tuotoruian refuse.! to give It up st the end of the run 4 of July! the best time for your Vacation Trip Suggestions for your Trip Golf or tennis at Neah-Kah-Nie Bathing at Tillamook County Beaches. Gathering agates at Newport Dedication of Springs at Ashland Fishing is fine at many points Rogue I&ver Roundup Ashland July 4, 5, 6 Cherry fair at Salem Celebration at Newport July 4th Low Round Trip Fares between all Southern Pacific stations in Oregon where the one way fare is Ifi.OO or less on July 1, 2, 3, and 4. Keturn limit July 5th. Ask your local agent for further information or write to JOHN M. SCOTT, General Passenger Agent Portland, Oregon. SOUTHERN PACIFIC 'Hl)llllillIUIIIII. Calbreath & Jones GROCERS t Where a Dollar brings one hundred cents of value A dollar for every dollar or a dollar back MM MIIIS44H MIIII(MMH4MtltlHHtTt ' THE INDEPENDENCE NATIONAL BANK Established 19 A Successful Business Career of Twenty Five Yean INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS OFFICERS AISD DIRECTORS H. Hirschberg, Pres. D. W. Sears, V. P. R. R. DeArmond, Cashier VV. H. Walker, I. a. Allen, O. D. Butler k
