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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
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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
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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.
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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-
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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.
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