THE INDEPENDENCE MONITOR
AN I.NDhPbNDIiNT fsfcWSPAPER
ELECTING A PRESIDENT
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(Watch for th (taction of Mo-
Kin! in 13')6 in our next itiut.)
Iublished Weekly at Independence. Polk County
Oregon, on Friday.
Entered as Sicond Class Matter August 1, 1912 at the Post Office at Inde
pcndence, Polk County, Oregon, Under the Act of March 3, 1879.
CLYDE T. ECKER, Editor
NINA B. ECKER, Associate
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Independence, Oregon, Friday, October 6, 1916
LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE
MR. REYNOLDS THANKS
BOYS AND GIRLS
To the Woys and girla of Polk
eeunty who helped win the
Blue Kifcben strain lor our
eeunty:
I wish to thank you all for thej
splendid werk that you did and
the rreat help you have been to
this office in winning this rreat
hoasr for our county. There
hays been some mistakes made
ssd we will do oar best to eorreet
mistakes mad by this office.
We are especially indebted to
May McDonald aad Hazel Bur
II for help at the oounty fair.
Some of the other counties say
"Look out for next year," so let
as lay oar plans for a larger and
better eilwbit next year, not
lone for the prize that we may
win, bat for the self improve
ment that we Ket by striving to
do our beat.
Competion kills stagnation and
makes for advancement and
achievement Hurrah for the
Club aad Industrial Boys and
Girls of Polk. W. I. Reynolds.
OPEN SEASON CUT ON
CHINESE PHEASANTS
Tae state frame commission has
cut the open season on Chiaese
pheasants. This year the sea
son closes at Huadown Sunday,
October 15. Sportsmen are urjjed
te spare the little ones.
AN EXPENSIVE
SCHOOL MACHINE
Oregon hns ton most compli
cated and expensive schorl
machinery of almost any stale in
the union, and the end is not yet.
The machine in reaching out for
more power, more laws and more
institutions, and its net product
is mo'e professionalism.
It is a well-known practical
fact that with an expensive state
printing plant, the smaller text
books could be printed for one
half.
Wiih large expert forces at the
higher institutions of learning
the texts could be supplied
adapted to the needs of the
people.
At each session of the legis
lature ten to twenty new laws
are ground out by the "machine"
leaders, raising thf taxes.
This legislation is often con
ceived entirely by impractical
educators" bent only upon
hither salaries and netting softer
jobs.
The Hillsboro Independent
shows the conflicting and care
less character of this legislation
from the records of the county
superintendent as relating to
high schools.
There will be no reform in high
overhead cost of education until
officials are made to serve die
taxpayers and the people instead
of log-rolling for each other.
Colonel H. Hofer.
TURN IN
ON CREDIT
Your old Hot Point Electric
Irons, Tocsters and other
appliances regardless of
their condition.
We will allow' yon ONI
THIRD Orr on price of
new late up-to-date models
LI
ELECTRIC
COMPANY
II. J. ROVVE,
Mgr.
Store rhone 4021
fight Phone 6211
MARKET IS FALLING
A Portland paper is asking its
readers if Charley Chaidia is
worth ft;;o.iHK a year. While
there is a possibility that Charley
is Netting that much money, his
actual worth in our opinion
would be more nearly accurate
by putting the decimal point be
tween the six and seven. Inde
pendence AL nitor.
And eur opinion is that it
would be nearer right to takeout
the six and seven and substitute
a pair of Os.-Benton County
Courier.
And our opinion is that it is
too bad to waste one 0 on him,
to say nothing of a pair. New
berg Graphic.
Lest our independent friend and publisher of
the independent paper at Independence should
accuse us of a lack of independence, we shall
assert our rights ot independence and publish ex
tracts of Wood row's speeches made while he was
independent. rails Lity News.
Oh, we do not care much what Mr. Wilson said
before he joined the church. We are only inter
ested in what he is doing in the church and from
which record we must judge whether it would be
better to have him in or hajbtii'iitnout. With Mr.
Hughes it is different. He wishes to get into the
church and is on probation. The term of his
probation extending over the period of his career
in public life must be the medium that we must
use in judging whether to admit him or keep him
out. '
Congressman plus W. O. W. Head Manager
Hawley is more fortunate than most other public
officials as he has been holding two jobs and get
ting away with it whereas if anybody else would
try it they would lose one or both 01 them. If
John Doe was elected county clerk and spent part
of his time running a jitney, he would be running
the jitney only at the end of his first term. So
we must give Mr. Hawley credit for being a
genius in this particular. He is one of the few
men who can run a two-ring circus and appear in
both rings at the same time and not perform much
in either of them.
V3k
PROTECTS and
PRESERVES
ROOFS
(ALL KINDS)
Three Colors-Red green Black
Sold by C. K. Spaulding: Logging Co.
(THE GOOD PUDGE SEES A MAN 6Q TO THE NEXT STOftgj
IF OU HAVEN'T
CUT you CANT HAVE
MY 01 ME f
irt scRny m out of
HERE'S THE KIND
yOU USED TO USE
T
ATIP to YOU. MR DEALER )
DON'T RON OUT or THE
KIND YOUR CUSTOMERS I
WANT AND YOU WON'T I
RUN OUT OF CUSTOMERS
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HERE and there you run across a store keeper whos
got the idea that all the common sense in town is
on his side of the counter. He don't keep W-B CUT
Chewing nor anv o' the new and better things. Some
how he can't increase his trade. Nearby is a man w ho
believes in the people. He keeps all the good things
he's a success. I Ie f- ids men changing over to W-B CUT
; i;'it along. Common sense told him they would change
t'the rich Hit's chew that lasts and satisfies.
.., r;sr-T.Vi.Kr.t?TCl CW?A'!'.'. tt tMon Sna, New Tort CtT
Let the Monitor Printery Do Your Commercial Printing
The state fair is in full progress. 'So is my
wife. Columbia Herald.
"Progress'' means to go forward, to advance,
and according to the latest highfalutin feminine
authority, progression for woman means for the
subject to suffer with the suffragettes, barnstorm
for the uplift of her "'oppressed" sex and go con
gressional unioning over the country at so much
per. If this be true, we can see why the writer
was so brief. It is a condition that calls for few
words.
YES, WHY NOT
The teachers' institute has
been set for the second week in
October. Just as the schools ire
getting U run smoothly comes
this break. As the teachers
MUST attend why not pull it olf
before school begins and sive
needles expense to the district
ami interupling the schools.
Falls City News.
No question about it, Weston was outraged
when the normal school was taken away from it
left high and dry, with the local townspeople pay
ing tne salaries ot the teachers so they could
complete the term's instruction to the students.
W eston was wronged, and we cannot blame its
people, smarting under a sense ot injustice, for
resenting the move to place the school at Pendle
ton. Oregon. Voter.
If Oregon was real gentlemanly, Weston would
at least get its money back.
Considerable paper might be saved in the pres
ent shortage if the number of copies of the Con
gressional record printed were cut down to the
number of those who read it. Mt. Scott Herald.
It is to be regretted that more people do not
read the Congressional Record. If thev did. a
great deal would be learned that they should
know, and there would be a lot of new faces
Congress.
COOK 8Y WIRE, IT'S A SNAP!
Cook by wire! Nix on the fire! Fire went out of date, my dear,
when Billy Sunrlay discovered water. What year do you think thia is
19(10? How ailly! Don't you know this is the ae when a taxi is born
every minute, ships at sea have arguments while three thousand milee
apart and musical shows only carry three or four wardrobe trunks!
Fancy!
We're not cooking any longer with wood, ashes, dirty kitchens,
coal, grsolir.e, Roman candles, matches, wood, smoke nor ranea which
make yru i a hot as Helene, the Russian queen of 411 C O. U.
Wood is now being used for cafe tables, coal ia sold exclusively to
Central Stations, gas has all it can do to take care of political speechea
and gnsoline is so expensive that only kings and waiters can afford to
cook with it. Smoke, fumes, sooty pots and the other old-fashioned
things have been laid on the shelf with bicycles, suspenders and Teddy
Roosevelt. Why, woman, thia ia 1916! Today electric range and
aeroplane factories work three shiftsl Yesterday 90,000 hamlets were
"killed" in a movie war! Real sharks re pulling the resorters' lege at
Atlantic City this year! This Is 1916!
The electric range is fascinating, chummy, homey, Utopian and
every other fancy adjective you can think of! It ia guaranteed to re
move work, wony and widowhood and make Monday morning seem like
Saturday aftemocn with birdies Binging in the tree tope.
Electric cooking is delicious, faltering, eugenic, god-like, ferocious,
and ten times better than mother used to miike. In fact, eome women
are so crazy about it that the sale of canned sardines dropped from
$1S to 18 cents in one towa in one week. Name on request? Lykelle!
Order your electric range now! It will put your favorite dream of
heaven in the piker clasa! Don't worry about the price! Tapa will
settle if you kr.ow how to work it! The scheme not the range! Aa
Woodrow Wilson says, "Write today!"
HUGHES ELECTRIC KEATING CO,, Chicago, III.
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Charley Icebanks is to come to Oregon soon.
Indiana has a great many better men than Char
ley, but for the past four years they have not been
running for vice-president.
According' to medical experts, the liy is notj
responsible for infantile paralysis. This is thej
fnt time the tly ever got by. '
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