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About Independence monitor. (Independence, Or.) 1912-19?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 8, 1916)
ORESPONDEICE BUENA VISTA Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Elkins are spending Thanksgirinsr with Mrs. Elkins' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stnnehocker at Lewisville. The ladies of the M. E. church met at the parsonage Tuesday afternoon and organized a Ladies Aid Society with Mrs. Myrtle Wells president, Mrs. Tyler vice president, Mrs. W. It. Bevms, secretary and Mrs. Lennon treasurer. They meet every Tuesday afternoon. All the ladies of the town and country are irmted to meet with us and join our society, We need help and work. Marvin Well is helping W. i' Bevins in the store the last days, Rev. and Mrs. Atkinson and family and Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Chown and son Ernest were Thanksgiving guests at the E. M. Lichty home. Mrs. Lichty Berved a splendid dinner and all did justice by it. Miss Bernice Well was hostess to a Sunday school party, the knights of honor and loyal daugh ters at the gym. A splendid good time was had and light re freshments were served. Mr. Cryderman and daughter Geneva were Thanksgiving guests at the home of fi. C. Anderson. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Elkins of ; Dallas were lhanksgiving guests at the home of their daughter, Mrs. W. R. Bevens. ! The marriage of Mrs. Harriet i Well and Mr. William Hall, an elderly couple, took place in Salem Monday. The congratu lations of the community are ex tended to them. i N. E. Tyler left Wednesday for Salem to spend Thanksgiving with friends. He returned Thurs. day evening. Ernest Chown was the dele crate from the M. E. church to the Older Boys Conference at Corvallis Dec. 1 to 3. Mrs. N. E. Tyler was a Thanks ! giving guest at Mr. and Mrs. Lennon's. i There will be a Christmas tree and pt gram at the M. E. church. j Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Lichty were Sunday guests at the home of Robert Emmons. I . 1 l . n . . M i i'eari wens came over irom Salem Monday to visit her par- , ents. ents. Mrs. Lennons, Jay McCarty, Prof. Buell, Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Atkinson and family are all num bered on the sick list. Lena Snyder is getting along fine at the hospital and is ex pected home in a few days. PRIZE WINNERS OF THE INDEPENDENCE CORN SHOW YELLOW DENT 100 ear lots-10 entries. -1st, A. R. Southwick. Salem Rt. 1; 2nd, Vern Alsip, Dallas; 3rd, T, L. Hartman, Independence. 10 ear lot -15 entries-lst, A. R. Southwick, Salem Rt. 1; 2nd, J. B. Farker, Independence; 3rd, E. F. Tiee, Independence. 1 ear lots 12 entries-lst. A. R. Southwick, Salem St. 1; 2nd. John Groves, Independence; 3rd, W. G. Shafer, Independence. WHITE DENT 100 ear lots 2 entries-lst, Gilbert & Patterson, 8alem Rt. 2; 2nd, F. C. Turner, IndepenPence. 10 ear lota-3 entries-lst, Gilbert & Patterson, Salem Rt. 2; 2nd, F. C. Turner, Independence; 3rd, Vern Alsip, Dallas. 1 ear lots 3 entries-lst, Gilberts Patterson; 2nd, F. C. Turner; 3rd, Vern Alsip. FLINT CORN 10 ear lota 1 entry W. L. Soehren, Dallas. 1 ear lota 1 entry W. L. Soehren, Dallas. RED AND MIXED DENT 100 ear lota 3 entries 1st, R. D. Landon; 2nd, Tom Fennell; 3rd, Albert Quartier. 10 ear lots 3 entries-lst, Tom Fennell; 2nd, W. L. Bice; 3rd. R, D. Landon. 1 ear lots 9 entries-lst, R. D. Landon; 2nd, W. L. Bice; 3rd, Albert Quartier. POP CORN 12?earlots-8 entries-lst, A. R. iothwick; 2nd, T. L. Hart man; 3rd, A. M. Bingman. SWEET CORN 12 ear lota-6 entries-(Golden Bantam), 1st, F. E. Rider; 2nd T. L. Rartman; (Philadelphia Earlv), 3rd, T. L. Hartman. H?ti eusrf torn Jihi CONCERNING THE NORTH INDEPENDENCE STREET LINE To the Good People of Inde pendence: I think 1 owe an ex planation of facts. I know it all started over putting in a cement walk which ona of the ntnvt committed men wanted five feet in place of four which I put it according to grade given me by the city purveyor. The one who wai opposed to the four foot walk wanted to know what I put In a four foot walk 'for. 1 told him it was on account of the ditch dug out by the county along my property. In a snort time afterwards two of the coun cilman were over here with the county surveyor running the line on the east side of the county road. I do not know where they started their first line. I know he said it wa alright till he got to block eleven where he found the fence in the street. So tP.ey went to the corner of the place and found it in the road. Then when they came to a barn which had belonged to one of the eoun cilmen it was out in the road fourteen inches. After making the first survey, which he told us was alright, then he makes the second survey, commencing at a bottle and goes four feet in the county road. and when asked about it, said: "1 have gone four feet in the county road and I can go fonr feet more if 1 want to." I can prove this by foil" or five witnesses. And after he got to block nine one of the oounciiBien asked the other where Uty gut the riht to wo in the county road four feet. He took a deed of block nine and said it called for one hundred and twenty feet. My deed calls for the same, which means to the center of the alley. The sur veyor told the co.ncilmen, after he got through, that they had better take his first survey as his second would hurt everyone in town. One of my neighbors got up a petition to take the first survey. Everybody signed it on the street, that was home, but one man. This was turned down by the council. Then we tried to get two county surveyors to find the lines, but suceeeded in securing only one. Then the man who owned the red barn went to see an attorney. He said if we got a surveyor living in town it would be alright, so he told me. I went around town and collectei the money to pay for same. In running from the bottle to a rock, found it the same distance. Every man knows from one given point to another is the same if measured alike. The alley on the Russell place and the streets came out alright. W hen we measured the property of the man with the red tarn, he, wanted to know if he did not come out in t ie street four feet. The surveyors told him he had every foot of land his deed called for and his bapn was fourteen inches in the coun ty road, and they put a chalk mark showing where his line came to. Our town is composed of thirty-six blocks, commencing at block one, running to block six, then over to seven, then to twelve on the east siile of the county road, then thirteen to eighteen My property is in seventeen, the street is eighty feet four inches wid6 at my southeast corner, running in an angle to the county road of sixty feet at the Johnson land. The tier of blocks on the north are only three lots and twenty-seven feet wide from block six to thirty. Now if they want to find the town lines let them com mence at either one or six ai d they will find the town alright. These are the truths as far as 1 know what is the truth. I am an old man, don't intend to be with the good people of Inde dependence much longer and all I want is justice. C. A. Dick. iTtt.ifchjnV.iiia.uiLii 1 Christmas Closing "Out Sale Rowe's Jewelry Store to c?ose out entire Jewelry Stock including: every thing: on the Jewelry side. Prices way down below cost. Must be closed out by January 1st, 1917 A Fine Chance for Santa Glaus Under the Folly Bough tQt who have loved each other In thfa fjat fau.rui year, Sinter or frlonj or brother, Come, a.i.lwr happy here Hnd let your hcjrtt grow fonder H memory fjbj shall ponder Old lov.i .tn.l Liter wooing Ucncith the holly tough, 60 ewect In their renewing Beneath the holly bough. Y who have nourished sadnesa In thla f;.st fading year, 6trangcd from oy and gladness. Come, gather fopclul here fy'o more let undent) Borrow pursue your night and twrow. Come. oln in our tmbr. cc lkncjib the holly bougu. rah he't, i' !.!.- h.I y.'ii" fires Ueneath the holly lough. -Cl aile:) Machay Chriitmat Sup.ratition. Tl I'nilt'il St:itos l-i tttiim-t Ioerty Htrli'kou lit an far ns lis colli', (am of niiperMitlons Is oeiireniotl, our curly seniors liiivliii; failod to Import many from Kiirope ami not nlt inn those of the luihi'iis. IK ooiiim' some of us don't like to see the now moon over llii! left shoiiicU'i' or unit a journey on Trill. iv Mud ilie like t ut few of u take even t!,e-e verj seriously. We must no t "the old e.)iiuirie" to get super Mltioiis Willi mi) vet. nine thrill In 11. ii l li. 10 aio tiinuher whiob have t tlo li'.i rlirl-tuiin. In north tientii ny. here the pra. Ikal )ei pooiir spiiininn heel still tit:. in hi tUe oo! M .rott, one must not apiu l:i:it j the niUil of Christ liiiii loM ho or she :iki lifter death (To the Aiui'ti.t'u render it may oeeur that this won i r.d.aHy he more dim turhltii: to oiiioi" t .in ii to i m'M'If.l If the splinii!'.; l ,'ioi e it 'tor sunset on Sutiirda;- mini e.it tV" work. Ot ittmatticie j MlK'tS't'KA!5 1'U'K l a " ft eo!d. I'f . u!ier t .'.tk .tn.l '( tvm.li ttbiott Nn.r a tloui'i t..SU on tola ft lit... and t uu t.n ' t'r fi,ois. t' I'U'.is Hint lm'i no.!d A. 4 .-I 'II tot t v , rl I I. v I..K W Irt .0 I t' ' . ::i;J"U".'U A" I vt 'i fis t:h is rwn leiiu-n. Win re ,.le (' i. t...r I " i.'V.r'.t! iu.H'' H I '.'0'' yv t. A W fU'i. .l .. l-i .v: I tit . n .lit t. . t An Auctioneer Has Promised to try to be with us by the I8th. I am goirrg entirely out of the Jewelry business on account of too much confinement andpoo- health. I will hereatter follow and push the electric light ing business, which I followed several years before I came to Oregon. n. J. Rowe 3 IHMMtllllMMII S MOTHER, FATHER,- $ GRANDPA and GRANDMA- E GIFTS TOR. ALL I Buy substantial gifts for Christmas. Something- that will last for years. A selection from our stock of Silverware, Cutlery, Cooking Utensils, Etc., wili give pleasure and value. Be sure to visit our store before Christmas. wr . V - , - r- SLOPER BROS, fi COCKLE HtMIHlHHMMttMItmMttMttt4H
