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Published Weekly at Independence, Polk County
Oregon, on Friday.
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pendence, Polk County, Oregon, Under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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appearance th:it the little chew permits; the easing up
on to much grinding and spitting; l ist and not least, the
economy but it's the tobauo satisfaction that turns the
trick every time.
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Independence, Oregon, Friday, December 29, 1916
The circulation of most of the Oregon news
papers has been decreasing for the past three
months due to the high cost of print paper which
necessitates a more rigid policy relative to the
payment of subscriptions. If the publisherisdoubt
ful of a subscriber's willingness to pay, promptly
I the name is taken from the books. No publisher
can atlord to take chances when the margin of
profit has been removed as it has been. For
tunately the Monitor shows no decrease in
circulation. Many new readers are enrolling
each month and they take the places of those we
reluctantly are forced to dismiss. While our
pruning is not yet completed, we have every
reason to believe that in the end, the Monitor will
nave more subscribers than when it started to!
sever relations with a body of readers who
evidently are not disposed to pay for the service
given them.
Firearms kill more people than all the opium,
morphine and alcohol ever manufactured. We
restrict or prohibit the use of the drugs but almost
anyone can buy a gun and kill somebody with it.
Fellows like Martin II. McCall, delirious from
imagined wrongs for three 3 ears, are not only
permitted to run at large, but upon tender of the
price, a weapon is placed in their hands as an in
ductive to carry into execution the bloody climax
of a brooding, diseased mind. But few persons
have any needful use lor a gun. Their sale to
Tom, Dick and Harry should be prohibited.
For your generous patronage
of the past year we thank you
and trust that the same pleas
ant relations will continue
in 1917.
Calbreath 3 Jones
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DIGS CISTERN. FINDS GRAVE.
Great Indian Burial Ground Diacovarad
In South Dakota.
Mitchell, S. U.-C. I Sayles, while
digging a cistern on his farm one mile
n rth of town, unearthed the skeleton
of ah Indiiin who bntl been hurled In
an unusual winner.
A grave had Le--n dux to a depth of
Tom Kav is out with the statement that
the legislature will have to ignore
the law, voted in hy the people, which limits the
,,v .-. ,1 U...-., . ..1 . a. ' I seven feet and the remains placed In a
state expenditutes to only a six per cent increase. 8i,ie ,,ociet m sitting posture. su,
rerhaps it some one else, rather than Tom, was
doing the book keeping, the law w ould not have
to be ignored and the sovereign will of the people
repudiated. N
that
1 he word is brought back from the East
the politicians of both parties are prophecying
that William Jennings Bryan and Theodore
Roosvelt will lead their respective hosts in the
gret battle of 1020. If so, it will be Mr. Bryan's
best chance to win the presidency.
This has been a joyful Christmas in America,
fhe poverty of the few years past has been
greatly decreased. There was a less number of
needy ones for charitable organizations to provide
lor. 1 here is more work and more working.
Hotter times, better conditions and a better feel
ing is apparent everywhere.
posed ly as a protection against despoil
ers. Much Iniportiim e is attached to tho
discovery as the probable revelation
of a hitherto unknown secret of Indian
bu rial.
The skeleton Is only one of many
that have been uncovered among the
mounds of the famous Indian burying
ground which extend. for a mile and a
half along the bluffs of Firesteel
creek, but other skeletons are seldom
more than two feet below I he surface.
SIX FEET GRUB TONNAGE.
Sixte.n Assorted Sandwich Capacity
Wins Trophy For Al Luff.
Trenton. N. J. -By gosh, It's no won
der Al Luff won that diamond studJed
Indian's head badge at the Red Men's
banquet a few nights ago, say all the
folk over to IMwardsville, N. J., for be
ing the champion eater, when you fig
ure what Al pot away with, which was.
viz:
Seven linin sandwiches
Three Swiss cheese sandwiches.
Six liiuliurgcr cheese sandwiches
Three clips of coffee.
Three big glasses of lemonade.
Quite a passel of the hoys started hi
the eating match, but Al kept a-going
after they all were plumb tilled up, be
ing six feet, as he Is. and 1! pounds
and twenty live years old and a farm
hand who requires unite a bit of fill
lug up.
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Many suggest that instead of the state appro-
jpriating a large sum of money for the purpose of
: attracting tourists to Oregon that the hotels, who
:get most of the tourist's money after he gets here,
!do the inviting themselves at their own expense.
We are for you
Try Independence First
President Wilson has the well wishes of all
patriotic American citizens in any effort he may
make to stop the Furopean war and they are
not particular either whether it is according to
lloyle or not.
A number of countv officials met in Portland
recently and passed several resolutions favorable
10 economy, out nobody advocated reducing his
own salary.
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EUU children, the lust picture you male was that of thw animal tailed
man s most faithful friend, the horse. It Is true that today the aut-mo-
;0ie i doin niuch of me work that the horse nmi AA r.ir mn it-.it
ohlidren, ou ii h ie a tine horae. don't you? Many rich people who own aa
totnolii , s a!s. K-ep their hordes to go riding. Now, if you let your pencil run
agsiin frni 1 to J 3. 4 etc.. you'll find that you'll have a plotu;e of one of the
queerest hnkaig animals tn the world.