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About Independence monitor. (Independence, Or.) 1912-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 5, 1917)
Announcement-. to 1 The Common Sense Foot - Arch Co.'s Demonstrator from Portland will be at Conkey & Walker's Store, Independence, Or., on the 1 1 th of January. You people who are bothered with aches or pains of the feet or tired feet and ankles are especially invited to call and consult this man. It is abso lutely free to all. Don't forget the place and date. Conkey & Walker BREVITIES The Civic Improvement League will meet Jan. 9. Dr. It. E. Duganne, dentist, National Dank Building. Mrs. O. J. Whiteaker returned to Milton, Wednesday to resume teaching school. Mrs. A. M. Canady of Port land in visiting at the home of her mother, Mrs. Jones. Dr. J. D. Orlder, dentist, sue cesaor to Dr. Allen, Cooper Building. TuWde Main 1021. Work shoes from $3.50 t $10 at Kreamer's. Roofing one dollar per roll at Goldman's store. John Patterson has joined the regular army and will enter th artillery service. Miss Thelma Toney of Mc Minnville was an Independence visitor Monday. Taul Bickly accepted a posi tion as traveling salesman for a Portland grocery house and com menced work Tuesday, Sale on boilers and tubs at Goldman's store. P. It. Alexander was an ar rival from Montana this week, lie has a good position in that state which seems to agree with hi in. A flood pair of reading glasses Tor $1.00 at O. A. Kreamer's. Something New-The West ern Junk Co. has established an ollica in Independence on C street and will pay the highest prices for metal, hides, rags and old papers. Sale on coal oil man-s store. cans at Gold- Gordon hats give satisfaction For sale by Kreamer. Most of the merchants have been busy the past week invoic ing. The damage case of W. D Nelson against the llorst com pany has been transferred to the federal court. Postmaster Wood was 21 years old last Saturday and in the evening a number of neighbors dropped in on him and helped him close the day with much joy. A dandy time was had. mere was much fun and ex citement at the basket social given by the Tuesday Evening Club last Friday evening, but me oasKeta am not sen ior me high prices expected. The high est amount paid was $5.50. Sale on bacon at Goldman's store. E. A. Larkins, a barber who used to shave the editor of the Monitor when a microscope has to be used to find the hairs, ar rived in Independence last night. He is traveling around over th' West to see what he can. Work shirts Kreamer's. GOc and 65 at Kev. W. S. Stewart, Miss Mary Howard and Miss Lola Morgan went to Amity on Sunday to at tend the annual rally of the Baptist Young People of the Willamette Valley. Kev. Stewart made the principal address in the afternoon. Percy Dickinson got up a little earlier than usual yesterday morning when he discovered that the house was afire. The blaze, whish started from some ashes left in a wooden box, burned thru a wall of the house bwfere being extinguished. Briquets-Not Biscuits They are entirely different. One is heat and the other eat. They each depend upon the other to the greatest degree. If you will use our coal briquets you can make the finest biscuits you ever tasted. We also have lump coal which is mirfhty nice to burn. If you are not using our coal or coal briquets, get the habit. It's black business but we treat you white. TheChas.K.Spauldinn LonnincCo. Apples 60c a box at Goldman's store. If you love your wife, buv her a home. Tripp soils them. umy nve prisoners were in eounty jail in 1916. There were 31 in 1915. Allen Clark has sold his Mon mouth grocery store to Wm Lightfoot of Portland. J. N. Jones has been appointed road supervisor of district nine, F. N. Stump in ten and John Underwood in sixteen. mere wa3 not much noise when the new year arrived in Independent. The fire bell jingled a little, the Presbyterian bell turned over a few times, the Methodist bell gave a couple of taps, but somebody pulled the Baptist bell with plenty of vim. A singing chorus will be or ganized at the high school build ing next ihursday evening which will be under the direc tion of Professor Finley, who is in charge of the music in the public schools. There is no ex pense for the singers except for the music. A chorus of 25 voices under the direction of D. V. Poling will give a concert at the Methodist church, Wednesday evening, Jan. 10. Admission 15c. Among the soloists will appear Sheriff John Orr, Mr. Steelquist of the Oregon Power Co., Miss Owing and Miss Morrison. MUST KEEP BOOKS The city council has passed an ordinance requiring second hand dealers to "keep books" on everything they buy, so that petty thieves will have more diiiiculty in disposing of the loot. FORTUNE IN ELOPEMENT. PLANS LONG FLIGH Miss Law Will Try to Soar Across Continent START FROM SAN FRANCISCO, Will Ak Aero Club of Amariea to Tlmo Her Eatimatee Trip Will Tak Thlr ty Hour' Flying Tim Sho Will B Sol Occupant of Machine, Which Can Carry Two Paaaanger. New York. from San Francisco to New l'ork by aeroplane thut Is the latest ambition of Miss Ruth Law, Khe announced she had accepted the of fer of the president of an aeroplaDe company to build for her a new type of machine especially for long distance fly lug- "I will make the flight under my own auspices. Just as I did the trip from Chicago." Miss Law Bald. "The Aero Club of America probably will time me, J 4 it f 4 t V: 5 Father Will Inherit Through Publicity That Waa Brought About. Sun Fnim ism, Cul. Through pub licity attending the wrecked romance of their eighteen year-old daughter, Hlgne, the flerstad family of Belling ham. Wash., It wiis Maid here, la about to ciune Into a fortune The gill recently became a tempo rary ward of the police through the arrest of I. M. I'eliniis, with whom she 1i ii, 1 eloped on his promise to marry her. After being- arrested on a bad check chaise Lclmiis was Identified as an escaped convict from a penitentiary In Texas, where be bail wrecked n bank. The girl was sent home. Attorney Sydney I'. Koberlson of this cltv told recently of having received letter from a linn of Chicago attorneys asking for the address of ITilgnr Cer- stad, the girl's father, s"tmht for years as heir to an estate In Sweden. The Chicago attorneys, the letter said, bad read of the girl's escapade In a Chicago paper. BOY PROVES BEST FARMER. Montclair Lad Maka Plot of 20 by 100 Feet Pay $36. Montcluir, X. J. Itohert Illckle, a Utecu-year old Montclair boy, raised vegetables worth on a plot Of ground - by l'Hi feet assigned bliu last spring by the Montclair community gardens committee. Ills waa the most productive and at tractive of the tlfty six gardens cultivated during the past season, Miperusor dcorge Uutteulock reported to President Dallas Flanna gau. Two tracts of loud were at the dls posal of the coiimiiinlty gardens com mittee, and bv cultivating the vacant lots the gardeners made productive ILVS'iO siiuare feet of land thut other wise would have yielded nothing The gardens furnished vegetables to 7 persons during the growing Reason. besides quantities of celery, carrots and cabbage for winter ivnsiimptlnu. Men Gobbles Pearl. I'oitaiol. Ore-Mrs. Let tie Ttapp of this tity lias a valued pet hen named Clarice. The other day as Mrs. Tral'P was feeding her fowls Clarice ieti;ed affe.'tlonately up to her shoulder, spied valuable ptarl in Mrs Trapp's ear rtng. gobbled It and leaped down as.-:tln gulping Mrs, TYupp screamed. Ilrsl with pnhi lt the pearl was n rem bed awny and then itb horror at her loss. She caught Clari.-e and Imprisoned her, but could not make up her mind to have the pet dispatched go that the jewel could be recovered 2.000,000 ORANGES TOO RIPE. Shipment ValuJ at $50,000 Ar D- troed In Week. New York. Two million orange. much too riio for consumption, were lestroyol in New York by a squad uu Icr the kuis rvision of Lucius P. Hrown, head of the bureau of f,x,!s and drugs of the department of health The oranges wore taken from stiip- tug and railroad teiuiinais. Tbev ag- grogati-d alMiit g'.".o tons and were m,st:y from Porto Kico and Jamaica. j The loss to the &hipr was about lott.OOU. t kJ '-Ft? ' 3 ktlsa LAW LANDI.VO AJTKH riJUIIT. but I will be in complete charge of all the arrangements. I estimate the trip will take thirty hours' flying time. "This now machine will curry ten hours' fuel supply, will be capable of a unstained speed of more than 1(X) miles an hour and will be practical for the business man who must make a hurried trip to Chicago or elsewhere and doesn't find It convenient to wait for a train." Miss Law, who established an Ameri can cross country record of COO miles by the recent trip from Chicago to New York, left for Buffalo to sujiervlse the construction of the machine. The first tryout will be given within a mouth, and the transcontinental Journey will follow soon afterward. The avatrlx believes that reliability and safety are more Important factors In popularizing air travel than speed. Consequently she will attempt to see that these elements are contained lu the new flier. It will carry two passen gers, but Miss Law will lie the sole oc cupant on the coast to coast trip. The plucky bird woman's last spectac ular apiK-arance was when she flew over the statue of Liberty on Dec. 2, when tho lighting system built by iop- ular subscriptions was dedicated. She rode In an Illuminated aeroplane which left a comet-like tail of tire behind It. VOTED ILLEGALLY 52 YEARS. Man Who Thought H Wh a Citixan Naturalized at Last. Denver. Jauies Lockart, a rancher near Ordway, Colo., was granted nat uralization; papers In the I'nitod States district court lure after exercising all the rights of citizenship for fifty-two years. I.ookhart. a native of Ireland, assumed that ho was a citizen be cause of naturaliriatlon papers believed to have Ih-ou issued to his father be fore Ilia son had reaolnnl his majority. lie has voted at every presidential elec tion since the civil war. of which he Is veteran; held a commission In the Cutted States army, served a a dele gate to the Ilepubllcan national con vention, served as sheriff of Gibson couuty, Inu., and has taken an active part lu politics for many years. The quest lou ef his citizenship arose when he HUM on government land In southern Colorado and It was learned that he was not native born and that no record was avai'ab'e to show that his father had become naturalized. 4 4 SALE TO CONTINUE Until Entire Jewelry Stock Is Sold. The balance of the stock to be sold for most anything we can get for it. I will continue In the repairing business fc uniu siock is disposed oi. H. J. Rowe TO Mra, LIE NEAR HUSBANDS HER FIVE IS LAST WISH Van Sickle Had Peraonally Erect ed Tombttonea to Them. FOR SALE Single comb Black Minorca cockerels, J3.00 to $10.00 each; from trar nested hens and sired by a 208 e co.k of tho Mc Comifll strain. SettinR tpgs in season. ("has. K. Fraiuer. Independence, Ore. FUne Main 6i22. La Crosse, Wis. To be buried In her own private cemetery lu a corner of her farm ne:ir the graves of her five husbands was the lust ish of Mrs. EumiH C Vim Sickle, who died re cently. Over the irruvos of her husbands are tombstones eii'Mi'd by the M'h'c's own t : i ii Is. One lias Ibis ver.-c inscribed upon It : Clintie. niy heart clings to ttice. love. In hci:v, r) I Ii "; e It) nuel ab-jvo. You v.;i3 evt-i k'n-1 line to me. So wns 1 lo y,,u i..uina ' Another rciils- "1'etcr, ditJ .1 mii li, Ian. aged nay-three --ai's By Kintnu ' The other tbrce stones me Minill aud the inscrl,l Ions brief tine icails "IJ. C. '.. another "1". I) and the third i;.' .VAR DIMES FOREIGN THIEVES TO AMERICA Detectives Expect Bh Haul In Jewelry at Some Society Event Tliis Winter. Washington.- If you hapiK-ti to own jewel coilcctiou and jour tasie runs toward wearing it iu public, you hud Letter hire a bolvi;iuird this wiuter. '!h I'nitcd Stales is overrun with Eu ropean crooks, some or tneiu tue i'.nuiliest thieves on the continent. I'tivdte defective mid police aijeucies in New iork, lioston, rniluilelphia, Vusliini;ton, Chicago and other big ceu- t, is are looking forward to one of the most active years in the last decade. s all on account of the European car, which lias made theft hardly worth w hile on a biir scale across the water. In Washington there's a detective a ..Tiicy which sjiecializes in ttie guaru- it!2 of quests and Jewelry at big social mctions. The business of this agency is not confined to events at the capital. jr private detectives of faultless man ner and speech are sent out on Johs as far west as ( hit-ago by this same 4ency. One man who has devoted years of xKM'lcnee untl bis organization of sleuths to the protection of social lead ers and their guests recently returned -otu a trip tlmt extended north to Bos- t in and west to the Mississippi. "It's going to be a big year for agen- ies like ours," he said. "W ittnn the past twelve months Euroie has been sending over some of the cleverest jew el thieves this country has ever seen, ami they have only couie here when it was clear that robbery as a profes sion was up agninst hard times abroad until .the war was over." NHERITANCE AFTER YEARS. A CONVICT'S WORD Lewis Returns to Sing Sing Ahead of Time. WENT TO WIFE'S FU'ifRAL Rover Never In On Place Long Enough to Apply For It. St. Louis. -(Jeorjre Welse. a former sailor and of an adudttcd roving dispo sition, recently received $:r;.,5 from the local free legal aid bureau, repre- nting bis share of the estate of an uncle who died In Adrian. Mich., eight ecu years ago. Weiso applied to the bureau several days ugo and asked Matthew Conck llng. assistant superintendent, to assist him lu getting tiis Inheritance. lie ex plained that he had never applied for It because siine the death of his uncle be had not beep long enough In oue place to take the time to apply for bis share. ('ouekllnjr wrote to Adrian and In re ply to his letter received one from E. A. Cole, present owner of the inroperty of Weise's uncle, Edward Rauer, contain In? the mouer due Weise and a quit claim deed, to the proierty for the lat ter' signature. DRIVES MILES FOR MAIL Phyaician Declarea That Prionr Would Have Com Back Even if No Guard Had Been Sent Along With Him Convicts Decide to Give New Wardan a Chanc. OssiniiiK, N. Y. As a graphic Illus tration of the determination of the prisoners in Sing Sing to give a square deal to William II. Moyer, the new warden, Abe Lewis, a convict who bad been granted permission by Governor Whitman to attend, with a guard, the funeral of his wife In Brooklyn, re turned to the prison twelve hours ahead of time. I When Iwls learned that Mr. Moyer was to beglu his work as warden he decided to come back Immediately to demonstrate to the new warden that the prisoners could be Bafely trusted with privileges. Lewis Is regarded as one of the most reliable prisoners. He has spent seven years In Sing Sing. With only twenty months more to serve the convict learned that his wife, who had stuck by him through every thing, had died suddenly. Their three young children were left without any one to care for them. The news Dearly prostrated the prisoner. lie Implored Calvin Derrick, the acting warden, to let him go to Brooklyn to see the face of bis wife once more and to arrange for the care of his children. Permission! from Governor Whitman was obtained by telegraph, and Lewis and a guard started for New York. In Brooklyn Iewls learned that Mr. Moy er surely was to assume the warden ship. After making hasty arrange ments Lewis hurried back to the pris on. The convict turned up there unex pectedly, although the governor had granted him permission to stay over night. "He would have come bac(f Just the same even If Ho guard bad Tiecu sent along with him." commented I'r. Bar ry, the prison physiclun. The convicts are frankly relieved now that the "permanent'' warden has taken charge of the prison. Life for them within the last year has Just been oue warden after another. With every succession to oflice came changes In discipline, modification of privileges and doubt and mistrust on the part of the prisoners. "I'm glnd he's come at last," said one of the leaders of the prisoners. "We've been on tenterhooks every time a new man came In. and we've been on the auxious seat every time a man went out. Now we can settle down to a regular life. "We're going to give the new warden a chance to show bow he stands. Ilea promised to meet us halfway, and we'll do our share. Nobody Is going to start anything iuside until he has a ebuuee to make good his word." Joseph A Finley Vocal Teacher Thursdays from 4-8:10 p.m. Can take only five pupils Write 600 Koyal Portland. Bldg., 6 per cent 605 Main street Karm Lonr.s on first class fdrm, H. E Morton, Lallat. Farmer Will Not Allow Rural Carrier to Bring It Smith Center. Kan. Frank Nichols lives on route No. 5 out of thia city. For years Nichols has stubbornly re fused to have his mail come by carrier, although a rvmte runs rlr-ht by his door. Kaib Saturday he makes the eleven mile drive from hoiue and gets his mall out of the i-,,s!oihVe hire. lie in-ists tlit- carrier system is au uuue-'essary exivuxj to the government and that it i putties fa se and lujurl- Ious ii"ti' us Into the rising generations ou th farms. Drink Pugh's I nnmnhorru LUgailUDJ. Juice Sold Everywhere
