Independence monitor., January 19, 1917, Image 2

THE INDEPENDENCE MONITOR
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Published Weekly at Independence, Polk
Oregon, on Friday.
THINK IT
County j Twelve Hundred Are Now Employ
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ed In London.
I fin or sVaoina till rutin rp.i wos about tmc but tobacco)
WHEN you gentlemen get together at your
lodge meetings, somebody is pretty sure to
start the little pouch of W-B CUT up the line
for his brothers. It's conducive to brotherly feeling.
There is gratitude for the rich tobacco that makes a
little nibble go so far and for the touch of salt that brings
out the tobacco satisfaction without so much jaw work.
MUt ay WETMAN BRUTON COMPANY, 5 Uek. Soaare, Nw Terk City
I entered as Second Class Matter August 1,1912 at the Post Office at Inde-
uenflence, Polk County, Oregon, Under the Act of March 3, 1879.
THEIR WORK IS HEALTHFUL
CLYDE T. ECKER, Editor
NINA B. ECKER, Associate
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Independence, Oregon, Friday, January 19, 1917
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Rit yourself
in HERplac
fir. Han
Why not get a good
oil atove ao that dur
ing the hot weather
your wife or mother
oraister or daughter,
can prepare the
meala in a cool, com
fortabla kitchen?
There's no overheating
the kitchen with an up-to-date
oil cook stove. It's
just like cooking with city
gas. The burners con
centrate the heat at the
different cooking points.
NEW PERFECTION
OIL CQOMTOVE
No wood or coal or
ashes to lug. No
waiting for fires to
catchup. The long
blue chimneys do
away with all
smoke and smell.
In 1, 2, 3, and 4-burner
Bizet, with or without
OTent. Alao ctbinat
models with Fireleea
cooking oven.
STANDARDOIL
COMPANY
(Celilornle)
A pugilist, who to use his own words, "had his
head beat off" at a "smoker" in a small town,
unwittingly reveals some of the secrets of the
"profession". He says:
"I want to meet the guy in a real go
who beat my head on in one oi our lake
fights in a jake town because I monkeyed
with a skirt he had flinched from a cow
stable. I don't propose to have any guy
give me the double-cross even before
akes. You're lucky to get the price of
a place to sleep out of the receipts in a
jake town anymore for the game is about
petered as the jakes are getting their
eyes open. Used to be when a guy was
billed from Chicago and the other from
Baltimore, it got 'em. About the only
sport about it now is to fall for the janes
1 1 1 1 J i
wno lose meir regular jonnmes ana
chase us while we habitat at the water
tank."
Such a frank statement, coming from one of the
leading stars ot the "profession'', calls for legis
lative enactment. We ought to have a commis
sion to control the "janes" so that they cannot in
terfere with the regular "working" order, or in
it 1 i 1 . .i r .,
oiner woras, proniDit tnem trom throwing a
wrench into the pugilistic machine. The "jakes,"
as a rule, pay their money to be buncoed and
they are keenly disappointed when they don't get
what they pay for. ,
Banafit In Phytiqua and Complexion by
Opan Air Lifa All Under Cara of
Lady Doctor Their Average Earn
ings Run to About $10 a Week, Every
Class Represented.
Loudon. Twelve hundred girls are
employed as London bua conductors,
and more are wanted. Ail sorts of In
ducements are offered to them, includ
ing the assurance that the work la
beulthy and even patriotic.
The mouau'er of the London General
Omnibus company nays:
"We have had to contradict several
reports that the girls ou our busses are
nnable to stand the strain of the work
and that In consequence tbey are tear
ing our employ. f'
"Every week we put on about eighty
new conductresses and would increase
TOOK CHARGE FIRST OF YEAR.
W Sale By
CRAVEN & HUFF r?i
SLOPER BROS, tt COCKLE"
J. D. H1BBS & CO
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Suicide is a frightful step. But there
are those who cannot be prevented from
7f! saying that tiarry lhaw did the first
piece of useful work yesterday that he
ever undertook. Portland Journal.
But as Harry bungled the job and failed to pass
out as intended we will have to put him in the
limelight again and make the most of it. We,
for one, believe that the worst thing happened to
lhaw when he wras born with a silver spoon in
his mouth. Otherwise, he might have become
good citizen of the ordinary type or been hung
long ago.
Evidence of a startling nature has been revealed
regarding the "leak" down in Washington. A
desire to make a million stunted the patriotism of
several prominent citizens. The only way to re
move such temptations is to stamp out the system
that permits the operation of a roulette wheel in
Wall Street.
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OREQOIN POWER CO. Plion
OIUI. BUS COnDUCTOR,
the number If we could. We can deal
with huudrds more at once.
"Each pupil receives not only free
tuition for a period of two or three
weeks, but Is paid &0 cents a duy for
her time. After they have ouutifled
the average earnings run to about J10
a week.
"There is no abnormal sickness
among the girls. They like the work
and lienellt hi physique uml complexion
by the open air life. They are all un-di-r
the rare of a lady doctor.
"Since March we have Interviewed
1(1.00 applicants and are very careful
in our selection. Among our ranks al
most every class Is represented. Quite
10 per cent of the piris have never
worked before and take up the work
from purely patriotic motives. There
is uot the slightest rensou to suppose
that they will !e unable to stand the
work during the winter, and "stair
work' is not so trying as the public
Imagines."
GIRL, FOLLOWING FASHION,
CHARGED WITH INSANITY
THE INDEPENDENCE NATIONAL BANK
Established 1889
A Successful Business Career of Twenty Flvt Years
Among the 4 tried and true" Democracy of
Oregon, the five Democratic senators wont re
ceive a very hearty handshake. It is the candid
opinion that voting for Gus Moser for president
of the senate should have been left to those who
.wear the shackles.
INTEREST PAID ON
TIME DEPOSITS
OFFICERS AINP DlRliC ORS
H. Hirschberg, Pres. D. W. Sears, V. P.
R. R. DeArmond, Cashier
W. H. Walker, I. A. Allen, O. D. Butler
When the sergeant-at-arms stopped a preacher,
who was praying overtime in the senate, he acted
with the best of intentions. Being better ac
quainted with the senate than the preacher, he
'realized that praying would never do it any good.
Kansas City. "If all young
women followed the dictates of
fashion to the letter there
would be few out of the asy
lum," was the way a sunlty
commission put It when It or
dered the liberation of Mar
garet Wngnor, seventeen years
old. who was held on complaint
of her mother. The latter
thought the girl Insane because,
despite cold weather, she wore
decollete gowns and short skirts.
The daughter's defense was.
"All the other girls dress that
way."
Executed Campaign Coup Which Left
Man Gasping Elected Mayor, Four
Membere of Council, Recorder and
Treasurer All New Officials Are
Married Promiea Many Reforme.
Kansas City-Woman has come Into
her own In Umatilla, Ore., saya the
Kansas City Times. Umatilla now has
a woman mayor, four councllwomeu.
a woman recorder and a woman treas
urer. They went Into office Jan. 1.
The only thing left for the men Is the
office of town marshal, and he or she
la appointed by the mayor. The men
are hoping for the best.
A campaign coup which has left the
men gasping swept the women Into
office. It was not until 2 o'clock the
afternoon of election day that the men
realized the women had a ticket iu the
field. Down at the town hnll, where
the destinies of Umatilla are shaped,
the politicians laughed at the "rumor."
It was a joke. The Biuiles vanished
when the ballots were counted, and
the men still are wondering just how
It happened.
The women won't tell. Tbey won't
say whether It was "framed" at some
sewing circle, bridge club or church
social. Ail they will say Is:
"Now we're going to show the men
what a strictly business und econom
ical administration really is."
E. E. Starcher, who was running for
re-election to t'.ie mayor's cifiiee, was
defeated by his wife by twenty-eight
votes. All efforts to Interview Mrs.
Sturdier have fulled. However, after
a conference In the kitchen Mrs. Star
cher came to the door and gave out
this statement:
"Ag yet the women have nothing to
aay as to their future policy or as to
why they desired control, but from the
best information we are able to obtain
they were dissatisfied with the past
administration, claiming luellicleucy
and a general lack of business ability
so far as the running of the city was
concerned."
Umatilla Is a railroad town. All
morning election day the women re
mained at home, busy with t Beir daily
duties. Iu the afternoon they put ou
their bonnets and began a whirlwind
campaign. They met the trainmen In
the yards us they came In from their
various runs, buttonholed them and
carried them off to the polls. Despite
the fact that Mr. Starcher Is chief dis
patcher at that place, be did not swing
the labor vote.
All of the officers are married. Out
of a possible 200 votes 174 were cast.
The defeat wag decisive.
GETS LICENSE ON CREDIT.
Haa the Time, the Place, the Girl, but
No Money.
Macon, Ga. Simon Cox had the
nerve and the girl, but not the money
to get married on.
. Cox took hia troubles to Attorney Hu
bert F. Kuwls, who Btood him in good
stead In city court a few months back.
and Rawis agreed to stand good for the
marriage license.
Together Cox and the attorney went
to the ordinary's office, and after ex
plaining things Rawls got a license for
Cox and Miss Ella Hardy of East Ma
con. "I'll pay you in a few days," Cox told
the ordinary as he walked out of the
office with the license in bis hand.
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TRAIN ROBS HOLDUP MEN.
Mail Carrier Beaten by Thievee When
Hook Snatches Letter Bag.
New York. Alfred Lorenzo, a Ton
kera mail carrier, notified the police
that a pouch filled with registered mat
ter had been saved from two thieves
by the projecting hook on the mall car
of an express train used to take mall
bags on the fly. which grabbed it from
bis hands as the train flew past at
forty -five miles an hour.
Lorenzo was at the dppot rutting the
pouch In position on a small crane for
the train to take It Two thievea beat
the mail carrier on the head. He held
the pouch tightly far above bis head.
Presently the train came along, saved
! sitnatii n. and the robbers fled.
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We are for you
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I Stafrin's bill to raise the salary of the Polk
county district attorney was killed a few hours
after it was born. Similar treatment for
other bills is hoped for but not expected.
many
It can be stated authentically that a grave in the
cemetery is being dug for the cigarette. There
wont be as many friends at the funeral as of other.
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