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ALL WML OREGOW CiSSIMERE CLOTHES FOR WEI 0 flOTS i Jomo Shoes and High-Top Shoes o I It tha work Ing man's I r I and. Katpa tha faat drynd warm. Oak tan ioIm, full itoek uppers, will flva doubla arvlea af any ordin ary ihoa of Its looks. It will pay you to aaa thorn V rA i ? Ai " ' A t npz y" I It. ' Conkey & Walker CONQUEROR HATS BUTTERICK PATTERNS! BREVITIES If you love your wife, buy her a home. Tripp Balls them. 25c coffee for 20c al Goldman's store. W. H. PatUn plans to move te Portland soon. Mrs. M. Merwin was visiting in Portland this week. Ask to see the Washington Dry Sock Shoe at K reamer's. Mrs. Maurice Butler visited relatives in Portland last week. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ed Rex in a lalem hospital. buy all produce, cash or Goldman's store. We trade. J. T. James kas Bold his con fectionery store at Suver to Mrs. Laura Herd. Dr. R E. Duganne, dentist, National Dank Building. A son was born last Wednes day to Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Fredrickson of Buena Vista. Miss Edith West was a guest ef Independence friends last week-end. E, M. O'Brien, of the Elliott O'Brien Co., was in Independ ence Sunday and Monday. If you want a good work shoe ask toe No. 954 aid 950 Red Wing shoe at Kreamer's. II. Hirschberg and C. W. Irvine went to The Dalles Wednesday on business matters. Don't fail to hear Geo. V. Mc Clure at the Baptist thurch next Thursday night Special sale on hard wheat flour Saturday and all next week at Goldman's store. W. B. Barnett expects to stage his play at an early date. C. McBeth is building- an ud dition to hia residence. Dr. J. 13. Grlder, dentist, sue lessor to Dr. Allen, Cooper Building, Phone Main 1021. Special sale on bacon Saturday and all next week at Goldman's store. H. Hirschberg has been elected a member of the county fair board. A series or special services will be begun at the Methodist church Sunday night. A flood pair of reading glasses 'or $1.00 at O. A. Kreamers. A daughter was born to Mr, and Mrs. Pearl Cooper in Salem hospital last Friday. About 50 Independence people attended "Intolerance" in Salem the first of the week. Miss Eva Robertian is here from Seattle the guest of her sister, Mrs. W. II. Craven. Mrs. Tkeodore Cooper has gone to the eastern part of the state where she will remain for some time. Word has reached Independ ence that Mrs. Nat Wither, who is In a Portland hospital, is doing splendidly. The Civic Improvement League holds its next regular meeting on Jan. 23. of the Independ Bank have been J. H. Feagles expects to leave soon for the eastern part of the state where he hopes to make his fortune. The Monitor congratulates Mr. Charles Baseue upon his 72nd birthday and is pleased to say that he looks good for many more years. A marriage license was issued in Vancouver yesterday to Thom as Hartman, 18, and Miss Teresa McNelis, 18, both of Independ ence. All officers ence National re-elected. If you are going to have a wedding or swell dinner, don't forget to complete the menu with Pugh's Loganberry Juice. Sold everywhere. 22tf Monday night, the roof of the building occupied by George Alasaari, tailor, caught fire but was put out with a pail of water. H. Sauer, who returned about ten days ago from a visit with relatives in Washington, was taken with diphtheria the first of the week. Music lovers and those ho have heard J. Hartridge Whipp before will be- enticed to Mon mouth this evening for their saengerfest. Ray Grounds has gone to Berkeley, Cal., where he will take the law course at the Cali fornia university. Ray has the ability to become a great lawyer. Something New-The West ern Junk Co. has established an office in Independence on (5 street and will pay the highest prices for metal, hides, rags and old papers. ine city ceuncil has its eye upon the partlv burned structure on the corner of Third and C streets and when the insurance is adjusted, will insist upon its removal. Dallas Observer: Talk of a combined Dallas and Independ ence - chorus for the Easter Cantata which Mr. Poling will put on Is rife. The cantata chosen will demand more singers and the two towns may unite and sing in both places. REBUILD A VILLAGE Erect GrouD of Houses In War Swept Section. AMERICANS HELP IN WORK. A Keen Kutter razor will be given away by Craven & Huff to the person who guesses the nearest to the time that an eight day clock will stop which will be started at nine o'clock Saturday morning. The clock will be left in their south window. It costs you nothing to call at their store and register your guess. A number availed themselves of the invitation to visit the public schools Saturday and eat) soup. An electric cooker has been added to the equipment and as the "juice" is furnished free by the Ort gon '.'ower Co., he cocking expense has been reduced. Many of thosn who visited the kitchen Saturday lonated supplies of all kinds. Cornerstone of First Building In Vitrl- mont. Franc. Laid by Ambaeeadar Sharp Mra. Croekar la Donor Man Not Fitted For Military Servica Do ing Cenatruction Work. Vltrimont, France. This village, which, like Its neighbor, Gerbeviller, was destroyed early In the war, will bare the honor of being the first vil lage reconstructed In France, and this la due to American enterprise. The rebuilding Is already under way, the cornerstone of the first group of bouses Laving been laid by the Amer ican ambassador, William Gravel 8barp. Mrs. William H. Crocker of San Francisco, who has furnished the 1 Mm ' r "AFineToottiComb" LECTURE BY Geo. V. G9c dure AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH Thursday Evng. Jan. 25 "Entertaining and instructive." D. D. Leech, pastor M. E. Church, Corvallis. "Clear and strong." J. S. Van Winkle, Chairman Albany Chautauqua Board. "It appeals strongly to every father and mother." L. L. Gooding, Supt. of Schools, Harrisburg. "A bold challange to modern conceit."-0. V. White, Supt. of Schools, Scio. Admission, 25c "BILL" FOUND SOME VERY SMART MICE (Continued from page 1) WIIXUU GRAVES SHARP. In SLAB WOOD We are now booking orders for slab wood. Place your order with us now, we will de liver In a few days. No advance In the price of slab wood. THE Clias.K.SpauldingLoggingCo. AU WOOD AND COAL. IS CASH HER 105TH BIRTHDAY FEAST. Mrs. Bennett Entartains Three Gener- ationt For tha Holidays. New York -Mrs. Alice Hennett, who t'li'lu'iitiHl tin- hundred ami flftu aunl- ersury of Iht lilrtli In her home In IrooU.vn recently was somewhat tired. lit not so much tlmi Klie did not eels rule Christinas She. curried out her dully routine of Ife and then hud dinner ivlth her son md daughter, sevou grandchildren and nve great-grandchildren. AU except her daughter live nut uf lon u and were tier guests In Brooklyn over the noll- laya. County Jail Empty. Jefferson City. Mo.--There Is not a .irisouer iu the Cole jail. The last pris mer was discharged recently. Accord :iig to the records of the jail, thia Is ihe Hrst time In seventy live years that t 1ms been without an oecuant. As a rule thtii are fnnu the to tweuty-tive prisoners in the J;-II. and at tM time uf year it usually In tilled. funds for reconstruction, was unable to be present, but was represented by Miss Daisy Tolk of Ban Francisco, who Is superintending the work. Old men and youths unfit for mili tary service are being employed on the building operations. Miss Polk's task not without difficulties such as often confront American building con tractors. She has bad her first Btrike In the last week, that of masons, who sought higher wages, but she succeed ed In settling the matter. - The cornerstone laying was an event Vltrimont Grouped about the ruins and the foundation of the first structure were the Inhabitants and sol diers on leave of absence. Leon Pobe, mayor of Vltrimont, and M. Mlrman of Nancy, prefect of the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, spoke, thanking the American people through the ambassador for their gen erous Initiative toward the rebuilding of the ruined places of France, Replying, Ambassador Sharp said be wss gratified especially that in addi tion to providing substantial homes for the people of the village, all the money for the construction of the buildings will remain among the people who so orely need It NEW BELL FOR COLUMBIA. The leads. Monitor alva)s Notice to the Customers ot the Ctowieal Dairy Becaase of the extreme hlfth price of feed stuffs, I am compelled to rals tha price of milk. Pr cci will be as i'ollowi : ne pint daily per mo. - $1.25 On quart dally per mo. . 1.50 Two quarts dally per mo. 4.3Q rhrae quarts dally pr mo. 6.00 Cream prices will remain the same. grant Mclaughlin. Old Leoomotlva Clanger to Paaa at 1918 Commencement, New York. Columbia students, who bare hurried to chapel for two years upon the clanging of an old locomotive bell, will hare a university bell at the 1913 commencement for the first tune since the old Columbia college build ings at Madison avenue and Forty ninth street were deserted twenty years ago. The new hell Is to be the class gift of "93 on the occasion of Its twenty-fifth anniversary,. The new bell will weigh In the neigh borhood of 2,000 pounds and will be mounted over the portico of St. Taul's chapel It will arike the hours, and In addition will be used as the chapel bell. mice came up to the new trap and when they found out thev couldn t read the words, disarmearerl i j- j . Several days afterwards, Bill went to his diction ary to look up a word and those confounded mice had chewed up the most of the book looking- for the German words printed on the trap. All this happened in Independence several years ago be fore the state went "dry". BOY sd; V-llS CLO IS MATCEiJATICAL PRODIGY 8ameon Haa Modern Counterpart. New York. Samson, who carried off the gates of Gaza, has a modern coun terpart In New York. Massive bronze valves from beneath the surface of Cooper square, each weighing 500 IKiunds, have leeu carried off by some strong man. Since they are of no value for any purpose except water gates there Is a mystery problem worrying the detective bureau. - HARVARD MEN SMOKE LESS AND READ LESS Cambridge, Mass. A decline la the minor vices of Harvard men t Is indicated by the annual fiirures by the Harvard I'nion. .In the last vear Harvard students have smoked fewer cigarettes and cl- gars and have played billiard and pool less than they did a year aaro. Curiously enough, the p reading habits of Harvard men sluniHl last year. In li13 83 was iet,t for reading mat- ter; In 1910. It.'i'i Child With Unusual Mental Pow ers Discovered In Findlay (0.) School. Findlay. (). A child wonder, with un usual mentnl powers, has been discov ered In the first grade West State street school by Miss Helen GaskllL the teacher. lie Is Master Hoy Fork, aged six, son of F. L. Fork, well driller, resid ing on Franklin avenue. While bright la all his school work, the youngster la a prodigy In mathematics. He knows the calendar by heart and. although given the motit severe ques tion with regard to days and dates. never makes a mistake. If you tell him your age he can tell in second the year you were born, and if you give him the dale of your birthday and ask him what duy of the week it comes on lie replies at once, correctly and without fail. Ills ability ennnot be attributed to mental telepathy, for In many In stances be tells the day of dktes In last year's calendar, which, when you look them up, you find are right Although not customary to teach children the months and abbreviations of mouths, Roy had tbem mastered when be went to kindergarten, and the remarkable feature Is that he was never taught. Lie Is also lightning fust In problems which deal with addition and subtrac tion of the caleudnr. unj cutih ques tions are easily solved. LEPERS IN REVOLT. lug they v.o;:I,J l e removed oiily Ij.v vio lence the health olliccrs lii siliited. hav. ing heard rumors lh:it the 174 lepers hud arms and would use them. After a promise Inid lieeu given that they would be removed to a new hospi tal now being built as soon as It Is fin. Ished the lepers entered the ambulances prepared for them, niauy of them weep ing as they went. There is a reiwrt that more (han twenty of tbem escaped from San I.azaro during the parley. INCORPORATE SOCIETY TO GUARD RICH ESTATES Vincent Aitor, and others I Frederick Vandarbilt i tha Organization. j They Haa- Rafused to Leave Havana pital For Anothar Home. Havana. The lepers of San Iizaro hospital revolted when the officers of their Institution tried to transfer them to Marlel, and It m several hours be fore they agreed to leave. When, the imiK'.lcs raise) aflas.saj- Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Warren Pelnno of Barrytown, Colonel Archibald liog ers of Ilyde Turk. Tracy Dows of Rhlnobeck, nennini Livingston of Grepudale and Thomas Hunt of Cler mont, as directors, Died n certificate of the Incorporation of the Upper Hudson Protective society. The purpose of the society Is to guard country estates of wealthy New York men against burglars. Among the leaders In the society are Vincent Astor, Robert P. Huntington, Freder ick VanderMlt. William B. Dlusmore and John 1. Kuosevelt. Arrangements have been made to en gage detectives and watchmen. The formation of the society Is the result of the burglaries Inst spring, which cul minated In the killing of a burglar on Astor's estate by detectives Most of the wealthy residents of the county have placed ibeir silverware In safe deposit vaults and are using plate. The society will "co-oj einle with lo cal, county and stule oiikiuls" to en force law and of.er rewards for the ar. rest of criminals. Butter Wraps $1.00 per 100 Monitor Office SALE TO CONTINUE f Until Entire Jewelry Stock Is Sold, I The balance of the stock to be sold for most anything we can get for it. I will continue la the repairing business until stock is disposed of. 1 I WW
