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k I ILL WOOL CREGOM CUSIMEBEJlfllKEX OH KEMJMD BOTS Jomo Shoes and I i frvlftht wort.. i warm, wan Hi an solar full stock uppers, will glvt double rvlce of any ordin ary shoe ol Its looks. It will pay you to see them V ' ' ' Z Pi Jx''ix Vf ' - v' A p - " y . ft' f " ,S,o.Ci. Conkey & Walker I COKQUERORllTS BUTIEWCK PATTERNS ill J BREVITIES If you love your wife, buy her a home. Tripp sella them. Mrs. E. A. Morgan is visiting in Oregon City. W. B. Kanne was here from Comllis Monday. Goldman buys wood or pro duce for cash or trade. Miss Genevieve Cooper was home from Monroe last week. Mrs. Sara Young spent last week end with Portland friends. A flood pair of reading glasses for $1.00 at O. A. Kreamer's. Dr. J. D. Grlder, dentist, suc cessor to Dr. Allen, Cooper Building. Phone Main 1021. Mrs. B. Josslyn from New York is the guest of Mrs. Maurice Butler. Mrs. VVm. Haney of Portland was a recent guest at the I. Claggett home. New Spring Ginghams have just been received at Elliott O'Brien's. Magnificent display. There is good crop at Bur nett's greenhouse this year and Bill expects to have his wares on the market soon. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hubbard will move out to the ranch next week. Joe's pals hope that he will be able to find time to loaf in town five or six days a week. USC buys a No. C17 Plow Shoe with 8 inch top, good sole and well made; other grades $3.65, $3.75 and $1.50, regular top but a good grade of plow shoes, at 0. A. Kreamer's. B. F. Swope, Lawyer Cooper BldfJ. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Thomas were Portland visitors this week Dr. It. E. Duganne. dentist, National Dank Building. Toilet paper 4c per roll at Goldman's store. Roy Whiteaker has returned to Independence after ppending a couple of months in Portland Mrs. Piper and son of Salt Lake City are guests of her sister, Mrs. W. Brown. If you are going to have wedding or a swell dinner, don' forget to complete the menu with Pugh's Loganberry Juice. Sold everywhere. 22tf Miss Anna Addison of White Salmon. Wash., is at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs Wm. Addison. Attorney VV. ,E. Critchlow of Portland was in Independence Sunday looking after witnesses in the McCall case. All furs, including scarfs, muff and fur sets at exactly Half Price at Elliott-O'Brien's. II. Lalliberte will raise no hops this year. He will plant half his acreage to logans and the other half to beets. Miss Florence Burton went to Dallas yesterday to assist her sister, Mrs. A. B. Robinson, who entertained last night. Hard wheat flour $2.25 sack at Goldman's store. per 400 normal students and Mon mouth residents visited the legislature Wednesday, going by special train. workingmen can save money by buying their work shoes from O. A. Kreamer. W. E. Craven. W. A. Slopei and C. 0. Sioper attended tne hardware dealer's convention in Portland this week. 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 Chas.K.SpauldingLoggingCo. ALL WOOD AND COAL IS CASH Apples 50c a box at Goldman's store. Mrs. J. W. Richardson was an over Sunday visitor at Corvallis. Mrs. Jessie Preston of Portland is the guest of her sister, Mrs. J. McLeod. F. G. Hewett has purchased the residence on C street known as the Knox home. Barred Plymouth Rock eggs for sale. M. Merwin. 24tf There will be a basket social at the Valley View school house . Saturday nifcht. According to this morning a Oregonian, the hep market is getting stronger. U t,. burroughs has gone to South Dakota, being called there by the death of a sister. L. King departed this week for Chicago where he expects to stay for about three weeks. Mrs. Clyde Hill and children went to Riddle Wednesday for a visit with Mrs. Hill's parents Special-25c coffee now 20c at Goldman's store. vn account or tne hign price of feed, Grant McLaughlin has buen obliged to raise the price of milk. Mrs. W. Brown returned home last Friday from San Bernardino, Cal., where she has been visiting her parents. The stockholders of the Lucki amute Rural Telephone Co. hold their annual meeting in Mon mouth Feb. 19. I. J. rryer came down town luesaay lor the hrst time this year. He has been laid up a month with sickntss. me county road master is advertising for bids in this Monitor for the operation of the ferry at Independence. I his item appears quite fre nuenuy in -me uaiias papers: "Neville Eldridge, of Independ ence, was a Dallas caller Sun day." Attorney n. jjenlinger re turned to his home in Portland this week after spending a few days in Independence on legal business. Independence's Good Samar atin, the Civic Improvement League, is becoming embarassed financially, a condition that all good citizens Will not permit to exist very long. 1 he Presbyterian Ladies Needlecraft will give a benefit at the Isis Theatre on Friday even ing, Feb. 2. Splendid musical program by best local talent, in addition to the usual pictures. the tight day slock which Craven & Huff wound up and started at ni. e o'clotk last Satur day morning, - is still running, Tit . . tne party guessing the neaiest to the time it will stop, gets a heen Kutter razor. Mr. and Mrs. C E. Frazier were passengers to Portland yesterdav. Mrs. Frazier will go to Hood River where she will REFUSES FORTUNE LEFT BY HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW Former Diplomat Prefer That Money Should Co to Hi. Wife New Tork. Charles H. Sberrlll, mjn Inter to Argentina when Mr. Taft wag president and organizer of tlie great preparedness parade here, has refused to accept $ 100,000 bequeathed to him by Ms mother-in-law, Mrs. Sarah Bar ker GIbbs, who died last May, leaving 54,720 to Mrs. Sherrill. His dec Una. Hon became known when announce ment was made from the state comp troller's office that an official appraisal bad placed the net estate at $883,940. Mr. Sherrill told a reporter over the telephone from bis home In Slity-flfth street that while he wag deeply moved by the bequest he preferred that It should go to the residuary estate and become part of his wife's share. The former diplomat seemed to feel that It wag a thing; of no consequence to look $100,000 In the face or faces and then turn a cold shoulder. "it really wouldnt Interest any- body," be said of his refusal. "I don't like to discuss It; It's rather too per sonal for discussion. I simply felt that I'd rather have the sum go Into the residuary estate and revert to Mrs. SuerrilV' Nov; life Have Got You The Monitor has 66 "yellow back" novels and yon can have as many ai yon can carry away at ALL TRANSIT LINES IN NEW YORK GREATLY TAXED lii I THE AUTHORS ARE Bertha M. Clay 13, Alex ander Dumas 9, Mary Jane Holmes 7, Mra. D. E. South worth 6, Charles Garvice 3, The Duchess 3, May Agnes Fleming 3," W. Heimburg I, A.. Conan Doyle I, M. E. Braddon 2, Florence Warden 2, Marcus Clarke, J. M. Barrie, Max Pmbrton, Octove Feuillet, Gtorg Oh net, Robert Buchanan, H. Rider Hatgard, Effi A. Rowland, L." Tolstoi, Jane Austen, Capt. Marryat, Dora Delmar and Hall Cain. 2!c Each City Traffic Increasing at Rate of More Than 100,000,000 Annually. I : Notice to the Customers of f LOST From the Wisrrich ranch. Jan 14, Fox terrier dog; has black ! tne 0 lOVef M Do N head, white face, black spot on back, bob-tail, duo-claws on hind New York.-in November the subway feet; is rather lae for a terrier- irrled an average of 1,109,623 passen- . ... ' oiianeis iu luc name ui rritz; reward given for his return to W. Ball. Wierich. carnea an average or l,iuy,e3 passen gers a day and the "L" 1,014,883, a to tal of 2,214.500, according to a state ment Issued by the Interborough Rapid Transit company. Public Service Commissioner Whit ney estimates that city trnfflc Is in creasing at the rate of more than 100,000,000 annually. More than 323 miles additional of subway and ele vated lines are being built. In 1872 a total of 138,722,190 passen gers were carried, or 147 rides during the year for each person In the city. In 1882, the first year of the "L," 250,- 510,S32 passengers were carried, or 215 rides for each person In the city. In 1000, the first year of the subway, 830,001,200 were carried, or 298 rides for each person. Under the caption of "Struggling to Keep Up With New York" the Inter borough officials say: "Each year the problem. of handling the millions of New Tork traffic grows increasingly difficult The struggle is hard, not to anticipate the city's fu ture needs, but merely to keep up with the present. Extensions of transit fa cilities, no matter how rapid, do sot seem able to keep pace with crowds and congestion. "In September the subway carried a dnlly average of 1,000,000 passengers. By November this average was in creased to 1.100,000 daily. "All this traffic, too, it should be re membered, was on lines designed orig inally to care for 400,000 passengers dally. Always It is the same story. No matter how fast rapid transit lines are built in New York city, the transporta tlon needs of the population seem to keep ahead of them." WORK WANTED Wanted on farm, hop or berry yards, work for hasband and wife. Wife prefers cookinjr. Have two daughters, 16 and 12 years old. Nick Meithof, Box 85, Merlin, Oregon. FOR SALE CHEAP A good organ. Mrs. Hattie Henkle. 25-tf Because of the extreme high price of feed stuffs, I am compelled to raise the price of milk. Prices will be as I follows: One pint dally per mo. $1.25 One quart daily per mo. 2.50 Two quarts dally per mo. - 4.5Q Three quarts dally per mo. 6.00 Cream prices will remain the tame. grant Mclaughlin. FINAL The leads. Monitor always COLONEL HAS A FIRE TRUCK. Ntw Bay's LEFT FORTUNE TO SERVANT. Fight the visit her parents for several 1, J f- r-. ... . weeiva anu i,. wi 1 sfav in ortland for two or three days. Dallas Observer: Judge Kirk- patrick found Lester Sawyers of ndependence to be'laiy and not in love with school rather than vinous and incorrigible, as his mother stated in her complaint The lad was given a lecture and sent home instead of to the re form school. He promised bet ter behavior. Relatives of Dtd Woman Bequait. Carlyle, 111. - Kate Mulcahy, gray haired and rheumatic, is heir to an es tate between $100,000 and $200,000, left by her mistress, Sd.-s. John MeCabe, but relatives of the dead woman are going to try to break the will. Kate served Mis. McCabe forty -one years. Mrs. MclaKes husband was a prosperous physician when Kate came to work for them He died, leaving lit tle property. Kato left for a time, but Mrs. McCubo's urgent pleas caused her to return at a nuancial sacrifice. Mrs. McCabe said Kate should be the olo belr to the mistress' property If Kato would stick by ber till death. Then oil was struck on the McCabe property, making Mrs. McCabe the richest woman In Clinton county. She kept ber promise to Kate Just tbesame. Apparatus Allays Oyster Fsar of Incendiaries. ' Oyster Bay. N Y. Fear of Incen diarism which has filled the residents of this section for the lust few months resulted In the putting into service by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and other wealthy men of a modern Are truck The machine Is guaranteed to make the steep run up Sa.'amore Hill In rec ord time, and the new apparatus gives Oyster I5ay the best Are protection on Long Island outside of Itrooklyn. There have been ninny disastrous fires on the estates of residents of the north shore recently. Among those who Joined Colonel Roosevelt In con trlbutfng toward the new fire truck were V. R. Coe, C. K. G Billings, J Stuart Rlackton, Colgate Hoyt anil Mortimer I.. Schiff. And Still Eggs Are High. Charleston, ,AV. Va. Klossle Is the name of a Rhode Island Red hen owned by L. P. White, a farmer of Birch Run. Kanawha county. She has laid an eps every day for two months, each or which is much larger than the ordinary egg. The last mid luiu'est or these mpflsiTei e'ght "'"I "' ln If Incho te long way around and seven Indies in the other largest clrcmiifcii iice. Flos sie Is less than one year cM Dog Start In Motion Pictures. Carlisle, Pa. Bill, bank messenger bulldog and pet of Carlisle, will go down In pictorial history to future gen erations. He Is starred In a motion picture drama performing his dally task of carrying the hotel deiwelt to the bank and returning with the pass book. Among other popular tricks that have been filmed is that of smoking a pipe. Fifty-cent Offer For $11,0C0 Gimi. New York. An offer of W cents for $11,000 worth of Brazilian mnnioucis was the best AYiish'.ngton force could obtain. He admitted stealing them from the steamer Vasari last week, the New York police say. 1 lis rusted with .failure to find a buyer, he left the gems in a laundry and wrote the com pany. He is held in $..Oi0 bail. NOTTCK Or HEARING OF ACCOUNT. In the matter of the estate of Martha A. Hill, deceased. Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned executor has filed his final account in the paid estate; that Mon day, March Bth, 1917, at the hour of 10 o'clock in the forenoon, has been set as the time, and the County Court room at the Court House in Dallas, Oregon, as the place, for the hearing of the said final account. All persons having any objections to the said final account or to the settlement thereof are notified to present the same for hearing at the said time and place. This notice ia published for four successive weeks by order of the County Judge of Polk County, Sta of Oregon. First publication Jan. 26. Last publication Feb. 23. Verd Hill, Executor. H. Denlinger, Attorney. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. Sealed bids addressed to the County Clerk of Polk County and endorsed "Bids for Operating Independence Ferry" will be received and opened by the County Court of Polk County, at Court House, Dallas, until 10 o'clock a. ai. Thursday, Feb. 8, 1917. All bids must give the pries both in figures and writing and must be signed by the bidder with his address. Each bid must be accompanied by a certified check equal to 5 per cent of the annual bid. A surety bond of $1,000.00 will be re quired of the successful bidder for the faithful performance of the contract in accordance with the laws governing same, and the rates previously fixed by the County Court The right is reserved to reject any and all bids or to accept the bid deemed best for the'tounty of Polk. By order of the County Court J. W. Finn,. 24-25 Road Master. Butter Wraps $1.00 per 100 Monitor Office A HANDSOME SOUVENIR Elliott-O'Brien Co. are Ri'vinR away each month a beautiful monthly calendar, with a por trait of a popular movie actress. t,ac month features a popular star with a short write-un of her own charmirer character. sties. There are aLo a few lines added calling attention to pecial monthly otlerinct in con nection with this popular store. The calendar is free for the ask GUARDSMAN. JILTED, ENDS LIFE IN UNIFORM Sew 1 ork Jilted on bl return from the Mexican border, Eira B. NyIor, Jr.. a New York na tional guardsman, put on hut full oulfortu, plucginl a!! crevices In bis room, turned on the gas and threw Muiself on bla tns.1, with his former fiaiu't" pUture. and died. On a table was Hie letter glviug him his rvk ase snd telling blm another had sup;lantevl him. SALE TO CONTINUE Until Entire Jewelry Slock Is Sold. be sold for The balance of the stock to most anything we can get for it. I will continue In the repairing business until stock Is disposed of. H. JL Rowe I ing