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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
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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
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