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MONITOR "THE PAPER THAT EVERYBODY READS" INDEPENDENCE, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1917 NO. 38 VOL.5 INDEPEND ENCE THE RHYMING SUMMARIST K. C. Eldridge is a hero now, Tho it took a lot of pluck, He jumped in front of a moving Ford To save an auto truck; He sure deserves a Carnegie badge For his tact and knowing, Think! To stop a Ford When not aboard, And the varmint going! But it's best to cut the story here, It's best for all to drop it, For tho K. C. wrestled with the Ford, He failed to really stop it; To boost the road bonds on their way, Many men are meeting, For Spence and Brown Are going 'roun' With one aim defeating. City dads have-received the hook And told to change no streets, Supreme Court makes the final guess And their contention beats; Sb back up now to where you were, I Tho the road is pricking, You'll find the line All opine Where Charley Dick is sticking. Enroll the name of Sadie Shucks With the big crop boosters, She has her stock for poultry farm, A hen and eleven roosters; Sadie sure gets out in front, Despite the pert assumers, - And the time is near When she'll appear In H. G. shirt and bloomers. WAR I stood and watched ai the troops marched past to war, grim, terrible war, I heard the blare of the bugles blast si d an aching heart I bore. I Razed on the flower of our youth and I thought of another day, Again I beheld an army brave, aa they proudly marched away. I aaw a gray haired mother again, as she waved her last good-bye To a atnooth faced boy in a suit of blue, while a tear welled to her aye. I was with this boy ut Gettysburg, midst cannons' shriek and roar, Where shot and shell like blant from hell, through dead and dying tor. 1 was with this boy the last sad day, and I heard his last good-bya, I broke the news to that mother gray and I heard her anguished cry. Oh, tell r."t to me ef glories won midst cannons' shriek and roar For there is no glory to be gained on the blood-stained field of war. God speed the day when o'er all lands, the banner of peace waves high, When no more we'll hear tha battle's loar or the anguished mother's cry. E. L'. Sharpe. ICTS) It Was Clear Emh L -TTiflJTTT r.;A A COLONEL f a P.rillsh regiment In Smith Africa was re pairing a rullroad after one of ;ciu-rul De Wet's many breakups dlm-overcd a lire empty Imnxe, which be pro (WiW to occupy as bKidiu:trtpr-. When the news of the c,,:. mil's cuinfurtulile quarters reached lilocmfmitciii lie rcctivod a telegram which read: "G. T. M. wuiits house.'' The colonel was unable to iimke out what "G. T. M." meant nud inquired of ottuern, hu translated It "general traffic rmiimeer." "All right," said the colonel. "If be can use hieroglyphics, so can I." So be v Ireil bark: "G. T. M. can G. T. H." Two diivs later he re eiv.i a dNpat'-h from Bloeinfontcln ordering him to attend a l-.urd of inquiry. On appearing lo due course he vu n.-kel what he meant by fending aueh an lusultinc mesfBL-e to a superior elii.-ef. "luKUitlnsV repatel the coionel Iiiiuk eutlr. "It was uuthiiix of the kind." "Iiut n hat il you mean," detijunded hi superior, "by tell ing me I can !. T. H.Y " "It was simply an abl.rei -iathiii.'' replied the colonel "O. T. M. (geberal truific manaeri can T. II. (yet the house)." -O-O-O- . . SEEMS INCONGRUOUS , . "yOC take a fifty ter.l tiif.ir, A common m&'.-U Fut'C' light. Tha contrast ratier :nt to Jar And duw't really m quit right. man' prld :ia vial's mad, i t ii- vuJe . "r,.e for awclj BOOSTER MEETING The tig booster meeting will be held tomorrow afternoon in Independence. It is for the pur pose of explaining the proposed bond issue to be voted on at the special election Jure 4. Com missioners Adams and Benson will be present and deliver ad dresses. The meeting will be held at the Isis theatre commenc ing at 2 o'clock, preceeded by several films of good moving pictures. Everything free. Ev erybody is invited, and it is hoped that the women will be present as well as the men. The following reasons are be ing advanced by the advocates of the measure why the road bond bill should be passed: "Because Oregon needs good roads, be cause a dollar's worth of road is assured from every dollar ex pended, because every favorable vote is a vote to help pull Oregon out of the mud, because the state is now spending four mil lion dollars annually without getting adequate results, because all sections of the state will benefit directly from the roads to be constructed, because good roads increase real estate values both in the city and thruout the state, because the proposed bond issue will provide good roads at no greater cost than the state is now paying for poor ones, be cause the automobile and regular one-fourth mill state road tax pays the bonds and interest and because general taxes will not be increased." STALLED The Salem bridge is no nearer built than it was two years ago when it was discovered that the old one was unsafe. All this time there has been a continual broil and fiddling around, ad vancing, reversing, on again, off again. Two weeks ago it was thought that everything was settled and so stated, but last week, Marion threw the switch and run into a siding. There "she" stands today. H. G. UNIFORM According to Miss Lucile Dan forth, national organizer, the official uniform of the Girls' National Honor Guard is a light flannel shirt of army gray with bloomers and leggings of the same color and the emblem of the Guard on the arm. Whether this uniform will be worn by the members of the Guard in Independence has not yet been determined. DIN NEK FAKTY A pretty event of the week was the dinner party presided over by Miss Emma Henkle last Saturday evening, in honor of Miss Gladys Irvine's natal day. The table was artistic with spring flowers add dainty place cards marked covers for the Misses Gladys Irvine, Lcona Hanna, Bessie Swope, Mrs. Hattie Henkle and the hostess. L. ; Pott-IlFpalcJl. RED CROSS - Chairman B. E. Smith presided over an enthusiastic meeting of the Independence Rtd Cross Auxiliary at the Moose club pa--lors last evening. Eleven new members were added, making a total of 47. Work on bandages and other surgical dressings w.ll be started as soon as supplies can be secured. Following the lied Cross meet ing, Mr. Angier of Portland BDoke of the Army Y. M. C. A. jwork. A local committee was j appointed to secure funds for this purpose. CITY ISBEATEN The. supreme court handed down an opinion the first of the week affirming the decision of Judge Belt in the North Inde pendence street line question. The city attempted or did remove several street lines in that part of the city, aftr ar. official sur vey by County Surveyor Canfield. The new line was not satisfactory to residents living on Main street who sought an injunction fronV.Judge Belt. The Judge notofly granted the injunction but made it permanent after a hearing. Then the city ap pealed to the supreme court which lesulted as above stated. All the costs of the case, includ ing briefs, witness fees, etc., must be paid by the city. While the case hss been pend ing jn the t ourts, it has "balled" up improvements in North Inde pendence. Now that the case has been settled it is hoped that sidewalks will be built at once so that portion of our city will get out of the mud. BEAN PLANT The large bean acreage in this section has attracted the atten tion of manufacturers and can nets. V. A. Kober of Pittsburg, representative of the II. J. Heinz Co., makers of the fam ous 47 varieties, and J. C. Young of the E. M. Stark weather Co., of Portland, the Heinz Oregon representative, were in Independence yesterday looking over the field. If the yi-ild and grade of beans come up to requirements, the gentle- m.-n tell the Monitor that a cleaning and grading plant will be erected here. HELPING THE FARMER Farmers tell us that the-e is no great shortage of labor in this vicinity; that most of them will be able to get thru with what they have. They are not much impressed with all the newspa per talk about the sending of city and school boys out to the farm, and the latest is for Port land society women to go the country and kelp the farmers' wife. Most farmers' wives have enough to wait on now. CONSCRIPTION Congress has passed the army conscription bill which provides for compulsory service of 500,000 men every six months. The minimum age limit is 21 and the maximum has not yet been de termined. It is not likely to be over 35. All men of the legal age will be required to register and the necessary number picked by lot. There will be a number of exemptions, among them most probably married men. Those drawn must also pass the physical examination and the term of service will be for the war. Oregon's quota will be 3500. According to population Polk county would have to furnish about CO. MRS. JASPERSON DEAD Mrs. J. L. W. Jasperson died at her home in Battle Lake, Minn., of hemorrhage of the lungs. She was a resident of Independence for several years, owning property here at this time. Five children survive her. Her husband died in Independ ence three years ago. Mrs. Jasperson was here for several weeks about a year ago. GARDEN TRAIN A special garden train will ar rive in Independence next Fri day, May 11. Information rela tlre to vegetable gardening, home canning, poultry raising and food economy will be given out. The train is run under the direction of the Southern Pacific and K. D. Hetzel, director of the extension service of the 0. A. C. GLEE CLUB TO-NIGHT A Bplendid evening's enter tainment of music and mirth is promised for to-night when the Girls' High School Glee Club makes it debut at the opera house. Seventen pretty girl in seventeen pretty songs is an apt description. MRS. CAMPBELL'S LONDON LETTER T. J. Fryer hut received the follow ing letter from his daughter. Mm. Mildred Campbell, written in London on April 6: "I was out to an American meeting yesterday called for the purpose of confirming the action of the United States in declaring war on Germany and believe ma there was some excite ment. There seemed to be two or three thousand present all Americans and they cheered everything that was said to an aeho. I found myself cheering Wilsoa and Teddy in the lami breath, and didn't know before what thoroughbred Yankee I was. There were several hundred among them in uniforms of the British and her colon ies, including two colonels and several majors and captains. The American battalion from Canada was there in full force. The meeting was held at Queen's Hall and when the band play ed -My Old Kentucky Home," "Dixie," "Marching Through Georgia" and oth er patriotio airs, there were many weeping eyes to be seen. I shook hands with an old Grand Army man wearing tha Civil War badge. He is old and feeble but still filled with the old spirit After the people had filed out of the hall, a big bus passed, dec orated with the Stars and Stripes and Union Jack, and was tilled with a few white men but mostly American ne groes. A young omcer from Miasisiip-j pi in uniform railed out in his rich Southern accent, "There's My Nig gers", and everybody cheered. Well, now that we really are in it, I hope we do it right for they will expect lots of America and they hare a right to. If America knew what they had been thru here and in Fresco, and after all it has been for the protectiea of the United States aa well as themselves from this awful German tyranny." "There has been great excitement here about Aanerica coming in but the moat excitement has been treated by the Americans themselves. Tha Eng lish think we should have come in long ago, and except for the moral effect on conditions, don't to admit that we will be any great help to them. They for get all about our food and munitions and only yesterday they were calling for a half million more men. The food situation is a very serious one and I would like vary much to be back homo with you. Sometimes I think I will go, but Tom Dr. Campbell won't consent to me trying to cross as thii.fra are now. I don't think there is any chance for Tom to get a way now as they are so short of doctors. There ware 400 doctors killed on the Somma offensive alone so that shewa how much they need men, and when you consider that Tom went thru all that fighting, wo have such a lot to bo thankful for that he wasn't killed or wounded." . ROMANCE IS SHATTERED IN POETRf All the romance that a certain Salt Creek girl has been building up for more than three monthB has been shattered all to pieces by one little letter. It all came about in this fashion: She knit ted a pair of socke and sent them to a relative in Canada to be sent to one of the "Tommies" in the trenches over in Europe. She carefully pinned her calling card to the pair of socks on the inside. Naturally she expected a letter in return. She was not disap pointed. It came. She had pictured to herself a tall, hand some, kahki-clad Adonis care fully planning a missive of thanks which would lead to well who knows what She quickly tore off the "Op ened by Censor" label and here is what she found written in the letter Inside: "Socks received Lady; They almost fit. I wesr one for a helmet And one for a mitt; I hope to meet you, When I've done say bit But whore in the devil Did you learn te knit?" Dallas Itemizer. -ooo- Midnight Oil OOO " " rmif .m,.ii,i ,.r Ahv ioiii by 1 1 UT mldnla-ht oil has ehid llsi A Vm u.d l.y tnn I" college T n'"d In pnrintf nvr volume dry a) Of rni.lilr.s- stud.nte pallid; AMlmliaime knowledge. I 'Tl uwd In burnlns up a " Or mliln up a la. lire. OOOOOOOOOOOOSO0 o 0 O 0 4t 4e Spoiling a Joke O. F. Cosper has purchased! the telthone system at Lebanon. I KT his a dinner at which he presided the bishop of Lon don entered into conversation with a Tlvscious voung American lady who, in the course of the "talk. Hnkiid to be allowed to put a conundrum to lordship. Receiving ready permission, she merrily "Well, then, does tha butterfly because the tomato can?" The bifchon laughed heartily at the sally, but not so harti!y as when later a young Englishman approached him. "I want to know," said this person, "about that joko ,,t Mix r-rown's. She asked if the butter flew because the timato4 could. Praj tell mo what the Joke is."