INDEPENDENCE MONITOR
"THE PAPER THAT EVERYBODY READS"
VOL.5
INDEPENDENCE, FOLK COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1917
NO. 41
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THE RHYMING SUMMARIST
Memorial Day again draws near,
A touching celebration,
To flower the graves ot every one
Who fought for home and nation;
We hope that none are overlooked,
And while the flowers we're giving,
If there's enough,
, It'll be the stuff
To pin them on the living.
Such a lot of plant advice,
And some of the "pack are phoney,
Here's Guy Walker yelling 'round,
"Put in macaroni";
This is the busy season for
Every wife and mother,
The verse below
We'll let you know
Was borrowed from a brother.
"These days are full of woundy woe
For all the suburb dwellers,
Our fraus are taking curtains down
And dusting out the cellars;
Housecleaning sprees at least should come
Before the garden's growing,
We cannot beat
The rugs and treat
With diffidence the hoeing."
The schoolma'ams all will soon depart
And many are not returning,
Some hearts are going pitty pat
While others just are yearning;
We hope that all have no regrets
While with us they have tarried,
'We'd keep one here
And call her dear,
But we are muchly married.
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BY VIRGINIA SOUTHERN
CIVIC HAGUE.
In the absence of the League's
president. Mrs. K. C. Eldridsre,
Mrs. O. 1). Butler, vice president,
presided over the regular meet
ing of the League last Tuesday
afternoon. Reports were made
from committees and during the
discussion of miscellaneous work
a suggestion wan made that the
club take up the study of Russia
the coming season. The ntxt
meeting of the club will be held
the second Tuesday in June and
all members art requested to be
present After the election of
officers there will be a social
hour.
RID CROSS.
Tomorrow will be Red Cross
day in Independence. All the
businesi places in the city will
have a member of the organiza
tion present ready to enroll all
thos who are willing to enlist in
such an admirable cause. Classes
are to be started soon in making
surjrical dressings and other
supplies.
Many members are interested
in First Aid wcrk and are en
rolling for the Fint Aid lectures
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON CLUB.
The Wednesday Afternoon
Club enjoyed a most delightful
session at the home of Mrs. . E.
Cook on Wednesday of this
week. Vases of pink tulips and
jardineres of lavendar and white
lilacs were used with pleasing
effect over the rooms. A short
business session was held and
Mrs. Paddock was elected presi
dent of the club, filling the place
recently vacated by Mrs. N. F.
Gillespie. Letters were read
from Mrs. J. E. Owens and
Mrs. Gillespie. " Both were
formerly members of this club
and their letters were listened to
with intense interest After
the routine of business, guests
busied themselves with needle
work. Mrs. Cook closed the
afternoon with a most excellent
two course luncheon. Mrs.
Cook from Portland was a club
guest
SECOND AN N I VII S ART.
A number of Monmouth friends
joined Mr. and Mrs. 0. A. Macy
Wednesday evening in celebrat
ing their second wedding anni
versary. A delightful evening
was spent. Dainty refresh
menU were served.
TEACHERS CHOSEN
Misses Madaline Rawlings
Beryl Holt and Mable Stevens,
teachers of domestic science,
history and mathematics and
English respectively in the high
school, because of their efficiency
and popularity were quickly re
elected by the school board.
Theodore Ellested, instructor in
manual training, aid not care for
the place another year and Ear!
W. Heckett of the U. A. (J. was
picked as his successor. The
high school corps is thus com
pleted with the exception of the
superintendent. The board is
proceeding with caution regard
ing the superintendency, being
very anxious to secure a man
who will be satisfactory to the
entire community, one who will
add strength to the high school
with the people, parents and
pupils.
The public schools are to be
taken over by the Normal as a
training: school. The teachers
who have served there the past
year have all made a very credit
able record and it is much re
gretted that they must retire.
rresiaent Aekerman has recom
mended the following for
positions in Independence and
there seems no doubt but w hat
they will be chosen: First and
second grades, Emily DeVore;
third and fourth, Emma Kreamer;
fifth and sixth. Grace Williams;
seventh and eighth, Mrs. Ruth
Oonkey. The appointment of
Mrs. Conkey t;ives much satis
faction to pupils and teachers in
general and by placing her at
the head, Mr. Aekerman has
strengthened the training school
with those who have doubted its
superiority over the public
schools.
LITTER FROM CO. L
Vancouver, Waih., May 23
All companies in the barracks
moved into tents the first of the
week to make room for two
regiments that are coming soon.
There are two hundred carpent
ers busy busy building houses
as one hundred and fifty of them
must be built within a month.
Co. L had 75 of its men working
night and day on the Vancouver
bridge to keep the water frosa
washing any more of the bridge
out. Co. L wants five or six
more men. If any wish to en
liet write Captain Stafrin. The
people of Independence must not
think we have nothing to eat for
we have the best of everything
now. l he raise was seven cents
a day for each man. Every oae
is getting fat and husky.
Roy R. Whiteaker.
DRAFT DAY, JUNE 5
The. president has proclamed
Tuesuay, June 5, as conscription
day at which time all males be
tween the ages of 21 and 31 are
obliged to register whether they
be single, married, alien, sick or
crippled and regardless of occu
pation, Later, the government
will exempt the unfit and many
others. The registratioa board
will be found at the regular
polling places of all election
districts.
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"CIVILIZATION"
Do you know that in the photo
play, "Civilization" which can
be seen at the Isis Tuesday after
noon ; and evening. May 29,
40,000 people are employed, entire
cities are destroyed, 10,000 horses
are used, forty aeroplanes battle
in the. sky, two battleships are
destroyed, a submarine sinks a
loaded passenger ship? Yet it
is a plea, a cry, an argument for
peacej Thos. II. Ince, the pro
ducer has been voted the world's
greatest peace advocate. It
shows the horrors of war and
the blessings of peace. You've
seen many pictures favorable to
war and "preparedness", now
see the greatest of all the other
side.
RED CROSS DAT
Tomorrow members of the
led Cross will be out in force to
increase the membership of the
Independence Auxiliary. Rep
resentatives will be at all the
stores, and you'd better have
your dollar ready. No need to
tell what the Red Cross is and
what it does.
SENATOR LANE DEAD
Harry Lane, senator from
Oregon, died in a San Francisco
hospital Wednesday night
Next week Oregon will have a
new senator. He will be a
Republican appointed by Gov
ernor Withycombe.
GRAND LODGE
Odd Fellows and Rebekahs of
Oregon are in grand lodge ses
sion at Eugene this week.
These in attendance from Inde
pendence are W. Huntley, S. II.
McElmurry and Mesdames Tom
Hart O. A. Kreamer and J. N.
Jones.
MONEY IN HENS
Editor Monitor I will go
Johnnie Walker $10 or better.
My 100 hens have brought an
income or over J3b per month
since Jan. 1, 1917. I cell uy
eggs in Portland for cash.
S- H. McElmurry.
DIED 7
Mrs.. W. L. Powers, aged 28,
died at her home on Sloper Bros,
ranch yesterday afternoon. She
leaves a husband and four
children. The funeral will be
held tomorrow.
EXPELLED
Two girls, a senior and a!
unior, have been expelled fromi
the Normal for joy riding with
young men. Uthers who have
shown a yearning for such a fast
life were reprimanded.
HOPS ARE GOING
Between 12,000 and 14,000
acres of hops have been plewed
up in Oregon and the land put to
other uses. This is more than
half the total hop acreage of the
state. The yards that are left
standing are being cultivated and
this farm work will continue un
lets Congress takes steps to stop
the manufacture of beer in the
United Slates during the period
of the war. In this event the
crop, of coarse, will be aban
doned. A considerable part of the
prospective yield of the remain
ing acreage is under contract, but
with the stoppage of brewing
these contracts will necessarily
be canceled. It is understood
that the moneys so far advanced
will remain with the growers,
and on this basiB of settlement
the Oregon hop industry will
come to an ead.
The change from hops to other
crops has been rendered easy
this year by the high prices rul
ing on all food products, whereas
hops have been selling for less
than cost In the past when
hopgrowers have sought ether
lines of production they were un
able to find anything as profit
able on the average as hops.
Portland Oregonian.
MEMORIAL SERVICES AND PROGRAM
Memorial Day has always been an occasion not only for memories
but for consecration. To the gray-haired men, every year fewtr ia
number, who actually bore the heat and burden of our war of reunion it
is perhapa chiefly a day of memories. But for the rest of us it cannot
be that; if it is to have vital meaning for us, it most have root in our
own experience and in our own present needs. The sight of the bent
and aged men who in their youth and strength made it possible for this
republic to eonie forth from its travail free and undivided and great,
the simple and beautiful commemoration service, the half-masted flags,
and the graves heaped with flowers these things touch with momentary
feeling even the most thoughtless. If we have, some of us, taken this
day too lightly, if we have thought of it rather as a welcome holiday
than as a solemn day of consecration to the nobler idesls of national
life, let us not make that mistake this year of all years. The world Is
being remade about us; it is not too much to hope that, in Lincoln's
mighty phrase, all mankind is under God to have a new birth of free
dom. In this great crisis of the race America is to have a part. On
thia motit hallowed of days let us pledge ourselves and all we have to
making that part not only honorable but glorious. Let essh of us see
to it that through him the republic is not hindered in the path of
service. Youth's Companion.
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To appropriately observe the
day and to pay tribute to the
brave host of men, veterans of
the battlefields, who have passed
to the other side, all the Protest
ant churches of Independence
will dispense with their usual
Sunday morning services and
unite in a Unioa meeting at the
Baptist chureh commencing at
11 o'clock. Rev. T. D. Yarnes
will deliver the address.
The graves of the following
veterrns in the I. O. O. F. cem
etery will be decorated:
M. A. Baker, John Byers, C.
W. Burright, John Baldwin,
N. O. Clodfelter. W. E. Crissy,
James Alexander, C. Clancy,
II. D. Foster, John Fluke, E. G.
Heath, W. J. Iliff, Eli Johnson,
C. H. James, John S. Moore, Todd
Merwin, Henry Poole, George
Rogers, L. W. Robertson, John
Stine, Harry Smith, E. S.
Towner, Teague, A. Weiss,
Wilkins.
On memorial Day, May 10, the
following program will be given
at the public schools, commenc
ing at 9:30 a. m., under the
auspices of the W. R, C. and
G. A. R. : Selection by the Hig-n
School Glee Club, reading by
Miss Myers, solo by Laura Baker
and an address, "Real Patriot
ism" by Rev. W. C. Stewart
After the program, a procession
will be formed and marched to
the river where ritualistic
services for the sailor dead will
be held. The W. R. C. and G.
A. R. will be aided by the Sons
of Veterans, Honor Guard and
school children. All veterans
and sons of veterans are re
quested to march without per
sonal invitation. All business
houses will close during these
exercises and services.
R. R. WORK BEGUN
The Valley & Siletx railroad
began work on the west end
Monday. The track will be
ballasted from Hoskins to Inde
pendence after which, it is an
nounced, track will be laid down
Ninth Btreet to the site of the
proposed mill.
The S. P. has s crew of men
equipping the current poles with
caps. Officials of the company
say they hope to have the electric
cars running by July 1.
THOS. H. INCE
Presents
The Million Dollar Spectacle
Civilization
The Greatest Production of Modern Times
The Picture that Ought to Stop the War
at the
Isis Theatre
TUESDAY, MAY 29
The picture has exhausted all power of the turners. No type cat
describe it. Seattle Pest-Intelligencer.
Humanity's greatest emotions. Portland Oregonian.
"Wonderful" but Mildly describes the mammoth spectacle.
T acorns Tribune.
Without a doubt the greatest photoplay erar f roiticed. Everett
Tribune.
None better.1-Aberdeen World.
Easily the most spectacular production ever shown. Bremerton
Searchlight.
Matinee 3:30; Evening 7:00 and 9:00
Admission 25 & 15c