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OVER THE COUNTY mom lyco , Paint those Shabby Floors Painted kitchen floors make housework aeier. Acme Quality Floor Paint forma a smooth hard aurfaoe that cleausalmost as es ily ai til. No need of back breaking scrubbing ACMEQUAUTY FLOOR PAINT is inexpensive, a quart covers 75 square fett two coats, and ia easy to apply. The Acme Quality Painting Guide Book tells al about painting also waxing, staining and varnishing floors; what to use, bow much will be required and how it should be applied. Free at our store. SPAULDING LOGGING GO. Independence RLSPQNDENCE BUENA VISTA Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Beven9 returned home on Tuesday even ing from a trip to Camas, Wash. Mrs. Ed Tyler returned to her home at Wooiburn on Thursday. She has been visiting relatives here the past two weeks. Leoland Prather went to Sea aide on Tuesday where he se eured work right away. Rev. Atkinson went to Moun tain View Saturday morning, re turning Sunday afternoon. Cecil Steel of Newport is visit ing his sister, Mrs. N. C. Ander son, and his brothers, Dewey and J. H. Steele. Next Sunday there will be Sunday school at 10 a. m.; preaching at 11 a. m. ; and even ing service at 8. This will be the baccalaureate services for the graduating class, and every body is welcome to coma and hear the service. Mrs. Moe and Mrs. N. E. Tyler are on the road to recovery. They kave had yuite a siege of sickness. The Ladies' Aid Society of the .58 5 56 55 ,9 . 51C2 61 .63 54 & .64 .9 66 65 .30 50 j am - Fill In Picture Puzzle No. 25 - - - A BOAT wiucJi you drew in your iw l"""' " th Lr. bets. b!Kr than th. on. you dr.. c.rry good, all or lb. world. Rk-h men use them for pleasure. Ferhar- y- b .n, of them! Sometimes boat, can t find a place to dk. They do not want to luni .o They carry eomethln on b,rd .hlch th-y us. to Seep them EeaVE T 11 J. Q-r ahaped thina-a. Too n oulckly draw on. If you U tart your pencU at No. 1 and l.l It run to , I. . and on. , M. E. church will meet at the i home of Mrs. Ed Prather. Every I member is requested to be pres ; ent. Visitors are always wel ; come. I Mrs. J. E. Lucas, who was hurt when her horse ran away two weeks ago, is able to be up and around again, Rev. and Mrs. Atkinson were visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Lichty on Monday. j Rastus Peterson has had his new Dort car home a week. He I is enjoying it very much. J.-A. j Reynold is the proud possessor . of a new Oakland. There are lots of cars being sold these war times. ' Mrs. A. H. Holman had the misfortune to fall and break her arm on Saturday evening. The graduating exercises at the M. E. church on Friday evening, June 1st. Jess Well, the ferryman had one of the wheels break on the cable and took it to Portland to have it fixed last Friday, return ing Saturday. He was accom panied by F. L. Chown. They motored there by way of Salem. . ? 20 ' . 7 1- I '22. .- '13 A '24 23 C1' ..; 29 27 25 v-26 59 38 35 .41 36 ..44 '45 A6 .52 Monmouth Monmouth's two municipal gardens will be planted to potatoes and beans. The com mercial elub will donate the seed. Salt Creek The epidemic of scarlet fever in this section is said to be under control. There are six cases at present. Two have died. Dallas -Floyd D. Moore has been reappointed supervisor of the rural schools of Polk county. Suver Fred Stump has rented two hundred acres which he will plant to crops in addition to his own, He is now milking 63 cows, Dan London, a brother of the famous Jack, being in charge of the dairy interests. Buena Vista Ed Lichty has received 60 pounds of Yellow Dent corn from the East which he will plant this year. Monmouth Ed Rogers lost a valuable horse in a runaway accident last week. Dallas According to Winnie Braden, a large number of cows are sold when they go dry be cause of the high price of feed. Hens are also sold if they quit laying. Airlie The parent-teachers' association has purchased a piano for the school. Monmouth-F. M. Black has traded a grocery stock with boot to C. A. Dobell for a farm. HARMONY--The following were born on Chas. Moritz's farm last week: A colt, 7 pigs, 2 calves, 2 kittens and 175 chickens. Falls City All the teachers employed in the Falls City schools for next year are "home folks." mere is more Catarrh In this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and fur years It was sup posed to be Incurable. Doctors pre scribed local remedies, and by constant ly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. . Catarrh Is a local diBease. erreatly influenced by con stitutional conditions and therefore re quires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured hy : 1. Cheney A Co., Toledo, Ohio, is a consti tutional remedy. Is taken Internally and acts thru the Wood on the Mucous Surfaces of the Sys'em. One Hundred Dollars reward is offered for any case that Hall's Catarrh Cure falls to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. F. J. CHENEY A CO.. Toledo, Ohio. Bold by Druggists. 75c. Hall's Family rills for constipation. THE APPLE BLOSSOM To you, sweet perfumed, soft colored, delicate harbinger of a fruitful autumn, ye lovely bloom of the apple trees, the children of earth chant welcome in the sunshine of early spring. In the faint blush of your beauty the world beholds the babyhood of the most varied, the most de lightful, the most useful, the most diverse of all the fruits which providence has bequeathed to man. There is no production of tropic lands, nor among the myriad gifts to the tones which a temperate sun, in semi-tropic nurture, warms to natural repro duction, which rivals the apples of the northern lands. In tex ture, in flavor, in coloring, in bountiful yield and infinite variety, the apple surpanses in use and value all other fruition of earth upon the trees. There fore in this season of nature's conception, the flowers which promise red and russet orchards when the morning frosts shall come in eaWy fall, delight the eye and universal prophecy Tribune. quicken the heart of man with beauty and of plenty. Pendleton REPEAT THESE LINES QUICKLY Theopohilus Thistle, the suc cessful thistle sifter, in sifting a sieveful of unsifted tnistles, thrust 3000 thistles through the thick of his thumb. If, then, Theopohilus Thistle, the success ful thistle sifter, in sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles thrust 3000 thistles through the thick of his thumb, see that thou in sifting a sieveful of unsifted thistles, thrust not 8000 thistles through the thick of thy thumb. Author Unknown. 35" S3 jjABOUT By Our N.ws Correspondents Miss Pearl Smith was home from Corvallis Sunday. J. L. Hanna returned Sunday from Salt Lake City. Mrs. Hazel Hnrn visited her sister at Corvallis Sunday. Mrs. W. H. Cockle was a Salem visitor last Saturday. K. O. Eldridge made a business trip to LaGrande this week. Miss Margaret Hodge of Salem visited Mrs. 0. A. Macy Sunday. The Oregon Milling Co. Is erecting a new barn on its farm. Cyril Richardson and Whit eaker of Co. L were home San day, J. A. Bewley and family were Portland visitors Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Going of Dallas visited her sister, Miss Lora Chute, Sunday. Mrs. Allen Clark was visiting relatives in Albany the first of the week. Harley Nelson and Guy Lucas of Buena Vista have enlisted in the navy. f Shaler Eldridee departed last Saturday for Frisco where ke enters the navy. Mrs. B. F. Swope and daugh ter, Grace, were Salem visitors Saturday. Mrs. Frank Bolden of Dallas has been visiting at the home of Mrs. Bulloch. Mis Constance Cartwright of Salem was the week-end guest of Miss Beryl Holt. Miss Freda Campbell of the Willamette University was a home visitor Senday. Rev. T. D. Yarnes attended the state Sunday school conven tion at Newberg. last week. Miss Helen Austin of Aber deen, Wash., was visiting with Miss Rawlings last week-end. Miss Phyllis Bush of Portland is visiting friends and relatives in Independence this week. WHEN IN DOUBT ASK YAMOKEG COLLECTION AGENCY U Masonic Bldg., McMinnville. 41tf Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Baker of Newport were Saturday and Sunday visitors's at W. T. Hoff man's. Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Dorothy Childs of Independence and John Eakin of Dallas. Word Butler was at Hoskins Sunday. He reports that the V. & S. has a number of men working at that end of the line. Marion Butler has been elected principal of the Buena Vista schools, a place this worthy young man will held with credit Mrs. Hattie Henkle has re ceived word that her brother, Dr. F. T. Harris, of Lewiston, Idaho, has been called into the medical service. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Craven and son, Mr, and Mrs. Percy Dickinson, Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Williams and daughter, and Sid Bush autoed to Portland Sunday. Mrs. Fred Howard had a letter last week from her son, Byron, who is at Mare Island training for the navy. He is soon to be transferred to a battleship. He likes it fine. Altho the city has strict laws regulating peddlers and can vassers, four of them raked the town with a fine tooth comb last week. They sold hose, silver polish, canaod goods and toilet articles. KNOW H IQI if BAPTIST W. S. STEWART, Pastor. The Union Memorial Service! will be held in this church at 11 next Sunday. Show your patriotism by your attend ance. Sunday school at 10. Friendly Entertainers meeting S:30. h. Y. P. U. at 7:0. Preaching at 8:00. Special music by the church choir in the evening. A warm welcome ia assured all who tome. METHODIST Thos. D. Yarnes, Pastor. No services In the morning because of Memorial Services at the Baptist ehuich. 0 A. M. Sunday School. 2:30 P. M. Loyal Temperance legion. 7:00 P. M. Epworth League. 8:00 P. M. Evening service. Sublect: "The Prodigal or the Prodigal's Brother." TOO MANY SPECIAL" DATS ON CALENDAR It is all right perhaps, this setting aside days for special purposes, but there can be too much of a good thing. It has about reached the limit now, for the unoccupied days are nearly exhausted. With a few more some of them will have to wait for leap year to get a chance at the game. With every day Bet i aside for some especial purpose all interest is lost in all of them. However, this demonstrates the system is entirely American, for it is being run into the ground just as we run every other thing of the kind. Salem Journal. 1 NOTICE Gen. Gibson No. 42, W. R. C. of Independence Have a membership contest on. Thia contest will end the 30th of May 1917. All loyal women are invited to join our Corps, who hsve reached the age of 16, and pledge allegiance to our flag and to the republic for which it stands. It is the oldest organi zation of this kind, and all patri otic women could not And a more dueerving organization to aid our Union In caring lor veterans and their depen i pen dent 1 ones. War Can't Stop Us It makes no difference in our appetites for good eats. But the question of the hour is, "where to get good, satisfying eats at medium prices." WE HAVE THE ANSWER It is plainly in evidence in every part of our store. It consists of Fresh, Pure, Clean Groceries And the smiles of many satisfied customers Is the best of proof that we make flood on every claim. Calbreath CHRISTIAN F. Claude Stephens, Pastor Important Services, Lord' Day, Slay 27. Bible School at 10 a. m. Communion at 11 a. m. Christian Endeavor at 7 KM) p. m. Divine service 8:00 p. m. Theme: "Charge of the Light Bridge." Union Memorial Services in the Baptist church 11 a. m. "Under tke warm blue sky of May, The graves on the hill are green today. On many a mound to left and right There'a a little fluttering flag in sight And the little bright flag its vigil keeps. Night and day, where the soldier sleepa " PWESBYTERIAN Dr. H. C Ounsmore, Pastor 10 a. m. Sunday school, 11 a. m. ) Public Worship with 00 p. m. ( Sermon. We invite you to all our services. Stranger cordially welcomed. For Spring HoiiGtcleanlng Mr surface dusting or brushing is not cleaning. Thorough clean ing draws out both "outside" and "inside" dirt without scatter ing it in (tie air you breathe. It in cleaning auch aa can only be hud with an Electric Vacuum Cleaner An Electric Vacuum Cleaner will keep your hoaie spotlessly clean all year long with very little effort on your part, at small ex pense and with no wear or tear on ruga, draperiea, mattresses, bedding, etc. INVKf TIOATI Oregon Power Co. Phone 5011 N. L. BUTLER ATTORNEY-AT - LAW Practice in all Courts Butter Wraps $1.00 per 100 Monitor-Office Jones