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4 tOLOf.lL.HlI IHTKI KONKI OK KV OTMfR OLD I.SC I. BUT 9(( THAT Wl HVt LlNTJf 0"Tne LiTTLf CHIW THAT W MAVt SOUS. 1 o w-S Cut to.a&co 1 1 TO T with d WHEN men are drawn together in the army, you find out a lot about their likes and dislikes. It's alvvayt been a great place (or the spread of W-B CUT popularity. They show each other why you shouldn't take more than a littU chew of W-L CUT. Every shred is chock full of sap; a big chew is too rich. They take to W-B CUT, strong; nothing is too good (or our soldiers. HU, ky WETMAN-BRUTON COMPANY. 1107 Br..dwiT. New York Ci'r THE INDEPENDENCE MONITOR AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Published Weekly at Independence, Polk County, Oregon, on Friday. entered as Second Class Matter Augnst 1, 1912 at tbc Poat Office at Inde pendence, Polk County, Oregon, Under the Act of March 3, 1879. CLYDE T. ECKER, Editor NINA B. ECKER, Associate SuDscrlptlon Rates: One Tear $1.50 Strictly In Advance ADVERTISING SATIS: 15c. per Inch for one Insertion. 12 1-Zc for two or more Insertions, 10c. on monthly contracts. leaders, S and 10c. per line Independence, Oregon, Friday, June 22, 1917 A Liberty Bond was presented to many Tune brides as a wedding gift which leads an Eastern paper to remark that the act is of unusual merit inasmuch as it finances two wars at the same time. One hundred million dollars is to be raised for the Red Cross this week. We predict that when the count is made next Monday night, there will be nearer one hundred and twenty five millions. This is the Week for You and You and You to do your bit for the fled Cross. Llr L I I J Turn MOO000000000OAO0I0(OOCOO0000 oooooooo Uhen The Monitor Prints It VDU are assured of a good job as a skilled man does the work. Our Cash System enables us to beat city prices. There is hardly anything we cannot do. 0(KC40000OOOOOOOOOOC00lKaoooOe THE INDEPENDENCE NATIONAL BANK Established 1889 A Successful Business Career of Twenty rive Years INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS OFFICERS AINP DIRECTORS H. Hlrschberg, Pres. D. W. Sears, V. P. R. R. DeArmond, Cashier W. H. Walker, I. A. Allen, 0. D. Butler vdttsimeaBBsl fTT WW 1 The full amount of the Liberty Loan has been subscribed. The American people have made a splendid showing. We now have the men and money. The stage is ready for the Kaiser's downfall. Low Round Trip Fares T) EASTERN DESTINATIONS On Sale via California Many dates in June, July, August and September. Liberal Stopoveri. Limit 3 months. Enjoy a Beach Outing Trip AT Newport or Tillamook BEACHES MANY ATTRACTIONS AND DIVERSIONS Round Trip Fares On Sale Every Day. Return October 31. Also Week End On Sale Saturday and Sunday Return Monday. For information ask your local sgent JOHN M. SCOTT, General Passenger Agent Portland, Oregon SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES It is true that we are facing more than a night mare. We may be up against it proper, especially if Russia lays down. But whether we are or not whether Russia sticks or gets cold feet, we can not help matters by getting excited and running around in circles. The movement to recruit farm labor from the ranks of the idlers or other branches of the Sons of Rest is ridiculous. A small injection of this class of men into the farm labor supply might be profitably assimilated, but to depend upon ' them to any great extent would be foil'. Brains and experience must be mixed with brawn and energy to accomplish anything on a farm. President Wilson's draft proclamation contains this sentence: It is in no sense a conscription of s the unwilling." This statement is so broad in character as to leave many to believe that those who have conscientious objections to being forced into the army will be excused, altho the an- nounced plans of those having the draft in charge do not in any way confirm it. A certain gentleman, living in Washington by the name of Woodrow Wilson, can add further laurels and fame by insisting upon government control of prices as soon as possible. With Mr. Wilson s power for making drives" so effective, it is time for rejoicing and the giving of thanks that he has so forcibly notified Congress of his desires in the matter. More grease to his elbow. V According to government officials, the country will have a tremendous crop this year which will be needed if we must feed several nations of Europe. Even if the war should stop tomorrow, a portion of Europe would starve next winter if it wasn t for America. Peculiar, too, but prices in England are cheaper than they are in America today, rood speculators are not allowed to trraft there. Home Cookery 8trawb.rry Msringu Pi. Prepare a paste shell aud bake over an Inverted grease pan rather deep. When cold rill with lurge berries and sprinkle lightly with powdered sugar. Arrange the fruit in symmetrical cir cles. Cover ever the top with a me ringue made from the stiffly whipped whites of two eggs, blended with two tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar. Aft er sprinkling with grnnuluted sugar set in a moderate oven until delicately browned. Ch.rry Pudding. Two cupful) stale cake crumbs, one juart milk, one unci one-half cupfula red cherries, canned or fresh; one-half cupful sugar. Soak the crumbs in the milk for thirty minutes and then add the sugar and cherries. If the cake is not well flavored udd a few drops of vauilln or almond extract Turn into a buttered baking dish and hake about an hour in a moderate oven. Serve hot with bard sauce containing a little of the cherry Juice. TOY GUNS POPULAR. HtSSMMS M IMS)' In recent months so many have wished to ioin the Quaker church that this sect has had to bar its doors and refuse to admit to membership any more "converts" until after the war is over. It is suspected that these late "conversions" are not genuine, but are made for the purpose of escap ing the draft, Quakers being exempt from active military service. The Quakers have only taken the firm stand that should have been taken by all other churches years ago. If all other sects had been as zealous tor peace as the Quakers, all war would be eliminated. On Egg Chocolate Cak. Brat halt a cupful of shortening to a cream, gradually beat in a cupful of sugtr and ao egg lightly beaten. Sift together two cupfuls of flour, a Jea sM)(inful of Moriu aud a pinch of salt Add to the first mixture a teasoonful of vanilla extract and two squures of grated unsweetened chocolute that has been melted over hot water and thin ned by the addition of a little boiling wuler. !V;it well and add the flour, nlternat'.ii:,' with about three-quarters of n cupful f well soured milk. Buke In a t..iure shallow pun ami cover with boiled frosting. Biaqu of Clami and Gre.n Pa. Cut nn ounce of suit Kuk into bits i' lid cook III ii saucepan 11 1 1 1 i I Hie fat is well tried out, but not In the least brown. Add a small onion, two new carrots ami a couple of stalks of celery cut in bi!. noil stir nud cook until soft ened a little: then add a piut of green eas, two or three sprigs of imrslej uiiil a pint of boiling water. Took until the icns are tender and pr.-sx through sieve. I'ook a pint of eiaius in a pint of their liquor diluted with hot water for live minute, drain the liquor into the puree of peas, chop the cluuis and add tliemalso. Melt a taliirspoonful of butter, blend in a tuMesponnfu! of flour aud add gradually a pint of bot milk. Cook until the thickened milk boils, mix with the other Ingredient and serve immediately. Mdld Aft.r Anti-alroraft Weapon Usd by Z.pp.lln. Washington. Teddy bears and mini, ature anti-aircraft guns are by far tbe most popular toys in Great Britain, says Consul Wilson in a report from London to the United States bureau of foreign aud domestic oomiuerce. Ted dy bears have always been more or less popular, but recent events seem to have created a greatly Increased de mand for this toy. The toy guns are modeled after the anti-aircraft guns which were biought into prominence by the visits of the Zeppelins. Toys that find the mosf ready sale are those of a military character. NEW FORM OF "CON" GAME. Two Inch., of Butt.r 8prad on Sand Sold to Chicago Consumer. Chicago, 111. A new form of confi dence game has been practised with success here during the last few days. Several storekeepers aud hospitals have reported to the police that they hare purchased from agents tubs purport ing to contain sixty pounds of butter, but have fouud when cutting into the tubs that the butter extended but one or two inches from the surface and that the rest of their purchase was sand. The tubs were sold for as high as $19.50, making the price of the butter In the neighborhood of $4 a pound. FAVORS DAYLIGHT SAVING. HOARDING IS UNPATRIOTIC. Bciton Man Sayt Those Who Lay Up Food Ar. Traitors. Boston. Henry B. Kndlcott, execu tive manager of the Massachusetts committee on public safety, issued M affluent asserting that the person w ho hoarded money aud large quan tities of provisions fur an indefinite jieriod "should be oiiited out as traitor to his country and to his fellow men." -Certainly nothing could be further from patriotism or helpfulness to other jjcople,- he said, '"than for a set of men who have money and credit to selfishly pure time an unusual amount of sup plies for themselves and by so doing Inflict upon their less wealthy neigh bors the burden of unnecessarily high prices." Pridnt, How.v.r, In Doubt a t N.c.ary Legislation. Washington. President Wilson ex pressed his approval of tbe daylight saving plan to a delegation headed by Representative Borland of Missouri and Marcus Marks of New York, presi dent of the National Daylight Saving association. The president told them the only question In his mind about legislation to carry It into operation was whether eoogress leaders would look upon It as war legislation, to which they have tacitly agreed to limit tbe session's ac tivities. The subject will lie taken up with the leaders. BREEZE GOT THE MONEY. Any On May Ks.p Thr. On-Dollar Bill if H Finds Thm. J Wichita, Kan. The wind blew fret fully the other day in Wichita. Mrs. Sam Sanders of Whitewater, who bad been snooping, did uot close her poek etbook securely, and at the corner of Main street and Douglas avenue a five dollar bill aud three one-dollar bills, were bkiwu out. They rose high in the air, and John Young, a police cap tain, and others went in pursuit. A block away a negro overtook tbd "Ave." The others had disappeared. Taking the nveH to Mrs. Sanders, he returned it, with a bow. "Thank you, said she. "You can have the other If you find 'em. DRAFT SONS TO FARM. Food Grtwn Along Railroad. Durbar, N. C. Vegetable gardens bordering the railroaj tracks is a new idea In North Carolina to sdd to Amer ica ' fowl supply In the world war. Th. Durham aud Southern railway, owned i principally by the Duke, wealthy New York tobacconist, has offered Its rtght of way for planting. It has further more offered free scd to encourage th growers. Father Plan Land Purchase t E mpt Boy From Army. Washington Casting about for ways to keep their sons, who are a little over! twenty-one, out of tbe army, two rich men in uper New York state have written to Representative Charles B. Smith to know If they purchased farms and put their boys on them would not that exempt their sons from the draft. They pr ixised to make their sons superintendents of the farms and thus entitled to exemption, they thought, as "agriculturists." At the war department It was said that this ruse would not get very far, as neighbors could be depended npo t KWM U- I