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THE INDEPENDENCE MONITOR AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Published Weekly at Independence, Polk County, Oregon, on Friday. THIS Bar LISTED Entered m Second Claaa Matter August 1,1912 at the Post Office at Inde pendence, Polk Connty, Oregon, Under the Act of March 3, 1879. Fourteen, Convinced Army Offi cers He Was Twenty-one. EL WHY. THAT WAS PRESIOENT ANDREW JACKSON S FAVORITE CHEW OLD HICKORY WAS MIGHTY PARTICULAR! ABOUT MIS TOBACCO CLYDE T. ECKER, Editor NINA B. ECKER, Associate Suoscrlptlon Rates: One Year $1.50 Strictly in Advance ADVERTISING BATES: 15c. per inch for one Insertion, 1 2 l-2c for two or more Insertions, 10c. on monthly contracts. Rtaders, 5 and 10c. per line Independence, Oregon, Friday, July 13, 1917 The war line-up now consists of Germany, Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey against England, France, Russia, United States, Italy, Roumania, Servia, Montenegro, Greece, Belgium, Portugal, Japan, China, Cuba and Brazil. It doesn't seem possible that Germany and its three associates can hold out much longer against such tremendous odds. With a Russian army pounding on the east side, an allied army and Italians slowly moving forward at two places on the south and a huge army consisting of French, English, Aperi- cans, neigians ana rortuguese advancing on tne west front, it would appear that the end was in sight. While the American army has not yet participated in the fighting, our boys will take their places in the trenches within a few days. To further break the back of the Germans, the Allies will refuse to ship supplies and foodstuffs to the neutral nations of Sweden, Norway, Den mark and Switzerland which has in turn reached Germany. The four neutrals named have been making a handsome profit buying of the Allies and selling to Germany. This is rather hard on the neutrals, but it tightens the wall around Ger many, starvation being a very efficient weapon to conquer an enemy. The German people have been on short rations for over a year and it has been thru having complete control of the food supply that the government has been able to handle the situation. We must give it credit for its shrewd manipulation in this respect. Ger many had hoped to bring its enemies to their knees by a relentless and ruthless submarine war fare, but this great handicap to the success of the Allies, has been successfully overcome. The combined fleets of the Allies have been massed around England and France and its strength is telling. This great flotilla of warships will no doubt further bottle up the enemy. As the war goes on, the Allies are capturing more prisoners, who seem glad to be taken, thus indicating that the Germans are losing heart and are finally re alizing that they cannot win. It looks as if the kaiser must soon give up his dream of world tit i domination anu sees sucn a peace as lie can. Nearly a million and a half German soldiers have been killed. Wounded, starved and hemmed in on all sides by an enemy well supplied with men, money and ammunition, can even as brave and courageous a race as the German resist much louger? Germany free of its autocracy and militarism can strive and prosper at peace with all the world. The German people must see this and seek to obtain it rather than be driven further into the abyss of misery and destruction by the lash of mad rulers. The idea that the kaiser is "divine" and in partnership with God must be doubted in every home in Germany now. LONG PANTS DID THE TRICK. In 8pite ml Hit Five Feet Six Inch. and 160 Pounds, Mother Dreaaed Hlift In Waiate and Knickera and Evan In Publio Called Him Fraddia, Which Ha Raaantad. Wtt.Mn itnn Tliot Inn. un,-- n. n jI1 seven years to life In the time it taken to put them cui stands written ou tbe army record her under the date May 2. It wa then that Frederick Miller of Ibilllmore broke tbe bouds of child hood, and he broke them with a vengeance. Up to that day there waa no doubt In the minds of tbe neighbor! that, In Hille of bla five feet six Inches uixl his 1(10 pounds, tbe boy waa not a day over fourteen. Ilia mother dreaa ed him In wahus and knickers and even In public called him Freddie. I! nt there waa more to be blamed on the knickers than tbe accusation of youth. They left vlulble tbe lower por tion of Frederiek'g body, and as a con sluerahle portion of luO pounds wan not above bin walnt, Frederick yearned with all bin soul for a real pair of long trousers lu which to hide bla leg. On May 2 Frederick came home from school to find bla mother out. A negro chore man was scrubbing the window a real mun, wearing man's clothes, When Mrs. Miller returned she found nobody In the house, and Freddie was not seen for a week. Bhe did not know of course that the negro had gone out dressed In a waist and knickers. Finally came a letter from Freddie saying that he was haipy and was wearing army pants and leggings. Tbe postniurk wus New Rocbelle, so Mrs. Miller K"t busy. Soon Police IJeuten ant Frank Cody was at Fort Blocum und Freddie was found called Fred erick and the recruiting officers swore that If Frederick wasn't twenty-one (bey bad never seen a man of that bku. Freddie hud announced he was twenty-one when be enlisted. Lieutenant lolonel Maudlin, com mandant at Fort Hloeura, says Fred crick should stay and help win the war. Hut Freddie, was told he must return home, and his mother said that If she couldu't call him twenty-one she could at least call him seventeen and give him a new pair of long trou sers. i L BS 111.. f I mmmm GRAVE LY'-S CELEBRATED Chewing Plu BEFORETHE INVENTION OF OUR PATENT AIP-PPOOF POUCH GRAVELY PLUG TOBACCO MADE 6TRICTLY FOR ITS CHEWING QUALITY WOULD NOT KEEP FRESH IN THIS SECTION. NOW THE PATENT POUCH KEEPS IT FRESH AND CLEAN AND GOOQ ALtTTLE CHEW OF GRAVELY IS ENOUGH ANO LASTS LONGER THAN A BIG CHEW OF ORDINARY PLUG. J?J3 SravelyfofacccCa Dturnu. TJW III 1' EEFORE BILLY P05TE(? GETS THROUGH, A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE! WILL BE GETTING PARTICULAR TOO fl i; Chaff The Pup'e Demise. Paddy Fl.vnn was very proud of a bnge bulldog he prssesceil The dog accompanied Paddy everywhere he went. One day a ii e 1 g u b or met l'adily without the big and looking very sad. "Wei 1," asked t he neighbor, "how is that dog of yours going ou?" "Oh. be Jabers, be is dead! The HIlKunt baste wlut aud swallowed a tape uieastire!"- "Oh, I see! lie died by Inches, then?" "No, Indeed, be didn't; be went round to the back of the house an' died by tbe yard!" . WILD MUSTANG FLESH. 8trange Meate Can Now Be Bought In Portland, Ore. Portland, Ore.- -Jackass, mule, don key, burro and horse meat may now be sold In Portland meat markets. The city council has adopted an onliuiinte providing for the regulation of their sale. Tbe meat must be plainly labeled with letters at least one Inch high and must lie Inspected by the regular meat Inspectors of the city. An adopted the ordinance says I lob bin and Hilly und Maud before being sold to the housewife must undergo thorough Inspection and lie labeled "horse," "mule," "goat" or "Jackass," as the case may be. Tbe first horse meat market has been opened, and the first shipment of twenty-two wild rani:e mustangs, rounded up by Indians In eastern Oregon, has Ih'cii received, with more to follow If tbe demand is milnVlent. Tbe butcher says he Is able to cut meat prices in two, and his isolations for horse tlesb range from 4 cents a pound for soup cuts to lllta cents for T bone steaks. -J A - Retort Courteoua. Would ye do something for a poor old sailor?" Inquired the seedy wan derer at the gale. Poor old sail or?" said the lady at work over the wasbtub. Yes; I follow ed the water for sixteen years." Well," said the worker, as she re sumed her labors, "you certainly don't look as If you ever caught up with It!" Disgusted. An emigrant to a barren land took np bis own holding; but, although he worked bard, he found little to reward hitn for bis labors. One day when he wa.8 rery much depressed by the sltua- tlou a stranger accosted him and asked: 'Why is It that noliody fishes in the river yonder?" 'Ain't no fish," the farmer grunted. 'How is It that there are no fish In such a flue river?" asked the other. 'Stranger, If you could git out of this barren country us easy ns a fish kin, do yo reckon ye'd stay?" MOVE TO AID INJURED. Newport Charming Resort by the Sea Thoie who seek rest, and sea shore recreation, will find abundant opportunity at Newport. Ample hotel accommodations, cottage- or camping arrange-ments. Low Round Trip Fares Daily Trains Each Direction Ask oar nearest agent for foldtr "Newpart." or writs JOHN M. SCOTT, General Passenger Agent SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES J eeoeoooeoooooooooooooo(osoooooeooooooeeoooooe When Those in charge of the Liberty Loan campaign, letters of thanks to editors praising them for their giving the matter publicity. knowing which newspapers were entitled to a coat! of soft soap, they were mailed to all. Thus is some newspaper, which never published a line relative to the subject, able to print one or more of these letters if it desires to attempt to deceive its readers. We hope this explanation will prove satisfactory to one of our rtaders who was an oved over it Connecticut la Firat State to Stand ardize Its Disinfectant. Hartford, Conn, Governor Ilolcoiub has signed the Austin bill pio. tiling for the standardization of ipslnfoct ants. Thus Connecticut Is the Hint state to standardize dislnfi fen's, a step regarded by physicians as of great Importance at this time because of the war and the flood of worthless disin fectant ou the market. Members of the medical profession have long In sisted on such a law. The measure was Introduced and pushed to passage by Ir. A. E. Austin, a momlier of the state house of repre sentatives from (Sreenwtch It provides that the receptacle In which disinfect ants are sold shall bear a label stating the quality of tbe contents ou the ap plication of the proper test. $50 IN A BIBLE. but Burglar Woman Hldoa It Thera, Finds It. rittsburgh.-MiM. Oavld Uvle of Homestead thought the BiHe was one i t i v, j i . , , , I piece a mirgiar would never look lor army dratt and Red Lross drive sent stereotyped ! money, she puci a aay iwiar i.m ; la toe family mule, and It ki.khi on the ; table !u the parlor undisturbed for sev- assistance in giving the matter publicity. Not : mi'' . rriiu,i nut iiifcui iiiices euiervu and ransacked the bouse. The next morning the Hlble was found ou the floor with several pacee and the fifty dollar Mil missing. The thieves ap parently had 1-evii so anxious to seiie the uionev they tore the tmok. lamimiiimntimN 9 JUL i The Monitor Prints It VfOU are assured of a . job as a skilled man good does the work. Our Cash System enables to beat city prices. us There is hardly anything we cannot do. ooooooeeoooooo4oooooooooooftKooooooooeoeeoeoo THE INDEPENDENCE NATIONAL BANK Established 1889 A Successful Business Career of Twenty rive Years Back Streets For Card.na. Onalaska. vu.-l'se of the city's back streets for raising potatoes was authorised rcvutlv by the town rouu ott. HSli school bo, under direction of tbe county farm school "1U culti vate) the bUiUwayt. FARM HORSES In the Spring aiust spend long hours at hard work. Their systems should be strengthened their blood puntied their diction and aaai nidation mude better through ibe useof INTERNATIONAL STOCK FOOD TONIC INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS By improving their digestion, the aorses will get full nourishment from their erain feed a;. J as the waste is pre tested, the amoui t of f.'cd can teailj be reduced from 2J to 33 per cent. FOR SALE BY OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS H. Hirschberg, Pres. D. W. Sears, V. P. R. R. DeArmond, Cashier W. H. Walker, I. A. Allen, O. D. Butler muni IndepentfenceEeed&FsBdStore JHE MONITOR ALWAYS LEADS -THIT HAVI IT"