INDEPENDENCE MONITOR
"THE PAPER THAT EVERYBODY READS'
INDEPENDENCE, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1917
NO. 50
VOL. 5
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THE RHYMING SUMMARIST
Dear Jupe: This "golden" sunshine's
mostly bunk,
And temperatures assail us;
We'd all rejoice to have you back
To cure the ills that ail us.
Our crops of pumpkins, rye and beans
Are toasting to a frizzle;
We fairly yearn
For your return
So much we miss your drizzle.
In town, this is the "heated term"
(In box car caps, dear printer).
The days are fried, the nights are baked
Oh, how we long for winter!
There is no surcease from our woe,
As round our tasks we totter,
While Fahrenheit
With fiend's delight
Grows ever hot and hotter.
Some wag has built an ice cream sign
Abaft our office casement,
A snow peak, with a gilded spoon
That reaches to the basement.
While prespiration courses down
And musses our complexion,
Why tantalize
Our weary eyes
With tons ol iced confection.
Unless a poet is serene,
And cool in silk pajamas,
How can he weave the moonbeams in
To jeweled panoramas?
We've simply got to have some rain,
To start our sob-stuff goin'
Come on, J. P.
Get oS the tee
Yours truly -Jerry Owen.
Jerry Owen, in Oregon Voter.
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OUR heritage of trust and weal
Has now become the world's great hope
For freedom from Oppression's heel.
For Aspiration's wider scope.
TO this world-call, have we reply
Other than that our fathers Jive ?
To tfuard this trust, whit if we die
If dying Is the way to sve !
HUMANITY ruth instant need
Of loyalty that seeks to serve ;
And even thoudh death were its meed.
From its ideal it would not swerve.
LIFE would have nothintf worth to tfive.
Had men not for their duty died :
True patriots would scorn to live
If they the sacrifice denied.
YE who seek the soul's free lir.
Who seek the larger hope, arise !
For truth and justice Do and Dare I
Who cares to live when Freedom dies?
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ROUTE AGREED ON
At a meeting of the state high
way commission held in Port
land last week, the route of the
proposed highway thru Polk
county was decided upon. From
McMinnville it will go to Balls
ton thru Dallas, Monmouth and
Independence. From Independ
ence it wiil go over what is
termed the "old road", the one
running south from Main street
to Corvallis. The commission
proposed to use the route, recom
mended by the state engineer,
which would leave Independence
on Fourth street and go south, if
the county would grade and
gravel the same, but the county
court does not think it
advisable to hang up this expense
at this time. The work would
cost about $8000.
The commission will decide on
July 30 whether the 10-mile
stretch between Dallas and
ndeDendence will be hard
surfaced this fall or next spring.
FOR ARMY SERVICE
SHOWER BRIDE-TO BE
When Miss Lois Hewitt re
turned from school Wednesday
afternoon she vas completely
surprised to find about thirty
guests assembled and a miscel
laneous shower of kitchen uten
sils awaiting her. The shower
had been arranged by Miss Ora
Fenton and Mrs. Leonta Small,
friends of the popular bride-to-
be, whose marriage to Mr. Don
Pomeroy will be celebrated next
Sunday afternoon at the home of
her parents, Dr. and Mrs. L. L.
Hewitt. Enough handsome
aluminum gifts were received to
furnish Mr. and Mrs. Pomeroy s
kitchen most magnificei tly. A
splendid luncheon concluded the
happy afternoon.
LOOK OUT FOR SATURDAY AUGUST 4
Here's what is going to happen on Saturday,
Aug. according" to 11 . hd wards, the iNew
Tprev oroohet: "Heavens on Fire; the Ajronv
ITpII: Death Everywhere: All Business Ends;
The End of the War; Rivers Dried Up; All Crops
LETTER FROM CO. L
July 24-Co. L is filled to war
strength now. The Honor Guard
Girls of Portland gave us an
entertainment last week. In a
few days we are expecting all of
the Third Oregon to be here-
over 2,000 soldiers. No telling
when we will leave here. We
will be mustered into the U. S.
army in a few days and be
ready to go wherever they send
us. It may be to France and we
are all ready to go, but there
will be some soldiers who will
come back and tell the tale.
Neal Buchanan was at home for
a few days. R- W.
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DAVIDSON SELLS
James L. Davidson has sold
his 100-acre farm, south of
Indenendence. to a North Da
kota man for $9500. What Mr.
Davidson will do in the future
we have not learned but hope he
will continue to make Polk
county his home. Mr. and Mrs.
Davidson will spent the re
mainder of the summer at New
port.
The Polk county boy, wkosej
number was 258, the first drawn
for service in the selective army,
is Roland W. Dobell of Mon
mouth, and tho Roland is anxious
to serve his country in any
capacity, he is barred from active
service. He has but one leg and
Uncle Sam insists on each of his
soldiers having two good ones.
The name of Roland was further
distinguished for Ben Roland
Pollan of Monmouth was the'
third out.
Scott Gibbons was the first
Luckiamute representative, Jesse
Wells for Buena Vista, Frank
Miller for Independence, Earl
Brunk for Eola and Neil Currie
for Suver. A rather odd cir
cumstance of the drawing was
the number of relatives in this
section of the county who came
well up in front together.
Polk county is to furnish no
men for the first draft. For the
second draft it will be called on
for from 100 to 175 men. Esti
mating thaf from fifty to seven
ty-five per cent will be exempted
for various reasons, it is reason
able to assume that Polk's quota
will be filled from the first four
hundred drawn cut. The names
of those drawn in this section
are given below and the order
they were drawn as it concerns
their unit-Polk county. This
list is not official and there may
descrepencies in it due to an
occassional error in the news
paper reports. The official list
will be in the hands of the ex
emption board before the week is
out. Bear in mind that the
numbers given before are
not the serial numbers but
indicate the order in which they
will be called upon to fill Polk's
quota under the second draft.
The same rotation will hold good
in all subsequent drafts.
Following is the names of the
boys in this section who will
make up Polk county's repre
sentation in the second draft:
Monmouth
Monmouth
Luckiamute
NO SCARCITY OF LABOR SAYS H0FF
State Labor Commissioner Hoff has issued a
statement in which he declares that there will be
no scarcity of labor to handle the fall crop in the
Willamette valley. He has received his informa
tion from grangers and farmers, including those
of Polk county.
Alarming reports have been sent out from this
county concerning the prospective scarcity of help
this fall, even statements appearing that crops
might have to be abandoned because help could
not be secured to harvest them. Apparently the
press correspondents, who have been sending this
stuff out, have a slight aftection of the upper
chamber caused, by the war. You know it's popu
lar now to charge everything up to the war.
But truly, the war has a number running
around in circles.
SO,000 ESTIMATE
Frospects have been so poor in
the hop busin ss up to the last
few days that many yards have
been reflected, and the crop
will fall far short of a norma!
crop. Shrewd growers ano
deaiers nearly all estimate tnt
1917 Oregon crop at less thar
50,000 bales and some believt
even 40,000 bales a high estimate.
-Aurora Observer.
FISHER KILLED
Word W83 received in Inde
pendence this morning that
Arthur Fisher of Independence
had been killed in the logging
camp at Blac Rock.
I Roland Dobell
8 Ben Pollan
8 Scott Gibbons
9 Clarence Grund
10 Jesse Weill
II Frank Miller
14 Grant McLaughlin
18 Earl Brunk
29 Benjkmin Ennes
80 Kumao Komataubard
41 Orval Cook
46 Guy Vaughan
50 James Oberson
57 Albert Wilson
(8 Francis Craber
62 Lewis Grant
63 Cliffoid Brunk
70 Orville Wells
71 Carl Percival
71 Senkicki Kamar
76 Jay Brown
77 Charles Osborn
80 Walker Martin
Monmouth
Buena Vista
Independence
Independence
Eola
Independence
Independence
Independence
Eola
Independence
Independence
Independence
Independence
Eola
Buena Vista
Independence
Independence
Monmouth
Luckiamute
Independence
81 James Gentle
83 Edwin Larsen
84 Cletus Butler
86 Glen Byerlev
90 Benjamin Aebi
91 Samuel Cox
93 Charles Ray
94 Waller Harris
98 Harry Rowe
105 Albert Sacre
loG Arthur Durham
108 Thomas McCler.en
110 George Hartman
114 William Ridgway
116 I.ee Whitcomb
128 Jay McCarty
132 Lota Scott
133 Rhodolph Deerfield
134 Leon Sawyer
135 Archie Pollock
139 Frank Smith
140 James Robbi
148 Edgar George
151 Cleo Brunk
152 Roy Smith
156 Frank Osborn
159 Harlin Powell
163 Charles Powell
173 Theodore Ellestad
178 Levi Lehman
181 Ranie Burkhead
185 Maurice Butler
188 Willard Ingermanson
189 George Brown
191 Otto Hilke
192 Levi Oleman
193 Henry Aebi
195 Royal Kremtz
196 Roy Clark
204 William Green
205 John Quivey
206 J. Numato
208 Ivan Loughary
217 Bryan Ferguson
218 Gerald Howard
219 Jess Lucie
221 Lewis Hasleton
225 Wellington Kester
227 Emerson Shafer
132 Toraichi Fujimoto
2X3 Charles Eastham
240 Ross Chan.berlin
241 Roy Knighton
243 Fred Buckner
1 244 John Weinert
! 248 William Weaver
! 249 Elmer Addison
j 253 Wilmar Olson
j 260 Harry Covey
! 261 Wilford Whittington
1 262 Carl Pollan
268 Dean Walker
265 Adelbert Speer
Monmouth
Suver
Monmouth
Luckiciir.ute
Luckiamute
Independence
Luckiamute j
Independence
Indepei deuce
Mui.muutb
Monmouth
Independence
Independence
Luckiamute
Monmouth
Buena Vista
I uckiamuto
Independence
Independence
Luckiamute
Luckiamute
Independence
Luckiamute
Eola
Monmouth
Luckiamute
Luckiamute
Luckiamute
Independence
Independence
Monmouth
Monmouth
Independence
Eola
Independence
Independence
Luckiamute
Buena Vista
Suver
Suver
Independence
Independence
Luckiamute
Eola
Independence
Buena Vista
Independence
Suver
Independence
Eola
Monmouth
Suver
Buena Vista
Independence
Luckiamute
Luckiamute
Independence
Suver
Independence
Luckiamute
Monmouth
Independence
Monmouth
2t!8 Lewis Macken
209 Adin Packard
272 Loren Cooper
274 Lawrence Purdom
27'.) Harold Herren
281 William Hoisington
2.3 Clarence Pease
2S4 Lucien Arant
2X8 Lehman Gilmore
2tU Claude South
295 William Craighead
297 Ernest Riddell
2j9 John Whitehead
310 William Bevens
313 Irwin Huntley
319 Valen Guild
320 Jay Clark
L23 Lnyd Hunnicutt
324 John Trent
320 Alfred Smith
327 Arthur Clester
328 Eluer Davis
329 Donald Bolter
330 Clare Strawu
334 James Larsen
336 Norval Stapleton
337 Edward Brown
340 Harry Heth
342 Fred Torgeson
350 H anion Hunt
353 Harold Fitckard -34
William Brown
355 Paul Hiltibrand
356 Ernest Pierce
368 Frank Story
359 Clifford Hald
360 Wallace Stephenson
367 Oliver Strong
368 Maurice Sewall
372 Edward Hamilton
380 Howard Buckner
384 William Staati
387 Kollo McKinney
389 Arthur Elkins
290 Ernest Buell
391 Clinton Baun
392 Cheater Burbank
396 Irvin Grund
397 Homer White
398 John Webber
Monmouth
Luckiamute
Luckiamute
Independence
Independence
Luckiamute
Independence
Monmouth
Monmouth
Independence
Monmouth
Monmouth
Independence
Buena Vista
Independence
Independence
Monmouth
Buena Vista
Eola
Monmouth
Independence
Independence
Suver
Buena Vista
Suver
Independence
Eola
Independence
Suver
Eola
Independence
Independence
Eola
Monmouth
Luckiamute
Independence
Monmouth
Independence
Eola
Monmouth
Independence
Luckiamute
Independence
Buena Vista
Buena Vista
Independence
Monmouth
Monmouth
Monmonth
Monmouth
SUMMER SCHOOL OUT
Summer school at the Normal
adjourned at ten o'clock this
morning and 75 of the girls
caught the 10:32 train south
from Independence. It had the
I. & M. crew on the jump, but
Conductor Bewley has become so
accustomed to handling school
ma'ams, that he doesn't mind a
few hundred of them, more or
less.
CHEER POLICE DRIVER ORDERED TO FRANCE
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Members of the Huoor Legion of the New York poll, e department takuig leaTeof their comrade. Marrm B. Ow.ua,
aa acttof detectlrt flselgiiated to drive the Honor Legion police department ambulance In FreDce.