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" 1 at NDEPENDENCE MONITOR THE PAPER THAT EVERYBODY READS" VOL. 6 INDEPENDENCE, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1917 NO. 3 THE RHYMING SUMMARIST i "Kaiser Bill went up the bill With arms to capture France, Kaiser Bill came down the hill With bullets in his pants;" Some one sent the little rhyme, Just as it's said above, And we hope that Bill When be went down the hill, Some one gave a shove. If Kaiser Bill ever climbs a hill, We hope the Sammies ketch him, And when it's time to all go home, We hope the boys do fetch him; We'd put him in an animal zoo, Where other wild ones biver, And when Bill got sore And commenced to roar, We'd feed him blood and liver. Often we have to coin a word, For example, this one "hiver," We wanted the Kaiser to eat raw meat So we made it rhyme with liver; Hop Pick Sue has arrived in town And for Mack or Lee she's looking", Mack can't see And as for Lee, Nice girls like her he's booking. This substitute for real good eats, We call it much a fake, Nothing can ever take the place Of Cora Hubbard's cake; This arid weather, this long dry spell, Really now is boring, And if very near You can hear, Ever preachers sworing. LUMFE!? FOR ONE OF NEW ARMY CAMPS -iVr ? 'lA, r& .sr z rm iiT 9m S4 b Mil.. HIJg,aKtlHI M mi, .ii, ;, .; .t .iMiiU-r aie llne ued In i.imini' tioii of the bfg mw ariuy iiu! Unoiih- 111 1 1 -otintry. Kaft of On e u hn- ltt (MJU feet long and , ..ie miv i .,.J I.iah lulled to 8an I !.. ul.. and tuad Into IuiiiUt l"t li-e ink:' SCHOOL SEPT, 24 The Independence schools, both training and high, open Sept. 24. Schools in the country commence at various times during Septem ber. The Independence hih has lost one and possibly three of its teaching staff. Miss Kawlings, domestic science, goes to Albany Earl Heckett, manual training has been elected to a place iri Eugene and there is an uncon-j firmed report that Miss Holt has taken a position elsewhere. The board anticipates great difficulty' in rinding a manual training teacher to fill the vacancy. s. p. croYreport The Southern Pacific gives out the following report of the crop situation ,in the Independence section: Last week was warm and dry with no rainfall. Threshing of whf at is progressing rapidly and ! quality good. Winter wheat is; yielding 90 per ceiit of normal, I spring wheat 50 per cent. Fall oats are yielding 90 per cent and spring oats 30 per cent. Hay is yielding 75 per cent, of normal. The continued dry weather has had its effect on sugar beets and they will not yield to exce;d 75 per cent of normal or about 8 tons per acre. Early potatoes are small and not yielding to ex ceed 35 per cent, while late po tatoes are in better condition and although badly in need of rain will yield about 60 per cent of normal. Bean acreage shows 400 per cent increase, while the yield per acre will not exceed 60 per cent of normal and they must have rain within the next 10 days. HOfS AT 42c A bunch oi tuggles sold in Silverton yesterday for 42 cents a pound. The latest estimate that the Oregon 1917 crop will not exceed 30,000 bales caused the market to jump ten cents. Hop picking in the Independ ence section win pegin bdouc Sept. 5 and it appears that there will be no scarcity of laborers. Women and children are coming in numbers, but few mec. The decreased acreage makes it prob able that the women and chil dren can handle it. Fuggles are being picked this week and turn ing out as good as expected. WHEAT MOVES Tuesday Homer Hill disc overed that his wheat crop was short- minus eight sacks. Further in vestigation showed that some other fellow's wheat crop is eight sacks long, When Homer became short and the other fel low long is not known but it is surmised that it occurred some recent night in the dark of the moon. CLUB PICNIC The Industrial Club picnic at Turner's grove last Friday was not very well attended, no doubt owing to the busy Beason and ittle advertising. Governor Withycombe and several others delivered addresses and there were competitive sports of all kinds. The day was made quite merry by those by those prebent. JOSEPHJNEKNOWLES Mrs. Josephine Ward Knowles, early settler and a highly re spected woman, wife of John B. Knowles, passed away Tuesday, August 28, at her heme north of Independence, where she has lived continuously for thirty three years, after a busy and useful life of nearly eighty years. Her death will not only be mourned for a long time by her relatives but by a large number of friends as well. The funeral services were held at the residence at 11 o'clock Ihursday morning. Dr. D. V. Polling of Dallas officiating and interment took place in the Odd Fellows' cemetery. Josephine Hortense Ward was born at Ransonville, Niagara county, New York, April 28, 1831 and died Aug. 28. 1917 at the age of 78 years and four months. She was married ut Royalton, New York, to John B. Knowles. In 18C6 they went to Michigan but stayed there but one year going to Missouri where they resided for six years. After a residence of two and a half years in Kansas, they came to Oregon in 1875 settling on what is known as the Riggs place at McNary station. After living there for nine years, they moved to their present, home. Eight children were born to Mr. and Wrs. Knowles, of which four, Burrage B., Mrs. J. S. W. Ik-rd-ecke, Cora L. and Lorenzo II., are now living. Mrs. M. W. Mix is a step daughter. Besides her husband and children she has a brother and two sisters, living in New York, surviving her. DIES SUDDENLY Frank Higdon of Jordan, Mon tana, died suddenly at C. A. Mc Laughlin's hop ranch Tuesday. He was found dead in bed after complaining of being sick for several hours. Higdon was an unmarried man of middle age and had worked for Mr. Mc Laughlin off and on for the past three years. Relatives at Jordan were wired for instructions for the disposal of the body. CIVIC LEAGUE MEETS After a summer vacation, the Independe rice Civic League will resume its twice-a-weeK meet ings on luesaay auernoon, Sept. 10. at the Moose Hall. All members are urged to be present and tell how they spent the vacation. The American public labors six days and on j the seventh wears itself out riding around in automobiles. New York Sun. j Mr. Root says Russia's riots do not amount to; much. He's seen a few Republican National i Conventions. New York World. j BIT BY MAD DOG Mrs. Nellie Stewart, daughter of L. Damon, was bitten by a mad dog the first of the week at her ranch home in the eastern part of the state. She was taken to Bfcnd where she is taking the Pasteur treatment and it is ex pected that no serious results will follow. LAMBS FOK WYOMING Kiroy & Duerst shipped 1200 head of buck lambs from Cor vallis and Independence today. The shipment represents about $25,000 and will go to Wyoming. A HAPrY GOLDEN WEDDING DESCENDANTS OF LYCUKGUS AND MARY E. BUTLER Children-Milton J. Butlor, Mrs. Ophelia Short, Mrt. Arizona lieals, Mrs. Armenta Armstrong, Mrs. Etta Belle Archibald, Monroe A. Butler, Jonthn H. Butler, Ernest T. Butler and William A. Butler. Gkand Children-Chancy iiuiler, Mrs. Rhea Hn ket, Lallas Short, Lima Short, Mr. Ethel Heckel, Mrs. Elsie Cuahman, Mrs. Ruth Wei-sr, Raymond Healu, Walter Heals, Kitlph Heals, Mrs. Pearl Lee, Mrs. Lcn Hamilton. Mra. T. W. Fowler, Mrs. Leila Channell, Elda Archibald, C'.eorge L. Archibald. Jr., Hazel Butler, Nina Butler, Frances Butler, Hilla Butler, Jonathan II. Butler, Jr., Thelma Butler and Marion Butler. Great Granp Children Vern Cuahman, Margaret Lee, Madalin Ie, Wilma Lee, John Hamilton and Melva Hamilton. It was the privilege of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Butler to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage on Saturday, Aug. 25, surrounded by eight children, thirteen grand children, three great grand children, one son-in-law, three daughters-in-law, the husbands of two grand daugh ters and a number of friends. The comfortable home between Independence and Monmouth was filled to overflowing and its walls echoed with the gladsome shouts and laugiter of a family reunion that will in all probabili ties never be again. We need not say that Father and Mother Butler had looked forward for many months to this event not so much that it was a golden wedding which but few have but because their boys and girls were coming "home". Both children and grand children, col lectively, presented them with substantial gifts, and gave them an old-fashioned charivari in the evening. Lycurgus M. Butler was born in Carrol county, Arkansas, in 1847 and Mary E. Witherspoon in Jackson county, North Caro lina, in 1850. When the great war between the states came on, Mr. Butler was one of the few in Arkansas who remained loyal to the Union and he served as a bugler in Co. K First Arkansas Cavalry. The horrors of that conflict were brought more forci bly to Comrade Butler because he was in place where fate de creed that neighbor should fight againbt neighbor and in many instances brotker against brother. Two years after the conclusion of the war he was married to Mary E. Witherspcon. In 1875, Mr. and Mrs. Butler and four children crossed the plains with an ox team, first locating in Idaho, but finally coming to Oregon. To the union were born ten children. Laura C, deceased (the only death in the family), Milton J. of Scappoose, Ore., Mrs. Ophelia Short of Turner, Wash., Mrs. Arizona Deals of Snohomish, VVush., Mrs. Armen ta Armstrong of Lake Stevens, Wash., Mrs. Ella Belt Archibald of Wheeler, Ore., Monroe A. of Scappoose, Jonathan H. of Port land, Ernest T. of Spokane and William A. of Portland, all of whom were present at the re union, with the exception of Mrs. Short who was ill. It gives Father and Mother Butler much pleasure that none of the chil dren have strayed very far from the fold. Those present at the golden jubilee were Mr.and Mrs. M. J. Butler, Mr. and Mrs. Al Hecket, Mrs. Arizona Beats, Mr. and Mrs. Gus Heckel, Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Armstrong, Mrs, Pearl Lee and her children, Mar garet, - Madeline--- n4- Wilm; Mrs. George L Archibald, Mrs. Leila Channell, Elda Archibald, George L Archibald, Jr., Monroe Butler and two daughters, Hazel and Nina; Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan II. Buller aud their three chil dren, Frances, Hilla and Jonath an, Jr.; Mr. and Mrs. Ernest T. Butler and daughters, Thelma and Marion, and William A. Butler. The hat named, Father and Mother Butler's "baby", has never married. It is evident that the family runs more to girls than to boys for there are only five grandsons and only two that bear the name of Butler. The Monitor extends felicita tions with the wish that there may be several more such happy events. WHEAT PRICE FIXED AT $2.20 The government yesterday fixed a price of 2.20 a bushel for the 1917 crop of wheat on a basis No. 1 Northern Spring- delivered at Chicago. NATIONAL ARMY WILL KEEP COOL WliH THIS mm x -a ,. v - ii tin V V w. 0. f '- 4. h f t tA ' r. t: i Li.'- St' - - m . . i,."' T1. . . ' PhotHM br American Prm Aasoclattoa. Au k emHklijg mcbla wblrb will U found at il Uif t-autunuututa whcia tlm imtloual army of dralUfd inao wlU be autloned. 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