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INDEPENDENCE MONITOR "THE PAPER THAT EVERYBODY READS' INDEPENDENCE, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1917 NO. 6 VOL.6 THE RHYMING SUMMARIST The natives of these hills and dales And peerless snow capped mountains Are gleeful one and all since Jupe Cut loose his misty fountains. How welcome to the populace Is Oregon's fall weather! The web that grows Between the toes Is soft as kitten leather.' "Once more the fields are glowing green, As if glad spring had kissed them; The summer days abruptly fled, But no one yet has missed them. The Summer duds and fluffy ruffs Are ditched in madame's closets, And furs and serge Will soon emerge From moth-proof safe deposits. "Full soon the potes will mourn and wail That Winter is descending, With melancholy days and nights, Monotony unending. For us, we're going to pop some corn, And fill our tank with cider, And rest our wits While mother knits, And we roost there beside her." Such is the song that has been sung By a poetic rhyming tellow, Of the season now at hand When the apple turns to mellow; Thoughts ot winter ache our bones, Some concern is giving, For frost and ice - - Will soon suffice To worry much the living. PRESIDENT ASKS CHILDREN TO HELP To th School Children of th United State: A Proclamation-The President of th United States ia alto president of the American Red Cross. It is from thti offices joined in one that I write you a word of greeting at this time when so many of you are beginning the school year. The American Red Cross has just prepared a junior membership with school activities, in which every pupil in the United States can fin '. a chance to serve our country. The school is the natural center of your life. Thru it you can best work in the gret cause of freedom to which we have all pledged ourselves. Our junior Red Cross will bring to you opportunities of service to your community and toother communities all over the world and guide your service with high and religious ideals. It will teach you how to save in order that suffering children elsewhere may have the chance to live. It will teach you how to prepare some of the sup plies which wounded soldiers and homeless families lack. It will send to you, thru the Red Cross bulletins, the thrilling stories of relief and rescue. And best of all, more perfectly than thru any of your other school lessons, you will learn by doing those kind things under your teachers' direction to be the future good citizens of this great country which we all love. And I commend to all school teach ers in the country the simple plan which the American Red Cross has w rked out to provide for your co operation, knowing as I do that school children will give their best service under the direct guidance and instruc tion of their teachers. Is not this per haps the chance for which you have been looking to give your time and ef forts in some measure to meet our na tional needs? WOOD ROW WILSON, President. SWOPE TO LEAVE B. F. Swope made the an nouncement this morning that he intends to leave Independence about Oct. 15 and go to Oregon City where he will continue the practice of law, having formed a desirable partnership tnere. His office here will be in charge of his son, Cecil, and Edward Dwyer. During his residence here, Mr. Swope has enjoyed an extensive practice but feels that the oppor tunity at Oregon City is so much better as to justify the change. At present he is city recorder and attorney and Mrs. Swope is secretary of the school board, places which will become vacant by the change cf residence of Mr. and Mrs. Swope. . Their departure from Inde pendence will be greatly re gretted. YOUNG MAN DIES Clarence Jordan, a young man of 19, died at the home of his parents in Independence Sunday of tuberculosis. It had been known for the past six months that his death was only a ques tion of days. The funeral services were held on Tuesday at the Pentecostal church. Eight of the deceased's young friends acted as pall bearers. A large number of Tuesday Evening Club members attended as he was a member of that organization. Interment was male in the Odd Fellows cemetery. 21 REGISTER In the registration of women last Saturday, ander the auspices of the Woman's Council of De fense, but 21 responded in Inde pendence. This is not due to lack of patriotism for certainly the women of this section have re sponded nobly to all demands upon them, but tbtre is a general feeling that the registration is unneecessa'y and superfluous. Thruout the state but few registered. NOTICE Whereas, one Willard E. Craven has commenced the cultivation of foliage and bruah ujon his personal frontal premises, all persons who har bor fleas, bed bugs and head or body lice or permit them to be about are hereby ordered to confine the eame closely, as by statue provided, lest some or all of said animals take up their abode in said foliage and bruxh for the purpose of building homes, suckling their young, and in other it aimers domesticating themselves which would ultimately result in a harm and a loss of blood to innocent persons who might venture near. It is further ordered that all persons har boring any of the above named animals nlare bells, securely tied, upon the same and equip each with lifchts, both head and tail, while thia crisis exists or until said foliage and brush has been permanently removed. C. A. Less, Mayor. F. B. Swape, Recorder. SCHOOL OPENS MONDAY we're riding, walking is hard work . The people of Polk county evidently think The independence schools - automobile riding is "the life' There are now both high and training begin auiumuum- 1U''S " Monday and it is believed that 1022 machines in the county, one to every litteen er S5(X),(KX) the 1022, e 1022-are and his assistants will be Beryl! rnntrihiirintr enoilfh to lOlin D. every day tO paV his meat bill, and on Sundays, the old gent can eat ham. the enrollment will exceed that npnnlo Tf thev were all mid for OV fi.ym, A. Wright will would be invested in joy wagons. Of be principal at the High School over half are Lords. We meaning til MARRIED Kenneth L. Williams and Miss Helen Conn were married at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Conn, Sunday in the presence of relathes and friends. The best wishes of the community go out to the popular young couple for a happy and prosperous voyage on the matri monial sea. "SLICK UP" SAYS DADS Civic pride took "a holt" of the city councilmen at their regu lar meeting Wednesday night and preliminary steps were taken to do some cleaning up and renovating arcind about. Before the week is out several property owners will be re quested to cut the weeds. It was also voted to fill up all "chuck holes" about the city. - a - SEASON ENDS Hop picking was over Tuesday when the baskets were stacked at the Burton and Walker yards. By today, most of the pickers have returned to their homes. Tho a short season each adult picker made from $25 to $G0 this year. Holt, Mabel Stevens and Miss Rigdon. ' The latter has been chosen to take the place of domestic science teacher vacated by Miss' Rawlings. No manual training' teacher could be found and for he present at least that part of the high school work will be dispensed with. As far as a majority of people are concerned they do hot care whether manual training is taught or not. A number have said they would prefer some kind of a commer cial course. The training school will be presided over by Miss Katharine Arbiithnot. tho Prof. T. H. Gentle of the Normal will be the guiding; head. The other in structors will be the Misses Grace Williams, Kate Houx and Emily De Vorf JURORS CALLED The following citizens in this section bf the county have been drawn 4 for jury service at the October term of court: Thomas Alexander, 11." A. Alderson, J.D. Bolter,! W. I. Hror.son, V. A. Kishbaijk. J. D. McCredy, S. II. Mc El injury. G. A. Peterson, J. F. rpwell, M. M. Porterfield, R. E. Prather, William Riddell, Jr., J.; VV. Story, Chas. D. Smiley.' LETTER FROM CO. L La Grande, Sept. 17.-1 he company took a thirty mile hike with full equipment. It took two days to make the trip ard each soldier carried his grub with him. All expect to go to the Pendleton Roundup. Co. L beat La Grande in a ball game last week. Charles Atwater of Airlie got married last week. Ernest Force of Monmouth is here now. R. W. V. & S. TO WORK The Valley & Siletz will begin work in the outskirts of Inde pendence tomorrow. They have secured several teams and acrapers and it is presumed that the line will be completed to its terminal. SOME CAN NEVER RELISH HORSE MEAT (M. N. D. in Portland Journal) Down on First street there is a horse meat market. It offers horse meat steaks, horse meat roasts and horse meat stews and boiling. It even makes a cut rate on horse meat bologna. The sign on the window ar rests the attention of passersby. Horse meat is "advised by physi cians". It is "the most health ful of all meats." It "costs half as much as beef." But notwithstanding the earn est claims made for the goodness who labored as willingly in seed time and harvest as though they were partners of ours, as, in deed, they were. But for all their strength we children could clamber to their backs, three or four of us at a time, and then how carefully they would step, how gently they would carry us over the meadow and down among the apple trees. Why, when Dick died, we grieved and wept as though we had lost a member of the family. "Do jou think, now. I could Tames K. Sears, "citizen and taxpayer" what he calls the "state school trust" and sears 'Polk county's nepotic school board" in Wednesday's Salem Journal. He "lays on" to Presidents Kerr A Columbus hotel cat fell 13 stories. No, not in the least. You ouirht and Ackerman, benator Hawley and bupervisorit k Q . w;thcmt asking Moore with much vim and vigor. j-ponund nw. B. V. SCHOOLS The Buena Vista schools open Monday with Piof.Mmiun Butler at the head. The other two teachers are the Misses Prudence Bailey and Loretta Smith. An enrollment of 85 is expected. of horse meet and that it is a contemplate with anything but new industry which should, ac-j abhorrence, a business which re cording to the rule.be fostered. t duces to steaks and stews and and so forth, some Portlanders! bologna the most faithful, loyal are inclined to speak critically of and uncomplaining burden bearer the horse meat institution. "I'd just as soon think of eat ing the family cat or the chil dren," indignantly wrote one of these critical citizens. "Let me take you back to my "Once I was over man has ever known?" Another citizen seemed to think the criticism might in time be allayed. "It's all in the way you look at it," he suggested. in China. I childhood days," proposed an- saw skinned dogs hung up for other. 'sale as human food there. I'll "It was a country home half jadmit I would as Boon eat dog hidden in ivy and honevsackle. meat as horse meat, and that I There w. s a meadow where the wild roses bloomed along the rail fence and an orchard where the aweet apples tumbled from the trees my grandfather planted. We had two horses. We called them Dick and Jim. They were broadbacked, powerful animals, would not feel I had been more of a party to destroying one of man's most trusting and loyal friends, in one case than the other, but perhaps after we get well accustomed to the horse meat idea, it won't be a far cry to add dog chops to our menus." PASSING THE POSIES TO THE LIVING During the trial Wednesday, he is in the wrong." Then later, one of the defendants, Mrs. I the other defendant, Miss Olson, Olson, paid this tribute while on j very charming young lady, was the witness stand to the plaintiff: , testifying and she said sweetly: ... . lL. . , r, . ' I needed a witness to the trans I will say this much for Pe e f and of Kurre. He can make an awful' Carkj I asked him to go with nice apology when he finds out I me because he's an honest man." MOTHER SEEKS CISTODY OF CHILD Who shall have the permanent custody of little Lenora May Durk, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Burk, will have to be de cided by the court, as the parents and grandparents cannot agree in the matter. Earl IJurk, who is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Burk of Airlie, and formerly of this city, and his wife separated last win ter while residing in Portland. At that time the child, little more than a baby, was taken by the father to Montana. A few weeks later she was brought to the home of her grandparents near Airlie, where she has been cared for since. Tuesday the mother of the child. Mrs. Gladys Burk, accom- (ConiinuBd on I'are4, Col. 8) GERMAN PRISONER GETS FIRST AID BEHIND LINES -',Tti iirffitif K i '-'v..;," ,4 H, (- X SSL' . 1 ..! l,.lill 111! !. 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