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
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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.
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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)
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