THE INDEPENDENCE MONITOR
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
Published Weekly at Independence, Polk County,
Oregon, on Friday.
Enured as Second Claw Matter August 1, 1912 at the Post Office at Inde
pcndence, Polk Connty, Oregon, Under the Act of March 3, 1879.
CLYDE T. ECKER, Editor
NINA B. ECKER, Associate
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Independence, Oregon, Friday, October 5, 1917
Any movement to eliminate the rule of
the political boss and corporation hireling
has some merit. Independence Monitor.
In this effusion our esteemed contem
porary must be making some reference
to Senator Chamberlain. Woodburn
Independent.
We had no particular individual in
mind and it had not occurredjto us to in
clude the senator in this particular class,
and to have any of his friends think that
the shoe fits, is a mild surprise.- Inde
pendence Monitor.
We were under the impression that the
Monitor was slyly hitting1 Senator Cham
berlain because he stood on the side of
the big" corporations by voting against
the proposition that the excess war profits
pay most of the expense of the war.
Woodburn Independent.
Because over sixty senators "stood on the side
of the big corporations by voting against the
proposition that the excess warN profits pay most
of the expenses of the war" strengthens our origi
nal contention that "any movement to eliminate
the rule of the political boss and corporation hire
ling has some merit"
IRRIGATION AND
DAIRYING
Here in the Willamette valley
we are beginning to make a little
progress in the direction of estab
lishing the dairy industry on a
commercial scale. We cannot be
said to have made more than
beginning, but it Is a beginning
that promises much. We find,
however, that our principa
handicap id costly feed. The
dairyman who has plenty of
fairly cheap feed is in a Rood
way to make money, while the
one who has not is quite certain
to lose. Corn, clover, kale and
the silo are helping out with the
feed problem, but if to these
could be added abundant pasture
through the entire summer sea
son the dairyman's problem
would be greatly simplified. This
applies not only to the dairyman
but to the general stock raiser.
The agricultural colleges cf
several Middle Western states
have been doing a great deal of
experimenting: recently with ir
rigated pastures, and the results
are a little startling. In even
the most favored sections of the
Mississippi valley and in the
most favorable seasons at that,
one head of stock to an acre of
junirrigated pasture is considered
i as doing very well indeed, but
j with irrigation it has been found
that an acre of pasture can be
made to keep at least four head
Anyone who has compared irri
gated ana unirrigated lawns in
the Willamette valley knows that
our experience would not be
greatly different.
It is undoubtedly true that
good crops can be raised here
without irrigation, but it is also
most certainly true that as crop
insurance irrigation would pay
good returns on the investment
as times goes by we must pay
more and more attention to arti
ficial watering. Eugene Regis
ter.
While we do not for a moment think anyone is
disloyal or guilty of treason for so doing, it ap
pears to us that this is not the time to argue the
merits of the war. We are in it and as Mr. Bryan
says, 'the only way out is straight thru." It
appears that much of the future safety of the
world depends upon giving the Kaiser a good
beating and we should do it just as quickly as it
can be done. Every punch that America gives
ought to make Wilhelm grunt. If we can chase
him off the throne and give the German people
the opportunity to govern themselves, our effort
for thebettermentof mankind hasnotbeen in vain.
Cash now in the hands of the
county treasurer, belong
ing to the district - 2G0.OO
Total estimated receipts, not
including the money 'o be
received from the tax which '
it is proposed to vote $8, 095. 00
RECAPITULATION
Total estimated expenses for
the year - - $16,490.00
Total estimated receipts not
including th tax to be voted 8,095.00
Balance, amount to be raised
by district tax - $8395.00
Dated this 26 day of September
1917. A. L. Thomas,
Chairman Board of Directors,
Attest:
Grace Swops, District Clerk.
BUTTER WRAPS
At the MONITOR OFFICE
Teddy, the Terrible, is now out placing the
brand of "traitor" upon certain distinguished
gentlemen, the most prominent one of which he
has had a grudge against for years. If treason is
what Roosevelt says it is, he had better read some
of his own speeches in which he is poisoning the
minds of the people" against the government by
underhanded insinuations that politics kept him
from trointr to hurope at the head of a division.
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He has also commenced to tell how
Germany but forgets to mention how
Japan.
An editorial written by Marse Henry Watter
son of the Louisville Courier-Journal entitled, "A
Son of a Gun from Bitter Creek," has wandered
out to Oregon, been adopted by a half dozen news
papers and presented as original Oregon stock.
Notice of School Meeting
Notice is hereby given to the legal
voters of School District No. 29 of
Polk county, State of Oregon
that a School Meeting of
said District will be held at
Public School Buiiding on the 13th day
of October, 1917, at 7:30 o'clock in the
evening to vote on the proposition of
levying a special district tax and elect
a clerk to serve the remainder of
school year.
The total amount of money needed
by the district duri.ig the fiscal ye
beginning on June 18th, 1917, and end
ing on June 30, 1918, is estimated in
the following budget and includes th
amounts to be received from the county
school fund, state school fund, special
district tax, and all other moneys of
the district:
BUDGET
ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE
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The tax upou newspapers in increased postage
rates is evenly distributed and we are perfectly
willing to stand our share.
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Teachers' salaries
Furniture ...
Apparatus and supplies,
such as maps, chalk,
erasers, stoves, sur
tains, eta.
Library books
Flags
Repairs of schoolhousea,
outbuildings or fences
Irot roving grounds
Playground equipment
Transportation of pupils
Tuition ef pupils
Janitor's wages.
Janitor's supplies -Fuel
....
Light and Power
Water ....
Clerk's salary
Postage ami stationery
For the payment of
bonded debt and inter
et thereon, issued un
der Sections 117, 144 to
1 43 a nd 41! of the School
Laws of Oregon 1917
Warrants, etc
Paving
All other purposes
$7,000.00
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Statement of the ownership, manage
ment, circulation, etc., required by the
Act of August 24, 1912, of Independ-
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nre Monitor DUDiisnea weeiuy at
Independence, Polk county, Oregon,
for October 1, 1917.
Editor. Clyde T. Ecker, Independ
ence, Oregon; managing editor, Clyde
T. Eeker. IndeDendence. Oregon; busi
ness manacer. Clyde T. Ecker, Inde
pendence. Oregon; publisher. Clyde T.
Ecker, Independence, Oregon; owners,
Clyde T. Ecker, Independence. Oregon,
N. B. Ecker, Cazadero. Oregon; known
bondholder!, mortgagees, and other
security holders, holding 1 per cent or
more of total amount of bonds, mort
gages, or other securities: G. A.
Hurley, Vale, Oregon; G. O. Dodge,
Portland, Oregon.
Clyde T. Ecker.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 26th day of September, 1917.
R. W. Baker,
(Seal) Notary Public for Oregon.
(My commission expires May 22, 1921.)
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bedrock, W-B Gut Chewing scores a bull's-
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than from a bulky ordinary plug rich leafplump
full of sap, all tobacco satisfaction, every shred
of it. And the water-proof pouch keeps it clean
and fresh in the pocket of his khaki.
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"We must take the pay out of patriotism says
Congressman fohn M. Ihcrof the Farmer's Non
Partisan League.
Total stinated amount
of money to be expend
ed for sll purposes dur
ing the year
$16,490.00
ESTIMATED BRCGIPTs
From county school fund dur
ing the coming school year $4,294.00
From state school fund dur
ing the coming school year 1,015.00
Cash now In the hands of the
district clerk - . 1.S90.00 '
SUMMONS
No. 5033.
Department No. 2.
In the Circuit Court of the Bute of
Oregon for Polk county,
Verd Hill, - Plaintiff
vs. )
C. G. Long and Mary C, f
Long, his wife, and f
D. E. Fletcher, )
Defendants.
To Mary C. Long, one of the above
defendants:
IN THE NAME OF THE STATE
OF OREGON: You are hereby re
quired to appear and answer the com
plaint filed against you in the above
entitled suit and Court within six
weeks from the date of the first publi
tation of this Summons, to-wit: on or
before the 27th day of October, 1917,
and if you fail so to appear, for want
thereof the plaintiff will apply to said
Court for the relief in said complaint
demanded, to-wit: For a judgment
in the sum of $1114.45, with interest
thereon from May 2nd, 1916, at the
rate of 10 per cent per annum until
paid; for the further sum of $132.86,
installments, principal and interest, on
street improvement assessments; for
$69.62 taxer, with interest on said im-
stallments and taxes from July 25th,
1317, until paid, at b per cent per
annum; for $100 00 attorney's fees and
for his costs and disbursements in said
suit; for $4.66 premium on fire insur
ance policy.
That the usual decree in foreclosure
may be made for the sale of said
mortgage premises according to law
and the practice of aaid Court, and the
proceeds thereof may be applied in
payment of said Judgment, costs and
accruing costs, or so much thereof as
may be neesiiary; that defendants,
C G. Long and Mary C. Long, may be
adjudged to pay any deficiency which
may remain after so applying said pro
ceeds of the sale of said premises
properly applicable to the satisfaction
of said judgment.
That defendants and all persons
claiming under them or either of them
subsequent to the execution of said
mortgage upon said premises, either
as purchasers, encambrancera or other-
be barred and foreclosed of all
right, title, lien, claim, estate or
equity of redemption in and to anid
mortgaged premises and every part
and parcel thereof, excepting only the
ight of redemption as by law
provided.
And for such other and different re
lief as to equity seemeta just.
That said mortgaged pre mi see in said
complaint described are described as
follows: Lot 1 in Block 8, in Henry
Hill's town of Independence, Polk
County, Oregon.
This summons, by order of Hon.
H. H. Belt, Judge of the above en
titled Court, made and entered on the
7th day of September, 1917, in open
court at the City of Dallas, Oregon, is
served upon you by publication thereof
for a period of six consecutive weeks
immediately prior to October 27th,
1917, in the Independence Monitor, a
newspaper of general weekly rircula-l
tion and published at Indepeadence, !
Polk County. Oregon. The date ofj
the first publication of this summons is
the 14th day of September, 1917, and:
the date of last publication will be i
October 26th. 1917.
B. T. SworK,
Attorney for Plaintiff, j
of Independence, Oregon, '
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