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if MONITOR "THE PAPER THAT EVERYBODY READS' VOL.6 INDEPENDENCE, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1917 NO. 14 I 1 NDEPENDENCE A THE RHYMING A question we have received From somewhere down by Suver, It is too deep for us, So we pass it on to Hoover: "If we must economize, stint and save While some they live in clover, Can't we take their 'fat' For taxes and that When the war is over?" K. C. E. has been telling us That it's hard to cutter, , If he can't get the creamy cream, How'll he make the butter? So we whispered in K. C.'s ear, "Put in a little tallow," And K. C. said, "You've a wise old head, But do not tempt a fallow" High school kids make quite a noise, Tho it strains their collar, Here is something for their repertoire, Add this to their holler: Swat the kaiser on the jaw, Stop his deathly revel, Lay him low, So he may go To his pal, the devil. A friend came in the other morn, Thru the foggy vapor, And requested that we write more rhyme, Fill up the whole durn paper; We've though the matter over much, We dare not, we wrould rue it, We'd run down And the town, No, we mustn't do it. FOLKS AT HOME ARE HELPING, ALSO WRITTEN IT DtNALO GRANT AND MOTHER OE MALTA, MONTARA Juit before the mess-call mother, I am thinking most of you; W bile you're eating eggs and bacon We are eating army stew. Farewell, mother, we may never Eat at home with friends no more; But promise me you'll not forget me Standing at the mess-hall door. Mother, we get beans for dinner, Hardtack morning, noon and night; And, mother, don't forget we're eatera; We ean eat as well as fight. When we go a cross the ocean And see Germans every night, We'll be very lucky, mother, If we have hardtack to bite. Now my tale of woe is ending, And my stomach's feeling light; When I get back home to your, dear, My inwards sure will be a fright I will eat tin cans and paper; I ean down moat anything; I eould tat the parlor organ, And then, maybe, I ean sing. (On to Berlin) -Donald Grant MOTHU'S RIPLY. Just before the dinner, Donald, I am wondering what to do. COMMENT CONCERNING THE WAR Russia just now has a steam roller but no steam. Wall Street Journal. One report has it has that the kaiser "will rush to the front to cheer the soldiers." If he waits a little he will not have to rush so far.-Aibany journal. In these feverish knitting days, the editors of Kansas are universal in their envy of Gomer Davies of Concordia who has a wooden log and can darn the hole in one sock with paint. Em poria Gazette. SUMMARIST We're not eating eggs and bacon, And we haven't any stew. Eggs are forty cer.ia a dozen. Bacon's fifty cents a pound. Gee! I wish I was a soldier, With my grub and clothes all found. Beans are only used for Sammies Anyhow, that's how it looks. Side-pork, sausage, chops or ham is Far beyond our potketbooks. Hardtack's made of flour; we oughter Try at that to take a whack; We might be able to get water, But flour is seven plunks a sack. We must save our cans and paper. For "conservation is the style"; Next they'll tell us to dry vapor In the sunshine of a smile. So just before the dinner, Doeald, The wolf is sneaking 'round our door. For "give up till it hurts," they tell us, So our soldiers may have more. Just before tha dinner, Donald, Mother's thinking, dear, of you; Hoping that you'll be contented With your beans and army stew. Just before the jnes-call, Donald, Standing at the mess-ball door. Think of father, sisters, mother, Helping Donald win the war. ii THEY. M, C. A. DRIVE1 Independenden.ee is now rais ing its duota for the Y. M. C. A. fund. Tuesday night an enthu siastic meeting was held at the Isis. Chaplain Matthews of the regular army made a forcible appeal for aid for the Y. M. C. A. A male quartette from Salem sang several numbers. The high school, three score strong, was present and made the building echo with their yells. Prof. Wright reported that the four classes of the high school had already raised over $150 for the fund. Another meeting was held Wednesday afternoon at which time a general committee, con sisting of C. A. McLaughlin, C, W. Barrick, II. Hirschberg. C. W. Irvine ai d II. S. Wood, was selected to take charge (f the raising of the Y. M. C. A. fund. It was also agreed that the committee would act in all further drives for money for patriotic works. This committee then held a meeting Wednesday night and appointed committees to have charge of the soliciting. From the interest manifested here in the good work of the Y. M. C. A. in the army and navy, there is no doubt but what Independence and vicinity will do it eshare and more. JOE EATON Among the Portland boys who have graduated with honors from aviation schools is Joseph Ed mond Eaton, who recently gradu ated from the U. S. Aviation School at Berkeley, Cal., stand ing third in his class. He is now at the aviation concentration camp in New York awaiting or ders for active service. He is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Frank B. Eaton. Dr. Eaton for more than 45 years has been a practicing physician of this city and is a former member of the army. Young Eaton's grandfather was General Joseph H. Eaton and his great-grandfather was an officer in the War of 1812,-Sunday Oregonian. ENTERTAINED The W. C. T. U. was enter tained by Mis. Frances Fitz gerald Tuesday afternoon. After 'old and new business" hart been disposed of, readings from "Twenty Eventful Years" of the W. C T. U. and topics of an in spirational character and uplift were discussed. At the close of the session, most delicious re freshments were served by the hostess, after which this band of Christian workers adjouraed to meet with Mrs. Martha Richard son. Tuesday, Nov. 27th, at 2:30 p, m. All members are urged to be present and visitors will find a hearty welcome. C. FOR CHAUTAUQUA Those interested in the Inde Dendence Chautauqua, which takes place December 1, 3, 4, held a meeting Wednesday niht and completed organization. C. VV. Irvine was elected chairman. He appointed Clyde Ecker secre tary and named the members of several committees who are now enthusiastically at work. 50 YEARS MARRIED Mr. and Mrs. Abram Nelson, most worthy and estimaMe people so well and favorably known to all, will on next Tues- dav Nov. 20, celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage. Such an important event in their lives will be pro perly observed. EXAMINE AIL SOON The government will call all registered men for examination within a few days. This exam ination is not for the purpose f drafting them into the army at the present time but to have to have those eligible ready for service when the call comes. The men have been organized into five classes. Those in the first class will be called first. It consists of single men and wid owers, who have no dependents, and married men who do not support their wives and children, are supposed by their wives, or who have wives who are in good financial circumstances. AUTO HITS MILK WAGON Last night about nine o'clock an automobile ran into Grant McLaughlin's dairy wagon on Monmouth street and as a result Mr. McLaughlin was quite badly hurt. While no bones were broken, he was terribly bruised and will re laid up for quite a time. Ernest Chown. who was also riding on the dairy wagon, had an eye hurt and several teeth knocked out. Evidently the driver of the car failed to see the waron owing to the fog. Mr. McLaughlin, when the car appealed before him, pulled the horse to one side and the machine struck the wagon nearly square. Being thrown onto the hard pavement made the chanres for serious injury worse. Twj automobiles aud a beet wagon met on the highway north of town yesterday morning and in passing one of the cars went into the ditch. No one was hurt. S. W. LEONARD SELLS S. W. Leonard has sold his beautiful country place south of Independence to Arthur li. Hale, late of Idaho. Mr. Hale has ar rived and is living on the place with his mother and sister. The farm of 100 acres was sold for $12,800. The community and neighbors regret very much to lose Mr. and Mrs, Leonard who have taken so much interest in the affairs of the neighborhood and sincerely hope they will not go very far. Mr. Leonard tells us that he has no definite plans for the future and does not know at this time where he will locate. . . 4 DEATHS Archie It. Kisor, aged 33, liv ing in the Lewisville section, died at Dallas Wednesday fol lowing an operation for appen dicitis. Funeral services were held bt the home today. He is survived by his wife and two young daughters. Mrs. Allen Towns, aged CO, died at her home near Monmouth last Saturday. Funeral services were held Monday. She is sur vived by her husband and three daughters. CHARGES PREFERRED As the result of the fracas be tween Sam Cox and Andy Tup pe" on Hallowe'en night, Tupper preferred charges against Cox tor assaulting an officer. In a hearir g before Justice Holman, Cox was bound over to the grand jury and released on bail. UNDER CONSIDERATION An enterprising citizen of In dependence is considering the proposition of erecting a milk condenser here. This seems to be a very opportune time for such a business. GIVING OUR MITE AGAIN - A committee will call upon you today or to morrow for a contribution to the Y. M. C. A. fund. Give what you can. Of course, these continual pleas for money are not to our liking, but they are part of the be avoided. As long as this war lasts, there will be these financial sacrifices to make. Perhaps there are better methods of "paying the freight" but they are not being used and we are obliged to do the best we know As we give our dollars that it might be a reconciled with the thought that we re going to win and that the harder we hit right now, the sooner it will be over. FRED LIKES (Kred Lockley in Portland Journal) Sometimes the Man About JTown takes a day off in the country. A day or so ago to be exact, on November 12 with John Rash, an old-time stage driver, I drove from Orville through the heart of the hop country about Independence and thence eastward over the Marion county hills to the Liberty dis trict, some miles south of Salem. Easterners talk of the beauty of the autumn foliage along the Hudson. I have made a trip up the Hudson in autumn and there is no discounting the beauty of its wooded shores, but the Hud son never looked more beautiful than do the shores of the Wil- lamtte right now. We stopped for a few moments on a rounded knoll in the Liberty hills. The sun was setting. The west was a mass of delicately pink and pearl gray clouds. Along the sinuous Willamette far below a filmy, opalescent haze was gathering. The recent rains had made the park-like glides on the hillsides brilliantly green, against the darker green of the evergreens. Ihe irost-toucnea leaves of the Cottonwood and alder glowed like pale gold. Here and there a maple's flame-red foliage gave a touch of color to the more sober garb of the other trees. Wide-spreading oaks, their limbs draped in yellow green moss, with rustling brown leaves, stood in solitary beauty on crests of distant hills. We took lunch at the farm home of J. E. Groves, who has been farming in the Willamette Valley for more than 60 years. Whole wheat bread and graham CIVIC LEAGUE The Civic League was called to order last Tuesday with a per fectly new and splendid gavel. The bit of artistry made of red juniper was presented to Mrs. Eldridge while she was attend ing the recent Federation of Clubs in Prinevilleand was made bv a member of the manual training class of the Prineville high school. Tuesday the gavel was oresented to the president and the club by Mrs. Cooper, and Mrs. Eldridge initiated it into the mysteries of Civicdom with stately dignity. The meeting was well attended and Mrs. Homer Hill was received as a new member. Following routine Lusiness. Mrs. Eldridge gave a pleasant and entertaining re hearsal of her trip to the Feder ation. She dwelt especially on the pleasures, featuring the "Buckaroo Breakfast," the "Sunset Picnic", the cowboy street parade, etc., and told of manv solendid sneakers who talked during the Federation. horror of war that cannot how. we have this consolation worse. Then we are SUGAR BEETS gems, rich cream and creamy Jersey milk, home made butter, country gravy, baked potatoes with meat and fried sugar beets made our noonday atop most en joyable. "We hear a good deal of talk nowadays," said Mrs. Groves, "about the need of conserving our sugar and wheat, our meat and butter. I doubt if you ever ate sugar beets before. Do you like them?" I told her that ac tions were more eloquent than words and the fact that I had passed my plate for more fried sugar beets was good proof that I liked them. "Hundreds of tona of sugar beets are raised in this neighborhood," said Mrs. Groves, "lhe sugar factory at Grants Pass pay $7 a ton for them. You can buy all you want from the farmers hereabout fv.r 35c for a hundred pound sack, which is about one-fourth the price of potatoes. They contain from 18 to 20 per cent sugar. I steam them till they are tender, and then put meat drippings on them and bake them in the oven or fry them. They are tender, sweet and nutritious. Why don't you city people eat them? They would furnish the sugar required by the human system, and give you an appetizing and whole some vegetable at extremely low cost. Hundreds of acres of hops are being plowed up hereabout and the ground is being devoted to corn, beanB, potatoes and Bugar beets. Last spring George Rose plowed up his 210 acre hop field and planted it to beans. On the Fercival place near here, 58 acres of hop land was plowed up last spring and sugar beets put in." Mrs. Cooper followed with a most profitable talk, giving especial stress to the work of the scholarship loan fuid, impress ing each and every one present with the valuable assistance this loan fund is to many girls am bitious for an education. Both speakers were heartily enjoyed and applauded. At the next meeting, Nov. 27, a paper on the "Early History of Russia" will be given by Mrs. J. S. Cooper. "L" IS CAMPED Despite all rumors to the con trary, Co. L is now at Camp Mills. Long Island. They are not on the way over or are not likely to go for some time. Mea sels has struck the company pretty hard, Ernest Smith being the latest victim. Cyril Rich ardson writes his parents that the sudden change of climate caused the boys to suffer severe ly from the cold, especially until they could get stoves up in their sleeping quarters. V; I