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"THE PAPER THAT EVERYBODY READS'
VOL.6
INDEPENDENCE, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1917
NO. 14
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NDEPENDENCE
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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.
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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.
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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.
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