BREVITIES Alarm clocks, $1, at Kreamer's. C E. Henkle spent this week in Portland. See our window display of Heat er bargain. Moore 4 Walker. Dry lime sulphur spray at J. D. Illbbs & Co. Thomas Fennell returned. lat week from a visit to the East. For Sale One hay horse, weight 1420. E. F. Black, Ituena ViHta. 31 Clark Ileirrbree was on the Port land market with a load of hogs this week. Buy vour cloth hats from Con key & Walker. For both ladies and Kentlnmen. A nice line to pick t rom. Mr. and Mrs. Horn of Albany were Independence visitors thin week. Denn Walker will have charge of (he baseball team at the state uni versity this year. Use dry lime sulphur spray. Most convenient and the cheapest in the long run. For sale by J. l. Ilibbs & Co. For Sale Pekln duck and Ithode Isl-tnd Hod eggs for hatching. Mrs. L. L. Whiteaknr. 32 Peter Kurre was in Kelso, WbhIi., ovt Sunday looking after his crimnory interests at that place. J. D. Ilibbs & Co. have just re ceived a shipment of dry lime sul phur spray. BOLSUM Cookies, Abo Oatmeal, Par Honey and Sugar Cookies. Otto Hilke haa gone to Fondle ton where he will he employed this suinnior. The W. C T. U. will meet with Mrs. E. M Stanshury next Tuesday afternoon. The patriotic musical at the Meth odist church tonight ought to be wel attended. The program is run ning over with good talent. You yam customers who want grey and khaki colon will find a larKC nipply on hand at Conkey & Walker's atora. J. S. Bohannon thia week remov ed the fixture and machinery from his planing mill and sold them to Portland parties. A few more day and you will want plow shoes. We have a good lino. Price f.3.50, $3.85, t 75. $5.00,, r.KT. $0.50 and 10.75. O. A. Kream or. Sprny now with dry lime sul phur. For sale by J. V. llibbs & Co. Theodora Cooper has disposed of Ills Interest in the ranch just south of Iiuh'pendenceand expects to go to Wellington toon to till his farm up there. E. S. MeCready, who is now em ployed In Portland, was visiting' friemls and relative In old Folk this week. Independence' favorite screen atar. Ma Marsh, at the Isis in "Cinderella Man" lor one night only, Thursday, March 7. V ats overstocked on heaters Ueginnlng March 1st, for ten days we will reduce the price of our Heater on fourth. Now is your chance to buy a good heater for less than the present wholesale price. Moore & ulker. A good pair of reading glasses for Jl.OOatO. A. Kreamer's. lice Hroa, ltig Africander Co, 14 people, comes to the Isis next Weilne-Hday night, March 6. Danc ing, si i. King, vaudeville, band ami orchestra. For Sale Defiance Spring Wheat Seed. Homer Hill. Miss Crissy Bramhurg is visiting relatives In Portland. Cat HOLSUM Bread, the Super Liberty Loaf. Scott Leonard haa purchased a borne in Portland. Clifford Wells has entered the aviation service. Men buy that new suit from Conkey & Walker. You get an all wool suit for $15, the old price. New and up to date designs in wall paper. Moore & Walker. Life on a milk route was too slow for one of Grant Mclaughlin's horse Tuesday forenoon and he took u run down C street to the riv er. Fortunately no milk was deliv ered while the horse was running. The Valley & Siletz' gasoline mo tor car has arrived and will be placed in service today. The new ferry hunt is nearly com pleted ami will he put in commis sion within a short time. Trunks, Mags and Moore & Walker. Suitcases, "Doing nicely," is the message that comes from Portland hos pital concerning the condition of Paul itickley. Clyde Hill has received word from Washington that an investigation will be made to determine whether or not his idciiH regarding a non- sinkable ship have been adopted by the navy department. Clarence J,oy of Ituena Vista was recently placed upon the Hull of Honor by State Superintendent Chun hill. Tins honor is attained by selling $50 worth of Thrift stamps. You should seo the nice warm woolen and cotton blankets and also u beautiful lot of wool and cotton bats for quills at Conkey & Walk er's store. A large number of Independence people are now eating HOLSUM bread. Why not you? There will be no shows at the Isis on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Friday nights of next week. Wednesday night, the Africanders; Thursday night, Mae Marsh in "Cin derella Man;" SatunU' night, Blue bird. Miss F.va l.alliberte, a student at the Normal, has been receiving act ual experience as a teacher for the past six weeks. She has presided over the Mountainview school in Kenton county nnd completed her time last Friday. Let us frame that picture. Moore A Walker. For Sule-Hrood sow; will farrow March 10. Sam Muhlmau, phone 5ii:. The city of Independence was ob liged to purchase the lot owned by (lien K. Kihbe winch was sold by the marshal Monday to satisfy street assessments against it and will also have to pay state nod county taxes to prevent it being sold again. ' Some one has been cutting the ptule glass of the store windows. This act of vandalism has led to a little detective work and the young fellow who has been doing the dam ago H now know n and a policy of watchful w idling is now being pur sued in order to catch him. Bur HOLSUM for the children. They thrive on it. F.ngiue No. t on the I. A M. line, by Hew ley is beingumde to shine. Mr. Hevvley has not only daubed on plenty of black paint hut has over hauled the engine from cow catcher to tail light. I, A M olticiuls from the president dovv n to the peanut butcher vtll feel pivml to ride be hind Old Number Hue hereafter. After I. oo Itohiusou had gone to bed Sunday night, he heard some i one building a lire iu the kitchen and hastily getting up he found a number of voung men had enter t the house. As they were all of re spectable families he hated to call , an otIUer and finally persuaded them about one o'clock to leave the j house and go home. Dr. II. E. Dues one drotiat. National Lank Bu idJ he. Onc yon have eaten HOLSUM yon will wonder how you ever did without 1L i Over stocked on Heaters. Selling for b-ss than wholesale price. See our window. Moore t Walker, Complete Home Furnishers. We acknowledge the receipt of a copy of the Los Angelea Tribune with several interesting articles marked, which was sent by Mrs. J. Dornsife, who is now at Los An geles. There will he no morning service at the Presbyterian church Sunday, hi the evening Dr. Dunsmore will continue his series of lecture on "Night Scenes in the Bible," the sub ject being "Israel's Last Night in I.gypt. COMMUNITY ITEMS Miss Othel Ilevens, the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eston Ilevens, is improving very rapidly from her recent illness and is able to be about again. Gladys Iteyrrolds and Alfred Loy were week end visitors with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Rey nolds and Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Loy. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Bevens, late of Portland, were week end visitors in this vicinity, visiting relatives and friends. Charles Chickno of Wigrich com bined business with pleasure in land several days last week. Mr. and Mr. Abe Porter and fam ily moved to Wigrich the first of the week. ,K. and Mrs. Green of near In dependence are moving to Wig rich . The lied Cross social held on Saturday night was a great success ami well patronized. There was about iff 125.11 cleared. Pretty good for a small place. The society wishes to thank the community for the success of the social. They were glad to see so many from Indepen dence. . MONMOUTH NEWS Salem Capital Journal) Mis Myra II. Butler, head of the Domestic Science and Domestic Art department of the 0. S. N. S. , is re covering rapidly from her opera tion, and hopes to return to her work soon. A little surprise farewell was given in honor of Bruce Bogers last Monday night at the home of Grace Graham. The evening was pleas antly spent in playing "Five Hun dred," after w hich the didightful re freshments of oranges and bananas were served. Those present were as follavvs: Bruce and Gertrude Roger's, Gail Hiltibrand, Zola Bab cock, Bert Ostrom, Andrew Smith, Wilda Fuller, Robert llendron, Ruth Stone, Harold Haley, Mr. and Mrs. and Teddy Graham. Bruce left Wed nesday for Portland, where he will work in a music store. His friends wish him the best of luck. MAE MARSH IS STAR Or "CINDERELLA MAN" The third Goldvvyn PnVure star ring Mae Marsh is the "Cinderella Man," from the famous play by I'.dward Child Carpenter, which was a leading Broadway hit when produced in the regular theatre by Oliver Morosco. It is the story of a young heiress, Marjorie Carter, who is so much touched by the account given by her father's lawyer of a young poet, Anthony Quintard, who is starving in a garret at the other end of the Mock, that she undertakes to bring him food and comforts over the roofs. Her trips to the garret are made during Quintard' ab sence; but one day he catches her. He suspects that she is the mill ionaires daughter, and is about to evict her because, as a Socialist, he has no use for persons who are "filthy rich," when she tells him she is just Marjory Outer's companion, Miss Mudge. So he suffers her to remain and presently she volunteers to help him by typewriting his 0( era libretto which he has just com ploted to he submitted in a con test for n $I0,(n) prize. In due course he finds himself in love with "Miss Mudge.'but feels unable to dech re himself because he has no mouoy. At lust, however, he makes Ivold to ak her if she'll have him when he makes good; and he is delighted when she tells bun "Pel haps.'' But while he is wailing, n former lover of Mar jories who has boon engaged to wed her, appears to claim her hand; and when the time comes that Qutiitard wins the prixe and is ivihIv to nk her to become his wife, he finds her already betrothed to another. His indignation is in creased vv hen be learns that she really is " filthy rich" after all; and It takes the combined e Torts of her father and bis three friends to un tangle the situation, and bring Mar jory to her happiness. At the Isis for one night only, Thursday, March 7th. CARD Or THANKS We take this means of thanking our many friends for their acts of kindness and sympathy during our recent sorow, the death of our be loved husband and father. Mrs J. F. Smith Miss Rose Smith Mr. and Mrs. C F Smith Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Tedrow Mr. and Mrs. R. II Smith CAUSED BY WEIGHT OF SNOW Simple Explanation of Odd 8hape of Tree, That Hat Been a Mystery to Many. To the person who la not versed In forest lore the grotesquely bent tree trunks that are to be found In almost all woods are mystifying, and wonder 1 often aroused as to the cause, re marks the Popular Science Monthly. Foresters will tell questioners that In the case of trees in mountainous coun try and other sections where the snow fall Is heavy, the weight of enow is re sponsible in most Instances for the queer twists they assume. When a tree Is young the weight of snow that falls on Its branches often bends the trunk over until It la flattened to the ground. Sometimes tt Is burled under six or eight feet of snow and held In that position bo long that when warm weather comes the tree fulls to spring back Into Its normal position. The summer sun causes the tip of the young tree to turn upward and If tt manages to withstand the weight of the snow of the next winter, that portion of the tree will, as a general rule, continue to grow In a normal way. "Hairpin" bends and other odd shapes result. A curious tree stands on the top of Tunnel hill, Johnstown, Pa., about four miles from town. It Is a sugar maple about one hundred years old which has prolonged its own life by grafting a branch Into a much younger tree. BECOMES IRKSOME AT TIMES No Matter What the Nature of One's Occupation, Its Routine Will Oc casionally Weary. Are there times when your work be comes intolerably lrksomeT YesT Well, lon't jump at the conclusion that you are In the wrong place when this hap- pens once In awhile. That will be true whatever work you choose. No matter how well adapted you are to your occu pation, there will come times when your thoughts will wander, and the routine will weary you, and you will feel that any other work would be preferable to that which you have chosen. One of the best-known woman writers of the last generation wrote nn Impassioned warning to literary as pirants, telling them to do any work, even scrubbing floors. In preference to taking up a literary career. Undoubt edly she wrote at a time when her chosen work seemed unspeakably Irk some, but If she had been cornered, she would probably have acknowledged that the profession of authorship has considerable to commend It when com pared wKh scrubbing floors. This occasional Impatience with our vocation Is lnevltahle. No matter how congenial It Is, there are times when It will seem a burden. The people who change their occupation every time It begins to bore them, are the tramps of the business world. As to Remarkable Longevity. We have all read of Thomas Farr, who lived to be one hundred and fifty two. Likewise of the countess of Des mond, one hundred and forty-five ; Murgaret Patten, one hundred and thirty-seven; Thomas Pumtne, one hundred and sixty-four; John Rovln, one hundred nnd seventy-two; and fe tor Torton, who reached the age of one hundred und eighty-five. Hut thes cases of extraordinary longevity lad proof. In the days when those persons lived no accurate chronological records were kept, ami dates of occurrences were usually fixed hy associating them in memory with other event believed to have happened about the same time. A man's Identity was liable to be con fused with that of a grandfather of the same nntne. Nowadays nobody lives to any such aces. Why imagine that the extreme limits f longevity have shrunk within th last two or three centuries T Winter's Discipline. He who murvots at the beauty of the world In summer will find equal cause for wonder ftnd admiration In winter It Is true the pomp and pageantry are swept awnr, but the essential elements remain the day and the night, the mountain and the valley, the elemen tal play and successor!, and the per petual presence of the Infinite sky. Iu winter the stars seem to have rekin dled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of more exalted simplicity. Summer Is more wooing, . . . more versatile and huuian, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fos ters Inquiry and tb art Impulse. Win ter Is of s more fcerjte cast, and ad dresses the Intellect The severe studies and disciplines come easier In winter. Oue Impose larger tasks open Mmself. How ts Tell Age of Eggs. Ther la aimed e uutLh4 of GROCERY BARGAINS For week beginning March 4th, Ending March 9th a 41 MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY 25c can DelMonte Yellow Cling Peaches . . 20c 25c can Del Monte Ripe Olives 1 c ?0c can Del Monte Tomatoes, limit six to customer J2c Large can Del Monte Spinach He 1 5c can Del Monte Pinrientos 10c THURSDAY, FRIDAY; SATUKUAI 5-lb Bx Macaroni, limit 1 bx to customer. . 12 oz Pkg Macaroni 25c can G A Baking Powder Standard Tomatoes, limit (5 cans to customer Spring Clothes Pins, per dozen 05c 45c can Wesson Oil 35c Do not overlook the fact that all of our other groceries are priced on a cash basis and your cash will buy more on the dollar here than your credit will elsewhere. If yon want to buy groceries at the right price you will investigate this. Johnson talmng me age ul eggs, uasea upon vi-e fuct thut the airy space at the broad end of the egg Increases with Its age. Now, when the egg Is pluced In a tumbler of water In which any amount of common suit Is dissolved. It will, with Increasing age, tend ever more to assume a position wnh Its longitudlnul uxls In a perpendicular direction. A fresh laid egg will lie horizontally on the bottom of the vessel. An egg from three to four days old will rise with Its broad end, so that Its longitudinal axis forms with Its horizontal ails an angle of 20 degrees. At the age of eight days the angle Increases to 45 degrees, at the age of two weeks to 60 degrees, and at the age of thiee weeks to about 75 degrees. When the egg Is more than a month old It will float perpen dicularly on its small end. Love In Flshdom. This Is no "fish" story as the term Is usually referred to, but It Is a story about fish. Jim Fostpr, student of fish afTnlrs, vouches for Its authenticity. Jtm hns a collection of big live fish In a email nqonrlum In a down-town restaurant and for 12 hours every night he wntches them perform. "The fish are very affectlonnte," de clared the fish student. "They are good-tempered and kind toward one an other. See those two largest fish? They are 'married,' I guess, or else In love with each other. They always kiss each other good night nnd nibble affectionately at each other's mouths. The female of the two never puts her cold flns on the male one's back. And In the morning say. It's amusing to vrntch them yawn and stretch them selves." Detroit Free Press. How Would You Tie I Camel? Becnuse of Its peculiar swaying mo tion In walking the camel hus been culled the "ship of the desert." This title may also have some reference to the extreme stupidity nnd passivity of the animal, which submits to great loads, which It will often entry for days at a time without stopping for food or drink, with no more urging thnn a ship would require from the hands of Its pilot, says the Popular Science Monthly. The mnnner In which the drivers hobble the camels when they stop for a rest Is Interesting. They do not depend upon stnkes driven In the deep, yielding snnd, but simply double back and tie one of the fore legs of the animal, so that It can lie down or rise up, but cannot move from the spot. Curloui Burials. The Inhabitants of Mesopotamia have curious customs in the disposal of their dead. The corpse Is carried to the grave dressed In ordinary clothes, with the face uncovered. Bod ies are burled In shallow graves, nnd after a period dug up again, the bones being collected Into a whltii linen bag and deposited In small buildings. "One day," says an officer of the R. A. XI. C, "I snw such a bag In a church ; It was labelled with a wom an's name. In a village near the Struma I bar visited one of these storehouses of the bones of the de parted. The hags most recently placed In It were sttK white and whole; oth ers were whole, but stained brown by time. Those thnt had been deposited In years past had rotted away." ooonuooo o o ELIZABETH LEVY Teacher ol Violin oO 0 0 0 o o o 0 o o 0 oO o Will i-'ive h'sotis in Indepen- o deuce for beginner and ail- o vaneed students. Uest of o meth.xls. 1 "rices n-aMinabl.e o Impure at the Monitor othce o or write K. Levy, r3 Court o St., Salem, Oregon. Ooooooooo oo 60c 07c 20c 10c 8 Collins BETTER WHEAT PRICE MADE BY SHIP BUILDING INDUSTRY A dispatch from Food Adminis trator Hoover yesterday partially cleared up the puzzle as to the price of wheat at Portland. I'tuler the proclamation of the president the price was fixed at $2.05 a. bushel. This catrsed some dissatisfaction as it was contended the price should he the same as at Chicago. While there is considerable difference of J opinion on that point, the Hoover telegram states that the shipping board has undertaken to give the Pacific northwest a rate of $3.50 a ton by water to New York. This the hoard expects to accomplish hy using the new tonnage for car rying the grain crop of the North west through the canal and to Now York, if not on to Europe. Seattle has already turned out thirteen ships which are rapidly being made ready for service and the yards at Portland are running a vesel off the ways every week. In another mouth or such matter a launch ing somewhere in the northwest will he almost a daily occurrence and the new ships should he able to carry all of Oregon's grain crops and much besides to the Eastern markets. If Hoover can cary out his program it will make the price of wheat at Portland abput $3.18, as the price at New York is $2.28 and the $3.50 rate would amount to about 10 cents a bushel. Now if Mr. Hoover can do something to ward equalizing the price of corn so that the Northwest will not he throttled by the profiteersmen, his work will he appreciated. He should remember that poultry own ers arc forbidden to sell their hens, or to feed them wheat, and yet the speculators are allowed to hold corn prices at a prohibitive figure. Corn worth $1.25 at Chicago is worth about double that in the North west. This would allow a freight rate of about $15 a ton from Chicago to Pacific coast points, or more than ten times as much as is to he charged for carrying the wheat crop east. Salem Capital Jour nal. QUESTIONABLE WOMEN ARE ORDERED OUT OF TOWN "Pack your hag and travel and hep out of Aiiioiiv until a decitlcd reformation sets in," is the order that Mayor L. M. Curl this morning isited to certain women in this city. Chief of Police John Catlin lre the message to at least two id tlu-se women, who are known to lie ly ing an illegitimate business in the city, and others are given warning, ami the Mayor hopes that the hint will he taken without further action being necesary on the part of the officers. Albany Denioci at. Coming The Willamette Universiiy Glee Ch'b March 19 At trie Melhodist Church