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A TOWN WITH A PLAN WILL SUCCEED WHERE OTHERS WILL SURE FALTER AND FAIJ INDEPENDENCE MONITOR "voLTe INDEPENDENCE, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1918 NO. 33 " 1 i " ' Buy Liberty Bonds, Purchase Thrift Stamps, Plant War Gardens, Help Win the World War The Third Liberty Loan Drive Begins April 6. Polk County's Quoto About $180,000. Prepare Now ZONEJIEETING County Supervisor Moore Holds Meeting at Dallas . North Dallas and Surround ing Sections Have Good Meeting of the Rural Teachers. The Saturday meeting for the nral teachers of the territory around Dallas, known as the North Dallas zone, was conduct ed by Floyd D. Moore last Satur day in the North Dallas school house. The work by Miss Young 01 nr1le and Miss Cuthbert of Polk Station schools, was well presented. These teachers, as well as many others, are proving of advantage to the child if the methods set up by Mr. Moore in th varir.ua subiects. are closely followed. A good crowd attended the n.r,;.,rr nPHsinn. among them nineteen wide awake boys from the DallaB grade school. These happy fellows volunteered their eervices to Mr. Moore as iney were needed for class work. After lunch several observa tion lessons were presented in geography and spelling by Super visor Moore and these subjects were tkoronghly discussed for the purpose of helping teachers to teach them effectively. Tie lunch was served by the ladies of North Dallas and Pio neer and a fifteen cent charge was made for the benefit of the Pioneer Red Cross auxiliary. Nine dollars was added to the.r treasury. All teachets who were request ed to attend were present ex cept Miss Oxford of Orchar Is View, Miss Simmons ot linage port, Mr. Grahamof Guthrie a. Mrs. Moyer of Black Rock. The nsxt meeting will be Saturday, March 30, at Fern school. Every one invited. BENEFIT RECITAL. Musical Program Carried Out to Satisfaction of All, The song and violin recital giv en at the Methodist church last Sunday afternoon by pupils of Misses Tartar and Levy attract ed a large crowd that was well repaid for going. A program of fourteen numbers was presented and but few changes were aiade owing to illness or other unavoid- TO THE READERS Of THE MONITOR. In order to give our readers pi oper service we are writing this letter to the Monitor subscribers. Since taking charge of the Monitor I found a condition that is making against the paper and peainst my successful management I find some subscribers on try 1'st who have sukscribed for the Monitor and for another paper at the same time, the Monitor to be coritinuec until the other paper i published. How many there are of them I do not know and in order to be advised I am asking those who have paid U r the Monitor but have a receipt for another publication to bring in their'rectiits and we will credit themoa the Monitor for whatever is due them for the Monitor. If your time has expired on the Monitor and you wish it continued to you, let us have a letter from you or call on us at the office. The circulation of the Monitor be! ngs to this publication and the subscriptions on its list will be t ail of the 'eaders of the Moni-. tor. In taking back the Monitor I took it completely and this re fers to the subscriptioi books. Sincerely icurs, Gs A. Hurley, Editor. able reasons. The local auxiliary of the Red Cross made arrangements for the afternoon's entertainment and the silver offering for the ie silver offering for thei of the organization amount- causp ed to fourteen dollars. A special feature of the pro gram was the violin ensemble of twelve instruments, undoubtedly the largest ensemble of its kind that has appeared in Indepen dence in many years. The violin students did exceptionally well. Those taking part were: Eliza beth Bickley, Arnett Collins, Elaine Steingrube, Grace Butler, Winona Smith, Dorothy Wood, Blanche Hill, Clarence Ruge, Dean Craven, Simon Volchok, Harold Bertholson, Ralph Park er. Mi-s Mildred Brunk accom panied the violin numbers. Voice students who presented a program of varied numbers in a creditable fashion were: Mrs Webster, Misses Owings, Pad dock and Poling and Dr. Leon Barrick. The accompaniments for the songs were played by Mabel Claire Ground. Mr. Claude Barrick substituted his vocal number with a forcefu appeal to help the starving Ar menians. In a clear, concise manner he presented conditions in Asia Minor as they are today and urged those present to re spond to the call of solicitors who will shortly canvass the to wn to collect funds for those starving peoples across the seas, SCOTTISH RITE MASON MEETING Maunda-Thursday Meeting Held Yesterday at Beaver. The Thirty second Degree Masons of this section, nine in number, held their Maun da-Thursday ceremony at t!u) Beaver Hotel Thursday 'evening, lne ceremony consists in extinguishing the lights to be re-lit Easter eve ning. A banquet was served a. id ihe regular sacred and be.tutiful ceremony was giv en. Those who attended the meeting vrej. JJ. V. Butler, 11 Hirschberg, 1). D. Good, Iios; Nelson, Dr. O. D. Bntler, A. J. Hichard-on, K. C. EHridge. and Dr. II. C. Dunsmore.. Uev. T. 1' Ynriies of the Methodist church, will give his third sermon on war time themes Sunday evening. The subject of the ermon will be " Establishing the liigLts of Humanity." STOCK SHIPPED. n :. n Oi.. ....... n:, UlnIK 06 Oldffdll UUIIIg Big Business in Gity. Ship Hogs, Cattle, and Goats Twice Each Month to Markets. Clark & Stewart, who have the j old b-rn rented just north of the Farmers State Bank for their of - fice headquarters, are building up quite a feeding and shipping I center in Independence. Wed- j nesday they shipped a mixed car of cattle, hogs and goats for the ! Portland market. ! This firm opened upheresev-! eral months ago and buy from j the farmers such live stock as i the farmer wishes to dispose of. 1 They have the Lalliberti ware- house and the Fletcher farm as feeding quarters, as well a3 the barn on Main street where they , Ernest Force of the army ser have their office. A car of cattle vice at Camp Lewis, visited his and hogs are being fed now at parents and friends atMonmouth the Fletcher barn which they are last week, putting in condition for market. They purchased several hogs this ! Go to Portland to Enlist week from J. B. Parker, one of j Mtjlvin (Uay and George Par these weighing 540 pounds and j gong of thig city made a trip t0 these hogs were worth 16 cents j porUand last Wfctik with a view per pound on the maJket. The; of enli8tinj- in the U. S. navy, hogs they purchase include any- j . thing from 100 pounds up. I Mr. J. L. Fletcher left last' week with a car of dairy cows for Idaho and disposed of the lot at public auction in Nampa Sat- urday and Mr. Fletcher tele- Tohed that the sale was satis-1 factory. Mr. Clark returned from Til amook last week where he was looking over the stock market and conditions there. When the editor was at the barn Monday they were busy preparing the feed for the stock in the Main street barn. Sev- BOY SCOUT At City Hall at 7:30 Arrangements have been made to reorganize the Boy Scouts in Inde pendence. 1 his move ment is important as there is much work that the boys can help do. Every boy who is willing' to join should be at the City Hall Saturday eve ning. Two different organi zations are possible in. the scout plan and it is I Kolla McKinney Writes. Glen Burnie, Md., Mar. 18. To the Monitor, Independence Oregon. Dear Sir: The Fourth Batallion went to Laurel yesterday where the Second and Third Batallion. are camping, to march in a regimental parade. We left here about nine o'clock, walked seven mik-a where aome trucks picked us up. The trucks also brought us back. We got there too late for din ner and did not ret to eat until 8:30 P. M., but everyone took it with a light heart. We had a good feed when ! we did get back. ! r or break faat we have sou.e kind of muib, fid potatoes, aorr.etimea we have bacon, always plenty of bread. Tne war bread is liked pretty wtil by every one. For dinner and supper it in eral kegs of beet molasses were in stock and a quantity of sugar beets were being -hopped up, and the mixture made up a part of the feed used to fatten tho stock. I in talking or me mainei mr , Clark stated that it was their I Dolicv to look for and locate the market when necessary, and that they weie often compelled to ; travel distances to get a favor Sheen i al,' ma,'iet or 8Peciiil unes ot SOLDIER BOYS " j UnnUy MpuQ 1,0 hprPfl "uum J "uuw " About Boys Ycu Know. Lieut. R. A. Floyd. Lieutenant R. A. Floyd writes: '1 have arrived safely overseas." Visits in Monmouth. Mere Over Suhdav. . RalPh Duvn who 19 nrf cook of the 40. Military Squadron at Vancouver, came up to inuepeu- denee Saturday, remaining over Sunday with hit parents ana rei atives in this community. Out Again After Illness. Dr. C. F. Cropp, who has been quite ill with pneumonia in the spruce camps near Garibaldi, is able to be out again and on duty with Uncle Sam's Sammies the latter part of last week. MEETING p. m. All Boys of Can Should Join the Boy BUY I W.S.S. laiuK. mr rut VHITTO IT1TU OCATILMMiWT always about the same, either ttew or beans, tomatoea, corn, rnaccoronj. Often we have roast beef, last night we had roaat beef and bananas. Once in awhile we have butter. Everything considered we get pretty good food. All 1 dislike is waahing my own dishes every time. The sailors have a store where we can buy everything at coat. I bought a good $3.00 pen for $1.65. I don't believe it will pa to send cakes to the boys as the expense is a much as the eakea cost. The boys are going to have some more boxing tonight. This would be a pretty good camp if we could get vis iting leave once in awhile. I enjoy reading the paper very much, and wish you would send n.e one onse in a j wtale. l get an ure.omanirom one ol ,h ,.,;,... .i ... -, from the coast. YOUTHS PAPER Only Publication of Kind in Nortb-West Starts Tuesday, April 9 A Paper that Will be De voted Exclusively to In teresting News for the Young Folks. The editor of the Monitor this week announces the publication of a new class of paper for the people of Polk county. We have decided to publish a weekly issue of a boys and girls paper, the Western Youth is the name the new paper will be christened. It will deal with matter per taining to the young people. It will carry ihe general news of the Boy Scouts and the Camp Fire girls, the rural school work, the boys and girls club move ments and doings. It will have interesting school reports of the different sections, will carry short articles from men of state wide prominence that will go di rect to the young peopie. The first issue will appear in a few days and will start as a four page, seven column paper, week ly publication. It will carry no advertisements not of a wholesome, clean na ture and will be a paper of higk moral standard and one every boy and girl should have in the home. NEW COUNTRY BUILDINGS 60 UP Geo McLaughlin of Daena Vista Section to Build. George McLaughlin is having plans made for some new im provements on his ranch proper- SATURDAY Scout Age Who bcouts urged that both the boys jof ihe junior as well as the senior classes shall be present. Prof. Wright, princi pal of the high school, will take charge of lie boys as scout master. The boys should be at I the hall promptly at 7:30 as the organization is to be perfected early in the evening. Sincerely, R. J. McKinney, Co. L. 23 Eng. 4B - j CARD OF THANKS I We wish to express onr j iioerw thanks to our many 'friends for their kindness and sympathy shown ub in our recent bereavement. Mr. and Mrs. K. M. Hrown Mr Johnson of Buyer j'ntti i he will increase his "1 :k of sheep about 60 per- cent tblS j eHT M r. Johnson ,.f a f.jrm r i . i r i u in 4 'iarKts ot a ,ann L'rtd the losing: camp near Dend S U V e t . Trie south of Indepen He plans a new 2xo six room bungalow residence and an enlargement and improve ment of his barn. The b irn is to have a new cone; te tloor nnd will be made into . a first class dairy barn, Mr. Wall has become associat ed in t ie operation of the ranch w!th Mr. McLaughlin and they will put in thoroughbred Jersey stock and go into the dairying business exclusively. W. G. Grant of this city has been asked to take the contract for erecting the new buildings' HON. n. N. STANFIELD What the Press Says, Clippings Taken From Dif ferent Parts of Oregon 'Ihe ttond Press in speaking of Mr. Stanfiold says: "Throughout his entire trip, on which he but barely touched the great empire of Central Ore gon, .which is a unit in his sup port, he was everywhere met with words of encouragement for the success of his campaign." The Harrisburg Hulletin aya: "It looks like . political wisdom and consistancy from a Republi can standpoint, to make that stalwart statcaman of the Hunch grass district, Robert N. Stan field the choice for United States senator. " The McMinnville Telephone Register says: "Two weeks af ter R. N. Stanfield, Republican candidate for United States sen ator, indorsee! federal control and operation of all industrial activities during the war. Colonel Disqur, representing the govern ment, virtually took oer the logging camps and lumber mills of tbe Pacific Northwest. In do ing so he placed the lumber in dustry on a basic H-hour basis, i'lcrcascd the pay of the work men with time and a half for overtime and ordered improved conditions." "Oregon needs a representa tive who believes in the develop ment of its opportunities, and who has made a success of his wn business it needs R. N. Stanfield in that position," says Chas. I). Short of the Stanfietu Stai'lard. Iown in the Coos Hay distri-t he (Representative Sianlield) is especially popular because ul I is pi -ogres-ive spirit and those fo.KS have sutrered much because of inactive senators, states one of on i exchanges. The Malheur Enterprise prints the following report: When a big crowd of Centi .i' Oregon loggers and woodmen w ere told by R. N, Stanfield of Umatilla county that he had fiiH'le a business success and ac quired some wealth after having once faced poverty and had beui f ccd in his earlier days to do hard manual labor as the loggers were doing, he was given an ap ph use such as only loggers know how to give. It wai made evident at once that the loggers had no ill feel ing toward a rich man but in stead respected and honored a man who has worked his way up from a wage worker to a poaition of tusine-B Buacess. Mr. Stanfield while making-a political tour of central Oregon i'i the interests of his campaign for the Republican nomination jfor United States senator, visit- Concluded on Page 6 ty six deuce. WAR GARDENS. Meeting at Isis Theatre Monday Afternoon. Prominent Men of Oregon Present to Talk on Im portant War Measures Upon the invitation of Mrs. K. C. Eldridge, vice president of the County Agricultural Coun.il, an important meeting was alled by the County Council to take up the question of war gardens for Independence and vicinity. P. O. Powell, president of the Coun ty Council and Mr. Floyd D. Moore, Industrial Club director of the county, were instrumental in securing the speakers for the occasion. Mr. Moore acted as chairman of the meeting: and in troduced as speakers C D. Cen ter, president of the Extensive Department of the O. A. C, and L. P. Gilmore, instructor of Sci ence and Agriculture at the Ore gon Normal school. These m.n made very interesting speeches and said in part: "In this war the food question ' ii one of America's greatest problems, that every country of the allies but America was now on rations and that it was our duty to not only conserve but to do everything in our nower to blp produce. One of the meth ods of producing and thus help to win the war was by planting gardens. We should in the towrsand cities put in every available lot or tract of land we can find to put in." To the children of the Inde pendence schools an appeal was made that they do their part and the little hands that were raised were as thick as the stars on an American flag when they were asked to raise their hands if they had a brother, a father or other close relative now in the service in th army, and they all re Bponded that th.y would do their part to help raise war gardens. "First get your organizatio perfected in Independence, then ret every one listed. Those not listed are as much slackers as those who fail to pay their part towards supporting the Liberty lion! or Thrift Stamp cam paigns," stated Mr. Center. Miss Arbothnot, Rev. Yarnes, Pmf. Wright, Mrs. Eldridge and Mr. P. O. Powell made remarks in favor of tho movement. A temporary organization was Perfected, and G. A. Hurley was elected temporary chairman and Prof. Wright temporary secre tary to perfect an organization i i this city. A meeting will be called at a later date at the Isis theatre in the evening and the business men and farmers will be urged to attend. Arrangements are being made for a Bhort program and a reel of moving pictures from the Oregon Agricultural College will probably be secured for the meeting. The Monitor hopes to be able to announce a date for this meet ing by the next issue of the paper. Mrs. E. E. Tripp was ta ken to alem tlie first of the week to undergo a ner-ious operation at the hospital in that city. Mr. Tripp was ab sent during the week to 1)6 with her. WANTED: lioy or girl at this oftica to learn tj'pe-setting.