Independence monitor. (Independence, Or.) 1912-19??, March 29, 1918, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextLOCAL AND PERSONAL NEWS Items of Real Interest for Real People who Like Real News ,-. I. Several new ads appear a fine student -body doing i excellent work, and a pro- this week. Look them over. Mrs. O. A. Kreamer is visitiDg in Springfield, with relatives and O.A. is as cross as a bear with a sore ear. Rev. Varney of McMinn ville delirered a very im pressive sermon at the Baptist church Sunday even ing. Paul E. Klrker cashier of the Grants Pa office of the Idaho-Utah Sugar Compny wag an Independence business visitor the first of the week J R. Cooper and daughter gressive. energtie spirit dis played by the boys and girl of our public schools. Mrs. Bertha King.hasafine position in the Olds & King department store at Portland- Mrs. S. 1. Owens will re-1 turn Saturday from Astoria I whtre f-he has been spending several months. Mrs. V. G. Feldrurn and little daughter Iwan of Port land are spending the wtek with Mr and Mrs. B. R. Wolf. Mr and Mr.-. J. S.Bohann on were up to Lebanon last made a trip to Portland this Sunday, visiting Mr. tnd week. Mr. Cooper went to j Mis. Horn and their eon. intprviawa sureical soecialist ; Ur. Bohaunon states the there and LaVilla to see the j grandson is all boy and alive new daughter of Mr. aud Mrs. one. Pearl Cooper Dean Baughman returned to this city Saturday wearing the U. S. A. uuiforn, and stated he did not get his papers for transportation east, so thought he would visit over Sutdiy with his famiiy. Mrs. Bullock received a letter this week from Mrs. C E. Kurre of South Bend, in whic. she stated they were happily located there now aud that Char ey was em ployed as a rootorman on the street cars there. The Monitor is pleased to state that we have the office cleaned ur, painted up, and looking up. Call and see us whether you have business or not. Local items are es n.r annrer.inted snd pvuiaiij rr other news requested. Attht, Methodist Episcopal church Sunday evening Mr Thos. Yarnes sang in a m.-ot i I. ,i impressive manner mai beautiful song "A Clean Heart." Mrs. Yarne has a lyric suprano voice of remarkable sweetue. ad her bolos are much apprtcii.t ed. Riverview Assembly 5ot. Uuited Artisaus sold $176.00 of war saving and thr.h stamps. The member of the Independence lodge i patriotic and progiessive and believe in doing their ba fir Polk county and for the w: r The lodge meets each first and third Thursday ot ti e month. C. L. Starr, a former county superintendent ol Polk county wa? a busines-? vUiinr in this city Monday. Mr. atarr is now Tai, Right of Wv and Claim Agent for the Valley and Siletz Railroad with Headquarters at Portland. Independence- M,t of haa a claim on broths Starr now as one end of th:s r.ilroad is in this c.ty and w feel that he is a friend 1:1 the camp of the company Attorney D. E. Fischer visited the Public ho i Monday morning in ti.e interests of the American War Relief fur,d- lhe rooiu'' assembled in the assembly hall when Mr. FMclier urj ed th'a bos and girls to -ie!p in raising the fund requird from this section. TbescltO'l tUo rmiet sun Mrs. Dole Pomeioy has a baby boy that has been keep ing Mrs. Owen away from our city, and Ed wtaies it has not vet been christened The Monitor theref r .ex rcese3 the prerogative of (iillliii? the new arrival 'Ed n Jr." Mrs. M E. Stans-berry de lightfully entertained mium ber of her friends! at her home last Thursday afternoon. The occasion, being a farewell tea In honor of Mrs. J. L. Henderson, who with her husband have spent the win ter with their daughter Mrs. P.. R. Wolf. Mr. and M-s Henderson expect to leave for their home in the Neba lem Valley next Thursday, March 28. If jf 2 ? I v y P0OTU9NB,EUCENEl EASTERN RY. OccHxeo CjV5" V CLhf?r fleeted mmm iAr,v M Southern fbafic or Affiliated ASifmNarisLD No nnderdopa win ptwaibly appeal In Importance to the under-dogs of your dally experience. Perhaps you will applaud alono the onder-tlogs of your r'rsonal glooms and shadow, but what of It? As Low ell says: "Dally, with aouls that cringe and plot, we Slnnls climb and know It not." What difference, what odds, so long as over your "manhood lend the skies T" Courageously cheer the under-dogs nf vour experiences and stay proudly liy them until their flunt becomes a fao : tor of your kingship. George Matthew j Adams, In Good Housekeeping-. GLASS STAINED BY X-RAYS Experiments Have Shown These Pro duce the Same Effect as the Ll(jrt of the Sun, It Is well known that glass exposed for long to sunlight acquire a violet tint. In tery old houses the windows fa el ni! south are often distinctly vio let. Experiments recently made in the laboratories of the Uenenil Electric company at Schenectady with X-rays prove that these can be used to tiye glass In many colors, principally an nme'bvstlno violet and nn amber yel low, but also green and bright yellow. These colors. wvr '- '' tnm j t n 1 1 r t fttt--ftt-tj OREGON ELECTRIC TIME TABLE ORVILLE TO PORTLAND No. 2 2:49 a. m. No 10 9:26 a. m. No 14 1:29 p. m. No 16 3:40 p. m. No 20 6:12 p. m. No 22 7:29 p. m. PORTLAND TO OTRVILLE No 1 8:52 a. m. No No No No 6 7 9 13 No 21 10:32 a. m. 1:10 p. m. 4:33 p. m. 6:59 p. m. 2:20 a. m. Independence auto stage meets all trains but No 2, 20, 21. LEAVES FOR PORTLAND recovering from a broken leg. . these articles at any " 11 ! In m Koull in 111) The accident happened while . . j wnrltinir in the lumber vard Geo. Wood TaKes Moaei B ., - ,nhnnia Mfleh in a Vir 1 UaUVl UUIIIIIIIV mm . - of Ship Clamp to Portland ginia hospital, writes his parents here that he is getting along as l r VVifiH left the first of well as can be expected consider the week for l'ortland with ing hfe condition when he arriv ii e i... i.. .1.;.. d there. I 1 1 ' . tnM .Imra it .IT 1 I 1 I oiiiKiiuK "'" .ninrsfl month aeo as an aviator . i. . i I bj .iivetigateu oy uie anfj who is now at San Antonio, building companies, li Texas, says the air is full of accepted this clamp will be aeroplanes and that the ther manufactured in this city Mr Wnrwl is enlarffinu the ..i i, L- j i,i i li sVinii. ddin a n torne anu reariungin tiie plant to handle ( J. verntnent work. VISIT H GH SC M D. K. Fletcher'. Robert! I'.dker, and the editor of tht Monitor visited the high Wp Infridnv inornine and j " mometer registers 95 degrees in the shade, but he likes it fine. A Home Guard has been or ganized. Major Kose was elect ed president and J. R. Loy sec- retary. The sum of $75 was raised Saturday night for the Armenian relief fund and several dollars has been taken in since. The men of the neighborhood Fire very enthusiastic in me move. time, as so many have been in the past. -Albany Democrat. Easter Services At Calvary The Easter ssrvioes next Sunday, at Calvary Presbyterian church, will in the morninff, conaista of a program by the Sunday school, and a talk to the children by the pastor. In the even ing. Dr. Dunsmore will deliver an Easter Brmon, and special Eaawr mudic will be rendered. The'ervice will be held at 11 o'cloek, and 7:30. new time, which will be just i one hour earlier than the old time. A cordial invitation ia extended to all. MONMOUTH MOTOR Trains Leaves Independence CAUSED BY WEIGHT OF SNOW Simple Explanation of Odd Shapes rf Trees, That Has Been a Mynery to Many. To the nerson who Is not vorsoil In forest lore the grotesquely bent tree trunks tluit are to bo round in almost all woods are mystifying, and wonder Is often aroused as to the ciium iv miirks the I'otmlnr Si'lenre Monthly. Foresters will tell questioners tbtit In the case of trtn-s In mountiilnous onm trv and other flections where the nioV' Ikll Is heavy, the weight of snow In re sponsible In most Instances for the auoer twists they assume. hen a tree Is young the weight of snow Hint fulls on Its brunches often bonds the trunk over until It Is flattened to the ground. Poun tlines It Is burled under sir or eluiit feet of snow and held In that position no long that when warm weather comes the tree fulls to spring hnck Into lis noniml nosltlon. The summer sun onuses tho tip of the young tree to turn upward and if it miiunges to withstand the weight of lhe Know or the next winter, that portion or tli tree will, as a general rule, continue to grow In a normal way. "Hairpin Ponds and other odd shapes result. A curious tree stands on tho top or Tunnel hill, Johnstown, Ia., about lout miles from town. It la a sugar null idiont oiia hundred years old which bus prolonged Us own life by grafting n branch into a much younger tree-. BECOMES IRKSOME AT TIMES No Mattsr What the Nature of One's Occupation, Its Routine Will Oc casionally Weary. Are there tlmea whoa your work be- ouios lutolerably Irksome? Yes? Well, 'on't Jump at the conclusion thnt you .ire In the wrong place when this hap pens once In aw hile. That will he true whatever work you choose. No matter how well adopted you are to your occu pation, there will come times when your thoughts will wander, and tho routine will weary you, and you will feel that any other work would bo 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 hare acknowledged thnt the profession of authorship has conlderable to commend It when com i.:ir d with scrubbing floors. This occasional Impatience with our vocation Is Inevitable. No matter how ( iponlal It Is, there are times when It ' 111 seem a burden. The people who ilmnite their occupation every time It i cglns to horo them, are tho tramps ol the business world. ARE YOU 1()U PER CENT AMERICAN? Prove It by Buying U. S. Government Bonds Third Liberty Loan : This Space Donated By FARMERS STATE BANK The Western Youth A Paper for tSic Boys and Girls First Issue Published Tuesday, March 9 The Only Paper d the Kind In Oregon A Patriotic Paper A Clean Paper A H?me Paper Price $1.50 a Year Gus. A. Hurley, Publisher NO. 1 leaves Indedendence, at 6:60 . m. arrives Monmouth 7:00, connects Miss Mabel Horn, who was in the first shio of nurses that went to for- eitn soil is now in base hospital No. 4, and upon arriving in England was tak- on t Va nnlm'o i( Kinir Klwrl where t ilkpd lo the PtudeiltS on the Lhe met and shook handB with the Junior t-OUr Mil.Ute Men, Queen of England. She write, -that t t y 1 . . 1 " Hoy Scouts tin- Moniter ext lained to '.he Garden?, and lIie thoroughly Interested in the methods Thfc editor Of ane1 plans of the work t the hospitals. The American troois In France are I IIiih eChol Students the to have a weekly r.ewspapeper of their i i own. It outrni: 10 anoru wvm an "p- k ui pnee ana piano oi m to know gomethi aboot the war. halem Statesman. Eiuht million sheets of letter paper and four million envelopes are lieing shipped every month by the national war work council of the Y.M.C.A. to American soldiers overseas. It Is estim ated that soldiers in this country use over one million sheet of letter DHper hor.; to tive a wri'e UP of every day in the Y.M.C.A. bu.ldinjr ' . . . .. . : Ex t he nr. hoo in our nm lotue i tl e Western Youth. it p tper that will be printed foi tin- benefit of the Wr-tein ami jjirl. The students aiiowid marked attention to he talks and are doing ex- nll.nt school week. We BUENA VISTA ITEMS. Havintr been soared service in the trenches, how glad'y, how speedily, vou should diir for thone dolUra that will help back America's war for free- dorru-Silverton Tribune. Dr. G. H. Youne, chairmsn of th Linn ehspter. Ametican lied Cross, announces that hereafter any or who or navy from ton Arthur Hale made a pleasure trip to Salem Surday evemnj?. c-i r.. ml Vcrrv U'clla joins the arr y responded me rur w -- wjtb wo(en are doine their part in ih- t-.-.nsacted business m Salem on he A1Uny m , if. wr.,.ar SUturdav; ! will irivn the MPt tt f(jr. h4"l- Roy Wells of Falls City has met wnstieU muffler and sox ao that v x.itinrr ralsfi vps hf-rp w hila ' ke will r.ever be in wr.tof any of UCCIl i lni'.h I-' -u Mr KlftLcher war reusi wui. stated to the editor," I found with train for Airlie. N'o. 3 T,.5 a. m. No. 6 8:45 a. m.- No. 7 10:35 a. m. No. 9 11:50 a.m. No. 11 1:30 p. m. No. 13 2:20 p. m. No. 15 3:50 p. m. No. 17 7:00 p. m. Leaves Monmouth lor Independence No. 2 7:05 a. m. No. 4 8:30 a. m. No. 6 9:05 a. m. No. 8 10:60 a. m. No 10 12:00 M. No. 12 1:45 p. m. No. 14 4:05 p. m. No. 1H 4:65 p. m. ALL HAVE THEIR UNDER-DOGS Gecd Reasons Why People's Sympa thies Are With ths Fellow Who Is Temporarily Down. f Mir sympathies naturally travel th line of Uk- that Is, the things we fel In ourselves, we feel In others. We ap plaud the onder-dog, hecaune we oft n have leen the undw-dotf. We Ilk. to lift the thr fellow up when be H down, because we also have been down. Sympathy starts at home or else It Isn't sympathy. Your periodic moods of failure and disappointment are your underdoes. So, Instead of walking past thew under-d'ifcs of yours and casting yruputhy tbPlr way, pans to give them your heart and your hope, end soon the picture and fact will be your over-dojjH your flctorlee and your genuine achlevementa. As to Remarkable Longevity. Wo have ull read of Tlionm 1'nrr, who lived to be one hundred ami firtv two. I,lkewlxe of the countess of I'e lnund, duo humlri'd ami forty-five; umiret I'ntten, one liiindreil snd liiiity-seven ; Thorniia I )iimrn. one imiolred and sixty-four; John Kovlti, c :n lninilrel and seventy-two J and It Tortoii, w ho reached the hk of one iMnlred and eluhty tl ve. Hut thes cn-o-H of extruordlnnry longevity laei pi -Mlf. I:, the diiya when those persons lived no aociirnte chronological records hi re kept, and dates of occurrences were usually fixed by UHxoclatliiK them in memory with other events believed fo bnve happened about the same time. A nifin's Identity was liable to be eon !'!sed with that of a grandfather of .he Kiime name. Nowadays nobody lives to any such !!;'. Why Irnnglne tbut the extreme lii iitu of longevity have shrunk wlthlu :lie lust two or three centuries? Winter's Discipline. He w ho mnrveta at Uih beauty of the world In summer will find ennui cnum f .r womlor ftnd admlrutlon In winter It 1 true the pomp aud pageantry are . ot away, but the esi-utlal elements remuln the day ami the night, the I mountain and the valley, the el emeu i ul f.Iay and success ;..o, and the r- 1 peiual prewnce of tha lxitlnlle sky. Ii. ( winter the atari stem to have rekln-, died their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and U.o heavens wear look of more exalted simplicity. I ;u:aer Is more woolttg, . , . more, viTMutlle and huinsi, appeals to the J .'Tectums and the sentiments, and foe- U rn inquiry and the art impulse. Win- t : Ih of a more heroic cnxt, aud ad o ' sves the Intellect. The severe studies and disciplines come easier In winter. One Imposes larger tasks upon jlnist-lf. LUCKY STRIKE CIQARETTE IN a year it has bocomo famous; the man's cig arette for tho men who are working over hore, and fighting over there. The reason? Because it's made ' of Burley pipe tobacco and because IT'S'TOASTED 10c If rvor dalar alow S err tktii,Mnd 1.10 for m crtn of I S pck C Th AnartcM I.UIMU.N.Y.U, f n Guaranteed bv s