GENERAL GORDON'S WIDOW REVIEWS TROOPS
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Iifty Hartraan had the key
that unlocked the lock at John-
son &, Collin's.
THREEFOLD
j PURPOSE
OF 1HB FT STAMP CAMPALN
"Tlii'y mi' "li'' Iki'I.v "f li"'" ft Hi'i-i' inir hoys In the slxtli-s," wim fhe
comment of Mrn. Julm B. Cordon, widow of the funinu Confedi'rutH general,
ftcr revh'Wlnn the troops t Cuinp Gordon, On., nmnod In honor of the South
rn aoldter.
MUCH IN LITTLE
A Indon tnllor, awed hy the dnn
Kn nroonipiinylnK (tii'iny rnld, built
hlmHolf dugout In the bnnement of
hi itore with bnlex of cloth. A wiir
oftlce ofllHnl lnKii' t'd It and declured
It abnolutely Unnb proof.
Imvld It. Iiurkiy, a Civil war et
eran, ngftH eighty of I'hllHdelphla,
take a 23-inlle hike for hl dully ex
orelae. John Klnriih, who Iihr been waiting
for u heiirlnif In Ihe Shco (Ma.) JhII,
Iihs Kulned Ht poundd in the thre
month he ha Seen there.
LOCAL AND PERSONAL NEWS
Items of Real Interest for Real People who Like
Real News
Mr. Clyde T. Kker returned
from Texas the first of the week.
J erne
W. 11.
FOR SALE A young
cow. Fresh in August.
Park.
The Business Men's Club held
a meeting Tuesday evening at the
Beaver Hotel.
A. Justin, who has been at the
Itenierton Navy Yard for a con
siderable time, is off on a Bhort
vacation and visited the first of
the week with his father-in-law
S. Muhletnun.
J. VV. Osborue, living south of
(own, purchased a farm wagon of
Craven & Huff this week, and
Mrs. J. L. Hanua leaves this W. K. Craven hitched it to his
week to join her husband at their: Ford and delivered it to the new
home in Portland. owner. .
A number of Independence , jjr, Hewett, Homer Wood and
boys visited Dallas Wednesday Abu iiecker made an uuto drive
to enroll under the new draft; to Salem Thursday evening. Mr.
i flecker went over to take the ex-
Mr. Currle, who has been asso-5 "i"tin to enter the uavul ser
dated with Clyde T. lker in' vice w. a druggut.
publishing the Post
California.
bus kit for,
Hour Oberson and John Beck-
er wen moti those going to Dul
les Wednesday to register under
the new draft.
11. Hirsehberg, C. W. Jlurrick,
Clint Moore and the ediuu of the
Monitor drove over to Dallas ou
Monday evening to seo Dr. Star
buck receive his second rank in
the K. of P. lodge.
Walter Smith was a Salem vis- The warm weather this week
itor Thursday, taking the exuuw'bus killed most of the pests that
malum as a second clas liremau have been bothering the gram
and it is reported that tt hu4
driven till the loafers off the
Three-fold is the purpose of tb
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wruguu innri campaign, an
nuunced by the patriotic Conner
vation League, beginning Jul
28, in the mustering of waste ma
terials from every home and ham
let in the state, with school child
reu as a ready regiment for tb
promotion of the enterprise.
The Patriotic Conservation Lea
gue at its headquarters in Port
land, will receive shipments of
waste materials from every com
muiiity, paying therefor at tho
highest market rate, in baby
bonds of the War Savings Stamp
issue. The purpose of the Lea
gue is to further the distribution
of War Savings Stamps, to pro
vide a fund foe the welfare of
Oregon boys summoned to service
and to conserve war materials
for America,
In each community the super
vision of the ,work will be in
charge of the War Savings Stamp
representative, and 'it is proposed
to ship the collected materials in
carload consignmnts to the Lea
gue ut Portland. Individual ship
ments may be made, however,
J u any ease the name of t he send
er, with complete address, should
appear on every package, in order
that proper payment may be
made.
Ihe materials that Oregon
school children and citizens are
urged to collect, with the prices
per pound that will be paid there
for are as follows:
Copper wire, free of hair wire,
21 cents; liglit copper and hot-1
torn s, 18 cents; heavy red brass,
20 cents; heavy yellow brass, 14
cents; light and medium brass,
10 cents; soft lead, 6 1-i cents;
tea and hard lead, 5 1-2 cents;
zinc, 4 cents; battery lead,3
eens; battery zinc, 2 1-2 cents;
No. 1 pewter, 40 cents; aluminum,
20 cents; tin foil, 45 cents; block
tin pipe, 5 cents; No. 1 rubber,
boots and shoes, 6 1-2 cents; No
2 rubber, boots aud shoes, 5 cents;
No. 1 auto tires, 3 1-2 cents; No.
2 auto tires, 2 cents; No. 1 inner
tubes, 16 cents; No. 2 inner tubes,
7 1-2 cents; bicycle tires, 2 1-2
cents; solid tires, 3 1-2 cents;
black scrap rubber, 1 cent; gar
den hose, 40 cents; fire hose, 50
SCOUTS ARE CIVIC WORKERS.
Two boy scout troops in Birming
ham, Ala., are connected with the
Chamber of Commerce and the Civic
association, eacb constituting a Junior
membership In the organization to
which It la attached.
These troops are ipeclalizlng In
civic matters and are destined to be
very keen rivals. One will receive no
boy under sixteen years of age and
the other will receive no lurge boy at
all. and when It comes to a quesUon of
"VV" the little fellows are right there.
DOUBLE THE CROP
TO WIN THE WAR
Food Is Now America's Most Im
portant Asset and
Weapon.
ANNOUNCEMENT
I am now ready to da all classes of
photo work at my Studio on Main street.
Call and see samples of work on display.
MICHAEL'S .
Formerly
Robb's Studio
InJependence, Oregon
C0.'!3 OUT THE IDLE LIEN
Draft tha Exempted Men In an Agri
Cultural Army Put a Million
Men at the Disposal of
the Farmer,
By MARK SWAN,
of the Vigilantes.
We Americans like to consider our
selves the most wide-awake people In
the world. Hustle is our middle name.
and we (lory In It. When the word
American Is mentioned, in connection
with a Job, er an emergency, we con
jure ap a mental picture of an alert
and determined Individual, with the
fine frenzy of conflict flumlng in his
eyes, rolling up his sleeves and doing
tilings. We revel In this conception of
ourselves. It Is very complimentary
and very comforting. There Is one
slight flaw in the picture. It isn't true.
Naturally, when a spectacular op
portunity arises, use tne declaration
of war last April, we do wake up and
do things. We buy bonds, and enlist.
and drill ; we Join defense leagues, and
knit, and make banduges, and all the
rest of it feverishly, sincerely tak
ing great credit to ourselves, mean
while, for our unalloyed patriotism,
and forgetting, by the way, that all
the things we are doing, and mean to
do, should have been foreseen, and
done long ago, quietly, thoroughly, and
as a matter of course.
We Are Asleep.
we were warned over and over
again. But we were asleep. And we're
asleep now. We're facing the most tre
mendous emergency that has ever con
fronted us, the bald, cold fact that the
United States is not going to raise as
much food as we raised last year, that
we are not going to raise nearly
enough to supply ourselves and our
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ne
h ord r to place the Monitor on a sir'ctly Cash in Advance sys
tem, wff have decided to club our two papers for a limited time at the price
of one. Two weekly papers for $ 1 .50
The Monitor
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A home paper with County News A strictly boys' and girls' newspaper
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work or business.
A simple home treatment. No
craving or desire for tobacco in
uny form after you begin taking
Quit-Tobac. Don't try to quit
the tobacco habit unaided. It's a
losing fight against heavy odds
and means a serious shock to the
nervous system. Let the tobacco
habit quit YOU. It will quickly ,
quit you, if you will take Quit- !
allies with food and we're sound Tobac according to the simple di
The lack of result, when the widely
advertised and Justly popular Mother
Hubbard sought a bone for her dog,
Is known to all readers of Juvenile his
tory, and goes to prove that the lady
lacked foresight She had a food
problem, and she didn't meet It
Like true descendants of old Mother
Hubbard and Rip Van Winkle we
stand asleep at the switch, and ap
parently we will never start to take
action until the cupboard is bare. Then
it will be too late.
This year we have had heat less Salle St. , Chicago.
a ays ana wneatless days and meatless l
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iiri far we win nave eatiess
days, but nobody seems to be unduly
distressed.
If a German army were landing on
Long Island our Inertia would vanish,
We would stop dlsciiNNlng what's going
reetions we send you. It is a
thoroughly reliable and perman
ent remedy for the tobacco habit,
but is not a substitute for tobac
co.
Thousands have been f recti
from the habit. Why not you?
Write at once for particulars an
testimonials.
A. P. Hall & Co., 118 N. La-
Notice to Creditors
ftn In If tie&l n Ann 'niivln tr Knn
cents; mixed rags, 2 1-2 to 3 who's going to pitch for the Giants-
cents ; paper, per ton, $8
in the navy service.
Monmouth Normal will grad
uate about 100 this year, most of
whom are already contracted in
teaching positions in this state.
The State Grange met nt Salem
this week and by an overwhelm
ing vote decided to have M.thing
to d owith "uou partisanship."
B. D. Cooper of Cbebalis,
Washington, arrived in Indepen
dence Tuesday and visited a few
days with bis brother, J. S.
Cooper.
W. S. Brown, former S. P.
agent here, was up from Oregon
City Thursday to help in confer-!
riug the Third Degree in the Ma
sonic lodge. !
Twenty-five per cent of the
value of .waste received bv the
'atriotic Conservation League
will be retained as a commission
to establish a budget for the en
tertainment of Oregon soldiers
and men of the selective draft
who are leaving for the training
camps ami the front. It is esti
mated that fom $,10)0 to
will be needed for this purpose,
and every young patriot wlu
sends in a pound of nieta. or rub
ber will know that he has borua
Notice is hereby given that the
wo might even cut out the movies, or I undersigned has been duly ap
streets, too.
Summer is here aud with it the
mv m ining bug. The little iusoct
arrived in town this week and by
Thursday the germ had settled
in the beads uf a number of boys
and girls and the river was alive
with mermaids and mere men.
Boy DeArmoud returned the
first of the week from Vale
where he has made arrangements
to go into the ranching business
with Dick DeArmond of that
place. Boy has been cashier of as well as their seniors, is urged
the Independence National bank to begin at once the collation of
for many years and has u excel-1 v'"-"' waste materials, and to
lent ataudiinr in l.nsines, ..irel J n,,ml to ,heir sbipment tn the
, , ,,. i . . I League after the date of June 28.
aim lit i'o iiiui li
the cabarets, for a night or two. We'd
drill and shout and work and very
likely fight and die.
The situation confronting us is Just
aa serious, though not as dramatic, as
if Hlndenburg were advancing on Bay-
shore. Hunger is Just as deadly an
enemy as the Hun.
Best Asset and Weapon.
Food Is our most important asset
and weapon. The only way we can
get food is to plant It, cultivate it and
harvest It. But the farmer claims he
can't get labor to do this work.
To any mind capable of comprehend
ing the startling news that two and
two are four, it would seem that the
vital thing to do Is to get labor to the
farmer, aud get It to him quUly so
his share in the farewell tendered! e can plant his crops. If he doesn't
to Oregon men who Mre to serve
in France. Should a surplus ex
ist it will be devoted to the Beed
College fund for the rcconstruo
tion work for wounded sddim
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r-vcry noy aim gin in uregon,
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f . 4 i in nu ruses me prices are I . 11. Is
m. McAdama was over from Mr ttlul Mrs i)oArmond expect' .. i ,
, "iiuucii, auu irj'rrM'lll lap UOSI
Balera a short time ago and pur
chased a Clark-Jewel oil stove
from Craven & Huff, having it
delivered in West Salem.
JJiss Williams, a critic teachc.
from the Bast, has been selected
as a teacher in th public school
here for the coming yesr, thus
filling all positions in the training
school.
to leave here next week fur their, price obtainable.
new home.
The Kill Kare Club leaves Sun
day at the early hour of ti A. M.
in autos for the country home of , haracter, and should be
-ir. ana airs. . ju luce
Shipments should be sent by
freight where posible, owing fo
the prohibitive cost of express
shipments for material of this
p' a in-
near I.. .. 1 1 1 A . 1. . . - . . .
; . nuuit'M-ii in i ne I airiiiiw I nu.
iladtone where they wdl spend, ,;,.rVH,ion lHgw l,r!!(t,(l 0r
the day as guests of our former lRon am, shonM ,Mr t,
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, 'un'-..v. iiiev iahv aioug HU(l nlress of the snder. Tav-
their luncheon ami two t.t their lm,nt in WJlp savin(. ,
Orin Dadniau of lnd p ndence number were delegated t' get six follow promptly
nvus uecn mending a. i j " ' ocm spuuK jMiueis in me Kch school child
leu vteatiesiiuy lor the rlu.lent s .country as pan ot tmir luneli. j
training camp at Itvsm'o, Cal.fJ I P to the time or going to press
lie is entered iu the Engineer! e have not heard anyni. com
Beserve, which permits him ' plain of a raid on their chicken
complete ins course in highway rousts, but we advise tin
engineering before going into "K be fowls in sight to hvk their the
actual service. hen houses Saturday ev;uiug
plant soon he can't plant at all
Now we can't do this as Individuals,
but we can get together and ask the
government to do it. Draft the ex-
i empted men in an agricultural army.
Draft all the boys from eighteen to
twenty-one. not subject to military
service. Comb out the Idle men. Put
a million men at the disposal of the
farmer. It won't hurt any man to
work outdoors from March to Septem
ber, and If now and then we find one
) too proud to work, the chances are the
experience will do htm good.
Will we see it in time? Will the
national alarm clock go off, and will
we realise that each one of us must
take hold and help or will we Join
that large and imposing band whose
philosophy of life may be briefly
tummed up In the trenchant phrase,
"Let George do it"t
If we drowse on, next winter we
will have an excellent chance for re
Hntance at leisure, while we dine on
snowballs a la Russe.
in Otwon
winning the war bv
joining this crusade for the sav
ing and salvaging of valuable
waste materials, which are nr.
hav- lM-ntlv ii.-... l..l v,i. t..i c... ...
equipment of his men on
laud and eea.
QUIT THE TOBACCO HABIT
Quit tobac Tobacco Treatment
will do the work promptly and
permanently. No matter in what
torni you use tobacco smoking
i
eivrais, pipes, cigarettes, ciiewmg
tobacco or snuff, no matter how
much you use, or how long used,
Quit-Tubac will break you of the
habit in from three to five days.
Pleasant to take, no ineoiivcui
euce, no reuiaiuuig away from
pointed the administratrix of
the estate of G. B. Suver, de
ceased, by theCounty Court of
the State of Oregou for I'olk
County, and has qualified.
All persons having claim.
against the said estate are hereby
notified to present the same
11. A At
amy veruieu, logeincr wiw ine
proper vouchers therefor, to the
uudersinged administratrix at
icr residence iu the town of Su
ver, in sanl county, within six
months from the date of this no
tice.
Dated and first published May
11, 1913.
Edna Grace Suver,
Administratrix of the estate
of G. B. Suver, deceased.
Swope & Swope, Attorneys.
F. P. 5-11. L. P. 6 8
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For Sping
WOMfN who exercise good taste in selection of shoes are
turning from the giddy, extreme colors to the quieter,
more modulated shades and to bronze and every-day black,
n our Fhowing of
UTZ & DUNN CO.
Style Shoes of Quality
There is a wide choice of authentic colors in the shades in
vogue, also bronze an 1 black in striking combinations.
WOMEN who have the desire for an air of gentility and
personality in shoes they buy, will be well pleased with
these brand new creations.
The Shoe Where Style Is Paramount.
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The Conquerer Hats
White and Fancy
Sport Hats and Caps
Trunk ,
Suit Cases
and
Traveling Bags
PROTECTION
FOR YOUR
LIBERTY BONDS
Your Liberty Bonds are Just as ne
gotiable as money. If through fire,
carelesssness or theft, you should lose
them, you would be out that amount.
FARMERS STATE BANK service is offered
you. Bring in your bonds we will
issue you a receipt and keep your bonds
in our BURGLAR PROOF SAFE, subject to
withdrawal at any time.
No carge for this service.
Farmers Stale Bank
Independence Oregon
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