INDEPENDENCE MONITOR VOL. 6. INDEPENDENCE, OKOON, SATUXOAT, JFLT 6, 1918 NO. 47. FALLS CITY IS BOTH LIVE AND PROSPEROUS A Lumber Center, A Fruit Cen ter and a Sportsman.s Paradise Combined We Visit City This Week and Learn Much of Real 0 Interest Falls City lies at the foot hills of the Coast Range of mountanis and is so sltuateTl that it fringes or borders one of the finest bodies of timber on t he Pacific coast. Lumber being in great de Tuand at this time and a railroad being in operation to Falls City and beyond into the timber, op portunity beckoned to the town ing little city. " Beside Muse mills three..immense logging com-" . - . .. s . , . pames are imoper ajion t a n 1 1 many mills in' the ANHllamette valljy, are being supplied with logs from the timber tributary to Kails City. Hundreds of men are in the tim ber and mills and wages run from $.ir0 ot 8.00 per day and there is a shortage of men at the mills and in the rimher camps. Falls City claims to have the biggest pay roll of any eity in the Cnited States of its Rize and we are not going to dispute this claim. While lumbering is the big in dustry there are other activities at Falls City. There is a Logan berry plant that handles the out put of this section and which ships and wholesales over a great section of the West. The editor of the Monitor has had. the pleas ure of sampling this product, manufactured at Falls City, in his former home in Malheur county, and thus from experi ence knows of the market value of the product made by Mr. Cliff Pugh of this little city. The production of Logan berries in Falls City is represented by 100 acres in that fruit growing in tl is vicinity now and this acre age will be increased. Prunes do well in this section and Steven Crocker saw the op portunity of drying the fruits of this vicinity so he put in an up-to-date plant and handles a large product and markets it. Falls City is not complete without a thought of Tom Ilall owell, who has an immense green house. Tom supplies the mills, the camps and the people with their vegetables and has built up a local industry of value that but few towns of three times the population of Falls City have When the editor of the Monitor was on his first excursion he dabbled in the water at the Luek- of Falls City and she welcomed it. As tiTesult .eleven mills are now running andthe rimber o'neededivthe government is be- il ing manufactured, lin .this tliriv- iamute Falls at Falls City and en- joyed it. Falls City was a place for an outing those days and there were just a few first set tlers there. That was all. Now those falls have been harnessed to furnish electric power for the eity. The pure mountain water of the hills 2 1-2 miles back has been piped for a city gravity wa ter system. The railroad has opened to the world the vast t'm ber resources. Money has inter ested bankers aud W. II. Beard has taken the presidency of the Falls City bank and is handling the local business for all the mills and stores. Good drygoods and grocery stores, hardware, confec tionery and other stores have found their way into the city and a paper is flourishing iu their midst. An immense school building with 13 teachers in charge and about 400 children in attendance show that education has marched forward with the advance of the eity. The school maintains a good four year High School course and the town boasts of a Domestic Science and Manuel Trainig course that is a decided success. The Tattle Luekiamute runs though the town and camping and fishing are yours for the asking in this vieinty. There s not a secton of Oregon who yon could find more pleasure and greater opportunity for good sporting if you are a lover of the "trout" for it is said that this is the sportsman's paradise. Beautiful camping places are found in fav ored spots where it is a pleasure and a recreation you will enjoy. All in all, Falls City is one of the favored sections of Oregen tml we hope to be able to picture some of Falls City's many stories in a later issue. Threshennen Orgaanise The threshermen of Polk coun ty at the request of the Tolk County Food Administration, met Saturday and organized an as sociation with Floyd Meyers, president; S. Stewart, vice presi dent; A. R. Brown, secretary treasurer. The executive com mittee was elected from the sevn districts into which the county was divided. The committee con sists of decree Clanfield, Tillrcan Crook, C. L. Oibson, P. P. BupTi, IT. Gillman, J. J. Stratton and the Falls City section not named. Scale of wages: Pitchers, $3.00; $4.00 for men and teams; $3.!"0 for ack sower-) and j?s men. Adl the threshermen pledged them selves to save all grain possible. Patriotic Celebration The Knights of Pythias held a successful patriotic meeting In the grove Tuesday, July 2. The Polk County band furnished the music, playing patriotic airs, Dr. TI. C. Dunsmore delivered a pa- triotic address and a pleasant evening was spent. An invita tion was extended by a commit tee from Salem's Commercial Club to the people of Indepen dence and vicinity to come to iho bridge opening which would be during the latter part of this month. Christian Church No services at the Christian church this Sunday. Rev. Tuttle, Pastor. Shipping Hops to South Africa The Wiggins-Richardson Com pany are shipping 100 bales of choice hops to Natal, Cape Town and Aligo Bay in South friea. These hops are pressed as close as possible in the original bale, th.n wrapped ami sewed in eanvjis. The canvas is sized and then painted so that it is water proof. Jeter Virgin has the contract lor sizing and putting the hops in shape for shipment. Fair Price List The fair price list for week end ing July 11 makes several cluinges this week. Barley flour ,cnrn meal, corn starch, hominy are quoted from 1-2 to 2 cents lovr this -.week, while panned corn, canned peas, tall red canned sal mon, evaporated milk and eriso are quoted as higher. Other prices about the same as last week. Bank Declares Dividend At the semi-annual meeting of the directors of the Independence National bank held June 29, the regular semi annual dividend was declared. Stock Buyers Locate Mr. C. I. Barclay has located in Independence and expect to do a general live stock business, bry ing and selling all classes of live stock. Mr. Barclay makes bis headquarters at the Beaver hotel where he can be reached in per son or by phone. New Saw Mill For Suve r A hew sawmill is to be erected at Suver on the old sawmill site is information given to the editor of the Monitor this week. Two parties passed through town on Tuesday who are now in Stiver getting ready to build the will. This will be quite an addition to our Bister city and we are glad to note the improvement. Celebrates Eighteenth Birthday Miss FJla Burright celebrated her eighteenth birthday Jnne 23, and thirty-three relatives wore present. Two autos came from Scio and one from Silverton for the occasion and the reunion was a very pleasant one. CELEBRATIONS AND PICNICS JULY 4TII I U Everyone Makes Merry and Big Crowds Assemble The Old Time Celebration The Kings Valley celebration July 4 was a decided success and it was an old time celebration with plenty of pleasure. The music, speaking and singing wore good and everyone had a good time. The train was loaded from Independence and the grove was filled '.th autos from Corvallis, Albany, Dallas, Independence, Monmouth and the town around, that s -nt their delegations by private conveyance. The races and games were carried out as scheduled. Celebration Dinner and Reunion A very pleasant celebration, reunion and birthday party vas held at the home of So Cox, op posite Independence July I, the occasion being' the birthday of Frank Cox, Jr. The relatives from e-'ery section were present and a (Mebration dinner at noon was one of the features of the oe PHsion. Thus present ,were Mr. and Mrs. S..1 Cox of Orville, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Cox ami son, Eugene, of Independence; Mr. and Mrs. Sol Cox, Jr., of Oregon City; Mr. and Mrs. Albert Cox of Orville j Mr. and Mrs. Claud Cox and children, Irene and Elvin of Portland; Mr. Hiid Mrs. Clarence Smith of Iloquiain, Washington; Mr. and Mrs. J. Ii. Bidgood and children, Owendoline, Rollie Mid James of Cloverdale; Elmer Smith of IToquiam; A r gyle Lamb of Hoquinm; Mis Ruby Thorp of Portland and Mrs. Mabel Sorlcy of Salem. Prominent Speaker Comes to Monmouth The Normal is exlremely for tunate to secur fioretsin-hMsse tnnate to secure for its week end speaker Dr. II. II. Powers, lec turer and traveler of Boston, Massachusetts, who is locturnig at the University Summer School at Eugene. Dr. Powers has made a thorough study of inter national problem and his Inti mate knowledge of the underly ing causes of the present world conflict makes him one of the most informing platform speak ers on the war. Every body ia not only Invited, but urged to be present to hea rDr. Powers' three lectures which will be giv en in the Normal chapel on Fri day, July 5 at 8:30 P. M., Hat urday, July G, at 9:20 A. M. and 8:00 P. M. (I