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p.,tafls, Burbanks, $1.50
j Iptil(frn's Store.
the PuWk Schools
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Tlv' following c!hk)1s have
fy,n placed on the roll of honor
fr havin nnvk 98 pr cent in
altcncltncT or over: Zena. Dal
N. Smithfield, EoU, Pedw, R d
Prairi Bridgeport, BulUton,
Monmouth Hijrh School, Ait-lie,
Orchard, Polk Station. Perry
dale, Gooiervck, Butler, West
Salem, Rickreall, Oakpoint. B;wna
Vista, Elkins, Independence, Bu
ell, Spring Valley, Montgomery.
Lincoln, North Dalla3, Suver, Fir
Grove, Crowley, Concord, Lone
Star, Oakdale, Black Rock, Falls
City, Liberty, Cherry G'ovp,
Oakhurst, Mountainview, Rck
Creek. Hopville, Highland, Porn,
. Mistletoe, Wildwonl, Broadmcad,
" Valley Junction and District No.
73.
The following schools have
. been placed on the roll of honor'
for having made no tardies dur-;
' ing the month: Smithfield, Red .
. Prairie, Parker, Valley View,
j 'j Orchards, Gooseneck, Oakpoint,
, Buena Vista, Spring Valley, Fir,
J. Grove, Montgomery, Upper Salt
Creek, Crowley. Liberty. Oak-1
hurst, Mistletoe and Broad mead, j
' The following schools have be
come standard: Fern, Rogue
I River, Butler, Parker, Black
" Rock, Hopville and Buell. j
Valuak Cow is Shot
Mr. Cephas Nelson, whose
: raneh fa four milea aouth of Dal
las, had a valuable Jersey cowi
hot on day lait week by a care-'
k hunter, vhe name is not
known. Although the aiirml
was rvt killed, abe ii ruined as a
milker, and since tie accident
. has fallen efl i flesh to such an
.'ttfit that it will not pay her
iwn to put hef in condition for
'teef ' It miffht have bien a
j person Mtttwad of the cow," said ,
-: M. Nebon, "and tharefore there
thvftili be aujwthiHff done to re
strain hwiters " from roami:"1
nMi t&e country and shooting
at rucAmik" -Observer. j
, Bs of Luxury.
Th-r appearance of little dogs a
l'j(fts of luxury goes buck to the
most ancient tinies says the Lon
don Globe. Documents are not
wanting to show that Greek and
Eonian women had pet dogs which
thev idolized. Even men, particu
larly among foreigners, were not
ashamed to walk the streets of
Rome with pet dogs nnder their
arms. Tertia, the daughter of Luci
us Aurelius l'aulus, was so fond of
her dog that in the moment 9 bid
ding farewell to her father, who
was about to leave hiscountry and
, his family to wage war against Per
seus, king of Macedonia, she frank
ly admitted that the sadness im
printed on her face was due to the
death of her pet dog Persa.
Cheerfulness. . '
The true secret of good health ,
and immunity from disease lies in I
finding out and practicing the gold-
en mean of every rreed. Cheerful- '
ness is one of the best ends to length
of days. It is possible to cultivate
this quality, and in the interests of
those about us, no less than in our
own, it ought to be cultivated.
PAYROLL OF
Will
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WANTS f0,"DEADHEADS".C!i
LIST OF EMPLOYES.
A CALL UPO THS UW MAKCSt
TO PRI.VENT USELESS TAX
UPON ACRICULTURI.
j Pe er HHr7p4
trtur:r Niitl.nml Fiirmi rj' I'n'nn
The farnlr It the paymaster or
industry nd as nurh lie must mpt
the nation's payroll. When industry
pays its kill it must make a s.ghi
draft upon agriculture fur the amount
tthich the farmer U compelled to
honor without protect This check
drawn upou agriculture may trcval iu
and fro over the highways of com
merce; nay build cUics: girdle the
fclohe with bands of Heel; may search
hidden treasures In the earth or
traverse the skies, but In the end It
will rest upon the soil. No dollar
will remain suspended In midair, li if
as certain to seek the earth's surfHCe
as an apple that fi.l's from a tree
When a farmer buys a plow be pays
the man who mined the metal the
woodman who felled the tree, the
manufacturer who assembled the raw
material and shaped it Into an ar
ilcle of usefulness, the railroad 1 h..t
transported It and the dealer who
sold bim the goods. He pays the
wages of labor and capital employe 1
in the transaction as well as p;iy:;
for the tools, machinery, buildings,
etc.. used In the construction of the
commodity and the same applies to
all articles of use and diet of hi.n
self and those engaged In the sub
s-l Jiary lines of Industry.
There is no payroll In civilization
that does not rest upon the back
of the farmer. He must pay the b; . Is
all of them.
The total value of the nations
annual agricultural products is a'ou:: I
$12,000,000,000. and It Is safe to esti
mate that 95 cents on every dollar
- 'h s to meeting the expenses of siij
sldlary Industries. The farmer dix s
not work more than thirty minute
per day for himself; the remaining
thirteen hours of the day's toil ho
devotes to meeting the payroll of th.-'
hired hands of agriculture, such as
the manulacturer, railroad, commer
cial and other servants.
The Farmer's Payroll and How He
Meets It
The annual payroll of agriculture
approximates $12,000,000,000 A por
tion of the amount Is shifted to for
eign countries In exports, but thti
total payroll of Industries working for
the farmer divides substantially as
follows: Railroads, $1,252,000,000.
manufacturers. $4,365,000,000; mining.
$055,000,000; banks, $200,000.0! J .
mercantile $3,500,000,000, and a heavy
miscellaneous payroll constitutes th
remainder
It takes the corn crop, the mos;
valuable in. agriculture, which sold
last year for $1,692,000,000, to pay 0 f
the employes of the railroads; the
money derived from our annual sales
of livestock of approximately $2,0U.
000,000, the yearly cotton crop, valued
at $920OO0.O0O; the wheatf crop,
which Is worth $610,000,000, a'nd the
oat crop, that Is worth $440,000,000
are required to meet the annual pay
roll of the ntinufacturers. The
money derived from the remaining
staple crops Is used In meeting the
payroll of the bankers, merchants
elB. After these obligations are paid,
the farmer has only a few bunches or
vegetables, some fruit and poultry
which be can sell and call the pro
ceeds bis own.
Wheti the farmer pays off his help
he has very little left and to meet
these tremendous payrolls he has
been forced to mortgage homes, woik
omen In the field and increase thi
hours of his labor. We are. there
fore, compelled to call upon all in
dustrles dependent upon the farmers
for subsistence to retrench in their
expenditures and to cut off all un
necessary fxpenses. This course is
absolutely necessary In order to avoid
a reduction In wages, and we want.
If possible, to retain the present wage
scale paid railroad and all other Io
dustrial employes
We will devote this article to
discussion of unnecessary expenses
and whether required by law or per
mitted by the managements of the
concerns, Is wholly immaterial. We
want all waste labor and extrava
gance, of whatever character, cut out
We will mention the full crew bill aa
Illustrating the character of unneces
sary expenses to vbieo we refer
Union Opposes "Full Crew" Bill.
The Texas Farmers' I'nion regis
tered Its opposition to his character
of legislation at the last annual meet
ing held In Fort Worth, Tex., August
i, 1914. by resolution, which we quote,
as follows:
"The matter of prime Importance
to the farmers of this state Is an ade
quate and efficient marketing system;
and we recognize that such a system
la Impossible wlttout adequate rail
road facilities, embracing the greatest
amount of service at the least pos
sible cosL We further recognize that
the farmers and producers In the end
pay approximately 95 per ceut of the
expenses of operating the railroads,
and It Is therefore to the Interest of
the producers that the expenses of
the common carriers be as small as
Is possible, consistent with good ser
vice and safety. We, therefore, call
upon our lawmakers, courts and
iuriea to bear the foregoing facts In
mind when dealing with the common
carriers of this state, and we do espe;
cially reaffirm tbe declarations of
the last annual convention of our
State Union, opposing the passage of
the so-called 'fullcrew' bill before
the thirty-third legislature of Texas."
The farmers of Missouri In the last
election, by an overwhelming ma
jority, swept this law off the statute
book of that state, and it should
come off of all statute books where
it appears and nt legislature of this
nation should ptss such a law or
similar legislation which requires un
necessary expenditures.
The same rule applies to all regu
latory measures which Increase the
expenses of industry without giving
corresponding benefits to the public.
There is ofttlmes a body of men as
sembled at legislatures and they
have a right to be there who, In
their zeal for rendering their fellow
associates a service, sometimes favor
an Increase In the expenses of in
dustry without d le regard for the men
who bow their backs to the summer's
sun to meet the payroll, but these
committees, while making a record
for theirtselves, rub the Bkin off the
shoulders of the farmer by urging the
legislature to lay another burden
upon bis heavy load and under the
lash of "be It enacted" goad him on
to pull and surge at the traces of civil
ization, no matter how he may sweat,
foam and gall at the task. When
legislatures "cut a melon" for labor
they hand the farmer a lemon.
The farmers of the United States
are not financially able to carry "dead
heads" on their payrolls. Our own
hired hands are not paid unless we
have something for them to do and
we are not willing to carry the hired
help of dependent Industries unless
there Is work for them. , We must
therefore Insist upon the most rigid
economy
Legislative House-Cleaning Needed.
While the war is on and there Is
lull In business, we want all legisla
tive bodies to take an inventory of
the statute books and wipe off all
extravagant and useless laws. A good
house-cleaning Is needed and econo
mies can be instituted here and there
that will patch the clothes of Indigent
children, rest tired mothers and lift
mortgages from despondent homes
Unnecessary workmen taken off and
useless expenses chopped down all
along the line will add to the pros
perity of the farmer and encourage
him In his mighty effort to feed and
clothe the woild.
If any of these Industries have sur
plus employes we can use them on
the farm. We have no regular
schedub of wages, but we pay good
farm hands on an average of $1.50
per day of th rteen hours when they
board themselves; work usually runt
about nine months of the year and the
three months dead time, they can do
the chores for their board. If they
prefer ty (arm on their own account,
there are more than 14,000,000,000
acres of Idle land on the earth's Bur
face awaiting the magic touch of the
plow The compensation is easily ob
tainable from Federal Agricultural
Department statistics. Tho total
average annual sales of a farm in
the continental United States amounts
to $516.00; the cost of operation Is
$340.00; leaving the farmer $176 pet
annum to live on and educate his
family.
There Is no occasion tor the legis
latures malilng a position for surplus
employes of Industry. Let them come
"back to the soil" and share with us
the prosperity of the farm.
When honesty ft merely a food
policy It Is a poor virtue.
Lazy farmess are Just at useless ai
dead ones and take up more room.
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Wbeo the soul communes with the
spirit of nature the back to the farm
movement prevails.
There are two kinds ot farmers.
One tries to take all the advice he
hears and the other won't take any
at all
-2u
Two World Expositions
Nov Open
Redut't'd fare round trip tickets. irmittiryr
stop-overs at all points in either direction, to
the raiiama-I'ai'ilie International Exposition.
San Francisco, and to the Panama-California
Exposition. San Piejro, on mle every day to
Via tho
Scenic Shasta Route
Three Fine Trains Daily
Shasta Limited : San Francisco Express : California Express
Stop-overs on One Way Tickets
Ten days' stop-over will be allowed at San
Francisco and I8 Anpeles on one way tickets
sold to Eastern Cities when routed via the
Southern Pacific.
California m lis h World Expositions. "
A m tuoklet dwci iMng th trip fnmi I'ortlKixt to Sun I Mom iiioHnlitiir
the twit KxMitioiii. Ui wiue bi'.iliw of Onvn, tht Siki,iis mtd
ShMu M.imitmnK. San Kranciwo, the bench nnd outlne renortu of Cl
ifiirnln. the San Jiaijuin Valley and Yutrmitt Natlunal Park. Free on
iilirathm t neartxt Anent,
SOUTHERN PACIFIC
John M. Scott, General Pass nger Apent, Portland, Ore.
Local Time CarcL
Of the Independence And
! Monmouth Railway Ef-
fective December 15, 1914
Train No. 1 leaves Intlependenee 7:00
A. M., arrjves at Monmouth 7:10 A. M.,
ronnevta with train for Airlie.
Train No. 3 leave Independence 7:35
! A. M. after connectinc with S. P. train
' No. HM from Coi vallis, arrives at Mon
ro mth 7:45 A. M.
! Train No. ? kavea Independence 8:45
A. M., arrives at Monmouth 8:55 A. M.,
' connects with train for Dallas.
Train No. 7 leaves Independence 11 :15
I A. M. after connecting with S. P. train
: No. 101 from Portland, arrives at Mon
I mouth 11:?S A. M., connects with No.
1 351 for Airlie.
; Train No. 9 leaves Independence 1:10
P. M., arrives at Monmouth 1:20 P. M.,
i connects with No. 352 for Dallas.
Tiain No. 11 leaves Independence 2:20
P. M. after connecting with S. P. train
! No. 102 from Corvallis, arrives at Mon
mouth 2:30 f. M.
Train No. 15 leaves Independence 3:50
P. M., arrives at Monmouth 4:00 P. M.
Train No. 17 leaves Independence 4:311
P. M. after connecting with Motor Car
from Salem, arrives at Monmouth 4:40
P. M.
Train No. 19 leaves Independence 7:30
P. M. after connecting wilh S. P. train
No. 3.r3 from Portland, arrives at Mon
mouth 7:40 P. M.
Train No. 2 leaves Monmouth 7:15 A.
nt Independence 7:25 A. M..
connects with S. P. train No. 354 for
Portland.
I Train No. 4 leaves Monmouth 8:15 A.
M arrives at Independence 8:25 A. M.,
( connects with train from Dallas arriving
! at Monmouth 7:25.
' Train No. 6 leaves Monmouth 9:05 A.
' M., arrives at Independence 9:15 A. M..
connects with train from Airlie.
T...:n Wo 8 L.uvua Mmimnuth 11:35
limn i.w. v -
A. M., arrives at Independence 11:45
A. M., connects with train No. 351
from Dallas.
Train No. 10 leaves Monmouth 1:30
P. M arrives at Independence 1:40 P.
M., connects wilh S. P. train No. 352
from Airlie, also S. P. train No. 102 for
Portland.
Train No. 12 leaves Monmouth 2:35
P. M., arrives at Independence 2:45 P.
M.
Train No. 14 leaves Monmouth 4:05
P. M., arrives at Independence 4:15 P.
M., connects with Motor Car for Salem
and Dallas.
Train No. 16 leaves Monmouth 4:50
P. M arrives at Independence 5:00 P.
M.
Train No. 18 leaves Monmouth 7:45
P M., arrives at Independence 7:55 P.
M.
Carpentering
For Odd Piece of
FURNITURE,
1 ODD JOBS,
DESKS, CABINET
! or any kind of Carpenter Work
I '.ry
A. N. POOLE,
Contractor and Builder.
WALTER O. BROWN
Notary Public
Blank Deeds, Mortgages, Etc.
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