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"Baxwj to get tts Mure of friti'i trwcb b adopts th motbod of what a terms "iMtlnf tht sparks," This consists of fliinf bursts from hi ua until tht bulled hit the Omnia barbed w1r. lit can tell when they art cutting tb win, because bullet when It blti a wlr throwi out a blu electric (park. Machlne-guo Or la very damatinf to wlrt and caua many a wiring party to 10 oot at night when It ouiat to renalr the damage. Continued next weak Items of Interest Patriotism ii to be the keynote of the coming Dallas Chautauqua pro gram. The government ha recog nized the value of the Chautauqua platform a a means of spreading information and several accredited lecturers will be presented. The foremost of these fa Dr. Lincoln 1. Wlrt, prominent war correspondent who cornea to Chautauqua direct from a visit on the Western Front. He was in Europe in the spring as a member of a Government Observa tion Party for the express purpose of securing information for western Chautauqua audiences. He traveled under military escort and spent most of his time on the American section of the line, Dr. J. B. Grider has moved bis dental office from Independence to Tillamook. A S. 0. Work left for his new home t Harbor in Curry county Mon day, He waa accompanied by hit daughter Mrs. Hazel Tollman and Glen Work who went along to as . sist. The route to Harbor is a fa tiguing one as they go by way of Grant's Pass by stage route to Cres cent City, Cel., and back along the ocean to Harbor. Owing to a break down of ma chlnery at the'pumping plant the pump wss idle most of Monday. Mr, and Mrs. P. H. Johnson were visitors with relatives in Falls City last week.1 The C. W. B. M. met with Mrs. Mack, June 7th. Mrs. Cole had charge of the program which was very good especially the musical numbers by Miss Margery Holman. The following officers were elected for the year: President, Mrs. M. E. Percival; First vice-president, Mrs. Force; Second vice-president, Mrs. Haley. - Trunks, Bags, and Suit cases, Moore & Walker. , ' T As will be noted by the announce ment in another column the annual meeting for district 13 will be next Monday, June 17. The meeting will elect a director to succeed 0. A. Wolverton and also a district clerk. Floyd Williams, Edward Oliver, Jennings Lorence, On Hinkle and Vera Alsip were among the 21 year olds to register with the govern ment recently. ; . Auction! Auction! Household goods of M. S. Pittman to be sold at auction at his residence in Monmouth Thursday, June 20 . - at 2, P. M. ' Everything at Your Price Good new range 2 bedsteads Singer sewing machine :: Dining room chairs Rocking chairs Quarter sawed oak dining table Dishes Writing desk Dressers Art squares and Rugs Lawn Mower Baby buggy ajid dozens of other things sold to the highest bidder. , COME! COME' Chas. M. Youngs, aged 69, died L. L. Stillwell a former resident in Falls City last week. He was of this locality but now of Tilla born in Scran ton, Pa., and is sur- mook paid his first visit to this sec- vivea ty uiree children, Mrs. L. Hedrick of Drain and ' Mrs. May Tupper of Dilly were here .... last week visiting with their moth er Mrs. Sarah Boots The sale of blooded cattle on the Wm, Morrow farm, in the vi cinity of Rickreall, drew many of our dairymen Wednesday. The McArthur farm was also represent ed in the selling with a number'of head of Jerseys. The regular Red Cross meeting for next week will be held on Fri day instead of Tuesday so as not to interfere with the commencement exercises at the Normal. Cook for one half cent per hour, no hot kitchen, no smoke, no wick to trim to smoke, smell and toot up the house in other words; use a Florence Blue Flame Oil Stove for aale by Moore A Walker, Indepen dence, Ore. ,' Mrs. A F. Huber. Mrs. If . D. Coulter and Mr. and Mrs. E. Crook of Lewisville were Monmouth visit ors Tuesday. v Mrs. Pernie Johnson of Eugene was a visitor at D. M. Hampton's Friday. D. R. Cochran, formerly of Mon mouth but now of Salem, wu here Monday. Lloyd Mason had his left hand badly injured one day this week by catching it in the pulley of a hay fork. ' J. M. McDonald made hay while the sun shone durinir the nast week He bought Alva Craven's clover croD of the first cutting and had j several teams hauling and a force oi men busy working getting the same under cover. , On Tuesday Mayor H. C. Ost'e.-i received teleirraDh notice to renort for duty in New York within eitrht days and left for the national met ropoiis Wednesday. He went in his car to Portland, Mrs. Ostien accom panying him. Mayor Ostien's gen ial prsesence will be missed in Mon mouth, in the city as well as in the Normal for he is public spirited and found time to take an interest in affairs of public welfare as well as in his own private concerns. J. H. McClellan of Toledo stop ped in Monmouth Thursday on his way to Portland. . By a recent census it is announc- ed that there are 620 empty houses in Eugene.- Mrs. V. F. Daniel and two Mrs. V. r. Daniel and two sons m uu8,.y en m tewing iSf?.!j f tn? the vicinity of Philomath. W. H Mack went along with them to do u..:r wur? n uie nouse they are to occupy for the summer Miss Fishwood, when school is t wm TBS.M 0V41UVI ID I completed, plans to try her hand at agriculture for the summer. She goes to Creswell where her parents have recently located on fa have recently located on a farm They are from Nebraska. ' E. K. PIASECKI. Lawyer, Dal las, Ore. Probating of Wills and Settlement of Estates a Specialty ,tf FORSALE-Jerseybull.serviceable age.also br,ood sow, Both register ed stock. L. I, Bursell, Monmouth. The Florence Oil Stoves have no wicks. The heat Is easily and quick ly regulated by turning a simple little lever.device. We give you a guarantee with each stove. Moore & Walker, Complete Home Futnish ers, Independence, Or. FOR SALE-Warehouse with or without lot, on Eccles Street. Net tie Boche, 3x Evangelical Church Notes Sunday. June 16. Morninir Wor. ship at 11. Subject: "Secret of Victorious Living in Hard Places". There will be no evenin? Mrviw on account of the Baccalaurate Ser vice of the Normal School. Terms Cash - Orders from headquarters have been received at the lumber yard not to extend credit for wood any longer,' Hereafter the instructions are to collect cash with wood deliv eries. . 40 -St tion in 80 years on Thursday. Walter Brown and Maxwell Bow- m w " aaiiva TV V 1 1 WW" ersox took a ride in Brown's Saxon I I-.. C...-J.... - 1 . last Saturday as far as Aurora in get a better view of the eclipse. While the sun suffered the Saxon was not eclipsed by anything they passed on the way. Elbert Peterson, locally known as Elbert Mack, visited Tuesday at W. H. Mack's. At present he is un dergoing treatment in the Dallas hospital. , H. H. Haskins and family of Los Angeles passed through Monmouth on their way to Newberg. . C. C. Lee tripped on the chain used to stake a cow out to pasture. He fell and cracked two ribs. C. C. Orville of Newport was a visitor in this city Monday. Dean Sellers, eoncludingjiis work in the local hist school lft for hu home in Banks Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Chesebro brought back with them from Portland, two grandsons, George Ellis and How ard Auld, who will stay for a visit. Walter Johnson is reported to have broken a kg as the result of an accident in Comstock's saw mill: Floyd W. Moore, U. S. Emergen cy agricultural agent and L. P. Gil more visited the Industrial clubs of Monmouth' recently and express themselves aa disappointed at the progress of the work which is not nearly so well advanced this year as in previous years. Tom Fennel, an elderly resident of Independence is reported to have committed suicide Wednesday be cause of despondency. He secured a boat, entered it and started to cross the river. Midway across he jump ed into the stream. Mr. Fennel was a former blacksmith of our neigh bor city and was later a rancher. He has a daughter, a violinist of note, living in Portland. Invitations have been received in Monmouth to the wedding of Miss Elsie Jones, to Albert E. Smith to take place in the Christian church at St John'a. One., next Sunday af ternoon. The bride will be remem bered by many as the daughter of a former pastor here. Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Crofoot and two small daughters have arrived from Maupin in Eastern Oregon to spend the summer with her mother, Mrs. L. R. Burkhead and other rel atives in this vicinity. They may locate here. The Crofoots spent the present eek visiting at M. M. Long's in Corvallis. At the auction to be held at the O'Brien place Saturday (tomorrow) 8teCT been donated which will be auctioned for the benefit of the Monmouth branch of the Red Cross, Some of the ladies of the local branch have been invited to have charge of an ice cream booth dur- the sale Li" I?"16 of J"". "hose ""mes appear on the social list are cordially invited to attend the Jun lor rrom given in the Normal Gym nasium. June the fifteenth at eio-ht. o'clock. Mr. .and Mrs. C. C. Mulkey and daughter Naomi started nvorlnnd for Belknap Springs bright and ear ly Sunday morning for a month's outing, the trip being made to im prove Mr. Mulkey's health. They went in Jasper Thompson's car with the latter doing the driving and he will also camp in the moun tains. Eight years ago a company of nine sat down to dinner with Mrs. A. A. Cattron. v ,They were Mesdames Monroe Mulkey, Fa hel Hall, David Stump, A.' M. Bed well, Albert Lucas, Amanda Dough ty, Jane Powell, Rachel Waller and Mrs. Moore (now of Seattle) , All of these good . women have since passed away but four, and of thru three sat down to dinner with Mrs. Cattron last Wednesday. They were Mesdames Powell, Mulkey and Hall, and to the comnanv was arM1 Mrs Sarah Ground and Mrs. Mack. They naa a spienaia time and enjoyed a fine dinner. Mrs. Cattron. nlthnno-h in her 81st year, is as active and mentally alert as a much younger woman and the chickens she fried were some she raised. Shu aslcm) no help from any one. -The past. present and future were tonics of conversation and the day will be pleasantly remembered by all. ' nnmiiiiniiiiiiniiHMniiiiiiinnniiimniit i! Fonnoro, The Food Administration has provided for farmers to still get wheat flour. If you have sold your wheat and have none to exchange for flour, nude expli cation to Food Administrator, Dallas, Ore., for spe cial permit to purchase wheat flour, present this permit to us and we wilfsell you Best WCty Fbcr for Two Dollars, Thirty Fnre Cents per Sack. For your convenience we have put in Flour sub stitutes and can furnish you as follows: 10 lb. uses Uzilzy Flsur t& Csvtsty ct3. " " " Ccrallssl " Csrlsy Flour in larger quantities at C0 per D Cera Flcur, White cr Yellow eX a cert more per pound tlum tirliyCour Orctjcn L!i!!ir.j 1 1 1 1 i I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 MONMOUTH Vol. II Monmouth, Ore., Friday, June 14, 1913 No. 34 Written and Edited by Students of Monmouth High School Last Friday, Mr. Tavenner gave the student body a short talk on the subject of the "Eclipse" and its causes and significance and the best means of viewing it. This was very instructive and enabled us to better understand it when it came Satur day. Monday was the last day for clas ses at the High School. Tuesday and Wednesday were given over to examinations. On Thursday at 10:00 the Class Day program was given. In the afternoon the Annual High School Picnic was held at Rickreal. Graduation exercises will be held Friday at 8:00 P. M. in the High School auditorium. Mr. E. L. Kee- zel will be speaker of " the evening. There have been surprisingly few failures this semester considering the number of recent absences that students have been called upon to make on account of home work. It has necessitated considerable home study and working over time at school in order to keep up the standard and students responded in a splendid way. WALKER An Accurate Watch no matter what your work is SIMPLE and atrong. That's the kind of mechanism in Ingersoll watches. That'a why they stand hard knocks why aa Ingersoll is the watch for you. . bamoHa u accurate fMrarimf Mctnbv Tfefa bwa Sfovtd to tb JO million people who hm bougtatbun. Althii Mot you can Ma all the different modal for tarn and woman, boys and firkr-lot pocket, wrist or bouta bold ue. Let u belp you telect yout V 1 Jeweled Qlow Dial Jawelei inl Actui li Sin A Ha RaBanca.fS.00 Waterbory "Radlolits 14.80 A anal wtch-mn, We, food looking ! lewtled at th ("'Hal smart oa-net. A,tMB,T-JweIwat oUd alcktl m, SI WiUrbarr..K)Wt. Attention! ij ii t Cz Warchcurc Co. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 HIGHVA YS For the second semester, Frances Pyle and Imogene Richards won the highest scholarship honors in the school; with Lorena Fox and Eric, Swenson tied for second place. In the Senior Class, Alice Corn stock and Vida Beougher won the highest marks with Gertrude Rog ers, Delbert Skeen and Zola Bab cock in second place. Frances Pyle and Imogene .Rich ards carried off the Junior Class honors with Bernice McKinney, sec ond. Lorena Fox was first m the Sophomore Class with Bessie Sulli van and Elizabell Smith in second place. Eric Swenson carried away the Freshmen laurels, but waa crowded closely by Velma Johnson, Mary Rice and Zeta Smith. Thursday morning the student body presented Mr. Hedrick with a handsomunilitary watch aa a mark ofNtheir appreciation and respect. Miss Alma Riley, sister of Paul Riley, was married to Mr. Burton of Hood River last Wednesday. She has just concluded a term of school at Rickreall. BROTHERS Glow Dial sevwwep aaMSSMW Shew time ta tix (irk. Haadiud Stem lay. ered with "Kadielita," 0?!ttataf "aa radium. Olewkutaat lautMyear. (o) sr o