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About Independence enterprise. (Independence, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1909)
NDENCE ENi'EKF&ISE LNDhPh INDICi-lfiNDENCE. C FIUIUV. OCTOIiEK I. WU NTMIiKll - SIXTEENTH YBAR "SCHOOL DilYS" "SCHOOL DAYS" PUBLIC SCHOOLS OPENED LAST MONDAY MORNINQ With an Enrollment th First Day That Fully Equala Any In th HU tory of th City Schools Indlca tiona That Mora Room la Needed. "I love my teacher, but oh, you va cation dayi" thoufch; many a "school boy with a shining faco and anull must at: end until he bconie sixteen years of bk. lu r ilo XUV.iniKo 167 of school lai of 1UU7, t' hTa aro authorl d j to require rtcuHia from parent! elthei hi person or by written notice, In all ia.net of almence or laddie!, or ula-1 Dilitmil before lit) clone of school. Her-1 tlon IIM of tli Kainit law provides DECEASED WAS THE FATHER OF that the (earlier iiiiixt count all un- TEN CHILDREN exrum-d absences, and (hat no escuso, nlml. bn atx pt d except al knewi of FARMER KILLED AT CHARIVARI Tha Allagod Murdentr Saya That It Waa an Accident. Tha Victim Wit Wall Known In Independence Hav ing Lived Her at OmJ Time. It knowD (hat It waa tha op miIiik day of the Independence schools. With clothes brushed and shoes shlued, and face and handa clean to the point of palnfuliics!, hundreds of boya and girls wended their way to the varloua aea!a of learning last Monday morning. Aa the different grades let out for tha puplla to se cure their books, the puplla could be aeon alnijly. Jn Plri d In groups, In every direction. Though the holi day! are over a sort of holiday spir it pervaded the air for there Ih always a certain amount of attraction to the opening day were It not for the dimming influence of though! of the day to come, there would be noth lng but ivjolclng. Though the enrollment will not be completed until next wee k. It Is ap parent that the opening registration la going to be greater titan ever be fore in the history of the city. This waa expected, however, as it was dis covered sometime ago that every de alrable dwelling houHe In the city had been rented aa well as many that en because there waa nothing left, were not desirable but had been tak- The greatest gains will probably be uotod In tiio high school in whlrh the enrollment the first day Ih said to have been the largest in the history of the public schools, while the ca pacity of the second grade Is already crowded to its fullest extent and it ia possible that additional accommoda tion will have to be provided. Aa a result of the conference laBt Saturday between Principal Mcintosh and his staff of teachers, everything In connection with the opening of the term went off without a hitch. The schools were taken up at the usual hour Monday morning, the pupils en rolled and classified, and at 10:30 the children were dismissed In order that they might procure the necessary books. The achool opened Tuesday morning with a largely increased at tendance. The enrollment the first day was two hundred and seventy-two, divid ed as follows: First grade, twenty boys and four; eon girls; second grade twenty-four boys and sixteen girls; third grade, twelve boys and sixteen girls; fourth grade, eighteen boys ftnd seventeen girls; fifth grade, fif teen boys and thirteen girls; sixth grade, seventeen boys and eleven seventh grade, thirteen boys ten girts; eighth grade, twelve boys and sixteen girls; high school, thirteen boys and twenty-one girls. For the benefit of parents it is Btated that pupils in the tint grade must enter within one month from the date of the opening of the school and must be six years of age , on or before the first day of February ,1910. Pupils from outside districts, of which there are already qultei a num ber, are required to pay a tuition of 115 for the term or $5 the quarter. In order that everyone may fully un derstand the laws governing children of school age following is published a synopsis of the compulsory school laws: As soon as the school opens, the district clerk must give to the teach er a revised copy of his last census report, showing the name and age of every child, and the name and ad dress of each child's father or guard- Ian. It Is, necessary to tne leacner pupil or some member of the pupil'! family, which wak's attendance lni pouHlblu. The compulsory law does not ex tend to plaht h icrado itraduatca. or to children who are attending some oth er school regularly. It does not ap- James Laurence, farmer, father of ply to chlldreu between nine and ten t, cMMrw and memhl,r of a chart- years of ae if they live more than . , . A , . ii vari party that visited the home of like pace" Monday morning. For ber to older children tha, live more.' Townsend, Sunday night, I.. . - i i ..... . i....t. .1 ..J ln..liintlv IIIHII inree Milieu ironi a nooi uy ui" enui luruugn mo ciiem emu nin"n nearest traveled ronci..At uie negin- km .j j,y the bridegroom. The klll nlng of the term, and every fotir ,nf pJace northw(JBt weeks thereafter, the teacher mut of McMlllBvi,Iet , j,aopy Valoy. comi.ar- the nam.-, of the children on XownB(fnd , a,80 , ni,(luK,aged mM the register with those on the clerk a Md grandchlldren. report, and If the census show, that TownHt.nd wag marr,ed gonle tlme there are children who are not at- the wag tiding .chool lu the district, whose , off by nolgh)or untu Sunday eV. age I. nine year, or over and under u(ng whpn W(.re ,eaat busy, sixteen yt-ara, the teacher should care Women acompanled tbe fully Inqulr. Into the cause of such I ,ntentlon wag non-attendance. If at this time or eymlng any other time, during the term, the , XownBtfn(ta whon tney arrlved how. truancy of any child amount. In the TownBn1 htt(1 r(,llrHd. ,!(. they rei ii. iJ a abort time. From th-rt hi. parenu moved to folk oun y settling In the I.uiklamutu country near Koap creek. Ociober Ti, 1S69 he was married to! Mary F. Well, of Iluena Via a at wtiii h place he realded until tho time or bis death. He waa the father of three children, two boy. and a girl, the lat er dying at the ae of fifteen tnoii lis and the two noun. Kitten and William, surviving their father. Mr. Ileven. was a man of honest conviction! and wa honored and es teemed by all those who knew him for hla uprlghtneH. and Integrity. The deepest sympathy of friends la felt for the bereaved widow aud children. girls; and tlon law who has reached the age of nine must attend school regularly rt,, the whole time the school is in session. After a chUd reaches the a-e of 14 years, he is not required to attentTV provided he is regularly and lawfully engaged in some useful employment. If not so employed, he aggregate to more than seven half days during any four, or 1' number of consecutive weeks, the teacher must Immediately report the truancy of such child. When truancy ia reported the dis trict boundary board will send an or der to the truant officer to invest igate the case. A copy of this order will be sent to the teacher. If, af ter Investigation, the truant officer finds that the law has been violated, he will notify the father or guardian, ordering film to start the child to school on the following Monday; morn lng. He will abio notify the teacher. and If the child does not start to school on the day named, the teach er must immediately report the fact to the truant officer, so that he may bring action against the parent or guardian. In the administration of this law it Ik tho duty of district clerks and directors to give such Information and assistance as they may be able to give, and any teacher, director, cliTk or other officer who neglects to perform his duty may, upon complaint of any parent or tax payer in the district, be arrested and fined from five or twen'y dollars. See page 91 school laws of 1907. THE RESULTS OF ADVERTISING The result of advertising 9 Elsewhere in this issue will be found the advertisement of the Bee Hive Wre at Dallas, the proprietor ol which, fully realizes the value of ad vertising. This week the extraordin ary offer is made of paying fare from any point in the county to all who buy a suit of clothes from them dur ing the month of October. Tv.,r imio itmt received over 500 suits of men's and boys' clothing to,he appears very sorry. Townsend . . , A I . 1 InlMllTlnntAll select from. These are or tne mum Was very nervous wuen iw"' txrioa Tha TIpii Hive Is .,Mn tha floor of the Jail corridor manets "u d.jio. - - i . one of the heaviest advertisers, of the and pulling his mustache. Hei seemed Enterprise. In this connection, u t0 have great auncuity iu know they are getting good results , crylng. from the use of the columns of the ever, Townsend had retired. He slept upstair!. The party got Into the house and with typical charivari spirit proceed ed upstairs, too. Townsend arose In belligerent mood and drove them down again. They left the house, but soon came back. As they reached the door aain, Townsend fired the single shot that struck Laurence. A rifla was used. Townsend surrendered to men of the party, who, nervous lest other neighbors do some violence, took the prisoner to McMInnvllle by a round about way, arriving at 1:30 Monday morning. Apprehensive that news of the killing had preceeded them, aud that a mob might have formed, they held Townsend at the edge of town and sent in for a deputy. Deputy Sh'Tiff Ulair went out secured Townsend and put him in Jail there. Laureuce was a rancher of good reputation; Townsend has been a p acoable man. The two had no pre vious trouble, so far as known. Lau rence, in addition to the ten children Is survived by a widow. The family Is In poor circumstances. Laurence Is well known to many of the residents of Independence, he having lived here with his parents ten or twelve rears ago. He Is a broth er of Mrs. Clyde Clodfelter, who livtd with her husband in North Indepen dence, also a nephew of James Graves, who resides in Independence. Jesse Townsend, who did the shoot lng, in an interview with a represen tative of the Portland Journal, stated that the Bhootlng was accidental. He claims that he carried the gun out un der his left arm and as he went to greet the charlvariers, Laurence jumped and grabbed the muzzle of the gun, and the trigger caught on his clothes and the gun was dis charged. He 'said he did not under stand why they were charlvarlhg him as he, was married July 12. He stat ed that Laurence was one of his best friends. Tears stood in his eyes when Laurence's .family was mentioned, and Ned More population. One of the greate.t obstacles In the way of progreH. In Independence at the present time Is the fact that the surrounding country Is too sparsely ttled. It la thinly populated be cause the existing state oC agriculture on which It wholly depends for prog ress, calls for but few people. Though even with the present farming meth ods the country would support sever al times IU present population it will not acquire a much greater popula t'on than at present until radical changes occur. One of the main rea sons for this Is because the majority of the agricultural and fruit lands art owned by a few persons who do not want to sell any of their lands but on the contrary want to buy more and in most cases are lri position to do so. But If a considerable portion of the tributary country can be cut up into small tracts and disposed, of the prob lem will be solved. These farms may range in size from five to forty acres. V is claimed by those who have madt it a study that one manj should ' not try to farm over ten acres. What a vast difference it would make in the population If, Instead of one man trying to farm from 100 to 500 a res we would have a family on every twentyflve or , fifty acres, say. Let those who are offering their farm land for salts cut 1t up In ten, twen ty, forty and eighty acre tracts and it will soon be seen that real estate will commence to move. The trouble is at present that most of the farm lands offered for sale are in too large tracts for the majority of the nome seekers to entertain, the idea of buy ing because the aggregate amount is far beyond their capital. Cut down the size of the tracts and watch us grow. ortto tn town this week from Falls City report deer coming dowt out of the mountains in that vicinity AYS LONG GOT HIS BEEF CATTLE .J . . . . . r pnrifl In this connection, k calleu mwe Wlltv f .v ni.hi t h out of nlace to state UllKUb v . that the sales of J. L. Stockton of'An Agec Polk C:unty Pioneer Passes Salem, which is another house that. Away, believes in the free use of printers' willard P. Bevens, aged sixty-three ink during his fire sale the past two . year8i an old pioneer of' this county, weeks averaged over 1800 daily. ; dled at hi8 home in the yicinity of . Buena Vista, Friday msm, wv Library Popular. ; Der 25,after an illness extending over innenrtnce oubllc library - nfirlod of" many months. The funer continues In popularity with a large ai took place from -the M. E. church number of people. at Buena Vista, bunaay, . i.i,.,.io i ehnrffe each after- 9r nrt was largely attended by his rnmnlv w'th the compulsory educa- on an average oi were w. - comply w in e e . , m nn.her. The o0)0tori hv Rev. Launer. In- Every child in the ai.tr.ci. receives aoou ----- - -u --nHffilowa cem- magazine taoie is weu yiuu"" . ferment waa ; Quite a number of country people etery The funeral Is said to have are among the borrowers, and as win- been the most largley attended of ter approaches, no doubt the number any ever held in the, county, will be largely Increased. Willard P. Bevens was born In De- A heating stove has been placed in cabb county, Missouri, in 1846 and the reading rooms this week which came across the plains with his par will insure comfort to all who call. enta in 1864, to Yamhill county,' where years, E. F. Black, a butcher of Buena Vista, came to town last week and swore out a complaint against C. G Long, proprietor of Long's Market of this city, charging him with the lar ceny of three two-year-old beef cattle from the pasture of Clyde Hill, near Buena Vista, cn or about the !8th of August last. Long was at once placed under ar rest and taken before Justice Wilson, who released him on bonds for his appearance Monday, September 27, at which time his preliminary examina tion was held. B. F. Jones, of Inde nendence. appeared for Long and Dep uty Prosecuting Attorney Judge Sib- lev of Dallas, represented the state. The plaintiff introduced witnesses who testified that Long was seen to take three head of cattle out of the pasture on or about that date, but di( not know who they belonged to. The defendant introduced several wltness- eswho testified that Long had bought the cattle he took out and that ne had out them in the pasure prior to the time of taking them. By consent of the attorneys Judge Wilson con tinued the case without date to give both sides an opportunity to procure one witness each, both of whom are at present out of the county. Card of Thanks. We desire to extend our sincere thanks to the many friends who so kindly assisted during the sickness and burial of our beloved wife and daughter. W. F. Campbell D. B. Boydston and family. Nine Out of Ten Credit Customers Pay Their Bills It Is to pay the louse of the tilh that every cutoiuer lias to pay more for the privilege of getting credit. While You Have Cash to Spend Trade at a One-Price Cash Store If you have a family to fit oi t for tb winter now u the time to do your trading while the assortment in all departments is com plete. We carry everything for the wholf family and our price, are positively 15 to 20 per cent lower than at "credit store. " Have You Seen Our Fall Line of North Star Underwear Every garment Is cut In full liberal dimensions and properly fin ished. We're showing splendid value, in I'nlon Suits for .Men. Wo men and Children. They're becoming more popular every year. Summer Shirts for Men Are cut to fit. There are no skimped slz-s in the Hne. You'll find the strictly correct fabric. In Summit Coat Shirts. Golf Shlrta and soft collar Negligees. Work Shirts of every description In wool, cotton and mixed goods. Shi t, Knir nnw nuiKt ha hutlt of solid leather or they IOCS wont stand the rainy season. Every pair of our shoes is built to give satisfactory service. Drygoods, Clothing, Blank ets, Comforts 2 pound full weight wool batts for comforts only $2.00. Cotton batts all prices from 7c to 65c per roll. Barnes' Cash Store E. T. BARNES, PROPRIETOR, SALEM, OREGON FRAKE'.S Headquarters for Salem's Dressy Women We have opened the Fall season with an excellent showing of ready-to-wear women's Fall suits, coats, waists, cor sets and 8ilk petticoats. In our mil linery department we have ready-to-' wear hats of the very latest eastern fashions. The excellence of our mil linery is well known to every woman In Salem. mi$$ m D. van$ MANAGER 279 Commercial St., SALEM, OR. 3