AGE TWO
THE INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE, INDEPENDENCE, OREGON.
EIGHT PAGES
CURRENT EVENTS
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Brine this advertisement to our
Notion Department not later than
one week from today and receive,
ely free, a regular 10c card of
W1 Isoiv D ress-kooks
These popular new Dress-hooks are not ordinary hookt and
eyes or snaps they will completely overcome your dress-fastening
difficulties. The free cards are not samples but the same value fur
which you would regularly pay 10c.
We make this most unusual and liberal offer as we are confident
you will find Wilson Dress-hooks the very thing you have always
wanted. They can't come unhooked or "pop" open accidentally.
They hold securely without bulge or pap, though you can unhook
them with perfect ease. Guaranteed not to rust or crush in washing
and ironing, and to outlast any garment ; perfectly flat and never show.
Don't neglect this opportunity to try the Wilson Dress-hooks
you have seen so widely advertised in the leading magazines and style
books. Used by fashionable women everywhere
and endorsed by leading dressmakers.
Cut Out this Advertisement
nd present t our Notion Department. Large and
small sizes; Gray, Black and White colors. Una dozen
on a card. We can not sire a card to any one who has
received a card re from anr merchant or the Wilson
Cress-book Co.. Cleveland, 0. Hoae given to children.
OF THE WEEK
Doings of the World at large
Told in Brief.
Conkey, Walker & Lehman
The two leading stores, Independence
1 Phonographs I
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VICTOR EDISON and COLUMBIA SOLD ON EASY PAYMENTS 1
10.0C0 RECORDS TO SELECT FROM Musical Instruments and
I electrical supplies. When in Salem drop In, always glad to enter- I
tain you with the latest Records H
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ba$. Anderson
I 247 No. Com erclal St. Salem Or.
E WILEY B. ALLEN STORE FOR PIANOS
General Resume of Important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.
The senate has agreed to a pension
of $150 a month for the widow of Ad
miral Schley.
Reports of crop damage In Kansas
and Nebraska have sent wheat prices
oaring in Chicago.
Vice President Sherman siirneJ the
three-year homestead bill, and it is
now up to President Taft
Bond companies of Spokane will
cancel the bonds of any employe
caught at the race tracks.
The German battlaahina Moltka and
Stettin are visiting the United States
and are anchored in Hampton Roads
The Harriman lines have placed or
ders with Puget Sound and Columbia
River mills for 50,000.000 feet of
lumber.
Canadians are enthusiastic over the
plan to make the Columbia an open
waterway from Revelstoke, B. C, to
the sea.
A great fire swept over Stamboul,
the Mohammedan section of Conatan
tinople. Two thousand houses and
several mosques were burned.
The body of Captain Stinson, of the
Steamer Sarah Dixon, was found 20
miles below where the steamer blew
up more than nve months ago near
Martin's Bluff, on the Lower Colum
bia river.
A burning oil well at Taft, Cal., is
sending a column of flame 300 feet in
the air and wasting about 7000 barrels
of oil every 24 hours. Efforts will be
made to extinguish the fire with
steam jets.
Captain Rostron, of the steamship
Carpal hi a, which brought into port
the survivors of the Titanic disaster,
was presented with a draft for $10,-
000, a fund subscribed by friends of
the New York American.
Because of the warm winter many
towns in Alaska did not get a suffi
cient supply of ice, and now the rail
roads are hauling in ice by the train
load from two great glaciers on their
lines. The supply is considered prac
tically inexhaustible.
The Mexican federal army under
General Huerta is in danger of being
cut off from its base of supplies.
Fire is destroying the timbering in
the Chilkoot tunnel of the Western
Pacific railway pear Portola, Cal.
General Booth, commander-in-chief
of the Salvation Army, will be totally
blind as the result of an operation for
cataract.
The situation in the state of Sin-
aloa, Mexico, is reported to be abso
lutely choatic, brigands roaming over
the country and plundering at will.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Clover Leaf Dairy
PURE, CLEAN, FRESH MILK AND CREAM AT RIGHT PRICES
TWICE A DAY DELIVERY.
Grant McLaughlin
' Phone 712. INDEPENDENCE, OREGON
S. W. OSTROM
INTERIOR WIRING ....
Prices Reasonable. Prompt Service. All Work Guaranteed.
Have your house wired for electric lights. Be modem. Call or
Phone Farmers 368.
MONMOUTH
OREGON
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Independence Seed & Feed Store
Dealers in HAY, GRAIN, LIVE POULTRY, HIDES AND PELTS,
WOOL, BEANS, ETC. CHOICE SEEDS A 8PECIALTY.
WE WANT YOUR WOOL . . .
INDEPENDENCE,
OREGON
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Wheat Track prices: Bluestem,
98c; club, 92(S)94c; red Russian, 92
94c; valley, 9294c; forty-fold, 92
94c.
Millstuffs Bran, $25.50 per ton;
shorts, $28; middlings, (32.
Corn Whole, $39 ; cracked, $40 ton.
Hay Timothy, $13.50(f217.50; al
falfa, $12; clover, $8(oj9; oats and
vetch, $10.60; grain hay, $9.
Oats No. 1 white, $3840 per ton.
Berries Strawberries, Oregon, $1
1. 50 per crate; gooseberries, 35c
per pound.
Fresh Fruits Cherries, 50c(S;$l per
box; 10c per pound bulk; apples, old,
$1.Z53 per box; apricots, $2.
Potatoes Jobbing prices: Bur-
banks, old, $1.25 per hundred; new
California, 4c per pound.
Onions Bermuda, $1.501.75 per
crate; red. jl.40 per sack.
Vegetables Artichokes, 6575c
per dozen; asparagus, $1 per box;
beans, 1012Jc per pound; cabbage,
2Jc; cauliflower, $2.75 per crate; cel
ery, ?5(6; cucumbers, $11.B0 doz
en; eggplant, 25e per pound; head
lettuce, 12Jc per dozen; hothouse let-
uce, 75cfa;$l per box; peas, 55Jc
per pound; peppers, 22jc; radishes,
1520c dozen; rhubarb, 22Jc per
pound; spinach, 4(S)5c; tomatoes,
$4-50 per box; garlic, 810c pound.
Butter Oregon creamery butter.
cubes, or solid pack, 27c per pound;
prints, lc extra.
Eggs Fresh Oregon ranch, can
dled, 20c per dozen; case count, 19c.
Fork Fancy, 1010Jc per pound.
Veal Fancy, ll(HllJc per pound.
Poultry Hens, l414ic per round:
broilers, 2222Jc; ducks, young, 12
14c; geese, lOftgllc; turkeys, live,
18c; dressed, 25c.
Hops 1911 crop, 36(r?38c; olds,
nominal; 1912 contracts, 24(r?25c.
Wool Eastern Oregon, 1218cpei
pound; valley, 20c; mohair, choice,
32c per pound.
Cattle Choice steers, $6.857.35;
good, $6.506.85; medium, $6(&)6.50;
choice cows, $6(5)6.25; good, $5.50
6; medium, $55.50; choice calves,
$77.75; good heavy calves, $6(f?
6.50; bulls, $3.505.50; stags, $4.75
6.35.
Hogs Light, $77.75; heavy, $6
7.
Sheep Yearlings, $3.40r4.10;
wethers, $3.50(34.50: ewes. J3(3)4:
spring lambs, $46.76.
THE BALDWIN PINQ
Is Our Specialtg
THESE PIANOS WON THE GRAND PRIZE AT THE PARIS EX
POSITION IN 190; AGAIN WON THE HIGHEST AWARDS AT THE
, ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION IN 1904, AND ARE TODAY BEING U8ED IN
THE BEST HOMES AND COLLEGE OF "MU8IC IN THE WHOLE
WORLD.
OUR PLAYER PIANOS' ARE A WORK OF ART, AND PER
FECTION SIMPLE AND EASY TOOPERATE.
Come and hear the Baldwin at our sales Rooms
THE SAVAGE n(dSC HOdSE
135 N. Liberty Street.
SALEM, OREGON.
We Furnished the Lumber for
The Independence High School,
Independence Odd Fellows Building,
New Independence Hotel,
Monmouth High School,
Corvallis High School.
Perrydale School, Lincoln School.
And all the other Large Jobs. Our Material
and Prices Got These Jobs.
WHY NOT
LET US
QUOTE YOU
ON ALL
YOUR LUMBER
AND MILL WORK?
A POLK COUNTY PRODUCT
Dallas Lumber & Logging Co.,
DALLAS, - - - - - OREGON
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We have just received a most beautiful and complete line
of WALL PAPER in all Shades and Patterns. Something
that will make the home beautiful. Prices consistent with
the goods.
The Seeley Mattress is our Specialty.
Our New Arrivals in Mattresses and Lace Curtains will interest you.
Call and see them. No trouble to show goods. This year we have a
more complete stock of Furniture and House Furnishings than ever be
fore. BICE & CALBREATH,
Three Stores. Independence, Ore.
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