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The WILLAMETTE
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HOP CENTER Ol
THE WORLD
INDEPENDENCE, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1912.
NUMBER 14.
VOLUME 29.
HOP-PICKING BE
GINS THIS WEEK
Train Loads of Pickers Arriving
Daily To Harvest The Hop .
Crop of the World.
Thursday Witnessed the Greatest
Activity Amonu Hopplckers and
Hop Grower this Yr.
The bp harvest of 1912 baa com
menced in ilhlt vicinity and the city
it thronged wHb people from ull
parti of the country going to the
different yards In tblt locality. In
roost of tbo yards, however, the gen
eral ruHh will not commence until the
first of lother week.
Harvest operation will be generally
under wuy next week, and with fav
orable climatic conditions, there will
be no letup until the crop la under
cover. The rain Tuesday afternoon
vat JuBt a little discouraging to
picket? who arrived an the mornli
train, wad were transported by teauit
to the yarda where they were em
ployed, and aouio of the growert had
a melancholy expreaelon over the un
favorable appeanwnce of the weather,
but up ,to the present time no rain
has fallen In a damaging degree, and
It la believed that good weather will
prevail through, the season.
Mont of the picking that started
this week waa actuated by a fear
that damage to the crop might re
sult If the hops were allowed to e
maln longer on ithe vines. In tome
Of the yard where spraying waa neg
lected, at the critical period, mold It
aid to have developed to tome ex
tent, and the growers In such cases
are anxious to get their crept gather
ed with the least possible Injury,
taking chances even on premature
plcklug In preference to waiting a
few dayt or at week longer.
Every train and every boat running
to Independence la bringing pickers,
and by the end of this week the help
will be on hand. It is said that
pickers are easily obtained and un
less unfavorable weather should set
In iirid cause some to wbandoou the
yards, the grower will have no troubl
this season in securing help.
The crowd this season is better pro
vlded for In the wwy of hotel accom
modations, but practically every avail
able room in the city has been occu
pied every night this week. It Is the
opinion of some thwt the crowd la
not so large at present as it . was
last year, hut all are not on the
ground at this writing cud before the
harvest Is over the number of pickers
may exceed that of the previous year.
The greatest arrival of pickers so
far this week occurred on Thursday.
The streets were lined with people
and teams after the arrival of the
inonning train from Portland.
The Fifth Child Gone.
Wellington Fuller, the two-year-old
son, of Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Fuller, of
this city, who hue been critically ill
tor several days, passed away Sun
day evening. The funeral was held
ct the home at 3 o'clock Monday af
ternoon, conducted by Rev. F. N.
Sandlfur, pastor of the M. E. church,
and interment was made In the ,1.
O. O. F. cemetery.
This Is t v.ry severe blow to Mr.
and Mrs. Fuller, as it is the fifth
child they have lost. They have the
alncerest sympathy of the community
in their bereavement.
Starts Another Boat.
Besides making the regular trips
with the launch, Independence, Cap.
Cluude Sklnntr will run the launch,
Louise, between here and Salem dur
ing the hopplcklng season.
The first trip was made Monday,
and the bort Is In charge of Cap. J.
D. Mitchell of Portland. It leaves in
dependence In the morning, going to
Salem and will run up as far as
Hall's Ferry. From there it will run
back Ho Salem and return to Inde
pendence in the evening. Besides Che
passenger service the launch will car
ry freight aid express.
ICard of Thanks.
Mrs. B. F. Whiteaker and family
wish to express their heartful thanks
for the kindness atnd sympathy shown
them by friends and neighbors dur
ing their recent bereavement.
AFTER THE BUSINESS
Ortgon Eltctrlo o Provide Equlpmen
at East Independence.
L. U. Cramer, electrical engineer
Tor the Oregon Electric Hallway Co.,
and C. M. Cunningham, of Portland,
were in the city the latti-r part of
last week making an estimate on
the cost of building a hoist at the
JCatt Independence dork to take care
of the freight and express business
bandied by the Oregon Electric peo
ple iid Mr. Kkliiner.
Mr. Cramer staled that it is not
very probable that the Oregon Elec
tric people will build a road Into In
dependence very toon, if ever, but
they intend to make provisions to
handle the freight euHineas In and
out of this city by meant of the boat
between here and East Independence.
The plan Is to erect a large hoist
at the East Independ'-nce dock to be
operi'd by electricity. It Is also
Intimated tin the company will es
tablish an express office in this city.
A BIG PAY ROLL.
Thousand of Dollars Will Bt Paid
To Hop Pickers.
The enormouanesa of ibis city at a
hop section can be partly Imagined
when it Is known that the Enter
prise this week printed 35,000 hop
chocks for one grower. jC. A. Mc
Laughlin, who operates the H. Hlrsch
berg natch north of the city, and
the man who gave this order, It only
one of many large growrt In thia vi
eclnlty. It is safe to estimate that
the pay roll of Independence during
the next five or six weeks will ex
ceed that of any one town in the
state with the possible exception of
Portland.
The hop harvesters number at leatt
10,000. These are marking an average
of $3.00 per day for this on industry,
or a combined pay roll of $30,000 at
day.
Another New Building.
C. K. Ulse has purchased an op
tion on the lots owned by Mrs.
Jasperson on the corner of Monmouth
rid Railroad streets, and he Informs
us the he will begin the construction
of a three story building within a
very short time.
Just who and what will occupy th
building Is not known definitely, hut
It Is intended that at least one room
will be occupied by a theatre comp
any. Mr. Else Is not alone t the under
taking. Others will be Interested In'
the enterprise with him In a finan
cial way and the stock holders ex
pect to make it a modern building in
every respect.
Rural Mall Carriers Meet.
The rural letter carriers.' associa
tion will meet at Dallas next Sun
day and Monday. P. J. Dickinson an
A. Parker of Independence, are on
the committee of arrangments and
will attend the meeting.
Polk county has the honor of enter
taining the state rural carriers' as
sociation, and it Is estimated that
more than one hundred carriers will
be present. The statte association
has a membership of 166. They will
discuss ways and means of improv
ing the service. Good roads is one
of the principal subjects for discus
sion. Farm House Robbod.
The house owned by John F. Rob
bins four and one-half miles north of
Independence on the Salem rocd, was
robbed Monday afternoon while the
family was absent. The most valu
able reticle missed is Mrs. Robbitts'
gold watch and chain. Some other
articles of smaller value were taken.
It is supposed to have been the
work of some knight or knights of
the road.
Forclosure Proceedings.
B. F. Swope, attorney for Ci. W. Ir
vine, has commenced action in de
partment No. 2 of Polk county cir
cuit court agatnsts Mrs. Lulu Dornslfe
and Van Dornslfe of this city to se
cure the payment of a certain mote
and mortgage and asks judgment In
the sum of $478, interest and attor
ney's fees.
C. .G lLong was over from Tangent,
the fore part of the week.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
0PENSEPT.23D
New Features and Additional
Equipment Augur Well For
Coming School Year.
Hearty Co-Operatlon of .Community
With 8chool Board Necessary
For 8uccett of Schools.
Th etty Mkftoia will opan Septem
ber ioiu mm, urigui uunooK foT a
progressive year. The personnel of
the board of education is as follows:
Chairman, C. D. Calbreath; Director,
B. F. Swope; Treasurer, M. W. Mix;
Clerk, Dr. Ketchum.
The schools are indeed fortunate in
having a board composed of gentle
men of high standing and splendid in
tegrity. They are alive to the situ
ation and are equipping the schools
in a thorough and up-to-date manner,
which will put them on a solid basis
wad place them in the fore-ranks a
in on g the schools of the state.
The coming year is one of great
promise. The board have nlded many
Improvements and they rare contem
plating more. The library has been
replenished with new books from the
state npporticoment, new dictionaries
have been purchased and the grade
school building and grounds repair
ed and made more attractive. Other
Improvements already planned will
be completed in the near future.
The board is making progress in
the indua'trltJ lines and this is a fea
ture interesting pmd essential. It
is herctily endorsed by the State De
partment, and other schools of the
state hve made great progress along
these lines. No effort will be spared
to give the pupils of Independence
schools opportimltlee equal to any
In Oregon.
A Bpieiium course m nimium I min
ing will be one of the mew features
Introduced and the board plan to
equip this department complete with
excellent apparatus for a thorough
practical course. The work will be
adopted to the seventh and eighth
grades and will continue through the
four years of high school.
Greater facilities will be added to
make the domestic Bcience course a
strong one, and everything will be ar
ranged that will be necessary to mak
this course thorough and complete in
detail.
The school has. long been in need
of a physical! labratory and heretofore
there have been no facilities with
which to teach the practical demon
stration and actual experiments in
'the sciences of Physics, Botany, etc.
The board are awake to the need and
plan to strengthen the science de
partment with a labora'ory. This is a
need of great importance to the
standing of this school among other
schools since the Universities and
Collegrs are ellminwtimg from their
accredited list all high schools not
so recognized.. The efforts of the
board rre heartily appreciated by
the pub'lc at large, endorsed, by all
lnteres ed in the advancement of the
el'y schoo's and most of 'nil by those
who realize the great burden of re
s o sibility that rests upon the shoul
ders of the board of d'rectors.
BOost your schools7 get in line wit
the forwerd movement, for the
schools are the very foundation of a
progressive city.
A word of praise Is also due the
borrd of directors for their fwir-mlnd-edness
in selecting a faculty for the
coming school year, Prof. Chute,
elected as principal, is a man of muc
Ms ' itJL
NEW BUSINESS HOUSES
Merchtntt Show Their Faith In The
- Future of Independence.
The first week In September will
witness the advent of several new
and valuable additions to the busi
ness interests of the city.
Wetherbee and Jones will
move their stock of goods from the
cannery building, where they have
been stored for a couple of weeks, to
the new building on Main street,
erected by H. Hirschberg expressly
for them. This stock comprises
everything la th line of dry goods
and has been telectd by a man
thoroughly can vera ant with every
branch of merchandising.
The store with the Immense stock of
goods, will be a benefit to all Inde
pendence, as it Till call a class of
trade to this city which has here
tofore gone elsewhere.
In the Whltefjker building on Main
Street, L. A. Carey, a merchant from
Spokane, whose experience in gener-
at raeiUandislng la unlimited, will op
en his store to the trade the fore
part of next week. This house will
carry a well selected stock of dry
goods, notions, etc., aid promises to
be an important industry in the busy
and bustling city, Independence.
But this is not all, W. W. Gains
opens a pool hw'l In the new building
erected by Asa Taylor. A candy kit
chen wl'l be started in the store room
vacated by A. Nelson this week.and
O. Hodge of Serttle, has rented the
dining room of the Independence Ho
tel and will open a restaurant at
once.
With the improvements that are
being mrJe in store buildings and the
Increased stocks, Independence will
be better ' prepared to handle the fall
trade than ever before.
COMMENCED WORK
Independence A Monmouth Railread
Ct. it Wsrfc oit New Read.
Within sixty days cars will be run
on the new railroad extension of the
Independence & Monmouth' railroad
from this city to the Wigwrich
hop ranch in the American bottoms,
and the extension will be built to
Buena Vista In the near future. Mr.'
Hirschberg, president of the road, put
a large force of men md teams at
work Wednesday, and the cons'ruction
will be completed within a few weeks.
It became necessary to change the
survey slight'y and this caused some
delay In the construction work, but
the right of way has bean secured to
the Wigwrich ranch, and can easily
be obto'ned to Buena Vista as soon
as the company gets ready to build.
Since the article rnpeared In the
Enterprise a couple of weeks pgo,
stating the purpose of the compruy,
President Hirschberg has re"eived
numerous letters from Buena Vista
and farmers in that vicinity express
ing a willingness to render the new
enterprise every possible assistance.
At The M. E. Church.
Sunday School at 10 a. m. Classes
for all.
Preaching rt 11 a. m. Theme "A
Christian in the Wrong Place." Ep
worth league at 7 p. m. Topic: "The
Nobility of Youthful Enthusiasm."
Evening service. Prof. F. S. Frank
lin of the Albany College, will deliv
er st sermon on education at 8 p.
m. Good music and a cordlcd! wel
come. F. N. Sandifur, Minister. ,
anility in educational work, and under
his supervision the success 'of the
schools Is assured. j
PIONEER OF POLK
COUNTY DIES
B. F. Whiteaker Came to Ore
in 1848- A Resident of
County Ever Since.
Funeral and Interment Held Near the
Horn Occupied by Whiteaker
Family for Many Year.
B. F. 'W'lilteaker, a pioneer resi
dent of Polk county, died at his home
near this city last Saturday, of pa
raiysis. While in the city on business one
day last week Mr. Whiteaker was
seized with a light stroke of paralysis.
and was taken home la rather a
critical condition, but under the care
nf hid nhvslclan rallied and It be
- eam9 apparent that he woui,i survive
the stroke. But he suffered a relapse
and death followed scon after.
Mr. Whiteaker wee born in Illinois
Msp 25, 1835, and came with his par
ents to Oregon in 1848. They locat
ed near this city where he has since
made his home. He was twice
msrried, his first wife being Narcis
sa Hamar, and to this union were
born W. H. Whiteaker of Portland, A.
J. Wniteaker of Raymond, Wash.,
Mrs. VV. O. Cook of Eugene, and Mrs.
'. Roe of' Enterprise. After the
death of his first wife he married
Miss Adelade Fetzer, to whom were
born Mrs. Etta Kantner of Seattle,
and Frank and Glen of Cochran, Ore.
The funeral wee held at the home
Monday afternoon and Interment was
mrde in the cemetery near the old
homestead. 1
Uncle Ben, as he was familiarly
called, is the latst son of that pioneer
Whiteaker family. He was a man of
warm and generous Impulse. His
friends were numbered by hie ac
quaintance, and he was a fine type of
the pioneer. His hand was always
ready and his home always open to
asslsk the needy. His life was one
that leaves a lasting memory.
Cap. Claude Skinner wee in Sa
lem Tuesday.
Orders Now
And you'll find our prices absolutely RIGHT.
Yours truly,
O. A. KREAMER
COUNCIL MEETS
-BUSYJESSION
Franchise Ordinances Laid Over
Until Regular Meeting-Vacating
Ordinance Passed
. a
Mayor and Entire Council In Attend
ance at Adjourned Selon.
Night Watch Appointed.
The adjourned meeting of the city;
council, Wednesday, was truly a butw
lness session. Mayor Eldrldge called
the meeting to order in the usuad
form and the entire council was pres
ent whea the roll was called, except
councilman Campbell, who came in
latter In his report, Mr. Hanna, chair"
man of the police committee recom
mended that the council dispense witH
the punch clock carried by the night
watch.
The ordinance relative to vacating;
that portion of Monmouth street east
of Main street wan introduced for
the third reading. In putting it oa
its final passage the vote was aa
as follows: Mix, Bohannon, Camp
bell, Dixon, yes; Sperling and Han-
na, no. A majority or the council
having voted in favor "of its pass
age the mayor declared the ordi
nance adopted.
It is understood that the land will
be given to the Masonic lodge and
Ross R. Nelson, who will erect a
building thereupon and at a matter
of consideration the lodge and Mr.
Nelson will donate to the city
11000. ' . , . ,
The franchise ordinances, which
have been held np so long, were laid
over until the next regular meeting.
Davis & Son made application to
the city for a license to operate a
pool and billiard hall and on motion
the application was accepted, placed
on file, and the recorder instructed
to issue the required license.
W. W. Gaines ej!so applied for a
license to conduct a pool and billiard
hoil. Lot Brown, employed as attor
ney for Davis & Son. presented a
protest, contending that R. L. Gaines,
and not W. W. Gaines, is responsi
ble for the establishment of this
new enterprise, and that the said
R. 1m Gaines agreed in writing not
to start a like business e long aa
Davis & Son are operating the
pool hall purchased from Gaines and
Teylor. The council, however, looked
upon this as a question for the courts
to settle and ignored Brown's appeal
entirely. The recorder was instructed
;to issue the license prayed for.
The recorder wdb instructed to pay
$390 interest due on warrants for
paving held by the Independence Na
tional Bank, and also M80 due on
some sewer bonds. '
J. H. Feagles was inominted aa
i night watch to succeed P. J. Ducep,
! resigned, and his election was unan-
1 imous, the recorder having been Ins-
tructed to cast a ballot lor his elec
tion. It was also decided to dispense
with the clock until October 1st.
W. M. Hamilton, who applied for a
(Continued on page five)
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New domestic and im
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display in all the latest
weaves and tones.
Made-to-measure only
and every feature of
high class tailoring
strictly guaranteed.