THE INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE, INDEPENDENCE, OREGON. EIGHT PAGES PAGE SIX EES You May Admire The clever advertising that draws you to a store, but you won't go again if the promises made are of the pie crust kind. You jMust Admire however, the store where promises are more than fulfilled where you buy groceries and crockery better than you expected and at prices lower than you expected to pay. That's the kind of a store this is. The store of Perfection, Promise and Trice. ' h. G. REEVES Main and'C 'Streets. INDEPENDENCE, OREGON mm Clear Your Land With mj& A-nd You "Will Get Results Requires No Thawin?- Ready for Use. Hanna Brothers tj IIHi" unncr ne niiAi ty. its a pi fis rp i r sfbuf vnn m 1 THE 1LYDE'S A IS D Y IT C HEIST ICE CREAM PARLORS, SODA WATER, SOFT DRINKS, HOT AND COLD. Only Pure Fruit Juices Used At Our Fountain. Clover Leaf Dairy PURE, CLEAN, FRESH MILK AND CREAM AT RIGHT PRICES TWICE A DAY DELIVERY. Grant McLaughlin Phone 712- INDEPENDENCE, OREGON Tj-r- good Did with your h orse SiW comes largely through the constant use of GOOD HARNESS We furnish them "made fo order." C. D. THARP INDEPENDENCE, ORE. Phone 721 OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST General News of the Industrial and Educational Development and' Progress of Rural Communities, Public Institutions, Etc. PLAN IS TO 11L0CK HILL UNI Harriman Interests Rush Survey Up McKenzie Valley. Eugene Intention of the Harriman interests to forestall the Hill peopl in the building of a. railroad up the McKenzie Valley is evidenced by th copy of a resolution of the board of directors of the Oregon & Californi Railroad company, filed with the sec retary of state and with the Lane county "clerk. This resolution authorizes the con struction of a trifle over 24 miles o railroad from a point on the Natron Klamath cut-off, a few miles east o Springtled, up the McKenzie Valley to Martin s rapids, where the Oregon Power company is doing the prelinu nary work on a hydro-electric project, The action of the Harriman inter ests came rather as a surprise here, as it was definitely known that rortland, Eugene & Eastern surveyors had been at work all summer checking up on old surveys made when Al Welch first planned the Portland, Eugone & East era system, and it hud boon understood that an electric line was to be built. In fact, President Strahorn, of the Portland, Eugene & Eastern, has made announcement that his company was considering the building of this line, but at that time had no definite news to give out. The Oregon Electric, since it has acquired water power rights at Clear Lake, capable of developing 33,000 horsepower, was also popularly sup posed to be planning the construction of a railroad up the Mckenzie, and thence to a junction with the Oregon Trunk east of the Three Sisters. FIRST EQUAL SUFFRAGE VOTE Get in the Habit of Trading Here We make a specialty of fancygrocerlee goods with a reputation for quality that please the most exacting taste, and we take special pride In recommendln our grocery department to the peo ple of Independence and vicinity. But our efforts to keep our GROCERY DEPARTMENT In the front ranks have been no great er than have been our efforts to make every department of the tore Just right. If you are not In the habit of making this estab lishment your shopping headquarters, get In the habit. Drexler & Alexander INDEPENDENCE, OREGON. LET US URGE YOU to give our meats a fair trial. We have your best Interests at heart as well as our own, for we cannotl hope to hold you as our customer if we do not please you with our wares and our treatment. We aim to serve each patron alike, whether the orders come large or small. We have one quality the best; one price the lowest con sistent with such quality. Call or phone. Either way, you'll be treated right. J. C. YOUNG, Proprietor. Oregon Women Take Prominent Part in City Elections. Oregon City Mrs. Kate Newton, first woman candidate for mayor ir the state, lost by 836 votes, Linn L, Jones coing in easily. mere were 1182 votes cast. Powder puffs, mir rors and umbrellas were left in booths Albany Complete new city charter adopted; E. A. Johnson elected to council, although name did not appear on ballot. Women cast 194 votes or 28 per cent of number cast. Newport "Drys" win 237 to 191 $10,000 bond issue for water system carries. Women dety rain to vote. Gladstone All election officials are women; Mrs. jviinaa cnurcn eiectea city treasurer over male opponent by 25 votes. Tillamook Wets win by eight votes. Women cast half of votes, favoring "dry" candidates for mayor. Mayor Harter's election may be contested. Oxygen Explosive Is Made. Astoria "On Thanksgiving day, 1912. we began the commercial manu facture of oxygen explosives at our Oregon plant." Such was the word contained in a letter received by Frank Patton, cash ier of the Astoria Savings bank, from E. E. Hoffman, president of the Gov ernment Standard Powders company, which is establishing a powder factory at Woods Landing, near the eastern line of Clatsop county. While the manufacture of powder has been started, the construction work is not yet completed and several weeks will necessarily elapse before the plant will be in full operation. As the new mill will utilize by-products that have heretofore been regarded as worthless, its establishment is pre dicted to provide a market for large quantities of material now thrown away. Rich Oil Strike Is Expected. Portland Oil within 30 days is the expectation of the Central Oregon Oil & Gas company, which is sinking its first well in its properties in Harney county about 18 miles south of Burns. J. C. Turney, president of the com pany, who was in Portland this week, from Burns, made this prediction. Should the expected success come upon the enterprise, a pipeline from the Harney County fields to Portland to deliver the product will soon be projected. This has been under con sideration since the preliminary sur veys of the fields were begun in 1909 and the engineers of the company de clare it to be a perfectly feasible plan. The project was begun following the discovery in the wells of the Pacific Livestock company of unmistakable signs of oil and gas, when the drill had reached a depth of only 6690 feet. Coos Bay Canning Finished. Marshfield t The salmon canning season on Coos Bay and the Coquille river has closed. On the latter water way the co-operative cannery put up about 7000 cases of salmon, and did not have as good a season as usual. In Marshfield, the Tallant cannery had about the most successful season of any of the plants of the county, and turned out about 15,000 cases. The salmon brought to the fishermen of the county quite a large sum of money, and many received employment both as fishermen and in the canning plants. Monster Radish Grown. Eugene The monster radish of the season has appeared at London, and J. N. Hogue is the owner. It weighs 18 pounds and is 25J inches in cir cumference and 25J inches in length, and this is gospel truth, since Rev. J. H. Moore vouches for the measurements. DISTRIBUTION IS POOR. ' Apple Expert Ssyt Lscki of System Throughout Country Apparent. Hood River "I have been attend Ing the Spokane apple show and the Portland land and apple show," said Chris R. Greisen, formerly associate editor of Better Fruit, who is now with a St. Joseph. Mo., paper. "I find some of the growers of the North' west are a little pessimistic over the market conditions of the present sea son's apple crop. My advice to all of these would be to take a trip over the Middle West and study the system of distribution that prevails, or rather the lack of it In my mind, that is the great reason for the slow move ment of the year's apple crop. "During the last two months I have been over Nebraska, Missouri, Michi gan, Indiana, Western New York, Ohio and other sections of the country. I find all of the larger centers, cities that should not only consume apples. but be distributing points, chock full of fruit. Yet nowhere on the streets, that is, at the stands, can one get ap ples for much less than the usual price. The consumer pays all the way from $3.50 to $6 a box for the fruit. owing to the slxe and grade. "The grower is satisfied with prices for the same fruit ranging from $1.25 to $2 a box. Yet when the consumer has to pay these prices this is not in creasing the demand for apples, nor is it aiding with the distribution. There is too much profit made between the time the fruit leaves the grower and the time it finds its way into the hands of the consumer." COMPENSATION BILL READY. Measure Provides Payment for Every Kind of Industrial Injnry. Salem The workmen's compensa tion bill, drafted by the commission appointed by Governor West, is now completed and will be submitted to the governor at once. It provides for life payments to a I workman totally disabled in a hazard ous industry, and for life payments to a widow of a workman killed in such an industry. Payments are provided for all manner of accidents. All em ployers in hazardous industries come under the provisions of the bill, unless they elect to abide by the provisions of the present laws. The fund is raised similar to the Washington state plan. The employer pays 8 per cent of bis wage rolls into the fund, the laborer one-half of one per cent of his wages, and the state pays an amount equal to that paid by the laborers. TO PROTECT STOCK. Need of Live Stock Sanitary Board Urgtd By Dr. Withycombe. Portland That Oregon is in - sad heed of a state live stock sanitary board, because of inefficient work in the state veterinarian's office, was the contention of Or. James Withycombe, of the Oregon Agricultural college ex periment station, in bis address at a meeting of the legislative committee of live stock breeders of Oregon at the Portland commercial club. He also urged a closer federation of the agricultural interests of the state. state assistance for an exhibit of stock and agricultural produce at the Panama exposition. 'Southern Pacific Under Fire. Salem Complaints that the South ern Pacific, in installing private road crossings, is compelling the signing of ironclad contracts, is the burden of I numerous complaints being received by the State Railroad commission. It is charged that the road in these con tracts absolves itself from all liability and from any damages which may be sustained on such crossings; that the individuals are compelled to bear the expense of installing the crossings and that many other obnoxiuos clauses are contained. The commission has re ceived a complaint from Winchester n regard to the morning service on the Southern Pacific out of that point. glMTiiigton Peters Salem's Oldestand Best Piano House We make a specialty of supplying the trade with tho tost make lot Instruments that can bo procured in the world. Our linmenso Ins comprises the following) JI1S0N fc HAMLIN, IACKARD, UOBEIIT M. CABLE, MILTON, HARRINOTON, KRAKHUR, II LR DM AN AND MANY OTHERS. In Player Piano Players We have tho Emerson, Ilardman, Harrington, Fisher, Autotono, Milton, Wo olso linvo a complete lino id phonographs, records, musical instruments, sheet music, and all kinds of sowing machine supplies including tho celebrated Singer Sewing Machine WRITE FOR CATALOG AND PRICE LIST TO Cberriitfiton u Peters, Salem, Oregon OFFICIALS IL II1RSCHBERG, President D. W. SEARS. Vice-ITcs. K. R. DkARMOND, Cashior THE INDEPENDENCE NATIONAL BANK Incorporated 1889 Transact a General Banking Business Interest Paid on Time Deposits j DIRECTORS: II. IIIRSCHRERO. W. II. WALKER, D. W. SEARS B. F. SMITH, OTIS D. BUTLER New Meat Market We are pleased to announce to our patrons that we havs rccontly opened a Moat Market on O street, near our for mer location and will always supply the trade with a choioo line of all kinds of moats. Call upon us it you have choice boef, veal, and other meats for tho markets. A. NELSON 4M"tM44"M"M INDEPENDENCE SHOE SHOP O. FLOYD, Proprietor THE BEST EQUIPPED 8HOP IN POLK COUNTY. ALL KINDS OF HOE REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. ALL WORK GUARANTEED. MAIN STREET, INDEPENDENCE, ORE. Class Studies Oregon History. Oregon Agricultural College, Cor- vallis "Something new in instruc tional method is being tried at the Oregon Agricultural college in the his tory classes under Prof. J. B. Horner. The course in Oregon history intro duced this year is being worked out on a unique plan. Each member of the class has chosen a Bubject relative to some phase of Oregon history, and is preparing to talk to the class one period. The lectures will be illus trated with photographs thrown upon the wall by stereopticon. Eastern Fruit Market Glutted. Freewater J. H. Hall, of Free water, who has been East in the in terests of the Milton-Freewater Fruit Growers' union, reports to the direc tors of the union that the Eastern markets are glutted and will remain so for some time. Few sales could be made direct and nearly every carload is going by auction. Penitentiary Guard Goes. Salem Sleeping at his post while guarding 16 men in the Jfoundry at the state penitentiary cost R. J. Woolery his position. Incidentally his dis charge was the first act of authority on the part of B. K. Lawson, the new superintendent. WHEN EVERYTHING IS RUNNING SMOOTHLY about your auto, how much bet ter you enjoy your outing. When you know that we've looked It over and you don't have to worry about this, that or the other thing getting out of order. What a satisfaction to you. Be on, the safe side and bring your car here before starting out. THE INDEPENDENCE GARAGE, 8. H. Edwards PAINT YOUR ROOF Remolite will positively water proof any surface to which It Is applied and Is especially adapted for old leaky composition, metal or shingle roofs. -1,1.' REMOLITE Is a perfect heat reslster, being the best manufact ured for stacks, boilers and all surfaces subjected to Intense heat. Can be applied while surface Is either hot or cold. Call and see color card and get prices. Independence Seed & Feed Store "THEY HAVE IT" 1