THE INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE, INDEPENDENCE, OREGON.
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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
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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
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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"
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