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About Independence enterprise. (Independence, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 27, 1912)
EIGHT PAGES THE INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE, INDEPENDENCE, OREGON. PAGE SIX 11 i You VIay Admire The clever advertising that draws you to a store, but you v won't go again if the promises made are of the pie crust kind. "; ,'ou..Mwst-:Admire--:---- ' OLD STYLE ROAD IN PENNSYLVANIA however, the store where promises are more than fulfilled where yon 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. Li. G. REEVES ; Main and (Streets. INDEPENDENCE, OREGON mm Clear Your Land With ...asBSfi) i A t i A Will 0r, "Rftsnlts . flR auir , No Thawlnc ' ReadV for ; Use. 9. Hanna Brothers Oil SAY, HAVE YwU STOPPED, IN TO ; Clyde's Candy Kitchen I WAS THERE AND THEY HAVE THE FINEST LOT OF HOME MADE CANDIES, AND THEY ALSO HANDLE FAC TORY CANDIES, AND CIGARS AND TOBACCOES. AND, SAY, THEY HAVE A FINE LINE OF XMAS BOX GOODS. . . . On C Street Near Second St. PURE, CLEAN, FRESfi MILK AND CREAM AT RIGHT PRICES TWICE A DAY DELIVERY. Grant McLaughlin Phone 8322 INDEPENDENCE, OREGON iv ood Euck 'U1'"-' f ; zl with your horse comes largely through the constant use of GOOD HARNESS We furnish them "made fo order." C. D. THARP XI f f INDEPENDENCE, ORE. Phone 721 G? in the Habit of Trading Here I VV make a specialty of fancygrocerles goods with a reputation for quality that pleases 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. H WW 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 prioe the lowest con sistent with 6uch quality. Call or phone. Either way, you'll be treated right. J. C. YOUNG, Proprietor. The Illustration shows a strip of highway along the famous "Scogg River Narrows," In Tioga county, Pennsylvania, before it had been macadamlied. DIRT ROADS ON THE PRAIRIE ROADS STATE KELP FOR ROAD" WORK Wisconsin Highway Commission Re ceive Reports That Large increase In Fund Has Been Voted. Full reports have been received by the Wisconsin highway commission of the money voted for state aid, road and bridge construction In 1913. There are 1.195 towns in Wisconsin, of which 865 voted for state aid road construc tion on 1,267 different pieces of road, asking for state aid to the total amount of $757,273. Two hundred and five towns voted for the construction of 337 bridges, a total amount ol $107,754, which calls for $53,877 state aid. In all. 883 different towns in 68 counties voted for state aid, a total amount of $865,027, calling for the sum of $811,150 In state aid. These figures show a very large In crease, both In number of towns vot ing 'and amounts voted, over last year. Last year 611 towns voted a total of $422,200 for roads, and 125 towns vot ed $55,100 for bridges. In all, 632 towns In 65 counties calling for $452, S00 state aid In 1912. The state highway fund for 1913 work Is $350,000, to which Is added In accordance with law, one-quarter of the net proceeds from the automobile license of $5 per car, amounting to about $28,000. This total sum of $378,000 Is $433,150 less than the full amount of state aid requested. Some few counties will get the full state aid requested, as the votes of the towns were light, but about 60 of the coun ties will get less than they asked for, many of them getting less than one fifth of the amount requested. It is hoped that some method will be devised whereby the state may give each town what It expected to receive when It made Its appropriation, says the Wisconsin Agriculturist. The growth of the movement for better roads in Wisconsin has been so rapid that legislation has not kept pace with It In 1907 permanent road construc tion was practically nothing; In 1913, If the state could pay Its full share, it would be fully $2,542,000. There has never been In the United States a movement for better roads so state wide, or so generally popular and the results so far secured under the state aid road law promise well for the fu ture development of the roads of Wisconsin. AUTOMOBILE AND GOOD ROADS Farmer Who Bought Machine Imme diately Starts to Make Improve ments on Nearby Highways. (By M. A. COVERDELL.) Some months ago one of our neigh bors purchased a good, substantial automobile. He and another neighbor drew an oak saw-log to the mill and had material sawed for two good road drags, the timbers being 11 feet in length, one foot wide and three Inches thick. The edges that moved the dirt were faced with pieces of Iron four Inches wide and three-eighths of an Inch thick. After constructing this most effec tive implement for road-making our neighbor hitched three horses to the drag, climbed Into it and proceeded to drag the road (he lives at a cross road), and how he does improve every highway he traverses. He makes frequent trips witn his drag to town, four, miles away, and already good effect of his owning an automobile is being observed and felt on our roads, far and near. Hints for Pear Growing. The pear tree growB best and yields the most fruit when planted upon land moderately moist, and yet not cold. To insure this condition there Is noth ing better than a side hill location, though one more level may do well If onderdralned, and then It is better for receiving a wash of sand from the lands above it, which helps to warm tt op. Chief Assistant In Information De partment at Washington Says First Cut Down the Hills. We have had a great deal to say In the last twenty years on the read ques tion. We have believed that, speak ing generally, In the prairie country we shall have to be satisfied with dirt roads, having macadam or other bard roads wherever the material la' avail able, which is only here and there. We have maintained that a very good road for 'most of the year could be made from, dirt, provided the road bed had loot Us vegetable matter In the course of ;travel, provided It was properly drained, graded and maintained by the use of the road drag, and provided the culverts and bridges are of concrete or Iron and the grades reduced to the minimum. It affords us some gratification to know that Mr. M. O. Eldridge, the chief assistant In the information de partment of the roads division of the department of agriculture, at Wash ington, who is now investigating the roads in Iowa, full endorses all these propositions, says Wallnce'a Far mer. He Is apparently as firm a be liever In the dirt road properly man aged as be would be if he had been brought up on a drag. In an interview Mr. Eldridge says that he regards the first thing to do Is to cut down the hills, and remarks that Iowa has moro steep hills than Switzerland. This is no doubt due to our habit of laying out roads on sec tion lines. This reminds us of our ex perience in New York and Pennsyl vania. From Ithaca to Harrlsburg we were never outside of the mountain section, and yet on that whole trip we did not cross as many steep hills as will be found In going from Des Moines to Winterset, or across any of the counties in the southwestern part of Iowa. The roads there are not laid out on section lines, but take the best grades. In Pennsylvania, where the same custom prevails, we used to think they were determined by the springs. The cows who roamed the woods made paths to the spring, and, being 'excellent engineers, they chose the best grades. The houses were built at the springs. The roads fol lowed the cow paths to the houses; and hence good grades, no matter how far around they had to go. Mr. El dridge believes that no road should have more than a five per cent, grade. One great difficulty in the hilly parts of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and adjoin ing states is that the roads have been laid out on section lines, and the nouses built with reference to the roads. We very much fear that they will remain there for all time, as the expense in cutting down the hills would be terrific. Mr. Eldridge further says: "When once a road Is made, it Is essential that It should be dragged after every rain of consequence. The only way to do this satisfactorily is to have a su pervisor for each township or county, whose duty it is to get out men with drags. No man should have more than three miles of road to take care of. After each storm, then, the super visor can call upon the men to get to work at the right time. The man in charge must know- when the time comes to do the dragging." On this we remark that the county Is too large a district. There Is frequently a two inch rain in one part of the county, which would necessitate immediate dragging, and a mere sprinkle over the rest of it, and there is never any good done by dragging a dry road. Mr. Eldridge next answers the ques tion as to what kind of a road could be made under this system, as fol lows: "With the right kind of work, a solid roadbed can be made from the soil In this state. It should be round ed, and traffic should be in the center and not one road on each side of a ride, that will soak up the water." He then adds: '.'Good roads will come when the farmer realizes the benefits that will accrue to his land from having them. With good roads the farmer can raise products that will pay better profits than those he now raises. It costs more now to transport grain from a farm nine miles from a railroad than it does to transport the same grain from New York to Liver pool." All of which is undoubtedly true. Agricultural Wealth. Official estimates of the department of agriculture are that the total of agricultural wealth to be produced in the United States this year, Including the crops, stock raising and dairying, will be $9,000,000,000, a half billion dollars more than last year. I gftemnaton -& Peters .Salem's Oldestand Best Piano House W make a specialty of supplying the trade with the best males kf instruments that enn bo procured In the world. Our iinmenio lno comprises the following: MASON & HAMLIN, . TACKARD, 1 ' HOBEIIT M. CABLE, MILTON, HARRINGTON, KllAKHUK, , -1ILRDMAN " - AND MANY OTHERS. In Player Piano Players , We nave tho Emerson, Hardman, . Harrington, Fidher,' Autotono, Milton, Wo olso havo a complete lino if phonographs, rooordu, musical instruments, Bheet music, and all kind of sewing machine supplies including tho celebrated Singer Sewing Machine WRITE FOR CATALOG AND TRICE LIST TO ClKiTinston $ Peters, Salem, Oregon t,-giganBn."i'.'..' iuw i'a OFFICIALS II. HIKSCIIBERQ, President D. W. SEAI18. Vico-Fies. R. 11. DeAKMOND, Cashier THE INDEPENDENCE NATIONAL BANK Incorporated 1889 Transact a General Banking Business Interest Paid on Time Deposits j DIRECTORS: II. HMtSCIIBEIta. W. II. WALKER, D. W. BEARS B. F. SMITH, OTIS D. BUTLER New Meat MarKet We are pleased to announce to our patrons that we have rccontly oponed a Moat Market on 0 street, near our for mer location and will always supply the trads with a choice line of all kinds of moats. Cull upon us if you have choice beef, veal, and other meats for tho markets. A. NELSON I, A .t, Aii Ailitiiiuli A A A J tWTtttttttTTTti 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. 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 roof 8. : - 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 la either hot or cold. Call and see color card and get prices. Independence Seed & Feed Store "THEY HAVE IT" 1 I