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You flflay Admire
The clever advertising that draws ycu to a store, but you
won't go again it the promises made are of the pie crust
kind.
Yoa flflust Admire
however, the store where promises are more than fulfilled
where you buy groceries and crockery better thau 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 Price.
h. G. REEVES
Main andCStreets.
INDEPENDENCE, OREGON
aSSSD Clear Your Land With el
A.iid You "Will Get Results
Requires No Thawinz $ Ready for Use.
Hanna Brothers
Oil SAY, HAVE YOU STOPPED IX 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 Neap Second St
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Clover Leaf Dairy
PURE, CLEAN, FRESH MILK AND CREAM AT RIGHT PRICES
TWICE A DAT DELIVERY.
Grant McLaughlin
Phone 8322 INDEPENDENCE, OREGON
cod Dick
with your horse
comes largely through
the constant use of
GOOD HARNESS
We furnish them "made fo order.
C. D. THARP
INDEPENDENCE, ORE.
Phone 721
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Get in the Habit
of Trading Here
We make a specialty of fancygrocerles goods with a reputation
for quality that please the most exacting taste, and we take
special pride In recommendln eur grocery department to the peo
ple of Independence and vicinity. But our efforts to keep our
GROCERY DEPARTMENT la the front ranks have been no great
er than have been our efforts to make every department of the
etere Just right. If you are not In the habit of making thl estab
lishment your shopping headquarters, get In the habit
Drexler & Alexander
INDEPENDENCE,
OREGON.
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LET US URGE YOU
to give our meats a fair trial. We
have your best Interests at heart a
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 such quality. Call or
phone. Either way, you'll be treated
right.
J. C. YOUNG, Proprietor.
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
General News of the Industrial and Educational Development
and Progress of Kural Communities, Public Institutions, Etc.
TELLS NEEDS OF STATE FAIR
Many Improvements Made During:
Year Attendance Good.
Salem Making recommendations
for improvements at the Oregon State
Fair, Secretary Meredith, in his re
port to the state board of agriculture,
points out the success which the fair
has achieved, regardless of adverse
weather conditions which have re
sulted for two years in a financial loss
A portion of his report follows:
"In view of the fact that the appro
priation made by the legislature of
1911 was expended last year, and the
general fund was exhausted on account
of the inclement weather which pre
vailed during the 1911 fair, few per
manent improvements were made dur
ing the year just past. The water
service was improved by substituting
5G9 feet of new 4-inch pipe for the
2i-inch pipe leading from the 4-inch
main to the stock barns, and re-plumb
ing all of the-stock barns with the old
2J-inch pipe. This part of the water
system was all rebuilt, thus giving
greatly improved service to that part
of the grounds. Water pipes were
laid in the camp grounds, connecting
the wells with the main, and the water
pumped direct into the main by gaso
line engines, thus abundantly supply
ing all parts of these grounds. This
improvement was much appreciated by
the campers.
"A children s playground was in
stalled and partially equipped in the
grove immediately back of the Law
restaurant, and enclosed by a woven
wire fence which required the use of
630 feet of fencing.
"The toilets in the women b rest
cottage were all connected with larger
supply pipes, overcoming a serious
condition which has existed in the
building ever since it was constructed.
"The capacity of the poultry build
iner was increased by the addition of
200 coops. Additional windows were
also placed in the building, which fa
cilitated the proper showing of the ex
hibit. Sixteen pens were constructed
mmediately in front of the poultry
house for the exhibit of pheasants by
the state fish and game commission.
"Notwithstanding the fact that a
deficit of $10,993.92 was incurred.
there need be no apology offered for
the 1912 fair, as it was a decided sue
cess as far as exhibits and entertain
ment were concerned, and had it not
been for the heavy rains which pre
vailed during the entire week, the
financial part would have been entirely
another story. The fact that 49,022
persons passed through the gates dur
ing the week, when the rain was pour
ing down and it was so muddy and wet
underfoot that it was, almost impossi
ble to reach some parts of the grounds,
is sufficient evidence that the fair was
really worth while."
IMPROVED HIGHWAY URGED
AS PAYING INVESTMENT
Portland In a report summarizing
the advantages of an improved high
way from the California line to Brit
ish Columbia, Major H. L. Bowlby
states that Oregon can bring $6,000,
000 into the state by completing its
share of the work before 1915. The
cost, he says, would be $2,000,000 for
Oregon and $5,036,545 for Washing
ton. Mr. Bowlby calls upon the legis
latures of both states to provide for
this work at the coming session. He
is a recognized authority on road
building, being state highway commis
sioner of Washington before assuming
his present position of executive offi
cer of the Pacific Highway association.
The fact is cited in the report that
California has appropriated $30,000,
000 to be spent on its roads by 1915
and that British Columbia is preparing
to invest $8,000,000 this year.
WOOLMEN HOLD CONVENTION
Enterprise Chosen Over La Grande
for Next Meeting Place.
Vale At the annual meeting of the
Oregon Woolgrowers' association the
following officers were elected for the
ensuing year: President, Jay H. Dob
bins, Joseph; vice president, E. P.
Cranston, secretary and treasurer,
John G. Hoke, Medical Springs. Mon
tague B. Gwinn, of Boise, was elected
Oregon member of the national advis
ory board.
La Grande and Enterprise competed
for the next annual conventionand
the latter was chosen as place of meet
ing. Cabbage Weighs 271 Pounds.
Oregon City It is believed that
Clackamas county has broken the
world's record for growing cabbage,
says the Enterprise. A mammoth
head of cabbage is now on display in
one of the windows of the Commercial
club's promotion office. The head of
cabbage weighs 27 pounds and was
grown by George DeBok, of Willam
ette. Mr. DeBok is one of the fore
most gardeners of this section and
grows many tons of cabbage every
year, but says this one is the largest
he has ever grown.
Ice Crop Is Heavy.
Canyon City The ice crop is eight
inches thick in this vicinity. The
harvest is on in full tide and the ice
hands after handling the big cakes all
day naively remark that the crop is
heavy.
CATS WORRY HOOD RIVER
"Woods Are Full of lhcm and
War Is Declared by Citizens.
Hood River "lomcata are a men
ace here," says D. A. Turner, a pio
neer citizen, on East State street.
"The woods are full of them and dor
ens of them may be found in the tall
growth of reeds that roar themselves
luxuriantly on the banks of the Hood
River gorgo and along Indian Creek."
Mr. Turner has declared war on the
felines, whjch, he says, are destroy
ing the chickens of his neighborhood
and are even making nightly raids on
outside refrigerators and cupboards.
Thinking that his chickens wore se
cure, the windows and doors of the
henhouse having been fastened, he
went to feed the fowls one morning
and found nine of them killed and a
big cat asleep in one corner of the
building. The brute had entered from
the roof, where a shingle had been
blown off. However, its exit was im
possible, its stomach having grown
several sizes from the chicken feast,
The many cats are driving away the
silver gray squirrels that live in the
oaks here.
BRIDGE NEARS COMPLETION
Structure at West Salem Gives Dal
las New Railroad Facilities.
Dallas The new bridge which is
being built across the Willamette riv
er at West Salem by the Salem, Falls
City & Western railroad company is
rapidly nearing completion. This
road has completed its line from Sa
lem to Silverton and, with the com
pletion of this bridge, the last link in
the chain will be formed and Dallas
will have railroad communication in
all directions. When plans for this
bridge were first talked of by the offi
cials of the railroad company, Louis
Gerlinger, Jr., then manager of the
Salem, Falls City & Western railroad,
with offices in Dallas, proposed mak
ing a joint county and railroad bridge
out of this bridge, and took up the
move with the courts of Marion and
Polk counties, but was turned down.
It was thought that the county courts
of the two counties would grasp the
opportunity of getting a new bridge
across the river at Salem at a mini
mum cost, inasmuch as the present
wagon bridge can last but a few years
longer.
INSURANCE GROWTH IS BIG
Oregon Department Reports Gain
of $16,000 Over 1911.
Salem Receipts for the Depart
ment of Insurance for the year ending
November 30, 1912, were $110,498.94,
as compared to $94,400.12 for the like
preceding period, or an increase of
$16,038.82, according to a statement
just completed by J. W. Ferguson,
state insurance commissioner.
The detailed receipts for 1911-12
are as follows :
Company licenses, agenta'
licenses
Fire Insurance companies
Lire Insurance companies
Casualty companies
Taxes
Filing annual statement
Issuing certificates of author
ity
Miscellaneous receipts
Increase
$27,375.70 $2,754.78
4.H7X.0O a.li.(MI
4,970.00
1, 272.00
7U.0O6.9H
1,220.00
425.50
842.76
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110.00
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Roses and Poppies Thrive.
Hood River Roses and poppies,
even at Christmas time, is the record
of the Hood River valley. W. F.
Laraway, a merchant of this city,
sent a number of roses from his gar
den to friends in Iowa. Mr. Laraway's
roses grow on his lawn and have no
protection.
Colonel Tucker, who left the first
of the week for San Diego, Cal., also
sent roses to friends for Christmas.
Mrs. Tucker says her poppies have
been blooming freely. "The other
morning, she says, alter the heavy
snow had fallen in the upper valley
where our home is located, it was a
beautiful sight to see the blossoms of
the roses lifting themselves from the
white blanket."
Malheur Snowfall Below Average.
Vale The snowfall on the higher
mountains of Malheur and other East
ern Oregon counties is deficient for
this period of the winter, according to
persons reaching Vale from the more
remote parts of the county. Where
the first of the year should witness not
ess than one foot of snow on the high
er altitudes, there is not to exceed
three or four inches. Without heavy
subsequent precipitation during the
next three months, there will be a
marked lack of water next spring.
West Announces Appointments.
Salem Governor West has an
nounced the'following appointments to
the state textbook commission : Miss
Margaret Cosper, Salem; E. E. Bragg,
La Grande; T. M. Baldwin, Prineville;
John P. O'Hara, Portland, and W. L.
Brewster, Portland. The text book
commission was named several months
ago, but to keep it from being worried
by text book companies, no announce
ment was made until now. The com
mission meets in June to decide what
changes shall be made in the text
books in the schools of the state.
Two Bridges Swept Away.
Dufur Two bridges on the line of
the Great Southern railway were
swept away by high water in Fifteen-
Mile creek. The recent heavy rains '
have raised all the streams in this vi-1
cinity higher than any time in years. 1
Sherrington $ Peters
Salem s Oldest and Best Piano House
We make specialty of supplying the trade with the bust make
lofinstrumonti that enn bo procured in the world. Our hninonso
toe oomprlsos the following!
UA80N A HAMLIN,
PACKARD,
HOBERT M. CABLE,
MILTON,
HARRINGTON,
KUAK1IUR,
1ILRDMAN
AND MANY OTHERS.
In Player Piano Players
We have tho Emerson, Hardiimn, llarriiifc'ton, Finher, Autotono,
Milton. Wo oIho hnvo a complete lino of phonographs, record,
musical instruments, ehoet mimic, and nil kinds of sewing machine
supplies including tho cnlobrutud
Sineer Sewing Machine
WRITE FOR CATALOG AND l'RICE LIST TO
Salem, Oregon
Cberrtoflton $ Peters,
OFFICIALS
H. Ill RSCHBERG, President D. W. SEARS. Vico-lTcs.
It. It. DeAKMOND, Cashior
THE INDEPENDENCE
NATIONAL BANK
Incorporated 1889
Transact a General Banking Business
Interest Paid on Time Deposits j j
H. HIRSCHBERG.
B. F. SMITH,
DIRECTORS;
W. H. WALKER, D. W. 8EAR8
0TI8 D. BUTLER
New Meat Mar Ret
We are pleased to announce to our patrons that we have
recently opened a Moat Market on 0 street, near our for
mer location and will always supply the trade with a choioo
line of all kinds of moats. Call upon us if you have choice
beef, veal, and other meats for tho markets.
A. NELSON
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INDEPENDENCE SHOE SHOP
O. FLOYD, Proprietor
THE BE8T EQUIPPED SHOP IN POLK COUNTY. ALL KINDS OF
HOE REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. ALL WORK GUARANTEED.
MAIN STREET, INDEPENDENCE, ORE.
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WHEN EVERYTHING IS
RUNNING 8MOOTHLY
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.
REMOLITE la 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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