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HQHT ENTERPRISE, INDEPENDENCE, OWEOON PAGE TWO THE INDEPENDENCE PROFESSIONAL COLUMN. DR. ELLSWORTH THE VTEERINARIAN 10th and II. Streets. Phone M 3122. SWOPE & SWOPE Lawyers I. O. O. F. Building Independence. . . Ore. TTTTTTTTttT T f T"T?f 1 TTT " DR. L. E. BARRICK t Dentist Office in Cooper Building Phone Main 7821 Inuepenueuce, . . . Oregon FLETCHER & BARRICK, ATTORNEY'S Cooper Building . INDEPENDENCE, .. OREGON larm ,n aj SAFETY FIRST. When your property is in sured in a good reliable com pany, you can rest much eas ier. See WOLF & MIX at Independence National Bank, who will insure your home and other property, your business burdense will be less trouble some to you. We insure with only good companies. Ill Ml P niiiipp Hill OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most importan DailylNews Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest and Other Things Worth Knowing. ON OLD ACCOUNTS WE GET. RESULTS WE REPORT RESULTS WE REMIT RESULTS WE PAY THE EXPENSE WE TAKE THE BLAME. KNIGHT ADJUSTMENT CO McMinnville, Ore . Successor to YAMOREG COLLECTION AGENCY. WILLARD STORAGE BATTERY STATION We selL Rent and Repair Batteries- OUR REPAIR WORY GUARANTEED. 418 Court Street. Salem, rhone 203 9 OH j Willamette Valley 1 1 ransTer lo- j i Leave Portland Daily Between Salem, Independence, Monmouth and Dallas at 7 A. M. I f Our trucks are at your service for all kinds of short or long distance hauling, Furniture moving, etc. Prompt and service. careful I Leave orders at Hotel Beaver Office until de pot is opened. HAVE SPERLING The Painter To Hang Your The supreme economic council an nounced Tuesday that the allied and associated governments had decided tn lift the blockade of Hungary as soon as a stable government Is estab lished there. For the first time since February 1 1917, trading on the stock exchange Tuesday exceeded by a slender margin the 2,000,000-share mark, heavy buy ing of specialties contributing largely to the huge total. The council of four of the peace con ference has decided conditionally to recognized the anti-bolshevik govern ments of Admiral Kolchak and General Denekine. according to Reuter's Agency in Paris. Two hotels, representing jointly an investment of $4,500,000, will be built in the northwest by the California Hotel corporation, Charles W. Moore, vice-president, announced Tuesday. One will be in Seattle and the other in Tacoma. The Philippine mission which went to the United States in the interest of independence of the islands re turned to Manila Monday and ;was given an enthusiastic welcome by a crowd of thousands of persons who greeted the party as it landed. A delegation of 250 women employes of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit com pany appeared before Governor Smith of New York at the city hall Tuesday to protest against the newly enacted transportation law which bars women from working after 10 o'clock at night and which had cost them their jobs. One man was killed and several were hurt when a giant Tarrant tri- plane, largest, in the world,- was ing for its first flight near Farn wrecked Tuesday morning while taxy- borough, England. The machine dug its nose into the ground and turned over. It weighed 20 tons ana was equipped with six engines. Thirty thousand men, ship workers' representatives of the merchants' and manufacturers' association, federation of labor and other organizations, marched through the business section of Baltimore Sunday afternoon as a protest against the proposed action of the United States shipping board in cancelling its shipbuilding programme, j Information regarding numerous Jewish massacres in central and east ern Europe during last March and April, forwarded by special representa tives of the Jewish relief organization, was presented to the state department Tuesday by Representative Siegel of New York. Names of 54 Jews who were massacred were given in the re port. Young Americans who regret the fact that they did not get an opportu nity to go to France during the world war, and who still desire to go over seas, are offered a chance by the United States marine corps, which is enlisting men for "special limited serv ice" in France. Musicians, especially, are in demand to relieve men now in the service, and men for service duty who want to spend the summer abroad are urged to enlist at once. 1 im n 1 1 ii i TvrcT'SrG In order to provide for linking up the Columbia highway through Tho Dalles, the city council litis adopted four resolutions culling an election for Friday, June 27, on voting necessary bonds. The roster at the opening of the state grange at Hillsboro Thursday morning showed 118 delegates, repre senting 27 counties. In attendance Three hundred visitors are also pros ent, making the total number in tit tendance the largest in recent yeurs. The current issue of an eastern mag azine contains an article by Professor Drvden. of Oreon Agricultural col lege, in which Is detailed tho history of a Benton county farmer, Jess Han son, who cleared $18,300 In four years from .'chickens. Mr. Hanson strtod his work with a capital of only $1000. The adoption of a new wage scale with increase In the minimum wage for common labor from 45 to 50 cents an hour, and a proportionate increase in skifled labor, was announced by the Buehner Lumber company at North Bend Thursday. The Increase in wages will become effective at once and will apply to over 250 employes. State surveyors have completed their location of the. road' from the end of the present paving in Umatilla county at Rieth, to Echo. Data, maps and specifications for a call for bids will be rushed so that the work may be completed this summer. The road as surveyed, follows the river, using in many places, the old railroad grade. Mrs. Lola O. Baldwin of Portland, Mrs. Charles H. Castner of Hood River and Mrs. V. H. Dancy of Salem were designated members of the advisory board for the state industrial school for girls, in appointments announced by Governor Olcott. Mrs. Baldwin succeeds Mrs. George McMath, who served temporarily during Mrs. Buld win's absence from the state during the war. OnDccoicijipnM 89 Dr. George ACokIc? hi It was an aged veteran, with lock) all thin and gray, Who sat within the village church on Decoration day; He came upon his crutches, with tottering step and slow, . M.'nrfr nn 7k u brow had .t 'their ileetina snow; HU eyes were sunk and feeble, hU cheek was pale and wan, Not like the boy who went out when the cruel war began. The organ pealed out gratuity, "My country, 'tis of thee," And youthful voices sang aloud the anthem of the free. With listless air he watched them, from the old, familiar pew, A sad example of the old, supplant ed by the new. No wife or child sat by him aU dead or far away Amid the tfcrong he was alone on Decoration day. Too weak and lame fur walking for many years of late, A friendly auto bore him to the cemetery gate; HI atfffi'fu I 9 Summer Course of Music June 23 to August 2 Muslclani and tudentiinth. Northwcit arc now within easy distance of one of Amer ica'u best equipped Conser' vatorka. Our Sunnier sf elon enable you to Bti!yith teachers of European exptr lence, in Opera nJ t jnce.-r Kvffr plono teachrr In ihe r , k ....... I- I .... WILLUM K. HOONR attended th Maau, i. '! l.o(okl CMow.ky, mre 0ffrd In ii,no y0, olio. Oprr. I'ublie tStlio.,1 MuJ CtHlf VI """"7' "iniunm uniiiit,,. lor Ctuutnuqut and Lyceum woik, J, ct advantage.. Writ anil t far our Special Summer nuj jj, uMonui uiacuva Hummer rt. Section ltuin Jun 33 to Auguit .EWAY nUILDINO I'OKTLAND.OfcgQON That plans are being worked out for construction of a dam across Lost River bed below Merrill by which later it is proposed to irrigate the reclaimed lands of Tule lake, is an nounced by Project Manager H. D. Newell, at Klamath Falls. Mr. Newell says there is no certainty as to when ork will be undertaken but that the plans will be ready when the funds are available. Eleven thousand eight hundred nine ty-four voters were registered in Linn county Wednesday night when County Clerk Russell closed the books for the special election to be held June 3. Of this number 6887 were men and 5007 women. The number in each political party is as follows: Republi can, " 6662; democratic, 4127; prohi bition, 376; socialist, 254; miscellan eous, 475. In reply to the complaint of R. W. Price, president of the Multnomah Anglers' club, to the general effect il i A 1 . . - umt uie siaie iisn ana game commis sion was In need of reorganization, and that matters within it were far from right, Governor Olcott has written Mr. Price saying that such an inquiry will be held when all members of the com mission are in the state, and that the inquiry will be thorough and open. First-Class Workmanship. AUTO, SIGN AND PICTORIAL i PAINTING i : Tinting and House Painting:. Leave Your Order with PHONE M 5211 Saturday at Independence Bakery, Cream Puffs, Lemon, Cream and Cho colate Pies. Frank Livingston, negro, was tied to a tree and burned alive by a mob of about 150 men, both white and negroes, about 18 miles from Eldorado, Ark., Thursday. The supreme court was asked in memoranda filed by the Commercial and the Commercial Pacific Cables companies to decide upon their merits the suits brought by the companies to enjoin the postmaster-general from seizing their properties under the presidential proclamation of last Nov ember. Ten square blocks of Mobile's resi dence section were swept by fire Fri day which caused $750,000 property damage, left 1500 people houseless and destroyed probably 200 buildings. The international parliamentary commercial conference has decided to reserve its decision on the question of the internationalization of the Rhine. The Belgian claim for complete eco nomic and military liberty was agreed to unanimously by the conference. A shameless jancher profiteer, who refused to divulge his name, made $36 last Sunday pulling stalled automo biles from the mud at the eastern and western termini of the Coos City bridge, where the rains had created a mired condition not observed until the machines plunged in over the hubs The rancher said his team could have made twice as much had the necessary number of tourists happened along, Mrs. Jessie Jarvls of Portland was Thursday elected president of the Oregon Rebekah assembly, to succeed Mrs. Jeanie Burke of Grants1 Pass utner oiticers elected were: Vice- president, Miss Ethel Fletcher, Salem; secretary, Mrs. Ora Cosper, Dallas, re-elected; treasurer, Miss Edna Ja cobs, Portland, re-elected; warden, Mrs. Ethel Meldrum, Milwaukie. The latter was elected over a field of ten candidates. Effprts are being made to conserve the crop of cascara, one of the most indispensable articles in the medical world and grown onlyon the Pacific coast. The present crop growing in the forests of the northwest is ample to fill the demand for all time if prop erly conserved. In other words, the cascara crop, if not wasted, is repro ducing itself as fast as it is being con sumed. The mature crop still standing is probably ample to supply 'the de mand for from 20 to 30 years and the new crop which is springing up on the million of acres of logged-off lands throughout the Pacific coast will ma ture a new crop which will become available in 10 to 15 years if not destroyed.' Here, sitting in the welcome shade, He watched his comrades come A piteous few, but keeping step be hind the fife and drum; Then, leaning on a marble shaft, Ms dead wife's grave anigh, He gave salute and waved his hat as the starry flag went by. The graves were strewn with blos soms; the little flags all placed; His comrades to the busy town their halting steps retraced; And the dead slept on in silence, be neath the flowers of May, Heedless alike of fife and drum and Decoration day; But, lingering there amon-g them, till red the sunset gleamed, His head sank down upon his breast; he fell asleep and dreamed. He dreamed of childhood's hour; he heard the robin sing, And culled again the violets that blossomed by the spring; With sisters and with brothers, in his happy northern home, He watched the war-cloud gather, and heard its thunders come. TTlo nfl-'n ,1 i ... ,7 ., j-. inuvnoi a vilify, ins sweeineart s kiss, still thrilled him as of yore, When proudly down the village street he marched out in th war. He dreamed of soldiers marching he saw the deadly fray IV " Bank ! The Independence National OFFICERS. II. IIIRSCIIUERG. Pres. I), W. SEARS, Vite-Prtt IKA I). MIX. Cannier. INCORPORATED lSg'J. 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