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THE INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE, INDEPENDENCE, OflEQQN. i .j. i tmt ii m 7 ! "i wn hi ii i N y .. ft r.KUl'JfcSSIUINALi COLUMN. DR. ELLSWORTH THE VTEERINARIAN 10th and H. Streets. Phone M 3122. 4 i SWOPE & SWOPE Lawyers I. O. O. F. Building Independence. . . Ore. WHY WORRY ABOUT your noon lunch on these busy days when yoa can get a quick meal at the PALACE Main street Lunches from 11 a. m. Until 2 TV. m ariA fmm K m nn. til 12 p. m. PROBLEMS IN NOMENCLATURE WHICH WAR RISK BUREAU HAS TO TACKLE Difficulties the Bureau Experiences in Answering Letters and Maintaining the Correct Addresses of Demobilized Men Many Become Transients and Others Give Only Frag mentary Information. -Ecce homo I Behold j i r LETCHER & BARRICK, ATTORNEY'S Cooper Building INDEPENDENCE, .. OREGON. FEDERAL FARM LOANS 54 Intrest 34 years time Prompt and efficient service.. Oregon National . Farm Loan Association Largest in the Northwest A- C. Bohrnstead, Secy-Treas 401 Masonic Temnle. Salem.Ora f ; "card ON VALLEY SELTTZ RAILWAY. Effective Sunday June 29th The Valley & Siletz Railroad will run a train leaving Independence at 7.45 a. m. going through to Camp One arriving there 10 a. m. Leaving at 4.45 p. m. arriving Independence at 7 p.m. leaving at 7.25 p. m. for Hoi kins. Sportsmen will have an op portunity to whip the Luckimute. Train will leave Hoskina Saturday at 6 JO p. m. arrive in Independence 7.45 p. m. 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. Washington. the man I "Get nie this man's name so that I can report definitely on the status of ms insurance. That, together with a slip bearing the memo, "James Hall. (3.721.505) McCall, South Carolina. Beneficiaries: Mrs. Ella Stalks (wife), Mrs. Fannie Stalks (mother)." was handed to a file searcher In the bureau of war risk In surance. The man's name was given as Hall, while those of his wife and his mother were civen as Stalks. Pntentlv. something was wrong somewhere. Just wnat was wrong, however, was not so evident. To find out what and where the error was, was the job. Finding the error somebody else made Is always the Job of the war risk index file searchers, anil It's n tough Job if they fall to get at the bottom of It. Going into the index flies section where are listed the names of nearly Ave million men who were inducted into military service, the vouae worn. an made a complete inventory of all WILLARD STORAGE BATTERY STATION We sell. Rent and Repair Batteries- OUR REPAIR WORY GUARANTEED. 418 Court Street. Salem. Phone 203 5 400 ARTICLES 40O PICTURES EACH MONTH POPULAR MECHANICS MAGAZINE IS FOR SALE BY ALL NEWSDEALERS the latest issue, postpaid, earlysubscriptloa i possessions, uanaaa, ana aiexico. POPULAR MECHANICS MAGAZINE N. Michigan Avenutt. Chicago, III. 5 d latest mem??- aim 0 vH1' iwiRiiiiiriwMMiriiiiriiMMiiiai i - If Girl Sleuths Searching Files. Card Index t t HAVE SPERLING The! Painter To Hang Your ' First-Class Workmanship. ,UTO, SIGN AND PICTORIAL . 4 PAINTING , Tinting and House Painting. - ' v Leave Your Order with : f ' , PHONE M 5211 the thousands of men surnamed Hall. Among them all there was not one who came from McCall, South Carolina, nor yet one who had a wife or mother whose name even remotely resembled tne "btaiks" given as the name of the two beneficiaries. Calls for Nimble Wit. This, clearly, was a case for the use of that specially nimble wit and fine deductive faculty which has character ized much of the work of the search ers of the index files, and given them process of procedure which mlcht be used to add a ipnf in th the Burnses, the Pinkertons and the Flynns. "Well," remarked the girl charzed with producing the needed informa tion, "this man may be 'Stalk.- slnne that is the name given for his wife and mother." But search throueh the "Stnita" brought nothing to identify the case. aim," sne persisted, and thev al ways do persist, these chls. "His name must be some kind of a 'Stulk.' but What kind? Corn stnlk hn stalks, and cabbage stalks are th. only kind of stalks I know anvrhlni? about so I'll Just look them up." And sure enough, it turned our thnt nis name was "some kind of n Ktniir Cabbage stalks, in fact, and his index card was duly changed to read: 'James Cabbacestalks. (3.721. rom McCall. South Carol I f wvj.tuvittJICO, Mrs. Ella Cabbagestalks (wife), Mrs: Fannie Cabbagestalks (mother)." , "You see that girl wearing the blue sweater over there," said one young woman. ' " The girl of the blue Sweater n nnooi. ed so young she might have Just left school. She was searching some in dex cards, her fine-era from one to another. With nn of the card she had taken a mental note of the inscription thorenn ht the observer she was mnkino- a tmi record in touchiner file drawer. Suddenly Banc! Tho ,iP. closed. She moved a foot tn th began another Marathon in card move ments, selected one. mnrln a nr,f.in. ' w LU UUli on a slip of paper she carried, placed me cara among the others, finaori , 1 -k.- WWA IUC arawer, and walked toward the mo who is in charge of the file section. ' This pantomime was aulrklv ni.t ,, , V.V,M, ana. as ir turned out, it brought to a close a remarkable case which had been under investigation for some days. The "Dlvls Mystery." The title of this strange case might be the "Dlvls mystery" with Miss Blue Sweater as the detective heroine. A typewritten letter was received by the bureau from an army camp, and ended as follows: "Respectfully, "Private Divis Spruce, Hastings, I'll." Miss Blue Sweater was assigned to the letter with instructions to secure the man's policy number that certain Information requested as to the stand ing of his insurance might be furnish ed him. The name of Dlvls Spruce could not be found In the flies. Then enme the time for Imagination mid deduction No matter how the nnme wns snlit to make some other plausible nnme, the tiles could not produce results. Finally the younor woman decided to address a letter to the mnn at Hust ings, Pa., requesting him to furnish In formation about himself. In due time the letter was returned to the bureau as unclaimed. This did not put an end to the search by any means. Iranclnntlon and deduction again were brought into tne case, and a further study of the original letter was ninde. Dlvls Spruce, Spruce Division. Of course! The Spruce Division I The Spruce division. was a nart of the American army. Miss Blue Sweater secured n roster of the Spruce division from the war department and searched through the nearly 40,000 names for a man who lived at Hastings, Pa. In this she was rewarded. The list showed only one mnn from that town. Jtie was Herman Miller. With this In iormation tne young woman had no difficulty in finding the card of Her man Miller, (policy number 1,877,155; serial number 8GC.255) of Hnstlncs. Pa. This man was furnished the In formation he desired, and In thanking the bureau he admitted he hnd forgot ten to sign his name to the letter. Searchers From All Sections. Girls from every part of the coun try are employed as searchers. If n complex case arises involving a man's mentincatlon, and his home is In Maine, a girl from that state is nsslirnerl to run down the mystery nnd she near ly always does. Should the state be , California, a girl hailing from the "Coast" soon has the correct data care fully listed in the files. There are innumerable "wonderful" cases under investigation everv dnv. but these girls are not unlike the he roes from France who never exploit the "wonderful" things they them selves did in line of duty. Handwriting experts are employed to determine the Identity of manv sle- natures, since every conceivable form of handwriting reaches the bureau. Often the body of a letter will be per- era fl tab- in the files anil was turned over to one of the cleverest searcher Since the man's' address wns given as North ! kotn, she assumed, In view of the fact that there woro ninny Indians listed from that state, that his must be nn Indian name. She Immediately added Thunder to his nnmo and found the record card ns Andrew Good Thun der, in less than three minutes after she hnd been asked to lend her nid. Carelessness or unavoidable haste In writing up Insurance applications on t)i Fnrm 1-H hv which n man enter ing the service requests or disclaims iAVnrimunf nllim'tinr'A tt llenelulCIltS. and failure to Include com plot o Identi fying Information in a letter or in uulry, constitute the largest slngl" cause In the bureau's delay In answer ing mall. Any letter addressed to the bureau on any matter pertaining to n service man should contain his name In full first, last, and middle; it should stnto his rank nnd organization at the time "Form I B" wns filed, or at the time insurance application wns made; his present home address ami former ad dress if the address bus been changed; the first, middle and last name of his beneficiary, and present and former address, If the address bns been chanted. The names of the nenrlv five mil lion nien who were Inducted under the selective draft, nnd those who have Joined up since the armistice, are on cards in filing cabinets, which, placed one after the other, would make a line more than five miles long. Just what complications mnv arise when there Is failure to Include this identifying data, may be Imagined from the fact thnt a comparison shows thnt the repetition of names in the files of the bureau is far greater thiiii the repetition of names carried In card Indexes of commercial companies. Many Bear Sam Name. Fifty-three thousand two hundred Johnsons were called hito nctve mill tary service. The Smiths were not far behind numerically, coming up to the considerable figure of fil.0.10. The Brown" family with 48.000 is no. More thnn hnlf the letters inmiirinn nbout Insurance come from men who either fall to give their identifying numner, or their address. In thmi sands of cases they give their address, Dut due to the fact that there are oth ers with similar names who live In the same city, nnd have moved this Infor manon is of little value to thn c-iri searcners. Actual figures show thnt half the soldiers, sailors nnd marines unve moved since leaving the service. Few forwarded a notice of a change of address. This left the bureau with only the name of the man for record, but through Its system of tracing men! lurge numbers have been located by me gin sieuths and their correct ad dresses have been listed. Many amazing discoveries have been macie m names, and the number of ways they can be spelled. One young woman has tabulated 49 wnvfl ha fa - "I Aua uncovered to spell Aloysius. Another has specialized In thn noii. ing of Ignatz. She has found is u. to spell this nnme. sun another has found that John can be spelled 24 ways. To Bartholdt Otto Anbel, (policy number 3,203,838) of Minden, Neb be- ongs the distinction of having hi name the first In all the enrd index flies. The last card in the file bears the name of Wladyslnus Charles Zyzes policy number 1,802,089) of 421 Maury street, Rome, N. Y. constant combing Is necessary keep the flies up to date. i H1 : :: ' 1 mi. J The G-E Ranerc "S. -4 mi i saves rooii The comparison t.)iown here h not mere theory it is based on netual tests. Figure this saving out in money at present prices at meat. See wiiut it means to your iocket-book. 'jj-ii "' I i Cookvd hi 1 uw" 1 v n j . i 6Ibs4oi MOUNTAIN STATES POWER COMPANY urn 1 -J I The Independence National Bank OFFICERS. II. IIIRSC1IBERG, Tres. D. W. SEARS, Vlct-PW. IRA D. MIX, Cashier. INCORPORATED 1889. Transact a General Banking BusinessInterest Paid on Time Depotit I DIRECTORS-II. Hirschberg, W. II. Walker, D. W. Senrs, I. A. Allen Otis D. Butler, V. to A Grocery That Never Disappoints Customers ROCERIES Chcapestyp Not Best Because Biggist 0 I A rot, wt-.-ss -'A Cheeking Names of Soldier Survivors fectly legible, but the signature will prove to be one of those Jumbles of pen strokes which are the aengnt andTet hobby of the writer and the despair of every hopeful reader.. Silent letters In names must niwno be taken into consideration. Tha nnmo of Hlynack is a good example where the silent letter is the key letter for searching, but at the same tlmn tt to particularly dead in nronuneloti This name is pronounced Lynack, and in the hurrv of wrirlni? nf-o nnm - ' o, uauica are misspelled, when on the surface they appear very simple and correct. Foreign names are often typed in correctly because the soldier at the time of making application for ance may have been unfamiliar with Ji.ngiisn ana made a mistake in re peating the spelling to the armv or navy clerk. This Is a great source of worry to searchers. Names Spelled Many Ways. Frequently one man's name may be spenea in rour or five ways. If rela tives, parents or someone interested In his welfare inquires nbout his insur ance, each will spell it in their way. Girl searchers must determine which is the correct spelling and then vor. Ify It from the man's original signature. A clever piece of deduction wn a that In the case of Andrew Gonrt rf Nni-tw Dakota. His name could not h fnim 5T; Georgian Too Tired to Crank Up His Auto Atlanta, Ga. And now the laziest man ! Lawson Collier, an nutolst was coming into Atlanta, when he overtook an old car stopped by the roadside. The occupants were in animated conversation Thinking he might be of assist ance, Collier stopped and asked if he could help. "You might pull us down the road a piece to start my auto" said the tired-looking owner ' Comer backed up, pulled 'out a piece of rope, and pulled the auto about 50 yards, nnd then asked what the trouble was "Oh nothing at all" said hig neighbor. "I jUBt didn't want to take the trouble to crank it." l?PMi'Vy'; ) Bu Biggest Because Best r S iPS No Order Too Large To Fill rm ... aro Aims to Serve the Tublie Plen.nnf.W .ml Well-The woods We Sell am .T,i. t . . , i.,.n Wp mpvittj tCttAttV iveprcsemea ana wnen juraers are uiv NeverTu, U.fTLICATE- We Send You ust What You Order, ever Send the "Just as Good" Kind. Calbreath & Jones ' m-zz U. S. L0SESM8O CAPTURED E,0hth!pl.,vi!i.:" low Rec. - ".! vniy one M Captured. Washington, D. C A i-n i , the war department of th S"' by to June 3 shows the tofuf J Americans captured by the enemv n France wns 4 dan ... 'emy m DO YOU READ Tho rr , . '" '" were heaviest loser ,, lf3'' n 714 men. nni ... . sixth next with io mM"- lW('My- 1.1.5 officers. was the cers and THE ENTERPRISES T1 i . ine Leading and Largest newspaper m 'I'ucpenaence as well as most widly reaa I one men. The Eighth division ' ., "n". man captured. l uriea Of the divisions. n.n... . .. wii. . v","r in line. thQ the Second diviKi,. l0t men nd ! 152 mpn "ve 0UJcers and