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About Independence enterprise. (Independence, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 8, 1920)
INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE I v 1 4 Buena Vista WHY THE HURRY? QUERY OF AN ENGINEER W. S. McClain and J. A. Reynolds " are serving on the grand jury in the Dallas court this week. Misses Plant and Rose, our for mer merchants, expect to leave about the 15th of October for a month's visit among relatievs in British Columbia and other points of interest. Mrs. Richardson, daughter of Mrs. " Louise Harmon, came Saturday from Winlock, Wash., for an extended visit here among relatives. ' Mr. and Mrs. Royal Krut of La Grande, Ore., were over-Sunday visitors at the R. E. Prather and N. C. Anderson homes. Miss Gussie Setax and Guy . New ton of Independence, were married last week in Dallas. The bride is the daughter of William Setax who recPTiflir niirrhnsAfl tho Tplsnn nlaep. I Second. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Hewett came I the track while the train up from the Rickreall country Tues day and took Mrs. Hewett's aged mother, Mrs. Louise (Grandma) Harmon, home with them. She has lived alone for many years but is growing- too feeble to care for her self any longer. . Mr. and Mrs. Doc Black left Monday by the Oberson truck for their new home which they recently purchased in Independence. Thus our sister city claims another one of our best families but the well wishes of the entire community go with them. Willard McClain and Will Morgan transacted business at the county seat Monday. . Mr. and Mrs. Silas Hart and TVIrs. Helena Hunt and babe of Philomath, were over-Sunday visitors at the G. E. Harmon home and Sunday they all motored to the Guy Hewett home to see Mrs. Hart's mother, Grandma Harmon. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Prather of Corvallis, were calling on relatives and friends here Monday. Mrs Marguerite McClain, who was visit ing there, returned home with them. Parker This continued rain has caused fall work to be laid aside until the weather man turns on the sunshine. Ernest Zielesch is filling his silo with corn this week. Edward Veith was in Corvallis on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. W. It Sharp of Portland, spent Sunday at the Hor ton home. ; Miss Gusta Setak was married to 'Guy-liewton of ' Independence last Ihursday'at Dallas. ' Dickinson Bros, have purchased the farm recently ; owied by Jesse j Walker of Independence, and leased. the Dell Grigsby place adjoining. TheseN farms, lie ' across the-' road from their places and will be farmed along with their other land. Mr.' and Mrs. A. E. Horton motored to Dallas Monday. They were ac companied by Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Sharp of Portland.' Mr. Bowman and family of near Suver, are moving onto one of the Zielesch farms which he has leased for the coming year. Ray Lacey and family were visit ing his people Tuesday and Wed nesday of this week. Miss Winnogene Peterson left for her high school work at Airlie on Sunday last. .A. J. McKay, a Southern Pacific locomotive engineer, discussing mo torists who race with his train for a common crossing, is puzzled to know what all the hurry is about. Says McKay: "If auto drivers realized how little time they save if they succeed in crossing in front of an approaching train they might be more content to wait until the train got by and thus guarantee their own safety. "A local passenger train, consist ing of an engine and four or five coaches, traveling at forty-five miles an hour will make 66 feet a second and will be only five .or six seconds in going over the crossing and a little less than that if making the limit of fifty miles an hour. The heavier over-land train, with the cars averaging a little longer than in local service, will generally pass over a road crossing at the rate of one a If the auto driver stops at is still a quarter of a mile away, he will only have to wait about 20 seconds for the train to get to the crossing and ! then a few seconds more for the train to get by. "Most of the accidents at high. way crossings are those in which the auto gets mixed up with high speed trains. Freight trains of SO cars or less, frequently travel at the rate of 30 miles an hour and at that rate of speed the shorter cars will be going over the crossing at the rate of one a second; longer freight trains at slower speed will user more time, but even then the delay is in significant. "Frequently engineers of trains make reports of "close calls," but there does not seem to be much re sult from that course. "Some drivers claim that no warn ing was given by the approaching engine, but what can be said for a man who strikes the side of a train after the engine and three or four cars have gone by? ,Or the man who claims he would have "made it" if the gate man had not dropped the gate. He broke the gate and had his machine wrecked. "A few seconds!"" Is it worth the risk?" 1 115. Buffalo with 107, Kansas City Mo., with 103 and Jersey City, N. J. with 102 were others. Houston Texas, was the best baby raising ground among the . cities of more than 100,000 and lesa than250, 000 with a mark of 61. Berkley, Cal., had a baby mortality rate of 44, while Brookline, Mass., with a population of less than 50,000 led all the rest with the healthy percentage of 10. New York City registered 82. St. Louis scored 75, Los Angeles and San Francisco 67 and 65, respectively, Minneapolis 61, and Seattle, 54. F SAP LOCAL ret In The Churches Baptist Church Come to the Baptist church Sun day, and enjoy yourself among good people. Sunday school starts at 10 o clock. Our Sunday school is growing every Sunday but there is still room for, you. Come out and try it once.; . Rev. Proppe preaches at 11 o'clock. His subject is "A Grain of Wheat."A lively bunch of young folks meet at 6:30. Miss Erma Boughey is the leader for next Sunday. At 7:30 the pastor speaks on "J. he Causes and Cures of .back sliding." Strangers especially in vited. JrV ' r 1 1 111,111 1111 I FARM WANTED I want to hear from party .having farm for sale. Give price and description. John W. Wait, Champaign, Illinois. 8-2t FOR SALE Team, weighing 3000, harness and wagon, $200. Hor nett place, south of town. Al Whitney. 8-3t FOR SALE Cleaned cheat seed, a few sacks $1.50 a sack. A. E. Horton, Parker. 1-tf FOR SALE 1918 Four Ninety Chevrolet car, in first-class con dition, $550. Some terms. Geo. H. Wood. i 1-tf INFANT MORTALITY RATE DECLINES TO 87 PER 1000 in XT TT . . 1 . . . new lore Americas Daoy crop in 1919 was a new record says th American Child Hygiene association. An annual preliminary report on vital statistics by that., organization, covering data from 269 cities with an Saggregate population of 31,000,000 shows the infant ' mortality rate de clined to the "encouraging figure of 87 deaths per 1000 babies," a saving of nearly 12,000 babies over the 1918 rate and 7000 fewer deaths than 1917.- i . ,. ' In. the cities covered by the report 680,000 births were recorded, while in the entire' country it is estimated there are 2.5OO.O00 newcomers an nually. All of the cities included have populations of 10,000 or more, Tv ; t . .oauies seemea xo tnrive well in some of the larger cities, -where form erly the death rate was very high Among the twenty-four cities of more than 250,000, population reported, ten were below the average for the 269 and the death rate for the group was eighty five, two points below the gen eral average. 1 "Ten years ago," the report said, "it was the aim of many a department of health to see this rate fall below the 100 rnarki In 1919, only four of the twenty-four larger cities were above it." One of these was Pittsburg, the "Smoky City," where the rate was FOR SALE Oak, Ash and Fir Rick Wood, delivered either in town or country. 'C. J. . Lehman, phone Monmouth 1210. 17-4t FOR quick results list your country and city property with the Inde dependence Realty Co., C street. 30-tf LOST One auto tire casing, Silverton Cord 36x4 on rim, between Independence and Salem, Reward of $10 on return to Inde pendence Garage 8-lt FOR SALE 1917 Four-Ninety Chevrolet Touring Car, electric lights and Starter. Good condi tion. Price $375. Sayles Motor Car company, C street, Indepen dence. 8-lt. Earl W. Cozine mid Grant Iiyers turned hist Saturday irom meir doer hunting trip to Southern Ore got). There appeared to hv plenty of the fleet-footed animals in that locality, but conditions wore un favorable to make the chaso a suc cessful ono, and they canio back empty-handed. ( -Mr. and Mrs. S. H. McElmurry returned Sunday evening from Sa lem, where they spent 10 days camping on the state fair ground and taking in the big event from be ginning to end. During the last three days of the fair, rain curtailed attendance heavily, still it did not inconvenience Mr. and Mrs. McKl murry to any extent ns they had provided themselves with a water proof tent and a stove for making it nice and comfortable. Mrs. O. T. Solie fractured her left arm last Saturday in Portland. Accompanied by Mr. Solie, she ha. been visiting at the home of a sis ter. They started for home in their car Saturday morning. One of the chains caught on the fonder while they were still in tho city. While the trouble was being remedied Mrs. Solie got out of the car, and slip nine, fell with Sufficient force to fracture the bones. She was taken to a hospital where tho fracture was reduced ami Mr. and Mrs. Solie re. turned to Independence that evening. OCTOBEJH COST OF FEDERAL HIGHWAYS EXCEEDS PANAMA EXPENSE FIX THIS IN YOUR fijjg O.A. flgent for Ed. V.Priuu Internationa! 1 snoring Co, Ltnes And that you Ca, R,e . Suit "louw tailor, v measure f $35, $.10, lil and up. Thi mean s nil goods well tailored to your measure. Yours truly 0. A. KREAMER.... A MNaK. - Kadi Yf rfy The unprecedented stimulus given highway construction in the United States in the four years that have passed since the Federal government entered upon its policy of aiding road improvement is shown by the fact that road operations under the fed eral aid road act thus far initiated aggregate in length nine times the distance from New York to San Francisco, according to Thomas II. MacDonald, chief of the bureau of public roads, United States depart ment of agriculture. The federal government's share in this stupendous undertaking is great- law was passed uwi.-. mi !" . - -- .. . - er than the cost of tho 1 'ana ma canal. The participation of the na tional government in highway im provement marked a departure from u policy which had been followed for nearly a century. Federal co-operation with the states on approximately a fifty-fifty basis has counted more than any other fac tor, says Mr, MacDonald, in initiating highway construction that is being carried on under adequite supervis ion, und in accord with a program co ordinating locul, state and national needs. Second only in importance to the size of the present roadbuilding pro gram is the excellence of the charac ter of the roads being built. Sixty per cent of the total allotment of fed eral funds which bus been approved to date will be spent for roads of durable types. These roads when built will increase by 7C00 miles the total of 14,400 miles of roads of this class which existed in the United States before the federal aid road But these figures by no meuns represent the total ma.,, affected. 7 Harney county sunflower duce 54 tons emdlage to ac, Mamhficld Local company j, corporated to (Jperate plunei in th locality. MadrasNew sawmill of 15,0 feet capacity being constructed' Klamath Fulls Washington 4rt being paved. , , ' Salem 45 acres of loganberri bring gross returns 6f $45,115. Enterprise City reservoir to I completed soon. .. Klamath Falls 10,000 acres pi; timber sells for $2,500,000. High Schol Student i Have you ever attended urn of the Haptist Young People's Cs ion? Sunday evening at 6:30 will havo a special treat, Sona o! the high school boys are to dm Miss Erma Boughey is to lu Come and see if you dont like m at the Baptist church. ' FOR SALE 100 Angora goats. good stock; 38 Cotswold ewes, anl 1 buck. G. A. Wells, Route 2, In dependence, three-fourths mile north of Buena Vista. 8-3t O BssMBBKBoa04BosaKsoe FOR SALE Registered, laree tvDe Poland China boars ready for service. Sired -by Murphys Big Bob Wonder, grand champion of Oregon last year. One of these boars was a prize winner at the state fair this year. Sloper Bros., Independence, Or. 8-2t SEE FRANK WORTHINGTON for BARGAINS IN REAL ESTATE. Office in Beaver Hotel Building, Independence, Ore. 10-tf Goodrich Tube with each Casmg For a few days only we will give absolutely free one high-grade Goodrich tube with every Casing, Cord or Fabric. This is a bonafide offer and by a concern which is here to stay. Both tubes and casings are fresh, new stock and fully guaranteed. WILL TRADE All imnroved wheat farm at Rockland, Idaho, Power county, for 40 acres im proved in Oregon, Polk or Marion counties. Write to Frank Eell, Rockland, Idaho. 24-4t FOR QUICK SALE Tractor outfit including 25 H. P; 1919 C. L. Best Tracklayer tractor, 3 14-in. Oliver gang steel plows, 8 ft. Interna tional double disc, 2 section Klon diker, with gas tanks, oils, etc. A. E. Horton, Parker, or inquire at Enterprise office. 1-tf With Perfected Valve in -the-Head Motor . The unusual beauty of the Nash Six in design and finish immediately im presses you with the high quality of this product of the Nash factories. ; I A nde in it will convince you, we believe, of its exceptional power, comfort and economy. We weicome an early opportuni ty to prove its value to you by actual demonstration. No reduction in prices on either cars or trucks prior to July 1, 1921.. DALLAS, OREGON tilities (Ko ..INDEPENDENCE OREGON. v . - i i " " . C Street, Independence Dallas YOUR TIRE Trouble Adjusted promptly and in a work manlike manner. Try me. SER VICE in big letters. Savage, Curti and Racine Tires and Tabes for salt. MJ.O'DONNELL Across from Farmers Cteto Bank, Independence. Lives of Great Men All Remind Us TL S. OR AW "UrOCS O rvttnni. 1 - i , , , t " " yunerai ana sue- ceeded to the highest office in the land, yet his .".If With ? neent diseas -were spent in a plucky and heroic endeavor to pav his debts. He succeeded, as he did in every thing he attempted. y lead a Hfe TZlfmpnd of wil1 to more s t enl flt" mnem it requires more strength to pay the price of spendthrift- way to pracUce thrift. -o good . FARMERS' STATE BANK Independence
