INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE
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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.
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LOCAL
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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.
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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
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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,
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.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
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flgent for
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Internationa! 1
snoring Co,
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$35, $.10, lil
and up. Thi
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goods well tailored to your measure. Yours truly
0. A. KREAMER....
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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
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..INDEPENDENCE OREGON.
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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