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J JANUARY 14, 1921 INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE Page Seven Vreasi$errs ami Recorder's I Hepeirts ' u the Honorable Mayor nnd CHy Council of the City of Independence, On..-. ' Gentlemen. I wish to mil mit. the following nn my it-port as City Trcus- urr for the quarter ending December d I. 15)20. 1 fully ubnfiUcd, I C. W. IRVINE, City Treasurer. INDEIMCNDKNCE CITY 1 Street Improvement (Paving) Bonds. ; tied ii, , Jailed, but not ircHWiU'd Itt'fuiuliriK ml- , J(rH-4lJt(J didd ' Air . I, ul: binding . 'f.i'ed uUl Strict Intersection Bond j(t'('t't Improvement Bonds outstanding ' At -'lie beginning t.f he mvt-cut ii'lmi.k' -ration, January 1, 1010, there were ""lie (tlb-wing uujutundinK bond: . -suvtti i.i.i-H.vfiiHi.t. (j-iiviinr) :;:? ' v" i'.uMN ... , - J.i,l' '''- f'l- oni nlK)v-ht',"(Vn'irr)t you run ie that, during the two yearn tin- fob ' Owi'lp hoiuh have been I'Hid . 'illn-vt Improvement (Paving) Jity 1 lends 4 i ttitul bond paymrnt hi the twc year of - (JKNKRAL FUN'!) if Mi'pt. ."10, l'J20 Bulao'-e on linn J 'Rtciipft Paid 5c. 31, I!)?) City Warrants y:ii a i voinhors herewith ;'. 81. i:i.'0. Balance on hand IWIIUIO ' f Then- ju'o no nutntn tiding warrant, endorsed not paid for want or junutt ier?iini-t th. fund. , . Firtd. payment of 1020 tuxcR tdiould he received during May, UJ1. '.Probable amount $2,500.00, ' 7 ' STREET II'MKOVEMKNT (PAVING) FUND i Sept. AO, 1U20- Balum-f on lmnl ' Receipt a Paid' Out Dec. 31. 1920 Itond paid us p-r runcidled hrrc- j with $1,000.00 ' ' IntiTfHt coupons as per cancelled It ' herewith W.p0 Total paid out v... i lvm t' !,..,-. ,,, linn, I In tereU coupon to the amount of f Th next date that horids of these SEWER REFUNDING FUND Jept30, 1920 Ilnlance on hand j ; Receipt Sov. 1, 1920 County Treasirrer, tax County Treasurer, tax Total receipt - Paid Out Dec. 31, 1920 Interest coupons as per cancelled i herewith Dec. f 31, 1920 Balance on 'hand ; Coupon due Nov. 1, 1920, to the lave not been presented for payment. ; $1,000.00 of these bonds are due and the amount of $330.00. f STREET INTERSECTION FUND lept, 30, 1920 Balance on hand S, jtt'ceipis Nov 3, 1920 County Treasurer, tax r Dec4 10, 1920 County Treaxurer, tax Total Receipts pec., .il, lmu iJuiiimf vn f $1,000.00 of thi lSKUe or nomis are uue ami jjuyumu uy I Intercut coupon to the amount of $537.31 are now due and payable on presentation. ! SIDEWALK FUND Sept. 3, 1920 Balance on hand ' .91 Dee;. 31, 1920 Balance on hand . ,4fdA There is a balance of $48.55 due on an outstanding: warrant against this fund and there-i now in,U-rent to the amount of $2.00 due, making a total of $51.45 due on thi warrant. This fund is short $8.54, and I would supest that the Council draw on the general fund for this amount, $8.54, and pay K, UUi.ee due on thin warrant and close this account. All ludgmcm for the Jjuilding of Sidewalk have been paid and no money is due this fund. Thiif entire matter should be closed. CITY ROAD FUND (Independence Road District) Sept 30, 1.920 Balance on hand Receipt Dec! 4, 1920 From County Court I I Paid Out Dee! 31, 1920 Warrant as per cancelled herewith p. .4 Dee; 31, 1920 Balance on hand .... ' There are no outstanding warranis against una ium f - I . f ! RECORDER'S ANNUAL REPORT ! J Commencing January 1, 1920, and ending January 1, 1921 tosh received from licenses and County Road Fund ? ro 4T Cash received from fines A(n Cash received from electric wiring permits . koX" Cash received from Street Improvement Assessments 4,wu.uo Total cash received from Jan. 1, 1920, to Total disbursements j I The Freedom of the He'. "Do you think men ought to be prohibited from starding; on the cor ner! and giving the short skirts the onc0 "over?" "Certainly not I don't believe- in anything that interferes with the freedom of the sees." Florida Times-Union. j Regular Job. "And what might your work have been during the late war?" asked an old1 lady visiting the Atlantic fleet as it lay at anchor in the Hudson. rkpout or city treasurer Independence, Oregon, J turn ry 4, 1IJ21. BONDS OUTSTANIHNG $ .'14.342.S5 $14,000,00 $10,000,00 4,000.00 $12,000.00 V.)M 10.21) 2,000.00 J 17,010.23 $14,000.00 J9.R42.83 1,00.00 (Newer) Bonds $lf,r,00.00 4,000.00 $l!,fj00.00 $r,r4. SH 2,15:1.00 , $2,H07.!)4 Out per cancel! d 1.1HH.04 $2,021.21 !22.17 $2,0-1.1.38 1,095.00 $948.38 $28.1.00 are now due upraint this fund. isxue can be called is June, 1921. $1,000.22 $403.70 042.30 1,006.00 $2,000.22 247.50 . . .?1,81-7 amount of $82.50 against this fund payable May 1, 1921; also coupons $1,039.99 $458.92 530.71 995.03 $2,035.62 , ' " t.,1.. 1 1001 $133.83 702.78 $890.01 25.38 $871.23 Dec. 31, 1920, both inclusive $5,872.91 $4,43(5.63 B. F. SWOrE, City Recorder. "I worked on a submarine, and every timo they wanted to dive I'd run for ward and tip 'er up." American Legion Weewly And Then the Row Started. "Do you think that young man good enough to marry our daugh ter?" asked the mother. "I guess bo," replied the father, "You know your folks used to say I wasn't good enuogh for you." "I know. But my folks were right about it." Detroit Free Press. DYED J3y NELLIE F. 6ROVN. ft (W il'ih by MiClur Nownimper MynUK-aiu. I Tbe nin.l delivery had Jtint come. There wcr no letl'i today; f.'ie farm paper fur rind, a circular for Dw k, h(I-v.-cl UhiK -lilk ff-l, dull I'upur from Die Hty, arid .wo inngazlitH. Mr. Mitrrilt ir bunted over the. head 1iuo at tfci new, a l tlicn pickvd up mie of the iiajjnzlne for a p.-epat It euntciil. It urn diiirinlKKly illu t rated, but after a moment or two Mr. Merrill Hung it duwn with Maine tlilj.it; HI" " ii(rt of dltfiit. "I'd for onee, u rcwl mflnfr tlilox real c'd and lwrnel!(c," hbe exelfiliiied. "A body would think, fwn nil the maunSue nowadiiy, tbaf everymie llveil r New York city or on n VeHli .-I'M cinch, Why don't they 'Vor Wlile MtolieM nlioilt I'effil pe4 people 1 hit I live in Nert Ki i 'lluid. like US, for liKtUIH-e, in- " "I'.ei'iHiJ.i-." IliiKheiJ I,iiel!e toririljy, not waiting fur her mother to Ij.'iiili. "lieeiHiM' ruillilnii ever happens In till dead Mi,( hIIvc town. We uiiu'i on Mniidiiy nixl Iron TuMl.iy. and " t the Iiiil!e:' Aid onec a inoiith U'e'1iie dny, itnd we Imil sup In uprla nnd pleU berrlex In sniiiiiier 11 nil loe.ke p!-l;!'H In the fall " "Mercy; Whnt a blue t ro.'i k yon nre In!" expostulated her mother (,'o.xl mittir.'!iy, "And with a party ut I'.ose Wilder' thi. very ni;;lit!" "That J.iKt It!" walled Lucille. "I bnveii't a ttiliiK to wear, and there'll be nil the niiriniier folk." "Your f.'reen Imtlste I iretty," mild her mother. "That !" erlcd Lucille. "I've hud It three years, nnd everyone knows It win Ahlt,' with a pink nirur' once, itnd that I I c tiled! It out and dycrl It pe-n. Ami those Hoap-dye fade no, everyone knows when It ha been fre-h'y washed nnd dyed attain. 1 couldn't Hml any grwn only In n new kind the lnt time 1 went to the city, nnd till kind has to be boiled." "I'm sorry," alI Mrs. Merrltt. "but 'what can't he cured rout be endured.' You know we decided tbl Hummer that wv'd go without everything we could to buy the wnshlnc machine. Go get your dress and do the best you can with It. I'm worry I haven't had time to fix your white dre. but that' torn pretty bad." Mrg. Merrltt' philosophy was al ways to make the best of things, nndj Lucille tried to make It hers a fdie I brought down her seersucker bat lute, Tipped off the wide white collar nnd cuffs, and nurveyed rather scornfully It faded green folds. The mlxIriK of the dye was rattier "rmRy." hut nt length It was ready, and Lucille dropped the dress In. damn from washing. The direction ald, "stir constantly," hut who ever follows dyeing rules explicitly? Besides, Lucille had the dishes to wash, so contented herself with a poke now and then with her wooden dye sticks. But alna. the dishes done, she lifted out the dress' and found It mottled with all shade of green, from light yellow-green to deep olive. "Oh, for pity's Hake," ejaculated the girl. "It's mined now. And at least It was whole, and I could have got lot more wear out of It." "Never mind," cheerily nld Mrs. Merrltt, called upon to comfort, con sole and counsel. "Put It In strong RonpHtids nnd boll it out white and stnrt again." But Lucille was discouraged. She shook her head, bit her lip to hold back the lump In her throat, and hur ried off toward the ham. "Poor child." murmured her mother sympathetically. And splash, went the kettle of green dye down the sink spout, hiss went a stream of hot wa ter Info a tin tub, slivers of strong yel low sonp followed, and pop went the dress again. Into a sonp bath this time. When Lucille enme back from her walk down the lane her head was high nnd her ey-s bright, but they idi.tlle brighter yet ns Mrs. Merrltt lifted from the hot suds the wet, clinging folds of a dainty blue gown the soft dull blue of old rugs and tapestries. "Why, mother, how did you do It?" cried Lucille, nml "Did you ever!" hurst from Mrs. Merrltt. "Why, It's a real pastel shade," ex ulted Lucille, who had caught the light through a single thickness, which, as everyone knows, shows the shade the goods will be when dry. "Take It out, quick, before It turns anything else." "It will bo lovely " "No one would ever guess " "With my lace flchn " "And some flowers " "Japanese honeysuckle " "You've got a blue feather just that shade " "I'll retrlni my white hat " "There," snld her mother. "Pon't ever say nothing happens In this place, I'm snire this Is good enough for a sfory." So here Is the story. Y'ou'll notice there Isn't any young man In It. Hut there are always youn.fi men at parties. So perhaps you enn guess the sequel. Tf you can't yon have no Imagination nt all. A Modern Coyrtship. She One more question, lie Yes, dear, ,1 am listening. She Will you love me when I'tn old? He Well er this Is a practical nge, you know, dear. At any rate, I'll see that you get adequate alimony. THIS A '"WOMAN'S COUNTRY" Englltih Writer Civet an Interesting Impression of Hor Sister Ovor the Co an. f A an English wornin rbo went about America for nearly thr year, making friends, Kat, WVst, South and North. I ought to he able? to rontrast the women of the two count ric, but the more one travel the more ,,ji re- hIIa-x that "folks 1 Jtuit folk" all the .... . vvonu over. Anicrlcun women are quicker at the uptake a regard friendliness and kii.dnesKcs; hut the tongue-tied Kng IIhIi do Jiint a much In the lon run. The American' minper(- are morn cosmopolitan, her clothen are letter put on, (the has more good norles In her aft.er-dlnniT ppeediefj, lint If you compare rom-Hpondin type rt.'t f)iot trim-lent ondt to do they are "both the ttitiie color under the!r skin." Amir!('ii In u woman' country. The boy belong to Mh mother, iirxl rrioxt women give their own opinions on all subject, jiilti.' ciirlous-ly well ex pressed without any suggestion jj Laving gor.o to a fniin for help. The Diglirtliwonui.'i ;-j,e,i!..s more shortly ,;iml with n ii--s?!on of tiar Igc "V-kcd her htiUiril nt home"; hot I rtotibt If the L"ng!!:4. woman i worse '.)', hinr l-!ngliii,d I tin? home of tie? proverb, "A.i fjje good mi,n mlth, co Mny we; Uut a the r.'ood wlft Kultii tn mtiMt It bo." ! One very noticeable clmrin In the ! American woman I her (iu!fknes In Htartlntt coriveratIri with a strunger I nri'l her uptnes in suytng sornethtng I'lenserit at once. I cimnot help think- j lug t hut If English nurseries and school rooms taught this. It would have widely International result and put mure reality tnto the League of Nations. Lucy If. M. SoulKhy In the Wornan'H Suppleinent of the London Time. VAST EMPIRE IN SOUTH SEAS Extent of Australasian Group Under British Rule Is Hardly Real. Ized by Americans. Judson C. WeHlver writes In the Country Magaziue that our Impres sions about the Australasian t-rnplre of the future are rather vague, be muse we are unable to realize Its mere bigness. Thus the Is-Iand of New Guinea, ftie greatest island In the world. If we classify Australia as a continent, was, before the war, divided between the British, Duteh and Ger man. The British have now taken over, In the name of Australia, the German claims. We think of New Guinea as a con siderable patch of Iry land In t'.e ex panse of the southern ocean, but have dttnculty realizing that If it could be laid down on the United States, one end would be at Portland, Me., the other near Omaha, aud that it would blot out an area about twice the size of the German empire, and including something like a quarter of the popula tion of these United States. It coa talns vastly greater resources than Germany, also about a thousand white people and 500,000 aborigines, largely cannibals. Half of It yet remains Dutch, but Its predestination to be essentially British Is quite obvious. Australasia aims at leadership In the south temperate zone, on lines cu riously parallel to those by which Great Britain has become leader In the North. With Inexhaustible coal and Iron, she Is creating Iron and steel and shipbuilding industries and a navy of her own. The war era has been mark ed by the completion of Australia's first transcontinental railroad, sugges tive reminder of the beginning of our own Union Pacific. Mt. Washington 6,293 Feet High., Many persons believe that Mount Washington, In New Hampshire, is the highest mountain In the eastern part of the United States. Mount Wash ington stands 6,293 feet above sea level, according to the United States geological survey, department of the interior, but many peaks In the south ern Appalachians are several hundred feet higher than New Hampshire's famous mountain. The highest moun tain in the Appalachian system the highest point In the United States east of the Rookies Is Mount Mitchell, in North Carolina, which stands at an elevation of G.T11 feet. The highest mountain In Tennessee, Mount Guyot, stands 6,630 feet above sen level. Ivory Does Not Rust One cold afternoon several school girls were standing on a corner wait ing for a car. A man invited them to come Into his office to wait for the car. They accepted. The conversation soon turned to the color of a certain girl's hair. One insisted it was red, another that It was auburn, and an other that it was brown. At the height of the discussion two children entered the ollice. As soon as they understood the nature of the argument, one of the youngsters ex claimed : "Oh, shucks 1 Her hair ain't red. Ivory don't rust." Indianapolis News. Great California Industry. Nearly a million acre nre planted to the fruit trees that supply the can neries of California, according to Elton R. Shaw In an artic In the Old Col ony Magazine, the organ of the Old Colony club. Statistics tell us that of the 100,000,000 acres of land In the state of California, about 900,000 are devoted to fruit trees; so it Is easily conceivable that the fruit-ennning In dustry is no small part of the general industrial activities' of the "Golden State." I !7i7!i ASSISTANCE j! 7 tj RACHEL 3 JS5, by ilcClun New,riiW Hrellcta.) "And o I fh!pk It best to terminate our engagement for the time being at least. If by and by I find wo have made a mitake, then we can become engaged again. Until then I ee no reaw.n for It. Kindly return my rh.g. "Very truly, "f tiki k : rticrc ne wi 1 a ll." Maz!e hat xfarmg at thee line until they blurred before her eyes. "Terminate oor engagement!" I thought that w'jis a woman' privilege. How could he do It? What an embar rassing posltl'm to put me i.i ! I low can I explain? A knock Htartled her, and a voice confident of welcome culled: "It's B;t ty. i 'lease let me in." And In she came. .She bud Jent put her heir up a new woy iinti war'.el Mnzle'a approval n i.ho pc, before i,er. "If. t iarvelo-;, p-etty ! You'll be fceiitiCon nt the party tonight." "You really like it. then? I wasn't ure," said U-Hy, seizing the hand gift; to look at tbe buck of Per hair. "I Co v.-inh." adjii-'iitg ,1 hiiir p'n, "that you would tub. r.iore Interest In yourself, dear. Yoi'v" x!u.;"-d ever smce your engagement." "Not really?" pro-te'ed MjSle. "Ye, real!;. Why, then yon were the most eh!c of a'.yr to In our set. Your d!4-e do yu remember that yellow one you wore to tlnj military balir "Frederick didn't like it, I remem ber." "No, I can imagine that Frederick didn't. He doesn't like anything that draws attention away from himself. I hate him and I always did, even before you were engaged to him." "I'm not engaged," said Mazie slow ly, "any more." "Not engaged? What's the trouble, dear?" and Betty's arms Went swiftly about her friend. "Why, we Just decided that we wouldn't be engaged any more," stam mered the girl. "WE did? And when did we decider questioned Betty sternly. "Just this afternoon." "But you haven't been out of your room," objected Betty. "I know; but I've been thinking things over and I thought It best." "You little wTetch ! You never thought it up at all. You aren't that kind. You're too scared of hurting people's feelings. Frederick did it !" proclaimed Betty triumphantly. Mazie produced the letter for Betty, who perused It, frowning as she read. "I wonder why he insisted on having the ring? It's my opinion that he's after that rich Miss Adams," said Betty. - "I'll make him sorry for It but it's the best" thing, Mazie, that's hap pened for a long while. Bob will have a chance now. I'll see to that ray self. I'll return the ring." "I have something for you, Freddy," said Betty, when she found Frederick and Miss Adams seated In a hammock at the party that evening. "Can't you guess what It Is?" she held both hands behind her, and sud denly Frederick became alarmed. "Did you want to see me alone?" he questioned anxiously. "Can't you guess who sent It then?" she queried; but Frederick did not dare reply and Miss Adams suddenly exclaimed, "Why, it's a diamond ring! See it sparkle 1" "Yes," said Betty, dropping It in Miss Adams' lap. "Miss McGrath re turns it with her compliments to Mr. Newhall and wishes to terminate her engagement." When the noise of Betty's little heels had ceased, Miss Adams handed the ring to Frederick and rose from the hammock. "You know, of course, that I knew nothing of your engagement. I am somewhat of a stranger here and had not heard " And the man was left alone gazing at a diamond whose beau ty did not cheer him in the least. Meanwhile Betty was busy telephon ing to Bob Hastings to come to the party. "I'll be there. You can count on me," Bob assured her over the phone. That evening, early in the night, a disgruntled man carried his empty schemes and himself up to his room. Early in the evening, too, Bob Im proved his1 opportunity. "I understand you have broken your engagement," he said, glancing at Mazie's unringed fingers. "Y'es, we had so little In common that it seemed best to terminate our engagement." "Then will you marry me, Mazie? I never knew until your engagement was announced that I loved you." His hand touched that little left hand, naked of jewels, and the thrill of that touch Inspired him to take her in his arms. "But do I love you, Bob? You've al ways been a friend, the best boy friend I ever had, and I missed you so much when you didn't come any more. Is friendship love?" and she gazed wonderlngly info his kind eyes. "It's a near relation if It's the kind I have for you dear." Turn, turn, te, turn, te, turn pealed the organ and Mazie shivered in her bridal satin as she entered the church. "I can't do It. I shall cry or some thing" her frightened senses told her. Then through the haze of Expectant faces, she saw htm waiting for her, and all the panic, the uncertainty subsided, for she knew that whatever the future might hold, sha. would be happy with' the man she loved. j OREGON ORGANIZATION FOR SAVINGS ANNOUNCED San FranciscoTheodore Hardee, director of the government savings 8 organization for the Twelfth feder. alrcaerve district, announces the personnel of the government savings organization for Oregon durig 1921, Director Edward Cookingham, Portland. Associate Director Robert E. Smith, Portland. State Director iof Thrift Educa tion J. A. Churchill, Salem. E. J. Stack Will act as aasn'Rtnnt J director of the organization for tho j entire Twelfth District and his j headquarters will remain in Portland, j Hardee will continue as district . director, with headquarters in Sari j Franci.-ico. C. A. Farnsworth, at j San Francisco, will continue for a short while longer as associate direc Jtor for the district to help get the hL21 campaign well under way. Pub : licify wiii be r, ritirutd. from head quarters in Sar, Francisco, under the direction of Frnr.k J. Carmody. Changes in the headquarters or j''.n;.'.ation hero embrace the resig nation" of Charles L. Jliel, assistant d;mtor, and Edward Dexter Knig!i, ai:sjtat',t director in cbrgo of women's activities. These offes have been discontinued, Mrs. Knight's duties being taken over by the women's department of the sav ings division tt Washington, D. C. which will work direct with women's organizations. As a result of a conference with Director Hardee and Governor John U. Calkins, of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, who is also chairman of the Government Savings Organization, Directors Cookingham and Smith will support Superin tendent Churchill's efforts to promote Thrift work in the schools of the state. LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been duly appointed administrator of the estate of Mar garet E. O'Kelley, deceased, by the County Court of the State of Oregon for Polk County, and has qualified. All persons having claims against the said estate are hereby notified to present the same duly verified, together with the proper vouchers therefor, to the undersigned admin istrator at his residence in the City of Independence, in said County, with in six months from the date of this notice. . Dated and first published December 31st, 1920. .WILLIAM N. O'KELLEY, Administrator of the Estate of Margaret E. O'Kelley, deceased. Swope & Swope, Attorneys. 31-5t. PROFESSIONAL COLUMN. SWOPE & SWOPE Lawyers Campbell Bmlding INDEPENDENCE, OR. D. E. FLETCHER Cooper Building Attorney INDEPENDENCE, OR C. C. WRIGHT, M. D. C. Veterinarian Residence, "Uncle Billyh' TIME CARD Valley & Siletz Railroad Effective Oct. 24, 1920 Train arrives Independence 11:05 A. M. Train departs Indepen dence 1:00 P. M. Daily except Sunday L. E. Watson, Supt. HIGH EXPLOSIVES of all kinds CAPS AND FUSE L.E. HASELTON Route 1 Independence Phone 2924