Independence enterprise., July 08, 1921, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3

1921
INDEPENDENT ENTERPRISE
Page Three
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The Modern Farmer
Is progressive and believes in the
use of improved methods, ma
chinery and conveniences.
He has a Checking Account and
uses it in his daily affairs.
Fanners, merchants and indi
viduals will appreciate the use
fulness of the Farmers State
Bank.
Evkmkks State Bank
mcryuXrnr;" Pounduof I hou Practically ia the center of the
t i. . uul,M!r u,e8 nt mean much busine. hum, i
- v , m ill ma uiiiii nuinL inn
brick building. Its exterior does not
signify the teeming hive of industry
merely comnm,iu
i. . , -""v w spread on
bread and to . ..in j . .
n - l " iiwu in cooking.
IZ? lhat one "n pounds of
- -re ma-ie annually in this city
? l'Kh t0 the magsitude of
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kcLAIMH ABB
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renmwnt ha l date made
(i:2MR6yi.31 in mectinjc
nnwrnatin claims of
trtkt m-n disabled by rea
ivjr.di, injuric or disease
the world war, and the
Leu of the dependents o f
b Bttit the supreme aacrl-
rfirr to an announcement
,r C. R. Forbe of the bu-
nr riik iruurance. The di-
j for (liability have aggre
,Sp9.43 and the death
Biti $J3309,r01.fi6.
j month of May alone the
tot diibured by the bureau
Ua:ion purposes wi f 10,-
it monthly payments on dra-
sptnHtion claims for that
isoontlni to $9,145,288 and
Irwyments to the depend-
krucd soldiers amounting
,13. Between June 1 and
'it bun-au mailed 221.C1Z
i tew this disbursement to
)mt mi.
trai in the number of
claims filed with the bureau has ex
reeded any estimate. The number of
claim filed with the inception of the
.bureau to May, VJl'J, was 20i,700,
whilo on June l, VJ2I, the number in
Mo was 631,980, showing an increase
during the period of 422,280. The
number of awards for death and diB-
ability for the first period was 41,
073; the number of awards at the end
of the second period was 323,415, an
increase during the second period of
282b2. For the first period, the
ratio waa one claim pending to
every two filed. For the second period
the ratio was one claim pending to
every eight claima filed.
Marshfield Telephone company
here moves into new quarters.
Marshfield Port dock work here
nearlng completion.
Prairie City Local box factory re
ceives contract from Southern Idaho
for over a million and half boxes.
Gold Hill State lime plant to be
reopened here.
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Gllip Gasoline R
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The
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r "'nfi tkill which buUt the
wlumbla River Highway
Pned a veritable paradise for
motorists.
This hinhway follows the
wlutftbia-River from the Fa
aic Ocean near Astoria
J far east as The Dalles, and
m the tourist through a
ountry of indescribable scenic
JTOrest--hiRh waterfalls.huge
;i , ' P'cturesquo woods an
JI vacation land for the mo
wst who appreciates nature
81 s best.
on your travels sflong
Vftn . viv4 unnwaj
Crn Ca" alwaV9 Ret " Ked
n aii-refincry gasoline with
1 wntlnnnno rt.:.-.-
Points uuunig
bekfortheKed Crown sign
DUore you nn.
STANDAR OIL COMPANY
(California)
he amount, and the labor involved,
to turn Ing out such a .upply ot the
proaiiet. It is not only la
. - oe laKen ,nto coni)ideraU
but butter making of the prew-nt day
hi hn i. t f . m
- - -rt uy icseir-a profession that
U only mastered by years of study
nd experience. To turn out this
amount requires hard work by about
10 expert workers, and iavolves a
Pyroll in this city of about twelve
or f.fteen hundred dollars per month.
This amount nf nun u. - .!..-n.
all cinulatwl locally, and the con
cern providing tho payroll is classed
one of the biggest and best assets
of Independence. Not only is the pay
roll to be taken into consideration,
but there in also the lurge amount of
money that is circulated among the
farming element. Thus, the cream
ery possesses two payrolls, making it
doubly valuable to the community
one circulated among the business
men, and the other among farmers
for the purchase of the cream.
The creamery in question is the
Independence creamery, which, prior
to tho present management assuming
charge, was owned and operated for
years by K. C. Eldridge. The Brad
ner Company of Seattle, Washing
ton, took over the creamery in De
cember, 1919, and it haas been con
ducted undi-r the oersonal mnne.
ment of E. C Bradner since last July.
The parent creamery of the local
one is at Seattle, where the company
operates not only a large creamery,
but a wholesale butter, egg and
cheese establishment. The company
also owns and operates creameries
and condensed milk plants at La
Grande, Oregon, and Ellensburg,
Sunnyside, North Yakima and Issa-
quah, Washington.
AH butter made in the local cream
ery is shipped to tho Seattle cream
ery, which acts as a clearing house,
and the same policy is followed out
by the other creameries of the com
pany. In addition to the butter
Bhipped to Seattle, the Independence
creamery supplies the local trade.
The purchase of cream is not con
fined alone to this locality, but it is
shipped into this city from points
down the coast and up and down the
valley. An average of 100,000 pounds
is received in this city weekly. The
shipper receives payment for each
shipment as soon as the butterfat
test has been made, thus avoiding the
usual long and tedious wait for pay
ment. The butter is shipped to Seattle in
refrigerator cars, where it is bricked
and wrapped. It is shipped in cubes,
which average about 68 pounds in
weight The cubes are wooden boxes,
which, after being nailed together,
are given a thorough steaming and
the interior is paraffined. They are
then lined with parchment paper and
solidly packed with butter. Each re
frigerator ca shipped from this city
contains on an averaage of 400 of the
hubes, making an aggregate weight
of about 30,000 pounds. After being
bricked and wrapped at Seattle, it is
sold all over the northwest and a
large portion of it in Alaska.
The company manufactures what is
called the "Gold Medal" brand of but
ter. Competent judges pronounce it
the best that can be Secured on the
market. Establishing a precedent of
its own, tho company uses no artif ical
coloring of any nature whatsoever in,
the manufacture of its butter, allow
ing it to retain its natural golden
color, and, as a result, its output of
butter is the largest in the northwest.
Independence creamery is
or the interior. The office is located
in the front of the buildinir and is
under the supervision of Mr. Bradner
and competent assistants. It is large,
light and airy, and in furniture and
fixtures, hj equal to many metropoli
tan ones.
A trip through the creamery is
most interesting and instructive.
On the arrival of a shipment of cream
it is carefully weighed and a sample
is taken from each can for the butter
fat test. The contents of the can
are then dumped into what is called
the ripener. Steam is then turned on
and it is pasteurised to 150 degrees,
and then cooled down to the proper
churning temperature. Three of these
ripeners are in operation. From there
it is transferred to the "heavy
duty" churn, , with a capacity of
1200 pounds, and operated by a IVi
horse power motor. It is churned
continuously for 35 minutes before
tho contents of the churn is ready
for salting. It is then transferred
into the prepared cube boxes, and
the "Gold Medal" butter, as a fin
ished and high class product, is ready
for the consumers of the northwest.
Enough butter to Supply the local
trade is bricked and wrapped in the
creamery. Before packing the butter
in the cubes, a small sample is taken
into the laboratory, where the final
moisture test is made. This labora
tory is fitted with electric stoves,
a multitude of small testing tubes and
a number of the most delicate scales.
The creamery employs three men
licensed by the state of Oregon, two
tenters and the head butter maker.
Thi3 latter personage ia none other
than Thomas F. Clifford, a veteran
in the butter making line, having
been in the business for 19 years.
He has forgotten more about making
butter than the average man ever
knew. His o. k. on a batch of but
ter means it is "fit for a feast of
rking3."
The company operates its own ice
plant, which has a capacity of about
three tons each day.
As a side line, the company makes
ice cream, and it is ice cream that is
ice cream in every sense of the word.
Its famous "Yum Yum" brand has
won friends wherever it has been sold.
The average youngster eating a cone
of this delicious ice cream probably
does not know that it is made under
the supervision of a man who has
spent 12 years at the business. His
name is Oscar Anderson, and through
his knowledge of the business he has
made countless youngsters happy and
probably caused a sharp pain in their
"tummy" from over induigence but
that is the highest kind of a recom
mendation for Mr. Andersoa. ,
A trip through the creamery im
presses one with its clenliness and
sanitary methods involved in making
the sroods that are turned out.
this summer because of the
Round-Trip
Fares
offered by the big cross-continent railroad
Union Pacific System
Serving the transportation needs of the
Great Pacific Northwest
and giving through service via the popular direct routes to Salt
jU9lty Denv.er, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Paul, Minneapolis
and Chicago on these two strictly first class trains.
."Oregon-Washington Limited" and "Continental Limited"
TICKETS ON SALE DAILY
Until and including August 15th '
Return limit 90 days, but not later than October 31st.
Chicago 110.05 Memphis 114.85 Pueblo 80.65
Denver 80.65 Minneapolis 90.85 St. Panl 90.85
Kansas City90.85 Omaha 90.85 St. Louis 104.65
8 War Tax to be Added
Proportionate reductions to many points East.' Stop-overs at
pleasure. Side trips may be arranged for Yellowstone,
Zion and Rocky Mountain National Parks.
For complete details as to routings, train schedules, side trips, sleep
ing car rates and reservations, and other travel information desired,
address J. H. O'Neil, Traveling " Passenger Agent.
or
Wm. McMurray, General Passenger Agent
Portland, Oregon . .
HIGH HONORS FOR OREGON
JERSEYS IN BUTTERFAT
In a recently compiled report of the
medal awards for 1920 issued by the
American Jersey Cattle Club, 71 Jer
sey cows completed records for the
year with a production . of over 700
pounds of butterfat within the year
on authenticated test. Of the ten
highest records made in the year,
five were made by Oregon cows with
an average production of 896.38
pounds of fat.
Heading the list of breeders of
medal winners is J. M. Dickson & Son
of Shedd with seven to their credit,
followed by G. G. Hewitt of Independ
ence with four, Ed Cary of Carlton
with three -and O. Pickard and E. J.
in the yeir, won 18 gold, 3 silver and
1 bronze or 31 V of all the awards
made. Oh'o ranked second with
gold and 1 bronze; Maine, third with
goia and 2 bronze; Massachusetts,
fourth with 5 gold and 1 silver and
Washington fifth with five gold med
als. ; , '. - I.,' -' ;-. : 1
This remarkable record of perform
ance places Oregon in the first rank
as premier Jersey state of the union
and should act as a stimulus to still
greater effort to maintain that en
viable position.'
FREE T. B. CLINICS
. ARE HELD IN STATE
Free clinics for chest examinations
have been held in three Oreeon coun-
Farnham of Marion with two. In the ties since last March by the Oregon
list of sires represented by medal Tuberculosis association, which is pio
winning daughters, Valentine's Ash-. neering in this work thru Christmas
burn . Baronet, the Dickson herd sire, seal sale funds and the co-operation
ranks first, credited with five, Rinda of county medical associations.
the Hewitt : bull, second
Lad S. B.,
with four.
two medal winners, is tied for third
place . with an eastern bull and St.
Mawes of Ashburn, also a Dickson
sire, is one of four in fourth place
The most recent clinic, held . at
Everything has to be just so. Thejwith two Sold medal daughters. Gold
Tho
labor involved in washing the empty
cans is just as essential in its way as
that of the head butter maker. It
all dovetails together in enabling the
concern to maintain the high degree
of excelence it has attained aa its
standard. The empty cans are
steamed and resteamed and then
steamed again. If there are any
germs or microbes left in the cans
they have a lonely journey back to
their starting point, as they go
without company. Nothing in the
creamery is wasted, and the by-pro
ducts are utilized wherever possible.
A buttermilk drying machine will
shortly be installed for converting
this article into stock food.
The motive power of the cream
ery is electricity, and motors aggre
gating 50 horse power are in oper-
ataion.
Poppy St. Mawes, with j Corvallis in June, was conducted by
I), fl r" Pll;n n v, n.
berculosis Hospital at Salem, which
is open free, to tuberculous patients'
more than a year resident in the state.
Twenty-nine people were examined
and in 16 cases different types of tu
berculosis were found. Nine were in
need of hospital care and three have
now gone to the state hosptial. ,.
Similar clinics at Astoria and St.
Helens, conducted by Dr. Ralph Mat
ron and Dr. E. A. Pierce, respectively,
were so successful in disseminating
information about the disease that the
Oregon Tuberculosis association is'
planning eventually to reach every
county in the state. Clinics for East
ern Oregon are planned for this fall.
en Wow's ,ruei ranks fifth with one
gold and one silver medal to his credit.
Thus an Oregon bull appears in the
first fivev places in the list of pro-:
ducing sires for 1920, r. ;v , t
Ten cows by reason of superior per
formance, won more than one medal
each and of these, seven were Oregon
Jerseys. Nineteen states are repre
sented in the awards made. Oregon
cows with only 1914 registered, re
presenting only four and one-third
percent of the Jerseys recorded with-
Oivp'ii and
pnsseil kiws
MORE RECREATION AND .
LESS WORK IS ADVOCATED
Necessity for '-e recreation and
a! dis-
i-ss worlv nr nn"i
(ridS) was emphasized by Dr. lenry
S Curtis, well known orntor and play
ground supervisor, ulu, visited on the
campus of the Oregon Agncultuial
college.
v play ground work
which nv only enum.eu
tlu. spw.kor pointed out. Those laws
,nllKi; bo enforced in rural d.stoct.,
(l(,cl;u.0lli s0 children livmg m the
rountnr will have the same r.dvan,
1,,.v,,s as the city children.
::Th(, lorn" hours of country life,
vlid Doctor' Curtia, "are fast going.
er will have more im.c-
,-,..a nnil children
need more time lor ree.
thev have boon petting,
it is a tragedy that the children
A farm
err
are disappearing from the farm, and
that they are not learning to love the
beauty of our country. The city child
is an expense until 21 years old, while
the country child is self supporting
after the age of 10 or 12.
"Every home with children ought
to have a sand pile for them to play
in the first few years of their life.
Provisions should bo made for athlet
ics in rural schools, for the country
boy though stronger than the city
boy is not better in athletics."
Some of the best games to, be play
ed in rural schools recommended by
Doctor Curtis are volleyball, play
ground, baseball, croquet and tennis.
"The country schools have a great
responsibility fro get the children to
like the country," said Doctor Curtis,
"but they can have everything in the
country that they have in the city,
and it is largely up to the teachers in
rural school's to give them the start."
Tho Enterprise is still $1.50 a year
Pre-War Prices on
HorseshGeing
and $7 per ton Hay will enable you to get old
Dobbin from the pasture and work him to advan
tage against motor driven vehicles in your hauls.
sizes
03
45
67
GOD
PRICES
new shoes
$2.50 " '
; $3.00
$3.50
J. A. ENOCH
& COZiNE HE
INDEPENDENCE, OREGON
resetting
$1.50
$1.75
$2.00
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