TxmT?TTrmi?TrP. i?mtf.t?PUTSE ' Friday, NovomW or? ... Page Two Independence Enterprise Published Every Friday by Z. C. KIMBALL. Subscription Rates One Year ... v $1 50 Six Months .1. 75 JUST EXPENSE MONEY The Coo Ray Harbor of North Bend is advocating the building of the Eoosevd't highway and the Old Oregon trail with funds which will be alloted to Oregon by congress for the purpose of givign relief to the un employed. After going into consid erable detail in regard to the prob able disbursement of the fund by the government, the Harbor says: "There being a trifle over $2,000, 000 available for Oregon, under the bill more than $1,250,000 could be come immediately available for the Roosevelt highway and Old Oregon trail, and that amount plus the same amount to be put up by the State of Oregon on a 50-50 basis would com plete these roads." The Roosevelt highway is 404 miles in length and the Oregon trail ap proximately 200 miles. It cannot be possible that the Harbor means to infer that 600 miles of highway can be built in Oregon for a paltry $2,500,000. It would only be expense money on a project of this magnitude. Even here in Polk county, with scarce ly no grades to be cut or fills to be made, more than $40,000 per mile is being paid for hardsurface highways. At $40,000 per the cost of the 600 miles would be $24,000,000, and it would be a safe guess to place the cost at more than $30,000,000. We are frank to confess that the figures are a little staggerirg, yet figures will reveal that road building as carried on under the state high way commission is the least mite ex pensive. I I i By a vote of more than four to one, Portland has sanctioned the OREGON l.'EVS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. More than eight inches of snow on the level has fallen at La Grande., It costs about $1200 a day to admin ister the schools of Hood River coun ty. Complete .remodeling of the Marlon county courthouse is being consider ed by the county court. The Deschutes county teachers' in smuie neia one or its most success ful annual sessions at Bend. An unidentified man of about 25 was struck by an auto on the Pendleton-Walla Walla highway near Milton and killed. Twenty Ashland men donated their work Monday on the new community clubhouse being built by the Civic Im provement club. E. J. Hansett of Turner has been appointed by Warden Compton of the Oregon penitentiary as superintend ent of the state flax plant. Construction of a bridge across the Columbia river near The Dalles would be authorized under a bill introduced in congress by Representative Sin- nott. Coburg citizens held a big meet ing Monday to take steps to form a drainage area to improve 10,000 acres of wet land in northern Lane county and southern Linn county. project to bond the city for $2,000, 000 for exposition purposes . Less than 40 percert of the registered voters expressed their views in the matter, 27,111 being for it and 6685 against it. The result was not sur prising. Portland had committed herself to the project with consider able gusto, and it would have been a little embarrassing to have turned it down in the election. The next move will be a special state ejection, when the question of bonding the state for $3,000,000 for the same purpose will be submitted. In this election Portlard will undoubtedly vote for the measure en masse, making possible for an unusual situ ation. Even though every county in the state except Multnomah might make an adverse vote, still it would be possible to force the bor.d issue pn the state. Japan will probably be the stum bling block in the disarmament con ference. While (outwardly profess ing to bo in favor of a reduction of warcraft equipment, she is intimat ing that she ought to be placed on the same footing as the United States. If Japan finally acquiesces in the plan as outlined by Secretary Hughes it will be -due to the influ ence of Great Britain. There is a feeling, quite generally shared, that Japan is going to become unruly with this country if she ever attains a position where she feels that she has a chance to come out victorious. A limitation of armament might be influential in postponing the event- j ful event, but the issue will still be there. The United States has no notion of changing her views on the Japanese question and Japan wall never be satisfied. Seymour Jones of Marion county has a notion that he wouM like to be gov ernor. He has not launched' his formal announcement, but is apparently in the mood where the right kind of encouragement .would cause him to do so at an early date. Mr. Jones was speaker of the house during the 1919-1920 session of the legislature, representing Marion county. Mr. Jones has hewed out some of the planks for a platform upon which he would like to stand. He wants a state income tax law; he is opposed to a state tax for the 1925 fair, and believes that there should be econo mies in the operation of the state government. FARM POINTERS Three pounds of skimmed milk has 8 feeding value equal to one pound of grain whom fed to fattening hogs. Hogs fed on a ration of five pounds of barley to five pounds of skimmed milk made an average daily gain of 1.58 pounds in feeding tests. O. A. C Experiment station. If you want to sell it, buy it, trade ft, or find it, try an Enterprise Classified ad. The town of Sherwood in Washing ton county is preparing to spend $40, 000 for a municipal water supply, the water to be taken from Baker creek, a tributary of the Tualatin river. rne Lebanon members of the Elks' lodge have made arrangements with the owner of the local moving picture house to give all the children of the town a free show Christmas day. Fire which broke out in the flax plant at the Oregon state penitentiary at Salem resulted in damage to the building and contents estimated by prison officials at approximately $18,- 000. Automobile tourists continue to stop in Roseburg in spite of the lateness of the season. Between 40 and 50 cars containing an average of four per sons each, stop each night, it is esti mated. Jack Latta, former employe of the Pacific car shops of Portland, was ac cidently shot at Tule lake near Malin while goose hunting and died two two hours later from loss of blood and shock. Statistics recently compiled by The Dalles-Wasco county Chamber of Com merce show that the Mill creek dis trict produced and shipped more than 12,000 tons of fruit and vegetables this year. The Union Oil company of Cali fornia has sent to the secretary of state a check for $22,248.68, covering the tax on the corporation's sale of gasolene and distillate in Oregon in October! W F. "vyrighreports the uncover ing of a valuable gold-producing quartJ vein on his farm, less than two milen south of Applegate. The vein has a width of four feet and pans well in free milling ore. With but 21.1 per cent of the city's 1400 registered voters at the polls, the proposition for the city of Grants Pass to pave that section of the Pa cific highway within the corporate limits was defeated. The state corporation department, under the supervision of T. B. I land ley, corporation commission, paid in to the general fund of the state a total of $288,173 during the period June 30, 1920, to June 30, 1921. Up to the present time more than 3,000,000 pounds of the 1921 crop of prunes have been shippel to va: markets of :he world by tho Or Growers' Co-operative asroc'.ition. with headquarters in Salom. With an enrollment of 456 children, 1 the boys' and girls' clubs sponsored by the government and the state agricul tural college produced in Clackamas county products valued at $12,283.58 during the year just ended. Chester Girt, 18, son of Mrs. Mag gie Girt, a widow who lives five miles southwest of Rainier, was shot through the right lung by Riley Girt, his uncle, who mistook him for a bear. The pair were hunting together. The Bay Horse mine eight miles be low Huntington promises to develop into one of the richest silver mines in the country. Ore is running more than 100 ounces of silver to the ton at a vertical depth of only 168 feet. As a result of a conference between the zone directors of the Oregon Dairymen's Co-operative league and the directors of the Lower Columbia Dairy association, the latter is now operating the league's Astoria and Grays River creameries with a ren tal charge of $1 per month for each. This arrangement has been made pending the result of the dairymen's vote December 6 on whether or not the league will be disbanded. Operations at tha Continental inMe In tho Granite district of Haker coun ty will continue throughout the winter. Ore will be taken from the upper level and stored for milling in the spring. The announced itinerary of Mar shal Ferdinand Foi'h and his party of distinguished French military men on their visit to the northwest specified December 10 as the date on which the generalissimo will arrive In Portland. The assessed valuations of all pub 11c utilities in Oregon for the year 1921 aggregate $185,504,795.29 ub against $181,057,000.53 for tho ' year 1920, according to figures made pub lic by Frank Lovrll, state tax com mlssioner. The immediate result of the visit to Klamath Falls of the caravan of boosters for The Dulles-Klaniath high way, was that a bond issue may be floated to cover the cost of construc tion of the Klamath couuty end of the proposed highway. The sum of $150,000 has been In cluded in the federal house appropria tions bill with which to wage war on the beetle Insect In the national forests of Oregon and California, according to a telegram received at the offices of F. A. Eljiott, state forester. The pool of 112,000 pounds of this year's crop of raspberries handled for the growers of Lane county by the Eu gene Fruit Growers' association has been closed. The price received by the growers for red raspberries is 8'i cents and for blackcaps 10ty cents. Several reports reaching Tillamook were to the effects that the Hill In terests, which have an option on the Gales Creek & Wilson River railroad, will start work on the road before j the option expires next June, and that the motive power will be electricity. Because Hugh Johnson was sick abed and could not put In his fall grain, a crowd of his neighbors and several farmers of the Gaston locality went out to his farm with their teams and plows and harrows and worked all day in his fields. There were 16 teams. Plans for creating a special taxing district to raise funds to co-operate with the highway commission on a 50-50 basis in constructing a paved road between Albany and Lebanon were developed at a meeting In Al bany of committees representing the two cities. The 2-year-old Jersey cows owned by O. A. Thompson of HIachly, Lane county, scored higher than any other Jerseys in their class in the entire United States in the production of uuner iai in August tms year, ac cording to the Jersey Bulletin and Dairy World. With the figures from one small dis trict not yet in, County School Super intendent Moore announces that the number of persons of school age counted in the recent school census of Lane county totals 11,405, which Is approximately 250 more than were counted last year. Four squads of state traffic officers working out of Salem arrested more than 25 motor vehicle drivers on charges of violating the traffic regu lations with relation to lights. Similar drives will be conducted by the state officers In various sections of Oregon ! in the near future. , Percy Cupper, state engineer, will leave for Salt Lake City late this month, where he will attend a meet ing of the Western States Reclama tion association. Other Oregon repre sentatives at the session will Include a number of prominent men appointed recently by Governor Olcott. Charles E. Strickland, special In vestigator for the state engineers' de partment, has returned to Salem from the Summer Lake and Silver Lake Ir rigation districts, where he made an inspection of the development work under way. Work on both of the ir rigation districts is progressing satis factorily, the investigator said. The case of Abe Evans, who is in the state penitentiary at Salem await ing execution on December 2 for the ajy uiuiuci ui jaineo uuian ui ijcnu, will f-io Qnnofllorl tf tVt a mmi-Ama -mm. .In. ' spite the statement made recently by T .. . , i , j . 1 . 1 .. rvun iuui ub uusireu to nang on tne I date set by the court. This was an- PIG IRON'S BASIC PRODUCTS MoUl Sold In Three Foimt Ct, Wrouoht and Stel- Ona of Moat Valuable Minerals. Iron Is the most valuable metal In the world to limn, because It 1.4 of more use In more ways. It has been known to men from earn est time. Savagea smelted It. It 14 generally found compounded with oilier substances such ns carbon. 1 hose other substancco have to be burned out In order to have pure- Iron. Iron Is sold In three forms ciinI Iron, wrought iron, anil Mod. Ca'st Iron Is brittle and hard, like the Ihl on the kitchen rungo. Wrought iron rim lt himiinei'ed out (lilt or made Into w Ire or welded. It Is quite noft. Stool la also eimable of being hammered out tint and welded. Its peculiar prop erlv Is Unit when tempered It be comes very html so hard Hint a sharp ediro can be put on It so bard that It will, when edged, cut wrought Iron, Iron which bus been molted and poured Into a mold In sumo form d alred for use, such as pitrt of a stove, Is called cast Iron. Iron which Is enst roughly from tho sinolled oro In order to be used to make oust Iron, wrought Iron or steel Is called pig Iron, Puddling Is the mime of the proccs by which pig Iron Is made Into wrought Iron. It Is done In a furnace In which the carbon Is burned front the pig Iron. I'lg Iron contain the most enrbon, Hun comes sieol and thou wrought In u. Stool can bo tuiide directly from pig Iron by what Is known as the ltcsscnicr r::d oofii-heiirth processes. Formerly It was made from wrought Iron. Marblehead La net Keep Vlaltora to Qray Sea-Town Putiled aa to Whara Streeta Will Lead. A rough vlllngo of liuls clamped down to the roekn ami bunging It4 linn harbor, mieh wii4 Mttrbleheitd for ninny year. The huts grevy Mincer iiinl liner, th nnrrnw footwuya broad ened II tiifln, but kept the dovloii turns and abrupt up mid downs with which they began an abrupt Hint even today ninny n Mnrblehemi hum mis to resort to ntcp to not Itself nnd If traveler where It would go. . , , M i . . . TKoivria far a- . t At the ,., , " 'r Wo Imy, ar, ,,,h owned by ,, , . '1 11. 1NT. 'ay. Hl, .H I'' father, tho I,,.;, , ' T " 1 There Is not bin quainter to be j of Portland. Mn k " UlNllijl.,1. ImvliiB t .. ,. ' ,'wiior the .u,nl(.Nlld ' 'h-l, Thl will , Hh iIoun with till .i ; n,i mi ir,;,;:,; ,. , 7. ' Kverin,r CITES EARTH'S 14 MOVEMENTS Flammarion, French Astronomer, Enu merate Various Activities of Globe During Its Travels. Tho fact that our earth In Its voyage through space bus no fewer than four teen distinct movements lias been pointed out by the French astronomer and scientist, CainlHe Fliiinniarlon, ac cording to an article In the pari Temps. These are as follows : "Inil.v rotation, annual revolution, fluctuation or rooking due to the pre cession of the equinoxes In a period of .:(),( tl.) years, monthly movement of the earth around the center of gravity of the earth-moon couple; nutation caused by the attraction of the moon every eighteen and a half years; varia tion, coining once every century, of the obliquity of the ecliptic; variation every century of the eci eiitricty of the terrestrial orbit; displacement of the line of iipses every 2,im years; dis turbance caused by the constantly changing attraction of the planets; dls placement of the center of gravity of the solar system around which the earth travels annually, this center be ing determined by the variable posl Hons of the planets; perpetual varia tion of latitudes; dally tides of the continental soil; displacement of the whole Milky Way. of which our sun Is one star, toward the constellation of Capricorn, at the formidable speed of 87") miles per second, or 1,150,000 miles per hour." found in cur country tiuiu tin jtray en town with It Incredibly tanitled street. Never doe u M ranger know where he will end when he set forth to follow one ef them, Sister and I found ourselves walking briskly away from the pine wv wanted to u to oftonor than not. Luckily the water exist, for when you wtrlke It you hnve n chance to take new hearings, and In time we got no that we couli! lay n course by the tower of Abbott hull, which dominate the entire village. We would climb tip to It to got n fresh start, and usually found that w were approaching It from another direct Inn than the one we Imagined, It was a rt of Alice In Wondorlund progress, the thing being to go where you knew yoti shouldn't In order to get where you wanted to be. "Old Seaport Town." lllldegurde Hawthorne, i no governor m, ritlH(1( Hill v. (I,... .. . . 1 a"1 hll MOM f.,u ""1 H ' k,ll'' give,, tlTn fi.OU F0 roURTEOUH 8ERV V ISIT THE WindMiHBarberSh WNS, Pro,. w Make a Special,. J SHARPENING RAZORS, KUSSORS JACK KM V;s Take the Scenic Shasta Route T If Most Men Have Defects. the man who measure inn your next suit culls out "N. l it, u," to the assistant who Jots down the measurements, take cure! It Is a warning that your physique Is not nil that it should be In fact a great deal less. It stands for "neck forward, round back." "i-V i-e f'0,nl""npst fault In the physique of our customers," oxidulned a tailor. "Most men have flat chest and round back. The army st rnight ened some of them up for a while but they've begun slumping hack again. About one man in ten has bow legs, the bow running from 1 14 to 4 Inches'. Practically every man's shoulders are uneven one higher than the other! j.ut units so common that wouldn't call It a defect. "Here's another AH the athletes strong men, have The fellow wilh shoulders whom athlete usuaJIv I Journal. TO Sunny Southern California Through Sleeping Car Service to Sac ra men to Sa n Fra ncisco . and Los Angeles offer all the comforts of modern travel Convenient nchedulcs, cbservation car, excellent mealu other feature of the .Shasta Itoute. Round Trip Winter Excursion Tickets are on sale at Reduced Fare For tickets ami information, ask Agents, or write Southern Pacific Lines JOHN M. SCOTT, General Passenger Agent re o (4 OH (MM you thiiiK I've noticed. the processional sloping shoulders. the straight, heavy you'd take for an iKii't." Milwaukee feeling um Rome" One of our ambitions is to have folks feel at hoif in this bank : to cultivate geniality and cood will; f f promote that feelincr that the Indencndence Natioi- i al Bank is a home institution, ready to serve of j f nome people at all times. You will always find i welcome here ; you are entitled to our time and a ! tention, whether you bank here or elsewhere, j I Zht Tndtiitndimtt hMttattfl Rank Independence, Oregon. r Vaccinating Sugar Cane. The vaccination or Inoculation plants iu the bitterly waned II no-g Inct tlifiii. I)L.,w. (ii nonneeil hv Mr Uvn hn la Mn,A. " ' , appeal a novpl , t . ior ner nusoancis de- lng the funds fense. Two highway "lighthouses" have ar rived at Astoria and W. D. Clarke, of the 8tat3 highway engineer's depart ment is arranging to erect them as an experiment at some point on the Columbia river highway. These light houses are lighted by acetylene gas and flash rays intermittently. They are not intended to illuminate the highway, but to act as a warning of the dangerous spot ahead. Mrs. A. C. Marsters of Roseburg was elected president of the Women's For eign Missionary society of the south ern Oregon district of the Methodist church, at the closing session of the annual conference of the society, held at Eugene. Other officers elected were: Mrs. J. O. Osburn, Medford, vice-president; Mrs. K. D. Henson, Medford, recording secretary; Mrs. F. C. Edwards, Medford, corresponding secretary; Mrs. J. M. Isham, Grants Pass, treasurer, and Mrs. S. A. Dan- ford, Eugene, secretary. of ht us many who have al ways thought of the method in con nection with the prevention of human and animal maladies only. A measure of success has attended Its use by the office of foreign seed and plant intro duction, Washington, D. C, reports Popular Mechanics, In the evolution of a variety of sugar cane which will be Immune to the commoner forms of disease peculiar to the plant, and especially the so-called mosaic dis ease, which has recently made Its ap pearance on the sugar plantations Seedlings from the inoculated speci mens will be tested for immunity, nnd If the experiment is the success it Is hoped it will be It is thought that a practically disease-proof variety of plant will be evolved. Wifely Diplomacy. "My husband positively refuses to do errands for me downtown " "Mine used to, but I cured iilm of It mighty quick. 'Oh, well,' I sald 'I suppose I can do it myself. And while I am downtown I might as well (0 a little shopping, so you might let me i.uyo u. jcie never refused that" Boston Transcript. 2 rMrntm j j v.. .. I UK M ore o f Service after There is no other mercantile establishment where SERVICE counts more than in a grocery: store. We are endeavoring to furnish it in the fullest sense of the word. We do not throw out leaders and then add a larger margin of profit to other articles. We are selling dependable merchandise at just as nar row a margin of profit as is consistent with service. Calbreatb $ 3one$ 1- V Y4 ie Enterprise is still $1.50 per 3 I