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Independence Enterprise
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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
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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. . , ,
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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
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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
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F0 roURTEOUH 8ERV
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SHARPENING
RAZORS, KUSSORS
JACK KM V;s
Take the
Scenic Shasta Route
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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
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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.
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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.
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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$
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ie Enterprise is still $1.50 per
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