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Friday, January 13, 1022 INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE Page Five P 1 i 1 1 Mack's Jubslee Hatchery We have the famous "Hollywood Strain" of S. C. white leghorns. Order your chicks now and pet them when you want them. 10 deposit ; with order books a hatching date. Three-fourths of our 1922 orders are old customers. AVhy? Eggs for Hatching Visitors Welcomed C. G. McLaughlin, Prop. Independence, Ore. IE LOCAL Mr. W. II. Small wan a weekend vinitr in Portland. II. It. Underbill wuh in Dallas Sat urday und Mutiduy serving cm the grand jury. Master Gk'n Halliday has been confined to the Iiouko with grippe, during the past week. Mcsdamcs Skinner, S. 15. Walker, Kirklimd and G. G. Walker were in Dallas Tuesday calling on friends. Mrs. G. G. Walker leaves today for Portland to pass several days with her sixU-r, Mm. Stidd. Mrs. Clara Taylor returned Mor duy from Gorvallis, where fchc spent the weekend with her (laughter, Vr. W. W. Ireland. Mr. Helen Kirkland of Protland has heen spending tho past week at the home of Mr, and Mrs. J. W. Kirk land and with friends. The regular meeting of the Bridge eluh was held with Mr. and Mrs. (). M. llyers Tuesday evening. The h'inorH were nwurded to Mrs. Pengra and G. G. Walker. Anions those out of town who came here to attend the funeral of the late O. M. Lehman were Hert Wolfe of Brownsville and Mr. and Mrs. John Kolman of Dallas. ' Robert Duller Smith of Corvitllis, I accompanied by his ifrandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. Word Butler, and j parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith, j spent Sunday at the home of Dr. and J Mrs. 0. D. Butler. Miss Mary Corrothers, Benton county nurse, was in Independence for a few hours on Thursday and visited the training school and high Kt-hool. Miss Con-others was on her way to Kings Valley, where she was going in the interest of her work. The Independence Woman's club will hold a cooked food Bale on Saturday, January 21st at Conkey & Walker grocery. Tho proceeds of this sale will apply to the cost of cleaning and furnishing tho new club room in the city hall. Remember the date Saturday, January 21, 1922. Mr. and Mrs. M. II. Pengra left yesterday for Chicago and points in Wisconsin. Mr. Pengra will attend to business matters requiring his at tention and will visit his old home in Wisconsin. It will be Mrs.Pen gra's first visit in the east. They will bo gone for two or three weeks. D. W. Sears of Portland, a for merly well-known resident of Inde pendence, was hero Tuesday and Wed nesday greeting old friends. His special mission was to attend the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Independence National Bank, of which he was re-elected a director. Tho remains of Clara Pickering Neal, who died in Los Angeles, Oct ober 29, 1915, at the age of 16 years, arrived at the undertaking parlors of A. L. Keoney Monday and that after noon were interred in the Knights of Pythias cemetery, Monmouth. She was a daughter of Mrs. Elva Neal of Monmouth . W. A. Messner, a former well known Independence business man, has sold his grocery business in Dallas to M. J. Showers, who was previously located in Med ford. Mr. Messner owns a ranch near Eugene and it is his intention to move there as soon as he can wind up his Dallas busi ness affairs. Etfi r NAT- W, Huntley returned to Portland Tuesday after upending a few days with relative here and attending to liUHhiess matter. Mr. Huntley, who has heen receiving medical treatment In Portland, following a alight para lytic utroko ome time ago, Is continu ing to regain tho use of tho arm. Mr. Thorn of the .Stewart Motor company and Howard Houhm spent Wednesday floating down the Wil lamette from Albany in truest of ducks. A number were secured. They had their craft taken to Albany on a truck. Charles Ilacon Ilodgkin attended in Salem last night an informal dinner party given by Ha! I). I'atton, cele brating his TiOth anniversary. Messrs. Ilodgkin and I'atton were kids to gether in Salem. Thero were about 150 present, all being old time friends of Mr. I'atton, coming from all purts of the state. v Mrs. J, Dornsife of Independence has bought A. Poole's house, now occupied by E. C. Cole and family and will take possession August 1st, Mr. Colo in the meantime having the opportunity to build a house of his own. Mrs. Dornsife is a former resident of Monmouth and owned and Jived in the house now the property of T. J. Wedckind. Mon mouth Herald. Mrs. Gootch of Dallas died at the family home Monday morning. Mrs. Hoy De Almond, formerly of this city, but now of Vale, Ore., had been at her mother's bed.side for several days and was with her when the end came. Mr. De Armarid ar rived Thursday to attend the funeral services, which will be held in Dallas today, interment being made in Salem. Clarence Powell of Valsctz, general logging superintendent for the Cobbs Mitehell company, was in Independ ence yesterday enroute to Falls City to attend the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Hank of Falls City, of which he is a director. He was joined here by C. L. Starr of Portland, also director of the bank, end tho cashier and general manger, W. II. Heard. Charles K. Spaulding of Salem was in Independence Monday conferring with Dr. 0. I). Butler, M. II. Pen gra and A. L. Thomas relative to the damage which is being wrought j by the Willamette in wearing its way toward the business part of the town. Mr. Spaulding is interested with Mr. I'engra in the Independence Sand & Gravel company, one of the concerns which is being menaced by the river. Mrs. F. P. Ground of Puen;, Vila is making niite a notable success with chickens. She has a h'v; llu k of K0()(1 nm, unik(, m,(ny othcrs u.ts thm wi,d ,iurilI the winU.r mol,t)ls, providing, however, un attractive, sheltered place which lllt.y n,ay m.upy jf the notion suitr. them. Mrs. Ground attributes her success largely to the strain of her chickens and then providing with the right kind of feed. Ihem Miss Allie F. Bramberg, dauihter of John G. Bramberg of Independ ence, is making a notable success as secretary of the Clarence H. White School of Photography, in New York city. In the fall and winter bulletin of the school she receives this com mendation: "Miss Allie F. Bram berg is an acquisition (which is too weak a word to characterize such com bination of cheerfulness, competence and loyalty." For three years, Miss Bramberg was the registrar of the Oregon Normal school, going to New York in the fall of 1920. Guy Walker was the recent victim of a peculiar accident, with no one to blame but himself. While wheeling the store truck, heavily loaded with groceries, half a ton more or less, he had the misfortune to run over his own foot, injuring that member se verely. Guy can't quite figure out how he did it, but he knows it hap pened. He has the "game" foot to prove it and he knows he did it him self, for the other members of the r.tore force can all give perfectly good alibis. N. C. Potter, father of Mrs. II. M,. Witherow of Independence, died in St. Joseph's hospital Vancouver, Wash., last Sunday. Funeral services were held Monday from vvimber Bros, chapel in Vancouver, Rev. II. L. Proppe of the Independence Bap tist church officiating and interment was made at Vancouver. Mr. and Mrs. Witherow were in attendance at the service. The deceased was just passed 63 years old and had been a partial invalid for many years. His home was in Oconomowoc, Wis. Mrs. Potter, died about a year ago. He is survived by four sons living in Wis consin, one in Idaho; a daughter, Miss Elva Potter of Seattle: a daughter. ' Mrs. Herb Norris of Woodland, Wash., and Mrs. Witherow. II. C. Compton was called to ,Scio last Saturday by the critical ill ness of his mother. Henry McElmurry had his left hand badly cut a few days ago while splitting wood, due to a little mis calcuation as to the proximity of the axe, WILL I'.LOCH QUARANTINED WITH 8M ALLI'OX AT HOME Will liloch is quarantined at his home in the northern part of town. Ho is ill with a well defined case of smallpox hut said to be rather mild in form. Social JIffairs The Tutting club met at the home club was held at the home of Mrs. H. Mattison on Moncay afternoon, with a full attendance. fiction was utarted, "Pride of I'alo- mar" by Peter Kyne and at the next meeting the Ktudy of Oregon wilt be taken up. Two vacancies in the club were filled by the election of Mrs. W. J. Clark and Mrs. Z. C. Kimball as members. The Iadies' Circle of the Christian church met at the home of Mrs. Chester Sloper, Thursday, January 5th, to elect officers for the ensuing year, which are as follows: President, Mrs. James Robbie; vice president, Mrs. Carl Anderson; secretary, Mrs. A. L. Kullander; treasurer, Mrs. George Wood. A number of boys and girls gath ered at the home of Francis Arrell Jr. on Tuesday evening in honor of his ninth birthday. Francis was enjoya bly surprised as the party had been planned by his mother and sister and j scored first with a fied basket, In he knew nothing of it. After some j dependence following with a foul and time spent in playing games, a lunch j a fied basket The first eight or of jello and of course the birthday j nine points were strongly contested cake was served. The guests were untii finally Albany broke away in Marian and Jack Fluke, Wyma Troxel, j the Iast half and pi,ed up the Naomi Hewett, Huldah Kurre, Myron Uhich spelled defeat for the local l ord, .Max Strong, Jialph r redericks, j and Francis Arrell. Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Skinner en tertained the Whist club Monday night at their home in a most pleas ing manner. P'avors were conferred upon Mrs. O. D. Butler and L. Da mon as club members, while the guest prizes were won by Mrs. A. L. Thom as and E. C. Bradner. Delicious re freshments were served by the host ess, assisted by the Mises Alice Skin- ner and Fay Irvine. The invited guest in addition to the club members were the Bradners, Mattisons, C. G. Ir vines.Thomases, Hortons, V. II. Walkers, Kimballs, and Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Joslin of Dallas; Mrs. Helen Kirkland of Portland. j friendly contest was held between Mrs. J. W. Kirkland, a venerable , severai Freshie boys and the forces Independence woman, celebrated her i f Tobacco Friday noon. The fresh est birthuay anniversary. January men boys generally think that they Uh. Ir honor of the event there was j are "if, ,and that all must bend or a fi o'clock dinner, Mrs. Helen Kirk- j ,ive way before them. Some of the la-if of Portland being present. Cards j boys got wise to the fact that it was (f congratulation were received from j better to leave off with the game i.b.sent friends and flowers from her ' ear the first. One boy would not son, F. A. Douty of Portland. j acknowledge defeat with his opponent, " ! Nicotine, and swallowed all. Just The Y. I. D. club held its regular ; fter school had taken up for trie meeting on Wednesday evening at j afternoon session, the same victor (?) Sloper Bros. & Cockle hall, with the ; was excused to go home because of ladies of the club as guests of the j the effect Nicotine had on his physi- evening. As the gentlemen of the club hud broadly hinted that times were hard and no lunch would be forthcoming, the ladies had dressed in accordance with the times. Much to the surprise of the guests at the hour for lunch they were escorted to the City Bakery, where a prettily decorated table with covers for 24, awaited them and a delicious luncheon was served by Mrs. Smith and son, Carrol. , .IIV i IV 1 IV' I V.JL HIV. (Mrs. Chester Sloper and W. H. Cockle. CARD OF THANKS Deeply appreciative of the efforts of tho fire department and others in saving my property, I wish to pub licly acknowledge my gratitude. A. L. KEENEY. Watch the next issue of the Enter prise for announcement of a declining auction. 6-lt. City High School AMIITNEY CHORUS ORGANIZED: II R UNDERBILL IN CHARGE Mr, Whitney, head of the Whitney boys' chorus, paid a visit to the high school Friday afternoon. His object was to organize a branch of the chorus in Independence. In his speech he told how the chorus was first started 1 J 1, T T . 1 . . ... anu some ui ils worn, uc uisu Kave us an idea of the plans for the 1925 fair. He expects to organize boys of the western states and assemble them at Portland for the fair. These boys will number about twenty thousand and will live in a tent durinir the fair. A meeting waa held Friday even- Ing with about 40 boys present. Mr. Whitney with the help of II. It. Un tlerhill and Mrs. Claire Irvine, tested the boys on tehir ability to sing. They sang a few songs and after wards he got as many as ho could to join. From now on Mr. Under hill will have charge of the chorus in Independence. Any member who can get a boy to join will be given five cents of the dues. At present there are about 2f belonging. It is hoped that others will join. GIRLS PLAY PRACTICE GAME A practice game was played be tween the high school girls and pub lic school girls Friday evening. Just for fun the H. S. girls made the score 15 to 3. A New Timearer Russell Jones has devised a new method of studying; he gets his geo metry and reads a magazine story at the same time. CLASS PINS AND RINGS HAVE HEEN RECEIVED The senior rings and pins are here. They came from Bastion brothers, Rochester, New York. Some mem bers have rings and some pins. The rings have I. 11. S. in raised letters on Roman gold background and 19 on one side and 22 on the other. The pins are the same as the rings only 1922 is under the I. II. S. . ALBANY TRIMS LOCAL DOYS IN HIGH SCHOOL SCRIMMAGE On Friday night, Jan. Cth, the I. H. S. team met Albany and the result was a score of 11 to 26 in favor of the visitors. The Albany boys were fast and fairly eood shots. Albany boys. The lineup was:Manley Burright and Delos Eldridge, forwards; Dean Craven and Jim Stapleton, guards; Joe Smiley, center. In the last half Clemo was substituted for Stapleton, Baker took Eldridge's place and Dean Craven jumping center and Smiley playing guard. The student body was very well represented, at least it seemed that way because of the noise they were i making. Between halves a serpentine j was formed and a few yells were given. AND THE PENALTIES OF LADY "NICK" ARE MANY That which was considered a cal being. II Service Quality j ! Winners Are Always Picked Because of Their Superiority MERE ARE TWO WINNERS 01 Any internal combustion engine develops intense heat and requires the best of lubrication. Your stationary engine, your automobile, or your tractor will produce that kick if you have the best oil HAVOLINE a grade for every type. "It Makes a Difference." General Hardware Special for Saturday and Monday Jan. . 14 and 6 Only Ready Sheet of the best good full they last, for Special Sale iy a The Store That The latest in drag saws is the Vaughn Little Wizard. It is light j enough for one man to carry about anywhere. Strong, in construction and modern in all details. V. M. DeCoster purchased a Little Wizard this week from J. D. Hibbs & Co. I The White Rotary Sewing Machine J gives the users the latest improve- ments in sewing machines. It's true , stitching and easy running, is a joy I to the woman who has work to be I done. J. D. Hibbs & Co. delivered , one tins week to Mrs. Arthur Ward ; on C Street. i Scissors sharpened by Watkins will always cut. n25-tf If you want to sell it, buy it, j trade it, or find it, try an Enterprise i i Classified ad. Fairbanks-Morse Kerosene Engines with modern Bosch magnetos have no equal. They develop extra horsepower, start easy, run smoother last indefinitely. Uses low price fuel and have small upkeep cost. J. D. Hibbs Sr Sale - made very quality, size, while t h i Karoray Saves You Money Fords Anyone wanting a deal in new or second hand Ford see V. L. Guild, Stewart Motor Co. Brotherhood of American Yeomen Meet in K. P. Hall 2nd and 4th Wednesday nights. Visiting Mem bers Always Welcome. Francis Brown, Foreman. Luella Walker, Cor. 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