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INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE
Friday, January 13, 1922
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By PERCY L. CROSBY W Jlt M N "fe , U4
HOrS AT A STANDSTILL
PRICE INCREASE ANTICIPATED
Portland Hop men for some time
have been looking forward to a re
vival of demand, but up to the pres
ent there are no signs of it. Only an
occasional order comes along and the
market holds at the old price. The
best hops are worth about 20 to 22
cents and lower grades around 15
cents, but growers are making no
effort to sell at these low prices.
The opinion is shared by both grow
ers and dealers that the shortage in
the world's supply of hops is bound
sooner or later to make itself felt.
There are only some 30,000 bales of
hops unsold in the United States, but
foreign demand as yet, is lacking, and
domestic consumers appear to have
WEIGANT ASKS $7500 FOR
DEATH SON BY SCALDING
As a result of the sad death of
Charles Herman Weigant, who was
scalded to death on the 29th dny of
October in a cess pool near his home,
Joseph F. Weigant, as the administra
tor of the estate of his deceased son,
baa commenced suit in circuit court,
apainst the Oregon Growers' P.oV'ig
corporation wherein he asks 'or a
judgment of $7,500 because of the
death of his son.
The Oregon Growers' Tacking cor
poration operate a dryer and pack:ng
plant in the south part of Dallas and
the plaintiff alleges that the hot water
uspc" in processing the prunes in the
jacking plant is run through the
wall of the plart into a barrel and
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their requirements filled. When the thence through an open trench to an
demand from abroad developes it
should not take long to change the
present small surplus into a shortage.
According to official returns the
quantity of hops consumed by brew
ers in Great Britain in the year end
ed September 30, 1920, was 56,371,
720 pounds, equal to 503,319 hundred
weights. Assuming the present con
sumption of hops to be at the same
rate, Great Britain, with an English
hop crop in 1921 of only 224,000 hun
dredweights would be short of require
ments to the extent of 279,319 hun
dredweights equal to 31,2S3,72S
pounds, or an equivalent of 169,101
bales.
No one doubts that this deficiency
will sooner or later become an im
portant market factor. The one ob
stacle to a speedy adjustment of hop I
values to supply and demand con
ditions is the control policy that has
prevailed in England since war days
The English controller has set the
price of English grown hops at a
high figure, which would naturally
turn English brewers to the cheaper
American hops, but they are not per
mitted by the controller to import
these in the quantity they want.
Only hops contracted for early can
be taken into England and only a
certain proportion of these. When,
in the opinion of the English official,
the time is right to lift the restric
tions, the American market should
respond promptly. It is the hope of
the hop trade that this time is not
far off.
alleyway which is used for public 1 ra
vel. That the continual flooding and
force of such water has caused a cess
pool which is said to be about eight
feet square and more than three feet
G. A. Wells is sitting on the fed
eral grand jury this week in Port
land. Mr. and Mrs. Orville Wells were in
Portland this week, where their
little son is convalescing from a
severe operation performed at the
Good Samaritan hospital. Mr. Wells
returned, however, and reports the
littla fellow doing nicely.
Harold Reynolds spent the weekend
in Corvallis with his former college
mates and took in some college fes-
TESTEI) COWS SHOW GAIN
IN MILK AND HUTTERFAT
"Watch us grow" might well bo
the slogan of the 2537 cows in cow
testing association work In Oregon
during November, since the increased
average production was 104 pounds
of milk and 2.46 pounds of fat over
the average for November a year
earlier.
The average yield of milk was
571.23 pounds and of fat 27 Vi
pounds almost one pound a day in
the late fall month.
The Rogue River association herds
made the highest association ave
rage 34.06 pounds of fat as compared
tivities.
Buena Vista basketball team played with the total average of 27l,i pounds.
Monmouth team on the local floor I Tillamook had the largest number
here with defeat to the visiting team, of cows, 1040, the most honor cows
,mnking a record of 75.5 pounds or
fat
The big gain in production, which
represents almost dear profit to the
owners, wuh brought about by weed
ing out low producers, using better
sires to build up the herd, and giving
tho animals scientific feeding, hous
ing and care.
A series of dairy meetings in the
vicinity of each of the associations is
planned for the present year, roorts
E. 11. Fitts, federal and 0. A. C.
rl
field dairymen in charge, inese
meclimrs will be held on the farms,
and the big producing cows will be j
used in demonstration. I
priving more than 40 pounds of fat,
104, and the highest individual cow,
Princess, a registered Holstein giving
2737 pounds of milk with 84.85
pounds of fat well on to 3 pounds a
day.
deep into which, on October 29. an(j puth Revnolds nassed Sundav at ' The hichest crade cow was Butler
Charles Herman Weigant, a child of, the M. N. Prather home. & McEntire's Rose, a grade Jersey,
six years, fell and was scalded and j Robert Hornbuckle and wife of j ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
drowned. Although the company j Salcm are visiting with the former's ' mm,. u,v , mi-u.i...,
Knew oi sucn cesspool, tney iauea to i s;ster Mrs.
cover it so that it would not be dang-! farnilv
After the game a social "hop" was
held at the high school gym.
G. E. Harmon, wife and adughter,
N. C. Anderson and wife, Sundayed
at the E. B. Gobat home in Albany.
J. A. Reynolds and wife, and Carol ,
M. V. Prather and
For the quarter ending December
31st, six divorce cases were filed in
the Polk county circuit court, a tic
crease of four for tho correnKndiiig
period of 1920.
Company L of Dallas has n 1000
percent record so far this season,
winning its five first games. Wood
burn is the latest victim. Tho
American Legion team of Albany will
play in Dallas this Saturday night.
DALLAM SCHOOL CHILDREN
NEED ATTENTION, SAYS NUltSi;
Miss Bertha Stroud, pu&ic health
demonstrator, declared before th
Dallas Women' club Tuesday that
an unusually large percent of th
Dallas Kthool children need medical
attention, and also uiwrted that hot
lunches are needed by many of th
children.
As a basis for her contention that
In county nurse is badly needed Mini
Stroud presented figure based upon
her examination of K) local school
! children. Of this number M were not
i . . . .i. . i .1-
examineil as u ineir rji-n. in me
35 whose eyes were tested it win
found that 20 had defective eyesight;
6 disease of the eyes. Of the entire
Kit examined 55 had defective breath '
ing, 45 defective throats, ft defective
ears, 1 had goitre, 1 low mentality,!
H defective nerves, 2 bladder trouble,!
12 complained of headaches, and W
were nmlnurished (underfed).
The revelations amused much inter-!
est among the club women, nnd raUKed
quite a discussion as to school mat-,?
tern.---Observer i
erous to the public, it is charged in
the complaint, and it is upon this
negligence that the plaintiff bases his
complaint for damages in the sum of
$7,500. Dallas Observer.
COULD LAUGH AT LANDLORDS
J. R. Loy and wife, Leslie Loy and
Mrs. E. J. Anderson were Sunday
visitors at the Edgar Lichty home.
Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Grounds attend
ed the poultry lecture in Independ
ence Friday of last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Devine and
little son, Jack, left for Rockaway
beach last week, where they expect to
PHRASE IN USE BY ROMANS
Writers of Ancient Empire First Re
ferred to the Game of "Duck .
and Drakes."
' "Bucks and drakes," an expression
used commonly In connection with a
person who Is heedless In money or
business matters, has gained wide cir
culation since It was first used among
the Romnns.
Minuclus Felix and other ancient
writers allude to a game of scaling
oyster shells or stones on the water.
If the stone emerged once It wns said
to be a "duck."
England adopted the game and gave
the phrase its present-day meaning.
Just when it was first applied la not
known. But it Is well used In Henry
Peacliam's book, "The Worth of a
l'euny," published In London In 1647:
"I remember In Queen Elizabeth's
time a wealthy citizen of London left
bis son a mighty estate In money, who,
imagining he should never be able to
spend It, would usually make ducks
and drakes in the Thames river, with
shilling pieces as boys are wont to
do with titles and oyster shells. And
In the end he grew to such extreme
want that he was fain to beg or bor
row a sixpence, having many times
no more shoes than feet and some
time having more feet than shoes."
Visitor, to Los Angeles, and Soo,. j j indefinitely.
v... i,:.u -u.; ...... I Mrs. W. J. Wheeler had the
One way to avoid high rents has1
been discovered by about three hun
dred tourists from the Knst and a
store or so of Los Angelcnos, says the
Los Angeles Express. This method Is:
Living In their motorcars.
There is a regular colony of men,
women and chilTlren who have turned
cars into apartments in a parking con
mis
fortune to fall one day last week and
break her arm, which at this writing
is doing nicely.
Nelson Anderson, G. E. Harman
and G. A. Wells attended a farmers'
meeting in Monmouth Saturday.
Mrs. Bliss, superintendent of the
home missionary society of Oregon
M. E. church, will be here both morn-
cession just east of Lincoln park on j inj? and evening, II a.m. and 8 p. m.,
the Alhambra boulevard.
Here the motorists have their ma
chines arranged in rows like streets,
have clothes lines strung, cook stoves
set up nnd are living as comfortably.
It Is safe to say, ns many persons who
pay $100 a month or so fjr accommo
dations in apartment houses.
Many have equipped their cars so
that they need only to pull down the
front seat, drop the side curtains nnd
roll themselves up In their blankets to
be as snug as any person in a hotel,
bedroom. Others have latched tents
and are sleeping on army cots.
The new order wits started by tour
ists arriving in Los Ange.es from the
East. The grove of eucalyptus trees
looked good t persons who had so re
cently crossed the desert, so they
stopped there on the edge of town nnd
made the camp their home. Seeing
how conveniently the visitors avoided
high rents, many residents of Los An
geles took np the enmp as permanent
address. In due tlm the United States
government rook cognizance of them
and gave them rural free delivery.
j and a cordial invitation is extended
,to all.
Mrs. Seigler is here at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. II. M. Nash,
who- is rapidly recovering from her
recent illness.
Miss Vivian Kaw was an over Sun
day visitor with her sister in Amity.
January
CLEARANCE
Sale
NOW ON IN
FULL FORCE
Jlirlie Items
HAD MEMORANDA OF IT ALL
Flowers and Seasons.
The relation of the colors of flowers
to the seasons has attracted the at
tention of a Canadian professor, who
finds that of 539 flowering plants In the
Tiroylnoe of Quebec and Ontario,
about one-third have white flowers.
Yellow flowers come next, and com
prise about one-quarter of the total.
Furp'.es and blues form about one
rrnth or tenth. White flowers are com
monest iu April and June, whereas
yellow are frequent In July, August
ind September. One can not help
lotleing that the spring flowers have
lellcnte colors as a rule, whites or
ale pinks, yellows and blues, whereas
Jie autumn dowers hive much stronger
shades of yellow, blue and purple.
Young Married Man Altogether To
Matter-of-Fact for tfte Ordinary
Loving Bride.
Young Mr.. Marsh wis a devoted hus
bnnd. but both alxent-mlnded and matter-of-fact..
Therefore, Mrs. Marsh had
trials that seemed tfr her real ones,
"Richard, yiu are goins away," she
s.aid. hor eyes filled with tears, on the
morning whe Mr. Marsh started for
New York, t be yone 4S hoars.
"Yest, I seem t be, my dear," admitted-
Sir. Marsh.
"You will think of me while you are
goner she begged.
Mr. Carney and 3Ir. Ulrica, visi
ted in Dallas, Independence and
Suvetr Saturday.
Ivan De Armond and his brother,
Tom, spent Saturday and Sunday in
Corvallis with their cousin. While
there they attended the high school
play given Saturday evening.
M iss Lillie SmitEr was in Dallas
last Saturday.
The Misses Laura Wienert and
Dorothy Gross visited the Mennonite
church Sunday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Conn motored
to Portland Monday.
The boys' and girb' basket ball
teams have a gajne scheduled with
the Falls City teams, Friday m'grht,
January 13th at Airlie.
Daris and Wefcer's null will start
wort Tuesday, Januar lOth.
DAY
O PPORTUN I TIES Iid1 Saturday
January
CLEARANCE
Sale
IS BRINGING
EVERYONE TO
OUR STORE
MONMOUTH HEIGHTS
Edwin Nissen of Independence
wa here on business Thursday.
i Mr. and Mrs. V. A. Fishback, Sir.
"Certainly I will. I will bear It In and Mrs. John Holman attended the
' funeral of Oscar Lehman at Inde-
Sri
wind.""
And nothing conld have been more ; pendence Friday.
obliging than his tone in saying this.
"And you will be very, very careful
ef yourself, getting on and off the
trains, and about your meals, Richard?-
"I will certanly see that all those
matters are attended to at the proper
time." and Mr. Marsh, hastily scrib
bling a note in repard to an important
business matter he had almost forgot
ten, placed a loving arm round his
wife.
"I have memoranda for all these
things you've mentioned, my dear." he
said in a calm, reassuring tone. "You
may be perfectly easy about them all."
Philadelphia Ledger.
W. M. Fishback of Salem was a
guest of relatives here Sunday. .
Mrs. Alice Walker attended the
i funeral of Mrs. Sherwood, who died
on he Luckiamute and was buried
Monday.
! George Cody was a visitor to Lane
. county last week.
Milt Bosley of Monmouth was in
i our midst Tuesday.
"Prize Peach" Hard Wheat Flour!
?2.10 per sack, guaranteed. "Pride 1
of Oregon," f 1.50 per sack. Oregon j
Milling & Warehouse Co. 14-tf
Big assortment Ladies, Men's
and Children's
SHOES SHOES
Values to $4.50, now
$1.00
In the Yard Goods Section you
can buy these and more big
opportunities on
DOLLAR DAY
1 YARD OF ALL VOOL
SERGE.... $1.00
The colors are of Black, Brown,
Blue and Navy.
1 YARD 18 and 22 INCH
VELVET.... $1.00
Nine different colors to select
from values to $2.50 yard.
7 YARDS FAMOUS HOPE
MUSLIN.... $1.00
Firm and dextrous m quality,
regular value at 19c yard.
7 YARDS PRETTY
GINGHAM.... $1.00
la pretty plaids and stripes, an
unusual offer. Buy your
share now.
7 YARDS HEAVY
FLANNEL.... $1.00
27 and 36 inches wide plain
whie and colored included.
7 YARDS SPRING
PERCALES. . . .$1.00
All the new patterns, stripes,
plaids, polka dots and
others.
PRICE
REDUCTIONS
ON ALL
ARTICLES
17 lbs. Sugar $1.00
10 cans Milk, tall $1.00
8 cans Standard Tomatoes $1.00
8 cans Standard Peas $1.0C
8 cans Corn $1.00
9 cans Salmon, tall $1.00
10 cans Pork and Beans.. $1.00
7 lbs. Lard in bulk $1.00
6 cans Del Monte Peas or
Corn, $1.80 values $1.00
25 bars White Wonder
SoaP $1.00
Lot 2 piece Men's and Ladies'
heavy
UNDERWEAR
2 Garment! fr the price of one
$1.00 Hasement
A big odd lot assortment of
LADIES (OATS AND SUITS
Values to $12.50, go at
$1.00 Basement
Men's and Ladies' Cotton and
Wool
SWEATERS
SlijH.ver and Ruff neck styles
$1.00 -I!asemcnt
It Low Prices
You Wish?
HERE
IT
IS!
One big lot of double size
COTTON BLANKETS
Special for Dollar Day
$1.00
I'LRE ALUMINUM WARE
Values to $2.50
Special at ....$1.00
They are senmlpss Tea Kettles
Double Rice Boilers, s'ew
Kettles, with cover Round
Roasters, etc.
BLUE AND GRAY
GRANITE WARE
Value at $1.25
Special at 2 piece $1.00
Enrge Dish Puns
Water Buckets
Stew Kettles
Pots and Pans, etc.
lVi YARDS 38 INCH PLAID
SKIRTING
This sale offers a selection of
pretty colors.
Special $1.00
l'z YARDS JAPANESE
PONGEE SILK
Regular ?1.25 yd., 33 inches
wide. A very firm and
heavy weave.
Special.... $1.00
Ladies and Men's Winter
Weight
UNION SUITS
$2.00 values go at
$1.00 Basement
Saturday Only
on, m
Men's and Boys' Suits, values at
$24.00
Ladies; $27.50 Tricotine Suits
Ladies' Silk Dresses
Men's and Ladies' All Wool
Underwear
Silk Waists and Petticoats
wool finish Blankets
Comforters
and
T(i l. ',.
iy ;-"' o! uroceries
"""s "Ugh Top
ohoes
and Dress
una
m.
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Meni ?.ain( vercoat8
Mens Pants and Hats
Ladies' Wool Capes
Each " "'anite Dish I'
AH these articles to be sold direct from th ,
First Come. Finn S,ri-T v W,ndow nt 11 30 a
THE EARLY niwn STllS.? Iie n, res,.rvi
" "IE I'LUMS-BKHERK
8 Einc Huck Towelw
$1.00
12 Yards Unbleached Crash
Toweling
$1.00
Yards Heavy Mohawk
i"neeting
$1.00
Yards Best Oil Cloth
$1.00
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