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3m r j 41st YKAK No. 31 1 KKBKAIL TO GST FLAX PLANT iiCftl n""" " " Five Year Contract! for Growing Flax INDEPENDENCE, OREGON, MARCH 24, 1922. Friday HAPPENINGS IN THF ELKINS COUNTRY Mr. and Mr. U. ;. H,.ffU.y ,, ,,n', on, Morris of Monmouth spent Wednesday with Mr and Mrs, C. C. Murk. U'vl Oleman in f.uit ill with n,. Mis Florence Enschede attended i acuity uinn.T at Monmouth eveninif. (ilen llarman motored to .Salem I hursday, Albert Mark of Marlon cour.tv In Pending acveral days with Lin brother, C. C. Mark. Joe Tetherow wan treetin friend on the street of Indei.enden,- Saturday. . II. Crook wan a businB viii,r in Monmouth and Independence Sut unlay. 1JC completed the deal whir. by lie bwumw owner of the entire farm of Martha Smith heirs. He bought part of the farm before and ha lived there several yearn K. A. THrow was a business visl- tor in Independence Saturday, wien iiarman went to Albany .aiuriay to vimt his aunt. Mrs. E. K . J lolcomb. Mi Florence Enschede went to Salem Sunday to visit her brother, who is In the hospital there. A new bell ha been ordered for tho arhool and will probably be de livered thi, week. Alo an exchange of pianos has been made and the new one will be delivered in a few lays. James Niel of Independence was in this vicinity Sundav. Raymond Way was a visitor in Salem Sunday. M insert Kathryn Peterson, ISernire Uobinnon and Hazel Iladley of the Normal Were Sunday guests of Miss Violet Quick. .. . . ....i i.i .... ptickreall ha l,tl" itlon for nt vi i" " n.mette Valley Flux and Hemp . . !..! I. . ..III fl.tlP A.tt'prs asM "" '- , -.ill having been purvnaseu ami to be remodeled Into a warehouse i rrftinif plant. (J. W. Iloyaer, a l-known farmer on I he Marion '!.. .l.ln of the river, is on of directors of tho BMsociation, anu number of contracts have tpen nwl by farmers in this locality erowinif fax. Tr..hn Stumn and Klddell Ilros. of r . ... nmnuth hve each filtered into ,-ycsr contracts with the assocla. i to grow 15 ar-res annually; W. IC. inn, five acres for tho five-year ,od and five additional for this Ir; Mr. Iloyseor and Shldro Ilros. wii have five-year contracts for seres rat h. :ubrrt Crawford of Salem, field .liter of tho association, was in 4Hndfme Wednesday for the pur t of getting local farmers intr. d in the project. Mr. Crawford charge of the flax industry at state penitentiary and is conaid- 41 tn authority. "Contrary to ie s general belief, irrowinir flax not rob the soil," said Mr. Craw to the Enterprine. "Where prop- handled ami upon fairly good aoil, n-turn from flax fs very much ire than rn be secured from wheat ny omer grain crop, u is an Mrs. Sarah Kittner of I'cdee spent . rn.p io grow an.i upon me ,UJ weekend With her iter. Mr. A. m land hi re would return an.jj Tedrow fptionally heavy yield." , Mrs. Scvmour and Miaa Enaehwle !r. Crawfonl Mated that if auf. . gMVV A Stm trick's party at the nt acreage could be aignerf up L-hwil house Saturday night. Green luoriation would establish a plant ribbons and Irish flars were verv much in evidence. Games were played and refreshments served. Those present were: Mrs. Seymour, Misses Enschede, Uessia Jones, Vio let tjuick, Olivia Shown, Maud Mc Eldowney, Ruth and Mildred Tethe row, Messrs. Frank Loughary Jr., Frank, Tom and Joe McEIdowney, Alfred Jones, Gel I Kerber, Uenzcl Moorx and Mr. Fuller of Monmouth. Fred Scholl went to Falls City Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Tethcrow motored to Dallas Saturday. Mr. Tethcrow met with the membership contest committee of the farmers Union. Mias Audrey Hoover of Monmouth visited our school Monday. The student teachers will give a program at the school house Friday afternoon in connection with the Parent -Teacher association. IKIt OF MKS. DOUNSIFE DIES AT Gl'NTEIt, OREGON m. Mary E. Iornsif of Inde lenee and her sister, Mrs. H. K. afoose, of Monmouth, returned f '"y from Eugene, where they ft to attend the funeral of their r, Mrs. Cassie I). Van Orsdal. I Vsn Orndul spent her girlhood at mouth, having there about 20 f" iffo. She died very suddenly pnter, Oregon, 20 miles west of where she had taken up a iMtesd and was teaching school. 'uy weJI all day, on her wy from school, she was suddenly ill and fell. She was inconscious two hours and passed away. !,,ron, Burns Holt, who was with I took her !verthing Kssihe was dona for wt she did not regain consciouji. Buriul win .,u . . "...i iuniji.7 i ill l. '"nt cemeU ry, 12 miles east of "M, Manh 17th. Upv Rtiur- f oluationBoosr9 Held to Independence Last Year Increases in merchandise valuations in Polk county last year appear to have been largely confined to Independ ence. Some slight changes were made in Dallas and Monmouth, but the real take-your-money-away boosts m personal property were handed to Independence. The assessing was done by Hugh Black of Dallas and Arthur Moore of Monmouth, last year, who stated that it was the purpose of the assessor's office tn i chandise valuations in the other cities of the county as well as in Independence. Investigation by Arthur E. Horton and R. W. Baker. representing the Independence Retail Merchants' associa tion, Tuesday, by an inspection, of the taxrolls in the sheriff's office, shows just what was accomplished in iiiq way oi Dumping valuations here. This is confined solely to the personal property tax on stocks of merchan dise, office equipment, machinery, etc. The 1920 and the 1921 valuations of members of the members of the association are given. This is followed by valuations for like years of Dallas and Monmouth concerns engaged in similar endeavor. t INDEPENDENCE 1920 A. L. Keeney $ 250.00 W. E. Craven 2700.00 Eddy & Carbray 5500.00 J. D. Hibbs & Co 4500.00 Spaulding Logging Co. 4750.00 Independence Laundry 350.00 Dr. 0. D Cutler 100.00 Geo. Woods 600.00 Oregon Milling & Warehouse Co. -5330.00 Oregon Power Co. 1G660.00 Standard Oil Co 3880.00 M. H. Pengra J. G. Mcintosh 1700.00 Conkey & Walker 7500.00 Moore & Addison 2500.00 Independence Garage 2100.00 Z. C. Kimball 400.00 Sloper Bros. & Cockle 7000.00 City Meat Market 250.00 Williams Drug Co 3000.00 Craven & Walker 1800.00 Calbreath & Jones 2000.00 f tor of the Christian church o VMle. offirintin,. P was 42 years old. Death was jHuted to acute indigestion. She 1. Tu "y ono 'n, Hurns Holt, f huxband, Charles Van Orsdal, 'He married four months aro: ""Hers, Mrs I'orngife and Mrs. and onn l.iv.il,..- yir r K- t Eugene. nose, 550.00 350.00 1900.00 900.00 100.00 100.00 TEACHERS AND PARENTS TO CONVENE HERE, SATURDAY A teachers institute and county parent-teacher convention will be held at the training school, Saturday, March 2IUh. The institute will oc cupy the morning hours, convening ut 10 a. m. and the parent-teacher convention the afternoon, convening at l:l.r p. m. All teachers, out of town visitors, and members of the l T. association are invited to have iiinrh..on nt noon in the school r .... PEU. ENTERS RACE FOR I Mrs. Hill, State president of the P. 1 (bK RKPRESKNTATIVR ,T. A. will be present and address tne meeting, fliiss marjoriw ...u.. . for gome Umft ia 0. A. C. extension service will also ... . i it t hn mini- 1 week his ispeUK u ioohu jiuoun, -i or rerir(.ai.n t linn nf eh dren's health. A coraiai invitation is extended to all to be present at these meetings. nJ 0. p(lu.(.n A.nn " " aUWIIIIIWUllI 1 nnnouneing this Stewart Motor Co Dr. M. J. Butler Isis Theatre B. F. Swope O. A. Kreamer A. L. Kullander Dr. R. E. Duganne Dr. F. G. Hewett DALLAS R. L. Chapman 1000.00 Conrad Stafrin 3500.00 Craven Hardware Co 5000.00 J. C. Penny Co 7250.00 C. Crider 14500.00 Shattuck Motor Co 1850.00 The Observer 1700.00 Dallas Meat Co 450.00 Hayter Book Store 1300.00 iV. C. Retzer 2500.00 Sweeney Bros 1050.00 MONMOUTH Miller Mercantile COOO.OO Monmouth Hardware 3600.00 C. C. Mulkey 1600.00 1921 $ 600.00 4500.00 12000.00 10000.00 4750.00 600.00 150.00 1500.00 3710.10 16670.00 3970.00 3000.00 2650.00 8000.00 3000.00 2450.00 1200.00 7250.00 1100.00 4500.00 3650.00 2500.00 3000.00 200.00 850.00 200.00 3500.00 1100.00 200.00 200.00 1000.00 3500.00 5000.00 7250.00 14500.00 2530.00 1700.00 600.00 1300.00 2500.00 1050.00 5500.00 3700.00 1600.00 NEWS EVENTS AT OREGON NORMAL The winter term of the normal will close on Friday, March 24th, at which time several yowi people, who have completed the standard course, will receive diplomas. Several exercises in honor of these graduates will be held at the chapel hour on Friday morning. Monmouth people are wel come to this program. There will be no vacation between the winter and spring terms of school this year. The new term will begin on Monday, March 27th, when students will register for work. Class work will begin on Tuesday. There will be a short taster vacation some two week later. School will close Fri day, April 14th, and will open again the following Tuesday, April 18th, thus giving students who wish a chance to spend Easter in their own homes. Miss Montgomery of the University of Oregon, a graduate student in the department of psychology, visited the Normal last week. She spoke in a very interesting manner at the chap el hour on Thursday, taking intelli gence tests as her subject. j J. B. Horner of O. A. C. spoke at the chapel hour" late Friday. Mr. Horner discussed Oregon scenery and literature, illustrating his talk with lantern slides of places and people in Oregon. Miss Mildred Howell entertained her sister, Miss Genevieve Howell class of 1920 and Miss Dorothy Eakin, both of Astoria, last weekend. WOMAN'S CLUB IS INCORPORATED i Initiatory Step for Acquir ing Home Is Taken By Civic Organization Donald Barton has opened a barber shop in the J. B. Violette cigar store, giving Independence its third tonsorial parlor. Mr. Barton has .been empolyed in the Windmill shop Mrjs. Ackerman enteiHained Miss Grace Bamett, class of 1920, a teacher in Eugene schools, and Miss Jane Barnett of Oregon City, last Saturday. Several students and members of the faculty are planning to attend the grand opera in Portland this week. Superintendent II. E. Inlow of Pen dleton was in Monmouth last Satur day, interviewing prospective teach ers for his schools the coming year. He found several who are considering the work. President and Mrs. Landers en tertained the members of the faculty at dinner in the domestic art rooms last Friday evening. Superintendent and Mrs. Churchill of Salem were guests of honor for the event, which proved a most happy occasion. The rooms were decorated attractively with shamrocks and daffodils, the color scheme being carried out also in the various courses of the dinner. President Landers spoke briefly wel coming M.Ts. Landers back to Oregon and to her Alma Mater, the Oregon Normal school, and Mr. Churchill re sponded with a few gracious words of thanks. A motion picture, made from Sir James Barrie's story, "Sentimental Tommy," will be shown at the chapel next Monday evening, March 27th. This is an exceptional picture in that the very attractive work of Barrie is kept almost as the original and its beauty even enhanced by the filming. The Normal has long wished to se cure this picture, and is therefore hap py to announce the presentation of it. In order that the organization may have permanency and financial responsibility, the Woman's club has been incorporated. Its purpose is edu cational and civic, which is along the same lines which the club has been following since its organization seve ral years ago. An enjoyable program was the feature of the club's Wednesday after noon meeting. It included an Irish folk dance by girls from the training school; a violin solo by Fay Irvine, and an excellent paper on "Interior Decoration" by Mrs. M, J. Butler. The club has assessed its members for the children's home, and the money derived will be forwarded by the club. The club expressed a de sire to cooperate with any other or ganization in the raising of the allotment for the home in Independ ence. The next meeting of the club will be on April 12th, when it will have as guests the members of the Oak Point Community club. K. P. HARRIS ILL SIX WEEKS; RELATIVES DIE EXCELLENT PROGRESS WITH "BROTHER JOSIAH" Senator I. L. Patterson of Eola, while in Independence last Sunday, expressed himself to friends as being gratified over prospects of receiving the republican nomination for governor. renresentat iv fmm co"nty on n, rc....i.i.- .r,. t. i. . "1'uoiu-nn icsei. ; ".citing his m.(m, (i-,n f y'r as his " r 1 'lolnmn nf n,.ii.. i..... -v... fttdhm e . JlNNER tcher which, with f llllli. Tu.n, I1 1 "MVIIIU, "Wants for th0 n. e. mnkca i: NEGOTIATIVft pad RAl)IO SERVICE HERE Indnn V " rnd, "tnt'0n 0 "lucnnniln.,,.-. n iJatinn I, . unKe- trie has fn;. ,T """ery generators, Istrucf " Ht h0 wil1 be able to execs,: Tccm'm "tntion without "Porati outly. and that the cost SorvCOnTleCted WUh areU" H,rtant v ' Which flnshes the ii'ket ,Pn 7'"ninp:s of the world, !nts ePrts and the other feature SUIT FOLLOWS COLLISION OF CARS IN WEST SALEM Dr. G. E. Trime of Salem has brought suit in justice court at West Snlem against Mrs. Edna Grace Suver of Monmouth for $245, alleged damages to his car as tho result of . i.nttttin his machino and a lui""""' one belonging to Mrs. Suver, which occurred in West Snlem on the after noon of December 24th last at the intersection of Johnson avenue with tho Salem-Dallas road. Tn her answer, made by D. E. Fletcher, her' attorney, Mrs. Suver denies the Prime claim and files counter claim for $171.60 for dam ngos .sustained to her car. The de fendant will endeaver to establish by reputable witnesses that the collision was due to plaintw -cuum corner." The End of a Perfect Day 1 1 IU James Henderson has done some very clever work in portraying the characters of "Brother Josiah" on window cards which are being dis played in the business houses. He was assited by Art Black, another artist with the brush. The task of getting "Brother Josiah" ready for presentation on April 3rd is progressing very satis factorily. The cast has been care fully selected and the rehearsals in dicate that the parts are fitting ex ceptionally well. Next week, an effort will be made to hold nightly rehearsals . Tickets have been placed on sale and it is expected that the play, which is a comedy of genuine merit, will be greeted by a capacity house. Mr. Hugg, superintendent of the Salem schools, accompanied by a member of the school board, was in Independence yesterday makine an inspection of the high school gym nasium. Mr. Hugg stated that he had heard so much favorable comment about the Independence building that he considered it worth while to make an inspection of it in view of the fact that Salem ia about to build a gymnasium. Ill for the past six weeks with the influenza or grippe and during which time he received announcements of the death o two near and dear rela tives, J. K. P. Harris, a well-known prune grower residing southwest of Independence, is slowly regaining his health, and says that he expects soon to be able to operate his Ford again. A granddaughter, Miss Nettie Pal mer, a nurse in the Good Samaritan hospital of Portland, ill only six days with pneumonia, died on the 14th of last month. A brother-in-law of Mr. Harris, E. B. Morelock, passed away on the 16th of the present month at Portland at the age of 76 years. . Mr. Morelock was married to Rebecca Jane Harris at Milan, Mo., in 1864, and in the spring of 1865, at the close of the Civil war, after he had been dis charged from the army, the Harrises and the Morelocks all started across the plains by ox teams, and all the way on that long journey, at every Indian scare, stampede, or emergency of any kind, Ed. Morelock and Jim Harris were among the first on the ground. After completing the jour ney they all settled m the Grand Ronde valley, near Summerville, in Union county, where Mr. Morelock was actively engaged in the develop ment of that new and wild country. When the war with Joseph's band of Nez Perce Indians came on, and also the Bannock Indian war, then again Ed. Morelock and Jim Harris were among the first to get their guns and take to their saddles and among the last to quit. And now after a long and eventful life, to gether, they are separated Morelock has gone on ahead. He is survived by Mrs. Morelock and a large family of grown sons and daughters. One son, Lee More lock, is deputy United States marshal under Marshal Hotchkiss, and the other members of the family are scattered over the state. "DUBS" MULKEY FIGHTS DRAW WITH BOB DAWSON Salem Dubs Mulkey of Monmouth and Bob Dawson of Eugene fought an eight-round draw in a smoker held at Sutherlin, Ore., Saturday night, according to information reach ing Salem. Dawson is boxing instruc tor at the University of Oregon. Re cently he was bested in a bout at Eugene by Carl Miller who was knocked out by Mulkey in a recent smoker in Salem. In the Sutherlin program Satur day night Mack Graves of Independ ence won a decision over Bremijek of Corvallls in four rounds. SCUDDER AND PATTERSON WILL SPEAK AT OAK GROVE Prof. H. D. Scudder and Senator I. L. Patterson will be the speakers at Pomona Grange on the afternoon of March 25th, at Oak Grove. All are invited to hear the program.