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About Independence enterprise. (Independence, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (July 14, 1922)
Friday, July 14,1Q9 . r m TXTnPPPmbxir"P 17WTT7.PPPTRF. Published Every Friday bt Z. C KIMBALL. ' Subscription Bates One Year 160 Six Months ....... .75 According to state capital gossip, - R. A. Booth and W. B. Barratt are expected to resigrr as members of the state hidvwav commission in the very near future. As is usual in such cases, it is a "pressure of private business' which is eriven as the cause for the contemplated action During Mr. Booth's reign, and this is about what it has amounted to, more than S50,OO0,OOO has been expended bv the commission on the highways. Mr. Booth has become so autocratic in his ideas of road improvements that he has at times attempted to ride roughshod over statutory regulations. He has recently received a couple of jolts at the hands of circuit judges, and of course these were not well received in the seat of the mighty. JUr, Booth's ideas of road building may be of high character, but they have been a little bit too exhalted for a public servant. As far as Mr. Barratt is concerned, he has been largely a figurehead on the board any way. Oregon Country in Brief Form Walter L. Tooze, Jr., as chairman of the Republican state central committee, is shaping his plans for an active campaign. In selecting his executive committee he has included E. C. Kirkpatnck of Polk county, who is regarded as a, war horse in party affairs. The other members of the committee are : Bruce Dennis, La brande ; Lloyd Riches, Vale: Harold Baldwin, Pnneville; Roy D. Smith, Hood River; Willard L. Marks, Albany; George Neuner. Jr.. Roseburg; John C. Uvendall, Marshfield; E. E. Blanchard, Grants Pass; Sumpter S. Smith, Med f ord ; Mrs. Lee Davenport, Mrs. C. E. Runyon, Mrs. A. M. Dibble, Mrs. Julius Louisson. Mrs. W. M. Cake and Mrs. F. 0 Northrup, Portland; Mrs. Louise Perozzi, Ashland; Mrs. John A. Carson Sr., Salem; Mrs. Anna M. Lang, The Dalles, and Mrs. Henry Henningson, Oregon City. Community spirited Dallas folks had to dig up about $400 to make good with the Ellison-White chautauqua. Yet they recognize the chautauqua as an asset morally and financially to the extent that a contract for a 1923 performance has been signed with about 80 sponsers. The Monmouth chautauqua, given by the Cadmean com pany, proved a financial success to the local guarantors. Of course Monmouth has in the Normal school a big asset for chautauqua attendance. Independence has had no chautauqua this year, nor is there much prospect of one for next season. There is some opposition here i May, according to official tabulations i. i. At. - -1 i. 1 i. X - 11 1.1 J 1 -1 T 1.1. ..I .1 . , ... iiul lo uie cnauiauqua, out iu uie xneuiuus empiuyeu vy uie Ellison-White company. From, a business standpoint, the contract is all one sided. The company demands a guarantee of a specific amount but gives no selection in the program or choice as to date. On the other hand, a chautauqua performance on the whole is of the things worth while and consequently musbe of benefit to any community. The Grant county fair will be held at John Day, September 27 to 30, in clusive. Bend's bonded indebtedness bat been decreased $53.21 in the paat year and one-half. The annua! summer session water carnical at the Oregon Agricultural college Is scheduled for July 21. Two persons were killed and 513 were injured iu automobile accidents in Portland during the month of June. The Ladles of the Invisible Empire is the name of a new organization which filed articles of incorporation at Salem. , September 2 has been announced as the day on which the cornerstone of the million-dollar Elk's temple will be laid in Portland The forest fir situation in the Tillamook country is becoming rather grave, according to the latest reports received from there. With the cherry harvest nearlng completion Wasco county is now turn ing its attention to the wheat, and harvesting has started. The huckleberry crop In the Blue mountains this year will be unusually large, according to Floyd Kendall, United States forest ranger. Although the highways of the state were crowded with motor vehicles July 4, less than a dozen arrests were made by state traffic officers. Forest fires along the line of the Tillamook branch of the Southern Pa cific have handicapped passenger and freight service to some extent. H. J. Overturf of Bend, whose ap pointment as an appraiser for the Spo kane farm loan bank was recently suspended, has been reinstated. Shipment of lumber from Bend dur ing the month of June was at the rate of 30.7 cars a day, a new ship ping record for the Industry there. The biggest three-day celebration ever held in Union county was" held at Elgin. Eighty horses participated in the races before 5000 spectators. The Roseburg city oouncll- has put Into effect an emergency ordinance limiting the loads of trucks operating through the city to 400 pounds to each Inch of tire width. Valuation of imports in the Oregon district for five months ending with OREGON HAS I 65,423 WARDS or Oregon supports, partially wholly, C5.42S mentally or physically defective persons. These startling figures as to the burden that the producers mut al ways carry on their shoulders, in ad dition to the effort of supporting themselves, were announced In a report just published by the Univer sity of Oregon, which is making the report actod under the direction of the United States public health ser vice at the request of the stnte leg islature. Work on the report was begun in 1920. Some of the 65,423 are being cared for in public institutions and a few in private institutions but the fact re mains there are that many who must be supported by the rest. Community institutions, including poor farms, take care of G5,04D, while 9874 are cared for in all manner of public and private institutions. .Pelinciuonts persons both old and young whom the stnte could not allow at large make up 30,141 of the total Dependents make up 29,555, and these include 54 blind, 156 deaf, 12(1 crippledj and 43 tubercular. There are 3994 insane and 1733 mentally defective, including GO neuro-mentnl cases. A lew hundred cases were not classified. By means of a teachers' referen dum, the survey was able to include some salient facta about school children. Out of an enrollment of 32,480 children this, of course, being only a part of the enrollment in the state- -the teachers reported 9742 who were not as far advanced in their school work aa they should be at their ages. Causes for their being retarded were classified by the teachers as follows: Parental, 1199; economic, such as living conditions, 90(5; environmental, Wiry and Conkey Walker & OSXHI 1484: miswIlaneouH. 1034; tetn mental, 524; physical, 2147, and tal, 2(527. In an unnamed city where 2M children were found to be retarded oti an average of 1.89 years, estimating the cost yearly for each child ai $52.50, the cost to the taxpayers was 125,020. Mental testa were given 123 prison ers in the penitentiary, which showed that 40 percent were of average in telligence, 8 percent were of high In telligence, 51 percent tended to be dull and 22 percent were defective. At the industrial school for girls, 33 girls were given the test, and only two had normal mental capacity, 8 pera-jwere subnormal, 15 were on men. lerllno and 8 wr mentally ai mo nvnwti lor n,y, out of it males, result were: Subnan average normal, 27; mihrnmi borderline, 43, and mentally SO, At the school f)r the deaf only two out of 33 blind pr' were mentally defective, and out of 03 deaf persons werte lacking. Oregon JounwU. (Jet your hop tickets at the E prise office. Special facility handling them promptly and ! ively. Concerve Moisture in Orchards Due to the present draught, orchar dists who do not have irrigation 6hould take care of the moisture sup ply. Moisture can be conserved by cultivation but not added to. As long as the dry spell lasts growers are ttrged to cultivate thoroughly at least once a week as late as the mid dle to the latter part of August. This will maintain good growing con- bark peeling well. Oregon Expert- ditions, sizable fruit and prevent the ment Station. "draught station. spot." Oregon Experment J Growth of Nursery Stock Curtailed The growth of nursery stock ana young trees will be somewhat cur tailed this year because of the severe dry spell. Anyone desiring to bud trees should plan to do this by Wis first to the tenth of August depend ing on variety in order to insure th i Vacation Trips Cost less this year Why not take advantage of this opportunity to realize big profits in transportation costs to Tillamook County Beaches Newport By-the-Sea Crater Lake National Park Oregon's Forest. Lake, River and Mountain Resorts Oregon Caves National Park Shasta Mountain Resorts Yosemite National Park or I (lines) J Eastern Cities Via The Scenic Shasta Route On your way East stopover at SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES SAN DIEGO Three world famous and beautiful cities. Visit California's National Parks and Charming Seashore Resorts "Oregon Outdoors" and "California for the Tourist," beautifully illustrated folders are FREE on request. For further particulars, ask agents Southern Pacific Lines John M. Scott, General Passenger Agent were $3,194,347, as compared with 406,846 for the first five months of 1921. Thp average grade for all milk dls tributed within the city, of Portland is as high as that specified by law for certified milk, according to Dr D. w. Mack, chief daicy and milk inspector. Men above the age ef 15 years out number women ia Portland above. the same age by 5841, according to figures which have Jost been released by the department of commerce at Wasbing ton, D-. C. D. L. Hamilton, aged forty-two, died at Klamath Falls from injuries receiv ed when a tagging track upset, crush ing his body and pinning him be neath a stream of boiling water from a burst radiatsr. A statewide association of poultry men probably will be organized at the national convention of instructors and investigators in poultry hus bandry at the Oregon Agricultural college this month Because of the increasing distance between mills of the ftrooks-Scanlon Lumber company of Bend and the log ging camps, a new 5-ton Baldwin locomotive has been added to the com pany's transportation facilities. Lack of cherry and" berry pickers is hindering operations at the can nery of the Eugene Fruit Growers' as sociation, and may cause a loss of a great deal of fruit on account of allowing it to become too ripe. The big sawmill of the Booth-Kelly Lumber company at Wendllng was totally destroyed by fire last week and it was with difficulty that the planer and other units of the plant, as well as the whole town, were saved. S A total of lfi'4 tfiaeh prs wer rA- quired to instruct the 3921 children enrolled in th& Union county schools during the year ending last June, ac cording to the annual report prepared by Mrs. A. N. lvanhoe, coiwity school superintendent. Because of the damage resulting to macadam roads from the open cutout on automobiles, Herbert Nunn, state highway engineer, will go before the legislature at its next session and ask that the traffic laws be amended so as to curb this evil. . Elvie Kirby, alias James Owens, and John Rathie, slayers of Sheriff Til Taylor of Umatilla county in 1920 paid tho ptnalty lor their crime on the gallows in the state penitentiary at Salem. Rathie was the first of the two men to mount the gallows. There was one fatality in Oregon due to industrial accidents during the week ending July 6, according to a report prepared by the industrial ac cident commission. The victim was A. N. Garrett, salesman, of Portland, i AAotal of 448 accidents were reported. ' A NEWSF iPER'S TWO SOURCE&OF INCOME Subscription and Advertising Are the Only Sources of Revenue a Newspaper Has and Often the Sub scriptions Do Not Pay for the Cost of White Paper Advertising today, especially in newspapers, is the greatest business getter there is. This is acknowledged by men who know. People read advertisements in news papers. They have been educated to do so. Every mer chant in our town ought to advertise. You remember the story about John Wanamaker? The first day he was in business his receipts were $24.04. He kept the 64 cents and spent the $24 the next day in advertising. We all can't duplicate this feat, but according to the best statistics available three percent of the gross sales should be put aside for advertising. Possibly you will say, "I don't need to advertise. 1 have been in this town thirty yCiw and everybody knows Probably they do, but did you ever stop to think of iW TllZlSe f CC 80 lour feIlow competitor adver tises? He may advertise the same goods you have in your stock but the people don't know you have tticm Sdther SW T thVal.e bGcause advertises: did advertise" m0Pe bu8incss you would do if 'ou We know of one merchant who advertised -i lot nf goods at 19 cents a yard. They cost him 27 cetL He took a clean loss, but while the sale was go ng on he the oVeTgZs8 12 G thWwiih tne otner goods and the result was that he cleaned his shelves of the old goods and he broke even on the deal Advertising and good buying liquidated his "stock with- adverfaTnpVonortiotln WT. but we all can auveiuse in proportion to our business Results will ho it depends on the service you give L to hi your business will be. k to how successful What is done in the biir cities an ,i i u '' in this town if you will show hi be.(lone "fifa here advertise. Make buSne Za Vn?' m am this newspaper. g od You can do through t.