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About Independence enterprise. (Independence, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1922)
12 irAAav. October, 27, 1922 r at More H d waa And reduce the High Cost of Living olstim Brea IS THE CHEAPEST AS WELL AS THE MOST WHOLfcbUML 1UUD UN THE MARKET but t extra loaf T?"Your Grocer Has It IIEIIIIV OTV Mil COMPANY INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE DAYS NAMED FOR (rw "- " u i Page Three TEACHERS' INSTITUTE ers an Ofi?S and it omtev Walker More Than 7000 Votera ill--According to compila juHt mud by County Clerk ;d I). Moore, there are 7386 m registered in Polk county. Republican outnumber the Dem- u more than two to one, being ' to 2297. There are 105 Prohi nists, 10 Socialist, and 219 of pendent or miscellaneous political ings. Itemizer. Roy WMteaker Married Dallas Roy A. Whiteaker, a for mer member of Company L, 162d in fantry, came to Dallas from Inde pendence Monday morning, accompa nied by Ellen Savage. After secur ing the license, the couple were united in marriage by Justice of the Peace F.u. F. Coad. They leit at once by automobile to upend t'icir honeymoon in Tillamook -Itemizer. Dallas Thn Pidlr iriHtitutn -wilt Im tif.M .f 4Un h'gh school In Dnl'ns on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. November 1. 2 ii rid 3. Many nromlni nt HnnfiWprM will nf. tend, one of whom Is Superintendent of Public Instruction Churchill, of ftalcm, who wil give one general as sembly address, and in section meot inns will explain the revised course, of study and also interest the teachers n touching Oregon history and nirri- 'Ulture, I'' rank lirntnhmiwh. hi.:., I ,J jlhc department of psychology of the wregon Agr. cultural college nt Cor- vnllis, will speak upon the folowing Suhlocts: " If . it ir-nl Pririlnliui Vm. p'oyerl in School Life," "Motivat'on." "Art nod Knowledge in Examination." How to Teach Reasoning." Ira Kiihanhon from the University of Oregon, will give talks upon the fol lowing: ".Some Professional Facts iind Their Implicnlions," "Unso'ved Problems in Kducation." "What Is the Next .Step In Secondary Education?" y,'ind "A Now Day for Rural Schools." I Mr.-i. W. A. IJarnum, from the Oregon 'j Normal school, will have charge of 0 , advanced department in the di- O . vision. Minn Ktiti" IlriMY fif fho Knmo I ' 1 institution of 'earning, will have 'charge of the intermediate depart ment in the grade school, while Mins Clayton Burrow will have charge of the primary department on the grade ', division. Mrs. F. M. Parrish will ) oe in cnargc oi uie music uepanmeni and will' present several interesting lessons as well as entertaining the j teachers with her music. Miss L. j Hazel Williams, the Palmer penman expert of Oregon, wi 1 present pen manship at the institute. I Josiah Wills, county superintend-,-cnt of schools, has appointed the fol j lowing persons on the resolution com jmittee: R. R. Turner, city superin j tendent of Dallas schoo's, as chair jman; Mrs. J. H. Collins, Independ ence: E. K. Barnes, Grand Ronde; Miss Ruth Richards, Rickreall; J. W. S Kauffman, Falls City. On the ath- ... ;.a 1 1 1 I T j ibiic commwee nas oeen appointed u. jL. Gooding, Monmouth, chairman; P. W. Campbell, Falls City; O. D. Byers, Independence; J. C. Riney, Dallas; j Wiley W Knighton, Perrydale; Char- lotte Davenport, Ballston and F. M. Mitchell, Rickreall. During the time of the annual in stitute every school in the county must be closed and every teacher must attend the institute at least 16 hours. The teachers of Da,!las will give a reception to the teachers of Polk county at the Dallas high school on Wednesday evening, November 1, at 8 o'clock. Every teacher is cordially invied to attend this reception. Observer. BELONG TO HIGHEST BIDDER Glrla on V.lli Lav.lla, In the South 6aa, Have No Say aa to Marriage. No. clergyman ties the knot; no Lo hengrin motif fills the air at a Vella Lavellu marriage ceremony. The lit tle brldc-to-be, the most attractive and talented actress I could find for the role on Vella Luvelln, Is standing In the doorway of her father's house, as sho would wlimd If Klie were ucttially being married, Kdwnrd A. Salisbury writes In Asia Magazine. The hus band Is roleelcd according to the num ber of pigs and the amount of shell money i( can jiiiy for the girl; she goes to the highest bidder without hav Pf a word to say In the matter. The father, hy touching the presents, Slg-nifi'-s that he has ueeepted them. The marriage ceremony Is then over. The on missionary on the Island has nat urally opposed this practice of selling brides. The natives were quick to h.-iirn this, and flocked to the mission station to marry the mission girls, be cause they did not have to pay for them, I'.ut the fat tiers of these girls created a lively disturbance because they felt that they were being cheat ed out of the customary presents. Finally the missionary was forced to compromise. lie permitted the father to receive presents, provided the daughter was married In church. Then he would tell the groom that he was now a mission man and must live nt the mission and work at gathering copra. lint the rebellious husband often took his bride hack to his village. A Classified Ad Will bring you a buyer. Advertising pays. Try it and see. Don't Surrender Your Rights! OUR forefathers fought for their rights. Many of them gave their lives that we might enjoy freedom. In the Declaration of Independence they recorded those truths that have so safely guided our democracy. They have written that men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, and "to secure these rights govern ments are instituted among men." aa thPeric-hts are attacked. The School Mo Principle of "unalienable" rights is at stake. Vote 315X NO on the School Monopoly Bill Called on the ballot Compulsory Education Bdl Thi. advent U paid tor bV . - BLIND MEN AND BIG TREES Writer Laments That So Few Really See the Beauty of the Won derful Redwoods. On a page of his book, . "The Open Spaces," John C. Van Dyke writes: "After a week a sense of the bigness of the redwoods begins to dawn upon one. And their arrowy majesty and mighty lift are more comprehensible. How struight and strong and splendid they are I "People, with a genius for seeing the Infinitely little, camp under these great trees, and In the morning perhaps are amused by the antics of the Douglas squirrel (a western red squirrel) chas ing himself around the 30-foot trunk ; but they do not see the tree. "They gaze beyond the 300-foot, top Into the sky, watching the wheel of a hawk or a vulture, but they do not see the sky. "The story goes of some dullard pre sented to a great queen at one of her receptions and the only thL he saw about her majesty was the wart on her aose. "But how can one miss the majesty of those mighty trees! They belong with the Grand canyon and Kanchan Janga among the sublime wonders of the world." Two Sidea of Body Don't Match. The human body Is not built symmetrically. One-half of the face Is not exactly like the other half. If a line Is drawn separating the two halves of the physique, well-marked differences may be noticed between them. The sculptors of Classic times recognized this anomaly, and repre sented it In their statues. Venus of Milo, for example, has an asymmetrical face, that is, one In which proportions are not consistent. Most persons have heavier bones on the right side than the left. The two sides of the face vary. The eye sockets In both face and skull are of different size. The fnce usually seems to be shoved over toward the right side. The ears are usually of different size and differently modelled. The shoul ders are not of the same height, and are removed varying distances from an Imaginary dividing line drawn through the center of the body. Water-Prinking Habit. "The habit of drinking water in mod erate nnantities between meals," says i Wealth, "contributes to health, and In dicates the fact that those who j;o abroad for the purpose of imbibing the wHtoi-s of mineral sniinus ni'iriit profit j by staying at home iimf drinking more water and less whisky. Water is the , universal solvent of nature, and the ' chief agent in nil transformations of j matter. When taken into an empty stomach it soon begins to jiass out I through the tissues by an osmotic process Into the circulation to liquefy effete solids,, whose excretion from the I system is thus facilitated. Very few people think of the necessity of wash ing the Inside as well as the outside of the body, and Jie who would be per fectly healthy should be as careful about the cleanliness of his stomach as that of his skin." a4 l mi cm iM Ft fii J UrUJ A GOOD CITIZEN The man who strives earnestly to create a fund, the income of which will support him in his old age, when he is no longer able to work, is a good citizen. Start right now open an ac count with the Farmers State Bank. 4 Interest Paid on Savings Accounts Farmers State Bank INDEPENDENCE , OREGON Winter Luxury Pumpkin Best The "Winter Luxury" pumpkin is one of the best, if not the best sell ing varieties of pumpkin at this season. It is a medium small variety with an average weight of from 5 to 8 pounds. Its striking characters make it an attractive variety. The exterior is completely netted similar to that of a canteloupe; the shape is uniformly round, flattened at each end. It has a quality superior to most varieties of pumpkins! , those who have used it say it makes better pies, requiring fewer eggs and a smaller amount of sugar than any other variety. - The vines are prolific in bearing, usually producing 8 to 12 pumpkins per hill. The grower will not find any variety to be superior to this for marketing and for home use. A Classified Ad Will bring you a buyer. J Taste tor V i better". once. SP 0 Applet of Many Kinds. The apple of love was the tomato, the apple of Hesperldes the quince; the apple- of Stslom wns by no means that fruit Into which we have been accustomed to bite with satisfaction, but, alluring to the eye, It dissolved in to smoke nnd nslies when plucked. The Dead sea apple was like a yellow to mato and where in the Song of Solo mon the apple tree Is named it Is thought to have been the apricot that wns meant. The word apple signified anything that wns ronnd. The apple In the myth dropped by the Goddess of Discord in the midst of her high step ping contemporaries, Venus, Juno and Minerva, wns not a Northern Spy or a I?en Davis, but a golden ball. Most likely It was a real apple that William Tell shot from the head of his son if the shooting, was A-9i. all. v t X ? Si Liogbtt & Myiss Tobacco C