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About Independence enterprise. (Independence, Polk County, Or.) 189?-190? | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1895)
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT. Managed hf th l'olk Oonnty Tciuli.r A OvlKl loll. Mild dl'VOU-U to III. adYaiuvmuut VI ill 1-UDIItltKtlMlulM. KJ1TF.I MY I'KUK. T. A. 11AYK8, 1 ndr pr udonc, Oruu. All communication rrlatlnc to (UN work must Iw addrvwwd to Hi editor ..fllili do-IwiinienU REPOBTS. EI.KINS 1'IBI.IC SCHOOL. For month ending March JvhiiiUt day attendance..... ... ' " iibnit).. " enrolled ..... Average i!tmiler Ix'UmniiiK " tlrtily attomUueo Kutuber iifithor Hlwnt nor tardy. " viiM bv directors .". " " by other I children, it was agreed to go buck 'home and let the law there "y who shall have the little girls. The mother of the children bears the appearance of a refined and educated lady. As we know noth ing of the circumstances in the care, we dj not have any idea how it will terminate. 15, wo ut ::o w 10 l 4 ITKMS OF 1 XT tilt KMT Gathered from oar Various Lxohnges Tbrontrhout the State. E. M. Smith, Teacher. KICK RE ALL PI BLIC SCHOOL. For month ending March 15, 1S95: Number days attendance . l)IICO,m " Urdiea. Number absences ixctitd Whole number enrol led Average number belonging. " daily attendance . Number cur6ral punishment.... Number visits br board " " by 'others 1. A. IIoao, Teacher. 901 8t 1 (UI a .1 1 1 2o The George Simmons placer mine near Yrek was sold last week to Oregon and Washington INTEI EXDEXCE Pl'BUC SCHOOL. For the month ending March 13. Ir93: Number days present.. 4' '7:1 arnvneo SS1 " taniie 40 " excuta fur tartlit-a ;'. ! ,4 enrolle-l, boys 15J.S, girls l4i total 287 Averatfe number belonging ' daily attendance 2o0 1'er cent of attriulanre 92 Jiumbcr pupil admitted, boys 3 girls 4, total Xnniher corporal pmiicliment 4 dumber visits by directors, 17; pat rous, 12; teacher, So; others, 23 Number rhetorical exercises during month . T. A. Hayes, Prin. THE POLK COUNTY PJKKS3 "ews Items and Editorial Ex pressions. (Itemizer.) Sheriff Plumuier has arranged with the banks of Independence and Monmouth to collect the taxes of those most convenient to those places. Assessor Beckett will now start out on his work of assessing the county, beginning in Douglas pre cinct. He will have a couple of deputies in other parts of the countr. I The county clerk has supplied to all road supervisors a list of tax payers in their respective districts. T. A. Farley is buying goat wool - for Vrm.. Brown, of Salem, paying ' . 20 cents for a good article. He has already taken over 1,200 pounds. " The new postoffice at the old Crand Rounde store will be named .'-Russell, that being the name of the "general in command of the fort . there forty years ago. The experience of carefully observ ing hog raisers has been that it pays best to push a pig from the time of its birth to seven or eight months old when it ought to weigh from 150 to 200 pounds. After that it ' costs more for any given increase of weight. The above is not a mat ter of guess work, bnt the result of many careful experiments. Hastings Bros, bought several thousand bushels of wheat within the past week at 35 c-.-nts per bushel. Airlie Cor. (Observer.) Born, Friday, March 8, 1893, to the wife of A. M. Ginn of this city, I jjj & son. Mr. Elmer Reid, who lives in the west part of Dallas, suffered a most unfortunate accident a few days ago. While taking a shoe oil' his horse he got a small piece of (Bteel. in his eye, and went to Port land for assistance, but physicians there deemed it necessary to re move the eye. So Elmer, came home Wednesday minus one eye. The Dallas democrats have nom inated their city ticket for election which will occur on the first Mon day in April, as follows: for may or, A. B. Muir; recorder, J. P. Magruder; marshal, Chas. Belt; 1st ward, Cas. Black; 2d ward, A. K, Wilson; 3d ward, R. R. Turner. Born, to the wife of D. J. Grant, Saturday, March 9, 1895, a 10 pound girl. About one month ago, a Mr. Elder appeared in Dallas from the Est with two little girls, one 9 nd the other 11 years old, and has been here ever since. On Monday ther appeared a sequel to the case. The mother of the child ren, arrived in Dallas ar.d claimed her husband had taken the children capitalists for $23,000. Hayes ASainden have picked up about $1500 worth of coarse gold at their placer mino on Oscar creek exclusive of the lino gold they will get when they clean up. It is said that tho W. C. T. U, at Gold Hill is tho largest in the 6ta'.e, with the exception of the one in Portland, having 40 members after being organized only a month. John Millard, a well known Al b. ny resident, while running after a calf Tiusday had the misfortune to fall in siuh a way as to break his left thigh bone and right shoul der blade. The McMinnvillo evening local train is now heated bv steam in place of tho old stove, and has air signals instead of tho bell cord. The change is one of greater con venience and comfort. Gold Hill has a barber-shop con ducted by three ladies, all of whom are said to be tonsorial artists, only one of them being married. It is needless to add that they get nearly all of .the j business in their line, A youth of 17 by the name of C. Stewart presented himself to Sears, of Multnomah county, Sat urday afternoon March 9, an d said he would like to bo taken care of as he was insane. The ov has a strong dcare to kill himself and knows that he needs watching to prevent him from doing himself harm when in his fits of insanity. Professor Coote, of Corvallis, has demonstrated that curly leaf in the peach tree is caused by cold tem perature. He placed two trees badly affected with the curl leaf where there was a continious warm temperature, and thj leaves are now as healthy as any tree, and the young peaches on the trees are already making a good growth. Gen. J. C. Tolraan was 82 years of age on the 12th, and the mem bers of the Tolnian family drove out to the Tolman springs where the General has been spending the winter and gave him a birthday surprise Tuesday. He is enjoying excellent health lately and is re markably bright and spry for his years, with prospects of many more before him yet. George Payne, the 42d victim of the Silver Lake holocaust, died February 25. His body, with the other unfortunates, was placed near the center of the cemetery there and a monument will be erected to their memory. All others who were injured have re covered, except Clara .Snelling and Mrs. T. J. Labrie, who are im proving slowly. John W. Waggoner, of McMinn ville, an old gentleman who room ed alone over Kun's bakerv. and odd jobs about town, was funeral was held at the residence Sunday and the interment look place on tho old home place a few miles west of Eugene. Tho Virtue mine's second clean up for tho mouth amount to 420 ounces. It fooU up $7980, making a total of nearly $13,000 for only 20 days' run with 20 stamps. The people about Arairo have incorporated for dairying pur poses, and purchased the Arago creamery, payiug $0000 for it. Tho stock is owned by nearly 100 milk producers. Hayes A Swindon' placers on Oscar crook, a tributary of Apple cate, have produced SfloUU in coarse gold nuggets so far this sea son. They range from $2 pieces to a $125 specimen. No clean-uj will bo made until the season closes. Geo. K. Quine was in town from Kiddle Tuesday. He recently told his placer mino to Mr. Ball, of Tacoma, who paid 930 for it. This mining property consists of a gravel bur on Cow Creek, where consider nl Id gold has Inen allied out with rockers. Mr. Ball will put up some extensive machinery and go to work on a large scale. .Mr. M. K. Lewis, who came from Nebraska t Oregon several months as, is greatlv pleased with Oregon. He now owns 120 acre.1' of tine fruit laud between Albany and Wills, and has a good idea in connection with it. He will make a specialty of apples, and already has 1000 trees out, mostly lien Davis. His idea is to have only hardy keepers, red cheeked fillows that will be sound iu the spring when appks are scarce and prices hiah. Mr. Lewis alio has lOOO gooseberry plants o"t a;id will raise other fruits in small quanti ties. Wrrw. What is ir .v r u.w, 1 Castorlft is Dr. Samuel ntcher' prosier! t too for Infanta and Children. It eontaln.1 neither Opium, Morplilno nor other Nnreotio substance. It 1 a. ImrmloM subxtltuto for lre-orle, Props, Bootliintf Syrup and Ciwtor Oil. It 1 Pleasant. lt piarnntiH) U thirty ymrs use by Million of Mother. CudorU .leatroys Worms and alhiyn feverlnliiiesa. Castorlrt prevent vomlllii;T Sour Curd, cures Dlarrhaiu aud Wind Colic. Qutorln relieves teething troubles!, euros constipation mid flatulency. CastorU nsslmll.ites tho food, r.cttlatc the, stomach tul bowels tilvI::X healthy nn.l natural sleep. Cas torU iJ tho Children's ramicca-tho Hot hoi's l-'rlcud. Castoria. "Cfcrtori'x la an cxivl!o.-.t mulleins for chil dren. Sti!! km ropiMtistly liitl uio tf iu good (Wlfct upa iljitr c.:.l;rv D.I. 11. C. O nwn, l,ov!., tua. " caatorla li Cm U I nn.v t''r ch-'-'w ' which I am mxi ia 1 !..; f : uirl far ant Vur.:lw:v !;;. R.U !lVn':l InU'r.t-t of Ci. U uUii lr ;i. r I C-.-vrl ! B!caJ of thevirkvjjtviirk iwiin'unl'i an dcatwylnjthvlr Kwa Xy f. v -i.ro; :l.i i, morrh!n'. o.:h.r.j iynir eis-t i-ivr Iri 'sul 1,-iettU i5on thoir thmsts, th.iviy t thuja to jrojia:ur i-r: pi J. i VTiM, !irti, CVa..i', Ark. Castori. I rvcmtMi" hJ ltMujfiMrioJiy jivrliUna ti.tiua h wo." .... i. r. It. X, Anriica, U. P., lit r. Oif f I :;t . i:r.HvixB, N. Y. " I'Hir iiili'bM I l! i1'" Ir'i" d!." nuiit luu ("- ' I '.;! 1 " r !" r In ilirlr ou:IIj im jcI. wiili Cant.ttia, a it alltioi:-b J i"' hvn anion fur hhiI.iU ui i :t'- .li.t l kiuiwn a n-sui .r j :--.ii t wiwilmi t. cou.. tltt Ui li-.. n: vt l"jiina l- "oa ua lu lucll lCi wr ui"ii It." I'NITCU IllWWTL thO iM-M'tHIUliT, AIXM C, B:tu, V., 6PfQ DATE. We have received A small portion of our now spring and suniiiier nlck of Dry Goods, Clothing, Shoes, Notions, Etc Wo hiive plenty inure on thewny. And they are till "tip to date" lui Good Goods are Cheaper this Season; Than they rver were, if you know where to get I hem mid have tho money to pay fur tin m. PRIGES 20 PER GENT LOWERj 'X'ii'A.2Sr LACT -YiajLiz. Tixn hv than fvrr. Our t.Ji III IN I! I t' 1 1 M 1 1 I 'J 'II LI I HI"" ! ' w . r , will t uii)riK it lino lino in I lulit h', M iVhh ami Clii iIivu'hm'i!.-' Mi'u'h ho. Tun IIomi'I-j-huuntc'h. Tha Ccntcc? C'.t;rr, 1 rinrray SLrccN Vow York Citj-. do vou Spell it?'' How to Tell a Girl's Age. Ci iris of a marriageable do not like to tell how old they are; but you can lind out by loilowing the subjoined instructions, the young lady doing the figuring. Ti ll her j to put down tho number of the! month in which she was born,! then to multiply it by 2, then to add 5, then to multinlv it br "0. then to add her asrc, then t sub tract 3C5, then to add 115, then tell her to tell you the amount s!ie has left. The two inures to the right will denote her nge and the remain der the month of her birth. Fur example, the amount is 822; she is d-o-r-g." "Yes." "And how do asked the wife. "I say, it's a d n-w-g, dawg," tin replied in a surly manner. "Vou mean a dnr an nniinal "Of ooVo I do! I've spelt il that wav lor 20 y'urs and 1 know I'm right!" "But that isn't aeccrdii'g to the Knglisli language, ma'am." ' I don't keer lor no Knulish language," slia swapped ns she r up and enteiul the hon. c. I was about to say I hoped I hadn't ofiended hi'r when the husband aro.cand pulled the door ! to, ami cot a pood crip on t!ia handle and whispered ",-trang-r, I'll try to bol l tlto j MINNEAPOLIS i tlr.ur till vn' fiL i tntT (lwuit in' ! AND , , .... - ri i:. lexr.n.i.. itn hcr. ' I to Tin; i m ii i vjIt-n. r t CiVErl Tin: I'HOIl'l: vv I , Two j i: Trcnsccntinental ? ROUTE S'i (;i!E.IT I'XIOX j: i ' a iirr-ii i'ii i t ii i niniM iir i ilk i iii. ; I: ' i' ii ii, ir i; l.uillllbll.un i .nil iv ill. VIA I A sj-o.c.VNi: di:nvi:u j i Monmouth Mercantile Co. MDN.MOl'TII. OKK. We bell Bissell Chilled "OloiirQ J. I. Caso Steei 'A Garden Cultivator U an implement you cannot gt along without, cuft jnly a ti ifb when Uniht at our "tore. . A Sweat Pad Will protet t ymir horse and niahle him lu do licltr: serviiv. We've jiift received a largo iifsortmeiit. IFRAZER & SON, Monmouth. I 22 y'ears old, and was born in the eighth month (Augtii-t.) Try it. Kather Sot In Her Ways. " Why, what's the niat'or?" "The matter is i;iy wife is rnth.r sot in lit r ways,, pertickerly on snl!in'. and I can hear her potiriu' shot and jKwderinto the bird gun! Stranger, I'm sorry tohevyo'go ! this way, hut dawg pone my dorg if vour di' hain't L'ol to hustle or ST. PAUL O M AHA AMI Kansas City FOR sp. Kin' h.kbinefs!' When I made tin; turn in the road he ivns still holding the door, but I saw sciiicthiii'' that looked Especially In a Matter of Spelling Tliat 1 po cut of th Had Stood a Teit of Twenty Years, j One day as I was toiling up a rough trail road in the Cumberland mountains of Tennessee I encount- j iIi0 a w'""1" ciiml.ir g out of one ercd a man on horseback, jun as of lhl- side windows with a gun in he turned in from another trail. 1 ni;r I'-U'd. as we were going the same way- we i I jogged along together, and after found dead in 'his bed about 4 p. m. Sunday. The doctors estimated that he had been dead about 15 hours. The coroner's inquest pro nounced death due to heart failure. Deceased was born in Indiana, was 62 years of age, and an Oregon soldier of three years service dur ing the civil war, receiving his dis charge at Vancouver in 18G4. The faculty of the State Univer sity held a meeting yesterday some general talk he observed: "Stranger I want to ask yo' a question plumb center, andifyo' don't feel like answerin' it I shan't be put out " "Well, go ahead.'' "Kin yo' read print?" "Y'es, fairly well." "Kin yo' read writin'?" "Yes." the nixt 40 rods, and then he said: "Stranger, I'm liviu' two miles further on. I'd like to hev yo, stop at my cabin and settle a dispute." 'I shouldn't like to got mixed up in any quarrel, you know." "Oil! of co'se not. It's a dispute between me'n my wife, and we've been a lookin' fur somebody to j settle it fur the last three months, j Yo' won't git into trouble about it. We don't spell nor figger, nor pronounce jest alike, and I reckon f II ! 1 I.I.W itATKS TO Al.l, KASTKItN I ITIKS. OCKAN 'sTKAMKIlS , l.ravp I'lirlhmd fury 4 ilu .r SAN FRANCISCO. l-'nr f.:li iIcIiiIIn mil nn II. li. A II, Aitnt M.o. I'lil'TKi;. I mil 'iH'iutciK'P, Or. -nr iul.lrt': w. ii. urnun iiT. (H-tt. I'lifn. Aunil, riirllanil. If. Hid WAY LAN'm.V SALEM, PORTLANJ) iSLSteamer Altona1 f Lenvo I'ortlai.d Tuepdays, Thurcdavfi and Saturday. fl;00 a. to. Leave Indi peudeiieo Moiidny, Wcdnendays and Kridat s -l;.'U) " f Leave Salem " " " 7H. " Fast Time. Cheap Bates -L'-ndi'ig- 1 17 V City Draymen! Alexander-Cooper Drug "Co" All kinds of Hauling in or out of the city Pronqdly attended to. Ci aryeu reasonable..' Perfumes, Stationery, Taints, Oils, Vnrnii-hes, 1'rtishef, Con, bs, Soaps, Always aim to please and keep on hand ' f Riildier Hoods, j. Sulilitir, I I'lltellt Mediciw Cigars, . ; Therinonnti"' Hooks, I Tens. J Pencils, Ktc, B Right Arm Paralyzed! Saved from St. Vitus Dance. Tlnn. T, Oi.k.t, lli nrj' I -i n JflORTHERN lll'liry 1'. liniii", U.. .-H . m PACIFIC R. R. yringes, Prescriptions :-: Carefully -:- Compoundei Diiv or Nicht. ' I IITJEjpTliisroElTOE, OREQOIT. R afternoon and one of the members f yo' kin set us straight." had an opportunity to get a good joke on Prof. Condon. He moved that the university adjourn on St. Patrick's day, whereupon Prof. Condon made a lengthy and weighty argument against respect ing any holiday otherwise than one strictly pretaining to American institutions. He was allowed to When we reached his cabin I was tendered a sip from the jug and introduced to his wife, she was a middle-aged woman of great firmness of character. The hus band explained that we had met accidently, and he asked me to act as referee and added "Our daughter, I;l: teen years of ajre, life afllictod with nervou. lost the entire use of V e feared St. Vitus c v:he, now flf X!en terribly ;ss, aud had r riplit arm. ce, and tried "Now. Btraneer. how do rn' ru.ll finish, then quietly informed that ' dawu?" "There is no such a word as dawg. It i dog " "But how do you spell it?" hy d o-g, dog. How do you and left her. After considerable 1 1846. He was a man well respect quarrelling who should have the fed by all who kqew him. The it made no dinerence, as St. Pat rick's day will come on Sunday this year, March 17. Mr. Stephen Jenkins, aged 73 years, died at his residence in j spell it?" Eugene last Saturday afternoon. "I don't go fur to consider to He i an old pioneer of this coun- reckon I'm much of a speller, but I try, having come to Oregon in ' git a 'd' and an V and an V and a 'g in thar furnwhars." the best physician-;, with no benefit. She has taken three bottles of Or. Miles' Nervine and has pained :;i pounds. Her nervousness and sv mo torus of St. Vitus dance arc entirely gone, she attends school regularly, and has recovered complete use of her arm, her appetite is splendid." IU1S. Ii. IL fclXtoCK, Isrlahion, N. Y. Dr. Miles' Nervine Cures. Dr. Miles" Nprvine fa wild on a pmltlra puaraniee that the first bottle will Vn.-lit. All'usirteiaaellltil. bottles for 16. or It will l writ, prepaid, oa reo-ipt of price by Hie tr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, J rid. u N o Pullman Elegant Tourist Sleeping Cars Dining Cars Sleeping Cars TO i HORSE MEN "That would be spelling the best work. enabled to secure from your investment, some fine (let jour bills piinted at lb? MXTKKPIUSi; ofhee. and get You will thus ! the best results We have sr. p.iul MT-AE.irous DULUTll (J ROOKS ro.v WIXMl'EO lIKLKX-j and 2 1WTTE THROUGH TICKETS TO f! II I C.I GO ir.fSfJYOTO.Y I'll iLii)i:um.i mcw roth' F OS TON and all 'Of NTS "1UST mid SOUTH IN DJCPKN DUNCE Dray & Truck Co. Praying of nil kinds in and out of the city will receive prompt and careful atten tion if entrusted to A. W. Docksteader, (Hiiiwwmr to Clina. HtauU) Our prices are the lowest. 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