INDEPENDENCE ENTEIIPKISE, INDEPENDENCE, OREfJON, SEPTEMBER Q 190f.
1902
Fall Announcement
1902
Monmouth s Big Dry Goods Store!
Our Big New Fall Stock now almotit complete) in every department ami in much larpor thin over before. Our goods are all of the very best
iia!ity and bought in the Ix-Ht morketH of the cast and wo guarantee our j. rices as low as any store in Polk county. Our usual Thirty Days' Fall
Opening Sale com mom oh
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1902
During which timo wu will allow a Special Discount of Ten Per Cent on every dollar Cash Purchase, excepting Shirting, Muslin,
Kuhhor Moot and Hhm-h, Culieos and heavy leather Shoos.
Clothing We have purchased a large now and up-to-date
stock of men's, hoyn' and youths' clothing, boys'
unit from $1 to $11.50 per unit Men's Huitu from $5 to
17."), large aHHortnient, latent ntyles. When you want
a nice, new and tylih nuit come and pee iih.
Dress Goods We are showing thy largest and most
complete line lino of drosn good ever seen in Monmouth,
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Kkirtings, plain and satin Ponnellas, mel
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Capes and Jackets We have a fine line of women's,
misses' and children's Capes, Jackets and Furs. It wil
be to your advantage to see our line before making youi
purchase in this line.
Our line of men's women's and children's underwear
cannot be excelled anywhere and our prices are way
down.
Hats in all styles and prices.
When you want Shoes our store is the place to get
them. All kinds for every day wear and fine dress shoes for men, women's
and children's at prices that will please you. Trade with us and you will
always be happy.
OUTWtA IIATMI.
TOUQH GOODS FOR ROUGH
WEAR.
Triple Knee, Toe . Heel
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L.ISL.I3 FINISH.
ALU FAMOUS
V RAVEN BRAND ,
( A stockings. Monmouth,
FOR SAUK BY
Yours For Business,
S. M. Daniel,
Oregon.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
(). II. Itider it Hod have 140
head of Cottwold eheep to rent on
share. A god chance for some
one.
Millinery oenings teem to bo
the order of the day. Mr. Hur
ley, ot Independence, and Ming
Squire, of Monmouth, are out this
week with announcements.
Speltz is the beet hog food grown,
according lo Mr. P. J. Whiteaker.
of Monmouth. Soa his ad in an
other col u in n.
ft. M. Wade fc Co. have a change
ot busines locals this week.
A chance to have your piano
tuned by an expert is offered the.
people of this vicinity. See the
notice dm-where.
Kramer t Co. want a chance to
get at your watch. They can fix
it. If you want to save money in
jewelry have a talk with thetn.
Horet Bros, announce a picnic
at their hop yard Sunday.
t'nuer it Rico are overstocked in
plow. A special price is made to
reduce the stock. They make
other just as important announce
ments. Consult their au.
Rice, the furniture roan, an
nounces a special discount for ten
days in another column.
If your soul needs attention take
it to Hughe, the shoemaker. All
work guaranteed.
When in Halem put your team
up at the Red Front Livery and
feed Stable. It will be well taken
care of.
is complete and a special discount
is oflered for thirty days.
A special shoe sale commences
September 19 at E. K. Paddock's
store. It will be on about a week
which gives everybody a chance to
stock up.
The Salem Woolen Mills store
of Salem has a store full of bar
gains. They are out after trade
and mean to have it if prices will
get it. See their ad.
Mrs. E. J. Hosier leaves in a
few days for Olympia, Wash.,
give the state ample and just re
turns for the benefits it has af
forded them, by entoring ' the field
of teaching well equipped.
The faculty remains th9 same as
last year, except that the chair of
mathematics and physics will be
occupied by L. A. Robineon. of
Pullman; the chair of rhetorio and
English by Ellen M. Pennell, of
Chicago; musio and drawing by
Miss Grace A. Higgins, of Boston.
This places the inuBic and drawing
in a single class and leaves the
manuel training a most 'important
wh-re she will make her future branch in the care ot separate in-
home. Mrs. Hosier has many
friends in Independence who n
gret her departure.
OPKNING DAY.
Monmouth's big dry goods utore
is out with h fall announcement
this week. Every department in it
First Day's Enrollment Shows an
Increase Over Last Year.
The .State Normal School opened
Tuesday with yery bright pros
pects. There were some 80 students
enrolled, which is a ' marked in
crease over the same day of last
year. Students are arriving by
each trai'i and the total enroll
ment will exceed that of .last year.
Chapel exercises were held at
the usual hour, and President
Resalor gave a clear and definite
outline of the future policy of the
school. He insisted that thereat
basis of work was honesty be
tween student and teacher, and he
declared that the real purpose of
the Normal School will be empha
sized, namely, the definite prepara
tion of teachers, and the aim of
President Ressler and faculty will
be to direct the work of the stu
dents so that they will be able to i
structors, W. H, Mahoney, of
Bridgewater, Mass., and T. C.
Allen, of Union.
R. C. French, who has been
spending the summer in the
schools of Massachusetts, will no
doubt bring back many things of
great value to the senior teachers
in the training school.
band when the farmer must look to
dairying, hog raising and other branch
es ef labor if he hopes to realize any
profit from his work on the ranch.
Time wu when many acres of wheat
represented many dollars in coin, bnt
with that cereal quoted at 50 cents the
producer finds small comfort for his
pains at the end of the- year's labor.
Wheat hereabouts that promised ex
cellent returns averaged from 10 to 22
and 23 bushels. Oats are running from
10 to 30.
The Evans threshing on t tit bus given
excellent satisfaction and Mr. Evans is
more than pleased with it, as ire all
parties who have had work done. Mr.
Evans has threshed on an average
about 125 acres per day in this section,
and by tair dealing and clean work has
won for both himself and his outfit a
reputation that will insure' him a still
larger run next year.
IIOIMMCKERS PICNIC.
Big Time Expected at McLaugh
lin's Yard Next Sunday.
The annual hop-pickers' picnic is
announced to take place .at the Mc
Laughlin yard Buuday. There will be
Indian races, free-for-all races, base
ball, trick bicycle riding and many
other attractions. Preparations are
being ruMde to entertain a large crowd.
Big dance afternoon and evening.
It Is Disappointing-.
Special Correspondence.
Farmers in the locality of Buena
Vista are greatly disappointed m the
harvest returns, and while some say
that this is an "off " year and prophecy
that next year will bring forth a large
crop, there are others who are disgusted
and who declare that the time is at ' to Suver, where there will be three
Calvary.
Hoppicking is cer at this place.
Pearl Alexander has gone to the
Taylor & Scott hop yard to work.
Rudolph Simon has his house
up and it will soon be ready for
occupancy.
Grandma Helmick is down from
Albany.
Mrs. Irvine and Frieta Gay are
both on the sick list.
E. Evans finished a 28 days'
threshing last Saturday.
Clarence Tedrow ran a hack
with supplies for the Harper it
Reuf hoppickers.
The campers at the hop yard
had a candy pulling laet Saturday
evening which was greatly enjoyed.
Bert Harper's hoppickers have
finished picking in the two Hel
mick yards and have moved camp
days' picking in his yard at that
place. Mr. Harper paid 45 cents
per box picked by weight, and
there was no strike. Hops were
fairly good.
The Forest Fire.
A property loss which will reach
into the millions and lives given,
up to the number of two score or
more is a brief summary of the
ravages of the forest fires about
Portland and in Southern Wash
ington. And even this death list
may run much higher for a hun
dred or more are missing in the
Lewis river district alone. Mills,
villages, farm houses and valuable
timber lands .have been burned
within the past week and only the
prompt relief sent out from Port
land and surrounding towns has
sayed many from starvation.
Falls City Leader
J. S. Talbott and wife are con
templating moving to Dallas. Mr.
Talbott will be employed in rail
road work from now on.
The reason for the absence of the
usual Polk county exhibit at the
state fair lies in the fact that the
booth which Mrs. F. A. Wolf pre
pares last year was denuded and
divided by the managers, although
she had gone to considerable ex
pense in its arrangement. .
Dallas is to have waterworks.
The election on bonding for that
purpose held Monday so decided,
and II. V. Gates, of Hillsboro, is to
put in the plant. Frank Butler is
at Dallas running the level of the
course of the main.