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About Independence enterprise. (Independence, Polk County, Or.) 189?-190? | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1903)
INDKPENDRNCK KNTKIITWSG, INDBPBNUBNCE, OREGON 0989889899S999S 99S88899 V. A. MESSNER I SUCOKSSOIl TO T. A.MILLS. Wc arc constantly adding new linos to our stock and giving prices that suit. Give us a trial and you need go no farther to buy, as we can please you. D 8 Meckwear. Wlion itcoiiu'M to nicli'. ni'tliwi'iir pre Clothing. it. Straw Goods. We have tho best lino of men's Straw and Canvas Hutu ever shown here. We ore watching every train, expecting a ., line ot men's dress shoes, something new HI1d up-to-date, never shown in Independence. We have just received a new addition to our stock of Clothing and can now show some of the best patterns and values in town. - -ATg We have a new line of the latest shapes in Hats. Come and see them. Groceries and Produce. f Bring us your Produce. Wc will pay you 9 S V eoOOObOO00 wwwwww r iiin . h" ... ..... iiu!i.v. fotni)lite education. Hut a I fccry oii I Mmtt. EJuctiin should end only with !,. The man or woman who .. . . :. I.. Ii.1v odu- Ul! tllftl Oil" " f J i.1l.,.U and colhges ,m8' ,vu ii ; , ken for the most that scholastic inin can do is start one well, oiio the riitht roaa ol learning J iiioui, and despatch the Blu nt forward with o godspeed. The human mind is susceptible almost limitlcw. development (1 expansion, and there in no age which the improvement of it astBtnp, and it ought to be every L'i ambition to muke bis mind -- ----- . made: to ai.orouch, step, by step that unattainable ideal of intel- iimi nowor and completeness. almighty, all-knowing Godhead iich all cultivated men, all lntei tual nations have worshipped un- t divers names. "Jehovah, Jove Lord" as the self-existing source thought and being. Perhaps the li'iritv ot high school and of col- graduates cease studying when y quit the academic halls, lhcy m their sheepskins framed and ung upon a wall, and whenever feel the neod of an intellectual inulua they glance at the pomp- in Latin inscription, which they knslat'i but awkwardly, and then- rtmind themselves that tnej l,v fomnlete education, Hut a College education Is a machine which will rust and rot unless it is polished and kept in use. Do not alto opt too much. This is a busy aje. and the man who has his living t2 ...nut eiva the cream of his cm ii - n . ...urgvand most of his tune to me , uu work by which he gets bread a no butter. But nearly every man i.; roma leisure for rending. Kvery mad and woman ought to read, cs- pecially the English masters ol prose and poetry; the ancients as w the moderns. Audit is an ex tent thing to have at least a read of some modern lan,- or those tongues have im B""" literatures. It is said that one is as times a man as ui ."-- , knows, ueriam ir..-.. fiuua i. Birtv vears of ... I .1 11 T 1 1 . age. He starteu uie an ju' clerk in a mercantile house at fif teen. William Rockefeller's first posi tion was that of book-keeper in a commission house. He is sixty William F. Havemeyer is tmy- two. He received a private emo tion at th close of which he enter ed a bank. I). 0. Jf'dls is seventy-seven years old. After an academic edu cation he started ms nnanciai career as a clerk.,, John D. Rockefeller after a com-.iBM14Ml--uMi trapping ....l'apcr We carry fourteen vari eties and ten weights of wrapping paper. We always bavo what you want. Get our prices. fceo. F. Rodgers& Co- whoiesale Paper Dealers Salem, Oregon. many & I . ... ..... riie it h that the possession of another than one's mother tongue lh(l intellect and gives the mind i ...i . r nnmnarison anu a new stanuarua v..., cosmopolitan point of view.-ban Francisco Bulletim Quick Arrest. . i ... Alu.. I A Oulledge, or erw... - Jtt'ioe ln the hospital from a se was twice in i ' 24 tumors. vereeaseof "Hw failed, After doctors and all remeoi ;klen. Arnica JW pirn. ealaudJ)n.8Co.s. Affos of Noted Men. George J. GTT only forty- top price in trade. TENTH gorre$potldellt$, onte$t n inril l.t. we commenced our Tenth Correspondents' Contest and on Friday, July 31, 1903, at 6:00 P. M. we will close it. We offer as premiums the following articlee, selected ly the t-orresponaenw mou,,. . . f L.1.tn-AJ Aln Oz-vll fY first rwzE i .... .-up.., J; TH1KU IKltc ., . nf Pino Pnnir. sixth prize :-:ZTfzrJZ SEVENTH PRIZE Independence jnterfkibb j CONDITIONS. tVe want all the news that happens in Polk county and we wanttbeExTa ph.se to visit every family in the county. We want to he p you and we want you to helo us. Our interests are mutual. We will give points as follows. One point for every item of news worthy of publication. 25 pomts for every article worthy of a seperate head. If an article be specially mentor.ons or s art HnV nthe Ight of the manager of this department an extra 15 points will be Liven For every new yearly subscription 85 points. For every yearly renewal given, ra ti ' . . . months and less than 75 points. For a .uDseripuoo ... .t;"' T . wt wo : 50 position as clerk in a forwarding . . 1 ITa 11 and commission nou, sixty-three. John W. Gates was raised on hia father's f.irm, waB married at eighteen and started a little hard ware store, whicn ne eou.. 75 points, m uw.HTr --"--. w . h Wnrk n doned to sell barbed wire at mOjayear saints. For ZZoor Job. We . a mon ,th. He is forty-seven. years f0Un'.MH Saee is eighty-six fH. Morcan carries the J Pierpont Morg" i;hi..uti- Poml How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Re ward for any caHeof catarrh that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O, We the undersigned, have known F J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable In all business transactions and financial y able to carry out any obligations made SSXSSa. Whoiesale Bruits Tole.to.Ohio. W L, - Marvin, Wholesale jj.ubb.o-, unio. . t. Hall's Catarrh cure nallv. acting directly upon u,, v. DBl ' . . ...rheea of the system. ".B;, t free. Price, 75o per bottle. Bold byalldrugKista. Hall's Family Pills arethe besU Mrs. I. Claggett'e condition con tinnea to improve. Mrs E E. Paddock was among he Portland visitors this week. a year 00 !.. - flnv kind of M or Job. We are "rlTZ'ait,. and we will announce going to mate a u u h,. .. we will make it to your at times the p aces in tnis coiumu. , ai hiub hio H"" ., aunt rpnrexented. Other interest to secure representatives in mo OTOw"w - features will be announced along. HOW YOU STAND. Dolnts. No article is Fuph week we win annouuD u ". 1 . c&mirail in other ways Will oe miuwiii j - - . secured 1 otner hag occurred m p0lnt9 everything fair and stra gn J thoromrh investigation. rite us within the wee lonowing "... - Buena Vista, H ' 731 Airlie, P ' 811 Monmouth, H ggo Parker 271 Suver ... 204 Antioch 166 Monmouth, B v 12O Lewisvtlle. m 92 Highlands, D .'.'.'.'.'.' Rickreall, C. - 60 Monmouth, A :' 38 Ballston 9 Sunny Slope 60 Falls City " t - 1