INDKPENDRNCK KNTKIITWSG, INDBPBNUBNCE, OREGON
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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.
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Meckwear.
Wlion itcoiiu'M to nicli'. ni'tliwi'iir pre
Clothing.
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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. -
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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
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h" ... ..... iiu!i.v. fotni)lite education. Hut a I
fccry oii
I Mmtt.
EJuctiin should end only with
!,. The man or woman who
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Ul! tllftl Oil" " f
J i.1l.,.U and colhges ,m8'
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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 "
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