INDKI'ENOKNQE fcNTKRMUSK, 1NIEJM NPEWK, OWWN
TIJE OLD RELIABLE
Absolutely Pure
THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE
Social and Personal.
Stock pasture. C. W. Leonard
For summer dress gooda go to
Mespner.
Miss Lola Stark is home from Mt
Angel college.
Mrs. A. J. Tupper is Tisiting
relatives in Salem.
Fresh salted peannt3 and al
monds at Wagoner's.
Miss Maggie Pomeroy was over
from Dallas Sunday.
Dougherty, the horseshoer, with
Fennel, the blacksmith.
G. A. Hurley and A, L. Sperling
were in Salem Sunday.
v Stock pastured. Enquire of U
G. Ileilley, Monmouth, Oregon.
K. C. Eldridge was out on a
visit to Southern Oregon last week.
Mrs. Sarah Irvine returned Sat
urday night from a week',s visit in
Salem.
G. L. Hawkins and family, of
m . . r 1 . i,
C" iauas, were greeting lrieuus nore
Sunday.
Miss Minta Taylor returned Sat
urday from Baker City and will re
main here.
Mies Parrott, a teacher in the
Roseburg school, is visiting
Monmouth.
Bayard Merrill, after a short
visit in this section, returned to
Portland Sunday.
T. J. Nevvbill was a passenger to
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Try our tine tallW Warner. J Claude hkinner w wanum
,. .. , .,Jheadonartera at Monmouth at ne
A new line of ladies sun bonnets , ' . ,
riifc. i in? ii'hi u i"
been working haa been tied "I u,r
the summer.
Pon't fail to be at the Kebckah
Fen
at Menaner'n.
Who's Doiichertv? He U
nell's expert hornerdioer.
Miss Mabel Cooper left Monday
afternoon for Hood Uiver. She
will be absent several weeks.
A number of larj-u peanut sacks
for sale at 5 cents each at Wag
oner's. Fine for chittim bark.
Pr. W. C. Brown loft this week
for Hums, Harney county, where be
will sojourn duriuii the summer.
Hring us your butter, eggs and
chiiken. We pay top prices for
all kinds of produce. Messner.
Mr and Mrs. Ernest Johnson
and Mr. Johnson's mother and
family were Albany visitors Fri
day, 4 Zed Rosendorf has had a force of
men nt work on the front of his
store building making some re
pairs. Miss Pearl Cooper, nurse in the
Good Samaritan hospital at Port
land, is at home (for a month's va
cation.
John K. Johnson, who is operat-
i 1..
ing a steam lannury in iMigen,
was visiting his family here this
week.
Uebekab dance at the auditorium
Friday evening, May 29. Dainty
refreshments perved. You are in
vited.
Pres. E. D. Reatder delivered the
address to the graduating class of
the Silverton public school Friday
evening
Arle Hampton returned week last
from Bend. Eastern Oregon, he
having been teaching school there
this winter.
A special motor to Monmouth
after the Rebekah dance tomorrow
evening. A crowd trom wallas is
to come also,
dance. They know how to enter
tain and this is to be the crowning
achievement of their winter's entertainments.
Kev. James Waggoner wa n pas
senger through town Monday, lie
is on a lecturiinr tour. At one
time he was pastor of the Christian
church here,
Milliard k riynmle invite a
comparison of their work with the
best turned out of any blacksmith
shop. Then they ask you to ascer
tain prices. Work best, prices low
est. 100 acres, 100 acres in hay and
clover; stock barn, bum, 9-room
residence, orchard, good outrange,
farm, .'KXK). To trade for im
proved farm near Indejiendenee.
Cooper it Hurley.
Services at the Presbyterian
church next Sabbath both morn
ing and evening, conducted by the
pastor. Topics of special interest
at each service. Sabbath school at
10 A. M. A very kind welcome to
all.
in
Corvallis Sunday. He also visited
Eugene this week.
240-acre farm at $5 per acre; im
V proved, stock land, well located
Cooper & Hurley.
You will be satisfied with the
work of Dougherty, the horseshoer,
with Thos. Fennell.
Several ice cream dishers for sale
at Wagoner's for 25 cents each.
Good for home use
Mis Nellie Pomeroy, who has
been teaching in Washington, re
turned home Friday.
When in Salem visit Strong's
Restaurant. It is headquarters for
Independence people.
Mrs. Albert Jessup, of Salemf
. visited at the home of her father,
Thos. Fennell, Sunday.
Miss Martha Wyman visited in
town this week. Her home has
been in Tacoma, Wash.
The only wood worker 'in the
town is at Hilliard & Plymale's.
He has a full and complete stock
of wood for all carriage, wagon and
general job! ing. Workmanship
unexcelled. See him. f
The ladies of the Presbyterian
church are preparing for their an
nual rose fair. More definite in
formation soon. ,
Miss Rose Clodfelter, who is
working in a millinery store at
Perrydale, visited ovtr Sunday
with her parents here.
E. V. Cooper returned Friday
The Independence and Mon
mouth motor will mane special
trips to Dallas during Carnival
week. It will leave here early in
the morning and return in the
evening after the exercises of the
day are over.
Iley. E. O, Wiginore, of Mon
mouth, who recently was elected to
the chair of Hebrew at the Eugene
Divinity School, has re considered
his intentions to accept a position
in that faculty and will remain in
Monmouth another year.
Independence should take some
steps at once to resume the Satur
day evening concerts so popular
here last summer. McMinnville
has already started these concerts
and our neighboring towns are do
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nig usewise. t uai are we going
to do about it?
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Tl, t.-aeher I'ionio at Mcareni
Saturday attracted many from here,
The day was an ideal one.
tiHir anv number pay it 1 "'H v,f
the best a flair of 'he kind ever
pulled olf in the county. Tlx" nth
lot io contests were spirited and the
exercises commendable.
Moore's Hair lnvlraior and
llerpieide are the world' greatest
n!n cleansers and hair inv Kor
utors. lloth are for sale at J.
Moore's barber shop. Call ami
liavd Mr. Moore give an applica
tion of yther remedy and you will
never be without one or the other.
The crowd which went to see
Uoosevelt in Portland returned
home Friday. A halt hundred or
so from here were in the mctrlia
to gain a glimpse of the nation's
chief magistrate. Several extra
coaches were required to accommo
date those who went from Curyullie
and other points along here.
A special motor was run to Cor
vallis Friday evening, taking quite
a delegation from Dallas, Mon
mouth and Indeemlence. The
occasion was the interstate oratori
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
W. R. ALLIN, D. D.
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I'kOiIpm KMltlrlliiu
Hir.lll.
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this week.
C. I.. Kitehard returned fyj,,
from New York Slate, aft,,,.,,,.
week spent in the lar ent.
Hursenhoeinir iimir
- rr"injit4
we will take a hack seat to no ttfc
living in tlii litm. Il!lri)t
nyiualiS Jmlejtenilenoe.
I larmiers iiheep marking Wj
my in with the weather, m,
out In the scouring; will imrn
the selling value nf every
Now on Hall at r rater t Uiit't
The ladies eading club rete
entertained by Mrs. A.' 8. Locli
and H. K. Owe,i this eveniti n
the homo of A. H. Lock. T!
hook they will read it UU
Mary."
Mr. aril Mr. Joseph Dour
cal contest, in which California's gm yisitinK at the horn
evening from l'ortland. He re
ports the Independence exhibit as
the beBt there at present.
One three-gallon ice cream freez
er in good shape for sale at Wag
oner's for only 91-50.- Also one
two-gallon freezer for 91.00.
Call and see the new line of
ladies' oxfords and strap sandals,
also Misses' and children's slippers
in red and black at Messner's.
The Whiteaker barn which the
council ordered moved back from
the street, is the Mrs. D. J. Whit
eaker barn near the school house.
Preaching services at the United
Evangelical church next Sunday
evening at 8 o'clock. The paBtor
preaches at Buena Vista at 1 1 A. M.
Notice to K. of P. Initiatory
worK conterred at the regular
meeting W ednesday evening. All
members requested to be present.
New magazines for June now on
sale at Wagoner's Ladies' Home
Journal, Frank Leslie's, Munsey,
Argosy, Strand and Cosmopolitan.
Miss Nellie Burke, teacher in the
Independence public school, leaves
this week for a. summer's vacation
on the sound.
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II m jWM wn
l,ove is some
time a hard task
master. He drives
women to tasks be
yond their strength
ana lays heavy bur
dens on their
shoulders. Love
of husband, love of
tatmly, forces many
a woman day by
day to labor for the
home when aching
back and throbbing
head make her ut
terly unfit for
household duties.
Weak, nervnua
women who suffer from headache, back
ache, bearing-down pains and other con
sequences of womanly disease, can be
completely cured by the use of Doctor
Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It es
tablishes regularity, dries weakening
drains, heals inflammation and ulcera
tion and cures female weakness.
"About two years ago I wa taken aick and it
Jtemed at If J had no ncrvea at all,"wrilm Mrs
P. Woodbeck, or Irtlray, Mich. "Could not
work an hour in the day withont being; tire
cut. 1 doctored firnt with one phygicmn. the.,
with another, but did not receive any benefit
One would aay one thins; and the neit noraething
elae. I had almost g,ven up whtn , tlouh'5
your medicine uiitht Tielp me, so I wrote to you
asking what to do. You advised me to take Ir
Flerce'l Favorite Pr..Hf.in.. -..A ,...,... ... .'
leal Discovery.' I did so and could see a ditft-r- '
ence right away. I onlv took four lnm.. n I '.'
'. man i nao. in a lonff time.
representative triumphed. Mr.
Poling, ot Dallas, wan given second
place.
The annual gymnastic exhibition
of the Normal was held lust Friday
evening. Mr. Forbes, the physical
culture instructor, appears to be
the right man in the right place,
and he has developed a healthy
athletic spirit in that institution
during his administration of that
department.
At the Ilebekah dance tomorrow
evening the hall is to he beauti
fully decorated, and an orchestra of
five pieces will be on hand to fur
nish the best of music. The fliwr
is cijiial to the best, and they hope
all will turn out on the occasiou to
make it a success. Tomorrow ( Fri
day, Miy evening, at the audi
torium. The Key Stone League of Christ
ian Endeavor at the I'nited Evan
gelical church is growing in inter
est as well as in nunilier, five hav
ing joined llie tiociety lust Sunday
evening and three the Sunday pre
vious. Meetings 'during the sum
mer months each Sunday evening
at i o clock. Miss Bertie Moore is
the leader fur thii-jw(4ttrrt-n7jr-
D. M. Hewitt and son, of near
Monmouth, have recently added
some thoroughbred stock to their
already fine cattle. One fine Jer
sey heifer comes from Spring Hill
farm, Newberg, and another from
Byrcett, Bingen, Wal:. Both are
registered animals. One would
hardly realize there were ho man v
blooded cattle in Polk county as
there is. As a matter of fact there
are few counties in the state uhetid
of us in this line.
U. CI. Heffler. at Talme. B,
Uouglas will leave next tot fa
California, and after a few werL
spent there will return lo the Rut
His wife will leave for the Etc
tiKn his arriva there,
The Palace conlectionery itw,
Craven it Moore, proprietors, ii u
open to th public MjiitUr mow
ing. They have neat qu-tert
door east of the Little Palace bt
office. All kinds of choicest usii
candies, cigars and article ii
kindred line constantly iniwi
An invitation to our businettqoi,'
ti-rs is extended to all.
To aivure a change of any lip!c
advertising it is essential that j-
reach us not later than Wilnu
morning. All other matter mw
be in by Wednesday ofternooniiil
appears in lh weekly issue, Tlii
rule ii essentiol, as so tww;
lately get their copy in even wliU
as Thursday noon, at a time wta
the paper is ready for press.
At a meeting of the general con
mi t lee on celebration, consUtit-g'f
O. D. Butler, T. D. Campbell ui
Ii H. Knox, it was decided toil-
low $." inxiudjloiMw4T4odge-rtH
would put out a lloat. Other
rangements in regard to thewtinj
contest were agreed upon, repono'
which is to ho found in the write
up of the goddess of liberty contett
She ?PGade,
Davidson fit Hedges, P'P'-
C i Kn i x', C i xn l t 1 1 TohiK"
oh aiulCtmlbftionery.
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io jncparation on Uk- market equals
Formaldehyde
as a smut cradicator. It is a preparation used
and recoinrHon.led by tho Oregon Agricultural
Uilli-jio. I-ariiicrs will 10 well to cive thin
ionnulaa tliorough tost.
Directions: One ounco to three eallons of
water 11ns solution vis Hprinkle.1 on 10
i'uhelsof wheat, and then thoroughly mix in
order to moisten each grain. .
wars ail UBV now ind nnl fl ti-A i
In sa hour before taking your treatment. I
fMnk it is the only medicine."
Dr. Pierce'. Pleasant PeUeU cure dia
ziaeu arul tick headache.
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A. S. Locke,
The 'dependence Druggist.'