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About Independence enterprise. (Independence, Polk County, Or.) 189?-190? | View Entire Issue (July 2, 1903)
i Independence Enterprise. AND WESTISICE. rrUUSUEW KVKKY T.ll'UKDAY. Knlorr J t 1ihIo)m-ii(1'i-, Or., xwtolllo MH-outlt'liuMi nmiwr. Subscription Price, $i.$o pcrVr. TKi.rrno.NK 5t BUHSCIUPTION ItATKH. (Sirlotly In ailYauee) For year v. 41 w 811 Burnt In W tiinKis copy... 05 1,0c I noting re S cent xr Una straight absolutely uo rodui'liou lor any ri-aaon whauovvor. Blnon display advertlaliig made known u Bi'i'lk-ntlou. In another column 5s an article quoted from one of our old files, and is published for one reason only. It shows the prosperity ol our towu in the early '90s. Those institutions, dwellings, etc., aro a part of the city's resources today We are that much ahead of that time. The thing for tho people to do is to get together, act in bar mony and secure new institutions as we did in '90. If every business man in the city who is able, and now lives in rented houses would erect a dwelling the ice would be broken. If every man would con tribute his just nnte toward secur ing and encouraging new enter prises, as well as to build up those already here, things would be look ing upward. If a town doesn't prosper nine times out of ten the fault rests with its residents. If they take no interest, neither will outside capital. If that condition exists here it is high time to eradi cate it. IHDKPENPENC1 with the arti of peace, and that condition prevails whether the ea Hon is washed by the majestic At lantic or Pacific, or ia drained by the MUtdssippi. The question tdiould answer it' PPlfe were about to say prove the ignorance of tho questioner. 'THERE IS R.1ST: IS ixdu: THERE The frequency with which the inquiry comes regarding educa tional and religious conditions in the states bordering the Pacific ocean is so constant as to amaze even the casual visitor to our com inanities. Our resources are not challenged, on the contrary our commercial future is the envy of our eastern friends. But the ques tions: Can we educate our child ren? Can we find places of wor ship? Let us answer: To the man who thinks, to the person who reads, or to the indi vidual of the least inquiring mind there is no excuse for such density. No better citizenship, no higher ideals are there than those to be found in this far western country. Why can not the Easterners take inspiration from the fact that Stan ford University, the state univer sities of California, Oregon and Washington are institutions with courses of study almost equal to the best in the East, and that hun dreds of institutions but a shade inferior to these above mentioned are sprinkled over the country from the northern border cf Wash ington to the southern line of Cali fornia? Who knows of a town of even a few hundred inhabitants that does not support a well-graded school in this day and age of the world? Who knows of a law-abiding, progressive section that does not support myriads of church edi fices proclaiming the' observance of the teachings of Deity in some form or other? A state does not progress, grow great without being accompanied by those institutions which stand for the moral and in tellectual development of its child ren. Commercial progress is fol lowed, or rather goes hand in hand, No country has ever had such a marvelous development as that of tho state along the Pacific shore. In Mi), Thomas II. Hon ton. the great expansionist, was urging with burning eloquence the then supposed impossible undertaking of a transcontinental railroad. S lid he: "Let us beseech the na tional legislature to build a great road upon the great national line which unites Europe and Asia the line which will find on our con tinent the bay of Fn Francisco on one end, Sti Louis in the middle and the great national metropolis and emporium at the other, and which shall be adorned with its crowning honor, the colossal statue of the great Columbus, whose de sign it accomplishes, hewn from a granite mas of a peak of the Rocky mountains, the mountain itself a pedestal, and the statue a part of the mountain, pointinar with out stretched arm to the western hori zon, and saying to the Hying pas sencers. 'There is East: there is India.'" Transcontinental rail road after another now link one ocean to the other, and India is not by far as distant today as St. Louis was to New York in the fore part of the last , century. Edmund Burke commenced his immortal oration against coercing America with these words: "America, gen tlemen say, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting for." While the far-sighted Napol- eon predicted me -ereaiesi oi earth'B nations would be the one who controlled tho Mississippi basin." The years have rolled by and the United States has more than exceeded the most sanguine expectations of the early statesmen. The seat of activity has centered along the Pacific coast, the future battleground for commercial supre macy, in tnis Dame uregon win take a prominent part. The worry over securing immigration win fade away when depressing times again-hnVtrnr East. Our climate, our advantages will be recognized, and then with Bishop Barclay we fBtACMGIITJ limn a e Ktfirmir of Urn iniweu V J uii pwiu- in 1 ComtilHUion Is nothing in""1 i h I .1 nit- ii-h man vn .ml on nr (It'll! li if Hot ri'llfUM ami nothin may say: WeHtward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acta already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest ofTsprini; is the last, A Pleasant Kntertaiiunent. If every conatiputtHl aiitienT tlmt he in allewinir poiwuHini filtli tti rvmain amU'iii, ho would men (Jit .relief. Constipation invite an mnn ui contagion, llemlmliin, biliou lie, eolda antl ninny other nient tliipiear when conati pated Ixiwelmirerelieveil. Hunt ford'a ll!iiek-lrmiht thoroughly clean out the bowel in an wiy ami natural manner without the purging of calomel or other vio lent cathartic. He sure that you oet the oriei not Tbwlfuril'i itfiti k-lriiiiK't. made by Tho Chattiuiooua Medi cine Co. Sold by all tlrtiHtfisU in 25 cent and f 1. 00 pacJumet. Imu, Ar lar I raanot rwiiainrad Tafdftw 'a HUWk Pr.tt lit few klirhlr. I kra It In mr ka sU Ui tit and fca? awd II fur Ik' but Ira jran. I rm r mj rklltlrra ur otkir laiallra. I Ik I na 1 tamli hth k aalt t work wllkoat II na aiwmiRt of bvlat lrmMa wlia . raaatlpallua. luar BMNllelaa la i all Uut heap ap. v 0. ciAaiia.itf, ,fS.A. Jt Jaspersor H.H. Undertaker. and Funeral I Dir.?) Independence. " noil, h. went idrt lit) -n, eiinhliii j rpenil Siindiiy at tlitt mi,t low round trip rnttii at,',., between Porttuiid ami on tho Hmithern iVific, f injr Saturday, ri-turninj 4 or Monday, allowing I'ortla- pie to upend Hundtiy in try and tho nut of torn p.. have tint dny in I'orttand. Tit kuts In. in .Wllanilu.y, ,,rinriHl of the publi sd.-'l laro,. moves to M..imiutli tint week, llo will I-h-hIo hi thero for tlu tuiiniuer, I''t ui" npenil Iho next few months him self at Tilhuntiok. At tho opining of srlionl in Soptember, Prof. Murpliy will n.m.tne tho prim ipnl hip.'f the Sdivtfiu I'ul.lie m Ihk.1, and will tAi) up 1 i resiilente there. In the new portion tlioro is u more lucrative salary than that the m-IiouI hav- Lr four irriuh-H. and' the tow.. IW rou. for n-turn ,i,,J bein a lively little Muring their reni. lento hero tho Murphy Imvo j;aiiud niiiny Iriends, and their departure is much regretted. May siuces. follow them to the new home. 1 liny, Rood polil(; fatUfd.t, intf Monila,', nr 01, n J inn ami Hurt!) She Ih Clone. Mrs. I. H. Ingram, of the M. E. church of this city, made the children of lier Sunday school class happy Tues day afternoon by entertaining them at her home between 2:00 and 4:30 P. M. The children busied themselves by playing games suitable for the occasion and eating cherries, iee cream and cake. They all returned home feeling very happy and were all very thankful to their entertainer for the excelent af ternoon they had enjoyed. No l'ity Shown. 'For years fate was after me con tinuously," writes F. A. Oulledge Verbena, Ala. "I had a terrible case of piles causing 24 tumors. When all failed Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured me. Equally good for burns and all aches and pains. Only 25c at A. S. Locke's drug store. In a pretty country homo two miles north of Buonu Vista there is sorrow nnd weeping; a hus band bereft of a devoted wife, and four littlo ones left motherless. Tho mi gel of death has hover ed for many months over the dwelling of W. N. McLaughlin, whilo consumption steadily did its deadly work; and Tuesday evening Mrs. Lorena McLaugh lin quietly fell asleep, to awaken in a bettor world. Deceased was a native of Ore gon, having first seen tho light of day in Linn county, 31 years ago. In maidenhood she was Miss Lorena Rodgers. Her first husband was Mr. McDonald, by whom thero are three children living. Mrs. Lorena McDonald was married to W. N. McLaughlin 111 June, 1901, and . an infant daughter is tho fruit of this un ion. For six months Mrs. Mc Laughlin has been in failing health, but her suffering was borne in patience and cheerful ness. Bho was a faithful christ ian, a loving wife and mother, a true friend, and her going is a source of deepest sorrow to all who knew her. The funeral occurred Thurs day from tho United Evangeli cal church in Buena Vista. Tho sermon was by Iicv. 15. J. Kelly and a largo concourse of friends and relatives attended tho last sad rites. Interment was in the Buena cemctary. Keilticeil Ktrurnloii Kate to llie .Sellable lil Mountain K" sorts lor tli Siiinnier. Tho Southern Pacific Company has placed on nalo at 'very low rates ro"nii-trip tickets to the vanou re sorts along its lines, and alo in connection with the Corvalli A Eastern Railroad to lMroit and the eaaido at Yaquiua I'.av, latter tickets good for return until Oc tober 10th, Three-day tickets to Yitquina Another Family Flitting, ' This week witnesses the depar ture from Buena Vista of anoth er of its most estimable families, and Monmouth gains what Bue na regrets to lose. Prof. B. L. Murphy, who has for two years been the efficient Dark Hair " I have ued Ayer'i Hair Vigor for a great many yeari, and al though I am pan eighty year of age, yet I bave not a gray hair in my bead." Geo. Ycllott, Towaon, Md. We mean all that rich, dark color your hair used to have. If it's gray now, no matter; for Ayer's Hair Vigor always re stores color to gray hair. Sometimes it makes the hair grow very heavy and 1cm5yandTt stops Tailing of the hair, too. II. M a bollU. All intiluu It your tlnirclat cannot atimily yon, attntl ua nna tlnifur ami t will rina yoli a iHitilo. I'.o atiro and plva (ho naiim at your amtrcat i-irin oIIho. AtMrvM, J. C. A V Kit CO., l-owcll, Maaa. nnd euit side, or C'urvllit n,; side, nt option of pawner pane checked through to N A l ew fratur at Newport)).;, will be, an up to ilnt KhJt-p in charge of an eiperift)(lc; teacher. A beautifully IMuntrated V describing the. m-aiidu rr;, Ynquiun Bay lia been pM by the Nmthern Pacific iri vnllis iV Kaatern Kailruoliiti lie secured from any ofilwirirj or by addressing V, E. cJ (i. V. A.. H. P. Co., of fafe hdwin rtoiie, iuanatr Ct U. II., Albany, Oregnn Mrs. Bowden was t D1IU1 itor Monday, tho guesl uf h, I.. Hawkins. She ?rcae Davidtop & Hdge. P"p C J i ira 1 -h , ( j i tr a 1 -t 1 1 1 n, Ti com and Con lift ioner Fikst Class Hon Foisra CoXNKt'TIO.V. . ...THE... IHonmoutb imt II. I. WIIITM.Wroa 4 4 4 4 4 4 Should have your Wort VanhltiR called for 4 llvfreil Vnhllitf called fnfOD T tiny nml delivered on rt ilay (Uork Guarantee! Monmouth, Oregon it c Vj V, SUiS 1 mr lleiv Location 269 LIBERTY ST. Now building next door to Joh.' Meyers 4 Sons. Call and get fine Furniture Polish free Do not miss seeing our superior lino of Car Iotings, MattingH and Linoleums. The House Furnishing Co Next door to Jostph eyers & Sons, SALEM, ORE Storei t Salem and Albany.