Independence
Enterprise.
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CUx month 78
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Loral notice are 5 cut pr Una atralghl
abolutely no reduction for any roaaou
whatsoever.
Rate on display advertising made known
on mlltsatloii.
GIVE I'S Fit EE LOCK'S.
A movement has been startei
over the valley having ns it;
ultimate object the governmem
ownership of the Willamette
locks at Oregon City. Alreadv
we see the commercial bodies ol
Salem, Independence and other
representative river points dis
cussing free locks and the best
means to attain that end.
The desirability of free looks
is so evident to every shipper in
the valley, especially the farmer,
that it really seems a question
with but a single phase. Free
locks would remove the extra
tollage on every pound of freight
passing up or down the river, a
bounty pnid directly by the nav
igation company but which in
the final comes out of the pock
et ot the shipper. If boat freight
rates fall, a like reduction would
be e"ompulsoiary to the railway
companies.
Government engineers have
at times recommended govern
ment ownership of the locks, so
that the purchase should be
fairly easy to accomplish. Once
free locks it will be much easier
to influence legislation for the
improvement of the Willamette
as the tonnage will be easily in
creased three-fold, and more
prestige will be given to the
claims for legislation for its im
provement. Injustice to valley shippers
the government owes it to them
to grant free locks. The Co
lumbia is free for navigation,
and thousands upon thousands
will be spent in further im
provements in the next decade.
Our claims for recognition are
certainly as meritorious as those
coming from Eastern Oregon.
We are preparing figures to
ehow in detail the benefit of the
proposed change. However, as
the matter now stands the points
along the river must unite in
petitioning congress through
our Washington delegation to
further the measure. Already
Portland, Salem and Indepen
dence have signified their inten
tions to work for free locks, but
more vigorous action is neces-
gary. Let the shippers unite in
the demand and there is every
reason to believe it will be
granUd.
AlBLIE.
Mm. Anna Wilson if visiting in
Yamhill county.
INDEPENDENCE
Th Rt nrtotrtitittd medium. S:
;S The best advertising nunlium is the. one :
: which goes to the ttresido. Such a papov is the In- Jj:
S ikiksikxck Entkkniisk. It make a feature of te- 5;
:S curing tho news from every point in Vok county,
S and if we publish the news from all these joints it -;
: must follow we have readers there. How can you 5:
roach these people as effectively as through the col- m
umns of this paper? If you are not an advertiser,
Z whv aren't vou? The most successful are the heav-
icst advertisers, and there is no surer road to sue- :
7 cess than that of emulating those who are achieving
2 success.
Mr. J. A. Withrow is having bis
granary painted. 4
Mrs. Ira Hooker, of Pedee, vis
ited in these parts Monday.
Rov Woodcock, of Corvallis
passed through here this week.
Mrs. A. C.Staats and daughter,
Edith, were Independent visitors
last week.
Rosco Staats and Floyd Will
iams were Independence visitors
last Suuday.
Harvest is coming, several ma
chines having commenced thresh
ing Monday.
Walter Palton and Willie Will
iams started for Newport Tuesday,
for a two weeks' outing.
We wish to thank the editor for
the Ting Pong set we received as
fourth prize in the late Entkh
prise contest.
The farmers' rural telephone
line is completed and now neigh
bors can say "Hello" whenever
they wiab to.
$100 itewnrtl, JplOO
The readers of tills paper will be
pleased to learn t bat there Is at' leant
oue dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its slaw and
that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure
in the only positive curs now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being
a constitutional disease, requires a con
stitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh
Cure is taken Internally, acting direct
ly upon the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and giving
the natieut strength by buildiDg up
the constitution and assisting nature
in doing its work. The proprietors
have so much faith in its curative pow
ers, that they offer one Hundred Dol
lars for any case that it fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials.
Address. F. J. Cheney & Co, Tole
do, O.
Bold by DruggiHt, 73c.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
LITTLE LUG'KIAMUTE.
J. W. Hiltibrand was doing bnsi
ness in Albany Saturday.
John Walker has several sick
horses with a disease called louget-
us. .
John Scrafford, of Corvallis,
spent his 86th birthday with his
Bon, Hon. M. Scrafford.
Olen B. Scrafford. of Walla Wal
la, spent a few days with friends
and relatives the first of the week.
E. Leman. while burning brush
last Friday, let the fire get beyond
control which burnt up about ten
cords of wood.
8. B, Tetherow and J. F. Lough
ary each have several tons of bay
baled on account of not having
room to store it loose.
Some of the steam threshers
have already started to threshing.
The beat yield in wheat so far that
hate heard is 22 bushels.
ENTERPRISE, INDEPENDENCE, OREGON
We are having no trouble to pas
our spars time now as every few
minutes we are engaged in conver
sation with some kind of agents.
Tuesday there were only six at our
farmhouse all at one time. The
fanner may recover.
Suicide. Prevented.
The startling announcement that a
preventive ot suicide had ttcen (Uncov
ered will interest many. A run down
aysteni, or dettpe-udeucy Invariably
precede suicide and something has
len found that wilt prevent that con
dition which makes suicide likely. At
the first thought of self deduction
take Electric Hitters. It Mug a
great tonio ami nervine will strengthen
the nerves and build up the system.
It's also a great atomiich, liver and
kidney regulator. OnlySOc. Hatlafau
tion guaranteed by A. H. I.ocke, drug-
Reduced Exeuralou Itntea to the
Seaside and Mountain He-
sortH lor the Summer.
The Southern Pacific Company
has placed on sale at very low rates
round-trip tickets to the various re
sorts along its lines, and also in
connection" with the Cor vail i A
Eastern Railroad to Detroit and the
seaside ut Yuquina 15av, latter
tickets good for return until Oc
toler 10th.
Three-day tickets to Yaqutna
Uav. (rood going Saturdays, return
ing Mondays, are on sale at greatly
reduced rates from all points Eu
gene . and north on both east and
west sido linas, enabling people to
spend Sunday at the seaside. Very
low round trip rates are also made
between Portland and samepoints
on the Southern Pacific, good go
ing Saturdays, returning Sunday
or Monday, allowing Portland peo
ple to spend Sunday in the coun
try and the out-of-town people to
have the day in Portland.
Tickets from Portland to Yaouina
Boy good for return via Albany
and east side, or Corvallis and west
side, at option of passenger. Bag
gage checked through to Newport.
A new feature at Newport this year
will be an up-to-date Kindergarten
in charge of an experienced Chicago
teacher.
A beautifully illustrated booklet
describing the seaside resorts on
Yaquina Bay has been published
by the Southern Pacific and Cor
vallis & Eastern Railroads and can
be secured from any of their agents,
or by addressing W. E. Coman,
G. P. A., 8. P. Co.. of Portland,' or
Edwin Stone, manager C. & E.
R. R., Albany, Oregon.
RICKHEALL.
Mrs. M. Myers and daughter
are cooking for Linn Gay's
threshing crew.
The hop louse has made " its
appearance, but the growers are
not going to spray.
I. A. (loodell and Orval Trice
wont to Newport Fiiiluy, re
turning homo Monday.
Halo Bat'kcnsto and wife left
Monday for San IMogo, C'nl.,with
their own convcyuucei cahulat
ing to tuko about two month! to
drive it in.
John Vernon Sr. died Friday
at 3:00 o'clock, and was buried
Monday in the Salt Creek cent
otcry. Tho family Iihvo tho
sympathy of the community.
Tho little son of A. Hill enmo
i ! r . ;
near wing much, no run '
front of a hinder and fell, but
only received three cuts on tho
loo,, he went under tho sickle
bar. The thresher whistle is heard
from several places tlii week,
ami fanners report groin turn
ing out better than expected.
THEDF
GREAT
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Tbedford'a lllsu-k -Draught luw
MMv.1 t.wtir-a' hilt-, fur nuim Ihmi
sixty year, l or the common law- u
lly silincnu, mien aa oonmiMuion,
t ; ... 1 ..- I I ..I -
iriliKeiioii, iiaru coi'is, uvwri
jilainU, chill and fever, bilious
nes, headaches and other llko
complaint no other medicine is
nixmwy. It invitroraUi and reg
ulates the liver, agists diuction,
stimulates action of the kidneys,
purities ttio blood, and purge the
bowels of foul accumulalionm It
cures liver complaint, indigestion,
jheumatio jxiins. sidoaclio, back- 1
Uiarrliwa, biliousness, pika, hard I
cold and heiwlaclio. t.very dnifr
gist hasllietUord'i Wack-ltrauKlit
in 25 cent ackagi and in mam
moth size for 11.00. Uever aocei)t
a iiilmUtnte. Inist on having the
oriRinul niado by the Chattanooga
Mediciue Company,
I believ Thcdlord'l Black-Draught
li the but medlclM on earth. It it
good for any and everything. I have
a family of twelve children, and for
four ytari I have kept them on foot
Draught A. J. GREEN, lllcwara. U.
mm ni.nnu wirn nA nnrtnr mn hmlm
Our Hew
269 LIBERTY ST.
New building next door
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Call and get fine Furniture Polish free.
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Do not miss seeing our
petings, Mattings
o The House Furriibhing Co., o
W Next door to Jotph Meyers & Sons, SALEM, UKU.
O Stores t SIem nd Albany.
ScCCOCCCCOOOOOOOGOOOOCGCCD
H. H. Jasperson,
Undertaker. Enbalmer,
and Funeral Director.
Independence, i- Oregon.
Olio field went 30 bushels to tho
acre.
Mrs. T. S. Hurch nnd son
John, J. 15. Nesmith and family,
Mr. and Mrs. l'eter Cook, tho
Misses Hurch and Lee Iturch,
Mrs. C S. Hasket and grand
children are among tho Kickre
ull jiroplo w ho visited Newport
this week.
Mrs. IUbbitl and Miss Howden
were jmsseiigers ediiesday to Cor
vallis for a few days.
Dysentery Curel Wltlnmt Hie
Aht of n lot'tor.
"I am lust up from a bnnl elof
tlietlux" (dysentery) )' Mr. T. A.
riimer, a well known merchant of
Dniinmolid, Ten n. "I Used one mnall
bottle of I'liattiberlulnV Colle, Cholera,
aud Ilarrliix-a Itemedy and was cured
wltliout having a doctor. I crumbier
It the U'nt cludera tnedlclnti In the
world." There Is no need if employ
ing a doctor wheu this remedy Is lined,
for no doctor can prrcrlbe a belter
iiH'ilicli.e for bowel eoinp!ulut lit any
fiirm fiiher for children'or adulis. It
never lailit and Is pleuHiint to Inko,
For nl by Klrklniid Ilrinrl'o,
i:. t. hknkm:.
Barber Shop.
MAIN STUKKT,
I ,N I K P K S 1 1 K X C K , - OltKOON-
She reade,
Dovidsor; & fledges, Props.
GiKmv, Ciwtrot tt'H.TobUc
coh tuul Con I'tuM ioiiory.
Ft it ST. Clash Soda Fountain tx
Connkction.
4
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j inonmoutb Dundry I
It. I. WHITMAN, Prop.
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4 Should have your Work.
VY nailing called for and do-
4 liyered.
4 Vanhiu(t called for on Taoii
4 day iintl tiollvered on Hatur-
(lay
4 Work Guaranteed.
T Monmouth, Oregon.
Location
to Jos. Meyers 4 Sons.
superior lino of Car
and Linoleums.
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