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About Independence enterprise. (Independence, Polk County, Or.) 189?-190? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 3, 1903)
Monmouth Correspondents. Little baby Ryer Is quite iok, Mra. Carl Coat Is rlouly (II. Tutu Hoot h by I hautlug lumber new hou. for Nearly all who could leave limrie are picking hops. Mrs. Laura Mil lor was a passenger to Salem Monday. s Prof. (. A, Forbes Is at home attain, after a mouth's outing. Mrs. II. K. Mulkey wa a passenger to Haletu by stags Tuesday. V. O. Boots made a business trip to Portland the first of the week, j liort., Monday, August 31st., IsXXI, to the wife of Edd Bedwell, a sou. Miss Lena Mulkey returned to Spok ane, wbera she will teach thi year. Mrs Mary Meador aud children visited at J. D. Cotiyer's Tuesday, at LouisyHle. Sam WorK Is tearing down hi old house. It will be a great improvement to the lot aud towu. John Doughty U hoie agaiu. He has been working ou a hop-house at Black Dog, near Albany. Professor Splllmau, formerly a teach er In the O. S. N. S., now of Washing ton, D. C, was here visiting Dr. Crow ley 'a last week. Monmouth Is about de-sorted now, especially of the "female purHuaslou." All are in the bop yards. Mrs. Jessie Parks, who has been at the Sulphur Springs, has Improved In health as a result of her stay there. Wheat runs from 25 to 5 bushels to the acre about Monmouth, and all other crops are correspondingly good The sidewalks of Monmouth are In I miserable shape, and unless tney are fixed the city will have au additional damage suit to pay. Mas. E. Clark, of Sunny Hide, re turned home from her visit to Port land and The Dalles last week, and she reports having a good time. One by one the old land marks dis appear. The old Heuibree house and the one nest to it have been torn down, and the Frank Mulkey house on Col lege and Jackson streets has given away to some future structure. The Willamette Valley can raise corn with the best of them. Mr. HefHey has a Held measuring ten feet In height. Two years ago W. N. O'Kelly raised a good held of corn, as did II. Mattison last year. If corn can't be grown In this country, it is because of the party planting it. Pictures by the Wayside. Special from Bnena Vista. It happened in an Oregon village less than five years ago. The facts are truth; a part of the details are 8npplied; but the characters live and breathe and have their being today. ' TLe night was cool and a woman of sixty-eight sat hovering over a handfnl of coals in the sitting room heater. In the larder there was a little flour, a little salt, a little tea and some milk nothing more, Tn the woman s Dorse there was a . . J month tun-rent niece with ft hole through It; in her heart a ranielos sadness and a great longing for eternal rest, such as comes often to the aged who feel themselves ne glected and in the way. Going to the window the woman gazed towards the hillside ceme tery, and in the moonlight could trace the outlines of the white tombstones. Two little graves in that quiet lot were hers, but the lowlr beds of her sleeping babes were unmarked, and only the wild- flowers waved above the humble mounds. Hashing iiv) scalding tears from her eves the woman resumed her seat by the dying fire, and, as though a voice whispered the words in her ear, she heard the 23d Psalm, 'The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want." And though the woman's supper had been a scrap of cold bread and a cup ol weak tea, and although th morrow seemed even less promising, she sought her pillow, and in renewed hope, and with courage strength ened, fell into peaceful slumber. That same night another woman in a neighboring state and village, cave a swell luncheon to a number of guests". Herself and daughters were attired in evening gowns of finest texture; jewels glittered on their white hand, and the table was resplendant in cut class and costly silver. Hothouse flowers gave out a langurous perfume; electric liehts and the splash of i the older woman arise, n i. . e'esr voice. "The Lord is my henherd. I shall not ml! si the elder woman turned to seek her rsst, the dreamer awoke with a start, for the face of th M" wn that of the dreamer' P'r, A mother, in an Orf n villg not w many hundred miles away; and thedresmer knew tin dream to U true. But the vision failed from the dreamer's mind ere the glre of next day's sun had soltened into twilight shadows; the society farce goes on, and the old woman, needy and neglected, goes on. too to wards a house wherein there are many mansions and a bedchamber prepared for her, richer than any palace can atl'ord. - The Institution nf I'euee alter. Here on his writing de-k, and lik Leo, fountains on the lawn rendered the. he daily eaves some bread crumbs Pone Pius has asked Cardinal Vannutellk's nephew, formerly a: Lieutenant in the Italian navy, to , make an nventon of the former j papal marine, with a view to selling ' it to the highest bidder. Among the Pope's ships are three old gal- leys and a number of dispatch j boats. I It will bo remembered that Pope ; Leo. several years ago auctioned ofl ; the Vatican arsenal s guns, cannon and ammunition. The new Pope has decided to do away with the old momentoes of the old time warlike conditions so far n the Vatican is concerned. The Pope has adopted the late Leo's pet white dove, which the Holy Father used to feed a cer tain hour every morning. He al lows it in his room, where it jierches Ladies Watches Kit I 111 Ms Gents' $7.25, 10. Mpfc" 11.25, I1 fyjj 15. LU75, 21, W!:, J Watches in. 20.75, 21, 2f.5U nm! up. 1 1, 1275, ii, 1 and up, These "WMchea tnlll for themselves. Give them n chance by coming and sceintf them. Alarm Clocks! 85c, $!.OOt $1.25, $150 and $1J5. R. R. nebrbas, D.D.S. Monmouth , Dentist Over P. O. Monmouth. scene entrancing; a stringed or chestra discoursed sweetest music from a recess in the iniCst of flow ing palms and other tropical plants, and merriment held sway as the guests came and went, and chatted and laughed. What of the expense? No mat ter; the dinner was a success, and in the society news, Mrs. Blank's reception received a column write up. It was worth the exponas and no regret was felt by the hostess. ' When she retired to her room, this woman fell asleep in her luxu rious armchair before the marble hearth, and in a dream she saw an aged woman in a faded, calico dres,v hoyering over ' a dying fire in a meanly furnished room. The scene reminded her of a home in an Oregon village, and seemed strange ly familar. In the cupboard the shelves were bare, and only a scan ty supply of flour was in the bin. The dreamer saw that the elder woman's shoulders were stooped with age and hard wo'k; her eyes were dim with tears, unshed, and a pitiful droop to the lips told of an internal grief too deep for words. Then the dreamer saw the same room as it had been twenty years before, herself one of a family of nine; she saw the old woman, not stooped then, keeping boarders in order to supply the nine mouths with food and keep the nine grow ing bodies covered with raiment; she saw the old woman hard at work many a night, until the clock hands pointed to the midnight hour, and she saw the brown hair turning rapidly to gray, and the strong frame bending daily, under its heavy Joad. And as she dreamed, she beheld for its food. This white dove was among the last vieitorn Pope lm received. On the scond morning preceding hi death the winged pet knocked at his bed room window with its heak and when admitted flew upon his bed, walked over the I'ope'e chest and looked into his eyes. 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