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About West side enterprise. (Independence, Polk County, Or.) 1904-1908 | View Entire Issue (July 28, 1904)
By having jour dental work done by us you receive the benefit of year of expetience in the practice of painless dentistryall work is of the highest claes, and is done in a positively painless manner. Before ray coming to Independence you have been compelled to pay f 35 and 140 to have your teeth ex tracted'and plat wrrk made. Now you can by com iog to me, jtet j our teeth extracted without pain and plates guaranteed to fit for $20. 9 Now is Portland Office, THE GRANGE Csaaacla fcy X W. PAMtOW. Chalks. It T, JVM Correspondent Kern Yor StaU Grange A HISTORIC GRANGE HALL. tt la Umc4. at l.wdlow, V m Was Oim st Chmrefc. It was In 1783 that, at a town meet ing. It wu voted to erect the church building which now is occupied by the iniiins irrn?fl. or more correctly peaking, its lower floor la thus occu pied, a second story having been con- rtructed about twenty-five years ago.j It was moved to Its present site about ; sixty-live years ago. The plates and cross plates of the building, which la SO feet long by 40 feet wide, are 8 by j 12 and were hewed by hand, as was i the entire frame, each timber being' .hewed from one tree. j The records read that "Oct 23, 1783.1 town meeting at the stake, voted that : Mil ' ' LUDIXW ORaXOK HALL. the building committee secure a suffl-l dent quantity of rum to raise the meeting house frame." The massive frame, which contains lumber enough for three modern buildings of the same dimensions, was soon ready for the raising. Eev. Antlpas Steward was the first pastor of this chorch, and his salary was $200 and thirty cords of, wood. On the lower floor, as above stated, the grange has fitted up a pleasant room with anterooms and kitchen. The hall Is used frequently for socials, en tertainments and other gatherings, and the ancient building la highly prized both for Its associations and its con venience. The picture of the church is taken from the Lewlaton (Me.) Jour- j nal. ! INFLUENCE OF THE PRESS, j Ttto Ciufl fcoantl Dm As-. srwclate the Prcaa. This la a day of newspapers. Their influence Is felt wiberraotest part of oasielE Will be at the Little Palace Hotel, Independence, EVERY FRIDAY ? the time to have your teeth S o) J oS 342 Washington street. he earthT We criticise them "as we read them, yet there la no power in our land today which exercises so great an Influence in molding public sentiment as the press. Realizing this fact, it behooves the grange to meet fully half way the offer of the secular papers to bring to the attention of the public the grange. They will advocate our prin ciples because the grange is a molder of public Bentlment In all agricultural communities. The grange should realize and appreciate the efforts of the press and keep In touch with these great liv ing, breathing machines that are doing so much for the world. Each lecturer should give his local and the state agri cultural papers such 'news as will be of interest and tend to spread abroad the principles of the granga. Brother J. V. Darrow, acting as press corre spondent for the New York state grange, has been of Immense service to the Order in promoting greater co operation of the press with the work of the grange. The total circulation of the papers using his grange matter is approximately 675.000 each Issue. This includes the American Press Associa tion service and the monthly State Orange News Bulletin. Fred Shepard, Lecturer New York State Grange. Some Sola Baaaaet. , The approval of the Cornell agricul tural ball bill by Governor Odell of New York state was made the occa sion for a celebration on the part of the students of the university and the friends of the measure. Church bells were rung and whistles blown through out the city of Ithaca, N. Y, and the student body turned out In full to 'cel ebrate the event It Is estimated that there were 5,000 people on the campus In the evening watching an immense bonfire and the display of fireworks which followed. All departments of the university were represented by floats, with farming machinery and live stock much In evidence. It was a novel feature of the programme. A banquet was spread in the armory at a later hour, at which everything served on the table was grown on or taken from the university farm. Covers were spread for 300 guests. Several state grange officers were present, and at the close of the banquet the agricul tural students presented Professor I II. Bailey with a loving cup. Mlcklni'i laforaaMm Barea.au The state grange Information bureau has been very busy since organizing In systematizing and arranging the In formation received from the various granges enrolled. There are now 825 granges enrolled with the bureau, and the DrosDects are for good many mnn nmllmenta. The movement is galniD In popularity and will bea an cnowN great "help to taftnefs In BelTing their orpins products. Micnigau ratnm. The executive committee of the New York state grange has decided to hold . a ....... MNinmi mMktlnff at xne next bwio , Ogdensburg. N. Y beginning Tuesday. Feb. 7, 1900. 1 We commend the Lecturer's Bulletin, Issued by the New York, Michigan an Ohio state granges, as being most hel ful to subordinate grange lecturers. "," ' Gre'edlsnoT Craft. The recent appalling catastrophe la the sinking of the excursion boat Gen eral Slocum In East river, New York, was too pitiful and tragic a thing for comment in cold type. But the facts that are being brought out In the in vestigations of the cause of the horror reveal such a story of greed and graft that they not only for swift pun ishment by the law, but for condemna tion of the negligent boat owners and officials by every paper in the land. The only way to meet evils like this is by a united and militant public opin ion. Avaricious proprietors of fire trap theaters, unsafe boats and the like and corrupt inspectors who are sup posed to investigate these agents of death, run for revenue only, will quail before the contempt of their fellow men, even If they do not respect the laws of their country and the deuiunds of common honesty. The testimony shows that there were absolutely no provisions on the boa for fire or other unusual emergency. The apparatus was worse than use less. As a result, nenrly 1,000 human beings, mostly women and children, lost their lives In the most terrible man ner. Even so conservative a paper as the New York World says: It la a fact which ought to disturb our national self complacency that nearly . . .(. ., ..f invnlvlnv a terrible loss of human life la due primarily tori two connected causes greed and govern mental corruption or inefficiency. ."Ths trail of the serpent Is over them all." The appalling- Ions of Uvea in the Iro quois theater at Chicago was due to the fact that the house waa opened to make money before It waa ready and that offi cial Inspection failed to detect-or at least to report and, remedy sjross and criminal neglects and defects which exposed the audience to the dreadful fata that over whelmed them. In the General Blocum catastrophe It la plain that "money saving" waa responsi ble for Imperfect Are protection appara tus. Inadequate life savins appllancea and an Incompetent crew. The Are hoae was wort hi ms. the atandplpes were useless, a large porportion of the Ufa preeervere were rotten, tha lifeboats were a mockery, . Yet this boat had been Inspected, and ttie ffldalwbo performed that duty IB Gold Crowns Porcelain Crowns. extrcted no has refused to testify, on the ground 'that It might incriminate him. It Is a peculiar comment that the law will shield this man from being a wltoe. but that it offers no protection to the murdered mothers and little ones, Ou this point the supervising Inspector at Washington says: What Is the use of having the laws? They no longer act as a deterrent. We so out. discover a boat with rotten life pre servers, bad boilers and a doten other thlnga. which some one la operating In defiance of the law. This Is punished by a heavy fine. That Is the limit of our powers. ' Now what happens? The violator of the law appeals to a senator or congressman and others hluh In political authority. The fine Is reduced. I know of scores of cases where fines have been reduced from $1,000 to 120, and others from VJ0 to tlO. The records will show cases where flues of 11,600 have been reduced to ia. Does any one suppose that the owner of big excursion ateamer cares for these fines, especially when to obey the law would mean the outlay of hundreds If not thousands of dollars? Of course not, . Greed and graft! Gains for the few and disregard of 'the rights and even the lives of the many! Private avarice and public corruption combining to de fraud and by negligence to murder mankind! Truly the "truil of the ser pent" Is too visible. Do Fee's Story About England. De Foe, the uutiior of "Itoblnson Cru soe," traveled through the great eust ern mH nthes of England In 1722. lie records that In that "dump part of the world" it was common to meet with a man who bad hud from five to fifteen wives. Indeed he says Tint some had more. De Foe adds that a merry fellow, who hod himself bud about a score of wives, told him Unit the men of the marshes, being seasoned to the dnmp cl I ii uite, took little harm from It, but that they went into the "hilly country" for their wives. "When they took the young lasses out of the wholesome and fresh air, they were healthy, ffesh and clear and well But when they came out of their native air Into the marshes among the fogs and damp, there they presently changed their complexions, got an ague or two and seldom held It above half a year or a year at the most." One wife was sac rificed, another was procured, and so the process went on. De Foe is careful to state that his merry Informer "fib bed a little," at least concerning his own wives, but he declares that the general statement is perfectly true. A Fish With nsaes. Zoologists have long regarded the fish which remains for days ouft-of wa ter and climbs trees as one of the strangest departures from nature, but the most wonderful of these Is the perl opbthalmus of the west African coast m $5.00 FILLINGS 50C UP Examination Free danger of taking cold. Salem Office, StouslofT RuiMing, comer Court anl Liberty street. It ul only Is st uiut li st home uu laud, as In water, but climb the mangrove J roots stid takes long Journey about! the swamps on them snd builds It-If mud houses rslseti above the surface,. with nn opening at the tup, from whlrli Its bulging eyes stare out st every alarm, l-'or this life lhi fish is fitted with long arms, with elbow and wrist, while the Augers are separated and prehensile, Instead of lieitig fist and Unlike. These hands in the African species hold (lie mangrove roots In climbing nod are the means of propul sion through the mud. The round eyes project from the skull snd can be turn ed In every direction; hence the (reek Dime, which may be freely translated "rolling eyes." fluid Sweat. "These millions will sweat tbero iele miisi'ieriilily In the bold of the lilp." said a mint otUdul as be super-'nleiitli-d the stowing of an export of gold. "Gold sweats," be resumed, "snd It sweats particularly hard st sea. When till gold reaches the other side It will Ik, a Utile lighter than It Is now. If an Inexperienced hand should weigh It nver there he, would say that some of it bnd been stolen. It won't tie handled In KiiroM by the lnex(ertenced though It will le handled by men who will know Juki what allowance to make for sweat. "Gold sweat-the phrase tins an at tractive sound, eh? If you and I could sneak down Into this ship's hold each duy of the coming voyage, If we could gather up the sweat from the gold be fore It evaporated and was lost, would that be stealing? "Well, anyway, gold does not sweat visibly. Its sweat is linpnlpnlile, and you can't collect It Attrition Is the name given to it by the scientists." Wires Must Work la Japan. As an example of the humble atti tude of the Japanese wife Mrs. Hugh Frnser relates this incident: "A mid dle aged man on the upper floor was suffering terribly from heat, and his HtUe wife seemed greatly distressed about hlra. All the screens had been oriened, but It was a breathless day, and no breeze came to ring the little glass bells on the hanging fern wreath on the veranda. The man sat with his head in his hands groaning, while madam, kneeling on the mats behind bhn, fanned his back and from time to time rubbed him down with a blue towel, an expression of the deepest re spect and sympathy on her face. Wheo he seemed a little better she busied herself with preparing tes, which he drank eagerly and of course made him self frightfully hot again, when chs went back patiently to her fanning and rubbing.'' Mi! Plates $5.00 A Iloston paper Is discussing the question, "Why bar women more Ina pt r than wear The women mora because of tho inea. Kllkeaar rurliw tb rebellion which orcurreJ In Ireland l 1 ', or It uiy be la VX, Kilkenny was garrisoned by a troop of ltptu soldiers who amus ed themselves In barracks by tying two rat together by their tails and throwing tbftn across a cltbellnt fight. The officer, hearing of tb rrtw practice, resolved to slop It As h entered the room on of lb" tro"! aelxing a sword, cut Ibe tails In te as tlto animals bung across the H Th two cats escaped, minus their tall, through the open window, and when the oillcer Inquired tbf meaning of two bleeding tails being left In lb room he was coolly told th I0 had Ui'ii fighting and had devoured each other, all but the tails. The Hallo Plan. One of the curious devices of nature for scattering seed Is aeeii I" t'lrt bfll' loon plant of California, The fro" Is yellow and Is little larger than egg. U tins the appearance of an emp ty 1 sr. but It contains a watery sub stance, which evaporate or dries up when the fruit mature, a sort of taking lis pliM-e. Thht ga 1 ll'll,'', than air. and the fruit flip oa'' tta forth In the wind tintU tt finally breaks loose from its slender tnto, rise lnt the air to a height of from seventy Ave to a hundred feet,' and snll wny full In some distant spot and thus tend the growth of Its kind. A Cow Superstition. folklore, the clouds of the hesven were nothlurf but cows who were Invested wun w duties of a psychnpomp. At times these nd 1 nm..,l tlw.ti. Imtfliin erartl. bllt thelrl duty remain! the samej hence the so tural countries that a cow breaking! lilt ft M no est At tVaf-asinilsm aXth la to family. The psyvhoponip was merely look ing for a soul to escort to too "--after. An old woman In Cincinnati brought a wornout Bible to a publishing u . . . . .. l tfl explaining that It sad been in u lly 20 year. Hbe asked the publisher to moke her a new one Just like It d lug that she wm then going to rnar and woukl tn for th new Bible ea her way home, wlndlrsg up with a Query as to bow much it would b.