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About West side enterprise. (Independence, Polk County, Or.) 1904-1908 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1904)
WEST SIDE ENTERPRISE. INDEPENDENCE. ORKCiON EIGHT ESS i : .,- ,. U. -1.1 - . II. Special Correspondent: It is reported, from reliablo sources are suing for peace on any terms; out i a I have'nt time, even, to read the teleprapl roes that the Japanoe have at last capUmjl t Arthor ami the JUjn. I am so busy getting ready to instal beptic hewer lanaa an aphicnews t have.howevei carefully mvct.gaUnl the &e SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM of Sewerage and am prepared to explain it fully to you if you want mo to. Put in Septic .Wage and bo abrest of D. CALBREJITH, 1 Pres. Inlependonco and Monmouth Water and Electric Light Co. i v v x x x v - v v v a I Snmnl and Personal. ttsM&Ms)Ne1e)Sj Trellis poles for ale. Inquire of Cha. 8LIliif. Mrs. Powden left for Newport yesterday. John Scroggs, is visiting his parents here. Mrs. B. F. Whiteaker has return ed from her outing at Newport Miss Era Mulkey has returned from her outing at Newport Mrs. Angelina Tedrow has re turned to ber home in Colfax, Wash. Mrs Kennedy and daughters. Misses Mae and Hazel are home from Newport ' The Dickinson liyery stable has added a high stepping single driver to its list of livery turnouts. Gideon Philips and family and Elza Osborn are taking their sum men outing at Belknap Spring. Every bod enjoys a perfect peach and that's what may be had by calling on J. R. Cooper. He has 300 or 400 Al peaches and you can be supplied by calling on him right away. Mrs. O. D. Butler and son Maurice are visiting in Portland this week. - Ross Nelson, Pearl Hedges and Win. Mattison returned from New port yesterday. Joe Hirschberg has at last had a proposal to marry but tbe pros pective bride has left the state un til leap year is over. i" i I The Southern Pacific has placed plank between the rails and made plank approaches to its track at the street crossings in the city. Tbe Oregon Information Bureau has sent for samples of the trim mones, the Lew fruit being propa eated by A. Wilson. It's late for the fruit now but a specimen was forwarded through the . Indepen dence Improvement League. Riley Craven, chairman of the telephone committee, and Dr. Butler, president of the Im provement League were out of town Monday evening, the date set for the meeting of the League and hearing of the report of the com mittee. Vice President Ketch um failed to get the League together and there was no one to officially meet a delegation of Lewisville people that drove down to perfect arrangements for entering the town with the Independent phone line. w. w. rercivai nas a limp in his walk as the result of a dog bite received last week. In company with others Mr. Percival was watch ing the encroachment of a fire that had been started across the river. When they neared the house of a Mr. Weidaker, toward which the fire was tending, the dog took savage bite on the thigh. This is the second man bitten by the Weidaker dog since he was breught into the neighborhood. He was taken eut of Salem upon order of the marshal. There is no place am ong neighbors for yicious dog. There if no hydrophobia in this country but a dog bite is to be dreaded and common safety demands the re moval of the Wiedaker dog. Rev. Edmonson preached his farewell sermon for the Methodist church Sunday evening. Ha has given up ministerial work in the Methodist church on the grounds that his convictions are not in ac cord with the doctrine of that church. Evangelist A. A. Beery will preach at the Christian church next Sunday, at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Morning theme "The Church " Evening theme, "A Rich Man's Mistake." A cordial invitation is extended to all. Key. Beery will also preach at River Side school house at 3.30 p. m." lhe new gravel bar railroad is now most completed. The piling has been driven across the gulch and the pile-driving crew with out- fit have left The grading has been done to the river's bank and the placing of ties and laying of rails practically completed. The work of taking out gravel will begin in a few days. County Surveyor John P. Van Orsdel, David Calbreath, and R. H. McCarter appointed by the county court as viewers for the proposed Sidney road completed their work yesterday and wiil re port to the court at its next sit ting. Surveyor Van Orsdel carried a crew of five. He found it would be necessary to build a piling bridge 188 feet in length. The pro posed road is two miles long and its cost will be $500 to $600, and will accommodate about 25 people in the neighborhood. ' The new O. C. T. Co.'s steamer Oregon .carrying fifty tons of freight on a draft of twenty inches, with but a depth of twenty-two inches of water in which to operate in some places on tbe Pertland-Salem route, seems to have the record of United States for crafts of her character, says the Salem States man. At least there are no records which can be fonnd in Portland to equal her feat The Pomona, how ever, is steaming up and down the river upon the same run with the same draft although with much leu cargo. None of the vessels, light draft or deep draft, high speed or low, are steaming up this way. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stumberg are rusticating at Sulphur Springs. Hon. C. A. Johns passed through on return from his annual outing at Newport Tuesday. " As indis putable evidence that he did ven ture into the surf he 'exhibited sand in his pockets and salt in his cars. J. George Stoll has commenced suit in the circuit court of Clack amas count'. for divorce from Ella V. Stoll. The defendant is required to answer on or before tbe 16th., of September. J. N. Hart is attorney for plaintiff. Stoll is now cooking in tbe New Grimes hotel at Seaside Wm. Barnett local manager for the Pacific States Telephone system is making a specialty of tomatoes. He has vines now four feet high and it is his ambition to grow them so tall they cannot be picked from the ground. He has been using ripe tomatoes since the 27th., of June and his tomato garden is a model of neatness. The Willamette Ptlp and Paper Company Las arranged tor treat ing its army of 250 laborers to soup once a' day, since the men complained of the insufficiency of the lunches tbe boarding honses were serving claiming that the diet was not sufficiently strengthening for the hard labor required. The company immediately eoivea me problem by arranging for the serv ing ol the soup at noon every day to its large force of workingmen in connection with their lunches. Cattle destroyed about ten acres of hops on the E. M. Croisan place on the Salem road the first of the week. The cattle were the property ot ti. Brunk who Jives on tne oroi ean place. About 100 head in vaded the yard and before the breach was discovered they had demolished the 'greater part of a 16-acre yard. The cattle did not stop with eating and tearing down vines but mashed the poles down as well. The loss will be considerable. The story of one thousand dollars an acre from apples seems hardly possible until c visit is made to the orchards of Sears A Porter says the Hood River Glacier. Here Mr Sears will tell you the tale and point out the trees, 91 of them from which last fall were gathered, 585 boxes of 34 and 4-tier Yellow Newtons, to say nothing of the 4J and 5-tier fruit. As these apples sold for $2.10 a box, figure out yourself the returns from that one acre. A walk through the orchard leads one to believe that the very same trees will duplicate the record again this year. Although it is yet two months until picking time the apples are now large enough for 5-tier fruit What the next two months will do in filling out the fruit remains to be seen. The trees on which the apples were grown axe now in their eighth year, j The Lacrosse "Private" Disc Plow docs honest work and lots of it For Sale byFRAZER & RICE. ouvuuooucet Tbfla(mnnialo(M a eut if a IcriwM IHm I'low on bk hataratMllftt year. Cu W rhtnt'1 from a thr citato i l due In a f nitoutM. Ttn owe Important Improvnuwiiniii yr. A shipment due fron tht factory to a hm day. Indepenence Oregon. Sunday school at the Pres. byterian church 10 A. M. Sunday. Riley Cooper attended the races at Irvington tLis week. Ben Dice formerly of this place is in trouble in Salem over beating his siBter. Mrs. Ella Irvine and daughter, Goldie have returned from Newport Miss Goldie has been quite ill. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Dennis of Falls City returned yesterday from the St. Louis Fair. Mr. and Mrs. Willard Craven have returned from Newport and Mr. and Mrs. Kiley (Jraven are taking their outing at the same place. J. B. Gentry has finished the making of brick at tbe Cooper brick yard and is now ready to burn. Mr. Cooper will have about 300,000 brick for sale when the kilns are burned. N, P. Simonson of Iowa and more recently of Coos Bay, has located in Independence and opened up a merchant tailoring eetabliwhrnont in the Nelson building on Main slreet. Life is not in holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well. Success does not consist in never making blunders but in never making the same one twico. The world generally gives its ad miration, not to the man who does what nobody else attempts to do, but to the man who does best what multitudes do well. 1 here is a vast difference between wishing and winning. Many a man has failed because his wish bone was where his back bone should have been. If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, make a better mousetrsp, raise a better Jhog, bull, sheep, horse, or goat, than his neighbors, though bs build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. Geo U. Moore. I BUSINESS LOCALS. utMil ajUAJtMJUUJULUJl I All summer dress goods, barring India linnooi, at greatly reduced prices, at Mensners. A good place to stop for a meal in Saletn is at Strong' restaurant Meals nt n'l hours. Sh from D cent to 14.00 at the People s Cash Store, Moore's Hair Invigomtnr ami Newliro'a 1 1 -r j-ir il fur dandrufT and fulling hair or diceaned scalp sold in bulk, .10a H ot., or applied if necesHury by Moore A Taylor's, the barber on C Htrret. All kinds of hop picking gloves at the People's Csnh Store. MesHner utill has a few choice things in summer goods that are Belling at a big reduction. In stead of getting calico for wrappers why not jret something finer when it costs but little more Ladies' sunbonnets 15-20 and 25 cents, People's CaHb Store. The Corvfcllis Steam Laundry makss a specialty of gents goods and lace curtains. Your laundry wono, mr sou umiverea at your door. Satisfaction guaranteed. Goods called for on Mondays and Tuesdays and delivered on Fridays. orders may be left at CraAen A Moores. For the best working gloves go 10 Messner his gloves are guaran teed to give satisfaction. Try a can of So-Boss-So-Kill-Fly. It keeps the flies off your cows and Increases the flow of milk. Tents and camp stoves at Fraier & Rice. Just in today a full line of Belts & Dunns ladies fine dress shoes for fall and winter. These are the finest made shoes on this continent nd to wear one pair means to wear this make always. Trv th.m at Mesinsr's. Calling cards In si sits lOctsti package at Craven A Moot'. Get our prices before buyirg your binding twine, R. M. Wi A Co. Messner lias receid bii all caps for Misses, the nsweit mi latest things out Highest market pries for egp and poultry, People's Ch Sum, Agoodtlneof poultry uj)plit at the Independence Feed Stow, Drink Dr. Peppers on ice at C. M'i. Just received 400 cloth bouni books 15 cent and up at Craw Moore'. Ho-Ilots-So-Kill-Fly protect w from the torture of fli soU V Friuer & Uice. Walr melons on Ice at C. A N't Nice Cloth bound books 1& Craven A Moore's A lot of dry-good nd ibej boxes 10 cents each, People's CwH Store. limit imrincr machines solid oak lrames and highly finish- machine gur teed Sold by R. Wde ed. Eyery for 10 years. A Co. See that gasoline cooketove t Fraier A Rice's. in. hall. aril, bwf meal and the popular Holly oW food at the Independence F4 Store. Ladle Fall Hats. Miss Pearl Squire has Just re ceived a very stylish line ot ' hats from San Francisco, tan see them. Ws are making a spscisH hop ticket ork. r lace your oroc. bow with the Wasr Sid n"". raiss. Tieksts printed as ord on good cardboard and dsUtsw" Buyyoar Bale Ties Wads A Co. of R.