To Patrons and Correspondents.
All local will t run till orlertxl out,
unless otherwise b je-i (Itxl.
lon't muJ ui fur free publication any
thing o( an 'lvertiHintf character.
Don't ask us to Mind you names anJ
address of correHn!ent. That ii a
private mattt'r bvtween them and us.
Copy for ads, changes, ett., roust be in
the office before 2 o'clock p. m. Wednes
day to Insure proper care and attention.
Church and society notice free, e
cept when (or money making purposes.
8uch notices at regular rates at the op
tion of the publisher.
IXin't seud us articles on politics, tem
perance or religion. Pim-uHsion of uch
topics only leads to violent and abusive
language in the end.
Before coming to the city to trade
readers are requested to examine The
Independent adverting columns. Its
the active wide-awake buMiness man who j
advertises, consequently he is the most
accomodating, sells the cheapest, and
deals the most liberally in every way.
FIffht Will be Bitter.
Those who will persint in cloning their
ears against the continual recommenda
tion of Dr. King's New Discovery for
Consumption, will have a long and bit
ter tight with their troubles, if not ended
earlier by fatal termination. Kead
what T. K. Real I of lleall, Miss, has to
say : " last fall my wife had every symp
ton of consumption. She took Dr.
King's New Discovery after everything
elite liad failed. Improvement came at
once and four Ixittlen entirely cured her.
Guaranteed by all druggists. Price
60c, and l.l0. Trial bottles free.
Genuine vegetable parchment butter
wrapping paper for sale at this ofl'tce.
Bize,9xl3.
Great Kaiser Flour is the ISest Hard
Wheat Flour. Ask your Grocer for it.
Climax Milling Co.
Xmas cigars, 12 in a nice neat lox, at
Messingors.
Call at Cate's for your hop-wire and
fertilizer. Prices right.
Fac.inators, pillow tops, doileys, Filo
ami Royal silk floss, shandkcrchicf
linen, in fact everything needed to make
op your Christinas presents.
II. YVehrung & Son.
At Cate's you will find a splendid lot
of groceries, fresh and clean ; also all
kinds of vegetables ami garden truck,
including crisp lettuce and celery. All
orders promptly delivered.
Olymipic Flour has been tested by
lovers of good bread and has lieen found
superior to all other brands. Try a
sack at $1.25 and you will use no other.
At Cate's Meat Market and Grocery.
New dates at Messingers.
Children and Misses cotton fleered
vest and pants 25c each w hile they last
at II. YVehrung & Son.
Tickled pigs foet at Messingers.
Subscribe for The Independent
See Schulmerich Bros'. '5.00 suit.
Fresh Walnuts, Almonds, Raisins,
Currants and Citron at Greer's.
We can print your auction bills on
short notice and at right prices.
You can get any kind of a blank
printed by applying at this ollice.
Cracked Corn for Chicken Feed.
Climax Mill.
When you need jierfumei go to Bob
Greer's. He has the finest class used.
Ladies get your Fresh Home Made
Mince Meat at the Heidel Candy Kitch
en. The "social whirl" at McCormick's
music store. New two-step Trice
2ft cents.
Schulmerich Bros, sell the Rushford
wagon, the beet farm wagon offered, at
the lowest price.
Try Cato 4 Son's new meat market
for everything good in the line of meats
at reasonable prices.
Schulmerich Bros, actually cover 7,(XK)
feet of floor surface, the largest store In
Washington County. Come ami see
them in their new quarters.
K. L. McCormick is agent for the
"Talk-o-phone," the lest talking ma
chine made for the money. This is the
machine that talked off lout) miles over
the telephone the other night, ('all and
get terms and prices.
We wish to announce to our custo
mers that we have the "OUl Time Burk
wheat" in stock this fall.. You remem
ber that the quality of Old Times Buck
wheat cannot be excelled by any otliers.
J. A. Messinger
Schulmerich Brot. are offering suits at
just one-half of their former price. We
liave some remnants that must lie sold.
See them. Suits for 15.00
Delta Pink Liver Till is a splendid
remedy for Indigestion ami biliousness.
Better than the best easearets ever made
For general use there is nothing liettt r.
Twenty-five ceuts at Delta Lrug Store.
Wanted.
Men or women to take orders for art
goods; guaranteed salary or commission.
Address Oregon Art Association, 64
Sherlock Bldg, Tortland, Ore.,
Dairy Cowa Wanted.
F. M. Heidel wants to buy some
choice dairy cows. Nothing else wanted.
A Costly Mistake.
Blunders are sometimes very expen
sive. Occasionally life itself is the price
of a mistake, but you'll never be wrong
if you take Dr. Kings New Life Tills for
Dyspepsia, Dizziness, Headache, Liver
or Bowel troubles. They are gentle yet
thorough. 25c, at all drug stores.
Cate & Son, NewMeat Market,
i m w victim
DKAI.KRS IN ATX KINDS OF
FRESH AND CURED MEATS
PnnltTT anil Ramfi.
VHIU J MUW iaaV
Shop on Main St., in Greear's old
Restaurant Building.
Cash paid for all kimhi of Coun
try Troduce and Butch
er's Stuff.
Hop Sialics a Specialty,
ANNOUNOEMEN T
From now on during the Winter we will serve
sandwiches and hot coffee at all hours. We are
re-stocking our candy cases with the 1est home
made candies. A complete line of Tobaccos,
Fruits, Nuts and Soft Drinks. Your trade is
solicited.
HEIDEL CANDY KITCHEN
Tourist Cars
Going East.
Many experienced travelers
prefer tourist sleeping cars
for the transcontinental jour
ney. The
Chicago,Mihvaukec
. &St.PaulRy.
can arranges for your trip
east in tourist cars, offer you
choice of routes and pavo
you money.
H. M. UOWF,
(eneral Aft.
134 Third St.. Portland
Cranberries at Greer's.
The sorriest fellow on earth is the fel
low who will sit around and cuss his
own town. If I lived astride the orth
Tola says a visitor at the New Moro
whowi ear drum wis getting hot, I would
oil it home and lie reidy to boost it.
If I couldu't say anything nice about it.
I would say my ice bill didn't come high.
I would not stay in a town I had to cui
not while the world Is as big as it Is
now. Moro Observer.
Uememlier that Cubeena is guaran
teed to cure catarrh. The Delta Drug
Store sells it and recommends it.
Kveryliody buying real estate should
exact an abstract with every deed. It
adds nothing to the real title, being but
a statement of what the records show,
and ofleiis reveals things that surprise
the owner of the property. It is the
business like way of showing the condi
tion of a title. It does not cure defeats
but points out where they are that the
proper remedy may be applied.
The swellest line of lemonade sets
that has ever been shown in Hillsboro is
at Greer's Grocery and Crockery store.
In the Lewis and Clark year, and
every year, it is not too often to speak
everyday of the needs of better streets,
better roads, civic improvements and
neater tow ns, if the people who are to
come to Oregon shall receive the impres
sion hoped for by this people. Albany
Herald.
The Delta Dug Store has just receiv
ed a splendid new stock of razors, every
ono guaranteed, ami the price range
from $1 upward. If you want a good,
keen raaor, with the necessary attach
ments call at the Delta.
How chagrined the Toitland Journal
must feel over the fact that Hon. Binger
Hermann was called as a witness for the
government in the celebrated land fraud
cases. All along the Journal has classed
Binger as a conspirator against the gov
ernment in the land matters, but the
authorities in Washington knew the val
ue of his testimony in Its behalf and al
so knew that his record as without a
blemish while he helil down the distin
guished position of Commissioner, of the
General Land Ollice. No wonder Binger
has rested easy under the loud-mouthed
blackmailing efforts of the Tortland
sheet. Eugene Register.
Delta Tiiik liver Tills are sold on
merit best pill for general use on the
market. A bottle of them will prove
this assertion. Sold at Delta Drug
Uore and guaranteed to give satisfaction.
"Hit the trail" is the motto adopted
by the promoters of the Lewis and Clark
exposition to be held next year at Tort
land, Oregon. The thought that sug
gested the motto was a good one and it
will appeal with special significance to
any one who has ever climbed the moun
tains and wended one's way either by
foot or horseback along the narrow trails
which affords the only pathway up or
down the mountain side and frequently
through a labyrinth of heavy timber or
brush growth. A. D. Charlton, assist
ant general passenger agent of the
Noithern Pacific railroad at Tortland, is
said to have suggested the motto, "Hit
the Trail." It was certainly a .happy
thought. Milbank S. D. Review." '
Mrs. Vroman, the milliner, wishes to
announce to the ladies of this city that
all her millinery goods will lie sold at
greatly reduced prices. She now has a
good line of children and misses caps,
and ladies' and children's trimmed
hats, all of which will be sold at reduced
rates. Call and see her -before you buy.
A Voice From the Vanquished.
Missouri's gone republican. There ain't
much more to say
I ra waitin' now to see the world turn
'round the other way.
Considering what has hspined 'twon't
surprise me in the least.
To see the son rise in the West instead
of in the East.
I half expect to see the sky come down
and rain accend.
There really ain't no telling w here the
thing is goin' to end.
I can't find proper language for expres-
sin' my dismay ;
Missouri's gone republican. Thero ain't
much more to say.
It isn't any wonder that my courage
kind o' fails ;
'Twas hard when West Virginia went a-
waverin in the scales.
'Twas even worse to realize the music of
the band
Took on a ecial meanin' w hen it played
"My Maryland."
But when you start a-tumblin' why,
there ain't no way to tell
Just when you have finally reached the
bottom of the well.
Give 'em Tennessee an' Texas to increase
the strange array,
Missouri's gone republican. There ain't
much more to say.
Washington Star.
I have just received several disc and
cylinder graphophones and about 200 of
the latest records, for lmth the disc and
cylinder machines, from the Columbia
company. Be sure and select some of
these records for your machine.
F K. DAI LEY.
Winter Rates to Yaqnlna Bay.
In order to aeromramUta the many penpla
who wUh to make a winter trip to Ya.iilna Bar
tha Southern Pacific Katlwa nmnm -in h
n Wedneartajri ami Haturtara of aarh week, nn
til March 81, ltwt, mon.l trip llckata, at low
ratoa, to Yaqnlna Bar and morn, limited to
ity riaja from data of a la. Thorn who doalre
to take adrantae of this rata ihonld apply to
nearaat Southern raclflo ticket agent for ticket,
The time for roughs ami colds Is here.
but with a Isittle of Bates' White Tine
and Tar Syrup in the house no one need
suffer any inconvenience. It's the liest
remedy on the market. Call at the
Delta drug store.
Buy "Our Best I" If, Valley Flour.
For sale by J. W. Hartrampf.
TOW
TMKE
v
Just step into our
store and look at the
fine line of Rockers
for Ladies, G-ents,mis-ses
and Children; and
all kinds of Rockers.
Dining TaMes and Chairs
Take a look in at Donelson's store before you
make a purchase and we know what the decision
will be. Christmas Presents Galore
Stands of all kinds,
Iron Beds,
Dressers and Dining Tables
Dining and Parlor Chairs,
High Chairs and chairs for youths.
l"J. 0. Donelson's Slope, IlillSuoro. Oregon.
Dailey's Christmas Extras
Everyone knows that a Christmas Gift that Is useful Is far more appreciated than some useless bit
of nonsense. A good MusIeaT'lnstrument will double discount any of these fancy so-called art
affairs that arc nice to look at but not Intended for any practical purposes, as a gift, and will
please both old and young. I handle the largestllne of musical goods this side of Portland. I
can prove what I say. Since I commenced this fall, I have sold 21 Phonographs and SIS records,
and have in stock now 8 machines and over 350 records.
A FIVE PER CENT DISCOUNT.
Will be given on all cash purchases fron now until Christmas. Mandolins, Violins, (Jultars, (Jra"
phophones, llecords and Points, Small Instruments and all Extras -Strings, Ilosln etc.
PIANOS AND SHEET MUSIC
a
I can give you as good if not a bettor proposition on Any Make of Piano or
Organ than you can got in Portland or elsewhere. Will sell for cash or on easy
payment plan. See me before you buy. I will order sheet music, the latest and
best for 5 selections for 1.00. - - Recently 1 have added somo lino Knives
and Razors. They make swell Xmas presents and are inexpensive. Drop in
and see them. I have no fancy Xmas Display, but Have got the goods and
my prices are right. Yours for fair dealing,
FRANK R. DAILBY.
SMI