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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1918
Page
5
Local column records Christmas visits among Salers residents and friends in Vancouver and nearby towns. It notes M L Frantz visiting for business, Hulbert and Fear families in Salem, James Winters from Vancouver visiting his father, and various other greetings, illnesses, and holiday events across Polk County.
Four girls checked 1481 cows for October testing dairy pay and feed usage. One inaccuracy led to removal and selling of unfit cows. Total October milk output reached 829,393.76 pounds with 41,195,099 pounds of butter fat. average per cow 422.72 pounds milk and 20.99 fat.
Pumpkin county clerk Abe Shrimp advertises for bids from volunteers to remove rats beneath the courthouse without disturbing the public. The issue dates to a hole in the floor three months ago during a day when society ladies were in the collector’s office as Alec Spooner faced trial for kissing the horse doctor’s daughter without a license.
Tillamook county shows a tenfold rise in registered dairy cattle and breeders in five years, per county agent R C G Jones. Paul V Maris notes initial 50 breeding animals with pedigrees, now 83 breeders own over 500 head in Guernsey Jersey and Holstein stock.
The Ladies Aid of Buena Vista M E church met at Mrs. J. K. Neal’s home and added four service stars to the church flag for Ray Grounds Dewey eel Marion Wells and Alfred Loy, bringing the total to twenty six stars with one gold star for Thonie Nash. The Enterprise reports a note on a gold star sailor among those remembered. The newspaper item notes the Enterprise location change to two doors south of its former site.
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