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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1909
Page
4
A fragmentary note from Independence Oregon mentions Charles Edward Hicks listed as a post office entrant and a waiter with a subscription rate of 1.50 per year. It includes a garbled appeal to readers to call out names and cites various regional papers in a satirical and fragmented fashion.
The Waterprice expresses appreciation to the preachers for Christmas remembrances and wishes readers many happy returns of the season. It notes their pockets are bulging with clears and sweetmeats, and laments the long interval between holidays. It ends by addressing the editors.
A Benton County Republican letter decries schemes that sell space in flimsy charts registers or frames promising ads. It notes businessmen are duped into purchasing worthless cards, while publishers gain little, and complains that many complain advertising does not pay.
A reader sought a payor published in Bepton County and aimed for home collections. After contacting one attorney from the paper, the town saw five lawyers, four foolish and one shrewd, with the successful lawyer maintaining his name in public view.
Stanfield Standard laments shrinking government land for homesteading and foresees intensified landlord control. It warns that one generation has witnessed the end of vast free lands once granted by a provident government and predicts future growth of estates and tenant populations unless wiser choices prevail.
The Enterprise notes receipt of two handsome calendars from the Salem Brewery Association and the Willamette Valley Lumber Co. About 800 Salem calendars cost around $600 to produce, with ten cents postage each. The John Fery painting reproductions depict a Rocky Mountain Wyoming scene.
A hunter in a canoe approaches a herd of elk along a snow covered lakeshore. The central elk leads cows and whistles as the hunter rows with the wind, closing to within range. The artist captures the scene with faithful natural detail.
The Pacific Homestead arrives with the Enterprise this week in bright red and blue cover, eighty four pages, featuring farm stock and fruit culture by authorities. Beginning January first 1919 the Enterprise offers a free subscription to all new subscribers.
President Taft prepares a single special message to Congress outlining proposed amendments to the Interstate Commerce Act and Sherman Antitrust Law. Initial plans considered splitting the topics but he opted to combine changes in one communication.
In Independence, a Friday night basketball game at the auditorium ended 50 to 12 with Independence dominating. Corvallis struggled, and poor team play contributed to the large scoring gap.
Readable details describe spacious sunny rooms with en suite or standing bath and piano present. The listing mentions electric heat and a European plan.
Seattle December 27 Claude B Pey ton testified he and Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Holzheimer helped Ralph Leavitt of Los Angeles for 1000. Leavitt fled Washington on a manslaughter charge after running down and killing two Seattle street sweepers with his car.
Five masked men near Hamilton fired on Ollie Snyder a sheep herder wounding him after forcing a deputy to surrender. Snyder had earlier killed Arthur Greene on Christmas Eve according to local reports.
Dr L L Hewitt physician surgeon maintains offices in Cooper building rooms 2 and 8 with hours from 9 to noon and 2 to 6 pm. Calls answered promptly day and night.
Washington December 27 1909 new interstate liquor law requires all liquor shipments to be plainly marked on the package cover. It ends anonymous shipments and C O D liquor trade and forbids express agents acting as liquor collectors while prohibiting concealed delivery under the penal code.
Fragmentary ad mentions Dr Dav L C Osteopathic physician in Independence with sessions today and Saturday and lingering references to Dallas Monday and Salem, Skinner Bros. presence, contact lines, and a daily schedule for business offerings.
Timetable shows daily departures from Independence and Monmouth to Dallas Airlie and back. Notable trains include No 64 at 6:00 am, No 68 at 10:50 am, No 70 at 6:15 pm, No 61 to Airlie at 7:00 am, No 72 to Airlie at 2:20 pm, and return services from Dallas and Airlie with various arrival times.
Secretary Dana Smythe of the Oregon board of sheep commissioners calls a historic westwide gathering of sheep commissioners sanitary boards and state veterinarians to discuss sheep disease control. The meeting will be the first of its kind in the western states and has wide approval from participating boards.
War Department engineer G. W. Carroll resigns after directing coastal and interior Oregon works. He will become supervisor of construction for the jetty at the mouth of the Siuslaw River.
Independence fielded three new players in the lineup and delivered one of their best showings of the season. A solid turnout filled the arena as basketball remains a leading sport, and with more practice Independence could push for the state championship.
Victoria reports from Shanghai papers that Russia is massing troops in Siberia with as many as half a million soldiers near Lake Baikal and 15 submarines sent to Vladivostok. The Amur river road project is being rushed at great cost amid fears of a second war with Japan.
The Independence Football Team sponsored a Tuesday boxing show at the opera house featuring six matches. No injuries occurred. Buckner and Byers fought to a draw with two falls each. Organizers plan another boxing tournament in a couple of weeks with several local boxers preparing.
Carrie Smith a Black Rock resident lost her Independence home and its contents to fire this week leaving seven children with no aid beyond two older sons. Neighbors and heading camps workers have organized a fund to cover immediate needs.
Washington dispatches report that final allotment work for Klamath lands, begun in 1840s and suspended in 1898, is nearing completion. Patents to 1900 approved lands may open the reservation, with Rev Hor tran White guiding the final allotting effort at the Qtapaw agency where a small band of Modocs and their descendants remain.
F Gmith purchased the Mre MM Connett property a 125 acre tract located four miles south of town marking a notable land transfer in the region.
Nevada California Oregon railroad company signs contract with Nugent Richardson Construction for the Alturas to Lakeview extension. Work to begin in Tangary.
Monmouth girls basketball defeated Independence by a wide score as the game kept a crowd stirred with evident enthusiasm. Monmouth benefited from superior practice while Independence had limited preparation, with lineups listing Vora Tuttle Mildred Force Marie Jonew Doris Illerren Dilla vor Lorane Johnson Leona Sperling Olea Shore Velma Bhore.
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