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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1903
Page
5
Monmouth area correspondence details visitors and departures from Oak Grove Salem and Lewiston with neighbors and relatives. The piece notes a Portland hospital visit, a music program, basketball win at McMinnville, church meetings, and a student passing eighth grade exams before returning home.
Local items report new neighbors arriving in the area and residents’s activities. Haynes lost a poisoned dog last week. Lee Clark returned from Salem after a week away. Gil Zumwalt sold a driving horse to Charley Haynes. George Fisher of Monmouth is cutting wood on his ranch. A. B. Ohms bought a 75 cream separator from Eldridge of the city. Morris Wheelock plans a trip to Dallas for a teacher’s examination. J. B. Stump has logs cut by Wishback boys for two feet wood. Gil Zamwalt cuts oak logs for F. A. Douty at Independence. Davis moved his family into a newly purchased house from Wilbur Lewis. Ira Smith of Yaleastern Oregon visited to check his place. Basket entertainment at the schoolhouse Friday yielded 10 dollars and 20 cents. Miss Gertrude Vollans finished a successful term of teaching and returned to Portland. Miss Emma Parrish of near Dayton visited Mabel and Madge Whearlock. Rev. E. J. Thompson attended a Presbytery meeting in Albany Wednesday.
Old Polk County resident B. J. Kent describes a home garden planted May 6 1902-1903 with potatoes beets beans carrots lettuce cucumbers and tomatoes. The harvest fed eight people through January 1903 and generated 910 dollars in store sales. The piece also argues for soil enrichment crop rotation and diversified farming in Oregon with notes on dairying stakes and multiple farm enterprises including hens eggs hogs sheep goats strawberries and fruit. A wheat and oat heritage is contrasted with modern rotation to restore land and boost prices in Polk County real estate.
There is unmistakable evidence in Polk County that the popular vote could nominate and elect the next congressman, indicating a rising sentiment favoring changes in representation. The discussion centers on party alignment and the potential impact on regional politics.
J. S. Moore, tonsorial artist, operates in the Wigwam Shop on the north side of C Street with only his class of workmen employed.
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