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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1902
Page
7
A small ad lists Old Fashion 1 gallon cans Blue Ribbon Red Ribbon and 21 pound wood pails for Derhake's Castor Oil Axle Grease. It offers 2 cans for 25 cents and mentions buying all kinds of produce. An order asks for many young ducks with weights 16 pounds and 20 pounds No 2 Japan.
A consumer list shows Italian prunes at 95 cents per 1 1b and evaporated peaches at 1 00 per 13 pounds. The ad provides bulk dried fruit pricing.
A fragment shows canned vegetables including corn and string beans with unit prices and quantities, indicating a small grocery item listing. The legible items include corn and string beans with price marks and can counts.
The item lists a cheap six day grocery sale in Independence Oregon and outlines local education touchpoints at the State Normal School with graduates in demand and salary ranges. It notes a fall catalog for training, plus local people visiting, new purchases from R M Wade Co, camping plans to DesChutes, and community happenings such as travel between Buena Vista and Salem.
The Southern Pacific Company and Corvallis Eastern Railroad announce round trip tickets to Newport from all Oregon points at reduced rates. Tickets on sale June 15 to October 10 for return. Inquiries available through local agents.
Notice is hereby given that the administratrix has filed in the county court her final account in the matter of the estate of Joseph Miller deceased. The Honorable J B Sibley county judge of Polk County Oregon has set hearings on August 10 192? at unspecified hour at the county courthouse in Dallas.
Notice under the Timber Land Act of 1878 as amended opens a land entry by Sadie Smith of Independence Polk County Oregon for the NEY of Section No 8 in Township No 7 West, will prove timber suitability at Polk County Clerk Delbos Oregon on August 2, with witnesses H B Kelso L L Smith Vidi Kelso and Riley Burbank. Adverse claimants must file by August 2.
In compliance with the Timber and Stone Act of 1878 this notice announces a sworn statement by Vine Kelso of Independence Polk County Oregon for the purchase of section gi in Township WS, seeking to prove land valued for timber over agriculture and to establish a claim before the Polk County clerk in Dollies on August final. Witnesses Smith, Sadie Smith, Hiley Burbank, and Koiso are named. adverse claimants should appear by August 102.
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