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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1922
Page
4
Publication notice indicates the Independence Enterprise is published every Friday by 7 percent C. Kimball with subscription rates listed for one year and six months, though text is partial and contains OCR errors. The readable parts confirm a weekly edition and a publisher.
Local column highlights community life with mentions of cemetery improvements by L. O. O. F. members, garden and fence work, visits among families including the Alexanders, Stapletons, and McElmurrys, and a string of July 4th gatherings. It notes school and boys and girls club outreach, new houses, harvest prep, fishing trips, and social dinners, dances, and a G. A. R. hosted meal.
Keeney and Justin families planned an afternoon in the country with a picnic supper and fried chicken. On the fire alarm, Mr. Keeney rushed to the scene leaving the Warri er family at their temporary home on 7th street and returning after unloading furniture. The group finally sat to coffee and a table.
The Churches Christian Church will not hold Sunday services but offers car rides to Turner convention attendees. Baptist Church notes strong Bible school attendance. reports morning Bible school at 10 with Justin as superintendent and sermons by Rev Proppe at 11, 2 and 7:15 PM. mentions a male quartet and welcome to worship. The W M S meets Friday at 2:30. prayer meeting Wednesdays. Epworth League Institute in Falls City July 24 30. annual M E conference at Salem Sept 6. Mr and Mrs J E Hubbard return from Seaside outing via Portland trip.
Mr and Mrs M FE Pengra travel eastward to eastern Washington while Mr and Mrs Henry Oberson welcome a newborn son. Kate Houx visits La Grande over the weekend. John Abe Becker and Frank Charles Miller join a fishing trip to Valnets. Independence residents seen at Sulphur Springs on the 4th include Frank Hennigan family F E Butts family and Doris Dole. J D Stevens spends the 4th at Eugene then Vancouver Wash for about 10 days. Marie Johnson of near Monmouth visits grandparents L F Johnson in Independence. C W Henkle returns from Tillamook where he served as funeral director. W B Huggins Karl Kolb and A T Huggins motor to Long Beach. Lee Hieserodt orange grower of Anaheim with Mrs Hieserodt and George Waterbury Hubbard visit H Seeley. Hieserodts Waterburys Seeleys were Nebraskan friends. They head to Burns to visit relatives. George L Rathbun of Anoka Minn arrives to visit sister F R Arrell. another sister Mrs Jenkins of Jefferson also visiting. Rathbun, a rural carrier from Anoka, has a month’s leave to spend in Oregon. He and the Arrells will visit points of interest.
Mrs. Sarah Helmick celebrated her 99th birthday at her son James Helmick’s Albany home on July 4. The town joined in the festivity serenading the honored woman with several musical selections.
Frederick Attwood supreme prelate of the Knights of Pythias will visit Marmion lodge in Dallas on Thursday July 13. A Minnesota native and blind since youth he is a renowned orator and lyceum speaker whose optimistic lectures recounts scenes before his blindness. He is billed as a standout visitor of the year.
Mr. Attwood considers relocating to Oregon and is praised for his positive outlook despite affliction. Marmion lodge gears up for a major event with page rank work and initiation of several candidates. The occasion will honor the flat degree with the supreme prelate Observ er in attendance.
The fifteenth annual Henkle reunion was hosted at Mrs. John Wyatt’s farm two miles west of Corvallis on June 29. A large decorated tent sheltered a dinner and an afternoon program of music and talks. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Walker, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Henkle, Mrs. Sarah Nelson, Mrs. C. D. Butler, Drs. Hewett and Knott.
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