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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1917
Page
3
Allied dispatches report Turkish units crossing the Dinla River and advancing toward the city despite heavy conditions. British forces conduct nighttime operations across the Tigris, establishing bridgeheads and forcing enemy positions back to within six miles southwest, as dawn approaches on the 10th.
A Sunday tornado devastated a city in Indiana killing over twenty and injuring more than a score. Residents faced widespread ruin with estimated property damage near two million dollars as authorities struggled to locate missing and recover bodies amid dangerous wreckage.
The American Marine reports an 8 ton net gain through transfers since the European war began, a net loss of 201 vessels on the same account, and shows 4 925 tons of ships under the American flag. It lists 405 vessels under foreign flags with average size smaller than the gained ships, and a total amount of 313 811.
Fragmentary text states Commissioner McCormick returns from a trip to northern Montana with mentions of Yellowstone and Helena counties and Miles entry. Readable portions indicate concern over winter losses and public filing that could not be reached.
Baker Stock and Sheepmen warn weather and feed scarcity may push losses toward one million dollars with leases ongoing and no relief in sight. Snow and cold lock grazing land, lambs suffer as mothers lack nourishment and suppliers struggle to meet demand.
The Rosecrans sawmill seven miles west of Corvallis, closed for months, will resume this week running full time. A new flume to the Southern Pacific Newport line two miles west enables winter shipments. Logging is by Stud baker and Monnahan of Castle Rock, Washington. The mill has contracts keeping it busy for a year and employs about 25 men.
Bay Park sawmill will source more than 15 million feet of logs to be cut by Jack Bester on the Siuslaw river and rail shipped to the city. Red cedar on the tuiicta will be sold to gleaming mills along the Siuslaw including the Buck mill with six machines. The Bay Park mill also contracts with new San Francisco sales agents for continuous mill run lumber and special orders.
Salem officials report chief clerk Salen Cochran and senate desk clerks completed revisions of the senate journal on Tuesday. House chief clerk Drager and staff will finish Monday. The law grants 20 days after session end to finish. A historic result will be finished calendars for both houses detailing the progress history of every bill.
The new county road code could leave roadmaster appointments to county courts while some lawyers see possible mandatory language from companion highway legislation. The laws take effect May 21 and a formal opinion from the attorney general’s office is anticipated before then.
Hilleboro Christian Good, an inmate of the Washington county farm, is the sole heir to the estate of his brother Joseph Good who died in Livingston county Illinois. The estate includes an 80 acre farm and seven thousand dollars in cash. At the expiration of the time for contests Good will return to Illinois to claim it. Good has been a laborer here for many years.
Salem The State land board authorized transferring about 6000 acres of base lands to the Federal government in lieu of indemnity claims. The move follows discovery of past transaction mistakes that left the state indebted to the government to that extent.
Sandy Mills and Sandy-Ed Burns have completed work and started operations at a new mill near town employing about 25 workers. Plans announced for three additional mills near Brightwood on Mount Hood road by Nelson & Mickelsen Jons rud & Meinig and Jarl & Nelson employing 125 to 150 men in total.
McMinnville application filed for a charter to form the McMinnville National Farm Loan association. Eleven charter members listed with loan applications totaling 36000 dollars. This marks the second National Farm Loan association organized in Yamhill County.
In Tilolloy park France a pedestals hold empty bases after shell fire. A soldier posed as a statue using a base called a pollu and fooled companions who only realized he was alive when he released the pose and sprang down.
A wary speaker recalls a man with a remarkable borrowing habit. He never supposedly earns money yet wields a persuasive tongue no one can resist. Legends say he once borrowed a nickel from a Scotchman on a bet.
In a brief exchange Mrs. Pesle notes her husband often tells her she looks ten years younger, while a friend adds that the dress suits her well and the comment comes swiftly.
A historical育 article urges careful calf management. It stresses early grain feeding and consistent postweaning feeding to develop calves in the first 18 months, noting losses reduce future productivity and urging timely breeding of heifers at 20 to 22 months for a first calf around 30 months.
Early spring pasture reduces feed costs and preserves milk yield. Rye or rye with crimson clover offers strong fall and early spring grazing. Avoid overgrazing rye to prevent winter kill. clover adds rapid late grazing growth. Late fall and early spring grazing lowers costs and boosts yields.
Virgil Overholt of the Ohio State University agricultural extension urges farmers to paint frequently and liberally to cut deterioration losses, noting no best painting time but stressing careful mixing and rubbing paint into exterior cracks.
A remedy for worms in hogs is to feed nothing for one day then give a 100 pound hog a tablespoonful of a mix of half turpentine and half raw linseed oil or castor oil. Doses for smaller pigs should be proportionately reduced. Always keep wood ashes and salt accessible, about half bushel of ashes to five pounds of salt. cob ashes will do as well.
The text asks how a place along a road becomes distinctive by concrete features. It hints at using objects like evergreen hedges, maple rows, unpainted houses, dilapidated barns, or well kept yards to identify a farm when giving directions.
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