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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1921
Page
4
The Independence Enterprise is published every Friday by Z. C. Kimball. Subscription rates are listed, including yearly and six month options.
Despite a Wednesday storm, nineteen Oak Point ladies attended an Oak Point Community Club gathering in the schoolhouse honoring the Independence Civic Club. The room was decorated with daffodils and violets as Mrs. Young welcomed guests.
R C Paulus of the Oregon Growers Cooperative says prune sales have been light for two to three weeks despite overall dried fruit demand. He notes dealers loss on coast shipments and price declines sowed buyer hesitation, while coast stocks are gradually being consumed. Genevieve Cooper returns to Portland to stay with her parents at the Imperis Hotel.
The message extends good health to readers and their families and wishes long life and prosperity as a hopeful closing line.
City High School held its subscription drive for the Country Gentleman, ending Friday morning. Dean Craven's side won by 30 votes, with 69 subscriptions to 39 for Helen Turnbull's side. The school earned 54 dollars as the first six weeks of the semester close, while businessmen toured the building and heard D. E. Fletcher's remarks. Visitors included H. Hirschberg, Ross Nelson, Chester Henkle, Clyde Williams, Claude Skinner, Earl Butler, D. E. Fletcher, Charles Calbreath.
The Churches set Sunday school at 10:00 a.m. Epworth League 6:30 p.m. Preaching 7:30 p.m. Also at Buena Vista preaching 11:00 a.m. Bible school 10:00 a.m. Mrs Jones supervises. Communion 11:00 a.m. Evening service 7:30 p.m. Pastor Harold Hull speaks on The Question of The Ages. Everyone is invited.
The article recounts Della Bacon of Tallmadge who argued Shakespeare’s plays were authored by an American woman. Her exhaustive book The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded drew Hawthorne’s preface and spurred a lifelong pursuit. Obsessed, she sought the Stratford tomb and was later confined after muttering of concealed manuscripts.
Becky Wells, a celebrated English actress and journalist born in 1759, rose to fame on stage and with Edward Topham’s scandal ridden newspaper. Her volatile life included elopement with a Moorish prisoner, a jail wedding, lavish festivities, and eventual release funded by her husband Joseph Sumbel.
An old tale explains that every Hindu must have a son to perform rites for release from purgatory. A Brahmin seeks Vishnu’s boon for a son and is refused twice. On the third request he asks that gods and men share his merriment, causing universal song and dance until the gods demand a son be granted.
Instructions for palm and geranium care warn that rooms must stay above 40 to 45 degrees and avoid gas drafts. Place palms in shade not full sun, water moderately with good drainage, and spray geraniums with tepid water to keep foliage green and dust free. Leaves should be sponged with fish oil soap occasionally.
Advertisement humor notes the requirements for a bride in Birmingham society, stating she must be under forty and immune from the movies and housebroken, reflecting social expectations and satire of the era. The item contrasts fantasy of wealth and beauty with practical constraints in a city paper.
A brief Chaparral quip about a parachute mirrors a playful exchange between Divergent Views and a girl watching serenaut. Mere Man contrasts lacking a parachute with having one, capturing a witty, erasable chat in a single caption.
Salem Monday afternoon the state fair board building committee authorized poultry building, a machinery pavilion, and hard surface roads and walks at the fair and camp grounds. The work, to be done by day labor under A. H. Leu, fits within the $90,000 appropriation. Poultry building about 50 by 140 feet costs around $20,000. machinery pavilion 34 by 260 feet about $15,000. roads and walks estimated at $50,000. Box stalls will be added in the stadium and the old poultry building remodeled into a sheep barn. Work to start as weather allows and be rushed for fall completion.
The undersigned express sincere thanks for kind words and help shown during the burial of our son Butler. Mr and Mrs L MI and children extend appreciation for support from friends and neighbors.
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