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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1920
Page
4
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Voters chose M J Butler and H H Parker for two year council seats and R B Swenson with Walter G Brown as recorder. D A Wolverton was elected mayor with Ebbert Stockholm Butler as two year councilmen and Walter Brown recorder. Enthusiasts toured Corvallis for the California Oregon Aggie game. fines were paid for traffic violations. A cow in the grand stand drew $2.50 penalties for four youths. Oak Point district sold cooked food. new poles rise for the telephone company. New Zealand butter appeared in Monmouth. A J Larson bought 56 pounds for educational purposes. A farm meeting on November 10 features Chester Gray and Robert Mansfield addressing Polk county farmers. Poultry men may stage a local show with several commercial-size plants nearby.
Mrs Garigus a longtime Independence resident died in Salem and was buried in the Odd Fellows cemetery south of town with Dr Dunsmore of the Presbyterian church officiating. Mr Garigus died about twenty years ago and she had lived in Salem the past decade or more. They once ran the Garigus hotel in the building later occupied by Enterprise office.
The Oak Point Community Club held its third sales of home cooked foods at Mulkey's store on Saturday October 30 raising 51 dollars 90 cents to improve the community center. Sunday school under Hugh Rogers grows with a juniors versus seniors banquet planned. Dr Bagley and President Ackerman visited the school and corn show plans loom in November. The club organized officers Effie Young president Charles Fitchard vice president J A Wood secretary J J Williams assistant secretary J A Foster treasurer Gertrude Collins journalist. Regular meetings are the first and third Thursdays.
Tacoma reports a Camp Lewis program where men from 25 countries study to learn English. The illiterates school, started July 20 under Lt. Col. H. T. Matthews, is one of nine recruit education centers. The 12 week course uses six two week grades with biweekly promotions. Each day includes three study hours, one hour of exercise and three hours of drill to build mind and body.
Business men and teachers rely on methods for efficiency yet overlook the key tool the eyes. Properly fitted glasses restore eye strength and boost workplace performance. An exam reveals any weakness and offers correction.
Morris and Keene Optical Co operates as eyesight specialists in rooms 202 through 211 of the Salem Bank of Commerce Building in Salem Oregon. The listing highlights a local eye care provider with a storefront address in downtown Salem.
A pioneer resident of the Tuckiamute country Mrs Martha Williams aged 82 died Tuesday night in Deaconess hospital Salem. Funeral was held today with interment in English cemetery Airlie. Her husband died May 8 last. They moved from a Lincolin? farm to Monmouth years ago and had no children. Surviving relative is a married daughter in Washington.
A Frenchman bases a photograph 850 miles away from Lyons to Paris as the government backs an experimental station. The Boston Globe notes growing openness to invention, contrasting today with past superstition when inventors were vilified. Wireless advances already include sea navigation by electric control from shore and soon shipboard absence. If political and social openness matched scientific receptivity, humanity could gain richer benefits.
Analysis from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat argues urban migration stems from the urge to escape divine toil and seek easier city employment. It contrasts farm hardship with city wages, noting many abandon farms and rely on others for labor while workers seek relief from physical strain and economic stress.
A carload of alfalfa hay near Independence will be sold at 31 dollars per F.O.B. car. The document lists poultry pig cow feed items with pricing for oil meal butter milk mash grit crack corn whest morpork alfalfa meal and other mixed feeds.
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