/
THE
POLK
COUNTY
Jessie L. Calkins.................... 10.00 Total ....................................$98.12.
Anna
C.-Hinkle ..................... 25.00 {
Road District No. 7.
ECKER A CURRIE, Publishers
Cyntha M. Hoke . .•.....................17.50 Dallas W'ood
2.50
Ethel E. Overholt ................. 10.00 Farmers State Co...................$
Bank
............
Published Twice a Week at Independence, Polk County, Oregon, on
Charlotta H. Huffman ......... 20.00 Oregon Gravel >.v Con. Co........ 18.65
18.00
Sarah S. Carter ..................... 30.00 J. R. Il-irrii............................. 67.50
Tuesday and Friday
Total ....................................$382 50 Steve Morrison....................... 21.25
Randall Buel ........................ 17.50
Care of Poor.
Application made.for Entry as Mail Matter of the Second Class
C. L. Siemer .......................... 11.25
E* Huntley, for boarding
N. Harty ............................$ 15.00 William Ullery ..................... 6.25
Subscription Rates: $1.50 a Year Strictly in Advance; Six Months
For boarding J. Oleon....... 15.00 Ed Plaster .............................. 7.50
For boarding U. Saine .... 15.00 P. S. Greenwood ................... 45.00
$1.00; Three Months 50cents.
For boarding J. Jarv is__ 15.00 S. W. Blessing ...................... 3.75
For boarding 1*. lichen__ 15.00 Total ....................................$228.15
CLYDE T. ECKER, Editor.
J. F. CURRIE, Business Manager
For boarding G. Ferren__ 15.00
Road District No. 8.
Lelah C. Whitney, nursing
iS. H. Crook ............................$ 15.00
and laundry, Mrs. Schmidt 15.00 J. p.. Walker .......................... 15.00
Kaiser Bill, you old fool, why don't you cut it out?
Viers Co., groceries for Mrs.
¡Joe Tetherow ..................*.. 8.50
Keyset-, 2 m onths................ 12.00 Total ................................... $ 38.50
Here at flome we can assault the weeds with a hoe.
Groceries for George Medley
Road District No. 9.
2 months . .•.......................... 12.00 Oregon Gravel
& Con. Co.........$ 43.20
Democratic Oswald West does not propose to bow to j
Conkey <5c Walker—Groceries
.1.
N.
Jones
...............
for Mrs. Kennedy .............. 6.00 Earl Beuf ............................... 115.50
any King.
92.50
Groceries, George Wilson.. 10.00 J. A. Byers ............................ 55.00
Groceries, Wrn. W alker... 10.00 Henry Lehman ..................... 15.Q0
Maybe some time the profiteers will get just what they j
King-Smith Dept. Store, gro
D. Hartman ....................*... 25.00
ceries for Mrs. R. M. Aik-
deserve. We all hope so, anyway.
H. M. Dickison ....................... 40.0ft
I
man,
months
...................
24.99,
George
Dickinson ................. 20.00
GETS
BILLS ALLOWED BY THE
Strickler Jourdan, grocer
[Henry
Knighton
...-.............. 20.00
We suppose that now over in the sheep country FLORIDA WEATHER
LOYAL MAN JN BAD
POLK COUNTY COURT ies for Mrs. H. B. Schmidt.. 15 00 C. C. Starr .............................
50.00
the herders are doing the herding with a Ford.
Johnson A- Collins, groceries
Total
...................................$476.20
(From the Congressional Record) The following hills were allowed for Mrs. J. K. P. Graves ... 15.00
Road District No. 11.
MB. SHERMAN. 1 know what at the last session of the county Williams Drug Co., drugs for
If the Portland Telegram hasn’t any respect for Mr. these
Fanners
State Bank ............$ 22.15
marshals
will
do.
I
have
seen
court
of
Polk
county,
Oregon,
poor farm inmates .......... 13.20 Oregon Gravel
& Con. Co. .. 13.20
Ben Olcptt’s feelings it should have for the other 799,- them in operation. They are scat [
Sheriff’s Office
A. J. Flum, amount.allowed 10.00 Rex Woraer .........................
15.00
tered
around,
hordes
of
them,
ail
999 people in the state.
C. V. Johnson, groceries for
John
W.
Orr
.........................
$176.66
V.
W.
Williams
.....................
5.00
over the country, each of them anx T. B. Hooker.......................... 90.00 J. VV. Nonamaker.............. 10.00 E. M. T urner.......................... 13.75
ious
to
distinguish
himself.
In
J. E. Richter .......................... 80.00 W. B. Gerth, groceries for J.
Mr. Moser has real cause for being optimistic. Every Florida, in March, a man witii a Dallas
............................ 5.00
Co............... 4.90 D. Sipes .............................. 10.00 C. P. E. M. Staats
Schweizer
................... 5.00
body seems to be willing to put his picture in the window German name, from a Northern John R. Telephone
C. L. Crider, groceries for Mrs.
Allgood
...................
3.75
Cecil
Embree
........................
State, went down to Palm Beach.
County Itemizer ........... 3.00 Arrow ................................. 6.00 Emery Whiteaker ................. 5.00
as long as he is in town.
5.00
He thought that was a real hot Polk
Groceries for Mrs . Frank
Total
....................................$361.31
Peroy
Hadley
...................'..
5.00
country all the time, and so one
Ward .................................... 1.00 H. P. Whiteaker ................... 5.00
Clerk’s Office.
Fritz seems to be much pleased when he is taken morning
he put on the usual Palm A. B. Robinson
Mrs. S. P. Biggs, house rent
Jr....................$138.31
Staats .......................... 5.00
Beach suit and went out; but a Edith M. Jackson................... 85.00 for Mrs. Arrow ................. 7.00 J. E. C. E. Simpson
prisoner. Jumping from hell into a pasture with barb norther
........................ 2.50
had
struck
that
section
of
L. D. Brown, rent for Lizzie
wire around it ou ght to be pleasant.
Edna
B.
Jackson
,
..................
70.00
Total
....................................$186.80
the country, and he nearly froze to
..................................... 6.00 " " Road District No. 16.
& Pruhomme Co ......... 17.00 W. Dale
death before he got back. When he Glass
A.
Messner,
groceries for
V.
P.
Fiske
............................
16.06
Hamberger, being of German leanings, we presume reached the boat landing he said Polk County Itemizer............. 3.75 Mrs. Hisey ..........................
Gravel & Con. Co. .. $ 12.15
6.00 Oregon
John Underwood................... 100.00
considerable disgust, “Damn Dallas Telephone Co. ........... 2.95 Moore & Walker, Mdse, for
must be rubbed out. Hot dog ought to have no difficulty with
such a country as this," and was J. C. Hayter .......................... 2.10 poor farm inmates ............ 5.80 John W alker.......... .............. 125.00
now in being admitted to full membership in our vocabu arrested
Lee Roberts ........................... 81.25-
by a local •deputy who
Meat Co., meat for
....................................$334.92 Dallas
¿Total ....................................$407.40
stood there, under the espionugo Total Treasurer’s
lary.
Mrs.
Hisey
..........................
35
Office.
act, on the ground that his state A. V. R. Snyder .....................$
General Road.
Meat
for
Mrs.
Arrow
.........
1.10
reflected upon the form of Dallas Telephone Co.............. 62.50
Russell
Grader
Mfg. Co.........$640.00
Eddy
&
Carbray,
Mdse,
for
While it can be safely estimated that only one out of ment
government of the United States, J. C. Hayter ......................... 2.00
E.
W.
Fuller
..........................
27.00
poor
farm
inmates
............
1.00
every fifty* thousand is disloyal, yet when you read the when he simply meant that the Total ................................... $ 62.25 75 Total .....................................$323.44 Dallus Iron W orks................ 120.00
Florida climate was not what he
Walter Williams ................. 50.00
papers it seems that only one out of eveiy fifty thousand supposed
JaiL
Assessor’s Office.
it to he. [Laughter.] He
Hauser Bros............................ 56.25
Polk
Co.
Electric
Supply
Co.
.$
60
is loyal.
had to go to all the trouble and hu C. S. Graves ...........................$101.00 Total ..................................... 60 Northwest Auto Co..................4736.00
miliation of furnishing bond and Glass & Prudhomme Co.......... 169.50
Graven Hardware Co............... 2.75
Bridges.
......................... 85.00
While there may be some difference of opinion as to employing a lawyer. He had the F. H. J. Clay Holman
Oregon Gravel & Con. Co. ... 7.43
Industrial
Acc. Com...$ _ 7.21
Fox .......................... 72.00 State
misfortune to inherit a German
™
y
0
...
„.W
att Ship Powder Co............ 42.20
how General Focli pronounces his name, there is no mis name
from his German parents, but C. E. Huntley ....................... 66.00 T’
J’
Sulllvan
........................
5
001
C.
Beckett ....................... 27.00
I. H. Sullivan ........................ 5.00 ; Star W. Transfer
taking the unanimous idea that he’ll soon be starting he himself was as good a citizen as J. H. Brown .......................... 63.00 Finley
....................... 7.99'
Whitney
.....................
1.50
j
there is anywhere in this country. Pearl H. Hughes ................... 60.00 J. A. Tate ............................... 104.111 Guy Bros................................. 4.65-
toward Berlin.
F. H. Runcorn ....................... 54.00
Robertsqn ......................... 3.95-
Total ................................... $122.82: A.
j
J.
T.
Friar
..............................
49.00
S.
L.
Burk .............................. 4.05
NO
YIELDING
TO
A
Mr. Lafferty is running for congress again in Portland.
Ferry.
Stella .1. Henry .................
................ 48.00
Ezra
.............................. 3.00
KAISER
RILL
PEACE
E. O. Bainter .....................
................ 42.00 J. M. Graves ..........................$ 83.00 George Hurt
When he becomes tired of the job in the city, he may
Fuller
......................... 9.00
................................ 42.00 Chas. K. Spaulding L. Co...... 30.73 H. A. Robb ............................
move to the country and spend the rest of his days run President Wilson’s speech at J. J. K. Bagley
Neal ............................. 42.00 Oberson Bros........................... 1.50 j j oe Tetherow ....................... 105.04
4.75
Baltimore
had
much
to
say
of
force,
j
ning against our Mr. Hawley.
Ruth
Graves
.........................
21.00
....................................$115.23
John
Donker
...........................
7.50
But there was in it also an appeal | John R. Allgood ..................... 6.50
Stock Indemnity.
| F. A. Winslow ....................... 25.00
to
of the . Ger- i Dallas Telephone Co.............. 2.25
_ man reason—the
, if .. reason
. have
Wayne I}. H enry.................... $ 12.50 W. D. Gursline ....................... 10.00
As the library board fracas in Portland has been set Hrniir
people,
they
not
en-
L
,
_
.
.................... it. The
rn„ kaiser's star Transfer ......................... 1.00 Total .................................... $ 12.50 Total ...................................$5893.56
abdicated
tled without calling out the home guards that portion of tirely
...................................$954.75
Agricultural Agent.
-----------------------------------------------
vainglorious threat to impose by 1 Total
Weights and Measures. C. I.. Hawley
the metropolis press so inclined may resume kicking the the
sword such a peace as lie de-1 J. Sealer
........................$450.00
JONES
15.09 Tota* ................................... $4.>0.00 Qand(da(e B. |or F. Representative
Non-Partisan League dog aroun’.
sires upon his enemies, the Presi- j F. Jones..............................$
Polk
District Attorney.
dent meets with proud defiance
Contingencies.
and
Counties,
May
Pri-
German contention that i
Pi&®®cki .......................$ ^ John R. Allgood ...................$ 18.75 maries.
We would like to ask Captain Tooze or some other If force it is and the force
alone must decide Hollas Telephone Co............... 2.80 V p. Fiske ........................... 5.00
(Paid Advcrtisemen-..)
military authority at Camp Lewis if any of our acquaint everything, the allies,
this-country I Total ..................................$ 7.20 Total ......................... '.........$ 23.75 ________________________________
in men and nion-
Surveyor’s Office.
ances who enrolled up there intending to become generals ey with as its yet resources
Scalp Bounty.
CANDIDATE FOR COUNTY JUDGE.
scarcely
tapped,
will
ans-
Dallas
Telephone
Co..............$ 2.25 Charles Hinshaw
................. 2.00 I hereby announce myself a can-
in six months ever got to be corporals.
wer with a force greater than J. C. Hayter .......................... 2.70 O.
N. Harrington ....................$ , (>.00: didate for the Republican nomina
Germany can array. The official i Total ...................................$ 4.95 Total
...................................$$ 8.00 tion for the office of County Judge
After all tin* votes have been put in the ballot box for German press declares that the |
County. Court.
! '° succeed myself, subject to the
dealt by Hindenhurg and j E.C. Kirkpatrick ....................$112.60 Polk County Advertising.
Mr. Olcott and Mr. Simpson and Mr. Withycombe, we blows
Observer
.........$132.79
voters at the Primary election to
are intended to make C. W. Beckett .............
53.30
County Itemizer .......... 139.19 *,e Ticlci May 17, 1918.
can’t imagine that there will be many left for “Wet” LtidendorfT
the French and English and Am Dallas Telephone Co.............. 7.75 Polk
Total ....................................$271.98 Sane business policy, economical.
ericans “submissive," so that they i
Court House
Harley, “ Dry” Anderson and Gus Moser.
not parsimonious administra-
will accept the kind of peace which Tlu, Adder Machine Co...........$300.70 Grand total ......................$4592.62 lmt
tion.
Special atention to Probate
will he gracious enough to Ki,,|ev Whitney .
6810
Road District No. 2.
I
Court..
Respectfully,
Bather than take a position contrary to her conscien Germany
them. To this there is but Oregon PowerCo.
8.81 H. A. Dorton ..........................$ 21.00,
E.
C.
KIRKPATRICK.
tious views, Miss Hunt resigned a $125 position in Port oiler
one reply possible, and President j»()|k Co. Elec .Sup .Co............ 6.40 Floyd Dorton .......................... 17.50 (Paid Adv.)
Wilson made it with high spirit. Da|las Water Co...................... 5.00 Total ....................................$ 38.50 | ________________________________
land. When anybody gives up a $125 job, when by keep The
free people ortho United States Sterling Furniture Co............ 1.15
District No. 3.
ing mum, they could hold it, we must admit that con will never
SWOPE & SWOPE
submit or yield to brute J. C. Hayter ......................
...................... 0.30 Farmers Road
State
Bank of Inde
force
or
a
peace
reeking
with
in
sciences are made in different sizes.
LAWYERS
Total
.....................................$396.46
pendence ............................. $152.20
justice.—New York Post.
Circuit Court.
I. 0. 0. F. Building
Gravel Con. Co. ... 92,93
Candidates for state treasurer and labor commissioner WAR HAS BECOME A
Dallas Telephone Co................$ 4.00 Oregon
Frank
Brobst
.....................
1.25
Independence,
Oregon
Total ....................................$ 4.00 W. H. McKee ........................ 28,00
may be numerous hut they appear to have been relegated
BETTING PROPOSITION
Insane.
H. G. Keyt ..............
1.25
to the side show. In the big top, the senatorial and guber
-------
Dr. B. H. McCallon................. 10.00 Clarence Gilson ..................... 7.50 O o o o o o o o o 0 0 oO
arrival in full strength Dr starbuck ..................... 10.00 G. G. Remple ........................ 5.00 o E L I Z A B E T H L E V Y o
natorial candidates are doing their tricks with the on America's
the
battle
front* has become a
Teacher of Violin o
...............
.....$20.00 Harvey-Kurtz .............................. 5.00 o 0
elephant.
hotting proposition—a sort of inter Total
„
School
Superintendents
Office.
Joseph
Mortimer
...................
5.00
.
national Derby or handicap race- Fred S. Crowley ............... . 8153.93 Herbert Lee
2
50
°
'Vl
give
lessons
in
Indepen-
which our allies and Germany Floyd l). Moore ................. .. 120.00 Anthony Dent ..........................
If there had been as much energy worked off in regu oil
o dence for beginners and ad- o o
.......................
11.25
are placing huge stakes. Our allies Alta B. Crowley ................. . 60.00 Leander Conner................... 11.25 [ o vanced students. Best of o
lating the price to be paid for the publication of the de are
we will be there in time,
Prices reasonabl.e o
.................
9.00 Total .....................
$323.13 I o o methods.
linquent tax list as there has been regulating the price of while betting
Germany is plunging heavily J. P. C. S. Greenwood
Inquire
at
the Post Building o
Hayter
........................
3.00
Road District No. 5.
that we cannot make it. Dallas Telephone Co.......... .. .. 3.80
o
or
write
E.
Levy, 563 Court
other legal publications, we would not now be confronted on Mr. the odds
E. M. Mitty •.......................$ 50.62 o St., Salem, Oregon.
Balfour
has
just
given
a
o
Total
................................
with a hard nut to crack
British cheer which we interpret to
H. M Reese............................ 42.50 ; O o o o o o o o o 0 0 0 O
Health Office.
mean that he is not worrying about
Dr.
H.
B.
McCallon
his
country's
stake.
"The
thot
up
Mr. Me A (loo’s confession that I 10 wears patched permost in all British minds," the Total ................... i ...........
........... .$ 84.00
trousers is very pleasing to that portion of humanity foreign secretary said in a speech
Indigent Soldier.
labor delegates, J. B. Scrafford
who have always worn them—war or no war. But in or to upset the the American
................... .$ 50.00
plans, that Am Total .................................
.$ 50.00
der for Mr. McAdoo to gain full membership in the erica will German
be able to send over her
Established .1889
Widows’
Pension.
Ancient and Honorable Order of Patched Pants, he must indomitable force in a way which Eliza Lawrence .................... .$ 20.00
no German general staff officer has Etta Bush ........................... . 20.00
come thru with the declaration that he goes to bed ever
A Successful Business Career of
calculated."
Addie Launer ..................... . 17.50
Twenty-Five Years
while Mrs. McAdoo does the patching.
That’s the bet. It's One of a series Mrs.
McNulty ........... . 10.00
the Germans have taken since the Eliza Mike
....................... . 10.00
war began. Some of them have Hattie Nelson
The moving picture world is all excited this week. won.
....................... . 10.00
They won on Russia, on the Georgia Biggs
INTEREST PAID ON TIME
................ . 17.50
Douglas Fairbanks and pretty little Mary Pickford lkans and on Turkey. They lost Harriet E. Saywors
Olin
..................
.
30.00
and England. It is now Martha A. South ................ . 10.00
DEPOSITS
have become too chummy to satisfy Mrs. Doug and she on for France
America to make them lose the Jennie
Miller ................... . 25.00
proceeds to make "first page copy. Then, Owen Moore, biggest stake of all, and with it the' Blanche L. Morgan
................. . 17.50
Officers and Directors
victorious
peace
they
had
counted
1
Mary’s husband, butts in and says his little speech. on. Ki sas City Times.
Grace E. Yeatcr ................... . 25.00
H. Hirschberg, Pres.
D. W. Sears, V. P.
Meanwhile, Doug and Mary say it “ taint so.” It has
Bertha J. W alling.............. . 17.50
_
_
__
R-
DeAimond,
Cashier
Sarah
A.
Pitzer
...................
.
20.00
been a horrible way of breaking the news to hundreds of The West Front battle has been | Englehoni ........................... . 20.00
W.
H.
\\
alker
I.
A.
Allen
O. D. Butler
romantic lads and lasses that Doug and Mary are married. going on for a month without result G V. Johnson for Bertha K.
P O S T .
Sticking Top Time
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