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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1918)
.ymm c S / VOLUME 1. T he P olk C ounty P ost INDEPENDENCE, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1918. THE POST GETS HALED INTO JUDGE BAKER’S COURT Uncle Sam and A Year of War SPUDS NOT SUBSTITUTES ----- By ruling ju st issued by W. j | B. Ayer, federal food adminis- j | tra to r for Oregon, on request | | of H erbert Hoover, potatoes can- ! | not be sold in this state after | l May 1 as a su bstitute for w heat j flour. This has been perm itted | Now what has the United States accomplished within a up to the present. Mr. Ayer has WE ARE SUED FOR.DEFAULT requested all jobbers to respect \ year? We who would be glad to find she has done the im _ IN PAYMENT OF A NOTE th is new ruling but to urge th e ir j IN SUM OF $200. possible need not be ashamed to declare the result in plain salesm en to continue to sell pota- | toes in as large qu an tities as ever | language. It is objected that our Army at the front is since there are thousands of bu- | small, that our guns are few, and our air service in embryo CLINTON HAD $250 shels rem aining in the state still | OF OUR MONEY uhsold. Just w hy this new order | —allowing the weight of these facts, what have we on the has been entered is not certain. | credit side of the ledger ? W heat flour is no more plenti- | We have been in the war for ayear. We found our Acknowledgement Is Made That ful th an it has been but on the | friends asking for money, first of all; we hare given it un co n trary is in lighter supply. / This Clinton Person Had Our Many of the sm all m ills have Money All The Time. grudgingly, in full measure, and running over. The re- been obliged to close because of sourses at the command of the enemies of the central th e ir having ground th eir allot Empires now embrace the wealth of the world subject The Post has been sued. W e do J m ent of w heat. They will not n o t care p a rtic u la rly about it* and ! be able to re-open until the new <#ily to the dangers of transportation across an ocean crop is available. It is supposed presum e th a t th e general public which a friend proposes to command, to protect, and to the people will n a tu ra lly tu rn doesn 't either and u n d er ord in ary m ore and more to potatoes and police. It was supposed that Britain would provide the circum stances w ould never m ention th a t this m ay cause a m ovem ent it. navy and the shipping to make our aid effective. heavier than would otherw ise be B ut th is is an extra-ordinary the case. We found our allies in immediate need of food and raw case, and a fte r giving the facts i th a t can be verified by the records materials for the manufacture of munitions. In large in Justice B ak er’s court, we leave measure we have provided these in unprecedented th e public to judge for w hat pur- j CHANCE FOR MARINE pose the action w as brought. SERVICE TRAINING quantities for a year; from the lack of these defeat was im The Post owed one C. C. Clinton minent when we entered the war. $200 in the form of a note which Any person who has attained Within a year we have organized the military resources cam e due a few d ays ago. This been graduated from a reg u lar sam e Clinton had in his possession of a population of 100,000,000 of people on a war basis—of ly established high school or col $250 of o u r m oney w hich he ad a people trained only to peace—which had never been so lege m ay, upon recom m enda m its in an affidavit filed in Justice tion of the m aster under whom organized before, since the demands made upon it during B ak er’s court. U nder o rdinary he has served, be exam ined for conditions you w ould th in k he our Civil War on a smaller scale, was immediately releas th ird m ate of ocean or coastwise w ould m erely give us the $50 we steam er after having served ed and had been completely forgotten except as in ancient have com ing and th a t everything not less th an 12 m onths as jun- w ould be settled. history. To do this every existing industry must be put - ....... i.. ior officer of ocean or coast- B ut he d id n ’t do that, He assigns upon a new footing—our highways, our finances, our man w jse steam ers of 2000 gross the note to C. W. B arrick for roller- Q1. over tion an d F letcher & B arrick com- T his is ' a new rule issued t0 , he ufacturing industries, and our occupations must all be m encc action ag ain st us for the steam vessel inspection service by made over. The new demands were so heavy that every $200 plus atto rn ey s fees and costs d ep artm en t of commerce, ac- element of strength broke down under the strain as truly an d also garn ish ee the $250 of our cording to word received S atu rd ay m oney in C linton’s h an d s to cover by Professor Al.th u r It. W illiam s, as these had broken down in England, France and Italy, th e $200, fees an d costs. in stru cto r of the free governm ent whose resistance met the original demands. Now we find W hen the atte n tio n of a nu m b er n autical school at P ortland from that what they had done in three years we have done in of atto rn ey s w as called to the case w . J. Grambs, district officer, th ey a t once offered th e ir services Mr. G ram bs states th at he lias one, because we have taken up their crushing burdens of to us w ithout fee or costs. P retty received auth o rity from H enry How- money and food under which they were falling down so good of the fellows anti the Post ard , director of recruiting for the as to relieve their fighting strength of this incubus, and w ill be represented by two an d pos- free n au tical schools a lim ited num - sibly th ree of th e best atto rn ey s in |)er of high school and college grad- we are prepared within a less time than they needed, to th e state. ■ nates w ithout previous sea experi- duplicate their production Qf men and fighting machinery. T h a t’s all an d it ought to *)0 ence, for training, provided arran g e sufficient. m ents can be m ade w ith steam ship POLK’S PRUNE CROP FREDRICK BOSHAW DIES com panies on the coast to take the PROMISES TO BE GOOD AT HIS SUVER HOME m en as ju n io r officers for 12 m onths MARY PICKFORD COMES IN “POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL" school course. Such arrange- M onm outh—Unless there are cold F redrick Boshaw died at his home _____ m eats are now being made. rain s w ithin the next week, Polk „• i * i i ■■ A pplications are therefore in or- in S uver on S unday aged 74 years. county will have as large a prune The fu n eral w as held at the home J._ j __ ^ ____ i der Iron* high school and college crop this year as in previous sea recognized as th e best of all screen g rad u ates for entrance in the P ort Tuesday, Dr. II. C. D unsm ore offi- sons. All of the neighboring o r anec in Independence tom orrow rating. land n autical school. night nt the Isis in E leanor G ates’ Mr. Boshaw had lived at Suver chardm en report good prospects at “Poor L ittle Rich Girl.” for about eigt years and w as a m em present. The sam e prospects apply T his story is not only one of the MODESTY PREVENTS MISS ber of the G. A. It., having been in to other farm products. W ith a Fall FROM RECEIVING CREDIT the m ost touching an d d ram atic stories service of his co untry for four and Spring favorable to the work ever w ritten but the c h araceter of years. He is survived by his wife, of getting in crops, every available th e poor little rich girl fits Mary Extrem e m odesty on the p art of four sons, three d au g h ters and sev tract has been planted to grain. The W in ter w as favorable and Fall-sown Pickford exactly. It gives h er a Elizabeth Mixer prevented her from eral grandchildren. chance to show h er g reat art w ith publicity for the great record she g rain looks unusually promising. out cam ouflage. \ has m ade selling W ar stam ps, T here is no doubt but w h at the w hich up to date has am ounted to MISS VIRGINIA NOTTINGHAM TO BE QUEEN OF THE MAY STEEL WORK IS READ? Isis will be crow ded to the doors. $0700. T his probably exceeds the FOR THE SALEM BRIDGE Such a production an d such a s ta r ; am ount sold by an y other public M onm outh—Miss V irginia Nott -com bining th e two together__ school pupil in the state by several Salem —Construction w orkers on ingham , p o pular m em ber of the w ell not m any will care to m iss it. hundred dollars. senior class, has been chosen Queen the W illam ette river bridge are of the May for the exercises to be ready to begin the steel work and held on the Normal cam pus here have finished concrete work on the j« ll May 10. She is a P ortland girl, also last of the big piers. The concrete I retain in g w all at the west approach president of the class. t‘o the bridge has been started. Plans are completed for the light Mrs. Rose Cary Dead ing. Along the drivew ay will be Mrs. Rose Cary, a sister of D. L. placed 13 lam p posts and under the Sunday. bridge will be placed two red and Hedges, died in a Salem hospital green light. I j § g I g I i B r Canning Season ID The Pa ssw ord is approaching and the far-sighted housewife will this year above all others buy her require ments early. i <KiI k -r We advise that you do not delay in buying all of the jars that you need as a traveling sales man told us that only about ten per cent of the glass factories in the United States are run ning. We have quite a generous supply on hand and are selling Mason’s for— (jM Tr* Pints ................................. 86c dozen Q u a rts............................... $1.0 dozen G allon s...................... $1.25 dozen Zinc C a p s.......................... 30c dozen MSSHWP 'O f Aft SHOES* Yt NUMBER 1L THE POST IS HAPPY The Post, w hich has been han- , j dicapped for several weeks be- 11 cause of the non-arrival of a press and o th er m aterial, is es pecially' happy to unnouuce th at it will soon be com pletely equip ped. In an sw er to m any inquiries, we will say th at it will be de cided in Ju n e w hether the Post will be issued more th a n twice a week or not. ROAD WORK UNFINISHED FOR LABOR IS SCARSE D allas—M il^i of the road work planned by th e ’eounty court for this y ear will have to rem ain u n finish ed unless the farm ers help. The farm ers w ho have in the past fu r nished team s for road w ork are busy plow ing and plan tin g crops and are unw illing t<> take th eir team s from the fields. The county this spring purchased a new auto tru ck for road work b u t as it has but the one m achine it is lim ited to a sm all part of the county, and in con sequence m uch of the w ork planned will have to be deferred. SHERIFF, WHO SHIPPED IN BOOZE, RESIGNS OFFICE Hillsboro—J. C. 'Applegate, sheriff of W ashington county, who w ith two prom inent m erchants of H ills boro, who w'ere caught w ith the goods and had to confess th a t they had shipped liquor into the state contrary to the prohibition law, re signed his otHce S aturday. Had ho refused to resign, Governor W ithy- combe would have removed him. Friends of the three m en are m ak ing nn effort to have them pardoned by the governm ent at W ashington. Each w as fined $250 and sentenced to ten days in jail. P R IS M I « WILL SPEAK HERE THURSDAY NIGHT HE HAS A VITAL MESSAGE TO DELIVER ON THE SUB JECT OF WAR ISIS THEATRE AT EIGHT O’CLOCK All Should Turn Out and Hoar President Kerr Give This Important Message. President Kerr of the Oregon Agri cultural College will speak in Inde pendence on T hursday night, May 2. His subject will be the w ar and it is announced th a t he bears an im portant m essage. The atten d ance of all is requested. He will deliver his uddress at the Isis at 8 o’clock. Fruit Juices Introduced. W ashington, D. C.—C arrying the gospel of Oregon products to his colleagues. S enator McNary a few days ago distributed bottles of loganberry and apple “soft d rin k s” to m em bers of the senate. Several of the eustern m em bers were especially interested in the loganberry product, the loganberry being to them unknow n They ex tolled the q u ality of the d rin k an d expressed the belief th a t it m ay se cure a good hold on the m ark et if properly introduced and d istri buted. P rim aries May 17. America’s Sweetheart Mary Pickford ' In the Picturization o f the noted novel and dramatic success A Poor Little Rich Girl ISIS By Eleanor Gates. THEATRE Wednesday, May 1 Yours Truly, JOHNSON & COLLINS m ■ r