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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1918)
THE POLK COUNTY ABU-BEKR AND WILHELM. AM ERIC AN PEACE BOOK. Going back to the year of our Lord Too much emphasis cannot be placed A Semi-Weekly Newspaper. upon the needs of a government com 632 by turning to a page In Gibbon’s A man may get tired of ordi mission on reconstruction after the “Decline and Fall of the Roman Em Published Twice a Week at Independence, Polk County, Oregon, on war. Including adequate representation pire,” it is found that the Caliph Abu- nary tobacco— bat never of Bekr Dot only was a democratic sort of all of the fundamental classes of of Tuesday and Friday but possessed high American society. The working out of ideals, person, R eal Gravely Chewing Plug, being temperate In all his deal American peace book would create ings with Entered as second-class m atter March 20, 1918, at the postotfice at In an und foe, says Savan a sound fact basis from which our po nah News. friend with its pore, clean taste dependence, Oregon, under the Act o 1 March 3, 1879. When he was about to litical. business, labor and educational send his Mahometan armies Into Syria, leadership can operate after the war. and lasting quality. caliph personally instructed his Subscription Rates: $1.50 a Tear Strictly in Advance; Six Months It would go far toward preventing a the follows: “Remember that capture of the public mind by the spe chiefs are as always $1.00; Three months 50 cents. All subscriptions stopped at expiration. In the presence of cial pleader and the demagogue. It you God, on the verge of death. In the as would give a sweep and grusp to the of judgment and the hope of CLYDE T. ECKER, Editor. legislative thought of the country be surance paradise. Avoid Injustice and oppres yond anything that can be hoped If sion Real Gravely ; consult with your brethren, and such legislator must himself attempt “ Politics is adjourned” until Sept. 15 only. the love and confi to visualize the entire problem. It study to of preserve Chewing Plug your troops. Let not your would be Invaluable In helping every dence victories be stained with the blood of 10c a pouch — and worth it business man, labor leader and educa women Then all Americans can pronounce Marne, correctly, tor children. Destroy no palm to orient his problem and policy to trees nor and burn fields of corn. Cut too, or think they can. the whole situation, writes Glenn down no fruit any C ravolylacttvaam ch lon ger it i nor do any mis no m ore to chum than ordinary plug Frank in the Century. It would be chief to cattle, trees, only such as you kill the biggest single stroke that could be to eat. When you Little Penny always accompanies Mrs. Nickel when made any covenant toward Inducing among us the or article, stand to make P. B. Gravely Tobacco Company It, and as good Danville, Virginia riding on street cars now in numerous cities of the habit of thinking nationally; and that as your word.” German be kultur re-' we must do If we are to meet in an pudiates all this, and In its stead would country. adequate manner the new demand of establish for the guidance of mankind the new world that this war, with all a policy of might and blood, with the Is creating. We may right to abrogate any covenant, how BILLS ALLOWED BY COUNTY Burnett case, H. G. Black $17.60 for Hun commanders once termed it the “contemptible of well Its take tragedy. counsel of the European na ever COURT AT JULY SESSION groceries for Ethel Davis, C. A. Mc- little American army,” but there’s every reason in the tions that have already created their sacred. Vay and Mr. Greenwood, Frank H. agencies for studying the problem and The Stockholm Aftonbladet, with Ger world to believe that they have changed their minds very organizing Ward, allowance $17, A. J. Frum, Sheriff’* Office to meet the situation when man sympathies, and presumably wel John W. Orr $146.00, T. B. Hooker allowance $15, C. V. Johnson & Co. recently. It arises. comed in the fatherland, prints a long $90, J. E. Richter $80, Dallas Tele $10 for groceries for J. W. Nona- by Its Paris correspondent de phone Co. $3.95, J. C. Ilayter $1.25, maker, W. B. Gerth $10 for groceries give up wheat, and some article You see this statement in many of the crop reports: give “Some scriptive of the Innumerable Ameri John R. Allgood 50c. Total $322.30. for J. B. Sipes, N. Selig $9.82 for gro sons; und those who complain can soldiers ceries for Wm. Randolph, Eddy & In France, their mil Clerk’s Office “ Yield poor [or light], except on irrigated land where a are the up ones who give up wheat.” Thla itary railway, seen $9.15 for mdse, sold to C. E. their vast stores, their Baltimore American's happy way extensive warehouses and the huge A. B. Robinson $135.30, Edith M. Carbray hormal crop can be expected.” Irrigation must come. of Is the describing Huntley, Dallas Hospital $7.50 for food slackers, says At supplies that are constantly received Jackson $85, Edna M. Jackson $70, special nurse and board for Theo There’s no way of getting away from it. Dallas Telephone Co. $2.50, J. C. lanta Journal. It Is a common ob from dore Tice, M rs. S. P. Riggs $7 for their country. There is no bet servation in life that the men and ter reading for the Germans than such Hayter $1.80, Glass & Prudhomme house rent for Mrs. Arrow', L. D. women who endure most and labor literature as this. They hoped to Co. 77c. Total $295.37. Browui $0 for house rent for Lizzie Hun prisoners say now that since the Marne disaster best complain least. Tour drone and overpower the French und British be Treasurer’s Office Dale, Fuller Pharmacy $5 for truss the Herman soldiers believe there are ten million Ameri pampered pig Is forever grumbling; fore A. V. R. Snyder#02.50, Polk Coun we got there, says Philadelphia ty Observer $10.35, Underwood Type for B. F. Saine. Total $259.42. the contributors to human welfare Record. cans in France. Before the summer is out, they will be go but their Jail are there now. The gov writer Co. $3, Dallas Telephone Co. way patiently If not joyfully. ernmental We Dallas W ater Co. $1. fictions about the bluff we thinking there are a hundred million of them. In ordinary times we manuge to tol $77.85. Bridges making are sufficiently exposed $2.00. Total Assessor’s erate the drones and the pigs, but In were Office by such information as this Swedish C. S. Graves $100, F. J. Holmnn i John a VV. Ash $2438.25, F„ C. Bush- this fiery hour they should be stung paper provides. Does any German Im $85, Ruth Graves $72., Dallas Tele !‘‘‘ * 1,XK ’ Crnvi>n Hllw Co- ®5-50» HOW THE AMERICAN BOYS FIGHT out and kicked aside. Those who are agine that his country can defeat unwilling to give up white bread in or Co. $2.45. Total $259.45. ' V T- Grler Ca Andy Wil- America, England, France and Italy? phone der that our army and our allies may SealOr Weights and Measures son John W- Ash #181-59. S^eh- (By Edwin L. Janies.) •T. F. Jones $16.39 I m i Warehouse $52, Jesse L. Strawn not go hungry are unworthy of the District Attorney $136.45, Dallas Iron Works $69.20, Our boys dashed right in after the boehe behind the flag’s shelter. Those who are unwill The movement Is spreading over the ing to go any length of self-denial country to drop German from public E. K. Pi’a secki $4.70, Dallas Tele Guy Bros. $31.80, State Accident railroad embankment. Slowly and slowly the Herman needful Commission $46, Roy Belieu $2, E. to winning the war are not school study. . The movement Is not phone Co. $2.90. Total $7.60. lighters were forced back and back. Some of them swam truly Americans A. Sharp $30, H. D. Mathers $33.75, and deserve no place from narrow prejudice against an en Surveyor’s Office the Marne to safety, but their number was few. Many of In this free land. emy tongue, but on account of the in Dallas Telephone Co. $2.25. L. M. Locke $22, Thomas Bean $24, sidious and thorough propaganda Otis Gilliam $25, E. C. Bushnell them were drowned in the river or shot' as they swam. County Court which has been conducted through the $63.62, D. C. Getchel $90, S. A. Davis A dispatch that comes from Ger By 10 o’clock last night the last Hun on this side of the many through Amsterdam tells of an use of German ns a language in the E. C. Kirkpatrick $100, C. W. $72, Henry $90, R. Reiman Beckett $90.30, M. Mansion $74.17, Marne on our sector had been accounted for. We had advertisement appearing in a Berlin schools, snys Baltimore American. Any V. P. Fiske $7, Dallas Telephone Co. $30, George Clifford Kuyser $7.50, Fred Kay- counted six hundred prisoners before nightfall and there newspaper which reveals a desperate thing which can In future strengthen $6.65, J. C. Hayter $37* Total s,‘r l),'W(‘-v Ti"" $16.50, J. A. Tate German Influence in this country j $287.87. ! $110. Total $5600.65. remained more to be brought in. The south bank of the lack of sustennnee for the people of ought. In view of what has been dis snys Washington Star. This closed since Court House Marne was literally lined with Herman dead. The esti Germany, the wnr, to be absolutely Finley Whitney $60.75 , Oregon _ -Sloper Bros. & Ferry announces the Inven and permanently Cockle $2.30, J. M. mate is that we killed or wounded six thousand of the advertisement abolished. tion of a drug which, “though not Power Co. $8.81, Dallas Water Co. Graves $86, independence Garage enemy. We, too, of course, had losses. forming a substitute for the minimum $8.45. Total $84.01. 1 and Machine Shop $1. Total $89.30. This was the'bloodiest and most important action in dally sustenance. Is an excellent prepa The extinction of th t German spirit Advertising Circuit Court in America will not be the work of a Dallas Telephone Co. $3.05. ration for stilling premature hunger, day. which American soldiers have yet been engaged. This and Polk County Itemizer $33.56, Polk The Germans in Germany and one to hold out until the Coroner may be considered a sample of what our soldiers will ac next enables j County Observer $51.84. Total $85. the Americans In America have co meal.” In other words, Germany R. L. Chapman $7.40. Stock Indemnity complish in the future days of the drive, when, perhaps, has reached the point of food depletion operated too mnleflcently to make of Insane Chase Bros. $12.50. the German-Americans a sect apart, A. B. Starbuck they will get at close grips with the Germans. There is that calls for drugging to alluy pain. says $10, L. A. Bollman Contingencies New Republic. But we Intend $5. no equal in France for the American soldier at close range, This Is a most dangerous expedient. to shape Erixson & Jones $1033.26, North our socinl policy more Intel School Superintendent’s Office west Auto Co. $23.75, John R. All- and that is how the boclie must meet us in the days to W hat ails the average American ligently in the future than we shaped Fred Crowley $248.28, Alta B. good $17.55, Da las Armony $10.68, come. Every American officer to whom I talked last man? It Is but a little while ago that it in the past, and It Is not too late Crowley S. $60, J. C. Hayter $48.65, Winnie Braden $8.60, Coast Bridge Intelligence to dissolve the mass rjolk County Observer night had words of praise unlimited for the individual we were making all sorts of fun about for $9, Dallas $7.50, J. C. Hayter $1.10, Pinck of alien sentiment that now Interferes the German who, early in the war, with our political efficiency and threat Telephone Co. $6.70, Polk County Co. heroism of his boys. Thrown for their first fight into the was ney Dairy $15, Erixson A’ Jones $49. satisfied with less than four ens to blight our future progress. Iteinizer $6, 1’. S. Greenwood $5.25. • >1, \ \ . D. Gorsline $144, F.C. Ewing hottest caldrons of hate the Hun lias yet brewed they did or five not meals a day. Now we complain Total $383.88. - *18. F J. Woe Ik $78, C. W. Beckett not falter and would not retreat. Caught in the Herman that we cannot do without this or Health Officer $123, F. A. Winslow $90, C. W. Dan There is much frivolity, much crav file from three’ sides they stayed where they were put without that in our daily menu, is this ing for luxury and fashion, much R. H. MeCnllon $7. cer $18, John Schindler $72, J. C. until forced back by overwhelming heavy odds and then, a star-spangled country or isyt not? waste and indulgence, in spite of the Fruit Inspector Ferguson $9, Adam Wurm $48, J. 1!. instead of quitting, they got some of their pals to help j Cannot we watch one hour? Shields $34.50, Charles Hartley $4.50, fact that every day somewhere a tele- E. C. Armstrong $80. Indigent Soldier Hans Behh $6, Arthur Buell $18, W. put the boclie back across the Marne where he started But when you get down to brass tacks, Kra,n from the war department closes Gen. Gibson Post G. A. R. $45. A. Shutt $6, Scire Buell $9, C. A. from. They could not have done more. and ym, will have to get just there, It gaws shutt,‘rs “nd sends flnefy and 6™" Widow’s Pension Park *24, Philip Hathaway $20, W. into retirement. Does it take will he superior man power, working those crushing telegrams to make us Eliza Lawrence $20, Addie Lean II. Wilson $3. Total $10239.64. ; superior gunpower to the last word of conscious of the tragedy of the ages? er $17.50, Mrs. Mike McNulty $10,. STAR BEAMS Road District No. 1 efficiency, tlint will win the war. So Eliza Nelson $10, Hattie Rigs $10, Total $425.30. long as we hnlk nt the real job, which Georgia Sawyers $17.50,Harriet E. Road District No. 2 Is getting 5,000,000 men to France at We have the optimism, we can stand Olin (Kansas City Star.) $30, Martha A. South $10, Jen Total $3333.45. the knocks, we maintain the rigidity of earliest possible moment, we are the upper lip, the bold front is our nie L. Miller $25, Blanche Morgan | Anyhow, a woman in the Senate would add a soprano the Road District No. 3 simply playing war. to the somewhat monotonous nude chorus. long suit, our withers are unwrlngable $17.50, Gra(be E. Yenter $25, Sarah , Tot a i $685.75. A. Pitzer $20, Bertha J. Walling | Road District No. 4 The Berlin war office says that and a total stranger are we to the $17.50, C. V. Johnson for Bertha K. j Total $.' 159. 45. wince, remarks Houston Post, but Lord a German wnr vessel sink an It probably is begiutiing to dawn on Messrs. Trotzky should Englehorn $20, Anna (1 Hinkle $25, Road District No. 5 how glad we shall be when our fellers American ship carrying grain to Swit and Letiinc that they picked the wrong big brother. Cyntha M. lfoke $17.50, Ethel E. Total $708.50. begin to smash that Hlndenburg line. zerland, the responsibility would lie Overholt $10, Chnrlottn If. Huffman Road District No. 6 the president of the United $20, Sarah S. Carter $30, Virginia Total $1396.80. The financial part of the war is not You can always tell where Maximilian Harden is. If with States. The only wonder left is that Road District No. 7 to be nearly so difficult when all Schmidt $22.50. Total $375. you hear him, he is out again. If you don’t hear him, he frightfulness still thinks it necessary going Care of Poor Total $715.92. the people understand that war Is no to find excuses. is in again. Road District No. 8 scheme to enable a body to get rich C. E. Huntley $60 for keep of N. Harty, .1. Oleon, B. Saine, P. Behern, W. W. Newman $2, S. H. Crook $9, and that nobody is going to come j It is said that Great Britain may call Jarvis and George Ferrin, C. E. P. L. Ward $16, P. O. Burbank $78 Marne is pronounced inarn—a .as in art. T L i t e r a ( r y _ -p.. .1 U- an men Up fifty. There are several out of the war richer than he’ M. Huntley $1.75 for repairing shoes Ed Henry $72, C. E. Herren $36, W. gest. million husky guys In this country be went In. for George Ferrin, Conke.v & Walk E. Van Meter $36, Joe Tetherow the maximum draft age and for IVrhaps you had assumed that there wasn’t any other tween er $10 for groceries for George Wil $46.50. Total $295.50. A Swedish naturalist has discovered ty-five who could swell our army if way to pronounce it. son, $10 groceries for Wm. Wnlk- Road District No. 9 the country would draft ’em. And they that ants are neither wise nor indus er, $8 for for groceries for Mr. Kennedy, Independence Garage & Machine trious, but merely muddle-headed time (Continued on Page 3.) wasters. And after awhile another Webb & Clough $25 for burial of Ocey Wattles caught lots of fish when he was a little will never serve otherwise. are estimating that for the fis scientist will discover that the Ger- I boy, but his career really began the year he was nine years cal They year June 30, 1919, the army maos are not efficient, but merely old. That year he caught a tisb big enough that his moth will need ending $10,000.000.000. It must be ants. er took the trouble to cook it. somebody's Intention to give each sol- died a diamond stud about the size of The suggestion to round up the idlers. loafers and sissies and draft an The Food Administration has frowned on the envelope agate taw. Established .1889 them the army is not acceptable. plan of serving sugar in restaurants, but perhaps the idea Even the dlvlno right of kings when It la a in serious war the country la en ought not to be abandoned altogether. The envelopes it take« its pen la hand to let one know gaged In. and It takes real mm to A Successful Business Career of e may be handy to serve coal in next winter. It is well, may chance to find the afore fight 1L Twenty-Five Years ., said pen loaded and get kicked with Children should be seen and nek ----------- T -5 Again has the Katy bandit drive proved the superiority the recoil when it goes off. heard, to the old saw, but of bloodhounds over the posse. The posse gets discourag Germany has Invented a new h « j of patriotic according INTEREST PAID ON TIME .<■ will be careful that A ed and gives up. The bloodhounds keep going until they poieoa gas. Among other things, that their young parent* hopefuls are neither asm . DEPOSITS V # scare up a rabbit, and then thev chase it. com try ta running op a dreedfni gee nor heard romping over the war MB that wtn baro to bo settled eotao day. Officers and Directors The Herman people have been officially advised to go has become of the eld-fasfcloo- H. Hirschberg, Pres. r D. W. Sears, V. P. barefoot, presumably to make the shoe supply go as far as ed pacifist who med to that a woam * W. Si Kune, Cashier possible. Perhaps the next time the boys start over Ger do everything inet a et man cm 4 a W. H. Walker I. A. Allen 0. D. Buttar many on an air raid, they should take a pocketful of tacks •Md her aha cotfd carry eat the POST. Peyton Brand The Independence Notional Bank i And nettle seed. e-