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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (May 28, 1920)
WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK w w w w w v w w w STATE N E W S IN BRIEF. ^ JOHNSON VICTOR PRICES ARE ON TOBOGGAN Food. Clothing and Other Necessaries Quoted Lower. Chicago.—A wave of price-cutting in retail clothing costs reaching from the Mississippi valley to the Pacific coast Brief Resume Most Important Vote Creeps Up as Count was reported Wednesday. Dispatches from 24 cities told of promised reduc Daily News Items. Progresses. tions in certain necessities ranging Salem.— Each of the 100 Salem ] from 15 per cent to minus profit. Cherrians has pledged himself to ob Financial authorities here said that tain 10 automobiles to transport Shrin-1 the indications were that the price de ers in attendance at the annual con cline would be limited to ready-to-wear clave of the order in Portlaud next I clothing, principally women's gar June to this city. The excursion to ments and silks. Shoes were in the Eventi o f Noted People. Government! the capital city will be made on June | Stanfield Heads Ticket for U. S. Sena- list affected. 23. Tight money and Inadequate trans end Pacific Northwrat, and Other torship — Capital Punishment portation facilities were cited among Albany.—Taxes in the total sum of Ihinga Worth Knowing. Is Favored Again. the prime reasons. Delays In delivery $453,914.55 have been collected by | of goods In which much money had Sheriff Kendall on the 1919 assess been tied up, together with inability ment roll In Linn county. This repre-1 The First National bank at Finley- sents 58.87 per cent of the total of the With all but one small precinct in of farmers to get grain and livestock vilie l'a.. was held up and robbed of roll. Last year the “ first half” pay- Multnomah county accounted for in to market were said in many instances 01 15,000 in cash and bonds Monday. rnunta represented 59.79 per cent of tj,e returns and with numerous other to have worked a hardship on mer A reward of 100,000 pesos for the chants. 'counties Incomplete, Hiram Johnson death or capture of Francisco Villa t,le ro,l‘ An officer of one of the leading Eugene.—Business men and college | i8 holding his lead over Leonard Wood department stores of Chicago de has been offered by the government students are urged in a letter received of the state of Chihuahua. for the Oregon presidential preference clared that the price reduction now here by Will O. Steel, secretary of the being reported meant also that mer Mrs. Kleanor Hodgman Porter, au by the narrow margin of 510 votes. Eugene chamber of commerce, from chants were trying to satisfy what he thoress, known especially for her Johnson's lead as shown on the first the secretary of agriculture, to spend called “ a hysterical demand from the “ Pollyanna” stories, died at her home their summer vacations working on returns that had been received Sun public for lower prices.” These cur in Cambridge, Mass., Friday night. farms in order to increase the food day was cut down materially in the ail rent reductions, he said, might be only Brigadier-General C. M. Bailey, U. production of the country this year. but complete count in Multnomah temporary. 8. A., retired, died in Chicago Satur A financial authority here said that Salem.—Hal Hibbard Camp, Span county. One basis on which he had day. General Bailey was born in New York in 1841. Me was retired in 1899. ish War Veterans, at a meeting here a lead of more than 1700 in the state if reports of price cutting were de pendable, they indicated a tendency A 7-cent fare on the Seattle munici last week, went on record opposing I at large was a lead of more than 1500 toward a reduction in inventories. the pardon of Henry Albers of Port- in Multnomah. But the missing pre pal street railway is provided in the Though this might be temporary, he ordinance which was presented to the land, who is under sentence for utter- clncta in Multnomah as they came in said, it was undoubtedly good, in that ing seditious statements during the gradually ate into this lead until the city council as an emergency measure war. Copies of the protest will be count closed with Johnson leading in it suggested that merchants were go Scrubwomen, elevator men, janitors sent to President Wilson and Oregon’s the county by only 1122. ing ahead more cautiously. Sales are and window washers in the Chicago representatives in congress. The count now stands, including being held under various names. federal building will resign July 1 tin In Topeka, Kan., a men's clothing Multnomah county: Salem.—An engineer employed by less they are granted an Increase In firm announced a “ no profit” sale. Presidential preference— Wood, 40, the Portland & Southeastern railroad, pay. 109; Johnson, 40,619; Hoover, 13,036; Department stores in St. Louis adver tised “ under selling campaigns.” Twen An increase of 112,745,000 In the in a statement given out here, Indi Lowden, 14,487—Johnson’s lead 510. ty per cent cuts were the most popu appropriation of the army air service cated that as soon as litigation involv United States Senator George E. is tentatively agreed to by the senate ing rights of way for the line extend Chamberlain continues to lead Stark lar. On the Pacific coast, Tacoma The house fixed the air service fund Ing from Mount Angel to Stayton, Me- weather for the Democratic nomina dealers announced cuts from 20 per liama and through Minto Pass to east at $27,255,000. tion. Throughout the state, with in cent flat to "profitless sales.” Three ern Oregon was settled in the courts, complete returns from 26 counties, in Seattle retailers cut clothing 20 per is not enough to be ready to go where Flour made a furl iter decline in price work on the road would be resumed eluding complete returns from 225 Mult- cent. In San Francisco one retailer duty calls; a man should stand around at the largest Minneapolis mills Mon day, family patent flour being quoted The Dalles.—Upon receipt of new s]nomal* Precincts, Chamberlain is vir announced a 20 per cent cut in all where he can hear the call.” Be There. at $14.75 to $15 a barrel In 98 pound of tils wife's illness, Thomas Fargher ,ul*Hy two to one ahead of Stark lines, another 20 to 50 per cent in certain commodities. A few years ago at a great Ameri cotton sacks in carload lots. Jr. of Dufur section hurriedly hoarded weather. Several Omaha stores said their silk can political convention, one of tlioSe Stanfield is 11,857 votes ahead of The Walker bill was Higned by Gov an airplane Wednesday morning In euts were 50 per cent. In Wichita, mysterious moments arrived, in which ernor Smith of New York Monday Portland, and with Walter Lees as Abraham for the Bepublican senatorial Kan., silk shirts had been reduced. a great outburst broke In enthusiasm pilot made the fastest time ever flown I nomination, with the lead increasing The law legalizes the manufacture and Coffeyville, Kan., reported many cut for one man. But the man was Not returns continue to come in. sale of beer containing not mure than from Portland to The Dalles, covering aH There; at that moment he was enter the distance in 70 minutes. The plane I Senator Chamberlain has, according price sales. 2.76 per cent of alcohol by weight. taining friends in one of the city’s In Minneapolis a large department hotels. Before lie could lie reached, then flew on to Mr. Farglier’s farm at to the latest returns tabulated, a total One person dead and more titan 10 vote of 6332 in the state at large, in store has announced a cut of 20 per a comparatively unknown man was Dufur. Injured was the toll of two tornadoes eluding Multnomah county, while cent. At Knoxville, Tenn., one of the called upon and. through ttie magnet that Saturday swept Castle Bock Astoria.—"W e shall erect and oper Starkweather has received 3563 votes city’s largest department stores made ism of tlie moment, he was inspired Minn., a town of 200 population, and ate three or four lumber manufactur a Chamberlain lead of 2769. The Mult a discount of 20 per cent on its entire into one of the greatest efforts of his a strip of cuuntrysldo near Bed Wing ing plants in the northwest in the im nomali count gives Chamberlain 3134 stock, except a few contract priced life— and It swept him Into the United Minn. mediate future and one of these un States senate, where he lias proved votes to 1705 for Starkweather, a Mult articles. Shoe reductions also were himself one of tlie great leaders of Governor Ben Oleott of Oregon, witli doubtedly will be located on the Co iiomah lead of 1429, announced. the country. lumbia river, not far from Astoria,” Lieutenant B. M. Kelley as pilot At Oklahoma City sales offers of 20 All measures on the state ballot Be There. reached Stockton, Cal., at 2:40 P. M. said B. A. Long of Kansas City, presi were approved, tho only close contest to 30 per cent reductions were re When you make an appointment. Monday by airplane after a flight dent of the Long-Bell Lumber com being over tho proposal to restore ported. Be There. When you agree to do a pany, who left Friday afternoon with which extended from the Canadian At San Antonio, Tex., two depart certain task, Be There. I f you are capital punishment. Opinion of voters his party for Seattle. boundary. was fairly well divided on this mat' ment stores and one at Waco an looking toward an Opportunity, Be Salem.— Ten thousund letters con ter. but the measure has carried bring nounced sales with reductions of 20 There when the Opportunity comes From $60 (o $120 a gallon is the per cent; another a 25 per cent re your way. The Leaders in the busi ing back the death penalty. ruling price for whisky in Illicit trade, taining report blanks and notices re ness world, and In every other sphere duction sale. according to Secretary Houston. Mr. garding the payment of annual license of activity, are constantly alert for At Fort Smith, Ark., special sales Houston wrote congress requesting fees were mailed out Wednesday by Service Men Fail to Receive said reduction was 20 per cent. At men and women who can measure up to Chances that they hold in the hol $1,500,000 for 1000 watchmen to guard I. M. Hchuldcrinan, slate corporation $127.150 In Liberty Bonds Pine Bluff one men's store and one low of their hands. You, whoever you 'ommlssionor. Mr. Schuldorman es- bonded warehouses next year. women’s store are making the same Imates that between $250,000 and are, and wherever you work, if you The three shoe factories in Marl $300,000 will be collected by the cor Liberty Bonds to the value of $127, cut. Slight reductions in shoes and are conforming constantly to your boro, Mass., of Bice & Hutchins. Inc., poration department during the 150 belonging to 2,543 ex-service men wearing apparel were noted at Texar Ideals of the best, you need have no will be shut down for a week begin months of Juno, July and August. have been returned to Washington by kana, Springfield, and at Little Rock fear but that nt the proper moment ning Wednesday, it is announced. (lie Post Office Department because of retailers last week made cuts from you will be the one who Is—There. Be There. Salem.— Tho decision of Judge Skip- incorrect address, according to Lieu a fifth to a quarter. Atchison, Kan., “ General business conditions” were worth of Lane county, who recently given as the reason. The plants em tenant Colonel Mathew C. Smith, head announced 20 per cent reductions. (■Joined tho state highway commis of the Service Information Branch of ploy 2500 persons. U. S. Oil Depletion Is Feared. An unconfirmed report wus received sion from proceeding with the con tlte War Department, in a statement Washington, D. C.— Interest of the In El Paso, Tex., Sunday thul General struction of tho so-called Canyonville issued today. Veterans who have not Francisco Villa hud ordered American ut-off section of tho Pacific highway received their bonds at this late date United States in the race for the oil and other foreign owned mining com In Douglas county, is to be appealed are advised to write to the Zone Fin- supply of the world as embodied in By EDGAR A. GUEST panies in Chthuahuu to pay him $500, o the Oregon supreme court for final | »nee Officer, Washington, 1). C., giv the report of the state department 000 and that he had cut the power line elermination, according to announce in g their naino, army serial number, submitted by President Wilson to the ment made here by J. M. Devers, at- organization, and address. AT THE END OF THE WEEK. senate Tuesday has arisen from the between Boquillus and Parral. orney for the highway department. alarming depletion of oil reserves in There are also ou file with the Zone A detachment of cavalry from Fort 1 When I have paid for what I owe. Myer was called out Sunday night tot Mood B lvit. Because purchasers, Finance Officer 7,059 discharge certi tho United States. The grocer nrid the coni man, too, While this country contributed 69 disperse a mob of more than a thou | for whom the fruit has been held in ficates which cannot be delivered to The boy who shovels off tlie snow sand persons which surrounded the storage here, have been unable to re their owners because they were mailed per cent of tho oil supply of the world, And given the milkman what is due. Jail «t Xlcxandriu courthouse, 12 miles ceive It, apple shipments have been in without return address, or mailed 40 per cent of its producing fields When I have paid tlie monthly rent, And squared the plumber for his from the limits of the District of t'o- held up and tho Apple Growers' usso- out and returned undelivered. Alpha have been exhausted and, according pains, luinhiu 1 lie iiio I i was attempting to j elation announces that the last of the betical lists by states of these unde- to official estimates, oil reserves re I find that all I have Is spent, maining In the United States are not ltverable discharge certificates have obtain possession of William Turner, 1919 crop will not he shipped before I can’t go wrong on what remains. allegro. the middle of tho week. Nine cars of been furnished to all senators and con expected to last 20 years. Of the reserve in this country for- Atuerhans have evinced no great apples remained In refrigeration at the gressmen, with the request that they ign interests control but 4 per cent, Let Folly beckon ns she will, he given the widest publicity possible. determination to become possessors of I »«elation plants. All fruit had been I trend the horizontal line. In April, 7,384 Liberty Bonds to the despite tlie fact that the United States When 1 have paid my tailor's hill, articles once belougiiig to ex Kaiser dipped two months earlier last year value of $369,200 were mailed, making is the only oil producing country in Wilhelm. Seven lots of gold emtirold I am not apt to purchase wine. Pendleton A dozen Mocks of the a total of 1,077,978 bonds of various which citizens and foreigners are per When I have paid for lints and shoes. ered velvet hangings from the throne- residence section of Pendleton, in the I issues to the par value of $53,898,900 mitted to participate in oil production The tempter has to hike along; room of the imperial palace at Berlin east end of the city, were flooded Wed now delivered to ex service men. on even terms. I aiu no customer for booze, wer knocked down under the auction Ines'iay morning, when tho Byers mill-1 During the same month the $60 bonus On what is left I enn’t go wrong. eer'i linier in Nt <rk Saturday' I race which skirts that section of the I wus puld to 3,960 ex soldiers who did Armed Men Rule Court. for 1305. towi . broke through its banks. The ) not receive it at the time of their dig- Jonesboro, Ark. — Armed men de I never get my fingers burned to accept for tlie United By mining stocks thnt quickly fall, nt* Washington rallr<>ad tracks | charge, manded Immediate resignation of the dilatory over Armenia was Job with which I’m most con I The undermined for several feet and Lx service men who still have | commissioners and attorneys of the ingress Monday by Presl- cerned c delayed for five hours. No claims to be adjusted with the various Black Oak Hancock road improvement Wl Is buying clothes fur children sniuil. i. Tho executive satd lie serious losses were reported, but mini Government agencies should address district when court was convened to I henr men talk of surplus dough us he was “ urging a very e roua chickens were drowned and Lieutenant Colonel Mathew 0. Smith, ¡hear the application for an injunction But none of it I've ever had. critl ‘al i co,” but that he did so “ (u many lawns covered with mud and When 1 have paid up what I owe ODmieil of National Defense Build brought by the taxpayers against the the ♦ *aru belief U will be the wish debris. lug. Washington. D. C If I break even I am glad. district. The resignations were al of til o pe e ot the United States that (C opyright by E dgar A. Guest.: ready written and were presented to this be done” Salem. Bonds in the sum of $100,- ------- O------- Moxico City, Mexico.—V Carranza, tho two commissioners present and to 1 What Saving Means. Indianapolis.— Katun .teg baaed on 000. voted by the Ochooo irrigation who fled from this city on May 6. their attorneys. They signed the res- Conservation and thrift extended to incomplete reports from ail parts of district, were certified Tuesday by the and who took flight into the mountains ! ¡citations and withdrew the little things makes nmnzlng totals the country received here indicated Irrigation securities commission. This of Puebla following a battle near Rin In big undertakings. In 1010 the Bal that the American Legion had added makes a tola! of $1.350,000 In bonds conada, was killed at 1 o'clock Thurs Seattle Population is 315,652. timore A Ohio railroad used one scoop between 400,000 and half a million now certified for the development of this day morning nt Tiaxcalaltongo. accord Washington. D. C.— The population ful of coal less for one and a half bil members to Its rolls in the nation wide project. The Ochooo district contains ing to official announcement here. of Seattle, Wash., as shown by the lion times, and the result was thnt (lie membership campaign of last week. approximately 22.000 acres in Crook Carranza's companions, the names 1920 census is 315,652, it was announ great road's coal hill was 81.176.204 New York, Texas, California Virginia. county, and Hie bonds certified will of whom are not as yet known, are ced here. This Is an Increase of 78.484. less than for the same work In 1018. Ohio, Illinois and Pennsylvania all complete development of the project. declared to have shared hit. fate. The ------- O-------- r 33.1 per cent. Other population appear as contestants tor first place A dam 125 feet In height already has Ingenious Women in New York. attack which resulted In the death of '• statistics announced were: Centralia. In the race ou the basis of early re been completed and water is being the president was led by General R© Wash.. 7549; increase. 238, or 3.3 per New York women have patented turns. placed ou the land. more Inventions {Jian the women of dolfo Serrera, it is said. cent any other state. COMPILED FOR Salem.— E. P. Bansom of Freewater has filed application with the state j engineer to appropriate water from the east branch of Crockett creek for J Wood the irrigation of 10 acres in Umatilla county. YOU CHAMBERLAIN W I N S Juái Folks / 4 > LEONIDAS EONIDAS was a Spartan hero who L earned a large bronze monument by lidding the puss of Thermopylae with 300 men and a shoestring. Sparta was a small, irritable coun try about the size of a Florida town site, but it was never stepped on with any success. The inhabitants lived on cayenne pepper and red beefsteak and practiced shooting nt a mark eight hours a day. One time Xerxes, king of Persia, decided to annex Sparta, and after rounding up a neat little army of 2,000,000 men lie headed for the Grecian archipelago, which was about In the same place it is now. Xerxes did not get far before he ran into the pass of Thermopylae, which was a short cut between the mountains wide eougli to allow two Defying the Persian Army in Some of the Rudest Greek Adjectives Ever Used. thin men to pass without being tele scoped. Mere Xerxes found Leonidas drawn up in battle array, defying the whole Persian army in some of the rudest Greek adjectives ever used. Xerxes took the affair ns n joke un til Leonidas had spitted a few thou sand Fersian husbands on Ills trusty sword, when lie decided to surround Leonidas. When the Spartan hero discovered this, he delivered an elo quent address to Ills men and chnrged the entire Persian army, which filled him so full of arrows that he had to be pln-fenthered before being removed to the family residence. Leonidas’ name nt once became a household word, nnd autographs and kodak pictures of the deceased were eagerly sought after. His death aroused so much Indignation that the Spartans rose up nnd threw Xerxes across the Hellespont with chagrin written all over his profile. Leonidas did not die in vain, as he had fur nished the Impassioned high school graduate with some of the most livid eloquence and weird rhetoric ever un corked from an opera house stage. (Copyright.) - M ILITANT-M ARY- TbuivttttfDoirt when-Nature aeixlj her wbwpec dcrvo tt# BREEZE And drawiiw from our-office* TO FIELDS AND BROOKS AND TREES 1 -(F < tz N v )k .