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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1920)
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An amusing, highly a hard iolt by Uncle Sam in last week it is proposed to entertaining, true to life story of Society and its the census returns and build what is called the new social climbers. Where a real man proves more must go for ten years hand- \V lllamette highway which alluring than a family tree and showing that golden icaped with a pitiful show would pass directly thru THE REASON ing as to population. A love cannot be bought with gold. Independence from north striving little city of ap to south. The Salem com Also the LAST episode of the great serial, proximately two thousand mercial club has begun a Because of a break people must be content to campaign in its behalf. It t let the world believe that it down The Post is very also has the endorsement of has but 1145. T hink of it! Senator Patterson. Here is tardy in reaching its the B u t... perhaps Independ route as proposed: ence . is partially to blame readers this week and “ Branching off the West THE HUMAN CHAIN for it. No special efforts Side highway at Davton, two columns of local 32.4 miles southwest of were made to assist the A smashing melodrama of risk and romance in the enumerators and they— reading matter had to Portland, and extending up great outdoors, in the lumber camps, the football young women not well ac the w est, side of the W il field and the mountains. 15 weeks of adventure! quainted here—did their be omited. Now, in or lamette river to a junction best. Numerous complaints der to get 'O schedule with the Salem-Dallas high were made after the count way at West Salem. Which had been completed by peo time it will be neces of the, existing roads Will be WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, AUG. 11-12 ple who alleged that they used is not vet determined, sary to “ sluft” the next but had not been listed. in any event a connect . Concerning the popula issue and'carry but a ion will he made with the tion of “ the twins“ the VVheat land ferrv. This sec small amount of reading tion Monmouth Herald says: between Davton and “ The census was taken in West Salem will be about matter. January and at that time REVENUE OFFICERS CAPTURE 22 miles in,length. It pre A sensational melodrama of thrills, romance, com 1 he Post’s two phones neither Monmouth and In sents no difficult problems 2 I ISLAND edy and hairbreath adventure. As the result of a dependence had recovered of construction and will have beeu ringing con bright idea the "little princess and the big princess ™ from the slump occasioned open up a section that now Six revenue officers and and everybody lived happily ever after—all except ; tinually since Friday has no railroad facilities. bv the, desertion of rural population for Portland in Sheriff Needham of Marion the unlucky fellow at the end of the rope. m night and many have “ From West Salem to war, industries. An enum county visited Tice’s Is Brunk’s corner the recently land and located what they Rolin Comedy and Pathe News | called at the office look completed pavement o f the eration in July would have shown a considerable in claim is the largest still yet highway will ing for “ our” Post. We Dallas-Salem crease. In Monmouth also found in the state. Thev, be used, and here the W il also napped W. W. Buck the mass of our student ■ feel highly compliment lamette highway will turn FRIDAY, AUG. 13 population is not counted. ner. alleged to be the chief to the south and pass thru ed that such an unusu Independence. This section Also Mr. Canterbury and dispenser, and he is now in the Multnomah county jail his family of nine fine chil al large number should of road is one of the most dren did not arrive until awaiting the action of the heavily traveled in the spring, too late to help federal grand jury. notice its non-arrival. state and is in urgent need ff “ The still was of the in “ THE PROBATION WIFE. swell our total of popula of paving. standard ‘ old-fashioned’ tion.” “ The route south o f In GLACltZR IS MAKING RECORD pattern of 80 gallons capac ■Î A s t o r y New York life, fr o m the d r e g s t o th e dependence has not vet What a difference be ity. The outfit with four c r e a m , f r o m th e Bowery to Millionaire Row. From been made up, but if the tween Independence when barrels of mash, three boxes '••at at G rind e lw a ld, Sw itze rlan d , S a d a n c e h a ll to the P e n ite n tia ry . After t w o years in plans of the state highway the census was taken and of prunes, several iugs and to Be M o v in g at a Pace T h at la Phenom enal. now. Then, owing to war a, 30 gallon keg of ‘ white commission prevail, and the the pen, escape and th‘*n— the Probation W ife! West Side highway is ex conditions that brought liauor’ were found in a A Btnmge Alpine phenomenon tended south from Mon Comedy and Intern» tionai News plenty of work to Portland, small cellar that had been a large number of our excavated from the river in taking i >I hcc * mi (¡rn n h 'w ald, tlmt mouth $o Corvallis, then ef houses were un-occupied, bank. About 60 pounds of mon n I a in eCnlei' much beloved by forts will be made to get an many store buildings were sugar was also found. A c touriste al' nil uationalitiee, both in extension of the Willamette SATURDAY, AUG. 14 vacant. The city was down cess to this still room was •milliner ami «inter, with its little highway south from Inde to the mimimum. Now, gained thru a small brush a town clustering under great rang! pendence on a route nearer homes are at a premium, screened aperture in the of v. bite mounla:iiH. Many who the river to Albany, and thence over the river road store buildings are occu liver bank. have stood on the famous Urimlel- to Corvallis. The last nam pied. and more people are “ A long string leading eald glacier have Leen unconscious ed section is already estab coming in every day. It from Buckner’s shack to in “ OVERLAND RED.” ¡bul ihey were moving, for the h < v lished as a state highway will not be surprising if the the dug-out, and attached tion of the ice as it [lushes toward by lav/, but no work has vet Here’s one of the most enjoyable photodramas you population of the city today to a cowbell had been rig the valley i- so slow nr. to be imper been done on it. is double what Uncle Sam ged up as a warning to ’ve ever laughed and thrilled thru— the rollicking ceptible- an ordinary pace for u “ It will be noted bv an savs it is. romance of a happy-go-lucky knight of the road moonshining operating the 5 i glacier often being a few yards in inspection of the road map But the people of Inde still in case of a raid. who passes suddenly from poverty to riches— with 50 years. But the Grindelwald gla of the Willamette valley pendence can tell the world Buckner told the officers vigorous, humorous Harry Carey keeping you cier has been moving at the rate ot that the proposed new high that Uncle Sam made a big that the signal had never chuckling all the time. Best thing Harry ever did. mistake in his counting; been used. four feet to mix feet a »lay for over a wav will serve a great deal that while we was pretty week. It Inis a I ready obliterated a of territory not now served “ The island proved to be Ford Weekly and 2-reel Christy comedy bv good roads, and a high lean and lank then, there a good hiding place, for the pine forest and a stone bridge ucross way will also furnish seve was more than 1145 of us. moonshiners, a preliminary the Black l.atchine. as the ice river ral diagonal cross connect W e can point with pride to search over the 40 acres of makes its way across the water to ions between the West Side our present self, claim two thick undergrowth failing SUNDAY, AUG. 15 r the upper hanks. It is thought the and the Pacific highways. thousand conscientiously, to disclose evidence of the rapid movement is due to the enor “ It will start on the West tell of our present standing reported still. A keg of mous amount of snow and ire on the Side highway . at Dayton, and then if any doubter moonshine in the brush was higher portions of the glacier press touch the Pacific highway vet doubts we can tell him found just when the officers ing it downward; but visitors and f't Salem, and will connect to count them himself. had decided thev were on a in “ THE THUNDERBOLT.” those making observations are back to the West Side high They’re here. cold trail. Confronted with Dallas gained 403 in the this evidence. Buckner re watching with interest, and realiz wuv at Independence by A kissless bride of hat«* in the romance of the past ten years and now has pudiated his professed in ing that wlint would have taken a wav of the connection with strangest marriage on record. The story of a man Monmouth. It will then 2527. Monmouth has 582. a nocence as to knowledge of thousand years to do gradually is bo- connect vith the Pacific who deliberately marries a beautiful woman to gain of 91 and Falls Citv illicit liauor operations and ing aceom[dished before their eyes highway at Albany, and fi has 994 gaining 34. deny her the right to motherhood. But woman’s in his boat conveyed the at topspeed.— Christian Science nally with the West Side The state of Oregon gain searchers to the hidden wit and Providence intervene with startling results. Monitor. burn wav at Corvallis.” ed 10.4 per cent, boosting opening in the river bank. Such a route would be its population from 672,765 Monkey Comedy and Outing Chester “ With their prisoner, the D E T E R M IN IN G S T A R C O LO R. level, scenic and shaded in to 783285. raiding partv brought in a many snots. It would be iug of the liquor as evi A new means of determining star attractive to tourists from NO GUARD DRILLING dence. The remainder of colors, de\ ise<i bv Dr. K. S. King, every ant^le and would bo DURING HARVEST SEASON the moonshine is rated as is'described in the Journal of the the favorite wav of travel = M ^ 1 ^ 1I N D E R E I N D E I N C B I 80 proof was destroyed be British Astronomical association. for the greater portion of Bv an official order of fore leaving the island. The Over the tel sei pie objective is traffic. Regardless o f where IIIIHIIIHillRIlIRlIiailiailiRiliRIliRlIlRIIIRIIinilRlIlRiUlllRIIIRIIIH IIIRIIIRil niiniiH ii Adiutant General White still was demolished and place»! a piece of plate glass (com the West Side is built— drilling during harvest thrown into the river.” mercial glass is good enough for the whether south from Inde among the various com Pro Patrla Smoked a pipe all dav GATES LAD DROWNS HERE pur pore), which is coated with m pendence or Monmouth— panies of the Oregon Na And the twins both Willamette highway IN THE WILLAMETTE RIVER gelatin film, one-half of which is the tional Guard is dispensed chewed. (This is the original of the poem, could be built on what is stained yellow and (he other bn!? with. Palria" which is much quoted now known as the river Fav M. Starr, acre ,16, of "Pro But Tip kept a digging There didn’t appear to be blue. The images of the stars ar<- today. It was written by Benzine road from Independence to And he never lost heart. much complaint among the Gates was drowned in the Bird of Claremont, Virginia.) lhen phot» r.:pin I out of fne-us on Buena Vista and serve a at East In For the dogs hunted K bovs when this order was Willamette isoohroniatii plates. Each image, rabbits therefore, appeals as a disk, one por large territory that is vet in received. All of them will dependence Monday after Tip Sams had twins the mud. And thev caught a right iovfullv help with the har noon. He was wading and Anti a razor-backed sow. smart. tion of which shows the effect of the PHONE RATES ADVANCED vest. Second Lieutenant stepped into a hole. The Five dogs and a mule blue light, and the oilier the effect And the bone-spavined Mix has not found a place, bov was visiting his uncle And an old roan cow; FOB BUSINESS HOUSES fillv if the yellow light. The two hal.ef having rejected an offer who lives near East Inde A bone spavined fillv of the image are then compared by And the mule pulled a from Yerd Hill of a dollar a pendence. Burial took place And a one-roomed house. Telephone rates of Inde (mans of n photographic wedge or P low , at the Buena Vista ecme- And a little wrinkled dav. pendence business houses by some similar means. terv. Rev. C. T. Cook con „ woman And they lived off the, were advanced 75c. accord HURLET HELD INNOCENT; givings ducting the services. Just as meek as a mouse. ing to bills rendered Aug. stH TRIALS. TESTIMONY DECLARED FALSE Of the old roan cow 1. Fifty cents of it being Old Tip raised tobacco , CAMP MEETING TO GO ON; And the acorn-fatted “ They say she is extremely par- the monthly increase and And he trafficked in skins, OUTSIDE ATTENDANCE GOOD farrow Indictments against Jul the twenty five cents being FV>r he hail seven sons ticular in all her ways.” Of the razor-back sow. ian A. Hurley in the federal half month in July In addition to the twins: “ rv> So Hiit? she is» is. IV It was a dreadful wttï’ n ri n u t in 1 for . • . the .« * j The P e n t e c o s t a l m e e t in g s court were dismissed today. But here the story closes And every, mother’s son M to her «hen in the » » r d t ; .he that the n e w rate applied. It was held that the testi are to be c o n t in u e d . The j Of mv little romance. couldn’t get refined a u gu r.” mony against him was a t t e n d a n c e has,been good, And the little mammv. (Continued an taut pag<<.) Tell The i'-art. -J Jude, best on the outside tho. “ maliciously false.” I ‘Smashing Barriers “TH E SU PER M AN ” NORMA TALMADGE HARRY CAREY KATHERINE MCDONALD THEATRE