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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 8, 1921)
TH E POLK COUNTY POST Published every Friday at Independence, Oregon. ulerad as second class matter March 26. 1018, at the postottice at Independence, Oregon, under the A ct of March 3, 1879. C L Y D £ T. EC K EL Editor and Publisher. Subscription Kates: THREE MONTHS S IX MONTHS * ONE Y E A R ÓÜC. $ 1 .0 0 $ 2.00 «less otherwise provided for, subscriptions will be stopped at expiration RURAL HOUSEWIVES ARE TAUGHT TO APPLY BUSINESS PRINCIPLES WATCH FOR FIRES AT MIGHT Forest Branch of Canadian Govern ment Expects Good Results From This Use of Airplanes. Aircraft putroling tile clouds in the dead of uight will defeat forest tires in the great reserve* of western Canada. A squad of planes has been obtained by the Lhfiminion for estry branch. Two main flights will be made daily over the southern Al- lierta district«. Enough night pil grimages will be made to spot the smallest outbreak of fire. These flights are made in the timbered foothills of the Rooky mountains west of the rich agricultural coun try of southern Alberta, now being rapidly settled. Besides adding pro tection to the forest products, the new aerial patrols will minimize danger of fire in the vast grazing sections of the reserves, where thou sands of head of cattle and sheep feed. Aircraft patrols have been started by the government in other forest districts. Forestry reports, showing Canada has 225,000,000 acres of merchantable timber, - declare tha» the annual loss is being greatly re duced through aircraft service. FINDS SAFETY IN DISTANCE Greek Reservist in United States Jok ingly Refuses Offer of Employ The domestic heating and cook Only Way, Writer Aeeert», by Which One Can Laugh at the Ad ing department of the Consolidated vancing Year». Gas company, New York, states that Bring In Tour wounded tires “ hot water” is water at 140 degrees I heard a wise old Irish philoso and let me prescribe for them. Fahrenheit. The average bath re pher say the other day, “ If you want quires fifteeu gallons of hot water, to keep young, don’t. 1st your trou ALSO NEW TIRES FOR SALE the ordinary laundry tub ten gal bles settle m your knees.” He ex lons, the ordinary handbasin one gal plained like this: “ Sure ’n you lon. The average family paying a can tell the unhappy women by the Shop in building formerly occupied rental of $50 or less per month uses way they lift their feet. There is , by Williams barber shop fifty gallons of hot water per d a y; no spring in their .knees; they drag when the rental is from $50 to $75 themselves about, no -force within per month the water consumption is a-rnovin’ them.” sixty gallons a day; a rental of $100 The form* within must lie one’ s to $150 a month carries with it hot very own heart. Don’t put weights water habits averaging 75 gallons a on your knees. Keep your heart day; and those who pay more than young and free and happy. Ixok for $150 are accustomed to use more i the good in people, in conditions, in than one hundred gallons in a day. j surroundings, Dunn to explore a little deeper into the soul of man. F I N L A N D ’S N E W COINS. Interest yourself in the heart next to von, and vour own troubles will Finland is to have new coins. The state council of Finland has author melt like icicles in the sunshine. ized the Bank of England and the Learn to laugh with people, espe director of the mint to make a con cially the little folk. Cultivate their tract with the mint. Birmingham. source o f enthusiasm, for if you put England, for 20,000,000 coins of yourself into the hands of children, nickel-bronze, of which 10,000,00(1 their very interest will keep you voung with them. 1 have often are to be one-mark pieces. About thought that surely one of God’ s 10,000,000 coins of smaller denomi nations are made in Finland an best reasons for giving children to nually, but as their manufacture grown-ups snd grandchildren to big there is difficult and expensive the grown-ups is, through association director of the mint recently visited and interest, to make them young /VVA England to see about having the again.— Mary Brooks Picken in In ~ 1 GLASSES FITTED spiration. new coins made in that country. M. J. O ’DONNELL \ ment by Constantine. n em e U ernviistratioii in ttu ^P repared b y th e U n ited S ta te s m e n t o f A g r ic u lt u r e .) D ep a rt Home demoustratiou work, though comparatively new, Is looked upou as permanent, so beneficial have been the results obtained by horns demon It ration scents working In rural aomes. The fundamental purpose of this work, according to a report Just Issued by the United States Depart ment ef Agriculture, Is to assist the rural housewife to apply business principles to her dally tasks for the purpose e f tasking the farm home as •Aclent as the farm, thereby produc t s a more satisfactory and |>erma- •ent type o f rural life. The report referred to Is Dei>artment Circular 141, which deals with the results of home demonstration work In the 83 •erthern and western states. ■•earns Co-operative Movement. The work actually began In August, 1914, when an agent was appointed la Brie county, N. Y„ on state funds, fa 1919, It became a co-operative movement supported by federsl, state and local funds, during that year four agents were appointed. In 1919 the number had grown to mere than »0 . Then war emergency funds were cut off. and In the following year the ■umber dropped to 288. Although In this one year the force of workers ts well as state and federal funds «rare reduced nearly one-half, the ap propriations made by tha local people fisr home demonstration work nearly doubled, and agenta were retained In direct response to requests from the people whom they served, according to the circular ■ome demonstration agents Hlford an avenue by which the state agricul tural colleges and the United Stst«* Department of Agriculture offer the practical results of tlielr research and experiments In home economics to housewives of the country These agents encourage the rural house wives to bring from their store of practical knowledge and experience the lessons they have lesmed In home mansgement that will he valuable to ether women In the community, and •o help to make this Information avail able to all. The home demonstration agent la a teacher who makes liberal LONG-TAILED FOWLS PRIZED Bird* W ith M xrvatou» F eather» Care After serving five years in the Creek army, with rank of first ser geant, receiving his discharge last January and coming to Marysville three weeks ago, where he obtained work in a local cafe, Edward Kallas received a letter from the Greek war department informing him that his das« had been called into service against the Turks and requesting that he report in Athens as soon as possible, says the Ban Francisco Chronicle. Kallas immediately wrote a per sonal letter to King Constantine as follows: “ Dear King: Your letter received and contents noted. After serving live years in the army I have done my hit. As the walking is not good between Marysville and New York and the sw-iniming between New York and Athens is worse, and ow ing to the fact that you did not send transportation, 1 will he compelled to refuse your kind offef to come back and mop up the Turks. How ever, you have my best wishes and I hojte you do well.” m tcher. use of practical demonstration rather j than tjie lecture or text book. The most successful home demon stration agents, according to the clr cular, aim to train local leaders, who, by putting the best practices Into their own homes, extend the Instruction to j larger numbers of women. At least two-thirds o f the agent’s time Is si>ent with farm women in their homes, dis cussing the varied problems of house keeping and other matters In which farm wom-n are Interested. Aside from Interesting women In better home management, modern conveni ences, food production snd preserva tion, better food for the family, home nursing, and the selection and making of clothing, the agents are devoting their efforts to promoting community enterprises. Three types of such enterprises are developed: The economic type which Includes food preservation, the hot school lunch, co-operative laundries, co-operative buying and selling asso ciations, labor-saving devices, and sal vage shops. The social type Is con cerned with such things as recreation centers, civil Improvements, and rest rooms. The educational type em braces farm home tours, libraries and magazine circles and the like. Local Aid Needed. SAVING CAR FARE. A county organization In extension work which desires the appointment A downtown dairy lunch had been o f a home demonstration agent should first communicate with the extension having very good sales on a special service at the stale agricultural col sandwich, relates the Indianapolis lege, or with the agricultural agent In News. It was just a sliced hard the county, the circular suggests. It ts necessary for the local organiza boiled egg and ham between two tion or county to give some financial pieces of bread, but it looked good. support to the home demonstration No one had ever questioned the val agent, though.the greater part is sap- ue of it, so many paid 20 cents piled by the state snd federal funds. apiece for the -andwiches very will ’*’0 supply that share which Is re quired of the local organization there ingly. have been organized within the past | But oue day a waiter noticed that two years In the majority of the 33 a girl who hud been in the habit of northern and western states what Is buying one every day at lunch, was popularly known as the “ family” or buying just a plain ham sandwich “ new” farm bureau. This Is an asso clntton o f people Interested In rural ' which was just 10 cents and a hard And affairs, the membership of which com boiled egg which was 5 ceiitti prises men, women, and young people as she sat down at the table whore who generally pay a uniform member there were a number of other girls, ship fee o f $1 a year. she said: “ Here’s where 1 save mv carfare home tonight by slicing an A drop of printer’s ink will ’•tig-” make a million think. fully Looked After In Museum at Tokyo, Japan. In the Py*no park museum, To kyo, Japan, there are three fowls with tail feathers from 13 to 15 feet long. Only the oocks have feathers of such startling length. The hens are rather ooirmonplace in appear ance The long-tailed fowls settled in Japan before the Christian era. H ey are probably an offshoot of a Korean variety which sprang from the jungle fowl of southern Asm Why do the tail foatlicrs grow to ouch length ? Every chicken moult* once a year. Chicken growers say that sometime* a part of the chicken akipe thia moulting season. By a process of painstaking »election and breeding, say* the Popular Science Monthly, those fowls in which tail moulting feamm i* suppressed will ultimately give rise to a strain with long tail feather» These Japanese rooks are fed. al- inoet stuffed, in a way that would astonish Amerwan barnyard chick- rna. They are not allow ed to move about freely; if they did so, the pre cious tail feathers would break. Michelin R in g S h a p e d lu b e s About Iti LENSES DUPLICATED E L E C T R IC G R O W T H . M U S T W E A R ’C H U T E S . The government of Switzerland has passed a law requiring aerial passenger carrying companies to pro vide parachute life packs for all pas sengers. This legislation follows a similar action by Holland officials, who several months ago established a national precedent by requiring all aviation companies to carry life packs for both jiilots and passengers. LAB O R W A S T E D . They have produced a pink daf fodil in England and it was ex hibited at th'e annual show of the Royal Horticultural society. But who wants a pink daffodil? Twenty years ago American in dustries consumed about five hun dred thousand horsepower; today they require more than twenty mil lion horsepower. Half a century ago the horse himself was tremen dously relied upon, but the term “ horsepower” was not especially fa miliar. Now the horse is not de pended upon the way he once was, but in dropping into less prominence he has left his strength as a unit of measuring the boundless energy of the new giant, not made of flesh and blood.— North American. SWOPE & SWOPE LAW YERS OPTOV. ETRIST-OPT CIAN Budh Bank Bldg. Silem, Oregon li__ Marinello Cosmetic Shop Manicuring, Shampooing, Electro lysis, Hair Diessing, Permanent Wave, Scalp Treatment, Wrinkle Treatment. Electolytic Massage, Bleaching and Tinting. Special Acne Treatment, Marinello Preparations and Hair Goods. 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