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THE POLK COUNTY POST d- INDEPENDENCE, OREGON, MARCH 2«, 1918. VOLUME 1. Oregon’s Quofci In Third Loan Cut TWO PAGES MISSING I ----- | Owing to tin* non arrival of j the Post's big news press, m uch | to our regret we are obliged to dispense w ith tw o pages of our | issues next week and perhaps | the week following. It will take a week to install ENERGY OF COMMITTEE NOT j the press after it arrives. TO BE RELAXED BECAUSE OF REDUCTION Commendation Much Appreciated , $ We thank you for the praises so many of you have given The Post. It is appreciated and so are your sub scriptions. We hate to be so strict about them but in or der to make that department “stand on its own bottom” we have to hew to the line, let the chips fall where they may. Giving you a twice a week paper at $1.50 is on a very close margin, so dose in fact, that if one subscriber failed to pay, it would remove the few cents profit on many others. That’s why those who have failed to pay so far must pay before Tuesday night to keep The Post coming to them uninterruptedly. We give no premiums —you get your premium in an extra paper every week. We consider you got a pretty fair paper Tuesday and you are geting one just as good if not better today.. Yes, again we thank you. NUMBER 2. RELIEF ____ IN SIGHT There will soon be homegrown | salad for the women to eat, thus i leaving some real food for the j m en, who are beginning to need I it. NAVY BOY WRITES HOME FROM PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Conserve Day light This Summer ORDER BECOMES EFFECTIVE MONDAY Jan. 4th, 1918, Philippines.— Dear B rother:—W ill w rite a ) few lines to let you know how I am , and tell you about the LAW TO SET CLOCKS AHEAD It is believed by State Highway trip and the country. We left ONE HOUR DURING SUMMER E ngineer.N unn that the inter-county STATE’S QUOTA IS bridge will be completed and ready Frisco Dec. 5th und arrived in MONTHS IS NOW HERE TO BE $13,000,000 for use by the first of July. This is Honolulu on the afternoon of the about two m onths ahead of schedul 13th. N early everyone was sea ed time, and is considered unusual sickthe first three days out, but I was not «o sick as I thought I All Business Houses, Factories, Conditions Not As Good As In the as a considerable delay resulted from the ¡nubility to get steel. would be. For breakfast we were Fall When Money Was Be Schools, Homes, Etc., Will All the steel has arrived and is given hom iny, syrup, bacon, and on the ground ready for installa bread. For dinner corn beef and ing Re. tived for Crops. Conform to Change tion, however, and the work will be cabbage and for supper real old pushed as fast as possible. The arm y stew. We had thirty hours liberty in Ilonoiulu. I w ent out to The fact th a t the third Liberty contractors do not' expect another M onday m orning w hen you W aikiki beach. T hat’s all you can get Next Loan will be less than anticipated, delay in the construction work, and up und look at the clock it will say for it in my estim ation. There he an hour later and th at the Oregon quota, conse state that they are able to secure the hands in enough help to push the construc is a lovely pnrk there, but the beach dicate. Should than quently, w ill be less, becam e cause you forget is about h alf a mile out and a coral the change of tim e and have an about of congratulation am ong Liberty tion work. MR. HORST TELLS THE SENATE HUNS ARE BUTTING ap The counties are expecting to reef all the w ay to the breakers. pointm ent at nine o'closk to m ake loan cam paign leaders of the state ABOUT EVAPORATED FOOD AGAINST A STONE WALL Nevertheless, Honolulu has a tine yesterday m orning, says the Port have the approaches ready by the dollar deal, you’ll miss tim e the bridge is constructed. On another page of this isue we j The British and the French are clim ate w hich seldom varies the a the m m illion land Journal. illion upon you It was taken as an indication that M arion’s county’s approach is in j publish part of the statem ent of E. holding the enemy in the greatest year around. W e arrived in Guam being on tim if e. it If depends you hustle the process of building now, and Road- on December 27th and stayed un kids off to school at the sam e tim the governm ent's revenues are m eet Clem ent Horst concerning the veg battle of the world. While the Huns til the 30th w hen we sailed for you have been in the past, they’ll e ing w ar huge dem ands more near m aster Culver states that about a | etable and fruit evaporating in i have made some advances, as far as thousand yards m ust be filled in j ly than before had been know n,and M anilla. The natives took olf our have a big tardy m ark m arked dustry before a com m ittee of the U. also as an added assurance that the and allowed to settle to complete ; S. senate. In this statem ent Mr. accomplishing anything they are cargo on barges; several stood a- against up at the school nation’s intrinsic financial sound the approach. This will be ready Horst shows why the evaporated only butting their heads against a rounil selling cocoanuts, pine house. If them you hurry to the ness is proving itself equal to the for paving as soon'as the bridge is j fruit or vegetable is bound to take stone wall. The loss of life, especi apples oranges and bananas. b a rk at what, you think down is the ready. | Their hm ch consisted of rice rolled ing hour for the purpose of open support of colossal enterprises of the place of the canned article in m ak ally among the Germans and their Polk county started yesterday on the future. M uch other valuable the world conflict. up in balls and covered w ith a kind ing a deposit to cover the check the prelim inaries. Bids w ere ask allies, has been tremenduous. of straw , little fish, canned goods you wrote Saturday night, you’ll But at the sam e tim e there was, inform ation is given. and cocoanuts m ade up the rest. find the cashier and ull the clerks, locally, a feeling th a t the Oregon ed for the approach, and the work Acreage for the proposed plant in organization m ust be kept at the will start as son us the contract is Independence is being signed up JOHN C. BROWN, G. A. R., After leaving Guam we struck a perhaps looking a little jaded, does not present any difficulties. an d in a few days we •shall know IS MUSTERED OUT 'squall and having unloaded most tho highest point of efficiency. right behind the bars finger A retaining w all on each side must of our cargo it w as pretty rough ing the there Edw ard Cookingham, general w hether this section will have an greenbacks and splattering chairm an of the Third Liberty loan be built, and the fill is not more evaporator here or not. It would he John C. Brown w as horn in Mor riding for a while. W e arrived at red ink all over the olllciu 1 records, than 12 feet high at the bridge, gan county, Ohio, April 24, 1840. com m ittee for Oregon , said yester a Phillipine port Jan u ary 4th and then the poor tired m erchants a blessing for the farm ers ahd day that the- fact th a t the Third tapering down to the ground levei gardeners and we know of no rea He died on his farm north of Inde were brought in by a tug. Can't their clerks, they’ll have to get and up Liberty bond issue is to be less than at about a hundred yards. This can son why the necessary acreage will pendence on March 20, 1918, aged describe this as it is governm ent w ith the chickens, do their sweep 77 years, 11 m onths and 2 days. property you see. a t first anticipated will m ean no be completed by July 1, it is be not be pledged. ing and enjoy their m orning sm oke Brown volunteered for service dim inution of effort in th s state. lieved.—Salem Capital Journal. BYRON HOW ARD. before The local com m ittee announced Mr. the women begin shopping. was in the arm y from April 2, "W e have been talking of an this m orning that the evaporating and Well, you’ll say there’s no danger 1802, to June 1, 1805, serving under Oregon quota in very large figures,” NO “GOODLY SUM” IN plant will undoubtedly be built as Generals of any women being around at th at Grant and Logan and u n said Mr. Cookingham. “W e have RAISING BEETS HERE there is not m uch doubt but w hat A LITTLE MIXED hour. Come to think it over, believe prepared ourselves for the suprem e the necessary acreage will be se der General Sherm an in his fam you're right. — sacrifices of patriotism if need be in ii there is gi/iug it) be a lac .. ous m arch to the sea. Mr. "Brown on The installm ent of Jack Lon- The farm er is the fellow who a furlough in 1803 m arried Miss ; don's order th at Oregon m ight be in the tory accessible this season, this cured. on another page is won’t particularly m ind the change Honor Roll of states supporting the ought to be a great tim e for the RED CROSS BRANCH GETS D iannah Baron. To this union was | a little story It starts in the of time. He alw ays beats the chick governm ent in this w ar: W e are Independence section of Polk born two sons, Francis M. and one | second mixed. FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE colum n, jum ps to the ens up anyhow, and is going to perfecting an organization covering county to both their patriot that died in infancy. then back to the work ten hours from sun up to sun sixth and the entire state and purposing to ism and m ake a goodly sum be Mr. Brown w as born a Q uaker in fourth. W hile it was thought for reach every individual capable of sides by raising w hat Uncle Sam Continued on Page 2) some tim e th a t the local w hich faith he believed faithfully subscribing to a Liberty bond of is most in need of—sugar."— up to his death. He cam e to Ore branch of the Red Cross an y denom ination. Dallas Observer. would have to be m aintained by gon by way of the Central Pacific “W ith a sm aller quota we will If Uncle Sam or the Utah-Ida- contributions and plans had been to San Francisco, thence to Port sim ply go at our task w ith the sam e lio Beet Sugar Co. would have g u ar m ade to raise funds by popular land, on the old steam er John L. spirit and the sam e organization anteed a sufficient price, there subscriptions, a change by the m oth Stevens and up the beautiful Wil- but w ith grea’ter confidence. Based m ight have been m any bet' fields er chapter at Salem m akes it pos lam ete valley, setting in Eola Octo on the experience of the Second here this sum m er. The Observer sible for the Independence branch ber 7, 1872, *where he followed the Liberty loan, Oregon’s m inim um is considerably confusced when it to be self-sustaining for a few more carpenter trade for a num ber of quota under a national issue of says that the grow er could m ake a m onths at least. The local branch years over a good portion of Polk •'¡>3,000,(100,000, would be about $18,- “goodly sum .” The sugar tru st is to receive a percentage of the county, finally moving to his farm 000,000. That is a very large a- reaping its m illions and had it of is funds in the last Red Cross n ear Independence, where he has re m ount of money. But the secretary fered p art of its dividends to the drive, secured twenty-five of the sided since 1887. of the treasury speaks very em grower, the raising of sugar beets m em bership fees and per all cent He was a m em ber of the Gibson money phatically about over subscrip would not have been given up in rived from benefits. W ith this de Post G. A. II. of Independence and fi tions. We m ust prepare ourselves this section. nancial assistance, the local branch w as very much interested in its for over subscriptions, know ing that will break even now for several patriotic work. every extra effort by that hmch CITY COUNCIL VACATING He leaves to m ourn his loss one weeks. shortens the war. son, Francis Brown, and three PART OF STREET “We have still before us a task A very im portant m atter will MASONS ARE FED BY grandchildren, also one brother and of great m agnitude and it would be come five half brothers who are in the EASTERN STAR LADIES up for final action on the extrem ely hazardzous to our suc night of April 25 when the city East. cess to yield to any flagging of zeal council will meet in special ses Com plim entary to W. Brown, The funeral services were held and enthusiasm . The conditions W. T. Hoffman for the Ore W orshipful M aster, the ladies of the from the Presbyterian church on are not at this tim e quite so good as sion. gon M Co. has petitioned to Eastern Star, carrying well filled W ednesday afternoon, Dr. H. C. in the fall w hen m oney was being have the illing vacate a certain por baskets of fifty-fifty, w alked in on Dunsm ore officiating. The old received for the crops. W e have tion of the city street the mill the Masons last night. An unusual soldiers had charge of the funeral. before us the seeding tim e, taxes so the com pany abutting m ay get title to ly fine tim e w as enjoyed and the Interm ent was m ade in the G. A. are being paid and the income tax the ground and erect ping Masons were all highly pleased to R. circle of City View cem etery at will have to be met. All of these pit for grain on it. Mr. a dum get an extra m eal in this age of Salem. things will be factors necessitating has agreed to pay a liberal Hoffman Hoover. Mr. Brown, who is soon to CONTRIBUTED. am ount strenghtened organization to secure into the city treasury if the vaca leave for Oregon City to m ake his the returns needed. tion is made. One and perhaps home, was given to understand TERM Our plans to comb the state with two of the councilm en are opposed that his departure from Independ JURORS FOR OF APRIL COURT CHOSEN ence would be greatly deplored and absolute thoroughness will not be to vacating the street. modified. There will be no reduc Mr. Hoffman says that he m ust that he would also be greatly The following from south Polk tion in our budget of anticipated build this pit or shut down the mill missed. county have been draw n for jury expense to carry on the cam paign. as w heat is now delivered in bulk. I --------------------------- service for the term comm encing The present snthusiasm and deter Those opposed to vacating tin: street LEWISVILLE YOUNGSTERS April 8: N. C. Anderson Buena m ination to all tha* can bn done to say they will quickly vote to give IN RAINBOW DIVISION dence; J. M. Akers, Independence; strengthen our arm ies will not be Mr. Hoffman a franchise for a long .------------ T. B. Bevens, Airlie; G. W. Mc lessened in any particular, especi term of years to m ake use of the The following pupils of the L aughlin, Independence; VV. Mc- ally as we draw from the spectacle street tor the pur|>ose he desires it | Lewisville school have been added Bee, Suver; P. T. Peterson, J. Parker; of the present Germ an drive a- for. Then there is a difference of | to the Junior Rainbow Division by L. Ritner, Airlie; John R. Robbins, gainst the English front the con opinion regarding the power of the | State .Superintendent Churchill for Independence; F. L. Tubandt, A ir viction that less than our utm ost city council to grant a franchise. ! selling Thrift stam ps: R aym ond1 lie; Troy Turner, Airlie. w ill not avail.” GOLDWYN PRESENTS This question is of vital interest Crook, Helen Dodge, Lenore Kisor, Mr. Cookingham said that Sec ro to every citizen of Independence, i Leona Lewis, Jim m ie Lewis, Elsie j —in— tary Me.*, loo still has authority, as and the city council Mill no doubt : Ray, Henry Stonehocker Cbeste.r TWO MORE GONE he understands it to issue $3,000,- j base its decision upon public : Stonehocker, Pearl Stonehocker, FIELDS OF HONOR I Lois Stonehocker, Ivan W illiam s, 000,000 in governm ent w ai lio n 's opinion. ------- . 1 Jam es Oberson and Frank | ; Ernest Ray, Donald Dunette. w ithout congressional action. Al j V Martin are two more Indepen- ( though the date of the opening o f, The story of the shot that rang around the world. j deuce hoy* who have recently ! RECEIVES PUBLICITY the Liberty loan has not h 'n set SOW GIVES BIRTH TO the arm y. officially, it is generally cons: 1» ed : NINETEEN PIGGIES I joined May good luck and good for- | Clyde E rker is one of the most a foregone conclusion that the cam paign will open April 6, -aid. the widely quoted new spaper w rit Send a m essage to Roosevelt. A j tune attend them and may it j general chairm an for Orenon. Mr. ers in the state uik ’ has given ! sow on the E. K. Hewitt ranch re- j come to pass that very soon they ! I m ay stack their guns and return | Cookingham said he is pleased with Independence much publicity.— i ent\ gave birth to 19 pigs. to their form er peaceful pursuits | the interest rate of 4V£ P*r emit in-j Salem Special to Portland Jo ur j at home. dicated by the secretary of the i nal. i _______________ _________________________ J Tell The Post. treasury SALEM BRIDGE TO BE FINISHED BY JULY 1 ♦ MAE MARSH Ooldwyr^picturcs ISIS Wednesday THEATRE Evening , April 3