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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (April 2, 1918)
T H E P O L K C O U N T Y POST. JJMI M l I IMI I !■! I IMI I !■! I IB I I !■! I !■! I M l I !■! I IB I I !■! i IB II M l I IB I I M l I iH I I Pushing the Clock A h ea d One H ou r ECKER A CURRIE, Publishers Published Twice a Week at Independence, Polk County, Oregon, on Don’t break Your Tuesday and Friday Back Application made for Entry as Mail Matter of the Second Class Subscription Rates: I IMI I H I I H I I H I I Mil I IB I I f li^ ' $1.50 a Year Strictly in Advance; Six Months $1.00; Three Months 50cents. CLYDE T. ECKER, Editor. When by paying $5 J. F. CURRIE, Business Manager down and a dollar a A n Illinois woman was ridden on a rail for making dis loyal remarks. Side or straddle ? week you can have a All that some who are urged to go out and help the farmers can do is to gather the eggs. Maytag Washing A fair sized number o f candidates are throwing their hats into the ring and their calibre ranges from 10-gauge to BB. It is admitted by every M cNary supporter in the state that “ Mr. Stanfield has been very successful raising Machine THE “ B A D ” BOYS FROM THE COUNTRY with gasoline motor do your washing for you. During a convention o f the Oregon Automobile A M A Y T A G in every home and no more blue sheep.” ____________________ .. jAZtOMM Dealers’ Association held in Portland recently, it is Monday washdays. With a M A Y T A G on the As one stands on the banks o f the beautiful Willamette charged that a dance was staged at a hotel one evening, in job, you can knit for the soldier boys. Let us river and meditates, he first thinks to be thankful that he which a girl “ without any clothes at all,” was the prin demonstrate for you. lives near it. cipal attraction. Complaint was filed with the Multno mah grand jury and that honorable body exonorates the B y buying Liberty Bonds you not only loan your money home boys and the hotel in the following opinion: SLOPER BROS. & COCKLE. to pay the expenses of whipping the Huns, but get paic “ The committee had a well-arranged and repu IIIIHIIlHIiRlllHIII ■ l l l « f urnunri iiiinnnui for making te loan. table programme, but when it was about half com pleted, a dance, not on the programme was performed Our congressman, Mr. Hawley is back with his ole and the crowd beiing- large, became umanageable by The Independence National Bank m otto: “ No interests to serve but the public interests.” the committee and^the objectionable cqnduct was Established .1889 carried out before order could be restored. Incidentally he makes it stick. “ Those present and responsible were largely from A Successful Business Career of surrounding country towns and, being scattered over Harvey Starkweather and W alter Pierce, very worthy Twenty-Five Years a wide area, and because o f the difficulty in fixing men are seeking the Democratic nomination for governor. the blame, we are persuaded that conviction would I f Ben Olcott is not our next governor, Harvey or W alter be extremely doubtful.” may be. IN TEREST P A ID ON TIME In other words, the bad boys from the country behaved most awfully, became “ unmanageable” and over the pro DEPOSITS There’s a little rhyme going the rounds about a girl who tests o f the goody city boys and the hotel management objects to being called “ H un.” W e don’t blame her brought in a girl and “ objectional conduct was carried Officers and Directors when by adding two-thirds o f an eye she can be called out before order could be restored. ’ ’ H. Hirschberg, Pres. D. W . Sears, V. P. something real sweet. This is an insunation and a reflection against the char R. R. DeArmond, Cashier acter o f every automobile dealer in the state outside o f W. H. W alker I. A. Allen O. D. Butler During Mr. W itliycom be’s tenure o f office as a “ war the city o f Portland, and many of them will resent it. governor” that his friends pretend to be so proud of, he To an outsider it looks as if the city boys when charged dikes and inundate the country, ex has had England whipped, France bled white and the with having the shells in their possession slipped them AUTO ON PILOT OF ENGINE cept as a last resort, becajuse it Coast invaded by the enemy. would mean the destruction of the into the pockets o f their guests trusting that by whisper P a r t y Is C a r r ie d F if t y Y a r d s a n d N o country for at least six or seven M e m b e r o f It S e r io u s ly From his contributions to the literary world appearing ing in their ears, “ You know me, A l,” the boys from the years. However, we will do it if we Inju re d . country would be perfectly satisfied and perhaps feel have to.”—Washington Star. very often in the Salem Journal, it is surmised that J. K. honored to act as the goat. Lincoln, 111.— Carried 50 yards in an Sears has severed diplomatic relations with Senator Hawley , H. Hirschberg and one or two others. NO TIM E FOR P A R T IS A N S H IP autom obile on the pilot o f an engine, w as the unusual experience o f John Miller, his father-in-law, N. A. Sen ner nnd Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Rickards. None was seriously hurt. The parky w as accom panying Mr. Rickards on a questionnaire-filling trip. The machine did not even upset. Wanted— boy to wrap soap over Ifi years old.— Ad in There seems to be much jockeying among politicians to Oregonian. gain some party advantage from the issues o f the war. • At the present time when every effort is being made Affirming their own loyalty, they seek to bring their op to conserve fats, we suppose some boy will volunteer to ponents into ill repute by veiled insinuations, if not by don a gas mask and do the wrapping. ALWAYS CHANGING open declaration, that the other party is not acting for he best interests o f the country. This partisanship at Is Robert N. Stanfield a rich profiteer trying to buy his way into the United States Senate?— Oregon lie present time does not take well with the country. The Voter. jcoplo are more interested, entirely interested, in win So long as Mr. Stafield and liis supporters only engage ning this war just as quickly as possible and they are not in eulogiziug Mr. Stanfield and do not give any reasons giving a thought to what particular party brand the why Senator McNary should be defeated, the suspicion eaders are wearing. When the war is over and peace will not entirely peter out. las been restored, then and not until then, will the people ake up questions brought on by the war and settle them. Vheu that time conies The Post predicts that present par n ty lines will be torn asunder and new alignments formed ind the average citizen o f today will not known what icket he will be voting tomorrow. Even not at all sur prising if some o f the leaders, brought into ill repute by the clamor o f the press, would take a prominent part in Washington Sentries Have Many Amusing Encounters solving the issues, unexpectedly thrown into the political “ Fop, who’s the president of P e r n r pot by the war. ASJIINOTON.— Contrary to general belief, the sentries guarding W ash “ How do I know, son? They change ington's military establishments, bridges and public buildings are not Politics so far as it affects the interests o f the Demo- eru every fifteen minutes or so down automatons. They can and do saunter, talk, laugh and otherwise net like rat ic and Republican parties, had best be laid aside and there.” human beings. Rut not on duty. Rut If you can churn up with the chap In lisapproval should be shown by the people o f those lead- khaki at an opportune time, you may DUTCH EXPECT HUNS TO u's, who are attempting to win a place in the sun while be told some funny things— all about OVER RUN THEIR COUNTRY strange prowlers seen on the midnight the boys are still going to the front and none are return trick, sinister-seeming contrivances “ Holland will be trampled down ing. discovered under culverts, officers WASHINGTON 5 D 3 ELIGMT 5 ? C ertainly Y ou ' ll B uy a ■ Need It Now^^r Put it Off? | Sooner or later you’ll I buy a Fairbanks-Morse I Type "G ” Feed Grinder | — because it’s the one best ■ feed grinder value. g It’s backed by 50 years of ■ sound manufacturing expe- 5 rience. ■ It embodies the many valuable feed grinder features that you « « t We have the type "G” in stock and can make prompt delivery. Ask us to demonstrate it | | ■ ■ W & J) whose Identity Is mistaken utid other things. A few nights since a half-frozen sentry before the side gate of a big military establishment here beheld a solitary and stooping figure creeping along and eying the portal dubiously. This kept up several minutes, and finally the guard thought It time to Interfere. He approached the suspect "W h a t do you want around h ere!” he asked after the ead-eyed person bad halted, as directed, swaying slightly. * "Wannn go on In house, but the oT woman Ish waitin’,” forlornly replied the "suspect.” "T h at's Uncle Sam's house, my friend,” replied the sentry, seeing he bad a “ stew” and not a spy. “ ’ 8h my house,” Insisted the one with the “ merry mucilage.” “ C'n tell It by front gate.” It took ten minutes to persuade him that he was wrong. There Is a famous bridge near Washington where several months ago a man leaped down to hla death. It Is closely guarded, for It carries a big water m a lD . Not long after the tragic occurrence, a night wanderer on the bridge came near losing his liberty when a guard saw him stop and commence search ing carefully on the sidewalk. “ Whaddye want, a good place to Jump from or to put a b u m ?" queried the man In uniform. “ I want my fountain pen I dropped; got a matchT" was the answer. The pen was foun ' soon, but remembering tales of explosive pens dis covered In abandoned Herman trenches, the guard nearly wrecked the tnk- sptller before satisfied it was not full o f T . N. T . In shooting in this direction with a gun that reaches seveftty miles, the enemy has sprung another surprise but Yankee ingenuity will spring it back. Someone has remarked that if lie could write the head lines he cared not who wrote the articles and Abe Mar tin says he doesn’t care who writes the songs o f the coun try, but he would like to have something to sa\ about who sings them. Speaking for the editorial staff we say we don’t care who plants the gardens just so w< don’t have to hoe ’em. A SAD. SAD CASE (B y the Author) A girl there was, and she wore her clothes So short and thin that she almost froz,e; And the price she paid for her Hooverism Was six months in bed with the rheumatism. —of that theere is no doubt,” de clared an officer of the Dutch army- on leave and temporarily in this city, “unless aid is prompt—much more prompt than was the case with Belgium. We have known that it would come to this sooner or later unless Germany was first beaten. With the Prussians still undefeated, the action of the allies in seizing Dutch shipping will have but one result. “ Holland's army has been mo bilized for nearly four years, mobil ¡zing originally four days before Germany's official mobilization. We have fivehundred thousand men and officers under arms tc defend the 'rentier. “We can hold the Prussians back at our frontier for cne month—no more—without allied aid. At out ine of water defenses we can hold hem hack foi another three months ioiiand does not want to cut the SW OPE & SW OPE LAW YERS I. O. O. F. Building Independence, Oregon o o o o o o o o o o-ooO O ELIZABETH LEVY o O Teacher of Violin o o -------- o o Will give lessons in Indepen o o dence for beginners and ad o o vanced students. t Best of o o methods. Prices reasonable o o Inquire at the Post Building o o or write E. Levy, 563 Court o o St., Salem, Oregon. o O o o o o o o o o o o oO B. F. JONES Candidate for Representative Polk and Lincoln Counties, May Pri maries. tpaid Advortisemen-) Take the Post, the paper with a punch. Two times a week. — $1.50 a year.