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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1918)
KINGS TALLET The Cowboy at Camp Lewis to other nution-wide scares, in -! To Win 'em, Walk ’em ------- I eluding the belief in infected court ECKER A CURRIE, Publishers “They ain’t nobody got me tamed Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Senger, who j plaster and in the insertion of bac-! (By an Old Head) have been in Bremerton, Wash . teria into bandages and dressings. This is the time of year, Anthony, ’round here, oldtimer. Not me! I Published Twice a Week at Independence, Polk County, Oregon, on for some time, have moved back to I “ Just why an intelligent spy o d to transplant growing love cases never did hate nothin’ in all my their home m the Valley. j even an unintelligent German dip- from the davenport furnished parlor born days as bad as I hate this Tuesday and Friday Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sullivan went l" mat’ says i*1®, Journal> “should to the moonlit out-of doors," said thing o’ steppin’ high when some to Black Rock Thursday to visit his f choose glasf , t0 kl11 ° fl a 'he man with the dyspeptic look as body says ‘Hep!’ an' whippin’ my Application made for Entry as Mail Matter of the Second Class sister for a few davs. community, is problematical. It |,e quit scratching around in his arm up to my forehead every time I !>oints out that to conceal glass in Liberty garden to view the dying see a gold hat cord with anything Mrs. Penn and Mrs. Shade of 'l°u r or sugar it must be finely j glow at the gnd of u perfect sunset. alive beneath it, ail’ sayin’ ‘Sir’ to Subscription Rates: $1.50 a Tear Strictly in Advance; Six Months Ward were at the store Thursday. ground, and that finely ground -\0 gjr] who is wise and In earnest many a guy that I wouldn't stop on $1.00; Three Months 50cents. . .. . , . . r glass 1 u i i i L u i u i jji i fearsome, t a i s u iilc . isn t * \ x p particularly about marching to the tune Mr. Men the street to slap if we wus both Mr. Winifred, an old Kings Valley Coarsely ground glass, of course, delssohn dedicated to the human civilians; but we ain’t both civilians CLYDE T. ECKER, Editor. J. F. CURRIE, Business Manager resident, who died at his home in might scratch the lining of the gas- knotting ceremony w ill allow her now, oldtimer; we're both soldiers. Corvallis, was buried at Kings Val- tro-intestinal canal and set up young man to spend the» present • Get me? An’ ull this salutin’ an’ ley cemetery Wednesday afternoon, trouble. other stuff is part o’ the game; see? evenings lolling on ieather cushions. A B A R D ’S H A N D IC A P Mrs. Peterson of Salem w hoarriv Meanwhile the New York pupers The hothouse method of bringing An’ because I hate it all so damned bad, I want to play it well so it’ll be the matrimonial bud ed in the Valley Monday evening to from a11 ,,ar,s of the city are run' Whene ’er I fain would sing of spring in honied adulation, sew for her sister, Mrs. T. J. Allen, ,dng neare*t police station to to materity is a failure. It takes the over sooner. Do you get me? “Them Germans have got the And ’gin to let my voice take wing in rhythmic uluation, fell this morning J and tbe b,14*nK ° f gi'ouitd glass | Beams of the love inducing moon to __H I dislocated _________ <ed And stretch my neck in ecstacy, the while my lute strings one of her limbs and also broke ' n cun^y , ol' hi'ead. But so far the lower the young man’s resistance to jump on us ’cause all that stuff laboratories haven t discovered any. the proper point for the proposed comes natural to ’em. It don’t coine one of her ankles. snatching, natural to me, oldtimer, and never -Kansas City Star. i bacilli to make a drive. I spoil the whole effect, alas, for I must go to scratching. Miss Taylor, who has been visit --------------------- - i v'Tve watched the girls around will. But as long as I have to learn And when I ’d of the primrose chant, that on the burn’s ing her cousin, Miss Soule, the past ‘•Billy’’ Mason In Oratorical Flight ,his neighborhood for years and 1 it to help lick the -------Germans week, returned to Portland Satur bank ruffles, ____ always notice that it is tile ones who that started this mess, you bet I ’m get to outdoor strolling earliest who goin’ to learn it w ell.' I ain t goin I much regret to find I can’t because I ’ve got the snuffles. day. (From the Congressional Record) send me wedding invitations before to pass up any bets that may help Miss Soule went to Philomath I dream of spring personified in lovely symbolism, Mr. MASON. Mr. Chairman, I summer. The parlor season is all out; see? Nobody ever put anything And pause to cuss, defy, deride my dad-blamed rheu- Saturday to visit with her parents confess that it is with some hesita right for getting the marriage plant over on me before I came into the over Sunday. tion that 1 proceed to reply to the tism. started. Under the approving smiles army, and there ain’t nobody ever Oh, spring, in theory you’re superb and all our passions There was a Red Cross lecture most remarkable performance of the of a willing father and mother, the put anything over on me since. I Friday night at the Odd Fellows gentleman from ‘Alabama [Mr. Hef nourishment of home made fudge don’t salute these officers because kindle, hall. The Red Cross ladies sold lin], I would much prefer to have and divinity and the soul drugging they’re better men than 1 am; they But to a poet who would blurb you’re but a sorry swindle. cake, pie and coffee. They made him present. It is in keeping with strains of waltzs from the phono ain’t. I salute 'em because salutin' The way you peseter and make game of poor but hopeful $ 10 . 00 . the gentleman's characteristics that — graph the case springs to life. But, is a part of this military game, an’ he should assail me and then inl genius like tomato plants or onion sets, you 's long as I got to play it, I ’m goin Is nothing but a burning shame and little less than Mr. and Mrs. Tip Maxfield and | mediately leave town. [Applause.] must transplant it if you want it to to play right. daughter, Mrs. Martin Christenson, I will, however, endeavor not to “And say, there ain’t no Germans amount to anything. Plant a case heinous! — TE N N Y SO N J. D AFT. have been quite sick with lagrippe, transgress the rules of the House in outdoors and it will strive. There goin’ to play with this outfit, an’ go , Mr. Oyerton and family have making reply 1 propose now to ,g no more chance t0 kiu it than a home to tell their grandchildren answer him if 1 have to get down on- daildelion. Gn the park bench, the they enjoyed bein’ with us. W e W I L L T A K E NO CH A N C E S moved to Philomath. to bis intellectual level to do it . . ,, . , . •" church step, in the motor car or in don’t thank you to figure that we re 1 r There will be a pie social Wed [Laughter.] lanes flanked by shrubs laden with a set-up for the Germans to knock Postmaster-General Burleson says no paper that nesday night. I am sick and tired of being bull new leaves and flowers, the case over. Get that idea out o’ your head. charges the government is controlled by Wall Street will dozed every time I express an lion-I grows rapidly, and some newspaper W e’re goin' to do somethin’ in The Red Cross ladies of Ward est opinion in the house. I have | : be permitted to pass through the mails, and here’s laying have made ten quilts. is assured of an order for announce- France besides die." a ten to one that the Courier won’t make any such . ... , ment cards and wedding invitations find that you are a prettv fair . . . , . . , I at too much a hundred. v charges. I f we T H IN K congress is unduly influenced B. F. JO NES WIGRICH ITEMS men; I believe you are honest, Candidats lor Representative Polk “You know the beautiful blonde we are going to play dead safe and charge it to the S t a but e v e r y t i m e ^ys m an| and Lincoln Counties, May Pri Evelyn Porterfield had the mis from Alabama gets up in the morn | who lives next door, Anthony? tion Army or Epworth League.— Benton County Courier. fortune to step on a rusty nail on ing in Washington and gets his Iron-1 Thttt pearly Peach * 'idl maries. band (Paid Advertisemen'..) Tuesday evening and is laid up sers on he thinks that this country made complexion? Well, I ve been J E L L Y , J U IC E S A N D JA M in consequences. is about half dressed. [Laughter watching, her case with a young CANDIDATE FOR COUNTY JUDGE . clerk from the best corner cigar I hereby announce myself a can Mrs. M. M. Porterfield and Hazel and applause.] W H Y P U T I T I N TH E P A P E R ? He goes tilting down Pennsylvania i stand’ and receive this from m®‘ didate for the Republican nomina were visiting in Portland the past Avenue, usually in a long frock coat, friend‘ she’s going to be huntlng a tion for the office of County Judge week. Married, then interred.— Headline. with a white vest, with perfectly new soda buyer if she doesn’t get to succeed myseW, subject to the O f course. Mr. Abe Porter is confined to his manicured eyebrows, and wonders rid of her tight shoes so she can voters at the Primary election to — x— bed with pneumonia. It is hoped that Pennsylvania Avenue does not walk him out more. The little bru- be held May 17, 1918. he soon will recover and be out and tip to one side because he is all on I i nette across the street has her soul A D E N IA L Sane business policy, economical, flashers on him and I ’m positive around again. that side. [Laughter.] Then -when j but not parsimonious administra , Ham Berger is no relative o f Victor Berger. that she knows the value of stroll Edwin MoGomas, from the south he comes into the House and walks ing in the moonlight in the way so tion. Special atention to Probate ; — x— Respectfully, ern part of Oregon, is visiting his down the aisle and casts bis eye up many of our song writers have ex Court.. HOW T IM E S DO CHANGE E. C. KIRKPATRICK. parents here, Mr. and Mrs. Mc- on the ladies galleries, a hero, an \ plained. I heard her say to him Adonis, and then comes down here (Nodaway, Mo., Democrat) (Paid Adv.) Comas. and bellows how patriotic he is and the other day: "I sure do love to The old-fashioned women who had three or four pots slow walk along the boulevard in Mr. and Mrs. Walter Plant were traitorous you are, even without a ; on the stove at the same time and gave her husband three week end visitors in Portland. SW OPE & SW OPE megaphone he shakes the walls of the gloaming, Alfred.' square meals a day, no\\, has a daughter whose husband “ Don’t let me lire you on thissub- LAW YERS Berlin [Laughter], and that gentle Major Rose has been under the man feels that God and he have a iect- Anthony. And don’t think I would go hungry if she mislaid the can opener. I. 0. O. F. Building weather with lagrippe the past monopoly on all the good things ! am sti11 at the a8e where I fall for — x— week. Oregon and have the world by the short j this twilight creep stuff myself, Independence, A T I P TO F R A D E R BRO UG H T RE SU LTS hair. “ Heflin holds House in rapt I m merely remarking on a timely Mrs. Harry Stratton has been con Frader Wurk has become one of the greatest patriots attention; he makes a moving subject. But any time you find it O o o o o o o o o fined to he r home with lagrippe. o o oO in town. Someone tipped it off to Frader that if the kais speech.’’ He moves tiiem out as a necessary to coach a marriageable o E L I Z A B E T H LEVY o er won the war every man in the United States would be Nina Porterfield spent Saturday rule, and those on the front seats daughter or relative you can’t go to o Teacher of Violin o with her Grandma Porterfield. without umbrellas usually move strong on advising this out-of-the- o o forced to do twelve hours of real work every day. house-into-the-moonlight method. In — x— .1. .1. Green and Abe Porter hack a little to avoid the perspira the moonlight, Anthony, in the o W ill give lessons in Indepen- o o dence for beginners and ad- o combined business with pleasure in tion and the saliva; but when he A NO TH ER B IG V IC T O R Y FOR TH E W O M EN bellows, oh, how bad you are and spring, you know, any little girl is o vanced students. Best ol o Salem Saturday. At a recent Red Cross sale held in an Illinois town, a how good he is,’ and he strikes that a queen, idle chatter from Iter idle o methods. Prices reasonabl.e o hen and rooster were auctioned off to the highest bidder. Florence Hartman, from near In attitude so that the ladies in till of *‘ PS sounds wise and the slightest o Inquire at the Post Building o dependence, is visiting^ier sisters, tiie galleries can see him. I give pressure from her finger tips rings o or write E. Levy, 563 Court o The hen brought $1110 and the rooster $4. Mrs. Haley and Mrs. Porterfield. him and his friends notice now that ,he bel1 for Cupid to come and close o St., Salem, Oregon. o — x— I have had all I am going to take of tbe deal.” O o o o o o o o o o o oO A N U NSO LVED M Y S T E R Y GREENWOOD it. [Applause.] T H E P O L K C O U N T Y POST. In the East people are still wondering what was the matter when Embarass, Minn., was named. — x— T H R IL L S OF P A R A D IN G (St. Joseph Gazette) Men marchers in a parade enjoy themselves if they can have enough cigars and girls if their silk stockings,don’t come down. — x— W H E N A FE LLO W FEELS L IK E Q U IT T IN G The easiest time to quit chewing tobacco is right after the first chew. While climbing n telephone pole Hornibrook for Committeeman Frank Brown fell to the ground dislocating several fingers on one (Scio Tribune) o f ’ bis hands and bruising his There is no reason why W ill II. shoulder quite badly. He was tak Hornibrook should not! be elected en to a Salem hospital where he is Oregon’s Democratic National Com resting quite easily. mitteeman. He should certainly re W. O. Morrow and daughter ceive the vast majority of Demo have been quite ill with pneumo cratic votes outside of Portland. He nia hut are improving quite rapid is a valley man and it is useless to say that he w ill squarely support ly now. the President in measures calcu A number of parties were called lated to win the war. You will lo Dallas as witnesses on some make no mistake in supporting Mr. seditious remarks that was claim Hornibrook. ed to have been used in this neighborhood. “ When will the war be won?" is a EW YORK.—AnmuK the many strnnye livelihoods practiced In New York better question than “ When will The Ground Glass Scare. la there any «dranger than that of the Junk hunter. Junk hunters are Whenever anybody finds some the war be over?" subdivided Into clauses, such as those who reclaim metal, pirper, lost articles, rags, etc. The specialist who con thing gritty in his fond, he at once cerns us Is the man who reclaims ohl suspects the presence of ground postage Rtninps. glass. The ground glass suggestion Oame into a paper warehouse on has taken root so widely that there A f t e r a fligh t, the philatelic Junk hunter's route one is ik inild hysteria oil the subject. and maybe a day five long, green boxes that held The government announced this fig h t, a email the 1850-1855 correspondence of a de chew o f R ea l week that several thousand alleged funct shipping Arm. It was his luck Gravely brace e incidents of the discovery of ground to get access to only one box—that of him up fo r glass hud been investigated, and in 1853. From it he gleaned a mass of a n oth er trip only one case bad the glass actu odd envelopes with stamps Intact. He had found “original covers," ally been found. That was when a us they ure called In the stamp world, disgruntled bakery employee had and some were of real value. In a Jllty the Junk hunter rushed to Park Row tried to drive his employer out of to his principal with the find, receivlug $15 for three envelopes from Hawaii. business by putting glnss in a loaf The stamp dealer who bought the three old covers for $15 tried In vain to of bread. Interest his customers in them. Month after month he held them at the flxsd In the same paper in which ttiis price of $10 each, hut none made an offer, despite their apparent rarity. announcement is made was print Finally came a stamp auction for the benefit of the Red Cross, and the dealer, ed a statement from a military of wishing to do his bit, contributed one of the Hawaiian covers. To the surprise of sll It brought $37.50, the buyer being s Hswalljin ficer at one of the training camps specialist In Syrucuse. That worthy, much Interested In his gem, traced ths saying that ground glass hail been source of his find through the auctioneer and wrote to the Now York des'er— found in nine articles sent to the principal of the Junk hunter—for verification of Its origin. Incidentally he camp. But the same day a dis asked where there were any more. Now, knowing the value of his find, ths patch from the camp told of the ner- I New Yorker promptly sent the other two envelopes to the Syracuse man with vous breakdown of the officer who • price of $125 for the pair. It was a deal. The Syracusan took them and when he died hood after had given out the statement, and of | and his estate was settled the three covers ware soli) sgaln at auction, this the disproving of the ground glass j time bringing a trifle more than $1100. Of course the hunter got a liberal bonus theory. The Journal of the American from the New York dealer anil there came to the Red Cross another check Medical Association compares what ] for $12.00. it calls “the ground glass obsi ion" ( Rare Find of a Philatelic Junk Hunter in Gotham N The Independence National Bank Established .1889 A Successful Business Career of Twenty-Five Years IN T E R E S T P A ID ON TIM E D E PO SIT S Officers and Directors H. Hirscliberg, Pres. D. W. Sears, V. P. R. R. DeArmond, Cashier W. H. Walker I. A. Allen 0. D. Butler Someone Sent Him a pouch of Real GRAVELY Chew ing Plug Tobacco is about the onlv comfort the soldier h a t—and no chance to smoke on duty! But a satisfying chew of Real Gravely Plug—he « n eryoy that even in a shell hole in No M an’s I -mwl. G ive »n y man » chew o f R eal G ravely Plug, and he w ill te ll you th a t ’s the kind to send. Send d ie b est! Ordinary plug L false econom y. It costs less per w eek to chew R eal G ravely, because a small chaw o f it lasts a long while. I f you smoke a pipe, slice G ravely w ith your knife and add a little to your smoking tobacco. It w ill g iv e fla v o r— im prove your smoke. SEND YOUR FRIEND IN THE U. S. SERVICE A POUCH OF GRAVELY Dealers all around here carry it in 10c. pouches. A 3c. ■tamp w ill put it into his hands in any Training Camp or Seaport o f .th e U. S. A . Even “ over there” a 3c. stamp w ill take it to him. Y ou r dealer w ill supply en velope and g iv e you official directions h ow to address it. P. B. GRAVELY TOBACCO COMPANY, OiRvUIe, Va. The P a ten t Poach heepe it Freeh and Clean and G ood —it in n ot R oot Gravely w ithout this P rotection Soot