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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1918)
7 S J i fetntMtÇ & * ^ c iC -ifU * * K T he P olk C ounty P ost INDEPENDENCE, OREGON, VOLUME 1. *T_____ _____ TUESDAY- MAY 7, 1918. RIVER TRAFFIC A Great N e t o f Mercy drawn through, an Ocean o f Unspeakable Pain" eAmericanRedCross S fiE X Z a * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * l ** * * * * * * ■** É * * * * * To Save the Wrecks of Humanity— To Fill the Hands Held Out to Us YESTERDAY NUMBER 13. ’ NO. 113 We add the nam e of John W. Quivey tc the South Polk County Service List. IS BADLY NEEDED FOR ALL CROPS SORHUM SEED TO BE POLK FARMERS FREE OF CHARGE UPPER WIIJiAMETTE CITY FOR SHORT CROP IMMINENT IF RAIN 8 YEARS WAITED FOR FREE DOES NOT FALL IN THE Dallas, Or.—To encourage the con LOCKS ONLY TO LOSE NEAR FUTURE servation of sugar the Polk County F air Board has secured a q u antity | of sorghum seed to he d istrib u te d ' INCREASED COSTS free to those who will give if proper REPORTS OF DAMAGE GIVEN AS CAUSE cultivation. It is hoped in Ibis way j DONE BY BUGS to get acreage enough to justify the ! installing of a com m unity sorghum , Another Cause Claimed By the mill and cooking vat. For several years sorghum has i Parasitic Hordes Are Inflicting A Company Is Falling OH of Vast Amount oi Damage beeen grow n in this county. Last Business. On All Crops year, O. N. lln n u icu tt, a farm er living south of Independence,grew sorghum w hich m ade 80 gallons of Corvallis, Or., May —“We have molasses to the acre, so the fair A good old fashioned rain is badly w aited for eight years for an open association feels justified in pro- ! needed in this particu lar sectio n - river an d free locks and now w hen moling th e grow ing of a large acre one of those we got last February they are about to he realized, notice age. w hen we had no particu lar need of is given that Corvallis will he cut it. off from tin' river transportation In fact we m ust have rain w ith next Monday." This was the state OTTO HILKE READY TO in a very short tim e o r a shortage GO AFTER KAISER BILL in crops is a possibility. ment of a disgusted business m an today w hen the announcem ent was A general report indicates th a t Mikkalo, Or., May ;!.—(To the i an arm y <>f parasites are at work in m ade by the Oregon City T ranspor tation com pany th at its steam ers Post)—I have passed the physical m any fields and gardens and are would be retired from the upper exam ination for the n atio n al arm y doing m uch harm . Some w heat successfully and am now w aiting fields are tu rn in g yellow which at river on this date. C orvallis has had riv er tra n s patiently for the call to go and get this tim e is dow nright disloyalty, portation for .‘52 years. About 10 kaiser Bill. W hile w aiting I am tho it cannot he charged th at the yours ago when the hill was before w orking again for C harles Chaney w heat is to blam e but ra th e r it is | the state legislature and congress in the E astern pArt of the state in the sabotage work of the six trillion for appropriations to build free locks the sage brush country, but it is bugs, who, ta k in g advantage of the \ at Oregon City, the people of Cor dead her w ithout the Polk County weakened condition of the w heat j vallis and Benton county worked Post so please send it to Mikkalo. owing to a lack of m oisture, are a t . OTTO HILKE. I hard for the projects, and the peo tacking from all four sides a t the ple are naturally indignant that the sam e time. service is to be discontinued just TIIO FEW IN NUMBER w hen th i1 project is being completed. THEY’RE ALL W ITH US TH RIFT STAMP DAY V/AS "C orvallis has paid taxes to help A DAY OF TH RIFT build the expensive locks at Ore Tho few in num bers, w hat county gon City and the people thought candidates th e n 1 he are m aking a Monday w as Thrift Stam p Day they w ere going to get som ething noise' like old tim es and just as and the sale in Independence to ta l for th eir monev," said a m em ber of pleasant to meet. ed a big figure. (lie Comn n al Club, ‘but this has pal ned out the w a\ most of such i.rojeeis !° end in Oregon." The company gives as its reasons for discontinuing the service the bfifty’ expanses of operation a n d the falling off of business. M erchants state that the cause of failing pa —PRESENTS— tronage is because the m anagers have not attended to or tried to get business. “Not h alf of the people of Corvallis even know where the docks are,“ one business mini stated, “and but very few are aw are (4 the —IN- schedules of the hoists. The busi ness has sim ply run itself and the hustling and com peting lines have heat out the boats.” In 1886 tlie first steam er, the La- tona, started the river run and it has been in constant service since, excepting d u rin g the tim es of ex trem e high or low w ater. O boats followed and tin* G raham brothers have been in charge of the lilies all these years. For the past three years business has fallen off m aterially until now it is stated th at the boats do not tyny expenses between this city and Salem . Mon day night w hen the G raham ona left here she blew h er w histle for the last tim e and river traffic ended at least u n til business conditions change. Adolph Zukor Ann Pennington Contributed by George Wright. AN INTERESTING LETTER 1 F ort Meyer, Va., w as a little su r good to see a friend from the old FROM EMERSON GROVES prise. T hat cam p is only five m iles home town. i from here and I drove over quite 1 never fail to tell the natives of A m erican U niversity, W ash often w ith tru c k s and cars. I will 1). C. about Oregon and we Oregon oe ington, D. C., A pril 26, 1918. look him up Jhe next tim e I go over. hoys were highly elated w hen the* As soon as the w a r is over th e r dear old state went ahead on the —(D ear F rien d s)—I received your welcome le tte r last night anil w as is going to he a big cloud of dust Third Liberty Loan. There is a B ritish ta n k in tow n decidedly glad to get it. As you w ith me in the lead going hack to , stirrin g up in terest for the Loan. say, there a re th o u san d s of letters j Oregon. going to soldiers, an d it is not s u r Hazel Louise is here now and is It is one of the sm aller sizes but prising w hen one is lost, but w hy w orking in th e O rdnance Depart- has been in several engagem ents. pick on me? ■ m ent. I called her up as soon as she Good results are obtained w ith them H earing Dean B aughm an w as a t w as located and it seemed m ighty | although the way has to he cleared i pretty well before they are started. * - — ------------------------------------------------- The clearing is done w ith heavy 84 LETTERS FROM HOME artillery and bombs. 11 I i mu li I 1! m i I Will Iflll I i mi b i RECEIVED AT ONE TIME IT My battallion w as supposed to be on the w ay to France by this tim e, D allas, Or.—Mr. and Mrs. I. N. in fact we w ere reported “read y ” on the sixth of the m onth. The Woods received a letter from th eir great dem and for in fan try and a r son, Laird W oods, th is week, and in tillery I ihs held us up and our su p it lie stated th at he had just receiv plies here have been unloaded ed his first m ail since arriving in from the cars. Now th e r is no tell France. T he m ail consisted of 81 letters and 6 packages. Young ing w hen we will start. Woods, together w ith several other You ¡teople are probably u n der the im pression that I am a soldier, Company L boys of this city, were hut I just belong to the arm y. Since left behind in a hospital in New is approaching and the far-sighted housewife enlisting 1 have only drilled aland York w hen the Oregon troops sailed will this year above all others buy her require two hours. Have been in the m otor for France, an d he sailed on a later tran sp o rtatio n nearly all the tim e. date, hut never caught up w ith the § ments early. 'All of m y com pany are d rilling regim ent. He w as d u ally assigned I every day except myself. I am still to a com pany in the old Montana We advise that you do not delay in buying all g held at the garage w hich probably national g u ard , and is serving with g of the jars that you need as a traveling sales m eans th a t I will helon gto the th a t regim ent som ew here near tin* ■ regim ental h ead q u arters w hen w e lighting front in France now. man told us that only about ten per cent of the go across. glass factories in the United States are run It would be very in terestin g to WEST SIDE AND O. E. ning. We have quite a generous supply on TRAINS TO USE FOURTH see the boys in khaki. There is a more loyal spirit in the W est an y hand an'1 are selling Mason , for— •* P o rtland—In view of Hie fact th a t IB way th an in the East. Am so glad the federal governm ent has ordered f) th at we boys have such loyal all the big railroads entering Port 85c dozen Pints ................... ......... F backing. j land to consolidate th e ir passenger Q u a rts ................. EMERSNO GROVES. p depots and term inals, Edward M. $1 dozen Gallons . Cousins, m unicipal p^ihlie utility ex C pert. lias recom m ended to the coun SATURDAY NIGHT PUNCH cOc dozen Z..1C Cans g h GOOD TO BEHOLD cil th at the W est Side Southern Your3 Truly, Pacific tra in s and the Oregon Elec f In d e p e n d e n c e 's S atu rd ay night tric train s all b e routed over the I "• tinclt" i*( pend to behold. This p ar Fourth-street tracks of the South ■ ■ ! B ticu lar night was evidently m ade ern Pacific from the southern part for Independence. of the city to t h e union station. Canning Season yt JOHNSON & COLLINS ! ■ II« ■ ■ I« ■ ■ I« I« ■ ■ ■ I ■ I« I« I P IP I« ■ > '■ !<■ I « l M l ■ I « I The Antics of Ann By Frederic Chapin ANN SCORES A TOUCHDOWN in more ways than one in this r o l l i c k i n g story of seminary capers.. She’ll go straight through to the goal posts of your heart. I t ’s a “ bear of a story” that you can’t afford to miss. ISIS THEATRE W ednesday, May 8