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P O L K
P O S T .
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F o r / A m Queen o f the M a y , Papa
ECKER * CURRIE, Publishers
Published Twice a Week at Independence, Polk County, Oregon, on
Tuesday and Friday
Entered us second-class matter March 2K, 1918, at the-postoffice at In- I
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CLYDE T. ECKER, Editor.
J. F. CURRIE, Business Manager
Every Few Days Send Him
a pouch of
Real GRAVELY Chewing Plug
1 )r. Mark S. Skiff of Salem is winning a place in the sun.
A fter <t week from next Friday, Democrats become
Democrats again.
Think of the welcome he will give it—this con-
densed plug of fine tobacco that slips flat into his
pocket, ready to give him tobacco comfort and satis
faction unywhere, all the time!
lien Olcott may commence to look for competent help
to assist him in moving upstairs.
It’s all right to keep the home fires burning if you
jurn wood, ( ’oal must be conserved.
Loyalty In The Country
KINGS VALLEY
(From the Congressional Record)
C. E. Rice was an Independence
All candidates who are holding back something may
MR. BORAH. Mr. President, I ob visitor yesterday.
turn it out in our next Tuesday edition.
served through tlie press last week
The Senator from Oregon, Me Nary, is on the job in
Washington and doing exceedingly well. Keep him there.
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\ man in Salem declares he is going to vote for Moser.
Adding one to the other two, it makes three outside of
Multnomah county.
that there were a number of people
appearing before one of the import
ant committees of the Senate testify
ing with regard to disloyalty in dif-
! tarent parts of the United States.
|o,ie reading the reports of the hear-
ings would conclude that the agri
cultural sections of the country wen
saturated witht disloyalty. I do not
know just how accurately these wit
nesses were reported, but the infer-
C. II. Harter and .loe Cook made
a flying trip to Corvallis Tuesday
evening hv auto.
Mrs. Nellie-Smith visited Monday
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tip
Maxfield.
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G iv e any man a ch e w o f Real G ravely Plug, and h e w ill tell
yov ¿h a t 3 the kind to send. Send the best!
O rdinary plug is false e co n o m y . It costs less p e r w e e k to
ch e w R j s l G ra vely, b eca u se a -jn.-vii ch ew o f it lasts a long
while.
It y o u -.nvsVo
.clico G ravely v it S yo u r knife and add a little
to y -n ir s a jc V ^ tou a cso. It wilt ’ ire -avor — im prove yo u r smoke.
SEND VOUK
It Till
S. StkMcf /. thHim «- nXAVE.Y
Dealers all around here carry it in 10c. pouches. A 3c. stamp
will put it into his hands in any Training Camp or Seaport of the
U. S. A . Even “ over there” a 3c. stamp will take it to him. Your
dealer will supply envelope and give you. official directions how
to address it.
P. B. GRAVELY TOBACCO COMPANY, Danville. Va.
71« Patent Poach keeps it Fresh and Clean and Good
—A it not Real Gravely without this Protection Seat
The fanners are about through
their crops,
Established 1 8 3 1
ê
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Christenson
E. F. Southard, retiring publisher of the Polk County
visited Tuesday evening with her
Observer, was a bull in the Republican china shop of Polk enee to he drawn from their wtjite , wisfor ' m , A \ it S n «lér
term of office has accomplished later chairman of the State Repub
more for Oregon than any other lican Central Committee.
countv but we are quite sure he had no objections to being m,‘n,s " i,s "'at entire communities
,
I—indeed, if not entire States—par
-pa r
ticularly agricultural or rural dis
tricts or communities were, as I
Someone rises to inquire what the kaiser will do after said, saturated with disloyalty.
It seems while these gentlemen
the war. W e refrain from reply because in the heat of a I were here advertising the disloyalty
political campaign we don’t wish to stop find .argue with of the farmers and farmers' organi
zations throughout the country, the
some fellow who declares that there is no hell.
farmers at home were engaged in j
Martie I.ake was at I the store
Tuesday.
member in Congress in a like . Space forbids further enumera
period.
tion of the vast amount of work
Among his colleagues he is known Senator McNary lias done for Ore
There will he services at the
as “the man on the job”, and dur gon, but anyone will realize from
chturh every second and third
ing the present war crisis Oregdh the foregoing tlie Senator has dis
Sunday of each month.
should consider itself fortunate in played truly remarkable ability,
There must he quite an attraction having an opportunity to return him coupled with extra-ordinary dili
at Alexander ns Tony Shay has and not be compelled to send to gence and energy. His native state
been going there every Sunday for Washington, u new, untrained man. can best show its appreciation of
Believing that the supreme obli his faithful and efficient services
Justice for ihe people of fill lands, the elimination Gf ;! ,uMl,nK !!! 111,11 n o ,’s nnd S,,l,s,'rih-1 quite a while,
gation he owes his scountrv is to by nominating and electing him.
Mr.
secret diplomacy and militarism and restoration o t right
1 » order that the two sides of the
Mr. McCoy
McCoy and Friend Racker, tielp win the war, Senator McNary,
THOMAS B. KAY,
I of Luekiamnte Valiev were In the instead of returning to his state to
State Treasurer.
and reason. A peace based upon these essentials will for- <i",,s,i,»> nuiy go to the country and of Luekiamnte
conduct a political campaign, is at
U. W. SLEEMAN,
ever banish war from the face of the earth.
' the
" u,t world
" ,P ,,co',le
in ° ,her »,a,'s ° ,|
ey T,,PS" ay>
may understand that our| Mrs. Joe Miller visited with her tiis post in Washington working for
Bus. Rep. of District
Oregon and aiding in the prosecu
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j farmers are no less loyal and no less \ sjstor, Mrs. Eva West, Sunday.
Council of Carpenters.
tion of the war.
The six Republican candidates for state treasurer may 'looted to the cause than other
MRS. GEO. W. McMATH,
Our blacksmith, Mr. Whitfield,
elass of people f call attention to
Always since entering the Senate
I’res. of Co-operative
beat the tom-tom all they want to, but the crowds /are this item which appears this morn and son, George, went to Portland lie has been a friend of our soldiers
League.
Monday on business.
flocking to the two big tents where the senatorial and ing in the Post:
nnd sailors and has introduced legis
THOMAS A. McBRIDE,
All the states which have
Chief Justice of Oregon
gubernatorial entries are doing their tricks.
Mr. and Mrs .McCoy were in (lie lation giving them preferential
homestead rights and repeatedly
gone over the top and won hon
Supreme Court.
Valley Saturday.
or flags are largely rural. Mon
championed their cause when tlieir
T. H. NEUHAUSEN,
W e respectfully petition Captain Tooze to have the
T. J. Allen our merchant, is do- welfare was in jeopardy.
tana, whose quota was $9,000,-
Vice-Chairman Hughes
ing a rushing business.
Championing the cuiisec of the
000, lias reported subscriptions
Campaign Committee.
military rule annulled which requires that soldiers must
Oregon farmers. Senator McNary
of $1-1,7-11,000. North Dakota,
(Paid Adv.)
wear their uniforms perpetually.
Recently kve were
procured for them a primary wheat
with a quota of $0,500,000, has
W IGRICH ITEMS
close enough to a private to become satisfactorily assured
reported more than $10,000,000.
market, saving thereby several mil
that he had been led to believe that socks are a part of
And North Dakota was partieu
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Green moved lion dollars to the wheat growers
a U n ifo r m
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iarl.v subjected to attack by some to Horst Brothers’ ranch on Fri of the Northwest.
Realizing the present Food Con
of these witnesses. You would think day.
trol Law fails to fix prices for many
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that the farmers and it is almost
Mr. and Mrs. Will Roberts of commodities. Senator McNary has
B. F. JO N E S
Ihe Lane county candidate who attempted to ques- entirely an agricultural state, were
tion the moral environments of the state university thru pin*-t¡»ally ail out of sympathy with Highland were Sunday guests with introduced, and is lalmring for tlie Candidate for Representative Pollr
11 io later's parents, Mr. and Mrs. passage of a bill, striking at profit
and Lincoln Counties, May Pri
the voters’ pamphlet and was blocked by Secretary of
t m'.d n ^ -H i^ "n .e ! McComas.
eering and fixing prices on tlie ne
maries.
cessaries of life.
State Olcott should he satisfied now without further par- ... .
(Paid Advertisement)
Mr. and Mrs. F.. M. Lichty and
Senator McNary lias procured:
Indications are that South
Mr. and Mrs. Huston of Buena Vis
ley. 11 is rich and racy political gem has been given a
Government contracts for the first
Dakota lias also subscribed its
ta were callers at the Abe Porter
prominent place in the press which ought to be more sat
time in the state's history for Ore CANDIDATE FOR COUNTY JUDGE
quota, of $22,000,0011, Minnesota
and C.tiown homes on Sunday after
l hereby announce myself a can
gon products, such as prunes, de
has contributed $118,900,000 ex
isfying than having it buried in the voters’ pamphlet.
noon.
hydrated potatoes and vegetables in didate for the Republican nomina
clusive of subscriptions from
tion for the office of County Judge
Minneapolis and St. Paul and
Kate and Roy Rooney were rou large quantities.
to succeed myself, subject to the
Mr. W e st’s proposal that all senatorial candidates
Large
contracts
from
the
govern
Duluth, whose pledges amount
tined to their home With the mea
ment for army clothing and ship voters at the Primary election to
to $.'!7,500,000.. Northern Wis
sles several days.
withdraw arid leave the Held clear for Mr. MeNarv doesn’t
be held May 17, 1918
building and lumbering industries.
cousin and northern Michigan,
appear to be satisfactory to very many; even Mr. MeNarv
Sane business policy, economical,
Helen
Porterfield
is
home
from
Senator Meaty was instrumental
which report to the Mitmcpolis
but not parsimonious administra
school
with
the
measles.
frowns upon the proposal. Messrs. Stanfield and King
Fedmil itesejpe Rank, have
i in P "Muri.n*
on
sUi»,s | tion. Special .Mention te Probate
about $8,000,000 each.
have become real peeved about it and rather vehement I v
Marie Turner spent Friday with for the shipment of condensed milk ; c nm.( •
Respectfully,
j and cream from Oregon conden- i
Mr. President, a state ot war not
F.. C_ KIRKPATRICK.
tell Mr. West to look after his own children. All this po I only calls out the great virtues of Nina and Helen Porterfield.
series, whereby tlie disaster which (Paid Adv.)
Mr Jesse Tann of Parker visited threatened t h i s industry was
litical literature, being very interesting, easily won it place the people, hut it calls out other
his daughter. Mrs. George De- averted.
on the front page next to and abutting the world war. characteristics less admirable. I Forest on Friday afternoon.
Senator McNary is working:
Conner lor County Clerk
trust that these political Pharisees
Now tlint all senatorial candidates have elected to stay to who have come here with the Amer
For prompt payments of allot
I hereby announce my candidacy
Mr. and Mrs. Sloped of Inde
the finish, it may he some consolation to Mr. West to tell ican Hag wrapped around I hem to pendence visited Sunday afternoon ments to dependent relatives of our for county clerk of Polk county,
soldiers and sailors.
subject to the decision of the Re
him that it will probably all come out in the end just e x -
« « .. v ir t u « . .....to de- at the home of Mr. and Mrs. David
A comprehensive plan for tlie publican voters at the primary
i
.
i < t \ tin» virtu«** of on1 1 n* com mum Haley.
utilization of the water power re election to he held May 17, 1918. I
anil «»»tin* s t a f f s will» ot bf
actlv as It«' wants it to come out. I ho M r. \N Ost UO (lo u o t
sources of Oregon.
was I hicii and raised m Polk county
acted with the best of purposes, he is plainly guilty of regarded as voicing the real sciiti
For the construction of a coast and believe I can successfully per-
UNITED STATES SENATOR
attempting to rush the season, and he should have never
military highway at Government forift the duties of the office.
CHARLES L. McNARY
war. I trust also that this
expense.
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GEORGE \V. CONNER.
submitted any proposal that, might hinder nature from, wholesale denunciation of entire 1
Senator McNary was horn on a
(Paid ad. by George W. Conner)
classes and communities will re ,
taking its natural course.
farm in Oregon: reared in the Uap-
reive the condemnation at the hands I
tis t chuivh educated in the public
of all sane and patriotic citizens
SW O P E & S W O P E
schools* worked his way through
which il deserves.
SE N A T O R M cN A R Y
Stanford University: is a lawyer
LAW YERS
and farmer and has been a life
I. O. O. F. Building
The Best of All Games.
In less than two weeks the Rcpuhlir.-tus of Oregon \till
long Republican. He was formerly
Independence.
Oregon
a
justice
on
the
Supreme
Court
nnd
select their emuluhite for United ¡States Senator. If prov You're >>irk of the game? \\ ell, now ,
that !* a shame!
ed fitness for the office is the best guide, then Senator Mc
You’re
smart nnd you're brave,
Nary should he nominated. H e has proven himself a
amt you're bright.
The Independence National Hank
thoroughly capable, broad-minded, patriotic public ser You've hint a raw deal. I know; hut
don't
squeal.
vant. with no factional entanglements, but serving all
Established .1889
Ruck up. 18) your dnrndest,nnd !
the people without favor and in conformity with the high
fight.
coaxed out.
POLITICAL ADVERTISING
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est standard of public duty.
It's the plugging away that will
fn critical times such as the one through which we are
win you the day
So
don't
lie a piker, old |>ard.
naw passing it is part of wisdom to retain in important
Just draw on your grit: it s so easy
offices men who are tried and true, men of high personal
to quit—
It's the keeping the chin up that's
character, who know the needs of the state and nation,
hard.
H
who are fearless in the performance of their duty and
who have entire public confidence. The Republicans of It's easy to t ry that you're beaten,
and die
Oregon cannot do better than to keep Senator MeNarv
It's easy to crawfish and crawl;
where he is. He abundantly merits the nomination, and Hut to keep on and fight until it
comes right
if he is nominated, he will surely be elected.— Portland
„ Why,
u.ro," that
P!! Is the best game
__ ol all!
Telegram.
MRS
F.I.SIF. SHONTS.
A Successful Business Career of
Tvventv-Five Years
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IN T E R E S T P A ID ON T IM E
Because United States Senator
Charles L. McNary has made good
he should lie nominated to succeed
himself in the Republican Primary
—May 17th.
From the day he l>eoame Senator
he has loyally championed the pro
secution of the war, and during hisj
D E P O SIT S
Officers and Directors
H. Hirschberg. Pres.
D. W . Sears, V . P.
R. R. DeArmond, Cashier
W . H. W alker
L A . Allen
0 . D. Butler