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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (May 17, 1918)
W hether He’s F ig h tin g on S ea or Land Send hint a pouch ot (II. C. W itw er in Collier's W eekly) I know you are just crazy to hear Real GRAVELY Chewing Plug w h at I thought about P aris, it bein’ If he doesn’t chew vet, he’ll slice it up the first tim e I ever seen it. Well, and fn * it with his pip« tobacco to give Joe, all I cun suy is th at P aris re it flavor and improve hit tmoke. m inds me of P hiladelphia w ith a You will send your friend more tobacco bun on! The streets is all called comfort and satisfaction in one pouch of •uos" and the m ain one is the Hue Real Gravely Plug than in half a dozen de la Paix. It’s a whole lot like plugs of ordinary tobacco. B roadw ay would be w ithout the ele- G ive u ; . • chew of R eal G ravely P lus. tric lights, theaters, hotels tuiil cab h e will tell you that’» the kind to «end. Send th e arets. Every other place is a restau belt! . . O rdinary plug i* false econom y. It coete less ran t, and the ones in between is p e r w eek to chew R eal G ravely, because a sm all cafes. chew of it lasts it long while. The people here are so stuck on SEN D YOLIK F R IE N D IN T U I U. S . S E R V IC E th e ir home tow n th at th ey w on’t A POUCH O F G RA V ELY even go indoors to eat, hut sit right D ealers all around h ere carry it in 10c. pouches. out on the pavem ent at little tables A 3c. stam p will p a t it into his hands in any T rain ing C am p or S eaport of th a U. S. A. Even “ over Today is primary election day, the ending of a cam for all th eir m eals, so’s they can th e re ” a 3c. stam p w ill tak e it to him. Y our dealer keep light on lookin' at d e a r Paris w ill supply envelope and give you official directions paign of bitterness and loaded to the brim with charges all the tim e, not to say the dam es how to address iL that will not be forgotten for the sake of party harmony w hich parades up and down. Whom yoa'rt on the lookout h r tok- P . B. GRAVELY TOBACCO CO.. Daovillt, Vs. muirimet, o chtai o f Roml Gravely help* or success. A candidate who in order to win at the pri The girls is pretty near all knock T ho P a te n t P o a c h k eep , it F ro th and Clean an d G ood to pot* the long, dork hour*. outs, and none of them is too stuck ~ -It ia n ot R e a l G ravely u/ithout this P ro te c tio n S eal maries does not conduct a clean campaign is going to up to give a guy a pleasant sm ile E s t a b l is h e d 1 8 3 1 suffer at the November election. and pass the tim e of day. I m ust th a t anybody w hich gets lone Under the primary system the majority party is at a say some here a in ’t got no one but his- Folks and Foibles disadvantage. Competition for its nominations become so self to blame! The men is all in Out Where the West Begins DIFFERENT (By Claude Callan.) uneyform and great little guys. 1 kern as to extend beyond the place where party success / Yesteiglny, when our litle son, th in k iis doughboys is m ix in ’ with (By H arry N. B urhans.) is paramount. Then, relying upon party strength to the F rench better th an anybody else. I left A rth u r C hapm an just a few Woodrow, and the M cSpat hoy had a fight, the McSpat hoy got the best carry them into office regardless, a number of candidates They go out of th e ir w ay to m ake m inutes ago, and d u rin g the course of it, and M artha told him to his nice for us and don’t luff at enter the field who are not qualified or their records are things face lie w as a coward. Mrs. M cSpat us w hen we try to speak F rench of our conversation I said to him , not such as to appeal to the people. heard tier and she cam e to tho door and call eggs “woofs" in stead of “Art, th ere are so m any different and said a lot of m ean tilings aliout stories about w hen, w here and how A large number would go back to the old convention w hatever it is. Woodrow. M artha d id n ’t get very Joe, a F renchm an, is the politest >1ou w rote ‘Old W here the W est Be plan but a greater number would not. The primary is a guy on earth. If you go into a place mad, hut she told Mm. McSpat aliout gins’ I w ish you would tell me the her hoys teaching little B ryan and permanent institution, and it raises havoc with party de- of business here an d ask a guy how flu* tru th about it.” Woodrow to say sw ear words. As a to get to some certain street and cipline as well as party bosses, good, bad and indifferent. num ber, he closes down his desk, lie replied, saying that about sev result of the trouble M artha and Albeit, primary buds do not always blossom in Novem calls a taxi, stops on th e w ay to buy en years ago he w as w orking on the Mrs. McSpat do not sjieak. W hen we moved into the neighborhood Mrs. you a' shot of vin o rdinaire and de Denver R epublican and th a t he laid ber. McSpat w as real nice to M artha, an d livers you personally rig h t outside a poem a day to w rite for the top of M artha said she had never met a the door, the while beggin' your p ar sw eeter woman. Mrs. McSpat was don for not g ettiu ' you there soon his colum n headed “C enter Shots.” JELLY, JUICES AND JAM W hile he did not rem em ber the good to our children a n d she said er! Can you im agine a n y th in g like she would be glad to keep them for that in New York? You go up to a exact date, tie did recall th at it w as IF .JONES IS SATISFIED, ITS ALL RIGHT THEN guy on Broadway an d ask him how about ten m inutes of six and lie us at any tim e we w anted to go to a (Cedar Rapids Republican.) show or anything. “Now, w hy can 't to get somewhere, and w hat does he w anted to catch the six o'clock car A son has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Will Jones, the do? He says: “I never h eard of it; for home. W hile he w as try in g to Mrs. B—When you look In your hue- you be nice to Mr. M cSpat?” M artha I’m a stran g er here m yself!" Am I figure out som ething to w rite, lie band's pockets do you ever find let j said to us a t the time. “You are a l father being an Indian. passed tlie m anaging editor’s desk ters that he has forgotten to mailt ways saying you w ish you had m ore right, Joe? —x— Mrs. W.—No, but I sometimes find one friends, and yet you never try to I heard a lot of talk about Paris an d saw an A. P. dispatch w hich M AKING A NEWSPAPER PAY that he has forgotten to burn. m ake one. Today w hen you passed stated th a t the governors of the bein’ up against it on account of the A country paper recently published this item: “ The w ar, the people all down hearted, W estern states, w hile holding th eir Mr. M cSpat you ju st grunted. I feel as if I had know n her for years, and business mar of this town who is in the habit of hugging arid food bein’ as scarce as heat an n u al m eeting, had fallen into a BETWEEN FRIENDS discussion about w here the W est if you and Mr. McSpat could lie good prostrations in Iceland. Joe, that is his typewriter had better quit, or we will publish his begins, some contending for the Al friends we could visit them often all the bunk! They is plenty of food name.’’ The next day twenty-seven business men called here for everybody, and I put aw ay legany M ountains, others the Missis and have them over here. In th a t at the- office, paid up their subscriptions and left behind some of tin* finest steaks I ever seen. sippi, and some the Rockies. It a f way we could enjoy ourselves a n d them twenty-seven columns of advertisements, and told If the people is dow n-hearted, then forded him the suggesttion for the get som ething out of life.” Late yesterday afternoon, several hours the editor not to pay any attention to foolish stories. I'm vice president of Egypt! Joe, choicest hit of W estern verse th a t after the fight and the q uarrel, we they are the gam est nation on earth, has ever been w ritten. —x— met Mr. McSpat and Isith of us He sat down at the typew riter and and we are proud to be in the lineup KANSAS MAN EXPECTS TO TASSEL OUT laughed about the trouble. It ju s t over here w ith ’em. They’ve had a in a few m inutes “Out W here the (Cedar Yale, Kan., Liner.) shows the difference between m en tough tim e for four years, ail'd they W est Begins” w as h an g in g on tho Cecil Jones says he has eaten so much corn bread, mush know they been in a w ar all right, copy. hook. He left the office on the and women. He told us th a t his boy was to blam e and we told him and corn cakes this spring that he won’t be surprised if he but th a t ain't gloomed ’em a little run and caught the six o’clock car. th at we w anted W oodrow to get a hit. T hey’re as full of pep ns a “I did not th in k the poem out of the begins tasseling out about the last of June. good w hipping occasionally. It will steam drill, and pretty near every o rdinary,” lie said, “but the next duy —x— be weeks an d perhaps m onths be th in g th at w as rtin n in ’ before the a num ber of m y friends said ffiat it SUSANNAH’S LIMITED VOCABULARY fore M artha nnd Mrs. M cSpat will w ar here is still doin' business at w as tlie best thing I had ever done." begin speaking again. On the oth er (Birmingham Age-Herald.) N ew spapers and m agazines all the old stand. W hy, Joe, one of hand Mr. McSpat is nicer to us tiian these French guys could kid the over the U nited States published the Two adjectives Susannah knows, he was before the trouble, an d w hen poem. The verses have passed over kaiser to death, on the level! On these she takes her stand; we left him yesterday w e ' invited tiie Pacific to A ustralia and Hong No matter liow this old world goes, him to comfe over some evening and kong, afld the A tlantic to the coun Visits a Region Of Pain T is either “ fierce” or “ grand.” tries of Europe. In all parts of the Daisy—Listen to Erma reciting the sit until bedtime. But if he w an ts United S tates you m ay find it fram “Wreck of the Hesperus.” How ter any trouble he can get it. . — x — (By H enry J. Allen.) ed, pinned on w alls an d pasted in rible It must have been! BIG CHURCH ROW GOING ON T here is a country out beyond Used to Thrills books. Two different com Mabel—Yes. and some people can Rival churches in various communities are having P aris I alw ays will rem em ber as scrap posers have put it to m usic, and il make It more terrible than It was. considerable trouble over service Hags. The question is, tho land of pain. I've just come will he sung by Grace La Rue nnd Fort O ntario Can., Post.) Shall the star go to the church where the soldier attended from svernl days in its incredible Kitty C heatham . It is now being It w as d u rin g a terrify in g bom SURE THING bardm ent of a front line trench. Sunday school, or to tin* one where his girl preferred to borders. I cannot it-uli/.e it's the old sung at the Indian Princess Red story out there, yet the only new F eath er at the arm y cam ps, and 1 Tiie cannons were booming, the ma- attend Sunday evening services? th in g in it is the Am erican lad. I've plans are on foot to m ake it the j chine guns crackling, bombs hurst seen him this week in all sorts of national song of one of the large i ing, the rifles racketing, an d cries BERT, ALL THE TIME LEARNING SOMETHING hospitals, tak in g his m edicine w ith com of the wounded filling the sm oke m ercial organizations. Bert Wilson has been able to learn something out of a grit equal to the best stories I’ve Mr. C hapm an is m annging editor j satuated air. A num ber of Tom m ies ; were aw aiting orders. Suddenly the war dispatches. He says he knows now when' the ever heard. I saw it all last su m of the D enver Tim es, in w hich ca m er, lull the men were French, Eng pacity lie is m aking a great success one turned to his neighbor, dug Pullman Company got all the names for its cars. lish, C anadian, A ustralian, and I and still finds tim e to tu rn out w on { him in the ribs, and m adly asked, —x— looked at it as a tragedy apart from derful copy. He is a thorough ! “For God’s sake, Bob, scare me—I THE PERFECT STUDIO America. . got the hiccoughs.” W estern, big hearted, whole souled To its the w ar m eant a thing of and one of the m ost lovable ch ar (Ad in Jamestown, Kan., Optimist.) ships, m unitions, train in g cam ps. acters I have cvbr had the pleasure Another Hack Finn Liberty loans and Bed Cross drives. of knowing. 1 will be in Jamestown Saturday, But tonight the w ar m eans to m e a (Chicago News.) Tho poem follows: May 4. and will meet all those interest tiling of broken men, of bright, OUT W HERE THE W EST BEGINS A nother “original H uck F in n ” ed in taking piano lessons. Will be at brave lads, who only yesterday were Out w here the hand clasp’s a little ' has turned up; this tim e in Oregon. puting on th eir uniform s and going the Racket Store. He proves it by speaking of Sam uel stronger. to tra in in g camps. I wish 1 could Out w here the sm ile dw ells a little L. Clemens ns “Charley." The orig tell you how real it is when you see inal H acks and Tom Suw yers ought longer, the stretch er hearers bringing in to get together and form a society T h a t’s w here the W est begins: IF YOU ARE BIG ENOUGH TO BE ALL AROUND our own men. I stood Saturday in Out w here tho sun is a litle brighter, nnd employ a press agent. mast be very wealthy. It is all right to be an a!! around man instead of special a w ard id a great French hospital I W here tho snows th at fall are a Hynsnn—He Dynson—Why so 7 izing, Jack Blanton thinks, if there is enough of you to had \ ¡sited last sum m er. I rem em trifle w hiter, Hynson—Heard him say he ate meat ber one day last August stopping And the I K in d s of home are a wee SWOPE & SWOPE go around. three times a day. to read a creed painted upon tho LAWYERS hit tighter. w alls of this great ward. It said, T h at's w here the W est begins. I. 0 . 0 . F. Building Dig up your dollar for the good “If I advance follow me; if I retreat A VERY SERIOUS POEM i kill m e; if I fall avenge me." II w as Out w here the skies are a trifle Red Cross. Independence, Oregon . (Bob Horn.) then a hospital full of Frenchm en If folks were chickens. I ’d like to bet. few hens would from Verdun. I read it and said, Out w bluer. here friendship’s a little tru er, lav and none would set. i “W hat a brave, wonderful |>ooplo T h a t’s w here the West begins: are tlie French." S aturday I saw Out w here a fresher breeze is blow of w hat price someiiody will have (lie sam e sign, hut the pnllid faces W omen of America ing, to pay for one delayed dollar or a under it were Am erican faces, and W hore th ere’s lau ghter in every Established .1889 I found m yself trying to lit the W hnt’s the w orth of one baby’s h u ndred dollars w ithheld. stream let flowing, You ran '! read a casual page of words Into the somewhat rain» and W here there's more of reaping and life? A Successful Business Career of less of sowing. Tho tim e has come when >ou Red Cross reports from anyw here leisurely atm osphere in which I Twenty-Five Years “‘over there" w ithout endangering left them getting ready for w ar a t m ust put a m oney value on it. T h at's w here the W est liegins. home. So m uch R edCross m oney avail the coolness of yo u r decision ns to W hether they yet realize at home Out w here the world is in the m ak able, so m any Imhies restored. “how m uch.” we a re in for our full share of the A little less Red Cross money ing. INTEREST PAID ON TIME blood sacrifice or not, our men are W here fewer hearts in despair are An Acrostic available, so m any babies lost by I full of the spirit of it here. (New York E vening Sun.) DEPOSITS default. acheing. Prepared by long years of endeavor. T h at's w here the West begins: It's as plain as that. W here th ere's more of singing and W hen you m ade that first Red E n trusted w ith all we hold dear, What Worries Them Officers and Directors Cross investm ent von had a fairly Responsible, v ig ilant ever, less of sighing. W here th ere's more of giving nnd cle a r idea th a t there w as plenty to Stout hearted, a stra n g e r to fear. (Macon (Gn , Telegraph.) * H. Hirschberg. Pres. D. W. Sears, V P. be done nnd that the lied Cross He w atches and plans and advises: less of buying, Of course the G erm an fleet m ay R. R. DeArmond, Cashier would m ake every dollar of money In speech he is forceful and brief; come out hut w hat bothers the all- And a m an m akes friends w ithout W. H. Walker I. A. Allen O. D. Butler Now join in o u r prayer as it rises— highest is the thought it m ay an d every m in u te of tim e rount. half try in g — T h a t’s w here the W est begins. But have you now a clear picture God save o u r coium under in chief! never come hack in again. The Independence National Bank