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VOLUME
(TWICE A WEEK.)
LIEUTENANT ELOYD
IN FLYING GAME
TOWN WILL AID FARMERS
As yet there has been no
great demand for farm labor in
this particular locality, but it
may come a few weeks hence.
Mayor Moore declares that if
our farmers get up against it
for help that Independence will
do its best to help them out.
“We will close every business
house in town for three days a
a week if necessary,” he added.
Third Aviation Instruction
|^1| Center, May 26, 1918.—Dear
Homer—Since my last letter I have
made much progress in the air. A
few more days and the 3rd. A. I. C.
will be thru with me. At present I
am at Field 8 Hying about six hours
a day. Quite a relief from the ten
hours per that we used to fly at DALLAS BOY UNDER FIRE
Field 7.
4 HOURS IN NO MAN’S LAND
Now for a brief account of the |
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work at the varous fields. 1 think I Dallas—A few weeks ago news-
told you of the work at Field ti papers carried a story of how two
which was the acrobacy field, so I American engineers, sent out on an
will start with 7. Lieutenant Quin- especially ha/.::rdous duty, lay near
ton Roosevelt was our instructor and ly all night in Xo Man's Land, while
everybody liked him tine. He is Roche guns of all descriptions, from
quite a regular fellow and a good hand rifles to heavy cannon, dropp-
flier. Most of the work consisted of ed their missiles of death all
formation flying from three to twen- around.
ty machines; then came the trick
Now it develops that nee of those
formations with which we hope to heroes was a Dallas boy, Harold
fool the Huns. Then came the alti- Poling, son of Mr. and Mrs. I). V.
tude test of twenty thousand feet in Poling. Harold, who is a member of
a formation. The formation 1 was an engineer regiment, has never
in went a few thousand over twenty mentioned the incident to his p e e
but we all liked to have frozen. The pie in any of his letters, but the
temperature was over thirty degrees word of the exploit came to them
below zero. One poor fellow, who thru a letter from another boy in
had lost his formation early in the the same unit to a friend of the Pol-
climb, joined us not knowing we mg family.
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were going up for altitude. When
It seems that one night young
he did realize his mistake it was to Poling and another man were sent
late to turn back ns he had not paid* out into No Man's Land to cut some
much attention to the direction we barbed wire entanglments surround-
had taken. Therefore to avoid being jug a listening post. They had hard-
lost lie had to stick and with pure ly comnnnenced work when their
•Yankee grit he stayed tho he froze presence was discovered by the ene-
two fingers and the tip of his nose, my who opened fire on the spot
When the descent was made the where the two Americans were sup-
formation broke up and each man posed to he. For four hours that
who knew the way home went down rain of le'ful and steel was kept up
at his own speed. One of the boys from every kind of a gun at the
came down too fast and when he Huns’ command. Rack in the Amer-
hc landed he fainted, due to the ¡can trenches hope was given up for
gieat increase in air pressure, the safety of the two engineers, as it
Lucky for himJie was on the ground was inconceivable that anyone could
This same fellow also had a very live in such a veritable rain of
at Field 8. j death.
narrow escape he
Another machine run into him but
Affcer four hours of ceaseless fir-
with good fortune still, on his side, mg, the Roches let up and a short
he managed to land without a time afterward, just before dawn,
scratch tho the other man did not Poling and his companion came
fare so well. His machine went into crawling hack to their! own lines,
a spinning nose dive which resulted They were literally plastered from
in the complete wrecking of the m a-; head to toe with mud and filth,
chine, and the pilot escaped with a which had been splashed over them
few bruises about the head. They by the bursting shells as they lay
both figure they are now living on flattened out behind the barbed wire
borrowed time.
fence. While terribly exhausted and
Now for I lie work at Field 8. It nerve-rucked from their experience,
consists mostly of aerial combat, neither had received a scratch,
camera gun practice and line of When asked how they managed to
flight . In combat two or more escape neither could tell hut Poliftfr
planes are sent out to tight over a managed to gasp to the otiicer who
pre-arranged sector. Koch plane is greeted him, N\ oil, we got what we
equipped with a camera gun. The went after, anyway,
pilot- start to tight like real enemies
Later in describing their experi-
onlv instead of the real gun, the ences, the soldiers said every time
camera gun is used. It is built and one of the larger shells burst near
operated like the real article. So them the concussion lifted them
when one pilot thinks he has the nearly a foot off the ground,
other he just takes his picture and
later when the films are developed FILLED MILK CAN FALLS
ON LEAVING MAN’S TOE
we can tell who wins the tight. This
is great sport and one soon becomes j
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to be a real tighter; also lie perfects : A “full” cream can fell off a truck
his acrobatics which in he gets only at the S. P. depot Wednesday strik
a vague start at Field 6. The line ing Roy DeAmiond on the toe. It
of flight consists of two planes broke the toe, but didn't keep Roy
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W e advise that you do not delay in buying all
of the jars that you need as a traveling sales-
man told us that only about ten per cent o f the
glass factories in the United States are run-
ning. We have quite a generous supply on
hand and rj*e selling M ason’s for—
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85c doaen
Q u f„.cs ...............................
$10 dozen
i/2 G a llon s.......................
$1.25 dozen
Zinc C a p s ...........................
30c dozen
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Yours Truly,
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JOHNSON & COLLINS
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INDEPENDENCE, OREGON,
FRIDAY,
JUNE 21,
1918.
A Message From
President W ilson
W hite House, Washington, D. C., May 29, 1918,
“ This war is one of nations, not of armies, and all of our
one hundred «million people must he economically and in
dustrially adjusted to war conditions if this Nation is to
play its full ptirt in the conflict. The problem before us is
not primarily a financial problem, but rather a problem of
increased production of war essentials and the saving of
the materials and the labor necessary for the support and
equipment of our Army and Navy. Thoughtless expendi
ture of money for non-essentials uses up the labor of men,
the products of the farm, mines and factories and over
burdens transportation, all of which must be used to the
utmost and at their best for war purposes.
“ The great results which we seek can be obtained by
the participation of every member of the Nation, young
and old, in a national concerted thrift movement. There
fore, it is urgent that our people everywhere pledge them
selves, as suggested by the Secretary of the Treasury, to
the practice of thrift, to serve the (Government to their
utmost in increasing production in all fields necessary to
the winning of the war, to conserve food and fuel and use
ful materials of every kind, to devote their labor only to
’the most necessary tasks and to buy only those things
which are essential to individual health and efficiency,
and that the people, as evidence of their loyalty, invest
all that they can save in Liberty Bonds and W ar Savings
Stamps. So many of the securities issued by the Treasury
Department are within the reach of everyone that the
door of opportunity in this matter is wide open to all of
us. To practice thrift in peace times is a virtue and
brings great benefit to the individual at all times. W ith
the desperate need of the civilized world today for mater
ials and labor with which to end the war, the practice of
individual thrift is a patriotic duty and a necessity.
“ I appeal to all who now own Liberty Bonds or W ar
Savings Stamps to continue to practice economy and
thrift, and appeal to all who do not own Government se
curities to do likewise and purchase them to the extent of
their means. The man who buys Government securities
transfers the purchasing power of his money to the
United States Government until after this war, and to
that same degree does not buy in competition with the
Government.
“ 1 earnestly appeal to every man, woman and child to
pledge themselves on or /before th 28th of June' to save
constantly and to buy as regularly as possible the securi-
I ies of the ( lovernment. The 28th of .J une ends this spec
ial period of enlistment in the great volunteer army of
production and saving here at home. May there be none
unenlisted on that day.
* (Signed)
W O O D R O W W IL S O N .
INDEPfcNDENCE WOMEN
ATTEND W . C. D. MEETING
KINGS VALLEY VISITED;
FOURTH PROGRAM FIXED !
A committee representing the In
A group of Independence women
consisting of Mesdames J. S. Cooper, dependence business men went to
Crosby l)u\is. G. W. Conkey, George Kings Valley Wednesday and made
Cnrhray. Clyde F.eker, R. F. Swope, filial arrangements for the Fourth
II. Madison, W. J. ('.lark, K. N. John of July picnic. A program was
son and Miss Genevieve Cooper made up and Will be published as
went to Dallas last Tuesday after soon as completed. E. N. Johnson,
noon to represent the local unit of chairman of tin* delegation, says
of tlie Woman's Council of National that Independence people will have
Fourth
for
Kings
Defense at a county session which a glorious
Valley
Hospitality
will
be
right
on
was held at the court house in that
I the job. "They will make extra ef
city.
forts to show us a good time,” In*
County Chairman Mrs. Winnie
declared.
Rrnden called the meeting which
Those going to Kings Valley were
was largely attended by chairmen Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Johnson, Mr.
tmrl members from all parts of the and Mrs. C. O. Sloper, Mr. and Mrs.
county. Among the speakers for George Carbruy, R. E. Smith, Frank
the afternoon were Mrs. Rrnden, pre , Dickson and G. A. Hurley.
siding officer, Miss Birdseye, an
Eastern representative attending the
conference at the (). A.
Miss Tur
SUGAR FOR CANNING CUT
ley, Miss Edna Mills, county food
administrator. Dr. Staats and Mrs.
All retail grocers in the state
Charles Casfner, state chairman of
have
been notified by the state
the Woman's National Defense
food administrator that beginn
Council who has just returned from
ing innnmediately the allot
the national council held in Wash
ment of sugar for canning pur
ingtou, I). C. Mrs. Costner told with
p o s e s had been cut from 100
great inspiration of her attendance
fo 25 pounds to each person or
at the hig national gathering, she
family.
told of tin*, addresses of President
Wilson and th»* secretaries of the
various departments; she also spoke
of the tine leadership of Dr. Anna CORVALLIS BUSINESS MEN
OUT AFTER FARM HELP
Howard Shaw. In o.tr state. Mrs.
Castner says the work is well organ
Corvallis The Commercial Club
ized and is doing a far reaching and
constructive work. Every branch of i had a committee out this week can
patriotic endeavor is represented by vassing tlie city for farm help. Farm-
the Woman's Defense Council and \ ers are unable to take care of their
its aim is to cordate nil war work. bay crop without more help. Those
Mrs. Castner announced that child , who have planted corn cannot get
welfare work in its many branches cultivators with ex|ierlence. There
will Is; an aim of the woman's com is talk of closing stores for different
mittee. She also emphasized the days in case sufficient help is not
fact that clubs and club life should otherwise forthcoming.
A number of Salem business
keep well organized as in these
times of stress we especially need ! houses are closing part of a day to
diversion to avert a tension that is help out the farmers. Hundreds of
f women are picking berries.
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(TWICE A WEEK.)
HERE AND THERE
The soldier over there offers
his life that Democracy may be
established among ¡nations for
all time. The citizen over here
owes that soldier the obligation
of seeing that lig every need is
supplied thru their common
government.
That obligation
can be met by the purchase of
War Saving Stamps.
NUMBER
24.
WAR SAVING STAMP
WEEK DRAWS NEAR
Next week is War Saving Stamp
Week thruout tlie nation and on
Monday a canvas will he begun for
purchasers. On Friday night, June
¿8, at S o'clock, a meeting will be
held in every school house in the
land at which time speeches will be
made, committees
report
anil
FOUR THRILLING THEMES
VIVID IN THEIR REALITY stamps sold to all who wish to buy.
The Polk county apportionment is
Ancient Ruby Ion ns it was in the $21)0,222 and the amount is pro-rated
(lays of its splendor—its mighty by school districts. The sums ask
walls, its massive towers shattered ed for South Polk are as follows:
Airlie, $5000; Buena Vista, $3800;
by the vengeful battle hordes of the
victorious Cyrus—tin* feast of Bel Eola, $2.100; Elkins, $3150; Green
shazzar alive in its prodical luxury,, wood, $3400; Hopville, $4250; High
the most famous revel of all history , land, $2900; Independence $21,500;
—the Perfumed Passion of Prince Lewisville, $1950; Monmouth, $12-
Relshazar and bis Princess Relov 500; Oak Point, $3000; Pedee $2100;
ed.
Parker, $2100; Stiver, $3300, Sunny
The world's First Great, example Slope, $1130.
of Intolerance—His trials in Golden
Judea.
REUNION OF COOPER CLAN
A Romeo and Juliet love in Paris, |
EVENT OF PRESENT WEEK
the Reautiful, under tin* Scourge of I
Qathy inc de Medici.
The Cooper Clan will hold their
AnR finally a modern romance of annual reunion in McMinnville this
a sweet young girl who battles suc week. The event will also celebrate
cessfully against the odds of adver the golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs.
sity, temptation and harrowing un Cal Cooper where the first act of tho
derworld opposition in a tense reunion will be staged. The fm.ilo
drama full of thrilling episodes
will take place at tlie J. S. Cooper
The Great Labor Sfi ike - The Frame-! home in Independence. Unfortu
Up of tin1 Girl's Husband--The Re nately J. S. Cooper lias been physi
prieve from Execution.
cally disabled for several days, but
So goes “Intolerance" which up- ■ he is miieh improved today.
pears in extra attraction at the Isis
Among those gathered here for tho
on Tuesday night, June 25 at regu reunion are: Mrs. Pearl Mnrela" l
lar prices.
and children of Tacoma, Mr. and
Mrs. C. K. Ireland of Gold Hill, Mr,
THREE BLUSHING GROOMS
and Mrs. George Williams of C.en-
LED TO HYMEN’S ALTAR tralia, Mr. and Mrs. John Krause
of Aurora and Dr. Belle Furgerson
Harry Iletgey of Independence of Portland. Mrs. George Parker,
and Vernata Picket of Salem were wife of Major Parker, is expected to
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arrive Sunday from Fort Sill, Ok.
Let’er Buck!
Am erica’s Greatest Exponent of the Smile
Douglas
Fairbanks
He Hits the Bull’s Eye of Amorica’s Popularity
IN H IS L A TE ST SURE FIR E H IT
"wild and woolly”
Branded as the Greatest Mirth Provoker
A W E STE R N COMEDY BUBBLIN G
OVER W IT H H E A R T Y LAUGH S
PU N CTU ATED BY T Y P IC A L
F A IR B A N K S TH R ILLS
A Rouldup of Laughter
ISIS
THEATRE
Sunday,
June 23