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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (June 25, 1918)
. A it a T H E P O L K C O U N T Y P O S T . A Semi W eekly Newspaper. Published Twice a W eek at Independence, Polk County, Oregon, on Tuesday and Friday FL VER SPENDS 10 HIDES IN SHELL HOURS ON WKCK HOLE 7 WEEKS British Soldier Survives Most Thrilling War Experience. Entered as second-class matter March 26, 1618, at tlie postoffice at In Rescued Man Gives Thrilling Story of His Perils. dependence, Oregon, under the Act ol March 3, 1879. Subscription Rates: $1.50 a Year Strictly in Advance; Six Months $1.00; Three months 50 cents. A ll subscriptions stopped at expiration. C LY D E T. ECKER, Editor. H e n ry F o rd declares he is tt Republican. I t is a kind, how ever, that w ill make the old tim er bat his eyes. Con- cernng protection and free trade, M r. F ord is quoted as saying that free trade should p revail the w orld over, which out-l)em ocrats the Democrats on this issue. T o • call a man in this day it “ Republican” or “ D em ocrat” means little. H e can advocate anything and be either. . , Ar |} .... belongs to M r. Roosevelt. His criticisms are divided into fo u r parts: “ 1” and self praise, advocating a permanent m ilitarism against which the w orld is fighting today, find in g fault w ith the conduct o f the war, and denouncing as traitors and pro-Huns everyb od y who disagrees w ith him. W e h eartily concede to him the right to talk as much as he wishes and to say what he wants to, still w e p re fe r the course o f our other ex-president much better. M r. T a ft is engaged in constructive w ork and is using his a b ility to b rin g this war to a successive conclusion in order that a perm anent w orld peace may be established. The Scrap Book SO M E DIFFERENCE OF OPINION p r o v in g T h a t R e a d e rs C a n N e ve r A g re e en the M e rlte ef A u th o r« W h o M a y Be F a m o u s. A chap wrote to me a while ago. .bays Riot, and said he was thinking < ___ __________ of taking up the reading o f . Mere dith’s novels as an Indoor sport. What did I think of Meredith, etc.? \ I replied that I hadn't read a whole lot o f Mer edith hut In a _ brief characterlz- it: utlon o f his works * f I would say that he was. dull, dreary, slow, stale, flat, unprofitable, humdrum, monotonous, uninteresting, unentertalnlng, unllvely, unimagina tive. Insulae, dry-as-dust. Insipid, prosy, prosing, prosnlc, turhld, opaelous, ob fuscated, fuliginous, ambiguous, cloudy, foggy, nublferous, vague, loose, :. r tiresome. Incomprehensible, amphibo logical, thldlefnddle, Impossible, etc. ,1 Today he answered my note to tell « B JW W 1 A £ W » S me he has Just finished reading "The JL- Ordeal o f Richard Carvel” — or some thing like that— and that he finds Mer Represeutatlve and Mrs. Medill Mc edith Is perspicacious, penetrating, Cormick of Chicago. Mr. McCormick argute, nlmhle-witted. dazzling, clever, Is representative at large from Illi aiiappy. poppy. Interesting, spell-hind- nois utnl a candidate for the Repub Ing, true-to-llfe, sapient, rational, re lican nomination for United States flecting. dandy, fine, lucid, transpicu senator to succeed Senator .1. Ham ous unambiguous, Intclllglble-to-the- Lewis, whose term expires March 4, meiinpst-capacity, touching, tender. Im 1919. Mrs. McCormick was Ruth mortal. rich, tinparagoned, Immense, llanna, daughter o f the late Senator glorious, delicate, nice, unimpeacha Mark Hanna. She Is one o f the lead ble, etc. ers In the girl scout movement. The duffer’s name Is Incognito. W e are glad Rlol tells us who the A patriot is a fat man who falls chap Is. From the style, we had sup nit of a cherry tree instead of a posed his name was »’eter Mark Koget. hammock al this season of the vear. — Cleveland Plain Dealer. Fewer Eggs are required with ROYAL POWDER In many recipes the num ber of eggs may be reduced w ith excellent results by using an additional quantity of Royal Baking Pow der, about a teaspoon, for each egg omitted. The following recipe is a practical example: Chocolate Sponge Roll m cup« flour teeepooo eett t Ubleepoone melted ehorteolog H cup hot w eter S 1 cu p auger t edge t equeree melted chocolat« The old i 1 teaspoon ventile 8teaspoons Royal Baking Powder i callod for 4 « DIRECTIONS—Sift flour, beUng powder and salt together three times. Beat whola eggs. Add alowly sugar, then boiling water alowly;add neat vanilla, melted chocolate and melted shortening, itilhout beating. Sift in dry ingredients, and fold in as lightly aa possible. Pour into Urge baking pan linad with oiled paper, and bake in «low oven twenty minutes. When done, turn out on a damp, hot doth, sprsad with whits icing and rolL Booklet ol reetpee which econom ic» la «as* *a<l other • ipeoaive Ingredient* m atl»d free. Addreee BOY S I. B A K IN G P O W D E R CO. 1 » W illia m S t . N e w York S u b s is t s on T i n s o f B u lly Be ef C o lle c t ed at N ig h t F r o m D e a d B o d ie s— F e ig n s D e a th to A v o id C a p tu re W h e n H u n s V is it S h e ll H o le and F in a l ly S u c c e e d s in C r a w lin g B a c k to H i s O w n L in e s. E n s ig n Sto n e a n d C o m p a n io n C lin g to W re c k e d Se a p la n e fo r 80 H o u r s In E n g lis h C h a n n e l W it h o u t F o o d o r W a t e r — O n e of M o s t R e m a rk a b le In- c id e n ts of Se a p la n e P a tro l C o -o p e r a tin g W it h C o n v o y s. ---- j A full report o f the rescue o f En- sign E. A. Stone, U. S. naval reserve force, who, with a companion, clung to a wrecked seaplane for 80 hours In the English Channel without food and water before being picked up by a trawler, was received by the commit tee on public Information from Its rep resentative In London. Ensign Stone was given tip for i drowned several weeks ago, but after J which the two men passed safely con- stitute one o f the thrilling incidents of the seaplane patrol co-operating with the fleet convoys. . “ I left our station In a British sea plane as pilot,” said Ensign Stone, “with Sub-Lieut. Eric Moore o f the Roy al naval air service, as observer, at d a. m. Our duty was to convoy pa trol. When two hours out, having met t o r ship coming from the westward, we thought we sighted a periscope ahead and turned off In pursuit. W e lo.lt our course. Our engine ‘dropped dtad’ and at half-past eleven o’clock fcrced us to land on the surface In a rough spa. R e le a se d M ’CORMICK S E E K S SEAT IN U. S. SENATE dm * •/G rum i*. 4 VI •to**-. ALMOST GONE WHEN SAVED IS DECORATED FOR VALOR Vice President M arshall has called Theodore R oosevelt an old woman. The vice president evid en tly is angered iii /* • , , , , , , . at flu* form er president s constant scolding and nagging. flvp wepk8 ln a hospltnl hp hns re. Th e medal fo r being the worst chronic kicker evid en tly rurne,i to London. The perils through , I n mu emù m ti C a r r ie r P ige o n s. “ W e had no kite or radio aero to call fo r assistance, so we released our two carrier pigeons. W e tied a mes sage with our position and the word ‘sinking’ on each. The first, the blue- barred one. flew straight off and reached home. But the other, which was white-checked, lit on nor machine and would not budge until Moore threw our navigation clock at him, which prohably upset him so that he failed us. "H ea vy seas smashed our tall planes, which kept settling. I saw that they were pulling the mnchlnes down by the rear, turning her over. A t half- past two p. m. we capsized, climbing up the nose and ‘over-the-top’ to the underside o f the pontoons. “ Our emergency ration had been ln the observer’s sent at the hnek; hut we had been so busy trying to repair the motor and save ourselves from turn ing over that we did not remember this until too late. From now on for near ly four days, until picked up by a trawler, we were continually soaked and lashed by seas, and with nothing to eat or drink. W e hnd nothing to cling to, nnd so to keep from being washed overboard we got upon the same pontoon nnd hugged our arms About one another's bodies for the Whole time. “ W e suffered from thirst. I had a Craving fo r canned penches. Tw ice a drizzle came on. wetting the pontoon. W e turned on our stomachs nnd lapped tip the moisture, but the pnlnt came OlT with salt and nnuseBted us. T i n s o f B is c u it F lo a t By. “ Our limbs grew numb. From time o time the wreckage from torpedoed ihlps would pass. Once two full bls- ’ ult tins came close enough to swim for, hut then, In our weakened state, we knew that we would drown If we tried to get them. W e did haul ln a third tin and broke It open. It was filled with tobacco. “ W e sighted a trawler about six o’clock on Tuesdny evening. We waved nt her for half an hour before she changed her course. We were both too weak to stand up and signal. W e could only rise on our knees. Moore's hands were too swollen to hold a handkerchief, but I had kept my gloves on and was able to do so. The The traw ler moved warily around us. but finally threw life preservers at the end o f a line. I yelled that we were to weak to grasp It. She finally hove to, lowered a boat and lifted us on bonrd. Moore lost six toes from gangrene In hospital. My feet turned black, but decay didn’t set In.” Every machine from the seaplane base and those from n station on the French coast had searched continuous ly fo r the aviators after the blue pigeon arrived, as did all the patrols and desfwiyers In the area. Ensign Stone Is a native o f Norfolk. Va„ born July 10, 1891. His mother. Mrs. Clara Stone, lives at the Red d ate apartments, Norfolk. I f you have been thinking that “ dls- llngulshed service” on the battlefield means one grand dash and then a quiet room, an attentive nurse and pleusunt recuperutlon, consider the case o f P ri vate J. Taylor, whose valor Is briefly recited In a late issue of the official supplement to the London Gazette. This official list o f soldiers cited for decorations ulwuys carries a short de scription o f the uct o f vulor for which the citation is made. These two paragraphs accompany announcement o f the award o f the dis tinguished conduct medal to Private Taylor. “ H aving been cut off with his com pany, he received a bullet in the thigh, :uusing a compound fracture. To '-avoid capture he crawled into a shell hole, where he reinalned.for a period of over seven weeks, during the whole o f which time the surrounding district was subjected to a severe bom- hurdment by our artillery. Hysubslst- ed on tins o f bully beef collected at night from dead bodies, and water which he obtained in u waterproof cap. “ A fte r some weeks three o f the en- emy visited his shell hole, but by feign ing death he avoided capture and even tually succeeded In crawling back to our lines— a distance of some 900 yards.” In a hospital near London, where he is recuperating, Taylor diffidently am plified the story o f his terrible experi ences. t It only Takes a Minute to send him a pouch of Real GRAVELY Chewing Plug Just drop into any wide aw ak e dealer around here, give him 10 cents for the pouch of Real Gravely, complete in the special envelope ready for mailing. Address it according to the official directions he will give you. Put on a 3 cent stam p— and Uncle Sam ’s Mails will see that he gets it. Real Gravely ie the tobacco to tend. Not ordinary plug loaded up with sweetening, but condensed quality. It's worth sending a long way« and when he receives it he's got something. 4 Give any man a chew of Real Gravely Plug,and he will tell you that** the kind to send. Send the best! Ordinary plug is false economy. It costs less per week to chew Real Gravely, because a small chew of it lasts a long while. SEND YOUR FRIEND IN THE U. S. SERVICE A POUCH OF GRAVELY Even “over there'' a 3c. stamp will put it into his hands. P. B. GRAVELY TOBACCO COMPANY, Danville, Va. The Patent Pouch keeps it Fresh and Clean and Good —It is not Real Gravely without this Protection Seal E s t a b lis h e d 1 8 3 1 NEW SLANT ON WORK OF Y. M. C. A. IN FRANCE Rastus and the Ham (Theophilus B. Steward.) Some folks dey lubs de brown po’k. chops, An’ yuthah cyahs fo' lam’; Prominent Western Minister Tells But chile jes’ listen w ’ile Ah talks. Ah’s sho’ some fool ’bout ham. of Religious Activities Within Jes’ han' hit tuh m i long wid aigs, Sound of Hun Guns. Er b’il an’ slice hit col’, Hit sho do mek mah stomach glad, The Rev. Robert Freeman, D. D. of An’ happifies mah soul. Pasadena, Cal., one o f the best-known ministers of the West, Is in France as Talk erhout yo’ lan'scapes bright a secretary to the Y. M. C. A. H ere’s Yo’ ’spirin’ sights on sea an' lan’; what he has to say o f religion within Dah haint no place kin hoi’ er light sound o f the German guns, where isms Tuh dat ’ah kitchen table, man— merge into helpfulness, and creeds Dat aint no time tuh ahgahfy, don’t count so ranch as being kind: “ You can get any opinion you want Nuh stan’ eroun’ an’ preach; on the religious work o f the Y. M. C. Jes’ put vo’ mouf an’ teef tuh wuck, A. in France. Caize ham am hits own speech. “ It is overdbne, it is underdone, it Isn’t done at a ll; it is narrow, it is W orked ’em Along the Line bigoted, it is too generously broad; It is stiff, it is highty-tighty, It isn’t child A sweet little thing, with a most like ; there is no singing worth speak ing of, and why don’t you have some becoming smile, short skirts and a thing besides hymns? And any one of dimple in lier chin was in town the these opinions con be defended, first past week attempting to work our by the character o f the person voicing citizens on the scholarship-mazazine It, and, second, by reference to the subsription stunt. This scheme has place visited by the critics. been worked to a fare-you-well here. ‘‘But here’s a little incident that happened the other day which tells —Sutherlin Sun. The same little wren that took the whole story o f the religious work our subscription.—Harrisburg Bull o f the Y. M. C. A. In France: “ An American lad with nerves shat etin. P la y s ‘P o e au m ; F o o ls H une. tered by what he had seen at the That pretty little chicken was “ Next day a party o f Germans came front, was going out o f his mind. He here, too, but she don’t need any Into my shell hole. One lifted ray hnd had the experience before, and scholarship; she's plenty wise now. leg— luckily not the broken one or I ’d was ln an agony o f anticipation. He —Jefferson Review. have yelled— but they thought I twas was a Catholic, and, as such, most anx- dead. I was covered with mud and j ious to confess. H e could not speak Star Beams looked like the other bodies covering French and the only available priest the ground. During the next fortnight | could not speak English. (Kansas City Star.) I managed to live on the reserve beef j “ ‘Is there anyone, here who can Peters had collected. Then, feeling speak French?’ Inquired the priest. Keep Hie home liars squirming. that nothing worse could happen, I ‘The Y. M. C. A. woman running resolved to try to get into our lines. the hotel knew the language. So the The chautauqua has been termed It was an inky night. First I crawled three retired into a quiet room, and the an integral part of America’s de by mistake right into a German line. American soldier confessed his sins fense in this war. Yes, hut how are They didn’t hear me. so I turned hack through a Protestant woman to a Cam- and inched along for an hour. Then olio priest, in a T. M. C. A. hut ln we going to get the Germans to at tend. I got into some barbed wire. I was France. a mass o f cuts, blood and rags before V explained. I got through. Just then a Verey A writer in tlie New Republic says "W hat Is a dual personality?” light shot up. I saw a man peering the self-painting occupation of some "Oh, that’s what a chap and a girl over a trench. He was about to shoot New York women is one of the use when I shouted. Three o f them camel itacover th ,t '“arh has after belli* less occupations. Perhaps he might out and dragged me Into our own m,rrle<t • week or so.” change his mind if he ever saw them trenches. — without any paint. Before the war Tuylor was a factory A ft e r T h e ir Q uarre l, hand. He Is recovering rapidly and j “ o f cours'* you speak to Lena when Not only are American soldiers looking forward to his return to the *oxl pas* h er?' ‘Indeed, I do not. Why. I don’t even pouring into London in great num ’ trenches. notice what she has o n !” R o b b e d D e a d fo r Food. “ It was during one o f our attacks upon the Hlndenburg line,” he said. “ W e had gone over the top, two com panies of us. W e were met by a ter rific enemy nre and the fellows were dropping like ninepins. I was knocked out. It must have been a couple ot days before 1 recovered consciousness. I found myself ln a shell hole with another man who was wounded but could move freely. During the days and part o f the nights the bombard ment kept up. Shells fell ull around, but none happened to drop in our shell hole. At night Peters crept out and foraged among the dead for scraps of beef, line rations and their water bottles. A fte r two or three days It rained. W e collected water ln our caps. “ That sort o f existence lasted for over five weeks. I was getting weaker and weaker. One night Peters crawled out and did not come back. That left me without aid. D a n P ro v e s L o y a lty . Remove T e u t o n ic E a gle s. Litchfield, 111.— Is Dan Darnla, a coal Because they too nearly resemble the German eagle sometimes used as miner o f Hillsboro, disloyal? Listen! a Teutonic military emblematic fig When somebody said he was, this Is ure, four eagle ornaments at the foot what he d id : Walked Into the sheriff’s office, asked o f two grand stairways In the State Capitol at Salt Lake City have been fo r a flag, kissed it fervently, went to the Red Cross headquurters, bought a removed. As soon as his attention was called membership for Ills entire family, pro to a drug store and bought i.u to the resemblance o f the ornaments ceeded . to the emblem o f Prussianlsm, Gov- ^ n’ orIrnp took it home and hung ernor Bamberger ordered their remov- | * over *ront dour- al and their substitution with figures o f real American eagles. In d ia n C o a t V a lu a b le . A curio dealer at Steubenville, O., has a coat covered with 8.300 elk teeth which he values at $10.000. The coat N a tio n a l A c re Plan. H ere la the “ National acre” plan, the vva* ma,,p bv an Indian in Manitoba, newest plan for farmers to help fight ( ' an"da. and Is sinew sewed. It weighs the H uns; 28 P°»nds. The owner o f the coat 'Is Set aside one acre o f your farm to " m«‘nlb<‘r the Order o f Elks and be planted and cultivated as the “ Na- "'***” ,he coat at aI1 conventions, tlonal acre,” the proceeds of which are W,th ,he coat the owner wenrs an or- to be used In buying thrift stamps, dlnary necklace made o f the largest The Idea !s spreading over Georgia o f ,he e,k tw>th ,n h,!' collection. and South Carolina. — --------------------- —----------------------- - Italians Show Patriotism. Cowa Drunk on Apple Pulp. Apple pulp ahlpped from a cider mill at Yakima. Wash., and fed as an exper- Iment to dairy cows on a Tleton ranch a few days ago made the animals so drunk that few of them were able to stand op and many of them fared about Uke Intoxicated m To show at thplr Patriotism. Italian ^ h ^ i i n ^ w . Va an- ,heJ W,U no* hand,e j " b*a‘ «our selling wheat substitutes ^ 8 ead’ Th,t8 , f t,on ■ « * * » wlth cla' “ PP™Tal a'"ce Italians In their natKe ,and know nothln« #f wheat floor substitutes bers, hut they are arriving in such numbers that the London newspaper reporters have found it out and written pieces about it. Lieut. John Philip Sousa has promised to compose an American wedding march ns soon as an inspir ation strikes him, to replace those in common use, both of which were made in Germany. And so he asks, “Don't propose till I compose.” The Independence National Bank Established .1889 A Successful Business Career o f T w en ty-F ive Y ears INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS Officers and Directors H. Hirschberg. Pres. D. W. Sears, V. P. W. S. Kurre, Cashier W. H. Walker I. A. Allen O. D. Butler