THE
POLK
COUNTY
ABU-BEKR AND WILHELM.
AM ERIC AN PEACE BOOK.
Going back to the year of our Lord
Too
much
emphasis
cannot
be
placed
A Semi-Weekly Newspaper.
upon the needs of a government com 632 by turning to a page In Gibbon’s
A man may get tired of ordi
mission on reconstruction after the “Decline and Fall of the Roman Em
Published Twice a Week at Independence, Polk County, Oregon, on war. Including adequate representation pire,” it is found that the Caliph Abu-
nary tobacco— bat never of
Bekr Dot only was a democratic sort
of all of the fundamental classes of of
Tuesday and Friday
but possessed high
American society. The working out of ideals, person,
R eal Gravely Chewing Plug,
being temperate In all his deal
American peace book would create ings with
Entered as second-class m atter March 20, 1918, at the postotfice at In an
und foe, says Savan
a sound fact basis from which our po nah News. friend
with its pore, clean taste
dependence, Oregon, under the Act o 1 March 3, 1879.
When he was about to
litical. business, labor and educational send
his Mahometan armies Into Syria,
leadership can operate after the war.
and lasting quality.
caliph personally instructed his
Subscription Rates: $1.50 a Tear Strictly in Advance; Six Months It would go far toward preventing a the
follows: “Remember that
capture of the public mind by the spe chiefs are as always
$1.00; Three months 50 cents. All subscriptions stopped at expiration.
In the presence of
cial pleader and the demagogue. It you
God,
on
the
verge
of death. In the as
would give a sweep and grusp to the
of judgment and the hope of
CLYDE T. ECKER, Editor.
legislative thought of the country be surance
paradise. Avoid Injustice and oppres
yond anything that can be hoped If sion
Real Gravely
; consult with your brethren, and
such
legislator
must
himself
attempt
“ Politics is adjourned” until Sept. 15 only.
the love and confi
to visualize the entire problem. It study to of preserve
Chewing Plug
your troops. Let not your
would be Invaluable In helping every dence
victories be stained with the blood of
10c a pouch — and worth it
business man, labor leader and educa women
Then all Americans can pronounce Marne, correctly, tor
children. Destroy no palm
to orient his problem and policy to trees nor and burn
fields of corn. Cut
too, or think they can.
the whole situation, writes Glenn down no fruit any
C ravolylacttvaam ch lon ger it i
nor do any mis
no m ore to chum than ordinary plug
Frank in the Century. It would be chief to cattle, trees,
only such as you kill
the biggest single stroke that could be to eat. When you
Little Penny always accompanies Mrs. Nickel when made
any covenant
toward Inducing among us the or article, stand to make
P. B. Gravely Tobacco Company
It,
and
as good
Danville, Virginia
riding on street cars now in numerous cities of the habit of thinking nationally; and that as your word.” German be kultur
re-'
we must do If we are to meet in an pudiates all this, and In its stead would
country.
adequate manner the new demand of establish for the guidance of mankind
the new world that this war, with all a policy of might and blood, with the
Is creating. We may right to abrogate any covenant, how BILLS ALLOWED BY COUNTY Burnett case, H. G. Black $17.60 for
Hun commanders once termed it the “contemptible of well Its take tragedy.
counsel of the European na ever
COURT AT JULY SESSION groceries for Ethel Davis, C. A. Mc-
little American army,” but there’s every reason in the tions that have already created their sacred.
Vay and Mr. Greenwood, Frank H.
agencies for studying the problem and The Stockholm Aftonbladet, with Ger
world to believe that they have changed their minds very organizing
Ward, allowance $17, A. J. Frum,
Sheriff’*
Office
to meet the situation when man sympathies, and presumably wel John W. Orr $146.00, T. B. Hooker allowance
$15, C. V. Johnson & Co.
recently.
It arises.
comed in the fatherland, prints a long $90, J. E. Richter $80, Dallas Tele $10 for groceries for J. W. Nona-
by Its Paris correspondent de phone Co. $3.95, J. C. Ilayter $1.25, maker, W. B. Gerth $10 for groceries
give up wheat, and some article
You see this statement in many of the crop reports: give “Some
scriptive
of the Innumerable Ameri John R. Allgood 50c. Total $322.30. for J. B. Sipes, N. Selig $9.82 for gro
sons; und those who complain can soldiers
ceries for Wm. Randolph, Eddy &
In France, their mil
Clerk’s Office
“ Yield poor [or light], except on irrigated land where a are the up ones
who give up wheat.” Thla itary railway, seen
$9.15 for mdse, sold to C. E.
their
vast
stores,
their
Baltimore American's happy way extensive warehouses and the huge A. B. Robinson $135.30, Edith M. Carbray
hormal crop can be expected.” Irrigation must come. of Is the describing
Huntley,
Dallas Hospital $7.50 for
food slackers, says At supplies that are constantly received Jackson $85, Edna M. Jackson $70, special nurse
and board for Theo
There’s no way of getting away from it.
Dallas
Telephone
Co.
$2.50,
J.
C.
lanta Journal. It Is a common ob from
dore
Tice,
M
rs.
S. P. Riggs $7 for
their
country.
There
is
no
bet
servation in life that the men and ter reading for the Germans than such Hayter $1.80, Glass & Prudhomme house rent for Mrs.
Arrow', L. D.
women who endure most and labor literature as this. They hoped to Co. 77c. Total $295.37.
Browui
$0
for
house
rent
for Lizzie
Hun prisoners say now that since the Marne disaster best
complain least. Tour drone and overpower the French und British be
Treasurer’s Office
Dale, Fuller Pharmacy $5 for truss
the Herman soldiers believe there are ten million Ameri pampered pig Is forever grumbling; fore
A.
V.
R.
Snyder#02.50,
Polk
Coun
we got there, says Philadelphia ty Observer $10.35, Underwood Type for B. F. Saine. Total $259.42.
the contributors to human welfare Record.
cans in France. Before the summer is out, they will be go but their
Jail
are there now. The gov writer Co. $3, Dallas Telephone Co.
way patiently If not joyfully. ernmental We
Dallas
W
ater
Co.
$1.
fictions
about
the
bluff
we
thinking there are a hundred million of them.
In ordinary times we manuge to tol
$77.85.
Bridges
making are sufficiently exposed $2.00. Total Assessor’s
erate the drones and the pigs, but In were
Office
by such information as this Swedish C. S. Graves $100, F. J. Holmnn i John a VV. Ash $2438.25, F„ C. Bush-
this fiery hour they should be stung paper
provides. Does any German Im $85, Ruth Graves $72., Dallas Tele !‘‘‘ * 1,XK ’ Crnvi>n Hllw Co- ®5-50»
HOW THE AMERICAN BOYS FIGHT
out and kicked aside. Those who are agine
that his country can defeat
unwilling to give up white bread in or
Co. $2.45. Total $259.45.
' V T- Grler Ca
Andy Wil-
America, England, France and Italy? phone
der
that
our
army
and
our
allies
may
SealOr Weights and Measures son
John W- Ash #181-59. S^eh-
(By Edwin L. Janies.)
•T. F. Jones $16.39
I m i Warehouse $52, Jesse L. Strawn
not go hungry are unworthy of the
District Attorney
$136.45, Dallas Iron Works $69.20,
Our boys dashed right in after the boehe behind the flag’s
shelter. Those who are unwill The movement Is spreading over the
ing to go any length of self-denial country to drop German from public E. K. Pi’a secki $4.70, Dallas Tele Guy Bros. $31.80, State Accident
railroad embankment. Slowly and slowly the Herman needful
Commission $46, Roy Belieu $2, E.
to winning the war are not school study. . The movement Is not phone Co. $2.90. Total $7.60.
lighters were forced back and back. Some of them swam truly Americans
A. Sharp $30, H. D. Mathers $33.75,
and deserve no place from narrow prejudice against an en
Surveyor’s
Office
the Marne to safety, but their number was few. Many of In this free land.
emy tongue, but on account of the in Dallas Telephone Co. $2.25.
L. M. Locke $22, Thomas Bean $24,
sidious
and thorough propaganda
Otis Gilliam $25, E. C. Bushnell
them were drowned in the river or shot' as they swam.
County
Court
which
has
been
conducted
through
the
$63.62,
D. C. Getchel $90, S. A. Davis
A
dispatch
that
comes
from
Ger
By 10 o’clock last night the last Hun on this side of the many through Amsterdam tells of an use of German ns a language in the E. C. Kirkpatrick $100, C. W. $72, Henry
$90, R. Reiman
Beckett
$90.30,
M.
Mansion
$74.17,
Marne on our sector had been accounted for. We had advertisement appearing in a Berlin schools, snys Baltimore American. Any V. P. Fiske $7, Dallas Telephone Co. $30, George Clifford
Kuyser $7.50, Fred Kay-
counted six hundred prisoners before nightfall and there newspaper which reveals a desperate thing which can In future strengthen $6.65, J. C. Hayter $37* Total s,‘r l),'W(‘-v Ti"" $16.50, J. A. Tate
German Influence in this country j $287.87.
! $110. Total $5600.65.
remained more to be brought in. The south bank of the lack of sustennnee for the people of ought.
In view of what has been dis
snys Washington Star. This closed since
Court
House
Marne was literally lined with Herman dead. The esti Germany,
the wnr, to be absolutely Finley Whitney $60.75 , Oregon _ -Sloper Bros. & Ferry
announces the Inven and permanently
Cockle $2.30, J. M.
mate is that we killed or wounded six thousand of the advertisement
abolished.
tion of a drug which, “though not
Power Co. $8.81, Dallas Water Co. Graves $86, independence Garage
enemy. We, too, of course, had losses.
forming a substitute for the minimum
$8.45. Total $84.01.
1 and Machine Shop $1. Total $89.30.
This was the'bloodiest and most important action in dally
sustenance. Is an excellent prepa The extinction of th t German spirit
Advertising
Circuit
Court
in America will not be the work of a Dallas Telephone Co. $3.05.
ration for stilling premature hunger, day.
which American soldiers have yet been engaged. This and
Polk
County
Itemizer $33.56, Polk
The Germans in Germany and
one to hold out until the
Coroner
may be considered a sample of what our soldiers will ac next enables
j
County
Observer
$51.84. Total $85.
the
Americans
In
America
have
co
meal.”
In
other
words,
Germany
R.
L.
Chapman
$7.40.
Stock
Indemnity
complish in the future days of the drive, when, perhaps, has reached the point of food depletion operated too mnleflcently to make of
Insane
Chase Bros. $12.50.
the German-Americans a sect apart, A. B. Starbuck
they will get at close grips with the Germans. There is that calls for drugging to alluy pain. says
$10,
L.
A.
Bollman
Contingencies
New Republic. But we Intend $5.
no equal in France for the American soldier at close range, This Is a most dangerous expedient. to shape
Erixson & Jones $1033.26, North
our socinl policy more Intel
School Superintendent’s Office west Auto Co. $23.75, John R. All-
and that is how the boclie must meet us in the days to W hat ails the average American ligently in the future than we shaped Fred
Crowley $248.28, Alta B. good $17.55, Da las Armony $10.68,
come. Every American officer to whom I talked last man? It Is but a little while ago that it in the past, and It Is not too late Crowley S. $60,
J. C. Hayter $48.65, Winnie Braden $8.60, Coast Bridge
Intelligence to dissolve the mass rjolk County Observer
night had words of praise unlimited for the individual we were making all sorts of fun about for
$9, Dallas
$7.50, J. C. Hayter $1.10, Pinck
of
alien
sentiment
that
now
Interferes
the German who, early in the war, with our political efficiency and threat Telephone Co. $6.70, Polk County Co.
heroism of his boys. Thrown for their first fight into the was
ney
Dairy $15, Erixson A’ Jones $49.
satisfied with less than four ens to blight our future progress.
Iteinizer $6, 1’. S. Greenwood $5.25. • >1, \ \ . D. Gorsline $144, F.C. Ewing
hottest caldrons of hate the Hun lias yet brewed they did or five not meals
a day. Now we complain
Total $383.88.
-
*18. F J. Woe Ik $78, C. W. Beckett
not falter and would not retreat. Caught in the Herman that we cannot
do without this or
Health
Officer
$123,
F. A. Winslow $90, C. W. Dan
There
is
much
frivolity,
much
crav
file from three’ sides they stayed where they were put without that in our daily menu, is this ing for luxury and fashion, much R. H. MeCnllon $7.
cer
$18,
John Schindler $72, J. C.
until forced back by overwhelming heavy odds and then, a star-spangled country or isyt not? waste and indulgence, in spite of the
Fruit Inspector
Ferguson $9, Adam Wurm $48, J. 1!.
instead of quitting, they got some of their pals to help j Cannot we watch one hour?
Shields $34.50, Charles Hartley $4.50,
fact that every day somewhere a tele- E. C. Armstrong $80.
Indigent
Soldier
Hans Behh $6, Arthur Buell $18, W.
put the boclie back across the Marne where he started But when you get down to brass tacks, Kra,n
from the war department closes Gen. Gibson Post G. A. R. $45.
A. Shutt $6, Scire Buell $9, C. A.
from. They could not have done more.
and ym, will have to get just there, It gaws shutt,‘rs
“nd sends flnefy
and
6™"
Widow’s
Pension
Park
*24, Philip Hathaway $20, W.
into
retirement.
Does
it
take
will he superior man power, working those crushing telegrams to make us Eliza Lawrence $20, Addie Lean II. Wilson
$3. Total $10239.64.
; superior gunpower to the last word of conscious of the tragedy of the ages? er $17.50, Mrs. Mike McNulty $10,.
STAR BEAMS
Road
District No. 1
efficiency, tlint will win the war. So
Eliza
Nelson
$10,
Hattie
Rigs
$10,
Total
$425.30.
long as we hnlk nt the real job, which
Georgia Sawyers $17.50,Harriet E.
Road District No. 2
Is getting 5,000,000 men to France at We have the optimism, we can stand Olin
(Kansas City Star.)
$30,
Martha
A.
South
$10,
Jen
Total
$3333.45.
the
knocks,
we
maintain
the
rigidity
of
earliest possible moment, we are the upper lip, the bold front is our nie L. Miller $25, Blanche Morgan |
Anyhow, a woman in the Senate would add a soprano the
Road District No. 3
simply playing war.
to the somewhat monotonous nude chorus.
long suit, our withers are unwrlngable $17.50, Gra(be E. Yenter $25, Sarah , Tot a i $685.75.
A. Pitzer $20, Bertha J. Walling |
Road District No. 4
The Berlin war office says that and a total stranger are we to the $17.50,
C.
V.
Johnson
for
Bertha
K.
j
Total
$.'
159. 45.
wince,
remarks
Houston
Post,
but
Lord
a German wnr vessel sink an
It probably is begiutiing to dawn on Messrs. Trotzky should
Englehorn
$20,
Anna
(1
Hinkle
$25,
Road
District No. 5
how
glad
we
shall
be
when
our
fellers
American ship carrying grain to Swit
and Letiinc that they picked the wrong big brother.
Cyntha
M.
lfoke
$17.50,
Ethel
E.
Total
$708.50.
begin
to
smash
that
Hlndenburg
line.
zerland, the responsibility would lie
Overholt $10, Chnrlottn If. Huffman
Road District No. 6
the president of the United
$20,
Sarah
S.
Carter
$30,
Virginia
Total
$1396.80.
The
financial
part
of
the
war
is
not
You can always tell where Maximilian Harden is. If with
States. The only wonder left is that
Road District No. 7
to be nearly so difficult when all Schmidt $22.50. Total $375.
you hear him, he is out again. If you don’t hear him, he frightfulness still thinks it necessary going
Care
of Poor
Total
$715.92.
the
people
understand
that
war
Is
no
to find excuses.
is in again.
Road District No. 8
scheme to enable a body to get rich C. E. Huntley $60 for keep of N.
Harty,
.1.
Oleon,
B.
Saine,
P.
Behern,
W.
W.
Newman $2, S. H. Crook $9,
and
that
nobody
is
going
to
come
j It is said that Great Britain may call
Jarvis and George Ferrin, C. E. P. L. Ward $16, P. O. Burbank $78
Marne is pronounced inarn—a .as in art. T L i t e r a ( r y _ -p..
.1 U- an men Up fifty. There are several out of the war richer than he’ M.
Huntley $1.75 for repairing shoes Ed Henry $72, C. E. Herren $36, W.
gest.
million husky guys In this country be went In.
for
George Ferrin, Conke.v & Walk E. Van Meter $36, Joe Tetherow
the maximum draft age and for
IVrhaps you had assumed that there wasn’t any other tween
er
$10
for groceries for George Wil $46.50. Total $295.50.
A
Swedish
naturalist
has
discovered
ty-five who could swell our army if
way to pronounce it.
son,
$10
groceries for Wm. Wnlk-
Road District No. 9
the country would draft ’em. And they that ants are neither wise nor indus er, $8 for for groceries
for
Mr.
Kennedy,
Independence
Garage & Machine
trious,
but
merely
muddle-headed
time
(Continued on Page 3.)
wasters. And after awhile another Webb & Clough $25 for burial of
Ocey Wattles caught lots of fish when he was a little will never serve otherwise.
are estimating that for the fis scientist will discover that the Ger- I
boy, but his career really began the year he was nine years cal They
year
June 30, 1919, the army maos are not efficient, but merely
old. That year he caught a tisb big enough that his moth will need ending
$10,000.000.000.
It must be ants.
er took the trouble to cook it.
somebody's Intention to give each sol-
died a diamond stud about the size of The suggestion to round up the
idlers. loafers and sissies and draft
an
The Food Administration has frowned on the envelope agate taw.
Established .1889
them
the army is not acceptable.
plan of serving sugar in restaurants, but perhaps the idea Even the dlvlno right of kings when It la a in serious
war the country la en
ought not to be abandoned altogether. The envelopes it take« its pen la hand to let one know gaged In. and It takes real mm to
A Successful Business Career of
e
may be handy to serve coal in next winter.
It is well, may chance to find the afore fight 1L
Twenty-Five Years
.,
said pen loaded and get kicked with
Children should be seen and nek
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Again has the Katy bandit drive proved the superiority the recoil when it goes off.
heard,
to the old saw, but
of bloodhounds over the posse. The posse gets discourag Germany has Invented a new h « j of patriotic according
INTEREST PAID ON TIME .<■
will be careful that
A
ed and gives up. The bloodhounds keep going until they poieoa gas. Among other things, that their young parent*
hopefuls are neither asm
. DEPOSITS
V #
scare up a rabbit, and then thev chase it.
com try ta running op a dreedfni gee nor heard romping over the war
MB that wtn baro to bo settled eotao
day.
Officers and Directors
The Herman people have been officially advised to go
has become of the eld-fasfcloo-
H. Hirschberg, Pres.
r D. W. Sears, V. P.
barefoot, presumably to make the shoe supply go as far as
ed pacifist who med to
that a woam
*
W. Si Kune, Cashier
possible. Perhaps the next time the boys start over Ger do everything inet a et man
cm 4 a
W. H. Walker
I. A. Allen
0. D. Buttar
many on an air raid, they should take a pocketful of tacks •Md her aha cotfd carry eat the
POST.
Peyton Brand
The Independence Notional Bank
i
And nettle seed.
e-