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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1918)
HlV I f l Ifl liflllflllfl:lflilfll!flllfl!lflilfl;lflilflliflilM il A ilflllflü l maifliifliii nn I OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST A ppropriations carried In the riv and harbors bill tor m aintenance work and improvements In th e first d istric t of Oregon consist of $40,000 for the Coquille, Coos, Siuslaw and Yaquina B rivers and Cooa, Tillamook and Ne- A R E Y O U GOING? I Principal Events of the Week halem bays, and $250,000 for the Co lumbia river and lower W illam ette. i! W HERE? Briefly Sketched for Infer* County A griculturist H. R. Glalsyer, i of K lam ath county, and J. E. Pittm an, ON T H A T O U TIN G ! motion of Our Readers. I of the departm ent of irrigation and I Then B uy One of Those Splendid drainage, who have been conducting I Lebanon has good prospects of hav experim ents in this county, rep o rt ■ ing a flouring mill established there. th a t the application of 100 pounds of The run of salmon In th e Columbia sulphur per acre on alfalfa lands has river for the past week haa been ex increased the yield about one ton par ceptionally good. acre. A drastic m easure forcing all Idlers Valuable fir tim ber on an a re a ap to go to work has been adopted by proxim ately two miles wide and four the Klam ath city council. m iles long, the residence of J. C. Wil The Columbia river highway be liams, on Rogue river, in the w estern tween Hood River and Cascade Locks p art of Jackson county, and many B efore Y ou Start was opened to traffic Sunday. buildings owned by farm ers in the Marion and Polk counties will cele distriot badly burned. Is the toll of a Anscos are of amateur simplicity with b rate the completion of th e new inter- fo rest fire one mile south of Rogue rience the injurious effects of poorly fitted shoes professional quality and efficiency, county bridge over the W illam ette river. —how they ruin the feet and menace the gen capable of the most diversified work riv er a t Salem on July 30. At the request of sheepm en in Klam According to records, 10,000 more ath county, R epresentative Stnnott eral health and efficiency. Then let your boy automobiles are In operation in O re has subm itted to* the wool division of ■ NO B E T T E R NO C H E A P E R or girl profit by the lesson— ' ^ gon already th is year than w ere in th e w ar industries board petitions for operation during all of 1917. P R IC E S FR O M $2.75 to $16 lower freight rate s on feed, and th a t A ttendance at the sum m er school of bureau has promised to take the m at iïfli « t i f l i i f l i i f l i i f l i i i f l i i f l i i i w i i w i i a i i i a m w i M i i f l i i i i w i i a i i m i i a n f M i m m m i i f l i i f l i i i f l i i i the Oregon Normal a t Monmouth has te r np w ith th e railroad adm inistra now passed 400 and la a few tn ad tion and secure any relief th a t is vance of the attendance la st year. found proper. ATTEMPT MADE TO GIVE PO L K C O U N TY PO ST During the month of A ugust the The Pendleton w ate r commission POST FAMILY THE GOUT state suprem e court will ta k e th e an has Installed a chlorine plant a t the T w ice A W eek nual sum m er recess and m ost of the intake of the city w ater system to Last S aturday w as a lucky day Justices will leave on vacation trips. P h on e M. 621 guard ag ain st any possible Infection for The Post family. Mrs. J. E. Hub Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Bryant, one of from river w ater which was turned give little feet ample room to develop naturally. bard to start the day presented us N ew s Item s of public Interest are w ith a thoroughbred cake. H er cakes glad ly received and m nch appreci the oldest pioneers of Oregon, who into the system som e weeks ago to And w e know just how to fit them, having crossed the plains In infancy, died at avoid a shortage during th e tim e the a re com m unity fam ous and the ex ated. Bring them , send them , phone her home in Portland a t the age of 87 new extension to Chaplish springs is studied the question thoroughly. pression "as good as Cora H ubbard's years. being oompleted. cake" will survive for 50 years after them or m ail them . W e thank yon. F ruit growers of the northw est are Prices for the fall run of salm on on she is dead and buried. The cake The being urged to place th eir orders for Oregon coast stream s w ere announced Post family got was the best one she fO THE PEOPLE boxes as early in th e season as pos by W. B. Ayer, federal food adm inis carry for them the jlatest styles at prices that ever made. Then J. S. Cooper, back OF POLK COUNTY sible in anticipation of a possible trator, following several conferences are sure to satisfy. from the m ountain stream s of the shortage of box shooks. and approval of th e prices by the food Coast Range, wiade a delightful day This is to inform you th a t I have J. D. McKennon, president of th e La adm inistration heads a t W ashington. m ore delightful by leaving a strin g arrived in Polk county to take up Grande city commission, has offered The approved price for Chinooks is of salm on tro u t in the dining room m y duties as your Home Demon publicly to furnish a suitable site for placed a t 8 cents. T h at for sllversldee ready for frying. stration Agent. It will be a great any reputable dehydrating firm th a t is set s t 6>4 cents, and th a t for chum s Thus was a whole day m ade love pleasure to work w ith the people will Install a plant there. s t 3% cents. ly and as a result both Mr. Post and of this county and I all ready feel Farm ers near Redmond are having Secretary Lane has approved Con Mrs. Post have added tw enty pounds th a t I have your co-operation. I difficulty In obtaining help in th eir gressm an Slnnott’s bill granting the to th eir w eight and feel fifteen w an t to assist you in any way possi- hayfields. Practically every boy over citizens of M alheur county the rig h t years younger; in fact Mrs. P o s tj ble and yvunt you to feel free to call 11 years of age is out on the ranches to cut tim ber in Idaho for agricultural, has been telling her friends th a t she Upon trid. ’ " ■*“"*» ------ doing the work men usually do. mining or oth er dom estic purposes. believes there has been some m is Should you w ish to arrange for A deadline on Yaquina bay to pro The passage of the bill will be of tak e regarding h er age and th a t s h e ' canning, drying or salting demon te ct the oyster industry and conserve great assistance to citizens of Malheur really is only tw enty years old a fte r j strations, or some other subject, th e supply Is being planned through county in Gordon valley, and Mr. Sin- all w rite to me or call me by telephone. the co-operation of the oystertpeg grid nott will endeavor to have the same My office is ju st north of the court the sta te fish and game commission. •S i,- - --------------------------- enacted on th e reconvening of con Is fu lly equipped to do your p rinting at the very lo w est HERE’S A RECOMMENDATION house in D allas and my telephone annual convention of the g re ss —** prices consisten t w ith good work. W e have th e very *r«-* , i , . . THAT MEANS A LOT No. IfitKl. Do not hesitute to call up Oregon S tate Elks' association will be Principals and superintendents of on me and m ake your w ants known. held tn Portland August 26, 27 and 28 1 Oregon schools is attendance a t the la test ty p e faces and other m aterials. Call and look our u : c ' ___________ _ EDNA L. MILLS, (By M argaret E. S angster in the ^vhen an attendance of 12,000 Elks and University of Oregon sum m er school sam nles over. W e are sure you w ill be delighted w ith Colinty Home D em onstration Agent. th eir friends will join in a three days’ are sending out letters to the school 1 C hristian Herald.) >«<*->«*' patriotic celebration. boards of the sta te urging th a t the them . I f you are in need of— Some people—m any people, know The body of Ralph V. Poindexter, ! districts send some man of th eir fa th e storV of M aeterlinck’s “The Blue S C R U F r MACKENZIE WOOS L E T T E R H E A D S, A DUSKY INDIAN GIRL m anager of the Owl Pharm acy at culty to the second sum m er camp at Bird." Everybody should know it the university, which opens on August Bend, who, with Vernon A. Forbes, Ami now that the producers of Art- v w v e l OPES W hen Scruff M ackenzie sought was drowned in C rescent Lake, has 3, that they may be trained in m ilitary craft P ictures have put the story in jR it fE M E N T S to a perfect picture, there is no rea the hand of Z arinska, the Indian been recovered. Mr. Forbes’ body had work and be able to teach the boys i ! in the schools. son why everyone should not know m aiden and asked her father, the been previously recovered. B U S IN E S S C A R D S ! - — - —- e— Captain W. C. McNaught, well j great chief, Tilling-Tinnch, the old A reduction is shown this week in it. ; C A LLIN G C A R D S The C hristian H erald does not | gentlem an said things am ong them known In m arine circles in Portland, the num ber of accidents reported to often feel that it can heartily en j being th at “the king salm on does has been appointed a member of the the sta te industrial accident commis M ORTG AG E B L A N K S dorse a film, for m any film stories | not m ate with the dog salm on nor Oregon sta te board of pilot commis sion. During the week th ere were re sioners by Governor Withycombe, to ported 534 accidents, of which five NOTE B L A N K S are, regrettably, not the sort of thing the raven w ith the wolf." W hether were fatal, as follows: Louis G jertsen, th at one could take one sm all, or j Scruff, for fear of the old m an ’s succeed Captain J. Speier, resigned. R E C E IP T S An investigation of the price of sub Olney, logging; L ester Vaughn, Spring- older, son or d au g h ter to see. But | boot, gave up his dream of a happy field, lum bering; S. M athisen, P ort stitu tes for wheat flour sold In Ore life in a wigwam , we do not know ‘T h e Blue Bird" is the sort of film S H IP P IN G T A G S th at holds a lesson w orth arning. for we have not yet reatt Jack Lon gon has been requested by the na land, shipbuilding; Charles E ckert, ; C IR C U L A R S It is the kind of a film few people don's short story, “The Son of the tional food adm inistration, according Tillamook, logging; W illiam G. Mur have dream ed of producing an W olf" w hich begins in this issue of to a le tte r received from Senator ray, Portland, motorman. PAM PHLETS The shortage of h arv est hands in | idealistic picture m ade real by splen The Host with the clim ax and con Cham berlain by A ttorney L. E. Bean. The high cost of living has Invaded th e Prineville com munity is becoming P O ST E R S did acting and rem arkable photo cluding chapters to ap p ear in F ri the U niversity of Oregon summer very acute. Many of the farm ers are day's Post. graphy. camp. As a result men who attend able to obtain only about one-half the Or any other p rin tin g give us a trial and you w ill n o t Several points stand (Mil from the the second sum m er camp for the 30- num ber of men required for h arv est regret it. W e can rave you m oney. S. BOYS CHEER AT SIGHT U. story stand out by sheer beauty of word anil action. W hen th e chil O r AMERICAN ENGINE days period beginning August 3, wifi ing th eir crops. A num ber of men have their expenses increased 25 per and boys from the town, including ’ dren go at twelve o’clock to the store clerks and professional men, are ; graveyard to see the dead arise One of the things th a t gets deeply cent. As a resu lt of investigations con working in the harvest fields, because when they tiptoe fearfully in thru into a doughboy's blood is th e w histle door and walk in frightened silence, of a good old Am erican locomotive in ducted in the sta te by George T. Dat of the scarcity of labor. The wages | ton, special rep resen tativ e of the fed- paid average from $3 to $4 a day, in past the yaw ning tom bs, one can France, aud the clang of its bell. It sounds like home. T he American | eral trad e commission, prices of coal cluding board. perfectly understand why folk fear A second shipm ent of foxglove, 850 death. But, w hen, suddenly the locomotives are big, husky ones, m ak are to be im m ediately lifted, according to Fred J. Holmes, sta te fuel adminig- pounds—enough for nearly 510,000,000 the graves burst forth into blossoms ing the French engines look like toys. When the first American locomotives ! trator. doses of tin ctu re ol digitalis—dried | an d the roses and lilies grow fra T hat some of the Indians on the and shipped by citizens of Oregon at [ gran tly all about, one sees the Eas arrived In France, th e natives w ere as te r story retold in a m arvelous way. tonished a t the deep-toned bells and j Klam ath reservation will not be able the request of the United S tates gov- I whistles. French locomotives have a F or the little hoy, astounded, asks “footer" on them resembling an en ! to take stock, available this year uu- ernm ent, has ju st been sent by Dean j ’HE old E g y p tia n s — “W here are the dead?" and the larged peanut-wagon whistle, say the der the $400,000 congressional appro Adolph Ziefle, of the Oregon Agricul g irl child, with a triu m p h an t smile doughboys, and th ere Is no bell a t all. priation. on account of shortage of tural college school of pharm acy, to w ere fam ous bread upon her face answ ers "There are The Americans contend th a t th e shrill hay crops, is reported by some of the the federal laboratory at the Unlver bakers o f their time, but sity of Minnesota, where it will be French w histle Is too screechy and prom inent Indians. no dead!” made into tin ctu re of digitalis for the A forest fire which has been burn The moving picture has come to effeminate. their baking ability was A truckload of doughboys w as bounc ing on the northern boundary of the arm y and navy. stay come to stay w ith its unlim it confined almost exclusive S tate Highway E ngineer Nunn has cd possibilities for good or for evil. ing over the road near a wood, from Klam ath Indian reservation in Klam ly to bread. It is different And "The Blue Bird" is the sort of which a railroad emerged, In th e vicin ath county, now has entered the south subm itted to Governor Withycombe a picture that cannot fail to do unl- ity of Verdun. Suddenly th e re cam e u ern portion of the Deschutes national statem en t showing th e total of estim with us for w e specialize in all the good things deep-toned b last of a locomotive from lim ited good. It will be a delight the woods, followed by the panting forest and th reaten s great tracts of ated funds available for highway lm a m odem bakery produces. provem ent purposes contem plated by to children, but only the grown-ups chug th at rem inded you of a train go standing w hite pine timber. For the purpose of educating the the com mission for the five-year pe- j can read their lives into the search ing over the Rockies. public to the value of dairy products riod, 1917 to 1921, Inclusive. The | for H appiness. It will be a dream , a "Sounds like an American locomo fairy-tale come true, to your boy or tive, su rer thau thunder I” shouted one as a food and stim ulating the almost statem en t shows th a t from the several . g irl; put to you it will be the m ean of the doughboys; “you could tell that moribund sta te of dairying In parts of sources a grand total of $15.068,600.13 are particularly appetizing and in such variety as iug of life, told poetically.but none noise a ndle away. L et’s stop until It Oregon, Governor Withycombe will be will be produced. Up to July 1, this asked to set aside an entire week In year. $1.895.525.91 has been expended comes out of the wood." Hie less truly. will suit any taste. Even if w e do say it our and the total am ount available in the “W e’re liable to get shelled here,” A ugust as Dairy Products week. "The Blue B ird’1 is a milestone in selves, the best of home cooks can’t beat them. next five years will be $13,162.974.22. j T hreshing outfits have begun work th e production of motion pictures. Ba,<1 ti>e truck driver, “but If you fel- Probably not since the days when ! W e hope for more pictures of the 1 lows are game, I am. I’d tak e a chance in Linn county threshing fall grain. They are an ideal dessert to place on any table. on shells any day to see a Baldwin lo The fall grain generally la yielding a (he w aters of Jordan rolled back at ; sa m e sort. comotive go by, with a good old Amert- fair crop and In many casea grain the command of Moses for the chll- Q ualltf and cleanbneu an A t twin mottoes ! can puff and chug and whistle." planted on land well drained and prop dren of Israel to cross dry-shod, has o f A il hakery at a t times. OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN T he group Insisted on stopping, and TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS the locomotive, hauling a host of tiny erly cultivated la producing a good a more wonderful phenomenon of thia crop. Due to lack of rain, th e aprlng kind occurred than the drying of the . French freight cars, came puffing out rapids of Link river a t the w est end Dr. B. t.. ' irgil, O steopathic Pity- „f th e wood. The doughboys broke out grain la practically a failure. The U niversity of Oregon received of Klam ath falls by winds sweeping g lclun, is in In d ep en d en ce T u esd ay .in to cheers, and more dooghboya run- m id F rid a y a fte rn o o n s of each w eek [ nlng the engine replied w ith a fo u notice from the war departm ent that up the canyon from the south. These n t th e offices form erly occupied by steam resounding w histle th a t echoed It will be perm itted to aend additional rapids, which have a fall of 6.3 feet in D r. G rider. P lea se m ake ap p o in t- «leer Into Germany. , 1 students to the cadet officers' training two milee, and which furnish enough can die hapi now 1" said one of cam p a t Presidio up to one-half ita power ander ordinary conditions to m o n ts w ith Dr. B arrick . .the doughboys, P a f 'the t truck moved on ) present stu d en t quota . in th e camp torn every wheel in Klamath county, Dr. R. E. D u g a n n e , D en tist, Inde- *tow»rd the front, after the husky T here are now 17 stu d en ts and four were blown back in a few hours, leav American locomotlva had been watched facalty mem bers receiving instruction. ing the bed of tho river so dry that . p r u d e n c e N atio n al B unk B u ild in g out of right. Eighteen additional stu d en ts win be It could he croaked oh foot k* almost appointed to attend. may point B u y a A nsco C a m e ra a t W illia m 's .1 T ell T h e P o s t STOP! ANSCO CAMERAS At Williams’ Drug Co. You may know from your own expe Always Buy Shoes Our children's shoes are designed to We also fit grown folks perfectly and Conhey & Walker THE POST Our Pies . A. Locbridge Butter Wraps THE POST