The Polk County post., August 16, 1918, Image 1

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T he P olk C ounty P ost
«S U C T HERE:
PUZZLES
To break the spell of a curse,
lioodoo or sign, carry a dead
black cat by the tail thru a
graveyard at midnight.
WHEAT YIELD 15 BUSHELS
Wheat is averaging fifteen
bushels to the ucre in this sec­
tion, according to reports re­
ceived by The Post. This is
a good yield considering weath­
er conditions this Spring and
Summer.
Lieutenant Ralph
Belligerent Ever­
Floyd is missing in
action. His father
green Blackberries gets
wire this P. M.
HAS TWO NOMINATIONS
(From the Portland ’Oregonian.)
BACK FROM OVER THERE,
There are tons upon tons of wild blackberries now ri­ Thomas W. Brunk has re­
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TELLS ABOUT IT OVER HERE pening in the woods of Oregon, according to the news re­ ceived
the Democratic nomi­
The mystic “C" has reached Inde- Dr. Doney, president of Willamette ports, along with other tons of delicious fruit which ought nation for two offices—repre­
sentative from Polk county and
rndence. The startling discovery university, delivered a very inter­
from the Polk-
as made Tuesday morning. In two esting address in Independence Sun­ not to be permitted to go to waste. Picking evergreen representative
Lincoln
district.
It is under­
hours, a number of citizens and half day afternoon to a large body of our berries, however, is likely to prove a disappointing job to stood that Mr. Brunk
will ac­
citizens.
Just
back
from
France,
he
a hundred kids were out hunting
the
novice.
It
calls
for
experience,
high
stragetical
talent
cept
the
Polk
county
nomina­
told of his experiences in war strick­ and special preparation.
for it. They found fifty or more en
tion.
France and what he saw. He re­
scattered over various sections of the ported
that the American boys were An ideal outfit for the berrypickcr would be a suit of
city.
in
excellent
that they were mail, fashioned to cover every part of the body except the CHAIN UP ALL THE COPS,
The mystic “C” is a capital C comfortable spirits,
and
cleanly
drawn with a lead pencil upon the and that moral conditions billeted
finger tips. The evergreen is the best protected berry in MAKE WAY FOR HILDA HOPS
door casing of residences invariably good. He praised the Y. M. C. were
A. all Nature. The vine is not' only thickly studded with Portland, Aug. 13—Friends and
on the right hand side and the C in very highly and it was thru that or­
most cases has a line drawn thru
hop pickers—I’m the maiden who
that both the morale and powerful thorns, but these barbs are so cunningly arrang­ in
the center or beneath it. Similar ganization
hops puts in the leaves
of the soldiers of Uncle Sam ed that they catch their victim going and coming. If, and picking
m arks have been found on houses morals
all
the
tops. I’il take my turn
were greatly improved. “Y” huts luckily, one is able to thrust one’s arm into the bush and in flips and flops
in other cities and towns of the are
and be with Lee or
preventatives of loneliness
state, the significence of which has and great
Mack
till
the
season
Suppose
homesickness. He returned to seize the ripe fruit of one’s desire, one is sure to find a this year we won’t stops.
not yet been determined.
be
bothered
by
with a message from the score of obstacles to recovering the arm again. One steps fresh male wops, they're over yon­
It is causing much uneasiness every­ America
boys that they were all anxious^ to
where and giving the police much begin
der where ----- sure pops. Look
what they are over there for, to the right and is involved in a hopeless tangle underfoot; for
worry; not that they fear any sequel and start
soon with bed and mops—I
kaiser back to Berlin. he stoops and is caught by the hair; he tries to stand mean me everybody
of the strange mark, but they have Events -of the
except the cops.
the past few weeks indi­
their hands full pacifying those who cate that already
This
is
the
place—here
I stops and
they have him and again and is enmeshed from head to foot. It is no uncom­ scratch my name,
believe that the sign is one of evil his Hun army headed
in the right mon experience to be snagged in a hundred places at once
and that they are to be murdered,
HILDA HOPS.
Dr. Doney's address was in an evergreen blackberry patch.
or their homes burned or something direction.
P.
S.
To
Lee
and
Mack: You
of the best heard in Independ­
else to happen of a hideous charac­ one
don't
need
anybody
to
see
that the
ence since the great war started; he The harvesting of this berry is especially commended wire drops, this year we'll go
ter.
right
in the use of language to young men who are expecting service overseas. One over tops.
Who is the designer of the mystic is and very he clever
has a dry humor that is
“C” and what is it for? Nobody much enjoyed
who has picked a few gallons will make nothing of all the CITY CHARTER COMPLETED;
by an audience.
knows with any degree of certainty. Dr. H. C. Dunsmore
presided,
a
German btrbed wire entanglements between Soissons and
But the possible solution and prob­
READY FOR VOTERS’ O. K.
ably the right one is that the marks place in which he w'ell fits.
Berlin.
were placed upon the door jambs
The committee which has been
t
WILL START SOON
Rumors concerning the Independ­
ence High School and its teachers
have been promiscuously floating
around for the past ten days and
where they started from is as mys­
terious as the "C” epidemic. Among
the stories heard is that the high
school will not be opened this fall;
unother that the pupils will all be
sent to Monmouth; a third that the
teachers already selected for places
on the faculty have resigned.
The Independence High School
will start in September, will
be standard in every way and will
have a well qualified corps of teach­
ers, and according to a member of
the board, several pupils from out­
side the district will enroll in Inde­
pendence.
A principal has not yet been se­
lected, but a choice will be made
within a very short time. After the
principal has been selected, the oth­
er teacher will be chosen. Those
already elected, have accepted and
there has been no resignations.
“EYES OF THE WORLD”
IS A REAL FILM EVENT
Few novelists have made and
maintained the position accorded
Harold Bell Wright, whose works
have averuged nearly a million sales
each. A further tribute was paid
him in the selection of his story,
“The Eyes of the World,” for screen
dramatization by the Clune Film
Producing company, the concern
which produced “The" Birth of a
Nation,” and “Ramona." This pic­
ture comes to the Isis theater on
Friday night, August 23.
Thp tribute lies chiefly« in the
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t by solicitors or canvassers for some COUNTY LEADERS ADDRESS
drafting a new charter for the city
INDEPENDENCE WOMEN CITY POETESS SPENDING
purpose of identification for other
of
completed its work
VACATION AT BUENA VISTA Í YOU RASSLE THE BEAR * last Independence,
agents of the same concern. It is
week and the council will sub­
unconceivable that the signs have Miss Edna Mills, our county Home
mit it to the voters at u special
down on the farm for vacation |
The Post has commenced election.
been placed with evil intent; no plot Demonstrator, and Mrs. Winnie Bra­ I am
it rivals your mountains or j to receive communications (un
of such proportions could he worked den, chairman of the Polk County And
beach.
signed) regarding the Sabbath ’ 1
Woman's
Council
of
National
De­
out and not be discovered. All fears
fense, spoke to a number of intense­ You may talk of your fine recreation, question. Now we are reluct­
are groundless.
rave of the mermaiden ant to open our .columns to.a
The mystic “C” does not appear ly interested listeners at the Isis And ‘•peach,"
THE WELL KNOWN STAR,
discussjon of the controversy;
at all residences in Independence— theater last Saturday afternoon.
But
out
here
there
is
room
and
instead
we
suggest
that
those
Miss
Mills
spoke
especially
on
about one in four is the average,
scenery;
who are bound to argue go
and no reports have been received Home Economics. She is a clear, There there’s
are
fresh
air and sky, and right to the Baptist church any
capable
speaker
and
is
thoroly
con
that any country homes have been
spring beets;
night, look the lecturer squure
yersant with the numerous topics
marked.
There
are cabbage and ham and a in tl\£ face and say: “Mr.
she
handles.
She
is
ready
at
all
In a nonsensical way there has
Preacher Man, I’m a son-of-a
been much chaffing about the sign. times to assist those who may call And beanery,
wonderful sleep—and such gun from Showine, Missoure;
Those “marked” declare that they upon her for ideas, which will help
are to be spared and the others are in stimulating the preservation of There eats! are calves and young colts Z!!!!! xg-k-gff q—!! wwm-xxf"
and other questions to that ef­
to be slaughtered while those not food, clothing and other things. The
swine herd;
fect, and we're betting a last
marked say they are the chosen ones local Council of Defense hopes to or­ There and is a buttermilk
right from tin
year’s bird's egg against two
to remain and the others are to ganize u class in some branch of the
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churn;
work which will be instructed by
pounds of sugar that in thirty
meet their doom.
There are fresh eggs, the gay, warb­ seconds there'll he a beautiful
Miss Mills.
ling songbird;
Mrs. Braden spoke interestingly
“something doin’" started.
CHANGE OF CHAIRMAN AT
There's apple pie done to a turn!
Since the kaiser went on a
RED CROSS SEWING ROOMS of the great work being accomplish­ There
is chicken so tender a-frying, rampage over in Europe, its
ed by the Woman's Committee of the
biscuits gold brown piping been mighty hard to keep one
Mrs. Sherman Hays has re­ Council of National Defense. She And hot—
urged
co-operation
with
the
local
day, and if the question is not
signed as chairman of the Bed Cross
stupid muse! I am flying settled when the war is over, • i
sewing rooms and has been succeed­ chairman. She also told of her re­ Farewell,
name in the pot!
we will offer a compromise to
ed by Mrs. C. A. McLaughlin and cent visit to Spokane where the To get my full GRACE
E. HALL.
the effect that both the washed
Mrs. H. Mattison. Mrs. Hays was Northwestern conference was held.
very proficient in the work and has She spoke of the plans made there (Miss or Mrs. Hall of Portland, a and unwashed be allowed to
Many of the scenes were taken in the Grand
given freely of her time to the cause for the Y. W. C. A. drive to be con­ composer of very clever verse, has keep both days.
Canyon of Arizona, and the work of the acro­
been enjoying the benefits and com­
for many months. Since she felt ducted in November.
batic
star on lofty peaks, 8,000 feet above the
that she could no longer shoulder Mrs. Braden is carrying on a num ­ forts of country life at Buena Vista
ber
of
patriotic
duties
in
a
most
ad­
sea
level,
and along the precipitous canyon will
SERVICE
FLAG
OF
4
STARS
recently.)
the responsibility, it is fortunate
that two such capable and charit­ mirable manner.
thrill
any
audience. In one of the scenes he
DEDICATED BY CATHOLICS
TWO YOUNG LADIES ENLIST
able women as Mrs. McLaughlin ami
climbs up the side of the canyon on a rope with
Mrs. Mattison have been appointed. No Post next Tuesday.
AS U. S. STUDENT NURSES A service flag hearing four stars
Miss
Marjorie Daw hanging to his neck. In ad­
was dedicated at the Catholic church
dition to its sensationalism and great scenic
Misses Pauline Stapleton and Ora Sunday night. Rev. Father M. J.
Jeauty, this photoplay is replete with intensely
Pauline Fenton have patriotically Denlof delivered a very patriotic ad­
answered their country’s call for dress full of logic and good advice.
humorous
situations.
student nurses. Both these young It is only owing to an unfortunate
ladies have enrolled in the preferred circumstance that there is not a
EXTRA—Harold Bell Wright’s “EYES OF
class thereby signifying their will­ fifth star on this service flag in |
THE WORLD” Coming. See Ad on Page 3.
ingness to go where they are most honor of Father Denlof. He was oh- I
needed. Independence people are liged to give up the duties of chap­
proud of these young ladies for the lain because of illness which neces­
U. S. Student Nurse Reserve is the sitated an operation from which he i
equivalent for women of the great is now recovering. When ngain he j
National Army training camps for has regained his health, he probab
1 W.
soldiers. .These girls are capable, will go back into the army. A pro­
intelligent, responsible and of good ficient French scholar, he would be
high school education. They are of of great aid to the l>oys of a regiment
sound health, of the real “comrade" on the other side. The stars rep- !
type and we highly commend them resent Captain Harry Ord, in France,
for choosing a profession that has Corporal Elmer Davis, in California,
alwnys been honorable but never so and James and Joseph Oberson, in |
Washington.
honorable as it is today.
The work of enrolling student
nurses was given over to the Wom­ FAMILY PARTY IN HONOR
OF MOTHER’S BIRTHDAY
an's Council of National Defense.
Polk
county's
quota
is-
ten,
Inde­
LAST WEEK IN STUDYING THE SUBJECT OF pendence three, tho it might be well A pleasant gathering at the Da­
THE BIBLE SABBATH, THE FOLLOWING to remember that Independence al­ mon home Tuesday evening cele­
ready has two professional nurses brated the natal «lay «>f Mrs. L.
WAS FOUND TO BE TRUE:
m 1.1
doing service on foreign soil aud Damon. An excellent «linucr with
“You may read the Bible from Genesis
another is to follow soon, which is plenty of repartee and reminis-1
to Revelation, and you will not find a single
cences made the evening enjoyable. |
not a bad record.
.
line authorizing the santification of Sun
Covers were placed for Mr. and Mrs. j
Homer Smith and Mr. and Mrs. A. i
day.”
Cardinal Gibbons.
«luirií
C. I.ock<‘ of Salem and Mr. and Mrs.
BOYS MUST REGISTER
IN CONFIRMATION OF THE FOREGOING,
All boys, who have reached L. Damon. Mrs. Damon was the re
FATHER ENRIGHT OFFERS TO PUT UP $1000.
SATURDAY NIGHT’S “BLUEBIRD”
the age of twenty one since cipient of several birthday gifts.
TIE SAYS THE OBSERVANCE OF SUNDAY IS
June 5, 1918, must register for
MONROE SALISBURY and RUTH CLIF­
The Hons are still going towards
military duty August 24.
SOLELY A LAW OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
FORD
in “THE GUILT OF SILENCE.”
Berlin.
Douglas
Fairbanks
“A MODERN
MUSKETEER”
The C ady-T hurslon
LECTURES
f
At the Baptist Church Inde­
pendence will continue anoth­
er Week when Spiritualism and other
timely subjects will be considered.
ISIS
THEATRE
August 1 8
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