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VOLUME 1.
(TWICE A WEEK.)
CITY SCHOOLS
WILL OPEN SOON
INDEPENDENCE, OREGON,
CROP TO BE PICKED
Despite the very jioor and dis­
couraging outlook of the future
for hops, nearly every grower
in the Independence section
will
pick
all
his
crop
but it w ill be the grand finale
for nearly all of them.
The Independence schools w ill he
gin within a lew days—the training
school on Wednesday, Sept. 18, and
the high school on the follow­
ing Monday, Sept. 23. Every indi­
cation points to a very successful HOW AN AIRLIE BOY
BROUGHT UP A PIG
school year under capable and well
well qualified instructors.
(By Edgar Miller, Airlie, B. 1.)
The corps of teachers at the train­
I wanted to learn how to raise
ing school consists of the Misses
pigs is the reason I am a pig club
Katheryn Arbuthnot, Kate Houx,
member.
A neighbor gave my pig
Emily Devore and Mary Williams
'■ to me.
I
named
him Dan because
The first three were in charge last
year and made a very creditable my mother had one named Dan
record. Miss Mary Williams suc­ when she was a girl. I had no
i choice of breed.
ceeds Miss Grace Williams.
Pasture aud green stuff are good
The high school w ill be directed
by Prof. W. Eugene Smith of Pase- | for them. It makes them healthy
dena, California, who comes well and grow. He did not drink much
recommended and members of the | water at first.
I weighed him in a little salt suck
school board consider themselves
lucky in securing his services. His j once a week the first month. I fed
assistants will be Miss Lottie Grang­ him in a little pan at first and then
er of Des Moines, Iowa, Miss Mabel in a trough. 1 fed him every four
A. Boughy of Salem and Mrs. Edith ; bom’s at first, then three times a
day. I fed him milk, then milk and
McLaren of Salem.
! shorts three times a day.
I spent my time playing with and
MONMOUTH GETS BACK
caring
for him. He became a great
ON THE WORLD MAP
pet with me and my little rat terrier
dog. My mother told me how to
(From the Monmouth Herald.)
After a week of uncertainty, Mon­ care for and raise my pig.
I have never been to a pig show
mouth has adjusted itself to new
transportation conditions. J. G. Jen­ or a prize contest. Wellbred hogs
kins, traveling passenger agent of are better than scrubs. It takes no
the S. I’, was in Monmouth Saturday more to feed them and they are bet­
looking up conditions and on Tues­ ter hogs. I have bought me a regis­
day Jenkins returned in company tered Poland China sow pig for my
with John M. Scott, G. P. A. of the club next.
I have learned how to raise and
S. P. and they held a consultation
care
for hogs. A smart industrious
with the special committee of the
Commercial Club and with others boy will make a good club member.
My poor little pig was sick when
interested in Monmouth.
As a result of the visit, railroad 1 got him. I doctored him and he.
agents are instructed to sell tickets i had a sore foot I doctored and cur­
to Monmouth either by way of Inde- j ed. He was the runt of a litter of 13.
pendence or by way of Dallas at the j I give him a hath once a week.
same price as heretofore. Passim- j He likes his bath fine. I have his
gers by way of Independence will in­ and my picture taken. W ill get
clude transportation hy Graham's them in a few days.
When my pig was little I would
auto-bus to Monmouth.
make him a good bed in a box and
put a warm iron in it of nights to
keep him warm and bring him in
the house when it was cool last
* JUDGE SWOPE IN ERROR
spring.
Judge Swope was caught
cutting wood one day this * WHAT DO YOU KNOW
ABOUT THE KAISER?
week. It is surprising that so .
well informed a man as the
Did you know that the Kaiser has
judge should fall into error. It
a
poison-filled abscess in his ear,
is indeed surprising that he
and that if it burst he would be a
should not know that in this
a raving maniac?
crisis, that while women are
Did you know that the Kaiser's
supposed to do men's work, no
left
arm is six inches shorter than
man is supposed .to do wom­
his right, and that the hand is puny
en's work.
(Continued on Page 3.)
A
Millinery
Message
For
Autumn Days
I H A V E A C O M PLE TE L IN E OF
Fall and Winter Hats
S M A R TE S T A N D MOST F E T C H IN G MODELS.
A BECOM ING S T Y L E A N D COLOR
FOR E V E R Y T Y P E
E V E R Y O N E IS C O R D IA L L Y I N ­
V IT E D TO V IS IT OUR STORE
VND IN S P E C T OUR GOODS.
YO U A R E SU RE TO F IN D TH E
P R IC E S AS R E A S O N A B LE AS
A N Y W H ERE IN THE STATE
ALPHA BASCUE
' '
M A IN S T R E E T M IL L IN E R
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1918.
Roy Whiteaker
Goes Over the Top
NUMBER 40.
THE POLK COUNTY FAIR
The Polk County Fair taken
place at Dallas on Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday of
next week, and from all indica­
tions will he a good one and no
doubt well attended.
The Post lias heard with much pride how an ludepeml
ALL POLK COUNTY DOCTORS
enee boy, Roy Whiteaker, went “ over the top” ; how lie
ENLIST FOR WAR SERVICE
stood in a trench full of water all night, expecting that
Each and every one of the doctors
each minute would be his last. A ll this we have received of Polk county—ten men and one
made application to
from a reliable informant, re-inforeed by R oy’s own ac­ woman—has
the Volunteer Medical Service. They
count of his tirst experience in actual warfare. As a result
of his thrilling adventure he was gassed and had to be
carried away to a hospital next morning.
are subject to call at any moment
and it is likely that a number of
them will soon be at the front. As
far as can he learned, Polk is the
tirst county in the state in which
every member of the medical pro­
fession has enlisted for war work.
A meeting was held in Independ­
ence last Friday at which time, all
were^jiresent and the applications
were filled out and mailed to the
authoritites.
“ A t four o ’clock,” says Roy, “ we were ordered to move
to the front and as far as 1 could see there was a mass of
soldiers, teams and wagons bound the same way. A start
had hardly been made when the big shells of the Germans
began to fall among us and a number of the boys did not
GROUND GLASS IS FOUND
get any farther.
“ A fter advancing a few miles we were obliged to get
into a ditch to rest a moment before making an assault.
It was not very pleasant to get into this ditch for it was
full of water to the top.
" In the early morning I was gassed and was loaded into
a wagon and taken to an American hospital many miles
back. There I am now (Aug. 20.) hoping to soon be well
enough to get back to the front.”
SERGEANT GUY A. NEWTON
PLEASE SAVE YOUR PEACH,
CHERRY AND PRUNE PITS
JOINS RANKS OF THE WED
Save your peach, cherry and
A very happy wedding occurred at prune pits and all kinds of nut
Albany Monday where the county shells for the government in making
judge united in marriage Sergeant carbon for gas masks, wash and dry
Guy A. Newton and Miss Ethel Viola them, and leave at the following
Beauchamp. The bride’s parents places: Moore & Walker and J. G.
McIntosh, Independence; the stores
live in Lincoln county.
The bride is an estimable young at Sliver, Buena Vista and Pedee;
lady of charming manners and the C. V. Johnson's store at Airlie; Nor
groom is to lie congratulated upon i mal Book Store and Walker's con­
winning her. Sergeant Newton is j fectionery, Monmouth.
one of Uncle Sam’s popular and best .
fighting men and not only a good i WAR CROSSES FOR YANKS
soldier, but is well fitted in other {
ways to make his way in the world. ; Sergeant Routed Six German« In
The young couple are spending a ,
“ Quiet Day” Skirmish.
Lieut. Sidney Ellevald, Grand Rap­
portion of their honeymoon in Inde­
pendence witli relatives and they ids, Mich., has received the French
are tlie recipients of many congrat­ Wnr Cross for carrying a wounded
man back from the first line trenches
ulations and well wishes.
while under fire.
Sergeant Charles H. Cunningham of
INDEPENDENCE MAID
Grand Itaplds, Mich., has won the
MARRIES YOUNG SOLDIER French Wnr Cross for routing six Ger­
Miss Aimu Elzira Newton was
married in Dallas today, Friday,
Sept. 13, to Sergeant Gustav Fisher.
Tliis wedding coming so closely
after that of her brother, Sergeant
Guy A. Newton, was totally unex­
pected and came as a complete sur­
prise.
The bride is well known in Inde­
pendence for some time and she is
one of our most |x>pulur young
girls. Of a happy and congenial dis­
position, she has the well wishes
of a the entire community for a
very, very happy life in the future.
Sergeant Fisher is a stranger here
hut appears to a gentlemanly young
man of sterling qualities.
mans who tried to capture him In one
of the little actions characteristic of
quiet days In quiet sectors.
The sergeant was lending a patrol of
ten men to reconnolter the enemy's
trenches when his detachment was am- !
bushed hy a party of Germans. Cun- j
ninghnm was hit In the breast and arm
before the Americans could fire and I
the Germuns then used grenades In an
effort to cut off the sergeant nnd three
of his men from the rest of the party.
Sergeant Cunniiighum climbed the par­
apet of a trench, emptied his pistol
and then fell exhausted Into the
trench. The Germans meantime had
been driven off.
Likes United States Customs.
“The only thing I hate about army
life Is the mud,” writes Private Ed­
ward Wren of Company I. One Hun­
dred and Sixty-sixth Infantry, France.
TRUCK DRIVER TAKES GOODS
FOR LONG JOY RIDE “I saw a cow walk from the barnyard
through a house and right out the
front d<s>r, and decided then that I
James Conroy, a truck driver from like the cuatoms*of the United Stutes
Lelmnon started for Tillamook from army better than the ones over here.”
Stiver with a load of household
goods. Wednesday morning. That VERY MUCH PLEASED WITH
| night he was found in a stupified
SUCCESS SEED GRADER
condition near Dallas.
The sheriff after investigation
Hugh I. Dailey, a very successful
learned that Conroy had driven all fanner living near Pa louse, Wash.,
over Polk county with the load of writes: ''Ijist January I sowed as
goods that day. A fine of S i"» was fine a quality of seed using the Suc­
assessed.
cess Seed Grader as I think it is
Itossihle for any fanner to sow. It
A good show at the Isis Sunday does good work and I am well pleas­
ed with it.”
night.
Nearly fourteen million men regis­
tered for possible military service
Thursday. This exceeded the num­
ber expected by the government.
Oregon furnished more than looked
for.
It is proposed to tirst call into the
service those in the recent registra­
tion betjveen the ages of 31 and 30
aud lb and 21, both inclusive. Some
of those registered Thursday will ho
included in the October call.
Questiouuires will he mailed to­
morrow or Monday. The prompt
tilling out of the same in the short­
est possible time is compulsory. All
registrants should take care in till­
ing out this document, being very
particular as to state the exact truth.
Falsifying a questioimire is a serious
offense.
“JACK” BOYCE PASSES AWAY
IN CALIFORNIA TOWN
IN PEANUT BUTTER
“ Jack" Boyce, an Independence
A quanity of ground glass was man, died in Duusmir, Cal., last
found in a tin of peanut butter re­ Sunday. This was the information
cently purchased by Thomas B. received by Postmaster Wood by
Smith at Airlie. The case in under I telegram. The authorities at Dups-
mir are seeking relatives of the de­
investigation hy the authorities.
Tiie f . S. chemist recently issued ceased and allege that he had letters
a statement, in which it was declared in his pockets from a wife in Inde­
that ground glass was not particu­ pendence. When Boyce was in this
larly injurious to the digestive or­ city no wife was with him.
"Behind a barage of machine guns we went over’the
top. Men were killed all around us, but we went on. The
whole Hun army couldn’t have stopped us. Making it to gans.
a river we forced the Germans back and captured their
AGED MAN IS KILLED
machine guns.
IN A RUNAWAY ACCIDENT
At the river we stuck until twelve o ’clock that night
continually under a terrible gun tire. Once 1 was covered
with about three feet of dirt from a shell and another
knocked a tree across the dugout in which I lay. Hund­
reds of sharpshooters were hid acroso the wav to pick a
fellow off.
FOURTEEN MILLION
NEWLY REGISTERED
FRIDAY, THE 13TH.
Friday, the 13th. is a visitor
in our city today.
Michael M. Todlmnter, aged 7<>,
4
was killed near Bay City last Frida.\
when a team he was driving ran
The great American drive has be­
away. •
gun
and the boys are going towards
A daughter, Mrs. J. C. Eoff, lives
in Independence.
Berlin.
EXTRA!
EXTRA!
EXTRA!
SMASH
THE
Kaiser!
"THE BEAST OF BERLIN ”
The Most Terrible Indictment o f
the Man Who Made This War that
Has Ever Been Presented
“ Powerful message for every true American.”
“ Stirring, sensational, stimulating. Polite play­
goers become a howling mob.”
“ It manhandles the German Emperor in a fash­
ion that satisfies the mightest hater of the
HOhenzollern monster.”
W HEN HE SMASHES THE KAISER IN
THE JAW, AUDIENCES RISE AND CHEER
LIKE MAD.
ISIS
THEATRE
Friday,
SEPT. 20
SATURDAY N IG H T’S “ B LU E BIR D ”
R U TH C L IF F O R D A N D K E N E T H H A R L A N
in “ M ID N IG H T M AD N ESS.”