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(y T he P olk C ounty P ost VOLUME 1. (TWICE A WEEK.) INDEPENDENCE, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1918. (1 -------- 1__i NUMBER 41. Liberty Bonds the Ammunition BUY LIBERTY BONOS FRONT I The drive for the Fourth Lib-., Keep Him From Your Home erty loan is on and committees calling. Everyone should LINE DUTY GIVES are try to go the limit and do us j much for Uncle Sam as it is ] to do. GOLD S LEEV E BAR | possible 16 MONTHS Badge of Honorable Service at Home is Fourth Liberty Loan Button CHANGE OF TIME FOR S. P. PASSENGER TRAINS A change of time takes place on General Orders, No. 53, recently is •ued by the War Department In Wash flic Southern Pacific Sunday morn lngton, provide: ing, affecting five of the six passen “A gold chevron * * * to be worn ger trains. North bound train now on the lower half of the left sleeve leaving at 8:20 a. in. will go at 7:30 • * * by each officer, field clerk and enlisted man who has served six a. in. North hound passenger now months in a theatre of operations dur 2:10 p. m. will leave at 2:25 p. m. North bound train now at 4:51 p. m. ing the present war A war service badge—bespeaking will depart hereafter at 5:48 p. m. active participation In the conflict South bound train now 5:11 p. m. abroad. What pride the wearer will will go at 3:51 p. m. and the evening feel, In that little piece of adornment, passenger will depart at 7:12 p. m. "of standard material and design"! There will he no change in No. 351 To the onlookers, what honors will which it suggest: what endurance and valor! a. m. departs for the south at 10:35 War service badges are not to be confined to the Army and Navy alone. The great numbers of those who stay IRA O. MIX IS ELECTED at home may have a badge of service CASHIER OF NATIONAL BANK and distinction. With the issuing of the Fourth Liberty Loan button there At a meeting of the directors of becomes available for every loyal tlie Independence National Bank, American a mark of war service, a badge of honor for war work well Ira D. Mix, son of M. W. Mix, one of (tie stockholders, was chosen for done. cashier. Ira is not only a very congenial young man but is exceed FRANK M. KIRKLAND IS NOW SECOND LIEUTENANT ingly well qualified for the position he lias attained. He lias worked in Independence friends of Frank M. hunks since leaving college and lias Kirkland will be pleased to learn fitted himself especially for that call that he has been given a commission ing. His associates at the First as second lieutenant. As a member National, Dr. H. C. Dunsmore and H. of the ordinance department which B. Wolfe, are also well qualified so he joined the first of the year, he it gives this hanking institution a soon reached the rank of top ser very proficient as well as popular geant and upon request of his su clerking staff. perior officers tried for a commission and was successful. He is at present LOTTIE HEDGES McINTOSH OPENS RESIDENCE STUDIO stationed in Georgia, but is likely to be transferred to France at any Mrs. Lottie Hedges McIntosh is an time. nouncing the re opening of her resi dence studio on Monmouth street for the season. Mrs. McIntosh incorpor WHAT ONE BIRD DID ates only the best of methods in her teaching. She is careful und pain There’s one Bird that should feel kindly toward independ staking in every way and her an nual student recitals are always evi ence. He flew in a stranger in a strange land and in a few dence of the splendid advancement weeks found him a mate, built she promotes in her pupils. She is our local representative of a nest and in the course of hu man events was blessed wifli (he Western Conservatory ol Music, a little Bird. Tother day they Chicago, and gives diplomas when perscribed courses are completed flew away, and as remarked at the beginning this Bird ought She has recently been appointed to have a warm place in his county chairman of Liberty Chor uses and will direct some excellent heart for Independence and sing its plaises for every more. community sings. Every slacker trips a whacker! Every Dollar Makes the Kaiser Do what’s light; Buy or Fight! Holler! C / & S| f" f | 1 ] T he climax of a recent thrilling story of a German who mas queraded as a British officer is the exposure of the spy through his typically Teuton touch in kicking the face of a servant whom he had J knocked down. j “You might have knocked him dow n and been British," said i the man who turned him over to the firing squad, “but not the rest i of it.” "J M yriad undisputable instances of Hun bestiality unrestrained show him to have exhausted all im aginable possibilities of brutish ness in his treatm ent of his war victims. Oversubscribe your quota of Fourth Liberty Loan bonds and In the interest of the sale of the Fourth Liberty Bonds, patriotic men help throw the G erm an arm y back across the Rhine where its own have voluntarily contributed funds for this issue of The Post. people may have a taste of its "will to power". Ruin In Its W ake I HAVE A COMPLETE LIN E OF Fall and Winter Hats SM ARTEST AND MOST FETCHING MODELS. A BECOMING ST Y L E AND COLOR FO R E V E R Y T Y P E EVERYO N E IS CORDIALLY IN V ITED TO V IS IT OUR STORE AND IN SPECT OUR GOODS. YOU ARE SU RE TO FIND THE P R IC E S AS REASONABLE AS ANY W H ERE IN THE STATE ALPHA BASCUE MAIN ST R E E T M ILLIN ER “ TH IS I S ONE OF THE REA LEST PIC T U RES I E V E R A PPEA RED IN .”—B IL L Y . BILLY BURKE IN "The Land of Promise” A Millinery Message For Autumn Days W ilhelm , who started to hedge the w orld round w ith K rupp guns, and terrify w ith his brutality the unfortunate few who did not fall victim to the cannon, is now confronted w ith justice at the m ouths of the allied weapons which ring] Germany. • It is not only your privilege, but your duty, to feed the annihilating cannon w ith the am m unition which will leave the world happy in freedom from Kultur. T he F ourth L iberty Loan dem ands your m ost desperate efforts to add to its trium ph. "Five Million Men in France!” If the Am ericans at Cantigny, at Chateau Thierry, along the M arne and around Soissons, has proved a whirlwind which von H indenburg could not withstand this year, what will be the G erm an terror when "Forw ard to V ictory” rings out next year t o armies that hide the plains. The rich blood of sacrifice already strengthens the soil of Am erican resolution from which will spring the flower of triumph. The sacrifice abroad must be m et by sacrifice at home. No effort we at hom e can m ake will approach the price paid willingly by those who do not return from the battle for Democracy. Register the m easure of your support by your oversubscrip tion of your quota of the Fourth Liberty Loan. THE AMERICAN PRIVATE (From the Stars and Stripes, France.) “ Greater love,” says the Bible, “ hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for a friend.” The American private has shown a still greater love for his country. He has come 3,o()0 miles from home, minus the glory and trappings of rank, prepared to give up his life—and something more—for the land he loves. He is giving up the comfort and ease and the dreams he knew at home for the long drudgery and monotony of training, not to speak of reveille and chow and inspection and stable of K. P. details too numerous to mention. All this is hut the prelude to the life forfeiture he (Continued on Page 2.) FROM THE STORY OF THE SAME NAME. The greatest stage success of its season. A story that made Broadway sit up and take notice, and enhanced by the personality of piquant Billy Burke becomes one of the greatest sensations of the year in picturedom. ISIS THEATRE Sunday, SEPT. 22 SATURDAY NIGHT’S “BLUEBIRD” MONROE SA LISB U R Y in “ THE EA G LE.” A Wonderful Dramatic Production.