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¿ A rf T he P olk C ounty P ost VOLUME L (TWICE A WEEK.) HUIS HITTING IN D EPEN D ENC E, OREGON, F R ID A Y , SEPTEM BER 27, 1918. NUMBER 12. HOW HALF GOT CAUGHT n r mows WOMEN AND THE WAR News has been received giv ing an account of the capture of j Lieutenant Ralf A. Floyd, who j By MRS. HENRY P. DAVISON is now a prisoner of war. It ap- | Y W C A pears that Ralf who was deliv- | The war is progressing very well, Treasurer War Work Council ering air planes from the base j thank you. National Board Y. W. C. A. to the front stations, made a | he Americans and French in i mistake one day and landed be- | brilliant assault have now reached In an Illinois prairie town lives a inspiration. hind the German lines, and w ill j Women of every race the German border in the vicinity widow who launders seventeen bas and creed are its wards. The task be their “guest” until the end j o f Metz and have begun the bom kets of wash a o f the War Work Council is tremend bardment of the great forts protect 11 of the war. week and every ous. --------------------------------------------- 1 ing that famous city. W e must not night thanks God When the United States entered for having p u t expect that the American boys will the great war the Young Women's “BIG W AR IN EUROPE” p i t y into the walk into Metz whenever they take Christian Association was, as always hearts of women PAY MORE FOR LIGHT a notion so to do. Metz is one of the working among women. With th* T o her came one most strongly fortified cities in the call to new duties tts members did day a letter from The Oregon Power Co. has taken world and it is doubtful if it can be her only son. He not abandon tbeir old responsibilities advantage of the “ big war in Eur taken by direct assault. Big guns was then at Camp The W ar Work Council was formed must tear the fortifications to pieces ope” to put over what is really a Funston, Kansas, as an emergency measure to take learning to be a care o f the women who were caught and by plenty of hard fighting, the raise in rates. Patrons who were soldier. The let In some o f the mazee of war, just as city must be encircled, thus forcing given a rate of 10c. for payment be ter begged her to the parent organization has taken the enemy to abandon it or get fore the 10th of each month will now come and see him care o f them through many years ol have to pay the regular eleven cents. caught in a trap. before be w a s peace. The varied activities decided W hile numbers of municipal light In the Holy Land, the British have upon by the War Work Council fol sent to France destroyed two Turkish armies. The plants over the country, despite the The m o t h e r low closely the needs of the differ Turks who were not killed or cap war, are making money at a cheaper opened the tin ent communities of the country. Sec Mrs. Davison tured, have fled and all Palistine is rate than ten cents, it appears that bank In which retaries trained in the methods of the Oregon Power Co. which lights ehe had been hoarding her dimes and the organization were sent out now in the hands of the British. Serbian, Grecian, French and Ital and waters a number of Willamette quarters against this day. The money broadcast. They were instructed to Nevertheless report to the National Board of the ian troops by stragetic advances and valley towns, has found what it was scarcely enough. she started. She walked the first Young Women's Christian Associa marches have defeated the Bulgar terms a plausible excuse for making eighteen miles. Then her strength tions in New York the lines of work ians and their German allies and the corporation yield more profits to gave out, and she took a train. which could be best followed In the have begun the invasion of Bulgaria. its stockholders. She did not know that visitors to various localities. These secretaries There is much rejoicing in Inde One Bulgarian army has practically Camp Funston stay in Junction City, work in close cooperation with min been isolated. Both Bulgaria and pendence that the contract between eleven miles away. So she got o ff isters, women's clubs, chambers of Turkey are ready to quit the war the city and the Oregon Power Co. the train at Fort Riley. An officer commerce, churches, military officials, and it is the general surmise that a expires December 1. Citizens in gen set her right and she reached Junc and charitable societies. The rec peace will be arranged with both eral are going to insist upon a big tion City after dark. Somehow she ord of a day’s doings of a secretary found a rooming-house. Some on « reads like a novel, an economic ¿hes§ countries, but more especially reduction in the price of this con there stole five dollars from her— treatise, and a psychological essay tract. $100 to $150 monthly is a suf Bulgaria. The United States has five o f the precious dollars she had all compressed into a line-a-day entry. ficient amount to pay for what the never declared war on either of them earned over the wash tub and saved A «ecretary sent out by the W ar and the sup|>osition is that Bulgaria city is now charged approximately by waUdDg. Terroj-strirken^ she \Vork $ounsj^ must be ecjuaj Jo any - - w ill now ask for peace and let Presi $300. Crept o u T o f the nouse w ien no one emergency. Miss Lillian Hull at Chil- was looking. llcothe, close by Camp Sherman, hur dent Wilson dictate the terms. The Later in the night a soldier found rying along the street at nightfall Allies have no desire to destroy Bul MONMOUTH PRUNE DRYER BECOMES OVERHEATED her trembling in the street, and took came upon a forlorn couple. A Fin garia other than to acquire it to give her to the rooms of the Young W om nish soldier had found a job for his up what has been taken and re-ar en’s Christian Association, rooms wife, so that she might come on (Monmouth Heruld.) range its boundaries according to When she arrived which the W ar W ork Council had from Cleveland. Tiie Monmouth fire department nationality. Bulgaria was forced opened as a clearing-house for trou she was refused the place because into the war by a pro-German king was called out to suppress a fire in bles. The poor frightened woman she B[)oke no English. Their money the prune drier last Friday noon. was put to bed, but she was too had been all spent on the railroad against the wishes of its people. The British under Haig continue One of the Hues of the drier became miserable to sleep. The matron got rare, and the soldier was due back to pound away around Camhrai and overheated and the loaded trays be up at daybreak, built a fire, and com at Camp. The situation was bad. Thanks to Miss Hull a Chillicothian St. Quentin, the object being to force gan to smoke and then burst in forted her. The son's commanding the Hun to abandon these two places flame. Manager Alsip and his crew officer was reached by telephone housewife now has an industrious both of which are strong links by carrying water in small quanti early in the morning, and the boy and grateful domestic, a soldier is came to his mother on the first trol happy, and a soldier'B wife is safe. in the great Hindenburg line. The ties from the tap succeeded in keep ley-car he conld catch. Ahuy folks often benefit even more French are pushing from the other ing down the fire until the city de The two spent long, low-voiced directly from the secretaries’ work. side, and it will soon be np to Fritz partment arrived and with the hose hours together, perhaps the last In Bremerton, Washington a secre to back up in this particular part of soon put it out. There were anx hours they will have this side of tary was accosted on the street by a ious moments however, as the hose heaven. Every moment was as pre sailor. She was a slender woman, France. Yesterday the Americans and was attached to a hydrant nearly cious a9 a month had been last year. and he had mistaken her for a girl. "M ay I walk along with you?” he French begun a smashing drive in three blocks away and there was a Tho old lady had still one present the Champagne section with great delay in time spent in hunting up worry. The boy’s bad cold might turn asked. into pneumonia if she left him. But “ Surely," she replied with mature spare hose to reach the distance. success. she had not money enough to stay understanding and intuition. “ What Damage done was mainly to the Prospects were never brighter for another night and buy a ticket home. a successful termination of the war, trays and the prunes on them which When the matron told her that her is the matter? Are you homesick?” The lad's story came out with a were in process of drying. (Continued on Page 3.) bad was free, she broke down and Keep Him From Your Home cried and cried. “ I did not know there was so much pity left In the world,” she sobbed. She stayed till her boy's cold was better. Then she went back to her seventeen washings and her memo ries. Because of the certainty of Just such cases as this was Governmental sanction given to the activities of the W ar W ork Council of the Y. W. C. A. From the Pacific to the Alantic Its field extends. Every state in the Union has its members. Urgent ap peals for help are its cause and its rush. Yes, he was homesick, so hopelessly, despairingly heartsick that he was on the verge m t deserting. But this woman gave him genuine sympathy and encouragement. She saved him to his country. From north, south, east and west these pioneer secretaries sent in their reports. The appalling size of the undertaking was revealed to the W ar W ork Council. Systematization of the work was the first step. Out of the multitudinous phases certain lines o f work were revealed. (Continued ____ ) CIVIC LEAGUE TO MEET NEXT TUESDAY AFTERNOON * * Be sure and come to the meeting of the Civic League next Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the library and hear the reports of the delegates who have just returned from the Federation held in Portland. We are urged to keep this club well or ganized that w e'm ay effectively as sist in the great movements under way. Every woman interested in the upbuilding of her town and ready to do patriotic service is urged to he present and start the new year with file other workers. This Club has always stood for good in the community and starts the new year with every evidence of continued ef ficiency. KINGS VALLEY BUTCHER FACES SERIOUS CHARO*? * * * * * * * HUSBAND vs. CHILDREN people may have a taste of its "w ill to power” . The Polk county prune crop is estimated at five million pounds and is valued at $450,000. • A knotty problem has arisen that is causing many minds to become fagged out. When a woman picks hops, who ia entitled to spend the money she earns—her hus- hand or her children? * • * * • • * OREN McELMURRY CUT UP BUT IN A HOSPITAL Mrs. S. II. McElnuirry has receiv ed a letter written August 27 from a chaplain in France telling her that her son, Oren, is in a hospital, recov ering from the effects of an opera tion for appendicitis. The letter says in part: “Oren was operated upon for appendicitis about a week ago and is doing nicely, but in con .«¡deration for your feelings and that : you might not worry too much, ask j ed me to write these few lines. He | will be up in a few days, so do not | worry.” hi Prof. W. Eugene Smith, principal- RAILROAD GOING SWIFTLY elect of the Independence High TOWARD THE JUNK PILE School, is seriously, if not danger- j ously ill at the Beaver hotel in I tide- The Independence & Monmouth ; pendence. Relatives at Pasadena. railroad is rapidly being erase«! from | Cal., have been notified. Prof. Smith the map. In a few days nothing will arrived in Independence about a remain but the right-of-way and the week ago and had been here but a memory. few hours when taken sick. High School begins Monday and It goes to the junk pile but many hopes there be ttiat in the goo«f «lays will he in charge of Miss Lottie to come, it will be restored greater Granger of Des Moines, assistant or better than ever and the financial principal. Another teacher has been returns w ill be such as to cause (he addetl to the corps because of Prof. owners a much greater «legree of Smith’s absence. comfort than it has been in the past. CIRCUIT COURT CONVENES POLK COUNTY MUST RAISE NEXT MONDAY, OCT. 9 $249,000 FOR LIBERTY BONDS The October term of the circuit The Polk county quota for the court will i-ouvene at Dallas on Mon Fourth Liberty Loan has been fixe«l day, Oct. 6, with Judge H. H. Belt presiding. at $2411,000. Among the jurors who will report This amount has not yet been sub scribed and it will mean that many for duty are C. D. Smiley, Independ voluntary contributors w ill have to ence; C. J. DeArmond, Independence; A. Womer, Airlie; C. A. Kerber, Air- come forward within a few hours. lie; Geo. H. Bronson, Airlie; J. W. McCormack, Airlie; J. J. Underwood, Independence; Geo. W. Baun, Mon DOING THEIR FULL DUTY mouth. (Polk County Observer.) ACCIDENT PROVES FATAL Mr. and Mrs. Riley BurlMinks of Pedee probably hold the rec TO 13-YEAR-OLD BOY ord for giving sons into the mil itary service, or holding them Neal Moreland, age 13, who fell in readiness to respond fo their from a truck last Friday and was country’s call. They are the run over, died from the effects of the proud parents of sixteen chil accident. The wheel of the heavily dren, nine of whom are hoys loaded truck passed over his leg and within the draft age. Two of severed the large artery of the limb these have already enlisted tor- which caused the boy to bleed to service, while seven others are death. subject to draft. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Moreland of Monmouth. A M E R IC A ’S E X PO N E N T OF THE SMILE Douglas FAIRBANKS IN His O w n S to ry , "Down To 55 Earth • ___ Paul Papas, a butcher at Kings Valley, must face a serious charge in the next term of circuit court of j Benton county and at present is at The climax of a recent thrilling story o f a German who mas 1 liberty on a $300 bond. queraded as a British officer is the exposure of the spy through his A married woman at Kings Valley HOP PICKING FINISHED; typically Teuton touch in kicking the face of a servant whom he had NO MARKET FOR CROP is involved with him in the alleged knocked down. «■rime. "Y ou might have knocked him down and been British." said Another hop picking season lias j the man who turned him over to the firing squad, "but not the rest passed int«> history. All the yard« DR. W. D. BUTLER GIVEN of it." CAPTAIN’S COMMISSION have flnished with the exception ol Myriad undisputable instances o f Hun bestiality unrestrained two across the river. show him to have exhausted all imaginable possibilities of brutish- There is no market for the hops News has been received in inde ness in his treatment of his war victims. pendence that Dr. \V. D. Butler, and many of them will have to he Oversubscribe your quota of Fourth Liberty Loan bonds and formerly of Airlie, lias !>een given a «tore«! away waiting the time they help throw the German army back across the Rhine where its own can be sol«l. captain's commission. You wont have to bay Li S C H HEAD IS SEm usir POLK COUNTY PRUNES A romance so full of humor that you must come expecting to be amused as well as entertained by the touching emotional scenes and climaxes. This is Doug’s own story and he has made it to fit himself and it does; no question about that. ISIS THEATRE Sunday, SEPT. 29 S A T U R D A Y N IG H T ’S “ B L U E B IR D ’ ’ CARMEL MYERS in Elsie Jane W ilson’s special production, “ THE CITY O F TEARS’ ’