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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1918)
$30 Martha A. South $10, Jennie L. , Miller $25, Blunche Morgan $17.50, A Seml Weekly Newspaper. I Grace E. Yeater $25, Sarah A. Pfi zer $20, Bertha J. W alling $17.50, Published Twice a Week at Independence, Polk County, Oregon, on Bertha K. Englehorn $20, Anna C. Hinkle $25, Cytha M. Hoke $17.50, Tuesday and Friday I Ethel FI. Overholt $10, Charlottu H. j Huffman $20, Sarah S. Carter $30, | Entered as second-class matter March 26, 1918, at the postoffice at In ! Virginia Schmidt $22.50. Care of Poor dependence, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1879. C. E. Huntley keep of F. Harty, J. Subscription Rates: $1.50 a Year Strictly In Advance; Six Months Oleon, P. Behrens, B. Saine, M. Ja r vis, G. Ferren and 12 cords of wood ¡11.00; Three months 50 cents. All subscriptions stopped at expiration. * $168, Yiers A Co. groceries lor Mrs. Keyser and George Medley $48, i Multnomah County hoard and care I CLYDE T. ECKER, Editor. i of Nancy A. Flum $34, Conkey A W alker groceries for Mr. Kennedy, \Vm. W alker and George Wilson $28, P A R T Y H ARM ON Y IN W ASH INGTON Mrs. Mary Cutler expenses incurred in taking Mrs. Flum to Portland (From the Congressional Reford.) poor farm $27.22, Kink-Smith Dept. Mr. F O R D N E Y . My good friend from North Carolina Store groceries for C. A. McVey $18, Frank II. W ard allowance on con [M r. Kitchin] well said the other day, on Friday, in his tract $17, Dr. B. H. McCallon medi remarks that in the preparation of this bill in the commit cal attendance for Andrew J. F'lum $12, W. ,B. Gerth groceries for J. B. toe there were no signs of partisanship. No man coulc Sipes $10, C. V. Johnson A- Co. gro have come into the room, as he said, and sat there am ceries for J. W. Nonamaker $10, Mrs. heard the arguments for and against measures put into S. P. Biggs house rent for Mrs. Ar row $7, W. A. Messnei- groceries for tin1 bill and have told which were Republicans and which Mrs. Hisey $0, L. D. Brown house .were Democrats. YYrhen Democrats and Republicans rent for Lizzie Dale $6, C. L. Crider agree it reminds me of the story of a man who met the groceries for Mrs. Arrow $5.93, Eddy great show king, R. T. Barnum. Speaking about the wile & Carhray m erchandise ordered by C. E. Huntley $3.85, A. F. Will meat animals in his show, Mr. Barnum said that it was all non for Mrs. Hisey and Mrs. Arrow $3.80. sense that wild animals should disagree and devour one Jail Dallas W ater Co. $1. another, that he was going to show the world that he could Bridges teach wild animals to live together and agreeably and lovi J. W. Ash (assigned) $3,249.90, .1. one another. W. Ash $2,181.80, J. J. Brooks $111.78 He said, “ 1 am going to put in one cage a bear, a pan Stiver Lumber Co. $195.45, Hughes tlier, a lion, a wolf, a dog and a lamb, and I am going to Bros. $70.68, A. A. McLean $69.75, make them live together happily as one fam ily.” W ell Sheridan Lumber Co $33.24, W illam flu* friend said, ” 1 would like to see how you come out.’ ette Valley Lumhei Co. $22.25, Guy Bros. $18.05, Dallas Iron Works $12 Some two or three weeks afterwards the friend met Mr .32, C. W. Matthews Mill Co. $8.70, Barnum and said, “ How are you coming along with your A. L. Illiiigsworth $6, Milo S. Far- wjld animals in the one cage ?” Barnum replied, “ Pretty well $4.90, Fred N. Stump $4, D. G. well, but it is taking a hell of a lot of lambs.” [Laughter. Getchel $104, Henry Clifford $159, Thomas Strain $5.75, K. S. Henry $6, Charles Lynn $5, .1. A. Tate $112, BILLS ALLOWED BY COUNTY E. A. Sharp $115.(53, H. D. Mathers Circuit Court COURT AT SEPTEMBER SESSION V. P. Fiske $32.08, Dallas Tele $94.50, Thomas Bean $94.50, L. N. Belieu $4.50, E. C. Bushnell $162.91, phone Co. $3.15. State Industrial Accident Commis Scalp Bounty Justice Court Ed Kucher #3. R. W. Baker $12, J. H. Moran $10 sion $33.04. Ferry Election .00, George Hutch $1, C. \Y. Ileukh N. M. Grant $2.30. J. M. Graves $80, Craven A- Huff $1, W. Huff $1, E. N. Johnson $1 Sheriff’s Office H. Chas. Dunsmore $1, F. P. Ground Hardware Co. $0.10, Independence John W. Orr $157.45, T. B. Hooker $1, W. G. Grant $3.90, Dick Gerard G. A M. Shop $3.10. Sealer of Weights and Measures $90, J. E. Richter $80, Dallas Tele $1.50, Arnold Hill $1.50, Homer Hill phone Co.- $11, V. P. Fiske $0, Polk $1.50, C. W. Barrick $1.50, Mr. Ells J. F. Jones $17.(57. Advertising worth $1.50, Rupert Rauf $1.50, Ray County Itemizer $5.75. rnond Smith $1.50, H. Holman $4.70 * Clerk’s Office Polk County Observer $07.37, Polk A. B. Robinson $138,Edith M. Jark John W. Orr $7.50, Glass A Prud County Itemizer $54.05. son $85, Edna B. Jackson $70, Glass horn me Co. $1.17. District Attorney A Prudhomtnc Co. $25.31, Dallas Coroner . K. Piasecki $3.25, Dallas Tele Telephone Co. $4.10. C. C. Gardner $1.20, C. L. Gardner phone Co. $2.50. Treasurer's Office $1.20, S. S. Parker $1.20, M. D. Coni County Fair A. R. V. Snyder $02.50, J. R. All- ter $5, Will R. Jones $1.20, W. H. Polk County F air Association good $2.25, Dallas Telephone Co. $2. Stonehocker $1.50, Claude E. Crane $ 1000 . $1.70, Dr. V. C. Staats $8.20, R. I,. Surveyor’s Office Rebate on Fees Dallas Telephone Co. $2.25. Chapman $16.25. Oscar Hay ter $5. Assessor’s Office School Superintendent’s Office Contingencies C. S. Graves $100, F. J. Holman F. D. Moore $120, F’red S. Crowley V. R. Dennis Con. Co. $1,898.17, V. $108.80, Alta Crowley $50, Dallas R. Dennis Con. Co. $724, Agricultural $85.50, Dallas Telephone Co. $2.25. Court House Telephone Co. $4.60. College Home Demonstrator $50, G. W. Cheshro $90, Finley W hitney Health Officer John R. Sibley $42, Great Western $00.15, Oregon Power Co. $9.21, Dai- B. H. McCallon $12. Garage $25, V. P. Fiske $10. las W ater Co. $3.40. Widow’s Pension Total W arrants General Fund, County Court Eliza Lawrence $20, Addie Launer $13,375.98. E. C. Kirkpntrick $100, M. Manson $17.50, Mrs. Mike McNulty $10, Eliza Road DistricWVo. 3—$$459.90. $53, C. W. Beckett $11.20, Dallas Tel- Nelson $10, Hattie Riggs $10, Geor Road District No. 3 $21.90. ephone Co. $7.25. gia Sawyers $17.50, Harriet E. Olin Road District No. 4 -$22.50. Road District No. 8—Gilbert A Patterson $144, E. M. Mitty $23. Road District No. 6 -Charley Who ley $25, Blaine Southwick $2.45, Win Thielson $1.20, Frank Burch $10, Lee Damewood $17.50, Win. Morrow 15c. Road District No. 7 $24.50. Road District No. 8—Oregon Grav el A Con. Co^ $432, Joe Tcthrow $33. Road District No. 9 -Oregon Gruv- 1 A Con. Co. $5*5.70., J. D. Hihbs A lo. $8.25. Road District No. 10—A. T. Steele $42. A. R. McCallum $40.50, Fred N. Stum p $24. P eyton Brand Road District No. 11—Oregon Grav- I A Con. Co. $9.45. Rex Womer $28 )0, F. M. Turner $18, Eric Petre T H E P O L K C O U N T Y POST. Real Gravely Chewing Plug is solving the tobacco problem for more men every day. Smaller chew. Better tobacco. The good taste lasts. Real Gravely Chewing Plug 10c a pouch —and worth it Gravity lam e mo mac A longor ¡1 comtm no moro to chow than ordinary plug P. B. Gravai r Tobacco Co ■ p u y Dtor lle, Virginia The Independence National Bank Established .1889 A Successful Business Career of Twenty-Five Years INTEREST P A ID ON TIME DEPOSITS Officers and Directors H. Hirschberg. Pres. D. W . Sears, V. P. Irn D. Mix, Cashier W . H. YVnlker I. A. Allen O. D. Butler MAKES FORTUNE OY SHUGGUH6 ARMY PIGEONS GOING TO FRONT Swedish “ Rubber Baron” Tells How He Profited by Trad ing on Frontier. WAS CLERK BEFORE THE WAR Made His First Money Dealing In Russian Ruble*—Then Engages in Smuggling Rubber From Fin land and Gets Rich Quickly. Carrier pigeons are a valuable factor In the operation of all the allies, never failing to carry a message safely and quickly from the front unless ac tually killed by shell fire. They are used at the most critical stages of battles, when all wire com munication has been stopped and the barrage is too thick for runners. Here is shown a motor-transport formerly a London bus, loading up with carriers to go to the British front. The casualties among the birds average 1 per cent. They are wounded by enemy shells, attacked by hawks, and suf fer from gas. They live in gas-proof baskets and when gassed are treated at a hospital. There is also a prison cote for captured enemy birds. A very tiny share of your Fourth Liberty Loan subscription will go to the pigeon service, but none will be more efficiently spent. Put the “I Can” In American and Lend Your Money to Uncle Sam oi Buy a Liberty Bond! Kaiser Bill Will Take It! Bond-men Now; Freemen Forever! Bar Barbarism by Buying Bonds. GENERAL SUGAR CONSERVATION Is sugar necessary in the diet? Neither cane nor beet sugar is necessary. In the average American diet allthesugar needed may ordi narily be supplied by using honey, sirups, fresh, pre served and dried fruits. W hat are the general sugar saving rules? Use all sugar sparingly and wherever possible use other sweeteners. Be sparing of confections and sweet cakes. The American people last year spent enough money for candy to feed all Belgium for two years. Supplement sugar with honey and sirups. Cultivate a taste for fruit in its natural sweetness. Sugar is a fuel food. Get fuel from potatoes and other starchy foods rather than from sugar. Sugar excels them as an energy-food on’y because it pro duce* energy mere qoLkly. Thej excel sugar sinoc they supply more than merely th« fuel need. How may the sugar ration be expressed in quantities known to everyone ? Two pounds per month means about 8 ounces per week, or a little more than 1 ounce a day. This daily ration is a trifle more than 2 tablespoons level full. It should be remembered that this is to include all sugar used for any purpose whatsoever—for table use, cooking, in ice cream and desserts, on cereals or fruit, in sugar sirups used on griddle cakes, etc. Stockholm, Sweden.—“You want to know what people smuggle? Go up the river then, and you will soon find out. They smuggle nearly everything, so It Is rather difficult to answer the question offhand.” .So said a custom house officer at Haparanda, the little Swedish town on the frontier of Fin land, to Herbert Erlcson, a Swedish writer, who went up the Tornea valley to Investigate the smuggling stories. “While I was waiting for the Over- Tornea train to start, a motorcycle chugged Into the station yard,” said Erlcson. “That Is one of our rubber barons," remarked an acquaintance to me. A rubber baron, In Haparanda talk. Is a man who suddenly gets rich on smuggling rubber In from Finland. I was in luck, for the baron—Karlsson I will call him—traveled north In my compartment. He was a pleasant fel low. He did not remind me of the smart speculators I had met In Norr- land. He even looked embarrassed when IJ>egan to talk about smuggling. Clerk Before the War. “Presently he told me that at the outbreak of the war he had been a clerk In one of Norland’s coast towns. He had earned his money In rubles. “It Is not generally known that many hundred Swedes have made big fortunes out of rubles. It happened like this: After the occupation of Poland and other regions of Russia, the Germans found that the population refused to take marks In payment for such supplies ns were paid for. The people demanded rubles, and rubles the Oennnns did not have. The only way of getting them was through Sweden. The Russian government permitted no more than 500 to he tak- en out of the government by each traveler, but with the Incentive of a good reward smugglers were not lack ing. The Haparanda ngents bought up these rubles and sent them down to Germany by bales. “When the Germans hnd bought all the rubles they wanted Karlsson tried to smuggle drugs to Finland. That | fnlled absolutely. He met with a dis aster at the outset. His first consign ment of several kilos of acetylsallcy- lic acid and 100 clinical thermometers was seized by the Swedish customs au thorities and a heavy fine was Im posed. "So he got Into touch with some Finnish merchants who, for a price, guaranteed to have a large quantity of rubber rings on the Swedish side of the river at a certain minute on a cer tain day. “Entering Into relations with a firm In Stockholm and finding that he could make many thousnnd kroner profit thereby, Karlsson told the Finns to go ahend. One night he went to Mattlla, where the rubber was to he ready. Mattlla Is a tiny station on the Hap- aranda-Over-Tornea stretch of rail way, and nlmost on the bank of the river. No Sign of Custom* Officer. BIG AMERICAN GUN SPEEDS DEATH $ 6 . Road District No. 12 $123.50. Road District No. 14—$33.50. Road District No. 15 J. S. Bohan non 913.50. Road District No. 16 J. 1). Hibhs A Co. $2.25, John Underwood $42.25, Lee Roberts $30, John Walker $.‘1*5, i Cluis. Whipple $21. Road District No. 17 $6.75. Road District No. 20 $221.10. Road District No. 21 -$536.25. Road District No. 22—955. Road District No. 24 $61. General Road Fund—W. D. Gors line $197.30, John Shindler $52.10, F. j A. \\ inslow $100.05, Oliver Whitney $61.90. C W. Beckett 9144.40, Coast Culvert A Flume Co. $108.37. Ralph Snvery 9177. Graham A Son $212.50, Henry Savory $lt52, A. M. Fanning ! Under a screen of leafy camouflage, this big American naval gun, $136.50, Randall Buell $125, Rule- j capable of shooting twelve or fifteen miles. Is busy hurling Its high prudence G. A M. Shop $92.98, Crav explosive or gas shells far behind the Hun front lines into troop con en Hdw. Co. $54.80, J. (V McIntosh centrations on rear roads, ammunition dumps or rest billets. 961, E. C. Kirkpatrick $44, F.. W. Ful-1 Every shot costs in the neighborhood of a thousand dollars. lor $29.50. Northwest Auto Co. $12.50, j Stretch your Fourth Liberty Loan subscription to your utmost. Every I vie Payne A Son $16.20. D. B. Carr shell spares the lives of many men in front line combat. 97.90, Star Transfer 92 50, Sheridan i Garnge $1, Ben Thompson $6, Fred j Th* Invincible Union— Fighting Dol- Hughes $6, A. L. Bartholomew $10.50 i “The world will little note nor long Buy Liberty Moll Ashford $4.50, J. H. Sullivan remember what” we say about buying lar*— Fighting Menl 916.50, John F. Rhodes 810, Harley Liberty Bonds. But it will be a world Bond*. ---------- Wilson $6, Will Eads $10.50, J. F. worth living In after the Fourth Lib- evty Loan and perhaps two or three Put another service star on your Paim $2, Joe Isele $02 more have wiped out Kultur and pocket book— Buy more Bonds, Total Road W arrants $4,891.10. punished Wilhelm for Belgium. “When he arrived there was no sign of n Russian custom house officer across stream. The revolution has al tered matters. The Cossacks whr used to patrol the Russian shore had disappeared. The new guards appoint ed by the revolutionaries found It more Interesting to stay In Tornea. Ki.rlsson picked up the rubber. This was only the first of a chain of such transac tions he managed with financial suc cess. “Karlsson has meticulously tnken the goods so smuggled to the Swedish cus toms authorities, to be assessed for duty. Quantities of tin, flour and lin seed oil have similarly come over the river for many months past. Tin gives the Finns an advantage. I found one case where a druggist hnd come to grief by taking delivery of and paying heavily for a thousand kilos of a cheap alloy; The flour smuggling seems to Indicate thnt the Finns engnged must be blackguards of a particularly ob noxious type, for they ship flour out of their land while they know that tens of thousands of their fellow countrymen are nearly stnrvlng and that their government Is sending out commissions full of piteous appeals to other lands, America Included, to spare them a little flour. It seems curious that these commissions could not have tarried a week at the frontier and or ganized a guard to put a stop to the drain of flour there.” PH ONE COMPANY PUTS BAN ON HUN MESSAGES Brookfield, Mo. — Complying with the request of the Linn county council of defense, the Bell Telephone company of this city, has issued an order to all patrons of Its system prohibiting any other language than English over the telephone lines.