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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1918)
y T he P olk C ounty P ost VOLUME L (TWICE A WEEK.) ENEMY ASKS FOR PEACE CONFERENCE Germany and Austria have sued for peace. They have agreed to ac cept the fourteen demands of Presi dent Wilson, but have coupled with it a proviso that the belligerents meet on neutral ground and mutual ly agreed upon terms. ft is a foregone elusion that the proposal of the enemy will be abrupt ly rejected. There is nothing to talk over . Nothing to parley about. Evacuation of all territory now held now in bondage by Germany (tnd Austria and an unconditional sur render are the only terms the forces of democracy will heed. THE CIVIC CLUB NOW HAS A MUSIC DEPARTMENT An enthusiastic meeting of the Civic Club was held at the Library last Tuesday afternoon. Reports of the Recent Federation in Portland were heard. This Club now has a music depart ment. The Liberty Chorus of which Mrs. Lottie Hedges McIntosh is chairman has been linked with this organization and will be an import ant factor. We are delighted with this affiliation for we are urged that community singing must have a prominent place in all organizations. Mrs. McIntosh will be assisted by two capable musicians, Mrs. George Conkey and Mrs. Claire Irvine. Tentative plans for the street carn ival, mentioned elsewhere in this is sue of The Post, were made. MORE HUNTERS THAN THEY ARE BIRDS The pheasant season opened Tues day and there are more hunters than birds. “CAN YOU BEAT IT?” With election day less than a month away, no candidates around with the glad hand, and no talk ab' ut politics and elect ion, why who would think such things could be? DEAN BAUGHMAN TELLS OF THE EXCITING WAR GAME INDEPENDENCE, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1918. Big Street Carnival WILLIAM 1. BARNETI IS W I H I L V KILLED; GOES OFF WHEN IT FAILS IT HIS FEET Saturday Night A Street Carnival will be given next Saturday night, October 12, by the Civic Club and Liberty Chorus for the benefit of the local Red Cross. A few dollars remain to be paid on the Community Service Flag; the rest will be paid into the Red Cross treasury. Next Saturday is Liberty Day and has been proclaimed a national holiday by President Wilson. It was thought a fitting time to make some effort to accomplish something for the boys who have gone forth in defense of their and our country. Hence Liberty Day was chosen as an excel lent time for the Street Carnival. The Carnival trail will not be a long one, but it will be a merry one with attractions to please everybody. Every thing to make a fellow laugh, have a good time and forget his troubles. The adjoining Auxiliaries and towns have been asked to take part in the jollification. (From a letter to his wife.) Le Foyer Du Soldat, Union Franco-Américaine, Sept. 6, 1918.—At last I’ll try and find time to write another short letter to you. 1 am back with the company again and have sure been busy. Really, haven't had time to write. We have moved from where we were when I wrote last and are now up within 4 kilometers of the front line trenches. We are in a rather tick lish place as we are up in front of a horseshoe. Believe me we sure carry our gas masks and steel hats with us here. We even sleep with them. We are in a little deserted French village and have lots of fun dodging shells. I am seeing things every day now that I never dreamed of, and am scratching down a few notes so that I can tell you all when I return. We are relieving some Frenchmen here and expect to be here some time. Sorry I can’t tell you just where I am located, because I know it would interest you. Still perhaps By MRS. HENRY P. DAVISON it is best that I cannot because it YWCA Treasurer War Work Council might save you some worry. National Board Y. W. C. A. Well, must stop and go eat. Mail doesn't get in here or out very often so don’t know when I will get mail Within six months after the United These centers are near the canton from you or when this will get out. I think from the way things have States entered the war, the Y. W. C. ments. The Bureau of Social Morality Is an been going and from what I think is A. War Work Council had established girls’ clubs near Important feature of the War Work going to happen soon, that we will more than forty Council's program under the present he home the first of the year. Let of the c a n t o n - abnormal conditions. That ignorance us all hope so. ments, barracks, Is no shield to a girl is well known to DEAN BAUGHMAN. and navy yards. its members. Instead, it is her gravest Co. D. 37th. Reg. U. S. Engrs., Ameri A trained recrea peril. Any situation shrouded in mys tion leader w a s tery is dangerous. Women can deal can Expeditionary Forces. WOMEN AND THE WAR L ETTERS from our boys in the trenches and from the women in canteen and other war work, all bring to us the same mea- sage— SEND US NEWS FROM HO^E. World news is all right, but OUR BOYS want NEWS OF THIS TOWN. They want the home newspaper. Publishers are prevented from sending their papers free to anyone, even boys in the service. Consequently a national movement has been started by Col. William Boyce Thompson of New York, who is acting as President of the Home Paper Service of America to give the boys what they are calling for. Every community is joining the movement. Let us see that our boys are not forgotten. Send to the publisher of this newspaper whatever amount of money you can— 5 cents or $50.00. We will publish a list each week of those contributing, and the amounts contributed. Every cent received will be used to send this paper to our boys at the front. If at the end of the war, there is any surplus, it will be turned over to the local Red Cross Committee. There is no profit in this to the publisher— even in normal times, subscriptions are not sold at a profit. With war prices prevailing, and the high rate of postage on papers sent to France, our cost will scarcely be covered by our full subscription price. Remember that over in France, some brave soldier or sailor from this town— perhaps even some splendid woman working within sound of the guns— is depending on you to “KEEP THE HOME LOVE KINDLED." T h ey a re calling to YOU from “ O v er T h e r e 1 G IV E WHAT YO U CAN . NUMBER 43. placed in charge o f each c l u b . T h e s e worker# supplement t h e efforts of the lo cal Aesoclattons, if thoee already exist. Where the idea la new the w o r k e r s form club centers, or ganise the girls, M ra. D avison and arouse them to a sense of their responsibility In this time of great excitement and con fusion. No scolding of girls for unwise ac tion* and no solemn finger-shaking oc cur» in the clubs. Instead of dwelling on what not to do, these wise leaders urge real patriotism. All sorts of pro jects are suggested that are more In teresting than the dubious and danger ous pleasurss which appeal to the Ig norant and the thoughtless. At parties, for Instance, these wily chaper ones, whom no one ever thinks of as supervisors, arrange that there shall always be twice as many soldiers as girts. "Twoslng” Is utterly impossible witere thefs are not enough girls to gSjpwaJT - Club leaders do not attempt to ban ish t&e 'gallant seMier entirely frop the girls’ world; they with only to tolas him down tram glorified heights of glamour to ttke his place as an every-day hero, subject to the same scrutiny ae other man. Instruction and relief work are not neglected. A a tH the activities of fered «se dressmaking, oooklng, knit ting. Wen eh, etbleUca. dancing, sing ing, Red 6 roes work, Belgian relief, and work tor the fatherless children of Frenae. The world contains a num ber of things besides soldiers tor a girl’s Imagination to dwell upon. Hundreds of dobs for sehool end business girls all over the country are offering pleasanter recreation than the gnfly lighted streets and the sha dowy parks. ‘T have a place now to spend my evenings,'’ said a telephone girl in Waukegan, Illinois, to the club leader. “1 was so lonely before you came.” Emergency housing for employed girts Is closely connected with the more general welfare work. Centers, selected on the basis of Immediate need, have keen chosen as demonetra- tlsa grounds to show employer« how girl employees should be housed. only with what they understand. A true social morality must be built on a foundation of knowledge, and be lnsplrud by high alms. Fourteen women physicians are talking to groups of parents, school girls, and Industrial women. These lecturers bend their best efforts to spreading Information on social Ideals. Colored women at this time must meet all the problems confronting white women. Their situation is fur ther complicated by industrial and social conditions. Special clubs are being formed among colored girls in the neighborhood of cantonments. Workers are being placed In industrial oentera like Louisville, Kentucky, and Hopewell, Virginia. Immigrant men who formerly la bored In mines, on farms, and in fac tories, and now serve in our army are, themselves, In - need of assistance. Foreign men marry young and many, even of the young ones, have large families dependent upon them. Be cause of these helpless families, the War, Work Council has translators who go into the oamps. The activities of the War Work Council could not be oonflned to our own country. Our American nurses In France need the Y. W. C. A. social workers. B rtn the most sejf-rella reliant Ip at the front woSnSli must have help fro where women’s welfare is a matter of minor Importance. A central club lu Paris give# hard-worked, courageous nurses a home In a strange land. Branch chibs at all of the base hospi tals provide relaxation and recreation for hours off. When the French women cabled to the War Work Council, pleading for experts to advise them In establish ing foyer-canteens for women workers in munitions and other war industries, experts were sent over to have over sight of the building and equipping of some of the oanteens and act as ad viser to French committees. A professionally solemn-faced but ler in one of the beautiful homes where a drawing-room meeting was being held stood whore he heard the ounies of the War Work Council's plans and accomplishments. After the guests had gone he approached the speaker with two one-dollar bills. “I give them for my daughter,” he said. "I am jubject to the next draft. When I am someone must look after my little girl. I tool the War Work Coun d l will do It,” BAPTIST CHURCH TO HOLD at honte in this church. All are ex GENERAL HOME GATHERING tended a hearty welcome. The com There will be a general home gath ering at the Baptist church Saturday evening, Oct. 12. Beginning about 6 o'clock there will be an informal reception ami sociable good time for the members and new comers who have not yet united with the church but are affiliated with it will receive a warm welcome and be made to feel mittee will spare no effort to make the event a round of pleasure. Light refreshments will be served and an interesting musical program will he rendered. Following the social hour a business meeting will be held at which time church officers for the ensuing year will be elected. Rev. W. B. Stewart will talk. William B. Barnett, prince of good fellows, always an exponent of good cheer and whose whole life was full of good deeds is no longer among us. A gun which but a few weeks ago snuffed out the life of another humun being, sent our friend "Billy” into eternity, without warning and so suddenly that he never knew what fate befell him. He passed into the other life in the wink of an eye and without pain or suffering. The sad accident occurred on Thursday morning, Oct. 3, on his mining claim on the Santiam river in Linn county. He had taken J. C. Ecker, u mining expert, with him to look at the claim and to pass judg ment upon its value. Mr. Ecker saw the tragedy and relates the following circumstances concerning it: “On Monday Mr. Barnett and my self started to look over his mining claims on the middle fork of the Santiam river in Linn county, and arrived there late Tuesday night. It rained Wednesday and we built a “rocker” to pass the time away. Thursday morning we went down to his bar on the river and started to prospect. I went to work shoveling away some gravel that the summer floods had washed in and he com menced tearing up some bedrock that was exposed. Presently he re marked, ‘I guess I had better try a pan of this and see how rich it is,’ and stepped a few feet over to the water and stooped over to pan. 1 paid no particular attention to him as I was busy and presently there was a loud report of a gun. I whirl ed around and saw Mr. Barnett on his feet but swaying and I jumped and caught him. I eased him down and held him while he yet breathed which was not long ns he was prac tically dead when I reached him. When I saw that he had expired I - put my coat under his head and started out to find help, but being an entire stranger I could find no one for nearly two hours, and then ran on to Mr. Paul Smith on a trail. He had a hired man ‘Gus’ with him whom he told to go with me while he (Smith) went to Gates about 25 miles away, to phone and get horses to take us out. Gus and I then made a stretcher and by that time Chas. Williams arrived and we car ried our friend over half a mile to his cabin when we took care of him until Saturday morning when horses arrived to take us out over the trail. “There is no doubt but that while stooping over, the revolver, which was strapped around his waist, work ed out of its holster and when he straightened up, the gun fell, the hammer striking a rock, causing the explosion. The bullet struck Mr. Barnett directly under the chin and penetrated the brain, causing, as I said before, almost instant death, in fact he never knew what hit him. “In conclusion I want to say that Mr. Barnett's acquaintances in the mining camp all testify to his worth as a friend and every man tlitM mourned over his sudden passifljj nVay.” The body was brought from Gates late Saturday night by C. W. Henkle and L. Splatley, accompanied by Mr. Ecker. Funeral services were held at the Baptist church, of which the deceas ed was a member, on Sunday after noon, being conducted by Rev. Pace of Monmouth. The altar was a solid (Continued on Page 4) AMERICA’S MOST BEAUTIFUL ACTRESS Elsie Ferguson IN "Rose of the World” A picture which has pleased a Thousand Audi- encs and the Critics of the Metropolitan Press. ISIS THEATRE Sunday, OCT. 13 EXTRA! EXTRA' EXTRA! Coming October 24, the great war picture, “ CRASHING THROUGH TO BERLIN." SATURDAY NIGHT'3 “ B L U E B IR D ” MONROE SALISBURY in the Dramatic Production “ W INNER TAKE ALL.”