TME
P O L K
C O U N T Y
POST.
▲ S e a iW e e k ly Newspaper.
Published
Twice
a W eek
at Independence, Polk County,
Oregon,
on
Tuesday and Friday
Entered as second-class matter March 26, 1918, at the postoffice at In
dependence, Oregon, under the A ct of March 3,1879.
Subscription Hates:
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ARDITI IDOLS OF ARMY LIFE PUTS SIMS' MEN FIGHT YANK GUNLAYERS MAD
ITALIM ARMY I BOYS IN SHAPE O-IOATS DAILY
Say the Infantry Ran Hun “ Tar
gets” Too Far.
Famous Shock Troops Underao Former Weaklings Now Have Win Exciting Battles With Huns
Near the Bay of
Severe Training for Their
Muscles Uke a Black
Biscay.
Work.
smith’s Apprentice.
Wh«n Artillery Get Heavy Gunt Into
Position There le Nothing
to Shoot At.
With the American Army.— A cer
tain regiment o f heavy artillery is
broken-hearted over the way the
Booties “ threw them down,” as they
C LY D E T. E C K E R , Editor.
express It, In the Saint Mlhlel salient
American Red Cross Canteen Work-
This
particular
regiment
was
Outdoor Work and Proper Food Make Because of Unceaaing Watch and
ers Are invited to a “Midnight
brought up to assist in the long-range
Governor Stephens of California has commuted the
Huskies
of
Them—
Army
Doctors
Party”— Tell How They En
Gallantry of
Crews
Shipping
bombardment o f the interior o f the
Continually on Watch for
joyed the Show.
Losses Have Been Confined
death sentence o f Tom Mooney to life imprisonment,
salient, but owing to the rain and the
Health of Men.
Largely to Freighter«.
muddy condition o f the roads they
Mooney may or may not he guilty, hut he was the victim
At the front.— W e were serving cold
were late In reaching their emplace
With the American Armies In
American Naval Base, France.—
of a foul frame up and is entitled to another trial and a fair lemonade to the hot, dusty Ardttl In France.—
ments and setting up their guns.
Whether he used to be frail American destroyers, aided by French
our little Red Cross canteen near the
T h ej were due to begin tiring In the
or
strong,
the
doughboy
Is
becoming
one.
front.
and British vessels, are battling with
rear o f the enemy line« at eight o’clock
The Ardltl are Ita ly’s famous shock one o f the huskiest chaps on this side the enemy submarines day and night in the morning, just at about the time
W ar agrees with the to keep open the lane through which
troops, young, dashing, fearless vol o f the line.
when they thought Fritz would be get
Why keep even twenty-five men at $90 a month,
unteers fo r the assunlt, who clear the American boy, judging from the solid, American troopships are bringing the ting ready to drop back to his Inter
healthy-luoking
specimens
you
see
great army o f American soldiers to mediary line after his resistance hud
hoard and clothes, on state pay as military police!— .. way for their comrades following.
They hud been working hard since trudging up und down the lines and France.
been broken In hts wonderfully strong
Salem Journal.
holding them.
early dawn and were thirsty.
Hardly a day has passed during the battlefront. But F ritz never stopped
It
is
a
series
o
f
surprises
you
have
Leaving to continue on their stren
last month In which the American on his Intermediary line at all and
The Journal may wonder why it is done and others may
uous way, they shouted an Invitation: with the American army, continually naval convoy fleet has not had an en even his machine gunners did not
wonder also, but its history in Oregon that once somebody “ Come and see ns at midnight; we meeting some husky whom you hurdly counter with a submarine foe lurking turry in their solid concrete Bad Bail-
are going to have a show.” W e prom recognize because back in the State« near the Bay o f Biscay, beyond the road iron blockhouses.
gets to eating at the public crib, he can’t be “ siced” away, ised
he was “ that ffu ll ilttle William waters o f Spain and Portugal. August
to come.
So at eight o’clock In the morning,
Jones.” Under Uncle Sum’s care he was the month o f greatest danger and
tho Death may stalk in occasionally and bring relief.
Roar Shakes the Heavens.
when the heavies should have opened
Late in the evening we set out up has grown shoulders o f a football greatest vigilance, fo r the number 'of up on F ritz’s support line they re
the mountain road. So near the front player, und he marches on n pair of American troops coming to France ceived orders not to fire. When their
Since the voters of Linn county refused to maintain a linos llgh*« are forbidden, and we ad legs twice as stout as they used to be, reached Its maximum in that month.
commanding officers protested vigor
and you couldn’t call him William if
Keep Transport Lane Open.
ously and demanded the reason why,
vanced
slowly
In
the
darkness.
Sud
county agriculturist at public expense, sundry citizens denly dim shndows loom ahead, we you hud to— his only name Is Bill, now Because o f the unceasing watch, they were advised that If they opened
have personally 'donated the necessary sum for the pur slam on the brakes, and with a terri that he has joined the heavyweight never-ending readiness to pounce upon up on the targets they had chosen
class.
the German submarines, and the gal they would be firing In the rear o f
ble crash the night Is startled Into
pose. Correct and proper. Those who believe that it. is brilliance.
Despite the fears o f the fam ily fo r lantry o f the men on board the Am er American troops.
So the regiment
Dripping blood, a soldier staggers to the boy. It has done him good to Join ican and other destroyers, the ship never fired a shot.
to their interest to have a do-called county agriculturist
up
In
Uncle
Sam’s
urmy.
Ills
present
ping losses have been confined almost
wards us, and we see In the fitful flnre
The gunlayers took It as a personal
should he willing to pay for the same and not ask every the outlines o f crouching figures; be healthy condition is due to a number exclusively to freight vessels. The affront on the part o f the doughboys,
o f causes, not the leust o f which Is the
taxpayer in the ehunty to help do it. Perhaps the agri hind trees, walls and wagons. A roar physical training he has undergone to steady arrival o f American troops has who advunced so rapidly they didn’t
progressed uninterruptedly throughout give the heavies a chance to do any
as if the heavens are fa llin g ; lower
culturist in Linn county will be worth all he costs.
and lower we bend ns the shells go enable him to stand hardship. The chap the period o f chief menace. Most o f business. They declare openly that
who couldn’t take gymnasium at high the vessels successfully attacked by If the infantry had had any sporting
screaming overhead.
A Minding flnsh, and w e see a cur School because he had a weak heart submarines have been outward bound blood In Its veins It would have
slowed np and given them a crack at
Henry Ford has purchased the old home town paper and tain o f fire dropping on the opposite has become a doughboy who thinks from French ports.
nothing o f murchlng all night with a
slope.
Ten American destroyers took part the Boches.
will retire from the active management of automobile
With a muffled roar a sea o f flame pack on his back und then standing In one o f the most successful subma
rine hunts on August 9. They were
manufacture so as to devote the greater portion of his hursts In the valley below. W ave on guard next day.
MUST STOP WASTING PAPER
heading south In column when the
wave o f fire, rolling relentlessly and
Strong as Blacksmiths.
time to the publication of the newspaper. Mr. Ford as
leading
destroyer
sighted
a
periscope
Outdoor work almost continually
Every Ton of Paper Saved Means
and being tired enough at the end of on her port bow at 800 yards and gave
sumes that the paper will soon have a circulation beyond
8aving Fifteen Days of Man’s
the day to drop down and sleep any chase. The submarine submerged, but
Labor.
the limits of the old home town, an assumption that will
where, has been just the thing to In the destroyer steumed ahead o f her
and
dropped
two
depth
bombs
In
her
ure the boy to hardships. H e Is out
Washington.— Papermaklng eats up
prove correct. Mr. Ford’s paper will not only have a gen
not only In summer when It Is pleas path und then let go 14 charges in a raw materials, Including wood, coal,
eral circulation in all parts of the country, but will be of
ant. hut in ruin and wind, and his life circle. Suddenly the bow o f the sub chemicals and man power. It takes a
has made him hard and rugged, und a marine emerged and became the tar man eight or nine days to make a ton
great influence in combating those evils that threaten us
fa r better man physically than when get fo r the shells o f the destroyer. As o f paper. It takes four tons o f raw
he came to France. Jogging up und the submarine again submerged, ap material to make one ton o f paper. It
during the re-construction period. The country needs
down roads on an artillery caisson, or parently helpless, the destroyer passed takes a man’s labor to cut the wood,
more newspapers not controlled, directly or indirectly, by
bundling a huge truck, has given the directly over her and dropped two another man’s labor to drive a log
former drug clerk muscles Uke those Charges directly on her at a depth o f down the river to the mill. Every ton
the big business interests. There are so few of them now.
200 feet. Nothing further was seen o f
of the blacksmith’s apprentice.
o f paper saved means the saving o f
The kind o f food he has had to eat the enemy, nnd It is believed his craft fifteen days o f a man's labor.
was
completely
destroyed.
has been encouraging, too. Good solid
You can save a ton o f paper.
JELLY, JU ICES AND JAM
Another encounter followed a sub
"chow,” Uke beef, beans, potatoes and
There are 100,000 men employed In
bread, make man-power, and they marine attack on a big American re the pulp and paper Industry. Think
have lots o f “ chow” In the American pair ship entering port here. The sub o f the men employed In the transpor
A GOOD L IC K IN G
army. It Is served up at regulur In marine’s torpedo, fired at close range, tation, In the sulphur mines, chemical
tervals, and It builds muscles In the just missed the rudder o f the Am eri plants, coal mines, laboratories and
(Windsor Magazine.)
An American destroyer other industries contributory to the
soldier’s arms and legs und makes him can vessel.
“ Please, sir, mother says this ’ e r e stamp is a wrong un.
have broader, better HUed-out shoul dashed to the attack and dropped a 'making o f paper.
Father’s licked it, mother’s licked it, me sister’s licked it,
ders. They have dessert, too. In this barrage o f depth charges. A streak o f
This mua power and this rnw mate
man’s urmy, but instead o f the pies oil came to the surface, Indicating that rial should be saved fo r war lndustr?.
and we’ve all licked it, and it won’t stick.’ ’
and cakes o f peace-days, It la rice pud the submarine wns follow ing a zigzag The government needs the rnw m aw«*
Ardltl Drill.
—
x —
course.
ding, or canned fruit.
als, needs the chemicals— to lick the
Destroyed by Depth Charge.
Then
the
boy
keeps
pretty
good
hab
brenklng
on
the
upturned
sand
o
f
the
Hun.
TH E KANSAS W A Y OF W O R K IN G M A N K IN D
Another destroyer and several sub-
trenches.
Liquid fire I
The men its with the army here In France, ex
Stop wasting paper! A scrap o f pa
A Kansas grocer says he has no trouble getting his cus crouching beneath the weight o f the cept for his night hours, which he be marlne chasers Joined In the hunt, per saved Is man power saved at the
tomers to sign sugar pledges
sheet form. They think projectors look like ants confusedly comes accustomed to, and which he dropping depth charges on oil patches source.
busy.
makes up with sleep in the daylight along the route. It Is believed the sub
they are petitions and sign them without reading or <|iies- A surprising lull, and the storm hours
when Germans could see him If marine was «lamaged and that several
tion.
breaks. The very mountains tremble. he worked. The means o f going even days later It was destroyed by a depth
“ W EAR TH EM H EAVIER” $
■-
The shrill whistle o f shells now an on mild “ tears” are not at the dough- chnrge.
Unusual activity was displayed by
swered by a spiteful tap o f the ma hoy’s dlsposul In the army, and any
IS ADVICE TO WOMEN
I
chine gun. The unmistakable whine way he Is too busy beating the Ger the submarines In the Bny o f Biscay
if the torpedo, the whang o f bursting mans to think almut anything but his fo r two days on August 15 and 16. One
Cleveland, O.— “ W ear them
shrapnel, the hurtling fury o f high work, u situation which is helpful to American destroyer reported that she A heavier1 is the request o f fuel
explosives. The night Is hideous with his state o f mind, as well as his body. had destroyed or damaged a large en tt administration men here to the
death and pale Star-shells hang In the He is leurnlng good living and clean emy submnrtne on August 15. But the J women o f Cleveland. Lacy gar-
same day three American freighters ic ments are cold and require more
sky, lighting the fearful stage. The habits In the; urmy.
•detain Is falling, this time higher up
were nttackcd and two o f them, the * hent In buildings, whether homes
Doctors on Lookout.
the slope, and under Its protection the
It or offices. Therefore, if women
Then there are those army doctors Montanan and Cubore, w ere sunk.
shock troops are advancing In the
More than 450 o f the crew o f the J w ill be patriotic they w ill pass
who are continually watching to nip
French cruiser Dh P etit Thouars w ere A up some o f the dninty things
face o f a withering fire. The steady
anything in the bud that might break
note o f n rifle volley and a nmn falls
rescued by American destroyers when J they wear unseen and will don
down health o f the men. A good foot
here and nnother there as the machine
she was torpedoed on August 8, elicit A more sensible garments, say the
ball team In training never averaged
guns busily spell out death.
ing a note o f thanks from French naval { fuel men.
$
ran ufi against the shock o f his life.
higher in medical attention thun Uncle
authorities to the American naval com
Thus Are They Trained.
Sam’s fighters. Inspection takes place
Again the heavens part and the ever so often, and Is careful. The men, mander. Highest tribute was paid by
Jim knows tobacco. And
small chew of Gravely lasts
mountains seem afire. Once more the knowing they are entitled to treatment the American naval commander In WORK FOR MAIMED SOLDIERS
before he got through, Jim
so m u ch longer that it
terrible preparation, the barrage rising freely, report; sooner fo r attention. France to American, French, and Brit
costs nothin&extra to chew
made the fellow adm it
higher and higher. The sky Is red. Dentists are fa r more popular than ish destroyers which managed to bring Uceful Occupations Are Taught to
Into port the American freight steam
The
second line Is passed— and the they used to be, as well as doctors.
this
class
o
f
tobacco.
th at Real Gravely tastes
Men In Workshops In
er Westward-Ho a fter she had been
th ird ! High on the slope the flag
Even the chaps who are sent back
Wales.
better and gives a satis
torpedoed,
thus
saving
an
extremely
waves In triumph, and a faint hoarse to hospitals gain by the deal, despite
It
feet
further—
that
’>
why
yum
valuable
cargo
o
f
airplanes,
field
ar
faction you can't get out
shout steals across the valley. The the popular belief. By fa r the larger
eu» trt the to .J tutte t f this tlutt
London.— Mrs. Lloyd George, w ife
attack has succeeded! The fighting numbpr o f men in hospitals have mere tillery, rifles, machine guns, and am o f the British prime minister, has been
of ordinary tobacco. A
$/ Cthatsc withe»! tutru tut.
munition.
and the turmoil dies.
ly temporary disabilities.
In her native Wales opening a hostel
On the silence breaks the measured
The army hospitals run on one basis,
fo r training disabled soldiers in rural
trend o f men and In the light o f a flick that o f making a man better fo r serv
CUT OUT FIS H ,” SAYS EDITOR Industries, the first o f Its kind In
ering lantern we see the stretcher- ice than he was before. O f course
Great Britain. Many crafts are being
bearers carefully swing up tho road there are men who must go hack home Walter Consults Head Waiter and A«- carried on In Tregnant, the little vil
In wonder we question one nnother. after their hospital sojourns, hut with
sistant and Then Uaea a
lage where the Vale o f Clwyd Rural
Simple American Red Cross workers, the exception o f a few cuses, they too
Knife.
Industries Workshops are established.
unfamiliar with the sterner side of leave hospitals ir. healthier condition
Toy-making and basket-making are
H , G R AV E LY T O U A C C O CO
D A N V I L L E VA
LondoU,— Dr. E. J. Wheeler, editor
war, we tvere to attend a party. than they were In when they joined
taught to the disabled fighting men,
o f Public Opinion, looks -the part of
Where are we? Where are the Aus the nrray
but It Is the furniture making depart
trians?
W ill they counter-attack?
The reason Is th is: Every means of fin eminent scholar, but he speaks ment which la especially interesting
United
States
Idiom,
occasionally
to
The wounded, the dead?
science Is used fnjely to find out what
people, fo r the work o f this branch la
In the darkness we are hailed: "Ah. ails the doughboy who enters the hos- the mystification o f waiters who serv to undertake the skilful repairing of
you Americans— you have found us! ; pltal, and before he leaves every means ed him during the tour o f the Ameri old furniture and to reproduce old g
How did you enjoy our little show? I known to cure him hns been tried. can editors.
Welsh designs. Fine copies o f beau
Wheeler arrived In the dining room tiful old Welsh dressers and the typi
Austrians?
Trenches?
Wounded? There Is no question o f cost or whether
Established .1889
N o !— but It was only a sham figh t! It * er not he wants to take the treatment. late for dinner and, having an en cal carved oak chests and settles and
Is so we train, we Ardltl.
He gets tt— which la important, say gagement Immediately after, decided commodious linen presses o f the prin
A Successful Unsi ness Career of
physicians, since an enormous amount to have dinner rb quickly as possible. cipality are being turned out by the
“ I w ill have no soup and you can cut dlsablt»d soldiers.
Old Soldier« Buy Bond*
o f disability in civilians Is allowed to
Twenty-Five Years
Los Angelos, Cal.— Civil war veter Increase, because o f antipathy o f many out the fish,” he told an attentive
Swiss.
ans at the National Soldiers’ home at people to medical treatment.
Set New Cattle Record.
The waiter withdrew silently. Pres
Sawtelle, near her«», pledged them
The anklier who arrives at a hos
Kansas City, Mo.— The largest num
selves to buy $64,000 worth o f War pital Is practically certain to get nn ently he was observed In earnest eon- ber o f cattle with the highest valuation
INTEREST P A ID ON TIME
Savings stamps. The aoldlers of '61 X-ray examination all over, unless his eultatlon with the head waiter. The ever known In the local stock yards Is
are
also heavy Liberty loan subscrib trouble Is a mere scratch and he Is latter dignitary called another waiter the record recently rande by the Kan
DEPOSITS
ers.
nil right otherwise. I f nnythlng ails into conference. A fter a few minutes’ sas City stock yards. Some 37,600 cat
him. the tuedlcnl meu find It out, and delllx'ratlon. heads close, the waiter tle were left from th«> previous day’s
Officers and Directors
they go right after the ailment at once. slipped away and came back with a receipts. together with 5.000 from the
Merchants Mine Coal.
Logan., W. Va.— Twenty-five busi Thus the soldier who came la to g»>t knife.
previous week. A total rew lpt fo r the
H. Hirschberg, Pres.
D. W. Sears, V. P.
H e picked up the platter and. going dey, estimated at 33,000. brought the
ness men proved their patriotism when his appendix removed may have his
Ira D. Mix, Cashier
they donned overalls and spent half a lungs treated, his teeth fixed nnd his to Wheeler's place, very carefully ex grand total to about 75,000, the mark»1»
record here. At an average o f $80 »
day
In the coal mines near here. They deaf «>ar operate«! upon and made per tracted the fish bones.
W. H. Walker
T. A. Allen
O. D. Butler
That, the editors understand la heed the total valu ed«» egegeded W r
tended 160 tons o f coal and presented fect. He Is a dedd«*dly bettqr human
Swiss for “ cut oat the Bah.”
their
Mm Red Crow,
being for his hospital experience.
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The Fellow who fr.
argued with Jim
the other night
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