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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1918)
T il POLK COUNTY A H il-W —My Newspaper. POST, Nklithed Twdee a Week at Independence, Polk County, Oregon, on | Tuesday and Friday OREGON NEWS NOTES KEEPING HOME FIRES BURNING OF GENERAMNTEREST UNTIL THE SOLDIER RETURNS Kntared as second-class matter March 26, 1918, at the postoffice at In- ] The Red Cross ha* for year* been dependence, Oregon, under the Act of March 3,1879. associated with hospitals, doctors, sol diers, sailors, battles, disasters; but It Subscription Rates« $1.50 a Tear Strictly In Advance; Six M onths is only within the last few months that those who do cot come under f 1 JO; Three months SO cents. All subscriptions stopped at expiration. any of these classes have come to real Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor Living Is more difficult for every one children are necessary the Home Serv In war times, and the mothers are lone ice Is ready to assist, to secure proper mation of Our Readers. ly and discouraged, and this brings hardship on the heads of the little children. Sometimes the wife and mother is worrying over financial prob lems, and here the Home Service bu reau Is always helpful, for it tactfully assists her in properly managing her affairs, In planning her Income and, of course, seeing that she Is receiving sufficient allotment, and this regularly, and then If It becomes necessary the Red Cross Is always ready to supple ment the Income. Where medical care or operations for the welfare of the care for the children needing It and to ease the mind of the mother. Freewater Is suffering from an epi demic of typhoid fever. ize the importance of the assistance Cove farmers are plowing by night rendered by the Red Cross. as well as by day In the endeavor to CLYDE T. ECKER, Editor. Soldiers and sailors must be encour get their fall plowing finished. aged to "carry on.” Their morale A grain-grading school was held for be upheld. The sailor or soldier With the coming of another Christmas, we are ap must three days at Dufur for the benefit who Is worrying about the welfare of of the grain growers of Wasco county. proaching an era of peace on earth, good will toward men. his family is not able to put his mind on the business before him. For this A fund of several hundred dollars While the great world war is over, there are revolutions j reason the Home Service Section of for the aid of the new Czecho-Slovak the American Red Cross has'been or and rebellions in many countries and it will be many ganized, republic has been raised In Linn coun and to the folks at hon\e It ty. months before order is restored and staple governments | means neighborliness, counsel and aid With exhibits far superior in quality —the nation's assurance to the enlist formed. All things considered this should be a merry ed man that his family shall suffer for to those of any previous show, the no essential thing that Is within Its annual Western Oregon Corn Show Christmas. Light is dawning and dark clouds of sorrow power to give. was held is Eugene last week. and despair brought on by the jealousys, the greed and j In practically every large city ef th* At a special school election, the United States there Is already • das* brute ambitions of men are drifting away. taxpayers of St. Helens voted to build for training the workers of the H6me By JEANNE JUDSON. a new school house and to incur a Service section, so that they may be bonded indebtedness of $25,000 for to efficiently deal with the very When W. J. Bryan was Secretary of State he negotiated able real problems that are before them. that purpose. Frightened and pitiful, they walk apart, • * It Is not the policy of the section to The emergency board has created and successfully arranged treaties with a dozen or more force Through the familiar village street, grown strange, upon families the aid of the Red deficiency appropriations for the next Hand clasped in hand, they hear weird echoes start nations for the arbitration of all questions of dispute. He Cross nor to burden them with Inter to take care of amounting From ruined homes. Fear dumbs each small, child heart. to legislature No family should be ap was ridiculed at the time and has been ridiculed since for ference. $652,385, according to figures com proached unless some member of the / piled by Secretary Olcott. or some person capable of No tears rain down like dew to ease their woe; so doing. Now it is just beginning to dawn in the minds | family speaking for them has asked for the Spanish Influenza has passed under Horror has dried the wells from which they sprang. of the world that these same treaties will come mighty service. Because It Is the desire of Like wee crusaders of tHe long ago, the list of quarantinable diseases In Committee on Civilian Relief, un-' Their phantom banners in the bqeezes blow. Oregon as the result of action taken handy as a basis or a stepping stone to a permanent world the der whose direction this work comes, by the state board of health at its an to keep the service of the bureau | peace. Mr. Bryan was only following his custom of being strictly nual meeting, held In Salem. If one should call out “Follow!” they would run, confidential, the wearing of too premature with his ideas and issues. He travels from any uniform by the Horae Service Grime of the highway on their tiny feet, The state convention of the Chris workers has been discouraged. They Heedless alike of dust and blazing sun, tian Endeavor society will be held in five to fifteen years ahead of the world; if he had kept) call simply as friends and try to call | Forget, as dreams, the horrors that were done. Albany In February. It Is expected Immediately when requested. back with the crowd he would have been president. that about 800 delegates from all sec In no instance Is a visitor permit None calls; weary they rest within the shade, tions of the state will attend. ted to pry into the secrets of the fam The ruined church, where once they learned to pray. A shipment of 29,857 pounds of tow ily. Help Is always ready, and the call JELLY, JUICES AND JAM Long years before the war had come, and laid usually comes from the man In the has been made by the board of control Their homes in ruins, made their hearts afraid. service himself. Through the work to a packing company at Philadelphia, ers In the camp or at the front he BONNIE’S DEAD FOR KEEPS the tow being from flax grown at the learns that his family may be assisted, j Before the Holy Mother low they bow, prison, and it commands a price of 25 (Osborne Village Deacon.) and If he does not hear regularly or Perhaps she hears and soon will bring them aid. cents a pound, or $7964 for the ship encouragingly he is quite apt to talk must be she whose voice is calling now, You have a long, sad wait coining to you, my friends, if ment. with the Red Cross man or wo- j It For see the cross is shining on her brow! you imagine that bevo will ever put life back into “ My over man the affairs of hts home when he Children in the McAlpln school, sev learns of the friendly Interest, and eral miles east of Salem, protested Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean.” The light around her head, a nimbus gleams, thus send local workers to his family. when their teacher pasted a picture of ~*x— A Red Cross worker, not from Heaven, they know, The school teachers also are often the the ex-kaiser alongside that of Presi Informants, for they know through the Yet Mary heard and sent her here ij; seems, THIS TIME MAUD RAKED THE JUDGE* dent Wilson on the wall of the school children of the needs at home and are To lead them home to shelter and to dreams. room, and as a result of the protest (By Tennyson J. Daft.) glad to see the family's problems she resigned. Maud Muller was a farmerette. While she was making solved. Without the slightest congestion In lng period of their service by writing hay some day care. And, oh, the difference TURN THE BOYS’ THOUGHTS the movement of the Hood river val the right kind of letters, letters full of It will make In their lives If they will ley apple The judge, for reasons now unknown, once chanced to crop of this year, a tonnage the home feeling, the mother feeling. Just remember that there Is always HOMEWARD, SAYS FOSDICK, This appeal Is made to mothers, fa somebody, always 1 pass that way. of almost 1100 carloads has been thers, sisters and sweethearts b f the Help them to remember. Help them moved to points of distribution, with He made a smart remark, of course, whereat Maud an ASKING CO-OPERATION War Department. It Is hoped that mil to come home clean and fine. Don’t a more noticeable celerity than in the swered “ Fudge 1” lions of inspiring letters will be writ let them spoil everything now. They past seven years. (he week of December 15, desig have been so splendid. If you think An eight-day open season for Chi And then instead of raking hay, she deftly raked the Washington. — (Special.)— Just be ten ns tod ns “I.etters-from-home" week. this letter will help them give It to nese fore leaving for France to superin judge. pheasants in Umatilla county will tend me demoralization activities ot I’i1 ll>!l a "I press are co-operating to them. If they have no mothers let me those organizations which recently :.e ii ; i nt success of the plan. — x — be their mother until they have come be sought by representatives of the took part In the United War Work back and taken the high places that Umatilla County Fish and Game club Suggestion for Mother's Letter. WRITE THIS CORRECTLY FROM DICTATION Campaign, Raymond B. Fosdlck, Soe of M ine: await them here. Tell them to write at a meeting in Portland this week. , Chairman of the Commission on Train They’re sending you home to me at to me. How I should treasure their Shooters want at least two Sundays (Tit-Bits.) ing Camp was gltuatlon Interviewed I on this game. Through all these months of letters As Hugh Hughes was hewing a yule log from a yew tree,. wlth regard Activities, t0 the pre8ent of last. And, erf course, you will write to me. open watting and longing I’ve been wearing Prevalence Influenza In a man dressed in clothes of a dark hue, came up to Hugh our overseas forces, Just say that you understand—that many parts of of the Spanish you and holding my head you state led the execu know why I have written this let and said, “ Have you seen my ewes?” “ If you will wait “T11®. j,robl,!,H p ”“8®“*®*1 by ,.th® a high star and for thinking wonderful thoughts ter. Then I can wait months—yes. tive committee of the Oregon State until 1 hew tills yew to use 111 my fireplace, 1 Will go with two million men three thousand miles about you. I’ve watched yojt through even years—knowing that you will Teachers’ association to postpone In you anywhere in Europe to look for your ewes,” said from home 18 one which win tax aii ocean mists and dreamed anxious come home to me as fine and clean as definitely the general sessions of the TTit irVi our soc*a* resources,” said Mr. Fos- dreams. Yes, and cried a little, too, you were when I sent you away to convention set for Portland, Decem llllgn. dick. “It Is above all a morale prob but not when people could see. camp so long ago. MOTHER. And now you're coming home. Oh, ♦ + ♦ * + ♦ ♦ * * * + ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ber 26, 27 and 28. — X — lem, and It must bo faced as such, with C. A. Mofey, a rancher, age 40, shot It seems too good to be true. I’ve Just Confidential ® fun here co-operation of famines and killed Alfred Schaefer, a neigh , . ,, advice , T to . , old maids: , Stick * A ’round i i • i under hj*. friends in this country, If It is and to read your letters again. They say so PURPOSES OF FOOD tllC mistletoe fill (Ifly. It S <1 slim chance H ilt t a k e i t. I be solved successfully. Every one who much more than yon ever thought bor, in a field near Schaefer’s home, ADM IN ISTRATIO N T H E when you were writing them. Just has a son, a brother, must help. 40 miles-from Heppner. Morey then DAY OF ITS BEGINNING. “While the war was on our boys happenings—that’s all most of the drove to Lexington and surrendered were fully occupied; they were still things you wrote about were to you. The hopes of the Food Admin to a deputy sheriff. He said Schaefer filled with the spirit of adventure, Bot to me they said you were facing istration are threefold: So to had invaded his home. looking forward rather than back, the biggest thing In life, facing it guide the trade In fundamental To avoid the possibility of having to Now. however, the fighting Is at an bravely, as I should want my son to food commodities as to elimi restore the influenza ban on public end. They are going to remain, most face It You were offering your body nate vicious speculation, extor- of them, many months doing work and your sonl for a thing bigger than gatherings in Eugene, Mayor C. O. tlrn and wasteful practices and which will be neither exciting nor you or me or America. Paterson ordered that all cases of the to stabilize prices In essential particularly Interesting. They will get When I wrote to yon I tried to staples.—Herbert Hoover, Au disease must be quarantined and pro write cheerful, encouraging letters, lonesome, bored and terribly home gust ID, 1917. hibited the holding of public or pri because I did not want you to go Into sick. vate dances until further notice. “The $170,000,000 raised in the re battle feeling that I was holding yon Production of cheese handled by the cent United War Work drive Is to be back from the big sacrifice. It’s only *till one day Bam ty gave him a chew o f Real Gravely. Coos and Curry Counties Cheese as used precisely to bridge over this pe now, when the fighting Is over, that I sociation for this year up te Novem riod by providing recreation and can let down a little and be Just your SEVEN LOAVES OF BREAD It was an hour or more swers Barney. “This amusement. Hut no amount of mere mother, Just the woman who loves ber totaled 1,626,750 pounds, for which before Andy said any class of tobacco lasts FOR EVERY PERSON IN money expended In such a way will be you better than anything else In the $398,039.57 was paid to the dairymen. enough. VVhnt these hoys really want world and Is so glad to know you're thing. “How much so much longer it costs U. S. SAVED FROM WASTE With two months remaining of the coming back to her that she doesn't Is not diversion, but human Interest longer does this Grave no more to chew it than ijear the total production will probably and sympathy. These things express care who sees her cry. ly hold its good taste?” ^ordinary plug costs.” ed in letters from home will warm Perhaps for some of the boys who Farmers and Threshermen Patrioti exceed $500,000. U. S. Grant, of Dallas, one of the their hearts and create -a home at have stood with you so finely through he says.— “Two or I cally Respond to Call of Food most prominent Angora goat breeders mosphere around them, even while these trials the fighting Is not yet all why yum j three little squares last ran It yet t f t the further—that'i Administration. they are absent from the family circle. over. The fighting I mean Is that be in the Pacific northwest, was re food tolte e f this clou me all morning,” an- ef (o hocco without “Such letters may be a very neces tween a man and himself, and for extra cott. elected president of the National Mo . „ „ . . sary sheet anchor to windward In the many of them this will be the hardest _ hair Growers' association, In annual case of some boys. The thought of battle ’of all. During the long days From «“ formation received by the session at Phoenix, Arlz. Mr. Grant some one waiting for them, counting and evenings of wnlting before they U. 8. Food Administration from the has held the presidency of the asso on them, will more than anything can start for home thoughts will creep principal grain growing states. It Is else, make them hold back and think into their minds which will be hard now possible to announce with fair ac- ciation for several years. twice before plunging Into situations to resist. There will be times after all curacy the amount of wheat saved last Out of 54,462 cases disposed of by * which might mean harm and unhap these months of action when the long- i harvest by Improved methods of han- the state Industrial accident commis piness for them. P U er.AVELY T O B A C C O CO , D A N V I L L E VA lng for change and for the companion- ; d,lng A^onjm g to official calcula- sion from July 1, 1914, to November “We have raised tbe claanest army j ahip of women may lead them Into as- tlonij efforts toward cleaner threshlng 30, 1918, there were but 22 appeals by In the world. We have kept it clean. soclationa which will spoil their home saved fulfc- 16,000,000 bushels of wheat workmen from the decisions of the We hope to bring It back as clean snd coming and cauae them shame and hu with corresponding savings of other commission, or an average of one ap strong as tt was when it left us. But miliation, and even perhaps make small grain harvested and threshed In peal In 2475 cases, according to m state while we believe our soldiers will them unfit to receive the love that a similar manner. In addition, other ment issued by the commission. awaits them here. stand the present test—the hardest of states, though unable to furnish fig Damages to the amount of $18,204.84 all In some ways—** bravely snd Y ob . dearest boy, are Jnst as human ures, reported greatly reduced harvest successfully as they have stood evsry as your comrades, and feelings like Established .1889 were awarded the government against other test of their manhood and en these may come to yon too. I don't losses. Willard N. Jones by a Jury In the fed Th# figure for wheat slons Is equiv durance, It Is our duty to give them ask you to crush them. They are nat alent to seven one-pound loaves of eral at Portland. The govern A Successful Business Career of ural, and they only prove that war ha* bread for every person In the United ment court all the help we can. sued $133,000, con “This, as I have said, can heat be failed to dry up the well spring of States and representa food that form tending that ts the recover Twenty-Five Years defendant de rendered by means a t letters which your emotions. I ask you only to rec erly was either an absolute loss or frauded the government of had timber will begin now, at once, not only to ognise them when they come and to was recovered only a slight extent claims to that value back in 1901. t satisfy their home longings, but to control them with the fine strength by poultry and to livestock. op Men who have attended the officers’ turn their thoughts from tasks already yon have gained while fighting for the portunities in this branch of While INTEREST PAID ON TIME conserva accomplished In the long years of Uf* Ideals and principles of America. Just tion were large, the quantity of grain training camps at the University of ahead of them.” remember that many Joyous years of DEPOSITS surpasses esrly expecta Oregon under the supervision of Col life are ahead of you and that the risk recovered tions. It Is noteworthy also that re onel John Leader, late of the Royal HOME FOLKS M itt* HELP. of spoiling them and the love that will sults were aecured principally through Irish Rifles of the British army, will fill them la too tremendous to run for voluntary co-operation. Officers and Directors instruct the high school students of Washington.—(Special.)—The War a short hour of seeming pleasure. No conservation measure of the the H. Hirschberg, Pres. D. W. Sears, V. P. In military tactics and evolu Department Commission oo Training Many of the boys who will come Food Administration, it Is declared, tions. state according Camp Activities has hit upon an Im home with yon have no mothers to has received to announcement of Ira D. Mix, Cashier more wholehearted sup portant and entirely new Idea In the write to them. Some of them may port than that pledged and rendered Colonel Lender. Approximately 3« W. H. Walker I. A. Allen 0. D. Butler "Letters-from-hoine" plan Juat an think that no onr cares what they do. by farmers and threshermen toward high schools have made arrangsmeate nounced. But somebody does care. America Pull the bova through the nxmt tsr- care*. And th* sir la they will marry reducing grain waste at Its so arc«. fat military training nader this Milk for 8lck Babies. Everywhere In the war zone there are sick babies and babies needing milk. The American Red Cross la es tablishing milk stations, and the babies of Italian soldiers are beginning to thrive already under the competent care of the nurses, some of whom were Infant Welfare nurses In our own country before going overseas. At Children of the Crusade Andy used buy, the biggest plug for the. money PEYTON BRAND J Real ezch. Gravely Chewing Plug piece packed in a pouch • The Independence^eUionol Bank