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POLK
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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,
•
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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.
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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.
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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