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CLYDE T. ECKER. Editor.
MEAT INCREASE
AT TIMENEEDED
Producers
Responded
NoMy
. When Demand Wae Shown
to Then.
CATTLE AND HOQ FIGURES.
Government Justified In Pork
Policy
Which Nov/ Provides C h ief Sup
1918 was a great year, perhaps the most important one
since the birth of Christ. In it was completed the colossal
struggle of the ages, in it more people were freed from the
tyrant’s yoke than in any other ten years o f the world’s
existence, in it was planted the seed of democracy which
is going to grow, a blessing to all humanity until time shall
be no more. W e pass on into 1919 with a great amount of
optimism.
There# a
Salesman from
Virginia
w h o w as ch aw in g and
swapping yarns with the
m en on the Post O ffice
com er. “ H ave a chew,”
says he to Jake.
Jake
doesn’t think he’s chew
in g unless his cheek bulges
out like he had the m um ps.
"C a ll that a chew ?" ne
snorts. “ S u re!" says the
salesm an. “ T his is Real
G ravely. T hat sm all chew
s a tis fie s , and the longer
you chew it the better it
tastes.That’s why it doesn’t
cost a n y th in g ex tra to
chew this class of to b acco ."
/« f M fm t t k m - t k m fc w k jjc m cam i f
l l u i — d tette c / IÂ U L u t e ittU c m w H à r
PEYTON BRAND
Real Gravely Chewing Plug
each p iece packed in a pouch ______
HU
GRAVELY
TOBACCO
CO.,
D ANV IL LE. VA
The In depen den ce ¿N ational Bank
Established .1889
A Successful Business Career of
Twenty-Five Years
IN TEREST P A ID ON TIME
DEPOSITS
Officers and Directors
H. Hirsehberg, Pres.
D. W. Sears, V. P.
Ira D. Mix, Cashier
W . H. Walker
I. A. Allen
O. D. Butler
ply to Meet Throe BllUon
Pound Fat Shortage.
In line with the general plan o f con
servation formulated by the U. 8 . Food
Administration immediately following
the entrance o f the United States Into
the war the contribution made by the
meat producers of thin country to the
war program la o f particular signifi
cance, aa it demonstrate^ the hearty
co-operation accorded the Food Ad
ministration by the meat producers of
the country.
According to reports o f tbo U. 8.
Department of Agriculture, there wan
an lncreaee In cattle o f 10,¡188,000 beaJ
and 12,-H 1,000 bogs, these figures com
piled to January 1 last. In the same
period there waa a decrease of 819,000
bead of sheep, but Indications are this
decrease will show an Increase follow
ing the latest reports.
Since January 1 unofficial Informa
tion Indicates an Increase in hogs of
not leas than eight per cent, and not
more than fifteen per cent, compared
with one year ago, with an increase In
average weight.
Following the request o f the Food
Administration for Increase In hog
production for the fuU of 1918 and the
¡spring o f 1919 the Increase muy yield
not less than 1,000,000,000 pounds
more o f pork products than were
available last year. Without this In
crease the shipping program arranged
by Mr. Hoover regarding animal food
products would have been Impossible.
The dressed hog products during the
three months ending September 80,
1917, amounted to 908,172,000 pounds,
while for the same months of 1918 the
production was 1,277,589,000 pounds,
an increase of over 874,000,000 pounds
for the quarter.
During the same period In 1917 In
spected slaughter records of dressed
beef showed 1,263,000,000 pounds as
against 1,454,000,000 pounds for the
three month period ending September
1, this y ea r.
We most Increase our meat ship
ments, especially our pork products,
to meet the added demands of the mil
lions liberated from German oppres
sion. And at the same time we must
look forward to the rehabilitation o f
the European meat herds. The policy
which guided our meet program In the
past year has been fully Justified, t o r
only the heavy pork production which
It has brought about will enable us
even partly to satisfy the Increased
demands on us for the coming year.
There will be a world shortage In fats,
and it Is to the United States that Eu
rope must look to supply Its deficien
cy. At the same time there will con
tinue to be heavy demands for beef.
Owing to the limited refrigerator ship
ping capacity European Imports of
beef for some time will he limited.
The United States, Australia and
Argentine will be able to maintain a
supply that will keep all available
freezer vessels operating at capacity.
A m e ric a ’s P led g e to
th e A llie s W h e n T h eir
Lines W e r e B reak in g
America will send the food, what
ever needs for victory. They believed,
they stood fast and with our taea they
carried on— to victory.
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T H E T E S T NOW F U L F IL L E D .
This government Is nothing more
than the expression o f the people, and
If we are to win the war it will be only
because every mau, woman and child
charges himself dally and hourly with
the test, Does this or that contribute
to win the war?— Herbert Hoover,
April 18, 19ia
With the solemn obligation of pro
viding that “ margin’’ of food that
would safeguard against starvation
our friends In Europe the housewife
and the consumer have learned hither,
to Ignored and unsuspected things
shout food, have absorbed a whole
“ college education" In food values,
food handling, buying and substituting
that they will not want to forget.
Our voluntary food-saving not only
saved the Allies and made vital contri
bution to the winning o f the war, but
saved to ourselves In administration
expenses the outlay out o f oar own
pockets that any effective system of
rationing would have extracted. It
would have cost us about $43,000,009
to have policed ourselves aa against
the 2 cunts per capita for co-operating.
By saving and sharing America kept
the world together during the war cri
sis By saving and sharing America
will help to bring the healing of na
tions
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAMNTEREST
Principal EvButs ef Ike Wsek
Briefly Sketched fer Infest
metien ef Our Reeder«.
State Treasurer Kay, in his biennial
report to the legislature, expresses thi
belief that added duties should be giv
en to the sealer of weights and *****
ores, or the sealer and tus work should
ho transferred to the Jurisdiction of
the public service commission.
Complaint ia being mode regarding
the present train service between Al
bany and Lebanon and petitions are
being circulated In Lebanon asking
for a rearrangement of the schedule.
People of Lebanon assert that that
city baa not had auch an uaaetlsfao-
tery train aohedide for 25 years.
La Grande again has gone Into rig
orous quarantine as a result of spread
ing of the influence. At no time has
the situation been as had aa mow. Many
deaths have occurred and new cases
are developing rapidly.
Theaters,
dances, churches, lodges and all public
gatherings are affected by the d olin g
order.
One of the problems with which the
next state legislature will be confront
ed will be a deficiency of $430.16$, rep
resenting the difference la the amount
that can be levied by the state tax
commission under the 6 per cent limi
tation amendment, nod the require
ments of the state lnstitutiona and de
partments.
Thirty-four delegates from 1? farm
ing communities ef Deschutes county-
met at Redmond with the county agent
and state leader of county agents and
organized the Deschutea County Farm
Bureau. The meeting waa an enthus
iastic one, and the organisation wilt
take qn active part la the development
of central Oregon.
While the bill closing the Willam
ette river to commercial fishing south
of Oswego is now in effect. It does not
repeal a law of the 1917 legislature,
which allows abutting property own
ers along the stream to take salmon
for tbemselves and families, Attorney-
General Brown has advised the state
fish and game cotamiaaion.
The expenditure of state road funds
during the last biennium amounted to
$2,288,257.68, and 50 mlleo of hard sur
face, 111.8 miles of broken stone or
gravel, 134.5 miles of graded road*
and 40 bridges were constructed, ac
cording to figures contained in tko
advance sheets of the biennial report
of the state highway commission.
Fourth class postmasters have been
appointed in Oregon recently, as fol
lows: Alfalfa, Deschutes county, Lucy
M. Smock; Big Eddy, Waaco county,
Harriette B. Ward; Huber, Washing
ton county, Elisabeth H. Thompson;
Maplewood, Multnomah county, Ida H.
Crawford;
Mohawk, Lane county,
Vance H. Seavey; Willows, Gilliam
county. Augusta O. Parker.
Disastrous fires occurring just at
the close of the 1918 season made tho
forest loss in Oregon the greatest in
Its history, according to the report of
Stat.' Forester Elliott, now ia course
of preparation. The loss la estimated
at 1,107,743,000 feet damaged or de
stroyed, representing a monetary loo*
of $734,692.26. Of this amount he es
timates that 644,683,000 feet may bo
salvaged.
Between 2,500,000 and 3,000,000
pounds of fruit a month, or about 10
carloads a week, In an evaporated con
dition, are moving out o f the Salem
Fruit Union, which expects to pot its-
Immense orders, cleaned up by Febru
ary 1 at the latest, according to an
announcement made by Manager Rob
ert Paulus of the union. Growers will
receive as high as $160 per ton for
their prunes this year.
Oregon will be entitled to receive
$857,587 from the federal government
each year for educational purposes un
der the provisions of a national edu
cational bill introduced In Congress by
Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia, ac
cording to figures which have been
submitted to School Superintendent
Churchill of tbi* state, by tbe Nation
al Education asaeciatlaa. Tbe meas
ure, In a general war, baa far its
purpose the elimination of illiteracy,
and the general developmaat ef the
physical, mental and moral wellbeing
of young citizens.
The rivers and harbors bill «(111 In
clude Oregon projects that call for
more than $1.260,090. Immediate ap
propriations call for $96 L00O, and
$318,900 will follow later for tba Ya-
qulna river project. New projeota, with
the amounts appropriated, are as fol
lows: Cobs bay inner harbor for 22
feet. $130.000; Yaqalaa river, $100,099;
Coqutlle river bar and entrance, $84,-
000; maintenance ef present projects
at the Columbia river aatraaca, $180,-
000: lower Columbia sad W illam ette,
$42^000: Coo* bay. 974 , 900 ; upper
Willamette, $27,009.; Clatskaale river,
Benjamin Brannan, a plonaer race
horse owner of Eugene, died at his
home there at the ago of 85.
For the first time In history, Chrtst-
mas turkeys sold In the wholesale
market In Roseburg for 41 cents a
pound.
All members of the S. A. T. C. of
the Oregon Agricultural college, with
the exception of a few atudents on the
sick list, have been discharged.
Edwin B. Hatch, of Portland, was
named a member of the state hoard of
pharmacy to succeed Frank S. Ward,
of Salem, secretary of the board.
Ira Langley, a well-known cattle
man ef Dixie creek, near Rye valley,
was shot and killed by an unidentified
peraou who was hidden in the brush
near the road.
The top notch price for cattle in
Lake county was reached when W. D.
Robiueit, of Summer lake, sold ¡13
head of beef stock to W. G. Moss, of
Lakevlew, at 10 cents a pound.
State teachers’ examinations in Wal
lowa, Grant, Harney, Jefferson, Jack-
son, Coos. Douglas, Yamhill and Polk
counties were cancelled because of
prevalence of Spanish influenza.
Five very large telephone poles and
many large trees, some of which were
more than two feet in diameter, were
torn up In the vicinity of Eugene when
a small cyclone visited the section.
Gold Hill recently renewed the ban
on Influenza by quarantining all cases,
closing all public meeting places, pool-
rooms, and prohibiting the assembling
of more than five persons in public
places.
A tax levy yielding $550,782 will be
required to maintain the public schools
of Multnomah county during the com
ing year. The school census shows
62,025 children of school age In the
county.
All logging camps in Coos county,
numbering about 20, closed Saturday
night and will not resume until after
New Year’s, save the six at Powers,
which shut down tbe 24th and reopen
ed on tbe 26th.
While It is said no case of Influenza
at the state hospital for the insane
threatens te terminate fatally, Dr.
Steiner, superintendent of the institu
tion, Is contemplating closing the hos
pital No visitors.
The total assessed valuation of the
atatp la $987,523,896.97, an Increase of
$68.928,826.61 over last year, when the
assessed valuation was $928,605,670.36,
according to figures given out by State
Tax Commissioner Galloway.
All restrictions on the serving of
food by hotels, restaurants and other
public eating places were discarded
Monday, In conformity with Instruc
tions received from Washington by
the Oregon food administration.
Labor and industrial problems la
Oregon during tbe reconstruction pe
riod will be the special subject of In
vestigation and consideration ot a con
vention of the state’s leading interests
called for January 9-10-11, at Portland.
It is reported from the lower Ump
qua river that the Hubbard sawmill,
belug rushed to completion for open
ing about January 1, Is to be aban
doned and no further work will be
done upon it until the lumber sltua-
tion develops.
Tbe food administration has an
nounced the cancellation of flour mill
ing regulations. This will throw the
market wide open to millers and deal
ers to make auch prices as they see
fit on flour and mill feed, subject only
to the laws that pertain to profiteer
ing.
The new lease of the Pacific Chemi
cal company on Summer lake waa ap
proved by the state land board and
Jason Moore has forfeited the $10,000
which he had deposited to cover the
former lease. Under tbe new lease
the first payment of royalty money Is
due January 15, 1920.
Mining for gold and plmtluum will
be undertaken nt Whisky Run, a local
ity a few miles above Bandon, on the
ocean beach, where H. M. Axtell is
assembling machinery and apparatus
for tho work. Whisky Run is ene of
the places that were famous for gold
production in early days.
Ia instructions sent out to all dis
trict sealers of weights and measures $ 2000 .
Deputy State Sealer Spence Wortman
State Historian Coraelia Marvin baa
countermanded hie order ef Septem well under way the gigantic task ef
ber 27, when the district sealers were compiling the names of all Oregon
told to waive the enforcement of the men whs entered the country's service
gasoline law ns far aa the gravity of | during tbe great war. County his
the gasoline in concerned.
torians have been appointed la eaoh
All bonds ef state official* should county by the state council o f defease,
be written yearly; they should be re- ! to co-operate with Mias Marvla and
qulred to have the written approval of j facilitate the work.
Bulk records
the atterney-general. and with the ex availuble so far shew that MOO men
ception of the bonds of the treasurer j of the O. N. G. catered the regular
and secretary ef state should all be army an n unit; 7100 volunteered from
kept en file 1* the office of the eecro- July. 1117, te March. 111$; 16.000 man
tary of state. These are recommend»- were drafted; 2400 collated ia the
tlene which will be Included as a part j navy; >000 enlisted In the United
or the forthcoming biennial report Of , States marine carps; 4990 enliated In
Secretary of Bint« Olcott, which Is | the S. A. T C. an<
now An tho sours# of preparation.
K heels
SOUTH
POLK COUNTY
ROLL O FH ONOR
Killed
JOE CLARK
ROY JOHNSON
JASON A. ARRELL
D ia« la th * la n d s«
JOHN O. NASH
Missing In Action
LEE C. JORDAN
Bamaaaly W ound««
HARRY H. STALNAKEF.
ARMIN D. YOUNG
CYRIL R. RICHARDSON
Prisoner ol W ar
LIEUT. RALF A. FLOYD
BU E N A V IS T A
The high school had a very pleas
ant party Friday night.
Joe Decker of McMinnville is the
guest of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Lichty.
We wish The Polk County Post a
Merry Christmas and a Happy New
Year.
Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Chown of Wig-
rich were Sunday visitors at the Ed
Lichty home.
R. Peterson, Mr. Moe and daugh
ters, Thelma and Alice, were Albany
callers Saturday.
Addie Gobat of Albany was an
over night visitor Friday with her
cousin, Ruth Prather.
Elmer Emmons went to Albany
one day last week to see his son,
Robert, who has the measles.
Dr. Butler was called to see J. K.
Neal, who is quite ill. Mr. Neal’»
many friends hope for his speedy
recovery.
Ed Prather and son, Gale, N. C
Anderson and Teddie Steele were
business callers at Independence
Saturday.
H. T. Hill and wife of Monmouth
and J. M. Prather were Sunday visi
tors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M.
N. Prather.
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Murphey left
Sunday for a week's visit with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Wilson,
at Astoria.
The Christmas exercises that were
to be given by the M. E. Sunday
school were dispensed with on ac
count of sickness.
Mrs. M. N. Prather and Addie Har
man were out on the Red Cross drive
last week and say all were willing
to give to this worthy cause.
<
Alfred and Gilbert Loy and Gladys
Reynolds, who are attending O. A.
C. came home Friday for the holi
day vacation with their parents.
Those who were shopping in Al
bany were Ed Harmon and wife
N. C. Anderson and wife, Mrs. E. J.
Anderson, Mrs. Ed Prather and Mer
lin Prather.
The intermediate room of our
school gave a very interesting Christ
mas program Friday afternoon with
a small Christmas tree which was
enjoyed by all.
A very pleasant party was given
Saturday night at the home of Ar
thur Hale and bride. The evening
was spent in games, light refresh
ments were served and all departed
for their homes wishing the young
couple a long and prosperous life.
M a x Goldm an
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HIDES
PELTS
WOOL
rums
MOHAIB
CASQARA BARK
PORK
REEF
POULTRY
RUTTER
FARM PRODUCE
WOOD
WOOD
SHOES
DHY GOODS
GASH OR TRADE
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LAWYERS
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