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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1919)
Industrial accidents reported to the Fred K Ward, millionaire stockman state industrial accident commission of Hemet, Cal., has notified A. H. Lea, during the past week totaled 438, of secretary of the Oregon state fair, that A Warn I-WaaMy Newspaper. which three were fatal, as follows: the directors of the Loa Angeles fair Orville W. Holford, Baker, mining; have Mr. Lea’s name under considera Fablished Twioe a Week at Independence, Polk County, Oregon, on Bert M. Bivens, Ontario, lumbering; tion for a possible secretary of that Tuesday and Friday Cans A. Weod, Portland, traveler on Principal Events ef the Week public highway (automobile collision). Principal Event« ef the Week association at a salary af $5000 a year. Thirty-one residents of Swiss Home, Briefly Sketched for Infer* Nearly 1000 applicants for work, Entered as secoruf-class matter March 26, 1018, at the postonica at In Briefly Sketched for Infor Lane county, have petitioned the pub many of them recently discharged sol- lic service commission to order the dependence, Oregon, under the Act of March 3,1879. motion of Our Reader«. mation ef Our Reader«. dlers, are being placed dally in Oregon Willamette Pacific Railway company by the United States employment serv to maintain a station agent at Swiss Sabecriptioa Rates« $1.50 a Tear Strictly In Advance; Six Months Senator Chamberlain, of Oregon, waa Home. They contend there is enough A. T. Bonnett, well-known Oregon ice, despite the surplus of unskilled «1.00; Throe months SO cents. All subscriptions stopped at expiration. business at that point to justify the pioneer, a member of the third family labor and increasing scarcity of posi 85 years old January 1. The Willamette river at Albany expense. to settle In Eugene, died there at the tions, according to statements given out by Wilfred S. Smith, state federal reached a lower point in the year just age of 76. School children of Oregon were In CLYDE T. ECKER, Editor. passed than at any time since 1861. Deschutes county may spend $134,- employment director. strumental in selling more than $2,- Oregon poultry breeders are asked, A disastrous fire that occurred at 500,000 worth of thrift atamps during 930 during the coming year. This was The death o f Theodore Roosevelt is the passing o f a the amount named In the budget ap to send data on their breeding atock Halnea destroyed five buildings and 1918 and in every way joined In keep to U. L. Upson. O. A. C., Corvallis, fed caused damage that 1* estimated at lng “ Oregon first” in war activities, great man. While a large portion o f the American people proved by the county court. according to the biennial report of Official compilation of the Red eral poultry representative. Breeders $14,500. did not agree with him on many questions, each and all Cross membership returns for Oregon, are aBked to give name of breeds car Herbert Speckhart, aged 25, com Superintendent o f Public Instruction conceded his ability as a leader o f men. One who can com as reported by the various chapters, ried, number of breeders, incubator mitted suicide at the Speckhart ranch Churchill. give the state a total of 220,417 annual capacity, estimated number of hatch near La Grande. He and his wits had The bodies o f George H. Sims and mand such as he did is extraordinary. ing eggs for sale a id total of chick* quarreled. members. his wife were found in bed at their A total of 2407 cars completely filled home in Bend. A revolver was clutch A law that veterans of the Civil war to be hatched next spring. P E R T IN E N T CO M M EN T OF TH E N A T IO N ’S P R E SS and their widows be exempted from The new milk-condensing plant built with Klamath county products were ed in the hand of the woman, and the taxes of all kinds is proposed by the at Bandon laBt summer by Giebisch £ exported from Klamath Falls during police declare there was evidence to and now owned by the North the year 1918. show she had shot her husband while E M PO R IA (K A N .) G A ZE T T E ; W e are surprised members of the Albany post of the Joplin, west Process company of Portland, Landowners In the vicinity of West he lay asleep and then had turned the Grand Army of the Republic. that the Chicago manufacturers o f genuine Indian pottery will begin operating March 1. The Stayton and Turner, In Marlon coun gun upon herself. A. C. Hampton of La Grands was and beadwork have not gone in for the German trench elected president of the Oregon State plant has a capacity of 1000 cases a ty, are planning the organization of The department of agriculture, in Its annual aggregate crop value com Teachers’ association for the ensuing day, and will afford a market for all an irrigation district. helmet. the milk produced in southern Coos Mrs. Roy Herrick and her two chil parisons, says that the total value of year at the close of the annual session and northern Curry counties. dren were fatally burned when their thirteen crops In Oregon embracing of the representative council In Port LO U ISV ILLE C O U R IE R -JO U RN A L: There was a Following an appeal from the Baker home at Silverton was destroyed by all the crops raised on the farm for land. commercial club, the public service tire. All died shortly afterward. man in our town and he was wondrous wise. He jumped 1918 was $83,287,000. This waa a rec An increase of tenfold in the num into a bramble bush and scratched his nose and eyes. Of ber of registered dairy cattle and commission telegraphed to Director December was a month of exceptlon- ord-breaker yield. In 1917 the aggre Prouty, of the railroad administration, for these crops was $78,457,000. course, his face looked pretty bad, but that was better far breeders of registered dairy stock in asking that some steps be taken to ally wet weather In Astoria. Accord gate Mail service to Canyon City aad ing to the official records the rainfall the last five years is reported from than if he’d let himself be hit. He jumped to dodge a car. save the Sumpter Valley railroad from during the month was 11.22 Inches. Prairie City, Grant county, having Tillamook county by the county agri a threatened strike and possible dis been cut off by the strike on the Sump Instead of having the compensation cultural agent. CHICAGO N E W S: An Arkansas paper notes as sig A 400-page history of Oregon by astrous consequences to the section law optional with employers, a bill ter Valley railroad, Second Assistant which that railroad covers. will probably be Introduced in the Postmaster-General Praeger has prom nificant o f something or other that Arkansas hens and J. B. Horner, professor of history at The state and local granges and sev legislature making the law compul- ised Representative Sinaott that spe the Oregon Agricultural college, Is in pullets are crowing. A blind prophet could interpret that. cial service will be provided by stage, type and will be ready for distribution eral woman’s clubs will be behind an »ory. But the phenomenon is not peculiar to Arkansas. The soon. It is profusely illustrated and effort at the coming session of the Harvey Wells, state Insurance com either by way of Condon and Fossil i legislature to have repealed chapter missioner, has been under quarantine, or via Yukiah. hens and pullets are crowing everywhere. And why describes S00 events. 381, laws of 1917, establishing certain .uttering from an attack of influenza, The Sumpter Valley railroad com Use of sulphur as a fertiliser on 7000 shouldn’t they? A ren ’t they getting the vote? dower and curtesy rights of wife and In Los Angeles, where he spent the pany has filed with the public service acres of land in Oregon this season husband. The main argument against holidays. commission a new passenger tariff, in Increased the alfalfa yield one ton an JEFFERSON (O R E .) R E V IE W : Government rail acre At present prices the Increase is the present law is the claim that it Publication of retail prices as a creasing the rate from 4 cents, the old way management is not popular with Jefferson people. worth $140,000. The cost of applica interferes with the right to make wills, jheck on food dealers has been dis rate, to 5 cents a mile. On the basis Salem has been closed tight again continued by the food administration of the passenger business done on the For the past 2 weeks there has been no fire in the waiting tion ranged from $2 to $3 an acre. because of th# rapid spread of Spanish following advices from Washington road for the last three years, this Lime corrects the soil acidity that room at the depot, owing to a lack o f fuel, and patrons influenza since the ban was lifted a that this check is now considered un- would mean an additional revenue of interferes with maximum crop produc about $12,000 a year. have suffered from cold while waiting for trains. Some tion and a circular telling how to use few weeks ago. Schools, theaters, necessary. churches, poolrooms and public places With but 264 appeals filed in 1918, a In justice court at A3toria E. P. generous individual should contribute a load of wood. it to best advantage has just been is of all kinds have been shut down, the Bailey, as manager of the Pacific Poor remarkable decrease In cases coming sued for free distribution by the soils use of pool and card tables being pro er & Light company, was found guilty before the supreme court is shown la department of the Oregon Agricultural » J E L L Y , J U IC E S A N D J A M hibited entirely. In addition restric in a charge of permitting crude oil to a statement issued by Court Clerk Ben college. tions are placed on the entire business flow into the waters of the Columbia son. In 1917 there were 332 cases. Captain Ivan D. Applegate, a widely The falling off is attributed largely 4« river and fined $250. known octogenarian, and a pioneer of section. DAI) D IDN ’T “ F IG G E R ” ON SELLING F. L. Kiger, a Umapine rancher, was the prohibition law and the workmen’s Thirty guests escaped in their night Dav Boydston, an Oregon drayman, did some hauling southern Oregon, was fatally burned fatally burned when a five-gallon can clothes when the brick building occu compensation act removing personal while standing before an open fire at for a stranger. The latter having nothing less than a ten his home in Ashland. His nightrobe of distillate which he was carrying in pied by the Albert hotel and the Op- injury cases from the courts. Figures Included in the report of dollar bill, tendered jt in payment. Dave looked at the ignited, burning the flesh from his , to his house exploded, setting fire to .imist Publishing company at The his clothing and to the house. He Dalles, was destroyed by fire. The the state industrial accident commis bill a moment and then said: “ Gosh, 1 wasn’t figurin’ on shoulders to his feet. jumped through a window and man loss is estimated at $40,000. sion show that accidents reported to Business men o f North Bend and sellin’ but you can have the horse.” aged to reach an irrigation ditch, O. S. Blanchard, of Grants Pass, has the commission during 1918 have av Marshfield again are discussing the — x— where he was found by a neighbor. seen appointed by Governor Withy- eraged 84 for each day of the year, plan of consolidating the two cities. W HE N THE G I R L ’S MAMMA IS A YOUNG W ID O W By combining North Bend, Marshfield, He was taken to a Walla Walla hos combe as a member of the Oregon bu or a total of more than 25,000. For reau of mines and geology. Mr. Blan 1917 the total was slightly more than A young miss said the other day: “ Men must be awful Englewood and Bunker Hill, and pos pital, where he died. While the great majority of the log chard succeeds J. F. Reddy, of Med 15,000. The increase is due largely sibly Eastside, there would be a city scarce. Every time Lee takes me out, mamma goes along ging camps in the Columbia river dis ford, whose terra has expired. to increased activity in shipbuilding. o f about 14,000 population. trict have closed down for several too.” While no definite action has been Warden Stevens has proposed to the Two days after celebrating the 57th weeks, the Palmer camp, on the Wal- .tate board of control to install a light taken by state or United States author — x— anniversary of his marriage to Eliza luski, is still in operation. The com ing plant at the state penitentiary at a ities, the federal government, it was FU LL P A R T I C U L A R S OF THE HACK BONE beth E. Butler Christmas day, 1861, pany expects to finish cutting its tract minor cost to provide 150 horsepower recently announced, may apply $64,000 Lycurgus Davis, aged 80 years, died (B y Sammy.) there about the middle of February md furnish night lighting for both to the construction of the proposed “ The backbone is a long, straight bone. Your head sits on the donation land claim three miles if the weather conditions permit, and he penitentiary and asylum. Loop road, which will connect the north of Eugene that has been his so will continue operating until then on one end and you sit on the other.” Withdrawal of the Spruce Produc- Columbia highway with the old Barlow home continuously since 1847. without interruption. ton division soldiers from mills and trail, located in the upper Hood River - x— After more than two months of com Three Portland boys in the United ogging camps in the Coos bay district valley. In this case Oregon will ex parative inaction, during which the TOAST FOB A FIRE ENGINE DEDICATION States army in France have been dec cas caused a marked shortage of help, pend a like sum. “ May she 1 m * like the dear old maids o f our village; al influenza held sway, Klamath Falls orated simultaneously with the dis ind woikmen can obtain work wher County Clerk Brown estimates that has again resumed its normal activi tinguished service cross for bravery in ever industries are operating. 4000 Umatilla county citizens whose ways ready, but never called fo r.” ties. A few cases of the Influenza are action, according to information re Much valuable war work was done names appear on the registration still in quarantine, but the epidemic ceived. They are Major Sereno E. in Oregon by home demonstration books of the county have failed to is believed to have spent Us force. Brett, tank corps; Major Karl J. Swen »gents, according to a summary just vote at any of the three elections dur One thousand employes of the Sump son, medical corps; Private Ernest C. -ompleted. Beginning the year with ing the past two years. The office ia ter Valley railroad, a narrow guage Kyle, stretcher bearer. Two o f them » single worker the work has enlarged now engaged in eliminating these line serving a large lumbering dis were born in Portland. intil the close of the year finds 10 names from the rolls. Four thousand trict contiguous to Baker, decided to Wooden five-masted fore and aft workers in the field. names is about 40 per cent of the total strike on December 31, following fail schooners are by far the best type of registration for the county. D B McKnight, Linn county judge, ure of the road’s management and em vessel to be constructed for lumber who ha# had the distinction of offlei- The Baker Commercial club will ployes to agree on a new wage scale. carriers, contends Captain William I. ittng at more weddings than any other send Joseph N. Teal, of Portland, and For the second time in two months Eyres, of Astoria, inspector ef hulls ceraon in the county for several year» D. C. Ecclea and Frank Gardiner, of the Eugene city officials have lifted for the emergency fleet corporation. cast, maintained his reaord in 1918 Baker, to Washington to confer with the ban on public gatherings made H# urges that coast yards which are He performed 40 marriage ceremonies railroad administration authorities necessary by the recurrence of the in practically idle as the result of the n the year just ended. satisfaction without extra A . Ed never could see any there on the situation on the Sumpter fluenza epidemic. The health authori cancellation of government contracts cost, I’ll buy your plug for j chew but a big hunk of All employes of the Pendleton Wool- Valley railroad, provided the railroad ties say that danger that the disease be utilized for the construction of that a month.” Hanged it E d 5 '? oversweet tobacco. “ You mills who have been on the pay- administration has ‘‘an open mind” on will spread to any great extent is now didn’t walk in next d a y . £ i class of vessels. take this p fu g o f R ea l •oll during the past year will partici the subject, according to advlcoo re past. Failure to make required reports to pate in extra earnings amounting to ceived by the public service commis grab off a plug o f G ravely & Gravely,“says Hank.‘T a k e The first car of ground limestone and throw down his m oney j f ' the food administration has caused th# several thousand dollars, th# manage sion. a small chew—two or three from the stnte lime plant, ordered co - 1 just like a little man! revocation of the milling licenae of the ment has announced. The earning» squares. See how long it A state fund for providing subsidies operatively by Lincoln county farmers Fischer flour mills, a large concern of will be baaed ea wages. holds its pure, rich taste. for high-elass bulls in order to elim through the office of the county agri It i f fttrtktr tkmt’i m tf Ms « a H I Silverton. This Is the first milling If you don’ t admit that The $7th annual convention ef th# inate entirely low- brooding strains, la tké m W u » u »/ t U t tls — i f u f o iw t ‘ cultural agent, arrived at Toledo. At license In this district to be revoked. Dregon Dairymen's aaeoetatton will be a plan which ia being advocated by Gravely gives you tobacco m i a m m l. least half a dozen cars of lime will be A representative of the grain corpora aeld January 14 aad 1* 1» Hillsboro. cattle men of the state, particularly ordered for use in the county during tion dlviaion ef the food administra The convention will take the place of for dairy herds and legislation to pre the coming year. tion was placed in charge and will he regular fanners’ week and ahert vent the sale of bulls for breeding Burglars forced the rear door of the remain at the mill until the ban on •nurse that ueually is held at th# Ore- purposes unless *Heh arc eligible to McMinnville post office and made an further business is lifted. ion Agricultural college. j registry, will ho presented to the legis attack on the safe. After knocking The report of the fir production Charise H. Oram, labor eemmisslo*- lature, State Veterinarian Lytle has w » off the combination knob, they filled board. H. B Van Duzer, chairman, •r-alect, haa aanounead th# pereonaol announced. P 0 CHAV E LY T O B A C C O C O . , D A N V I L L E VA the safe with nitroglycerine, but be shews the remarkable record of $30- if hit deputiee. with one eaceptloa. Organisation of an $800,000 oemcern fore discharging the blast they were 000,000 worth of timber, allocated and 3 . h . Haaeoa. Pertlaad; J. C. Brad-, with R. B. Kingman as presideat aad frlghteaed away and left their teola expedited at an expense of but 14 lord, Oarvallia, aad J. H. Weal, Salem, A. W. Miller, vlce-preaident aad treas and the unfinished job. cents per thousand for supervision and u-e the three deputlaa named under urer, te build aad operate a sawmill Appropriation ef $10,000 for pur accounting, representing lean than he factory taapecMon law. ef 100.000 feet capaeltr, either at Bu chase of additional land for the south- pens or in the company's timber ia half #1 1 per c*“ 1 of th* tot*1 Talu9 Attorney-Dan»** R e » * > “ * tien at Talent, by the county oeurt of of lumber product» handled through .truoted by the state haard nf coatrol the Alaea coumtry, haa beea anneuacad Jackson county, is a remarkable trib- Established .1889 the medium of the fir production « start ojootaaoat proceeding# again» at ffiugeae. Coastrao44oa work on the ern Oregon branch experiment * te taard. wKh the lumber manufacturers he Salem Hospital aeeoeiatton. pro- plaat is expeetad to atart seen and the nts to its value to agricultural Inter •I Oregon and Washington. fidlng the building tt now oecuplaa mill probably wiH be la operation ests, thinks Deaa A. B. Cordley. direct J. H. Scott, engineer for the atnte 1 »ad which U the property of the niata, early In the spring. or ef the state experiment ntatieas. IN T E R E S T P A ID ON T IM E highway department, haa been in I a not vacatod hy January 1$. A flock of IT! milk geatn, inspected Soldiers from the Pacific roast and Mood River going over the route of A decided decreane ia th# number of and graded by experts ef Oregea Agri D E P O SITS northwest states, whs are with the the MoelerHood River exten.lon of nduetrtal acotdente te show, la the cultural college, will arrive at the 91st division, which was organised at Ue Columbia R i w highway with i itatemeat iaeued last weak br the Portland Union stockyards about Jaa i Camp Lewie. Wash., are net slated for Officers and Directors prospective bidder« on contract» for itate Induatrlal accident communion. uary 30 aad will be offered for sale to early return home, according to a let the construction of the six mile unit However, la the list. which total# $77 the ehlldrea of Portland elty schools ter received by Governor Wtthycombe H. Hirsehberg, Pres. D. W . Sears, V . P. of the scenic thoroughfare. Rida on Occidents, there are five fatal acoi- In the hep# of developing an Important from Maj. Gen. William H. Jehastern, Ira D. Mix, Cashier the contract» will be opened by the lants aa MIowi; R A. Bealer, Oa- industry ameng elty children. The commander ef the division. General etate highway commission Janaary < ario. loggia«: J »• " * « » K w p a . milk-goat project ban received the la- W . H. Walker I. A . Allen O. D. Butler Johnston pointed out that the list had In order that smaller contractor» may oggtac; Thoma# W FhUMga. Poweea, > dorsemeat of the school authorities bean selected as one ef thirty combat A Successful Business Career of be given an opportunity to bid on the owing; T H ffihoaor. Partlaad. thlp the city, who have arranged far the divisions designated to remain la work, the • ti«n e u«tt ha* hoen dt- »»tiding; A. H. DuraaL Portiaad. Jam- format loa of "goat clubs” aatong the Twenty-Five Years France for further training aad pa» TMtd into thre« otctlana •eheel ehlldrea. ' tar si bin service. tl ifi P O L K C O U N T Y POST.) H ank p in n ed the bee on E d fo r fa ir I r PEYJON BRAND Real Gravely Chewing Plug eachpiece packed m a pouen The IndependenceÿNationol Bank OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERALIINTEREST OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAMNTEREST
