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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1919)
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY •! r iiiE P olk C ounty P ost Subscription Ratos: VOLUME 1L $1.50 a Tear Strictly in Advance; Six Months $1; Throe Months 50 cents. NUMBER 5. INDEPENDENCE, OREOON, INDEPENDENCE IS CENTER FOR ROAD WORK WEDNESDAY MAY 7 WALLACE REID in “ The Source.” He was just an ordinary bum and when the girl looked on him with contempt it humiliated and changed him, and eventually he won the girl. A M ARK SENNETT COMEDY— “ Whose Little Wife Are You?” 1HURSCAY MAY 8 (Polk County Observer.) The logging camp of the Valley & Siietz Lumber and Logging Co. located in the Siietz Busin, is one of the busy places in Polk county, extensive preparations being made for lumbering on a scale unprecedented in this section. Among other improvements is a huge dam across the Big Luckiamute river, the construction of which has already occupied several months, and which will be completed by May 20 if present plans do not miscarry. A crew of fif teen workmen and a donkey engine have been engaged in building this structure, which has a height o f 41 feet, a base 120 feet wide and a length of 200 feet. The purpose o f the dam is to create a pond covering 400 acres. When the dam is completed there will be 25,000,000 feet of logs in the pond, timbermen now felling at the rate of 500,000 per day on the site of the pond. There are also 200,000,000 feet of logs on the banks of the pond to be log ged into it. A sawT mill is expected to be built and will probably be under construction within 90 days. Besides this outlay o f timber this company has railroad and grade construction for 70,000,000 feet which they expect to log during 1919 before using any of the timber on the pond. A erew is building more railroad while 17 men are repair ing the roads which are already built. The camp has Clarence Powell as superintendent. He also has charge of building the dam. There are 32 family houses, 2fi bunkhouses, two ware offices, two bathhouses, Ill two dining rooms, a recreation hall, cook house, black smith shop and oil house, all portable. There is also one fully equipped schoolhouse with 20 pupils, the teacher of which is Glenn Brown o f Salem. (Momnouth Herald.) The annual May Day Exercises of the Normal will be held on Friday, Mav 9, beginning at-9:30 <4 ’clock writli the processional, in which will be represented the Senior and Junior classes" of the Normal, the Monmouth and Inde pendence Training Schools, the Mountain View, Oak Point and Elkins Rural Centers. Other events in'which the Seniors and Juniors will contest in order to decide the winner o f the cup offered by President Ackerman to the class securing the most points are: the May Pole Winding, the Folk Dancing, an Qyiginal Drill, Tennis and Volley Ball. In addition to these events, there will be a relay race among the boys from the Training Schools and the Rural Centers, four to be selected from each school. The winner will deliver the decision of the Judges to the Queen and the school will be awarded an Oregon Normal School Pennant. The day’s activities will close with a base ball game. The Judges of the events are: Mr. H. C. Starkweather of Portland, a member of the Board o f Re gents o f the Normal; Miss Cummings, Head of the Physi cal Education Department, U. of O.; and Assistant State Superintendent E. P. Carleton. Everyone is invited. FRIDAY, MAT 2, 1910. “ V A R IE TY IS THE SPICE OF LIF E ” Martin Johnson’s “ CANNIBALS OF THE SOUTH SEAS.” Read announcements about this wonder ful picture elsewhere in this paper. One o f the best. Admission 20-30c. HUGE DAM BEING BUILT IN THE SILETZ THE NORMAL’S MAY D AY EXERCISES All subscriptions stopped at expiration. SEE All THESE GOOD ONES \* itii eight miles of roaa to be paved between iiickreall ana ludepenuence, Jiumaoutn and independence will be ver> ousy piifces tor tne next three or tour months. The Vv arren Construction Co. winch has the contract to do the worn will operate a hard suriacmg plant at Independence and tne mixing plant will be located at Monmouth. in connection witn tne worn, tne* state highway commission nas opened an ofnee in independence, rt is also presumed tnat tile Vv arren neadquarters will be located in this city also. A large number ot' men will be employeu. The paving will be sixteen feet wide with macadam of two feet on each side making a total o f twenty feet:' The grade must be scarified, leveled and rolled before tlie as phalt is put on. Only at two places will additional grad ing be necessary. One place i& at the east end o f Main street in Monmouth and the other near Riekreall. Just north o f Momnouth there is a short stretch of road that is not twenty feet wide. This will have to be tilled. FRIDAY, MAY 9 ETHEL CLAYTON in “ The Mystery Girl.” Oh Boys! Never judge a girl by her clothes! The beautiful ambulance driver, so girlish and innocent in her uniform, may really be— well, something quite different from what she looks. CHARLIE CHAPLIN in “ The Pawn Shop.” SATURDAY, MAY 10 EDITH ROBERTS in “ Sue of the South. A Blue bird y o u ’ll enjoy. SUNDAY MAY 11 Louisa M. Alcott'a most famous story, “ LITTLE WOiVlEli.” Every child should see itl Every adult snould see i t ! A s great and popular a story as it is, so it is as a picture. ! FIRST SECTION CLYDE T. ECKER, PUBLISHER WAVE OF INFLUENZA STRIKES MONMOUTH Owing to an invasion of the uniuenzu, tile Normal, scxiooia ana all puunC gauicmigs iu .mnmutni .11 nave been ou sp e iiu e u ior at lea st tv\u «vcxs. 1 ms will necessitate uie posipuiicauu, oi tne jiu ; uuy iesu.viu.es scfieuuieu lor r liuay at tne ivuiinai. m e n ; is quite u liuinoer lii at Mon- nioutu Mien tne uisease, out no wnere near tne number reponeu. xu r exoinpie, it was loin in ibaieni t.nis wees, inui mere were one Lnousanu eases, ilie total population 01 Jiiouiuouin, mciuuing jNornuu stuueiits, will not ex- ceeu sou. m ere nas been no tieains. -tivery precaution is ueing taken by the Independence city council, tne inuepenuence sonooi board, and heaitn omeers to prevent tne disease entering tins city. A t the present time tnere is not a single case in Independence, i'upiis are cureiudy watched and li one appears with a cold, cougu or sore tlirout, he is sent home. Training school teueners are stay ing in independence and are not permitted to return to the Normal at Monmouth. CANNIBALS OF THE SOUTH SEAS “ Cannibals of the ¡South ¡Seas", photographed at the risk of life by the daring adventurer, Martin Johnson rep resents fourteen months of Hazardous exploration in the ¡South Pacific where tfie man eating savage still abounds. Motion Picture Classic says: “ They have ten times the grip of an average phofopiay.” Motion Picture News de clares they are “ remarkable and probably the most un usual that have ever been taken.” The N ew ’York Times says they are “ absorbingly interesting.” “ Cannibals o f the ¡South ¡Seas” is an uustaged human drama, thrilling, exciting, entertaining and unusual. A t the Isis on Thurs day evening, May 8. CITY AND COUNTRY Captain Ray M. Walker is expected to arrive in Inde pendence on any train. The required number of signers has been secured fo r subnntting the road bond bill to the voter’s of Polk county and it now awaits action by the county court. Neville Eklridge returned from M edford yesterday where he has been for the past week superintending the installing of the machinery in the creamery there. THE BEAT PARAMOUNT PICTURES i f Independence celebrates and it no doubt will, it will be a neighborly, “ just us and y ou ’ns,” keep-the-money- at-home affair that everybody will enjoy. HILLS AND FIELDS ARE ALL “ DOLLED U P ’ Carl Fenton, well known thruout' the state as an athlete and a Polk county young man who served with credit in the American army in France, died at his home in Dallas today. * „ ‘ (¡Salem Capital Journal.; Our route lay irom ¡Salem to independence, thence to Momnoutn ana Dallas and. back to ¡saiem by way of ltick- reaii, a distance ot approximately 3b nuies. It is a loafing pace tiiree dour drive, with from a hail to three quarters of an hour taken out for stops, and an ideal spin for the late afternoon and early evening hours. Right now tfie scenic beauty o f this little trip is beyond description, lu c r e is hardly a rod of tfie road that does not present a landscape view but which would delight an artist’s heart and inspire his brush. Brilliant green fields stretching away to equally verdant hills, freshly clothed snrubs and small trees mingling with the somber tones of the evergreens, splashes of color here and there where the wild fiowers or the orchards are in bloom— all of that and a thousand times as much waiting for you and the other fellow to go out and drink it in. True much of this beau ty will remain thruout the slimmer, but much of it won’t. The freshness will be gone, the roads will be dusty and the sun hotter. Also, as the season advances so will motor paths open further and further into the mountains, or to ward the coast and the call of the road will lead the motor ist farther away from home. These Little valley jaunts EASTER STAR HAS M AY DAY PARTY are for tpday and tomorrow, Little pace finders for the ^ - A # “ You must wake and call me early, call me early, longer trips ahead. mother dear— For Pm to be queen o ’ the May, mother, I ’m to be queen REBEKAHS ROYALLY TREATED AT McCOY o ’ the M ay” were the words of little Mary Elizabeth Mansfield, who was crowned Queen o f the May at the A large body o f Rebekahs journeyed to McCoy last Eastern Star children’s party Thursday evening. Every Saturday evening and put on the work of initiating candi thing breathed of apple blossom time. The children un dates a( that place. About fifty people went from Inde der the capable direction of Miss Emily Devore presented pendence and they report that McCoy rose to the occasion a pleasing program, closing with the May pole dance, with generous hospitality. ’round and ’round the traditional colorful pole. Miss De One of those in attendance lias furnished The Post with vore deserves much credit for her painstaking work with the information in an anonimoifs communication that W il the youngsters. Mrs. Oliver Smith was the pianist for the lard Craven and Lee Robinson, two rooster Rebekahs, children’s program. The finished musicians of independ who went along, came to grief. Willard was arrested for ence, including some favorites from Monmouth, rendered jay walking and Lee for sussing a traffic policeman. a program o f appropriate songs. Neither had money and both left their watches as security The children were served first in the banquet hall and for bail. each was delighted to find at his or her place, a pretty It is expected that the post office at Parker will be open May basket as a souvenir o f the occasion, and the ice cream and cake hit the right spot. ed in the verv near future. Crops arc coming fine and it looks as if we would also have enough fruit to feed the world— with the exception of prunes. ¡Several reports concerning the yield o f primes tliis year are not very encouraging. A loop automobile ride that is being encouraged by the towns mentioned is to start at Independence, then to Sa lem, thru Jefferson to Albany, thence to Corvallis and back to Independence. Many are making this loop and seeing the garden spot of the world in full bloom and at its best. j When the G. A. R. of Dallas picked out Dr. H. C. Duns- more as the orator of the day for their memorial services, they ettose a speaker who will hold the attention o f all those who chance to hear him. His message will not only be delivered eloquently but will be full o f wisdom and patriotism. Dr. Maurice J. Butler was elected president o f the State Dental Association at a meeting held in Salem this week. This is a great honor for the young man, who is one of the youngest practicing dentists in the state, and shows the respect and esteem in which he is held by his fellow asso ciates in the profession. J. K. P. Harris seconds the motion that the prune grow ers of the state organize and he has written to the Port land Journal to that effect. “ I hope to see the matter taken up hv the prune growers of the state for a strictly prune growing association at once. This should have been done before, but better late than never,” he writes. The social meeting of the Civic Club at the home of Mrs. C. W. Irvine on Wednesday, May 14, promises to be a most pleasant event. The committee in charge including Mrs. H. Mattison, Mrs. C. W . Irvine, Mrs. G. G. Walker and Mrs. li. F. Swope lias some surprises in store which they will not reveal. However, it has leaked out that there will be some out of town entertainers. You will en joy it, so. Indies, keep the date and place in mind. INDEPENDENCE W ILL CELEBRATE JULY 4. .