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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 29, 1919)
■IHH1 I — i l l ^ lH lU lW IM i.J llia H llllllU M IIIIIIIlH W IH iliH ill' i OUR S T A T IO N E R Y D E P A R T M E N T D IR E C TS Y O U R A T T E N T IO N ! OF N E W B O X E D S T A T IO N E R Y A sou was born to Mrs. W. C. Stewart at Hanks Aug. lb. The youngster has been christened William Clyde lor his father who before his death was pastor of the M. E. church here. in envelopes------- beautiful boxes at reasonable prices------- greeting and 1 Dr. H. C. Dunsmore was the oifieiting minister and Miss Jean Ketchum was one of the bridesmaids at the wedding of Miss Lorene Parker at Oregon City last Friday. Miss Parker is the daughter of J. B. Parker. correspondence cards for all oc- casions-------popular prices prevail ing. Williams’ Drug Co, 1 “ Home of the Grafonola” P E R FE C T S E R V IC E UXK PURE DRUGS Oliver Elofson, who has been spending the summer fvith his sister, Mrs. J. C. Dreamer left last ¡Saturday for ids home in ¡Saiido, Colo. A fter a brief visit with his peo ple Mr. Elofson will resume his studies at Colorado Uni versity. Mrs. Adda Wallace Unruh of Portland spoke at the Haptist church Tuesday night in behalf of a baby home in Portland. A drive for funds to help build new quarters for the babies will be begun soon and Dr. H. C. Dunsmore * has consented to act as local chairman. ülMJJ C U U R l R X Dress Guard Solid Wood Dolly New Belt Tightener Easily Raised Cover Special Rubber Rolls Only Two Sets of Gears Dolly Swing to A ny Tub Reversible W ater Board Heavy Angle Iron Bench Specially Designed Motor Safety Device on Wringer Attach to A ny Light Socket Wringer Swings to A ny Tub No Part of Machinery Attached to Tub T H E M O D E R N E LE C TR IC M A C H IN E T H A T !* W A S H E S C LO TH ES S W E E T A N D C L E A N Word has just been received from ¡Shalor Eldridge that ? W IT H O U T W E A R OR T E A R . LO O K IT O VE R . in p p writes lire insurance. The speed boys are slowing up. A. No. 1 milk cows tor sale. The Grinnell Laundry Queen Everybody should go to the Isis every night next week. It is the Paramount-Artcraft opening and a galaxy of stars will be seen in great and wonderful pictures. TO A N A T T R A C T IV E D IS P L A Y The latest tints------- the latest folds i B. R. W olle returned today from his vacation trip. He was accompanied by his son, \ ern, of Portland and they had a very delightful time together. Homer tlilh George W. W eriiiie was m Portland Tuesday. he has been honorably discharged from the navy. A fter a visit in several Eastern cities, he will visit relatives in 24 Kansas, going from there to California where he will spend some time. t Then lie will join his many friends at a home. ! CRAVEN & HUFF HOW. CO. iwipiiwiaiiiBiiniiniiniiniiniiwiniitwiiniiaiiiniiwiiHiiBiiiaiiiwiniiHiiiniiwiiB Ross ivreamer visited in Portland last week end. Lieutenant Gaylord Godfrey, recently returned from eastern training camps, has accepted a position with the McIntosh Grocery. He meets the public well and with his R. L. Hinkle of Monmouth has enlisted in the navy. several years experience in the grocery business will be quite ail addition to the already popular store. Mrs. God- Mrs. Stillwell returned from Hanks last Wednesday. lry will join her husband here after a visit with relatives Miss Madaiine ivreamer nas returned from Long Reach. iu Oregon City. Mrs. C. E. Deiand has returned from a visit in Corvallis. N E X T W E E K A T T H E IS IS Next week is Paramount-Artcraft Flagg comedy, “ Welcome Little Iv. C. Ehiridge made a busmess trip to Portland this week, the opening of the season in Stranger.” It is the adventures of ihe motion picture world. For the a good looking young husband who week. occasion it will he a week of won brings home a very pretty young woman as a cook. Miss Lena Heile Tartar was here Lorn Corvallis this derful entertainment beginning with Charlie Ray in “Greased Light Hill Hart in “ Breed of Men” Sunday week. ning" comes Thursday night. Char night. A charming story and a highly in lie plays the part of the village Miss Pearl Smith expects to go to Crater Lake next teresting role lias been provided for blacksmith in this picture, but un Lila Lee iu “ Hustling a Bride” which like Mr. Longfellow’s celebrated gen week. will be presented Monday night. In tleman, he was a busy smithy and this production, Miss Lee plays the didn’t stick around under the spread Mrs. Sara Ciaggett Toung was here from Albany last role of a typical Western girl who mg chestnut tree. He invented “The week end. receives a letter from a cowboy, Little Giant Potato Slicer.” It blew Nick McCredie, who has accidently up while he wus exhibiting it in Miss Dene Eddy will go to Chicago this fall to continue learned her name. Her grandmoth i ’ipersville, hut it was some inven Then Charlie traded “The er dies, leaving her the farm, and tion. her music. she writes to Nick for advice and Little Giant Potato Slicer” for a fliv he suggests that she come out and ver made sometime before the flood. Miss Erunces Eaton has returned from a visit with To marry him. The girl is delighted, “ Greased Lightning” he called it. It packs up and leaves for Coyote worked all right when it worked, ledo relatives. junction. But when Nick had first hut it had a terrible habit of stalling her he had enclosed not his around. But one day, Charlie took Mr. and Mis. Asa Taylor returned the last of the week written own picture hut that of Pen Walton, every hill on high with that litle Jrom their vacation. one of his fellow cowboys, who is old car of his. You’ll want to see much handsomer than he. So when him in this. The picture is even J. G. McIntosh is pay mg 7 J/2 and » cents for black Nick meets her at the train he tells faster than the title. Ethel Clayton comes Friday even her Nick has sent him to meet her. berries, cash or Dade. This provokes interesting complica ing in “ Maggie Pepper,” based upon tions and a series of thrilling epi the famous play by the late Charles AH's. Alpha Haseue returned last week Dom a pleasant sodes. Klein, who went down on the Lusi- vacation at Long Reach. Undeniably the foremost motion tania. Hose Stahl appeared in the picture star in the affection of the stage version of the play and made of the greatest hits of her career Aliss Leona and Murk Hanna were here from Portland American public, if not the world, one Mary Pickford’s talents and charm in it. Maggie is a department store visiting Diends this week. are universally recognized. There girl with more than the usual of difficulties. At are no limitations to her exquisite amount Miss Genevieve Gillespie of Centralia, Wash., is visit artistry which unfolds like budding the same time, however, she has rose leaves in some new and more more than the usual amount of ing friends here this week. exquisite form with cacli successive pluck. Pepper is tier last name and she portrays. It is suf probably Ginger is her middle name. Aliss Emma Henkle w as iu Portland last week making character ficient to say that in “Captain Kidd, The acting of Ethel Clayton as Mag arrangements for the year. Jr." she has a role in whien she dis gie is superb. Site is perfect as the plays her genius and charming per ill used and hard working girl, yet Mrs. J. W. Kelly was a member of a camping party at sonality more captivating than ever charming in every mood. The pict and that her vast army of admirers ure, in short, is one to please and to ¡Spongs Landing last week. will be unanimous in their verdict thrill and best of all, it is a purely that it ranks second to none in her American, simple, human and whole Air. and Mrs. Earl Ruef and Aiariou were ¡Sunday guests gallery of famous screen portraits. some story of plain people .under of AIr. and Mrs. J. N. Jones. On the speaking stage, “ Captain circumstances that are natural and Kidd, Jr." was one of the most popu yet presents a tense and compelling As an extra for the even Mrs. Wood returned to Portland ¡Saturday after a visit lar ever produced. Mary plays Hie drama. part of a canny little Scotch girl, ing, its Fatty Arbuckle in "Love." witli the George Woods family. who with “Captain Kidd, Jr.", hunt Fatty rides into this picture on an ed for hidden treasures. You cer old fashioned bicycle and he falls Rollo McKinney is home from a Portland hospital tainly will be delighted with Mary off into— Love. There's a villain, too, who steals the girl. The village Tuesday night. where he submitted to an operation. Oorothv Dalton, ns n screen star, characters, the life on the old farm, is a constant source of pleasure to love and laughter, and adventure Mrs. J . L. Hanna of Port land has been visiting relatives the public, for she combines all the galore, into which the husky but and friends in Independence tliis week. arts and graces of poetry, literature, luckless swain falls at every turn, drama, painting or sculpture. She make this one of Arhuckle's most Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Campbell of ¡Salem and Mrs. West is skillful in her portrayals, sincere amusing pictures. Bryant Washburn is recognized of Tacoma were guests of M rs. Claude Skinner this week. in her work and her beauty gains its full expression upon Hie silver as one of tire most popular leading screen- her charms delight the eye, men of the screen. Handsome, ath Airs. K. C. Ehiridge, Jr., of Portland is a guest this even as her acting delights the letic, and filled with the spirit of week at the Ehiridge home. K. C. Jr. was here for the heart Miss Dalton is provided with youtii, Mr. Washburn always im a dramatic thunderbolt in “ Extrav presses Itis audiences favorably and week end. agance" which will lie shown Wed arouses within them the same en nesday night. The story casts Miss thusiasm for his work that he him Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Davidson and Daddy Hedges return Dalton in exacting situations, which self displays, in "Something To ed Wednesday from Par View w here they enjoyed a ten she meets with convincing natural Do." Mr. Washburn plays one of his days stay at the Davidson cottage. ness. She is seen ns the woman of most delightful roles, that of a vanity, gratifying her every desire wealthy clubman with nothing to Mr. and Mrs. John Lawerence have returned to their for clothes and jewels a being of do but spend his time and money. innate selfishness who wrecks her But he wakes up suddenly and finds home in Sarnia,Canada, after a ten days visit with Mrs. husband, hut is nwnkened to a real happiness in doing something for Lawerence’s brother. Dr. H. C. Dunsmore. ization of her error by a terrible somebody else, breaking up a big dream. She is thruout a natural swindling scheme and protecting a human being a character that fellow clubman and his daughter Mrs. George Conkey and mother, Mrs. McDevitt, re seems to step from the screen and from an outrageous fraud. Ann turned W ednesday from Par View where they have been live in flesh and blood. An extra Little plays opposite Mr. Washhum, ¡enjoying sea breezes for the past six weeks. attraction for the same night is a and it is of interest to know that the two had never met until they J" “made” the love scenes in this j picture. i BROKEN? There will be a meeting of the . Civic Club at the public library on Don't be handicapped by a Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 10, at broke.ii lens. Send me the pieces 2:30 o’clock. and 1 will duplicate your lens im ii". i and return to you in a few hours. B £ *P H O T O G R A P H G A L L E R Y O PEN jn A. Thomas, long years experienced photograph er, has opened the Inde pendence Studio and will do all kinds of work in a pleasing and satisfactory manner. DOCTOR II M. P. jj OPTOMETERIST-OPTICIAN ¡u I n = = S fi i Specialist in the l i tific application I 1 the aid of vision p of eyestrain and i i. modern scien of glasses for and the relief headache. mi Max Goldman Deals in PORTLAND Suite 414-415 Failing Bldg. S. E. Cor.Third and Washington. HTDE8 PELTS WOOL Phone M. 3630 runs MOHAIR CASCARA BARE VEAL PORK BEEF POULTRY BUTTER eggs FARM PRODUCE WOOD WOOD GROCERIES SHOES FURNISHINGS DRY GOODS * VALLEY & SILETZ TIME TABLE Effective April 1, trains will run as follows: No. 2 arrives from Hoskins 0:15 A. M. daily No. 4 arrives from Camps 4:00 P. M. daily except Sunday No. 1 departs for Camps 10:50 A. M. daily except Sunday No. 3 departs for Hoskins 4:15 P. M. daily . Freight service 2:30 P. M. on Tuesdays and Saturdays CASH OR TRADE SW O P E & SW O P E LAW YERS The Polk County Post was enter ed as second class matter March 26, I. 0 . 0 . F. Building 1918, a the postotfice at Independ ence, Oregon, under the Act of independence, Orego* March 3, 1879. The Independence National Bank Established .188ii IN T E R E S T P A ID ON T IM E D E P O SIT S Officers and Directors H. Hirsckberg, Pres. D. W . ¡Sear*, V. P, D a D. Mix, Cashier W . H. Walker I. A. Allcu O. D. Butler A Successful Business Career of Tweuty-Five Years