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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 24, 1919)
; BOLSHEVIKI LOSE of com WEEK CAPITAL Fall o f Petrograd Officially Announced Kronstadt Also Given Up. GOVERNMENT MAY SEIZECOAL MINES STATE N E W S IN BRIEF. FARMERS’ WEEK AT COLLEGE Staff Will Try New Plan to Concentrate Efforts on Practical Work. INCREASED PRICE IN SDCtm TO PPED (Prepared by Oregon Agricultural College) Pendleton.—Miss Florence Smiley is Based on the needs of the average Umatilla county’s new health nurse. Oregon farmer the Farmers’ Week Miss Smiley will take the place of Miss Gladys Flanagan, who Is called to Seat program at the agricultural college Price Limit Placed at 10 Cents Brief Resume Most Important Effort to Avert General Walkout tle by the serious illness of her mother. this year will be prepared and carried Wholesale Proves Fruitless. Daily News Items. Salem.—Bids for the Improvement of out by the members of the regular approximately 75 miles of roads in college staff. This Is a radical depar Klamath and Deschutes counties will ture from former practices when the be received by the state highway com work was outlined by specialized mission at its Portland office Novem groups of operators and conducted by a combination of college men, farm ber 4. owners and out-of-state Specialists. Albany. — Apples are plied ceiling The aim of the new plan is to con The Board Notifies- Refineries Who Little more Than Month’ s Needs Now high in the Albany cannery store room, Events of Noted People, Governments centrate effort on the farming prac Have Been Withholding Supplies and Manager W. K. Scott expects to tlces most important to farmers and on Hand; Shutdown Would and Pacific Northwest, and Other have apples enough to run the cannery to teach principles fundamental under Until Market Is Steady. Cause Great Distress. Things .Worth Knowing. at capacity speed until the first of the Oregon conditions. Through its coun year. ty agent and farm bureau system and Albany.—The Linn county farm bu its branch station superintendents the Washington. D. C —Steps to prevent The New Zealand house of repre Washington, D. C.—Failure of oper reau has arranged for 12 meetings In college is in a better position than an abnormal increase in the price of sentatives has passed the bill whereby ators and miners to settle their differ any other agency to learn just what ence after a four-hour conference Tues this county at which Sam Hampton, a New Zealand accepts the mandate for the needs and conditions are. It is sugar because of the existing shortage Montana farmer well known over the day with Secretary of Labor Wilson Samoa. likewise in a much better position to were taken Monday by the department may force the government to 'step in Pacific northwest for his talks in be Every New York police station is to bring these needs and how to meet of justice. half of organized farm work, will and prevent the strike of 500,000 bitu be a grocery store. Commissioner them to the attention of the farmer. Attorney-General Palmer notified minous coal miners called for Novem speak. Enright Saturday arranged to have Here is a partial list of things that the ber 1. beet sugar refiners who have been Salem.—The Oregon Federation of foodstuffs sold at cost to members of course will help farmers to do better Although efforts will be made to Women’s clubs has _ filed articles of than before: withholding their products from the the force. bring peace to the industry the strike Incorporation. The organization has Feed and breed livestock and poul market until the price situation be An unusual rush of emigrants to looms big and close at hand and lead property valued at $10,000 and the of try. came stabilized, that the United States ward America Is In progress from Na ers of the two sides said there was ficers are Mrs. Charles H. Castner, Improve the dairy herd and man ples. Two thousand Italians applied sugar equalization board had deter little hope. president; Mattie F. Beatty, vice-presi age the dairy. for passports to the United States the While the full scale committees rep dent, and Mrs. F. H. Buchanan, secre mined that 10 cents was a fair price Use lime, legumes and livestock to first fortnight of October. resenting miners and operators were tary-treasurer. to be charged the wholesalers and that improve soils. fighting their battles behind a closed Belgium treasury receipts for the Lay out the farm and manage the any charge In excess of that amount Hood River.—Lack of cars to clear door, a strike storm raged in the sen first seven months of 1919 exceeded would be regarded as violation of the packed apples from storage plants and farmstead. ate, and federal agencies looked up government estimates by more than Food Prices to Drop 2 Economize the farm power—horse food control act. receiving stations daily is growing the law, firmly convinced that it would 10,000,000 francs, the total receipts be Refiners were asked to telegraph Per Cent in Month have to be invoked to save the country more serious in Hood River. With all truck and tractor. ing 421,000,000 francs. Further Bteps Produce the most profitable field their concurrence in this price, which space full, it was necessary for the Washington, D. C.—Food prices are from untold distress and suffering, to free trade have been taken. crops. would mean that they would put their on the decline, the department of la with mines shut down and less than a Apple Growers’ association, to discon Improve orchard practices. supply on the market immediately. tinue receiving fruit at Its Odell ware Resolutions protesting return to the bor’s bureau of labor statistics an month’s stock on hand to keep fires Pack and market the fruit crop. The price to the wholesaler hereto house Saturday. Philippine islands of enemy aliens, nounced Sunday night in a statement burning. Grow home fruits and vegetables. fore has been 9 cents. Retailers have who were deported during the prog asserting that the retail price of 22 Filing out of the meeting place, the Eugene.—Carl Madson, a farmer liv Keep soil in good tilth for seed bed been allowed to charge 11 cents a ress of the war, have been adopted at staple foodstuffs showed a decline of miners and operators, nearly 100 of ing west of Eugene, sustained a broken and moisture reservoir. pound for controlled sugar under the Manila by members of the American 2 per cent at the end of September, them, went their1 separate ways to dis leg and otber injuries when an ensilage Maintain while utilizing to full ad old prices. It is assumed that the new Legion and Spanish war veterans. as compared with the last of August. cuss the crisis, the former led by John cutter on the farm of Elmer Jensen, a vantage the soli fertility elements. retail increase would be not greater The decrease, based on statistics L. Lewis, president of the United Mine neighbor, flew to pieces Friday. A big The distinguished service medal for Pick out the best layers In the poul than the wholesale advance. exceptionally meritorious and distin from all parts of the country, is the Workers of America, and the latter by casting, struck him on the right leg, try flock. Attorney-General Palmer made pub guished service was conferred on Com first to be recorded since the world Thomas T. Brewster, head of the Coal shattering the bone above the knee and Keep farm and household records, lic the following telegram sent to beet mander Evangeline Booth of the Salva war began, with the exception of a Operators’ association. inflicting cuts and bruises. Plan the farm home, and construct sugar refiners: tion Army at the meeting of the east decline in June, when the food was Informed of the attack on the un , Marshfield.—The large mill of C. A. other farm buildings. “ After thorough investigation by the ern congress of that organization Sun five-tenths of 1 per cent cheaper than ions in the senate by Senator Freling- Operate, care for and repair farm duly recognized authorities on sugar, Smith, Idle for over nine months, re in May. The price of the 22 staple huysen of New Jersey, and reports day. sumed cutting lumber Thursday morn machinery, Including tractors. the United States Sugar Equalization Four whaling vessels, the Kodiak, foodstuffs, however, is still 88 per cent from many quarters that the govern ing with a small force of 200 men. Lay out and construct irrigation and board has notified the department of Unimak, Patterson and Tanglnak, re above the average price for the same ment might intervene, strike leaders More men applied for work than could drainage systems. justice of the following facts: said there was a bare chance of some be used, but when the repairs and new turning to Seattle Saturday from the food in 19f3. Economize without skimping in use “ ‘As a considerable part of the Five cities of the country failed to encouraging development soon, but season's work In Alaska waters, re arrangements are tried out, there will of household food and clothing sup country generally supplied at this time enjoy the slight decline, while in that the strike order would stand. ported a total catch of 412 whales, an be room for probably 100 other labor plies. of the year with beet sugar may be Secretary Wilson left the meeting ers. unusual season. The fleet made head Detroit prices were lowered 5 per Read the best periodicals and books embarrassed because of the beet sug without giving the least Intimation as quarters at Akutan In the Aleutian cent for knowledge and pleasure. ar factories’ failure to sell beet sugar Onions and potatoes showed the to what was in his mind as to hope Bend.—Twelve quarts of sparkling Utilize the country and farm press as produced and this condition in turn group. greatest price decline, of 17 and 14 of settlement. burgundy, purchased in California, for advertising. is due to the uncertainty regarding Eight million American women, aid per cent, respectively. Cabbage, meat, were financially disastrous to W. H. Supervise the health and recreation price, our judgment is that no higher ed by many girls and boys, produced cheese, flour and sugar also were low Perkins of La Grande, for on top of of the children. than 10 cents cash, less 2 per cent in the 20 months ending last February er. Raisins went up 8 per cent dur Budget Bureau Favored tbe stiff price paid, It cost him $100 Cooperate with the county and home seaboard basis, is justified and we 28, more than 371,500,000 relief arti ing the month and were followed in a Washington, D. C.—A bill creating more when Sheriff S. E. Roberts and cles, valued at nearly $94,000,000, for climb of greater or less degree by rice, a budget bureau having jurisdiction Deputy L. A. W. Nixon captured him demonstration agents, and club work hope that you will decide at once to leaders. begin marketing your sugar on this the benefit of American and allied sol eggs, salmon, butter, beans, canned over all department estimates, was on his trip through Bend from the Know and control disease and in basis and relieve the very serious sit diers and sailors and destitute civil vegetables, coffee and cornmeal. passed Tuesday by the house and sent south. sect pests of animals and plants, and uation.” ians. to the senate. Salem.—Appropriation of water from weed and poison plants. In the Paris chamber of deputies The vote on the bill was 284 to two Sucker creek in Josephine county for Profit by the service for better Saturday M. Pathleve urged clemency Prehistoric Eskimos Representative Moon, Tennessee, and mining purposes is asked in a request farming and better home life offered for those who mutinied in the spring Found in Arctic Ice Blackmon, Alabama, democrats, voting filed with State Engineer Percy A. by the U. S. Department of Agricul of 1917 after the failure of the French Seattle, Wash.—Discovery of pre in the negative. Cupper by Porter J. Neff of Medford. ture and the Oregon Agricultural Col offensive. It was brought out that 150 historic Eskimos, their dwellings and The important changes in the pres The project includes the construction lege. death sentences had been Imposed and implements, preserved under three ent method of estimating department of a canal three miles long with a ca When farm work Is lightest and Washington, D. C.—In his first pro that 25 of the mutineers had been ex feet of ice and earth near Barrow, al appropriations as embodied in the pacity of 50 second feet and to cost conditions of study best Farmers’ ecuted. nouncement before the national indus farthest north point of civilization in bill are: approximately $15,000. Week will be held — December 29— All departments must submit esti Petro Pierre, a member of the I. W. Alaska, was announced Sunday night January 3. Forward-looking farmers trial conference, Judge E. H. Gary, Albany. — A carload of pure-bred W„ was found guilty by a Jury in the by W. B. Van Valin, field expert of mates to the budget bureau for. ap and housewives are especially provid chairman of the board of the United federal court at Leavenworth, Kan., the University of Pennsylvania, on his proval before being sent to congress; Shorthorn cattle were shipped by four ed for in the program, and all citizens States Steel corporation, sitting as a Saturday on a charge of threatening arrival in Seattle from Nome after an independent audit of all department Linn county cattlemen to Roseburg for of Oregon are welcome. Don’t you representative of the public, Monday accounts Is provided with a controller the big Douglas county Shorthorn sale. want to go? the life of President Wilson. He was two years' exploration. Twelve registered cows and two bulls and assistant controller appointed by Mr. Van Valin brought with him sentenced to serve 3V4 years In the Social and cultural evening meetings reaffirmed his position that the steel federal penitentiary, and upon his glv- bodies of Eskimos he found preserved the president to conduct the audit and were included in the shipment. Ed will be held, and every afternoon will strike "should not be arbitrated or Holloway and Curtis Cole of Albany, tng notice of appeal, bond was fixed from decay In the Ice, also hundreds abolishment of the present auditors provide opportunities for state and dis compromised” and objected to action O. K. Blatchford and Felzer Bros, of and consolidation of their work under of skulls and a large quantity of 1m trict organizations to meet and tran on that issue by the conference. at $7000. Tangent were the consignors. plements and clothing gathered at Bar- the controller. sact business. Living conditions on The French government announces He also restated without modifica row. He expressed the belief that the North Bend.—At a meeting of the the campus will be pleasant and ex that sales of the stocks bought from 11-Cent Lim it on Sugar. village had been hidden thousands of city council held here recently a reso penses as light as the times warrant. tion his belief in the open shop and the American expeditionary forces will San Francisco.—Retail ‘ grocers of lution was adopted ordering a special years. No legend of modern Eskimos If you have a county agent or farm the right to determine terms of em begin at once. They will be disposed shed light on the antiquity of the central and northern California, Ne election to be called early In December bureau take the matter up with them ployment "between employe and em of to co-operative societies, agricul village. he says. The fact that he vada, Washington and Oregon will not tc submit to the voters of the city the and iuaVe arrangements tor attendance ployers." tural syndicates, chambers of com This statement brought forth from foun# a glacier under the village leads be allowed to increase the retail price question of increasing the special tax and for getting the most profit and merce, provisioning organizations, Mr. Van Valin to believe the people of sugar beyond 11 cents per pound limitation from 10 to 15 mills, to se pleasure from this annual pilgrimage Samuel Gompers, president of the communities and departments and pub under penalty of investigation and cure revenue to meet the financial re to the state college. American Federation of Labor, the lived after the glacial period. lic institutions. charge that Judge Gary was taking the The bodies were in good condition prosecution by the department of jus quirements of the city for the year The Austrian national assembly has and most of them had dark hair, dis tice, Ralph P. Merritt, representative 1920. Oregon farmers attending fanners’ attitude that "there is no other opin ratified the peace treaty of St. Ger proving the claim that the aborigines of the sugar equalization board In Cali week at the college this year will have ion in the matter.” Enterprise. — Timbers for the new main. The ratification was voted with of the north were blonde people. The fornia, announced Tuesday. Referring to the corporation chair the opportunity to enjoy hearing some sawmill of the East Oregon Lumber out debate. The German party alone clothing worn was chiefly bearskins Pacific coast retailers are receiving man’s request that the conference take of the nation's best agricultural and company are on the ground and con opposed favorable action. and not like that worn by the Eskimos cane sugar sold by the refiners and struction will be rushed. The work is home-life specialists, say the general no action in the strike, the labor lead A suggestion that Great Britain ot today. beet sugar sold by the equalization er declared that If the real industrial going on slowly now owing to shortage committee on arrangements. Dr. Hen share the control of Gibraltar with the board at the old price of 9 cents to Issues were to be brushed aside there of help. Officials hope to have the mill ry E. Jackson of Washington, D. C., United States was made by Henry jobbers, according to Merritt, and as was no purpose In continuing the con Morsanet Is Annexed. and Dr. Henry Jackson Waters, editor up and operating again before the mid Morgenthau on his return from a seven London.—Belgium has annexed the long as this supply lasted no increases dle of winter. They have been assured of the Kansas City Weekly Star, are ference. months' trip abroad, primarily as Moresnet district to the province of would be permitted. While the clash of the two leaders the machinery will be here by the time among the possibilities. Mr. Waters chairman of a committee appointed by Liege, according to an announcement was for many years president of the removed the hope of an agreement on the structure is ready to receive It President Wilson to investigate po received in a wireless message from W ar Courts Championed. Kansas Agricultural College and is the dominant issue of collective bar Eugene.—Plans of citizens of the Mc equally noted as an authority on cat gaining, prospects of conciliation were groms in Poland. New York.—No American soldier Berlin. The inhabitants of Moresnet, Stuart B. Edmondson of Chicago with the exception of those of Ger was ever executed "for purely military Kenzie bridge, Blue river and Nimrod tle feeding and as author, journalist considered still more remote when It will leave his $10,000 a year position man origin, became Belgians, the an reasons.” during the war with Ger school districts on the upper McKenzie and lecturer. Dr. Jackson specializes was permitted to become known that as district manager tor an Insurance nouncement says, while citixens of many, Major S. W. Brewster of the river to go before the voters of the In organizing rural community better the representatives of capital after an company to accept the pastorate of Germany are given two years to de United States marine corps, retired, district propose a union high school ment societies. The chairman of the all day session were steadfast In their the Lake Forest Methodist Episcopal clare for Belgium or Germany. If and former judge advocate of the third to be established at Blue river next farmers' week committee. Prof. P. M. refusal to accept the Russell-Endlcott church at $2500 a year, he announced they decide for Germany they must naval district, declared in an address year, and the students from the Nim Brandt, is now in the east and will resolution for recognition of collective rod and McKenzie bridge districts and soon make final announcement as to bargaining, approved by the public and recently, because, he says, "there are leave the district. before the American Prison associa remote parts of the Blue river district farmers’ week speakers. labor groups. some things better than gold.” tion Tuesday. He said those executed will be transported to and from school had been found guilty of offenses rec Seattle.—An Increase of more than A nation wide women’s campaign to in motor trucks. Britain Walts on U. S. Berry growers who wish to increase 20,000 people is shown by Seatle's 1919 ognised as capital crimes in civil urge the United States senate to Im Portsmouth, England.—The person directory, now completely compiled courts. Salem.—Sealed bids for $1,000.000 In their plantings next fall may find it mediately conclude peace by ratifica and to be distributed after the trouble 4% per cent Oregon state highway difficult to get stocks for loganberry nel of the British navy will be reduced tion of the peace treaty was inaugur with the prtnters and the printers' Gasoline Price to Drop. bonds, will be received by the hlchwav plantings unless they make provision to 50.000 men when the United States ated in New York Tuesday. union has been adjusted. The total Chicago.—Gasuline will be lower commission at room 520, Multnomah this fall. Nursery stocks are reported ratifies the peace treaty, it is said by British merchant vessels lost through number of names and addresses in rather than higher priced. C. I. Sween county courthouse, November 4. The as unusually low. By cleaning out the the News, on what It declares to be enemy action during the war totaled the new directory will exceed 185,000. ey of Peoria, 111., president of the In bonds are In $1000 denominations. If old canes, laying the' new ones along authoritative Information. The num 7,759,090 gross tons. It Is officially an To arrive at an approximate popula dependent Oil Men's association, pre bids are submitted by mall they should the ground and covering them with a ber of marines, it declares, will be cut nounced. Submarine action was re tion the Polk Directory company mul dicted Tuesday at the opening session be sent to the highway commission at few shovels of earth, it may still be to 10.000. The pre-war strength of the sponsible for the Joss of 6.635,059 tons tiplies the number of names in its of the Uth annual meeting. Export Salem. The bonds are to mature serial possible to get young plants. For best British naval personnel, shown by fig of this total. The loss of 14.267 lives directories by two and one fourth. of oil has declined since the end of ly, $25.000 on April 1. 1925, and the results this work should have been ures of 1914, was 114,236 officers and was Involved In these sinkings, the This would give Seattle's population the war, he said, thus leaving large same amount on October 1 and April 1 done In September, says W. 8. Brown, men. The number of marines in the report adds. as approximately 420,000. acting chief of horticulture. after that date. i same year was 18,042. supplies In the United States. COMPILED FOR YOU Washington, D. C.—The fall of Petro- grad and the occupancy of both that city and the fortress of Kronstadt by the Russlon anti-bolshevik forces has been reported officially by the gen eral staff of the Finnish army to the Vlborg representative of the northwest government of Russia. This informa tion reached the state department Sun day night. In making public the department’s advices, Acting Secretary Phillips said that a direct dispatch, dated Sunday and received here from the depart ment's representative nearest the old Russian capital, reported that the Finnish official announcement had not been corroborated from other sources. The announcement crediting the Finnish general staff as authority was dated Saturday. It came from Viborg and quoted unconfirmed reports to the department through Swedish and Rus sian sources that Petrograd and Kron stadt had been wrested from the bol shevik! by the beleaguering forces of General Yudenitch, that with the fall of Gatchina fortress, 35 miles out from Petrograd on the way to Berlin, the collapse of the old capital was Inevit able and that the bolshevlkl were con centrating all their troops for a de cisive struggle with General Denikine’s forces in the south. FEDERAL ACTION SEEN BY EQUALIZATION ACT GARY IS FIRM IN OPEN SHOP DEMAND