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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1919)
INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS J T he P olk C ounty P ost SECOND SECTION Entered as second class matter March 26, 1918, at the postofflce at Independence, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1879. INDEPENDENCE, OREGON, NOVEMBER 21, 1919. VOLUME DL NUMBER 34. Ailments of a Town And Possible Cures fold by the bank Book • 5 Page 151 WE SERVE YOU FULLY AND HELPFULLY Checking Accounts Savings Accounts Time Deposits Bank Money Orders Letters of Credit Travelers Cheques Collections Safe Deposit Boxes Loans, etc. New patrons welcomed Old patrons appreciated C. W. IRVINE, J. B. PARKER, C. O. IRVINE, Glen C. Smith A merchant in this town handed us the following ihort article which he thought was food for thought and it is: "During the war people learned to co-operate, and they accomplished things that anyone would have said were im possible. Having learned what can he acccomplished by co operation, alert minded people naturally turn to their home towns.'If we accomplished such murvels in the war work,’ they say, ‘win*can't we take hold now and do equally amaz ing things right at home? Why can t we realize the dreams we have always cherished for our community?' And then a lot of them just go right ahead and do tilings that the years ago would have regarded as beyond the range of possibility." President. Vice President. Cashier. Asst. Cashier. FARMERS STATE BANK 1 5 fc > © ?£ °n ; THANKSGIVING AT OUR SHOP We are making big preparations to take care oi you _ Thanksgiving and expect to give the best service that we possibly can. Please give us your orders ior poultry as early in the week as possible for birds are scarce and we want everybody to get just exactly what they are expecting to have. We hope all have a most exceUent dinner and lots to be thankful for. i ; DICKSON’S MARKET The Independence National Bank Established .1889 AN ACCOUNT in a commercial bank is the most convenient aid to modern business. It systema tizes payments, is a check on all expenditures and shows you just where you stand each month, i ipen one with us today. It will pay you to do so. Member Federal Reserve System Officers and Directors 11 tlirsehberg. Pres. D. W. Sears, V. P, Ira D. Mix, Cashier ’! W.dker I. A. Allen O. D. Butler VS The war taught us many things, but none was greater han the power of co-operation. Co-operate and the town joes forward. If there’s no co-operation, the town goes backward. Any town or community by its units combining can irodUce growth, business, wealth. On the other hand if t is infested by petty men and women, putty men and /omen, pity men and women, it is damned. The petty Livision consists of the knockers, the dogs-in-the-mangers md those who refuse to play because it might help John, ’he knocker can be driven out by boycott, the inmates of :he mangers rendered harmless by permitting to gnaw heir old bones undisturbed and the third class can be gnored—run over, so to speak—and left behind. The putty people are those who are the unconscious tools of the knocker and grumbler, afraid to do anything because it might hurt their business. The cure for puttiness is to banish the knockers and the new environments resulting won causes the putty people to shed their timidness and eventually come out and enjoy the sunshine. The pity bunch composes those who say, “it’s a pity we can’t do Ihis” when the reason it isn’t done is because the pity patters expect George to do it and Jones pay the freight. ¿Scientific boosters are still studying and looking for a remedy for the last named bunch. Blessed be the progressive citizen and booster. “A lot of them just go ahead and do things’’ and because they io, the petty, the putty and pity gain sustenance and benefit in the harvest that none had a share in reaping- Women of Oregon are distinctly in favor of an extra session of the legislature to ratify the federal suffrage amendment. Every meeting has disclosed unanimity of sentiment on the question. * * ‘ They want to make it possible for ull ttie women of the United States to have a voice in the next presi dential election. Governor Olcott should not deny them.— Portland Telegram. CLYDE T. ECKEB, EDITOR u i«im a iii«ia iia iiiH iiR iiB iiM iiB iiw * I Understand 1- At Christmas Tima 1 held the rocks called life between I Your friends can bay my hands, yon can give And laughing at what others call § H anything them— ed their woe; 1 crumbled them to dust to show except your photograph. my strength, I ground to dust with mighty blow on blow; I cast my crumpled dust unto the wind, And in the face of life I laughed out long And cried: ‘Tm done with all your silly ways, I’m done with all your wails and mighty song.” INDEPENDENCE But as I flung the dust unto the STUDIO wind It caught it in its hands with roar llHIlH !■ll!■lll■ll■lll■ll■l!■lil■ill■lll■UÎ^ on roar And flung the crumpled sands into my eyes; Now hope and light and happi ness no more, For blind I stand and curse the power that gave Me strength to crumble life be tween my hand; . WOOL And yet I know—as I can only ruas know— The power of life—I see—I un MOHAIR derstand. PARCAHA DORA REEVES CROFT. THAI. PORK Abruptly Written, But Perhaps True Max Goldman Deals ki (From a Kansas paper.) The mother who allows her six- teeu-year-old daughter to float around the township In a buggy or auto until two a. m. witli a counter feit sport of weak jaw and weaker morals merely opens the front door to grief and disgrace. If you don’t know what company your daughter keeps or what time of night she turns in, your roar, when the gos sip gets busy, will be about us puthetic as the wheeze from a jews harp. The girl who spoons with everybody in the corporate limits ought to be backed into the wood shed and relieved of her overflow of ¡i flection with a No. 11 slipper laid carelessly across the hiplets. We would sooner kiss a blind shout thru a barbed wire fence than have her change partners seven nights a week in the parlor witli the lights turned low. It is harder to marry ofl a girl that has been pawed over by every yap in the community than it is to fatten a sheep on pineapple ice. You can’t gold-brick a sharp- eyed suitor with second hand goods any more Ilian you cun fit a bath robe on a gout. There are lots of weak minded parents who are going up against the judgment day with about as much stiow as u cross eyed girl at a beauty show, and their children will rise up and call them blessed with the enthusiasm of u one legged man at a club dance. Pries of Bacon Prevents Thievery (From the Portland Journal.) When we read the fabulous tale of the Winlock, Washington, hen- master who is harvesting a monthly income of $11000 from his cackling flock we just can’t help thinking: Oh, who wouldn't be a bandit bold To rob the hen of her eggs of gold, If he only had sufficient tin To buy the bacon to fry them in. POULTRY BUTTRR PARM WOOD WOOD SHOOS rufuna DBY MODS .Ï CASH OR TRASS * . . i TALLEY A SXLSTX Effective April 1, trains will rim as follows: No. 2 arrives from Hoskins 9:15 A. M. daily No. 4 arrives from Comps 4:00 P. M. dally sxcopt Sunday No. 1 departs for Camps 10:50 A. M. dally except Sunday No. 3 departs tor Hoskins 4:15 P. M. dally Freight service 2:30 P. IL OR Tuesdays and Saturdays SWOPE St SWOPE LAWYERS The three sentences above are master pieces in I. O. O. P. Building 1 “bunk.” The women of Oregon are not in favor of an Independence, extra session at this time, “every meeting” has not dis closed a preponderance of sentiment for an extra session and Governor Olcott is not denying the ballot to any The Polk County Post G et this straight** woman. has a large number A few weeks back a number of professional suffragets of pretty type faces says the Good Judge for engraved from the East, who “ suffer” at so much per, came to calling or visiting cards. Oregon and “agitated.” A few days after the Federation The tobacco that gives of Women’s Club convened in state session. No other you the most lasting organization in the state more fully represent Oregon chew is the kind that Mr. Barnes, U. S. Wheat Director Says: women than this body. Did this convention, comprised of saves you money. You women from every county in the state, call for an extra don’t have to take so session? No! What other “meetings” have declared many fresh chews. The for an extra session? None whatever, except a few little rich tobacco taste stays parlor parties in Portland at which six constitutes a right with it. That’s quorom. why you take a smaller The Telegram is “running to form” in nagging Mr chew. Olcott and on this particular occasion is attempting to And reduce the high cost of living.” hide behind women’s skirts in doing it. THE REAL TOBACCO CHEW put up in two styles The Democrats have a better chance of winning the j RIGHT CUT is a short-cut tobacco W-B CUT a long fine-cut tobacco next presidential election than many of us have been thinking as Leonard Wood seems to have a lead pipe cinch Wcvrnan-BrtìtOiL Gq*npáriy>n ^¡SEISES on the Republican nomination. Thousands of Republicans IS THE CHEAPEST AS WELL AS will refuse to support him, there is no excuse for a Demo THE MOST WHOLESOME ON crat doing so, and how could he expect to win under the j1 THE MARKET TODAY. circumstances? , The boys of the American Legion, in national con BUY THAT THE POST PUBLISHES MORE vention assembled, turned their faces in the right direction SOUTH POLK COUNTY NEWS I when they declared against a large standing army and EXTRA LOAF against compulsory military training in time of peace. THAN ANY OTHER PAPER Your Grocer Has It. Where in this fair land of ours could you find better weather than the Oregon brand of last week. Unfortu Cherry City Bakins: Co nately we couldn’t send any of it back East to the folks. “EAT MORE BREAD H0LSUM BREAD