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
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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
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; 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.
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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
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SHOOS
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CASH OR TRASS
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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