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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1919)
DO YOUR OHRISTMAB BUYING IN INDEPENDENCE AND KEEP THE MONEY AT HOME What Shall I Give? The Answer is H E R E A m practical, trustworthy and desirable a collection of articles for gift purposes as can be found. THERMOS BOTTLES AND LUNCH KITS For the man who carries his lunch or lunching autoists— practical and necessary. FOUNTAIN PENS Self Fillers—A gift that any one would like. CUT GLASS Beautiful gifts with a large assortmeit n select from in cut glass a the new Japan ese hand ct >d woods. DOLLS It won't he a C hristmas to the Kiddies without a doll. We hare just what will please. CAMERAS A Joy the yenr 'round. Come in and let us show you our Anscos—you’ll want to go Anscoing. MUSIC Come in and choose your Christmas Grafonola today. CIGARS Ladies—We have a complete stock of cigars lhat make a nice Christmas package. All popular brands. You can get Just what your friend or rela tive smokes. Pipes—Many, many kinds and dandy smokers. FRENCH IVORY The favorite gift of the nation. It brings reul pleasure be cause its service is lasting. Combs—Each price a good value. Bonnet Mirrors—Extra heavy plate with beveled edge. Large and small sizes. Hair Brushes—Various styles an sizes. Fine quality bristles. Clocks in Ivory Cases—An or nament as well as a necessity. OTHER IVORY FEATURES Jewel Boxes Bonnet Brushes Pin Cushions Military Pin Boxes Brushes Trinket Boxes Nail Files Cream Jars Buffers Salve Jars Hair Perfume bottles Receivers Puff Boxes Cuticule Knives Soap Boxes Infant Brushes HOT WATER BOTTLES (Metal and Rubber) First Aid—A gift that will be the source of comfort in health or sickness. GIFT STATIONERY (Handsomely Boxed) High Grade Stationery—Com bination note paper and cor respondence cards in white and dainty tints. WILLIAMS DRUG CO. PERFECT SERVICE PURE DRUGS KING ALBERT GETS THRIFT STAMP FREE San Francisco School Boy Jumps Royal Car; Writes “Dear King" Letter. San Francisco—Somewhere In the personal effects of King Albert of Bel gium reposes a thrift card with a United States Government Thrift Sta-np attached. The King la that much ahead. There la a kid In San Fran cisco who Is that much out. As King Albert stepped Into his auto mobile after the official reception In San Francisco, Richard Slprelle, eleven years old, leaped upon the running board to sell the King a Thrift Stamp. He thrust the card and stamp into the King's hand. The King looked at him and then said, smilingly, "Thank you." Just then the King's car lurched for ward and the King was gone with the Thrift Stamp and the 25 cents for which a Thrift Stamp sella. However, Richard didn’t want the "two bits" as the following letter which he has written to King Albert will show. San Francisco, Calif. 1341 Grove St., Oct. 17.181». Dear King Albert: — I am the boy who hopped on the run ning board of your auto, when you was at the City Hall in San Francisco Cal. I gave you a Thrift Stamp to show what the U. S. goverment has there children Invest In. These stamps not only help’s the gov erment to pay its debts, but It saves money for you, so when you get big you can, take these cards which hold 16 Thrift Stamps and give to a banker and he will give you five dollars, as you make a dollar profit. I am sending you this letter to ask If you dont think It would be a good thin», to have for the children and people, of Belgium? 1 would like for you to answer, I would also like an autograph photo graph of you to. From your unknown but always your friend RICHARD SIPRELLB Address 1341 Grove St. San Francisco. CALIFORNIA LABOR BODY BACKS THRIFT California State Federation Recommends Government Agent in Each Union. WASTED Th« National Association of Wasta Malarial Dealers estimates that Ameri cana throw away 700 004,000 worth of food each year. If only one ounce of food la wasted ar spoiled In each of tha 20 004,000 homes of America, the total loaa la 1,300.000 pounds a day. As much oo«U Is wasted annually as all the mines •f tha country could produce is two weeks. , Thrift and saving ara needed not •aly ta materials but in labor and money. Each added individual effort will tend toward tha Increase of pro ductlon and consequent fall la price of necessities, but physical Idleness la as leas an obstacle ta the reduction of llv Ing coats than financial Idlenaas Thera are millions af dollars tdla la tha United States through lack of propai Investment which should be working for the common good. Thaos sums If put ta work would constitute the new capital ee urgently needed ta tide over tha period of reconstruction. $ , , Have THE POST send to them one year as a Christmas gift. Expense $1.50. They will enjoy reading about you and everybody else in the old home town. Then for you it saves the trouble of writ ing so often, paper, envelopes, postage. IT WOULD BE MOST SATISFACTORY AND PLEASANT ALL AROUND I WILL HAVE A FEW USEFUL CHRISTMAS GIFTS LEFT FOR YOU TO MAKE YOUR SELECTION FROM. Universal Coffee Percolators $4.50 Universal Casseroles 4.25 Jniversal Lunch Kits 4.00 Pyrex Casseroles 1.75 Pyrex Casseroles with frame $5.50 Pyrex Baking Dish 1.20 Keen Kutter Carving Sets 5.00 Keen Kutter Shears 1.60 Keen Kutter Safety Razors 1.00 Gillette Safety Razors 5.00 Electric Bedroom Heaters 11.00 Electric Coffee Percolators 10.00 Keen Kutter Table Knives and Forks Per set 6.50 Community Silver Ware good selections Come and look over my line and I know you will find a useful Christmas gift for your friend. You have three days left to shop. Make My Store your headquarters while in the City. Merry Christmas to Everybody WILLARD E. CRAVEN, HOW. Successor to CRAVEN & HUFF HDW. CO. INDEPENDENCE, OREGON. “Do Your Christmas Shopping in Independence“ Bakersfield, Cal.—Recognizing thrift as an economic weapon making for in miles; thence south to the Little CITY AND COUNTRY 41/2 dependence of the workingman, the Luckiamute river; thence down said California State Federation of Labor, Mrs. F.. J. Fowler of Toledo was stream to the Big Luckiamute river; In its twentieth annual convention t ailing on Independence friends this thence up the Big Luckiamute river here, adopted resolut'ona Introduced in a southwesterly direction to the by President Daniel C. Murphy endors week. place of beginning. ing the government's 1919 thrift and Neville Eldridge came from Marsh war savings stamp campaign and rec AT THE ISIS NEXT WEEK ommending to all affiliated local unions field today to spend the holidays in the state the appointment of a with his parents. Dorothy Gish in “Out of Luck" thrift agent with a revolving fund ade quate to handle thr.ft and war savtngs Monmouth Herald: The mam Monday night. stamps and treasury savings certifi friends of Miss Bramburg will hi In “The Big Little Person" Tues cates. The vote on the resolution was j pleased to. hear that she is rapidlj day night, Mae Murray plays the unanimous. part of Arathea Manning who is recovering from her illness. After pointing out that thrift and told by a great specialist that she is war savings stamps afford "many of small earnings a safe, sound and “Billy" Dickson of Seattle wat incurably deaf. The man she loves guaranteed method of government in here for a few days this week visit drifts away. His love is not great vestment of hard earned savings," the ing his brothers. From here he went enough to stand the test of affliction. resolution memorialized federal author to Toledo to spend Christmas with Arathea meets an inventor who has ities to perpetuate the government's his parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. F. perfected a device to alleviate deaf war savings institution, stating that ness. She does not realize that she it haa “stimulated freedom of action Dickson. loves him until the man she first and Independence on the part of Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery Ward loved announced his engagement to wage earners." another woman. and Mr. and Mrs. Dole Pomeroy and President Murphy of the Federa children are here for the family re Those who like delightful comedy, tion aald: “I feel that the continuation of the union and when the roll is called on tense drama ftnd gripping tragedy teaching and praet'ce of thrift by the Christmas day Father Owen will be will have an opportunity to see all these elements in "Louisiana" Wed government la of vital Importance to present. the wage earners of the nation At nesday night. Much of the comedy this time particularly It Is Important Cecil Swope has returned to In is provided by an old negro mammy that every wage earner help to bring and will become active nurse, the tragedy by a jealous, hot- exorbitant prices to a normal level by dependence young mountaineer, and saving every cent he can, thus cut ly associated with his father, B. F. blooded the drama and romance by the hero Swope, in the practice of law. Every- ting down the demand for luxurlei and and heroine, while Vivian Martin, permitting the use of (he capital saved liody is glad to see Cecil back in the i the star, with her usual versatility, (or the production ef necessities.” old home town. E E Q 3 HOW TO TREAT A FRIEND OR RELATIVE WHO HAS GONE AWAY Only 3 More Days to Shop for Christmas GEEB Housewives waata annually food vol ad at 175^000.000. After the holidays comes Spring. triotic farm boy who goes to a train ing camp as a raw recruit and there is made the butt of jokes of his more sophisticated comrades. He falls in love with a girl of the village who appears one evening at a home talent performance at the camp theater. Later he rescues her from the villian and to protect her honor suffers humiliation, even to being sent to the guard house and sum moned for court martial. A woman doctor is O. K. if she's young and pretty. She can hold our hand and listen to our heart beats any time. The citizens of Fra cas, Arizona, thought so when they lamped pretty “Kitty Kelly, M. D." Young Rand had a bad attack of heart trouble, and Kitty put him on a Bevo diet for ninety days and told him to keep away from her. But he kept an .eye on her and saved the pretty doctress from the bad- man of the town, after beating hint to a whisper. It looked bad for Rand when the bad-man was found murdered, but Kitty (Bessie Barris- cale) proved herself as good a de tective as she was a physician. Saturday night. For Sunday afternoon and even ing |Dec. 28), Maurice Tumeur pre sents "The White Heather." A duel on the ocean’s bed—a fight to the death at the bottom of the sea—is the leading scene in this massive picture, but it is just one of the many extraordinary bits of action. If your heart is weak, don’t come. Otherwise be sure to see this grip ping photoplay. i adds to the production a goodly Mr. and Mrs. X D. Radmaker of ! measure of each element. The add attraction for the same evening Oquaqua, III., are visiting relatives ed is Mrs. Sidney Drew in “A Sisterly here and looking over the Oregon Scheme.” yarn concerns a ro country. They are not discouraged mance on The the beach and is very with our late weather as they say it is the best they have seen on their laughable. For Christmas night, Monroe trip. Salisbury in "The Man in the Moon IT BAN NIGHT FORE CHRISTMUS is the attraction. The story An extra lot of Christmas mail is light” a French-Canadian outlaw who (Continued from Page 1.) being received and Postmaster Wood of with the Royal Northwest mean, and assistants are handling it with duels Mounted Police, saves the brother Quit tankin' uf handcar, Ay tal yu speed and accuracy. They are also of girl he loves and meets death this, caring for the extra work, incidental with the sufficient to atone for Ven Ay do like Ay do, vy don’t yu to outgoing mail, in an efficient his sins. Lovers bravery of startling photo kissf" manner. plays and you who admire the mas Ay don’t know how it ban, but Ay terly acting of the "Mansfield of the got over there, AIRUE AND LEWISVILLE VOTING PRECINCTS CHANGED Screen" will hugely enjoy Salis An sit down wid her, all in vun bury’s great work in this picture. chair, Charles Ray has a unique art of Ay kno\v than my beeznis, it ban (Continuad from Page 1.) at the awkward so hot stuff, sections 10 and 11 Tp. 9 S. R. 6 W. making of us the laugh country youth and at Ay kiss Tillie Yonson till she say, of the Willamette Meridian; thence ways the same time winning our sym "that’s enufl." north to place of beginning. Lewisville precinct No. 29 follows: pathy for the boy who is made the Than Ay say, “Ay brot yu nice pres of jokes by his thoughtless as ent tunight, Beginning at the intersection of the butt No story in which he has Vot yu give me tu make it all Big Luckiamute river and section sociates. appeared gave greater oppor right," line between sections 26 and 27 Tp. 9 ever tunity for the development of this “Veil, Ole, " she say, “dear, now let S. 6 W. of the Willamette Meridian; characterization than "Hay Foot, me see. thence north to the northwest comer Straw Foot" which comes Friday Ay tank it vould please yu so yu of section 11, Tp. 9 S. R. 6 W. of the night. “ The story deals with a pa ran hava me." Willamette Meridian; thence east