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W h a t Is H om e ] W ith o u t a B aby i N i i ■ I ■ it i 4 ■ i I ■ 4 4 The parents who are blessed with little souls just YANKEES FIRST RACE SUISIDt HITS RUSSIA IN DARING FEAT TAKE LIVES IN THEIR HANDS MARRIAGES ARE NUMEROUS Governm ent Offera Inducem ent fo r Cerem ony by Making Official G ift of Expensive Cloth to E v e ry N e w ly W edded Couple— Decree G ra ntin g Absolute E q u a lity to W om en la C on trib uting F a c to r to F u rth e r Race Suicide. Two d arin g A m ericans have p e r form ed a w orld-beating fe a t— th e de scent of V ictoria falls, In South A f 3 rica. 4 “ Home of the Grafonola’ Scaling a precipice of 369 feet w ith 4 a rope, they accom plished a hazardous Î PERFECT SERVICE PURE DRUGS g climh down th e rem ain in g rocks to the extrem e bottom of a g re a t p it—a total of m ore than 400 fe e t—and stood ::a iiin i!D iiB in i« iiH iiH iin iin iiiw i!n iia iiin in iin iiia iiM :iH iiin in iiiB iiB iiB i w here no hum an foot had ever trod. F irst to p e n e tra te the pit w ere Pliny W. H orne and W illiam Stow ell, both Phone the news to M2113. CITY AND COUNTRY of I.os Angeles. H orne Is a cam era man and Stowell Word has been received from Tripp writes fire insurance. a film d ire c to r for a Him com pany. Medford that Lawrence Eldridge, They a re m em bers of th e Sm ithsonian See F. M. Brown for loganberry who hhs been suffering from an at A frican expedition, a p a rty of scien tack of pneumonia, is recovering tists and m otion p ictu re men touring tips. 47 nicely and has been removed A frica. N ever In history, since th e m ission Huth Milis has entered t{ie Nor from the hospital. ary-explorer, D octor L ivingstone, dis mal. FOR SALE—Brown mare, 10 covered V ictoria falls In 1855, h as any The great Nazimova is coming years old, weight 1600 pounds, living th in g been a t the bottom of the sound and true. This is an excel chasm , save baboons and birds. M arriages, m ade easy b y official de- cree, a re m ore num erous than ever be fo re in R ussia, but race suicide la ram pant, according to a representa tive of th e Jew ish In te rn a tio n a l W o rk e rs' union w ho has re tu rn e d to B e rlin a f te r spending tw o y ears in observ ing conditions th ro u g h o u t the soviet republic. 4 '4 4 a W illia m s ’ D r u g C o . next week. lent buy for anybody^ wishing a Murion Butler was an Independ first class horse. Will sell at a bargain. See Mr. Stidd at Ace ence visitor today. Gurage. Captain J. S. Cooper was home from Portland Sunday. The Baccalaureate service at the Methodist church last Sunday even Mr. and Mrs. S. Taylor Jones ing was an enjoyable event. Those were in Portland last Sunday. participating in the music did cred it to themselves and Dr. Dunsmore’s Dr. H. C. Dunsmore spent yester address was pronounced his master day with the Macys in Portland. piece of oratory. Mrs. Chas .Oglesby of Salem is Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rector are the guest of Mrs. B. F. Swope this here from New Underwood, S. D., week. visiting Mrs. Rector’s mother, Mrs. P. H. Drexler, and sister, Mrs. Percy Lee Robinson, Misses Ivy Stanley Dickinson. Mb. and Mrs. Rector and Pearl Smith were in Corvallis spent several weeks in California Sunday . before coming here. For Sale—1 horse weight about 1200 lbs. G. W. WATTENBARGER, On the Sloper ranch. Miss Manning is here from Port land visiting her sister, Mrs. H. L. Proppe. Mr. Dougherty is here from Port land visiting liis daughter, Mrs. P. M. Kirkland. Eli Fluke was displaying a fine string of fish at Craven’s Hardware store Monday. Mrs. Dean Walker is visiting relatives and friends in Independ ence this week. Mrs. Robt. J. Clark is here from Caldwell, Idaho, visiting her sister, Mrs. Frank Dickson. Sam Muhleman and family hnve returned from Oregon City and re sumed living on the farm. Miller & Smith receive many compliments on the way they dis play their meats at the City Meat Market Dickson & Mattison have a full crew working and are accumulat ing a good bunch of wood for next winter's use. The Baptist Ladies Aid will hold a cooked food sale at Calbreath & Jones’ Grocery Store Saturday, Feb. ruary 21. GUIDES VESSELS INTO PORT Device f » r Autom at e Conduct ef Ships Into Safe H arbor Anchorage It the L a tc iL Accurate, automatic guidance of vessels through any and all weather conditions into the safe anchorage of a harbor would unquestionably be an improvement in ocean navigation, and the change is promised by an invention described, the other day, by the president of a British asso ciation. Germany is credited with the initial work, designed to provide a means for guiding her submarines through mine fields, and British in ventors are said to have made it practicable for surface vessels in times of peace. To put it briefly, an insulated wire laid on the bottom of the sea acts as a guide for vessels provided with proper electrical ap paratus, so that the path indicated by the wire can be followed in the dark, and the vessel come into port almost as if she traveled on a track. That it. has been proved possible to provide such guidance continuously for 50 miles makes the invention im mediately practicable for harbor en trances ; and the cost is so definitely a form of insurance against loss of ■hip and cargo that the idea will hardly be allowed to wait long for adoption. W O R M IN T H 1 B U R R . Mrs. S. E. Owen retumedSunday Worms have gone np. They cost from a fortnight's visit in Eugene. She was accompanied home by Mrs. more by the quart this fall. The unpleasant tenant of the Dole Pomeroy and children who are chestnut is the offspring of a beetle passing the week here. with an enormously long snout The mother beetle crawls over the Mr. and Mrs. K. S. Arrell are re ripening burr, and, by the help of joicing over the adveut of a son. The youngster made his appearance her snout, thrusts her eggs dowu Tuesday. Feb. 3, and has been into i t When they hatch, tiny whits christened Llewellyn Thomas. grubs emerge and, boring into the nuts, proceed to fatten and grow. Emerging from the chestnuts after Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Robbie had as their Sunday guests a cousin, Er- the latter have fallen to the ground, naat McKinney of Albany, and Mr they burrow into the earth, where and Mrs. I. E. Hooker of Portland. they spend the winter, making their The Hookers were former residents appearance in the following year as o f this city. beetle«. M. Merwin was here from Port land last Wednesday. In talking with Mr. Merwin, he said: “I see a remarkable Improvement in Inde pendence and there is no reason why the town should not go for ward now with the price of hops good. We are going to see the old town coming into its own again • o o a .'' JOIN THE 100 PERCENT INDEPENDENCE BOOSTERS “A lot of us fellow's in it and more invited.” j SEE US F O R LIG H T FIXTURES I Make Descent of Victoria Falls Birth Rate Decreasing Due to Physical Conditions. in South Africa. Accom plish Hazardous C lim b of O v e r 400 Feet and Stand W here N o H u man Foot H ad E v e r T ro d — N ever H a t A n y L iv in g T h in g Been at the Bottom of the Chasm, Save Baboons and B irds— Ta k e M oving P ictures of Falls. beginning life’s journey are indeed fortunate and 4 we wish there were more of them. il This store has always catered to babies, and if there 4 is anything the baby wants, we have it. u| AIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIiailBIIBIiailBiniM iiniM ilim M IIM IIW IRIIIBIIBIIiaillM liBIIM I] Ju s t Im agine T h is . To a p p re c ia te w hat th e A m ericans d id : Im agine a cleft in th e e a rth 400 feet deep and of a w idth v arying from 250 to 400 f e e t ; sheer, p erpendicular cliffs, absolutely w ithout fo o th o ld s; the chasm a t rig h t angles to th e Zam besi river, w hich cascad es over the one long side of th e narrow , longitudinal pit, lenvlng th e opposite cliff hare, m ist-bathed and fo rb id d in g ; im ngine the chasm a hole in th e e a rth , with only one n arro w o u tlet n e a r one end, a g atew ay w ith rocky slde.s falling ver tically Into a sw irlin g pool of w ater, a m aelstrom ap tly called the R olling Pot. H ad the rope broken th ere would have been no escape fo r Stow ell or H orne from th e bottom of the pit. They couldn't swim th e w hirlpool cu r rent. T h e re w as ju s t a narrow ledge to stan d on, no p ath along th e bottom 's edge to th e gatew ay front the chasm Into th e gorge. And Stow ell and H o rn e m ade not one descen t—h u t two. P revious to pen e tra tin g th e full distance, they first w ent over th e cliff of C a ta ra c t Island to th e bottom of D evil's c a tn ra c t, the most w esterly cascade of V lctoriu falls, a d istan ce of 200 feet. F o r m axim um safety In d arin g a sp ec ta c u la r and u nprecedented feat, a hand winch and 550 fe e t o f rope were brought from R uluw ayo, 280 miles nway. T h e w inch w as set up on the top and w eighted w ith bow lders, the rope p assing over a log lodged a t the edge. T he w lneh w as o p erated by T hom as M cEwen of Ruluw ayo, a vet era n and exftert “rigger," and a crew o f R aro tse n atives. A bonrd sad d le w as rigged up at one end of th e rope. H orne w as tied In. T hen, arm ed w ith a stick to fend him self from th e Jagged side of the rock wall, he w ent over th e edge of the precipice back w ard and w as let down. A fter h e d isap p eared over th e brink he w as Invisible to th e men a t the winch. So o th e r m em bers of the Sm ithsonian p a rty , led by Dr. J. R. A rm strong of Los Angeles, stood w atch on the opposite side of th e chasm. Recorded by Movie. H ere also w as posted a n o th e r movie cam e ra, o p erated by H enry N. K ohler of Chicago, ta k in g long-distance pic tu re s of th e descent. W ith binoculars tr a ln e l on th e descending m an— who seem ed to he craw ling down the sheer wall like a fly. fo r only th e sw aying gidde rope could he seen, and not the rope b earin g th e w eight—D octor A rm strong w atched fo r sig n als of dis tress. A fter H orne reached the bottom and u ntied him self In a blinding rainstorm of m ist from th e a d jac en t D evil’s c a ta ract, th a t left him drenched, dripping and cold, th e cam era, th e tripod and o th e r p a ra p h e rn a lia w ere low ered down to him one a t a tim e. Then Stowell m ade th e descent. T h e slow w ork of lettin g tw o men down and th e sep n rn te pieces o f cam era equipm ent and the tedious, p eril ous clim bing over rocks a t th e bot tom to set up th e cam era consum ed the whole day. N ext day the second and most spec ta c u la r descent w as made. On the th ird day. d irectly opposite Rainbow falls, th e cam era man "sh o t" some beau tifu l scenes. T h is stu n t w as a motion p ictu re tri um ph. F o r th e cam era, set up on the narrow ledge at th e bottom , covered in full sw eep th e m agnificent plctnre of th e cascades of th e main falls nearly h a lf a mile up th e canyon, the p ic tu r esque trick les o f Rainbow falls d irect ly opposite th e place of descent and the •u p erh c o n tra st of th e n early dry rock w alls of th e easte rn portion e f the cataclysm ic chasm. Prediction D ro ve M any Insane. T he statem en t by P ro fesso r Porfn to th e effect th a t the w orld would come to an end on JV eem her IT. drove 4ft rvshlents of D etroit to tem pom ry or p erm anent Insanity, aftconllng to D r H enry F. Vaughan, city health com m issioner. B have received an additional supply I I H our present stock, * gives us reason to be lieve that we carry more of this particular kind of merchandise than any store in Polk I I County. It is to your interest to become a ■ I 1 I I customer of oursi Undernourishm ent the Cause. Physiological conditions, arisin g from the long period of u n d ern o u rish m ent, is said to be the cause of 'few e r children. L iberal m arria g e and di vorce law s a re responsible fo r the In creasing num ber of m arriages. O ne of tile governm ent’s biggest Inducem ents to m arriage is the official g ift of a p proxim ately 34 y a rd s of expensive cloth to each newly «edited couple. T he g re a te r num ber of R ussians a re so reduced econom ically th a t th ey have contracted m arriag es fo r no oth e r reason th an to obtain th e cloth of fered by the governm ent. M any of these couples, a fte r the cerem ony, sell th eir cloth for sum s varying from 3,000 to 4,000 rubles, sp lit th e receip ts and then go th e ir s e p a ra te w ays. No T rouble to Get Divorce. T he governm ent's decree g ra n tin g abso lu te equality to women is also a co n trib u tin g fa c to r to f u r th e r race suicide. Not only in theory, but in actu al practice, the R ussian women enjoy men s lib erties and responsibil ities. H aving been g ran ted the sam e w ages the sam e political tre a tm e n t and the sam e duties, m any of th e women, being th u s forced to become breadw inners, a re com pelled to fo r sak e home duties. The bolshevikl, w ho ta k e fhe posi tion th a t m arriage, although a sacred Institution, should not he m ain tain ed a fte r husband anrl w ife cease to live to g eth er in harm ony, have g reatly simplified the m a tte r of o b tain in g a divorce. T hey seek, how ever, to m ain tain fam ily life, b u t a re learn in g th a t th e ir decrees, w hen p u t Into action, tend, to fam ily d isin teg ratio n . § of light fixtures, which added to § I i WILLARD E. CRAVEN HDW. I ■ SUCCESSOR TO CRAVEN & HUFF HDW. CO. ? I IIIIB IIB IIB IIB IinilM IB iinilHIM IIHIIII h ■ IIIK J in ilB IIB IIB IIB IIB Iin ilB III in a n i mini h nil m m i uii unni n m m n in u i ' INDEPENDENCE WOOD YARD I DICKSON & MATTISON, Props. 5 g ----- Dealers in------ jg A ll Kinds of W ood | % n m in m in in in m in m in m in in iH m in in in m in in in in in in v KNEW TEACHER’S WEAK POINT But Alm ost A nyone M ight H ave 6uc- cumbed to Such B eautiful “ B la rney.” The seventh-grade teacher was susceptible to praise— also she was fond of her boys and found it hard to refuse them a favor, especially if STILL WAITS FOR RESCUE they coaxed real hard. The other day they asked her to take them for U n rom antic O hio S h eriff Fo ils B right Scheme of F a ir Maiden. a weiner roast From the first she “W hen th e clock In th e steeple was adamant in her refusal. The s trik e s 1, bring a letter, a saw and a file, com e fo r me.” T h is appeal, w rit boys tried coaxing—they almost ten on d ain tily scented pink note p a iried bribery, but still she said— per, fluttered from a window of th e "No.” w om an’s section of th e county jail Then the little Irish fellow in the a t Tiffin, Ohio. class tried his hand. “Why, 1 think T h re e you th s p assin g rescued It it is your duty to take us,” he be from a snow drift. “P ll pay you well, If you’ll only get gan. “The board said—” m e out of here," the w rite r prom ised. The teacher's head was tilted high It w as from a girl who is held for in the air. And the little Irishman alleged forgery. T he th ree youths w ere d eb atin g w h eth er to ta k e th e played the card for which he had risk of a rescue w hen S heriff C harles been preparing. “Oh, Miss M.,” he J. M utchler pounced on them , m a te ri enthused, “when you hold your head ally aiding them In com ing to a de like that you look exactly like a cision. T he "clock In th e steep le" stru ck , b u t th e re w ere no signs of genius.” rescuers. T hat plea in his blarneying voice would have melted a heart of stone. THIS CAT A SHOPLIFTER And the teacher laughed and went on the weiner roast.— Indianapolis C a lifo rn ia T a b b y F ound W ith a Neat New«. F u ll of Stolen A rtic le «. Independence Studio now open For Business under New Management AT THE ISIS NEXT WEEK Opening the week for Sunday matinee, Sunday night and Mon day night, Dustin Farnum makes a hit in "A Man in the Open.” Said by the critics to be a good one. A very clever and interesting drama, "A House Divided”, comes on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. The stellar attraction of the week is oil Thursday and Friday nights when the great Nazimova is seen in her newest and most sensational screen triumph, “Stronger Than Death.”# Mysterious, colorful India, where East meets West, where life is ever subject to new mystries, new sensations, is the background of this superb story. Alive with tense drama, pulsing with a love story that grips and thrills. The big Saturday night show consists of "Unknown Love" in which Dolores Cassinelli and E. K. Lincoln star, a Herold Lloyd com edy entitled, "Bees in His Bonnet" and the always interesting Ford Weekly. T ootsie, a tabby-cat of San B e rn a r dino, Cal., h as been proved to be A M elting Silver D ollars to Make Change T en m illions of dollars, nil In silver, sh o p lifter. a re being m elted Into silver b ars a t She Is th e p et of a lunchroom pro p rie to r and she lives In his lunchroom . the U nited S tates m int, in P h ilad el phia. L a te r th e b ars a re to he turned H e saw her e n terin g th e lunchroom Into dim es, q u a rte rs and h a lf dollars. early one m orning w ith n shaving brush In her m outh. H e w atched. She T h e governm ent finds it cheap er to carefu lly deposited It In h er own espe m elt the d o llars th an to go Into the cial corner. In the “n est" w ere found m ark et and buy sliver, now selling a t m ore th a n a dozen other shaving the highest price in m any vear*. brushes. DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS T h e ow ner of a near-by d ru g store FOR PRESIDENT' SPU D S FOR SALE Identified the bru sh es as his property. T h e theory h as been a Ivanced th a t (Continued from Page 1) T ootsie thought the bru sh es w ere k it American Wonder early seed tens, w hich would account for her with the government’s need for in grent cu re in rem oving them front the potatoes. come taxes. And through it all the drug sto re to her “n e st.” J. C. COLLINS, public could sit in blissful satisfar Mbit “ NERO'S HORSES” IN VENICE Fam ous Bronzes Returned— W ere Rome fo r W a rtim e Safety. Phone: Farm 524 tion watching the scenes reelby. in f T h e fo u r bronze h orses w hich adorned th e facade of St. M ark s ca th e d ra l have again been p u t in place a fte r an absence of m ore th an tw o years, du e to th e ir tr a n s fe r to Rome, w here they had been k ep t to avoid cap tu re by th e A u strian s or d e stru c tion bv a ir bombs. T he horses a re re garded a s the finest specim ens of an cient bronzes and according to tra d i tion. graced the triu m p h arch of Nero. The Post has more readers in the Inde pendence territory and publishes more news of South Polk county than any other paper. Testified He Kissed 300 G irls. ie cham pion “Ja c k th e H ugger and e r " o f Indianapolis. Ind., Is Ez Ma- v a tvtenty-tw o-year-old a tte n d a n t sk atin g rink. M aroney. a. w itness he tria l of a sixteen-year-old girt th e charg e of delinquency, told te I j th r In Jnvenlle conrt th a t he ¡nigged and kissed Sftft girls in the he had been em ployed a t tlM i Because it is one hundred percent Inde pendence, does not attempt to build up another community at the expense of its own, and is a booster rather than a knocker. That’s why it receives the support and as sistance of all progressive people who have the welfare of the community at heart.