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» T he P olk C ounty P ost IN D E PE N D E N T IN Â L L THINGS SECOND SECTION Entered as second class m atter March 26, 1918, at the postotlice at Independence, Oregon, under the A ct o f March 3, 1879. VOLUME II. INDEPENDENCE, OREGON, NUMBER 46. fold by the Bank Book Industry plus Thrift Equals Prosperity is the secret of T H A for T both tt community— and the individuals in the community. Industry produces earnings; earn ings produce bank accounts, and bank accounts produce working capital for practical and profitable enterprise. The Farmers State Bank should be Your Financial Headquarters 0. W. IRVINE, J. B. PARKER, C. G. IRVINE, Glen C. Smith “It’s Like Finding Money” says the Good Judge W hen you take a little chew of this real quality tobacco, and the good tobacco taste begins to come.* Y ou ’ll find it keeps com ing, too. The rich to bacco taste lasts and lasts. >. You don’t have to take a fresh chew so often. Any man who uses the Real Tobacco Chew w ill tell you that. P ut Up In Tw o Styles R IG H T C U T is a short-cut tobacco W -B C U T is a long fine-cut tobacco W e y m a n - B r u t o n C o m p a n y ) '1107 B r o a d w a y . N e w Y o r k City Y O U W I L L F IN D IN Y O U R CITY MEAT MARKET A line of meats equal to any market in a large city, Consisting of the Finest Meats Obtainable. M ILLE R & SMITH The Independence National Bank Established .1889 A N A C C O U N T in a commercial bank is the most convenient aid to modem business. I t systema tizes payments, is a check on ail expenditures and shows you just where you stand each month. Open one with us today. I t will pay you to do so. Member Federal Reserve System Officers and Directors H. Hirschberg, Pres. C. A. McLaughlin, V. P. Ira D. Mix, Cashier W. H. Walker D. W. Sears O. D. Butler THE POST P U B L IS H E S M ORE SO U T H P O L K C O U N T Y N E W S THAN ANY OTHER PAPER FEBRUARY 13, 1920. GREAT BRITAIN PLANS TO SALVAGE 1,000 SHIPS SUNK DÜRING WAR Work Will Be Confined at First to Waters Surrounding the Brit ish Isles— Believed 1,0C0 Ships Lie at Depths Regarded as Workable— 90 Craft, Including Lusitania, Regarded as Beyond Poss bility of Rescue. water: and the sea is not perfornriv: I uphill feats with such bulk. The sen » >il'ii viitns have been announced I bed is sixty feet deep half a mile from for the .:*‘aiest feats of salvage ever shore. Indicating the precipitous na undertaken, whereby, with the support ture of that part ot the const. More of the British admiralty, attempts will | lives might have been saved and there be made to.rescue from the sea 1,000 | would have been ft chance of salvage craft sunk by submarine nr other de ‘ If the master of the ship could have structive agencies in the war. Opera j contrived to head her for shore and tions will be comined for the time to keep her iilhsit long enmi,!i t.- travel the sea area surrounding the British about nine mites, hut even s > she could islands. The work will be extended to have been beached only tin the rocks the salvage of cargo as well as craft, A “ Marine Cemetery." and thus the money value o f what Many other craft a ls o found a : nv< may be saved can hardly he calculat off Old Kinsale. ft is e"f'!:in*<‘d thn ed, but it promises to lie vast. more that, ninety craft of various Modern methods are said to lie eiptal to the task of rac ag any craft rest kinds were sunk there, converting it ing on bottom in not more than twen Into a marine cemetery. All o f them, like the Lusitania, seem to lie beyond ty fathoms (120 feet) of water. The admiralty figures that at least 1,000 resurrection until or unless invention vessels ranging in tonnage from 200 can Hnd a way to enable divers to de to 10,000 tons lie in waters of work scend to much greater depths than has heretofore been possible. So the able depth. Cargo can he recovered In still deeper water. Until within admiralty is letting Old Kinsale alone a few years divers did useful work at as beyond practicable range for effec a depth of 182 feet, and that depth, tual operations in salvage. Loss of the Lusitania deprived the was long considered a maximum for their effective operations. Americans t'unurd Line of a wonderful ship In respect to capacity and speed, but it set a new record In.Hawaiian waters after the war began by lifting a sub Involved the line In no loss of money for construction outlay or cargo value. marine from a bed more than 200 feet deep. I f Kt’glish divers can work at The English government assumed most of the risk and paid It, and the re that depth tlicir Held o f activities will maining value, was covered by Insur be correspondingly enlarged. ance in various English companies. Locations Charted. The potential loss fell, of course, on The British admiralty has prepared a chart showing with close' approxi the company, for such u ship would have been a most serviceable and mation the position o f every sunken profitable carrier for the remainder of vessel between DungenesS, a headland the war. at the southern extremity of Kent Another serious loss to he reckoned projecting Into the Knglisli channel, and the month o f the Tyne, at the as final, along with the Lusitania, was North sea. it is said that as soon its that o f the Justicia o f the White Star Line, 32.000 tons burden, which main the season for diving arrives it will tained n tight o f nearly twenty-four proceed on such a scale that visitors to ¡ill the coast resorts will he able to hours with German submarines before get a glimpse of it and it will be one she went down In deep water off the north coast of Ireland. She had. been of the attractions o f the season. Small black dols on the chart indi Guilt for tile Hollnnd-Amerlca Line, cate the positions o f the sunken craft. and was taken off the ways at Belfast The dots lie in strings and dusiers. at the outbreak of the war and as There are patches of them off ileal, signed under charter to the White Star fleet. On one of her early trips s! e and along the Suffolk coast, especially near Aldebnrgh, I he dots are grouped curried 30,000 bushels of grain to Eu so closely that they look almost like rope, nnd after tills country entered the war she made frequent trips ns a a single blotch. It was in this stretch o f water that the British navy de 1 transport, carrying 5.000 men at a stroyed or captured submarines and i time. When attacked, In July, 1918, the assailants often went down with i she was on a westward course, carry- j ing no passengers, but with a crew of their victims. There is a dose-linked chain of dots more than 600 men. At the first blow off the month of the Thames. Re her captain decided he could proceed tween Flnmln.rough Head and Whitby, to an Irish port under the ship’s own which Is on the Yorkshire const, the ' steam. He emerged without serious Germans for a time reaped a rich har | damage from a running fire with the vest, tailing off in a line running north original submarine. Then he encoun tered another submarine. The ship east into the North sea. An indication o f the rewards for sal stood the shook o f nine torpedoes tie- vage Is instanced in the case o f the fore going down out of sight of land. steamship Tours, which was lifted Lusitania and Justicia. off the Gower rocks, on the Glamor Although II. may not lie possible to ganshire coast, after the ship had salvage such famous crafts as the Lu been exposed to wind ami weather for sitania and the Justicia the tasks in six months. The salvage men towed workable water are sufficient to keep her Into Swansea and got $400,000 for salvage men busy for a long time. the feat. Great Britain lost in the war by of No Present Hope for Lusitania Experts in salvage have never per mitted themselves to count on bring ing the Lusitania again to the surface, or even reaching any o f her cargo, for she went down in forty-nine fathoms (294 feet) o f water off the Old Head o f Kinsale, on the southern coast of Ireland, and there has been no sign of her since she sank there early In May, 1915. The ship was worth $10.000.0110, and she carried more than $800.000 worth o f cargo, and those values have serve! to tire the Imagination of the adventurous nnd the optimistic. The fact that she Is not represented by a dot In the Admiralty list has not ex tinguished hope that Improvements in modem methods may be stimulated by the prospect o f the wealth that would reward such a recovery, or that per haps the sen might carry her shore ward into workable depths. It would be a miracle if the sea could lift the ship from her resting place, for the ocean bed there shelves steeply. At ten miles from shore, where the messages from the Lusitania Indicated she was struck, sinkir in twenty minutes, the depth Is 29' 4. In order to m ote the ship landward a distance of five ami one-half miles would need to be traversed up an In clined shelf o f rock, to a depth o f 240 feet, which would still he too great for divers. The 180-foot line is distant more than eight and one-half miles from where the ship went down, the incline still continuing steep, and It would tie necessary to move nine miles from the sinking |>oint. or one mile from shore, before a depth of twenty fathoms (120 feet) could he reached. Divers could go down there and rescue treasure, hnt they could hardly expect to move such a tremendous hulk as the ship to the surface from deeper ficial figures computed to last March— four months after the armistice— 9,- 043,744 gross tonnage. The ship val ues at $200 a ton were estimated nt $1,808.748,800; the cargo values, at $100 a ton, nt $¡104,374,400; the prop erty, money ami lives, insured at $10 a ton, at $¡»0,4.37,440; the earning pow er, at $7.05 a ton per month, $1,340,- 331,217, making a total for ships sunk o f $4,143,891,857. Repairs for dam ages cost $152,187,200 nnd earnings lost, during repairs were $68),184,641, making the loss in damages $521,371.- 841. or a grand total of $4,665,263,008. Probably at least half the loss for ships sunk occurred within workable distance o f the const. If the propor tion were one-quarter the rewards for salvage would yield fortunes to suc cessful salvage men. The established companies nre per fecting their equipment, and foreign companies will he as ready and eager to enter the field. Other totals o f losses for ships sunk and for repairs were distributed as fol low s: United States, $460,276.245; other allies and neutrals. $2,639,044,- 515— making the world's grand total $7,773,584,458. Salvage work naturally will he undertaken wherever practi cable. Authentic records o f salvage show that from a depth o f 182 feet a Span ish diver, Angel Erostarhe, recovered $45,000 In silver hats from the wreck o f the steamer Skyro, sunk off Uni»1 Finisterre; Alexander Lambert saved $350.000 from the Spnnlsh mall steamer Alphonse XII. sunk in 162 feet of wa ter off Las Palmas. Grand Canary, and W. Bidyard recovered $250.000 In sil ver from the Hamilton Mitchell, stink off Leuconnn reef. China. In 150 feet. Tripp sells real estate. CLYDE T. ECKER, EDITOR Correcting Children’s Sight... My one-third of a century's continuous practical experi ence in correcting children's eyes qualifies me to do this work thoroughly and well. 1 iip * ,. i V Nine Years’ Practice in Salem During the nine' years I have practiced m y profession in Salem, I have successfully fitted glasses for over 1500 children from 5 to 16 years of age from l ’olk and Marion counties. Bring your children to me and I w ill tell you frankly whether they need glasses or not. Don't let them be retarded in school or handicapped in their work by poor eyesight. Eye defects can be corrected much more readily during childhood than later in life. My prices are very reasonable. I guarantee my work to give perfect satisfaction in every respect. DR. M. P. M E N D E L S O H N FITS GLASSES CORRECTLY 211-212 Oregon Building (form erly Hubbard bldg.) Pjhone 443 REVIVAL MEETINGS AT WANTED—MEN, W O M EN PENTECOSTAL MISSION A N D CHILDREN Beginning Wednesday, February 11, an old-time, revival meeting, Come out and hear the old time Gospel. Jesus is coming soon. E V A N G E LIS T J. T. W IN D E R of St. Louis, Me., in charge j To come to the Baptist church j next Sunday and hear the Rev. H. j L. Proppe preuch both morning and evening. Rev. Proppe w ill preach in the morning on the subject of "Regeneration or Reformation." In the evening he w ill preach on “ W hat It Cost Christ to. Make Us Christians.” The Sunday school is SWISS TO HOLD UNIQUE FAIR still grow ing and increasing in at tendance. I f you don’t go else Display of Watch, J vvel and Kindred where, you come to the Baptist Industries at G neva in the church. The regular prayer meet Year 1920. ing of the church w ill be held on The “ Federation Horlogere Suis Wednesday nights at 7.30. The pas se” (Federation of the Swiss Watch tor w ill lecture on g ’ eat Bible ‘.hon es. Am ong utlir- ( nestions industry) is welcoming the organi that i c w ill take up pome are: zation in 1920 at Geneva of a fair of “ W here did we get our Bible?" the watch and jewel and kindred in “ Is the Bible the W ord of God is dustries. Mr. Rudhardt, director its message true?” "Can we pro of industry of Geneva, took the in duce the original manuscript; if itiative in the institution of the fair, not how do we know the Bible/is lie considers that tile new conditions true?" You ought to c< me and get made by the war for these indus wised up on these llr'ogs and be up tries require a more effective co-or to date. A hearty welcome awaits dination between the workers and you to all our services. CONTRIBUTED. the producers; that it must be ex pected that considerable efforts will be made by foreign competition to take from Swiss manufacturers the unquestioned supremacy which they have hitherto enjoyed iu the world I A. G. Williams, Prop. | market; or at least to diminish its I A ll kind of barbering I importance. It may safely be said that nothing I done and satisfaction § Ladies’ 1 will be omitted in order to give this I guaranteed. fair, the first of its kind in Switzer I shampooing and mas- 1 land, a strictly business character, § saging given special at- Ì while not neglecting the artistical I tention. Shine in con- “ side. The “ Palais Electoral” has I nection. been chosen for the fair. The par iHaiiiniiniiniwiiniininiiniininiiiHiil ticipants will have at their disposi tion 132 boxes o f various sizes. The smallness of entrance fees will allow the participation of firms of modest importance. TO R E A LIZE THE The sale to individuals will not be MOST M O NEY authorized.— Journal de Geneve. • THE WIND MILL SHOP g B R O W N E D RYE "C O F FE E ." W e buy everything you want to sell and sell everything you want to buy. Cash or trade. The high price of coffee at the present time has caused many people in the United States, especially in tlie rural districts, to adopt a substi tute that was popular during the Civil war. It is that of using browned rye for the ‘^beverage that cheers but dors not inebriate.” The grains of rye are roasted to a light brown color, ground and then used in the same way as coffee. Those who have used the rye say that it makes a palatable drink at only a fraction of the cost of coffee. Bring in everything you want to sell and I will sell it for you on a conmiission. M AX GOLDM AN T H E REAL TROUBLE. V A L LE Y A SILK TX “ The doctor said Jones was suf fering from too much obesity.” “ Nothing of th? kind; all that is the matter with him is that he's too fat.” Effective April 1, trains will run as follows: No. 2 arrives from Hoskins 9:15 A. M. dally No. 4 arrives from Camps 4:00 P. M. daily except Sunday No. 1 departs for Camps 10:50 A. M. daily except Sunday No. 3 departs for Hoskins 4:15 P. M. dally Freight service t:30 P. M. on Tuesdays and Saturdays SWOPE & S W 0 P I LAW YERS I. 0. 0. F. Building Independence, O rs fo n i «