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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
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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.
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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
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