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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (March 12, 1920)
HE FEEDS THEM A U T H E POLK COUNTY PO ST (A uthor Unknown.) The politician talks and talks, The actor plays his part; The soldier glitters on parade, E ntered as second class m a tte r M arch 20, 1918, at the postoiftce ut The goldsm ith plies his art. Independence, Oregon, und er the Act of M arch 3, 1879. The scientist pusues his germ O’er the terrestial ball, The sailor navigates his ship; CLYDE T. ECKER Editor and Publisher. But the farm er feeds them all. Published every Friday at Independence, Oregon. B U iiN A V I S T A Told b y th e bank book A. J. Hall shipped a fine veal to Portland Friday Cumulative Experience Harvey Nash is confined to his loom with the grippe. C M artin L. P rather and wife, of Eu gene, spent the week-end with his parents. Mr. A. Kemp and fam ily of Salem preacher pounds the pulpit were over night visitor» a t Ed Pra- desk, , th e r’s Sunday. THREE MONTHS 50c. The broker reads the taps; The tailor cuts and sews his cloth Mrs. Ellen Snyder of Vancouver, S IX MONTHS $1.00 To fit the hum an shape. W ashington, is visiting her sister, ONE YEAR $1.50 The dam e of fashion dressed in silk Mrs. M. V. Prather. Outside Polk county: 6 months $1.25, One year $2.00 Goes forth to dine o r call, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Lichty arc Uuless otherw ise provided for, subscriptions w ill be stopped at expiration Or drive, or dance, or prom enade; expected home this week, and also But the farm er feeds them all. Mrs. F. P. Ground. The w orkm an wields his shining Many Republicans are knocking on Wood. Miss M argaret Livesly and Alma tools, W ells were week-end visitors of The m erchant shows his w ares; Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Wells. Even a tenderfoot would welcome a return of genuine The aeronaut above the clouds A dizzy journey dares. R. E. P rath er and fam ily spent Oregon weather. But a rt and science soon would Sunday with Mrs P ra th e r’s brother, fade, F rank Cole, and family at Corvallis. Gum is the same old price and the pieces are just as And commerce dead would fall, Mr. and Mrs. Hcnningson of Salem f the farm er ceased to reap and big. Buy gum, by gum! and G. E. Harmon and fam ily spent sow, Sunday with Silas H art at Philo For the farm er feeds them all. m ath. Subscription Rates: Miles Poindexter writes us on a campaign button that he wants “ no red without the white^and blue ” A boy in New York was given a reward of two dollars for finding a $1,200,000 bond order. It pays to be honest. The only profiteers to be caught and punished have been the little fellows who saw a chance for an extra quarter. Marjorie, who is always tender-hearted, says she is for Bryan because lie’s used to it and wouldn’t feel bad if defeated. It would be a cruel joke on Senator Chamberlain and Mr. Oswald West if Mr. Hoover should conclude to ride the elephant. Time gets by. It was five years ago that the Wall Street Journal said that the Germans should have no difficulty in keeping Lent. The biggest trouble about investigating committees now days is that committees must be appointed to in vestigate the investigating committees. / The INCOME TAX IS • DUE MARCH 15 > o o o o « O w w < k o o o o o « o o o « o o o o o o <. m o « This is the farmers’ bank in deed as w ell as name. We are inter ested in YOUR interests. Prestamit. Vies President. Cashier. Asst. Cashier. 0. W IRVINE, J. B. PARKER, C. O. IRVINE, Glen C. Smith FARMERS STATE BANK. Robert Emmonds and daughter, Penalties foi Deiay and FaillirCI Vera, ot Albany, visited his parents, to Make Returns— Early -Mr • an(J Mrs- E|>nore Emmonds, here Friday. Compliance Urged. All incom e tax re tu rn s covering Hie e a r 1911) m ust lie tiled by Monday, .’ larch 15. E ach ta x a b le re tu rn must ' e accom panied by check o r money or q e r fo r th e full am ount o r a t least one- q u a rte r of th e am ount o f ta x due. C ash p ay m en ts a re accep ted only at 'h e c o lle c to rs m ain office; if sent by > mil, they a re a t th e se n d e r's risk. R esid en ts o f O regon should tile th e ir re tu rn s w ith, and m ake p aym ents f Incom e T ax to, M ifton A. Miller, C ollector o f In te rn a l R evenue, Port- 'mid, Ore. T hose who m ust (lie re tu rn s bill have not done so a re w a rn e d th a t the rev en u e law im poses h eavy p enalties for fa ilu re to get re tu rn s in on tim e or to m ake p ay m en ts on tim e. E arly filing and e arly p ay m ents a n urged, In o rd e r to relieve th e internul revenue offices as much a s possible of an overload on th e llnal day, M arch 15 AT THE ISIS NEXT WEEK ______________________ To pay for Easter bonnets. I There were cpiite a num ber a t tended quarterly m eeting id e r* tt the M. E. church basket dinner'utt The Ladies Club m et a t the home of Mrs. M. N. P rath er last T hurs day and transacted th eir usual business. Mrs. Cleve P ra th e r the vice-president, had charge of the meeting. Resolutions of Respect W hereas in the Province of God, o u r beloved sister, Isabelle Boyd- ston, was removed from our m idst by death, March 3rd, '1920, be it re solved th at we, the m em bers of the Independence W. C. T. U., extend o u r heartfelt sym pathy to the be reaved family and friends of the de ceased, and a copy of these resolu tions be placed in our m inutes and a copy also be sent to our state paper. Signed by the Committee: MRS. LUCINDA BALDWIN MRS. LUCY W HITEAKER MRS. ALICE KURRE. (Continued from Page 1.) dead patron in silent prayer. As Baptist Church Progressing T- HrOrawford of La Grande, who seeks to attend the h an d s of the clock point to 12>10 the national Democratic convention as a delegate, says he the door opens, the bed covers move, The Baptist church has m ade and—this begins a m ystery th at will not obey the people’s instructions. Beat him. som e very noticeable advances would baffle a Sherlock Holmes. ft will be “F a ir and W arm er" on since the first of the year. The T hursday and Friday, starrin g May Sunday school atendnnee has grown The Portland Telegram could save a heap of valuable Allison, the m ixer of the fam oiu splendidly and the attendance at church has doubled. Last Sunday white paper if it would cut four feet each way off the cocktail. This picture has broken 17 new m em bers w ere received in m any records, am ong them the pictures of the society dames it runs in its Saturday longest continuous laugh ever evok to the church. There are now a ed from a th eatre audience. It lasts num ber of candidates w aiting to he edition, and the dames would look just as pretty too. precisely forty-three seconds in ev baptised. W here do you go to ery th eatre w here-the farce is play church, my reader? If you do not Oregon dem ocrats are talk in g scandalously about one ed or shown, ft comes a fte r the line: go to a church you come to the an o th er, b u t on election day they w ill be “thicker” than "She said she would do it, und she B aptist church. Next S unday the cold m ush.—Oregonian. did!” Since she last mixed her pastor will pfeaeh in the m orning— “The T rium ph of the Cross”—and in It looks to us as if some of the boys were throwing famous cocktail, Miss Allison says the evening—“A Good Man Lost the motto of the country has be rocks and breaking windows that can never be replaced. come "T hirst in w ar, th irst in and a Bad Man Saved.” The Sun pence, th irst in the th ro ats of our day school m eets at 10 a. m.; pray countrym en.” After expressing her er m eeting a t 7:30 p. m. W ednesday. Addle-pated, non-reading, non-thinking, baby talking, self as pleased because the country Spend your S unday rightly once u tterly frivolous women m ake the best wives."—Miss Jo had gone dry, Miss Allison says: and come to church. T his invites sephine Saxe, the actress. “A soldier boy told mo th a t while everyone who reads these lines. to come now. Asking hubby mtH-e often than frequent whether he was over there m aking the world Make up your m ind CONTRIBUTED. safe for dem ocracy, the fellows over “ him or God” is the greatest maybe is the reason they here m ade the country safe for bevo ALASI POOR NANCY. and he thought he had a kirk com make the “ best wives.” ing.” “F air and W arm er" also w ins distinction in another way. Not a (From the Benton County Courier) After packing h er grip Nancy o o o a o o o o o o o o ooooocooooookmv enooc ooeovooo »ooo single scone is laid in the out-of- Gripp rushed to .catch the train. doors. Any m an looking for a course in W ith the assistance of the brake- THE RHYMING SUMMARIST “How to Make Her Love You in m an she got a grip on the last Spite of Herself," or "How to Make coach and sw ung nboard, took her Like a pussy cat we are back a Good W ife Out of a Shrew " is grip, and settled in a seat next a And grab our regular corner recommended to go see Virginia wom an who had the grippe. At Pearson in “Impossible Catherine" first Miss G ripp's attention was To pass around the posy flowers S atu rd an night. Any girl who has gripped by studying her fellow pas And stick or prick the mourner; a sneaking adm iration for the cave sengers hut soon grippe germ s Clyde Williams is still a gentleman m an method qf ru n n in g off w ith tl.-* hom estending in h er system got a And Ross Nelson is a lady, girl of his choice, w hether she w ants grip on Miss Gripp and she lost her And Ira Mix to go or not, is also recom m ended to grip on consciousness and w as tak h u rry up and see it. If th er" is en to a hospital at A grippa station Denies it nix anyone who does not like to he en w hile her grip w as left onthetrain. That he’s been spooning Sadie. tertained w ith a laugh, a te a r and The grip germ s d id n 't have a j e a thrill, they had beter stay away. chance to get a real grip on Miss In a little while how things do change, Virginia Pearson as C atherine Kiin- Gripp so she soon got a grip on her J (Who’d stop it if they could?), ’»erley w ears m annish clothes and health, recovered her lost grip and j m akes red-hot speeches on the with a firm grip on her railroad Frank Dickson once was selling liverwurst, "Freedom of W om an!” She thinks tirk et Iwarded a train for home, a r Now he’s sawing wood; men are puny w eaklings and worn riving grippeless but not gripless. Pete Kurre used to grab an ax an 's inferior. She th in k s m arriage Now if the grip gripped by Miss And spend his time at plumbing, is an abom inable institution de Gripp had gripped a grip on Miss Now every day, signed to interfere w ith the freedom G ripp’s grippe—W h at’s the use; of women. Now John H enry Jack- try it yourself. So they say, son thinks C atherine, if properly At real estate he’s bumming. tam ed, would be just his style and TAKE YOUR BEDROOM WITH YOU as M anager Nelson says: "He sure The wanning rains are falling now, does some Tam ing w ith a capital (From the P ortland Telegram ) And both tough as old shoe leather T.” The W illows (Cal.) Journal de Dads Hedges and -Claggett meet and shake clares too m any men are being killed in bedrooms th at don’t be And say its durn good weather; Tell The Post. j long to them . W e m ay never visit j Now this is not a song of Spring, W illows, Cal., but if We should, we Here’s a sad note in these sonnets: FOR BAGGAGE hope to rem em ber the Jo u rn a l’s It takes forty bones w arning and take our own bedroom | AND TRANSFER For Buzz and Jones along with us. • I ONSULTATION here at the Farmers State Bank per mits one to learn the knowl edge and experience of many. Take for instance the subject of Corn Raising, we can tell you what and how others are doing right in your own neighborhood. « You Can’t Get Away from It says th e Good Judge A little of the Real Tobacco Chew gives more genuine satisfaction than the big chew ofi the old kind. Saves m oney, too—because this class of tobacco lasts m uch longer. The rich to bacco ta ste sta y s rig h t with it. Any m an who uses the Real Tobacco Chew will tell you that. Put Up In Two Styles RIGHT CUT is a short-cut tobacco W-B CUT 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 C i t y WHEN YOU GET OUR BILL for the tender roasts, suc culent chops and juey steaks we have sent you it will surprise you to note th a t in spite of the far superior q u ality of o u r m eats our prices are no higher th an you liuve begn paying. To trade here is indeed a les son on w hat m ay be called the Low Cost of High Liv ing. Meat Market MILLER & SMITH 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. Open one with us today. It will pay you to do so. Member Federal Reserve System Officers and Directors H. Hirschberg, Pres. 0. A. McLaughlin, V. P. Ira 1). Mix. Cashier W. H. Walker D. \V. Sears O. I). Butler THE POLK COUNTY POST Has More Headers in (South Polk County Has More South Polk County News Has More Independence Advertising CALL PHONE 2012 H. G. HOGAN T ripp sells real estate. 46 Than Any Other Newspaper