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.
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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
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To pay for Easter bonnets.
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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.
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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
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H. G. HOGAN
T ripp sells real estate.
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