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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (March 19, 1920)
'f W‘ v U r o * left , T he P olk county ONE HUNDRED PERCENT INDEPENDENCE volum e n. D EP EH C E FECES E «OUSE FEME /, P ost INDEPENDENCE, ORJ l UON, MARCH 19, 1920. H E N R Y AND HARRY A few weeks back The Host called him Henry Uiff. It was a sort of a mental lapse, and as Harry never kicked about it no harm was done. But it sounded awful funny to some of his friends when we called him Hen ry and they have been tickled about it ever since. The proper names of Henry and Harry are closely related— in fact Harry is an offspring of Henry. Henry means the “head or chief of the house.” Harry means nothing in particular so Henry has it on Harry in that way. A Henry doesn't care much if you call him Harry but if you want to get a Harry fighting mad just call him Hank. NUMBER SL im ini !«I:H i « iibi : i B! ib i SPECIAL MATINEE S a t u r d a y , m c h . 20 . 2:30 Dustin Farnura in “ The Virginian.” You who missed seeing tins sensationally successful stage and screen masterpiece of a few years ago, may see it now. Only one performance. Evening: Virginia Pearson in “ Impossible Catherine.” FARMERS: READY! 00! I — 1 Independence at the present time is having u murked increase in industries and population. It is not a boom, for booms are not perman ent and only of benefit while they last and do much dam age after they are over, but a S U N D A Y A N D M O N D A Y , M CH. 21-22 steady and reliuble growth. Today there are no modern homes (including Sunday Matinee.) in the city to rent and as a result many families to avoid living in a moving van part of the time are buying homes pf their own. Own ers of “unimproved” residences will in “ A V E R Y GOOD Y O U N G M A N ” find it to their financial advantage to “modernize” at once as they are i H is fam ily’s reputation was in sad need of a vacuum sure to secure a permanent renter. W HY NEWSPAPERS CANNOT ? ! cleaner after lie got done repudiating his previous Homes are being purchased in In ALW AYS “KINDLY PRINT” ? saintly reputation, but it got him the girl— and what dependence for a sum a .great deal less than it would cost to build the J do you care for his famih reputation if you get fun Tiie Post within a week has re houses. When all residences that * and he gets the girl. can be purchased at a reasonable ceived exactly forty letters from figure are sold, then the city has a members of college faculties, grad Burton Holmes Travel Picture and Comedy uates and students urging us to problem on its hands to solve. Independence wants more people support what is known as the mill- and is getting them, but the time is age bill. The proposition is prob T U E S D A Y A N D W E D N E S D A Y , M CH. 23-24 near at hand when new comers will ably a very meritorious one and be unable to get houses to live in worthy of the approval of the peo and will not, as a consequence, be ple. The greater number of these cor come residents of Independence. Another tiling they w ill not do and respondents enclosed articles, ar that is to pay exorbitant prices for guments and statements relative to In “ T H E L I G H T O F W E S T E R N S T A R S ” rent. They will not stand for a the millage bill which they asked us to "kindly print.” If we had “hold-up.” In a wild moment Gene Stewart boasted he’d marry The high price of lumber and complied with their request, the mat the first girl who came to town— that is the start of building materials prevents many ter submitted would have filled six Zane G re y ’s red-blooded, gripping story. One of pages of The Post and two columns from erecting homes. They would the most pictureque and impressive Westerners un rather build their own homes than besides and cost us over $50. This rolled on the screen. It is rich in human interest buy one for in most cases one can explains why the leading papers of not buy a house that exactly suits. the state cannot be as "kind" as and engrossing adventure. The production is su But because of high prices there they would like to be. perb for the great West has probably never been Besides each paper receives from there are not going to he many resi more impressively filmed. See the wild auto race dences built by private individuals five to twenty pages of other “re against time and death— one of the hundred thrills. quests to print” each week. Unless some inducemtns are given them in the way of financial sup Comedy and International News port—the inauguartion of some plan C. F. SMITH HOME ROBBED by which homes can be built and GET JEWELRY AND MONEY paid for on easy payments. Many cities and towns of the T H U R S D A Y A N D F R ID A Y , M CH . 25-26 The home of C. F. Smith, living country are threatened or have a south of Monmouth, was robbed house famine. Citizens aroused by Sunday afternoon while tpe family the menuce of such a situation are was absent. The thief or thieves resorting to various methods to re carried away seven or eight dollars lieve i t The people of Independ in cash and some jewelry belonging in 1 ‘P L E A S E G E T M A R R IE D ’ ’ ence are face to face with it and to Mrs. Smith. A watch valued very if they realize the seriousness of highly by Mrs. Smith, fortunately Mated ideally they thought they were married and such a condition w ill take every was overlooked by the theif. No maybe they were but— means possible to eliminate it. The clues we're left, but Mr. Smith would There is a lonesome twin-bed, snow white and soft to touch loss in dollars and cents in not be like to learn more about a stranger It’s the one in the play, but they don't use it very much. ing able to have a population in ex who he saw walking on the V. & Note the house detective, the slicker with a gun, THERE WERE ’VISIBLE EFFECTS’ cess of a certain figure is great. S. railroad track when he and Mrs. He took a keen enjoyment in spoiling all the fun. MR. PORTLAND OREGONIAN Every man in this city engaged in Smith left home. And Muriel, of course, would have blushed if she had known, any business or occupation in which But she didn’t, don’t you see, so why should she live alone? If any man can drive over Polk he depends upon the public for sup THE ANNUAL SHAMROCK TEA Don’t blame Ferdie Walton, he thought she was his bride, county rouds—except in the vicin port loses financially when one But was she? See the picture and then you can decide. ity of Monmouth and Independence family is deprived of a chance to REPLENISHES LIBRARY FUNDS —and not pray for repairs, he has I t ’s all about a honeymoon— the strangest honey l.ve here. When the number gets The Annual Shamrock tea at the lost all his religion. In one short into the dozens or scores one can moon on record— a kissless bride in a mirthful farce trip over the highways the top of then commence to realize what it Library last Wednesday was a most of embarassed newlyweds. It ’s rich! I t ’s great! the editorial cranium struck the means. Such a situation is near at pleasant event. The decorating of the Library was given over to a auto cover as many as six times.— hand in Independence and what arc Rolin Comedy and Pathe News committee from the High School, in Dallas Observer. we going to do about it? Without visible effects, of course. It should be the leading question cluding the Misses Kathleen Skin ner and Thelma Williams assisted —Oregonian. of the hour and every individual, S A T U R D A Y , M CH . 27 There were “visible effects,” Mr. club or organization that has the by George Bulloch and Gerald Hewitt. Many suggestions of Erin’s Oregonian. The same week he welfare of the city at heart should Isle were used about the rooms. wrote that Independence-Monmouth get busy. Flags of Old Ireland, shamrocks and had been shown partiality in the dis tribution of county road funds. Ov emerald streamers were all com FARMERS AT MONMOUTH er here we had concluded that the bined with good effect. During the MAP OUT TEAR’S WORK 1 in “ P R O F I T E E R S ” afternoon, Mrs. Chas. Fitchard, Mrs. insides of the editorial cranium had become deranged on the trip, but Oliver Smith, Mrs. O. D. Butler and “ The Public Be Fleeced” was the motto of the prof Farmers held a meeting in Mon were not going to mention it. The Mrs. H. A. Childs presided over the mouth Saturday afternoon in the iteers who took advantage of Amt rica’s pre-occu Oregonian butting in changed our Mrs. Cal interest of farm bureau work. The tea and -coffee urns. pation with affairs of war. They cornered the food charitable intentions. following program was worked out breath, Mrs. Spurr and Mrs. Hays markets; stole and plundered; fought with under of the refreshment committee, were for 1920: handed, backdoor methods; “ framed u p ” innocent HE DIDN’T JOY RIDE Support of the county-wide gray- assisted by a number of girls from Training School, i n- women in order to “ get back a t” at their husbands; digger campaign, and to see that the t h e OVER MONMOUTH HEIGHTS Kathrine Russell, An rodent law is enforced. Canvas the cluding greedily and criminally swelled their bank accounts acreage of land in the community in na Peters, Mildred Bush, Verna (From Monmouth Herald) at the expense of patriotic Americans. “ The Prof need of drainage to the end that the Peterson, Catherine Chandler, Dor A Dallas editor thinks that Mon iteers” exposes the whole “ hag o ’ tricks” in a vastly owner of a ditching machine may othy Wood, Marylou Myers, Ruth mouth and Independence have been entertaining and thrilling manner. Bennett and Clara Fleming. These be interested in coming in. Fut on unduly favored with road work at a series of poison trials with pocket little Misses also rendered several the expense of the rest of the coun Herold Lloyd Comedy and Ford Weekly gophers. SecOre fifty acres fruit to most enjoyable songs. Another add ty, impressions gleaned while joy market through the Oregon Growers ed pleasure of the afternoon was riding through our midst. We Co-operative Association. Secure the quartette of charming High wonder if by chance his route led twelve pnembers for a county live School girls consisting of the Misses over Monmouth Heights. stock breeders' association, if such Winona Wood, Ruth Dickinson, IIN L > K M E IN L > E IN C K is formed. Put on a community ex Thelma Williams and Marjorie THIS WEEK FIVE YEARS AGO hibit at the County Fair. Secure Reynolds, who played their “ ukes" IN SOUTH POLK COUNTY i ■ i ■ i i t ib i ■ i ■ i ■ i ■ i ■ m ili i ■ i ■ and sang clever songs for the callers^ thirty individual exhibits for Coun ty Fair; twenty individual exhibits The girls added much cheer and (From the Independence Monitor for Independence Corn Show; one pleasure to the occasion. Besides W H E N IT C O M E S TO V O T IN G TO K I L L March 19, 1915.) corn club; one pig club; forty mem the social pleasure afforded, the Ten persons of the Pentecostal neat little sum of about $25 was bers for farm bureau work. faith were baptized in the Willam (From the Portland Journal) netted for the Library. This w ill be and stiff corpse within a few days,1 ette river at the ferry landing. expended for new books which will who i ti c time to vote Many say they have no scruples. many jurn CO. K TO VAUDEVILLE; soon be on the shelves. Library tea nets $57. And they think they have none, comes, find if convenient and pre BIG NIGHT, MARCH 31 ferable to vote for a lesser verdict in nut when they sit in a jury Iwix day Keith Roberts won silver cup in order to escape from the conscious Co. K is preparing for a big AIRLIE W ILL PIO BABLY LOSE after day and look into the eyes of ness of having helped take a human Hoy Scout physical contest. vaudeville night at the Isis on ITS LOCAL SWITCH BOARD the defendant; when in their own life. • D. Oiesley Bones teaching in the Wednesday, March 31, in connection solemn thoughts there comes to Independence high school. with the pictures A program in The Sunrise Telephone Co. has pe them a vision of the dying strug which many local celebrities will titioned the public service commis gles, the death throes and the jerk Rev. Yarnes In For Curtain l<ectiire NOW, OIRLS, GET BUSY! take part is being arranged. Re sion to discontinue its switch board ing limbs of a man whom they have CATCH HIM SOME W AY ceipts for the benefit of Co. K. at Airlie. Despite its name the tele \nted to kill; when brought fare to The Mystic Club of Lebanon re There is no doubt the boys w ill be phone girls could not get up early face with the consciousnesss that the cently met with Mrs. T. D. Yarnes well patronized and a crowded enough in the morning to take in living, breathing defendant before and discussed ways and means of ] All hoping for some lenp year wed ding»—at least in June. them is to be, if they so will, a stark ’’Educating a Husband.” house greet them. sufficient money to pay expenses VIOLA DANA FANNIE WARD ISIS THEATRE o K « INCREASE « I NOTICEABLE Come to look around and in- | | vesligutc the Minnesota weather | 1 I we had last December did no * j damage to 1920 crops as far us | seen and search revealed. Bully! § | Now Mr. and Mrs Farmer you do In another column on this page j | the rest, but don’t forget to pray l'lie Post has spoken of tiie growth § | for rain Remember the motto: ot independence by population. An § | “ If I raise plenty now, 1 can increase of population is a sequel to I raise ----- later on.” more business uuU industry, l'lie growth ol industry is uppareiit— the following coming to our mind: JOHN DICKINSON, AOE 82, The independence Garage now oc CELEBRATES HIS NATAL DAY cupies two buildings instead of one. Whereas, before two men spent Tuesday, March 10, was the birth part oi their time m promoting real day of our honored townsman, John estate sales tiiere are now five giv Dickinson, he being 82 years of ing ail their time to it. age. Such an occasion it would the Polk County Post which “got hardly do to let go by and so his along with two people part of last children, grandchildren and a num fi ber of friends made the day inter year now bus three and expects to very soon add another. “ esting for him and a very enjoyable H ie patronage at the Isis has in ? time was hud in the ufternoon and creased one hundred per cent over ~ evening. The Family all gathered lust year. is for dinner and in the evening he Two muchiue sltops are about to ..us completely surprised when open. they all returned Tlgaiu. The Ace Garage has remodeled its The same day was the 50th birth building, is employing four addi day of his son, Percy R., and the tional people, and because of its in latter came in for some honor too. dustry has been given the exclusive P. R. declares fifty is as high as he agency in South Polk county for is going We hardly think h<> will Ford and F'ordson tractors. do it. A woman can but a man— Willard E. Craven Hardware lias why he doesn't care if he has two greatly increased his stock in order hundred birthdays. to take care of un increased busi ness. THE DEATH ROLL, O. A. Kreanter lias sold his jewel ry business in order to devote all his Mrs. Margaret Ann Wells. time to clothing und has increased Mrs. Margaret Ann Wells died at his stock. her home in Monmouth Wednes Tiie Auto Utilities Co. recently day and w ill be buried in the K. of opened un agency for the sale of P. cemetery today. She was 89 Nash und Maxwell cars and has a years of age. very promising future before i t Mr. Berry, tiie local manager, is Mrs. Simmons. well liked by everyone. Mrs. Simmons, a former resident Sloper Bros. & Cockle, J D. Hibbs of Independence, died in Portland & Co, the Independence National Wednesda\ She was over eighty Bank, Max Goldman, Eddy & Car- years old. Burial w ill take place bray, W illiam Uuartier, the Farm at the I. O. O. F. cemetery near In ers State Bank, the Independence dependence Saturday. Rev. H. L. Bakery, Calbreatli & Jones, the W il Proppc will conduct the last rites at liams Drug Co., J. G. McIntosh, tiie grave. Conkey & Walker and Moore A Walker have gained in business Arthur Kingsbury and Miller & Smith of the City Mar Arthur Kingsbury, son of Mrs. ket report that their patronage is James Oberson, passed away at his climbing day by day. home in Independence Sunday, March 15. Funeral services were LIKELY TO NAME held yesterday, interment in the I. COMMISSIONER SOON O. O. F. He was born in Idaho and was nearly twelve years old. (From the Polk County Observer) \ n i miianiB i It is whispered about that at the next meeting of the county court a county commissioner will be ap pointed. Men who have been mentioned as candidates for the place at the forth coming election have in some cases been asked to withhold notice of the fact until after the April meeting of tiie court. The reason given is that it is believed that a satisfactory man will be named, and that this fact may change the situation for some of those who are considering the making of the race. Several rumors are in circulation us to the man who has been select ed, but it seems that no one has been ugreed upon; that it is merely believed that the county judge and the commissioner will be able to get together on the matter and name a man to the vacancy. APPROVE OF GYMNASIUM ASK FOR BOND ELECTION Voters and taxpayers of the In dependence school district had a meeting Monday night and voted unanimously to petition the school hoard to call a special election for the purpose of issuing bonds in the sum of $15000 for the purpose of building a high school gymnasium. F. L. TUBANDT OF AIRLIE LOSES BARN BY FIRE The large barn of F. L. Tubandt, living two miles southwest of A ir lie, which was erected last summer at a cost of $1000, was destroyed by fire Tuesday forenoon. Grain valu ed at $500 and fifteen tons of hay, were also burned. There was some insurance. GIRL IS ELECTROCUTES W HILE PLATINO AT SCHOOL Grace Lochner, age 14, was in stantly killed Tuesday at the Mc Farland school house, four miles south of Albany. She ran into a “guy" »wire, while playing, and was instantly killed. For some un known reason the wire became "live." The power company will be sued for damages.