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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1920)
TH E POLK COUNTY POST HOW DID YOU DIET (By Eilniinui Vance Cooke.) And though you be done to the Published every Friday at Independence, Oregon. death what then? If you battled Uie best you could, Entered as second class matter March 26, 1918, at the postottice at If you played your part in the world Independence, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1879. of men, Why the Critic will call it good. Death comes with s' crawl, or comes C L Y D E T. E C K E R Editor and Publisher. with a pounce, And whether he's slow or spry, Subscription Rates: It isn’t the fact that you’re dead that counts, TH R E E MONTHS 50c. But only how did you die? S I X MONTHS $1.00 ONE Y E A R $1.50 Outside Polk county: 6 months $1.25, One year $2.00 How To Find the Blue Bird Uuless otherwise provided for, subscriptions will be stopped at expiration A gentleman in the back row of seats rises to remark that apparently Hoover is willing to vote either the Repub lican or Democratic ticket providing he is the ticket.—Mon mouth Herald. And should the identity o f his running mate give him reason to hold back at all, this objection can be overcome by nominating Airs. Herbert Hoover for vice president. While there might o f been some doubt in the past, there is no question now but what the Polk County Ob server is living up to its title of being ‘ the only Republi can paper in Polk county.” The Observer emits ‘ ‘ Repub licanism” in solid chunks continually and regardlessly, week in and week out without reservation or amendment, logically and illogically. I t ’s whitewash is pare white and its tar is pure black. No, sir! ¡Should any one arise to question the Republicanism of the- Observer, knock him down; the jury would bring in a verdict of acquittal. All Republicans are going to Heaven* all Democrats to hell, and the Observer may be right. We don’t know; neither does the Observer. OOOOtKHhM HHK bOOO OOOO OOOO CKKH > OOOO ^ iW H V 0 0 -0 0 h > O v O O O O TH E R H Y M IN G S U M M A R IS T Yes, you go to the meetrn' house i wo or tnree times on sunuay, You u near enougn to Keep you good, .at least till tne I olio w mg ivionuay; The preacners woras are sweet to near, His advice is on the level, Hay and night It is a light To lick the ornery devil. Proppe is a swell young man And hits right from tne shoulder, Cook is a wise and good old scout, A .words of wisdom molder; So you sinners go to church, Hear the prayers and singing, And the collection box Put in the rocks To keep the old bells ringing. Frits Torgeson took a record home, The shimmy kind they’re making, Now he must prevent the best he can His Methodist leg from shaking; The air is pure and the birds do sing And plant life it is starting, I f you’re not a nut Get out the rut From whines and gloom departing. (From the Portland Oregonian.) The public learns through the ready medium of the newspapers that there is a flesh-and-blood Mrs. Charlie Chaplin, and that she wants a divorce. The fact that Mary Pick- ford had a real husband became generally known oidy in the same interesting way, after the demure Mary had shed copious tears about her many trials in the uncongenial role of a wife before i sympathizing, but very remote, Nevada judge. An other great him hero, Mr. Douglas Fairbanks, appears to have been able to surmount every barrier to happy life—see any Fairbanks pict ure—but the one of domestic infidel ity. There are doubtless others, but their names and records just now escape us. The three are enough. What is there about the role of a great movie star that makes mar riage difficult and in many _ cases impossible? One might say that they fall into the habit of simula- lation of all the virtues for the screen and automatically transfer their viewpoint to real life. But it would be true only of some. The real trouble lies in too much money, too little restraint, too much adulation, too great self-esteem. They become spoiled. They lose their perspective. They have everything that most people covet and they lose interest and a proper sense of duty and responsibility and covet what someone else has. They want it all. If they got it, they would be as far from real happiness as ever. If Little Mary would rear a fam ily, and keep house, and pose for the screen only when her time and service were needed, and for the public not at all between times; and if Doug Fairbanks would use his well developed muscles at spading the garden for half a day six days per week, and dispense his radiant smile upon his wife and family and not alone for the photographer; and if Charlie Chaplin would confine all his stumbling habits to schemes of amusements of others and not of himself—if they will all learn the great fact that there is only one safe rule of conduct for all alike, and cease to look upon themselves as something better and apart, it will aid them to find and keep caged the blue bird of happiness. The 5 Per Cent Interest Rate BilL not better pleased with "The Ro mance of Taman." "Carmen of the Klondike,” which will .be the attraction on Tuesday night only, is a strong story laid in the burren woods of the vast Northwest. The plot, which is im-1 pressive and tense with suspense,! deals with a girl who deserts the vaudeville to go lo Alaska and mar ry the man she loves. In the little Northern settlement she meets with thrilling adventures and goes through the entire picture, until the finrfl climax, believing that the man to whoh she is bethrothed is a traitor to her love. In addition to the Co. K benefit on Wednesday night, Constance Talmadge appears in “Romance and Arabella.” This picture has five separate love stories although the heroine is the same in each one. It is the tale of a young widow who decides that her second hus band must supply her with thrills and romance. After a few weeks of romantic men she decides that after all her first and prosaic sweet heart is the right man. No more romance for romantic Arabella. May Allison in “The Walk-Off" Thursday and Friday nights. Miss Allison plays the role of a young society woman, a penniless parasite on her many wealthy friends. The production has been mounted with all the luxurious settings in the clubs, studios and homes of the wealthy that was required by the story. Fashion and artistic effect were the guides of the producers, with the result that a most captiv ating picture for the eye and one appealing to the heart has been ac complished. It is a swift moving, beautiful story that leaves one a- glow with the satisfaction ofhaving seen something worth while. “Go Get ’Em Garringer", the Sat urday night show, is a story of strongly organized border bandits of the West, of a sweet girl enmeshed in their web of infamy; of a two- fisted, quick-shooting he-man, who revelled in the sport of hunting down criminals. It is a regular Western drama of the “wild wooly days,” with occasional flashes of good comedy and tender glow of benutiful sentiment. Illl■lll■!ll■llll llll■lll■lli■lll■lll■ I THE WIMI MILL SHOP | I A . G. Williams, Prop, g I All kind of barbering and satisfaction § guaranteed. L a d i e s ’ £ shampooing and mas- g saging given special at- jjj tention. Shine in con- g nection. i done f = 11E rotation of crops may be likened unto the turnover of stocks in the mercantile store. Full advantage should be taken o f the maximum productiv ity o f the land—as the merchant takes advantage o f the season able needs of customers. T i The Farmers State Bank makes a study oi {arming trom the diiierent angles of hun dreds ol farm customers. So, you see it pays to talk things over with us. C. W iRVINE, J. B. PARKER. C. G. IRVINE. Glen C. Smith President. Vice President. Cashier. Asst. Cashier. FARMERS STATE BANK Independence òr ‘Here’s Something (or You to Remember” says the Good Judge And any m an who uses th« Real Tobacco Chew will tell you so. You get a lot more satisfac tion In a little of the Real Tobacco Chew than in a big chew of the old kind. And it costs less to chew. The full rich, real tobacco taste lasts so m uch longer. P u t U p In T w o S tyles RIGHT CUT is a short-cut tobacco W-B CUT is a long fine-cut tobacco A LEG OF REAL LAMB I makes as fine a dish as any ■ one could wish for. tim in iin iiw m iiin iiM iia iiiw iia im iiia iiii But real lamb is not so easy to get. You can do so here, however. TO R E A L IZ E THE We guarantee it. Try a leg and the very first M O ST M O N E Y morsel you put in your mouth will tell you the dif (Contributed.) ference. Professional paid circulators in W e buy everything you Portland are endeavoring to gejt want to sell and sell signatures to the proposed ^ per everything you want to cent and 5 per cent interest rate buy. Cash or trade. bill, but they are meeting with very MILLER A SMITH poor success. People realize that Bring in everything you instead of lowering interest rates want to sell and I will in Oregon this bill will produce a condition under which it will be im sell it for you on a possible to borrow money in Oregon commission. at all. They fully understand that money will not be loaned in Oregon M A X G O LD M A N The Independence l\ulional Bank at 5 per cent when it can be loaned in adjoining states at 8 per cent. Established .1889 The present low price of Liberty Ronds on the open market presents an interesting phase of this sittia A N A C C O U N T in a commercial bank is the most S W O P E & SW O P E tion. Liberty Bonds can now be convenient aid to modern business. It systema purchased nt a price which will net tizes payments, is a check on all expenditures and the owner between 5 per cent and LAW YERS shows you just where you stand each month. 6 per cent If money could not be Open one with us today, it will pay you to do so. loaned in Oregon nt a greater rate than 5 per cent naturally’ persons Ofilca over Craven A Walker's Store Member Federal Reserve System with money to loan would buy Lib erty Bonds instead of loaning their Independence, Oregon money. Officers and Directors If this measure should pass, every H. Hirschberg, Pres. C. A. McLaughlin, V. P. loan in Oregon which is now in ef fect would be called when it be Ira D. Mix, Cashier VALLEY A comes due. This would mean the j W. H. Walker D. W. Sears O. D. Butler TIME T. foreclosure of practically every Ore gon mortgage, and business houses Effective April 1, trains will which have to finance themselves run aa follows: with borrowed capital, would be No. 2 arrives from Hoskins forecd out of business. 9:15 A. M. daily jhfpUMIinilHIIMlMIlHiHBUHIiBilìMiiHIiHiliHiimiHiiiBiiNiiimuiimjiMifljummunih No. 4 arrives from Camp# That Sweet, Sweet Song i 4:00 P. M. daily except Sunday (By B. L. T.) 9 No. I departs for Camps i Sweeter than the songs of Apollo 10:50 A. M. daily except Sunday i « are the cues of a flock of wild geese No. 3 departs for Hoskins | ! 0 . A . C. B A R R E D R O C K E G G S for hatching. V ing north. 4:15 P. M. daily 1 9 Freight service 2:30 P. M. on | These are from their heavy laying strain. i AT THE ISIS NEXT WEEK. 9 Tuesdays and Saturdays Meat Market a Pirector General of the United Simultaneous Financial Campaign of the intact church World Movement Crop Rotation and Money Turnover Weyman-Bruton Comoany. 110/ Broadway, New York City I I I I L Y M A N L. P IER C E Told by the Bank Book For Sunday matinee, Sunday ev ening and Monday night. “The Rn mance of Tarzan" in shown. This is the sequel of Tarzan of the ! Apes” which was here a few days ago. The romance is more inter-I eating than the preceding picture and the hundreds who liked “Tar zan of the Apes" will be as much if FOR B A G G A G E AND TRANSFER 9 9 9 i EGGS i 16 Eggs for $2.00. WILLARD E. CRAVEN IWIWIl«]nVTIlWI«|lBI|:HI|.Bi|iagi|;B;|lBlimi Bl I IBI I :■! I I i i I | C A L L PH O N E 2012 Your neighbor would like for you to subscribe for The H. G. H O G A N Post yourself so you wouldn’t bother borrowing his copy