AN OPEN LETTER TO THE
ened and improved them aud navi olr Rivers and Harbors; that the
VOTERS OF OREGON gation on the Willamette river is government build and maintain I f l i à U â A l i l â s A . i A i à l A l A i É x A l A i É « A l á t * « A A A it a .L A A iá A L A A iá A A iA iU ,A .k iA 4 á R A lA H á A ik
now free to all, whereas before the all roads in the National Forest for
Hundreds have never written, purchase by the government a toll the survey and classification of all
telegraphed or asked me to be rate of ten cents a head and 50 lands in the Forest Reserve; that
the non-timbered, agricultural and
come a candidate for Secretary of cents a ton was exacted.
At the 1907 session I introduced a grazing land may be segregated and
State; believing in the principles
that if a man wants anything the resolution to provide for the amend thrown open for settlement; for a
best way to get it is to go out after ing of the Constitution to allow bigger and greater Oregon.
B. F. JONES.
It
it, and holding to the docrtine that women the right of suffrage.
under our form of government any passed the House, receiving only
A T A
Salem Bridge Strained
citizen has a right to seek an of seven votes in the Senate. Howev
fice at the hands of the people, after er, sinc<j that time the progressive
(Salem Journal.)
due consideration without undue voters of Oregon have voted to al
Lives of hundreds of persons who
influence, I have decided to become low our mothers wives, daughters
gathered on the inter-county bridge
a candidate for Secretary of State on and sisters the right of equul suff at the foot of Center street Sunday
the. Republican ticket at the May rage, and another stake has been to watch the seaplane was endan
driven along the line of good gov gered when the crowd of persons
primary election.
ernment
and the weight of the many ma
Being a stranger to nmiiy of
During the 1909 session I intro chines there became so weighty
you I am going to tell you somer
thing about myself in order that duced a bill appropriating $100,000 that girders on the structure were
heard to creak and groan under
you may be able to form an opinion to pay the Indian War Veterans for
the strain. Machines were packed
use
and
loss
of
horses
in
the
Indian
as to whether I am as well quali
in on the bridge so thick that it was
fied for the position as other can Wars of Oregon, a debt contracted utterly impossible to drive through.
by
the
Oregon
Territory
and
stand
didates seeding the office.
ing unpaid for over 50 years. This
Ask 14c. For Loganberries
From first evidence I have learn
bill passed the House but was killed
ed that I was born on a home
in the Senate, but a similar bill be
At a meeting of the growers and
stead
near Lawrence, Douglas
came a law in the session of 1913.
buyers of loganberries held in Sa
county, Kansas, more than a half
In 1908, upon my own motion and lem Saturday the mimimum price
century ago; my father died when
at
my own cost, I instituted suits fixed for a pool, representing ap
time he appears in "The Long Arm
AUTO EPITAPHS.
I was eight years old. I came to
AT THE ISIS NEXT WEEK.
before
the Railroad Commission proximately 250 acres, was placed
of the Mannister," a very interest
Oregon with my widowed mother in
at 14 cents. The price for picking
How a girl recruited the sturdy ing as well as a remarkable photo Departed this life
1870 and settled upon a homestead against the Wells Fargo and Pa agreed upon was 2>4 cents with a
play. In the role of George Mann And his place in the strife,
cific
Express
Companies
of
Oregon
in the Yaquina Bay country on
three-fourths cent bonus. In con Kentucky night-riders is shown in
ister,
Walthall proves again that he
for
a
reduction
of
express
rates.
You find here Emanuel Perking.
"Heart
O'
the
Hills,"
adapted
from
land now occupied by the Town of
ference with a committee appoint
stands at the very front rank of
Toledo. Two years later my mother Both these suits were decided in fa ed by growers, a committee of buy the story by John Fox, Jr., in which screen players. His skill and tech- When he came to a hill
And a chance for a spill
Mary Pickford will be seen Sunday
died and I yvorked on a farm until vor of the shippers, and a reduction ers offered 13 cents per pound for
niqus is still brilliant and flawless,
afternoon
and
evening
and
Mon
His emergency brake wasn't
of
twenty
per
cent
was
made
in
the
the pool, but the offer was rejected
I was eighteen, attending the pub
working.
day night. As Mavis Hawn, a asd his perennial youth is just as
and
no
effort
was
made
to
compro
Oregon
rates,
saving
to
people
of
lic schools aud the 0. A. C. during
mountain girl, Miss Pickford is giv bouyant and fresh as ever. The
mise.
Oregon
thousands
of
dollars.
the winter months, and then worked
en a part calling for a great amount photo-drama in which he appears
Have yourself and auto insured
At the 1919 session, I intro
in the logging camps and on steam
of
versatility. Probably in no oth this time is an adaptation of the J. W. KISTLER.____________________
Buena V. Man, 76, Weds Woman, 36
boats until 1883 when I received a duced the Roosevelt Coast Military
er picture is she called upon to de novel of tile same name by E. Op-
pict so many varied roles which de penheim, which made quite a stir
captain's
license
and
followed Highway Bill, appropriating $2,500,
Dallas—A man who looked aliout
NOMINATION COUPON
steamboating until 1893, then serv 000 contingent upon the govern 50 years old, dignified in appear mand that she act the murderess, in the book world a season or so
ago.
The
story
deals
with
the
ex
the
school
girl,
the
society
girl
and
ing three terms as county clerk of ment appropriating a like sum for ance, hair slightly grey, quick of
Good for 5000 Fro* Vote*
ploits of George Mannister, a
Lincoln county during which time the purpose of building a highway step, about six feet tall, walked in various other characters. The story wealthy young man whom a band
hinges
about
the
efforts
of
Mavis
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I studied law under1 the late Judge along the Oregon coast from Astoria to the county clerk’s office and de
to avenge the deatli of her father. of financial sharks attempt to ruin.
John Kelsey and was admitted to through Clatsop, Tillamook Lincoln, mutided a marriage license. The In arriving at the solution of the Not content with crippling him fi
THE POLK COUNTY POST
practice in 1897, since which time Lane, Douglas, Coos and Curry usual questions were propounded murder it is necessary for her to nancially, they make their work
Automobile Contest
I have been engaged in active prac counties to the California line, by County Clerk Moore to ascertain overcome many obstacles, chiefly complete by placing him in a false
whether
or
not
he
was
duly
quali
which passed the Legislature, was
tice of law.
those of city grafters, unwholesome light with another woman, in the Please Enter ...............................
fled. Investigations proved that he
eyes of his own young and beauti
Have served as mayor of Toledo, referred to the people at the special was, then came the questions of parental influences and an un
ful wife. After working upon her
Independence and Newport. Repre election June 3rd, 1919, and was age—the reply was immediate and scrupulous mountaineer who mar jealousy, they induce her to run off Miss (Mr. or Mrs.) ......................
ries
her
mother.
Despite
the
scores
approved
by
a
vote
of
two
to
one.
sented Polk and Lincoln counties in
with a proud accent, 76. Number of dramatic incidents in the picture with another man. Mannister for
the Legislature four regular terms And a bill has been introduced by of marriages, three. The gentleman
there is ample opportunity for Miss getting for the present his financial
and three special sessions.
Ap Congressman Hawley of Oregon was then asked for information up Pickford to weave in humorous losses, draws upon that part .of his
pointed register of the U. S. Land asking Congress to appropriate the on the bride to be. He at once dis comedy situations in a most inter wealth which has remained un
Address .......................................
touched and pursues the guilty
Office at Roseburg, Oregon, by sum of $2,500,000 to match Oregon’s appeared thru the door returning esting and timely manner.
in
a
few
seconds
escorting
a
slen
appropriation.
California
and
pair.
After
a
close
pursuit
across
Note:
Only One Nomination Coupon
President Taft in 1909, serving four
In “The Isle of Conquest” Norma
Washington have introduced bills der lady who seemed timid and Talmadge’s new Select special, the land and sea he overtakes them
Accepted for Each Candidate
years.
in Congress asking the government bashful. To the question of age she charming star again demonstrates in the desert where they have fled
Nominated.
While member of the Legislature
to build a highway from Puget answered in a meek tone, “36. that there is no height of expres in their despair.
in 1903 I introduced what was
"How many marriages, madam?
For Saturday night we have Vir-
sion too lofty for her. Her versa-
Sound along the Washington coast
She answered, “Three.”
known as the Car Shortage or De
FREE VOTE COUPON
tality is generously drawn upon as gisia Pearson in "Bishop's Emer
connecting with the Roosevelt High
The clerk was then asked to get she journeys through tht roles of an ald," the Ford Weekly and a Herold
murrage Bill. It was defeated, and
way and along the California coast a minister and supply the wit
Good for 10 Free Votes
in 1907 I again introduced it and,
Lloyd comedy.
to the Mexican line, and the State nesses, so in a few minutes W. R innocent convent girl to an unhap
being a member of the Committee
py wifehood and thence to a life of
----- IN-----
of California has voted $4,000,000 for Carroll, of Buena Vista, 76 years
on Railroads, got the principles in
isolation upon a tropical island
Christian Church Services
the building of this road. Should old, was united to Beulah Harelson with a lone man companion, there
THE POLK COUNTY POST
corporated in the Railroad Commis
these bills be passed by Congress, 36 years of age, and they left the to find complete happiness and
sion Bill, which became a law. At
Automobile Prize Contest
“A
Great
Work."
Come
to
the
court
house
smiling.
it will result in a highway from
contentment. Always pleasing and
the same session I introduced and
Christian
church
Sunday
and
hear
Puget Sound along the Washing
capable, the star ascends to the full
secured the passage of a law pro
about it. Services at 11 a. m. con Miss (Mr. or Mrs.) ...................
Baptist Church Announcements
ton, Oregon and California coast to
height of her emotional talents and
viding fort the Directors, Parent-)
ducted by Rev. Peter R. Burnett.
holds the interest from beginning to
the Mexican line.
Teachers’ Meetings. At the same
(Contributed)
end.
"The
Isle
of
Conciuest”
is
a
During my term as Register of
session I introduced the Jones’ Free
Some people have been praying fast moving drama treating with a
COLLECTIONS
Locks Bill, which became a law, the U. S. Land Office I worked for for nice weather. The nice weather young girl’s marraiage to a wealthy
Address ....................................
Knight
Adjustment Co.,
appropriating $300,000 contingent the revision of the public land laws is here. What are you going to waster, through the efforts of a de
McMinnville Ore.
upon the govemmJfent appropriat in the interest of the homesteaders render unto the Lord for it? Are signing mother. Later the yacht
(Not Good After May 4)
ing a like sum, for the purpose of who were seeking to settle the wild you going Fording and hoarding upon which they are cruising is
and fishing and hunting on Sunday wrecked and she finds herself safe
building new or purchasing the old lands of Oregon. I prepared and
in gratitude for this weather? upon an uninhabited island with a
had
introduced
in
Congress
provid
locks at Oregon City and operating
Next Sunday at the Baptist church
the same free to the public by the ing for an annual six months' leave Rev. II. L. Proppe will preach is the stoker from the ship's hold. Months
of isolation kindles within them a
of
absence
for
the
purpose
of
giv
government. The government hav
morning on "The Offices of the mutual love and al! hope of rescue
ing failed to appropriate any money ing the homesteader an opportunity Christian." The Sunday school be having perished, they are prepar
for that purpose, at the 1909 session to earn money to live on while im gins at 10 a. m., Mrs. Grace Swope ing to enact their marriage rite
I again introduced the bill continu proving his homestead and to allow Supt. The preaching is at 11 a.m when suddenly her husband np
In the evening at 8 o’clock, the pears to return her to her world of
ing the said appropriation of $300,- those who had children of school
000 for another two years, conting age an opportunity to send them to services for the summer having sham. Here the circumstances be
ent on the government making a school, which resulted in the Leave been changed from 7:30 p. m. to 8 come tragic, concluding with an un
p. m., Rev. Proppe will preach on expected and sensational climax.
like appropriation. Since that time of Absence Law.
the timely subject of “What Must Tuesday and Wednesday.
I stand squarely for more and l Do to be Lost?" You will find a
the government has appropriated
Once again that sterling master
$300,000 to match the state funds better roads; for irrigation of our hearty welcome and helpfulness at
of the screen, Henry B. Walthall,
and has purchased the locks, deep arid lands; for the improvement of these services. The Lord’s Supper
pays us a very welcome visit on
will b© celebrated and the right Thursday and Friday nights. This
hand of fellowship extended to new
members. Come.
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Set Scale of Reasonable Charge
Exclusive Ford and Fordson Repairing
I
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r w w i w i n w w f n 'ffifrw w w w n r
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STATE ROADS
Vote 302 X Yes
For 4% State Road Bond Limit
-B A LLO T T I T L E IS AS F O L L O W S :'
302 X Y e s
303
N#
C O N S T IT U T IO N A L A M E N D M E N T -K efe rrw l to th* people by the
Lcgnlutiv»« A$««nib!y
L IM I T A T I O N O P P O U lf PE N C E N T E T A T S IN D E B TE D N E SS
FOR P E R M A N E N T ROAD S. - Pur pm*: T o amend Section 7 of
Article XI of the Constitution of the State of Oregon so aa to permit the
eation of debts and liabilities incluiiinf previous debts ami lia bilitiee
r the pu rpv»«of building and maintaining permanent mad.« to the
amount of four per cent of the assessed valuation o f all the property
in the Stato of Oregon, instead of two per cent as now provided by law.
r
NO PROPERTY T A X -N O DIRECT TAX
NO INCREASE IN AUTO LICENSE FEES
NO INCREASE OF GASOLINE TAX
Keep these three facts in mind. The present auto license fees and
fM oline tax will pay both the princiual and interest on all the bonds
under this amendment, and will yield an annual surplus besides for other
state highway work. N o additional taxation of any kind.
FEDERAL FUNDS MUST BE MATCHED
Oregon must have tullicieiit Highway Fund# to match Federal apportion*
menu or Oregon cannot get the benefit of Federal money k r Oregon Roada.
Incraaeing thia constitutional limit ia a necessity. Unless limit ia increased,
either atate roada cannot be completed for many, many years, or must be finished
by direct property taxation. This measure arcrU direct property tax for state
highways and makos early completion possible. L et’s get the roada built now.
I mmmid from Pra.eni Saure«« SuHciant 1« Pay Prlutipal aid latsriaL
T k » Isst that rav.nwa fi in ante ttaana. I m and saaUlaa las. without n.erawaot praaant
nt» ta i-ay Intlh nHn^ip.l and lntartat <a IL .»» bond», ia olaarly a»t forth by OÍ
wW be
»Mittal a
l* Pampa »*, mailed to every mt »:er»d v.dae R e f « to State Pamphlat h r tun «ration
Esam ioe tha labia carefully It cr»vea Ilia« no property ta» ta nquirad aad that praaaat ratea f *
i t tai »dll
will radaam principal and i nitrati and yie'd turpi u» btaidta_________
ayto Uaaaae feat
fee* and j Jit
B
For I litare.t Tahltt. Famphleta nr further Information, write la
OREGON HOADS A N D D EV EL OPM ENT ASSOCIATION
« . L I— MX rnuM. MS Im * hrlhti
C ( niRM. Orna» I went M a X 1.1
Campaign Headquarter», III Worettter Building. Portland. Pregna
VOTI 962 X m - f « r 4% Sta«* R m 4 Ian* Limit
Agricultural College
State University and
Ore. Normal School
classes are so overcrowded, rooms
so overloaded, and teachers so few,
that the three institutions will have
to close the door on at least 1000
Oregon hoys and girls, and perhaps
upon twice that number next fall,
unless the new millage support bill
passes on May 21.
Thaaa thras Institutions have, when
oomparad with tha yaar when the
present millage support bill was
150 per ceat M ore Students
but only
15 per cent M ore Class
Did You Ever Get Left?
You probably will i; you wait too long before ordering that NEW CAS.
Labor Conditions Are Bad
Shipments are not coming through. Many dealers have no new ears now
and do not know how soon they will have.
The BEST SELLERS are going fast, so if you don’t want to take “any
old thing or do without, we would advise you to GET BUSY AT ONCE.
NASH
SIX
rooms and less than
4 per cent M ore Income
The fact that higher education in
Oregon is in a crisis cannot be said
too strongly. You are urged to
work for the Higher Educational re
lief measure, and help it with your
vote on May 21.
(Paid advertisement inserted by
Colin Dyment in behalf of the Joint
Alumni Relief Coipmitte* for High
er Education in Oregon, 514 Pittock
Block, Portland.)
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SERVICE
and
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