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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1920)
VOTE FOR For Sale—Two brood Duroe Jer sey sows weight about 250, due to farrow about August L H. G. See ley, R. 2. 8 Frank Governor O. of Illinois Lowden •in the Lowden for President The Ladies Aid of the Christian church will gather old papers and magazines on Wednesday forenoon, May 19. Those who will give theirs to the ladies are asked to phone Mrs. A. Qimsdorf or Mrs. Frank Smith. Milo C. King of Gresham was in Independence the first of the week boosting for his friend, Gov. Low den, for President. Mr. King was a neighbor of the Dickinsons in Illinois years ago and while here renewed the friendship of bygone days. (Paid, advertisement by I. H. Dickenson, Independence The grand lodge of Odd Fellows Oregon.) and Rebekahs will be held in Baker V ote for GOOD during the last week of May. G. G Walker w ill attend as a delegate from Valley lodge of Independence. Rebekah delegates are Mesdames W. H. Walker, O. A. Kreamer, Irvin Baun and Alpha Bascuc. ROADS Tripp and Kurre closed a deal yesterday in which C. E. and Mar garet Burroughs sold their farm of approximately 200 acres, south of Independence to Charles Matonda and S. Oye. The consideration was $24600. Mr. and Mrs. Burroughs w ill resume their residence in In- dependence. V o te 3 0 2 X Y e s fo r 4 % State Road Bond Limit NO PROPERTY TAX NO DIRECT TAX NO INCREASE IN AUTO LICENSE FEES NO INCREASE OF GASOLINE TAX Present Auto License Fees and Gasoline Tax will pay both principal and interest on all the bonds under this constitu tional amendment. Approval of this amendment is necessary to permit early completion of State Highways. B. F. Swope this week sold his property on Sixth street, which he purchased a few weeks ago, to A. J. Richardson of Buena Vista. Mr. Swope gives as his reason for sell ing that he wants more .acreage having become a farmer, gardnor and poultry raiser in addition to practicing law. OREGON ROADS AND DEVELOPING ASSOCIATION Campaign Headquarters, 311 Worcester Bldg., Portlund. CITY AND COUNTRY Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lane are huppy over the arrival of a daugh J. R. Ballard was here from Ore ter at their home Tuesday. gon City this week. This is clean-up week in Inde pendence. Don’t forget to have Big Reduction Sale at McIntosh's your rubbish in an alley so the Boy Scouts can find it tomorrow. tomorrow. See ad on this page. Monmouth Herald: W. J. Stock holm reports the Co-operative ship pers handled $15,000 worth of pigs during the past two months. Ap proximately this means one hun dred thousand pounds of pork or five hundred swine, which is an in dication of the trend of agriculture in this part of Polk county. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Cooper are in About forty-five local Pythian Albany today. Sisters attended the “ High Jinks” of Dalors Temple in Dallas last night. They report a most delightful time. Miss Grace Jones is here from Corvallis today. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Young are visit ing relatives and friends in this section this week. They are located Mrs. Curtis of Corvallis is the in Eastern Oregon where Fred is en gaged in farming and stock raising. guest of Mrs. J . S. Cooper. D. B. Boydston came home from MoBier the first of the week. Miss Wlnnafred Guynn went to Silverton today to visit relatives. Jack Fear and family will soon go to Pe Bll, Wash., to make their home. Attorney C. L. Starr of Portland was in Independence Wednesday night McIntosh’s May Time Special The engagement of a very pretty and popular Independence girl, Mias Frances Townsend, was announced this week. She w ill marry Abbott E. Clauss Jr., a Portland jeweler. Republican Primaries May 21 I f nominated for President, Governor Lowden will, in the opinion of the leaders, unite all factions of the party. H e is perhaps the only candidate mentioned ac ceptable to the old leaders as well as to the Progressive element. He has succeeded in uniting all elements in the Republican party in Illinois, and even the Democratic state convention, in 1918, unanimously passed a resolu tion commending Governor Lowden for his patriotism and splendid business administration, an unusual action heretofore unheard of by an opposite political party in the history of Illinois, or any other state, for that matter. % CRISCO A FURS VEGETABLE SHORTENING For Frying, For Shortening, For Cake Making Better than Lard; Cheaper than Butter iy 2 ib - T IN S .......................................................................... ez c U n C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1 .0 5 • % » , .................................. ........................$ 2 . 0 0 Soap Special Bob White Soap, 14 bars $ 1 .0 0 The Ivory Soap Company’s White Laundry Soap P and G W H I T E N A P T H A SOAP 5 B A R S ...................................... I V O R Y S O A P F L A K E S , 99 44 100 P U R E , 2 F O R ...................................................... 45c 25c 45c 5c 30c IV O R Y SO AP 5 BARS . P E A R L IN E , Small Pkts Mrs. Jeter Virgin and Mrs. W ill P E A R L IN E , Wood were hostesses at a surprise Large Pkts. “ shower” for Mrs. John Eakin, at the home of Mrs. Childs lat Satur day afternoon.. The honoree re- To the first 30 persons purchasing One D ollar’s worth of Bob White ieived many attractive little gifts for Soap, we will give a package of Ivory Flakes a dainty little boudoir which is be ing prepared. An appetizing luncheon was served by the host esses and the afternoon was most Mr. and Mrs. Asa B. Robinson, pleasant for the several guests. Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Childs attended T E A S P E C IA L B R O O M S P E C IA L the O. E. S. meeting in Dallas MEMORIAL SERVICES FOR 55c lb F olger’s S h a s t a .............. Wednesday evening when the For this week only G. A. R. SUNDAP, MAY 23 Grand Worthy Matron Mrs. Mc- F olger’s Golden Gate . . . . 60c lb Murphy was present. The Little Gem .................. $1.00 COFFEE G. A. R. memorial services will be Standard No. 3 .................... $1.00 held at the Baptist church on Sun «3 ft) fo r ............................. . $1.00 Two bright and capable Independ (iay, May 23, at 11 a. m. Rev. H. L. ence girls, Edith Dawes and Hazel Proppe will deliver the address. Collins, on Wednesday of this week Members of the G. A. R. and W. R. graduated as trained nurses from C. will meet at their hall nnd march the Seattle General Hospital, hav to the church in a body . ing completed a three-year's course. llll■lll■lll■ll!■ill■l|l■ll!■i!■ll!■llnlil■lll■ill■ll¡nll■lll I llf lll!H IM I!l l!IIBIIUillB|! ROYAL ACCUSE CALUMET OF DECEIVING INDEPENDENCE i Last night in the interest of the ROUND THE TURN FOR The Royal Baking Powder Co. millage bill, Dr. H. C. Dunsmore DASH ON HOME STRETCH doesn’t like the arguments agents spoke at Suver, D. E. Fletchec at canvessing in Independence for Miss Bessie Swope has been Parker nnd B. F. Swope at Buena (Continued from Page 1) Calumet baking powder; in fact elected to a position in the Eugene Vista. Each was accompanied by they accuse the Calumet representa schools. four Normal girls who entertained on losing the prize you most desire. tives of making erroneous state with music. What if you should fall short by the ments about Boyal. So the Boyals margin of a few thousand votes, came here and obtained testimony The subscription price of The Mrs. Oliver Smith’s many friends representing one good day’s work! from women who heard the Calu- Polk County Poet will be $2 on and will be delighted to know that she You would never forgive yourself meters tell their story. Something after June 1. is steadily improving at Good Sa for the fatal error. There will be no is liable to “rise” from it. maritan hospital. A letter to friends need for regrets if you heed this ad Mrs. Lottie Hedges McIntosh will stated she hoped to be able to leave vice, and back it up with a goodly THIS WEEK FIVE YEARS AGO present her music students in re the hospital soon nnd be with number of subscriptions. IN SOUTH POLK COUNTY friends in the city. Nine o’clock Saturday night, May cital early in June. 15, is your last chance to enter sub W. J. (B ill) White was in Inde scriptions in this campaign and se (From the Independence Monitor May 14, 1915) Incidentally, Miw. Reynolds of Mapleton, Iowa, pendence Wednesday and made a j cure BIG VOTES. arrived this week to visit her son. good impression with everybody this w ill be the last of subscriptions Lusitania sunk by German sub J. A. Reynolds and family. He is a Democratic candidate for to be entered by the campaign de marines. county commissioner and if nom partment. After the date and hour Ben Clair Crow left Independ mated will make his Republican mentioned all subscriptions will be ence. deposited in the sealed ballot box, opponent go soma J. W. Kistler has purchased a busi First sale of the Polk County Jer located at the Farmers State ness in Ashland and this week took It will be sey Breeders’ Association held in up his residence in that city. Doc Barrick’s Independence Colts Bank, Independence. won their first game of the season available during the regular bank Independence. when they downed Falls City Sun ing hours of 9 a. m. to 3 p. m. dur MISS BURTON HAS The high school teams of Inde day by the score of 11 to 6. The | ing the week, nnd up to the closing A DELIGHTFUL TRIP hour of 9.00 p m., Saturday, May game was played at Falls C ity.; pendence and Monmouth are play . ing in Independence this afternoon. Pete Stoltenhurg was on the firing (Continued from Pag«. 1.) line for Independence and kept dent worshipped and the old fash them guessing most of the route. Mined bed where he died. She vis Chester Henkle, Misses Florence The Independence line up was Ad COLLECTIONS ited Baltimore and joined in sing Burton and Ivy Stanley visited in dison If, Black 1 b, Schrunk c, Park j Knight Adjustment Co., ing “Maryland, My Maryland.” A Corvallis and Philomath Thurs er 3 b, Stoltenhurg p, Mackay ss. 1 1 , 1 . . . n n t f*«ntlire of the trin was her day. Ray, rf. Mix cf. Taylor 2 b. I McMinnville Ore. 22 j Have Installed Electric j I ---- -Oven § Ì i i i i | A nd are putting out the best bread on the market. | It is more like Mother’s bread. Clean and baked § by electricity. g 1 Try it; You will like it. | | Independence Bakery | m i s i s i e : i M i l i o n i su i i i i i i i m i n i l i iiiv m n n iW itG rm iiaiitv iB r visit to Philadelphia and Independ and Denver, the mile high city. ence Hall where she had a most At Los Angeles she enjoyed the side satisfying look at the “Old Liberty trips and San Francisco did not Bell.” She remarked, “When I saw escape her, while Independence it as they were taking it thru the represented the end of a perfect West, I never thought I'd stand in pleasure trip. old Independence Hall and get a good look at it and even get to DALLAS touch it.” At Cincinnatti and Louis-. villc she visited relativos. At the Miss Nell Link was in town from latter place she was impressed with Pedep today. She reports their new Southern hospitality and “ nigger hop yard is doing fine hut that they servants." She made a run to the will not contract their products a- “Windy City,” Kansas City, Brig gain. The Link farm is one of the ham Young's town, Salt Lake City, largest in the county.