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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 9, 1920)
Oregon Historical Society x Auditorium T he P olk C ounty ONE HUNDRED PERCENT INDEPENDENCE . x r VOLUME m. TWO ratlNG UDIES • KILL i me STAR post INDEPENDENCE. OREGON, JULY M IC K IE S A Y S : “Not Here This Week." % NUMBER IS. IMO. ! :itMiiwiiEiiiEiiiEiiiwiaiíníi*i:viMim«iiin«i¡Mi:BiiittiaiiiaiiniiBiia iiBiiBiiiu, j o D D SUNDAY, JULY 11 ÍÍ «« I EVANGELINE” WHERE THEY SPENT INDEPENDENCE DAY ■ i — t j j ; j Ou Wednesday, July 7, some- | —! j thing occurred in Independence | ■ | bunking circles that never hap- | § j pened before aud may never hap ( i i pen uguin. The "clearance" be , i | tween the two banks was the j Mr. and Mrs. Lester Murphy uu- i i same; Unit is at the close of Uic , loed to Seaside last week. s business each litstuution | ■ , I day owed the other exactly the sume | S. C. llalliday and family celer i i amount to the penny. Perhaps bruted with relaUves at Newport ■ | not a hundred banks in all Uie J I world ever hud a similar expert “Billy" Quartier and family spent j euce. j Uie Fourth holiday in Independ ence. You Fourth of July revelers who hutch joined them.. So ofi the hap H enry W adsworth Lon gfellow ’s immortal poem, boast of the trout caught m py live went. The meu promised the most dramatic in all American literature, has mountain streams, fine picnics on the gh'ls they should be protected | = been made to live and move and breathe in a won hillsides, riversides and highway-' from “Uie birds oi Uie tur ttud the derful motion picture presentation. I t was pro sidus, where you talked political beasts oi the field.” When they duced by W illiam Fox as the screen’s contribution platform s and put in wet and dry were ready for fishing thti girls dis t »ward the perpetuation of this charming story. planks; you bathers at the beaches covered Riley was inissmg. They flirting with sea nymphs; you quickly decided to start a search Also on the same evening, Crist & Costa’s famous sports at the races on the speed for him. When cautiontd by the H A W A IIA N S in Music, Song and Dancing. ways; you dancens doin’ the shim men not to go, they declared they'd my", “ fox trot” and “grizzly bear brave any tiling to find him. Fully See ad elsewhere. Admission 25-50, including tax. hug” at the pavillions, don't think conscious of the risk, they stalled Jeff and M utt Comedy and F ox News that'll get you anywhere. That's aimed with only a cluster of wild tame and won’t win you any tiling flowers. Over hills, through bram with these Training school teachers bles and jungles on stones and half of ours. No sir-reel You'll have to dried mud, then ankle deep in the M O N D A Y A N D T U E S D A Y , J U L Y 12 13 kill the bear like Miss Williams and water they plunged. The girls are city bred and not trained to swamp Miss Records did, before you’ll get travel, but the quick tripping a hearing from us.. step of the pavement left When Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Cooper them and on they went without made up their Fourth of July party The famous automobile racing story— a full blooded and invited Miss Mary Williams of slip or stumble, calling “ Ri-le-e-e Oh, Ri-ieer e-ehl" Occasionally Chicago who has taught in the vigorous drama o f action, incident, passion and Training school here the past two they paused to listen for his foot power. Intensely modern, absorbingly interesting An unexpected answer years, and Miss Lola Records who is steps. and produced and presented with consummate skill. to succeed Miss W illiams next greeted them. It was the “Sniff 1” “Snuff-" of a big black bear that year, they didn't realize they were Also the eleventh episode of the great serial, into th e trail inviting two young ladies who jumped would treat them to a series of before them, and they were staring thrills. The party included Mr. into his blinking eyes. It looked and Mrs. J. S. Cooper, Misst Gene as tho the bear stood liigher en any vieve Cooper, Mre. George Parker, man. Again they keyed their cour Mrs. Ida Curtiss of Corvallis, Mr. age. The wild beast felt then- spell “ T H E D E N OF D E V IL T R Y .” and Mrs. George Kutch, Mrs. Helen and became then- friend, if he had A smashing melodrama of risk and romance in the Kirkland, Miss Williams and Miss started to a celebration hu changed iiis Fourth of July plans. He fled great outdoors, in the lumber camps, the football Records. Alsea had been selected field and the mountains. 15 weeks o f adventure 1 as the arena of sport. The Coopers through the great big woods and wired for reservation for the party. over the fence. The fence looked 'Tis at this place Riley and “Bud” fearfully high hut the girls shinned Cooper operate u general store. At over it like boys and chased the i W E D N E S D A Y ’ A N D T H U R S D A Y , J U L Y 14 15 i the same time looms were engaged, bear. Up he went into a big tree. him. Then they news also elicited over the wires They watched that two good looking school teach hurried to a farm house and yelled: ers were in the party. The whole "W e’ve got a bear,, a big black bear village vibrated with the news of up a tree. Gi\e us a gun quick, we il the heralded guests. Flags and kill him sure.” Supplied with a they returned to bunting soon waved proudly about. six-shooter B E R T I j Y T E L L as “ Jim m y” in Paul A rm strong’s Everyone prepared to put on his the scene. They took firm aim and internationally celebrated drama. A n odd crook is best looks. Preparations made for fired, set their teeth savagely and Jimmy, i f indeed he is a crook. The flashlight of fired again. The bear "fell the big conventions in Chicago and his character will find every hidden corner o f your I San Francisco or for the big Shrine k-splunge! to the ground, clean, The girls heart, he will steal your every sympathy, resist tho i festival in Portland didn't surpass plum dead he did." knew tiiey couldn't swing the prize the enthusiasm of Alsea. Chicken you will. H e will run thru your every feeling, turn f roosts were depleted. Big, juicy over their sliouldeis and they hard ing you topsy-turvy with thrills and alll the while f r pies sputtered in a row; frosted ly cared for a feast of fresh bear bind you fast with the spell of your breathless in i cakes filled the pantry shelves moat, so they got out their kodak and each snapped pictures of the terest in him. Y o u ’ll regret letting him make a get i making ready for a neighborhood away without seeing him. dinner for these distinguished other by the dead bear. With hur i guests. While the women made ried steps they made their way back 1 Roiin Comedy and Pathe News these preparations, some of the to where the fishing began. They I masculine sex wondered to what found Riley, the same Riley they 1 order of women these teachens had risked so much for, calmly would j.e'oi.g? Some said: “ I bet smoking and watching his hook, g F R ID A Y , J U L Y 16 they are Sweet Young Things that while the others as calmly landed ■ E the trout seemingly content faint away at the sight of a sixr I shooter, or squawk if they see a with such tame sport and small g snail or jack-rabbit.” Others added game. The bear story started, they all hastened to the rest of the A S the opinion* “Maybe they'd try to in “ T H E CODE O F T H E Y U K O N H go the men one better in every crowd. Those who didn’t feel tlievi g thing." A handsome swain offered bration of the thrill were dead and A wonderful North story. Also the famous monkey, i this; “ 1 know Miss Genevieve Coop didn't know it. Mr. Kutch said: i Mns. Kutch, Mrs. er ar.u she's a thoroughbred. There “ Bully, girls.” M RS. JOE M A R T IN E aint a finei, sweller little girl on Cooper and Mrs. Kirkland said: "I robbed a bird's nest once.” Mrs. g the globe. She's a howling sport, in “ A Baby D oll.” Curtiss said: “ I'd love to have the B and if they’re like her they couldn't be improved upon. They'll be ho hide stretched on some bamboo g ice box to the bunch:" ,When the sticks." Mrs. Parker declared. “ It’s 1 twin Buick Sixes arrived about worth coming from the Canal Zone S A T U R D A Y , J U L Y 17 g noon Sunday, July 4, the big din to hen'.” Miss Genevieve remark g ner was spread and during the do ed: “Shows what Oregon flowers g vouring process tha girls were her and ‘American Beauties’ can do.” ,J. S., ( I ’ll always stand by Jim) a g ing looked over carefully and “ sized up.” By the supper hour all game sport joined in the revelry A beautiful story within a story. A tale so rich g prejudice was forgotten and Alsea with no abandon* tho he felt like g with romance and so' wonderfully told as to chal beamed approval on her guests. a down-trodden fisherman, with lenge the admiration of all photo play lovers. The g The girls were so delighted with the his glory lessened so that he was on g the toboggan. Riley, with eyes big out-of-doors, they held an in narrative o f a Spanish girl whose wondrous char sparkling like his big diamond the i dignation meeting and announced acter enriches the memory o f all heroic souls. As i girls had heard about, said: “Were they were going to sleep on the beautiful as the fairest flower. As fragrant as the hay. A spacious barn was turned you scared, girls?" They answered, i "No.” By Jimminy you ve got scented dew o f a June morning. over to them and straw bunks pre I I pared. There was undisturbed grit, lutle women. Id give you a P Herold L loyd Comedy and Ford W eekly (? ) slumber. During the night pass to the promised land, or swim B across a sea of boiling oil for you. such remarks as these were heard: £ There's two kinds of scaredness, “ I went to bed to sleep, not to be g eaten.” “Get into your bunks and you know, and you’ve got the shut your faces; I want to get some Stonewall Jackson kind. If any i IIN D E P E IN D E ÍN C E sleep—the sleep of the ju st" There body usks you, just refer 'em to ■ i was so much shuffling and jollifi me. By Jimminy!” As the bunch IHR I ■ I ■ I E IE I'RIEdlRIRil ■ i IR:IEHR'I i R IR i |: i ■if IIB'IEüBI cation that Mrs. Ella Strow, who started home and were winding provided the barn, said she milked the Alsea mountains, they were eight cows and that her milk was treated to a sub thrill. A- third car- C. E. Burroughs has purchiised Dave ItoydMton will leave tomor called "Carnation milk” and only appeared with a black bear on the “ ighty acres of the Stapleton furtn. row for Kansas City, Mo., where In* contented cows gave carnation milk. running board and two boys keep expects to remain for several The youngsters, not She said the cows were running ing guard. Mrs. F. F.. Eddy and family visit months. around so much she was afraid knowing who the Independence ed relatives in Sheridan the Fourth. their milk would curdle like Dutch people were and that the heroines Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kelly oi Cor cheese. A wonderful breakfast were with them, hurried to relate Judge G W. Stapleton of Port vallis motored to Independence this story: "Its a honest to good started the Fifth off most glorious land was in Independence Turn ; Thursday to visit Mr and Mrs. ly. J. S., the champion rod and ness bear! A big black bear! Look • lay. George Conke). reel sportsman, was up early to find at him! We aint takin' nothin' fer him, cause two purty Independence his favorite fishing place. Soon he Twelve K hoys are attending the Mr. antj Mrs. Georg,. Brown of returned with a string of fine school teachers killed him. Their trout, a preliminary to the big names is Williams and Records. encampment at Camp J.ewi* 'Ids ( H(,rkelcy, Cal . a* d Ralph Black of i Seattle were guests last week of thrills of the day. He was eager Aint they pippins? Yes air-ree! ------- their relatives, the George Car lor a party to go back with him to Hg climbed a big tree. They run D. E. Fletcher and Sam Irvine brays. A half dozen friends from fi*h M i«« Williams and Miss got a six-shooter an' shot him Records volunteered. Naturally, dead. Theys a lookin' fer a man campaigned and celebrated in Lin- Oregon Ciy joined the party here (Continued on last pnge.) ' ■ oln county. mid enjoyed a home picnic. Riley was ready- Then George “ High Speed” CIRCUMSTANCE •riFTY-FIFTY” DECISION IN POLK ROAD CASE Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Wood of Ar dii toil a t y the guests of their son, Homer S. Judge McCourt of Uie Multnomah circuit court rendered a decision in Mr. and Mrs. E. E, llewett were thy Folk county highway contro calling oil relaUves and friends versy which is termed by legal here Uiis -veek. minds as a “ fifty-fifty" decision. He says that Dallas aud Independ Rev. C. T. Cook and family went ence must by ou the Pacific high to i'liiloinutii Moiuiay and spent way; Uiui Uie commission is not the day with relaUves. obliged to pave Uie road at Uiis particular time; that the commission Mr. aud Mi’s. J. S. Bohannon may build anoUier road if it wishes picmced with CorvuiUs relaUves at providing it does not use Pacific the foot of Mary s Peak. liighway funds for Uiat purpose. On appeal to Uie supreme court The W. T. House family found Uie matter was urgued before Uiat Newport a very delightful place in body Tuesday and a decision can which to observe Uie national holt by expected soon. According to the day. Observer, it is Uie opinion in Dallas “ that Uie PorUtuid judge passed Cecil Swope celebrated in inde Uie buck' to the supreme court pendence. He lias a very lucraUve Judge McCourt in his decision said: position wiUi Uie Warren Goustruc- “ No road can be properly regard tiou Co. ed us Uie Pacific highway unless it runs Utrough Dallas. 1 don A think O. A. hreamer aUended a state u siub ns equivalent to buUdiug a meet of opUcians in Portland Mon road through a city. AppareuUy tot day and Tuesday aud called it bis al! practical purposes it would serve celebration. the city of Dailus as well counueiv cialiy, but Uie road from Amity to Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Thomas speut MoiunouUi could not be designated, Uieir vacation visiting several properly, us the Pacific highway. ....dies, including Bar View, Pa “ 1 am strongly of the uoUou Uiat cific City aud Rock-away. Uie highway coinmisaion is better quaiified Uiuu Uie legislature to de- IMPROVING CITY PARK siguute thy best commercial road, VERY GOOD MOVEMENT but Uie legislature did designate Dalius ou the route and Uie high Work was begun this week with way must run to that town aud the purpose oi improving tha city from there to the next poiuh park that it might be made of bene Buf I do not think t (it to Uie general public. Two com the commission can be compelled fort stations are to be built and to pave Uiis particular road ub tills other conveniences made posaible. time and a writ of mandamus does It can be arranged lor a camping not properly lie. ground for tourists who elect to re “As jo Uiy injunction, Uie law main in this city over night Per designates roads to be buiib first haps more would remain her* il shall be rouds of commercial im Uiey were told ol the place. We portance, contributing most to Uie can't have any lakes with ducks in growth of the stave and develop it* a zoo and daily baud concerts, ment of its resources. The liiglir but it can be made a cozy wuy commission bus a right to use little corner which even some ol our available funds to build roads oth own poople uiuy visit occasionally er Uian Uiy Pacific highway and and puss a few of their leisure mo other designated highways, if be ments. _ a lieved to be of first commercial im portance, but it could not usy any ROY HAMILTON WEDS part of the Pacific highway funds MIBB GOLDIE BEVENS rained from the bond issues to build any branch road." Roy L. Hamilton of Hickreall and Miss Goldie Beveus of Airlie were BANK OFFICIALS UPSET married at Dallas last Saturday and BIO VELIE TURNS OVER left at oncq for Pacific City to spend their honeymoon. H. Hlrschberg, Ira Mix and Dr. Both young people are well and H. C. Dunsmore of the Independ favorably known in Polk county ence National Bank were pinned and Uiey have many friends V> wish beneath Mix’s big Velie car near them happiness and prosperity. Canby last Saturday night when the automobilo turned turtle. Passeiv- CITY AND COUNTY by lifted tin machine off of Uiem expecting to find a few dead and Wallace D. Irvine ol Summers- injured* but nobody was hurt ville and Marie Irens White ol lnds- In passing another car which was peudeuc were married this week. "hogging" the road, the Velie hau to be steered into some loose dirt A. L. Kullaiider will represent In and it skidded and went over. The dependence post, American Legion* windshield and top were broken. at the state convenUon to be held Mr. Mix drove it on to Tacoma. The at Astoria. Melvin Ray is the al party wer«. bound for Portland. ternate. I ‘Smashing Barriers’ f I Alias Jimmy Valentine j MITCHELL LEWIS “LASCA” I THEATRE FARM RESIDENCE BURNED Mrs. R. W. Wilcox and Miss Gay ON HEAVY HOP RANCH nelle Baldwin departed yesterday for their respective homes In Ya> A residence on the Seavy hop kima. Wash., and Portland after a ranch south of Independence, oc delightful visit with the Baldwins cupied by W. W. Newton and fam here. ily was completely destroyed by fire last Sunday afternoon. While the Miss Mabel Collins, who has been family was eating dinner it com menced to get uncomfortably warm a guest at the Mix home for several and when some one went ontdoom. days, left this morning for her the discovery was made that Uit home in Seattle. Miss Collins Is building was in flames. A consider well known in Independence having able portion of the furniture was attended school here for several Recently she graduated saved. It was the most exciting years. from the Seattle General Hospital as Fourth celebration the Newton a trained nurse. youngsters ever had. ONE FOURTH AOCIDENT At one time S. H. McElmuny LAD BADLY BURNED owned the 98 acre farm opposite hi* own place. He has always had a While celebrating with giant hankering to get it back, so this powder in North Independence week he concluded it was the best Sunday, a premature exploelon bad- buy he could find in the Willamette ly burned Willard Iaurencs on the valley and made the purchase. It face and hands. The other lads In will be occupied and fanned by his the party «ca p ed without Injury. son, Oran.
