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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 30, 1920)
Or**on Historic«] Society * Auditorhna T he P olk C ounty P ost ONE HUNDRED PERCENT INDEPENDENCE VOLUME m. ■ÜS ' —— FMI WOMEN INDEPENDENCE, OREGON, MICKIE SAYS JULY 38, 1*M l ; I HI IB IIB III! IS IN1 IMIMillll WliBIMI BIMIMIMIMliBIll iim iiibiibim iibiibiibu I I- NUMBER It HIGHWAY FRACAS « a ; BAD MAN .A T .LARGE ■ The man who “ sleeps day times and raises hell at night” better be mendin’ his ways. A woman writes The Post The latest move in the The Post has received in “ HIS DIVORCED W IF E .” that she is going “ to P ock , county road iracas the following communica print his name.” Stone walls—iron bars— coniine his body—yet liis Happened yesterday when tion “from a farmer’s wife, J udge ¡5 tuple ion modiiied living near Independence: spirit wanders free— Taking upon himself anoth the restraining order ot •‘Polks are now taking CITY AND COUNTRY er’s crime— only to shield his wife— while she* and Judge AlcCourt and per what they call their ‘ vaca the guilty man seek happiness together. A new mits the Warren construc tion.’ The Post is full of Mrs. W. H. Walker spent tion company to proceed dramatic rendering o f the eternal triangle with a names What is a vacation f last Friday with Portland temporarily witn tne worn gripping climax and a heart-satisfying ending. I never had one. When is friends. ox suiiacing tne nignway mine coming I” Jeff and Mutt Comedy and Fox News between lUckreaii and .We hope, sister, that you Mr. and Mrs. Fred Über Monmouth. m e paving will soon get yours. There soll, Sr., are in Portland. A company came into court is a certain amount of plea daughter living there is ill. and contended tnat sixty MONDAY AND TUESDAY, AUG. 2 3 sure derived from a vaca per cent ol tne road is now tion and in numerous in Last week a prominent nurd suriaced and tnat stances rest. I f there is any voung son came to make aoodl one a lnur nines woman in the world who de his home with Mr. and Mrs, ox orusned and rock is serves a vacation it is the Turnridge o f Buena Vista. ready lor tne nurd base surfac farmer’s wife. She ought A box containing $250,000 of radium is stolen, A I to have a real, real long one. Major and Mrs. Rose will ing and tnat it was neces to put it down witnin mystery, murder, and romance come from it. Recently the government go to Portland Saturday to sary me next unity u.ays n tne conducted a survey of rural meet their son who is arriv road'is completed i Also the Fourteenth Episode of the Great Serial, * tin« XaLL life pertaining to women ing from England with his Judge Stapletons modin- and the following para bride. i cauon is omy enective un graphs are taken from the Scrutai report: Mr. and Mrs. George W. til j udge McCourt returns Henkle left Tuesday for to ms ornciai duties. “ The survey discioses a GUY PRATHER STRIXEN So it is that the contro TRAPPED LIKE RATS S Newport where thev will number of reasons why WITH “SLEEPING SICKNESS” versy becomes one injunc ■ open their cottage for the many women do not find tion and restraining order A smashing melodrama of risk and romance in the ^ remainder of the summer. farm life attractive. The alter anotUer and tlie end Guv. Prather is seriously great outdoors, in the lumber camps, the football jjf working day of the average is not in sigiit. i t is iunted ill with what is called Miss Lucile Craven en farm woman, as shown bv field and the mountains. 15 weeks of adventure! § mat tne commission may “ sleeping sickness.” a mal tertained a house party of the survev is 11.3 hours ______ | conclude to postpone a set ady which has followed the Portland friends last week the vear round. In the sum tlement oi tne route until Hu epidemic of 1919-20. end. Her guests included mer it is 13.12 hours. And WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, AUG. 4 5 a Miss Esther Wright and the legislature meets and He has been at Salem for eightv-seven out of each nearly a vear where he at Messrs. Forest Wood and let that body “ rassie the 100 women have no regular tended high school and his bear.” It is alleged that Hugh Miller. vacation during the vear. tlie commission would be On the average, the farm wonderful musical ability Mr. and Mrs. J. McLeod victorious in the legislature woman can find only 1.6 brought him to the front. Recently he has been plav- returned the first of the it being claimed that the hours of leisure during the week from an extended vis state at large does not favor summer and only 2.4 hours ;ng a piano at the Canton in ‘ ‘ THE JOYOUS TROUBLEMAKERS. ’ ’ “ it in eastern Oregon and putting the highway thru in winter. Half of the farm cafe in Si deni. While t.hjH i& all Guv had a severe attack the Sound cities. Thev Dallas. women are up and at work A fascinating story o f luck and pluck in the West | hearsay should the “ buck” spent several days with at 5 o ’clock in the morning. of the flu during the epi —of luck in the finding of gold and of pluck in § their son at Bremerton. demic and has not fully re be passed to the legislature “ Forty per cent have wa clinching possession not only of the yellow metal 1 from its it might affect the legisla- ter in the kitchen, but the covered effects. When he was tak but of a golden girl as well. Bulging with pep, * Mrs. G. W. Girard and tive race between Powell other per cent must go to en ill the flrst of the week daughter Miss Ruth, have and Brown in Polk county scintillating with humor and propelled with the jjjj the spring or the pump to it was first thought he had returned from a pleasant this falh bring the water for cooking a battling force of a strong right arm. disorder, but Offers of a compromise Eg visit with friends in The breakfast. Thirtv-six per la! er nervous physicians identified Dulles. Thev were accom- have been heard. It is ru- Roiin Comedy and Pathe News £ cent help with the milking. it is the “ sleeping sick named home bv Mrs. Gir rnored. source unknown, On the average, the farm ness. ard’s niece. Miss Dorothy that a Portland newspaper woman has a seven-room Tetherow. will soon boldly advocate house to keep in order. MISS ELIZABETH COSPER FRIDAY, AUG. 6 the following route: Rick- Seventy-nine per cent have WEDS WASHINGTON MAN A. L. Kullander and Mel- reall to Brunk’s comer, keresone lamps to trim and _ vin Rav are delegate and to Independence, Mon fill. I alternate of Independence Friends here have receiv mouth and south to Benton. “ Ninetv-six per cent do ed announcement of the ■ Post at the state conven In a letter to the Monmouth the family washing, about marriage tion of the American Leg Herald, Jay Bowerman, the of Miss Pliaabeth in “ THE HOUSE OF GLASS.” half of them having wash CospeV to Mr. Guy Wever ion being held in Astoria commission’s attorney, ing machines and the other in Portland last Wednes this week and it goes with savs in part: “ The Commis Miss Young follows her long line of artistic delin half doing the work with day.. The. keynote of the out saving that Independ- sion offered to locate the eations of famous characters from universally tub. wash board and boiler. service, which was perform "len Pacific Highway from known successes such as “ The House of Glass.” A m ce is ablv represented. Twentv-six per cent have ed in the parlors of the Holmes Gap to Rickreall; gas or electric irons to make Portland hotel at 12 o ’clock genuine triumph in every regard and one of the best Mr. and Mrs. Peter Klir thence in a southeasterly more comfortable the task noon, was svmplicitv. The serious and intelligent photoplays yet made. re and grand daughter, Eli- direction to Monmouth ov of ironing. Ninetv-two per marriage vows were ex nor left Wednesday for er a route to be surveyed cent do some or all the fam changed in the presence of Comedy and International News Neskowin where thev ex- and located by the state ily sewing. Garden work is relatives and a number of oect to remain for several highway engineer. This done bv 56 per cent, 94 per intimate friends and was (lavs. Peter took 300 feet proposal was objected to by cent make all or part of the of rope with him. He is go Mr. Kaste. attorney for the bv a wedding SATURDAY, AUG. 7 family bread and 60 per followed ing down to the bottom of Independence and Dallas breakfast at the Portland. cent have churning to do. the ocean after crabs. Mrs. Wever is the only people on the ground that it “ Eightv-one per cent of child of O. F. and the late would put two paved roads all poultry stocks are cared Pamelia Allen Cosper and Mrs. Gustav Fischer (An too close together. Com for bv women. One-fourtli with her parents lived here na Newton) left Monday missioner Kiddle made a o f the farm women help to some time before going to for Los Angeles to join her trip over the field lust ¡Sat A great love drama of the Big Outdoors starring feed and bed the livestock, Lebanon to reside. She was husband.t Mr. Fischer is a urday and suggested that FRANK MAYO. The story of a young convent girl and 24 per cent of them very prominent in club director in an art studio in the present road be contin thrown in the life of the Northern Woods, who is spend over six weeks in the work and at the time of Universal City and devotes ued south about two and vear assisting with some leaving for Lebanon was i rescued from her revolting surroundings by a young his time to teaching “ movie one-half miles south o f part of tlie field work. All president of the Independ 1 American Custom’s officer on border duty. actors” the art of dramatic Holmes Gap thence to Dal o f this in addition to cook ence Civic Club and had make-up. He learned the las thence southeasterly to Herold Lloyd Comedy and Ford Weekly ing the familv meals and previously been secretary « art while in France. Monmouth. Presumably the caring for the children. of the club. The influence road from Dallas to Mon “ This, of course, is the of her uplifting activities Mr. and Mr. Oren Mc-El- mouth would connect at dark side of the shield. It during her sojourn among i I « 2 , 1 Q , are entertain Orr’s com er with the paved T H E A T R E I murrv does not take into consider us is still felt and there are, i H V O E iP Id lN D E IN C E f* ing their friends. Miss Elsie highway now being con ation the many compensa manv ardent admirers here Scott and Miss Mable Davis structed by the Warren tions that come with the who wish her an abundance* I T M iiiiiiiiiw iii'i'iiiR iiih ii^ iiit t i m «2.i p r s i i i r a : i « i ; » i i i i i . a ^ i i w i w i i i i i i i i i i i i 1 from Guilford. Conn. The Construction company. i' woman’s dailv round of of happiness. Mr. Wever voung ladies are touring None of the proposals made work for the comfort of her is a prosperous orchardist the United States coming bv the Commission were familv. and anyone who has near Yakima. West thru the Canadian satisfactory to the Court PRETTY MI.iD TAKES A JOURNEY experienced the satisfac mountains and are to re Find the plaintiffs. Mr. Cosper has recently The tion of living in the open purchased an orchard ad- turn East thru the southern Court indicated that he The horrid old freight | the car attracted her atten- states. country knows that the av iouming that of Mr. and would approve at least two and she lingered. train stood on the __ crossing tion erage farm woman is more Mrs. Wever and will make of the locations proposed While she lingered ever-so- when the two prettv maids fortunately placed than her his home with them. Last Thursday afternoon bv the Commission but the in bathing suits came along happv the old freight train Mrs. George Wood opened average city sister. Hut and it iust stood and stood concluded to go and went it her prettv home to the attorney for the Dallas and CAR GOES OVER BANK; the task is sufficiently She went, too. and members of the Christian Independence people stated NOBODY IS INJURED and wouldn’t move so the did. grinding to send the farm other proceedings didn’t Ladies Aid. The ladies al tnat two prettv maids could go soine-how-or-other woman to bed breathing a would be immediately mind it a bit. There was ways pass their afternoons praver that her strength While returning from on to the river. started to enjoin construc Thev iust couldn’t stand something novel and sooth in a most indusirous man tion over any of the propos may be equal to tomorrow’s Newport last Sunday after ing about it. duties.” ner. but this time Mrs. ed routes.” noon. J. A. Bewlev driving there forever, and suddenly Then. all-of-a-sudden, Who or what is respon bis big Buick in which was an idea struck ’em. The came the great inspiration! Wood provided so much We note one paper is ask sible for this condition l riding Airs. Bewlev. his two box car before them was Why not make this her pleasure there was a draw ing what it is all about. A Tlie women have the ballot: nieces. Misses Glad vs and emptv and both doors wide summer outing: ride ’round to see which labored more postal card fiend expressed diligently the tongues or it prettv accurately when cannot thev change it 1 The Helen Bewlev of Portland, open: why not go thru the i’ ost would like to hear from and Mrs. E. E. Tripp, met a ear! Whv. o f course, a n d | the world and back again! the fingers. However, thev he wrote, the following be have a deal of needlework neath a picture of a couple the farm women upon the Chevrolet at a u ttp cu re it would be fun. too! So|Uee. that would be fun! prettv maid number one And the train went on. to their credit, besides the riding in an automobile on on the canvon rim road snbiect. We will not pub lish names unless, .permis about three and a half miles climbed into the car and on | But a prettv maid iust pleasure from social con a road so level and smooth sion is «ranted. Write vnnr west of Hoskins. Just as thru she went as daring as;can t do a thing when verse. Mrs. Wood served a that he didn’t have to steer letter and sav what vou Bewlev started to pass the could be. Prettv maid num- there s a man around. Long summer-time luncheon, in and so could keep both refreshing iced arms around the girl: please— let’s talk the thin • Chevrolet which was stand- her two followed, but some- came a brakeman. mean cM cluding thing about the interior ofj (owitMicd on i«»t p..« .) ( Continued on liurt page) water melon. (GonUniMd on laat png«.) 1 over. AND THEIR NOMI a SUNDAY, AUG. 1 MONROE SALISBURY I ‘Chains of Evidence’ i i ‘Smashir 9 Barriers WILLIAM FARNUM | CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG “The ¡Ned Lane” suit muKij