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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1920)
U se d M id s u m m e r CLEARANCE SALE Car of Ford Roadsters, Touring Cars and Trucks at Bargain Prices Only One Week S\S%' Don’t miss the chance to get a guaranteed used Ford at an unusually low price. ONE WEEK ONLY-HURRY Ace Garage DESK IS INTERESTING RELIC N A S H TRUCKS Na«h T iucks are equipped with elec tric lights and starters. The electric lights enable them to perforin satis factorily at night as well as by day and the starter saves fuel because the driver can shut off bis power when the truck is left standing and start again with no effort on his part. M orrli & Company, The Standard Oil Company, The Palmolive Com pany and The A m e r i c a n S t e e l Foundriea are among the nationally known firms Nash nslng Tracks ALL HE BROUGHT Mo Utilities Co. N A SH “ I want to get back to the good old fifty-fifty dava,” remarked the reminiscent person. “ What do vou mean bv ‘ fifty -fifty ring.” “ And h\ candidates way o f compensation, the themselves are on the rack.” S O L D IE R S OF T W O W A n ». ■ I » i 9 ¿ • K M r M » ! I O* ' The Post has a larger circu lation in South Polk Coun ty than all other Polk coun ty papers combined. by Craven, who went with the party, returned last Tuesday. J. S Cooper, Riley Cooper, “ Pat” McArthur and Dr. E. 0. Mann, sportsmen from Portland, went on a fishing trip to the Si- days?” “ T h e days when there was twice leiz for several days returning 50 cents’ worth in every dollar.” last Wednesday. It goes with out saying that J. S. directed C H A N G IN G PLACES. the other members of the party “ The candidates’ hats are in the to “ big game.” T R U C K S I A iflll A i • CITY AND COUNTRY Did you see the mixing howls in the Willard E. Craven Hdw. Mr, and Mrs. Louis Rose, Jr. window? arrived last Tuesday from Eng land and are guests at the home Miss Louise Bauman has re of Major and Mrs. Rose at the A desk now owned by Mrs. E. C. turned fron a visit with her par Wigrich ranche. Mr. Rose was ('aril of 16 East Chestnut street, Augusta, Me., first saw the light of married June 17 to Miss Ruth; ents at Hoskins. day on the bay of Oampeaehy, in Kendall. Three days later the- Mexico, hundreds o f years ago, and Ed Reynolds, Verd Schruijk, couple sailed for America. Ma was first owned by Daniel Gookin in Harold Reynolds and W. E. Cra jor and Mrs. Rose were so eager 1620. On the writing slab o f this ven Forded to Portland Satur to meet their daughter-in-law desk a letter was one day written by M A N Y S C U L P T O R S ID L E . whom they had seen and also to day. this ancestor of this Augusta lady see their son, they went to in which Daniel Gookin negotiated According to American A rt News, Donald Barton and family of Portland last Saturday to wel with Ferdinando Gorges for pur the sculptors complain that there is chase of Gorges’ claim to the prov little work at present in their line Buxton are new residents of In- come them to Oregon and the Mr. Barton will be West. Mr. Rose is a qualified ince of Maine. Thus it rend: o f endeavor, and even the leading aependence. “ Though a stranger to von, you may men are “ waiting.” The commem employed at the Wind Mill shop. engineer and at the time Major and Mrs. Rose came over their have heard my name, because my orative war statues and patriotic father, who bore the same name, groups that were to decorate cities, Mrs. Martha Rusk, a former son had three years more of was intimately acquainted with towns and cemeteries, have not thus resident of Independence who study in his work, five years be your father, Sir Ferdinando Gor- far materialized. The unsettled con now lives at Sherwood, was a ing required to complete the j ges.” In 1687 the affair was set ditions o f the country, they conteud, guest at the Frank Smith home course. Then came the out tled, the Gorges claim purchased which are holding up building, are break of the war and detained this week. j for £1,250. accountable for the present “ dol him longer. Young Rose want The Gookins originally came from drums.” Mr. and Mrs. Lee Brown of ed to join the navy but he was | England. Captain Gookin, his fam- near Corvallis spent Sunday at doing naval construction work C O I N C I D E N C E IN D A T E 8 . l ily and Reverend Thompson went to the home of his mother, Mrs. S. such as making submarines, etc. | Maryland to live, acquiring land T h e dates o f Monday and Tues- J. Ward. They were accom and could not obtain his release. near Annapolis. But the captain day. the 18th and 20th of January. panied heme by Mrs. Josie Leh Mr. Rose and his bride are I wanted to live among the Puritans, _____ ,n ________ ___ for hi8 1 when placed side by side, give us the charmed with the beauties of so, leaving servants to care man. plantation, lie sailed for Boston, date of the present year, 1920. The Oregon and the Willamette val This was Hfter 1639. Six days aft- last time such a sequence gave the as over a hundred | Guests at the S. H. McElmur- ley and anticipate making their er arriving in Boston, ('apt. Daniel | date o f the year ws namely in 1819. In w h at; ry home this week are Prof, and home some where in the great Gookin, tall, grave, robust, dignified years ago occur again ? N ot he- Mrs. Charles South of Portland West. gentleman o f thirty-one years, was year will it Prof, and Mrs. South have just admitted to the First Church of fore 2021. You can now get Bale Ties o f returned from a three week’s Boston. O T H E R DAYS. Willard E. Craven Hdw. camping trip to the coast. On It Waa W ritten Letter W hich N e gotiated fo r the Purpose of Province of Maine. M OTOR ground that such an expression was justified by the extent to which gas fuel is employed in the fundamental pwesses o f our basic industries. It is interesting to note, in view of this estimate, figures on our gas industry which have just been compiled. From these it appears that 1,166 ar tificial gas companies in the United States are now supplying more than ?00,000,000,000 cubic feet of gas ot one sort or another to 8,500,000 cus tomers.— Scientific American. •' * 1 While, in the C ivil war, 78 per cent o f the soldier» were under thir ty-one years o f age, in the recent war 92 per rent were under thirty- Shc had iuvited thè violinisi to dinner. “ You didn't bring venir violili,” one. •he evolaimcd when he arriviti. P O S T A L S A Y IN G S . “ No. A ll I hrought was my ap parite.” Pretal savings increas >1 $34.000,• 000 during the war. Just before the T H E AQ E OF OAS. armistice was signed they amounted Our civilization, Sivretary lane to $150,6 <0,8 JO. recently remarked, is a product ot power plus steel. l i e went on to eh ara itviz* the age in which we are W hen you want the beet call for g m the age of gae, on the j liberty breed. Baked by electricity. Mrs. K. C. Eldridge and De los returned this morning from a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Nev ille Eldridge who are delight fully situated in their new bung alow in Medford. In driving to Independence from Medford, Lawrence Eldridge made the trip of 240 miles in ten hours actual driving time. This was record speed. The return trip consumed a little longer time. The party was delighted with the scenic wonders of the trip, especially Cow Creek canyon which is marvelous in natural beauty. Roberts aiountain, too, is full o f scenic grandear. Bob Pro Patria (Continued from Page 1.) For the seven sons are „ sleeping On the battlefields of France; And their daddv grows tobacco A n d traffics still in skins A n d the little wrinkled mammy Has another pair of twins. Raeine Extra Tested Tires Country Road Tread with Extra Mileage at Willard E. Craven. Hdw. Miss Elma Rehwalt of Portland was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Frank Smith, this week. Miss left today for Newport to spend the remainder of the summer. Farm your hills with a Fordson. Don't bo a broad. »lacker; oat Liberty